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Year: 1878

PATHos IN REAL LIFE.-People who cross
City Hall square at night have noticed
little old woman dressed In brown gown,
a tight sacque, and white frilled cap scrup-
ulouslY clean. She walks the square from
3 Z. NJ till past midnight 10 and fro. scan
ming every mans face, and after many dis
appointments every night goes slowly,
very late, up 10 her home in Mulberry
street. About four years ago John Kelley,
her husband was employed in the press
room of the Herald. About o'clock ev-
cry night he met his wife, who brought
down his lunch and carried back the dishes


One cold, dark night he did not meet her,
aud as she did not know the way to tile
press-room she waited some time and then
went home. In her room she found his
dead body on the bed. He had been killed
by the falling OF roll OF paper. She did
not die, though she was near dying. and
she still waits every night to meet her hus-
band. Winter and summer are alike to
her, and no weather delays her, though
she Is sixty years OF age.-N Y. World.
Year: 1878

IT is said that ANDERSON bIushed the
other day when before the Potter commit
tee. The discovery of that defect in his
character was, no doubt, the cause Of his
leaving the service ol the Poe. The man
who can blush even at crime has no business
on that naner.
Year: 1878

DEATH by suicide is increasing IN New
York. The Potter committee Is in session
in the custom house and has not been quar-
antined. An epidemic Of political and moral
suicide can therefore be explained; but it is
difficult to explain the physical denonstrL-
tons in this line unless it is that the Goth
amites can't avoid reading the reports OF its
proceedings in any other way.
Year: 1878

Why not put Southern Republican on
our ticket for Vice President in l~-0. There
are native Republicans in that section who
are as pure in their devotion TO the princ-
pies of good governmen, and free from any
faint in their personal record as any of the
public men Of either rnrty in the North.
Year: 1878

We are gratified to be able to state au-
thoritatiyely that voting citizens of the sew
eral States Of the Union connected with the
Departments of the Government will he
granted the usual voting leaves to attend
the approaching elections in their several
States. Now, If the Congressional Commit
tee can negotiate Communication transporta-
ton for regular voters, it will De all right.
Year: 1878

ASSISTANT PusTMAsTER-G TYNER
was somewhat mstouishcd last week to learn
from the Democratic organ in this city that
he had nominated GRANT and KEY n the
Republican candidates for l~SO. He wrote
to Judge KEY Immediately, explaining that
he had no objections to such ticket, but
modestly declined the honor OF having sng-
gested it. The truth is, the suggestion
emanutcd from the laundering brain OF
some correspondent, who WIS " hard up for
news" rs the entire guild is nowadays
but it is not improbable that his bundcI IN
this instance will strike a responsive chord
in til. public mind.
Year: 1878

At 6 o'clock P. NJ, to-day the first
regular session of the 45th Congress
closes. 1t has not accomplished the
good expected of it, and has been law
ish rather than sparing in the use of
the peoples money; but it has done
nothing that was dangerous to the
peace or dignity or liberties of the
country. All of the appropriation
bills have been made larger than they
should have been; various reforms in
the Government, promised on the
stump and early in the session, have
not been brought about the tariff has
not been simplifed; and no means
have been provided by which a repe-
tition of the theft of the Presidency
can be prevented. On the other hand,
the credit of the Government has not
been disturbed. subsidies have receiv-
ed no favor; and an investigation has
been commenced that promises to pre-
vent, more effectually than law could
do, any future attempt to deprive an
elected President of his Office.


Among minor matters, it is crafty.
ing that money was appropriated for
the payment of the Fishery Award.
To have neglected this would have
been dishonest. Provision was also
made for the payment of money due
for carrying the mails in the South
prior to the war. This latter amount
is not large, and the subject bad little
attention given it until blatherskite
Representative from New York made
it the text for wholesale abuse OF the
South. After that it was the impera-
tive duty of Congress to provide for
the payment of all such claims as
could pass the ordinary examinations
at the Departments.


4 Government has been provided
for.this District, and the General Gov
ernment very justly assumes half the
expenses. This will in few years
give property here real instead of a
merely nominal value as now, and will
in time cause the City Of Washington
to be what the Capital Of great and
powerful country should be.


