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Year: 1878

IT is pretty generally admitted now,
says tho San Francisco Post. that the
work OF the Constitutional Convention
will he cloves labor lost" Tho neess
sity for q new constitution IL not o.
great as to justify = departure from
what wo do understand 10 enter into
new aud uniried fields Of experiment
upon propositions that receive but q
meagre majority even In the convention
The new constitution will be rejected b.
the people.
Year: 1878

Tur cat that ran across the stage a,
Cincinnati. as Miss Carey was about to
sing at the festival. must have been a
Theodore Thomas cat sent there from
New York to disturb the piece sung.
Year: 1878

of the other were scattered on the
floor, a terrible: advertisement of the


perils of the New York Stock Ex-
change.


1t was about six years after, on q
bitter February night, that mass OF
filth and rags was found by police
man shiveriDg .and freezing on the
stone curbing of st. Paul's church.
yard, on the side toward Vesey street.
He dragged the miserable wretch to
the Tombs and flung him into cell
to await the arraignment of the morn
ing. In the gray dawn of the winter
day the jailer| made his rounds to
rouse up the sleepers and get them
into court. Noreply came from the
prisoner who lay coiled up in the
corner of cell 14-even kick failed
to move him-a hand basin of freez-
ing water dashed over him did not
seem to make any impression. They
turned him over, he was dead. There
on the cold cell floor, loathsome, de-
sci ted and ruined, lay all that was
left of Golden Ball, the lucky broker
of the Stock Exchange.


The beautiful widow Hicks, who
created such a sensation in London,
has given herself to the Lord. A
wretched woman died of starvation
in a tenement. house on Monday
night, while the joy bells were ring
ing in happy New-Year, her poor,
diseased husband lying by her side,
unable to move or even catch the last
feeble sounds of her voice as her
spirit passed away in the dalk.


DIR. Lambert, the Life Insurance
President, bid us goodbye yesterday
on trip to States Prison for five
years.


A terrible revelation came out in
the police court on the arrest of Pat
rick Hewitt and his wife. In
drunken brawl they scalded woman
with a kettle of boiling water who
tried to separate them, and for three
days they kept her shut up in dark
room without assistance, though she
was nearly fiayed alive. When the
police entered, Patrick and wife lay
drunk on the floor and three misera-
bic, starving children were freezing
to death, two of them being actually
frozen to tile floor. SCRIBE.
Year: 1878

IhE hINDOO SEanSh RUN AROAH
All the world over wander, In lands that


never have trOd,
Are the people eternally seeking for the


signs and steps OF God.
Westward across the ocean, and nOrthward


ayant the snow,
Do they all stand gazing, as ever and what


do the wisest knowa
Here in this mystical India, the deities


hover and swarm,
Like the wild bees heard in the tree tops,


or the gusts of gathering storm;
In the air men hear their voices, their feet


on the rocks are seen,
Yet we all say, Whence is the message,


and what may the wonders mean I"
A million shrines stand open, and ever the


censer swings
AS they bow to my mystical symbols or the


figures of ancient kings
And the incense rises ever, and rises the


endless cry
OF those who arc heavy laden, and of cow


ards 10th to die.
For the destiny drives us together, like deer


in pass of hills,
Above is the sky, and around us the sound


and the shot that kills;
Pushed by power we see not and struck


by hand unknown,
we pay LU lIle trees lOF Slc1lcE anu press


our lips to stone.
Here are the tonlbs of my kinsfolk, the first


of an ancient name,
Chiefs who were slain ON the warfeld, and


women who died III the flame;
They are gone, these kings of the foretime,


they are spirits who guide our race
Ever watch and worship; they sit with a


marble face.
And the myriad idols around me, and the


legion of muttering priests,
The revels and rites unholy, the dark un-


speakable feasts;
What have they wrung from the silence?


