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Year: 1878




The Indians fight, says General Sher-
man, because they would rather fight than
starve. They go on the warpath because
the government, which has made them pau
pers, does not give them enough to eat. He
is right Captain Jack. df the Modocs, said
ing horse !" which meant simply that the
government agents, who were supposed to
supply beef to the Modocs, found it more
profitable to feed them with the meat of old
horses.


In this way it is s'no great trick" as they
say out West, to get up an Indian war. 1t
would be easy to create revolt in almost
any poorhouse on the same terms. Starve
the paupers and they will fight, especially
if they have had notice before hand and have
been allowed to buy EARNS of precision"
and accumulate ponies for "a CAM
paign. General Sherman remarks that
the white people have use for all the land,
and that there is less and less room for the
Indians every year, which is also true A
nomadic tribe living by hunting requires,
as has been calculated, about two thousand
six hundred acres for each man, woman and
child to.yield them a comfortable support;
and at this rate it is not wonderful that the
advance Of the settlements presses on the
means of subsistence Of the Indians.


The Indians are increasing in numbers,
says Colonel Mallery; and they must be
more skilfully handled, says General Sher-
man. But SO long as they are forcibly ag-
gregated into tribes by the federal power,
and treated not as individuals, but as COM
munities or nations, SO long they will be
abused, and when they can no longer bear
the abuse will fight. It may be good be-
ginning to get wild tribe on reservation;
but it is only O beginning, and as soon as
they are there the policy should look
to getting them off it again. As an
individual the Indian is harmless and
will presently become useful; but the
reservation system makes it the interest of
q great number of greedy and unscrupulous
men to prevent him from becoming an indi-
vidual We agree with much that General
Sherman says, but the true policy with the
Indians requires that they shall be made
individually self-sastaining as rapidly as
possible and that every effort should be
made to get them of the reservations and
open for them ways for each man or family
to earn an individual livelihood. Instead
of that the present system has been shame
fully misused to compel numbers of In
dians, already peaceably living by useful
toll, to abandon the homes they had made
and be cooped up on reservations. That is
the grave and fatal fault of the reservation
system.
Year: 1878

The WEArHER.-The area Of low barometer
has now passed entirely into the ocean at Nova
Scotia, and the pressure has risen vert rapidly
In all the districts east Of the Mississippi River,
except over the eastern Gulf, where il has
Fallen. As the area Of high pressure moves
slowly eastward the depression that lies over the
West and Southwest begins to affect the weather
In all the districts from Manitoba 10 the Gulf,
end will very probably extend its influence into
kbe central valley districts and lake regions
during to-day. Very little rain has fallen during
Ehe past twenty-four hours, but there are indi-
cations of an advancing rain area from the
Southwest. The winds have been generally
fresh on the Atlantic coast, from fresh TO brisk
Over the lakes and Northwest and light else
where. The temperature has risen decidedly in
the West and Southwest elsewhere il has
fallen. Strong nortberly winds prevail over the
British Islands and the pressure is rising slowly
The weather in New York aud its vicinity
soday will be cold and fair, followed by
gradually rising temperature. Tomorrow it
promises to be slightly warmer and fair or partly


e0ady.
Year: 1878

One of the reasons given by the police for
the want of especial attention to city grave
yards is that ''body snatching has gone out
Of fashion = which. in the rough, is true
for this neighborhood, since the theft Of
body like that of Mr. Stewart is apart from
the ordinary offence of that name and its
motives differ widely from the ordinary
temptation held out for the supply of ana
tomical material But there is plenty of
recent evidence that the police do not per-
init themselves TO possess any knowledge
Of facts outside Of their respective precincts
if they do not know that at this present
time ''body snatching" is not out of fashion,
but in many places not far away is an oc-
cupation pursued with energy and success.
1t has not gone out Of fashion-it has only
gone West for did not o policeman at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, yesterday capture wagon
containing the bodies of s'four prominent
citizens who have been buried since Mon
day?" Perhaps there are wagons like that
on all the roads in Ohio; for since
the President concluded the appointments
he made Just after he went into Office we
haven't had word Of news about the people
of Ohio except in respect to the persistency
with which 'rascals dig them up and sell
them to the doctors. But it is not only in
Ohio that this ancient industry is main
tanned in full vigor, if we may accept as
facts the things sworn to in a recent murder
trial in Connccticut where not only body
snatching was shown to exist, but the more
dreadful institution OF Burking. There are
two remedies, one Of which must be pur-
sued by all communities that wish to pre-
serve decorum in their raveyards--crema-
ton nnnst be adopted in place Of burial, or
boys must be sent TO study anatomy in
great cities, where legal provision is made
for the supply Of material.
Year: 1878

