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Year: 1879

THE most unpleasant duty that could be
deyolyed upon IN anti-GRANT man would.
be TO compel him to read bundle Of polit-
ical newspapers, such rs are to be found Oh
the exchange table Of any well-regulated
American newspaper Office of the period.
There is very little in them aside from
Boom Boom !! Boom =! The Cincinnati
Commercial is about the only exception to
this rule, and it is filed with boomerang ar
guments against GRANTS denomination.
Year: 1879

TIME was, and not very long ago, when
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN was about the
only newspaper in the country addicted to
the truthful habit of 0lludipg to LAMAR,
CHALMERS & Co. as ody-commissioned
Congressman. 1t has plenty of company in
the exercise of this conscientious peculiar
ity now, for the entire country has awak
cned TO realizing sense of the fact that
two-thirds of the Southern Bourbons in
Congress owe their elections to the direct
agency of political assassination.
Year: 1879

SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi is just
now being nauseated by the lattery of the
Democracy, The design is to make tool
of him in his pending investigation into the
affairs of the Freedman's Bank But his
fatterers seem to forget that in cxtolling
him they practically defame the memory of
one of their dead leaders, the Hon. BEyER-
IY DOUGLAS, who spent years Of his own
time and thousands of dollars of the public
funds in the same investigation without de-
yeloping anything very startling in connec-
tion with the management of that much
abused institution. Do they really believe
that the colOred Mississippi Senator is an
abler man and will be more impartial in
vestigator than the dead white Virginia
Representative was?
Year: 1879

q 1t must be beautiful, dreamy sort
of life that you live here in the country,
was the remark Of city boarder to Far
mer Robinson, as. he sat in the shade
waiting for his dinner. "Well, not wer
ry," was the reply. " You see we get
up before daylight and work till after
dark and get so used up and tired that
we sleep right through soundly. Why,
| haven't had a respectable sort of dream
since the planting season begun" There
is always big difference between romance
and reality.
Year: 1879

r. Mr.. Bedwell, believe you are Repub-
lican and have held the position of postmaster
here for thirteen years, is this so?


Bedwell. Ges sir.


L. Are you taking sides with either political
parties now existing in this county?


B. No sir am a Republican and my party
has no ticket in the field, nor Will 1t have.
The candidates on both sides now are Demo-
Gratis and no matter what they call themselves,
or what family quarrel they have in their own
camp they are all of the same party who drove
the Republican party to the wall in this coun-
", and / am like the boy who sat upon the
orchard fence with the old man on one side
and the dog on the other, l do not care to risk
my chances with either of them.


r. Do you know anything of the issues be-
tween the Dixonites and the Conventionites?


B. Very little, l take no interest in the mat
ter.


r. Do you think there is any chance for the
Independent movement to succeed.


B. / do not


r. Upon what do YOU base your opinion ?''


B. Upon what have been told. gentlemen
of the county have told me they should not
succeed and added that If necessary they would
resort to the same means that were adopted IN
the campaignof 1876, or in other words they
would allow no opposition to the Democratic
ticket on the race issue.


Il. Do you think this is the motive which
prompted the late demonstration against Henry
Dixon 90


B. l do sir.


r. Do you think that body of men who
came in town on the twenty-hfth would have
injured Dixon or his family had he refused to
compromise by Withdrawing from the can
vass?


B. As far as your question relates to him
personally l think they would, for they were
very much excited and looked and talked rs
though they meant business, but do not think
they would have molested his family under
any circumstances whatever


X. Mr.. Bedwell, of what class of people was
this crowd composed


b. Mostly of hard working farmers, with a
few town merchants and clerks and some of
the convention candidates, all Democrats.


R. Had You any conversation with them
when they were upon your streets?


b Yes sir, they formed a part OF their line
in front of my Office and spoke to several /
knew, told them that with one exception
they reminded me OF some OF the demonstFa-s
tions Of 1875, and oneof them asked me what
the exception waa, and told him I missed
Year: 1879

r. Mr.. Dixon, understand that you have
Withdrawn from the canvass for the sherifIalty
of y Yazoo county. Is this SOP
III. d. 1t is not true. | was forced to sign a
document to that effect few days since, in
order to keep my family and friends from
being murdered by excited mob. But do
not. nor do my friends consider it binding or
valid under the circumstances, inasmuch ii
did not express my sentiments or desires, and
it was never my intention to abide by it, and
am now free 10 say that | am still cand-
date and will continue to be; and if elected,
which | fully expect to be, l will take charge
of the office upon the filing OF my bond and
oath OF office, test my rights under the
laws of the land.


