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Year: 1872

From the Little Rock Gazette of the lst. we
learn that, in the Supreme Court of the
State, "anothcr decision was rendered regard
ing the much-mooted county site question Of
Sebastian county. After the last decision of
the Supreme Court, holding that there could
be but one County site land that was Green
wood, and there could be but one set of Coun-
ty officers, and that Probate and County
County should be held at the County site, the
question arose whether the act of 1861, rcquir
ing tho Circuit Court to be held ut Green
wood aud at Fort smith, would be valid un-
der that decision For the purpose of testing
this question, James n. Jones filed petition
for writ of hdjeaS corpus, alleging that he
was illegally held by the sheriff under the re-
cent decision ofthe Supreme Court, being de-
tanned under an order Of the Circuit Court
held ut Fort Smith. The Court holds that the
act of lsGl requiring two terms Of the Circuit
Court TO be held in SebastiAn-one at Fort
Smith, the other at Greenwood-is constitu-
tional. The opinion says Of the act;"


1t does not disturb the Circuit or Probate
Courts previously established at Greenwood,
the County site, only 50 far aS it in part re-
strict. their territorial Jurisdiction. 1t does
not undertake to disturb the wrts of the
County As a quasi municipal or political cor
p0latiun. Ii does not Interfere with any Of
its corporate powers or the authority that
had charge Of the fiscal Affairs Of the County,
etc, as was the case In the act of March -,
1871 But this act merely in effect establishes
a Circuit and Probate Court at Fort Smith.
and defines their territorial jurisdiction.
Could the General Assembly DO his as far as
the criminal courts as concerned and no,
violate any constitutional provision? We
think it can.
Year: 1872

tEr The citizens OF Little Rock, propose to
do the handsome thing by the Delegates to
the Democratic Convention on the 18th. by
entertaining them while there free Of cost. 1t
Is an act Characteristic of the wcll-known
generosity of.thc citizens of the Capital City.
The Delegates on their arrival will report at
the Gssene Office.
Year: 1872

LITTLE Rock TIMEs.-We are in reception
of the second number of the new Liberal pa.
per just started at Little Rock, under the
Editorial management of Major EDWIN BAN
CROFT. The Iimesis large SO column paper,
and sustains the nomination of GREELEY and
Brown, with the Majors acknowledged abil-
ity. We wish the Times financial as well as
political success
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, Aug. "A Washington dis
patch says that great secrecy is maintained
by the State Department upon everything
done by the Geneva arbitrstors. None OF
the proceedings viii be made public until
the final adjournment. The several meet
ings have been harmonious so far. 1t is
known that the Britishgovernment expect
ed after the indirect claims were disposed of
TO obtain an acquittance of its responsible
ty for the rest. The decision in the Flol-
ida case afforded an opportunity to estimate
the extent of Great Britain's pecuniary LA
bility. 1t is thought that about twelve and
a half millions will be the extreme limit of
such liability. The indications are that q
sum in gross will be awarded in settlement
of all the claims.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK CITY POLITICS.


New YoRK, Dec. 13.-Ihe Liberal Republican
General Committee last night condemned the
recent appointment Of municipal officers:


The Tammany Hall General Committee last
night received reports from ward organizations
"a to their representation in the committee.
Year: 1872

A Chicago girl hearing that her
lover had been stricken with small
pox, Insisted upon flying to his bed
side and becoming his nurse. 1t was
a bad case, but S he was constant III
her devotion, and principally through
her care and skill the patient rec over
ed. And now she herself fell victim
to the complexion-d destroying monster,
and although she survived the attack.
at its close the beautiful pink and
white of her fair face had flown for
ever, and from being the prettiest girl
in Chicago she became one Of the
plainest. Her lover had attended
her through her illness, but when he
saw how tearfully she was changed,
his love for her departed, and when
the marriage-day drew near he refns-
ed to fulfil his part of the contract,
She took his refusal very calm y; no
reproaches came from the once pretty
mouth, which had lost its prettiness
in saving the ungrateful one from
death; her cheek, which the tell-tale
blood used so often to tinge with rosy
red, retained it's color, and she mar
riod an octogenarian worth about
$5OO,OOO.
Year: 1872