Hath even whisper come
Of the secret-whence and whither2 Alas


for the gods are dumb.
Shall list the words of the English, who


come from the uppermost sea I
Z" The secret, hath it been told you, and


what is your message to me?
1t is naught but the worldwide story, how


the earth and the heavens began,
How the gods are glad and angry, and


deity once was man.
I had thought perchance in the cities,


where the rulers of India dwell,
Whose orders flash from the far land, who


girdle the earth with spell,
They have fathom ed the depth we float on,


or measured the unknown main"
Sadly they turn from the venture, and say


that the quest is in vain.
Is lifo then dream and delusion, and


where shall the dreamer awake
Is the world seen like shadows on water,


and what if the mirror break
Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as q


tent that is gathered and gone
From the sands that were lamplit at eve,
and at morning are level and lone
Is there naught in tie heavens above,
whence the hall and levin are hurled,
But the wind that is swept around us by the
rush Of the rolling world
The wind that shall scatter my ashes and
bear me TO silence and sleep
With the dirge, aud the sounds of lament |
ing, and voices of women who weep2


-CorlthiH Magazine.
Year: 1878




EDITOR CHIEF:


Four doors from Wall street on
| Broad is large building with impos-
ing front, which may be called the
financial Golgotha of New York. The
entrance is bold and imposing, and
glistens with tinsel and gold. Over
the door should be placed the inscrip-
tion which Dante saw in his vision
"Who enters here leaves hope be-
hind )" for in many respects it resem-
bles the seething pool to which the
great high priest of Latin song has
given painful and terrible immor-
tality. Its history is one great sin
from the hour of its foundation in
1897 down to the moment when the
joy bells of old Trinity rang out a
glad peal of welcome to 1873.


Ostensibly it is body of high
toned gentlemen associated for the
purpose of buying and selling stocks,
but it has graduated more robbers,
thieves, forgers, aud defaulters than
any other institution ever conceived
by the brain of man. Come around
to the visitors' entrance on Wall
street and we will step up into the
gallery which looks down upon the
den where stocks are gambled for and
where fortunes are won and lost.


Ascending the marble stairs, we
find ourselves in sort of ante-room /;
on the left is the private meeting
room of the board, and on the right
the great hall where stocks and bonds
are bought and sold. The area looks
limited in comparison with the vast
amount of business done here from
day to day. The general color of the
hall is dark, relieved by blue and
gold. At the eastern end is a desk, on
which are seated the clerk, who calls
the stocks, and his assistants. They
all have a tough, leathery sort OF
look, like men who had been dipped
in a tan vat and left there little too
long hair is scant on all their heads,
there not being enough among the
five to make respectable scratch for
second-rate barber. / recollect one
night in Paris, many years ago, visi-
ting the rat-pen Of Giovanni
Year: 1878

Tie Association for the Prevention of
Crime will hold an adjourned meeting
this evening, at 7.30, at the Holly Tree
Inn. The semi annual election of Off
GERS will be held, and a full attendance
is desired.
Year: 1878

The Seventeenth grand annual ball
of the Shields Library Association, will
be given in the Institute Hall, on
Thanksgiving eve, 9th inst. ,and from
the gigantic preparations that are being
made by the committee ofarrangements
there Is every reason to believe that it
will be the most popular and enjoya-
BILE affair of the season.-<A programme
never before equalled in beauty and
richness in this city, will be given to
the ladies participating III the march.
Tickets sl.50.
Year: 1878

How TO GET RIcH.-Nothing Is
more easy than TO grow rich. 1t is on
~ to trust nobody-to befriend none
to get all you can, and save all you get
to STINT yourself and everybody be-
longing to you-to be the friend Of no
man, and have no man for your friend
to heap interest upon interest, cent
upon cent--to be mean, miserable and
dispised for some twenty or thirty years
and riches will come as sure as dis
ease and disappointment. And when
pretty nearly enough wealth us collect.
ed, by disregard Of all the charities of
the human heart, and at the expense of
every enjoyment, death comes to fin
ish the work-the body IS buried in a
hole, the heirs dance over it, and the
spirit goes-where?
Year: 1878

KEEP HOME MATTERS PRIVATE
Preserve the privacies of your house,
marriage state, heart, iiom father,
mother, sister, brother, aunt, and all
the world. You two, with Gods help.
build your own quiet world every third
or fourth one you draw into it with you
will form party and stand between
you two. That should never be. Prom
ise this TO each other. Renew the VOW
at each temptation you will find your
reward in it. Your souls will grow, as
it were, together and at last they will
come as one. All, if fmany young pair
bad on their wedding day known this
secret, how many marriages were hap
pier than, alas they are.
Year: 1878

