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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29

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AMONG THE GENERAL EXHIBITORS,

Among the new exhibits at the Exposi-
ton that have just come in, is an automatic
oil cup. the inventor of which is a Mr..
Moses, of Buffalo. New York. 1t consists
Of glass cylinder into which the oil is
poured, and connecting pipes to the steam
cylinder, valve chest and other parts Of the
engine. Eor oiling the cylinder and valve,
It is operated by the valve rod, but it can
be attached to any part Of the engine
having motion. 1t is fed by a neat
device with rachel movement, and the
supply can be made large or small, and
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29
NEWP0Rr.

Mayor Lowe, of Pittsburg, formerly of
this city, is here paying visit to friends.
Hot and cold sulphur bathrooms are
being fitted up near the Blue Lick we'll at
Finchtown.
Miss Mira Sine, our efficient Assistant
Postmistress. after pleasant visit of two
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29

YESTERDAYS GAMES.
The Cincinnati Stars and Mohawk Browns
yesterday afternoon played their fifth game
together, which resulted in third victory
for the Stars by the following
SCORE:
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
Marriage as a Test.

How remarkable it is that when
ever an enthusiast in religion gets
new light, and adopts what he con-
siders advanced views" he almost
invariably begins to tamper with
marriage! In this tampering he al
ways betrays the charlatan, and
sufficiently warns all who are tempt
ed to follow him to beware of him.
There is no better test of a new sys-
tenn of life than its relation to
Christian marriage. If it hampers
with that it is always bad, and can
by no Possibility be good. The
Shakers form a community built on
this rotten foundation. They de-
stroy the family, root and branch.
They have no place for love, and
enter into determined and organ
lied fight with the God of Nature,
who, by the strongest passions and
impulses He has ever implanted in
the human soul, has commanded
them to establish families and
homes. Shakerism is good for no
thing if it is not.good universally
if it ought not to be adopted uni
versally. But universal adoption
would be the suicide of a race, and
race has no more right to commit
suicide than q man. Besides, the
damming of human nature only sets
the water back to cover the banks
it was intended to nourish and to
drain. 1t is too late to talk about
the superior sanctity of the celibate.
We have no faith in it whatever.
The VOW of chastity simply empha-
sizes in the mind the passion it is
intended, for spiritual reasons, to
suppress, and fixes the attention
upon it. The Shaker, in denying
love to himself and all the hallowed
influences that grow out of family
and home, gains nothing in holiness,
if he do not lose irretrievably. He
is the victim of a shocking mistake,
and he disgraces himself and his
father and mother by his gross
views of an institution before whose
purity and beneticence he and his
whole system stand condemned.
Of course we do not need to al
Jude to the Mormon. His views of
marriage-revealed, of course-are
simply beastly. But these new
schemes of life, religion and. phi
losophy are constantly springing
up. 1t is very difficult for any sys
tenn of socialism to establish itself
without tampering with marriage,
and one of the best arguments
against all sorts of communities
and phalansteries and what-nots of
that sort, is that the family, as a
unit, is unmanageable within them.
They can take in and organize
miscellaneous mass of individuals,
and provide some. sort of a dirty
substitute for marriage, hut the
family bothers them. 1t is a gov
eminent within a government, that
they cannot get along with. So
the marriage test is a good one in
all cases OF the kind Scribner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
The Pronunciation Of "U."

