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Year: 1876

Bro. Mcclure is trying to stir up the citizens of his town to a sense of their duty, and to the urgent necessity of branch rail way to the depot of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway at this place. In the last number of the Independent Arkansian he gives some facts and figures which we thinK it would be well for the business men of Dardanelle to carefully consider. The article we publish entire in another part of to-day's paper. A town like that, with a scope of country ex tending back of it, and above it, for forty miles to pour its pro ducts into that market, ought, of course, to have better, more relia- bic and quicker transportation ia cilities than the Arkansas River affords. A branch railroad to this place is just the thingl
Year: 1876

These two-the Democratic par tv and reform--now seem to be joined hand in hand. All of the over taxed masses who are not blinded by the ill-timed theories of the hair splitting malcontents who are try ing, fruitlcssly and in vain, we trust, to stir up mutiny and discord within the ranks of the party, naturally associate sall their ideas of reform with the the Democratic party; and to the Democratic party they look for re- lief from the corruption which has so uniformly characterized the present administration through all its notifications.

 There is nothing else on which to foster any hope. There is nothing to be expected from any other source except q change in parties. There are but the two parties, the republican party which has been the champion from it's inception up to the pres cnt time, of fraud and abuse, and the democratic party which has contested every inch of ground and opposed with all it's might ev cry invasion of the suffering peo ple's rights, to which to look witt any expectation of any better ad ministration. The new parties which few of the discontentet men of the country attempt at ev

 cry presidential election t' breathe into life, amount t' nothing, and nothing is to be ex

 pected of thcm-nothing only

 prolongation of the present ruin ous Administration. The ma

 terial of which these new parties is made up, is naught but tn,

 treacherous falling of from tn,

 two main parties. It will be il

 the present contest, as 1t was il

 1872, another victory for the Rad ical despoilers, unless the think ing, taX-ridden masses avoid al

 new combinations, and take side

 with the purely democratic party The Louisville Couner-Journa whose zeal in the advocacy of united democratic party and tn , selection of q standard beare whose name will mean reform, ha
Year: 1876

brought upon it storm of abuse and misrepresentation from mutt nous tempered democrats, closes an article in reply to one of these attacks as follows:

 We are not pleading for Tilden ; we plead for the Democratic par ty. A change of parties is essen tial to the reform of the public service. It cannot be had by pulling about corruption. It can not be had by a union of mega tions. The Democratic party can not afford to be negative. It must step to the front in the per son of q great, positive leader, whose nomination is menace to the Corruptionists, an assurapce to the people. It must go in brandishlng the butchers knife ofieform, real terror to thieves. It must not be afraid to be un- sparing; it must seek compromis- es nowhere; but, putting itself upon the claim of it's candidate to the confidence of the over taxed masses, it must give no quarter to radicals, nor stop to barley with shilly- -shallying middle men and hair-splitting theorists. The present is a case for generals, not for quibbles. Firing on our own people, firing h rear of our line of battle, though it be yet un- formed, should be held as an eyi- dence of a mutinous temper, if not a sure sign of treachery. The better men of the party, the more enlightened press of the party, should take this matter in hand without delay. The contest will be hard one at best. We can only win it by uniting among our selves, and, if we can not unite at St. Louis, we shall never be able to unite at all.

 To that union we have contrib uted an unbrolxen stream of good feeling; this has been met by ceascless and ruffianly misrepre- sentation. We care nothing for that on our own account. We can take care of ourselves. But we are earnest in the conviction that the one hope the people have of easier times is to be realized in a change of parties, and that this can be achieved only by thorough democratic organization. Be the nominee whoever he shall be -Tilden, Hendricks, Bayard or Allen-we shall do our best, by him. We ask the same guarantee of those who meet us in conven- tion; and, as a foretaste of it, we demand, on behalf of the suffering masses ofthe people -the victims of an age of gigantic corruption- that the yenal press and crack brained politicians who catch ur the words and tone of the venal press. be forced to behave them selves. Their clamor is only prof itable only to radicals. It was be, gun without cause and proceeds without honest sustenance. Ii can only live on lies. Its success means another democratic defeat and still another radical admins tration.

