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Year: 1879

Notwithstanding the fact that the will of the people has been: thwarted since last September in regard to the location of the County Seat-thwart- ed, too,- upon mere legal technical ities, the fact remains that out of 1886 votes then boiled there were l240 voters, who had an unquestion- able right to vote on the question, who registered their ballots ''For Change" and 1104 who registered their choice "For Russellyille." The question with the people now is, How much longer is the majority to be baffied out of their rights by le gal technicalities2 Let every voter be certain when he goes to the polls on the 20th day of June, that he IS in his own voting precinct, that his ballot is properly made out, and that it is properly deposited and his name is properly written upon the poll books. We want this matter settled as the people desire it to go, but we tell the people right nov that they must give the anti-removalists no pretext to throw out votes or to resist the result or the next election. If any pretext can be trumped up it will be used, notwithstanding four fifths of the county now regard it

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Year: 1879

If you want to float on the upper crust and obtain an entree into the higher circles of Little Rock society, get lot of quack medicines or pat ent nostrums and go there and call it Wizard Oil, or Lizard Oil, we sup pose, will do just as well. This with ''Dr." prefixed to your name and & squad of street singers along with you will secure you a degree of emi- hence which will make you ashamed of yourself, if you don't first plate your cheek with brass.
Year: 1879

The seal of the Arkansas Socie. ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is very appropriate-being a circle with the name of the Society around the outer rim of the disc, and in the center 8 picture of an over loaded cart with n brutal driver Tn the act of beating the broken down animal, while an angel of mercy stands near with one upraised arm to stay the cruel blow, and with the sword of justice in the other hand ready to protect and defend the de- fenseless beast of burden.
Year: 1879

In the interest of all parties both merchants and farmers, we wish to utter word of warning in regard to the alarming abuse of the mortgage system. It is alarming to see the number of mortgages being filed this season in the clerks office. There are fully five times as many as there should be, and unless the thing is stopped somebody is going to get badly thurt. The people are running recklessly and wildly in debt, piling up an encumbrance which will keep them weighted down and debt-burdened for perhaps well, for long time, if not for al- ways. Not only this, but, the sys- tenn is also crippling our merchants, and bringing them to the very verge of bankruptcy and ruin. People and merchants are both acting very foolishly, and pursuing the very course which will sap the very foun- dations of all prosperity and thrift in Pope County for years to come.

 The thing should be stopped. It can be stopped and it must, or the county will be bankrupt. The peo- pie CAN live within their means much nearer than they are now do- ing; and merchants CAN carry on business without enticidg the peo- pie to swamp themselves in fathom- less sea of debt. OVER FIVE HUN DRIED MoRTGAGEs have been taken thus far this year by the merchants of our county. Just think of itl Nearly one third of the farmers of our county running headlong into debt-for nearly every one who gives a mortgage seems at once possessed of desperation which drives him to the store about twice or thrice as of. ten as he would go if he were pay ing cash. Ard think too, of the recklessness of merchants who are doing this kind ofa business!

 It won't do; and if the cotton crop should be cnt short this year it will not only ruin hundreds of our farm. CTS, but dozens of our merchants will have to throw up the spunge..

 Let the people be more cautious. Let the merchants be less grasping and avaricious for large trade. Let the merchant be content to do . smaller business, and not rush thus into a system which will not only break himself, but throw gloom of despondency over the masses of the farmers. There is nothing so de. moralizing-so deadening to mans energy--so blasting to his hopes, as to find himself overwhelmed in debt It makes vagabond and dead. weight to community, out of many man, who, if he had only lived within his means, would have been $ cheerful, useful and thrifty member of society.

