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Year: 1877



 I find that Pope county had in 1870 total population of 8,396--the males of all ages being 4,249, the fe- males 4,137. Between the interest ing ages of five and eighteen the males were 1,437 and the females l, ,401. What the latter lack in num- bers is surely compensated for in those personal charms and mental requirements which they possess in degree quite striking to any man of appreciative mind. The total population of Pope county in 1860 was 7,883; in 1870 it was S,3S6- showing an increase of S.91 per cent. A like ratio of increase for the present decade would give the coun- ty population of 9,133 in 1880. A far greater ratio of increase than this, of course, to be expected, fol the increase from 1860 to 1870, as every one knows, was in spite of the most adverse circumstances. Con sidering the situation of the county and what the people had to contend against, it is strange that there was any increase at all. With peace pre- vail.ng throughout the county, ad- mirable education facilities, railroad connection with Little Rock and a sprightly, wide-awake newspaper like the DEMOCRAT to spread before an inquiring public the many advan- tages this county offers to the immi- grant, cannot doubt that the popu lation of Pope county in 1880 will be double what it was Tn 1870.

 When another statistical fit strikes me I may endeavor to estimate how many people are in future time tc bless the honorable Chairman of the Sanitary Committee of the Board of Aldermen of the city of Russell vile for the exquisite taste he has displayed in the improvements around that public institution which supplies in unlimited quantity, and to thirsty citizen or way worn tray eler alike, that beverage pure which God Himself has given to nourish and invigorate His creation and beautify His footstool. SAxET.
Year: 1877

There is sound sense and solid truth in the few lines following:

 Many farmers boy goes into some city, and struggles along until middle life, with nothing to show for his labors, except that he has thoroughly learned that half s.arv- ed lawyer is less to be envied than a well fed farmer.---Southern Farmer.

 You are mistaken, he learns more than that, the farmer boy who leaves a happy, pleasant home in the coun- try very frequently he learns to drink, gamble and debauch, Hhile he
Year: 1877

The Newman. Reynolds duel all came to naught.

 The United States Treasurer, Wyman, has resigned.

 The county seat of Nevada county has been removed by q vote of the people of the county from Rosston to Prescott.

 The first number of the Saline County Digest reached us last Mon day, and we pronounce it good. It is the first paper ever published in old Saline, and if the people will give it liberal support it will be the greatest lever for bringing the county out of the kinks that they have ever had Brother Webber, we wish you the most complete success.
Year: 1877



 umns from time to time, there are many new corners looking to our county for homes. The forerunners of these new home seekers arrive by rail almost daily, and it is quite like ly that just as soon as crops are laid by, the leisure time intervening be- fore gathering time will be taken ad- vantage of by great nttmbers to visit our county and see the prospect be- fore moving here. All these pros pecting parties want information ir regard to any lands which are for sale, and they want definite informa- tion. They want to know exactly where it lies so that they can go di- rectlv to 1t and see it. Now, there is an apparent difficulty which IS met just here by almost all these pros pecting parties. They are told: 'Oh yes, there are plenty of lands for sale," but no one can tell them ex- actly where they are, and so they do not know where to go to look at a piece of land which is for sale, with out starting out at random. The difficulty we thought would be meas urably overcome by the formation of the County Immigration Society and it's Township auxiliaries, one of the duties imposed upon the township vice presidents being the collection and tabulation of reliable informa- tion in regard to all tracts of land, improved and unimproved, in the different townships, which the own CTS offer for sale. The intention was to have these reports forwarded and filed in the office of the County Sec retary at this place, so that any and all new corners as soon as they get off the cars here could be taken to his office and afforded every conven- fence in obtaining information rela- ting to the lands of Pope county But as thls work seems to lag and we see no effort on the part of the of ficers of the County Society to push it, the difficulty remains, and must be bridged over some other way, at least, until the officers of our Immi- grafton Society can be aroused to the importance of working the mat ter up.

