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Year: 1878

Never any more,


Until my broken dream oflife
Is swallowed up in death


Shall gaze upon Claude's face.
have prayed that he might live,
But my prayers could not save,
For / am here alone,


And Claude is in the grave.
1t seems an age to me,


Since / saw the coffin there,
The lid was off, and 10,


A face within the square
A pale but happy face


Sweet lips without dream
How beautiful, if sleepl


How terrible, if death!
i lifted his sweet form


In his mourning suit of black,
But he turned away his eyes


Until laid him back.
They took the coffin ont


In the binding light of day,
The black hearse moved on,


And the coaches crept away.
We stood around his grave,


While the hollow prayers were sald,
And the heavy, wet earth


Was shoveled on the dead.
As it struck the coffin lid


with It's dull ana ureadIul SOUND,
1t seemed to strike my heart
They led me from the ground.
But all is over now,


And it almost soothes my pain
To think whatever comes
Mother, Claude shall never die again.
The blow has fallen, l know,
The worst that death can give,
The worst of lite's to come,
For we must learn to live.
l know the day will soon pass
In the stir and light
But how can we endure
His not coming home at nightl
Therell be no watching at the zane,
No meeting at the door;
No loving one to kiss,


No Claudio never more.


"WILD FLOWER" Columbia, Tenn.
Year: 1878

Each line embodies a truth, and
the three form an epitome o: sue
cessful farming. No surer test OF
the degree of agricultural advance
ment of a country can be found
than the relative average of land
laid down to grass and devoted to
tillage. Wherever the grass is most
abundant, there is the highest
farming.-[ Lebanon Herald.


We desire to reiterate the above
to the CITIZEN readers, and advise
every farmer TO read this valuable
work.
Year: 1878

Boston Herald: cone of our larg-
est brewers has recently brought on
a man from Cincinnati to superin-
tend his brewery at an annual salary
of more than twice that of the Pres
ident of Harvard University" Well,
what of it2 You should remember
that there is quite that much differ
ence between the making of good
beer and the mere handling of an
oar or the managing of boat race.
- Courier Journal
Year: 1878

Canon Farrar, of Westminster
Abbey, says that shell means par
adise, place of incipient bliss" "
What's the use of laws to compel
people to be good if Canon Farrar
is to come along and knock the
whole thing in the head bv teach.
ing such doctrine as that2 The
doctrine may be true, perhaps, but
parties predisposed to play thunder
generally in this world had better
not bet too high on the incipient
bliss Courier-J Journal.
Year: 1878

Swallowing piece of ice restored
the speech of Miss May Flower, of
of Edinburgh, Indiana, lost after
sickness several months ago. And
we once knew a colored woman who
had been seeking, for a month,
without speaking, to have her voice
fully restored by dropping down on
a hornets nest to pray. There was
no ice in it, either.
Year: 1878

The Popular Science Monthly
proves that death by hanging is alb
solutely painless. That would be
well enough if the hanging could
strike a man like lightning. 1t is
standing there waiting for the thing
to come that makes a man nervous.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


s8- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878

City people are not any more saw
age, perhaps, than those who reside
in the rural districts, but during the
summer many of them become can
nibals and live off their country re-
lntinnS
Year: 1878

Tho Murphy men are here tonight,
And working hard for truth and right;
So come and help them all you can,
To save the soul ofevery man.


CHORUS;


Ifyou belong . the Murphy Band,


lfyou belong q the Murphy Band,


Ifyou belong . the Murphy Band,


Here's my heart and here's my hand.
o hear them call, why don't You comet
II is for all-the old and young;
Come sign the pledge and wear the blue,
1t is the best thing you can do.
Come, Christians, now and show your hand
And let the world zee where you stand,
This is the time for you to work,
So from your duty do not shirk.
The world is watching you to-day,
Come sign the pledge and lead the way,
Come sign the pledge and show your colors
Twill show them how to save their dollars.
You moderate drinker, stop and think;
just pause awhile, before you drink;
. shun the cup, leave of your toddy,
And show the world you are somebody.
Come every woman, every man,
Come sign the pledge and join the band;
. shun the cup, U shuH the bowl,
1t kills the body, it kills the soul.
Year: 1878

