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Year: 1874

1t was perhaps our duty as Editors 10
carefully follow the progress of the Beech
er scandal and summarize 1t for our read
ers. but we have not the necessary pa.
tience. 1t has become a bore to every
body out of New York. and all will be
relieved when 1t sinks into oblivion.


II is not safe to pronounce any judg-
ment. II is a matter of regret that 20
many people are ready to believe Mr..
Beecher guilty, and indeed to hope that
he is guilty. Mr.. Beecher should have
before the public. the full benefit OF a
presumption oi Innocence, Siias ue wouIu
have before jury. Nothing should be
believed against him until prove and on
ly after the case is all out Terrible in
justice has sometime been done by too
hasty judgments. The point OF the case
at present would seem to be this-whether
the alleged letters are genuine, and il
they are. whether Beecher can reconcile
them with the hypothesis Of his innocence.
The rule in the courts would be that the
letters must be inconsistent with every
hypothsis but one, that of guilt In pub
lie opinion, the rule will not be so favora-
bic - the accused.
Year: 1874

The result of the recent elections in
some Of the southern States may be part
ly attributed 10 the operations OF the
Amnesty acts in restoring TO citizenship
large numbers of di.franchied rebels
These would naturally vote against the
Republican Party, and their more active
influence since the bln was removed would
also have its effect. Dislike of the civil
rights bill now before Congress, undoubt-
edly influenced many white Republicans


That these elections are AT all indica-
tive of any change in the sentiment OF the
nation at large. no one will seriously
clam. That the Southern States would
naturally become anti-Republican a, fast
as the old rebel element came to have
votes, was expected. at least in those
States where the white vote largely
preponderates. The Republicans la those
states will make a gallant fight and hope
in time to secure a peaceful and perma-
neut victory for equal rights. The Re
publicans In the more favored sections of
the Country must stand by them. and
give them the moral aid of still larger
majprities.
Year: 1874

original style OF advertising by Offering various
ez for cases Of catarrh and other diseases


which they cannot cure. Those who do not possess
sufficient intelligence to enable them to write ori-
gnal advertisements OF their own but have to steal
those OF others, are not likely to have made great
and valuable discoveries in Medicine Lock ou. for
fhau,
Year: 1874

Aessrs. Editors: YOU will please allow me
to correct your reporter in regard to the fill
ing up OF the gully on Twenty fourth street.
The earth was not gotten from the tunnel,
but from Venablc street. / hope attention
will be given to it ut once, and keep disease
from the neighborhood. - .,.


RESPECTFULLY, G. b Y
Year: 1874

In the exchange OF these bonds witness
could not say whether Colonel Mayo was
pald IN currency or not on the occasion re.
ierred to. When he did pay him, however,
ne generally paid in currency-that is when
there was difference due him.
Year: 1874

At the annual meeting of each
State Grange it may elect a proxy to
represent the State Grange in the Ma
tional Grange in case of the inability
of the Master to attend, but such
proxy shall not thereby be entitled to
| the Sixth Degree.
Year: 1874

THE principal provisions of the new
Bankrupt law passed by Congress are as
follows:


Forty days are allowed to elapse be-
fore merchant or trader who fails to
pay his commercial paper is liable to be
thrown into bankruptcy. The assent of
one-fourth in number and one-third in
value of the creditors is required to throw
a debtor into bankruptcy. This provision
relates back to the first of last Decem-
ber Proceedings may be discontinued
whenever the debtor pays those secured
debts which were the ground OF throw
ing him into bankruptcy, or whenever
the consent of the court can be obtained
and majority of the creditors shall ask
for a discontinuance of the proceedings
In order to set aside hypothecated
pledges or loans on the bankrupt's estate,
it must appear that the party dealing
with the bankrupt knew that he intend
ed to perpetrate fraud on the Bankrupt
law, and that he intended to go into
bankruptcy. When loan is made to a
bankrupt in good faith, and security
taken, with the intention of aiding him to
pull through, it shall be considered as
having actual value, and the security shall
not be invalidated by proceedings in
bankruptcy. A voluntary bankrupt may
have his discharge If his estate pays 80
per cent. of his debts, or provided he OBJ
Year: 1874

