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Year: 1877

I Ex-Gov. PECK is one of the few Yer


monters who don't like Hayes. In fact, he


is said to " "denounce" him. Somebody


should inform the old gentleman that the


rebellion has been put down. Another ex-


governor of Vermont, Lawyer Underw ood :,


of Burlington, calls the present administra-


ton an immaculate conception" Con-


sidering everything, that is very keen bit


of sarcasm. But there is danger that the


State over which Mr. Trenor W. Park pro-
poses to be governor may imagine that Go.


Smiths attorney is as honestly as he Is hap


PLY complimentary. Mr. Underwood Is
known to excel in characterization. -
Springfield Republican.


Gov. Peck las We happen to know, regards


President Hayes as actuated by patriotic ard
upright motives, and as acting in accordance
with what he believes to be his duty. But
he does not approve Of the course pursued
by the President in the case Of Louisiana.
Looking at the matter as a lawyer, be
says that the constitution, as construed by
the highest Judicial tribunal, in ii decision
in the Rhode Island case, announced by
Judge fancy, makes it the duty of the Pres
ident, when in any State there are two rival
and hostile State governments each claiming
to be the rightful government, TO decide
between them, and to sustain with the au-
thority and power of the General Govern
ment, the State Administration which he
decides to be the legal one. 1t was, he says,
the clear duty of the President to decide
whether Packard or Nichols was the lawful
Governor of Louisiana. He had no business
to delegate this duty to cOmmission-nor
to permit result to reached by indirection,
which should relieve him of the duty. If
on fair investigation he found that Nichols
was elected. he should have said so; and if
he found that the Packard government was
elected, he should have so decided and
Governor Peck believes that the announce
ment of his decision, and purpose to sustain
1t by all the power Of the United States,
would have established the State Govern
ment 90 declared to be the lawful one without
any outbreak, or necessity for any unusual
show of force to resist rebellion. But if this
were not the case-ifit were plain that such a
decision would not be submitted to Dy the
Louisiana Democrats, and that the Govern
ment had not force enough there to sustain
it, this could not alter the duty of the Presi-
dent. He should have made and announced
his decision and when it appeared that the
General Government had not the power to
sustain its authority in any State, then that
emergency would have to be met, in its own
way The same principles, in Gov. Peck
view, apply to the case of South Carolina.
The way in which the Nichols and Iamp-
ton governments have been permitted by the
President to become established, he cOnsid
ers to form most dangerous precedent. of
course the Republicans flippant remark that
the rebellion has been put down has no ap-
plication to Gov Peck's position. And
Gov. Peck's opinion on a point of law, is
respected in this State. however little the
Republican may think of it.
Year: 1877

In San Francisco scores of men have made money for the last fifteen years in trafiicking in greenbacks and the national currency, and many more in New York and other eastern cities trad ing in gold. As matters are tending their occupation will soon be gone and the quicker the better. Says the s. F. Bulletin of the 9th:

 The local money changers are feel ing uneasy at the gradual equalization of currency values to a gold basis

 When the millennium is reached-if it ever be reached-their business of course goes up the spout, and they will ind themselves on the town in search of employment. There is quite an ar my of these money changers In this city, and hence the variations m the value of money are uf great interest tO them. and also to the public. Within the past year VIC have seen subsidiary silver go begging for buyers at 94c., gold. tO the dollar, while trade dollars were freely offered at 93c.. and legal tenders were hard to B II at 911 Sc. 10 The ! dollar Such was the condition of things year ago. Now subsidiary sill yer is taken quick at 96c. to the dollar. while trade dollars cannot be had from the banks under 961 5c, and legal ten ders are sought after at 9Sc.
Year: 1877

WE notice that the Southern Pacific railway company has sufficient faith in the virtues of the wood of the Eucalyp- tus, to order all the telegraph poles for their new Bantas cutoff" line in Con, tra Costa county, of thIs timber, The y have experimented extensively with it, and are of the opinion that it will out

 last, by a number of years, the redwood poles in common use. This is fine proof of faith in the good qualities of the Blue Gum at time when so many wiseacres are trying to make the public believe in it's utter worthlessness for any purpose.-Los Angeles Republican
Year: 1877

