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Year: 1874

the river below. The steamer, as
soon as the party from Osceola got
aboard showed out and steamed
across the river, where she laid up
for the night. After shaking hands
with all the candidates, (we believe
every one on board were candidates
for some office, and was the reason
the officers gave for going over the
river, well knowing the propensi


ty of asplrants to receive pledges
OF support in the shape of toasts
delivered with the lips in contact
with the edge of 4 glass and dis
cussing the topics of the day, all
hands turned their attention TO the
main object of the excursion-en-
joyment. The generous rivalry
displayed by both the ladies and
gentlemen of the different sections
TO render the occasion one of mirth
and enjoyment was pleasing to be-
hold. Reunions under such happy
auspices tend more to reunite and
smooth over the ruffied front of Sec
tional differences than perhaps any
other means that could be brought
TO bear, and we hope to see them
continued. After spending the en-
tire night in tun, dancing and mer-
riment, the steamer recrossed the
river and the Osceolans came ashore
highly pleased with the nights en-
tcrtainment, then the boat with her
remaining precious and lively
freight turned her PROV down the
river. Tho young people Of Mis-
slssippi county will long remember
the pleasant trip and ever feel a
debt of gratitude to the officers and
crew Of the steamer West Wind.
Year: 1874

Hereafter no Legal Advertise
ments will be inserted in the TINES
unless payments is made when hand.
cd in. 1t requires money to carry
OF our business and wo are com
PEELED to adopt the cash principle
This rule will not be deviated from
in any case
Year: 1874




A mass-meeting convencs here
to-day; for the purpose we learn, OF
nominating a candidate to attend
the state convention at Little Rock.
We hear Maj. Critienden spoken
Of as the man to represent orr
county, and no doubt will receive
the support of the entire
county.


Inasmuch as the county demo
cratic central committee seems dis
posed to remain inactive, in the
matter of organizing the party, il
is hoped the meeting will take the
necessary steps toward organizing
the county with view Of nomina-
ting, by primary elections in each
township a full ticket for county
officers.


We are in favor of a fair and
square, honest expression of the
people, and if the aspirants refuse
to abide by the nominations, let us
nominate a full ticket of good men
and leave all outsiders to paddle
their own canoe.
Year: 1874

THOSE of our subscribers who
find an y on the margin OF their
paper, will understand thereby
that time is out, and that we need


cur money, and that if they desire
a further continuation of the paper
to please forward both the delin-
quent dues and the price of sub
scrIption for another year. We
take no more waiting" IN Ours ;
we want some of the substan,ials.
Year: 1874

The mutterings of the war of ra-
ces at the south are becoming un-
comfortably distinct. Which par
ty, the whites or the blacks, are to
blame, is difficult to determine.
When it lis remembered that the
kilograms sent to the northern as
sociated press are prepared by
southerners who are usually parti-
sans, it will be perceived that they
should be taken with a large grain
of allowance .-[Chicago Post and
Mail, August II


No moro free schools in this
State. So say the bourbon leaders.
Go it old fogIes you will yet feel
the power of the poor and laboring
classes in this state before you get
through with your nelarious
schemes against them. Cypress
them and keep them in ignorance
as You did before the war, and
watch the results.
Year: 1874

THE gay and festive steamer
Frank Forrest stopped at our
wharf the other evening, and
awaited the dismissal of the con-
grcgation, (the most of whom were
at the mourncrs bench) at the Un-
ion church, in order to have little
dance. and we are informed they
had very nice time. The young
men for whose special benefit ii
was gotten up, reciprocated the
compliment by making them
selves very funny and agreeable.
Year: 1874

We had partially prepared a
lengthy editorial on the subject Of


and favoring the system of free
common school, a subject suggest


ed by the action of the con. cons.


but after cogitating the matter
while, we came to the conclusion
that tho strongest argument, and
the most potent Illustrations that
we might draw, would be as insip.
id as a dummy, as compared to the
fact (to which we point with pride
that three fourths of our young
men are aspirants for Office, and
nearly all of them are benefi-
ciaries Of the public school system.
Year: 1874

had large and generous nature and not rev OF the
elements OF great man, the greatest we nave eNc.
and though own we had at the tiine uilust
Creudices against him, FOR his treatment on otn.th
rather than OF ourselves felt when told OF ms neah
that Catholics had lost protecting power iatuel
could shield from enemies. we Ielt pcIeoheIIy
orphaned. left desOate and helpless; that no man VIZ a
Left who could ill his place and act ms par, n M
he did work. honor 10 the Dlefaicuy ""u
glory 10 the land OF his birth.


