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Year: 1879

Only one case before His Honor.


Max is much obliged to Tallahala and Josh for
kind recognition.


Quite a number of commercial men were in
town last week, all anxious to sell.


Kite flying is all the go, with the small boy.
And some of them seem to have large time.


Six car loads of freight unloaded one day
last week. How is that for summer time.


Vegetables, plums and blackberries are drag
on the market


Edwards is out of the political ring, out wants
to see Dry Grove and Terry get show this time.


Yes. my Greek friend of Terry, your man is a
good sheriff. Do you want him elected again ?
If you do, say so.


Bring in your cotton if you want to get good
price. NJ +. cotton 1212 cents and goods were
never known to be cheaper.


We understand there is to be dancing school
started in town at an early date, under the
management of Prof Strickland.


The sidewalks of our little city were graced by
a goodlv number of the fair last week, toe
numerous TO mention, making purchases.


As there is a good deal of uneasiness through
out the entire country about the prevalence OF
mad dogs il would be well for our authorities
to enfore the law and wage war on the CANNES


Mr. S d. Currie was down on his place for a
day two last week. He reports the crops in
a splendid fix and many of the fields having
been hoed over the second time.


Good business in town last Saturday, and it re-
minded us of the good old times we used to have
Edwards is bound to have her share of the trade
She holds out extra inducements for same.


Edwards was well represented by the large
and small, big and tall, at the Bottoms ball,
many expressed themselves as having never
participated i'll anything more to their enjoy
ment.


Mr.. Mat. Hooker in town one day last
week looking for few able bodied men to gel
out logs He has recently purchased steam
engine, and contemplates putting his shinglt
machine in operation.


The young gents of Edwards are under many
obligations for kindnesses shown them by
Messrs P. P. & c. d. Williams, Harry Peyton
and others, while at the Grand Ball, and are
satisfied it was a success.
Year: 1879

Gem Fire Company No. ? will give an
excursion to Vick-burg on Thursday june
18th. The price will be 81 for the round trip.
The proceeds viii be used for carpeting and
otherwise fitting up their hall, which only
needs carpet and pictures TO make it one OF
the handsomest, as it Is now one OF the neate-t,
fremen'9 halls in the State. It is to be hoped,
with such an object in view, that the Company
viii meet with great success in their efforts,
and that the excursion viii be large one.
This Is the first and viii probably be the only


white excursion to Vicksburg this season, and


everybody who desires to make visit to the


Heroic City either Tor business or pleasure,
should avail themselves OF this opportunity.
Year: 1879

Yes, woman, has as good right to health and
happiness the other sex. Then, why suffer
so long when the remedy is within your reach.
Try Bradfeld's Female Regulator Woman's
Best Friend, and you will have your health
and strength fully restored Call On your
druggist for a circular, and zee some of the
wonderful cures il has made
Year: 1879

Ii you want delicious corn bread, make it
with DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder and
YOU will be delighted with it. Breakfasting
ON corn bread made with DIR. Prices Cream


Baking Powder, will not leavy, leaden
feeling in the stomach so often felt after the
use of saleratus and adulterated baking pow
Year: 1879

Whisky enters largely into consumption
as medicine, and it is in such cases OF the ut
most importance to get an article OF guaranteed
purity. J W. Harper's Nelson County Whisky
is recommended by physicians everywhere, and
is received direct from the distillery by Law
renee Fragiacamo Jackson Miss
Year: 1879

Hartford Times.


The tramp law passed by the recent Leg
islature makes sweeping work of il. Even
the street organ grinders quietly tapped
on the shoulder by the police, and told to shut
up and move on. 1t will be a sad loss to the
children, if to nobody else; but grown persons
can contrive to bear up under the affection.
Year: 1879

Two important Improvements went into
effect at Court House yesteTdnythe opening Of the
surrogae's now courtroom the wing, and the


lar running OF the new elevator The old courtroom Of
the Surrogate has been converted into recOrd-room
the new room second floor OF the wing II The
handsomest room the Court House. and well lighted
on all sides the ceiling il supported by marble and
granite pillars and archcs the acoustic properties Of
sary the expensive tesseated HOOr with nOeum
TO avoid noise. The Surrogate disposed OF than
eighty cases his first motion-day, yesterday. lie
continues SIC through the holidays without rest the
Surrogate kept constantly At work during the
last year than any other judge Ia the State courts.
Year: 1879

