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Year: 1878

cept that the last assembly had charged two special commissions with the duty of examin- ing and reporting, one on insurance adminis- trHtion generally, and the other on the insur. ance laws of the state, and that recommen- dation by me in advance of the reports of these commissions would have seemed prenatul e. l should, in my annual message have advised a purging of of the stock interest from all the mutual life companies of the state first, by prohibiting all further issue of stock policies by mixed companies; and, second, by requiring the earliest winding-up of existing stock risks by reinsurance or otherwise, and an ultimate withdrawal of the entire stock interest or, if this should be thought too radical, then the ad- mission of all policy-holder into the member ship of the corporation, with a major right in the direction, as they have in every case ma ior interest in the assets. It is now too late in the session, perhaps to take this subject in hand keep myself, therefore to the precise point at issue, and advise the~rejection of the bill; or, what is still better, it's continuance to the next assembly, with Order in the meantime for a thorough and radical investigation of the facts necessary to proper judgment on it's merits, and particularly an inquiry

 l. As to the amount and date of capital act ually paid in by the stockholders.

 ?. The amount of dividends or profits here tOfore declared, whether in cash on stock notes, or in any otherwise, and the rate of prof. it's thus received on the amount of capital actu- ally paid in.

 5. The amount of credits carried from the mutual to the stock side from the beginning, the details of such credits, and the apportion- ments made detween them; and the number and amount of policies transferred from the mutual to the stock department of the compa- ny.

 Let Us blow into the surplus of $738, 321, and see what the subsoil is made of.

 This done, the next assembly will be able to pass on the merits of this bill intelligently, and perhaps to apply a little of wholesome and sav- ing surgery to the whole system of mixed con- panies, of which this corporation is the most conspicuous, and, so far as stock profits are concerned, the most prosperous representative.

 1 intend no personal reflection on the stock holders of this institution, nor on it's chief man. ager, who is one of the most prudent, skillful and successful life underwriters of the country. I speak of things not men. I criticise the former, and carefully abstain from personal judgment on the latter.

 Entertaining such decided convictions in re- gardto the impolicy and mischievous tendency of this bill and believing it to be in the inter- est of a few, and to the prejudice of multi titude of men and women who out of their penury, are striving to make provision for their surviving children and dependents II have felt obliged respectfully to return the bill to your honorable body for reconsideration.

 R. D. HUBBARD.
Year: 1878

To the House of Representatives

 return to the house in which it orieina,ed the bill entitled An act relating to the Specific appropriations for all expenditures made by the state"

 am anxious to subordinate, in case of diff. ference, my own personal views of measures passed by the assembly to the differing and presumably wiser views of your honorable body. After no inconsiderable reflection. how eyer, have come to the conclusion that the bill herewith returned can result in no substantial benefit to the state, but, on the contrary, must prove an embarrassment

 It is intended to subject the. administration of the state government in its various depart- Eaeass and agencies tothe complicated machih- cry of Congress for the regulation of expenses of the national government The system, though not without some evils, as has been made manifest of lase in many instances, and most recently in the case of an Indian war con dacied by the war department without the funds necessary to pay it's soldiers in the field, IS nevertheless not without some conspicuous merits as applicable to a great government, ShAch expends hundreds of millions of dollars
Year: 1878

Referring to the effect of Lamar S
anti silver speech, the clear headed
Washington correspondent of the
Courier j Journal telegraphs that
"while upon persons not familiar
with the subject, the argument of
the Senator might produce an i'm
preston, it is safe to say it has not
changed vote in Congress and will
not. However able in the discus
sion Of the sectional questions
which have arisen since the war, it
is apparent that he is not fitted to
deal with economic questions, and
that for the delivery of the South
ern people and the producing class
es from the multiplied exactions of
the Eastern predatory classes, the
South must look to their cham
pions." The Courier Journals cor
respondent says further of Mr.. La
mars effort;


He went so far as 10 parade, as
friends of the south, the capitalists
of the East, and this in the face @
the fact that nineteen -twentieths of
the wealth of Boston, New York and
Philadelphia since the war, has
been systematically voted on the
side OF every Radical measure of
hate and vengeance that the malice
of hell could suggest. Not able to
deny the legal truth of Mr.. Mat
thews' resolution, yet he would vote
against it. He would not even ex-
plicitly favor the repeal of the re-
sumption act. There was not a word
of promise or hope held out for the
suffering poor of the land. There
were, indeed, a few eloquent and
sincere compliments to Southern
statesmen, but after giving these
dry bones to the South, the bond
holders got all the meat of his
course.


