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Year: 1877

Taking advantage of the dull sea

 son and the excursion over the Fort

 Smith road, it was the privilege oi of the writer to visit these celebrated and truly wonderful Springs last week. It was our first visit to them and we were very sensibly impress ed with the wonderful sight of these valuable waters, distilled by nature herself, among the hills and noun tains of Garland county. The won der of this matter does not consist in the mere fact of boiling, bubbling water running from the mountain side, but in the wonderful and mys- terious difference between this water and water heated by artificial means. The medicinal properties and the cu- rative powers and the vivifying prin- ciples ot the waters are beyond the powers of imitation. The best counterfeits that could be prepared by our most skilled scientists would be so base a fraud as to deceive no one. The waters of Hot Springs are without rival on the whole globe, and they are destined to acquire a fame not even surpassed by the fab ulous Fountain of Youth. Nature has certainly provided here mirac- ulous curative agent--an agent which is destined to prove blessing to humanity far and wide.

 The town which takes it's name from the Hot Springs, is Il lively, busy little place, and is assuming city airs with rapidity which will soon make the place in reality, quite a city-a city not only in name and in extent. but in business and in population. At present the town is an irregular, crowded ahd crooked string of frail fralne buildings, strung out up the Hot Springs Val ley in confusion and disorder. The United States Commissioners are now at the Springs engaged in mak ing a survey of the reservation, and It is said that they will lay out a town of magnificent proportions, and have all the buildings at present standing on the east side of the valley. near the vicinity of the Springs, removed.

 It is to be greatly hoped that the notoriety which this famous resort must acquire will impress these Commissioners with the importance of making good job of their work, and deter them from doing anything on any other than grand scale, such as may be the admiration of the mil lions who will visit this great Baden Baden of America.
Year: 1877

Or to put the same question in an other shape it will read, To Manu

 facture at Home, or not to Manufac- ture at Home; for it is a plain prop esition to our mind that we will nev. CT prosper with any great degree of thrift and energetic vitality, until we cease importing so many manufac- tured articles, and go to employing labor at home and commence utilz- ing our own raw material in the pro duction of many thousands of arti

 cles which are now imported from away up in New England, ,-the transportation, on these alone, mak- ing them cost from 25 to 100 per cent. more than they would, If manu

 factured at home. The more we think about this matter, the greater the folly of our people appears to be, and their blindness to their own in terests; and the greater is our desire to say something or do something to arouse the people of Arkansas, and especially the people of our own sec tion (for there is no more favorable place in all Arkansas, for the estab- lishmeht of manufactures), to the necessity of making start in this grand scheme of home manufactu- ring. Every year we pay thousands ofdollars freight on wooden articles shipped to our county, while we have an untold wealth of timber all around us, so thick that it almost prevents q free circulation of the air itself, far superior in quality to any that is shipped here in manufactured arti- cles. We not only pay thousands of dollars freight on these articles, but we pay the manufacturers a hand some profit, and furnish employment to labor away from home which nev- CT benefits us particle. If the same labor were employed here it would bring hundreds of laborers here, who, by spending their earn ings among us, would add to our prosperity and aid us in paying our taxes. The proposition is so plain, that she most obtuse understanding
Year: 1877

Let those who have said so many hard things about the South on ac- count of crimes committed in that section, remember that every crime committed here has counterparts by the score in the North. Speaking of the Chisolm murder, about which so much has been said, the New York Sun, says:

 'It is a dreadful state of affairs in Mississippi which lets the Chisholm murderers go unpunished. On that point there is little room for disagre- ment. The locality where such u crime can be committed with impu- nity is justly regarded as plague spot unfit for human habitation. Here in New York, and indeed thro' out the country, it is hardly men toned without an expression of ab- horance for such condition of socle ty as must exist to secure immunity to the murderers.

 But what have we to boast of in comparison? Is not the Huntington murder still unavenged? A young man was mobbed by scores of persons in public highway and in conspicu- ous private grounds. He was tarred and feathered, beaten and mutilated Women, some of the elite of the town among them, came out to look with wondering admiration on the scene. Finally the poor fellow was rowed out in boat and sunk in the sea, the briny water choking his voice and silencing his cries which were oulyheard by Heaven after that. Yet this great crime remains unpun- ished and virtually unprosecuted.

