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Year: 1875

he runs for Congress; all the rest of tho time he runs away from it. We expect,o course, that he will be renominated; and as the majority in his district don't care about being represented in Congress, and only hold the place as sort of bauble to give to favorite, we presume he will be reelected. Only we would consider iho a special favor if the Convention which re- nominates him would just say what for M. !. Tribune.
Year: 1875

TOLEDO, Aug. 19.-The Blade, this
evening, publishes the following article,
based on private information, regarded by
that paper as reliable:


"There is a rumor adOat to the effect
that the condition of the Governors health
is such that his withdrawal from the
GUbernatOrial contest is quite probable.
His personal friends desire him 70 with
Graw for protection Of his health and pro-
longatiOn of his life, while his political
friends regard his defeat for Governor as
certain, which result would be disastrous
trOuS 10 his Presidential prospects.
BY withdrawing from The Gu
bernatOriI contest and placing some
other man at the head Of the ticket, defeat
in October would enable the fiiends Of
Alien to 90 before the National Convention
with the plea that Ie is the only Democrat
who eau carry Ohio. Thurman and his
friends bitterly oppose Aliens withdrawal
under any circumstances, as they expect to
make capital IN the National Convention
by the d, feat of Allen and his unlimited
initiation scheme. These rumOTs are now
ahoat among certain inner circles Of the
Democratic party, and should a change be
made in the head of the Democratic ticket,
il may be looked fOr sOOn."
Year: 1875

Dyersburg Correspondence Alamo Sentinel.


You have all hesrd, doubtless, Of Old
Dan Tucker, the fellow who come too late
to get his supper, you know, and about
whom a song was written, verse Of "hich
runs thusly:
ga negro came from Arkansas,


The gondest fool that ever saw


He wore his shirt out over MS coat


And buttOned his breeches round ms throat


Get out OF the way Old Dan Tucker, etc
Well, Dan lives in this neighborhood' DuL
whether he IS the veritable Old Dan We
have some doubts. 1t may be, however,
that


&c He and his good old Aunt Sally


Roth lived down in shinbOne alley


We have found another curiosity IN the
way Of a woman with six toes on each loot
We can testify that this is true, for We have
seen the toes.
Year: 1875

l ran across a gentleman whom bad not
seen for a year. In the simplicity Of my
heart l inquired if his wife was here. The
muscles Ofhis face contracted as he replied
in the negative. / was afterward informed
that the bonds Cf hymen had been dissolved
between himself and his spouse some three
months ago. l struck another old seashOre
acquaintance. elbow is your husband"
was my natural inquiry. "Well, / pre-
sume,7 was the lacOnic reply, but the
woman's face told 10 tale. An hour later
the story ioated to my ear that she also
would tread the meandering paths Of life
and fortune minus her lord. Is everybody
divorced from everybody else? l wondered
Henceforward I do not intend 70 mention
wife's name TO husband or husbands TO
wife during my sgi iU-U at Cape My.
Year: 1875

ga WEAK invention of the enemy"
viii be the general verdict on the story
of the Toledo Blade about Gov. Aliens
health. The Blade is Radical organ
of the most unscrupulous type, and
the absence Of confrmatory dispatches
from sources more reliable is at least
suspicious.
Year: 1875

THE Indianapolis Sun asserts that
nine-tenths of the Republican voters
of Indiana are in favor of substituting
legal tender currency for national bank
currency, and that not one voter in five
in the city of indianapolis indorses
the new views of Mortun's organ on
the financial question.
Year: 1875

Advices from the Red Cloud Indian
Commission show that a great number of
the cattle furnished by the contractors
were under-sized. A quantity Of hides Of
cattle used az this agency have been found.
They showed that the gross weight did not
exceed from two hundred to four hundred
pounds each. For a considerable period
this summer the Indians were without
supplies. The coffee was poor, the sugar
coarse; the tobacco very poor, and looked
much like mOlaSses. 1t had been diScoV-
Year: 1875

