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Year: 1877

Only seed-but II chanced to fall
In little cleft of city wall.
And taking root grew bravely up,
Till a tiny blossom crowned It's top,
Only flower but it CHANGED that day
That burleDed heart passed by that way !;
And the message that thro' the flower was


sent,


Brought the weary soul sweet content.
For it spoke of the lilies so wond 'rously clad;
And the heart that was tired grew strangely


glad


At the thought Of q tender care over all
That noted even sparrow's fall.
Only thought-but the work it wrought
Could never by tongue or pen be taught;
For il ran through life, like thread Of


gold
And the life bore fruit a hundred fold.
Only a word-but twas spoken in love,
With a whispered prayer to the Lord above;
And the angels in heaven rejoiced once more;
For newborn soul entered IN by the door.
Year: 1877

Stll - MAssILIoN, May 22d, ~
Editor Stark Co. Democrat s.aaa ss...n


Permit a'subscfiber to express his en-
dorsement of your views so forcibly sugs
gested in an article ON the subject of a
nomination for the Office of Clerk of the
Courts in your issue of May 18th.


The facts and inferences are strictly
true and every impulse of gratitude for
past service, and every hope for the fu-
ture usefulness OF the paper over which
you preside, points to the nomination of
John McGregor for that position. He is
competent, energetic, honest and true to
the traditions of the party of his choice,
Those of us who were of the party in
times of peril, and remained there to la
Dor for its deliverence from radical rule,
can comprehend the terrible Chasm that
had to be bridged before reaching the
plain sailing that to-day assures us Of a
successful cruise. e'


Then candidates in a tournament for
barren honors of a nomination were not
SO easy, nor yet 80 numerous, but those
who loved the party for its principles,
believing that right must ultimately pre-
vail, through scattered primary vote Of
few hundred put ticket in the field,
and went through the motions of sup
porting it, to see it knocked into pi when
the ideas of October came.


At last success perched on our long
trailed banner, as the reward of the firm
ness and vigilenCe then manifested, and
now alhthat is required is a judiciously
selected, fairly nominated ticket to war
rant victory.


That such may be chosen, and when
practicable, be given to those who have
labored the longer and the more effectu-
ally for the health and strength that is
in us should be our cooperative aim.


With ticket thus fortified, we will
move on to conquestand score majority
in "Old Molly Stark" that will silence
radicalism and nought will be heard of
the late proud, intolerent horde but
funeral dirge. in the substantial aid of
which send greeting the pledge Of
.s. PERRY.


The writer of the foregoing has been an
active, earnest, devoted Democrat Of
Stark county for over forty years and a
gentleman of reading and culture. We
gladly give bis views.
Year: 1877

THAT the Republican party in this
county is on the verge.of a general break
up must be apparent to all. Their City
Executive Committee showed by their
action that change of tactics must take
place. The Republican leaders having
been cutting the thing too thick, the
rank and file give notice that they will
no longer stand it.--Cin. EnqiIirer.
Year: 1877

special to tho Star.


MR.. KEY WILL NOT RESIGN,


WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-The Postmas-
ter General stated yesterday that the
story OF his resigning was distilled from
the alembic Of fertile Imagination.
tie said be was as much surprised as
any body when his name was announced
for the Cabinet; that he accepted the
position in the spirit of harmony in
which 1t was rendered, and that since
his association with the Cabinet moth
lug has occurred inconsistent with tho
spirit OF his selection. He said that he
had no idea of resigning, but would
exert all his efforts to aid the President
in his desire to pursue policy designed
to reconcile the conflicting elements Of
the country, and that he proposed to
stand by the Administration so long as
this course was pursued.


SECRETARY THOMPSON
leaves for Indiana tuis morning. He
has allowed copies of Senator sareent,s
letters on his file to be made, and takes
the ground that he has nothing in the
operations OF the Department to be kent
secret.
Year: 1877

Under date of April 6, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company issued CIT culars to their agents throughout the State as follows:

 To enable our patrons to get suffer ing stock to a pasturage We will, dur ing the present dry season, ship sheep and cattle in large bands at reduced rate Agents will at once communI- cate with Stack-men in the vicinity of their stations, ascertain to what points i, is desired 10 ship, and as nearly as possible give the date of shipment and number 10 be fOrwardrd, when a low rate will be given This reduced rate is not intended to apply to fat stock seeking a market.

