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Year: 1877

Ex-Secretary COx's address before the Yale
Law School yesterday is worthy Of attention
as careful and scholarly discussion of i'm
portant political problems. 1t does not come
down TO the date of the last Presidential con-
fiict with all its perplexing questions, but it
will be all the more attractive for deating with
topics which the newspapers have not just
squeezed dry
Year: 1877

The announcement that Attorney General
Fmrchld's report to the Governor upon the
Tweed matter will be made public in day or
two will be received with general satisfaction.
Mr. Fairchild seemed at one time too much IN
danger of disregarding the universal demand
for an explanation of his course, and even his
nearest friends will be glad to know that that
demand is to be respected. The statement can
moi be criticised until it appears, and until
then an Attoney-Gcneral can certainly claim
a suspension of opinion.
Year: 1877

The series of accidents is infinite. A casu-
alty occurred at Williamsburgh yesterday which
perhaps never occurred before, and may not
soon occur again. A gang of men were en-
gagged in hoisting a sugar pan, weighing sew
eral tons. to the upper story of sugar manu-
factory This mass had nearly reached the
roof when, by the breaking away of the shears,
it was precipitated to the ground. One laborer
was killed by the falling timbers of the shears
another badly injured i'll the same way, and n
third, being caught by the rope, was dragged
from the roof to the ground Both the last
mentioned are SO hurt tnat they probably VIII
die.
Year: 1877

PooE MORTON. Miserable radical that
he is and meanly as he has always acted
toward the democracy, a feelineuf sympa-
thy cannot be helped for poor old Senator
Morton, who will probably never again
figure in the politics of this country. His
pitiable condition is thus decribed by a
correspondent:


"Draw string from your right arm-pit to the
base of the brain the left side; consider every
thing below practically dead, and every Thing above
You have, IN word, Senator MOrtOn's condition"


We wonder, while in this condition,
with death staring him in the face and
shaking his skeleton finger at him, if
Morton does not often think of the part
he took in the late presidential struggle
and how he worked to defraud the people
out of their choice for president. No
doubt he wishes now that he had acted
otherwise and bitterly regrets the party
venom that made him blind to Justice and
right. In viewof his nearapproach to that
dread tribunal where lie will have to an
swer for the deeds done IN the body, we
judge he would feel easier in his con-
science if he had refused to allow wrong
TO stife right, But all these things he
viii have settle with the judge of all the
earth, who gets atthe most secret motives
and from whom there is no escape.
Year: 1877

STRANGE THINGS Cone TO PAss.-ln
the vhirligig of time and other agencies
strange things come to pass, and We have
made considerable progress in the way of
transformations during the past year.
Otherwise We should not, perhaps, have
found the following in an Alabama paper:
"We advise our eolored citizens to keep
a sharp lookout on their whilom friends
at the East and West, for these gentry,
finding that the basis Of total population
has added fifty Southern votes 10 the
democratic side of the. house, now loudly
demand that the colored element be ut
terly eradicated and the white population
alone entitled Misrepresentation. But the
South will never consent to such whole
sale disfrapehisement, and will manfully
do battle for the rights of its citizens
without distinction OF race or color"
The South knows how to protect the
negro, and it has promised to do ii ::
therefore no more hearts need bleed for
the poor African
Year: 1877

ABOUT ORGANIZING THE SENATE
Heralgs Washington special says: Sena-
tor Patterson is going to dodge all the
issues involved in his relation to the pres
ident, and on the question of voting for
or against his would be colleague Butler,
by moving for committee of investiga-
ton upon himself az soon as congress
meets and absenting himself from its ses-
sions until the committee reports. While
democrats disclaim any intention to in
trigue for the organization OF the senate, a
plan is said to be ON foot, prompted by
Senator Booth to secure the removal Of
clerk Gorham. which will be demanded as
proper sequence of the overwhelming
defeat of the Sargent-Pase ring in Cali
fornia AS Booth would only be too glad
to act with the democrats in the matter,
and as the senate is so evenly divided,
Gorham's tenure Of office is not regarded
as at all secure,
Year: 1877

s: ARE They TO BLAME A good deal of
censure has been bestowed on the people of
Montana for protracting the Indian war by
selling supplies to. the Nez Perccs. 1t is
punishment rather than censure that they
deserve, if the act has been voluntary but
the reader can easily conceive that band of
two or three hundred well-armed hostiles,
passing through sparsely settled neighbor-
hood, need not stop to barter Tor what they
bad the power to take, and it is not at all
improbable that to save their lives and a
wanton destruction Of their property they
were compelled to be accommodating and
complaisant. There would be danger IN
pursuing a different course, ami until all
the facts are known, it is only charitable
that public opinion shorld be suspended.
Year: 1877

