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Year: 1877

Whats the matter with the Ga zette? Heretofore she has been a most jealous champion of the State administration, pitching with re lentless ire into every one who dar- ed to criticfse any act of the State administration. Now all at once we find that paper cutting and slashing away at one of our State officials with all the satire she can command.

 Is not the Bureau of Education a branch of our State Government? And is It not about as important for it to enjoy the confidence and respect of the people as any other depart ment? Why, therefore, is the Ga zette casting so many stones at Supt. Hill? Has he proven unfaithful to the trust reposed in him by the peo, pie?

 We were under the impression that he was working with zeal and energy. Perhaps the Gazette will give us little light on this subject.
Year: 1877

We have noticed this week in some four or five of our State exchanges from different sections of the State, mention of the return of parties from Texas-parties who had been living in Arkansas for years and all the time had been doing well enough But they caught the Texas fever and nothing would do them until they had tried Texas. Most of them have tried it to their sorrow, and are now returning to Arkansas, poorer it is true, but wiser for their experience. We say to all thoso who are doing only "tolerably well'' in Arkansas to stay, where they are, and let we'll enough alone, for honestly from all we can gather in regard to Texas we do not think it will suit the poor man half so we'll as Arkansas. And even the rich man and the man of capital may do as we'll or better here than there, for we have never seen a finer field for the investment of cap ital in manufacturing enterprises than there is in Arkansas to-day.
Year: 1877

The city, not unlike the citizens who
inhablt it, has found it necessary to econ
omise in Its expenditures. Its tax levy
is as high as its charter will permit, its
interest account is heavy, and the ex-
penses absolutely necessary to maintain
It's governmental machinery foot up
large total. Many improvements are de-
msnded, but there is little money to
make them with. The duty resting
upon Council to economist in every
proper mode became imperative. On
examining its bills it found among other
things that ITS advertising expenses were
pretty large, and Councilman CowDEN,
We believe it was, proposed TO
try the experiment of asking for
prop2als for doing the work
I~ not done at the instigation OF the
AoIsTER, for the REGISTER had no
reason TO be dissatisfied with the old ar
rangemeDt. 1t was not done in the IN
terest of the REGISTER for Mr.. CowDEN
belongs TO the same political party with,
and is a friend OF, the nteLtgencer. de
was the fright hand man" OF the editor
of that paper on the Republican State
Executive Committee last year. Alto
gether, it would not be q violent suppo-
sition that he was acting in the interest
of that concern-except for one thing,
I. e., he is gentleman.


In pursuance of the plans proposed,
BIDS were invited from the Daily Press
for doing the city advertising and print
ing. The proprietors of two of the
Daily papers responded to the clty's in
vitatlon; the third did not do 80, for
reas on that does it no credit. The proposals.
were examined aDd the contract awarded
to the REGISTER. The editors OF the
Standard acquiesced like gentlemen, but
the Entcliigencer crew set up contempt
ible whine and resort to calling names,
like dirty-fsced, blubbering school boy.
They attempted, by trick, to get twice
as much out of the city treasury for do
ing city work as they could have got by
honorable competition, and failing in
their dishonest game, they engage in
making faces at their successful rival.


We repeat, the city advertisements will
appear officially in the REGISTER only,
and we must caution the public against
placing any reliance whatever in any
pretended publication OF them IN the
IatelLigencer.
Year: 1877

a TREMENDOUS effort is jus. now be-
ing made to depreciste the value OF sll.
yer, and to aid this scheme it Is printed
in the god-calf organs that large manu-
featuring establishments are disgusting
their employees by paying them in money
coined of this metal. 1t has not been our
miserable luck yet TO encounter any OF
those disgusted workmen who had too
much silver; and i. Congress will hurry
up the passage Of the BLAND bill so sill
yer vii! be good to pay bonds with, We
do not think it will accumulate in the
pockets OF the people to any dissgreesble
extent.
Year: 1877

