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The New York herald., 1876-03-25
A sKIRMIsH WITH RIVER PIRATES.

About one O'Clock yesterday morning a boat sup.
posed to river pirates, was seen skulkng neal
the storeroom OF tho Hoboken Terry, Hoboken. 4
watchman employed by tho Morris and Essex Rail
road Company noticed the thieves and without parlc,
gave them vocy OF lead from his revolver whore.
upon they rowed away at double quick speed Il Is
surmiscd that they belong 10 the gang which reccnt
robbed the sorehouse above mentioned
The New York herald., 1876-03-25
BURGLARS AT UNION HILL, N ].

Early yesterday morning burglars entered tho hous,
OF Mrs Du Rome, at Union Hnl n. J. They ran
sacked all the rooms on tho ground oor and escaped
with booty OF jcwelry, clothing, &C. worth about
$500 The robbery not discovered until the fainlf
LAT about seven o'clock Ia the morning
The New York herald., 1876-03-25
FATAL FALL.

Yesterday afternoon John Hancy, wealthy farmer
residing near Gutenberg, n. j., was thrown from a
wagon hts head striking rock His skull was crushed
and hc died IN a short time.
The New York herald., 1876-03-25

The following Is copy OF letter written by Senator
Cameron, OF Pennsylvania, in reply to an invitation
from his colleagues in the Lower House TO accept
banquet in honor OF his seventy eighth birthday
The New York herald., 1876-03-25
THE HAYTnN PRoNUNCIAMENTo.

NEW YORK, March 25, 1876
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
Gutenberg's Invention.

Considered from mechanical point
of view, the merit of Gutenberg's inven-
ton may be inferred from its perma-
nency. His type-mold was not merely
the frst-it is the only practical mechan-
ism for making types. For more than
four hundred years this mold has been
under critical examination, and many
attempts have been made to supplant it.
Contrivances have been introduced for
casting fifty or more types at one oper-
alton; for swaging types, like nails, out
of cold metal; for stamping types from
cylindrical steel dies up.n the ends of
copper rods; but experience has shown
that these and other inventions in the
field of type.making machinery are not
better methods of making types. There
is no better method than Gutenberg's.
Modern type-casting machines have
molds attached to them which are more
exact and more carefully finished, and
which have many little attachments OF
which Gutenberg never dreamed, but in
principle and in all the more important
features, the modern molds may be re-
garded as the molds of Gutenberg.
"Why," says Madden, "should we
speak of monuments of bronze or stone
to commemorate the services of Guten-
berg? His monument is in every quar-
ter of the world; more frail than all, it
is more enduring than all-it is the
book. k."-Scribner's Magazine.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
Killed by Ambition.

A terrible comment on the process of
brain -cramming which obtains in our
public schools, is the melancholy death
of New York school.boy. The boy, it
would appear, was of an ardent, am
bilious temperament, highly sensitive,
and up to certain critical point in his
school-boy life, studious to the extent of
distancing all class competitors of his
own age. Unfortunately, as the result
showed, these qualities attracted the at
tention of his teacher and his parents,
who, desirous of creating prodigy, had
the lad promoted to higher class, with
the members of which it was morally i'm
possible for him to cope. The natural
result followed. The studious boy lost
his ambition with the full knowledge
that he could not crafty it, and
gradually found his way to the end OF
his class. He became so negligent that
his teacher, in the belief that he had de-
generated through simple carelessness,
wrote up his name in great letters on a
blackboard, so that all comers should
read it. The rest is shortly told. The
boy told his schoolmates that he would
commit suicide, and he kept his word,
though they thought it was school-boy
bravado. He deliberately hung himself
with book-strap, and the verdict of the
coroner's jury was simply "suicide by
hanging" There is no doubt that the
boys mind was unhinged by over.study,
and he became sacrifice to" the am
bition that kills." Studiousness is an
excellent thing, in the scholar, but, like
all good qualities, may be carried too far.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
A French Duel.

