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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14
CHINESE ARBITRATION.
Deciding n Debt Case by Burning
aSlip of ssHoly Paper.,
Nevada (Col.) Transcript

All Gee, who halls from the classic
confines of Grass Valley, Chinatown, ar
rived in the city day before yesterday
and instituted vigorous search for one
Hop Sing, of Commercial street, who,
he stated, owed him $50 that had been
due for over two months past, and was
likely to remain unpaid for all time to
come unless stern measures were taken
to collect it. The Grass Valleyan, with
out much trouble, found the object OF
his search, made the demand for tho
money, and was startled at the reply Of
the latter, which was to the effect that it
had already been paid. The two had
some fierce words, ending in threat by
the alleged creditor that he would take
the matter into court. The other ex-
pressed satisfaction at such course.
when mutual friends of the two inter
fered and prevailed upon them to sub
nit the settlement to committee Of
their countrymen.
Five Mougolians, including the JOSS
house keeper, were chosen as arbitrator
These examined several witnesses on
either side, and found the testimony
evenly balanced. They were unable to
decide upon the merits of the case. Il
was therefore agreed that strip of
-"holy paper" be laid on fiat surface
and lighted at one corner. If it was all
consumed without further human inter-
ference, the debt was to be declared not
due; otherwise, it was to be paid. The
test followed. The fire went out when
about three-fourths of the paper was
burned. All Gee got his $50 and went
home happy. Hop Sing accepted tho
result with comparatively good grace.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

Balance in PRODUCERS hands $1,000 900
According to estimates made by the
Chicago Times and other journals of the
Northwest, the area of wheat sown this
year is put down as something like sixty
per cent. greater than last season.
There is some talk recently of serious
damage to the growing crops in Western
Kansas and one or two other localities Of
limited extent, not probably, even il
unexaggerated, of sufficient magnitude
to lessen the per cent. of area sown over
10 per cent, although the syndicate Of
spectators have put up the price sharply
on the strength of the rumor within q
few days past. But calculating the croT
of 1880 to be so per cent. greater thar
that of 1879, and we have a yield ex
ceeding 679,OO0,OOO bushels for the cur
rent year that cannot fail to afford tc
the people of the world both abundant
and cheap bread.
According to the above estimates theil
is now all available surplus for foreign
shipment of something like 1OO,OOO,OOt
bushels after the reserve for seed and
house consumption are deducted from
the supply on hand. How, in view Of
this condition of things the present
prices of the wheat market are to be
maintained until the approaching har
vest is past finding out. 1t must drop
and drop pretty suddenly, when the new
crop begins to be placed on the markets
or there is very little force left in the
deductions of reason and logic when ap
piled to breadstuffs.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14
Editorial SDlnnlngs.

Is pumpkin to a watermelon or a
hydrant?
Fishermen are apt to be scaly set of
men.
Stevedores are fearful fellows to roust-
about town when a steamboat is in port.
The Missouri River hasn't a single
tooth in its mouth except a few old snags Mis-
souri is all awful old maid.
Music may have had charms to soothe
the savage breast in former years, but owing to
the adulteration in drugs of late we think that
paregoric is safer to keep in the house in stock.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

AMONGST the singular phenomena that
attended the famine in Ireland, to the
the relief of which this country has con-
tsibuted so literally, is the fact CLEANED
from the Dublin papers that large guam
titles Of Irish potatoes are being shipped
every day from that Island to England
and Wales. The demand for seed pota-
toes to provide for the coming seasons
crop has been particularly explicit and
apparently well founded, and yet
it is precisely this kind that is
being exported at the rate of
one hundred tons or more daily.
As still stranger feature in this case
the Irish Times, of Dublin, states that
the most of these potatoes come from
the very districts, Galway and Mayo,
wherein the destitution and starvation
are. the greatest. On any ordinary hu-
man calculation it would be impossible
to reconcile these two facts-the exist
snce of starving masses of people in a
country from which food supplies were
being daily exported-a worldwide ap-
peal for contributions to help commu-
nifty that apparently enjoys surplus!
1t is only under a landlord and tenant
system, such as exists in Great
Britain, that such an anoma-
lous state of things could arise.
To escape eviction for non-payment of
rent, the tenant is compelled to part
with the last Of the products of his little
patch of ground, and to preserve a roof
over his head must deprive his wife and
children of bread. The Times declares
that class of spectators have stepped
in, probably encouraged by the land
lords or their agents, who, in the great
need of money to pay back rents, OBJ.
tain the crops at their own prices. II
would seem that in such an emergency
there should be law to prohibit
the expectation Of food from 8
famine-stricken country; and above all
some permanent relief from system ol
land tenure that brings such periodica,
visitations as have SO frequently devas
tated Ireland. The charities Of Americs
will never be wanting in any case of hu
man want and woe. Her people nevel
stop to discuss causes until they have re
moved the effects, but their open-handee
contributions to the relief Of a starving
people give them right to protes
against system of tyranny that render
calls for aid SO frequent and so irresisti
BILE.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

