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Year: 1875

-J. A. Hearne is happy. It is a spanking girl and arrived by the } 2:15 q. In. train Wednesday. Little Rock has Boating Club, called the Rose City Boating Club, No. l.

 Rev. Father O'Kean died at Little Rock yesterday at 124 o'clock, a. m.

 With the dirt from tie exca- vation for the foundation of MT. J. l.. Shinn's new block, that gen tleman is having some of the low places on Main street filled up and the sidewalk from the corner of Main and River to Russelfs store raised about eight inches. If the town council will now sec ond the efforts of MT. Shinn and have some additional work done on Main street the looks of that part of town will be greatly i'm proved.

 -OUR PUBLIC ScHooLs.--It is to be greatly regretted that our school board find it utterly impos sible to do anything at present toward starting the public school. The fault lies in the school law. The tax which we are allowed to assess for school purposes is bare ly enough to sustain the schools if it was in currency, but when it comes in state scrip, it leaves a sad deficit. It is to be earnestly hoped that the next legislature will give the school law close con sideration and see if it cannot be so amended as to make our public school system of more benefit than it is at present.

 As baseball is just coming into vogue here and some of the boys may be desirous of becoming acquainted with the definition of the various technical terms used we commend a perusal of the fol- lowing definitions:

 Field-The COW pasture where the leather hunting is performed.

 Base-Salt bags scattered around in the grass for the play CTS to jump on.

 Nine-The number of roosters in knee brooches that constitute a base ball deck.

 Umpire-The chief baller-he bawls out strike" His other duty is to sit on top of the bat and smell the ball as it goes by.

 Judgment-The umpire's opin- ion after taking such a smell.

 One ball--W hat the umpire says when the smell proves unsat- isfactory.

 Strike--A miscue by the batter.

 Put out--The fellow who tries to get in without paying fifty cents.

 Dead ball--One which comes to life again after being buried in the hands of the pitcher.

 Foul-A ball which bounds just the way one is positive it will not.

 Fair foul--A little one for cent.

 Balk-"A breach of promise" indulged in by the pitcher.

 Stealing a base-Stufling a bag in the ear and walking off to the next, when the catcher isn't look ing.

 Beauty-A ball so hot that the second baseman lies on his stom, ach to avoid it.

 Eot ball-One that singes the short stops head as it goes by.

 Fly--A ball which scorns the earth, and, like the gentle horse fly, buzzes around in the elevated atmosphere.

 Wild throw--Slinging at the third baseman, and killing q small
Year: 1875

Golden Tongue Parlor Organ advertised in another column is an instrument that is winning for itself q good reputation far and wide. Sec advertisement in another column in this weeks issue.
Year: 1875

"Mes wart some bread an BUTTER"
said Robbie, meekly.


Mamma looked at him as though she
had never seen him before.


"I haven't any bread and butter for
children who don't live here" said she.
You'd better run home, little boy"


With choke in his throat Robbie
turned and ran to the playhouse. Ches-
ter was very indignant over this repulse,
and shook his head and talked about
running away.


Meantime it was growing dark, and
Bridget lighted up the dining-room SO
bright that the light shone in at their
little window Mamma told her not to
put down the curtains. So they stood
by their window looking over into the
cheerful room, while Bridget went about
and set the table, without their little
trays, and leaving their hieh-chairs stand
ing against the wall. Pretty soon she
put on great pile of fine white bread,
and nice slice of golden butter, and
then came a dish of clear apple-sauce,
and plate of fresh gingerbread.


After awhile she rang the bell, and the
family came in and the two boys, lean
ing on their window-sill and eagerly gag
ing at them, saw them gather around
the table, and mamma began to pour
the tea; but she looked very sober, Rob-
bic thought, and the choke came up in
his throat again. Then they turned
away from the window, but their little
house looked dark and gloomy, and they
felt forlorn and homeless.


SO in another minute there came an
other knock at the side door, and when
mamma opened it very penitent little
figure sprang in, threw his arms around
her neck and burst into tears.


"Oh!I want to live with you," he
sobbed, as soon as he could speak. "Tm
your boy; grew just for you, an I'll
never 60 way again!"


