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Year: 1875

There IS popular fallacy that, without the advantage of good schools, education cannot be ob- tained. But let it be remembered that many great and good men and women of the age were, and are almost wholly self-educatcd. Education, as we understand the very comprehensive term, is not merely the highest development of the intellectual faculties; an acquaintance with the arts and sciences. "Frain up a child in the way it should go,' is the di- vine injunction. The moral as we'll as the intellectual must be regarded. Impressions traced upon hearing and mind in child hood are rarely oblitcrated, but remain with us through life, strengthening and deepening with our years; exerting an evil or a salutary influence over all our ac- tions. How important, therefore, that only the best of influences be brought to bear upon the youth full mind. What has the great and good Watts expressed with regard to this same education of uth?-"Their future character as social and moral beings will be greatly influenced by the manner in which they are taught from an early period to regulate their emo tons, by directing them to ade- quate and worthy objects, and controlling them by great princi- ples of wisdom and virtue"

 Children naturally regard their parents as their superiors, and readily accept and imbibe their views; and it would appear that to them the great Giver had en- trusted the important responsi- bility of moulding the useful and susceptible mind. Particularly is it the duty of mothers to attend to the moral and intellectual de- velopment of their children" It is to be lamented that as a'class they are not better fitted to con duct the education of their off spring. De Stael said, elf you would ensure the happiness of France, instruct the mothers of the French people.'' And the noble expression is alike applica- ble to our own nation. If we would but adopt such plan, what glorious improvement there would be in the affairs of our land l; what diminution of vice!

 There are those among us, young men and women with whom ad- verse fortune has dealt roughly whose aspirations have been fet- tered and oppressed by the gall ing chains of adversity-who would gladly accept opportunities of instruction whose hearts crave the priceless boon of education i; but their respective occupations, expressing the whole of thelr time during the day, do not per init them the leisure to improve themselvei as they desire to do.
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

All bills with our advertisers are to be settled at the end of every month without fail, and advertisements not settled for at that time will be discontinued, without no- tice unless special arrangements arc made.
Year: 1875

lnC CrOSSs

 Take not the cross away There beams the light of an eternal day; A buoy on life's turbid sea To guide our Larques to immortality.

 Take not the cross away, It is the weary pilgrims only stay On which to lean In tines swift years To bear him safely through this vale of tears.

 Take not the cross away, Its glorics to dying world display, Commend the cure apply the blcOt That heals the soul and gives us life in God.

 Take not the cross away, Prove to yourselves its sanctity lpray, That the sweet peace which from it flows Is sure sollace for all earthly woes.

 Take not the cross away, To us, give something better,-then you may

 But leave us not dismayed to grope Without one ray of earth or heavenly hope. RusseIlville, April 9th 1875.
Year: 1875

Vice President Wilson has been for
mally nominated for the Presidency
by a national convention of temper
ance societies at Chicago. At the same
convention letter was read from MIR.
Schuyler Colfax, and then a stirring
address was made by MIR, Wilson In
which he declared that the greatest evil
Of the country was intemperance.
Year: 1875

sent to the NEW YORK ORIENTAL TEA COMPANY will insure by return mail, one pound of excellent Oolong, Young Tyson. English Breakfast, Japan or Mixed Tea such as is usual ly retailed at S1.30 to s1 50 per pound

 IT IS A FACT NOT GENERALLY KNOWN that by recent arrangement of the Post Office, small quantities of merchandise are now con veyed at charges considerably less than those of the express companies. The cost on one pound of Tea being 8 cents only,

 The New York and Oriental Tea Company is taking the advantage of THIS SEXTRAORDINA- KY FACILIi Y and is supplying it's customers in all parts of the United States with the finest Teas ever imported at
Year: 1875

However obscure the causes may be which con tribute to render nervous debility disease so our adult population, it is melancholy fact that day by day, and year by year, we witness most frightful increase of nervous affections from the slightest neuralgia to the more grave and extreme forms of
Year: 1875

It is of the highest importance, then, that in- dividuals should be able to judge for themselves by their own feelings, if and to what extent they are attacked by this insidious enemy to ill health comfort, and even life itself if left to run it's course unchecked, by the early and prompt ap- plication of curative remedies.
Year: 1875

