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Year: 1871

The official Journal, the South Ar
kansas Journal, of the 9th inst, the
first number we have received since its
consolidation with the other official
oroans comes to us with the following


statement:


The Washington Telegraph COM


plains that it does not receive the Jour-


nal, in exchange. Why, Captain, you


have been on our exchange list, since


YOUR first issue, and we assure you it is


no fault of ours, if the Journal does


not reach you. Ofcourse, we exchange


with pleasure.


We confess that we were,beginning


TO think that we had been left out in


the making up of the exchange list of


that paper, and intentionally so, but if


the paper continues to come we have


no more to say about 1t, and if it does


not, then we will try to ascertain who


steals it. Our legal notices make up


of department of our paper which is


great interest to our readers, and with


out the use of the ofBcid paper, it is
difficult for us to get the necessary in


formation to keep up that department.
The infamous printing law, without
which there would not be one radical
newspaper supported and maintained


in the State of Arkansas, was enacted
for the especial benefit Of such, and il
= order to cripple the influence and in
Iced to destroy the very existence on
democratic journalism in the State.
Being thus wrongfuIly deprived of our
ust rights by the mean and low en- /
leavors of a meaner and lower party
o crush and destroy US, we call upon
he people of the county to extend Us
hat measure of encouragement which
hey think our efforts are entitled to.
We are determined to continue in
the field, and we expect to fight it out
on this line. We intend, to the very
best of our ability, and according to
our best judgement, to oppose the hid
eous monster of radicalism in all its
forms and phases, and we intend in
the coming canvass to contest every
inch of the ground and to leave no
stone unturned. We look upon the
canvass of 1872 as the most important
one through which the American peo-
pie have ever passed. and in fact we
believe it will be decisive of our fate as
a free people. VIII our friends hold |
up our hands? VIII they as one
man, put their shDult5ers to the wheel
and come up to the help of the lord
against the mighty?
Year: 1871

Hosetters United States Almanac for 1872 for distribution
GRATIS throughout the Jud States all civilized
res of the Western Hemisphere will be published
first OF January in the English German French. Norwegian
Welsh, Swedish, Holland. Bohemian Spanish languages
and all who wish to understand the true philosophy health
should read and ponder the valuable
In addition TO admirable medical
prevention and cure OF variety Of Diseases Il


large amount Of information interesting merchant
the mechanic the miner the farmer the planter prors
sonal man and the calculations been
rdians and attitudes suitable correct
comprehensive NATIONAL CALESDAR.


Tne nature uses and extraordinary sanitary effects Of Hos
letters stomach Biters the staple tonic
than half the Christian world fully in its pages
which are Also inerspersed with pictorial Illustrations
BILE recipes for the household and humorous
and other instructive and amusing reading matter
and selected Among the Annuas appear the opening
OF the this Will be of the useful be had
for the asking The pr"pretors Messs Hostette smith.
Pittsburgh Pa on receipt OF stamp will
copy by mail 10 any person who procure his
neighborhood The Bers sold every city town and
village and extensively used throughout the entire civil
ized world decslm
Year: 1871

CARD ABOUT THE SMALL PoX.-In answer
to letters received on this subject we have to
say that not single case of the disease has
occurred in either Of our houses.


Under Oak Hail roof we have two hundred
and sixty persons, and in the Chestnut
street house We have one hundred aud ten
persons, making altogether three hundred and
seventy-Seven persons; and among all these,
from the first day ny to the present time, there
has not been a single cas- of the disease.


Any statements to the contrary are false and
malicious ami intended to innre our business,
and we would thank our friends in city or
country to send Us the names Of persons re-
porting falshoods of this character.


Since the disease was first noticed in this
city it has been greatly exaggerated and people
needlessly alarmed


1t IS not true that a single street has been
boarded up. The mortality in the city has
been less IN proportion to population than in
some OF the country towns; and some of the
sensational newspapers have gone far beyond
the IN; truth in their highly colored statements
i" nat Is true in regard to employers of our
houses we are told is also true of other large
honses, and customers need not have the
shghtest fear IN making their usual purchases
III The city. WANAMAKER & BRowN,


Oak Hall Cnthing House,


Sixth and Market streets


JOHN WANAMAKER Il Co.


