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Year: 1879

up with a cigar in his teeth,
boots shined up, and kid gloves
on, the family would feel proad
Of him,


Who ever heard of a farmer
stipulating that his hired man
should also be a piano-player!
And why not! What could be
more soothing than for the IAN
ily to sit on the veranda as the
shades of evening fall and listen
to the sweet notes of Darling, |
am growing DID," as rendered on
the parlor organ or piano by a
hired man with a small share Of
heaven in his soul! He would
be a hired man to be proud OF.
| shall not discharge my hireo
man because he can not write
poety, but shall know before
hand that he can write any tnlng,
from a couplet to poem on the
River Jordan. When it is hot
he shall sit in the shadei when
it is cold he shall sit by tha
stove. That he may not come
to believe that | am keeping him
for mere ornament, | shall
oblige him to paint a landscape
on the fanning-mill, colora meer-
schaum pipe for my brother-in-
law, feed the doves, and go to
town and draw the interest on
nv government bonds.-EX.
Year: 1879

HER CLIMATE, SOIL, ADVANTAGES


AND RESOURCES.


Sharp county was established
by the General Assembly OF
1868, and is bounded on the
north by the state Of Missouri,
on the east by Randolph and
Lawrence counties, on the south
by independence county, and
on the west by lizard and Fulton
counties, Its population is
about nine thousand. Since the
establishment Of the county all
of the necessary public build
ings have been erected and are
paid for. The face of the coun-
try is generally undulating,
though diversified with rich al
IuviaI bottoms and fiat uplands.
In many places the hills are
lofty enough to be called noun
tains. The arabic lands are sus-
ceptible Of producing large
Yields Of cotton, corn, wheat,
rye, hay, oats, potatoes, tobacco
and field crops generally, while
vegetables OF nearly every kind
may be produced to great per
fection, and all fruits adapted to
the climate attain the highest
degree ofperfection underproper
culture. That portion Of the
land which is thought to be un-
fit for cultivation, on account Of
the stones which lie principally
upon its surface, produces, each
year, a luXuriant crop Of wild
grass upon which large numbers
Of cattle thrive and fatten dur
ing the summer months, and
which, in many places, could be
proitably saved as hay. On ac-
count Of the splendid range the
barrens afford, and their adapt
ability to the production of the
tame grasses, stock raising and
sheep husbandry could be pur-
sued very proftably, especially
so on the lands last mentioned,
a large portion Of which can be
had under the U. S. homestead
law for almost the asking.


While on this subject we may
add that we are informed by q
gentleman engaged to some eX-
tent in the wool business, that
the wool from the common grade
Of sheep brings almost as good
a price in the market as that
produced on lands costing fifty
dollars per acre and upwards,
and where the sheep must be
fed daily. 1t therefore seems
that North Arkansas offers in
ducements to the wool producer,
superior to any other country.


Sharp county is well timbered,'
excepting in the barrens. Sur
rounding Evening Shade is a
large scope Of country covered
by yellow pine, which is cut by
the saw mills in the vicinity in
to excellent building lumber.


Health in this country is very
good indeed. We will venture
to say that no country in the en-
tire southwest snrpasses it for
healthfulness-the malarial and
bilious diseases so prevalent in
a large scope of the west being
very rare here, except in a very
mild form in the densely wood
ed bottoms,


Scarcely a neighborhood- in
Year: 1879

poultry SHOWS, Il proving hldlOl,
and a husking-bee, and made
other efforts to familiarize my.
self with the routine duties OF
the toiling millions.


| was reading in a newspaper
the other day that the farmers
hired man was little better than
q slave, The poor man, the al
ticle said, was routed out at
break of day, or even before,
rushed around for three hours
before breakfast, forced to toll
till the evening shadows fell,
cheaply paid, poorly fed, and
looked upon as heather. My
sympathies went out for the
poor man at once. If | hadn't
been short of money that day |
should have taken the first train
for the country and purchased
a farm, in order to keep a hired
man and use him tenderly.


