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New-York tribune., 1877-01-06
REAL ESTATE.
NEw-YoRK. Friday, Jan. s. 1877
The following legal auctions were made at

the Exchange salesrOOm to-day:
Ry n y. HGyJek
four story and baser, nj bTOwnsOBe house with iof
ssof East slstst, 200 II o. 4th-aye, lot lJ1Ig22;
5
Ry S'0n & hgsrs.
2 fours,ory brick sio,e - ana dwelling with lot nof
2Lavs sw cor OF ltl-si. lot 25XSO Cha IOar SO
ctwo.siary frame houses, With pot " land, % ave
n cor OF i53d st, plot lOJ9y4sxi00; Gearty 90. g.
~ III. ~. CJ4tes.
2 l0ts Of West l5OtIst. 57J II n iOthaye, each
251l00 Richard Catman e.
GJ b. 4. EIlchftd.
pot of land on Ilthayt, nv coz OF ls2i-st 20 llE
200; Hy Shin.... g.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
Perfect Faith.

John B. Cough related the following
pathetic episode in a lecture at 81. Louis
| recently:
A story was told of a street boy in
| London who had had both legs broken
by a dray passing over them. He was
laid away in one of the beds of a hos
pital to die, and another little creature
of the same class was laid near by,
| picked up with famine fever. The latter
was allowed to lie down by the side OF
the little crushed boy. He crept up to
him and said:
Bobby, did you never hear about
JesusT"
"No, / never heard of him."
"Bobby, | went to mission school once,
and they told us that Jesus would take
you to heaven when you died, and you'd
never have hunger any more, and no
more pain, if you axed him."
81 couldn't ask such a great big gen.
tleman as he is 20 do anything for me.
He wouldn't stop to speak to a boy like
me-"
"But he'll do all that if you ak him."
"How can / ak him if / don't know
where he lives, and how could l get
there when both my legs are broke 2"
Bobby, they told me at mission
school as how Jesus passed by. Teacher
says as he goes around. How do you
know but what he might come around
to this hospital this very night ?" You'd
know him if you was to see him."
"But l can't keep my eyes open. My
legs feel so awful bad. Doctor says I'll
die"
Bobby, hold up your hand, and he'll
know what you wan when he passes
by"
They got the hand up. 1t dropped.
Tried again. 1t slowly fell back. Three
times he got up the little hand, only to
let it fall. Bursting into tears, he said;
~ give it up"
Bobby, lend me yer hand; put yer
elbow on my piller; | can do without it,
So one hand was propped up. AND
when they came in the moraing the boy
lay dead, his hand still propped up for
Jesus. You may search the world and
you cannot find a grander illustration Of
trust than that of the little boy
who had been to mission school but once.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23