 Without doubt this will induce many people t3 ship stock 10 Southern Arizona, where grass is abundant al all seasons The dreaded Colorado Desert is no longer terror to the stock-deaIer. Even very poor cattle and sheep may now be safely and quickly brought from any part of Cal ifornia 10 Yuma, and from thence the Gila valley can be followed
Year: 1877

READ this, then try Rubber Paint. All
keep it, This Paint is composed of the
purest and most durable material here
tofore used by painters, of which pure
Linseed Oil, pure Carbonate of Lead, and
Oxide of Zinc, combined with a large
proportion OF India Rubber, are chemi


cally united in such manner as to form
a smooth, glossy, firm, durable, elastic
and beautiful paint, which becomes
firmly cemented to the substance to
which is supplied. In ordinary paint
the acid used in corroding the lead in a
short time consumes and destroys the oil,
which is the life OF the paint. In this
paint the rubber and chemicals are
so united with the pigment and oil that
this corroding matter is entirely neutral.
ized, and permanent chemical com.
pound is formed, and the paint remains
for years rs elastic and brilliant as when
first applied The alkali ana acids used
in other mixed paints cause them to
chalk, peel crumbe and waste away in
one or two years. of which we have
abundant proof. No acid, alkuli, nor
lime enters into the composition of the
Rubber Paint. The Rubbcr Paint is
unaffected by changes oftemperature, is
imperyious to water is adapted to MI
Year: 1877

S F. COMBS, is one of the most lively
and witle.awake men of Seattle, just the
man to run an employment Office, where
reliable information can he secured
There is great necessity for such an office
to find work tor the great number oI
new corners, who arrive on every
steamer. All in search of help, call on
mm.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Dec ia telegram
was read to-day by President Hayes from
the San Francisco Six Companies, repre-
senting that gang of $50 Cinnamon who
had just reached the city from Sacramento,
robbing and crually beating them aud
seriously injuring more than Fifty OF the
number. No interposition by the police
for their protection and no arrests were
made, The companies also call the at
tention OF the president to the intimation
of the governor of California. in his address
to the Legislature, that a mob may become
too strong for control. They represent the
helplessness of their people, without
diplomatic protection. and remind the
president of the obligations of the United
States government for their security under
the provisions of the treaty. The presi-
dent said be would give the matter inn
mediate attention.


Information having reached the treasury
/ department that shipments Of trade dollars
are being made from San Francisco to east
of the Rocky mountains for domestic circu
| latioB, instructions were to day sent to the
| Pacific coast mint to receive deposits OF
silver for returns 10 trade dollars only in
cases where that coin shall be actually re-


quired and intended for export to other
countries. Ii this restriction should not


prevent the sending of the trade dollars


east tor domestic use, it is probable tha


the receipt of bullion for coinage int


trade dollars will be iuterdicted for time
Year: 1877

Tho bill to prohibit tho salo Of
seed cotton between sunset and sun
rise passed a third reading md was
sent to tho Senate.


Tho bill to extend the time for
county officers elected at tho last
general election to qualify, was
passed to third reading.


Message no. 2 from the governor.
was read and referred.


Adjourned.
Year: 1877

Gen. Sherman protests against the bill
which has passed the House limiting the
army to 1000 men. He turned up before
the Senate Committee on Appropriations
with this protest last Tuesday, the very
day after the House had passed the bill
against which he protested. 1t was gross
piece OF impertinent interference. What
right has he to protest against the legisla-
tion of the House, to dictate the strength
OF the army, to say what amount of public
money shall be expended upon the mill
tary establishment Congress should curb
his attempts TO go outside of his ONCE, or
issue his protests against the action Of the
House, upon which he is dependent for his
salary. ..
Year: 1877

THE VANDEhblLI pCANDAL
The city journals of New York


have in the past few days furnished
plentiful narratives Of murders and


suicides which far transcended the


usual tragic bill Of fare daily set be-
fore the devotees of sensationalism.


