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Year: 1871

Perhaps it is not generally known that
there is in Van Burcn an organization
known as the Temperance Reform; but
such is the case, and all who desire to
join in the holy crusade against King Al
cohol, are invited to unite with the Or
der. 1t meets every Tuesday night, in
room above the Post Office.


The ladies are earnestly solicited to
unite with this society, and use their most
effective wcapon-Gfecttonote persuasion
against this, their especial enemy. Not
that they drink, no, no this is one
crime that cannot be laid to their charge,
but your husband, son or brother may,
and should you have n sister or daughter
to get married, they will marry a man.
And men, n great many men--drink.
1t is, certainly, Il woman's duty to do all
in her power, either by example, persua-
sion or reproof, to drive this monster
from her door. He destroys the peace
of families destroyes the health of loved
ones, and brings starvation to the table.


| deem it unnecessary to dwell at

length upon the many, or indeed any, of
the overwhelming arguments that may
be urged against the use or traffic of in
toxicating spirits it is suffice, to merely
mention the amount Of misery caused by
this traillc-the broken hearts, the sepa.
rated families, the strifes and quarrels,
the suffering children, the widows and
orphans made by it, The pcnitentiaries
and warehouses, filed throughout the
land mostly by the victims of intemper-
ance, but partiaHy tell the story. And
the traffic has not one single argument in
its favor-it is great vice without even
paliating excuse for its continuance.


Does it not, then, behoove every good
citizen, to set his face against the nefa
rious and soul destroying traffic !? Do
not excuse yourself by saying you cant
stop people from selling and drinking
whisky, that it has been tried time and
again, and as often failed, and so long as
time lasts they will sell it and drink
This may be true, yet, though you may
not be able to stop the world, you may
be able to stop husband, brother, q
son; though you may not be able to stop
husband, n brother or 4 son, you eau
stop yoursey, and bring one pure throb
Of JOY to the hearts of your family.


Anyoc.rr
Year: 1871

The following is a summary Of the cases
disposed Of by Judge STORY, in United States
District Court for the Western District of Ar
kansas. The Court has been in session a lit
tie over month, about twice as long term
as Judge CALDWELL usually held
Year: 1871

II AVlNG just finished burning Kiln of
IL BRICK, are now prepared to deliver at
the Yard or in any part Of the town. at as
Low prices as can be furnished by any 9TH
er parties.


Mr.. WOLF can always be found at the
Brick Yard ready to wait upon all who may
desire Brick.


NJ. w. BREWERY, will contract for lay
ing Brick in the wall, or receive orders. He
may be found in the city. Orders left with
him will receive prompt and satisfactory at
tention.


sB- Recollect that in price and quality OF
Brick we will not be undersold; and ask a
liberal share Oh patronage.


may 23,7l ID. & co.
Year: 1871

What is the rational mode of procedure in
cases of general debility and nervous pros
tration? Does not reason tell us that judi
cious stimulation is required. To resort TO
violent purgation in such a case is as absurd
as would be to bleed a starving man. Yet
it is done every day. Yes, this stupid
and unphilosophical practice is continued in
the teeth of the great fact that physical
weakness, with all the nervous disturbances
that accompany il, is more certainly and
rapidly relieved by Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters than by any other medicine at pres
ent known. 1t is true that general debility
is often attended with torpidity or irregu-
larity of the bowels, and that this symptom
must not be overlooked. But while the dis
charge of the waste matter of the system is
expedited or regulated, its vigor must be
recruited. The Bitters do both. They COM
bine aperient and antibilous properties,with
extraordinary tonic power. Even while re-
moving Instructions from the bowels, they
tone and invigorate those organs. Through
the stomach, upon which the great vegeta-
able specific acts directly, it gives healthy
and permanent impetus to every enfeebled
function. Digestion is facilitated, the fall
tering circulation regulated, the blood rein
forced with a new accession of the alimen-
tary principle, the nerves braced, and all
the dormant powers of the system reused
into healthy action; not spasmodically, as
would be case if mere stlmulant were adj
Dlinistered, but for continuance. 1t is in
this way that such extraordinary changes
are wrought in the condition of the feeble,
emaciated and nervous invalids by the ust
of this wonderful corrective. Alternative an6
tonic. Let common sense decide between
such preparation and prostrating cathar
tic supplemented by poisonous astringen
like strychnine or quinia.
Year: 1871