AT the commencement of the present
term of the medical college, a young
student from the West started tor Keo-
kuk to attend. Arriving at Abba, he
found his means would not be sufficient,
and he footed it the rest of the way to
this city. He paid in full for his tuition,
and then had just seven dollars Left
Three Of these were laid out for a quar-
ter's rent for room, in which was
nothing but his books. No bucket, no
stove; no furniture, no bed, not even a
blanket, and only four dollars to live on.
In a month or so he procured blanket,
and considered himself fortunate. His
money was laid out IN corn meal, and
twice a week he would go down to the
pork houses and make up lot Of corn
bread, bake it, and bring it to his room,
and on corn bread alone he has been
subsisting during the entire term.


He has worked and earned five dol.
lars since he has been here, and on this
and the seven dollars he had left after
paying his college fees, twelve dollars
IN all, he has subslsted.


During all this time 10 one has known
how he subsisted, and the only remark
able thing that has been noticed about
him is, that he is one Of the brightest
students in the class, and bids fair to
graduate with the highest honors. His
condition would not have been found
out had it not been that gentleman
rented a rOem In the same building in
which the students was located, and by
making his acquaintance ascertaned
how he had been living.


The student is bright, frank, fear
less fellow. who asks no favors, has paid
in advance for everything he has got, is
not afraid of difficulties, and if he proves
not a bright and shining light in his pro-
fession-if he Is not heard from as an
eminent physician and surgeon ere many
years roll around, we lose our guess.
Year: 1878

Two of the most precious things on
this side of the grave are reputation and
life. And yet, strange to tell, the most
contemplate whisper may deprive us
of the first, and the weakest weapon OF
the second. BE more anxious then to
deserve good name than to possess it.
Year: 1878

FENcEs.-It is said that the fences in
this country cost more than all the houses :;
whether this is strictly true or not, it is
beyond question, that their first cost is
immense, and that vast expense is yearly
incurred to keep them in repair; and
what makes a bad matter great deal
worse is the fact that a large part of this
expense might be avoided. Farmers have
built too many fences; some of these are
not merely useless, but are a positive disad-
vantage. fhey take up considerable land
which ought to be under cultivation, but
from ~ ' nothing Of value is obtained,
or5 IA the way about cultivating
and harvesting the crops.


In some places these evils are so strongly
manifested as to lead to a marked deduc-
ton in the number of fences. In some
parts Of Massachusetts, this is true to a
great extent, a great number of roadside
fences having been removed and many in.
side fences have been taken away. Where
stone walls abound it is somewhat difficult
to follow this example, but wooden fences
can easily be removed. For many pur.
poses large fields are better than small
onesj if they were not, it is question
whether any advantages which small fields
could furnish would be sufficient to justify
the great expense Of fencing them Dirig,
Rural
Year: 1878

\ cheap aud profitable mode of butter
making in small quantities is desirable, and
l send you my experience as 4 success and
q labor-saving process. As substitute for
a churn, tub or small tin pail will do. as
you will make the butter generally inside
of 10 minutes in it. \ stout spoon or COM
mon pudding stick may take the place of
"dasher." On your furnace or stove set
a vessel with quart or more of water in it,
and into this place the milk basin, and.
when the milk is scalded, set it away on
shelf of boards or Stats. Under this pro-
cess the cream rises in less time and comes
off much sweeter, aSd both milk and
cream will keep sweet more than twice the
time that unscalded milk will.


When you stir the cream to make the
butter, set the pail in diagonal position.
4 few minutes beating will bring the butter
If the cream is of the right temperature,
say from 62 degrees to GO degrees. When
the cream is thin and Of warmer tempera-
ture, set it aside to cool. When the cream
passes a little below the proper tempera-
ture, by the beating up it will raise the de-
grees of heat through friction. When the
cream is stiff and cold, to hasten the time
of churning, if convenient, let the pail lean
so that the sun will shine on it while
stirring. Ny experience is that from the
sun falling directly upon the cream
materially assists to hasten the change and
development into good butter while it is
rising from Temperature below 60 degrees
and you obtain more and better article oi
butter than to commence at temperature
as high as 10 degrees. You get more cream
and in better condition to let the milk
stand below 60 degrees and in deep in
preference to shallow pans.