But the most shameful and disgust
ing of all the New York horrors was


that which is being developed by the


contest over the V anderbilt will. 1t


has been justly remarked that con-


tests over wills are the most unseem-


ly and deplorable of all contests, and


exhibit human nature in one of its


worsts aspects. Certainly human


nature was never exhibited in an as


pect more fruitful of family scandal


than this over Vanderbilt's will


promises to be. The contestants of


this will are either defaming the tes-


tator or the devisee as never kindred


were DETAINED by kindred before, that


is if the statements of Mr.. Lord, the


opening counsel for the contestants,


are true.-lt is not eass to believe


that a man of Commodore Wander


bits intellect had not the capacity


to make a will, but if the charges
made by the contestants are estab-


lished Mr.. w. II. Vanderbilt, the


principal heir, would better have sac


ri6ced half his claims than to permit


such scandal as this exposure must


prove to his family and the commun-
ity. He might have avoided it by


the payment of a million of dollars to


the dissatisfied heirs. The testator
left to them, ten in a number, FIVE
millions of dollars, and the remain
der of his estate, estimated at ninety
FIVE millions, to his son, William H.
Vanderbilt. If his son is willing to
risk such an expoure for the purpose
of holding on to his enormous for
tune, the contestants do not seem to
show any more decency when they
seek to enrich themselves by defil-
ing the nest in which they were hatch
ed. There never was stronger ex-
of the apostolic state
ment that "the love of money Is the
root of all evil" The evil to the
community is even greater than to
the Vanderbilt's, for such a display
of the gross weaknesses and vileness
of humanity as embodied in some in
divduals is wrong TO the moral
sense generally. 1t would be we'll if
these miserable family quarrels could
be settled before referees, as divorces
can be in New York, where the trial,
though technically public, is in the
fact private. Without reference to
the merits of the question in the
Vanderbilt case, nothing more re-
voting could be made a matter of
public exhibition by relations against
each other, and both sides in permit
ting such thing for the sake of
if it could have been avoided,
are contemplate.
Year: 1877

Gen. Sherman, who draws $4,000
a year from the Treasury, and feels
aggrieved when there is motto use
his own words-''some sort of a
fandango" that he can attend in
Washington every night, demands a
large army for the country and a
costly staff for himself. What is
taxation to him when surrounded by
his staff What is retreuchment
when issuing orders to his regiments?
What is anything but the whirl of
grayety when he is at fandango?
Year: 1877

Tho short section Of the Direct United States Cable
Company's line between Now Hampshire and Nova
Scotia is interrupted This does not, however, affect
tho due transmission OF kilograms to Europe which
are now forwarded to Nova Scotia by tho land lines
Year: 1877

another were overtaken and captured,


and on Friday last Shaw's murderer


expiated his crime on the sczfiold In the


presence of several thousand people, as


serting his innocence to the last. The


whole surroundings of this case render


1t one of the strangest in modern
criminal annals. The threats of ven-
geaDce INDUCED in by the murderer,
the eircumstantial evidence on which
he was, condemned and the attempt to
prove an alibi were in themselves


worthy of note. The. glamour of ro-
nance which was next thrown around
the trial by the self-accusation Of the
idiot brother produced for the time be-
ing revulsion in public opinion, while
the tw % separate escapes of the prisoner
from Jail showed determined spirit
and STRONG love for life. It is not
often that a murderer, outside OF legal
has so many avenues
which seem to point to freedom, and
yet which at last are effectually closed
against him.-Balt. American, 17th.
Year: 1877

militia seem 20 have borne themselves with
exceptional coolness, and the dead and


wounded are on the strikers side. 1t is
strange enough that these men, desperate as
they are, do not see that their violence is folly,
and can harm no 'one in the long run but
themselves. A great railroad corporation
cannot be crushed by gang of rioters, and
the cohesive power of mob is too slight to
allow it to keep together, even for its own
protection, more than a few days. At the end
of that time they will find themselves out of
place, out of pocket, out of reputation. The
right to strike is inalienable, but there are
times and ways of striking that are both fool
ish aud wicked
Year: 1877

MILAN, n, H., July 1S.-The resident and


surrounding population hereabouts is greatly


exercised over the recent discovery in the


town Of enormous gold and other valuable


mineral deposits. The extravagant reports
which have gone forth have brought
hither many experienced miners and
prospecters, and so extensive has been the rush
that Grand Trunk Railway has established a
regular station at the point of the auriferous
discovery, which is about hundred miles
from Portland, Me-, and only dozen miles
from the famous summer resort of Gorham,
N. II.


