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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06
YANKEE WAE OOHDNNE.

The shrewdest Yankee ever born in Ver-
mont would never have thought Of forming
a joint stock company to work and develop
promising miracle. That happy thought
was reserved for Frenchman. peasant
girl at Cheppy, in the Department of the
ITeuse, had celestial apparition of the
Virgin in an apple tree. The Bishop and
the clergy manifested no enthusiasm, and
the supernatural would have gone to waste
if poor Collin had not taken measures to
insure its success. He took the ground
that in this commercial world even a mira
Gle will fall unless it is properly backed up
by capital He induced couple of bank
ers to advance him funds, and the miracle
company was formed With the money so
procured he had commemorative medals
struck; he had chNplets blessed, and an
immense number of photographs taken
representing the apple tree and the fea.
lures of the apparition. A very large
number of these objects were sold by him
throughout district extending many miles
in every direction from the apple tree.
Pilgrims soon began to flock to the place
by thousands, and miraculous cures took
place as q matter Of course. AS many as
$500 pilgrims are known to have visited
the tree in single day. Unfortunately for
the dividends of the enterprsing company,
the police stepped III, not to dispute the
authenticity Of the miraculous apparition,
but to prosecute Collin for hawking his
pious fetishes without license. He was
fined $40 for the offence, and that circum-
stance gave rise to a quarrel between the
associates. He maintained that the firm
ought to pay the fine collectively, as well
Gs bear the burden of expenses incurred by
floating the concern. The financial part
ners not only would not hear of any such
thing, but sued Collin for s., 400 advanced
to him. The latter, exasperated, then
wrote pamphlet exposing the whole swim.
die. Unluckily for himself, he did not
stop there, but sent Ibelous post cards tc
one of his associates and forged the sigua-
ture Of the public prosecutor to docu-
4 ment summoning the other to appear and
answer for having aided and abetted in a
serious case. A short time ago, the inge-
NOUS fellow was sentenced to three weeks
i,n,1.icoDrnant for Crrir1Iir o,.d hi, ,ly
mailing. Baltimore Ncns '."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS AND HAIR
pgNS

Circumstances sometimes over which q
man has no control conspire to place him
in a false position, and give to acts that
but for peculiar surroundings would APP
pear in harmless, yea, even sportive
light, the dark hue of premeditated crime.
Somany facts in both ancient and modern
history occur to us illustrating this point
that we will not cite any, but take it for
granted that our readers are familiar with
with some of them. A Mr.. c. %. Owens,
printer by trade and living in one of
those delightful suburbs of Chicago that
in "a dry time are slightly above tidewater
from the sewers, is a young man, and has
a young wife to whom he has been united
but few months; but these few months
have developed in Mr.. Owens capacity
for domestic government that would be
appalling to Susan B. Anthony or Lucy
Stone Blackwell, and cause Miss DR.. Mary
Walker to forswear breeches and all who
wear them. Mr.. Owens promulgated
some rather arbitrary rules as to what his
wife should prepare for daily food, and
how she should prepare it-as to the Wis
its she might pay to his mother-in-law,
who lived some forty rods away from
her daughter-and as to the number
Of times per week. she might
stand at the back gate and enjoy
social intercourse with the ladies
of the contiguous premises The other
night (to be accurate, it was on Monday
night, the 29th ultimo) he ascertained
that Mrs. Owens had been over to show
her mother the baby's first tooth and
have it duly admired. When this fact
came to Owens knowledge, he at once
proceeded to admonish or demonstrate
with her in the usual way. He pounded
her, and kicked her, and beat her in a
manner that, while it had the sanction
of CUSTOM resulted disastrously to Mrs.
Owens, and has placed Mr.. Owens, so to
speak, temporarily in an unpleasant posi-
ton. Mrs. Owens, with a weakness pc
cu1iar to her sex, was addicted to hair
pins, and during the progress of Mr..
Owens emphatic admonitions two of
them were driven deep into Mrs. Ovens
head, causing results which have already
been seized hold of Gas well as the hair
pins) to relieve the lady of any further
attentions of the kind from Mr., Owens.
Now, to the simple presence of the hair
pins is traceable Owens misfortune. He
is prosecuted for a result that he could
not have foreseen, unless indeed he knew
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

