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Year: 1876

TIE Buffalo Express is mistaken in its
declaration that the House restaurant is
presided over by a Democratic Dutch
MAJ" Mr.. Freund is German Republi-
can, fact that may to some extent ac.
count for the order taking from him the
privilege of feeding the Great American
Contingent Fund Consumer. Be this as it
may, bIr. Klbourn has not suffered by the
exposure of his luxurious bills of fare, be-
cause public attention has been thereby
renewed and fixed to the fact that he is in
prison without authority of law, and
without having been charged with the
Commission of any crime or misdemeanor
known to the law. The fact cannot be
repeated too often in this connection that
the committee responsible for his incar-
ceration refused TO make any specific
charge against him, or to accept his offer
to produce his books and papers if any
competent authority would formally
allese even suspicion that his business
transactions involved the interests of the
Government or any of its officials. In
short, he is in the position of the client
whose lawyer said to him, "Why, you've
done nothing, they can't put you in
ejailr' "Ah ~ replied the client, ''per,
tthsps they can't put me in Jail, but here
t'I am behind the bars"
Year: 1876

II is entirely unnecessary to call atten-
ton to the new dress in which the Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN appears this morn
ing. We only sllude to it for the purpose
OF extending thanks to those patrons,
whose name is legion, for the countenance
and favor which enables us to do it. 1t
VIII be our first and constant endeavor to
deserve the continuance OF such enc our
a1anent
Year: 1876

The temperance people have not Lsd faith In
the good work that i, gong on in our midst,
and in all our country.


Though the Mills Of God grind slowly
We feel surely they .,cW grind, until all who
would "liye by forging chains TO bind their
weaker brothers in the dust shall be ground
so fine. that the one spark ofmanhood Of which
We believe every one to be possessed. will be
found. and even they will not deem il just
10 live by working destruction and death.


There are those who. following in the foot
steps ofthe Master, "bring glad tidings OF grea,
JOY to many a weaker brother bound low in the
dust. He gladly hear and rejoices lin new
mes. Of life. lie is clothed and in his right
mind. He j. man again


10 the young better way j, opened. Pro-
lection given 70 the unfortunate, 20 that their
feet may not trip aud they fall in ways Of evil.


But alas they who hear the voice of the
Master saving, "it is not the will Of my Father
in heaven that one Of the little ones should per-
>h. sre few; or il hearing they DO not obey.
Truly the harvest i plenteous but the labor
ers are few. Pray God, that be send forth Ia
borers into his harvest. FAITH.
Year: 1876

internally by means of the
Pills and Elixir-alterna-
ting one with the other ac-
cording to Directions. To
effect a permanent cure, the
Pills and Elixir must be
used in conjunction with the
Liniment.
Year: 1876

| As the season of the year is now at hand when our people will all have money on hands, we must re- mind them that there isa small in- vestmcnt which we advise every man in the county to make at oslce-

 and that is to subscribe for the Rus- sellvil,e DEMOCRAT. We give this advice and urge our citizens to ac- cept it and act upon it, not simply because we are interested in the success of this paper, but because we believe it is the very best invest |ment that 06n bc made with that Ismall sum of money. The benefits you will derive will be both direct and indirect. You will be almost lose more than the paper costs if you do not read 1t, for there are notices and warnings and orders in almost every number of the paper which involve many dollars and cents to somebody. If you have family of boys and girls the paper will be of great benefit to, them, for they win read it when they will not read books and they will ob- tain Knowledge and information from it which they can obtain from no book.

