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Year: 1879

DISPOSITION TO IMPROVE THE SEWERAGE
There seems to be a decided disposition in Con-
gTess to meet any well-developed plan, with a
sufficient appropriation, to improve the sewer-
age system Of the District. While it may not
De The fact, yet congressman are beginning to
-thlnk that the great mortality in their ranks is
attributable TO our defective sewerage system
and for this reason there is no more opp0rtune
time for tie District Commissioners to present
the subject 10 Congress than the present
Year: 1879

the object Of their desires will be attained through the mode above propo ed. Such an amendment to the constitution will never be rati- fled by the majority of the people. It las too much of the smack of ''class legislation" "--looks too much like an attempt to create a monopoly in the whisky traffic. Under such a regulation we do not believe there would be any diminution in the quantity of intoxicating liquors used; it would only shiit the saleroom from the saloon to the "drug store"

 The best way, in our opinion, to regulate the liquor tafiic is to allow the sale of it the same as any other commodity of merchandise, imposing ALWAYS strict penalties upon the vendor for any evil results, damages, or casualties which may flow from it's EXCESSIVE use. The vendor is the party who derives the benefits from the traffic and let him be held responsible for the results of his operations in this branch of trade.
Year: 1879

We find the following letter in the Little Rock Gazette. The initials of the writer will at once be recog- nized as those of one of our respect able, reliable and fair minded fellow citizens, Dr. Brown, of Bolesville. If a few more leading republicans thro'- out the South would have the man hood to speak out as Dr. B. has. we opine that Mir. Blaine's little game to make himself prominent as Prcsi- dential timber for 1880, would not win worth a cent.

 BoLEsviLLE, Ark, Dec. 20, 1878.

 EDITORS GAZETTE: sec there is a disposition upon the part of the leading politicians of the north to again bring forth the bloody shirt, and as I was in the United States army, and have been republican ever since the war, I would like to say through the columns ot your paper, that l have been here ever since tte war closed. I was registrar of Pope county in 1868, under the re construction acts; then registered the sane county under the Clayton state government; was county judge of said county four years, and l have never been bulldozed the first time. There has been great deal of trouble here and a man can get in to trouble anywhere by meddling too much with other peoples busi- ness. There has never been time here since the war, that union man was in danger of his life, who attend ed 70 his business and let other peo- hle's alone. have frequently seen democrats vote for republicans for township and even county offices and there ie not DOW 6 moro quiet
Year: 1879

people on earth, than in Arkansas. So little do the people care for poi tics, that at the last congressional election not one fourth of the people went to the polls to vote.

 Our people want rest; they want to be let alone, and they all want political excitement to dIe out. We now want to make money; we don't care much who goes to congress, or holds the offices so they administer justice to ali alike, and we haven't yet had any reason to complain. The northern people need not be afraid to come down here; there is room for thousands, and the good people of Arkansas will treat them like brothers if they act the gentle man; and if they are desirous of aa office, their chances are as good here as anywhere elce. Real merit IS as much appreciated here as anywhere in the world. l know republican who ran for office here and recieved every vote in his own township, when majority of them were dem ocats. If .his is doubted, the re- cords viii grove it

 There is large majority of the re- pubicans here that are perfectly satisfied with their rulers. We have the same protection under the law that any body else has, and we are just as free to vote for whom we please as any people on earth-and have been all the willie.

 voted against secession and ev- erybody knew it; and 1 have voted the republican ticket at every elec- tion since the war, and it is known to all my neighbors, and 1 have never been buldozed nor mistreated by any one on account of it. In fact my very best personal friends all the while have been democrats. This bulldozing business IS the cry of demagogues. w. T. $,
Year: 1879

In Biaine's first speech on his out rage resolution he said that he didn't believe solitary man in the south had been defrauded out of the freest exercise of his suffrage during the period the republicans were in power. Day before yesterday, from his same place in the senate, he said he belle we'd there never had been fair cleo tion Tn the south. The gentleman doesn't even show "method in his madness"
Year: 1879

