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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-29

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-29

The following is the l 80 T. Nj. report Of New
York Stock Market, as received by Lea Ster-
rett u Co., % West Third street:
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-29
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

PITTsBURG, PA. May 29-9 A. M.-River
feet inches and falling. Weather clear and
pleasant.
Dispatches to the Merchants Exchanged
OIL CITY, PA, May 29-S:45 A. M-Alle-
gheny River foot inches and stationary
Weather clear and cool Thermometer "a
BROWNSVILLE. Pa. May 29--l0 :35 A. NJ
Monongahela Rivera feet inches and falling.
Weather clear. Therm0neter72 Wind south
east.
PITTsBURG, Pa. May 29-lI rs A. M.-Riyer
feet inches and falling. Weather clear ana
calm. thermometer 10.
The river here fell IL inches in the twenty
four hours ending at q O'clock this morning,
with 10 feet inches Vi water BY the marks at
the W ater- works.
Neither the Laura L. Davis nor vint Shinkle
had arrived at noon, but both were molnen-
tarily expected.
STEAMBOAT MOVEMENTS.
The Telegraph will return to Pomeroy this
evening, and will also make one more trip 70
that point before being dismantled.
The new Andes will raise steam this morn
The Hudson will return to Wheeling this
evening.
The Fleetwood arrived from Huntington this
morning and will return this afternu on
The Bonanza, for Portsmouth, left at 10 NJ.
The Ben. Franklin arrived from Ma lison,
and will return ut 3 P. NJ.
The rival Ripley PACKETS A. l.. Norton ana
Trout arrived last evening anu will return this
afternoon
The General Lytle will return to Louisville
this evening.
The Mary Houston will positively leave for
New Orleans this evening, and be followed by
the Charles b. Church Thursday.
The Granite State left Portsmouth for Pitts
burg yesterday on her last trip for the season.
The j. L. Rlioads arrived at st. Louis, and
the Robert Mitchell at New Orleans. yester-
day.
The Charles Morgan, coming up, passed
Vicksburg yesterday,
TOWBOAT MOVEMENTS.
The Hawkeye No 2. which left for Louisville
last evening with two barges Of Pioneer coal,
struck both Of them at Rising sun Bar. and re-
turned here this A. Nj. for lighter.
The Cobb Cecil started up the river this
morning with the Etna IN tow.
BoAT-HANDS' GOSSIP.
The new Andes has steam up tot -iav,
Ihe Hudson reshipped SOO keg nails and s
tons wagons on the mary Houston this morn
ing, and received 20 hhds tobacco from tho
Gen. Lytle. She was offered some Prttsburg
freight by the q. B. Church, but declined it ON
account Of the low water.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-29
LAWRENCEBURG, IND.

Mr.. Yourtee, the foundry man, has
surveyed the ground and commenced the
work Of erecting his new foundry, and
yet the demonstrators are not happy.
MIR. John sherwood, President Of the
Gas Company, Is putting in another set
OF retorts in the gas factory and extend
ing the mains in The city and otherwise
improving the works.
Mrs. Hattie Bateman. of indianapolis,
Ind., daughter of 4. b. Dobell, our lurni-
lure king, arrived here last Saturday to
spend the summer with her parents in
the beautiful little village of Greendale.
LEXINGTON. KY.
Mrs. Henry D. Laughlin, Of st. Louis,
is visiting in this city.
The funeral OF Judge Hawes took
place In Paris on Monday.
Capt. John T. Walsh will sell pools in
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wHArCoM COUNTY.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
SECRET SOCIETIES.

PORT TOWNSEND, Lodge II. & A. NJ, meets
Wednesday evening on or before full moon.
STRICT OBSERVANCE Lodge f. q A. NJ,
meets I'd Tuesday evening of each month.
Mt. BAKER Lodge /. o. o. f., meets every
Saturday evening. -
JEFFERSON Lodge /. o. G. t., meets every
Friday evening.
CHEMAKUM, Tribe OF Red Men, meets every
Wednesday evening.
GEO BARTHROP, sachem.
CHAMPIONS OF THE RED Cross, meets every
A. BRIGGS, Com.
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lead to oppression, and induce un.
scrupuIous and dishonest persons to
do or omit doing what the law would
restrain them from, or compel them
u do, and is also calculated to tempt
those who conceive that they have
grievances, to take the law into
their own hands, and convert might
into right"
Your memorialists respectfully sub
init that in the absence of judicial
authority there is complete failure
o. Justice in Alaska, ir general, and
Fort Wrangcl, in particular, there
fore your petitioners pray, viz:
That tribunal may be constituted
for the purpose of adjudicating upon
and enforcing rights, civil and Grim.
inal, either by extending to Alaska
Territory, the jurisdiction of the
courts of Washington Territory,
aud causing circuit court to be
held at stated periods, or by consti-
tuting court of seperate and origi-
nal jurisdiction for Alaska Territory
That a justice of the peace be ap-
pointed with jurisdiction in civil
cases to the extent OF $500.
That in addition j. P, there
may be appointed a Deputy U. S,
Marshal. That these may be allowed
to practice as advocates in such
court Of extended or separate juris.
diction, and before 4 J. P, such per.
sons as such court or justice may see
fit to allow, being either attorneys OF
any of the courts of the U. S. or a
barrister or attorney of the courts ol
British Columbia.
That proper regulation for the
practice and procedure Of court and
before such justice may be made
and passed, and such further matters
may be done as the processes require
and your msmorialists will ever pray
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
CONN, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1877.

