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Year: 1879

Little Rock Gazette.l


Prescott is just now enjoying a
genuine sensation. A young man, son
OF oneSof the most prominent mer
chants in the town, for some time has
been visiting young lady, daughter
OF a prominent man. Several days
ago, the young mans father, meeting
the father of the young lady, re-
marked:


-" | think that my son is altogether
too intimate with your daughter" !"


lie then insinuated that it might
prove disastrous for the young lady.
The girls father did not know what
to do, The remark was SO foreign to
even suspicion on his part concern
ing the young man and the girl that
he was staggered by surprise. Going
home he approached his daughter on
the subject, and told her what her
lovers father had said. The young
lady, though hitherto maintaining the
character Of mild-tempered indi-
vidual, became infuriated. Words
and advice failed to quiet her.
Raving, she paced the floor like a
tigress. Her anger did not subside,
but grew until the storm broke. Yes
terday, arming herself with a cow
hide, and followed by her father, she
repaired to the store of the young
mans father Entering, she walked
up to the merchant, and, without a
word, began a vigorous use Of her
weapon. The old gentleman's time
for surprise had come, and, jumping
around in an Intellectual attempt to
get out of the girls reach, he was
whipped, you may say, with that little
mercilessness only known to one
infuriated. All the parties concerned
are we'll known in this city, especially
the young lady and her cowhided
victim,
Year: 1879

PRESIDENT HAYES did not use any
bad words when he learned of the
action Of the Saratoga convention.
Mrs. Hayes came quietlyinto the room
when the dispatch was received, and
silently busted the piano. while she
kept one eye on Rutherford as he read
of Conkling's triumph. She did not
leave the room until her husband had
ample time to recover from the shock.
But when che did he grabbed his hat
and dashed out and gulped down three
full glasses Of buttermilk.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
500 per month forlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postOfics.
Year: 1879

ENGLAND will need this year thirty
millions bushels of wheat beyond what
we ordinarily supply. Except for the
United States granary Europe might
be called upon to witness a great
famine.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us q favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail Iist Is very
large, and our force to do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

The fanatic who told bis neigh
bors that the world was certain
ly coming TO an end this month,
has not yet yentured TO explain
how it was that he came to rent
his farm for a year ahead of that
time-and what's more, to de-
mand his rent in advance be-
sides.
Year: 1879

in a third of the Union, that is to say


courts and uses the ignorance and poverty


of those States just as the democratic party


in New York is accused of courting and


using the mass of ignorant voters Of the
city, They would be rid of this predom-
nance of ignorance at any cost, and when
they look to ''strong man at the head of
the government" it is because they hope
that such man would have the eyes to see
the evils they complain of and the deter
mination to remedy them, no matter by
what stretch of authority.


We cannot say that we sympathize with
this Southern view. On the contrary, we
believe the remedy worse than the disease,
and We should prefer to let time and longer
experience provide permanent cure of the
evils complained of rather than call in the
aid of ''strong man." But it is our duty
to report events as we see them, and it is
useless to deny and foolish to conceal
the fact that General Grants journey
through the South may have momentous
results; that it may produce changes in
the political situation which will greatly
affect the condition of parties next year.
General Grant as the favorite candidate of
the South would be curious and even
startling phenomenon; but no close OBJ
server OF events doubts that it is possible
Year: 1879

Our sympathy goes out to those of our
republican contemporaries who have been
making what is called canvass of passion,


of invective against the South. Such a
canvass is exciting while it lasts, but the
evil effects come after the election day.
Passion has been invoked and the North
has been called upon to "rally against
new rebellion" Well. the North
has rallied, but the South is calm,
just as it was yesterday, as it will be to-
morrow. Now that our Northern republi-
cans have made their campaign they see
that they were called upon to fight wind
mills, and that the windmills keep on going
around and around all the same. We would
suggest to our contemporaries series Of
soothing articles on the agricultural re-
sources of the country as sedasive after
the feverish campaign.
Year: 1879

A curious rumor was in circulation yes
terday to the effect that General Grant had
informed General Sherman that he intended
as soon as he reached Chicago to deliver a
especial message" to the people of the
United States. AS there is only one subject
upon which the General would be apt to
speak unusual interest was felt in this
information. 1t will be seen from Wash
ington despatch that General Sher-
man denies ever having made such state
ment. We have from Galena also denial
from General Grant in these words:-'I
have no special message to deliver to the
people of the United States in Chicago or
elsewhere" So far as the nomination to
the Presidency is concerned we do not
think General Grant could make any
declaration more explicit than that made
by him in June last to the Viceroy of Tien-
tsin-a especial message" delivered to the
people of the United States through the
HERALD at the time.
Year: 1879