Three hundred men will cover and cut
q section " three miles square. taking ~
60 900 logs. which would measure
about 10000 900 feet. each season. Work
begins NJ daylight and ends At dark and
when the days lengthen and the moon
fag0rs n longer twilight or earlier morn
the men get the benefit in longer work
ING hours. On the river, when the drive
il started, work begins at three O'Clock in
the morning and ends nj pine o'clock IN
the evening, the men having five meals
breakfast at six, lunch at nine, dinner at
twelve, supper at five and tea at nine.
The meals consist Of pork and beans,
corn bread, molasses CAKE, and tea or cot
fee. No stint IL given to q mans appe-
tite. The fare, such as II is, is abundant,
monotonous, nutritious and cheap. A
cook is provided for every fifty men.
The beans are generally the large white
bush, par boiled in pots holding a half
bushel, then ten pounds of pork is set in
the middle of the beans in the pot, a
quarter of a pint of mOlasses poured into
it, and then the pot is set in a hole sur
rounded by hot ashes and burning char
coal, the top covered with a stone over
which a heavy wood fire is built, and
here they stay from five to eight hours,
coming out a most palatable dish. All
the baking is done in rudely built stone
ovens, which are heated before the dough
is mixed, with a good wood fire. The
ioaves of biscuit or cakes are set upon the
hot stones, and are cooked quick and
thoroughly. A camp of 300 men will
consume daily four barrels of beans, halt
a barrel of pork, one barrel of -four, half
a barrel of meat, one-quarter of a barrel
of sugar, and five gallons of molasses.
The men are encamped in tents, making
their beds of boughs, while their extra
clothing, a pair of dark overalls, wooden
shirt, and two pairs of wooden socks, Is
kept in an old grain sack, and used as a
pillow at night. Sunday in the woods
is always a day for sharpening axes,
mending sleds, repairing boots and
clothes, setting out a new tenting spot
handler to the cutting in the woods, and
all the odd chores which would grow out
of the congregation of SO large a body OF
men. All well regulated camps exclude
liquor. Being usually fifty to two hun
uFeu Hllles lIOHi any stVIltlieIlI, anu lAc
men not paid until the end OF the season,
| there is little inducement for any specu-
lator 10 peddle rum through the woods
or Tor the men to struggle off in search
of it.
The consumption of axes and handles
is enormous, an ak lasting about a month
and a handle three weeks. The XXI are
sharpened daily, having regular sharpen,
ers, while Others require each man tC
keep his W axe in order. The old axe
are never collected for the Junk dealer
the distance to ship them being almos
too great to make it an economical meas
ure. Woodsmen generally conside
spruce harder on axes than either bircl
or pine. The gum which run out of
spruce tree is found hard enough to chi
the edge of the axe when strikin
through it.-Northwestern Lumberman.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
WHY He Went.

He left her and stepped out to see a
friend between acts.
"Why, Edward" said she, when he
returned, "there are tears in your
eyes," 49,
Eyes, pet" replied he solemnly. 81
suppose there are-I saw such a sad sight
when / was out"
"You did-what was it 2" inquired
she.
"Such a sad sight"-continued he,
keeping his face away that she might not
smell his breath-''I discovered a young
man whom | have known for years drink
ing whisky"
"You did ?"
ayes, standing right in plain sight
before me, partaking deeply and careless
ly of the dreadful intoxicating glass"
There was a little pause, when the
young lady suddenly said:
edward, was he standing right in
front of your"
eyes, pet" was the reply.
There was another pause when the
young LAZY asked again
Edward, don't most of the fashiona-
BILE saloon counters have great nice mir
rors right on the walls behind theml"
Edward flushed a little and looked
quizzical as he replied that he believed"
they did.
And there he permitted the subject to
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
How the Opium Habit Is Contracted.

The experience of those who have be-
come addicted to opium eating in that
the frequent, if not the confirmed, habit
is formed in this wise: A physician pre-
scribes opium as an anodyne, and the
patient finds from its use the relief which
was anticipated. Very frequently he
finds not merely that his pains has been
relieved, but hat with this relief has
been associated a feeling of positive, per
haps of extreme, enjoyment. A recur-
renee of the same pain infallibly suggests
a recurrence to the same remedy. The
advice of the medical man is not invoked,
because the patient knows that morphine
or laudanum was the simple remedy that
proved so efficacious before, and this he
can procure without as well as with the
direction of his physician. He becomes
his own doctor, prescribes the same rem
edy the medical mar has prescribed, and
charges nothing for his advice. The re-
sort to this pleasant medicature after no
long time becomes habitual, and the pa
tient finds that the remedy, whose use
he had supposed was sanctioned by his
physician, has become his tyrant, il
patients exhibited the same reluctance
to the administration of opium that they
do to drugs that are n%auseous, if the col
lateral effects of the former we're nc more
pleasurable than lobelia or castor oil,
nothing more could be said against self
medication in one case than the other.
Opium-eaters are made such, not by the
physicians prescription of opium to pa
tients in whose cases its use is indispen'
sable, but by their not giving together
with such prescriptions emphatic and
earnest caution that the remedy is not to
be taken except when specially order
ed, in consequence of the hazard that a
habit may be formed which it will be
difficult to break. Patients to whom ii
is regularly administered are not at first
generally aware how easily the habit is
acquired, nor with what difficulty it is
relinquished, especially by persons o.
ervou temperament and enfeebled
health. The number of cases, upon the
best authority, is small in which the use
of opium has become a necessity, where
the direction of the physician may not
be pleaded as justifying its original EN-.
ployment.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
Scepticism In England.