Dr. BrownsOn is "a strenuous advocate OF inc uiNeo"
society into classes in direct opposition To tne oeiho
cratic equality which nc maintained in the days VI HE
blooming radicalisn. As good Catholic he feeis MN
self bound to honor the poor and TO do everything III ms
power for their temporal and spiritual welfare puJ ne
does not believe trying TO assist them out OF 'her
class by education or other artificial appliances. He
gives curious confession OF his own experience on
this point we ourselves sprung from them put oy our
own personal efforts yet never have we known IN the


life Of letters the peace and conentment the JOY ana
happiness we experienced daylaborer, though III
the toughest and hardest species Of labor Our sner
inv and our sin began when the future reviewer and
author aspred to station reputed above that to when
his parents once wealthy reduced, and in which
he had the happiness be born. How gladly, we nave
often since felt would return 10 the humble cond-
ton Of our childhood and youth, and exchange all the
honors Of the orator the author and reviewer for the
peace and security Of the woOdchOpper, the mechanic
or the ordinary farm laborer aspiring only to perform
well his DAVIS work" DR.. Brownson's remarks on the
character and effects OF the recent financial crisis are
pungent even TO bitterness. but they wen deserve the
attention OF rejecting readers less for their notes OF
warning than Tor their vigorous descriptions.
Year: 1874

The Eclectic Magazine for Januasy commences
tue nineteenth volume of the series, and the thr-
teth year Of the existence of the work. The remark
able success il has met with popular family maya
zine is due TO the diligence and good taste with which
It's selections have been made from the best cmreh'
periodicals OF Great Britain including contributions
from several Of the most eminent names in modern


literature and science and almost without exception
preserving high standard in the character OF Its con-
tents Always attractive, often entertaining IT has
higher aim than mere amusement and It's constant
perusa would guarantee acquaintance with many oil
the choicest specimens OF recent literature, and a
familiarity with the most valuable fruits Of modern
scientific research.
Year: 1874

IN devout Thanksgiving editorial, the editor of the Topeka Commercial remarks that: "It is difficult to believe that God concludes that Thanksgiving Day is chiefly serviceable In bringing to our re membrance the fact that there is God"
Year: 1874

Einaace.


President Grant is very hrm on the f.
naneial question and unhesitatingly de.
clares that he will not sign any bill that is
not within the bounds laid down by him in
his veto message He regards the present
conference committee project as more OBJ
jectionable than the Senate bill which he
might have been willing to accept as
compromise. Well informed persons ex-
press the opinion that there will not be
any legislation on finance during the pres
ent session.


THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL DEAD.
Ihe friends of TIE civil rights bill regard
it as dead for the present session. as they
are unwilling to relinquish the school sec.
ton.
Year: 1874

p/vft< and salaries Of the people.
something like what Moses laid
down as system Of taxation for the
Children Of Israel. only modified to the
wants Of the present period.


have written you Il much longer let
ter than | intended, as | am we'll aware
how much your time must be occupied
If you can find time to answer this ev-
er SO briefly, shall feel thankful Be-
fore close l must inform you of some
Of our work in this county The County
Council has started an insurance COM
pany on the mutual plan. We likewise
concluded to pack our own pork.
What Was the result? The highest fig
ure offered for pork on our streets be.
fore We commenced operations was
s2.75; the next day the buyers sent
runners out all over the county engag-
ing the hogs at So to 1926, and from
that they have been gong up and have
been higher here than any other point one
the river That movement saved the
farmers Of our county at least $50, 900.
The farmers are learning and will be
wiser next year. With sincere prayer
tor your welfare and success, I remain


Yours fraternally,


SAMUEL SENNETr.
Year: 1874

$. ". Smith, Esq:


DEAR SIR: 1t has now been some
time since had the pleasure of hear
ing from you directly but | have been
watching your course with great deal
of interest. | congratulate you most
sincerely on the unparalleled success
that has attended your efforts to relieve
the industries Of the land from the op.
pressions Of those monopelies and capi-
talists that, like the locusts of Egypt,
were exhausting and draining the life
blood Of the Nation. There is no surer
evidence of the Importance and value
Of the services you are rendering the
farmers of the Northwest than the hos
tility and abuse that a corrupt press is
pouring out on you but it is like fool
throwing dirty water at the moon-it
only returns to confound and pollute
himself.