The total abstinence people are toler-
ably severe sometimes upon what they
term the neglect OF the authorities to en-
force temperance. But they ought to
add to their daily prayers blessing upon
the fact that it is out of the power ofthelr
enemies 20 introduce some Russian meth
DDS. The Pail Mall Gazette gives place
TO an accOun. of lot very recent, but
decidedly interesting story of tenn
perance movement III the territory
of the Car. The tax upon liquors was
SO high that the pessantry banded
together determined not to drink At all.
But without drinking there could be no
revenue, 80 that the psternal government
took the matter in hand. When man
ceased to drink he was severely punished
and in one or two cases where the refusal
was obstinate the liquor was poured
down the throat of the offender. Local
OPTION stood no show at all.
Year: 1877

The New York papers hsvc new
sensation. HIS name is EDWARD KIM
BALL. and his business is the stirring up
Of tardy religious congregations to the
discharge Of ali the pecuniary indebted
ness resting upon their churches. Nh
hINBALL will be a very busy man IN
deed # be accomplishcs his mission in an
ordinary lifetime, for it is remarkable
TACT that upon no class of Improvements
IS there bestowed so much confdlng trust
in the future Is in the erection cf church
odifces.
Year: 1877

LONDON, December IA Berlin dis
patch says the impression IN the dlplo-
matte and Bureaucratic circles Is that
the German government Is desirous OF a
determination OF the war. That II will
adhere fully and freely to whatsoever
conditions Russia may resolve to exact,
and that it bias resolved neither itself 10
advance any obstacle, nor SO Tar as It can
help to permit any other power TO hinder
the extinction of Turkey rs n European
mower
Year: 1877

II is understood that for the purpose
of making complete the reconciliation OF
Senators Blsne and Conkling a banquet
to these worthies is being prepared by
some of the more radical Republican
Senators and friends of both gentlemen
outside of Congress.
Year: 1877

of accomplishments, and mentions
among other things in connection
with her personal history, that she
graduated but n short~-titne ago
from Salem Female College The
conductor, who certainly did the
thoughtful and kindly part from
first to last, has placed the cor
respondence ne we'll as the whole
case in the hands of the ladies of
the society spoken Of, and fhe sequel
to The story will be told in the re-
suit Of the correspondence.
Year: 1877

When a friend dies and is buried,
there's an end Of him. We miss him
for n space out of our daily existence;
we cling to the blessed hope that we
shall be reunited in some more per-
feet sphere; but, so far as this earth
is concerned, there's nm end Of him.
However near and dear he was, the
time arrives when he does not form
u part of our daily thought; he ceases
to be even an abstraction. Wego no
more with flowers aud tears into the
quiet cemetery; only the rainand the
snow flakes fall there; we leave 1t for
tho fingers of Spring TO deck the nc.
elected mound. Butwhen our friend
vanishcs unaccountably in the midst
of n crowded city, or goes of on a sea
voyage, and is never heard Of again,
his memory has u singular tenacity.


Io may be to all intonts and purpos'
cs dead to us, but We have not lost
Year: 1877

r .al7


.Goodcounsei ftonfa wiieand moth.
er: 81 try to make myself and all
around me agreeable. twill not do
to leave a man tohimselftill he comes
to you, to take no pains to attract
him, or to appear before him with u
long face. 1t is not so difficult as you
think, dear child, to behave to ahus-
band so that he shall remain forever
in some measure a lover. | am an
old woman, but you can still do as
you like; Il word from you at the
time will not fail of its effect; what
need have you to play the suffering
virtue? The tear of loving girl,
says an old book, is like a dewdrop
on rose; but that on the cheek of a
wife is a drop of poison to her hus-
band. Try to appear cheerful and
contented, and your husband will be
so; and when you make him happy,
you will become so, not in appear
ance, but in reality. The skill re-
quired is not so great. Nothing fiat
ters man so much as the happiness
of his wife; he isalways proud ofhim-
self as the source of it. AS soon as
you are cheerful you will be lively
and alert, and every moment will af-
ford you an opportunity to let fall
an agreeable word. Your education,
which gives you an immense .advan-
tage, will greatly assist you, and your
sensibility will become the noblest
gift that nature has bestowed on you
when it shows itself in affectionate
assidulty, and stamps on every ac-
tion soft, kind and tender character
instead of wasting itself in secret re-
pinings."
Year: 1877

