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Year: 1875



 March 18th, 1875.

 Editor of the DEMOCRAT:

 Dear Sir: If you will allow me a little Space in your valuable columns, l will in brief. give you the prospects of our farmers in Coon Valley. There never was spring that opened to us with brighter prospects than the pres ent one, though we have had an uncommon cold winter for this country, the mercury sinking as low as zero and freezing the ground to the depth of four inches, and the spring is little later than common, still every indication is good for a splendid crop year. But still better than all is the bright prospects of a settled and quiet government, which has brought joy and gladness to the heart of every man, woman and child. May God bless our gov ernor, and give him q clear and sound mind in all of his official duties, is prayer that the majori- ty of the people of Arkansas can say Amen to.

 The farmers here appear to all be in the best of spirits, and are settling down to business in right good earnest, and each one appears to be fully determined that his crop shall be the earliest crop in the neighborhood, but there is still q disposition to plant too much cotton. I hope our farmers will bear this in mind, and plan. a little more corn, more potatoes, more vegetables, and by all means a patch ofcane. But says one we cant get the seed. He has not read the advertisement in your paper of cane seed for sale at the Hardware store in your town. So much he looses for not taking the paper and reading the advertise ments. There is now a good prospect for a large immigration to this part of Arkansas. learn that already there has been quite a number of inquiries from differ ent states about this part of the country. The extreme cold weath- CT in northern states will cause thousands of farmers to look for a milder climate. The climate that they are longing for, we have, and in this valley we have thousands of acres of as fertile soil as the sun ever shone upon, which can be bought at a low price, and on easy terms. Now we want the practical farmer, the thorough going energetic man that IS not afraid of hard work and the me chanics to come and settle with us, to all such we will give the hand and hearty welcome. Bring your wives, your children, your tools, your stock, and possess the land that will give you the best returns of any soil in the Union. JouN INGuH.
Year: 1875

Pause. young man. You want to get married, and it is about the time you did. But recollect that unmarried mon don't have to sit up all night once a week with q shotgun, watching the clothes line,
Year: 1875

The Paris journals cell of a

 young couple who were too hap

 py to live, at least the accounts

 seem to be colored with that idea.

 NJ. Bastein was young architect

 of promise. He had married a

 young lady of beauty and accom-

 plishments, the daughter of a rich

 merchant, M. Channard. The

 couple had been married nlne

 months on last New Years day,

 aud appeared to be sincerely de-

 voted to each other. Mime. Bas- tein expected soon to become q

 mother. On New Years day the couple went to dine with NJ. Chan nard, and returned home at mid night. M. Channard was engaged to dine with them next day. In the morning the lady went out to make some purchases, and return ed at noon. In the afternoon there were several rings of their doorbell, but no answer was re- turned. According to appoint ment NJ. Channard came and rang-no response. He was told that several other persons had bsen equally unsuccessful. A locksmith was called and the door was opened. The young people were found dead in their bed. Mime. Bastein, clad in her dress ing gown and her husband in his trousers and waisteoat. The re- mains of the breakfast of which both had evidently partaken were on the table. A bottle of ammo mia and one of sedative water were on the mantelpiece. These were the only answers to blank inquiry and searching grief. Nothing was disarranged in the room, and there the young man and wife lay locked in each others arms, and death had caught and clutch ed the last smiles on their faces. l It was a photograph of love and peace. They were perfectly hap py, and they locked themselves in with their happiness and called death to turn the key. The world could not rob them now, and they lay and smiled the smile of victo- ". A medical man said they had poisoned themselves, and gave it as his opinion that the wife died first. Was there just a moment of regret at the separa- tion in the husbands heart? Did he look in her face and smile when he thought that he was about to rejoin her and meet that sweet face on the other side?
Year: 1875