in the house Known as the PERKINS
HOUSE, which IS being fitted up for the pur-
pose and supplied with suitable and conven-
lent furniture. 1t is his intention to estab-
lish in Pulaski a PERMANENT SCHOOL
for the thorough instruction Of young gentle
men in all the branches of Common School
and Academic course; and with that view he
is making preparations to procure an eligi-
bic location wheTeOn to erect during the
present year buildings suited TO the purpose
specified. in the building that will be occu-
pied the present session, there are some spare
rooms which those young men from the
country desiring to form clubs and furnish
their own board and rooms can occupy free
of charge.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Hayes message receives, when regarded
as whole, the rather favorable comment of
the press, Thiscomment is not so much elic-
tied by any eminent merit of the document as
a state paper SO much as il is by the contrast
between this passably intelligent message and
some ofisresent predecessors. Though there
Is mild tone prominent, yet in some places we
find instances of partizan feeling. This feature
is glaring when the President attempts 10 con-
centrate Congressional attention upon only
two States, Louisiana and South Carolina, as
localities where the purity of the ballot has
been soiled and the poor negro bnllied and
bulldozed out OF the rights of citizenship
This is glaringly partizan when no menti on is
made Of the ''outrages' in New York and
Philadelphia, and seems al present absurd as
we find six negroes elected to the South Car
olina Legislature. To prosecute the guilty in
the South an appropriation Of $3.50, 900 is
requested. Another evidence of his effort 10
swim Republican prestige is that clause of the
message asking that The power of using the
army as a posse comiiatus be restored, and
there is some significance in the request for the
creation Of several Offices which will increase
Federal patronage. All this is regarded BY
Republicans as closer alliance and identiture
Of Hayes with the long and well understood
policy of the Radical party.


The action of Congress upon these questions
is not difficult to predict. Blaine has ALREADY y
offered resolution about the Southern out
RACES and the Democrats have determined to
amend the resolution BY stretching the limits
of the investigation to include New York and
Philadelphia. Mr. Thurman is to conduct the
fight against Blaine. II is almost certainty
that the function of posse comitatus will not
be restored to the army. II was ostensiby
ander this function that the bayonet was used
by Grant in Louisiana and South Carolina
and we do not think it likely that the Demo-
Gratis will restore what they crushed down as
power likely to be wrongly applied.


The Potter investigation will grind and the
cipher kilograms will be brought to the mill,
and the mode of counting the electoral vote
will be subject of consideration.
Year: 1878

RETURN for the liberal patronage bestowed him his business


has determined happy whereby during the month Of Dem
liberal friends selling
the list goods named the aonshingy low prices attached


This certainly liberal departure dollar saved made, all
plies These goods articles and will spoil fashion,
be this scheme work off old stock
Year: 1878

Have you boy from FIVE to eight years
old? 1t SO, it is matter OF the greatest
importance that you train him up right.
Teach him from the start that be can
run across the aoor. whoOp, chase around
the back yard, or use up few nails and
boards to make carts or boats. III you
let him chase around, he'll wear out shoes
and clothes, and nails and boards cost
money.


Train him 10 control his appetite. Give
him the smaller piece OF pie; the bone
end OF the steak; the smallest potato.
and keep the butter dish out OF his reach.
By teaching him TO curb his appetite you
can keep him in good humor. Boys arc
always in good humor when hunger
gnaws at their stomschs. II he happens
TO break a dish and teach lesson at The
same time.


II you happen to notice that your boys
shoes are wearing out. take down the rod
and give him peeling. Those were
purchased only ten months ago, and
though you have worn out two pairs oi
boots during that time. the boy has no
business to be 50 hard on shoes. BY Civ
ing him a sound thrashing you will pre-
vent the shoes from wearing out.


When You want your boy to 60 on au
errsnd. you should state it and add


Now go As quick as you can, ard II
ron are gone over five minutes. III cut
the hide IF your back"


He will recognizs the necessity OF haste
and he will hurry up. You could not do
the errand Yourself inside OF hlteen
minutes, but he is not to know that.


