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Year: 1871

Circuit Court is still progressing,
being now in its third and last week.
Since our last issue Messrs. Joyner,
McCrary and Head, of Little River
county, and Maj. Jno. b. Burton, OF
Lafayette, have been within the bar.
The Grand Jury adjourned on last
Saturday, after a sitting Of two weeks,
having returned into court about half
p dozen bills among which were two
for murder and one for manslaughter.
In one of the murder cases, hatagainst
Riley McGee for the murder of Antho-
ny Stewart, The jury brought in a
verdict Of guilty of--and assessed
his punishment at thirty years in the
penitentiary. The other, that against
Frank Barnes for the killing of Harris,
was transferred TO Nevada county for
trial. Most of the trials had, have
been for offences of minor Importance,
and would not be of interest to the
general reader.


Right here we would like TO suggest
TO the bar of the State, and TO all others
who are interested, the propriety of an
effort to effect change in our court
system. There ought to be, in our
opinion, separate criminal jurisdic'
ton, a separate criminal court The
reasons for such a change which might
be suggested are too numerous to be
mentioned at this time, but are 80
patent to those who have observed the
workings of our courts under the pres
ent system, tiat their mention is un
necessary. Many of the delays which
now occur in the administration OF the
law, and which are unavoidable at
present, would be obviated.


We might mention the unnecessary
and expensive detention of witnesses
and Jurors, but we intended at this
time only to suggest the matter to thu
attention of those most deeply concern
ell. We may say moro about it a
another time.
Year: 1871

Horace Greeley hits the nail on the
head when he says: at is strange
how closely men read the papers. We
never say anything that anybody don't
like but we soon hear of it, and every>
body tells us about it. If, however,
once in a while we happen to say a
good thing, we never hear of that
nobody seems to notice that, We may
pay some man hundred compliments
and give him dozen pufs, and he
takes it as a tribute to greatness, and
never thinks of it-never thinks it does
him any good. But if we happen to
say anything this man don't like, or
something that he imagines is refec-
ton ON him or his character, see how
quick he flares up and gets mad about
it. All our evils arc duly charged to
us, but we never, apparently, get
any credit for what good we do


-
Year: 1871

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, who is gener-
ally well informed and reliable, tele>
graphs the following TO that paper
under date of the 22d:


1t is now beyond question that a
movement is being inaugurated at this
pointto oppose the nomination Of Grant
for president next summer. Several
leading Republicans and Democrats
have been approached witt in the last
few weeks, and programme is now
being developed which will lock to the
nomination Of some Independent Re.
publican whose views are liberal 50 far
as tariff, amnesty and civil service
reform questions are concerned. The
Democracy are expected to support
any such man as may be subsequently
agreed upon, and who will appear to
be able to draw upon the Republican
strength the heaviest. According to
this programme the Democracy will
make no nomination, but will postpone
holding their convention until late in
the year. 1t is expected by them that
the Republican disadection to Grant
will be so strong thatit will be felt in
the next Republican convention, and
the Democrats will ratify whatever
nomination the boilers may see fit to
recommend. 1t is stated that even
such bitter Democrats as Senators
Bayard and Casserly have given in
their adhesion to this plan, and that the
plan will be more perfected in detail
when Congress comes together.


The Van Buren Press, in an able
article on passivism, closes as follows:


We then say, boldly to our demo-
cratic friends, let patriotism swallow
up party measures and party differ
ences, and let us unite cordially and
fully with the anti-Grant party, which
is the party opposed to corruption and
incompetency. Let us look at the
fate of Tammany frauds, and take
heart, believing the people fully intend
to correct our present crying evils, and
to drive corruption from power, lot
il be found in whatsoever party II may.


