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Year: 1877

In THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT last
week, Mr.. Cross, the Home Secretary,
announced the opinion of the Cabinet,
and denounced the oppression and intol-
erance of the Turkish government. He
declared that England would do nothing
toprotect the Ottoman Empire. She would
protect the Suez Canal, that shortcut
to India, in which she has a great politi-
cal as well as pecuniary interest, and
would not permit any power to interfere
with the freedom of the Dardanelles
further, the British goaernment would
protect Constantinople from becoming the
prize of conquest; did not think it posi-
BILE that Russia could or would defy all
the rest of Europe by seizing Egypt or
Constantinople, and would use its power
to stop the war, or at least to mitigate its
evils, and to improve the condition of the
Christian populations under the Moham-
medan rule. The general feeling in
England most certainly is that Russia is
performing an act of humanity in taking
up arms to punish Turkey for barbarous-
ly treating the Christians within her ter
ritory.


But England cannot do what her Home
Secretary proposes and be a neutral
power. In order to protect Constantine
pie, England will have 10 place some Of
her heaviest armed ships on the Bospho-
rus and at the Dardanelles Ibis will in
volve her in the war, and once on the
side of the Turk she will have to make
common cause with him, or sell out for a
consideration, which may be in the shape
of treaty with Russia in which England's
share of the Ottoman Empire will be
agreed to, and Russia's possessions in India
defined and her progress there stopped.


The result of the war will no doubt be
the destruction of the Turkish govern
ment, since all that Is left by Russia will
be divided between the other powers.
Where the British Lion once fixes his
claws he rarely withdraws his hold. Here
after ii is possible that England will have
to take the place of the Turk in keeping
Russia from her long coveted position OF
the Bosphorous. But we do not thinl
the British statesmen will assume thi:
hostile attitude on the contrary they
will endeavor to escape it by treaty ant
an alliance of some sort in which England
will be induced to believe she win extend
her power and dominion In some such
way as to make her influence, as com
pared with Russia's, as great in the future
as it is at present.
Year: 1877

MR.. GowEN's last statement of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad looks
very much as though he had put the road
IN bad condition, and that it would be
as likely to go into the hands of a receiv-
er or be sold by the bondholders, as the
Wilmington and Reading did two OR three
years before it collapsed. 1t may have
been satisfaction to him and his stock.
holders to break down all competitors fol
the trade but he seems to have paid
dearly for his victory, if such he deemed
his triumph over our little Wilmington
enterprise.
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune has invented a
very neat and apparently inexpensive
method of divesting the war map of its
greatest terrors. 1t consists as we can OBJ
serve from this distance, of printing the
map upside down, thereby saving the
reader from the danger to which he ex-
poses himself in standing on his head to
get a really comprehensive view of the
seat of war.
Year: 1877

MEXICAN BORDER TRoUBLEs.-It
usually happens when there is PROPOSE
ton for reduction of the army, with a
reasonable hope for success, that the
trouble on the Mexican border along the
Rio Grande looms up, with strong prob
abilities of war with that power. Now
when there is no use for retaining more
than 10000 or $4,000 men, stories of fire.
quent raids across the Rio Grande are
being published, with view, there is lit
tie doubt, to have the number of troops in
creased there and used in catching the nu-
merous thieves who come over into Texas
and drive off cattle and horses belonging
to our people. 1t would, of course, be
cheaper to pay for these cattle than to
give Mexico pretext for making war on
us, or for the United States to make war
ON Mexico. We believe we ought to
have more southern border-we ought
to have Lower California bu. we don't
want to pay for it either in money or the
lives OF our people. 1t is not for the ag-
grandizement of Our people that we de-
sire this territory. Its acquisition would
result more TO the benefit of its Mexican
Inhabitants than to any other people,
while it would tend to secure peace and
increase the prosperity of both nations.
Just now what the people most desire is
national economy, and this can be great
ly promoted by reducing the army at the
earliest time possible.
Year: 1877

