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Year: 1877

THE ARMY APPRoPRIATIoN.-T New
York Herald remarks that the state Of
the army appropriation bill is a very
good guarantee that Packard will yet
listen to reason and make the best of an
utterly hopeless case. The President
cannot long help him if the army bill
does not pass, and pass it certainly will
not if Packard is recognized.
Year: 1877

while there are about thirty-fiye hun dred children that can go to our common schools.

 Now this does not speak well for our county, and it will never be any better so long as we employ Master Agrlcola, whom the hot sun has driven from his crops, or MT. Coun- terhopper, whose employer does not need him for while, or Legal Tech nicality, Esq, whose legal wisdom cannot support him during the summer.

 We must get cut of this. Let us employ none but the best teachers, and keep them employed. A teach CTS certificate does not conclusively imply that the holder is teacher, for it would be an extremely dull person that could not with little study, learn to answer all the ques- 

 tions required to be answered in order to obtain a first-grade certifi cates and again, not every one who can answer a question well, can teach others how to answer.

 To teach we'll requires experiencc as well as anything else and no one can become proficient in any em- ployment to which he devotes only three months in the year.

 Let us then employ persons to teach our schools, not simply because we can get them cheap, nor because they hold a certificate, but because they are teachers.
Year: 1877

Again our quiet and law abiding citizens are shocked at the news of another murder being committed in our county, which we would have renowned forpeace andbrotherly love.

 On last Friday evening as Mr. Leeper was returning from Dover to his home on Piney, he met in the road near the foot of the mountain about ' miles from Dover, his wife and sister, in-law, Mrs. Moore, and while talking to them a shot was fired from the brush, which barely grazed his head. The women becoming frightened, ran and two other shots were fired, strik- ing Leeper in the breast and side and knocking him from his horse. Upon examination hole was found thro' his head which is supposed to have been made by rifle shot after he fell. The other shots were with shot guns. The women saw no person except Lee per, and the guilty ones have not been discovered. These are the facts as we Lave learned them, and we for bear any remarks until we learn fur thur of the particulars.
Year: 1877

Although good deal was said on the school question, by our real editor and others, in last weeks issue, yet we hope our read CTS Sill bear with us for calling their attention to one matter connected with our free common schools, and that is the selection of teachers.

 The time of year is close when common schools are generally begun (which should not be so, for from June to October is the very time of the year during which there should be no schools) and communities begin to enquire for teachers, but they have not long to search before they find-not school teacher every time, but starved out lawyer, a clerk ont of employment during the dull season, a discharged sewing machine or book agent, or a farmer who has laid by his crop with hall the work it needs, who is willing tC TAKE (we did not say teach) theil school and not untrequently cheaper than regular teacher; hence they take Mr. Jack at all trades, who perhaps has not looked at schoo book for year, and cannot write | correct sentence, and is behind tho times in the art of teaching (if ht was ever np), III preference to the one who makes teaching his only business and keeps himself full, conversant with all the latest discov cries in the science or improvement, in the art of teaching.

 Now School Directors and patrons this is wrong. You are cheatin! yourselves and your children, dis couraging efficient teachers and en couraglng quaeks. Remember tha those three months are preciou months to your children, and month that cost you something; then wh not so manage as to get the full ber eht of your money and do your chi dren the greatest amount of good.

 How many professional tee hel are there in this county? Not moi than Q half dozeA if that many
Year: 1877

Notwithstanding last Friday morn ing was very dark and rainy, the Russellville folks were determined not to be cheated out of their antic- ipated excursion, and by the time 0! starting, there were more than eighty persons seated in the coaches, which number was increased at Haddox- burg, Georgetown and Plney, until there were about one hundred and forty.

 A short distance beyond Clarkes- vile our eyes were greeted by the clear blue sky and onr hearts cheered by the brilliant rays of smiling sun.

