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Year: 1877

An act to be entitled an act to amend

 section one of an act, entitled "An

 act to anient section 3l0l, Of Gantt's

 Digest, and for other purposes"

 Approved March 9th, 1875.

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly

 of the State of Arkansas:

 SECTION l. That section one, of an act entitled an act to amend section 3l0l, of Gantt's Digest, and for other purposes, approved March 5th, 1875, be amended so as to read as follows:

 The writ of habeas corpus shall be issued upon proper application, by the following officers: By Judge of the Supreme Court, or of any Chancery Court during the sitting of their re- spective courts or in vacation. The power of the Supreme, Circuit or Chancery Courts to issue writs of habeas corpus shall be co-extensive with the State. The County Judge shall have power, in the absence of the Circuit Judge from the County, to is- sue and hear writs of habeas corpus on application of parties confined in the County Jail in his County, charged with an offence committed in said coun- ty, Provided, That no Judge of any County Court shall have power to issue or hear any writ of habeas corpus in any case in which aa indictment has been found by a Grand Jury.

 Sec. ?. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

 Approved January 3lst, 1877.

 An act to be entitled, an act for Cred

 itors of the Estates of Deceased Per

 sons, to sell Real Estate to pay debts

 of said persons, in certain cases.

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly

 of the State of Arkansas

 SECTION |. Any creditor of an estate of a deceasod person who shall have a claim against said estate duly probated may present his or her petition to the Probate Court having jurisdiction of the estate for an order to sell lands or a sufficient amount thereof to pay the demands against said intestate's upon the conditions hereinafter stated.

 Sec. 2. Said creditor shall demand in writing of the personal representa- lives of said deceased sixty days before the next term of the Probate Court to present his petition in the manner now prescribed by law, or that may here after be prescribed, praying for an order to sell the lands belonging to his intestate or a sufficient amount thereof to nay the demands probated against said estate; and if said personal repre- seutatives shall fail or refuse to file his netifion with the Clerk of the Probate | Court and give notice in the manner prescribed by law within twenty days
Year: 1877

The Mesilla Independent of last Saturday says Dona Ana county has been afflicted by band of horse and cattle thieves for two years; that so far they have baffled the district attorneys efforts to prosecute them; that they are twelve in number md all known that some of the receivers of the sto- len property pretend to be honest men that the organization must be broken up: that if room cannot be found in the jail for them, twelve ropes and twelve cottonwood limbs can be, etc. The article is temperate but firm. Some months ago, THE CITIZEN pub lished a letter from Las Cruces, refer ing 10 this band of robbers. The Grant County Herald in speaking of the movement at Mesilla, says:

 The feeling here of all good citizens is to purge the community of mur- derers and thieves, and their cnadiutors who loaf in towns and settlements and convey information. Indians are not half so inimicalt the peace of a com munity as these men.

 Stock men of Pima county had bet ter keep 8 lookout for this band, for if driven from their present quarters, they would probably came this way.
Year: 1877

This morning a well-dressed man
was waltins up Kearney street with
a woman affectionately clinging to his
arm. When they arrived at Post
street another woman, whose blood
WAS evidently up to the boiling point.
appe red on the the scene. and seiz-
ing the man by the coat collar, she
struck him dozen or more blows
about the head and face. AS the
blows descended, the enraged wo uan
cried out. III learn you to tell me
you are going out of town to attend
to business


Oh, you wretch, you! to leave your
poor wife at home and go off with 9th
er women take that, and that, ant
that T.
Year: 1877

For years we saw riots and mobs without number, and We carry a few scars about Us still, which show the effects of too close ac. quaintance with them. So from personal experience we know something about them.

 We have seen the very best ci- tizens. men of good moral charac- ter, and good standing in the com- munity. get into a mob, and in thirty minutes they would be transformed into demons raging and thirsting for blood. Men whom We have known as close and logical thinkers, would in the same length of time become per- tectly insane. and as incapable of
Year: 1877

reasoning as the worst lunatfc

 ever confined behind iron bars.