 The people will buy ahead o1 their ability to pay, as long as mer. chants hold out the bait. The mer, chants must stop it or they will pay dearly for their fun.
Year: 1879

Hayes is afraid to let the people have a free election and wants the federal bayonets at the polls at the next presidential election. It is a point blank admission that the re- publican party no longer expects to survive if the people get fair whack at 1t at the polls.
Year: 1879

We will publish next week n tabulated statement, kindly furnish ed by County Treasurer Falls, show ing the school revenue of each school district in the county, the amount yet due the different districts.
Year: 1879

We hope the Arkansas Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anl- mals will soon appoint a vigilant and fearless agent here, and that he will stop the catching and selling of the young mocking birds. Seven out of every ten caught die with grief at losing their freedom.
Year: 1879

The republican party is party of force and yiolancc. It was born into existence by force and violence, and It now hangs all it's hopes of an- animation upon the military at the polls.
Year: 1879

The Little Rock Democrat very truthfully remarks:

 "The only independent farmer is the one who can hold his crop till it will bring the greatest amount of money. The man who is always compelled to market his crop as soon as it is gathered, will always be the servant of others.
Year: 1879

The Little Rock people now mourne the departure from that place of "Dr." McConkey with his quack stuff and his squad of street singers. There is now good opening there for any other set of tramps who want to find an easy place to sell patent nostrums.
Year: 1879

A DAY or two before Congress ad-
j0urned one Of the official reporters in
the House of Representatives received
q note from member of the House
which read : ''Pleas announce my
pare with the member from Road
Island, il present would vote l."
Year: 1879

A meeting Of the Fourth of July
Amusement Committee was held at
the City Hall last night for the pur-
pose of deciding the game of base ball
between the Reds and KGoxvilies on
the 4th. There was not a quorum,
however, and an adjournment was
had till tonight. The Chairman of
the Committee requests US to notify
all members thereof, together with the
umpire of the game aud the captain
of each club to meet again at the City
Hall at u promptly tonight.


COMMISSIONERS RAUM says that the
failure to provide for the pay OF
United States Marshals amounts to a
repeal OF the criminal portion of the
revenue laws. But that is what the
Democrats wanted. They want to
put the illicit distilleries in operation
By that they hope to reach the good
time talked Of by Senator Vance,
when whisky could be had for five
cents drink and sugar thrown In"
Year: 1879

TUESDAY, Sept 20 +. MI


large business. a further stimulation of prices
and increased set of the current bullward marked
today's transactions upon the Stock Exchange. All
the prominent favorites were brought up to the
boiling point. and such neglected properties US
Iron Mountain Illinois Central, Western Union and
Pacific Mail (which have been simply simmering for
weeks past) were warmed up into higher hgures by
the fires of fresh speculation Leaving aside the
grangers (which, as usual. led the way, whatever
there was spare Of speculative interest found its
way into the above-named stocks. Iron Mountain
advanced to 30A, its highest quotation within the
last three months; Illinois Central rose from ~ to
s94. falling back however, to 80 at the close. from
sudden awakening to the fact among invest
ors that a six per cent stock thoroughly
sound was cheap at the price; also from the other
fact that the solid Amsterdam burghers at present
large shareholders like Oliver Twist, askng for
more" through the medium of orders to buy;
Western Union. with hop. skip and jump in the
last fifteen minutes--a 'maurdis quart d'heure' for
the shorts-skpped from 941s to 957s under pur-
chases of something over 10000 shares made by
prominent broker tor a principal to be guessed at
but insgated unquestionaby by the belief that the
Executive Committee Tomorrow. while recommend
ing quarterly dividend of q per cent. will show
million Of surplus for the current three
monthly business and last, but not least.





under the impulse Afforded by the new
life which has been infused into the stock.
While the activity in the stocks just named may be
properly regarded more less phenomenal, there
was the regular Improvement in the grangers.
which seems to be accepted q matter of course.
Although st. Paul is demonstrative in regard to its
increased earnings. but keeps shady as to the in
creased mileage which makes them, and Northwest
up its debt by the issue of bonds, which it sells
a price which nobody knows, because it refuses to
tell it, both these stocks advanced smartly to-day
and closed nearly if not quite. at the best figures OF
the season. There being further developments
in the scheme for coal combination, the stocks
interested comparatively quiet and the changes
in prices unimportant Money on call was at one
time more active. the rate reaching to per cent.
It pretty well understood early in the day that
attempt would be made by certain parties, who
having sold out their stocks whining to get in
again, to break the market by tightening money.
Being forewarned. spectators were forearmed, and
were thus enabled to defeat scheme which
crazy at best, If it had any existence be-
yond mere rumor.


