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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11
C1Nn1NNArI Ono. Nov. 7. 1875

CINCINNATI. OHIO, Nov. 7, 1879.
DR.. JAS. C. KERR-My Dear Friend-Yes-
terday sent to our friend, Rev. George
Hughes letter for his paper concerning
your medicine, in which / recommended it
to the preachers for Headache, Nervousness,
Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Weariness,
Flatulency. ana those other complaints to
which preac' ers are SO subject, Rev. Mr..
Hughes Is widely known among the minis
ters of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New
York. and he has. much influence with
them. ! hope you and your family are
we'll. Yours truly.
-t.r Rev. HENRy D. MOORE.
3sot4j dr. 116 West Sixth street.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11
: Attempted Suicide.

About half-past ten o'clock this morning
an old man named Christian Mack, aged
fifty-scven. years. attempted suicide by
,!rowning in the canal at the Liberty street
crossing. He was pulled out by Officer
boyle, Of the Oliver Street Station, and
some brewery mei,. Mack halls from
Albany. New York, and l,as only been in
the city four days. being on his way to
Kniaas, where hsi,ss . SOM id business.
He Is now at the Oliver-Street Station.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11
METROPOLITAN MENTION.
IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.

National Associated Press to the Star.
New YORK, Dec 1.-THE monthly re.
turns of Castle Garden for November show
total arrival of immigrants at this port
last month of nearly $4,000, an increase OF
nearly 1900 over the month of November,
1878. Total arrivals since January 1st 1879,
1876 900. an increase of $4,000 over the same
period in 1878. Countries from which
the greatest number arrived last November
are as follows German States. 1921; Ire
land, $685. England, 1894; Italy, 1854
Sweden. l. 1886; Russia, 439; Scotland, 437
Wales, 398. ..
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11
Maine's Mandam us.
II Associated Press to the Star,

BosroN, Dec. 1.-THE Supreme Court of
Maine sat in Augusta yesterday. Judge
Virgin presiding, to consider the demand
for a writ of mandamus to be issued
against the Secretary of State, to compel
the exhibition of election returns. The
entire day was devoted to arguments,
which are resumed this morning.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11

National Associated Press TO the Star.
MENDOZA, ILL.,, Dec. 11.-Theodore Til
ton lectured on the Problems of Life last
night. Having missed the train it was one
of the problems OF his life how he should
get there. He was obliged to drive ten
miles through the darkness, pouring rain
and mad foot deep.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-For Tennessee
and the Ohio Valley rising and higher
barometer, northerly winds, colder and
clear or clearing weather.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11

Weber's celebrated beer for quality,
purity and flavor challenges the world.
Bottled by the Cincinnati Lager Beer Bot
tling Company, 3A Elm street, delivered
free o: charge to any part Of the city or
suburbA
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11

Drink Weber's celebrated beer, it is the
best on tap at all first-class saloons.
Try 1t!
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CNAREs or NEW YoRK, OR TRICKS AND
y Traps Of the Great Metropolis, exposes N
swindlcs, humbugs and pitfalls Of In city. Ju&
out. nearly 20 large pages profuseiy EnstfatsA
yRsSE HANEf = co. ID Nsn6u stssct Noe
York
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
A LUCKY DRINK.