It's proof of the singular opera
tion on the human mind, says a men.
tai philosopher, that when two men
accidentally exchange hats, the one
who gets the worst tile is the first to
discover the mistake.
Year: 1877

A new kind of door hinge has been
invented. Its popularity is that
the door not only shuts quickly and
noiselessly, but it hits the person
who leaves the door opena fierce blow
on his back.
Year: 1877

The Burlington Hqwkeys tells the
following truthful story in illustra.
tion of the blue glass remedy: "The
other day we watched u sickly look
ing house fly crawling across n south
window. 1t crawled very slowly
and by the time it had gone two in.
ches it was as big as a blue bottle.
It developed into u bumble-bce in
less time than it takes toli-to write
about it: when it got to the middle
Of the pane it was as large as n robin,
and when it reached the sash, it flew
on the centre. table, laid u big double
yolk egg, cacklcd wildly for second,
and then with wild scream dashed
through the window, seized Brah.
ma rooster in its terrible talons and
soaring aloft, disappearing mote on
the broad disc of the sun, was soon
lost to view. Hail, glorious emblem
OF our country; proud bird Of Ameri-
can freedom; thy glori-paragraph
suspended to await the arrival Of tho
affidavit clcrk)
Year: 1877

a TEXANS WONDERFUL TnAcEs.-A
Texan, visiting Northern town; gathered
around him some of its citizens, and enter.
tanned them with some of his experiences in
the Lone Star State. One incident told by
him is as follows:


You'd hardly believe, now, what am
going to tell. In Texas We use raw-hide
straps, or thongs, for traces, and in wet
weather they do stretch amazingly. Why,
often in damp weather I've hitched up 70
horses and drove down the hill from my house
into tho creek bottom for a sled load of wood,
have loaded the wood and many times
driven back home and unhitched the horses
and the sled wOuld not be in sight"


Chow did you get the wood home then ?''
asked an inquisitive bystander.


"Oh, 1 just tied the ends of the traces
together and threw them over post, went
knocking about my work and waited till the
sun shone out. Sometimes it would be more
than two hours before that sled load of wood
would get home, but you'd see her crawling
up the hill at last, gradually approaching as
the raw hide traces shrunk up into their
proper lengths. Yes, Texas is great cOun-
try, you bet y
Year: 1877

IT costs y dollsr head to catch and
kill dogs in Wheeling. If the city
would issue another hundred thousand
dollar loan and invest it all in the muir
der of its worthless ours at dollar q
head it would make money in the opera
ton. With -four at $l0.50 barrel and
bsefstesk Is cents 3 pound, we've got
enough dogs to bankrupt any city.
Year: 1877

JUDGE TAFT has always wanted to be
Governor Of OHIO, but he doesn't want
10 be Governor quite bad enough to walk
into the jaws of defeat at the head of the
Republican ticket this fall. Judge TAFT,
therefore, declines to permit the use of
his name. The list of those who have
declined to lead the Republican hosts in
Ohio is now longer than the list of those
whs are anxious TO do so.
Year: 1877

Another Grange decision was rem.
dered In the Supreme Court of the
United States on Monday by Chief Jus.
tice WAITE on case that came up from
Iowa. The State was party to the
suit on the one side, and the Chicago
and Burlington Railroad On the other,
and the question involved was the con-
sti:utionality of the State law fixing
maximum freight charges. The Supreme
Court sustained it. 1t declared railroad
companies are carriers for hire; that
they are incorporated rs such, and
given extraordinary powers, IN order
that they may the better serve the public
in that capacity; that they are there
fore engaged in public employ yment
affecting the public interest, and subject
TO legislative control as to their rates of
fare and treights, unless protected by
their charter. The State, however, in
the charter to the Burlington road, did
not grant the right to regulate freight
charges. 1fit had, the Chief Justice In
bis decision intimstes the judgment
would have been different. for," to quote
his language, 'it Is now too late to con-
tend that the charter of q corporation is
not contract. within the meaning OF
that clause in the Constitution of the
United States which prohibits a State
from passing any law impsiring the OBJ
legation of the CONTRACT The Chief JUS
tice then goes on:


