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Year: 1875

Like other good things. the follow
ing good advice comes to the sur
face occasionally. and will bear re-
peating: If you get q moment to
spare spruce up; put the gate on its
hinges put little paint on the
picket fence you bniIt last year !;
trim up the door yard, make it cosy
and inviting. Do not say you can
find no time to- attend TO these
things; the fact is you have no right
to be slovenly. Itacan do you no
good, but on the. contrary, it will
mar your peace, wound your self-re2
spect, and impair your credit. Then
by all means spruce up little at
odd times. and even times, too, for
that matter. It will make you feel
vastly better, and. may be, tribe
pronder Of your pretty homestead.
Your wife and children will be made
happier for it; your neighbors will
be enriched, beautified and blessed
by it, and your farm will be worth
more money in the market, and Of
greater value to you at home, if you
spruce up little now and then.
Year: 1875

From an interview with J. Russell Jones, in the


Chicago Times.


Mr.. Jones-I shall be the happy
possessor Of buggy horse, present
ed to me by President Grant, dur
ing my recent visit to Long Branch.
/ expect him tonight, as l received
a note from the President, from St.
Louis. the day before yesterday. no
tifying me that unless | claimed the
animal in time he would be sold at
the sale and proceeds appropriated
TO some legitimate purpose, and |
Immediately sent man thither with
the order. The note is aquiet ''goak
OF the Presidents, and refers to a
previous horse transaction / had with
kim during the war. He had present
ed me with the horse he rode at
Donaldson and Shiloh. and l had
been at considerable expense to
bring him to Chicago. About this
time the Sanitary Fair was in pro
gress here, and Mrs. Gen. Sherman
wrote to Gen. Grant for some tro-
ply, personally connected with him
ins some way, which she could put up
ut rattle and realize largely from, eX-
thing Of the kind. The General re-
piled that he had nothing suitable
about his person, but that the horse
he had given to me would be just
the thing. as it had a bloody record,
and suggested to Mrs. Sherman that
no doubt would cheerfully give it
up. OF course / had to comply, and
the fair realized $1,000 on my horse.


WhenI called on the President at
Long Branch on my return from
Brussels, as we were enjoying an af-
ternoon cigar on the verandah, l
asked him how many horses he had.
" Fourteen nc replied. remark
ed to him that Providence sometimes
ordered things strangely in this
world and added that | had been
working for my country nearly all
my life. and now at my advanced
age, had to travel around on foot,
while he. who had never done any
thing except for himself, had an un-
limited number of steeds. Which
Horse do you want?' said Grant,
quick as lightning. | told him l
would take Butcher Boy, but insist
ed that he should give me a written
order for Ifm, so that 1 might not be
gulled out of him as was out of his
first presentation. The President re-
piled that he knew / would select
Butcher Boy, and that he would
rather have given me almost any 9th
er horse in his stables, but at once
wrote the order. The way he came
in possession of Butcher Boy is char
acteristic. 1t was while he was Cen
eral Of the army, and had his head
Quarters on street i'm Washington.
Driving mp toward his headquarters
one morning, he met horse attach
ed to o butchers wagon, charging
down street. He glanced at him,
hurried to his Office, called an order
ly. described the horse, and told him
to follow. find and buy him. After
a time the orderly returned and re-
ported finding the animal, bat said
buying him was out of the question,
rs the owner asked $500 for him.
The General Immediately handed
linn the money, and presently the
orderly returned with the horse. He
turned out magnificently, and in a
few weeks would have sold for 81 500.
lie is old now, but am assured
that he is as good as ever.


