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Year: 1873

THx' Constitutional Convention in
Pennsylvania is having almost as much
trouble in determining upon the mode
of voting in popular elections as were
experienced in this State. A PROPOSE
ton to require the name of the voter to
be endorsed on the back ofhis ballot
came very near adoption, but in it's
stead i. was agreed that the number OF
the ballot in the order ofits reception
shsuld be marked upon it before its de"
posit in the box. A poll book is
kept in which the names Of the voters
ia recorded in the order Of their voting.
A number is set opposite each name
and this number is marked upon the
ticket. By this means,
although the secrecy OF the
ballot is virtually destroyed. it is easy
to detect and reject the illegal votes.
If is found that JOHN SMITH who was
the 94th man to vote was not duly
qualified, the ballot "9T is rejected
from the court, no question being raised
as to the legality OF the other votes cast.


This system will doubtless have the
effect of diminishing the number OF
contested elections by doing away with
the notorious abuse of rejecting the
vote of an entire precinct because Of
the admission Of few illegal ballots.
It seems almost impossible in this age
of fraud to preserve the secrecy of the
ballot and its purity at the same
time. There is too much
lust for office; too great anxiety to en-
joy not only the legitimate rewards but
also the opportunities for plunder which
Office affords; to render men content to
abide by the free and unbiased judg-
ment OF the people as expressed at
perfectly fair and secret election. But
if it be necessary to sacrifice secrecy in
order to secure the proper recording Of
the popular will, we believe it ls better
to make the ballot as open as the Penn
sylvania Convention contemplates than
to submit to the frauds which seem inr
separable from the former system.
Year: 1873

Arc AOtertlsemenus LSef heau


In the course OF spicy article, au-
svering this question, the Mobile Reg.
ist.r says: III any man affects to be-
lieye that advertisements aEe not read
let him advertise that he wants to buy
a dog, for instance. II he is not fur
nished with every variety Of animated
sausage that morning before breakfast
and, besides, with one or two sound
grounds for suits against him for as
sault, we will break our golden rule
and deadhead his advertisement. And
it is fair to infer that any man who
wants to sell a dog, also wishe. to buy
something with the proceeds OF bis ca
nine venture. And 90 up to the man
who wishes to sell his cargo OF coffee,
that be may buy cargo Of Western
produce"
Year: 1873

A COUNTRY maiden lately drove an ox
team into Indianapolis, hauling load
OF wood. She said she cut the wood,
and with the wood she bought q highly
ribboned hat, and with the hat sheal
cut 8 country swell. .r 4
Year: 1873

The Montgomery Advertiser ana
Mdil says: The worm is more destruc-
tive whore not checked by Paris green
than ever before known. They make
a clean sweep of fields in half the
time which they have heretofore allow.
cd themselves. No matter how much
Paris Green may be used the crop in
Montgomery, Lowndes and Bullock
will be short far beyond expectation.
Year: 1873

An Arkansas farmer was absent
minded enough to leave his pct panther
and his mother.in.law at home togeth-
or while he went to show, but, much
to his anger and amazcmcnt, the old
lady was alive and the panther was
dead on his return.
Year: 1873

Tbs New York Bulletin regards the
dry goods trade as affording an excel
lent barometer of the general business
of the country, and says that from its
report during the past two weeks it re-
CARDS the prospects for the future as
most cheering. The trade has sustained
itself under the general pressure with
more stability than could have been ex-
pectsd. There have been occasional
reverses, but they have been exception
al, and business is fast recovering its
usual tone. As a rule, the dry goods
trade is the first to feel the effects of 3
financial disaster, and the last to recov-
ser from it. Fashion and wealth can
always contrive to satisfy the require
ments OF "society" and of the seasons;
bit the bulk of consumers, on whom
the u,Sde chiefly depends, are forced to
economic. When they are, by the
depIetion of their income, compelled
to press into continued service last
seasons coat, or hSt, or dress, the bust
ness is infallibly stagnaut and the facto'
ries are run on half time. But the pur
chases Of the discreet country dry goods
merchants and jobbers, who possess al
the facilities for accurate information al
TO the wants OF their customers anC
their means for gratifying them, show
that this danger no longer menaces Us
In their estimation the people now have
and will continue to have sufficient re-
sources TO make all their usual pur
ehases, provided there is no clog in the
mutual exchange Of product for product
This indication of prosperous and act
i've continuation of the fall trade may
be regarded as the first and best fruits o.
returning confidence.
Year: 1873

