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Year: 1877

Gazette:

 LITTLE ROCK, August Is, 1877.

 MIR. EDITOR: Some misapprehen- sion appearing to exist regarding the failure of the State to make an annual loan, as was expected, we deem it proper to say word to the public on that subject. We have used every effort in our power to obtain loan, as contemplated by tue several acts of the Legislature, and on the terms therein prescribed; !; but so far in vain. It is not true, as seems to have been supposed, that the Board of Finance sent Maj. Jno. D. Adams to New York on mission of that kind; but the Board has cor responded directly with brokers and other capitalists in our large cities on that subject. Various reasons have been given for declining the loan. It mas been uniformly said that the money market was unusual ly stringent. We have not known any one to say positively that the security offered was not good; in deed, we do not see how that could be said with any truth or propriety. It has been sometimes said that the act of the last Legislature, lowering the scrip tax, imperrlled the value of the security offered, but we do not regard this suggestion as being based on any good or sufficient req son. For, while the Legislature lowered the scrip tax, it In- creased the currency tax, and thus increased the fund specifically de voted to the payment of any money borrowed for carrying on the State government, fund which can not be diverted to any other purpose.

 Whatever, then, may have been the propriety of the act lessening the scrip tax, it could not, in our opinion, in any way tend to render the repayment of any money borrow ed more precarious.

 Respectfully, w. R. MILLER,

 U. NJ. RosE,

 F. w. COMPTON, 5a Finance Board.
Year: 1877

To spare the ro6does not spoil the


child. In the words of Mrs. MaIa-


prop "there is too much castigating


with malice before thought" There


is Dot one child in one hundred that


needs the application Of the birch,


while seventy out OF every hundred


are either boxed, strapped or thump-
ed every week they live. Furnishing


children is a relic of the barbarous
ages which has been preserved and


handed down from generation to gen.
GRAFTON without cause, and greatly to
the detriment OF the moral standard
and physical development of the hu-
man race. He who serves from lose
serves with greater fidelity and de-
votion than he who serves from fear.
A child that bears the rump of q
harsh thimble thump into his Sunday
school class may repeat With appa-
rent enthusiasm the story of Abel's
sacrifice, bu' deep down in his youth
ful heart beat impulses akin to those
VI Cain. Human nature partakes
more of the spirit of revenge than of
the spirit of forgiveness, and a child
smarting under the lash looks upon
punishment as spiteful dealer rath-
er than u measure of parental love.
A Pennsylvania mother, who is
member of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, re-
Gently punished her daughter in
most savage manner with horse
whip because she persisted in keep
ing the companionship of a young
woman friend whom her mother dis
liked. A short time afterwards the
body of the girl was found floating
in the river. A Missouri father re-
Gently threw an unabridged edition
of Webster's dictionary at his son,
breaking his nose, because the boy
broke pane of glass with
q besn-shooter. The pane of glass
cost ten cents. The boys disfgure-
ment will be constant modification
to him and tend to dwarf his moral
nature through life, as Byron's de-
formed foot soured his disposition
and made him an irascible man
1t does not pay to bruise the body
of a child any more than i! pays 10
bruise ripening fruit. Bury the rod
as the Indian buries the hatehet. 1t
means peace-peaee to the hearth
stone. Reconciliation comes not by
the rod, nor psci6ea:ion by hostile
Louis Times.
Year: 1877

1t was only broken chord of song,


That sang itself, the liyelong day,
Over and over in my heart,
| And always in the same sweet way-
| Always beginning low and soft,
Like tenderly spoken Love good night"
And ending in glad and joyous strains,
! Like amorning psalm when the world is bright
And the hours of the day were woven in
By the mystic thread of the haunting song
That somewhere, out of the vanished past


Sent forth its witchery clear and strong;
Something akin to the song of birds


When the sky is flushed with the coming dawn,
Yet sad as the thoughtful hour which comes


When the last red light of day ia gone
Beautiful echo that drifted back


From the far-of shore of long ago.
Over the wide and rugged was te


Where never the winds of gladness blow.
Bringing the odor of wildwood flowers


The laughing song of the mountain rill;
Inc green, glad fields where the cowslips grow


And the gleam of waters, calm and still.
Sitting alone in the twilight STILL


Whose mantle covers the earth with grass.
My heart is touched and my eyes grow dim