THE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers in the City of Cincin'
nsti and In all Important Western cities
and towns for IL CENTS PER WEEK,
payab:s to tho carrier Or the paper will
be mailed, postage paid, to any part OF
the country for 50 CENTS PER MONTH.
s6 per snnum
THE STAR il the only STRICTLY INDE-
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. 1t Is taken and read t,y
people Of all parties and shades of opin'
Ion, and it seeks to present the news oi
allkinds fairly and faithfully, with justice
to sll and with especial favor to mona
THE WEEKLY s1AR-$1 PER YEAR,
circulates in all parts of the country, and
Is first-class family newspaper
ADVERTISING RATES-In Daily, 121s
CENTS per line, or 81 per square of eight
lines, agate measure. In Weekly, %
CENTS per lima
Address TIM STAR
$50 Walnut Street. Cincinnati. O
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

NEXT in importance to the farmer
who raises our wheat is the man who
grinds it into -four, and in two weeks
Cincinnati will have such an opportunity
of cultivating an acquaintance of the
merry miller as she never had before
and is not likely again to have in years
Besides the great host Of American mill
srs and manufacturers of millers' ma
chinery there will be present fully five
hundred visitors from across the sea.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

NEXT to Hatch's troops, who have
registered a solemn vow to chase Victo-
ria's band from now till doomsday, the
most active military to-day is the Louis
lana militia. They earn full pay, whether
they get it or not, in the constant sup
preston of labor riots.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

CHARLES BRADLAUGH, who swore he
would not swear, has agreed to abide by
the decision of his constituents who have
sworn that he must swear.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

A PENNSYLVANIA Sheriff hanged
three men yesterday after putting the
State to an enormous expense, and q
Missouri mob summarily disposed of
three murderers at very trihing cost.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

For want of an appropriation gas has
been cut off from the Boston postmaster,
and he pursues his labors now by the
moonbeams' misty light, or with Ian
terms dimlv burning.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

THE chances are that Congress will 60
out with May, and our worn-out and
weary statesmen return again to the
bosom Of their constituency.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14
A Compli ment from the Faculty

Physicians everywhere are recommend
Ing Hsle's Honey Of Horehound aud Tar,
as cure for coughs and colds, preferable
to all other remedies Sold by druggists
Pixies Toothache drops cure in one min
ute
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

THE fire fend has fixed firm grip on
the oil region and given the petroleum
market boom.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14
THE WHEAT CROP.

The New York Shipping List quotes
Approvingly the estimates of Milwaukee
dealer as to the wheat yield Of the
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

THE giants of the Senate are wrestling
with Kellogg.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

The bill abolishing tolls on the Lou
isyille Canal has passed the Senate.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

RUSSIA is fixing up her roads and pre-
pairing to swoop down on Celestial John.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-14

CURES WHEN ALL OTHER MEDICINES FAIL,
as it acts directly on the Kidneys, Liver, and
Bowels, restoring them at once to Healthy action.
HUNTS REMEDY is a safe, sure and speedy cure,
and hundreds have testified to having been cured by Il
when physicians and friends had given them up to
die. DO not delay try at once HUNTS REMEDY.
Send for pamphlet to
VIM. Il. CLARKE, Providence, r. I.
Prices, rs cents and 81 .25. Large size the
cheapest; Ask your druggist for HUNTS RElEt
GDY. Take no other.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
LEGAL NOTICE.