 To meet the difficulty, and render it at least some easier for those pros pecting parties to ascertain where they can find lands that are for sale we have suggestion to make to land owners. It is this: Let every land owner in Pope county who has lands which he desires to sell, send us list Of said lands, giving the To- cation, the numbers, the price asked, the terms of payment, the quality oi the soil, the distance from Russell vile, the distance from school house or church, and any other items concerning the land which would be likely to make it desirable. Send along your lists of both improved and unimproved lands. We will number and endorse each list ano keep it on file for the information O all parties who are seeking lands il our county. We see most of the par ties who come here, and we will tak' all pains to show them the discrip tive lists which land owners ma, send.
Year: 1877

There are four or FIVE different
kinds of babies there is the big ba-
by, the little baby. the white baby
and the poodle dog, and there IS
the baby elephant.


Most of these babies was born in
a clearinghouse. 'cept the baby
elephant I think he was born on a
railroad train, cause he aIlus car
ries his trunk with him.


A white baby is pootier nor a
elephant baby, but he can't eat so
much hay.


All the babies what I have ever
seen were born very young, special
ly the gal babies, and they can't
none of them talk the United States
language.


My father had-I mean my moth.
er had a baby once. It was not an
elephant baby; it coined one day
when there was nobody home; it
was funny looking fellow, just like
a lobster.


asked my father was it boy or
girl and he say he don't know
whether he was father or a moth
er.


This little baby has got two legs.
just like monkey.


His name is Marian.


He don't look like my father nor
my mother, but he looks just like
my Uncle Tom, cause the little ba-
by amt got no hair on his head.


One day asked my Uncle Tom
what was the reason he amt got no
hair and the little baby amt got no
hair. He says he don't know. 'cept
that the little baby was born SO,
and he was a married man.


One day I pulled feather out of
the old ROSTERS tail and stuck it
up the baby's nose, and it tickled
him so he almost died. It was only
little bit of feather, and L don't
know what he wanted to make such
a fuss for. My mother said Iought'er
be ashamed of myself, and did't
get no bread on my butter for MORN
O week.





I think I'd rather be a girl nor a
boy, cause when girl gets whip
ping she gets it on her fingers, but
when boy gets licking he gets it
all over.


I don't like babies very much any,
how. cause they make so much noise.
never knew but one quiet baby and
he died.
Year: 1877




The Knoxville Chronicle of the
4th learns that near SneedvilIe,
Hancock county, on the 9th ult.,
r. BercheL and B. Coins put a blast
in we'll they were digging. The
next morning one Of them went
down to look after the effects, but
not coming up at the proper time,
his partner looked in and saw him
crouched down, and on going down
to him found him dead. He then
came out and called for help, but
afterward went down into the we'll
again and was also suffocated to
death by the impure air. On Wed
nesday afterward there came MP a
thunder storm and the family at the
house, consisting OF six persons, saw
a vapor rising out of the well and
were soon after stricken down. and.
up to our latest Information, remain
ed PROSTATE, only one being able TO
speak.
Year: 1877

How eagerly men are engaged in
the pursuit of beautiful women, and
how little do they dream of its brief
existence This is undoubtedly in
obedience to a supreme law growing
out of our organization, for who does
not love order, harmony, symmetry,
and perfection in all thing 8? But
in this eager pursuit, it would be
we'll to remember that there are
qualities Of far more Importance than
mere personal charms. True, we
may be fascinated with dark. lns-
trous, and beautiful eye, the Grim
son blush of the cheek, q graceful,
symmetrical form; but. after all, the
inquiry should be: Is there soul
within? Is there elevation of
thought, generous principles, noble
purposes, cultivated intellect? II
not, what else would a woman of
beautiful personal . appearance be
but as doll or gilded toy? How
long could a man OF genius be in
duced to worship at such q shrine ?
How long before his affections would
assume the form of hatred or con-
tempt? Powerful passions and
strong affection invariably accompa-
ny the man Of genius. Hence IL is
clear that unless personal charms
envelop q cultivated mind as well
as the sterling qualities Of virtue,
the noblest impulses of affection in
such man will soon be extinguished
and his fondest hopes blasted in the
selection of partner for life. Moth
ing is more desirable to man of
genius, in this life, than the ardent
affections of a good sensible woman
and, on the other hand, no offering
on earth is so acceptable to a wo-
man as the sincerest affection of a
man of genius and truth.
Year: 1877




The superiority of The Cranberry
iron ore, which is found near the
Carter county and North Carolina
line, is we'll known to all iron men.
For making steel, no equal to it is
to be found in this country. Only
its accessibility has prevented it
from long since acquiring a still bet
ter reputation by a more gen.
eral practical use, for the sup
ply may be said to be inexhaustible.


