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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-31

THK New YEARS EVE BALL-The Carson
Guard will give ball at their Armory. at
Moore L Parkers Hall, this evening. The
committee Of arrangements have bsen making
preparations for this event for some time, aud
1t is proposed to give bail which the partici-
pants vii not sooA forget. TAis will also give
those who attend IN opportunity of witness-
ing the demise of the old year.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-31

| PArrI's CoNcHRT.-The Comstock people
are not exactly pleased with Patti and her
concert troupe. The hthograph pictures of the
| singer represent her as superlative beauty of
twenty five. The APPEALS musical man at
tended her concert on Monday night. Patti
came hobbling On the stage and turned out
to be big fat woman of AZ (think of it) and
with a wooden leg. The rough and tumble
fight between the piano man and the Stein
way grand gave the audience their moneys
worth. He opened on the instrument with
his left, and get good one in on the bass
clef, following his advantage almost immed-
lately with his right, he sent in half dozen
stingers on the upper oetaves in style that
showed that he Intended to foree the fighting
from the start His next round was not
WAS evidently sparring for wiad. Watching
favorable opening he secured good lock,
forced the Instruments head in chancery and
mauled it good for twenty minutes. He then
threw it oyer his head into the gallery and
retired with hardly scratch. A .upe then
came in and swept up the fats and semi
quavsrs in a dust pan and dumped them into
an ash barrel ia the rear of the dressing rooms
The piano will never again appear in public |
Seriously, all nonsense laid aside, however, |
the concert was very enjoyable one, and the |
entire company are artists of the FIRST class. |
If there is weak spot it is Patti herself, who !
is getting, as they say, somewhat pdsss.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-31
MORNING Ape A l..
STOCKS.

Yesterdays market was any thing but strong.
But little interest was manifested in the
north end stocks, and they were weak III tone
and off in price. la the second session there
was no change worthy of note. Best x Bel
cher was one dollar better, and some of
the stocks showed a fractional advance
while others were off slightly. At the
close 60 cents was bid for North Bonanza.
Altogether, the result of the session was a
tame market.
Following are the latest street quotations =;
Union, 403, al; Ophir, Isl, 1S3, 10; Jus
tice, Il; Chollar, 81, So Bodie, g; Mexican,
II; Gould & Curry, g; Point, 2E Bullion,
3 TO; SCORPION, 2.65; Utah, 81, 81; Jacket
Sierra Nevada, 17s; Best & Belcher, 1O8;
Hale & Norcross, 81; Belcher, 2 60; Sierra
Nevada, 10; Sewage, 81; California, 4; Con.
Virginia, A; Union, 414.
aoRNns BoARs.
ophlr, IL 10
Mexican, &c 49,
Gould a Curry so
Best Belcher, 01s 10
California, 80
Savage, So
Consolidated Virginia, s7s
Chollr, ~,
Potos, SO 30
Hale Il Norcross, 6
crown Point 70
Yellow Jacket s7k
SIERRA Nevada, ST l74
ExchequeT, IS
Onion Oousoi isda.ed, 50 ssk
Alpha, 99a
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-31
THE CARRIER.
MS TOLLS AND PRIvATIONs-CO~n OF TIE
WALK ONE MONTH OF rhR YEAE-PBGAsUs
BIS sLAvR-How HE CokKALs HIS
ADDRESS.

In all well established newspapers the New
Years address is the acknowledged prerog
ative Of the carrier. How it came to be his
right no one knows, but no one dAres dispute
it. During the entire year the carrier has
lots of work, and combines the duties of
typographical apprentice with the drudgery OF
" devil and the disagreeable work of a
handy man about the office He has all the
hard knocks and none Of the glory Of journal
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

week during their honeymoon, she de-
elared she still loved him dearly, and
that he only whipped her because she
refused to let him have money to buy
himself horse and carriage. "JohnDy,"
on his part, testified that he did not
think he had thrashed his wife oftener
than once week, and that he loved her
dearly; whereupon they dramatically
rushed into each others arms, and then
went down on their knees before the
Judge and begged him to dismiss the
case. The Court WAS inexorable, how
ever. The Judge didn't want any such
nonsense here" and imposed fine upon
the defendant, which the woman imme-
diately paid, and walked off arm-in-arm
with her prize.
1t is possible that this proclivity of
wealthy widows to wed the versatile
tramp will lead to a solution of the
whole tramp question. In the older
States the census returns show that there
is sufficient stock of unmarried females
to absorb small army of these restless
bummers. By a careful attention to the
doctrine of natural selection" every
widow and old maid could be fitted with
a fighting mate.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
waiting for Mrs. Murphy.