From the resolution passed by the
House By a vote Of 23I to II. that no
Congress could. directly or indirectly,
except b. impeachment. interfere with
the title of a President declared elect
Year: 1878

The Millers' National Convention


was held in indianapolis last week,
and on Thursday the delegates went on
an excursion. 4 welcoming speech
was made to them by ex.Gov. Hem
bricks. and among other things he
said AS a boy was acquainted
with the miller, and thought bin u
great man. When he raised the gate
with such composure and confidence.
and the tumbliug waters drove the
machinery ahead, I admired his power.
And then he talked strongly upon all
questions. He was very positive upon
politics, religion, law, and mechanics.
And any one bold enough to dispute
point was very likely to have a person.
al argument thrown into his face, for
he knew all the gossip among his GUS
toners. Laughter.] He was cheer
full. l thought it was because he was
always in the music of the running
water and the whirling wheels. He
was kind and olever-indecd so much
SO, that he would promise the grists
before they could be ready (laughter);
and so the boys had to go two or three
times. He was a chancellor, and pre-
scribed the law. Every one in his
turn. The miller standing iu the door
Of his mill, all white with the dust, is
a picture ever upon the memory of
even this generation. L. is u picture
of a manly figure. I wonder il you,
gentlemen, the lords Of many runs and
bolts, are ashamed to own him as your
predecessor. 1t was small mil some
times upon "a willowy brook and
sometimes upon the larger river, but it
stood on the advanced line Of the set
tlement, with its one wheel to grind
the Indian corn, aud Que for wheat,
and in the fall and winter season one
day in the week set apart for grinding
buckwheat. 1t did the work Of the
neighborhood, Plain and unpreten-
tious, as compared with your stately
structures, | would not say it tcontrbut-
ed less toward the development of the
country and the permanent establish
ment of society. SO great favor it
was, and so important to the public
welfare, that the authorities that day
invoked in its favor the highest power
of the State--eminent domain. That
mill and miller had to 90 before you
and yours, and ] am happy to revive
the memory of the miller at the Gus
tom mills who with equal care adjust
ed the sack upon the horse for the boy
to ride upon. and his logic in support
of his theory in politics or his dogma
in religion"
Year: 1878

I gazed upon the glorious sky
Aud the green mountains round,
And thought that when came to lie


At rest within the ground,
'Twers pleasant, that in howery June,
When brooks send up a cheerful tune.
And groves Joyous sound,
The sexton's hand my grave to make,
The rich, green mountain turf should break.
A cell within the frozen mould,
A coffin borne through slest,
And ICY clods above 1t rolled,
While fierce the tempest beat
Away IL will not think Of these
Blue be the sky and soft the breeze.
Earth green beneath the feet,
And be the damp mould gently pressed
Into my narrow place OF rest.
There. through the long. long summer hours,


The golden light should lie,
And thick young herbs and groups Of flowers


Stand iu their beauty by.
The oriole shoula build and tell
His love. tale close beside my cell


The idle butterfly
Should rest him there, and there be heard
The housewife bee and humming. bird.
And what If cheerful shouts at noon


Come from the village sent.
Or songs of maids, beneath the moon,


With fairy laughter blent!
And what II, in the evening light,
Betrothed lovers walk iu sight


or my low monument
would the lovely scene around
Would know no sadder sight or sound.
l know, know should not see


The seasons glorious show,
Nor would its brightness shine for me,


Nor its wild music ilow;
But If, around my place Of sleep,
The friends love should come to weep,


They might not haste to 80.
Soft airs and song and light and bloom
Should keep them lingering by my tomb.
These to their sotened hearts should bear


The thought of what has been.
And speak Of one who can not share


The gladness OF the scene;
Whose part. in all the pomp that fills
Tie circuit OF tho sumner hills;


ls-that his grave is green;
And deeply would their hearts rejoice
To hear again his living voice.
Year: 1878

Z" A reliable man wanted to take
charge of FARM" A reliable man
wanted in a counting-hOuse''-" A reli-
able man wanted to superinted a mill''
=" A reliable man wanted as teller in
a bank,' so the advertisements read.
What demand there is for reliable
men! Young women want them for
husbands; fathers and mothers want
them for sons-in-law. People in trouble
inquire anxiously for reliable lawyer
whom they can consult; the sick want
reliable physician; the churches want a
reliable man for a minister, although
they do not advertise their want in a
newspaper.


