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Year: 1879

! Charles May and mis- brother Robert,
iE the spring of 1870 offered to pass
&c, 900 railroad ties down the Arkansas
from the mountain source. He says :
"Our offer was accepted, when we
started into the upper entrance of the
canon with large skih' provided with
six days provisions and two hundred
feet of rope, with which, by taking a
running turn around some firmly
planted object, we could lower our boat
a hundred feet at time. In this way, =,
at the end OF three days, having set
adrift many hundred ties, we reached
/ the entrance to the Royal Gorge. Here
we discovered TO descend the first
waterfall with two In the boat was
certain destruction, and to return was
| impossible. Accordingly determined
| to lower my brother down the fall in
the boat, distance of two hundred
feet. give him the rope, and let him
take the chances of the canon (life
seemed more certain in that directiOn)
while 1 would risk my physical ability
to climb the canon wall, which was
about two thousand feet high. About
ten o'clock in the morning | shook
hands with my brother, lowered him
in the boat safely to the foot of the fall
gave lin the rope and saw him no
more. Then throwing aside my coat,
hat and boots, and stripping the socks
from my feet, / commenced my climb
ing way, often reaching the height of
one or TWO hundred feet, only to be
compelled to return TO try some other
way. At length, about four O'Clock in
the afternoon, | reached height upon
the smooth canon wall of about a
thousand feet. Here my further prog
ress was arrested by shelving ledge of
rock that jutted out from the canon side
a foot or more. To advance was with
out hope; TO return, certain death.
Reaching upward and outward
graspcd the rim of the ledge with one
hand and then with the other, my feet
slipped from the smooth side of the
canon and my body hung suspended in
the air, thousand feet above the roar
ing waters of the Arkansas. At that
moment | looked downward to measure
the distance | would have 10 fall when
the strength of my arms gave out. \
singing sensation crept through my
hair as my eye caught the strong root
of cedar bush tha protected over the
ledge-a little beyond my reach. My
grasp upon the rim of the ledge was
fast yielding TO the weight of my per-
son. Then | determined to make my
best effort to raise my body and throw
it sideways towards the root so as TO
bring it within my grasp. At that
moment of commencing the effort, |
saw my mothers face as she leaned
over the ledge, reached down her hand
and caught me by the hair. Stranger,
my mother died while yet a young
woman, when / and my brother were
small boys, but | remember her face


was successful in making the side
leap of my arms, when | drew myself
upon the ledge and rested awhile


From here upward my climbing way
was laboriOus, but less dangerous.
reached the top of the cannon Just as
the sun was sinking down behind the
snowy range, and hastened to oul
camp at the mouth of the canon, where
found my brother all safe. Charley,
said he, have you had your head in 3
Hour sack Ii was then discovered
that my hair was as white as you see il
noNV -
Year: 1879

the months of March and October, and at
six during the winter months and November.
The recitations in the section rooms are con-
Quoted with the same degree of fOrmality


and precision that characterize the other
duties Of the day, but not to the prejudice
of an unrestrained interchange of opinions
between the instructor and the cadet on all
points of the subject under consideration.
After the report of the section marcher,
and when each has taken the particular seat
that belongs to him, a number of cadets,
say four or five, are successiyely sent to the
blackboard Each as he is called takes his
place in the centre of the floor, faces the in


structOr, assumes the position of the soldier
receives the enunciatiOn of his proposition.
and then turning to the blackboard writes
his name at the top and begins his work.


While they are thus occupied with the
chalk another is called upon the floor and
questioned in the lesson of this or the pre-


viOus day This one is, on the succeeding
days, called on demonstration and not
again on ''questions" until every other mem
Der has been in like manner questioned
Each of those at the board, when ready,
takes the pointing stick, faces about and
stands erect, holding the pointer in the hand
nearest the board When called upon to
recite he states what he Is required to do,
and proceeds to the demonstration or de
clares his inability to perform it, in which
latter case he is rewarded with ''That
sufficient, sir, and makes rOOmfOr another.
The merit of each recitation Is registered
in accordance with a scale Of marks rang
ing from zero in the case of total failure, To
three, which is the maximum. So accu-
rately is this record intended to be kept that
it varies by single tenths with every shade
of error. The marks for each week are
posted on the following Monday in con
spicuOus place, where they can be seen by
all concerned 1t Is from the average OF
these marks, combined with his success at
the examination, that the standing of each
cadet, in January or June, Is determined.
Year: 1879

Our aims are all too high, we try


To gain the summit at bound,
When we should reach it step by step.