The latest murder is fragrant and horri-
ble enough but as the criminal was taken
almost in the act, sthe case is without the
element of mystery and will not retain a
hold on public attention to displacs inter-
est in the outrage on the Stewart grave.
Perhaps, however, it will attract some atten-
ton, not in vain. to the queer world Of street
murderer were part. Migrants from all
parts of,the world seem to make up the
mass of that lower life, with a preponder-
ance of numbers ins favor of Chinese first,
and Spaghlo's countrymen or Levantines
next. In that world there are many
quarrels, and they are short, sharp
and decisive-for keen pointed
knife is to be found under every jacket-not
less under the jacket of the childlike and
bland John Chinaman than under that OF
the fierce and revengeful mongrel Italians
like Spagnlo. Drake was apparentlya bully
and q violent fellow-a sort of ''boss' in
the world OF pedlers-as may be inferred
from his administering knock-down blows
as discipline to those who refused to SUBJ
scribe for the benevolent purpose OF burying
his acquaintance. As between him and the
assassin he seems to have been an aggres-
sor, for the encounter which ended fatally
was clearly only continuation of the vio-
lent one of the day before but it is doubt
full whether in this relation there is any
element likely to make the crime less than
that of deliberate murder.
Year: 1878

NEXT EVACUATION DAY tho national. State
and city coors will be raised for the first time
on the new seventh regiment arinory. 1t is 20
be hoped the funds required to finish the build
Ing will have been raised by that time.
Year: 1878

when we build, / am going to
have place in the house where we
can conveniently hang the clothes to
dry" This has been one Of nv say
ings every stormy washing day since
we went to housekeeping until se-
Gently. when we build" however,
is still an indefinite time in the fu-
ture bu. ! have found q way OF
hanging the clothes indoors during
the drying process, which is go sim
pie and easily done that / want the
rural housewives to know Of it. Thu:


decided 70 tell them while com
Year: 1878

A Lawyer once asked the late
Judge Pickens, of Alabama, to charge
the jury that it Is better thai min
ETY. and nine guilty men should
escape than thar one innocent man
should be punished Yes said the
witty Judge, L will give that
charge, bat, in the opinion Of tho
Court, the ninety and nine ,guil.y
men have already escaped lin this.
Year: 1878

Ex-Congressman Vance, of Ohio, is
still an inmate of an insane asylum, but
at last accounts was considerably better.
His friends hope that he will soon be
discharged free from his mental in
trinity.


Romances of the genuine old fashioned
kind are not yet altogether extinct. A
Dublin paper tells the story of an elope-
ment of the young daughter of retired
Major near Cork with her fathers
groom, strapping young countryman.
The girl was only l Z years old, and stole
from her room at night and fled with
her lover The pair were oyerhauled a
day or two after, and the girl was sent
to prison for q fortnight, while the
young Lothario was discharged and sent
packing. It doesn't appear that there
was any marriage, and there was GER
tainly no reconciliation and paternal
blessing, 20 the romance is hardly COM
plste.
Year: 1878