Ii you want him to pile wood. the way
TO address him is this:
Year: 1878

One Of the greatest trials OF the news
paper profession is that its members are
compelled to see more Of the shams
of the world than any other profession.
Through every newspaper office, day
after day. 20 all the weaknesses oil
the world, all the vanities that want
TO be pulled; all the revenges that
want to be reaped; all the mistakes that
want to be corrected: ell the dull speak
ers that want to be thought eloquent all
,be meannsss that wants TO get its wares
noticed gratis in the editorial column IN
order 10 save the tax in the advertising
columns; all the men who want to be
set right who were never right; all the
crack brsined philosophers with stories
as long as their hair, and as gloomy as
their 6nger-naiIs in mourning because
bereft of soap; all the bores who come
N s,av five minutes, but talk FIVE hours.
Through the editorial and reportoriai
rooms all the follies and the shsms oil inc
World are seen, day after day; and
,hs temptation is TO believe in neither
Cod man nor woman Ii is no surprise
n me that in this profession there are
some skeptical men; l only wonder that
journalists believe anything .-4almage.
Year: 1878

In the House, after Sir Stafford North
cote's notification, the Marquis of Hartng


ton, leader of the liberal party in the House,
asked how Sir Stafford Northcote would
reconcile the inconsistency of this, with the
promise made on the first night of the ses-
sion, not to make the proposal until the
conditions of peace were decided, and
whether he would make any other state
ment calculated to allay anxiety sure to be
raisedby the notice. Two days of the week
had elapsed since, and not only was the
Government not in possession of the terms
of peace, but considerable Russian forces
were still advancing, therefore the Govern
ment think they cannot longer delay the
proposal. In the House of Lords, Lord
Beaconstield, in response to the question put
by the Duke of Argyle, spoke in the same
strain as did Sir Stafford Northcote in the
House of Commons. Lord Beaconsfield
distinctly said that England was not going
to be dictated to by any other Power. 1t is
rumored in the lobby that Earl Carnary on
had resigned. Great excitement prevails.
Year: 1878

AN ACT to provide reasonable compensation


for the Circuit Clerk of Adams county, for


services in criminal cases.


SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the Board of
Supervisors of Adams county are hereby au-
thorized to make an allowance in favor of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county
for ex-oficio services rendered by such Clerk
in State cases where the State fails in the
prosecution or the costs cannot be collected,
of sum not exceeding three hundred dollars
in any year, to be paid in the manner provid-
ed by law, out of the Judiciary Fund of said
county.


SEC. 2. Be it further enacted That this Act
shall not authorize any allowance for any
year previous to the year 1878.


Sec Be it further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.


APPROVED January "a, 1878.
Year: 1878

CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.


WASHINGTON, Jan. PA large number
OF petitions was presented in the Senate,
during the morning hour, from all parts of
the country favoring the appointment of a
Commission of Inquiry concerning the
alcoholic liquor traffic. All refer ed to the
Committee on Finance.


The House continues the consideration of
the steamboat bill.


The Election Committee continued hear
ing Trescott on behalf of Rainey.
Year: 1878

Two WAYS OF PUTTING IT.-The
first literary effort of Flavius Josephus


Cook has been made public by his old


teacher. 1t takes up the subject of


"The' Cow" and discusses it as follows


"The COW is a good animal. She has


two horns, and two eyes, and gives


milk which is good to eat. She has
four legs and eats grass and hay.
Some Of them are red, and they have
long tails"


There is very little to be said by
way Of criticism of the production, ex-
cept that it bears evidence of the writ
er's immaturity His information is
correct, but this way of putting it be-
trays the fact that it was written be-
fore he had become erudite and COM
petent to address a Boston audience
acceptably. Doubtless he meant to
say that the female of the bovine genus
is a benifcent animal that this rumi-
nant quadruped is possessed of cor
neous protuberances, projecting from
the occiput, that her vision is binocu-
lar and that she yields an edible and
nutritious lacteal exudation that she
is quadrupedal and herbivorous, as
similating her food in both the succu-
lent and exsiecated state; that some
of them automatically correspond to
the seventh color of the spectrum, and
that they are endowed with caudle APP
pendages of exaggerated longitudinal
.ty.- Worcester Press.
Year: 1878