Chester walked composedly in, and
said gravely, though with husky voice,
and suspicious little gasp now and
then;


"I want to stay-in this house-'cause
you're my own-aunt, an I'm willing to
and butter"


Mamma comforted Robbie, and rang
the bell for Bridget to bring plates and
and soon they were seated in
their old places eating bread and butter
with ravenous appetites. But every few
minutes Robbie would turn around and
throw his arms around mammals neck
and sob, and cry out:


"Oh, feel as if ! should cry, when
think about going away from you to
liver'- Christian Union.
Year: 1875

WAS in trouble beyond any doubt
was in trouble-and how to get out?
"Tell white lie" said the devil to me.
"Tell lie, o! how dreadful! But what


would it be
If / should ?-though never shall tell one, +"


said l.
"Don't be frightened" said he, "we won't


call it lie
A few words in their way quite as good as the


truth,
And for this occasion far better, forsooth."
But my little white lie, when told it, grew


black;
Then, O! how could hide it or how get it


back?
For it never would do to be caught in lie,
For twas known that very good youngster


was I.
must manage in some way to keep it from


sight;
"Tell one more," said the devil; "'twill make


it all right"
But my two grew to three, and my three were


soon four,
And my four gave rise to dozen or more;
Till felt in my soul such sense of dis


grace,
had scarcely one friend I could look in the


face;
And at night to my room went creeping up


stairs
God is truth! could | sleep without saying


my prayers?
But my fears and my conscience thus followed


about,
l was really half glad when the lie was found


out;
For it vast is always the way with lie
And all said that very bad youngster was I.
Good or bad, have learned in one thing to


be wise,
And shun in the future all little white lies.


~. Y. Orphans Friend.
Year: 1875

The Imperial Almanac" published
in the first instance by the Board Of
Rites at Pekin, and afterward by the
various provincial authorities, does not,
so far as we are aware, mention before
hand the coming eclipses Of the sun and
moon; but the imperial astronomers,


some time previous to their occurrence,
notify the Board of the very hour when
they may be expected to be visible, and
this information is at once transmitted,
through the high provincial officers, to
all the subordinate officials throughout
the Empire, whose duty it is to "save
the sun and the moon" from being
devoured by some celestial monster; for
the Chinese nation at large has no def
mite notion of the actual cause Of
eclipses, o. may be inferred from the
terms by which they denote them, viz;
" Jih-shih" and Yueh-shih" literally
meaning an eating Of the sun and moon
respectively. The agent in tho matter
il usually thought TO be the omniveroua
Year: 1875




In old times, when etiquette ruled all
things, the rule was that no one should
speak to the King until the King had
first addressed him. But this is quite
changed now, and before a King is well
seated upon his throne, and almost be.
fore he is a King, an interviewer
pounces upon him, and cross examines
him as il he were doubtful witness in a
court of justice. The new King of Spain s
crown, though ordered, had not as yet,
we believe, been sent home by the
maker, before an emissary of New
York journal called at the Hotel
Basilewsky and said to the porter, King
Alfonso at homer Well sir, said the
porter, he is at home but Just take
him up my card; he'll see me; don't be
afraid, A few minutes afterward in
comes the King, trying to look as old
as he can. Please to answer few
questions, and be good enough to speak
slowly, as I've got to take down the an
swers, says the emissary. Now, then,
are you prepared to negotiate in respect
to GIBRALTAR Yes, replies the King,
not quite understanding the question,
but thinking that his interlocutor ex.
poets Eyes. God. Would you like to
settle the Cuban diflicultyY OF course
/ would. says the King, but it isn't so
easy. oh, where there is a will there
is way, says the interviewer, en-.
couragingly. BY the by, have you goi
the Popes blessing2 All, that's all
right Wen sell some ten thousand nd
ditional copies on the strength of that.
This is nearly the sort Of thing that
Kings seem glad to put up with nova
days"
Year: 1875