There is little game on the board to
build new court house in New Castle-s
project uncalled for and useless, involving
great expense, and profting no one but the
contractor who will get tae job. The Levy
Court is Democratic, and it will be con-
sidered as party measure, and the in
creased debt will have to be carried BY the
party. It is not new court house that is
needed in New Castle, but an increase OF
the terms of the court, say to four or six
per year, so as to insure prompt settlement
of differences which are the subject o1
litigation, and the reduction of the enor'
nous expense of keeping untried prisoners
charged with absxrdly trivial offences, siz
months without trial. We see no reason
why law should not be passed empower
ing one of our Judges to hold court O.
sessions on the frat Monday Of every month
as in other places, and clear out the jail
A couple of days would be ample for th'
work. 1t Is almost farcical to witness three
able Judges sitting to try ragged urcail
for stealing few apples or chicken.
The greater reason against the new ceur
house is that the county ought to be divided
and thereby enable Wilmington will
Brandywine and Christiana, as neV
county, to govern themselves.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Clarkson N Potter is said to have
given as q reason for fooling away the time
of Congress over the twice told, and every
whore accepted, tale of false retnrn OF
Presidential votes, that it would keep Con-
gress from farther meddling with the money
question.


We are strongly of the opinion that
neither Potter nor his set will be able to
carry on the juggle much longer. What ia
the use Of this investigation, II it is not to
lead to resultss And it confessedly will
not lead to the displacement of the fraudu'
lent President.


The suffering people have again and
again asked repeal of the Resumption
act, and the abolition of the National Bank
ing system, substituting therefore green
backs or like currency, the profit o.
which would accrue to the whole republic
There was so much good sense and reason
IN this popular demand that this hunt afte
fraud every one knew existed, was eegul
to beguile the people.


The Senate yesterday increased the appro
priation from $150,0OO to $4,000 to i'm
prove the Harlem river. New York paper
say that this 10 intended to benefit wealth.
ring of the Manhattan Club and the Uniol
League, who own villas upon the adjoining
bluffs. This is sample of what is beinl
done by Congress, while the people are fol
lowing false scent, and meanwhile starv
Isn a
Year: 1878

Lord Rosebery presided lately in London
at the annual meeting of the Sunday Society,
which advocates the opening Of the nstional
museums and picture galleries on Sunday.
Two centuries ago, the Puritans found q
Sunday where, after church, innocent
rscreation was allowed. With the best in
tcutions in the world, they took away every
thing but the Church, to which modern
civilization has added the bar room. Lord
Rosebery said that the Puritans had left
first the Inheritance of the morals of the
Restoration, and what has been far more
permanent and abiding, the great inherit
auce Of cast. This is what the members OF


the Sunday Society have to fight against


They would open the national museums
and art galleries on Sunday which are the
peoples own property.


It is hard to understand the feeling or
conviction which leads one to oppose inno-
cent recreations on Sunday. There is more
permanent Injury done to the morals oi
many upon that day, than any other OF the
seven. After week Of labor the working
m an Is subjected to religious quarantine


uoon Sunday. He will not 20 to church
innocent recreation is forbidden him, and


he floats into gambling, drinking or becomes
| for the day a sluggard or a glutton. Il
there we're within reach innocent recreation
be would take his wife and children there


and their presence would save him from
Temptation.
Year: 1878

The remains of Sue Pennypacker were
yesterday laid in their final resting
place in the family lot in the Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery. The attendance
at the funeral was very large, and the
greatest sympathy was shown for the sad
parents. Mrs. Pennypacker was so over
come at the less Of her daughter that she
tainted twice during the afternoon. We
are sorry to say their little son 10 seriously
Ill with diphtheria.
Year: 1878

While the races were going on at scheut-
zen Park yesterday afternoon, Billy Car
roll and Chickey Foy got into dispute in
the Dancing Pavilion, about some matter
concerning the late nomination election.
Hot words ensued and blows followed.
Both men closed and fell to the ground in
q tussle. After pounding one another
heavily for some time they were separated.


