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Year: 1878

such remedy would ever be needed. / submit that
the peace and good order of society, protection OF
States and due administration OF their police powers
for public veal demand that redress for the present
legislatures OF State and national governments.
Year: 1878

The new army bill reported by
General Banning requires that all
enlisted men shall be educated and
entitled to promotion from theranks.
The object is, of course, to secure a
better class of men. But that is
what we do not want. If all the idle
rabble of base and brainless vaga-
bonds are shut out of the army we
shall have to shut them in the jails.
A fool makes q tolerably good pri-
vate soldier but a ghastly bad civil
ian, and it is a clear gain to the
country when we can get him shot
by an Indian instead of having to
hang him ourselves.
Year: 1878

A man in Lowell, Mass, had a
house, but no wife to care for it.
In a talk with a friend a bargain
was made under which he was
to pay the friend $3.50 for pro-
curing one. The broker intro
duced him to a New Hampshire
girl, a match was made, and the
man comedies that it was a lucky
match for him; but he refused
to pay the broker, because that
gentleman saw fit to talk about
the matter. The broker has
sued for the money; the lower
Court decided against him, and
the case will go to the Superior
Court of Massachusetts on ap-
peal.
Year: 1878

To illustrate the extent to
which the tricky sales of postage
stamps have been carried on it
is SAID that the two largest bust
ness houses in Salt Lake City,
receiving two hundred letters
daily, have not bought five dol
lars worth of stamps from the
Salt Lake office for two
years, but have stamps constant
ly for sale; and that one offered
to furnish the Salt Lake post
master with $1,000 worth. A
Mormon from Southern Utah,
coming into Salt Lake recently,
bought new furniture for his
whole house and paid for it in
postage stamps.
Year: 1878

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HEIl.Lp:-


Tho Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to hill
dren has been unwsc in selecting for its prey such
prominent person Colonel Mapleson. The mana
gers should have shown Justice IL not more cour-
tesy. to stranger in our land. and who has come
here to elevate the standard of opera-sn honor
and benefit we Americans ought to appreciate for wc
sadly needed It, IL might perhaps DC wiser for the
officers of the Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children to examine into the lives of the children
they profess to take such interest in. DO
they expect to furnish the necessaries OF
life TO the parents who perhaps sup
ported by the talents of their little ones 2
Perhaps 1t would be kinder t. these little ones to let
them beg IN the streets There would be nothing
cruel in that; il s nothing but fun, of course
them to wander day and night trying to beg little
for those ut home. This arrest to insult
to the managers Of tho Academy. TO think that they
have allowed this thing to go on under their eyes and
have not seen the cruelty of i'll Ny advice to the
society would be to first direct their energies to some
of the long standing places in this city where cruel
performances carried ON only in degraded form.


Query.--Do the children Of the illustrous managers
of this society run, dance exercise in any but
the prescribed way A LOVER OF JUSTICE.
Year: 1878

by fallen masses and formations. but which
cannot be called rooms or chombers. This slope
to lead toward the head OF the 'GreGt cl,asm,


