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Year: 1871

THE EDUCATIONAL LAND ScR1P-MAJ. W.
T. SUTHERLIN BEFoBE THE CoaAITTEE.-We
thought we had concluded, for the pre-
sent, at least, the subject ofthe educational
land scrip, but in the Senate yesterday the
chairman Of the Committee lon Public In.
stitutions announced that there would be q
special session of the joint committee of the
two Houses Of the General Assembly to
hear Mai. W. T. Sutherlin, President of the
State Agricultural Society, who appeared
before the committee and, stated that he did
not urge the claims of any particular insti-
tuition. but upon his own responsibility he
desired to express bis views upon so i'm
portant question. What we need in Vir-
gnia now is the development of our agri-
cultural facilities and the manufacture OF
all sorts of machines to sur;aly the lack Of
labor. He illustrated this Mca by saying
that last summer, when he was moving
his wheat, one of his reapers, became
out of fix, and required him to send
for 4 mechanic to make Unnecessary re.
pairs; and this proved to him the ne.
cessty of so educating the young men
Of the State that this practical know
ledge might be acquired by them. To his
mind, the one way, and only way to use
this fund to advantage, is to divide it, not
into equal parts, for this would not be lust,
but to fairly divide it into two parts. Give
one portion to the colored institution which
they have inaugurated, and take the other
and establish an Independent college some
where in Virginia, and let that college be de.
voted to agriculture and the mechanic arts
1t might be small beginning, but it will
be the commencement and the cornerstone
upon which we can rear a superstructurt
that will develop finally the interest of thi:
State.


After Maj. S. concluded, it was ordered
that the joint committee meet on Tuesday
the 17th, at 10 O'Clock, to finally consider
the disposition Of the scrip. The commit
tee then arose, to meet at that time.
Year: 1871

THE ToBAcco TAx.-The Philadelphia


Age thus writes about the injustice of the


tobacco tax: g,


"The Government has placed q tax upon


tobacco greater than the value of the raw


or manufactured article Itself, thereby re-


stricting the quantity used, requiring much


gagged in it's sale; thus discriminating


against that class Of her citizens engaged in


that particular branch of business. The


writer knows Of no other species of mer-


chandise that is taxed above the value of the


article itself, showing that the Government


is determined to make the tobacco dealer


pay roundly for the privilege Of trying to


make an honest living out of the sales


of the commodity called a luIury, but
which is to many of those who use it ne


cessity. The Government still goes further
in taxing tobacco dealers. During the last
session of Congress the tax on sales was
taken off of almost all classes of merchan-
disc except tobacco, and while others were
paying one dollar per thousand upon the
amount of their sales, the broad-backed
tobacco man was, and still is, compelled to
pay two dollars per thousand upon his
sales (when almost one-half of the entire
amount of sales Is made up Of tax, dealers
being compelled by law to include the tax of
thirty-two cents per pound in making their
return of sales to the Government, thus pay
ing tax upon Il tax), which is collected
every month. At the same time, it must
be remembered that the article upon which
this immense amount of revenue is derived
| IS grown, manufactured, sold, and used IN
our own country, and that millions OF dol
lars worth are exported free of duty, here
again discriminating against ourselves.
Therefore, it is surprising how any man
engaged in the tobacco business, either IN
growing, manufacturing, selling, or even
Using it, can consistently uphold or coun-
tenance the present Administration in its
usurpations of the rights Of the people
and the earnings of their labor. Yet
| the Government, which is supposed
TO know no partiality towards her
citizens In trade, calls this fair and
equitable. and asks Us to sustain them,
| because they are so much more honest
than the opposite partv-reduclng the
taxes, paying off the debt, the country
growing rich by squeezing thirty.tWo mil
lions of dollars out of tobacco for 1870,


and intending to give an extra squeeze


by raising forty-cicht of iorty-nine mil,
| lions for 1871. Why should we rot all


vote vote for Government that takes nearly
all our hard earnings away from us to pay
tax collectors and other otfice-holders,
and thus crush and ruin business? Anoth-


or fact in connection with the above
| full three-fourths Of all the manufactured


tobacco sold is used by the working class,


who find it not a luxury, but Il neces sity.


