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Year: 1878

The Little Rock Democrat is strongly m favor of giving the young, active, progressive, Democrats of Arkansas front position in the political affairs of the state. We think, with the Democrat, that the fast age in which we now hve-an age in which progress is stamped on every thing-requires an activity, an aggressiveness and vigor in the politics of our state, which will mark time with the quick pulsatiens in every department of business now-a-days. The. good easy, old-style way of doing things is too slow for to-day, and it is truth that tue young democrats of the state have the task on their hands of timing up our party and state matters.

 The Democrat gives long list of names of representative democrats in the different counties which it re- fers to, as illustrating it's idea of the young, active democracy. We see it takes the counties in alphabetical order and gives every county Tn the state, with only three exceptions, credit with having it's men worthy of being cited as examples of the de mocracy who have been keeping the wheels of government rolling since 1860, and upon whom the state can rely for sure dependence in the fu- turc. The three counties which it leaves out of the Roll of Honor are Lawrence, Miller and Pope. In the case of Lawrence and Miller we have nothing to say--we leave it for some one in those counties to speak for themselves-but in the case of Pope county we beg to say in her vindica- ton (vindication we won't say, for she needs no vindication--her record is her own vindicatlon that the omission of her name in the list of counties having live, active, true and progressive democracy is an in justice winch we would not have thought friend Smithee would have been guilty of. If there is county in the state whose young men have been quicker to the call of duty than have been the young democracy of Pope county-who have been trner in any and every emsrgency--then we have observed to no purpose at all, for it has failed to come to our mo- tice. What county did more to break down the tyranical rule and over bearing domination of the radical task masters in the dark days of rad realism than Pope2 Who but the liberty loving democrats of Pope rose up in their might and struck the first bold blow to free themselves from radical rule What county had
Year: 1878

In the Norman river, Australia, the
alligators are so numerous and daring
that they will not leave the steamers
path until they are actually disturbed
by the motion of the floats. AS the
steamer Pioneer WAS on its voyage, a
Kanaka belonging to the vessel was
standing on the margin of the river
unfastening rope, when he was charged
by one of these terrible saurians. The
people on board who saw the danger
cried out to alarm the man ; but before
he could make his escape the alligator
seized him by the thigh. The unfor-
tunate man threw his arm round some
mangroves, and SO held on until assist
ance came from the steamer. Six men
quickly seized him, and then there was
horrible trial of strength between
human muscles and the jaws of the alli-
gator, The captain struck the brute a
blow on the head with an axe, which
forced him to let go his hold, and the
victim was dragged away. The ealligator,
however, made another charge up the
bank, but was repelled with difficulty by
repeated blows of the axe. The poor
Kanaka's leg was taken off below the
knee. Medical assistance was near at
hand, but the excessive loss of blood
rendered recovery hopeless. The man
died within fifteen minutes after he had
reached the doctors dispensary.
Year: 1878

Between the bones of the ankle and
the wrist there are muscles. VIII n by
accident these are drawn out OF their
places, what we call sprain is produced.
When one is aware that he has suffered
this species of arrangement, the first
thing to be done is TO keep the part in
iured perfectly still, and by no means
use it in the least. The muscles left to
themselves will return to their places
gradually. Hops stepped in vinegar
and applied hot to the injured part will
quiet the anguish and restore Wilderness.
But more important than any applipa-
tion is perfect quiet, ~
Year: 1878

San Francisco, Jan. 22.-The work
ingmen held their convention last eve
ming. The police discovered the place
of meeting and made descent upon it.


The captain in charge, who was vested
with discretionary powers, entered the
hall, and finding the proceedings to be
of quiet and legitimate character,
forebore to interfere, and the conven-
tion completed the business of the eve
ming and adjourned without disturb
ance, after effecting an organization,
until Wednesday evening. A commit
tee was appointed to obtain writ OF
mandamus commanding the mayor to
show cause why the convention should
not be permitted to hold its sessions
undisturbed. There was an evident
disposition to discountenance the vlo-
lent and incendiary course of Kearney
and his coadjutators. and conduct the
labor agitation in a peaceful and lawful
manner. Some men known to be IL
opposition to Kearney were prominen,
in the proceedings and in conversation
Year: 1878

Washington, Jan. 22.-The House
committee on Indian Affairs to-day
agreed to report and recommend the
passage of the bill providing for the
transfer of the Indian Bureau to the
War Department.


