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Year: 1873

First of all, the men employed rOved
about and collected together all manner
of fragrants of brick and stone from the
mound, and, indeed, had to watch
them closely to prevent them taking
anything of consequence. With these
fragments they brought a number of
modern sun-dried bricks from the old
village, and, when sufficient amount
of materials was heaped together / had
to lay out the plan of the house by
arranging lines of brick and fragments
in the positions in which I wanted the
walls. The men then made some Arab
mortar for this purpose they dug up
and turned over large square space of
ground, and some donkeys were engaged
to bring skins full of water and loads of
dung. Next the earth, water and dung
were mixed, some of the natives taking
of their superHuous clothing, to tread
in the pudding with their bare feet,
and mix it with their hands looking
like splendid specimens of mud larks.
Each piece of brick and stone was we'll
bedded in this mortar, which was laid
on and faced with the hands. As soon
as the walls were sufficiently high the
workman found that they made q screen
both from my observation and the heat
of the sun, and coming round the cor
ner I sometimes caught the whole
company of them lying on the ground,
smoking their pipes. When the walls
were finished denkeys we're engaged,
and tue whole party went on an ex-
cursion to the banks of the Zab to col
lect and cut brushwood for the roof.
This Job lasted them two or three days,
and then fresh mud pies were made to
bind the brushwood and complete the
roof. A staircase, built up to the roof,
made as usual of brick and mud, finished


ne elegant structure.-Cor. London
Year: 1873

Notwithstanding the call from part OF the
members Of tile Reform Central Committee
issued at Little Rock on the itl OF July last,
urging the people all over the State TO iInme-
,liatc,y call mcetiags in their various Coun-
ties and demand of those In authority call OF
a State Constitutional Convention, not one
meeting has come within our observation,
vet, responding 10 the wishes of the Commit
tee. Sebastian county In which the opposition
TO Gov. Baxter Is, apparently, the strongest
certainly the most demonstrative through
their papers, have not yet taken any action
Why is it so, Mcclure &. Co tell rs that the
people, the dear people, are ripe for Consti-
tutional Convention and demand Of Gov.
Baxter that hc assemble at once the Iegisla-
this is so, why is II the people do not respond
to the call of the committee. most especially
so. Sebastian county. where the leading pa
pers of the County favor and advocate the
call of the Convention? We do not believe
one fourth of the people Of the State favor or
want the present Legislature assembled. We
can speak confidently for Crawford-her peo-
pie never want to see that Legislature to-
gcther again.


The few persistent convention howlers in
the State. should cease their carpng. or take
measures at once to get an expression Of the
wishes Of the people on this question through
publc meetings in the various Counties.


We are in favor ofa Constitutional tonyen-
ton. and In the next election shall endeayor
to make that question an issue, and try and
have men elected to the Legislature who will
represent the views and interests OF the great
masses of the people on all questions of i'm
portance.
Year: 1873

NR. EDITOR: Knowing that you feel deep
interest in the welfare of the Common
Schools In our County, would ask you to al
low nc, through your paper, to call the AT
tsntion of the people to the fact. that on the
Sd Saturday in August they will elect Trustees
Of Common Schools In their respective DIS
trlcts, and that the Trustees, then elected VIII
meet on the LIST Monday OF December and
elee! County Superintendent, We would
urge the people TO be careful in their selection
of Trustees. and get men who feel deep IN
terest in the matter OF Common Schools and
who will be careful themselves in their Sc
lection Of a good man for County superln-
tendent. Let no such thing as politics come
in here, but let the best man be chosen for
the place. W. l. boLLiNo'
Year: 1873

az We are glad to know that several OF
our best farmcB will give more attention IL
wheat raising. Crawford county should fur
ni,h every pound of flour used within her
limits. Let us be Independent OF the outside
world. SO far as raising our own wheat. corn
and hogs, at least. and we will iind our money
market less stringen. than at the present
time.
Year: 1873