The Boone County Record has the
following;


Election returns from the East come
creeping up our back like SUIT Loyen'
goods Lizards did mp Parson Bullen's
spinal column. They look powerful
dark; but we all have read of the dark
est hour just before day. Out Of
seven states we have carried Maryland,
and governor in New jersey, and
and-Do you expect boy to have a
thousand shirts!
Year: 1871

FACE THE MUsIc.-There are many
papers in the country that refuse to
recognize the great popularity of what
is known as the Passive Policy. Some
of these are radically radical and Others
radically democratic, while all, as a
general rule, are Radical by Wrong
One of our most valued exchange,
and by the way one of the ablest edited
and bsst newspapers in the great West,
the Kansas City Times, hits them of
in the following style:


1t is little curious that the ST. Loui.
Democrat and the Kansas City Journal,
when hunting for expressions of views
regarding the policy of Passivism,
never discover what such able and in
dependent organs Of public opinion as
the New York Nation, the Tribune,
the S,m, the Springfield Repubiican,
and numerous others of the same class,
have to say. We have from time to
time rcpublished comments from these
papers favorable to the idea Of that
frstsrnal union of honest men against
the thieves which is involved iu the
suggestion of Tassiyism. But our
Administration contemporaries do not
seem to appreciate our benevolent in
tsntions. They severely pass by the
stterances of the Nation and the Trib-
une, and seize with vast relish upon
the oracular maledictions where with
the Semi> Occasional Rufls-Sit and
the Arkansas Meat. Are and other great
journals are wont to visit the Passive
Policy.


We submit that it is time for our
Radical contemporaries to look square
in the face the disruption that threat
ems their party, and to cease attempt
ing to kill OIL by ridicule a movement
that is meeting with wider and more
rapidly growing appreciation than any
other movement of the kind ever
known to the political history of the
country. The proposition that the
Democratic organization should remain
quiescent while the factions of the
opposition broke in two and destRC yed,
one of them the other, WAS a bold and
hazardous one. 1t had double enc,
my to confront-the unsparing opposi-
ton of the united Administration
press and the bitter hostility of the
impracticables in our own party. But
it is triumphing over them all and
gainin. the assent of the best minds Of
the nation, with a rapidity that sur,
passes even the hopes ofits orig;nators
We exhort the journal to contemplate
these facts and be trs.lquil.
Year: 1871

The flight of old Father Time brings us
all around once more to that joyous season
when good cheer inspires grateful hearts
and kindly deeds. That all the readers Of
THE lNTRLLIGRNCER may sit down to.
day to bounteous tables, gratefully remem-
bering whence all these Christmas bless.
ings tlow, and that they may be moved to
remember, in works ol love and charity
those less favored by fortune than them
selves, is the heartfelt wish wherewith we
give them all our morning greeting;


A MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Year: 1871

The first Of the foregoing communica.
tions was received at n very late hour
Thursday night, too late to make place for
Il Friday morning. 1t was laid in The
drawer and was not thought Of ogAin I'll
the second was received Saturday. =


Despite the unqualified denial made, we
must say our information to the contrary
IA abundant and positive, and we are sur
prisod that these gentlemen should put
their names to statement that Is contra.
dicted by the knowledge Of 80 many peo.
pie. These gentlemen were all, or nearly
all, present Thursday evening at tile meet
inr Of the Board Of Education, and heard
several members, nearly all who spoke
on the subject, say that complaints like
that made in the eINTELLtdENcERh had been
made 10 them. Several persons have
since assured us Of tho correctness Of our
statements. A gentleman said to us
Saturday, that his little girl had gone to
school few mornings before, and being
unable to get in, aller waiting awhile, had
come back home so cold that the parents
thought she would go into spasms. Now
who are we to believer Certainly we see
no reason to tllscrediL our inIOrlnants. Be-
sides, in the case Of one school We kno0
what we said was true We had the evil
dence Of our own eyes in repeated In
utances
Year: 1871

IT shows great lack of consideration
and good sense for lady to keep a caller
waiting while she waits TO array herself
In some gorgeous toilet. 1t would be
much better to receive them in any dress,
however plain, provided 1t only DO neat
and becoming.
Year: 1871

Mary Clemmer Ames publishes in
the Independent OF this week the
story of '.AIicc Cary's Lover as
conflded to her by that lady for the
purpose of being made public IL false
reports concerning IL continued to
circulate. The beloved object was
not, as frequently stated, Rufus w.
Griswold, though there was an init.
macy with him, growing out of the
aid he, as literary man, rendered
her when she first came to New
York to live by her pen. She nevel
iikei him. though when he was
broken down she hired room and .
aurse for him through his long and
painful illness. Hence the report
that she had nursed him herself.