 We commend these lines to tho careful consideration of all reas onable and thinking men; there is truth and soberness in them With un ited Democratic party of the temper and spirit indicated by this extract, signal victory for the country will be the result of this presidential campaign.
Year: 1876

The house of representatives on Thursday last, by q vote, au- thorized the banking andcurrency committee to report at any tlme' This is accepted as an indication that the majority are in favor of repeating the resumption act, and will do so in short time.
Year: 1876

We can recommend the town of Searcv as a most delightful re sort at which to spend few weeks and partake of the excellent sul- phur Springs water; and after you get there, we recommend the Kellum Hotel as stopping place where you will receive the very kindest attentions.
Year: 1876

Sitting Bull has been put to shame by
the chivalry of Hamburg, SC. On the
Fourth of July few white men undertook
to disband regularly organized company
OF militia. The final result Of the matter
was, that large number of the southern
chivalry assembled and attacked the ar
mory, and captured most of the company.
During the night strong posse started to
escort the prisoners to Jail at Augusta.
Taking them to suitable place on the
public highway the guards released the
prisoners aud ordered them to run. y
As the frightened negroes ran, the heroic
guards fired On them, killing several 1t
is that class of men in the south who sup-
part Tflden and Henrdicks. j Imtoa
( Io,0aJ Eagle.


We commend to the attention of the
Eagle the case of Miss Emma Lee, daugh-
ter of the Rev W. W. Lee, Baptist mint
lister OF Efhingham county, Ga. A few
weeks ago the reverend gentleman house
was attacked by three negro thieves, who
were discovered by Miss Lee and treated
to load from a gun in the hands of that
bravo young lady. A few days afterward
these same negroes surprised Miss Lee al
distance from the house, beat her with
biuets of wood until she was senseless
cruelty end brutally ravished her, anG
threw her body into neighboring pond
1t is this class of men in the south who
support Hayes and Wheeler. Cit1
Press.
Year: 1876

THE scheme of forcing Austin to pay
$3.50, 900 into the Golfers of the Internation-
al Railway Company has been discussed and
planned for months. No one authorized to
speak or bind the company will dare to say
that it is not intended, as stated in the Pal
estine newspaper, to stop the road twenty
miles from Austin and compel tIadesmen
and property-owners to pay for its extension
to this place. Certain citizens of Austin may
be specially exempted from the necessity of
paying, but that the International managers
conirived the plot defined we do not doubt.
-.But the necessity for the narrow gauge is
shown by the anxiety of the representatives
of the international to defeat its construc-
ton. The company is very unwilling to
be forced to charge narrow gauge passen-
ger and freight rates towards Austin.
Cheap rates are always towards and for the
aggraudizement of New York and St. Louis
and high rates are fastened on people and
goods going from the interior to Western
and Southern towns. The narrow gauge
defeats this little scheme and compels both
the International and Central to ship to-
wards Austin at narrow gauge rates. Our
correspondent prattles about a turnpike.
He is not weak enough to suppose the peo-
pie ignorant of the fact that these are instI-
tutiOns of remote antiquity. Their use is
forgotten in Tennessee, and even modern
Rome fOrgets to repair the Appian Way.
Year: 1876




Mr.. Edwin Booth played Ruy Bias yesterday after
ut the Lyceum Theatre for the FIRST time in
many years. The perfection OF any art requires con-
tinuous practice fine pianist said TO US, 'lf
do no: play my piano on Sunday know on MONDAY
that have lost something OF my power" so Dir.
Booth did not play Ruy Blss well we had
expected He not at ease in the char
acter. and he had also had during tho
week the burden OF King Richard. The cxactions Of
that character upon the aud physique OF actor
relentless No one who plays Gloster every night
should attempt any other great role as an interude
Mr. Booth did justice neither TO himself to the part
in his personaton OF Ruy Bias The performance was
not powerful, bat pleasing This we believe, Is
not because OF any deficiency In the actor but
because OF the want OF experience Ruv Bias
sould be OF Edwin Booths great presentations
The genteness the honor the transitions tho soul OF
the man are elements which nc ought TO express with
supreme emphasis. but to do this he must make
IL study, not an experiment The cast OF tho play
generally good. but Mr.. Levck did not do his
best Don Sailust, and Miss Jennings was evidently
lot familiar with tho Queen. Several changes OF the
stage business were introduced, and we think they
were not Tor the better.
Year: 1876