THE SALT-WoRKs CAsE.-In our notice
yesterday Of the decision OF this case by the
Court OF Appeals it might be inferred that
there were two opinions-one by Judge
Moncure and the other by Judge Burks.
There was but one opinion, and that was
the opinion OF the Court, and was delivered
by Judge Moncure.
Year: 1877

Bridge Avenue.-The Street Committee
are having the roadway of Bridge avenue
from the Danville arch to the Free bridge
laid with cinders, and in short time it will
be solid. The fence along this same locality
is sadly in need OF repairs. Bridge avenue
near Hull is in bad condition, but when that
section Is rebuilt it is the intention OF the
Street Committee to relay the pavement
from Hull to Porter street.
Year: 1877

The RICHMOND FIRE ASSOCIATION were
fortunate in having reinsured its $4,000
risk on the building in which Field, Letter
d Co. were doing business in Chicago Just
two days before the great fire on the, 14th
instant
Year: 1877

A. GREENTREE, sl5 Broad street, will sell you
HAT to save you from fifty cents to one dollar. His
assortment Is equal to any hat-store in the city
Call OIL him for FURNISHING GOODS.
Year: 1877

did the Indians. who displayed o bravery
and recklessness never before surpassed
and seldom before equalled, make success
size charges upon the walls. each time
being driven back by the grim and deter
rapidity and decision which laid many a
brave upon the ground. But one man was
killed in the stockade. Billy Tyler, who
was shot In the left side Of the neck while
IN . sitting position, looking cut ct the
stockade gate. the ball passing entirely
through his body and coming out under
the right arm. The Indian who gave
feet from him at the time. At the end Of
two hcurs the Indians. finding it Q LOSING


nme. withdrew to tho hills. keeping up 3
Year: 1877

grace and while SHE leaves them life and
strength of limb and soul, the certainty
of future, thougt they cannot sec what,
and the assurance of progression, though
they cannot see how, is poverty worth,
for themselves, moro than a passing doubt
Can it ever be worth tho torment of fear,
tho bondage of subservience ?--the COM
promise of free thought, the sacrifice of
free speech, the bending of the erect head
the yelling of the open. brow, the repres-
sion of the salient soul ! II, instead OF
this, poverty should act as the liberator
of the spirit, awakening it to trust in
God and sympathy for man, and placing
it aloft, fresh and free, like morning on
hill top, to survey the eXpanse of Ii fc


and recognize its realities from beneath
its mists, it should be greeted with that
holy joy before which all sorrow and
signing fec away. Miss MARr1NEAU.
Year: 1877

The bank along the river front between


the corporate limits of this city and the


Arllngt place is caving in rapidly in
several places. In front of what is known
us the Newcomb b old field there is Il very
dangerous cave that has already cut near
~ to the lcvce.
Year: 1877

ALBANY, n. Y, July 22.-The statement
eegraphed to tile New York Office of the Royal Canadian
Fire Insurance Company that the Insurance Department
had issued certificates OF authority TO it to resume bust
ness ia this state forwarded by agent of the Company
is premature. The representatives of the Company
showed satisfactory proof to the Department that the
impairment It's home capital had been made good but
under tie law foreign company is required to have
5000 600 capital n tins State and file satisfactory proof
fact and the Superintendent will require proof
that they have that amount here before he viii issue the
certificates 1t is very likely that such proof will he
forthcoming by Monday and in that the certificates
will issued The method Of making up the impairment
IN the nome capital by reducing the capital from
100000 to $500 600 which they authorized to do
under Law of the Dominion Parliament, passed last
Winter aud by providing by subscription for the pay
ment of the st. John fire losses
Year: 1877

And accordance with law and order of the Board of
Trustees made and entered the 14th day August


D. 1877 many of such designated shares of stock be-
longing and standing in the of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary psy the
upon all shares held and owned by such shaeho des
standing in their upon the books of the comp


will be sold public auction the office of said comp my
in the office of Trenmor Coffin in Carson City Nevada
Year: 1877