Foy had one of his fingers bitten very
severely.
Year: 1878

millions of specie and sends abroad or
contracts other hundreds Of millions of


paper money, there is no security for the
stability of any business. The constitu-
ton places the manufacture of coined
money in the hands of the general gov'
ernment and denies the right to coin
money to the States; and to the States
it guaranteed the right to issue bills oI


credit or bank notes, and this had always


been done until they were deprived OF


the right as war necessity. The very


mode that was adopted to destroy the
privilege of the State banks, is proc


that it was only for temporary purpose


All the machinery $50 to speak) of the
State banks is in existence. If the gov
ernment repealed the law taxing theil
circulation ten per cent, those banks
whose charters have not expired, could
go into operation at once and no doubt
many of them would adopt the system
of depositing collateral security in the
State treasures for the issue of their notes
The Herald is aware of all this, but


being in the cortrel of the great monied


men and bankers in the great money


centres who enjoy line Of government


deposits far greater than their capital
| they can loan four times as much none,


as they really possess, it favors them.
Year: 1878

AFTER the Democrats of Colorado
permitted themselves to become the tools
OF the Union Pacific Railroad Ring,there
could be no ground of surprise at the de
feat that overlook them in the election of
Tuesday.
Year: 1878

THE QUESTION is frequently asked now. have
not the three CS Cameron, Chandler. and
Conklingl got the start OF Blaine In making up
with the President? Blaine.frequently declared
last spring and summer that he should never
eau on the president again; but then it is
nothing more than the others have done
Blaine can make rs quick a turn as anybody i
IT Is necessary, and his own good Judgment vii
Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1878

A SIGN OF THE TIMEs.-Inventors of electric
lights have been given an opportunity by the
Brooklyn board Of aldermen to demonstrate the
practicability and economy OF this method OF
illumination That body has just authorized the
publication Of advertisements for proposals to
light the city next year. either with coal gas
.'Or other illuminating material
Year: 1878

Young Flipper, the first colored cadet
VINO ever graduated at West Point, is a
Lieutenant in that portion of the army
stationed at Fort Sill, in the Indian Ter
fiitory. A correspondent writing from
that place to an Eastern paper, describes
nim as very exemplary in his conduct
pattern, in fact, whose bearing might
oe Initiated with profit by his brother
officers. He is retiring. and devotes all
his spare time to study. No opportunity
mas yet been offered him to display his
soidierly qualities in the field, but it is
not doubted that he will give good ac


count OF himself when it comes to active
service.
Year: 1878

BOYS SMoKING.-Whatever may be said
for or against the moderate use Of tobac-
CO by adults, says the Glasgow Times.
there cannot be any question about its
prejudicisl effects on uniformed constitu-
tions. 1t is, therefore. of public i'm
por.ance that the growing disposition
among boys to indulge in "the fragrant
weed" even at the cost OF nicotine sick
ness, should meet With every opposition.
A Liverpudlian, however, recommends
such very summary proceedings under
this head. in letter to n local journal,
that one might we'll ask whether the
cure would not be worse than the dis
ease. Having occasion to frequently
cross the Mersey, he has noticed that the
troops of schoolboys making the voyage
during the afternoon generally "sneak
into the back of the smoking cabin and
at once light their pipes. The simple
truth is that the lads who have once ao-
quired taste for smoking will be sure
to crafty il surreptitiously in one way
or another. Hence the necessity of
striving by every means to prevent the
formation of the habit. A great deal
might be done in this direction by parents
and schoolmasters if they convince the
boys that the use of tobacco in early
years acts prejudicially on physical
strength. This is a point that comes
home to them at once. Every English
lad wishes to be strong, and if it can only
be impressed upon him that smoking
will make him stunted weakling, he
will be more likely to steer clear of the
habit than if high moral considerations
we're brought forward.
Year: 1878

The other day two young ladies on the
Nebraska frontier jokingly offered to
trade themselves off to a couple of In.
dians for fifteen ponies each, and the In.
dians very willingly took the offer. Find
ing that the joke was taken earnestly by
their Indian friends, the girls became
somewhat alarmed. The red men were
told it was joke. but they would have
taken the girls by force had they not
been intimidated
Year: 1878

The story is told, and it is said to be
entirely true, that at the recent dedica-
tion of Baptist church in this county
the ceremony of immersion was per-
formed for the first time in that church
by we'll known Baptist minister of this
city. When he had entered the water
and while waiting for the candidate, the
minister suggested that somebody should
sing an appropriate hymn. One of tho
deacons who stood near by heard the
suggestion, and without thinking struck
up the familiar hymn, "Pull for the
shore" The hymn proved to be so sug-
gestive that neither the minister nor
congregation could refrain from an aud
ible smile for some time, and the csre-
mony had to be postponed until the
preacher could recover his gravity


Rochester Express.
Year: 1878

The President aud Clerk of the South
Carolina Senate have adopted robs of
office, at the Senate 'srequest, furnishing
the only instance in the country at the
present time of the assumption of these
insignia by legislative officers.
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session, all the
members present and President Bell in the
chair.


