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Year: 1877

Among the multitudes who frequent the
sanctuary you could rarely find person
who would not acknowledge the Importance
of religion, but they tell you that the great.
est difficulty they have in attending to re-
ligious concerns is that they cannot feel.
Many have been found in just this cond-
ton when afiliction smote them. At the
first stroke they doubted whether God was
really their Father, and perhaps unbelief.
like Jobs wife, said, Curse God and die. "
Seeing this world to be an unsatisfyimg
cheat they were led to look for something
better The world, and nature aud philos-
ophy could not satisfy. Then the holy
Spirit whispered, "rhere is mercy in
Christ" and the stricken soul exclaims,
"Al else has failed. | will try this Lord,
| believe help thou my unbelief.' The
hard vine only wanted trimming with "a
sharp knife to take the dead wood out of it,
and make it bring forth its clusters OF Chris
tian graces. This is the ministry of tears.
As some persons in natural sleep are so
soundly unconscious that you must shake
and shake them before they are aroused, so
there are many now wide awake it, the
Christian life, whose slumbers would never
have been broken had not some giant trouble
given them a harsh arousing. 1t needs
storm as well as sunshine to mature the
graces of the Spirit. Hyacinths, at the first
start, must be kept in dark room il you
would have them flourish, and it is often
that the Christian life begins to develop
itself in the thickest gloom. Sorrows
whether coming to the man of the world OF
the man of the church, are ordained and in
stalled to the ministry of making our hearts
| pliable Sorrows are not bats that at dusk
/ -
and without any seeming direction, bu
black ravens, that carry food from God t.
hungry Elijah. All our troubles are ethel
prophets to cry woe unto our sins, or apos
ties to preach unto us of the resurrection
The flowers of the ocean float shoreward, anC
persons of taste gather them ana dry then
and press them. Thus it is that the bright
hued promises of the gospel are tloated t
our souls from the great sea of trouble, anC
we press them between the leaves of our at
fection,-A Adodnce.
Year: 1877

AMUSING THE CHILDREN.-A correspon-
dent of the American Agricuituria says 1t
is real household convenience to have
something at hand that will amuse the little
folks. have seen a common blackboard
proposed in your paper or elsewhere, for the
coyely by accident, and nothing has proved
so engaging IN our family as a blackboard
boys, horses, dogs cats and other figures a
have appeared A board of any size will
answer, but two by two and half feet is a
good size cleat the ends so that it will not
warp and paint it on both sides. Try it,
Year: 1877

| then paid visit to the penitentiary or
State prison. I would fain enter into de-
tail description Of the place; but your space
will not permit me. It is a dirty-looking,
yellow-washed, semi-circular building, situ-
ated at the foot of hill, and only accessible
by road that, like the building, is in a
state Of extreme dilapidation. Inside the
prison there are 800 prisoners, about four
tiftbs Of whom, we were told, are colored
people; the chief OF their offences being
larceny-and the females much addicted to
infanticide. The first room we entered
contained about thirty women and two men
weaving at hand-looms the blue-striped
coarse cotton of which their dresses are
made. Another room contained one hun
dred men making barrels, and our con-
ductor told us they can make about four
hundred and fifty barrels per day. Another
room was occupied by blacksmiths and
wheelwrights, and another by shoemakers.
Crossing the yard, our attention was at
tracted to whipping-post with iron letters
for the wrists, and, after questioning, we
were told that they make no distinction as
to color in the infiiction Of punishment, and
they have no special offences for which the
lash is used, but they whip them for aoy Of
fence, such as not doing sufficient amount
Il,
ing to the side Of the prison we came to a
large boarding about forty feet high, and
passing through doorstead we found our
selves IN large space surrounded
by the lofty: boarding, and occu-
pied by number OF .tumble-down
frame buildings, in which several
OF the female prisoners. are kept, some OF
them young mothers, nursing their innocent
and unfortunate children. How the poor
creatures managed to live in such state
seemed puzzle to me. In one small mis-
erable: room seven slept, and on one. bed
living knitting was tne-looking dark
woman chained by the leg to the bedstead,
and when we observed the chain, she said,
IS I am chained to the bed like dog" Sub
seauently our conductor told us that she is
honest and truthful, but she has q bad tenn
per, that he had with his stick cut her head
open the length of his finger, and that last
week she assaulted one OF the officers, and
they were obliged to shoot her, and
she has great wound upon her
now from the shot that struck her. Sec
ing another whlpping-post in this part OF
the prison also, drew his attention to it
and the other we had seen, when he told me
they didn't use them above three times a
month, which seemed different story we
had heard from our other official guide,
who told us they were used almost daily.
Another instrument Of torture we were
shown in the women's quarters, that he
told us he used when he didn't want to
whip them, and that was q box like senti-
neps box, where they were obliged to stand,
as it was too narrow for them to sit down,


