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Year: 1875

The interior newspapers have become
somewhat excited over the reports of the
peach crop Of Maryland and Delaware.
and are congratulating themselves on an
abundance of fruit at cheap prices. The
arrangements that the growers have
made for quick and direct transportation
OF peaches westward, without having
them go through the hands of the New
York and Philadelphia middlemen, will
particularly contribute to this result.
The newspapers, however, are making
one great mistake in this connection.
They have so twisted the estimates of
the crop that they talk of a surplus of ten
millions of baskets. 1t would puzzle the
peach growers to know what they mean
by this. The fact is THAT the entire yield
of the peninsula will be somewhat over
six millions Of baskets, which, with one
exception, will be the largest of any
year.-BdHimore american.
Year: 1875

IL Is not to sweep the house, make the
bed and cook the meals chiefly that q
man wants a wife. II this is all he needs,
hired help can do it cheaper than wife.
II this is all, when a young man calls to
see lady, send him into the pantry to
taste the bread and cake she has made
send him to inspect needle-work and bed
making or put a broom in her hand and
send him to witness its use. Such things
are important, and the wise young men
will quickly look after them but what
the true man wants with wife is her
companionship, sympathy, and love.
The way of life has many dreary places
in 1t, and a man needs a companion to 90
with him. a man is sometimes over
taken by misfortune he meets with fail
ure and defeat; trials and temptations
beset him, and he needs one TO stand by
and sympathize. He has some hard bat
ties to fight with poverty, enemies and
with sin; and he needs a woman that
when he puts his arm around her. he feels
that lie has something to fight for, and
that she will help him to fight; and that
she will put her lips to his ear and whis-
per words of counsel and her hands to his
heart and simpart inspiration. All
through life, through storms and through
sunshine, conflict and victory; through
adverse and favoring winds, man nee ds a
Womsn's love. His heart yearns for it.
A sisters or mothers love will hardly
supply the need. Yet many seek for
something further than success in house
work. Justly enough, half these get
nothing more the other half surprised
beyond measure, have gotten more than
they sought. Their wives surprise them
by bringing out noble idea in marriage,
and disclosing treasury of courage, sym
pathy and love.
Year: 1875

ing in good circumstances. and having
nothing else to do, has calculated the
total expense of mending these stock
ing after the firs3 thorough overhaul
ing, as expressed in cotton, needles and
candles, and finds that it would have
kept Mrs. HamiltOn's family in the
best B2lbriggans or British hose, in
stead of the inferior quality which she
had bought for their cheaT ness. In
this estimate no account was taken of
the time taken in mending. Mrs.
Hamilton had said that her labor was
her capital, and it hardly seemed fair
to count that in. Our informant, says,
however, that her Joe heard Clint
Hamilton say the other day. that
somehow that last batch of doughnuts
wouldn't go down.


We know another worthy and we'll
meaning young woman in New York,
whose limited means as private tutor
have for several years supported a
chivalrOus old soldier of the last two
wars, whom the last one left iinpOver-
ished and unpensiOned in Alabama
1t was her custOm-Heaven knows she
thought it was her duty-tO walk up
to her work, twenty blocks through
the slush and snow of last winter, in
order to save the fares by the street
cars. She would, perhaps, have rea-
sOned, between coughs, that health
was capital.


People whose resources are small,
frequently make the mistake of sup
posing that what is of Immediate and
marketable value is of more impOr-
tance than health or education, and
they begin course of economy by cut
ting away their pleasures money
spent IN recreation comes to be regars
ded as dead waste. While Thomas
concert or day up the Hudson would
let in enough music or sunshine to
Grive away the whimseys and the doc
tor for a month to come, this mistaken
notion of economy cuts Off the only
way of escape from the grindstoi e and
pill-bOX. The first necessity OF busi-
ness man is diversion and SO long as
it does not become laboriOus. the more
absorbing his diversion, the better.
Between the utility of the beautiful
and the beautiful of the useful there is
no room to institute comparison.


