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Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


DEADwooD, D. T., Sept 27.-This morn.
ing the homeless ones are taken care of.
Some receive shelter from the house still
standing and some are quartered in barns
and warehouses.


The town is now being policed by COM
pany of cavalry from Fort Mead, and there
is no disturbance. The buildings destroyed
were mostly of wood and cheap structures.
The burned district will be Immediately re-
built in substantial manner.


Building was even begun before the flames
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star


TOPEKA. KAN, Sept. 27.-The Presidential
party visited Fort Dodge yesterday, return
ing here at night and leaving here this
morning for Leavenworth. At Dodge City
there was no demonstration, and there was
not apparently much curiosity to see the
President or any one else. The town is sit
nate in the midst Of bleak prairie near
the Danks of the Arkansas River,
Year: 1879

There is no Insurance Company that we
know of that has been more universally
satisfactory to all concerned than the Ken
ton. A glance at its list of Directors and
the well known reputation of its officers are
aguarantee of continued prompt and fair
dealing.
Year: 1879

An old lady fell dead while seated in q
window ths other day. A young man
Who had been sitting in q window across
the street. testified to seeing the old lady
fall. "How long had you been sitting
in the window p asked the coroner.
''Half IN hour. l guess, was whistline
and thinking" whistling what p
"Airs from .Pinafore.' The jury did
not retire. but decided that the old lady
died by violence, and charged the young
man with manslaughter.
Year: 1879

A good-looking fellow was ar
raigned before the police court,
charged with having stolen a watch


The Judge asked him what induced
him to commit the theft. The
young man replied that, having
been unwell for some time, the
doctor advised him to take some
thing, which he had accordingly
Year: 1879

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 1S.-The Controller
General been found guilty ON eight articles Of the
seyentecn prepared against him by the count Sentence
Will be pronounced tomorrow. The House has decided
To- prefer articles or Impeachment against treasurer
Year: 1879

The reporter of the GAZETTE returns
his thanks to the Shields Library Asso-
ciation for one of the handsome pro-
grammes that they gave out az their re-
cent ball. The programmes are the
handsomest that have ever been given out
in this city.


Those ladies who hold checks for a
programme, and have not sent them in,
should do so at once, as the Association
desire to serve them out as rapidly as
u 1Ssihla
Year: 1879

For heavens sake don't let it get into
the papers, is the first cry of a person
caught in a mean scrapc. Keep it outof
the papers and it is all right. No matter
how contemplate or dishonest the posi-
ton may be, or how much reason the
offender may have for shame, rcmorsc and
contrition, it the circumstances can bc
kept from the ''cormorants of the press,'
as the people who have good reason to
be afraid of newspaper reporters call
them, he is tranquil and happy: We arc
no champion for that extreme license Of
the press that is sometimes displayed,
but we have noticed that the ones who
cry out the loudest against newspaper
disclosures arc generally those whose own
lives and acts would not bear the closest
inspection. People who live clean
straightforward lives have little to fear:
from the newspapers.
Year: 1879

One of the fastest trains in the world


is the Pennsylvania pay car, of the New
York division, its schedule time being
sixty miles an hour. 1t takes only "A
hours for the distribution of bundle of
envelopes containing Sl50,000. In all
300 railroad men are paid on this di-
vision. The employees are notified by
telegraph of the exact hour when the
train will arrive. On the homeward trip,
with selected engine and railroad
cleared of everything that could cause
either delay or danger, this tiny train,
composed of only an engine and car,
often tests the capacity of steam power
after fashion that would make a Miss
issippi steamboat captain uneasy. And
yet its accidents have been few. Once.
when it was tearing around curve it
struck hand car, and the frightened
train hands clambered down on the pilot
and saw what seemed to confirm their
worst fears. The front of the engine was
Uttered with clothing. But careful
search revealed nothing else than cloth
ing, and information that came soon
afterward told of the escape of the labor
ers before their frail vehicle was struck,