 Chisholm and Kelsey, Mississippi and New York! What have we to boast of
Year: 1877



 To the Editor of the DEMOCRAT:

 When l wrote you last week the opinion prevailed that the heavy rains which fell about that time had somewhat injured the wheat crop. l am glad of the opportunity, however, to say that the apprehensions then felt, were not upon q sure basis the condition of the wheat crop in this portion of the county being ex- ccllent; indeed, exceptionally SO. Not being a farmer myself, l am not well fitted to make suggestions to that large and respectable class of people, upon whose labors and sue cess the general prosperity almost entirely depends. Nevertheless, l will say, that in my opinion, wheat IS a more profitable crop than cotton. It's value to the farmer will be en- hanced as the facilities for getting it to the grain marts of the world, are increased. In California, (with the history of which State l am quite familiar, having lived there many years, wheat has been the staple production for more than a decade. For ten or fifteen years the wheat crop has been a greater source of wealth to California, than her gold
Year: 1877

THREATENED WITH FAMINE.
By Telegraph to the GAZETTE.


t PlTTsGURG, July 26.


Pttsburg has overhanging her theshad-
ow of a great famine. The P. R. r. Co.
Will certainly not yield until the back of
the strike is broken. Provisions cannot
reach the city. The Pittsburg papers do
not mention the fact that troops are
steadily and rapidly concentrating at
Blairsville intersection. 1t is reported
that the country thereabouts presents the
appearance of an army encampment.T This
force can be thrown into the city by two
railroads within an hour.


Nothing new this morning expect
the determination on the part of the
mob, that none bat mail trains shall
be allowed to run. The city expert
enced another day and night of
quiet, entirely too quiet for the
business men as a Sabbath like still
ness reigDed in the thoroughfares ac-
cusLomed to the din and clatter of
trade. The suspension of freight traffic
in railroad leaves our merchants and
manufacturers with very little to do
in the way of receiving or shipping
freight The strikers still hold tight
grip Of all the railroads and refuse to
let single car of freight move either
into or outof the city. There have
been NO violent demonstrations what
ever and as the work of organization
among the military and citizens pro-
ceeds, the chances for any further
disorders. and rioting become less and
less.


AS to when the dead lock is TO end !,
nothing definite can be stated. The
strikers seem to think their success
depends in holding on until they force
the railroad managers to u compromise
while the latter very justly refuse to
have any conference ON the subject of
wages until their properly restored to
them. Tne most interesting features
of vest erdsy's operations were the
strike of the coal miners, and the
stoppage of passenger trains.
Year: 1877

RAIN AND SSow.-During last night and the fore part of to-day, this section was treated to a steady and welcome rain. At Il o'clock A. M., however the rain turned into snow, and at the time of going to press, 3 F. NJ, the snow k covering the ground 10 a thickness of several inches, and the indica- tions arc favorable for a storm which will moi>teu the ground to that extent that a failure of crops will be out of question. Our telegraphic dispatches inform Us that the rain extended south as far as Wicken- burg and probably further. The rain will he of untold benefit to every person In this section of Arizona
Year: 1877

COUNTY BUmDINGS-At the last meeting of the Mayor and Town Council, a perpct- ual lease was signed conveying the plaza to the county, the condition of said lease being tllat the county shall, inside of two years, erect good substantial buildings consisting of court house and jail and that in the event of said buildings being removed or others erected elsewhere, then the said plaza shall revert back to the village of Prescott
Year: 1877

will take contracts to plant gardens and yards keep them in full bloom during the season be it or dry hot cold The lawns established and cared for by shall always be green

 mys JACK -oF.ALL.TRADES.
Year: 1877

At r. o'clock M in front Of the house in the town of Prescott in said county and Territory will expose for sale cash public auction, the whole much of above described real estate be necessary satisfy said judgment and all the law directs

