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Year: 1875

The question is often asked why it is that liquor dealers have more priviledes here in Russellville than any other place-and why it is that they can carry on their sa- looms in open violation of law and how the will of the people, as expressed at the ballot box against the sale of ardent spirits, can be enforced? For the infor- nation of all who feel interested, we give the following section of law, as found in Gantt's Digest:

 "SEc. 5227. It shall be the duty of the collector to cali upon any person he may know, or have req son to believe, is selling vinous or ardent spirits within the county without having license therefor, and if such person fail or refuse to produce to such collector such li- cense, then it shall be the duty of said collector to immediately give information against such person to some justice of the peace of said county; but if the Circuit Court be in session then it shall be the duty of said collector to give such information to the grand jury of said county. And it shall be the duty of each con stable to make return, under oath, of all retailers of spurious liquors in his township who shall sell in less quantity than one quart, to each term of the circuit court of his county; and if any constable shall fail to make any such re- turn he shall forfeit any sum not less than five dollars for the use of the school fund.-"

 This is the law TOW in force; it never having been repealed. The dram shops now selling ardent spirits in Russellville arc doing so without any such license as this jaw requires. The penalty for so doing, which the justices would be in duty bound to impose, is a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and thirty days imprisonment for each offense. This is notorious, and of course our officers know it. The voters of this township voted li- cense to saloons down and the county court refused to grant the same: still, the business is car ried on, and the will of the peo- pie and the requirements of the | law are alike disl'egarded.

 l How do our officers get around this?

 So far as we are concerned we care nothing further about it only to know whether the officers arc to be the judge of what laws they will enforce. If they are, things are in miserable plight; and if this precedent is made, then any officer can enforce just such laws as he may see proper, and allow any to be violated which he does net feel disposed to enforce.
Year: 1875

Be it ordained by the Town Council

 of the town of Dover Assembled:

 SEC l. That the town council of the town of Dover in the State of Ark, shall have the authority to elect a Marshal and Treasurer, and that they give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars each to the town of Dover for the faithful discharge of their respective duties.

 SECTION ?. That this ordinance go into effect from and after it's passage.
Year: 1875

This is the way the people who live on
the coast Of Maine are said to describe their
weather Dirty days hath September,
April, June and November from January
up to May, the rain it raineth every day
All the rest have thirty-one, without u
blessed CLEAN of sun and if any of them
had tw0-and-thirty, they would be just as
wet and twice as dirty"
Year: 1875

The Commercial and Republican, and all
the carpet-bag Radical papers in Della
ware that favored the passage Of the
Force Bill should apply the following
language to themselves. They are equ-
ally guilty and equally deserving to be
classed with such Radical papers as have
favored the infamous Force Bill. There
are hundreds Of Republicans in this city
who approve all that is said by the Phil
adelphia Telegraph in the following para
graph:


Our neighbor the Press yesterday
said that the Force Bill was supported
by the Republican press" Of the country,
and further declares that the great
body OF Republicans hope it may be
come a law" Most distinctly and em-
phatically we deny both these dcclara-
tions The Republican press" of the
country has been almost Il unit in it's de-
nunciation OF this outrageous, unjust
and unconstitutional act which provides
Tor suspending the writ of habeas corpus
In times CT absolute peace, and for de-
featlng the sacred right of suffrage by
placing oil elections under the direct
control OF irresponsible Federal officials.
The Press cannot name one dozen re-
spectacle Republican newspapers from
Maine to Texas which have advocated
the passage of the Force Bill. A few
administration. third term organs have
done SO; but, with the exception of the
Presidents kitchen organ at Washing
ton, even they have done it SO feebly as
to Indicate that advocacy of such mon
strous offence against liberty created
disgust. AS for the assertion that the
great body of Republicans hope it NAV
become law" it is simply gratuitous
insult to the intelligence, honesty and
patriotism Of the Republican party. The
Force Bill passed the House by bare
majority only, and it could not have
passed at all had it not been for Ben
Butler whip and the solid vote of the
carpet -baggers, whose bad days at Wash
ington must end without its bayonet
help.
Year: 1875

