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Year: 1877

A gentleman Of this city had COW and
a New Foundland dog who were on good
terms enough, but there had never been
exhibited any special friendship between
them. The boy that drove the COW to and
from pasture every DAY was Away: accom- econ,
cams to consider the dog one of the family
One One day while they were passing a butcher
shop s.vag. bulldog rushed out une1,
peoted, surprised the Newfoundland, m and
before he could recover himself had him
bv T the throat, and was likely to finish him
The boy fed in fright; Not 50 the COW
She was walking leisurely ahead when she
see ~ the cause. Immediately, and without
hesitation or undue haste, she walked uE
to the dogs, deliberately showed her horns
under the wicked bulldog, the enemy o.
her comrade, and flung the brute over th'
fence, and then quietly went on her way
II
Year: 1877

The above Reward will be given for
the apprehension Of, or information
that will lead to the arrest and convic-
ton Of the Burglar who robbed the
Osceola Post Office, on the night of
the ard. inst. i
Year: 1877

The fight for the possession OF Sch1pka
Pass has been the most stubborn and we'll
contested on both sides that the war has af-
forded. The Turks have hurled themselves
with desperate valor upon the defenses that
the RusEians have constructed, but all to no
purpose. It is difficult to ssy how many
assaults worthy of the name hare been
made, but there seems to be no ques~
ton as to the general result. The Turks
have always been repulsed. It must be
bitter reflection for them in the present
emergency that ordinary foresight and pru-
dence would have placed them in the posi-
sition which the Russians now hold. If the
Turks had put up the fortifcations which
the Russians Mt once began to build, the
former might hayo held the pass without the
cost of single life, or the effort of single
blow. It is probable that, if their DEFENSE
less condition on the Roumelian side had
not been matter Of common notoriety,
they would never have been attacked.
Year: 1877

Senntor MORTON, who seemed to bc rap
idly recovering, has suffered relapse and
has been given over by Dr.. BLESS, the
plysicinn most familiar with his constitu-
ton. He may live q fow days, OF 1nay die at
my moments but it is not possible that he
shall ever again take his place in the Senate
Chamber. His :poltihcal career is already
closed. This news will be received with
sincere regret, we feel certain, even by those
who have differed with him politically in the
past, while among his personal followers
and no politician had more or warmer
Hiends-his death will be taken almost as
domestic Affliction.
Year: 1877

Tie say6: Every enc remembers the story
of the old pensionor who received the com
mand Attention from bystander while
he was returning from market with his din
ner in his hand. At the word Of command
ho instantly and mechanically dropped his
dinner in the mud, and took the proper po-
sition." It is pity that Mr. BIooKs did not
have the instance of the old cannler and
Democratic orator Of this city, who un-
consciously ducked his head in the midst Of
one Of the finest oratorical flights at the cry
of I" Low Bridge" from an opponent in the
audience.


We have not the space to devote to the in
tercsting arguments which A1r. BRooks
makes upon these premises. We can only
briefly state his general deductions. He finds
that all living things present us with series
Of more or less related actions. First, we
have the mechanical and reflex actions Of
plants and animals; then the instructive
action, then the hereditary habit, then the
acquired habit; next the action governed by
general rule, established by experience !;
aud finally the rational action" Notwith-
standing the vast distance between the two e1-
tremes, there is d regular gradation in the
series, and they all hare something in CON-
mon.. They are all directed to the accom-
p1ishn1cnt Of purpose, and the cause Of tho
action is change, external to the organism
and distinct from the purpose. In closing,
Mr. BnooKs says:


in tic adjustment of this change to q relation
1mA- $-.f %nfi-
purpose, we hayo something which has no parallel
except in living things, and perhaps some Of mans
contrivances, such as the automatic governor OF
the steam engine. Living things are distinguished
from those which have not life by their Adjustment
and life consists In this adjustment. Finally, I
wish to call attention to the fact that natural selcc
ton is constantly acting through the law Of the
survival OF the flttcst, In such way US to bring
each organism into more and more perfect harmony
with its environment; that is, 1t is constantly
bringing about more and more exact, definite,
and perfect adjustment between external and in
ternal relations. II this adjustment constitutes
vitality. and il natural selection furnishes an eI
planatton OF tho manner In which the adjustment
has been brought about, have we not In the law OF
natural selection, explanation OF tho origin Of
life!


