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Year: 1869

i1IE recent treatise of Professor Isaac
c. Bedfield, on the law of bailments,
furnishes curious information in refer
ence to the responsibility and duty of
an lnnkeeper in taking care of the bag
gage of his guests. There seems to be
no doubt that an innkeeper is held
strictly responsible for the safe keeping
of baggage, but the question has arisen
whether he is liable for everything q
traveller may choose TO carry in his
trunk, or only for such articles OF wear
ing apparel and of personal use and
convenience as are ordinarily taken on
a journey. This latter principle how
exer, seems to be firmly established by
the current of decisions.


Thus in Massachusetts, in one case it
was decided that Colts pistol and
dozen silver teaspoons are not properly
part Of q travellers baggage. And in
another case in the same State it was
decided that the innkeeper is only re-
sponsible for the guests baggage, and
that term includes articles for use and
convenience on the journey, but not
merchandise and other valuables, such
as silver knives and forks, and spoons.
In New York il was held that watch,
pencil-casc, and twenty-five dollars in
money, lost by guest at a hotel, were
not TO be regarded us baggage, within
the meaning of the New York statue.
Bnt where guest had been put into n
room with a fcllowlodgor against his
rcmonstranccs, whereby the precautions
of locking his door, &C., required by
the statute, became impracticable run-
available the innkCcper was held re-
sponsiblc, and his negligence was held
to be sufficiently shown by the loss of
the goods from the room under the cir
cumstances. The true rule upon this
subject, it is asserted, seems to be that
| the responsibility of the innkeepep ex-
tends to all the money and goods which
the eXigencics of the travellers busi-
ness require him TO carry with him and
that where the sum is of considerable
amount, the traveller is bound to use
the ordinary precautions provided at
the inn for its safe keeping. In refer
ence to the rights of the innkeeper, ii
is held that he has lien upon all the
effects of a guest in his custody for his
bill, and this extends to his horse, har-
ness and carriage, for the keep of the


horse, and probably for the whole SUN


due although livery stable keeper


has no lien upon horses placed under


his care, the difference being that the


innkeeper who keeps stable for the
accommodation of travellers is conse-
quently bound TO receive all that come,


while mere stable keeper is not bound


to take all that come, and may either
reject or require special contracts for


them whenever he deems it prudent
Ledger. ...... -..... ....
Year: 1869

A HAPPY REBUKE.-Watty Morri-
son was Scotch clergyman, and man
of wit and humor. On one occasion he
entreated the officer Mt Fort George to
pardon poor fellow that was sent to
the halberds. The officer offered to grant
his request if he would in return grant
him the favor he would ask. Mr.. Mar
rison agreed to this, and the officer iuls
mediately demanded that the ceremony
of baptism should be performed on
puppy. The clergyman agreed TO it,
and party of gentlemen assembled t.
witness the novel baptism. Mr.. Morri-
son desired the officer to hold up the
dog as was necessary in their baptism
of child and saidi


GAS / am minister Of the Church of
Scotland l must proceed according to
| the ceremonies of the church."


"Well then mayor, | begin by the
usual question "Do you acknowl-
edge yourself the father of this pup
py ?"


A roar of laughter burst from tha
crowd, and the officer threw the candl-
date for baptism away.
Year: 1869

A STRONG CAsE.-A fat old gentle
man who had been bit in the calf of hii
leg by dog came to Jonah in tower
ing passion, decairing it was Jonah'i
dog that had bitten him. Expecting
an action for damages the wag drew up
the following articles rs the ground for
his defence:


|. By testimony in favor of the gene
rel good conduct of my dog can prove
that nothing could make him 50 forget
ful of his dignity as to bite "calf'"


2. He is blind, and cannot see to bite.


3. Even if he could see to bite 1T would
be utterly impossible for him to 90 out
of the way to do SO on account OF his
severe lameneSs.