The Senate committee on Military
Affairs to-day amended the House bill
for the payment Of three months extra
pay to soldiers of the Mexican war,
by making it include also officers, petty
officers, seamen and marines who served
in that war. The bill is designed to
cover cases of those persons whose
applications for three months extra
pay as granted by the act of 1869, were
not received or acted upon before the
appropriation was covered into the
treasury.


The committee took up and discussed
at length Senator Plumb's bill to sup
press gambling in the army by means
of an additional article of war. 1t was
made the special order for the next
meeting, with every indication that it
will then be agreed upon for a favor
able report to the Senate.


Senate Burnside's bill to abolish all
discrimination as to race or color in
army enlistments, etc., was also taken
up, but met with considerable opposi
tion, and went over without action.
Year: 1878

SEVERAL important arrests of coun-
terfeiters have been made by the agent
of the United States Secret Service
within the past week. Ten counter
feiters, in different sections of the
country, have been arrested within the
past four days, and it seems that all of
them were very plentifully supplied
with counterfeit money, including
bogus greenbacks, national bank notes,
and silver. The bureau has informa-
tion showing that there is an immense
amount of counterfeiting in operation
throughout the country, considerable
portion of which is the manufacture of
counterfeit silver. Most of the work
Is OF a poor character.
Year: 1878

THERE is no longer any doubt but
that Congress will provide way where
by the savings of the people, large and
small, can be invested where they will
be perfectly safe, and where they will
yield sure revenue to the depositor.
1t is hard to estimate the amount that
will seek such channel, but we should
not be at all surprised if the entire
debt of this country could be taken by
our own people, and thankfully, too.
Year: 1878

with members after adjournment it
was freely stated that they preferred
that Kearney should remain in Jail, as
he did the party more harm than good.


A bill has been drawn for introduc-
ton in the legislature providing for an
inquiry into the causes of the present
excitement, and fixing the responsible
ty therefor where it may be found to
properly belong.
Year: 1878

REASONABLE people are quite will
ing to admit that railroad accidents,
like rain, fall impartially upon the just
and the unjust-but, none the less, if
that excursion train had been bringing
excursionists home from prize-fght,
instead of from a Moody and Sankey
meeting just, wouldn't the sectarian
journals have pointed morals and
adorned tails on the strength Of it
Year: 1878

A NEW line Of defense is being ar
ranged by the Turks for Constantine
pie, but the general impression is that
the Russians will not advance beyond
Adrianople unless negotiations are
k,oI,aa
Year: 1878

THE Mississippi leyee fever is breaking
out in Washington again this winter with
the same old show of virulence. It should
have but a short run, for, of all humbugs
and frauds upon the National Treasury, the
Mississippi levee business may be regarded
MS among the first of that class. Levees
may be built for thousand years, and that
only raises the bottom ard surface of the
river above the surrounding country and
increases the danger of foods and damage,
except as they are guarded against by a
continued raising of the levees. 1t would
seem that more free outlet TO the sea of
the waters of the Mississippi and some Of
its tributaries, where that is feasible, would
promise more certain aud permanent relief.
This levee business is a great job of indi-
vidual benefit.
Year: 1878

The army bill now before the Congress is
one of the most remarkable productions
that ever emanatcd from the consideration
of any committee. How number of men,
presumed from their positions to know
something of the principles of u republican
form Of government, could yet together and
Year: 1878

LAMAR declares upon his honor as
Southern gentleman and Senator that mo
"negro vote has been suppressed in the
South" Perhaps out of the profundity Of
his knowledge he can tell what became of
the negro vote in the late election. Let
LAMAR speak again and tell what he knows
about negro voting in the South. 1t is an
interesting question.
Year: 1878