Finest Clothing House,


elS and 500 Chestnut street
Year: 1871

THE PRINCE OF WALEs.-The latest ad
vices from london give assurance that the
Prince of Wales, who but few days since lay
apparently at the point of DEATH is in fair
way of recovery from his severe illness The
intelligence has relieved the English people
from prutra;ted strain of anxiety. which has
at least served to illustrate their attachment to
royalty, in spite of the questionable reputation
of the Prince AMI the assumed unpopularity
which his alleged course of life suggested.
Year: 1871

Jesse X: Grant father Of the President was
struck with paralysis early Wednesday after.
noon, and remained insensible for an bour


He recovered enough to sit up and converse a
little before evening.
Year: 1871

Burleigh tells this story in the Boston


Journal: ....


Coming up in the cars quite an atHus-
ing incident occurred. The palace cars
need custom. The common cars are lew
and crowded, and those who would be
comfortable are compelled to pay extra
and have seat in tie palace saloon. Sew
eral gentlemen stood. A lady took a
whole seat to herself, and piled up her
baggage on the spot where weary gentle.
men would be glad to repose. The lady
left her seat for moment and went to
the rear: A gentleman at once went for
it-piled the bags on the seat the lady oc-
cupied and sat down. All watched the
operation. Soon the lady came on with a.
quick step. She came to a halt and said,
"Sir, you have my seat" II think not s
your luggage is on your seat" II have
had the seat all the way from Albany"
Yes ma'am, and I have stood all the way
from Albany, and intend to ride the rest
of the way to Rutland" Not an inch
did the woman bulge; she held her
ground full ten minutes. The intruder
was quietly reading-the only one in the
car that was not absorbed in the affair.
The silence was painful. At last the wo-
man gave way. In huff she seized her
bundles, made for the palace car, and
paid for all the room she occupied. Her
exit was attended with short, sharp
cheer, and the audience recovered.
Year: 1871

The utmost exertions OF the health authori-
ties have as yet failed to effect any marked
diminuton in the number of cases reported
Last week the number of patients suffering
from this disease was thirty In excess of the
number reported during the preceding week,
and this fact has caused some alarm.


The health authorities complain bitterly of
the apparent determination on the part of the
friends of persons sick with smallpox to keep
the fact a secret from everybody. Not only do
some medical men omit to inform the autho-
rites of such cases as come under their notice,
but the friends of the sick persons sometimes
will not call in physician, fearing he may re-
port it. The inspectors, during their labors
last week, found three children sick with small
pox hidden under bed their friends meanwhile
denying that there was sickness in the house.


In other instances families living In tenement
houses have studiously concealed the presence
of the infection from their immediate neigh
bors, and the latter have been ignorant of the
danger until too late.


The natural and inevitable consequence OF
this course of action is already beginning to
show itself, several isolated cases of smallpox
having occurred in sections hitherto free from
the contagion. The disease is most prevalent
in the Seventeenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty
first wards; very few cases, comparatively
having occurred on the west side of the city
". Y. Erening Fost.
Year: 1871

Shameful OutraGe-A United States Assessor


Gwen One Hundred Lashes by a Band of
Ku-kIux-Appeai TO the GOvcrnmeut for Aid.


The jackson (Miss.) Pilot, ofthe 10th instant,
has the following


Hon. Allen P. Higgins, the United States
Assessor of the Third district and who resides
at Aberdeen, Monroe county, was, a day or so
ago, compelled to go out in his county In pur-
suit of the ordinary requirements of his Office.
While so engaged he stopped for short time
at the house of gentleman, where he was
be expected from stranger were extended to
him. 1t was about ten miles from Aberdeen.


While there he was waited upon by about one
hundred and twenty-five men, as we have been
informed, and ordered to leave the country in
ten days. He was then taken out by the masked
men, and given one hundred lashes and then
released.


