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Year: 1875

The Attorney General of the State has given his opinion under date of April 22d, 1875, to the eff feet that under the present pro visions of law there is no authority for the auditing and allowance of claims against the state for blank tax receipts. If this is the law, and we suppose it is, we think it is rather hard on the collectors. And we think, too, that it is a very bad law, and ought to be repealed, if necessary. Or if not necessary to repeal any of the existing pro- visions, some new provision should be enacted, so as to make the State furnish the necessary blanks to have the taxes collected. If the State is not able to pay the  expense of collecting, it is a. very bad condition of affairs. It must be remembered that the fees of the sheriff have been reduced and to force him to pay the expense of tax receipts, on top of the re duction in his fees, is just a little too hard. Public officials, we think, earn their pay, and we should guard against making the pay of officials. so small as to make the office unacceptable to q res ponsible man.
Year: 1875

THREE CENTS PER WEEK.-It is obviously to the direct interest of every man who owns property in Pope county, and who makes this county his home, to have the county prosper, fill up with good industrious people and ac- cumulate wealth as fast as possi- ble.

 Well now, have our people ev- CT stopped to remember that an honest newspaper to advocate the interests of the county is tue greatest and cheapest means of placing the advantages of the county prominently before the world? And have they consider. ed how cheap it is?. ONLY THREE CENTS PER WEEK! Every man in the county can get the DEMOCRAT for one dollar and fifty cents per year-lcss than three cents per week. Any every man in the county has friends some where else who are anxious to know something about Pope county, You can read your copy of the DEMOCRAT yourselves, and then send it to your friends. Thus for three cents per week you are pushing forward the interests of your county. You can devise no means by which you can do so much for your county at so small q cost. Even to write q letter will cost more. We are willing to work hard to make our paper a power in building up our country; may We not ask every man who has any interest in the county to contribute three cents per week to the causc by sending in your subscriptions? We don't ask this as a gift, for we give you the value or your money TEN TIMES OVER. Look at the amount of reading matter you get-and all useful and directly concerning home matters-in the course of a year.

 Two hundred and eight pages the size of the DEMOCRAT, in the course ofthe year, for one dollal and half. Go other reading matter so cheap or useful.

 Friends, send in your subscrip- tions! It will be like bread cast upon the waters, you will never miss it, md yoa will get all album dent return.
Year: 1875

The Clarksville Vanguard rais- es the question whether it is a good law to do away with the pub lication of the claims allowed by the County Courts. While we are much in favor of retrench- ment, and are totally opposed to any and all unnecessary expenses, we cannot but think that it was a good provision of law which re- quired the advertisement of these claims. It is due to the people who pay the taxes to know what their money is expended for. It is also a check upon the extrave- gance of the County Courts and other county officials. When it is known that every claim allowed by the county is to be inspected by the people, the individuals who are invested with the power to pass upon these claims are go- ing to be very careful and allow no claims but those which are just and made out at legal rates.

 

 The cost is but q trifle and the satisfaction and convenience which it affords to the people will amply justify the expenditure.
Year: 1875



 TIES OF THE PAST.

 A card, signed by Henry Page, late Lieut.. Col. and Brevet Col. U, s. Vol, and John F. Bull, late Lieut.. Col. Newton's Reg't Ark. Cav. c. s. A., has been published in the Gazette, calling upon the people of Arkansas to select day on which all can unite as one peo- pie and attend the annual decora- tion of the graves of deceased soldiers who sacrificed their lives in their efforts to sustain the cause most dear to them in the late war. The lines between the blue and the gray are to be plotted out, and flowers are to be strewn upon the graves of all alike. We are glad to chronicle this as one of the signs of returning good feeling between the victors and the van quished of the late war-as an indication that the true men of both sections are willing to for get the past, bury old animoslties and stand side by side, as peers and common countrymen of one great nation. This is just as it should be. Why should it not be so? We can conceive of no pos sible good that can come to the country as nation, or to any par ticular section of the country, from a further agitation of the past differences between the fol lowers of the stars and stripes and the stars and bars. We are will ing to concede that each acted their part and were prompted by what they honestly conceived to be their duty at the time. We accord to each honesty ofpurpose, and desire not to impugn any mans motives. All men cannot see matters alike. Men differ in views on almost every conceivable subject. Great and good men and men whose honesty of motives none dare question, have differed in all times and on many great questions. For our part we think the laurels are not always exclu- sively on the side of the victor. Judgment may be at fault, and human wisdom is not so far-reach- ing but that it may mislead men who are disposed to do right. In such cases we see no cause why eternal chastisement should be heaped upon the vanquished. The vanquished and victor are now alike citizens and subjects of one governmental government, too, which claims to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed of every land and cline. As citi- zens, they should be equal, and enjoy alike the blessings and priv ileges of their common govern ment. We hope the day may speedily come when no northern man may feel animosity to the south, and no southern man re- sentiment to the north on account of the past. Our whole country needs genuine peace,-the peace of reconciled and reunited com mon -countrymen. Let the errors and aggres ions of the past be forgotten and let common-country- men work together for the glory of a common father-land.
Year: 1875