Mr.. Joseph Cook, the new defender of
orthodoxy, declares that there is no
scholarly skepticism in Boston. Har-
ward college, in the time of Tom Paine,
full of the wisest French skepticism.
Lafayette has turned the whole heart of
our people towards France. "The
atrociously shallow and ~unclean, but
brilliant and audacious Partisan infdel-
ity of the period-a scheme Of thought
which we now regard with pity, and
which no scholar cares to hear named
was then attractive even to scholarly un-
dergraduates. Harvard never had a
president Dwight to take the poison of
our French period out of her veins. In
that fact begins the history of Boston
scepticism." Yale would have had the
same experience as Harvard, had it not
been for the massive arguments of DR..
Dwight against sciolism in religious
science. Mr.. Cook said, further, that it
would do now to tell the truth of Har-
ward and Boston, since they have slowly
outgrown the poison.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23

Ibs fresno california; Etpositof, ~
Jsna,fy ~. tsys bita Cock Of sid reese,
forming = solid c5luma q BIRDS seven miles
IN length. passed over shat town The dsy
Before
IN. annual report Of the New York
ehhmbsr d tor the hscal yea,
sadiag June 10, 1875. shows that while The
sszfszs,s vsias ~ the foreign M o.
al other parts Of the United States except
Nou York exceeded that u the preceding
year by more than ttt, 10000, New York
lost over 1s3 eco. 900, making a decrease in
the foreign commerce Of the whole country
exceeding ssi,Ooo,OOo. The value Of the
domestic exports Of brsadstuss from all
other port was $4,000, 500, against $50, $50.
s63 from New York; Of provisions, t29,36i
si3 from other ports, against E55,o32,iS3
rom New York Of tobacco and msnufac-
lures Of tobacco, Btt ,602, 6s2 from other ports
against 1909, 9ss from New York.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23

sqaHs aeessd safsssss are maeh
vpfh
4 toppisf tbl8 mstsfiat " pead.eoi
0fsd M pl0k sire mesh gtffe
iacs y NJ k6esf a'ed ~ bonhot Tim
mifgt
giaes mtla IL revived and h combined
with black lls ~ velvet nv street coa
famSs.
Necklace In rel lace with pendants
n vafiquF styles have tsbsB tie place n
lace collars
buttons are nov placed IN che bottom
n fnfeta ~ which the undefskit u Ct
tadhed
Rich india sbaws afe again IN vogue
They afe worn over ipGg polOnaiseg by
Partisan women fof fall dfess.
Album fans, each stick painted by DIT
iefent artists, with = subject Of their
W selection are among the novelties IN
Paris.
Ctuny insertion IN inch vide altena
ting with English embroidery Of the
same width, makes a very effective trim
ming for ladies under wear.
From the robe de chambre 10 the
ball toilet every dress has its fringe to
match, put on in waves, taps or scal'
lops.
Ladies who year no petticoats attach a
handsome hounCe with buttons and but
ton holes TO the lower part Of their
flannel u~ndergarments or the short bal
moral.
The newest thing in sleeve buttons are
separable; that is, the two parts are
connected with a string, and no button
hole is required, eyelets permitting the
shankst0 pass through.
Circular handkerchiefs of Valenceinnes
lace and Swiss embroidery are much
worn around the neck outside of the ruche
and fastened by a bow o. flower.
A long, slender dress, without scarves
in front, and without looping at the
back, is being affected by elegantes
These are worn without any tournure.
and are as straight down the back as the
front. But at the floor the train spreads
out suddenly, like an open fan, near the
wearer.
On bonnets, chenille in forms of leave'
and fringes occupies a prominent posi-
ton. That f~avorite couture of Nine. d.
Staels, the turban, promises to revive
again, much to the delight of ladies whC
remember its popularity a few years ago
The Danicheff is numbered among new
models for bonnets.
The trimmings Of the season, which
show many novelties, have the mirth o
being artistic, as, for example, the opel
moss work embroidery in scroll and leaf
shading from dark to light in differen
colors to match materials. Broad band
of straw gimp, one and a half inche
wide, are shown on the newest evenin
dresses abroad.
A remarkable waterproof has been in
vented in Paris. 1t is of silk, and ma
be folded almost as small as a pocket
handkerchief. When unfolded it offer
an i%ngenius series of pockets of differen
shapes, made to hold the fan and othe
I essentials of feminine toilets. The hoo
: can be raised over the head by means c
a spring, so constructed as to prevent tn
, hood from resting on the hat, and mus
I ing the flowers or other ornaments.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
Snnday-schoOl Lesson,


