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Year: 1876

NEWSPAPER AND SCHOOL EDUcAToR.-
The newspaper is, without doubt, a
powerful instrument for good or ill, ac-
cording to the kind of newspaper meant,
but it is no part of its mission to sup
plant the school. 1t is the business of
the daily journal to print the news, to
comment upon the occurrences Of the
day, and to advocate that which its con-
ductors believe to be the right in all mat
ters of public and general concern. The
business of the school lies in a totally
different plane. 1t is its province 70
train the faculties of boys and girls into
ready and accurate modes of action, and,
so far as mere information is concerned,
to furnish them with a certain technical,
elementaEf basilar species of knowledge
upon which their disciplined faculties
may build as upon foundation wall.
The information which the school fur
nishes, the newspaper does not; that
which the newspaper gives, the school
can not and ought not; and hence, even
in this matter of giving information, the
only one in which there is the least re-
semblance between the respective func-
tions Of the school and the journal, it is
resemblance only, and not Identity
EUening Post.
Year: 1876

IRON IN SNow.-Dr. Nordenskield, a
great northern traveller, has discovered
that iron is always present in snow. By
means of magnet he was able to extract
it in small particles. 1t is supposed to
be Of meteoric origin, and is found alike
in snow which falls in temperate lati-
tudes and in the arctic region.
Year: 1876

There is clock in the Centennial
building which tells the month of the
year, the day of the week, the hour of
the day, the minute of the hour and
which is said TO run one hundred years
with one winding.
Year: 1876

If Tilden were President; in less than
three months we should see tides of
northern capital flowing into the South
to turn its rich natural resources into
unexampled prosperitv.-Park GodUin.
Year: 1876




walked up to the counter, and he
was standing with his side TO me and
didn't appear to notice me at all. | just
thought to myself, | will slip right over
on you; and placing one hand on the
counter | jumped over, my partner fol
lowing me. Mr. Oney, the cashier, APP
peared at first to very much frightened.
| told him not to be scared. that we
didn't intend to hurt him. We then
told him what our object was. He
said the cashier had the keys, and had
gone to his dinner. told him that
wouldn't do, as / knew him to be the
cashier that did not come there to
parley with him, and that | must have
the keys. During this time my partner
had got the money out Of the drawers
and put it in a common wheat sack tnat
we had brought along for that purpose.
then ordered the cashier 10 unlock
the safe, which he did after some hesl-
tation. The money was then taken
from the safe and put into the sack,
III W WV
$4,000 Then after examining the safe
TO see that there were no secret draw
ers, my partner motioned to put the
cashier in the safe. | told him 10, that
| would take him out to my horse with
me. There was Only one man came
into the bank during this time, and that
was the man that carried the mail He
came in and threw the mail on the coun-
ter, and | told him to just step outside
that there was a man ont there who
would take care of him until we got
through. | then told the cashier to
come with me- He asked me il | was
going to hurt him, aud told him no,
that just wanted him to go out TO my
horse with me, and then he could give
the alarm aud start the crowd after us
as quick as he pleased. ] don't think
we were in the bank over fifteen min
utes. One OF the boys on the outside
went into store opposite the bank,
and after buying some cigars, he brought
Year: 1876

One of about the first shots that were
fired pierced my partners breast, he
reeled and fell, and went 10 him and
asked him if be was badly hart. He
told me he was dying, and for me TO
leave him and try 10 make my escape;
but the idea of leaving him, my com
paniou, in that condition, ! could not
at first entertain for moment, for he
was a man that had stood by my side
in all sorts of dangers. We were about
eighty yards from the shed, where a
constant fire was kept up on Us. /
stopped down over my dying comrsde,
and fired upon the party i'll the sned
until they retreated into the house. |
then picked up the bloody body Of my
companion aud carried him abou: fifty
wards 10 a cornfield, when / examined
the wound. The ball had struck just
above the nipple OF the left breast, and
came out on the right side OF the back
bone. He asked me If thought there
was any chance of his getting well. |
told him that there was not shallow
of chance, and advised him to try and
make peace with his God, as he was
doomed man. | stayed with him until
nearly daylight the next morning. lie
retained all his mentul faculties as long
as / was with him, and implored me
several times to leave him, as | could
do hin no possible good by remaining.
He talked great deal about his people
at home and acted the brave nan, as he
was, as long as | was with him. When
the morning began TO appear |, Al his.
renewed request, left him. ! asked him
before leaving him if he thought he was
prepared TO die; he said he was ready
aud willing TO go. Thus parted With
this man, who, let the world say whI
Year: 1876