1t is an awful thing to keep a
hired man and rush him up and
down as if he had steel springs
in his knees and elbows and no
sentiment in his heart, | shall
have one some day, and | shall
be very good to him. | shall
treat him in such a manner as
will, in six months, make a
change in the entire "hired-
man" system throughout the
country, There's nothing sly
or secretive about me, and | had
as soon tell the public in advance
how mean to meet this ques-
tion,


In the first place | shall hire a
pale-faced oonsumptiVe young
man whose city relatives have
decided that he can't live a
month unless he gets out among
the farmers, Next thing to send
ing a dying man on a journey OF
three thousand miles there's
nothing like telling him that
farmers are aching to pay him
fifty dollars per month to come
out into the country and do the
hard work on a farm. The
young man can do the work, Of
course, | never talked with a
man whose lungs were gone, liv-
er out Of order, joints trembling,
and voice down to a whisper who
didn't believe that farm-work
would cure him in siXty-days,
and who didn't add that he
thought he ought to have at least
fifty dollars per month as a
"hired man..


When get my hired man l
shall let him sleep until eight
o'clock in the morning. The
house will be more quiet then,
the women folks better natured,
and there won't be any dew
around to wet his heels, After
he has had his breakfast OF
chicken on toast, the women will
hand him an umbrella and a
cane, and if he feels like joining
me in the cornheld | shall greet
him with smile and the hope
that he passed a comfortable
night. While | am hoeing corn
he can give me hints on agricul-
ture and figure up profits on
crops. | couldn't expect him to
take a hoe, Of course, for how
could a hired man carry cane
and an umbrella and make any
progress at hoeing corn!


| should expect my hired man
to lunch at eleven o'clock. If he
wanted to return after that and
assist me in carrying the hoe to
the house, well and good, but |
shouldn't be angry if he sat in
the shade of the locust trees and
read a volume of poetry. A
hired man who could write poe
try as well as quote it would be
al ornament to any farm.


| presume my hired man
would want to go to town after
dinner. A horse and carriage
would be at his disposal, Of
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Gazette gives the fol-
lowing advice to widower: If our wild
owed friend shall marry a widow, he
will avoid the risk of dashing any ro-
mantle female ideals of the high and
noble character of man. She knows
what man is, and knowledge has driven
from her mind all this nonsense. She
has found that man is a creature of a
narrow mind, Of no high pursuits, of
few ideas, of a generally dull compost
ton, of small passions, and largely gov
erned by his own bodily wants that, if
he is made comfortable by supplying
his physical appetites, he is amiable,
like the anaconda after full meal. She
looks for no hero, and is in no danger of
being soured by that disappointment
Therefore he need not fear that when
the halo of the honeymoon has dissipa-
ted, he viii find in her a far-away ex.
preston of face and q listle5s manner,
as if expectancy had failed She knew
the situation when she accepted it.


He will find that she knows all the
little habits and little wants which 90 so
far to make up man; knows how 10
crafty them, and exc how to regulate
them Il9Trlf, z, And he will continually be stim
sainted husband, which she will hold
over his head. That these had no more
real existence than Sarah Camps Mrs.
Harris does not mitigate their moral in
fiuence. Some have been known to be
so restive under this as to say that they
would never do it again unless the pre-
vious one had been hanged. But there
is no assurance that even this would
avail. And besides, the hanging of her
husbands might be catching. Some





husband may have been taken off in a
natural way, yet it is best not TO en-
courage this by marrying a widow; but
mans nature is to dare.
Year: 1879

Newspapers nowadays are full of
stories of the marvellous luck which has
befallen people who did not look for
any thing of the kind to happen. Every
now and then we hear of somebody
having large fortune left to them by
the death of a distant relative, a cousin
in California or something of that kind.
Not long ago a young Pittsburger had
a singular piece of luck happen to him.
One day the young gentleman in ques-
ton was walking down Fifth Avenue
when he saw an old and rather decrepit
man slip on a crossing and fail heavily.
He aided him to regain his footing, and
helped him into a neighbOring drug
store, where the old man had his leg
mended with sticking plaster, as he had
knocked some of the skin off. The old
fellow seemed very grateful for the cOur-
tesy which had been shown him, and,
after asking the name of the young man
who had been of service to him, he
wrote it down in a memorandum book,
and said, as he shook hands, ''My name
is -, amfrom Massachusetts,. Some
day, perhaps, you may hear from me-"
Time passed on, and all recollection of
the occurrence passed from the Pitts
burgers mind. He became embarrass-
ed in business, and was reduced to eX-
treme poverty. One day when he felt
extremely down-hearted, and did not
know which way to turn for ivsii-
hood, he chanced TO pick up Boston
paper, and, to his intense astonishment,
he SAYS that the old man whom he had
picked up on Fifth Avenue was dead,
and by his will, which was published IN
the paper, the Pittsburger saw that
fortune of over $500, 600 had been left
by the dead man to found theological
serninarV
Year: 1879