The NeW COHlplicdlIOHSs

 We had hoped that our unfor- tunate sister State, which has been so outrageously oppressed and imposed upon by the uncon- stitutional interference of the fed eral government, would soon see better times, and be delivered from any further prosecutions by the Grant emissaries who have done so much mischief already. We had hoped that the humilia- tion of the acceptance of the com promise would be overbalanced by the peace and quiet which was ex- pected to be secured to the State. But from appearances at present, all our hopes are likely to be blasted, and the State is liable to be subjected to still further inter meddling, and that the exaction of Grants tools in that State are to again plunge the state into dis order and confusion.

 When will the time come when the states of this Union shall stand on an equality and have the same privileges in their own State management? When will the Constitutional guarantees thrown around the States be allowed to apply equally to all the States?

 The Shreveport Times of the 23d instant has thissto say in re- gard to the new complications ill that State, to-wit.:

 The tenor of our dispatches in dicates that the people may yet be deprived of the fruits of the adjustment by a miserable subter- fuge-an attempt to violate the spirit if not the letter of the award of the Congressional Com mittee. After the eventfull 4th of January, 1t seems that four in dividuals, not returned elected even by the returning board, were seated in the Lou Dudley -Sheri- dan Legislature. Why the status of these bogus representatives were not passed upon by the com mittee of award wesare not inform ed, but it is very evident they have no title to their seats; yet the indications are that the pub- lie interests, the reform measures and the pacification of the State are to be sacrificed on the issue of the status of these men. The conservatives insist they shall be busted, and Marshal Packard threatens if they are the republi- can members shall adjourn the Senate and prevent any reforma- tory action of the Legislature.

 Our information is not at this time full enough to enable us to judge of the course of the con servatives, but there can be but one opinion of the impertinent intermeddling in the Legislature, of the dirty thief Packard. It was to have been expected that when the people of Louisiana consented to the compromise, and surrendered so much for the sake of peace, that the President would have instructed his tools in the State to have attended to their own business. The indica- tions are, however, that federal interference is to be continued in our affairs; and if such proves to be the case, the sooner we withdraw from the compromise and remit the question of our freedom or slavery to the country, the better. It begins to look as though there is to be no peace, justice or repose in Louisinana until Kellogg, Packard & Co.,, are ridden out of the State on a rail.

 We await the issue of this new complication with interest.
Year: 1875

The Van Guard says Clarksyille has had it's civil rights case. A .colored rough stepped into a sa- loon and tapping 6 white man on the arm asked him to take a drink; whereupon the said white man did proceed to give said col ored man his idea of social equal ity by gentcelly knocking better than half of the impotence out oi said darkie.
Year: 1875

Twelve years ago an efficient Michigan
prosecuting attorney nearly roared away
his lungs in convicting Henry Smith Of
murder, and Henry has been in the pen
itentiary ever since. Now the friends Of
the prisoner are trying to procure par
don for him, the murdered man having
died short time ago, confessing that
the murder had never taken place.
Year: 1875

