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Year: 1877

At his residence in Dover on the 1st day of Dec. 1877, Nathan B. Rowland, aged GA years and near 6 months.

 This good man came to his death unknown to any one, and very sud den. On tho day of his death he sawed timber until noon, seemed to be in good health; late in the even ing he went out in town, made some purchases of goods, returned home, then went out to his stable, went in the stable; his wife had an occasion to need him at the house and sent one of the boys for Mir. Rowland; in few moments the boy began to scream, Mrs. R. ran out to the stable and found that he was dead; others assembled in a very short time, Doctor was sent for, but nothing could be done for him. Mrs. R. says that she does not think that he moved limb after he fell. The Doctors say it was heart disease. N. B. Rowland came to this county in 1880; has been married twice, has 15 children living, no children dead. He lived 8 consistent chris tian life, was a useful, working mcm- Der of the Methodist Church in his early life. This community has lost good, worthy citizen, his fam ily a kind and affectionate husband and father. To them we can but say look to him who is able to save to the uttermost; look up on high and believe that your husband and father is there; then resolve in your hearts and minds that you will make haste and prepare at once to meet him when you are called on to pay that debt that all must pay some day. A TRUE SYMPATHIzER.
Year: 1877

AISE 1OU GOlNA IO TEAAST

 Are you going to Texas9 If you are you had better pause and ask yourself what for. Texas is now flooded with rowing, restless people who can never see any good in any place except some place just ahead of them. There has been tremen- dous rush to that State for the past four years, and today we doubt whether there is one man in ten who goes there that is contented. The Dallas (Tcxas) Herald, with frank ness which is really highly com mendable has thls word to people who have their heads turned to go to Texas:

 s:In plain English, the papers that speak of the magnificent opportuni- ties this state (Texas) presents to the newcomer, lie, and lie in a very gratuitous, criminal way indeed. The unvnrnished truth is, that our labor market is already stocked to overfiowing, and every fresh arriving train but adds to the miserable null titude in our midst that suffers, starves, and finally fights it's way back cast again. Before the door ot nearly every house in this city there daily begs swarm that would sad. den the heart of satyr."

 Strange indeed is it that with this picture held up to full view the rush to Texas still goes on, and every day some poor, toiling, deluded wretch who has nothing but his own muscle and strength to depend upon, pulls up stakes where he is perhaps doing we'll enough, and rushes madly on tc Texas and starvation. Why right now labor is SO scarce here in Ark ansas that many of our planters are offering one half of tnelr cotton crops to have the other half gathered Would t not be better for tho surg ing mass of movers to Texas to stoF where they can get employment te earn their bread and meatp This they can all surely do in Arkansas In Texas they cannot.
Year: 1877

Alma Herald: We publish the res olutions adopted at Alma, Fayette- vile and Bentonville, in this State, a few dcys ago in the interest of the above named road. It is now set

 tied fact that the road will be built and that too within short time. It will be seen by the resolutions adop-
Year: 1877

menced the struggle with utter poverty
after the close Of war, with not u single
dollar of capital, and with the flower oi
her manhood put tenderly away under
the sod New England commenced the
struggle with her Golfers full to run-
ming over with money, and in men
her war losses We're perfectly insignifi
cant in comparison with ours. Not
withstandiug this apparent insur-
mountable difference Texas has out
stripped her in the race We proudly
point to the fact that no man ever
suffered in our State for bread, and sor-
rowfully we say it, they have often
starved in New England, or have been
compelled to put themselves into the
hands Of British emigrant agents to
find a bare subsistence at the antipodes,
thousands upon thousand. of dreary
miles away from the loved homes Of
childhood


This disparity of situation is due only
to two leading causes. The majority
we speak Of and our peerless climate
and rich soil As long as such results
can be pointed proudly TO. lot no man
say it would be better if the parties
we're more evenly balanced in Texas
This prosperity did not prevail when
carpet-bag reconstructionists held power
in the State, and could not, were they
again restored to the government We
stand, and proudly too, upon our gio-
rious majority.
Year: 1877

TIE Mineola Flag, Of. the 7th, speak
in kindly terms of our humble effort.
70 serve the interest Of this live city
We append ths paragraph, and thank
our contemporary for his generous praise


The Dallas HERALD displayed a com.
mendable spirit of journalistic enter
prise IN its complete report and Illus
tration Of the grand carnival on the 4th
which was the most gorgeous
street pageant eyer witnessed IT. that
Year: 1877

Effect of a War in Europe.