A sanguinary duel took place in France
the other day. In heated political
discussion blow was given by Count
de X to the Duke off,. The Duke
didn't return the blow but few minutes
later finding himself alone with the
gentlemen who were to act as hisseconds,
he took an oath never to see his wife or
little girl again until he had washed away
the insult in the blood of the Count.
The next day the duel took place. The
Duke was wounded twice-in the forearm
and in the right side-before the Count
had received a scratch; but the Duke,
Notwithstanding the suffering and loss OF
blood from his wounds, insisted on con-
tinuing the fight. The duel went on
the Duke, making a superhuman effort,
drove his sword through his adversary,
who fell lifeless. Then, pallid as death,
bathed in his own blood, and with diff.
Guilty sustaining himself, the Duke drew
white handkerchief from his pocket.
and bending over the Counts body,
dipped the handkerchief in the blood
gushing from his adversary's death
wound, and turning to the four seconds,
who looked on aghast, the Duke raised
the blood-stained cloth to his face and
said: "You will tell them, gentlemen,
how the Duke ofZ-avenged'the blood Of
the one who insulted me-" He then said
to his own second: "Take this handker-
chief, which / confide to you, to the
Duchess, my wife; enjoin upon her as
duty to place il among the wedding
presents of my daughter when she shall
be married; IL is her fathers gift to her
the purity of his name." The words
were hardly spoken when the Duke fell
back dead; and in death his features
looked calm and proud, and almost wore
smile. His honor had been satisfied.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
Mr.. Stewards Old Employees.

The legacies regularly provided for in
A. r. Stewards will have been paid, but
the sums of 81, 900 to each employee OF
twenty years standing, and $500 to each
who had been in service ten years, which
Mrs. Stewart is told by her husbands
letter to bestow, have not been disbursed.
The delay is caused by the making of
lists, search of old account books being
necessary to ascertain the claimants
length of employment.
There is considerable anxiety among en-
ployees who were in Mr.. Stewards service
q few months less than ten years, asthese
expect to be included among the bene'
fciaries. So, too, men whose records
show gaps of absence are troubled by
doubts. Another expectant class are
those who served ten years or more, but
were not i'm Mr.. Stewards employ at the
time of his death. Mrs. Stewart has re-
ceived many applications from those
who do not feel assured of their success
1t is said that several have sold their
chances to spectators.
Judge Hilton went through the retail
store on Tuesday, thoroughly inspecting
every department, and this led to the be-
lief that he will take practical part in
the management of the establishment
instead Of merely looking after the
finances. Mr.. Stewart superintendent
the retail store personally, overlooking
every detail, and the wholesale store wa
largely left to the charge of his partner
Mr.. Libby. 1t is in the former place there
fore, that Mr.. Stewart is most missed
The Misses Morrow, to whom Mr.. Stew
art left an annuity of $40, ,00Oland the u.s.
of house, have long had charge of tn
manufacturing done by the hundreds o
women in the Tenth street building, ant
are to continue in their positions.
Workmen are busy in the women
hotel, in Fourth avenue. The exterio
is being painted, and the finishing of tn
interior progresses fast.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
The 0 Free ZOne."

Probably the mcst expeditions way to
get rid of the cattle thieves on the Rio
Grande would be to induce the Mexican
Government, if such thing is possible,
to abolish the 81 free zone," or smuggling
territory, which embraces the States OF
Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leor and Coahuila.
In 1856 the Legislature of Tamaulipas,
which borders on the Rio Grande and
the Gulf Of Mexico, passed an act 10
admit foreign goods for United States
consumption free of duty. This act was
confirmed by the Mexican Congress IN
1869, and extended to the states OF
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, thus creating
a home for smugglers and other desper-
ate characters. Diaz found In this
region Just the material he wanted tor
his csperate venture, and the frequent
disturbances which occur in the "ffee
zone - and which are so burdensome to
the Mexican Government itself, suggest
that it would certainly be for the adj
vantage of our sister republic to take
some steps to purge the three States
named of the distracting and revolu-
tionary element which has for years
thrived under the protection of special
Congressional legislation and TO the det-
riment of the Mexican finances
Louisville C0mier-Jounat
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
hour) sufficiently strong to hold US; then
being dragged away by the sharks.

