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the year 1876, by the Pennsylvania Cen
trail In that year it amounted on that
single road to the sum of $3.50, ,942, l5S, a
sum exceeding the total imports into the
United States from foreign countries dur
ing any year since 1874. The foregoing
valuation does not include the express
business over said road, which would add
immensely to the aggregate. 1t is esti-
mated in the report, from which we con-
dense these few leading facts, that the
value of the commerce Of the United
States on railroads is about sixteen times
the value of our foreign commerce.
The third and fourth inquiry have
reference to the construction of railroads.
During the years 1869 to 1873 inclusive,
there was an extraordinary amount Of
construction. During the past four years
it has averaged 2, ,224 miles per year. In
1871 the amount was greatest to-wit;
1908 miles. The least in the past ten
years was in 1875-1,75S miles. The
production of iron and steel rails IN the
United States in 1872 reached over a
million tons. In 1877 it amounted to
| 764,70 tons. The importation of the
same was in 1867, 15l ,097 tons; in 1871
it amounted to 1921 tons; in 1874 only
47,132 tons were bought abroad; in 1875,
5,273 tons; in 1875, SO tons, and in 1877
only II tons. Showing a revolution in
this one item of the iron trade that is
without parallel in the history of COM
merce.
The home production Of iron and steel
rails has increased from 2,958, l4l tons
during the five years from and including
1871 to 4, ,056, $40 tons during the five years
from 1873 to 1877, both inclusive. The
report states as conclusion that "the
extraordinary amount of railroad mileage
constructed from 1869 to 1878, inclusive,
was largely speculative. During that
period railroads were constructed in Vari
Gus parts of the country, not for the pur
pose of meeting any existing commercial
demand, but with view to prospective
traffic and upon speculative principles
generally. This over-building of rail
roads was one of the most potent infu
ences in throwing the employment O
capital out of joint with the Legitimate
demands of commerce"
The country has paid dearly for thi
diversion of capital from its Legitimate
channels during those years that the rail
road mania prevailed, but altogether th
foregoing summary is very encouragin!
showing for the future Children neve
learn to run alone without few fall
and bloody noses.
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THE LECTURE ON CHEMISTRY.

An unemployed actor, disinclined to
rust in idleness, to say nothing of starving
determined to 'do the provinces" as an
entertainer. The provinces, however, did
not prove the happy hunting ground he
expected, and when he arrived at a certain
small town in the North, his funds and his
spirits were equally low. The latter were
not raised by the worthy who had the
letting of the "halr' informing him thea
trical exhibition would be mae guide at a."
there; but that if he gave lecture on
chemistry the place would be crowded. At
this straw our desperate actor clutched.
He would turn scientific lecturer, and
chance it being discovered that he knew
nothing of his subject. The hall was en-
gagged, the bills distributed, his coppers
spent upon red-fre, brick-dust, iron filings
and some innocent powders; the time
came, and the lecturer stood before q
crowded audience, without any clear idea
of what he was to say or do, save he was
going to perform an old experiment Of
producing hydrogen, and new one of his
own invention, which he hoped would
bring the performance to sudden end.
The friendly hall-keeper had borrowed q
pestle and mortar, Leyden jar, and two
two or three retorts, which with few
physic bottles filed with bright-colored
waters, gave the table quite scientific APP
pearance. The pseudo -savant commenced
by reading few pages of popular trea-
tise on chemistry, by way of Introduction,
md then closing the book, trusted to i'm
pudence to pull him through; and pull
him through it did. He says: 81 ex-
planned, with many mispronounced words,
the hydrogen experiment; and then it oc-
CURED to me to arrange little accident,
which would perhaps make them nervous,
and prepare them for what was to follow
This l easily did by thrusting retort neck
downward into the fire; the few drops of
water condensed, and burst it with loud
report. then proceeded to explain the
dangerous nature of chemicals, dwelt on
gun-c cotton, sudden death of experimental
lists by fumes, &C., meanwhile filling my
mortar with brick dust and other harm.
less ingredients. Having worked the au-
dience up to the required pitch of nervous
ness, dilated on the dangerous and un-
certain nature of the compound l was
mixing. Ispoke of my bad health, and
wound up by saying: Startling and mar.
velous as the announcement may seem,
it is nevertheless true, that were l to leave
off stirring this mixture for one single
second, the whole of this building and
every one therein would be blown into un-
recognizable atoms! In less than two
minutes there was not a soul left in the
place except Mr.. Mact"ggart and myself,
who pitched the stuff away, and cheerfully
divided the profits - Chambers Journal.
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A green-looking youth walked into the

A green-looking youth walked into the
office of welEknown physician recently,
and, after taking a seat very coolly re-
marked that che had been bitten by a
snake" On investigating, the surgeon
discovered that the young man had wrap
ped his handkerchief around his leg just
above the ankle, twisting it with a stick.
The limb below the bandage was black, as
the circulation had been stopped. He
stated that while coming down Wills
Mountain he had been bitten by snake,
which he thought was viper. This
prompt action saved his life. The doctor
made assurance doubly sure by cauterizing
the wound, after which the youth, who
was not half SO green as he looked, de-
parted, apparently none the worse for the
venom. Cumberland News.
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COLLEGE OF MUSIC,
NO. 24S :, ace Street.