toms OF the past century. 1t might no


be desirable il we could. But we need
not drift on the current OF fashion. We
can stand firmly against innovations
which are wrong. while We accept those
which may be helpful. We can be con-
scientious in our home training. We can
raise our voices, feeble though they may
be, for the right. II we cannot turn the
stream backward, we can keep from be-
iug borne along MS its willing victims.
| know lady who was reared in q
home of wealth. But she had sensible
mother who taught her daughters TO
work. This lady is delicate, suffering
from inherited disease. Sometimes she
is without a servant for months. She
has three children, healthy play iul,
noisy, us heppy childhood should be.
But her house is kept in order; her work
done at the proper time, and no neglect
ed dust, no unsightly closets, nor soiled
linen but perfect neatness, and health
iul food. A morning caller would find
her in dress suited TO her work her
hair carefully arranged, her children
neatly and prettily dressed. Flowers
arc always smiling up from her window,
and her table is usually graced with q
simple bouquet. The piano stands in
vitingly open, while she readily responds
to an invitation 10 sing, showing that she
is not the household drudge, but the
home queen.


How does she accomplish so much?
She was trained as every lady should be,
10 master her work, Instead OF being
mastered by it. So she makes her home
Il resting place. So it should be with our
daughters. Their hands may not be
beautiful and shapely, but they will be
loving hands They may not be soft, but
they will be skilled in kindly deeds
helpful To mother or sister or brother.
They may not be able to perform difficult
mnsic. but they will give you sweet home
melodies. They will know how TO keep
home bright.-how to caress the baby.
They will be welcome wherever there is
sorrow. and their hands will be grateful
TO the fevered brow.


How white, and pure, and clean, will
such hands be in Gods sight! How far
reaching tho influence OF such homes.
Year: 1876

work, and forward with the same old
cheer which had been its own ever since
its broDzed veterans heard the whistle of
bullets. But it was too much for us. -


They had forgotten how weak we were.
and some one had blundered. The lines
wiihered before the storm OF shot We
fell back; were charged in turn. and
went down among the heaps Of dead and
wounded. The roar of battle died away
in moment; daylight changed to dark
ness, and when opened my eyes again
The surgeons stood over me and my left
arm was gone.


There was no one TO call the roll The
stark, stiff form Of The lieutenant had
been given 10 earth, and ,ha seven men
who represented Company q looked to
themselves. Fate had choice who
should be taken and who left, and death
passed me by. l alone Of tue one hun
dred and three veterans returned to the
country village TO tell them how this one
and that one died; 10 hear the sobs of
widow and orphan, until my heart ached.
Sometimes in my day reveries or night
dreams call the roll again, and shadowy
forms stand In line, and ghostly voices
"aye" and "aye" until start up with q
sob in my throat at the remembrance of
those who sleep 10 The trenches beside
the Potomac, meath the shadow OF Round
Top, along the Rappahanuook. and down
among the dark thickets OF the Wilder
ness. sleeping there never to know war
again. G. b. LEWIS.
Year: 1876

Turnips are profitable crop if
grown on good land. Five hundred
bushels to the acre are often grown
at cost of SIS, including gather
ing and putting them in Il cellar,
root house, or buying them, making
the cost only three cents a bushel.
Some varieties may be sown in
July, the fiat variety in particular
which is frequently sowu among
corn, Immediately after hoeing.
Care should be taken not to sow
too thick, as thinning out is not
generally practiced when grown
in this way; nor is any wedding
done. This is dacidedIy the cheap
est way that crop Of turnips can
be grown. Cover the seed by I
brush drag drawn between the
rows of corn Some farmers object
to growing turnips to feed cows,
on account of giving the milk an
unpleasant flavor, but this is obvi-
ated.
Year: 1876