 There seems to be some unac.

 cOuntable influence which comes

 over them, and takes out of them

 every element which distin-

 guishes man from the most

 terOciOus beast. Think of even a

 small portion of a community

 seized by such an insanity as thatI

 One thing is certain, who ever

 has seen 1t, never wants to see it

 again. The widest scenes of the i blOUdiest battle fields of the rebel.

 lion, never presented half thet i fury, or inspired half the terror, to an ordinary observer, that. I

 comes 10 the surface in the wild

 uprOar Ofan insane and iniuriated

 moo. A mob is just as likely to

 burn down their own houses as those Of any body else, as likely 10 kill their best friends as their

 worst enemies We saw mob in Chlllcnthe, Missouri. run man into store, the owner ct ,nIcb

 was with the..I,a .s,, and he seized a loren, and attempted to fire it

 with his own hands to burn him out, and was only prevented by the appearance Of squad of sOl-

 diers just in the nick of time. The next day it was pro .en that 1t was the wrong man altogether which they were after.

 Any man who would undertake to reason with mob, would be as foolish as he who should under take to argue with tiger. A mob is simply hell broke loose on earth. There Is no reason, no humanity, no feeling, no any thing which belongs to normal human beings in a mob. Men who two hours before would weep at the woes of a child, in a mob two hours alter ward would shut hundred men [ up in a house and roast theA alive, and sing and shout as their screams were flushed in death.

 A mob of intelligent men will be not one whit less ferociousr than mob Ot desperate criminals. The only difference in these two class is that intelligent men seI dom or never join a mob. Yet VI remember one in Platte county Missouri, of the most inteIligen( citizens which hung six innocent men in one night, and drove theiri wives and children into the dark ness of the wood.

 There is but one thing, just o and no more, that will have d influence with mob, it is inc certainty of immediate death. There must not be the least doubt ibOut it. There must be no chance )f escape from it. It must be cer. tain and immediate death. If this cannot be presented before heir eyes. all other things better 1e left alone. They only increase he evil instead of ahating it. Knowing the truthfulness of t'se lhOve views, we would rather bo lecently murdered in our owu1 )ed, or OD the street, than by a word, look, or an act, do any hing that could in any event rave the least tendency even in- directly of melting mob Omaha Journal
Year: 1877

Some member of the Legisla- ture who wants to get to Little Rock and HAVE "A GOOD SPREE this win ter and draw his little $6 per diem for a month or two, writes to the Gazette favoring the calling of the Legislature together to act on the finance question.
Year: 1877

e Among various newspaper improvements,
we hail with especial satisfaction the enlarge
meut and new dress of the Wilson County Cid-
zes-"Johnny" Gilmore's paper. Gilmore is .
printer whose chief pride is his paper, and he
sticks to his business. His paper, whether print
ed on new type or old, is always handsome, and
always interesting. 1t is q genuine paper, not Q
transient concern, waiting for some accident to
give it the cream Of some fat job, then ready to
go somewhere else, but paper that means to
stay, and grow up with the country. Gilmore
is man after our own heart-in fact, We don't
know but that he is u son Of ours, only We don't
think that we have any sons named Gilmore
and we wish him lots of prosperity.
Year: 1877

R~ The Wisconsin Republican Convention
met OH Tuesday, and adopted an unique plat
form. They arc in favor of paci6cation, but
want it to work both ways; they laud the mag
nanimity of President Hayes, and believe him to
be honest, and they demand that the people of
the South fulfill their part of the bargain and sale
by which Hayes was counted in, and Louisiana
turned over 10 the Democrats; they hope that
the Southern policy will prove beneficial to the
country, but if it does not, they demand that
measures be adopted to compel the South to be
civilized and law abiding; and finally, that the
Presidents policy should be neither endorsed nor
condemned until it is seen what he is driving at,
and its effect. We rather like the Wisconsin
platform. We like its hearty endorsement Of
Hayes aud his policy.
Year: 1877

New York handless about five thousand alligator skins per an- mum. The bushes is entirely in the hands of a single firm, who employ men to pursue the reptile in the bayous of the Mississippi River. and the work is usually done at night by the aid of lanterns the rifles used being aimed straight at the creature's eye. If the alliga- tors are too old or too young, the ammunition used on them is thrown away, for in such cases the skin is either too horny or too small. A good size is eight or nine feet, counting nothing be- yOnd the thick part of the tail. Florida is a great place for alliga- tors, but skins from that direction are badly mangled, tEesicating strong objections by~af animal against parting with his natural integument.
Year: 1877