The leader of the party said that there was no
prejudice against Mr.. Huggins Individually, but
that 1t was the intention of the people whom
they represented not to pay the taxes which
were assessed upon them last year.
If officials are to be driven out OF the State
simply because they attempt to enforce the laws,
1t is time that some change was made In the
police arrangement of this State time that the
National Government sent an armed body of
troops, good large detachment of the regular
army, here to regulate and restrain the turbulent
the most damnable abominations and outrages
throughout the State of Mississippi. Something
must be done to change the order of things.
The Governors of the respective States which
are afflicted by these outrageous proceedings
will be unable to abate them till an army and a
navy, ready for active service are placed at their
command. far1 p
Year: 1871

A professor of music in Paris, who
was obliged to abandon his house
during the siege, in the hurry of de-
parture left the unfinished score OF a
musical composition behind. The war
over, he returned, with intense anxiety
for the fate OF the precious man uscrlpt,
to find his house destroyed! Only one
wall remained standing; but luckily,
high up on its side could be seen the
cupboard, with its key still projecting
from the lock, in which were deposited
the valuable papers. A ladder was
procured, the impatient composer
ascended, and took out his treasure safe
and sound. What was his astonishment
TO find it not only complete but
completed, the composition brought to
happy close, with a brief note OF expIa-
nation signed "Koennemann, Musician
in-Chief OF the Twenty-second line reg
lment
Year: 1871




Elizabeth Stuart Phelps sums up in
the Independent some OF the things en-
terprising women have done-showing
that when a sensible woman can do
work she is more likely to do it than to
travel about the country crying over
the wrongs she has to endure, or clam
oring for her rights. Hear Mrs.
Phelps:


In the capital of stout-hearted If
not very broad shouldered little New
England State one OF the best black
smiths in the city is said to be young
woman; she works side by side with
her father, Of whom she acquired her
trade.


In one OF the Territories we find two
Young women, sisters, running black
smiths shop upon their own account.
In the crude condition OF the region
the undertaking was as necessary as 1t
seemed natural, and they have made it
respectable The girls dress in a
Bloomer costume, and shoe a horse
with ease and skill


think it is Detroit which boasts OF
the woman who took out contract for
macadamizing a road, engaged her
workmen, kept them to time, and con-
Quoted them and her road successfully
through her agreement. The same
woman, if | am rightly informed, has
more than once moved barns and other
buildings on contract, with comPosure
and dispatch.


In Wisconsin two girls, whose works
rise up and call them blessed, have for
six wears managed farm Of one hun
dred acres and supported their mother
and father from its proceeds. The
Year: 1871

BosToN, August 2S.-The terrible
railroad accident of Saturday night be-
comes more sickening as the details are
developed. The cause OF the accident
was simply that the engineer on the
express train chose 10 plunge his train
into one standing at the station before
him. The Beverly accommodation
train made several stops to get passen-
gers on at way stations, meanwhile the
express train from Bangor left on time
and ran at the highest attainable rate
Of speed. Before it started SuperIn-
tendent Prescott sent special order
to the engineer to be careful as there
was train ahead of him. The con-
ductor OF the accommodation train
warned of a train behind him,
caused two red lanterns TO be
put on the rear platform, but it seems
no attention was paid to orders, and
the responsibility OF this carelessness
must rest somewhere. At the scene OF
this awful disaster there is little to be
seen. In the ditch at the side OF the
road still smoke the embers of the
burned cars, but this is almost all that
tells of the disaster. In town, In the
hall of the Revere House, still lie halt
dozen ladies. They are horrible to
look at. Bloody foam lies upon their
black, swollen lips, their eyes protrude
from their sockets, discolored patches OF
flesh hang loose from their cheeks, and
great flaps of boiled skin dangle from
their hands. They have been crushed,
cooked and tortured, and deeper than
all were the physical disfgurements
One Sees something here still more
awful to look upon in their faces, a
haunting look of unspeakable agony.
The officers OF the road were almost
crazed by the accident, and seemed not
TO know what to do. The killed and
wounded were nearly all Boston, Salem
and Lynn people.


The Coroner's inquest into the East
ern railroad disaster was commenced at
Revere to-day. The only witness ex-
amined was John S. holland, conduc-
tor of the accommodation train. His
evidence was to the effect that the train
had the right of the road; that he had
taken the usual precaution against dan
ger, and that the Pullman train should
have kept out Of his way; one of the
rules OF the road was that trains should
keep half a mile apart on the road, and
this rule was transgressed by the engi-
neer of the express train he had been
on the road twenty-one years and never
met with an accident Of any conse-
quence before.
Year: 1871

