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Year: 1875

"Give us chance" exclaim our Demo-
cratic friends. ''to run the government and
we will give you an example of economy; we
will restore business; we will make dollars as
plenty as ten cent scrip and at the same time
make the dollar purchase more than at pres
ent. Give US chance" This is excellent
talk, but we must remember that promises
are sometimes mot to be depended on. Now
if we can select a state or city where the
Democracy has everything its own way, the
promising Democracy have no right to find
fault if we take that state or city as an exam
pie of Democratic economy on small scale
and from that predict what the same party
leaders will do on broader field. We will


take, for example, New York city, where the
Democratic majority has been tens of thou
sonds-as many tens of thousands as it has
been necessary to have to neutralize the Re-
publican majorities in the country. Wha. is
the result? Under the Democratic manage
ment of the hordes of ignorance and vice, the
city is drawing gradually toward bankruptcy
and the respectable portion of its citizens are
powerless to wrest the power from the hands
Of these leaders. The following table shows
how rapidly the debt of the city is increas-
Year: 1875

THE HEN THAT WENT To CHURCH, AND
WHAT HApPENED.-Quite disturbance oc-
Cured in a Western church, q few Sundays
since, the circumstances of which are as fol-


lows: Rev. Mr.. Moody was just beginning his
sermon, and had uttered the words, Brethren,
wish to direct your attention this morning
to the fourth verse of the twentieth chapter of
St." when = hen emerged from the re-


cess beneath the pulpit. As she had just laid
an egg she interrupted Mr.. Moody to announce
the fact to the congregation; and he stopped
as she walked into the aisle screechiDg "Kuk-
kuk kuk kuk-to-ko! Kuk-kuk. kuk-kuk-tok kor"
The minister contemplated her for moment,


and then concluded to go on. But the sound
OF his voice seemed to provoke her to rivalry,
and so she put on five or six pounds OF steam
| to the square inch, and made such a racket
| that the preacher stopped again and SAID,


"Will Deacon Grimes please remove that
| disgraceful chicken from the meeting- -nouseY
The deacon rose and proceeded with the task.
| He first tried to drive her toward the door, but
| She dodged him, and still cracking vigorously
GOT under the seat in the front pew. Then the
I deacon seized his umbrella and scooped her
| ont into the aisle again. after which he tried to
| ''shoe" her toward the door; but she darted
| into q pew hoped over the partition, came
| down in the opposite pew and in the side aisle,
the hen flew over into the middle aisle again,


making noise like steam planning mill. The
deacon did not like to climb over after her, so
he went round, and just as he got into the side
aisle, the hen flew over into the middle aisle
again. Then the boys in the gallery laughed
and the deacon began to grow red in the face
At last Mr. Binns came out of his pew to help
and both he and the deacon made dash at the
CHICKEN from opposite directions. Then she
flew up with wild cluck to the gallery and
perched on the edge. while she gave excited ex-


preston to her views by emitting about We


hun ired cackles a minute. The deacon flung
hymn book at her to scare her down again,


but he missed her, and hit Bill Jones, Sun.


day school scholar, in the eye. Then another
boy in the gallery made dash at her, and
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence and strong regard for the honor and ,cel-
fare of our State inspire NTH the firm resolue to
spare effort and to consider other consequences
in the endeauor to fathflIy discharge the duties that
aoiH be incumbent on nae If your choice shall prore
to be the choice of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for 0hom you act in that erent, honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. COnnor's Acceptance
Year: 1875

DEMOCRATS are beginning to fear that the
Argus cannot sustain its position that the
Democratic Ohio platform is ''every whit as
good as the Republican" Its persistent refusal
to publish the two platforms for purposes of
comparison.tells strongly against it.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1875

fiNHE ENGINE upright of about six horse
Il power, and an Upright Tubular Boiler of about
double the power of the engine. Can be seen in
operation in the basement of the


Peake Building,
Corner of Middle and Market ST.,


WILLIAM LOWELL.
Year: 1875

for the purpose of nominating candidates for four
Senators, Clerk of the Courts. Judge of Probate,
Register of Probate, County Treasurer one County
Commissioner.


