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Year: 1874

Sweet Katie West, lovely Kentucky girl
thought to improve her complexion by taking
little arsenic. If paleness was what she
wanted to bring about it was great sue
cess, for her funeral was duly attended and
the appearance of the corpse such as would
have just pleased her ii she could only have
had a look at it.
Year: 1874

From the New York Post.


There is reason to look for marked and
steady improvement in the carly future,
and We should not be surprised TO see a
good fall trade beginning before tho end
o! June, for the country retailers have
small stocks Of goods, whllo the produc-
tlon ot goods since tho panic has been
very much reduced. Tho prospects as 10
the crops arc good, and with good crops
agood fall trade Is certain.
Year: 1874

Mr; Maynard, from the Committee on
banking and Currency, presented the re.
port Of the Senate as Q substitute for the
currency bill and gave notice that be
would ask an action on 1t next Monday,
Year: 1874

The GENEVA Cross governor Waller.
This thrilling and notwithstanding melo.
drama was presented at the Theatre last
night. The weather was SO inclement that
there was not large audience in attend
ance. but the number present was much
greater than on any previous night Of the
engagement of the National Theatre Com
pany. #


The performance was one of the best we
have ever seen of the kind, and but for the
rain the house would veHy probably have
been filled. II there is any fault to be found
in the piece it is in the fact that it smacks too
much of real life; but as the scene is laid in
France during the late Franco-P Prussian war
it is the more interesting. The acting was eX-
cellent-indeed, the company is one Of the
best in the United States. 1t is under the
excellent management of Mr.. Saville, whose
taste was well displayed last night in the
very creditable manner in which the stage
scenes were set.


Tonight the play will be repeated, and at
the matinee on Saturday Led Astray" is
announced. The "Geneva Cross" would
take much better.


During the play last night Governor Wal
ker entered the Theatre, and was received
with the most enthusiastic applause, which
he gracefully acknowledged.
Year: 1874

VIRGINIA OPERA HOUSE usE-MAT1NEE.-Atth the
matinee this afternoon ALI. Burnett appears
in several humorous characters and as Bach
elor with Miss Nash as the Eccentric Widow
in the comical sketch "Widow and Bache-
lor." His rapid facial changes and amusing
representations of queer characters are most
laushable and unexceptionnble. Burnett is
unusually modest for a man in his line of
business and for one who might well claim
to be rare caterer to he public amusement.
His last appearance will be tonight.
Year: 1874

MUslcAL-RICHMoND PHILHARMONIC Asso.
cIATloN.- This Association commences its
winter rehearsals tonight for the present
season with the view of giving, at an early
day, another of their superb musical treats.
1t will be gratifying to the many friends Of
the Association to learn of the prosperous
condition the organization now enjoys.
Year: 1874

THE people of the South seem bent on
seli-destruction. The Ku Klux Klan re-
ceived the endorsement of large por-
tion of the whites for time, but as that
organization became unpopular and the
exposures made were likely to result IN
the stretching Of the necks of some the
leaders new deal was necessary. The
White League has now become the popu-
lar order, and in many sections they are
doing all in their power to make it i'm
possible for northern men or negroes to
continue business. A northern man who
chances to be successful is at once the oh
ject of jealousy ard hatred and eventual
ly of persecution. That many adven-
turOus men and political dead beats have
imposed upon the people Of the South
cannot be denied, but that the Southern
ers should seek to drive out all the hon
est, hard-working men who are seeking
homes among them, simply because they
chance to have been born or educated in
the North, is lamentabe. Until they
give encouragement to northern capital
that is seeking to develop their forests
and their mines and to bring into use the
immense water power along those rapid
rivers, the South will continue to be a
poverty-stricken region. Ignorance and
prejudice are the great enemies of the
South, and the ignorant and prejudiced
men who are driving away Northern
men and Northern capital are suicides.
Year: 1874

THE KLAMATH RIYER.-The Yrella
Union says the Klamath river is lower
now than at any time before known by
the whites, and thinks it strange in view
Of the amount Of rain and snow that fell
last winter. We think so, too. Snow
laid on the mountains in sight Of Wea-
verYile this summer for a longer time by
several weeks than last year, and it is
presumable that such would be the case
all over the State. An unusually heavy
growth of vegetation on the streams
which unite to form the main Klamath
may be the cause Of the low water If
such be the case, the klamath will doubt
less commence rising again soon as veg
citation begins to die.
Year: 1874

