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Year: 1877

MONTGOMERY, ALA, February u, 1o77.
Editor Morning Star:


wish could write you this time about some
great mission we had, some fair held, or


other pleasant occasion, but in lieu of these 1


have sad announcement to make, which l


know will be grievious news to you. 1t is the


death Of dear Father Cullinan, of Columbus,


Ca, whom God called from his sphere of ardu-


GUS lGbor5 here below to come to the full en-
Joynent of that heavenly bliss and happiness


which He promises to all His good servants


had the sad pleasure to Partoi pate in his


bnriai yesterday, and be present at the last
tribute OF love and respect paid him by all,


bishop, priest and lsymen. They laid his body
within a few feet Of that dear little church Tin


which he officated so faithfully for so many
years), where his many friends can have the
satisfaction to kneel at his grave and pray for
him. The love and esteem in which this good
man and priest was held by all manifested
itself by the deep grief and sorro " shown by
all present. Ihc warning for death was a very
short one: few days sickness, and ;heD
death; bat, thank God, it did not steal in on
him, Ike thief in the night, for the great
destroyer found Linn prepared and l~ays
ready


Ou the Saturday eve before his death this
Jealous, good priest, being too sick to leave
his bed, sent for those who were in tho c5urch
and desirous to 90 to confession to his budsfGe,
and heard them there, thus true to his duties
to the end He had been a sufferer with bron-
1hial affection for several years, and had been |
to Baltimore to effect cure, and was consider |
ably relieved when ho left there, but having
'aEen severe cold in the discharge of his
iuties, it affected the old disease ard buried
he end. !
Year: 1877

AN APT REPLY.-The first presen-
tation of Frogere, the actor, to the
Grand Duke Constantine, took place
one morning at the hour when the
duke received his familiar visitors,
while he was at his toilet. His i'm
.perial highness drew on a pair Of yell
low leather pantaloons, such as were
worn at that time. Having found some
fault with them, he drew them off
again, and desired his valet to bring
him another pair. Constantine, though
his countenance was far from hand
some, possessed very fine figure, and
he bestowed great attention on his
dress. The grand duke, wholly intent
on the business of his toilet, had not
addressed word to FrOgere, when the
latter said @Monseigneur, I am not
your dupe r The grand duke turned
around sharply, and advancing to-
wards Frogere, with an angry look,
said: "What do you mean by that n
"I mean, your highness, that I am not
your dupe. You wish to show me that
you have handsome leg, and that
you have two pairs Of pantaloons at
your service Every one present
burst into fit Of laughter, and from
that time Frogere became a favorite
with the grand duke.
Year: 1877

PULvER1zATIoa OF Son. Some
farmers are in the habit of plowing
their lands when in an improper con-
dition, and the soil bakes in hard Jumps
which no harrow can pulverize; and
often the plowing is badly done, when
the land is in a good condition to plow,
and the narrowing is not thorough !;
and the result is that the growing
crops find no room among the clods to
take root, and is a poor yield, while in
the next field, perhaps, neighbor has
a splendid crop on the same kind Of
soil. five could have our soils pull
verized just as they should be to pro-
duce the greatest crops they should be
as fine as meal and it is very import
ant that lands should be well plowed,
and well narrowed, as a good crop may
often be grown on poor land, merely
from having put it in the best possible
condition for crop. The beneficial
effects Of puIverlzatlon are attrIDutaDIe
to the increased permeability Of the
soil to rain and air; the oxygen, car
bonic acid and ammonia Of the air,
have great effect in decomposing the

organic and disintegrating the inor-
ganic matter Of the soil and rendering
them available as food for plants, while
it allows the rain water to act on a
greater surface.
Year: 1877




Newspapers are to the civilized world
what the daily house talk is to the members
of the family; they keep our daily interest
in each ether, they save us from the evils
of isolation. To live as member of the
great white race that has filled Europe and
America, and colonized or conquered what
ever territory it has been pleased to occupy,
to share from day to day its thoughts, it's
cares, its inspirations-iti is necessary that
every man should read his paper. Why
are the French peasants SO bewildered at
sea? 1t is because they never read news
paper. And why are the inhabitants of the
United States, though scattered over a ter
ritory fourteen times the area of France. SO
much more capable of concerted action, so
much more alive and modern, SO much more
interested in new discoveries of all kinds,
and capable of selecting and utilizing the
best of them? 1t is because the newspapers
penetrate everywhere, and even the lonely
dweller on the prairie or in the forest is not
Intellectually isolated from the great cur
rents of public life which flow through the
telegraph and press.-P. G. Hamerton
Year: 1877