tains the consent of the same number of
his creditors as is Unnecessary to throw him
into bankruptcy. An involuntary bank
rupt can get his discharge if his conduct
is free from all fraud and he is innocent
of any violation or infringement of the
Bankrupt act Assignees are prohibited
from dividing fees with other persons
engaged in the case. Compromise by
creditors may be made with the assentof
the debtor, providing a majority of the
creditors join, when approved by the
court, for the release and discharge of
the debtor. The fees and expenses are
reduced one-half until the Judges of the
Supreme Court shall establish perma-
nent reduction and simplify the pro-
ceedings. All the acts of the persons
connected with the, execution of the
law shall bc matle puhlisE,a t'se fulr
and minute reports from the Clerk, the
assignee, the Marshal and the Register
Original jurisdiction is conferred upon
the Territorial Courts, with an appeal to
the Supreme Court of the Territory.
Year: 1874

salt on the spongy part of the gill of the
mushrooms to be tried. If they turn vel
black thew v are aood Allow 10, the ee salt tito to
act little time before deciding upon the
color. Every eatable mushroom has a
decidedly pleasant odor, and is never
Shiny, while those that are dangerous
have bad odor, or are quite devoid of
smell. Western Rural
Year: 1874

SENATOR MARTIN has intro luced a bill
designating in what Justices Court certain
actions shall'be brought. That clause which
provides that the case shall be tried in the
township where the injury was committed
Is very good. We are not lawyer enough
to say whether the other provisions of the
bill will work SO admirably. 1t seems to
VS., though, that in some instances the plain
tiff is by this bill put to an undue amount
Of trouble and expense.
Year: 1874

WHERE ARE They "A Washington des-
patch of the Oath says there is considerable
surprise and comment created by the delay
in the reception of the Legislative resolu-
tions, asking an investigation of the affairs
OF the Contract and Finance Company.
The resolutions have not yet been received
although some time overdue, and suspicious
are expressed that they are improperly de-
tanned in Sacramento.
Year: 1874

TEMPERANcE.-The women of Ohio,
New York and other Eastern States have
by prayer and labor kndled an immense fire
io, the cause of temperance, which they are
determined shall sweep through the land
and sweep from existence every crime that
kelps to nakea drnpkard
Year: 1874

This mammoth, boated, plundering Steam
ship Mail Company that sails to China, is now
asking subsidy from Congress- and to the
honor of James Duffy and Legislature, be
it said, they have passed preamble and resolu-
tons protesting against the granting OF this
subsidy-lst because they import coolie labor
I'd, they hire Chinese laborto the exclusion OF
white when it will answer their purpose; and
other lines sailing without this subsidy.
Better, far, Congress would institute proceed
lngs and investigate and prosecute these soul
less corporations that beset the City of Wash
ington to plunder the Treasury which has been
filled by the taxes taken from the poor as well MS
the rich of our land Could the toll the strug-
gle, the pain, the anxiety and selfabnegation
that all the Tax Collectors witness while gather
ing up the sums that wrung from the hard
gainings of ax-payers-could these be spread
before the punderers and thieves around that
city of corruption it would at least make them
hesitate before granting away this money of the
people,
Year: 1874

When man begins life, Heaven is
like picture on the ceiling of cathe-
dral. He has to bend his neck out of
shape to see it, and don't like it after
he has seen it. Before long it seems to
him a good place in which to get away
from hell, a--kind of insurance agent
office. Then it becomes a matter of
sentiment. BIT at last, when the real
toll of life comes, and Gods love shows
itself in his discipline, and the yoke is
heavy on his neck. bis suffering inter-
prets Heaven for him as he never saw
it before. What a dry place Heaven is
to many until father goes there, and
mother and sister. Then it becomes
populous. To many man the door of
Heaven is shut until his little child goes
up to open it for him 1 have five up
there. SO we build our own Heaven
out of our griefs and pleasures, but we
know that everything will he far better
than we have sketchcd it -Beechcr.
Year: 1874

There is rarely, if ever, any need Of
using soap on the face, except for very


dirty people, or where there is much oil


secreted by the skin. Pure soft water
is generally quite sufficient Az rule,
avoid the very free use of soap on the
skin, except The mildcst kinds. Face
powders injure the skin, just as dirt
does, by obstructing the pores. II
there is any poison in the face powder,
as there often is, it only adds poison to
dirt and makes the matter so much the
worse. tC
Year: 1874