Whatever our readers may think Of the
law Of natural selection, there are but few
who are not interested in the matter of in
stinct and intelligence, and who will not re-
gret that one who could trace so closely the
harmony of instinct and intelligence with
the theory Of evolution of organisms through
natural causes did not 60 even deeper into
subject he has studied so curiously, and
give us his views upon the ve1ed problem
of the reasoning powers Of animals and their
nnssession of mind.
Year: 1877

are taxed to their utmost capacity; money is
beginning to circulate freely, md only 4
slight touch is needed to set every wheel Of
trade in revolution We do not propose to
discuss at this time the one thing needful-
Or rather the two things needful-to re-
store fully business prosperity. Those
things are, as we have long insisted,
the postponement Of the date for
resumption and the remonetization Of the
silver dollar. If Congress, at the approach
ing session, shall accomplish these legislative
enactments, it will have earned the gratitude
of the country, and need do nothing else,
save to pass the Army appropriation bill,
before returning home to enjoy we'll
merited holiday. The people will prove
before the regular session is fairly under
way that nothing is wanting but wise tlnan-
cial measures to Danish the hard times from
the country
Year: 1877

ing oxtent. No contract can get through 4Ene
Board without bribery. No honest jury can


be drawn except by mistake. No reward
can be given to honesty Or punishment to
fraud through its connivnnce. 1t hos ne-
come, wherever it Is known, the synonym
for ignorance, corruption, and etfrontery.
The people have found protection against
it only in the exercise Of constant v1gi-
lance. They havo fought it in the courts
by ininnctionB and in the Grand Jury BY
indictments and it still remains an unre-
pressed and irrepressible evil. reproach to
the good name of our State, and q terror to
taxpayers and good citizens. This Board is
a result of popular suffrage exercised in tho
manner and for the purposes desired by tho
author of the blossoms Of a Century.
How much better is it than the City Govern
ment, which is in miniature the Government
framed by our fathers in 17672 The city
has IN Executive, the Mayor, and Cabinet
surrounding him. It has Legislature,
which is coordinate branch of government
The Government thus constituted is known
throughout the country for its efficiency and
zeal. It reduced taxes more than million
of dollars per annum, and placed the credit
of the City Of Chicago at the highest point
in the money-markets of the world. Its
success is not due solely, Of course, to its
form, any more tlann tho failure OF the
County Board is due to that cause alone;
but there is q lesson to I've derived from the
standing before honest men Of these two
bodies; and the "Lesson of
Century," as interpreted by our author, is
not the one which the circumstances seem to
teach.
Year: 1877

This morning we print a sketch of TINT
good aad learned prelnte, Archbishop MAN
MING. which ought to be read rs well By
those who do not belong to his fifth as by
those who do. His has been, indeed, busy
life. but not so busy that he has not had
time to devote to scholarly pursuits, while
he has always upheld the dignity of the
Catholic Church i'll England, which some of
his predecessors failed to do.
Year: 1877

The Presidents attempts at Civil Service IT,
form remind tho Democratic press Ut man
carrying ladder through crowd. It isn't
easy or graceful work, and he is always bump
ing up against somebody. Precisely; and tho
man that is bumped against nearly always gets
h@trt
Year: 1877

It is q little rough upon an Ohio friend Of the
laboring man, after be has laid perjury upon his
soul in the matter Of a platform, and given his
record an emetic SO as to turn it inside out, to
find that the honest workingman is going to run
ticket Of his own. Then, indeed, tho Ohio
friend of the L. II. feels as II for BAxQuo's
issue he had filed his soul
Year: 1877

Virginia Enterprise.


We yesterday happened to be standing
on South @ street in company with
Tom Lane, the well-known engineer,
when Buffalo Bill passed along.


