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GENEROUS FRIENDS.

The Carson (Ney. Appeal Of Sep tenn
Der IA is responsible for this story of
"two smart hunters" yesterday Will
lam Magee and Long King started out
on grouse-nuntlng expedition. AS the
hunting grounds which they desired to
visit are about five miles distant, and
the gentlemen not being over fond Of too
much ply sical eXerLiOn in the Pc
destrian line, they hired a horse ana
wagon. Alter arriving at their point of
destination, each OF the hunLers went in
different direction in pursuit of game.
KING, alter being out a couple OF hours
anu not finding any grouse, went to look
for hi' partner, and being unable to find
him he concluded TO come back to town
alone atooL and let Magee bring the We
hicle home. Magee met with no better
success than King. He was out three
hours and didRL even come across one-
eyed owl. Disguised with the rXpedi-
ton, he started in search oil X ny; he
halooed until his throat became sore,
but met with no response. He reas oned
tnat King must have strayed far off into
the mills, and he Magee), being a
rather generous sort Of IL man, left the
horse and wagon on the road for King
and trudged it into town afoot. Last
night the uunters met on the street and
King cried out: 'Halloo, Bill, when dye
get i'll; any success? Magee SAID, sNo,
didn't get u thing. Did you bring the
morse and wagon in? What did you
snootT King replied: Bring in? Why, L
left the horse Ior yOu.' 'Well,' eX-
claimed Magee, that's good; aud lett
him there lor you.' Their mutual ex-
clamalions after tuat explanation were
OF u very emphatic nature"
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1890; Charles Abbott. $40; James Ryan,

$500; Charles Abbott. $40; James Ryan,
500; Henry Meyer, $25.
Miscellaneous = John 2. ErdhOuse,
permitting house TO be kept as bouse
oil lll-lame; Henry KIRBY, assault with
intent to Kill, dismissed; Frank DIR,
cutting with intent to kill, continued to
October D; John Parker, fast driving,
costs; Thos. j. Woods, thief and hav-
ing burglar tools, dismissed; John =.
Dolan, robbery, continued to October g.;
Alex RrgaH, hou 1e-breakin ?, continued
to Oct. 3, bail $3.50; Elijah Or, carrying
concealed weapons, dismissed; Richard
Jones, permitting noise aud disorder,
continued to Oct. ., own recogniz1nce;
Henry Lechuer, continued 10 o.
tober A, bail $1,000; Frank BOW
ser, using personal yiU,enoe on officers,
continued 10 Sept. 70; j. LIeD, OBJ
structing sidewalk, continued to Octo-
Der b; Jacob Trlsner, personal violence,
dismissed; Wm. Schneider, careless
driving, dlsmlsse /; Heury Dreir, ped
ding without license, Continued TO Oct.
4: Jacob FlIck, accepting a Dribe, con-
tlnued to October 8; Herman Toll, mali
clous destruction, continued to October
0, own recOgnlzInce.
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A VIRGINIA RECLUSE.
The Silly Joke that Made Him Hermit,

Nearly d century ago there lived in
the town OF Charlottesville young man
who played prominent part In society
circles. He was an accomplished dan.
Ger, dressed in fashionable style, aud
was the central figure at balls and par
ties. Upon one OF these festive occa.
sions way, who was present, attached
a bundle Of rags to the coat
tail of the youth, and with this
absurd appendage to his other
wise faultless apparel he went through
the IN zes OF the dance with The beautl-
full bellies of the day. When he dis.
covered the trick that had been played
upon him the young man was so deeply
mortified that he ever afterward
eschewed society, and lived the life Of a
hermit. Abandoning the gay world, he
betook himself to small building which
stood on the site of the present resi-
dence OF Mr.. James Dolln, and COM
menced the sale OF whisky. The door Of
his den was fastened with log cnain.
and was never opened wider than was
necessary to admit the quart bottle
of thirsty customer. At first he
bought the liquor by the jug and. re-
talied it by the pint, but as business
grew brisk he purchased u barrel, and
finally, when the price of whisky got
down to 20 cents per gallon, he was en-
abled by his rapid accumulations to fiji
bis cellar. He lived thus TOR many
years, never leaving the premises il
daylight except at the May term OF the
County Court, when he would emerge
from his den clothed in a drab swallow
tailed coat reaching nearly to the
grouHd, and pair OF leather breeches,
walk to the Courthouse, procure his
license, and return to his hole. After
night he would visit a pump near the
Courthouse, ,sand some people said that
on dark nights he would extend his walk
into the country.
About forty years ago, one rainy morn
ing, when a customer knocked at the
door OF this singular individual, then an
old man, there was no response. The
door was forced open, and the solitary
occupant was found 10 be dead. A COM
III ttee OF citizens was appointed to eX-
anime the premises. The cellar was
found We'll stored with liquor mellOwed
by age, and beneath the ground, buried
in eartnen crooks, $4,000 in specie were
brought to the surface. Probably, with
q prophetic vision of broken Char
lottesyIite banks, he was a hard-m0ney
man III the strletesG sense OF the
word A log of wood upon which The
ueau Vi tue lnlseI losteu, ana u DIANA I,
covering his itfened lmbs, constituted
the furniture Of the miser's nome. HIS
only ledger was s!ate, upon which was
lound statement OF the amounC OF cash
on hand, which tailed with the contents
OF the earthen jars. The name OF this
old man was Jonn Yeargon. There are
many OF our cltizeus who remember nim
we'll, and whose mouths water When
they tnlnk of the superior liquid re-
lreshments purchased TOR $l IL gallon
through the crack OF the m ser's door.
There were no MoffeJt bells 10 ring in
Johnny YeargoRs aay.-EUharlotteYllle
IVA. Cnronicle.
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Iew Orleans and Way Points.
LEGAL.