The discovery was accidentally made few
days since by Mr.. FOgg on farm which he
had owned for upward of twenty years. He
sold out the whole tract at fabulous sum to
81. K. Flagler, of Boston. That ''there is
millions in it is believed by everybody h re,
and the assays which have been made warrant
the opinion that this country is rich in gold
and other minerals.


The vein which has been discovered is over
eighteen feet in width, with well defined
walls, running northeast and northwest, and
extending for over q mile. The lede contains
copper and lead, carrying gold and silver very
rieh, the ore being clean and solid from wall
TO wall A blast put in a few days ago and
throwing ten tons assayed as high as $3.50 and
$3.50 per tea, fifty per cent of the mineral
product being copper, twenty per cent. each
Of gold and lead and ten per cent. OF silver. Z


Pending the excitement Mr.. Flagler is un-
decided whether he will work the whole mine
himself or dispose Of portions Of it, In any
event the new Ell Dorado promises to bring
this heretofore secluded section prominently
before the country, and the rural residents
are getting ready for the anticipated repro
ductioa of tho scenes Of early mining life in
California.
Year: 1877

The Harrisburg (Pa-) Telegraph labors un-
der the impression that the people who de-
feated treason and saved the Government are
TOO indifferent to the efforts of the ex rebels
10 gain possession of that Government. 1t
closes long article in Thursdays issue a.
\ follows: ''We take the condition of affairs in


the South at the present time as the truest


illustration of the blindness of the people of


the North. In every instance where the old


Democratic party has succeeded to power
there the result has been war on what Is
known as the loyal element Of that section.
The action in reference to the Louisiana Re
turning Board is the true reflex of this resent
ment The attack on these officials is not
because they did an illegal act, but for the
reason that they were az impediment 70 the
success Of as deeply laid conspiracy to get
control of as was that of 1860 to dest. oy the
Government. nd the singular feature Of the
transaction is that the people Of the North
are Indifferent TO the fact. The action Of the
Democratic leaders in the South now turns on
point of equad hostilityto the Republican
NOrtn as II ulO III lCOV. i ne uid5s Vi mcn II
the North do not see it in this light, but the
moment the South is strong enough to carry
all its plans into action it viii be made plain
to every observer. The people Of the South
have policy which must forever remain in


imical to the people Of the North and the
Government of the whole country. They live
and labor. pray and hope for restoration, not
Of business prosperity, not Of financial health,
but or their political prestige, of the reimburse
ment of their losses in rebellion, the reassump-
tion of their ann ulled political rights, and the
re-establishment of old domestic conditions
At every peint of their advance to power since
the defeat of rebellion the Southern people
have manifested this disposition in plain &C.
ton, and when the great North can be brought !
to understand what this means there will be an |
uprising which will destroy another generation |
of political adventures, as was the case in the
generation which followed the awakening of |
1861" - -..r
Year: 1877

We have had great deal to say to
our young friends about temptation,
because ia youth Q PERSONS suscepti-
bilities are greater than at any other
time of life. There is much to be said
besides telling person what he should
avoid, or admouishing him to shun
this or that. The best way to avoid q
thing IL to cultivate something antag-
onistic to it; in fact, il one does not do
this his chances of successfully carrying
out his resolves are only half what
they might be. Tia person can acquire
q relish for good, wholesome, improv-
ing society, he will be In less danger
than IL he simply Stunned bad COM
pany, and the same may be said Of Q
good many other things. Among the
greatest protective agencies Is taste
for reading. One seldom sees person
of such tastes In the ranks Of the fast
young men who are getting In their
crop OF wild oats. There Is nofhing
much cheaper than such q taste; indeed.
IL Is wonderful how cheap are all kinds
of culture compared with the different
sorts of dissipation. A yo1ug man
who has his business to study and
whose livelihood and hope OF advancs-
ment in the world depends aliogesher
oa his own exertions, viii have BRIEF
time to devote to other things, bnt
such time may be well filled up, snd
by cultivating taste for that which Is
improving and elevating, In whatever
department It may be, any inclination
in an opposite direction Is efectuaily
destroyed.
Year: 1877