CHLoRtL HYDRATE IN NEURALGIA
The intimate mixture of equal parts of
chloral hydrate and camphor will, it is
said, produce a clear fluid which is ofthe
greatest value as local application in
neuralgia. DR.. Lenox Browne states,
in one of the English medical journals,
that he has employed it IN his practice,
and induced others to do SO, and that in
every case it has afforded great and in
some Instances instantaneous relief Its
success. he says, does not appear to be
at all dependent on the nerve affected, it
being etficacions in neuralgia of the scia-
tica as of the trigeminus; it is of the
greatest service in neuralgia of the larynx
and in relieving spasmodic cough of a
nervous or hystercal character. II is
only necessary to paint the mixture light
ly over the painful part and allow it to
dry. 1t never blisters. though it may oc-
casion a tingling sensation Of the skin.
For headache it is also found an exec!
lent application.
Year: 1875

We are authorized to offer for sale one of
the best and most thoroughly cultivated farms
in Western Arkansas, situated In Crawford
county, about eight miles from the city OF
Van Buren, and four miles from tiie town Of
Alma, containing quarter section. one-half
in Frog Bayou bottom, and the other up
land.


One hundred acres are in cultivation. fifty
In cotton and fifty in corn. Has "a fine six
acre orchard Of apples of the finest varieties.
together with fine assortment Of peaches.
fine field of sweet and Irish potatoes and
turnp.. Also, If desired, a tract Of 100 acres
near by, can be had to 20 with this place.


Asuperior large double log dwelling house
and outhonses; the house one story and half
high; fine barn stable and corn crib. &c,
making every thing complete and eomforta-
BILE with excellent water A steam grist and
cotton mill, on the joining place, and in u
NEST excellent neighborhood


Any one wanting a Ne place can pur-
chased at bargain. Terms to be agreed up
on. II desired. the standing crop will be
disposed of to the party purchasing. Also all
the farming utensils, which are Of a superior
quality.


Parties in earnest to purchase such place,
will find it greatly to their interest To exam
inc this farm. and see for themselve " hat 1t is
by the crops that it produces and there Is no
better time to do so than before the gathering
of the cotton and corn.


For further particulars apply to the editor
of this paper. Aug l0-1m
Year: 1875

How TO JUDGE A TowN-The Jetfer-
son City Mo. Journal tells this:


About a week ago gentleman from
Tennessee representing capital of $40,
600, in search of A location at which to
engage in business, gave us q call, and
after stating mission West, asked to look
at our paper. We handed him the morn.
ing journal, and to our surprise he did
not stop to read our newsy local pick
ups, or our attractive editorial page, but
turned at once to ouriadvertising column
and commenced counting our advcrt-
scrs and measure their space.


Well, said he, elaneng up from the
paper, is that all l. that the business
OF this town?


Oh, no, said We, here is the Tribune,
with few advertisements that don't ap-
pear in the journal


He then counted two additional local
business advertisements in the Tribune,
and again looked up with the remark:


And that's all, is it2 Why, you have
not got as much of town here as
thought you had.


And then we explained to him that we
nave great many business men who do
not advertise.


They are not business men 10 hurt if
they don't advertise was his answer.


We could not contradict him, and we
we were powerless to vindicate the claims
Of the city,


lie left us saying if he had time he
would look around, but he thought this
was no place for him


This is one instance, and a fact.
Year: 1875

Capt. George W. Mcintosh was brave
officer, fighting on the confederate side
during the great struggle. He com
manded the First Arkansas battery and
did efficient work with it. Sprung from
the old Scottish stock that never knew
fear the captain. while affable and peac-
able in disposition, has the reputation of
being a man Of dauntless courage. When
Gen, Pagan was appointed United States
marshal for the Western District of Ar
kansas, Capt Mcintosh who had served
under him during the war was appointed
a deputy~marshal, The life OF deputy
marshal in the Indian nation is not pleas
ant, and he who accepts such service
takes his life in his hands as it were, aud
courts death at every step. 1t requires
men of strong nerve to undertake this
service Such man Capt Mcintosh has
the reputation OF being. The captain is
not exactly puritan in religious observ.
ances. Nevertheless the following in
cident.shows his moral qualities


