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Year: 1878

A young Japanese, while in the
United States, expressed much surprise
at seeing cranberries eaten at the table,
and said that in the mountains Of Japan
they grow very large aud beautiful, but
are never cooked. Some old man occa-
sionaliy goes up the mountains and
picks q long basket full of them,
which he brings down to the town.
Here the boys gather about him and for
a small coin purchase the right to crowd
their pockets with them, And what
use do you think they make of this
otherwise useless fruit2 The boys blow
tho glowing berries through rattan
tubes, as our boys blow white beans
through tin ones. That's What cram
berries are used for N Japan, where
they grow in great perfection,
Year: 1878

FORCE AND FRAuD.-The conduct OF
the recent election campaign in most OF
the Southern States has been of such a
violent and disgracrfnl character that
even had the Democratic party been
successful in the great north, east and
west, it could never have been success
full again, or hoped to win another elec-
tion on national issues. The people
who for the last two or three wears past
have been indulging in the false hopes
Of the success Of conciiiatory policy,
have become disgust-d with these far.
cical efforts, to regain and hold power
by the aid of n solid south. The Demo,
cratic party through the aid of the South,
may have obtained control fur two years
longer though the disreputable means
used; but in doing so, it has forfeited
public respect and consideration. There
never was more fatal error than for tht
party to think that power will command
respect without reference to the methods
used to obtain it. The Democracy may
retain its control of Congress, for a
couple of years, but it will not soon bt
forgotten that more than twenty of its
members at the South were never elect
ed at all but hold their seats by
violence and fraud. That the South
will exercise its power wisely is not
probable, because it has never been the
abode Of men noted for wisdom, and for
thirty years its leading spirits have
been exemplars of folly and frequently
of madness.
Year: 1878

the court. It is very unfair to intimate
that Col. Martin holds the pardon, or
II he does not he ought to know who
does. Had he. shield the pardon he would
have given copy of 1t to be published
instead of the letter sent him by Z. r.
Johnson which has been botched in the
copying and two different versions OF II
given to the public. We will venture
to say that Col. Martin never saw the
warrant for his pardon, though we are
credibly informed he went to Wash
ington to get it, but came home without
it. Nobody ever saw the pardon nor
was there a warrant of pardon issued 50
far a. the records both here and at
Washin ton show. A memorandum at
the latter place says that he received
an unconditional pardon, but if a war
rant was ever issued, it was sent to
Marshal johnson and there 1t was lost
sigkt of. Hanson Harman, clerk OF the
U. s, court when Mr.. Johnson was
Marshal. has called upon us to say
that he never knew of or heard of the
warrant OF pardon alluded to, and Of
course could not record it. This throws
the whole of the burthen of proof up
on the Ex- Marshal and calls with more
force than ever forhim to rise and tell tn.
public what he knows about that par
don. We have never said at any tint
that Co. Martin was not pardoned, bu


We do say that there is no proof of i
anywhere except that indefnate mem
orandum at Washington which may b.
sufficient to pull him through but HI
certainly cannot be saved by ExMar


shall Johnson's regular(O mode of OBJ
tanning pardnos.
Year: 1878

Morrilton Dollar: "We are not surprised that Bob. Johnson wants to be the next United States Senator, as that would give him a fine opportuni- to again join his much preferred friends in Washington. He once preferred them to the home and friends of his youth and the men who had shaped his character and made him q man of some promise. We are not surprised at all that he desires to join his fashionable friends in the capacity of U. 5 Sena tor. The man who deserts the people of Arkansas when intellect and experience" were most needed and preferred selfish abandonment. rather than help his people what he could, certainly ought not. ana surely will not receive the highest gift in the hands of the people. Uncle Bob you ought to remember the golden rule, do unto others as you would wish to be done by." First serve your people and then they will feel under obliga tion to yon.
Year: 1878

large proportion of the Amercan people are to-day dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver. The result of these diseases upon the masses of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life. actually a bnrden instead of a pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as 1t ought to be. There is no good reason for this, if you will only throw aside prejudioe and skepticIsm, take the advice of drug gists and your friends, and try one bottle of Greens August Flower. Your speedy relief is certain. Millions of bottles of this medicine have been given away to try it's virtues, with satisiac- tory results in every case. You can buy sample bottle for 10 cents to try. three doses will relieve the worst case. Positively sold by all Druggists on the Western Continent. For sale by J. NJ. Ilarkey S Bro.
Year: 1878