1t is not charity to give a penny to
the street mendicant Of whom nothing
is known, while we hagsle With a poor
man, odt of employment, for d misera-
BILE dime. 1t is not charity to beat down
a poor seamstress to starvation price
to let her sit in her wet clothes sewing
all day to deduct from her pitiful re-
if the storm delays her
prompt arrival 1t is not charity to
take poor relative into your family,
and make her slave of all your whims,
and taunt her continually with her de-
pendent situation. 1t is not charity to
give with superclious air and patron
age, as if God had made you, the rich
man, of different blood from the shiver-
ing recipient, whose only crime is that
he is poor. 1t is not charity to be an
extortioner-not though you bestow
your aims by the thousands.
Year: 1871

The question of the legality Of Sun
day marriages is exciting considerable
attention in legal as we'll as clerical
minds. There seems to be about an
equal division of both parties in this
important matter. 1t is held that as
marriage is legal civil contract, and
that legal civil contracts are illegal if
made on the Sabbath, it is void if per-
formed on thaS day. An interesting
test case is now pending in Rochester.
A millionaire died there recently, and
willed all his property to the children of
his second wife, disinberiting two of ibis
own children. The marriage was per-
formed ON Sunday. 1t is not clear how
this will invalidate the will should the
decision be against Sunday marriages,
but some lawyers believe that in such a
case the will could and would be broken.
If the cotirt decides that marriages are
invalid if performed on that day, no
doubt many more interesting and point
ed cases will arise.
Year: 1871

The best we ever ate we made our
selves for many years, and for a con-
siderable time with our own hands, and
always from Savoy cabbage. 1t was
manufactured in this wise: In the first
place let your "stand," holding from a
half barrel to barrel, be thoroughly
scalded out; the cutter, the tub and the
stamper also well-scalded. Take off all
the outer leaves of the cabbages, halve
them, remove the heart and proceed
with the cutting. Lay some clean leaves
at the bottom Of the stand, sprinkle
with a handful Of salt, fill in half bush
ell of cnt cabbage, stamp gently until
the juice just makes its appearance, then
add another handful of salt, and so on
until the stend is full. Cover over with
cabbage leaves, place on top q clean
board fitting the space pretty well, and
on top of that stone weighing twelve
or fifteen pounds. Stand away in a
cool place, and VIXEN hard freezing
comes on remove to the cellar. It will
be ready for use in four to six weeks
The cabbage should be cut tolerably
coarse, The Savoy variety makes the
best article, but it is only half as pro-
ductive as the Drumhead and Flat
Dutch.-Geimantorn Telegraph.
Year: 1871

The New York Journal of Commerce,
October 10th, says: 1t may not be


amiss to remind oar readers that the


mere holding of policy in a company
that by loss of its capital is unable to


respond to its undertaking is in effect a
complete Endorsement of the insolvent
institution by the insured himself. Thus,
a man has $4,000 insured in five differ
ent companies, each of which has pol
icy of $4,000. If he has loss of 80
600 on the property, the four solvent
companies will each contribute $4,000
to his relief; as the fifth company is in
solvent, and cannot pay its share of the
taxes, he loses $4,000, receiving but
SS,000 This shows that in the case of
fire policy holder may have more than
twice his actual loss Insured in trst-class
companies, and yet may suffer from the
insolvency of a single underwater
whose policy he holds. The legitimate
method of avoiding this is to surrender
the policy to the insolvent company and
have it cancelled Where this cannot be
done an Endorsement by the remaining
solvent. companies on their policies,
agreeing in case Of loss to waive their
claim to average with the policy now
regarded as worthless, will reach the
same result.


1t appears to us that an interesting
question may be raised whether under
the bankrupt act the policy holders who
are thus compelled to surrender their
policies for their own protection have
not legal claim upon the assets of the
bankrupt corporations for the surrender
of value or cost of reinsurance. We
do not see why the claim is not as equit-
able as a claim under the policy for
actual loss by fire. The policy is not
like an ordinary endorsement which is
rendered merely worthless by the insol.
vency of the undertaken, but it is an
unsafe instrument to hold, and while
held actually substitutes the possessor
for the underwater who gave it, render
ing his estate liable for the amount it
assures.
Year: 1871

eff we nominate Grant we shall GER
tainly be defeated, The public will stand
no more horse Jockey and present taking
Presidents, we have had. enough Of them.
Itell you, gentlemen, we must take new
departure, and / can tell you we of the
East are determined that il shall be done
l have been rather quiet about it so far
but want everybody now to understand
what / think When we take hold ot
Grant. it will not be with silk gloves or
our hands. Ithas got to be done W.
must throw Grant over. board or we shall
be defeated"
Year: 1871

Many fashionable women are said to
stand in great dread of offending their
''maids,' who, if turned away. may dis
close the secrets of their toilettes to some
rival, who may profit by it.