Pain In the right side, under the edge Of The ribs,
acreases Oh prcssure sometimes the paints IN the


eft side the patient is rarely able to lie on the left
side; sometimes the pain Is felt under The shoulder
blade and 1t frequently extends TO the top OF the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheuma-
tism in the arm The stomach is affected with loss
Of appetite aud sickness; the bowels In general are
cos,iye sometimes alternative with lax the head Is
troubled with pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the lack part There is generally
considerable loss of memory, accompanied with
painful sensation of having left undone something


which ought to have been done. A snsnr, drycoueh
Is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains
Of WEAKNESS ard debility; he s easily startled his
feet are cold or burning, and be complains Of a
pricky sensation of the skin his spirits are low
and although he Is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial TO. him, yet be can scarcely summon up
fort.tude enough to try it Ia fact, he dstrusts every
remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the
disease, but cases have occurred where few Of
them existed, yet examination of the body after
death has shown the LIVER to have beer extensive
lv Geranged. .r."
Year: 1879

The main reason for sending batch of thirty prisoners from Sing Sing to Auburn, is that Sing Sing is crowded, and Auburn has large number of empty cells but there are other reasons that govern the keepers at Sing Sing in making their selection of those who are to be transferred. Demeza, one of the lot, was sent away because the keepers were disgusted with him. They all be- ieved in his conversion, and when he was sent back to the prison second time they had revulsion of feeling. Sometimes man is selected for transfer because the keepers are morally certain he has committed an offence, but have not actual proof of it. Such 8 man is necessarily under suspicion, and, as they say, has no fair show with them. In the new prison he will have fair chance, because mans character with keepers is made in 0 prison, and does not accom- pany him to it. Sometimes man be- comes an object of hate to his fellow convicts, who may think he has been telling tales to the keepers, and some- times transfers are made to break up groups that it is feared are plotting es- cape. Such groups are known to be formed occasionally, and are usually productive of mischief of some sort. If 8 leader is sent away the group is apt to fall to pieces. Transfer is, also, often held over the heads of prisoners as a threat in case of bad behavior.
Year: 1879

Commenting on the filthy condition of the rotten wood pavements of Memphis, and their alleged influence in causing the outbreak of yellow fever there, the Baltimore Sun says that they have been continually denounced as foci of pesti- lence ever since 1873. The joints be- tween the blocks and the ruts are so enlarged that they are soon filled in with filth, which in warm, damp weather offers a wide surface for putrefactive action and for the generation of noxious effluvia. The blocks themselves become water soaked and rotten below the sur face, so that when any one is taken out it is found to be no more than a black, pulpy mass of decay, upon which the sun is acting all the time, eliminating malarious gases from it.

 The cause of the yellow fever which devastated Norfolk in 1856 was very largely attributed to the decay of wood shavings, which had been used to fill in wharf. The Memphis pavements must supply much larger proportion of poi sonous malaria to the air than was given out by these decaying shavings at Nor folk. It is peculiar property of half decayed wood in masses to retain mois- ture, to continue long in state of slow fermentation, and to give off malarious effluvia. In country neighborhoods many case of typhoid fever has been caused by neglected wood pile near the house, where, upon gradually &C., cumulated mass of chips and sawdust that is fair enough on the outside, but routed down to mould at the bottom, all the kitchen slops have been poured. It is a we'll known fact in sanitary works that hospital gangrene often results from washing the wood in floors of wards with water, and on shipboard new or moist timber is injurious to the health of the sailors. The damp tim bers of the United States steamer Ply mouth retained and were able to revive and propagate the yellow fever germs recently, in spite of the most careful fumigation, disinfection, and refrigera- tion during whole winter. The decayed wood of the berth deck of this steamer could not be disinfected, so resolutely did it retain within itself the fever germs.