| TOHN mcrAUDEN. and John G. McFad
| eJ den ,> Executor OF last W i'll and Testamen
Hi .sdaie County. Stae OF Michigan, will tax,
| notice that petition wa' iiled against him ct
ais on re 2sd day of Navemonr A: d. 1850 il i,
County OF Portage by kuthania 1 Brobst. an.
is now pending, wherein said Rnth:nia
scribe,i real estate TO wit:
Being situated in the Township of windham
County of Portage and State OF Ohio, ant
bounded and tesclihe,' as follows 10 wit: Be
ginning 1T a stone standing IN the center OF th.
highway at the north east corner OF lot Nd
| ninety (s') in said township. and running from
thence = D deg % min W. along the east line o.
said lot and township 10 chains and 20 links. te
the north line of the e.. s NJ Railroad lands
theme north-wcsiery along the north line O
SAID Railroad lands. Is chains and 81 links
thence. o deg. 25 nlin T. 4 Irhtins and 55links
to the north line OF lot No. 10: the..ce n =. deg
10 min along the north ihc of said lot .
Chains AN" "a i"kS, e me ,n ssner ,a :" ,ss nr nsn o.
the highway ID chains and ~ links T., the north
line oi sad lot Nn. Oh: thence cas- along The
north line OF sand l.ts about 81 chains and Is
links, Ia the place of beginning containing one
hundred and five nr't6S 400 tis5 sidi iUD acr S oi
land
Being situated in The Townsbirof Braceyiiie,
County of rri.nbuil. ant state oi Dhio, ani is
bounded and lie -rri;,c. As ioll.ws. To wit: Be
ginning ut the south OF lot No
10 in .nid Township. and running from thence
mont along The west line of s., i'll loI asd town
shin 27 chains an,: g6 links, ta Il post; thence
east along MAJ kcci line 32 chains and IS lInks
To a post: thence south on marked; line -
chains and 96 links. to post on The south line
of id lot: thence :vest on the lot line 5a chains
and 4s links to The place nt beginning. contain
ing ninety ird So Ice go S'i0pl acres OF land,
be The same more or less
And that ut the next term of SAID Court the
said Ruthani;. [. Rrobst will apply Tor an order
that partition may be made OF sai,li1 seniseS-
Said defendants are required to answer on or
before February f. a. ID 1881.
Dated this 2 ID day of November A. ID. 1850.
.st. -RU III ANA I. BROBST.
BY W. B THOMAS, her Att9rney. c39 CIV
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
Summary WAYS.

The head OF bureau in an important
government department has long been
| afflicted with friend who calls upon
him regularly and sits down, and sits,
and sits, and goes on sitting till assault
and battery becomes 4 virtue.
The other day this sedentary bore
was in the full exercise of his functions,
when suddenly the official, who had
been scrutinizing him closely, cries:
81 knew it! I was sure of it! Con
found those oflice-boys with their tricks
on strangers. They've been putting
glue on your chair again. Hi, John,
bring a spongue and pail of water y
and pressing with all his weight on the
shoulders of his victim to keep him
down he continues, ''Don't stir, Won d
tear the cloth sure! Nothing is half so
adhesive as glue on a cane-seat chair
Here, John, moisten this gentleman so
that we can get him loose. Don't spare
the water-the cloth won't shrink or
fade.'' $50. at.
The faithful messenger obeyed, and
when the operation is concluded, the
official conducts the visitoI to the door
and bids him farewell with the remark,
Perhaps you want to hurry home and
change your clothing, so won't keep
you. Good-by; bless you! If your pam
falcons are spoiled let me know and
I'll stop the price of them out of the
pay of the internal scoundrel if 1 can
find out who he was, and to that task
will devote all the energies of my life
time, and the whole machinery of the
government. Adieu! The scoundreli I
thought for several days past that there
was something wrong" .=ss
His friend goes like the visions of
youth, never to return.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
The American Girl Abros,.,