WHAT Is CoMINa.-It begins to ap-
pear in many indirect ways, but all point
ing to the same object, that the Democa
racy, if successful in the next Presiden-
tial elction, will make an effort to repu-
diate the national debt, unless the Con-
federate debt shall be assumed also, or
in other words, that they will make it q
condition Of the payment of the one that
the other shall be recognized. 1t is true
tha; the fourth section of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution declares
that this shall not be; but so did the Con-
stitution declare against treason, yet
rank treason was rife all over the land.
The people will enquire in the meantime
whether the leaders of the party named
have such intention or desire, and if con-
vinced that they have, it will be the part
Of wisdom to leave them at home.-,Sdc.
Rec
Year: 1874

THE Carson Appeal, as an inducement
to candidates for office TO come forward
and advertise, says: ''If you have al
ways been an honest man and want to be
proven a horse thief and scoundrel, just
give us your name and authority TO say
that you are candidate for some Office" 4"
Year: 1874

Look OUT.-Many careless business
men, says the Shasta Courier, are lay
ing the foundation for future loss and
trouble by not conforming to the law
which requires all firms and co-partner-
ships to advertise their full name and
place of business. No firm or company
neglecting to do this can recover on any
debt by suit at law, All new firms Or
partnerships hereafter formed must give
the same notice or have no standing in
Inv
Year: 1874

THE Cork TREE.-The Placer Herald
in urging the cultivation Of the cork troe
in the foothills, says: "There are trees
in Auburn, only three or four years old,
the bark of which is now almost thick
enough for ordinary sized corks, while it
is stated that in its native country the
bark is not thick enough for corks until
the tree is from fifteen to twenty years
old. A small grove of these trees might,
r a few years, prove quite fortune to
its possessor.
Year: 1874

A SURE SIGN.-The following from
the Sacramento Union is altogether toe
good to be lost:


Whenever a newspaper opens its col
umns to vituperation OF the Independent
press, and particularly Of the Sacramen-
to Union, it is a sure sign that the said
newspaper is helping some scoundrel OF
fool or qnft person to office.
Year: 1874

PARTIES IN San Francisco are negotiat-
ing for the patent right for California for
the manufacture of paper barrels, which
will hold all kinds Of liquor, and cost
about half as much as wooden.
Year: 1874

GENERAL GARFIELD, jqst renomina-
ted for the seventh term, was when boy
canal driver, and is said to be the hest
man in the House from the shoulder. He
was se'f-educated, and for long time
was known as the fighting Campbelite
parsoD
Year: 1874

THERE has been considerable excite
ment in the First Congressional Districl
of Ohio in consequence Of the circulation
of pledge by bankers and capitalists to
vote only for Congressman pledged to
hard money; otherwise to work for an
independent nomination.
Year: 1874

~-~e@s@Se~0S


"A married girl of thirteen seeking
divorce on the ground that she is too
young, is one of the latest social devel-
opments Of Indianapolis.


"A Boston court has decided that if
a woman lends money to her husband
she cannot get it back. This decision
will not be new to many wives.


-"Will you take flower from me?"
is the title of the last song. We've
known men to talk that way and then
pitch EN- down stairs after marriage.


"A Dubuque cooper, whose wife
was always scolding, barrelled her up
and rolled her around the shop until
she solemnly promised to reform.


-"Don't be angry with me, darling''
is an appropriate song for man to
sing after he has blackened both of his
wite's eyes. 1t goes to show that he is
man Of fine feeling.


"A man was boasting that he had
been married for twenty years and had
never given his wife a cross word.
Those who knew him say he didn't
dare to.


