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Year: 1876

From the Reading (pa Times.
A new enemy to the growing crop


OF corn has been discovered this


spring which is committing consider,
able destruction in some sectious of
the country. 1t il peculiar black


worm which can scarcely be crushed
on the loose earth, as it is incased in
suit of armor difficult to break.
They operate i'll the corn hills by eat
ing of the young plants. As many rs
ten or twelve worms are found in one
hill. The cutworm has hitherto been
great annoyance, but this new pest
IS said to be even more destructive.
In some townships farmers are busy
repianting ,cornfields that have been
thus devastated. Paris green has been
found to be as efficacious in extermi-
mating these worms as it is in destroy
ing the potato bug Powdered white
hellebore is said to be very effica-
cious.


This bug is an old acquaintance in
North Carolina. e pecially is it dread
ed in the clay region of the State, and
when it makes its appearance the corn
crops are materially injured.
Year: 1876

We were approached by young
man yesterday who begged rs to ad-
vertise to the business world, that he
Was in search of situation as clerk
Pay IS of 70 consequence to him; he
would not have + if offered. He will
board and clothe himself and work
night and day just for the love of the
thing, if he can only find an employer.
Year: 1876

CnfbOlic acid is beginning to play
an important part in more ways than
one. A physician of good repute and
practice assures us that it will cnre
consumption. if the patient will habit
ually breathe atmosphere impreg-
mated by it.
Year: 1876

4NOs Os

 An Act to Amend the Attachment

 Laws of Arkansas.

 SECTION 1. That all actions of attachment now pending, or here. after instituted, in which the de. fendant shall recover judgment for the discharge of the attach ment, the court or jury trying such attachment shall assess the dam ages sustained by the defendant by reason of such attachment, and the court shall render judg- ment against the plaintiff and his sureties in the attachment bond for the amount of such damages and costs of the attachment. But if the plaintiff shall recover against the defendant, and the attachment shall have been dis charged upon the execution of a bond as provided by section 4l6 of Gantt's Digest, then the court shall redder judgment against said defendant and his sureties in said bond, for the amount recovered and the costs of said suit. But if the defendant shall have given bond for the retention of the prop erty attached, as provided by sec tion 406 of Gantt's Digest, and the attachment shall be sustain ed, the court or jury, in addition to finding the amount of debt or damages done to the plaintiff, also assess the value of .he prop erty attached, and the court shall, in addition to judgment against said defendant for the amount found due to the plaintiff and costs, render further judgment that, in case said property shall not be delivered up to the proper officer to be sold and said officer shall not be able to make said judgment out of the property of said defendant, execution shall then issue against the property of said sureties for so much of said judgment as shall not exceed the value of said property, which execution shall be enforced as in other cases.

 Sec. }. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage.

 | Approved November 10, 1875.
Year: 1876

Just as we expected, there has developed not little dissatisfac- ton and disapproval among DOT ,ion of our people in regard to the law passed by our last legislature imposing a tax on dogs.

 This, of course, was to Dc eX- pccted, although it should not be the case. Why should a man be any more unwilling to pay tax on his dog, than on his sheep, hogs or cattle? Why is not a dog as much 6 piece of personal prop crty as a hog, sheep or COW! And if so, why should it be ex- empt, and the latter taxed?

 The rate of tax-one dollar per dog, payable in county scrip, which is equivalent to not over twenty-five cents in currency is very small sum to pay on dog. Il man needs dog at all he is worth more th& this to him. II he don't need such a piece of property, he ought not to keep one, and he will then have no dog tax to pay.

 The tax being payablein coun- ty scrip, will have tendency to enhance the value of our scrip; the number of canines will be de- creased and the loss of sheep killed by dogs will be lcssened, so that really we see no room for so much complaining. We think the county will be largely the gaincr by the operation Of this law.
Year: 1876

.Hrcathcs there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said

 This is my own, my native land."