Some important murder trials in which
it is charged that persons were poisoned
with arsenic figure regularly in the reports,
and as these are cases in which the testi-
mony of experts in chemistry counts for
a great deal the record of that testimony
is given minutely Chemists themselves
regard the evidence of the presence of ar
senic in given substance as fact suscep-
tible of absolute demonstration; and
chemist has recently taken ground far
more advanced than this. He claims
cess in the discovery OF arsenic in
body but that he can determine the
particular kind of arsenic, and tell whether
aperson was poisoned by arsenic from one
paper or from another--from what factory,
in short, the arsenic came. In any case,
the establishment of the fact that there
is arsenic in q dead body rests upon
very delicate manipulation, upon
complicated processes that may be
easily deranged and whose inter-
probation may be clouded with many
fallacies. But if this is true of the evil
dence OF an ordinary poisoning case. it is
still more SO of the thin theory added in the
recent case in Connecticut. But with the
fact demonstrated that arsenic is present
in dead body murder is not proved, but
a door is merely opened for evidence as
to how the arsenic got there. If trials
Of this kind are multiplied it will be we'll for
people to keep record of the medical history
of the members of their families. Arsenic
is constantly prescribed by physicians; it
is, in fact, just now fashionable remedy.
There are certain diseases for which it is
regarded as a specific, and for the treat
ment of which it is administered for months
and even years. Not only SO, but an ex-
tensively sold patent medicine owes its
activity to arsenic. Perhaps all the patent
medicines sold as cures for fever and ague
contain arsenic. How shall it be proved
that any given person has not at some time
used arsenic as o remedyp
Year: 1879

An interesting article in the Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease gives an account
of what is called ''The Tea Drinkers Dis
order" This is described especially as a
malady of dealers in tea, or more strictly
Of the casters" whose judgment on the
quality OF tea is supposed to guide the
operations of Wholesale buyers. 1t is said
that these men have in their mouths in the
course of day, though they do not
always swallow, an infusion Of about half
pound of tea, using from fifteen to twenty
grains of each kind sampled. AS disease
incident to an occupation this is ciassed
with the painters collie, the poisonings OF
wall paper makers and other Occupation
diseases" But the train of symptoms
ascribed to the poisonous effects OF tea-the
enfeebled action of the various functions Of
the system, especially of the brain, are
naturally involved in some degree in the
case of those who use the infusion
OF this shrub as beverage. Most
men and women use tea in moderation, but
great numbers use it immoderately and in
proportion as in their excess they ap-
proach the quantities consumed by the pro-
fessional tasters they will of course suffer in
a similar way, allowance being made for the
fact that drinkers ordinarily confne them
selves to one variety, while tasters must
go through the whole arsenal. Loss of
appetite. incapacity to digest whole
some food, sleeplessness, irritability,
and all the we'll known features of
q broken down nervous system
are depicted as the general consequences
of the prostration that follows regularly
upon the stimulant effects of tea, and in
this respect coffee is classed with it. People
who are attentive to the various arguments
presented by doctors and others as to the
effects of their beverages will presently be
troubled to know what they may take.
There are before them all the fearful argu-
ments of one side of the faculty against
wine, beer or any distilled or fermented
beverages and here is an indictmen
against the paralyzing cup that cheers but
not inebriates. Neither wine nor beer, nor
coffee nor tea, and of course no whiskey
then. Will you take milk? All the typhoid
fever, half the diphtheria and two-thirds of
the consumption, say yet other DOCTORS come
to us in that mild fluid. Will you take
water? Dyspepsia, say all the doctors
together, marks the water drinker for her
own. What will you take?
Year: 1879

While the nation was being severely
shaken-convulsed, in fact--last Tuesday,
and citizens otherwise sensible were
neglecting business and pleasure for tho
sake of standing around polling places
and worrying the life out of men equally
good who happened not to agree with
them, there was one favored spot, right
between the most prominent scenes
of storm and devastation, where q
delicious calm prevailed. 1t was at
Lyme, Conn, where, for some yet un-
known cause, there were no polling places
open. The town is the first point that the
shad reach on their return to their birth
place in the Connecticut River, and its
quaint houses, sunny slopes, great elms
and devious country pathways, are held in
affectionate remembrance by thousands
upon thousands Of country boarders.
To these special attractions must
now be added that of deferred
elections. It matters little how the bliss
full experience came about. Perhaps the
forefathers of the hamlet lost their almanac


maybe the daily steamboat, the touching of
which is the leading event of the village,
has been taken off for the winter and the
natives thus lost the run of the days; the
people may have considered that the year
ended with the last run of shad or the de-
parture of the most persistent summer
boarder; it is not impossible that things were
going on SO pleasantly that nobody cared


to disturb them: indeed. IL NAV be that the
Year: 1879

BUMBoAT WOMEN in the East Mediterranean
are at last to have chance of doing some busi-
ness; for, in addition to the English fleet already
there, it is telcgraphed from Berlin that German
and Austrian fleets will also move in that direc-
ton. The new Austro-German alliance is there
Gore sure of approval by at least class of
aon-German people who know what they are
about.
Year: 1879

