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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-27
SPORTING NEWS.
National Associated Press TO the Star.


A HANLoN-sCHARF ROWING MATCH.
PITTsBURG, PENN, Dec. T.-Edward
Hanlon, Of Toronto, the champion oars
man of America, last week posted 500
forfeit with Frank Queen, in New York,
and challenged VIM. ScbaIf, OF this
city, TO row a tive-mile race on Owasco
Lake, Saratoga, n. Y, for 81, 900 to 81 900
a side. Schartf's hackers have accepted
the challenge, ami will forward forfeit
to cover the amount now staked with
Frank Queen. The race will be roWed
early in spring, and the stakes will be
$1,000 a side and the championship Of
America. Hanlon defeated Wallace
Ross, OF St. John, N. B., at Toronto las t
lall, in a race for 81. 900. Schartf was de-
feated by Evan Morris, OF this city, last
fall, in race for $1,000 and the cham
pionship.
HUNDRED YARDS FOOT RACE.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27-The hundred
yards foot race at the Centennial Base
ball grounds, between John Thomas, of
Newark, New Jersey, and Foedous, res =
dence unknown, was won by the latter
in 10A seconds. The stakes were $3.50 a
side. In the betting Thomas was tue
tavorite.
BERTHA Won HILLERN AGAIN ON THE
WALK.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.-Bertha Won
Hillern started on her eighty-nine miles
walk prompt at 8 O'Clock last evening.
The hall was we'll filled, the largest
crowd her agent says that was ever
present at start. The first mile was
made in IA :23; second, 1342; third, 1S:45;
fourth, 1881. Her first rest was at the
| end oil the thirty fifth mile. A number
of newspaper men are acting as judges
and time keepers, and Will see il
through.
BALTIMORE, Dec. II Miss Won Hill.
| erin competed halt her journey, 4h
| miles, at 81 minutes and n secouus .
past 6 O'Clock this morning. AT 8:l5 A.
Nj. she completed her 90 miles ana then
took rest. Her pulse at this time was
80. She appeared fresh and hearty, ask.
| ing that breakfast be at once furnished
| her. She eXpresses confidence thot she
will complete her S9 miles hy 10 O'clock
| this evening,
BICYCLE RACE,
The challenge Of VIM. DeMoille to
ride bicycle against any man 10 Amer.
ica tor $50 side and the championship ip
| AtSo bCSu aISSpteA Wy L tois w liis hlllGl
who has placed deposit with Franz
| Queen, and agrees to match an unknown
man to ride the race with DeMoille q
| distance of five miles for $500. Millers
'Unknown" is Booth, one OF he English
champions, residing at Boston.
| ANOTHER RIFLE MATCH.
| NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-A snort time
ago John RIgpy, of the Irish Rife Team
| of 1919. PROPOSED to institute a matcl
| between Ireland and America with
teams of two men each; the Irish Team
are to shoot with mUZlle-Ioaders and
| the American Team with Dl leech- leaders
The Sharp's Rsfe Company have ac-
cepted the challenge, and the match
will come of in April or May. The
prize is to be awarded TO the team max
ing the greatest number OF points within
given time; each squad TO fire as fast
as possible, aud to clean the guns after
each shot, or not, as they choose.
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Death of an Eminent Rabbi.

National Associated Press to the Star
louisville, PA, Dec. T,-Rev. Eman.
uel Oppenheim, tor number Of years
Rnbo of the Jewish synagogues In Dam
vile and Pottsyille, aisd IN this city TO.
day, ut II O'clock, of pneumonia.
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Fatal Quarrel.

National Associated Press to the Star.
BALTIMORE, Dec. T.-Lord G. Jami.
sen killed Thomas W. f. Warfeld, in a
quarrel, near Barnesville. Wartield was
aging attention to sister of Jamison.
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Japan On ITS Dignity.
al Associated Press to the Star.

National Associated Press to the Star.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The Paris Moni-
mercial treaties and resumed its right
to revise Gus oms duties al pleasure.
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Iational Associated Press to the STAR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 21-All is
quiet ON the line Of the Lower Rio
Grande. The first companies of the
additional troops ordered to the border
have arrived at Brownsville; but there
appears to be no need for their services.
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THE LATEST
Another Victim.

National Associated Press TO the star.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2T.-Martin Conners
injured in the recent fire in Barclay
street, died to-day in the hospital.
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Don Carlos Ordered to jump.

National Associated Press to the Star.
PARIS, Dec. 27.-The French Govern.
ment requested Don Carlos to leave
France. He started for the frontier TO.
day.
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Edition

Sag WEATHRR.-Probably cloudy or partly
cloudy weather for the next twenty -four hours
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PIANOS, 60.
D. 4. BALDWIN ( co.
Special Sale of Shop-worn
and Secondhand Organs,
most of them good as
new, at prices that will
insure speedy sale.