THE PRESIDENTS VETo.-The Presi-
dent has vetoed the Army Appropriation
bill. That he is amply justified in this
step the facts sufficiently prove. There
may be difference Of opinion as TO the
sdvisability of attacking the bill on the
ground that the repeal of the election
laws was tackled on TO it, but there can be
no ethical defense OF that custom, no
matter how often il has been followed.
The resort TO it shows purpose 20 entrap
the Executive into signing what other
wise he could no: be got to sign. He
makes a streng point in showing that the
States have nearly all found it necessary
to protect their Execu tives against pre-
cisely the same kind Of trick. The OBJ
jec.ions Of the bill, namely, that it re-
moves every defense from the polls, and
a5olishes II national supervision which is
both desirable and necessary, are fatal.
The country will support the President
in this struggle, and if the Democrats
persist in their present policy they will
merely precipitste the ruin of their par
ty.-Record> Union.
Year: 1879

Sec. 8. The public school system shall
include Primary and Grammar schools,
Normal Schools and Technical Schools
as may be established by the Legislature
or by municipal or district authority; but
the entire revenue derived from the State
School Fund and the State school tax
shall be applied exclusively to the sup
port Of Primary and Grammar schools
NclV Constitution.


The attention ofevery lover Of the Free
School System is directed to the above
extract, and particularly to the closing
clause. As to its meaning there can be
no honest difference Of opinion, and re-
gardng its effect we will give home IL
lustration. Within the past year Weav :
ervilie has built an elegant School Build
ing and furnish ed it at a total cost ofS7,-
500. The present necessities OF this COM
munity require Grammar, an lnterme
date and Primary Department for the
accommodation and instruction Of our
children. 1t was also thought that in the
near future High School night be add
ed for the benefit Of more advanced schol-
ars, not only in this District bu. from
other places in this county. Therefore
the New School House has four rooms,
two of which will be useless if the New
Constitution is adopted. OF this there
can be no question:; "The State School
Tax shall be applied EXCLUsIvELY to the
support of Primary and Grammar
Schools" says the New Constitution.
What, we ask in all candor, will become
of our present Intermed late School and
our prospective High School? They are
made impossibilit;es unless supported by
| individual contributions or an excessive
tax upon parents. This is not buncombe
to catch votes Against the New C0nsti-
tution,' but plain statement Of fact
which should damn that instrument in
the minds of every parent and every lover
of the American Free School System; q
system which has approached nearest to
perfection in California, under the Old
Constitution. We appeal to all to assist
in preventing the destruction of our In
termediate and High School and the plac-
ing of the whole system in incompetent
and irresponsible hands. Every voter
who received an education ir the common
Schools or who has children there to be
educated, should protect and advance, not
tear down and destroy that greatest OF
Republican Institutions. The New Con
sttution destroys the system; therefore
vote against the New Constitution ~
D0Vn Wtth ii!
Year: 1879

The "CHRoNICLEs" PosTMAsTERs.- -
The following is copied from tho Daily
Stock Report: 1t is very painful fact
and one that we regret being compelled to
reveal, that three or four of the post
masters who have been writing to the
Chro~icte and signing themselves "P.
M., have not been in Office for year,
which would argue that the Postofiice
Directory in use in the Office of that jour
nal is last years publication. We have
one of later date in the Office of the
Stock Report which we will take pleas
ure in leaning the Chronicle letter writ
ers when Lext they have occasion to
use one.
Year: 1879

Under our present Constitution and
laws, the common schools of the State
are, in the main, supported by a tax levied
upon the wealth of the State. This is
Just. 1t is a sef-evident proposition, that
the protection Of property, as well as Of
life and limb. lies ia the education of the
people. that a state of ignorance is one


predisposed to lawlessness and insubordi-
nation to government and law. In the
absence of other provision for the support
Of the common schools, property has will


lingly submitted TO this burden, recog>
nizing that in universal and popular ed
ucation rested its chief protection. Trin>
ity County has but little property. Its
assessment roll foots up less than n mil
lion dollars. But the common schools Of
the county have been maintained the
same as in the more wealthy counties,
and the burthen Of local taxation for
their maintenance has not been very
heavy one. But under the new constitu-
ton this will be reversed. Instead Of the
common schools beng maintained by a
tax levy upon the whOis property Of
the State as now, they viii be kept Up, If
sept up at all partly by light State tax,
partly by State poll tax, partly by very
heavy local county tax. We are not say
ing this at random, nor without figures
which justify and prove the assertion and
to substantiate our position we offer the
following table taken from the State
Controllers report for the fsca; year Of
1867. the latest official data we have.
The table we present shows first the taxa
Bile property of certain counties including
Trinity; second the amount raised in
each for the State School Fund, and third,
the amount returned TO each county for
the support Of its schools, emitting cents /:
Year: 1879