Professor Tyndall does not be-
lieve in the power of prayer to alter
the material laws of the universe,
and very probably he is right. We
do not indorse him, for the reason
that our knowledge Of the universe
is limited. But when Romeo pray
ed that the sun might not rise and
seperate him from his beloved Ju-
liet the sun rose all the same and
divided the lovers forever. What a
million Of men pray for another
million of men pray against. One
man wants rain, another wants


sunshine. How can local interests


affect the wisdom Of Heaven? Is it


probable that Providence hesitates


between its clients and says to


James, whose arid potato field is


withering for want Of water, "Dear


James, it will rain tonight" and


to Smith, whose hay is not yet


stacked, "Deaf Smith, your hay


will all be soaked" No; these are


affects of prayer which are not log


ical in the mind, and so far the


challenge Of Professor Tyndall, TO


have one hospital prayed for and


the other prescribed for, must be


held to be likely to result to the


advantage of his theory.


Prayer, however, while it cannot


influence material laws may effect


those unknown spiritual laws which


have so much to do with our mys-


terious nature. Who has not prayed


for some desired end? A dying


child, a dying wife, relief, perhaps.
from some trouble. There is q


story of a poor woman who prayed
for a loaf Of bread, and her prayer


was indirectly answered by party


of drunken men, who, in sport


threw loaf down her chimney


No one can solve these mysteries


for there are men of this world and
men of the next world. When thu
entire christendom of humanity
kneels every Sunday in church ant
implores Heaven for especial bless
inQs. is that ceremony a farce? |
it is a useless supplication, thel
one-half Of our religion is a mock
f ely. People say that every wish i
, a prayer, but that statement is
mistake. A wish is only the de
{ sire tor a result; a prayer is a re
quest for a reply.


We want rain badly now. TIL
earth is dead with drouth, an,
the crops will suffer from the lac
t Of water. Shall we pray that tn
: heavens may be opened, and til
mechanical laws of the universe b
suspended for our particular bent
r fit? Certainly we have the righ
: to demand, but it is doubtful if W
5 possess the reason to expect com
, pliance. In our churches on Sun
day, prayers for rain will probabl
be offered, and if the rain comes
the eloquence of the clergyma
, will be held in high estimation b
> his congregation, and if it fails
then Providence must take the IT
. Sponsibility. Our own humbl
t opinion is, that if we look for raj
. in this unhappy drouth, we ha
better study the weather reports
which at least indicate probabili
} ties. When we kneel in reverence
> to that inscrutable Power, which j
r above us all, let our supplication
be for spiritual blessings more thai
: for earthly gains.
Year: 1876

however, is not always the case /;
mothers sometimes, for example,
revisit their children and lavish
great tenderness upon them. But
it is essential that the children keep
the visits secret, or they will call
down the vengeance of the mother
on their native village. These are
strange notions, and we linger over
them with pleasure. They invest
death with a sort of romance, and
rob it of half its terror.
Year: 1876

Reforms In W0men's GeEments.


Conventions for the considera-
ton of radical changes in the shape
and modes Of wearing garments in
tended for women and female
children do not appear to impress
the public mind favorably. The
failure possibly arises from the fact
that many of the women and nearly
all of the men engaged in agitating
the reform are propagandists OF
other irrelevant notions which have
not SO vital a claim upon the atten-
ton Of women as the subject of
reform in dress should undoubtedly
have. The question of SO fashion
ing a garment that it shall be sup
ported by the body with the least
tax upon the strength, and be least
hurtful to the health, is not q Wis,
ionary " "ism." 1t is, therefore, very
much to be deplored that it should
be entangled in any way by either
men or women with any sort of doc
triniaire preaching or preachers
with which a majority of sensible
domestic women are sure to disa-
gree, and perhaps to hold in abhor-
renee. The reform desired would
certainly be great boon to female
humanity, but it will never make
a material step of progress until
it is totally separated from all the
disturbing notions with which it
is generally complicated. The
present style of dress for women
and female children is utterly and
mischievously defective. We do
not now refer to "apron-fronts,
or "pull-backs," or "pannierS," " OF
anything commonly understood by
the word fashion )" but to the
style which compels the garments
to be suspended from or supported
upon the body In most unnatural
wayG. The weight of mans
dress is borne upon the shoulders
The burden of every garment he
wears, except that of his hat, stock
ings aud boots is upheld upon that
part of his body best adapted to
carrying the weight. 1t is just the
opposite with the weight of the
garments worn by women and fe-
male children. With them the
burden falls mostly upon the hips
and loins, literally dragging down
their strength and greatly dam
aging their health. Men, who have
greater masculine strength than
women, carry the load of theil
dress supported from that part Of
the body where the burden is felt
the least; women, who have less
physical strength, carry the weight
Of their garments supported from
that part of the body which mus
inevitably make the weight most
burdensome and exhausting. Look
at a porter bearing a Saratoga trunk