It would be heathenish to rejoice


at the prospect of war in Europe


simply because such a conflict would
probably benefit the United States
financially, but if war must come our
people may be pardoned for being
thankful that the great misfortune
will not be without its attending bene.
fits.


General Sherman. who under,
stands the geographical advantages
of each of the powers and their arna-
ments as well as, and perhaps bet
ter than any man in America, ex-
presses the opinion that the threat
ened conflict will be one of the
bloodiest in the history of the world,
and will extend beyond the two
great powers that begin the work
until all Europe is more or less in
volved.


The impending conflict can affect
America only in commercial sense.
We have no interests at stake in the
settlement of the Eastern question,
and no alliance with any power
likely to be engaged in or embar-
rassed by the war. A great war will
unsettle Europe, but the underlying
questions possess little significance
to nation situated and constituted
as is the United States. We are
not embarrassed by tradition or pol
icy, we have no ambition in that
direction to crafty; we have no
punish. We stand in a friendly re-
lation to every nation that will be
engaged, and circumstances can
hardly occur that will embroil this
country in the difficulty. While war
will paralyze the industries of na-
tions at war, it will stimulate the in
dustries of nations at peace, and
most benefit those nations which by
situation and condition, can act in
dependently. In this respect the
United States is mostly fortunately
situated. The effect of war must be
to stimulate commercial and indns-
trial activity, and this country will
be the source of supply to which all
the contending powers can turn. We
produce and manufacture not only
what armies need, but what people
need at home. Our recent expert
ence in organizing to meet the great
crisis of civil war will enable US to
meet promptly any demand now
made upon US. The demand will
come naturally. and our facilities in
meeting it, and our ability to do so
satisfactorily, will hold it. What
we learned to do so we'll for our
selves we can do for others. But
where there were then few hands to
work on our farms or in our manu-
factories, now there are many. The
result must be activity in every de-
partment, and to this will succeed
naturally regular trade opened by
the exigencies of the hour. The
great commercial current, turned
once toward America, will for many
years move along the old channels,
and the commercial relations estab-
lished under notifications of laws
inviting trade will prove profitable
and be of lasting beneft.-Chicdgo
Illter-Ocedn.
Year: 1877

D1- N. r. W 1Ll11S-
My mothers voice How often creeps


Its cadence on my lonely hours,
Like healing on the wings of sleep,
n Or like dew on the unconscious flowers
i might forget her melting prayer,


While 'wildering pleasures madly fly;
But in the still unbroken air.


Her gentle tones come stealing by;
And years of sin and manhood flee,


And leave me at my mothers knee
have been out at eventide,


Beneath moonlit sky of Spring,
When earth was garnished like a bride,


And night had on her silver wing;
When bursting buds and dewy grass,


And waters leaping to the light;
And all that makes the pulses pass


With wilder fleetnesS, thrOnged the
When all was beauty, then have | might;


With friends on whom my love is flung
Like myrrh on winds of Araby, Thung.


