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Year: 1876

We are told, with a loud flour ish of trumpets that the $250,000 loan has been paid. Well, we are glad, exceedingly glad, to know it, for the credit has cost us very dear, and we hope, for the sake of a tax xburdened people, that we shall have no more such loans negotiated, fit can possibly be avoided. We think if a proper , economy is observed, and all the fraudulent claims against the State gre disallowed, that we can now get along without having to submit to any such extortions as that which was practiced upon us when this $250,000 loan was negotiated. We have nothing to say in regard to the necessity which may have made it'appear advisable for our financial agents to accept loan on such terms as those, but we do most earnestly, in the name of q burdened, tax paying constituency, protest against using the States credit, under any ordinary circumstances, on such terms in the future.

 We think the necessity for such extortionatc demands for an ac- commodation to our State, should be removed. We think the State Government should be run with in the means which she can raise by a taxation considerably lower ed from the present rate. We thlnk this should be done, even if we have to dispense with any fur ther legislation-exceptlng, of course, any urgent or special bus mess that may require legislative attention-for the next four or six years. We ought to "go slow" until we get our financial affairs in such q condition as will admit of q very low rate of taxa ton. High taxes are q curse to any country and will keep it eter nally in the back ground and poor as a church mouse.
Year: 1876

and we no longer keep our corn cribs and wheat granaries in St. Louis, and our smoke houses in Cincinnati; but we have reached that point in agricultural pursuits where our farmers have become . prosperous, free and thriving peo- pie. This is seen especially when one's attention has been called to the cereals and grasses; and if the few farmers who stick to cotton would adopt the new plan, ArSan sas would soon take her place in the front rank with the North : western states in agricultural pursuits.

 The above cheering report from the Boonville Enterprise shows that the farmers of those coun- ties are on tie right track and if they will only follow it up, they will, if favored by good seasons, become Independent and well off in few years. It is the true doctrine for farmers and we arc glad to see that our people are beginning to adopt it.
Year: 1876

The attention of the people of Crawford county and especially of Van Buren, is directed to the vast importance of bnilding a good wagon road from Van Bu rcn to Fayetteville. The natural course of trade from the latter place is southward. The trade has been kept going to Pierce City by purely artificial means. No thing is needed to bring it here a hut good road. The railroad be ing completed to this point, this becomes an important matter. Let Us move in it. Who will take the lead?-Nan Buren Argus.

 If your people are like ours, Bro. Wilcox, you will find that you have undertaken big job. We have been working on our people to get them to make a good road from this place to liar rison, but we have found it a slow go. We shall watch you progress with your people and Il you succeed we shall thank you very kindly for your modus ope. randi, and then we will try our people another whack on the road to Boone county.
Year: 1876

And there is no more fruitful cause of hard times and hard feelings than going in debt brings about. Pucuniary obliga- tons, when incurred, must be met with promptEess. Ifthcy are not the whole machinery of trade is disordered and thrown out of gear. And just here--this disregard of person'l pocuniary obligations,a sand the indifference withwhich men allow their promises to pay to be unfuliilled, is one of the worst things, and does more to make hard times for the masses than anything else. If every man would look ahead and always be able to see just how and when he could pay any little debt incurred, and be certain to meet it prompt ly at the appointed time, the credit system would not be so mich of a curse. But there are always scores of men who will abuse the indulgences extended to them and the consequences are, the honest debtor suffers for the rascality of the dishonest one.

 Therefore we would encourage the people to continue in the course they are now pursuing, and make your determination to get out, and, to stay out of debt.

 Pay promptly and faithfully what you owe and then owe no more.
Year: 1876

SULPHUR SPRINGS, June 13, '76 MR. EDITOR: l see an article in your worthy paper admonish- ing us to be cautions as to the kind of material we set forth as candidates. You say friendship to man and duty to our country is two things. This is right. We want the right kind of men men thnt are competent. But where is competency to be found: : Some will say in the so called aristocratie ring. But To! he ain't found there. Let me tell yon who and where to find him. This is he who when canyassino this county meets you with q smile, promises to do all he can for the country and do that cheap CT than any other man, that is to say, be quick ia his various off cial duties, and not run the state and county to expenses by these long protracted so to-does. He who meets you with the same kindness after lie is elected that he did while canvassing will do. Will you candidates promise that? Now our public thoroughfares are in Q bad condition, we want a change in the laws governing highways something like this:

 Jet all property holders be as sessed q certain per cent for the benefit of the road in whose dis trict their property m: y be found. As ths law now is A. who don | live immediately on the road, but who lives in district No. 6, works eight days and is benefited none thereby. E. owns property in the same district and is benefited by the road while he is a non-resi- dent, or over age, and therefore don't work. We want a change in this respect. We think it equal and right. Will youpromIso and comply with your promise?