AS the schools have just opened
and as everybody reads your paper,
if you will allow me the space, l
wish to call the attention of the
teachers and pupils to a fault in
English pronunciation exceeding
common in the North, rarely heard
in the South or in England, but
which seems to be spreading here.
eve have faults enough in the
South without grating some North
ern ones upon them.) 1 refer to
the vulgarism-if l may so term it
of giving the long "u," which is
in so many of our common words,
the sound of 800"
For instance, 50 out of every 100
Northers will say institoot instead
of institute, dooty instead of duty
"a perfect rhyme to the word
beauty, They will coll new and
news moo and noos-a perfect
rhyme to pew and pews-and so on
through the dozens and hundreds
of similar words. Not dictionary
in the English language authorizes
this. In student and stupid the
SUI has the same sound as in cupid,
and they should not be pronounced
stoodent and stoopid, as so many
teachers are In the habit of sound
ing them.
If it is a vulgarism to call door
a doah-as we all admit-isn't it as
much of vulgarism to call a news
paper noospaper. Nne vulgarism
is Northern and the other Southern
that's the only difference. When
the London Punch wishes to bur-
lesque the pronunciation of ser
wants it makes them call the duke
the dock, tutor the tooter, and a
tube a toob. You never find the
best Northern speakers, such as
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner,
George William Curtis, Emerson,
Holmes and men of that class say
ing moo for new or Toosday for
Tuesday, avenoo for avenue, or
calling dupe doop. 1t is fault
that Southerner never falls into.
He has slips enough of another
kind, but he doesn't slip on the
long Gu" As many of our teach
ers have never had their attention
called to this, hope they will ex-
cuse this notice Washington
Star.
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A Mothers Hallucination.

The Scranton Republican tells a
touching story of poor old wo-
man who haunts the depot about
the time that the trains arrive, and
gazes at the faces of the incoming
passengers as if expecting some
one. During the war her only son,
a young man upon whom she fairly
dotted, was killed in one of the hot
test engagements, and the news of
his death so preyed upon her mind
as to disturb the poor woman's rea-
son. Ever since then she goes to
the depot once or twice a week to
meet the incoming trains, in the
hope that he will come to her. At
other times and on all other sub
jects she seems entirely sane, but
she sometimes thinks that her son
will come back, and to satisfy the
hope that never dies, and in the
depth of that love which never
fades, the poor mother continues to
go on her sad mission with as
much earnestness as though she
were performing a solemn religious
dutV
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MRS. SPRAGUE.
What Don Piatt Knows Of the In
teresting Creature.

Washington Capital: "Poor Mrs.
Sprague has to suffer not only from
Conkling's unpOpularity, but. from
her drunken husbands insanity.
We know, in knowing her, that she
is as innocent of the wrong imputed
as her youngest child. To appre-
ciate this we have to know or re-
member that, inheriting much Of her
| honored fathers intellect and force
of character, she grew to woman
hood without a mothers care and
| with the training given a man. The
result is, that while as pure a wo
man as God ever created, she looks
at the world from q mans stand
point. When a mere girl Of sixteen
her soul revolted at the unjust
and illiberal discrimination made
against her sex. She found Dick
Nevins, the handsome, dashing man
of the world, in a small, fiat State
capital, where the only amusements
are visits to the penitentiary and
asylums for the insane, deaf and
blind. She found Dick, we say, a
pleasant gentleman to know init
mately, and when the small-souled,
opper-bottomed, gilt-edged arts
tocracy of that place forbid the in
timacy, Kate defied the prohibition.
She was incontinently run over by
a drove of social bulls and heifers,
and would have been plastered in
the mud, past finding, but for her
own pluck and her fathers high
position. Victory made her bold,
defiant and imprudent, andthe po, r
little woman tries the.eame fight,
now that her great father is dead,
her fortune gone, her social posi-
ton is no longer secure, and her
spirit broken by misfortune. She
found the society of Senator Conk- |
ling pleasant, and she asked no
mans and no woman's consent to |
the same. 1t was the most open
and defiant social transaction ever |
sneered at by the thin lips and false
teeth of this hydra headed social |
world. Baldheaded, round bellied,
slender-legged senators, who can be
carded cut by trumpets, nodded and
at each other like owls in a
hay loft, and old, aristocratic fami-
lies-twerty years old, at least, in
whose closets at home grinning
skeletons make the air unhealthy
spoke of her as "that person" Ros
coe Conkling, who, with all his in
tellect and intelligence, is, through
his excessive vanity, an ass, helped
wreck the frail bark of her platonic
affection. He delighted in the foul
He had captured, and
held a willing captive, one of the
nigh queens of society. He reveled
IN the notoriety. He lost no OPP
Dortunity to make it the more no
,orious. He smacked his beastly
Ups over, not the qualification of
desires long since burned out, but
over the notoriety of a supposed
qualification that fed his inordinate
vanity. We envy no mans pillow
who could read with eyes UTMOST
sned the pitiful account of this once
brilliant woman, this loved and low
able creature, following meekly, yet
her children, torn from her
BY brute of a husband, to the
home two unworthy men had rem
Tered desO!ate."
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A Georgia Raised Pedestrian.