A few years ago, Gen. Pardee, of
Philadelphia, a very wealthy gen.
tIeman and largely interested in the
manufacture of iron in the State of
Pennsylvania, purchased what is
known as the Cranberry Iron Pre-.
perty.'' being impressed with the
undoubted superiority Of the ore in
that region. With view of obtain
ing convenient access to the proper
ty, Gen. P. and his associates be-
came the purchasers of the graded
railway line running East from John
son City, on the line of the East
Tennessee, Virginia C Georgia road.
About thirteen miles OF grading yet
remain to be done to complete the
line to the Cranberry property.
The proprietors have not moved in
the matter of opening up this line of
communication with their property
at an earlier day, because of the
general depression prevailing
throughout the country, but we are
glad to learn from Gen. Pardee, who
was in our city yesterday, that he
will at once put an engineer in the
field to definitely locate the entire
road to the ore beds. and that he
expects to enter actively upon its
construction without delay.


Gen. Pardee is satisfied that
Knoxville is to be the point at
which the steel-producing ores are
to meet the coke, and that it is to
become place of great mannfactur.
ing Importance. His Investigations
and observations were entirely sat
isfactory. and he has gone home to
perfect his arrangements for an ear
ly development of the Cranberry ore
beds. He is no fancy capitalist,
but is one of the substantial men of
Philadelphia. having ample means
to communicate the important work
he has undertaken.
Year: 1877

Benjamin Franklin has the credit
Of being the first person in this
country who made use OF gypsum
or land Plaster as a fertilizer. The
manner in which he used it may
seem somewhat egotistical. He
sowed it in the presence OF a num-
ber ofskeptical farmers on a portion
of field of grass on hillside, in
the form of large letters, spelling
his name. After few weeks the
grass upon which the plaster was
sown SO far outgrew the rest that
the name b. Franklin could be plain.
ly read for long distance. From
Year: 1877




A gambler in Deadwood is SO su-
perstitious that he AYERS that he is
always lucky when he wears cer-
tain shirt. and so fearful is he Of a
change of fortune that he will not
send the garment to be washed. He
says he does not know but the luck
might wash out and the shirt lose its
power for good. He has won $10,-
900 in one day while wearing it.
Others are superstitious with regard
to dreams, the state of the atmos-
phere or the number of the men
they meet in going a certain dis
tance. When luck is against them
they Immediately leave the gambling
table or turn in the street, go home
and change their clothing.


The Holston Annual Conference of
the Southern Methodist Church, will
meet at Cleveland on the Gath October.
Year: 1877

We deem that we can well forget
Can cover deep the past-too deep


for resurrection
Is It 50? Then when we gaze again


upon face once dear,
Or hear a voice, which, long ago
Could lure us cen from Heaven,
Why throbs the heart? Why start we so,
AS if the ghost Of some dead hope


Had met our frighted vision? q?
All, no we never can forget;
No Lethean stream shall bear away
Oft chiding memories in our hearts,
Or sweet, or better still, must lie
Our past-not dead, but sleepingl
Messy CREEK.
Year: 1877

The opening of the night schools tool


place last night at No. 9 school, Eighth
and WOllaston streets. The chairman Of
Night School Committee was, as usual, on
hand, and made very neat speech upon
the advantages of education, and the i'm
portance of young men embracing the
opportunity now offered to them, to obtain
some additional education. There were
ninety five pupils enrolled of various ages
and sizes, all of whom were laudsbly
anxious to add to their stock OF knowledge.
Mr.. Eckel is endeavoring to arrange for a
series of weekly lectures on various trite
and interesting subjects, which will be an
excellent adjunct to the technical instruc-
tion of the classes. We wish success to
this most laudable project.
Year: 1877