Here is pen-and-ink sketch of an
American girl, which is interesting as
showing how q Yankee girl seems to
French eyes, "Stylish to the backbone.
Independent as Independent can be,
but very pure. Is devoted to pleasure,
dress, spending money; shows her NOR
al nature nude, just as it is, so as to de-
ceive nobody. Flirts all winter with
this or that one and dismisses him in
the spring, when she instantly catches
another. Goes out alone. Travels
alone. When the fancy strikes her she
travels with gentleman friend or
walks anywhere with him; puts bound
less confidence in him; conjugal init
macy seems to exist between them. She
lets him tell what he feels, talk of love
from morning till night, but she never
gives him permission to kiss so much
as her hand. He may say anything;
he shall do nothing. She is restless;
she gives heart and soul to amusement
before she marries. After marriage
she is mother annually, is alone all
day, hears all night nothing except dis
cussions about patent machinery, un-
explosive petroleum, chemical manures.
She then will let her daughters enjoy
the liberty she used without grave
ABUSE. AS nolHlHS SeIlous HaPPeheu
to her, why should Fanny, Mary, Jenny
be less strong and less adroit than
their mother? She originates French
fashions. Partisan women detest her.
Provincial women despise her. Men
of all countries adore her, but will not
marry her unless she has an immense
fortune. Her hair is vermilion, paler
than golden hair; her black eyes are
bold and frank; she has patent shape
which it's forbidden to counterfeit,
spreads herself in carriage as if she
were in hammock, the natural and
thoughtless posture of her passion for
luxurious ease. When she walks she
moves briskly and throws every glance
right and left. Gives many of her
thoughts to herself and few of them to
anybody else. She is wild plant put
in hOt-hOuSe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
Rare Elephants,

There are now ON exhibition in New
York two peculiar elephants brought
from the mountains of the Malay PEN
insula, about 800 miles from Singapore.
They are remarkable for their small
size, being respectively twenty-eight
and thirty-siX inches tall; and for being
covered with a thick coat of bristlY
hair or wool. They are supposed to be
from to Z years old. In size they re-
semblc the extinct elephants of Malta,
and in covering those of Siberia. Their
woolly coat is attributed to the circum-
stance that they live high upon the
mountains where the climate is cold.
The species appear to be all but I'M
known to naturalists, this pair being
through the heated low country to the
coast and the subsequent journey by
sea. The sailors on the steamer which
brought them-the Oxfordshire, Cap
tain c. z. Jones-named them Prince
playful and harmless, and they keep
their little trunks stretched out to
strangers to be petted. They loved to
be scratched on the under side of the
trunk close to the mouth, and they hold
their trunks curled back over their
heads as long as anyone scratches them.
Like elephants of large growth, they
keep up Il swaying motion, either side
ways or forward and backward When
IL visitor lets one of the little fellows
take his hand he delicately curls his
proboscis around it and carries it gent
ly to his mouth. Then he trumpets
his satisfaction.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
D. n. FURRY. N. R. FURRY. J.w. FURRY
I g g O.
GOOD GES,
EXPRESS,
MARKET WAGONS,
AND ALL KINDS OF
Carriage and Wagon Repairs.
FURRY & SONS.
Prospect Street. (602-3m) Ravenna. o
Divorce Notice.

VS.. Portage County, State of
Franklin House. Ohio.
Franklin House. of Syracuse, Onondaga cOun-
ty, in the State of New York. will take notice
that Mary Louisa House, of the county of POr-
tage in the State of Ohio. did, on the 18th day
of November: A. ID. 1880. file her petition in the
Court of Common Pleas within aud for the
county of Portage, in said State OF Ohio against
the said Franalin House. setting forth that she
has been a resident of the State of Ohio for the
year last past, and is at present bona fide res
ident of said county of Portage; that on OF
about the I'd day of October. A ID 1895 at Syr-
acuse, OnOndaga county, in the state of New
York. She was married to Franklin House. and
has ever since conducted herself towards her
said husband as faithful and Obcdient wife;
that afterwards, on May 81. 1880 at the summer
term of the Circuit Court and Court of Oyer
and Terminer in and for the county of OnOn-
daga in said state of New York. said Franklin
House was duly convicted of the crime of bur-
glary. and duly sentenced by said Court to tine
pententiary OF said state of New York for the
term of three years. and in pursuance OF said
sentence said Frant lin House is now confined
in the OnOndaga county penitentiary in said
state of New York. and praying that she may
he divorced from said Franklin House, and he
restored to her maiden name, Mary Louisa la
lev; and the said Franklin House is notified
that he is required to appear and answer said
petition on or before the third Saturdi after
the s4th day OF December. A. ID. 1850
Dated November 18th. 1890
MARY LOUISA HOUSE.
BY THAYER & gibson, her Attorneys 63s-6w
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23