In some people economy takes the
form of Investment for income. These
are the support of the mock auction
shop and the second hand book store
Mrs. TOodles, with her do0r-plate. has
congener in the seedy young billiO-
phiIe who thinks he has found bar
gain IN the Annual Report of the
Deaf and Dumb Insane Asylum for
blind inebriates," or the History of
Christian Missions among the bare
legged Indians


Other pepDle cling TO an old
garment as to an old friend !;
and after it has become as shiney as a
suit of medieval armOr, rebind and
patch. and cleaH 1t at an expense.
greatly dispropOrti0nate to its worth
This is only another and d longer road
to prOdigaIity.


After all. the principal of economy
is not so much self-sacrIfice as discre-
ton, and little bit of good sense will
often evade the necessity of heroisn.
Year: 1875

Anent the reported negro iusurrec-
tiOn in Georgia. the New York 7Ti-
6une has some timely and cOnsiderate
remarks bearing on the relations OF the
two races in that State, and the gener-
al liberation and Kindness of the
whites for re backs "If there was :,
disposition anywhere pertInently re-
marks the Tribune, To harrass aud OPP
press the negroe we might have looked
for it here. The political power is all
in the hands of the whites, but the
cOlOred people are so numerous as to be
a perpetual menace to the white su-
premacy I; just the situation Of things
to stimulate Ku>Klux violence and
make it tOlerable safe and easy. Yet
we find the eX-master and the ex-slave
living together in peace. Tine ruling
race is just !; the subject race is gener-
ally happy and cOntented. Even
when a crack-brained conspiracy has
been discovered, the white man. born
in the fear of negro instructions, does
not rush for his gun and revolver, but
merely calls out the constable and in
sists that the accused shall have u per-
fectly fair trial. There is not even. an
attempt to make political capital out of
an affair which does really illustrate
some of the worse miSchiefs into which
the carpet-bag system of managing
the negroes by eXtrEvagant promises
and secret organizations had led these
ignorant and eXcitable people If this
had occurred during the memorable
outrage campaign, we doubt whether
the Department of Justice would have
allowed the occasion to pass without
the Intervention of the troops. But it
ought to be plain now that the South


ell people have a respect for law and
order. and are capable of behaving ad-
mirably under the strongest provGca-
ton, and the lesson will not be lost up
OH the country.-Ndsh. american.
Year: 1875

perience i'll the boarding house busi
ness the like of this never before Oc-
CURED. johnson received his old
friends most cordially, and to the
day Of his death was All admirer OF
Col. Key. Could he have appointed
his OWn successor, the charge might
have fallen where it did.
Year: 1875

EThe line of conduct chosen by a
boy during the five years from fifteen to
twenty will, in almost every instance,
determine his character for life. As
he is then careful or careless, prudent
or imprudent, industrious or indolent,
truthful or discriminating, intelligent
or ignorant, temperate or dissolute, SC
will he be in after years, and it needs
no prophet to cast his horoscope or cal.
culate his chances.
Year: 1875

ECount Latour Maubourg lost his
leg At the battle Of Leipsic. After be
had suffered amputation with the great
est courage, he saw his servant crying,
or pretendi,g to cry, in the corner oi
the room. None Of your hypocritical
tears, you idle dog T said the master
You know you are glad, for now you
will have only one boot to clean instead
of two
Year: 1875

EThe Times makes the following
statement I've desire TO mention to
noisy little boys that right in the Gen.
tire Of the hind hoof Of every live mule
there 10 little lump of gold, which can
be very easily dug out with . PEN
knife"
Year: 1875

THR letter cf the President is a
curious document. The Hennsyl~
vauia Republican Convention pass
esarcsointion against the "thc third
term and for the first time he
opens his lips to answer 10 the
charge. 'Iis letter will be found
in another GoIlimn and viii not
fail to be very generally read
Tie reader will note that it is an
argument in favor of his right to
run if he should chose, and he
simply says that he looks upon a
third nomination as he did on the
first and second, which he did not
seek and did not desire and which
he simply accepted as n matter OF
duty. He would not accept a
third term except "as IN imPcra-
tive duty" Twist this as You may
please It means that he would ac-
ccpt it. The fear has all along
been ,hat he would manoevcr The
country into position in which
his fiiends could claim his thirC
election to be necessity. This
danger still exists aud l. is a yer,
great one.
Year: 1875