AS a natural consequence, the
sympathIzers and tools of Wall
street around the Capitol are de-
lighted with the oration and the
subsidized organs OF New York will
tomorrow be loud in its praise.
The great body of the Southern
Senators and Representatives in
Congress viii remain true 20 the
cause Of the people. As an illostra-
tion of tic popular feeling on this
subject, upwards of thirteen hund-
dred letters of congratulation have
poured ia on Mr.. Voorhees, Ia one
week. and in his own State alone
one hundred and City thousand
copies OF mis- speech have been or
iered for circulation.
Year: 1878

TIC see the city iu its glory,


Its wealth, its pride, its pomp, its worth,
Twill seem in all that is before thee


That DER this world there's naught bUl


mirth.


To see the country in its vesture


OF grasses in their freshest green,
Twill still appear in eyery gesture


That life is nut one happy dream.
But there's ONE boon to no man given


In this dark world, and that is rest,
To rest is found alone in heaven,


Where we are free from all distress.
Though we have wealth like unto Cresus,
And seem to live in perfect bliss;
Yet, it is not enough to please us;


We still search on for more than this.
And MANY trials could be prevented


If we would dare to bid them go,
But we can never be contented


With what is given US here below.
But we are sorrowing and slghing


For what we ue'er can have on earth,
While time with fastest speed is flying


Before we ever know its worth.
There's one who often does annoy us,


And it is him we mostly dread;
With one cold touch he does destroy US,


And we are numbered with the dead.
We think we're blest in greatest measure
When we have climbed the stairs of Fame
Dub OedLu Will leb US uhNe no plcacuiS,


He finds and Stays us all the same.
We often think when in seclusIon,


That we're more blest han other men;
Yet Death $50 guilty of intrusion,)


Comes and finds and slays us then.
Then like the last years grasses rotten,


They lay US in our narrow stalls;
By and by we are forgotten,


And few will know we've. lived at all.
Yet many trials could be prevented


If we should dare TO bid them go;
So let US strive to be contented


With what is given us here below.
Though life seems but All empty bubble
Doomed on raging sea to toss;
God deems it right to send us trouble,


And we should meekly bear the cross
And we must ever strive to conquer


All the trials that on us fall,
And make our resolutions stronger


To bear our burdens one and all;
And as ourselves must love our neighbor
And strive to make his pathway fair;
For peace and happiness must labor,
, And never know the word fdespair."
If we will try to conquer trouble,


And strive to drive away despair,
Our life will never seem a bubble


Doomed to burst in empty air;
But joy and peace viii then be blended,
And then our weary lives be blest;
And when our trials here have ended


Wen find in Heaven ETERNAL rest.
Year: 1878

The newspapers are almost unanl-
nous in their opposition to the doc
trine that there is no hell, and the
jackson Tribune says it is because
the order of things would be incom-
patible without hell as long as peo-
pie fail to pay the printer.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub.
seription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up. at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone viii way our expenses, ana
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such q
course, and Irenew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tB- We enter no new names ON our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1878

We always find thousand excel
lent excuses for our gravest faults;
but if anyone wrongs US in the
least the offense at once becomes
pardonable. We have a thous-
and reasons wherewith to condemn
our neighbor, but not one where
with to excuse him.
Year: 1878

minister of personal attractions
goes privately to the village store
aud offers to trade ten pair of
worked slippers and half bushel
of pen-wipers for plug hat and a
pair of boots.-[ Puck.
Year: 1878

A painter once wanted 8 picture of in nocence, and drew the likeness of child at prayer. The supplicant was kneeling beside his mother the palms of his up- lifted hands were reverently pressed to- gether his rosy cheek spoke of health, and his mild blue eye was upturned with the expression of devotion and peace. The portrait of young Rupert was much prized by the painter, who hung it on his study wall, and called it Innocence"

 Years passed away, and the artist be- came an old man. Still the picture hung there. He had often thought of making counterpart-the picture of "Guilt D but had not found the opportunity. At last he effected his purpose by pay ing visit to neighboring jail On the damp floor of his cell lay wretched culprit named Randall, heavily ironed Wasted was his body and hollow was his eye; vice was visible in his face. The painter succeeded admirably, and the portrait of young Rupert and Ran dall were hung side by side, for " Inno- cence" and "Guilt."

