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Year: 1879

ANY attempt to enforce the national
election laws and preserve the purity of the
ballot iu the South after the proposed repeal
of section S22, Revised Statutes, shall have
been carried into effect, will prove to be moth
ing less than flrcical wherever or wheneveri it
does not amount to tragical persecution
That section reads as follows:


No person shall be grand or petit juror in
any court of the United States upon any in
quiry, hearing, or trial of any suit, proceeding,
or prosecution based upon or arising under the
provisions of title civil rights aud of title
"crimes" for enforcing the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
who is, in the judgment of the court, in COM
plcty with any combination or conspiracy in
said title set forth, and every grand and petit
juror shall before entering upon any such in
quiry. hearing or trial. take and subscribe an
oath, in open court, that he has never, directly
or indirectly, counseled, advised, or volun-
taTily aided any such combination or con-
spiracy.


With this mandatory provision in the
statutes the Southern bull-dozers cannot
serve on the juries before which their icl-
low-conspirators may be tried. It's repeal
wonld however open the door for the easy
escape through conniyance with, or the
sympathy of, the jury in every case of the
kind in question that might be called for
trial. 1t would be as reasonable to expect
Mormon jury to find fellowMormon
guilty of polygamy as to expect anything
but an acquittal of bull-dozer in the
South after the Democratic caucus pro-
gramme for the repeal of this law has been
carried into effect. The shotgun would
then become, even more enectually than it
is now, the supreme arbiter in Southern pol
| itigs
Year: 1879

THAT judicial tramp, yclept Judge 7. j..
MACKEY of South Carolina, appears to be a
law unto himself II is enough for MACKEY
to desire to convict political enemy, when
he at once railroads the victim into the pen
itentiary, regardless of law and precedent
The subtle tool of the crazed South Caro-
lima rebels, he does their bidding with an
amount of zeal and energy which is quite
characteristic of MACKEY. Judge LEE, of
Sumter, recently nominated for the post
mNstership of that town, is his latest vic
tim. without even notifying Judge LEE of
the frivolous charge against him, and dur
ing his absence from the State, MACKEY
proceeds to try the case against him, and ac-
tually bullied the jury into convicting him,
regardless of that constitutional mandate
which guarantees fair and impartial trial
to all American citizens. And this latest
wrong has been perpetrated by the South
Carolina rebels with a view of showing their
contempt for the national authority, and
that while the President may nominate u
citizen for an important Office they reserve
the privilege of railroading the nominee
into the penitentiary on n trumped-up
charge.
Year: 1879

INDEPENDENTIsM in Southern politics
does not mean anything more or less than


opposition to the Bourbon Democracy, and


it does not necessarily follow that the Inde-
pendents will make any alliance with the
Republicans on national questions, although
it is true that they rely on the Republicans
for aid in their purely local or state contests


In Georgia, for example, the Independents
are in a majority by the aid Of the Repub-
licans, over the Bourbon Democrats; but on
all national questions such of their leaders
as Mr. STEPHENS or DR., FELTON, are efiec-
lively Democratic and have no affinity with
or for the Republican party, 1t is never
theless possible that with an unpopular
Democratic candidate for President like
Year: 1879

The ramilied and vicarious Emergencies
Of General BEN BUTLER's political vision
have enabled him by means of the cipher
dispatch business to cast few amorous
glances in the direction of the TILDEN Dem
ocrats in Massachusetts. BEN knew what
he was about when he opposed the cipher
inquiry, and when he runs for Governor of
the Bay State again he expects to receive
his reward
Year: 1879

Colonel FRANKLIN PITTS, of Lockport,
Niagara County, New York, and other Union
veterans of that section having forwarded
to Congress petition urging an appropria-
tion to pay arrears of pensions, Senator
HERMAN, of that State, writes the petition
ers as follows in response thereto:


cannot doubt that Congress will at this ses-
sion make an appropriation to pay such arrears
of pensions as shall be due under the law
lately passed. l will certainly do all in my
power to have such an appropriation made. 1
think petitions from soldiers and taxpayers sent
to and presented to each House will tend to
render the appropriation more certain.


