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Year: 1876

Having received many letters from
friends in different sections Of the state.
soliciting me to become candidate for
governor, and finding it impossible TO re
spond directly to each one, avail my.
self Of this method Of making general
reply to ALL


After mature consideration, and learn.
ing that my old friend, the present dis
tinguished incumbent, will uot be can.
ddatc for re. election, have concluded
to make the race, and accordingly an
nounce myself as candidate, sebjcct, Of
course, to the action Of the next demo
cratic. conservative convention.
take this occasion also to say that l
have been led to this determination not
through any selfish desire on my part for
Office, or from any undue estimate of my
own personal merits or abilities but
solely through desire to serve my friends
and willingness to respond to any de
mand that may be made upon me to scrvt
the public.


have no hope, wish or desire in life
that Is not bound up with the honor and
prosperity Of my state, and the happiness
and welfare Of my fellow citizens and II
itshould be their good pleasure to cal
me TO the high distinction and responsi
BILE position of chiet magistrate Of th,
state, ] need offer them no better pledg,
of my administration of the office than Il
to be found in the record of my past life
which ia open to the inspection of all
and which can proudly though honest
ly claim is without blot or stain person
ally as we'll as politically.


have the honor to be, with much re-
spect, your obedient servant,


THOS. FLETCHER.


Little Rock, March IS, 1876.
Year: 1876

The Welfare of the Human System
is in great measure dependent upon the way in
which the bowels perform their evacuative func-
tion. If they are regular-and they always be
rendered SO by the use of Hostetters Stomach Bit
and that blessing very apt to follow. If they
irregular, cronic constipation and Indigestion su
pervene, the liver becomes disordered, and the bile
being diverted from its natural channel and pur
poses enters and contaminates TIE blood, pto
ducing that yeowsh cast of the skin and whites OF
the eyes which is such index of biliousness
All these disastrous consequences well others
of far serious nature, remedied and
prevented by Host tiers Bitters the leading Amer.
lean specific for disorders of the bowels, stomach
and liver.
Year: 1876

Full details OF the unfortunate affair Of
Mrs Dingle's hired girl have not yet
come 10 light, but enough is known to
warrant the statement that a more la.
mentable accident has rarely occurred in
St Louis. Mrs, Dingle lives in nice
house on benton street, goes into society
a good deal and dresses we'll, and as a
matter of course. the hired girl initiates
her mistree4 as far as possible in attcn.
ton she pays 10 personal adornment
Mrs. Dipglo opreared in 4 pull back the
other morning, with a hustle, which at.
tracted the hired girls admiration. and
as it was Thursday, and she would have
the afternoon 10 60 out in, she resolved
to appear in a hustle like that of her
mistress at all hazards. She went at
once to constructing the attachment to
her dress, but found great difficulty in
making the hustle in its outlines follow its
depressions and convcIutions of the one
she was initiating until the happy thought
occurred to her to utilize the clothes line
in giving form to the obstinate protnber.
ance. She wen, out and took the clothes
line down and ascertained subsequently
by winding the coil of rope up loosely
that It made the perfection of stuiiiag for
the tu>il' srIlngy, undulating aud plia.
lle She used sixty.three feet and half
Of rope in all, and was perfectly satisfied
with her work. At three o'clock in the
afternoon she started out for promenade
and to keep an engagement with her
young man, street car driver, but
walked down town, feeling that after tax.
Ing 70 much paius, she was too fine a fig
ure of woman not TO show herself. She
enjoyed the walk immensely until she had
nearly reached Franklin avenue, when
she felt slight witch in the rear. She
! turned but uiin't notice anything


Around the corner, though. she heard a
boy calling out "sassingcrs - aud another
one across the street yel,d .naix !" She
went on her way with scorn. When she
felt the tSiteh again, and looking around
this time she saw something Sh saw a
small rope reaching back around the cor.
ner. aud from the manner in which it
moved she knew that boy must have
hold of the other end OF it. The dread.
full clotbes.line 10 her hustle h.l h~rome
loosened at one end, and the boys had
got hold Of it She knew they hadn't
got it all yet for she could feel it paying
out like hose from reel. At first she
nearly tainted away, and then she started
to run, but then it was Of no use. The
boys played her as fisherman would o
trout and showed great deal Of science


keeping a moderately taut line but run.
ming along near enough to the hired girl


TO prevent too great strain on the tack


le. They would have landed her some
where, probal y. bu: that she had pres.