Pcrseverc You have the best wishes
and sympathies of the farmers. The
more they abuse you, the more we will
esteem you. But there is one thing
you must make up your mind to: you
never will be popular you are too ag.
gressive. 1t requires an oily gamn,on
to become a popular man but man
who dares proclaim his honest convic
tions is too apt to tread on and hurt the
corns Of his neighbors and if you
should express an opinion in opposition
to some pretty penny newspaper, the
whole fraternity is down on you.


Now, there is question l would like
to see discussed this winter in the Clubs
and Oranges: What class of papers
should the farmer patronize ?" | have
just sent an article up to the Age or
this subject


Well, our elections surprised every
one. Had there been the least etor
made the result would have been much
more decided Our newspapers tina
took hold on our side gave us only ;
very lukewarm support, and as for ou
State Central Committee they did moth
| iny 1t is Said the sum total of thei
expenditures amounted to So 20, and a
they had S. to start on, there remains
$3.50 towards next campaign.


There is big job before us this win
ter. We must ,cork, acorh all the time
The old hacks prophesy that, now w
have gained the elections, we will dis
band and cease all future effort tina
there is not stamina enough amongs
the farmers to persevere; that after
little time to cool off they can be honey
fugled and humbugged as easy as ever
Well: all say, if they do give up nov
after learning how much power and in
auence they can exert, they deserve t.
be the slaves and serfs Of the monopo
lists.


l want to get the Oranges in ou
State to thoroughly discuss the que<
tion of taxation this winter. There ar
thousands who are supremely ignoran
of the principles and manner in whic
our taxes are levied. We should tr
and remove the burthen of taxation O
Of the real estate and place it on a
the net.profts of all the income
Year: 1874

IHE editor of Gentle paper in
otah wants an assistant He generous
~ desires to share his position with
some likely young man its SO deeply
interesting ; for though the paper is
yet in its infancy, already seventeen at
tempts have been made to assassinate
tn at editor.
Year: 1874

A Doc SToRY.-Mr. Davis, the pro
prietor of the American house in Rich
ford, has dog in his possession who is
slowly terminating his days in grief for
the loss of his master. The previous
proprietor of the hotel, Jerry Swetland,
owned the dog, which has black and tan
blood in his veins, for almost eighteen
long years, and was very much attached
to him. The attachment was reciprocated
by the dog, and about year ago the
master was taken ill and died. During
his sickness the dog was shut up in sta
bic for the purpose of keeping him quiet
and of weaving him from his master,
whose absence he would most likely
loudly bewail in the manner peculiar to
such animals, and shortly after the fu-
neral the poor brute was liberated. He
Immediately instituted a search for the
grave of his late master, and soon found
it, and would not leave it for three
weeks. He was subsequently, taken
home, and for the past eleven months
has been we'll fed and kindly cared for
by the present occupants of the hotel,
but no amount of kindness and petting
will elicit from him any manifestation OF
JOY, and he will no doubt soon follow
his deceased master.
Year: 1874

amused. A few years ago, Cardinal


Donnet, in the Senate, told his own story
of the circumstances under which be mar
rowly escaped being buried alive.


Thirty years ago, resident of the viii


age of Emes, in Dordogne, had been
suffering for long time from chronic
disorder of little consequence in itself,
but marked by distressing symptom of
constant wakefulness, which forbade the
man any kind of rest. Worn out with
this condition, he consulted physician,
who prescribed opium, advising great
caution in is use. The invalid, possessed
with that common enough notion that
the efficacy of the drug is proportioned
to its quantity, took at one time dose
for several days. He soon fell into
deep sleep, which continued unbroken
for more than twenty -four hours The
village doctor, being summoned, finds
the body without warmth, the pulse dead,
and on opening the veins OF both arms
in succession, obtains but few drops of
thick blood. The day after they pre-
pared for his burial But, few days
later, closer inquiry revealed the impru.
dence the poor wretch had committed in
taking an excessive quantity of the pre-
scribed narcotic. The report spreading
among the villagers, they insist on his
disinterment, which is allowed. Gather
ing in crowd at the cemetery, they
take up the coffin, open it, and are met
by horrible sight. The miserable man
had turned over in his coffin, the blood
gushing from the open veins had soaked
his shroud, his features were frightfnlly
contorted, and his convulsed limbs bore
witness to the cruel anguish that had
preceded death.
Year: 1874