and the small chasm at its foot is evidently OF the
openings left when the roof MASSES fell. From the
Organ to the end of this crowded chamber is about
one hundred and fifty feet. and its width is fully
much. From the last described space there extends
in southery by westerly direction another chamber
two hundred feet in length and about one hundred
and fifty in width of irregular outline and divided
into two levels. the most distant southeriy being
the lowest by twenty feet. The upper level of this
room is filed with remarkable stalagmites and its
eastern side by great stalactes; the lower level
there of fallen roof formation,
and two splendid columns that reach from
hoor to ceiling. These all carefully fenced
in by the proprietors to preserve them from
Vandal visitors. heavy drip has formed curl
GUS stalagniites like low sized monuments in cem-
eery, and fine floor encrustation that is also saved
by the barriers erected From the end OF the hall is
the approach to of the most singular chambers in
the cavern smooth slope OF cncrusted rock
mounts to gallery set with beautiful formations.
Thence long. low and narrow passage leads to the
chamber where industrious correspondent counted
100 springs. There and close by opens immense
chamber where the formations superb not the
least interesting among them being of the finest
white columns in the On slope in this cham
Der there is q curious formation which presents
mossllke appearance. But in the candle light the tip
Of each spray sparkles like ruby an amethyst or
garnet, the colors Of the crystals change don't
think it is possible to anything finer than
that gem-lit slope. But to return to the
room in which the columns and stalagmitcs are
fenced in narrow passage about sixty feet long and
running in northwesterly direction leads INTO an
other very large hall which find is close behind the
east wall of the "dreat Chas and separated from it
by only one hundred feet Several 'eads' oc-
cur in this room, which is fully two hundred feet
long. One of these is ledge. reached by lad
der, and which leads into the great interior hall.
which described in former letter having made
examination Of the soil washed in from the surface.
Another lcad is direct to the foot of steep SLOPE
mounting which, by the aid of rope. enables one to
look through opening into the Great Chasm"
through big round window. The hall also contains
in corner the Coral Cascade and many other beau
tful groups and objects. have now led the reader
course by path Of about sixteen hundred feet
without turning to any side passages visiting
res of large chambers the left Of the entrance
making any transverse Journeys in the big lowroofed
hail. These reserve for another letter. in which
hope to give accurate description OF the courses
from the map am now perfecting.
Year: 1878



 The Gazette asserts that Col. J. N. Smithee, State Land Commission CT, gave the publication of the nd vcrtisement of forfeited lands to his own paper, the Democrat, and made out his bill for $2,743.50, when the Gazette had offered to do the same publication for the sum of $321.92. This reminds us of the fact that the next legislature ought to looK after the matter of the public printing. In our opinion the State has been most outrageously bled in this item of expenses for many years. It seems that most any person who gets chance to agouge" the State in a job of public printing, thinks it perfectly legitimate to do so. The next legislature should enact some new law governing this matter, which will protect and guard the State against some impositions as have been practiced upon hAfin the the item of public printing.
Year: 1878

From a business letter just receiv- ed from Prof. Russell, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Arkan- sas Industrial University we make the following extract:

 Our school is doing finely. 250 in attendance and numbers increas- ing. Pope has a good representa- tion but she sends us such good stu dents we would like twice as many. We think we could do them good. Can't you send them? We wish you could come up and see us in the harness and judge of our work here.

 We are pleased to have such a favorable report of the prosperous condition of the University; and are very proud of the laurels which Pope county is winning by her rep resentation there.

 We congratulate the Board of Trustees and the Faculty of the In stitute upon the success which is crowning their efforts, and. we trust the growth of the University may increase until it is crowded to it's full capacity by the youth of our State, seeking knowledge.
Year: 1878

kind of influence controlled this state, politically, socially and every other way. Ask the few old Wings now living who, prior to the war, participated in or are acquainted with the political and financial his tory of the state, what became not only of the educational funds but of all of the other magnificent bequests made to Arkansas by the general government. They will tell you that the dishonest carpet bagger and his aiders and abettors. were not the only dishonest politicians that have not only retarded tue growth but cursed the state.

 If the people of the state wish the s'good old times" of dirt roads and carts; but few school houses, and still fewer churches; with the great mass of the people in ignorance; with more dogs than pigs, and more guns and pistols than books--they can get them by hostility to the common school system, and by put ting in power again the old Bourbon dynasty. The Gany thousands of young men ana young women who arrived at the years of majority be- fore and during the war, who were never gwen an opportunity by those in power to learn to write their own names, or to read the ten command ments or the Lords prayer, or the declaration of independence of inde- pendence, or the constitution of their own native country-can very justly charge their great misfortunes to that selfish, narrow minded oligarchy that then ruled the state.