The Danville (Ky.) Advocate says: "An interesting little daugh- ter of Prof. C., of this city, last summer, in eating q watermelon, got one of the seed lodged in her windpipe. The effort was made to dislodge it, but proved ineffect- ual, and it was thought that the child would have to be taken to one of the large cities to have an operation performed by skillful surgeon. To this she was decid- ly opposed, and pleaded with her mamma to tell her if there was no other way of relief Finally, in order to quiet her childish fears, her christian mother told her to ask God to help her. The little one went into an adjoining room, and shortly thereafter came. run hing to her mamma with the seed in her hand, and her beautiful and intelligent face lighted up with joy. In response to the eager in quiry of the mother, the little one said she had asked God to help her, and while she was praying she was taken with 8 severe cough, in which she threw up the seed"
Year: 1875



 Coop HINTs-The way to get credit is to be punctual; the way to preserve it is not to use it much. Settle often; have short accounts. Trust no mans appearance; ap- pearances are deceitful, perhaps assumed for the purpose of ob- taining credit. Beware of gaudy exteriors; rogues usually dress well. The rich are plain; trust him, if any one who carries but little on his back. Never trust him who flies into a passion on being dunned, but make him pay quickly if there be any virtue in the law. Whenever you meet man who is fond of argument, you will find one profoundly ig- norant of the operations of the human heart. Mind your own affairs. Let all the errors you see in other management suggest correctness in your own.
Year: 1875

Has the largest circulation of any paper in the State, outside of Little Rock. and Is not surpassed by any other paper in the south west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people.
Year: 1875

All bills with our advertisers are to be settled at the end of every month without fail. and advertisements not settled for at that time will be continued, without mo- tice, unless special arrangements are made.

 All local notices must be paid for at the rate of ten cents per line, for each insertion. This rule is imperative and must be ad hered to.
Year: 1875




This likeness of the follower of Jesus to
Him is ono Of character Al any Of ms are
worth, morally, is exactly represented by our
character. That is all we have for our capi'
tai here, and il is all we shall have for our
capital in heaven. Wicked people under
stand this, and their great aim is to destroy
the character Of the good. 1t was this they
were aiming at in respect to Christ when
they said lie is a wine-bibber and glut-
ton" They hated Him because people cred
tied Him with being a good man. II was a
devilish conspiracy on their part 10 destroy
His reputation That was the strong, vital
thing about Him, and they banded t6 de-
stroy that. II is the strong, vital thing in
us who follow after Him to-day Not in our
moods or feelings; not what we believe in
respect 10 truth but in what we are at heart
and taken as a whole really are, are we to
look TO find our needed likeness to Christ
Christ in us the hope Of glory" means
when our natures nwardly are in the likeness
Of Christ, then may we have hope Of glory


What nature is this in me 2--let us all ask
ourselves, then. Is this Christ What
grounds have for hope p Golden Rule
Year: 1875

God never intended temporal things for
His peoples portion; therefore from them
they must not expect their relief in times OF
trouble lie will have us read His love to
us by things within us, not 10y things with
out us He hath other ways of expressing
His love to His people than by the smiles of
His providence upon them How would
earthly things be oYeryalued and idolized,
if, beside their conveniency to our bodies,
they should be marks and evidence of Gods
love to our souls A Christian is TO value
himself as the merchant or the husbandman
doth. The merchant values himself by his
bills and goods abroad, not by the ready
cash that lies by him; and the husbandman
by his deeds and leases, and so many acres
ol corn he hath in the ground, and knows he
hath a good estate, though sometimes he is
not able to command twenty shilings
Christian, thy estate also lies in good prom
ises, and new covenant securities, whether
thou hast more or less Of earthly comforts in
thv hands Tlqrel
Year: 1875

No longrobed abbess, moving with stately
step among her nuns and novices-only the
daughter Of poor Cape Cod fisherman was
this " Mother Anita, whose little story am
going to tell yon, translating ii from the
rough phrase Of the rude but kindly people
among whom | spent my last summers va
cation, into few simple words Of my own.
| do not think that you win call it a sad
story; it was not such to me, although |
traced it backward from is closing chapter
written on marble in the little graveyard
Year: 1875