 Memphis is paved with mile after mile of this sort of decayed wood, and every block, exposed to 8 sweltering sun, may nurse g fatal fever germ. These pavements were laid down from ten to twelve years ago, and are reported by MT. Niles Merriwether, civil engin- eer, as being "almest entirely gone from decay and hard usage, so that their rotten and honeycombed condition makes thena 60 many cesspools and reoeptacles for the retention or all manner or street filth and noxious gases, and they should therefore be removed as rapidly as pos sible.
Year: 1879

There exists in Denmark singular institution, established mainly for the daughters of the nobility. When man of wealth is blessed by the birth of a daughter he causes her to be enrolled at this institution. paying very small sum, with fixed annual payment of a moder- ale amount. When the girl reaches the age of twenty-ene years she not only finds herself in possession of very com fortable little income, but she has right to occupy and enjoy fine apartment, we'll furnished, in an elegant house, with parks and gardens, and her companions will be ladies, young or old, who are members of the association. It is not obligatory on member to live longer at the chateau O, more frequently than suits her convenience. If the father dies and the young girl is unprotected she has an asylum at once, even if the subsequent annual subscriptions are not iquidated, and when she attains her majority her annual income begins. If she should die or marry, her interest in the association passes to the general fund. If she should be married when she is tive nty, all that is paid in by her afther accrues to the association, and it is this source of income that enables the institution to demand only small an nual subscription, which renders it easy for father to meet the demand, with the assurance that if his daughter can- not be married without marriage DOT tion she will at least be in the enjoyment of comfortable home for life. This in. stitution has been prosperous at Copen. hagen for sixty years.
Year: 1879

Worn voyagers, who watch for land Across the endless wastes of sea, Who gaze before and on each hand, Why look ye not to what ye flee ? The stars, by which the sailors steer, Not always rise before the brow; Though forward naught but .louds appear, Behind they may be breaking now. What though we may not turn again To shores of childhood that we leave, Are those old signs we followed vain?' ' Can guides so oft found true deceive? Oh sail we to the south or north. Oh! sail we to the east or west. The port from which we first put forth Is our hearts home, is our life's best!

 F. w. BoURDILLoN
Year: 1879

SOMETHING .wRoNG.-There is something
wrong in Kansas concerning the care of the in
sane. Either insanity in this State is SO preva-
lent that no adequate provision can be rsade
for its victims, or there is lack of facilities or
willingness to care for this unfortunate clase.
There are two Insane Asylums in the State, and
large appropriations are made by every L egis-
lature for their maintenance, to make addi-
tions to them, yet almost every County in the
State has from one to five or more insane per-
sons on its hands, who cannot be received, for
want of room. Doniphan County has three or
four, and some Counties have more. Under any
circumstances, it has always seemed harder to
get crazy man into the Asylum than patient
into any other of the State institutions. The
managers appear to have arbitrary power, and
to exercise about three times as much as they
legally possess. An Insane Asylum is the prop
er place for the care and management of crazy
person, even though incurable. A County poor
house is nc place for them.
Year: 1879

AFFECTING INCIDENT.-We recently read o
long article in the local column of an Atchison
paper, that we have been shedding tears over
for two weeks. 1t was about poor woman and
her baby coming to Atchison on the Central
Branch Road, to meet her husband. She had no
money, and the conductor, in obedience to strict
orders, put her off at Watervile, to avoid losing
his place. She sat in the depot all night, and
in the morning tried it again. This conductor,
too, was about to put her off at Frankfort when
o gentleman, ,ascertaining the facts, went through
the train stating the case, and succeeded in COL
lecting enough from the passengers to pay the
woman's fare. Some of the lady passengers,
with tears in their eyes, emptied their purses
in the hands of the collector. Our tears are not
for the poor woman and her babe, but for the
poverty of that train full of passengers, who had
to empty their purses in order to raise enough
to pay one fare. Now, if the gentleman, upon
ascertaining the facts, had reached down in his
jeans and brought up enough to pay the poor
woman's fare, instead of assessing that train
load of paupers for the purpose, there would
have been some heart in that, and something
worthy Of sensational double head. But, kind
soul, perhaps he wanted to distribute the pleas
ure of doing good!
Year: 1879

vEro The Confederate army occupyin g
the National Capitol, met with severe check,
Tuesday, in the veto by President Hayes of the
army appropriation bill. Attached to the bill
were some of the Confederate doctrines that
they failed to establish by the war, and they Of
fered the President the alternative of surrender
ing his branch of the Government, or stopping
the supplies for the army upon which the coun-
try relies for defence. The President took them
at their word. Thank the Lord, o backbone
seems to be sprouting up in him, if it only keeps
on strengthening, and doesn't give out at the
critical moment. The country can survive the
Rebel assault until the next election, when they
will meet their doom forever.
Year: 1879

