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Year: 1875

state is impoverished and has had no funds in the treasury, perhaps it has been impossible to get them published and ready for dis tribution.

 It is to be hoped that we will soon get in a better condition so that things can be managed with more expedition and greater con veniences afforded to officials.
Year: 1875

Enterprise. The Chicago Times sold twenty thousand extra copies on the strength of the editors going to jail.

 As twice elenen are twenty-two, how can twice ten be twenty, two

 With care a man can walk up. rightly. One who is on the alert will not be found on the orange peel.

 "I am bound to have my rights" as the man said to the shoemaker who had sold him a pair of boots, both left.
Year: 1875

An Act to regulate the mode of taking ap- peals from the Probate Courts, and to regulate the practice of the Circuit Courts on appeals from the Probate and County Courts.

 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Arkansas:

 SECTION l. That appeals may be taken to the circuit court from the final orders and judgements
Year: 1875

EDITOR RDEM0CRAT:- :-l was elect ed justice of the peace in this township at the October election, and have never been able to get anything in the shape of law that has been enacted since the days of reconstruction, but fortunately was able to borrow a copy of Gould's Digest from one of my neighbors, and have been getting along since with it as best I could. I see an article in the Gazette saying, "The acts of the legisla- ture of 1874 and 1875 will be ready" in a short time. ''Price in pamphlet $5, 5,25, bound in law sheep $6,50." "Also the consti- tuition of 1874" &c., uniform with Gantt's Digest. Price unknown which guess will be between $l0 and $50 more or less.

 1st. Now what l want to know is will a justice of the peace be re- quired to buy the works at the prices given and pay it in "cur- rency" out of his own pocket? 2d. Did the last legislature pass an act ordering the acts and digest to ''be printed by private enter prise?" and to be sold at price which the printer may see fit to set on his work?. 3d. If not what is meant by ''both works will be printed by private enterprise but by authority?" Or is the article and the prices intended for out side parties? How is that any how? 'I confess, I own up" But I suppose as the people have REFORMED their state govern ment it is all 0. K.

 Mir. Editor if I. am to act as justice of the peace I want the laws to go by. Iwish you to print this piece and answer the above inquiries so l may know what to depend on. The weather fine, farmers are getting on very we'll with the corn crop. Very bad stand of cotton, many blowing up and planting over. Abundance of wheat and the prospect for a good crop is very promising.

 Yours, F.

 1st. We know of no law requir- ing Justices of the peace to buy the books referred to, at any price.

 2d. The Legislature did not pass such a law, but we suppose any publisher would have the right to publish the Digest and acts by private enterprise; and the same would then be their own private property and they could offer them for sale at any price they might see proper to place upon them.

 Sd. The books you see adver- tised for sale, we presume have been published at the expense of the publishers, are their own in- dividual property, and any person who wishes to purchase them can do so; there is nothing Cbliga- tory upon any body to purchase them.

 All Justices of the peace are entitled to copy of the Digest and the acts of the General As sembly free, and the last legisla- ture, we believe, passed n law providing for the distribution of sufficient number to each coun- ty clerk to place one in the hands of each Justice in his county. We understand our county clerk has made application for sufii- cient number for this county, and as soon as they are published, we presume they will be forwarded. Why they have not been ready before now, we cannot say. It costs considerably to have these documents published and as the
Year: 1875

Has the largest circulation of any paper in the State, outside of Little Rock, and is not surpassed by any other paper in the south west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people
Year: 1875

The counsel of Maryland and Virginia having
made full opening statement Of the grounds
and evidence in support Of the line OF boundary
bitrators adjourned at Washington city on Sat
urday, to meet again on the 3Oth Of June next
at the Fifth Avenne Hotel, in the city of New
York
Year: 1875

DISAGREEMENT OF THE JURY-TEN TO TWO.