WHENEVER cast my eyes on ostentatious
epitaphs, feel wish to write under them !
GAS man is composed of pride and inhrIni.
ties, passenger, you here behold them fully
exemplified. This tomb indicates the feeble
moss, and this epitaph the prideoi his nature.
How just picture is this of the character OF
The deceased person when alive. Under
robes Of silk and embroidery, he concealed
from the ewes of the world the weakness and
disease oi his decaying body A wounded
conscience and feeble understanding were
hidden beneath the mask Of a tranquil coun-
tenance, a steady and penetrating eye.
Year: 1875

1t is said to be faithful description
of person Of his acquaintance, and
he was previously assured that nc
matter what he said no harm should
come to him, so that he spoke the
truth, the whole truth, 80 help him
God. Hero is the result:


A long-leggcd, vain, light weight
village lawyer, from New Hampshire
If he had brains in proportion to his
legs, be would make Solomon seem 0
failure; if his modesty equaled his
ignorance, he would make a violet
feel stuck upi if his learning equaled
his vanity, he would make Won Hum
bolt seem as unlcttered as the bac,.
side of q tombstone; if His stature
were proportioned to his conscience
he would be q gem forthe microscope
if his ideas were as large as his words
it would take q man three months tc
walk around one Of them; if one au'
dience were TO contract to listen as
long as he would talk, that audience
would die of old age; and if he were
to talk until he said something, he
would still be on his legs when the
last trump sounded; and he would
have cheek enough to wait till the
disturbance was over and 60 on
again.


AS the candid Mark still lives and
prospers, we know for a certainty
that the guarantee Of speaking the
truth with impunity was observed in
good faith.
Year: 1875

There was French regiment in which
dueliug was all the rage. The officers
were always fighting each other, or getting
up little affairs with the officers of other
regiments. At last the War Office, wearied
out Of patience, changed the commanding
officer. A colonel was sent down who
would be sure to stamp out such nonsense.
A few days after his arrival, two Of the
officers came to ask his permission TO go
out and fight. To the amazement of every
body he gave his lent; the efficars went
forth to fight, they slightly wounded each
other, and "honor was satisfied" as the
phrase goes upon these occasions. They
we're no sooner recovered than they re.
ceived an order to waii upon the colonel.


"You have to go out and fight again TO-
morrow" he said; and as they looked At
him with questioning astonishment. he ex-
planned: "When off. rs fight in the regt
ment have the honor TO command, they
kill. Cop


These officers went ont again, and this
time made right good holes in each other,
which took six months to heal. The story
is very horrible. They were sent out again
and again, and at last they killed each
other, but henceforth and forever IN that
regiment and goe'l many beside, there
was an end of c .eling. The fate Of
the young men w o were thus sacri-
feed 10 bring about Sch s result was sad,
but they brought It on themselves, inns-
much as being fully Il sars that the colonel
YVES sent to repross dusling, they chose
almost on his arrival 10 dsnand that be
should stultify himself and permit them 10
have their way.
Year: 1875

AT LAsT.-After six weeks of continu-
GUS freezing weather, the atmosphere soft
ened and on Wednesday we had regu-
lar old fashioned snow storm. On Thurs
day morning the Basin was covered with
The Beautiful" to the depth of Is inch
es. The storm turned to rain and the
miners were happy in the thought that
water would be plenty within few hours.
But this proved only delusion, as the
wind switched round to the North and
Thursday night proved to be the coolest
of the season, completely drying up all
water. The thermometer stood at 100
above zero on Friday morning. Altho'
there is no water yet, miners have the
satisfaction of knowing that there is some
snow on the mountains at last. On the
morning of January 18th, old Baly was
perfectly bare, something heretofore un-
known at that time in the year. A little
warmth is all that is now required to start
the water and make everybody happy.
An average mining season, however, is
now only within the range of possibilities.
The snow OF the past week was l6 inches
making total for the season of 2O1
the rain measured rs irches, making a
total thus far Of 1897 inches.
Year: 1875