Capt. John B. West, announces
himself a candidate for a seat in
the next House of Delegates. He
is from enc of the best families
that shed lustre on the common
wealth when the glory of Virgin
ia was a thing conceded by all
lie is good writer, and there Is
no reason to us apparent, why the
Editor of the SENTINEL would not
represent the rich county of Lee
in manner which would contrib =
ute both to her glory and substance,
Willoughby, see what you can do
tor him.
Year: 1875

At the recent meeting of the
Rensselaer, County Medical Society,
a doctor reported case which goes
as far to show the progress being
made in the healing art as anything
recently met with. Next to taking
out the lungs and cleansing them
stands the operation Of cutting into
a persons chest, and through ;Le
wound made washing ont the inside.
Early in January last little twin
daughter of James Kelly, of Troy,
had Inflammation of one lung, aaa
Year: 1875

The New York Downtown Chess Club yesterday even
ing removed q its new rooms, No Z Second avenue
The club has been established four years and Il now
the only in the city the New York Chess Club hav-
ing dsbanded and Of its members having united
with the Downtown Club The latter counts at present
sixty members. delegation from the Newark CLUB
attended the meeting yesterday and a consultation
game played between the two clubs.
Year: 1875

teen men, of whom ten qualified Commander, Captain
Story Inspector, Lieutenant Smith Nineteen OF the
twenty four mon representing the Twenty eighth reg
ment qualified. Captain Miller the commander,
Quartermaster smith inspector. Captain Perry com
manded the forty three representatives Of the Forty
seventh regiment Twelve qualified. Lieutenant
Brown was the inspector. Colonel McLeer Fourteenth
regiment command ded the troops. and Major Manning
acted as inspector General Dakin commander Of the
Second division, present IN civilian costume


The weather tine and the shooting good The
First division will shoot to-day.
Year: 1875

John Williams, young man, aged nineteen years,
who said he lived at the corner Of Twenty sixth
and Fourth avenue was arrested last night by officer
Seaman Of the Fifteenth precinct a charge OF hav-
ing forced entrance INTO the apartments Of Agernon
C. Hewitt on the second floor OF No So sixth avenue
He discovered in the act Of packing up a large
quantity OF property and pursued and captured in
Washington Park. He locked up in the Mercer
street station house. and viii be arragned in Court this
mi
Year: 1875

TIE DEMOCRAT is thoroughly in- dependent in it's course, unde.. no pledge or covenant to support the schemes or fortunes of any man or set of men, always having at heart first, the good of the people of Pope county, and of the state of Arkan sas. It claims no right to lead or direct in politics, or any other sphere; but it does claim the right, and will fearlessly and at all times assert it, to speak it's own opinions, on all matters coming within the scope of its duty as an independent journal. Whatever prominence it maintains in the affairs of this county or State, will be voluntarily accorded by the people who support 1t. In short the DEMOCRAT wishes to be judgel solely upon its own merits as local and state newspa- per, having for it's chief object the dissemination of the news of the day with such comments upon current topics as seem appropriate and are conscientiously entertained by its management. It will heartily sup port all movements, political or otherwise, which promise to fur thur, and unhesitatingly oppose those which would jeopardize, the interests of the people. In every department it will be as enterpris- ing as it's patronage will justify. Sensible men will approve the busi- ness management that limits expen- diture to the bounds of income; On- ly fools or enemies expect a degree of excellence in all points that can alone be attained by the possession of resources and income.
Year: 1875

eBhe adopted and used clusively in the New York Conservatory of Music

 acknowledged undergo The New York Music Thirty Arion Pianos and durability by the leading Colleges the United and by the principal Opera Troupes.
Year: 1875

EDITOR MINER;-In your last weeks Nil NER noticed an article, the subject of which was FIRE-hOw to guard against it. This subject has of late received the attention of property holders of this town, and many plans have boen discussed, how best to pro- tect this town against that fierce and dread ful element that may any moment visit Us and impoverish the best of OUT citizens. I deem it an important duty for the property hold CTS to at once consult with oneanother to have water brought into town besides that now obtained from the different wells, for every one knows that no adequate supply can be obtained to fully and speedily extin- guish fire should one break out in any part of the town. 1 have consulted with num- of our citizens and property holders, who would like to see the experiment tried of ble place in town, and a reservoir built to gather the waters that would flow from the well, from which it could be conducted through hose or pipe to any part ot the town. There is every reason to suppose that water could be obtained at reasonable depth, and if successful, what benefit this would be to the people. As the water would all be utilized, We would see beautiful gar dens to every cottage, whereas now most all the vacant lots are barren.