Also to choose County Committee, and to act
upon any other business which may properly come
before the Convention.


The basis OF representation will be as follows: Each
City and Town will be entitled to one Delegate and
one additional Delegate for every go votes cast of
Nelson Dngley for Governor in 1874 fraction OF 36
votes additional to the full number will entite the
City or Town to an additional Delegate. This basis
will give the following delegates and apportonment.
Year: 1875

Our merchants, business men and others interested, would do we'll to remember that there is a penalty of fifty dollars for neglect ing to properly stamp and can eel the stamp on all checks on banks or any paper that serves as a voucher on which money is paid at bank. The stamp required, we believe, is two cents; the pen alty applies alike to drawer and bank. It is said that the revenue detectives are on the qui vive, to catch up tresspassers against this law.
Year: 1875

There is no probability that the present Congress will take any ac- tion on the Arkansas question looking to the displacement of the Garland Government. And we think i. right that it should not. What is most desirable now in Arkansas, and every other State, is peace, and we hear of no re- ports from Arkansas that flavor of war. The people down there have suffered enough from the contests of rival factions. Let us give them a chance to work their farms this spriDg.-St. Louis Globe.
Year: 1875

We publish today, for the in formation of our readers, the act to suspend the enforcement of the collection of taxes for the years 1873 and 1874. The motive which prompted the supporters of this bill, and the end aimed at, is per haps laudable, but we are inclined to seriously doubt the propriety of such bill, and to fear that it will fall short of atfording the relief needed. It seems to us that it is only a short respite, which will incur additional severity of hard ships when the time is up, which will overbalance the temporary re- lief afforded. Many of our tax payers now are in arrears for tax

 es of 1872 and 1873 and if they now fail to pay for 1874 under the delusiye inducements held out by this bill, when the tax collector comes around in 1876, they will find themselves confronted with a demand for four years taxes, and a penalty of fifteen per cent. on the taxes of 1873 and 1874. This will be enormous. We now complain at the hardship of mak

 ing provision for the payment of one years taxes, of three, or three and enc fourth per cent; but con
Year: 1875

Our readers may think we are very pertinacious on the subject of immigration, but we only hope we may be able to say enough to impress the vital importance of this question upon the minds of our people in Pope county, and to stimulate them to some action in the matter. There is no other question of more importance to us now than this-How can we se- cure a flow of immigration into our county? The benefits to be derived from the accomplishment Of this object are so numerous and so advantageous, that it is worth much work and attention. There are thousands of families in the older and crowded states who are wanting homes in the new, fertile and sparsely settled west. There are hundreds of families in the impoverished and ruined grass hopper regions, and in Kansas where they have been frozen out of stock and everything else, who will, this spring and fall, seek homes some where else. Here we have the homes for them, and here they are needed and will be welcomed. But they want to know this, they want to know that they will find congenial home among us. The press can assure them that this is true, and we do assure them that it is true that we have thousands of acres of land for them-that homes can be obtained cheap-that the lands are good-that there is abundance of timber for fuel and fencing that it isa healthy, mild and love ly climate-that the water is good-that they will be welcomed among us, and that we will do them all the good we can. The press, we say, can give them all these assurances; but they would like to hear from the people them selves; hence the importance of some expression from our people hence the necessity for socie- ties for the promotion of such in- terests. Statistics should be plac- ed before the world of immigrants they should be informed as to the description of lands-adapta- tion to different agricultural pro ducts-quality and quantity of timber and mineral wealth-kind of water and climate-quantity and quality of lands subject to en- try and homestead-average yield price of deeded land, improv- ed and unimproved, &c. Such information as this can be more readily obtained and more relia- ply, too, by an organized effort.