A member of the Hayden survey. writing
from Western Wyoming, says:


6 In almost any stream in the mountain


GUS parts of Wyoming Territory you may
find more or less beavers and beayer-dams.
But Green river and that whole region sur
passes any place know of as a resort for
these animals, now SO scarce east of the
Mississippi. In rocky cailons high up, this
creek was forty yards across, nor would it
have been much wider in the open valley
below had it not been impeded But for a
dozen miles the beavers had SO damned it
and choked il with their houses that the
water spread out to a mile or more in width,
and hundreds of dead or living trees, once
far back from the margin, were now stand
ing equally far out in the water. Some of
the dams measured 100 feet or more in
length, and were built on a curve, with the
hollow of the curve up stream, yet so sub
stantially that they were standing the beat
ing of the freshet with slight damage. All
along the bank of the stream the hillside
was bare of aspens, and their stumps, cut
off close to the ground, showed what had
destroyed them. Some of the stumps were
of trees ten or twelve inches in diameter,
and seventy-tiye yards from the water yet
there was no doubt that these rodents had
felled those trees, trimmed off the branches,
peeled away the bark, and then dragged
the log all the way to the water to put in
a new dam or repair the old one. Indeed
we surprised some of them at work Most
Of the dams were shorter than | have men,
toned and ran from one to another, SO that
there was network Of them supporting a
growth of willows and each enclosing lit
tie basin of deep still water, In which
would rise like an island the domed top of
their home. But the houses of many were
under the bank and of Others beneath the
dams, as we could see BY the paths to them,
which showed plainly through the water.
Wherever the willows grew closely to the
waters edge for some distance, there would
be roads through them at frequent inter-
walls, the stems gnawed off, and the weeds
trodden down smooth. ''Busy as bea-
ver," acquires new force when we think
how ceaseless he must work to get his daily
food, collect winter stores, keep his house
in order, repair his dam and guard against
enemies, We saw none Of the animals
themselves. They are rarely seen by any
one, being able to detect your approach by
the jar of the ground, if not otherwise, aud
hide themselves"
Year: 1877

Well, Tom, my boy, l must say goodbye.


I've had wonderful visit here;
Enjoyed 1t, too, as well as could


Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've beena triie rough


little awkward, your wife would say
And very likely I've missed the hint


OF your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old roof.
Sheltered rs both when we were boys
And the same dear mother-lovc watched us both
Sharing our childish griefs and joys,
1etyou are almost stranger now:


our ways and mine are as far apart,
AS though we lad never thrown an arm


About each other with loving heart.
Yonr city home is palace, Tom;


Yonr wife and children are fair to see:
You couldn't breathe in the little cot
The little home that belongs to me.
And am lost in your grand large house.


And daZcd with the wealth on every side
And hardly know my brother, Tom,


In the midst of so much stately yride.
Yes, the concert was grand last night


The singing splendid: but, do you know,
My heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concer, so sweet and low
That maybe it wouldn't please the car


OF one SO cultured and grand as you;
But to its music-langh if you will


Ny heart and thoughts must ever be true,
shut my eyes in the hall last night


(For the clash of the music wearied me
And close 10 my heart this vision came
The same sweet picture ! always see:
In the vine-cad porch of cottage home,
Halt in shadow and half in sun,
Another chanting her lu'Iaby,


Rocking to rest her little one
And soft and sweet as the music fell
From the mothers lips, heard the COO
Of my baby girl, as with drowsy tongue
She echoed the song with " Goo-a-goo"
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
My wife and child. by the cottage door,
All that is the concert, brother Tom,
My ears are aching to hear once more.
so now goodbye. And wish you well,
And many year of wealth and gain.
You were born to be rich and gay;
am content to be poor and plain.
And go back to my country home
With love that absence has strengthened toe
Back to the concert all my own
Mothers singing and babys COO.


