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Year: 1877

On Saturday County Immigration So
ciety was organized at the County Court
room. A resolution, also, was adopt ed,
authorizing the proceedings to be pub
lishel in all the papers of the county
The reason for their non-appearance in
this weeks Press, is that we could not
get the proceedings Of the meeting. We
applied for them, Monday morning, early,
and was informed that they had been
given to the propretors Of the Argus.
and that they declined to give them up
to Mr. Chaplin the clerk of the meeting,
TO appear in this paper. If it was the
wish of the Society that they should be
published in our paper, it was no more
tnan courtesy, as our paper is issued
Tuesday morning, and the Argus on the
Thursday following. that we should have
had the privilege of copy Of the pro,
ceedings on application, and it seems to
us, but we may be mistaken, that an I'm
migration Society, in Crawford County,
to be success, should have the active
support Of everyone 1t is possible that
the short-sighted policy adopted in this
particular, may succeed in doing all that
the projectors of the Society desire, but
we think not.
Year: 1877

per cent per annum to the inhabitants OF
municipal corporations. and of two per
cent. only to the farmer. The present
statetax Is seven mills on the dollar.
Tho others vary within the limit fixed,
The facts justify me in the assertion that
in no State in the entire country is life or
property safer or more carefully pro-
tected than in Arkansas. The per cent
age of crime is small, and Is confined
chiefly to the entirely uneducatad classes


While crime has decreased since the
re-estsblishment of our civil liberties,
punishment has become more certain and
more severe. Entire peace reigns undis.
turbed throughout our lilnits. Politics
do not run high, and are allowed no
place in the ordinary course Of business
life


During the administration Of my pred
ecessor, protection for every man IN his
personal opinions, political or religious,
and in til c publication ofthese. by speech
or on paper, stood ready, us it will al
ways stand ready in mine; but in neither
have ! ever known an occasion for such
protection to be extended, or call upon
the authorities tor its exercise.


| do not wish to be understood as inti-
mating that Arkansas is paradise for
lazy men. The immigrant. to secure
thrift, must work, here as elsewhere. But
the climate is such as will permit him to
work the year round, and the soil will re-
turn for his labor an exceptionally rich
reward


can assure such men OF hearty vel
come, Of cooperation. of impartial jus
tice, and or the fullest protection, by the
law, in every regard. OF life, liberty and
property, and this, without reference to
their nativity, their religion or their pol
tics.


am, sir, very respectfully, yours.


w. r. MILLER, Gov Of Ark.
Year: 1877

A resident of Knightstown, Ind, after
eating opium for ten years, wandered
into a hotel in New Orleans week ago
Yesterday, and committed suicide by
boring hole in his neck with penknif!e
and cutting the jugular vein with pair
of surgeons scissors. The confessions
of this opium eater have terrible signi-
ticancs; "God only knows how have
fought this terrible habit, but whenever
it gets hold of the system it is too late.
God pity the opium eater! Am almost
past going now. The opium habit was
contracted more than ten years ago,
though not confirmed until about eight
wears since. I then began to fight 1t
with the desperation that almost crazed
me. and when nearly well would become
discouraged and go back again: No man
had dearer wife and family than l|had
"a better wife and children. cannot
recall my life.
Year: 1877

Chu and wife lived with a nephew and
wife in a house in Tung-hwuy. The
uncle was dyer and the nephew tailor;
their wives were congenial, and they all
were happy. Last spring the nephew
died and his wife vowed that she would
be true to his memory and never marry
again. In November Mrs. Chu's mother
died, and the dyer and his wife were
compelled to go to Shaou-peh to attend
the funeral and settle up the estate. AS
they did not wish to leave the beautiful
young widow unprotected in the house,
they asked an old neighbor to stay with
her during their absence. Now there
lived in the town q soldier named Chao
Tehshen, Il bad man, who had been cast
ing Sleeps eyes at the widow. He arm
ed himself with a dagger and about mid
night jumped over the wall of the house,
and entering the widows room threaten
ed to kill her. She replied by offering
her throat to the dagger. Suddenly the
door was kicked open and in burst a tall
fellow who wrested the dagger from the
rufian's hand and threw him On the
floor. The widow rushed out to arouse
the superannuated neighbor, and the
bad man WAS secured with coil of rope.
Then the neighbors focked in, and rec,
ognizing the soldier set to and hammer,
ed him. Then they turned to the
widows gallant defender and asked him
who he was and how he had happened
to he in the house. "My name is
Ts'ao," said the tall stranger; sand [ am
robber by trade. was passing
through tlfe town, and having no money
came into this house to steal something
but finding this fellow here on worse
errand than mine 1 made him fast. The
defender of innocence was robber. But
the neighbors thought SO well of him
that they raised a subscription and col
lected enough money to set him up in an
honest trade. The bad man went tc
prison; the virtuous robber hasn't mar
ried the widow yet.
Year: 1877

