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Year: 1878

We answer the above interrogato- ry by saying at Russcllville!

 Why do we say at RUssELLvILLE9 Because Russellville Is the most location in the county, and greater number of Pope coun- tvs taxpayers will be accommodated by placing it here. "The greatest good to the greatest number" is q good rule.

 Because Russellville is the busl- ness center of the county and the hundreds who visit this place to transact thelr business can then also transact any business they may have. in the Clerks, Treasurer's or Sherifrs offices without the extra trouble of riding to Dover where they have no other business. The county records and county offices should be located at the business center of the county, and not at a town which is isolated and dead in q business point of view.

 Because the county is already in debt and taxes are as high as the people can stand. To rebuild the old court house at Dover will require the levying of an additional tax upon the people. To build at Rus sellville will cost the taxpayers nothing, the people of Russcllville and vicinity having offered enough money to build q substantial house here without any expense to the county, .ss5a4. ssalils.

 Because it will cost less to hold the courts here than it does at Dover. At Dover two days out of every weeks court are lost on account of Dover being so far from the railroad. This loss amonnts to several hun dred dollars every year. There will be no such loss if the courts are held at Russellville.

 Because Russellville has more am- pie accommodations for those who attend the courts.
Year: 1878

No man IS excusable for rearing up family of boys and girls at this age of the world in ignorance. There is no excuse for man allowing his children to grow up without school ing and there is fearful responsi- bility resting upon the wretch who does so. We would not detract one particle from the benefits to be de- rived from attendance at our common schools, but we would remind the parent that even if he is so situated that it IS impossible for his child to attend school there is yet within his reach 8 cheap and effective way of schooling his childrcn-THE CHEAP EST SCHOOLING IN THE WORLD. At the same time that it is cheap, it is of the most PRACTICAL AND BENEFIT CAL kind. We refer to the school. ing to be obtained from the NEWS PAPER. You may keep boy Tn the school-room from infancy until he has arrived at manhood's estate, but if you cut him off from access to the schooling of the newspaper he will still be "green as gourd," and will be unfit to enter upon the battle of practical life. The school reader is only a text book--the newspaper is in addition store of varied and useful knowledge derlved from the experience and practice of every day life in all it's phases and complica- tions. One dollar and half or two dollars invested in a newspaper will give your child more schooling than can be obtained by five times that sum invested in common schooling.

 Parents, you who have children growing up in Pope County, consid- CT these things! There should not be 2 home in the county without it's weekly lessons to the young and to the old from the newspaper.
Year: 1878

covered with ice, and it was with
difficulty that | kept myself from
freezing. On Thursday l suppose
/ was near the Gulf Stream. There
was about a foot and half Of water
in the hold and a heavy sea rolling.
The pumps gave out, and | was
forced to bail her out with a bucket.
About 4 o'clock on Tuesday after
noon the wind sprang up fresh
from the southwest. l then headed
west, and about 10 o'clock at night
was hailed by a bark, which cleared
the schooner by only ten feet. The
schooner'S lights went out and /
took down the starboard light, relit
it and hung the signal light in the
main rigging on the port side. On
Friday morning / sighted land near
Beach Haven, and after beating
about all day headed up abreast Alb
secom light. The sea was very
rough, aud failing to bring the YES
sci into the inlet, and as the water
was up to the cabin floor, l beached
her on Little Brigantine shoals,
where l was taken of, after having
been without sleep for four days
and three nights"
Year: 1878