In this expression Senator HERMAN is
without doubt in sympathy with public
sentiment on this question. That these
pensioners are entitled to their arrears there
can be no doubt. That Congress thought
so is evident in the passage of the law
authorizing the payment of these arrears
That they should now be paid is equally
patent, and hence to refuse or neglect tC
make the necessary appropriation is an ACT
of injustice, the responsibility Of which nc
man or party can afford to take
Year: 1879

The pneumonia-in-America can-cattle fever
is dying out. 1t was purely of English Or
igin and was superinduced by large inn
portation of our cattle into that market.
Our cattle are quite as healthy as those of
Great Britain, but their importation is not
very healthy for the cattle growers of Brit
tania's domain. That is about all there has
been of the matter
Year: 1879

THE Graphic is arithmetically inclined
and propounds conundrum in Congress
sional proportion in this wise: If it cost
S79l TO carry one dead Congressman from
Washington to Chester, Pa, attended by
seven live Congressman, how much would
it cost to carry two dead Congressman twice
the distance attended by fifteen live Con-
Cressmen.
Year: 1879

TrLDEN and popular Republican nominee
like GRAsT, the Republicans might carry
the State in $780, There is no harm in dis
cussing such possibility if for no other
reason than that its discussion familiarizes
the people of Georgia with the idea of sup
porting GRANT, who at Appomattox, and
ever since then, has been the true friend of
the Confederate soldiery.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats in the House gave the
country their real measure of statesman
ship yesterday when they insisted upon
laying aside an important appropriation
bill to take up the Florida contested cleo
tion case.
Year: 1879

The Democrats in Congress are in a
luandary. Senator BAYARD and few
others of the more honorable and conserya-
live members of that party have expressed
4 determination to oppose the proposed eau
Gus riders to the legislative, judicial, and
executive appropriation bill, on the ground
chat they ale revolutionary" and violent, +"
besides being CONTRARY to usage" These
gentlemen have evidently prolted by their
reading of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN;
but in any event they may rest assured of
being sustained by the honest public senti-
ment of the country in their threatened op-
position to these partisan measures The
more they plunge their seditious and un-
scrupuIous partisan allies into a quandary
the better they will please that class of Oul
citizenship.
Year: 1879

In late report on the industries of New
Jersey there is paragraph devoted to
cranberry culture. There are many per-
sons who imagine that the Jersey sands are
given up almost wholly to trucking, because
Of the inducements held out to Jersey
farmers and gardeners by the pOpulous
market Of New York on the one hand and
Philadelphia on the other 1t will surprise
such to learn that six thousand acres of re-
claimed swamp lands are cultivated with
the cranberry, and that the annual product
of this valuable berry is more than one
hundred and fifty thousand bushels. The
average product is, therefore, twenty five
bushels per acre, and when once the swamp
is drained, covered with light coating OF
sand, and arrangements perfected f0r Hood.
ing it at the proper time, the subsequent
tillage is easy. The crop. moreover, IS GER
tain AS any, and is subject to no other disease
than an occasional rotting of the berries.
This, however, is rare, and so the Jersey
men living within the cranberry region 90
on, year after year, reclaiming their swamp
lands and adding acre to acre of q fruit so
hardy and generally profitable. OF all the
crauherries grown in the United States
those of New Jersey are the largest and
finest in flavor. Neither the Canada nor
New England cranberries will compare
with the best in New Jersey, and now that
the expectation of cranbcrrics in the fruit
and as ellies is increasing, the inducements
to extend the culture will be very great