 We arrived at Mulberry about IF o'clock. m., and whether from keen appetite, or from a desire to relieve the baskets, or from the force of habit, we know not, but every one seemed willing and ready to partake of the refreshments which had thoughtfully and carefully been pro- vided by the ladies before starting. (And God bless their dear souls for were it not for them, the substantial pleasures of that as we'll as most of other excursions would be non est )

 After tarrying awhile at Mulberry we came back to Ozark and remain ing there about one and half hours, took in the town Gas we'll as con siderable quantity of ice cream, &c, when we again boarded the train and headed toward home, arriving at Russellville about half past six, where we found it still raining.

 Although the prospects were dark in the morning, it was very bright and pleasant excursion. Nothing happened to mar the plea ure, OK. cept that 4 or ) ill-bred, foul-mouth ed drunken fellows, who seemed to have no respect for decency in any degree, were aboard the train to the annoyance of the other excursionists for a good part of the trip.

 The view of scenery along the road is worth the expense and trouble of going, (and besides the young folks had an opportunity of being with their sweethearts for one whole day, and during the week at that). Just above Ozark the cliffs that rise per pendicularly along one side of the track, together with tile river almost reaching the other side, reminds one of the palisades of the Hudson, and the spray that continually falls from the summit of the cliff, wreathing themselves in rainbows, renders a scene of beauty but rarely seen. We think we never saw the beautiful and sublime in nature so elegantly com mingled before.
Year: 1877

On our excursion last Friday we noticed that farmers of Johnson and Franklin counties are in worse condition than those of Pope, for while in some parts of our county crops are small yet they have been kept clean and in good con dition, the crops we noticed in Johnson and Franklin are for the most part not only small but very badly in the grass and weeds; some of them look ed as If they were irredeemably lost. While we were needing rain ln this county, especially in the southern and eastern parts, they have been having so much in those counties, they could not work their crops.
Year: 1877

aid should be at the expense of the country
calling for it.


Suppose President Diaz should offer Sec
retary Evarts such treaty, adding to it. as
would be necessary, thoroughly liberal
commercial convention, ought we to reject
it? Certainly it is both the desire and the
interest of our people that Mexico shall
have stable government, provided only that
such government is liberal in character.
If the energies of the Mexican people, so
long spent in revolutions and faction in
trigues were turned to legitimate industries,
not only would they become rapidly pros
porous, but a vast market would be opened
there for our manufactures. An intelligent
ruler in Mexico deserves our moral support,
and having that and the assurance Of hon
est intentions on our part, We believe Diaz
would need no other.
Year: 1877

Marshal MacMahon's sudden revision of
the "carte blanche" given to NJ. Dufaure to
form q Ministry and his determination to
retain the command Of three places has SIM
ply returned the whole difference between
the Executive and the Assembly to the po-
sition Of deadlock, aggravated by passion
ate hostility, which preceded that quasi ar
rangement. The Marshal's position now
is, therefore, that he will not accept
parliamentary Ministry until the
taxes are voted. The position of
tie Chamber is that it will not vote the
taxes till there is parliamentary Ministry.
But before the Marshal had On alternative


If it came to the worst as between him and
the Chamber he believed he held in his
hands the power to dissolve that body and
force still a new election; but the adhe-
sion Of even a small number Of the consti-
tutionalist Senators to the cause of parlia-
mentary government would insure the
defeat Of such an attempt. Only coup
dftat is now open as the alternative Of
submission and surrender. Will he be
driven by desperation to that extremity?
Year: 1877