which, if deprived Of. would lead them to


use something more stimulating and hurt
full, both to body and soul; and these are


the people who the Government depends
upon for giving and keeping them in their
place. and for this favor they are made to
| pay an unjust and unreasonable tax upon
the only article they find pleasure i'll with


out any or very little injury"
Year: 1871

FREE LECTURE.-Owing to the small at
tendance last night at st. Adams Hail Mrs.
Blake did not lecture. Tonight she will
deliver the lecture advertised for last night
tree of charge. The public are respectfully
invited to attend. Mrs. Blake is southern
lady, and niece by marriage of Gen. Polk,
of the Confederate army.
Year: 1871

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FARM1NG.-This
fine weather has set the farmers to falow.
ing, but they are disappointed in finding
that the ground is too dry to enable them
to accomplish much in that line.
Year: 1871

FEEDING llonsfs Too Mrcn.-Of all
aur domestic animals there nrc none that
require more systematic care in feeding
than the horse 4 horse should be fed
regularly aud in moderate amount, and
when worked he should be worked Judi
ciously A horse fed in this way may be
kept at 4 moderate cost, aud will be more
healthy and perform moro labor than If fed
highly or as high as many We know Of
are in the habit Of feeding their horses
Horses will certainly eat hay enough to
lnlurc them il they can get il, When hay
is kept constantly before them, horses are
apt 10 spend time in throwing it around
topsy.tnrvy in the rack; they soon be.
come dissatisfied with their food and lose
their usual keen relish for it, The gene
raj practice should be TO feed regularly
three times a day
Year: 1871

EE- The Pacific Hotel at Little Rocl
has been closed for want Of patronage
We hope it will soon be re- opened, fol
the Metropolitan is place where RAIDS
"most do congregate, p" and Democrat
feels strangely out Of place among them
Until the Pacific does reopen we advise
our friends visiting Little Rock to hunt
a private boarding house.-Arkadelphio
Standard


Our friend GAULDING Of the STANDARD,
does, we think, the proprietors and mana
gers of the Metropolitan injustice. Pro
badly majority of the hangers on to the
Legislature stopped there, for the reason
that it was the popular resort. But the
Metropolitan is now under the superin-
tendencs Of Capt. ED B. NowLAND, ably
assisted in the Office as Chief. Clerk by
the urbane and gentlemanly PAT MoRRI-
son, which OF itself is guarantee enough
to us that Democrat would fair as well
at their hands as Radical Politics,
however, is not probably the scale in
which they weigh their patrons. We can
assure our friend Gaulding, ifhe will just
drop in on our young friends of the
Metropolitan and get acquainted, that the
more he knows them the better he will
like them and will retire fully satisfied
that they know very well "how to keep
q hotel.
Year: 1871

AN HONEST CONFESSION AND SUaGEs
RIoN.-We are glad to see the Chicago
Republican endorse, as ''one of the mos,
sensible suggestions" it "has lately seen
concerning the disturbed condition OF
the South" a proposition from New
York Republican paper, which insists
that "the Government could better afford
to bring home every carpet baggcr now
engaged in Southern politics, and sci
him up in respectable business, or give
him pension, than to pursue the fatal
policy ofcontinual Federal intermeddling
with purely local affairs. The precedents
already established, or about to be set,
under the new Kuklux bill, are of the
most mischieyous kind, and will almost
inevitable bear prolific crops of evil here
after. Things Of that sort are invariably
doublo.edged, and if they cut Charleston
and Mobile to day, they may next year
be turned with equal effect against Bos-
ton and Bangor"