We have been the more particular in re-
| ferring to this subject because there are
many swamps both in Delaware and on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland that are capa,
! ble of being reclaimed. and where the
cranberry would flourish. Although Gran.
berries can be grown on uplandS, they are
OF poorer quality, lighter yield and more un-
certain product. The soil in which they
succeed best being one which in nothing
else will grow gives special value'tO the cul.
ture of this fruit, and the encouragement
to engage in it is to he found in the profit
derived from the crop. But there is
another aspect Of the cranberry question
that is quite worthy Of consideration. The
six thousand acres upon which cranberries
are grown in New Jersey represent six
| thousand acres reclaimed from marsh, or


to put it in another form, nine square
miles redeemed from malaria and made
healthy and habitable. 1t is this result, the
improved health of the neighbOrhood, that
follows the reclamation of swamp lands


and the consequent enhancement in the


value of all lands within that area, thai


holds out the highest encouragement tC
our Peninsuiar farmers to initiate the cX


ample Of those of New Jersey, and by


cultyating fruit that pays well and need.


no replanting for many years, add not
only to their pecuniary gains, but at the


same time to the saluhrity of the district


in which they live.
Year: 1879

The soul that is earnest will not stop
to count the cost.


It is in ones power to be successful,
if man or woman is fit for work.


To be popular is to be endorsed in the
to-day and be forgotten in the to-mor-
row.


AS well attempt to seal up the crater
of Vesuvius as to hide the God-giving
power of the soul.
Faith is reasons telescope, pointed
toward the worlds that shine beyond
he natural sight it is the bloom of the
heart toward God.


Generosity during life is very diff
ferent thing from generosity in the:hour
of death. One proceeds from genuine
liberality and benevolence, the other
from pride or fear.
Genius that succumbs to misfortune.
that allows itself to be blotted by the
slime of slander, and the other serpents
that infest society, is SO much the less
genius, for neglect is but the fat to an
undying future.
If our weak, puny hands could reach
up and rend the sun from his throne to.
| day, then were the same but little thing
to do. It's the Far~Of, the great Un-
sttainable, that feeds the passion we
| have for star.
The cold chain of life presseth heavily
| upon some poor weary souls, and the sins
/ of untrue hearta7clog up the air passa~
ges of the world; but some time the
golden gate ahall be unloosed and the
iron bands broken down.


There are acts that need no post to
| make poems OF them, for they will live
through ages and ages, on to eternity


And when God opens the sealed book


on the dsy of JUDGMENT, these pecan:
i OF the history Of lives will be traced il


lattsrs of red and gold beneath the Mas
Dl ter's autograph.
Year: 1879

water has been added to the milk, ever
in small proportions, the fluid will not
adhere to the needle.


CREAM.


Put one cup water and one~half cup
milk into tin pan and set the pail into
a kettle of cold water. Then heat until
tha water boils. While it is heating
take one egg we'll beaten and one-haIt
cup of sugar, and stir together, then add
one tablespoonful -four wet with little
cold milk and pour this mixture into
the boring milk and water, stirring
until it thickens. Flavor to taste when
partially cooled.


FIG PUDDING.


One pound of -four, six ounces fresh
beefsuet, with alf~Iablespoonful OF salt,
and one pound figs, with one teapsoonful
of baking powder, Chop the suet as fine
as possible, remove all strings; mix we'll
with the -four, salt and baking powder ;
make this into a paste with ictd water,
and roll out in a sheet; cut the figs into
long slices, cover the paste with them,
tie in a cloth. and boil in fast~boiling
water for two hours. Eat with sauce.
LEMON MINCE-MEAT.
Take one large lemon, three large ap-
nles, four ounces beet-suet, one-half
pound currants, one half pound stoned
raisins. four ounces white sugar, one
ounce candied orange and citron chop
up the apples and beef-suet; mix them
with the fruit and sugar then squeeze
the Juice from the lemon into cup; add
glass of sherry; well mix the whole
it is fit for immediate use.


