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Year: 1876

Such, at least, is what we call the
following proposition: A liberal
contract with the Weed Sewing Ma
chine Company will enable us to
present, on or about the 18th of July
next, Il beautiful $G5 Weed Sewing
Machine to every person Tor any
one whom they may dcsignatc) who
will send us the names ofhiriy new
subscribers for the LAKE County
STAR, previous to the Goth of June.


We want good many more sub
scribers than VIC have, and it is our
purpose to make a vigorous effort to
obtain them. We trust to merit in
full the success We desire, by i'm
proving our paper in every way
within our power.


One of the very best ways to make
a paper better, is for it's readers to
strengthen the hands (fill the pursc)
of the publisher, by enlarging the
subscription list. TO publish a
good paper costs largely. Friends,
speak word for us to your neigh
bors. Show them copies of your
paper. Prevail upon them to sub
scribe for a year, and give it Il trial
ill their families.


G. X. RADCLIFFE, Publisher.
Year: 1876

In compliance with the action of the last
General Assembly, the Executive Committee
was organized in the city of Baltimore on
the 17th of June ult. The office of Sus-
tentation was however not removed from
Columbia until September 1st, on account of
the personal convenience Of the Secretaries.
The work of this department during the en-
tire year has nevertheless been conducted
under the immediate supervision of the Ex-
ecutive Committee and in accordance with
their direction.


1t is gratifying to this Executive Commit
tee, in making their first Annual Report to
be able to state that the several branches of
labor included under the general head of
Sustentation have experienced no diminution
of interest on the part of the Presbyteries
and Churches, but have on the whole made
some progress during the past year.
MEANS EMPLOYED.


Five of the Synods, to wit, North Carolina,
Virginia, Texas, Mississippi and Memphis,
were visited during the last autumn by one
of the Secretaries. The Executive Commit
tee also addressed circular letter to the
Presbyteries before their spring sessions,
calling attention to the action of previous
General Assemblies in regard to this work
and invoking renewed diligence in its prose-
cution. The pages of the Missionary have
been used as occasion seemed to require, and
circulars have been addressed to our church
es and people from time to time, giving in
formation in regard to the progress and
needs of the various branches of the work.


COLLECTIONS.


During the past year collections have been
received from one thousand and seventy, four
churches for Sustentation from six hundred
and two churches for Evangelistic work ;
and from seven hundred and seventy-three
churches for the Invalid Fund. A compar-
Ii,oa of these figures with those given in the
Report last year shows that there has been
an increase in contributing churches of two
hundred and nineteen to Sustentation; Of
one hundred and eighty-seven to Evangelis,
tic work and of two hundred and twenty-five
to the Invalid Fund. This increase is dis
tributed generally over the Church but in q
special degree in the Synods of Kentucky
Missouri and Nashville. 1t is gratifying tc
note the more general and earnest attention
to this part of their labors by the chairmer
of the Presbyterial Comm ittees


FINANCE.


The total receipts during the year from
all sources for the several depars m ,pts class
ed under the general head of Sustentatiol
embracing Sustentation, Evangelistic Fund
Colored Evangelistic Fund, Invalid Funt
and Relief FUND.- amount to S45,SOO.9l
Year: 1876

Lincoln County. New, of which Pioche is the County seat, seems to be in bad way financially. The Record of Feb. 18th says

 The credit of Lincoln county as a county ceased yesterday morning. The bondhold- CTS won their case, and now county scrip is not worth the paper upon which II is writ ten As no one would take it and furnish supplies, the meals of the prisoners of the county jail ceased last evening All sup plies for the county hospital will cease on the first day of March. The county commi>- sioners have some business to transact; after which they will adjourn sins de. The above are facts that can be relied upOn-only not near as bad as the reality will be before the first day of March. By tonight the priso- ners will be bowling for grub, and county officials yelling for thoussnd-dollar scrip certificate to pay for one square meal. That such should be the case we regret very much, but there Is now no remedy. and the best thing that can be done is to have no jail. hospital or anything else, as their keeping cannot be paid for.
Year: 1876

