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Year: 1874

A grand Conservative barbecue Will
he given at Whiteyiile on the 1st of
August. A band of music from this
city viii be in attendance and q num-
ber of! distinguished speakers have been
invited and will address the people on
that occasion. A correspondent says
s.All good Conservatives are invited,
and we hope to see as many of the
JOURNAL men present as can leave
their posts. Everything here is work
ing web. and on the 9th day of Au-
gust Columbus will roll up a Conser-
yative majority that will astonish the
natives. No Russell Conservatives in
this county. We hear areport that he
will get some Conservative votes here,
but we can't find one that will vote for
him. "
Year: 1874

The military management of the few Mo docs in 1873 cannot be cited as strength ening the argument in tavor of military control. The army has only one Crook i; if it had dozen and they could be given immediate execution of Indian affairs, then there would be no question about the propriety of the entire change ot management from the Interior to the War Department. Owing to the singularity of Crooks and the uncertainty of human life, we think it extremely doubtful if any real advantage would accrue to either tue country at large, the settlers most inter- ested, or the Indians, by the transfer.
Year: 1874

The dispatches announce that Repre- sentative Nesmith, of Oregon, has in

 troduced bill to transfer the entire man. sgemen. of the Indians from the Interior

 to the War Department, and also that Senator Bogy, of Missouri, who we be-

 lieve was once commissioner of Indian

 Affairs, will introduce such an one. It is difficult to determine whether or not bet ter results, as a whole, would be attained by the change than without it. Upon the face of 1t, it would seem more reason able that the War Department should have full control, and surely if either one must have all management, it ought nec- essarily fall to the Department of War.

 Heretofore, both departments have taken hand, and unless fully given to the War office, both will have to continue as at present. Each department is more or less jealous of the other, and, of late years, almost fatly opposed. The h. terior has been committed to an almost fruitless peace policy, and this the better informed and more valuable officers of the army have deemed triiing and inet- fective. While General of the army,

 President Grant favored transferring the whole business to the War Department,

 but it has been reported since then that his views have been modified if not wholly

 changed Good arguments can be easily adduced for and against the change, and If the transfer be made it will be effected m

 spite of most powerful opposition in-

 cited by personal interest. The good of the Indian and welfare of the frontier set

 tier will exercise precious little Influence

 for or against it. Experience teaches the best lessons and ought to prevail in the proposed measure. Bad as was the man.

 sgemept of the Indians in Idaho under Governor end Superintendent Caleb Lyon,

 to have transferred it to the military prior

 to the assignment of General Crook to command the sub-district of Boise, would |! have made it much worse. change to

 military control in Arizona prior to Gen. 1 Crooks command of this department,

 would have been terrible in it's effects.
Year: 1874

Dr. Beecher was on board of a European
steamship returning from foreign tour.
A terrible storm arose; the passengers
were in extreme peril. As every one cX-
pected to 60 down. religious services were
held, and it was proposed that a minister
of Trinity Chunch. who was on board.
should administer the sacrament in CTtrc-
mis-. The report came to this country that
among the devout recipients of the COM
munion was DR.. Lyman Beecher. A cler-
gvman who heard the story said he did
not believe it. He knew him too well to
think for a moment that he would counte-
nance such sacramentarian notions, that a
man could pass safely into the eternal
world without any reference to the state of
his heart, provided that he partook Of a
little bread and wine DR.. Beecher. on his
return, gave a very indignant denial to the
rumor. Il was asked, " he said to unite
in the celebration of the Supper in that
hour Of peril | honor the Supper, and
enjoy the season with my church. If
the people on board that vessel believed on
the Lord jesus Christ, they did not need
any sacraments. If they did not, all the
sacraments in the world would not have
saved them.


