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Year: 1875

DOVER, ARK, Nov. 1st, 1875.

 EDITORS "RUssELLvILLE DEMO cRAT:-Enclosed find subscription price of your paper for one year. 1 have had the privilege of read ing the DEMOCRAT occasionally from it's incipiency, and am so we'll pleased with it that I became a permanent subscriber, especial ly am 1 interested in that portion devoted to agriculture. Agricul- ture and farming may properly be termed the worlds back bone and if the history of the world teaches anything it IS that individuals and nations prosper or decline in proportion as the soil is rich or poor, and that civilization prog

 resses as agriculture thrives, and recedes as the fertility of the soil becomes less. Any cause that should stop the production of food would, of course, put stop to all human life, and any cause that should materially lessen it would speedily end all accumula- tion of the results of labor, and compel all who are able to live under the new conditions to the one task of securing food and clothing. That which we call our ealth--houses, highway, and all other products of civilization represents, in the main, the ex- cess of the products of the soil beyond the need for food of those by whose labor they are produced. This excess is exchanged for that which the farm cannot produce, and supports others, who are thereby enabled to apply their labor to other industries. With out at all understanding the work of those who do not cultivate the soil and without attaching undue importance to the farmer class as constituent clements of society, it must be clear to all who give the subject the least consideration that, in the long run, no economy can be of much value that is not accompanied by a careful preser- vation of the producing capacity of the soil. It may be taken as a self evident proposition, that national prosperity depends on the fertility of the soil and on the health and vigor of the people. Having thus endeavored to call forth a reflection as regards the source from whence comes the ma terial that feeds and clothes the whole world, let an observing eye but for moment be cast around, and behold the once fer tile vallies of old Pope, and what do we accessibility, depletion no wonder we have gamers and

 smoke houses in Illinois and Missouri, and our agents, or commissary department in your Metropolis. What is the remedy? It is to found in sowing more grain, or planting more corn, or making less cotton; all these are generally pointed out as the rem edies. The low price of cotton and high price of provisions fur nlsh an argument that will con vince farmers by and by, that
Year: 1875

Has the largest circulation of any paper in the State, outside of Little Rock, and is not surpassed by any other paper in the South west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people.
Year: 1875

THs SECOND STaEET MAIN.--Last
evening the Second street 90 inch main
was laid across Market street and the
stop put In. During the progress q
this work, travel along the city rail
way track was interrupted, and the
men were kept at work until late in
the evening, to put the street in travel.
ing condition again.
Year: 1875

ALL experience demonstrates that there is only one attitude by the maintenance of which the press can continuously and use fully serve the public interests, and that is the attitude of absolute independence so far as men are concerned. Party organs are but the tools of party managers, and exist to register their decrees, indorse their acts, and shelter their abuse. Neither candor nor yer acity can be expected from them, for they deem it point of honor (save the mark to support the worst men as zealously as the best, and in the sadly jumbled ethics of their class it is a matter of boasting to have "swal- lowed ; ticket which they know to be a bad one. A time is coming, however, when this phase of journalism will disappear; when it will no longer be regarded as incumbent on any exponent of party doctrine to indorse whatever ticket may be put in the field, and when a clearer view of the responsibility of the press will cause the subordination of clique to general interests, and to obtain rec ognition every where for the truth that good government can only be secured by placing Integrity and Truth above all professions. T San Diego Union.
Year: 1875

SwEEEY's WIFE.-Sweeny-whose direct connection with the ring of robbers has just been brought to light-is living in Paris, neither more nor less communicative than he was Tn the old days. That be was not given to confidence may be inferred from the fact that in 1871 Tweed didn't know he was mar ried-albeit he had been married for several years. Concerning Sweeny's wife there is a romance which has never been told in print, and which we may briefly outline in this con- necticn. Those who saw her in her youth pronounced her the handsomest woman in the world. Her home was in Albany. She travelled abroad, and in Rome she met Page, who fell passionately in love with her and proclaimed her his wife, notwithstanding the fact that he had another wife living. She deserted him after time for the company of an Italian nobleman, who gave her home which was palace, and lavished his wealth upon her. Sweeny travelled abroad, met her and won her heart. They were married and she returned to this country with him, but she did not take up her abode in his New York residence. He fitted up a house for her on the Hudson (Lake Mahopac ?, and there occasionally he invited his friends to a dinner party. But none among them sus- pected that the fair hostess was his wife. She has proved more devoted to Sweeny in his misfortunes than to her other lovers in thelr prosperity. But Worth makes her dresses, and the Sweeny exchequer is not ex- Utica (N. Y.) Observer.
Year: 1875

c. H. WELLS of the Arizona and New Mexico Express Company, who was here a week since, returned by blackboard to Tue. son, headquarters of the company. The req. son of his visit was to obtain reliable infor- nation in regard to the capabilities and gen. eral business of Grant county, with a view, it is presumed, at no distant period, to estab, fish express communication between this place and the terminus of some one of the eastern railroads in Colorado; but upon this subject we are not definitely informed. Mir Wells expressed himself as greatly sur prised at the productiveness of our mines, and that the written accounts of Grant county were not exaggerated, but failed to convey correct idea of our present and great prospective wealth.-TSilver City N. M Herald
Year: 1875