Mrs. j. w. Shaw has rented her ele-
giant residence on State street to Attorney
General Morris; and Mrs. Shaw win here
after reside with her mother in New Or
leans. Herself and Master Willie take their
departure for that city tonight. We are
sorry to lose them from Jackson. and hope
the change is not to be permanent.
Year: 1871

Information reached us on yesterday
that a negro man, name not known. was
killed in Noxubee county, six miles north
west of Macon, by two other negroes. 1t
appears that one of the negroes who done
the killing had taken the wife of the party
killed. and it is surmised that the killing,
was done to perfect his title to the woman


Call out the troops.-West Point Citizen
Year: 1871

The Water Valley Agricultural and
Mechanical Association has fixed on the
third Monday in October as the time for
commencing its next annual Fair. Steps
were taken to attach the Association, as
auxiliary, to State Association.
Year: 1871

Just at dusk, at my study door,


Four little white feet stand on the floor.
-Four little white feet leap to my knee,
And beaming face looks up at me.
Oh ! full many a love I've known,


But never heart 80 much my own,
Never a grateful soul like that


And this is the way love my cat
Every day, through storm or shine,
This raptmous greeting still is mine
Every night on my knee she lies,
Watching my face with her crystal eyes
Through fame well gained, or a lost renown
If stocks go up, or if stocks go down,
Faithful forever, as faith can be
That is the way my cat loves me
All, my Pussy, the world is round,
And in it full many friend I've found
When l was poor they frowned on me,
And when was rich, they bent the knee
But rich or poor, you haved loved me still
You share the good, as you shared the ill
So while we live and when we die.
May we be together-my cat and [
Year: 1871

INDIAN LEGEND CF TIE MosQUTo. -
The Red River Indians have a curiou!
legend respecting the origin of the mos.
quito. They say that once upon time
there was famine, and the Indians
could get no game; hundreds had died
from hunger, and dcsolation had filled
their country All kinds Of offering;
were made to the Great Spirit without
avail, until one day two hunters came
upon a white wolvcrine-a very rare
animal. Upon shooting the white VOL
VERNE an old woman sprang up out oI
the skin, and, saying that she was a
"Manito,' promised to 90 and live with
the Indians, promising them plenty of
game as long as they treated her well
and gave her the first choice of all the
game that was brought in. The two
Indians consented to this and took the
old woman home with them, which
event was Immediately aucceeded by an
abundance of game. When the famine
had passed the Indians became dainty
in their appetites, and complained of the
manner in which the old woman took
to herself all the choice bits; and this
feeling became so intense that if they
violated their promise a terrible calami-
ty would come upon the Indians, they
one day killed her as she was seizing
her share of a fat deer which the hunt
cr, had brought in.


Great CONSERVATION Immediately
struck the Witnesses Of the deed and
the Indians, to escape the predicted ca
amity, bodily struck their tents and
moved away to a great distance. Time
passed on without any catastrophe oc
curing, aud the game even more plenti-
fu the indians again began to laugh at
their being deceived by the old woman.
Finally Il hunting party on a long chase
after a deer, which had led them back
to the spot where the old woman was
killed, came upon the skeleton, and one
of them in derisou kicked the skull
with his foot In an instant small
spiral vapor,likc body arose from the
skull, which proved to be Insects, that
attacked the hunters with great fury,
and drove them to the river for protec-
ton. The skull continued to pour forth
its little stream and the air became full
of the avengers Of the old woman's
death. The hunters, upon returning to
camp, found all the Indians suffering
from the plague, and ever since that
time the Indians have been punished by
the mosquitoes for their wickedness to
the manio.
Year: 1871