When you get married, don't marry pet,
a jilt or vixen, or yet a coqucttc,
Bnt marry maid, that is if you can,
More fit for the wife of sensible man.
Look out for a girl that is healthy and


young,
With more in her eye than you hear from


her tongue,
And tho she's frecklcd or burnt to tan,
Yet she the girl for sensible man.
With riches will wrctchedncss often in lif"
Go linl'd, when your riches are got with a


wife,
But marry, and make all the riches you


can,
Like bold independent and scnsib" man.
Look out for girl who is gentle and kind,
And modest and silent, and tell her your


mind;
If she's wise as bcwitching she'll welcome


the plan,
And soon be the wife of a sensible man.
Then cherish her excellence wisely and


kind,
And he to small foihcs indulrcntly kind,
For so YOU make happy, if anything can,
The wife of a sober and sensible mai.
Year: 1872

1t has been estimated that Niagara
Falls will wear away the soft rock up
to Buffalo in 232, ,32O years. Those
who do not wish to leave The city 70
see the cataract can wait.


A lady IN Milwaukee has just buried
her seventh husband. She ls thirty
four ycars old, and was fresh and
charming widow last week, but is
probably married ag.in by this time.


What can a man have in his pocket
when it's empty? A big hole.


Nulcanized India rubber as part Of
car wheels is said to be very great
Improvement. On them the car goes
more easily, and there is no heating
q tic hub or iourAals.
Year: 1872

"How shall we feed our hay and straw"
is question of Importance to every farm
er who wishes to make the best of his re-
sources. IN. L. H." gives in a recent
number of the Ohio Farmer, some origin
al news upon this subject. He says:


1t is stated in some of the agricultural
papers that twenty-five pounds Of hay un-
cut, nineteen cut in pieces an inch long, or
thirteen chaffed, are equal in value for
stock. If this statement is correct, farm
ers might make great saving by reducing
it to cut or chatfed condition. Of course,
it is not argued that its altered mechanical
condition makes it more nutritious, but
simply reduces it to a state from which the
animal can make available a larger por-
ton of the nutriment it contains. Food
reduced to high degree of fineness is more
thoroughly mixed with saliva in chewing
and in undergoing digestion the gastric
Juice comes in more immediate contact
with it, Under these conditions the food
is much better digested, and larger part
of its nutritive value appropriated to. the
wants of the system, than when it is taken
in an unreduced state.


Oats or corn fed whole often pass through
the stomach and bowels of animals half
digested, and no doubt the same is true of
hay. When horses are required to labor,
a peck of unground oats or corn, or ten
pounds of hay not very well masticated,
will not yield to their wants more than
two-thirds that amount finely ground.
This latter could be thoroughly digested
while the animal is at work if the former
did not. The saving of time to eat it
would also give them more rest, Animals
not required to labor, having sufficient
time to eat and digest their food, would get
more nourishment from the same amount
than those that are worked.
1t is not clear, however, that the increased
value is just that indicated at the head of
this article. We need quite accurate ex-
periments to determine this, 1t is only
clear that by reducing food to a fine condi-
tion by cutting, chatting and grinding
greatly increase its valus.
Year: 1872

1t is refreshing to come across such
gem as the following; -uf7 fo-aE
'The first bird Of spring attempted to sing,


But ere he had sounded a note.


lie fell from the limb-a dead bird was him:
The music had friz in his throat
Year: 1872