and into that place he said, ~ put two, or


three, or as many as can get in.' Such is
the prison management Of Richmond in


1876. have seen no prison in Europe nor
in America equal to it in general diIapida-
dation and neglect, and only one out of Eu-
rope, and that was at Cairo, in Egypt" .'
Year: 1877

Governor Smith occupied the entire time
Of the House Finance Committee yesterday
morning in discussing his whiskey bill. He
will speak again at the next meeting Of the
committee. The committee will certainly
not report in favor OF the bill.


"The whiskey punch still retains its
popularity with members. The apparatus
is undergoing improvements at the hands
OF the maker. .........., ..,..a
Year: 1877


Each day well-spent how sweet the thought
Worth ali the gold that Earth hath wrought
Worth all the pageAnTy and show
That glitters in this world below;
Makes man to be just what he should,
And just as God intended-good-
faithful friend and devotee,
Sincere in his humility
A noble form, q noble mien,
noble mind-these most are seen,
Not in the outward, empty grace,
But In the inward, thoughtful face.
AS greatest treasures most are found
Deep in the Earth, far underground,
SO purest thoughts and highest aims
Deep in the soul, till found, remain.
Each day well-spent brings peace OF mind,
The Joy, the bliss OF human kind,
Without which man were poor indeed
Though great his wealth. dire is his need
Wealths measured only by the store
OF Good Deeds-nothing less or more.
As Vice and Virtue re far apart,
So Good, not Bad, must rule the heart,
Industry is the darling theme
On which to dwell, on which to dream;
Then Lies great tolls find recompense
In what we need most-'tis good sense
Good sense can only come from Heaven,
And come it must when well we've striyen-
A fit reward, but nothing more
And this is Life's best, richest store.
Year: 1877

1t Is a sad fact that woman Is as
sumed to be able to keep her house
hold with judgment and success with
out the smallest training for 1t. With
the other sex, in their spheres, no such
rule obtains. No man isgiyen the com
mand of boat or squad until he has
proved. himself master of at least the
technicalities of his command. But
girl of eighteen passes from the school
room, where she has been In the posi-
tIon of subordinate at all times under
control, to the management of house
hold where she Is supreme and the dis
penser of frowns or favors, the arrangeI
of tasks and times, and without previous
training in the care Of herself expects
to come to good result in the manage
ment of men,
Year: 1877

What "they say" is beneath your no.
tice. What's the use of lying awake of
nights with the unkind remark of some
false friend running through your
brain like forked lightningP What's
the use Of getting into in worry and
fret over gossip that has been set aaoat
to your disadvantage by some meddle-
some busy oody who has more time than
characterR These things can't possibly
injure you, unless, indeed, you take no.
tice of them, and in combating them
give them character and standing. Il
what is said about you is true, set
yourself right at once; if it is false, let
il 20 for what it will, until it dies OF
inherent weakness.
Year: 1877

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the
distinguishing vices of the basest Of the
people. Wherever 1t Is found 1t Is a
certain mark Of ignorance and mean
ness; an intrinsic mark, which all the
external advantages Of wealth, splendor
and nobility cannot Obllterate,
Year: 1877

any compromise Is possible. Packard and
his Radical alIieF seem indisposed TO accept
anything but clean victory o. clean de-
feat. They have taken q bold and deter
mined stand agsinst the conservative poll
cy, and will not yield TO any persuasion,
come from whom it may.