BROTHERS AND SISTERS" NV broth
er is as polite to me as any one else, when
| go out with him" said a girl proudly
to companion. What a reflection on
his manners at home! A sister will, per.
haps accidentally knock over some of
the tools with which her brother is busy.
An apology involuntary rises to her lips,
but she stiles it on considering that it is
only Jack and all the satisfaction he is
offered for disordered plans is a blunt
OIL Angry reproaches are sure to
follow. You are real ugly, Jack, to
talk so about such thing; you know
didn't mean to, is the equally angry re-
Joinder. Why did she not say SO Two
words would have saved all the trouble.
Want of politeness is the cause of more
quarreling between brothers and sisters
than anything else. In their plays chill
dren are constantly meeting with little
accidents, for which they should be taught
to apologize. | have seen the cneeks of
a child flush with anger, his eyes flash,
and little hand raised to strike the un-
fortunate breaker of a toy, when, as If
by magic, the blow was arrested with
these words, excuse me, did not mean
to-"
Year: 1874

ABOUT GTRLs.-There are disadvan-


tages worse than these, if anything can


be worse, in sending girls to school over


the railroads. They somehow become
common. They cheaper themselves.
They lose, if they ever possessed, they
destroy before they are old enough to
feel, the divinity that should hedge a
woman. They fall into-I can hardly
dignity it with the name of firtation-
but into sort of bantering communica-
tion with unknown men, employees of the
railroad, and season Travellers traffic
waich is fatal to dignity in woman, and
inspires no reverence in man. And this


passes for loveliness and attractiveness,
or at most, perhaps, it is being little


wild. But it is wildness which girls
cannot afford. Delicacy is not thing


which can be lost and found. No art
can restore to the grape its bloom; and


the supreme charm of the grape is its


bloom. Familiarity without love, with
out confidence, without regard, is de-
structive to all that makes woman ex-
alting and enobling.


''The world is wide, these things are small;


They may be nothing, but they are all.


Nothing? 1t is the first duty of wo-
man to be lady. i Good
breeding is good sense. Bad manners in
woman isimmOrality. Awkardness may
be ineradicable Bashfulness is consti-
tutional. Ignorance of etiquette is the
result of circumstances. All can be con-
doned, and do not Danish man or woman
from the amenities of his kind. But
unshrinking and agrees
i've coarseness of demeanor may be
state prison offense, and GER
tainly merits that mild form OF restraint
called Imprisonment for life. x
1t is shame for women to be lectured
on their manners. 1t is bitter shame
that they need it. Women ought to
give the law, and learn it. Women are
the umpires of society. 1t is they to
whom the Difference should be paid, to
whom all moot points should be referred.
To be lady is more than to be prince.
A lady is always in her right inalienably
worthy of respect. Toa lady prince and
peasant alike bow. Do not
be restrained. Do not have impulses
that need restraint. Do not wish to dance
with the prince unsought; feel different
ly. Be such that you confer honor
Carry yourselves so loftily, that men
shall look to you for reward, not at you
in rebuke. The natural sentiment of
man toward woman is reverence. He
loses large means of grace when he is
obliged to account her being to be
trained into propriety. A mans ideal
is not wounded when woman fails in
worldly wisdom; but if in grace, in fact,
in sentiment, in delicacy, in kindness,
she is found wanting, he receives an in
ward hurt Gail Hamilton.
Year: 1874

