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Year: 1877

CoRREcTloN.--l In the article on the
second page, in place of "later," in speak
ing OF the era of the coal deposits in
this Territory, it should read earlier"
Most OF the coal in the East being de
posted in the Carbonifcrous period, a
subdivision OF the secondary formation,
while the coal of this Territory is formed
in the later portion of the Tertiary pc
riod. This mistake in setting up the ar.
ticle was not noticed in the proof.
Year: 1877

BEAUTIFUL SNow.-Yesterday morn
ing the ground was covered with some
Two inches of snow, the most for a lous
time past being one of the heaviest
showers Of snow witnessed this winter.
1t is melting rapidly away
Year: 1877

public treasure lavished upon Northern
highways to the Pacific. the little aid 1t
asks for should be extended TO the Tex
as Pacific.


What, in your opinion, will be
the policy Of tho Democratic party to-
ward the eolored people, In view OF the
fact that the Democratic party nov
comes into power for the first time since
the war In Louisiana


Judge spofford-The Democratic Con-
servative party OF Louisiana standS
pledged by every promise, public and
private, that can be held sacred among
men, to protect the colored population
Of the State in all their constitutional,
political and legal rights. which may be
summed zap in that grand old phrase,
equality before the law" I trust the
time Is not distant, when, instead of ad-
dressing the people in political meet
ings as "white friends " and colored
frfends,t' we shall address the same
arguments to all under the common ap-
pelation OF citizens"


Rep.-Have you anything to say as to
the relative strength OF the various can
didates for the Senatorship?


Judge Spofford = Do you think
1t would be proper for me to say
anything? 1 do not. l take 1t for
granted that the members of the Cen
eral Assembly, who alone arc vested
with the power, under their oath OF Of
tiee, to elect D representative OK the
State to that lofty position. will only
seek to ascertain who can do most to
serve her interests there, who will unite
in himself the largest combination oi
the. elements of influence and be best
able to restore to Louisiana something
OF her old prestige in that grand council
Of co-eaual States. No candidate, and
no interested friend Of any candidate
can be very fair judge Of that. The
members OF the Legislature must an
swer TO their constituents and vindicate
to them tho correctness OF their choice
Year: 1877

day morning the body was still swing
ing to q limb.


Texas.


The Cameron county jail Is over-fulT
OF Mexicans.
Barley is promising crop in Lime
stone county. 4
But little cotton is being planted in
Pamela county.
The fruit crop In and about San An
tonic was never more promising.


The success Of the coming State Fair
Is assured.


Waco Is borrowing money at is per
cent year. 'e


Richmond Is to have q big railroad
festival on San Jacinto day.


Two hundred and fifty men are at
work ON the Dallas and Wichita Rail-
road.


The grasshoppers on the Guadalupe
are doing some damage to the fruit
crop.


The prospect at Fort Worth Is that
the cattle shipments will be greatly
In excess OF those OF last year.
The court honse OF Dewitt county Is
to be removed from Clinton to Cuero In
time for the meeting OF the next District
Court.


The Navasota Tablet tells OF an old
silver mine just discovered and reopen
ed on Sims creek. The Indians knew
OF Its existence and Spaniards worked
1t so the story goes.
Doran, accused OF the murder OF Pat
man, in saloon In Sherman, about two
years ago, was acquitted on Thursday
OF last week. He succeeded In continu-
| ing bis case three times. During the
period he was In Jail, seven hundred
and twelve days, he never saw the sun.
He was brought out two or three times,
but it happened to be cloudy each time.
His liberty seemed like dream to him.


Waco Examiner. Two divisions, em-
bracing about one fourth OF the county.
will vote one week from to-day on the
question as to whether hogs, sheep, and
other small stock, shall be allowed to
run at large. The expense OF fencing
against such stock is very great, and
few farmers can afford to do it. We be-
lieve 1t to be to the best interests OF q
large majority Of the farmers, especially
of those living on prairie farms, to
adopt the prohibitory measure, and
viewing 1t In the same light, as they
undoubtedly do, 1t is probable that
| fencing against small stock will be done
away with as q result OF Saturdays
election.
Year: 1877