PHILADELPHIA. May II.
The Jury in the Gerdeman case came in at
noon, and said they could not agree. The Judge
then discharged them.
The Jury stood ton for acquittal and two for
conviction. One of the latter was a colored
man
Year: 1875

The Chicago Journals para
graphist tried his hand on an obitu-
AIRY notice Of the dead Chief Of the
Kiowas. His pent up feelings found
relief in these words:


Kicking Bird at the head of the
KowaS, in the Indian Territory is
dead bird. He his kicked the
bucket. Those supple les with
which he was wont to kick the f.
male Brl are still. That bill which
he has 50 often run into the Treas
ury for Governmental pap is closed.
He was mighty mean Indian but
as compared to the rest of his race
he WAS an angel.
Year: 1875

The frequent and repeated failures
all over the North, the defalcation,
suicideor fight of State Treasurers and
Bank officers. tell too plainly of the
"hard times" throughout the country.
The Northern people are just begin
ming to feel the results OF reconstruc-
ton. In destroying the prosperity of
the South and crushing out the energy
and enterprise of her people they now
see that they were killing the goose
which laid their golden egg.


The end is not yet, and
if it does not eliminate
in bread riots during the next few
months, it may be regarded as fortu-
nate. These people will learn wisdom
by bitter experience.
Year: 1875

The Convention will meet in Ra-
leigh at II NJ, on Monday the 9Th of
September, and it behooves every dem
ocratic delegate to be present at that
hour with his credentials.


The organization of the Convention
is of the very greatest Importance and
to secure control of it with our small
majority, every democratic delegate
must be present. The absence of any
one of them may cause untold evil.


The action of Governor Brozden
has already cheated us out of one dole
gate. Let it not be said thnt our neg
ligeuce cansed us to lose two othors. 1t
is known that an attempt will be made
to preyent the delegates from Robeson
from taking their seats. We are fore
warned of :his and to be forewarned is
to be forearned.


Not only the good of the party and
the welfare of the state, but his OWE
personal reputation as well, demands
that each democratic delegate should
be present with his certificate of cleo
ton when the Convention shall be cal
led to order on the 9th of September.
Year: 1875

THE Augusta (Ga) Constitutionalist,
in concluding paragraph on the corn
crop of the South, takes occasion to
make the following hit, which is as
good as it is sapient "Our Winnie
bago friends and the Grand Army of
the Republic may pitch their voices
in lower key before many days. Let
the South continue to feed herself and
grow Independent commercially. That
is the true path to perfect fre edom. !"
Year: 1875

There are many nuisances encountered
by the farmer in this part of the world
which do something to countervail the
surpasssing loveliness of the climate.
Of these, ants are one. Frequently
food can be preserved only by being sus-
pended in sacks, or placed in cnpboards
with their legs standing in vessels of
water The native Californians scrape all
the grass out of their yards and tramp
the ground down hard TO keep the ants
away. Choppers are sometimes driven
from tree by the amazing multitude
and the stencil of them. They collect
great quantities of grass seed into their
holes, leaving the chaff on the surface,
and these chaf heaps become quite a re-
source for stock in the winter. The
feas have given rise to a fashionable
folly known as the California wriggle, /"
which even young ladies practice in the
presence of their lovers. In the high
mountain regions, strange to say, and
around the salty lagoons of the bay,
mosquitoes are so intolerably bad that
men often were mosquito bars on their
heads. On the portion of the plains
overfiOwed in the wet season, gnats are
so thick that many people live for weeks
in a smoke, with their hands and faces
lacerated by themselves to a bloody
blotch. In the coast valleys and the in
terror basin, ground squirrels swarm in
countless hordes, honey bing all the
surface of the earth, and devourinR
every green thing, unless the farmers
make banded war on them with strych-
nine pot, shotgun, trap, sulphur smoke,
water and all other conceivable devices.
Summer brings plague of impalpable
dust which penetrates even into watch;
winter, a plague Of fathomless mud and
Of niring down.--[Stephen Power, in
Atlantic Monthly for june.
Year: 1875

The ladies of upper Sandusky, Ohio,
made oat list of five hundred citizens
and introduced it with the following
notice which was deposited with
the Corporation Clerk, in compliance
with the provisions of the amended
Adair law:


"All liquor dealers are hereby noti-
fed not to sell or give away any intoxi-
eating liquors to any person whose name
is hereto attached, after, 10 days from
the. 8th of March, 1875" Signed.