Mrs. Ann Eliza Young says that the Mormons
are bitter enemies of the United States Govern
ment, and would willingly throw their weight
in aid of an insurrection against the Govern
ment. But the other day, it was stated that
there was scheme on foot among the Demo
Gratis in Congress to admit Utah as State, for
the purpose of securing another Democratic
Congressman and two Senators, and adding three
more Electoral votes to their side, in 1880. 1t
was said that the Democrats had promised 10
secure them from the annoyances they had re-
ceived at the hands of the Republican party,
and that the Mormons were willing to throw
their Whole weight on the Democratic side, as
they had almost invariably done in the past.


Isn't it somewhat significant, that whenever
a people is found who are deadly enemies to the
United States Government, or naturally antago-
nistic to it, Democratic sympathy goes out in
that direction, and there they seek for aid and
strength. Democrats were never in favor Of
Canadian annexation, for the people there are
refined, inteIl gent, and industrious. But their
hearts have yearned for Mexico, and Gu ba, and
for every other land where ignorance and brutal
ity reign, where there is no regard for Law, and
where the natural instinct is for vice and op-
preston. 1t is fitting that this party should
take Mormouism under its wing, and make it an
auxiliary.


But the Republ lean party is not blameless for
this Mormon barbarism in the West. Their first
platform declared emphatically against "those
twin relics of barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy."
They were in power for twenty years. and Slav-
cry was destroyed, but Polygamy 1ourishes as
unchecked as ever. A community of enemies to
the nation, and defying its laws, has been per-
mitted to flourish and increase in the heart of
the far West, carrying on robbery, massacre,
and crime of every species. The Republican
party has failed to carry out that part of its
platform and now the friends of Slavery, tenn
porarily in power once more, are reaching forth
to embrace the other twin relic, and invoke its
assistance in crushing the Republican party.
When the North again arouses itself, and rein
states the Republican party in power, they
should make it one of their firsts duties to wipe
the remaining relic ont of existence on United
States soil.
Year: 1879

The SENTIMENT OF New YoRK.-Todsy there is
much the sentiment existing in the State which
prevailed in 1850, when the Southern leaders were
bullying the North, and threatening break up the
Union. You meet with scarcely q Democrat who
does not deprecate the action of their party leaders
while very many of them openly assert that they
shall vote with the Republicans next fall in order to
give the Confederate leaders to understand that
turc. This change in public sentiment is going on
quietly but very effectively and to-day promises to
give New York to the Republicans next November
By majority Of fully o0o-y Y. Letter 10 Chicago
Journal
Year: 1879

Old Jasper Flint had BEEN stricken
with paralysis, ana was now lying at
the point Of death. From his trOu-
bled expression it was evident that
he most earnestly desired to commu-
nicate something TO his children be-
fore lie died. Laura, the eldest, was
II, while tho other two, Maggie and
Tommy were OF the respective ages Of
Is and 8.


For thirty years Jasper Flint had
been dealer in secondhand cloth
ing, and although very penurious and
tricky, and drivingan extensive trade
in cast-of garments, he professed to
be very poor-always crying up pov-
erty to the last. He had never en-
ployed servant or housekeeper, for
the ostensible reason that he was too
poor, so that Laura from the age of
II, had been a perfect little family
drudge.


Everybody said that old Jasper was
miser. He was ne7r fifty years of
age before he ever thought of marry
ing, and with this disposition of hab-
its, ii was wonderful tLat he ever
thought of it at all.


