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

when the strikers would meet promptly at
O'Clock in the big hall.
The cabinetmakers claim that the best of
them can not make more than $40 so per
week and the lowest $5. t-4.
Their determination is that the strike
will be officially announced this evening
unless every shop in the city gives the in
crease asked. As long as one refuses to do
this the strike will be on.
The meeting this evening will be an in
teresting one.
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Tournament Notes.

The Old Volunteer Firemen's Association
meets tonight at the Gifts engine-house.
The medals. belts, ETC., to be given as
prizes are on exhibition to-day at Duhme &
Co.'s.
The fremen are making vigorous prepa-
rations for their tournament at Chester
Park Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Persons who come in their own vehicles
are advised, during the engine races, to hold
their horses heads to guard against runa-
WAYS,
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Two BroIhers Die >uddenly.

A young man named John Wickla, Of
Montgomery, LIE Sueur County, Mimi,
fell dead while working with threshing
machine on his fathers farm. About one
year ago Thomas Wickla, a brother of the
deceased, died very suddenly at Rose
mount, in Dakota County, and there
were suspicious of foul play, which will
/ removed, in measure, by the equally
sudden death of his brother.
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Holly Springs miss. Reporter: There
are more inquiries for real estate here
than we have known for several years.
Town property is looking up, and the
general appearance of things about Holly
Springs is very encouraging. We are on
rising ground evidently. All we need
now is q little more public spirit, little
more push and enterprise.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29
THE DAILY STAR
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2a.-For Tennessee
end the Ohio Valley cloudier and partly
cloudy weather, with occasional southerly
winds and nearly stationary temperature
md barometer.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29

Messrs. P. Wilson & Co. have contrib
uted fine carriage robe to the Bazar,
which will be raffled off at the table Of the
Sacred Heart.
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e entire productions for the year were

These products are widely distributed.
They g. largely to all parts of the United
States, particularly to the West and South,
but are by no means limited to this coun-
try. Every nation in Europe now receives
Cincinnati manufactures, while China, ia
pan India, Australia, South America, Mex
leo, Sandwich Islands, British Columbia,
and the West Indies, furnish markets for
them in important classes. There never
has been a time when the manufac,
turers here could produce so economically,
when they have been more hopeful as to
the future, or when the important bearing
thev were to have on the future growth
and prosperity of the city was so clearly
revealed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29

The Louisville Short Line passenger train
due in this City at o'clock this morning
ran off the track short distance this side
OF Louisville and was delayed for three
hours
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29
June Tax Statement.

The following is the June collection OF
t.xes of 1878, as adjusted by the County Au-
ditor at the semi-annual settlement with
fhe Conntv Treasurer, lust completed:
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Mr.. Bowen, OF Gun Lake, Michigan, says
"The people here can not do without Sci
iers' Liver Pills." Try them.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29

If Won have sick headache take dose OF
DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills; we know you
will find relief.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29

Free use of Kimball's Catarrh Cigarette
prevents hay fever. =
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04
SMYRNA, DEL, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE A. 1879

angel TO bring him from earth, and he
went out into the dark and shadowless land
of spirits. He went, following the angel,
and leaving widow, whose heart had
never been married.
Unless love dwells in the house of Mar
riage, having its walls hung with pictures
of the soul, carpeting the floors with deeds
of affection, furnishing its rooms with i'm
plements Of happiness, then it becomes no
more a palace of delights, but a prison
house of despair.
Mercenary ones say eyes it was for the
best, for the widow has wealth" But how
can that pay for that which money cannot
buy? Love is the only current coin of the
soul. 1t ,cdS for the best, if we view not
only the time but eternity, if the educa-
ton of the soul begins here and is perfected
in eternity. The unseen world is real to
her because she has found communion and
companionship there. She has found
that the unsubstantial things, things OF
which the world makes no account, are the
lasting and the real, the only selfsatisfying
ones.
Her young dreams Of marriage are al
an end. She might marry again widow
with money may choose, but she might be
deceived. She has resolved to remain q
| widow. | will record it if she changes hel
mind. But my nameless heroine says
Yes, it is all for the BEST" and quotes the
words of rennyson:
Wait. and love himself will bring
The dropping flowers of knowledge changed to frui
I OF wisdom. Wait, my faith is large in Time,
| And that which shapes 1t some perfect end"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