 If so. to him alone will the birth of 1876. the centennial year of our existence as one of the na- tions of the earth, fail to bring a thrill of joy and pride. In his small soul alone will there be DO throb of patriotic pride, as he be holds the glorious sunlight from the mighty orb of day bathe our land of freedom in a flood of glory and splendor on the morn that marks the first hundred years of the existence of the American Union. To his dull, leaden soul alone will the joyous ringing of the bells and the louh peal of the booming guns with which our nations birthday is welcomed in, DC meaningless and destitute of joy-inspiring power.

 ONE HUNEREp YEARS, With what q thrill of joy may we gaze upon eur Star Spangled Banner, as unfurled it flutters from ten thousand statfs, the emblem in every land of Freed Jm and Liber- ty! With what pride may we contemplate the progress we have made. With what vcneration does the names of our revolution ary heroes rise up before us to- day surrounded by a halo Of brightness and glory.

 One hundred years have passed and from the cradle of our weak ness Columbia is today in truth and reality, the Gem of the Ocean, and the Pride of the Sea--a mighty monument of what the spirit of freedom sacredly en- shrined in the hearts of people can do. From weakness we have grown to power. From a hand tul of struggling patriots We have grown to nation known and res pected by the whole world.

 In l776the nations of the earth bcheld us, q new born nation, great in nothing but our spirit of Isibesty and If+cpcndcncc--tn 1876 they will assemble from all the globe to behold our greatness, power and prosperity, and to ac- knowledge the power of Union and Liberty.
Year: 1876

Since the change in our land laws has reduced the price of lands forfeited to the state to a very low figure, it is quite likely that there will be large quantities of these lands sold during the next year or two. Our state is now the center of attraction to those seeking new homes in the southwest; our great advantages are becoming known far and wide, and we are already receiving daily additions to our population from other states. All these new con- CTS will want homes and lands, and thousands and thousands of acres of land which has been for feited on account of non-payment of taxes will be purchased by them. The more of these lands sold and thus rendered sources of revenue to the state again, the better, but there is no doubt many tracts of land on the delinquent lists on which the taxes have been paid. Errors of this kind have been very numerous during the past few years. Many lands on which the taxes have been regularly paId have been reported delinquent, and these are as lia. ble as any others to be sold. Al though such a sale as this could never deprive the owner of his lands, it might put him to good deal of trouble. He might be at trouble and expense in defending his title against him who might buy the lands as delinquent land. In order to bar any such trouble as this it would be we'll for land owners to ascertain at once if any of their lands are erroneously on the lists of delinquent lands. If so, they should procure the clerks certificate that the taxes have al ways been paid on said lands, and forward the same to the commis- sioner of state lands to be stricken from the list. Such a course would save both the proper owner and an innocent purchaser much trouble and expense, and would also enable the land commissioner to get from off his lists all lands which do net belong there.

 We have been assured by an altogether reliable informant who has inquired into this matter, that the Commissioner of lands will promptly strike from his lists all lands improperly placed there, upon the presentation of such proofas we have named, that the taxes have always been paid.
Year: 1876

Believing that we can give our readers no other matter which will be so profitable and instruct i've to them, we will devote DOT tion of our space each week from now on to the publication of the acts passed by our last legislature Very few have an opportunity 'o get the Acts without paying a very extravagant prte,is9r tlNm' and as we wish td beneiit our readers all we can, we Will give one or two acts each week. Suo- seribers by keeping a file Of their papers can have the law handy
Year: 1876

for reference at any time and that too, without any expense further than the subscription price ofour paper. We believe that the bet, ter the masses can be made ac- quainted with the laws under which they live, the fewer will be the violations of law, and as the promotion of order and peace in every community should be the aim of every good citizen, we trust those who are already sub scribers will induce others to add their names to our list and avail themselves of our paper to get the new laws passed by the recent session of the legislature.
Year: 1876

An Act providing for change oi

 Venues in Criminal Cases be-

 fore Justices Courts:

 SECTION l. That any criminal cause pending before any justice of the peace in any county of this state may be removed to some other township within the coun- ty in which the cause is then pending; provided, the defendant shall first file with such justice III affidavit setting forth that the justice is a material witness 5pr him, or is so prejudicial age v him, or thatr the inhabitants of the township are so prejudicial against him that he cannot obtaln a fair and impartial trial in such township.