 We suggest, therefore, the pro- piety of holding a meeting to con slider the subject of immigration and get the views of the farming masses of Pope county on this question. Committees could then be appointed, addresses prepared, and immigration societies organiz- ed and efficiency secured. This is something in which the farm ing class IS necessarily largely considered, and they should, per haps, be in the front in such q move. What does our grangers say? We would be glad to hear from some of them, and an expres- sion from any ofthem is solicited
Year: 1875

nv in the Alley, west of Fulton st. In an hour or two he went back to get the animal when To! twas gone. Johnnie Rose says he knows the pony, and that he saw a man ride it up the Ozark road. His statement is corroborated by another party who met man near Horsehead prairie, riding the horse, and going mp the road in q gallop. It is hoped that these thieves will meet with a just ret ribution in the shape of q "short shift and n stout rope. Van guard.

 RANDOLPH.

 About two weeks ago three young men went to widow wo- mans house in Randolph county, and forcibly drew her daughter iron her bed, and some distance from the house, where the whole party violated her person. Two were captured the next day after the occurrence. The two captur- ed rascals should be promptly hanged, and when they catch the third one let him be served like wisa.-[White River Journal.

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 A heavy hail storm occurred in the lower edge of this county on Wednesday morning last. the hail stood on the ground four inches deep. No damage done to anything that we have heard of. -T Southern Standard.

 BENTON.

 We are requested to announce a call to the grangers of Benton Co.,, to meet at the Glover school house on the second Saturday in March at 10 a. m.. to take into consideration the advisability of putting in operation a tobacco factory, and to discuss the advan- tages of tobacco raising. Able speakers will be present and a good attendance of grangers and others interested is invited Bentonvillc Advance.

 This is move in the right di- rection. If our people will use the weed, why not raise and man. ufrcture it here at home. We should think Pope county might make tobacco raising profitable and perhaps find it to her advan- tage to drop off some cotton, and put in tobacco.

 We learn ofa threatened inva. sion by the half-ttarved Cherokee Indians of the western portion of our county. On Wednesday last Jim little came into Maysville as a messenger from band headed by Dick Allfield stating he had been sent to say to the people that ifthey would sell breadstuffs to the Indians, they would pay for it when they got their government money. If not they would come and take them by force. At last accounts, Capt. Cliburne was or ganizidg his militia, preparing tc give them warm reception.-1b.

 This seems to be quite a serious affair. It looks hard to see the poor redskins suffer; and it would be hard for the people of that county to have to supply them and take the chances of getting theil pay. We hope our Benton county friends may have no trouble with these cherokees.

 The citizens of Benton county are hereby called upon to meet al the courthouse, in Bentonville, or Saturday, Feb. 27th, 1875, for the purpose of devising ways and means for supplying the destitute of our county with breadstuffs, il having been reported that many are without the means of subsist ence. It is hoped there will be q general attendance from all parts of the county, in order that we may ascertain the true situation

 MANY CITIZENS. Ibid.

 The people of Pope county should feel thankful that they arc so well off in this respect. We think our county is about as vel off as any county in the state.
Year: 1875

a precedent by which the will of the people may be readily nulli- fled and all republican forms of government perverted and liberty destroyed.

 The Conservative caucus at New Orleans has adopted the Wheeler compromise by vote of 34 for and B against, the five city members voting for the compro- mise.

 Governor McEnery is natly op- posed otbe proposition and there seems to be a strong feeling in the city against it. This compromise,
Year: 1875

\ PUTTING MISUNDERSTANDING the new
inventions on exhibition in the American
Institute Fair, New York, is something
new for the ladies'. There is n corrugated
bed piece, and 4 kink of hand iron having
a bottom similarly corrugated to fit into
the indentation> Of the bel. The bottom
of the iron i. however. N-shape'l in section
the apex of the V being in line parallel
with the direction of the handle. which re-
~cmhlcs that of the common flat iron.
Both bed piece and iron are heated, ami
the gathered material is dampcncd AMI
pressed between the two until dry The
work i very neatly accomplished The
same machi:.e may also be used for tluting
in which case Il corrugated comb not heat
ed i substituted fur the ir.n.
Year: 1875

