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Year: 1878

1t is very difficult just now to find a can
didate who is not cock sure of heading the
poll at the close Of the struggle OF next
Tuesday. The old fellow who some centu-
ries since sat growing in his tub all day
and went out O. nights with lantern seek
ing for an honest man may have been long
disappointed, but was not altogether dis
couraged. A HERALD reporter is not neces-
sarily Dogenes, although his experience
of men and things tends to make him Gym
ical but when he, or number of
him, makes the rounds of the candidates
on the eve of election, looking for one who
is not enthusiastically certain Of success,
In the ordinary run of events fifty per
cent Of these cock sure candidates might
be expected to prove mistaken, and at this
moment we see no reason to believe that a
miracle will be worked next Tuesday.


Nothing short Of n miracle, we may add,
convicted of conspicuous inexactness' as
prophets. We know that it is not considered
part of fshmongers business to proclaim
the length of time that his hnny commodi-
ties have been out of the water, but any one
with a good nose can decide if they have
lain on the stall as long as Lazarus before
his resurrection. 1t has struck us, there
fore. that this confidence OF the candidates
may be traced to the belief that to pre-
announce their failure would, by many, be
taken as sign they were not fit to be
elected. There is so much possible trnth
Year: 1878

THE CoRoSER's jury that inquired into the
death Of the poor conductor who was killed last
Friday in Connecticut by the explosion of a
twenty-nine year old locomotive boiler have
come to the conclusion that If it had been in
spccted the accident would have been prevented.
That is not our experience around here The
oftencr boilers are inspected the oftener they
.I4.ain
Year: 1878

The DOMINION Towns do not intend to let
their exuberant patriotism get the better of
their discretion. While preparing n warm re-
ception for the Marquis of Lorne they are at the
same time prudently footing up the bills in
advance. This is something the City Hall
patriots never do.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER Bold BURGLARY has been perpe-
ratcd in whit is called the fashionable portion
Of the city. If the police do not find the thieves
they will certainly find ''theory" Of the crime.
Year: 1878

We return our thanks to Mr.. A. NJ. Charity,
No. PIG n. Seventeenth street, for one of the
finest tin wash-baslns we ever saw. 1t must
have been made for the occasion, for we have
never seen anything so fine on sale. Surely
Mr.. Charity must be an adept at his trade,
and among population of 33,40o OF his own
race, to say nothing of the whites, be certainly
ought to be able to make respectable living.


This fine specimen of his workmanship
will remain on exhibition at the STAR Office
so that those who wish to inspect sample of
his handiwork can do so.
Year: 1878

INTERESTING LECTURE ON THE CRYING


EVIL OF THE DAY.


The hall OF Cooper Institute was
crowded yesterday afternoon, in con-
sequence of the promise made that
the Widow Van Cott would address
the meeting held there under the aus
pices of the American Temperance
Union. After Mrs. Genevieve How
ard had spoken, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Guernsey had sung, Mrs. Van Cott
addressed the vast audience. She
drew series of touching pictures of
the miseries entailed by the vice of
drunkenness.


She strongly condemned the use of
wine in churches at sacrement, and
contended that water would answer
the same purpose as wine, and all cler-
gymen who wished to save many from
drunkards graves should drop this
custom of giving wine to their congre-
CATION. She related one incident in
connection with this suggestion. The
speaker instanced a case where a man
first drank wine at the communion
table, and finally died a drunkard.


Thousands of such cases were to be
met with daily, and the speaker
thought that clergymen did not help
the cause as they should. They were
lukewarm on the subject and needed
to be aroused =


The law as it now stood should be
rigidly forced, and not kept as it is
now, effective onl y in few cases,
while the bulk of the liquor-dealers
were breaking it every hour in the day,
The whole thing was farce in the es-
timation of the speaker.-Neso York
Star.
Year: 1878

Last Thursday week two of the city's guard
ians Of the peace might have been seen stag
gering up Third st., between Clay and Leigh.
Whether they were on or OF duty does not
appear, but certain it is that they were not
6t for duty. After they had turned into Leigh
street, while near Mr.. English's grocery,
they were guilty Of the grossest indeeency in
the public street


Surely, Mr.. Doutney m ust have sighted
our police force while he was in our city.


where were the police, when these men
thus behaved on the public streets,
Year: 1878

Save your tax-receipts. They will be
required for both the May and Noyem-
ber elections. The Treasurer will not
duplicate your receipts, therefore take
good care of them as you will not be al
lowed to vote you cannot produce them
REMEMBER that it is your head tax receipt
that you will be required to produce and
that receipt is obtained from the State,
and NOT the City Collector.
Year: 1878

In MOST of the States, North and South.
the colored people support one or more news
papers. Will Virginia be behind them all ?
No? Then subscribe one dollar at once, and
show that you mean to be as good as anybody
else
Year: 1878

Emigration.