Paris Letter to the New York Times.l


The young King of Spain left Paris
night before last by the evening express
for Marseilles, a dispatch having ar
rived to say that the frigate sent for
him, with the Marquis de Molius on
board, had reached that port. A large
crowd gathered at the railway station,
which had been hastily decorated, car
pet covering the steps outside by which
the King was to enter. Don Alfonso
came up with his mother, and, mistaking
the entrance, came in by side door.
He was dressed in black, wearing long
Ulster travelling coat with belt. The
Queen did not pretend to hide her tears,
and they were pouring down her cheeks,
even though she never ceased to smile.
When the signal for leaving came the
son threw himself into his mother arms
for moment, then entered the carriage,
looking out at her from the window.
Although a Queen, Isabella de Bourbon
is mother, and she keenly felt the bit.
terness Of this parting. AS the train
moved out she rushed forward and
watched her boy until he had been
carried from her sight. A dispatch
from Marseiles gives an account of the
young Kings reception. He is now
en- route for Cartagena, where he is
promised grand reception to.
morrow, the Marquis de Molius
having received marked ovation when
he set out in search of the newly.elected
sovereign. am no hand for interview.
ing" but if it were in my line | could
say very many things of King Alfonso,
for l met the boy on Monday at the
house of friend He informed me that
he wanted to go directly to Madrid, but
had felt bound to stop at Valencia, where
his flag had first been raised. Don AL.
fonso is a very modest, sensible boy,
rather fine looking, despite his age, for
he is now in the "gander" period of his
existence, when no boy looks we'll, and
/ found him very sensible indeed upon
all points touched in the course of our
conversation. | made bold to remind
his Majesty Of eur trip to Vienna, and
he remembered the "bock" we took in
the mountains at the little station Of
Doppel. Some OF my readers may re.
member that described this at the time,
and also predicted the restoration as it
has now occurred. Don Alfonso was
then confident of it. And | may remark
that his proclamation just published,
offering amnesty TO all is dated q sig
ni6cant fact to note) August 4, 1874
Year: 1875

| have heard lately, writes a Paris
correspondent, the following melancholy
and romantic little story of royal lady,
whose personal charms and sweet, grace
full manners have rendered her quite as
unconsciously dangerous to her mascu. 8.
line adherents as ever Mary Stuart was
Of yore. 1t appears that during the
latter years of the empire the attention
Of the Empress, who ever has been dis
tinguished as an intelligent and magnifi-
cent patreness of art, was called to the
works Of rising young painter-a
Spsniard or Italian by birth-who had
just completed his studies, and achieved
admission to the salon. She was pleased
with his pictures, purchased several and
gave him commission for two or three
others. Finally, at his earnest solicita-
ton, she consented to sit to him for her
portrait, which proved TO be a striking
likeness aud a most admirable work of
art. From that time the young painter
haunted assiduously every place where
he could obtain glimpse of his fair and
royal patroness. When she went to the
theater or opera he invariably occupied
an orchestra stall in front of the i'm
perial box, and when she drove out he
sought to cross her path in order to OBJ
tain from her one of those graceful
bows and one Of those sweet, melan.
choly smiles which she always bestowed
with such courtesy upon those who
saluted her. At last came the war, aud
Sedan and the republic, and the park
and the theater and opera but knew that
fair face no more. Deprived of even
those passing glimpses Of the imperial
lady, the young artist became morose,
gloomy and misanthropical; he shut
himself up in the solitude of his studio,
and employed himself chiefly in repro
ducing his portrait Of the Emperor, a
work which met with ready sale among
the friends Of imperialism in Paris from
intrinsic merits no less than the fidelity
Of its likeness. The other day he was
found lying dead in his studio, with a
pistol shot through his head, and the
discharged pistol still clutched in his
lifeless hand.
Year: 1875

One who has tried it says that cup
Of coffee is a sure barometer, if you
allow the sugar to drop to the bottom of
the cup, and watch the bubbles arise
without disturbing the coffee. If the
bubbles collect in the middle, the weather
will be fine; if they adhere to the cup,
forming ring, il will be rainy; and il
the bubbles separate without any fixed
position, changeable weather may be
expected, Try il, and il none of these
effects are produced, add more sugar,
and drink it. A good cup OF coffee is
always salubrious in any weather.
Year: 1875

General Hawley wrtos distinctly to an inquirer
that it is not intended to open the Centennial
Exposition on Sunday The rules adopted early
in 1874 provided for this quite positively, and
lnye never been changed.
Year: 1875