Y EGAL NOTICE.-JOSLPH SOUR, WHO
L. resides IN the State OF New York, will take
notice that Vessel Bunker, Executor of the
last will and testament of Casper Sour. de-
ceased, on the 25th day OF July, 4. d 1871, filed
his petition IN the Probate Court within and
for the county Of Hamilton, and State of Ohio.
wherein sad Vessel Bunker, Executor as
aforesaid, is plaintiff, and Maria Sour ct al,
are defendants, said cause being numbered on
the docket OF said court as case No. 2,1jJ, al
legIng that the present estate OF said decedent
Is insufficient to pay his debts and the charges
of administering his estate, that he died seized
in fee simple OF the following described real
estate situate in said County and State, to- witt
All that certain Lot in Section 80, Township
8, Fractional Range 2, Miami Purchase, Ham
ilton County, Ohio, and being Lot No. Z, as
plated on the return OF commissioners, and
containing LOO acres, being same property
conveyed by the ADMINISTRATIVE of Elisha
Folger, deceased, to Casper sour by deed rec
corded in book %, page 81, Hamilton County
Records, and being situated near Fairmount
Also Lots and IL On the plat Of Clinton Fol-
ger, deceased, made by his heirs in said Sec
tion 81, which said plat is recorded in Record
Book No. 225, page -, of the May term, 1854, of
the Hamilton Common Pleas Court, in the case
of Thomas Folger against Alexander Folgep
ct al, each Of said Lots containing az -lO8
acres, Imakiug in all 5-l00 acres.
Also Lots and q on plat Of subdivisics
recorded in Plat Book No. g. page 3, of th
Records Of Hamilton County, OniO, and beina
part OF Lot No. II, on the plat OF the estate Of
Elisha Folger, deceased, in said Section 81,
Hamilton county, Ohio, All Of above de-
scrlbed tracts having been conveyed to said
Casper sour, deceasea, by Joseph Mestemaker
per Louis Kramer, mis- Assignee, by deeu re-
corded in Deed Book No. 4J9, page 245, of the
Deed Records of SAID County and state.
that said Caspar sour, deceased, left sur.
viving him Malia Sour, his widow, and aole
heir at law, and one OF tue aeVlseos under said
| last wall ana ties lament, and that said Joseph
| Sour, with others, devlsees under said will and
| testament, claims an interest In said real
I estate.
The prayer Of SAID petition is for sale Of
| sail described real estate for the payment oi
the debts and charges Of the estate of said
| Caspar sour, deceased, and OF the administer
| ing Of the same. said petition Will be iol
| hearing on the Ist day Of November, A. ID
| 1917, or as soon thereafter as leave can be mad
| W ESoEL DUNhEk,
Executor Of the last will aud Uest alneut OF Cas-
| per sour, deceased.
McGARhY u sANBoRN, Attorneys Cor pla,u
| tin Room II, Johuston Building, ~s2S-atF
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The Courts.
UNITED STATES,