A couple in Ireland were recently
sentenced to matrimony in rather
curious way. Ayoung man and ayOung
woman were cOntesting possession of
piece of property, the one claiming
under an old lease, the other under an
old will. '' 1t just strikes me-" said
the Judge, s' that there is a pleasant and
easy way to terminate this old lawsuit.
The plaintiff appears to be a respectable
young man, and this very nice young


woman. They can both get married
and live happily on the farm. If they
go on with law proceedings 1t viii be all
frittered away between the lawyers,
who, I am sure, are not ungallant
enough to wish the marriage not to
come off, The lady blushed and the
young man stammered they Z" liked each
other little bit;" so a verdict was en-
tered for the plaintiff on condition of
his promise to marry the defendent
within two months, a stay of execution
being put to the verdict till the mar
riage ceremony should be completed.
Year: 1879

THE manure of COWS and pigs resists
decomposition for a longer time than
that of the sheep and hOTse-both the
latter being dryer than the former, and
decomposing more readily in the soil.
Year: 1879

Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from diseases Of the
heart do really arise from that cause.
To ascertain the real origin Of sudden
deaths, an experiment was tried and
reported to a scientific congress al
Strasburg. Sixty six cases of sudden
deaths were made the subject Of thor.
ough post mertsm examination. In
these cases only two were found who
died from diseases of the heart. Nine
out Of sixty y-six had died Of apoplsxy,
while there were forty-six cases Of
congestion of the lungs; that is, the
lungs were 40 full of blood that they
could not work, not being room enough
for sufficient amount of air to support
life. The causes that produce conges-
tion Of the lungs are: cold feet, tight
clothing, costivs bowels, sitting still
until chilled, after being warmed with
labor or rapid walk, going too sud
denly from q close rooE into the air,
especially after speaking, too hasty
walking, or running to catch a train,
&c. These causes Of sudden death
being known an avoidance Of them may
serve to lsngthsn many valuable
lives, which would otherwise be lost
under the verdict Of the heart COM.
plant. That disease Is supposed to be
inevitable and incurable; hence many
may not take the pains they would to
avoid sudden death, II they knew ii
lay in their power.
Year: 1879

On Tuesday morning three young
men went in bathing at Ocean Park, a
short distance south of Ocean Grove,
when one of them, William Killock, of
Philadelphia, was heard to cry for help.
He cried out "I am bit my legs are
cut" They landed him on the beach, j,
and found that the whole of the calf of
his left leg was lacerated, as though the
wounds had been made by many large
teeth. Killock said that when he was
floating something snapped at his leg,
and the sensation was like the incision
Of a thousand needles. He then felt a
huge body by his side, and when he
struck it it let 60 its hold and dashed
away. His wound, though serious, is
not dangerous, but will conane him in
doors for some time.
Year: 1879

A new trick in villainy is being prac-
ticed in New York by young girl ten
or twelve years of age. A few days
ago, in one of the public squares, she
ran up to an elderly lady, embraced
her atfsctionately, and clung for some
moments to the lady's neck, who found
great difficulty in getting rid of her.
The child called the lady her "dear
aunt" but when convinced Of her mis-.
take consented to leave, not empty
handed, however, since she took with
her the lady's watch and portmonnaie,
the loss Of which was only discovered
by the victim some half hour later.
Year: 1879

RESTRICTIVE LIQUOR LAWS in Scotland
do not seem to have any better effect in
reducing intemperance than they do in
this country, recent report showing
that, while appearances have been i'm
proved, there has been an increased
number of commitments for drunken
ness since the passage of the act limit
ing sales and closing liquor stores at il
O'Clock so the night" In Edinburgh,
as in this country, illicit traffic is
known to be carried on in some places
against which legal evidence cannot be
obtained, the customers being willing
to violate the law, but not to violate the
of the tavern keeper.
Year: 1879

