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Year: 1877




The EUening Star, by all odds the most
influential and reliable paper in this city,
announces by authority that President
Grant Will not make any change whatever
in his Louisiana policy, but will maintain
the status quo until President Hayes as
sumes the duties of President.


This disposes of the roOrback published
in yesterdays New York Herald, and re-
published in Tilden's organ here this morn
ing, to the effect that the status quo order
would be countermanded and Nichols
recognised.


President Grant has stated time and
again that he would not make any change
in his Louisiana orders, but would leave
the case wholly with his successor, and
there is the best authority for stating that
he adheres to his determination.


Roorbacks published in the New York
Herald and Tilden organs generally are not
worthy Of serious consideration. They are
put afiOat by desperate adventurers of the
Nichols crew who have nothing to loose
and everything to gain.


The most intimate friends Of President
Hayes now here assert that he is not max
ing any arrangements as to who he will ap-
point as members Of his Cabinet, nor has he
made any bargains with NiChOlls' attorneys.


He has with his usual discretion steadily
abstained from making pledges in advance
Of his Inauguration, and will adhere to that
policy.


The fllbusters in the House are making
every effort to obstruct the count, but are
defeated at every turn.


The influence of the great commercial
cities continues TO be felt here in favor Of
the prompt execution of the electoral law.


The same potent infaenoe favOrs leaving
President Hayes wholly free and unpledged
as to his Southern policy and Cabinet ap-
pointments.


A few desperate Democrats and hybrid
politicians are endeavoring to commit him
in advance Of his Inauguration to this or
that policy, and to secure for themselves
and friends all the principal offices, but they
are not having any success. D. D. c.
Year: 1877

I know it is palatable, as very few people
dislike it; but many eschew it on account
of its deleterious effects. Its odor in pre-
pairing is delicious, far more so than the
actual drinking of it. am as fond Of it as
any one, but have not taken cup in twen-
ty-fve years. It is more productive of
bile, especially to people of sedentary
habits, than any other thing that can be
drank or eaten. Indeed, the most noted
physicians protest against its use beyond .
single cup at breakfast in which proper
ton it can be taken with safety. But
where it is profusely indulged in, it is as in.
furious to health as an alcoholic stimulaut.


If one pound Of coffee should be used as to
last family of ten person for week, I see
it stated, no hurtful result would ensue.
But here it should stop. should think,
however, that by persons accustomed to
severe outdoor exercise or labor of anykind
it could, to larger extent, be taken with
safety. Children should never touch it, or
tea either, except the latter be very weak.
The old-fashioned way of making coffee is
undoubtedly the best, which is to buy the
coffee in the grain, scorch it until it is a
light brown, and grind it as it is wanted
The water should be boiling when poured
over the coffee, the pot Of course closed
tightly, and then give it another boil for
minute or two and it viii soon be suf6-
ciently clear to use.
Year: 1877

The mystery Of deep sea life lies in the
fact that here are multitudes of representa-
tives Of the animal world, which, in virtue
Of their animality, are incapable Of nourish-
ing themselves upon inorganic matter, yet
which are Lying miles below the limit at
which vegetable life ceases Some of the
organism found in deep sea soundings are
undoubtedly Of vegetable nature; but
these are surface-iving diatoms, on other
forms, which sink when they die. This
animal life at the sea bottom is capable Of
appropriating as food the organic matter


held dissolved in the ocean water, as well
as the inorganic substances necessary for
the formation Of its skeleton and the gases
required for respiration. For life at the
bottom Of the sea is essentially like all
other animal life; it requires food to eat,
air to breathe, and minerals from which to
elaborate its frame work. Careful expert
ment has solved the difficulty; the surface.
living nutriment descends after death; slow.
ly and laboriously the life-sustaining oxygen
makes its way from the surface where cold


and darkness reign, and as slowly the poi


sonous carbolic acid-the result alike oi
life and death-makes its way to the sur


face. Thus, just such life as can exist un


der the difficult conditions there present


does exist in enormous extent.
Year: 1877

The following is all the space given in a
Texas newspaper to a lynching: Dudley
Hansford was hanged by q mob of forty
men this morning, near his home, two
miles from Perry, in this county. Too
much CATTLE"
Year: 1877

When / was bowman of the lar
board or chief mates boat, in the
Druid, we lowered one afternoon in
chase of "Sixty-barrel bulls" on
what was known to the initiated as
"Middle Ground" between Aus
tralia and New Zealand. We made
fast to one of the whales, lively
fellow, who ran us something of a
dance before we succeeded in CIV
ing him his death wound.