Some very interesting experiments
were made few days ago at Cherboure
with the little submarine vessel callec
the Thorneycroft. It was the first oc
casion of testing in French waters
whether q torpedo could be launched
agains; ship in full sail. Accordingly
Admiral Jaurez, who commands the
squadron, ordered a disabled ship, the
Bayonnaise, during rather rough sea,
to be towed out by steamer belonging
to the navy.


A second lieutenant, NJ. Lemoinne.
was sent for, and informed that he had
been selected to make the expert,
ment of launching the Thorneycroft
against the Bayonnaise while both were
in full sail. He accepted the mission
without hesitation, picked out two
enginemen and pilot and went down
with them into the interior of the
Thorneycroft, of which only a small
part was above water, this visible por-
ton being painted of grayish color, SO
as to be easily confused with the sea.
The torpedo was placed so as to project
from the bow of the vessel, at the ex-
tremity of which were two lateen sail
wards about three metres in length.
The towing steamer then took up its
position in front of the squadron, and
the Thorneycroft also assumed the posi-
ton assigned for it an interval of three OF
four marine miles separating the torpedo
and the Bayonnaise.


On signal being given, both were
set in motion, the steamer advancing In
q straight line, and the Thorneycroft OBJ
liquely, so as to take the Bayonnaise in
flank. The steamtug went at fourteen
knots an hour, going at full speed in
order to escape the Thorneycroft. The
latter went at nineteen knots an hour, a
rate not attained by any vessel in the
squadron. The chase lasted about an
hour, the squadron keeping in the real
so as to witness the operations.


At the end of that time the distance
between the Thorneycroft and the Bay
onnaise had sensibly diminished, and at
a given moment the former, in order to
come up with the latter at the requisite
distance. had to slacken speed to eight
knots an hour. The whole squadron
watched this last phase of the struggle
With breathless interest, and people
asked themselves whether the shock OF
the torpedo would not infallibly destroy
the little vessel that bore it. 1t was
feared that the lives of the second lieu
tenant, Lemoinne, and his three COM
panions were absolutely sacrificed.
However, the two vessels got visibly
nearer.


All at once the Thorneycroft put on a
last squirt, and struck the Bayonnaise
with its whole force on the starboard
bow. The sea was terribly agitated, a
deafening report was heard, and the Bay
onnaise, with rent as big as house,
sunk with wonderful rapidity. As fol
the Thorneycroft, rebounding by the
shock about fifteen metres off, even be,
fore the explosion occurred, it went
round and round Cor few moments,
and then quietly resumed the direction
of the squadron. No trace remained OF
the Bayonnaise; it was literally swallowed
up by the sea.
Year: 1877

In the long contest for supremacy be-
tween heavy artillery and armored YES
sells, the attack has in general kept the
lead of the defense. But there may be
greater dangers for the navies OF the
future than even the prolectlles OF
eighty-one-ton guns. The British adj
miralty has recently been considering
with favor rocket float. This is small
vessel which is propelled by rocket
along the surface of the water, at speed
of 275 miles per hour and to distance
of four miles. In the bow Of this YES
sci there is quantity of gun-cotton ar
ranged with percussion cap, go as to
explode upon striking an obstacle. Ii
one of these rocket floats were started
and accurately directed toward a shlp, at
a distance there is clear certainty that
it would arrive before the ship could be
moved out of range. The charge OF
gun cotton could easily be made sufficient
to sink, on explosion, any ship that can
be built. The admiralty are also taking
an interest in new torpedo which travels
under water at twenty miles per hour.
Year: 1877