The New York Erening Post says: A
greater fault of the average correspondent is
his sublime egotism. He discovers one day
that the Genessee falls are situated at Roch-
ester, and it strikes him as marvellous dis ,
covery. But his grandfather knew it, and
probably was the victim of precisely those
impressions which the young man at once so
voluminously describes. So with much of
what is call Watering place correspondence


Peopl ehave drank the waters and danced and
firted and made love at Saratoga for years, 4
and wha tthe newcomer participates in with
all the delight of new experience is very
old story to great many persons older than
he. His weakness lies in his egotism, which,
leads him TO write common places, to the end
of his long chapter concerning things which
are in themselves entirely worthless. Behind
this is his belief that newspapers exist for the
purpose of maintaining young men on their
travels, to help them through a financial
strait, and generally for the diffusion of chari-
ty. That letter writing is business requir-
ing character, knowledge and experience
does not enter his head. That newspapers
are under any obligation to furnish their sub
scribers with reading matter of some value as
well as of a certain amount is not apparent 70
him. To earn a penny, and with the convic-
ton that "anybody can write for a newspa-
per-" he dashes ahead. That what he writes
otter finds its way into the waste-paper bas-
ket is not so wonderful as that anything he
writes under such circumstances ever escapes
that capacious receptacle for useless rubbish.
Year: 1873

All! we have been looking for it ever since
the warm weather began, and now it has
come. That shower of lively frogs, without
which no summer can be allowed to pass,
has come down in Kansas City. 1t always
comes in some of those places where regard
for truth has not yet been imported. The
frogs which came down the other day in X.
G. are said to have ''varied in size from that
ofa piece of coal to lump of chalk"
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE A MUSTARD PLASTER
How many people are there who really know
how to make mustard plaster? Not one in
hundred, at the most, perhaps, and yet
m ustard plasters are used in every family,
and physicians prescribe their application,
never telling anybody how to make them, for
the simple reason that doctors themselves do
not know, as rule. The ordinary way is to
mix the mustard with water, tempering it
with a little flour, but such a plaster as that
makes is simply abominable. it has
half done its work it begins to blister the pa
tient, and leaves him finally with painful,
flayed spot, after having produced far less eff
feet in beneficial way lthat was intended.
Now a mustard plaster should never make a
blister at ALL If blister is wanted, there
are other plasters far better than mustard for
the purpose. When you make a mustard
plaster, then, use no water whatever, but mix
the mustard with the white of an egg, and
the result will be plaster which will ''draw''
perfectly, but will not produce blister even
upon the skin of an infant, no matter how
long it is allowed to remain upon the part.
For this we have the word of an old and emf
nent physician, as well as our own expert
ence.
Year: 1873

THIS Is from an Indiana paper:
Some boys dropped an anvil weighing
two hundred pounds ont Of 4 fourth
story window On the head OF a negro
who was passing. and he had them ar
rested. He said he was willing to let
the boys have fun, but when they jam
med a jemmen's hat down over his
eyes, and spoiled it in that way, the
law must take its course.
Year: 1873

LEAvESwoRTu. Kansas. mat be IN
awful place in which to live, for only
last week lively, beautiful and tai
ented young lady retired to bed with
the bloom OF health upon her roseate
cheek. and no thought of impending
harm. and in the morning her friends
found her pale with the hue of death
and the pillow bore the roses that once
reddened her cheeks.
Year: 1873

The editor of an Illinois paper has
an animal, the fore part of which Is cat
and the hind part rabbit. Its gait is
peculiar. either walking on its front
legs or jumping with the Others. lie
will kill aud eat it rs soon rs it Is tat
enough. taking good care that he re-
serves the hind q uarters for his own
plate,
Year: 1873

THE REMAINDER oFTHE OHIO STATE
TICKET STILL IN DoUBT-UNION OF


THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY ON
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
PROBABILITIES OF AN ALLIANCE
OF THE REPUBLICANS AND APOL-
10 HALL ON TIE COUNTY TICKET.
Year: 1873

The evidently increasing interest in the cause of education is most encourag- ing feature in the general progress and prosperity of the country. and the bureau of education is earnest ill it's efforts to give support and direction to the new ap- pications and increased facilities which are being offered to aid the educators of the country in their great work.
Year: 1873