that woman, in her natural state, was a
simple museum of hair-pins. Society is
down on him-not for thrashing his
lovely wife, but for not recognizing the
fact that hair-pins are a constituent ele-
ment of womanhood. His mother-in-
law stepped in during the melee and
robbed him of his hearts delight because
he never had been notified how much of
that hearts delight consisted of hair
pins. Verify is man-of the married
variety especially-the sorrowful victim
of unforeseen circumstances.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06
$1,000
FIRST USE OF STEAM.

It is still debatable matter who was the
first that suggested the use of steam as a
motive power. All that is known as to
this point may be comprised in few sen.
tences. Hero, a man of considerable at
tainments, who fourished in Alexandria,
in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus,
stands pre-eminent as the first who reduced
the power to mechanical contrivance, of
which he has given description in one OF
his works Still there is no account Of
Hero's application of steam to arts and
manufactures, nor, indeed, any account
of its power being applied to useful pur-
poses, until the fifteenth century, when
Mathesius, an ingenious writer, proposed
to employ Hero's contrivance to turn a
spit.
In the sixteenth century, Solomon de
Caus, French engineer, proposed to ap-
ply the elastic power of steam to raise
water, and suggested a simple apparatus
for the purpose, consisting of boiler
fixed over fire, having a stand-pipe fixed
in the top of the boiler, its lower extremity
terminating near the bottom Of the water,
and its upper extremity carried some
height above the top of the boiler. The
elastic force of steam being raised by the
fire, passed upon the surface of the water,
and caused jet to descend from the up.
per extremity of the pipe. The same prin-
ciple is described in work published by
the Marquis of Worcester, in 1888, en-
titled "a Century of the Names and
Scantlings of Inventions" in which he de-
scribes a method of employing the power
of steam to rise water.
Scotland seems to be entitled, however,
to the honor of having first reduced steam
power to navigation in practical manner,
although France and England each claim
the merit of having made the suggestion
that would naturally lead to the result
mentioned.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

THA English papers contain many com
plants Of the rowdyism in the House of
Commons The moral tone of the men :
bers is pronounced low and rather vul-
gar. John Bull has hitherto been in
clined to attribute this vulgarity to the
Irish element, but the London Times
now admits that the presence of many
men, who Use their position as members
of Parliament for very bad purposes, has
degraded that body fearfully during the
past ten years, compared with whom
the most boisterous member that ever
sat for Donegal Or Tipperary is a gen
tleman. Divisions are called on mere
verbal bubbles; speakers are coughed
down; personal abuse is banded about; !;
whole sessions are given up to riot, and
the regret is universal that the House Of
Commons contains so many men who do
not know how to behave as gentlemen.
In the old times of ''individual response
bility" there was a good deal more deco
rum in most legislative bodies than there
is at the present day; but then an hon
orable member would occasionally be
taken home on a shutter, instead Of
riding home in hack, in the early morn,
ing hour.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06
SALTENG APUBl.GCAN,S TOOT'Eg.

A trick which perhaps, as warning to
others, may be worth recording, is said to
have been played on publican in Edin-
burg recently. Two or three men were
drinking at the bar, when another entered
rubbing his cheek with a small paper
parcel. Having ordered and paid for some
other persons present that lie was suffering
from toothoche, and had just been
recommended to try an ''od wife's" cure
namely, to put some salt into piece of
paper, and rub it against the affected
cheek. After some further rubbing the
supposed sufferer retired for few minutes,
leaving his parcel on the counter In his
absence one of the men at the bar alb
stracted the salt and substituted sawdust;
and when on his return the rubbing was
resumed some banter was INDUCED in. The
person who had put sawdlst in the parcel
offered to bet a sovereign that it contained
no salt, and the money, which the offerer
professed not to have, was ultimately put
down by the publican, who had witnessed
the whole proceedings Meanwhile the
holder of the parcel contrived to dispose
of that containing sawdust and produce one
full of salt, but apparently identical with
the other, and on this being opened the
publican found that he had been duped.
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LAWYERS sometimes indulge in pleasant
ries that border very close upon the 'hu-
morous. client called upon his legal ad-
wiser recently and told him this sad tale.
'You see, collected all the money l could,
md turned everything I'hhd into cash,
with view of giving my creditors as large
a dividend as possible. l had a big roll of
bills, which l put in my hip pocket, and I
lost EN-" 'You lost the money-the
whole of it 2" "Every cent" "Well, 1
believe you, but don't think 1 can find
another man in Boston who would believe
it, The fact is, my friend, if Judge Low
ell should decide that your loss was real
ity, every bankrupt'in Boston would want
to borrow your pants" '
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

