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Year: 1878

1t is truly astonishing TO witness the
apparent love and admiration for Ben
Butler that has sprung up in the breast
of Dame Democracy. Ii is only a short
time since she spoke of him as Beast
Butler, or That Old Thief" or Old
Spoons" but now, he ha. brought his
other optic to bear on her, and the an
cient Dame shows that she is no prude.
nor even a coquette, who delights in
long wooing but lets her aged ahec-
ions gush forth AT The first sympathetic
glance of his uncertain ewes.


There are those who, pretending n
knowledge of the Dame, explain tha,
all this display OF affection is only put
on Tor the occasion. They say the life
she has led during the last few years has
cansed her 10 be summed by good soci-
ETY.; that she has lost all eelf-respec,.
and in spite Of repeated warnings, has
sunk so low as At last TO have lost all
bope; that her condition renders il nec-
essary that she should not bc over nice
in the selection OF her associates. and by
an alliance with Butler she hopes 10 re-
gain her former wealth. position and
power. This explanation may be true.
aud yet the opposition that has srisen
in certain quarters. noticeably among
her children, would indicate that there
is some real affection existing between
the two, if it is a fact that 1.-The course OF
true love never did run smooth"


This opposition is confined TO a few of
the older and better educated bows in
the family. These boys remember her
as she was ia the days of her pride.
when the world knelt at her feet. They
have stood by her in adver.ity and have
pitied her when they could not excuse
her crimes. They believe she might We,
reform. and once more attain position
OF trust and honor, if she will lorsake
her present associates and return 10
those principles which gave her power
They see. in the proposed alliance. only
deeper degradation and an addi tionaI
disgrace TO the family, and threaten to
leave the house and even TO change their
name. If il is not given up.


On the other hand. those boys who
have been more directly under her in.
fuence during the last few years. who
have become worthless aud shiftless
who have shared aud gloried in her
downward course till thev have ceased
10 feel that disgrace is possible. art
clamoring for the alliance. These ar,
by far the greater number, and are ths
ones to whom the Dame delights to lis
ten. The willy Butler has so wrought
upon their sympathies and pandered tc
their passions. that they rush to his de
fence as quickly as il the alliance wa,
already consummated. There is littl.
doubt that this class will carry the day
and those who oppose will be compelled
to accept the situation, or depart ano
dwell with their neighbors.
Year: 1878

in boat across Mulroy Bay. The valet
drove back into Milford and alarmed
the police, who on coming
to the place found the
driver still alive but unconscious. He was
removed to Milford, but died shortly after
wards. There is no doubt that the murder
was agrarian. 1t was committed near a
farm from which widow named Algoe, a
respectable Presbyterian, had recently been
evicted The relations of His Lordship
and his tenants were never of friendly
character His lands were let at very
low rent, and the consequence was that
when he evicted tenants he had to pay away
large sums in compensation under the land
act. In some instances the amount exceed
ed the fee simple Of the holding. He was
kind and liberal to the poor, but very par
ticular and exacting in his dealings with the
tenants, visiting with unsparing severity the
slightest infraction of the rules of the estate.
He was not deferred by the high price
which he had to pay for it from exercising
his legal rights Many evictions have oc-
Cured, and it is stated that eighty more
were in process of being carried out. Some
of the lands from which tenants had been
elected were converted into pasturage.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star


New ORLEANS, April 15.-Some days ago
a Snowman entertained the people in the
vicinity of San Antonio, Texas, with con-
test between bull and lioness. and yes
terday he gave performance by attempt
ing to get up a tirst-class fight between some
Mexicans and four bulls The bulls declined
the wager of battle, and nothing remained
but to drive them from the arena in dis
grace Two thousand citizens of Texas, who
went to see the encounter, were not to be
disappointed, and SO the bull which van
quished the lioness was pitted against the
lion. The monarch of the forest was badly
beaten by the monarch of the prairie in a
terrible and bloody fight and when the
lioness was let in as a reinforcement to her
liege lord, the bull, after tossing them over
his head, pinning them to the bars of the
cage where they fought, and chasing them
in ignominious fight, turned away from
the contest in proud and sullen triumph.