peihS uIdgSeu away ny VIC shaihs'
l have seen eagle-hawks battling and
screaming over carcass; seen have a
weakly calf, yet alive, torn to pieces by
dingoes-n neither, dear reader, by any
means pleasing sight-but never any
thing SO utterly horrible or revolving as a
feast of ground-sharks on the body OF a
dead dugong, which once witnessed on
the north coast of Australia.
The fish had been harpooned, and GER
tain parts having been taken for the oil,
the remainder was left on the beach, a
little below high-water mark. Whether
attracted by sight or smell, cannot say,
but as the tide rose there came with it a
host of these demcns, in their intense
greed thrusting themselves high up on
the beach. / had the curiosity to climb
into tree, one of whose limbs overhung
the water, and there l saw such sight
as trust l may never see again.
1t would be disgusting were to par
ticularize. / emptied my revolver at
them, and, though one or more OF them
must have been struck, they needed 1t
no more than l should fly. In most
cases fish's eye is not very expressive,
Dut ahythihg uloIe iear!ui 'nai " sh",h .,
in its demoniacal ferocity, it would be
difficult to imagine.
This scene, / suppose, must have been
present in my mind when / saw myself
| treated in like manner.
With regard to the phase of thought,
am not psychologist enough to determine
why they should have been SO totally
different from what l imagine they would
be, were l told should die in few min
utes. Then, my first thought would be
for my wife and children; as it was, they
came last. My next would be as to my
state of preparation, and prayer; these
never entered my head. And through
out the whole there was strange lack o.
the feeling of dread and awe which would
seem inseparable from such position.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
+" Gertie."

BOYS of ten or twelve, seen on the
street, appear heartless and without
sympathy, anu yet you wrong them.
Among the houses on Clinton street is
one which has missed many pane OF
glass in its windows. Rags and papers
are used to keep the cold air out, or
it may blow in and whistle through the
desolate rooms without let or hindrance.
A girl of ten, whose life had been one
long period of hunger, pain and un-
happiness, was taken sick one day in
March, and people passing by could see
her living on a miserable bed near one OF
the windows. 1t was curious that any
of the boys coming or going should have
stopped to think or care about 1t, but
they did. One of them, feeling sad al
sight of the sufferers pale face, handed
an orange through broken pane, saw II
clasped by slender white fingers, and
then ran away. He told other boys
and by and by there wasn't day that
some lad didn't halt at the window tc
pass in fruit or flowers. None of them
knew the family or ever spoke to the
girl, and so they gave her the name O
Gertie and called her their orphan
Bows went without marbles and the
other things which belong to boyhooc
sports that their pennies might buy an
orange, lemon or some simple flower FOL
Gertie, and their anxity for her to gel
we'll was fully as great as the doctors OF
the mothers. Whatever present they
had they handed it through the broker
pane, waited for her to reach up, ano
never fingered longer than to hear a sol,
"thank YOU" from her lips. Days wen'
by, but the boys did not grow weary
nor did they miss day. IT, was romance
and charity 80 we'll combined tnat i
pladdened their hearts and made then
fond of each other. Yesterday morning
lads hand, holding sweet flower anc
a big orange went up to the window
No White fingers touched his as the!
grasped the offering. He waited
moment, and then with beating hear
looked through into the room. The bet
had been taken away. On a table rested
pine coffin, and on the coffin was buncl
of faded flowers which had been hande'
through the window the day before
Death had been there and the boys n
longer had mission. -.
You might not have seen the boy hit
ing in doorway and wiping tears fror
his eyes. He was seen, however, an
when asked the cause of his sorrow b
sobbed out the whole sad romance |
four words:
"Our Gertie is dead."-Detrot FIR
| Press.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

THE LATEST GIANT.-An Irish giant
who arrived in Baltimore last week is
thus described: He is a native of County
Derry, is seven feet four inches high,
large-boned but not stout, and his name
is given as James Allander, twenty-eight
years old. None of his shipmates are
tall enough to reach above his shoulders,
and some of them not above his waist.
The motion of the vessel, which requires
all sailors to stoop in keeping their equi-
librium, has made the Derry man round
shouldered, and at present he is very
crooked giant, but he expects to be
staigthened out in Philadelphia. There
was entirely too much of him to enable
him to be an efficient seaman, but he ex.
poets to be success in the show business.
The vessel made quick trip, coming
across in twenty-eight days, showing
that the weight of the giant was not a
hindrance to her sailing. Allander says
he is gardener, and has taller brother.
He is accompanied by a dog weighing
two or three pounds, which is always at
his heels,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
A Murder Disclosed in a Dream.