THE Sacramento Daily Record Union is out in a new dress of type which vastly improves its appearance. If il would drop some large cuts and pos ter type from its columns, it would be as handsome as any paper in the coun try-east or west. It keeps up the rep utation of the old Union for news While several of the leading Pacific coast journals frequently omit tele- grams not in accord with the mana gers views, we believe the Record Union publishes all and either lets its readers draw their own conclusions or expresses its own views editorially. All in all, there are few more newsy papers than the Sacramento Record Union.
Year: 1877

Among prospeciors and other mining

 men of snall means q good deal of talk

 about base metal mines is now heard

 By base metal mines is meant such as

 contain o-es that are a mixture of lead, iron and silver, with, perhaps, a small

 per cent. of gold-ores that cannot be

 worked by the ordinary mill process,

 but must be smelted. The base metal

 mines are about the only ones outside

 of the Comstock and the Grand Prize, Tuscarora, that are paying. Formerly prospectors in the eastern part of the

 State were all in search of mines hat

 would yield free milling ores, ard

 would hardly stop to look at base

 metal lode; now, however, il is just the

 other way. The cost of transporting

 heavy engines, bed plate, wheels, pans,

 boilers and other machinery required

 in the construction of mill, far into the country, over sandy plains and rug ged hills, is so great that it is difficult matter to find capitalists who are will ing to undertake such enterprises on the strength of any ordinary showing of ore A base metal mine, on the con- trary, requires no such heavy and ex- pensive machinery. An engine of two or three horse power. weighing but q few hundred pounds. for furnishing the blast for the furnace, Is all that is re quired in the start Indeed, when ores that will pay for shipping are found, men that have DO other capital than muscle may at once begin 10 make mon ey. Not a few men are now working mines in this manner, sending their ores to California for reduction. In this way they soon get money enough ahead to put up small furnace, when they are quite independent. Uncle Billy Raymond, at Lodi, and the DOwney boys, four or five miles from the same place, are working their mines to prof it, though as yet they are shipping their ores to Sacramento. The ore is hauled to the railroad for twenty five dollars per ton by teams returning from Belle vile, and other places in that direction, to WadswOrth, when Q car is loaded and sent over the mountains. In this way they have been clearing about S40OI per ton on the ore shipped. They ship only their richest ore, as they expect soon to have furnaces at their mines, where theF ore piled up that will pay as h S200 per ton. All can not expec md as rich mines es those mentione. yet the chances appear toI be vcry good for finding lodes that, with a small furnace and the labor of three or four men at mining, burning charcoal and smelting, would pay much more than wages. Miners are begin ming to see this and are looking up the base metal leads which they formerly worthless The limestone or base metal range certainly appears to be a better place for men of little means than in this section at the pres Enterprise.
Year: 1877

Once more the year It's fullness pours To cheer the heart of toil; Once more we take with gratitude The blessing of the soil. I hear the children laugh and sing They pull the grapes together; And gladness brealhes from everything In this October weather. The winter days were long and dark, The spring was slow to come; And summer storms brought fear an,

 doubt

 To many a humble home. But rain and sunshine had their will And wrought their work together, And see! we heap our basket still, h this october weather. My heart has had its winter, too, And lain full bare and gray; did not think a spring would come, Much less a summer day. How little did dream that life Would bring us two together, And I should be a happy wife In this October weatheri Doubtless the frosts will come again, And some sweet hopes must die; But We shall bear the passing pain, And smile as well as sigh;- Nor let us cloud with fears of i'll This golden hour together; For God is In His garden still In this October weather.