 The indirect good that the paper is doirg you is far greater than you can estimate. There is no other power or influence in your county which is doing so much fer the country. Our paper is attracting more attention to Pope county than all things else combined. There is not mail arrives at our office, scarcely, but what brings letters and postal cards enquiring for spec imen copies of the DEMOCRAT. These inquiries come from farmers, mechanics, laboring men and capit- alists in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska, who wish to come to milder cli- mate. They have their eye on Ar kansas, and in order to judge of the country, the people and the pros poets, they send for the newspaper whi,h they always regard as n good index. We always mail papers to these parties, and we believe thro' this means many industrious, ener- getic citizens. will be induced to seek homes in Pope county. Now if you want your county to grow in intelligence, in population and in wealth you can do nothing to secure Ithis end so effectual1y and rapidly as to sustain and send out from your county a creditable paper. We try to make the DEMOCRAT such, and from the replies which we Ie- ceive from parties to whom we send the paper, many expressing not only qualification, but even agreea- ble surprise, that such creditable paper should come from the rural districts of Arkansas, we are. flatter- ed to believe that some degree of success is crowning our efforts, and that good will follow We there fore submit it to you if you should not give our paper your generous support. Every man should take at least one copy for his own family, and there are many who are able to do so, who should subscribe for a number of copies to send abroad. If you will pay the subscription we will send them where they will do good. Send in your subscriptions, gentlemen. Come up squarely to your duty.
Year: 1876

To the editor of the DEMOCRAT:

 Will you please insert the follow ing query, and request an answer:

 Why is it that the last new moon appeared farther south than the one previous? and why is it that the moon varies from north to south at these changes9 T. B., care of this office
Year: 1876

SPECULATION AND BUsINEss.-Spec-
ulation is TO business what the mistle-
toe is To the oak. the moss 10 the roof.
the vampire to the sleeper whose blood
he exhausts Shun it Is you would the
plaques of Egypt. Rather than en-
gage in 1t, slip of your coat, roll up
your sleeves. and with firm faith in
the dignity Of labor. engage in some
productive work. Identify yourself
with some calling IN which you can ex-
empliiy Bscon's maxim that every
man is deb or to his profession. Or.
if you must have the excitement of hsz-
ardous occupation. start some new in
dustry, invent something. get up fac
tory. or open an iron mine, or write q
book. And in any event, see TO it that
you give the world an equivalent for
your living. and leave il the better. the
wiser or richer for having given You an
existence and an education.
Year: 1876

ip-- it Especial 10 New York Timcs.1


- The true reason for the President s
action is probably to be found in the
expressions of some of his friends that
Gov. Jewell made too many apologies
for the administration, and was not dis
posed to stand before all the world as a
member of it, sharing to the full all its
responsibilities and standing by all its
acts. One member of the Cabinet is
mentioned AS having referred TO the Sc
cret-seivice force of the Postoffice De-
partnent as hostileto the President and
throwing mud upon his administration.
1t is one of the reports about, that the
action Of Governor Jewell at the meet
ing Of the National Committee in Phil
adelphia last week precipitated affairs /;
but this is probably untrue. There is
an attempt to make a sensation out of
the change. Gov. Jewell himself in no
way aids this design. He is in the best of
spirits over the affair, and says that if
the action of the President carried with
it any reflection upon its integrity or
character he would have reason to COM
plain; but under the circumstances he is
glad to be relieved of the burden of theof-
flee. He has already begun to prepare
for departure for his home iu Connecti-
cut. There can be now no sensation
over any removal the President may
make, partly because Of the shortness
of the remainder of his term, and part
ly because surprises in matters of Office
are becoming monotonous-
Year: 1876




The correspondent of the Times
met in The reception rooms of the
house erected on the Centennial
grounds by the State or Indiana a
plainly but neatly dressed laboring
man, whom he found to be well read
and intelligent. After ,conversing on
general subjects awhile, the inevita-
bic subject of politics, came up. The
Indianian said: Il have been a Re-
publican from. the start; had foar
sons in the army, and i amt a-going
to desert the colors nowi"' Then his
voice trembled little as ne added:
II lost two brave fellows in the war.
Jim was killed down at Corinth, and
Tom, the youngest, went unhurt till
the last year.. when he had mimic
ball through his hand. They wanted
to put him into the hospital and cut
off his hand, but he was a plucky fell
low, and vowed he wasn't going to be
! p .


left behind; and then at last the hand
grew worse, and they wanted to cut
off the arm, but he wouldn't let them,
and declared if he went back to the
old State he would go with two arms;
but it was worse than he thought, and
the poor fellow died. No, vote for
Hayes and Wheeler, and with his
ewes sweeping around over the
grounds. he added, @What sort of an
should we have had to-day
if Tilden and Hendricks and those
other fellows had had it their own
way fifteen or sixteen years ago?'
That is the way the yeomanry are
thinking and talking all over the
couhtry.-Cor. Ne,c York Times. al
Year: 1876