The real story of her love Ia family
Swallowed az follows:


I'm the profoundest sense, Alice
Cary never loved but once. The man
whom she loved Is stilI alive; We,
gossip, with its keenest scent, has
never found or named him. With
all her fullness of affection, hers
was an eclectic and solitary soul. He
who by the very patent of his being
was more TO her than any other NOR
tai could be might PASS from her life,
but no other could ever take hi.
place. A proud and prosperous fam
lily brought all her pride aud power
TO bear on a son to prevent his mar.
rying girl uneducated, rustic and
poor.


81 waited for one who never cam.
back, she said. Yet I believed h,
would come till I read In a paper hi.
marriage to another. Can you think
what life would believing one
waiting for one who would ncvel
comei'n


He did come at last. I saw him
His wife had died. Alice was dying
The gray-haired man sat down be
side the gray. haired woman. Lif,
had dealt prosperorsly with him. Al
is Its wont with men. Suffering an,
death had taken all from her saw,
the lustre OF her wondrous eyes,
From her wan and wasted face the,
shone upon him full of tenderness
and youth. Thus they met with lif,
behind them---they who parted
pIighted lovers when life was young
He was the man whom she forgav,
for her blighted and weary life, with
d smile of parting as divine as evei
lit the face of woman.n
Year: 1871

The American habit of reckless haste
reveals itselfin our schools. Not only
are children supplied, at a tender age
with spelling and reading books, arith-
nietics and Biographies, but they are.
hurried through them before they have
half mastered their contents. They are
rushed from one study to another and
from one grade to grade, repeating, par
rot-Iike, uncomprehended rules and de-
fnitions but receiving little mental
stamina or vigor-pOor children they
..bolt" but cannot digest the mental
food set before them, and as a cOnse-
quence, the mental appetites Of too
many of them are destroyed. In many
of our high schools may be found young
men and women who can gracefully
inform us, if they chance to be study
ing Physiology, that the "muscular
membrane is composed of many hia-
ments that unite to form fibres, each Of
which is enclosed in a delicate layer of
cellular membrane, !" and that "bundles
of these hbres constitute a muscle. "
But Of the real meaning of what they
are saying, many of them have little
idea. They cannot intelligently define
the words used in the definition. They
cannot even give the substance of it in
their own language. Is not such learn
/ ing a source of weakness rather than of
strength to the mind ? The crowding OF
the stomach with food which It but par
tally digests, causes disease and feeble
ness. So the overlooking of the mind
with Hndigested material must have an
analogous effect.


Moreover, we cannot exp ect those OF
our pupils who advance with such haste
a nd with so little thought, to attack
with energy and interest the knotty
problems and difficult subjects which,
absolutely require vigorous brain e1-
ercise. Many of them grow weary and
faint by the wayside, unable to climb
the mountains Of difficulty which rise
above them.


Teachers agree that these things ought
not to be, and yet most of us are too
often content with recitatiOns, which
Iamount to considerable in the way OF
show, but which are sadly deficient IN
real thought and comprehension. Ne
obauical recitations may be carried on
I bv q mechanical teacher, but they are of
little worth.


We are aware that the breaking up OF
this want of thought is a difficult work
for the teacher, but we believe it can in
; a great measure be accomplished. We
ARE confident that mental life may be
awakened in our dull pupils. This life
NAV be faint and feeble in its early
stages, but it is like the spark which
careful, not too vigorous, tanning kin,
dies to a flame.


As teachers we need perseverance and
skill and more real interest in our
work; we need to be sure that our pu-
nils pass over no hing that they do
not understand, nothing upon which
/ tn y do not exercise vigorous, healthy
thought. Our progress will be slow
= an slow as to be scarcely observable
Int it will ba sure and real.-[Charles-
ton Heard.
Year: 1871

good part of the first year to settle
and compact themselves after COM
pIetion-; the walls the second year,
and so forth and so on. There is to
be no work done by contract, and
no unseasoned wood used. The
materials are to be sound and good,
and honest, competent, conscientious
wOrkmen (B 'echer says there are
such, the opinion of the world to the
contrary Notwithstanding, hired at
full wages, by the day, to put them
together.


The above statements are all true
and genuine. according to the oath 1
nave already made thereto, and
which l am now about to repeat
before a notary, in legal form, with
my hand upon the book. COnse-
quently, we are going to have at
| least one sensible, but very, very
curious church in America.


am aware that I had no business
to tell all these matters, but the re-
porter instinct was strong upon me,
and could not help it. And be-
sides they were in everybody's
month in ElInira, anyway.