A SxIPPER.SNAPPER SNAPPER-SNIPPERRD.
The fair sex in Guernsey is not to be
trihed with, At fancy dress ball given
there recently by the subalterns of an in
fantry regiment, lady noted for originality
and wit was brought by chance to the side
of one of the chief military authorities of
the place. Said she to Colonel e.: May |
ask, Colonel, what you are?" " oh,
answered the Colonel, who was evidently
not in one Of his happy moods, l am
nothing What are your | am next to
nothing" was the prompt reply.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

CURIosITIEs IN PoMoLoGT.-Some years
ago one of our citizens bought and set out
some thrifty young apple trees. On one of
them he neglected to remove the wooden
label which was attached to one of the
limbs by a copper wire. Two years later he
found that the copper wire was entirely
imbedded and out of sight in the bark Of
the tree, and that. year the limb was so
heavily loaded with apples that he was
obliged to prop it up, while there was not a
blossom or apple on any other limb. Last
year one of our neighbors, when his young
apple trees were in full blossom, carefully
girdled some limbs on several trees, and the
blossoms produced no fruit on the limbs
thus treated, but this year those limbs have
blossomed full aud no blossoms on the
limbs that bore last year. Pomologists
may profit by further experiments in that
direction.--Haryord Evening Post.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04
He Consulted a Fortune Teller,

This is the station, is it?'' he asked, as
they opened the door of cell No. 5 at the
Central and waved him in.
"Yes."
Then I'm the same as in Jail, am II"
"You are"
"All right. This is the last gol darned
time I'll believe anybody under oath So
go ahead with your old bastile business
He was a young man of twenty. four,
wearing his overalls in his boot legs, and
before coming to town he had broken off a
twig from a peach tree and placed the
blossoms behind his hat band and over his
left ear.
Hast thou been deceived?" inquired
our reporter, as the officer got through
locking the cell door.
Hast l? Well, you'd better bet hast
|! I'm reg'lar eight rail fence blown fat
by tornado! I'm going to commit the
suicide when get out O. this, l ami
A chew of tobacco and a few kind words
opened his heart, and he explained:
" You see l lost my dog in town the
other day, and l came in this morning TO
find him. Dad, the darned old Eastwood,
told me to call on fortune teller and find
out who stole Tige, and was fool enough
to do it-fo-o1 enough to do it called
on woman back up here about mile, gin
her 50, and says l, where's Tige? He's ur
here in Dutchman's yard, says she. Die
he steal him ? says |. He did, says she
Then I'll bust his head, says l. You viii
marry rich, have lots of happiness, live t.
be 100 years old, and go to heaven wher
you die, says she, and she stopped rolling
her eyes and hawked onto them s. like
turkey on 'tatur bug"
"And you found Tige?"
You hold on found the Dutchman's s
and says l, where's my dog? don't know
says he. You're a liar, says l, and will
that we had it which and t'other, and h
had just flung me out doors when the con
stable came along and nailed me-"
"Well?"
"Well, I'm in a nice fix, l am! Tig
gone, 81 gone, me in the jug and da,
planting corn with blind eye and lam
back We're nice family, take us all in
heap, and you 60 out and bet ten to on
we are No, you can't help any, less yo
want to leave me lead pencil. feel lk
composin poem on fool, and I'll write
on the wall here. Goodbye, Mister; com
back in an hour and I'll have poem don
and be in my grave, mebbs, for l can
bear up under MORN a wagon load of woe.
Detroit Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