Sundays Atlanta Constitution
The colored pedestrian, Hart, who
has been creating such a sensation
during the past few days at the
great international walking match
in Madison square garden, is not a
Boston Niger" as some of the
Northern papers would have the
public believe. The truth is that
Hart is a Georgia-raised darkey.
He lived for a number, of years
in the vicinity of LAGRANGE and
on many occasions has walked
over to Columbus, from his home,
distance of forty miles, to attend
frolics, danced all night, and then
walked back, reaching home in time
for breakfast next morning.
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THE PATTER OF THE SINGLE.

When the angry passion gathering in my
mothers face | see,
And she leads me IN the bed-room--gently
lays me on her knee,
Then l kr ow 1 will catch it, and my flesh in
fancy itches,
And 1 listen for the patter Of the shingle on
my breaches,
Every tinkle of the shingle has an echo and
a sting,
And Thousand burning fancies into active
being spring;
And thousand bees and hornets meath my
coat-tail seem to swarm,
As listen to the pstter of the single, oh so
warm.
In sputter comes my father--whom IIsup-
posed had gone
To survey the situation and tell her to lay
it on;
To see her bending DER me as listen to the
strain
Played by her and by the single IN wild
and wierd refrain.
In sudden intermission, which appears my
only chance,
| say: "Strike gently, mother, or you'll split
my Sunday pants;''
She stops a moment, draws her breath, the
shingle holds aloft,
And says: 81 had not thought of that, nv
son, just take them off,
Holy Mosesl and the angels, cast thy plying
glancss down,
And thou, oh family doctor, put good soft
poultice on;
And may with fools and ounces everlast-
ingly commingle,
ever / say another word when my mother
yields the shingle.
buffalo Express.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09

We don't believe in reputation.
The best thing to be done in all
cases where it is possible is to pay
debts at one hundred cents on the
dollar. But in the history of States
and municipalities there come
times when bad management, and a
series of disasters, render it impos-
sible to liquidate all obligations on
the above named basis. The hon
est thing for such debtors to do is
Just what an honest business man
does in a similar situation-call on
the creditors to compromise. 1t is
bad all around. 1t Injuries State
and municipal credit. But com
promise is better than trying to do
the impossible and going from bad
to worse. We notice some north
ern States that haven't clean re-
cord in this regard; States that bit
off q good deal more than they
could chew thirty or forty years
ago, and had to get out OF trouble
by compromising with their credi
tors, appear to have forgotten all
those events in their history, and
we find their newspapers fiinging
a good many ugly epithets at
Southern States that are now in the
deep waters of financial affliction.
1t is unkind and uncalled fer.
There is no section that has mo-
nopolized this compromise bust
ness Washington Post.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09

