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Year: 1877

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 We trust none of our readers are getting wearied at our much speaking of the advantages of Ar kansas as THE place for new home seekers. When there are thous- ands and tens of thousands of hardworking farmers, laborers and artisans in the long settled and now overcrowded states, who are toiling almost as serfs without any prospect of ever saving enough to acquire homes of their own at the high prices which rule there, we deem it one of our first duties to let these masses know that they may better their con6i- tion by coming to Arkansas. We are encouraged in this work by the knowledge that hundreds are

 SJ coming to perceive the truth of what we say and are coming among us full of cheer and new energy at the prospect of soon be- ing able till soil, of which they, themselves will be landlords and and owners.

 But we intended to say only a few works on this subject now, and they merely predatory to the following truthful extract from the Hot Springs Visitor:

 "As so many in the Union are looking for better situations, can not our State invite attention? She has many attractions that shine out through her forrescsand over her mountain tops. Other States are bidding for settlers, and making great efforts to secure them. They expect great profit to the individual and to the State. They will realize it, too. Arkan sas has large amount of good cheap land, we'll watered, and covered with splendid forest; her climate among the hest in the world, and her products among the most varied; her ability for fruitage and vintage surpassed by no state in the Union. There are large ranges for stock and little or no expense for wintering. Markets are coming nearer and nearer, and soon will be as good as in any section of the country. Lands will then go up rapidly, especially when they are improv- ed, and those that can invest a small capital now will soon be wealthy or independent, with ex- cellent surroundings. Those that have no money can have 100 acres selected by themselves, by living on it few years-can have a home at once for themselves and families, and soon have fortunes. There is no state that offers so much and so many advantages to all classes.

 For society and schools those that come to stay can generally find or make them to suit them selves. Now is the time to come. Don't be afraid of this part of the South. Don't go west from the Northern States, and don't go further South than Arkansas. Inquire and look before you take u leap into the cold West or tito the hot South. This is the mid dle ground between all parts of the compass, where the climate is always mild and where health and prosperity and pleasure and long life will always abound.

 | Why men should flock by thons ands to the bleak prairies of the west, with their chilling winds, scorching summers, grasshoppers and chinchbugs-or why they should go in armies to Texas, ,wish its northers and droughts, while Arkansas possesses SO many ad- vantages, is a mystery. But il we will use the proper efforts in making known the advantages of our State, the tide will turn.

 n :J- V,t. .
Year: 1877

s"Yes," retorted Selkirk, land I'm
eatin' one of your paws. /" . E !.


The bully was literally laughed out OF
the house.


MANY OTHERS OF THIS SOFT


We could instance. One of tha most
painful wrecks We ever remember, was
the gifted and cratic Wash Wright. VINO
wrote for the american Flag that never
forgotten article headed "Give US back
our dead" There was Martin Rowan,
the graceful writer and genial gentle-
man; he went about the same way.
Charley Westmoreland was another.
though he was more of politician ttan
the rest. Seabough yet lives and does
up few heavy articles tor the Bulletin,
but he never has regained the snap and
vim with which he wrote during
the war. We are all drifting down the
river Time, toward the broad ocean OF
Eternity. A few years more to carry
the weary load that never grows lighter
and these bodies will be but frail letters
that the ambitious soul shall burst and
cast aside. Let us live 80 that when We
answer the call of the Great Foreman
We may each sho " a clean proof sheet.
Year: 1877

While on the other hand. the newspa.
per reader, in the old world or the new,
is always found in the forward car Of
every train of enterprise, and if possible
would take seat ON the COW catcher OF
its locomotive. Reading of newspapers
imparts vlgor, vim and push to ever man,
and he who neglects or dispises such
reading, will inevitably fall into the
ranks of old fogyism, help swell the
army of croakers, GROWERS and evil
prophets, will always find some one
ahead of them in every enterprise they
may contemplate, and will be kicked,
cuffed, pushed and elbOwed out of the
way at ever turn, by those who are supe-
r,or in nothing save the general informa-
ton that newspaper reading has given.
Young man form the habit of reading
newspapers.
Year: 1877

The bulletins, which are weekly for
warded to the agricultural bureau at
Washington by the locust commissioners,
are forming very important documents
for farmers in the threatened districts.
The origin OF causes which produce them
the regions favorable to their multiplica-
tion, their habits and destination after
hatching and subsequent development
are already well known. Means of pre-
venting their ravages are also recoln-
mended but farmers as class, are slow
in adopting anything new, and the grass
hopper remedy in order to be effectual
must be generally applied by all, that we
fear the present seasons Matching, when
the time comes for the flight Of these
pests they will migrate east and destroy
every green thing wherever they light.