THE Supreme Court OF the United
States, having decided that we can not
tax resident OF another State for
debts held by him, even if secured by
mortgage, will not most of the mort
cages be made to non-residents, if the
now Constitution be adopted ? Then as
the former will certainly have right
to deduct the amount OF the mortgage
from the assessment on his land, will
not the large land holders those who
have enough to make it an object, slip
out of paying any taxes ? Will some
enc answer this ?--Cotusa Sun.
Year: 1879

The defeat of the New Constitution
will be the death Of Kearneyism; its
adoption gives the sand lot new lease of
life and turns the control of the State over
20 the d isturbing element.
Year: 1879

'WlIatsOever Il man sOweth, that
shall he also rcap,' both in the natural
and in the moral world. Every seed
in theonc and every seed in the other
yields fruit after its kind. This
principle of sowing and vaping is
especially important to theyoung, who
are just beginning to shape their
character and destiny. In the spring
time of life we SOW what we must reap
in tho autumn of age, and perhaps
through the endless s'ges of eternity.
The chief possibilities Of good or evil
for all the future are bound up in the
period of youth. The sowing may he
done tl'oughtlessly and carelessly, but
it will report itselfin due time accord
ing to this law.


Men in age often say, "lf / could
but live my life over again how differ
emily it should be-" While this is
impossible, still the young may have
the advantages of second life by
trying the counsels and experiences OF
the aged.


1t is of the utmost Importance fol
them to understand this relation Of
sowing to reaping, which is affixed to
our physical, mental and moral nature


Men who in early life overtax tho
brain or body in the frenzy to &C.
rich men who overload the wheels o
life by gluttony men who bestializ'
themselves with scnsuality men WIN
burn out the vital forces with danniD!
fires of alcohol all such are liable t.
a strict account in after years. Whel
remembrance and retributi0n COM
upon them, then too late, they begi'
to realize that "whatsoever MAJ
soweth, that shall he also reap"
Year: 1879

Miss Prince was the only daughter
ola Pittsburg merchant and two years
ago was welded to Mr.. Savage, Of
Baltimore. Six hours after the cere-
mony the train upon which they had
started on their bridal tour was wreck
ed and the husband of less than a day
was killed, The shock Of the terrible
calamity robbed the young wife for a
time of her reason. From this mental
death she recovered to 90 into a slow
decline. All the blossoms of her life
were withering, and the world once
so robed in beauty and delight became
a prison from which her spirit longed
to be free. They took her across the
sea, but the panorama Of scene and
incident had no power to renew the
love of life and the young thing faded
as flower fades. At last they took
her to the south of France, amid the
bloom of fiower-on the spot where
Petrarch once sang song to Elvira-in
the home of Leonardo da Vinci's exile
this fair American girl found the
peaceful quiet Of the grave. Our cor
respondent who relates the incident
draws \ vivid picture Of the sorrowing
family around the death-bed. The
father overwhelmed with grief, the
mother wild with despair, while a
young sister clasping a hand Of the
dying girl looks with pallid face and
rigid lips into the glaring eyes.


"Tle anguish is nearly oycr-my
race of life is done," came in feeble
intonation from the lips Of the dying


"And you ore willing to die 7" asked
a minister, bending low to catch the
whispered utterance. ,


"Oh, 80 glad! Listen to me. ] die
as many other of my sex have done
of a broken heart. l had but all ofmy
life and hope on the hazard of al





earthly love and God has smitten IN,
for my sim"


at was no sin to love-


ono, not to lOve-but to build Al
idol as did--and to worship th'
creature instead Of the Creator.
have been terribly punished. Th'
horror of these two brief years NJ
words can tell


| There was q .futtcr Of the feebl
heart. The blue eyes sheatl'ed them
selves beneath palely tinted waxe
lids, and the fair young form, once 81
full of subtle life, was frozen int
death.
Year: 1879

