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Year: 1877

The popular outcry against Admins
traitor M cCafrey's school board is now
overshadowed by the almost universal
denunciation Of the McCaffrey police
force. The men who did duty on the
the streets from the ninth of January
are-the best class of them-displaced,
and the Hibernian brotherhood seem -
have taken the contract off their hands.
One Administrator after another has felt
called upon to deny any responsibility for
the character of the force. The capable
and experienced Boylan seems to have
been entirely ignored in their selection.
A large proportion of the men appointed
find themselves unable to file the requisite
bond of $1,000, while three-quarters of
them are entirely inexperienced and in
competent -Four respectable gentlemen
have been appointed Police Commission
ers, but with perhaps a single exception
they are as incompetent in their sphere
as the green patrolmen in theirs. Boylan
has eertainly q tedious JOB on hand to
teach them all their duties.
Year: 1877

A piece Of the skull and thigh bone of
body we're found in The Southern Hotel
ruins, May l, which are believed TO be all
that remains Of Charles Kerfrict, the head
waiter, as he is the only person known to
have been ia OK connected with the hotel
on the night Of the FIRE aho has not been
accounted foT. $40 aI rI
Year: 1877

A PERSISTENT SUIcDE.-0tto Stun
bach, who was saved from death after at
tempting it by 3 dose Of morphine two
months since, was found dead ut one
o'clock Thursday in his room at the Bur.
CESS House, corner of Poydras and Camp
streets, His death having evidently been
caused by poison, Coroner Roche will
hold an inquest
Year: 1877

THE POLICE. Some forty-fve of the
fortunate 400 have not yet given bond.
and the promise is made that this, and
reductions for incapacity, will soon cause
the force to be improved by the substitu-
ton of better and more deserving men.
This may not seem pleasant news to those
already appointed, who, having worked
hard to get where they are, now feel JUS
titled in enjoying day of rest
Year: 1877

Editors Dispatch: Please call the atten-
ten OF the proper authorities to nuisance
which has been and is subject Of great an
noyance to the citizens living on Governor
street below Capitol. Owing to the condi-
ton OF the gutter the water from Ford's
Hotel does not pass OFT, but remains stag
nant-in pools, thereby causing most otfen-
sive odor. and endangering the health Of the
people living in the ncighborhood. AS the
attention OF the Committee on Streets has al
ready been called to this subject, and the City
Engineer agrees that the gutter is in very
bad condition, it is hoped that some steps
will be Immediately taken to abate the nui-
ance. GOVERNOR STREET.
Year: 1877

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT sLEIGHT IN TIE
INTEREST OF THE ASSOCIATION-EF-
FORTS TO RAISE MEANS TO RELIEVE THE
ASSOCIATION OF DEBT AND SECURE
FUND TO ERECT 4 BUILDING. ENLARGE
TIE LIBRARY, AND FOR PERMANENT
ENDOWMENT.
Year: 1877

THE LEE MoSUMENT.-Thcs secretary OF
the Lcc-Monument Association has been no.
titled that there are several models for
monuments to the great Confederate chief
tain on their way to this city for inspection
by the committee appointed to decide on the
style that shall be finally adopted. Some Of
these models are the productions OF foreign
artists. g.
Year: 1877

The Ballard News wants Biandville
securing tn e passage through the place of
the Cairo and Tennessee Narrowguage
railroad. The News says: :Blandville
has now a chance to have railroad, and
if she does not manfully step to the front,
take hold of the tiller and stem the break
ers she may as well bid farewell to the
Court house and Jail, build a fence around
the place and jog along as she has been
doing for the past fifty years.
Year: 1877

THE WHEAT MARKET There has
been no material change in the wheat
market since our last report until
Wednesday last, when prices again broke
down ia ST. Louis, in consequence of the
great railroad strike, which has reached
st. Louis--resulting in a complete embar-
go on all shipments by rail. Tue result
is, Eastern and Foreign buyers are all
out of market, and as receipts are far in
excess of local demand, there is large
surplus accommodating with few buyers,
who are getting it at their own figures.
1t is not thought that this state of affairs
win last but few days; after which
things will move ou as usual. Receipts
in Hickman for past week have been
quite Iiberal-prices ranging from SOC to
81 10. Yesterday however, it would
take first rate article to command 81
per bushel. Most of wheat now coming
in, is being taken by the Hickman Mills
for manufacture, and we learn that they
are now running to their fullest capacity
and shipping large quantities of -four
South. We note the fact that not u car of
wheat has yet been shipped from this
county which has graded as high as No. 2.
Year: 1877

