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Year: 1879

Every once aud a while we bear Of a
California woman killing bear. This
is all right Bul We challenge tl,c
world TO ransack the pages Of history
aud show US where woman ever got
away with q mouse.
Year: 1879

The McEaily divorce case came to sudden halt
yesterday before the New Jersey Vice Chancellor.
Counsellor Thomas A. Henry. for the defendant,
Colonel McEaly stated to the Court that the special
afiidavits which he had expected to produce. show
ing tnat defendant had been let TO commit adultery
through a conspiracy. could not be obtained on
Wednesday because he tMr. Honry) found the wit
nesscs intoxicated that he was unable TO take
their testimony.


The Vice Chancellor said that under the circum.
stances he could do nothing else but discharge the
rIln
Year: 1879

New York Irish American Kelly has
announced THAT he knows he cannot be
elected himself, but that he is running
for the purpose of defeating tho demo.
cratic candidate, .Imcius Robson, and
cecting the republican Cornell. He does
this TO crafty personal leellng-to
carry out an old feud in which the peo.
pie of this city have no interest what
ever, though their real interests are
sought to be sacrificed in the quarrel. i
is the first time in the history of the de-
mocracy that personal politics" has
been attempted to be introduced into the
contest for state officers, and, unless we
very much mistake the temper OF the
people, the effort will meet such a re-
buke as will prevent the trial of the ex'
pertinent forcvermor. The democrats
of New York will be true to their record
and will stand by the nominations made
by the party convention, aud which are
indorsed by such sterling patriots as Ho
ratio Seymour and Francis Kiernan
They would not obey the bidding Of any
man which would lead them into the
camp of the republicans, whose rule has
been so disastrous to the nation at large
and in especial manner to this city and
Stltn.
Year: 1879

Concerning the democratic situation
in the great State Of New York, which is
at the present time subject of much
and peculiar interest, the special CORES
pondent OF the Cincinnati Enquirer
sends the following for the edifcation
of the democratic masses


"The men who have the charge of
the democratic campaign in this state,
have had a conference. 1t is the unani
nous report of all that the Ohio elec
ton will not have viii. of influence on
the New York election which comes of
two weeks from next Tuesday The
same issues do not exist here as there.
The democrats are running the campaign
on strictly state issues they being, in
brief. the reduction of taxation, and the
carrying on of canal reforms. Both Mr..
Robinson and Tilden are confident OF
victory. While not undertaking the
Kelly movement, they do not attach to
it the importance given it by republi-
cans; and they expect to more than
counteract II by an increased vote in the
aural districts where Robinson is special
" strong. The democrats are making
no noise-Mr Tilden does--bnt they
are working as men never worked be
fore"
Year: 1879

Washington, Sept. 12.-Gen. Sher-
man says it is immaterial to him who
is the next president. Grant don't want
it. He would like to have employment
We correspond and know he wants to
get get into business so as to be able to
make money. He would like to have
the presidency of a railroad company,
or something of that sort.
Year: 1879

The st. Charles Times, a noble little
democratic paper, published at St..
Charles, Winona county, Mimi, recent,
" contained the following:


"With this number we commence volume
VII Of the Times, at which time the subscrip-
tions OF q large number Of our subscribers OK
pire. We trust they will renew without delay
as we have large sum Of fmoney-for us-to
raise on the first of August, and every silver
dollar begins to look like full moon to Us.
So far as the present volume of the Times is
concerned, all we have to say, is, that in the
future as in the past we shall continue to
CHEW to the limo let the chips fall where they
may" We know that such q course is un-
popular and does not bring to us that pecunf-
ary reward that o milk-and- water policy
would, but that it is a policy which finally re-
bounds to the general good and the conseq uent
prosperity of all, no one will deny. The con-
sciousnessi Of duty performed is worth some-
thing, althoughit does not furnish food and
clothing for q noble, sacrificing wife and dear
children. The world moves slowly in the
right, and the scheming, and unjust warfare
OF selfish world against truth and right,
coming from an humble source, is sometimes
terrible to contemplate, and almost, crushing
IN its effects, and never can be checked, but
must be endured while the selfish passions of
man predominate. A merited epitaph writ
ten on ones tombstone "He tried to do right, -
IS better legacy to leave to ones children
than sordid gold dishonesty obtained, or vain
glory secured at the expense Of principle and
every conviction of right.''
Year: 1879