BURDETTE on THE RAIL.-At Lyons Falls
the ventilation fend gets on the train.
She is a woman this time. Would l open
the window for her?
would and did.
Did it annoy me?
Oh, no; rather liked to have the snow
blow in and beat down my neck and back.
1t soothed me and braced me, as it were,
up.
She was fading away, she told me, with
consumption.
l didn't doubt it. She was FIVE inches
taller than myself, and weighed about one
hundred and eighty-nine. Every time she
coughed it knocked the stove down.
She said to me
There, this car has run over a canal boat.
No, it wasn't. 1t was only saw.log. We
are all right We have lost three or four
wheels, but we jolt along on the trucks just
as well.
The woman said to me that she knew it
was her fate. Her mother passed away
with the same fell scourge; her mothers
father and his mother before him died by
the same disease: all of her brothers and
and sisters too, had thus passed away. She
was the last of seven, she said, sadly. Was
my life, she asked, under the dark shadow
Of any hereditary taint?
Oh, no, said, as cheerfully as could
under the circumstances. Oh, no, there
had never been any such depressing mo-
notony in our family in its taking off. We
never had any particular or faVorite style
of dying. When the time comes we never
delayed things waiting for the family com.
plant. We Just laid down and died oi
anything that happened to come along
Anything that was handy at the time
suited us.-Brlington Hackeye.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

Jimmy, the Duck" of Virginia City,
Nevada, is dead. He made his living by a
queer invention. He used to put duck
in box, with its head sticking out of a
hole, and allow the crowd to throw clubs
at it for 25 cents throw, the bird belong.
ing to whoever should hit it. The ducks
would, of course, "duck" their heads just
before the stick whizzed along, and it was
not oftener than once in six months that
Jimmy would lose. The following is his
epitaph: "Old Jimmy weary bones arenow
resting peacefully under the sage bush,
Let us hope that when the trump of the
resurrection shall echo over the rugged
peak of Mount Davidson he will be able
to pop his head up like that famous duck
and should the devil appear and make 6
grab for the old man, may he dodge bach
successfully"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

This is the way in which Louisville
girl disposed of young man, according to
the Co1rier.Jounal: you have asked me
pointedly if l can marry you, and have
answered you pointedly that l can. l can
marry a man who makes love to a different
girl every month. l can marry a man
whose main occupation seems to be to join
in gauntlet in front of churches and
theatres, and comment audibly on the
people who are compelled to pass through
it. l can marry man whose only means
of support is an aged father. 1 can marry
a man who boasts that any girl can be won
with the help of a good tailor and an ex-
pert tongue. l can marry such man, but
,0-o-n.tr'
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

The STORY OF AN OLD TRAGEDY REVIVED.
The killing at Pocassett, Mass, by
Edward Freeman, the Second Adventist, of
his little daughter, has revived recollec-
tions of similar tragedy which occurred
in Sussex county, Del, twenty-five years
ago, when Giles Kitchens, farmer, killed
his eighteen-months-old boy, giving as a
reason for the deed that the Lord had COM
manded him to offer up the boy as a sacri-
fee, and no voice said "Stay thy hand"
Kitchens was tried and acquitted on the
ground of insanity. He was placed in the
county almshouse, but was finally dis
charged and returned home. Kitchens is
still living, and whilst recently in Seaford
was in group where the account of the
Poccassett tragedy was read, since which
he has not been in that town.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

Mr.. SHERMAN AND THE PREsIDENCY.-The
Boston Transcript regards Secretary Sherman
as the coming man of the Republicans as a
presidential candidate. 1t says "his power
of accomplishing results needs no more
illustration than is furnished by his record
as the head of the Treasury Department"
and predicts his election should he be nomi-
mated. The Transcript rejoices over the
Secretary's recent letter confessing his
presidential aspirations, and says it g breaks
the rather monotonous cry the Grant
engineers were raising in all parts of the
country that he would be nominated with
out opposition"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

A glittering ballroom dress made of
strands of spun glass has been offered to
any San Francisco belle who VIII buy and
wear it. Prof. Theodore Greiner has done
the spinning by blowing glass into long
strands, and washing them in a solution Of
water and beet-root sugar, which has q
toughening effect. The weaving was done
on an old-fashioned hand-loom, the warp
being l9 feet long and the woof feet, a
number of colors being worked in, so as to
produce bright glass cloth. The dress is
en- panier, with loop sleeves and square
neck. ornamented with box-planting, and
bound in blue. With the new dress, there
is set of beautiful blonde glass curls of
natural hue upon the head of the model,
reaching to the waist.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

