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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-11
CoNFLAGRArIoN AND DEATH.

National Associated Press 10 the Star.
RICHMOND, VA, March ia dispatch
from Yanceyville says the store kept by
Charles r. Walton was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night and Walton perished in the
flames. Negroes going from church were
afraid to approach the place, knowing there
was gunpowder in the store. The eXplo-
sion blew one side of the house off. Only
small portion of the body of Walton was
found. Much excitement prevails many
believing that Walton was murdered before
the house was fired
sKIRMIsH IN MISSOURI.
SpRINGFIELD, Mo-, March 11.-Saturday
Sheriff H. II. Vickery, of Douglass County,
with posse went to arrest Self. Alsop on a
reuuisition from the Governor of Arkansas.
Alsop fired on the Sheriff and posse, killing
Vickery. The posse then returned the fire
through cracks in the weather boarding of
the house, riddling Alsop with bullets, and
also killing the latter's little girl, aged 8
years. Two others were arrested, and more
trouble is expected.
CoUNTERFEITERs CAPTURED.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 1l.-Marshal
Carter has arrived with three counterfeiters,
two men and a woman, from Live Oak,
They carried on their work in the wild re-
Sion near the Neuzes River. Their outfit,
very complete one was secured, and about
$500 in nickles, halves, quarters and the
smaller geld coins They are supposed to
be part of big ring
REDS ON THE WAR PATH.
LAREDO, Texas. March 11.-Reports are
rife of another Indian depreciation. Forty
redskins are threatening invasion one hun
dred and forty miles above. They wounded
a herder and killed Mrs. Valdes at Las
Rosas. A company from Fort Meredith
are watching their movements, and will
attack them if they cross
SUICIDE OF A MINISTER.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, March 11.-Rev. ].
L. Davis, a prominent Baptist minister,
committed suicide yesterday. His body
was found, grasping a revolver with the
muzzle pointing to a fatal wound in the
head. No cause is known.
KENTUCKY REIGN OF TERROR.
LEXINGTON, KY, March ia body OF
masked men on Saturday went to the house
of Moore, brothcr-n-law of Groome, the
Kentucky cattle king, and notified him that
unless he paid his debts Immediately he
must leave the county. Moore fired into
the crowd and volley was returned,
wounding him but not fatally. Two of the
mob were arrested and taken to Winchester
Jail The confederates of the two men
then went to Winchester, stormed the Jail
and liberated them. Great excitement pre-
walls in the vicinity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-11
DEATH In DIXIE
Sorrow, Slaughter and Suicide in the
Sunny South.
DISPATCHED BY TRAIN DISPATCHER.

DISPATCHED BY A TRAIN-DIsPATcHER.
Special to the Star
TuscUMDIA ALA, March 11.-George
Pankey, railroad conductor on the Mem
phis & Charleston Railroad, was shot and
instantly killed here last night by Arthur
Moran, night train-dispatcher. The cause
is not known. A Coroner's inquest was
held this morning, but nothing definite can
be learned, as they held secret examina-
tion. The suppostion is that the act was
done in selfdefense. Pankey's revolver
had two snapped cartridges and the ham
mer raised on the third when found. Mr..
Moran instantly delivered himself to the
authorities. Moran is quiet, peaceable
rN~ng man of about twenty-five.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-11
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses have b.
issued since our last report:
Fred. Kerth and Minnie Dehling
George Fighter and Emma Ciss
John N. Scott and Maggie FOy.
James Ray and Alice Moore.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-11
EMPLOYMENT AGENCY.
ELEVATORS.

The OTIS "NEw YORK" Steam
Passenger Elevator, with Otis Au-
tomato Safety Appliance.
JANE l.. HAVEN & CO.,
ialss Mdw6 No. SO Plum street.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-11
FOR SALE.

EN0R SALE SEWING MACHINES or al
L kinds, at greatly reduced pricea 40 CentrM
avenue, near Eighth street. mhS-I0t
EoR sALE--GRocERIEs- maple syrup
a SOC per quart, now maple sugar 15c per n
pure honey l2ac and 15c per lb, boneless cotifi.S
Sc, haslibut 1916, California salmon lSc per can,
best sardines l5c per box at TII0RNBURY'S nd
West sixth, 4S East Pearl, 43 West Court streefa
opposite markets. mhS-StS, T&B
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-16

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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-16
A DAISY CT A BIT CIGAR.

Always hand smokers materials, ~1dinI
schau.s brierood aud other varieties pines smoking
tobacco pipe stems, cigarettes, cigarette paper and in
short, everything, be f0nC class estsbi.
of the kind,
Telegraph Cigar Store Or,asy Buiiiu- C.rsn stree
Carson. ial3
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
The Yale Lectures.

Bishop Simpsons last Yale lecture on
preaching was devoted mainly to the de.
livery of sermons. "To read from manu-.
script" he said, "gives the preacher self.
possession. He knows that he has his ser.
mon prepared, and consequently has no
burden upon his memory or Imagination.
Nor will the presence or absence of any per-
son in his congregation either annoy or
confuse him. He has nothing to do but
simply to read what he has written. He is
confident of the accuracy of his language
and the strength of his logic. He had time
to revise and change while the pen was in
his hand" However, the Bishop is rather
against close reading from manuscript, and
in favor of free kind of delivery. He re.
CARDS the use of notes as less Objectionable
than the written sermon; yet it would be
much better to have the notes thoroughly
written on the heart. Reciting from MEM
DRY is not bad plan, he thinks, if the SER
mon has been well committed, but it imposes
slavish service on the preacher. What he
strongly advises is delivery without anything
more than meagre notes, but with plenty of
previous study and arrangement of the
theme. In the appearance and manner of
the minister in entering the pulpit" he says,
" everything careless or offensive must be
avoided. He must have due regard for his
congregation, and proper sense of conven.
tional propriety. He must avoid all affecta-
ton of manner and all appearance of dis
play. An air of indifference shows his
utter incompetency." As to the proper
management of the voice, the preacher
" should aim to speak with sufficient force
to be heard distinctly by all the audience.
To do this successfully, if the congregation
be large, let him select some person about
two-thrds of the distance between him and
the rear of the church, and let him endeavor
to speak so as to be distinctly heard by that
person."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
The Sunshine Mining Company.

We have as yet seen no reason to repent
having advised our readers to avoid invest
ment in this mining scheme. In fact we
are in receipt almost daily of letters from
parties, who know whereof they speak, adj
vising to the same effect A distinguished
civil engineer of Colorado writes in letter
received yesterday, as follows a. took some
pains to find out about the lodes of said
company. They may be good-if so il is
not known as yet. The advice of the CORE
spondent of Mr.. Sabn is, in substance, what
wrote friends of mine in Burlington.
would advise every one to let the stock of
that company aud of all others alone until
they write and find out the standing of the
company where the property is located"
Since writing the above our attention has
been called to a second double-barrelled, FIVE
column letter addressed TO this paper and
published in the Free Press, signed by
"The Sunshine Mining Company, John T..
Drew, President" We have neither time
nor space to answer them this week, but
may have occasion to refer to them here
after. We desire, however, to simply re-
peat what we have before stated, that our
course in this matter is actuated by no per-
sonal hostility to any member of the board
of direction of the company, and any attempt
to make it appear as such only shows the
poverty of the arguments in favor of invest
ing in it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
The Militia.

The convention to discuss the improve
won't &c .Le fyotiVuat ,ruard OF the whole
country, now in session in New York city,
embraces delegates from Massachusetts,,
Rhode Island Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, California, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vermont.
A draft of a proposed act of Congress was
presented and considered. 1t provides that
the militia or National Guard shall consist
of only regularly uniformed troops in the
several states organized under state laws /;
that the organizations shall conform as
closely as possible with that of the regular
army; that board appointed by the Presi-
dent shall fix one uniform to be provided by
all the states; two army officers and three
militia officers one from the Northern, one
from the Southern and one from middle
geographical subdivisions of the country to
form the board that system of rules be
prepared by similar board to follow those
of the regular army as closely as may be, to be
issued to every member of the militia that
100000 be annually appropriated to the
purposes of the militia and to the carrying
out of this law, and apportioned among the
several states to the number of uniformed
militia in service November LIST of each year
the states to regulate arms and ammunition,
but the small-arms to be of regular army
caibre, and chamber ranges are to be sup
ported and prizes for craftsmanship regu-
larry offered Adjutant General James S.
Peck of this village, and Col. T. S. Peck of
Burlington, who represented Vermont in the
convention, report very profitable and har-
monious meeting. The convention were
freely entertained by Gen. Hancock on the
Island, and by Judge Hilton at his palatia
in the city.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
It's Days Numbered.

The accursed institution of Mormonism
has received its death blow, and can only
drag out limited existence by the suffer
ance Of the powers that be. The recent de-
cison Of the Supreme court that Mormonism
is crime against the laws of the United
States has finally laid IL under a disability
too heavy to be borne. Delegate Cannon,
of Utah, himself Mormon, admits the
whole force of the decision, and only asks
that IL be so modified as to be operative only
so far as future marriages of this kind are
concerned. Otherwise he says, it will bring
ruin and desolation into the homes of many
who honestly believe Mormonism to be one
of the true religions of the world. 1t being
definitely settled that the law of the land
makes polygamy crime, he firmly believes
the people of Utah will not continue to
practice it, and that there will be no more
marriages of this sort after this date.
Several prominent Mormon ladies have also
visited the President, appealing personally
to Mrs. Hayes, and representing that fifty
thousand of their sisters will be made out
casts, and hundreds Of thousands of their
children branded with illegitimacy, If the
law is rigidly applied to existing cases.
Their condition is indeed hard one, and it
is a pity that the burden must fall upon the
comparatively innocent wives and children,
instead of the more offending " Saints"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
Notes and Notions.

CHICAGO Times; " The Indians are being
rapidly transferred to their reservation. It
is several feet under ground"
No WONDER that the negroes will "aban-
don the plantations to flock to the town"
The plantations of Louisiana are hardly at.
tractive to men who want 10 live long.
ALL continues quiet in Afghanistan. The
British troops have gone into winter quarters
with none to modest or make them afraid.
The Khans show no disposition to fight and
declare that they have no fault to find with
the change of rulers
New YORK Evening Post " If resumption
is maintained for eighteen months, and at
the end of that time promises to be perma-
nent, the politicians will make great mistake
who go into the Republican national con-
vention in 1880 with small estimate of
Secretary Sherman's strength"
Mr.. JUSTICE Hunt has made known,
through friends, that he will not take his
seat on the bench again, aud it is reported
in Washington that General Devens will be
his successor If he desires it. In that case
the gossips say that Stanley Matthews will
succeed Devens as Encouragement.
THE house committee report adversely on
Senator Edmuuds' electoral bill, and oil course
it cannot now pass that branch. 1t is said
that Senator Bayard has done all he could
to influence democrats to support the bill as
vast improvement, taking the ground that
1t destroys the power of the President of the
Senate over the vote, and vests in each state
the settlement of the questions as to which
are its elected and qualified electors.
THE Teller committee are taking mass
of evidence which shows conclusively that
that bulldozing, fraud and murder held high
carnival in the Louisiana elections. Negroes
were shot down like wild beasts and were
not spared when they were quietly at work
in cotton fields. The report of the commit
tee will spread before the country accounts
of the most horrible and bloody crimes,
which cannot fail to create deep impression.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
Gloomy Prospects.

The newspapers in England are full of
speculation as to the cause of hard times in
that country, for which the only remedy
they claim is emigration. They do not
seem to look for any speedy change for the
better, and, doubtless, they are right in this.
much deeper than those of the United
States. They have been growing for many
decades, by the gradual overburdening of
the land and the overcrowding of the man
ufacturing centers. The classes that are
suffering now are neither simple, hardy
peasants, like the Swedes, or strong, sturdy,
intelligent laborers, similar to our own, but
ground down for years by poverty, and una
BILE to procure good wholesome food, the
majority are stupid, ignorant and brutal.
These characteristics, the result of what
they could not control, is expressed in their
work, aud answers the question so earnestly
put by Englishmen as to the reason for their
losing their prestige in manufactures. APP
parently the season of starvation is only
Just begun there, and what will be the end
may well trouble the British mind, for it is
hard to see any remedy. Such news as con-
stantly comes from the Old World ought to
make the people of this country cease all
grumbling, and thankfully stake the goods
the gods have provided so plentifully. A
few years of industry and economy will
make good all of our losses, and place every
thing upon a prosperous basis again.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
Take Your Tea.

For the relief of that numberless class
who have persisted in taking their cup of
green tea, in spite of the almost universal
belief that it is aduterated with Prussian
blue-a yirulent poison-we give the follow
ing, from the New York Evening Post, which
has of late been investigating food adultera-
tions. The Post employed DIR. Henry II.
Mott, Dr., an eminent chemist, to analyze
some samples of tea obtained from the deal
ers in New York. His report on the green
tea is interesting for its bearing upon the
Prussan blue bugbear He finds that the
coloring matter used amounts to from one
to three per centum of the weight of the tea
OF this coloring matter seven one-hundredths
of one per cent. is celestial blue" and
about one-third of this is Prussian blue
Therefore, in one pound of green tea the
coloring matter is less than half an ounce,
the celestial blue is about one-sixth of a
grain, the Prussian blue about one-eighteenth
of grain. The most inveterate tea-drinker
would hardly consume pound of tea in two
weeks and some of the deleterious substance
would doubtless remain in the leaves or in
the liquid absorbed by them after the bev
erage was poured off, so that no one, how
ever devoted to "the cup that cheers but not
inebriates," could conveniently absorb in
this way so much as one-eighteenth of a
grain of Prussian blue in two weeks, which
could hardly be dangerous dose DIR. Mott
says ats effect upon the human system, even
by its continued use, could scarcely be ap
probable, as it is of itself of more or less
mild substance, being often used in cases Of
fever, and possessing tonic properties when
used in small quantities" The other color
ing matters used the doctor does not pro
nounce injurious. This analysis and opin
ion ought to lay the green tea spectre, and
relieve the consciences of those lovers OF
that beverage who thought they knew it,
use was scarcely defensible, though they
had not resolution enough to abandon q
practice so seductive.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
A Cold. BlOOded Massacre.

The inevitable Indian question has again
been brought into startling prominence by
the recent wholesale slaughter of escaping
prisoners at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, the
full particulars of which confirm the worst
Geographic reports. These victims were the
prisoners taken last summer, being part of
the band that left their reservation and going
northward filled the country with horror at
their terrible deeds of plumber and murder
along the border. About one hundred and
fifty were confined at this post, and the
treatment they have received has been out
rageous in the extreme, Savages though
they are, and guilty of atrocities that chill
the blood with horror at the bare mention, a
civilized and enlightened government, such
as the United States claim to possess, should
have given them, through its agents, the
treatment that common humanity would
dictate even to the meanest of its creatures.
Contrary to this, they have been left almost
naked by the Indian Bureau, with the Their.
mometer at zero, and with insufficient food
to appease their hunger. Rendered desper-
ate at last by the policy pursued towards
them, they made a preconcerted rush, and
breaking through the guard, fled to the sur
rounding hills. They were hotly pursued,
fired upon, and over fifty of the number
killed by the troops. The garrison, having
been mysteriously supplied with arms and
ammunition, entrenched themselves upon
rocky height, and have thus far kept their
pursuers at bay. The outbreak arose from
the report that they were about to be re-
moved to the Indian Territory.
This sort of thing is abominable and
needless, but there will be constant rep
etition of such SCENES or of similar ones,
so long as the present half-and.half policy is
pursued, while each one only tends to make
matters worse, and the question of civilizing
the Indian tribes more complicated. The
military power is in constant requisition to
compel them to peace or to punish some
bloody deeds to which they have been
goaded by real and fancied injuries upon
the part of the whites. If the reports are true,
the wrongs are oftener real than otherwise.
The time has come for a thorough recon
struction of our Indian policy. There is no
more important subject which can engage
the attention of Congress. 1t evinces a
lamentable lack of foresight that this great
subject has been neglected, while so many
things have been occurring within the last
few years fitted to arouse indignation and
Ill IL. Al
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22

NOVEL PRoPosITIoN.-Henry Watterson,
the brilliant editor of the Louisville (Ky1
Journal, is so delighted with the success of
Gerrymandering in Ohio and Indiana, that
he looks forward with confidence to the day
when the Democrats can make it a National
policy, and crush out New England's politi.
cal influence. Then "Maine and New
Hampshire will be combined into one State
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachu-
sets into second, aud Vermont be attached
as a county TO New York" This is a nice
way for an old line States Rights Democrat
born in notification cradle, and nursed on
the Resolutions of '98, to talk. Suppose
that the Republicans, when they come back
into power, should propose to wipe out the
sacred State lines of Maryland and Della
ware-as they should be-and adjust polit.
cal power on more equitable basis, by
taking a part of overgrown Pennsylvania
and forming fair sized State by the add-
ton Of Maryland and Delaware to it. The
North is willing to have a Encouragement of
State lines at any moment the rest of the
country desires it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22

BosToN Advertiser !: 1t cannot long escape
the attention of the country that the position
taken by Senator Conkling is usurpation
of functions which do not properly belong
to a Senator, and which cannot be wrested
from the executive without peril to the
security of our form of government. The
Senate in tolerating such assumption of
power is committing grave wrong, the re-
suits of which, if it continues, will be serious.
1t virtually amounts to this, that Mr.. Conk-
ling, because he has been chosen Senator
from New York, is invested with the powers
and responsibilities of the President of the
United States so far as relates to the adj
ministration of national affairs in York state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22

WoMANs BOARD OF MIssIoNs.-The an.
nual meeting of the Womans' Board of
Foreign Missions was held in Boston last
week. The society has eighteen branches
and ten conference associations, comprising
over eight hundred auxiiaries, and between
four hundred and five hundred missionaries
among children. In the foreign field the
board has under its control sixty-eight com
missioners, sixty-two Bible readers, eighteen
boarding schools aud homes, also sixty-three
village and day schools. The receipts of the
year were s65,72S. The old board of officers
was reelected. In the course of the meeting
the President cheered the audience by the
announcement that $4,000 had been prom
ised for the Armenian college by friend.
The Secretary of the Baptist mission also
reported that since the awakening anon
the Telegoos, in India, the past year, over
nine thousand were converted.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22

The FouR PER CENT. BoNDs.-Late
Washington dispatches report steady in
crease of the demand for the four per cent.
bonds. The register in the treasury Office
has been obliged to double his force, and it
is stated that in the subscriptions of Satur-
day were two for sl,OO0,OOO,0OO each by
New York banks The greater part of the
subscriptions, however, are in sums ranging
from $50 to $500, showing that the bonds
are being largely utilized as means of in
vestment for small savings.