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Year: 1879

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AMENDMENT OF THE PENSION LAW.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE House Com
mittee on Pensions has agreed to report a
bill further amending the pension law for
the benefit of the soldiers. The law of last
June increasing the pension to $72 per
month for all soldiers or sailors who have
lost either both hands or both feet, or the
sight of both eyes, is to be amended so that
pensioner need not have literally lost
these members, but by reason of paralysis
or otherwise actually lost the use of them
may receive the pension of $72.


Mr.. ADAMS SUCCESSOR.


Secretary Schurz and the President have
about decided to select practical Civil En-
gineer to succeed Charles Francis Adams
Jr., as member of the Board of Commits
sioners of the Pacific Railroads. The
trouble is to find such man who is willing
to accept the place and go over the roads
as Civil Engineer should do, in careful
examination of their condition.


LETTER FROM SENATOR GARLAND.


A letter received here from Senator Gar
land in Louisiana says the Republicans will
give no intimation of what their future
course may be. General Butler says he
knows the committee will not go to Massa
chusetts, and believes they are only trying
to drop out of existence without making
much fuss in their exit
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


LONDON, Jan. l7-4 p Mn consequence OF
street accident this afternoon, a crowd OF people
assembled in front of the London Bank.


A report was spread that a run had begun on
The bank. causing rush of people to Lombard
strcet. and a real run on the bank followed An
Immense crowd now lines the street, and the pres
ence Of police force is necessary to regulate
Gaffic
Year: 1879




New York, Nov. 20.-The stock ex-
change to-day was a scene of wild ex-
citement, consequent upon the renewal
of the downward movement of yester-
day. The transactions were the largest
yet recorded, and the fluctuations were
wide and violent. As soon as the mar
ket was opened there was great rush
to sell and prices tumbled rapidly, and
the pressure to sell increasing as the
morning advanced. at first the Erie
and coal roads took the lead, then
many of the new shares participated,
and finally the whole list broke down.
The decline ranged from to u per
cent. and was attended with an enor-
nous business in many of the active
stocks. The downward movement was
inaugurated by some of the large spec
ulators, who sold out last week, and
who, finding the market did not yield
sufficiently under their sales, made a
bold attack along the entire line, par
ticularly on the Erie and coal roads.
This attack was begun last Monday,
and continued with increasing force
each day until to-day. when it resulted
in the dscline already noticed.


The break in the morning caused
the brokers to call upon their customers
for more margin, and many of the spec.
ulators, being unable to respond, were
sold out, which assisted the general de.
cline.


Just previous to O'Clock money was
bid up to I per cent. per diem, and the
interest which checked the improving
tendency of the market caused reac'
tion in the final sales


The events of the day were freely dis
cussed in and out of the exchange, ant
the general opinion prevailed that the
market would resume its old buoyant
tone as soon as the leading operators
have acquired what stocks they want
The uncertain element in the situation
seems to he the time required to com
plete the ACQUISITION,
Year: 1879

OWING to the want OF knowledge
Of the fact in time our last issue
failed to chronicle the death of Mrs.
Alma Eastman, aged IS years, a
period that marks only half the al
loted time Of man; when the life
bud bursts into full sDlendor and
usefulness. But, "ln the midst of
life we are in death" Rarely is
this passage more truly illustrated
than in the death here recorded.
Mrs. Eastman had for nearly year
past been a great sufferer a, the un-
yielding grasp of the disease termed
by physicians as tubeIcular menin-
getus, causing a continually anxious
care to thwarth the happiness of a
tender husband and loring children.
AS a wife, mother and friend she was
alive and true to every duty. Her
habits were purely domestic /; her
family was her all, and she deemed
that her duty was at home, and no
woman ever discharged this home
duty more fully than she did. The
family-husband and three children
are called to mourn the loss of the
best earthly friend they bad. There's
extended to them the coincidence
and sincere sympathy of all their
friends in this time of great athiction,
in which there is pleasantness in
receiving such sympathy and kind
words when it is known they are
real. The body was taken to Wayne,
in Lafayette county for interment,
and was there met by large gather
ing of sympathetic friends who es-
corted it to the windowess palace
of clay. A good and intelligent
woman is at rest.
Year: 1879

to indulge in Intoxicating beverages
was mockery and sin, aud that of
the present generation several Incl
dents were cited to further prove
the great curse and 1elriment this
traffic is to the prosperity and happi-
ness of the country. Temperance,
without the aid of truly religious
spirit, was considered weak and
powerless. TO be an Influential tenn
perance apostle person should be
possessed of the essentials of faith
ful christian, was the doctrine of the
successful divine.
Year: 1879

Fresh cream candy AT j. Il. Hos
kings.