Thsre are some disputes which can be
best adjusted by leaving them to the opera
tions of time; but this is not one Of these.
Delay is dangerous. Every day complexities
the already sufficiently complicated situa-
tion by stirring up prejudice and passion,
and stimulating that spirit of sntagonism
which will lisSeu to nothing but its own
pr0mp' ings Whatever the administration
decides to do must be done quickly and
vigorously.
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Times of the seventh in
slant says:


The figures in relation to Louisiana again
become an object of interest. The question
of Kellogg's admission to the Senate will
make these statistical facts of value. There
are four TABLES which it is necessary to look
at in this c0nnection--the count of the Re-
turning Board on the electoral and State
tickets, and the Democratic count on the
same. The Returning Board declared these
results, which, for convenience, we arrange
in tabular form:
Year: 1877

TIE Second Branch Of Council last
night thoroughly discussed the tramp
question, and wheH the debate closed they
had arrived as near the solution Of the
problem as they did when they built the
Workhouse some years ago.
Year: 1877

Mrs. Ann List, whose illness we men.
toned yesterday, Is lying very low at this
writing, and may possibly have passed
over the dark River Of Death when this
issue appears to our readers.
Year: 1877

GRANT IN ENGLAND.-The English
people seem to be irving to outdo the
toadyism shown to the Prince of Wales
during visit to this country a fewyears
ago, by like fiattering attentions to ex-
President Grant. Wherever he goes
he is met and cajoled, and feasted, and
fIattered, and befondled, till, were he
any other kind of man than he is,
he would long ago have become
weary and disgusted with il. When
the Emperor of Brazil came to the
States last year, he avoided as much as
possible the fattery and fawning of
American toadyists, and travelled as a
private citizen. Not so Grant. True
to his character, he accepts every par
ticle of homage that is offered him as an
offering to his superior eminence. The
derefence-Dom Pedro was Of some
account and was accustomed to true
difference; the other is Of no account
and knows it. Hence he takes what
he can get.
Year: 1877

GOVERNOR CARROLL declines to be
considered a candidate for United
States Senator from Maryland while
he Is an incumbent Of the Executive
Office. There will be candidates
enough, however.
Year: 1877

This is the most important ques- tion for the tax payer of Arkansas to ask, while considering the Adams Redfield proposition, for here lies tine gist of the whole matter. The principal of the nndisputed bonds which it is proposed to surrender is only $2,014,447. The interest on these bonds up to Jan. l, 1878, will amount to $l,00s,076. Now the proposition is to add the interest to the principal making $3,022,423 and issue new bonds for not only the whole amount but for an excess of $220,69 in addition. So instead of paying interest upon $2,014,337 we will have to pay upon $3,243,l17. Is this not paying pretty dear for the surrender of a lot of fraudulent paper, almost two-t thirds of which has been declared by the Supreme Court to be null and void, and the remainder of which will sooner or later be also declared fraudulent? Still the bond holders tell us that we will be getting these fraudulent bonds as a gift. And the Finance Board and the Gazette repeat the assertion. Would that all the peo- pie were scholars enough to see this matter just as it is. Any one who understands the difference be- tween simple interest and compound interest can see the additional shackles which are about to be fas tened upon us. Who shall deliver us from our friends?
Year: 1877

Let no Democrat be disturbed by the conversion of President Hayes to Democratic ideas and practices in his policy toward the South. There is no need for Democrats to feel uneasy or to commence to look about for some new party compan ionship because the President elect ed on the Republican ticket has wabbled over into democratic ways. Mohammed has simply come to the mountain, and the mountain stands firm, solid and unmoved. The re suits which have followed the adop. ton by President Hayes of the pol icy contended for by the Democratic party for long years is the highest tribute that could be bestowed upon the soundness and wisdom of Demo cratic statesmanship. All that is now necessary for Democrats to do is to stand fast by the principles and doctrines of their party, and not to lose sight of the fact that it is to the good strong fight that they themselves have made, and not to President Hayes, that the country owes a debt of gratitude for the restoration of peace, law, order and harmony in the South.
Year: 1877