 It may be proper, to prevent a wrong inference, to say that the writer of this article was reared in a slave holding state, and by slave holder; and whilst he believes that in many of the attributes of dignity and nobility of character, and purity of public and private life, that class of men and women have never been excelled in the United States, yet, at the same time, he believes that slav- cry created. powerful oligarchy, beneficial to the few, but injurious to the many; and that it has passed away forever, with all of it's blessings and it's curses, there is naught that anyone ought to regret-except the blood stained history of its death. GUroN.
Year: 1878

Advlce given to farmers through the medium of the newspaper column has got to be such common thing, and so much nonsense IS contained in much of the advice given that there is generally but little attention paid to this part of newspaper read ing. Nevertheless there is often many good and wholesome pieces of admonition given farmers through the newspaper columns.

 But our object in this article is to urge the farmers of Pope county to plant more wheat this fall. The all cotton system of farming has been fully demonstrated to be fatal poli- cy. At present the man who at- tempts to grow cotton to the exclu- sion of his grain and pork will come out loser every time. Go over the country and hunt up those farmers who are in the easiest circumstances and it will be found that they are the ones who diversity their crops and who in addition to making their own bread and meat, have some of those very essential articles to sell. The wheat crop of Pope county was a vast help to our farmers. It brought them, at the very time they needed it worst, some S30,000 or $35,000. This year not only IS this income cut off but many of our farm CTS are coming to town to buy their breadstuffs.

 It is predicted that the present winter will be colder than usual--a favorable condition for . good large wheat crop. Get good seed and plant well. Have tue land in proper condition and if it yields fair aver age it will pay better than cotton. If it should even prove failure It is no more than cotton frequently does, and then there is not that great loss of labor and time that the failure of cotton crop, which happens about as often as the failure of wheat, en- tails upon the planter.
Year: 1878

The publication of tho Post was discontinued onsThursday last, aI' though the fact was not generally known until yesterday morning, con- sequently our obituary of yesterday goes" We understand that it IS the intention of the proprietor to resurrect 1t after the quarantine Is raised.-Gazette.
Year: 1878

WHICH MOST NEEDS PRoTEcTIoN?-Tbe


Union Pacific Railroad-it is reporled-has


begged the general government TO provide
troops to protect its express and mail trains
from robbery. The superintendent of the line
at Omaha has private advices that two gangs
OF nj cen or twenty desperadoes each are
about 10 descend upon and loot the trans
carrying large amounts OF treasure III this
gentleman had read the army bill passed last
session he would have seen that the national
authority cannot furnish troops for any such
purpose: The request must therefore be re-
fused: Why does not the Union Pacific guard
against such outrageS with squads of its own
men, well armed and drilled? They would not
cost much, and might be made as efectual az
detachments OF regulars. We earnestly hopa
nothing as unpleasant as that apprebended
VIII happen to any Union Pacific train. The
story reads like scare" What we are most
anxious about is not the defence of the Union
Pacific against raiders, but that of dry goods
and other merchants against the Union Paci-
hc The Union Pacific is waiting for an attack
Which may never come. The mercantile in
terest Is suffering from an attack already
made upon il by this road in the re Gently
doubling of freights to San Francisco. It is
moi 50 much the Union Pacific as the business
public which requires protection from the gov.
Y. Jour. Of Com.
Year: 1878

Mr.. BLAINE is an ingenious person. He
has figured out nomination in 1880. His
friends heretofore stated that he did mol
expect to be a candidate at that time, but
they say nothing Of the kind now. The
Senator is doing what he can to push the
Grant movement, believing that no man
can be nominated for the third term. LIE,
us suppose the Republican convention o.
1880 near at hand, and Grant the princi-
pal figure. Blaine by right of his larg,
vote in the Convention of 1876, and Of hi
constant prominence in affairs, can b.
brought forward at any moment. l
Blaines belief as to third term nomina
ton is correct the nomination will GER
tainly fall to him. No unknown persol
will be taken while Hayes is remembered
No soldier is available. To nominate an.
tried politician oyer Blaine would oe mad
ness. Hereafter we may expect tn
Blaine press to look kindly upon the Grar
movement, and to keep that imposslbl
candidate prominently before the peopl
for q year more at least.
Year: 1878

THE leading lawyers haze been holding
a convention at Saratoga, endeavoring
carefully to exclude the unscrupulous
members of the bar. 1t is the aim Of the
distinguished gentlemen who have inau-
gerated this movement to relieve the ma
tives from opium which has been wrought
upon their profession by the large number
Of unworthy persons who have crowded
themselves into it.