COURAGE AND FEAR OF DEATH.-The
Chinese of the southern deltas, who have
little active courage, though the Chinese
Of the north and west have plenty, will
die for bribe TO save a richer criminal
from the sentence he has earned. The
Bengalee, who alone among mankind
says calmly, "A'me BheroO," -" l am
timid," as if cowardice were matter of
moral and social Indifference, or rather
credtable than otherwise, goes to execu-
ton, as Macaulay noticed, like hero,
and will encounter an inevitable and
agonizing death without flutter of the
pulse. His nerve is as great as Vain
wright's who died without perceptible
change in the steadiness of his heart beats,
but who-unlike the Bengalee-with an
object before him would probably have
rushed upon the cannon. The Malay,
who cannot be induced or compelled to
face rockets, dies as TRANQUILITY as Casa
blanca and the Cingalese of the coast,
who will fight nobody, meets death with
out murmur or pang. An English
sailor Of the old type, who would face any
thing earthly except black cat, has prob
ably twice as much fear of death as the
cultivated woman who can endure death
by deadly operation resignedly, yet
faints in the presence of any noisy danger
The wild romancer Gustave Aimard states
as fact within his knowledge, that
Spanish officer shot himself dead rather
than cross rope suspension bridge ; and
we can vuuch for the following story,
though we must not give the names An
English ensign, just joined before the first
Sikh campaign, went to his comm andng
officer, a relative, and told him that he
could not face tho shot, that he should dis
grace himself, and must resign. His rel


ative comtorted him kindly, told him he
was only nervous, and thought he had
soothed his fear but the lad, as he stepped
out of the tent, shot himself through the
brain, inviting death rather than meet a
call upon his courage.-LOndOn Spectator
Year: 1876

A PHILADELPHIA milliner apprentice
went to visit her mother in the country
last Sunday and when that worthy ma
tron beheld her child she exclaimed {:
"Isabel Maria Stephens, what on airth
do you mean coming out in broad day
light with your gown all kafummuxed
up in a heap behind ye and all bound up
that way in front of ye? And amt ye
got no stockings all of one color that ye
have to wear them zebra colored things ?
Thought ye was goin' to be mlliner.
Sh'd think ye'd married barber and
was playin' up sign board for him. Did
ever think one Of my girls would come
10 this !"
Year: 1876

It, and / also know that OF all the
monoPolies that have afflicted or blessed
the country this was the largest, the
strongest, and the fsrthest reaching. Still
Tor the value of the invention to the
human race don't know that the race has
paid too much. 1t would have been rather
hard on It to have levied another tax Of
democratic congress tor preventing IL.
There is no telling what might nave hap
pened If Belknap's friends had had the
decision of it.n
Year: 1876

The winter of lS71-72 was un-
usually severe in Arkansas. The
ponds and the smaller streams to
the north were all frozen solid, and
the buffalo were forced to the rivers
for water. The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad was then in
process of construction, and no
where could the buffalo be better
studied than from its trains. If a
herd was on the north side of the
track it would stand stppidly gazing
and without symptoms Of alarm,
though the locomotive passed
within a hundred yards. If on the
south side Of the track, even though
at a distance of one or two miles
from it, the passage of a train sci
the WHOLE herd in the widest com.
motion. AT its full speed and ut.
terly regardless Of consequence, i
would make for the track on itt
line of retreat. If the train hap.
pened not to be in IFS path itcrosset
the track, and stopped satisfied. I


the train was in the way each indi


yidual buffalo went at it with the


desperation Of despair, plunginl
against OF between locomotive qnt


car, just as the blind madness


CHANGED to take them. Number
Year: 1876

were killed, but numbers still
pressed on to stop and stare as soon
as the obstacle was passed. After
having trains ditched twice in one
week, conductors learned to have
very decided respect for the idio-
syncrasies of the buffalo, and when
there was a possibility of striking
a heard son the rampage for the
north side Of the treck, the train
was slowed up and sometimes stop
ped entirely.
Year: 1876

What does the Cincinnst. CONNER
cial mean by this? ga careful
analysis of the senate shows that it
is republican only because the execu.
tive is republican. Tilden would fluid
a democratic majority ready for him
in the senate"
Year: 1876

tic medicine that can be employed: cleans
ing the stomach and bowels, and even the
blood. In small doses of one pill day,
they stimulate the digestive organs and
promote vigorous health.