All the miasmatic complaints, in other words, all disorders generated by unwholesome exhalations from earth or water, are prevalent at this season. In every section subject to the visitation of fever and ague, or other forms of intermittent disease, the causes which produce these mal- adies are actively at work. This, therefore, is a period of the year when the inhabitants of such dis tricts should prepare their systems to meet the unwholesome condition of the atmosphere by course of ton ic and alternative treatment Fore most among the lnyigorants, recom- mended by time and experience as a means of fortifying the system against all endemic and epidemic maladies, stands Hostetter's Stom- ach Bitters. By timely use of the Bitters, the feeblest resident of an unhealthy soil may escape the sick ness which, without the aid of this potent alley of nature, will be apt to overtake the strongest.
Year: 1877

weight, while chief Fishback and his braves will tomahawk and scalp him when they get up.

 Just what they deserve. Men who wish to take advantage of the mis. fortunes of Arkansas, and deal in bonds issued through the most un- biushing and notorious fraud, de serve no better fate.

 Carroll County Bowlder:

 The financial fight in Arkansas is still kept up. Somebody writes to the Gazette that very few repudia- tionists are to be found in the coun- ties of Carroll and Boone. Taking a repudiatH to be what Arkansians now understand him to be, our de liberate opinion of that writer is that he is a perverter oi the truth as he understands the truth. What the scalers please to term repudia- tion is favored by over ninety nine out of every hundred of our people, so far as we have heard any express ion.

 The Lawrence County Journal is one of the papers which the Ga zette claims as having substantially endorsed the Adams Redfield plan. The following from that paper don't look like a very healthy endorse ment:

 "We have published few articles about the bonded debt, in order to let our readers see what was being said pro and con. There seems to be no definite starting or ending. Both sides figure nicely, and we can not arrive at any conclusion as to who is right, or which is the better plan. We would like to have our State finances in good healthy and satisfactory shape, but as to how and when all this is to be brought about is too weighty a subject for us to an- swer. We can't help for the life of us, ia believing that certain men and papers in this State are deeply inter ested in certain bonds. Again, we are fearful that those who have been put in high places, are betraying the trusts of the people, and are schem- ing little at the expense of the tax payers"

 We know of other papers claimed by the Scalers which they had better not bet too high on. A large major ity of the papers of the State are true to the people.
Year: 1877

Yes, we are getting tired of this State debt matter. We are tired thinking and writing about it. We expect our readers are tired reading about it, but let us tell you friends, that so long as there are efforts be- ing made to fasten additional bur dens upon the already overburdened taxpayers of Arkansas, it behooyes us to watch the schemers and try to expose and thwart their schemes. It is the fight of the taxpayer against the bondholder. It is the struggle of the interest payer against the usu- Ter. It is struggle for self preser- vation. We feel that we owe our readers no apology for deyoting so much space to this matter. It will soon be over. It is now pretty evi- dent that the Legislature will be convened this winter, and the plan proposed by the bondholders-pro- posed because it will pour compound interest into their greedy maws,-- will be either corsumated or defeat cd. We are conscientious in oppos- ing it, and while there is a chance to work in opposition to it, we hope our readers will not become impa- tient at our much speaking on this subiect.
Year: 1877

We do not believe that the impor tance of sustaining and encouraging home manufacturing interests IS sufficiently understood by the p-o- pie generally, and especially by our merchants. We see, for instance, our merchants becoming agents for foreign wagon factories and ship ping wagons here by the carload. Now what is the result of this? Simply this: thousands of dollars annually go out of our county to keep mechanics in Wisconsin, Hi nois, Indiana and Missouri in em- ployment and to enrich manufactur- ing establishments there. Do we get wagons for our people any cheap CT by this plan? No, they can be manufactured here as cheap as they can there, and we would have sav- ing of freight at least. Are the inn ported wagoSs any better than our home e-ma9a ones2 No not near so good We have better timber and can make better wagon than any shipped here.