EFFICACY OF PRAYER.-On Monday
last we received an envelope directed to
US from junction City. Opening it, we
found a piece OF poetry published in the
JOURNAL some years ago, entitled "a
Prayer for Trinity" in which the author,
knowing the necessities OF the miners,
appealed to the fountains of heaven to
open and send rain to work the mines.
on the back was written in pencil =
Bro. Jones, please lead in prayer"
We obeyed the injunction-withw what eff
iect let the storm of Wednesday answer.
NOW for the sequel A day or two after
sending us this request, our friend, evil
IDENTIFY thinking that " the prayers of the
wicked availeth nothing" or else that we
had put off praying to more promising
Time, hitched up his team and drove to a
brother rancher's about dozen miles off
TO get some seed potatoes. While there
the storm came and when he started
homeward with his wagon, he found the
snow SO deep that he had to unhitch, and
leaving the wagon standing in the road, +,
made his way home as best he could. If
there is any other chap wants us to ''lead
In prayer" we are perfectly willing to do
1t, but after the experience of our juno
ton City friend, we advise them to have
little more faith in us than he had and
not allow themselves to be caught in the
storm we bring.
Year: 1875

w. y. & III. NJ. Co.-On Tuesday last,
in company with Superintendent Geo. H.
Atkins, we visited the claims of the Wea-
verville Ditch and Hydraulic Mining
Company. The Ward Mine, on Oregon
Gulch Mountain, has been refitted to
some extent and everything connected
with its prospective working is in the
best possible shape. With fair supply
of water, there can be no doubt but that
this mine alone will yield the Company
large revenue. From this claim we
Travelled along the ditch and were sur
prised to find that it had withstood the
early rains so well their effect upon it
being no more than could have been
looked for in an old ditch. No slides and
only few caves have occurred on the
line, and these were mostly of loose top
stuff, easily run cat when the water is
turned In, and will prove beneficial in
h!ling up the low places and tightening
the ditch. After hearty dinner with
Jimmy Lands who has charge of the
ditch, we wended our way down the new
trail to Sydney Hill. Here an entirely
new opening has been made. An open
cut s it on top. Oft bottom, 30 feet deep
and over 400 feet in length has been run
from the gulch TO the formerly beautiful
orchard Of DR.. Ware, which the Compa-
ny will sluice off. A new reservoir has
haan hnilt nd I - = al
ppe is used in conveying the water to the
mine. Judging from work heretofore
done in the vicinity, the Ware claim will
yield handsomely under the new method
of mining.


One thing we noticed was entirely new
to us, and probably is to most old Trinity
miners, that is II flume with flaring sid
All The fumes built by Capt. Atkins are
of this pattern, and he claims that any
miner who gives one of them fair tlial
will never build any other kind. The
advantages claimed are that blocks can
be taken out and replaced much quicker,
1t is less liable to clog, the water has mole
current on the bottom, and in case of a
Jam the sides of this kind of hume are
less liable to come in on top than in one
with straight sides.


In the management of the Company's
affairs Capt. Atkins has the advantage of
large practical experience in hydraulic
mining, and has concentrated all his ener-
gi1s to the work in hand. Everything is
now in excellent working order, and when
water comes active operations will com
mence. The Company further intends to
begin work on the Rush Creek Ditch in
the Spring and have that water in the
Basin sometime in June.
Year: 1875

Action brought in
the District Court of
the Ninth Judicial


District of the State
of California, in and
; for the County of
Trinity, and the Com
plant filed in said
County of Trinity. in
the office of tho Clerk
of said District Court.
Year: 1875

CINCINNATI, June 3.-In the Brewers
congress to-day the committee on reso-
lutioHs made lengthy report, which
recites the fact that the brewers pay
about nine million dollars revenue tax,
and states they would probably pay more
but for the stringent rules of revenue
officers that render the business danger
Gus; that it is desiTabletO obtain the best
materials in the cheapest markets, free
from the duty now imposed upon i'm
ported barley and hops in order
to compete with foreign brew
ers. They request the government to
remove all unnecessary restrictions un-
der which the malt liquor interest Ia
bOrsi and ask that congress be petition
ed to amend the internal revenue laws,
especially to limit the power which is
assumed by the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue Of deciding the amount of
tax 3 brewer is liable to pay. They ask
that certain sections Of the present in
ternal revenue laws that are obnoxious
to the brewing interest, with the cases
that have arisen from their enforce
ment, be brought to the notice Of the
government; that the government be
petitioned TO remove the duties on I'M
Year: 1875