A .janitor of a New York public school went to Coney Island, and lett his wife in charge ot the engine and boiler telling her that there was a patent gauge on it and the steam pressure could not run over seven pounds. It ran over 24 pounds, and the wife, becoming frightened, ran to q factory where a brother-engineer was employed. He found no water in the boiler, and l,200 children in the school overhead.
Year: 1878

Every consideration of public safety, every interest of to day and hope for posterity demands that we should stand resolutely ny the cause of free education. Educate the rising generation and we decrease crime and elevate society. Allow .the young to grow up in ignorance and we SOW harvest of vice and crime. We may lynch men for cold b.ooded murder may go on hanging the bestial wreches who commit rape, may fill our penitentiarles wlth thieves and robbers, but we shall find in the end that it is better and safer to prevent crime than to punish it. Little Rock Democrat.
Year: 1878

There was prize for the prcttiest girl at a ball in Gold City, Mont, and the delicate question was to be de cided by a committee. The choice was generally conceded to lie between Miss McGowen and Miss Burt, and, one being blonde and the other brunette, The committee was unable to judge of their charms bv comparison. The suspence was try ing to the tempers of the rival beau ties, and they fell to criticising each others looks, Then they quarreled. Next, they fought. When they were parted, Miss MeCowen's face was scatchcd as though she had been thrown into bramble bush, and one of Miss Burt's eyes was swollen and nearly shut That episode relieved the committee of embarrassment, for neither of pretty, and the prize was awarded to another.
Year: 1878

The Alma Herald holds a level head on the cotton question. Say s ,the Herald.

 "The cotton crop on the bottom lands in this section will not yield q half crop this ear. What then is to become of the poor farmer who mort gagged all he had to buy supplies and then fail to make cotton enough to pay one-half of his expenses? It wlll not pay to raise cotton on Dor rowed capital when it will not sell for at least ten cents per pound. Better make less cotton, and more hog and homiuv.n
Year: 1878

Let us have our State and Con gressional elections, hereafter on the same day. There is no good reason for seperate day. The present ar engagement is. unwise, now; although the time fixed for our StaCe election was we'll well enough when it was appointed There is no longer any necessity for 1t, and We hope the next assembly will not fail to change it so as to have all come in Novem ber. If the press of the State will urge this matter actively, it can he accomplished. What say you, bgeth- reni"
Year: 1878

Iwouldnt take on" any more about country children going to the city, says a newspaper correspondent. You can't stop 'em from going when they are called for, any more than you can stop blood from going to the brain when it Is called for. Children are n proper farm crop. We raise children in the country some times that are not fit to live there, and the only regret we should have when they leave for the town is that they are not better ones. The farm game prop erly is to grow men and women for city activities and keep itself in Q condition to grow good ones and plenty of them. Clean the cities by showing III fresh blood with vigor enough to drive out its ill humors and keep the farm strong by saving the city's waste on it. say send the boys and girls right off to town that want to go. If they come back, let 'em recruit by choring around for their board and farm boots till they feel stiff enough to try it again.