But all the time our steed had
been running US to leeward, and
meanwhile the captain had struck
another, and the ship kept her luff,
so as to support the windward
boats.


The second mate also kept near
the captain, and when our whale
went in bis "furry," which was
not until nearly sun-down, we
could make out from the maneuvers
of the ship that the boats were
windward of her.


The sun was just dipping when
we got hole cut in our whales
nib-end, and strap rove for towing.
A dark cloud-bank was settling
down in the weather horizon, out
Of which strong wind might be
expscted 81 short notice. An
a.tenps with q single BOAT 70 tow
the whale to :he win5nasa, wocl6
Year: 1877

THERE is an old saying, still ex-
tant, about certain class of people
who always "hang themselves"
when sufficient amount OF rope is
allowed them. A recent exemplif-
cation of this axiom has been noticed
in an open letter to the Dispatch"
bearing such striking resemblance
to another editorial on the same page
as to elicit the remark from disinter
ested persons that they must be
twins.
Year: 1877

LISTENING 10 EVIL REPORTS.
The longer live the more l feel
the Importance Of adhering to the
rule which l have laid down for
my self in relation to such matters.
TO hear as little as possible what
ever is to the prejudice Of others.
TO believe nothing Of the kind Till
I am forced to 1t. Always to mod
crate as far as can the unkindness
which is expressed toward Others
Always to believe that II the other
side we're heard, very different
account would be given Of the
matter. -Carus's Life of Simeon
Year: 1877

His Triumphant Tour Through Ohio.
Dayton, Sept. 1.-THE Presidential
party left Fremont in special coach
this morning on the HIS train and
stopped only at the most important
stations, at every one Of which hun
dreds Of, people had gathered to see the
President. at Springfield vast num-
ber of people had assembled at the
depot, to whom the President said a
few words, simply referring to his
speech of last January, and stating
that he was endeavoring in all faithful
ness to carry out the policy it fore
shadowed. AS the train moved off
cheer after cheer was given by the
people.


AS the train entered Dayton cannons
were fired and constant cheering was
kept up by thousands Of people.


At nine o'clock procession pro-
ceeded to the residence of Mr.. Ander-
son, where several thousand people had
assembled, and loud calls were made
for the President, who spoke as fol-
lows:


My Good Friends of Dayton: When
l last had the pleasure of speaking
from this door, remember there was
a great deal of anxiety felt throughout
the country regarding the presidential
election-not so much as to the result
of the election as the manner in which
the result should be ascertained. While
1 cannot remember what then occurred
to me to say, 1 do remember that you
seemed to agree with me that lawful,
peaceable methods were alone proper to
be pursued in ascertaining that result.
The general wish of the American peo-
pie is in favor of determining every
question that may arise between states,
between state governments and the
national government, and between the
people of different races, in lawful
and peaceable manner, and accordingly,
when these devolved upon me the chief
magistracy of the United States, it
occurred to me that the American peo-
pie would be glad to have such methods
applied to the relations then existing
between states and between white and
blacks, as would if possible settle these
differences peaceably, and bring back
the republic to the condition in which
it was one hundred years ago, when our
fathers were one on all questions. If
this meets the approval of my friends
at Dayton, then 1 am very sure that
what has been done has been done with
proper motives and in spirit which
you approve. The particular way men
may differ about, but the end 1 feel
confident men cannot differ about.
Year: 1877

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE esti-
mates for the support of the army for
the present fiscal year have been pre-
pared by the War Department and sent
to the Treasury Department, which
will transmit them to Congress at the
extra session. These are the only esti-
mates to be sent in.