cret it is true; the salt, without
which the feast shall to a sensitive
person be tasteless. Yet one cannot
make a dinner upon salt alone. So
also to carry out the same idea the
guest must bring an appetite to the
meal. There are people whom you
cannot entertain, who never seem
satisfied whatever you may do for
their comfort, and who render it
difficult not to carry out too fully
the last duty of hospitality and
"speed the parting guest" with too
much alacrity, 1t is not easy to
oyerestimate the amount Of incor-
venience and discomfort which an
exacting, dissatisfied visitor can
cause in household. A person
perpetually on the lookout for
sights will keep the whole house
hold in hot water, and tax polite
ness to the utmost on the part of
the host and hostess. Most disa-
greeable of visitors, however, is she
(for it is usually a female relative)
who considers herself privileged to
find fault with all your arrange
ments; servants included, and who
is perpetually telling you how nice
things are at As, and what g
model housekeeper is Mrs. b.
Man is a gregarious animal, and
most Of us are more or less fond OF
society; yet many of us are often
forgetful OF our duty to our neigh.
Dor both in our own house as hosts
and as guests in the houses of 9TH
ers. To amuse and interest people,
or what is still more difficult, to put
them in a good humor with them
selves, is an art which requires tai.
cnt as a basis for its exercise. And
all people are not appreciatiye, OIL
perhaps have not learned the secret
which helps one so much in society
the art of making pretend; the
fictions which are not falsehoods,
aud which are SO necessdry-self,
sacrifices in fact for the comfort Of
Others. Hoods hostess breaking
down wholly under "all things dis
agreeing is one extreme, while the
other may be represented by the
lady of the house sitting quietly
and sell-composedly at the head o
her table at a dinner party, while
her husband, mad with liquor, was
yelling out of doors-giving "nC
sign" save a whispered order to on,
of the walters to summon the coach
man and take his master to his room
Fortunately such emergencies a,
the last are rare. To be bored ma,
be inevitable, yet good breeding de
mands that we shall not show 1t; i
is selfish to care for our pleasur
only. The host must think of tn
guest-the guest crafty the host b,
enjoyment of his entertainers hos
pitality.
Year: 1878

and seems to be as well as ever, and
boldly announced herself the sub
ject Of a miracle. She declines to
tell what happened to herself while
her soul was out of her body, and
doubtless will not do SO unless or
dered so to do by her spiritual ad-
wiser, Father Heenan, who is cred
tied with being the divine instru.
ment in the work. He is a good
priest in good standing, greatly be-
loved for his faith and works. The
affair creates the most intense
excitement, and will be thoroughly
investigated by the ecclesiastical
authorities.
Year: 1878

resolution has been offered in the New
York East Methodist Conference to levy an
assessment Of one per cent. on the salaries of
all clergymen receiving $1,000 year or over
and two per cent on $4,000 year or over
and all fees for marriages over four year, to
be paid into fund to aid poor cIergymen who
do not receive sufficient pay from their own
congregations. This, II agreed to, is all right.
In fact it appears eminently proper, on the
ground that those who make a good living
from the success of the church should pay in
proportion to fund to aid the propagation OF
the church cause. But doesn't 1t conflict with
high toned civil service principles? II is con-
sidered reform" in politics that those who
make good living from the success OF a po-
ltical party must not be assessed 10 help
propagate the party cause. Now IL political
assessments upon political Office holders with
good salaries, for the benefit Of the party, are
desperately wicked, why are not religious
assessments upon church Office holders, for
the benefit Of the church, equally wrong? We
don't say they are wrong. On the contrary,
this Methodist resolution strikes us as reason
able and far. We only ask: Tit lie wrong,
why 10 II wrong Detroit Telegraph.
Year: 1878

Great men are not always free
from personal envy and jealousy,
as is shown in Senator Howe ar
raignment of the Administration
and his personal assault upon
Secretary Schurz. The Sena-
tors disagreement with the Ad-
ministratlon only dates from the
refusal of the President to ap-
point him to the then vacant
seat upon the bench of the Su-
prcme Court, which was un-
dovbtedly the great disappoint-
ment of his life. The difficulty
with Schurz goes back nearly
twenty years, when through the
fundamentally of the "German
adventurer" he was defeated up
on his own soil for Senator.
Schurz, then fresh in American
politics, was full of the
"Red Republicanism " which he


brought with him from a Ger
Year: 1878

beyond the growth of taxable
property and the needs Of the
public service. Mr.. Reams, can
didate for Secretary of State is
not widely known, but we hear
of no objection to him in his
party, and no doubt he will com
mand its vote. Mr.. NoItner, of
the Standard, is the nominee for
State Printer. He has struggled
with great and commendable
perseverance for many years to
publish newspapers for the ben
eft of his party. Perhaps he
would have had larger success
had he taken the idea of pub
fishing a newspaper as a bust
ness to be pursued for it's own
sake. On the score Of desert for
party services, as such things
60, he is entitled to the nomiNa-
ton. But there are opponents
and even enemies within his
party who probably will make
their influence felt against him.
Prof. Emery. who is nominated
for the Office of State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, is
said to be a man Of culture, and
personally very worthy.
Year: 1878