He reminds me-" said Tom, "of
Captain Harry Love, the famous Texan
ranger, though Harry Love was an older
man when saw him and his hair was
much blacker I shall never forget my
first meeting with Captain Love. I was
quite boy and had stopped for the
night at hotel in Marysville. The
house was crowded, and myself and an
elderly gentleman were put in a double
bed in large room in the front part of
the second story.


"A little after daylight there was a
loud rapping ut our door.


Who is there?'' cried my compan-
ion.


"'Captain Harry Love, said voice,
and the voice then added 1 wish to
come into your room a moment


My companion arose and let the
captain in, when he said : i have been
exhibiting here and have some traps
under the bed which I wish to get, as l
show tonight in another town. l am
exhibiting the head OF Joaquin, the no.
torious robber and murderer, and the
hand of the almost neutrality-suspicious.
Three-fngered Jack.


81 pretended to be asleep while the
traps we're being examined by ry COM
panion, when Captain love asked who
is that boy with you?'


"M My partner said my room mate.


"Wake him up and let him have a
look at my show, as it will probably be
his last chance, said Love.


-" Not much, cried I. I don't want
to see your show, and I wouldn't have
slept in this bed for 81 900 had l known
what was under it,


Il turned my face to the wall until
the show was removed, and that was
my first meeting with Captain Harry
Love and my first and last opportunity
of seeing the head of Joaquin and the
hand OF Three-fngered Jack.'
Year: 1877

A very useful invention has been de-
vised by j. N. Holmes. 1t consists of a
bomb which can be fred distance of
two miles from the coast or from ship,
and it is 80 contrivad that 1t will float
upon the surface of the water and emit
a very powerful light for about an hour.
By its use in war the approach Of a
hostile feet during the night might be
disclosed, and in time of peace it might
be employed with advantage in rescuing
crews of vessels stranded in the dark
ness, or in occasionally warning ships
approaching too near a dangerous and
low-lying coast.
Year: 1877

JUDGE CHISHOLM 8 DYING WoRDs.--A
New York Times correspondent at Jack
son Mics, writes: After Judge Chis-
holm was mortally wounded by the
Kemper county mob, he called Mrs.
Chisholm to his bedside, and said: my
precious wife, I am innocent Of any
crime, and when l am dead l want you
to tell my children 30, and train them
up to know that their father never did
an act for which they need to blush or
feel ashamed. l have been murdered
because l am Republican and would
live freeman"
Year: 1877

A COSTLY JoKE.-Last month physi-
clan was sent for in Rome to visit a
patient. On going to the address indi-
Gated, he was told by lady at the door
that the sick man was not there, but at
another house in different street;
whereupou. proceeding to this second
locality his surprise became great on
learning that the patient was waiting
Tor him up on a hill (San Pietro in
Montorio) in quite another section OF
the city. Finally. he found out that a
practical joke han been played at his ex-
pense. and carried the matter into court,
where the Judge sentenced the frolic-
some lady to pay for three medical visits
and the costs OF the suit.
Year: 1877

Washington Star: We protest against
the United States District Attorney in
Mississippi investigating the Chisholm
Massacre. In the first place, it will do
no good since he is powerless to punish
the murderers; and in the second place.
it will only irritate and annoy the good
people of De Kalb II the latter are
bounded in this way. they will soon lose
faith in the Presidents conciliatory
policy. Let US be content with Cover
nor Stones assurance that no one in
Mississippi approves of the massacre.
Year: 1877

Catlin taught the world the importance of
shutting the mouth and breathing through
the nose. It would seem that his little book,
entitled "shut your mouth is bearing fruit
in Germany, and where new thoughts receive
more attention from physicians than any
where else in the world. Respiration by the
mouth is easier than by the nose, but is not
50 safe. The nose to certain extent, fits
the air for, entering the lungs. The sense of
smell warns us against breathing an air
loaded with poisonous vapors. The mois-
ture of the nasal cavities to some extent sat.
urates the air, and makes it less irritating to
the throat and laryn1. The mucus of the
nasal passage and tho hairs catch the dust
before it goes far enough to harm. On the
other hand, breathing through the mouth
dries the throat, and in children may cause
false Group, catarl4 it may so effect
the eustachian tube as to cause injury to the
ear and deafness.
Year: 1877