The question regarding the Presi-
dents sending the usual annual mes
sage and report of executive depart
ments to the extra session has been
considered in the Cabinet. 1t was
agreed that the message and accompa-
nying documents should relate only to
the business for which Congress is to
be especially convened, and not to gen.
eral subjects of legislation. 1t is
thought therefore that the message will
be brief.
Year: 1877

After the death of Crazy Horse his
body was born to his village, where the
mourning friends paid their humble
tribute to his memory, after which the
village moved toward Spotted Tail
Agency to lay the remains away. They
say Red Cloud Agency is not on hal
lowed ground.


The feeling among the Indians is
generally good. They say that Crazy
Horse was 1.-THE man without ears,
who would not listen to counsel" His
father remarked that the whites had
killed his son; but he was fool and
would not listen; it was a good thing.
Good Voice, one of the Brule chiefs,
says the Indians do not blame the
whites for killing Crazy Horse, and
that he brought it all upon himself.
These assertions go to show that most
of the influential men among them are
on the side of the whites.


SHERIDAN on CRAZY HORSE.


Gen. Sheridan says: "Crazy Horse
was mischievous and dangerous NAL
content, and it is good thing for his
people and us that he is dead. He was
the most vigorous and aggressive of all
the Sioux chiefs, and but for him the
late Indian war would not have been
so formidable. Crazy Horse welded a
potent influence over all these thous-
ands of Indians who favored hostilities.
Not only was he the recognized leader
of his immediate followers, but his in
fiuence extended to most of the other
bands, and as q leader he stood head
and shoulders above Sitting Bull. The
latter has grown famous on suppositi-
tious achievements, and has taken
credit for Crazy Horses generalship,
and such victories as he has won.
Sheridan says he never heard of Crazy
Horse until in the winter of 1856.
He took prominent part in the grand
council which was held during that
winter on the Little Horn, and was in
strumental in bringing about the gen.
eral war that ensned. His prominence
and influence have been spreading ever
since. He was the rival of the old
chief Red Cloud.


Crazy Horse understood some Eng
lish, but would never converse with the
whites except through an interpreter.
He was naughty and imperious, and
has been known to punish refractory
members of his band most cruelty, and
still his personal popularity was great,
except with other chiefs, who will prob
ably rejoice in secret at his death. He
leaves a herd of horses behind him
mostly Crazy Horses, including four
squaws, who were wives to the famous
chief, their numerous progeny, and
number of rational equines, which were
not immediate members of his tribe.


For six weeks his wives and children
will howl their anguish at his grave at
daylight every morning, and boiled
beaver, fried buffalo tongue, and other
delicacies known to the Indian cuisine,
will be heaped on his tomb in prodigal-
ity, that he may not want for grub
while on his route to the ''happy hunt
ing grounds"
Year: 1877

1T is said that there has been unusual
activity among counterfeiters since the
subsidiary silver coin was put in circu-
lation. The Treasury detectives claim
that they have made an average Of sixty
arrests month since January. About
bushel Of the spurious coin has been
gathered up by the detectives, and
nearly all of it is so well made up as to
pass unchallenged in ordinary business.
The crooked stuff captured is mostly in
half-dollar pieces, though there is a
sprinkling of quarters.
Year: 1877

growled. | knowed something must
be up, or he wouldn't have acted so
and crept up and peeked through the
shutters. There was a feller a-crackini
the eribsas cool as a cucumber"


"'Ah my boy, I've got you,' says
l, as 1 slipped in through the door,
which he had left unfastened ; but /
had crowed before l was out of the
woods, for the chap heard me comm
and quick as lightning his lantern was
out, and l felt a blow on my head that
knocked me nearly sensible, and the
fellow rushed past me into the street.
Goodbye says l to myself, 4 don't t
expect you'll wait for me to come out
and catch you;' but here again I was
mistaken, for the feller was waitin' for
me, though much against his will
Banjo had quietly taken a grip in the
slack of the gentleman's trousers, and
then seated himself on the curbstone.
1t warn't no use for the feller to swear
and kick; Banjo held on like grim
death until come up and relieved
him.