There seems to be no end to the de-
mands for reliable men. Are reliable
men so scarce that so much point is
made of getting them?


We apprehend they are not as plenty
as they should be. Reliable architects
and contractors and engineers are not
to be found in every place, or there
would not be so many railway and
bridge accidents; cashiers and other
bank officers are not always reliable, or
there would be no defalcations. The
same may be said of trustees and insur-
ance officers. In truth, reliable men do
not crowd one another in any class or
occupation.


Young man, it is for you TO deter
mine whether you will be a reliable
man or not. 1t all depends upon your
self. Nothing is easier; only resolve
that you will be a reliable man, and
stick to it through every temptation.


There has been some criticism on the
word reliable, as not being good En-
gli-h. But the word will answer very
well, if we can only have the quality
which it describes. .-NeU York Ledger.
Year: 1878

gress, and unless Prince Bismarck can in
duce them to agree upon some compromise
it is quite improbable that the Congress will
be held. Every thing is unsettled and ru-
mors daily grow more warIike, but most of
them are wholly false or premature.
Year: 1878

THERE is one rather absurd thing
about postal cards that seems not to be
generally known, says the Detroit Free
Press. A good writer, who gets things
down fine, can put several thousand
words on a card, and the cost is a cent,
but if he pastes a printed slip contain.
ing a single word on the card the ex-
pense is six cents; one, paid for the
card, and the other five collected from
the card receiver, yet if words are print
ed on the card itself it is all right. If a
person pastes printed slip on a card,
the size of a postal card, and puts the
card and slip in an open envelope, the
Government will carry card, slip and
envelope for a cent, yet it charges six
cents for carrying post card and slip,
without the envelope! Therefore, if
you have occasion to paste d printed
paragraph on post card, put it in an
envelope and the additional weight will
be carried four cents cheaper than the
card alone goes. 1t looks ridiculous to
carry five thousand or more words in an
envelope for cent and then charge six
cents for carrying half dozen words
on card without the envelope.
Year: 1878

THE British naval training-ship Fury
dice, with over 800 men on board, cap
sized on the south coast of the Isle OF
Wight, during a severe squall on the after
noon of the oath, and all on board were
drowned with the exception of five per-
sons who were picked up by passing
schooner. Three of the latter su5se-
quently died.
Year: 1878

1t is said that the difference in the
cost of mail service in the far West ac-
cording to the terms of existing con-
tracts and according to contracts award
ed at former lettings will be more than
million dollars. This reduction in
the cost of the service will enable the
Contract Department to reduce its ap-
preparation estimates.
Year: 1878

The Senate Committee on Railroads
have reported favorably on the Texas
Pacific Railroad scheme, the bill report
ed being substantially the same as the
one agreed upon by the House Commit
tee. The Committee at the same time
reported the Southern Pacific bill with
out recommendation. 1t is understood
that the friends of the latter measure
agreed not to make a minority report
on the Texas-Pacifc bill, in considera-
ton of the majority of the committee
consenting to withhold an adverse re-
port upon the Southern Pacific bill.
Year: 1878

A SWEET Seeding orange tree in Her
nando County, Fla, bore two genuine
lemons in a crop of oranges this season.
The tree had not been grated with lem
on, and the phenomenon is attributed
to the formulation of the orange bios
SONS with the pollen from lemon bios
sons
Year: 1878

THE Louisiana Supreme Court, ,on the
18th, in the case of the State vs. Thom-
as G. Anderson, convicted in the Supe-
rior Criminal Court for publishing as
true forged and counterfeit election re-
turns from the parish of Vernon, order
ed that the verdict of the Jury be set
aside and reversed and the prisoner dis
charged from custody. The Court held
that ' in order to be forgery an instru-
ment which it is alleged is falsified
must, if true, be legally capable OF com
mitting a fraud. Nowhere in law is a
consolidated return required as dec
laration of the result, and its alteration
or modification can in no way affect
election. 1t is the essence of this
crime that it should be committed by a
public officer, and on document which
would change the result of election.
This was not done" This decision of
the Supreme Court virtually ends the
prosecution of members of the Return
ing Board.
Year: 1878

EDITOR RECORD: Please find room
in your columns for the following
description Of onr village and the
surrounding country:


Center is situated on level piece
of table land, or second bottom, one
fourth of mile from Big Creek on
the west, nice little rivulet on the
east, and q fine spring on the south,
the Smithville and Ash Flat and
Evening Shade and ThomasyilIe
roads crossing in the center; also
the junction Of the Caamine road
with the above roads, Surrounded
by good farming country, bottom
and up lands, producing abundant
crops Of corn, cotton, wheat, and
anything else that will grow in tho
State; an energetic and thriving
elias, Of people, peacoable and Jaw
abiding; Il good church and school
house adjacent; a Touring mill i'll one
mile, carding factory attached; cot
ton Gins convenient, This is most
excellent business point, situated, as
it is, S miles from Evening Shade
9 miles from Ash Flat, II miles from
SmithviiIe, and Is miles from OppO-
sition; u very healthy location, and
much in need Of one or two dry
goods stores, family grocery store,
a drug store, q boot and shoe shop,
a blacksmith shop and a wagon
shop. all Of which would do a good
business here, commanding, as they
would, a large portion OF country,
the most OF which is thickIy settled
bv an honest and Industrious class
Of people. Men who have capital
they wish to invest in mercantile
or other business, and desiring a
good, healthy location, would do
we'll to visit Center and satisfy them
selves. Now is the time to strike.
Lots can be had very cheap, and
the most desirable locations secured.
Real estate is on the rise, and as the
farmers and iaboring classes gener-
ally gradually liborate themselves
from debt, as they seem determined
TO do, lite and vitality will be in
fused into every department of busi-
ness; the farmers out of debt and
under the stimulating influence Of
individual independence, and firm
confidence established between the
farmers and merchants, our county
will rank with any in North Arkan-
sas, and he who establishes himself
in business at Center first, will sail
smoothly down the current Of pros
perity and land safely in the port
of fortune. CENTER.


Feb. 14th, 1873.
Year: 1878

NEWPORT, Jan. IL, 1873
Both OF tho steamers OF the Fall River line are at
this end Of the route The Newport started for New
York at nine o'clock this morning but finding rough
weather OIL Beaver Tail put back. Neither OF tho
boats will out tonight unless the ODE
rates. The Old Colony did not arrive from New York
TIL ten O'Clock this morning.
Year: 1878

got on the game terms to pay
the interest on the money ex-
pended in building the road. A
prominent lawyer Of Walla Wal
la, in view of the extension Of
the read to Dayton says: "Cake
into consideration the further
fact that . large grain raising
district lies directly east Of here,
and all the people in that direc-
ton are also interested, or may
be made so, and yen are prepar-
cd for the following suggestion:
A proposition to extend the rail
road to Dayton, upon the sub
scription of an amount to be
fixed by your company and the
employment Of a good, wide
awake, energetic man, known
to the farming community and
in whom they have confidence;
to call upon such at their homes,
and, in my opinion, the work is
done.


Another gentleman states that
the people Of Stevens and
Whitman counties are unani-
nous in their desire to have the
road, and are willing to take any
amount of stock required. We
simply give these letters as indi-
cative of the sentiment of the
people in that section Of the
Territory, and cannot for a mo
ment entertain a doubt but that
their overtures will be embraced,
and that too at the earliest pos
siblc moment.
Year: 1878

AT this season of the year, persons are
troubled with the annoyance of their wa
ter spouts, and pipes, used for carrying Off
waste water. In order to remove the ice
in the pipes simple remedy is only need
ed. The remedy consists in pouring
about pint of molasses in the pipe,
which will quickly remove the ice.
Year: 1878

rhe alarm of fire yesterday afternoon
about 8 o'clock was caused by the burn
ing of grass on the marshes beyond Har-
Ian q Hollingsworth Cos ship yard.
which was set on fire by some boys who
were skating.
Year: 1878

Near Cherokee, Ca, the other
day. a young man named Penny,
while out hunting his steers bare.
foot, stepped on the bead OF large
rattlesnake. He had his heel on
the snakes head, and being afraid
to move did not know what to do
for some time, while the lideous
thing was writhing and squirming
and vigorously lashing the youths
leg. Penny was badly frightened,
but recovered presence of mind
sufficient to take out bis knife and
reach down and cut off the snakes
qead.
Year: 1878

This is the choicest premium
ever given to newspaper sub
scribers-something of real and
practical value. The ladies' Will
be delighted with it. If your
neighbor don't take the OBsEn-
YER tell him of this offer. They
all want the paper and book.
You get the old OBSERVER and
a capital, practical, useful book
of 1GO pages, for the price Of the
former.