 Much of the talk about keeping boys on the farm proceeds from the desire of timid and feeble city folks not to be crowded by ambitions young country people. No matter what we may say about it, the ratio of city and country population is settled by natural law-not by talk. Our young men fix themselves for good, after being journeymen for a while. My life is the happier for having been spent partly in the city. We old birds must let tho young ones test their wings, or they'll never know what they are good for. Restraint is not half so contenting to wayward child as liberty to go and good riddance. The papers tell of a young prodigal telegraphing his father at the North from Texas, "Fatted calf for one."
Year: 1878

A Harrisburg correspondent of the Pittsburg Telegraph relates pleasing incident. A Senator attended MT. Pax on's church last Sunday, accompanied by a candidate for Governor. The two gentlemen were escorted to front pew by the usher, and seated by couple of ladies, the Senator being seated next to the ladies. During the sermon the Sen ator concluded that he would pick his teeth, and not yet having drawn his legislative tooth-pick he pulled from his pocket big-headed lucifer match and his iackknife and began whittling upon the match to bring it down to fine point. While thus engaged the blade of the knife came rather sharply in contact with the birthstone on the head of the match, and this was followed by an explosion something like pistol shot, and blue blazes, smoke and the smell of birthstone. The lady next to the Senator involuntari- ly jumped out of the seat, and many members of the congregation were startled by the report and the ascending smoke.
Year: 1878

The silent world is sleeping,

 And spirits hover nigh, With downward pinions keeping Our love from mortal eye, Nor any earth of Earth can hear The heart beat high and note the sigh. Now no more the twilight bird Showers his triple note around; In the dewy paths is heard

 No rude footballs sound. In the stiffness wait

 Thy coming late, In the dusk would lay my heart Close to thine own, and say how dear thou art O life! O rarest hour! When the dark world onward rolls, And the fiery planets drift, Then from our commingled souls Clouds of passion and of power, Flames of incense, lift Come, for the world is turning To meet the morning star! Answer my spirits yearning And seek the arms that call thee from afar; Let them close-ah let them close Around thee now, and lure thee to repose.

 EDMUND c. STRDMAN.
Year: 1878

STUCK IN THE MUD.-Iowa and Mis- souri have suffered millions of dollars of loss through the mud blockade which since early fall has rendered the roads impossible, and which just now is worse than ever There is business enough waiting for chance to move. Last sea- sons abundant crops are ready for ship ment, but they cannot be hauled from barns. Yet the outlook is reported as good. Winter wheat promises most excellent yield, and a few weeks of hard roads must send an abundance of grain to market.
Year: 1878

If 'tis love to wish you near, To tremble when the wind hear, Because at sea you floating rove; If of you to dream at night, To languish when you're out of sight,- If this be loving, then I love. If, when you're gone, to count each hour, To ask of every tender power That you may kind and faithful prove If void of falsehood and deceit, l feel a pleasure. when we meet- If this be loving, then love. To wish your fortune to partake, Determin'd never to forsake, Though low in poverty we strovei If, so that me your wife you'd call, offer you my little all,-

 If this be loving, then love.

 CHARLES DIDpEE.
Year: 1878

GEN. BUTLER is working like a
beaver, and at this distance his election
does not seem SO doubtful. While he
has an independent nomination for
governor of Massachusetts, he is striv-
ing to obtain the democratic nomina-
tion also. With what success is appa-
rent from the fact that in the demo-
cratic primary elections he secured the
majority of the, Boston delegates. OF
course this does not assure his victory
In the coming convention. The demo-
Gratis have about despaired of defeating
Governor Rice single handed, and may
possibly use Butler as a club In beating
the popular Rice. That accomplished
they will endeavor to swallow the green
back movement entire.
Year: 1878

Madison, Sept, 10.-This has been
another gala day for the presidential
party. The president stands the hand
shaking better than the rest of the
company, and last night at midnight
addressed an assembled crowd at Lake
City, while the rest of the party were
asleep.
Year: 1878

THOSE who think the administration
doesn't take an interest in the success
OF the republican party, are mistaken.
The president and the secretaries of
war and the navy are all out and talk
ing to good effect.
Year: 1878

seen willing to grant him. Now, whether
the States of Florida and Louisiana should
have been counted in, or ruled out entirely,
and let the election have gone to the House
of Representatives as directed by the Con-
stitution in case of failures to elect by
ballot, it is very certain Mr.. Hayes had
nothing to do in placing himself in the
executive chair. 1t was the work of the
united effort of both parties with the aid OF
the highest tribunal in the land-the
Supreme Court. The charges made by
Chandler are denied by several leading
Southern men whom he claims as parties
to the contract.


