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Year: 1871

Several Sundays ago collection was
about to be taken up in one Of our
churches, and, in the absence of one of
the collectors, frisky young man vol
unteered his services, and handled his
hat with great industry and success.
When he got near the door, he was
about to go out with his hat full of mon
ey Oh his head, when the minister said
solemnly, young man, if you leave
here with that money you'll be damn
ed"


The young man, however, left in 3
hurry, and, as he shut the door behind
him, n worthy old bachelor, with a voice
In F sharp, who had put a dollar in The
hat, iped up TO the minister: "Well
if he amt gone with it. III he d-d!"
Year: 1871

"Unswaddled of all sentiment, baby
is not emiDcntly inspiring; it is the
exact reverse-tame and unimpressive
to the last degree. do not mean this
as q cowardly attack upon Incipient
Man-for whose family l entertain a
profound respect-but as the simple
statement Of a fact in natural Iii story
which has been skillfully concealed by
previous investigators. Besides, q baby
Is not pretty-your pardon, but it
certainly is not, as / shall put you in
the way Of proving. Magnify your
naked innocent AS many diameters as
may be necessary to bring her up to the
stature of q woman-whom Of course
we will suppose to be chiseled in mar.
ble-or say, the Venus de Medici. Now
look at them both together! BY the
aid Of certain ingenious apparatus, l
have made this, or at least practically
similar experiment, and nothing could
induce me to repeat it. The effect was
appalling! The babe appears a fright
ful monster; great, iubberly, hideous
deformity, with the look of an idiot.
From this judge that a baby is toll
cradle only by reason of minuteness-
like spider; endurable only because
there is 50 much Of it--like atheism.
But by virtue of what quality is it ac-
counted pleasing and desirable, l am
wholly unable to determine. | know
the reader will ding into my teeth the
customary retort that l was once a
baby; lut beg to remind you, madam,
that abuse is not argument.
Year: 1871

Col. j. W. Gaulding, senior editor
of the Arkadelphia Standard, speaking
of his recent trip to Little Rock, in his
issue Of the Dist inst, says;


ave conversed freely with railroad
men upon the prospects Of the early
completion Of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad, and we were assured by them
that the connection would be made with
the Iron Mountain road, connecting
Little Rock with st. Louis, on or be
fore the first of July next, after which
work would be commenced this side of
Little Rock and pushed forward as
rapidly as men and money can do it.
They spoke confidently of the whole
line being completed early in 1874, if
not sooner. All difficulties which have
been in the way of active operations
have been satisfactorily arranged, and
nothing will interfere with the work in
the future"


We hope that time may establish
the truth of the above; but the fact is,
it will be very hard to make the people
believe it until they have IN ocular
demonstration. When the work is
commenced south of Little Rock, and
actively and energetically prosecuted,
it will not be so difficult to inspire con-
idence. Until then, people will re-
member past hopes blasted and past
promises broken. We are waiting with
some degree of anxiety for answers to
the interrogatories which we submitted
to the directory of the Cairo and Fulton
a few days ago.
Year: 1871

Galveston, Texas, has been visited
by a storm of wind and rain. The
Bulletin says; Considering the length
of the storm the damage to our city
and shipping is slight. A number of
fences were washed away, but no ma
terial damage done to residences. The
gas-works were flooded, and the city is
in darkness. A force is now,at work
repairing the damage. About one
mile and a half of the track of the
Galveston and Houston railroad be-
tween the city and the bridge was
washed away. No damage was done
to the bridge"
Year: 1871

The Chicago disaster and the proba-
ble cause of it, constitute the general
topic of conversation just now. Ideas
upon the subject are as various as the
types of men. Some men go so far as
to say the great Ruler of the Universe,
by special interference has contrived
to devastate and humble proud and
wicked city. We have not the heart
or the mind to charge upon that per-
fectly just Being, a calamity which
leaves naked, hungry, and in every
way destitute, innocent women and


children by the thousand, The Coz,
Year: 1871

it second to no city Of the valley of the
Mississippi? To do this, we must act,
and that now. We must not stand,
Micawber-like, waiting for something
to turn up" but must go to work and
turn up something for ourselves; if we
do not, other places will have secured
this trade, md then long farewell to
all future greatness"


st. Louis the young giant of the
northwest, is stretching her long iron
arms through central Arkansas toward
Red river, cutting off from us a most
valuable trade, and now Helena pro-
poses, by the Central road and its
southern bran hes to Shreveport, con-
Meeting at Camden with the Camden
and Red river road, to transport all
the immense trade Of that section to
Helena, and by its Helena and Col~
inth road to send it south of Memphis
on its route to northern and eastern
markets.