The COURIER Newspaper and Steam
Job Printing Office is now established in
the Heinze building, Clinton street.-the
steam job rooms on first floor and the
newspaper Office up stairs. Call and see
US.
Year: 1877

come again, in response to the encore,
like an actress on the stage Some ladies,
who have borne my criticisms approving
ly. think. | should not resign the chair
editorial. without giving the men, part
inc saInte But oh me, what woman
heart cam They deserve 1t IN a thous-
and respects, bat they Ii only laugh and
ridicule, or what's worse, compliment
me out of my senses, and when they are
gone I'll berate myself for being so silly!
But. the women won't forgive, unless l
hit the men too So here's at EN-


As honorable a profession as there is in
life, and the one in which there is in re-
atty more elegance of manners, is that
Year: 1877

Take two empty oyster cans and
stout smooth string. Let small hole
be made in the bottom of each can,
through which the string, say fifty to
one hundred feet in length, is passed
and secured. Then let the expert
menters set up their telegraph by
choosing their stations as far apart as the
tightly stretched string will permit, and
while one operator holds his ears to one
of the cans and his companion his
mouth to the can of the other end of the
line, they will find that conversation
can be carried on, so that low tones, and
even whisper will be distinctly per-
ceptible. What usually most astonishes
those who make this experiment for the
first time is that the sound of the voice
does not seem to come from the person
speaking at the other end of the string,
but to issue from the can itself, which
is held to the ear of the listener. This
at first appears to be deception, but it
is really not so. The ear tells the exact
truth. The voice that is heard really
comes from the can that is held to the
ear of the hearer. The voice of the
speaker communicates sound producing
vibrations to the wall of the can with
which his voice is in immediate contact.
These vibrations are communicated to
the string, but so changed that they no
longer affect the ear. A person may
stand by the string while the sound is
passing, and yet hear nothing. At the
other end of the string, however, these
hidden vibrations reproduce themselves
| as sound.
Year: 1877

People laughed at the man who said
the fish he had hooked clicked up
such dust in the water" Perhaps they
will laugh at the heading of this article;
but there will be sea dust nevertheless.
We have heard of waterspouts, of show
ers. of fish, of salt rain, and many other
curiosities which present themselves in
the atmosphere, but to assert that there
is such thing as sea dust is to transcend
all reasonable bounds. The evidence,
however, in favor of its existence is ex-
ceedingly powerful-indisputable, in
fact-and this is the story told by an
eye witness: They say that in certain
parts of the world-notably about the
Cape de Verde Islands, there are con-
stantly met at sea, several hundred
miles away from land, thick, yellowish
red fogs, not unlike London fogs in No
vember. These fogs obscure the atmos-
phere, and are very injurious to naviga-
ton, but they have not the baleful odor
of their London prototypes, nor do they
effect the breathing in the same way.
While sailing through them it is found
that the ship, sails and rigging are COW
cred with a fine impalpable powder,
which falls as dry as rain, and covers
the surface on which it falls sometimes
to the depth of two inches. In color,
it is of a brick dust hue, sometimes of
light yellow, and it feels between the
teeth like fine grit, such as might be
blown into the mouth on windy day
in March. No place is free from its
presence, its fneness giving it power to
penetrate everywhere. The sea, while
the dust is falling, looks as though it
had been peppered, and is discolored for
some distance down. Sometimes the
dust comes in a shower, and passes of
again. The fogs are nothing but vast
quantities of the dust suspended in the
air. 1t is not only in the vicinity Of
the Cape de Verde that this wonderful
dust is seen. In the Mediterranean, or
the Northern parts of Africa, in the mid


die of the Atlantic, it has been reported


1t is invariably the same in kind ant
appearance, and examination undel
microscopes has proved the identity O.