One mason q ha1ln aV aV,...,,.....,......... .SoJ
One Double Reed, 6-octave, Taylor & Far
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One very good 5-stop Estcv at............... 65
One 7-stop Prince, handsome case........... ~
One 8-stop Prince, sub-bass ...........,.... so
-Four new Esteys, only shop worn e.. rs
One 7-stop large and handsome Peloubct &
Pelton, ike new, very handsome case. W
And Is others of various makes, at
about One-half of their real
value.
We also offer some rare bargains
fn Decker Brothers, Pianos, being
instruments not NOW CatalOgued, :,
and which, being left over, we will
sell way down.
Also, n number of good Pianos of
other makes. Some have been used.
All the above instruments are
such as we can recommend to buy
factory.
Our aim is to make general
ckearaB '..syazR nd we offer induces
Rnents vVU1@y the attention of buy
eFs.
H.BALDVIu ( CO.,
IJS w. Fourth Street.
deg7-NIh&S
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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
THE NIAY-BENNETTA AFFAIR.

New York Commercial Advertiser, Sd
A very unpleasant affair took place
this afternoon between MI. May and
James Gordon Bennett. 1t is known that
for some reason, which is of no business
to the public, the marriage engagement
between Mr.. Bennett and Miss May was
broken Off few days since. This after
noon one of Miss Mays brothers encOunt-
cred Mr.. Bennett in front of the Union
club on Fifth avenue, and assaulted him
with club, striking him on the head,
which so stunned him that he fell. He
instantly recovered himself, and wrested
the club from May, when Il tussle took
place between them, Mr.. Bennett dealing
MIR. May, who is a larger man than he is,
some very heavy blows. Finally Mr..
Heckshar interfered and separated the
parties. Neither was very much injured.
This is very unpleasant affair, and is
entirely unjustifable. No one will impute
any responsibility to the young lady in
regard to this very disgraceful action of
her brother, as she cannot be accountable
for his conduct. There is only one way
to look at this matter. The Mays know
all about Mr. Bennett's foibles. Know
ing them, they should not have encour-
aged Miss May to receive Mr.. Bennett.
What the clubs and society may think of
the matter we will know in due time.
Among the gossips tits reported that Mr..
Bennett has lately acted in very strange
manner before his FL\NCE. Among other
things it is reported that some time since
Mr.. bennett gave dinner to the Mays,
and that previous to sitting down at tire
table the host got under the inflence of
the "rosy," and after the party sat down
and soup had been served, the host in
sisted upon having desert served at once,
and would not permit the intervening
courses to be served. 1t is also reported
that on another occasion Mr. Bennett, at
q reception at his residence, invited a
number of ladies down to the billiard
rooms, and, Oh pretence of having them
look at some birds that were i'll cages
hanging from the ceiling, he got them to
stand upon the billiard table, when he
ordered some game-cocks to be set to
fighting, much to the scandal of the ladies,
who We're left standing upon the table
for upward of an hour.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
BE 4 THY r L A N 0

This instrument is the most handsome
and best Piano ever before manufactured
in this country or Europe, having the
greatest possible depth, richness and vol
time of tone, combined with a rare bril-
lancy, clearness and perfect eveness
throughout tho entire scale, and above
all surprising duration of sound, the
power and sympathetic quality of which
never changes under the most delicate or
powerful touch. Space forbids a full de-
scription of this magnificent instrument
Agents discount given where l have no
agents. Remember you take no risk in
purchasing one of these CELEBRATED
INSTRUMENTS. If after (5) five days
test trial it proves unsatisfactory the
money you have paid will be refunded
upon return of instrument and freight
charges paid both ways. Pianos warrant
ed for six years. Address,
DANIEL F. BEATTY,
Washington, New Jersey
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
WASIINGTON'S SHIRT.
[From the Burlington Hawleye.1