AN accident happened near Burton,
Grant County, on the 10th, ult.,
which is exceeding sad and pitiable,
aud was related as follows by a
correspondent to the Platteville
paper: a little girl seven years old,
named Annie Shaben, was left with
a younger brother at home, the
mother having gone TO call on a
neighbor. During her absence while
the little girl was taking fire from
the stove her clothes caught fire,
aud she was terribly burned before
her brother succeeded in subduing
the fire by throwing water upon her,
her clothes being nearly all burned
from her body I'm this horrible
condition, thinking the only thing
she cOulu 90 was 10 go 70 her mama,
she slipped on another dress and ran
the whole distance fully mile and
a quarter upon arriving and being
in the most eXcruciating torture she
could only articulate the word "fre'
and strange to say the people did
not notice the child but thinking the
house was on fire ran to the place
and there learned from the little boy
the true state Of affairs and upon
returning found the poor chad in
sensible. She fingered about three
days, when, daash snded her tortpres.
Year: 1879

Yesterday acas fools day, and twas
unanimously carried. The most
sanguine hopes of those who thought
there were two tickets in the field
dashed to dismay, and we retired
to our little bed 50 badly exhausted
from fruitless days work that its
impossible to speak loud enough to
drown the echo of the following
result
Year: 1879

TIE attendance at the High
School entertainment Saturday even
ing was beyond all expectations !;
and it might be truthiulIy said that
the whole performance was nore
mastery executed than expected, f,
agreeably surprising the audience
and repeatedly drawing out pcals Of
applause Each scholar who par
ticipated readily revealed the careful
and judicious drilling enforced by
the teachers. Like ia the blue-arch
canopy above, the stars were visible,
but no part in itself insignificant
Personal mention is unnecessary.
The great crowd in attendance will
gladly spread broadcast the merits
of those taking part. Seldom, if
ever, does any travelling company
give better satisfaction. A foremost
feature Of the evening was the music
by the Hoare Bros, between scenes,
which held the hearers fast in silence
and admiration.
Year: 1879

The public announcement that
temperance would be the subject for
discussion at the M. f. Church Sun
day evening drew forth large and
intelligent audience Reverend Balch
boldly battled in an able and logical
argument against the evils of in
temperance confning himself to the
duties of his members. He quoted
passages Ct, sculpture to prove thae
Year: 1879

Mr.. E. OSBORNE. spent all last
week in the east in search of new
and appropriate goods for this mar
ket, and he succeeded admirably
well, to which oil will agree when
you examine the stock which is now
coming in at his new stand on the
corner, three doors above post office,
where Horns hardware store used
to be. The goods being bought for
cash can and are to be sold at prices
that will surprise the oldest trader
in the west. Everybody invited to
call.
Year: 1879

thought there was going to be a
tornado, and filled their pockets with
rocks and laid down and held on
to the root of tree. Sam says Jack
ought to have known better than to
come home and tell.
Year: 1879

They ALL DO IT. - Even our
young and enterprising marble carv-
er submitted and was bound in holy
matrimony aud is happy. That he
was 10 dead earnest is self evident
from the trials and tribulations un
derwent on the eventful trip. Fred
Shepard and Miss Lou Pierce were
married at Dodgevillc on the Goth,
inst. by Rev. Cook. His good taste
in choosing was manifested by the
immense piles Of cake it was the
pleasure of numberless friends to
hide away on the bridal eve Our
best wishes are extended, and may
they he continually cheered By the
great fortunes of life.
Year: 1879

THE following letter was received
by the city clerk of Chicago one day
last week


TO the members Of the City Council Of Chicago,
Illinois.