4. Granting his eyes and his legs to be
good he has no teeth.


.. My dog died six weeks since


q. never had dog.
Year: 1869

fulness that he had lived. What he had
ALWAYS inculcated was repeated as ack-
nowiedged truth in regard to journalism,
and his example in the management OF
that great power. the public press, was
every where presented rs the best model
of an honest, an able, and q fearless jour-
nalist.


knew, gentlemen, of the interest Mr..
Raymond felt in this institution, where
he received the instruction which enabled
him to become what he was. He loved
to talk of his college life. He never for
got his college friends. He was willing
and able to give to his Alma Mater pow
erful aid. But he is gone. An able, a
powerful and good man has been sum-
moned from among US. l only hope that
the memory of his virtues may not be
allowed soon to pass away,
Year: 1869

STRANGE CONFERENCE.-The Syracuse
Courier tells of a singular coincidence
which happened in the family Of resp ect.
able citizen of that city.


The birth of little child occurred
some months since. Its mother was i'll AT
the time with consumption. Since the
child came into the world it has followed
the physical conditions of its mother with
marvellous precision. Would she be taken
with vomiting, the child would be affiict-
ed in the same manner; did her health
improve for few weeks, marked i'm
provement was noticed in the child when
her nealth declined, the. child's would al.
so decline at the same time. A short time
since the mother was taken much worse
the symptoms of the child were of a SINH
lar character. Finally the mother died
aud only few seconds after breathing
her last the child followed into eternity
The case is a strange one, showing great
influence unconscious sympathy may
exert over physical conditions
Year: 1869

Aattened from other causes, to use sub
stitute for the convex lens of the eye
But that substitute never causes the crys-
talline lens of the eye TO become NOR.
convex, for with the convex glass the ray
of light are oentered upon the retina 50
that dame nature does not discover the
necessity for change in the shape of the
eye, and therefore there is no effort to pro-
duce one.


When self-styled Opticians" or spectacle
peddlers, insist that they have glasses
that help to keep the eye from growing
old, or bring it back to its pristine form,
aud strength, we set them down as i'm
posters, or ignorant of natures laws. az
applied to the eye. We don't accept their
philosophy, nor purchase their spectacles;
but when we want good glass substitute
for the impaired crystalline lens of the
eye, we go TO the store of Clark Brothers
and Adams, and get pair of their nice
spectacles. When we have them on, our
sight is good, but not one whit improved
when we take them off Nor would it be
il we bought of travelling Opticians
We would therefore advise the people to
patronise those in their own town, in
preference to travelling stranger. even
though he may be preceded by flaming
hand bills.
Year: 1869

The charter for a railroad in opposition to
the New York and New Haven monopoly has
again been DEFEATED, and this time by only one
majority, in the Senate OF Connecticut. We
may reasonably hope that another trial will be
successful. 1t Is a great public evil that the
vast tide Of traveI flowing in the direction of
that road should have but a single channel
The people OF Connecticut ought to be intelIi-
gent enough TO raise themselves above the
petty, narrow-minded tactics OF New Jersey
n railTo.d d matters.
Year: 1869

FoR TIE AcooMNoDArIoS OF PERSONS
leaving the city during the summer months
they can have The STAR mailed to their
address, by ordering the same at the Office, for
121 cents per week. for one week or more.
Year: 1869




On the parlor wall where the first sunbeam
lights it up in the morning, hangs a pictured
face in its wreath of immortelles. The merry
brown eyes and the smiling mouth have moth
ing Of death in their look, but the unfadina
wreath speaks of the crowns they wear beyond
the river. So you do not wonder when the
loving lips tell you that the little maiden
lived twelve beautiful years with us on earth
and then went home in one swift moment TO
" The Fathers House in the Skies


We have many beautiful memories of her
left with US, but none sweeter than Of the lit
tie prattling child Of three years, whose
words and ways seemed so full of strange
wisdom.


Once an old friend of the family called
to spend an hour, and, as he said good-by, he
lifted the little one in his arms, asking light
ly, Well, little Mary, when shall see you
again ?"


"Oh when We get to Gods House." was
hlr instant reply with her beautiful eyes
smiling in his face. The old man went away,
but the words haunted him, and when few
years afterwlrd, he lay dying, he said to
those about him.