the Cape de Verde sea dust with tn,


Mediterranean sea dust. All this i


very remarkable; dust falling in clouds


no land within some hundreds of miles


nothing visible which could possibly &C


count for thecurious phenomenon. San,


spouts there are in sandy deserts, an,
showers of sand taken originally fror
spots whereon the carrier wind has lei
its mark; but here there is no deseI
from which the sand can be swept, an
the wind, SO far from being boisterou
or disposed to play whirlwind pranks,
: light and steady, blowing ships along 6
J a calm five knots an hour.
Year: 1877

Professor Mendenhall, the accom-
plished instructor in natural science in
the Agricultural College, having had his
attention called to the base ball theories
of throwing a ball on curved horizontal
line, recently tested by careful expert
ment the ability of an expert in this
direction. The ball as thrown made an
undoubted curve, and Professor Menden-
hall, after a close observation of the
method of pitching, proposes as an ex-
PLANTATION of the result, that it is caused
by spiral motion given to the ball, by
which one side is made to encounter
more resistance from the atmosphere
than the other, and thereby DETECTED
from motion in a right line. He ex


presses a query whether the result car
be produced with ball Of perfectly
Year: 1877

THE affection of beasts and fowls for
man is a matter of food. The Halifax
Chronicle says: Whenever certain old
gentleman approaches the pond at the
Public Gardens and calls Bobby a
goose will leave the pond and sit beside
him, and, when he leaves to go home,
will follow close at his, feet to the gate,
and sometimes into the street, when il
has to be forcibly put back, to its mani
fest disgust, for it goes off to its native
element twisting its tail with indigna.
ton, and giving vent to sundry dis
cordant squeaks. The old gentleman
says he has never fed it, or petted it il
any way, which makes it more remark
able; but we were told by a frequentel
of the gardens that about two or thret
years ago man used to come there ant
feed this identical goose regularly, So
are inclined to think that it is case O
mistaken identity on the part of hi
gooseship."
Year: 1877

The London Telegraph says: An Incl
dent has befallen in the wicked and cruel
war now raging which may help to bring
home to those chiefly responsible for its
suferings a sharper sense of their guilt.
Prince Sergius of Leuchtenberg, says a
telegram from Gorney Student, has been
killed in one of the recent reconnois-
sances made by the army of the Care
witch. The Prince was attached, like his
brother Eugene, to the lancers of the
Russian Guard, and riding out along the
Lom, Turkish bullet struck him in the
forehead, instantly killing him. The
Prince thus slain in the flower of his life
for he was only twenty eight years of
age-was, we believe, the fourth son of
the Grand Duchess Marie, eldest
daughter of the lateEmperor Nicholas of
Russia, being therefore nephew to the
present czar, and it is obvious that such
a casualty must appeal to the minds of
the Russian ruler and his household with
a great deal more force than the deaths
of innumerable soldiers and ordinary
officers. We donotsay this uncharitably
for it is not to be doubted that long age
buc very oOul VI hlcAduuOI Has DCSI
sickened by the carnage amid which he
is obliged to live and by the daily multi
plying proofs of the crime and blundel
into which he allowed himself to bt
drawn by the solicitations of the Russian
war party and the beguiling clamor of /:
faction among ourselves. We know no
how far there may have been touch O
tendernessin the relations between Primo
Sergius and the Car Alexander, but tn
two we're at all events near kinsmen b,
blood, and it may perhaps be that tn
natural feelings produced by this youn


mans death may so impress the mind o
his Majesty with the unspeakable miser


caused by his enterprise in many hum
BILE home, and so far sway his alread


melancholy disposition, that he may b


and by open his eyes little to the tru


character of this vast crime which is dii


guised under the name of pious an


philanthropic undertaking.
Year: 1877

"MY son, would you suppose the
Lords Prayer could be engraved in a
space no larger than the area OF a
nickelT "Well, yes, father if cent is
as big in everybody y'seye as it is in yours,
1 think there would be no difficulty in
putting it on about four times"
Year: 1877