Espossrp.;- All the radical conyen-
tions that have been held thus far have
taken pains to say that they believe X
b. Hayes to be radical, These Frotss.,
tations are doubtless necessary i'll view ct
his adoption of the democratic policy :;
but there may be question as to how
far he can go in that direction and remain
d fadical. 1t is coilsoling to know that
he is not yet considered to have crossed
the line, and So far as We are concerned
we hope that he will continue within the
radical fold. A man who stole the presi-
dency has no place in the democratic
party.
Year: 1877

Has GREATLY THE ADyANTaGE.-Iti Is
said that Joseph E. Johnston and FitZ-
hugh Lee, two young rephews of the con-
federate officers whose names they bear,
are learning the machinist trade in the
Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona,
thereby evideneing their own good sense
ard that Of their families and friends IN
placing them there. There may be no
truth in this report, but it is certain that
It would be better for the South if more
Of her young men were educated in ma
chine shops, and less Of them in counting
rooms and stores. The skilled artisan is
An acquisition to the community in which
he lives, and has greatly the advantage in
life of the mere clerk
Year: 1877

The GREAT FRaUp.-To assert and
maintain that the vote Of Louisiana was
rightfully given to Hayes, is to assert and
defend a frand 50 gross that every decent
man, whatever his politics, must blush
with shame whenever the subject Is pre-
sented to his thoughts. To defend it is a
crime against American institutions, and a
damning wrong against the constitution
Of the country.
Year: 1877

THE WRONG TRAIL-TIe theft of the
presidency last winter has caused some
well-meaning people to msinorialize Con
press in favor Of the abolition of the pres
idency.. They are on the wrong trail. The
xholition of the republican party is the
one thing needed, Get rid Of the thieves,
and there will be no more stealing.
Year: 1877

PoLITICIL BLUNDERING--The radical
politicians who are striving to keep alive
the Southern question and make what
they call an issue of it in the next Con-
gress, or at some period in the remote
future, are simply wasting their time.
When Governor Hampton was installed
in South Carolina and Governor Nichols
in Louisiana, the Southern question was
buried without the hope of resurrection.
There were, undoubtedly, timid people
than who looked upon the president plan
with GOODNESS and distrust; who called it
a surrender and trucking to the slave
power and all that sort of thing. They
were afraid of what they termed the ex-
pertinent of putting the leaders of the civil
war in power, forgetting that some of
those leaders had been in power long
time before Mr. Hayes was even thought
of for the presidency. MIR. Akerman had
been in the civil War, and he was one Of
General Grants cabinet officers. General
Lonsstreet had been in the civil war, and
held an important federal office in New
Orleans. Mr.. Settle, of North Carolina
and Florida, had been in the civil war,
and was made a minister and judge and
the president Of the Grant re-nominating
convention, the most enthusiastic meeting
of the party that vas ever held. Mr.. Orr.
of South Carolina had been IFsthe civil
war, and he was sent to Russia as our
representative. Nearly score of gentle
men similarly hcnored might be mention
ed, but these are sufficient. But the fact
is. the president did not place either Gov
Hampton or Governor Nichols in office
He simply allowed the people of those
states to govern themselves in their own
way without the interference Of the efederal
army
Year: 1877

Superintendent Tyler, of the Soldiers Home
Cemetery, was passing along Rock Greek
Friday last, some distance from Washington
City, when he was accosted by one of two
colored men, who were going the same way
and asked for tobacco just rs the he put his
hand in his pocket he was felled TO The earth
by the blow Of a heavy club and robbed of
sixty-6ve dollars in cash and notes 10 the
value Of one hundred and forty dollars. He
was so injured that he would have been
unable to get home alone, but fortunately met
his residence, and who called DR.. Huntington
to his assistance. He is now improving. No
clue has yet been obtained to the highway
men
Year: 1877