[From the Burlington Hawkeye.1
A dilapidated looking stranger came
into our office yesterday morning, and
with an air of profound mystery confided
to us the information that he was quite
wealthy, and q great collector Of Cen
tennial relics, but being temporarily en-
barrassed and away from home, he wished
to dispose of shirt that Washington had
once worn, for $4 rs. He showed us the
shirt, but as it appeared to have been
the only one Washington ever had, and
that he had worn it with great assiduity
for a couple of hundred years, we hes
itated about investing. The man said:
"You won't give "a IS for the shirt that
was once worn by the Father Of his Coun-
tryT
We said no; at least not unless he could
bring us the affidavits Of John Nj. Palmer
and Henry Watterson, to show that the
Father of his Country washed his neck
at least twice during the Revolutionary
war, and that the tint ON the neck band
of the relic was caused by it's being used
as washer for the lynchpin of a Cen
tennial common.
"You can stand there" the man said,
"and look at this priceless bit of linen.
venerable with the dust of ages and the
darkening stains of Times indelible pen
Gil, and not feel your heart burn and
| throb and your eyes grow dim and dusty
with the memory of Vally forge, Lrndy's
Lane and the battle of the Nile? You
can stand there and refuse to give 81 rs
for the sacred emblem %
We blushed and felt very much dis.
| concerted, but the truth was strong
that we would even refuse to give much
greater sum for it.
''Then," he said, "will you lend me
fifty cents on it, and keep it for me until
I send you draft for $35 from New
| York !"
We had to say that we would not &C
| cept the trust. He tucked the sacred en-
| for a moment and then lifted his hands
to heaven.
"My rebuke is just" he said solemnly,
| .and I am rightly rebuffed and insulted.
I trampled my manhood and honor and
convictions in the dust when I offered
this talisman of liberty to alien hands for
| base dross. go. I may starve may die
| in the street but never will part or of
fer to part with this again. I W i'll die with
| it in my clinging arms, and when am dead
you will find Washington written on my
| heart"
| He went. We watched him disappear
down the stairs, and then we went to the
| alley window and saw him go back into
| an adjacent woodshed, where he peeled off
| his closely buttoned coat and inserted
| himself in the talisman of liberty. And
| he was seen no more.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
I VERY AND SALES STABLES,

JOHN II. HENSHAW, Proprietor.
Principal St., Bayou Sara, La.
Hacks, Buggies, Carriages, or horses to
saddle, furnished at all hours. Traders
will find first class accommodations for
stock, Terms moderate.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
The N. o. Republican has su:

The N. o. Republican has sus-
pended daily publication and is is'
sued semi-weekly-W ednesday and
Saturday. Thus has a mushroom
growth wilted, when the fertilizIng
properties of public PAP were with>
drawn. Another scalawag organ,
not a thousand miles from our
Office, is in about the same inter-
esting condition, if we mistake not
the indications. They go down 'un
wept and unhonored,' and we Goub'
whether any man can he found fool
enough to waste his time SINGING
about them.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
The plan for determining th'

The plan for determining the
result of the Presidential contest,
as agreed upon by the joint COM
mittees, will probably be, adopted.
There is much opposition manifest
ed in both parties, while MAORI
ty of each is supposed to favor it.
The independent as we'll as parti-
san press are greatly divided on
the subject. Mr.. Tilden. is under-
stood to favor it, and it is stated
that Grant approves and will siga
the bill if passed. The Cabinet is
solidly against it. Gov. Hen
bricks gives it his unqualified su p
port.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
A GLORIOUS FUTURE OR ACCOM-
PLISHED RUIN.

The passing of the New Orleans, Jack
son and Great Northern and Mississippi
Rail Road into the hands and control
which we gave on the first page Of our
last issue, marks an important era in the
commercial interests of the city of New
Orleans and cOrrespondingly so, for
large scope of country surrounding the
commercial capital of the South. 1t is
not to be denied, that the prosperity of
the interior of our own State, as we'll as
that of several others, is intimately con-
nected with the success Of commercial
enterprises within the emporium Of the
South West-the Crescent City. AS the
tide of reciprocal trade and commercial
prosperity flows to her lap from the great
valley of the Mississippi, and links are
formed in a chain reaching to the ports
and business centres of the old world; as
the queen city of the South increases in
population and opulence, which result
will be materially fastened by opening
up anobstructed channels to the great
West as we'll as to the ocean, the welfare
will increase in q proportionate ratio.
The great northern railway route, I'M
der the new management, will be an i'm
portant factor in the accomplishment
Of this end. The Ead's Jetties, now re-
garded as a success, opens a clear path
way to tho seas, and with the N. o. Pa
cific road once completed and in active
operation, binding our relations with the
great State of Texas, New Orleans must
at no distant day, rank among the first
cities of our union, in the extent of her
commercial operations and her general
prosperity.
Grain will seek it's way to European
markets through the cheaper mode of
transportation furnished by the Mississippi
river.
In this view, all looks bright and
promising; but all these glorious anti
cipations will prove as naught, under
the blight of a government for Louisiana,
such us has paralized all business inter
ests for the past eight years. Unless we
are true to ourselves and insist to the
end, upon the maintenance in power, of
a government of law, of order and econo-
my, our dearest object will remain I'M
obtained, despite the local advantages
we may possess as regards extended COM
mercial relations. Self-defence is the
first law of nature. Our very existence
depends upon sustaining the government
of the people within our borders, and
crushing an-enemy that seeks but its
own agrandizement at the expense of the
people. Will our people stand firm?
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
"Wednesday WAS a briSh'