One thing is very apparent to any careful
observer of transpiring events, and that is,
that President Hayes as wise, prudent
man could not do otherwise than he has.
In fact his "policy" was entailed to him
by President Grants administration. The
law of force had been carried to its utmost
limit the new policy was not the inven.
ton of President Hayes for the first orders
putting it in force were issued by General
Grant, and the new administration was
compelled whether it would or not to take
the course it did, for the peculations of the
"carpet baggers had become so notorious
and obnoxious as to destroy the vitality of
OF the Republican party. 1t was either the
rule OF the native element, or the Major
General. If the adventurers who went into
the South had endeavered to mould and
educate the negroes in the political virtues
which American civilization requires of the
voter instead of using their talents to
plunder wherever they could, the result
could and would have been different.
When the men who went South at the
close Of the war forsook the higher virtues
for sordid pelf, the doom Of both them.
selves and party was written. 1t is wonder
1t could have lived eleven years. To have
a Southern Republicanism worthy Of the
name, they must be governed like other
American communities. President Hayes
sees this and hence his policy is first to re-
assure and gain their confidence and trust,
and then administer the laws with equal
justice, to both whites and negroes. the
course of President Hayes must tend to
foster good feeling and in due time the
South will divide into parties as in former
days, and as is necessary for a healthy con-
dition Of the body polite.
Year: 1878

Thevalue of England's mediation between
the Car and Sultan will depend upon the
terms she is prepared to offer. on the part
OF the latter. Hitherto the Car has been
resolved to compel the Sultan to sue direct
for peace, but if he can gain all that he
seeks through Lord Derby's good Office, he
may be willing too open negotiations. There
Is no reason to suppose that the Car will
retard hostilities in the least, from Difference
to England. The tone of the Russian press
renders it evident that Lord Derby will be
regarded throughout as an officious friend
OF Turkey, and not as the representative of
neutral power, interceding in the interest
of peace and humanity.
Year: 1878

PERHAPS the greatest trouble among men
who have hand in shaping and control
ling public events is vanity of opinion.
Every man thinks he knows just what
course should be taken in this and that
measure, and the man who does not do as
he thinks is a fool or stubborn. A man
who sets out with a line of procedure OF
policy, must adhere to it until it is fairly
tested, and not be turned about by every
wane of doctrine, however plausibly set
forth. A certain editor who thinks he
could run the government machine with
perfect ease, says what Giant doesn't know
about obstinacy President Hayes can teach
him. If either of them had been easy sub.
jects to manipulate, the respect for their
respective administrations would have been
very different from what it is.
Year: 1878

The MARYLAND AND DELAWARE SHIP
CANAL.-The Baltimore papers are again
reviving the subject of a ship canal across
the Peninsula. Mr.. Tebbets Of New York.
who is president of the Maryland and Della
ware Ship Canal Company, appears to think
that the time has now come to take the
initial steps looking to the construction Of
the proposed ship canal. Mayor Kane has
been approached on the subject, and it is
said that the city of Baltimore is to be
asked to endorse the bonds Of the company
to the extent of half million of dollars.
The line Of this canal, as fixed upon by the
Company, runs up the bay to the head of
the Sassafras river, and thence to the
mouth of the Blackbird creek.