"rel little Mary c., have gone to
Gods House, and | shall wait to meet her
there"


Mary lived for twelve years, full of life
and merriment, fairly overtlowing with iroic,
yet those who knew her best knew how much
of deep thoughtiulness was hidden under it
all


Often, during the last winter of her life,
she met with her little mates in the children's
prayer-meetng, and led them in prayer, and
one Of her own family circle said of her,


"We were none of US ready for so sud
den death as Mary" yet no one was more
full of hopes and dreams for life.


She had no long sickness, only slight
cold that no one thought worth noticing. At
midnight she had smile and Jest for her
brother in an hour she was gaspng for
breath aud longing for the morning.


Oh, II the morning would only come
can't breathe in the darkness" was her
constant cry. But just at morning. with the
awful look of death settling on her soft,
dimpled face, she opened her eyes wide in a
food of light, and exclaimed, rapturously,
" The perfect day! The perfect day :"


With that glad cry she went home to
Gods House The gates opened wide to let
her in, and we doubt not there were wecom.
ing hands stretched out to meet her. 1t was
not going away alone to some strange region
1t was a home familiar from childhood
Gods House, where the dear Lord went to
Year: 1869

Business FOR CnmsT-Many years ago
happening to be in South Wales, made the
acquaintance of a Welsh gentleman. He was
then landed proprietor, living in his man
sion. He had been before carrying on an ex-
tensiye business in large town. BY the
death of a relative he had Unexpectedly come
into possession of this property. After con-
siderng whether he should retire from busi-
ness, he made up his mind he should still
continue to carry il on, though not for himself,
but Cor Christ could not help being struck
with the gleesomeness of holy mind which


lighted up his countenance when he said l
never knew before what real happiness is.
Formerly | wrought as master to earn a
livelihood for myself but now l am carrying
on the same work as diligently as if for my
self, and even more so but it is now for
Christ, and every half-penny of profits is
handed over to the treasury of the Lord, and
| feel that the smile Of my Saviour rests up
on me- l think that is an example worthy
of being imitated.-Dr. DtG,
Year: 1869

DANGEROUS PLEAsUREs,-I have sat upon
the sea-shore and waited for its gradual ap-
proaches, and have seen its dancing waves
and white surf, and admired that He who
measured it with his hand had given it such
life and notion and have fingered till its
gentle waters grew into mighty billows, and
had well nigh swept me from my 6rmest
footing. So have seen needless youth
gazing with curious spirit upon the sweet
motions and gentle approaches of inviting
pleasure, till it has detained his eye and inn
prisoned his feet, and sweled upon his soul,
and swept him TO a swift distinction.
Year: 1869

On the Sth inst, bill to submit to the
people as an amendment to the consttu-
ton of this state the question OF admit
ting the female portion Of our population
to the elective franchise passed the assem-
by BY vote of 80 ayes against y noes
We suppose that it will not make much
difference Which way the people vote on
the question if submitted to them. Ii
they vote in the affirmative, it will, OF
course, be carried; but if in the negative,
some radical state judge viii decide that
they ought to vote, and they will do SO
accordingly, as was the case with the negro
vote. Our readers will recoIlect that ne
gro suffrage was voted down on two oecaS-
ions by large majority, yet the radical
state court overruled the people and decld-
ed against them.
Year: 1869

PROBABLE FATE OF PARAGUAY.-We
are informed by recent telegrams that the
allies have dispatched force TO establish a
provisional government at Asuncion, the
apital of Paraguay. The allies intend to
carry out the terms of the treaty between
them, and absorb he conquered country.
This has been all along the object of the
fight, and unless Iolez is better able to
continue the war than the reports state, the
days of this hercic little republic arc mum
bered.
Year: 1869

hope that our people of
will attend at Turner Hail
borrow saturday evening TO wit,


the beautiful play Of the Mother s
,sing." The play itself is an elegant
luction, while the music is superb and
scenery imposing. Do not fail to 90


bring your wife and sweetheart with
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the New York Sun gives
the Cuban insurgents