That the residents of Copper Ridge are get
ting up petition to continue the present May
or and Street Committee, as they think by an
other year the maeadamized streets will extend
near to their locality,
Year: 1872

the arched neck, the bright eyes, the
Transparent cases, piercers to puncturs the
skin, q sucker to draw away tho blood, six
long jointed legs, four of which are folded
on the breast, all ready, at any moment,
TO be throw out with tremendous force
for that jump which bothers one when
they want to catch him, and at the end Of
each leg hooked claws, to enable him to
cling on whatever he alights upon. A
flea can jump a hundred times his own
length, which 10 the same a. IL a man
jumped seven hundred feet; ami he can
draw load two hundred times his own
weight


Every ono is familiar with the singular
phenomenon known as the "ncw moor
carrying the old moon in her arms, when
in addition TO the slender crescent, the
whole disc Is more or less distinctly visi
ble few days after the new moon the
same appearance, or "the old moon nurs
ing the new" presents itself in like man
ner in the wandering moon, when she
rises few hours before the sun but we
fear there are few who shake of dull slecT
to see it. This is what is called iuD,,er,
cendree, or ashlight of the moon. Its ap
pearancc used to be taken As an indication
that the moon was phosphorescent, OF
possessed some light of her own, independ
ent Of that she receives from the sun
Now, however, 1t is satisfactorily proved
to arise from the sunlight reflected from
/ the earth upon the dark moon for 1t mus,
be remembered that the earth is TO the
moon what the moon is 10 the earth, a re-
iiector of the suns light and when it ]:
new to the earth it Is full earth to the
moon and rice rersa, and thus the Opaque
moon becomes illuminated by earth-ligh'
TO use term analogous to moonlight
but on account of the great size Of the
earth compared TO tho moon, this light i,
fourteen times rs bright MS our moonlight
and this occa, ,ional bri!liancy of this ere.
Election Of reflection is accounted
for.


There appears to be no want OF an origin
for the provert, by hook or by crook. D
In the great fre of London many bound
ary marks were destroyed. This, in con.
sequence Of many disputes as to the site,
Of different properties, had a tendency &c
hinder the rebuilding Of the city. In
order to escape from the delay, Il was
decided 20 appoint two arbitrators, whose
decision should be final in all cases. The
surveyors appointed were Mr.. Hook and
Mr.. Crook, who gave SO much satisfaction
in their decisions that the building pro.
ceeded rapidly. From this circumstance
comes the saying, "by hook or by crook. .


1t is said that gold may be obtained
from quartz veins much more completely
by means of zinc than by the ordinary
methods OF amalgamation with mercury.
The process consists in first pulverizing the
quartz, and then introducing the powder
into a crucible partly filed with melted
zinc. The melted metal Immediately y
takes up the gold, leaving the quartz as .
Stag on the surface, which is to be skinned
off, After all the quartz has been used
up, the zinc is distilled off, leaving the
gold behind. Should the ores contain
any sulphur they must be roasted previ-
ously to the employment Of the zinc.
Year: 1872

in a complete condition, or may be dis
posed of before The hour for adjournment
shall arrive. There are few odds and ends
left to be considered; and the Steamboat bill
is anxiously regarded by members from the
Lake and Western States, where the provisions
of that measure are of vital Importance. They
claim that its application to the steamboat
commerce of their localities is of the very
highest Importance. The opposition of
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
near approach of the end of the session, how
ever, make the fate of the bill very doubtful.
Next, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, rid
den by the shameless Senate Force bill as an
amendment, comes in the way of an early ad-
journment. If the reported compromise OF the
Democrats is accepted, as it is likely TO De-
Congress will adjourn at noon. Otherwise
there will be an extra session, and the Presl-
dents proclamation to that end is all ready iOr
illumination
Year: 1872

The Street-sweeping Brigade of 1900 labor
ors with all the material of horses and carts
and steamboats, and sweeping machines, will
make its descent to-day upon the dirty streets
of this city, and in a week we shall probably
know something of its effectiveness and cost
The latter is the minor consideration just now,
and there will be no grumbling over the
money that is spent if only the streets are
cleaned as they should be.


