Word: southernization
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...suggested in a Southern journal that a better plan than lies in compulsory education is to employ excellent teachers and to pay them, in addition to their salaries, a percentage on every unwilling or careless child whom they are able to coax into school. It is further suggested that a discount should be imposed on them for every child dropping out of the school, and that their salaries should be discontinued if they fail to keep up their schools...
...Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from...
...Grant will leave Washington, where he has been the guest of President Arthur, on an extended southern tour next Tuesday...
...French paper remarks that Mr. Haverly owes much of his popularity to the excellent record that he made as a general in the Southern army...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England, light rain, followed by clearing weather, south to west winds; no decided change in temperature; rising barometer in the southern portions...