During the late fine weather the work on
the basin has been carried on vigorously.
The north, south and east banks are finish
ed' as far as laying bricks are concerned,
the workmen are now busy on the west
bank, and also curving the middle em-
bankment All the work on the basin is
expected to be finished to-dsy except pay
Ing the bottom, which will be commenced
Immediately, and when all finished the
water will be let in IS protection from the
frost this winter.
Year: 1877

We 60 our ways in life too much alone
We hold ourselves too far from all our kind ;
Too often we are deaf to sigh and moan,
Too often to the weak and helpless blind
Too often, when distress and want abide,
We turn and pass upon the other side.
The other side is trodden smooth, and worn
BY footsteps passing idly all the day;
Where lie the bruised ones who faint and


mourn


Is seldom more than an untrodden way.
Our selfish hearts ale for ourfeet the guide
They lead us all too oft upon the other side.
1t should be ours the oil and wine to pour
Into The bleeding wounds of stricken ones ;
To take the smitten and the sick and sore,
And bear them where the stream Of blessing


runs.


Instead we look about tho way is wide,
And 80 we pass upon the other side.
Oh, friends and brothers, gliding down the


years,


Humanity is calling each and all
In tender accents, born Of grief and tears;


pray you, listen to the thrilling CALL
OH cannot, in your selfish pride,
Pass guiltless on the other side.
Year: 1877

~ Wh'MiNuioN, May IL, 1917.
EDITOR OF HERALD:


The prison is the City Hall is beyond all
question certainly a nui,anc. to those who
live in Its immediate neighborhood, and
since warm weather has come IL is almost
unbeatable. The vulgar howlings aud
fearful oaths used by prisoners of both sexes
are very offensive. In fact so much SO. that
visitors to gentleman's s family living near
were on last Sunday compelled to leave on
account OF IL. There is petition before
the Council in regard to this matter and |
Ian 10 see why it is not acted upon. There
Ia not member Of Council that would 81,
lently permit such thing to occur near his
home, especially ii during this excessively
warm weather they were compelled to keep
ther windows closed, and even then see
their company of ladies and gentlemen
driven from 'he table by the Vulgar talk Of
prisoners. The city has no right to deprive
any man Of the comforts of home and
erect prisons in such manner as to greatly
depreciate the value Of property which is
taxed to support it. The City Council
should attend to this matter Immediately.


JUSTICE.
Year: 1877

The recent storm has had a most dams
aging effect upon the sensitive nerves of the
tinny tribe, as the fishermen on the Della
ware can testify. Very few were caught
yesterday, and the days expenses were
scarcely realized. The roar of the thunder
and the vivid 1ashes Of the lightning fright
encd the fish away.
Year: 1877

An exchange says: "Why will girls
run away to get married 7" ave give
it up" answers the Louisville Courier
Jouraal. "But we know lot here who
would be glad enough to stay at home
or jump at the chance to walk off and
get married. The boys amt around
asking them now like they did. 1t takes
more money to run one of them now-a-
days than it does steamboat, and they
can see more fun with u steamboat.
All girls, it's your own fault Swap
off your silks and satins for lawns and
calicoes; shut up the piano and dive
into the wash Tub; throw away your
fancy needle work and tackle red hot
stove in the kitchen. Instead of rcceiv-
ing Brown, the bankers son, in the
parlor, keep your eyes skinned for Bill
Burns, the blacksmith's son, as he goes
home from work kiss his dirty face
through broken pane of glass in the
kitchen window, and after while, when
he learns his trade and you know your
business, get married, go to housekeep-
ing by yourselves, raise family that
will be an honor to your names and q
credit to themselves, die happy, and the
angels will not turn their backs on you
up there"
Year: 1877

made her baby sick 10 taste fresh india
rubber Cheeky, wasn't it But that's
her way. She don't mind it any more.


why, I've known he. TO take off our
Johspy's pants VIXEN Ss's bee,, playing
there with the children, and send him
home bare legged to tell his mother
shat she borrowed them for pattern.
And on Thompson's birthday she said
her house was so small for party that
if we'd lend her ours we might come late
in the evening and dance with the com
pany, If we wouldn't let on that we lived
there.


