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Year: 1877

Nashville for the cause of education.
My friends, you will SEQ by the size


of this great crowd, by the noise that


comes up to us from all parts of it,


that they are not hearing what I say,
that am speaking to those reporters


and small circle around me- 1t is


very interesting to me, but / fear it
is not interesting to the rest; of you.
j thank the Governor and friends for


the warm, very hearty, and for the
very sincere welcome you have given


us. You welcome us, / think, be-
cause you think we are sincerely in


favor of that peace and harmony and


union which you are in favor of. l
now give place in order that others
may address you. Loud and pro-
longed applause. s3 4aIl


Ha HAMPTON. 8 8$


Loud calls were made for Cover
nor Hampton. who came forward


and said:


"MY FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE: If the


President of the whole United states
could not make himself heard in this
crowd, how can tho Governor of one
little State? APPLAUSE wish that
every man and every woman and ev-
cry child in this crowd had heard the
patriotic words which fell from his
excellency, the President, and not
only they, but every man and woman
in Tennessee, and this broad land of
ours. can say nothing more to add
weight and power, and emphasis to
those patriotic words of the Presi-
dent of the United States. When he
planted himself upon the laws, hold,
ing up the flag of the whole country,
and said that all people of all races,
of all sections were 10 be equal
when he declared that he was the
President Of the whole country. not
of a party; when he declared that
tho same laws which governed Mass
aclusetts should rule in South Caro-
lima, and those which governed Ohio
should prevail i'm Louisiana. then L
forget, or il did not forget, placed
in subordination the fact that i was a
Southern man, and remembered that
| was again an American citizen.


Applause Ithen cordially, hearth
ly and earnestly indorsed that policy,
though l think it is wrong to call it
policy, for ii is true statesmanship
true because il is right. | sustain it
cordially, and have tried in my own
limited sphere to work cut the same
result which he has boon carrying on
so grand scale, and came to you,
people Of Tennessee, and | have
right TO speak to you, for in that
room is the portrait of the man South
Carolina gave to Tennessee, Old
Hickory, the man alongside OF whom
my father fought Iapplansel, and |
say to you now that the same
peace which is spreading through
all our country prevails in South
Carolina. | have tried honestly,
earnestly and faithfnlly to
discharge my pledges that every man,
white or black. who was citizen of
that State should be equal before the
laws and under the constitution of
that state and of the Constitution of
the United States. Applause. We
have forgotten, at least for time,
that there are any party lines. We
arc working earnestly, not only to
bring peace to our own section, but
to aid in spreading it over the whole
land, and trust in God and pray
that peace, happiness. prosperity, and
the reservation Of all the blessings
which follow good government may
be restored to the whole country and
that we will be free, happy, glori-
GUS, and united people, aH
Year: 1877

In yesterdays Times, Daddy Ives
says:


with a single scratch


John Irish was nominated at Mar
shalltown by the Democratic State
Convention, of which body Daddy
was one tho fuglemen, just twenty
days ago, and the Daddy even refuses
to do him the poor favor Of hoisting
his name at the head Of the columns
Of his paper. Come, Daddy, "be q
man or mouse" g
Year: 1877

Another Tax Stubb Discovered
Sanford Harmed, at one time An


drew Johnson's Collector Of Internal


Revenue for this District, is the DEM


ocratic Labor Reform Grconback


Candidate for Senator in Keokuk


County. He is making a canvass of
that County claiming to be the cspe-
cial champion and friend Of the poor
man, being himself one of those horny
handed, jack-leg lawyers, who as
all know, have harder work to make
a living than any other class of peo-
pie.


The Sigourncy Ne,cs in the mean
time has gone to the record and
found that in 1866 To 1859 this man
was County Judge, during which
time under his administration, a rat
tle-trap tumble down Court House
was built, and during the same peri
cd, while he was in office, he was
a thrifty speculator in the tax-titles
of his constituents at the rate of
thirty per cent. interest.