A very curious fish was taken by some
fishermen in Long Island sound. In
general appearance it resembles small
sea serpent. 1t has long, graceful,
slender body, compressed and scaleless.
In color it is reddish brown, with still
darker reddish blotches forming two
longitudinal series on the sides. The
dorsal fin extends the entire length OF
the body, and at intervals is marked
with fiery red spots, which when the
creature moves its fin assume bright
colors. The mouth opens obliquely, and
even the vomer and palatines are covered
with sharp teeth. The New York aqua:
rum has secured this monstrosity, and
it disports itself in a tank in that institu
ton.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March 2.-The last
official meeting Of President Grant and
his Cabinet advisers was held to-day.
The session convened at noon and
lasted until half-past o'clock, and was
mainly devoted to the transaction of
routine business, and some general con-
versatien over the satisfactory termina-
ton of the electoral count. During the
conversation some favorable comment


was passed on the appearance and man
ner Of the President elect, all the mem
bers of the Cabinet having been pre-
sented to him but a short time previ-
GUS. The session of the Cabinet
was finally closed by a few hap
py remarks from the President and
CABINET Cab m officers Tpie The ,s PFesident tSs Lent
official meeting of the Cabinet, and l
desire to express my grateful thanks
for the faithful and efficient manner
with which you have discharged the
duties pertaining to your respective de-
partments, and for the able assistance
which you have rendered my admins
Year: 1877

Arrangements are in progress for a
great Inauguration prayer meeting, to
be held in Philadelphia Sunday next,
in response to the wish Of President
elect Ha, es, asking that the people
would pray that divine assistance and
guidance might be vouchsafed to him
in the discharge of his duties as the
chief executive Of the nation and the
hope Is expressed that similar meetings
will be held throughout the country, to
the end that peace aud prosperity may
be restored to our nation.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Louis Wahl writes to the Chi
cago Times:


1.-The last mob We had to contend
with were mostly boys, and the worst
element in our city. in for plunder.
with but small sprinkling of our la
boring classes. But the next one will
be composed of our strong and able
bodied laborers. who will not see their
wives and little ones starve, and who
will demand bread. To those who
may think that l am moverdrawing this
picutre, 1 will only say that in nv OBJ
servations for the last three or four
months / have predicted this very
outbreak, and said so to a number of
my friends, only 1 expected it next
winter instead of the middle of the
summer, and had it not been for the
strikes of the railroad en-
ployes everything would have remain
ed quiet until next winter. Ny rea.
son for believing this was simply
because I have had daily from ten to
fifty men at my factory asking and
begging for employment at almost
any price, and this in time when
every man who is willing to work
Year: 1877

ought to be able to find employment,
and this by such men whom know to
be hard-working fellows, and not
lOafers Or what are commonly called
tramps. I hear the same story where
ever I go. Yesterday, in converse
tion with Mr.. White, superintendent
of the Union Rolling Mills. opposite
our works,-a gentleman OF expe-
rience in such matters. as he has wit
messed more than a dozen strikes in
England, Scotland. and Wales.-he
told me that this present strike was
not at an end yet, and that he feared
for the worst the coming winter. SIM
ply because numbers apply daily to
him to work for whatever they can
get, without his being able to give
them employment. Now. knowing
all this, [ would consider it criminal
in me should l withhold this from the
public and give the warning in time.
The next winter will be the time for
which we must provide, so that no one
will be hungry and cold. and | hope
that our next congress will take some
action to revive our industries by
settling our financial policy, ,and other
measures which are necessary to again
restore confidence throughout our de.
moraliZed country, to adopt some plan
to give our surplus laborers land, and
assistance to cultivate the same fol
the first year.
Year: 1877

cannot express to you. 1t transformed me at
once | became strong and independent.


