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Year: 1875

The OGDENsBURG EXCURSION four
hundred persons took their turn over the P. &
o. Railroad yesterday, and mora would have
gone had they got there in season-the change
in the time of leaving not being known to
many. The mountains were white with snow
yesterday. The members of the Literary Fra
ternity and their invited guests to the number
of about one hundred and fifty went to the
Crawford House in the regular morning train
where the greater Fart of the party spent the
night The cheap excursion train leaves this
morning at SIS instead of o.45 as heretofore.
Year: 1875

GoRHAM.-The people of Gorham may rest
assured that they are offered rare treat 10 the
programme of Miss Andrews concert on Fri
dav night The vocalists are we'll versed in
their parts and the entire concert will amply
repay large and discriminating attendance
Year: 1875

SOUTH WINDHAM.-The work on the paper
mill at Little Falls is going on nd a branch of
the T. q o., necessitating considerable trestle
work, is being built from the main track to the
site of the mill
Year: 1875

II with Roman tirmness. However q few
metropolitan papers may undertake to
ride both sides of this question and con.
found right and wrong, the instinct of the
republican masses will lead them straight
to the root of the difficulty and teach them
in what direction the path of duty lies.
Mr.. Hale's resolution is one pointing the
right way, If better plan can he devised
tending towards the securing of repnbIi-
can government in Louisiana we shall
gladly support il.
Year: 1875

A youthful clergyman who recently
went forth to enlighteu the ignorant,
while dealing with the parable of the
prodigal son, was anxious to show how
dearly the parent loved his child.
Drawing himself together and putting
on his most sober look, he dilated at
length on the killing of the fatted
calf. The climax was as follows: II
shouldn't wonder if the father had
kept that calf for years waiting the
return Of his son."


Somebody says a man should be
always little bigger than his wife,
and little stronger, little wiser,and
little more in love with her than she
is with him. A woman should always
be little younger, aud little pretti-
err, and little more considerate than
her husband. Very likely. If hus-
bands and wives we're made to order,
what pretty, proper, unsndurable
creatures they would be.


The Parisians are delighted with
the American horse cars which they
have g t to running in some of their
streets. But they don't know how to
manage them. When the seats are
full they take on no more passengers.


A Russian proverb says: "Before
going to war, pray once before going
to sea, pray twice; before going to be
married, pray three times


Ohio is one of the three States in
which woman may make will,
Put there are several States where u
woman has a will of her own.


jealous, ehY' Joaquin Miller says
that such writers as Buffalo Bill"
bring the Language Of nature into
disreputc."
Year: 1875

WHITE MOUNTAIN INDIAxs.-It appear. from the statements of those who have the best opportunities for knowing that the re- moval of the white mountain Indians frorn Apache to San Carlos is very incomplete. in fact we have been furnished by friend there with the following statem n, of the number stili remaining at Apache who refuse to 20. and who say they were promised by Gen erai Howard that that should be their home forever, so long as they behaved themselves. He says there are eight of the largest bands. stili there and that they number in the ag- gregats between 900 and ,6v0, and as there were only l,sd0 all told, be thinks with those of in the Finals and elsewhere Mr. Cum must have very small number of White Mountain Apaches at San Carlos. Those at Apache are clamorous for rations to which they believe themselves entitled. but prefer to go without and make their own living by hunting and gathering nuts and seeds. rather than go to the low lands and run the risk of sickness in . country and cIi- mate to which they are not accustomed.

 They want Co remain in the mountains where they were born. It is the land they love.
Year: 1875

The Chattanooga Commercial says;
ave learn that Mr.. Bridges, a prominent
merchant Of Jasper, is afflicted with a pc
culiar and terrible disease Of the stomach,
on account Of which he can neither eat nor
drink anything. Food Of any kind, or
water, when taken upon the stomach, is
Immediately thrown up, accompanied by
blood and matter. A prominent physician
Of Nashville has been called to wait upon
him, under whose direction neither food
nor drink is taken into the stomach, and
life is sustained by the injection Of food
and stimulants. Life under such circum-
stances would, it seems, be more terrible
than DEATH
Year: 1875