The eggs, when once deposited in the
ground, cannot readily be destroyed
until after they are hatched. But after
Matching, they must subsist upon some.
thing until sufficiently developed to take
wing, migrate and the new crop deposit
its eggs.


Between their Matching and their time
Of fight, quite perid elapses; and if
the Matching ground is rendered barren
of Vegetation, the young locust soon per-
ishes fer want Of food. This will necessi-
tate the growing OF such late crops in
the incubating regions, as can be matur-
ed after the eggs have hstched, and the
keeping the gound so thoroughly broken
and cultivated as to prevent all vegita-
ton till after that time. In some regions
the lateness and shortness of the seasons
will prevent the accomplishment of this.
And even then, if the vast regions of the
plains, where every favorable season, as
often as from five to fifteen years, a fresh
colony originates, from natural causes,
unless the soil is kept in a broken con-
dition so rs to prevent them from finding
food during the period of development,
they will mature, fedge out and migrate
eastward as they have done heretofore.
A thorough cultivation and irregation
OF tthe entire region, where there is now
any Vegetation naturally from east OF the
Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi river
would be complete remedy. Until this
is done, the only crop that can be relied
on will be such as will mature after the
flight of the lecusts, unless some chemist
discovers cheap remedy that will de-
strOy the entire deposit of eggs before
the period of Matching.
Year: 1877

Paris has siSty.three papers devoted
to science and education, forty nine to
religious and thirteen to agriculture.
Outside OF the large cities and towns, in
the rural districts Ot France there aSe
hardly any local papers. One.half the
peasantry in the province are unable to
read or write. In Germany journalism
is also confined to her cities, but her
system of compulsory education outside
of Alsuce and Loraine, has given her
population in which only one in three
hundred is unable to read and write.


These facts speak for themselves, need
ing no comment. In this country every
village has its press Our population
can nearly all read and write and every
household has its newspaper, and it is
read by all, old and young.


Those whe emigrate from the rural
districts OF foreign countries even those
who are partially educated, care little for
newspapers and seldom read one while
those who are from cities and towns are
never without their newspaper.


As a consequence, there is little con-
trast between the newspaper reading
element Of our foreign population and
the native born; while between the non
reading and the habitual reader, the con:
tlast is strongly marked. The former
arc nor 50 well informed or go energetic
and active, and they do not readily adopt
our manners and customs, or similate
the balance of our population.


The newspaper reader from the old
country, in very short time, acquire
the habits Of the new and is socially as
much at home az the native born while
the non reader seldom if ever shakes of
his old country manners or becomes
rcconcled to our customs. Nothing ever
cures him Of an intense longing for the
old home over the water, but a visit
back there; then after lie has seen the
many changes since he left and failed to
find everything as it was Of yore, he will
ingly comes back, satisfied to make the
country his permanent home.


Had he been Il newspaper reader he
would have been always posted and
would not have been astonished ut the
changes. Before he emigrated. being a
non reader, his little native province was
his world. After his emigration, his
knowledge of America was confined to
the county in which he settled and the
cities and towns he passed through by
the railroad, on his way to and from it.
He has no idea of the extent of the coun-
try. Our institutions have made. little
or no impression upon him. He is slow,
ploding and methOdical still. He is
without newspaper and is not live
man. He docs not know what busy,
hustling world he lives in. The steam
boat, railroad and telegraph, he admits
to be great conveniencs, but of the i'm
portant part they play in national de-
velopment he has not the slightest idea.
He clings to and hates to give up old
methods and adopt new. The
rapidity with which everything is ac-
compliShed here contuses him. lie is II
dead weight hitchcd on the car of prog
ress and quietly protests as he is being
l"nprrl nlonr with thp mass
Year: 1877