"Madam, can I do anything for you p
asked an express driver of a little old
woman who sat on big box at the Des-
brosses-street ferry yesterday. The ques-
ton had to be repeated twice before the
reply was ELECTED that the old woman
wanted to go to the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Murphy.
"Where does Mrs Murphy liveT nat
urally asked the expressman.
"New York." was the only reply fol
some time, but finally this rather glitter
ing generality was particularized into
"Mrs. Murphy, Baxter street"
With the old woman and the big box
as passengers, the expressman ratified
over to Baxter street, but although nu
merous Mrs. Murphys were found, none
we're Mrs. Moran's Mrs. Murphy, Mary
Moran being the name of the old woman
The expressman finally in despair drove
to the Police Central Office, where Mrs
Moran told Mr. Walling that she wa
nearly hundred years old, and was borl
in Ireland in the year of the rebellion
She came, she said, from Maysville, Ky,
but her box check was marked Louis
vile. She was confded to the care O
Malron Webb.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
A Little Girl From Nashville.
IL. C...


Police Officer Cole, loaded down with a
big travelling bag, to which was tied a
dolls rocking-chair and his hands filled
with apples and oranges, entered the
Central office. Accompanying him and
carrying brunette doll was little red
checked, blue-eyed, yellOw-haired, neatly
dressed girl. To Marion Webb, whose
guest she became, the little stranger in
troduced herself as Minnie Miller, aged
ten, from Nashville, Tenn. Her father,
she went on glibly to say, had died of
yellow fever, leaving her an orphan, and
she had come here to be cared for by his
mother, Mrs. Mary Holstein, of Brook
lyn, who was to have met her at the Des-
brosses-street ferry. Mrs. Holstein had
not done SO, and her address had been
lost. A man who had taken care of the
youthful traveller on the journey left her
at the Leonard-street Station, whence
Officer Cole had brought her. Minnie
told of her journey with pleasure. Hei
uncle placed her under the care of the
conductor of the train on which she
started from Nashville, and he at the
end of his route handed her over tt
another conductor, while the through
passenger mentioned interested himself
in her, so that she was at no time with
| out protection.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
THE MATRIMONIAL TRAMP.

Othello was tramp, and Mr.. William
Shakespeare has told the world how with
seductive eloquence he wooed and won a
patrician's daughter. The simple nara
tive of his dangers by flood and field,
and the depriyations and perils he had
gone through made him irresistible.
What Shakespeare didn't know about
female human nature-to use an express
BiYe vulgarism-isn't worth knowing.
As children are pleased with a rattle
and tickled with straw" according to
Pope, so Shakespeare discovered that the
sex, in the exquisite tenderness of their
sympathies for human suffering, were
peculiarly vulnerable. A ragged un-
shaven, dirty, slouching tramp is invested
with pathos that unseals the fountains
of their love as the rod of Aaron drew
living waters from the rock. The perils
of stolen rides, of robbed hen-roosts, OF
sleeping under haystacks, and the occa-
sional practical experiences of the work
house, and the being jeered and looked
coldly upon at free-lunch tables, and be-
ing reviled and spat upon by the poor
spiritless fools who work for a living, and
who refuse to recognize the superiority
of tramp life, all this touches the tender
chord of the female heart as those chords
are sometimes termed.
Othello, to escape the charge Of sor
cery, confessed that he had drawn the
long bow in telling Desdemona about
"cannibals that did each other eat''-tht
anthropophagi-and "men whose heads dc
grow beneath their shoulders and thu
secured her interest and then won he
love. And she, the gentle daughter o
Brabantio, first wished that she had no
heard it," and ended by second wish
"that heaven had made her such man.
On such hints tramps speak out
II Springfield Republican says tina
within few months and within radiu
of nine miles from that city, four widow
comfortably well off have married
tramps. One of these peripatetic hus
bands is now in Jail for threatening tn
lives of his wife and mother-in-law. Fl
was a facetious fellow, and used to anus
himself by seating the women folks il
chairs and after pointing loaded gun a
them would quiet their nerves by shoot
ing it off over their heads. Anothe
mddle-aged widow with a nice hous'
and a few thousand dollars cash fell il
love with a young tramp and marriec
him. They now keep open house for al
tramps who come along. The lady il
the case has recently appeared with he
face frescoed and her eyes in mourning
and her neighbors had her husband al
rested for disorderly conduct and assault
and battery.
The wife on the trial stood up for he
"Johnny," and, while admitting that b
had thrashed her on an average twice
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