There was a great sensation on the
discovery of this sharp practice. Law
yers we're consulted by men whose names
appeared upon the list of the interdict-
ed. Opinions were given both ways
that the notice was legal and that it
wasn't II is supposed that the notice
was dlsregarded and that all who want
ed little suthin' got it as usual But
the excitement in the community Is
still kept up and 1t is believed there
will be some sort of a "back SPRING foi
nobody can guess what the next move
ment of the women will be. The filling
of the notice with Its large list of names
was like the explosion of mine, and
men go about fearing another will be
sprung upon them when they last ex-
pect it.
Year: 1875

They were married in the morning,
and Immediately stepped aboard the
cars for bridal tour to San Francisco.
They attracted considerable attention
on the way by their honeymoon ways
and created a good deal of quiet fun
among the goodly number of ladies and
gentlemen who were passengers. In
due time the cars entered tunnel, and
all for few moments were enveloped
in darkness. All too soon the cars
emerged into the broad glare of the
MONDAY sun, and our loving bride and
groom were discovered locked in each
others arms and exchanging kisses at
rate seldom seen in public. The pas
sengers took in the situation in about a
second, and shout went up that nearly
threw the train from track, and brought
she conductor to the scene on the double
quick. pass it around" yelled big
man who was on his way east to get his
wife. "Go back to the tunnel" said
another man to the conductor; and as
the newly made husband settled back
in his seat he was heard to say; "Sarah,
thought tunnels were longer. Darn a
railroad company, anyway"
Year: 1875

l never run for Office but once. At
the earnest solicitations of some of my
frieT ds, in an unguarded moment | al
lowed myself to be announced as candi
date for the Office of Justice of the
Peace Previous to this fool move ]
had been considered decent kind of a
man, but the next day when the Bugle
came out it was filled with accounts of
my previous history that would have
curdied the blood of Digger Indian.
A susceptible public was gravely in
formed that was not fit for the Office,
that ] was almost a fool; besides, had
come West under very suspicious cir
cumstances. / had starved my deaf old
grandmother to death and then sold the
remains to soap-factory. j had stoler
a hand organ from poor blind cripple
and run away with the proceeds. haG
sold my grandfather's coffin for fourteen
dollars and buried the old gent in boo
box. In utter despair rushed around
TO headquarters, withdrew my nam'
and swore a solemn swear that woulG
never indulge in politics again. And
never will John Quill.
Year: 1875

Many people think that an idle life
must be a pleasant one; but there are
none who enjoy so little, and are such


burdens to themselves. as those who
have nothing do. Those who are oblig-
ed to work all day enjoy their short
rest and recreation so much, that they
are apt to think If their whole lives were
spent in rest and recreation, it would be
the most pleasant of all. But this is a
sad mistake, as they soon fnd out il
they make trial Of the life they think
so agreeable One who il never busy
can never enjoy rest; for rest implies n
relief from previous labor; and IL our
whole time were spent in amusing our
selves, We should find it more wearisome
than the hardest days work. Recrea-
tion js only valuable as it unbends us;
the idle can know nothing Of ii. Many
people leave off business and settle
down TO life Of enjoyment; but they gen.
orally find that they are not nearly &c
happy as they were before, and they are
often glad TO return to their old occnpa.
tions to escape the misery of Incidence
Year: 1875

Yesterday afternoon a young lady in
the Navy Yard was terribly shocked by
her own foolish mistake. Being sent for
some -four to Harry Combs store in a
hurry, she took what she supposed to be
a clean pillowslip from the bureau
drawer. When she bounded into the
store, smiling like basket of chips, she
handed the thing to Harry to FIJI with
-four. He didn't notice what "they"
were till scoop of flour had gone
through them. When he raised them
up and exposed two outlets at the bot
tom, nicely fringed, etc, the young lady
ran toward the tunnel. without saying a
word, and poor Harry covered with
-four, laid the garment in the money
drawer TO await her return. At late
hour, last evening, nobody had called
for the -four, and Harry had engaged a
seamstress to sew up the bottoms and
make a salt sack ont of 'em.
Year: 1875

There is not the least doubt that Ger
many and Italy are heartily and obsti-
nately bent on getting an acceptable"
Pope on the demise Of Plus, and that
they are getting the ropes ready before
hand to secure one and tie him in the
chair Of st. Peter. II matters not whe-
ther he might suit the Jesnits or not
as long as he suited the two great powers
in question. As for that matter, Father
Hyacinthe or any other man might be
taken. Now, the Pope they would select
would in fact be no Pope at all. as they
have no right to make one. The only
Pope that can be Pope will be man
acceptable TO the Catholics throughout
the world, because he is acceptable TO
their accredited representatives, the
Jesuits. Cardinal Antonelli was right
in his remarks made during the Ecum.
enical Council: "There are not two
kinds of Catholics; those who are not
for an InfalIible Pope are Free Thinker
and free Masons: or, in holy works,
those who are not for us are against us. 4"
And Bismarck said in n recent speech
that this Cardinal was a man of great
sense. 1t is queer way Of setting
about TO pull down Propery to make a
Pope
Year: 1875