There is great complaint al
the present time from every
quarter of hard times and the
scarcity of money. Some of ou1
citizens believe that this com.
plant Is peculiar to Seattle, and
are inclined to think with Tom
Merry, that 'tthe bottom is fall
ing out" There can be no great
er mistake. The complaint OF
scarcity of money has for the
past year or two extended
Throughout the land. There is
not a section, city, village OR
hamlet throughout our broad
land but has felt its pressure. In
all the great commercial centres
of the East, property values
have diminished from one-third
to one-half, and there is no i'm
mediate prospect of improve
ment. The same is true of most
Of the towns upon the Pacific
coast, none less than Seattle.
The reason of the scarcity of
money here and the high rates
of interest are not on account of
any failure of our home resourc-
es, any want of enterprise, any
diminished demand for the fruits
Of industry, but because of the
universal panic having dried up
the currents of supplies from
other quarters. Our town has
steadily progressed throughout
the great pressure and has all
the elements of prosperity requi-
site for the making of a large
and prosperous city; but from the
beginning our people have had
to depend entirely upon their
own exertions in the improve
ments which have been made.
We have had the benefit of no
foreign capital but such as has
been borrowed upon our own
property. No money has been
sent here or brought here for in
vestment, or to engage in any
Industrial pursuit. What capl-
tai there is here was made here
by men who commenced with
nothing more than strong hands
and well-balanced heads; and
where is the town upon the Pa
cigc coast which can show great
results from unaided industry!
With twenty miles of railroad
delivering 500 tons of coal at
our wharves daily. With a
commerce employing more ton
age than any other town north
of San Francisco. With ou1
population and manufactures
doubled within the past three
years and constantly increasing
in spite of general depression
and the scarcity of money; who
can see in our surroundings any


thing upon which to predict fu-
ture decay or final failure. Mer
with more zeal than discretion


speak of the immediate building
of the railroad across the noun


tains as the "only hope for Sc
attle." That the completion O


the road would add immensely
to our prosperity is undoubted
and we have as little doubt il
will eventually be built; but W.
scout the idea that the town will


90 backward in consequence O


delay. Our upward and onward
course is already assured.
Year: 1878

,.ntry would


.cU. The female coquet
is no better than the libertine. The
only difference is, woman's hand
has struck the fatal blow-tigress she
may be-wild in her ferocity-fran-
tic in her revengc-this human lion
ess. like her sister of the desert, be-
came deadliest in her passions, when
reft of her mate.


OF course sick and sentimental
mCralists will say she has she blood
and should die. An eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth, is an older law.
What did her victim propose for her?
Death would be kind compared with
the jealous misery the coquet inspir-
ed. Perhaps the fever CT iher Indian
blood fired the veins of this Southern
girl when her appeals were laughed
at, and her pleading treated with
scorn.


1t was the deed of an Isbmaelite,
but it was also the deed of q woman
WAC loved her husband better than
life. There are few such, and these
few should not be made an example
on the gallows. BE that, however,
as it may, our reports say that Kate
Southern has the heartfelt sympathy
and the willing Influence of every.
woman in Georgia A cry of indig-
nation has gone up from every hon
est woman in the land at the result
of the trial. Their influence will be
felt, their cry viii be heard, and it is
fair to predict that the frenzied but
beautiful homicide will never die upon
the scaffold. st
Year: 1878

A MINISTERS STORY. AT the
New York Press Club reception
Thursday night, Rev. Z. Dewitt
told the following story: "An cid
fisherman once told me the reason
SO few sinners were converted lay
in the minister's angles for them.
when l go to catch fish, re.
marked the disciple of Walton, 4
use a delicate pole, an almost in
visible line, hook Of the most
artistic workmanship. and at the
end of all a tempting bait, which l
softly drop into the stream but
when you preachers start out you
take for a pole weayer's beam,
to which you fasten a cart rope,
with a pot-hook attached and a
swapping turtle for a bait. This
you throw into the water with a
splash and exciaim, "bite or be.
damned!"
Year: 1878

write you in the future. In doing
it, I will tell no tales out Of school
nor tattle of many a strange ex-
perience. But the newspaper men
here are some Of them strange
creatures.