 Sec. ,. Such order of removal shall be made on the application of the defendant setting forth the foregoing facts, versified by afii davit, supported by the affidavit of some other creditable person.

 Sec. 3. Every order for the removal of criminal cause shall specify the cause of removal and designate the township and jus tlcc to which the cause is to be re- moved. Such order shall also be entered on the docket O. the jus tice granting the order, and all the papers in the cause shall be by him transmitted to the justice to 1hom the cause has been re moved.

 Sec. 4. All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

 Approved November 10, 1875.
Year: 1876

--TuE NEW SCHOOL LAw.--In next weeks paper we shall en- dcavor to give our readers the text of this important act of our last legislature. The act is quite lengthy and we may not be able to get space in next issue for the complete law, but if we should not. we will continue it in the
Year: 1876

About fifty State prison con victs are now employed at the Spadra coal mine in Johnson Co. The State ought to have a place to keep their prisoners in, and then keep them there. This thing of scattering them around is bad policy, if nothing worse.-Arkan- sas Traveller.

 From twenty five to thirty more convicts are kept at work at the Ouita coal mine in our county. While we cannot blame the own CTS of these mines for employing the cheapest labor they can get, nor the lessee of the State Pene- tentiary for employing the con victs in that manner which will be most profitable to him, we can not but regard it as a very unfor- tunate thing for honest, free labor, that the laws of our state permit convict labor to supplant other honest, free labor. It is our law makers whom we feel disposed to censure for this state of affairs. They it is who are guilty of fore ing the honest laborer, who has a family and children to support by the sweat of his brow, to compete with the labor of convicts, who are fed upon bread and water. We are surprised that our last legis- lature did not see the evil results of this system and adopt meas ures to prohibit it in the future.

 They certainly have neglected a duty here, which gives the hon est laboring masses of the State great room to find fault with their legislative work. The voice of the people has been against con wet labor being admitted to com petition with free labor all the time, and the people had right to expect that their demands in this respect should be heard and needed.

 We fully agree with our con temporary that it is bad policy exceeding bad policy-to admit convict labor into the field to compete with free labor. What ! inducement is there for honest, industrious miners to move to our state with their families when they know they will have to com pete with convict labor? Were it not for this convict laoOr Johnson and Pope counties might soon ac- quire something like hundred families of honest, hard working miners, who would become pro ducers and taxpayers and add to our wealth. But of what advan- tage to us is these convicts! What would we be benefited ifev- cry acre of our coal: fields were mined by them? The de- velopment of our mineral wealth will do us but little good if it is to be done by convict labor. Al most as we'll had the coal to lie buried in the bowels of the earth, as to be extracted without adding anything to the prosperity of the country.

 In the State Prison is the prop CT place for convicted felons, and to have their labor pcddled out in competition with free labor is nothing short of an outrage upon the honest laboring men of the State. Our law makers are stan ding in the way of the true inter ests of honest free labor, as long as they permit it. They are stan ding likewise in the way of immi- grafton to our state. The labor ing freeman don't care about competing with convicted felons.

 Let our next legislature bt compelled by the voice Of tho press and the people to remedy this evil.
Year: 1876

NO. J. An Act to permit sheriffs to take bail i'll certain cases.

 Provides that prisoner, after commitment to jail, may give bond to the sheriff in the amount fixed, the same as he might have done before commitment.
Year: 1876

q would like to see you all once more. In fact | would like to wind up this life among my relatives iu that coun- try, and I often think that l will sometime return to Arkansas and make it my last resting place. That is the best country 1 have ever seen, and 1 have seen all from Central America to British Columbia.