The doctor was sitting one day in front
of the pulpit in the Old South Daily Pray
er Meeting. A man arose and told a story
about a celebrated minister who went to
church on stormy day. One man only
was present. He debated in his own mind
whether TO preach or not. He concluded
to preach and went through the whole ser
vice-reading, singing, and all. With the
benediction the solitary hearer departed.
That sermon converted the auditor. He
became a theological student, entered the
pulpit, and did valiant service for the Cap
tain of our salvation. Concluding the
narrative. the speaker pointed over toward
Dr. Beecher, and said: Il am happy to
inform you, my dear friends, that the min
lister of God who preached that sermon is
now in this house. | refer to DR.. Lyman
Beecher" The doctor came to his feet
with a bound. In very excited manner
he exclaimed, There is not word OF
truth in what that man has said. | should
not have been such a fool. | have chased
that lie all over the country, but l do not
suppose it will ever stop running" When
the doctor took his seat there was genu-
inc excitement in the meeting. g.-EGamine,
and Chronicle.
Year: 1874

peii. the city which was destroyed by
burning lava from Mount Vesuvius hun
dreds of years ago before Christ was born.
You can scarcely believe it, / dare say.
but it is true. And mind, don't mean
the ruins of a house like those to be seen
today in Pompeii, but just as it used to be
when that city was busy. active place
and Pompeian little folk kept their birth
days and played and learned their lessons
Just as you do now.


And in another court there is model of
house of ancient Rome, with couches
instead of chairs in the dining room, for
You know, among other strange habits,
the old Romans hal n way of lying down
at their meals.


l dare say you have heard of the Alham-
bra the famous and beautiful palace built
by the Moors in Grenada. Well, in this
Crystal Palace you may see for yourselves
just how it looked, and how gorgeous the
Hall of the Abencerrages must have been
with its wonderful rainbow colored and
gold fretwork dome filed with a soft lilac
light.


And there are the Egyptian court and
the Assyrian court and many more besides,
and also copies of the most celebrated
statues in the world.-Fronl 81. Nicholas
Year: 1874

There can be no doubt that dogs feel
shame as distinct from. and something
very like modesty, when begging too Of
ten for food. A great dog scorns the
snarling of little dog, and this may be
called magnanimity. All animals feel
wonder, and many exhibit curiosity, the
latter quality affording opportunity for
hunters in many parts of the world. to
decoy the game into their power. the
faculty of imitation. so strongly develop
ed in man, especially in a barbarous state.
is present in monkeys. A certain bull
terrier, of our acquaintance, when he wish
es to 60 out of the room, jumps at the
handle of the door, and grasps it with his
paws, although he cannot himself turn the
handle. Parrots also reproduce with Won
derful fidelity the tones of voice of differ
ent speakers, and puppies reared by cats
have been known to lick their feet and
wash their faces after the same manner as
their foster-mothers. Attention and mem
orv also are present in the lower animals


and it is impossible to DENY that the dreams
of dogs and horses oftentimes show the
presence of imagination, or that a certain
sort of reason is also present. Animals
also profit by experience, as any man re
allies who sets traps. The young are
much more easily caught than the old, and
the adults gain caution by seeing the fate
of those which are caught. Tools also
are used by some of the higher apes. The
chimpanzee uses stone to crack a nut re-
semblng a walnut, and the Abyssinian
balloons fight troops of other species, and
roll down stones in the attack before they
finally close in a hand-to-hand encounter


The idea of propriety is common also to
every dog with bone, to all birds with
their nests, and notably in the case of
rocks. Nor can "A certain kind of language
be denied to the brutes. The dog commu-
nicates his feelings by barks of different
tones, which undoubtedly raise in his fell
low-dogs ideas similar to those passing in
his own mind -Edi1a5urgh Rerie1c.
Year: 1874

CHURCH ORGANS IN SCoTLAND.-In
nothing is the slow but steady progress of
Scotland i'll art culture shown more than
in the decline of the old vulgar antipathv
to instrumental music in the kirk. nIthe
recently published Journal of Lord Cock
burn we are told, says the London Orcbes-
ira, that the late DIR. Ritchie, afterwards
Professor of Divinity in Edinburgh. spent
nearly ten years in vain trying to get
good organ, that somebody had given him
for the purposes, into his church in Glas-
gov. He first, after some resistance.
got it up near the outer door, where it stood
dumb, for several years; then, in the pre-


tence that it was spelling. he, but with
greater resistance got it advanced into the
aisle, where it remained. scowled at, for
few wears more. At last the occasion of
making some repair in the interior of the
church was taken advantage of and when
the congregation reassembled, they saw
something fixed on the inne- wall. but
carefully veiled. 1t was soon discovered
to be the abominable thing. The blood CT
Presbytery rose The doctor stood firm