"Yes, sir; I'm going to move. I'd
rather live next door to d lunatic asylum
and have the maniacs pouring red hot
shot over the fence every hour OF the
day. Indeed l would
Year: 1877

The musk OK is one of the most re.
markable quadrupeds to be found in
the Arctic regions. 1t is about the
height of a deer, but much stouter and
appears larger than it really is from the
great profusion of long matted wooled
hair which covers the whole body, and
conceals thick coat of extremely fine
wool. The head is large and broad, and
the horns, very broad at the base, are
about two feet in length.
Year: 1877

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Year: 1877

Miss Pongo, the favorite Berlin gorilla,
is about three years old sne has got well
over her winter attacks of feverish cold.
When standing she is about the height
of we'll grown child of four. She
never beats her breast when angry, as
DuChaillu's gorillas did, but sometimes
with one hand when well pleased; at
such times she also claps her hands.
Having had ledicines out of spoon
when sick, she now repudiates that mode
of feeding, and the wife of the keeper
has consequently to take every mouth
full first into her own mouth and then
transfer it to Miss Pongo's. Her manners
are described as ga great deal better
than those of most children" After
dinner the keeper told her to wipe her
mouth, whereupon, a visitor tells us, she
wiped her mouth and blew her nose as
tidily as child of four or five.
Year: 1877

But by far the most slightly class of
people to be met with in Russia are the
famous singing gypsies of Moscow. These
people, who are generally well-to-do, and
are not accustomed to wander about like
others of their race, dress with great
fnery, but yet with a natural eye to
artistic effect. Their songs, which nearly
always consist of an air with chorus,
and are usually accompanied on the
balaLaika, sort of guitar, are greatly ad
mired by travellers. In fact, it has been
said of them that if they are not the best
singers in the world there are no other
singers in the world at all like them and
there is story current that the famous
Catalani was once 50 delighted with
female gypsy vocalist, that she threw
round the shoulders of the singer costly
shawl which she herself had lately been
presented with by the Empress.


Another peculiar and exclusive order
of people to be met with in Russia,
though of widely different sort, are
those strange patriots known as the Old
ReligionisJs. The Russians are not much
given to change, but these people are as
conservative as the Chinese themselves.
They detest all modern manners, insist
upon wearing the old Russian cattan,
and never cut their boards, allowing
them to grow to prodigious length, from
purely pious motives, because "man is
made in the image of God" But still
more singular is their religious objection
to tobacco, for they look upon smoking
so common in Russia-as a sin de.
nounced by the Scripture in the text
"Not that which goeth into the mouth
defileth a man, but that which cometh
out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
One would think they might get over the
difficulty by consuming their own smoke


but, as a matter of fact, the Old Relig
ionists are 80 particular in this respect
that there are special traktirs, or tes
houses, exclusively kept for them, and
where the fragrant weed" and tn,
"pipe of peace" are rigidly tabooed


Yet these queer folks are only few de
grees more behind the age than mos
other children of the Gar, and probably
several generations will have to elapse be
fore Russia better deserves to be callet
civilized nation than that Turke,


whose barbarism she denounces and j


endeavoriHg to make the pretext of wa
of ambition.
Year: 1877

ONE Brown, who had his pockets
picked in the Criminal Court, at Indi-
annapolis, while waiting to be called as
Juror, was afterwards objected to as
juror by the defendants counsel, on the
ground that having been so recently the
victim of a theft he couldn't be a
good Juror in case involving robbery.
This was adding insult to injury.
Year: 1877

SPEND your time in nothing which you
know must be repented of. Spend it in
nothing which you could not review with
a quiet conscience on your dying bed.
Spend it in nothing which you might rot
safely and properly be found doing, if
death should surprise you in the act,