 The cost of the material for the well and the boring of it is not greater than We are able to meet, providing all the property holders will take hold of it with a will and it is q comparative trifle if we take into con sideration the benefit it would be to each and every citizen. Besides being of direct benefit to the people of this town, it would give impetus and encouragement to the whole country around here, wells would be started in different parts of this county, and as sure as water is obtained prosperity would dawn upon everybody.

 Should the above plan not be deemed feasible, l would ask the people of the town of Prescott to bestir themselves and secure the waters of Granite Creek above town and lead it through pipes to Capital Hill or some other suitable prominence where a reservoir should be built from which the water could be made available for the pur- poses above stated. The latter plan is surely practicable, and as our town Is growing daily, it will and must be done sooner or later, and why not do it now, that we may have the benefit of it for all purposes stated? hope and trust that either or both projects will be considered by the citizens and property hold CTS, and the best plans adopted, as it IS for the general good and benefit.

 C. 4. LUXE. Prescott, March 3d. 1875.
Year: 1875

MEN WE DoN'T WANT TO MEET-The man who grunts and gasps as he gobbles up his soup, and at every other mouthtull seems threatened with a choking fit.

 The man who, having by an accident been thrown once in your company. makes bold to baYl your name out, and shake your hand profusely when you pass him in the street.

 The man who, pleading old schoolfelow- ship. which you have quite forgotten, never meets you without trying to extort five pound note.
Year: 1875

CALL AND SEE Us.-It is a mistake to suppose that an editors sanctum is a hermits cell, and that it is too sacred place for people to enter except on special business. We like to have peo- pie call upon us, especially those from the coun- try who have reliable items of news to impart, that the world ought to know. No matter what the news relates to, whether mining, grazing, az rculture, matrimOny or what not, or if you have notking to tell, come in anyway, and perhaps We may think of something to tell you, and WIG will ret acouaiRted if nothing more.
Year: 1875

ToM EWING left here on Tusday night for L. Pax. We can imagine him blessing the country as he rode over the Granite divide in the face of the widest wind and snow-storm of the season.
Year: 1875

TIE REGISTRY LAW of the Territory as passed by the Legislature will be found on the first page o' this paper. It may be well to preserve it for iu'ure reference, as upon it hang all the rights We enjoy in the way of suffrage.
Year: 1875

He concluded: "What we have to do we must do right speedily or never do at all. In that day, when those who have wrapped themselves in luxuries and despised the poor shall come to shame and everlasting contempt, hope it may be said of you and of me that we gave bread to the hungry child and wiped away the tear of the or phan, and upon the wanderer of the street we spread the brightness and benediction of a Christian name, and that through our in strumentalty it shall be known on earth and in heaven that many lost became many found.n
Year: 1875

"IS THERE any person you wish me to marry ?" said wife to dying spouse, wto had been somewhat a tyrant in his day. Marry the devil, if you like" was the gruff reply. "No. thank you, one husband of the same family is enough for me-"
Year: 1875

"The community can no more afford to have ignorant men in it's midst than it can afford to have uncaged hyenas. Ignorance is the mother of hydra headed crime. Thirty one per cent. of all the criminals of New York State can neither read nor write. h. telectual darkness is the precursor of moral darkness 1 know there are educated out laws, men who through their sharpness of intellect are made more dangerous. There are. even in New England, l9l GOO people who can neither read nor write; in the State of Pennsylvania, 222, 1000; in the State of New York, 240,00O; while in the United States there are nearly 6,000000 who can neither read nor write. In view of this fact l am in favor of compulsory education. The Eleventh ward of New York has 5000 chil- dren who are nat in school. When parents are so bestial as to neglect this duty to the child the law, with a strong hand, at the same time with gentle hand, ought to lead these little ones into the light of intelligence and good morals. The officers of the law ought to go down into the cellars and up into the garrcts and bring out these benighted little ones and put them under educational influences, after they have pass ed through tie bath and comb, putting be- fore them the spelling book and teaching them to read.
Year: 1875

IS examining the law, which We published last week, for taxing the net proceeds of the mines, we find some things to commend and others to condemn.