When Mr.. J. T. Fields was young a
classmate complained to him that he
was in danger of being Nupplanted in
the regard Of a young person OF the gent
ler sex by youth belonging to another
school, who was daily In the habit of
calling on the young lady and repeating
to her from memory whole poems of con-
siderable length. "What would you doW
sighed the lad. "Do," said Master
Fields; 81 would beat him on his own
ground, and at once commit 10 memory
the whole of Paradise Lost book by
book, and every time the intruder left
Amelia's house would rush in and fire
awayI lfyou give way to idle repining
and DO nothing that fellow will soon be
firmly seated In your place. / should
not wonder If he were now at work on
Thomson's Seasons tor his infamous
purpose. Delay no longer, but attack
John Milton alter supper Tonight and
win the prize above all compeLitionp
Ezekiel began in good earnest, and be-


tore The summer was over he had memoir
ized the whole OF Paradise Lost" re-
hearsed it to Amelia, and gained the
victory
Year: 1877

The Scientific American recently sug-
gested that the American system of sill
ting on the right-hand side of the car
riage, and OF turning to the right on
meeting another vehicle, was wrong,
and that the English custom Of turning
to the lett was correct. A correspond
ent OF the London Transcript insists


that the change made iu New England
in the matter OF driving seat aud turning
out was not without reason. The driver,
seated on the right and always keeping
to the right, can see the dangers aud
difficulties on his side of the road; he
can keep his wheels from running into
the ditch and perhaps overturning him,
which, in new country, with rough and
unfinished roads, is much more COM
mon danger than that of collisions.
Moreover, he has the full command of
his whip, which he cannot have while on
the leit-hand side OF the carriage, unless
indeed, heis left,handed.
Year: 1877

the leaves prolonged themselves and
grew forward in lean and hungry fash.
ion horizontally with the branch from
which they sprang; while in blue light
the contrary effect was produced, the
spikes standing out abruptly and per-
pendicularly from their stem. On one Of
the plants being enclosed in a sort of
lantern, having red glass on one side and
green on the other, instead Of shrinking
away from the poison on their right to
the roseats antldote on their left, the
leaves, as ii by fatal fascination,
turned with one consent the other way
and literally looked death in the face.
Year: 1877

Five years ago, in this cosy inn,

 We passed pleasant day, Four merry friends, who ate and drank, And were blithe as birds Tn May. We scratched our names on the window

 pane;-

 There they stand in the sheen, And prove to me, if nobody else,

 What fools we must have been. One of them borrowed my cash Ia dove That never returned to the ark); The second was jealous of my fame, And stabbed il in the dark! The third made love to a bonnie wee maid Dearer to me than life. Wooed her and won her behind my back And made her his wretched wife. And here sit in the cosy inn,

 While the bright wood-splinters blaze And drink my pint of claret alone, And think of the bygone days, And wonder which of my three false

 friends

 hate or despiSe the most;- Surely not him who borrowed my cash? Iris gOne-'tis a bodiless ghos;i Surely not him who stole my wife? That was not my wife, God wotl But might have been, to my dire distress Had she fallen 10 my lotl l think l hate with the deadliest hate The fellow who Slurred my name Shaking my hand, eating my bread, And murdering my fame!
Year: 1877

BOWIE, May 29.-To TIE CITIZEN The mail-rider bound west from Silver City was killed today three miles from this post, between San Simon and Bowie The buckboard driver or the way to Silver City, found the horse dead in the road, shot In two places. He came back and reported it tJ the post ThereupOn Lieut. West with a detachment of six soldiers, five citizens and two Indian scouts took up the trail and found the body of the mailrider about three hundred yard, from the horse. He was shot through his breast and stripped Of clothing. After sending the body to tue post for interment, we followed the trail and half mile from the scene of the murder on top of ridge, we encounter ed the Indians and they fired upon the detachment. They were well fortified and drove us back, woundIng two ami mGls and cutting through the shirt and vest of the telegraph operator, who had narrow escape. There were at least fifty Indians. Owing to the disadvantage and small number ol available men here, we could not dIs- lodge them. HENRY ALIHUGH.
Year: 1877