HEAVY Loss.-We hear that many who started late across the California desert with sheep for Arizona, have had bsd luck some of which could not have been avoided, while in other cases the men in charge of the focks acted in such reckless manner as to bring on trouble. One man, it is said, jumps on his sheep when they grow tired or contrary and stamps the life out them with his boot heels, and then wonders how it is he loses so many sheep while others are so successful
Year: 1875

A dinner was rendered to Attorney Gener- al Pierrepont by certain of bis friends in New York city. which he declined. His note to that effect contained one sentence worthy to be treasured. Said he:

 By law quite resistless, prostration of healthy business has followed the delusions of intoxicated enterprise and yet our people do not accept the inevitable, but still insist that, by some contrivance, they can grow rich without economy, and continue extrava- gant without ruin.
Year: 1875

TIE enlarged Arizona Citizen comes to us with l6 columns of reading matter. The Citizen is now the same size as the MINER, but owing to its narrow measure has col umn more to the page, giving it 2S columns while the MINER only has 4. We welcome it in its new garb and enhanced capacity for doing good, and will "stand in" with it for the right
Year: 1875

THE editor of the Yuma Sentinel has been permitted to see new born babe in Yuma that had body like boy and head like a bull calf. It lived from Sunday night until Thursday morning and died. The editor went straight home, after looking at it and withdrew his advertisement for wife.
Year: 1875

THE ORIGIN OF THE HoUsE-FLY.-Flies came in this way: When God made the bees, the Devil always wanting to initiate the Almighty in all his works, thought he could make bees too and tried it but failed, his bees all turned out to be flies We have the word of the Shooster, and be had it from his grandmother in Germany. So that it seems to be pretty we'll substantiated.
Year: 1875

A very curious incident occur red recently in Terra Haute, by which hog took free ride across the river bridge. It was about half-past three o'clock that a freight train was approaching the city, when a hog weighing about 100 pounds was seen on the track at the west end of the bridge It did not got out of the way soon enough, and the pilot ofthe engine struck it. Instead of knocking it of, however, the sloping front of the pilot caught his porkship and rolled his right up upon the little platform in front of the boil CT. There he rose and sat looking around, and was by this time out over the bare ties, where if he had jumped off he would Lave gone down to the water. He evidently saw this, for he remained on the front of the engine and rode all the way across the bridge. When the engine arrived on this side the hog sprang nimbly off upon the platform near Mir. Twaddell's watch house, and after grunting its satisfaction at its narrow escape it moved off. It was slightly hurt in the side and one leg, but it will recover.
Year: 1875

Two gentlemen residing in Sac ramento, Cal, were startled one night by loud screams proceeding from room occupied by a lady member of the family. Inquiry elicited theinformation that "there was centipede on her bed." The gas was at the time turned down quite low, but the men could see the insect on the bed, and doub- ling towel several times, one of them cast it ovor the centipede, and clutched it tightly to prevent its escape. One of the gentlemen was somewhat of an amateur scientist, and desired ardently to preserve the centipedc as a speci- men. Accordingly, the captured insect was carried in the towel to a drug store. The druggist pour ed chloroform on the towel to stu pefy the creature and to prevent the possibility of it's escape, and one of the clerks stood by with an uplifted club, to strike it should it attempt to get off. The towel was opened, and the expectant lookers-on were astonished to find that all the fuss had been made over little strip of calico.
Year: 1875

Says the Denver Ne,os:: The guests
at one of Denver's- most quiet and re-
spectacle hotels were astonished at the
dinner-hour yesterday by disturbance
at one of the tables, in which one Of the
boarders avenged an imaginary insult in
a unique and very summary manner.
Coming in a little late, he found his seat
occupied by another party. Smarting
under the indignity, he sat himself down
opposite and began making preparations
to punish the rash intruder upon his sa-
cred rights and privileges without going
through the formality, it is reported, of
entering a complaint or even intimating
that anything was amiss. Taking glass
nearly full of water, he stirred into it
some miscellaneous condiments from the
well-filled castor in. front of him, and
when the fiery decoction was complete,
dashed it, without word of warning,
| full into the face and eyes of the luckless
offender. Nearly blinded and in an
agony of pain, the victim staggered to
his feet and demanded an explanation.
when he was coolly informed that he
could have satisfaction by coming out
on the sidewalk. With admirable pluck
worthy of a better cause, he accepted
the challenge; but in the unequal con
test that followed he was again worsted
having little or no use of his eyes. Tht
valiant Sir Knight of the pepper-castol
having vindicated his honor to his salts
faction, doubtless, by whipping his man
regained his reserved seat and pro
ceeded with his dinner"
Year: 1875