This institution is now ready for the reception
of pupils, with a Faculty of seventeen teachers,
including Professor Livanovsky, Director of the
instrumental Department, and is located at the
above place, formerly the rooms of the Academy
nf Music.
The branches taught are Vocal Music, Piano,
Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Organ, Harp, Flute,
ton, Solieggio, French, German, Spanish and
Italian Languages.
The college will be removed to more commodi-
GUS quarters at an early day, of which due notice
Will be given. In the meantime communications
addressed to the undersigned will receive promp
attention. MISS DORA NELSON, Pres't
au2O-l2tru&Tn
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SPORTING NEWS.
Billiards.

Jacob Shaffer, the Chicago billiardist,
played game of billiards with Tony Ho.
ming, of this city, at Gilligan's last night.
The score was Shaf1er, 900; Honing 8.
Baseball.
In the last game between the Maple Leafs
and Tremonts the latter were defeated by d
score of 5 to 3.
The Mohawk Browns, the champion ana.
teurs of the West will cross bats tomorrow
with the Capitol Citys, of Indianapolis on
the Avenue grounds. The Capi oil City is
the only amateur club that has defeated the
Browns yet. Each club will playit best to
win the game.
The following games were played yester-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
Arc You Afflicted,

and wish TO recover thesame degree of health,
strength, and energy as experienced in former
years? Do any of the following symptoms or
class Of symptoms meet your diseased condi-
ton? Are you suffering from ill-health in
any of its many and multifarious forms, con-
sequent on lingering, nervous, chronic, OF
functional disease? DO you feel nervous de-
bi'itated, fretful. timid, and lack the power
of will and action? Are you subject to los
of memory, have spells of fainting, fullnea
Of blood in the head, feel listness, moping
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

MASSACHUSETTS is going to do the very
thing which Bob Ingersoll in his great
Cincinnati speech advised in case the
State could not be carried for Blaine
Turn Faneuil Hall into Democratic
headquarters.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits of melan
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in a disordered oondi
ton? Do you suffer from rheumatism, ncu
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you becn
indlscreet in early years and
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
A Lady's Wish.

ooh. how do wish my skin was as clear
and soft as yours" said a lady to her friend.
" You can easily make it So" answered the
friend. "How?' inquired the first lady.
" BY using Hop Btters, that makes pure
rich blood and blooming health. 1t done it
for me- as YOU observe"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

Mr.. SAYLER's constitution seems to be
breaking down under the strain of his
Congressional labors. The time is not far
distant when it will be necessary to give
him a rest.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
A Victim to Youthful F0iIies,

Or carried the marital relation to excess in
later years? Have these indiscretions and
excesses left you in weak and debiIitated
condition? Are you timid, nervous, and for
getful. and your mind continually dwelling
on the subject? Have you
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits? ? Are you
subject to any OF the following symptoms;
dreams, palpitation Of the heart, bashfi.ness,
restless nights, broken sleep, nightmare,
confusion of ideas, aversion to society, dizzi-
ness in the head, dininess of sight, pimpIes
and blotches on the face ard back, and other
Respondent symptoms? There are
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
External Remedies are the
Safest

and best that can be applied in diseases, on
account of the facility which we possess OF
watching their action and their results !;
and of these remedies Electricity, in the
form of mild, continuous, and prolonged
currents, as realized exclusively by
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

THE English estimate that the cost of
killing each Kaffir in the the late war was
$625. Then what did they kill the
Kaffir9
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

THE Fire Commissioners owe it to
themselves to call Alderman O'Neil and
give him a chance to talk. When body
of men, entrusted by the city with re-
sponsible duties, are charged with cor
rupt practices they owe it to themselves
and the city to refute the charge or step
down.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

BALTIMORE is shocked at the unseemly
haste of a man who was a happy bride
groom Just five weeks from the death of
his first wife. He argued that he could
not afford to lose much time as he was
Seventy-three years old
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

THE glass works at Ottawa, ILL.,, are re-
suming operations. They Ottawa't till
cooler weather.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
Broken Down in Health

and spirits from disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who from false modesty or neglect,
prolong their suflerings. Why, then, further
negect subject so productive OF health and
future happiness when there is at hand a
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoke
altogether, and seek remedy that has
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