Not long ago there was picked up in
one of the Trenton tunnels the remains
of man who had been struck by train,
and who was so mangled that identified
ton seemed impossible. The corner Of
an envelope bearing his name, which
was found in his clothing. showed that
he had been paid his salary only three
hours before. Just month ago, wher
the car was on its return trip, the news
came that the fast ''four'' had struck {
man on the New Brunswick bridge. Tht
man had been warned that it was com


ing, but said he was a good runner, ant
no doubt could get over the bridge ahea(
of it. 1t is said to be an actual fac


that his body was thrown fifty feet int
the air. 1t fell into the river twentl
feet below. On the engine, at full speed
the motion is much less perceptible thai
in the car. A car swings sideways will
more or less violence locomotive


strains forward and seems to pound
downward, on the forward track. Ex
press trains approaching with the swift
ness of the wind seem to be standin


still until they are alongside, when the


fash up with roar that only lasts


second. Far away the landscape move
in two distinct arcs, the farthest object
appearing to curve majestically towar
Year: 1879

Considering that one-third of our lives
are passed in bed, it is strange how lit
tie attention is still given, in many fam
lilies, to the condition of sleeping COM
fortably and WELL In the first place,
the average bedroom is too small, and is
not planned with reference to admitting
the sunlight and air. One of the worst
things about the "hats" and apartment
houses in cities, that are just now so
popular, is that the bedrooms are so
small, as rule, and often dark also. A
bedroom shut off from the sunshine and
the direct outdoor air is celia mere
dungeon-we care not how richly it be
furnished. If we were shut in to a
choice, We would receive calls in an in
ner room. or display 6nery there, or do
anything that did not keep human be-
ings pent up for more than an hour at a
time-and use the parlor or drawing
room to sleep in. Plenty of air, light
and sleep should be secured for the
sleeping apartment, whatever other room
suffers. After good deal Of experience
we have come to the conclusion that the
best bed which our civilization has yet
produced is none too good for Christian
who has due respect for himself. How
man can spend money for gaudy car
pet, for fine furniture-or or even for pic
lures and books-and sleep on a hard
mattress, placed on Stats hardly less
hard, we fail to understand. A low,
strong, roomy bedstead, with the best of
springs, is the foundation. We have
found the spiral copper wire springs,
put into Stats, the simplest, cheapest,
most cleanly, and on the whole the easi-
est, though there are plenty of patent
beds to pick from. On these put two
light mattresses-the bottom one of
husk or seagrass, the top one of hair-if
you can afford it; if not, 90 without
other things till you can. A well-made
hair mattress is as far as the bed makers
have gone and it is one of the luxuri-
Gus necessities that no well-to-do house
should be without. Have the mattres.
ses made in sections, so that they can be
easily turned and handled. Over the
top one should be spread a thick cover,
just its size, made like comfortable"
This not only adds to the softness, but
protects the mattress. The covering
should be light in weight and open in
texture-that is to say, of wool, both for
healthfulness and comfort. The ideal
but the best rose blankets, and only
enough of them to insure the requisite
warmth. 1t ought not to be necessary
to say-but we have observed that it is
that beds should be aired every morn
ing, the fuller and longer the better; and
at least once month, in addition to
scrupulous cleanness in other particulars
the entire bedding, mattresses, pillows
and blankets should be put out of doors
IN the sunshine, and beaten and brushed
thoroughly Golden Rule.
Year: 1879

The golden precepts of our God,
The thorny path cur Christ has trod,


Seem meet for other men.
The pulpit in its eloquence,
Feels every word that drops from thence.


Is meant for other men.
The sin II sees, the crimes unseen,
The outcast soul. the wretched, mean,


Are all Of other men.
And so from pulpit down it goes
The list of sins our paper shows


Are deeds of other men.
And all good Christians as they read.
Rest safely in their chosen creed,


And sigh for other men.
"God save these souls; but as to ours,
We do not fear the timing powers


Which conquer other men,
And yet, oh, reader, search your heart
And see how little It's apart,


From those of other men;
How much Of strength is due to chance
The happening Of circumstance


TO you and other men.
In prosperous days you fear no fall,
But fickle fortune changes all


For you and other men.
Oh, how much better would it be,
Ifyou could only-only see


Yourself as other men,
See all your meanness, and how small,
At best you are, and, after all,