We saw telegram on Wednesday from

 Chss. Crocker, President of the S P. R R.,

 to Capt; w. H. Hardy, dated San Francisco,

 March 7th which says. briefly but to the

 point. will cross at Yuma This settles

 the question definitely as to where the South

 ern Pacific is going. and zs Gov Stanford

 has frequently ssid they would water their

 engines a, the Colorado river on the 4th of

 July 1876 they will probably be there on

 time. and ~e may expect to hear of them at

 Salt River by the end of the year. when il

 will be as near to US as 1t will ever come

 This is not & very cheerful prospect for rail-

 road communication with Prescott, if we

 look no further than b this road alone. but

 when it is remembered that they are hurry

 ing up their road to head of Scott ard his

 Texas Pacific schemes. and that all the rival

 interests lie along the 32nd degree of lati-

 tude- We are not discouraged st the prospect

 of their going as far south and sticking as closely to thatline as possible. Should they come up within reach of the trade of Gen. tral and Northern Arizons. and yet not come to it, we should fear we had then reached our ultimatum in the way of railroads, and that capital would be 10th 10 seek invest ment in that species of property when the trade already had an outlet, though sn inn perfect one Now that the company has chosen to make no division of territory with the 18th parallel route we have hope that the vast mining. agricultural and timberinterests of Northern and Central Arizona and North ern New Mexico will come in for their share of attention. and that this or some other Company will see in the 35rh route sn in- ducemeut to build a road which will cross the Colorado at the Needles, sweep down through Chino Valley. and thence on to the Verde and away across the Moggollons tO the great East. If this hope shall not be realized in our time. then our next best hold is the Southern Utah and Los Angeles road, or the Southern Utah and Truman or Quay mas road, this latter has been explored from St George in Utah to the Mexican line, and passes down the Chino and Agua Fria val leys to Salt River thence on .o Tucson and into Mexico, the line st one point not lying farther than twelve miles from Prescott, which would be the nearest we can ever hope to see railroad come; unless it he a branch to the main line, which would most likely be built. The extraordinary mining developments of this and Mohave Counties, | now going on, must atttact the attention of i railroad makers and the outlook is now even l better than when the prospect promised us , road by or near Wickenburg.
Year: 1876

Chief Justice White of Utah has left that Territory for Alabama on business The Salt Lake Tribune says:

 We wish no harm to the Judge. but we hope he will never return. He is not s cheerful parsonage, he does not adorn the bench with his presence, his deafness has already ruined the voices of the most of our attorneys and his perversity and incompre- hensible erotchets have created in them all 8 deplorable habi, of profanity.
Year: 1876

GAGGISG THE PREss.-We have read with

 considerable interest the debates in the Cali

 fornis Legislature, as we'll as the comments

 ofthe press on Senator Lain's bill to curtaii the

 privileges ofthe press. At frstit seemed asif

 it might take political turn as Lane, Lewis

 and Farley, leading Democrats were cham

 pions of the measure, but wheni ii reached the

 masses of the party they gave it such a re-

 buff as to leave these Senators with Edgerton

 of Sacramento and McCoppin of SanFran-

 cisco to share tine glory and bear the odium

 alone. The Santa Rosa Democrat. which re-

 fleets the sentiments of as many Democrats

 as any paper in the State at once took strong grounds againt the muzzling process, and

 was followed by nearly the entire enterior press without regard to politics. The Sena- tors who felt themselves aggrieved said many unkind things in debate, and in return the press has more than reciprocated by ridicu- ling them, in some cases most Outrageously. Having no acquaintance with a majority of these censors of the Press we are not prepar- ed to say that they are innocent of the char ges laid against them, but in the case of Lewis with whom we have been on terms of intimate personal friendship for more than quarter of century we feel like saying that while from this distance, or, as "Wardy the Stage driver, used to say from where we set" his conduct in this matter seems supremely ridiculous, nevertheless, knowing the man, and that he is prone to allow himself to be- come excited and do ridiculous things with out intending to be mean, there are yet worse men that Ned Lewis, in and out of the Leg islature, who do not exhibit their worst pha- ses as he does. If Ned would take as much pains to display the better qualities of mind and heart which he really possesses, as he does his offensive traits of character. and would conceal the latter as much as he does the former, he would De accounted much better nan and make much more valuable senstor. AS friend, whom we are still prouf to acknowledge assuch we are heartily sorrv thst he has entered upon crusade m sh:.h he can but get the worst oft
Year: 1876