Gazed on where Evenings lamp is
And when the beauteous spirit there


Flung. over all its golden chain,
My mothers voice came on the air,


Like the light dropping of the rain;
And resting on some silver star


The spirit of a Bonded knee,
I've poured deep and fervent prayer


That our eternity might be
To rise in Heaven, like stars by night,


And tread living path of light
Year: 1877

1t is the thought of death that is
terrible, not death. Death is gentle,
peaceful, painless instead OF bring
ing suffering. it brings an end OF
suffering. 1t is misery's cure. Where
death is, agony is not. The pro-
cesses OF death are all friendly. The
near aspect of death is gracious.
There is picture some where of a
fearful face, livid and CHASTITY, which
the beholder gazes on with horror
and would turn away from but for
the hideous fascination that not on
ly rivits his attention. bnt draws
him closer to it. On approaching
the picture the hideousness disap-
pears, and when directly confronted
it is no longer seen; the face is the
face OF an angel. 1t is picture Of
death, and the object of the artist
was to impress the idea that terror
Of death is an apprehension. Theo-
dore Parker, whose observation of
death was very large, has said he
never saw a person, of any belief,
condition. or experience, unwilling
To die when the time came. Death
is an ordinance OF nature. is direct
ed by heneficept laws TO benefcent
ends. What must be is made wei
come.
Year: 1877

Jack Richardson subscribes and
pays for more copies OF The ADvER-
User, than any other. Democrat in
the county, sending them to friends
at home and abroad. Notwithstand-
ing the already large number he was
taking, he last Saturday gave Us the
name Of another friend to whom he
wished the paper sent for a year. We
wish there were more Jack Richard
sons in Nemaha county, and think
his example is worthy of imitation by
a considerable number of our Repub-
Iiean friends.
Year: 1877

= IF the weather, especially the
nights. gets 4 little warmer, and re-
mains so for q short time, millions Of
young hoppers will hop out into the
ing snOw-storm 'cold spell" or any
other kind of spell" that would
annihiIate them. would be so pleas
ant This early beautiful weather az
fords a reason upon which to found
such hope
Year: 1877

TIE Office of Lieutenant Governor
was not known in Mississippi until the
carpet-baggers and thieves obtained
power. And now, when
we are Oh the eve Of getting rid Of this
unnecessary officer, we are surprised to
discover that Q number OF our papers
have suddenly discovered that Lieu
tenant Governor is actually necessary
that we cannot do without that off,
cer-and that the people must vote
against the proposed amendment!
We do not know how to account for
this ohange-this conversion which is
almost as sudden as that Of Saul oi
Tarsus. Possibly It has been found
! that that Office is necessary in order
that there may be Offices enough to go
round the ring.-[Raymond Gazette


And the drawing of i've hundred
dollars salary by every member Of the
Legislature was not known in Mis-
sissippi until the Carpet.baggers and
thieves obtained power. II we are
so red-hot for reform that we must
abolish the Office of Lieut.. Governor
let Us go the whole hog and allow
members of the Legislature only theiI
personal expenses while in sctua
service.
Year: 1877

BY reference 20 another column II
will be seen that the County Executive
Committee yesterday took action for the
reorganization OF the Democrat party
in the county. A simple, easy plan
was agreed upon, and We hope the
people will come out when called a9on
nad do the work.
Year: 1877

CHAMBERLAIN thinks that private
capitalists would shrink from building
the Southern Pacific railway. They
may have rushed in and built the
Union Pacific, but if they did, the peO-
pie have been deceived In regard to
the matter. Now no such aid 10 asked
for the Southern Pacific as that which
was given the Union Pacific, and
Chamberlain and others who oppose
the Southern Pacific, may Just as well
make up their minds to see justice
done the South in this matter now, for
it will be done sooner or later.
Year: 1877

The Cotton Exchange Meeting.
IMPORTANT PRocEEDMGs-cOMMI


APPOINTED.


AT the meeting held few days since
by the Cotton Exchange several i'm
portant resolutions were adopted,
which for the want Of sufficient space
have been necessarily laid over for
publication.


To each resolution a committee Of
three was appointed whose duty It is
10 see that every effort 10 made 10 place
the matter before Congress, at lie next
session, with the hope that at least part
Of the requirements Of our section, in
the shape OF public improvements, msy
be had. With the steady and persist
ent work Of the Committees, some
good may eventually come of It,
especially, as nothing has ever been
done for ne by the general Govern
ment. Underlying all measures of this
kind, there are always to be found
some movers In the matter, who have
by strong efforts, and great labor,
brought the subject forward in such q
way as TO finally lead 10 success.