AnoSher horrible murder hasoccurred in this vicinify. An old couple living by themselves in Shriield. by the name of Stillman or Spill man. were hnrribly murdered on Wednesday evening last- It seems they employed a boy Co do thenecessary outdoor work, who slept at hame. On his way home on Wednesday even- ing he was met by negro who asked if there WAS company sa the house. He said 'tNo." The man then said, Il am goingupto the house fo sane butter." The murder was not discov- eEpd until the next morning, when the boy went to the house for the milk pail and found both the old people dead One account says their heads were nearly severed from their hodiea The old lady had evidently been down cellar for the butter, as the steelyards, and a roll of butter were on the table, It is supposed he killed the old man with an axe whiie his wifewas down cellar, and then struck her. as she was coming up stairs, knocking her down the stairs again. He. then fled to Harrington where he was taken. There was grea1 excitement in Sheffield and Harrington and the indignant people would gladly have ta- ken the law into their own hands. and hung him on the nearest tree, but the officers of the hw saapcseded in lodging him safely in the
Year: 1877

There rumor on Saturday evening that there
was some trouble between the Nnth avenue and the
Twenty third Street Railway companies, which threat
ened to be serious. The rumor was incorrect; IL
probably grew OF the TACT that the police had in
terfered for time with working force OF the Twenty
third street company, engaged in putting IN new
turnout where the street crosses Ninth avenue
The men did not begin tearing up the pave
ment until about dark. city ordinance
provides that pavement shall be taken up
without permit from the Board OF Public Works. As
those IN charge OF the alterations had not regular
permit, Captain Yue. OF the Sixteenth precinct CON-
PEELED the 70 stop working until such permit was
obtained. Work was then resumed and continued all
day yesterday. II will be remembered that the Twen
ty-third street company have leased the Bleecker
street line. The turnout is for the purpose OF
changing the route Of the Beecker street Here
alter they will from the Erie Railway icrry, Twen
third street. North River, mp that street to Ninth
avenue, down that avenue to Fourteenth street. turn
ing on into Hudson and continuing 10 Blocker and
thence over the old route.
Year: 1877

WHAT has MRS. SEIZE DONE WITH HERSELF r.


PROBABLE INSANITY.


From the Sandusky Journal July 81


Tho people OF Kelly's Island have for q number Of
days been IN state OF intense excitement account
OF the mysterious disappearance OF widow named
Mrs. Sefe who has the last years resided thl
cast end OF tho island The circumstances connected
with the disappearance Of Mrs. sefe are given IN sub
stance as follows:-On Tuesday night Of last week,
before MIRA Selfc and her two children retired, one al
the children-a little grl-told 4hcr mother that she
saw a man looking in at the window, whereupon
Mrs. sele let down the window curtain and
the family retired, leaving the lamp burning


aes had 70 sess give ss 'o Of ckues s
time in the night, as the boy James says, no was
awakened by his mother screaming and jumping oue
Of bed He asked her what was the matter and she
answered unintegiby. She then lay down on Z
blanket floor between the two beds, screaming
every few minutes Shc thon crawled 10 the lsmp
which stood on the loot of the bed and blew
It out Then shc went into the next room, opened
cupboard door that creaked ana IN about hve minutes
she opened tho outside door and went out shutting
the door buJ not latchng IT, was bright moonlight
and shining into the south window. The children
sleep and thought but little about until they
tried 70 find their mother In the morning. They wene
several places where she was accustomed to 70 and
looked about the premises, and not hnding her au
alarm was gwen, and thorough search Of two days
and a half has not found her


The lamp which James says he filled the night be.
foro half ul, and burned tive or six hours
Her underclothng was found on the rocks where sne
got water al the lake, and the children cay was What
she wore that night, but the black and white sack
found with II she did not have on when she holt the
room where they slept James had made small gar.
don by front door, and in the morning he noticed
the prints of mans loot on the cabbage bed IL
rained during the night, and those foot marks were
made since the ram and were large enough Tor ABOUT
No. ~ boot There signs any other disturb
the door, The path 10 the gnte was narrow
and beaten down, so she could not be tracked She
must barefoot her shoes found IN the
house morning Some think she went away unde(
a temporary lit Of insanity. That n my opinion Sht
never went without shoes, and no one not uscd 10
going could i've rods from her house With
bare feet unless crazy.