An estimable lady of Helena sends us a
communication-too long for publication
in which she complains that her son, who
had with great pains prepared himself to
contest for the oratory prize at the late Fair,
was pushed aside and not permitted to enter
the list of youthful speakers, notwithstand


ing the boy had notified his teacher and the
Fair::authorities having the matter in charge
that lie was ready and anxious to compete
with his comrades for the premium. The
lady is greatly panied that her son should
have been denied the privilege of speaking,
and suggests that there was collusion to pre-
vent the calling Of his name when he was
momentarily expecting to be summoned to
the stand We hope the lady is mistaken,
and that what appears to her to have been a
conspiracy was really an accident or uninten-
tional mistake, which ought to be explained.
Year: 1877

Richard Murphy, an old time miner of St.
Louis gulch, was found dead this morning
in Skelly gulch, about one mile away. He
had been absent since Sunday. Messrs.
Quinn and Welch discovered the body and
without disturbing it, came to the city for the
Coroner who went out this afternoon. The
cause of Murphy's death is as yet shrouded
in mystery, but it is generally believed that he
has been the victim of foul play.
Year: 1877

We are indebted to the Butte IHi,aer for
this candidly expressed opinion of the HER
AID: "With truce to newspaper bicker-
ings We will say the HERALD is the leading
newpaper of the Territory, and that the
energy displayed by its proprietors in secur-
ing for its readers the latest news, gives it
strong claims for support upon all Mon
tanians."
Year: 1877

Some day, some day Of days threading the street
with idle Needless pace,


Unlocking Tor such grace,


shall behold your face
some day, some day Of days, thus may we meet
Perchance the sun may shine from skies oi May,
Or winter \ icy chill


Touch Whitley vale and hill


What matter2 shall thrill
Through every vein with summer on that day,
Once more lfcs perfect youth will all come back,
Aud for moment there


| shall stand fresh and fair


Aud drop the garment care;
Once more my perfect youth will nothing lack
| shut my eyes now thinking twill he;


How face to face each soul


viii slip its long control,


Forget the dismal dole
Ol dreary lato'S dark separating, separating sca
And glance to glance, and hand to hand ngrtcInl
The past with all its fears


Its silence and its tears,


Its lonely ycdrning years,
All vanish In the moment Of that meeting.


-EiGIbc,h S PheijH.
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the Star.


NEW York, March 23.-rhe mys.
terry OF EX-Mayor HalPs disappear.
ance is still unexplained. No in.
telligence has been received from Mr.
Hall as yet. The general impression at
the police headquarters is that he has
committed suicide, but the belief is
settled among his friends that he has
either gone away on business or is per-
petrating practical joke.


The World this morning publishes a
statement egarding the disappearance ce
Of EX-Mayor Hall, leading TO the belief
that he was murdered in Brooklyn.
From this statement it appears Hall
had been recently engaged as counsel in
a divorce suit brought by lady resid-
ing in New Jersey against her husband
and that F.iday night last he went to
Brooklyn TO search for Witnesses In the
case. He had previously spoken TO an
acquaintance about having TO visit an
extremely disreputable and dangerous
locality In Brooklyn IN connection with
this suit, and it Is known that when he
left. his Office he had a considerable sum
of money, at least $500, on his person.
The belief is expressed tnat in this To-
cality he was waylaid, robbed and mur-
dered. Detectives have been set 10
work to follow up this clue.
Year: 1877



 the Mail, and we hope that nei- ther that paper nor any other one will persist in urging our legisla- ture to change this law; for of all the laws now on our statute books there is no other one which has had such a salutary influence as this one. There is not now a law on our statute books which has done so much to subdue the bully and to make inoffen- sive, quiet citizens out of many hitherto boistcrous, overbearing ''larkies" whose highest ambition used to be to swagger about with pair of navy sixes slung around them, as this identical law, the tendency of which, the Mail as serts, is to substitute brute force and lawlessness TOT the milder sway and dominion of the laws of the land" We have had fair opportunity to witness the prac- tical workings of this law against the carrying of deadly weapons. There was no place within the bounds of Arkansas, where the dangerous, disreputable and cow ardly custom of carrying deadly weapons prevailed to a greater extent than it did in Pope county prior to the passage of the law forbidding it. Quiet, inoffensive and law, abiding citizens who de tested the practice were compell- ed to go armed in order to place themselves on an equal footing with the class of absolute, ire ! sponsible roughs, who, embold- ened by the immediate possession of a brace of revolvers, were over bearing, abusive, and actually so domineering, that there was no getting along with them in any other way than to beat them at their own game. What has been the effect of the law on this class of characters? Depriv- ed of their dangerous allies,-the deadly "navies' s'-these hitherto over bearing bullies have become meek, quiet, inofiensive citizens, who, if they amount to nothing else, are at least not any longer a terror to the community.