This Is a world Of curious contra
dictions, ruminates the Boston Herald.
The gossipping village dame who, up
on the slightest provocation, would
blast your life by the breath of slan-
der, would also stand and administer to
you at your sick bed like a. sister Of
mercy.
Year: 1879

Recently an Iowa man died. He
was very wealthy and had three sons


his only heirs, and would you believe
it, the ungrateful boys got togethe,
and ran away with all the property
before the lawyers could get at it and
divide it with each other! There il
so much sord1d, mean, grasping self
ishness in the world, that sometimee
it is enough to discourage good law.
Year: 1879

a week, TO one knowing where he was.
He seemed conscious of his mental condi-
ton all the while, but hadn't the will
power to 60 to his home. When he did
go it was to hear of the death of brother,
and that caused him to awake from what
he supposed was trance.


When he was started for home last
Monday evening, he says, he got off the
car and went over to the house where he
was boarding, when something told him
not to go in. He came back down town,
hired room in an obscure German ho-
tel, where he remained for several days.
He says he knew what he was doing all
the while, but had no control of himself
when he thought of going home. Thurs
day evening he came down town, and
stood in front of the Globe-Democrat Of
flee for two hours. He came into the
business office, bought paper, and look
ing it over he saw notice of his disap-
pearance. He read it over twice, and
then said to himself, "That's me; | am
missing" He went back to his hotel,
and Friday night returned to his home,
but gave no explanation of his absence
further than is here related.
Year: 1879

The Colored Baptist Convention spent
the forenoon to-day discussing and adopt
ing the reports of committees. The report
of the Committee on Education occupied
the greater portion of the time.
Year: 1879

In the House Mr.. Conaway presen-
ted the liquor bill which has been fore
sb allowed ever since the second or third
week of the session. II provides re-
strictions upon the sale Of spirituOus
liquors, and the penalties its suggests
are similar to those already in force. 1t
compels persons holding licenses under
this act to keep the same displayed in
their place of business. If requested to
produce the same by a member of the
police authority and refuses to do so,
the refusal shall be- considered pre-
sumptive evidence that he has none.
For any officer to neglect this he shall
be deemed guilty of misdenanor and
shall be fined at the discretion of the
court and forfeit his Office. Itimposes a tax
of $50 per annum on all persons who
receive a license to sell liquor in guam
titles of one quart or less, and tax of
SIS on all persons selling in greater
quantities than one quart.


1t provides further that no liquor
sold by retail dealer shall be drunk
on the premises and violation of this
will be misdemeanor; and any person
who comes to the State to sell liquor in
Wholesale quantities unless duly taxed
by this State; and also that the Attor.
ney General shall not have power to
enter a nolle pros, upon an indictment
found under any of the provisions of
the act in question. 1t was referred
to the Committee on Revised Statutes
and will be reported favorably upon it
Is thought at the earliest opportunity.
Year: 1879

In day or so Senator Conaway will
introduce bill to the effect that
"any person going from place to place
" within the State begging and asking
"on subsisting upon charity shall be
" "deemed and taken to be a tramp, and
" upon conviction thereof by indict-
"ment shall forfeit and pay to the State
"a fine of 500 and shall be imprisoned
"tor a term if not less than SIX months
nor more than one year.. If that
iinpecunious individual is found sleep
ing in barn or other property and
forces admission without the consent
of the owner; or carries dangerous
weapons about his person he shall be
fined from 500 to 500 and sentenced
to term of imprisonment.