EWe scarcely open a newspaper but we
find recorded some case Of embezzlement,
forgery or kindred crime, committed by
men who have hitherto been considered to
be respectable and worthy. A highly dis
tinquished writer on social science suggests
that the principal indictments are "the
haste to be rich, extravaganza in the style
Of living, the false education and culture
of young women, the manner in which so
many young men are allowed to grow up
without trade or profession or any kind
Of business knowledge BY which they can
earn living, the social and often lega
distinctions made between the criminals,
the publicity Of criminal proceedings and
the increase Of corruptipg literature We
hold the opinion that much if not all Of
the trouble lies in our system of public ed
ucation. Our high schools turn out an
nually myriads Of young fellows who posi-
lively look upon labor as disgraceful, and
would not soil the hand that turned the
leaves of Caesar or Telemaqne with doing
any work. They want to be lawyers, doc
tors, clerks, &c. Few who become su55
succeed as professional men, as they are
only half trained. The great mass sink
ont of sight and become the dependents Of
hardworkiRg parents or brother or sister
The slavery Of street car conductors lift
hasbecome proverbial, yet very, very many
of these horribly overweight men are
graduates of high schools. IT, instead Of
bellies lettres and smattering Of the Ian
guagea, the money thus misspent had been
used in teaching them some useful trade or
handicraft at an industrial school, by which
they could make their living in after life,
it would be better for them, and the COM
munity too, for they would not then be
burdens upon their parents, relatives or
friends, as many Of them must assuredly
be under the present system.


Superintendent Wickershsm, of Louis
vile, KY, a man Of experience in educa'
tional matters, used the following Ian
age:-"I am not sure but that if half
the money expended in the schools of our
cities were expended in the erection Of
ships to teach the boys and girls trades, it
would be BETTER"


If our High School-which No. l is
practically-were made an industrial col.
lege. where technical and practical train
ing c'n.d be given to boys in some trade
aud promotion and honors given for merit
labor would he digni6ed, the ambitious ri
vslries of youth would beget excellence
ID an ambitious student would soon be
ronted out as the best carpenter or the
b ct brass fnisher, &C., in his class.


We know this is tresding on dangerou
ground, and We expect to be both misrep
resented aud misunderstood by many. Bu
we are willing to defer to the judgment o
those who look upon good mechanic al
the peer Of a good doctor, lawyer o.
preacher.


May we not look upon the neglect to ed
uca the hands as the fruitful source O
1nnch Of the crime committed by what ar
utrnrl the respectable class? That i
what's the matter.
Year: 1877

companies IL with letter, in which
he says that ell the hopes Of his
life are hanging upon the fate Of
his paper-that the editor has q
destiny in his hands-that the writ
er is waiting to hear his fate, ETC.,
etc. A woman writes that the
living Of herself and her children.
who have been left without a pro.
tector and provider, depends upon
the editors decision, and that il
her manuscript is not accepted, she
and her little ones must become
beggars. A young girl, just from
school, wishes to earn her own liv-
ing, and relieve q father who has
failed In business. Another girl
desires bravely to educate her
brothers and sisters, who have
been left without the requisite
means. A woman is possessed by
an overmastering desire to do good
with her pen. Hundreds write
that they are poor, and that they
have no recourse but their power
to write.


To man who carries q heart,
such appeals are painful beyond
expression. He has no right to
yield the slightest consideration to
them, and be must not do it. They
have no right to distress him in
this way, but they do not know
that The resort is so desperate
that they are really untitled by it
for doing their best work. The
presumption always is that,the lit
erary part of the case Is conscious
ly weak one. The urging of an
illegitimate consideration would
hardly be INDUCED in by one who
felt strong in his literary claim
When q man is large enough to
write for the public, he is usually
large enough to see that an illegiti-
mate claim to attention aegrades
him; indeed he is large enough
not to think of making it.