We do not know that there is any more
probability of constructing the canal than
formerly, but the above route will meet
with strong opposition. The Baltimore
Sun argues conclusiyely against it and says


I" In no event would such a ship canal so
located answer the purposes of Baltimore
for her ocean commerce, or Justify the ex-
pense Of cutting it, The route from Balti.
more to the eapes Of Delaware should start
from the bay shore at Chester river, and
thence across the Peninsula to a point on
the Delaware river above tire breakwater,
and but a short distance from the capes.
Such canal would be a saltwater canal,
and therefore open to navigation at all
seasons. The total distance by this canal
from Baltimore to the capes would not ex-
ceed eighty miles, the Delaware mouth of
the canal would be protected from storms
by the breakwater, and whilst the proposed
canal of Mr.. Tebbets would require thirteen
miles of dredging and seventeen miles oi
cutting, or thirty miles work in all, and
would be sealed mp in winter, the Chester
river ship canal would require forty.fve
miles of cutting, would carry ship directly
out to sea, and would be open to navigation
at all times
Year: 1878

In late number of the Scientific .Imcr;-
can is an illustrated description of a very
ingenious combination in which a pocket
book, cigar case, and revolver are
united. The revolver is arranged in the
interior near the back part of the pocket
book; The trigger is made to swing down
for firing, and can be bent upward into
groove and secured 10y a spring when not
IN use. When closed, the book has very
innocent appearance. The advantages of
such pocket article will be readily seen.
as it forms a convenient mode of carrying a
revolver for protection, and would be
found especially useful if attacked for the
purpose of robbery, as it could be fired at a
highwaymen when in the act of handing
him the pocketbook.
Year: 1878

The Upper Mississippi, for the first time
in thirty years during the Christmas season,
was open to navigation, and but for the fact
that vessels are laid up for the winter, lake
navigation could also be resumed
Year: 1878

Advocates of the Silver Bill, in their
haste to enact that ninety cents shall be a
dollar, have omitted TO observe that some.
body has got to pay the dollar for the
ninety cents before the ninety cents will
become current for the dollar; and thus
the only people who will become benefited
are those who have the silver TO sell, and
those whose prejudices have been con.
qured. ."-Baltimorc Gazette.
Year: 1878

A recent writer produces from the
Louisville Journal some Of George D..
Prentice's witticisms, which are not de-
pendent upon time and circumstances,
as most Of them naturally were foa
their point and force Following are
a few Of them:


"To keep your friends treat them
kindly; to kill them treat them often.


He who reels and staggers most in
the journey of life takes the straight-
est cut to the devil.


Men should not think too much Of
themselves, and yet man should be
careful not to forget himself.


A dinner to which man is not in
vited gems rally sets the hardest on his
stomach


There are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes if they could
govern their tongues.


The doctors ought to escape calumny.
No man living has a right to speak
Ill of them.


The working of corkscrew Is about
the only thing best achieved by indirec-
tion.


The reduction of postal facilities has
gone too far. The mail passed through
town the other day in couple Of
stockings tied over the back of a bull
dog.


A few days ago the freedom of New
York city was presented to Mr.. Van
Buren, in gold snuf-box. There was
plenty of room in the box for all the
freedom that New York has enjoyed
for many years.


There are two periods when Congress
does no business. One is before holi-
days and the other after.


Were it not ungenerous to remind a
man of his natural defornities, we
should inform the editor of the Grand
Gulf 4drsrtiser that he was natural
feol.


An opposition editor offers to bet his
ears On something to our discredit He
shouldn't carry gambling to such ex-
treme lengths.


If the editor of the-isn'ta a rogue,
be ought to bring libel suit against
his own face"
Year: 1878

a syrian convert to christianity was
urged by his employer to work on Sun
day but declined. But said the master,
"doth not your Bible say if you have
an OK or an ass that falls into a pit On
the Sabbath day, he may pull him
outp "Yes," answered Hayop, 'sbut
If tho ass has a habit of falling into
the same pit every Sabbath day, the
man should either ELL up the pit or sell
the ass"