Jersey justice ought to follow, with its
swiftest footsteps and its keenest vengeance,
the wretch who on Friday last deserted his
family at Newark, taking with him all its
visible means Of support. We have heard Of
cruel cases Of desertion before now; OF men
who have left wives and children to starve,
or dependent for their very subsistence on
the .cold charity OF an unfeeling world"
as the reporters Of such heartless nets in
variably Declare But we certainly do not
remember ever to have heard or read Of
case Of desertion equal in cold
blooded barbarity to that OF the Newark
fend. We have recently had u baby show
in this city, as the thousands OF ten cent
visitors as we'll as the atmosphere Of Midget
Hall will testify. Its protector was tender
hearted elderly individual, who loved babies
and their pretty mothers and the ten cent
pieces they brought into the treasury with
oil his heart and all his soul and all his
strength. He would no sooner have thought
Of deserting his Midget Hall family, while
it was profitable, than Of serving up
one Of his fat little cherubs with apple
sauce for supper like sucking pig But
alas for human nature A male monster
at Newark gathered together q large COM
pany Of fair young mothers and aspiring
infants, tempting them by the offer of prizes
for beauty and prizes for homeliness prizes
for fat and prizes for lean prizes for
twins and prizes for triplets and after the
first days show ran away with every cent
of the receipts, leaving no trace-to
say nothing of the promised prizes
behind him. Hanging is too good for
such wretch. He ought to be
condemned to live in baby show for the
balance of his natural, or unnatural, life.
1t is bad enough to desert one wife and half
dozen children; how much worse must it
be to desert seventy-fve wives and an army
of infants? To be sure, the women were
not the Newark mans own wives, but there
are slanderous PERSONS who declare that
this agoravates the offence OF the desertion.
Year: 1877

This is q question that forcibly presents
itself to every one in New York except the
police and health officials. 1t is one that
can only be answered by an honest
use Of brooms and dirt carts, in
stead of statistical reports that mean
nothing and the cackling Of pro-
fessors at meetings in the Mayors Office.
At the present time, with twenty-five hun
dred dollars appropriated for each days
street cleaning, it is possible to employ one
thousand able-bodied men and two hundred
carts, and still have balance for contingent
expenses With this force distributed over
q certain number Of districts and superin-
tended by local inspectors who shall not be
the creatures of the politicians at least two
hundred miles of streets could be swept and
the refuse removed daily. 1t is not necessary
that each side street should be cleaned every
day, especially during fine weather, but all
streets should be thoroughly cleared of street
dirt at least twice a week, and this could be
done without adding one dollar to the present
annual appropriation. AS to the removal Of
ashes and garbage the difficulties exist only
in the absence of an honest desire to do it by
the officials. Anybody who watches the
operation of the present system can readily
understand why it fails. There is neither
yigor nor administrative ability exhibited
in the management OF this important
work indeed. the blackmailine gang
Year: 1877

The eager and nipping air of the last few
days must be taken as the sure precursor of
the winter king. His arrival is somewhat
late we have been disappointed once or
twice by false couriers, but now there can
be no doubt that he is almost ut our gates,
and will soon make icy proclamation of the
beginning Of his reign. To every class of
society his coming means something-to
the poor, unfortunately, increased sorrow
and suffering; to the rich new amusements;
to the humane and the charitable new calls
to duty and we'll doing To the young the
coming of winter is especially welcome.
If his reign is stern it is accompanied by
royal gifts, which are confined to no par
ticular class, but are generously scattered
among all his subjects The exhilarating
breezes that accompany him are bestowed
upon all alike, bringing health and vigor
and strength to the occupant Of an east side
tenement as we'll as to the resident of Muir
roy Hill mansion. The tracery of his frost
work is as delicate and beautiful on the
windows Of Second as Of Fifth avenue, and
the street gQnsin and the son Of the million
naire are held in no distinction by him on
the glittering ice with which he locks
lake and stream. 1t is therefore to be
hoped that oil will prepare to enjoy the
gifts he brings. In very short time Gen.
tral Park will be clothed in new lowell
ness and beauty; the gondolas and the
boats will have disappeared from the
lakes and thousands and thousands
will have the opportunity to enjoy
the most delightful of oil winter
amusements. The skates should be at once
put in order. The Park Commissioners, to
be sure, are complaining about an empty
treasury and threatening that we shall be
deprived of the greatest of winter luxuries.
We are not disposed to pay much attention
to these monetary murmurings, being con-
fident that when tho time comes the Park
will be found in proper order. If the Com
missioners are really in the desperate fnan-
cial condition they say they are we advise
them to get out of it at once II they are
short of funds they must provide them
somewhere and in some way, and the sooner
they do it the better. Meanwhile let the
skates be put in order and all be in readi-
ness to give to the frost king q right royal
welcome.
Year: 1877