A QUEER WoRLD.-This is a queer


world, said the late John Morrissey,


and some people have very queer ex-
periences in it. [ think l have had


my share of them. Many's the time
I have been kicked off the boats of the
Hudson River by a captain when try
ing to stow myself away for trip from
Troy to New York, because 1 hadn't
money enough to pay my fare-and
that very captains daughter I subse-
quently married. To-day I am abun-
dantly able to pay my way, but anoth-
er captain will not take my fare, and
insits also upon my occupying one of
the best rooms on the boat, with a
carte blanche as to eating and drink
ing. Yes, he repeated, it is a queer
world, and I shouldn't wonder if down
in the steerage now there is some poor
devil who feels as l have many time
when stealing ride on these boats
that It is mighty hard fate that keeps
him huddled up in a dark, cold cor
nef, behind boxes and barrels, while
just over his head people, who are,
perhaps no better than he, are enjoy
Ing all the Injuries of this floating
DalacP
Year: 1878

HINTS FOR HORSE OwNERs.-If a


colt is never allowed to get an adYaa


tage, it will never know that it


sesses a power that man cannoS


troll; and if made familiar with q


objects, it will not be skittish al


vous. If a horse is made accustom.


from his early days, to have obie


hit him on the heels, back and kiioss
he will pay no attention to the giving
out of a harness, or of wagons running
against him at an unexpected moment.
We once saw an aged lady drive a
hlgh-spirited horse, attached to a car
riage, down steep hill, with no hold
back straps upon the harness, and she
assured us that there was no danger.
for her son accustomed his horses to
all kinds of usages and sights, that
commonly dive the animal into a
frenzy of fear and excitement. A gun
can be fred from the back of q horse.
an umbrella held over his head, a buff.
alo robe thrown over his neck, a rail-
road engine pass close by. his heels
bumped with sticks, and the animal
take tall as a natural condition of
lhip only taught by careful man
ageiNent that he will not beeiniured
.hereb
Year: 1878

Two IRREGULAR STOCK EXCHANGES in
Philadelphia city, known respectively as the
fublic Stock Exchange and the Peoples
liabilities of the Peoples are set down at from
5000 TO $4,000, while the Public Stock Ex.
change is said to owe not over $4,000. The
cause assigned for the failure is the loss OF
about 81, coo by the firm on the business Of the
PAST few DAYS.
Year: 1878

COMMODORE VANDERBILT A SPIRITUAIJsr-
Ihe kanQerbilt will case was Continued i'm
New York yesterday. An offer was made to
prove that In 1873, prior to the will. COmmo-
gore vanderbilt told lady that he received q
bulk of his property to his eldest son 90 as TO
keep N together and that he was going TO do
SO. Inc object was to show that spirtualism
Was not mere speculative belief with him
Out lnnuenced him in business matters.
Year: 1878

Cohen, the laborer agitator in Washing pton.
has been pleased to desist from his little amuse.
ment OF melting riot and insurrectiOn at the
capital That city appears to have a very
curious KIND OF government. In any other


part OF the country he would have been in the
penitentiary long ago. - No
Year: 1878

Cohen seems to be nuisance of the Kearnev
type that it ought not to be very difficuIt to
suppress. The idea of keeping force of
police and detachment of militia to escort
ibis ag1tator over the capital of the nation is a
little too absurd. ~
Year: 1878

Colonel woolsey, the working mans friend, and candidate to the 46th Congress, will be in town this week, when he will make tour of the County; to do which, we believe he will need no guide. The Colonel was one of the very first white men that settled in Yavapai, and identified himself with its mining sad agricultural industries; and we venture the assertion that not one of the four candidates in the field under stands the necessities of this class as does Ar. Woolsey. Being working man him. eelf, 1t is but reasonable to suppose that he will work for the interests of the labcring classes. His first effort will be to secure appropriations for building roads, govern nent buildings, making necessary scientific explorations of our vast and wonderful Territory, and securing for the whole Ter ritory better mail facilities. Of the four can didates in the field, none are more compe- tent, and not one 60 energetic. MT. Wool Sey bas also expressed himself by word and action @ true friend to Northern Arizona, and it is the duty of all those who have the good of the Territory at heart to see that he is elected.
Year: 1878

During the spring Of the year, 1862, when
the war was in progress, q number of army
officers left Boston in the new sailing ship
"Merchant" for voyage on Ship Island.


