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Year: 1876

The Indiana Greenback Conversation


From the closing proceedings of the
Indiana greenback convention, held
at indianapolis on Wednesday, 1t
would hardly seem probable that the
movement will have any perceptible
effect on the politics of that state. The
chairman of the State committee an
nounced that he had been trying for
two years to run a great greenback
party on eighty six dollars, but il could
not be done. The expenses of this
convention were two hundred dollars
and he wanted the cash. The hat was
passed around and there was long
pause. The chairman was then panied
rs he said, to announce that only one
hundred and eighty one dollars had
been contributed. The hat was then
passed around again by the chairman
himself, who came in on the home
stretch so smillingly that suspicion
was aroused that he had obtained at
least five dollars extra for the future
operations of the great party. With
such an impecunious exbibitas this no
wonder that the founders of the new
party are clamoring for ''more green
backs"
Year: 1876

not to abandon it; and we would then
have it saddled on us forever. like the
three elephantine normal schools,


And if it is to be maintained at the
cost of the liquor sellers then we protest
against it. 1t is an admission that the
sale OF liquor necessarily produces hu-
man wrecks, little better than the insane,
and who are to become public burden,
and it says, in effect, to the liquor
seller -''Here, we license you to Gre
ate these wrecks out of your fellow
men, provided only you support them
after you have reduced them to help
| lessness."


Ii this theory be true then the state
ought not to issue licenses to sell Ii
quor.


But we have already on the statute
books laws which make it penal Of
fence on the part of the liquor-dealer to
sell to an inebriate or Incorporate per-
son. II this law were enforced there
would be no necessity for an inebriate
asylum, for there would be no inebri-
ates.


Than we have another law which pro.
vides that the estate of any inebriate may
be taken from his custody by the courts.
ard his person placed in the care OF 4
guardian.


II inebriety is becoming an evil of
such magnitude as is claimed. let de
partment be added to the insane asylum
tor the care and cure of such as are help
lessly Incorporate. But do not load
down this already tax-opp:essed people
with another burden. in the shape of a
vast Inebriate Asylum, costing 300, 900,
with more professors and nurses than
patients,


The taxpayers need a little more
Careful nursing just now than the drunk
ards and we cannot understand why one
man should toll through heat and cold
to pay taxes to keep some good-for-noth-
ing loaier toasting his shins in a palatial
home. There is such thing as running
''humanitarianism" into the ground.
Justice to the working bees is of more
consequence than generosity to the
drones.
Year: 1876

We regret deeply to hear of the lynch
ing which took place few days ago at
Plainview, as recorded in another col
umn. 1t was cruel and brutal affair.
The young man, Hathaway, without
doubt deserved death. There can be no
excuse for any man numbering a wo-
man simply because she is not willing to
marry him, Men may talk about love,
passion, insanity, &c. but the cure for
such abnormal mental developments is
q short shritt and stout cord but this
remedy should be administered by the
law not by mob. The cure in the lat
ter case is worse than the disease.


1t is due to the good name of Mime
sofa that our beautiful state should not
be stained with mob law.
Year: 1876

In another column we print an alb
stract of remarks made in the State Sen.
ate on the 9th of January, in favor of
the establishment OF a State Department
Of Agriculture and Forestry. We would
like our readers to peruse it, and If 1t
meets their approval communicate with
their members and senators on the sub
lect. We have very fairminded and
able senate, but only .fpe Of the senator's
out Of forty-tns are farmers, and they
may not appreciate the necessity tor
such a State Department as q body OF
farmers would.


We would be glad to publish the views
of the farmers upon this question.
Year: 1876

We would commend the utterance of
Hon. Lafayette Emmett. in another col
umn. on the proper mode of amending
the constitution of the state.


Is it not nearly time that we held a
state convention to revise the whole in
strument? Twenty years have taught
the people something, especially as they
have been the most eventtul twenty
wears that ever rolled over the world.
Year: 1876

Resolved, by tie Legislature of the State
OF Mississippi: That whereas, there are
more than two thousand copies of the Re-
vised Code of 1871 in the archives for which
there is very little demand, and,


Whereas, 1t would be OF great advantage
to each member of the Legislature to have
copy of the aforesaid Code to aid in dis
patching business, therefore


Be it Resolved by the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi that the Secretary OF
State be and is hereby required to place on
the desk of each member of the Legislat
copy of the Revised Code, and that at the
end OF the present session each mem Der re-
ceiving the same shall return the same to
the office of the Secretary of State, and
each member of this body receiving a copy
of the Code shall receipt to the Secretary OF
State for the same.