The number of dodgers at the City Hall
varies from ten to twenty-five persons.
They begin to appear at night-fall and con.
tinue to come in until eleven or twelve
O'Clock. On the slate-register last night
half of the tramps hailed from that opulent
neighbor of ours, Pennsylvania, though
they may have jocularly written themselves
down as natives and winked at themselves.
The quarters to which they are conducted,
are by no means sumptuous, in fine, this
public hall may be christened Wilmington's
Plebian Clayton House. Ten to one of the
dodgers are whites; but they lovingly spread
themselves out in the dark room together.
accepting the Fifteenth with excellent grace.
AS the cold weather approaches the num-
bers will increase, according to the state
ment of an officer. Attempts have bee.
made to feed them in the morning before
turning them loose, but it proved to be a
very unfortunate experiment, as the next
day the number Of arrivals was doubled.
Year: 1875

LOOKS ODD.-It looks odd to SEQ n
Democratic newspaper published in n
Democratic city, governed by Democrat
ic authorities and watched by Democratic
policemen, suggest tho necessity of Wig
lance committee for the proper protection
OF life and property. Yet this is what the
World is doing for New York.
Year: 1875

SENSIBLE The colored citizens of
Nevada county met recently to consider
the political situation and their duty in
reference thereto. Their third resolution
sounds very sensible. "ReSolUed, That
it is the duty of every colored voter of
California to stand firm to the party that
has vindicated our rights in the past and
will in the future"
Year: 1875

The Grass Valley Union has added n
new word to our literature. When man
finds himself beaten in one convention.
fops and becomes a candidate before an
other he is said to have "pachecoed." :"
The word is good one, and expresses a
great deal
Year: 1875

NOT one cx-President of the United
States now lives, Pierce and Fillmore
having died within the past year or two
and now the death of johnson leaves
Grant alone on earth of all who have been
elected to or filed the high Office.
Year: 1875

THE grasshoppers are doing great dam
age in Big Valley, Lassen county, and
the people there have become so nppre-
hensive of general famine that they
have abandoned the idea of holding u
camp meeting.
Year: 1875

A SISTER of Ex-Governor Senter, of
Tennessee, fell into trance SO resembling
death that she was prepared for burial.
Upon her revival she said she had been
with her father, who had been dead many
wears
Year: 1875

A STORY has been told of colored girl
in Tennessee who has been kept in slavery
ever since the war. She has been allowed
no means of learning anything, and only
recently learned that slavery had been
abolished.
Year: 1875

900 EAST 45TH STA YOUNG WOMAN AS NURsH
ADO and plain sewer and assist with the chamber
work is willing and obigng two years reference from
last paee objection TO the country. Call address
two days
Year: 1875

A YOUNG WIDOW LADY OF. RESPECTABILITY
n would like the position of housekeeper in hotel she
has reputation and ability; energetic and
requisite qualifications the situation Address Mrs H.
box 40 Herald Office.
Year: 1875

A LADY ABOUT GIVING UP HOUSEKEEPING
"A who fully competent to take entire charge of house
hold affairs desires situation; would prefer elderly people
first class references. Address HoUSEKEEPER box 229
Herald office.
Year: 1875

has nothing whatever except moral strength to depend
upon; while Ia the Wesleyan body where the pastoral
class is fortified with high constitutional powers due
20 tho spirit Of Wesley they have not sunced
raise either their practical influence or their ecclo-
siasiica standing higher level IL Is not felt N tho
Anglican Church where the disposition 10 any gross
exaggeraton Of clerical power hes never been opera


tive beyond narrow circle II Is nowhere discernblc
IN the Oriental communions, where tho clergyman Is
essentially citizen aud Of which the doctrnal aspect
presents closer approxm TO Rome, though very
lar from an identity with 1t. 1t is, thcn with regret


and sympathy but in no spirit of affected superiority,
that notice the misdrection in some respects, as
deem IT, Of Italian policy. In careful observation
Of the world and its life we shall not rarely find that
of the which materially tho gravest
morally the least or, in other and palmer words,
that OF the greatest commit also tho
most excusabe. Moreover, in the before us,
grave would be the consequences OF blind tenacity
uncor the comforting persuasion that Italy her
self has within herself the OF such recovery as
will eectualy retrieve the ground that has been lost
Year: 1875

The dead body Of new born female infant was found
yesterday afternoon IN The yard rear OF the icnc-
mcnt house No. 447 East Ninth street The Coroner
was notified TO hold an investigation Tho police have
no clcw as TO who let the body ,...n
Year: 1875

ACCIDENT TO FRAZIER. - we
have been furnished with further
particulars OF the accident to
Frazier by a gentleman who was
present at the time. 1t seems
they were engaged in shifting
the mast of the large derrick
and in doing so were stacking!
up the after guy, when it slipped
off the Delaying pin and the
mast, being relieved of the sup
port behind, fell forward, strik-
ing Frazier on top of the head
and knocking him into the bunk
ers, which were empty at the
time.