He walks away lightly with the
great mass after he once gets it or
| his shoulder. How far could he g
if he had it swung from his hips
Yet it is precisely such an inversion
of the natural way of bearing {


burden that is brought about by
the prevailing style of garments
T for women. The real reform pro
{ posed is not a question of short
Bloomer skirt" or Of masculine
trousers, but of such a mode o.


wearing garments as will not weai
away strength and health and life


If the majority Of women do no
like the leadership Of those WIZ


hold public ccnVeptionsof the sub
ject, they should consider the mat
, ter earnestly in their private circles
and thus "extend the area Of free
DOM" as the anti-slavery champions
: used to say.


! An Austrian paper tells how al
Year: 1876

An Austrian paper tells how an
Austrian swan one hundred and
sixty miles without a rest. Ameri-
can newspapers have got to give
truth The go-by or else see some
foreign publication climb over them,
Year: 1876

Olive Logan writes from Washington
q racy pen.picture OF the spouse of the
Japanese Minister. This diminutive
lady, who is spoken Of as Mrs. Yoshida,
though that Is but one OF her many
names, is really a little beauty, though OF
q sort which is somewhat odd to the eyes
of western civilization. Her complex
ion it would be difficult TO describe. 1t
is no more like ours than a pure white
diamond is like diamond considerably
off color; yet it would be false to say
this lady's skin in any way suggests that
Of persons who have iu their veins even
the faintest tinge Of negro blood. Her
eyes are black and soft and luminous,
and there is in them a strange, uneasy
shrinking from observations sort Of
fear-which perhaps this lady herself
never knew, for she is yolng, and has
lived in an age Of progress; but this eye
expression is an index of the sbject
modesty OF women in the East, the moral
and physical abssement of the sex, which
has lasted through years of forgotten
time. In another generation or two, the
women of Japan will probably be as
quick of eye, as saucy Of speech, as
some Washington bellies, but Mrs. Yo-
shids, though an advanced Japanese, is
certainly type of womsnly gentleness,
modesty and sweetness Her English
vocabulary consists of about six words,
and it is strange study to see her at
the opera, her whole attention fixed
almost to a strain upon the doings Of
the mimic scene, the action Of the
players, more especially their songs
while atevery moment she turns to her
husband and talks to him in choicest and
most fragrant Japanese. Mrs. Yoshida
has only lately donned the frills and fur.
bellows of our fashions, having hereto
fore preferred the loose soft garments
OF her countrywomen, but how she is
more Parisian than Paris, and her new
trousseau must have cost elough to buy
a farm in Japan. But then she didn't
want the farm, and the clothes, in Wash.
ington diplomatic society are indispens-
able
Year: 1876

strongest senses. If we come to
the essence of each odor, we should
have made an enormous stride for
ward both in hygiene and in chem
istry, and none would profit more
than. the medical profession if it
could be as conclusively demon
strated that such all odor proceeded
from such and such a cause, as we
already know of sulphur, sulphur
ate hydrogen, ammonia and the
like.
Year: 1876