After ell, the mistake of the no
vice begins in his incompetent idea
of literature. No man thinks Of
putting his first picture in the ex-
hibition; but the moment q man
begins to write, he wants to print,
forgetting that there Is no art that
demands more study and practice
than the literary, aud that he has
no special training for 1t. With.
out experience in life, without
training In art, md with only q
natural facility for expression, he
has fancy that If he could only
get a publisher ne could succeed at
once. Our painters, sculptors,
our singers, our architects, are OBJ
liged to go through long courses of
instruction and practice; but our
essayists, our poets, our novelists,
seem to think that they must ay
when they tumble from their nests,
or 1t is all up--or down With them.
-Scribner's Monthly.
Year: 1877

One pound of green copperas, dis solved in one quart of water and pour ed down a water closet, will efectu- ally concentrate and destroy the foulest smells. On board ships and steamboats, about hotels and other public places, there is nothing so nice to purify the air. Simple green copperas, dissolved in anything under the bed, will render hospital or other place for sick free from unpleasant smells. In fish markets, slaughter houses, sinks and wherever there are offensive gases, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and m few days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat or mouse dies about the house and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved coperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is and it will purify the atmosphere.
Year: 1877

The English papers crack their daily Jokes
about the unwelcome Colorado potato bug,
very much in the spirit in which people affect
cheerfulness when calamity hangs over them,
while at heart they are fearful and apprehen-
sive. Now that the beetle has arrived on the
British and continental shores he will soon
get established in business, and il the potato
crop of Europe is to be saved it will only be
by the exercise Of vigilance and energetic ac-
tion. The Europeans have the advantage of
our experience in dealing with the scourge,
and it will be their own fault il they do not
get the better of The beetles at the outset.
Where our farmers have been watchful and
diligent this year the potato crop is at least a
good average. No remedy has yet been
found better than the picking off and de-
struction of the bugs by hand, but it requires
a good deal Of labor, and when the price Of
labor is low, as in Europe, il will prove
surer reliance than dangerous poisons.
Year: 1877

In recent debate in the House of Com
mons as to the propriety of strengthening the
British army by the organization of an eff
cient force Of mounted riAemen, Sir Henry
Havelock (son of the defender of Lucknow
in the Indian Mutiny, and himself gallant
and experienced soldier) attributed the ulti-
mate success of the Federal army in the
American War to their large force of cavalry I,
armed with Lagrange rifles, and strongly
recommended that, following the example Of
other countries, Eogland should replace the
cavalry carbine with American rifles of long
range. By curious coincidence General
Grant was in the House Of Commons, in on
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters aad communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1877

WE scarcely need any assurance that the
prolonged and remarkable ovation to Gen.
Grant in England had not turned his cool
and sensible head. Yet 1t is pleasant to
read in Mr.. Smalley's correspondence
"You may safely conclude that the dinners
have done him no harm. He is the same
man you sent over here-iust simple in
manner. just as free from nonsense as when
he Quilted the shores Of the Republic
he saved" In this perfect self-poise and
unchanged simplicity in the midst Of the


greatest triumphs, he shows one element Of
his sterling manhood and strepoth Fl
Year: 1877

Special to the Star


THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PACIFIC


RAILROAD.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-Hon. Jas. F.
Wilson, Director of the Union Pacific
Railroad, has had an interview with
Secretary Schurz, with the view to
coming to some agreement to be sub
mitted to Congress at the next session
IN reference to the establishment of a
sinking fund to reimburse the United
States for the interest and principal OF
the bonds guaranteed by the Govern
ment. At the last session of Congress
an effort was made to pass bill with
this object in view, but the various op-
posing interests could not be recon-
ciled and the effort failed. Under a
decision Of the Supreme Court the
Pacific Railroads are not required to
reimburse the Government for interest
paid on their bonds until such bonds
become payable, which will not be under
the year 1S9a.


THE REVENUE SERVICE.
Some time since the Commissioner OF In.
ternal Revenue adopted new plan for
the Inspection of collection districts and
especially the offices of Collectors
throughout the country. Many reports
from officers engaged in the inspection
have reached here, and show that large
percentage OF the districts are managed
In a thoroughly satisfactory manner.