 Our merchants do wrong when they accept agencies for these north ern factories. These foreign con cerns never spend cent in our country. The money sent them is. clear gone. They even get their printed matter for advertising their goods done at northern printing offices. They do nothing to build up our country. We are glad to know taat the leading merchant of our town steadily refuses to sell these northern wagons. Other mer- chants should do likewise. We have good mechanics here, and if the wagon trade was all given them they could bring hands and extend their manufacturing capacity enough to meet the demand. This would give employment to mechanics here at home and their wages wonld be kept here and would remain in circula- tion. They would build up our town and make things move off with a hum and rattle like they do in the north where we now import our wagons from. If northern cap- italists must supply us with all our manufactured articles, let them at least be made to see that they must send their cap ital here and put their factories here, so that our country will not be con- tinually kept drained of money.
Year: 1877



 of the State to pay one cent for either the railroad, levee or excess of the Holford bonds. The amount of new bonds proposed to be issued is what is due, dollar for dollar, on that part Of the debt which has never been disputed by any one, and no more" !" = Extract from the Circular Letter of the Finance Board.

 If that is all the Bond holders ask of the State the duty devolving upon Arkansas is very plain indeed. It is simply this: let the Legislature be convened at once and provision be made for the issuance of $2,014, 337 new bonds at six per cent per annum. This the Finance Board say over their official signatures, is the prin- cipal of the States undisputed bond ed indebtedness. Let provision also be made for the issuance of $1,00S,076 new non-interest bearing bonds, this being the amount of in terest that will be due, Jan. lst, 1878, on our undisputed bonds. Then let the Finance Board make the exchange which they say the Bond holders are willing to make, that is, take up the $3,022,423 old undisputed bonds and the $l1 ,474,- 50l fraudulent bonds which are to be gift to the State, and give the holders the $3,022,423 new bonds. This is the plain, fair, square way of getting in ALL of our bonded debt, GOOD, BAD, AND INDIFFERENT, for just. the amount of our UNDIsPUTED BONDS. The people can understand this operation. There IS NOT so MUCH INTEREST CALCULATION INvoLv- ED IN IT. It is fair, square, fiat proposition, under which no bug can take refuge. It will not make the holders of our good bonds one cent worse off than they now are, but on the contrary, according to their own pet argument, will enhance the value of their new bonds, because the old disputed bonds will be out of the way. It will not make the State any worse of, but on the contrary will place her Tn condition to meet the interest of her then compara- lively small interest bearing bonded debt promptly and with ease.

 But, some will say, the bond hold CTS have never made any such a proprosal. True, they have not, but this is all they profess to want--new bonds, dollar for dollar for the old undisputed bonds, and the disputed bonds thrown in to the State as a gift, This is what they say the Adams Rediield plan amounts to, but it is not so. The mere fact of the bond holders having made a proposition, does not preclude the State from now making the one we have suggested. Let it be made and if the bond-holders refuse to accept its terms it will be plain proof that they are not in earnest about sur rendering the good bonds of the State dollar for dollar and throw in the fraudulent bonds. The proof of the pudding is in eating it.

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Year: 1877

Howard, the philanthropist, was sim
gular in many of the habits of life; for
instance. he preferred damp sheets, linen
and clothes to dry ones, and, both riding
and going to bed, swathed himself with
coarse towels dipped in the coldest
water he could get. In that state he re-
NAMED half an hour, aud then threw
them off, refreshed and invigorated, as
he said, beyond measure. He never put
on great coat in the colde,t countries,
nor had been minute under or over the
time of an appointment, so far as it de-
pended upon himself, for six and twenty
wears, He never continued at place or
with a person a single day beyond the
period prefxed for going in his whole
life, and he had not for the last sixteen
years of his existence ate any fish, flesh
or fowl, nor sat down to his simple fare
of tea, milk and rusks in all that time.
His journeys were continued from prison
to prison, from one group of wretched
beings to another, night and day and
where he could not go with a carriage
he would ride, and where that was
hazardous he would walk. Such thing
as obstruction was out Of the question.