Al length the momentous morning
dawhed We had prolonged our few
days stay to week, and our host had
evidently determined not TO renew his
invitation, spite of the manifest pleasure
my company gave him; so,almost before
I could realize it, the eventful day arriv-
Year: 1874

Can it be that the circus is about to wrest from
the Gypsey the child stealing reputation which
tradition has handed down to this age? The
woman in Vermont who has been detained with
the child supposed to be Charlie Ross is an at
tachee of Barnums circus. We suspect it is
another OF Barnums advertising lodges.
Year: 1874

We have no further intelligence from the re-
ported discovery Of the Ross child in Vermont
than that sent by telegraph yesterday. Friends
of the missing boy went on last night to iden-
tify the child which had been detained at Ben
nington, but up to O'Clock to-day no word had
been returned
Year: 1874

the girls heart, but Thursday evening the
crisis came. he went to the house with y
bottle of acid in his pocket, prepared to
spoil her beauty if she did not give him
0 favorable answer There was no one at
home but the girl and her mother, and
Perrin first wanted the girl to take walk
with him. She refused to go, and he
asked to see her alone. She also refused
this request and the lover
had just got ready 20 draw the bottle
from his pocket when something bit
him. He thought it was dog but it
wasn't. The cork had worked out of the
bottle, and his coat-tails were turning
Drick-eolOr at the rate Of yard minute.
The acid wasn't content with the coat
tails, but struck out for flesh, and in
about a minute the young man WAS
dancing around the house rs if to escape
q bullet. Shouting and whooping he got
out Of doors and threw off most of his
clothing and rolled in the mud, and it
was some time before. any one could find
out whether he had snakes in his boots
or had set down on II brad-awl. He was
so badly burned that two men had to
help him to his boarding -house on Fifth
street, where q physician dressed his
burns. There is good deal of laughter
At his expense, and if he makes his ap-
pearance at the house again, he will be
arrested, rs he told one of his friends in
advance that he meant the acid for the
girl-Detrou Free Press.
Year: 1874

So FoRSEY's Press is not to be sold
after all. 1t WAS very nice transaction
70 get up such a report and secure so
much free advertising; but it will hardly
-.1ound to the credit of the paper.
Year: 1874

These papers, mOlding and shaping public opinion,
are consulted daily by the business men in their
respective sections being rendered indispensable by
the great variety of commercial news collected Mt
great expense. They circulate among the enterpris-
ing business men, capitalists and professional classes
as well as persons of refinement in private life. For
detailed information as 10 cost, &c, address
Year: 1874

A. retired physician writes How
does it happen that, amid the eyerlast-
ing cry against drunkenness, We never
hear a word against its evil, gluttony?
| think [ can assert with truth that, in
a long practice, three have died among
my patients from eating, where one has
died from drink. Whence come apo
plexy, paralysis, dyspepsia, and host
of other diseases, but from too much
and too rich food taken under the
most imprudent circumstance. And
yet we hear of no society formed to
prevent this growing vice. A man eats
until he drops down and expires with
apoplexy by the road side, when up
comes the coroner with jury of twelve
good men and true, who pronounce a
verdict, Died from intemperance. "
So he did, but what kind of intemper-
ance was it? have heard more than
one minister in the pulpit expatiate
with great vehemence against the sin
ofdrunkenness, whose very appearance
was proof positive that he was pre-
eminentIy guilty of gluttony.
Year: 1874

I peetation that violence would result,
! owing to the pastors hasty temper, and


had carefully nursed the feud which
soon arose between master and man.


Niels told him daily all that took place.


On leaving the garden on that fatal


day, he had run over to lngvorstrup 70


aequaint his brother with what had


happened.


Morten shut him up in private


room that no one might see him.