BY GRo. ". BUNGAY.
The farmer sat in his old arm chair,


Rosy and fair,


Contented there,


"Kate, l declare"
He said to his wife who was kitting near
I'VE need not fear


The hard times here
Though the leaf of life is yellow and sere
II am the king, and you are the queen
Of this fair scene,


These fields of green


And gold between,
These cattle grazing upon the hill,


Taking their fill,


And sheep SO still,
Like many held by single will.
"These barnyard fowls are our subjects
all;


They heed the call,


And like squall


On fast wings fall,
Whenever We scatter for them grain
'Tis not in vain


We live and reign
In this our happy and calm domain.
"And whether the days be dim or fine,
In rain or shine,


These lands Of mine,


These fields of thine,
In cloady shade and in sunny glow,
Will overflow


With crops that grow,
When gold is high and when its low.
"Unvexed with shifting of stocks and
shares,


And bulls and besrs,


Strife and cares,


And the affairs
OF speculation in mart AMI street,
In this retreat


Sweet peace can meet
With plenty on her rural beat"
Year: 1875

| An elderly man named Beckwith,
| residing in one OF the peninsular
counties, came TO Richmond, last


Thursday, on business. He brought


with him an old fashioned fint-lock


rife to have stock and lock put on.
On the cars he fell into conversation


with party Of three gentlemen from


this city, when one of them, to test


the reality of some Of the extraordi.


nary scats of craftsmanship he boast


ed of, offered him $40 to repeat some


of them, to which the others added


&5 between them. The trial came


off in an old field half mile below


Rockets and was witnessed BY 3


dozen persons. The old flint lock


was fired seven times and only once


missed its aim. The old gentleman,
after making two shots at a small
object to one side, TO get his hand
steady, as he said, handed his son a
potato and stationed him at fifty
yards distance, holding the potato
between his thumb and fcre6nger.
The rife cracked. and the potato fell
cloven in three or four pieces. One


Of the larger pieces was then thrown


into the air, the marksman keeping
at the same distance, and again the
shot told. An inch and half auger
was then produced, and hole bored
in the fenoe behind which was fas-
tened piece of white paper. At
the distance of sixty yards the marks
man sent ball through the aperture.
piercing the paper. At the fourth
shot, from sixty yards distance. the
bowl Of pipe, which the son was
smoking, was crushed. At the fifth
shot copper cent was thrown into
the air and hit. The sixth and
seventh shots were delivered at
blackened five-cent nickle piece
thrown up by the son, standing about
thirty yards OIL. AT the first attempt
the shot missed. The old gentleman
showed considerable mortifcation,
aud laid the blame upon bystander
who at the critical moment sneezed
loudly. The next attempt. however,
was an entire success. The old man
declined any further trials Of his
skill, and when offered sum of
money to repeat his first feat Of
shooting q potato from bis sons hand,
he refused, saying he didn't care to
try such experiments unless his
weapon was freshly cleaned. The
exhibition was the more remarkable
from the fact that the marksman was
an old man. at least fifty. His eye,
however, is a clear, bright gray. His
is that Of a poor farmer.
The young man showed not the least
tremor or anxiety during the danger
Gus experiment upon himself. The
old man, referring to his son, said,
"Bob can shoot just as well as | cam
Richmond T0.) Who.
Year: 1875

CHICAGO, October 2O.-A special to the
Inter. Ocean says: The Indians at lower
Brule agency are greatly excited because
the government has ordered survey Of
the land in that vicinity. Intelligence
from Fort Thompson says the Indians
are running around almost naked, bear
ing arms and ready for fight. II Colonel
Dcnman attempts to proceed with his
surveying party lively times may be cI-
pccted in that region. The determina-
ton of the Indians to have their own
way becomes more evident every day
since the termination OF tho Red Cloud
Council.
Year: 1875