 The legislature which passed that act have had more praise be- slowed upon them for that single act that for everything else which they did. Let the law stand as it is; and let it be rigidly and thoroughly enforced. And since we are on the subject we will say that the officers of the law, are, we fear, somewhat derelict in the enforcement of tho law; for it not unfrequently happens that little personal difficulties disclose the fact that the parties are armed. Let this matter be watched and wherever there is q violation of the law let the full penalty of the law fall upon the party who in CUTS it.

 The law is good and is having healthy effect. Let it stand.
Year: 1877

The Helena Mail concludes an article wherein it gives an ac- count of the staying and robbing of two young men who had been to Helena for the purpose of sell ing some hogs, with an appeal to the next legislature to modify the law making it criminal otfense to carry deadly weapons. This, we regard as most fatal and
Year: 1877



 We presume the present ses- sion of the legislature will be strongly urged to take some ac- tion on the state's indebtedness.

 Whatever may done, we hope will be done for simple justices sake. There has been much said and written on the subject, but we suppose our lawmakers will take the sensible view of the matter that they will rot allow themselves to be hastily hurried into measures by the impatient prompting of the newspapers and other writers who have expressed themselves on this subject. We have no nonbt but that if the General Assembly in their deal ing with this matter will act eau tiously and only aftel mature de- liberation there will be no great cause for complaint from any quarter. There cannot be any good reason urged for pushing to hasty and ill advised action Tn the premises. If, as is urged, and as is undoubtedly the case, there are unjust and fraudulent claims against the state, that Of itself, is no reason why we should precipitate ourselves into unnec- essary trouble, and assume an attitude which may place us in an unenviable light in the eyes of those who are not acquainted with the facts in the case. There are none of these fraudulent claims being pushed against us now, and we are paying no tax or

 

 interest on them, so wherefore any uneasiness about them. 1T these claims were being pushed, or if we were paying interest on them it might be we'll to make a ftsss about 1t, and by all legal and honorable means to resist the col lection of such claims; but as 1t is, VIC see no great cause I haste in the matter. When these fraudulent claims are sought to be enforced and collected we have yno fears but that their unjust nature will be made clearly ap- parent. Whatever action our legislature may take, will, we hope, be prompted only by sense of right and justice. The people want not farthing of illegal in deptedness added to the burdens of our tax payers; nor do they want a cent of just indebtedness disowned for the sake of specula- tion. If upon a thorough inves tigatlon our just indebtedness should be found to exceed our ability to pay, and there can be an honorable compromise made which will be mutually beneficial to our creditors and our state, we do not fear that our honor or our credit will suffer thereby. Neither do we imagine that any injurious stigma will rest upon us if, action being deemed advisable on the illegal claims agalnst the state. a total disclaimer should be entered against their justice and legality. Until these fraud ulent and illegal claims are push ed against us, however, we doub' whether it will be policy for oul Legislature to take precipitat' action.
Year: 1877

*The enumeration at the head of thls paper will indicate the fact that in the treatment of the subject, one or two states have been included, not geographically belonging to the Mississippi Val ley, but whose interests the call CTS of the convention regarded as eoincileut with our own.
Year: 1877

old and young. every week. 1t is just TO say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free Of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
Using; for many SOOd people seeing an ad-
vertisement in a paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re-
sponSibility. Such confidence should not be
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,


This Advertising Patronage
Of such business pOn and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


Our Terms Shall be in Harmony


with the Business outlook.


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