A tragic occurrence in San Francisco
was founded on Inconsistency in love,
but the usual conditions we're reversed.
D. K Meek, an insurance agent, did
not believe in a formal marriage, but
held that the mutual consent of the
parties was a sufficient marital bond.
He formed a union upon that basis with
Miss Laber, the daughter of his business
partner, and during two years they lived
affeciionately together Not long ago
the wife left their home without warn
ing of her intention, and declared that
as there had been no marriage ceremony
band, she was not bound to live with
him any longer. Meek was heart
broken. lie implored her 10 return, but
she col.lly retorted that she was not his
wife. He consulted lawyers as to the
possibility of compelling her to be
faithful, but they told him that although
the marriage was as binding as any in
regard to the law, a wife could not be
forced to live with her husband. He
thereupon swallowed laudanum, and the
first dose being pumped out by prosy
doctor, took another and died. He left
his sentiments in a letter, as follows;
81 staked my all on your promise to
marry me and l have lost. ] do not
charge you. my dear. but forgive you
with all my heart. | Will be charitable
with you, and think you thought and
| believed it was for the best. l only
hope such is the case. Oh, my darling
never do with another as you have done
with me. Never again promise to mar
ry man unless you intend to do so
Only think of me, who loved you SC
dearly, and would have died, and does
for your sake. / leaves my best wishes
Tor your future welfare and happiness
May God bless and protect you, and
keep you from sin and harm"
Year: 1875

They are cheap. 1t costs nothing to
turn the face, to shut the mouth, to not
see a person who is not before the eyes
and has expectations if not claims. 1t is
very easy to pnt off the call long over
due; to neglect sending an invitation to
a party to one who Is not of much ac.
count; to pass a former friend on the
street without recognition; to go and
come, ignoring the existence of people
who have rights and feeling. and il is as
cowardly to do so as it is easy and mean.


But the cheap, cowardly slight, is as
hard to bear as it is contemplate: How
it rankles. 1t stings like nettle. 1t is
prussic acid on a wound The very
cowardliness of it makes it more pair ful.
II Miss Scornful had only had the cour-
age TO frankly say she does not care for
our friendship. and prefers our room to
our company, we could possibly reply
with an equally polite expression of
popular chillness; but to be dropped out
unceremon'ously, and cnt direct, is like
a stab in the dark. Society is a set of
complex relation. People are bound to-
gelher. They have duties, obligations,
afilisations. Kindnest and politeness are
parts of the unwritten law Of social conf
nerce. A slight is a sort of robbery
mean, pick-pocketry sort of robbery.
too-of the notice one has right to ex-
pect. 1t may not cost anything just to
mind ones own business, and let a
friend languIsh for want of notice and
sympathy and cheer: but i: shows what
he is made of, and what his friendship is
worth The person who can slight an
other is too base to be slighted by a sec
ond time.
Year: 1875

A remarkable natural teacher in
Pennsylvania is described by the New
York Teacher. This man, who was a
shoemaker, had such unusual intellig-
ence and information that the children
OF his village would gather around TO
listen TO his talk. Presently, divers
families surprised him by entreaties 20
teach their children, and upon his refus-
al, returned to the charge with the re
quest on paper signed BY every man and
woman in the village. He accordingly
began school in an old blacksmith's
shop, and soon became 90 interested In
his work that he had no thought of
ending it. He become known, though
not through advertisements, pupils were
brought from a distance, good school
house was built, and since 1920 he has
educated 1869 scholars from abroad.
The elements Of his success are stated to
be sincere interest in the welfare Of
every student placed under his charge,
his enthusiasm for everything of a
scientific character, and his desire and
intention that his pupils shall really
know what is before them. He spares
no expense for apparatus, drawings, and
every kind ofillustration, especially such
az will entertain az well as SOW the seed
of science.
Year: 1875