 Finally, MT. Candidate, please canvass your county and don't use deceit, but be kind after you are elected to the poor man whom you now expect to elevate you. Promise this and stand firm, and you will get my vote. Another death has occurred in our midst: Miss Esprean Poe died on the 10th inst, aged 20 years. She was known by many in Russell vile while going to sctool there.

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Year: 1876

IL tist5 DCNii AAChNl bD ''iN Democracy of Pope county, that the nomination of candidates for the various county offices shall be made by primary election, and we desire now to impress it upon ev- cry taxpayer and voter of the democratic party in Pope county, that it is his duty to go the polls and vote for nominees.

 Whoever secures the nomina- tion at the primary election, will be very apt to be elected, and ther fore we urge the voters of the Democratic party to go to the Primary and see to it that the men whom you wish for your next officers get the nominations for the respective offices.

 You want men to get the nomi- nation whom you will be willing to stand by when they are elected and installed Tn office. Remem- Der you have got to make the bonds, submit to the official acts, and to aid and encourage the off cers who will be elected. So you had better be certain to attend the primary election and secure the nominations for the right men. And one point, just here, which we wish especially to i'm. press upon the people. It is this :: In the race for the nomination, that candidate who gets the high est number of votes will be de- clared the nominee of the party. Now, if there are three or four candidates for one and the same office, and if they are each abe to poll nearly the same number of votes, it is evident that the man who comes out ahead will be the nominee, but will at the same time have only a small minority of All the votes cast.

 To explain, suppose there are four candidates for the same office and three of the four receive 250 votes at the primary election, while the fourth receives 300. Then the man who gets 300, will he the nominee although there have been 750. votes cast which would not go for him.

 Now the point we wish to make is this: we want the voters to be- gin thinking about this matter, and make up your minds who you want for officers, who you will be willing to respect and obey, who you will be willing to become surety for, and who you can trust and coniidc in. Make  up your minds, and then hold yourselves in readiness to go to the primary election and by full majority of all the votes cast make them the nominees. There can then be no dissatisfaction, either with the defeated candidates or with the people; neither will there then be any ground for Indepcn- dents to present their names to the people. We caution the peo- pie against splitting up their vote and dividing it between too many candidates at the primary. The better and surer plan is to center on some good man for each office, and then give him the nomination by an oycrwhclm- ing majority. This will prevent any second class man from slip ping in as the nominee by a mi nority vote.

 Consider these things well, vo- tnrsl
Year: 1876

The New York Shipping List,
of the lIth report:


Considerable excitement pre.
walls in the sugar market, both
OF this country and Europe. The
DEFICIENCIES III the last Cuba crop.
and the heavy falling of, also.
OF the beet root product of Eu-
rope. with light stocks all over
the world, have given an upward
impetus to prices, and both raw
and refined are more buoyant,
and have more decided tenden
cy to improvement than We have
known for years past. The refined
arllcle is especially active and
strong, the large advance and
scarcity in England calling for
heavy supplies from this country.
which we are i'll able to furnish
hence the considerable rise in va
lnes and upward tendency of tbs
market.
Year: 1876

About four o'clock in the afternoon, as one of the prison guards at the fort near Leavenworth, Kan, was taking his squad of five prisoners out to work in 8 garden not far distant from the prison, he noticed that one of them, colored man, who had heretofore always been one of the first to be ready to go to work, and had his place generally in ad- vance of the others, hung back and ap- peared to be waiting for something. He kept on with his squad, however, until the garden was reached, when the dila- tory prisoner, taking advantage of mo- ment when his head was turned slightly to one side, sprung up beside him and flung handful of pepper into his face, with the evident intention of binding him, and darted away in @ bunch of high weeds. His efforts were only par tially successful, the pepper only getting into one of the eyes of the guard. The latter sprung upon large log lying near by, and catching glimpse of the head of the fugitive, quickly raised his shot, gun, with which the guards are armed, and fired. He, keeping his position on the log, turned his weapon on the re- maining prisoners and ordered them not to move, and there he stood until some of the other guards, who had been at tracted by the shot, arrived, when it was discovered that the shot fired had taken effect in the back of the head of the es- caping prisoner, causing instant death.
Year: 1876