enee Of mind to spatch up a hay knife or
} exhibition in f. ut of the hardware store


and cut the rope with it. No sooner wai


she set free than she darted for street
} car and went home again. She wouldn'
: meet her young man with fat hustle
and the loss of her clothes.line had lef
absolutely without any style whatever
When she got home she had high fever
. and it was 10 her delirium that she CAV,
r to Mrs. DiDgle all the details of the dis
iressing occurrence.
Year: 1876

Pride has a greater share than good.
ness in the remonstrances which we make
with those who have committed faults.
1t is not SO much to correct them that we
ourselves are exempt from the faults
which we deplore.
Year: 1876

AS we have never been represent
ed in the columns of the CITIzEN, 1
suppose your numerous readers
don't know there is such place as
Pleasant Hill in existence, but they
are mistaken. We are here, and if
you will come down this way you
viii find out that we live at home
and board at the same place. We
have plenty of hog and hominy, and
the prospects are good for cake. as
there is a great deal of wheat plant
ed. Also we have plenty of chick
ems. One man proposed letting me
have fifty to commence peddliug on
but declined. think the preach
ers would do well to call on US.


Although we are down here in the
backwoods, we have plenty of Cars
not those putting wagons like
those that made my mule run away,
but some nice young ladies Yon
have heard of the Avery plow
Well, we have an Avery in our com
lnunity-not that instrument TO
prepare the soil for receiving grain
but one who plows deep intellectu-
ally, and bids fair to stand among
the foremost teachers in our county.


We had a wedding this week in
our community, and I think if the
creek don't rise and the waters stay
up, we viii have another soon. We
have several nice young ladies down
here, particularly those who sweep
out the church house so nicely.


We are having a drawing school
taught here, and 1 think some of
the young mems eyes will be drawn
one-sided if the young ladies don't
change TO the other side of the
house.


We anticipate having a Christmas
tree the 25th of Dec. for the benefit
of the Sabbath school Rev. j. f.
Walker has had his house renova-
ted, or rather ventilated, as L saw
them putting in some glass win
dows. We have had some cold
weather. As one man said, '.the
iigernOEicter was ten miles below
Cairo" Prof Howard expects TO re-
sumo his labors in the Shoal Creek
Academy soon. Miss Jennie Pals
iy, who has been very i'll, is improv-
ing. Some of the young ladies
down here say they would be will
ling to do without men entirely if
they were not afraid of bears. This
country would be bare sure enough
if it were not for the men. This
piece suits my name.


RAGGED EDGE.
Year: 1876

We are constantly asked this
question on the streets, by some
with care and anxiety on their coun-
tenances by others with eager an
ticipation. To both we answer
without hesitation and emphatical
ly no; we shall not have war. The
south cannot make war. the North
will not. The impulsive on both
sides will he overruled by the wiser
who see that armed resistance can
only benefit those who are now
marching and countermarching
troops as an armed bully parades
his knives and pistols in a whisky
shop. Uil sses Grant and his asso-
ciate braves are the only men who
could benefit by war, and they are
eagerly Gesiring it as an excuse for
coup etat which they are unscru-
pulous enough to mediate, but not
astute enough TO execute. To our
own people, whom alone we hope to
reach, we counsel patience yet
awhile At the worst, if the will OF
the people should be set aside by
fraud and force, there are constitu-
tioual ways OF resisting illegal pow
er, which the stupid bully now oc-





cupying the White House will find
stronger than his artillery and bay
Onets. We have a working ma
jority in the House and near
" tie in the Senate, with proba-
bly, majority on joint ballot, and,
what is more important still, the IL
legal, arbitrary and anti Republi-
can proceeding of the administra-
ton since the election are actua
ting public opinion in our favor to
an extent not suspected yet by
friends or enemies, such as will
paralyze the hands Of usurpation
and tyranny. Oar counsel is that
of the Issaelitish leader, ''Stand
still and see the salvation of the
Lord ClarksViHe Chronicle.
Year: 1876