On wild night in the winter the cap
tain was among the mountains of the
Choctaw nation The cold was fast be.
numbing his limbs and he began to fear
that he would never see the dawn. There
were visible NO signs OF human habitaton,
not CLEAN OF light gladdened his eyes
or dispersed the gloom around him. On
through the darkness and the storm h.
rode Eight, nine, ten clock came, and
in the distance, he bcheld the red CLEAN
of fire light He pushed on, was soon
at the cabin. 1t was the habitation OF
an Indian. He knocked on the door
| An Indian OF unprepossessing appear
ance opened the door lie spoke to him
asked him for shelter for the night. He
received no reply. He told the Indian
he was ready to perish from the cold and
was answered by grunt. But he was
not discouraged. There was fire and
comfort within and he pressed forward
to the hearth, Oh which the glowing GOALS
were scintillating. He cat down by the
fire, There were four or five Unlocking
aborigincs sitting around. He felt I'M
easy and kept his hand upon his weapon.
Not word had any Of them spoken.
After awhile an old man, who was appar-
emily the head of the establishment, rose
and brokenI J pronounced the word sup
per, y and pointed in the direction Of a
table in the only other apartment of the
house. Still holding his pistol in his
hand the captain proceeded to seat him
self at the humble board OF his Indian
host.


The old man sat down, and when all
were seated he devoutly bowed his head,
raised his hands, and in the soft language
of the Choctaws invoked the blessing of
God upon the little gfonp.


Il never felt SO good in my life, V said
the captain, "as at that moment when
the old man with bowed head and uplift-
ed hands besought the Almighty to bless
and protect him, and all gathered about
his beard Ny apprehension and sus-
picion vanished instantly. | arose, un-
buckIed my belt, laid my pistol aside and
felt perfectly secure, and that night slept
soundly.


The cid man was Christian but could
not speak English. The attitude of sup
pication conquered the captains suspi.
cions SO Louis Republican.
Year: 1875

In a recent scandal case in Smith
county, Ky lady witness declined to
answer question and the attorney dc
manded her reason. Because it Is not
fit to tell decent people 20, WELL sale
the lawyer, walk up and whisper it tc
the Judge.
Year: 1875

Gs- Here i- little philosophy: Sup
pose man acts a mean part towards
you; what's that to you? The action iS
his; the motive that melted it, his; and
the i'll consequences that follow, his, If
you are only wise enough to act the part
Of man as you should do. His pain
cannot lie in vour head neither can his
mlsbehayior be your misfortune.
Year: 1875

E:g The Grant journals are amusing
themselves with the political probabili-
ties of the Democraticparty in the next
presidential campaign 1t is proverbial
of people who have heap of trouble of
their own, to be inquisitive in the affairs
Of others.
Year: 1875

A comparison of the official statement of the
Public Debt for January, with the one issued on
the 1st of January, 1874, will show that during
the year the Debt was reduced S1GT1024.
In other words, there was during the twelve
months a surplus of receipts over expendi-
lures of nearly seventeen million dollars.
The statement that the Treasury now needs
forty-fve million dollars in addition to its
present revenue, is entirely inconsistent with
the fact we have just mentioned, if it be
fact. We are compelled to believe one of
two things, either Q) that the seventeen
millions surplus shown by the comparison OF
the Debt statements is not a real surplus, but
q showing obtained by cooking the accounts.
or (2) that the proposition to obtain fOrty-flve
millions year by levying additional taxes
has no justification. This is not at all a mat
ter of opinion, but question of arithmetic.


No one will pretend to gay that the Govern
ments expenditures need be any greater this
year than they were last On the contrary, it
is the boast of the leading men in Congress
that they have greatly reduced the appropTia-
tions, and are still retrenching. Leaving out
the matter of buying silver to keep the mints
running, which cannot possibly require more





twelve months, there is no Increase antici
pated in the expenditures. Neither is there
any ground for expecting any material falling
off in the revenues. The year 1874, as we all
know, was one of extreme depression, and 1t
is hardly possible that with the same rates of
duties on imports and the same internal
taxes the revenues can fall below those of
1874. For what purposes, then. are these ex
ira fOTty-fve millions of taxes to be levied2
We should like information Oh this point.