Henry Ward Beecher took occasion yes
terday to condemn the spasmodic crusade
against the New York liquor dealers, which
is just now causing so much excitement in
New York. No person will doubt Mr.
Beechers fidelity to the cause OF tenn
perance. His honest desire to promote
that cause gives him the courage to assume
the position he occupies in regard to these
indiscriminate raids. He is sensible enough
to understand that they can accomplish
no permanent good and is independent
enough to say so in SO many words. When
zeal in good cause, he Declares is carried
to prosecuting fnnaticism, it is all wrong,
and he reminds the temperance apostles
that wise restraint is one thing and in
tolerance quite another If sincere tenn
perance advocates were all as practical as
Mr.. Beecher and DR.. Howard Crosby we
should not be now without q wholesome
excise law, capable Of being strictly en-
forced, and whose enforcement would be an
effective check on intemperance.


But the fanatics are not responsible for
the present New York police crusade against
the liquor dealers. They and their counsel
might have fretted and stormed and threat
ened for years without inducing either the
Excise or Police Board to take any active
measures for the enforcement Of the Excise
law. The sudden change in the policy OF
the Police Commissioners was occasioned
by a squabble between them and the Excise
Commissioners growing out of the attempt
of the latter, when frightened by Judge
Davis charge to the Grand Jury, to shift
the responsibility for the non-entorcement
Of the law on to the shoulders of the police.
The two boards quarrelled, and the liquor
dealers, who had been led to believe by
both that the payment of q license fee
would protect them against arrest and
prosecution, are made the victims.
The crusade would be comparatively re-
spectacle if it had been undertaken
out Of consideration for the temperance
fanatics, but it is notorious that the appeals
made by them to the Excise and Police au-
thorities for months were politely treated,
but secretly ridiculed and quietly ignored.
One Of the vicious features Of this and all
similar spasmodic displays of energy on the
part Of the police is that it affords q fine
opportunity for the blackmailers Of the force
to reap harvest. Even now, the "side
door" trick is being successfully practised |;
but the saloons which are allowed to admit
us many customers as may choose to patron
ize them by the "side door" entrance are
all prosperous, and their proprietors havo
plenty OF money. The places of less fortu-
nate dealers are hermetically sealed up by
the vigilant police. What farce, too, to
find the Police Commissioners themselves
pretending to deplore their own action and
to sympathize with the misled and victim
lied liquor dealers
Year: 1877

The voice that went out from the pulpit
yesterday was cheerful and healthful. There
were earnest appeals for purer and better
life; severe condemnation OF the fashion,
able follies Of the day; stout defence OF
Christianity, its faith and teaching and
influence an eloquent explanation OF Gods
love for man recital of the wondrous
story of the life and labor of one OF those
men whom for want OF u better name we
call saint, and whose deeds for the most
part form some of the brightest pages OF
Christianity. The dry husks Of doctrine,
as rule, find no place in the metropoli-
tan pulpit in these modern days,
and the fact that they do not is perhaps the
best evidence of our growth in intelligence
and spiritual enlightenment. Those who
read the sermons in some of the leading
pulpits yesterday cannot but feel that the
lines which separate the different denomi-
nations of Christians are, after all, very i'm
perceptible. For instance. while Catholic
clergyman was commencing the great saint
of the Indies one of the most distinguished
of Baptist divines was at the same time rever-
emily mentioning his name. These gentle
men might have exchanged sermons and their
respective congregations would hardly have
seen in them the least evidence that their
authors are separated by great CULTS OF doc
trine. Again, the sermon of the Paulist
father on slavery might have been preached
in Plymouth Church, and with the omission
of few sentences the descendants of the
Pilgrims would not have perceived that it
bore the imprimatur of the Vatican. Mr.
Beechers sermon was SO broad and catholic
that it might have been preached even in
the College Of Cardinals, and none of them
would have thought OF sending him to the
Castle of ST. Angelo, even if he had the power.
This wide catholicity of sentiment goes to
show the greatness and strength and sim
cerity of the metropolitan pulpit. Truth
is the same always and everywhere, and
cannot be changed by the many hued glasses
through which it comes to u.s.
Year: 1877

