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Year: 1878

A MEMBER of the Maryland House o
Delegates informed that body a few days
since that normal schools were a Yankee
invention and utterly unsuited to the Ma
Tyland climate" The members name was
RAYNER, and the House believed what he
said. No wonder the BLAIR resolutions
were adopted by that body.
Year: 1878

NEW JERSEY keeps step to the music of
the Union. All of the town elections held
in that State the present year show such
large and decided gains for the Republican
candidates, that there is no doubt of her be-
ing found in the Republican column of
States the coming fall
Year: 1878

WILL the Democracy in Congress stultify
their record of the past several years and
indorsc the "lumping" process in the matter
Of appropriations for the Agricultural De-
partment? But as this Department is run
solely in their interest, of course they will.
When they have finger in the pie special
appropriations arc unnecessary.
Year: 1878

ONE man with the asthma one diseased,
and another, a ships apothecary, would
make poor Falstafl'ian squad; and POLK
ought to have known better. That soldiers
roll did the business for him.
Year: 1878

THE pungent remarks Of Mr. FRYE on
Wednesday last contained with their spice
20 much of truth and reason that they were
incontrovertible Thb POLK investigation
proved to be a serious matter for the Demo-
Year: 1878

We give below an extract from q letter
which has been received in this city from
an intelligent citizen, formerly Confede-
rate, but now ofthe Republican persuasion.
1t is very mild in tone and temper, but as
Year: 1878

of fair face is fine set of teeth. The
ladies being fully alive to this fact, pa
tronize sOZODONT in preference to any
dentifrice, since they know by experience
that it preserves like no other the pris-
tine whiteness and cleanliness of the
teeth, and makes naturally sweet breath
additionally fragrant. 1t is one of the
privileges of the beaux sex to look love-
ly and that proportion OF it which use
SOZODONT, has learned that the article
contributes in no small degree to the
end in view. All druggists sell it.
Year: 1878

reward of five hundred dollars will be paid
Tor information which shall be sufficient to procure
the conviction OF any person guilty of setting m.
cendiaTy fires in this city the present munjcpal I
year, the same to be paid upon the conviction OF
the incendiary. -


March 23d maya1.fiv
Year: 1878

MANY of our personal friends have been cured
by the PERUVIAN SYRUP, but we have one proof
more powerful than all these, and that is-OUR
OWN Personal EXPERIkNCEI No authority
can put this down. no argument can contradict 1t ;
and no good word shall be spared on our part un-
I'll a knowledge of this blessing shall be spread
broadcast among the people"
Year: 1878

AN Ohio man went out and hanged
himself the other day because a Col
umbus lentist told him his tooth was
affected with "nodular calcifcation of
the pulp" He left note to his wife
saying he didn't want to live on and
give it to her and the children. 'a#
Year: 1878

has only used the office as .
source Of revenue and to promote
the circulation of his paper, farm
ing it out to another who does
all the work and pays him all
the profits.


We are we'll assured that IT
these facts were known to the
head of the department, the evil
would be speedily remedled.-
We have only been restrained
from protesting against this no.
torious outrage and disgrace to
our city heretofore, by the re-
pugnance which every man OF
decent sensibillties feels 10 med
ding with any affair in which a
business rival, however contemp-
tible, is concerned; but Prosch
knows nothing Of such senti-
ments, and his ignorance and in
science has made further for
bearance unjustlfiable.
Year: 1878

Do You HEAR THAT?-A New
Orleans paper tells us Of a print
or who, when his fellow work
men went out to drink beer, put
in the bank the exact amount he
would have spent if he had gone
with them to drink. He did
this for five years. He then
looked up his bank account, and
found that he had laid up five
hundred and twenty-one dollars
and eighty-six cents. Think
about the afflicted. In five years
he had not lost a day on account
of sickness. Three out of five of
his fellow workmen had in the
mean time become drunkards.
The water drinker then bought
out the printing Office, and twen-
ty years from that time he began
to put up his money; he laid
aside a good many thousand dol
lars. The story teaches a les
son which every little boy should
lay to heart Youths Companion,
Year: 1878

about the matter, and the inven-
ton of the charge he makes on
that foundation is more coward
ly, because less dangerous, and
not q whit less infamous, than
deliberate forgery or perjury;
by all honorable men it will be SO
regarded, and to the general
contempt in which he is held as
cowardly sneak and imperti-
nent meddler in other peoples
affairs, Thomas w. Prosch adds
the unenviable character of a
malicious slanderer, who seeks
to blacken the reputation of a
citizen by deliberate lying.


