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Year: 1875

The scheme now being brought to the atten-
ton of the people of New York for the further
snce Of immigration to Virginia and other South
ern States is one of Importance. We are not
deferred from expressing this opinion
by the objection that General Lee
and his associates in the Fredoricks-
burg project may have merely personal inter-
est in securing an increase Of population in their
section, resulting in rise in the value of
their property. Everything relating to public
affairs is personal in some Of Its bearings, and if
the press should hesitate to endorse every en-
tsrprise which had leaning to the promotion Of
individual good, it would soon restrict its field
80 completely as to have nothing left to enlarge
upon. A truer view regards the honestly-ob
tanned prosperity Of the individual as the vitality
of the State. II the Fredericksburg Association
can materially raise the price of land in their
section they do that service to greater or less
extent for the whole State of Virginia, and if
once the race sets in, the entire South must be
proportionately benefited.


The topic in general is one of vast interest
The Western country is 80 well advanced that
special attention need no further be given in
that direction. With the progress now made that
machine will run itself, for the needs of the
great population already west of the Alleghenies
must draw in fresh material by the law OF natur-
al increase. 1t is well therefore, to turn our
gaze to a country as near at home and quite as
rich as the west, which remains practically as
unmproyed as it WAS before the Revolution.
The possibilities Of the South have not yet been
dreamed of and the men who first start in TO
work out the solution will be those who will pro-
lit most heartily. Dan it be that our crowded
New England will not contribute a pro-
portion OF the tillers of its rocky
soil, that they may buy land in Virginia. as
good as any In the Union, at IS an acre? There
is the real "Bonanza"-source of more genuine
wealth than all the mines OF California and Ne
vada.


We all know, Of course, why the South alone
has been kept behind in the national race. With
natural advantages for surprising New England,
the slavery blight was enough to ruin
/ Is chance for supremacy as long as it was suf-
fered to exist. But that is now brsvely changed
and there is no reason why the attempt to place
the South in line with the rest Of the nation in
all that goes towards the making OF all energetic
and prosperous people should not be at once aud
successfully made. And it certainly will be
made. 1t is not in reason to suppose that such
magnificent section Of the country should long
remain in its present condition, for it ID destined
to be the garden Of the continent the peer OF
the greatest agricultural tracts yet improved
Year: 1875

We make place for the fjIlowing by
request of Sledge, NJ Kay Il Co., without in
the east being responsible and only with 6
view to call the attention of the officers of the
Charleston railroad to sense of their posi- BILE
losses by course that is genera ly condemned
by the producing classes


ROssvILLE, October 2, 1875.
MESSRS. SLEDGE, NLkAY " Col shipped
you four bales of cotton yesterday, which VIII
be the last | will send by railroad while the
dirt roads are in good order as they are now,
We were al in this eighbOrhOOd, expecting
decline in freight; but, instead of that, they
have risen on US to one sixty per bale. Before
the war they carried cotton at sixty cents per
hale Cotton was worth as much then as now.
Planters won't stand 1t: and l am pretty GER
tain there viii be little cotton shipped by rail
from this point. 1 will start my wagons next
week. used TO make two trips a week before
the railroad was built, and can do il again. L
think 1 will be able 20 get freight enough
back to pay the drivers; and If l can, will
save considerable amount on my crop. Put
my crop at four hundred bales (which think
is a low estimate) at one dollar and sixty
cents per bale, which Will amount to one hun
dred and sixty dollars, which will be saved. l
have the stock to feed anyhow. Respectfully,


j. M'DOWELL.
If poSsible-if their duty to themselves will
permit of tive trust the railroad company
viii reduce the local rates to point within
the compass OF the farmers, and so put them
selves fully en- rapport with the class from
which they must expect to derive their chief
support. "Ltve and let live" must be our
motto.
Year: 1875

and by which they are enabled to I'LL their
pockets with the hard earnings OF the tOilers
of the soil, and then HE away to other and
more salubrious chimes. Our informant
dWelt upon this class in about this vein for
some length, which leads 10 the conclusion
that the colOred people have been greatly i'm
posed upon by the fanatical hool-teacheT.
He returned to Friars Point yesterday evening
by the Quickstep, saying as he parted with u
that he had come to Memphis on business,
which he had transacted satisfactorily, and
now he was
Year: 1875

and good order of the county, he says-and is
very positive in the opinion that If the col
OTe1 people would let politics alone. and 90
along and attend to the cultivation of their
farms, OF take ADVANTAGE OF the great demand
for labOrers row prevailing, the whole cOuu-
try would be better of He states that the
prime cause OF the trouble in COahOma
county IS that the present sheriff, John Brown,
co Ored. lis charged with
Year: 1875