 You wish me to give you a de- scription of this Territory. l will ntt attempt it at present, suf- flee it to say that one-third is a desert, the balance tolerable fair grazing, with very little agricul- tural land and badly watered, and were it not for the mines the whole country would be almost worthless.

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Year: 1876

The Boston Medical Journal has the
following passage: " Hyrile, by far the
greatest anatomist of the age used TO
say that he could distinguish in the dark
EST room, by one stroke of the scalpeI, the
brain Of the inebriate from that Of ihe
person who lived soberly. Now and then
he would congratulate his class upon the
possession of a drunkards brain, admira-
bly, fitted, from its hardness and more
complete preservation. for the purpose of
careful demonstration. When an austo-
mist wishes to preserve human brain for
any length of time, he effects his object
by keeping that organ in vessel of alec
hol. From the soft, pulpy substance it.
becomes comparatively hard; but the in-
ebriate, anticipating the anatomist, begins
the indurating process before death. be.
gins it while the brain remains in the
consecrated temple of the soul, while its
delicate and gossamer tissues throb with
the pulses Of heaven born life. Strange
infatustion thus to desecrate the godlike
Terrible enchsntment that dries up all
the fountains of generous feeling, peiriies
all the tender humanities and sweet char.
tiles Of life, leaving only brain and
heart of stone.
Year: 1876

A most singular discovery was yester.
day mado in the Savage mine. This is
the finding of living fish in the water
now flooding both the Savage and Hale
and Norcross mines. The fish found were
FIVE in number, and were yesterday after
noon hoisted up the incline in the large
iron hoistiug tank and dumped into the
pump tank at the bottom OF the vertical
shaft. The fishes are cyeless, and are
only about three or four inches ip length.
They are blood red in color.


The temperature of the water in which
they are found is l2s degrees Fahrenheit
almost scaldipg hot. When the fish
were taken out Of the hot water in which
they were found, aud placed in bucket
OF cold water, Tor the purpose Of being
brought to the surface they died almost
instantly. The cold water at once chilled
their life blood.


In appearance these subterranean
members Of the funny tribe somewhat re.
semblc gold fish. They seem lively and
sportive enough while in their native hot
water, Notwithstanding that they have no
eyes nor even the rudiments Of eyes. The
water by which the mines are flooded
broke in at depth Of 2,200 feet tha,
was being pushed to the Dorthward in the
Savage, 1t rose in the mine also 10 the
Hale and Norcross, the two mines being
connected-to the height of 400 feet
that is up to the $500 foot level This
would seem to prove that great subter.
ranean reservoir or lake has been tapped
and from this lake doubtless came the
fish hoisted from the mine last evening.


Eyeless fishes are frequently found il
the lakes of large caves, but we have
never before heard of their existence il
either surface or subterranean water thu
temperature OF which was so high as i!
the water 10 these mlues. The lower
workings Of the Savage mine are far be
low the bed Of the Carson .iver, below
the bottom of the Washoe lake-belov
any water running or standing anywher,
within a distance of ten miles OF tht
mine - Territorial
Year: 1876

MIR Morton said in his place ia the
Senate Of the United States


"Wby, in thirty minutes there were
over two hundred and fifty murders tin
Louisiana). | know that whenever this
thing is spoken Of it is said oh, you
are shaking the bloody shirt 1t is no
harm to commit these murders, but it is
very wrong to tell of them. There were
two thousand murders from May to No.
vember."