lowed it to the grave. By the time all this was ascertained, the rogue had taken refuge in America; but after a while he ventured upon trip to Ant werp, where he was arrested and de- livered to the French authorities.
 An old couple living in village not far from Berlin, as many proyident souls have done, anticipated certain want by purchasing a pair of collins, keeping the cheerful reminders in a stable, to serve as cupboards for the storing of baked fruits and other winter necessities. At last the old man died, and his eldest son, a soldier quartered at Berlin, was summoned home to the funeral. The widow emptied one of the cOffins of it's contents to make room for the corpse, filling the other with the elected comestibles. The day after the funeral the soldier had to return to his duty. The dame went to fetch him some fruit, and on opening the solitary coffin was startled and confounded at beholding her dead husband. Some body had blundered, and the coffinful of good things had been solemnly put under the turf, and everything had to be done over again !-All the Year Round
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
MOVE ON.

The bright, sunny rills keep on flowing
 Along by the banks and the braes, And not one Summer blossom stops growing, No matter how dark are the days. The clouds too, keep sailing and lifting, To let the bright sun arrows through; Thus nature by changing and shifting,
 Keeps moving with plenty to do. Stand still, and you miss the bright places That wait for you further along; Stand still. and the booming oasis
 Will comfort you not with it's song. Move on with the grand working army
 That labor with purpose of soul; Move on, and the air will grow balmy,
 And victory be yours at the goal. Step back and there's small hope of winning For courage true fieetness must lend; Step back at the very beginning,
 And where will you be at the end Go forward, young sowers, at dawning,
 With gladness and hope to the field; Go forward, for sweet in the morning,
 To labor for Autumn's rich yield. Great worlds in their orbits are moving,
 And planets unpeopled keep pace, While in contrast, all living and loving,
 Dumb life adds it's mite to the race. Then why, in this busy creation,
 That moves without rest or delay, Oh, why. fair young souls of the nation,
 Should man be the laggard to-day?
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
Little by Little.

If you are gaining little by little, every day, be content. Are your ex- penses less than your income, so that, though it be little, you are yet constant ly accommodating and growing richer and richer every day? Be content; so far as concerns money, you are doing well.
 Are you gaining knowledge every day? Though it be little by little, the aggregate of the accumulation, where no day is permitted to pass without ad ding something to the stock, will be surprising to yourself.
 Solomon did not become the wisest man in the world in minute. Little by little-never committing to learn something, even for single day always reading, always studying little between the time of rising up ill the morning and lying down at night; this is the way to accumulate a full store house of knowledge. Finally, are you daily improving in character? Be not discouraged because it is little by little. The best men fall far short of what they themselves would wish to be. It is some- thing, it is much, if you keep good res- olutions better to-day than you did yes- terday, better this week than you did yesterday, better this week than you did last, better this year than you did last year. Strive to be perfect, but do not become downheartened so long as you are approaching nearer, and nearer to the high standard at which you aim. Little by little, fortunes are accumu- lated, little by little, knowledge is gain ed; little by little, character and repu | tation are achieved.
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
Influence.

In our personal history we are often brought into contact with natures that seem to drop into our lives an element of good-we can hardly tell how; but there results a softening of rough lines and angles; new emotions of pleasure quicken the pulses; new power for ase- fulness, and new energy in the active duties of probation; while an elevation of thought and purpose brings us nearer God, and arms us with capacity to diff fuse everywhere a healthful influence over those around us at once ennobling, purifying, and. elevating. This life potency is not ephemeral. goes with us through duty and suffering down to the last hour. Death does not destroy it, for it sends its healthful glow across the dark river through the eternal years of our immortality.
 On the other hand, we have met with persons filled with envy, selfishness, and dark deprav1ty. who have dropped into our life current an element of dis cord-a bitterness most unpalatable (unless it finds in us congenial soil in which to vegetate and grow, so that the calm rivulet is in commotion; a rocky bed tears to shreds our hopes, and wounds our sensibilities, or plunges us into dark and muddy pools of unhappy discord and misrule. The stream no longer runs clear, the translucent waters of life are polluted and we sink into unhonored and miserable tombs, or wake amid .the blazing justice of eternal truth to the fearful sentence, "Departl" We call this element intlu- ence. When good, it wonderfully bles- ses the world, and when bad, it is an curse. We all have intiu- ence. We are not isolated. Society is around us. Into it we are continually dropping the one or the other element.
 We can say which it shall be-a bliss full, healthful influence, or the reverse Reader, which shall it be?
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
Egyptian Architecture.