Is it because they wear silk that wo.
men are less liable to be struck by liybt.
ming than men? Yet they are, for of The
eight hundred and eighty persons 50
Killed in France during the past decasls
hVe hundred and sixty-seven were
males. Still more singular is the faci
that whenever man and a dog have gsi
in the way of a thunderboIt, the man Pst
capped the electric shock, the dog it MAS
that died.
Year: 1876

IE- Here is an advertisement, appear.
ing in the indianapolis News, which we
transfer to our columns for the benefit of
the impecunious advertiser, now in great
distress about the safety of his property,
by reason Of unscrupuious udventurers,
who seek to monopolze the market with
the bogus article;


" 1t having come to my ears that Ger
tain designing individual named Blaine,
is endeavoring to palm off spurious ar
ticle of bloody shirt upon the public,
hereby give notice that | am the sole
manufacturer Of the genuine article
feel confident in asserting that the public
will not be deceived by the INSCRIPTIONS
proprietor of the mushroom concern,
which has just started, so long as the
goods of the old reliable Outrage Mills
are upon the market. Oliver p Morton,
sole proprietor of the only recognized
Outrage Mills
Year: 1876

LH' The Reformed Episcopal church
are making efforts to do away with the
observance of the Lenten fast, on the
ground-and one very properly taken
that the unwonted license of wild de-
bauchery, before and after the fast, was
mere ridicule of the solemnity Of the
solemn pentential season, and that it
would be better to abandon its observ-
ancc entirely, than to enter upon it with
the smell Of revelry upon our garments,
vi dive at its close, into the reckless Ca
rousal
Year: 1876

the selection of a new secretary of war.
The president stated to the cabinet that


while he could take no steps which
might look like the persecution of any
one, he had determined not to shrink
from the responsibility that rested on
him and he therefore asked the attorney
general to take immediate steps to pro-
ceed with the criminal charges against
Gen Belknap and Messrs. Marsh and
Tominson. and all others shown BY any
evidence that shall be adduced to have
had part in the fraudulent transactions
that were the subject of attention
Year: 1876

Col J. W. GAuLpING While some of
the other papers are so busily engaged in
making officers, or mentioning the names
of SO many persons for the different
places on the State ticket we thus early
take occasion to mention the name of
one in connection with the secrytaryship,
and that is Col. j. W. Gaulding We
know of no one in the State better quail
iticd for that position, and there is cer-
tainly no one more deserving He has q
record upon which any man might
proudly stand. He is identified with our
people; is of the people and for the pco-
pie, and if hono-ed with that position,
would serve the people with honor to
himself, and to the best interests of our
State. Let South Arkansas have chance
in the next make up; we have been with
out the pale, as it were, for a long time
let us in. Give Col. Gaulding the posi-
ton mentioned, which is Just reward
from grateful people, in whose interest,
and for whose well being he has SO long
and delantly battled. Beacon.
1hat suits us. We have fellow-feel.
ing for brother editor at all times, and
like TO see him get boost. Give us
Gaulding.
Year: 1876

EFWe don't think we shall ever GO
buck on a brother of the profession es-
pecially when he is an applicant for po
sition. 1t is not often they ask anything
at the hands of theparty. They always
make faithful, competent and acceptable
officers. In Land Commissioner Smithee,
We have had a faithful and compel mt of
ficer, and its generally conceded, through
out the State, that we cannot afford to
make any change just at this time.
Year: 1876

Eg Among the multitude of names,
presented by the democrats for G Governor
ut the next election, we find none more
worthy than that of Col Tom Fletcher
of Pulaski county. He is as sound as a
nut and every way capable to Gil the of
fee acceptsbly. Of course Judge Tur-
ner Of Van Buren is our first choice and
upon whom, we sincerely feel, the guber-
Material mantle should fall at this time.
Year: 1876

Ey- The name Of Maj. John d. Ad-
ans is favorably spoken Of as a candi-
date for the gubernatorial claim. He is
a gentleman everyway worthy Of the
high position, and it would give us great
pleasure, if the choice of the convention,
to lend our aid to his election.
Year: 1876

Eg' The self-constituted organ of
the democratic party, the Little Rock
Herald, has brought trouble upon itself
in the publication of body snatching"
slander on the medical fraternity Of Lit
tie Rock,
Year: 1876