The extreme fluctuations Of the day in the prices
Of leading shares shown in the following tablet
Year: 1879

sho uld not exist between himself and
Col. McComb, and both work together
70 make these Improvements which
must sventuats in doubling the present
price Of the stock which they control.
In taking q casual survey Of the field
after the little skirmish Is over We can
not see that anybody is injured. Those
who held stock got clear Of 1t at ahsnd'


some advance, those who bought II


must be fully satisfied that 1t is worth
even more than what they paid for II
as the road cannot but be benefited by
ha ring all the earrings put back on 1t
in improvements, the public at large


Interested in it is to be heartily con-
graduated. L. is but seldom stock
battle takes place IN which there are
SO few hurt.
Year: 1879

A couple Of Irishmen, thinking to
combine. pleasure with profit by do.
ing a little unlicensed trafficking in
liquor on the Derby Day, bought a
small jar of whiskey and started for
EPSON. Knowing they would want
a drop themselves on the way, it was
agreed that neither should drink
without paying. They had not trav
eled far on the road when one drank
a glass and paid his partner three.
pence; be followed suit, and handed
the money back again. 1t was q
dusty toilsome journey, and upon
reaching the Downs they were dumb.
founded by discovering the whiskey
all gone, and that, although they had
honestly paid for every dram, they
had only threepence between them
as the final result Of their specula-
tions.
Year: 1879

Senator LAMAR heard from Ohio and
then made a speech; so full Of patriotism,
love of the Union and the Constitution; so
glowing with devotion to the dissectional
relations of our common country; so filed
with unsclfsh principle so keen in the per-
ception of what attitude the South should
really hold toward the North, and under
which she can hope to enjoy her full share
in the councils, benefits and advantages of
the Union, that he is liable now to be mis-
taken for one of the signers of the Declare
tion of Independence, and q hero of the
Revolution and the Union, instead of n rebel
who had fought to dismcmbcr it and take
the National life Under the influence of
the elections in the North, where State after
State has declared against the dogmas of
State sovereignty, Home Rule and Solid
| "South," on such premises, Mr.. LAMAR is
recovering somewhat from that blindness of
mind which had become darIened when
ever he was brought to consider the whole
country, and he begins to see and under
stand that there is North, which has the
power at the ballot-box, rs it had with tho
bayonet, to preserve and protect this Union
from all the heresies with which the South
is fostering, and under which it had hoped
to make itself solid and secure absolute con-
troll over the Government.


We congratulate Senator LAMAR on
his keen discernment which has enabled
him thus early to discover the shadow
which comes before the events of 1880, and
tells him and his kind that the people of
the North will never consent that the con-
quered in the rebellion shall rule over their
conquerors. The evidence of this is set
forth in marked coloring in the elections
that have been and are to be held through
out the Northern States this tall-and this
is only the sllirmish line of 1880, when the
issues and results OF the war will be settled
for the next generation if not for all time.
The tone and temper of LAMAR's speech
show that lie begins to see and realize the
inevitable, and he may hope by his honied
phrases now to avert it, but we can say tC
him and the people he represents that the
resort to taify with which to sweeten anC
pacfy the North is played out. That hai


heretofore been tried with too much effect


but in the light Of the bad faith and bat


blood displayed in the South and in the
late extra session of Congress, the day fol-
sweetening and pacifying the North with


hypocritcal pretcnses has gone by, 1t il


iron clad in its position and invincible il
its determination to wrest the Government
from the hands of its enemies and restore i
to the keeping of the loyal heart of th,
country. Hereafter Southern sweetmeat
will not tickle the palates of Northern mer
until the strong meats of the Union, tn
f Constitution and the laws, are discussed
! and so control the feast that there will b.