Carlos Manuel Cespedes was born about forty
FIVE years ago, in the town OF Bayamo, Cuba.
The first twelve years of his life were spent with
his parents, who resided on plantation in the
vicinity. With them he only learned the first
rudiments Of reading, writing and arithmetic,
while at the same time he indulged in those
hardy employments and health-giving games
which are incident to life in a country naturally
mountainous and full of forests. His family
having gone to live at Bayamo when he was
twelve years old. Carlos was sent to school for
the first time. A few days after the commence
ment of his studies there, he gave proofs of an
extraordinary mental activity and intellectual
talents leaving behind him the most advanced
scholars in the school, and being recognized by
them as the head of the institution. When
eighteen years of age he went to Havana, with
the object of pursuing his studies there for the
legal profession. His great intellectually was
further developed there, at the same time that
numerous personal affairs gave him opportunity
to show his active, courageous and tenacious
disposition, giving an indication that he would
be as great in war as in peace. Graduating as
attorney-in-law in Europe, where he went after
wards, and receiving the highest honors he re-
turned to Cuba and fixed his residence at Man
zanillo. His powers Of eloquence, energy, and
his knowledge soon made him the most popular
man in the vicinity, and entitled him to rank as
the first lawyer in that part of the country. But
of all traits in his character, generosity marks
important one, and will give luster to all his
future actions. The fortune he inherited from
his father, the wealth he amassed by his indus
trious exertions, and his future prospects of in
creasing it, would have given him life of ease
and comfort but his patriotic heart could not
support the sight of his country in chains and
the victim to the outrages of the tyranical
Spanish government. Inspired by heroic reso-
luton, he gives freedom to all his slaves, aban-
dons his sugar estates to the merciess fury of
his Spanish foes who burned them in revenge,
and sacrificing all upon the altar of liberty and
independence, with the noblest motives he inau-
gurates the revolution in Cuba, at the head of
one hundred patriots-a movement which now
counts in its ranks the whole native population
all his acts the fullest energy, an untiring con-
stancy, and the greatest moderation IN the exer-
else of the discretionary power conferred on him
by the unanimous accord of all Cubans. When
we see men of this stamp supported by all the
natives of Cuba, and that they, without arms
and ammunition of any consideration, and by
their unaided efforts, not only have been able to
withstand the advance of the Spanish foe, but
have repeatedly defeated them and at last OBJ
tained possession of the greater part of the
island, then it becomes impossible for US to
doubt the final triumph of liberty and the pre-
vailing of American institutions in the " gem of
the Antilles
Year: 1869

FAST BoYs.-Every city, town and village has
what may be termed &C fast boys" Nevada City
being exceptions to the general rule, can also
boast of a few of the same class. The fast boy
is prominent institution. We propose to give
brief descriptions of him. He is between
twelve and eighteen years of age. He has been
through all of our public schools, graduating
rapidly in each one. The teachers all but
too happy to give him diploma of discharge.
He has studied grammar, especially false syntax,
in which he is well versed, and which he speak
to a charm. He has learned all the slang
phrases by heart, and if a one is coined, he
is the first to pocket it. The fast boy chews to-
bacco and smokes vigorously. He began it when
about eight years old. He uses his shirt bosom
for a spittoon, unless he can find a clean place
on the floor or carpet, in which case he some
times prefers. Tobacco juice is constantly
oozng from the corners of his mouth and run
ming down his chin, finds receptacle on his
shirt which it ornaments highly. He knows
how to take drink as we'll as the most expe-
rienced hummer. If there is dog fight in the
street, our fast boy is sure to be the first one
there. He is we'll acquainted with the dogs
knew them when they purps-can trace
their pedigree back out of sight, and de-
scribe their fighting qualities better than any one
else. OF course he knowe how to swear; he
prides himself on his oaths; close study and OBJ
servaton have made him master of profanity,
and constant practice has made him perfect in
this line. The fast boy in his younger days
might have been to Sabbath school, but if he
did, he was never known to look on his book
unless to deface it with a pencil. If poodle
dog should happen within his reach while in
church, he pinched its tail and yelp would be
the result. His stay in a Sabbath school class
would be short. The teachers would sooI be
convinced that he would do less damage on the
outside of the church than on the inside and
give him his graduating papers. The fast boy
is simply fast man in miniature. Idleness
makes the fast boy idleness makes the fast
man.-Nerada Gazette
Year: 1869