No reconsideration of the Southern
Railroad vote without a change Of Trus-
tees. The people want no trihing of that
kind.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

THE Canadian Government has de-
cided to exact a duty of seventeen and
one half per cent. ad valorem on all silver
coin shipped from the United States to
that country. Cautious Canucks.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

THEY make no provision for insanity,
either temporary Or confirmed, in Flori-
da. There is not even an asylum for the
insane in the State.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

REV. P. B. MORGAN is safely moored
into a fou,- .housand-dollar rectorship in
Chicago
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

CHICAGO claims woman with feet
fifteen inches in length, but that is not
half so long as some of her business mems
faces.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

THERE are still pretty definite rumors
of war preparations by Russia in this
country.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

THE Southern Railroad will be built,
but not by the Trustees that are now in
power.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06
THE STAR,
10 Walnut street, Cincinnati, o.

FOREIGN affairs continue to grow more
pacific.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

How TO SECURE MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT.
The road is easy. He who wants but little
strength need DO but little work, but he who
wants great strength must do great work.
If he has not perseverance, he will not get
far If he has, he can, especially with an
eager companion in an hours work day,
aimed especially at his weak spots, render
himself thoroughly well-built man by
1880. The rules 4 pas simple as those of
any mechanic art No expensive tools are
required. The methods are portable, as a
man travelling, for instance, can work as
we'll in a hotel room as at home, can find a
floor and pair of chairs, and indoors he
scarcely needs more, while out of doors
there is always the road. Many moderate
efforts at plain and simple work, instead Of
the often dangerous and generally useless
pranks OF fancy gymnastics, or the risk of
OVERRIDING in hard racing of any sort-these
are all that are required. But few minutes
daily at any muscles is al one will want or
at first should take. But he must be frank
with himself, and resolutely attack the
weaker muscles letting the others rest till
they catch up-[W VIM. Blaikie, in Harper's $,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

Fine black tea has been grown five
miles from Thomasville, Ga. ''"' '
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

Don't sit down to a table where there are
twelve others. In the first place it is bad
sign, and in the next you can't get as much
to eat as if there were only five or six,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-06

The ice crop of the United States is only
sixty-five per cent. of what it was a year
ago MoSal: Keep your butter in your
neighbor's ice chest this summer
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FUII W HIV.7NF17 Ut '@Tt'V13'3'-ffs 1'' w
Depot, Fifth and Hoadly.
Ft Wayne & NJ Mail""..".. 7:3am 9:53 m
Munce eAc.....,.,.,"............ 4:O3 p m lI3pm
CINCINNATI 4 WESTwooD (NARRoW-GAUGE)
Daily, except Sunday.
Leave c.. II. & D. Depot 800 IN, 6:25 p m.
Leave Robb's (Wcstwood), $50 a IN, 7:45 m.
12:45 M p m. 6.l0 p III. s,-,
Leave brighton, $50 IN, 91O III, 215 p m 5:25
p m, $50 pm.
Sunday trains
Leave Robb's CWestwood), 900 m, 100 p m:
and $50 pm. ...
Leave brighton, 1915 am, 2;l5 pm and G:l5 pm
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JOB PRINTING.
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DenOt. Mill and From
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

Washington Ex. daily... 9:0S m 6:43pm
Baltimore Ex. daily............ 9:0S pm 6:223 ID
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The :33 a m and 4:O3 pm trains connect fol
Yellow Springs and Springfield. The Church
Train leaves Loveland Sundays at 9:O3 nj, and
returning leaves Cincinnati ut l:53 p M
III ~ z A
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
NEWs TOE RUsSELL.