The City Council, on last Friday night,
took the initatory step in what we trust
may eventually grow into we'll estab-
lished institution. For several years
past the newspapers Of the city, and sun
dry of the more progressive citizens, have
urged the establishment of Work House
where the labor Of the ubiquitous tramp"
may be utilized and substantial charity
be Joined with thrift There is no good
reason why the able-bodied vagrants who
come to Wheeling every winter ana beg
their living from door to door, should
not do something to earn the support
which they sometimes arrogantly de-
mand. Tne soup house project last win
ter, while rehec:ing initiate credit upon
the large hearted philanthropy OF the
ladies and gentlemen who were connect
ed with it, was nevertheless a mistake
1t offered premium for yagrancy
and lazine.s. The i'll conditioned
and shiftless hummer who was un


willing to work for his daily bread and
his noonday soup, came to Wheeling
where these creature comforts were
supplied by charitable hands to all who
made application. The word was passed
along the line, and never did Wheeling
see before, nor is she likely to see again,
such a concourse of the lame, the halt,
the blind, the generally disabled and the
uniformly lazy, as came focking hithcr
from every quarter of the world.


But the Temporary Work House
puts = new face on the entertainment Of
the tramps-it looks to the rendering Of u
9,Hd pro guo-and is therefore likely to
be as unpopular with the transient gen
try who wa1ed fat upon our charity last
winter, as i. will be popular with tho cit
liens whose pockets will be spared from
contribution.


An impression seemed - prevail
among the members Of Council last Tues
day night, that the only remunerative
labor in which the "tramps" can bc en-
ployed is in breaking stone for the
macadamization of the streets, but eXper
renee will demonstrate that there are very
many other avocauons in which the in
dlgent can be proftably employed. In
Pittsburgh, for instance, barrel max
ing is one Of the prominen: in.
dustries of the work house, and
machinery is provided by means of
which excellent wagons, boots and shoes,
furniture, and all of the various articles
usually produced by compulsory labor
are turned out. The work house in Al
legheny county, Pennsylvania, not only
supports itself, but yields an actua'
revenue year after year and assists in
tightening the burden Of municipal taxa
tion. SO it may bo made in Wheeling
if an enlightened Council
will but devise the system
and provide the means. The 'tempora-
~ work house" is good thing-as far
as il goes-but it does not fully meet the
exigencies Of tho case, and we hope TO see
it supplemented by some more enlarged
and permanent system. There is room
for much progress in this direction.
Year: 1875

The victory for the Democrats in the
tfodden Misssippi, is grand one.
Both branches of the Legislature--all but
one or two of the Counties all six
of the members of the Congress, are in
opposition to the Radical party. All
glory to the Conservative people of that
Stotn
Year: 1875

Last night these two artists gave very in
terestng entertainment to highly spprccia-
tive audience. o-nisht they win give an
other at the Court House. 1t is not pecessa-
ry that we commend these artists for they are
too well known to our people to require 1t
from us. Let everybody turn out tonight to
hear them
Year: 1875

Austin, Martin & Ward have the
largest and best assorted stock of cook
ing and heating stoves to be found in
Van Buren, which they propose and
mean to sell at cost. Call and see us. We
mean what we say. %
Year: 1875

The Sheriff was hard at work, all the early
part of last week to get the Justices Of the
C chunty together to levy the annual taxes. A
quorum was finally got together on Wednes-
day, and the following taxes were laid
Year: 1875




When man complains OF his enemies, it
not only shows that his heart is filled with
bitterness, and that he would not hesitate 10
retaliate If opportunity should offer, but also
that he lacks wisdom as well as charity in
not considering how useful AN enemy could
be to him. A wise and faithful friend once
spoke to his acquaintance upon this subject,
as follows


" You are ever complaining OF the wrong
and annoyance YOU suffer from your enemy,
but you forget that more than half your
trouble and fears come from your own heart.
Guard mo.e against yourself, and YOU will
have less reason TO fear other enemies, for
open enemies are far less dangerous than Sc
cret ones. The man is an enemy to himself
who indulges in hatred to his fellow man,
and meditates revenge against those of whose
hostility he complains; for hy cherishing
such a temper of mind, he makes himself an
enemy Of the God who condemns all impla-
cability and maleyolence of disposition.
Now consider the matter calmly, and you
will soon see how much good You may de
nve from an enemy, and thank God that SO
much good can come Of evil"
Year: 1875