1t is stated that President Grant will
call for an appropriation Of million and
five hundred thousand dollars, to be used
at his own discretion in forwarding his
project for the annexation of San Do
miugo. He desires to secure the coun.
try named, by treaty; and the ratifica-
ton of the treaty is desired before the
end Of the coming summer, through an
extra session Of the Senate. The $150,-
900 in gold already given by Grant to
Baez and this million and half, if ap-
propriatcd, will probably be but the first
ratlering drops Of the coming shower of
gold which is to be emptied out of the
u. 5. Treasury in the accomplishment
Of this Presidential scheme of San Do
mingo annexation. This acquisition
of half an island is to be very eXpen-
siye business. 1t will absorb the peo-
ple's taxes as a sandy desert SUCKS mp
a shower of rain. Nobody yet knows
what it will cost. If it takes twenty
millions OF dollars to secure possession
of the island, its warning mongrel
tribes Gad its fatal climate, that will be
only the beginning of the expense.
Harbors must at au enormous cost be
created or improved & great Navy
Yard, costing many millions, must be
built; and when we have done all, we
have but an outpost which in case of
VIZ will be only weakness d point re
quiring the concentration of our navy
there to protect our flag against all for
eign attack, and it would be the first
point attacked. A war with IIayti,
which would probably follow, might
not be regarded as threatening occur
ance, but it would be found TO be long
and costly war, in which the Haytieus
would have the aid of a climate which
slew 10000 of the G0,0O0 soldiers sent
there by the first Napoleon. Aud all
for the advantage of individual specula-
tors,-BoSton Post
Year: 1871

SUNNY Rooms, Every woman is
wise enough and careful enough to Sc.
cure for her hcuSe-plants every bit of
available sunshine during the cold win
ter months. Great care is taken to get
a southern exposure for them. Indeed,
if one can secure no other than u north
window for her plants, she has too
much love for these unconscious, inani-
mate things to keep them at all. She
would leave them in the cold to die
outright, rather than linger out mar


tyr existence in the shade. Folks need
sunshine quite as much as plants do.
Men and women who have u fair degree
Of strength and the use Of their legs
can get out into the world and get a
glimpse Of the sunshine now and then,
and if they choose to do so let them
live in rooms with only a northern ex


posure; but if it is possible, let us Sc
cure rooms into which every ray Of sun
shine that falls in winter may enter, for
the little babies who are shut up in the
house, invalds who cannot leave their
rooms, and aged people who are too in


firm to get out doors. Let us reflect
for moment that these classes of per-
sons, if kept in rooms with only north
windows, will suffer just as much from
the absence of sunshine as green, grow
ing plants would do in the same rooms,
and their suffering is of account in pro-
portion as q human being is better than
n geranium or a fuchsia. Everybody
knows how a bright, sunny day in win
ter gladdens every one who is situated
Year: 1871

LEGAL ANECDOTES. They arc polite
people at Lynchburg. The other day a
distinguished member of the bar, appeal
ing to the court for the discharge of his
client, wound up with the statement
that, if the court seut him on further
trial, a stain would be left on his charac-
ter which could not be washed off by
all the waters of the blue ocean, and all
the soap which could be manufactured
from the ponderous carcass Of the COM
monwealth's attorney. TO this the pom
derous attorney .eplied that, "while he
deemed it foreign TO the case at bar, he
desired to advise the court, if they
thought it advisable to hoi his body in.
to soap, they should look to the opposite
counsel for the concentrated lyo out Of
which to make it,"
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says that he has used sulphur
for more than twenty years, with bene-
fit, to prevent rot in grapes Rot is
not caused by a fungus, as some sup.
pose, but by an insect, which punctures
the grapes probably for the purpose of
depositing its eggs. Upon this discov.
cry is based the sulphur remedy for the
rot, as sulphur is distastefu to all the
insect tribe. Fumigation with sulphur
in the evening is better than dust, as
the insects work at night
Year: 1871