Baptist tSunday-sch0oi Convention.
The programme of exercises of the TWEEN
tieth annual Sunday-school Convention, to
be held in connection with the Miami Bap-
tist Association, at Franklin, September
24th 1873 is as follows:
MORNING SESSION.
$50 A. M.-Devotional service.
1000 A. M.-Opening exercises; appointment OF
cOmmitte S; reading of letters from the schools
100 A. M.-Essay, Little Things" by Miss
Emma j. Wood, Cheviot. Following the reading
of this paper, as SO those to be presented in the
afternoon session, opportunity will be given for
brief remarks or further dis usslon, by any per
sons present, on the subjects thus introduced.
AS A. M.-ReportS of Secretary and Treasurer
for c past year.
1900 M-AdjOurn.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
POO p M-DevOtonal service
2:l5 p. M-Reports of committees election OF
officers for ensuing year; other business
2'45 2. M.--"SOme thoughts and suggestions
about Christian Training Classes by Robert Bon
sail, Mount Washington.
$50 P. M.-"The Teachers Preparation" by H.
H. Howe, Columbia.
4:15 p MA Higher Grade of Teaching by
E. D. Burton, Columbia.
500 F. M.-Adjourn.
EVENING SESSION.
7:3O P M--Addresses to Sunday school teachers
and scholars by: Samuel W. Duncan. D. D., Ninth
street. Cincinnati Mr. Charles Rh0ads, Granville;
Rev. A. NJ. Worcester, Third Church, Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

WHILE DIR. Linderman stamps out sill
yer dollars by the bushel, he would not
linderman cent.
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PULvERMACHER'S
ELECTRIC
Ezzzzs2ExzI8zZkzzss z&<EsZEzz
B :: ], 7 S
bands, ,
Learned Physicians and Sci
entifiC Men

in Europe and this country. We also dem
onstrate why relief and cure result from
their Use after every other plan OF treatment
has failed. Reader,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21

There were few things in which ancient
Erin differed more from the Ireland of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
LEGAL.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON THE
N nth day of August, 1878, Louis Il. Wehrman
M, G5 ISL. in the Hamilton County, Ohio Courto Of
Common Pleas, praying for the vacation of an
alley on the south side of Fifth street in the City
depth living between Eots 10 and II, on subdi-
vision OF lands in said County, made by the Com
missioners of Hamilton County Ohio. as recorded
in Deed Book " 2, page 472 OF the Records OF said
County.
The petition states that the vacation thereof will
conduce to the interests of the subdivision in
which said alley is located and of the City of Gin
cinnati and will not work an injury to any person
or owner; that there is no necessity for an alley
at said place. The plaintiffs are the owners OF the
real estate on the south side Of Fifth street abut
ting on either side of said alley and along its en-
tire depth and prays for the vacation of said alley
The petition will stand for hearing at the next
| term of said Court.
LOUIS r. WEHRMAN,
WILLIAM Il. WEHRMAN.
! CINCINNATI, August Oath, 1873. su2a5tS
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Believe not i'll of brother till It ID
proved beyond doubt.
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Science and Common Sense

to commend it?-a remedy of indisputable
efficacy, and the most certain means OF re-
storation to health and pristine vigor?
There are many diseases Of an acute and
febrile type that we do not propose to cure
by means of Electricity; but from all that
Electro-Physiology teaches us, in regard 10
the moduS operandi of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
PULVERMACHER.
ADDRESS,!

To the Weak, Nervous, and
DebiIitated, acAO Suffer from
IIl-He0Ith consequent on
Lingering, Chronic, Neru-
o. :s or Functional Diseases.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
Thousands of YOUNG Men,

middle-aged, and even the old, who suffer
from nervous and physical debility. There
are also thousands of females
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
Curative and Preservative

effects of Voltaic Electricity, we may most
reasonably infer that all those chronic all
ments and all diseases dependent on a de-
pressed condition of the nervous forces, ex-
haustion OF nerve power, or the diminished
energy of vital functions, as treated upon in
our publications, are happily most suscepti-
BILE OF cure by means of
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BOOK TRADE.
ROBERT CLARKE & CO.'S,
WEEKLY BULLETIN OF
New Books
BOOK TRADE.

RC. & co. PUBLISH THIS DAY:
Manual of Universal Church History,
BY the Rev. JOHN ALZOG, professor of Theology
at the University of Freiberg Translated by
Rev. f. J Pabisch and Rev. Thos S. Byrne, OF
Mt St Mary's Seminary. Vol. Completing
the work.. s.. The work complete 3 vols, SIS.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-21
FulvermaCher's Electric
Belts and Bands.

These conditions they will cure, while drugs
will not; and we offer the most convincing
testimony direct from the afflicted them
selves who have been restored to
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
A Scene i'm VeraCruz.