Preserve sacredly the privacies Of your


house, your marriage state and your


hearts. Let not father or mother, broth.
er or sister. nor any third person ever
presume to come in between you two, to
share the joys or SORROWS that belong to
you alone, to you two. With Gods help
build your own quiet world, not allow
ing the dearest earthly friend to be the
confidant of aught that concerns your
domestic peace. Let moments Of alien
alton (if they occur) be healed and for
gotten at once. Never-no, never
speak Of it outside, but each to the other
confess, and all will come right. Never
let the morrow's sun find you still at va
rance. Renew or review the vow at all
temptations-it will do you both good.
And thereby your souls will grow togeth.
er, cemented in that love which is strong
er than death, and you will become tru-
Iy one. Thus do l pray for every mar
ried pair.-A Wife Of Forty Years.
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Price Current, Of
Oct. 23d, contains the following re-
garding the supply of hogs for the
opening season:


"The large receipts of hogs in Chi
cago recently Indicated one of two
things, either that the supply is un-
usually large, or that there is de-
sire on the part of farmers to send
them to market early and save their
corn. The prices ruling for corn for
present and future delivery point to
the latter as the more probable
reason for the early marketing of
hogs, especially for the country
along the lines of the railroads,
where it can be transported to mark
ct at comparatively small cost, es
pecially as the prices obtained for
hogs are satisfactory to farmers now.
At distant points from the railroads,
where it costs heavily to get corn to
market, it will doubtless be fed to
hogs more freely. Many of the hogs
sent to market in October must be
light weight, and thus the supply of
of pork produced from a given num-
Der of hogs will be reduced, but the
corn is of such excellent quality this
year that where it is fed to the hogs
they will be fat and heavy, and this
will go far to bring up the average.
There are some sections of the coun-
try where the corn crop is a failure,
but the hogs which were there, have
been sent to sections where corn is
plenty. Many hogs have thus been
sent from southwestern Missouri to
Illinois and Indiana, and tits thought
by some that this will increase the
number which will naturally seek this
city for market, and consequently
that the number of hogs packed here
this year will exceed that of last seas
on, even if the total number packed In
the West should not be as large.


''The season evidently opens upon
the short crop theory, or at least at
short crop prices for hogs, but if
prices are sustained it may develop
into long crop, for the influence of
high prices in bringing all of the
available hogs to market has been
more than demonstrated. If each
farmer sends one more hog to mar
ket-and they can do this by cutting
down their home curing-it counts
in the aggregate up into the hun
dreds of thousands. The circum-
stances are evidently favorable
for bringing into market all the hogs
in the country which can be made
available for packing"
Year: 1874

North Carolina has always claimed
to be Democratic State, and no one
IS surprised that she has proved it. The
republican party carried the State in
l0I2 only by those extreme and excep-
tiOnal eIcrtiOns which are made III
Presidential elections. Tho heavy
pressure Of the administration having
been withdrawn, North Carolina takes
her place among the Conservative
States OF the South, and is likely to
keep it unless the radical party be-
comes much worse than it was 1872,
which IS impossible, or much better,
which isimprObablo. The administra-
ton cannot coerce this State again,
and it IS not likely it can persuade it;
for the victory of the Democracy is de-
cisive. A majority much larger than
any one had reason to expect, Demo-
cratic Legislature and seven Demo-
cratic Representatives out of eight
which North Carolina sends to Con-
gress, are facts which should make it
impossible to change her political
complexion in the next two years. The
victors have the situation in their
own control. They can intrenc,
themselves impregnably il they
viii only practice honesty and
economy, and enforce in the govern
ment those principles of reform which
have almost disappeared from public
affairs in the South. This is what the
Conservatives must not fail to do if
they would rightly use their opportu-
nifty. They should strive to mako
North Carolina everything which South
Carolina is not.


The Democratic party at large must
not, however. assume too much from
this victory. Il has not made any new
conquest, but has simply recovered its
own. The great Republican States of
the South, with their enormous negro
majoTities, remain untouched by this
victory. 1t only shows-and in less
degree than the Democratic gains in
Tennessee-that the Civil Rights bill
is weakening the Republican party in
the South, and that the attempts of
the North to force it through Con gress
have inspired the white Southern vo-
ters with a new and energetic spirit of
resistance. 1t viii be interesting to
watch the effect of those Democratic
successes upon the third term question
and to see if they may not suggest to
the South theinIuiry whether General
Grant is absolutely necessary to her
rcstoTaUi0n.-Nc York Herald.