We have visited the headquarters of
the Emmigration Bureau from time to
time in search of items Of interest to the
public but could find nothing. For the
present at least, immigration seems to
be dead and ---, in this section.
Year: 1878

CoLoRED MEN! You say you are as good as
white men. If white men support scores 0,
newspapers in this State, can you not sup
port one If you cannot, you do not prove
that you are as good as white men.
Year: 1878

It is strange how fond the country par
son is of pursuing geological studies In
this city. From the remote rural districts
in New England from all the States OF the
West, even to Jersey; and from neighbor-
ing cities they love to come trooping in to
draw from their contemplation OF 1.-THE
elephant" as seen in the city, inspiration
for sermons more or less instructive or
sensational. Parson Talmage is the latest
visitor who comes to apply the processes OF
vivisection to the study of the wickedness
of the human heart in the metropolis


Formerly, however, the public learned OF
the explorative spirit of the visiting rarson
in another way. He was commonly first
heard of at Jefferson Market, where he ap-
peared next morning in charge ofthe officer
whose duty it was to conduct to the presence
of the magistrate those who had been locked
up over night. Astonished to see man OF
the parsonly style in such company the
magistrate skilfully drew out his name and
the whereabouts of his home, and he was
soon on the way thither But the brethren
had heard of the story generally, and when
they, with faces heightened and sad, called
for an explanation, the truth came out that
the parson had gone to the city-yea, even
to the city slums---to see for himself the
terrible wickedness, to study and contem-
plate in their nakedness the vices OF man,
that he might preach against them with a
more feeling fervor. OF course the expla-
nation was satisfactory-yct there were
always doubters, who shook their heads
and we are, therefore, glad to see that Mr..
Talmago takes a policeman with him, to
guard against misinterpretation; for, though
| a policeman is not more virtuous than q
parson. he is hardened and Indifferent.
Year: 1878

The weather of the past few days has
indeed been very extraordinary, putting
our citizens in quandary. Many have
been in doubt whether it were better to put
up their summer clothes and don the heavy
garments necessary in the winter months;
but no sooner would they be prepared for
a cool breeze than they would have
to undergo the very unonviable sensation
produced by the erratic winds changing
round to the south and raising the tenn
perature to that of a midsummers day. 1t
is very probable, however, that folks will
not be kept long IN suspense, because when
the depressions that are in the West
will have passed eastward the chilly
north winds will soon Danish the
straw hat and summer clothes from
sight and bring forth the ulster
and fur collar. There is very little possi-
bilty that the beneficial effects of the cool
weather will reach the Southern yellow fever
districts, because of the close proximity OF
zone of low pressure that lies to the south
of those sections and which is very certain
to move northward.
Year: 1878




General Butler, it will be seen from the
interview with o representative OF the
HlRALD last evening, is still sanguine OF
success in his campaign. Where his vote is
to come from where the one hundred and
forty or fifty thousand men who must march
to the polls to elect him now are, he does
not say, except that they are somewhere
within the borders of the State. The figures
Of his secretary, which we printed yester-
day morning, in which it was claimed that
the gallant General would capture seventy
thousand of the one hundred and eight
thousand that voted for Mr.. Tilden, leaving
the Faneuil Hall party only beggarly thirty
eight thousand, are repudiated by him. He
is equally emphatic in declining all re-
sponsibility for the statement that he would
obtain thirty-five thousand regular republi-
cans. This arithmetical exactness is not
to the Generals taste. He is full Of the
most magnificent expectations and wisely
believes that it will be time enough
to begin the counting when the election is
over. There is one point, however, upon
which the General ventures little
prophecy-namely, that in this State at the
coming election the greenback party will
cast one-third of the vote. If the estimate
of his strength in Massachusetts, has no
better foundation in fact or probability
than this the republicans of the Bay State
need not have much fear of the Butler
Adullamites.
Year: 1878