As the glow of the sunset fades away
And feel the presence of tt unseen gnests


That cut of the shadowy regions throng, .a
And know they have crossed from the farther shore
On the slender thread of the old sweet song.
Year: 1877

Hugo and Gambetta are thus describe d
by Mr.. Smalley, as he and Mr. Tildeu saw
them at Thiers funeral: Here, as in the
street and the church. there are two men,
on whom, above all others, all eyes are
bent, Victor Hugo and Gambetta As we
stood III the ball. the great poet passed us:
whIte-haired, eagle-eyed, square faced,
sauare-shouldered, short of stature, firm of
gait, with a look at once of self-concentra-
ton, seeing everything about HIM at once,
and never quite losing his consciousness
that he himself was the best worth seeing
of ALL Gambetta is of much the same
height, but unwieldy in bulk, and walking
like man whose flesh is burden to him.
There is IA borden on his face also, a weary
air, as unlike as possible the fresh alert
ness of manner which still marks the vet
eran Huge, who is almost twice his age.
The immense responsibilities OF Gambet-
ta's political life have told on his body, but
the single eye burns with as hot and clear a
flame as ever There is the same toss Of



the arteries of the neck from pressure and
feed the brain with a full flow of blood
from the heart. Something animal about
the man, no doubt, as about most men, but
from the shoulders upward, the physical
expression, if it be animal in any sense, is
Hon-like. If you see Gambetta for the first
time you are disappointed at the want of
dignity in his proportions, but you end by
seeing pride of bearing and revelation
Of mental power and personal force which
triumph over all disadvantages. There is
want of refinement in the features, but
there is vigor in every line, and certain
splendor in his face. which makes you adj.
mire more than ever the self-control and
the iron will which for the last five years
have subdued the impatience. and kept his
own soul in subjection to the necessity of
ca lining the fears of his countrymen."
Year: 1877

! u T. &
We are Informed that the company which
was formed last summer for the purpose of
working the river mines in this Territory
are preparing to put the scheme in opera
next season. The company located sever
al miles of the bed and bars of the Missouri
commencing at the upper end of French
Bar and running down. They sent an
agent to California to witness the opera
tons of the new mining apparatus that7has
been SO successfully tried in various parts
of that State during the past year. He
made a favorable. report and measures have
been taken to give the machine trial. The
engine and other necessary machinery have
been ordered from San Francisco ana a
contract let to build boat. All will be in
readiness to begin operations as soon as the
mining season "Opens. So far the only river
mining attempted N this Territory has
been ON the jefferson, and the operations
there were conducted on a very limited
scale. hence but little is known Of their
wealth. Judging by che success that has
attended this kind of mining in California,
taken in connection with the recent I'M
proyements that have been male in the
manner Of working them, it is not unrea-
sonable to conjecture that the business eau
be made paying one in Montana. The bars
on many of the streams have paid remark
ably well, and particularly close to the
waters edge. 1t is therefore believed that
the beds of the streams will prove rich.
Should such prove to be the case, new
era in mining will be inaugurated in the
Territory and employment given to hund-
reds of men. 1t is now believed that not.
less than 25 miles of the Missouri will prove
to be rich, and 10 or 12 miles of the Jeifer-
son, Ruby and Deer Lodge rivers will no
doubr also prove valuable, and creeks in
Vulnerable, will shortly add their quota of
gold to tile worlds product, should the
present scheme prove successful, and there
is reason to believe that it will.-L'sdepend-
ent, Sth.
Year: 1877

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"He was the awfulest liar ever seen, "
said Cooley of O'Leary,as We returned from
the latter's funeral. "Why, he told me
once that he lived on small island out in
the Pacific Ocean, on which there was a
volcano. And he said that there was an
active demand out in that region for water
melons, SO he went into the business of
raising them. And he said that one year
his whole crop failed, except one melon,
and that kept on growing atsuch fearful
rate that it crowded him off of the lowland
and up ON the side of the volcano. And
still it grew until at lastlt got SO large that
it sunk the island and let the water into the
yolcano, which generated steam and caused
an explosion which blew, the whole concern
to atoms and shot HIM 400 miles out to sea,
where he was picked up by whaler. He
used to tell me that the one mistake of his
life was that he didn't drive a plug in the
crater Of that volcano SOS to make it wa
ter-tight, and then slice open the water
melon and come sailing home on the half
shell. 's..''