This very rock we have hitherto en-
deavored to point out. 1t may be fun
justpow to Northern radicals, to witness
the agonies and tortures inflicted upon
Southern people by the negro, carpet
bag and military domination, established
by the centralized government at Wash
ington; but the precedent is what all fore
seeing men drcad--realizing, that if it is
competent for the Federal government to
crush out liberty and municipal law in a
Southern State, the same usurping pow.
er will have the sanction of the prece-
dent, whenever party exigencies demand,
to assume control of the domestic gov.
ernment Of Illinois, or Of any other
Northern State. Do you not see, my
radical friend, that you are sowing dra-
CONS teeth Is there no ground for fear
that your chickens may come home to
roost p Chicago Democrat.
Year: 1871

confident Of better reason on its side to
assure to the United States the posses
sion of the island of San Juan. Such are
the outline provision of the present trea-
ty and such are some Of the considera-
tons which have commended it to the
appreciation of the president.
Year: 1871

GREAT EXcITEHEST.-Yesterday otteruoon,
perceiving great crowd of people in front Of
and trying 70 enter Reddick & Gillen's store, we
seized our book end pencil and rushed over, ex.
pecting to get an item about fire or fight.
On arriving we discovered the cause OF this un.
usual commotion to be the arrival OF man.
moth assortment Of new goods The sidewalk
in front was piled with boxes unopened, and the
shelves and counters and every available space
in the store was chock full of everything per.
tanning to the dry goods or dress goods line, and
the store crowded with customers.


Mr.. Gillen has made larger selection than
usual, and the goods are splendid as to quality,
comprising everything that is new or desirable.


Further particulars next week.
Year: 1871

New ARRIvAL.-Fiske Il BEEN have just re.
oeiyed new supply Of the latest fashions in the
way OF piece goods, which they are prepared to
make up into gents suits in the latest Styles and
in a superior manner. They also have a good
assortment Of ready.made clothing.
Year: 1871

buildings being mostly quadrangular
pens Of logs, lumber or brick, without
the slightest pretension to beauty or con-
venience; the leading purpose of the
builder being apparently TO secure the
largest amount of space within a given
circuit Of walls. In great city vast
multitudes can be easily acted upon by
the higher intelligences of the few. The
pulpit the bar, the newspaper press, all
these powerful agencies operate with
vastly greater power than they exert in
the sparsely settled districts of the coun-
try. %


The best engineers, mechanics and
artisans are also to be found in large
cities, where there is a demand and a
proper remuneration for their work in
the various departments of mechanical
industry. These all become practical
teachers, through their handiwork, of
the whole country. In fact, city is a
vast museum of the useful arts, and no
intelligent man can walk through its
streets, with his eyes open, without learn
ing something. W pa


In all these and other ways great cities
possess immense civilizing as well as
corrupting power, and those who possess
the principal share of intelligence, wealth
and influence in city are responsible
for the intellectual and moral character
Of its people and the character they
stamp upon the surrounding country.
Year: 1871




While at Monterey last week, says the
Castroville Argus of August 5, we met
Ed Logwood, and were furnished by him
with the following particulars of en en-
counter that he and his brother Joseph
had with female grizzly bear over three
weeks ago: The locality where it took
place is in the mountains about thirty
miles south of Monterey in what's known
as the Fresno" district, beyond the
head of Carmel valley. The grizzly had
killed a COW of Eds one night, within
about three hundred yards Of the house,
and dragged the carcass into dry creek
bed, where it was found the second day
after. The night following, Joseph took
his station in tree close by to watch
for the bear, and during the night got a
shot at it, only succeeding, however, in
breaking one of its forelegs. Next morn
ing both brothers started out on horse
back and followed the trail of blood from
the wouRded limb about mile up the
ravine, at which point grizzly cub,
about four months old, rushed out of the
brush and was dispatched forthwith. A
very short distance beyond, Ed being in
advance, discovered the enemy, who,
gaining sight of her human foes only
about thirty feet off, Immediately made
a furious charge upon them. Ed pulled
the first trigger Of his double-barreled
shotgun, but the gun snapped, and by
the time be could fire the other barrel
the bear was rearing up in the face of
his mare. The latter made a fearful
bound to one side, diverting Eds aim
so that though the bear was blinded
by the flash and smoke, the balls
with which the gun was LOADED
only hit her in one of her hind feet.
The jump of the mare threw her rider
just as he fred in front of the now
thoroughly infuriated bear, which, luckily
blinded and bewildered by the explo-
sion, and being under full headway, ran
right over him at Joe, who was close be-
hind. He turned his horse as she came
and stunned her with pistol shot in the
head, but not before she tore off the
hind part of his saddle with one stroke
Of her sound fore-paw, and by her charge
completely demoralized his horse, which
soon put a respectable distance between
himself and his enemy. Ed had by this
time convinced himself that he was not
killed (although rendered very suspicious
that he was by the bloody smearing he
had received as the bear rushed over
him, and hatless, gunless and horseless,
beat retreat instanter to join Joe on
rocky cliff about seventy-fve yards of,
from which view Of the wounded and
PROSTATE foe could be had with safety.
A council of war resulted in his starting
off a-foot for reinforcements, leaving
Joe as a detachment of cavalry to sort
of skirmish around and watch the
enemy. Opportune reinforcements in
the shape of hunter with rifle was
met about half a mile off, and from the
top Of the cliff mentioned, that bear
was soon filled with lead enough to make
it a cold corpus of some six or seven
hundred pounds weight. |