The following are the resolutions
adopted, with the Committee as ap.
pointed affixed to each:


Resolved, That the long-agitated and
popular measure OF railroad from Vicks-
burg to San Diego, Is entitled to assist.
ance at the hands OF the United States
Government, which Is asked for by lie
managers. That the measure is essentially
National in its character, and was sO
recognized as long ago as 1860, when the
u. s. Congress passed bill giving to II
all Of the aid asked for by its then mana,
gers, but which did not take eject because
Of the political action Of the State Of Texas
looking 10 separation Of the states; that
since the Government has so Literally
subsidized q Northern route, the equality
OF the sections demands that the modest
assistance asked for the Southern route
should be granted.
Year: 1877

Resolved, That during the legislation
Of the foregoing resolutions, essential 10
the Well.being and future prosperity oil
our immediate section, we earnestly ask
from our Representatives in Congress a
hearty support for them, and request that
they take the matters In charge, using
their influence towards the measures
being carried through, at as early date
as practicable.


BY Mr.. Fulkersou;


Resolved, That In our Judgment, II is OF
great Importance to our immediate section
OF country, as also for the protection Of
navigation and commerce, to take such
steps, as a thorough survey of the river
contiguous TO Vicksburg may show to be
necessary, to keep an open harb1r in front
u the city and the National Cemetery.
Year: 1877

In one Of the recent ski.rmishes near
Plevna. young Russian officer was seen
standing just behind one of the b tterie,


waving his sword and boldly encouraging
his men to stand their ground. Over an!
over again he rallied the troops who wer,


polring out Of the trench. but it was Of no
use; the fire was too heavy tor any hum q
being to stay and live. and at last he stood
for more than minute absolutely alone,
save for the dying and dead piled in heaps
around him. 1t could only end in one way
amid the storm of bullets which were rain
ing around him thick as hail; one at least


found its way to that noble heart. and he
fell dead, As the Turks swept over the
parapet and dashed past the spot where lie
Law. the Colonel, struck by the b'y's ex-
traordinary courage and devotion, gave Or
ders that he should be decently buried. In
the evening he reported to the Command
erjn-chief that the body was that of > girl.
Year: 1877

The most interesting and amusing
exhibition of the season took place at
the Green county National bank few
days ago. The pair were newly mar
ried, and were up from Arkansas on
their wedding trip. They sauntered
into the national, and, seeing but ono
chair, the lady took that, and her lord
occupied her lap. This caused the
modest bank officials to blush, and an
additional chair was Offer ed, which the
happy couple refused. BY way of a
change the lord took the chair and tho
lady his lap. He then produced a
black bottle and proposed her health
but she refused to drink. He took u
long, strong pull, and, looking around
and seeing hundred gazing eyes and
everybody laughing, remarked that it
was "darned strange fellow couldn't>
hug his wife without attracting the at
tention of the whole town." And with
al air Of supreme contempt be took
his lady and strobe off, much to tho
disgust of the patrons of the show
Springfield (Ark.) Advertiser


Judging from the following item
from the Burlington Hawkeye, mules
are not the safest and best article Of
freight for reilroqds to carry:


six car loads of mules passed
thsough this city from the West, en-
route to the Eastern market. The door
of the first car was dragging along by
one hinge, the other cars had no doors,
the air was filled with flying splinters,
one Of the ears had about three square
feet of roof one of them had two
boards left in the forward end, two of
them were trundling along ON a pair
of Trucks, and one car had nothing
left Of it but the hole the end window
used to be in, and the cargo was doing
its level best to kick the hole out.
Nothing so awful has been seen ia
Burlington since the strike"


While DR.. Mary Walker was lee
turing lately in one of the rural towns,
it is said that youth cried out, care
you the Mary that had little lamb ?"
"No !" was the sharp reply, "but your
mother has little jackass ~