Resolved further, That this resolution take
effect from and after its passage.


Approved January 18th, 1876.
Year: 1876

Because the best efforts of the Pulpit and
the Bar are reported in its columns, and The
TRIBUNE is a recognized medium of communi-
cation between the foremost members of all
professions,


THE New YORK TRIBUNE has made name
for self as the exponent of the best thoughts
of the day. 1t is taking the leading part in
the education of the public mind, and has in
creasing claims to public favor New York
Observer
Year: 1876

Joint Resolutions in relation To Pu6isc Prln-


ter.


Be it Resolved by the Legislature OF the
State of Mississippi, 1st. That the state
Printer be instructed 70 suspend all work
now on hand, and to receive no further or
ders except such as are made by the two
Houses of the Legislature, respectively.
2nd, That committee of two on the part
of the House, and one on the part of the
Senate. be appointed to examine the state
of progress of the work now in the HANDS
of the State Printer, and that said commit
tee report 10 the Auditor the progress
which has been made with ali public work
to the date of the passage of this resolu-
ton.


Approved January 10, 1876.
Year: 1876

WILL H. HARVEY, of Choctaw Agency, Miss


Better than any cast plow | ever used
light draft and well made have tested it In
both black, stiff and sandy mixed, and it gives
entire satisfaction"
Year: 1876

Because it devetes ample space to the fruits
of the labors of the world best teachers pla-
cling them within the reach of all, and sup
plyIng at nominal cost means of constant
growth and improvement.


like THE TRIBUNE betterevery year. There
is nothing like it for educating men In this OF
any other country 70. X. Burchard, New
York State Educational Journal.
Year: 1876

sO One of three gentlemen in pew
in church Sunday attempted to huild =
pyramid Of silk hats in the aisle. A
lady came along and her skirt upset
the structure. whereupon wicked lit
tie boy in pew behind audibly said
set 'em up again"
Year: 1876

tie fellows who follow the old flag and
-an appropriation. Applause. (The
speaker made some passing remarks
which were not written out by the re-
porter.)


"Fitch-What about the State road1"


"Gen. Toombs-I will argue that
some day in court. I don't think
much Of that trade. am here to ar
que with these representatives about
giving the people the right to change
their organic law, and nothing can di-
vert me from it--neither the centennial
State road, the world, the flesh, nor
the devil Laughter. AS God is my
Judge tonight, il 1 could call this peo-
pie together to make a constitution for
the benefit OF my posterity and break
these accursed chains, would give the
rest OF my life cheerfully. Applause.
You say do not call a oonventionl You,
like Macbeth when he had murdered his
king, exclaimed, take any other form
but thatP But there is a time coming
when the people will rise up even as
they did in France when they brought
the guillotine OF Robespierrs. Beware
how you oppress this people!


81 want the people of this great State
to say what they will do to right these
great wrongs-then / am satisfiedl II
the people say We take this constitu-
tion with all its mperfections-we take
ii from the hands of the negroes il is
better than we dol say God speed
you--I submit But, fellow citizens,
1 do demand here tonight in the name
of the people that you do give them,
the people, the right to say whether
they will abolish this constitution,
which is O constitution dc facto only,
and whether they will assert their man
hood and establish constitution which
will guarantee them peace and the en-
joyment OF their. rights--and when they
speak 1 will bow submissiyoly to the
will OF the people" prolonged Ap-
plause. 49,


He had very large audience, and
spoke about an hour and quarter.
Year: 1876

tsonal credit? The spirit OF the South
ern leaders to-day is menace to iber-
ty; nation danger; and can be INST
only by that spirit Of prtriotic resist
ance which win call every mau 10 the
polls to do his duty as citizen, and
cast vote for the Republican party 50
overwhelming in its magnitude as will
render the disloyal Democratic element
in the country. North and South, ut
terly hopeless, and turn its insolent
yauntings for blood against itself. The
Republican party is national. 1t 10 the
party out Of which the nation sprung.
1t is the party whose preservation has
become necessity for the preservation
OF the integrity Of the nation.
Year: 1876