Among the passengers were DR.. Hooker,
Lieutenants Prince and Emerson, and the
writer and we all witnessed the scene / am
about to describe.


Early one morning, DR.. Hooker called
from the deck to us below that shark was
following the ship. We took this to be a
practical joke and did not move from our
state rooms.


But when we did go upon deck, about six
o'clock, we looked over the stern to the ship
and there saw an enormous, shovel-nosed
shark following us, but keeping his distance
about two hundred feet. Every person on
board was called to look at the huge fish.


The old sea captain said it was no unusual
incident to have shark follow ship for an
entire voyage They subsist largely on the
waste matter thrown overheard; and, as they
are very fast swimmers, can always keep up
with vessel


1t was proposed by Captain Lewis, one Of
the captains on board, to make an effort to
capture him.


We threw into the ocean pieces of bread
and other articles Of food, and were greatly
interested to see him eat them. The ship
was searched but there was not harpoon to
be found there was not even a shark hook.
The prospect of capturing this great fish was
not very bright, until Captain Lewis proposed
to make moose and lower it down into the
water, and thus entangle him.


But Sir Shark kept away from the rope.
l then proposed to put a piece of pork big as
my hand, on common fish line, and by a
little maneuvering of the the bait induce the
fish to pass his head into the noose But he
was very cautious and would not near the
ship when lowered the piece of pork, until
two little pilot fish, that rode on his back. one
on each side of the great fin, came forward and
inspected the bait, then returned and took
their places,
Year: 1878

The supper at the Second Baptist
church last evening, was complete sue
cess both in point of members, and finan-
cially. From the time that the room
opened early in the evening, until late,
large numburs kept crowding in, until it
was estimated that over six hundred
patook Of the good things that had been
provided for them. Altogether the affair
was very enjoyable one.
Year: 1878

Elther kerosene, salt or sperm should
be used in flour starch. We think hnttnr
yellows white goods


NeiNet, Il wet, becomes hard, knottv
ana SHINY, and to all appearances spoiled,
Out can be fully restored, looking as well
as When 1lrst taken from the store, if it is
made quite damp, wet thoroughly only
not enough to drip-on the wrong side.
ana then with the assistance of another
held over very hot iron, but not allowed
10 touch the iron at an One should hold
the hot IRON face uppermost, while an
other holds the damped velvet close TO
the iron In few minutes the "pile"
rises, and the velvet becomes like new
The heat Of the iron sends the water
through the tissues of the velvet, forcing
the steam ont at the upper side, thus
separating the small glossy tibres that,
having been dampencd or wet on the sur
face, ttatten down and adhere together in
hard buncheS. Ii one should attempt to
iron the velvet where it has been wet. it
would only fiatten the tbres still more
and make the surface harder: for this
reason 1t Is important that the velvet
should not touch the hot iron.


After the velvet assumes its proper ap-
pearance it is well To spread it over a
skirt board, or table. and brush gently
with a soft brush BE sure that it il
thoroughly free from dampness before
putting it away in its proper place.


When velvet IS crushed by packing OF
use, hold the parts defaced over 4 basin
OF hot water the lining, Or wrong side
next the water and the "pilc' viii soon
rise up and look like new.


Washing soda weakens the fabric Of
goods washed init, and German chemist
advises the use Of lyposulphtc Of soda
instead ot The common washing soda He
assures us that ii does not iniurc the
strength of any goods, but has some pc
Cullar bleaching properties by which linen
and caIlcoes are greatly improved in APP
pearance


The wlcks Of kerosene lamps should be
changed frequently, or if not too short
washed in strong, hot soapsuds, with
some ammonia IN the rinsing water. We
think the trouble With poor light from
kerosene lamps probably arises from the
wicks being tuii of the sediment or refuse
matter which comes from the oil, and
that mpedes the free passage of the ker-
oseno through the wicks.


When writing has faded if the paper is
molstened with water and then brushed
over with solution Of sulph- -hydric- am
monia, il will be restored This article
can be obtained Of any druggist Chris
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