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Year: 1875

Woman has always bore the char
acter of ministering angle, and
wherever distress has been prevalent,
there she has always been found
ready to do all in her power to
alleviate it. In so good q cause
as affording relief to the sufferers
from the grasshopper plague, We
could find it in our hearts to endorse
almost any action of sympathetic
woman, but we question whether the
proposition of Mrs. Mary Jane
Brown, of Maine. who offers to
''figh5 any woman in America for
$100 side. the gate money to go
to the grasshopper sufferers will
meet with the approval of the gen
eral public or the authorities.
Year: 1875

French cooks are famous for the
excellence of their coffee. which they
make so strong that one part of the
liquor requires the addition OF two
parts to reduce it to the proper
strength. This addition is made
with hot milk. The large proper
tion OF hot milk. in the place OF so
much warm water, gives The coffee q
richness like that made by the addi-
ton OF cream in the ordinary way.
By this means any housekeeper de-
sirous Of making coed coffee, can
have it without cream.
Year: 1875

l The Weekly Sun has now attained

 a circulation of over seventy thou l sand copies. Its readers are found

 in every State and Territory, and it's quality is well known to the public. We shall not only endeavor to keep

 it fully up to the old standard, but to improve and add to it's variety and power.

 The Weekly Sun will continue to | be thorough newspaper. AT the news of the day will be found in it, | condensed when uniinportant, at full length when of moment, and l always we trust, treated in clear, interesting and instructive manner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world. It will be full of enter taining and appropriate reading Of every sort, but will print nothing to offend the most serupulous and deli cate taste. It will always contain the most interesting stories and TO- mances of the day carefully selected and legibly printed.

 The Agricultural Department is q prominent feature in the Weekly Sun, and its articles will always be fresh and useful to the farmer.

 The number of men dependent on politics Is increasing, and the Weekly Sun is their paper especial ly. It belongs to no party, and obeys no dictation, contending for principle, and for the election of the best men. It exposes the cor cuption that disgraces the country and threatens the overthrow of re- publican institutions. It has no fear of knaves and seeks no favors from their supporters.

 The markets of every kind and the fashions are regularly reported in its columns

 The price of the Weekly Sun is one dollar year for sheet of eight pages, and fifty-six columns. As this barely pays the expenses of pa per and printing, we are not able to make any discount or allow any premium to friends who may make special efforts to extend it's circula- tion. Under the new law, which requires payment of postage in ad- vance, one dollar a year, with twen- " cents the cost of prepaid postage added, is the rate of subscription. It is not necessary to get up a club in order to have the Weekly Sun at this rate. Anyone who sends one dollar aud twenty cents will get the paper postpaid, for year.

 We have no travelling agents.

 The Weekly Sunlight pages, fifty-six columns. Only s1.20 a year, postage prepaid. No discount from this rule.

 The Daily Sun.-A large four page newspaper of twenty-eight col umns. Daily circulation over 120- 900. All the news for two cents. Subscription, postage prepaid 55 cents a month, or S6.50 year. To clubs Of ten or over a discount of twenty per cent.

 Address sTHE SUN,o

 New York City.
Year: 1875

No more elections now for a year, and it is to be hoped we will hear little of politics until that time. Of all things, Arkansas now requires rest from political agitation. The press of the state has . grand work before it in writing up and publishing to the world our wonderful resources. Immigration and capital are working men and women. These can be secured if the press will only do it's duty. F Gazette.

 Our doctrine exactly; and we want to see the men and women who are here become more ener- getic, industrious and considerate. Before we can get much ilnmigra- tion, or before we can expect any easier times we must have some thing for the new corners and our selves and our stock to subsist on. We want less politics and more good honest hard-work. We never want to see the state in her present starving condition again, and we see no necessity for it if our farms are properly managed.
Year: 1875

THE DEMOCRAT is thoroughly in-

 dependent in its course, under no

 pledge or covenant to support the

 schemes or fortunes of any man or

 set of men, always having at heart

 first, the good of the people of Pope

 county, and of the state of Arkan

 sas. It claims no right to lead or

 direct in politics, or any other

 sphere; but it does claim the right,

 and will fearlessly and at all times

 assert it, to speak it's own opinions,

 on all matters coming within the

 scope of it's duty as an independent journal. Whatever prominence it maintains in the affairs of this county or State, will be voluntarily accorded by the people who support it. In short the DEMOCRAT wishes to be judged solely upon its own merits as local and state newspa- per, having for its chief object the dissemination of the news of the day with such comments upon current topics as seem appropriate and are conscientiously entertained by its management. It will heartily sup port all movements, political or otherwise, which promise to fur thur, and unhesitatingly oppose those which would jeopardize, the interests of the people. In every it will be as enterpris- ing as it's patronage will justify. Sensible men will approve the busi- ness management that limits expen- diture to the bounds of income; on- ly fools or enemies expect a degree of excellence in all points that can done be attained by the possession )f resources and income.
Year: 1875