Col. Dorsey, the president of the
Central road, is an energetic, working
man, and having secured the means to
build his road, is now pressing bis
southern branch from Clarendon, on
the White river, through Pine Bluff
and Camden to Shreveport.


We know that the people from Pine
Bluff to Camden and Shreveport are
aroused, and determined to do all they
can to all the building Of roads through
their country, and they will give that
aid to the first who are in the field
asking it. They might prefer Mems
phis, Notwithstanding the yeXatious
delays of their freight from the east at
this point, but they will not wait for
Memphis if any other offer is made
them. -liemphjs appeal.


Yes, well may eastern cities cry
'Lool to the West" We quote the
above article to show the interest felt
by these peopl, in all our western rail
road enterprises, and to assure onr
people that whenever we manifest the
proper interest ourselves and exhibit a
proper degree of energy and enterprise,
in helping ourselves, capitalists east
will be glad to lend US a helping hand.
Even the Camden and Red River Rail
road, though in its incipiency, can get
all the help it wants from the east, as
soon as the people along the line map
ifost their willingness to do their duty,
by subscribing for its stock as liberaliy
as their means will permit. Although
we believe the people of the counties
through which the proposed road will
run are fully able to build it themselves,
it will be encouraging to them to know
that help is at hand, if needed.
Year: 1871

Definite returns from Ohio say the
Democrats will have a majority Of two
in the senate, and the Republicans a
majority Of eleven in the lower house
thus giving the Republicans a majority
Of nine on joint ballot.
Year: 1871

The sustaining Of the demurrer in
the case of Ex-Governor Clayton, by
the Federal court, is already causing
considerable comment throughout the
country. The St. Louis Republican
says Of it:


The trial of Senator Clayton, Of
Arkansas, on a charge of fraud in the
congressional election of 1870, has
resulted in his discharge, without go
ing into the testimony. The indicted
senator did not plead not guilty to the
indictment; he only pleaded that the
governor ola state is not an "ofiicer of
election" within the meaning of the act.
Judge Dillon took the same view of
the case, and released Clayton.


We do not say that Judge Dillon's
decision is not correct; but the mean
ing of it is that a dishonest governor,
particularly if he be a republican, may
violate TIE enforcement act as much
as he pleases to, and commit any num-
Der of frauds with perfect ihpunity.
He may dicate tue registration so as
to return defeated candidate to con-
gress in spite of the enforcement act
and in defiance OF the will Of the peo.
pie, without fear of punishment. The
case of the republican senator is the
first conspicuous one that has arisen
under the enforcement act, and he
slips through it without even denying
the charges against him.
Year: 1871

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On yesterday man,
whose name we could not ascertain, but
who is said to be 4 captain on 4 schooner in
the Dock, fell through the hatchway OF
Palmer & Hartsook's warehouse, from the
second story. He was seriously injured
about the head, but his injuries are not
suDDoSed to be fatal.
Year: 1871

MEETING OF THE PHYsICTANs.--Despite the
inclement weather last evening, there was
a fair representation of the physicians of
the State, who assembled in council upon
the bill now pending before the General
Assembly for the establishment of Board
of Medical Examiners. They deemed it eX-
pedicnt, however, to adjourn until this
evening at 1880 O'Clock, at which time it is
particularly desired that the medical fra
tcrnity generally will be present.
Year: 1871

TEMPERANCE LEorURE.-The temperance
societies will meet at the First Baptist
Church tonight to hear lecture from Dir.
Carswell, the popular orator OF temperance
The address will be highly interesting.
Year: 1871

MEMPHIS, April 25.-Charles W.
Rowland, President Of the Little Rock
railroad was arrested here yesterday
charged with embezling $4,000 in Ar
kansas levee bonds.