Peterson's Magazine, which a
contemporary calls "pre-eminently
the first of the lady's books" is on
our table for November, ahead of
all others. 1t is astonishing how
this favorite continues to improve.
The present number leads off with
charming steel engraving "The
Little Haymaker," and is followed
by one of those double size steel
fashion plates, superbly colored,
only seen In this periodical. Then
comes a powerful engraving, "The
Oriel Window" illustrating a story,
and then some fifty wood cuts of
dresses, patterns in embroidery, GRO
Chef, &C., &c. A pretty love story,
"The Prize at Our Archery Club"
brilliantly illustrated, follows, and
then tales and novelets by Mrs. Ann
Stephens, Mrs. F. Hodgson Bur
nett, Marietta Holley, Frank Lee
Benedict, &c, DC. With this num-
Der appears the Prospectus for 1880.
A speciality of Peterson is month
ly Supplement, given to each sub
scriber, with paper pattern for a
lady's or child's dress, the patterns
alone being worth more than the
subscription price. Five original
novelets will be given IN 1880, by
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, Frank Lee Bene-
dict, g., 81. A new feature will be
introduced, in a series of brilliantly
illustrated stories and other articles.
The price of peterson" remember,
is but two dollars a year, or less
than any other first class magazine,
postage free; to clubs the terms are
even lower, viz: two copies for
$3.50, with a superb, copy -rIghted
mezzotint (size "a inches by 20)
washington at Valley Forge" as
premium. OR four copies for $3.50,
and an extra copy of the magazine
itself as premium. Or five copies
for $500, with both an extra copy
and the washington at Valley
Forge" for premium. For larger
clubs the premiums are even more
tempting. Now is the time to get
up clubs for 1880. Specimens are
sent, gratis, if written for. Sub
scribe to nothing until you have
seen a copy of Jefferson" Address
Charles j. Peterson, 3O6 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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The Baltimore Gazette does the
people of the South an invaluable
service in allaying our fears of be
ing eaten up at a mouthful some
day by the scurrilous slang inventor
who styles himself editor of he
Lemars (Iowa) Sentinel. The Ga
zette writes his biography in the
appended few lines: "The fierce and
implacable editor of the Lemars
(Iowa) Sentinel, Mr.. j. c. Buc-
hannah, although weighing two
hundred and fifty pounds, has been
kicked, cuffed and chased about his
town by little weakened school
teacher named. LAGRANGE. The
warlike editor, whose hot breath
makes weekly response to the blood
thirsty uttering of the son of Mars
who runs the Okolona States, turns
out to be a pitiful calf" In this
connection the same paper has this
to say about the brImstone fumiga-
ting machine of the Okolona
Miss. J States: The first man who
uses the toe of his boot on the
Okolona Statesman will discover
that the editorial wildcat is only a
squealing pig. The fire eaters who
endeavor to lash the country into a
furious war through small newspa-
pers with patent outsides, are all
shams, every mothers SON. of
them. Their rantings are the
screams of condors and eagles sent
out from the throat of q chicken"
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niger is less serviceable to the Re-
publican party as voter than he
was to it formerly as slave. He
needs too much protection. He
can only vote the Republican ticket
when surrounded by a Gordon of
Republican bayonets. There is no
grit in him. There is more voting
energy and party strength in a doz-
en- raw Irishmen than in a thousand
well-fed niggers. There is not an
ounce of stalwartism in a ton of
niger. The more niger the less
strength. AS a slave, the pictur-
csque misery of the niger was an
unfailing armory of party weapons;
as a freeman, there is no romance
in him-cowardice is not romance.
He is too cowardly to vote his con-
victions, or too stupid to have con-
victions. When the stalOarts get into
eoaOer, IN 1880, he naust be distrG,s-
cltised, or compelled to vote right. The
free Niger Is a Fraud
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not leave a place of such risk? The
reply is that those who become
mastered by the love of stock job
bling are unable to break away from
the scene. They are held by an ir-
resistible spell. and hence Gould
will never leave Wall street until
expelled by disease, bankruptcy or
death. He is under a mania, and
hence, Notwithstanding his wealth,
is (if properly viewed an object of
pity Gould is now sixty-five, and
hence it is not surprising that he is
considerably shattered. He retains
his former close office habit, is diff
cult of access, and rarely appears in
the street He has but little to say
to any one. and asks nobody to
shake hands or inquire about
health. His mind is absorbed with
bushes schemes, and he is carrying
a heavy burden. How long he can
carry it is a question concerning
which there is q variety of predic-
tiOnS.
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Jay Gould's Return.