AFTER OFFIcE.-The White Pine Necs says
almost every man in that section is candidate
for office, and so scarce are those who are not,
that on one occasion, when a six-foot Piker
came to town and acknowledged publicly that he
was not candidate, the rush to see him was so
great that he supposed be was on the point of
being mobbed, and Immediately made tracks for
tall timber, across Pogonip fat, and has not
been heard of since.
Year: 1869

Too SLEEPY.-The latest historical discovery
is that Napoleon lost Waterloo because be was
sleepy. So exhausted was he by fatigue and
wa.chfulness that the strongest coffee, with
which he was constantly piled by his officers,
could not keep him from doing in his saddle,
and the effect upon his combinations is now de-
elared to hare caused his defeat.
Year: 1869

THE NAVIGATION OF THE RED SEA.-To
make a canal across the Isthmus of Suez
and connect the Mediterranean and the Red
Sea, is one thing; to render the Red Sea essy
of aavaeition is another. At present the
most careful seamaniship can not secure
vessels against accidents. The Sea is full OF
coral reefs and shoals. Only the oth'r day
we reported the loss of a steamer larger than
the Scotia in this perilous highway. When
the road becomes crowded we may look for
a much larger proportion Of accidents. 1t
is seven or eight days steaming between
Suez and Adem. and during the whole OF
that time the Captain of the "Peninsuiar
and Oriental" steamer-the line which pines
between England and India-is scarcely ever
off the deck, and never takes of his clothes.
And vet with all this vigilance three OF those
steamers have been lost within few years
It is proposed. We believe. that the ked Sea
should be beaconed and buoyed at the ex
pense of England and France. 1t would be
a noble work. and it is impossible to donb
that some hundreds of lives would be savet
| by it. To the ordinary passenger the dis
comforts of Red Sea passage-the fearfu


heat, the intolerable tension on the air, th


gloom and depression produced by all th


surrounding circumstance are quit


enough to face without the prospect Of ship
wreck and death being added.
Year: 1869

The Pail Mall Gazette gives new receipt
for cooking lobster. which it thinks would
give more satisfaction to the epicure than to
the lobster. 'In the first place it is indis-
pensable that the lobster should be alive;
then the lobster is to be cut across in presen-
table pieces; aud then break the claws
without disfguring them; the animal is then
to be fixed on the spit and put before quick
fire, basted with butter and seasoned with
salt and pepper. When the;shell drops of
in small pieces. the unhappy lobster is said
to be cooked
Year: 1869

ARTIFICIAL WANTs.-Bulwer says that
poverty is only an idea in nine cases out of
ten. Some men with ten thousand dollars a
wear suffer more for want of means than
others with three hundred. The reason is
the richer man has artificial wants. His in
come is ten thousand. and he suffers enough
from being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a
sensitive man. A mon who earns dollar a
day and does not run in debt, is the happier
man of two. Very few people who have
never been rich will believe this; but is as
true as Gods word. There are thousands
and thousands with princely incomes who
never know a moments peace, because they
live above their means. There is really more
happiness in the world among working Peo-
ple than among those who are called rich.
Year: 1869

PREMATURE BURIAL. A paper IN All the
Year Round speaks of the many cases of
premature burial which occur during the
prevalence of cholera. 1t says among 9TH
er things that 'sDr. Londe states as an ac-
knowledged fact that patients pronounced
dead of cholera have been repeatedly seen
to move one or more of their limbs after
death" Mr. Searle, an English surgeon,
has often remarked this fact; and DR.. Vey-
rat, of the Bath establishment, AK Savoy,
succeeded in ''resuscitating" young woman
after she had apparently been dead for
nearly three days Apropos of the subject
of premature burial, of which many peo-
pie have horror not altogether unreason-
able, it may be well to state that French
doctor has recently invented process by
which it may be determined with absolute
certainty whether person supposed to be
dead is SO or not Belladonna dropped on
the living eye always causes dilation of the
pupil, while on the dead eye it has Nc ef-
feet. A camera with the ordinary photo
graphic paper, which is ruled with delicate
lines, is placed over the eye undergoing
examination. The paper is unrolled from
a spindle for ten or fifteen minutes at the
expiration of which time, if no variation in
the size of the photograph of the pupil can
be detected, the subject is known to be
dead