The Sinking Fund is said to require some
thirty millions, but whoever viii take the
trouble to become acquainted with the law
may easily satisfy himself that its provisions
never have been carried out. BY the act of
February 25, 1862, it was ordained that all
duties should be paid in coin, OF in notes of
the Government payable in coin on demand,
and that the coin thus obtained should be set
apart, after paying the interest on the gold
bearing bonds, for the purchase each year Of
one per cent of the entire Public Debt, and
that the interest on the bonds so purchased
should each year be added TO the amount in
Year: 1875

Dodge was hurrying to Washington from all
points of the compass by several airline
routes in order to get there before the ad-
journment of Congress Deputies were scat
tered over the country in search of him too
regardless of expense, but some sort of GEN.
trifugal force kept at work on Dodge so that
the more he hurried TO Washington the nearer
he got to the Rocky Mountains. Possibly
King may be working towards Washington
under the same disadvantages and will only
succeed in reaching the Capital just after the
adjournment of Congress. The most remark
able things keep happening to people who
are hufrying to Washington full of infOrma-
ton for investigating committees.


We certainly hope nothing serious has hap
pened to King, but that he will fulfill all the
expectations of bis friends and respond to the
call of the Minnesota Legislature, which has
Just waved some resolutions in the form OF an
incarnation over the place OF his disappear
ance, and summoned him to Appear APP
"pear!" May he soon turn up with memory
unimpaired-a memory which, like the mem
ory OF the just, smells sweet and blossoms in
the dust
Year: 1875

When the revolution of last Fall swept away
the Administration majority IN the House oil
REPRESENTATIVES, the defeated party took cop-
solution in the thought that its asccndcncy IN
the Senate could in no event be disturbed
The elections of the past few weeks have
shown how severely this last prop of falling
party has been shaken. 1t is perfectly safe to
say that had there been a half dozen more
States to elect Senators, the Opposition would
have secured a clear majority in the Senate.
On the Cd of March ncAt the terms OF 20
Senators will expire. OF these II are Admins
tration, and Opposition. Twenty-two States
have elected Senator'S and in three, Min
nesota, Florida. and West Virginia, 4
result has not yet been reached. Or
the new Senators 10 arc safely to be
placed in the Opposition, and to these may be
added those whom West Virginia and Florida
will elect. This, with the IS Opposition MEM
bers holding over, gives the anti-Adminisird-
ton party total of SO members, and leaves
the Administration with only Al, giving them
the successor of Senator Ramsey in Minnesota,
and counting the vacant scat for Louisiana in
their favor, although il clearly belongs on the
other side.



ing for those persons who see i'll every fresh
exposure OF crime in high places sure fore
rupner of the Republics death. Their favor
ite argument is that the people look upon
exposures of corruption and the exercise OF
unconstitutional power with indifference
They charge The public conscience with
letharcy because it does not cry out with
more vehemence against such wrongs. But
the surer test of the public mind is the ballot
box. The American people is not indifferent
to corruption and usurpation on the part of It's
officials. 1t makes up its mind deliberately,
but surely, and sooner or later the thieves
and reprobAtes are thrust aside, never to be
seen again. Let those who are coming into
Office reflect upon this truth. 1t has borne
them to power. 1t can as easily take them
away from it.
Year: 1875

vested in the following year. No attention
whatever was paid to this law until seuen years
had elapsed, when Secretary Boutwell, revived
the matter. II is now well known that such
Sinking Fund as that contemplated by the act
of 1862 is n worse than useless cOntrivance,
and its uselessness is amply illustrated by the
operation of the Sinking Fund of this city.
The only way to reduce indebtedness is to
save money and pay it to your creditor. You
may borrow money and pay off your creditors
every day in the week, but unless your eX-
penses are less than your receipts nothing
will result, except the trouble and expense OF
contracting the new debts For about four
years Mr. Boutwell, kept up his Sinking Fund,
as well he might, having a surplus revenue OF
one hundred millions year during most OF
the time, but since September, 1S7j the Fuhd
has been completely neglected. Not bond
has been bought for ii in sixteen months. ana
the customs receipts, instead of being set
aside as required by the act of 1862 have been
exchanged for greenbackS at discount, which
creenbacks have been used to pay the current
expenses of the Government To this we do
not object The only provision OF the act OF
1862 that has been respected is that the GUS
toms shall be paid in gold coin or convertible
notes. In June last the Sinking Fund did
not weigh in the least upon Congress or the
Secretary of the Treasury and we are unable
to believe that there is any extreme soicltudc
about it now.