This article is designed more to assist
those who choose to make good butter
from small pots of cream. The dairymar
or maid cannot afford to dwell long hou
in manufacturing one, two or three pound
of butter at q churning. But some remark
here apply to those who can afford to spenC
more time on larger quantities Of milk, ant
beating will aid in preserving it after it j
skimmed and the cream is fitted for market
1t will keep sweet longer.--.S ". j., i
Pacific Rural Press
Year: 1878

SIMPLE REMEDY FOR BURNs.--Common
whiting. mixed with water to the consis-
tency of thick cream, spread on linen,
forms an excellent local application to
burns and scalds. The whole burnt sur.
face should be covered, thus excluding the
action of the air. The ease it affords is in.
Simultaneous, and it only requires to be kept
moist by occasional sprinkling of cold
water
Year: 1878

The results Of some experiments con.
Quoted under the auspices of the German
government indicate that the practice Of
spaying cows has very little to recommend
it, The cows operated upon neither gave
more milk nor put on mere flesh.
Year: 1878

In repairing an old house in East Bridge
water, Mass, shaved ceder shingles which
had been on the building 100 years were
removed in excellent condition and retain.
ing perfectly the peculiar ordor Of the
wood. The shingle nails were also in good
condition.
Year: 1878

The Gardeners Monthly says Some peo.
pie say that land which will raise good
corn will grow good fruit trees, which is
all right; but they should add that, like
corn, they require regular and continuous
manuring.i
Year: 1878

On the influence of the moon the C6,mby
Gentleman we'll remarks: 1T can make no
more difference to fattening pig whether
the sun shines on one side Of the moon or
the othe side (the only difference between
new and full moon) than whether it shines
on the east or west side Of stone heap ten
miles off. The absurdity of ascribing
changes in weather and vegetable growth
to the light on the surface Of the moon is
obvious from the fact that they are diverse
in different parts of large country, from
all parts of which the moon appears the
same.
Year: 1878

Almond and glycerine ice will speedily
remove the roughness of the skin, both on
the face and hands. 1t will also render it
smooth, white and plant, and AN occasional
use will ward off further attacks Of the
cold. e E
Year: 1878

General LIE Due, the Commissioner of
Agriculture at Washington, has thrown
the whole strength of his nature into de-
termined effort to introduce tea culture in
the United States. The repeated failures
of like experiments made by the natives of
this country do not daunt him. Why does
he not utilize the despised Cinnamon in
California and induce them to 90 upon
Government land and cultivate the tea
plant? In this way he might possibly kill
two birds with one stone by settling Ques
ton of race and question of agriculture
at single undertaking.
Year: 1878

We have been asked why we don't hoist Gov. Baxter's name at the head of our columns is our choice for U. $. Senate, in conpli- ance with the expressed wishes of the people of our county. We have no objections in the world to giving our reasons. We don't hoist Mir. BaXters name because we believe the man whose name we have hoist ed is an ahler man and will be able to do more for Arkansas. In keep ing his name at the head of our col umns and advocating his claims we do not conceive that we are tlans- cending our right and privilege, for this is an open question until it is settled by the general assembly of the State, and We have the same rights as democrat to advocate the claims of our choice as any other man has to advocate the. claims of his favorite. This is question wuich is not settled by nomination, and because the Central Committee of our county has seen proper to so- 'licit and obtain an expression from our people on this question, is no reason why we should drop the man whom our honest convictions tell us is the best man before us for the po- sition. We always stand by our party nominees, but just as it hap pens there is no method of making q nomination for thls oflice-lt IS a fair open race up to the hour the Legisla- ture may decide it, and we shall therefore stick to our man until we see him set aside by the only power clothed with authority to decide the contest.
Year: 1878

The Prescott Dispatch gives the following reasons, all of which we think are good and sound, for avoid ing any attempt to give popular in, struction in the matter of the cleo tion of United Seates Senator:

 In another column we publish a communication from our esteemed friend and prominent citizen advo eating the instructing of leislators by primaries how to vote for |. $. Senator. We publish this letter with great pleasure, as we will do evsrl thing else which eminates from the pen of our friend. Yet we can not endorse his view of the case.