Iwould suggest to congress the pro- priety of promoting the establishment, in this district, of an institution of learn ing, or university of the highest class, by the donation of lands. There is no place better suited for such an institution than the national capital. There is no other place in which every citizen is so directly interested.
Year: 1873

At no time during the last four years
have the prospects of our town been so
promising. Houses are going up all around
Business is active. Our wholesale trade
has never been so good. The streets are
full of people and wagons. The Cincin-
natl Railroad will almost certainly be
built, and most probably along such a Ii ne
as to be completed to this place long before
it is TO Chattanooga. In any event, it will
certainly connect with this place. No one
has yet dreamed OF the magical influence
its completion will have on business and
on the prices of property. The Macon
road is nearly q certainty. The Rabun
Gap road will soon pass into the hands of
a new company, on such terms as will en-
able 1t TO push it to completion. 1t is a
necessity to South Carolina, and the leads
ing men there are at work. Our iron es-
adjustments are enlarging their business
capacity and operations.


BY q generous effort, we can easily secure
the Methodist University, which will be
worth from two to five hundred thousand
dollars annually to us. In a word, while
there is no excitement, our town is going
forward rapidly, with splendid future.


Let each man do his duty and act with
some degree of liberality and regard for
his own good and Knoxville will soon
contain thirty thousand inhabitants. This
IS from one who has been for a long time
gloomy over our prospects.


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Year: 1873

The New York Times, thinking that the
meteorologists are correct in assuming that
we are to have cycle of very hot sum
mers, calls attention to a certain sugges-
ton of an eminent sanitarian in the health
department, DR.. Stephen Smith, as to
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects of the
expected heat. One of these is to eoualize
the temperature of the city and purify its
atmosphere by causing large number and
variety of shade trees to be set out in vari-
Gus streets and squares. The effect of trees
Is TO cool the temperature in summer and
soften the cold in winter.
Year: 1873

The follOwingis Act No. AZ Of the
recent session of the General Assem-
bly,, relating to the manner OF collect
ing taxes which are overdue:


SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives Of the
State Of Louisiana IN General Assem-
bly, conpened, That in case of refusal
or neglect Of any person against whom
property is assessed to pay the taxes
thereon within ten days after the ex-
piration of the public notice required
by law, the tax collectors may give
ten days written or printed notice to
the owner or agent of the property
assessed to pay said tax, after which
delay, if not fully paid, the said tax
collector may make a seizure of such
property by recording description of
the same with the amount due in the
mortgage book of the parish where it
is situated, and on the fourth day of
such recordation shall proceed to sell
said property without legal process to
pay said tax and all lawful costs, after
advertising three times within ten
days in the official journal, and in the
country parishes where such publica-
tions can not be made, by public no.
tice for such ten days; provided, that
when personal property sufficient in
amount is found to satisfy the States
claim against such taxpayer, the same
shall be seized to satisfy such claims
in preference to real estate. The tax
collector may, if necessary, bring suit
and have other due judicial processes
in courts of competent jurisdiction in
the name of the State; provided, that
in all such cases he be represented
by the law officer of the State.


SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted, etc.,
That in all cases of neglect or refusal
to pay their licenses, Of any descrip-
ton, by any person, firm, company or
corporation doing business in this
State, the tax collector shall give ten
days written or printed notice to sucl.
delinquent taxpayer to pay such licen-
ses, if such delinquent can be found /;
otherwise the notice shall be given by
publication for ten days in the official
journal, if there he one in the parish !;
if there be no official journal published
in the parish, the notice may be
posted at tho ourt-house door, and if
at the expiration of said notice the
license, together with the costs, be
not paid, the tax collector may, with
out any judieial formality, proceed to
seize and sell ! after ten days adyer-
tisement, the property, rights and
credits of such delinquent taxpayer,
or so much thereof as may be necessary
to satisfy the claims of the State, as
aforesaid, together with all legal costs
and charges. The tax collector may,
when represented by the proper law
officer of the State, obtain from any
court of competent jurisdiction, in
the name Of the State, Il writ of in
junction against any person who may
not have paid his license, restraining
any such person from pursuing his
business or calling until such license
is paid. In such cases the court shall
render judgment for the amount oi
the license due, with twenty per cent
special damages. In the parish ol
Orleans all suits for licenses and other
taxes, State or municipal, shall, fol
whatever amount, be brought before
! the Superior District Court.
Year: 1873