The children all say they saw their mother whom
she was screaming; her put out the lamp and "a
into the next room, and did not see anybody else II
the room and believe there any one theres
Year: 1877

The President owes it to decency
and to common sense of justice and
right to give Federal offices to those
Republicans who invest money where
they receive it. 1t is bad enough to
pay the cost of the tariff system und
of most burdensome Federal courts
which expend fifty dollars for each one
they collect and pay over to plain
tiffs, and are thus forty nine dollars
worse than nothing to those who main
tain them. Surely the people that
must sustain these incidents of the
Federal government should have the
small sums doled out by the courts and
tariffs and postoffices distributed
among the taxpayers from whom the
"fees" and "costs" and salaries are
wrested by the arm of Federal power
Twenty millions or more gathered in
as salaries and percentages and steal.
ages in the South are annually trans
mitted and invested in the North by
Federal placeholders. They were sent
into the South by some magnate OF the
Senate or House whom they had
served. They were not deemed worthy
of Office in the civilized and refined
North, hut sent into honorable and
profitable exile as reward for dirty
work as partisans. The reformation of
this state of facts should engage the
early attention of an honest admins
tration at Washington.
Year: 1877

SINCE few stupid fellows, who
never think, have seen proper to assail
the STATESMAN, the question is properly
presented: What real difference does
it make whether the South is emanci-
pated and Its local rights restored by a
Democratic or Republican PRESIDENT 2
1t is only the thing that Is important.
Whether this or tho other party gets
the credit of 1t is of no real conse-
quence, provided the thing is done. II
the country existed for the sake of the
officeholders and not the officeholders
for :he sake of the country, it might
make a difference whether the South
gets Its rights from one party or the
other; but II Mr.. Tilden was correct,
the all-important thing is the end, and
the means arc subordinate. We do
not see how any honest Democratic
Senator can refuse to take the side of
Mr.. Hayes against his assailants in his
own party when they denounce and
bull-doze him for his intention to give
thu South the inestimable blessing of
local self government.
Year: 1877




The New Orleans Times says that its
latest advioes from Washington will
lessen the great opinion the country
had formed Of the flrmness and cour-
age OF Mr.. Hayes. The President has
very plain and SIMPLE work before
him; but if he is weak enough to be
influenced or controlled in any meas
urG by those leaders of his party who,
for ten years, have kept the country
in turmoil and the civil power under
the heel of the military, he will find a
business upon his hands which neither
he nor his cabinet 70. his army car
settle except through .bloodshed, luir
and devastation.
Year: 1877

If newspaper have neither intelli
gence nor pluck ii should have no
opinions and espouse no side in con-
troversy. On the contrary, a news
paper is expected to think and to have
opinions, or it is valueless to many.
Right or wrong. it must havn nnH~io
tions and fight for them US honestly as
they are entertained and then journal.
lists will always be respected even by
those whom they would destroy OF
convince of error. Those newspaper
people who dare not talk on the whis
ky question should retire to private
Ifn
Year: 1877

The London Times says that il there
are fewer emigrants than there used to
be, it is because emigration has done
It's work thoroughly, and has pretty
we'll equalized the wages OF labor in
the two hemispheres. If the move


ment of population hes finished its
work as between Europe and America,
it has not al any rate got through, as
far as its distribution over the surface
of the United S.; tes is concerned. The
Republic is very unevenly settled.
The North Is too crowded in some parts
and the South is too vacant. Part of
the work of the next ten years will be
to equalize population in the national
territory at home, and this will he pro-
6table both for the several States and
the people themselves. If million or
two intelligent people of the admirable
industrial classes which may be found
in the manufacturing cities of the
North should remove to the South
during the next few years, it would be
to the advantage of all concerned. The
South is appealing for settlers, and can
furnish land, work and wages to all
who may come. The crowd in North
ern cities would be relieved, and there
would be more to do and better wages
for those who remain. Considering
the national and personal advantages
of a movement of population toward
the South, it is gratifying to notice
that one has seriously begun. Last
year 800, 900 people came into Texas
s'one; and there is small bu! steady
flow toward Georgia and Florida al
ready in progress. Skillful, indus.
trious men, who arc tempted by what
they hear from emigration agents to go
from England or America to Australia,
should understand that they will do far
better In the long run to remain at
home, but the arguments against Texas
are fewer and fewer each year. Mod
ern ideas in morals and politics are
taking deep hold In this common
wealth, and when life Is safe and per-
sonsl rights secure and sober, indus
trIcus populations govern towns and
counties, there can be conceived of no
more attractive country than Texas.
Year: 1877