The price of admission to the exhibi-
ton in Philadelphia will be 80 cents
payable in one note. The receivers at
the recording turnstiles will have moth
ing to do with the notes except to decide
whether they are good or bad, and to
drop them into the boxes, where each
one will register itself. An exchange
office of the Centennial National Bank
will be established near each entrance,
to exchange money for visitors not hay
ing 5O-cent notes. This money changer
will be expected to have no more and
no less money when his work is done
than when he began. The Centennial
Commission, after much inquiry and
careful consideration, concluded that
the whole systenl-absence of season
tickets and all-was cheaper and more
secure against fraud than any other
known. In order that the cash in the
bONmay correspond with the indicators,
a dollar note will not be received at any
gate for the admission of two persons,
nor two twenty-five cent notes for that
of one person. No intelligent visitor,
however, with the facilities afforded,
need get into the "cue," an arrange
ment to keep in single file those about
to enter, unprOvided with the required
note. In the event of the resumption
of specie payments prior to or during
the exhibition the rule will be amended
to meet demands.
Year: 1876

at once fled the house, but before he had
passed beyond the light of the fire with


in, the avenger, with the wretch's own
rifle, brought him to the earth in n
struggle with death that lasted but Il
second. As soon as he had fired the
shot, Lambert turned upon the pros
uate murderer, who was about to arise,
and struck him a second time, telling
him to the floor again. He then, with
a rope furnished him by the old woman,
bound the villains hands and legs Sc
curely. In the morning, the avenger
borrowed a horse from the woman,
strapped upon its back the living and
dead murderers, and before nightfall
arrived at Stottlers'S inn. On the fol-
lowing day the living man was publicly
lynched in front of the inn, and the two
bodies were then consigned to an un-
honored grave. Lambert's 5 companions,
craven hearted as they had proven
themselves, were loud in praise of their
daring leader, who, until the day of his
death, was a hero in the humble circle
of life in which he was placed.
Year: 1876

The Bermuda papers give the follow
ing particulars of the most shocking in


cident of the destructive tornado which


recently passed over that part of the
island known as fuckers Town. In its
course it lifted a wooden house, with its
inmates-Mr. Daniel Smith, his wife
and four children-bodilv some ten feet
from its foundation, and, after splinter
ing it into pieces, threw the debris into
the water, about 100 yards Off Mrs.
Smith was found on the opposite shore,
across the by, some 500 or 400 yards,
soon after the catastrophe, clinging TO
a plank of the house. Her body was
fearfully laceratod. She expired in
about six hours. The bodies of thefour
children were recovered the next morn
ing-three not far from the shore near
their late home, the other near the Op-
posite shore, where its unfortunate
mother was found. Smith, prior to the
event, was sitting by an open window
his wife had Just put three of the chill
dren to bed, and the Oldest was getting
ready for bed-and, hearing the singu-
lar noise made by the storm, called to
his wife to know if she heard it, and
asked what it was, when the house was
lifted bodily from the foundation AVID
carried off Here his consciousness
left him, and he recollectS nothing
further until he recovered his senses
some little time after, when he found
himself forced in between
oleander trees some twenty feet from
his late residence, doubtless thrown
there through the window as the house
was turned by the wind. Smith likens
the noise made by the approaching
storm to the roaring of Il cataract while
a hundred pieces of heavy ordnance
were being discharged simultaneously.
1t would seem that the whirlwind, with
a fearful rushing noise, struck the shore
from seaward, wrenching stout limbs
from trees in its way, and in some spots
where no wind in a straight course, if
ever so violent, would do harm, this
whirlwind caused much havoc. 1t pass
ed along and up high, projecting cliff
where rocks shelved out, and broke
pieces of the rocks off about ten inches
thick at the base, and weighing between
fifty and sixty pounds each, forced them
up the precipice, and lodged them on
the fiat above, ten feet away. Itwrench-
ed a piece of cedar bough some eight
inches long from tree, and drove it
into the skull of a COW, whence it was
taken, the COW apparently not serious
ly injured. On its course from the south
shore to fuckers Town the storm pass
ed through a garden of cabbages, in
which it made a road, the sides of
which, some forty feet apart, are clear
ly defined.
Year: 1876