A negro was taken from a train on
the Nashville & Northeastern railroad
near Roliston, Sunday morning, by a
party of masked men and his body
was found yesterday hanging to the
limb OF a tree. He was in charge Of a
sheriff al the time he was taken and was
on bis way to Jail for robbing. 1t seems
he had written letter to some of his
friends there recently threatening to
march on the place with regiment of
negroes and sack the town in retalia-
ton for a slight punishment inflicted
while he was drunk. On the same
night the negro's brother, who was also
i'm plicated in the robbery, was taken
from the Jail at Dresden by a party OF
armed men, supposed to be the same
that boarded the train, and nothing was
heard from him until yesterday morn
ing when his body was found hanging
to a tree about a mile from Dresden.
Year: 1871

CHICAGO, April 25.-Mr. McVicker is
negotiating with a joint company, not
theatrical, for the sale Of this treatre.


At three o'clock this morning while
proceeding to fire, enc of the wheel
horses of a steam engine fell heavily to
the ground and one of the wheels Of the
steamer ran over the animals hind legs
crushing them in a fearful manner.
He was shot to shorten his agony.


The Chicago base ball club start on
their eastern tour on the 9th of May.
On the 25th they play the Olympics of
the lake front ground.


Verdict Rendered.


A man named Moses sued the North
western railroad for ejectment from the
cars. The defendants claimed that
when called upon for his fare the plant
iff rendered bill which was in. so mu-
tilated a condition that it was impossi-
ble to tell whether it was good or bad,
and the conductor refused to accept it
that plaintiff asserted that it was all
the money he had, and that the conduc-
tor should take that or nothing; that
the conductor told him that unless he
paid his fare he would be put off from
the train, and that if the train was
stopped for that purpose he would be
put off, whether he offered to pay or
not; that the plaintiff still refused to
pay and the engineer was signalled to
stop, but that just before the train came
to standstill the plaintiff took good
bill from his pocket and offered to pay
his fare, but it was then refused and he
was elected. 1t is stated that he was
put off at a station, and that only sutii-
cient force was used in ejecting him.
The jury returned a verdict, at noon,
finding the defendant not guilty.
Year: 1871

CINCINNATI, April 25.-The Cincin-
natl evening daily and weekly Times
newspaper and job office will be sold at
auction tomorrow morning. Several
persons from other cities are here for
the purpose Of purchasing:


A telegram from President Grant 70.
day says he will not visit Clnc'nna'l
this trip, as was expected.


Industrial Exhibition.


A committee was appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce to-day to CO.
operate with similar committees from
the Board OF Trade and Mechanics In
stitute for the purpose Of giving another
industrial exhibition the coming fall:


The first and only calico printing
establishment west Of the mountains
has been established here by an enter
prising German.
Year: 1871

"What brings you here, Mary p
said Truesdall to his wife, as she en-.
tered the liquor store.


1T is very lonesome at home, and
your business seldom allows you to be
there, replied the meek but resolute
wife. "To me there is no company
like yours, and as you cannot come
home to me, l come here to you. |
have right to share your pleasures
as we'll as your sorrows.


"But to come to such place as
this? ?" expostulated Tom.


"No place can be improper where
my husband Is" said poor Mary
"Whom God has joined together, let
no man put asunder."


Surely you are not going to drink
that stuff" cried Tom, as she was tax
ing up the glass Of liquor.


"Why not? You say that you drink
to forget sorrow, and l have sorrow
to forget"


Woman Woman! you are not
going to give that stuff to the chill
dren!' cried Tom, as she was passing
the glass of liquor to them.


"Why not, can children have a bet
ter example set them than their
fathers? Is not what is good for him
good for them also? 1t will put them
to sleep and they will forget that they
are cold and hungry. Drink see how
much good it does your father


With much reluctance Mary suffered
her husband to lead her home, and
that night he prayed long and earn
estlv that God would help him to
break off an evil habit, and keep new
formed but firm resolution.


His reformation was thorough. Mrs.
Truesdall is now one Of the happicst
Of women and remembers with a mel
ancholy pleasure her first and last
visit to the dram shop
Year: 1871

According to Photographic New York
ink singer. Bowery dry goods shop was
''incinerated" the other day. The tape
measure is after the reporter with a club,
under the impression that he had been
accused of something as bad as Mrs. Stowe
charged Byron withal.
Year: 1871

AIKEN at the sign of the Golden Eagle is
selling all dress goods at cost.
All hosiery and gloves at cost.
All haunels at cost.


All oassimeres at cost.


All real and imitation laces at cost.
All fancy goods at cost.


All bleached and brown sheetings and
shirtings at less prices than they can be hac
elsewhere.
Year: 1871

Reflect that IL sound mind and body arc tho
most necessary, requisites to promote conn!lDla!
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly .darkens TO the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
snot]r, IS blighted with our own
Year: 1871

tiOn Put into the Army.


ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. GA general
order Of the war office directs the entire
reorganization OF the Imperial army and
calls to arms the whole adult male
population Of the country. The order
creates q numerical strength of the field
and land.wehr forces of the Empire
amounting to a total of one million, six
hundred thousand men, when required
for war purposes. sixty.six regiments Of
Cossacks are not included. The order
creates also q further military force Of
reserve to be employed in the event Of
invasion. The order is equivalent to the
mobilization Of the population of tho en-.
tire nation and makes every man in the
country capable Of bearing arms a soldier
on peace footing, The reinlorcementS
ordered to the artillery will add a strength
OF 1000 guns to the batteries already In
service,
Year: 1871

A REMEDY FOR THE CoTToN WORM.
Mr.. A. Bestwick, of Richmond, Fort
Bend county, Texas, gives the follow
ing as a certain remedy for the dreaded
scourge Of the "great staple" the cot
ton worm or caterpillar:


"Take the jamestown or stramoniunt
weed when full grown and in bloom,
chop off fine stalks, leaves and bolls,
fill vessel two thirds full of the weed
thus prepared, then fill with water,
and boil slowly from one to two hours,
after which add small quantity of
lime to clarity; then sprinkle the grow
ing cotton with the preparation, using
small watering-pOt or syringe, and it
will kill the worm as soon as applied.
IF done in time it will destroy the egg
or germ, and so poison the leaves that
the worm will not afterwards eat them!


This remedy is said to have proved
efiectual in every instance where it
was tried last year. 1t is certainly
worth trying.
Year: 1871

a woman who is in a Estate of
mind" over the question of rufiles and
pufis, writes to the Citizen and Round
Table thus: "The triumph which a
woman feels on being the recipient of
unlimited male homage, Or when she
is the delight Cf a male beings eyes, or
the coveted of male beings hearts, is
but a rush-ight, farthing dip to a
lambent lamp, filled with the pure't
Astral oil, a gorgeous, cleaning chand
elier of glaring gas, when compared
with the layishing rush Of satisfaction
and complacency and pure joy which
feeds her noble soul when every woman
in the room is green with envy Of her.
The utter unearthiness of mans gros;
nature may probably prevent his ap'
probation Of this exalted sensation


this TRANSPORTATION which takes P!aet
in the female bosom at intervals, bu


most women know It, and feel it, and
in fact, l know how it is myself"
Year: 1871

GETTING AT THE FACTs.-We shall
find out the truth about California by
and-by. One of the papers there ali
ready admits that strawberries large
enough to furnish dessert for an entire
family are not common; that man
can often consume whole one at a
meal.
Year: 1871

The Washington Patriot exposes in
the most conclusive manner frauds in
the registration of that city, by which
more than 5000 negroes have been
enrolled, who have no more claim to
vote in the District than they have in
Massachusetts,.
Year: 1871

Faith and friendship are seldom


truly tried but in extremes. To find
friends when we have no need Of them,
and to want them when we have, are


both alike easy and common. lnpros-
perity who will not profess to love a
man; in adversely how few will show
that they do it. When we are happy
in TIE springtimo Of abundance, and
the rising flood Of plenty, then the
world will be our servants; then all
will flock about US with bowed heads,
with bending bodies and protesting
tongues. But when these pleasing
waters begin to cbb, when our wealth
begins to leave US, when the waves OF
adversely begin to gather around Us,
then men look upon us from distance,
and those who before bent the supple
hinges of the knee before Us, that thrift
might follow fawning, look coldly upon
Us. This is Ihe way Of the world
Year: 1871

When warm weather comes on in
the spring, people require much less


carbonaceous food, bat instead Of
changing their diet as the weather
changes, they continue to eat the same
kinds of food they have been eating
during the coolest weather in winter,
and the consequence is that the already
oyer-burdenel liver is unable to bear
up under this extra load, and utterly
refuse. to perform its function until it
has had a chance to rest aud throw of
Year: 1871

mere IS II dign..y about that going
away alone, which We call dying
wrapping of the mantle Of immortality
about US; that putting aside with pale
hand the azure curtains that are drawn
around this cradle of the world; that
venturing away from home for the first
time in our lives, for we are dead; and
seeing foreign countries not laid down
on any map we have read about
There must be lovely lands some"her
/ stayward, for none ever return VINO C
,bither. and we very much doubt II an.