He aoould lie. He said that orce he
was cast away on an iceberg, with no bag
gage but pair of skates and fishlng-poie.
But he skaied around until he came across
a dead whale, frozen into the ice. So he
took off his shirt-it was night for six
months in the year up therefore it into
strips for a wick, ran the strips through the
bamboo fishing rod, stuck the rod into the
fat of the whale, and Int the other end. He
said iu burned splendidly, and the iceberg
reflected the light so strongly that it was
bright as day for forty miles around, and
one vessel ran into the berg, thinking it
was a lighthouse. He said he sold the ice-
berg to the captain for $4,000, and the
captain split it up and took it home, and
made 200 per cent. profit disposing of it to
the ice companies.


"Lie? Well, sir, he beat any man I ever
came across. Told me that once, out in
Nevada, a mountain lion attacked him, with
its mouth wide open. He had presence of
mind enough to grab it by the tongue aud
to pull. The lion roared with pain, but he
did his level best pulling. and pretty soon
the tongue began to give and the tail to
shorten, and directly out they came. the
tongne and the tail, in one long continuous
string. He said he had 'em at honie, and
he showed 'em to me, but my belief is they
were only three or four cowhides and a
bul,'s tail, may be, dovetailed together, or
something of the sort. -


"He was astonishing as truth-crusher.
SAID he served on a gunboat during the
war which was very small and light, while
the mortar on the deck was very large and
heavy, and he said the first time they tried
to fire 15-inch shell, the shell remained
stationary, while the recoil was SO great that
it fred the gunboat four miles up stream,
and landed it in tree. He was liar, but
now he's dead reckon he'll ketch it.' =.
Year: 1877

We have personal friend who is
large diamond importer in New York.
Some time since two of the wealthiest
and most reputable ladies in the city
called at his place of business to make
purchase of gem. The importer waited
upon them himself. After they had gone
very valuable diamond was missed. 1t
could not be found anywhere but it
would not do to charge or even suspect
the ladies of having stolen it. After
every nook and Granny in the room and
every possible hiding place had been
examined and the search given up, our
friend sat down and charged the stone
over to the account of profit and loss. 1t
must have walked off alone or desolved
itself into its original elements. Some
ten days afterward our friend, carelessly
placing his hand ia the side pocket Of
his coat, found the truant safely reposing
in it. He must have accidently placed
it there himself. For ten days he had
been carrying around in the loosest pos
sible manner little bit of carbon worth
80, 500 and had neither lost it by accident
or theft.-Troy Times.
Year: 1877

Everything gre't is not always good,
but all good things are great.


The best government is that which
teaches self government.


The felicities of mankind are strength
ened by the counsels Of the good.


The best judges of pleasure are the
best judges of virtue.


Calamity is often q whip to virtue and
a spur to a great mind.


Many consider as truth what is merely
error sanctified by age,


Common sense is very noticeable only
when it is not eclipsed by uncommon
sense.


He is certainly very shrewd who has
prospered without obtaining reputation
for shrewdness.


A fool has many disadvantages-he
cannot indulge in the luxury of making
a fool of himself. ,... .-.


If what has been done is not always
rewarded-what has been left undone is
seldom recognized.


Wit is educated humor, chastising in
tentionally. Humor, ingenious wit, re-
proving unwittingly.


Thoughts are digested impressions,
and are vigorous or feeble, according to
the condition of the mental stomach.


Plenty and indigence depend upon the
opinion every one has of them and
riches, no more than glory or health,
have no more beauty or pleasure than
their possessor is pleased to lend them.


Honors soften fatigue. 1t is easier
riding in a gilded and embossed saddle.
Atlas, while he sustains the world upon
his shoulders, is himself sustained by
the admiration which his feat excites.
Year: 1877