Nothing was too hard for me to undertake. |
speculated and made lots of money. At the
end of two years my srlfferings began" He
went to a lunatic asylum, but could not be
cured. He soon went up to forty-five grains
a day, and began taking it by injection, for is
had ceased to have any effect ii taken through
the mouth. He had used hypodermic
syringe which he could not insert into the
flesh without first cutting whole. He used
to take razor and cut a cash in his thigh and
then with a scissors bore hole into the flesh.
into which he would insert the syringe and
in iect the morphine. During the last two
wears he has taken over sixty grains a day
and has often taken over one drachm w hic h is
equal to five hundred grains of opium. He is
in jail for stealing medical instruments, which
he disposed OF to purchase the poisonous drug,
and he describes his sufferings thus: ''If
WASH t so hell pess I'd soon be out OF this hell
Pm i'll. | have no fear OF the next world.
There is nothing in this for me. For two
wears | have been dead. There is no blood in
me. can eat nothing, and that W hich would
keep life in me cannot get. Even when
asleep have no rest. am constantly dream
ing OF being thrown in among q lot OF dead
and being compelled to eat their flesh. | know
when | wake up, covered as am with cold
perspiration, that it is but dream, but the
effect Of it makes my desire for morphine a
torture. | would kill my own father in a
minute if could get enough for one dose.
When the desire comes on me | would not
exchange the morphine for Heaven. Give me
the dose and then hang me if you like. |
don't care what they do with me after | have
got the morphine" Imagination can hardly
picture more awful condition OF body and
mind than this.
Year: 1877

The "enlightened advocates ave
decided that it is .'inpracticable to
furnish school books to the people ut
half Drice:-and in the meantime MI.
Merrill goes quietly forward putting
the law into practice; and the people.
strange to say, prefer to pay fifty cents
afor u book instead Of one dollar; and
there is no chance for the dignitled ad-
lvocates to make anything in the shape
fof commission! And there is where
the shoe pinches.


The legislature will Of course now
repeal the law.


But. seriously, we would warn our
readers to see to it that those elected
to the legislature are not in favor OF
repeating the textbook law, unless
they desire to spend hundreds OF
thousands of dollars annually, to en-
rich a school Book Ring which would
be at once reformed. stronger than ev-
er. AS the Merrill contract has re-
.duced the price Of school books one
half. the repeal of the contract would
at once set the prices back to the old
mark. The school book men know
this and desperate effort will be
made to pack the next legislature
with their tools. Hence all these ef-
forts to control school conventions and
every other avenue of public opinion
against the present law.
Year: 1877

higher price for it. This being the case, the
bank has no other course but to place itself in
a strong defensive position in good time. If
the bad weather continues, the position can
easily become serious one tor the bank Of
England. for the export of gold in that case,
looking at the comparatively small general
imports of the United States from Europe,
soon runs into many millions sterling.


We repeat our advice of farmers to
sell just as little wheat as is possible.
The price must certainly rise.
Year: 1877

Let all who are permitting stimu-
tants of any kind to fasten their grip
on them read the following:


In the New York Tombs there is terrible
Example OF the use OF opium. Henry L. San
ord Is now twenty Eight years old, and be-
gan to take morphine about seven years ago,
because whisky did not satisfy. That said
ne to q reporter of the World, "had splen-
lid effect on me, made me lively and ambi-
gous, and gave me an amount OF happiness
Year: 1877




But, like everything else in the world,
this question has two sides. That which
has been advantageous to the growers
has proved very Improbable to the
railroad companies, and it is but ma
tural to expect corporation to look
after its own interests as much as an
individual.


If the allegations and charges of the
railroad companies are true, and the
car chartering privilege was abused to
the extent they say it was, those men
who, unintentionally it may be, were
the chief abusers, are mainly response
BILE for the determination of those COM
panies to discontinue the system, and
they have none to blame but themselves
for the withdrawal of the privilege
which they claim was Of such value to
them.


This transportation difficulty may,
and We hope will, be satisfactorily ar
ranged before the commencement of
peach season. The proposed plan may
work much better than is now feared.
At any rate the railroad companies
could not have fixed on a much better
year to make the experiment as the
crop Of fruit to be shipped now bids
fair to be only an ordinary one in point
Of quantity.
Year: 1877