4 WINDOW OKNAMENT FOR WINTER
\ pretty window ornament for winter can
be made by gathering a few pitch pine
cones, drying them 50 that they will open,
dipping them in water and sprinklins a few
grass seeds into the opening. BY setting
the stem end in water Il few hours the
cone will close up, and the grass will show
itsef in few days and continue to grow
rs long as the cone is kept moist. They
can be hung by Il string i'll the window or
placed on the flower stand.
Year: 1875

REsUMPTION.-The following, relative
to the redemption of fractional paper cur
rency in silver coin, Las been taken from
the annual report OF DR.. Linderman, Di-
rector of the Mint: 1.-The policy Of the
redemption of the fractional paper cur
rency in silver coin in advance of gold
resumption has been discussed to some
extent and various suggestions have been
made as to the practicability Of the plan.
So tar as the measure was predicated on
the expected favorable condition of the
silver market, the result has thus far been
satisfactory, and will, no doubt, continue
to be so in the future but appreciation
in the value of legal tender notes has not
taken place. On the Contrary the average
value Of paper currency has been lower
since, than it was at the time of the pass
age Of the Act, and this Notwithstanding
the fac: that about $4,000 900 in legal
tender notes have been withdrawn and
cancelled. A very gradual contraction of
legal tender notes and a moderate revival
of business will, it is probable, by the
time the necessary stock of silver coin to
commence redemption can be prepared, ,
reduce the gold premium to such point
as to insure success to the measure"
Year: 1875

THE New York hdependent, editori-
ally speaking Of the latest phase of the
Beecher case, says that the result which
Plymouth Church has tried to avoid has
come upon her, and her ecclesiastical iso-
lation is very near at hand. In the find
ing of the lately appointed Congregational
Council it thinks that there can be little
doubt, and considers that the Council will
be compelled to rebulle Plymouth Church;
and unless that Church shall withdraw
from its formal action and proceed to in
vestigate the charges made by Mrs
Moulton, by former trial of Beecher,
the Council will recommend to the
churches to withdraw their fellowship.
Year: 1875

The New VICE PRESIDENT Thos.
w. Ferry, Of Michigan, was in March
last chosen by the Senate Of the United
States as President pro tenn. of that
body, and a vacancy occurring in the
Office of Vice President by the death of
Henry Wilson, Senator Ferry therefore
is elevated TO the second position in the
gift OF the people Of this country. The
new Vice President is II man of good
ability and sterling integrity, and has
been tavorably mentioned by the news
papers Of his own State as II candidate
for the Presidency, to succeed Grant.
The announcement0f of the death yesterday
OF Senator Ferry, Of Connecticut, left the
impression in the minds of many to day
that the latter was the President pro tenn.
of the Senate, in which event nearly all
We're at Il loss to know who would be
entitled to the Vice Presidency. ,Sacra-
mteRto Bee, 22ad.
Year: 1875

Now that DR.. Fitzgerald has withdrawn
his libel suit against the Chronicle for
charging him with having taken bribe
as State Superintendent of Public In
struction from a book publishing house
that desired his vote and influence to en-
able it to sell its publications to the State.


the public may begin to think that it is
well he was beaten for a reelection to
that position And they may also deem
it advisable to so arrange matters as to
remove such temptation out of the way
of future Superntendents by causing the
State to print her own books, as she is
now prepared to do.-Sdc Fdnlent0 Bee.
Year: 1875

AN effort will be made by the State
Teachers Association to have an Act
passed striking out algebra, physiology,
and some Of the other higher branches
from the list of studies in which candi-
dates for Third Grade teachers certif-
Gates are examined. They say that it is
unnecessary and unjust to require those
teachers to post themselves up in the tech
nicalities of studies which they are never
called upon to teach.
Year: 1875

THE Vallejo Chronicle calls attention
to the fact that San Francisco preacher
lately attributed the loss Of the Pacific
to Providence, and wound up his sermon
by calling for an investigation to ascer
tain who is to blame. 1t would evidently
be impious to take the preachers advice
and hold an inquiry on the doings Of
Providence,
Year: 1875

Prominent Republicans Of Virginia
are engaged in an effort to rcorganize
and strengthen the Republican party of
that State by combination Of the Re
publican and Independent Conservatives
who in the late election acted with the
Republicans.
Year: 1875