Shortly after midnight, when the whole


village was asleep, the two brothers


went to a place where the roads cross
each other, and where few days prev


iously suicide had been buried
young man Of about Niels age and
stature. In spite of Niel's reluctance
and remonstrance they dug up the
corpse and took it into Morten's house
Niels was made to strip and don a suit
of Morten's and the corpse was clad,
piece by piece, in Niels cast of clothes,
even to the very earring. Then
Morten battered the dead face with
spade, and hid it in "a sack until the
next night, when they carried it into
the wood by VeIlby parsonage. Niels
asked what all these preparations
meant. Morten told him to mind his
own business and to go and fetch the
parsons green dressing gown and cap.
This Niels refused to DO, whereupon
Morten went and fetched them himself. |
' And now he said to his brother,
. you go your way Here'is purse /
with hundred dollars-make for the I
frontier where no one knows thee and I
pass thyself under another name, and |
never set foot on Danish soil again as |
thou wouldst answer it with thy lifel'
Nlels did as he was commanded and /
parted from Morten forever. He had /
for a soldier, had suffered !
great hardships, had lost limb, and
had returned to his native place mere
wreck.
Year: 1874

Say what you will, it's human ma ature
to favor those that favor you, and do
it honestly. A liberal advertiser, iu
a reputable business, is always a good
fellow, as mean meu never advertise.
When you hear man express con-
tempt for the newspapers set him down
as fool If you want to test him.
and prove that he lies, puff him, and
see how pleased he will be, and how
he will pat you on the back. There is
nothing that one could do but what
would be forgiven aud forgotten, sooner
than little uncomplimentary squib in
a newspaper. You may go on all your
life saying good things every day about
some person without one word ofcredit;
but the first item OF reprimand. and all
you have done is forgotten at once, aud
you have bitter and relentless enemy
from that time. Every person who
wants 10 purchase any kind of ner-
chandise will read an advertisement of
that merchandise whenever it appears
before him. While we believe that
every person engaged in a respectable
business should advertise, we also
believe it TO be the duty of the pub
Usher, everything else being equal, to
do what he can, whenever the Oppor=
tuDity offers. 70 favor those who favor
him. For ourselves, we always stay BY
our friends, and never yet, heathenish
a. it may seem, forgot an euemy.-
Trofutts Wes'eTR World.
Year: 1874

A MILWAUKEE paper states that a
young German girl died of joy on
meeting her betrothei in that city.
She had come oil the way from Ger
many to join him. She embraced him
upon her arrival, and when he tried to
disengagc himself her hands were
firmly clasped about his neck in death.
Her heart was literally broken with
10Y. Sad indeed.
Year: 1874

HERE is the pithiest sermon ever
preached: Our ingress into life is
naked and bare; our progress through
life Is trouble and care; our egress our
OF u We know not where but doing
well here, We shall do we'll there
! could not tell more by preaching a
year"
Year: 1874

We once heard of traveller at hotel,
who rose from his bed at night to examine
the weather. but instead of looking out on
the sky, he thrust his head through the
window of cupboard. BLESS mel" be
m ittered "this is very singular weather.
The night is as dark as pitch, and smells
Of cheese"
Year: 1874

DALLAS, June 2I.-As 1 promised
YOU before / left, l will give you few
items in regard to this part of Texas. l
left Memphis Sunday evening, June
I4th, at twenty-five minutes past three
O'Clock, changed cars at Little Rock at
three o'clock that night, changed again
at Texarkana at ten O'Clock in the MORN
ing, and arrived here at twelve O'clock
Monday night. Daylight broke on us
when fifteen or twenty miles this side of
Little Rock, and from there to Red
river | saw about as poor country and
as poor crops as / ever saw anywhere in
my life; a large portion of the cotton
Just coming up and coming up badly at
that. Corn from three inches to knee
high, and | suppose from the condition
that it is in that the owners of it think
about like did, that it is hardly worth
working out. On this side of Red river
there is a belt OF some twenty miles of
very fine land and good crops. Then
again, from there on up to Jefferson
and even up to Marshall, the country is
poor and the crops are worse than poor.
Crops suffering for rain au the way.
After leaving Marshall I soon saw an
improvement in the lands and crops,
aud by the time we reached MinneOla l
ctulu STE uSSANCu III 1fAoNGuAFhb III
both lands and crops. Dark came on US
there and 7 saw nothing more from
there to this place. From what l have
seen and what learn from others, I
think that l am in as fine q
farming and stock-raising country as
there is in the Union. Cotton knee
high, and branching welfS Corn ten
feet high and in silk and tassel. They
have Just harvested, and are now haul
ing in, a wheat crop which they consider
rather short, ranging from twenty to
thirty bushels per acre, selling in the
city this morning st from one dollar to
one dollar and ten cents per bushel.
About fifty wagon loads of fine muslsite
hay are coming in from the prairies
every day, selling at eight dollars per
ton. Dallas hss population Of about
ten thousand, and is improving very
rapidly, but money-matters are awful
tight here as well as in Memphis. Busi-
ness is lively here to what it was in
Memphis when | left. Still they con-
slider it a dull season. This is a beauti-
full location for q city, and being sur
rounded uy such country it is bound to
be a considerable place. One thing l
VIII say, in the winding up of this letter,
for the benefit of those who think of
coming to this country, if they expect
to come here and live without work hey
had better stay where they are, and
save the expense and trouble Of the trip,
for the people here work, those that can
get work, and others would il they
could get work to do. l will write you
again af.er l see more of the county.