THE Freedman's Bank Commission
ers have definitely decided that under
the construction given the law by the
Attorney General, they cannot resign
their trust, and viii continue, although
there seems to be no present prospect
that they VIII receive any compensa.
ton. The law provides that they shall
be paid out Of the assets of the bank.
but thus far they have not been able to
collect any assets. The prospect for
the payment Of even a small percent
age to the depositors is very gloomy.
Year: 1875

Treasurer Spinner to-day received an
autograph letter from the President accept
ing his resignation as Treasurer Of the
United States, and expressing for him the
waUmest sentiments Of regard personally,
together with a high appreciation of his
official integrity.
Year: 1875

Farmers are very busy with their
Corn planting just now, and are,
seemingly, in fine spirits, notwith-
standing the Wheat crop is to all
appearances decided failure. Their
greatest regret in regard to this is,
that there was so much seed thrown
away last fall. In fact, farmers can
not afford to raise wheat to sell at
less than one dollar per bushel, while
wages for harvesting and threshing
are as high as they are.


Much of the wheat ground has
been plowed up to put in corn, which
will make an unusually large corn
crop, and the ground was so well
frozen during the winter, that it is
in excellent condition this Spring to
receive the crop.


Some of the more hardy varieties
of apples escaped the late freeze
also the damson plums. All the
pears are killed so far as I have
heard.


A Sunday School was organized
Year: 1875

TAXATION OF Does.-Popular un-
derstanding regarding the law relat-
ing to the listing of dogs for taxa
ton is just now pertinent. The fol-
lowing is its gist: The owner must
return dogs for taxation, and sfix a
value, and must swear to the number,
but if the oath does not apply to the
value, the assessor cannot, but must
return the number merely. II, how
ever, the owner does not return both
the number and the value, his dogs
are declared common nuisances, and
may be killed by anybody, and the
owner is without remedy in law.
Year: 1875

Spring work is advancing under more favorable
auspices than was anticipated q month ago. The
farmers have had the very best of weather for pre-
pairing and putting in their crops of corn OATS &C.,
and there are very few at present, who are not
through with their planting. Some who could have
finished this week, preferred later planting.


Wheat month ago looked remarkably poor, and
the general verdict was, "no wheat this year" but
we are happy to report that the prospect is not
serious with after ALL and if there is nothing in
tervening between now and harvest time, third,
or possibly half crop may be expected.


will add, for the information of the farmers in
other sections of the county, that many of the
farmers in this vicinity have been using Morgan's
Patent Combined Land Roller, Harrow, Marker and
Cultivator this Spring, and all speak highly of its
great utility and economy in saving time and labor
1t will be further tested in the cultivation of corn
this season, and will doubt prove satisfactory.
Though a new machine, it is rapidly finding favor,
and bids fair to come into general at distant
day.


Fruit in our part of the township twestern) will
be about as your correspondents have reported in
other parts of the county, very little to speak Of


Our School House is being pushed forward rapid
ly, and we boast in a short time of another
line puohc school, the antl-schooi Cathohcs TO the
contrary Notwithstanding.


Savage g. Son, who were burned cut short time
ago, have contracted with Mr.. J. D. Achor of oul
town, for the building of large and commodious
brick business house, two stories high, to be com
peted by the first of September, for about 50 900
The upper story will be designed expressly for the
use of the L o. o. F.


Since our Hotel was burned, another of our wide.
awake citizens, Mr.. j. R. Walker, has reftted and
furnished his property in town for the accommoda
ton of the travelling public.


Business is business" at present, and all seem
to have plenty to do.


May II, 1875. R. E. P.
Year: 1875




I must forego my former cherish
ed opinion that 'Flora' is a female.
She says she is a voter, as she well
might be and still be a woman, if
she is one of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, for among Grangers men
and women vote alike. But I find
intrinsic and conclusive evidence in
the last communication over that
signature that the writer is of the
masculine gender. I am therefore
prepared to say to all the world, that
"Flora" is a man, not o woman, a god,
not a goddess


"Flora" says, if Democracy legal
ICES the sale of liquor to minors and
persons intoxicated, that 1 will be
likely to give the law my unqualified
appreciation. This is ungracious and
unfeminine, if not uncharitable.
have not said anything to Justify
such q conclusion. If "Flora" does
not understand my position, 1 must
hope that others will find no diff
Guilty in doing me greater justice.