/ The USE OF CHILDREN.-For
what are these child-angels made,
that are sent down to this world to
bring so much love and rapture, to
go from US in such bitterness and
mourning? If we believe in Al
mighty Love, we must believe that
they have a mercifuI and tender
mission to our wayward souls. The
love Wherewith we love them is
something of the most utterly pure
and unwOrldly of which human ex-
perience is capable, and we must
nope that every one who goes from
US TO the world of light, goes hold
ing an invisible chain of love by
which to draw US there. Sometimes
think I would never have had my
little Daisy grow older on this earth.
The little child dies in growing into
WOmanhOOd, and often the wnman
- far less lovely than the little child
1t seems to me that lovely and low


ng childhood, with its truthfulnpss,
Its frank sincerity, its pure, simple
IUve, is 50 sweet and holy an estate
that it would be beautiful thing in
heaven to have a band of heavenly
children, guiIeless, gay, and forever
ljpyOus-tenGer spring blossoms of the
<iugdom of light. Was it of such
whom He had left in His heavenly
nome our Saviour was thinking when
He took little children in is arms
md blessed them, and said "Of such
5 the Kingdom of heaven ?"- Mrs
5towe.
Year: 1871

MARRIAaE.-A man who passes


through life with marrying is like


fair mansion, left by the builder


unfinished. The half that is COM
pIeted runs to decay from neglect,
or becomes at best a tenement, want
ing the additional Of that which
makes the whole useful.
Year: 1871

A soft young gent in New Haven, on
leaving lady friend the other evening,
asked permission to call her by the
name of some animal. She consented
on condition that she should have the
same privilege. So he said, "goOd night,
deer :" to which was replied "Good
night, boar" Softy is not seen there as
much as he was.
Year: 1871

This rather startling item Is now
going the rounds Of newspapers: On
Tuesday of last week a married lady
of Oxaukee, Wis. closed her eyes in
what was supposed to be death.
Previously, in the expectation Of
the event, she had requested that
her body be sent to Rochester, NY.
and buried in the cemetery where
her parents have a lot. She was
placed in a metallic burial case, and
sent eastward, directed TO Rochester.
Before reaching her destination the
lady revived from her trance, and
mad such a racket in the cOfin that
the express messenger felt in duty
bound to let her out. Instead Of
going to Rochester she returned to
her husband, and was at Chicago on
Saturday last. She refused to tele.
graph her recovery to her husband,
as she desired to surprise him.
Year: 1871

There are lionel hearts to cherish,
Whils the days are going by;
There are weary souls that perish,
While the days ire going BY,
But II a smi.e We can renew,
As our journey we pursue.
o, tbs gond we alt may do,


While the days are going BY.
There's no time for idle scorning,
Whiie the days are going BY
Let your face be like the morning
While the day are going ry,
o. the world is full Of sighs-
FullOf sad and weeping eyes
Help your fallen brother rise,


While the days are going by.
All the loving links that bind us,
While the days are going By,
One by cue We leave behind US,
While tn days are going BY,
But the seeds Of good We SOW,
Bat in shade and shine shall grow,
And shall keep our hearts sgIOw,
While the days are passing b..
Year: 1871

How TO QUARREL WITH A WIFE.
Wait until she is at her toilet prepar-
atory to going out. She will be sure
to ask you if her bonnet is straight.
Remark that the lives of nine-tenths
of the women are passed in thinking
whether their bOnnets are straight,
and wind up with the remark that
you never knew bat one who had
common sense about her. Wife will
ask you who that was. You, with
a sigh. reply. ssAh never mind"
Wife will ask you why you did not
marry her. You say, abstraetedly,
"Ah! why, indeed" The climax is
reached bv this time, and a regular
row is sure to follow.
Year: 1871