--Harper's Magazine for OCTOBER.
Year: 1877

In hotel of the QUARTER Latin, Paris. {
love-sick student, ten years ago, blew his
brains out. The following year a medical
student who failed to pass examination, did
the same. The landlord, in alarm, declared
that no one should sleepi in the room again,
and made it storing place for furniture.
One morning waiter in the house, being
accused of a trifipg theft, mounted to the
room and hanged himself This led the
landlord to relinquish the building. His
successor was unfortunate, and soon svld
out, and it fell into the hands of 1; drug
glst. The new tenant heard the story of
the fatal chamber with indifference, but
upon his wife it made great impression.
She Stunned it to the extent of passing
most of her time in the chamber most dis
tant from it. The druggist finally found
that this chosen sanctuary of refuge was
the room of the head clerk. In fit Of
jealousy he swallowed poison and mounted
to the fatal chamber to die. The last sui
eide excited the neighborhood, and the
owner of the hotel was requested to wall
up the door Of the room. Heonly laughed.
The neighborhood was very angry, but it's
ire was appeased on the announcement that
the building was to be demolished, in order
to make way for continuation of the
Faubourg St. German. The proprietor de-
manded quarter of million francs from
the city, but the assessor allowed him only
ninety thousand. The proprietor fell sick
with disappointment, and during GONZALES
eenee, he desired to take last look at the
which was to fall on the follow
ing day. When the workmen arrived to
begin the work of demolition the fatal
chamber had a new tenant. The prcprie-
tors body was found hanging there.
Year: 1877

We do not wish the Lawrence Dribane, or any
one else, to misunderstood US, in our remarks
under the above head, several weeks ago. We
had no intention of deprecisting or disparaging
the title Of the early Free State men OF Kansas
to the highest honor, and the eternal gratlfnoe
Of liberty-ioving people. There never lived up
on the earth nobIer, Drawer, aud more seit-sac-
rifcing people than the Free State pioneers of
Kansas. They stood up against fearful odds, and
held the enemy at bay until assistance came to
eompass his defeat We fully appreciate the
correctness of their policy up to a certain date,
and the beneficial purpose which the Topeka
Constitution served. In our division of Radical
and Conservative, we did not inclute all the old
or settlers as Radicals, for very many OF those
who fought through the darkest hour were what
were afterwards called Conservatives, while
many who came later were classed among the
Radicals Our line was not drawn between
these who came before 1857 aud those who came
that yesr and afterwards. Even many Radicals
did not favor the policy which we condemned; /;
but so many did it, that there was danger, for
time, that the Free State party would lose the
election of 1857, for want of harmony of action.


Our position was this: that when there was
no longer hope of securing recognition of the
Topeka Constitution, it having been adopted with
ont any enablingsct or authority from the lawful
power, it was time TO abandon IL, aud to work
for something that would connt. And when an
election was approaching at which there was
reason to believe the Free State party would
have chance to be heard, We held that the par
ty should abandon the protesting and non-vot-
ing policy, and make . united effort at the polls.
This was finally done, in the Fall of 1857; but
the editor of the Tribune knows that there was
for . time such intense opposition to it, Mat
division Of the party was threatened which
would have defeated the party; and that the
men who were opposed to going into the cleo
ton, called the others Conservatives, as o term
Of reproach, although they were generally as
Radical men as could be found anywhere. This
same feeling existed relative to voting on the
English Bill. It was the emigration of 1857 that
gave the Free State party strength to meet and
overwhelm the Pro Slavery party at the polls.
That victory made Kansas what she has been
ever since, call the men what you may.
Year: 1877

The ELECTORAL CouNT.-It is almost finished.
Oregon and South Carolina have both been count
ed for Hayes. Frivolous objections are being
made to individual Electors from other States,
for purposes of delay; and it is even said that
the Democrats will object to the vote of West
Virginia, the last State the list, although they
carried the State. But as this vote makes no
difference now, and it will contribute to the de-
Jay, they may object. 1t is hardly probable that
they can get enough votes to delay the result
until after the 4th of March, as Tildens attorneys
are endeavoring to do. A majority of the South
ern members refuse to endorse such a course.
The Democracy may as well yield to the newt
able, without making themselves ridiculous.
Year: 1877

rB The Democrats who are feeling SO blue
over the Presidential count, now know how the
Republicans would have felt, had the result been
the other way. just think what e time they
would have had, if Tilden had been counted in !
We are all selfish creatures
Year: 1877

Gos E sg5.l5U gg5 G5 4 t+5.