An offer was made by generous New York
firm recently to purchase $3.50, coo OF the 4
percent. bonds provided the Treasury Depart
ment would receive sufficient silver to coin
the offer, reminding the firm that the law re-
qures that the bonds shall not be sold under
par in gold coin, and that with $3.50, 900 Of
bonds or gold coin he can purchase enough
silver to coin Sl63 ssn. He says that it is
therefore necessary that gold should be paid
for the bonds and he expresses confidence that
the United States will never pay YOU in coin
Of less value than it exaets OF you.
Year: 1877

Now that the waters have snhsided an6 that
travel and telegraphic communication is being
resumed, the details Of the devastation By the
late freshet show that the damage on all sides
was much greater than appeared at first. In
the Valley of Virginia the destruction is
immense. The Chesapeake and Ohio canal is
considerably damaged requiring much time
and considerable amount Of money to put il
in good navigable condition
Year: 1877

TENHE design of this work, which has been
l. very carefully prepared by Judge L. O..
Bridewell, of Copiah county, and which will
supersede the FORM Book heretofore issued
By the undersigned, is to imDart to noyices
gentlemen not learned in the Jaw above their
fellows" the routine of business required of
them when they assume the responsible ana
now important office of Justice of the Peace.
Z nder the present Constitution of Mississip-
pi, the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in
Civil Suits is raised to one hundred and fifty
dollars, and in all criminal matters their Iu-
risdlctlOn IS concurrent with that of the Cir
cult Courts in all cases where the punishment
prescribed by the laws does not extend beyond
fine and Imprisonment in the county jail
The Office is certainly one of great dignity, and
the main design of this work is to be of some
assistance to the unlearned Justice of the
Peace by placing the law relating te his juris-
diction before him in compact form, with forms
and preCedents, covering almost, if not every
case, which can come before him. Notes are
added to many of the forms for the guidance
and information of the Justice, endeavoring
thereby toexplain the law and use of the form,
so that none, however ignorant of the law
generally, can 60 far wrong.


The law, as found in the Code of 1871, and
in the pamphlet Acts since, so far as it is dis
tinctly applicable to the Justice of the Peace or
the practice in his Court, will be given full, in
arranged under appropriate heads. The whole
will be carefully and fully indexed. Alto
gether, we hazard nothing in saying that it
will be the most complete Manual for Justices
of the Peace ever published in this, or. per-
haps, any other State, and will he useful to
every attorney. every public officer. every
merchant, and indeed every citizen. As the
work will not be stereotyped and as the edi-
ton will be limited TO the probable demand
those who would secure copies should file their
their orders without delay. THE MISSISSIPPI
JUSTICE will make volume of about five hum
dred pages, will be printed on best quality of
paper, and substantially bound. Price, by
mail, $500. Address,


POWER & BARKSDALE,


jackson Miss
Year: 1877

News reached Headquarters this morning that
trouble was anticipated IN Chatham square at three
O'Clock between The workmen employed the new
Elevated Railroad and the employees OF tho Third
avenue road. Polce arrangements were made TO
neet the emergency.
Year: 1877

Chief Engineer Gallagher has been pro-
cured by the Water Commissioners to make
the connections with the Eleventh street
main which leads to the new basin. The
work has already been commenced and at
Eleventh and King Y pipe will be put In;
at Eleventh and Market streets, q three
way-pipe is needed, and connection will
also be made at Jefferson street. As soon as
the work is completed the water will be let
in the new basin and the banks can then be
tested. ,.E
Year: 1877

Mr.. EpIToR--I have been informed


plobably correctly that seven years
undisturbed possession of Real Estate
under color of title, in the State, gives a
good title, and, under this impression


many persons think it is "a useless expen.
diture Of money to record deeds, the rec,
ords of which were destroyed by the
late fire. | hare, l think, very good
reason to believe that such an idea is er.
roneous, and, if carried out, will, in many
cases, have a very bad result, to say
nothing of the great Inconvenience to
the public from the want of the records