- Wealth is grea, burden. 50 we
are informed. 4 million is a heavy
load TO carry. Yet it is an extremely
rare incident 70, any one to voluntarily
lay the burden down. or unload them
selves. till death Jumps it and them to
gether IN the grave. The Bible ad
monishes us TO bear each others bur
dcns To illustrate our Christian
charity, We now announce our willing
ness to relieve our over-rich men Of any
part If their superabundant wealth
when they strip themselves preparatory
Ia an effort at the needles eye
Year: 1877

Travellers in Turkey describe two
different ways of shoeing horses in Tur-
Key and Russia, which may seem very
awkward compared with the simple
method of the American smiths. In
Turkey and Servia, the horse is held by
one man, another holds the leg on his
arms, while a third operates on the
foot. In Russia the horse is placed on
square cage made of rough planks of
wood, and is strapped round the belly
with wide leather straps attached to
eross-bars of the framework; his head
is also tied safely; the foot is fixed to a
stake in the ground and held by an as
sistsnt, while the smith places the shoe
on.
Year: 1877

Hunts Merchants Magazine. A sil-
yer dollar represents days work Of
the labOrer. IL is given 10 boy; he
has no idea Of what il has cost or of
what il is worth. lie would be as like
ly % give n dollar as dime for top
or any other toy. But If the boy has
learned 10 earn the dimes and dollars
by the sweat Of his face he knows the
difference. Hard work is to him a
measure of values that can never be
rubbed out of his mind. Let him learn
by experience that a hundred dollars
represents a hundred weary days Ia
bOr and il seems a great sum of money;
a thousand dollars is fortune and
$1,000 is almost inconceiyable, for it Is
far more than he ever expect to pos
sess. When he has earned dollar, he
thinks twice before he spends it,. He
wants to invest it so as TO get the full
value of days work for il. II is
great wrong TO society and to boy To
bring him up TO mans estate without
this knowledge. A fortune at 81 with
out il is almost inevitably thrown
away. With it and little capital to
start on, he will make his own fortune
better than any one can make it for
him CD rrF -a-..
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the Star


WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.-secretaries
MoCrary and Schurz held conference
at the War Department yesterday after
noon relative to the time OF the depart
ure OF the Sitting Bull Commission. The
time was not fixed, and will not be until
something lurther is heard rom Genera!
Terry,
Year: 1877

| They may tell forever of words OF bloom
beyond the skies and beyond the tomb
vi the sweet repose and the rapture there.
1hat are not found in the world of care;
But not to me can the present seem
Like foolish tale or an idle dream.
On know that the bowers of heaven re fair,
And know that the waters of Life are there
But do not long for their happy flow,
"hlle there bursts such fountains of bliss below.
AND would not leave for the rest aboye,.
The faithful bosom of trusting love!
There are angels here: they are seen the while.
In each loye-lit brow and each gentle smie
There are seraph voices that meet the ear,
In the kindly tone and the word of cheer
And light, such light as they have above,
Beams on us here from the eyes of loveI
Yet, when it cometh my time to die,
would turn from this bright world willingly:
Though, even then, would the thoughts of this,
Ilnge every dream of that land of bliss:
And fan would lean on the loved for aid.
Nor walk alone through the vale and shade.
And if It's mine, till life's changes end,
10 guard the heart of one faithful friend,
Whatever the trials of earth may be,
On the peaceful shore or the restless sea--
In palace home Or the wilderDesszz4-.
There is heaven FOR me IT world like THIS.