Il. What has caused this movement against
you?


ii. d. l really do not know. l have heard
of il for some time, but gave it no attention,
as | had given no cause for it, and thought |
could take care of myself. But they were too
many for me when they began to crowd my
family and one of my children was quite
sick


Il. Mr.. Dixon, from whom l get fair
and unbiased statement of this matter?


II. d. From any good and honest man iD
Yazoo county, friend or foe, white or black,
and L would rather have you publish both
sides of it and let the public be the judge.


Our reporter next sought an interview with
the postmaster,
Year: 1879

The shirk thrives upon the industry
of his fellows. When any particularly
unpleasant task is to be accomplished
the shirk is very busy about things that
are necessary to be done, to be sure,
but not virtually essential to the issue
in hand. The feminine shirk will oc-
cupy herself with arranging the parlor.
with busting the dining room, with
pruning the house plants, with sidy-
ing" up tthe kitchen, while her es-
teemed cotemporary plunges into the
thickest of the work, washes the dishes,
scrubs the floor, trims the lamps, black
ems the stove, and performs the drudg-
cry that nobody likes to perform but
which somebody must do. The femin-
inc shirk has perhaps a " weak back :"
or a /" delicate stomach or " sensi-
tive nature" or an uncOnquerable aver
sion to certain things; she must sleep
late in the morning, and therefore
somebody else must get the breakfast
she cannot be round on her feet longer
than just such time and SO her self
sacrificing mother and sister fill the gap,
and bear the burden which she so coolly
shifts to their shoulders. The domestic
masculine shirk cOntrives way to be-
absent just when unpleasant tasks must
be done, or he sits quietly at his ease
and utterly ignores them. But he eau
always tell just how a thing should be
done, and point out improvements III
the methods of hers. When the mas
culine shirk happens to be the head OF
the family, woe betlde his unfortunate
wife. Either she must make up his de-


fclencies or let them entail wretched


ness and suffering upon the whole
family. If she can make them up she
is the chief sufferer, and becomes the
early victim OF OverWork aud excessive
care. The essential nature of every
shirk, masculine and feminine, dOmes


tic, social or civil, is unmltlgated selfish


ness. This should not be encouraged
ii justice is to be done. The mother
who permits her daughters TO array
themselves ID fine clothes and sit III the
parlor at fancy work while she drudges
Ill the kitchen does them no less than
herself an lrreparable injury, and the
daughters who permit themselves such
Indulgence are utterly lncapable OF
making good wives and mothers, anu
OF this let all young meu take note.
Year: 1879

No salve or ointment can heal a
wound or sore of any kind. Every
educated physician will tell you
that nature alone can do this.
PHI HOSPH ATE SOAP, by its
cleansing, soothing and purifying
qualities, gives nature chance to
act freely.
Year: 1879

THE BEST soap for toilet use
ever manufactured. BEST because
it contains all the excellencles OF
the most expensive foreign Or
American soaps without their de-
fects. BEST because it combines
strength with delicacy in such a
way that it's strong detersive quail
ties do not injure the skin. BEST
because it is the result of years OF
study and experiment in the soap
manufacturing business, assisted
by modern chemica discoveries.
BEST because it contains ingredl-
ents beneficial 20 the skin, which
unite chemically with the soap
in such q manner as to increase
its saponaceous qualities. Every
chemist familiar with soap manu-
facture knows that some ingred1-
ents which are in themselves bene-
fetal to the skin cannot be saponi-
fed; some are partially neutral1zed, F,
while others injure the quality OF
the soap. There are soaps in the
market which are to some extent
beneficial to the skin, but they are
inferior articles for toilet use.
PHOSPHATE SOAP is the ONLY
article offered to the public which
combines all the best elements OF
toilet soap with medical lngred1-
ents beneficial to the skin.
Year: 1879