Ed expresses himself as perfectly sat
isfed that Joe saved his life, but does
not desire particularly that Joseph shall
again be called upon to do so under like
circumstances. 1t was certainly a mar
row escape and singularly fortunate
one for both men.
Year: 1871

and is living now a respected citizen of his
native place. Grace never has forgotten
her extraordinary sleigh ride, and never
will, for her name is now Grace Normandy
and she loves her plain, noble hearted hus-
band, with true affection.
Year: 1871

subject. When we think Of such q prospect
as that we do not know whether to laugh or
cry at 1t beforehand. Anyhow If we do become
little more serious we shall perhaps better
discharge than we are doing now what Carlyle
once declared to be the prime object of poll
tics, to get scoundrels well hanged. It is
melancholy truth that we do not hang our
scoundrels quickly enough just now. We are
all, therefore, fairly warned Let us put our
houses and our morals and our countenances


In order without delay. The serious and
female age in politics is advancing quickly,
and the Ten Commandments will probably have
a good deal more to say than they have had
for some time past in the working of the poll
ties and the constitution Of the United States.
Year: 1871

Tolegraphic Communication with Asia-Tbc


sagacity Of England.


While our stock k-jobbing schemers and
spectators, the Washington lobby, and stupid
Congressman are projecting, or pretending
to project, plans for connecting this country
with Asia by telegraphic communication, the
British are carrying out in earnest the most
extensive system Of telegraphic communica-
tion with that part of the world. A despatch
from London informs US that cable communi-
cations have been completed between England
and Penang, Singapore and Java. It is but
L short step to China from some Of these con-
nectious, and there is project, which will be
carried out shortly, to extend these lines to
the principal ports of that empire. Tie
British understand fully the value to their
commerce of such communications, and,
agreeable to their well known foresight, are
acting in the matter while we are talking
about it. Yet we have, from our geographi-
cal position and peculiar friendly relations
with China, much better opportunity
of connecting the Celestials with the
modern civilized world and Of enlarg-
ing our commerce with them through
the telegraph than England or any other
country. But we waste valuable time and
lose our opportunities by stock jobbing and
lobby schemes. There was grant or per-
mission given by China to Americans some
time ago to lay cables along the coast and
between the ports of the empire, and this
valuable concession could have been carried
out, much to the benefit of our commerce, had
not certain politicians and stock -jobbing
echemers, one of whom is now minister
abroad, spoiled the enterprise. There are
now before Congress similar stock k-jobbing
schemes with regard to this matter and
cable from America to Asia. What we want
in an enterprise of such character is that it
be in the hands Of capitalists and responsible
men who can furnish the money and who will
not look to the United States for the means to
carry it out-who will not, in fact, make Of it
a stockjobbing busiaess With reasonable
liberal encouragement from the government
the proper men can be found no doubt, to
make telegraphic cable connection between
the United States and Asia.
Year: 1871

A somewhat complicated and certainly


very strange case OF theft. repentance
and just punishment is Just reported
from the interior of New York State. A
respectable girl, the daughter Of far
mer. went into the service of a family III
neighboring village to her home rs a
servant Her employer was small mer-
chant, but man of supposed honesty
and integrity. One day while working
III the bedroom Of her employer, a roll
Of bills fell from the pocket Of his coat,
which the girl picked up, and being, as
she afterwards said, tempted by the
devil, appropriated the money to her
own use. On examination of her prize
she found it to consist of SOS in differ
ent sized bills. Although suspected of
the theft it could not be proved against
her, and SO one day the girl started for a
neighboring town to spend some or all
of her money.