Isaac Randolph, the negro who MUIR
dered his wife at New Haven in the
spring of 1856, gives notice that he will
apply to the next Legislature for a
release from the State prison, to which
he was sentenced for life. The murder
created great sensation, and the story
of it is very interesting. He killed the
woman with wash-board during quar-.
rel, and probably did not intend to strike
the fatal blow. After the murder, Ran
dolph cut the body up and buried it in
his garden, planting corn and beans over
the spot. Several days after, Robert
Coe, the father of the missing woman,
related with great impressiveness the
particulars of dream which he had on
three successive nights. He said that
Mary Ann came to him crawling on her
hands, and when he asked her why she
did not walk, she replied that she could
not, for her legs had been cut of. Each
night she appeared to him on the borders
of small brook which then ran at the
foot of the garden. At last the garden
was examined, and the body was found,
-iSprinqfeld (Mdss.) Republican.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in Florida.

Mrs. Beecher was passenger on the
Acklawaha boat to-day. Having occasion
to go on board / noticed pale, elderly
woman, with very white hair, who kept
herself aloof from the excursionists, and
by accident / learned it was the wife of
Henry Ward Beecher. She was going
up the river twenty six miles to settle
ment on the st. Johns river, called
Beecher, in honor of her famous husband.
She came up to Palatka on Saturday
possibly from the residence of Mrs.
Stowe at Mandarin, thought wouldn't
like to vouch for this-for the Beechers
are peculiar" This member of the
family is said to have her own peculiari-
ties. She is an old woman nOw-prob-
ably not less than seventy (for she is con-
siderably older than her husband land
her aspect is that Of woman who suffers
from an inward pain that reaches deeper
than the physical body. Some observers,
seeing her sitting there alone on the
steamer, might say she was borne down
by grief and trouble--and surely she has
had her share but there was something
in that pale, determined face, which
spoke of more than grief. A bystander
said: "She looks like three whole
tragedies boiled down into one act" and
this did better express that unhappy
face. A strange secret inner history is
hidden in its cold marble. 1t is not a
winning face-not the counteDance one
would expect to see in the wife of Henry
Ward Beeeher. What it does express |
will leave to others to make out, Enough
for me to know that she carries, poor
woman, sight of trouble beyond the
miseries of most of tfose who deserve
punishment. She hid her fa ce, at times,
with her hand-not from staring curl
osity, for she knew not that she was at
that moment the object of scrutiny on
the part of strangers-but seemingly by
a sort of involuntary and helpless move.
ment born of some internal struggle. II
was stern, unhappy, uncomfortable
face, and one was almost sorry to have
seen.-Conespondem Hartford Conn.,
Times
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

THERE is no doubt but the stirring of
soil in the orchard is good thing to pro-
mote growth of wood and tone up trees
that are in i'll health, but the heexperiment
quoted in the Country Gentleman of
Richard +. Carpenter, which indicates a
great benefit in yield of fruit to be OBJ
tanned by cultivation, is hardly decisive !;
for some of our best orchardists, from
long experience, believe in mulchiDg
and top dressing rather than very much
cultivation. The question turns some
what upon varieties, good deal upon
soil, and ever SO much upon how much
manure is employed.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

A FREIGHT train bound east on the
Canada Southern Rrilway, the other
night ran into the Welland canal. wreck
ing the feedcr,i engine and first cars.
Engineer Cady was killed; also, van
Houghton, the fireman. 1t Is supposed
the engineer was asleep, as the signals
were up that the bridge was open. The
canal is not obstructed,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
MINOR TOPICS.