THE Democrats here in Washington are
continually prating about the intimidation
and bull-dozng of voters in Massachusetts
but they fail to produce any proof of their
assertions. The Boston Idrr,iiyrr's wonder
is especially excited in the consideration of
this subject, by the fact that no intimidated
person can be found in that State to prose-
cute his intimidator. No case" it adds
can he found where any man was threat
"ened or where any man has been dis
charged because of his political acts at
the late election.
Year: 1878

THE Daiiy Kindergarten assumes that Sen
ator BLAINE would not permit the negroes
to vote at all in the South unless they
"yote for the Radicals" The nurscling
Democratic editor who fired of this idea
between pulls at his sugar-teat and draughts
upon his bottle of jim ANDERSON Bourbon
betrays an adolescent aptness for the bust
ness for which he is being educated, which
is simply and plainly that of lying about
Republican statesmen in the columns of q
Democratic newspaper. What Mr. BLAINE
would not permit if he could prevent it, is
the restriction of freedom of the ballot in
the hands OF the negroes by either party.
Year: 1878

OMAHA. Neb., March Ia, 1873


The first overland passenger express from tho West
since Friday last arrived here this afternoon All the
snow bound passenger train, havo reached this CITY,
and tho Union Pacific is now running all trains on
schedule time Four hundred miIos Of road are now
ccar from the effects OF In tho history
OF the road 1t sixty hours TO raise the blockade
Year: 1878

neuWOOu UdZttCe-Nep.


They are very anxious to nominate Mr..
Washburn, which is all very proper, as he is
a good man. and it looks very much as if he
was the choice of the district. But St..
Paul man is the leading rival, and to men
ton that city to the average Minneapolis
man is like, in its results, shaking red flag
at mad bull.
Year: 1878

The Graphic reiterates the ASSERTION
that it is only the female honey bee
which carries stinger; but are men to
respect sex when half dozen bees are
trying to squeeze down behind No. 10
collar?
Year: 1878

The custom is now 'verywhere preva-
lent Tor pedestrians to take the right side
Of the walk. The practice avoids much
confusion, particularly on irequented
walks. The rule has been 50 thorough
ly established that any person found vio-
lating it is set down as an ignorsmus.
People now take the right side as regu-
larry in walking as they do when driving
oD the road. This beiIg so, common
sense suggests that ladies should always
walk st the right side OF gentlemen
when going in couples. II they do that,
ladies will never be jostled when meet
ing other perscns-the gentlemen being
thus always on the side Of contact ~rh
people coming from the opposite dircc-
ton. Gentlemen should abandon tho
habit. when promeEacing with ladies', ot
walking halt around them st every turn
OF The corner. The Old custom of Civ
ing tho lady the inside OF the walk when
walking with hoT, has no Tedoemiug
feature. The lsdy's comfort and protec-
ton is best insured by her walking at The
gentleman's right side. at all times
Rome Sentinel
Year: 1878

FRUIT EATING When fruit does harm
il is because i; is eaten at improper iimes,


in improper quantities, or before it is
ripened and fit for the human stomach.


A distinguished physician has said that if
his patients would make practice Of
eating a couple of good oranges before
breakfast, from February to June, his
practice would be gone. The principal
evil is that we do not eat enough of fruit ;
that we injure its finer qualities with
sugar, that we drown them in cream. We
need the medical action OF the pure fruit
acids in our system, and their cooling,
corrective influence. .-Medtcal Journal.
Year: 1878

as to quantity and qualify.


or course there are very, worry many
beautiful trees 10 this lovely garden. and
every now and then you come upon bit
OF landscape that seems as though il must
be q part OF some lovely old English
park, with It's carpet OF unbroken groen.
its immense shade trees and its delicious
bits OF statuary.