THE wEArnER.-But very little change has
taken place in the barometric conditions during
the past twenty -four hours The depression has
moved slowly eastward and the pressure within
its area has risen somewhat. The barometer
continues high OH the Atlantic coast 1t is high
est over the Middle Atlantic and New England
districts 1t has remained nearly stationary
over the Gulf. Rain has fallen in the
northern lake regions, the South Atlantic
and Gulf coast districts. Elsewhere partly
cloudy weather has prevailed. The winds
have been brisk over the northern
lake region and the Northwest and generally
fresh elsewhere. Temperatures have risen in
the Middle Atlantic districts and the lake re-
gions aud fallen elsewhere. The weather in
New York and its vicinity to-day will be slightly
warmer and partly cloudy Tomorrow the
same conditions are likely to prevail in the
early part of the day and be followed by in
creasing cloudiness.
Year: 1878

The PooR DErosIToRs of the German Saw
ings Bank of Morrisania will be glad to learn
that there is a good prospect that the suits be-
gun yesterday against sixteen of tho trustees
Of the bank for two hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars will result favorably. Nearly all
Of the defendants are believed to be pccuniarily
responsible through alleged violation of tho
hank chnrlnr.
Year: 1878

An ORDER has been issued by the Acting Sec
retary of the Navy aud the Commissioner of
Public Buildings and Grounds in Washington
reviving the old Eight Hour law 1t declares
eight hours to be n working day, and that the
wages paid shall be the same us for ten hours.
Year: 1878

AMONG THE DECIDEDLY interesting questions
put by Mr.. Wood in the Custom House inquiry
to Mr.. butcher yesterday was why do respect
able merchants find il more profitable To buy
from agents here than to import themselves
The answer to it has puzzled good many people.
Year: 1878

Will SELL.-We learn that it is The


ion of the Trustees of Weaverville
School District to sell the old Grammar
nod Primary School Houses and the lot
apo1 which the Grammar building stands.
=. "a probable that bids will be asked for
A'i ne property sold to the highest bid
Year: 1878

New YEAR DANcE.-By reference to
advertisement in another column will be
seen the announcement Of II Social Dance
at the School House on New Years
evening = Wednesday next. Tickets
have been placed at the low figure of One
Dollar and Fifty Cents. OF course no
Supper will be furnished at this low price.
Good music has been engaged for the
Occas ion,
Year: 1878

The Proprietor would most respectfully an
nounce to his many old friends and also the
travelling public that he has leased this we'll
known brick hotel and will Mt all times be
found ready to wait upon all those who may
favor him with the light of their countenances
The TABLE will be supplied with the best
the market affords. The ROOMS are large,
well ventilated and furnished with new Spring
Beds throughout


janl. WILLIAM L. MAYHEM.
Year: 1878

A Turk thinks he can do nothing so
grateful to God and man as the setting
up of O fountain by the roadside or in
the streets of the city, where the way
farer and his animals may appease their
thirst and bless the name of him who pro-
vided for their wants. Often in my tray
els, says correspondent, I have halted
beneath the shade of wide. spread
ing plane tree to slake my thirst at the
limpid waters of a marble fountain, and
to repose from the MONDAY heat. There
is always some edifying distich from the
Koran, that "Water is the gift of God,
and blessed is he who distributes it." or
that e Water is the source of health and
life" etc. There is q practical piety in
these monuments of charity that speaks
well for the benevolent disposition of
the Mussulman. The Turks are great
consumers of water, and they are good
judges of its quality and nice in what
they use. The favorite water, that is
sold at a para glass in the streets, is
from Asia; either from Tchamildja, on
the mountain about Scutari, or from
Karakoulak, some ten miles up the
Bosphorus, several miles inward from
Belcos. This is brought to the landing
in barrels, on horses backs, put in
barges, and in this way carried to Con-
stantinople before daylight. Notwith-
standing the length of the journey, it is
as clear as crystal. The vendors cry it
as, "Bowz guibi as good as ice. A
pasha will drain two goblets at swal-
low. AS water is said to have fattening
properties, the large draughts they take
of it may be the cause, in part, of the
oil tesity to which both sexes Of the Turks
are snhiect
Year: 1878