YEARS ago Sir William Meadows, of
the British East India service, was de-
tected in selling post traderships, or
something of that kind, and tried to
blow his brains out. The ball grazed
his forehead, and when his friends rushed
in he was bathing his head. He told
them he had an affair of honor with
himself, and having stood the shot he
was perfectly satisfied.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

Gov. BEvERIDeE, of Illinois, has is
sued proclamation urging the people OF
his State, in accordance with the joint
resolution recently passed in Congress,
to assemble in their respective towns
this coming Fourth of July, and listen
to a historical sketch of their towns and
counties, and that such sketch be depos-
tied, as requested by the resolution, in
the State, town and Federal archives.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
VOLUME Nv.
GRASSES.
By AUGUSTA LARNED.

o life that hideth In the sod,
How sweet and bountiful thou art
Like Aaron's mystic almond rod,
BY miracle the grasses start.
They creep about the naked land,
In silence shod they nimbly run,
They clothe the rock and deck the sand,
And spread their velvets In the sun.
Upon mighty loom they ply
With shuttle flying far and wide,
And woven In this tapestry
See buttercups and daisies pied.
o, sweet this green and humble home
Fer all earth's young that skip and play,
This dewy footstool meath the dome
Where low at eve the cattle pray.
o. sweet this fond maternal care,
For nameless weeds that flower and fade
And teeming millions flourish there,
The weakest race that God has made.
o, sweet to think when day Is done,
And tired We seek the crimson breast,
Like all that gaze upon the sun
Our frames beneath this cloak shall rest.
-Neto York Evening Post.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

ANNIE BEsANT, the English radical
heroine, has started petition in Parlia-
ment praying that no further grants of
money to or for the royal family or any
member of it shall be given, under any
circumstances whatever. The signatures
have run up into the neighborhood of
Mighty thousand, and, when presented,
will be the largest petition ever sent
4 that body.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

DoUGHNUTs are the standard articles
of food TO carry to a country minister's
house; hence dough-nation parties.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

Dom PEDRO, on arriving at Pleasanton
forty miles from San Francisco, had his
car detached from the train and put be-
hind another engine and pushed over the
road half an hour ahead of the overland
train. His object was to avoid any de.
monstration on his arrival, and it was
a perfect success. The party passed
through Oakland without attracting any
attention and crossed the bay, and ar.
irving at the wharf took carriages to the
Palace Hotel, where they entered with,
out half a dozen people knowing they
had arrived. On the arrival of the reg.
ular train at Oakland, great crowd was
i'm attendance with bands playing and
colors flying, while Dom Pedro was al.
ready ensconced in his apartments at
the Palace Hotel. Seats had been en-
gagged by telegraph for the party at the
Mechanics Pavilion to hear Gilmore's
Orchestra. On the arrival of the train
at Sacramento, Dom Pedro and party
hastily examined the work. k.shops Of the
Central Pacific, expressing regret at the
briefness of inspection.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11
"GERTIE.v
-
BY ONYX.

There was little flower; II grew
In silence and alone;
From vulgar gaze concealed from view,
Its beauty all Its own.
And yet its breath was not misspent,
Tho few Its fragrance knew,
For to its simple bower 1t lent
A sweet charm ever new.
The stranger paused TO kiss Its brow,i
The sad heart felt its thrill
It's very modesty somehow
Helped II sphere to fill.
And when at last its blossoms rare
BY the rude storm were strewn;
II spread Its sweetness on the air,
Nor thought 1t died too soon.
The bower no more Its fragrance sweet
Could cherish or retain;
But, ere II left its cool retreat,
Where Il had softly lain,
II taught some human hearts to look above,
To do life's duty, and to know Gods love.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-05-11

THROUGHOUT the entire reign of Isa-
bella III, the condition of the national
finances of Spain was most unsatisfactory
"a continuous sliding from bad to
worse. The civil war cost $250,000 a
day, or $91, ,25O, 900 in the year 1876.
Last December a new Ministry was
formed in Madrid, in which Don Pedro
Salaverria was placed in charge of the
Department of Finance. He recently
placed his "budget" or estimate before
the Cortes. 1t is plain and promising.
For the year 1857, beginning on the
first day of next July, the revenue will
amount, he expects, to 1882, ,O00, 900, and
the expenditure to $3.50, 100000. This
is under the receipts and disbursements
of. the year 1868, the last of Isabella's
reign. The extraordinary war taxes are
to be continued, for the service of debt
there is to be an increase of two per
cent. on the land tax, and of twenty. We
per cent. on articles of ordinary con.
sumption, and the salaries of the clergy
and some civil officers are to be reduced
one-fourth. After 1877 it is hoped that
a third part of the interest on the public
debt may be paid. The overdue coupon,
of interest on the debt may be cashed
this year.