"Its nearly time Banjo come in
from his rounds. Oh here he IS
How are you, sergeant He amt
really a sergeant, you know" whisper
ed the officer, "but it kind of hatters
him to call him one"


Banjo wagged his stump of tail at
the officer, and walked gravely over to
inspect the visitor. He gave him a
cold, scrutinizing glance out of a pair
of clear, brown eyes, and apparently
took a few mental notes for future re
ference then he went over to the off
Ger for a few minutes conversation.


Banjo is not a large dog I; he is of a
square and rugged build, covered with
a rough brown coat of hair slightly
tinged with gray for he is growing to
be quite a veteran-he has no ears or
tail to speak of, and has shrewd, in
quisitive, but strictly honest air. He
wore a new silver collar, and seemed a
little vain of this ornament.


"That collar" said the officer, "was
bought for him yesterday, when we got
a license for him. This is the first day
he has worn it. Well, Banjo, l sup
pose you want to turn inf you would
only take pipe, my boy, it would rest
you ever so much-but we never could
learn him to smoke"


Banjo nodded, and walked sedately
off to bed.
Year: 1877

Around the fire, one wintry night


IT,. farmers rosy children sat;
The fagot lent its blazing light


And mirth went round, and harmless chat
When, bark a gentle hand they hear


Low tapping at the bolted door,
And thus to gain their willing ear,


A feeble voice was heard implore;
''Cold blows the blast across the moor,


The sleet drives kissing in the wind;
Yon toilsome mountain lies before,


A dreary treeless waste behind.
t9Iy eyes are dim and weak with age;


No road, no path can descry;
And these poor rags i'll stand the rage


Of such keen inclement sky.
$50 faint am, these tottering feet


No more my palsied frame can bear;
Ny freezing heart forgets to beat


And drifting SHOWS my tomb prepare.
"Open your hospitable door,


And shield me from the biting blast;
Cold, cold it blows across the moor,


The weary moor that have passed..
With hasty steps the farmer ran,


And close beside the fire they place
The poor half-frozen beggar man,


With shaking limbs and pale-blue face.
The little children focking came,


And chafed his frozen hands in theirs;
And busily the good old dame.


A comfortable mess prepares.
Their kindness cheered his dropping soul,
And slowly down his wrinkled cheek
The big round tear was seen to roll,
And told the thanks he could not speak.
The children then began to sigh,
And all their merry chat was o'er;
And yet they felt, they know not why,
More glad than they had done before.
Year: 1877

A singular accident happened in one
of the mills in Oswego, New York, a
few days ago. A workman, who wears
a very long beard, was at work over a
shaft, which caught his beard and
wound it round and round in twink
ling. Another workman thrust heavy
stick into the cogs, stopping the shaft,
else the mans neck would inevitably
have been broken.
Year: 1877

If a man wants advice he can have
abundance of it any day free as air
only that, like everything else, it bears
relative value to its price. The cost
lest advice of all Fate sells us-expe-
rience; and she sometimes so well be-
salts it in answer to our demand that
our broth is so bitter it seems asifonly
hunger of life made it endurable. Ex-
perience, too, is like broth each one
having tasted keeps his own and can
not transfer it.
Year: 1877

If we die to-day the sun will shine
as brightly, and the birds will sing as
sweetly tomorrow. Business will not
be suspended a moment, and the great
mass will not bestow thought upon
our memories. as he dead" will be
the solemn inquiry of a few, as they
pass to their work. But no one will
miss us except our immediate oonnec-
tions, and in short time they will for
get and laugh as merrily as when we
sat beside them. Thus shall we all,
now active in life, pass away. Our
children crowd close behind us, and
they will soon be gone. In few years,
not a living being can say, II remem-
ber him." We lived in another age,
and did business with those who slum-
Der in the tomb Thus is life! How
rapidly it passesl
Year: 1877

Fight your own battles. Ask no ia
vors of any one and you'll succeed
FIVE thousand times better than any one
who is always beseeching some ones
patronage. No one will ever help you
as you help yourself, because no one
will be so heartily interested in your
affairs. Men who win love do their
own wooing. Whether you work for
fame, for love, for money, OF for any
thing else, work with your hands, heart
and brain. Say 81 willw and some
day you will conquer. Never let any
man have it to say: "I have dragged
you up-I have made you what you
are"