A darkey was once attempting to
steal a goose, but a dog raised an
objection, and san'bo retired. The
next night during u thunder shower
he attempted it again, and just as he
was on the point Of gettingaway with
his fowl, the lightning struck close by
and the noise nearly frightened the
poor fellow to death. Dropping the
goose, he started away muttering,
"Peers to me dar's a heep Of fuss made
about one old goose"
Year: 1879

The national debt Of Brazil at the
end Of April was eight hundred mil
lions Of dollars, Of which two hundred
millions consist of government paper
money, some eight millions Of which
has been issued within q year.
Year: 1879

A short time since, a workman,
who is noted for his great modera-
ton, fell a distance Of fifty feet, and
escaped with few harmless scratch
es. A waggisl friend hearing Of the
accident, remarked: "The fact is he
is too tarnal slow to fall fast enough
to hurt himself"
Year: 1879

A western paper tells of a man
who claims to have snapped horses
thirty seven times and cheated tho
other man every time, and yet when
his wife died the other day he prom
ised to meet her in heaven.
Year: 1879

grocery store and spoke to me. He said was the
only woman. he had ever loved. and asked me to
he refused at first to believe me. He then pressed
me to elope with him. but would not listen TO him.
He continued as usual to hover about the street in
front of the store This morning he met me at
Clarke and Broome streets. He again proposed
elopement. but rejected his offer. Ihave nothing
you don't marry me 1 will kill myself With
that he drew knife and said, Now give
who was returning home after paying'the rent, saw
the man talking to me and holding knife in his
hand. My husband came close to u.s., and fearing
that the strange man intended to harm me. dis
played his pocketknife. Donskey then drew the
knife across his throat, and fled in torror. Idon't
know why the man pursued SO, as never gave
him any encouragement"


Donskey is Polish jew. Beyond the fact that
he used to peddle radishes around the neghbor-
hood nothing else is known of his antecedonts. He
did not reside at No. 52S Broome street. he said ut
the station house The police claim that he lived in
Clarke street, but they do not know the number.
His injuries will probably prove fatal.
Year: 1879

Coroner Nolan. Brooklyn, was notified to hold an
inquest yesterday touching the death of Gilbert @.
Young a boy of six years. who poisoned through


terrible mistake the part of his mother. 1t up-
pears that the child had been suffering from diph-
iberia and was under the of U doctor who pre-
scribed frequently for the patient ut the
latter's residence, No. 81 Chauncey street. On
Wednesday night Mrs. Young the mother of the
chld to the closet in which the medicine pre-
scribed for him was usually kept By mistake she
picked up bottle which contained carbolic acid n-
stead OF tho medicine OF which he had been partak-
ing She poured small quantity OF the fatal liquid
into glass and tire child partook of It, Almost m-
mediately the poison threw the little patient into
great agony in which he continued for ono hour at
the expiration OF which time he died. physician
was promptly summoned, but his services wore un.
avaling. The mothers grief upon the discovery OF
the terrible mistake she had made heartrondings
Year: 1879

New ORLEANS, July THE constitutional
adopted substitute for the MI
nority report, recognizing the principle OF the
state debt as constituted under the fund
ing act, but reducing the interest to three
per cent for fifteen ears and four per cent
tbaraoftar
Year: 1879

um for straining acids, which do not affect
this substance.


Asbestos steps aside from its useful ca
reer to surprise us by its appearance in
one of the precious stones. The peculiar
floating light in the gem known as cat
eye is due to flaments of asbestos passing
through greenish gray chalcedony. In
the East it is much worn as an amulet,
because it is imagined to have the power
OF enriching the wcarer.