 We believe in protecting the miner as the law does until after he has made his enterprise prof. table and then he should not regard it a hardship to pay on his net earnings after deductmg every possible expense, while his neighbor who owns a farm or other property is paying on the gross value without any deductions.

 And yet it seems hardship to compel any miner to "show down his hand" and let the world see just what he is doing, as the law requires him to do in order 10 arrive al his net profits. Upon the whole, however, the law is not so bad when you come to read.
Year: 1875




THE marriage law passed by the German
Parliament is quite sweeping, entirely does
away with any recognition of ecclesiastical
authority, and is in certain respects much
like that of France. Only a civil rite is re-
quiled. A woman must have the consent OF
her father if she marries before she IS twen-
ty-four years old, and a man if he marries be-
fore he is twenty-five. If the father be dead
the consent of the mother must be obtained.
Should consent be refused the person con-
templating matrimony may apply to the court
for dispensation. Widows cannot remarry
for ten months after the death of the hus-
band. For all that appears to the contrary
men may marry the next day. Since the act
went into operation only rs per cent. OF the
marriages which have taken place have been
celebrated in churches-a circumstance which
speaks strongly for the popularity of the laws
Year: 1875

The President has issued his proclamation
for an extra session of Senate, to receive and
act upon such communications as may be
made to it On the part of the executive,
claiming that an extraordinary occasion re-
quires it TO convene for the transaction OF
business at the capital on the fifth day Of
March next. ....r
Year: 1875

GEN. HAzEN has followed up his North
American article with pamphlet of like i'm
port entitled sour Barren Lands" 1t is in


reply to Gen. Custer, who denied the state
ment that ga large proportion Of the lands Of
the Northern Pacific Railroad are worthless,
both for agriculture and as security for
money" Gen. Hazen holds to his former
position, and asserts that it is monstrous
fraud to encourage emigration to these lands.
Toward the close of his pamphlet he becomes


decidedly severe, and declares "the stories OF
the tropical belt and continental wheat gar
den" to be the "puerile inventions of the late
witness, literary stockholder and literary agent
of the Northern Pacific animated through
the instrumentality of that great moral pow
er the Independent; for which services that
leading Christian newspaper Of the world was
given a previously unheard-of compensa-
tiOn7 t..
Year: 1875

IT appears that the recent meeting OF the
English Liberal members of Parliament for
the purpose of selecting leader is bold in
novation, and the first open violation of
precedent established as long ago as 1858. In
fact the meeting did away with the appoint
ment of premier by the Queen, and substi-
tuted therefor his selection by party eau
Gus. The usage has been for the monarch to
select the man who should form the cabinet,
from the party which commanded majority
of the House of Commons. In time the vic
torious party came to put forward three or
four names from which the king made his
choice. Of late but one man, the acknowl-
edged leader of his party, has been pre-
sented, but the choice has in appearances
rested with the king. Now even that thin
disguise has been thrown of, and the party
leaders 60 into caucus and select the premier,
making not the slightest pretense of con-
sulting the royal will. So great an innova-
ton is strongly indicative of the rapid pro-
gress the Republican idea is making in Eng
land ...
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith. ir


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
neations that are not used .....t.s ...
Year: 1875

PORT DEPOSIT, March "A large
volume of ice lies between this place
and Lapidum, extending distance Of
ten miles, taking in the width of the
river, which is one mile wide. The
danger unprecedented is that the ice and
water rushing down from above will
form dam where it comes in contact
with this large volume of ice, and thus
the current Of the river be thrown di-
rectly through the town. The ice is
already piled twenty and thirty feet
high in many places, and many fami-
lies have removed to other localities
for safety. Watchmen have been
placed on guard to give notice when
the ice begins to move.