Editor Haiding, of the Indianapolis
Herald, who has been. making jaunt
through Mexico, says that the public
washing place of Vera Cruz is curious
institution. Stone troughs, about three
feet high, extend around two sides of a.
large square. These troughs are divid-
ed into compartments which look very
much like stable-mangers, and each
compartment in addition to the recepta-
Gle for the water is furnished with a
stone slab upon which the linen is rub
bed. Probably hundred brown wom-
en-, some of them young and handsome,
and others old enough and ugly enough
to have stirred Macbeth's. hell-broth,
were busily engaged in rubbing, smok-
ing and chattering as we passed; none
of them gave us more than a passing
glance. Their costume was cool, by no
means burdensome, and admitted of a
lavish exposure of bust, arm and ankle.
The water is furnished by the city aque-
duet, and each washer pays n stipulated
rent On the whole, it is a great inn
provement on the mode of washing as
practiced in the interior, to be hereafter
described Such of the linen as was
hung out to dry seemed to be delightful
ly white and clean, but the process, L
understand, is rough on material and
buttons.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
TOrturing Apprentices.

A recent dispatch from London, On
tario, says: j. H. Hargreaves, propri-
etor of a hair factory here, was arrested
last night, charged with excessive cru
city to young apprentices, male and fe
male. instruments of torture, consist
ing of ropes and pulleys, leather thongs,
padlocks and gags, were produced in
Court to-day. One of the victims, An
ME Sparks, related the crueIties that
had been practiced on her by Har.
greaves and his partner, Jarvis. She
had been repeatedly left suspended by
her hands from the ceiling of a dark
room, one time for four days. Har.
greaves was committed for trial. The
foreman has been arrested for complici-
ty, and Jarvis, the partner, has abscond-
ed. At the close of Court the police
had great difficulty in keeping Har.
greaveS from the mob.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
Life and Death of a Miser.

Jerry Tullis, miser, died in Cincin-
natl, the other day, leaving behind him
nearly $3,000,000 worth of property.
His history is very romantic one. He
lived in little dirty, dilapidated room
in a frame shanty, back in a lonesome
alley, when in town, and when on his
country property in log cabin of one
room. He kept safe in the town
room for his papers, took his meals at
a cheap restaurant, buying meagerly
and of the cheapest.kind of food. His
appearance was that of tramp, clothes
ragged and soiled, face unshaven and
hair unkept. He always bought clothes
at secondhand stores. Few people
thought he was rich, yet he owned 5O,-
900 acres of land in Missouri, the same
amount in Iowa, besides valuable prop
erty in st. Louis, Cincinnati and Chica-
90. He had no wife or children, but
leaves two sisters, who inherit his say
ings. He was 80 years of age.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

SECRETARY SCHURz asks Congress
to appropriate $4,000 to improve the yell
lowstone National Park.
THE Archduke Francis. father of the
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, is dead.
THE President has nominated John
w. Hoyt, of Wisconsin, for Governor of
Wyoming Territory.
The nomination of Thomas G. Smith.
at present Treasury Clerk, as Paymaster in
the Army, Is meeting with considerable op-
position among Senators, and the Senate
Military Committee has laid over the nomi-
nation for further investigation.
THE suits against Gen. o. Howard
on account of deficit in his accounts as Com
missioner of Freedmen's Bureau, have been
decided in his favor, on the ground that the
funds in question were in the hands of CIV
Balloch, a detailed Officer, land the defendant
was therefore not responsible.
DIR. F. A. HUNToON, a noted &c medi-
um," who has been giving naturalization
seances in Chicago, has confessed the impo-
sition practiced by him upon the public, ex-
planned the trick by which he introduced
into his cabinet the persons who personated
the spirits" and expresses contrition fol
the humbuggery which he has been led tc
practice solely for the sake of gain.
HON. SAMUEL H. MCCRARY, of Iowa
City, Iowa, one of the pioneer settlers of the
State, is dead.
THE President has nominated Robert
NJ. Reynolds, of Alabama, First Auditor Of
the Treasury.
PROF. JOHN BRAINARD, formerly Of
Cleveland, died in Washington on the 18th
He went there during the late war to take !
position in the Patent Office.
Col. JAMES ENGLISH, for many year:
foreman of the Government Printing Office
at Washington, died on the I'd inst, aged
5S years.
A SPECIAL from Rome says the Pope
is considering the expediency of appoint.
ing Cardinal Ledschowky, Archbishop OF
Posen, to a post in the Vatican, TO pave the
way for the appointment of an Archbishop
of Posen in agreement with the German
Government.
DR.. b. S. SCHORN, recently discharg.
ell from the Interior Department, shot him.
self at Washington on the 18th.