 -Scribner for October.
Year: 1877

THIS week Yuma Indian appeared before one of our justices and stated that some months ago he had bought from a Mexican some horses at a low figure, they being at that time extreme. ly thin, tender-footed and worn out

 He had fattened them up on mezquite beans and new grass since the over flow of the river A few days ago an other Mexican came to him, claimed the horses and forcibly brought them away onto this side of the Colorado. He said that the Mexican who sold him the horses lives near town and wanted the matter brought into court, SO that he could either recover his money from the vendor or recover the horses from

 the man who took them. If he was a white man he could have the matter iudicially investigated; but being an

 Indian who has not abandoned his tri- bal relations, he is not, under our law

 qualified to bring suit or to give evi- dence. He has stated his side of the case and asked for justice; our courts are closed against him. Now if he or his friends indulge in reprisals, howl will go up about Indian outrages. :" Many questions have two sides; here is one of them.-Sentinel, 18th instant.
Year: 1877

IN a letter 10 lhe Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior among other things said; With regard to the criminal prosecution of depredators I would recommend that they be not confined to those mostly poor persons who actually cut timber on the public lands with their own hands, but they be directed as well, and principally, against the parties who are found to have organized and directed the steal ing of timber on a large scale, and de- rived from that criminal practice the greatest profit.
Year: 1877

Enloe gives the following lucid ac-
count of the Trezevant barbecue in
last weeks jackson Tribune and Sun:


The Grand Marshal then made a
still better speech on the all absorbing
subject of dinner. He announced that
there was plenty for everybody to eat,
and that order must be preserved.
This seemed to satisfy the audience
with one exception. Brother Wade,
of the MILAN EXCHANGE was the ex-
ception. He had been saving him,
self for a week to enjoy the square
meal" to which the editors were in
vited, and, and it is extremely doubt
ful whether he had breakfasted or not.
We found him threatening to head
"bread riot" and charge the tables,
but by little stratagem succeeded in
keeping him quiet. 1t was the SIM
plest treatment imaginable. We just
gave him little Ice, and then carried
him around the pits to view the carr
cases, and though there were only
forty-nine all told, he counted ninety
eight, and was satisfied that there
would he enough for him. At the
table we saw Wade, and Courts Of
the Nindicator, the centre of attrac-
ton. Their relish of the "square
meal" suggested the idea, how sharp
er than a serpent's tooth is the appe~
tite of a man who holds the thankless
position of a country editor. After
dinner Maj r. P. Caldwell of Trenton,
was called out, and in his usual hap
py characteristic style, he entertained
the audience for some time. The
Major didn't speak very willingly, but
he spoke well. A feeble call for
certain editor, here nameless, was then
made, but the said editor lid not re-
spond, because he was invited there to
eat a "squar meal" and be happy one
day with the friends of his youth.
Remembering the counsels of the Graf
ty and bold Wolsey whose patriotism
was the refuge of scoundrels, "Let all
the ends thou aimest at be thy cOun-
try's, thy Gods, and truths" he was
silent, because he saw no opportunity
to promote the two former, and as for
risking himself TO tell the truth after
spending an hour with Brother Wade,
that was out of the question. Moth
ing personal in that. We all went
home full--of the things we had
seen and heard, and yet it was too
warm to be,happy. Wade wanted to go
home on a freight train. Tkeconduc-
tor would not take him except as
freight, and the agent refused to bill
him as freight on account of his dam
aged condition, unless the freight was
prepaid, and the consignee at Milan
no flied by telegraph that the consign-
ment was, "perishable property and
in bad condition. He didn't get off.


Ofcourse, after the admission above,
that he could not tell the truth, the
public will know just how much of his
account TO believe. 1t is well known
that, after the crowd was through eat
ing, it took long and urgent persuasion
to induce him to leave the table, and
then he said he was hungry, but was
to eat more.
Year: 1877

An old man, whose name we could
not learn; from Water Valley, Miss,
was robbed in open day light last
Friday at the depot. 1t seems he
was under the influence of liquor, in
the sitting room, and had his hat on
the floor, with his pocket book it.
Bill Russell, colored, was seen to take
the pocket book and make of with it.
He was afterward arrested and bound
over to court. 1t is thought another
negro had hand in it. About
twenty-six dollars were in the book.
Year: 1877

Bad weather for camp meetings and
cotton.


Sickness in this neighborhood is
abating somewhat.


We understand the camp-meeting
at Wright's Chapel has been well at
tended, Notwithstanding the unfavora-
bic weather, and that much good has
been done. Perfect order was main-
tanned. We hope to make as good a
report of all meetings in future.