A mere act of vagrancy shall be pri-
ma faciu evidence that the party so
doing is tramp, and may be arrested
and brought before the nearest Justice
of the Peace. This is law which is
sadly needed in our State, and the SEN
timent in favor o! it must be univer-
Year: 1879

A little shoe-back called ut the residence OF
Clergyman and collected u piees of bread
and some water. The servant was directed
TO give tho child bread from the erumb-
basket, and as the little fellow was walking
slowly away md shifting the gift between
his fingers for piece lnrge enough To chew,
the minister called him back aud asked hlm
if he had ever Learned to pray On receiving
q negative answer hs directed him I'd say,
"our Father" but he could not understand
the familiarity.


''Is 1t our father-your father-my father"


'Wby certainly"


The boy looked at him awhile and com
msnced crying, TIT the same tims holfing up
his crust of bread. and exclaiming between
HIS Hobs


"Yol any that your father ID my father
aren't yon ashamed to give your little brother
such stuff to eat. when you have got SO many
good things for yourself r.
Year: 1879

Tho English ordnance officials at Wool
wlch, England, are trying hard to burst the
twin thirty eight ton gun. u q order f g ilnd
came To explode Tho experiment 10 TO take
place, not In the open. but in great chamber
or earth and stone, which is being construct
ed for the purpose. The theory is, that the
cannon burst because It was double loaded,
and the chief end of the Forthcoming trials Ii
to ascertain whether other cannon are liable
to the same accident under the same condi-
ttons, or whether this gun was simply q
weaker brother which could not stand the ex-
ira pressure It seems like practical Joke,
for II the second gun bursts there will he no
proof that Its explosion was due to the same
cause as that which operated ID the case Of
the first; and IL Ii does not burst, the fact
that the other one did will remain unaltered.
The experiment Is likely to cost the British
Government $4,000.
Year: 1879

On Change yesterday considerable indignation
was expressed by the provision men account Of
the passage Of the amendment to the constitution
providing shat margins should be deposited with
the and that the Exchange should be in no
way responsible They claim that out of the $50
votes cast only 145 in favor of the amendment,
and that it carried through the apathy of men,
bers 1t Is their Intention to make application to
the Board Of Managers to have the matter recon-
sidered.
Year: 1879

1 tn e rocks above and beyond dOub- ly imposing. And here was a huge column standing on a little table. involuntarlly put my foot against it, but it did not shove off.

 AS suddenly as we had entered this little canyon we came to the brink and at right angles with this

 wonderful freak of snature, just at my left, a huge pillar of rock sixty feet high and but a few feet Tn di- ameter, standing on a base seem- ingly not half it's size, jnstles on this awful brink. Thoughtlessly Iput up my hand to steady 1t while Iplucked some beautiful verbpnas at it's base. At the left and up the canyon for mile each side vies with the other which shall throw out the greatest number of these well-hewn rocks and hang them the most carefully upon their crests. To the right and below you 1000 feet stand out the wild, haggaId outlines of an old castle. Each galloping troop of the Storm King, as they have chased each other up and down thiJ chasm, since the day these troops were young, have each borne their tro- phy of spoil away. till pillar and column and turret seem so real that you watch for the touchless step and the shadDwy vision of gnblins as they drift from hall to hall for vengeance. Two miles Of this wordless poem wait your read ing. The cri icIsmS of Time have only crystallized it's beauty. And 1t gli5tens to-day in the light of it's milli0nth birthday, the glory of the Author, as never before. Those big rocks must be falling; they seem to rest or nothing. How you pity thlt group of little atunted trees struggling for foot ing and sunlight! they must be crushed when that column fails. And you find yourself holding your breath to hear the crash in the awful abyss. Withu a word for words are meaningless here you turn h tiff round and look up for relief, but to shudder in the shadow of a towering grandeur you had not noticed before. Just across from where you stand (for the canyon is narrow here), the right shoulder of an incoming can yOn fir m the east imposes itself higher and more dreadful than the rest.