South America also has its large bats,
of one of which everybody has heard
the vampire. Much nonsense has been
written about it, but there was some
foundation for the stories of its sucking
the blood of men and animals until it
killed them. In the interior of South
America nearly everybody sleeps in a
hammock either out-of-doors or with the
windows open, and the weather is so
warm that little covering is used. The
vampire comes in on silent wings, and
finding toe exposed, gently pricks it
with his sharp tooth, and draws the
blood until he can swallow no more.
The sleeper rarely is awakened, and does
not know his loss until morning. He
may then feel weak from the flow of
blood, but we are not aware that man
was ever known to die from this cause.
Horses are very greatly troubled by
them also. Mr.. Charles Watterton, an
enthusiastic naturalist now dead. who
spent several years in New Guiana, has
told us much about this ugly bat, but
could never induce one to taste of his
toe, although he would have been very
glad to be able to say that he had been
operated upon. For eleven months he
slept alone in the loft of deserted wood
cutters hut in the deep forest. There
the vampires came and went as they
wished. He saw them come in the
moonlight on stealthy wings, and pick
the ripe bananas; lay in his hammock
and watched them bring almost to his
bedside the green wild fruit of the wild
guava; floating down the river on other
moonlight nights was struck by the fall
ing blossoms of the lawarri-nut tree,
which the vampires pulled from the
branches to get at the tender seed-vessel,
or the insects that lurk in the deep
corolla. He lay night after night with
his bare foot exposed, but could never
get them to lance it, although his friends
and companions we're all bled by this
nocturnal surgeon; and except that he
once caught one fastened to the shoulder
of one of his animals, he came away nc
wiser than when he went of how the
vampire does his horrid work.


The vampires measure about twenty
six inches across the wings; frequent old
houses and hollow trees, and repose in
clusters, head downwards, from the
branches of forest trees.
Year: 1878

Every one who takes q newspaper
which he in the least degree appreciates
will often regret to see any one number
which contains some interesting and i'm
portant articles thrown aside for waste
paper. A good way to preserve these is
by the use of scrap-book. One who
has never been accustomed thus to pre-
serve short articles can hardly realize
the pleasure it affords to sit down and
turn over the pleasant, familiar pages.
Here a piece of poetry meets the eye,
which you would long since have lost
hadit not been for your ap-book; there
is witty anecdote-it does you good to
laugh over it yet, although it may be
for the twentieth time; next is valuable
recipe you had almost forgotten, and
which you found just in time to save
much rerplexity; there is sweet little
story, the memory of which has cheered
and encouraged you when almost ready
to despair under the pressure of hfes
cares. Indeed, you can hardly take up
O single paper without reperusing. Then
hoard with care the precious gems, and
see at the end of the year what rich
treasure you will have accumulated.
Year: 1878

A famous company of professional
fencers were performing at Yokohama
while 1 was there, and we went to see
them along with several English resi-
dents, who had been many years in the
country, but had never witnessed sim
liar exhibition. The gladiators were
encased in armor, and were distinguished
from each other by the color of their
cuirasses. Their appearance was her
aided by the blast of conch shell, and
all their proceedings were superintended
by handsome young man, attired and
shaven in the most orthodox style.
Welding his fan like a marshars trun-
cheon, he set the combatants upon each
other, and separated them with loud
CALCULATIONS. At each corner of the
arena sat Judge, with all the dignity OF
Roman Senator, motionless and silent,
until referred to upon o doubtful point
of order. Cuts are interchanged so
rapidly that it is often hard to say who
had dealt the successful stroke. The
weapons are long bamboos held in both
hands like luarter-staffs,a and any sort of
blow above the waist is permissible, but
the favorite is good crack on the top of
the helmet. Occasionally the combat
ants get too near together for striking,
and the struggle becomes literally hand
to hand until they are separ-
ated; Notwithstanding their savage
yells and fierce blows, they pre-
eserve the perfect good humor
characteristic of their race. By way of
variety there was a fight between the
sword and the morning STAR" sphere
fastened by cord to a spiked handle.
Although the latter appeared to be the
inferior weapon, its bearer did not come
badly of, as he played the part of a
retiarius with the ball and string, and
when at close quarters brought his sharp
hook into active operation. Then two
girls, elaborately attired in the wide
sleeves and trousers of Japanese knights,
attended by female squires to arm and
equip them, took their places on oppo-
site sides of the lists, and went through
the motions of q fight, one having a
halberd and the other a couple of swords.
Finally, another amazon had duel with
a male antagonist, and completely
overthrew him; but this was mere
uullo54uoS I'M uO oSAuoAOlJ OuinoAou ofoA
on purpose, and behaved like the clown
in pantomime, whereas an air of stern
reality pervaded the other mimic battles,
1t is remarkable that the japanese are
able to derive keen enjoyment from
performances which involve no peril
to life or limb, and if their public
spectacles differ in this respect from
those of the Roman amphitheatre, they
may also compare favorably with many
which find favor in the eyes of the
British public. Various games of skill,
including the $50 bang" are popular,
but the passion for gambling and cock
fighting, so strongly developed in most
parts of Eastern Asia, is not conspicu.
Gus in Japan, where animals in general
may be said to have good time.-The
Fortnightly Review.
Year: 1878