From the same source comes
the charge by the sneaking de-
vice of inuendo, connecting us
with monstrous crime Of forging
Judge Lewis name to resigna-
ton. The forgery itself was not
actuated by a meaner or baser
spirit than that which dictated
this charge, or insinuatien, with
out a single incident connected
with the fact or with our charac-
ter to justify the lmputatlon. We
do not allude to 1T because we
have any fear that any man who
ever knew us would give it the
least credence, but to show the
reckless and unprincipled char
acter Of the assault, and to place
the brand of infamy upon Thom-
as W. Prosch as common liar
and malicious caluminator.
Year: 1878

RAILROAD SUBSIDIES. The two
thirds vote in the House of Rep
resentatives, as reported by tel
egraph, against subsidies, makes
a rather gloomy prospect for the
N. P. Co. We had hoped for
passage Of a bill granting the
proceeds of sales to the exJen-
sion of the road; but we believe
that it would be better for our
Territory to have no grant than
to have the pail of land monop-
oily spread over us for another
ten years, without any guarantee
for a railroad then.
Year: 1878

The gambling fraternity is par
ticularly interested in a decision
just made by the New York Court
of Appeals, as it indicates the
course likely to be pursued in COM
plants against them hereafter. Two
professional gamblers inveigled q
stranger into gambling den in
New York, not long since, and
feeced him out of his money. Fol-
lowing their arrest, the district at
torney having found it almost i'm
possible to convict gamblers upon q
specific charge of swindling in the
practice OF their pefarious profes-
sion, tried the experiment of indict-
ing the prisoners for larceny. Up
on their trial in the Court of Gen
eral Sessions their counsel contend
ed that their offense was not larceny.
the money having been voluntarily
surrendered, and it mattered not
how fraudulent may have been the
intent, SO long as there was no tres
pass. The district attorney took o
contrary ground. The judge then
charged for conviction, which fol-
lowed. The case then went to the
Court of Appeals, which tribunal
affirmed the decision of the Court
below, Judge Miller writing the
opinion and all the judges cencur-
ring.
Year: 1878

There appears to be no limit
to the dastardly RIGHTEOUSNESS of
a portion of the newspaper press
of this Territory under the con-
troll of men either ignorant of
the proprieties Of decent social
intercourse, or reckless Of their
own character and the rights of
others. So long as these vehi-
cles Of defamation are not only
tolerated but patronlzed by peo-
pie of decent social position, the
character of no man or woman
in community is safe from their
ribald attacks if they chance to
incur their venomous spite.


One of that kind Of newspa-
pers, which bears the same rela-
ton to legitimate journalism that
a common prostitute does to So
ciety, without shadow Of truth,
specifically charges the senior
editor of this paper with having
robbed the county treasury, in
the following words: cit would
be a worthy start in that diree-
ton Tcivil service reform1 for
him TO pay back to King county
fifteen dollars that he collected
for a certain voluminous piece of
writing supposed to be done in
the Thompson murder case, but
on which not a stroke Of the pen
has yet been made. Money OBJ
tanned as this was is looked up
on by respectable people as mo-
ney stolen"


This criminal charge is mali
ciously invented out of the fol
lowing facts: Before the final
records in the Thompson case
were closed or could be properly
entered it became necessary to
make up bill Of costs to the
Territory, in which our fees for
final record were estimated and
allowed by the County Commits
sioners at SIS, which we received
in county warrants and credited
to the county. Before the case
was terminated our successor
came in, and we have since paid
HIM in m oney the amount which
we received in county orders
worth so cents on the dollar