The ordinary injunction to boys
is, be men; but We would say, be
boys. A boy has no business to be
a man until he grows into one; be
sides, it is just as worthy a thing
TO be boy-a true, heroic boy-as
it is to be man. Our duty is to fill
faithfully the places in which we
are, knowing that the occupant
adorns the place. rather than the
opposite. If you are noh;e boy.
you are all that you can be; for a
noble boy aad noble girl are just
as noble as a noble man and a no
ble woman.
Year: 1876

Richmond Dispatch: A drummer
for a New York house, travelling
through the State soliciting orders,
remarked to a city merchant yes
terdav that every one was cutting
down his orders for Christmas
Goods TO the lowest figures, but in
almost every case the merchant add.
cd. If the election of Tiiden is set
tied YOU may double the order.
The gentleman said that in his case
clone it would make difference OF
several thousand dollars.
Year: 1876

Brigham Young has finally defin-
ed his policy for the future of the
Mormon church in selecting for his |
first counselor the youngest son of
his first family, John w. Young. |
This now-to-be prominent young
man is well known in this city, es
pecially among the capitalists. In
personal appearance he is very at
tractive to the fair sex, and in his
manner and habits he would pass
anywhere for "a man OF the world
who was pretty well satisfied with
this terrestrial globe and in no hur-
ry whatever to get off to the upper
regions. Up to the building of the
Pacific railroad Young Johnny"
as he was familliarly called, was an
excellent Norman ana gave early
evidence of being a first class patri
arch. He had hardly got through
his teens when his eyes fell kindly
upon young saintess, and the
baked meats of the marriage feast
had hardly cooled before he fell
desperately in love with another
young saintess and married her al


50. This prophet thought Johnny
should see a little more of the world
before proceeding further in that
line, and he was consequently, sent
to England on tour of pleasure,
company with his brother, "Briggy
Junior" These two seions of Nor
mon royalty travelled all over Eu
rope, spending lavishly the funds
of the poor confding saints On
Johnny's return to the United
States his first wife pressed upon
him to call upon her relatives in
Philadelphia, and to crafty her
wishes the young man fastened to
the City Of Brotherly love, and be-
fore he was twenty-Iour hours &C
quainted with his first wife's family,
he fell desperately in love with the
cousin, who had only been recently
married, but not happily mated.
She accepted the invitation to
visit Utah, the plains were soon
Travelled over, the cousin became
converted, and ia a few weeks after
ward she was "Mrs. Johnny No. 81
Time passes rapidly, and No. 3
gains the ascendency over the
young mans heart. The first wife
gains a divorce, and the second is
put aside with ''an allowance" No.
is the lady who came frequently
to San Francisco and was received
in "our best society" as Mrs


Young. With her the youngest son
OF the prophet drank deeply of the


ways of the world, and was furI-
ously captivated by its fashions.
For several years he has lived so
little in Utah-preferring San Fran
cisco and New York to the City Of
Saints-that he has been regarded
as an apostate from the faith, and


thus unexpectedly to everybody he


returned to Utah, and the prophet,


in utter disregard to the sentiments
of the Mormon people, places HIM


next to his throne, and makes him


by that act the next prophet Of the


Mormon Church. But it is proba.
bly expecting too much to look for
any commotion among the Nor


mons over this sudden conversion


OF \ splendid seapegrace into a full


fledged prophet, seer and revelator.
Year: 1876

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph tthusl mean that your sub
serip'ion is ont or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up st once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons. bur
eash alone viii yay our expenses, ana
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope ysn viii comprehend
ana appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay We solicit your favor.