 FIRST, because, we have confidence in our senator and representative elect, and believe that they are stuff ciently familiar with the sentiments and desires of the democratic party in this county to vote advisedly for Senator.

 SECOND. Because we have no assurance who will be permitted to vote in these primaries, and we want democratic senator elected by a democratic legislature. And if the radicals were permitted to vote, they have sufficient strength to instruct for Dorsey or Clayton. Out of a voting polpuaSion of 2,000 they have 800, and with the friends of Johnson Bell, Royston, Walker, Jones, Baxter and newton, the democratic candi- datc s divided and supporting their several friends, the 300 radical votes could and would unite on a man. and thereby have plurality of votes in- strcting our senator and represena- tive to vote for their man.

 THiRD. We want nothing to oc. cur at the November election which is calculated to confuse or interfere with the congressional election, and we believe to vote for senator would do so.
Year: 1878

Suppose one hundred large land holders in some of our southern counties who each own say four quarter sections of land, would form an association and agree to give one forth of every quarter section to some thrifty and enterprising home seeker who would clear it up and build 3 home upon it, would it not in all probability prove paving invest ment to all concerned? Arkansas needs people--a hardy. industrious, self reliant class of immigrants, and to get such it is we'll worth while to offer very liberal inducements.-L k. Democrat.

 We have often wondered at the short sightedness of our large land owners. Would it not be better for them to give one entire half of their lands away to the right kind of men in order to induce them to come to our country, and thus surround themselves with thrifty, industri- ous, intelligent people, and thereby double or treble the value of the re- maining half which they would still own, would this not be better, we ask, than to hold the entire amount and see it remain dead capital on your hands and burden for you to pay taxes on.

 We would not advocate donation of 6 homestead to ANY man who will settle upon and improve it, but we do honestly think it would pay our large land owners to pursue q course like this, with picked men of the right kind,-men who would give tone and stability to our country,and who mean business. We think the suggestion worthy of consideration, not only by large land owners in our southern counties but in all sections of the State.
Year: 1878

The appended communication written from Little Rock. to the In dependent Arkansian IS strong recommendation for our man for Senator The initials signed to the letter are those of one of Arkansas best men, Hon. Sam. W. Williams

 Dear Mack-We stnl have good health, good appetltes and plenty to eat, down this way. Cotton still coming in but not so lively as a few weeks ago, the fall in price has checked it some. It is a sad com mentary upon the waste of labor in raising an excess of cotton when we reflect tbat if half the cotton in the south were piled up and burned, the other half would bring us over three hundred millions of dollars, whereas all of it now brings about two hun

 dred millions. How much wheat, corn, potatoes, and other cerials might have been raised on one-half our cotton land; how mncn good one years rest might haso done it, and labor have been sa9ed, and yet we be one hundred million dollars the richer for it if we had let it lie out. I was hopeful that the Grange would have organized concert of action In cotton raising and have lessened the yield, and increased the profits. Bnt alas for mans hopes, politicians and sharpers got hold of the grange and it went to seed.

 Talking of politicians, I am glad you have declared for Walker. Among all the good men named for that place, I think he is the man. The incident you relate of Walkers fidelity to Arkansas is true; 1 we'll remember the conversation, and the serious talk we all had of leaving Arkansas. And to-day, Garland, Walker and myself could have been much better of, in purse, at least, had we left. Walker put it about this way, "Gentlemen, Arkansas and her people have given us all we have of money and reputation. II we leave, others like us have the same right, and if we all leave who are strong in debate, the yeomanry of this country and their children will be left to be 'shewers of wood and drawers of water to these s'blood suckers" Now what is our duty?" We all agreed that it was our duty to stay and fight it out, and we then made covenant with each other and shook hands over it, that whatever the destiny of Arkan

 sas was it should be our destiny. If she sunk, we would sink with her, and would give to her welfare our best efforts. Coy. G arland and Judge Walker have nobly redeemed that pledge; ot myself, l will leave others to judge. I may claim, how ever, ike the woman of whom the Savior spoke when he said "She has done what she could" s. W. ".