If your wife is in the habit of
using cosmetics of any kind, advise
her to give up the pernicious prac-
tice, as the most harmless face
powders obstruct tho pores Of the
skin and sooner Or later injure the
complexion, while PHOSPHATE
SOAP removes all impurities and
assists nature in developing q nat
ural, healthy and beautiful skin,
Year: 1879

EDS REPORTER: The subject of E Ia
cation is one of the first Importance to
US all, and embraces wide field for com
ment and investigation. But at present,
we propose to touch only on few Of
the most important features, as time will
not permit US to enter into any lengthy
details of this important subject.


In the first place we will divide educa
ton into three departments, w: The
education Of the heart, the education of
the body, and the education of the mind,
or that department which is generally
referred to by the term, Education.


The education of the heart is the most
important department of these three, as
it is the remoddling of our sinful nature,
the putting off of our natural inclina-
tion, and pruning our natural desires,
which are born within US. and are there
fore earthly and selfish As we are born
in corruption, We are as naturally prone
to evil "as the sparks fly upward" J.
each of US would but take the magnify
ing glass through which we look to see
others faults and look through it. to dis
Germ our own imperfections and misgiv
inos, we would be amazed and confoun-
de at beholding such pandemonium
of corruption, deception and vice, en-.
gendered in that being which God crea-
ted in his own image and after his own
likeness, and pronounced good Now,
this state of human wickedness and de-
pravity has been engendered within us
by neglecting the education of oul
hearts, by sanctioning and following af.
ter the dictates and desires of our wick.
ed incliuations


1t is the moral and religious duty o'
each and every one of US, as children
as teachers, and as parents, to eradicate
and prune all our desires and thoughts
that are evil and pernicious, from our
selves, and educate our hearts in the
love of doing right, because it is righI
and just, and in accordance with the
"Golden Rule" and pleasing in the
sight of Him who made US. Children
pause and think whether you are ingraft
ing these moral and religious principles
into your hearts by following after theiI
precepts in your daily intercourse with
your associates. And parents, consider
whether you are setting your children 8
proper example after which to pattern
Are you living life from which youl
children may obtain the proper scions
to ingraft into their hearts2 Consider
this matter with God fearing spirit
and consciousness that 10 you, the Al
] mighty has intrusted the education of th,
Year: 1879

EvThe Rural New Yorker says that
ten acres of good clover are worth more
than so much wheat, if the value of what
is left in the groun by the clover is ta-
ken into account. When crop Of wheat
is taken, the ground is exhausted of 80
much of its fertility and is carried off 10
the wheat; but when crop of clover is
taken, the soil is actually in better con.
dition than before, anG is good enough
to yield a crop of wheat or corn.
Year: 1879

ETI had mare some years ago that
had a large wart on her side where the
harness rubbed and kept it sore. In
summer the flies made it worse. To
prevent this l put on a good daub of
lar, and in few weeks the wart was
killed and disappeared / have frequen :
ly tried it since on cattle and horses, and
seldom had an occasion to use a second
application. The remealv is simple and
effectual. - Cor. Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1879

SLIGHTLY SARCASTIC The New
Orleans Plcayune has come to the
con ;luSion that man is noble crea,
ture, for on Sunday morning he will
come down town and spend sixty
cents at a barber shop, making him
s'lf look sweet. He will spend as
much more on game OF billiards.
also get his boots blacked-buy two
cigals for himself and a friend max
ing in all about two dollars for his
personal qualification. He will then
bay box of strawberries for twenty
five cent. and then go home and help
eat them. The strawberries show
that he is ready to deny himself, and
that he never iorgets his darling lit
tie wife.
Year: 1879

EGYpTIAN TEMPLES All the great
temples Of Egypt which have with.
stood the destructive tendencies OF
time and the assaults of man for four
thousand wears are Of hewn stone
But the only wood in or about them
is in the form of ties, holding the end
of one zone to another on its upper
surface. When two blocks were land
in place, then it appears that an ex-
cavation about an inch deep was
made in each block, into which an
hour glass shaped tie was driven. 1t
is therefore very difficult to force any
stone frol its position. I'll e ties ap-
pear to have been the tamarisk, or
chlttlm wood, a sacred tree in ancient
Egypt, and now very rare y found in
the valley of the Nile. Those dove
tail ties are just as sound now as on
the day OF their insection.