Suit was entered yesterday against
Wash. Honshell in the sum of $1,000 for
carrying more passengers on the
steamer A. l.. Norton than is allowed
by law.
Hiram G. Daniels sues to recover $500
for damage alleged to have been sus-
tained by the sinking of q barge by the
steamer Mary Ann.
COMMON PLEAS.
p. r. Stevens against q. Wersch and
others. This was motion to. dissolve
a temp injunction. Argued and
submitted.
e PROBATE.
Fl. & J. Kent, manufacturers OF shoes,
doing business at Nos. 220 and 222 Main
street, made an assignment yesterday
to Z. W. Cole tor the benefit Of credit
ors. The property assigned consisted
of the stock in trade, machinery, etc.
The bond of the assignee Was fixed at
$1,000.
POLICE.
Drunkenness-John Parker, costs;
S. White, dismissed; Annie Hagarty, 80
days; G. E. Randall, costs; MARY Satfin,
30-$5O; Mary Gallagher, 30.S50; VIM. Nc
E, oy, SO.
Dls"raerly Conduct-Wm. Wagner, 10
days; 2. McCabe, continued to October
.; Chas. Davis, S5; VIM. Walker, con-
tinued TO October 4, bail $50; Jacob
Frisner, 5000; Frank Bowser, con tim
ued to September 20; James RIsenham
and A. b. james, dismlssed; Jennie
Bowser, continued to the 29,h; Tobias
Rosenberger, Fred. Armand and Jonn
Schlicht, dismissed; John Brown, Geo.
stevens, Thos. Gulnan, Acosta Kresken
and Tnos. Nealus, dismissed.
Assault ana Battery-Henry Kirby, 80
days; George R1gan, continued to OctO.
ber 2, own recogn'zance; Ellen Grady,
costs; Robert Van Duzen, dismissed at
costs OF prosecuting witness; Frank
Papeuant, dismissed, no prosecuting
witness; Patrick Carroll, COSTS.
Petit Larceny-ltlce Sanders, contin-
ued TO October 4, bail $500; Louis
Schmidt, continued to October 5, bail
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a5, fair to good light IS 20aj 45, packing IS lla
40, and select butchers Is 4ya5 80 Der GENITAL
gross.
CArTLE-Marset quiet and steady. Prices
UNCHANGED. Selling $!a3 for common TO mo
at S5aj u Tor extra.
SHEEP-Moderate demand and steady and
prices are unchanged.
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IN ORDER To ACCOMMODATES EASTERN
ADVERTISERS IN THE STAR, MIR. E. DUN
CAN SNIFEEN, NO. Y ASTOR HOUSE. NEW
YORK CITY, has been appointed our general and
special Agent for the Eastern States. This will De
branch office oil the STAR, Mr.. Snifen being au-
thorized to make Advertising contracts on our be-
half, and receipt all collections therefor in Our
name
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A "gsnteman" at leading hotel in
Hamilton, Ontario, spoke disparagingly
of one OF the lady guests. She heard OF
IT, invited him into the parlor, presented
a pistol at his breast, and asked him to
apologize. He aoquieseeo.
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FINANCIAL.
CINCINNATl, Sept. 2s-i 40 P. \

CINCINNATI, Sept. 2S-i: 80 P. Nj.
Gold easy at 1929 buying and 1903 selling.
Gold checks lUjA.
New York exchange steady and quiet Buy
ing AZ par ami selling ut lilo premium.
Sterling quleJ and easy. We quote "a SO for
SIXTY day bills, aud "a So for slght, per t in
yoin
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
lSpecIals to the Star. /

OIL CITY. Pa, Sept. 2s-9:56 A. NJ. - Ale
gheny River inches and falling. Wind south.
Weather clear and warm. Thermometer 75
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Sept. 2S-9:55 A. NJ
Monongahela River feet inches and station
AIRY. Thermometer 70. Wind southeast.
Weather fair
CHARLESTON, W. VA, Sept. 2s-10 A. NJ
Kanawha River 2 feet l inch and falling
slowly. Thermometer 50. Weather partially
cloudy and calm.
The river rose l inch since O'Clock last
evening, and at noon to-day was still rising
slowly, with feet ~ inches in the channel.
Weather clear and warm. Heavy fogs last
night and this morning.
Business rather good.
The following steamers were in port at noon
Viut ShinKle, Golden Crown, Fair Play, Rose
City, Louis A. Snerley, Virgle Lee, Mary Mil
ier, Wildwood, Fauchon. and Fannie Dugan
STEAMBOAT MOVEMENTS
The popular packet Granite State came down
this morning, and will return to Huntington
this evening, where she makes connection fol
all Eastern cities with the Q. q o. Railroad
Capt VIM, Kirker master, and Frank Morgan
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,nts steady and no ma erial change

Inc following is the 80 Z. M. report OF New
York stock Market, as received ny Lea, Ster-
rett u Co., Is West Third street:
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Cincinnati Live STOCK Market.
CINCINNATI, Sept 2S--2 P. NJ.
The total receipts and shipments Tor the
past "a hOurs were "a follOwa.
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CALIFORNIA, OHIO.