Miss JULIA EvALINA SMITH, one OF
the famous sisters of Glastonbury, Conn,
who fought mankind and taxation with
desperation worthy of success, has at
last surrendered to one of her enemies.
Her heart, which for seven and eighty
years withstood the assaults of Cupids
shafts, at last falls pierced through and
through at the feet of Amos G. Parker,
and the hand which for fully three-score
years and ten she shook defiantly in the
face of the tax-gatherer in the end
creeps timidly into Amos brawny fist.
1t was ever thus in the wooing spring
time, and there is yet JOY in store fol-
Evalina and Amos
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

up again, and how the travelling dress be.
came her. Not otherwise than when, a
covey being dispersed, men 60 round and
shoot the struggling birds, so admirers
might easily win the hearts of the fair
who are still lowering wistfully round
the memory of wedding, Thus nature
hos provided chances for bridemaids;
and thus the superstition that it is un-
lucky to be often bridemaid is justified.
For If lady can survive heart-whole,
and pass unscathed through these mo-
ments of sympathy, it is certain that she
never will be won.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15


Almost everybody in Lowndes (Ga.) }
knew Downing. He was a fisherman,
and for years has supplied the Valdosta
market with fish from the Ocean pond
He fshed for several days, or until he
had load, and then he went to market
His protracted absence during the first
part of last week attracted the attention
of his friends, who at length went to his
abode. Arriving at the landing where
he kept his boat, they found his fish box
and canoes, but the fisherman was miss
ing. Soon afterward they reached the
bank of the pond, and saw two alligator:
emerge from the grass near by and come
toward the shore, apparently seeking q
fight. A gun was procured, and both al
ligators were killed and dragged ashore
Their stomachs contained human flesh
bones, particles of clothing and othel
things that showed plainly the fate o.
poor Downing.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
Yesterdays Abend Post. /
=
An Incident in a Russian Hotel.

In hotel in Moscow known as the
NobePschen Gasthaus, young man en-
gagged the rooms numbered TO and 81, os-
tensibly for a family. He Immediately
took possession, and on the following
morning went out, returning in about an
hours time--whether alone or with a
companion is not known, although sew
eral residents of the hotel saw two young
men in the corridor, who entered the
apartment No. 90. For eight days the
door of No. 60 remained locked without
the fact attracting attention. Finally a
disagreeable smell was detected pervad.
ing the corridor, and the police were
summoned and broke into The chambers
In No. 81 was lying the corpse of a man
face downward, and the feet directed to-
ward the door of the chamber. The
head was partially covered with pillow
beneath which was pool of congealed
blood. On the back Of the murdered
man WAS pinned a paper, upon which
was written, 'Traitor and spy, condemned
and executed by us, the Russian Social
lists and Reyolutionists. Death to thu
Judas, death to traitors" The murder
ers are still at large.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
Editorial Spinninps.

Charge, Hazen, charge! On, Stanley,
on! and see that one OF you eats up the other
one.
While one party asserts that Hayes
has no back bone the other retaliates that Tilden
has no spare rib.
There is a Home for Lost Dogs al
Battersea, England. A good many worthless curs
in this country had Batter.sea if they cant
reach it.
Congress and the Ohio Legislature
should remember that ii is very inconvenent in
newspaper Offices to handle Legislative proceed
ings after the baseball season opens.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

The Girls and W eddings.

As people who have visited the theater
take out of their memories, for day or
So some of the things that amused them,
and laugh again, so young ladies linger
lovingly over the details Of wedding.
1t is curious experience, life in a house
full of girls who have just left mar
riage party. Their minds are full of the
great theme; they tenderly record each
incident; they can think of nothing else
and they tell each other thousand times
how the bride looked, and how sht
dropped her bouquet and who picked il
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

THERE are thousands of acres of un
titled land in the United States well
adapted to raising tibrous plants, such as
hemp, flax and jute, and there are thou
sands of men standing around with their
hands in their pockets looking for some
thing to do. Still we import annually
more than S6,0OO,000 worth of these
fbres from countries which are no better
prepared by nature for their cultivation
than we are.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
The Greatest Blessing.

A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that
cures every time, and prevents disease by
keeping the blood pure, stomach regular,
kidneys and liver active, is the greatest
blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop
are being blessed by thousands who have
been saved and cured by it. Will you try
it? See another column.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

A young American of nineteen, at
Christ Church, Oxford, passing the sec
ond examination there few days ago
with much credit, was publicly compli-
mented therefor by the Dean. He also
won the "Oxford University Champion
Foils," never before won by an Ameri-
can. The young man is named Edward
Pierrepont, and is the son of the late
American Minister to England.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

The court hatterers have found ou
that the Duches of Connaught is the i'm
age of Little Swansdown," in Mr.
Storey's pretty pictur'. Others declare
that she reminds them of AIRY Shelter
'Mignon," Others that she is the counter
part Of Kaulbach's "Gretchen." Critics
less profound think her pretty young
lady, looking simple, natural and kind.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