thinking that you are interested. in the
said Of Chicago


eve the Father son eli the Holy Ghost in
Returning to you, and the inhabilant Of Chi
cago, our Regard For yCur appaus to the
aduteryc. of the East henry ward Becchcr,
and your Resent Reported appaus, to Bob
Engcrsoll, shall Repeat upon your city the
worst of Dcalructions OF the Past. Give
notice, TO your Inhabitant


the Holy Ghost


The "Holy Ghost" apparently was
not blessed with the school privileges
of the present age. The generous
people Of Chicago should raise a
subscription and send him to some
country school in company with
Mary and her lamb. This ghost
was in our city last night and sue
ceeded in soaring the wits out Of
some timid girls.
Year: 1879

mlssloners should be lust men, they
must be partizan, because If elected
by the people they represent the
people, and will be the easier influ-
enced by unreasonable and selfish
clamor to make an arbitrary and
ruinous regulation for a non.con.
formance for which 1 can be i'm.
prisoned. Surely honorable men,
because they unfortunately have
money and the disposition to give
men employment In constructing
public works, will not willingly in
dulge in what has heretofore
been regarded an honorable and
praiseworthy ambition, If they are
to be imprisoned like thieves for
refusing to permit some blackmail-
er or political hummer, under color
of law, (for such q thing is not un-
likely to run their investments
into ruin.


Mr.. Davis, the builder of COM
petitive railway which has never
received a dollar of the public
money, or subsidy, from any
source, next dwells upon the pa.
ralysis which will fall upon the in
vestment Of individual capital in
railway building, and upon the
diminished wages of labor, both oil
which would follow the adoption Of
the new Constitution, in a forcible
manner Referring to the precious
railway commissioner clause, he
says:


The Commissioners, to please the
public demand, fix the fares and
freights on our road at the mini
mum, which they are most likely
to do. The alternative left us will
be either to stop constructing and
operating, which we cannot do,
or else economiza so In
both that we can afford to go on.
AS labor is the chief factor in cost,
we will be forced first to reduce
wages, the most painful act con.
scientious man can do, but the
most inevitable. Now, do the la.
boring men, who are paid 81 70 pei
day, not know that as these ire
sponsible Commissioners, with
their hands at our throats, increase
their pressure, we must in like de.
gree, in sheer self-preservatien
screw down the rate of wages:
present this illustration in all
kindness, because it touches the in.
terest and welfare of every man in
our employ, in whatever capacity,
for IL resolves itself down to our ca
pacity to pay which the proposed
new Constitution regulates and de.
termines by the Objectionable
means aforesaid against our will.
Appealing, therefore, to the good
sense and intelligence of the mer
in our employ or in the employ oil
the contractors on our road, 1 ask
them in simple justice to them
selves and their families and tt
myself and associates whose money
pays for their labor, to vote against
the making of an organic Law
which will cripple me and them
and drive both capital and white
labor out of this fair State.


May it not be we'll TO add that ali
the ills the public have been sub
ject to by the alleged wrongs com
mitted by railroad corporations al
ready in existence, can be correct
ed at this age of the State by pri
vate capital engaged in the worE
of building Independent competing
lines of railroad. Would you, then
make it impossible for private cap
ital, without subsidy of any kind
to engage In an enterprise by
throwing in its way an unfriendly
fundamental law which would rem
der all such efforts unattainable
because restricted, hampered ant
Improbable.
Year: 1879

Rumors about the state house aud civ
tonight are to the effect that if the senate
tails TO agree with the house resolution to
adjourn SINE die, which is now in the hands
of the senate committee. the governor will
exercise his prorogation and prorogue the
legislature and thus force the adjournment.
In this event it is conceded an extra session
must be called.
Year: 1879

When the streets are muddy, and the
cars are full Of ladies coming and going,
the trick played by man on the four
teen ladies in Woodward avenue car,
should be frowned upon by every true
citizen. If again attempted he may get
himself into trouble. He boarded car
with rubber shoe IN his pocket big
enough to dit over a No. s cowhide boot,
and at a proper moment, when all eyes
were turned upon the car switching
past, he dropped the rubber on the floor
and then suddenly pretended to see it.
Bending over and picking it up he call
ed out:


(Which of you ladies lost this rub
ber?"


Every face turned pale at the size of
it, and each lady gave the other sly
glance.


"Some one In this car lost this rub
Der !" continued the human hyena as
it waved it around.


Not lady moved. Each one wonder
ed if one Of her rubbers had dropped
Off, but her mind was made up to wade
in mud two feet deep before claiming
that one.


"The owner can have It'll charge
nothing for my services" +" calmly OBJ
served the flend, as he looked down one
side of the car and up the other.