 But who was young Rupert and who was Randall? Alas the two were one. Old Randall was young Rupert led astray by bad companions, and ending his life in the damp and shameful dungeon.
Year: 1878

To obtain new potatoes very early for one's own use, says @ farmer, they can be started in hot-bed or in cold frame, giving sufficient warmth and protection to sprout the young plants through the changeable weather of opening spring, and get them few inches above ground, with rank stocky growth, by the time all danger of frost has passed, when they can easily be planted out for field cuI- ture, and be grown quite iR advance of those first planted in the ground. To grow the plants for this purpose, make 8 plain, cheap hot-bed of suitable size q believe, though, that cold-frame with glass would answer), cover with 8 few inches of earth, and after cutting the seed of some early variety, the same as for planting, put the pieces as close as they will he over the bed, laying them with the eyes up, then cover with three or four inches of earth and leave them to grow, only be careful to protect against frost. Then, after the season will permit of their being planted out, and ground IS fitted for them, the bed of plants should be watered thoroughly, so that as they are removed, good quan- tity of earth will adhere to their roots. Then, beginning at one side of the bed, take out each piece with its sprouts and roots complete, to plant for single hill each into holes or furrows already pre- pared to receive them. In this way their growth will be so advanced as to mature the crop two weeks earlier than usual.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the Raleigh O6- server, writing from Moorehead City, coast of North Carolina, says On Tues day there was the most exciting and dan gerous whale fight that has ever occurred on this coast. It was with some difficulty that the captain of the crew could get his men to obey orders. When the first bomb was fired into the whale it failed to explode. This made the whale furi- ous, when at this instant he struck one of the boats and knocked it some feet above the water. The captain then fired another bomb this failed of explosion 7; the fight was still getting more furious. The third bomb was fired and exploded near the heart. This conquered the monster. The blood spouted some ten feet high, and as the crew rushed up to stick their lances in him, the blood fell in showers upon them and their boats. The fight was witnessed by another crew stationed about seven miles above them. They looked on with delight, only wish ing they could get into such bloody con- test. The whale was forty-two feet long and extremely fat This fish will proba- bly, bring about $9OO.
Year: 1878

A thoughtful writer says Looking through the mellow mists of years child hood seems period of unmingled happi- ness. Those, however, who are inti- mately associated with children, and are interested in the miner workings of their minds, are transported back to childhood days and wildly realize that they. were not unclouded. The joys and sorrows of life from babyhood to death are equally divided, and it is fallacy to suppose chil- dren's emotions are not proportionate to our own.

 This world is as hard battle ground to children as to older ones. Some aver that children are of such elastic material they cannot be long crushed. Adults forget as soon. God, in His wisdom, has so constituted us that tear is dried as easily as the dew driven away by the wind. The children of the poor whose necessities are supplied are happier than the pampered, indulged ones. Although both classes enjoy hours of vigorous, wholesome play, early life has its quota of pain and disappointment. Illness, when the long, sunny play hours must be passed in bed, is severe trial to chil- l dren. A crushed finger causes them as much pain as the amputation of an arm in grown person.

 They experience loneliness; they grieve for playmates dead or gone they feel remorse for waywardness and suffer in mind after punishment; they endure shocks of feeling they suffer untold tor ments from nervousness and diffidence 1; they are the victims of jealousy their little hearts bleed from neglect and slight, which they have not the resolution to withstand. Their innate sense of justice is often wronged their rights are tres passed on they endure losses. A child losing a small amount of money feels the privation as keenly as the merchant talk ing in $100 counterfeit. At school the teachers reprimand is shaft sunk deep into the tender heart, and the failure in arecitation aims the pleasure at play time.

 When we are disposed to associate child's life with the butterfy's, let us re- member even the butterfly suffers when his wing is bruised and broken by rude hand. Being such a joyous thing, it is affecting to see it in pain. So we should feel unusual tenderness toward child in trouble; we should sympathize with all it's impressions watch its develop ments endeavor to keep it's mind in a healthful state, by being cheerful our selves, as the tenor of our minds is con- tagious. Although we should try to shield our little ones from care and pain, we should remember children's troubles are the shadows of those to come and it is necessary discipline that the disc of their happiness be sometimes crossed and obscure,
Year: 1878

The Scte'at!fc American says: There

 is no greater fallacy than the opinion held by many, particularly by the young and strong and vigorous, that winter

 especially a sharp, frosty one. with plenty of snow-is the most healthy sea- son of the year. Very few persons seem to realize the fact that cold is the condi- tion of death, and that in both warm and cold climates it is our unconscious effort to maintain our bodily heat at 8 tenn perature of ninety-eight degrees that wears us out. To this temperature, called blood heat" every cubic inch of oxygen that serves to vitalize our blood must be raised by our own bodily heat or life ceases. Since in cold weather the maintenance of sufficiently elevated bodily temperature becomes very often a difficulty too great for our strength, the advent of 8 severe winter is really more to be dreaded than the visitation of a pestilence.