3 AT that time it is true there was no
legal penalty imposed upon an Off
Ger OF the County, who might specu-
late in tax sales, made necessary by
the assessments of that same officer,
but since then o law has been passed
fixing fine Of $1,000 for each otfense
of the kind. In 1850 he, then being
ont of eflice, turned up as a taN-title
purchaser to the extent of 10400
acres, of the lands Of his own. people,
for taxes which he had himself been
instrumental in levying to build
Court House etc, and in subsequent
years he is found to be more exten-
sively engaged in the same protita-
Bile business.


Now a man has a perfect legal
right to buy lands at tax sales, unless
he is an officer of the county, but if
he does so and gets rich on the thirty
per cent. penalties and on the tax-ti-
ties which he holds beyond the time
of redemption, he has no right to set
up as the particular friend
of the poor man, and as the enemy of
high taxes. high interest &c. Aud
when he does so he is a demagogue
of the first water, utterly unworthy
to receive the trust Of the people,
And this is the sort of aan which
the Sigourney Ne@s shows Sanford
Harmed to be.
Year: 1877

! REQUISITES FOR 4 NEwsPAPER MAN


Curtis Guild, in lecture before ths
Boston newspaper men. said; "Whs.
then, some one may inquire, are the
requisites for newspaper business: An


answer TO this suggests itself TO my


mind In reply, 10 somewhat powerful
terms, l will admit, that made to q
pale. hollow-chests young man of 90
or %. who once waited upon me with


an inquiry Of similar nature. He had


a few thousand dollars, aud had just


graduated from college, and wanted to
join with somebody TO start q paper.


Start paper. 1t is thought by almost
everyone outside the business one Of the
easiest and pleasantest things in the


world to do and so it is, if you have
plenty of money 10 start with; but it is
not the starting, but the keeping Of it
going at a profit, that calls for brains.
recall now the reply. probably caused
by days severe and exhaustive labor,
when. after listening as patiently as
possible to the young mans crude no.
tons respecting business in which he
had no experience. he begged me to tell
him. in as few words as possible. the
qualifications necessary to prosecute the
business successfully. He wa. some
what startled by the assertion that they
were as follows: \ brain as flexible and
elastic as steel, a memory as tenacious
q, iron, temper even as that of saiut,
a digestion equal to that of an ostrich,
and the endurance of an adamant
Year: 1877




Close confinement, intense mental
activity, and that spiritual excitement
which Is a necessary condition of fine
intellectual work, make great draughts
on the nervous system. 1t needs a
strong constitution to endure them.
Every great mental effort ha, to be paid
for in one way or another. Digestion,
muscular vigor, nerves, and often the
brain itself, give way under the strain.
Let any man who is not used to intellcc-
tual work, sit down to prepare twenty
or thirty pages of manuscript, or MAX g
himself ready to address jury on a
case of life and death, or calculate some
great and complicated business enter
prise, and he will soon learn the bitter
ness and prostration Of brain fatigue.
When the parson comes down on Mon
day morning his appetite is gone, and
his nerves arc tremulous. and his head
feels as if little shaking would make
his cerebrum and cerebellum rattle
about like dry kernels in walnut shell
The lawyer, when he has finished his
brilliant plea; the lecturer, when lie
has finished his eloquent oratiou; the
man of affairs, when he has gone
through the strain of. winding up a
years business; the author. when he
comes out from five hours quill.driving
in his study; all th'se. unless he is
gifted with uncommon strength and en-
durance. are exhausted men, aud kind
allowance must be made for their con-
dition.
Year: 1877

THE following cure Tor goat is from
an old work: First: The person mus,
pick handkerchief from the pocket OF
a maid of sfty years, Who has never
had wish to change her condition
Second: He must dry it on = parson.
hedge who was never covetous. Third
He must send it to . doctors shop who
never killed patient. Fourth: He
must mark it with q lawyers ink who
never cheated a client. Fifth: Apply
i, TO the part affected; and cure viii
speedily follow.
Year: 1877

If WE are told that man is religious
we still ask what are his morals? But
if we hear at first that he has honest
morals, and is man of natural justice
and good temper, we seldom think of
the other question, whether he be reli-
ious and Notwithstanding.
Year: 1877

Some folks are of the opinion that a
mans chance Of justice in this world
depends much upon the condition of his
Observation-Disclosures they stick out
boldly from his bosom, or protrude
from the rear of a pair of seriously de-
fective psntalOons.
Year: 1877