no room for Southern fruits, which ar
pleasant to the eye, but turn to ashes oi
9 the lips,
Year: 1879

JUSTICE FIELD out-ITerods HERoD in his
devotion to State Rights. Dissenting from
the opinion of the majority of the Supreme
court regarding the THURMAN Pacific rail-
road funding bill, he takes even more de-
cided grounds than were assumed by the
Bourbons in the last session of Congress in
favor of that heresy. But he ont farther
than this and charged his fellow members
of the bench with a tendency to National
ism and Capitalization. This is not the
first time, we rise TO remark, that Presi-
dental electioneering has been obtrusively
introduced into our judicial decisions by
Democratic aspiranls.
Year: 1879

INDIANA is getting ready to flop over TO
the Republican side of the fence 1t is
perhaps, unfortunate that she does not hold
an election this year; but next year will
do quite as well.
Year: 1879

IT will possibly be safe to count upon
DAVID DAVIS as Republican Senator
after the Democratic nomination next July.
In other words, he will probably come
waddling back into camp a sadder and a
wiser man, another victim of futile dali
Ilucer
Year: 1879

THE New York Sun didn't discover
America, but il has discovered almost every
thing else since. 1t now discovers that the
Democrats will run HANCOCK for President
because he is a Union General A Union
General in the Confedro-Democntic party
is a novelty and the election of ono of that
class as Democratic candidate will be q
greater. EWING, because he had been a
Union General, thought he could capture
Ohio by leading the Democratic party in the
nay, but he has discovered how sadly he was
Year: 1879

GENERAL BUTLER is not as truthful as
he ought to be. He recently declared that
the Middlesex MILL of which he is part
owner, had never made but one reduction
in wages. The record shows that within
five years the operatives of that mill have
had their wages reduced forty-iour per cent
How is that, Uncle Ben?
Year: 1879

SECRETARY EyARTs' Cooper Institute
speech was in the nature of an earnest,
straightforward endeayor to heal the dis
sensions, real or imaginary, that exist in the
Republican party. 1t was, therefore, an
illustration OF the devotion of a good Re-
publican TO the principles of his party re-
gardless of personal preferences, likes or
dislikes in respect Of the party nominees.
Its influence will be felt throughout the
Empire State, and, for that matter, the coun =
try over. For this reason the Secretary may
reasonably expect to be assailed by the Op.
position press but he will have cause to
congratulate himself over these assaults, for
the extent of public mans true usefulness
nowadays is safely measured by his un-
popularity with the Democracy.
Year: 1879

The futile attempts to repeal the National
election laws will be repeated at the next
session of Congress. The Bourbons will
then nurse their wrath until the Presiden-
tial count in February, 1881, when they


will insist that the execution of those laws
served to yitiate the preceding election OF
1880 This by way of remote prediction
Year: 1879

As things are going on now no reasonable
man will gainsay the prediction that the
next House viii be Republican. This con-
ceded fact is the occasion of much uneas-
ness among the Democrats, and they have
resolved to hold on to their majority in the
Senate at any risk, or at the cost of right
and justice. They will not go about this
until the December session of 1880, after
the National election shall have passed, and
when they will proceed to unseat Senator
KELLoGG-or try to do it--without fear Of
immediate consequences or an uniayorable
influence through that act among the peo-
pie.
Year: 1879