We repeat our request for information. Sink
ing funds aside, the Public Debt statements
inform us that the surplus last year was nearly
seventeen million dollars. 1t is now proposed
to raise forty-live millions more by an increase
of taxes, making sixty-two millions IN excess
of the expenditures Of last year. supposing the
receipts and expenses to be the same as they
have been for the year just closed. Now to
what uses are these sixty-twO millions to be
applied2 The public have a right to demand,
and do demand, reduction OF ten or twenty
millions at least from the present cost OF Gov
ernment, but they arc met by this inscrulable
Administration with proposition to add forty
five millions to tho taxes. In their name we
asl-What for 7
Year: 1875

Courtesy is one Of the most charming adOrnments
of a human being. but there are times when it may
be embarrassing 1t proved recently to young
gentleman intimately connected with crockery
store in Des Moines, This youth. animated by a no.
bic desire to fulfill his duty.to society, went calling
in his most gorgeous attire After some pleasant
conversation on Shakespeare the musical glasses
and the crockery store he to depart and backed
to the door, bowling profoundly and gracefully to
the ladies'. This maneuver was in itself beautiful
but it had one little drawback-he mistoo8 the
cellar door for that leading to tho hail. and making
his final bow and putting his hand on the doorknob
behind him he turned three distinct and painful
somersaults and landed on the cellar floor. The


father of the family applied several quarts of arnca
and when the young man was able to walk he turned
his back and marched away just like any common
DgrsO1,
Year: 1875

The action of the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House of Representatives yester-
day was important. A proposition for
restoration of the duties on tea and coffee
was rejected in full committee. This with
other votes taken at the same session indi-
Gates that no new tax and tariff bill is to be
passed by the present Congress.
Year: 1875

Owing to the cOnstantly-increasing circula-
ton of The TRIBUNE we find it more difficult
than usual, and indeed generally impossible,
TO furnish back numbers. Readers who do
not want to lose any of the proceedings of
the Beecher Trial, can have the Daily sent by
mail (postage paid for 81 a month.
Year: 1875

Mayor Wickham's first vetoes give encour-
agement that he at least means economy
The new Board of Aldermen has been specially
reckless in legislation relative to opening new
streets and authorizing improvements without
sufficient inquiry. In this way works when
might have properly waited development nave
been authorized, and acts have been passed
where ordinances already existed. The Board
will wisely make haste slowly, and set credit
by being sure they are right before going
ahead
Year: 1875

1t is represented that the President Is
"anxious as to the South" and that he is
using every means to induce the Republicans
in Congress to lessen his responsibility in the
matter His anxiety is natural. considering
the trouble that his obstinate adherence to
his own policy in defiance of the will OF the
people has already caused the unhappy sec
ton which is the subject of his concern. But
the state Of affairs described in his communi-
cations to leading Senators is largely fictl-
tiOus, and the requests he makes seem to aim
really at an increase of the Executive power
rather than diminution OF Executive reSpOn-
sibility.
Year: 1875

The preamble and resolutions relative to tho
increase of the City Debt, which Controller
Green attempted to bring before the Board OF
Apportionment yesterday, are eminently proper
for the consideration of citizens and tax
payers however Irrelevant Messrs Wickham,
Lewis, and Wheeler may think them. II 1t Is
not in order to protest in the Board of Appor-
tionment against the further increase OF the
City Debt we hope the Charter will be amended
so as to create a body, with power to act,
where resolutions like those submitted by the
Controller will not be ruled into the waste
basket.
Year: 1875




A persons character can be judged
from the way he eats a Watermelon
The nearer he goes to the rind the far
ther he is from God.


When a man sees cat moving un-
suspectingly along, within easy range,
he will involuntarily look around for
a stone, however good and noble he
may be.


The man who owes everybody can al
ways be counted on to subscribe for eve
ry new article that comes along; and the
more useless the article the more cer-
tain he is to have it.


The uncle of little Danbury girl
is very particular Christian, and his
neice being very humane child he is
considerably exercised over her well
fare. Saturday afternoon he was put
ting the studs into shirt bosom. The
little girl observed that there were
three holes for that purpose while
there were but two studs, and she call
ed his attention to the discrepancy.


"There don't need to be third
stud," he explained; ''this lower place
is hidden by my vest, and no one
knows whether there is stud there
or not, you see" <


"But God knows" protested the
neice.


1t was a very unsatisfactory face
which the uncle plunged through that
shirt moment later.