"Flora" says further that the Adair
law was amended by our Democratic
Legislature to accommodate the
liquor sellers. If so, how so, and to
what extent? Before the time Of
the amendment, a man and his wife
could make this kind of arrange
ment; he would enter a saloon and
get drunk, and by the time he be-
came ''full and furious" his wife
would follow, tear his hair and drive
him out, while she remained to raise
such a howl about the bar-keepers s
ears that he would be glad to paS
twenty or fifty dollars hush money to
prevent her ''going to law" This kind
of trick could be played, and was
played more than once, under the
Adair law, but it cannot be repeated
now. The law was made more per
feet and efficient in every way by
the amendment, and it is no longer
man trap for the sport and profit
of "black mailers."


There is another sign that 'Flora
is not q woman, in the fact that that
parsonage takes an interest in polit-
ical matters. There is talk about
Democrats and Democracy, as il
nothing good or wholesome could
come from that source Is it meant
to be insinuated that I am Demo
crat? Why, I have never voted q
Democratic ticket I am mindful
that the Republican party has the
mission to fulfill of saving the prin
ciples that have been incorporated
as amendments in the Federal Con.
stitution. The Democratic party
has no policy, and no object in view
except to obtain power for the sake
of power. Having shown their dis
approval of robbery and fraud, the
people will next show their sense o1
the great value and Importance ot
the Republican party. So at least
I hope and believe.


This, I suppose, Mr.. Editor, is the
last writing I shall send you ovel
the signature of


JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT.
Year: 1875

We hope every Republican of the
county who can make it at all conve-
nient to come, will attend the county
meeting next Saturday. The time
has come to make an earnest and uni
ted effort to rescue this county from
the control of the Democratic party,
into whose hands it has been allowed
to drift through apathy and uuwise
divisions in the Republican ranks
We have the votes to elect the whole
Republican ticket in this county next
fall, but it will require earnest work
and thorough organization to bring
the voters to the polls. Hence the
great Importance of full meeting
next Saturday, when a new Central
Committee should be chosen, and all
the machinery put in motion for an
active and efficient campaign.


Ohio is to be the battle ground in
October on which will probably be
decided the Presidential campaign Of
next year. Let the Republicans Of
Highland get ready to do their part
in the great contest. Besides the
State ticket, the county ticket will he
very important, there being a Repre-
sentative and State Senator to elect
and also County Auditor, Treasurer,
Sheriff, Probate Judge, Recorder and
Commissioner Come up, then, Re
publicans, from every township, and
show by your presence next Satur-
day, that you appreciate the magni-
tude and Importance of the contest
before you. and that you are deter.
mined to do your duty.
Year: 1875

There is something fitting as well a,
affecting in Garibaldi devoting the close Of
his eventful and stormy life to the drain.
ing Of the Roman Campagna, so as to con.
vert that pestilential waste into healthy
and productive agricultural district The
tract was once healthy and well peopled


but even in the days of the Roman Empe
rors the dread miasma was at work. De.
ficiency of drainage aud tho volcanic
naturc Of the soil have both been held
responsible for the fever-breediug charac-
teristics of the section. The removal Of
the former trouble, however, win do much
toward improving its sanitary condition
The chief difficulty lies in the flatncss Of
the territory. II is now contemplated 70
make new channel for the Tiber, and
lay the foundations Of new city at 0stra,
once a famous port, but now diminished
to poor village. The enterprise will
cost some millions, but if successful, will
more than pay for itself in few years
Year: 1875

To-MoRRow.-To-morro may never
come to us. We do not live in tomorrow
We cannot find it in any title deeds. The
man who owns whole blocks Of real estate
and great ships on the sea does not own o
single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow
1t is a mysterious possibility not yet born.
1t lies under the seal Of midnight, behind
the veil Of glittering consultations.