 All o>e this hnge promontory the goddess of sculpture for ages has l,een working out those wild fantasies, true to the trestle-bOard of ndture, e,and touched only by the chisel ot the inimitable artist, Time. This was Apache land. And even now yCu feel yourself amidst ner dead heroes pc trified :. some of whom with one foot up lifted, wait the waking of Monte. zuma. It was just noon, and Sol WAS shifting his softest light into the deep chasn, and the little streamlct rebounding higher from it's rocky fall to catch the coming sunbeam, and turned again to its rippling life, murmuring sweeter music with the birds songs, as they bathed their wings in It's spray. There has been no earth quake here since these rocks were young

 Correspondence Chicago Tribune
Year: 1879

One day recently, as Frank Carr of
West Hopkinton was engaged in saw
ing lumber in his mill at that place, he
had occasion to lift trap in the floor,
just over the flume which the water
flowed into, and through spout six feet
long on to an iron wheel, revolving hori-
zontally, and which furnished power to
move the machinery. The water was
about six feet deep in the ilume, and the
wheel was encased in a close, circular
box, within which it revolved with great
velocity. Mr.. Carr's attention being
called away, he neglected to close the
trap. His two little girls, the one six
and the other three years old, were play
ing in another part of the mill, but soon
tripped along to the near neighborhOOd
of the open trap, which they did not see,
and the youngest accidentally fell into
the flume and was carried through the
spout into the revolving wheel. At the
instant the little girl disappeared her
sister exclaimed, "Papa, sissy is killedin
Mr.. Carr looked and took in the situa-
ton at the first glance. He sprang and
closed the gate which shut the upper
water from the flume, then rushed be-
low and, rs soon as he could, removed
the covering to the wheel-box. II took
hut Il few moments tn do that, but in the
meantime the wheel had revolved one or
two hundred times, and all the water
had passed out of the flume. Strange as
it may seem, he found the missing girl
closely packed in the wheel-box, and
nninjured, without scratch or bruise
1t could not have been less than 10 min
utes that the little girl was in the flume,
spout and wheel, and her escape from
death seemed almost miraculous.-C Con-
cord Cor. Boston Journal
Year: 1879

One of those inexplicable occurrences
in fruit raising which every grower has
observed is prominently brought to
notice this season. For n period of seven
years the peach tree has remained bar
rem of fruit in New England and the
Northern States, and for this no salts
factory reason has been assigned. The
present season every tree is crowded
with fruit, and for this result we have no
explanation to offer worthy of trust. 1t
matters not, so far as our observation
extends, where the trees are located
whether on the top of hill or on
its northern or southern declivity, ar
whether in low land, or in dry or wet
soils; all present the same pleasing
aspect; the branches are borne down
with healthy fruit. The theories, so
readily formed and widely disseminated
regarding the cause of this caprice of
the peach tree are in fault; not one of
them is worth considering. We had
cold weather and wet weather, and deep
SHOWS for period, and no snow for u
longer period, during the winter; in
short, no meteoric condition can be rea-
sonably assigned for the prolific con-
dition of the peach trees. Ii is II freak
of nature, or, perhaps better, il results
from II law of nature not well under
stood. Our peach crop this year prom
iSes to reach at least 800 bushels, and
the trees are perfectly healthy and the
fruit in excellent condition. Boston Jour
nal Of CHenIjSfyfy.
Year: 1879

Perhaps we can serve the pubic good in no way more effectually in the small space we have for this ar ticle than to urge upon the road overseers the necessity of putting the public thoroughfares in good condition before the bad season comes upon us, and before the trans porting of the cotton crop from the country to the town commences. The roads should be put in good condition now, so that all filling which may be done will have time to pack and become firm and solid before the roads become wet and boggy from the fall rains. It wlll pay every farmer who has hauling over the roads to do to put in few days honest effectual work in mak- ing good the thoroughfares of travel It hurts team far less and will be less liable to break down n wagon to draw ton or a ton and half over a good road than it does to draw half that weight ovor a road full oi ruts and rocks where the wagon ad. vances by jerks and jumps and where the team is in a continual strain te draw the wagon half loaded through the mud and mire. Now is the time to put in a few days at this work ere the road hands are all busy gath. ering the cotton crop which will soon demand attention.
Year: 1879

bined there is little room for doubt. Il. R, Democrat.