1t is said of Philip Henry, that when
he had reached the age of three-score
and ten, he was accustomed to date his
letters, "The year of my death" And
of both the older and the younger presi-
dent Edwards, it is said that on the first
Sabbath of the years of their death each
preached on the text. This year thou
shalt die" the text seeming almost a
prediction of the departure of each to
that better land to which they were di-
recting their hearers. Death may not
come to us this year. And yet it may
come at any moment. But in view of its
certainly coming soon, and in the posi-
bility that it may come at any moment
when we expect it not, does it not become
US to live in expectation and in prepare
ton for it? There are two words, .
says another, chat may well take up
much of our thoughts and cares, viz,
time and eternity: time because it is so
fast passing away, and eternity because
it will soon begin; time because it will
soon be at al end, and eternity because
it will never end"
1t was the new yoar's resolve OF the
excellent Hannah More, "never to pass
a day without thinking of the end Of
days, and never to pass an hour without
lifting up her heart to God, through
Christ, to aid her to live for him." And
an ancient sculptor, when asked why he
took such pains in a part of a beautiful
statue that would be concealed by the
wall of the temple, replied, "The gods
will see IT," And as to every part Of
z.. Ila xa ,l0r1l hoo, -, no;pI +hot
God sees it, and should endeavor so tC
live as to be approved by him. On 9
plain tablet in Westminster abbey is an
inscription over the remains OF one who
was once eminent as a sculptor:
What I was, as an artist, seemed of some i'm
portance to me while / lived
But what | vas, as a believer in Jesus Christ. Ii
the only thing Of importance to me now"
And such will be the judgment of every
one of us as we look back from the
hour of death, or from the unseen world
on our earthly life and state.
A departing or a coming year is full o
lessons to us-lessons we all should pom
der. The rules that some one has sug
gested for the opening of every year anC
for our guide through its days, if we are
spared to behold them, are full of wis
dom and safety: "Say nothing you
would not like God to hear. Do nothing
YOU would rot like God to see. Write
nothing you would not like God to read
Go no where you would not like God t.
90 with you. Read no book of which
you would not like God to say, { show il
to me- Never spend your time in sucl
a way that you would not like God tt
say, what art thou doing ?"
So endeavor to live, and life will b.
continually preparing you for death. ant
death will never find you unprepared t.
depart.
Dost thou ask, " When comes this hour"
Then. when ii shall suit thee best
Trust His faithiulness and power,
Trust in Him, and quiet rest.
Labor on, and hope, and wait;
Jesus never comes too late
Suddenly though He may come.
IT'S to bear thee to thy home.
n Y Dhseyrsy
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23