! Enjoy the present, whatever it may be,
and be not solicitous for the future; for Il
you take your foot from the present stand
ing, and thrust it forward to to morrow :
event, you are in restless condition. 1t
is like refusing to quench your present
thirst by fearing you will want to drink
the next day. If tomorrow you should
want, your sorrow would come time enough
though you do not hasten it. Let your
trouble tarry till its own day comes. En-
joy blessings this day, il God sends them,
and the evils of it bear patiently and sweet
ly, for this day is ours. We are dead to
yesterday and not yet born te to morrow.
Jeremy Taylor
Year: 1875

The Ecklords had II pretty fair
turnout on last Thursday evening
on their practice grounds. In play
lns six innings with eight men on
a side, eleven scores or tallics
were entered for each side. A
heavy rain cloud coming up put a
stop to the game.
Year: 1875

Hereafter no Legal Advertise
mcnts will be inserted in the TINES
unless payment is made when hand
ed IN. 1t requires money to carry
os our business and we are com
PEELED to adopt the cash principle.
This rule will not be dcyiatcd from
in any case.
Year: 1875

LIKE the woman who had views
upon the Bcecher-Tilton case, and
maintained that "if the hull kit OF
'em were shull up in bag, 1t would
be hard to tell which ore would
come out first 50 with the dirty
Scoundrcls who befOulcd the meet
ing house the other night; we've
got our opinion of them, and If
they were put up in a bag with the
imps of Satan, and shook up, it is
hard to tell which would come out
first. ltIs great pity such tum-
bIc.bngS of humanity cannot be
caught in their nastiness and pun
ished as thcy deserve.
Year: 1875

enjoyed supper very much. Ali ter supper we talked, and listened at our kind old friend telling his experience in killing bears and panthers in an early day. He

 told us of a lead mine not a great way of, where the Indians had

 worked the place or had found lead. he said he could find the place by stones that had been placed upon the edge pointing diff fcrent ways all to the centre. We talked railroad to him; he became interested and said if the road should pass through his land he would subscribe 80 acres to the railroad company. It was time to retire, the bed was pointed out to us, and one by one we turned in for the night. The bed was mar row for three, and one of our com panions measured about ? feet across the shoulders; he was mid de man and you may suppose there had to be some spooning. The out-siders had some bed and some rail. We dreamed and trav- elled on the rail all night. We dreamed we were on . railroad ex- petition. TRAVELLER.
Year: 1875

would open new line of commit nication between St. Louis and New Orleans--one, too, that Tn times of low water. or when ica |obstructs the river, would over come either of these obstacles in the way of transportation. This one hundred miles of road can be built cheaply and the citizens of Little Rock are deeply interested, particularly in closing the gap to Pine Bluff. The charter from this city to Pine Bluff belongs to the Little Rock, Piue Bluff and New Orleans railroad, aud we would be glad to see the people of the city evince some interest in and give aid to secure the building of q road that would add so much to the wealth and prosperity of the city. If that forty miles is built the western extension will cer- tainly be made, because the pco- pie tf Kansas will not permit the want of sixty milqs of railroad to cut them off from two markets where their products will always command high prices. We feel confident that the officers of the Pine Bluff road will make liberal arrangements with the property holders and business men of Lit tie Rock who will aid them in their work. Cannot something be done to secure the completion of this road this summer?- l.. R. Republican.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, March 21.--Thc Civil Rights Bill has come home to the United States Senate in an unexpected manner. Attached to the chamber for the use of the members is frst-class barber shop, the artists in which are paid by the Government and pro vided at it's expense with an ex- quisite stock of toilet articles. Bruce, the new colored Senator from Mississippi who is q full blooded negro, availed himself of this tonsoral perqnisitc the sec ond day after he was sworn in, and has been since then an occu- pant of one of the chairs for at least an hour every day. As soon IS he arrives in the morning he he has his hair nicely curled by by his colored friends, and before he leaves in the afternoon he gets fixed up again for dinner. Some of the moro fastidious Senator's who visited the place few morn ings ago were astounded at the unusual sight of a "nigger" in the Senatorial barber shop. The combs and brushes with which they were accustomed to be adorn- ed were deftly flying through his kinky Lair and over his. swarthy face. The result is they have given the Senate barber shop a wide berth, and held several in dignation meetings on the subject.
Year: 1875