How like these other men.
Year: 1879

Of the late Asa Packer who left an
estate of over twenty millions of dollars.
the New York Tribune says that when
he celebrated his golden wedding last
year, among the splendid evidences of
his recent fortunes two or three brightly
secured copper pots and pans hung on
the wall they werc those with which
the newly married couple had cooked
their humble meals when they set up
housekeeping in the cabin of the canal
boat; and were preserved in no Bounder-
by spirit of boastfulness. but simply as
mementoes of pleasant years when they
wandered up and down with youth, hope
and little money.
Year: 1879

For the want of few hundred dollars
invested in bone mill one of the most
valuable articles for fertilizing purposes,
is sent out of the state and its place is
not made good by anything brought back.
We refer to the bones that accumulate
in large quantities in every village and
are found lying about every farm in the
country. These bones are sent to New
York, Hartford and other cities, where
they are ground and sent over the coun-
try or to foreign lands. Very little
comes back to Vermont. So much of it
as finds its way again to this state has
increased in price to more than three
times what it was when it left. The
phosphoric acid contained in bones is
found to be absolutely necessary to the
production of good crops. This is being
constantly taken from the soil in the
grains, grasses, and animals raised on
our farms. The quantity of manure
produced on the farms does not replace
the phosphoric acid, and unless this is
returned in some form, there is a con-
slant deterioration of the soil. We have
at our own doors the article to supply
the deficiency and keep up the fertility
of the land. But it costs too much to
send to New York to have it made into
superphosphate. The bones pass through
SO many hands before they are ready to
be applied that the prepared fertilizer
costs well nigh as much as the crop is
worth in the market. A bone mill in
our own state as we have before suggest
ed in alluding to the subject, would
greatly diminish the cost of this valuable
manure. In Connecticut and New Jer-
sey where there are such mills, small
boys collect bones in villages and receive
small sum for them at the store where
they are taken in. Families also become
accustomed to preserve bones for sale
(which would otherwise be thrown away
and lost. In this way large quantities
of bones find their way to the mill, and
there is good demand for all the pro-
duct. 1t is said that mill for grinding
bones could be started for about $500.
A stock company might be formed and
mill gut in at Brattleboro. Bellows Falls
the material could easily be obtained
from distance. We commend the SUBJ
iect to the attention of business men. If
there is any better way of utilizing the
bones which accumulate every year about
our slaughter houses and farms than the
one we have suggested, we should be
glad to hear of it, for it is evidently
wasteful imprudence to allow other states
to enrich their soil at the expense of our
own.-Erchange.
Year: 1879




"DIs Horse AM WATERED. The la
mented DIR. Ide once related to me this
anecdote: During a revival in his church
a colored man and his wife were both
subjects of the work. Awhile after the
Doctor heard they were soon to leave
town. and knowing them to be extremely
igncrant-they had been slaves-he felt
that it was very important they should
commit themselves by a public profess
sion before going away. The church
therefore appointed an extra meeting to
hear their experiences. But the man
was found to be as firm as rock against
being baptized, while he expressed at the
same time the utmost devotion to his Sa-
viour, and his sincerity was undoubted
After long talking he at last gave his
reason by saying he could not be bap-
tized till he had done more for Christ.
DR.. Ide said: "Now, Jim, your business
is to care for horses. Do you refuse them
drop of water till they have done their
days work ?" "Why, no, Massa, |. al
lers waters um when takes UNI out OF
de stable in the morning. then with a
sudden start he cried out, &c, will be
baptised now will in the beginning,
and work afterwards p So, before an
immense audience in the evening. the
church densely packed, Jim was bap-
tized. The moment he was lifted from
the water he faced the assembly, and IN
stentorian tones cried out, "Dis horse an
watered. Christian Secretary.
Year: 1879

RECIPE FOR CURING CATARRH IN TIE
HEAD-which ought to be read by every
family in the land: Take of yellow-dock,
burdock, dandelion and red clover root
each four ounces two gallons of water;
add a good handful of hops; boil slowly
one hour, strain and cool; then add a
large cupful of yeast, and when ferment-
ed set in cool place, and drink small
wine glass full each day !; then get
MULLEN and prepare as tobacco, and
smoke three times day. This is sure
cure. l speak from actual experience,
having been afflicted with catarrh in the
head for six years previous to using the
above recipe. now feel no symptoms
of the disease -Eachange.
Year: 1879