And climb the ladder round by round.
He who would climb the height sublime,


Or breathe the purer air Of life,
Must not expect to rest in ease


But brace hims If for toll or strife.
We should not in our blindness seek


To grasp alone for grand and great.
Disdaining every smaller good


For triies make the aggregate.
And if cloud should hover DER


Our weary pathway like pail,
Remember God permits it there.


And His good purposes reigns o'er all
Life should be full Of earnest work,


Our hearts undsshed by fortunes frown.
Let perseverance conquer fate.


And meI-E seize the yictors crown.
The battle is not 10 the strong.


The race not always to the aeet :
And he who seeks to pluck the stars.


VIII lose the jewels at his feet
Year: 1879

:" While Henry May was out fishing
with q party on Thursday morning,
near Fort Ripley, in the yacht Uncle
Peter, and the vessel was lying at anchor,
all of sudden, without apparent cause,
she started off at frightful speed: The
cause, however, was soon explained by
a huge devil-fish rising to the surface OF
the water with. the anchor rope fastened
to his fms. A small negro fishing boat
was soon caught, too, by its anchor rope
becoming entangled with that OF the
Uncle Peter. The fish then went
straight for Fort Ripley with both boats,
but as he would get near shoal water ne
would shy off again and make for the
channel. The negro boat soon cut
loose. but the Uncle Peter was carried
twice round Fort Ripley, and it was
nearly an hour before the devl-fish


finally let 90. The anchor rope was
found covered with thick slime, which


could not be removed. There was no


harpoon on board the Uncle Peter,


otherwise the namesake of his sable


majesty might have paid dearly for his


prank Charleston Neaos and Courier.
Year: 1879

it on a pan. Cover with a generous lay
er of raspberries sprinkled with sugar;
roll out the remainder of the dough;
place it over the berries and bake in a
quick oven until done. Serve hot with
butter, and sugar if desired.


A SAXON official, after embezzling
large sums, recently settled in Berlin,
and being gentleman of expensive
tastes, he soon exhausted his cash, and
was under the painful necessity of look
ing about for employment. In few
days he obtained a post in the central
telegraphic Office of Berlin. Meanwhile
the Saxon police had been making dill
gent search for him, and he had hardly
begun his new duties when they discov-
cred that he had transferred himself
to the Prussian capital. One day last
week they telegraphed to the Berlin po-
lice full description of the culprit, with
a request that he should be captured.
The official who deciphered the tele-
gram was the offender himself. He dis
patched it to the proper address, but
has not since been heard of.


THE most costly school building in
the world is probably the new Polytech-
mic Institute in Hanover. The late King
of Hanover commenced the construc-
ton of magnificent palace, upon which
he expended about five million dollars.
When his Government was overthrown
and the kingdom of Hanover became a
province of Prussia, the building was
found in a half-fnished condition. For
several years the windows were board
ed up, and the empty rooms became the
residence Of bats and birds. At last the
German Government resolved to alter
the building and adapt it to the uses of
the polytechnic school. The work has
been going forward for several years,
and is now nearly ended.


There can be no question that the
opium eating has increased to fearful
extent. Not long since from Staunton,
Va, conference of druggists reported
that the ratio of increase of sales in 1877
over 1876 was 90 per cent, and in 1876
over the preceding year ga per cent,
and in 1875 over tho preceding year 30
per cent. That was another section OF
the country, and was thought to be
peculiarly characteristic of the Shenan-
doah Valley. But we will venture the
assertion that the percentage ofincrease
in Maine has been quite as large, and that
the sales of'druggists since the prohibi.
tory legislation has been in vogue will
so show. If such is the fact, the change
from the use of intoxicating liquors to
opium is far from being an Improvement
Boston Post.
Year: 1879

Special to the Star.