Boz SPRIGGs IN TRoUBLE.-Robart Spriggs.
q colored man Of VIGOROUSLY BAD character,
was yesterday sent on to the grand jury for in
dicment for keeping noisy and disreputable
house in Locust alley. Spriggs>ays he has a
license to sell liquor, and consequently at the
time of getting it must have proved good
character. a-h
Year: 1875

THEwEATHER YESTERDAY was partly cloudy
and threatening during the forenoon, with
clearing and warmer weather in the after
noon. Partly cloudy and cool ut night.


Ron9e Of Thermometer nt tae Dispatch office.
Year: 1875

EON TUESDAY EVENING The 9Th Of June the Ia
dies OF Centenary church will commence all en-
tertainment at corner of sixth and Franklin Streets
to which all who wish to spend pleasant evening
are cordially Invited.
Year: 1875

THE reconciliation meeting Of blacks
and whites at Memphis, on Indepen-
dence day, was a small Bunker Hill in
It's way. But how happened that the
editor of the AUaIaRche was not among
the invited editors? We cheerfuIy
bear witness TO the fact that he has
given the man and brother enough
paternal advice OF late years to fill a
volume as big as the report Of the
Beecher trial.
Year: 1875

HOWEVER propitious the time may
be for determination on this side of the
water, the British Lion is evidently in
no Lumor for such business. Judging
from the choice extracts given In our
cable dispatches, he ennis a more ter
rife roar than when the American
Eagle set mp his first Sereech ninety
nine years ago. There's life in the old
beast yet.
Year: 1875

THE Macon Ca Telegraph and
Messenger mourns because to the last
presentment of the Grand Jury Of
Bib county were appended thez-marks
of three persons who could neither
read nor write.
Year: 1875

The Kansas City Times has an article on,
what has been noticed in that city and 9TH
er places, where the grasshoppers eat of
the grass last fall. 1t says that grass has
come in, the like Of which has never been
seen in Missouri. We have conversed with
gentlemen in this city, in whose yards the
same kind of grass has appeared. 1t is de-
scribed by one a. tall, thin and soft, and an
excellent grass for lawns. The Times SAYS
that stock like it as well a. blue grass. 1t
is found nowhere except where the original
grass has been killed by grasshoppers. The
theory is, and 1t is not an unnatural one,
that the seed of this grass was brought in
the crop of the grasshopper. The law of
compensation is that there is a gain for
every loss, and who knows but that a new
and valuable grass may be introduced on
to our prairies by the grasshopper pest.
VIII our friends in different parts of the
State report what they may see and learn
on this subject. Topeka Commonwealth.


The appearance of strange grass has
has been noted in this city, since the To-
Gusts left. 1t came up very thick in spots,
before any other grass began to show signs
of life, and within a week or ten days after
the pests took flight, presented a beautiful
appearance, while all around it the ground
was bare. 1t is Of lighter green hue than
blue grass, and as fine and soft as the buff
falo grass of the prairies. We should like
TO know if it is the same as that spoken OF
by the Commonwealth, what species of grass it
is, and how it STANDARDIZATION Cham
,,tno
Year: 1875

Accidents by drowning are reported from
all parts of the country with such frequency
as to excite remark. There are always
many deaths by drowning during the warm
months; this Summer the number is un-
usually large. Two or three very sad ca
lamities of this nature have happened in
our immediate vicinity, and it would ap-
pear that the loss of life in each case was
needless. Proper precautions by persons on
shore might have prevented death in the
water. 1t is also true that the indiscretion
of bathers is often the cause of their tragical
taking off, Many OF these fatal accidents,
however, are among young people who
should have some competent guardian
when they go into the water. Six little
fellows, all under ten years of age, were
drowned at Fall River in a place where a
man could have saved them by wzding,
probably; and we hear Of another case
where boy was drowning in a pond in
which the water was only three or four feet
deep. These sorrowful incidents ought to
be taken to heart by parents, and especially
by inexperienced bathers.-N. Y. Times 9th.
Year: 1875