The articles Of faith OF the Reformed
Episcopal church, IS adopted by the
third council, recently adjourned, are
published la smother column. They diff
Ter very widely in some respects, from
those Of the church Of which the Re-
formed Is an ofIshOot, but not enough TO
lead any to accept them who thorough
ly understand and are well grounded in
Che doctrine and polity of the mother
church. They read very much like an
eiIort at distinction without difference
--someth'hg that, in there days OF union
and UniCy, Is very much to be regretted.
Year: 1875

met, and urged him to write just such a
letter as goes out to the country, ana
thereby avoid any snti-third-term reso-
luton TO the Pennsylvania platform, but
the President declined. The news from
Ohio, however, that the Republican
convention Of that State, which meets
this week, also intended to take strong
grounds against the third term, and that
other conventions of the party would
follow in the same line, prompted the
President TO come to the front, ere it
was too late, in letter OF declinatiOn.
Year: 1875

In answer to q correspondent, we
have to say that Secretary Fish has
bottled the governor Of Georgia that
the sending Of the iron-clad oath TO be
subscribed and filed by the centennial
commissioners from that State was
mistake Of one of the clerks Of the
state department. Iron-clsd oaths are
"plsyed out.u
Year: 1875

THE Mexican congress INDUCED in the
luxury Of impeachment. The debate
was sn exciting one, but ended In the
Fresident being acquitted by a vote Of
one hundred and twenty-eight to ten.
Year: 1875

The letter shows the same weakness
that its author has all along shown in
attributIng all opposition to the third
term in personal hostility to himself, and
in failing TO perceive that there are con-
stitutional checks which men who know
what free government means are not
prepared to give up in favor of chief
magistrate, even il they believe in his
good intentions. This defect arises part
ly perhaps from General Grants mill
taFy habits, but much more from the na-
ture OF his mind, and is one of the many
proofs Of his utter unfitness to be a Pres
ident Of the United States.
Year: 1875

A very novel hat on exhibition is OF
blackis6 brown chip, trimmed with
cardinal red and white brocaded rib
bon. The two colors are mingled In


bows and knot in front, and being
rolled about the crown, fall in loops
and ends at the back. Two shaded
feather tips droop over the crown, ana
with a roll of the two ribbons around
the face make the hat very effective
one
Year: 1875

SETH GREENS PLAs.-seth Gree u,
the fish culturist, says that when he goo' .
ay.fshing he uses for a hook a strong
needle, annealed, bent and tempered,
aud consequently without barb. lie
asserts that only in this way can really
sharp hook he obtained that the tension
of the rod is amply sufheient TO keep
such hook in its place, and that very
gentle stroke will 6x the keen point in
the mouth Of the iish
Year: 1875

undistinguished, for considerable period, by
any event of Importance. Mrs. Fieldings
behavior toward her did not alter. She was
never positively unkind or neglectful, but she
never took the little orphan into her affection
and Alice, learning to regard this as an unal-
terable fact, ceased, after a me, to sorrow
over it as she had done at first. Her cousins
we're fond of her in careless fashion, but
there was congeniality between their natures
and hers, and there were comparatively few
points on which they could assimilate Of
Carry she was the most fond, but the three
years. difference in their ages precluded very
close companionship, which they all seemed
to think should exist, by right, between her
self and Rosa who was within few weeks OF
her own age. But Rosa was thoughtless
romp, with a very undeveloped brain, and
had not an idea in common with her pre-.
cocious cousin. She was good-natured and
lively, however, so that it was impossible not
to like her and Alice, finding that she could
not expect much sympathy of thought, or in
dulge in any interchange of confidence with
those who were so dissimilar to her in every
respect, contented herself with pleasant
matter-of-fact intercourse with them, while,
for relief and disqualification, she turned to
her solitary meditations, her books of romance
her castle: building and her poetical outpour-
ings, in which she freely gave vent to the Sc
cret ancies and emotions Of her heart


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