Not a hand was raised, but all feet
were drawn under the seat, as If by
machinery.


Every WE'LL" said the man, as he
rose up to leave the car. "I'm a rub
Der . head. 1t wont do the loser any
good to call at my office, or to send 4
boy and basket after this shoe, for |
wont give 1t up.
Year: 1879

y reporter was talking with an old
miner few days ago, who implicitly
believed that no death ever took place
In the mines wilhouta warning Of some
kind. "YOu see," he said "death new
er comes Of sudden upon the men in
the mines. You reporters write up ac-
cidents and how something gave way
or fell quick and killed somebody. Now
this amt so. There's always some
warning. When see my lantern begin
TO bnrn low down and blue, know
there Is danger ahead. II it keeps on for
few days and then begins TO waver
and flicker, IN watch it close 20 see
where 1t points. Now, you may set me
up for fool, but what Pm tellin' you
is gospel truth. When the flame leans
over (as If it was being worked by a
blow pipei, and points to man, death
has marked him. Some years ago when
Bill Hendricks was killed In the Saw
age, the 1ame of my lantern pointed
right 20 him for over an hour, and
when he moved the flame would turn
just as II Bill was load-stOne, and the
dame was a mariners needle. / knew
he was gone and told him to be careful
about the blast Well, he got through
that all right and got on the cage. AS
we went up, the candle kept acting
strangely, and at times the flame would
stretch out long and thin towards Bill
At length it gave a sudden flicker and
Bill reeled to one side and was caught
in the timbers. | heard his dreadful
cry as he disappeared down the shaft,
and while he was bounding from side
to side, dashing out his brains snd scat
tering his flesh down to the bottom,
my light went out. | never liz that
lantern again. 1t hangs up in my cab
in now, and 1t always will. There's
more In candle flame than people
think. III rather see a cooked revolver
pointed at me than a candle flame;
revolver sometimes misses, but a can
die fame Is sure to kill when 1t starts
owards man."
Year: 1879

A clock is now on exhibition in
Detroit, Mich, the work OF Mr..
Felix Meier, a mechanic, which is
said TO eclipse the famous clock at
Strasburg in complexity and inter
est. It stands eighteen feet in
height, and is inclosed in a black
walnut frame deliberately carved
and ornamented. The crowning
figure. is that of Liberty, upon
canopy over the head Of Washing


ton, who is seated upon a marble
dome. The canopy is supported
by columns on either side. On
inches below at the four corners of
the clock are four human figures
representing infancy, youth, man
hood and age. Each of these fig
ures has a bell in one hand and a
hammer in the other. The inches
are supported by angels with faring
torches, and over the centre is the
figure OF Father Time. At the
quarter hour the figure of the in


fant strikes it's tiny bell; at the half
hour the figure of the youth strikes
his bell Of londer tone; at the third
quarter the man strikes his bell,
and at the full hour the graybeard.
Then the figure OF time steps out
and tolls the hour, as two small fig


ures throw open the doors in the
column on either side Of Washing
Year: 1879

st. Louis Times-Journal: Wine
is a mocker, strong drink is raging
but soda water maketh q man be at
peace in his innermost parts.


1t sizzleth and foameth in the fla
gon, and the feeling thereof pene-
trateth even unto the soles of ones
feet and doeth. him good to the top
of his hair.


Oh, come let US sing a new song
unto the sarsaparilla, let US rejoice
in the vanilla cream. likewise in the
pineapple that pleaseth the palate
and the strawberry that filleth the
epiglottis with exceeding joy.


Why doth the son of man go
about seeking those waters of life
which doth prevail naughtily
against the nostrils and maketh one
to think that there be dead thing
therein.


The soda water entereth in unto
US and it quencheth our thirst, yea,
verify it purgeth our system for q
nickel, unless, perchance, the vender
thereof be of a froward heart and
demandeth dime. Belch not that
ye be not belched, for whose drink
Year: 1879

If young man hain't got we'll
balanced head like to see him part
his hair in the middle.


l don't take any foolish chances.
If wuz called on TO mourn over a
dead mule should stand in front
OF him and do my weeping.


There is no man so poor bat
what he kan afford to ceep one dog,
and have seen EN- so poor that
they could afford to keep three.


Isay to , thirds of the ritch peo.
pie in this world, make the most Of
your money, for it makes the most
of you. Happy thought.