- We enter 40 new names ON our
horlys without tho money in atlvsree
Year: 1876

The next Legislature of Tennes-
see will elect two United States
Senators, one for the short term OF
four years, another for six years.


The Legislature will also prepare
the amendments TO the Constitu-
ton for submission to the people
for adoption or rejection.
Year: 1876

An awful warning is offered to
those little boys who use their
mouths as pen wipers by what hap
pened to a small French boy who
nearly died from the salts Of cop
per in the ink he took, and only re
covered through the doctors guess
ing what was amIss, and promptly
applying the right antidote.
Year: 1876

Jennie June thinks a knowledge
of cooking is what the poor need
most We don't like to dispute
with a lady, but it seems to us
something to cook might be fully
as necessary, though we may be
wrong.
Year: 1876

All our fair hopes that we should have a
cheap cable service are to vanish. Here we
have o proposition to consolidate the Anglo
American and Direct cables The details of
the arrangement have not been matured, but
we have no doubt it will be consummated.
The last we heard of the Direct Cable was
when it was advertising for the 'persons who
had cut the wires" If there was not the
specific charge, there was the intimation
very broadly put that the cutting was the
work Of those interested in the other line.
Perhaps the managers find that there is no
way to secure their property and secure a
dividend but to put it beyond the tempta-
ton of rival shareholders to cut the wires
snap the wires. We have never felt sure
that the Direct Cable was anything more
than an effort to compel the other line to
take it at a fair rate of payment AS soon as
this arrangement is made we shall have the
old rates over again. This ocean trade is
constantly increasing, and it is of
the utmost consequence to the peace of
two nations, England and the United States,
that telegraphing should be cheap and unin-
terrupted, and not at the mercy of any
monopoly. There has been no monopoly in
all the history of monopolies as rapacious as
this of the cable company. Thus, when the
HERALD proposed to send a special cable
despatch from Vienna, on the occasion of the
Exhibition, the cable line quietly advanced
the rate so as to profit by the increase in
business. This is like the hotel keepers in
Philadelphia most of whom have been only
too happy to have their rooms one-half taken,
and who now propose to increase the rates
during the Centennial, instead of doing
what they should namely, reduce the rate
on account of the increase of trade and the
certainty of profit There is no reason why
cable line should not make money at the
rate of a shilling word. No ono has ever
honestly tried the experiment To make a
cable success we should educate the people
to it, just as we educate them to read the
newspapers. The increase in population,
the steady growth in trade, would all in
time help the cable business. But the
owners of the Direct line, instead of waiting
for this, have thrown an enterprise that in
time might have become one of immense
public utility into the lap of the old corpora
ton. 1t will now control the Direct line as
itcontrols the French and the English wires.
The true way to settle the whole cable ques-
ton is for the government, in granting the
right to land cable on our shores, to ex-
act stipulation that the rates shall not ex-
ceed certain sum. The governments of the





their own hands. We are tired of monopoly
managed for no other reason than to increase
the gains of the stockholders.
Year: 1876

Section 5,440 Of the Revised Statutes is as
follows:-'If two or more persons conspire
either to commit any offence against the
United States, or to defraud the United
States, in any manner or for any purpose,
and one or more of such parties do any
act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all
the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable
to q penalty of not less than one thousand
dollars and not more than ten thousand dol
lars and to imprisonment not moro than two
years.


There is at least no doubt of the existence
and operation of the whiskey conspiracy.
Even Judge Porter could not deny facts SO
evident


There is no doubt that tone or more of
the parties" have done acts to effect the OBJ
ject of the conspiracy.


"All the parties, therefore, are subject to
the penalty prescribed in the law.


Has the prosecution shown that Babcock
was one of the parties? 1t is not denied by
the defence that he carried on with the con-
spirators the correspondence by telegraph
already published but the defence puts q
forced and we'll nigh impossible interpreta-
ton on the correspondence in order to make
it appear innocent But the point whether
that correspondence referred to the whiskey
conspiracy or referred to some other topics
and was perverted to whiskey conspiracy
uses is one that must go 10 the jury, and the
Jury seems to be honest.