would if they could,
Year: 1871

"Motber," said little Ned one morn
inc, after having fallen cut OF bed
81 think l know why | fell out OF bed
last night. Because slept too near
where | got IN" Musing a little while
as if in doubt whether he had given
the right explanation, he added, "No
that wasn't the reason; it was because
I slept too near where ] fell out
Year: 1871

Here are few extracts from Don
| QuixOte:
Beauty in a modest woman is like
fire or a sharp sword at a distance
neither doth the one burn, nor the
close to them.
The absent feel and fear every i'll.
Self praise depreciates
The dead to the bier, the living to
good cheer.


All women, let them be ever so
hOmely, are pleased to hear them
/ selves celebrated far beauty.


Squires and knight errants are sub
ject to much hunger and i'll luck.


Liberality may be carried too far in
those who have children to inherit
I from them.


Virtue is always more prosecuted
/ by the wicked than beloved by the
righteous.
Every one is the son Of his own
works.


Honey is not for the mouth of an
ass.


No padlocks, bolts, or bars can Sc
cure a maiden as well rs her own re-
serve.


Wit and humor belong to genius
! alone.
The wittiest person in the comedy
is he that plays the fool.
There Is no book so bad but some
thing good may be found in it.


We are all as God made Us, and Of
tentimes a great deal worse.


Let the hen live, though it be with
the pip. q


We cannot all be friars, and various
are the paths by which God conducts
the good to heaven.


COyetOusness bursts the bag.
1t is easy to undertake, but more
I difficult to finish q thing.


This term is equally applicable to
all ranks-WhOever is ignorant is
vulgar.


BY the street of "by-and-byn one ar
rives at the house Of never.


Between the yes and no of woman
I would not undertake to thrust the
point of pin.


Patience, and shuttle the cards.


Other mems mains are easily borne.


A bad clock often covers a good
! driver.


Pray devoutly and hammer on
stOutly.


When a thing is once begun it is al
most half finished.


Lay a bridge of silver for a flying
enemy.


The jest that gives pain is no jest
Year: 1871

1t is well for our Medicine Mem
that Indian rules do not prevail
among Yankees. A correspondent of
the Pittsburg Commercial thus refers
to the practices and superstition Of
the Indians in connection with their
duties


The position of Medicine Man has
always been one Of high honor, but Of
equal danger. Among the wild In
dians each chief has his own medi-
cine man, who is always with him.
Their power is almost unlimited; any
thing they ask is given them. To the
Indians their cures are always super
natural, and they can kill or cure at
pleasure. When an Indian is about
To die, his friends ask who is killing
him. The reply is usually some med
ieine man, and the first chance his
friends get, if they do not fear his pow
er too much, they kill him. Two such
cases have OccurredWith few weeks.
The day after our arrival at Umatilla
Reservation the great medicine man
of the Cayuse died He lived away
from the tribe. Every Indian on the
Reservation was afraid Of him, and
all thought a look from him was their
death warrant. He hated the whites
with 4 hatred that was Interchangeable,
was engaged in the Whitman massa-
ere, and was ready for another at any
time. Before ne died he made his fol-
lowers promise they would not bury
him in u coffin made By Catholic,
the denomination in charge Of the
ReservatiOn), so they wrapped him in
his blanket, with his pipe and tOma-
hawk and charms, and buried him.
Year: 1871

Here i a bit Of spicy suggestion
from some anonymous source:


There is a mystery about this effect


Of weather on piety. Sabbath heat
/ seems hotter, Sabbath cold seems
colder, and Sabbath rain wetter than


any other day. For the same measure
Of heat, or cold, or rain, on a week
day will not keep one from his usual
business. We need 4 Sabbath alma
nae, calculated for our children, that


will show by its weather scale when
il will be safe for avigOrOus Christian,
weak and sickly Christian 70 expose
I himself on the Sabbath by going u
. the house Of God. Such an almanac


would enable pastors and superinten-
dents Of Sabbath schools 10 Know up
on whom they could depend in church,
3 Sabbath school, and prayer-meeting.
/ l have recently been examining mic
. rOscOpic views Of the different snow
fakes, a hundred or so Of them. ]
would suggest 10 our curious savans
an examination Of the Sabbath snow,
to see if it has a peculiarly sharp and
injurious crystal.