1t is not an uncommon thing to see a


Turk smoke from sixty to eighty pipes


daily. The pipe is the indispensable


companion Of the Turk in every occupa-


ton, how earnest and important soever


it may be. In the Supreme Porte, in


the Ministerial Council, where the


Turkish grandees debate regarding the


welfare of their fatherland the question


was once discussed, whether, during the


consideration of State affairs. the


tschibuktschis (pipe-bearers) should not


be excluded. Great was the difference


OF opinions long was the contest be-


tween the yearning of the palate and the


sense of propriety; till at last was vic


torious the sentiment of some corpulent


members. who ,hYagLt that u would be


wrong to reject ignominiously the old


custom, and that the blameless tschi-


buktschis must be permitted, as before,


to enter the chamber and give the need
full attention to the pipes. And vet all
the members knew very well that this
resolution was pregnant with mischief
and danger, for the cunning servants,


while busy with the pipes, snatch up
with quick ear many secret Of State,
and before even the Sultan and the off.
cial world have any knowledge of the
decisions of the Supreme Council, many
weighty debates and DEGREES have al
ready (through the pipe-bearers) been
divulged. Consequently, the tsehl-
buktschi is, next to the servant of the
harem, the most valuable reporter whom
Journalists and ambassadorial dragomans
can find. Tobacco and pipes are not
merely the distinctive tokens of the diff
ferent ranks A muschir (marshaD
would think it altogether unsuitable to
smoke with pipe shorter than two ellis,
while the handicraftsman, or the official
of lower order, would be deemed pre-
sumptuous if his pipe-stem transcended
the measure of that habitual with his
class. The grandees in contact or con-
trast with man of low degree, can
parade his pipe to its full length but
the man of low degree, modestly thrust
ing aside or coneealing his instrument,
must not show more of it than the mouth
piece which he holds in his hand The
Pasha can, like the chimney of steamer,
throw forth clouds of smoke, but the
subordinate must only allow small
circles of smoke, light as zephyrs, to
flow from his lips, and he must SO con.
trive that the smoke does not go in front
Of him, bnt turns backwards. In the
nggaeuca Of o. gEfmlae pot ~tq, s"onisO-iu
sign of respect a son is likewise expected |
to show to his father and well-trained |
and well-mannered son is regarded who,
spite of the repeated request of his
father, refuses to smoke.
Year: 1877

A correspondent with Gen. Howard
writes that the wounded were fearfully
tortured and mutilated by the Nez
Perces squaws on the Big Hole battle
ground. The soldiers had taken the
Indian village, but being overpowered by
numbers they were obliged to fall back
and fight their way to position on the
side of the mountain which the enemy
had already taken possession of. They
had desperate encounter but carried
the point, and Immediately dug trenches
with their trowel bayonets. In the
meantime the wounded had been left on
the bottom bp the creek, and while the
bucks set fire to the grass and tried to
burn the little band of soldiers out of
their trenches, the squaws mangled and
tortured the poor fellows who were still
alive but unable to help themselves.
Can Can hardly be -reaI1zedApy ahy 'vfle' ultac-
customed to tales of savage barbarity.
They heated their camas-hooks red-hot
and then thrust them into the bodies Of
the wounded; mangled them in every
conceivable manner and slowly tortured
them to death in ways known only to red
fends. Early in the action a bugler,
mere boy, was wounded in both legs.
One of his comrades carried him off the
field and then returned to the fight, the
bugler saying that he would rest there
few minutes and then try and walk off
safety. The Indians got possession of
the creek and bottom land, the squaws
discovered, mutilated him and burned
both eyes out. The boys sufferings can
be imagined, and death was certainly a
welcome relief to him.
Year: 1877

Kitchen Consolation.


By ELEANOR EGaLEsroN.


Oh ! this baking and brewing


This boiling and stewing.
ana washing Of dishes three times in dayl
The griddle-cakes turning,


The skimming for churning,
Ihe setting Of tables and clearing away
What is it but WEAKNESS.


Work without cheerfulness,
Inc same round Of labor, day after day
I'd rather be painting,


Or sewing, or braiding,
Or spending my time in pleasanter way
Thus my fancy kept dreaming


Ger the hot dishes steaming,
And wondering why must kitchen fire tend,
I'LL an angels low Whispering


Compelled me to listen.
And taught me these household discomforts 10
mend


Is your work not the Oldest


The usefulest, noblest-
In ministering daily to the life God has given ?
II the work is unceasing
OF washing and sweeping,
Remember that order is the first law of heaven.
Pray, what gives more pleasure
Than well-seasoned dinner
When tastefully served on the family board
Thank God you can labor


Can knead mix and flavor,
And draw pleasant meals from the farmers
rich hoard


What heartsome delight


Atmorn or at night,
When the family gathers for chat and good
cheer


Then should you be complaining
OF work unavailing,
That brings joy to the loved one each day in
the wear?
Year: 1877