The law was only against playing the
organ, which he had never done. Az, but
the horror was of the organ, because it
may be played. Its very presence re
minds us of the Scarlet Woman, the Boot.
and Tam Daizell. So it came to the Gen
eral Assembly, where heard it discussed
many year ago. The result was, that
for the ease of tender consciences the in
strument was marched out. In every case
the innovation has been accomplished only
after hard struggle against fanaticism
but Scotland now is generally coming
4 round, as far as regards her large towns
Year: 1874

TIE COMEr.-Somebody has discov cred
the coming comet and figures that it will
be brightest in the first days of August.
The directions for finding it are very well
summed up by the Worcester Press:


Some night, when you have mt any
thing in particular to do, draw an imag-
mary line from Gamma to Alpha of the
big dipper. and from Gamma to Beta of
tine lesser bear, and prolong this line
doWuwarts. Near the intersection of these
lines will be found the new comet, lately
discovered. If you have any trouble in
tnding the Alpha, Beta and Gammas
aforementioned, your case won be an iso-
lated one and the next best thing you can
do is to wait until August, when the comet
can he found without the trouble of draw
ing imaginary lines from stars with Greek
names"
Year: 1874

Under the old yew tree


laid my my little one down;
covered her grave with the daisies fair,
With the lilies white and the roses rare,
In shape of cross and crown.
And day by day walked


Round her grave with a silent tread,
Till the sun in the burning west was low,
Then home by the winding path so,
To weep DER her cradle-bed.
/ would not lift my eyes


To heavens ethereal blue;
sought the place of my baby's birth
And death-I clung to the clod of earth,
Damp, damp with the rain and dew.
One night, in a pleasant dream,


heard my darling's voice.
saw the gold of her shining hair,
Her baby cheeks so soft and fair,


And it made my heart rejoice.
She stood in the pearly gate,


And spoke TO the angel band
My mother sees me nojc )" she cried,
"Though never before since her baby died :
And she held out her fair right hand.
| woke, and the dream was gone;


But never since that day,
Have pictured my babe in its cradle bed.
Or down, down deep with the silent dead,
But well on her shining way
Year: 1874

Churches and society waste too much
tlme IN dragging people into harness to-
gcthe", striving to make intimates of
Them. when they would love each other
much better apart. As long as the good
par~on keeps Deacon Wright at a distance
there is Il chance that they viii respect
each other and work together for their
common cause in harmony But as soon
SIS they fail into sociable arguments and
into the habit of dining in company, each
discovers the other to be fool. As for
society. how much of our lives is wasted
in trying to form partnerships-for an
hours talk perhaps, or perhaps for life
with men or women who ought to live at
the antipodes from us, with their heads
forever going precisely the other way
through space? TO think of the millions
of calls made by women and dinner
parties @iven by men, from which come


nothing but platitudes, dreary emptiness.
and reevish sense of exhaustion, simply
bcyause like has not wit and wisdom to
to mate with like. \ heroic idea of our
religion may make it easy for us to die for
"a man; while if he were to visit Us for :,
week, We would nag each other into a
frenzy. Our lay sermon to all beginners
in social life, if we could supplement those
of tomorrow, would be to give their help
heartily to all their step brothers in the
world, but, if they want peace in the fam
liy to keep them ut arms length while
thry are shaking hands.-Nelc York Trib-
Year: 1874

Max Adeler has got a good thing off
about cremation. He prefers better use
of the bodies to that of burning them. He
tells of one Caselbeny of Vineland, New
Jersey, who has laid his grandmother at
the foot of his grape vine, and by carefully
watering her twice day, he had secured
a crop Of fifteen bushels of grapes. Upon
being examined. Caselbeny explained, in
the Agricultural Society, that he had
known maiden aunt OF second cousin to
do equally well, and he had his stepfather
among the roots of his mammoth goose
berry bush with every prospect of a superb
success. Very particular inquiries were
made by several members concerning the
availability of mothers-in-law, and a man
named johnson said he had been married
four times and had used all his mothers-in-
law in improving the asparagus bed; he
took the first prize at eight county fairs;
Then the meeting suddenly adjourned, and
fifteen mothers-in-law in Vineland died
during the succeeding week.
Year: 1874