On making her purchases, and offer
ing the stolen bills in payment, they
were found counterfeits, and she was
advised to destroy them. She then Wis
tied three or more other stores, and with
the same result. At last she went to the
bank, and had the bills examined, but
again was told they We're counterfeit.
She then started to walk to her home,
which she reached after several hours of
travel. A person who had heard of the
theft, and saw the girl produce the roll
of bills, informed her employer of her
doings in the town, and on her arrival
she was threatened with arrest, but as
her parents stated that Ill turn they
would cause the employers arrest for
having counterfeit money III his posses
sion the affair was allowed to rest The
next evening" while in attendance at n
Methodist revival the girl rushed up at
the altar and claiming to have found re-
ligiOn, told the story of the theft her at
tempt to pass the bills nd their being
found to be counterfeit. and also gave
her employers name, She then fell to
the ground in fit, and being carried to
an adjoining house, was soon pronounc-
ed to have severe attack of brain fever


The excitement on the news that the
highly respectable Mr.. was IL holder
of such a large sum of counterfeit money,
was intense, and the next day in session
the Selcctmen agreed to look into the
matter lis has been postponed from
time to time, and no regular examina-
tion has been had In the meantime.
the girl only recovered from the attack
of brain fever to be found to be entirely
blind and confirmed lunatic. The EN-
ployer finds it hard work to make change
for his customers, as all bills passing
through his hands are suspected, and So
the matter rests for the present.
Year: 1871

correspondent of the Plattsburg
Mo. Register some days ago told this
remarkable story, which happened in
Grundy County a Mr.. John An
drews, popular and well to-do farmer
in the neighborhood, had dug u well
some forty feet deep, when it was dis
covered that the wall was about to cave
in. Mr.. Andrews gathered mp an arm
full of short boards and went down. a
pole ladder, fastened to the side of the
well, to lay them across the wall. 50 as to
prevent the dirt as it fell from filling up
that part of the well walled up. He had
not more than reached the bottom, as it
was throught, before the well caved in,
filling up to few feet of the top
The alarm was given, and the neighbors
gathered. but all believing him dead
they returned to their homes to make
arrangements to come the next day and
dig him out


Mrs. Andrews and two grown
daughters and several smaller children
refused to leave the spot, and sat on Il
log near the well, crving, until late in
the evening, when all at once they saw
Mr.. Andrews emerging from the well,
covered with clayE and coming toward
them. The children all ran, screaming,
to the house, bolted the doors and fast
ened the windows, believing it to be
their fathers ghost. But Mrs An
drews ran to meet him. screaming at the
top of her voice, oh, John Oh john
Is that you ? Is that YOU 2 When she
reached him she fell fainting at his feet.


" 1t seems that when he got to the
bottom OF the well he looked up and saw
the top giving way, and believing he
had not time to make his escape, he slip
ped under the boards which he had laid
across the well, when the whole thing
fell in upon him. All hopes at first,
gave way, and he was about to let him.
self drop into the water below and end
at once his miserable feelings. But,
feeling above, he found the clay crum
bled, and hope revived. The pole lad
der, it seems, was still standing, and
taking old of it with one hand, he with
the other scratched away for dear life,
the dirt falling into the water below as
he dragged his body slowly upwards. 1t
seems he did not suffer much in breath
ing, rs fresh air came down the pole,
around which the dirt was loosely pc cked.
In the incredible short time of seven
hours he scratched a hole some forty
feet long. through which he made his
escape This is one of the narrowest
hair-breadth escapes from a horrible
death on record.