FATHER CARY, Of st. Peters church,
full of life and vigor and earnest in the
cause 10 which he devoted himself, has
succuu11ed to the fever, the third Of our
c:ty pastors who have been taken from
us by the fell destroyer. He was awsy
up in the far north when the terrible
disease made its appearance in Mem
phis. but summoned home on account of
the extra duties imposed on his fellow
priests by reason OF the unusual NOR
tality among our Catholic telloW-citi-
zens, he returned promptly and entered
upon holy work, at which death found
him. Surely to him, as to Father DAILY
and DR.. Bowman, 1t was but transla-
tion to the brighter land, glimpses
os which must come to souls like theirs,
50 thoroughly in communion with
God. Their gam is our loss. We shall
miss th for their good works remain
to testify o. them. Father Cary was a
gentleman of .uuch personal refinement
of manners, and was characterized by
devoted piety and strict attention to
duty. He was a worthy son Of the
church. a brave soldier Of the cross,


fighting sin, helping the helpless and
doing everything for the good of his
Year: 1873

Special 70 the Appeal


JACKSON, Miss, October &C. S.
Swan, the notorious cOunterfeiteT and
warrant forger, escaped from jail last
night. The regular jailer had left the
jail in charge of a deputy for the pur-
pose of arresting a party in the country,
Swan was down stairs, and while talk
ing with the deputy he (the deputy
went to sleep. Swan then took the key
to the front gate and left for parts un-
known. Cunningham, his partner in
the forgery business, feels highly indig.
nant that Swan did not go up stairs and
let him out of his cage that he might
accompany him. The governor will
probably offer a liberal reward for hi;
recapture. Swan was arrested in the
forgery business in Louisiana while
keeping a store under the name of st
Txra
Year: 1873

Adversely tests the metal Of which
men are made, and the true soldier is as


faithful to his duties on the field of bat


tie as be is punetual st the mere formu-


la of the dress-psrsde. A great calam-
ity is a great solvent Of character. Like
the spear of Ithuriel, its touch transforms


the simulated angel into the ugly and


venomous toad, or brings out the pure


gold Of a manly heart from the mine


where, in prosperous times, it lay


quietly concealed. When Chicago,
visited by the fire-fiend, was pros


trated in ashes, the world was


made better by the grand exhibition Of
heartfelt sympathy and assistance,
which went out from all the cities of
ehristendom in behalf of the desolated
city, and now when Memphis mourns
over a worse calamity than even Chica-
go, renewed and substantial assurances
come to US from ali parts Of our country
proving that the principles of christian
charity sill link men together in a COM
mon brotherhood. Here at home, too,
we have abundant evidence of how no
bic men and women can become under
the crucial test of great
calamity. We are constantly hearing
of the neblest and most generous self
devotion, of the purest and most disin-
terested acts Of kindness and attention
TO the sick and dying-scts that may
never come TO light, but whose sweet
fragrance will ascend to the Almighty
Father, pleading in eloquent terms for
those whom the world has cast aside,
but whose gre t love is worthy Of great
mercy. To the clergymen Of all the
churches, and to the physicians Of the
city, Memphis owes debt of gratitude
which she can never pay. Three
of the former have already fall
en- victims TO the disease, contracted
in the discharge of the duties of
their holy office; while their brethren
of all denominations, bound together in
the holy bonds of christian charity, are
night and day ministering to the mate
nal and spiritual wants of the sick.
The members of the medical pro-
fession are depOrting themselves in a
manner worthy of great praise. All
that human skill and learning, accom-
panied by the kindest and most unre-
uniting attention, can do they are doing,
50 that we are at loss to express the
deep sense Of appreciation with which
their noble services are viewed by the
public. Still the plague is feaTfully at
work, and his victims daily fall before
him. The frost Of the last two nights
brought hope TO all our hearts, but the
great God alone only knows whether
that hope win Tipen into frIition
OF the thing hoped for, The
malady is so strong now that a killing
frost may be necessary to fully neutral
ize its virulenee. Still there is hope in
the prospect, and. our people should not
relax fn any and every effort to miti-
gate the peStilence. Let no family fail |
10 use disinfecting agents. Let the
board of health insist on a rigid police
ing of every house infected or threaten
ed with the infection, and with Gods
blessing we may soon have to announce
the disappearance of the plague.
Year: 1873