IT sno sed gently for an hour yester- day, and since the first day of April for more than seven weeks-the rule has been storm and the exception sun shine. There is less snow in the Sier- ras than has eyer before been at this season of the year We all expected an unusually warm Spring, and in lieu of It we have rain, snow, winds as cold as Winter and a general atmosphere as uncomfortable as a stock account with margins exhausted. While it was showing yesterday, rough neigh bor accostcd Us with, "Is not this damnable weather?" A beautiful la dy was passing a the same time Her face was as pure and severe as that of some pale p-ieStess whose nights and days are passed in devutinns; but at that expression from our neighbOr her brows unbent, and she turned upon him with smile of inetlable sweet ness and measurelrss gratitude for so perfectly expressing her opiniOn.-Nir- ginia Enterprise, May 22.
Year: 1877

they have given up the absolute certainty
OF the legal declaration that Governor
Tilden Is to be President. OF this there
can be no doubt.


Now, what has the Senate surrender
ed? Morton, Sherman and Blaine Lave
been beaten out of the baseless claim that
the President of the Senate can count.
The Senate, however bas never asserted,
and probably neve T will assert, that claim,
and therefore the Senate has acquired
rights and powers 1t has never had or ex-
ercised d,-certainly now since 1866 for,
running through the new arrangement,
there is not only drawing to itself by
the Senate of co-equal powers with the
House, but an exclusion of the House
from power conceded to it by the joint
rule. and also by Morton's plan.


IL Is, nevertheless, useless to deny that
In exercising this power the House, in
the present condition of parties and OF
votes, might, unless most circumspect in
rs !; conduct, be open to the charge of par
tisanship and of non-judicial action IT
Is conceded on all hands that the House
must investigate and decide judicially,
when 1t undertakes to decide at all, be-
tween two conflicting returns. No judi
c1al body can or would undertake to say
what its decision will be until possessed
OF all the facts and all the questions of
law requiring judgment; it can only say
that there shall be a just decision. But
under the new arrangement the exclusive
power of controlling this just decision
passes out of the hands of the House into
the hands of another tribunal, the fair
ness and fitness of which, however, as
we have said, cannot be justly called in
question. In the present posture of af-
fairs, therefore, we hope, as we believe
all good citizens hope, that the Senate
measure will promptly pass the House
and become law. We are dealing not
with things as they might could or should
have been, but with things as they
are!
Year: 1877

Two shoe firms had dispute in regard to
a quantity of goods purchased, and many
sharp letters passed between them. The
complainant sent the letters to the Shoe and
Leather Reporter for publication. The Re
porter declines to publish them, and sets
forth very clearly in reply the functions of
the press in such matters. 1t says of the
complainant: If he had been a subscriber
and reader of the paper he would have known
that there were no circumstances under
which matter of that kind could be admitted
into our columns, except as an advertise
ment. 1t happened that he was not; neither
was the firm with whom his dispute was be-
ing maintained. But he has written us a
second time inquiring, with a surprise which
does not seem to be at all affected, the rea-
sons Of our refusal to make room for his COM
munication. He shall have them: In the first
place, such disputes possess no interest for the
general reader; their Importance is confined
mainly to the individuals engaged in them.
In the second place, they are not conducive to
the spirit of good-fellowhsip and friendness
which it is alike our duty and our pleasure to
inculcate; and, in the third place, it does not
comport with the digulty nor with the cir
cumspection which should characterize the
conduct of newspaper, to make its columns
The means of perpetuating and aggravating
private quarrels.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1877

The President of the Liverpool Chamber
OF Commerce thought he was doing fine
thing when he welcomed Minister Welsh in a
free trade speech. He forgot, or never knew,
that Mr.. Welsh Is Pennsylvanisn.
Year: 1877

HAVING discovered that it hurts q man
just as much, and disables him rather more, 70
have his leg cut of below the knee as to have
it cut off above, the committee on pensions
will report bill equallzing the pensions of
those soldiers who are permanently disabled
by the loss of a limb.
Year: 1877