The Machias (Me.) Union publishes
the following letter received by Miss
Susan L. Brown from her sister, Mrs.
Julia NJ. Garcia:


SAGUA, January 81, 1S76.-Wy Dear
Sister: Now don't be frightened when
You hear what has happened to US, with
thousands of others. We have been Wis
tied by the insurrectS, and our house
and plantation burned, with every thing
we had in our house. We are left with
out a bed to lie upon or dress to put on.
Only about twenty or thirty negroes
came afoot. They had tied Desiderio
and another white man, and made us all
form a line, with guns at our breasts to
kill us if we moved TO save any thing.
First they killed my dog, with shots and
stabs, for he defended himself until the
last moment. Then they stole every
thing they wanted, even taking the rings
from my fingers; then set fire to all the
houses, took my oxen and cows, and
then marched us off among them, with
ID. tied with a rope, and negro hold
of the rope and gun at his breast.
When at last they took us off outside of
the plantation, [ was determined to
save Desiderio, so 1 took hold of
the Captain, negro, and would
not let him GO until he gave me
back d., but the other man they would
not let go; they took him a little way
off and chopped off his head. Oh! my
God! what night of horror! Is there
no one to hear, to see, to save? Make
my case known, and if possible see if
something can not be done. All the
houses, al the plantations, they are
burning. Every one is coming to town,
and famine will follow. We are here,
in Segua. l have S17 to commence life
anew with. All my photographs, all
my books, papers, every thing lost. Do
please send me a Bible when you can.
do not know what to think or do; one
can find no house here; we are in the
house of a friend for a few days, no
more. But nothing can be done-bnt
patience Don't think that we shall
have to suffer hunger, for we can all do
something to gain our living until bet
ter days. But these things ought to be
stopped; this war ought not to last
longer. We are all quite well. After we
get settled l will write again. JULIA.
Year: 1876

A novel operation recently performed
at the Maine General Hospital is thus
described: A patient came there with
a cancerous under-lip, which a quack
had made worse by the use of caustics.
The patient being placed under the in
fuence of ether, the lip was cut down
and removed, the mouth slit far into
the cheeks on both sides, the flesh turn
ed down, and the inner membrane and
bone scraped to remove all traces OF the
cancer. Then the cheeks were brought
forward over the chin and sewn to-
gether to form a new under-lip, new
and handsome mouth was formed by
sewing up the Sits and cutting out tri-
angular notches in the corners, and that
the new lip might not lack the natural
redness, the lining membrane was
brought out over the edge and sewn
down. A new face having thus been
put upon the patient, he went home re-
joicing.
Year: 1876

OF all animals, man enjoys the most
perfect and capable eyes. With a large
globe preserved in its form by a dense,
thick resistant coat or tunic, to which
suitable muscles are attached for the
most delicate and extensive movements
with an optical apparatus for collect
ing the rays of light and forming sharp,
distinct images of surrounding objects,
and last and most important, a nerve
membrane of 4 cup shape safely lodged
within, endowed with marvellous and
exclusive power of perceiving light and
and sending to the brain reports from
the vast universe around US, why is this
not the most God-like gift confided to liv-
inc creatures? In this great perfection
the eyes only exist in higher animals. As
we descend in the scale it becomes more
simple and less complete, till we come
to the mere eye dots in the lowest crea-
lures, composed of speck of pigment
and nerve fibre, and capable only of
Distinguishing light from darkness.
Year: 1876