Truly yours,


BROADBRIM.
Year: 1878

AT the next session of Congress Judge
K;dder says he will Do everything in his
power for the admission Of Dakota to the
Union. Speaking of the adv .ntages the
Territory would receive in becoming a
state, he says: II don't know what they
are beyond the saving of few salaries
now paid by the general government
suppose some people might object to it on
that account But lived in Mime sofa
when it was admitted into the Union, and
remember that the population increased
SO much the following year that our taxes
were a great deal lessstha ever before.
believe it would be 80 in the case of Da.
kota. 1twould giveit dignity. and attract
immigration. People talk and think of a
territory as a great scope of unsettled and
uncivilized country, fovcrrun by Indians
and beyond the reachsOf the comforts and
luxuries of life. There is every reason
for wanting admission Is state. Sioux
Falls Times. r- @
Year: 1878

The Washington, D. G. Post Of August
ant Postmaster General Tyner, in conversa-
ton with some personal friends of his about
his recent trip to Europe, remarked that Ae
had converscd with several leaders of the
Grant movement and that they are in earnest
in pushing Gen. Grant for the presidency.
He stated that the choice of man for the
second place on the ticket had embarrassed
the Grant managers a good deal until the
name of Gen. Key was suggested, when 1t was
adOr1fed al once
Year: 1878

Michel Campion, aged 81, was killed
at Marinon, Mimi, on the 18th inst, in a
very singular manner. While riding through
his field near his house, the forward wheel
sank down into rut in the road and he was
thrown violently out between the wagon box
and wheel. As it cramped it caught him by
the neck and instantly broke it. His wife
saw the accident and ran to him, and shock
him loose and he fell, gasping only four
times and he was dead.
Year: 1878

D. s. Lusk, Superintendent of the Mo reno Mine, writes us that a ledge has re- gently been discovered three or four miles southwest from the Moreno, at the old Plom osa Placer Mines. These Placers were once very rich yielding three and four hundred dollars a day to the man. The ledge that deposited the gold in these piacers has been found and located and the rock is full of free gold. One piece, the size of goose-egg was shown to Mir. Lusk, which was completely cover- ed with gold. A ree-stamp mill, now at Yuma, will soon be put up at the mine to work this rock, which must pay largely

 These mines are only about thirty miles from the Colorado River, at Ehren berg, the road is first class, and it would seem that nothing could hardly hinder the speedy accumulation of fortune, if the rock is as tenth part as rich as repre-
Year: 1878

Military headquarters near Prescott used to have a first-class printing office and to run a news paper called the Whipple News. Well, the News is defunct the Enterprise comes out with some new type; and Marion, its editor, says that every opponent of the Army in Arizona is either "a dis carded contractor or the servant of such" In a week or two more he will apply names worse than that. By that time the govern ment office will be short of some thing else besides type. Maybe the President will do some more grumbling about ''public property for private uses."
Year: 1878

The Signal Mill is shipping bull lion via Ehrenberg to Dos Palms, owing to the slow time made by the steamboats during the low stage of water. For this reason we do not realize just what the mine is turning out. All accounts from there are first rate.
Year: 1878

The Burlington Hawkeye is doing its
best to encourage young men to go west
and grow up with the country. This is
the advice it gives them Eyes, my
son, yes, yes; 60 out west and buy a
farm, There is no life SO independent
as that of an honest farmer. Do not be
discouraged if the work is little hard
at first. The grasshoppers will eat up
all your first planting, but they will de-
YOUR it so early in the season that you
can plant second time. They won't
eat that planting until just about three
days before harvest. You'll have nothing
else to do all Fall and Winter, and you
can put in your time starving. The next
years crop will be destroyed by almost
constant rains and floods. The third
year drought viii burn up everything
that has a root or leaf within ten miles
of your farm. The fourth year, how
ever, will go well. You will raise a
blooming crop, get it all in and safely
housed, and sit down happy and con-
tented, waiting for the market to rise.
Then prairie fire, as big as the butt
end of the universe, will come along and
burn up everything you have in the
world except the clothes you have on.
Buy farm ! A young man is neglect
ful of his best interests and most solemn
duties who does not buy farm right
away"
Year: 1878

Next TO sealskin sacque, nothing
will please woman Of 80 SO much as to
be mistaken for her niece of 16.