us to be the surest and best pre-

 ventive against a re-occurrence 0

 our present distressing condition

 The cause, to put it plain, wt

 conceive to be nothing short o

 indolence, and want of energy ano

 industry on the part of the farm

 CT. Farming, like every other oc

 cupation which a man can follow

 to make it profitable, must have

 the whole of a mans attention and

 study. There must be no hali

 way work about it. There is not

 industry and energy enough on

 the farm. There are too many

 days idled away. AS a general

 rule most of our small farmers

 work about four to six months in

 the year and idle away the other

 six. They will go to work in the

 spring and work perhaps we'll

 enough until they get their ground

 broke up and planted, then he takes rest for a few months un- til his crop is ready to gather. If there is no drouth and he has the "good luck" to make any crop he pitches in when it is ripe and gathers it. His work is then done, he has perhaps put in six six months labor and now he goes into winter quarters and lies dor mant until spring. Now this won't do for farming. There must be more work. We know of little, weak, one-horse farmers in OUT county who have by their own industry and hard work made themselves in easy circumstances out of debt and plenty to go on since the war, without any help. We know of others who owned good farms when the war ended and they come back home, who have not made the least jot of pro- gress but have on the contrary become largely involved in debt. The difference is, one works, puts in all his time and saves what he makes, and the other don't. The plea of "bad crop year," "drouth," &c., is poor excuse. The farm CT who will work and manage with anything like prudence, need never be thrown on the mercy of the merchant, or the charity of the community. We hope our farmers will take warn- ing by the last years experience. Work hard this year put in plenty of wheat, corn, potatoes, turnips, and make sure of your provisions for at least one whole year, and have some to carry over to next year, or to sell to your friends who are non-producers. Then if a l drouth does come next year it will not find you without bread, meat or feed for stock. Look | ahead little; get out of the old | ruts; make an effort not to make | just enough to worry through with, but make enough to set yon ahead some every year. If we could get our farmers 10 do this, we would not have such times as we have now, another year. What l do our farmers say? Will they | let industry, hard work and fru- gality take the place of laziness, about and wastefulness on the farm, for the sake of bringing about period of profit and prosperity to the country. If they will theirs will be the re- ward.
Year: 1875

An individual by the name of Jones, B. H. we believe is the kind of handle he puts to his name, is travelling around in this State, passing himself of as an Odd Fellow, and a member of Mountain Lodge, No 15, of this city, and drawing on members of the Order for small amounts of money. This fellow is a liar and fraud; he don't belong to the Lodge in this city, nor did he ever belong to it; in fact, the Lodge here don't know Jones, only from several notifications it has received from different points where he had passed himself off as member of the same. If Jones is an Odd Fellow, he must be an expelled member, and we warn the Brotherhood to have nothing to do with this degener- ate son of the Jones family.

 Papers friendly to the Order of Odd Fellows will please give this particular Jones a "lift. ."- Fay etteville Democrat.
Year: 1875

The following appears in the Bangor Whig
over initials which we take to be those of Hon.
Albert w. Paine:


Tor the success of their ticket in the coming
elections. Without stopping to speak of the
naturalness of the want for all place-seekers
VINO happen just now to be among the s'outs."
II Is worm m While to note what the want inn
pies The times are ont of Joint, business de.
pressed and things generally unsatisfactory
and change is desired. But will change of
republican administration for Democratic
one cure this evil, and, if so, how? A mere
ofange oe VI Oh men Will do no good; what change
suppose that system that would give our me-
chanics and manufacturers, our shipbuilders
ana artisans more work to do would directly
promote the object. That in reality is what IS
man,ed, 1 ior agricultural pursuits are now be-
yond all precedent productive. The only way
10 accomplish this work most effe:tually is, of
coarse TO adopt such system of protection to
our labor as will keep it free from the un-
neaitny competition with tbe cheap labor OF
other Countries But the universally accepted
doctrine of free trade of the Democratic party
shuts us out from all hope from this source.
The only other method of accomplishing the
object is to bring about reform OF our none
taTy affairs by bringing back our deprecated
currency to the sound currency OF gold. But
though the party in Maine profess to want
this, yet they desire first of all the success of
the initiation party of Ohio aud other Western
states The mere fact that the party in these
two states are fighting this campaign on direct
ly opposite principles upon this subject. and
each desires the success of the other. demon-
strates the utter inslncerlty of both, and is a
blatant confession that all their talk means
nothing.