II is thought that B. Young ought
to have recovered from hie cholera
morbus, but when it came to fighting
with twenty.seven women, each one
with different kind of mustard plas-
ter for her husband, and a new kind
Of herb tea, it was too much for him.
Every woman laid her plaster where
there was room, and the prophet went
down t. his grave like sandwich.-
Ha,ckeye


Says the New York Commercial
Preparations are being actively made
for the resumption of fall studies at the
various large universities. Entire new
sels of bats and balls throughout have
been provided at Yale, and Harvard
is reported to have ordered large
consignment of euchre decks from Il
London dealer.


a camp-meeting orator down in
Connecticut advised, in his religious
fervor, the other day, that all Gro
quet tools" be burned. And he was
right. Croquet is truly the wiekctest
of games. LEx. Honi soft que NAL
let pins, adds the Philadelphia Press.


A contemporary tells of a young
man who woke up the other nigh; and
saw ghost in his room. Selling hls
sixrshooter, he approached it and
found it was his collar which was
standing on the floor He calls it
case Of collar in phantom.


Give the boy of the period pair Of
low-cut shoes and fancy stockings, 8
large seal ring and revolver, and tbs
Year: 1877

There is one thing to be said about the
Presidents recent civil-seryice order which
no Republican paper, we fear, is likely to
say and which we take the liberty there
fore of saying in the interest of good govern
ment and the truth of history, The Rep
ublicans who assume a right to criticise
the conduct of President Hayes quite for
get that they never elected him to the
Presidency He really owes them nothing,
since they were not strong enough in the
country to put him into power, and the
wisest thing they can do will be to take
humble back seats and wait with their
thumbs in their mouths to see whether
he can galvanize them and their organiza
ton into life again for new contest with
the constitutional Democratic party which
gave them such a tremendous trouncing
last November. We do not believe he can;
but SO long as, in the words of senator
Mcdonald, he 'Obeys the ten command
ments, we are quite willing to give him q
| fair field and no favor.-E!cchaog
Year: 1877

In the atmosphere experienced here during the
summer months, the lethargy produced by the heat
takes away the desire for wholesome food and fire.
quent perspirRtions reduce bodily energy partcu-


arly those suffering from the effects Of deblitata-
ting diseases In order TO keep natural hcalthful
activity of the system we must resort 20 artificial
means. For this purpose SChenck's Sea Weed Ton
ic is very efectual. few doses will create an ap-
petite and give fresh vigor TO the enervated body


For dyspepsia, il is invaluable. Many eminent
physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be
permanently cured by the drugs which are gener-
ally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed
Tonic in its nature is totally different from such
drugs. 1t contains no corrosive minerals or acids


in fact 1t assists the regular operations of nature,
and supplies her deficiencies. The tonic in its ma
ture much resembles the gastric juice that it is
almost identical with that fluid The gastric juice
Is the natural solvent Which, in healthy condition
OF the body causes the food to be digested and


when this juice is not excrcted in sufficient quaint
ties, indigestion, with oil its distressing symptoms
follow. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty o.


the gastric juice when the latter is deficient


schenck's Sea Weed Tonic sold by all Druggists.
Year: 1877

Is eminently Family Medicine and by being kept
ready for immediate resort viii save many an hour
bills.


After Forty Years trial it is still receiving
the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues
from persons Of the highest character and response
b.lity. Eminent hysieians commend ii as the most
Year: 1877

If you do not take care, you will
fall into one OF the most disagree
able errors in the world-which is
that Of mistaking rudeness of man
ner for sincerity of character; one
the most valuable quality, the other
the most disagreeable that can be
imagined. Everything in the hu-
man character is beautiful or not,
according to its usefulness. Sin
cerity of character may be learned
only by sorrow and adyersity, in
their most bitter moments; it is
the personification of truth; it can
lead to no disappointment, because
1t holds out no false lights to be-
tray-gives no promise it does not
mean to fulfill.e But what is the
purpose answered, or the end to be
attained, by saying rude things?