We.are in the vestibule of life's great
temple-not tarrying long. Let us catch
and give what sunshine we can whilst lin
gering in this vestibule, exposed to drafts,
until the door of the temple is opened,
and we enter into the joys prepared for us,
provided we have tried to comfort others,
for Christ makes this the hinge upon which
the great door celestial turns.
Year: 1874

THE Grimes County journal gives an ac-
count Of little girl who, while on the
plank walk, was met by negro woman
and child, who ordered her to get out Of
the way, and raised a stick over her, which
so frightened the little girl that she ran
home speechless and afraid Of every one
who approached her. She is much better;
but who can tell the effect upon the chiId's
mind A reward of twenty-five dollars is
offered for proof sufficient to convict the
woman. Such conduct is outrageous; and
any oilicial who would encourage it ought
to be made to know that an indignant peo-
pie viii hold him to a strict account.
Year: 1874

TuE Groesbeeck Clarion gives the pro
ceedings Of meeting which passed resolu-
tons condemning rowdies who in a bolster
Gus, defiant and threatening manner dis
turb public gatherings for religious and
social purposes. Report them to the dis
trict attorney and have them indicted BY
the grand jury. Such scamps should be
bottled up, as they are a disgrace and
loathsome sore TO society Our officials
should make it point to prosecute such
creatures. ANY officer who would favor
them, should be turned out TO herd with
them.
Year: 1874


on the nineteenth OF August. So there is
no time 10 be lost his too much the dis
positionl lof Democrats To put of actiOn in
importaut ,s1hatterss aud nothing but the
glorious, principles Of the party have
brought Us Of victorious in nany hardly
contested battles on the hustings. But
they should not be lulled int6 the belief
that victory win perch upon ouF banners
without united and energetic .aefion-. The
enemy has been badly beateu At the polls,
but that viii not prevent them from forming
combinations and alliances for success in the
future. We have already bad some intima-
ton that money viii be furnished by the
''Head Centre at Washington for carrying
on the campaign Aud it viii be criminal
in Democrats, If they should, by want of
organization and union, permit the enemy
to divide and conquer us. Therefore it is
but obeying the voice Of reason and COM
mon sense TO perfect organizations and
book every man in the district, beginning
with the county precincts. Let the county
conventions be composed of the representa-
tive men from each precinct, and the con-
yention at Brenham of the representative
men of each county--men who look to the
triumph Of the party and not of men; and
who, for that very reason, will select the
best man to represent US in Congress. The
same advice we would give to the Demo
Gratis all over the State. We hope that
there VIII be full representation at Bren-
ham; and that wisdom, forbearance and
harmony viii characterize the convention,
SO that with united energy and purpose We
may triumphantly elect the nominee, in
spite of the tricksand efforts of our cunning
foes.
Year: 1874

SOME of the Democratic papers Of Mis-
sissippi say that Governor Ames ought to be
impeached for appointing chancellors, con-
trary to the Constitution and laws Of the
State, without the advice and consent Of
the Senate. It is charged that he designedly
waited till the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture in order to make the appointments.
when he is expressly required to fill all
Offices subject to appointment when the
term of the incumbent is about to expire,
with the advice and consent Of the Senate.
Are there enough men in the Legislature to
impeach, convict and remove is the ques-
ton We fear not z
Year: 1874

WE have not expressed any opinion in
the Bcecher-Tilton scandal, preferring to
wait tall all the testimony comes in and is
published. IN no other way can justice be
done. He who judges case before hear
ing the testimony on both sides. does great
injustice, even though he may have aeci-
dentally been correct.
Year: 1874

There is widespread impression
that the recent reported earthquake in
Westchester county, New York, was
nothing but the reverberations Of GER
tain blasting operations that were In
progress, between 10 and II o'clock on
Thursday night, on one Of the high
ways, and at the new tunnel on the
other side of the Hudson. There ia a
great deal of testimony in support OF
this view of the case of very convinc-
ing character.
Year: 1874

The Bank Of Industry was robbed at
noon to-day by sneak thief, who went
behind the counter while the cashier was
alone and engaged. The amount taken
Is not definitely known, but supposed to
be about 81 600.
Year: 1874