MACARoNI AND HAM,


Take one,half pound of macaroni, put
it in boiling salt and water, and cook for
twenty minutes or until tender. Drain
the macaroni, and put in cold water
until you are ready TO use it. Take q
quarter of pound of the lean OF cold
boiled ham chop fine; take half can OF
tomatoes, seasoned with salt and pepper
stew with small onion pass the toma>
toes, when thoroughly done through a
colander; thicken with a tablespoonful
of -four and a tablespoonful of butter,
rubbed smooth. Lay the macaroni in
layer, spread on the chopped ham, add
some of the tomato sauce, little pepper,
little salt, and SO on, until The dish is
filed. Bake in hot oven for twenty
pniuutas
Year: 1879




All the coast streams, from Russian
river to the Carmel, in Monterey county,
have from time to time been stocked
with eastern trout. But for some hither-
to unknown reason the efforts of the fish
commissioners in this respect have not
succeeded. Very few have ever been
caught in any OF these streams after they
have grown, and in many cases the sup
ply has gradually diminished or disap-
peared entirely. Coiucident with these
failures efforts have been made to stock
the summit streams with these trout,
and it has been found that in every case
where the streams run through a slate or
granite formation the fish thrive as well
as in their native homes. The coast
streams nearly all run through sand
stone formation, and in consequence the
streams are muddy when the water is
low. The mountain formations being
harder the streams are clearer. 1t is
supposed that the failure of the fish in
the coast streams and their success in
Sierra SUBMITS are due to those facts
and it is hardly probable that we shall
ever have eastern trout in our coast
streams. The theory that it is the muddy
water, and not any inherent qualities OF
the coast stream waters, that is fatal to
one eastern trout, is confirmed by the
recent experience of the fish commits
sion. They had in San Leandro lake
about twenty thousand eastern trout
about three weeks old, which they were
on the point of distributing, when the
late heavy rains came and rendered the
water more or less muddy. This pro
duced disease smong the eastern trout
to such an extent that at least three.
fourths of them died, and the remainder
were saved only by being removed to
clear water. At the same time the Nc
Cloud trout, in the same water, were
perfectly healthy, and seemed not to
suffer at all from the condition of the
water,
Year: 1879

Home religion is thing of the heart
which is the same as saying that it is
thing of love. It may exist in connec'
ton with forms and it may exist in its
sweetest unfolding independent of forms.
It may say grace at the table; and it
may not say grace at the table. Itmay
be gifted to sustain family altar and
it may not have the gilt requisite. But
if the heart be right, there shall be grace
and prayerfulness albeit forms be lack
ing in the family. There is way OF
eating your food which thanks God bet
ter than any formal grace-saying that
can be devised. There is way of kiss
ing the wife after the meal, and the
husband is leaving for the Office, which
covers the whole ground between hus,
band and vile intended to be covered by
the influence of the family altar. We
have known a man ask blessing On food
which he himself condemned in the very
next breath. To thank God for food,
and scold your wife Or the cook in the
next breath because the steaR is over
done, or the cakes not Drowned to your
suiting, or the tea too strong, is some
thing more, friend, tEan impiety it is
indecency. Home religion should be
loving, first of all, and last Of all it
should believing. It should be very pa,
tient, too-especially ON those days when
it is hard to be patient. 1t should be
cheerful, especially when it takes wit to
invent occasions of mirthfulness. II
should be brave, not to face the trou'
bles that are without, but the troubles
that are within. A kindly word, q
pleasant speech, g cheerful or sympathe


tic look, a touch of the hand in the old
tender fashion of the courting days, s
stroking of the cheek md the soft move
ment of the palm over the hair. Fool
ism tricksT' You are fool If you say
it, friend. You didn't think that they
were foolish tricks once, and you were
wiser then than you are now that you
have dropped them. A little mere court


ing in married life would keep married
life what courtship is. The foolishness
of love is wiser than the wisdom of hste


and the more foolish you are in these
directions, the happier will your home
be, and the sweeter will be your home
religion.-[ Northwestern Christian Ad
Year: 1879

CLEANING STOVES.


Stove polish, when mixed with spirits
OF turpentine and applied in the usual
manner, is blacker, more glossy and
durable than with any other liquid.
a.s,s SOFT GINGERBREAD.
Two eggs, butter the size of an egg,
half cup water, two thirds cup of sugar,
one cup of molasses, half tesspoonful of
soda, two cups -four; bake in two tins.