 The saying, "Heat is life-cold is death, has 8 striking illustration and confirmation in the reports now regularly submitted by Dr. Russell to the Glasgow Sanitary Committee. The death rate rises and falls with the regularity of the thermometer. So many degrees less heat, so many more deaths, and vice versa. In a recent fortnightly report Dr. Russell says: "The death rate in the first week of the fortnight was twenty-one, and in the second week twenty-five. The mean temperature in the former week was 4O.S degrees Fah., in the latter 39. degrees" He attributes the low rate of the first week to the high mean temperature of the preceding fort night, which was 47.03 degrees, and adds: "This is good illustration of a law which we frequently observe in these reports of temperature and death rates that week of low temperature pro- daces rise in mortality the week fol- lowing"

 In our climate it would probably be difficult to find more frequent cause of serious ailments than taking cold. Whatever weak place we have, whatever constitutional disorder we be subject to, cold will surely discover. We take cold because our vitality is too low to ward of the effects of the reduced tempera- ture around us. As matter of first i'm portance, then, to resist cold and the various Arrangements of the system con- sequent, it is necessary by proper nutri- tlon to maintain our natural animal heat; second, to retain this heat by sufficient quantity of clothing; third, to regulate with care the temperature of the air we breathe. Contrary to the opinion current among lovers of cold weather, 2 fire in a bedroom in the win ter IS cheaper and better than doctors bill for, owing to our inactive condition during sleep, the circulation of the vital izing blood is both slow and imperfect, and hence the danger of taking cold by breathing cold air IS greatly in- creased.

 A cold is the beginning of everything that is bad. If any one conscious of having caught one feels cold chills creep ing up the back, let him apply a mus tard plaster to the bottom of the spine and lower part of the back at once and by 50 doing he may avert a dangerous illness before it is too late and medical advice can be procured. Itshould never be forgotten that "Heat is life-cold is death."
Year: 1878

Ihate to see children forced to do things that are disagreeable to them, merely for the purpose of making them obey. When any good end is to be answered it is diff ferent Little ones often object to what is best for them, and when irmness is necessary people should, of course, be firm. But if little, powerless creature has strong fancy, or great repug: nance, parent or guardian abuses his power in ignoring it. Why should your little boy be made to eat the fat of his meat, if he loaths it, or anything, no matter what, that is repulsive to him !? It may be necessary to refuse some things at table to children, but seldom, if ever, to force anything upon them.

 Why make child, either girl or boy, miserable by forcing it to wear articles of clothing of which it's taste does not approve, or at which other children laugh? think little girls suffer more from this than from any other one thing. Almost all of us have some such memory I knew lady whose childish life was made wretched for year by an obsolete old bag in which sLe was forced to carry her books to school and another whose mother forced her to wear some old lace, which, though costly, was laughed at by the ignorant children who made her world, who declares that she actually wished herself dead, until that lace was banished from her wardrobe-

 If you can afford it, it is wiser to give your boy the particular top or kite he wants, and your glrl the very doll she covets, or the blue ribbons she admires, And, at any rate, you need not uselessly force them to anything from which they shrink, or which makes them unhappy.
Year: 1878

The parent of insomnia or wakefulness is
in nine cases out OF ten dyspeptlc stomach
Good digestion gives sound sleep, ind.es-
ton interferes with it. The brain and
stomach sympathize. One OF the prominent
symptoms of "a weak state of the gastric or
gans is disturbance of the great nerve en-
trepot, the brain. Invigorate the stomach.
and you restore equilibrium to the great
center. A most reliable medicine for the
purpose is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which is far preferable to mineral sedatives
and powerful narcotics which, though they
may for time exert a soporific influence
upon the brain, soon cease to act, and in
variably injure the tone of the stomach.
The Bitters, on the contrary, restore activi
W to the operations of that all important
organ, and their benefcent influence Is re-


iected in sound sleep and tranquil state OF
the nervous system. A wholesome impetus,
is likewise given to the action of the liver and
bowels by its use.
Year: 1878

groups of federal soldiers kept up an angry discharge
OF firearms they rereated upon their supports ana
their last line, yielding delivered voliey aiter
voley they sulleuy retired by tue Chance OF
war a Mine ball from one OF tnese ana its
fatal work. AS General Johnston, on borse-
back, sat there, knowing that he had crushed in
the arch which had ioug resisted the pressure oil
his forces and ng until they should collect suh
Gently give the lnsl stroke he received IN ortaI
wound. 1t the moment OF victory ana triumph
IRON a flying ioe II smote him ut he very instant
he felt the full convection that the day Wa won,
that his conduct and wisdom were Jusilhed by
results and that he he'd in his hand the fortunes
OF war and the success OF the Conieoerate
ciuse II his not to be he tell as he
would have wished fall, and with a harper
fate than those VINO lived witness the overthrow
and rum OF their great cause. He had often eD
pressed ths writer preference for this death OF
the soldier. II came sudden and painless. But he
had SO lived as neither 10 lear nor snun It, IL came
to him like an incident of an i'm mortal hie-its ncces
sary part, bat not its close"


The book Is full OF an~cdote and closes with num-
ber Of eulogies OF the Southern general among whn
that by his Is not the least enthusiastic. 1t u
printed large octave volume, In handsome
style and substantially bound.