The manufacture of thimbles is very
simple, but singularly interesting. Coin
silver is mostly used, and is obtained by
purchasing coin dollars. Hence it hap
pens that the profits of the business are
affected instantaneously by all the varia-
tons in the nations greenbaek promise
to pay. The first operation strikes a
novice rs almost wicked, for it Is nothing
else than putting a lot of bright silver
dollars, fresh from the mint, into dirty
cruGibles, and melting them into solid
ingots. These are rolled out into the
required thickness, and cut by stamp
into circular pieces of any required size.
A solid metal bar of the size of the IN
side of the intended thimble, moved by
powerful machinery up and down in a
bottomless mold of the outside of the
safna tlimbles, bends the circular disks
into the thimble shape, as fast as they
Gun be placed under the descending bar.
Once in shape, the work of Frightening,
polishing and decorating is done upon a
lathe. First the blank form is fitted
with rapidly-reyolying rod. A slight
touch of sharp chisel takes thin shay
ing from tine end, another does the same
ON the side, and the third rounds off the
rim. A round steel rod dipped in oil
and pressed upon the surface, gives it a
lustrous polish. Then a little revolving
steel wheel, whose edge is raised orna-
mcDi, held against the revolving blank,
prints that ornament just outside the
rim. A second wheel prints a different
ornament around the center, while a
third wheel, with sharp points, makes
the indentations on the lower half and
end of the thimble. The inside is bright
ened and polished in similar way, the
tlimble being in revolving mold. AL


that remains to be done is to boil the
completed thimbles in soap-suds, to re,


move the oil, brush them up, and pacE
them for the trade.
Year: 1875

A California exchange relates story
about solid old farmer who came into
town, and learning that wheat was being
sold readily at 50 and upward, felt rather
chagrined over the fact that he had dis
posed of his crop the previous week at
S1.63. He told the commission mer-
chant to whom he had sold his grain
that inasmuch as he had made good
speculation on his former buy he ought
now to purchase the balance of his crop
at good round sum. When asked how
much wheat he had left he replied Zone
sack" and that he wanted the! highest
figure that had been paid to anybody
this season, namely, $3.50. The buyer
Immediately closed the bargain and took
the wheat. Our agricultural friend then
stroIIed around town, and stated that he
had sold his wheat Che didn't say how
how muchl at 80. so, and that the market
was "away up" Nobody believed him,
and bets wero freely offered and taken
that there was nothing in it. The farmer
kept taking the bets and sending his
victim to the grain dealer for proof, until
he gathered in about $50 In coin. 1t was
the sharpest wheat transaction of the
season, beside being capital joke.
The best part of the latter is that one of
the victimized betting gentlemen is a
clerk in the house where the enormous
sale was made, and was sold Tor larger
sum than the cereal. i
Year: 1875

In ONE week Of last month firm near
New York received orders for AS miles
of pencils. To make these only SO, 900
feet of cedar lumber are required, and
after they are made they will load six
freight cars. This immense consump-
ton of lead pencils is doubtless caused
by the attempts of women to sharpen
them with q pair of scissors or dull
case knife.
Year: 1875

Tins IS the nineteenth century. and
this the land where education is free as
air. and where the groundless super
sfitions of the old world are considered
proper subjects for merriment or de-
srision, bat still the people in the neigh
borhood of Wells Beach, VT, harbor the
9fotion that any ono who win take q dip
in their river, on June 26, viii be exempt
from sickness for one year, and on that
date hundreds of the credulous lave
themselves in the magic waters.
Year: 1875

The only colored cadet now at the
Point is " Flipper." Of the third-class,
and all concede he is getting along finely,
though there are those who believe he
will never graduate. They say no colored
cadet will be allowed to graduate here ;
that he may get as far as the tirst-class,
but there he will be slaughtered. L
do not believe there are any grounds for
such an opinion. The officers are gen
tlemen, so are the professors. They be-
heve merit should be rewarded wherever
found, and nearly all of them speak well
of clipper" He has a light, coffee
colored complexion, and minds his own
business, and he does not intrude his
company upon the other cadets. He
studies hard, and his position of forty
six in his class of eighty-five members
proves what metal he is made of. There
are many old heads here who believe he
will graduate with honor. He is from
Georgia. James Smith, the other colored
cadet from South Carolina, about whom
there was so much talk, and who was
sent home for incompetency, was a dull
scholar, and although he was given
three chances TO retrieve himself where
other cadets get only two, he failed each
time. His particular weakness was
chemistry.-NeecX York IIales.
Year: 1875