SLURs ON WoMEN.-Of all the evils
prevalent among young men we know
of none more >blighting in its moral cf-
feet than to speak slightly of the women.
Nor is there anything in which young
men are so thoroughly mistaken as the
low estimate they form of the integrity
of women-not of their own mothers
and sisters, but of others, who they for
get are somebody else's mothers and
sisters. As rule, no person who sur
renders to the dcbasiug habit is to be
trusted with any enterprise requiring in
tegrity Of character. Plain words should
be spoken on this point, for the evil is q
general one, aud deep rooted. If Young
men are sometimes thrown into society
of thoughtless or lewd women, they
have no right to measure all women by
what they see of those, than they would
have to estimate the character Of honest
and respectable citizens by the develop
ments Of crime in Our police courts.
Let our young men remember that their
chief happiness depends upon their ut,
ter faith in women. No worldly wis
dom no misauthropic philosophy, on
generalization can cover or weaken this
fundamental truth. 1t stands like the
record of God itscf-for 1t is nothing
less than this-and should put an ever
lasting seal upon lips that speak lightly
to women.


We have been led to make these re-
marks from so frequently hearing young
men III our own town speak lightly of
women We know of those who cannot
see a laiy pass the street, but must
make remark by no means compliment.
tary Men, too, who think they stand
high in society
Year: 1871

A New Hampshire man, when asked
to give his consent to the marriage of
his daughter, turned with q beaming
countenance to the applicant and an.
swered frankly: "Yes, yes and don't
you know some likely young man who
will take the other
Year: 1871

At the last session of the Maryland Leg
islature a good deal of attention was at
tracted to the propagation of the finer
kinds Of fish, by artificial process, brought
into play to assist the natural. Mr. Roose-
velt. of New York. was invited to lecture
on the subject before the General Assem-
bly,, and bis account, together with the
experiences of Mr.. Green. showed that
fish, and especially shad, could be propa-
gated with success.


Our northern neighbors regard fish
breeding as no longer matter Of expert
ment 1t is with them becoming firmly
established branch of industry. the profits
of which can be calculated with compare
tive certainty The trout ponds of pri-
vate gentlemen in New York and Penn
sylvania contain hundreds of trout, from
the minnows of the first season, up to no.
BILE fellow of from four to five pounds
weight. Of course many Of these latter
come to market and are bought at high
price for the tables Of epicures To US,
however. the most important point. is to
stock our fine rivers with the best kinds
Of fish, trout only thriving in cold water
streams. If we are to effect this, the aid
of the State must be called into requisi-
tion, and as the sorts are singularly small,
the annual appropriation would only be OF
a sum of money really Insignificant in a
mount to the benefit that would accrue to
the people Of the State at large.


In one of the numbers of a northern
agricultural journal there appeared not
long since we'll written article 60 salmon
breeding. of which we propose to give the
substance. Though trout and black bass
would probably prove the hardest and
and most prolific fish for our waters, we
are nevertheless not too far south to test
in addition to shad and bass in our larger
streams. and trout in our mountain wa
ters-the experiment of raising salmon in
broad rivers having rocky falls. and run
ming directly to the sea. At all events it
is we'll for US to know what has been done
in this matter elsewhere. We take the
experiences of Mr.. Samuel Wilmor on one
| Of the northern lakes. His establishment
Year: 1871

we print the following lines upon SubJe
hieh is affecting many of our readers at presen
Once upon an evening bleery
While l sat me dreaming dreary,
In the sunshine, thinking DER


Things that passed in days of yore;
While l nodded nearly sleeping,
Gently came in something creeping,


Creeping upward from the floor.
"'Tis a cooling breeze" muttered,


From the regions meath the floor;


Only this and nothing more.
All distinctly remember
1t was in the wet September,
When the earth and every member


OF creation that bore,
Had for weeks and months been soaking
In the meanest, most provoking
Foggy rain that, without joking,


We had ever seen before.
So know it must be very


Cold and damp beneath the floor
Very cold beneath the floor.
So sat me nearly mapping
In the sunshine, stretching, gaping,
And feeling quite delighted


With the breeze from meath the floor
Till felt me growing colder,
And the stretching waxing bolder,
And myself now feeling older,