We'quote the following from a competent authority: Put a tea spoonful of ammonia in a quart of warm soapsuds, diAa cloth in it, and see now rapidly the dirt will disappear; no scruboing will be necessary. To a pint of hot studs add a teaspoonful of the spirits, dip in your forks Cor whatever you have to clean, rub with a soft brush, and then finish with a chamois skin. For washing mir TOTS and windows it has no equal. It will remove grease spots from every fabric without injuring the garment. Put on the ammonia nearly clear; lay plotting paper, and set a hot iron on it for a mo- ment. Also a few drops in water willcIeanse and whiten faces and muslins beautifully. A few drops in a bowl of water, if the skin is fOlly, will remove all uneasiness and disagreeable Odors. Added to a.hot bath, it entirely absorbs all noxiouS smells, and nothing is bet ter to remove dandruff from the hair. For cleaning hair and nail brushes it is equally good. For heartburn and dyspepsia, the aro- matic spirits of ammonia is espe- cially prepared; ten drops, taken in wine glass of water, will give relief. For house plants, five or six drops in every pint of water once a week will make them flourish. It is also good to clean plant jars. So be sure and keep a bottle in the house, and have a glass stopper, as it eats away corks.

 It is also an antidote to animal poisons and an application of it will releive the pain of or cure the bites and stings of venOmous reptiles and insects.
Year: 1877

Gold, Silver, Copper or Lead, will be made at highest possible rates for account of owners. My long experience and con. nectiOn with buyers in the different mar kets give me very decided advantage over any one in the Territory in making such sales to the profit of those entrusting them to me. Correct and responsible assays obtained and submitted when desired
Year: 1877

l feel under increased obligations for the patronage so literally accorded me as the successor of the old and successful house of Wm. B. Hooper & Co.,, and while ac- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with me will find as complete stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- tion

 JAMES M. BARNEY
Year: 1877

Blessed are the people whose annals are
dull. So runs the old saw, which may be
modified into, Blessed is Washington when it
is quiet. After the satisfactory adjustment of
so many questions of extraordinary import
ance, the great excitement attendant thereon
settles into something like reposc. Society at
least is assured. Society, to its infinite relief,
now understands that there is to he Prcs-
dent, and consequently receptions at the
White House. Indeed, there has been one
already, and the gentlemen who report the
dresses on such OccasiOns-the black velvet,
the thread lace, the blue silk, and the pink
rbbOns-have issued the first bulletin of the
social campaign. After this Washington nat
uraly will be duller than ever. In the De-
partments the clerks will scribble and cipher
and sign and seal, anxious of course, each one of
them, to stand well with his new master but
the hum, the roar, the push, the rush of the
Inauguration are over; and we are glad of it.
The Government can attend to business, of
which there is enough to absorb a deal of
honest and earnest attention.


There is novelty about this condition of
things, a peculiarity, in fact which we be-
lieve is almost unprecedented. During the
very first week of new Administration the
oiiicc-seekers have lost heart, become de-
moralzed, given up the game, if not the
ghost, and are going home with fieas in
their ears and without commissions in their
pockets. There is really just little bit of
civil service reform in this fact alone The
chronic, persistent. heretofore irrepressibe
placc-hunter, with his hat and his valise full
of petitions and recommendations, may assure
President Hayes that Republican ruin can only
be averted in some distant district or county
by the immediate appointment of the memo
rialist to q position at once light and lucra-
tive. He may so assure the President if he
can get at him but there is the startling and
depressing difficulty of getting at him in order
that words of wisdom, advice, caution or en-
treaty mag be poured into his weary ears
Even when an interview is perchance secured
the new President is more likely to laugh good
naturedly at talk about the good of the
party" than he is tOf.s-:;lise to make some
thing of one of whom he knows nothing. The
most respectable mendicant feels that he must
depart while he has money enough left fol-
| travelling expenses, and he is departing, as We
Year: 1877

The letters from Stanley Matthews and Mr..
Evalts to Gov. Chamberlain have been pub
hshed, and they do not seem to justify the


excitement under which Mr. Chamberlain tel
egraphed to Washington for an explanation.