The New York Dramatic Nesos tells sad story of the condition of Geo. l.. Fox. He is harmless, and sits for hours in one place mumbling to himself. At times he has lucid intervals, and spoke sensibly of the past, but these are growing rarer, and his mentality is be- coming sapped further week by week. He is also gradually failing in physical power, particularly in his limbs, which he is almost unable to make use of. He needs little or no watching, and is al- lowed to go about of his own free &C., cord. But he never wanders far from the house. His occupations are eating, sleeping and talking to himself. When he becomes sensible he asks about his wife, and expresses hope of being able yet to return to his old vacations. This, however, is delusive hope. Dr. Brown-Sequard, one of the most emi- nent of our authorities on brain troubles, says he can never appear in public, and any attempt to put him on the stage would only result in failure and hasten the end. It is very decided and in- curable case of softening of the brain,
Year: 1876

Persons present at Belvidere farm 8 few weeks ago, says Charleston (S. O. paper, will remember the professor or Egyptian prophet, who so successful ly performed the resurrection feat. Since his little venture in the resurrec- tion business the professor has lived at Belvidere farm with his family. A few days ago he was taken down with country fever and in short time the poor fellow was buried-this time in earnest. Mike Hogan was not present at the funeral to blow the trumpet, and the poor professor remains in his grave. He leaves wife and child in an almost destitute condition. Since his resurrection feat the professor had been earning a precarious living by giving seances of his sleight of-hand magic in different portions of the upper wards. He was buried in the identical coffin in which he performed the resur- rection feat.
Year: 1876

John Stuart Mill was of opinion ssthat as mankind improve, they will more and more recognize two independent prov 1nces-the province of belief and the province of imaginative conjecture; {; that they will become capable of keep ing these apart, and that while they limit their belief to the evidence will think it allowable to let their imagina- tive anticipations go forth, not carrying g belief in their train, in the direction which experience and study of human nature shows to be most improving to the character, and most exalting and consoling to the individual feelings"
Year: 1876

Many valuable horses die from the effects of collie. The best thing to do in $ case of this kind is to pour a bottle of .Jol,a- sons Anodyne Lirainest into long necked junk bottle, add half pint of molasses and water, then pour the whole down the horse's throat. In ten minutes the horse will begin to eat.
Year: 1876

Boiled chicken c pAUen,ande: Trim, dress and boil two large chickens, with carrot, three cloves stuck in a large onion, two leeks, head of celery, some parsley, two bay leaves and sprig of thyme, tied together in a bunch. When the chickens are done, skim all the grease, pass the broth through a fine strainer. In separate saucepan make white To,lc; mix to 1t broth of chick en sufficient to make sauce to serve with them; season with white pepper and

 dtmeg, boil half an hour, skim well, then add to the sauce, made with the yolks of four eggs, two ounces of butter in small bits, mix well and stir on the fire with Q wooden spoon, so as to cook the eggs without boiling the sauce; pass forcibly through a napkin, press in the juice of lemon, drain the chicken well, dress on dish, pour the sauce over and serve.
Year: 1876

So NEAR AND YET so FAR Not many months ago, in India, a gentleman and wife having talk ell passage for England Went on board with their baggage. Pres ently, the husband discovered that there was time for him to go ashore and see d man. He went and when it occurred to him that it was time to go aboard, he hailed @ b0atman and ere long found himself on board @ large passenger ship. It Was night. A sleepy steward inquired the num-

 Der of his cabin, which he chanc- ed to remember, as also that his was the upper birth; so he con-

 triyed to chamber into it without disturbing his wife, as he suppOs- ed, who slept beneath But when dewn hrOkn and tho shin was Wnii
Year: 1876

the first, before daylight, and was too badly hurt to to be taken from the field. The first lines of the confederates swept past in the pursuit without observing him, and he was seen by. surgeon who followed in the rear. At this time his wound was bleeding copiously, he was tOrmented with thirst, and his condition was cri- tical. He called out to the sur geon to help him. "Where are you hurt?" the latter carelessly asked. "I am hurt in three diff ferent places," was the reply, and the sufferer mentioned them. The surgeon instantly recognized d brother of that order whose dis. ciplas are found in every land under the sun; he stopped, gave him the best attention and relief that the time and place admitted Of, had him conveyed to the rear at the first opportunity, and was unremitting in his attentions and good offices from that time until ne had procured his exchange.
Year: 1876