Four years ago two young Italians
left Naples for California, hoping To bet
ter their fortune. They arrived within
the Golden Gate with Just enough mon
ey to convey them to the mines in the
interior. They were advised to go to
DownievIlle and seek work in the Sierra
Butts mine, where large force was want
ed. On their journey one fell sick by the
wayside, and was taken in by a kind
hearted farmer. The other pushed
ahead and finally reached the end of his
journey. He failed to procure employ
ment, on the ground that he neither I'M
derstOod mining nor the English Ian
guage. After receiving numerous
rebuffs he started to return to
the lower country again. at
point between Loganville and Downie-
vile, and ten miles from the latter place,
he became so weary, footsOre and dis
heartened that he began to wish himself
back in sunny Italy once more, among
the vines and olives. He grew feverish
thinking over his trials and tribulations,
and stopped at spring to lave his head
and moisten his parched throat. Cattle
had been that way a short time before,
and with their feet stirred up the limpid
water until it became thick with mud.
The italian scooped out the basin in one
side of the shallow spring, and waited
until the debris should settle to the bot
tom, that he might slake his thirst and
battle his brow. BY and by the water be-
came clear as a crystal, and he stopped
over to quaff of it. AS he did so, an as
tonishing sight burst on his vision.
The bottom of the spring was strewn
with bright yellow PARTICLES that glitter
ed in their Watery bed. With all his
ignorance of mining, he knew he had
found gold. He scrap6d up a handful
of dirt and took from it "a to So worth
of coarse and fine pieces of gold. With
where lived some of his countrymen, and
find. He told the story of his discovery,
but they were incredulous, saying that
some miner had stopped at the spring to
drink and lost what was found from
his purse. One of them, how
ever, who was more kind-hearted,
sympathized with the stranger and vol
unteered to help prospect the claim, al
though he had no confidence IN finding
permanent or profitable one. The first
day PANIED out 800. Since then they
have worked it constantly and on an
extensive scale. 1t has paid handsomely
from the first. Last year they took out
1000 and sold a One-quarter interest
for $4,000 more. 1t is not yet fully
developed. They work by thehydraulic
and drifting processes. The story reads
like romance; still there never was a
truer one, as everybody around Downie-
vile, who has taken the trouble to look
into it, knows.-Nevada City (Cal)
Transcript.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
SOUTHWEST.

The Ludington House billiard tables
were rented for beds during the old set
tiers celebration.
Col. James d. Snoddy, of Linn county,
has been selected by 1.-THE Marais de
Cygnc memorial association" to deliver
an address, at various points through
out the state during the coming winter,
for the purpose of raising funds with
which to erect a monument to the
memory of the victims of the Marais de
Cygne massacre.
Atchison Champion: Col. John A.
Martin, editor of the Champion, left Sun
day evening for Dayton, Ohio, to be pres
ent at Il meeting of the board of managers
of the Soldiers Home, of which he is a
member. A telegram from Dayton an
nounces that the citizens of Dayton will
tender the board a banquet ON the oc-
casion. Col. Martin will be absent about
ten days.
The Kansas City Journal pays the fol-
lowing compliment to the State Univer-
sity:
The University of Kansas, situated in
our neighboring sister city, Lawrence
opens this fall with an attendance OF
three hundred, which will probably be
increased TO five hundred before the
close of the year. The rapid increase in
attendance since the accession OF
Chancellor Marvin into the presidential
chair speaks well for his ability as a
manager, and also shows that the people
of Kansas are beginning to appreciate
the high educational advantages offered
them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE slCK-ROOM

In preparing meal for any one whose
appetite is delicate, it should be made
to look as tempting as possible. The
tray should be covered with the whitest
napkin, and the silver, glass, and china
should shine with cleanliness. There
should not be too great variety of
viands, and but a very small portion of
each one. Nothing more quickly dis
gusts feeble appetite than quantity of
food presented at one time,
The patient should never be consulted
beforehand as to what he will eat or
what he will drink. If he asks for any
thing, give 1t to him, with the doctors
permission; otherwise prepare some
thing he is known to like and offer it
without previous comment. One of the
chief offices of a good nurse is to think
for her patient. His slightest want
should be anticipated and gratified be-
fore he has had time to express it.
Quick observation will enable her to de
| tect the first symptom of worry or eX.
element and to remove the cause. An
| invalid should never he teased with the
exertion oSmaking decision. Whether
the room is too hot or too cold whether
chicken broth, beef tea, or cruel is best
for his-luncheon, and all similar matters
are questions which should be decided
without appealing to him.
Household troubles should be kept as
far as possible from the sick-room
Squabbles of children or servants never
SHOULD find an echo there.
In the event of some calamity occur
ing, of which it Is absolutely necessary
the sufferer should be informed, the i'll
news should be broken as gently as pos
sible, and every soothing device employed
to help him to bear the shock.
Above all, an invalid, or even a per
son apparently convalescent, should b.
saved from his friends. One garrulou!
acquaintance admitted for half an houl
win undo the good done by week of ten
der nursing. Whoever is the responsible,
person in charge should know how mucl
her patient can bear; she should keep
careful watch ON visitors of whose dis
cretion she is not certain, and the mo
ment she perceives it to be necessary
politely but firmly dismiss them,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
DRINKING WITH DEATH.