Just before the bull was lassoed there was
a very pretty scene. The two lions were
very close together the crippled lion hud-
ding up close to the terrified lioness, The
bull advanced on them in a trot, but just as
he was upon them he seemed to realize their
helpless condition, stopped short, and after
eyeing them for few minutes, slowly
walked off in another direction.


Just at this juncture, when everybody
supposed the fight over, the old Mexican
bull-fghter who had failed to have a fight
in the morning, entered the arena and de-
clared his intention of fighting the victo
rious bull. Just before the bull was turned
in the mans wife interfered in the most
emphatic manner. She said her husband
would kill any bull in the world if he was
sober, but now he was drunk.


His mother, who must be upwards OF
ninety years of age, added her voice to that
of the wife, and the spunky old man, who
is veteran of the Bull Rings of Mexico
was taken off The victorious bull is ono
of the most extraordinary fighters ever seen
Arrangements are to be made to fight him
against the Mexican next Sunday, when
something still more tragic may be ex
pected.
Year: 1878

hold, coupled with the fact that the Cir
cassianS would not allow them to be closed
for fear of being suffocated.


At 6:45 smoke was seen coming out of the
fore hatch, and the vessel was shipping
heavy seas. A little later she grounded on
a sand-bank; one heavy sea drove her on
the coast, and she sprung leak There
was no working the engines. Meanwhile
the fire increased, and the confusion and
cries of the Circassians are said to have been
something awful.


Seeing the fire could not be put down, the
matches were closed with the consent of the
Circassans, and so upward of five hundred
lives were sacrificed to save the rest. Dur
ing the night attempts were made to extin-
guish the fire, but without success.


On the 9Th the surviving immigrants were
landed The captain and crew fled from
the wreck, as the Circassians threatened to
murder them.


The Circassians had fires, it is said, in the
hold to keep themselves warm and to cook
with, and it is not surprising the fire origi-
mated from the accident at the upsetting OF
one of their stoves
Year: 1878

He proceeded 81 have been with them,
and they cannot be reached, nor do be-
lieve, from the sentiment expressed Ivy
the press of New York, that they would
ever he given up


Are YOU quite sure the third party
Is not in custody in Ireland?" quericd
the reporter and he received the reply
thas he was not only not in custody, but
not in Ireland, Finally the person who
supplied the above information assured
the Herald representative that as soon as
the safety of that party was beyond all
doubt (and he intimatcd that it would
not be long until il was SOY he would
cheerfully supply further details, and
would place toe document containing
what he called the head work at the dis
posal of the Herald readers.
Year: 1878

Two children were making the most Of the dsv.
On the sand their castles building:
While out on the harbOr the sunset gold


Was every vessel gliding.
But the sea came over the castle dear


And the charm of the sunset faded
%, after labor j. lost may we


20 happily home as they did.
For We build and we build in a different way
III our heads grow wise aud hoary,
And after II all, the sun goes doWn


And the sea-'tis al old, old ttory
Year: 1878

WHEN we are young we waste a great
deal Of time in imagining what we will
do when we grow older, and when we are
old we waste an equal amount Of time in
wondering why we waited so long before
we began 10 do anything.
Year: 1878

AN English writer says: White
hair isso becoming 10 the face that many
women are never pretty till they are
old The long reign of hair powder
which lasted through a century is an
immortal tribute 20 the beauty Of old
age
Year: 1878

We shall all of course pinch the eagle until
he screams with exultation over the victory
won by the Columbia oarsmen. 1t was a
triumph secured by skill, courage and endur-
ance of which we have reason to be proud.
So let us exult. But let Us not complain and
cry "foul play" because we failed TO carry off
all the honors. We may believe If we choose
that the other race rightfully belonged to us,
but it is mean to impugn the motives of our
adversaries. We can afford to wait until
next time, and then justify by victory the
faith that is in us.
Year: 1878

THE crude character of the army bill in
some of its pretended reductions appears
from the fact that the clause obliging the
government to find quarters for officers will
require immediate expenditures Of large sums
at most of the prominent stations, very much
in excess of all the savings under the act for
several years to come
Year: 1878