We were pleased to meet in the
NEWS Office this morning Mr. Il.
H. Dickinson, Of Bickley's Mills,
Russell county. He was the dele
gate from that county to the
Wytheville Convention, and is one
Of the leading, active and in1uen-
tial men Of the county. He le-
ports that public sentiment is rapid
ly settling down in that comfy in
favor of Col. Richmond. The re-
sult OF the News Office interview
with the nominee has reached The
county Of Russell and the people
are well pleased at the bold, frank
and manly avowal of opinions
made in that interview. Russell
can without 6oubt be set down
for Richmond.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
Death oC-Tescpb II. Earnest

Joseph II. Earnest, of Rheatown,
Greene county Tennessee. died on the
Mountain at the Cold Springs, Thurs
day night, August Is, 1878. MIR. Ear
pest vas sevenGy-one years old, and
had gone out to the Springs on top OF
the mountain, to stay during the hot
weather with the family of his broth
er, AIr. B. f. + ruest. His death was
very sudden and unexpected While
his general health was good, he had
been troubled with some affection Of
the heart, and his death Was~helieveG
to have resulted from some heart
trouble His wife was at their home
ia Rheatown when be died. and his
three daughters (Who are al narried)
were none ofsthem present. Mr.. Ear
nest was for years one OF the direc-
tors of the Il. II, Va. & Ga. r. r.,
and one Of the leading business men
Of his county, and his death viii be
greatly felt -JdHe8bOrO' Times.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
The Independents in Roanoke
EiO Chance for ewbeFry
or the Governor.

The Salem Conservative Of last
Friday, says:
Dir. Newberry Of Bland county,
one of the independent candidates
for Congress from the 9lh district,
addressed the voters of Roanoke last
Tuesday Court day) upon the issues
of the campaign lie spoke earnest
y to a respectful audience. and al
though he claimed to be q greenback>
eT OF the strictest sect, and advocat-
ed all unlimited issue Of paper mon
ey, denounced the bondhniders. and
favored REIMBURSEMENT Of the State
debt. he utterly failed TO awaken any
enthusiasm or elicit applause from
his auditors. In the course of his
remarks, Mr.. Newberry took occa-
sion to speak rather contemptuouslv
of the Conservative party and sueer-
ed at the nominee of the Wytheville
Convention as though be expected to
receive no support from Conservative
voters land We hardly thi4k he will. J
Mr.. Newberry has the appearance
and the reputation Of being an honest
open hearted gentleman. and as be
tween him and McMullin for Con
gress, he would be far preferable,
but neither Of them stands the shad-
ow of chance to. obtain c seat in
that body.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27

He Gov. McMuIlin) stands square
" upon the Greenhack-R REIMBURSEMENT
Platform which was tabled by the
Fuuders and anti-Greenhackers in The
WytheviIle Convention. "-AdrioH
Herald 22nd
Gov. McMullin was in this Office
on Tuesday the 2Oih, and we asked
him the question if he did endorse
the Whole Of that particular plat
form, and he replied he had not ex-
amined it and really did not know
what it,wqs. We then asked him
if he endorsed the end resolution,
which demanded "the immediate
calling in and payment Of all
'bonds with absolute paper money,
"without regard to the time they
may have to run on their face. "
lie replied -cmphatically hepD NOT.
How is this for "a sort Of Green
hacker in q form mutila-
ted r.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
THE NEW PARTY MOVE.

1t will be seen that the new
National party has some adhercnts
in our county. Council No. -
has 8 called meeting for Henry
Prestou's School House next Sat-
urday. These gentlemen seem to
consider Democracy a failure as
we'll as Republicanisin, and they
strike cut two years in advance to
win the Presidential fight Of 1880.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
rcttlbcnc yudcr the screw.