There was a tiue when such a state.
mcnt made on the floor of the Senate by
senator would have filed the country
with CONSERVATION, and the people would
not have been satisfied until the guilty
parties had been punished. Now, how
ever, wholesale murders may be commit
ted in the South, and the old spirit Of jus
tice which pervadcd the people Of the
North appears to have grown weary oI
the oft repeated tales of bloodshed and
wrong


The United States OF America is held
forth to the world as the model republic
European nations. dissatisfied with their
rulers, are called upon to copy our con
stitution, and give the people the bless
ings Of freedom. education and peace
Our government is said to be the best
that the sun ever shone upon, and yet
there are states in the Union where red
handed murder goes unpunishcd when
ever one class of citizens seeks to exercise
its political rights


Murder 10 the late rebel states OF the
South has always been very vulgar
affair, and the murderers who escaped
punishment have only changed the lash
for the revolver. The freedmen and
white republicans were the victims theil
assassins the democratic white amnestied
rebels, who render life unsafe by rockies.
defiance Of law, The spirit Of assassina
ton is rife to-day. Can the nation thsr
look for progressive prosperity--for po
litical cohesion-for that union which il
strength. while it tolerates such iniquity
and has no rebuke for the shedder OF hu
man blood 2


The duty of the press is not to gloss
over or suppress, but to record the truth
seek to correct abuses, and denounce
crime and criminals. If the American
press had been true to itself and to the
people the South would have been in 0
far better condition than it now is. In
deed, the "great dailies" of the metro
politan cities" are the most to blame il
the matter. Selfish and trucking, they
have concealed what they ought to have
made known; they have attacked and
misrepresented the labors of men who
went South with their lives in theil
hands; they have been silent when they
ought to have cried aloud throughout the
length and breadth Of the land, and com
bined the people for the purpose of put
ting an end to murderous oppression and
outrage in the common interest. ln
stead of this, with few honorable ex
ceptions. the influential press of Americs
appear to have sent men to the localities
Of murders with instructions to refrair
from reporting them; to deny the crimes
they witnessed, or had good reason to be
lieve were perpetrated, TO laud the op
pressor and the manslayer whose breaC
they had eaten, when they ought to hav,
despised and exposed them.
Year: 1876

AN EARNEST WoMAN.-The Church
man tells the story Of a woman, but with
out giving her name, who became tired ot
a life mainly employed in eating and
dressing, and resolved to devote hersel
and her money to nobler purpose. A.
the close Of the rebellion she went to 8
sandy island of the Atlantic coast, whsr,
about two hundred persons were living il
poverty and ignorance, and established
her home there with the intention of ben
efting the inhabitants, She began with
teaching, by example, how to cultivat,
the land lucratively, and was soon imi
,ated. Next she established a school fol
the children, and afterward a church
Now the island is a thrifty region with
an industrious and moral population, tht
change being the work of one woman.
Year: 1876

The supreme court at Newiane, Fri.
day. decided the celebrated Brattleboro
case in favor of The school board. The
opinion was delivered by Judge Barrett.
1t will be remembered that large mum.
Der of children Of Catholic parentage, in
violation Of rule Of the school, absented
themselves from the public school on
Corpus Christi day that on a previous
"day of obligation" Of the church they
aad similarly absented themselves; that,
on this occasion, they had requested to be
excused from attendance, but were de.
MED and that, in consequence of their
non.attendance, they were expelled from
school. This present action was bill in
chancery brought to restrain the school
board from carrying the order for expul.
sion into effect. The court held that the
rule was within the legal power of the
school board to make that requiring the
children to attend on that day and re.
fusing to excuse them was not such an
interference with the freedom of con.
science as to make the rule 10 conflict
with the constitution; that the holding
Of session of the school that day was
not any more illegal than it would be to
hold town meeting on that day that
the school laws. as well as this rule
we're made for sll persons, aud as it did
not conflict with the constitution was
legal and of binding force. The court
therefore dismissed the bill The de.
oson of the court sustains the action o!
Judge Wheeler in refusing to gran! o
preliminary injunction in the first in
stance, and is based substantially on the
same reasons. 1t also afirms the action
of the court OF chsncery in dismissing the
bill,