SAN Francisco, June lS.-Tbe ship
Champlain, lost yesterday afternoon, had
been ofthe Heads three days in adensefo fog
during which time no observation was
obtained. At the time of striking the
ship had gone about, standing West by
South. The captain supposed that she
was in the vicinity of Point Keys. The
fog was thick that the rocks could not be
seen until she struck, slightly at first near
the stern, then grounded on the rocks
the whole length, knocking the bottom
out. She filled rapidly, and sunk
in a few moments. The men had
scarcely time to get in the boats.
Captain Merrill was the last one to leave
the ship and in getting in the boat over
the bows, was struck by r martingale
and killed. A seaman was lost, Ger
man from Hamburg, known as August
WAS crushed before leaving the ship.
The crew saved nothing. Shortly after
leaving the ship the fog rose and they
sighted the Schover and pulled for her
and were taken on board.
Year: 1875

sword. as testimonial of their affection
ate regard To the neat
and fitting speech OF Colonel
johnson, Captain Pierce responded
in u touching and grateful speech, when
showed how near to his heart were the
happiness and snccess Of the boys he had
trained. and the prosperity Of the UNI
versity with which he had been connect
ed. A hearty round of applause greeted
him at the close o. his warm and elo-
quent words. And thus ended the grad
uation of the class of rs.


THE CoNvIVIUM


which followed. and which was attended
by the authorities Of the University, Its
Graduates, alumni friends, patrons and
distinguished visitors, was held at the ar
mory building. The sumptuous and eIe-
CANT repast there prepared, was Il grace
ful compliment to the skill and energy OF
those accomplished volunteer caterers,
Messrs. Lorentz and Shisler, assisted by
the cultured taste and fair hands OF
the ladies of Morgantown. The tables
were beautifully decorated with
the choicest flowers, and laden with all
that heart could wish for IN the way Of
the choice cdb.es of the country. You
could find plenty of people who regard
the rouririlt,a rs the event Of the week,
with which no other incident or object of
the Commencement is to be compared.
But as it is only an aggrayation to write
of supurb eating for the information of
those who could not partake, | will only
say that the banquet was duly discussedi
that the inevitable speeches were such as
are usual on such occasions-no better
and no worse; that we left the hall filled
with the most bountiful Of dinners and
the most grateful emotions towards those
whose unselfsh labor and liberaiity had
crowned the literary enjoyments %; the
week with an unlivaled feast Of fat
things.
Year: 1875

der to render its passage more certain, the
Senate Commerce Committee will immedi-
ately consider it. The Senate TranspOrta-
tiOn Committee favor il. The Republican
Senate caucus has already agreed TO recon-
mend some plan for the Improvement Of
the mouth Of the Mississippi, but is not
committed to Eads'.


The Revenue Bill Will Pass.


Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.


1t is now conceded by nearly all parties
that the revenue bill will pass the House
substantially as it came from the Ways and
Means Committee.


All at Sea.


Upon the question of an extra session,
the Republicans are all at sea. With them
the prime question is whether it would
bring the party any advantage or not. The
President is ayerse to tine idea, probably
because it might interfere with his summer
amusements and develop unpleasant Teve-
lations in the departments.


The Civil Rights Bill TO be Pressed.
Senator Edmunds is also determined to
press the Civil Rights bill, and will ask for
an immediate vote upon it. As the Dem
Ocrats in the Senate have determined TO
defeat the bill, there is a prospect Of an
other deadlock ahead, and the further
prospect of an extra session.
Year: 1875

A GIRL was smOthered to death while on
a sleigh ride near Bangor, Me-, on one Of
the recent intensely cold nights. A party
Of young people were out on frolic, filling
a long sleigh. This girl grew very cold,
and TO keep her warm her sweetheart
wrapped her closely il . huge blanket,
covering her head and face. Too drOwsy
and benumbed 30 stir, she suficcated with
out her comp MONS being aware that she
was dying,
Year: 1875




If anything would reconcile US to
the impending rule Of the Democracy
in at least one branch Of Congress, 1t
would be the utter incompetency and
reereancy of the Republicans to the
true interests Of the people. One day
they pass through all the forms Of
law, with less than two hours con-
siderahOn, an eighs million Mississippi
jetty job, and the next they impose
upon the people a tax Of from fifteen
to twenty millions upon the necessa-
ries Of life, while refusing to tax luxu-
Ties or incomes. II these are the
things we get from a two-thirds Re.
publican majority, the rule of some
other kind Of a majority can not come
4 day too soon.
Year: 1875