The Engineer was directed to make Col
umbia avenue available to travel from
Kemper Lane East as far as graded, and
also to prepare the necessary papers to i'm
prove Warsaw Pike from Grand avenue
west to the corporation line.


The drawing department of the Water
Year: 1878

works was given permission to expend 81
for necessary articles.


The clerk was directed to notify sixteen
different property holders to lay plank
walks in front of their premises


The Superintendent was directed to re-
pair dangerous place on Calhoun street


A resolution to regulate the price which
the Cincinnati Gaslight and Coke Company
may charge to the citizens and pnblie
buildings of the city was referred to tho
Committee on Eight,
Year: 1878

BITERs Who Cor BITTEN-The other night
at Oshkosh, Wis, three fellows laid plan
to clean out fourth at poker, The victim
was dealt four aces, to induce him to bet,
but was given six cards 50 as to make mis-
deal. But "greeny" backed his four for all
he was worth, and won, and his opponents
charged him with having another card Sc
creted about his person. A search revealed
nothing, and be departed with his winnings.
1t was afterwards found out that he had
slipped the card into a sandwich which he
was eating while the play was going on, and
had actually eaten up the pasteboard!
Year: 1878

Special to the Star.


THE SILVER BILL.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-In view of the
possibility of an executive veto of the Sill
yer Bill, the propriety of adding the bill as
an amendment to the Civil Legislative APP
preparation Bill is much discussed There
are recent precedents for this line of action.
1t is argued that the exercise of the veto in
this bill is not one of the cases contempla-
ted by the trainers of the Constitution. The
feeling of the friends of the measure in the
Senate is very decided; but some confer
ence among them will be necessary in order
to settle what amendment shall be agreed,
and to secure the requisite harmony of
action on the final vote, which is now ex-
pected ON Thursday.


THE TAX ON TOBACCO.


Mr.. Willis position on the tobacco tax
has been misunderstood. He recognizes the
improbabilty of reduction of whisky
tax, but does not regard the question of re-
ducing the tobacco as settled adversely. He
will urge reduction of this tax to 16 cents,
and believes that it can be secured.
Aid for Families of the Huron Vic


TINS.


National Associated Press to the Star


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Secretary OF
Ehe Navy some weeks ago announced that a
Year: 1878

Another shocking railroad disaster, by
which five lives were sacrificed. is recorded
in our special dispatches from Mahanoy
City, Pa. Unlike the wreck Of the New Bruins
wick train this explosion of locomotive
while standing at the depot platform can
not be explained as an accident" The
Dominion train was thrown off the track on
Friday by bundle Of bags becoming en-
tangled in the wheels Of tho baggage car,
and the destruction Of the passen-
ger car by fire was a natural Sc
auence of our heating system. But
whena boiler explodes there must have been
o defect, and this fact points pretty clearly
to negligence on the Fart of the officials in
charge OF the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad. The pressure of steam
may have been unnecessarily great,
though it will never be known
what this pressure really was, as the engi-
neer was blown to atoms by the force of the
explosion, which was powerful that a
piece OF the boiler was thrown q quarter Of
n mile and the remains OF the uniortu-
nate man were "picked up in a
bucket" We presume that there will be
an investigation, which, judging from
past experience, will result in verdict Of
nobody to blame but the dead engineer, who
cannot speak in his own defence. These
railroad accidents" only show tho i'm
perative necessity for some law in
all Of the States holding the chief
officers Of the roads responsible,
for P,mchs suggestion of tying director
on every locomotive cannot be adopted in
America, where so many engines are re-
quired. II will not do TO make such occur
rences q three days wonder and then for
get them until the next one startles the
community