A glass of whiskey sells for a dime
and is drunk in minute. 1t fires the
brain, and deranges and weakens the
physical system. On the same table lies
a newspaper. 1t is covered with half a
million type; it brings intelligence from
the four quarters of the globe. The
newspaper costs less than half the glass
of grog; but it is none the less true that
there is large number of people who
think whiskey cheap and newspapers
dear.
Year: 1879

the track in front, while those nearer
the railway start away from before the
train and describe graceful line that
brings them toward the track again in
the rear. The panorama bewilders the
brain and tires the eve.
Year: 1879

Bo Conclusive as to tho facts that stated in regard
to that meeting being as he asserts In his interview
utterly and absolutely FALSE


JUNKKTISG WITH PRESIDENT HAYES


As to the proposition submitted by Senator
Hampton to me. and also to this meeting. of the
withdrawal of the electors for President and Vice
President from the canvass Is nos sne eviuence con-
democratic paryf And may 1t not be fairly regarded


in the light OF 'traitorous dissiection to Tilden
before his election? am willing to leave the decision
of these issues OF facts and the conclusions have
drawn from them 10 an unprejudicqd aud unbiased
public. Having been inadvertently led into the
above statement of facts. now reluctantly add that
there Is other evidence to show Hampton's disposi-
ton TO ignore Tiiden's chances for the election
aud his unwillingness 70 give up the electoral vote
in oSouth Carolina. First, that he advised some
the electors not to cast their vote for Tden; sec
ond his advocacy OF Hayes Southern policy and his
travelling with Hayes in his Northern. Southern aud
Western tour. in which he played conspicuous
part In attempting to reconcile the South to the great
Presidential fraud whereby the democratic party lost
1ilden who should have been declared tho President
of the United States. "


CoRREsroEDESr--Wha are your personal relations
to senator Hampton and what will be the result of


General GARY-I have already stated that do not
propose TO handy epithets with Senator Hampton;
and as 20 MS as 70 my oeins sS.t mar m
the soldiers who fought under us both during the
war and to the people OF south Carolina, who have
known us all lives; for we are both
on record by our acts aud speeches. see
nothing to come out of it except newspaper dis
cussion, by which no one but Mr.. Tilden can be
benefited. have no disposition, under existing cir
cumstances, to make it personal issue. 1t is true
he dislikes me- or rather hates me. Although have
served IN the war under him as my commanding
officer, and have done 30 since as my
political leader, with all ths energy. cour-
age and ability that possess. my so-called "op-
position" has never been of personal character.
and simply in the conscientious discharge Of
my public duty. Although have on many occasions
supported him, and given him the highest evidence
of desire to do him justice have always had his
bitter and unrelenting opposition to carry, and
suppose he viii continue TO keep me down until he
or die. y


At this juncture our conversation was interrupted
by the entrance Of number Of visitors. and the in
terviewer took his departure.
Year: 1879

IT is said that removal of the Capital from Prescott to thenix, is to occupy the attention of our Legislature next week. Yuma County does not seem to manifest much interest in this matter. Phoenix is now, and always will be, more accessible from Yuma than Prescott. On the other hand, any agitation of the question opens the way to so much pernicious legislation that the redecting people of this County appear willing 10 have the matter let alone. Much of the kindly feeling here toward Prescott has been checked during the last two years by persistent and un- truthful charges made against this peo- pie, of sectionalsm and of hostility to Prescott. The feeling aroused by read ing these silly charges is expressed by the remark we heard on such an occasion: D. Prescott! Where is it, anyhow?"

 The Capital had better be let alone; though it will be hard on some men of Prescott to lose a pet grievance.
Year: 1879

THE very best kind of California four at Two DOLLARS AND A QUARTER PER SACK. That's what it is being sold for at Lyons. A carload of it just received, direct from the mill Other groceries and miners supplies at same low rates all new and frn.I <
Year: 1879

NOTHING could better show the intense interest taken here in the new mining discoveries of Silver District than the great quantity of tools and provisions, and the number of passengers taken up there by the steamboat, last Saturday.
Year: 1879