A NOTE from one Of our hardest
working Tennessee Congressman to the
editor Of this paper says: "Ithink the
tariff bill will pass. 1 am now inclined
to believe that the force or Third
Term bill will fail If an attempt
should be made to coerce its passage.
one or more Of the appropriation bills
viii probably far, and then viii follow
an extra session.
Year: 1875

The Indian and Pension Bills


Passed.
An Effort to Force the Postal
Telegraph Bill Through.
Movement to Fix March 4 for
the Meeting of Congress.
Virtual Defeat of the Texas and


Pacific Railroad Bill.
Year: 1875

THE refusal Of the House, yester-
day, to suspend the rules to fix a date
for the consideration of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad bill, is regarded as the
virtual defeat of that measure In this
Congress.
Year: 1875

As an illustration showing the number
Of persons who are seeking employment,
the PHILADELPHIA Ledger mentions that one
Of the importing houses in that city being
in want Of a night watchman, an advertise
meEt was put in the Ledger and it brought
over 500 applicants.
Year: 1875

A FEMALE lawyer in Wyoming was
recently obliged to suspend her argu-
ment before a justice in order to ad-
minister to the wants of her baby, who
was arguing for its dinner in an ad-
Joining room.
Year: 1875

AN Iowa lady concludes an anti-suffrage
lecture as follows: "YOu may look al this
matter in whatever light you like, but
simmer it down and it is but a quarrel
with the Almighty that we are not all
men,"
Year: 1875

The friends Of the Eads Jctty bill are
confident that it will pass the Senate. If
il cannot be considered as an Independent
measure, it will be proposed as an amend
mept to the river and haTbOT bill. In or
Year: 1875

if it is kept, the thought of it will be per.
petual incubus on my mind"


Nevertheless, she could not bring herself to
do it. Twice again she attempted it, and
each time she drew back, overpowered by the
same shuddering dread.


II cannot do it," she exclaimed, turning
back to the table "I cannot bring myself to
it. | never knew was coward before"


She took the will, wrapped it in brown pa
per, tied it with cord, and scribbled on it in
pencil the word "patterns," thrust it in a
drawer of her bureau, piled some articles of
clothing upon it, and locked the drawer.


"Let it stay there for the present" she NUT
tered. "No one will meddle with it. It's as
safe as if it was at the bottom of the well.
I'll take a little time to think about what 1
will do with it. Now III take these other
things back, and put them in the desk as soon
as 1 can get chance Luckily, this dress
has goodsized pocket! I'll get Martha to
60 down stairs on some errand.'


She was able to accomplish her purpose
without recourse to strategy. When she re-
turned to her uncle's room she found that
honest Martha was fast asleep before the fire
and without any difficulty she managed to re-
place the will, the seal and the wax in their
proper places, to lock the desk, and put away
the key. Her task was done-she breathed
more freely. She sat down in an armchair
near the bed-not where she could see the
sick mans face; she could not bring herself
to look upon it just then-and thought over
what she had done.


Would 1t ever be found outs


TTo BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
Year: 1875

Don't whisper in the slck-room.


When the doctor comes to see you're
member how many pairs of stairs he has
to climb every day, and 60 down to him
if you are well enough.


When you are setting up at night with
a patient, be sure to have something to
eat, if you wish to save yourself unne
cessary exhaustion.


Remember that sick people are not ne
cessarily idiotic or imbecilc, and that it
is not always wise to try persuade them
that their suffering are imaginary. They
may even at times know best what they
need.


Never deceive dying person unless
by the doctors express orders. 1t is not
only wrong to allow any soul to 60 into
eternity without preparation, but how
can you tell but that be has something
he ought to tell or. do before he goes
away?


If you have sick friend 10 whom
you wish TO be of use, do not content
yourself with sending her flowers and
jelly, but lend her one of your pictures
to hang up in place of hers, or bronze
to replace the one at which she is tired
of staring. a4. a=a 5.


Don't have needless conversations
with the doctor outside of the sick-room.
Nothing will excite and irritate ner-
vous patient sooner. If you do have
such conversations, don't tell the patient
that the doctor said nothing" He
won't believe you, and he will imagine
the worst possible.