If party leaders must make the approach.
ing election matter of partisanship, the
Gins" must beware of the "outs." These
nice little conventions always have an eye
to the main chance, and if not carefully
watched, a majority of those nominated
will favor the substitution of the 'outs" for
the Sins" and the contest that should in
volve questions of intellectual and moral
worth becomes a degrading struggle for the
retention of Offices on the one hand and
for their seizure on the other. Judge Ire
land himself is an ambitious man, and none
the worse for that but still he is an ambi-
tious man. He loves Texas, but also loves
Hon. John Ireland, and there may be other
roosvns anlkao7r,a TO tho Publso why q thor
ough partisan revolution and revolution in
placeholders is eminently desirable. Let
the people, as such, send up the ablest,
wisest and best men of Texas, and poster
ity will revere the more the virtues of Their
fathers, and Texas be blest through long
years yet to come with code of organic
law, making it pure republic and assuring
to each distinct community Z degree OF
local freedom more perfect than that which
blest and made rich and prosperous the free
cities of the Rhine and little republics OF
ancient Greece. I'D 5tl
Year: 1875

GEN. II. J. WRIGHT, known in Bragg's
army as of Cheatham's staff, and afterwards
as dashing brigadIer, and recently as an
editor in Tennessee, has been prOfered the
assistant adjutant generals place in the
army of the Egyptian king. There is sad
solemnity in the fact of drilling modern
battalions in the shadow Of the Sphinx,
and of preparing for war even in the face
of the pyramids, silent but tremendous
monuments to the forgotten memories OF
myriads who have fallen while they stood,
and to oblivion in the past and an eternity
before US. There is poetry in it, but too
much sunshine even for the poetry that is
in Gen. Wright.
Year: 1875

SSUBBISG HEERY.-Vice President Viii
son has been making q speech at Philadel-
pbia, in which be expressed his fears that
There is in the country to-day counter
revolution against the cOlored man" We
can only assure the Vice PTeGdent that it
must be q very quiet revolution, for we
have heard nothing Of it. BE also laid It
down as principle for action that 'sthe
condition Of the colored man must be i'm
proved" What improved again8 A great
deal Of money and some blood have been
already expended on these improvements; !"
and, as In the case Of man who is altering
his house, We should be glad 70 know when
the job is likely TO be fnishcd. Is II not
almost time 70 think about the desirability
Of improving the condition Of the white
manl He may be inferior 70 the black, but
still be is human being.
Year: 1875

IT isn't State governments, so much, that
have cursed and impoverished the people
of the South. They, the very worst of
them, may be endured. The intolerable
calamity of the age and country consists in
universal suffrage in municipal elections.
Let John Ireland inject this idea into his
hangers-on and he will then serve hls coun-
try instead of his party and be a statesman
rather than a partisan. Can he under
stand n
Year: 1875

THE Leader is too violent. Governor
Coke is a man Of strong, vigorous, active
intellect, but he is only mortal, and discov-
ering that the people had conceived a ter
rible antipathy to the creation of bonded
debt, he followed the popular idea, and
gave land to the international. The peo-
pie themselves are not omniscient-not al
ways just. They led the Governor perhaps.
But why discuss dead question? Time
Year: 1875

DENIsoN plucked the English hunting
party so fercely and unconscionably that
they quit the place in disgust, and their fore
man takes them to Dallas to complete their
outfit. They will l@now be properly fitted
out and fitted withln-with square drinks
and square meals. Everything is done on
the square in Dallas
Year: 1875

THE Dallas Herald Is famous for its child
like innocence, and it is SO very bland and
impersonal and kind when it makes gen.
tie little allusion, as in the following words:


whenever you find paper or man
spouting and clamoring for a nominating
convention, bowling and declaiming against
Radicalism and kindred evils, you may
safely wager that somebody has a small
sized axe, or it may be only hatchet, to
grind"


In an adjacent paragraph the Herald con-
tinues the strange discussion after this
fashion,:


'sThe Waco E1dminer plaintively signs
for the old convention systemi in all things.
Possibly the result of convention held
not many years ago may account for its zeal
and earnestness to Perpetuate fraud that is
disgrace to the Intelligence and common
sense ofthe people, Itisalways good policy TO
praise the bridge that carries US safely over,
but the praise should some times be tenn
peFed with little wise discretion"
Year: 1875

took place before the volcanic outfows
which covered up all the ancient det19tns
of the region, including that of the ancient
rivers (whose gravels have furnished SO
much of the gold of California The
geological age of the river period was
determined by Lesquereux from specimens
OF vegetation, now extinct, collected in the
survey of the ancient rivers specimens
indicating affairs of the pliocene age, re-
tanning some characteristic miocene forms.