Gg- When Sydney Smith had gravely
listened to the details Of mad dog S
course through the streets of London
how he frightened n bishop, and was at
length dispatched with didiculty-the
clerical wit remarked that he " should
like to hear the dogs side Of the story. y
Year: 1873

Judge Fieury s very mad at tho gopher family and Mr. T. H. Head shares the Judge's feelings In an eminent degree. The trouble ls that, enc day last week, both anciept and honorable gents carried water for m hour or more, with the "laudable" object of drowning ye gopher, wblcL was supposed to bu laying of in it's hole, into which they sent bucket after bucket of water until after comparing notes. they went 10 tht house, procured . trap, set t over the hole, with the view of catching the gopher, in case the little sure of the game. the Judge arose next morning went for the hole, and was amazed and disgusted to find that Mir. Gopher had made new opening the dirt from which he had piled on tue Judges trap
Year: 1873

Those Of our subscribers who, previous to the first oftbis month, were served from the counter of the post office building will favor us by calling at this office for their MINERS. The change was first made under the impression that postage would be charged upon such papers as are al- luded to.
Year: 1873

The proceedings of the board of supervisors win be foand elsewhere iu these columus. Their most notable sets have been the making of quar. terly settiemeuts with county officers the msk- ing of new election precinct in the eastern part Of the county, and an appointment Of Justice of the Peace for said precinct They are now sitting as board Of equalization. They have a question with the town officers, about which power" is to pay certain fees.
Year: 1873

The passing of the business AFFAIRS oil the
Spragues into the hands of trustees Tor the
adjustment of the claims Of creditors is
without doubt the best arrangement for
all concerned that could be adopted. 1t
will prevent a large sacrifice of property,
insure the creditors payment in full Of
their demands, keep the companies upon
their feet so that they may avail them
selves of what resources they have, and
last brt not least it will permit their works
to continue in operation 50 that the labor
ers dependent upon them for support Will
not be turned ont of employment and left
destitute. The creditors have acted wise
ly in accepting this plan of adjustment,
and the public feel gratified that the diff
culties are to be settled in the best man
ner to subserve the rights and interests of
all concerned aef


As to the effect which this will have up
on the improvement oithc property owned
by the Spragues in Augusta it is Of course
impossible to tell at this time. Some think it
will delay improvement several years, 9th
ers that building may progress more rapid
ly than had there been no difficulty. The
former argue that it will require eonsidera-
bic time to clear away the embarrassments
and pay the debts of the company interest
ed here; the latter reason that the way to
pay the debts is to improve the property
as rapidly as possible so as TO get the ben
eft oil what has already been expended
When we consider the large amount of
money which has been invested in the
dam, canal, stone work of various kinds,
and other improvements, which would be
profitable if the works for wh.th they are
the permanent foundation were erected,
but must be unproductive and Improbable
without the mills and factories which they
were designed to uphold, we have con
fidencc to believe that the work of i'm
provement will go on at an early day
With the materials already prepared an(
work done preparatory to the erection o
buildings, it will surely be economy 20 2;
on, and at once.


If the Spragues in their embarrassed
circumstances are not able to provide the
means necessary to go forward with their
improvements, we are confident that they
may receive aid from our citizens TO ena-
BILE them to push their work. There is
capital in the city which might. be devoted
TO this purpose, and we have no doubt
that the owners would be gladto help the
growth of the city as well as benefit them
selves by doing it. With a proper degree
of enterprise and public spirit there need
be no suspension of the Improvement of
the water power at Augusta. The logic
of the situation, whoever may possess the
property here, points most decidedly to
progress. With the requisite courage and
enterprise this apparent misfortune may
prove blessing. Our citizens should not
fold their hands in this emergency if they
can do anything to clear away the present
entanglemeats. If the Spragues need as
sistance that our men of money can rem
der, the double recompense in aftording it
ought to repay them richly. Let not the
works suspend tt day if Augusta can pre-
vent it. ;c.iF
Year: 1873

ton. We have never met the Democratic
party in an open, square, earnest battle, where
the full vote was polled and only the honest
vote counted, without beating it, and we can
beat Il in the same way again. - :.
Year: 1873