He is now lying in comatose
state, and there are but slight
hopes of his recovery. In addi-
ton to the concussion of the
brain, he is evidently suffering
from serious internal injuries,
the nature of which is not yet
known.
Year: 1875

DANGEROUS ACCIDENT. - Mr..
Jos. Frazier, carpenter and
builder Of this city. met with a
probably fatal accident on the
Talbot coal bunkers this morn
ing. He was at work on the
top of bunkers, when the arm of
the large derrick swung around
and fell on him, striking him on
the head and knocking him over
on the coal. He was taken to
his room where he is now lying,
suffering from conclusion OF the
brain and from the effects Of the
fall on the coal. DIR. G. Y. Cal
houn is his attending physician.
Year: 1875

STEAMER BLAKELY.-The Blake
ly came over here yesterday for
repairs. Her smokestack was
somewhat injured in a gale OF
wind on Saturday last, while
towing up the bark Martha Ride
out, and she is to have it replac-
ed by a new one, besides minor
repairs.
Year: 1875

BANK BUILDING. The walls
Of Dexter Horton Il Co.'S bank
have now been raised as high as
intended and to-day carpenters
commenced work on the roof
The roof is to be Of brick and
cement, surmounted by tin, the
object being to make the build
ing as nearly fire-proof as posi-
BILE. The roof will then be sur
rounded by fire wall. Next
year it is the intention to put
another story on it, as well as
on the building adjoining occu-
pied by Crawford Il Harrington
Year: 1875

ACCIDENT. - Mr.. D. Webster
met with serious accident one
day last week. He had his team
hitched to some lumber by a
chain and got his hand caught
in the chain, when the team
started up and dislocated his
thumb.
Year: 1875

w Orders have been given to an
eminent London firm to prepare several
hundred gold and silver medals and gold
rings as souvenirs, to be distributed by
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
in the course of his tour in India. The
medals, which will be of large size, will
be made in Birmingham.
Year: 1875

QUANTITIES OF THIS ARTICLH
0G kept here for sale. Information
gwen as to its perfect security and mod q
of operation. For mining or stump
blasting it has no equal. The strength
is ten times greater than black powder.
From 40 to 60 per cent. saved in time
and money. Give it trial.
Year: 1875

A school tea cher in Umatilla Co..
California, had pretty girl OF sixteen as
a pupil. She entangled bis M heart, and
then cruelty Tilted him. Thereupon he
sought revenge. Catching her in {.
slight infraction of the rules, he swung
his birch branch aloft, and commanded
her to stand up and be whipped. She
ran out of the door and like a deer
across the fields toward home but ber
fleetness was Of short duration, and the
angry schoolmaster's hand soon grasp
ed her arm. Her courage had gone
with her wind, and she offered then and
there to kiss and m AXE up if he would
not whip her. He declined to com.
promise, led her back to the school
house, and fogged her until blood
came through the back of her dress.
Her hour of exultation came when she
saw him fined $50 for assault.
Year: 1875

On Saturday night when the freight
train from Stanton arrived at Char
lottesville, a colored boy who had sto-
len a ride was found in cattle car Is
tride cf a bull. He said be would have
frozen to death if he hadn't taken that
means TO warm himself. The police
took him to the station house.
Year: 1875

The baltimore Gazette is of the opin-
ION that the proposed tax on whisky is
the biggest job" now before Congress,
by which millions Of dollars can be put
into the pockets Of tie "ring." but it
says that it is only necessary to tax the
stocks on hand to defeat the whole
scheme.
Year: 1875

A man had better have . milestone
tied to his neck and be cast into the
sea than promis to marry Texas girl
and then refuse. The whole country
turns out to hunt him, and he is gener-
ally left to grow up with tree.
Year: 1875