A marble haul-ste ling a tomb
stone.
Year: 1879

next A copy of the petition and order
on the same will be served upon Secretary
GovesasoDce. Both petitionersiclaim thai
they are legally elected by the Republicans
of their districts. and that they made ap-
plicatIons to the Secretary of State in per-
son and by counsel for an opportunity to
see and examine the returns, and that he
repeatedly denied them the privilege.
Year: 1879

Is it a disordered liver giving you a
yellow skin or costive bowels, which have
resulted in distressing Piles or do your
kidneys refuse to perform their functions !?
II so your system win soon be clogged
with polsons. Take few doses of Kidney
Wort and you'll feel like a new man
nature will throw off every impedimcnt
and each organ will be ready for duty.
Year: 1879

YELLOW FEvER.-To amellorate the
Dreadful effects of Yellow Fever take
Simmons Liver Regulator. Let it be
given in large doses, that it may have an
immediate effect upon the liver. and re-
move the accumuating bile. 1t so acts
upon the liver, stomach and blood as to
prevent the attack of this terrible dis
Year: 1879

Frauk Mller's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is ore of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line. DIFF
Year: 1879

The prevalence of malarial diseases In
countv and town indicates q danger to
which we are all exposed. These diseases
are to contract and hard to eradicate
But Warmers Safe Pills neutrali8es the
poison and cures them. And they are
equally effective against all bilious troub'
Year: 1879

Congress meets to find that the dispute
about employing troops and marshals in
elections for member of congress. which
caused SO much talk in the special session
last spring, has lost its interest. 1t might
be resurrected and tortured into an artificial
issue, but it seems pretty clear that, for the
present, the country cares very little about
it. The better policy for the majority will,
probably, be to allow it TO pass away. When
the appropriation bills are brought up, they
should be passed if possible, without re-
newal of the quarrel with the executive.
There are no important questions before
the country at present, and the session
ought to be quiet one, unless the ad-
ministration insists on ripping up the cur
rency legislation of the past In that case
the Democrats of the South and the
Democrats and Republicans of the West
ought to make common cause in opposit-
ion, without regard to politics. and repeat
the rebuke they gave the admins tration a
year ago on the silver bill.-& Louis Re
publican
Year: 1879

Mr.. Voorhis, Republican member o.
congress from a New Jersey district. is
under indictment for embezzlement of the
funds Of bank of which he was an officer
but his party friends say he must not re-
sign, lest they be not able to elect a sue
cessor. This may be good partizanship
but it is mighty poor morality. E1chdnge.
Year: 1879

The new five per cent District OF Columbia
refunding bonds all Of which have been dis
posed OF by advertising for bids will not be
Issued before the 1st Of September. The pur-
chasers are complaining because they cannot
receive the bonds before that date as they wish
to put them on the market. The bonds will
date from July 1st last, and interest will be due
on them from that date. This also is q draw
back In the eyes OF those who purchased them
because cit makes the back interest to be paid
which investors object tor The reason the
bonds will not be issued before September lst is
bt cause OF the delay in receiving orders for them
by the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing which
has the contract for the work. The act under
which they are issued Is defective in one partic-
ular. 1t does not state where they are payable.
An effort has been made to have them printed to
say that they are payable at the Treasury of the
United States, but the Treasury department
could not consent to this. The bonds will, OF
course, be promptly paid, principal and inter-
est, but defect In the act authorizing them
leaves them without any designation as to
where they shall be paid. Regret has fire.
Quently been expressed that the rate of inter-
est of the refundng bond had not been placed
lower. In the present excellent condition of
District finances, it is believed that ~ per
cent, possibly 4 per cent bond could have
been readily put on the market, instead OF a
5, and the District saved the difference.
Year: 1879