 ED. r. BOWERS, Sheriff. May z ls17 mVi0Wtd
Year: 1877

TO THE EpIrOR OF THE HERALD:A


We are continually hearing OF the scarcity of Croon
water and OF its impurities Now, sir, If thero Is
scarcity, why the numerous drinking fountains In
this city allowed to run with continual flow. instead
OF bcing provided with automatic faucets thnt will
keep closed whom not IN use? notlco that fountains
with several Jets have lately been put up in tho ferry
houses and there are several ip the CITY at different
points, through which thousands OF gallons OF water
must pass unused and wasted. If there Is lack OF
water attns city works let have stop put 70 this
Tho street watering carts ought also be forced
to draw their supply from the river instead Of draw
ing IL from the city supply. WATER.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF TnE HERALD:-


dosire 10 call the attention OF the superintendent
Of the Fourth line OF TO tho ignorance of
some Of his conductors. An aged lady came from
Twenty street recently and asked be lot out
as near possible to number in Rcado street. near
Centre street. Tho ignorant conductor stopped the
at Canal and said II tho nearest the
went to that point. Alter walking about an hour tho
lady reached her place of destination. Cannot FUND
raised SO that each OF the gporant conductors may
he presented with a map pofthc CITY? TRUTH.
Year: 1877

Moral VALVE OF PHYSICAL STRENGTH
4 writer in ScTibner's Monthly alleges that
the American scholar and thinker Is by rule
a dvspeptic. He is a razor-faced, lantern
iawed. thin nervous man. This is partly the
effect of climate, and partly that OF diet and
regimen. In the old days of bran-bread and
prayers before daylight in the colleges, and
long morning walks before breakfast, and
suicidal. consamptive habits, it required a
urety tough man TO live through his studies
at all. We are now doing this thing better,


but we have not rehched the highest out
come of the change, and shall not reach 1t,


probably. for several generations. But We
have come to the recognition of the fact that
it does not tougher man to reduce his diet,


to cut short his sleep, to take long walks on
an empty stomach, and to indulge in cold
baths when there Is no well-supported vital
ity to respond TO them. We have come TO
the conviction that, for useful public life,
brains are of very little account if there are
no muscelS u do their bidding In short,
we have learned that without physical vital
itF the profoundest learning, the most charm
inr talents. and the best accomplishments
are of little use TO public man, in whatever
field of professional life he may be engaged
Year: 1877

NEWFOUNDLAND Docs - Few people
know that there are hardly twenty genuine
Newfoundland dogs in the United States.
The name and breed are 50 popular and
familiar that to all but an extremely small
minority the assertion wiz appear absurd.
Nevertheless it is strictly correct. The
thoroughbred New Foundland has been
gradually losing his identity through mis-
cegenatiOn. The secret CT his fast ap-
proaehing extinction not being more easily
observed, lies IN the fact that after a
mixture of breed betWeena Newfoundland
and any other species, more of the form
and characteristics of the latter descend to
the offspring than occur IN any other IN
stance of breeding among dogs. On
this account animals that have hardly two
thirds of the genuine breed in them, and
which are really fine specimens, are fire.
quently boasted of as splendid Newfound-
land dogs. If he be still living, an old
man known as q Bait Sullivan, IN the
Island from which the dog derives its
name, is the last surviving preserver OF
theunmixcd breed Of Newfoundlanddogs.
Several years ago the writer last saw hm,
and then the old man was master Of the
last genuine specimens Of the noble dogs
Old q Batty had then about fifteen full
grown pets looking as big as Shetland
ponies-pcrfectly web-footed, with mas
siye paws over three inches in diameter,
andheavy, glossy, coal black curls ell over
Very few men have such frank and honest
faces rs those splendid brutes possessed
Hydrophobia Is unknown among the Pnre
breed. q Batty' made a living by selling
his dogs at a high price almost exclusively
to Spanish and Portuguese sea-captalns.
He strangely nurtured the prejudice Of
never selling a male and female to one
purchaser.
Year: 1877

NoNE LIKE HIN.-There are few mean
men IN Detroit, bit they come here from
the east and as rule do not tarry long.
The regular Detroiter IS a good man, and
il has q family he Is still better, as can be
shown every day III the week. At the
Detroit & Milwaukee depot yesterday, as
lady was about to get aboard the tram,
she said to the man who was loaded down
with her parcels =
Now, while m gone You must tahe
up and beat all the carpets and lay them
down again.