WAsHISGToN, September 24.-The
Board of Army Officers will meet here
tomorrow to examine and report upon
the qualifications of such persons AS may
be brought before it for appointment as
assistant superntendents of the national
Year: 1874

was supported by the power Of the
National Government in the act of vir-
tually creating State government
which had not the least evidence of an
election by the people. 1t was when,
even after the President had confessed
his doubt, Congress neglected to undo
the usurpation and to make room for
those who had Prima tdcie evidence Of nm
election by the people. The wrong was
committed even before that, and in more
States than Louisiana. 1t was when
the Federal office holders in the South
were permitted 10 use their authority and
prestige rs II power in partisan con-
tlict, and for the support and pcrp"tuH-
tion of partisan State government, and
the most rapaciouS and corrupt that ever
disgraced II Republican country. 1t was
when the keeping Of Southern States Wa,
deemed more important than that they
should have an honest and constitution
al Government
Year: 1874

made lengthy and elaborate speech


upon National and State questions at the


Temple tonight. After referring in


general terms to the present condition of
the public mind, the wide spread and
deep distrust and skepticism which have
taken the place of confident assurance
and sanguine expectations formerly pre-


vailing, he entered into discussion of
Louisiana affairs. He reiterated his
opinions expressed in the Senate. that
the Kellogg government is an usurpa


ton, but il had been recogniZ-
ed by the President and when
last week, the McEneryites overthrow it,
the President constitutionally reinststed
it, and that was the end Of the louisiana
revolution, but il is not the end Of the
diocese; neither is il the final remedy for
a great wrong that has been committed.
The wrong does not consist in the inter-
vention of the President against those,
who, by force arms had driven Kel-
logg 20 fight, for the President acted in
the exercise of his constitutional author
ity. Neither can, in any Republic, the
right of self help by force be admitted
for such an admission would encourage
every party and every individual that
has grievance, either real or imaginary,
to resort to force for redress, and state
of anarchy would ensuc, which no
political or social organization could
withstand, but the great wrong
was committed before. Ii WAS when
Federal judge, palpably overstcpping the
limits of his jurisdiction and perpetrrted
Year: 1874

Last evening about o'clock officers Stevens
and Very were called to house on York
street near Centre street to arrest man who
had been beating his wife. When they arrived
at the house they found the man-James Con-
ners by name-just leaving. The woman was
lying at the bottom of the stairs in fit. The
man was taken to the station ami the woman
given in charge of the neighbors. At the end
Of half an hour the officers returned to find a
sad state of affairs. The woman was lying on
the floor in fit, and the nelghbors had crowd
ed into the room, filling it so fall that it re-
quired the utmost efforts of the police 10 keep
them from stepping on the woman ~


Itwas hard sight to behold. The woman
was only about 1S years of age, and had two
small children by her side 1t appears that
the man and wife had been drinking all day
and the husband had abused her. After a
while he became terribly enraged and threw
her down pair of stairs. He says that she
had been drinking during the day and that
about 5 o'clock she asked him for some money
and he gave her So. She took it and went out,
but soon returned badly intoxicated, and in
coming up stairs fell. The neighbors dispute
the story and say that he threw her down.
They were very indignent, and if the officers
had not arrived as they did the chances are
that he would have been roughly handled.


The hardest thing about the whole case was
that while young man, who happened in was
holding the woman some one stole fine watch
and chain from his person. This is without
doubt the meanest act on record.
Year: 1874

A STRANGE AccIDENT.-Last Friday even
ing, about five o'clock, as the workmen en-
ployed in the spar yard cf bhn Bradford on
Commercial street, were engaged in launching
large spar the chain broke and swung
around gentleman standing near. The hook
in the end of the chain struck small boy
named Martin Conley in the face, tearing the
side of his face badly. The rope attached to
the chain struck Mr.. Bradford in tine ear and
threw him about ten feet. Saving slight
bruise on the ear he was uninjured. The gen.
tleman who was wrapped up in the chain also
escaped without injury. The boy was stunned,
aud it was some time before he exhibited any
signs of life He was taken TO his home in the
old Printers Exchange and DR.. b. B. Foster
called. He will lose several teeth and his face
will bear hard looking scar. He was quite
comfortable last evening