Captain General Campos teIegraphed
that the euban insurgents will be suppressed
BY May, when he will return to Spain.
A telegraphic line will soon be com
nensed on the shores of the Mediterranean,
- traverse the African continent to the Cape
Of Good Hope.
The hard times in Russia are growing
harder. At Odessa the price of bread has
gone up from two eopecks a pound, and
mere are fears of an absolute famine.
A letter TO the Cologne Gazette from
oosth Russia reports that the police have
been ordered to hasten the general levy
which will defend the country and maintain
order, but is not liable to service outside of
sne Russian territory. This is thought to
indicate that the southern army will soon
assume the offensive.
"A few figures which have just been
published in England show the evils which
result from strikers in any branch of indus
fy. There was a strike in the South York.
shire mines about a year ago, in which H..
300 men took part. The loss of the minsrs
themselves amounted to s 1,25o,ooo, and that
Of the railroad. through reduced carriage Of
coal to sroo,oso.
A dispatch from Pera says that the
grand viner, at a recent interview, raid
that he was quite sanguine that peace would
be concluded With Servia in three DAYS al.
ter Christies arrival. II has been decided TO
grant M~ontenegro's request for the rectifca.
ton of her frontier. An amicable arrange.
nent is also probable as to the place where
the negotiations shall be held.
The rinderpest is on its march again.
II RACES in Germany and appears in the
suburbs of LONDON. England is largely de-
pendent on the continent for beef. Her
supply must necessarily be cut Of from that
quarter, for the authorities will prohibit
further importation. The deficiency is to
be made good by Canada and the United
States. Already the American export
amounts to 800 tons weekly, and there is
every probability, with an increased sys.
temizston Of the work and cheap r~ailrcad
trausit from the west, that this business of
supplying England with beef is to assume
enormous proportions.
A Times dispatch from Calcutta says:
"In tbs week ending February I'd the nun.
Der Of persons engaged in the relief work
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
The widow Van Colts story.

The widow Van Colt entertained her
hearers in the West Thirteenth Street
Methodist meeting house last evening by
telling them the following story She
was announced to conduct a series of re-
vival meeting in one of the cities in the
interior of the empire state. A young
man who was at the club with a party of
iovial fellows, said Widow Van Colt
is coming to town and ! am going to
attend her meetings." One of his com
rades responded: aft you go to hear the
widow I'll bet five dollars she will con-
vert you and make a christian of you"
The young man clinched the wager
Then another comrade wagered five dol
lars with the young man, and the exam
pie was followed until every member Of
the company had deposited FIVE dollars
against a corresponding amount with the
stakeholder. The pools were made on
the condition that the young man should
attend the meetings every evening as
long as Mrs. Van Colt YVES in tewn.
1.-THE young nan vent. to the meeting"
said the widow, "and God touched his
heart. He would have gone to the
altar, but he didn't want to lose his
money. He told me that after | had gone
away he would embrace religion, and
write and let me know the fact. | said
to him: You will not do as you think
you will. You must come TO the altar
or never" Mrs. Van Colt CLOSED
her meetings in the place and went away.
She did not get the promised letter; but
he was told that the young man, after
" winning his wagers, became more wicked
Than ever. He had won few paltry dol
.ars. but lost his soul.-N Y. Stn.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
Fish Shawn from the East.

A few weeks ago 100000 whitefsh
pawn were sent to this coast from lake
Michigan by Professor Baird, of the
United States fish commission, for ship
ment abroad. OF the consignment $780,
900 spawn were shipped to New Zealand,
10000 to Japan, and the balance reserved
for California and sent to the Matching
establishment near Berkeley. One hum
dred thousand Of the last mentioned
were successfully Matched and placed in
lakes Bonner and Tahoe. One hundred
thousand eggs of the speekled trout were
also received at the same time from New
Hampshire, and of the lotsixty thousand
have been successfully Matched. There
is anothet large consignment now in the
Office of Wells, Fargo Il Co.'S express,
destined for Australia. They are said to
be be in very poor condition, owing to
the sudden change of climate, and unless
attended to quickly will be a total loss.
-iSap Franoisc0 Post.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
An Ebony Epicurpan.

An emigration agent accosted an old
negro in Columbus the other day: al
say, old man, don't you want to make
some money" Oats jest what I'm
searchin' roun' fer, boss. / hongry
right now" "Well, in Mississippi
the planters are paying mighty high
prices for good work hands, and if you
-" "Hole on dar, boss. jess wait.
I'm a middle Georgia niger. / done
been out dar I'm a good wuk hand too.
l wuk myself out dar, an den I turn
roun' an wuk myself back agin, an
right here I'm gwine ter stay, eff de Lord
spars me. When / dies | wants ter have
a belly spang full O. bread an meat, an
l wants ter be berried in a seminary
whar I'm 'quainted wild de folks. You
heered my horn l"-SdUdnndh News.
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