VAN BuREN, ARK, March G. 1876.
| denounce the above as a ialseheod of the
deepest dye. None of the allegations therein
can be sustained by proof. The truth is that
was under the impression that McAlister
was to pay me a monthly salary of so much
and he thought he was to pay another price
consequently we never had settlement.
owe no one at his place for services rendered
my wife AS for obtaining money under
false pretences. never borrowed a 81 of any
one during my stay there, As for honor
think possess as much or more than the wri
ter of above. JACK WILLIAMS
Year: 1876

Which would you do-smile and
make others happy, or be grabbed
and make everybody around you
miserable? You can live as it
were among beautiful flowers and
singing birds, or in the mire sur
rounded by frogs and loathsome
reptiles. The amount of happi-
ness you can produce is incalcula-
bic, if you can show a smiling
face and kind heart and speak
kind words. On the other hand,
by your looks, cross words and
fretful disposition, you can make
q number Of persons wretched
beyond endurance. Which will
you do? Wear a pleasant counte-
nance, let joy beam in yonr eyes,
and love glow in your face
There are few joys so great as
that which springs from a kind
act or a pleasant deed, and yon
may feel it at night whenyou rest
in morning when you rise, and
through the day when at your
daily business.
Year: 1876

"Poor Jack stretched here his corpus is)


Went out in Harry's Smack:


And Jack he fished for porpoises-


Then Harry fshed for Jack"


I could endure no more. ODE
mon!" I shrieked, extricating my
hand from his by a dexterous turn Of
the wrist; "do you think these
these things - these -preposte-
rous parodies !-these ghastly in
suits to the dead ARE funny? Do
you fancy it wit to thus outrage the
most sacred sentiment of the hu-
man heart? Take that, you thief,
take that" And I struck him a tre-
mendous blow on the top of his
head.


A moment later I was sitting up
in that churchyard, broad awake
and rubbing my knuckles, which in
my sleep I rad abraided against a
tombstone. It was pitch dark, and
T was dank with dew. Thus I knew
I had been dreaming. It was all
the fault of the ozone-really!
Year: 1876

A German philosopher, whose
confidence in friend was grossly
betrayed by the latter's conduct In
running away with his wife and
the contents Of his money drawer,
was heard moralizing somewhat
after the following style: "Velll
veil! So longer a man lives, so
more he finds by gracious outl
I did tink dat Jake had by hin-
self some sense; but ven he go
away NIT Katharine I tink he was
nothing better as a FOOL
Year: 1876

Of course all newspapers want
advertisements, just as all mer-
chants desire to sell goods-just
as all manufacturers desire orders
for their wares-just as all far
mers desire customers for their
produce-just as all laborers de-
sire a position in which they
can get an equivalent for their Ia
Dor. The solicitor for advertise
ments is not in any sense a differ
ent man from him who waits upon
you for an order for goods, and
yet he is generally considered a.
bore if he asks for your advertise
ment. You look at himas though
you were about to confer an im-
mense favor if you yielded to. his
request. You don't advertise as
though you were investing in
something that would dproVead adVan-
tageous to yourself: You seem
TO think that when you pay for
advertising you are donating to
the newspaper man. You do
other things to bring your name
and business before the public
you ornament your place Of busi-
ness to attract cnstomers-you
hang out an expensive sign, and
arrange your wares attractiVely y,
and hire men to ask people to buy
your goods. But when you are
invited to make your wishes
known through the best and cheap
est medium in the world, you be-
gin to wonder how you can get
rid of this newspaper man with
out absolutely kicking him out Of
your establishment.


Here you make a great mistake.
Because you don't hear from an
advertisement as soon as it is in.
serted is no proof that the adVer-:



tisement is doing no good. One
seldom hears any good of himself.
To prove hog much effect notices
Of ones business are, note how
sensitive most men are IN regard
to what is said of them in the
newspapers, especially if the no.
tice is not altogether compliment
tary; note, too, how jealous are
many about what is said favor
ably Of another in the same line
of business. Thus do men tacitlY
admit the power of good and evil
Of notices in the public prints
and yet these same men will cry
out: "Well, I don't see as it does
me any good to advertise. )" This
theory that advertisingis simply
comforting a favor upon the editor
of the newspaper is the silliest ct
notions. One might as well say
he buys his groceries st Smiths
just to patronlze him, or his dry
goods Of Brown just to keep him
from starving, or gets shaved at
Thompson's because he wants to
encourage the tonsorial art. It's
all bosh. You trade where you
get the best return for your own
good, and not from any desire to
sustain your newspaper. .5.s.
EHu56ard's Advertiser.
Year: 1876

sure, SAID she, "on Whlcn one
drinks the health of such an odious,
stingy, hard, unfeelng man as MIR.
Scrooge. You know he is, Robert!
Nobody knows it better than you
do, poor fellow!"