Mr.. DODGE says he did not come to
Texas to foreclose mortgages on the
Central. He came to see the country
and for relaxation, and brought with
him friends who had invested vast
'umS In the State, who had never seen
the country or people. Coming here
he found the compsny's treasury empty
and that it was in debt to everybody
everywhere. He began proceedings in
order to anticipate the like action OF
others which would have been ruinous
to him and to those who have made
advances for the company.
Year: 1877

A LARGE number Of the citizens OF
precinct number four Of this county
have presented petition to the county
court in order that the voters Of the
district may determine whether whisky
shall be expatriated. The farmers say
they intend TO prosecute the business
Of fighting whisky through the ballot
box till it is expelled from the county
and consolidated in the city.
Year: 1877

The y. y. Tribune thinks Judge David
Davis may feel little lonely in the Senate
Chamber, with the two parties holding their
caucuses outside, but ''that his action In
holding alOOf from the democratic caucus, to
which he would seem most naturally to be-
long, will increase the respect In which he is
aleady held as an Independents man, and
may make his vote OF great Importance"
Year: 1877

Secretary Thompson's declaration that he
does not propose TO divert appropriations
from one fund TO another unauthorized by
law has the ring of real reform. He says
that II has been supposed necessary some
times TO borrow temporarily from one fund
TO aid another; but it does not seem that any
such Justification can exist in cases where
the borrowing is designed to make up de-
fcient appropriations for special purposes.
Such a course, he thinks, would be mani
festly attended with the consequence that IL
would enable the Secretary to substitute his
own official discretion for the requirements
of law; and there would be no legal limit to
this discretion; deficiencies would exist or
not, according to his pleasure.
Year: 1877

New York mustn't plume itself too soon
about that obelisk. The city of Trieste in
Austria claims that the Khedive gave ii to
her, and she has been seeking to raise the
money by subscription for its transportation,
for a month or two. Perhaps the Khedive
hasn't given IL TO anybody, and the contract
ors for carrying its fellow TO England are
perhaps slyly getting out the story OF its pre-
sentation 10 this or that country to induce
the act with a view TO getting another job.
Year: 1877

Two stories of suicide are in all minds
to-day--one of them story of lie in a
palace, the other a story OF life in Il ten
ement house. The actors in the two ter.
rible dramas were socially as far removed
from each other as the poles. The one
was rich the other poor; the one refined
the other without culture. The one
lived in luxury with friends in abund-
ance, with wealth and with all the conf
forts that wealth can provide; the other
lived in narrow quarters, upon scanty
food and with little or no comfort. One
thing only they had in common, and
that was lntoIc, cable wretchedness, and
the wretchedness was wrought in both
cases by alcohol.


In one case it was a poor workingman,
who gave way to despair and killed his
children and himself because MS vile
was drunken. la the other refined.
cultured, sensitive woman, a young wife
who had all that wealth and social coz
nections could procure, who was account.
ed particularly fortunate and happy, vol
unfairly went to her death to escape the
intolerable torture of life with husband
who was victim of strong drink.


With these tragical stories Tor text It
would I've easy to write sermon; but the
lessons that the story suggest are tTlte
aud worn with much reiteratioD. The
stories themselves carry their moral WIN
them As similar stories told every day IN
the newspapers de, and they who heet
them not weuld not heed even thousn
.ne should rise from the dead.-M
Erynipg Post.
Year: 1877

TESTIMONY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
Regulator for constipation of my bowels, caused
by q temporary derangement Of the liver, for
the last three or four years, and always, when
used according to the directions with decided
benefit. l think it is good medicine for the
arrangement Of the liver-st least such has been
my personal experience in the uso of it.