We entered up records for our
predecessor and we have paid
our successor for entering up
our unfinished records; and there
is no way in which the county
could be defrauded out of cent
by that transaction unless the
Commissioners should undertake
to pay the second time fees with
which the county stood credited.
The editor of the Tribune knew
these facts, if he knew anything
Year: 1878

our knowledge, in which the
public interests and convenience
so imperatively demand reform,
as in the Post Office in this
this city. The Office, under its
present management, is held in
a narrow, dark, and inconven-
lent room, with a passage to the
boxes and delivery window on
ly the width of a door way,
through which two persons can
not pass without crowding, and
only extending beyond the box
es, the floor of the same being
covered with dirt, making it an
unfit place for a lady TO enter at
any time, and especially when
there is any crowd waiting for
the delivery Of mails. These
inconveniences could be better
tolerated if the public could de-
pend upon prompt delivery as
soon after the arrival Of the
mails as practicable. Instead Of
that, the daily mails arriving
here from the south and east
at 10 o'clock in the evening, are
very rarely all distributed and
ready for delivery before eleven
o'clock Of the following day; SO
that persons taking daily papers
from abroad for the purpose Of
getting the latest news must ne
glect other matters during busi-
ness hours to go or send to the
Office, or wait till evening for
the mail they were entitled to
receive in the morning. This is
in utter disregard not only of
public rights and convenience,
but of the rules and instructions
of the department. No blame
TOR this state of things attaches
to Mr.. Carr, the deputy, who is
faithful, courteous and pains-tak-
ing, but is the inevitable result
of allowing one man to hold an
Office to be farmed out to another
for the special interest of the in
cumbent, regardless of the rights
of others, which prevailed under
the spoils system.


On the resignation of Mr.. Gill
liam, Delegate Jacobs recon-
mended and procured the ap-
pointment Of Mr.. Pumphrey,
who soon found that he could
not do justice to the Office with
out neglecting his own private
business, and scorning the device
of deriving a revenue from the
Government for labor which he
did not perform, like an honora-
BILE man he resigned; whereupon
Capt. E. A. Starr, sub-contract-
or for carrying the mails, with
out consulting any prominent
citizen of Seattle, procured the
appointment to that Office of I.
W. Prosch, a newspaper publish
er who had recently removed to
this town after spending his best
energies for a year or two pre-
vious in misrepresenting and vii
llfying Seattle under subsidy to
an adverse interest; thus secur-
ing to himself a Postmaster who
would not report to the depart
ment anything adverse to his
patron and an editor whose pa
per has ever since been devoted
t o his defence. Nothing is bet
ter for a mail carrier than to
own the Postmasters on his route,
and so successful have the STAIRS
been in this that not a report of
failure or delinquency has ever
been made against them from
this office, though the occasion
for such reports have been of al
most weekly occurrence. Prosch
Year: 1878

New Orleans say positively that Governor
Nichols will not under any circumstances
recommend the pardon of either Anderson
or Wells. 1t is thought that should Ander-
sons name be sent to the Louisiana Senate
for pardon his long service in the Senate
would give him the necessary twO-thirds to
secure him clemerRy; but for Wells, if con-
victed, there would be no such hope. But
Governor Nichols, it is reported, will not
give the Senate the opportunity of showing
clemency in either case.


Anderson Will Remain Collector.


New York, Feb. 15.-The Posts Wash
ington special says it is ascertained that it
is not the purpose of the President or Sec
retary Sherman to suspend General Ander-
son from his office of Deputy Collector at
the port of New Orleans, on account of his
conviction, by the State Court, for alleged
acts as member of the Louisiana Return
ing Board regarding the prosecution of
General Anderson as political persecution,
and not inspired in the interest of justice
or continued peace and tranquility. The
Administration propose to show their be-
lief in his innocence by continuing him as
a Federal officer, notwithstanding his incar-
ceration in Jail will prevent attention tC
his official duties. The office of Collector
at New Orleans being vacant and there be
ing no person in the office authorized tC
perform the duties, on account of the alb
sence of Anderson, Secretary Sherman has
ordered a special agent of the Treasury De
partlnent to take charge and perform the
duties of Collector until one is duly ap.
pointed and qualified
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to The Star.


BALTIMORE, Feb. ia large meeting of
prominent business men was held last night
in the Academy of Music in this city, called
for the purpose, as advertised, of prevent
ing an organized opposition to all move
ments looking to depreciation of the buy
ing power of the money in which the wages
of labor and the obligation of the creditors
are payable, whether by dcbasement Of the
coin or by paper imitation.