THE assertion is made in Washington that
it can be proved by broker who handled the
money that Weber was twice purchased in
connection with the change in the Packard
legislature, and that he received a direct offer
of money for his late testimony. Nothing is
more probable.
Year: 1878

we do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
smunications that are not used.
Year: 1878

WHAT has become of the terrible sanjac-
scherif, the banner of the prophet, which the
Turks were to bring out when driven to the
wall? England sought to frighten Europe
by saying that the unfurling Of the green
flag would be signal for the uprising of two
hundred millions of Mahometans and the
breaking out of savage religious war. Well
the Turks are in extremity and still the
sapjac.scherif is furled. Can it be that Eng
lands horror of the green standard comes
from her fear of the Irish color.
Year: 1878

This popular saloon having been
reflited and painted, is again open
TO the public, The PFC sent pre-
prietOrS will endeavOr TO merit the
liberal patronage heretofore be-
slowed and propose TO increase its
popularity by generally reducing
the cost OF food, while fully maim-
tanning The quality and quantity.


40 EXCHANGE STREET.


porE
Year: 1878

We would suggest to greenback
men everywhere the propriety of call
ing county and township conventions
to make county or township nomina-
tiOns, instead OF club meetings for
that purpose. Those are political di-
visions known to the laws politics and
people of this country. A county or
township club can hardly assume to
epresent the people of "a county or
township.
Year: 1878

Msi6en, thank thee for thy face,
Thy sweet. shy glance of conscious eyes3
For, from thy beauty and thy grace,
My life has won glad surprise.
i met thee on tho crowded street.
A load of care on heart and brain
And. FOR q moment, bright and fleet,
The vision made me going again.
And then thought. as on I vent.
And struggled through the throrsing ways {,
How every ages complement
The ago that follows oyerInys.
The youth upon the child shuts down;
Young manhood closes over youth;
And ripe old age issbut the crown
That keeps them bod in chapgeless truth
So, every little child see.


With brow and spirit undeflcd,
And simple faith and frolic gie6.
Finds still in me another child.
Toward every brave and careless boy
Whose lusiy Shout OF. call hear.
The boy within me springs With joy
And rings an echo to his cheer
What was it. when thy face saw.
That moved my spirit like broeze.
Responsive to the primal law
OF youth IS enhancing harmouies!
All! young maid-so sweet ard shy
Building each day thy fair romance
Thou didst not dream q youth passed by.
When returned thee glance for Elauccl
For all my youth is still my own,-
Bound III the volume of my age
And breath from thee hath only blown
Tho leaves back 10 tie golden page!
SESFN.
Year: 1878

Our statesmen did not hesitate moment
to increase the pay of the President and of
Congress men, but when subsidy was
asked to put line of steamers on the
ocean to Brazil, they were shocked at the
waste Of public money! As the grim
Puritans prayed, from such good Lord
deliver us. '1h& p a..
Year: 1878

ST. VINCENT's BOARDING SCHOOL, DONALD.
WILLIE I'm advertising columns will be found the
card Of this prAiseworthy inStuton Situated in one
Of the most healthy and conveniently located towne in
the South, about sixty fvo miles up the MissisSppi
from New Orleans, and under the control OF that
Order the Sisters Of Charity it affords every
advantage and facility for the education OF young girls
One fact of very special Importance to people il
that the charges hAvo been reduced TO about o
what they the price for board and tuton, wash
ing mendng bed and bedding for the year. being only
alSl
Year: 1878

Prof. Youmans, in Popular Science Monthly.