E0erUChere periec! order reigns. The
entire fifty acres is az perfectly kept as
the one Hover bed of the careful house
wife. Not lawn unclipped, not a plant
bearing dead leaves, not Oeed TO be
seen-eUerything was in the most perfect
order, and during the afternoon spent
there, not one solitary workman did l
see All this care must be exercised in
tho early morning time, that when the
visiting hours arrive. no guest may be
disturbed by the rattle of the lawn-mower
or the click OF the pruner's shears.


Deep and lasting gratitude is due 10
the generous proprietor OF this magnih-
cent estate, for 80 kindly offering TO all
let them be rich or poor, the privilege of
enjoying such rare treat as is afforded
by a visit 10 his grounds. That some
abuse this privilege is only one more
proof OF the depravity Of which some
are capable, but the masses appreciate
the favors shown them. and with one
voice unite in thanking him to whom
they are indebted for so much pure and
soul-elevating pleasure.


ELLA NJ. 5. MARBLE.


Paris. Aug 9th, 1873.
Year: 1878

Around The borders Of the lake and
near tho summer-house are many spots
which at first sight look wild, as though
left in their natural state. Little rills are
trickling down over rocks that are peep
Year: 1878

II you give to healthy young man of
twenty, who has never tasted either. cun
OF tea or coffee, it will keep him awake all
night. If you give to one who has never
drank either fermented or distilled LIQUORS.
glass of wine, beer, or weak whisky and
water, it will make him more or less dizzy.
and perhaps give him headache. If Won
persuade one who has never smoked, to try
cigar, it will probably nauseate him. and
Tor time make him severely sick.


Now, what is the conclusion from these
FACTS? Simply that tea, coffee, fermented
and distilled liquors and tobacco are in
their nature medicinal; are, in brief. drugs.
ana that, at least while the body is growing.
while it still has a superabundance of vital
iorce, 1t does not need either the preserva.
ties OF tea and coffee, or the digestive and
tonic ones Of wine, beer, or brandy, or the
soothing one of tobacco to keep it in health
and well-being; but that on the contrary.
when the youthful system is in its natural
state and either is offered it, disturbance,
more or less pronounced, is tho result.





What terrible responsibility, then, do not
mothers and fathers incur who from baby.
hood allow their little children to drink
tea and cotfee-nay, before the little things
would think of asking for it, tempt them
to SIP 1t out of their teaspoon! Women
from high to low, are always anxious to be
fashion. They will dress their children as
nearly as possible like the little aristocrats
OF Beacon street and Fifth Avenue, and
why will they not feed them also as these
little 'swells" are fed? A Beacon street
mother would be Mortified at the thought
OF giving her young children either tea or
coffee. Plenty of the richest milk with
oatmeal, or mush, or hominy, simple pud,
dings juicy meat, and cold bread and but
ter form the principal diet of these rich
children who look SO rosy and so handsome.
lea they never get. And if their mothers
drink tea it is not the stimulating, nervous
Japan, Oolong or Green tea. No. Its the
mlId' so.called English Breakfast tea"
that alone is drank in the fashionable
world, and it has been adopted, simply
because 1t is more favorable to beauty and
health than the others-B3aton Post.
Year: 1878

The ideal perfect life that men imagine


is alway one in which pain forms no part !:
yet curiously, in all the life weknow, pain
IS ever the penalty paid for superiority.


The higher the organism in the scale of


being, the greater its capacity for pain i;


this IS the universal rule. Mutilation.
such as an insect bears without apparent


inconvenience, will kill reptile. A fish
Or a reptile disregards injuries that would
be quickly fatal to a mammal throucb
nervous shock. A savage laughs at wounds
that would rack the nervous system of \
civilized man with acutest agony. Thus
in every instance capacity for pain is the
measure of development. Evolution being
attended by an ever.increasing complexity
and delicacy of nervous organization. it is
inevitable that increasing liability to
nervous arrangement must mark every
upward movement in the scale of being.
Will the price Of elevation ever rise so
high as to put an end to progress in this
There would certainly seem to
be a possibility of such a result, when we
consider the fate of those most admirable
persons who are, as we say, too finely
strung for this rude world. The acuteness
and delicacy of their sensibilities make
them at once the highest moral and intel.
Iectual types of humanity, and physically
The most unfortunate. And they rarely
Dr. never leave behind them vigorous
'amily.-Scientfc american.
Year: 1878

DON'T BELIEVE IN Local OPrIoN.-It has
been said and repeated over and over again
and We verify believe it, that there is more
liquor drank privately in those Districts
and counties where Local Option prevails,
than is drank among like numbers else
where.-Ffcdcrick Union.