Wait, husband, before you wonder
audibly why your wife don't get along
with the household responsibilities " as
your mother did," She is doing her
best-and no woman can endure, that
best, to be slghted. Remember the
long, weary nights she sat up with the
little babe that died; remember the love
and care she bestowed upon you when
you had that long fit Of illness. Do you
think she is made of cast iron9 Wait
wait in silence and forbearance, and the
light will come back to her eyes-the
old light OF the old days.


Wait, wife, before you speak reproach-
fully to your husband when he comes
home late, and weary and "out of sorts. "
He hos worked hard for you all day
perhaps far into the night; he has wres-
tied, hand in hand, with care and sell
fishness, and greed, and all the demons
that follow in the train of money max
ing. Let home be another atmosphere
entirely. Let him feel that there is no
other place in the world where he can
find peace, and quiet, and perfect love,
Year: 1878

rave 70 the witnesses for the prosecution,
But the lsttar We may suppose discerned
nothing IN his conduct or manner which
challenged their attention as to his sanity.


Gould any mortal being be expected to be
calm self possessed, sedatc, when con-
fropted With the aceessaries OF such q dis
aster, and standing upon the very spot
where IL OccuFrsdf We leave the answer
to that to you, who alone are to deal with
the facts Of this case. We forbear to 70 TO
stop even further in presenting this tssti-
mOny, last We may In some wav, not lsgi-
tinate for us, influence, your minds with
respect TO the weight you ought to allow 1t
to have in making up your verdict.


Finally--if you should not be satis1ed in
your minds beyond . reasonable doubt
that ID unless you should be clearly Of opin-
ion upon the evidence before you that the
prisoner meant in fact to produce, or, In le-
rsl presumption, contemplated the conse-
Guencss of bis unlawful act, you should &C
Quit him of either degree Of murder and
csnvict hin Of msnslaugter, only. In such
case your verdict should be, not guilty In
guilty Of granddaughter. On the other
uHDO. II you buOuiu Auu uitn &uiisy Oi
murder II the frat or murder of the Sec
ono degree, as you may consider the testi-
mony will warrant you In doing, and If
after considering. The whole case, you
shall not be satisfek in your mind, from
the testimony of the witnesses, that the
prisoner at the bar, at the time of wreck
ing of the train and the killing of George
Babe, was capable of knowing that he
was doing wrong act, you shall find him
not guilty of any crime.


The delivery of the charge occupied So
minutes and at O'Clock the jury retired.


After being absent for about an honr and
twenty minutes it returned. As the jury
filed into the room amid considerable hustle
and confusion on the part of the spectators
the face OF the prisoner, In its expression
of sSonixed dread was painful to behold.


"Hentleman Of the jury have you agreed
upon verdict" was asked.


1--WE have" answered two or three while
the rest simply nodded their heads.


The usual question was put as to the
verdict.


"Do you find the prisoner guilty In the
manner and form indicted or not guilty"


The foreman hesitated and then said as
he partly rose. :Not guilty of that but
guilty of manslaughter."


(The law in the case of manslaughter
impose fine of not less than $400 nor
more than $4,000 and on imprisons
ment Of not less than one nor more than
five years.-ED.