The meeting was organized by the cleo
tion of Hon. John II. B. Latrobe President
of the Honest Mems League, the object of
which, he stated, was not to enter into the
question of the propriety of the single or
double standard system. THE true issue, "
he SAID lis, shall we strike one-tenth from
the compensation and the savings of all the
workmen and producers of the country,
cripple the lenders, and dishonor the pub
lie faith? Private interest, public policy
and common honesty can give but one an
Swer"


Others, who made brief addresses.


Some confusion was created by several
parties speaking in opposition to the inten-
tionS of those by whom the meeting was
called, but for whom respectful hearing
was secured A committee was appointed
TO collect funds to assist in carrying out
the objects of the League. The Executive
Committee will meet to-day and arrange
for another public meeting next week.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press 10 the STAR


Hartford, CONN, Feb. 15.-The funeral
of Hon, Gideon Welles took place yesterday
afternoon at his late residence on Charter
Oak avenue In accordance with the wish
es of the deceased, there was no public
demonstration. Prayers were offered at
the house, after which the remains were
borne to St, Johns Church; where the ser
vice OF the Episcopal Church was read. AT
the conclusion of the church service the
body was taken to Cedar Hill Cemetery,
where it was deposited in the vault, after a
short but impressive service.
Year: 1878

The marble statue of Trumbull, by Ives,


has arrived in Hartford from Rome, and
been set in position on the east front of the
new State House. standing on the south
side of the tympanum on which the Charter
Oak tree is carved 1t is seven feet high
and weighs two tons. The statue of Sher-
man, by the same artist, will stand on the
other side, and will be put in place next
spring.
Year: 1878

The proposed reduction i'll Western-bound
freight rates will not take effect at present
owing to the fact that the announcement
got into the papers before the managers in
tended to have the fact made public
Year: 1878

The cause of the laying of soft eggs is
want of sufficient calcareous matter and the
stimulating effects of pepper and warm feed.
Some wheat screenings should be given in
place of so much corn and potatoes, which
are too rich in starch and defective in lime
and other materials needed for eggs. Give
every day, TO the sixty fowls, one pint OF
the following mixture: peck of ash of
burned bones or oyster shells, finely pow
dered, one pound of flowers of sulphur, and
one peck of wheat bran. This should be
mixed with some scalded meal, used moist,
$50 that the. mixture will adhere to, its.-
Year: 1878

A daily ration of green food is actually
necessary for laying hens.- Vegetables,
either cooked or raw, are much relished al
so, and serve in some measure to supply the
place of green diet. Onions, chopped fine
and aixed with their food, are exceedingly
Wholesome, and if not cure are certainly a
preventative of disease in many instances.
Growing chickens axe even more anxious
for green food than laying hens. They
crave it, and when necessary to be housed
from it on account of inclement weather, it
should be provided foythem. There is no
green food SO wholesome for them as onion
tops cut up fine.
Year: 1878

Commence the new year with firm de
termination to live without getting in debt.
If you fail to make crop, you have simply
made no progress. IEYou succeed, it is al
your own.


Cultivate only the best land. If'you have
a surplus, selNit and use the proceeds in i'm
proving what you retain. Concentrate your
resources instead of diluting them.


Diversity your crops. Do not attempt to
win success by,a single venture- You mage
ba fortunate, bat the chances ARE against
4au.- BuAall csops rarely fail ina-singh
Year: 1878

thlnk 1t delusive, but an investigation will, /


venture, prove my estimates too low.


The soil of our bench lands varies in rich


ness as we'll as depth from Our low valley


lands. In some locations it is even richer
than the valley lands above described, while
in other localities its proportion OF lime is so
light that its yield OF products, after few
years, grows perccptiby less year after year.
The variance of these toot hill or bench