The "0Iack troops" still continue
"to fight nObly." Lord Chelmsford
will have to ask for another brigade
from home, and until they arrive no
movements will be made. The start
ling intelligence reaches US that Prince
Napoleon took fever Just before the
battle, mother" The Prince will have
to hump himself, for that little faction
Of his in France is rapidly dwindIiDg
away.
Year: 1879

Mr. H. F. Gaulding has little daugh-
ter eleven years old to whose nerve and
courage he is indebted for the life of his
three-year-old boy. The boy was play
ing by the cistern in Mr.. Gaulding's
yard. There was plank off, and through
this aperture the little fellow fell. He
caught plank, however, in falling, and
held for some time before he was dis
covered. But his hold weakened, and
with splash he fell into the cistern.
His sister saw and appreciated the situ-
alton. Nest girls would have screamed
and run off in quest of help. Not so
with this little girl. The screams and
struggles for life of her baby brother
gave her the strength and courage of a
man. She saw ladder, and, with all
her might, she dragged it to and placed
it into the cistern, and then went down
into the water, reached out and caught
her brother just in time to save him from
watery grave. BY this time help ar
rived and both were landed safely from
their perilous position. All honor to
this little heroine - Baiss6ridge (Ga.)
Democrat.
Year: 1879

She clasped her hands on my arms,
She laid her cheek on my shoulder;
The tide Of her tears fell warm


On hands that trembled to hold her.
l whispered plying word,


As the ship moved slowly apart,
And the grief Of the friendless poured
Its choking weight on my heart.
For graves in the evening shade


Were green on a far-of hill,
Where the joys of her life were laid
With love that had known no chill,
But however her heart might yearn,
We were facingthe freshening breeze,
And the white wake heightened astern
On the rolling floor OF the seas.
She quenched the fire Of her tears,
Uplifting her meek, brave head.
"Or dark or bright be the years,
I will take courage" she said.
Smoothing back her loose-blowing hair,
And her shawl drawing closer the while
So she drank in the strong sea air,
And left the old shore with a smile.


-Unirersity Magazine.
Year: 1879

Baron Won Gleichen, German diplo-
matist, used to tell story of favorite
cat as a proof that the feline race can
think and draw practical conclusions.
The cat was very fond of looking in mir
rors hung against the walls, and would
gnaw at the frames, as if longing to
know what was inside. She had, how
ever. never seen the back side of a mir
ror. One day the baron placed cheval-
glass in the middle Of the room, and the
cat instantly took in the novelty Of the
situation.


Placing herself in front, and seeing q
second cat, she began to run round the
mirror in search of her companion.
After running round one way several
times. she began to run the other, until
fully satisfied that there was no cat be-
side herself outside Of the glass. But
where was the second catp


She sat down in front of the glass TO
mediate on the problem. Evidently
inside, as she had often before imagined
Suddenly a new thought occurred to
her.


Rising deliberately, she put her paws
on the glass in front and then behind,
walked round to the other side. and
measured the thickness in the same way.
Then she sat down again to think.


There might be cavity inside. but 1t
was not large enough to hold cat. She
seemed to come to the deliberate con-
clusion that there was mystery here
but no cat, and it wasn't worth while ~
bother about 1t. From that time tne
baron said she lost all curiosity about
looking rlasSes.
Year: 1879

+ Strange mischances with fatal results
are daily happening here and there. A
Boston butcher ran against knife that
lay on block, severed an artery, and
bled to death. A Denver woman caught
her foot in railroad frog, and could not
get loose before a train ran over her. A
Vermont farmer sneezed with straw in
his mouth, drew it into his lungs, and
died choking. A horse kicked Michi-
gan boy into deep well, where he was
drowned The shoe flew off the foot Of
a kicking mule, in Nashville, and frac-
tured the skull of baby. An Oregon
girl swallowed her engagement ring. and
lived only week afterward. While
standing on his head, on the top of
high fence post, an Iowa boy lost his
balance, fell into tub of hot water, and
was fatally scalded. A stone, thrown
by a playfellow, broke a glass from
which St. Louis boy was drinking,
driving some of the pieces down his
throat and he died few days afterward
in great agony. Looking up to watch
the flight of an arrow, a Nashville wo-
man did not see it descending directly
over her head, and the sharp metal point
penetrated her brain throug Oh one of her
eyes, killing her instantly.