The ceremonies of decoration day
are suggestive, and there was beau
tiful harmony throughout the entire
celebration on Tuesday. The original
idea of such testimonial, it will be
remembered, was suggested at the
South; and after the close of the war
the happy thought was accepted at
the North. There was gracefulness
about the ceremonial that at once cap
tured the finer senslbiiities of both
sections, and we believe 1t to be but
typical of an enduring harmony of
sympathy and fraternal union that
may last for centuries to come. The
bestowal of the grateful tributes to
valor on both sides that occurred on
Tuesday is an evidence of the prev
alence of desire for future harmony


throughout the land. 1t has beside
an emotional aspect a political signifi-
canoe, and betokens the coming of q
more cordial union of the States than
has existed for number of years.
The occasion is welcomed by all, and
can be but productive of good to all
classes and sections. 1t teaches US
that while we may differ upon certain
technical questions of political econo-
my there is among us common in
terest and common destiny. Trifles
oftentimes settle the fate of individ-
uals, and these incidents are often the
evidences of the existence Of SUBJ
Year: 1876

stantial fundamental principle under
lying all of our institutions. The
Union soldier who has borne the bur-
dens of the field participates in the
laying of tribute upon the grave of an
opponent whose last resting place is
being honored and consecrated, that
is experienced by the comrades of the
dead on either side. Let the dead past
bury the dead, and may the flowers of
yesterday be but the type of the fra
GRANGE of a future harmonious union.
None but the sordid can object to this
harmonious demonstration, and none
can question its utility in social and
political point of view, but those who
would ever keep alive the animosity
of the past and transmit the unpleas-
ant memories of other days, in kind
of mean, vindictiveness. We know
the occasion and rejoice in the frater-
nal spirit manifested.
Year: 1876

THIS is not first class year for WIS.,
itors to the Pacific coast and per con-
sequence we shall not pick up the u.s.
ual quantity of unconsidered trlfies
dropped from the pockets of Eastern
tourists. The Centennial Exhibition
influences many to remain at home
this year and not a few of our own
people together with a great many of
our dollars have gone over to Phila-
delphia. Los Angeles which is the
ultima thule of the tourist and pleas
ure seeker experiences falling off in
the number of her Eastern visitors.
Last year the number of arrivals of
the class purely visitor exceeded that
of this year, so far, probably two to
one. We presume our hotel keepers
and landlords have experienced re-
alizing sense of this aud while COM
placently yielding to the inevitable
are inwardly rejoicing that the Gen.
tennial comes but once in a hundred
years.
Year: 1876

Decidedly the most valuable, be-
cause the most beneficial, improve
ment progressing in our city is that


inaugurated and now approaching
completion by the Los Angeles Wa
ter Company. More than one year
ago it was discovered that the old wa
ter mains were unequal to the de-


mand upon them and it was apparent
that the rapid growth Of the city
would soon place it beyond the power
ofthe Company to supply their GUS
toners with water unless they great
ly increased the capacity of the main
pipes and reservoirs. An increase
was resolved upon and the company
at once contracted with San Fran
cisco firm for iron pipe sufficient to
relay the main. The new pipe is
twenty-five inches in diameter and
is made of the best American No. II
wraught iron. Each section before it is
laid down is boiled in tar and subject
ed to heavy hydraulic pressure. The
work of laying the new main has
been going forward for some months
and will be completed in about two
weeks from this time. Some idea
of the magnitude of the under


taking may be obtained from
the fact that the expense of the
company for labor alone has averaged
from 81, 400 to ST 800 per week. Two
new reservoirs are to be constructed,
the highest of which will be of great
capacity and some eighty feet above
the reservoir from which the present
supply is drawn. The large main and
the increased capacity and elevation
of the reservoirs will it is estimated
afford an abundant supply of water
for a city of five or six times the pop
ulation Los Angeles now numbers.
Some difficulty has been experienced
in obtaining water in the high locali-
ties, but this trouble will disappear
with the completion of the improve
ments now in hand. 1t is estimated
that good pressure will be secured
on the highest land. The increase of
Year: 1876

Hendricks for President and Tilden
for Vice-President would carry the
election by storm. .-Mendocino Demo.
crdt.


There is but one remedy for the
evils that oppress the people, that is
an entire change of administration
Santa Rosa Democrat.


The triumph of the Democratic par
ty depends entirely upon two condi-
tions-the nomination of represen-
tative Democrat and a fair fight on the
real issues involved in the contest.
We have confidence in the
people, and believe they will call to
power the party whose glory is writ
ten upon every bright page of our
country's history, instead of perpetua-
ting the domination of the party
which was born of fanaticism, whose
history may be written in the blood
and tears ofa once happy people, and
whose corruptions are filling the land
with shame and honest Indignation.
Governor Tilden is our choice
Santa Rosa Democrat.
Year: 1876

THE small pox has made its appear
ance in the Chinese quarter of San
Francisco and is quietly spreading.
This fact should be warning to our
municipal managers to place their
house in order. AS yet the disease
has not made its appearance in this
city, but there is no special reason
why we should be exempt and all
know that much may be done in the
way of preventative. Remember that
"An ounce of preventative is worth a
pound of cure"