TCRFMEN ACCUSED OF BAD FATrH.-The Nil.
waukee Driving Park Association has with.
drawn from the Western circuit and the races
announced Ior the August meeting are declared
on. The reason given for this action is had
fa1th on the part OF certain horse owners who
had assured the association that they would
surely enter for the meeting. but who have
where
Year: 1879

TORONTO, August ga special dispatch from
London to the Globe says:-Capt Tyler has
written letter on behalf Of the Grand Trunk
board in reply to Mr.. Childer's proposal. The
letter states that the Crank Trunk board is dis
inclined to agree to division OF the compet-
tive trafflc only. They advocate the fusion OF
the whole net receipts OF the two companies. to
be divided according to agreed percentages.
The general feeling is strongly in favor OF the
Grand Trunk proposal which is supported by a
majority OF the Great Western shareholders.
and Will probably be carried out.
Year: 1879

Washington, Oct. 4.-Judge Settle,
late of the supreme court of North
Carolina, states that it was through
him that Grant was directly consulted
about the third term nomination by his
friends at the assembling of the last
national republican convention, and
that now having had the rest and recre-
alton which he said put all thought Of
third term out of his mind, Grant
may now be in condition to accept.
He adds: There is ground swell in
his favor, and you might as well attempt
to stay the rush of tidal wave as to
prevent his nomination, unless he does
it himself.
Year: 1879

New York, Oct. A special to the
Times from Washington, contradicts
the story going the rounds of the press
that the secretary Of the navy has or
dered steam yacht built for the presi-
dent and cabinet. The story grew out
OF small yacht being purchased by
one OF the presidents secretaries.
Year: 1879

Writing on Tuesday night, and reviewing
the history Of the still-pcnding struggle in
lazoo county, Mississippi, We predicted in
these columns that the next news from that
district would lie that Captain Dixon. the
leader OF the Independents, had been shot
down by the Irregular" Democratic assassins.
Our predictions was speedily verified. On
that very day Dixon was murdered in cold
date for chanccry clerk The particulars as
telegraphed to the Associated Press are brief.
Dixon was walking down street Of lazoo
City whether he had returned with the in
teniion to prosecute an active canvass of the
county, despite intimidation, when he was
killed by Barkstlale who at the same time
double-harrclcd shotgun. Dixon halted,
placing his hand on his pistol, drawing it.
Barksdale raised the gun To his shoulder.
Dixon seeing this moved toward a stairway,
with a cowardicc worthy of a murderer
of helpless men and women, when Barks-
dale fired, four buckshot entering Dixon's
back Dixon then fired several times ut
Barks,lale without effect Barksllalc fired a
second time but missed his aim hut the
first wound, though mot rs wide as Il church
door or as deep as a well, was sufficient to
time. Such is the fate of men who have
temerity 10 make canvass against the re-
gular Democratic ticket in Mississippi Be
tween the principals in this tragedy there is
little TO choose. BY hisown confession Dixon
was little better than red-handed
murderer and met his fate through
a political ''plan' Of which he himself was
one of the originatorS; and on the other
hand Barks,lalc was evidently cowardly
poltroon to shoot flying enemy from be-
hind. But the fact is patent and loses none
of its force from the circumstance that its
proof is found in the murder of such a per-
son as Dixon, that in lazoo county there is
no freedom of speech or conduct; and the
indications are that Democratic majorities
will be gained by the same means at other
points in Mississippi. 1t is no wonder that
Secretary Thompson declared that ''such
will consolidate the North more effectively
than all the speeches Of Congressional ora
tors - and no wonder that Senator Bruce
told an interviewer that his views need not
be sought, and that perhaps in a short time
the Yazoo mob would threaten his life if he
did not vacate his scat in the Senate The
outrages in Yazoo county are a significant
indication Of the spirit and purpose of the
Southern Democracy. Their leaders are un-
principled and reckless, and their followers
much more so; and we shall doubtless soon
hear from many another county than this
one, of Democratic victories wor by violence
and fraud-of peace secured by the shot
gun and harmony" by the rifle.


In the meantime We shall wait with in
terest to see whether Barksdale, that flower
of Southern chivalry and knightly leader of
the law-abiding Democrats. is elected 10 Office
or the gallows.