A Paris correspondent writes Since
/ have been residing abroad have come
to the conclusion that an operatic career
is the last one to be chosen by any young
girl, unless she be the possessor of a
perfectly phenomenal voice. The crop
Of weak-throated or harsh toned sopranos
is a superabundant and an Improbable
one. If young girl really wants to go
on the stage (and Punch'S advice to those
about to marry-namely, "Don't !'-is
the best to give and follow on such
occasions), the regular boards offer for
her much fairer opportunity for ulti-
mate success and profit than do those
of the lyric drama. But because Patti
and Nilsson, by dint of actual genius
and great personal beauty, have man
aged ~ achieve great success without
great pl ysical power, every girl who can
trill a ballad or lead choir fancies that
she is born to queen it on the operatic
stage, and to gain thousands nightly by
means of her voice-that is, if she can
only come to Europe to study. Forth
with she comes abroad to gain, il ninety
nine cases out of hundred, only the
disheartening knowledge that all the
musical centers of Europe are crowded
with wouldbe prima-donnas that the
supply far exceeds the demand, and that
her time and money have been alike
thrown away.
Year: 1875

4 Boston letter to an Eastern news
paper relates that upon one Of the fash
ionable South End squares of that city
there has lived in swell-front, four
story brick house, until very lately, a
woman who has hired for her servant her
own sister. The latter was treated i'll all
respects as menia, and though the
woman and her husband, having no chill
dren, dined alone when there was no
company in the house, they never per-
mitted the sister to sit with them. Not
only this, but the sister-servant was kept
at work from early till late, and there
was no such thing as leisure for her, or
a particle of the consideration due from
one so nearly related to her Finally
the woman moved out of town, and the
sister determined to find an easier place.
Accordingly she engaged to go to sum-
mer resort as pastry cook III q fashion
able boarding-h house. Now it has trans
pired that her sister and former mistress
has engaged board for the warm season
not only at this very resort, but also at
the very house where her sister is to fur
nish the daily pies and puddings.
Year: 1875

eve are not attracted" says the Ar
cddian, to patrcnize barber because
he STYLES himself 'tonsorial artist, and
his place of work hair dressing studio;'
but we rather bear him a g1udge for
trying to impose on us with such vile
rhetoric, and congratulate ourselves as
we cross to the opposite side of the
street. that verbal hourishes upon the
whole are less dangerous than hourishes
with a razor. But it is not to be doubted
that there are some people who think
more highly of themselves because they
get their boards cut in a studio by an
artist; and it is to this shoddy element
that the 'tonsorial artist, the fine art
tailors. and the other nondescript hum
bugs of the period appeal. Their Gus
toners are the people who live in resi-
dences,' worship the golden calf in tab
ernacles, do their shopping in 'empori-
ums.' cool their wine in refrigerators,
and extend invitations, forsooth, as If
invitations were things to be held out at
the end of pair Of tongs J"
Year: 1875

and that m application for affation must be accompa


MED with check for the annual fee and the constitution
and laws and roll Of the officers and members OF the
club making the application.
Year: 1875

POSSIBLE EXTENSION or THE ROUTE OF TIE ALIAS


One of the recent rumOrs upon Wail-st. mas
been in relation to the Atlas Steamship Company, winch
at present runs line of steamships between NeW-1OrK
and South Ala, rca touching at the West Indies Ii Wa
reported that the Company to extend its business By
calling at Colon (,spinwaD where il would connect with
the Pacific Steam Navigation COEipanys steamships,
which ply between Panama and England by passing
down the west coast OF South America and around Cape
Horn.


The agent in this city Of the Atlas line stated yester-
day that he had received instructions whatever upon
the subject from Liverpool where the principal office OF
the Company is situated There time last Spring,
he said when the Pacific Mail Steamship Company cX-
tended its 10 certain ports on the South American
coast which, il had been considered by the officers Of TIE
Atlas Company, in a certain sense belonged 10 thcm ana
they threatened retaatc by sending their steamers to
Coi0n-le terminus OF the Pacific Mail Company lme
ON This side OF the I~huus. While nothing more than
talk occurred the time he thought II very probable
that something Of tins kind might he attempted by the
Atlas Company during the Fall The idea that ms Com
many might arrange with the Occidental and oriental
Steamship Company for direct communication over the


line OF the California and China he did not Ic-
gard a. thing than Il stock ODbinS sensation As
stated before, he claimed 10 have no positive koWldSe
the plans Ot the managers OF the Alias Company Ill
England from whom lie received his instructions, bat
from all knew of the other companies nc ntlOncd he
by the Atlas line ttt very Improbable OF eNeci-
ton. The Atlas Company viii publish new uMc-idnlc
about sept. and until then nothing can ne known OF
the destination Of their steamers after sept II.