CHANGE OF VINUE-In the case Of
Lycurgus Little, on \ motion of Major
Holmes Conrad, counsel for the prison.
or, Judge Turner has decided in favor
of a change Of venue, and fixed upon
Winchester and the 22nd of March as
the place and time for his trial. The
prisoner was brought from Winchester
to Berryville on Monday morning, and
on alighting from the carriage in which
he came, he was warmly shaken by the
hand by some Of his friends, and when
in court attracted some notice. He was
looking somewhat paler and thinner
than be did at his trial in October,
1878. He was returned to the Jail in
Winchester.-Ciarke Courier.
Year: 1875

TREES ON BOUNDARY LINEs-The
New York Court of Appeals not long
since decided that . man has no right
to the fruit growing upon branches of a
tree overhanging his land where the
trunk of the tree stands wholly upon
the land of his neighbor. But the law
regards the overhangiDg branches as a
nuisance, and they may be removed as
such; or the owner of the land shaded
may remove them if he is careful not to
commit any wanton or unnecessary de-
struction in SO doing. Where the
trunk of tree stands on the line, the
owners of the adjoining land have q
joint ownership in the. tree and fruit,
and neither one has tho right to remove
it without the consent of the other.
Year: 1875

IL. n. Turner, an influential negro
preacher and politician Of Savannah,
writes as follows TO the Morning News Of
that city:


For several days you have been hurling
at my head heavy phillippies about my
African project, but you invariably con-
meet me with the Liberian colonization
enterprise. hope you will do me the
Justice to disconnect me from Liberia, as
l am no advocate OF that institution. 1
do hold, however, that God, in permitting
the slavery of the negro in this country,
intended it TO rebound to the civilization
and Chrisuanization OF Africa, otherwise
we would have TO charge our Maker with
folly. / further believe that We (the coli
ored people,, like the Isrselites, have ul-
timately to return to our fatherlRnd, and
carry with us the form of civilization and
the practice Of that Christian religion We
have learned from you white people.
This has been my opinion for several
years, but l have partially concealed
them because the idea has been so revolt
ing to my people that / dared not utter 1t
without mourning their denunciatiOn,
but opinion Of late having resolved itself
into the most memorable conviction, j
have determined to speak as / feel
ought, regardless of what may be said.
l by no means advocate the emigration
OF EOlOfCu DCOplG III mass ~ AAAANA AAANA
q policy wOald be impracticabls and ruin
Gus to the object contemplated. But l
hold that the time has arrived for the col
ored people 70 begin the work Providence
has assigned US. believe that the hites
Of the country will ultimately have to do
As the Egyptians did-lend us their ear
rings, fnger-rings and other precious or
naments and jewels, or, in other words,
give us aid to return TO our fatherland
and build up negro nationality, that we
may teach our brethren there the pTinci-
pals of civil government and the religion
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Could we get possession of Fernando PO,
ST. Thomas Island, or some Of those
healthy and salubTious islands in the Gulf
of Guinea, we could carry up the Niger
river enough moral, religious and intel
lectual enlightenment to redeem Africa
in a hundred years. You may ask why
/ have not gone? Ny reply Is, one, two
or three is not sufficient; we want the
foundation OF a colony. Give me few
ships, few years Of subsistence, and
some old arms 10 protect ourselves, and
will raise this men, and in i've years from
to-day l will show you negro national
ity somewhere on the continent Of Afri-
ca that will be an everlasting monument
Of honor TO the whites of this country,
and result in the salvation Of thousands
Of benighted Africans. l have already
written to three milliOnaires asking them
10 aid me with means to start the work,
but up 10 this time they have not respond
ell. But il will be done sooner or later.
Year: 1875

near Pine Apple, short time since. He


was sitting in the piazza of his house, in
a rOckiug-chair, and near the railing or
banister, his feet resting at the edge Of
the floOring. In this position his feet
slipped on the floor toward the ground,
his body being allowed TO follow on ac-
count OF the moving forward Of the chair
on the rockers; his chin caught on the
railing, and the back Of the chair came
up against the back Of his head, and so
remained, so that he was suspended In
this singular manner. Being quite old
and fnfrm, he was unable 10 extricate
himself, and the weight of his body rest
ing on his chin, prevented his opening
his mouth to call for help, and he thus
diaI from strano,ulafiOn
Year: 1875