The following from the Virginia En terprise will strike those familiar witl

 mining ventures in Arizona also, a.

 very opposite:

 The London Globe publishes a truth ful and carefully prepared article or the bonanza mines. After giving 6

 statement of the yield in the past and the prospects for the future, the article closes with this sentence: What a

 pity these bOuntiful bOnanZas never

 ialf to English investors in American

 silver mines" There is a tone of re preach in the foregoing which is not just. The California mine about two

 years ago was selling for about what il

 yields now a month. Why did not En. .glishmen purchase il? 4 year before

 that it was selling for a song. A year

 before that, when an attorney of this

 city was forced to take 1500 shares of

 it for little fee for services in law

 suit, he groaned in the bitterness of

 his spirit, that poor attorneys were

 sometimes so badly used. In less than

 three years those shares were worth over Sl,000.00O, and he was reconciled.

 Why did not Englishmen purchase in those favored days? The answer is, they had not the courage. And had some enterprising man bonded both the big bonanza mines for a tritiing sum and placed them, four years ago, on the London market and under En- glish management, today they would be shut down, and the same would be said of them that is now said of the Little Emma. There are a dozen mines along the ComstOck, upon which of dollars are being expend- ed monthly, that the prudent men of London would think il worse than gambling 10 put a dollar in. And yet one or two or three years from now, when half of them have developed great bodies of ore, it will be natural to see expressed in English journals just such regrets as the foregoing. In Eureka a few years ago an English purchased the Richmond mine. After the purchase English eX- perts reported that the purchasers had been egregiously imposed upon, and yet since then the mine has yielded sixty times the amount received by the owners, and it is today con Sidered by shrewd men the biggest and most promising lode known in tine world, excepting, of course the Com stock channel All over Nevada are bonanzas which only need patience, work, judgment and money to make them both famous and profitable Why do not the men of England who do not know how to invest their surplus money do what the men who have opened this bonanza under our streets did four or five years ago? There k no mystery about the matter, and no The finding of the Comstock was an accident, but the finding of the great bonanza within the Comstock was not an accident. IL was the work Dt shrewd calculation, backed by a generous Use of money and guided by . judgment maturcd through the years. And, behind all, was courage which men who have accumulated their wealth by the slow and safe processes. )f the East seldom possess; that cOur- ige which, day afier day, week after week, month after month and year af- er year, can see stream of gold pour .d into the barren rock without return. It is for the want of these attributes hat "thcse beautiful bOnanzas never all to English investors in American iilver mines"
Year: 1876

On Monday morning, August 2lst,

 four white men, while out hunting

 about two miles from Deadwood, killed

 deer, and while they were skinning

 il one of them saw an Indian approach

 ing them, leading his pony. He was

 probably trying to surprise them, but

 being uncertain of their exact position,

 he had approached too near, and they

 discovered him first One of the party

 snatched up hIs shotgun, loaded with buck-shot. and fired both barrels, bring ing down the Indian and his pony. The confident manner III which the h. dian had walked toward them had led them to suppose that he was supported

 bv a number of others, and so they quickly retreated toward Deadwood for \ party started out toI scout the country, and on reaching the spot where the deer lay, the men saw the body of the Indian by the side of his pony, and thinking him dead, they rushed forward. This action was fatal to one of the party, for shot from the Indians rifle struck him in the heart. A volley from the others killed the In dian instantly, however, and his body was quickly surrounded by the white men. The Indian had been almost riddled with buckshot, one shoulder and both legs having been broken, yet he had managed to bandage hls legs and 10 take unerring aim with his wounded arm. Knowing that his life would be taken without doubt, he had prepared to sell it as dearly as possible, and lying on his back, he rested his rifle on his wounded legs and shot dead the foremost of his aSsailants. In his mouth was another cartridge ready to reload. His rifle was the best and la- test and best breech-lOading arms is- sued to the army in 1875, and it was probable that he had obtained it Tn the Custer or Reno fight, since an old bull Iet-mark in the grip of the stock show ed that it had been in action.
Year: 1876