The cotton prospect in this county
hegins to look gloomy. Too much
damp, cool weather. Very little is
opening yet; and if an early frost
catches it, there will not be half a
crop made. Besides, we hear that
the worm has made its appearance in
one or two neighborhoods. The corn
prospect is splendid. A great deal of
wheat will be sowed this fall.
Year: 1877

The nOrth-bound passenger train
on the Central road was wrecked one
mile north of Bradford last Sunday
evening. Two coaches and one sleep
er were thrown from the track, and
battered up somewhat No one was
hurt, and little damage was done. a
defective rail caused The tronble.
Year: 1877

The cause Of temperance in our
county is being advanced and the
ladies here are improving. ViOla>
tors are strictly dealt with and the
result is few violations and but few
expulsions. We may visit Milan
Lodge and the EXCHANGE shortly.


PRlMUs.
Year: 1877

Ray. The number of pupils is rapid
ly increasing. Our citizens now feel
that they have in their midst, a school
which can compete with any, and
where their sons and daughter may
acquire a proficiency in all branches
usually taught in first clas school.


More anon,


w. II. s.
Year: 1877

On the margin of your paper indi-
Gates that your time is out, or will ex-
pire with the next paper. Remember
our rule-CAsH ALWAYS N ADVANCE.
If not renewed We take it for granted
you do not want the paper any longer,
and your name will be dropped from
our list. We intend to publish the
best paper in West Tennessee, and
the more subscribers we get, the bet>
ter we can make the paper. Let ev-
cry one renew and bring another with
him.
Year: 1877

 The Arkan River with its fine bottom nd borders Pope Remove, Gala Creek, Whig Creek Little Bineys and Illinois Bayou through farming be found anywhere 

  he rais of and which in rais needo only necessary them gentle.
Year: 1877

son was elected to the Senate, his
friends desired to serenade him, and
applied to Secor Robson for the use of
this band. Although he had been
President, the request was rudely re-
fused, and a few nights later the same
band furnished the music for Boss
shepherds shoddy ball.


The Marine Corps is Il fraud in every
part, and cost the taxpayers about Il
million of dollars every year. Re-
jected applicants for admission to West
Point and the Naval Academy, worth
less sons of Senators, Representatives,
and officers of the army and navy VINO
are too lazy to work, and could not
earn u living if they tried, are foisted
into this corps and pensioned on the
treasury with large pay and allowances.
1t ought to be broken up. The country
wants neither corps nor band.
Year: 1877

There is grief among the sssociety"
at Washington because the Marine
band is to be reduced from fifty to
thirty members. The twenty to be
cut of exist without any authority of
law. Practically, this band is of no use
at all for any official purpose, and it
would have been abolished by the last
Congress but for a humorous speech
made by Mr.. Carter Harrison of Chi
cago. 1t is ostensibly attached to the
Marine Corps, which has its head
quarters at the capital, and figures on
the pay roll without the least utility


To play at the Presidents receptions,
the entertainments of the Cabinet, and
the parties OF favorites, is the chief
business of this band, which costs the
Treasury about twenty-five thousand
dollars year. When Andrew John
Year: 1877

Editors Dispatch: In your report OF the
last City Council meeting 1 observed that
the proposed ordinance to establish the
Office Of "Iuspector Of Buildings" was not
discussed.


sincerely hope that the friends Of this
ordinance in the Council are not going to
be "bulldozed by few builders who are
opposed to it, and allow this most important
measure to fall through. l have talked
with many OF our leading citizens, and find
all OF them, without any exception, In
favor OF the ordinance, and that it be passed
at once. Is the ordinance to be "tabled" !"
until we can get up another large drst-class
accident and q loss of life and limb from
some falling building to urge that this ques-
ton be taken up again


1t seems to me that we have had warning
enough in the past and such fearful loss OF
life as to require that this matter be deferred
no longer. Let US have an inspector, and
let the Council be sure that they give us the
right man for the place. s..


Respectfully, .- CITIZEN.