Owing to the climate of Egypt, it has never been woodland country. Palm trees are found about the deserts of Lybia, and near Denderah timber of all kinds IS scarce, as the soil is not suited to the growth of trees. The acacia and the palm do grow, but the oak does not, and fir has to be imported from Arabia; and thus for solid struc- lures of great magnitude the old build CTS of Egypt were shut up to the use of stone, which abounds iii profusion, and in the use of which the Egyptians were great proficients, as may be seen both in the rock temples which were excavated adorned with sculpture, and in the temples which were erected in the open air. While the sculptures and the hieroglyphic figures which adorn their palaces and temples attest the progress of their workmen in the art of the newer of stone, it is evident that they had made great progress also in the department of construction, for many of the blocks which they used were of enormous dimensions, and that they were lavish in their use ot materi- al is shown by the fact that the walls of some of their temples are of the al most incredible thickness of twenty four feet. At Thebes, the walls of the principal entrance gate are at the baseno less than fifty ct thick. Then again the stones instead of being dressed as in modern masonry on one side, are cut inside as we'll as outside, and the whole mass is solidly joined to-
 gether, thus tending to secure the du
 rability of their monuments. In these great structures no arch is ever intro duced. The columns stand at such short distances that great stones can reach from capital to capital, and thus the roof is formed of huge blocks laid on horizontally and forming solid bed. American Monthly.
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
British and American Contrasts.


 quality-and have it, we think. in an even higher degree than the English the quality of being sobered by the very presence of danger. There is no people among whom what seems cer- tain to lead to mischief goes closer to the very verge of the most alarming catastrophe, and yet none among whom we can feel certain that the immediate presence of imminent danger, instead of exciting them to the fatal plunge, will brace their nerves, clear their head, and reduce to sober seriousness the very leaders who, before the peril was imminent, were the hottest par tisans of the policy of danger. In Eng land there is, we think, more disposi- tion to be carried away by the impulse in the moment of peril than there is in the United States. In fact, it is the most striking feature in our political institutions that they express and con- contrate the waves of popular feeling which, indeed, they sometimes tend to xaggerate-while it is the most striking feature in the institutions of of the United states that they repress and dissipate the waves of popular feeling-which, indeed, they somewhat tend to underrate. And both the na- tions appear to have got the habit of re- 1ecting, to certain extent, the ten dency of their institutions. There is no doubt that the uppermost phase of British feeling often assumes too i'm posing an air to spectators who are not in any way behind the scenes, and that what the nation really thinks and wishes, it appears to think and wish with even more intensity and unanim- ity than it really does. The opposite thing happens in the United States. The very fact that a strong popular feeling is gaining marked ascendency there seems to call out all the restrain ing and self preserving power which the nation contains. If we remember how long public feeling in the North was in breaking down the constitution al respect for the Fugitive Slave law, how long it was again, even after the war for the maintainance of the Union had broken out, before the enthusiasm for turning it into an anti-slavery war could gain any influence with the politi- cal masses and statesmen of the federa- tion, we shall understand at once how great were the forces, both constitutional and moral, which seem to hold back the American people from anything like rash surrender to the tides of political enthusiasm. And so it has always happened that at critical moment the people of the United States have shown not merely true self-command, but perhaps even too much self-command, certainly more self-command than they did in the early stages of exciting ques- tions. And it is the same now that this very difficult and dangerous question as to the Presidential election has arisen only in this case, as no greater and noble principle is sacrificed for the sake of moderation, we can afford to give a fuller need of sympathy and even admiration to the society of the American people than it seemed to us possible to give at the time of the great CT crisis to which we have alluded London Spectator.
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
Healthy Houses.