After all, let man take what pains
he can to hush it down, human soul
is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession
for bad man to have. Who knows
the metes and bounds Of it? Who
knows all its awful perhapses-those
shudderings and tremblings, which it
can no more live down that it can out
live its own eternity?
Year: 1877

SPOILED HIS PIETY.-Horace Gree
ley used to affirm that newspaper men
were the most patient people, as class,
on earth and he was not far from
right, though there are times when pa
tience ceases to be a virtue with the
most enduring. Nearly everybody in
Michigan knows Burr, who used to
start a newspaper about once a month
the year round, generally bringing
them out in Grand Rapids, but some
times making a flying trip to other
points. Burr could stand to be told
that he lied about circulation, was on
the fence as politician, and that he
didn't know anything about publish
ing a paper and when men threatened
to sue or thrash him, he only smiled a
sad smile and wished that mankind
wouldn't get excited. During a reli-
gious revival in Grand Rapids, Burr
was converted, and it frequently hap
pened that religious people called at
his Office to talk with him. One day
a minister came IN, and, after talking
awhile, he proposed prayer. He was
in the act of kneeling, when his foot
struck one of the outside forms, which
was leaning against a leg of the impos-
ing stone, ready to be lifted up, and
over it went, making half bushel of
pi. Burr looked at the ruin wrought,
and then commenced taking off his coat
saying;


"Tm trying to be a Christian, and set
a good example, but damn my but
tons if I can't lick you in just two min
utes."


The minister backed down stairs in
no time, dodging the mallet on the
way, and Burr backslid at once, and
went down for a pint of stimulants.
Year: 1877

Ihe acqulttal of ALEXANDER SULLIVAN Of
the charge of numbering FRANCIS HASroRD


will occasion more surprise in other CON-


munities where the circumstances Of the
shooting were known than in this city.
Since the disagreement of the jury in the
first trial, the evident sympathetic leaning
OF the Judge to the accused, then disclosed,
and the apathy that set in upon the failure
to induce the Judge to resign or refuse to
SIT in the case again. led to general appre-
hension of an acquittal in the second trial,
Ihls apprehension passed almost into con-
viction when, q day or two utter the trial had
begun, the Prosecuting Attorney announced
that be had evidence that at least one of the
jurymen had perjured himself in swearing
he was not acquainted with the accused nor
pre]udiced in his favor; it was suspected
that more than one in the jury tried the de-
PENDANT rather in a friendly than an impair
Elal spirit, and this suspicion has been
strengthened BY his absolute acquittal Of all
Year: 1877

We print elsewhere communication from
q French citizen, taking exception to an az
ticie upon compulsory education in France
which Was recently printed in The Chicago
TRIBUNE The principal objection Of our
correspondent, and the only one of conse-
quence, is the statement Of the illiteracy of
one-third of the population of France He
seys: II do not wish to charge TEE Tnm-
uSE with prejudice against the French peo-
pie; but I claim to possess sufficient author
lty to show that sucn an accusation is a mis-
representation, and your informer is en-
tirely wrong on the subject" AS TIE Cal
uAGo TRIBUNE does not wish to be suspected
of prejudice against the French, we have no
hesitation in saying that our informer is NJ
"ADD1sGTos, the French Minister of the
Interior, who made the statement officially
to the French Assembly.
Year: 1877

Sereral correspondents of Democratic pa
pers have been telegraphing that ex-Pres1-
dent GRANT was doing ali in his power to
St. Louis Glde- Democrat has given publicity
to the same report But the statement is
wholly false. Gen. GRANT did not lift a
finger or utter word against his confirma-
ton. He is very friendly to Gen HAYES,
and warmly approves his Southern policy,
and desires it to succeed If Gen. GRANT
ha1 been member of the Senate he would
have undoubtedly voted to confirm any one
of tie new Cabinet, recognizing the obvious
p1opriety as well as right of the President to
have Cabinet of his own selection.