AT a meeting Of Congregational
ministers, one gentleman, who stated
that he had been eastward with his
superintendent" was interrupted by a
brother clergyman, who asked if he
meant his wife.
Year: 1874

At that tine the Lacroix city tax bills
had mounted up to $50, 1000. He tried
as usual to evade it, but Warmoth's
free lances were rough and hungry, and
they drove him hard. At last he gath.
cred together the required amount, and,
so rumor says, gave it to his son to
make the settlement with. Here comes
in the secret Of the drama. They say
the young man lost the money or was
cheated out of it in some way, and
wrecks afterward the old man
was made suddenly aware that
the $4,000 was still un-
paid and his property trembling in the
balance. Then he broke down. 1t was
hard enough for him to part with
money at the best of times, and this
disaster filled his cup. Report hath it
that he cast the prodigal forth with
curses, and from that moment fell into
a stolid, obstinate inaction which moth
ing could arouse. Numerous attempts
were made to Induce in him some meas
ures of selfprotection. Bankers,
brokers, who liked him as relic Of the
good old time, or wished, evidently, to
make reasonable profit on the lob,
offered the funds necessary to release
his property. 1t was of no avail. At
the beginning of the present year the
bills: State and city, reached over
$4,000, and at last,;, after more than
three years Of forbearance, the author
tiles moved, the hammer was uplifted.
and Francois Lacroix' 5 colossal fortune
began to crumble::


l have dropped in once or twice at
the Auctioneers' Exchange to watch
the progress of the drama. All its in
terest centers in Lacroix himself. He
sits on the steps Of the rostrum, fool.
ish and yet a touching figure. Dressed
in shabby linen, with his homemade
calico shirt open at the throat, smok.
ing-always smoking-a wretchcd, dis
solute.looking cigar, grinning vacantly
whenever the hammer falls, and never
by any chance meeting the spectators
eye, he is a picture at once forlorn and
tragic. They say he is crazy, that he
has deliberately furthered this sacrifice
in order to destroy his faithless sons
inheritance; his other son, the darling
on whom he lavished all his love and
generosity, was killed in the Mechanics
Institute riot of 1866. I do not know
how this Is. I cannot quite make him
out. Ills yellow face seems very un.
meaning. His struggling white hairs
are fraught with dignity. He watches
the dissipation Of his superb fortune
with apparent indifference. Once, when
some especially beloved property was
disposed of he gave way. He sobbed
piteously and his hand hurried unstead.
lily to his eyes for just one instant.
That was the only time. Before and
since there has been no sign of feeling
or indeed OF consciousness. He is too
narrow and suspicious to be hero, too
selfish to be martyr, too ignorant to
be strategist. I am bound to believe
as see him looking on unmoved while
his possessions go to sharpers as a gift,
that he is poor demented old man
that age and avarice have driven mad :,
He is one Of the last Of the ancient
class Of free born French colored men,
and his was one Of the last of those
superb estates which war and carpet
baggers have left in Louisiana.
Year: 1874

= score or more Of parties, confrentcd
her, and with sudden inspiration, she
took the phantom from it's peg and
opened her paint-box-for she is An art
list Of no mean ability-and presently
over the faded surface sprang delicate
tracery Of field flowers. And the end
Of her labor was the result that not
only Solomon in all his glory was
eclipsed, but all the other women in
their diamonds and lace.
Year: 1874

SIR: lam both surprised and as.
tonished at the receipt Of a note from
you inviting me to accompany you to
the ''hop" of the Young Mems Club
on Thursday night. Your presumption
is beyond all measure. You mistake
propriety and presume upon an '*intro-
duction Of convenience" You have nv
answer in the significance Of the above,
and hope never again to receive line
from you.
Year: 1874

SIR: Your presumptuous note has
been received. How dare you address
me on so familiar terms? Should ever
hear from you again will hand your
lines to my father and he will give such
attention as you deserve. Yours en-
phatically. --.
Year: 1874

The ART OF SSIPrNG.-Skipping is an
important part on the art of reading, and
should be practised Systematically. 1t is
most to be practised in solid books-by
which we mean, for the purposes of this
discussion, books that are read merely for
information. Solid or serious reading con-
sists in attending to the matter of book
independently of the form, except indeed
when the form itself is the primary subject
of study, as for instance, from the point of
a philologist or historian of literature. The
more solid the book, the more expedient it is
to skip, and the more useful it is to know how
to skip judiciously. But when the form is
of sensible Importance to the reader as COM
pared with the matter-or, in less abstract
language, Iwhen book is read partly or
Year: 1874