But change is wanted! How much the
country may expect from change such as the
party seeks let the history of our country
teach: The last forty years of our existence
mas gwen us at each decade a period of de-
preston In business and a general and fatal
disturbance in monetary matters. The first
ana severest of all, in comparison with which
the present is gala day, was that caused by
the removal of the deposits by President Jack.
son in 1885 The sad results began to be felt ia
1867, but did not reach their acme until
Year: 1875

1t will be noticed by the above table how the
expenditures rose the first year of the rebellion
more than FOUR HUNDRED MILLION dol.
lars, and increased every year that the war
continued until they reached the immense sum
the last year of nearly THIRTEEN HUN.
DRED MILLION DOLLARS-as the result
OF THE DEMOCRATIC REBELLION. OF
course an increase of revenue had to follow. to
EFFECT which there was no resource but fax
alton of the people; but when the Democrats
complain of this taxation they must remember
that it THEIR work-tte cost of saving the qoy.
ernnaent and Union from destruction bv DEM
OCRATIC REBELLION.


The latter part of this table speaks of the
economy and retrenchment which have been
practised by the Republican party. The ex-
penditures of the government and the reduc-
tion OF the same from 1866 to 1875 inclusive.
were as follows:
Year: 1875

The Boston Transcript in noticing the
threat of the Louisville Couyier-JouynaL tba I
Gen. Sherman will lose his salary by the
Democratic majority of the next House of
Representatives if he makes another speech
such as he delivered in Boston a. the recent
centennial, says that speech may have been
ill-timed, but it simply expressed the feeling
of the North that it intends to be good friends
with the South, provided the latter ''does not
do so again.. If either branch Of Congress
meddle with General Sherman for making
such sensible speeches, they will help him to
regain much of the popularity he has lost by
his ''Memoirs.'


The Lynchburg Virginian desires that
Northern journals should understand that
Gen. Preston's speech before the University
of Virginia does not represent the feeling
Of the sound-thinking people of the South.
Year: 1875

THE KEELY MoToR.-The Keely-ites show
an unabated faith in the new motor. The only
trouble, they say now, is that they find 1t diff
cult to get any machinery strong enough to
stand the enorm Gus power, $50 times that Of
steam. They have raised the Devil and cannot
bride him. We see no way out of this except
to have Mr.. Keely invent new metal to match
his new power However, reckless promises
are being made. A train of cars is to be run
from Philadelphia to New York, "within six
months" with the power generated from as
much water as can be held in the palm of a
mans hand. Tremendous things are to be
done with the new motor as substitute for
gunpowder. A rifle that fires four cartridges
at once out of one barrel at a rate of speed that
far outstrips the lightning has already, "they
say" been perfected.
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and strong regard for the honor and wei
fare of our State inspire me Nth the firm reSolUe
spare no effort and to consider other consequence
IN the endedvor to fahalIy discharge the duties thai
s7iH be incumbent on nae If your choice shall proct
to De The choice of the people also pledge you ana
thousands for who you act. in that event. an homes
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance
Year: 1875

The steamship State of Alabama arrived
on Wednesday evening from Liverpool. 1t
has been come time since we have had the
pleasure OF welcoming one Of this line of
steamers to this port, which has been owing
to the fact that some important changes
have been taking place in the management
on the other side of the Atlantic.