Prince Alexander, the present ruler of
Bulgaria, having recently come into Il
legacy of 81, 100000 left to him by the
late empress of Russia, his aunt by mar
riage, is about to build a splendid palace
i'm the new quarter of Sofia, at the east
end of that city, where several large and
handsome houses are in course of erec-
ton for the future accommodation of
Bulgarian rank and fashion. The youth
full Hospodar is just now in a lucky vein.
Only the other day Bishop Gligor pre-
sented him with a tastefully laid-out
park, about half an hours drive from
Rustchuk, eminently suitable for a sum-
mer retreat; and the prince, while CRATE
fully accepting this muniiicent gift,
sagaciously seized the opportunity of
aiding to his popularity by forthwith
issuing decree IN virtue of which the
park in question is to be thrown open
to the Bulgarian public during three
hours Of every day for all time u come.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
The Story Of an Umbrella.

The Nachrichten of Basle tells story
which may give the bold purchaser a
hint of new method of protecting him.
self against fraudulent shopkeepeIs. A
young gentleman bought silk UNI
brella from an umbrcl1a-dealer indef-
nitely characterized as c.. The
next day was rainy; the umbrella was
put into use, but the silk tore in six:
places during the first hour of its con-
tact with the rain. The purchaser
went straight to the shop, exhibited the
ruined article, and demanded a sound
one in its stead. C|'s silk umbrel-
las, however, were made to sell, not to
endure use; the dealer smiled politely,
and observed that purchasers ought to
be careful when they made their selec-
ton. The young man took home his
umbrella, painted around it the follow
ing inscription. in big letters: This is
how an umbrella looks to-day which
was at C-'s shop yesterday" and
hired n commissionaire to walk to and
fro before C|'s shop with the opened
umbrella for whole day.
This unusual form of advertisement
naturally irritated Horr c.. and
could not have been without deterr-
ing influence upon possible customers.
c. sent for tho police, and asked
them to arrest the bearer of the UNI
brella. but they declared that they
could see no legal crime in the COM
missionaries proceeding. and declined
to take him of to Jail. Early the next
morning, the imperturbable umbrellas
carrier appeared again, and he kept
sentinel in this manner in front of
C-'s shop for nearly week. At the
end of this period, the shopkeeper saw
that he must give way, and calling the
man, asked him to 60 to his employer
and say that everything should be set
tied according to his wishes. When
the bold inventor of the stratagem en-
tered the shop. the dealer offered him
sound silk umbrella in exchange for
the sickly one. The purchaser agreed
to accept it, but added the further de-
mand that the dealer should pay the
commissionaire weeks wages, to
which suggestion he was also compelled
TO assent.-L0ndOn Globe. .s .....
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23

A custom in the Oakland (Ky.) Sem.
mary requires the professors to give 81
apiece every Christmas to buy refresh
ments for the boys. Last year Profes-
sor Atkinson refused to contribute.
The students visited him in body, ex-
postulated with him, and finally threat
ened vengeance; but he would not be
moved. Then they carried him to a
cold pond and ducked him.. The pro-
fessor left the State, but now he has re-
turned and sued his tormentors' par
entS for So, 900 damages
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-23
Farm at Administrators Sale

TIME subscriber offers for sale the premises
i known as the Bcdcr Goss farm in Randolph,
consisting OF about eighty-hve acres of lard !;
is located about two r"iles n +. of Center on
good road. Farm well fenced has good orchard
fine timber, buildings com1Ort. BILE and sum :
cient; soil naturally good and altogether u
plea ant and desirable farm.
: PIP aisetl at S75 per acre; will lie sold ut
ct ing less.
Ras-One- half cash down two thirds on
time IN easy payments
P.COE.
Randolph. o.. Oct Goth. 1880. Gas