 We have often wondered if the greater part of the grumbling and complaining among workingmen in this country does not arise more from the incendiary teachings of de signing political demagogues than from any real cause. If the intelli gencc conveyed in the above Wash ington news be correct 1t is a strong confirmation of such a suspicion. We do not believe that there are any great number of cases in any part of our country wherein the suffering ard aestitasion complained of may not be accounted for in the intem- perance, wastefulness, laziness or natural worthlessness of the parties thus affected. True, misfortune may bring privation, want and suffering; but where man enjoys good health anduses industry temperance andfru- gality, we have seldom seen success fail to crown well directed efforts, and the laborer is generally able to accu- mulate a comfortable little home and support his family Tn responsibility.

 The pauperism of thousands is explained by the statistics which show Chat there is annually consum- ed in the United States hundreds of millions of dollars worth of beer, whisky and tobacco, and that large part of this enormous expense is in cured by poor workingmen.
Year: 1879

Our experience has always been that the city mosquito is a much more ravenous and blocdthirsty beast than his country congener While his instinct for a tender place is infallible, his proboscis is longer and keener and his powers of suction simply unbounded. We encounter. ed the first one of the season las, night and he reminded us of one oi those fellows they stall-fced at the Louisville Gait House. We have been singularly spared from them so far this year, and we trust our re. prieve is not drawing to an end.-

 Gazette.

 We have not heard the musical buzz of mosquito in our town this entire summer thus far. Mosquito bars are articles for which we have no use here.
Year: 1879

Mir II. c. Munger informed us Monday, that the citizens of Mt Vernon and vicinity have subscribed about ss,OO0 stock toward erecting & Clement Attachment" cotton fac. tory. Last Saturday evening five directore were elected, and at their next meeting the site for the facto- " will be selected.-White County Beacon.

 It is wise move. From our ob- seryation for the past several years we are led to believe that there is but little profit to the grower of cot ton. The production of the raw material involves much labor and expense, and we have sometimes thought that the price realized hard ly paid fair wages to the producer, much less any profit. The only way to get any profit out of the staple is to manufacture it at home and real, ize the enhanced value of the manu- factured goods. When the raw sta pie is worth Sc. per pound, a figure which barely pays the cost of pro- duotion, thread is worth twice that price; and surely there must be a profit in spinning it when the value IS increased so much as 100 per cent And why should not the producer the hardworking farmer-realize this profit? There are, in every county in the State, greater or less number of farmers who, by close economy and prudent management,
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Little Rock Democrat who happened to .bs in our town on the evening of the moonlight picnic, sent that paper { very interesting and racy report o the affair. We have to thank the re porter for kindly and compliment ary notice of the personnel of this paper.
Year: 1879

Last Saturday we received the first number of the Faulkner County Democrat the new democratic paper just launched forth upon the journal lstic sea from Conway. This makes three papers for Conway. If tha, town can now manage to get three more and have them all published on different days they will have a paper every morning. We extend a cordi. al welcome to the Democrat.
Year: 1879

It is gratifying to know that all the county papers are urging the people to turn out and attend the annual school meetings oa the Sd Saturday in Augess and vote sufi. cient tax to sustain the public schools. It shows that there are cheering prospects that ample oppor tunlties will be furnished from now on, henceforth and forever, for every child in'Arkansas to receive at least a fair common school education,
Year: 1879

Chicago is now thinking seri- ously of making an effort to open a cotton exchange and compete with other markets in handling the fieecy staple of the South. If she does go into 1t, and shows the same enter, prise and goa head in this matter that she does in all other undertak. ings that she puts her hand to, we predict she will soon make a name and fame as cotton market which will cause the cotton bales to com. mence rolling Chicagoward.