The great lesson of the Wawasset dis
aster is the need of an indpendem bureau
of Inspection for steamboats,. The inspec-
ton is aow an incident of the treasury,
and is miserably defective. The best engi-
neers of the nation should be summoned to
study the all-importaut matter Of making
life safer upon our steamers. A bureau
should be organized with this duty alone
to do. Thousands Of precious lives are
sacrificed for want Of this provision. Every
soul lost on the Wawasset was sacrificed
to the reckless neglect of the most ordinary
precautions for the safety of passengers.
Yet this boat steamed out from the very
shadow Of the treasury, which department
was made responsible for the inspection.
Such gross case of the neglect OF duty
ought to arouse universal Indignation and
direct the mind Of the country to reform
the present system, and the organization
of bureau supervised by the best men in
the profession, who are alone competent to
deal with the business Of inspection. Till
then these horrors will 60 on increasing as
the necessities of trade and travel increase
the number of boats.
Year: 1873

Not since the terrible explosion at the
Arsenal years ago, carrying death to so
many families in this city, has the COM
munity had such shock as that expeIien-
ced through the loss of the steamer Wawa-
set with its precious freight of loved ones,
mothers, wives, daughters, sons, husbands.
the hope, pride and support of so many
homes.
1t is too soon to fix the exact blame
for this awful disaster, but there is al
ready the usual painful tale of unavaia-
BILE life-preservers, boats that could not
be launched, fire apparatus that would
not serve the purpose on the emergency,
and hopeless waste of life almost wi,h-
in a stones throw of the shore.


1t seems, however, that the steamer was
not beached in shoal water before the fire
had full possession, as was at first repol ted,
but though steam was put upon her when
the fire was discovered, the engine sud
denly stopped working through some de-
rangement of the machinery by the fire.
when the boat was in eight feet water; and
though the boat touched the shore in four
or five feet water, subsequently, under the
slackened impetus it seems probable
that she did not ground at that point,
oue iioLtSu ihbO uccpcF WAFER
before she finally sunk. This
would account for the fact that so many
were drowned. Another reason why SO
many women and children perished was
that they were huddled aft, and were there
exposed to the full force of the flames, as
the strong draft carried the fire in that
direction. The fire spread so rapidly in
the middle Of the steamer as soon to cut
off all communication from the stern to
the bow. ha. T 4 tHa


There were some five hundred life
preseryers on board, but they were in the
gangways on the main deck, and few of
them were reached. This shows the
necessity that some more available place
for their storage should be made, as well
as that some better lile-saving apparatus
than theusual boats should be provided
for steamers. Two or three RATS, of some
light material, that could have been readily
dropped into the water without possibility
of capsizing, would have saved every life
on the Wawaset. - Washington Star. 81. .
Year: 1873

BILLY-GoATs- The people in the upper
portion of the city known as "Screamers-
vile" want to know what has become of the
ordinance forbidding goats to run at large
without license. They are much troubled
with the pestiferous insect, and think of
taking the law into their own hands.
Year: 1873

The NINTH CENsUs.-The returns Of
the Ninth census for Virginia have been sent
to the secretary of the commonwealth by
the superintendent of census from Wash
ington. The papers, weighing one ton,
were bound in twenty large volumes by
the inmates of the deaf, dumb and blind
asylum at Staunton, and have been return
ed to the state library for preservation.
Year: 1873

HoLLYwooD.-Since the uneasy spirit OF
Mary Smith was laid to rest in the city Jail
ghosts do not wander in Hollywood ceme-
terry. Mary is the only authentic ghost OF
which Hollywood could boast, and even
"she now sleeps in the valley" and won't
wake any more till Justice White gives the