When we begin to use telephone
for the first time, there is q sense of
oddity, almost of foOlishness, in the
experiment. The dignity of talking
consists in having listener, and there
seems kind of absurdity in address
ing piece of iron, but we must raise
our respect for the metal, for it is
anything but deaf. The diaphragm of
the telephone, the thin iron plate, is
as sensitive as the living tympanum to
all the delicate refinemeDts of sound.
Nor does it depend upon the thinness
of the metallic sheet, for piece of
thick boiler plate will take up and
transmit the motions of the air parti-
cles in all the grades of their subtlety.
And not only will it do the same thing
rs the tympanum, but it will do vastly
more; the gross, dead metal proves, in
fact, to be hundred times more alive
than the living mechanism of speech
and addition. This il no exaggeratiOn.
In quickness, in accuracy, and even in
grasp, there is perfection of sensitive
capacity in the metal, with which the
organic instrument cannot compare.
We speak Of the proverbial 'quickness
of thought but the telephone thinks
QUICKER than the nervous mechanism.
Let word be pronounced for a per-
son to repeat, and the telephone will
hear and repeat it a hundred miles
away in tenth part Of the time thai
the listener would need TO utter it.
Give a man q series of half q dozen
notes to repeat, and he cannot do it se-
curately to save his life; bat the iron
plate takes them up, transmits them
to another plate hundreds of miles OF,
which sings them forth instantaneous
ly with absolute precision. The hu-
man machine can hear and reproduce,
in its poor way, only a single series of
notes, while the iron ear of the tele-
phone will take up whole chords and
strains of music, and, sending them by
lightning through the wire, its iron
tongue will emit them in perfect rela-
tiODS of harmODy
Year: 1878

DEMOCRATS are again bowling about the
preparations of a judicial wrong" Judge
Okey's decision in the Barnes VS.. Wright
case has furnished them with the best Op
portunity TO continue the kind of lying in
troduced by that worthy leader and eminent
liar, John G. Thompson, when few years
ago he exhorted his followers to ''claim
everything, and do it exultiDgly." Since the
decision above referred to, many Democrats
have declared that the decision was a COM
plete surprise to the Republicans, to Barnes
attorneys, and to Barnes himself; that after
the evidence had closed and the arguments
were finished, every person was fully con-
vinced that Wright was elected and fully ex-
pected Judge Okey so to decide. This is all
unmanly, dishonest, silly twaddle, but it is
not at all surprising that our democratic
friends are disappointed and sore. From the
very first they insisted on making question
which was purely Judicial one political
one; they looked at it only from political
standpoint. Every Democratic attorney res
ident of st. Clairsville, great and small, was
counseled and used in the trial of the case
And tho Central Committee of the county, we
understand, also took deep interest in the
matter; the party throughout the county was
appealed to, and urged to come to the rescue,
not in judicial and candid spirit, but in the
most bitter and partisan manner. This was
wrong. After the people had cast their bal
lots it was no longer question into which
party feeling should have entered. The law
provides a way and officer to determine
whether Barnes or Wright had received a
majority of the legal votes cast by the people.
In the way prescribed by law and by the
proper officer the matter has been decided
against Wright, but these hot headed parti-
sans insist that it has been decided against
the Democratic party, and while the case is
still pending, both individuals and the press
are engaged in manufacturing sentiment for
the purpose of influencing future decision.
On the other hand the Republican Commit
lee, attorneys, Except those retained in the
case Ey Mr.. Barnes press, and party have
throughout the county taken no further or
other interest in this than is done in other
cases of Importance. Mr.. Barnes and his
attorneys have been left to make such pre-
sentation of his case to the Court as he saw
fit. No effort has been made to stir up party
feeling. 1t was matter for the Court and
not the people; and now We have aged and
bitter partisans who have never been known
to take other than a party view of matters of
this kind, and callow youngsters assailing the
integrity of His Honor, Judge Okey, because
he did not render juegment in favor of the
Democratic party. The thought that the
Court was non-partisan seems never to have
occurred to these people, Bellaire Inde-
pendene, 14th inst.
Year: 1878

not inclined to forget what -.e had done when
the elections of last year were coming on;
and there are men now on this floor who
courteously and tenderly, because of his
years, ability, and long service, wrote to his
people advising them to trust him again, and
expressing the belief that the scenes of 1876
would not be repeated. And on these as
surances he is here to day: here to-day to as
sail those who believe in redeeming the plight
ed promises of the nation.


On the issue he and his associates raise my
choice has long since been made 1t is an is
sue of such tIanscendent importance that it
may render all others absolute. 1t is the
struggle of honor against dishonor; of law
against anarchy; struggle in which the peace
and ssfety of both employer and employed,
Government and people, may be involved.