In lifting the sick, do not take them
by the shoulders and drag them up to the
pillows, but get some one to help you.-
Let one stand on one side of the patient,
the other opposite, then join hands un
der the shoulders and hips, and lit stead
lily and promptly together. This method
is easy for those who lift. and does not
disturb the one who is lifted.


Do not imagine that your duty is over
when you have nursed your patient
through his illness, aud he is about the
house, or perhaps going out again
Strength does not come back in mo
ment, and the days when little things
worry and little efforts exhaust, when
the cares of business begin to press, but
the feeble brain and hand refuse to think
and execute, are the most trying to the
sick one, and then comes the need OF
your tenderest care, your most unobtru.
sive watchfulness, Home and Society,"
Scribner for September.
Year: 1875

The use of velocipedes in camp SER
vice to carry messages, instead of horse
men, has for some time been tried with
great success by one division of the
Italian army, and now by ORDER of the
Minister of War the experiment is re


peated in other quarters These little
carriages, which travel with speed of
twenty chilometers, or over thirteen miles
an hOur,are used to carry messages from
the General to his subordinate officers,
to take the camp letters and or,lers, to
gather from detached companies the
tickets for their rations, and, in fact, to
do all the duties of correspondence -
The General, who initiated the change,
proposes that each battalion should be
provided with one of these machines,
which could be attached to any baggage
wagon in such a way as to be easily ia.
ken off in case of necessity ys5
Year: 1875

An honest blacksmith was once gross
ly insulted and his character infamously
DETAINED. Friends advised him to seek
redress by means of law; but to one and
all he replied "No;I will 60 to my
forge and there in six months l will
have worked out such a character and
earned such name as all the judges.
law courts and lawyers in the world
could not give me" He was right. II
is by honest labor, manly courage, and
a conscience void of offence, that we as.
sert our true dignity and prove our hon.
esty and respectability.
Year: 1875

EgThe Pittsburg Dispatch, speaking
of Mr.. Welsh's letters, says they must
crush Delano and compel the President
to demand his resignation or announce
a vacancy in the Secretaryship oflthe
Interior. This country cannot afford to
have man in the Cabinet who not only
conuives at fraud but gives circulation
to falsehood to blacken the characters
of those who expose his obliquities.-
The whole course of Delano for the
past four or five years has been often
sive to honest men The cloud is now
thick and black, and will soon burst up-
on his devoted head"
Year: 1875

To Blue Earth County belongs the
credi: of raising the big hog Of the sea
son. He was raised and fatted by Mr.
Lewis S. Burt, was cross Of Chester
White and Poland China, and weighed
GA pounds.


THR Chisafo County Pest say
many Of the non. resident and resident
tax payers Of Pine county will make u
effort to procure the passage Of bill
this winter to disorgan se Pine county
The proposition is to divide the county
annexing all north Of town 10 to Carltol
county, and ali south Of that line 4
Chisago county.
Year: 1875

HAssAS, Minn., Dec. 20, 1874.
so +he Editor OF the Anti Monopolist:


Allow me to ask few questions IN
relation to cheap transportation: AS
understand the matter, rivers are TO oe
improved and canals made by govern
ment aid, and when finished are 10 oe
free to the public. Now so lar as our
State is concerned, considering that onr
canals would be frozen up one hall the
wear. would not railroad be mucn
better for carrying our productions &c
Lake Superior. as that could be USED al
all times Of the year! And would IT cos'
nc over n tenth part as much as can
ALL do not believe that freight can bt
carried as cheaply by water as by rail
except upon large lakes and rivers. 4
not, wherein is the advantage OF
canall


A railroad built by the governmen
for the people could be regulated b.
law to the satisfaction Of every one.
cannot help thinking. MIR. Editor tina
it is very queer, after the State OF Min
nesota has given the best part OF ne
lands to railroads, that the only wa
the people can be protected from e,
tortion is for the government to bull
them railroad or canal. When II
lands that these roads have obtaine
are sold the people will have paid for Il
building of the roads simply that Il
company may have the privilege
robbing them. But this is the logic
the great Republican party.


Yours. G. j.