How can any man be assured that the
deeds in his possession will not be burn
ed or losty And, in such case, if he
should desire to sell, would not a pru-
dent buyer prefer to purchase ola man
who had clear deed to show Why,
sir, the difference, in proof of title would
be worth many times more than the cost
of recording. | could give many reasons
whya man should, by all means, have
his deeds recorded, each ono of which
has value far beyond the cost of the
record and but one reason can be given
for neglecting to record--the cost of re


eording. A man who is influenced, by
this reason, TO avoid recording his title, il
pennywise and pound-foolish. SO far
as ! am concerned, | shall have every
deed to me directed and every deed
which can find showing chain of title


as far back as | can find them recorded


do not doubt but that our county clerk
will make as liberal arrangements as
possible to save expense to those who
desire to record deeds. SEyEx.
Year: 1877

se1~ The Van Buren Press is again on
the war-path. 1t has attempted to make
capital out of an article in our last issue
in which we referred to the BenderS as
",Consummate villains" instead of the
Keifers, as the depravity of his mind
would lead his readers to believe.


We will here add another Wonder"
Why is it that the Editor of the Press
is always trying to mislead his readers
by publishing statements as facts that he
knors to be false? Is it to prejudice the
minds of the people in his favor II so
he will have to go where he is not so
well known-his thrusts 80 far as we
are concerned, fall still -born-Alma Her.
aid.


No better answer to the above can be
given, than to publish what the Herald
did say, as follows:


Wonder is the V. B. Press and lead
ing men at v B. in view of the fact that
Bender committed the most diabolical
crime in the catalogue, should manifest
such wonderful sympathy with the man
va "u'ii' So' o'PiSioil hsio iCSecu iti y cdlS,
and who can only remove such suspicion
by an Investigation if innocent. Can it
be that such persons are willing to cover
the track of such consumate Williams.
Or does it all grow out of the fact that
the Detective brought the parties to AL
ma.-Alma Herald.


In the same paper, the editor Of the
Herald published an extract from Kan
sas paper setting forth the fact that the
Bender family was followed and lynch
ed, soon after the discovery of the mur-
ders.


The more light that is let into this un-
Justltiable transaction, the more damna-
bic and outrageous does the whole act
from beginingt to end appear. The Press
has no desire to, and will not knowingly
do an injustice to any one, but will not
hesitate at any time, to speak freely of
all such transactions as we'll as of the
transactors.
Year: 1877

~ Anna Dickinson, disguised with
the treatment she has received from the
manager of the Eagle Theatre, in New
York, broke her engagement, and will
not appear again till next season.
Year: 1877

pG- County Judge Chaplin, has djourn-
ed his Court until next Monday, taking
under advisement the petition of the
town of Alma for the removal of the
County seat to that place and building a
Court House.
Year: 1877

MAsoUERADEs. - Masquerade parties
are all the rage just now. There was o
fine one in Olympia last week, large
one here, private one, the Juvenile one,
and sheet and pillow case party. This
week there will be one at Port Town
send on Thursday evening, and the
probability is that, while the fever is
raging, Steilacoom, Tacoma Gamble,
Snohomish and other places will catch
it, and there will be series and success
sion of such parties. Hitherto masquer
AIDES lave been attended with much cost,
difficulty, labor and trouble, and some
times without the most satisfactory re.
results. Now it is different. At all the
principal points on the Sound are cos
tunes which can be bought, hired or
borrowed, and, with triiling changes,
made to appear as new and nice as if
got up for the OCCASION. Tribune.


We see no reason why the lun-loying
people here might not easily get up
something of the kind, as there is now
a large stock of costumes on hnad in the
place. W. G.. Jameson, of Seattle, has
everything of this kind on hand, which
he will loan for nominal consideration,
and large party of people would come
down from there and help the fun along.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Editor: l wish space in your
columns for the following statement
As road supervisor of Road District No
8, l called on VIM. Whitfield at Lowell,
in this county, to collect the road tax of
1876 in November or December last. He
stated that as he was now County Com
missioner it would not do for him to re-
pudiate his road tax, but said he would
prefer to work it out on the public road,
in place Of paying the same in money
Year: 1877

While we wish fully to represent all
the regions adjacent to this valley,
whose interests are similar to ours, yet
this year we hope to have special means
at our command, so we can fully ascer-
tain what are the natural resources of
this valley, and to write them up, 80
that, when our time is not too fully oc-
cupied elsewhere, each number of the
STAR will have an article of a column or
% in length, descriptive of those re
sources peculiar to this region, about
which there would be the greatest desire
for information among those likely to
seek homes here. We had proposed to
try to write up the chief resources in
one long article, but with the limited
time at our command we would not be
able to do the subject justice then we
can always have shOlt article to be
published in Our absence, and many
short articles will draw more attention
than one lengthy one, be it ever so COM
plete.