FLORIDA can produce sugar to greater ad-
vantage than any other State in the Union.
All it now needs is capital; but 1t won't get
that unless the reputation of the Southern
States for honesty improves.
Year: 1877

A Memphis letter thus describes some
of the habits and terrible temper of the
butcher Forrest, lately deceased old
citizens of Memphis mildly described
him to me as 'a terror He would
knock a man down upon the least prov
Ocation, and, whether with or without
weapons, there were few people in the
city whom he could not worst in fight


| do not think it can be said of Forrest
that he became less fierce as he grew
older. His temper during the last few
years of his life was just as ungovern-
able as ever. On one occasion, for ex-
ample, he had ordered suit of clothes
from a well known firm in Memphis.
After the clothes were made, Forrest
allowed them to lie so long in the store
that the moths got into them. When
he did call for them at last and took
them home, he discovered the destruc-
tive work of the moths, and became
fearfully enraged. He went back to
the store and cursed the proprietor in a
terrible and wonderful manner, and
swOre more awfully than any trooper of
the famously profane army liz Flanders.
Of course the proprietor of the store had
to endure it under pain of death or a
most terrible whipping. He ventured
to demonstrate at last: General" said
he, 81 am very sorry this thing happen
ed we did not know the clothes were
moth-eaten, and are willing to make all
reparation possible" But the mans
humble apology only exasperated For
rest the more. He would have greatly
preferred an angry quarrel. He pulled
out his pistol and thrust it at the tailor's
head. s'Why general exclaimed the
trembling man, "you would not shoot
me for such trifle as that ~ 'sG-d
d-n you, yes" roared Forrest; 1I'd
shoot you like rat" But he didn't
shoot. He went home and thought
over the matter and saw it in the proper
light; for he had his generous impulses.
Next day he apologized to that man as
humbly and sincerely as any human
being could apologize. 1t was actually
Year: 1877

Although Mr.. Merriam has been con-
demned by his Congregational brethren
for skepticism and heresy his congrega-
tiOn stand by him. At meeting held
last Thursday, in the parsonage at In
dian Orchard, Mass, over hundred
members of his flock expressed their
willingness to accept him as their Chris
tian teacher and guide, and earnestly
requested him to remain with them,
Notwithstanding the refusal of the
Council to install him. The doctrine
of eternal punishment is the bone of
theological contention. Mr. Merriam
complains, however, that in its written
finding, the Council disapproved of his
views on the doctrine of the Atone
ment, when it had not given him an OPP
pOrtunity to define and explain them.
Certainly so elastic an ecclesiastical
system as Congregationalism cannot
prevent his preaching so long as his
flock are willing to listen to him.
Year: 1877

painful to hear his apology. But then
he was often doing just such things, and
apologizing for them and all whom he
abused were Lot so foIgiving as the
good-natured tailor. Sometimes he
would get so ashamed of his conduct
that he would first send friend to the
person he had abused as herald of
apologies. "Good gracious general"
exclaimed one of these heralds one day,
''can you do nothing with that temper
of yours ?" mo; I'll be id if can"
returned Forrest, on the point of getting
mad again.
Year: 1877

Coal FIREs.-Many families that
keep coal fires over night are accustom-
ed to close all the pipe hampers and
leave the stove door open. The gas
thus generated is deadly poison, and
if it escapes into sleeping rooms it will
fist stupefy and then kill Leaving the
covers off cook-stOves at night is dan
gerous practice, unless the kitchen is
carefully closed to prevent the escape
of gas into sleeping rooms. Now that
the cold weather is multiplying the
number OF coal fires in our dwellings, a
little attention and care in this particu-
lar may save many lives. Furnaces
that allow gas to escape into the heat
ing pipes are poison breeders, and the
leak should be stopped or the furnace
sold for old iron.-Scientifc Former.
Year: 1877

than anything else, and then they are
cleaner and do not stain the house.
Then, in the spring, it is so handy to
draw them into the barnyaId, to absorb
all the liquid manure. Whoever tries
them one year will not fail to pronounce
them the best of anything ever used, in
all respects. The grass is not killed
under the banking, but is bright and
green sooner than anywhere else.-B.,
IN Country Gentleman.