Governor Robinson, Of New York. said
in his inaugural speech on the Let OF
January that the people Of the Union
had called Mr.. Tilden by an emphatic
popular majority TO the highest place in
the Nation This is a kind Of clap. trap
Of which We had supposed Governor Rob.
inson TO be incapable. lie knows very
well that IL is the Constitutional elector.
al majority. and not that Of the aggre.
gate popular vote, which elects the Pres.
ident. His remarks were both imperti.
nent and mischievous not only because
"an emphatic popular majority" does not
necessarily elect n President, but because
the actual numerical superiority Of the
Tilden vote j. exclusively in the South.
ern States, where IL does not represent
the preference Of the people expressed
in free and fair elections. but the effect
Of terrorization by the Tilden party.


But this reference to a popular major.
ity as II IL were necessarily an honest
majority. or conclusive as TO the election
Of President. Is the more mischievous
because il tends TO breed disregard and
contempt Of the forms Of law. without
which orderly government Il impossible
Governor Robinson has disappointed by
his remarks all his political opponents
who were disposed TO think him a can
did and truly conservative man. As the
Chief Magistrate Of New York, II he al
luded to the general situation at all. IL
was his duty TO declare the government
TO be that Of the lawful and Constitution
al majority II Harper's Weekly.
Year: 1877

house. by simply declining to act with
the other, might prevent the counting
altogether. These suppositions show
that the idea Of a double-headed Return
ing Board, made up of two distinct and
independent boards, of equal authority,
is an anomaly in our political system
The trainers of the Constitution nevar
dreamt OF creating such an anomaly
when they provided that the electoral
certificates shall be opened and the votes
counted lin the presence Of the Senate
and House of Representatives" They
did not create it. II it exists, il has no
warrant in the fundamental law Of the
land.


This false assumption in respect to the
powers Of Congress, combined with the
political antagonism Of the two houses, is
the chief source Of embarrassment and
perplexity in regard to the next count
ing of the electoral votes. II both were
Republican or both were Democratic,
there would be no trouble in finding out
who has been elected. This dual sover-
eighty in a Returning Board, in the
event Of a party conflict between the two
powers composing il, has all the infelici.
ties and dangers Of a double headed
court Of justice or a double-headed State
Government IL is selEdestructiye
sovereignty whenever it makes war upon
itself and this is liable to occur whenev-
er the two houses Of Congress that are
to count the electoral votes happen to
be politically opposed TO each other. and
the counting or exclusion Of a few votes
will determine the result.


We do not see much prospect that the
two houses Of the present Congress will
agree as to any point that touches the
real issue between them; and, IL they do
not, then they can neither count the
votes nor direct the President Of the
Senate And in this event there can be
no counting. unless the President Of the
Senate does the work and declares the
result, as we fully believe that he is by
the Constitution authorized to do. This
was the idea Of those who framed the
Constitution; and il is the idea which
best corresponds with it's language, aud
is, moreover. supported by the earlier
precedents.
Year: 1877

must be divinely true. II cannot com
prehend: therefore / believe" is their
idea Of spiritual exaltation; and too
often they are ready to assign to a pro-
tracted and disagreeable future all such
as cannot share their particular insanity.


The disease, more or less virulent, is
indeed all but universal. When it in
wolves matters Of everyday real impor-
tance, we seclude the victims and sub
ject them to medical treatment; when il
deals wholly with the unreal, we-well,
sometimes we call them philosophers
and sometimes we canonize them: but il
is the same disease, with varying intensi-
ty, throughout The man who sees
snakes in the air is sick; he who beholds
angels is supremely blest.


Is there any cure7 We are happy to
believe there is: in time. and the slow
development of the race toward perfect
sanity. For untold millenniums the
human race has been stumbling upward
thro Ugh intellectual infancy, acquiring
much and forgetting much. By degrees
Lien are learning to distinguish the real
from the imaginary, to abide more and
more by reason aud sound experience,
putting less and less faith in conjectures
Ultimately men may develope into a
race purely rational, capable not only Of
habitually drawing right conclusions
from correct premises but of always re-
framing from positive judgment until
the premises have been fully established
and properly verified: a race constitu-
tionally sane.