This gives the case bad aspect for the
Presidents secretary, for if that correspond
ence referred to the operations of the Ring
he was, of course, party.
Year: 1876

We are permitted to give, in other col
umns, some extracts from advance sheets OF
piquant little work on the currency, writ
ten by Mr.. David A. Wells and enlivened
with spirited illustrations by Mr.. Mast.
light and playful book on so heavy subject
is novelty in the literature of political
economy Mr.. Wells is not only the best
informed of our public men on this class of
questions, but he has the happiest faculty of
making them popular and intellIgible. In
the little work which he is about to pub
lish he has surpassed himself in making a
dry subject attractive, and explaining the
principles of finance in such manner that
any person of good common sense can follow
the discussion with interest and feel that he
is acquiring clear ideas on a great public
question, upon which he has been only con-
fused and befogged by the ordinary argu-
ments. We are sorry that respect for Mr..
Wells copyright does not permit us to
transfer the greater part of his book to
our columns, although it would not appear
to full advantage without Mr. Nast's apt and
amusing illustrations. Mr. Wells takes
as his starting point the meditations of
Robinson Crusoe on the worthlessness to
him of the bags of money which had been
saved from the wreck, and by the illustra-
tive fiction of the island becoming gradually
populous he proceeds to show at what stage
the want of money would be felt, and ex-
plains with singular lucidity the real func-
tions of q medium of exchange. Probably
nothing which has ever been written on cur
rency is so admirably clear and convincing
as Mr. Wells exposition, and the satirical
way in which he explodes the current delu-
sions on that subject is the attractive feature
of the book.


Among the passages which we quote is one
which strikes us as singularly good, although
its full force cannot be seen apart from the
connection in which it stands in the book.
We refer to the amusing illustration of the
milk tickets of the 'Lacteal Association" !"
When the greater part of the COWS on the
island had been killed off or fallen victims
of cattle disease the bright financiers hit
upon the expedient of relieving the scarcity
of milk by doubling the quantity of milk
tickets; but, as these tickets did not increase
the supply of milk, and as the babies of the
island could not imbibe any nutriment from
the abundant tickets, the inhabitants soon
discovered the futility of this expedient,
which has been so knowingly initiated in the
projects Of our infationist financiers.
Year: 1876

TURKEY THREATENING Seryia and Monte
negro with military occupation if the two
principalities do not withdraw their subjects
from the insurrcction reads somewhat
strangely. There are hardly any circum-
stances under which the Mussulman Power
would be permitted to undertake this grave
act without changing the attitude of the
three Empires If the concessions offered
the revolted Herzegovinans by the Sultan
do not terminate the war it is safe to say
that threats Of this nature will not accom-
nlish ii.
Year: 1876

WHEN JOHN QuIxcH ADAMS was elected to
the House of Representatives he found that
he was the owner Of some shares in the
United States Bank. Before taking his seat
he sold his shares. on the ground that, as
representative Of the people, he should not
have an interest in any matter that might
come before the House for legislation. What
a blessed thing it would be if our members
to-day were to be governed by the same
sense Of honor.
Year: 1876

wNsLow, the sanity forger, finds the
rules of the Clerkenwell House of Detention
press rather hard upon him. If men who
are about to commit base acts for their
personal gain had copies of prison regula-
lions and bills of fare and the picture of a
prison cell in their possession we might be
spared great many criminal trials The
great trouble is that every rogue believes he
Fan never be found out.
Year: 1876

DoS CARLOS, at last reports, was with ono
of the remaining bands of his followers. He
will hardly oblige Alfonso by remaining to
be shot in general action. An occurrence
like the latter would relieve the young King
very much, who would not like to see the
Pretender escape to repeat his rebellion at
Bomo moro opportune time, and would
rather avoid ordering his execution if cap
kured.
Year: 1876

THE TWEED SIX MILLION SUIT had another
days hearing in the Supreme Court yester-
day, Keyser being the principal feature in
the proceedings. He is right in thinking the
city owes him something, but not in the di-
rection he processes to believe.