HIRAM WARNER,


;of Jrcf; &C n
Year: 1877

According to law, an election of
one director for free schools viii be
held in each civil district on the first
Thursday in August. Our citizens,
we hope, will turn out and elect a
good man.
Year: 1877

CURR FOR CHOKING CATTLE.-Should cat
tie be at any time in danger of choking by
reason of foreign substance in the throat,
take of fine chewing tobacco enough to make
ball as large as hens egg; dampen it
with moasses 30 that it can be compressed
into ball, and will adhere closely; elevate
the animals head, pull out the tongue, aud
crowd the ball as far down the throat as pos
sible. In fifteen minutes it will cause sick
ness and vomiting, relaxing the muscles SO
that the potato, or whatever may be choking
her will be thrown up.-LaneaSter Farmer.
Year: 1877

What will become of the last nah
Various theories that have been serious
ly maintained by scientific men are de-
scribed in the Scientific American, and
we summarize them


/. The surface of the earth is steadi.
ly diminishing, elevated regions are
being lowered and seas are filling up.
The land will at last be all submerged
and the last man will be starved or
drowned. 2. The ice is gradually ac.
cumulatiug at the North Pole and
melting away at the South Pole, the
consequences of which will be an awful
catastrophe when the earth's center of
gravity suddenly changes. The last
man will then be drowned by the rush
Of waters. 3 The earth cannot al.
ways escape collision with comet,
and when the disaster comes there will
be mingling of air and cometary gas,
causing an explosion. If the last man
is not suffocated he will be blown up.
4. There is a retarding medium in
space, causing gradual loss of velocity
in the planets, and the earth, obeying
the law OF gravitation, will get closer
to the SUM- The last man will be sun


struck. 3. The amount of water on
the earth is slowly diminishing, and
simultaneously the air is losing in quan.
tity. Finally, the earth will be an arid
waste, like the moon. The last man
will be suffocated. 6. Other suns have
disappeared, and ours must, sooner or
later, blaze up and then disappear. The
intense heat of the conAagration will
kill every living thing on earth. The
last man will be burned up. Z. The
suns fire will gradually burn out, and
the temperature will cool. The earth's
glacial zones will enlarge, driving our
race toward the equator, until the
habitable space will lessen to nothing.
The last man will be frozen to death.
8. A gradual cooling of the earth will
produce enormous fssure like those
seen in the moon. The surface will
become extremely unstable, until the
remnant of humanity will take refuge
in caves. The last man will be crushed
in his subterranean retreat. o. The
earth will at last separate into small
fragments, leaving the people without
any foothold. The last man will have
a dreadful fall through space 10. The
tenth theory, proving that there will be
no last man at all, is thus expressed :
Evolution does not necessarily imply
progress, and possibly the race may
have retrograded until the human being
possesses the nature of the plant louise (;
such being the case, this single inhabit.
ant will spontaneously produce posteri-
ty of both sexes"
Year: 1877

In a recent number of the Vassar
Miscellany, journal published by the
students of Vassar College, one of the
writer's makes a strong plea for the
pecuniary independence of girls by beg.
ging fathers to settle an allowance upon
their daughters, as they do upon their
sons. She maintains that the depend
ent condition of women is chiefly the
result of education, and that if girls
were given some fixed sum of money,
however small, and taught to under.
stand Its true value, they would not, as
is often the case, become proaigate and
extravagant women, and squander
money from the very ignorance of its
true uses. In illustration the writer
says Fathers like to feel that their
daughters arc dependent on them, and
consider the relation between them that
of the helpless vine and sturdy oak 1t
is undoubtedly pleasant for a girl to
feel that she has a protector; but in
money matters it is decidedly unpleas.
ant to be considered as child inoapa-
bic of nationally handling money; yet
this is but an exact description of the
condition of pecuniary dependence.


Is it so with the boy The father
says, 1t won't do for my son not to
have money He must not be hamper
ed at every turn by an empty purse"
We ask, "How does it look for your
daughter ?" He answers us that il she
asks for money she receives it promptly.
Yes, but he waits to be asked and then
gives her the amount necessary for her
purpose, feeling himself very liberal it
be add few dollars thereto Isn't a
girl equally embarrassed by lack of
money!


Many girl without an allowances
can testify that ignorance of money is
the root of much evil. If money be
given her, she docs not appreciate its