PRESENT SCHOOL METHODS of teaching gram
mar were vigorously fought in the Board of
Education yesterday, but when the question of
banishing text books on this subject came up
nil argument and sense went for naught, and
for the coming year the children will waste the
usual half hour per day in memorizng formal
statements that scarcely any memory ever re-
tained for n week
Year: 1879

people forgot all about election day, but
whatever the reason was, Lyme was on the
4th of November the only perfectly peace
able and happy spot in dozen or more
States, unless. perhaps. We except the well
regulated Mississippi county of Yazoo.
Year: 1879

THE MAN CoNDoN who killed John Lynch on
election day knows nothing about the affair
to the best of his knowledge he merely got
drunk. Mccormick who stabbed two men
yesterday, tells the same sort of story
Year: 1879

The PECULIAR CONDITION to which the law
against the use Of troops rs n posse cop,itaius
has reduced the government is shown by the
despatch of marshal in Texas for soldiers.
unarmcd, to capture men who robbed u national
ordnance depot and were rescued when ar
rested; it is shown still more by the fact that
the Secretary of War; instead Of acting in the
case, has been obliged to ask opinion of the
Attorney General.
Year: 1879

There is a way ofmakipg our homes
a hundred.iold more attractive than
they are now. Those parents cannot
expect to keep their lrchildren away from
outside diss,pations unless they make
the domestic circle brighter than any
thing they can find outside of ii. Do
not, then, sit in your home surly and
unsympathetic aud with u bali'con'
demnatory look, because of the sport
falness OF your children. You were
young once yourself; let yonr children
be young Because your eyes are dim
and your aucles are stiff, do not de-
nounce sporttulness in those in whose
ewes there is the first luslre, and in
whose foot there is the bounding JOY
of robust health. We thank God
that in our lrawing.rcoms and IN our
parlors there are innumerable games
and sports which have not upon them
the least taint of iniquity. Light up
all your homes with innocent hilarity
DO not sit down with the rheumatism,
wondering how children could go on
so! Rather thank God that their
hearts are 50 light and their laughter
is so tree, and that their cheeks are so
ruddy, aud that their expectations are
radiant. The night will come soon
enough, and the heart-break and the
pane and the desolalion-it will come
soon enough for the dear children
But when the storm actually clouds
the sky, 1t will be time enough foryou
to haul out your rect tackles. Carry,
then. into your homes not only the
innocent sports and games which are
the inventions of our own day, but the
games which come down with the
sportfulness OF all the past ages. Chess
and charades, and tableaux and battle
dore, and calisthenics, and all those
amusements which the young people
of our homes know so we'll how to
cont,ive. Then there will be the
pa'ly socialities,-groups OF people
assembled in your homes, with wit
aud mimicry and joviaiity, filling the
room with Joy from the door to the
mantle, and from the carpet to the
ceiling. Oh, is there any exhileration
like score of genial souls in one
room, each adding contribution OF
his own individual merriment to the
aggregation of general hllarlty !


Golden Rule Magazine.
Year: 1879

Why is it that the average young
lady can remember accurately three
hundred pages Of novel, but can
never remember a single page OF his
tory! Psychologist will please come
to the front on this question: Mou-
ern Argo.
Year: 1879

1t seems that a young man


and woman of Bucksport, Me-,


were not so much married as


they thought they were, a short


time ago. They met, and were
each charmed with the others
qualities. A mutual friendship
sprang up, which in a few days
ripened into love. 1t was a.
greed that they should be mar
ried, and, after a brief lapse of
time, they visited a we'll known
Justice of the Peace in that
town, aud were married, or sup
posed they were. Two weeks
passed on, and the discovery
was made by the supposed JUS
tice Of the Peace that his term
of office had expired prior TO
the marriage ceremony, and
that the couple were not legal
ly married. The surprise of
the man and and his affianced,
when the state of the case was
told them, can hardly be imagil-
ed. They had lived togetheras
man and wife for two weeks,
and the announcement Of the
fact that they were not married
created quite a sensation. But
the sequel is even stranger than
what went before. The would
be husband said to his intended
wife that they would go and sec
some one who really was a JUS
tice of the Peace, and get legal
ly married. She said she be-
lieved she had had enough of
married life for the present; and,
persisting in that opinion, she
left town the next day for Bos-
ton.
Year: 1879