"My DEAR" was Bob's mild an
swer, "Christmas day"


'Sl'u drink his health for your
sake, and the days." said Mrs Crat-
chit, mot for his. Long life to him!
A merry Christmas and a happy
New Year hell be very merry and
very happy, I have no doubt!'


The children drank the toast af-
ter her. It was the first of their
proceedings which hadno heartness
in it. Tiny Tim drank it last of all,
but he didn't care two-pence for it.
Scrooge was the ogre of the family.
The mention of his name cast a
dark shadow on the party which
was not dispelled for full five min
utes.


After it had passed away, they
we're ten times merrier than before,
form the mere relief of Scrooge
the baleflll being done with. Bob
Cratchit told them how he had a
situation in his eye for Master Pc
ter, which would bring in, if OBJ
tanned, full fve-and-si1-pence week
ly. The two young Cratchits
laughed tremendously at the idea
of Peters being a man of business;
and Peter himself looked thought
fully at the fire from between his
collars, as if he were celebrating
what peculiar investments he should
favor when he came into the receipt
of that bewildering income. Mar
tha, who was poor apprentice at
q milliner's. then told them what
kind of work she had to do, and
how many hours she worked at a
stretch, and now she menat to lie
abed tomorrow morning for good
long rest; tomorrow being holi-
day, she passed at home. Also
how she had seen a countess and a
lord some days before, and how the
lord was much about as tall as Pc
ter; at which Peter pulled up his
collar so high that you could not
have seen his head if you had been
there. At this time the chestnuts
went round and round, and by-and-
by they had a song, about a lost
child travelling in the snow, from
Tsny Tim, who had a plaintive lit
tie voice and sang it>very well in
deed.


There was nothing of high mark
in this. They were not a handsome
family; they were not well dressed;
their shoes were far from being wa
terproof; their clothes were scanty !;
and Peter might have known, and
very likely did, the inside of a
pawnbroker's. But they were hap
py, grateful, pleased with one an
other and contented with the time;
and when they faded, and looked
happier yet in the bright sparklings
of the spirits torch at parting
Scrooge had his eye upon them, and
especially Tiny Tim, until the last.
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the most ample for carrying it on to . successful termination.

 None ofthe original stereotype plates have been used. but every page has been s31s
Year: 1876

TIL the legs of the sufferer were reduced
to pulp. On the application of the
first, second, and third wedge, answered
that he was innocent. At the fourth
ancwered that he knew not what they
were speaking of. At the fifth that he
was innocent-was dying. At the sixth
that he had done all that was required
of him had done no wrong was dying.
At the seventh, was innocent-no ac-
completes. At the eight and last, was
innocent.


Although he thus refused to confess
under torture, he became communion
tive enough when he reached the scat
fold, protesting, however, much to his
credit, that he had never robbed a
church, although often melted to do so
by DucLatelet. He absolved his own
family with especial earnestness from
any share in his misdoings. He re-
Trained from denunciations, even of
those who had deserted or betrayed him,
excepting only Duchatelet, toward
whom he evinced intense scorn and
hatred. But in revenge he was unspar-
ing in respect to the spies and receivers
of the gang, whom he denounced by the
score. He avowed himself the head and
chief of the numerous band, so long the
terror of the capital, an assertion amply
confirmed by the confusion and indis-
cipline, which ON his decease became
suddenly percepible to the ranks of
crime. To the last two questions adj
dressed to him, whether any person OF
condition belonged to his band, and
whether he had ever accepted bribes to
murder, he replied euphatically in the
negative.


Cartouche's was the first of a
long series of executions. For several
month the Place de Greve saw some un-
fortunate wretch hanged or broken. His
name and memory seemed to engender
robbers, and it was long time before
the effects of that powerful impulse
which, by carefully organizing it, he
had given to crime had passed away.