A recent New York letter says; "The
course of the gold market has baftied the
wisdom of that numerous class who think
that the prosperity of the nation is init
mately connected and bound up with the
success Of their party in the presidential
election, or the state election, or the town
election, or some other election. OF all
the things that could happen in politi,
cal way to send gold up, nothing could
possibly have happened 80 well calculated
to thatend asa disputed presidency. Much
gold was bought at lloi within tewdays
succeeding the election, on the hypoths-
sis that Tilden and civil war, Or Hayes
and military depotism, were coming in,
and in either case that liberty was going
out. The insensate and perverse market
fell steadily to l07 where it remains as
heavy as a stone quarry. The precise
reason for this is that we have beet lat
terly exporting more produce and mer.
chandise than we have been importing,
and the balance has been coming to us in
cold, which gold has to be sold like any
other article OF which there is an over
supply. If the panic stricken politicians
had bought all that was offered, and
we're able to hold it, the price would
have remained at 1l0l; sut, as the sup
ply exceeded the demand, it naturally
fell. The eventuality much yearned
for by Mr. William d. Kelley and other
philosophers for commencing to resume
specie payments. e., balance OF trade
| in our fayor-seems to have come"
Year: 1877

RETURNED.-Joe Marhley, who went
East Centennial-ward last tall return
ed on Thursday accompanied by sever
al friends. Joe has taken to himself a
" rib " which will account for his long
stay in the Buckeye State. We took the
gentleman to task for not bringing the
aforesaid rib back here with him, but he
gave us wise look, as much-as to say
he knew what he was about.
Year: 1877

REPAIRING.-Two land,slides on the
line Of the Buckeye Ditch have damaged
it to some extent during the past two
weeks. a few days more will repair it,
however, and then the Bolts Hill Mine
will be in full blast.
Year: 1877

In 1870 Charles Fox of New York, died,
leaving about fifty thousand dollars in real
estate and ten thousand in personal prop
erty. His will was found to give the whole,
after payment of his debts, to the govern
ment of the United States for the purpose OF
assisting to pay the war debt. The deceased
left no children but a niece and two
nephews, infants, his brothers children and
his next of kin, contested the singular will.
The heirs were living in comparative pow
erty in Brooklyn. The Surrogate decided
the will invalid and void as devise OF real
estate. The United States appealed first to
tho Supreme Court and next to the Court
of Appeals. and the Surrogate's decision
was unanimously sustained in both
was then removed to the Supreme
Court of tho United States for review and
was argued OF Washington on Wednesday,
the decision being reserved. Meanwhile,
the personal property has been swallowed
up and neither the United States govern
The general opinion will be that the man
who could 80 dispose Of his property and
leave three infant children his near rela-
tives, in poverty, could not have been of
thoroughly sound mind. At oil events it
seems like very small business for the
United States authorities to carry the case
beyond the Court of Appeals Of the State of
New York, and it is to be hoped that the
State decisions will be sustained by the
United States Supreme Court. If it should
not be Congress should at once pass on act
restoring the property to the infant heirs
before it is oil swallowed up by the legal ad-
visers of the general government.
Year: 1877

his appointment. He did not resign
his Office of Chief Justice to take that
mission. He continued to hold it during his
signed as Chief Justice when he had been
elected Governor of New York. 1t was no
less a President than Washington who se-
lected the Chief Justice of the United States
to perform duties not connected with his ju-
dicial Office, on the theory, we suppose, that
the country has right in great emergencies
to command the services of any citizen who
has eminent qualifications for the duty re-
quired. This conforms to common sense
and to the practice of other free governments.
AS conspicuous example, fresh in every
body's recollection, Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn was appointed by the British
government as member Of the
Geneva Court of Arbitration. Tho objec-
tions made by heated partisans to the selec-
ton Of federal judges as members OF the
Electoral Commission will not stand half
an hours discussion in Congress If this
topic Of opposition should live long enough
to lift its head in the debates


As to the constitutionality Of commits
sion to determine disputed questions con-
nected with the electoral votes, that point
was decided in the first year of this century
by as able Congress as ever met. In the
year 1900 both houses assented to a bill for
creating what was called Grand Commit
tee to decide such questions, bill which
failed to pass only because the Senate wished
the committee to consist of seven and
the House wished it to consist only of four
members of each branch of Congress.
Among the advocates of that bill was the
illustrious John Marshall, then member of
the House, but appointed the next year
Chief Justice Of the United States, and for
the ensuing third of century the greatest
judge on any Bench in the world. When
men like Morton and Sherman set
themselves in opposition to the deliberate
opinion Of John Marshall they should not
expect many intelligent followers.