N. I.,..a,.,uo ,v;.og ono ~
/ ''e . o''' sun me- '"
the leading nights q The A'puoI'-
can party in East Tenn, tarus the
tallL,t mn,
so''" " s..'ssssssssSs
kcttlnone, Who can oh'Y screen
and veil, While Bob TAYLOR plays
IL. ;.,t.r,s.;,,.. d,,n,a.i. entertain
NC -
meHt. ltead l;sc following I'o"
! last weeks TIMES. aLd see if The
3.,,r of TIor,,o, i In,elv to RIM
~" -
down Ieuioo'le Ie''"' ~ ID"
ING Of the trick that nominated
him # SAWS:
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
GOV. aIcAIulIrn Fakes Back

Gov. McMullin informs rs that
he notified Newbcry that he has
Withdrawn his proposition to do
nate $4,000 Of his salary to the
Free Schools Of the District, in
case lie should be elected to Con-
gress. He says Newberry charg-
ed him with trying to bride the
people TO elect him, and hence lie
now withdraws that promise, and
will if elected, draw the entire sal
Rry.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27

Dennis Kearney, the California
agitator, having stumpcd New
England, and the Northwest, is
now in St. Louis, where he met
with cool reception. He de-
nounced the politicians and press
as bummors, blood,suckers, hell~
hounds, vampires and vipcrs.-
The New York Herald says;
just at the conclusion OF his speech
the platform gave way, and all On il
were precipitated pell nell to the
ground. A scene of indescribable
confusion followed. The lamps we're
overturned, and they set fire to the
planks. The platform was slowly
consumed, with the reporists manu-
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27

Gen. Jerusalum Smith, of Mems
Phis, was taken with yellow fever
last week at Grenada, and went
back to Memphis in a special
train. Nearly every one who
takes the disease at Grenada dies.
The negroes arc calling like
sheep" So nearly all are down
with it that no reliable reports can
be had from the sick.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
Sufficient TO Satisfy.

The Pearsburg GAZETTE Of last
Friday says:
Col. Richmond on his way home,
from this place, stopped in Bristol,
and while there Was interviewed by
Mr. Fowler Of the NeWs. The NelcS
publishes the interview at length.
which is sufficiently plain to satisfy
tic desires Of the most extrlVagant
and set them at ease if anything IN
the world can.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27
YELLOW FEVER,
The Disease Spreading and ats
Tygjc5 the NOst Fatal EyeF
KnOaCH. NcIC Orleans,
Memphis and Grenada
AjGudOHed TO the
Plague.

Accounts from the Mississippi Val
ley are of the most appalling charae-
ter.
In New Orleans, last Saturday, there
were 1913 new cases and AZ deaths. To
tai number Of cases to date 1868. Total
number Of deaths 5T7, Of which 81
are for the week.
In Vicksburg the fever steadily in
creases. On Saturday there were Il
new cascs. Total to date zoo. The
Increase is largely among the negroes.
Those who have fed to the country
have taken it and are Stunned by the
people everywhere. rs the brave
Towards go on their round they find
whole families down at once, and ma
ny of them dead and dying at once,
The disease is Of the most violent
type.
In Memphis the disease continues
to spread Saturday sho &ed 1915 new
eases md Is deaths. The people are
fleeing in ali directions.
At Grenada they have ceased to use
the cemeteries and sre huryiug the
sick in the nearest Iots-auy where to
get them buried The Herald reports
$50 people last Saturday in the most
unutterahle agony. Out Of 500 strick-
or mo- one has recovered and half are
now dead. The nurses aTe being
stricken down and it is believed cer-
tain death awaits aIl unless they can
he removed to the adjacent hills, SO
foul is the air that piece Of beef hung
up in the air is black and putrid IN
less than al hour.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1878-08-27

Speaking Of the offer Of Gov.
McMullin 20 sell his farm, payable
when he beats Richmond, The
harrisburg GAZETTE says
IF he was to sell it for million
payable when he beats Richmond for
a seat IN the forty-sixth Congress. he
would never realize ten cents from
The sale. We have heard him talk
that way before, and he got badly
beaten every time