CAIRO, ILL, Sept. 16.-The final act in
that bloody tragedy which is so familiar to
our people as the Glass murder transpires
to-day, and when the drop falls which
launches Glass into eternity, the curtain
goes down on the deadly drama.


THE CRIME.


The deed which Glass expiates with his
own life upon the scaffold to-day is the
murder of Carter Newman, and the circum-
stances in the case are briefly these: Glass
and Carter Newman, both colored men,
quarreled about woman with which Glass
was living, and the quarrel resulted in the
separation of Glass and the woman. Glass
kept sort of clearinghouse and on the
fatal Sunday Carter Newman came to Glass
house and going to a room occupied by one
OF the boarders laid down on the bed by
permission of the occupant and went to
sleep. Soon after the other parties left that
portion of the house, and Charles Glass.
taking an ak, went to the bed occupied BY
the sleeping man and caved his head in by
a horrible blow, sending the sleeper to
eternity before he knew what hurt him.
Year: 1879

Special to the Star.


New YORK, Sept. 16.-Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague is believed to be in seclusion near
this city, but at what point is not definitely
known.


Her friends here assert that she has left
her husband, never to return to him, and
while it is not known that she contelnplates
a divorce, 1t is believed she will seek one If
necessary to keep control Of her children.
Year: 1879

Messrs. Joseph R. PEBBLES Sons, grocers
and importers, who have been in business
at the corner of Fifth and Race streets
nearly forty years, have removed to their
splendid new store in Pixies Opera Build
ing. For handsome fixtures fine display
and general appearance the new store is a
model of neatness and elegance.
Year: 1879

is-tho approaching National Democratic
convention Tho State is-Indiana. The
man-we have named.


The man is great in his strength and wis
dom without the State or the opportunity.
The State is strong and true and faithful,
even without the man.


Bot the opportunity, the State aud tho
man together make a combination before
which sn opposition would go down in hopes
less defeat aod disaster.
Year: 1879




EDITOR RECORD: AS your columns
are open, wish to discuss with the
people the subject Of removing the
county seat. First: If the county
seat is not moved, it will take some
considerable money to repair the
iail and other necessaries belonging
to the court house. The tax will be
heavier than the people think. That
is money thrown away, and II the
people will study and look ahead
they will see. Second: If the court
house or county seat is moved to
Center it will be more convenient
throughout the county for every one
north, and will save money, as the
poor people have not got it, and the
tax is sufficient. And why not
move it, and save the double eX-
pense, as it Is bound to be moved
sooner or later. The donation is
something. Well enough. There
can be some thousands OF dollars
raised, or is ready, if moved to Cen
ter, and the tax will be lighter on
the poor men. Look to the inter
est Of the county. Third: Because
Evening Shade is town, and the
people residing there want the
county seat there, that must not
RUN our county. They are too far
from the center Of the county and
inconvenient for the northeast of
the county; therefore let each and
every one think before he speaks
and look before he leaps. The re.
moval now will save another after
awhile; so one dollar in time will
save nine. Respectfully,


HIGHLAND.
Year: 1879

An eight year old son of Eli Abott, while
playing in the house with J. Weayers lit
tie daughter aged about seven. picked up
shot gun and told the child to look into
the mrzzle while he pulled back the lock,
She did as requested, when by accident the
gun fred, shooting out one of her eyes,
shiVering the cheek bone and lodging some
shot in her shoulder. At last accounts it
was thought she would recover,
Year: 1879

In the matter Of removal or non


removal Of the county site OF


Sharp county, Arkansas.