A Flushing girl dressed herself in male
attire just for the fun of flirting with the
other girls.


A clergyman was asked whether the
members OF the church were united. He
replied that they were perfectly united
frozen together.
Year: 1871

Our MORNING MEAL Breakfast should
be the most enlivening meal OF the whole
day, for then we are to be nerved for an
other days duties.and cares, and perhaps
for great sorrows also. Let there be no
exciting argument from which PERSONAL.
ties may crop out, around the breakfast
table. Let there be. if possible, only
pleasant topics, and affectionate saluta-
tons, that ell may go forth their separate
ways with sweet, peaceful memories of
each other; for some foot may never
cross the family threshold, some eye nev.
er witness another days dawning. This
thought, if the busy world were not SO
clamorous as to stihe it, would often ar.
rest the impatient, fretful words that pain
so many tender hearts.
Year: 1871

The following is said to be an in
fallible recipe for destroying bugs on
melon, cucumber, and squash vines
Dissolve tablespoonful Of saltpetre
IN pailful of water; put one pint Of
this liquid around each hill, shaping
the earth 50 that it will not spread
much, and the thing is done. Saltpetre
is good for vegetable, but death to ami
NAL life. The bugs burrow in the earth
at night aud fail to rise in morning.
It also good to kill the borer in the
peach trees; but one quart Of the liq'
uid should be used ito each tree. A
much stronger and more powerful So
lu.lon may be used in nearly all cases
without dagger Of killing the tree OF
vegetable.
Year: 1871

Several refreshing rains which had re-


Gently fallen added u lively appearance to
the grass and foliage in and around the
lawn, and made the visitors more cheerful
than when every thing was scorched and
burned, as it was for more than a month.


Here we learned the ingenious manner OF
escape of two white convicts who were at
work in Lewis tunnel, under the manage
ment of Messrs. Gordon and Burnham.-
Some time ago number of white convicts
were sent to this work, supposing, as they
would be confined to work in the tunnel,
their escape was impossible. Not so, how
ever, as the sequel proved.


AT one of the shafts the dirt and rock are
removed by means of large bucket, drawn
to the top by windlass, and which is filled
by the convicts below. Two of them got
into the bucket, and being covered with
plank by their companions, stone and dirt
were put upon top of the plank and all
drawn up to the top.


Dumping it out, the surprise of those
above may be better imagined than desert
bed on finding, tumbling from the bucket,
two of the convicts. Not waiting to learn
the effects of their sudden appearance,
they struck for the mountains and succeed
ed in making their escape. They deserve
credit for the boldness exhibited, and we
think, under the circumstances, they were
entitled to freedom.


TO Captain Jack Woodward, whose ro-
tundity has almost caught up with his
length, and whose politeness and good ma
ture outweighs his ponderous flesh, are we
for a most agreeable trip. He
Glad tn md Ix.rah hin, nc tt-ah ha1
known each other for many years.


We must not fail to mention the inde-
fatigable and fun-making Mallory, whose
attention to the wants of the travelling pub
lie makes him a general favorite with the
many who know him. Joe says he was a
prosperous and happy man before some
cussed Yankee writ and sung that DISTRESS
ing song-'None for Joe." 1t haunts him
by night and day. When he fails to sleep,
it is ringing in his ears when hungry, it is
the same thing; and when dry my
goodness! how it torments him.


In fact, the managers of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad may well congratulate
that with, perhaps, one single
exception, their attaches, with whom so
many travellers are constantly thrown, are
beloved and respected.


For Gen. Wickham, the boys all seem to
have the highest regard. He is descrvedly
popular with them, and although without
any Teason) we think most of them Demo-
cratic in their religion, we feel sure they
would be gratified if we would make the
General our next Governor.


AT time when there are fewer Demo-
Gratis in the city demanding our attention,
we may say few words more of our plea
SAINT trip to the White.