The TINES publishes an extract Of q private
letter from "Ningpo, October 20th, in the
course Of which we read q" / heard there
remarkable testimony 10 the power Of Chris
tianity from the mouth of a heather. He
came into our little preaching room, while
was waiting for the man on the table 10
arrive. lie was respectable man, in easy
circumstances and very courteous. lie had
never heard the Gospel, he said but he had
seen it, He began extolling its power and
excellency. know a man, he said, 'who
used to be the terror of his neighborhood
If you gave him hard word he would shout
at you and curse you for two days and two
nights without ceasing. lie was as danger
GUS as wild beast, and bad opium smoker
Il have since heard that he was involved in
two quarrels in which blood was shed)
But he continued, when the religion Of
Jesus took hold of him. he became wholly
changed d-gentle, not soon angry, moral, his
opium left off, etc Truly, the doctrine is
good This testimony was given quite spon-
taneously"
Year: 1875

Specimens of a new bogus postal card
were detected in the New York Post Office
Friday. They are made in imitation of the
old style card, but are not technically coun-
terflets because the words, "this is not q
lawful" are printed over the words "United
States Postal Cards." and in place of the
useful direction to write the address, only,
on one side, the message on the other, are
the words "You may write the address and
message anywhere you like and send It,"
Year: 1875

DEL. AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH


Under the preaching Of Rev. I. N. Halde-
man, a revival has been in progress for
sometime at the Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church, which has been attended with a
success highly 1atterins to the able PASTORS
efforts. Last night there were twenty -one
candidates for the Hely ordinance of
Baptism, and the attendance was the largest


seen within the building this year.
Last evening the doors were
not opened until seven O'Clock,
but long before this hour there were fully
one thousand people in the streets surround
ing the editice, which it is unpleasant to
state was anything but decorous gathering.
There was every topic talked upon but that
of religion, and in tone that was more
beistersus than polite, and made it painfully
apparent that highly aggravated sense Of
curiosity was more the incentive for this
gathering than that of holy intentions.
This squeezing and crowding is an injustice
to the regular pew holders who are crowded
out of their seats by the intrusion Of an Nm
invited assemblage Of curiosity seekers.
Year: 1875

TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THE HARD WIN
IER.-lhe eases OF death by pneumonia i'm
New York during the five weeks ending Feb
ruary OF This year, were four hundred and
ioTty-three. against only two hundred and
eighty during the miller corresponding
weeks oflaSt year. The various asSociatious
for The assistance of the poor i'm the same
city say that never In their experience have
they known aS much destitution as during
thl> winter and hat class of people who
have never hitherto needed relief have been
compelled To appeal for il.
Year: 1875

The Special Committee of the Senate now
engaged III the investigation of our Municipal
Government is understood to have been created
by Republican statesmen at Albany in order
to get even with the Democratic Assembly
Committee which has been searching into the
causes and treatment of metropolitan crime.
If one succeeded in laying bare discrcdiiablc
secrets of the police stations and the District
Attorneys Oflice, the other was pretty certain
TO rctaliatc bv exposing the abuses OF Tam
many Hall end the Department of Public
Works The double investigation may not
have been promoted by the most unseliish
motives, but il will probably do good If we
could have both political parties simultane-
ou,ly investigating and showing up each other,
not only in NcW-York. but in Albany, in
Washington, in Philadelphia, in Harrisburg,
and in all other ccnterS OF political activity,
campaign journalism for while would be
disgusting, but politics would soon become
purer We trust. therefore. that neither Com
mittce will allow its zeal to flag.


The disclosures made before Senator, Booth
and Tobcv are interesting though not entirely
unexpected. knowing that the Administration
has already discharged the large gangs OF
voters employed about election time in repair
ing ON most ancient monuments of naval
architecture, we were prepared to hear that
the Tammany labOrers who got Jobs of work
on the Boulevard at the same critical period
were likewise dropping Off in large numbers.
We knew. moreover that a very little inquiry
would show that the honest sous of toll who
get their living out of the city are not in the
habit of rendering a fair equivalent for their
pay. but they loaf around the spot where work
j. supposed TO be going on, and smoke their
pipes. and play cards, aud discuss the burning
questions Of ward politics. 1t was for this that
the Hon John Morussey and the CustomHouse
leaders decided that they ought TO have twenty
five per cent more than the market rate Of
wages. Still ii is useful TO have these familiar
fact, presented to the Committee in Il forciblc
and picturesque style. 4 propcrty-ovner who
lives r,ar the Boulevard and amlI~cs himself
watching the idlcness of the city lahorers and
calculating the rapid depreciation of his estate
under the burden of assessments which repre-
sent only a fractional part of the estimated
improvement, told the Committee that this
work was controlled by downtown politicians,
"and those who paid the taxes and were in
"tercsted had nothing to say about it,"