General j. B. Hood rose TO explain at
the meeting of the Louisiana Division OF
Of the Army of the Tennessee recently.
Speaking of the battle of Franklin he
said: "Many writers have told of that
terrible struggle, and it has been declared
that | made slaughter-pen of the field
of Franklin. OF this charge | assume
will have no difficulty in disposing
Franklin, these writers say, was slaugh
ter-pen. If SO, let them turn their eyes
to Gettysburg, Sharpsbnrg, and, espec
tally to Malvern Hill. tell you, the
brave Forrest was not far from right
when he declared that When it comes tc
war, war means fighting, and fighting
means killing Say what you will, il
can not be avoided. | will tell you some
thing of this battle of Franklin. | wa
attempting to pass the gates Of Nashville
1t has been said of Lord Byron that the
poem which he considered to be his bes
was the same which the public would moi
accept. So say |. | look upon my at
tempt to pass the gates of Nashville a
the best work ever did. That battle
has attracted the highest admiration
from the enemy, and it has been pro
nounced the most glorious struggle eyel
seen on this continent"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal of the Sd
instant has the encouraging statement
"Never, in the history of Nebraska, has
such an immigration poured into oul
State, at this season of the year, as there
is to-day. Trains arriving from the East
South and North are loaded daily, anc
our streets are thronged with white
covered wagons. The spring of 1879 viii
be remembered as immigration year."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

THE Nihilist who playfully popped at
the Car yesterday was within two PAGES
of his royal target and yet could not hit
him. 1t will stand to his credit in Rus,
sia, however, that he peppered a detect
i've in the jaw with one of his shots.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
The Cincinnati Star.

THE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers in the City OF Cincin
natl and in all important Western cite cites
and towns for u CENTS PER WEEk
payable to the carrier. Or the paper VIII
BE- mailed, postage paid, to any part OF
the country for 50 CENTS PER MONTH
$6per annum-
THE STAR is the only STRICTLY 1NDE'
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. It is taken and read by
people of all parties and shades OF opin,
Ion. and II seeks to present the news OF
all kinds fairly and faithfully, with jus
tice to all and with especial favor to none
THE WEEKLY sTAR-sl PER YEAR;
circulates in all parts OF the country, and
is a tirst.class family newspaper.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

THE circling cyclone has once more
swept over Southern Illinois in all its
wrath and fury. The frame structures of
the West are but playthings in the hands
of this windy destroyer, who tosses them
about at his own sweet will,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
TO.DAY'S GERMAN PAPERS.
THE Freie PreSSe. Ren. |


The new Board of Councilmen oryan;zed
Yesterday ofternoou bv mnanimonsly elect.
inc Hon Beniamin Egpleston President.
This is a welI.deserved Commitment. Mr.
Forleston nresided in the last BOARD al
C6nnciImen so abIv and imnartiaIIv that
the new Board si,nniv did an act Of fair.
ness in electinp him their nresidins officer
TThe yolksblottl
,rho c,,ot+o ov,,.assod ho,,o ,,.,+or5.,
tbat Novnr Iacob would l;cense M ,baatar.
in which nlovs are ,rasanted On Snndave
W. aro filiu oor,.ipcod tbat tho CAN'T
Gil, bo jacc;ved in its evnectat;ons NJ
Toaal, viii cartairiv inSist on Jaconcv ani
orior bnt be ;S No Puritan who will throw
ont fha ob;ld w;tb tbn hath ,, ''O
" INN rrho v,,,sfro,,nd no,n
,.- "I ,olnS.te ".,1' nIan', nL.n, ,oo, =,
ur 'no9p i,as ,,ot yis haM .ahen Sdod i.lS h,
-. tta ar't ;tI n5 o5y;na IN rorard ~
we UaZe''e ".tt su'u a'us tIe ,L ~ 'es"tu =,
MS Sou,Se ] VI ar,som uo"Siu NJ ,"i p"rrm' prrod
Vi o'''e,ny ; . iioosos IS All
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

A BILL making the payment of poll
tax the prerequisite of voting was so We
hemently advocated by IA member of the
Texas Legislature who spoke only Span
ish that it passed the lower House.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

THE gentle essence Of ethereal mild
ness will probably be delayed for some
days yet. Ice has again blockaded the
st. Clair River and navigation is seri'
ously impeded.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

BoYToN is again wrestling with the
father of waters.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

"The symbol of Christian chivalry "
is Caswell's Camphor Ice Lotion for
chapped hands and roughness Of the skin.
For sale by John Keeshan.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15
R AILROA AID I'll M ID
Corrected 10 Accord with Cincinnati
Time.

CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Depot corner Mclean ave. and Gest street
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-15

BALTIMORE d OHIO. VIA PARKERsBuRs.
Depot, Pearl and Plum.
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go Walnut street, Cincinnati, 0.