There is no good reason why farmers
and their families should eat so much


salt pork, leaving all the fresh meat to
the inhabitants of cities and villages,


when the following method will keep


meet fresh for weeks, even in the warm
est weather. / know, for have tried it
for more than ten years: As soon as
the animal heat is ont of the meat slice
it up ready for cooking. Prepare a
large jar by scalding we'll with hot salt
and water. Mix salt and pulverized
saltpeter IN the proportion of one table
spoonful of saltpeter to one teacupful Of
salt Cover the bottom of the jar with
a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Put
down a laying of meat, sprinkle with
salt and pepper the same as if just going
to the table, and continue in this man
ner till the jar is full. Fold a cloth or
towel and wet il in stronge salt and wa
ter, in which little of the saltpeter is
dissolved. Press the cloth closely over
the meat-and set in a cool place. Be
sure and press the cloth on tightly as
each layer is removed, and your meat
will keep for months. 1t is a good plan
to let the meat lie over night after it Is
sliced before packing. Then drain off
all the blood that oozes from it. 1t will
be necessary to change the cloth occa-
sionally, or take it of and wash it-firs
in cold water, then scald in salt and wa
ter as at first. In this way farmers can
have fresh meat the year ronnd. have
kept beef that was killed the 18th OF
February till the 21st of June. Then
packed large jar of veal in the same
way during the dog-days, and it kept
six weeks. This recipe alone is worth
the price of any newspaper in the land.
IA Farmers Wife, in n. Y. Herald
Year: 1875

We sometimes meet with men who
seem to think that any indulgence in an
affectionate feeling is weak. They will
return from a journey, and greet their
families with a distant dignity, and
move among their children with the
cold and lofty splendor of an iceberg
surrounded by its broken fragments.
There is hardly more unnatural sight
on earth than one of these families
without a heart. A father had better
extinguish boys eyes than take away
his heart. Who that has experienced
the joys of friendship, would not rather
lose all that is beautiful in nature.
scenery than be robbed of the hidden
treasures of his heart. CheriAh, then
your hearts best affections. Indulge ir
the warm and gushing emotions Of filial
fraternal love.
Year: 1875

1t is we'll known that wool when first
taken from the sheep contains an unctu-
ous secretion from the skin Of the sheep
called "yolk." This soapy substance
contains potash, and can be washed out
with water, with which it forms a sort
lather. In Elbeuf this yolk is employ
ed with advantage az substitute for full
er's-earth in cleaning woolens. The
raw wool is put in large vat. and COW
cred with water. Here it is left for
three hours; then the water is let out in
to a second vat, and aft5rward pumped
backed into the first vat for two hours
longer. The operation is repeated two
or three times, and then the wool is ta-
ken out Of the vat freed Of water. New
wool is now put in the vat and manipu-
lated as above, until the water is sufi-
ciently soapy. The cloth ia put in the
fulling machine with sufficient guam
tity of this liquor, and fulled for two or
three hours. After washing IL was found
to be perfectly clean.
Year: 1875

Should MT you consider cabbage
head rather queer place for a birds
nest? I thought so when a bird friend
of mine who has Travelled a good deal
told me of it.


There is an island named jersey, that
belongs to England, but lies nearer to
the French coast. (Our state Of New
Jersey, was named after it.) On this is
land a cabbage-stallx had grown to a
height of sixteen feet, and in its top was
a magpie's nest. A magpie is not very
tiny bird, You must understand He is
almost, if not quite as big as a crow.
This cabbage was rather tall of its kind,
bnt the stalks frequently grow to a
height of from ten to twelve feet. Walk
ing-sticks are very commonly
made of them. The bird did not say
whether or not these cabbages were good
for anything besides walking sticks and
places for birds nests; but suppose
they must be good to eat, or people
would not cultivate them.


Do you know anything abont this
kind of cabbage?-[ From "Jackin-the
Pulpit" St. Nicholas for June.
Year: 1875

There was dog trotting along with
a farmers team through Main street
yesterday. Another dog saw him and
rushed madly after him. Then the first
dog stopped and turned carefully
around, whereupon the second dog also
paused and commenced to gaze abstract
edly over the top of the FIRST dog and on
to the roofs of the neighboring build.
ings. The first dog then wheeled about
and continued after the team. and the
second dog recovered himself and re
turned quietly TO the store.-[ Danbury
News.