SENATOR CHANDLER rises once more
with characteristic good sense to give
his views on the talk about himself as
Presidential candidate. 81 do not de-
cline to be a candidate" he says; "the
idea of my Icing one is ridiculous, 50
that it would be absurd for me to de-
cline" He also denies that he offered
to advance money for the payment of
United States Marshals.
Year: 1879

The REGISTER of the hot weather il


noted as much in the increase of deaths


as in the thermometers. Last week
one third of those who died in this city


were comparatively babies, nearly all
under one year of age, and one half of
the whole number who died were un.
der five years of age. Compared with
the same time last year however, this
is an improvement in favor ofthe pres
ent season. There is a good share of
work for mothers to do in trying to get
proper food, which costs no more than
improper, for their children and them.
selves, and in beginning to take care of
themselves too. This reminds US that
a few days ago we suggested that free
excursion for mothers and children
exclusively would be conducive to
their happiness and health, and we
hope that some kind phi ilanthropist
would move in the matter. We call
IN them again.
Year: 1879

Jose thatA graud army Of needless
employees have been supported by the
Government, while honest men have
been forced out Of its service that the
Mints have been run from Washington
for private gain.


The foregoing are only few OF the
charges made in the report which
shows that In his search for fraud he
condesoendsd. to to few lower ranks


than Secretaries, Treasurers, pay di-
rectors, mint directors and chiefs Of
bureaus. His charges are too monstrous
for belief, and should even one-fourth
of them be true thorough investiga-
tion should be made and the charges
proven upon more responsible evidence
than q man denounced and believed by
his own party in the House Of Represen'
tatives to be insane. No doubt there
il some dishonesty in the washington
Departments, but that they are reek-
ing in corruption is something that
the American people will be slow to
believe, but while few decent honest
people will believe the wild story Of
Glover it will be used largely no doubt
in the approaching elections by mud
fingers. Some OF this kind of mud al
ways sticks, and there are plenty of
people to he found who will reject the
story as whole and yet retain suff-
cient fragments of it to tarnish the good
names of men who would not wipe their
boots on such man as Glover without
feeling an inward sense OF defilement.
At any rate there should be no opposi-
ton to a thorough investig alton ofthese
charges made by Glover and If there
be any truth in them whatever let the
guilty be exposed and punished wheth.
er they be Democrats or Republicans,
Year: 1879

vAmc0mG


We cannot but sympathize with City


Treasurer Vincent, under his persecu-


tion by paper to which in the good


ness of his heart he has been regularly


furnishing contributions on local sub


jsots. We lock upon the case in quite


a different light than the paper does


that gladly accepted his contributions,


and then when one Of them led to q


slight error or Misunderstanding, turn


ed on him and denounced him before


the community as willfully furnishing
articles in which there was no truth.


Everybody who knows Treasurer Vim
cent, knows that he is excessively aff.
able and polite, careful not to wound
the feelings Of any one, and always
ready to assist in any manner in which
he can make himself useful to friend.
Having large acquaintanceship in. the
city, and numbers Of people calling
upon him every day, he possesses large
knowledge of local events, and having
a retentive memory he does not forget
them. These peculiar and commenda-
ble traits in Mr.. Vincent's S character the
reporters of the city were not very
long in finding out, and con
sequently his Office became a stop
ping place for these gentlemen Of the
pencil and note book. Mr.. Vincent be-
ing an old newspaper man and always
willing to accommodate these gentle
men, communicates to them any little
local event which may have come to his
knowledge and which might be Of in
terest to Wilmington readers, telling
them in language something ike this:
snow l have just Eeard rnmor of this
and give 1t to you just as l have
heard it, and you can hunt it up5if you
see proper" We contend that the re-
porter is clearly responsible for the
truth or falsity of local. given under
such qualifications and reservations,
and that MIR. Vincent should be held
entirely clear Of any intention to mis-
lead the public. Under these circum-
stances there is no justification for the
violent attack on Mr.. Vincent by an
uptown big paper for being led into an
error. The fault lay clearly with the
reporter whoever he was, for not first
investigating. the item Of news commu
nicated, and not having done so, he is
guilty of the basest ingratitude, ty
throwing the blame on Mr.. Vincent to
whom he was indebted for hundreds of
local items which were correct. The
very lowest depths of ingratitude is
reached when the editor of the. paper
referred to seizes the opportunity to
denounce Mr.. Vincent in unmeasured
terms. Having been SO severely rent, |
Mr.. Vincent will hereafter perhaps be
more careful before what swine he casts
his pearls.
Year: 1879