Dr. Richardson has come a little nearer to the level of ordinary life since he startled the world by his picture of a city of health. The kind of house which he recommended is not beyond the reach of any one who is about to build dwelling for himself, and has strength of mind enough not to be turned from his purpose by the object ions which builders are sure to raise in the first instance. Dr. Richardson mentions four essential points in which house constructed on his plan would differ from ordinary houses. In the first place, there would be no rooms un- derground. The basement. would be simply an arched subway, with free current of air passing through it, thus preventing any damp from ascending into the upper stories, and affording an opportunity of warming the air ad- mitted into the house. Secondly, the kitchen instead of being in the base ment, would be at the top of the house, by which means all smells of the cook ing would be kept out of the living rooms, and the conveyance of hot water to the bedrooms would be much easier, Next, the staircase, instead of being in the center of the house, would be in a distant shaft at the back. There would be door on each floor communicating with the staircase, and lavatories and similar apartments would be placed in the shaft so that they would be out of the house, and yet accessible from each floor. Lastly, the roof would be level. paved with asphalte, and covered with glass. In this way garden would be obtained on the top of every house, sheltered from the weather, and pro- tected from frost by the warmth of the kitchen beneath. There is no doubt that Dr. Richardson's picture is an ex- ceedingly attractive one, and there seems to be no reason, beyond the diff culty of getting new ideas accepted within any reasonable time, why it should not at once be subjected to tn
 test of experiment..
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
Curious.

The multiplication of 9S7654321 by 45 gives A Al A ,445. Reversing the order of the digits and multiplying 123- 4567S9 by 45 we get result equally curious, 5,555, ,555, ,5O5. If we take 1234- 567S9 as the multiplicand, and inter- changing the figures of 45, take 54 as multiplier, we obtain another remarka- ble product, 6,666, ,666, ,6O6. Return to the multiplicand first used, 9S7654321, and take 54 as a multiplier again, we get 53- 333, ,333, ,334-all threes except the first and last figures, which read together 54, the multiplier. Taking the same multiplicand and using 27, the half of 54, as the multiplier, We get the product of 26,666, ,666, ,667-all sizes except the first and last figures, which read to- gether give 27, the multiplier. Next interchanging the figures of the number 27, and using P as the multiplier, with 9S7654321 as the multiplicand, we obtain a product of 71, Ill, III, ,l12-all ones ex- cept the first and last figures, which read together give 72, the multiplier.
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
le saw how completely he had been de-

he saw how completely he had been de- feated.
 As the men began to search the room, the landlord protested his innocence, declaring that they had no right to hold him or his men prisoners, or to search the house.
 Breaking open the door, above which was the bust, the men rushed in. The room was empty, save for long ladder, which reached shelf above the door. A hole above the shelf disclosed the bust to be broken in half, so that man could easily climb up the ladder, get on the shelf, thrust his head in the bust, which was large enough for an ordinary mans head, and see all that was going on in the adjoining room.
 This certainly looked suspicious, but absolute proof was yet wanting. On re- turning to the room occupied by MT. Spencer, they again searched every nook and corner. Suddenly Carrie and Mir. James, who had been standing by the fireplace, gave loud cry, for on close examination, they had found spots of blood on the bricks which formed the hearth.
 They began to pull up the bricks, which proved loose, when Carrie, feeling faint, gave way to the sheriff and his men, who soon had them all pulled up, when cavity was disclosed, containing the murdered body of a gentleman whom Mir James and the sheriff remembered to have stopped at S., three days be- fore. The evidence was conclusive.
 The landlord and his confederates were well guarded through the night, and the next day were lodged in jail, where in due time they were sentenced and suffered the extreme penalty of the | law.
Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
The Curlew's Sense of HI fearing.

A writer in Nation advances the theory that the curlew is directed by the sense of hearing in its probings in the sand for food. The bird has bill often eight or nine inches long, and this it forces into the soil as far as the nostrils, and rarely misses securing a worm at each thrust. It cannot be supposed that it makes it's borings at random, else these would be repeated many times fruitless- ly. Neither can the sense of sight assist it, as it's victims are imbedded too deep ly in sand or mud, which is often per fectly smooth on the surface. It must, therefore, so the writer suggests, be guided solely by hearing. "It is diffi- cult" he confesses, "to believe that this sense is is so delicate and precise as to enable the curlew to perceive so exceed ingly slight sound as that which must be caused by the movement, say, of a small worm at distance of ten or twelve inches from the surface of the sand, and at the same time to localize the exact spot beneath the surface from which so slight sound proceeds. l cannot see, however. that any other ex- planation is open, and perhaps the one now offered may not seem so incredible, if we remember the case of the thrush. No one, think, can observe this bird feeding and doubt that it finds its worms and grubs almost exclusively by the sense of hearing. And. if the distance which it runs between successive pauses for listening represents-as we cannot butsuppose it must-the diameter ofthe circle within which this bird is able to hear the movements of worm, l think that the hypothesis have just advanced with regard to the curlew ceases to be improbable"