Phoebe Ca~Y.
Year: 1877

A man has just buried his wife. Six
years ago he detected her committing a
sin. He never pardoned her, but con-
demned her to live with him, and since
then he has ever dressed himself in
clothes of the same material and cut as
those worn by her paramom. In this
costume he took his walks abroad with
his wife. The unfortunate woman
died of a broken heart, and her husband
followed the hearse clad in Il yellow cos
tune. Paris Letter.
Year: 1877

SNOW That ubiquitous individual,
the "oldest inhabitant," is around in
force since the last storm. "Never,"
says he, "was winter known in which
Bally presented so bare an appearance
in winter as at the present time. The
Oldest inhabtant is right. The storm of
Monday and Tuesday, instead of leaving
a fresh coat Of snow on the higher noun
tans, made fearful inroad on what lit
tie had escaped the warm rain of two
weeks ago. Judging by appearances un-
less we have cold storms in the Spring
the sunshine of carly March will leave
the mountains in sight of town as bare of
snow as at any year in mid summer
The supply OF water for the heavy claims
of Weaver Basin does not look particu-
larly cheering for the Spring and Sum
mer workings at the present time.
Year: 1877

California, and will continue tho sale
from day to day, commencing at the head
of the list and continuing alphabetically
until the whole property, or so much
thereof as may be necessary 10 satisfy the
taxes and costs thereon, shall be sold
will sell the smallest quantity of each
piece or parcel OF said property that will
be taken by any person for the amount
in United States gold coin, of the taxes
and costs remaining due and unpaid
thereon together with the sum of fifty
cents each, as provided by law for tho
certificates of sale in duplicate in each
and every case.


A redemption of the property sold may
be made by the owner or owners or any
party in interest within twelve months
from the date of the purchase.


Dated, Feb, lst, 1877.


j. w. PHILBROOK.


1t Tax Collector of Trinity County.
Year: 1877

SKEERsE.-LoCALs.-We like to get
up good local column, but how can we
Last week Guptill told us of the encoun-
ter between Byron and the bears, but
we have forgotten the details except that
Byron got away with four of the ursine
gentry. We have said all we can about
the storm and we hope the rain has fall
len all over the county so that what we
have written will be no news. Seriously,
ours is one of those communities which
is so happily constituted that it furnishes
few items of local character, hence our
misery. Do something, somebody, and
thus get into the papers.
Year: 1877

REFEREES SALE.-In our advertising
columns will be found notice Of sale of
the Red Hill water right, which will be
sold in accordance with the Order and
Decree of the District Court. Tuesday,
March Goth il the day of sale.
Year: 1877

RAIN FALL.-The past week has
been a splendid one for rain 3.63 inch
es have fallen, making total of q. SO
inches for the season. This is above
the average rainfall to this date, but
the trouble is there has been nothing
but rain no snow on the mountains.
Year: 1877

#OUR TRUsTY.-Our trusty came up
u see us this morning. The glowing
slate of the atmosphere had imparte d a
tinge of melancholy to his mind, and
Morbid dread had taken possession of it,
that the rains, which had held off so late,
night extend into the Spring months,
Gyord the term when his sentence would
axpire and he be turned out upon the
coll charities of an unfeeling world. Let
he storms of March close the Winter,
having the Sacramento Valley green
With the promise of fragrant hay, while
dc broad fields of waving grain bend be-
Meath the fitting heads soon to be in read
iness for the reaper when his six months
are up, and our trusty thinks he can be
happy, but otherwise, otherwise.


Our trusty has passed the Winter agree
aby. There has been no disagreeable
restraints placed upon his freedom of ac-
Hon and rs the wind bloweth where it
lkteth so has our trusty ranged with the
ftllest freedom. But he has been care
i'll to be on hand at the hour of eventide,
hartul, perhaps, lest the doors of the Jail
Be closed upon him and he be left a
wretched wanderer, "out in this cold
World, out in the street." But one thing
has occurred to i.turb the quiet of his
rtrement, ard that is the fact that the
sheritf regardless of his desire for prva-
cy would thrust drunken men and wom-
on, and crazy men upon him for com
panionship. He stood it we'll until the
hst inmate made larder of his couch
nd put plates of beef and biscuit between
TIC blankets for safe keeping, then pa
tence ceased to be virtue and he lifted
up his voice in complaint. But that was
olly thing of day, for when he start
~ his grievance to the genhemanly Of
neeTs they at once set the matter right.