May %, 1877. ...t ...,.
Year: 1877

Mau- Queen Bestiuat.-The coronation OF
the selected queen OF the Presbyterian Sum
day school will take place tonight at the
Music, addresses, and floral
decorations will all combine to make the
scene a most attractive one. Besides this
the ladies will offer cream, cake, and straw
berries of such quality and flavor as to
please the most fustidious. ; 5t~
Year: 1877

Committed for Trial.-Justice Martin yes
terday sent Thomas White (colored) on to
the June term OF the Chesterfield County
Court on the charge OF breaking into and
robbing the company's store 2t Granite.
White was arrested in Smyth county few
days since by Sergeant Hall.
Year: 1877

STRAWBERRY FEsTIvAL.-The ladies OF the
Eleyenth-Street synagogue will nave
strawberry feast and festival at Montlceiio
Hall this evening and tomorrow evening,
and expect all persons who desire to send
refreshments for either evening to noti1y
the committee, who will be at the hall TINS
mernisg at 8 o'clock. As this festivai 4 Is IS
the first ever given by the ladies OF tIls
synagogue, they will no doubt meet Win
liberal announcement.
Year: 1877

ANNUAL MEETING or THE MALE ORPHAN
Soc1ETY.-T annual meeting OF the Male
Orphan Society will be held in the lecture
room of Centenary Methodist church Thurs


day night at half-past o'clock. This meet
ing promises to be one of unusual interest,
and will doubtless be largely attended.
Year: 1877

COMPELLED TO RESIGN. The custom
house is in commotion again. This time
it is about the collectorShip Of internal
revenue. The President has requested
Colonel White to resign. He will do it.


But who will be his successor?
Year: 1877

Jeff White was one of the wealth.
lest and drunkenest young men In
Los Angeles, Cal. Katy Harvey was
beautiful, but she belonged to a poor
and wicked family, who conceived
that they might mend their fortunes
by inducing jeff to marry her. Katy
did her best to fascinate jeff, and sue
ceeded but jeff was not inclined to
marry, and his sister Influenced him
as much as she could the other way.
The Harveys got him into their house,
and gave him whisky and morphine
for two weeks. By that time he was
at the point of death. and consented
to the marriage. A willing justice
was found to perform the ceremony,
but with his arrival came Miss White,
determined to preventit. Then there
was o scene of strife at the dying
mans bedside. Katy took his hand,
and the justice began the ceremony.
Then Miss White pulled her brothers.
hand away. In the midst of the con-
fusion he died unmarried.
Year: 1877

Prof. L. B. Arnold writes to the n.
Y. Tribune, of butter:


of the great mass of butter which
finds its way into the general market
and Is reckoned as good, the first and
most obvious defect is an old taste, de-
rived. probably from too much or too
long exposure of the cream to the air
before churning. Everybody under
stands the fact that butter exposed to
the air soon acquires an old and disa-
greeable taste; but everybody does
not seem to appreciate the fact that
cream deteriorates the same as butter,
by standing open to the air. But 1t
certainly does so, and very much
more rapidly than butter, and espe-
cially if exposed to air which is warm
or which contains any bad odors or
vapors. Owing to the nitrogenous
matter mingled with cream it is very
susceptible to change. Exposed to
warm and damp air, cream will decay
about as much in one day as butter
would in q week in the same situa-
tion. 1t is therefore very easy, and
certainly very common, for butter to
acquire an old taste by too much ex-
posure of the cream before ohurning.
The surface of the cream which is ex-
posed to the atmosphere, especially to
q faulty atmosphere, is all the time
changing and working toward decay
while standing for the slower partic-
les to get up and ready for the skim
mer. The longer this exposure con-
tinues the greater is the change and
the more Is the flavor of the resulting
butter affected. It is one of the stri-
king advantages of the more modern
modes of raising cream, that they
bring 1t to the surface quickly and i'm
prove the butter by shortening the
exposure of the cream to atmospheric
Influences. The cleanest favored but
ter-that which has the fullest, fresh
est, and most delicious taste, and the
best keeping quallty-ls now made by
heating the milk to expel objectiona-
bic odors, and then, under an air-tight
covering. lowering the temperature to
hasten the assent of the cream. IF
cream must be exposed to the air
while rising, 1t will do very much to-
ward avoiding the old taste so often
found in butter, to have the air In
contact with the cream as cool as pos
sible. Cold retards change, and the
cooler the surface is kept the less pro-
gress toward decay. The cooler air
now sought in modern creameries
makes a marked improvement In
their butter ever those which have