Capt. j. G. Ray and Mr.. j. p. Hulsey
left this place one day last week for Pike
county, for the purpose Of capturing the
desperate Ambrose II. White, charged
with murder, and who escaped custody,
and has since set the authorities at def
ancc. They state he was captured just
before their arrival there, by two brothers
named Cox, and aiterward, in attempting
to escape, was shot and killed by one OF
the Coxcs. The circumstances of the
capture and killing were substantially as
follows: 1t appears that White had been
on terms Of criminal intimacy for some
time past with girl that one of the Cox
boys wished to marry, but the girl prefer
ring White, was preparing to leave
the country with him. This excited the
anger of Cox, and he, with his brother,
agreed upon Whites capture. Being on
intimate terms with him, they rode up to
the house Of the girl where White was,
and he, being unsuspiciousF of danger,
greeted them kindly. lie was sitting on
a chair, with his gun across his lap, and,
while one Of the Coxes engaged him in
conversation, the other got behind him,
and at a favorable moment seized him
from behind and pinioned his arms, while
the other presented a revolver at his
breast and disarmcd him. White then
tried to beg off, promising to leave the
country and not harm them. They re-.
fused to release him, when White asked
the privilege Of getting drink of water.
When on the way to the we'll,
he broke to run, and was shot by
one of the Coxcs through the body, and
ran some distance before he fell. Cox
then ran up to him, when White begged
him not to shoot him, as he was already
a dead man. Cox replied, 'No, d--n you,
you might get up, so look out for your
head-hcre goes" and fired, shooting
him through the temple, killing him in
stantly. The other Cox had his hands
full in managing the girl, who showed
pluck and a disposition to defend White
with her life. Pike county is thus rid of
a very desperate and dangerous man,
and though his taking off was to satisfy
personal revenge rather than violated law,
the people of that county have reason to
be glad Of it. If Pike can now get rid ol
the Coxes it would be all the better for
it. A coroner's inquest was held on the
body; and the jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the above facts.
Year: 1875

A telegram from Beaver, u tab, of the
18th, says the trial of those suspected of
being engaged in the Mountain Meadow
massacre has been set for the 10Th. John
D. Lee, one Of the accused, has turned
States evidence, and will be the witness
for the prosecution and make full state
mcnt Of all he knows Of the Mountain
Meadow massacre. The cause is said to
be that he believes he was to be sacri-
feed to appeasc the wrath Of the govern
ment and shield the guilty parties by
perjury if necessary. There is a
strong feeling in favor of Dame on the
part of the people from southern Utah,
who are here as witnesses. Many of them
were concerned in the massacre, and they
evince great animosity toward Lee. Bish.
op Hagc and Spicer, counsel for Lee, have
advised him to tell the entire story. They
believe this to b. the only way to save
their client, as well as to give the world
the whole particulars of this bloody al
fair. 1t is said by those most closely
connected with the trial that there arc
plenty of witnesses here to corroborate
all Lees statement, which will convict w.
II. Dame and many other high Mormon
authorities, and explain fully everything
connected with the massacre. Among
the witnesses are some who actually took
part in it, and some who attended meet
ing of the participants after their return
from the field of slaughter. The officers
have had the greatest difficulty in getting
witnesses for Lees defense. Quite
number have positively refused and de-
fled the marshal, while all those on
Danes behalf are present, which is at
tributed to the fact that Dame is a Nor
mon in full fellowship and Lee is not.
Year: 1875

ENJOY the present, whatever it may be,
and be not solicitious for the future for If
you take your foot from the present stand
ing, and thrust it forward to to-morrow's
event, you are in a restless condition it is
like refusing to qucnch your present thirst
by fearing You win want to drink the next
day. II tomorrow you should want, your
sorrow would come time enough. though you
do not hasten it; let your trouble tarry till
day, if God sends them, and the evils of it
bear patiently and sweetly, for this day is
ours. We are dead TO yesterday and not yet
born to-morrow.-.Jeremy Taylor.