'of course, he replied
And polish al the windows, rub on the
furniture and repaint the front steps
i VIII, dear,
And you must rake off the yard, make
some flower beds, fix the alley fence, and
black all the stoves before you can pack
them away.


1Of course darling, he replied
And YOU must send me $50 per week,
write 10 me DALI, and the neighbors will
watch to see if you are out after s O'Clock
m the ev niing. Now, then, good bye
oh, darling, how can spare you he
siqbed: the engine groaned and away she
went. and as he turned TO go out his
mental distress was 50 great that he fell
over a truck, barked his shins and rubbed
half the skin off his nose--Dstroit Paper
Year: 1877

LESS VIGORoUS THAN THEIR fATHERS-
A New Hampshire correspondent OF
the Manchester Mirror expresses MS views
on the deserted farm question thus blunt-
ly; = If farms have run down, the peo-
pie who occupy them are long way
ahead of the race. We have got on our
farm to-day a class of people who can
cipher through the algebra, play the piano,
and boast OF aqnaintance with fine arts,
but they can't work They have got fine
minds but their bodies are slcaly, puny
and weak. To talk the matter plainly,
we have bred the bone and muscle out OF
our families until we have got kind of
human Jerseys, fine boned uild-eyed, nice
TO look at, and pet, and put on exhibition,
but so tender and weak that they are TT
neither for our climate, our work or our
circumstances. Our fathers worked L TO
Il hours a day ana never thought OF get
ting tired. We are used up when we
have worked four hours. Our mothers
made butter and cheese, fed the pigs and
chickens, did the milking, raised dozen
children, made the clothing Tor the fani-
| ", and when the shower was coming gould
rake or load hay. Our wives want a
maid TO tend the baby, another 20 do the
house work, a boy to do the chores, and
if We keep more than one COW cheese
factory to prevent the milk from sPoilInS.
1t is safe to say that ten farmers wives to-
day cannot do as mich hard work as
would Two 80 years ago. As farming
people we are played out II the young
New Hampshire farmer who wants a sfe
to help him get living instead OF one to
! hang ribbons on and pour patent medi-
cines into, would inst go down to your
city and find good strong, vigorous, IN
dustrious and frugal Irish or German girl,
he would find his farm would pay better
than it does now, and his ehilcren would
be hkly to be worth ten times as much as
farmers as VII be any of the next genera
ton 1T pure bred Yankees.
Year: 1877

ancestors struggled for it often, and won
1t fairly. Being embedded in their con
stitution, it cannot be destroyed except
by force strong enough to overthrow the
organic structure of the government itself.
! Legislative enactmentS or judicial decis-
io..s are poWerless either to strengthen or
impair it. The legerlemain of lawcraft,
the catches of special pleading, the snap
parades of practice do not help us 70 de
eide matter Ike this. A great nation
must not be mpaled upon pins point.
PrecedeatS which might bind a court OF
quarter sessions determining the settle
ment Of a pauper cannot tie up the hands
of the supreme legislature defending a
fundamental right of the people When
Greenville, In 1865, cited the authority Of
diverse cases to show that Americans
might be taxed without representation,
Mr.. Pitt, answered Il came not here
armed at all points, with the statute book
doubled down in dogs ears to defend the
cause Of liberty. | can acknowledge no
veneration for any procedure, law, OF or
dlnance, that Is repagnaEt to reason and
the first principles OF cur constitution. |
rejoice that America has resisted. So
spoke the defiant friend of our race in the
presence Of hostile parliament ten years
before the declaration on independence.
And now after this long interval of time,
we behold cur greatest right-the right on
which all other rights depend-succesSful
ly aSSailed in our own congress with the
same small weapons that Greenville used.
If brute force has crushed it out we might
bear the calamity with fortitude but To
see it circumvented by knayery and pet
tlfogged to death, Is to much to be eHdIr-
ed with any show of patience


If the majority Of that commission
could have realized their responsibility to
God and man, if they could only have re-
allied that III free country liberty and law
are inseparable they would have been en-
rolled among our greatest beaefactors, for
they would have added strength and
grandeur to our institutions. But they
could not come up TO the height of the
great subject. Party passion so benpmb-
ed their faculties that fundamental
right seemed nothing to them when 1t
came in conflict with some argument SUD
ported by artificial reasoning, and drawn
from the supposed analogies of technical
procedure, The constitution was, in their
Judgment, outweighed by a void statute
and the action of corrupt returning
board.