That is just the mistake. Those who pay
the taxes and are interested in an honest
expenditure of them had au opportunity to
say something about reform of the system
the other day. Bad rs the management of the
municipal public works has been. an attempt
has been made to conduct them in one respect
on business principles by cutting off the gratui-
tie, paid out of the public treasury to these
idle lahorcrs If il va, not possible to make
thcm work. the Mayor and Gen. Porter at
Year: 1875

Supcryising Architect Potter has apparently
studied the works of his predecessor to some
purpOse His duties have compelled him 10
survey a greater number of the creations OF
Mullett than it has been the misfortune OF most
men to behold, and he has bestowed upon them
an amount of study and miputeness of OBJ
servaton from which the private citizen Is
happily exempt. Wo can imagine the effect
upon cultivated and highly organized man
of q year spent in the contemplation of these
frightful objects. Plans of them fill his Office,
the dread reality looms upon him when he
walks abroad. and preposterous piles OF granite
and diabolical forms of Seneca sandstone tor
ment his dreams. Mr.. Potter becomes haunted
with an awful fear that in time, by much asso-
citation with these vulgar shapes, he may come
TO build like Mullett. The Supervising Architect,
he says, has no leSIli- 10 study his designs,
and even if he had it Is impossible that
any one man should give individuality and
variety to great number Of public buildings,
all designed for nearly the same purposes and
erected under substantially the same conditions.
SO he begs that his Office may be restricted to
supervisory duties and the preparation of de-
signs thrown open to the competition OF the
profession.


Mr.. Potter's report il conspicuous proof of
his fitness for the place for which the President
has fortunately chosen him. All that he says
is sensible. a Government building filling a
large place in the public eye, and emptying a
largo place IN the public pocket always hls a
great and lasting influence upon art, either for
good or for evil, and if We go on i'll our pres
ent ridiculous course we shall make ourselves
the laughing stock of the world, and destroy
all hope of a respectable national architecture.
Mulletts breed Mullctts with frightful fecundity.
If we wish to have any decent buildings, by
all means let us give chance to the men
who are able to make them.
Year: 1875

Loader perjury case have, it is true, paved the
way to obtain testimony from the brother OF
Mrs Tilton and his wife. But whether such
testimony or any other of that sort can be
introduced in court must largely depend upon
proof not yet obtained that Leaders own story
had any foundation.
Year: 1875

Dr. J. l. Billings of the Surgical Corps Of the Army
is an able man, and his suggestion Of system for
registering certain diseases throughout the country
deserves consideration. The proposal, however.
that the Government should do this carries things too
far. The Government does a great deal more now
than it ought to undertake, and the chef business
it should set before it is to keep its hands from med
ding not to be laying them upon more and moro
departments of private enterprise.
Year: 1875

The severity of the labors of MesSrs. Moody
and Sankey give cause for anxiety among the
friends of the revival movement. The break
ing down of Mr.. Moody's health would of
course impair if not entirely prevent the work
projected in other cities and it would certainly
seem TO be the part of wisdom that he should
take a brief interval of relaxation after leaving
Brooklyn. before undertaking new response
bitico and toll at Philadelphia.
Year: 1875

The Union Club gives another warning TO people
who persist in putting up fine houses without protect
ing them against fire. Ii is easy TO make floors and
partitions substantially rcproof without going
Year: 1875

Among the many valuable papers read at the
meeting of the American Public Health Asso-
ciati0n, one of the most suggestive was DR..
Claypole's essay on popularizing sanitary
science in our schools. 1t is certainly
true that the average American is in
some respects singularly careless OF his
health. Perhaps ignorance is the prime cause
of such carelessness. At all events better
knowledge of the conditions necessary to
keep the human machine in good running
order would at least place the responsibility
for i'll health where it usually belongs-On the
patient rather than on the doctor.