Two hotel runners in SedaIia, Mo. got
into a fight last week, when one clutched
the other by the throat till his tongue pro-
truded, and then struck him q violent
blow under the jaw with his fist. so that
the throttled man bit of more than an
inch Of his own tongue.
Year: 1875

HE NEW ! ORk TRIBUNE reccntIy got off this among other similar truths;

 Countless newspaper people woNld be more useful in the lower walks of agricul- ture-for there is absolutely no limit to the mum Der of those who think themselves fully qualified to edit newspaper, with out once pausing to consider whether they have the requisite training, aptitude and ability. A whole army of scribblers and gabbiers might be gathered to reen- force the useful trades, if they could be brought to recognize the impertnence of their intellectual efforts. For many of them to persist in brain york;" is an atfront to common sense, and the popular favor which some ofthem secure is a dark and discouraging mystery.
Year: 1875

THERE are thirty or forty different kinds of religion in this country. and it worries the celestial entry clerk immensely 10 have people tumbling into heaven in such singularly assorted lots.
Year: 1875


It's time you drew the curtain, child, and


latched the open door; E
Pit out the useless candle--there Is daylight


on the moor;
And II he comes back in the day, be IL early,


be 1t late,


leads himto our gate.
I'll lay me down upon the bed, but / shall


wake to hear
The faintest football on the grass, or ever II


draw near;
'Tis many a year; yet should know his step


as well to-day,
As when ] checked my sObs to hear its echo


die away.
'Tis many year; l sometimes wish, the


while watch at night,
And feel my heart grow colder with the COM
ing of the light
I wish my hope could die away as dies the


lamp of morn; r-
I wish could sit down and weep, and know


myself forlorn.
I wish could shut my heart as you bar out


the sun,
And sit in darkness, yet in peace, until my


life were done;
Pm weary listening all the night for what


never hear;
Pm weary counting how the days make up


anOLner year. .-H
And If he comes, itisso long, so long I've


waited now,
OH will he know me with these lines deep


traced upon my browY .-
He'll look to see knot Of curls, like one


that he has kept,
And worn, know, upon his heart the while


he walked or slept.
He'll look to clasp little hand that once


was firm and white:
Feel how it shakes, child, Just to think II he


should come to-nightD
From scanty hair, and lined face, and figure


shrunk and bent,
How could he guess the beating heart, whose


love is all unspentl
1t would be worst Of all 10 see him try to


hide the pain
To hear the old fond words, and see the dear


old looks again;
To hold his warm brown hand, close pressed,


and know at heart the while
That when he turned his face aside the lips


forgot their smile.
I'm fain to give up hope, and rest from weary


day and night
In the gray cleaning that may end, who


knows, In sudden light;
There are some joys most near, they say,


when every hope seems past
And, If l cease to watch and wait, my love


may come at last.
Year: 1875

An amusing story is told Of a young
American gentleman who, while sojourn-
ing in Paris, invited two demoiselles to
accompany him TO the theater. Hese-
cured three seats and drove TO the house
of his fair friends, half hoping that one
was indisposed, so that his felicity might
be unbounded The two were awaiting
him, and their mother as we'll, who kindly
invited herself 10 chaperon the party, and
intimated that her daughters could under
no circumstances go without her There
was no help for IL. The four crowded
into the carriage. No fourth seat
could be obtained adjacent TO the three
already secured, or even on the same
tier, and during three long acts the
three ladies sat in box, while our young
American gazed at them with feelings un-
utterable from his seat in the parquette,
The drama over only cabs with rooms for
two could be obtained to convey the party
home. Here, then, was a dilemma
which young lady should he select as his
cab companions They were both charm
ing and The matter was difficult 70 decide
The old lady settled it, however to her
satisfaction, II to the annoyance of our
now miserable countryman. Hortense
anu Sophie, you go In this cab, Monsieur
and will follow you In the next The
young gentleman now thinks that French
social customs are barbarous.
Year: 1875

The following is next TO an infallible
rule for predicting what the weather is TO
be tomorrow: "lf you wish TO know
whether it will storm or not, all you have
10 do is TO find the storm vortex and see
which side of 1t is the most moist, Multi
ply this by the square Of the latent heat
subtract the time Of day, and divide by
the weathercock