IT is known that there is hardly one
of the Swiss lakes, large or small, which
has not given up traces of the singular
habitations of the lake dwellers; but
nothing was hitherto known as to the
mode of sepulture adopted by the race
that lived in them. During the latter
part of January, however, some work
men excavating the foundations for a
new building close to the lake came
across some huge fiat rocks, placed evi-
IDENTIFY by human hands in a horizontal
position, and lying near each other on a
level which once, in all probability, was
the natural surface. Each block was q
bowlder brought apparently some little
distance, and covered square cavity
carefully lined with slabs of stone, and
filed with earth mixed with light gravel
and sand. One of these square cavities
or graves has been carefully cleared,
and proved to contain fourteen skele-
tons of adults and one of a child, all in
very fair preservation. The form OF the
skulls is said not to be of the very early
type generally identified with the rude
early cave dwellers; and some brass
rings found indicate the use of that
metal, at any rate for ornament. A
stone hatchet was also found, and a
number of bears teeth pierced for
stringing. The remainder of this Gem
etery of an extinct people has yet to be
examined.
Year: 1876

Moreover, / ara engaged to a prince
among men one of those who make
agriculture the royal pursuit It is; nor
would | exchange my destiny for the
highest place in all your hollow city
life. Leave me here to be happy and
go you on your way. You are answer
ed"


And Cleye Fairfax, dispirited and
disappointed, went back to New York,
and lived a bachelor to the end of the
chapter, and all for the love of owls
consin farmers daughter"
Year: 1876

A YOUNG lady wentto a photographer
recently, and wished him to take her
picture with an expression as if compos-
ing poem. 1t came out with the ex-
preston she had when the editor put
the poem in the waste-basket.
Year: 1876

WHILE an Iowa woman was strug-
Cling in the water and likely to drown
her husband yelled out: "New bonnet
swim for life!i and she kicked out
and safely reached the shore.-DetroH
Free Press
Year: 1876

Deep in the valley, afar from every beholder.
IN me May morning my true love came 20 me :
silent we safe, her head upon my shoulder;
Fondly we dreamed Of the days about 20 be-
fondiy we dreamed Of the days so soon 10 be.
Deep in the valley, the rain falls colder and


colder;


Safely she sleeps beneath the church yard tree
let still feel her hand upon my shoulder,
Yet still dream OF the days that could not be;
Yet still weep DER the days that will not be.


Mrs. 1fulOcE- Grail
Year: 1876

APoLoGETIC.- Through a misun-
derstanding between Crawford Of
the Democrat, and the editor of the
TRIBUNE, about election dispatches,
an impression was had and expressed
by the latter, to the effect that the
proprietors of the Democrat and
that party in the city declined to
contribute toward paying for such
dispatches, while they sought to OBJ
tain all the Information received. SO
far as possible we wish to correct
this impression, as to Mr.. Crawford
at least, he having contributed liber-
ally on coming to al understanding
of the matter.
Year: 1876

ALI HoNoa TO LINDEN.-To the
gallant Republicans of Linden is
due large part Of the credit for
the handsome majority Hayes has
in Iowa County. The strong men
Of the party there put their shoulders
to the wheel and gave the car of
Republicanism an impetus that was
irresistible. When Linden rallys in
her might even the hosts of High
land and Clyde are powerless for
evil in the politics of Iowa County.
There is too much liberty-loving
British blood in Linden for the
party Of oppression and wrong to
meet with favor thore.
Year: 1876

Abundance of clean napkins, whether you
work 10 or Is cent shop.


Keep your razors well honed.


Wash your hands previous to every shave.


Don't finger the lips of your customer
too freely.


Never puff your hot breath in his face
while shaving.


Don't waste time in poking lather up his
nostrils or in his mouth.


Keep your combs and brushes piously
clean.


Do not compel your customer to talk
whether he wants to or not


Always be pleasant and polite it costs
nothing, yet pays.


Regular and thorough rinsing out of the
soap cup and brush.


When jerking gentleman's head around,
or twisting his nose, just imagine the pre-
dicament if either should happen to come
off. Moral handle gently.


When you come to dressing the head do
it tenderly, and not like Sioux Indian TAX
ing scalp.


The foregoing is the quintessence of forty
years experience in the barber shop. Neg
lect these maxims and you will be botch
all your life adhere to them, and you will
soon be pronounced Al in the profession. -
Hair DfesSers' Gazette.