Mr.. Moody has met with great success in
his Baltimore work. A correspondent of
the CongregationaHst writes: "Instead of
confning his efforts to one central hall he
has met with the churches and the people
right about them in different sections of
the city. He has performed an enormous
amount of work, reserving Saturday and
Monday for rest, holding on all other days
four or FIVE meetings, three of them in
different churches, and devoting six hours
every day to study. Excepting the days
already mentioned he has given eight to
ten hours a day to energetic and hard
work, and closes this term of service in i'm.
proved health-'fresher than ever,' it is
said. The desire to hear him steadily in.
creased, and was greater at the close than
at the beginning of his services. DR.. Ley
burns Presbyterian Church was for two
months beenpacked with two thousand men
four days in the week at o'clock in the
afternoon, and hundreds always remained
for the inquiry meeting"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

STAMPING Our THE CATTLE DIsEAsE.-It is
announced that the authorities of New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will
work in unison in the effort to stamp out
the cattle disease. How important it is to
pursue this work may be gathered from the
statistics of pleuro pneumonia in England,
where 100000 head of cattle have been
lost since 1862, representing a value Of
about $500,000,000.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04
WHOLE NO. 1851.
Dot Leedle Poy Paby Was the Cause
of It,

William Flappert," said Justice Smith
in the Essex Market police court this morn.
ing, when Roundsman Reilly of the court
squad placed tall, ungainly German at the
bar, 'you are accused Of being intoxicated
and attracting a crowd in Sheriff street.
What have you to say to the charge ?"
"Vaell, uf you blease, chudge, vas so
happy dot got mineself trunk"
"You admit being drunk. Now let US
hear the cause Of your happiness"
"Vaell, l dold you. Ven l COON home
by der house yesterday in der afternoon
mine broder und cousin und ungle vas
madt NIT joy, und mine UNCLE dold me dot
mine wife had got leedle paby. l vas den
happy und yust dook Won good look ad der
leedle poy paby und righd away vent NIT
der jingle und broder und trink me q
couple of schooners. Mr.. Weldsman
goom along boody soon und efrybody got
oxcided, und der hole hardy trink dwice
schooners. Den l got nit mine friendt
Welderman to Mr.. Molane's saloon und
trink vot you gall apple chonny. vas den
going to mine vife's olt fader ven | don't
know someding more aboud id until Just
dis morning. hope, chudge, dot you will
dook into consideration mine excuse. l
want to 60 Oud und saw uf mine poy vas
getting frst,rade."
"Well, | shall take into consideration
the fact that there was an increase in your
family and release you this time, but don't
let me see you here again." said his honor.
"Dank you, chudge, | vii! promise not
to goom here again for two or dree year. .
And what will compel you to come
again in two or three years %
"Vaell, by dot dime, may be, I got
anudder paby und got trunk again on der
head uf i'd, said William, as he left the
courtroom amid roars of laughter.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

No CHANCE FOR AcQUAINTANcE.-"W Who's
your pastor, my dear?' asked a good
old lady in the country, addressing her
daughter, who has been living in the city
for half a year or so. "Really, mother,
hardly know. l never saw him. He was
away on vacation last summer, and now he
has started on his lecturing tour for the
Winter. l may get acquainted with him
next Spring"
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

During the month of April forty foreign
vessels loaded with wheat in the river
Plata for Europe, and it is not unlikely
that the Argentine Republic, South
America, will yet become a formidable
rival of the United States for the foreign
grain trade.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

A wealthy Dubuque Qa.) couple had
lived happily together Al years, when one
day the husband surprised his wife by
saying that he had been married once
before. The first wife died in childbirth,
but the boy born at the time, who was re.
ported to the father as dead, too, lived and
grew up. The baby's grandfather, a rich
nurse to tell the lie, which she confessed
on her death-bed. The excitement Of this
revelation was too much for the wife of Al
years, and in two days she was dead.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04
For the Smyrna Times
SOWING AND REAPING.