Be it remembered that on this
18th day Of July, A. D. 1879, a
petition was presented to the
court. praying for an election
for the removal Of the county
site Of Sharp county from Even
ing Shade, It's present location,
to Center. in said county, said
place being called Center, being
located on the southeast quarter
Of the southeast quarter OF sec
UiOn A. four, township ~ sew
enteen north, Of range 81 five
vest Of the 9TH principal merld1-
an; and it appearing from the
abstract Of title fled Herewith
that the title thereto is good,
and that a good deed, or deeds
Of warranty, can be made to said
county, whereupOn to locate the
public buildings, and after eX-
animation Of the number Of Pc
titiOners annexed to said petl-
ton. and after comparing the
same with the assessors list OF
polls returned by him for the
wear 1878, and finding that the
number Of names signed thereto
exceeds One-third Of the names
or number returned thereon, to-
wit; the number Of i've hundred
and fftY-fOUr, and all and sin
guIar. the premises being seen
and by the court fully under
stood. tits ordered and adiudged
by the court that the prayer OF
said petition be granted. And
it is further ordered and adjudg
ed by the court that an election
be held for the removal Or non
removal Of said county site Of
Sharp county, to take place at
all the voting precincts in said
county, on Monday, the 18th day
Of August. A. D. 1879, End that
those voting at said election for
removal will cast their ballots
thus: "F0r Removal" and those
voting against removal will cast
their ballots thus: Against Re
movaI." And it sfTIrther ordered
and adiudged by the court shat
the sheriff Of Sharp county cause
a notice to be published Of said
election. for o. FIVE consecutive
weeks preceding said election,
in the Sharp County RECORD, a
newspaper published in said
county, and also by posting
three notices in hant-bilI form
in three Of she most public
places in each township N said
county thirty days before said
election, Sc. And now by the
authority in me vested as Judge
Of said county, [ DO proclaim
said election, the same TO take
place at the times and places
mentioned in this order, and in
pursuance Of law, and the said
sheriff will make due return Of
how he has performed this order
at the next term Of this court.
State Of Arkansas,
Year: 1879

THE Louisiana constitutional con-
vention is doing too we'll in limiting
Legislation. 1t has passed an article
prohibiting the Legislature from en-
acting any special or local laws and
from fixing the rate of interest, ex-
empting property from taxation or
legalizing the unauthorized or invalid
acts of any officer, servant or agent
of the State or any part thereof. All
this is right and in the direction of
practical reform, but we doubt
whether the people of that or any
other State can be persuaded to adopt
so effective a means of preventing
vicious legislation.-&. Paul Dis
Datck,
Year: 1879

1t is asserted by one who has had
experience in the cultivation OF flax
for the past five or six years, and is
confident that he knows something
about raising it, that sandy soil is
the best for growing flax. The
ground should be plowed as early in
the spring as possible, and the ear
lier the seed is sown the better.
A frost after the flax is up will do it
no harm. Even if the main stalk is
killed more branches will shoot out
and make larger yield. From two
to three pecks to the acre should be
sown broadcast, or it may be sown
otherwise. After sowing pass over
the ground with heavy roller. As
soon as the seed is ripe cut it down
with self-rake reaper, and bind into
small lunches. After becoming
thoroughly dry stack it as you would
grain. If properly stacked it will
keep we'll. Use a thrashing machine
for threshing, and the seed will be
ready for market.


The average yield of seed per acre
is about fifteen bushels and hence is
profitable crop. Sown in the
spring, returns will come in cash for
the crop four months after.


As heretofore, The Farmers Union
feels that it cannot too strongly urge
upon the farming community the
importance and necessity of more
diversified system of forming, it alb
solute failures would be guarded
against and sure and uniformly re-
munerative returns from the farm Sc
cured. One of the elements in this
diversity should be flax-seed produc-
ton, and no fears need be entertained
of always finding ready market at
good round prices.-Farnaer's Union.
Year: 1879