II T. PROP IT.
Year: 1874

The nomination of Latta Is a weak one, though
not a bad one He is member of the Legislature,
and respectable politician of great ability but
Of considerable personal popularity.


The first ballot for Auditor General was as fol-
Year: 1874

The Galveston News copies an
item from the EXAMINER and credits
it to the Waco Democrat. Well,
neighbor, we are not going to quarrel
with the term. The time is passed
in Texas, thank God, when it Is
either dangerous or disgraceful to
own ones self a trus- blue Democrat
We sincerely wish we could return
the compliment, and write Galveston
Democrat, instead of News.
Year: 1874




We publish a paragraph from a
Was hington special to the Chicago
Tribune, ia another column, which
indicates that should the House pass
the iniquitous Civil Rights bill,
Grant will veto it. We have rot a
doubt of his reputed purpose to do
SO. We cannot believe that
its passage was ever seriously
contemplated by the House, and are
inclined to think that the action OF


he Senate was only cheap
posthumous compliment to the dead
apostle of negro equality. But
should the House pass the bill, Grant
will have an opportunity to place
himself on the record-at the close of
a long, and let us say, more than Or
dinarlly successful official career-at
opposed to the GROWING phrenzy Of
sectional enthusiasm, embodied in
this wicked attempt to foiss upon the
negro, q social status, which he
neither desires or is fitted Tor.
Year: 1874

On the third Tuesday OF August
this large, influential and repres enta-
tive body Of the intelhgent farmers
Of Texas will assemble in this city, to
CONSIDER questions of immense impor-
tsnce to themselves and the State.
The sug gestion will not be considered
premature, that they at once CONS
mence preparations for that meeting.
Let the individual as we'll as Coun-
cll Oranges 60 at once at the busi-
ness Of examining all questions that
are likely to come up for discussion
at that time, so that the time Of the
meeting will not be consumed In
these preliminary discussions. The
proper officers should be employed
constantly in procuring information
in regard to the present crop, as we'll
as considering questions which are to
affect that which will be planted the
coming fall. We have frequently al
luded to this subject, and resume it,
in view of Its great Importance to
the order, even at the risk of being
considered tiresome, or over anxious.
Questions of very grave Importance
to the perpetuity and efficiency of the
Order will be discussed, these all re-
qulring much time for careful pre-
paratlon. The question of the adap.
tation of the Order to the genius and
wants of Texas farmers will
claim attention, and the only
means by which correct
coRclusion, on this point, can be ar
riytd at, is by careful observation.
We are perfectly convinced that
nothing has occurred in the history OF
agriculture in our State, since Its
earliest settlement, that bears any
comparison to this, In Importance.
Then let the men who are to guide
this great movement to ultimate sue
cess lag not behind their fellows,
rather let them rise to level with
their great mission. Our Order has
already reused rich and powerful ops
position. There are those observing
its every action, hungry for miss
take or blunder, through which to
attack 1t. Let us be careful not to
furnish il. We are confident that
the mission of the Order will succeed,
finally, but it can only do this by
eternal vigilance and determined Ell,
fort. 1t must labor to bind it's vota-
rles firmly to its principles, and also
to place its claims tor respectful con.
sideration, tairly before other ella sses
who are not eligible to membership in
the organization.


Its mission is truly beneficent.
one. Peace, and all the blessings
that come In her train. Intelligence,
morality and charity. Is not this a
field in which the proudest in our
land may labor, and the certainty oi
reward sweetens the toll. Come ny
to our August,meeting, Patrons Of
Husbandrr, with these sentiments
uppermost, and the result of your
meeting will not, cannot be doubt
full.