Not long ago Milford man came to this
city, bent upon having good time. He had
it, according to his understanding of the
term, and when the shades of night had fall
en- he started for home, in a condition which
did not promise rapid trip. He manifested
desire to become acquainted with all parts
of the road, and over portions of it, here and
there, he fingered lovingly, but for what rea-
son other people could not see. Some OF the
night had passed when he reached the vicin-
ity of the rolling-mill in Fair Haven. In an
enjoyable stupor he stumbled in, and took
lodgings on the ground. Soon the workman
discovered him, and they dragged him in,
where the molten iron glared at the walls and
roof, the bright sparks were flying all around,
the laborers seemed in the alienation of hor


rible shadows and lurid flame, like inhabi-
tants of little pandemonium. The scene
might naturally remind one of the stories of
the abode of the damned. They shook the
man from Milford until his eyelids rose and
revealed to him the interior of the mill in all
it's impressiveness. "Who are you and where
do you come from?" said the workmen


The frightened reveler stared about him as
he replied, "Well when l was on earth /
lived in Milford. ."-Neao Haoen Palladium.
Year: 1879

He was an aesthetic young man from the
city. The floor manager had introduced him
to divine young creature in blue, and they
stood in the set waiting for the prompter's 5
call.


''What charming assembly," remarked
the young man from the city, gazing around
upon the array of beautiful faces and Co.'S
tunes. ''There is something so captivating,
so etherealizing in these gatherings of culture
and refinement, that I am always charmed
when I can mingle with such a joyous throng.
Do you not pronounce this fashionable and
intellectual soiree-a superior gathering Of
beauty and gentility?"


''It's the boss" replied the gentle creature
in blue, as she arranged the fastening of a
neat little glove


The young man from the city had to be as
sisted out of the hall.
Year: 1879

A few days ago drummer from the East
was taking nip in saloon near the Central
Depot, and he put the proprietor up to new
dodge. 1t was to place on the hot stove what
seemed to be an ounce ball and cartridge, but
the cartridge or shell was of course empty.
Very few loungcrs would care to remain in
the room and wait for the expected explosion,
and once out doors they would give room to
cash customers. The saloonist procured
three or four of the ''bumbshells" and the
trick was success from the start. When he
had rOped in three or four friends to aid him
they could clear the room of lOaferS in one
minute by the watch, and the fat on their
ribs grew in thickness.


Yesterday morning an ungainly-lOOking
chap, who seemed to have been frost-bitten
by contract, and whose old Overcoat was too
ragged to even tangle the cold, dropped into
the place in quiet way and at once tried to
surround the coal-stove. The saloonist asked
him if he didn't want hot drink, and he re-
Piled:


''Oh, l guess not-Ill thaw out by the fire
after an hour or two"


Pretty soon hint was given him that he
could buy ten cent cigar for five cents, and
that reminded him that he had q clay pipe
and some tobacco in his pocket The saloon
ist thereupon determined to scare him out,
and while fixing the fire he placed one of the
deceivers on the stove and leaped away, with
the exclamation that some fiend had conspir-
ed to assassinate him. The stranger rose up,
realized the peril, and called out: ''How
long fore the darned thing will shoot Off"
"You haven't minute to live if you don't
get out doors!" was the wild answer, as the
saloonist made dive for rear room.


''Pete Adams" began the stranger, as he
shook off his old overcoat, ''you hain't got a
tarnal thing to live for. and you might as
we'll go under now, when cofins are cheap.
Brace up, old boy, and die with your boots
on-whoop!"


Picking up stool he knocked the hot
water can off the stove at the first blow and
he was whaling away at the beer tables when
the saloonist rushed in and screamed out:


"Fly! Fly. or you're dead man !"


"Welcome! King of terrors!" whooped
Peter as be tossed table clear over the bar
keepers head.


Three or four men came in to help secure
him, but before they had succeeded in jam
ming him down behind the coal-box they had
bumps and bruises enough TO last them for
month.


''I'm the clothes-pln that never flies from
nothing nor nobody!" remarked Peter as
they finally let him up and sought to get 500
damages.


He hadn't red cent, and when he had
jumped through back window and cantered
down the alley his faded and ragged over
coat alone remained to tell that he had been
there