Central Kansas is overjoyed to-day will
one OF the grandest harvests in all its agri
cultural experience. But in the fields ricl
in their golden cereals, there is something
more than simple assurance of bread
There is letter on every blade of whea
which in their aggregate, read us a lesson
not to be misunderstood. And if We would
have our broad acres yield such crops in
each successive season as we garner to-day,
We must heed the handwriting Of the Al
mighty SO plainly inscribed upon the beard.
ed grain. The meaning of the lesson in
the fields is this: That wheat and small
grain have never failed, when pure seed
and all the adjuncts of proper agriculture
were complied with. Never more certain
than this year has the truth Of these asser.
tons been established. A winter of useful
severity, failed to freeze out the roots OF
the wheat, where it had been planted dee p,
and the yield of the harvest Just gathered,
proves that this region is the most prolific
IN this cereal on the continent. Kansas
and particularly her central portion, is des-
tined to be to the whole United States what
tn. country of the Black Seas is to Europe
her wheat field. Our soil is rich in the
alkalies and salt, resting on a substratum
OF clay, and this fills perfectly the require
ments OF successful wheat culture. Corn is
not king, nor can it ever be, but wheat and
wool wears crown, and carries sceptre
that is potent, and this power is ours, if
We but heed the lesson Of the year, and de-
vote our energies TO that which God has
Himself pointed out in language too forci-
Bile not to be -EWstgo.h Re.
TlDgfcr
Year: 1875

The Truckee New Republioan Of June
80, gives the following: "Some days ago q
noble red man, wishing to inhict condign
punishment on his squaw, hit her on the
head with chunk of iron, and inflicted q
serious wound. This deed was done in the
vicinity Of Boca. An Indian boy inform.
ed some of the white residents of Boca Of
this, and pointed out the Indian that
did the deed. He was captured and re-
ceived formal trial. The verdict was that
he should receive twenty lashes with the
best rawhide that could be found in town,
and that they should be laid on BY the
best muscled man in the crowd. The lash
and the man were carefully selected the
Indian was stripped and tied to post. No
sign of pain was made until eleven had
been given, when the culprit wilted. The
blood spurted out at every stroke, and it
was good show. Some Of the other In
dians thought the joke was being carried
too far, and went for their rifles, Intending
to make it hot for the pale faces, but their
better judgment got the better of them, and
they concluded to kill the squaw in the
hereafter. The twenty lashes were all given
by Rogers, the best muscled man."
Year: 1875

The following is from the financial ar.


ticle OF the New Orleans Roapns: "The


people who sit nervously in counting


houses, or behind their goods, waiting fol-
customers to take them BY storm, and max.
ing no efforts TO let the world know what


bargains they have to offer, will find the
season very unpropitious. Many of those
who have spent large sums in hiring drum.
mers and paying for other well-known ap-
pliances Of trade, have effected large sales.
but swallowed up too large share of the
receipts in such enormous attendant ex-
penses. The best remuneration has been
found by those who have returned to more
legitimate, old-fashioned methods of push
ing their business. We say it not simply
because We are interested in this line of ex.
penditure, but as our best advice to all who
wish to be enterprising and to secure q large
custom, there is nothing 20 effective to this
end As judicious advertising, A little ad-
vertisement is like the gentle of the whip
to poor Dobbin's horse, a mercy thrown
away )" but liberal outlay is almost Ger
tain to bring in large return, and this
will last even beyond the current season.
We do not believe that any one who has
service or desirable property to
offer, can fail of reaping rich harvest by
continual advertising on = large scale.
Year: 1875