\ MoUsE SroRY.-One time Bub vas
moving pile of old rails, and under the last
one among the soft, dry grass, there was a
cozy little bed. and in it n mother mouse and
six pink babies. They were nesting close
around her warm furry body and eating their
little wee dinner of warm milk. What
where they to do? The whole roof was torn
Of from their house and hey were left with
the hot summer sun twinkiing in their ten
der ewes and beaming rig hit down upon them
They were so young and helpless that not
one of them could walk two steps. Buh
hurried to place the rail again and leave
them as comfortable is he found them.
But the mother-mouse not knowing whether
he was friend or foe, in a fine squeaking
voice that could hardly be understood by big,
gross ears, seemed to say, - Oh, my beauti-
tul darlings | will not leave you nor for
sake YOU let US flee for our lives Take
hold of your mother. dears, and she will save
you.'' The six little baby mice understood
well enough what she said, and they hurried
and opened their mouths and took hold Just
as if they were nursing, and then the wise
mother-mouse started on a soft run in the
direction of pile of stumps that lay near
the fence Bub stood and watched her. and
he said it touched his heart in the tenderest
place to see, in the lowest of Gods creatures,
the devotion and beauty and strength of a
mothers love. While she was running as
fast as she could with her precious burden
dangling about her feet and legs, one of the
| little ones lOosed its hold and fell off. Only
for an instant did the mother-mousc pause
and look at it. as much as TO say - How
unfortunate can hardly manage so many
babies but you, poor Plushy, must not be-
hind you, the weakest, and sweetest baby
of all = and saying this, she turned and took
it up tenderly in her mouth, and with hel
head up good deal higher, she trotted or
her way and reached the pile Of stumps il
safety. My father says he has often seer
mother mice running with their babies cling
ing to them in the same way, but he nevel
before knew Of baby mouse carried in the
mothers mouth, even in extreme danger
r. r. IN The Adrancs
Year: 1874

A telegram from Council Bluffs, Iowa,
says that on Friday morning last, as an
extra stock train on the Red Oak branch
of the Burlington and Mississippi rail
way was nearing Farragut, Jack Evans,
the engineer, discovered a small child on
the track, about sixty yards distant.
The engine was reversed and the brakes
applied, but the engineer knew that the
train could not be stopped in time to save
the child. Evans ran out upon the cow
catcher, and when the train had reached
within about ten feet Of the child, he
made flying leap, caught the child in
his arms, and both rolled into the ditch
in time to escape the train, which was
running at fifteen miles an hour. The
child, one year old, was uninjured. The
engineer sprained his ankle and was con-
siderably bruised, but not seriously in
jured.
Year: 1874

This is the title of an appeal in the
New York Herald, redolent of good sense
and GENEROUS sentiment. Il is elected by
incorporate expressions from newspapers
and prominent men whose utterances
have contributed more than all else to keep
up the intense sectionalism which the
war produced, and to prolong misrule
and anarchy in the reconstructed States


The Herald asks the class who have
kept up this feeling and furnished a
rretext for these abuses, TO pause and
exercise wisdom for time so that the
revolution which Is now in progress in
tle Northern mind may go forward unim-
Feded TO accomplish its mission. In con-
dusion it says:


"What we ant in he South is The awaken
hg of u generous, manly, sell-asserting pat
iiotism among the Southern people them
selves new manifestation OF those quail
les of endurance and forIitude which gave
he Confederacy a renown that will last
through ages We cannot feel that all these
,oble qaaites-the states smanship the self
Genial, the perseverance which marked the
Confederate course during the war-were
surrendered at AppomattoX with the armies
,fGeneral Lee And yet we sometimes fear


uch Was really the case. especially when we
see all that i left OF the manhood OF that
ouissatt Confederacy i some poor foolish
gascona3ing Bob Toomos or Ben Hill
when re read in the columns OF the Journals
these irenzes about another revolution
when We hear Statesmen and thinkers crying
like echildren over some taueied "negroiziug''
OF the South or in dread tha5 they may be-
come mongrel population like The = Poems
of Mexico" This IS unworthy aad shonld
altogether be avoided. Let political wis
dom rule tie South, aud IL wilt be answered
By spirit of fraternity in the North that
viii enable these sadly oppressed people TO
regain their former splendor and prosper


ty.
Year: 1874

The particular attention of intelli.
gent colored leaders is called to the letter
of Z. S. Senator w. j. Brownlow, OF
Tennessee, on the pending Civil Rights
Bill. The letter is copied, with the head
lines and approbatory comments of the
New York Times, the ablest Republi-
can newspaper AMI champion of Grants
Administrations, in the country. Brown
low, they all know to have been an orig
inal Union man and Republican.