But progress in that direction cannot
be very rapid until men have ceased, in
each and every department Of thought
to make a virtue Of insanity; in other
words, have ceased to set faith in the un-
verified and inconceivable above every
other faculty, studiously training the
young to be irrational. Not until the
current methods in education are ex-
changed for more wholesome and ra-
tional methods, not until men have
learnt at all times and in all connections
to treat conjectures as conjectures-
pleasant 10 think about sometimes,
and sometimes very useful as aids
and inspirations in the pursuit of
knowledge and the development OF char
acter, but never to be mistaken for truth
or rated as a superior kind Of truth
then, and not till then, will the race
cease to be liable at all times to out
breaks Of epidemic insanity. Then, and
not till then, will it be impossible for
swindles of the Flint and Mummler and
Katie King and Keely motor order TO
flourish outside Of insane Asylums.
Year: 1877

A well known citizen OF .0nondaga
Valley, who is an early riser, had reason
for wondering why il was that his son.
some II years OF age. visited the henne-
~ several mornings before daylight One
morning the father watched the son and.
after the latter ha6 entered the building.
the former took position from which
he could see what was to be seen. At
once the boy walked up to the roosts and
began seizing the hens and chickens and
throwing them upon the ground Last
ly he dethroned Chanticleer. large. fine
fellow. when he revealed his purpose
in making his morning visits, by address.
ing the brood in this wise:


"Thsrel You'll learn by and by to
wake up when other folks do
Year: 1877

TESTIMONY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF


GEORGIA.


have used simmons Liver Regulator for
constipation of my bowels, caused by tempo
rary derangement of the liver, for the last three
or four years and always when used according
to the directions, with decided benefit. think
it is a good medicine for the arrangement of
the liver-at least such has been my personal


HIRAM WARNER,


Chief Justice of Georgia.
Year: 1877

Quite lately the Michigan board of health issued a circular in reference to the restriction and prevention of scar let fever, believing that by proper pre- caution epidemics of this kind can be easily prevented.

 They set out with the proposition that scarlet fever is now believed to be one of the most contagious diseases, and requires as careful treatment of the patient and of hls excretions as in cas- es of smallpox, like which, also, ii has a period of incubation of from one to fourteen days.

 The first precaution is the isolation of the sick from the well, and the pre- veniion of contact with the patient. The room should be cleared from all unnecessary cI thing, carpets or other substances in bich the poison may turk and be tli nee transferred else where. The patti nt should use rags in place of handkerchiefs, so that they may be burned Body and bed linen should be placed in vessels of water containing chloride of lime or similar substance. Discharges should be re ceived in a solution of sulphate of iron or copper, and afterward buried. Per sons recovering from thls disease should be considered dangerous as long as there IS any scaling of the skin, sore ness of the eyes, etc. Many other pre- cautions are inculcated, all of which are considered more or less important
Year: 1877

An seed Is In the sOwer's hsnds-"-Rossetti. Ten thousand sewers through the land Passed needless on their way; Ten thousand seeds in every hand

 or every sort had they. They cast seed here, they cast seed there, They cast seed everywhere. The land e forest straightway grew,

 With plants of every kind; And kindly fruits, and poisonous too, In that wood could you find; For trees grew here, and trees grew there, And trees grew everywhere. Anon, as many year went by,

 Those sewers came once more, And wandered meath the leafhid sky, And wondered al the store. For fruit hung here, and fruit hung there And fruit hung everywhere. Then plucked they many a berry bright, None could their right deny; And some ate to their long delight,

 And some ate but to die; While some plucked here, and som,

 plucked there,

 And some plucked everywhere Nor knew they In that tangled wood

 The trees that were their own; But as they plucked as each one should, Each plucked what he had sown. So do men here, so do men there, So do men everywhere.

 -Tlnsley's Magazine
Year: 1877

PHENIx, September 1G.-Glad to hear you southern people got well soaked. The rain seems to have been general Salt river rose three to four feet. The Agua Fria and Hassayampa were both full to overfowing and were regular torrents. So everybody seems to have got a soaking. There IS no danger of want of water any more this season. Wheat and barley are steady at two cents per pound Not much is being sold. Flour is 8 per 100 pounds for irst-class and S450 for second.