Excursion train OH the N. Il. X. Il. Oct.
5. Look out tor the locomotive!
Remember the ball Jo-nlgnt. We are
assured that it is to be conducted on
high-toned principles. Go and see il
the pledge is carried out.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04

THE statistics of disease in England
for the year 1874, contained in the re-
Gently published report Of, the Registrar
General, are exceedingly instructive.
They show that the diseases most to be
dreaded are not in fact those which we
regard with the most terror. The fever
poisons cause but small proportion of
the deaths compared to the mortality
due to the action of bad air, and bad
food, and cold and damp. OF the 5OO,-
600 persons who died in England in 1874,
$4,000 were killed by bronchitis and
$4,000 by pulmonary consumption.
Atrophy and debility destroyed $1,000
lives; old age, $4,000; heart disease
about as many; convulsions, $4,000, and
pneumonia 10000. The first fever occu-
pies the eighth place on the list, where
we find that 5000 died of scarlet fever
in the year review. 1t will be seen that
by ordinary care-taking much may be
done to prevent those diseases which
prove most fatal to mankind. We
may well rejoice with the London
Times to discover that "the chief
foes of human life, instead of being
subtle and mysterious poisons which
defy the curiosity of science, are open
enemies against which all but the poor.
est may take easy measures of pre-
caution"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04
mGtve Thu Horse HIS Head. &,

A few weeks ago, two horses were
drawing each load of coal up rising
ground in the suburbs of city. The
hinder horse had the bearing rein swung
loosely on his neck, and by throwing his
weight into the collar, was dragging his
load steadily and without undue strain
on his muscles and joints. The foremost
horse, with his ton of coal, was braced
up with tight bearing rein, his head
cramped and raised, his mouth fretted,
and every joint and muscle starting and
strained at each step he took. The two
men were talking to each other, and the
carter of the hinder horse was heard by
the writer to say, " Bill, go and give thy
horse his head; he'll pull that load
easier" Bill went and slackened the
rein. "Give him more" said the other.
Bill went and gave him all he wanted.
The horse Immediately did his work in
way which conveyed the relief he felt
as clearly as if he had said, "there,
thank you; Pm all right now." We
would commend to every one who has
theseharge of draught horse when he is
at work, the advice that Bill received
and followed" Bill, give thy horse his
head he'll pull that load easier"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04

Showing that Messrs. Wickliffe, Seay,
and McEnery, Democrats, and Messrs.
Levissee, Brewster, Joffrion, Burch, and
Kellogg, Republicans, were elected Pres
idential Electors.
Such would be the returns of the State
vote to-day if the Returning Board had
insisted on a practice, as it always has
in words, that it, and it alone, were the
returning officers o. the State of Louisi-
ana; that it, and it alone, had the right
to canvass, compile and count the votes.
As soon as the State vote became
known, the Republicans saw at once that
it would be no easy matter to elect the
Hayes Electors. To assist the Returning
Board in its work, the Supervisors of
Registration were instructed to omit as
many polls as possible from their report
on any pretense.
Only seven Supervisors were found
unscrupulous enough to carry out this
dirty order, and these men, almost every
one of'them under indictment for some
offense, threw out enough polls to elect
all the Hayes Electors. The Returning
Board alone did not count in the Hayes
Electors it was Glover, Veazie, Ledet
and Backers who did the dirty work that
changed the vote of this State.
These men omitted from their report
to the Returning Board thirteen polls,
containing 1900 Democratic votes. They
have never explained to the Board, or
to the people, why these polls were
omitted; never attempted to give any
reasons or explanations therefor. The
Returning Board counted out enough
votes to reduce the majority of three
Democratic Electors from 1000 to few
hundred; but it was the Supervisors
who omitted 1900 more votes, who
finished the work, defeated the Tilden
Electors, and gave the State to Hayes.
1t is not claimed by any one that these
Supervisors had this right. "They are
open to prosecution" said Wells, "for
their conduct in returning polls; but noe
can not compel them to obey. Go into
the courts against them."
Here, then, are lot of disreputable
characters, one not a citizen of the State,
one keeper of snake show, another an
ex-policeman. etc., illegally changing
the result of the State by omitting polls
without any known reason against them
and without any right to do 50; yet ther,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04

is no remedy. The DEMOCRATS appealed
to the Returning Board to correct this
evil. For the first time the Returning
Board found itself powerless. 1t could
make Presidents, Governors, and Legis-
latures it was amenable and RESPONSE
BILE to no human court, but with tally
sheets, poll-Gsts. votes, and returns be-
fore it, it could not correct an outrage
GUS and acknowledged proceeding of a
petty gambler.
1t is about time that the Northern
Radical press dropped the story about
intimidation. The records of the Re
turning Board of the State of Louisiana
will show that, with every poll at which
it is said, thought, suspected or imagined
that there was any intimidation or irregu-
larities, thrown out, three of the Tilden
Electors are elected. The count of the
Returning Board does not defeat them.
To the scandalous, illegal conduct of dis
reputable Supervisors, Mr.. Hayes owes
whatever claim he may have to the vote
of Louisiana.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04
P0tUer of the SaUage Instinct to
Eradicate CiDfLixutiofa,