But the dreary months of Winter are
m>sing, and already the swelling buds
mrald the coming Of Spring. And when
M steps out of his quarters to resume the
utte of life, he can carry with him the
corSoIlng reflection which many good
Nhn can not, that he has no load of debt
Wglng over him for the grub he ate
quling the dry weather. He will miss
oaf flIe of exchanges which have helped
I'D 10 pass what would otherwise have
zen many weary hour, but there is no
w Out has its sorrows. And our trusty


out human and must expect to endure
~ share of the evils which fall to the lot
of humanity.
Year: 1877

M lIE DEMON OF DRINK.-We passed
uown the street one night this week, and


sanding on the sidewalk in front of one
" the hotels was one whom we always
Rckoned among the number of our
6ends. We spoke to him, and he turn
q at once toward us. Then we saw that
the demon Of drink had possession of him.
= I'm glad to see you," were the first
Words, here l am, without a cent and
Vhat am | going to do ?" We told him
q go to the hotel and to bed and we
Would pay his way. "Givc me the mon
oy, then, and let me pay my own way"


nc had had too many experiences, to
4o anything of the kind, we knew that
placlng money in his hand would be like
<hrowlng Goals into powder magazine.
~ we pleaded that we were broke our
eelf and again urged him to seek rest
put 1t was of no use, with or without
money, he must have little rum.


How many there are like ocr friend,
nc have yielded up their manhood at
Rmes to the temptations Of the glass;
Fhere was time when we knew the sub
1ect of this item when he was one in
#hoss friendship a man could take pleas
Ne. Honest and Industrious, with youth
20 health to back him up, who could
ave better right to look forward to II
|Aappy and useful future But the social
lass was his ruin. Like many another
INC believed himself capable of self. con
4oI' he had gone on, step by step, until


R's chief ambition in life is to know that
Y can lay up enough over and above
.ood and clothing to occasionally have u
f'NIe run. How many, to, do we know,
nc are in danger of following in the
eaine path. For some natures nay,
PeFhaps we should say for all, there is
ger in the glass. 1t may not be ap-


aren't at once, but as the habit grows up
"A us SO does the desire, and in the eLd a


reck of noble manhood tells another tri-
&hph of the demon of drink.
Year: 1877

NOTICE.-The following Delinquent
~ Tax List contains the names and
description of property delinquent, and
the amount of Taxes due with per cent
and costs added thereto, in pursuance of
Section 1864 OF Political Code
Year: 1877

RAILROAD improvements continue. A gang of Chinamen with carts and horses has been brought back and has teen kept busy g ading for lhe new shipyard on the a good road for the teams around the ware house. A 5000 gallon water tank is being put up near the river and another out by the engine house. \ guard rail has been laid along the curve leading down to the river, to prevent any further sliding of the track
Year: 1877

THE most wonderful results can ke look ed for from the complete change in work ing Arizona ores, that is promised by Richards Patent Roasting Furnace. Il can be built cheaply, chiefly Of material found in the country. After carefully read ing a description of the process, every miner will wonder at its simplicity and be convinced of it's merit. Read the advertise. ment in this paper
Year: 1877

THE Carga Muchacho mines turned out too rich and here they are all tangled up in litigation. Ogilby seems to be suing everything an inch high or an hour old. Wa don't know the merits of the case. Work is stopped for the present.
Year: 1877

HE Eureka Bonanza Mining Company has been incorporated and Is to begin wolk on its mines ill Eureka district. next to Castle Dome, carly next month. Men and supplies are to be brought down from Cal ;fornio
Year: 1877

PART of this week the jail has been empty-and long may it remain so. Poor old Brown served out the last days of his sentence, all by himself. He has visited and boarded there so often, that it must seem like home to him.
Year: 1877

THE Colorado takes Aubrey and Mohave freight on the 5th She will go up river till she meets the Gila coming down. The latter will then take her load on up and the Colorado will return. She is due here from above today