A Rhode Island woman who died re-
Gently expressed dying wish that she
should not be buried or placed in tomb.
Her husband consequently built stone
cottage on the shore of Narragansett
Bay which on the outside is exactly like
an ordinary dwelling, in the cellar of
which her body is kept. The building
has but one room, which is fitted up
with the furniture the pair had in their
parlor when first married, and the sur
viving members Of the family now pass
an hour or so there in devotions each
Sunday.
Year: 1877

A man who uses his tongue too much
is apt to use his hands to little. Great
professors are not often great doers
Life is not long enough TO permit us to
become proficient in two different di-
rections.
Year: 1877

LrrrELL's LIVING AGE FOR 1S7S.-Ths success
OF this sterling periodical is owing to the facj that
it enables one, with a small outlay of time and
money, to keep pace with the best thought and
literature OF the day. Hence its importance TO
every american reader.


The abIest living contributors to periodical liter
ature are represented in it's pages, some Of whose
names will be found in the prospectus published
in another column.


It has always stood at the head Of its class, both
in quality and quantity of the reading furnished;
and in fact it affords, Of itself, so thorough and
complete compendium of what is Of immediate
interest or permanent value in the literary world
a. TO render it an invaluable CCon9mizer Of time,
aud labor and money. In the multitude Of peril
odfcas Of the present timo,-quarterhess monthlies
and wecklies,-such a publication has become al


most a necessity to every person OF fsnily desir-
ing TO keep well informed in the best Gterature OF
the day. -


For ISIS, an extra offer is made to all new sub
scribrrs . and reduced clubbing rates with other
periodicals are also given by which a subscriber
NAV at remarkably small cost obtain the cream Of
both home and foreign literature Those selecting
their periodicals for the new year, would do wei
10 examine the prospectus published in another
column. Tn no other way that we know Of can
subscriber be put in possession of the best which
the current literature of the world affords, 20
chcsply or conveniently
Year: 1877

Columbus has a new narrow gauge
railroad project in view. It is to
build line eastward over the old
National Road to Wheeling, and
ultimately extend it to Baltimore or
some other Atlantic seaport. The
farmers along the line of the Nation
al road are reported to be strongly
in favor of the project. Should this
road be built by the time the Colum-
bus and Maysvi'Ie R. W. gets to
Columbus, freight shipped over that
line can 90 from Columbus without
breaking bulk. It seems probable
that the cheapness Of the narrow
gauge roads, and the ease with
which they can be built, will ulti-
mateIy cause them to be extended
all over the country, East, West,
North and South, to the great ad


vantage of the people at large.
Year: 1877

In our advertising columns is
noticed Stoddart's Musical Library,
a serial publication, now under way,
which from its extraordinary cheap
ness will effect q revolution IN the
music publishing interest. Messrs.
Stoddart & Co. agree to give for the
low price Of one dime, a collection Of
the most popular instrumental and
vocal music, printed on full size
music paper, Of the best quality.
The same amount and quality IN fact
as would cost 81 so if published
separately, This is a step in the
right direction, and one which will


find instant aud hearty favor with
those whom it is intended to benefit.
Year: 1877

Now that it is a fixed fact that
HilIsboro is to have another railroad,
we may ezepect a better demand for
town property and an advance in
prices. People always want to come
to live town where there is a spirit
of progress and improvement. Let
them come to Hillsboro and help
build up the town.
Year: 1877

Our premium book, is not "patent medicine re-
ceipt book, but is just what we represent it to be-


q neat, well printed book Of 100 pages, Of valuable
Household Receipts, never before printed in book
form, and taken from the Household Department Of
the Chicago Tribune. It contains l6O pages, is
printed on good type and paper, and neatly bound


in paper cover It is cheap at so cents the regular
retail price, but we give it as premium to every
subscriber the News for 1873, who obtains US one
nel0 subscriber. The book can only Be obtained an
this county, through this Office. Gail and see copy
Year: 1877

Has made the above diseases the special study Of
his life and 10 the treatment of these he brings all


his talent, skill and long experience. II will there
fore not surprise those who are intelligent enough
to discern that physician who treats the diseases
Of one organ TO the exclusion Of all others, must
be superior to those who pretend TO be equally
skilled in the treatment Of all diseases.