This company, in the transaction of
its business, has the same rights, and is
subject to the same control, as private
individuals under the same circumstsn-
ces. 1t must carry when called upon to
do 80, and can charge only reasonable
sum for the carriage. In the absence OF
any legislative regulation on the subject,
the courts must decide for it, as they do
tor private persons, when controversies
arise, what is reasonable. But when the
Legislature steps in and prescribes q
maximum of charge, it operates upon
this corporation the same as it does upon
individuals engaged in similar busi-
ness. IL was within the power of
the company to call upon the Legisls-
ture to fix permanently this limit and
make it q part of the charter, and II 1t
was refused to abstain from building the
road and establishing the contemplated
business. If that had been done, the
charter might have presented contract
against future legislative interference.
But it was Dot, and the company invest.
ed its capital, relying upon the good
faith of the people and the wisdom and
impartislity of legislators for protection
against ong under tie form of legisls-
tive regulation.


1t is q matter of no Importance that
the power of regulation now under con-
siderstion was not exercised for more
than twenty years after this company
was organized. A power of government
which actually exists ia not lost by non
user. A good government never puts
forth its extraordinary powers except
under circumstances which require it.
That government is the best which, while
performing all its duties, interieres the
least with lawful pursuits OF its people.


The public will bear in mind that a
maximum rate of freight and passenger
tariffs is provided for in the charter of
the Baltimore and Ohio rosd-the con-
troversy now being as to whether that
road is transcending that limit.
Year: 1877

obtained by subliming sulphur and, except
that there is with usually little sulphur
Gus acid, the product is almost chemica!ly
pure. But great deal of wha; is sold as
the sublimate now turns out, dnder the mi
crOscope, to be merely crude birthstone
ground to powder. Instead of "flOwers'
IT should be called -four of sulphur. OF
course the spurious article contains many
impurities, which make the mess With
treacle slightly nastier.


Nothing pays like science" is beginning
to be the despairing cry of writer's in other
departments of literature, and the rapid
publication of scientific works by ID. Apple
ton d Co, and their apparently rapid pur-
chase all over the country show better than
anything else the change which is coming
over the thought of the day. As a further
step in this direction this house has begun
the issue OF a monthly Supplement to their
Popular Science Monthly, which is intended
to do for general science what Littelrs Liy-
ing Age does for general Literature. The
hrst issue OF this Supplement is mainly a re-
publication of the best scientific papers in
recent numbers of the Contemporary Re-
view, the Mind, and the Nineteenth Gen.
tury.


People who have been annoyed by the
changes of the weather, and have settled
upon belief that its vagaries are beyond all
calculation, may have to revise their opin-
IONS A Russian weather student, NJ. Kop-
pen, in the Reportorium for Meteorologie.
gives an account of an extended comparison
OF weather changes and their analysis by the
law OF chances. His deductions are that
settled weather is the rule, change the ex-
ception. Thus If a FIVE day cold period sets
in after warm weather, the chances are two
to one that the following period will also
be cold. II a cold spell has lasted two months
the chances are nearly eight to one that the
first five days of~the month following will
also be cold. In general, betting on the SUBJ
ject of the weather at some date a long dis
tance ahead may be conducted on the esti-
mate that there are two chances TO one
against the probability of a change in the
weather on any particular day.
Year: 1877

A Massachusetts, gentleman just returned
from the Canadian border, tells us these sto-
ries: He was in the hotel general accommo-
dation room, when two veterans OF the tho
tell bar, laying schemes for drink, began to
tell stories to each other for his benefit