In the first place Messrs Matthews and Evarts


wrote on their own responsibility, and offered


their advice in modest and friendly spirit,


showing no disposition to dictate, but ventur-
ing only rather vague suggestion. In the


second place the advice-if we can call it by


such positive term-was good. Mr.. Evarts,


it will be observed, made no distinct proposal
on his own account, and did not even express


q concurrence in the views Of Mr.. Matthews /;
he only invited suggestions from Gov. Cham
| berlain. Mr.. Matthews inquired whether it
would not be possible for the Republican
statesmen in South Carolina to arrive at can


accommodation which would Obviate the


"necessity for use of Federal arms to sup


"pOrt either government" and he assured


Mr.. Chamberlain that if he should sacrifice
| his abstract rights for the sake of the peace
of the community he would be entitled not
only to the gratitude of his own party but the
| respect and esteem of the entire country.


This is what Gov. Chamberlain calls " be-


"yond endurance" Why? Not because the


advice weakens his political position, for the


letters were private and personal, and nobody
knew of their existence until Gov. Chamber
lain himself made them public. And now that
they are public, most of us at the North will


be disposed to regard them as sensible and


well meant. The people have come to the


conclusion that the old plan of propping up
Southern governments by bayOnets is "beyond


endurance" and that any administration
which must be forced upon the acceptance of


the people by means of the United States
army is a curse to the State in which it exists
and to all the rest of the States too More
over there is a general unwillingncss that the
President should be compelled to interfere in
State controversies by deciding between rival
Governors and Legislatures Sometimes it is


necessary that he should do sO but the duty
is disagrecable one and its exercise Is always


viewed with uncasiness and disgust. There is


strong conviction just now that we have had


altogether too much armed intervention, aud
that Republican statesmen in the South are
bound to come to some accommodation y


which, as Mr. Matthews says, will give peace
TO the long distracted communities and relieve
the Republican party elsewhere of a cruel en-
bauasSment.


Messrs Chamberlain ard the rest must loci;
the situation in the face. Public opinion is III


revolt against them. Whatever basis there
may be for their present claims, the fact is
clear that their government does not rest upon


the consent of that part of the community
which is alone capable of sustaining govern
ment. They have tried force and have failed.
The North is not willing that they should Try
it much longer. If they cannot come to an
Year: 1877

hear. dreary, disappointed, but still expectant Oh
better luck in June. For it is characteristic
of the confirmed and chronic appointment
seeker that he seems born to illustrate the
fact stated by the poet, that Hope springs ex-
ultant in the human breast. He dies some
times. but he never says die. While life re-
mains he is candidate for something. lie
considers himself quite as well fitted for one
place as anOther-and he Is generally right
upon that point, his only mistake being that
he is fitted for no place at all. He Will go
home now, if he has home to go to, but ne
will reappear in Washington IN June next
with the same yalise and the same petitions
and other papers. We wish he were more
capable morally of taking No" for an answer.
But he isn't; and he will continue TO bore
and button hole for some time to come. Inc
consolation is that under the new order OF
things he will bore and buttOn-hole to very
little purpose He will remain exasperatlng,
but he will not crook the pregnant hinges OF
the knee at the expense of the United States
of America.


More than once Washington has been like
Western cornfed covered all over with To-
Gusts. There have been swarms in Pennsyl-
Vanla-dVe. WHICH thIc "o"iuhe Dui" ~
water drOwn-a crowd of those who were
"useful" in electing the just inaugurated
President. 1t is surely something that we are
not to have n repetition of such disgusting,
debasng, and demoralizing scrambles. 1t gives
great relief to understand fully that the doc
trine of President IIayes's letter OF accept
ance really meant something, and those who
are set upon civil service reform may take
heart when they find that the words OF the
Republican candidate were not mere wind,
used for purpose before the election to be
forgotten after it. Washilg gton quiet Never
was quiet of better augury.
Year: 1877

tinction as a naval constructor under the EN-
pire, and took prominent part in promoting the
efficiency of the fleet. After Sedan, he readily
supported the Provisional Government and
tOiled assiduously to complete balloon from
which great things were expected. He cannot
fail to prove a valuable member of the Senate,
whatever contingencies may arise.
Year: 1877