1t is too early just yet to put full con-
fidence in the new Bureau; but its new
Superintendent, who, from long service in
the police, knows how TO command men,
and his chief lieutenant, who is old In
the service and wise in the ways of former
street-cleaning contractors, inspire faith at the
beginning by adopting the suggestions which
have been variously put forth urging that the
Health Board regulations compel the separate
collection of ashes and garbage This we
have advocated because satisfied that by such
means both garbage and ashes, which are now
wasted by mixing, could be utilized, and at The
same time the expense Of street-clcaning be
thereby diminished fully if not more than
twenty-five per cent. We have faith in men
who thus begin work by considering both the
cleanliness of the streets and the economy OF
the material gathered as the double result to
be attained
Year: 1872

The Editor of The Star Of the Valley. pub
lished at NewYille, Penn, writes Mr. Greeley
letter of congratulation on his choice as the
nominee of the Liberal Republican COnven-
ton, and makes the following proposal:


my intention TO give my support under almost
any circumstances for will certainly vote for you.
a great risk OF breaking up old associations by
coming out openly in my paper Promise me # you are
elected and give you my unqualified support you will
appoint the post-oce In this place, which is worth
about one thousand dollars year. am young man,
struggling with small weekly. and am willing to get
aboard your ship If you return his letter NTH your in
d0rsemeni Gt can haze something 10 certainly rely upon


Yours, with respect J. b. Morrow.


The party of which Mr.. Greeley is the can
didate is not in this line of business. II be-
heves IN civil service reform, Independent
journalism, political honesty, and various
other things which Mr.. J. b. Morrow does not
understand. and the tempting proposition we
have quoted must therefore be tearfully de-
chned. But the Philadelphia party will doubt
Year: 1872

THE MEANING OF lHE NEW bOFEUEHJ'


1t suits the purpose of the faction which
has reduced the science of government to
system of distributing offices among profess
sOnal partisans, to represent the Liberal
movement as nothing but the agitation Of dis
appointed place-hnters. But we must do the
Grant leaders the justice to say that we be-
ieve they know better. No great political
movement was ever carried through by
oflice-hOlders or oflice-seekers; it is be-
cause Liberal Republicanism represents a
vital idea and proposes grand practical
work that it makes such progress every
day and carries such alarm into the opposite
camp. 1t has been the misfortune of the
United States for generation past that our
political parties were divided by geographical
lines. While Slavery was the great problem
of the country this was inevitable. While the
war lasted and while the consequences of the
war were still unsettled, the same necessity
for sectional divisions was still felt. But with
the disappearance of old quarrels there is no
longer an excuse for old heartburnings and
animOsities. There is no longer any reason
why some millions of people on one side of
an imaginary line should range themselves in
hostility to millions of their brethren on the
other. So long as this sectionalism prevails,
there can be no thorough reform of the
administrative abuses which have grown up
under its influence.


The chief significance of the Liberal move
ment is its protest against the continuance OF
what was once necessary evil but is now a
mischievous anachronism. 1t sees that the
time has come to unite the people of all sec
tions in an effort for the public good. As
Montgomery Blair well pointed out, in his
letter to the New-York meeting, it lifts
our politics out of the old ruts, and bids us
forget the differences of North and South and
the hatreds which we imagined we had buried
seven years ago. And the partisans of the
old school, bound in their petty prejudices
and clinging to the crumbling landmarks OF
the past, must see that a party organized, as
this is, to embrace the whole country and en-
list the aid of patriots of every State. pur-
suing an enlightened policy, and digni-
fed by the loftiest objects, must trl-
umph over all opposition, and give a
new aspect to the politics of the country.
1t will unite in one harmonious whole the real
lovers of pure and responsible government. 1t
will draw away the attention OF the people
from petty squabbles over the past, and fix 1t
upon the live issues of the present-respect fol
laws and constitutions, purity in the admins
tration of public affairs, the abolition OF cor
rupt patronage, and the restoration of peace,
harmony. and self-government to the harassed
South. A movement like this cannot be met
by an appeal to the old sectional jealousies
1t means nothing less than the destruction OF
worn-out party machinery, and the renomina-
tionists at last are beginning to find that out
Year: 1872