These are awful hard times said one. II
never saw such times before, except when
was in Ohio, and then was hard put to 1T to
git along; nothin' to do. l had yoke of
steers, but they want doin' nothin'. But
lived right on the road the western emigrants
went over every day. So dug hole in
that road at the foot of the hill, near my
house, turned living spring of water into
it, and made good mud hole. Well, when
the emigrants came along, every day there
would be one or more teams get stuck in the
mud hole, and they would see my steers
standing out doing nothing. and they would
send up and get me to come and help them
out, and always charged much So a
lift Well, kept that mud hole right up in
good repair till / made $25 900 out of it, and
then | sold it out for $1,000, and moved up
here.''


Story number two was the other Munchau-
sens companion piece for the yoke OF steers


When L was chopping-I could chop
some, you know-folks used to ask me how
much / could chop in day. Have you
ever tried itT says they, No, never says 1,
but once, and that wasn't really try
You see, Just to show them what could do,
1 got up one winter morning just before
light and ground up my ak sharp and went.
into the woods. And l chopped like sixty
till about 8 O'Clock in the afternoon, when
il was as much as could
pile before sundown, and 1 went
to piling. Well when / had
il all piled up il measured 81 cords And
then i knew something was wrong, for
knew at the rate / had been chopping il
ought TO be more So went back and be-
gan looking around to see what the trouble
was. And there, right at the first tree cut
in the morning. was my ak head. You see
the thing was loose, and slipped off, and L
had been chopping all day with the bare
helYe."
Year: 1877

A Judge OF the United States Court We
again rieterate, has no power to interfere
with a prisoner under warrant from {
state court. He might issue writ 4
Habeas Corpus, which the sheriff might
obey as an act Of eourtsev,-but his power
to act in the premises would be pusatory
Go read law, We critic oftLe Gazette.
Year: 1877


Below We produce for the con-
venience of the several Justices Of
the Peace, certain sections Of chap
ter 13 of the Police Code which
relate directly to the manner Of
proce dure to be observed in the
advertising and final disposition Of
estrays %


Sec. 2. When the appraisement
of an estray has been returned to
the Justice Of the Peace, it shall be
bis duty to record the same, togeth>
or With the certificate of the sp-
praisers, in . book to be kept by
him FOR that purpose.
Sec. 8. As soon as practicable
after the return of the appraisement
Of an estray, it shall be the daty Of
the Justice of the Peace to canse
an advertisement to be. published in
the official journal of the parish,
said publication to be made weekly,
for three successive, weaks, unless
an owner of the estray appear and
assert his claim Before the expira-
ton of that time. !. Tlas ADVERTISE
ment thue made shall set forth the
time when, and the name Of the
person by whom said estray was
taken up. It shall also contain 3
full description of the animal taken
up. and the names ofthe appraisers,
and the amount of the appraise-


ment, and shall oe signed by the
Justice of the Peace.


Sec. 4 1t shall he the duty OF
| the Justice Of the. Peace, within
| thirty days after receiving the re-


turn of an appraisecent of an es>
| tray, to transmit a faithful copy Of
| all proceedings had in relation


thereto to the Clerk of the Police
Jury; and the said Clerk shall re-
cord the same in a book to be kept


by him for that purpose, for WHICH


recording the Clerk shall be enti-
tied to receive the sum Of one dol


lar, to be paid out of the proceeds


Of the sale Of the estray, or by the


owner of such cstray, If such owner
apply for the same before the sale
takes place.


| SEC. S. If after the expiratic n
Of ninety days from the first pnbli'


cation Of the advertisement of an


estray, no person shall appear,
claiming TIE same, it shais then be


the duty Of the Range Master to


sell said estray at public auction =,


ten days notice of such sale having


been previously given, by publica-


ton thereof in the offcias journal


Of the parish, provided that all sales


of estrays shall be made in front Of


the Courthouse. in the town Of St.


Francisville. :.
Year: 1877

The following tables present many val
uable items of information and for this
reason we produce it for the benefit of
our readers. 1t would be a good idea to cut
the article out for future reference.