Long ago upon the hillside.
In the valley DER the plain,
From the early morn till even.
Busy hands were sowing grain:
Trusting that the storm and sunshine
Should each tiny leaf unfold.
Till the golden grain was ripened.
Yielding more than hundred fold.
Harvest comes the wheat is garnered,
And they place wealth of sheaves
One by one, till all are garnered,
Safe beneath the sheltering caves;
Then with glad and happy footsteps
Laborers with the twilight come,
And, with cheerful, joyous voices,
Shout the golden harvest home.
Often weary in well doing,
We have SoWn with doubt and fears,
From the morning until even,
Sowing Oft with bitter tears;
When the harvest shall be gathered
Many tears and withered leaves
Shall be bound among the bundles
With our treasured golden sheaves.
When our sheaves have all been gathered,
And their value has been told.
When they all are safely garnered
In our Heavenly Fathers fold;
When our happy, joyous footsteps
In lifeS twilight heavenward come,
May we hear sweet angel voices
Welcoming the harvest home.
M. y.
SMYRNA May 29th. 1879.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

There is no part of man that will stand
so many blows as his nose. Once in
while an impudent fellows nose gets
"pulled" in addition to the blowing.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

"The man who invents boneless shad will
die happy and be blest." This we clip from
an exchange and fully endorse. But he
who invents boneless herring will be worthy
of canonization as a saint.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

UNEARTHING METEoR.-The large meteor
that was reported to have fallen near
Worthington last Saturdy fell in Emmett
county, Iowa, about four miles south of the
state line and fifteen miles from Jackson.
1t appeared from here, to those that OBJ
served it, to pass from northeast to south.
west, and left a track of smoke not unlike
fuse shell, only great deal more. The
report was distinctly heard here as we'll as
points further east. The shock of the mis-.
sile striking the ground could be easily
felt at this distance. 1t tore hole in the
ground twelve feet across at the surface, and
threw sods as large as a mans body dis
tance of ten rods. A number of men set
to work digging after the meteor, and
found it buried fifteen feet below the sur.
face, ten feet of which was hard clay. The
largest piece taken out weighed four hun.
dred and thrty-ons pounds, and enough
smaller pieces were found to make five
hundred pounds in all. Those who saw il
strike say it exploded in the ground. 1t
consists of metoric iron, very dense, and
thought by some to contain silver ore. II
has a ragged outside, covered with a whitsh
substance which can be taken off, leaving
the hard metal. There is a great chance
for scientific speculation and investigation
jackson MIMI letter to tie 81. Paul llfian.
| Pioneer Press.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

The return of good times cannot be pre-
dicted until confidence is restored. To re-
store confidence the people will have to be
honest and pay their debts.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

When a man had an idea which he
wished to sound in everybody's ear, he
used to be told TO shire hall" Now he
publishes newspaper, and tells the people
more in an hour than he could in week
by the former method. 1t costs more, but
is more effective.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

The kind of food that tramps dislike is
cold shoulder" Give it to 'em every
time.
Smyrna times., 1879-06-04

The following advertisement copied from
the Catholic, is a queer mixture of business
and religion: " Grand DrQuing! For One
Dollar "A valuable property, and to hare
tlcenty:fre masses Altered far their Intention The
object of this Grand Dra,cing, which was to
come off April l4th, but, for the reason
herein mentioned, was deferred till June
10th. 1879, is to raise funds to erect a
church in the poor but promising congre.
cation at Olathe, Kansas. . A ticket
that entities the bearer to one share in the
Grand Drawing will be sent to those who
contribute one dollar (Sl). For the spiritual
and temporal welfare of those who buy a
ticket induce others to buy, or contribute,
houever HHls, to the erection Of this much,
needed church, Twenty-Five Masses will be
offered. The winning number will be
published in the issue of this paper next
after the drawing"