AYERS PILLS have been known for
more than quarter of a century, and have
obtained worldwide reputation for their
virtues. They correct diseased action in
the several assimilative organs of the
body, and are so composed that obstruc-
tions within their range can rarely with
stand or evade them. Not only do they
cure the everyday complaints of every
body, but also formidable and dangerous
diseases that have baflled the best of
human skill. While they produce power
full effects, they are, at the same time, the
safest and best physic for children. By
their aperient action they gripe much less
than the common purgatives, and never
give pain when the bowels are not inflamed.
They reach the vital fountains of the blood,
and strengthen the system by freeing it
from the elements of weakness.


Adapted to all ages and conditions in
all climates, containing neither calomel
nor any deleterious drug, these Pills may
be taken with safety by anybody. Their
sugar-coating preserves them ever fresh,
and makes them pleasant to take; while
being phvely vegetable, no harm can arise
from their use in any quantity.


PREPARED BY
Year: 1876

AS all of the PRINT works have closed for the present.
we offer you large lot of cheap prints, which not be
replaced when sold One month from all Cotton
Goods will be much higher. Now is the time to supply
with Dry Goods cheaper than before known
IN the history of our country.
Year: 1876

BRIsTOw on THE SOLID SoUTH.-Mr.
Bristow has been soundly beratod hy the
Kentucky Democrats for turning
against his own section" in his speeches
in Indiana. How far he deserves it can
be judged by this extract from a recent
speech


i would 10 heaven that there were no
bloody shirts to shake, but the Republic
can party means to protec: the people,
and the South has yet given no evidence
that its borders are safe for n political
opponent, and that there will be no more
bloody shirts. There will be no occasion
for any military force when the Demo-
cracy see that they have no chance. They
will quiet down, and there will be no
bloody massacres at Hamburg or else
where. 1t is this delusive hope of pow
er that does the mischief. They have ex-
cited this dangerous hope by the norni-
nation Of a Socessioni-t for President,
and so long as they entertain q hope Of
his election, so long will thesectional an
imOsity exist. II the Democracy meant
fair, why did they not nominate War
Democrat Because they depended up
on the united South that is their boast.
We went South with our armies and left
u quarter OF n million dead, to dissuuder
II united South, and yet, in eleven short
years, under the banner Of Democracy,
the united South expect TO carry with the
ballot whnt they lost by the bullet. The
united South mean terrible consequences
to our socinl peace. We met the united
South with arms let ~ now meet the
unired South with the ballot. | have no
bad feeling toward them, bu. the mis-
chief must be crushed by crushing the
Democracy.
Year: 1876

A GIRL in Cincinnati recently over
loaded her stomach with heavy wed


ding cake and retired early IA order that
she might dream Of her future husband.
She dreamed TINT "a man with mouth
curling under each ear, one white eye, n
wig, and nm ncume of two dollars and
eighty cents year came and sat on her
footboard ; and she's in the worst kind
Of cave Of gloom now in consequence.
Year: 1876

We have once or twice called attention
to the behavior Of boisterous class Of men
and boys on Delaware avenue Sunday
afternoons. This avenue has become the
favorite promenade Of Wilmington people,
and if good behavior is not 'exacted of the
rough characters, it will loose cast among
the respectable class of the community
There was a noticeable amount of drunk
eness on the avenue yesterday and the con-
duct of some was SO boisterous as to be
positively annoying. The distribution Of a
small force Of policeman from Market
street to the Soldiers Monument would
have very salutary effect.
Year: 1876

The farmers of this State have for some
time recognized the importance of depart
ing from the cultivation exclusively of
peaches and other fruits, and paying more
attention to diversified crops. There is no
question that the strawberry and peach
crops could be made more profitable to the
grower if they could obtain the proper
railroad facilitie, for shipping, but this
seems almost an impossibility to do. The
cars used, here, with very few excep-
lions, need ventilation, and the fruit, by
the time it reaches its destination, is in
most instances in an unmarketable state.
Hence the grower is a tremendous loser,
and those who are the agents Of the fruit
become discouraged, loose confidence, and
almost tire of articles, which are not relia-
BILE as marketable goods. In the face Of
such discouragements as these, we think
ourselves, that if the fruit crops
were more limited and better atten.
tion paid to diversified crops, that the
farmers at the end Of the year would fine
themselves infinitely better of. There
would not be such great risk to run, ane
the anxiety Of mind would be greatly re
Jieved.