Older than felt before
Feeling that my joints were sitter


Than they were in days of yore-


Sitter than they'd been before. :
All along my back the creeping
Soon gave place to rushing leaping
As if countless frozen demons


Had concluded to explore
All the cavities-the varmints-
'Twixt me and my neither garments,


Through my boots into the floor;
Then found myself shaking


Gently shaking more and more,


Every moment more and more.
Twas the ague, and it shook me
Into heavy clothes, and took me
Shaking to the kitchen-every,


Every place there was warmth in store,
Shaking till the china ratified;
Shaking till my molars ratified;
Shaking, and with all my warming,


Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it had exhausted


All its powers to shake me more
Till it couldanot shake me more. /.
Then it rested till the morrow,
When it came with all the horror
That it had the face to borrow,


Shaking, shaking as before.
And from that day in September
Day which ] shall long remember
1t has made diurnal visits.


Shaking, shaking, oh how sorel
Shaking off boots, and shaking


Me to bed, if nothing more,


Fully this, if nothing more.
And to-day, the shadows fitting
Round my cottage, see me sitting
Moodily within the sunshine


Just inside my silent door.
Waiting for the ague, seeming
Like a man forever dreaming,
And the sunlight on me streaming,
Sheds no shadow on the floor,
For am too thin and shalloso ~
TO make shadoWs on the floor,


Nary shadow-any more!
Year: 1871

fw One very cold night. jolly Old
fellow, who had been drinking too freely
at tavern. started for home in gig, and
on the way was upset and left By the side
of the road. Some persons passing
short time after, discovered him holding
his feet up to the moon, and calculating
to some invisible person.:


"Pile on the wood; it's miserable
cold fire" st. $50
Year: 1871

they are running as fast as their legs
can carry them"


steadied myself as firmly as possible
upon the narrow and slippery bridge, so
as to be able to seize the rope they we're
about to lower, and tie around me. !
saw the end of it swinging about two
yards above my head. MAY God have
mercy upon me. 1t is too short 7


1--WE have another" !"


That was fastened to the floor and let
down. / seized the end Of it. | bound
it strongly around my waist, and grasp
ing the rope with both hands ! gave the
signal for them to pull up.


They began-I was saved. A minute
afterward / was standing upon the gla-
cier / had passed fifty minutes in the
crevasse, during which time | had hap
PLY lost neither my confidence in God
nor my presence of mind.
Year: 1871




THE LOCAL CoLUMN.-When little
children keep out of trouble and big
children keep out of wickedness, and
horses don't run away, and everythingis
quiet, editors experience considerable
difficulty in finding enough material to
make up an interesting column.


Everything being thus adversely qui-
ct, and events combining not to happen,
can we rightfully be blamed for scar
city of items?


How is it with our readers?


Did you, kind sir, or you, madam,
who have read the local columns week
after week, ever do anything tohelp sus-
tain it?


Did you ever furnish any items?
Remember it is not the pen of the
writer, but the act of the people, that
makes this column lively.


Were the labors evenly divided, few
notices of each inhabitant of the town
would keep this department full.


As it is now, small number of earn
est supporters of the press furnish all the
material for remark, while the great
mass take up the paper simply for amuse-
ment, and never think that they have
duty to perform in amusing others.


Let each one hold soul-searching self
communion, and see if ifpersonal duty has
been done in this matter.


Ask yourself the following questions;
Did YOU ever steal horse, or any
thing?


Did you ever have anything stolen?


Did you ever kill anybody?


Did anybody ever kill you?


Were you ever drowned2


Did you ever die shocking accident
al death ?


Were you ever hung?


Did you ever elope with anybody


Did anybody ever elope with your


Were you ever terrible instance OF
youthful depravity?


Did your house ever burn?


We fear many readers of this paper
will be obliged to answer all these ques-
ticns in the negative. To such We say:
Don't find fault with the local column
until you have personally done something
to make it interesting.
Year: 1871

A locomotive, at an average speed Of
thirty miles an hour would reach the
moon in eleven months, and the sun in
three hundred and fifty-two years. Light
travels from the sun to the earth in eight
minutes.