THE election of Colonel Leath to the
office Of superintendent OF the public
schools gives very general satisfaction,
especially TO those of the teachers who
served with him in 1859, in which year
he held the same position. With an
unquestioned ability as an executsnt, he
also has experience, and we are salts
fed will keep the schools up to as
high s condition Of efficiency as the
public demands aud the means at his
disposal will permit Of He returns to
his old position at time wher, in the
minds Of many, there is room fer reform
in school management; but, COM erva-
tive as he is, we have full faith there
will be no radical changes, and that
whatever he may suggest or order, will
be for the advancement ef the schools
and scholars. or course he will resign
his position as police commissioner.
Whc will be elected in his place?
Year: 1876

IT is said that Hon. Dorsey E. Thomas
has announced il his intention to sup
port Tilden and Hendricks, but run for
governor on an Independent ticket. We
trust this is not so. Mr.. Thomas is q
gentleman Of experience in political
matters, and must know that it would
bs impossible for even his admitted
ability to reconcile q position
so contradictory with any hope
OF a result that would not be
likely to ipjure the cause Of the gen.
tlemen whom he desires TO see elected
President and Vice President Of the
United States. 1t would be impossible
for him to advauce his own interests Is
an independent candidate for governor
without affecting Tilden and Hendricks
unfAvorably. We hope, therefore, IL it
be true that he hiss announced himself
an independent candidate for governor,
that he will reconsider his determine
ton and place him, ELF in full sympathy
with his party.
Year: 1876

WE cannot offer any objections to
the proposition of the mayor for con-
sultstion with the bondholders, although
that plan has already been once tIied
and proved failure. The bondholders,
notwithstanding their power through
the peremptory msndamus, may have
Telented within the pas. two years, and
they may do for his honor what they
refused to the commission. Where so
much is at stake 1t is worth finding out;
we therefore add ours to the general
voice jlst now urgent that the mayor
himself shall represent the city as am
bassador on SO delicate mission. Let
us give the bondholders one more
chaDce.
Year: 1876

is IT NOT in order for the Young De-
mocrScy 70 form q Tilden and Hen
bricks club? Such an organization will,
we think, find plenty Of work to do
during the present canvRss-work that
none can do go well as the young men
who always enter upon the performance
OF political duties with energy and 9 de.
termination for success.
Year: 1876

How almost universal is the hatred of
man for snakes! Most persons seem to
think they are fulfilling Bible com
mand if they kill one. Children are
early taught to dislike them and make
war upon them. Snakes certainly are
not very pleasant neighbOrs, and some
"t them are poisonous. In few varie-
ties the bite is fatal to men and ami
mails. And Vet, after all. there are
selpents that are much gleater enemies
to human peace and safety than the
snakes that crawl upon the ground -
serpents whose bite is fatal to both soul
and body.


| should like to have all the bows
and girls make war upon the serpent
intemperance. This serpent bites and
poi>ons and kills more people than all
other SerpentS put together. Possibly
six persons die in the United States i'm
il year from snake-bites though
doubt if there are half that number
But from the bite of the serpent in
! temperance about 10000 die every
Year: 1876

year, and hundreds of thousands more
are so badly poisoned by it as to be un-
fit to live and unfit to die.


The serpent that kills so many yOu
will find everywhere Thousands are
kept in barrels or bottles in houses, and
are let out to bite people who come in.
They are in hotels and in saloons. Peo-
pie often keep them in their cellars (;
and ladies sometimes keep them in their
cuphoaldS, and let them out to bite
their friends who come to visit them.


Do you know what IL wise man of
old said about this serpent This is
what he said: ''Look not upon the
wine when it is red when it giveth its
color in the cup; when it moveth it
self Alright. At the last it hiteth like
serpent, and stingeth like an adder"
That is sound advice and solemn
warning. hope you will heed both
Year: 1876

That Mr.. Tilden was the only Demo
crat whose nomination could give his
party even the hope of respectable
contest is the most fatal comment upon
!he st. Lonis nomination. There really
Is no other man in the Democratic par
ty whose nomination, as against that of
Gov. Hayes would not have been alb
sufd: This shows how entirely ground
less Is the claim of the Democratic to
he reform party. This is not gov
eminent of men but of laws and parties.
ana the significance of nomination is
|" he sought i'll those upon whom the
responsibility rests. Mr.. Tilden him


sell Is a most adroit politician. The
essential difficulty with his role of re-
Year: 1876