The Death Song of Desperate Man
WIN, Winter, now the king GrsTi = l.
critics, wrote this poem long aso in has ei
niiess, Bohemian days, white slipping Il gla>:
of wine down stairs in a saloon In Sudbury
street, Boston, without position or friends
and with only twenty-five cents in his pocket
SIT down, good fellow, and drink with mel
W ho cares Tor nothing his soul IS nee;
Free as the soul Of the fragrant wine
Sit down, good fellow, my heart is thine;
For heed not custom, creed. nor law;
care for nothing that ever saw.
In every city my cups quaE,
And over my liquor riot and laugh
laugh like the cruel and turbulent wave;
1 laugh at the church and l laugh at the
laugh at joy. and well knew
That merrily, merrily laugh ut woe.
l terribly laugh, with AN oath and a sneer,
When think that the hour OF death is near;
For know that Death Is guest divine.
Who shall drink my blood as 1 drink this
wine;
And he cares for nothing. a king is hei
Come on, old fellow. and drank with mel
With you / will drink TO the solemn past.
Though the cup drain should be my last
1. will drink to the phantoms Of love anu truth,
will drink TO the woman who wrought me
woe
In the diamond morn OF the long ago;
To heavenly face in sweet repose,
To the liIy's snow, aud the blood of the rose
TO the splendor, caught from Orient skies,
That thrilled in the dark of her hazel eyes
Her large eyes, wild with the fire of the
South,
And thu eseWy wine of her warm, red mouth.
1 will drink to the thought of better time,
To innocence gone. like death-bell chime;
I viii drink 10 the shadow Oh coming doom;
10 the phantoms that wait in my lonely
tomb;
I will drink to my soul, in its terrible mood,
Dimly and Solemnly understood;
And last Of all, to the Monarch of Sin,
Who has conquered that fortress and reigns
within.
My sight Is fading-it-dies-away-
canaot TELLS it night or dayl
Nv iC hn rnt nd lac ON Nvif
And u horrible darkness brushes my brain;
cannot see you-the end is nigh,
But-we'n laugh together before die.
Through awful chasms / plunge and fall
Your hand, good fellow. die-that's all.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
LONG AND SHORT sLEEpERs

Seamen and soldiers, from habit, sleep
when they Will, and wake up at will.
Captain Barklay, when performing his
wonderful feat of walking 1000 miles in
as many consecutive hours, obtained
such Il mastery over himself that he fell
asleep the minute he lay down. The fac
ulty of remaining asleep for length of
time is possessed by some individuals
Such was the case with Quinn, the cele-
brated player, who woukk slumber for
twenty-four hours SUCCESSFULLY; with
Elizabeth Orvin, who slept three-fourths
of her life; with Elizabeth Perkins, who
slept for week or fortnight at time; ;
with Mary Lydell, who did the same for
successive weeks, and with many others
more or less remarkable. 4 phenome-
non of an opposite character is some
times observed, for there are other indi-
viduals who can subsist on surprisingly
small portion of sleep. The celebrated
General Elliot was an instance of this
kind; he never slept more than four
hours out of the twenty-four. In all
other respects he was strikingly abstin-
ent, his food consisting wholly of bread
water and vegetables. In letter COM
municated to Sir John Sinclair by John
Gordon, of Swine, mention is made of a
person named John Eackey, of Sherry,
who died in Strahnave, in 1891, aged
ninety-one; he only slept on an average
four hours in the twenty four, and was a
remarkably robust and healthy man.
friedrich the Great, of Prussia, and the
illustrious surgeon, John Hunter, only
slept five hours during the same period.
The celebrated French General Pichegro
informed Sir Gilbert Blaine that during
whole years campaign he had not al
lowed himself above one hours sleep in
twenty-four. 1t would be very hazar-
dous, however, for most persons to mag
inc that they could follow any of these
latter examples with impunity Loss of
sleep. or taking too little, is, no doubt,
the cause of many sickness and pre-
mature death.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
FALSE SWEARING

A few days ago the judge of New
York court ordered the defendant in a
breach ofpromise case into custody on a
charge of perjury, for having sworn in
his answer that he had never proposed
marriage to the plaintiff, while in his
evidence he admitted that such prom
Use had been given. The New York
code requires pleadings in certain cases
to be sworn to, and in this case the de
PENDANT swore to a statement which his
personal testimony showed to be untrue.
The judge did right in causing his ar
rest for perjury. The case in hand. is Il
type of large class of false swearing as
matter of form. Thousands of men
who would repel with Indignation the
charge of false swearing, do neverthe-
less commit flat perjury IN swearing to
pleadings, afidavits for continuance,
etc. Still another and larger class of
peTjurers are those who sign the tax re-
turns with their eyes shut, and hold
their cOnsciences behind them while
swearing to the statement. Not Il year
passes that there is not enough false
swearing done in making our tax re-
turns to make the devil laugh during
the rest of the year, even if he found no
other cause. Men swear TO false returns
who would not defraud a neighbor out
of the value of pin. They do it just
because it is sort of formal swearing
and done with a mental reservation
second, because only the government is
cheated anyhow. The action of the New
York judge is step in the right direc-
ton. The public mind should be made
to recognize the fact that perjury is per-
jury, and formal false swearing TO law
pleading or tax return is rs bad as any
other
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
SECESSION.

Gen. Ewing said in a speech he made
recently, at Cambridge Ohio, that he
"did not believe there were now 1000
sane men in the country who believed in
the right of secession" The La Grange
(Ga.0 Reporter SCOTS at this assertion.
1t says:
Gen. Ewing is doubtless honest in his
views, but he is mistaken. There are as
many men as ever in the south who be
lieve in the right of ecession-makin2
allowance for the old men who have
died and the young ones who have
grown up since the war, and who have
no occasion at all to think on the sub
ject."
The chances are that this Georgia pa
per understands public sentiment in tho
south, while Gen. Ewing does not
Everything goes to prove that its esti
mate is the correct one.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
LIBERALISM.

The infidels, the sOreheads, the so call
ed Liberals" and the general mixture
of long haired men and short haired
women, have lately brought themselves
to notice by public conventions at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and at Bismarck grove,
in this state. The Hon. Bob. Ingersoll
seems to have awakened quite an inter.
est among them throughout the coun'
try by his lectures for two or three years
We have reports from Bismarck that
the performances and utterances OF
some of the leading spirits in that
meeting were both ridiculous and dis
gushing. We published the platform Of
the Bismarck gathering some days ago
IL is a harmless sort of document, o.
course arrogating to the participants
all the virtue, the liberality and progress:
of the age, while those who differ with
them are the slaves of delusive creeds
and barbarous deities. These fellow!
are not willing to acknowledge the fac
that they owe more of the freedom they
enjoy to-day to the enlightened and pro
gressive christian spirit of the time:
than to all causes combined. The Inter
Ocean very properly says that the Gin
cinnati meeting demonstrated that while
crying out against "intollerance," it was
composed of the most intolerant mel
and women that ever assembled. While
hurting the epithet of "bigots" at al
sects and classes who did not agree witt
them, they exhibited their own bigotrl
Enthusiastically. We believe it to be I
fact that the so-called Liberals, as gen
eral rule, are less generous toward thos
who differ with them than any class o
people in the country, especially on tn
subject Of religion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
EnUGkTInNAT.


Modern languages, othert than English
are TO be taught for an extra Tee in the
schools of Marshall, Michigan.
One hundred and ninety applicants fol
admission to Yale passed the June ex
aminations. Thirty were rejected.
The Wisconsin State Normal schools
have dropped Greek, triogonometry and
astronomy from their courses of study.
In Paris, the sum of 81, BPS, 900 is about
to be expended in building new elcmen
tary schools and enlargiBg those now in
existence.
There are 1855 matriculated students
in the University of Berlin, the philo-
sophical department being the most
largely attended.
The st. Louis school board in resolving
TO employ none but colored teachers in
the colored schools hereafter, have pro-
vided for fifty-six of these teachers.
Prof. Edwin B. Snyder, of Madison,
Indiana, has been elected to and accept
ed the chair of the department of music
in Baldwin University, Baldwin City,
Kansas.
1t is said that never before IN the his
tory of Baltimore's public schools has
there been such an overwhelming rush
of pupils to them as at the opening last
week.
One hundred and forty thousand
works of art were sent in for competi-
ton to the South Kensington schools
this year. Medals and book prizes were
awarded to 270 designs.
At a recent meeting of the state board
of regents of the University of California
resolution was passed ordering that the
freshmen be pledged upon entering the
university against joining any secret so
ciety during their course.
The colored teachers of Kentucky COM
plain that the present colored school
fund of the state is totally inadequate to
give the colored children general ele-
mentary instruction; that in many dis
tricts schools are not held ut all, and that
the average salary OF the colored teachers
is only $50 year.
Mr.. ]. B. Mccullough, editor of the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, has offered a
prize of 800 to the Illinois Interstate
Collegiate Association for the best con-
densation of given literary production
The prizes are $50, $50 and $50, accord
ing to the marks received from the Judges
The composition selected this year is Ru-
fus Choat's Eulogy on Daniel Webster,
delivered at Dartmouth college. The
prizes are contested for by seven colleges
and will be awarded at Champaign, Oct
|, during the oratorical contest There
are three judges to whom the condensa-
tiOnS are submitted, and whose markings
decide the honors. One editor, one law
yer, and one minister constitute the
judges.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
Road Notice,

Notice is hereby given that petition has
been presented TO the board OF county COM
miSsioncrs Of Lyo" county, asking for the 10.
cation of county road, as follows. tn " il ::
Commencing at Il point on the section lice on
the north line of section II. township 10
range II, on the west side of the Neosho rIV
eF; thence on the most practicable. rout.
across said river where the bridge is TO be To-
Gated; thence on the most practicable route
to the northeast corner Of the southwest quar-
ter of section ., township 49, range II; thence
east en- the half section line to the quarter
corner on the east side of section II, township
10, range IL; thence north one half mile to
the northeast corner of section Il. township 10
range II; thence cast on the section line four
miles to the comfy line, upon which YIN
Wells, ii. III. Gray and +. Mciiardy were APP
pointed viewers, and ordered TO meet at the
beginning of said road on the i2Jh day OF Sep
tember, 1879, at 10 O'Clock a. M by order of
the board. WE Wi&G
W35t Cnunty Clerk
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
Road Notice

Notice is hereby given that a petition has
been presented To the board of county com :
Tor the location and vacation of Il county
road, as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a
point near the southwest corner of section 81
township Is. range u, where the old santa
Fe state road crosses the west line of said
section 81; thence north to the northwest cor
ner of said section 81, same township and
range; thence east on the section line until it
intersects the Santa Fe state road, on the
Also to vacate all that portion Of the old san
ia Fe state road as now located through sec
tionS 81 and 32, in township 49, range y And
upon said proposed road the board appointed
the following viewers: 4. F. BurFes, \
Reggin and Al. Wilmington, to meet at the
beginning of said road. on the ID day of Octo-
Der. a. ID 1879, ut 10 O'Clock, q. IN, and in
conjunction with the county surveyor, to
view, locate ant survey sand road, and to give
all parties hearing. By order of the board.
w3S&39 WIN. +. EWING, Co. Clerk.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26

"If | had been commanded to choose
one spot on the globe upon which to IL
lustrate human Development under the
influence of absolute liberty, l could have
chosen no part ofGod's footstool SO int r
esting as Kansas With this sentence
Col. John w. Forney opened his address
to the "old settlers" of Kansas who had
assembled at Bismarck grove on the 18th
to celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday
of the state. The veteran politician spoke
directly from his heart. The turning
point in his life was reached when he
broke with Buchanan, whom he had
made president, because the latter refused
TO keep faith with the people of Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-26
Road Notice.


10 all WnOm 1t may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the unders gn-
ed. commissioners appointed to locate and es-
tablish state road from the city of Empo-
ria, Lyon county, Kansas, to the town of
Council Grove, Morris county, Kansas, and
pursuant to provisions of chapter 1853 of the
laws of 1879, having located and established
said road, and having made and filed in the
county clerks Offices of Morris and L. on
counties report of their dOings. including a
plat OF said road, and all claims and as>es
ments for damages, made up to that time
hereby give notice that they will, on the Goth
day of September. \. ID. 1879, meet again and
pass over the line of such road, to hear claims
for damages that may be made by all persons
for the laying out and establishing of said
road. ZIMRI H1SSHAW,
N35t5 IL. e. RICHTER.