The sheaif Of Douglas County Comes


Out In Card Of Thanks


EpIToR LAWRENCE JOURNAL ALLOW
me through the columns Of the Journal to
return my sincere thanks to the people Of
Lawrence and Douglas county who prompt
ly responded to my call for help to capture
the prisoners who recently escaped from
Jail. The well-known desperate character
OF the men, especially the two taken, made it
a matter of peril for man to engage in
the pursuit. To Captain Hoysradt and
Colonel Walker l wish to return addition
al thanks for assistiog in organizing the
men for patrolling the brush. l wish fur
ther to express my confidence in Mr.. Estes.
While he may have been uncautious at
first, have no reason to doubt his integri-
ty or bravery. think we all have reason
to rejoice over the capture of the two wcrst
men, though we regret that death was the
necessary fate of one. Again thanking
citizens and officers for their valued and
valorous service,


am, respectfully,


]. II. CARMEAN,


Sheriff of Douglas County
Year: 1875

hard labor, that has won for him the high
e~t respect Of every member Of the order in
Kansas. He has been one Of the few pio-
neers who has neglected his own private
affairs and given to the Grange his whole
time and thought in perfecting the work of
organization. As an earnest and devoted
patron, an able and conscientious business
man, his services can lily be spared at this
time-Kdnsas Fumer.
Year: 1875

The need of a good book bindery has
long been felt by THE ARGUS ofice-one
where our work can be done promptly and
our customers not be disappointed. This
want we have now supplied and we are
now ready for work. People who have
magazines or books issued in numbers, OF
any work in the way of binding or ruling
are respectfully invited to try US. Our
bindery is in charge of an experienced and
accomplished workman.
Year: 1875

MAN GETS CAUGHT ON REVOLVING


SHAFT AND Is CARRIED AROUND


SEVERAL TIMES.


At McLear 6 Kcndall's coach
works, Ninth and King streets yes
terday morning, Mr.. Harry Preston
met with severe accident, and mar
rowly escaped with his life.


While he was engaged with his
work some portion of his clothing
caught upon "A revolving shaft, around
which he was whirlcd several times.


Instinctively he seized hold of the
shaft with his hands, and being man
of considerable strength his CRASH so
obstructed the revolutions Of the shaft
that the belt was thrown oil and he
was saved.


BY this accident Mr. Preston sus
tanned bruises and cuts of severe
though not dangerous character. In
one of his turns he came in contact
with revolving emory wheel, which
scraped the skin from his right side
and left very sore, raw place. Ii,
was removed ut once TO his home, and
furnished with proper medical atten
dance, which left him in fair way
| for recovery
Year: 1875

For THE w. & X Co.'s CONSIDER
ATIoN-Wo il not be a capital move
if the Wilmington u Reading Railroad
authorities would induce tho Phila-
delphia & Reading Company to lease
their road and take il under its control
and management the same as it has
done the Reading & Lchigh Road ?
They would be the gainels by such q
transfer, and then the entire line would
be much buster highway than now.
do not say that the w. & r. Road is
not under good management now, but
think it would be great benefit to
all concerned if the Reading Railroad
would take hold of it. Through trains
from the Lehigh coal regions to tide
water atWilmington would be grand. -
Reading Eagle correspondent
Year: 1875

Two Moons IN ONE MONTH. .-Au-
gust will have two moons, one on the
first and the other on the Both of the
month. This is an unusual occurrence,
not having occurred before since about
1858. Certain old women have ira
dition that sickness and mortality pre-
walls in an unusual degree when the
event occurs, which story we have us
much faith in us one to the effect that
by looking at the new Moon ovel
your right shoulder..and wishing three
things, they will be granted.
Year: 1875




Being somewhat stranger in a strange
illihe, we desire everybody that knows any
thing that nobody else knows, and that the
public would like to know, to tell us what
they know and then wO will tell the public
and everybody will know q. much as any
body else knows. In point Of fact items
are what we are after. Anything from q
Gospel Ridge sensation to Dixie outrage
win come in play. Petty larceny itemswill
be acceptcd-grand larceny, ditto. A run.
away, II the sInash-uP 10 a COED one, our
informant will receive our thanks. For q
daring robbery or an audacious burglary,
the person communicating the facts will
receive the best bow Of the entire DEMO
cRAT establishment. For an assault with
a dangerous weapon, item or murder in the
second degree, we will stand treat For a
premedltated, unprovoked shocking mur-
der we viii do it up in sensation style and
give our informant front seat In the arti.
Gle And to anyone furnishing us with a
real, genuine Watkins-W -Whiteman affair, Civ.
ing the facts well authenticated, he will be
furnished with copy Of the ALBANY EVE.
MING DEMocRAT, one year for Self pre-
paid. So step TO the front, pass In an item
OF two, and we will do our 'tallest" to put
them in Kings English.
Year: 1875