The tendency among educated saw
ages to revert to the original type, rather
than to elevate their fellows, is seen in
the following examples:
A young Botocudo boy was brought
up by Brazilian family at Bahia, at
tended the schools and the university,
obtained medical diploma, and for a
time practiced as physician at Bahia.
Profound melancholy had always been
the chief feature of his character. One
day he disappeared, and years afterward
his adopted parents received intelligence
that he had discarded clothes and edu-
cation, and was roaming about the forests
with his tribe. A similar case was wit
messed by Dobrizhofer among the
Abipones; and he also relates story of
Spanish lady, who with her children
fell into the hands of this warlike tribe,
and remained with them until ransom
was obtained. Her son Raymond and
her daughter, who had grown up among
the redskins entirely, refused to return.
The late Admiral Fitzroy brought a
Fuegian to England, where he was
christened and brought up under the
name of Jenny Button, and was for a
time made much Of as pet in society.
He was taken back to his native country
by the expedition in which Charles Oar
win went round the world. On his re-
turn to his own. home, Jenny Button,
who in Europe had always worn gloves
and polished boots, at once became a
naked, unwashed, unkempt Fuegian, as
he had formerly been, and in 1856 no
longer differed from his fellows. Another
well-known case of this sort is that OF
an Australian named Bungaria, who
was edacated at Sidney, where he gained
prizes at the college and spoke Latin
well, but who afterward escaped from
civilization into the bush, and declared
that education had been of no use but
to make him conscious of his misery
The photographer Neumayer also relates
that having lost his way on the Lower
Murray, in 1861, he was taken by the
natives to naked black man, who noted
in his pocket-book, in faultless English
the names of the most important locali
ties through which he was to pass on hi'
return. This literary Australian, who
was at that time twenty-four years o.
age, had been educated in Adelaide.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04
An Anecdote of General jackson.

Wnen General JACKSON was canQl-
didate for the Presidency in 1928, not
only did the party opposed to him abuse
him for his public acts, which, if uncon-
stitutional or violent, were legitimate
subject of reprobation, but they DETAINED
the character of his wife. On one occa-
sion newspaper published in Nashville
was laid upon the Generals table. He
glanced over it, and his eye fell upon an
article in which the character of Mrs.
Jackson was violently assailed. So soon
as he read it, he sent for his trusty old
servant, Dunwoodie.
"Saddle my horse" said he to him,
in whisper, I" and put my holsters on
him" Mrs. Jackson watched him, and
though she heard not word, she thought
she saw mischief in his eyes. The Gen
eral went out after few minutes, when
she took up the paper and understood
everything. She ran out to the south
gate of the yard of the Hermitage, by
which the General would have to pass.
She had not been there more than a few
seconds before the General rode up
with countenance of madman. She
placed herself before his horse, and
cried out:
go, General, don't 60 to Nashvillel !
Let that poor editor live. Let that poor
editor live" "Let me alonew he re-
piled; chow came you to know what I
am going for?" She answered, Il saw
it all in this paper after you went out;
put up your horse and go back" He
replied, furiously, "But I will go-get
out of my wayp Instead of doing this,
she gr asped his bride with both hands.
He cried to her, "I say, let 60 my
horse; I'll have his hearts blood-the
villain that reviles my wife shall not
live"
She grasped the reins but the tighter,
and began 10 expostulate with him, say
ing that she was the one who ought to
be angry, but that she forgave her per-
secutors from the bottom of her heart,
and prayed for them-that he would for
give if he had hoped to be forgiven. AT
last by her reasoning, her entreaties and
tears, she SO worked upon her husband
that he seemed Modified to a certain
extent. She wound up by saying, No,
General, you shall not take the life of
even my reviler-you dare not do it, for
it is written, 'Vengence is mine, 1 will
repay, saith the Lord"
The iron-nerved hero gave way before
the earnest pleading of his beloved wife,
and replied, az yield to you; but had
it not been for you and the words of the
Almighty, the wretch should not have
lived an hour"