lands l attribute to the difference of the
material of which they are composed. The
soil of the foot hills or table lands is made
from the rook Of the mountains lying along
by them, and in those sections where the
mountains are composed of granite, slate
aud dolomite, it appears to be quite desti-
tute Of lime, and a continuous cultivation
causes q decline in the yield of products. In
those sections where the mountains from
which the soil was made is composed OF
lime rock, the soil is rich, lasts longest, and
produces the best yields. The loss of lime
from irrigation is very considerable, proba-
bly, more than is taken out OF the soil by
the removing Of the crops produced. But,
upon lands composed largely of limestone
formations, irrigation and cultivation appear
to improve it. The small parcels Of lime
rock, when saturated with water and then
turned up to the air and sunlight by the
plowsllare, seem to dissolve and spend their
strength in the soil, giving it new substance
which is equal to the loss by drainage and
plant food carried away. For potatoes this
soil is the best, the yield is largest and the
quality best. They are meally, and much
better than those grown upon land contain
ing less lime. The lime land is also hest
for wheat, but wheat may also be success
fully grown upon the lighter granite soil
lands. when the proper discretion is prac-
ticeu in cultivation. WILL.
Year: 1878

The American matron in Westm mister
Abbey moves along corridors and over
bones of the departed in state of badly
suppressed dismay. Used to walking
reverently around the grove of even the
humblest NOR ality, to see herself and
brood actually treading upon the most
majestic of tombs is more to her than
paganism. On second tour of the Ab-
bey was in the train Of such a dame
a fairly read intelligent lady, brim full
of reverence, one who at home worships
her minister and pays regular respectful
Sunday evening visits to the local ceme-
terry. She will never forget her .iaunt
through Westminster. Her running fire
Of horror came out in undertones in this
wise: "Anna, dear, you are standing
right on Ben johnson. James, my son,
don't stradle over Macaulcy in that
heather fashion. Mr.. Jones, you ought
to be ashamed to step on poor Charles
Dickens. Mercy on me, here am walk.
ing across Dryden" and the miserable
woman sat square down on a bench
above the bones of the first Archbishop
of Canterbury, and gave up trying to be
even halfway respectful in a minister
whose every passing stone is slab GOV
ering somebody who once made thu


world wonder or tremble.
Year: 1878

Danbury NeWs


"A Danbury grocery firm have taken the
agency for hammock. One of the ar
ticles they have hung at the front in the
shade of their porch. They hung it
there as an advertisement, bat numerous
people have got into it to see how it
worked. 1t hung so low they could cas-.
lily sit in it, and undoubtedly the motion
was agreeable and comfortable. But tn.
grocers didn't fancy this performance,
especially as the hammeck-sitters were
not hammock buyers. Saturday after
noon they removed the loop on one end
from the hook, and fastened it by a bit
OF twine instead. Shortly after man
came in for two quarts of molasses. It
was put up in his pail, and paper tied
over the top as he had forgotten to bring
a cover. When he passed out he saw the
hammock. His curiosity was aroused at
once. The. .grocers were busy inside, so
he thought he would investi gate on his
own hook. With that keen intuition pe-
cullar to New England man, he saw at
a glance that it was something to get in
10. He knew that it was nothing to wear
and was equally sure it could not be ar
ranged for cooking. He sat down in
it. Then he swung backward and lifted
his feet up. Then the twine fastening
gave away. Itwas dr. adful affair. He
had the pail of moslasses sitting on his
lap, and there was dog sitting uRder
the hammock. Neither the dog nor the
molasses expected any thing any more
than the man himself did. 1t was
a terrible surprise to them. The man
and the dog lost their presence Of mind


and even the pall lost its head The
molasscs went into bis lap, and ran down
his legs, and smashed up under his vest,
and insinuated itself some way in between
himself and his clothes. And when he
went down he hit the dog with his heel
on the back, and the dog was so wild
with terror and amazement that it sent
up head splitting yell and fed madly
down the street, having first taken the
precaution to bite him in the leg, and to
tip over tier of wooden water pals.
When the pals went down lot Of hoes
we're carried over with them, and that
started box of garden seeds mounted on
a box, and they in turn brought away a
pile of peck measures whose summit was
crowned with pyramid of canned to-
matoes. It was dreadful shock to the
man, and nearly paralyzed him with its
magnitude; but when one Article follow
ing another came avalanching atop OF
him, ne thought the evil one himself had
burst loose, and he just screamed as louu
as he could. The molasses was all over
him, and the garden seeds had adhered
to the molasses, and he looked more like
huge gingerbread stuck full of cara.
ways than anything else. In this awful
condition he wadd!ed home, and swore
every step OF the way.