A PHILADELPHIA man, who is new to
the experience of having baby in his
own household, was left the other day
by his wife in charge of the infant, she
improving the opportunity to go out
shopping. When she returned she found
her husband playing the garden hose over
the baby. He had tried everything else,
he said, to keep ftquiet and this seemed
to soothe it
Year: 1878

SOME PRACTICAL REMARKs.-A girl
who is never allowed to sew, all of.whose
clothes are made for her and put on her
until she is ten, twelve, fifteen or eigh-
teen years of age, says the Lady's jour
nal, is spoiled The mother has spoiled
her by doing everything for her. The
true idea of self restraint is to let the
child venture A child's mistakes are
often better than its no mistakes, because
when child makes mistakes and has to
correct them, it is then ON the way
towards knowing something. A child
that is walked Up every morning, and
never wakes itself up; and is dressed,
and never makes mistakes in dressing
itself; and is washed, and never makes
mistakes about being clean; and is fed,
and never has anything to do with its
food; and is watched, and never watches
itself; and is cared for, and kept all day
from doing wrong such child might
as well be tallow candle, perfectly
straight, and stolid, and comely, and un-
vital, and good for nothing but to be
burned up.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Dec. IJ.-Ihe Secretary Of
the Interior yesterday reversed the decision
of the commissioner of the general land Of
fee in the case of T. H. Yates, agent for the
California and Oregon Railroad Company,
involving the title to tract of land in
Shasta district, California. 1t is held that
pre-emption settlement made prior to the
time that the railroad grant takes effect
does not except the grant from the opera
ton of said grant unless the presumption
claim is perfected by such settler when an
opportunity is afforded Of SO doing. The
change, however. is retrospective and previ-
GUS decisions are to remain undisturbed as
res iudicata
Year: 1878

been sick for several days. The weather is
much cooler since the rain. -,


The Board of Health officially reported
two deaths from yellow fever during the
twenty-four hours ending at 6 o'clock last
night, both colored. One new case is re-
ported, of person who had been exposed
to the fever during the epidemic.
Year: 1878

It seems to be the ambition Of
all young wives to look we'll when
any one calls, The other day a
south side bride heard a ring at
the front door. The maid was
out and she rushed up stairs to
Elk up" a little before admitting
the caller. There was moment
of lightning work before the
dressing case. Quicker than it
takes to tell it ribbon was fast
ened at her throat, a flower stab
bed into her hair, a flash of pow
der on her face, and she was at
the door, all smiles and bushes.
The gentleman said he had walk
ed from Memphis, and couldn't
remember that he had tasted food
since he left Cincinnati.-Ol
Csty Derrick.
Year: 1878

What blessing to household is
a merry. cheerful woman one
whose spirits are not affected by wet
days or little disappointments, or
whose milk of human kindness does
not sour in the sunshine of prosper
ity. Such a woman in the darkest
hours brightens the house like a lit
tie piece Of sunshiny weather. The
magnetism of her smiles and cleo
trical brightness of her looks and
movements infect every one. The
children go to school with sense of
something great to be achieved; her
husband goes. into the world in a
conaueror's spirit. No matter how
people annoy and worry him all
day, far off her presence shines, and
he whispers to himself, cat home I
shall find rest" So day by day she
literally renews his strength and en-
ergy, and if you know a man with a
beaming face, kind heart and a
prosperous business, in nine cases
out of ten you will find he has a
wife of this kind.
Year: 1878

Obstinancy is the heroism Of little
minds.


Never marry but for love but see
that though lowest only what is lovely
William Penn.


Respect the result of lifetime,
whereas silly act often wins one O
reputation.


Imipiety takes woman out of hel
sex as we'll as out OF her place there
is dash of the bearded lady in every
she-freethipker.


Nothing is beneath you if it is in
the direction Of your life nothing is
great CT desirable ifit is off and awaw
from that.-Emerson.


1t IS a most important lesson and too
little thought of that we learn how to
enjoy ordinary life, and to be able to
relish our being, without the trans
port ofsome passion, or abe gratifica-
tion Of some appetite.-Steele.


A man displeased with the world is
never satisfied with himself.


BE severe to yourself, indulgent to
others and thus avoid resentment.