"Wednesday WAS bright
and beautiful day and the
only one of the kind during
the Week. The streets are
in as bad condition as they have
ever been within our recollection
and if present appearances are in
dicative of the future, they are
likely to remain so for some days
The river has broken its icy bands
and is open nowto Cairo. Provis
ions will come forward and, with
them, the prevailing prices should
be lowered. So moe it be.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27

One reason for Democratic
gains in Mississippi may be the
fact that the expenses, during
1876, under a Democratic Gov
ernor, were 1896, 900 less than in
the previous year under Repub-
lican Governor. At least, it
would be a reason for Democratic
gains in any other State.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27

| Fit is reported that q. L. Web
err thinks his course, in withholding
from participation in the councils
of the Packard caucus for some
days, should guarantee him immu-
nifty from the indignation of the
people he has vilifed, insulted and
opposed for so many years. We
have seen many examples cited as
constituting the "height of inapu-
dence," but the people Of West Fee
liciaua will, we think, agree with
US, that Mr.. Weber has in this,
succeeded in surmounting the very
aper thereof.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
UMBER ! LUMBER !!

I would respectfully beg to
call the attention Of the peo>
pie of West Feliciana and ad-
lacent Parishes of La. and
counties of Miss. that | have
constantly on hand, at my
Saw Mill, in Bayou Sara, a
large assortment Of lumber,
which I am prepared to sell at
New Orleans prices | will
deliver lum Der on the river, as
far down us Port Hudson.
WIN. HOMERICH,
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27

Congressional Investigating
Committees have, for the nonce,
finished their labors in Louisi-
ana and have returned to their
headquarters at Washington.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
The general prosperity, and

Improvement in the administration
of the governments of all the South
ern States that have passed from
radical to democratic rule, is no.
where more fully exemplifed, than
in the case of our sister State Mis-
sissippi. Her very substance fri.s
tered away through excessive taxa
ton. her commercial and monied
interests paralized ; capital driven
from her trade centres ; her peo-
pie were, at the time of the COL
lapse of the Infamous Ames gov
eminent, reduced to that condition
of penury and want that has
m,rked our own condition under
the administration of VIM. Pitt
Kellogg. A complete resuscita-
ton Of trade, commerce and pros
perity; attended with peace and
order, has marked the transfer of
EVERY Southern State from radical
thraldom. Georgia to-day, stands
in point of commercial, agricultu :
raj aud manufacturing Interests, at
the head Of the column Of redeemed
commonwealth, but Mississippi is
rapidly following in her wake
From the able message of Govern
or Stone, of that State. we see that
the reduction in expenditures for
carrying on the State government
for the year 1876, reached the sum
of $311,89l.85. In 1872 the levy
was 30 per cent. greater than fer
1876 ; in 1878, 90 per cent. great
or; in 1874, lis per cent. greater,
and in 1875, AZ per cent. greater.
OF the expenditures of 1876, over
$1s, 900 were appropriated to pay
deficiencies in several departments
for 1875. To-day the State wars
rants are nominally quoted SO,
though really, they are worth dol
lar for dollar5 These warrants
sold in 1875 at 81 cents. 4
This is indeed q splendid show
ing towards the work of retrench-
ment and the alienation of an OPP
pressed people, and pays a just
tribute to the will and capacity of
a democratic government to re form
accumulated abuses of half score
of years.
The same may be doEe for Lou"
isiana, and WILL be done, if the
government Of Gov. Nichols, is
sustained. Taxes will be reduce d;
expensive and unn essary Offices WIN
be abolished !; values will take an
upward tendency, and the wheels
of commerce will cease to be clogg.
cd by the encumbrances that have
retarded their progress for a sues
cession of years. Peace and good
will will reign within our borders;
prosperity and happiness will smile
upon US, and a new era open up
the paths to opulence.
Are not these blessings, fellows
men, worth FIGHTING for, if neces~
sary?
The N. O. Republican has sus~
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27

EsTo PERPETUA-the govern
ment of the people in Louisiana.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-01-27
OUR AGENTS.

The following parties are our duly au-
thorized agents:
FIN. Mumford, Bayou Sara.
E. w. Whiteman,
AT. Gastrell,
C. Bockel,
M. s. A. Fischer,
c. L. Fisher, St: Francisville.
ID. Austen,
j. "A. PLANT, West Feliciana:
Also the President of each Ward Club
in the Parish.
&C. Kiblinger, jackson,
DR.. T. s. Jones,
DR.. j. w. Jones,
Joseph Wolf, Port Hudson.
James Hyce, "
W.D. Lounden,
Capt. w. B. Porter, Young's Station.