The Snohomish river is formed by the
union Of the skykon,ish and snOqualmie
rivers at Qualco, a point about twenty
miles above the mouth of the Snobomish.
In reality the Snosualmie is the main
Year: 1877

accordingly time and place was set for
him To appear and do the work. He
not appearing employed other parties
to do his work Now he rrpuaittcs the
whole matter, and declines to be rrspon.
sible in any particular for his road nX.


AMOS HURST


Upon the earnest request OF Mr., Hurst
We allow the above to appear in our col
umns, with the understanding that we
knew nothing whatever in regard to the
aboye-and that If Mr.. W. has any ex-
pl2nution that he desires to make public
IN regard to the matter, he has the same
opportunity to place himself ON record
that We have extended to Mr.. Hurst,


ErzEsaDzMsaa1,nya-avla


AN EXCELLENT SUGGEsTIoN.-The
DiSpHtct Of this morning suggests the
establishment upon Sandy Point OF a
Government fog signal, instead OF the
proposed lighthouse upon Point No
Point. From Sandy Point there is Ii
longer sweep of sound and vision across
and up and down the Sound than at any
other point, while two-lhIrds Of all the
steam and sail vessels plying upon and
coming to these waters would be more
benefited by it than by two or three
lighthouses at other points. A lighthouse
ut Point No-POint is well enough ii it
can be got, but there is now a hitch in
its getting that will probably prevent,
AMI even II it can be got there isn't halt
the need tor it that there is at Sandy
Point. Ii ii proper eli rrt were made, the
money authorized to be expended at No
Point could be obtained for Sandy, and
we trust that shipmasters, steamboat
men and Others interested will attend to
it. From there 70 Tacoma is a straight
SnOhomish river the sane, from there to
Admiralty head also, while the ports OF
Madison, Blakely Freeport, Tacoma and
Seattle lie open to it, and to and from
these five places are coming and going
daily on az average not less than forty
vessels Weekly Tribn"e
Year: 1877

Gentlemen of the Senate and House Of


Representatives:


In discllarging the duty of address,
ing the General Assembly, imposed
on me by the O. institution, it seems
eminently appropriate that 1 should
begin by cungratulatiug its members
upon the auspicious circumstances
under Which they reassemblo.


The past year has been a menor-
able one. Twelve months ago we
Witnessed IL condition of things which
nrea'eued the cxis' ence ofrepublican
institutions under our ancient system
of constitutional Government. The
whole country was cunvulsed by q
national poll lcal contest, which as
humcd such portentous shaIe g that
every patriot dreaded, as is fearful
result, a civil war. Amid the throes
and the perils of this convulsion, the
government Of which you constitute
q part was placed in power by the
people of the State Encompassed
by dangers as novel as they were
startling, we looked in vain to history
for the light to guide us which ex-
perience alone can give. The rep
resentatives of the people, chosen as
their rulers, were called on to fulfill
as high duties and to assume as grave
responsibilities as have ever been i'm.
posed on men. No human wisdom
could have brought us safely through
the dangers that beset US on all sides,
and We should reverently give thahks
to Him who alone has wrought this
great deliverance. Our State is re-
habilitated; peace plevails through
out our borders; the laws are impair
TALLY enforced and fully respected;
good will between all classes is rap
idly obliterating the anomosities OF
the past; health blesses our people,
and the labors Of our husbandmen
have been crowned with abundant
harvests. Wo surely have cause for
profound gratitude for the blessings
which have been 80 lavishly bestow-
ed upon us; but while it becomes us
to acknowledge these gratefully, we
should bear in mind that their con-
tinuance depends on the condition Of
our proving worthy Of them.


THE PLEDGES MADE DURING THE oAN-


VAsS.~


The fret step in this direction ie
for US to observe, in perfect good
faith, the pledges made during the
canvass which resulted in our success
Upon this point I feel well assured
that the conservative and thoughtful
people of the State are thoroughly
united, and that their representatives
will be found in full accord with
them. With impartial justice in the
administration OF the lave, with the
regnition OF the perfect equality of all
citizens under those laws, with the
assurance of protection TO all in their
rigbts of person and property, and
with just; liberal and wholesome Leg