The wife he married was twenty
years younger than himself; but be
starved and broke her heart by his
meanness in ten years time. She was
a delicate, sensitive woman, and could
not adapt herself to his miserly man
ner Of thinking and acting. She
died, cs we have said, in ten years
after this ill-assorted marriage, leay-
ing three pretty children with q fair
prospect Of starving after her.
f careful Investigation into the
old clothier's affairs showed but few
pounds OF ready money-scarcely
more than enough to detray the tu-
Year: 1879

the town line road, and in winter five miles
travel can he saved from Glenwoot. TO
Morris. Why not let the people on this
road alone? If the Vermillion Toad thinks
he has not roads enough. let him get one
to suit his taste will, for one, challenge
any one to show to the public as good u
place for a road as the same is for that dis
lance, and without damage. For further
reference the opponents to said road can
apply to VIM. Dragoo, commissioner, or
Mr.. Wheaton, the surveyor, as to whether
they can find place on the Chippewa river
that a bridgc can he built AS cheap as at the
town line, where the same is now located.


Respectfully.


X HIlSEvnTD
Year: 1879

The jackson Republic fires the follow
ing hot shot at the Pioneer Press:


We have known country editors to dis
Cuss questions of prDlic policy with fair
intelligence and not be compelled to eX
plain and reexpain and finally apologize
for rash statements made. Almost every
day is this the case with the erudite Pho
ncer Press and the monumental and pom
derOus brain that issues its cdicts to we
little country editors. The recent charge
of fraud and corruption at the Saltwater
frison is /; Case i'll point.
Year: 1879

AholShing The wheat tester has had no
effect on The wheat market as yet. This
is strange. Where's the man who told us We
were going to get Il dollar Il huShel for
our wheat as soon as the little joker was
!egislatcd out OF existence? Where is he
Year: 1879

It may be ii horrinc pun but the Lieu
tenant Governor has the field. MORRIS
Tribune.


Bat the Governor will bury him so deep
he'll never W AXE. The News desires to
say that this paragraph has no political
Significance; it is printed suIrty Tor the
sake of the joke - GLemt"m Ncros
Year: 1879

The following table shows the state OF the
thermometer tFahrenheit) at sunrise during
the month of March, the course Of the wind,
and also the highest and lowest points of
temperature reached each day:
Year: 1879

THE BODY FOUND IN THE RIvER.-No
one went to identify the body which Cap
tain Cunningham found in the river near
Dutch Gap few days ago. he had suit
able box made, however, and the remains
were buried at high-water mark. A silver
quarter and two nails were found upon his
DarSOn.
Year: 1879

OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE CITY ATTORNEY TO
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCE COMMIT.
TEE ON THE SUITS PENDING AND DECIDED
AGAINST THE CITY.
The Chairman Of the Finance Committee
submitted TO the Board Of Aldermen last
evening the following report in reference to
suits pending and recently decided against
the city:


RICHMOND, March %, 1879.
10 the Board of Aldermen:


GeDtlemen,-The Committee on Finance
submit to your body report from the City
Attorney OF suits now pending in court
against the city OF Richmond for damages.
This information is furnished by the Attor-
ney in compliance with request from your
committee, and is considered important, in
view OF the present financial condition.


Respectfully submitted.


HENRY G. CANNON, Chairman.
Year: 1879

A pretty shabby looking man walked
into the office Of q western newspaper.
and approaching o man in o red shirt
and top boots, who had his feet on q
desk and his! chair tipped back. re-
marked:


"Ars you the'editor p


"I am sir but haven't time to talk.
II you have anything to say. boil 1t down
TO q stickful."


The visitor eyed him sharply for q
moment, and then drew seven. shooter
from his pocket and advanced step or
two. The editor turned pale rs death.
when the other said:


"Don't be frightened. shan't hurt
you. I am tired OF life, but have too
much ssli.respect to commit suicide.
Here. tsks this poem on Spring and this
pistol and do your duty as citizen who
loves Law and q higher standard Of lit
srature."


his pistol was handed back. also the
poem, and the versider remarked as he
stepped to the door: eli were rich
and had everything necessary to make
me happy. and should offer You an ode
on Spring. you would kill me. but now
you are too mean to pull trigger. l
thought I could come in here and be
quietly massacred, but I can't. You are
the most contrary man ever saw"


Then he marched out with solemn
grandeur.