In conversation with Captain Stewart of
the Alabama We learn that matters are all
settled, and that as soon as business will
warrant the ships that have been with
drawn will be replaced and the State line
assume its former activity.
Year: 1875

The mail famine which has existed in the
towns along the river between this city and
Vicksburg was slightly alleviated by the
arrival Of . small mail Wednesday, on
the steamer Commonwealth. The post
master at Vicksbure has received instruc-
tions from Washington to make such tenn.
porary arrangements as he may be able to
until a new contractor can be found by the
Postmaster General. willing to perform the
regular service.
Year: 1875

Postmaster J. M. G. Parker left this city
last evening for the North. He will pay Q
visit to his friends and relatives in the Bay
State. and though somewhat pulled down
by overwork, his vitality and good humor
may chow to the people Of Lowell and
Boston that Louisiana is not the uu-
healthiest place in the world
Year: 1875

The last reported French suicide is
sprightly. A young man went to q first
class restaurant and ordered a big dinner
for two, himself and a lady. He said the
lady would come directly. The dinner
hour passed and no lady came. He ate
the dinner for two with a good relish, and
drank several bottles of wine, and enjoy-
ed himself as much as a man can when
be is hungry and has double meal spread
before him. But no lady appeared. When
he had made clean sweep of the festive
board, he asked the waiter for pen, ink
and paper, as he wished to write letter:
Soon after the report of a pistol was heard
and the waiter, entering the cabinet, found
the young man lying on the sofa bleeding
from hole between his eyes. The lady
did not come, and he could not wait for
her any longer. He died. He was a
young man of good position in his father g
establishment, but no position in q GER
tain lady's heart. and so he made an end
Of his disappointment.
Year: 1875




A young Texan who was captured by
the Comanche Indians about a year ago
gave the following account of his experi-
ences TO q correspondent OF the Galveston
News


was trying to get five beef steers back
to the herd early one morning last May.
when was suddenly surrounded by about
twenty-five Comanche Indians. and taken
prisoner. This happened near sunrise.
was tied on my horse and carried come
thirty miles that day. At night we ar
rived at a sort Of camp. where we Joined
fifty more Indians. and found they had
another white man prisoner. / was not
allowed to speak with this man, but
could see from the blood on his face and
clothes that be was wounded. AS soon
ss the Indians had kindled a fire and eat
en- some meat they began to torture this
second prisoner, though for what reason
have never learned. They beat him
with @ cartridge-box strap with large
buckle on the end of it, after stripping
him of his clothes. They cut gashes on
him with knives. They sawed off his
thumbs with an old cavalry saber, and
mashed his toes between a rock and the
butt end OF q carbine. After gouging out
some of his teeth with q bayonet, and
sticking cactus thorns in his flesh, they
poured powder in his ears and burnt it. AL
this time the man did not complain or cry
out. as he probably expected by his forti-
tude to induce the indiana to spare his
life. But in this he was mistaken, for
they, finding that he did not comPla.> ,at
at all these tortures, began to cut pieces Of
flesh out of his legs and back and eat
them; or at least pretend to eat-l think
they only chewed up the flesh and spit it
out. Seeing that all this torture did not
make him cry out (for he had tainted, }
the chief stepped up with sharp knife
and cut out one of his eyes, and put live
coal of fire in the socket, and then put
an end to his life with knife.


The Indians then had grand dance.
/ was led to small tree had no wa
ter or anything to ea. for thirty-six hours.
The next day about midday the party
moved in a northwest course, travelling
about twenty miles; and after this we
moved in a northwest course about three
hundred miles, where we met several
large parties of Indians, some of whom
had been on raids in Northern Texas. I
remained in that section of country with
the Comanches, and was kept employed
mostly herding ponies. and buffalo hides.
Ny clothes were all taken away from me
few days after was captured. and l
had only pair of drawers and blanket
afterward. / often had to eat raw veni-
500, and buffalo meat without salt. Af-
ter had been with the Indians some six
months they ceased to treat me as pris-
oner, and was allowed to 60 some distance
from the camp. l think it was about
the. 1st of February | left them. l was
herding ponies, and was allowed to ride
one of the best without saddle. The
second night took my buffalo-robe and
used it as a saddle, filled a sack with dried
meat, and struck for the settlements,
which l reached toward the last of the
month. sold my horse and buffalo robe,
aud collected three months pay that was
due me at the time was captured; and
now, with Gods help, / shall keep out oil
the way of the Indians hereafter.