J. Cole. Messrs. Blcecker likewise advertise the
sale OF some Boulevard lots. A bill TO incorporate
. THE REAL ESTATE rRUsT COMPANY " A


is as near as We have yet learned, the title OF bill
introduced into the Senate last week by Senator
Tweed. The text Of the bill mas not yet appeared In
print; but ~ is stated IL grants certain very con-
siderable privileges to parties therein named for the
transaction OF o loan business on large SCALE The
Trust company thereby created will be permitted TO
per cent interest," NO restriction Is placed upon the
amount OF interest 1t may exact upon loans granted
ny lt. portion OF the business now belonging TO
tne once OF the Public Administrator is 1t further
stated, donated to the new corporation. A careful
study OF the BILL when Its full text is printed. may
possibly repay the attention bestowed upon it. Il
Year: 1871

A Philadelphia Judge has picked up somewhere
the absurd idea that witnesses are not criminals
He reouked lawyer for badgering one In late
case, and laid down the astounding proposition that
witness should be treated in the same manner as
any gentleman would treat visitor at his house.
Year: 1871

MALICIOUS PrB!!CNTl0 l0SS. S.-Thcre Is i
growing tendency OF the part OF Il portion OF
the press to give publicity to whatever mean
and miserable gossip may be atloat with re-
spect to private persons without the slightest
regard to its truth or falSty, or to the undcscrv-
ed pain it may infict. Generally these SIAN
ders stop short Of libel in the legal sense. But
they are not the less cowardly and cruel be-
cause they do not come within the puryiew OF
the Court On the contrary the worst injuries
which one man can infict upon another are
those which are too underlined for the law to
deal with The dcaaliest poisons are those for
which no test is known. 1t is possible to drop
slander with every word which we speak or
write, in such manner as to place it quite be-
yond danger of legal exposure and punishment
But it does not the less infamc hearts, fever
human existence, convert existence into misery
and poison the fountains Of being.


The worst enemies Of the human race are tue
coiners and retailers Of malevolent gossip.
Many a man whose integrity is above suspicion
has had his life made intolerabe, and has set
tied into hard, defiant, mlsantrophlc mood,
by reason of the man personalities and venom
Gus innuendoues which malice or prurency have
set afoat. We have abolished the stake-yct
men and women are still burnt alive. We no
longer persecute with fire and sword-we have
refined our cruelty into cowardicc, and only stab
now at character and feeling, at sensltlvenesss,
at heart and soul. 1t is time it was stopped.
-Rhsburg Commercial
Year: 1871

3 The symptoms Of Liver
Complaint are uncasiness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
atimes alternating with lax
d with pain, and ,dul1l, l,f heavy 1v


Of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation of hay
ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many or
Year: 1871

INVENTIONS. Two Chica 60 men, it is said,
have lately patented two inventions which will
attract more than ordinary public attention. -
One is safety lock, to be fastened inside the
pocket of ladies or gentlemen S garments, to
prevent the stealing of pocket books or other
valuable things therein. The safety lock is in.
serted between the outer cloth and the lining
of the coat or dress, and is provided with a
spring, so as to secure the pocket book
that It can't be removed. In taking the pock-
ct book out from the pocket with one hand, it
must be unlocked with the other, by turning Il
spring ring inside tho coat, which spring ring
also, for greater safety, can be taken away at
pleasure, which operation is easily done by the
wearer, but is troublesome and inconvenient for
the pickpocket; neither can the pocket book; so
fastened, be cut out with Il knife. The other
is also safety lock, made TO prevent the steal
ing of watches from vest pockets. lttheSe in,
ventions answer the purposes intended. it will
be possible to travel around and ninglc in
large crowds without fear Of being robbed by
pick pockets
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubia!
hunpincss Indeed without these tho journey
through life becomes II weary pilgrimage, the
nrospect hourly darkens to the view, tho mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
tho melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blightcd with our own.
Year: 1871

About four O'Clock yesterday afternoon q fire was
discovered IN the carpenter shop No. 400 Water
street. caused by some shavings taking nrc from the
stove. causing loss to the building OF $500 Neither
the amount oJ insurance nor the name OF the occu
pant OF the building could be ascertalned
Year: 1871

The following record VIII show the changes In
the temperature for tho past twenty nours In
comparison with the corresponding day OF last year
as Indicated by the thermometer ut Hudnut,s
Pharmacy, HERALD Building, corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1871

During an alteration IN the grocery store l2o
Orchard street, between Henry Lohmensen and an
unknown man, the former was stabbed in the back
win q knife inilictlIg % serious wound. The un-
known man. after committing the assault, made his
escape and Is still at large.