THE future geOgrapher or historian

 would do well to describe Montreal as

 Canadian city distinguished by the

 bitter hoStilities of religious sects. The

 tOrmented corpse of GuibOrd having

 been safely slowed away in hermeti- callv sealed vault, fanaticism in MOn-

 treal has taken a new departure. Even

 the smallpox hospital of this intense

 ly religious city is not unaffected by the distinctions of creed. There are separate dead-hOuses for the remains of

 Protestants and Catholics. Owing to tine depredatiOns of the rats it has been customary to leave a dog with the corpses. There being two dead-houses the same number of dogs were retained for this purpose. Recently the Catho- lie dog, seduced by the sweets of liber- ty, baSely abandoned his post at the critical moment when a Catholic pa tient was dying. The body was placed in the Catholic dead-hOuse and the place locked up-it being decided that the corpse could on no account be left in the Protestant house, or the PrOtes- tant dog admitted to the Catholic es- tabliShment. The consequence was that the body was horribly dISfigured by the rats, and the Sanitary Inspector was notified that it was owing to the absence Of the Catholic dog from his post. Ut seemed" says the Witness, which is responsible for this almost ln- credible story, impossible to disabuseI '' the attendants minds of the idea that dog after being confined several " nights in a Protestant dead-hOuse '' was unfit for admission to the other" " Evidently an intimate association with would be more acceptable to these straitlaced religionists than a heaven of heterogeneous sects.-S. F. plSt
Year: 1876

THE memory of his last kiss of love is what makes the Indian Summer of an old bachelors soul.-Exchange.

 And a like remembrance of his last kiss of love is what makes the revOlv- ing years but Winters of dlscontent to the average benedict's soul.
Year: 1876

Minor Topics.-The Mayors Court was
not in session yesterday.


Operations suspended this week at the
cedar-works, awaiting the arrival Of juniper
logs from the Dismal swamp.


AS tomorrow is day OF fasting and
prayer it is expected that our market will
be unusually well supplied with fish, flesh,
fowl, sc.


After this date the city will be required
to pay jail fees for all prisoners committed
to its charge, and the city will, when 1t is
possible, collect the said fees from all Of
tenders.


The strect-lamps have been taken down
and are being altered for the use of the new
burning fluid adopted by the Council on
recommendation of the Committee on Light.


A party of adventurous youths went down
the James yesterday duck-hunting, carrying
with them all the equipments for camping
out, and will remain several days.
Year: 1876




REV. FL. C. CHEATHAN.---TheL Lynchburg
Ne,os has notice of the reception given by
the official body Of Centenary Methodist
church, Of that city, to Rev. II. C. Cheatham,
formerly pastor of Union Station Methodist
church, in this city. The Ne,os says
"There was, we understand, a full meet
ing, and the new pastor was received with
open arms and sincere wishes for the success
OF his ministrations. To say that he was
welcomed with the heartfelt enthusiasm and
sincerity which always characterizes the
church-going people Of Lynchburg is say
ing no more than the truth. The new pas
tor cannot fail. to feel 'at home here, and
we doubt not he will be well taken care Of.
He will preach his first sermon on Sunday
next, when We hope there will be a full
congregation, composed OF those who will
give him heartfelt welcome to his new
homo ~
Year: 1876

The Jubilee Singers.-Despite the incle-
ment weather and the almost impossible
condition Of the streets leading thereto, the
Baptist church was well filled with a delight
ed audience on the occasion Of the concert
OF the New Orleans Jubilee Singers. A
lengthy programme was faithfully eX-
ecuted; and the desire for repetition Of
their concerts at an early day is universal.
Year: 1876

TIIRRE IS NO DANGER In getting in the crowd at
LEVY BROTHERS.. Their Christmas department
has SO many pretty things In It, and the prices for
them are so very reasonable, that we recommend
you TO make your selections now while there Is q
large assortment to choose from.
Year: 1876

PROFESSOR PoLLARD's JUBILEE SINGERS
Professor Pollard's New Orleans Jubilee
Singers will give vocal and instrumental
concert at the Third-Street Methodist church
this evening at o'clock. The proceeds
will be devoted to the church.
Year: 1876