of ash and garbage mixers seem to
be independent of all control, and
come and go as they please. II the sum Of
eight hundred thousand dollars year is
not enough to clean the whole city let the
taxpayers have the worth of that amount in
honest work done. As it is, the officials
say, "Because we cannot clean all the streets
for the amount given US we will not clean
any Of them. But we will take the money,
for NIL that"
Year: 1877

ANOTHER GREAT STRIKE has been fortunately
averted in the coal regions. Ten days ago ono
of the large companies ut Wilkesbarre notified
its workingmen that the price Of coal at tide
water was SO low that it could not operate the
mines at the present rates OF wages and asking
a reduction Of ten per cent until next March.
The seven thousand men in the employment Of
the company have wisely accepted the situation
and will work ut the reduced rates. This is far
heffer than striking.
Year: 1877

The Southern white people are now
setting an example which the oppressed
in other lands would do we'll to initiate.
There is now two legislative bodies in
South Carolina; and two Legislative
bodies in Louisiana, and also two Cover
nors in each. One in each State in obedi-
ence to the will of the people the other
in obedience to the will of tyranny set
Up in Washington and held up by few
soldiers. The Democrats propose to col
lect taxes sufficient for an economical
government, and the people propose to
pay tax to them. But they propose to
pay no taxes to the government kept up
by foreign bayonets. This is to be done
in peaceful way. If the people have
self-government left to them the Demo
Gratis will succeed in securing liberty in
these States once more. If they will
only continue to pursue this way peace
fully, they will be sure to succeed in the
end,and it will be progressive step in the
history of the world. If Grant sends
his army to drive the Democratic Legis-
lature from one house we hope they will
meet in another; and if Kellogg or Cham,
berlain attempt to drive them away with
arms let the hardest fend off.
Year: 1877

In presenting the following letters TO the
public we will only say, that they are se-
lected from large number which we are
constantly receiving from all sections. They
speak for themselves and should satisfy the
most skeptical Of the value Of Lawsons
Year: 1877

The importance Of the thorough use of
the medicine cannot be too strongly impress
ed on the patients. 1t will cure every time
when used as we direct. See circulars
around each bottle.
Year: 1877

REMARKABLE RECOvERIEs FROM BRAIN
WouNDs-AC Confederate soldier from the val
ley of Virginia, in one Of the battles Of the
late civil war, was struck, on the head with
minnie ball. The ball passed through the
skull, and the surgeons, afraid to probe the
wound in search Of it, left the man to die. In
the course Of time be recovered, but had lost
his reason, and was sent to the insane asylum
at Staunton, where he remained for eleven
years. Atlength DR.. Fauntleroy, an eminent
physician of that city, obtained permission
from the asylum authorities and friends of
the insane man to make . surgical examina-
ton of the head with the hope Of finding the
ball. He was successful, and found the ball
imbedded on the inside Of the skull and push
ing against the brain. Unable to extract it
with any instrument at hand, he took chisel
and mortised it out. As soon as the ball was
removed reason resumed its control, and the
deranged one was in his right mind. Hesays
that be is not conscious of anything that oc-
Cured during the interval Of eleven years.
From the time he was struck on the battle
field to the moment the pressure was removed
on the brain, all was blank to him. Another
case in the same county of Augusta was that
of boy whose gun burst while shooting, and
drove the lock into the brain. The piece was
taken out by skillful surgeon without serious
injury to the patient. But the most remark
able case was in the same neighborhood. It
was that of q woman subject to fits Of mental
arrangement. While in spell of lunacy she
drove an eight penny nail into the top Of her
head, penetrating down into the brain-the
nail having been driven up to its head. The
nail was drawn out, and the woman has been
in sound mental condition ever since WheeL
ing (W Na) Register.