"Let those things be remembered by
our children children and if the friends
of free government shall ever again have
such contest, let them take care how
like that which betrayed the nation by en-
throning the Great Fraud of 1876
Year: 1877

CHEAP FEETH-A Connecticut dentist
has rot hold Of a composition whereby ne
can make teeth at a cost OF less than my
cents a set. This VIII enable the female
wearer Of false teeth TO have a set 70 match
every suit she owns, both in color and
desisn. With pink goods, pink teeth
with stripped goods, stripped teeth, and 50
on. The man who discovered ConnecsI-
cut vas no sloueh.
Year: 1877

UxGUARDED.- A Western editor, in an
unguarded moment, recently wrote The
good husband keeps his wife In whole
some ignorance Of all unnecessary secrets
The next day his wife laid the rolling
nm down on the table under his nose
three or four times, and in italicised sylla-
bles inquired what he had been UP TO
now
Year: 1877

like the baseless fabric it is. The NIcH-
OILS government inside of month
will be the only organization
setting up a pretense of being
the government Of louisiana. VI
course the csrollsry Of allthis will be
that HAYES is President by fraud and
usurpstion. But government in pos
session does not worry itself with syllo-
gisms. The southern Democracy have
not the warmest feeling in the world for
the northern wing, which turned its back
upon them in the hour of their attempt
to follow its principles to the logical end,
SO It is no difficult matter to get the
southern Democracy now to turn its
back upon it when it needed only their
help to get the flesh pots. The HAYES
party are aware of this feeling, and
how easy it is to turn those who
have more admiration for an open
enemy thap!they have for an unfaith-
full friend. So, looking at it in this
light, we can very readily see how an
administration party can be built up in
the South, which will be invincIble four
wears hence-snd without the united
South the opposition can have little hope
of making sufficient headway against the
victorious party in the North to turn the
tide in their favor.


The money-chsngers of New York
controlled the Democracy; and while
the people, by general uprising in favor
of reform, won glorious victory, the
selfish leaders in the East suffered them
to be robbed of it, and now they are left
to look out for themselves.


If the opposition party, by whatever
name it may be known, displays pluck, it
may succeed ia Winning, but parties,
like individuals, cannot excite respect or
win confidence without both physical and
moral courage.
Year: 1877

About three weeks ago an Indian known
as Sam lost his squaw through the blandish-
ments of another named jim. 1t seems that
the tair Mary tell victim to Jim's tender
words, and ut his solicitation left her hus-
bands bed and board and joined the fortunes
of Jim. Sam was not one to quietly submit
to this treatment, particularly as Mary had
taken some of the houshold goods when she
departed. The loss of these added much to
the wrath OF the victimized sam, who raised
such commotion among the Piute braves
about it that they determined to teach the
frail Mary, and by her example the rest of
the female portion of the tribe, lasting les
son. Jim tried to screen her from the gath
ering storm by hiding her; but they soon
found her, and about fifty of the tribe, IN
cluding Jim and several squaws, escorted
her to the hill just back OF Washoe Lake
last Saturday evening, where, safe from Cau-
casian intrusion, they made a huge pile of
sagebrush, and, after laying her firmly in the
middle of it, set it on fire. Then they COM
menced a war dance around the scene of the
cremation, in which all Joined except Jim
Sam being very fierce in his leaps and yells.
The screams of Mary added to the zest Of the
dance. Jim meantime sat quietly by and
seemed an Indifferent spectator to what was
going on. When the body of the unfortunate
Mary was reduced to ashes Sam expressed
himself as satisfied and they dispersed. The
warriors threaten their squaws with simi-
lar fate if they are not little more discreet
in their conduct--Ren0 (Nev.) Journal.