Whatever may be thought of DR.. Tai
mage on this side of the Atlantic, he has
certainly taken the Britishers by storm.
They never tire talking about him, nor
of hearing him talk. They flock to hear
him in such numbers that no building is
large enough to accommodate them,
On last Sunday he preached twice in
London, and each time to an audience
of twenty thousand men; besides, ad.
ditional thousands were turned away
for want of room. Of course, they can
not entirely overlook his very peculiar
methods, but at the same time they are
compelled to Admit him to be man of
great versatility and much more than
ordinary power. Brother Talmage has
evidently impressed our cousins quite
as strongly as Brother Beecher, and as a
consequence he will be lionized to his
hearts content.
Year: 1879

Now THAT Col. Lynch has been sworn
in as Street Commissioner, and we have
no doubt but he will make very eco
nomical one, we suppose the horse and
carriage belonging to the city will be
for sale, as the Colonel vehemently de-
nounced the purchasing Of them for lazy
city officials. We think, however, the
Colonel had better not sell yet. The
days are hot and the city is spread over
considerable territory. A walk from
the east end of Christiana avenue, on
the Delaware river, to the western
boundary, at Front and Union streets,
under hot sun with the Thermometer
in the nineties would not be very de.
sirable. Keep that horse and carriage,
Colonel, the boot is now on the other
leg.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER MOVE has been made by the
Secretary of the United States Senate
towards purging the Senate of every
thing that has any semblance of Re-
publicanism. The crippled Union sol.
diers have all been sent of, and Grip
pied rebel soldiers installed ia their
places. The last move of this officer
was to discontinue the subscription of
every Republican paper and subscribe
for Southern Democratic journals in
their stead. Heretofore it has been the
custom for the clerk to divide the sub
scriptions between the leading Repub-
lican and Democratic newspapers, but
it seems that the Rebel Brigaders OBJ
jecr to having single Republican pa
per on the list. How do Union men
like such a picture?
Year: 1879

The mans head was level who pro-
posed to remove the old basin at Tenth
and Market streets for 90, 200, and he
would not have made very big wages
even at that price. Those who bid
lower figures we're evidently misled in
regard to the work which was to be
done. Had the lining Of the basins
been nothing more than common
loose stone wall and the embankments
of soft clay, the job might have been
done at Mr.. Ford's figures, but instead
of loose walls and soft banks he finds
firmly cemented stone walls nearly four
feet thick at the top and six at the bot
tom, every stone of which has to be
picked out of solid cement, and instead
of clay bank, there is a solid gravel
bank which requires as much picking
as the walls. After week spent upon
the work and finding that lie would
lose about $500 ON job for which
his bid was only s9J2, we
think MIR. Ford is wise in sus-
pending labor upon the old basin un-
til the matter has been laid before the
building committee Of the Levy Court.
1t is said that the specifications stated
that the stone wall was only two feet
thick at the top and four at the bottom,
which if true should ignore the con-
tract, and Mr.. Ford should be paid for
what he has already done. 1t would
be much better if the committee would
appoint competent superintendent
and have the work done by the day,
paying the men fair wages for their
work, and if it should cost little more
than it could be done for by contract,
the money would at least 60 into the
hands of those who pay county taxes,
provided home labor is employed. We
favor the contract system generally,
but in cases of this kind day labor
should be preferred.
Year: 1879

The colored convention at Nashville
passed a resolution yesterday in favor
of compulsory education. 1t is not
enough that the Democratic party in
the South provides free schools for all,
white and black alike, but it is ex-
pected now to compel every child to
go to school. This is asking too much.
We are willing to tax ourselves to
school all children, but cannot afford
to send a constable around
with a spelling-book to cap
ture every little darky who prefers
fishing or sleeping in the sun to the
shades and discipline of the school
house The colored man and brother
has very exaggerated ideas as to his
rights and narrow ones as to the
responsibilities and duties of life
which are supposed to be attached to
their recently acquired citizenship,
Three or four hundred years from
now they may have more sense, if any
of them are left.