The letter speaks for itself, and will
suggest to the colored people the impor-
tance In the interest of their own race and
the peace of the country, of frowning
down any attempt to break up the present
satisfactory separate school system in
which they have equal opportunities
with the whites of acquiring kno Iledge.
Let well enough alone; and remember
the old epitaph-


II was well, wished to be better


TOOK medicine and here lie y


We have faith that the colored people
having cause to be entirely satisfied with
the present separate system, will not
avail themselves of the opportunity
which this mischievous measure will af-
ford, if passed, of breaking it up; but
we have thought it worth while to sup
pIement our opinion of the effect of the
measure if attempted to be enforced in
the matter of public schools by the views
of as staunch Republican as Senator
Brownlow.
Year: 1874

The following extract credited to a
paper said to be published at Athens, Ga,
called the Georgian, is going the rounds
of the Northern Radical press doing its
work of mischief Notwithstanding il
is the silly and absurd remark of some
foolish babbler who does not speak for any
sane man in the State where he resides.
it will have an extensive circulation, will
be read by millions, and will leave its
impression on many credulous minds,
and furnish material for incalculable mis-
chief The press is a great institution
potent for good, but capable of doing vast
evil when fool or knave happens to get
control of paper and type:


From the St. Louis Globe.


the recent Democratic victories are
having their full effects down South.
The Athens Georgian makes these touch
ing remarks, to which we invite the atten-
ton of the st. Louis Times, and the
organs of Missouri Democracy in general /:


We would respectfully suggest to all
former slaye-owners to preserve correct
list of their slaves, and have their names
recorded in the clerks office of their re-
spective counties. This viii require but
little trouble and expense, and the day
may come when nations returning sense
of Justice might make this wise present
precaution.
Year: 1874

the reported disagreement between
Toombs and Hon. L. @. c. Lamar, Is
now authoritatively denied We gave
it in the shape in which it was found
in Washington letter to Chicago pa
per--Exchange.


BY what authority? Neither of the
gentlemen who are most interested in the
report have contradicted it, and when
they do, we will give the correction a
place in our columns Our impression is
that the original statement is true We
will see
Year: 1874

The Board Of Control have unanimous
ly resolved to hold State Fair, commenc
ing on the 4th Monday of October next.
The official proceedings ofthe meeting are
printed elsewhere The Board have deter
mined to stake the fate of the enterprise
on the liberality and public spirit of the
people. We do not believe that they
have reckoned without their host The
Fair has already become fixed institu-
ton of the State, and is an object of in
terest and pride to her citizens.
Year: 1874

THE CIVIL RIGHTS Built is now
almost definitely determined that in con-
sequence Of the failure Of the Republican
majority to come to time in the House oD
this measure, it will not pass at the PIES
ent session. Besides the opinion is cred
tied that if it does pass, Gen. Grant
will veto it.
Year: 1874

Here is a commendation from a source
worthy of appreciation. We have daily
evidences of the approval of our cash sys-
TEN. Our subscribers say that it is better
for them as we'll as for ourselves. Incur
independent" journalism, we are also
fortified by the endorsement of the public.
We shall strive to publish the news impair
TALLY and continue to express our opinions
of public questions as they arise, and
of the events Of the day with frankness:
Mr. CARMEL, Miss, June, 9th 1874.


GENTS Enclosed fnd amount to
renew my subscription to your valuable
paper. 1t is matter of neglect, but
not of Indifference that has caused me
to fail to remit to your cashier.


| admire your plan of promptly dis
continuing the paper, at the expiration
of the time for which payment has been
made, as it gives the subscriber greater
confidence in the honor and integrity
Of its publishers, and at the same time
that you are enabled to give us a good pa
per for but little money.


You manifest an independence of
character tha. is at most not too pIeva-
lent among newspaper men of the present
day.


With an apology for this interru ption.


I am, very truly yours, etc.,


!. d. T.
Year: 1874

COL VIM Breck, of Madison, has been
appointed Chancellor in the 18th District
IN place of Hon. Sam. Young. Col
Breck was Dent Republican in politics
and was not by profession and practice a
lawyer that we know of