This is a slight illustration of the man.
ner in which the apparently useless OBJ
jects in nature may become of service and
Y. Observer.
Year: 1879

Little Tommy has commenced to go
to Sunday school, and has learned some
very pretty little verses. Tommy has
also big brother who teaches him some
little songs better adapted to the minstrel
stage than to the Sabbath school room.
The minister visited Tommys mother
yesterday afternoon, and the precocious
youth was asked to repeat for the benefit
of the gentleman the last pretty little
HYMN he had learned. Instead of COM
mencing when l can read my title
clear" ETC., he sang out, when you
catch black cat, shave him, shave him,
when you rhe mothers hand over
his mouth stifed the remainder of the
song g.-Norridorp Herald.
Year: 1879

In talking with farmers In regard to wheat


raising how often do you hear the remark


"The wheat where broke my ground early,
and sowed with drill ls good. but my late
plowing Is poor" see that the pIowing Is


done as soOn As the wheat can be stac ed a q d
that II Is thoroughly pu verized and drilled


and a crop Is almost a certainty.
Year: 1879

distinct tints of white, and several dis
tinct shades OF these tints. In cream
white, for instance, there is the dark,
rich, yellowish shade of the Aldeiney
cream, twenty-iour hours old and,
according to the age of the cream, paler
shades, till the isintest "off color" is
visible. In pearl white we are shown a
tint that almost approaches the smoke
pearl In shade another, that has 5us-
picion of rose in tint another. with the
iaiutest suspicion OF lilac this being
quite perceptible on the wrong eide OF
plain satin or satin brocade and from
these scarcely perceptible hints of color
in the silk fabrics displayed, there are
fainter and fainter shades, till the exist
ence of a colored ray is distinguishsble,
only when laid beside a piece OF snow
white silk. Cream white OF the medium
shade Is that in the most decided favor
for the bridal robe and OF the whites is
that which is regarded as the most
becoming or the least trying to the com
plexion,
Year: 1879

| notice one thing, when i have my
store clothes on, every body is more polite
to me.


IL costs more money, reckoning time
worth shilling an hour, to learn any
kind OF q game, 80 that you can beat
any man playing it, than you can win
back ii you live to be ninety seven years
DID,;


What / write comesrto. me like the
fight o, a wild pigeon II don't seize 1t
and write 1t down, 1t Is gone forever;
and too often, in grasping for it, only
get sorry bunch OF tail feathers.


Many people mistake their will for
their judgment, but this Is not always
fatal error.


Young fellow. think of this: The
world won't give you any credit for the
money that yon have tCuandered, but
what you make, and hang onto, they
will


The cheapest and best education
know o. is 70 learn from the experience
OF others


Young man, people will tell you that
you cau't succeed without genius or
talent; but Josh says to you, If you are
honest and earnest you are as sure to
succeed as the earth is to turn on its
axis.


The most popular people are those
who le. us zee just enough of themselves
to make us wish to see more.


Love of notoriety always makes fool
of man, and often, at last, a knave.


There is great difference between
knowing everybody and having every
body know you; but there are lots OF
folks who never discover the difference.


Avarice, when 1t takes full possession
OF the heart, roots out sll other things
good, bad and Indifferent.


The man who won't believe ANYTHING
he can not understand Is not going tC
believe much, nor understand much
either.


Men of real merit are the first ones tc
see merit and praise it in others.


Young man, II you expect to succeed
in this world, you have got to trundlt
your own hoop; the jealousy OF friends
and the malignity Of enemies make tn,
road to success hard one to travel.


There is nothing so simple as q gIatitude
ana yet it is the highest possible pric,
we can pay Tor anything.


The necessaries of lite are cheap anc
simple, and yet we manage to max,
the act of livinga continual slavery.


The world is a workshop and none o
us are expected TO lay down our tool
until summoned to the court above.


The great ant of contentment consist
not only Of being satisfied with what W,
have got, but with what we amt got
nor can't get.


Simple pity isn't much better to
person than an insult, but TO pity hin
with five.dollar bill is business.


Young man, if you look to the worlt
for your reward, you will be insolven
before you get half way through life
First get the approval o your own con
science, and the world will certainly, il
due time, give you theirs


The best of us owe more to chanc,
than we are willing to admit
| Economy will beat all the good lucl
and cunning in this world, and will Civ,
even capacity hard fight for the belt.


Silence is always safe, and is fire.
quently the smartest thing we can say


My dear boy, remember this, ther,
isn't any thing that can compensate you
for doing thiLg that you will b,
ashamed of after it is done.
Year: 1879

cisted, it is horrible to zee gall distilled
instead of charity that blesses both par.
ties. Scolding turns a household into a
psndemonium, and a church into an
inquisilion. Bear in mind that kindness
and gentle speech are great deal easier
TO practice than their opposites. Why
practice the worse thing when harder
Arrest yourself In the indulgence OF
this bad habit right here. Begin now
and put yourself under bonds to be good
patursd