1t may be said and repeated over and
over again, as asserted by the Union, but
mere say so is not fact Now, we know
whereof we speak, when we say that local
option, which has been in operation for the
past two or three years in this county. has
not only broken up the sale of the article.
but almost put stop to private drinking.
and when the old topers shall all have pas.
sed away, the rising generation will scarcely
know anything of strong drink. If the
editor Of the Union would be convinced of
the good results of local option, we would
invite him to spend week or two in our
county and ho will return a converted
(lId.) Union.
Year: 1878

There appers to be fair prospect of the
passage of the bill through the New York
Legislature which provides for trial of
the experiment Of running a canal by rail
road. The plan consists of building a mar
row-gauge railroad on each bank of the
Erie canal and towing the boats with loco
motives. Many persons regard it as FEAST
BILE and are willing to put their money in
a n.
Year: 1878

The South Carolina Legislature has passed
a law Furnishing burglary, rape and arson
with death. Society is compelled to punish
the crimes most severely to which il is
most subject. In many of the States arson
IN the first degree and rape are punished
with death. 1t is only short step to add
burglary to these. The social condition Of
South Carolina now is such as to require
stern justice.
Year: 1878

\ writer IN the London Lancet remarks.


few people know the value of lemon iuico


\ piece of lemon bound upon a corn will
cure 1t in few days; it should be renewed


night and morning. A free use of lemon
juice and sugar will always relieve n couch


Most people feel poorly in the spring. but
II they would eat lemon before break fast
every day for week-with or withopt
sugar, as they like-they would find il


better than any medicine. Lemon iuice
used according to this recipe will some
times cure consumption: Put dozen
lemons INTO cold water and slowly bring to
a boil; boil slowly until the lemons are soft
then squeeze until all the juice is extracted !:
ada sugar to your taste and drink. In this
way use one dozen lemons day. If they
cause pain lessen the quantity and use only
five or six day until you are better, and
then begin again with dozen a day.
Alter using five or six dozen the patient
VIII gain flesh and enjoy food. Hold on to
the lemons, and still use them very freely
Tor several weeks more. Another use for
lemons is for refreshing drink in summer,
or in sickness at any time. Prepare as
above and add water and sugar
But IN order to have this keep well, after
boiling the lemons, squeeze and strain
carefully then to every pint of juice add
one pound of loaf or crushed sugar, boil
and stir few minutes more until the sugar
IS dissolved, skin carefully and bottle.
You will get more juice from the lemons
by boiling them, and the preparation keeps
better.
Year: 1878

1t was six men of Indostan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the elephant
Though all of them were blind
That each by observation


Might satisfy his mind.
The first approached the elephant
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl,
God bless me-buC the elephant
Is very like WALL
The second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, " HO! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me It's mighty clear
This wonder of an elephant
Is very like spear"
The third approached the animal
And, happening to take
The squirning trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up he spoke:
q" see" quOth he, the elephant
Is very like a snake"
The fourth reached out his eager hand
And felt about the knee;
What most this wOndrouS beast is like
Is mighty plain quoth he;
"'Tis clear enough the elephant
Is very like a tree"
The fifth, who CHANGED to touch the ear
Said, Fen the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most
Deny the fact who can:
This marvel of an elephant
Is very like fam
The sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
see QuOth he, the elephant
Is very like rope"


VIII.
And 50 these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong.
Though each was partly in the right.
And all were in the wrong!


MORAL.
So, oft in intellectual wars
The disputants, ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Ofwhat each other mean,
And prate about the elephant
Not one of thern has snenI