With pride we call attention to our new department on the fourth page. Thoroughly awake to the importance of restoring the hon. or of former times to agricultural labor, and hoping to disabuse the minds of the rising young men of the idea that manual lapor ex- pended in the tillage and pastu- rage of the soil is degrading and improbable, we have added this new department to the DEMOCRAT, hoping by giving prominence to Agricultural news and discussion, to do some good. The control of this department of our paper has been rendered to Hon. Chas. E., Tobey, and we are proud to say, has been accepted by him. This is a sufficient guarantee that it will be an interesting and bene. ficial acquisition to our paper.
Year: 1875

From the Nashville Republican Banner, March 81


The secret OF Ben Buffers effort 70 reg
ulate telegraph companies and compel the
Western Union TO pro rata with connecting
lines has come TO light. IL Is stated upon good
authority that he holds $25OO0O stock of the rival
line, the Atlantic and Pacific, ana hIs legislation
was simply an effort to bull that stock
Year: 1875

No civilized city in the world has been so plum
'iered as New York No Ring was SO rapacious
as that headed by Tweed But very nearly as
bad has been the municipal management OF the
city of Brooklyn. Within few years their debt
has run up to s1ty-fye millions of dollars. AL
most as bad has been the management Of Bati-
more, until at last the people have risen up in a
movement Of opposition 30 sturdy that it threat
ems to reYolutionize the political control Of the
city. All these are examples of Democratic
Rings. Take the three together and we assert
without fear of denial that they have far out
done anything the country has ever seen. With
rrightful force, they warn the people of every
city in the land against trusting the party from
which they sprang with municipal control
Year: 1875

The public should bear in mind that the genuine
" Diamond Spectacles," which have proved them
selves the best thing of the kind IN market, bear the
trade mark, q small diamond stamp, on every pair
BUY only tile genuine article and you will he fully
satisfied.


For sale In Wilmington by b. 8. Clark
Year: 1875

EMPLOYMENT DEsIRED.-The Young Ladies
Relief Society request ladies who desire hell
either..in housework to apply to the Chairman o
the Employment Committee OF that Society
They propose as part OF their work, this win
tor, to provide employment, 30 far as they ART
able for narsonH needing assistance.
Year: 1875

NEW York has recently lost one of
its moneyed giants, in w. B. AsToR,
and the loss produced no shock, be-
cause he was not speculator, but his
wealth had standing value in real
estate. The financial world was not
alarmed by his departure, and values
of stocks were not affected in the least
How different was the tragic death of
RALsToN. ASToR had Inherited his
property and RALsTON had achieved
his position by the force of genius.
One was a careful drone, who added
to his possessions, while the other was
a restless, but generally successful,
speculator. One fell like withered
tree, but the other fell like a giant and
the very earth was shaken.
Year: 1875

There is much said by irresponsible
parties, who pay no taxes, about the
building ofa Court House and City Hall
and asking authority from the Legis-
lature to issue bonds for these objects.


The men of the city and county who
work and produce the real wealth
and business of the city and county
say, let us first pay the bonds or a
portion of them that We now owe.
The taxes of the city and county have
been due and payable for weeks and
yet our people are so pressed and
cramped that they cannot pay, and
the various funds have not dollar in
Year: 1875

them. If there is a ditch to make, q
dam to construct or supplies to be pro-
vided, and no funds on hand to do it
with, Immediately some brilliant fl
nancier opens his mouth and lets fly
his cheap ink in advocacy of issuing
bonds. These financiers care little
what these bonds will bring in the
market, or what rate of interest they
bear, it will cost them nothing. Let
us go easy and let us get rest from
public plunder at least until the Ma.
tion, State, County and Municipality
emerges from the partial bankruptcy
that at present afllicts them.
Year: 1875

GOLD has an upward tendency in
New York, and yesterday reached
ll5s, but afterwards fell to 1l5. Wheth-
er this is owing to the natural strin-
gency resulting from collections of the
first of the mouth, we cannot say, but
it is evident that the tightness of the
money market is not relaxing.
Year: 1875

Somebody has looked up the decree
ofdivorce given the wife of Judge Van
Brunt, last Christmas; and finds that
it forbids the Judge TO marry again
until the plaintiff is actually dead and
grants the latter alimony of $4,000 a
year and the custody of the two chill
dren. 1t is expected that the Judge
Will soon resign and never return to
New York.