 Camp meeting is in full blast a mile and a half from town Two express wagons make hourly trips each way and quite a crowd Is there today. It will be redhot next Saturday and Sun day.
Year: 1877

Ben. De Bar died of brain disease; but what produced the brain disease The doctors bring in their ready-made answer: CverwOrk" It Is always easy to say this; It is a sort of rebuke ful compliment But we doubt if Mr, De Bars ovcrwork had anything to do with his brain disease. Several years ago MT. De Bar, finding his hair turn ing gray, resOrted to the use of g pow erful mixture to restore 1t to its origt nal color. A preparation of lead was one of the strongest ingredients in the composition He was warned at the time that the stuff, if used for any length of time, would be apt to affect his brain; but he gave no heed to the warn ing and continued the Use of the restOr alive. l. is quite probable that if the brain had been closely examined dur ing the autopsy, traces of the poison used in the manufacture of the haIr dye would have been found.-St Louis Globe. Democrat.
Year: 1877

THE valley of the Little Colorado bears evidences of having once been a timbered country, but at present there is nothing but large prairie, covered with good and nutritious grasses of va rious qualities. On the lower part of the river there is no timber, but at the head of the stream there Is an abun- dance of firewoOd, such as pinon and cedars, and also some cOttonwOOds. The evidences of there having been plenty of timber in the Little Colorado are the large number of petrified logs which abound, some Tn pieces fully five feet long, and one which saw was ten feet in circumference-Cor. Pres colt Enterprise.
Year: 1877

At a Cabinet meeting on the 4th in stant, the Secretary of the Interior pre- sented a lengthy statement regarding the depredations on Government tim

 Der lands. and the Attorney General delivered an opinion as to the Federal jurisdiction in the premises, and also as to the power of the government to prosecute the trespassers. 4 lengthy discussion followed, concerning which Secretary Schurz refused 10 say any thing, stating that the matter required further consideration, and would be made public in a few days. About 96,000 logs have been seized in the lower Mississippi, and certain large saw-mllls, as a consequence, have dis charged their men and are idle. They have been lately trying to get the logs released by giving bonds for their full worth, but the Secretary f4vors selling them at auction to the highest bidder

 We have very closely observed the course pursued by government on this timber business, and so far actions have been commenced in cases where in the timber was regarded as of 'com- mercial value "a term used in the late legislation of Congress. Just what kinds of timber come within this def milton, has not yet, we believe, been decided either by the Department or courts; but it would seem that only those kinds which are valuable enough to be exported long distances from the place of growth, and find a ready sale in commercial towns and seaports for other uses than fuel, are meant We doubt if lhe scrub oak, mesquite and like trees would be held to come with in the meaning of the term as used in the law - commercial value" But strictly speaking, all trees are timber and therefore any that stand upon lands of the United States cannot be lawfully cut or used by individuals

 Yet owing to the absolute necessity for timber for local uses, we cannot think that government will attempt prosecutions for taking it until after it shall have been offered for sale or be placed in a condition to be bought either with or without the land.
Year: 1877

A ABACKwOODsMAN, on hearing Bish. op Mead, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, preach sermon in a frontier church, without a manuscript, said " He is the first of them fine fellers that 1 have ever seen who could shoot without a rest
Year: 1877

MILITARY SUBMIssIoN.-The' Edin-
burg Review says that the Russians
are not warlike or combative people.
Even in their drinking bouts they do
not fight. They are entirely ignorant
of all that goes on abroad and entirely
indifferent to glory. At the same time
they possess the most undaunted cour-
age, but the Review says that, as a
race of men, there is no people in the
world less disposed to slaughter their
neighbors. They submit to military
service as they submit to law of
nature, because they are docile and
brave. Can there. be a more melan-
choly illustration than this of the
condition of community whose mill
tary service is the primary obligation
OF life and affects every other relation
of society ? Surely the founders of our
own government were wiser than
many of us have ever appreciated
when they protested against standing
armies as among the intolerable grie-
vance entailed upon them by the
British government. and re solved if
they ever became independent, to
reduce this grievance to the lowest
minimum.-Bah. Sun