BANDIT, plural Bandits or Banditti. An
outlaw; also, n a general sense, robber;
a highwaymau; a lawless or desperate fel-
low.-Noah Webster. Does not this thor
oughly describe NJ. c. Butler and NJ. Gary
at the head of their rifle clubs at Edgefeld
the other day when they ordered the Re
publican procession to halt on the highway
and allow their clubs to pass first to the
grounds of the meeting? Do they not
claim to be above the law? Did they not
rob and pillage the poor people of Ham
burg after the massacre? Little Phil
Sheridan knew what he was about when
he christened the Louisiana White Leaguers
''Banditti." He is not apt to use two
words when one will express his meaning
lust as well.
Year: 1876

THIS Is much like the Lamar and Bob
Toombs style of defamation in 1861. To
read it one would never suspect that it was
the utterance of lips which had sworn to
uphold the Constitution and obey the laws
passed Hereunder. 1t has the ring of the
old JEFF. Lamar Singleton treason.
tits from the Southern States, of Mississippi:
"We have done nothing, as people, for
(which we have to reproach ourselves.
" Then away with the degrading and ruin
'' GUS policy of conservatism, by which we
d" tacitiy,admit that we were wrong and the
North was right in the recent war. Away
with it, we say. 1t is SANDER upon the
dead who died for us. 1t is stigma
upon every man who fred gun for US
q in the grand heroic struggle for liberty.
Down with it; spit upon it; trample it
under foot, and brand with shame its base
unworthy defenders" " This fellow ought
to be looked after by his friends. He is
likely TO do himself an injury. He appears
to be afflicted with the rabies
Year: 1876

THE editor of the Southern States,
paper printed at Okolona, Miss, is in a
terrible fury at the report Of Senator Bout
well on affairs in Mississippi. Hear him:
Owe can tell Senator Boutwell, in the be-
"ginning, that we will never quietly ac-
"quiesce in being deprived of our rights
"The committee of which he was chair
"man was sent here for partisan purposes.
"Their verdict was made up before they
"set foot upon our soil. We fought to
pithdrap from the Union, and sOs can
flight to stay in it." Yes, you had a right,
and legal right, too, to be hanged for treason
at the close of the war. That was for fight
ing to withdraw from the Union. But you
were excused from indulging that right
once, Just one time. If we do not mis-
judge the temper of the people about now,
you will be hanged sure enough the next
time you are caught fighting against the
flag
Year: 1876

From the Quitman (Mss.) Intelligencer.l


In Choctaw county, Alabama, bordering on
our county across the State line, the negroes
did not vote at all, hardly one in a hundred,
and showed a remarkable indifference. They
had no leader, white nor black, to organize
them on the color line against the whites in the
late election, and the consequence was non
action, for the white people had adopted
policy of letting them severely alone, neither
"intimidating" them nor foolishly appealing
to their good nature or dull reason. That
county has ceased to be an inviting field for
organizers to array the black race against the
white race, and the negroes have ceased their
foolish and ruinous antagonism. happy
state Of affairs, politically. prevails in that
county as compared with former years when
carpet -baggers and scallawags used to give so
much trouble. We are thinking that our
Choctaw neighbors have had so little trouble
in carrying their own election that they might
afford to give their friends on this side of the
line some aid. If they conclude to do so we
respectfully suggest to them to pay their
special attention to the black-line organizers
to convince them Of the error of their way,
which they seem so well to know how to do.
If Mus, the great " Organizer" should revisit
IHc uoluo VI uln uio1 SIoaG dClllcfcuouLo, duu
they want US to, we will let them know, so
that they can visit his appointments and
preach and pray and wrestle with him and all
of the whole half dozen pale face fomenters
of political animosity and race antagonsm
among the negroes in this county, and make
Christian and patriot of him and Christians
and patriots of them. Rid US of the few pale
face organizers, and tie rest is easy. They are
miserable sinners and should be converted by
all means.


N. B.-Somebody cut this article out and
send to Garfield, SO that he may see, for him
self, that there is no mischief in it, like he
found in our Mercury, demanding troops. And,
speaking of troops, reminds US to say to our
Choctaw friends, if they conclude 10 give us a
helping hand, we will stand between them and
all the troops they may meet. The Radicals,
themselves, go into other States to canvass,
(Judge Chandler is going to Illinois,) and
why may not Alabama Democrats come to
Mississippi without any more violating any
rule of law or propriety which should make a
necessity for Federal soldiers!