There is proverb about the circumstances
under which honest men get their dues that
will apply to the quarrels of the coal com
panies. The public has reason TO be thankful
that all efforts TO renew the old coal combination
have thus far proved failures. There IS therefore
a pleasant prospect that the prices OF coal VIII
not advance for at least some weeks to come.
Cheap coal will help to start the mill wheels,
and should be a potent factor III the revival
of business this Spring.
Year: 1877

Belchertown, Mass, was highly ex-
cited last week over an almost tragi-
cal wedding of Amherst parties, who
spell their names Fry and Boil, and
who came near getting into stew.
The girls father didn't want her to
marry the man, and so the latter took
her to the place where her sister was
employed till the wedding could be
arranged. The sister however, was
also opposed to the match, being at
tackled by the green-eyed monster,
because the same fellow had previ-
ously made love to her, and SO she
locked the bride expectant into her
rpom. After a nights incarnation
she jumped from the window and
joined her lover at the hotel. The
clerk of the house drove off furiously
for clergyman, aud the Methodist
pastor was just beginning the cere-
mony when the sister appeared at the
window to forbid the bans. The GER
tificate was all right, however, and
the minister concluded TO 60 on, but
in his excitement he read most or the
baptismal service, beginning, where
as all men are born in sin, and re-
peated the names of the couple he
last married. The clerk held the
door 80 that the sister couldn't come
in. On Sunday the girls father came
to the church door and call the min
lister from his Sunday school class to
demand of him why l,e married his
daughter, at the same time admitting
her legal age. Meanwhile the groom
has lost his place at Amherst, and
left for parts unknown, to the griel
of his creditors.
Year: 1877

It is a we'll known fact that the at
mosphere of mountainous countries,
owing to its rarefaction, is extremely
clear and permits of the human Wis
ion extending long distance. This
phenomenon was being discussed in
the Sazerac Lying Club a few even
ines since, and the scientific member
asserted that in the early morning a
person who would ascend Mount
Prometheus and look to the west
ward could plainly discern the
Court House at Virginia --180 miles
distant. An outsider who was listen
ing to the discussion asked if it was
necessary to go clear to the summit;
and was informed that it was. The
next morning he trudged up to the
summit Of Mount Prometheus, and
that evening sent his name into the
U uo as u CiHuittte IDI HleilDeTSi1.p.
On being questioned as to his quail
fcations for membership, he said he
had gone up to the summit of Mount
Prometheus and taken view of the
Court House in Virginia. "What
did you see?" asked the Examiner of
Novitiates. "I saw" replied the
candidate, AN undersized man with
red hair and wart on his nose.
dressed in checked pants and pea
jacket, filing off his irons in cell No.
4 of the Jail IN the Court House."
He was admitted without further
question and the Sheriff Of Storey
county was telegraphed to look out
for ceil No. A. Austin Revelle.
Year: 1877

MORE CAsuALTIEs.-Yesterda was day
OF casualties. In addition to the accidental
death of Pearman and the drowning OF
young Brizzolara, boy named Dudley
Barnett had his collar-bone broken at Bethel
school by another boy tumbling upon him,
and white lady was run over at q point near
Twenty.tifth street, and had to be taken
away in the city ambulance.
Year: 1877

ENTERTAINMENT NEAR ATLEE's STATION
Now that the lion is no longer dreaded by
the residents OF Hanover, the ladies have
provided an enjoyable entertainment, to be
given at Atlee's station on Tuesday the 22d,
for the benefit OF Cool Spring church. \
canopy that will afford shelter for four hum
dred people is to be erected; some hrst-rate
yocalists and the Silver Cornet Band OF Rich
mond will be in attendance supper will be
served by the ladies, and an excursion train
will be run from Richmond to accommodate
those OF our citizens who desire to attend.