DISCRETION WANrED.-We beg
leave to suggest to General Chalmers
that, in the interest of the Democrat.
ic party, of which he is q conspicu1
Gus champion, he would do well not
to express his views quite SO freely.
There is q prejudice in the North
against having the army starved to
death by the same men who recently
spent four years in trying to shoot it
to death. If the starving process is
resolved upon by the Democrats it
would be wise for the cofederate
brigadiers to let somebody else
shoulder the buttend of the respon-
sibilities. The brigadlers NO doubt
think this Northern sensitiveness ex-
ceedingly unreasonable, but as poll
ticians they would do well not to
lose sight of it as often as they have
been doing of late.-[ From the New
York Tribune.
Year: 1879

The American school-marm has
been discussed in the British House
of commons. They were sneeringly
referred to by a member when a gal
liant Irishman said he had been to
the United States and studied the
subject and expressed the opinion
that sit would be great benefit to
this country if we could import two
or three hundred of those American
women teachers"
Year: 1879

Ihave had occasion to point out
how dairying many deplete the soil
on which the cows are fed, that milk
is rich in nitrogen and mineral con-
stituents. A COW that gives the mod
crate quantity of 1000 lbs. of milk
per year, would abstract from the
soil in her milk alone, 26 lbs of ash
and "a lbs of pure nitrogen in the
100 lbs of caseine. If the milk were
sold this would be all lost to the soil;
or if made into cheese the mineral
constituents, as well as nitrogen, will
be mostly carried off in the cheese.
The depletion is much greater in feed
ing milch cows cows than in fatten-
ing steers or cattle. If we are to sup
pose the steer to gain an average of
800 to 400 pounds live weight per
year, and then compare this with the
moderate average we have supposed
the COW to produce in milk, we find
the steer only involves aloss of three
or four lbs. Of mineral constituents
and about three lbs. of nitrogen. It
will thus be seen that if the milk be
sold, it will involve many times as
much loss to the soil as in growth of
the fattening steer. Whatever the
steer eats more than sufficient to sup
ply the elements of his growth, goes
back to the soil in the manure. This
explains the foundation for the opin-
ION quite prevalent that dairying is
more exhausting to the soil than beef
raising.


But all dairying is not thus ex-
hausting to the soil. Commercially
the most valuable element of the
milk sold, and all the rest is fed to
pigs or calves on the farm, it takes
little or nothing of value iu the but
ter for that contains no mineral, no
nitrogen-it is merely carbon and
water which may be replaced from
tn atmospheric. w. Stewart.
Year: 1879


fore the Bar Of the House every twenty-four
hours. The Inconvenience OF the provision was
SO obvious that it was modified by lie later
Constitution. Under the old Constitution the
Observation-Disclosures to sit on Sunday to COM
ply with the law In dealing with contempt
cases. hlr. Edsail tthen went on to show
that under tile present Constitution this
power Of the Legislature has been enlarged. In
these contempt cases the rclator was committed
till he elected to comply with the demands Of
Constitution. Mr.. Edsall then proceeded to 20
over the ground covered By the other members
Of the inquisition, and concluded with the hone
that the Court would consider the matter.as
res adjudieatd-


Mr.. PALMER


said that in concluding his argument he would
confine himself to the point whether Legisla-
t'1re. has right to-. punish for a
persistent contempt. He read au-
thorities holding that commitment
must be for definite period Of time. The wit
ness, be claimed, was not committed by this
warrant until he answered one question, or auy
specified questions, but until he should answer
some other question not yet put to him before,
therefore he could not be in contempt, and Mr..
Palmer denied that the Legislature could COM
NIT citizen to prison for not answering ques-
tion that was never put to him, and he insisted
that no commitment could BE- had but for q
definite period Of time. Such was uoe done
here He knew how delicate natter it was for
the Court to decide that these gentlemen had
made an error, yet he wanted to saw that the
liberty OF the humblcst citizen was Of Infinitely
more concern than the reputation OF nil the Leg
ts!ature Applause. Is it not much safer to
adopt that construction of the law and the Con-
stitution which requires the Legislature to COM
nit Tor specified time than to leave the period
Of confnement"to the general phraseology OF
this writ which reads, until he signify his will
lngness TO answer such questions IS NAV be out
to him'a He concluded by saying that it
seemed to him any other construction than the
Legislature never contemplated.