The weather is topic Of unusual inter est at this time all over the Pacific coast.

 and for that matter through the whole country at large. The weather-wise O. California have prophesied and drawn upon the records tO strengthen their pre- dictions. One fellow seemed. to himself at least, to have shown that dry years run In pairs, and that the next year would be

 no wetter than this. The $. F. Bulletin has thus disposed Of this fellows prophe- ey in two ways: First, 1876 can be classed as below the average in the matter Of rain fall, and therefore, if the pair" theory be true, next year or season must have more than the average of rain, and, second, that the records do not sustain the "palr" the. ory. The Bulletin concludes, judging by the most reasonable data on the subject, that the ensuing season and year there will be abundance of rain. We or South ern Arizona have at least month of the summer rainy season yet, and as we write (Friday afternoon) the sky to the east and south is overcast by heavy raIn clouds

 During the week, heavy rains have fallen

 here and there to the west and southwest and in some of the mountains northward, and only mere sprinkle in town. Thurs day morning a bright rainbow appeared and another in the evening. The sun has

 been hot but the breezes, owing to rains on almost every side during the week, have been quite cool. The nights have

 

 out blankets have been needed.

 4 signal service officer at Denver, says the planets are badly mixed up and are making trouble with the weather. He

 says:

 There probably will be the heaviest storm Of the season at or near the 18th, as the planets appear to be terribly mixed up on that day, and it would be well to look out for heavy trough or disagreeable) weather somewhere between the 2Uth and 3th. The principal disturbing positions Of the planets for August appear Co be To- cated about the 5th, the Sth and from the Fist and Jo the 18th.

 The 5th and Sth having gone by without any considerable storm in this section although Denver had d terrific one between those dates-we may prepare for an ele- mental disturbance from the 2Oth 10 the 27th. We consulted Capt. Gay yesterday, {, and while he adheres to his resolution to no longer play weather prophet, he is of opinion that we have a good chance for a lively storm about Feast days. For some unexplained reason, the Captain is of opinion that Us the rain generally has driven the Feasters from their booths to their houses, il will do so again, and if anybody has faith in prayer bringing raIn, they had better ask that 1T it cannot come down before, letit come lively during the Feast. We would by no means have MT. John H. Hovey make a losing on the Feast, but Capt. Gays hint may put him on his guard and he be prepared for 1t. Let the rain come anyhow.
Year: 1877

FIRST LIEUT. GREELEY, Fifth Cavalry arrived here from New Mexico, on the 18th, remained ull Wednesday when he went on westward on tour Of inspection Of the various telegraph offices in the Ter ritory. The Lieutenant Is a practical tel egrapher and on that account is detailed for duty in the Signal Service. We are informed that he Is anxious 10 go with the Howgate expedition 10 the north pole. We understand his desire In this partlcu- lar is not because or the late warm wealth CT, but because Of a proper ambition to Identify himself with the enterprise.
Year: 1877

DANCE at Levin's Park this evening. These evenings are cool and breezy, with brilliant moonlight. Levin Is al- ways on hand with good music and lager and other good things of life. His mission is to make people happy.
Year: 1877

PROBATE JUDGE WOoD has had a tedious case in the Berthold estate. The admin istrator's report on the administration of the estate has been contested. Judge Wood will render his decision next Mon
Year: 1877

tonary movements caused by new taxation, or serious
modification in her form OF Government or course tue
sufferngs to her people who heavily and unfairly
taxed by the deDreciaod will be greater than
the suffering Of the Treasury but IL IL With TIE later
only that during war men OF business have 10 deal