BAKED MAcARoNI. {
Break up cup of macaroni in pieces
one or two inches long; after washing it
in cold water, add two cups of milk in a
tin dish and set it in kettle of boiling
water 70 soak for an hour; add tea.
spoonful OF butter and pour it in your
serving dish; then add still more milk il
needful to cover it; set it in hot oven
and let II just come to boil and serve
hot.


MILK.


A German paper gives test fol-
watered milk, which is simplicity itself
a wsll-polished knitting needle is to be
dipped Into deep vessel Of milk and
immediately Withdrawn in an upright
position. II the milk ir pure, some 8.
the huid will hang to the needle, but L


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Year: 1879

Russcllville is safe from the yellow fever as iong as the health authorities of Little Rock hold rigid quarantine and refuse to permit refugees to pass through that city up this road. But quarantine regulations cannot be car ried out without mourning heavy expenses. Health officers cannot be expected to leave home and take sta- tions at exposed points without con- pensation. It is right and just that the towns up this road which are protected by Little kock should aid in bearing a part of this expense. We therefore suggest that our citizens make up a purse, or appropriate a sum--whatever may seem proper-to be forwarded to the health board at Little Rock to be used in defraying expenses.

 What do you say, citizens of Russell vile and vicinity2
Year: 1879

maj over any street crossing ill this town Ut faster gait than walk while any other person is passing such street crossing, shall be fined not less than One nor moro than Ten Dollars.

 Section 19. Any person who shall hitch any horse, mule, or any other animal to any shade or ornamental tree or fencing along the sidewalks or streets of this town, shall De fined not less than One nor more than Ten Dollars.

 ! Section 20. It shall bc the duty ol the Marshal to Immediately arrest all persons whom he may see violating any of these ordinances, and to bring such offender before the Mayor for trial, and for failure to do sc iie shall be dcein- cd euil..iT- nG :; fnisdcmeanor and shall be fined not less than Five nor more than Twenty-Five Dollars.

 Section 2l. It shall be the duty of every citizen of this town when called on by the Marshal to assist him i'll making arrests; and any citizen refus- ing or neglccting 5e assist the Marshal when called on by him to make arrests shall be fined not less than Two nor more than Ten Dollars.

 Section P. When any person is con- yicted and is unable to pay the amount of fine and costs, he shall be made to work on the streets or other improve ment of the town, at the rate of One Dollar per day under the direction of the Town Marshal, until he shall have paid both fine and costs, alter which the Corporation shall be bound for the costs iii said case. t~ ...a
Year: 1879

According to promise come to the front again, and as promised to say something about things to eat, I will now proceed to do so.

 Turnips would be a good subject, and as they are good thing, too, will speak of them. Now is the time to pre-. pare the land for sowing. It should be thoroughly plowed-the Oftener the better--then harrow we'll for summer use. It would be we'll to SOW some seeds now, but for winter use, and for stock SOW the last of August or first of September. It would be advisable to to use variety of seeds, We have known fine turnlps raised on stubble land after the wheat has been taken of, and as men frequently excuse them- selves bysaying"I have no suitable place to sow," to all such lazy fellows we would say try "A piece Of fresh stubble land In turnips, Be sure to blow and harrow well before seeding.

 Corn will be scarce with many of our farmers, and as turnips are goon feed for hogs, cattle, sheep, and even chill dren, we say to all, SOW plenty of turnips.

 Some rain Friday evening, say about half a season, but 1t was not general {; the eastern and southern parts of the township had very little, but prospects for more are good.

 Health not good. Several cases of scarlet fever, all among small children. MT. and Mrs. Wilson Harkey have lost their little daughter with It, and an- other one lying near the gate of death. Oh, that God would restore it and give 1t back to them. They are sorely afflicted and have our sympathy and prayers. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord"

 There will be q communion meeting at Nit. Zion church embracing the first Sabbath in August. Preaching to com menee on Thursday night before. Come everybody and bring your neigh- bor. The congregation will take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

 SUBSCRIBER.