1t will be the labor of Hercules TO ac-
complish their object, while the ablest o
them will defend criminals known by then
to be guilty, and will sustain the wrong o
avaricious clients,'i civil cases, for money
The best talent of the nation is often tounc
engaged in efforts to effect the escape from
punishment Of notoriously guilty men
and in defeating justice in cases where
large property is involved,
Year: 1878

PROVE your faith by your works, is a
Bible Injunction. The Communists have
among their candidates some men who are
Immensely wealthy. If they really believe
what they preach, they should practice it


also, and share with their neigbbors.
Year: 1878

The famine in China has not proved so severe as
was apprehcnded last January. The Empire Is at
peace save in the northwest, where an Imperial
general is in The field against the forces OF kashgar
The Woosung Railroad which was opened for
traffic in 1876. was closed by the Government
October 2O. II was toy line, but the only rail-
road in the Celestial Empire


The abolition Of the military schools among the
Satsuma clans led to a revolt IN Southern Japan
early IN the wear. Sago, the former cOmmandcr-in-
chief ioined the rebels and besieged stronghold.
occupied by the imperialists. lie failed To capture
the CASTLE but he had under hlm some of the best
soidlers in the Empire he was able to hold out until
Autumn. Rather than fall alive INTO the enemy 5
hands, he ordered of his followers to cut OF bis
head.
Year: 1878

The dreadful stories of outrages by tramps
which are so frequent this summer, are calls-
ing much uneasiness New York lawyer
writes to the Springfield Republican as fol-
lows:


rage has been committed near BrattleborO,
VT, by tramp, and letter from that place
two weeks ago found that it was thought
necessary that young ladies walking into the
country should be armed. I met one carry
ing policeman's club, garnished with two
Fsaw-blades. Others carry pistols have no
reason to suppose that this state of affairs is
peculiar to Vermont. should GER
family never have sent my family
there to spend the summer had ! sup
posed it possible such state of
honor of our wives and daughters is no safer
there than in Sicily. There was time when
the people of New England We're too high
spirited to tolerate such a condition OF things.
I'll they have sunk so low as to prefer that
their women should be ravished rather than
sspend little money in putting down these
tramp rutfians, it is time that decent 1olks
from other States should find some safer
place In which to pass their summers. 1t Is
armed police, which shall patrol the highways
and make such crimes impossible / do not
suppose that the money q single person
speilds in place is of much importance to it.
BtiI the whole amount that is spent in a town
like Brattleboro by summer visitors is con-
siderable, For one, shall never send my
family there again, unless some sufficient
measures are taken to ahate this Intolerable
nuisance. And there are many VINO agree
with me-
Year: 1878

makes it pretty evident that 1t will not bG
long before there will be collision to report.


1t is evident that Mexico through her
frontier commanders, Is acting under false
impression in supposing that the concentra-
tion Of cavalry at certain points along the
than the one alleged namely, to pursue and
punish raiders in the face Of all opposition,
as they are ordered. The Kickapoos whose
hands are still warm with the blood of
mount is confined to freshly stolen Texas
horses, have just been called into service TO
defend the town Of Santa Rosa, the head
quarters Of the raiders and robbers a fact not
likely to increase the good feeling between
the two races on the border.
Year: 1878

Vicksburg has laid an embargo on all mail
matter coming from New Orleans, which is
causing gleat Inconvenience to our portion Of
Louisiana, rs all our mail matter from the
city comes by that route, and we think is un-
necessary. We had rather run the slight risk
Of taking the fever than to be deprived Of our
mails from New Orleans, for this Is q season
when q great deal Of correspondence Is re-
quired between the planters and their mer-
chants in the city.