From the n. Y. Letter: Another
more important return is that of
Jay Gould, whose temperance is
one OF the events of the financial
world. Few men have brought
back less from the Old World
than this Wall street king, whose
heart during his entire absence
has been in tee Stock Exchange.
He has, while abroad, negotiated
some important financial schemes.
and this fact will no doubt be soon
more clearly developed. Twenty
years have elapsed since he for
sock the Flooding leather trade and
began to operate in stocks. During
this interval he has made a large
sum, but he has become the slave
of speculation and must remain an
habitue of Wall street until the last.
Many predict that he will eventually
meet the gamblers fate. 1t is often
asked why q man of his wealth does
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and all failed to add anything to
the general information. Since
1872 there have been expeditions
of more or less Importance sent out
by Norway and Sweden. An Aus
trian expedition in 1878 discovered
what Is known as the Francis Jo-
seph Land. These explorations of
the Polar Seas have been continued.
and now this expedition of 1875
sends word of the successful pas.
sage from Sweden through the Arc
tic Sea to the northeast, and thro'
Behring's Strait, and thence to
Japan.
The existence of northwest pas
sage Is still an open question. Ar
ter nearly 400 years search bv
some of the ablest and most scien.
tltic navigators the world has ever
known, the open route to tho north
west from the Atlantic TO the Pa.
cific is still undiscovered.
Prof. NOrdenskjold has pointed
out the fact of a northeast passage
from Europe to the East. His little
vessel fies her flag in Japanese wa
ters, having traversed the route
from Sweden to Behring Island.
What that vessel has done others
Will do. He represents the people
OF Northern Asia as intelligent and
industrious. He has opened up
connection between the whole re-
gion along the Arctic coast and the
rest OF mankind. 1t may be that a
new source Of supply for the wants
Of mankind has been discovered.
aud that furs and oil at least from
this wholly inaccessible region may
be added to the trade of the world.
The voyage of the Vega is one of
the great accomplishments of the
age.
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That Old Squirrel.

Suppose a hunter sees n souirrel
or the side of tree, and as he goes
around to get shot at the squirrel,
the squirrel runs around the tree so
as to always keep on the side oppo-
site the hunter. In this wav the
hunter completes a circle around
the tree; has he gone around the
squirrel as well? SCHOOL Boy.
Chicago, Sept. l6.
Reply.-We have been expecting
this question every mail. IL has
come, and we will answer IL for
good. We heard this puzzle wran-
gled over "down in Vermont long
before the frosts of eighty-six win
tiers had whitened our head, and we
suppose boys will discuss 1T a hun
dred years to come. The answer
depends entirely on the meaning OF
the word around, in the last sentence.
Webster gives the definition of this
adverb as follows: ain a circle"
ION every side" 1t is obvious that
the second is the definition of the
word as used in the sentence. That
being the case, the answer TO the
question must be no, because tho
hunter has not been on every side
of the squirrel. 1t is not true that
a thing going around circle goes
around e. @, on every side OF IT'D
everything within that circle A
span OF horses may go around a
race track but the outer horse does
not go around the inner one because
he is always on the same side Of
him. To go around him there must
be some point in the circle where
they would be head to tail, but such
is not the case; consequently the
outer horse, being only on one side
Of the inner horse, does not 90
around q. g., on every side Of him.
This reply is hardly worth the
space it occupies, but we know the
question must come and be answered
Iooner or later.-[Chicago News.
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Lay Aside All Other Issues.

Lexington (Ky.) Gazette: Few OF
any party now deny that Tilden
was chosen, not only by an over
whelming popular vote, but by a
sufficient number of the electoral
college to entitle him to the Presi-
dency. He is the representative of
the wrongs Of the Democratic party,
and his dignified department under
the greatest wrong which any man
was ever called upon to endure, has
added to his popularity with the
masses, and thousands who would
not vote for him while merely the
nominee of party will gladly come
to his support when he becomes
the exponent, the embodiment and
victim of one of the greatest polit-
ical enormities of modern times.
We hope the democracy will lay
aside all other issues and con
tentions and controversies, and pre-
sent this naked, criminal, isolated
fact before the people. 1t is the
"gist" of the Presidential contest of
80; all things else are chaff and
stubble and straw. Our opponents
would lead US as far as possible
from this, to them, fatal issue, and
hence they spring all manner of
foolishness upon our speakers and
writer's, and are constantly making
issues to befog and mis-
lead. With Tilden and the fraud,
the democracy will sweep the coun
try, the politicians to the contrary
Notwithstanding.