As might have been expected, the Captain
of the EnOla c. comes back and makes aff-
davit showing a very different state Of things
from what appears IN the report of the Do
minion officers. He represents the capture of
mis- vessel as a wantOn and treacherous out
rage. Wherever the truth in this particular
case may lie, it is certain that the question of
the Fisheries is one prolific in danger to both
countries, and every incident like this will
increase its capacity for mischief.
Year: 1872

Suppose the denomination organs endeavOr
to make good, or else retract, their borrowed
assertion that Mr.. Greeley once declared Gen.
Grant man who never had been beaten, and
never would be. We have supposed Mr..
Greeley not addicted to prophecy, and if he
ever asserted that Gen. Grant "was never
"beaten he was mistaken, for he was beaten
in his first attle-BelmOnt-and if his bloody
repulses at Coal HarbOr and the Mine Explosion
before Petersburg were not defeats, we know
not what could be, Gen. Grant was a success
full commander, but whoever says he "was
never betean is in error AS to the future,
let those indulge in prophecy who find it
profitable.
Year: 1872

OF all the astonishing comments which We have
read upon the late speech of Mr.. Sumner, the most
astounding is that of The Utica Herald. He beat
about" says that newspaper " like blind man
striking at imaginary foes. Yet he was cautious
enough not TO specify" Now seems TO us that this
was precisely what Mr. Sumner did do. His speech
is one long list of specifications carefully arranged
as the counts of an indictment He never, dunng
his whole Senatorial career. has made speech with
so little rhetoric n it, or with such plain, unmis-
taxable arrayof facts. Why not try 10 answer him,


instead of abusing him in this lax and general way
Year: 1872




To the Voters of Lincoln County:


Fellow CitiZens For some time my
name has been before you as candidate
for the collectorshp Of this county. |
was candidate for the sherltfalty berore
the passage Of the new revenue law, which
separates the sheritfslty from tho collec.
torship, but after the passage Of that law
became candidate for the latter Office
BY the new revenue law the compensa
tion of the collector is changed from a
per cent. to a salary proportioned to the
valuation Of the taxable property of the
county, which greatly reduces the profits
Of the office. l have concluded, there
fore, that the salary Of the office would
not remunerate me, and have determined
to withdraw my name from the list Of
candidates.


In thus Withdrawing from the canvass
! desire to return my gratitude to my
friends for their support, and to tht
people Of the county, generally. | would
express my sense of the obligation undc
which all the candidates have placed me
by their hospitality, courtesy and kind
ness during the canvass.


J. W. WEIGH
Year: 1872

Next Saturday the primary election
for the selection Of Democratic county
ticket takes place 1t will be an import.
ant affair to the people Of Lincoln county,
and we would like to see every Democra,
turn out and take part in the proceed.
ing. They have good men to select a
ticket from, and can elect one free from
cliques and rings. This is a duty they
owe themselves.
Year: 1872

A man can never do anything, says George
Elliot, at variance with his own nature. He
carries within him the germ of his most ex-
ceptiOnal action; and if we wise people make
eminent fools of ourselves on any particular
occasion, we must endure the legitimate con-
clusion that we carry few grains of folly to
our ounce of wisdom.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Bergh's heart ought to be full of hap
pness over the receipt of nearly nine thousand
dollars in donations of late. The society of
which he is the originator and President is
popular with the New York merchants, and
they respond to any call he makes for means
to protect and care for dumb animals.
Year: 1872

The editor of the Hartford COurant thinks
that if he should strike oil anywhere on his
rancho he should dispatch hundred mission
ary travellers, straightway, men of digniied
presence, disengaged office holders, or the
like; picked men, as to breadth of beam,
with the address Of foreign ambassadors, TO
canvass every hotel in the land, and call for
plain stewed apple at breakfast, paying their
way like lords. He thinks that an immense
improvement in the fare at hotels would re-
suit,