It is eminentIy right and proper for the au-
thorities Of towns not yet infected by the fe-
yer to use all necessary precautions to pre-
vent it's spread, but we cannot believe that
the stopping Of our mails Is a necessary pre-
caution, nor did we know before that q munic-
ipal corporation had the right to thus inter-
rupt the transit Of the United States mails,
Year: 1878

There never was more self-evident ab-
surdty than Mr.. Fosters declaration in the
speech following his denomination by accla-
nation. that the way to encourage the indie


pendent Democratic movements in the South
(which have evidently been watched by him
with interest. and which are even in the same
breath declared to be 'signs of a breaking up
OF the Solid South, y is for the North to pre-
sent itself united against the Solid South.
The very statement Of such a doctrine is its
sufficient refutation. The way to destroy the


South is to sweep all Southerners into COM
mon condemnation simply for being South
erners. A man would be unfit for American
citizenship If he did not resent and resist war
fare upon his native section simply as such
Year: 1878

Quarantine regulations at Shreveport and
other points on this river have caused the
"pool fine" to withdraw all their boats until
the health OF New Orleans gets better. This
Is o terrible blow to business in this section,
but probably the inconvenience may yet prove
q blessing. Ordinarily, at this time of the
of water in the river. but now there is plenty
OF water, crop prospects very fine, merchants
cheerful, etc, and it does seem hard that
these clouds of misfortune should be let hang
over the commerce of the entire country.
Year: 1878

It is strange how. at a trying moment, a
persons courage may fail him and all the
plans of the past and the opportunities Of the
present may be swept away in an instant.
John Broden and Miss Fash, OF Fali River
train was reached in safety. The young gen
tleman led his fair companion to seat, but
alas justas the train started, john regretted
the rashness Of the step he had taken, SO he
form-and let the young lady to be carried
along to the next station. It may be added
that Mr. Borden was only six years old and
Miss Fash four, and the pair received a whip
ping from their parents on their return.
Year: 1878

ITO THE CONSERVATIVES VOTERS OF
l. ALEXANDRIA.-Havin been solicited
by q number of my friends to present my name
as candidate for the Office OF Superintendent OF
self As candidate for tha. office. I b,g leave
to refsr to my past record as a conservative and
to my fidelity to the party and its usSgss to both
Of which still adhere. xnd solicit tho sutfcages
of the conservative voters Of this city ut the
coming primary election, pe1ging myself to
abide by the result Should it be your pleasure
to elect me. will devote my beat energies to the
discharge of the duties Of the Office.


Respectfully


NH q 2ws JANIS P COLEMAN.
Year: 1878

lih0>.l


1t is highly improbable that such
an individual as u perfectly satis-
fled, cOntented woman exists. If
there be one whose position in So
ciety and general surroundings are
entirely in accord with her ambi-
tion and desires, the happy crea :
ture has not yet been discovered,
and her pleasing and beneficial ex.
ample has been lost upon her dis.
contented sisters. In whatever
condition Of circu instances she
may be placed, there is something
invariably beyond her reach that
is essential to her happiness. This
condition of affairs has existed
throughout all time. We are told
that the Garden of Eden possessed
every possible condition requisite
for the complete comfort and hap
piness of its occupants. There is no
doubt that their condition was in
finitely better than that of any
inhabitants of this mundane
sphere to-day, and that they should
have been supremely happy and
contentcd. But whether it was
from the lack of dressmakers or
other causes which history does
not record, our fair mother Eve
would not rest satisfied, but must
needs seek for something more.
Thus it has been ever since, and
the constant, restless striving after
objects which she does not possess,
has been the cause of much Of
woman's unhappiness.
Year: 1878

We are decidedly in favor of the
election or appointment of Judges
to hold office during good behavior.
The advantages resulting from this
are Infinite, as has been abund-
aDtly proven In Europe and some
OF our own States. Judges then
Will have more independence and
drmness, will excel in worth and
efficiency and will be free from q
thousand vexations which sur
round them and impede the due
course Of justice when they hold
ofEice by short and frail tenure.
OF course we favor the increase of