In such contest care not into what party
the issue lands me or in what company it
finds me; when it comes l shall stand with
the men who defend the money of the Con-
stitution and the faith of this country. Zap
plauseI And we cannot be moment too
soon in understanding the nature and designs
of those who are preparing the conflict.
Year: 1878

SPEAKING of the result of the election in
New Hampshire the New York Tribune says
that ''the Republican party is in no condi-
tion to tolerate sulking. If men like Mr.
VIM E. Chandler have, for any cause, kept
out of this campaign or away from the polls,
they have missed their purpose. They meant
to damage the Administration, but the chief
injury they have really wrought is upon the
Republican party ITSELF This is no time to
be holding out of the contest with view of
teaching anybody lesson. When the field
has been lost, it will profit no one who hopes
for political future, to be only able to up
braid his associates and say, & told you so.
New Hampshire does not show that the Re
publicans need to lose their power. 1t only
shows that either wing is able to show it
away"
Year: 1878

The EMPERoR's DANGER.-Of the first
attempt to assassinate Emperor William,
Berlin letter writer says-of the effect
upon the people, and its cause:


while the escape of the emperor does
not lessen the indignation of the people, it
renders them camer and better able to
appreciate the significance of the incident,
and the result is feeling Of serious un-
easiness and anxiety The event opens
out vision of possibilities which had
hardly been considered, and which are
appalling. have never known Berlin SO
grave, and even depressed as at this
abrupt and startling summons to prepare
for unseen and terrible dangers, to resist
a foe whom want, hatred and sentiment
can apparently drive to the point Of des-
peration. 1t does not seem to be believed
that Hode! had accomplices. or that any
general plot existed. His act was appa
rentIy his own, but the socialist papers
found on his person, bis known connection
with Social Democrats at Leipsic, and the
style of his seif-justitication before the
officers, leave little doubt that he is the
product Of revolutionary sophism, work
ing upon mind full of sentiment and
vanity"
Year: 1878

THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SuN-On
the goth of July tota' eclipse Of the sun
takes place under such circumstances as
to present opportunities that occur scarce
Iy once in a generation, for the study Of
some Of the most interesting phenomena
with which astronomers have to do. The
path Of the tota'ity Of this eclipse runs
across the centre Of the uated
States from Montana to Texas, and is
somewhere about l4O miles wide. Many
Of the best points for ob.e'ving the eclipse
are therefore directly accessible by rail
road, and several expeditions might be
sent out fully equipped to as MANY differ
ent points, without spending so much
money upon them all as it would or1inari,


y take to equip a single expedition to a
more distant point
Year: 1878

Napoleon visited those sick Of the
plague in order to prove that the man
who could vanquish fear could vanquish
the plague also, and he was right. 1t is
incredible what force the will has in such
cases. 1t penetrates the body, and put it
into state Of activity which rppeIs all
hurtful influences whilst fear invites and
propagates them.
Year: 1878

Oleomargarine appears to have already
become amazingly popular. Very large
quantities of it, we are informed. are sold
in this city and it is said that 25,0Oo
pounds of it arei daily sold in New York
It is a wonderfully geod imnitation OF
butter, and is made with great care as to
cleanliness and the character Of the mater
ial used. Though nothing can be accepted
a. a substitute for good butter, this article
is probably better than poor butter, which
is one of the poorest things in the world
That olcomargarine is destined to be very
extensively used as butter and for cooking
purposes there can be no doubt, and that
its extensive use will reduce the price Of
genuine butter is certain. 1t may have
the affect also to induce those farmers who
make poor butter to. produce better ar
ticle. On the whole, therefore, the inven
ton of o]eomargarine may prove public
benefit; but as for US, give us:real butter OF
give us dry bread.
Year: 1878

has never lived life. He has always said
"Ifyou strike me will strike eYback," and
he has kept his word. The nature of the
Indian is not naturally treacherous but Is
made SO by treatment. He strongly advo-
Gated carrying the word Of geod into Their
midst and said It would take but one tenth
of what is spent on standing army to
colonize and civilize them and put an end to
all troble on the border. '"