A recent traveller in Mexico,
who visited the mines there dur
ing his journey says that he
was much astonished at seeing.
the men who carry the ore come
out of the mine each with one
eye shut. The foreman, seeing
his surprise, explained the mat
ter. lie said the candles be-
longing to the tarateres (who
drill and blast) do not give suf-
ficient light in the drifts where
it is consequently quite dark,
but nevertheless the tarateros
sec well enough not to run
their heads against the rocks.
But, on emerging into daylight,
they would be blinded did they
not take precautionary meas
ures. For this reason, as they
approached the mouth Of the
shaft, at the point where they
catch the first glimpse of LIGHT,
they drop the eyelid ofone eye,
and keep this down while thew
are discharging their orc and
until they have redescended the
shaft. When they are again
in the dark, they open the eye
kept hitherto in reserve, and at
once see everything distinctly,
while the other eye previously
open and somewhat blinded by
daylight perceiveS nothing at
all.
Year: 1879

According to the Rev. Mr..
Scudder, a missionary in India,
four men bought a quantity of


cotton in copartnership. That
the rats might not injure it they
bought a cat, and agreed that
each should own one of its legs.
Each leg was then adorned with
beads and other ornaments by
its owner. The cat accidentally
injured one. of its legs, and the
owner We Id a rag around it,
soaked in oN The cat by chance
set the rag On fire and being in
great pain rushed among the cot
ton bales, where shehad been ac-
customed to hunt rats. The cot
ton was totally burned. The
three other partners brought suit
against the owner of the invalid
leg TO recover the value of their
cotton, and the judge decided
that as the injured leg could not
be used, the cat carried the fire
to the cotton with her three re-
naming legs. They only were
culpable, and their owners were
required to compensate the own
er of the injured leg for his share
of the loss. S g
Year: 1879

The worst thing that can be
said Of the house fly is that it
sometimes so bothers the minis
ter while he is preaching that it
makes 1t appear to the congrega-
ton that he is winking at one of
the Sunday-scbooi sisters in the
gallery.
Year: 1879

The American young lady who be-
lieved that she had got bristle of her
toothbrush fixed in her throat got worse,
though there was no bristle there, till
she was persuaded by her physicians
ruse that be had extracted it, after
which she recovered rapidly. On the
other hand, there are well-attested cases
in which mere fright, directed to the ex-
pected suffering of diseased part, has
caused powerful but salutary revolution
in the condition Of the diseased organ.
DIR. Carpenter, if we mistake not, in his
Mental Philosophy" gives a case of the
complete absorption of some very dan
gerous tumor in very few hours under
the influence OF mere terror at the
prospect Of the pain Of the surgical op-
oration-it was before the days Of chlor-
oform-which had been determined on
TO remove it, Here was o case where
attention, and attention of no hopeful
kind, produced the very opposite effect
that which, in the American young
iady's case, attention of the respondent
kind had produced tho very effect, in
deed, which a remission Of attention,
when unaccompanied by the hope of
cure, had in that case produced. Lon
don Spectator.
Year: 1879

How TO SEETHE WIND.-Take y pol~
ished metallic surface OF two feet or more,
with straight edge q handsa ~ will an
swer the purpose-taFe a windy day
whether hot or cold, clear or cloudy. only
let it not rain or be murky ! in other
words, let the air be dry and clear, but
this is not essential. Hold your metallic
surface at right angles to he direction of
the wind, /. e.. if the wind Is north, hold
your surface east and west, but instead OF
holding the surface vsrtical, incline il
about forty five degrees to the horizon, 50
that the wind, striking, glanees and flows
over the edge (keepng it straighU as wa
ter over dam Now sight caref:liy
over the edge of some minute and sharply
defined object and YOU will SEQ the All flow
over Ms water flows over dam Make
your observation carefully, and you will
hardly fail to see the ali, no matter how
cold the result is even better when the
sun is Obscured.
Year: 1879

DOSE MILK IN Dem CoCoANUTs. -
The San Francisco Chronicle is making n
tremendous fight for the new Constitution,
scllpSing any previous newspaper cam
raigning in California since the state
was organized. Before and during the
Convention the ChrOnicte'S great point
was to get into the new document a pros
vision making the jury the judge of law
and facts in libel cases. Its two attor-
neys-Terry and Campbell, both alb le
lawyers were memb bers of the Conven
ton, and after superhuman struggle got
That provision into the new Constitution
In the eyes of the Chronicle folks The bal
ance of the Const stitution is merely great
stable in which this their hobby i, housed
1t shelters their hobby, and they are for
it, tooth and nail If their hobby had
been refused shelter they would have
been against the constitute ion, tooth aud
nail. We don't blame them. We had n
h0oby. Ours was equal taxation. If
that had been provided for we cou Id have
stood a good deal OF nonsense on other
points. But it would puzzle Philadel,
phia lawyer to devise more UNEQUAL
scheme of taxation than IS laid down in
the new Constitution. Therefore, and be
cause its adoption would bankrupt our
county, We are against it, Mountain
Demscrdt.