Following is the law in relation to the
listing and taxation Of dogs: arr (


SECTION l. Beit enacted By the Gene
raj Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
it shall be the duty Of each and every
person owning dog or dogs, or keep
ing or harboring one or more, to list the
same for taxation as other property is
listed, and give to the assessor the true
value of such dog or dogs; but the per-
son so listing such dog need not make
oath to such value.
Sec. 2. That the assessor shall receive
the value as fixed by the owner, keeper
or harbore- Of such dog or dogs as the
true value. H'Jais 70 .'st t5E'Hi i


SEC 8. That'any dog not listed for
taxation shall be deemed and taken as a
common nuisance, and any person is
hereby authorized to capture, kill or con-
fiscate the same; and if any person shall
kill, wound or destroy any dog so listed
as aforesaid for taxation, the person so
killing, wounding or destroying the same
shall not be liable in damages to the
owner, keeper or harborer of such dog,
in any amount greater than that which
said dog was listed for taxation.
Year: 1877

Even if boy is always whistling: 81
want to be an angel" it is just as well to
keep the preserved pears on the top
shelf OF the pantry. Ie


A remarkable shot occurred at New
Orleans. One negro had shot four times
at another one without the other having
been hit or even finching. The latter
pointed his finger at the shootist and
said: "The day will come when you will
be sorry for this shooting" At these
words the fifth shot was fired, shooting
of the identical finger that was pointing
at the shooting negro. 49,
Year: 1877

DEATH OF A MIsER In a desolate room
in one of the poorest of the houses of Que of
the poorest of the streets of tho now faded,
but once fourishing, Liberties of Dublin,
there has just died, in q state of sbject pow
erty, wretched old man, who had within
arms length of him as he was dying on his
miserable pallet, sound securities for money
to the extent of about fl5,O00 1t is not
known how he accumulated this vast
amount of wealth, nor was anything known
about him in the neighboripg houses, save
that he was seen to now and then beg q
penny from a passar-by for bread, and to
ask his landlord to accept eleven pence
halfpenny with great difficulty, he used to
say, scraped together} as payment for his
weekly rent of Que shilling for his room.
Some six or seven months ago had occs-
sion to visit him. His room was in the
garrett; it was clean, but utterly bare of
furniture, the bed was ricketty, aud the
bed clothing scanty and shabby. Though
the day was a bitter one, there was not. an
atom of fire in the CRATE, and 1 at once sug-
gested that the poor man should be helped
out of local charities. No one in the house
had the slightest notion that be was any
thing but what he seemed to be--a half.
starving old pauper-snd, of course, neither
had I. He died without will, but not
without the ministrations of a priest. He
has some rather we'll to do relations living,
whom he often asked for food, money, and
clothes. His name was Thomas Farrell,
and he was approaching his seventieth
year.-Dub1in letter, London Tablet.
Year: 1877

PLANTING THE AUSTRALIAN FEVER TREE.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
is to begin planting the two hundred thou
saud Eucalyptus trees which have been
raised for it by Major Locke of Pasadena
as soon as sufficient rain fails to render the
ground easy to work. The plan of planting
them continuously along the line of the
road has been abandoned, as being tjo ex-
pensive in the item of cultivation, and the
company now expects to plant them in for
ests at each station along their line OF road
in Southern California.
Year: 1877

Does not deceive invalids Into false hopes by purgng
and creating fictitious appetite but assists nature In
clearing and purifying the whole system, leading the
patient gradually TO perfect health.
Year: 1877