The Winnemucca (Nev.) Register
says: As the editor of this paper was
quietly attending to his business man
came in and excitedly asked: t" Are
you the editor of this papera" We an
swered: eyes" He then drew q
whistler. and pointing il in our vicinity
snapped it. We instantly threw him
down, the stove going over at the same
time. We stopped down and began to
wipe the floor with his cowardly carcass,
but not noticing the pistol, which he
was still trying to use. Aprinter jumped
in and took the pistol from him, when
we allowed him to get up and ordered
him to 60 ont of doors. He picked up a
bar of steel about twenty inches long,
and undertook to strike us with it, but
was prevented by our gentle grip upon
his windpipe. In showing him toward
the door we showed him through the
glass, fragment of which cut a small
cash in the editorial scalp.


The article that we suppose the man
took offense at called no names, and was
a matter of common street talk, and was
published as an item of news. We shall
continue to publish all news items we
can come across, regardless of who it
hits, and hereafter be prepared to defend
ourselves against whoever comes to
assassinate us. We retract nothing, nor
are we sorry for the mercy shown IN
cold man." The "olu man " left his
howitzer on the field of battle, and can
have the same by calling, proving prop
erty, paying damages, and apologizing
for his cowardly attempt at assassina'
Year: 1876

A recent medical work gives this in
stance of initiative disease, as the effect
of allowing the mind to dwell on one
subject to the exclusion of all else: A
young girl who was living in India wit
messed some native feats and shows at a
religious festival Among other sights
that she saw was that of a native, whose
lower limbs were drawn up to his body
and were there permanently fixed. The
girl was morbidly impressed by this
sight, and next morning was found in
bed unable to rise, because one of her
lower limbs was drawn up closely and
rigidly to her body. This initiative con-
dition remained for many months, and
neither by persuasion nor by force could
the patient be got to straightcn out the
limb. She was submitted to the action
of chloroform, and when her volitional
power was entirely overcome by the ac-
tion of the narcotic vapor, aud the whole
of the muscles were rendered faccid,
the limb could readily be brought
down. But as soon as the narcotic
effect passed away, so soon as the mus
cles regained their stimulus, SO soon was
the limb drawn again into it's contracted
and rigid position. The young lady,
with the limb in the contracted state,
was ultimately brought to England,
where she remained for many weeks
without change. One day while her at,
teution was entirely absorbed in game
of chess, her leg was gently straight
ened without the slightest opposition on
her part; and, the moment sine was con-
scious of the fact, she undertook to walk
up stairs. To the wonder of all her
friends she accomplished the feat with.
out demur or difficulty, and from that
time onward has remained unaffected.
Interrogated afterward as to the reason
why her limb was distorted in the man
ner described, she expressed her entire
inability to assign any reason. She was
of opinion that, although she never
willed the contraction nor by any act of
will maintained the resistance, yet that
the idea of it was never off her mind
during her waking hours, until the mo-
ment when she was entirely devoted to
the simple object of winning the game
of chess. Then it seemed to her that in
the excitement she had altogether for
gotten the contraction as we'll as the
varied forcible attempts that had been
made to overcome it, every one of
which, she was convinced, served only
to aggravate the evil. When she dis
covered that the limb had been brought
down, the fact gave her no surprise.
Year: 1876

A correspondent writes to tho Scien-
tifc american as follows I notice
some statements in your paper from the
Minnesota State commission and Profess
sor Riley, in regard to grasshoppers,
from which I beg leave to differ. AS I
have had experience with the pests dur
ing two visitations in Kansas, in the
years 1S67-S and 1874-5, think have
u right to hearing.


As to the sack which contains the eggs
being affected by moisture, I will quote
an instance. In the fall of 1867, the
grasshoppers deposited eggs on dry
slough on the Missouri river; early in
the spring the place was overaowed, and
remained under water till late in the
summer of 1868, when it dried up; and
the young hoppers came out just as live
ly and ablebodied as if they had been
hatched under the most favorable cir
cumstances. As to their being affected
by freezing Gas I have seen stated at
different times), in the winters of 1915
the mercury ranged as low as twenty
eight degrees below zero, and the ground
was frozen to the depth of two and one
half feet. But the young hopper came
out as gayly and festively as if be had
laid in O greenhouse all winter, though
the eggs did not average an inch under
ground,