WHILE doing all they can for the
sick, the Howard association and the
citizens committee must not forget the
needy sufferers-the poor-who have
been robbed of their bread winners y
These are now a special charge upon
our bounty, and should be cared fol
tenderly as well as plenteously. They
need words Of consolation and comfort,
as well as money and provisions. Let
US not forget the poor, and the Lord
will not forget us in time of trouble.
Year: 1873

THE women Of Louisville, fair and
besu,.; full as Ne know them to be, and
worthy Of allpraise as among the best
of their sex, have especially enhanced
themselves ia the esteem and respect OF
the people Of Memphis by the generous
promptness with which they have come
to the aid Of our sick, dying and dis
tressed. Theirs is a practical exempli-
1ieation of the mission of woman TO
.sOOthe the sorrowful, succor the sick and
needy, and minister with words Of COM
fort and consolation to minds distressed.
We thank them for it all, and trust il
may never be theirs to know or expert


eDce trial and trouble like 10 that which
they are 50 nobly helping 10 alleviate.
Year: 1873

THOSE of our citizens who are now out
of the city must remain tout" and un-
der no circumstances return until they
are notified to do so by the board of
health. Have patience. Only a few
days longer, and all, we hope, will lie
Year: 1873

PHILADELPHIA, October 1.-The
Union bar king company have submit
ted to their creditors the following prop
Osition, which they say will enable them
to resume business at an early day: The
creditors shall take fifty per cent. OF
their claims in stock of the bank, and
the bank shall then resume business,
placing the other fifty per cent. to their
credit,
Year: 1873

Renne Pain Killing Magic Oil in every
family, used as directed in sudden sick
ness, like Group, pnenemonia pleurisy,
fits, cramps, would save much suffering
and probably many lives No family can
afford to live without it in the house a sin
gle day Call for it where you usually
trade
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEST. The Commissary
General Of the United States, after trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention of eonsum-
arS
Year: 1873

THE KEYSTONE SALOON HAS BEEN RE
] moved to the corner of Moline Avenue and Rail
road street within five minutes walk of the new
Railroad Depot, where the Proprietor will be hap
py at all times to see his friends.


5-Sdlm JAMES MCELROY
Year: 1873

Judicious advertising always pays.


IF you have good thing, advertise it. If
you havn't, don't


If you don't mean to mind your own
business it will not pay to advertise.


Never run down your opponents goods
in public. Let him do his own adver-
tising


You can't eat enough in one week to last
whole year. and you can't advertise on
that plan, either.


A large advertisement once and then
discontinued creates the impression that
the man has fizzled.


It's as true of advertising as of anything
else in the world-if it's worth doing at all
it worth doing we'll
lnjudicious advertising is ike fishing
where these are no fish. You need not lei
the lines fall in the wrong place
If you can arouse curiosity by an adver
tisement it is a great point gained The
fair sex don't held all the curiosity in thu
world


The people who advertise only once IL
three months forget that most folks can
remember anything longer than about sew
en- days
A standing advertisement, even though
small one, is like a sign over a store
ever in sight, and constant suggestion t
the public of something the public shoul,
have, and the place to get it.
Year: 1873

The WEEKLY ARGUS, with IFS IS care
fully edited columns, and its clear, new
type, is a welcome visitor to many house
hold, and ought to be found in every house
in the county The price is a mere trife
only 81 year two dollars for 2,496 col
umns of matter There is not a family
in the county who would not be benefited
in some way by such weekly visitor.
Our friends in the various townships are
respectfully urged to make little effort to
extend its circulation-not a spasmodic
effort; but please try and remember, when
in conversation with your neighbors, al
any time during the year, to say good
word for THE ARGUs-a paper that is al
ways saying good words for your interests
and the interests of your county.
Year: 1873

WHY WILL YE DIE, On YE OF LIT
TIE FAITH ?''-The following well-written
article is from the Davenport Democrat of
December TO- 1872, and is a powerful re-
minder to the afflicted


The most insidious, deadly and distress
ing malady attacking the human frame, is
pale consumption, stealing into the maid
ems bosom, flushing her cheek, blanching
her skin, and feeding like living worm Of
| death upon her yitals. A lover may
tondly gaze into her eyes, the brilliant
| sparkling is but a forerunner of dissolU-
ton. A mother may listen to her mid
night breathing, it is but a muffied drum
beating her death knell A father may
! fondly try TO save her. but too frequently
his efforts are in vain, her bridal bed is the
| burial case her bridegroom, death, the
silent consumer of her lungs is at work,
and physicians have no remedy, the phar


macopeia no drug which cankeep her from
her destiny. Sad as this view is, there is,
happily, bright side. Providence has
garnered up insthe st0rehouses of vegeta-
ton, sovereign balm in the juices of
plants to arrest the fell destroyer, to heal
the eating ulcer, to renovate the failing
lung, to bring health, strength and vigor
to the wasted frame. The keen eve of
science has searched for it, the chemist S
skill has seized upon it, the retort and
alembic have extracted it, and the remedy
is produced which will stay the progress Of
the stealthy death iend The result of
this careful study of nature is Allen S
Lung Balsam, this is the consumptive' S
hope, the declining patients cure. Thou
sands have entered upon trial of it with
distrust and fear, who now live to record


its snatohing them from an early grave, and


who are ready to testify to its merits. Let
, the eonsumptive take it and be benefited.
Why will We die, oh, We of little faith 7?
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

$4,000 IN CASH FOR $l.-We call the
attention of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of the Nebraska
State Orphan Asylum. Here is chance
to win fortune in a Public Legal Drawing,
and aid noble charity.
Year: 1873

Some ladies suffer dreadfully with the
headache and this causes their hair to fade.
Natures Hair Restorative is a sure rene
DIV for the ache and will restore the color
of blanched, gray or faded hair See ad-
yertisement
Year: 1873

From lands end TO lands end, that all may read,
and reading. believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road 10 untlmcly grave
with bilious complaints there but one truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is
Year: 1873

A &C. to authorize the unladins. OK steato.
ships at night.


Be it enacted by the Senate and HOuse o.


Representatives. of the Uaited States oS
America in Congress assembled That il
shall be the duty of the collector of customs
with the concurrence of the naval officer.
if there be One) of any port at which =
| steamship from foreign port OF place may
arrive, upon or after the issuing of q general
order, TO grant, upon proper applicatsp


therefor, special license 10 unlade the
cargo of said vessel at night, that is to say.


between sunset and sunrise; but before
any such special license is granted, the


master, agents, or consignees Of the vessel


shall execute and deliver to ths said cole


lectOr good and sufficient bond, to be ape


proved by him, conditioned to indemnify


and save the said collector harmless from


any and all losses and liabilities which.


may occur or be occasioned by reason of tha


granting of such special license; and pro.
! viaed. that any liability Of the master as
Year: 1873

A Mobile newspaper sensibly says
that the prime evil of the prevail
ing method of teaching consists in
the careful cultivation of the mem
ory to the neglect of the thinking
powers. Commencing with the
teachers, even Of the highest grade,
down to the youngest child in the
school. there is an almost slavish adj
herence to the mere language of the
textbooks. Teachers do not trouble
themselves to study over the lessons
to comprehend throughly their full
significance, but on the contrary on
ly too frequently 60 into the class
room and have to depend upon the
book in order TO hear the lesson.
In theory this is not allowed, but in
practice it is pretty general. Such
being the case, the teacher, having
no higher sense of responsibility
than the necessity of going through
certain form i'm order to secure the
quarters salary, is very we'll content
to find the scholar perfect in the
mere language of technicalities Of
the lesson. The scholar, finding
nothing further required, is only too
glad to perform the comparatively
easy task of committing SO many
lines or paragraphs to memory. leav-
ing its comprehension severely
alone, or to follow blindly rules with
out any pains to discover their scope
and value. AS a consequence most
school-chiIdren have their minds
choked with dates, facts. and the
mere language of laws and princi-
pies Of which they have no under
standing whatever, and aside from
the routine of the text books know
absolutely nothing. and not made
their own, by mental digestion, any
appreciable portion of the knowl-
edge they have spent SO many hours
in attaining"
Year: 1873

EMIGRATION


from your State to Texas, and as
there is quite panic in many parts
of this State on account of yellow
fever 1t would be we'll enough, for
those contemplating changing their
homes. to wait until all fears are re-
moved. They may not be going in
to the infected portions of the State
to settle, but may have to pass
through some towns on the railroad
routes where they will be delayed on
account of quarantine regulations.
Unless emigrants are coming in their
own conveyances, it is much better
that they should postpone their trips.


THE CROPS AND FINANCE.


Texas has raised fine crops this
year and provisions of all kinds will
be low. 1t is fine farming country !;
the land is rich and cheap. But then
it is no easy matter to get the land
fit for cultivation. In the first place
rails to fence in the land will cost
$50 per thousand, and every improve
ment made on the place will cost
twice as much as the same kind
would cost in any part of East Ten
nessee. Texas, like every other
Southern State, is trying to encour-
age emigration. She is probably in
a better condition than any other
Southern State. Before the war she
was not only out of debt. but held
several millions of dollars of United
States bonds. These bonds are gone
and there is a small Indebtedness
which should not be permitted to in
crease. States, like individuals,
should avoid paying interest, if it is
possible to do so. The lands owned
by the State are ample to pay all our
present Indebtedness, and it becomes
our Legislators to adopt rigid sys-
TEN of economy.


POLITICS AND THE GERMAN SABBATH.


The two political parties in the
State are preparing for a very active
canvass. Both parties have a good
deal of luck, as they are bringing
out county candidates, even to JUS
tices of the Peace. County Surveyor,
&c, through the workings of Con-
vcntions composed of delegates fresh
from the people. There seems to be
mania in this State for Conventions.
A few weeks ago we had a State
Convention in this city Of Germans.
having for its object the abolition of
all Sunday laws. 1t was certainly
very wrong if any immigration So
ciety induced the Germans to come
to this country by telling them that
we wanted them here to aid in civil
izing the country, or for the purpose
of outstanding Texas. About the
time the resolutions of the German
Convention were published, saw in
Knoxville paper Rev. j. B. Ford's
programme of the 18th National
Campmeeting. which closed by say
ing, mo Sunday train.'' 1t occur
red to me that if Bro Inskip would
spread his Tabernacle on the banks
of the Colorado. at the foot of Con.
gress Avenue. in the city of Austin,
and bring with him his whole team,
composed of those who remember
the Sabbath 10 keep it holy" they
might perhaps fire the hearts of our.
local clergy. and keep them ever
ready to war on Sabbath breakers,
no matter how strong they may be in
votes.
Year: 1873

was brought he c at the instigation
Of Hipple-Mitchel to swear to his
identity as legal heir to property
to the amount of 100000 for the
paltry fec of $4,000. In less tlan a
year be again swears in Court that
he is not Himself, and more lately he
swears be is neither. Now it is very
doubtful who he is. lie is destitute
and begging. G. A. N.
Year: 1873

is formed for the purpose of making
war on temperance is it not time that
all good people should unite and
make no sort of consession or com
promise until the influence of liquor
dealers is crushed?