SENATOR GoSKLISG's detection is thu


one great trouble that darkens the radica


horizon. 1t is the great power which


Conkling exercises among his party breth


ern that his administration organs dread


The administration is in itself weak. The


heavy shadow of the colossal fraud


which overhangs and darkens the occu-
pant of the executive chair is not, nor can
it be, dispelled from the notice of the
people. Like the blood upon the hands
Of crime it will not disappear, and every
movement under it is as the shock an ap-
partition gives to the sense of the criminal
The house of representatives is democrat
ic, and if the radical supremacy in the
Senate shall be lost throug Oh the detection
of Conkling, the administration Will be
almost powerless- The contingency is by
no means a solacing contemplation for
Hayes and his cabinet, and it is what
burdens the radical organs with their
present commingled regret and anger
They are aware that it is vain to endeaYOr
to appease the indignant New York Sena-
tor, or to Try to persuade him from his
purpose. In his cool, meihodical manner
he fully considered the situation and re-
solved upon; his course, and he has the
nerve to sustain himself to the end He
will yet make the parties TO the great fraud
feel the potency of his determined antag-
onlsm.
Year: 1877

McCLELLAS's NoMNATIoa.-Ther radi.
cal Journals do not know what to make of
the nomination Of Gen. Geo. B. McClel.
Ian rs governor of New Jersey. Such a
spontaneous overflow of enthusiasm passes
their comprehension They apparently
thought his reputation had faded ont in
the hot sirocco of partisan attacks upon it
whereas 1t is only renewing its charms in
the ripeninS hres of an autumnal splen-
dor No name of such marked distinction
as his can ever be buried under the dried
leaves of partisan hostility. These are
bound to blow away in due time, when
the great approaching public awake as 70
an entirely new creation His is char
acter that cannot be left alone to those
who for political reasons are Jealous even
TO frenzy of It's force and symmetry. What
is wrongfully keT + from the just and de-
served repute of 4 man and patriot ike
him. time and events may he depended
on to restore fourfold.
Year: 1877

The COUNTRY TO THE President.
is All old story of 4 traveller sitting at :
Western hotel table. He ordered beef steak
for his breakfast, and the waiter presently
brought a small piece on large plate. The
traveller turned 1t over, inspected it care
fully, then said to the waiter, ''Yes. that's
the kind now go and get me some rs soon
as YOU can" That is what the country is
saying to the President 1t has been look
ing at the little dish of civil service reform
he has brought, and it likes it. Now it
wants enough for a square meal, and it would
ike the President to know that 1t has wait
ed good while and Is hungry.
Year: 1877

WADE HaaPToa viii make no enemies
in the North by permitting the Courts to
deal fearlessly with the rascals who have
robbed the State Of South Carolina, and
President Hayes will lose no friends be-
cause the indicted men say these things
would not have come to light if he had
stood by the republican party in their
state 1t is an unfortunate fact that they
constituted the leaders of the party there,
and party with such leadership is better
dead than alive.
Year: 1877

HAYES is modest, far more modest than
the common run of party -maehine-made
office holders. To the people of Cincin-
nati the other day he said: "We do not
claim for the administration the adyant-
ages that come to the country from good
crops, If Mr.. Hayes goes on that way
he will destroy whatever capital "the
party may hope to build upon The
man who will not claim that "republi-
can administration" is the producing cause
OF good crops is plainly not the man the
party machine requires at the head of the
Government.
Year: 1877

An ERROR CORRECTED There seems
to be general assumption that the cleo
ton in New York this fall will decide the
succession to Conkling in the Senate.
This Is only true to the extent that the
state senators elected this year will hold
over and participate in the senatorial elee


tion to take place in 1873 The act of
Congress requires the election of a senator
to take place at the session of the legisla.
ture next preceding the beginning of the
term for which he is elected. As the ses-
sions of the legislature in New York are
annual, this will occur in the session Open
ing january /, 1879, the members Of the
assembly and one half the senate being
elected in November, 1873 The state
senators are elected for two years, the
members of the assembly Cor one year.
Year: 1877

VERMONT Has A New LAW which other
States might profitably copy, making liquor
Aesiers responsible for injuries inflicted by
those whose reason they have taken away
The first suit underit that Of woman thrown
out of wagon by drunken husband, has
heea won by the plaintiff.