Now is your opportunity.
This unprecedented offer will
expire in few weeks.
Year: 1878

"Sam you are not honest why
do you put all the good peaches
on the top of the measure and
the little ones below p "Same
reason, sab, dat makes de front of
your house all marble and de back
gate chiefly slop bar'l, sah."
Year: 1878

A dry goods drummer, hav-
ing an hours leisure, went into
"a Paterson foundry the other
morning, and, going too close to
the machinery, a ten-ton trip
hammer hit him in the cheek and
broke itself all to pieces. He
Immediately left. the town to a
void a suit for damages.
Year: 1878

A fat iron with a thermome-
ter on to regulate the heat is in
vented, but we don't think it
will be popular. w hat is to be-
come OF the thermometer when
the iron is thrown at a husbands
head? It is doubtless the in
vention of some short-sighted
bachelor.
Year: 1878

The majority report of the
Committee on Platform and
Resolutions, was adopted by
the convention, with the follow
ing amendments, offered by Mr..
Luke Finley, of Shelby:


We demand the adoption of a
constitutional provision pro-
hibiting the State forever from
borrowing money and issuing
bonds, except such bonds as
may be issued in compromise
of-the present debt.


We demand reduction Of
the fees of officers IN conformi-
ty to the general shrinkage of
values and the stringency of
the times and the adoption of a
maximum standard-all fees in
excess to go into the county
treasures for the use of schools.


We further demand the pas
sage of lien law which shall
ibe just alike to the laborer in
the payment of his wages, the
mechanic and the owner.
Year: 1878

|


nancial policy of the Govern
iment to contract the circulation
of treasury notes, disparage sill


yer, magnify gold and nationa


bank notes, be reversed, and
every legitimate mode adopted
to swell the volume of our cur
rency with silver and treasury
notes. For five years the Ma.
t1onal Republican party
upheld and protected an ire
sponsible minority in the usur-
ipation of our State government


and permitted it to waste the
substance of our unrepresented
and impoverished people by
| burdensome taxation, and the
issue and sale, at an enormous
discount, Of millions of boEds
the proceeds Of which in great
part, were converted to the pri-
vate use of its private favorites
and when the control of the
State government was recov-
cred by our people, they
were threatened with a mil
itary government if they pre-
sumed to question the valid
ity Of the bonds so issued. We
undertook to provide for these
bonds as part of our public
debt. As Democrats we point
with pride to the fact that since
the accession Of our party to
power, it has not created dol
lar of debt, but has paid mill
lions upon existing debts. 1t
has steadily reduced the expen-
ses of the administration of the
State Government. It has at
tempted to meet all the obliga-
tons of the State, just and un-


just. By reason Of circum-
stances over which we have had
no control, We arc no longer a.
bic now to meet the require-
ments Of our creditors. The
cost Of all our productions ex-
ceeds their market value. Our
mechanics and laboring people
are without remunerative en-
ployment. Our merchants are
making no gains. None are
prospcring save corporations,
interest takers and money lend
ers. We recognize among our
selves wide differences Of opin-
ion as to the time, mode and
measure Of the payment of our
public obligations, but for the
present these differences Of O.
pinion afford no just occasion
for disturbing that unity which
is so essential TO the complete
success OF our party in its great
struggle for the liberation of
the country. We cordially u
mite, however, in declaring that
we are opposed 10 the repudia-
tion of the just indebtedness
of the State, that we are in favor
of an equitable adjustment of
our public indebtedness, but to
the end that this question may
be put out Of the politics Of
the State, we declare that We
are for the submission to the
people for their ratification or
rejection at the ballot-box, at a
separate election, of any adjust
ment of the State debt which
may be made by the Legislature;
and until such adjustment shall
have been made and ratified by
the people, we declare that we
are opposed to the levy of any
greater tax upon the people
than may be necessary for the
payment Of the expenses Of the
State Government, economical
ly administered.


Il. i. TALIAFERRO, Chmg1.


The majority report of the
Committee on Platform and
Resolutions, was adopted by
the convention, with the follow
ing amendments, offered by Mr..
Luke Finley, of Shelby: