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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-02

TOR RENT, OR LEASE, OR SALE-WHARF
Il AND COAL ELENATOR-Southwest corner
OF Front and Harriet streets.
WuLSlN IL WORTHINGTON,
17l5 West Third street.
July 1ith, 1879. jyll-lSt
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-02

ID Science, 81 %: Christian Life and Vocation,
81 %, and number OF other works, prayer books,
etc. All books sent free on receipt OF price. Ad-
dress C. ]. II. LOWEN, COS Sycamore, above Sixth
street Cincinnati. 0. ieI.lOtS
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
Same as II Used to Be.

DIR. Leonard Bacon thinks there are
some things in the past and present
which are alike, and relates the follow
ing:
About sixty years ago somewhat
typical minister of a Connecticut church
made visit to Boston and returned = a
trip which was by no means as easy
then as now.
"Well, DOCTOR" said one of his par
ishoners to him, "do you bring us any
news from Boston 7"
"Oh, yes," he replied, "the Lord
sreigns and the devil is trying to-
That was the summary and upshot
of the news sixty years ago and 1t is
to-day.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
The Sand Blast.

Among the wonderful and useful in
ventions Of the times is the common
sand blast. Suppose you desire to letter
piece of marble; you cover the stone
with sheet of wax no thicker than a
wafer, then cut in the wax the inscrip-
ton desired. Now paas 1t under the
blast and the wax will not be injured at
all, but the sand will cut the letters deep
into the stone. Or if you desire raised
letters, flower or other emblem, cut
the letters, flowers, etc., in wax and
stick them upon the stone under the
blast, and the sand will cut it away.
Remove the wax and you have the
raised letters. Or take apiece of French
plate glass, SAY two feet by six, and cover
it with fine lace; pass 1t under the blast,
and not thread will be injured, but the
sand will cut deep into the glass, wher-
ever 1t is not covered by the lace. Now
remove the lace and you have every
delicate and beautiful figure raised upon
the glass. In this way beautiful figures
of all kinds are cut in glass, and at a
small expense. The workmen can hold
their hands, under the blast without
harm, even when it is rapidly cutting
away the hardest glass, iron or stone,
but they must look out for finger nails,
for they will be whitfield off right hasti-
ly. Wrap piece of soft cotton around
the nails, and they are safe. The sand
whittles away and destroys any hard
substance, even glass, but does not effect
substances that are soft and yielding,
like wax, cotton or fine lace, or even
the human hand.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
Sowing and ReapInu.


Whatever man soweth, that shall
he also feap'' both In the natural and In
the moral world. Every seed In the one
and every deed In the other yield in fruit
after its kind. This principle of sowing
and reaping is especially important to
the young, who are just beginning to
shape their character and destiny.
In the spring time of life we sow
what we must reap In the autumn of
age, and perhaps through the endless
ages of eternity. The chief possibilities
of good or evil for all the future are
bound up in the period of youth.
The sowing may be done thoughtless-
ly and carelessly, but it will report itself
in due time according to this law.
Men In age often say:
"If l could but live my life over
again how differently 1t would be.''-
While this is impossible, still the young
may have the advantages of q second
life by trying the counsels and expert
ences of the aged.
1t is of the utmost Importance for
them to understand this relation of SOW
ing and reaping, which is affixed to our
physical, mental and moral nature.
Men who in early life vortex the brain
or body in the frenzy to get rich men
who overload the wheels of life by glut-
tony men who bestialize themselves
with sensuality; men who burn out the
vital forces with the damning fires of
alcohol all are liable to strict account
in after years.
When remembrances and retribution
come upon them, then too late they be-
gin to realize that whatever man
soweth, that shall he also reap"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
Beginning Of a Fortune.

John Jacob Astor said it.was COM
paratively easy to make million dol
lars, after getting the first thousand.
The hard rub was in getting started.
Mr. Isaac Rich died recently in Bos-
ton worth nearly two million dollars,
made in the fish business. He used
often to tell how he climbed the first
round in the ladder to wealth. He was
mere boy, selling fish from hand
cart. Mr.. Boyden the keeper of the
fremont house in Boston, liking his
bright face, and quick business habits,
asked him, one day, why he did not
keep salmon.
"I haven't money enough to buy
them,' was the answer.
How much money will it take?"
"Two hundred dollars"
"I'll lend you the money; buy up the
next boat load!''
The ambitious lad boarded the next
salmon boat in his little dory, bargained
for the whole load, and when they
questioned his ability to pay, showed the
ready money. He made a handsome
sum by the venture, soon paid back his
loan, and began at once the wholesale
business, in which he mi ade his large
fortune.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
A Big Irlshmau.

The Emerald Isle, says Chambers
Journal, has long been famous for pro-
ducing giants. The most celebrated Of
these was the well-known O'Brien, who
we first hear of as great raw you tn
crying in public house because he was
unable to pay the bill, having been left
penniless through quarrel with his
exhibitor. A gentleman taking COM
passion on him, paid his debt, and
advised the giant TO set up on his own
account. Acting on this recommenda-
ton, O'Brien started a public inn in
Bristol, being known by the sign of the
giants castle. A memorial tablet In
Trenclurd street Roman Catholic Chapel
records his stature as having been eight
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
He Never Drank.

Early in the war, when General Grant
was before Vicksburg, young officer at
society gathering was invited to
drink, but declined, saying he never
drank.
A few days afterward he received a
note from General Grant to report at
headquarters. He did SO, and the Cen
eral said to him
You are the officer, believe" = for
their acquaintance was slight" who
remarked the other evening that your
never drank ~
The officer modestly answered that he
was.
''Then," continued the General, ''you
are the man have been looking for to
take charge of the Commissary Depart
ment, and order that you lie, detailed
to that duty
In the year of q rants Presidency,
when the trouble on the border between
Texas and Mexico, along the Rio
Grande, attracted the attention of Con-
gress, "a commission was ordered to ascer-
tain the facts and report. Again Presi-
dent Grant remembered the man who
'never drank" and appointed him
chairman of the board.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
THE TIMES, NEW BIooMFIHID. PA. NOVEMBER 4, 1879

feet three inches. He was very anxious
that his remains should not fall to the
anatomists, and gave directions for
securing his grave against desecration
from body-snatchers. 1t has, however,
been disputed whether the giants bones
still rest In his grave, or form one of the
curiosltles of the Hunterian Museum,
though we believe they still lie undis-
turbed In deep-sunk grave. Poor
O'Brien had to take his constItutlonals
under cover of darkness to avoid being
mobbed by the curious, and like most
big fellows, proved himself simple and
inofensive man, though once he mad
vertantly terrified watchman almost
to death by lighting his pipe at q street
lamp, the sudden appearance of which
strange apparltion threw the watchman
into a fit. His colossal proportions once
saved the giant from being robbed, the
highwayman who stopped his carriage.
riding away in terror at the sight of
O'Brien's huge face thrust through the
window to see what the matter was.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
A Rye Beach Romance.

Rye Beach, N. H., furnishes the lat
est romance, Miss Sarah Brown, a
beautiful Pennsylvania heiress, having
become engaged to Mr.. Robert G. Mil
Ter, the son of Rye Beach fisherman,
and himself nothing more than the
skipper of one of the hotel yachts. Miss
Brown went out frequently to sail in
Roberts yacht, and he fell dead in love
with her, but kept the secret to himself,
only paying her great attention. In
return, the young lady was very cour-
teous. A few days ago Miss Brown got
fish bone in her throat, and her posi-
ton became SO dangerous that it was
decided to send to Portsmouth, ten
miles off, for a doctor. Robert insisted
ON being the messenger, and mounting
a swift horse, started off at great speed
When half way to town he unfortunate
ly fell from his horse, dislocating one
ankle and breaking an arm, but with
heroic courage remounted and drove on,
but tainted with pain and exhaustion
after delivering his message at the doc
tors Office. The doctor, on reaching
Miss Brown, quickly removed the fish
bone, but declared that she could not
have lived five minutes longer, and that
she owed her life to the heroism of
young Miller, narratlng the circum-
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
A World Of Good.

One of the most popular medicines now
before the American public, is Hop Bit
ters. You see 1t everywhere. People
take 1t with good effect. 1t builds them
up. 1t is not as pleasant to the taste as
some other Bitters as 1t is not whiskey
drink. 1t is more like the old fashioned
bone set tea that has done world of
good. If you don't feel just right try
Hop Bitters.--Nundo Nesos.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04

HAVING succeeded the late firm OF DR.. M. B.
Strickler in the Drug Business at his St0re-room,
on MAIN STREET, two doors East OF the Big
Spring, will endeav0r to mahe II In every way
worthy the patronage OF the public.
Personal and strict attention AT ALL TIMES
given to the cOmp0undIng and dispensing Physi-
clans prescriptions. so as to insure accuracy and
guard against accidents.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04

stances here related. Miss Brown there-
upon fell IN love with Robert, and is to
marry him as soon as he recovers sufii-
ciently from his injuries.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04

RT Will you give me your hand ?"
sternly said a country schoolmaster to
girl who had refused to hold her hand
out to be feruled. AS she answered not,
he said:
"Do you refuse' to give me your
hand ?''
II must" she sobbed, "unless pa
consents
She was pretty, and the man had 16O
acres, all paid for, and we'll stocked, and
SO there was no difficulty in adjusting
matters.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
The Darkey Preachers Experience.

The colored people of Dorsey county,
Ark, prayed very earnestly for rain.
The leading church engaged in this
labor organized a sort of "prayer-bee"
and sent over into an adjoining county
and borrowed a few members, agreeing
to pay heavy interest in hymn-books.
Even this failed; but the cow of emer-
gency was taken by the horns when the
preacher issued the following proclama-
tion "We'se bound for to have enough
members in dis church to meet de
occasion, and 1 hereby set my hand and
seal to de artikel what says 'all collured
persons, respectable or otherwise, in dis
county and all de counties jinin, is
declared members Of dis church till after
de next rain.'"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04
MARRIAGE AND BEALTH GUIDE.

l44 pages, fine illustrations, price 20 cents. A
book for private careful reading bv both sexes
married or single, explaining wonders and mys-
terles Of sexual systemi reproduction, marriage
lmpedinents, etc., causes, consequence and care
Sold at office or by mail, sent securely sealed on
receipt % price In money or postage stamps. Adj
dress DIX. WHITTIER, No 30z Penn ST.. Pitts
burgh. Pa. w 46 "
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-11-04

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~ tne lac, iass, weakness pf mind and body. and
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ana IenderinR life miserable are permanently
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WHETHER is a regular graduate Of medicine, as
his diploma at office shows his life long special
experience In all private diseases, with pufest
medicine prepared BY himself enables him to
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dent that physician treating thousands u cases
every year acquires great skill The estabish-
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patients see the doctor ouIy. Co9sultation and
correspondence private and free. Pamphletssent
sealed for stamp. Medicines sent everywhere.
Hours 4. M to 1 2: NJ, and 8 ?. NJ, TO p. M.
should read the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04
THREE YEARS IN BATTLE,
\
THREE IN PRISON.

PART IA Narrative of Escape from YankeeacIn to
pixie in 1861; Scenes in Washington City after the Bull
Run Stampede; Perils III Passing the Potomac; Full
fllment of a Boyish Vow; Lights and Shadows O. Camp
Life: Sixteen Pitched Battles; 4 Brief Campaign IA
Eastern Carolina; Capture within Grants Lines on
James River, and cruel Treatment as an alleged spy;
oscar and Recapture; Ten months of Torture in the
Rebel .Prison Pens" at Point Lookout and Fort Dela-
ware: Murder of Col. Jones, and other Atrocities; Fan
of the CCnfederacy, and the End of all things; Footing
it hundreds of miles honeward amid the wreck and
wretchedness of the Ruined Contederacy. ETC., etc., exc.
PART u.-Surprising Submissiveness OF the South;
Grant. the Victor, bears witness to the utter doc1lty, ana
good intentions of the Nanquished; Congress begins a
policy of systematic Irritation; The Freedmen's bureau
sets up a petty despOtisIn i'll every southern village; Inc
Ex-slayes are taught to hate, ana suspect, Their only real
friends; Swarms of Sharpers, Swindlers, and all manner
Of S~callawags, Settle upon the South to Steal what sher-
man lett; Race Riots for Party Purposes Provoked
whenever Possible; The most Brutal of the Blacks
Banded into acknowledgements, Oath-Bound, Controlled
by Wicked Whites, and Attended by Accountable Atrocl-
ties: Robber Rule and Ruin as the Result; Rise OF the
White brotherhood, and Kindred Societies, Commonly
Called the observation-disclosures; Very Troubleous Times
The Holden-Kirk War; Grants Military Measures for
CAPTURING the Electoral Vote of the Southern States,
Beginning with the Carolinas; Spies, Soldiers, and
Special Deputy Marshals Over-Itun the State; Jefreys
Bond Spreads his Spyder-Web in the Capitol, and Ma
upon Whomsoeyer he can Catch, the Unonending, and
the Offender, Alike; Old Men OF 20 Years, and Boys
Under IT, Sent, in Mid-Ninter, Shackled, TO a far
Northern Bastile, to Undergo Years OF Torture, Tor
Alleged Misdemeanors, of which they were Entirely
innocent: journal of Life in Albany Penitentary the
Whole Comprising a Faithful History of IteConstTuc-
ton III North Carolina; 1S65-1875-inclusiv
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04

He differs from

of President Buchanon. he diners ii -,
the other commissioners, IN desiring, ~,
separate State secession, but a JOINT SOD
era+;on Of all the Southern States. This IS
another OF Of Mr. r. Buchanon's abortiye schemes e .ss
He inaginss f a Joint j be so soiisa' the o Whole 'ds
m Sna,. Will he DELAYED, and possibly drift
m nions until H1iI the Ds Fourth of March, thus al,
loving him to leave y WASH WashIns'PPs erb ~''DG he is 8
w;aa epongh to forsee that secession IS IN
evitable, and wishes the South to present a
combined front as the only means OF avert
ing wal. W.
Hon. John B. Floyd. Secretary OF war;
publishes a lengthy letter in the richmond
Eaq,ore,, urging the South to go slow, ana
not. BY dissolving the Union, Iannlh1id ao.
the mighty army Of true, unseihsh; ana De
voted friends at the North. who battle for
our constitutional rights He says tue
South should demand amendments OF me
constitution fully recognising and protecting
the rights of shareholders, before proceed
ing to
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04

y SOLID NORTH AGAINST \ DIVIDED SOUTH.
(CoNTINUATIoS.)-As generally foreseen,
the election resulted in a complete triumph
for the Abolitionists. They swept every
Northern State except New Jersey, where
the Douglas, Bell and Breckenridge forces
united and they captured $50 out Of the
1S3 electoral votes of the Free States.
Their maiorities were enormous, RAINING
above $4,000 in Massachusetts,, about l00,-
600 in Pennsylvania, and 30, 900 in New
York.
The South on the contrary divided her
votes between the three most conservative
candidates, giving 9 to Douglas, 81 to Bell,
the "Constitution Union ticket, which
received only one electoral vote in the Free
States), and - to Breckenridge. This di-
vision In so perilous a i~uncture is often
snceringly termed blind" and "impolit-
ic,' as indeed it would appear, in the retros-
pectlve view of the historian but none can
deny that it was less sectional, and more in
accord with true patriotism and devotion to
the Union than the narrowly selfish spirit
in which the North, q refer, of course, to
the dominant majority solidly upheld and
forced upon the country a chief magistrate
SO sectional and SO ~prejudiced that he did
not even show himself in the Southern half
of the Union; nor seek, nor receives single
vote in more than one half of the Southern
States
NO ESCAPE FOR THE SOUTH.
1t IS customary to attribute the election of
Lincoln to the Democratic split at Balti-
more, but do not think the facts warrant
the conclusion. Be it remembered, the
Abolitionists had captured every Northern
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04

\ TERRApIN FARM.-A ,:~terrap;n g.
on Roanoke Island, belonging to \ NJ -
is thus described by a correspondents g . ~
Tarboro Southcrner. '~s
He has a large terrapin farm. with
1000 terrapins IN it. He EMPLOYS fft@..
twenty men, some fishing and othrr. ~ D,
ping terrapins. His '.terrapin farm, " sD'
calls it, is a place of an acre and a half Ill.
closed by a very close picket fence II
feeds these terrapins twice a week with abi.
four hundred pounds of fish each time .
into small pieces. 1t is quite intere~tin,...
see them, as the Captain knocks the 4ar.
with a stick, poke their heads out If y
water and listen. Soon the whole srrf.
covered with heads, and then as the MAY -
of fish are thrown into the water each ,arr
pin seizes a piece and down he goes ,lm
times followed by two or three other, r.r
lucky as he. There is on one side IF u:
farm" a large bank of sand, put there a..
the terrapins to lay their eggs in. Nmm@.
Gus little pieces of egg-shell are to be- -a.
on the surface of the sand. Such a ,;~I,
this astonishes an inland county man "' ny
Fully 5000 of these homc-raised rr,r
escaped from their pens at Morehe9d g..
during the recent storm.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04

ARREST OF DR.. f. r. WILLIAMSON IN.
last Thursday morning DIR. +. r. Wrrsn.
son was arrested in Chapel Hill on a warrar
issued By CommlsSioner Strayhorn and r
the hands ofColonel Thomas b. Long. II
is charged with the crime of attemptng,
fame the character Of a young lady Of h.
same village by means of postal cards w~
which was written matter of a most slani,~
Gus and obscene nature. Two ofthc,e car.
were mailed at Durham, one purportinar
have been written at Raleigh, the Other =.
some point in Virginia. Since the abor
was in type he has been tried, and di>,har.
ed.-Durham Tobacco Punt.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04

south Carolina Secedes; Mai. Anderson spikes Inc
M of Fort Moultrie and SEXES Fort SumpteT. 1dE9
action onickeus the Secession movement, and makes
trouble at Washington: Buchanan and Floyd; Inc
steamer ''STAR OF The WEST nred upon S'ai a1'i
star falling from the coronal OF the Onlon.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04
SEPTEMBER /, l97q

doomed, the Pelican" Estate Of Loui>.r-
flag was hoited amid uproarious cLrar;.,~~
by the populace. \ mass-meetine At e..,s
was addressed by Pierre Soule, Jacob ~" P1
ker, and I. j. Durant, IN favor Of n1',
Southern action. ~"'
TO BE CONTINUED.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04
BY
RANDOLPH 4. SHO1WELL.
CHAPTER SECOND.

Helpers Book, and the struggle over John Sherman i'll
Cougress-Hon. W. \. H. Smith. of North Carolina,
loses the speakership 10y one vote, and the conse-
uueuces thereof-The election of Liucoln-The
$. Wide Awake" orgauiZations-My removal to &
school near PhiladeIphia-Iuteuse excitement and
mob law.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04
Rates of Advertising:

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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-15
A Joyful Announcement

TO suffering millions Is the glad din that
at last q certain cure for piles has been dis
Soyered: 10000 persons who have used DR..
Doctors OF all medical schools prescribe It In
practice; empires and nostrum vendors
counterfeit and initiate 1t, and all, without
exception, admit that II is entitled to the
name Of Medical Miracle" Nothing in me-
dicine is more simple, rational, prompt and
experience. but the scientific solution OF a
most dinicult problem. by an accomplished
physician OF 40 years. practice and study.
"Anakesis' is q happy combination OF q
soothing .poultice. supporting instrument
and curative medicine. 1t alleyiates at once
the most excruciating pain; II holds up the
raw, sensitive tumors. and by firm, continu-
ed pressure and medication applied to tho
swollen veins is able to cure the most invet-
ernte cases OF blind or bleeding piles. Tho In
ventor OF ~"Anakesis'' may welt be regarded
asa public benefactor. and sufferers from this
terrible disease will thank us for calling at
tention toa discovery SO worthy. 1t Is not
less sin .ular that in the circular concerning
sis. full directions arc given for PRE-
VENTING PILES, a fact never before observed
in any medicine the proprietors wished to
eel. 'Anakesis" is sold by druggists every
where. Sent free on receipt of price, sl.O0 per
box; Sample gratis by p. N~eustaedter a Co.,
Box 3gi6. New York. sole manufacturer or
"Auakesis."