OFF THE TRAoK.-The engine Of the
southern bound freight train, Saturday eve.
ming, while switching cars on the Farmers
warehouse slde-track, was thrown off by the
spreading Of the rails A couple Of hours
detention and some good responsible swear.
ing, by those who had to work in the rain
and mud TO got the monster on the rails
again, was the only result of the accident
Year: 1875

SALEM EMIaRANTs.--In a stroll around
town yesterday afternoon, we counted TWEEN.
ty-two persons who had left the Capital city
within the past six weeks to take up their
residence in this go.ahead city. We can't
blame them-they were wideawakS busi.
ness people, who wished to leave the dull,
provincial city for one that was more met
ropolitan. They wished to see something
Of the hum and stir of this great world that
we live in. They couldn't see much Of it
at the Capital, SO they came, as any one
naturally would, to Albany. We give them
cordial welcome, and extend an invitation
to all Salemites who are wearied with the
dull mOnOtODy of their drowsy city, topack
up their household goods and come up and
live awhile amid the hustle and stir of act.
i've life,
Year: 1875

At this season of seaside and rural lounging
the subject of novel reading is naturally sug-
gesicd, for it is one of the cOmmOnest OF the
pastmcs of Summers semi-sesta. 1t Is
brought to our notice also in another way.
The directors of the Chicago Library report
the percentage of "pure fiction and juvc-
"niles" drawn out during the last year as
7G.O4; in Boston, we are told, it was 71.OO
and in Cincinnati about 74.O0. We see no
reason why novels and juvenile books should
have been put together; and we can only
conjecture the proportion which they bear to
each other. Still it is an established
fact that the demand upon the Free
Libraries is mainly for novels, and that most
of these are not of the highest literary rank


1t might be easy to consider this as entirely
unfortunate, but novel reading has its
advantages, and we have never been able
to agree with those who regard all fiction as
demOralizin9 or debitating in tendency. The
modem novel, indeed, deals mainly with the
realities of life, and very spaIingly with
the ideal and the romantic. The school OF
the Minerva Press, with its exaggerated
pictures of love and friendship, with its super
natural machinery and coarse idealism, has
ceased to have either professors or pupils.
The prose fiction of the present day is
mainly a sketch i'll or well done, of manners,
of social habits, and of prosaic and practical
men and women. 1t nike the good and bad,
the frivolous and the earnest, the cultured and
the ignorant, the coarse aud the refined in one
heterogeneous mass but the attentive reader
recognizes phases OF character which he has
already encountered in society, or his
attention is arrested by others, which,
however new to him, are not i'm
probable. These books, if they have
any merit, either confirm the knowledge OF
human nature which he already possesses, or
they impart to him fresh information and en-
large the sphere of his observation AZ it might
be enlarged by travel, or by an introduction
to a variety of fresh acquaintances. Moralsts
who impaticntly censure novels forget that
they are often IA much vehicles of instruction
as q book of voyages. Jane Austen introduces
us to one kind of society; Mr.. TrOllOpe to
another; and we better know what the men and
women of her time were by reading Miss Burney
or Miss Ferrier. If we would understand what
ScOtchmen are, we cannot do better than to go
to Gait for Eastern manners we may read
Anastasius " or the books of james Morier
NOTUneTn, tHoSe VI MISS DItI1tI' no
Merry Wives of Windsor" is not one of the
greatest of Shakespearc's plays, but how valu-
able is it as q drawing of the English man
ners and suburban life of the time In one of
Charles Brockden Browns stories there is an
account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia,
than which personal observation could hardly
have been more exciting. But we need not
multiply examples.


Once more, novel reading is one Of the read


lest and most wholesome of intellectual relax