After the volcanic period the land rise
again. the time and cmergcnce embracing
the glacial period and the new eroding
period in the sierra, morphic grcenstoncs,
and the GRANTEES were slashed with canons
three thousand feet deep by the action of
ice and running water Taking the rotes
Of continental movement determined by
Lyell, our geologist calculates that the time
required for the changes thus outlined could
not have been less than eighteen hundred
centuries. For period SO long preceding
the glacial epoch as the time when ancient
Ceerokee was buried by the waters of the
advancing sea, his estimate is certainly not
extravagant, though it dose transcend SO
enormously the time men have been ac-
customed to allow for mans residence on
earth
Year: 1875

In the CT rrent number Of the Oreriand
Monthly California gcologist reviews the
geological evidence of the antiquity of Il hu-
man settlement near the present town of
Cherokee, in that State, and estimates the
age of that most ancient of discovered towns
to be not less than 10000 years


The traces is question are numerous
stone mortars, found in undisturbed white
and yellow gravel ofa subaqueous formation,
not fluviatile, underlying the vast sheets of
volcanic rock of which Table Mountain is a
part In one instance a mortar was found
standing upright, with the pestle in it, ap-
parently just as it had been left by its
owner In some cases the mortars have
found at the depth of forty feet from the
surface of the gaivel underlying Table
Mountain. The distribution of the mortars
is such as to indicate with great positive
ness the former existence of human settle
ment on shat ancient beach when the water
stood near the level at which they occur
time anterior to the volcanic outpouriug
which Table Mountain records, and anterior
to the glacial epoch.


The recent geological history of that
region may be briefly summed as follows
Previous to the placing the mortars III the
position in which they have been found, the
early and middle territory sea level had re-
ceded to the position of the coal beds un
derlying Table Mountain, fully one thou
sand feet below the level of Cherokee
subsequently, in the phocene period, there
was further subsidence of about fitteer
hundred feet, something like six hundred
feet occurring after the mortars had been
abandoned All this, as has been noticed
Year: 1875

Philip could stand no more. The
tears that had come to his eyes twenty
times during the day and as many
times had been forced back now over
flowed his eyelids and ran down his
cheeks. He stammered:


"You are too kind to me, father
l do not deserve this"


"Don't deserve it, Philip" ex-
claimed Mr.. Raymond with much
apparent surprise. ~ think you'd
better leave that to my Judgment. I
should like to know what boy does
deserve kindness from his father, if
you don't? If had a dozen sons l
could not ask them to be more faith
full and industrious than you have
been. There, there! don't shed any
tears over it-you're tired-better 60
to bed as soon as you can, so as to
feel fresh in the morning. If it's q
good day tomorrow &c must secure
that rowen."


'Thank You, father" Philip said,
with a quivcri1g voice, and went i'm
mediately up stairs. If he had been
little less overcome himself he
would have noticed that his fathers
voice was slightly shaky, and if he
had looked back as he passed out of
the door he would have seen his
father brush 4 tear or two from his
own eyes.


IIenceforth there WAS no lack of
confidence, sympathy and affection
between MIR. Raymond and Philip;
and by reason Of a private interview
that Mr.. Raymond had with Clinton
Dcxtcr's father, Clintoh's home life
WAS much more agreeable than here
toiore.


Philip has always looked back TO
his fifteenth birthday as a remarkable
epoch in his life; and he never ceased
until his aged father recently Wis
tied him and heard him speak rather
harshly to his own little son II to
marvel at the wonderful change that
came over his father, himself, or both.
at that time. Then his father took
him aside and told him the whole
story, and cautioned him against
growing into the habit of speaking
in that way to his children.


"Always remember, Philip" he
said, 'that crustiness or harshness
are no more agreeable to a child's
feelings than they are to a grown
persons; and that they are more
likely to lead any one out of the right
path than into it; and that they never
will forget love-"