L never argy agIn a success. when
see a rattlesnaix's head sticking
out of hole, bear of to the left
and say to myself that hole belongs
to that snaiX. ..r


There is one thing in this world
that money can't buy, and that is
the wag Of dogs tail.


Flattery is like colone water-to
be smelled of, not swallowed.
Year: 1879

The Exeter Newsletter says !:
"FOr farmers and those who live in
localities where people can retire at
eight or nine o'clock in the evening,
the old notion is still appropriate.
But he who is kept up until ten or
eleven or twelve O'Clock, and then
rises at five or six, because of the
teachings of some old ditty about
early rising commits a sin against
his own soul. There is not one
mai in a thousand who can afford
to do without seven or eight hours
sleep. All the stuff written about
great men vino sleep only three or
four hours is spocryphal. They
have been put upon such small al
lowances occasionally and pros
pered; but no man ever yet kept
healthy in body and mind for a
number of years with less than sew
en- hours sleep.
Year: 1879

"If you can get to bed early then
rise early; if you cannot go to bed
till late, then rise late. 1t may be
as proper for one man to rise at
eight as it is for another to rise at
five. Let the rousing bell be rung
at least 80 minutes before your pub
lie appearance. Physicians say
that sudden jump out of bed gives
irregular motion to the pulse. 1t
takes hours 10 get over too sud-
den rising. 1t is barbarous to ex-
pect children to land on the center
of the floor at the call of their nurs-
es. Give us time after you call us
to roll over, gaze at the world full
in the face, and look before we
leap"


There is a vein of sense in the
above, though we think, on the
whole, the old adage "early to bed
and early to rise" is the most in &C
cordance with nature, and so far as
possible we should live on this plan.
Especially should the young form
the habit of going to bed early.
When they do this they will enjoy
getting up early better than to be
crawling out after nine o'clock.
Year: 1879

DIR. Day, in a late lecture, says


that "whatever be the plan of treat


meDt decided upon, rest is the first


principle to inculcate in every severe


headache. Rest, which the busy
man and anxious mother can not
obtain so long as they can keep
about, is one of the first remedies
for every headache, and we should
never cease to enforce 1t. The
brain, when excited, as much needs
quiet and repose as a fractured
limb or an in1amed eye, and it is
obvious that the chances of short
ening the seizure and arresting the
pain will depend on our power to
bave this carried out effectually. 1t
is a practical lesson to keep steadi
ly in view, in that there may lurk
behind a simple headache some les
son of unknown magnitude which
may remain stationary if quietude
can be maintained. There is a
point worth attending to in the
treatment of all headaches. See
that the head is elevated at night,
and the pillow hard; for if it be soft
the head sinks into it and becomes
hot, which with some people is
enough to provoke an attack in the
morning if sleep has been long and
heavy"
Year: 1879

A Washington letter of the End
says: yesterday and to-day
brought to the city a number of
Democratic Congressman, officials
and politicians from the White Sui
phur Springs, where they have been
rusticating during the summer
One of the number, who is a jour
nalist as well as an official, says
that he made it a point during
his stay to talk with all of the pub
lie men OF prominence from the
South who visited the Springs on
the subject of the next Presidency
from the Democratic standpoint.
From what he heard he is firmly of
the opinion that the South favors
the nomination of the old ticket of
Tilden and Hendricks. He does
not believe that there IS any spec
ial love for Tilden among the
Southern people, but they seem to
feel that he is the man that can
win"
Year: 1879

1t is strange disposition in the
average man to always want to talk
of that of which he knows, practic-
ally, the least. The other day we
heard two disciples of Blackstone
making the neighboring angles vo-
cal with an animated discussion on
the science of agriculture; at the
same time, within earshot were two
merchants holding forth enthusias-
tically about the population of cat
tie; while not far off was an enter
prising farmer wrangling with q
brick mason as to the best mode of
running and gearing a tub-mill.
We are acquainted with lots of peo-
pie who know more of hygenic
principles and the virtue of medi
cine than all the doctors in the
land; others who know better what
certain passages of Scripture mean
than the Infinite Intelligence which
inspired them; and we would not
be. surprised if at any time some
self-sufficient rail -mauler were to
step in and deliver himself of few
practical suggestions on getting up
paper that would please every
body. If we knew exactly when
the latter intended to call we would
try to be at home.