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Year: 1877

ence to put down the creatures OF fraud
and corruption, and establish in their
places the only government which will
insure peace and security to these most
unfortunate States. So is he called
upon by the riff ratf of these States, the
precious relics be9ueathed to US by our
great civil war, of imported fraud and
ruthless, unbridled tyranny minor at
tendsnts of that stupendous fraud by
which Hayes is president, and Til,
den private citizen to-day


Il is time for fepublicanism to part
with its radicalism. The genius of the
age is fast settling down intoan unutter-
able disgust at the hypocrisy which
affects still to care for the poor negro.
while it, in the face OF the whole world.
unhlushingly uses that negro, only as a
stepping stone for its pimps and shout
der-hltters To mount to power,-that
power which enriches them, and makes
their poor deluded victims poor indeed
There IL one thing certain, and that is
If Mr.. Hayes permits this foul-wrcngt to
be done to the people of Louisiana and
South Carolina, he may expect the
people to institute proceedings by
which the frauds covered up by the
returning boards and that blessed com
mission will be laid bare to the gaze CT
the world, and his own tenure will be
vastly curtailed by that proceeding.
Year: 1877

1t locked extremely difficult for such a
thing to be going on without conant'
knowledge. and Sherman is reported To
have information that will make an in.
yestigstion necessary. Charges against
Indian Commissioner John Q Smith
have been laid before Carl Schurz by
James Taylor, alent COR the Cherokee
band i'll North Carolina. Carl Schurz
declared himself unable to attend TO
them at present and deferred their
consideration until the affairs of the
department are more settled The
specifications relate to the purchase
of supplies and the management
and disbursement of the funds belong.
ing to the Cherokee Indians, the gen.
erai charges being corruption and in
competency. Smith has so far borne a
good reputation, ard labored to reform
the bureau. " NJ Grosvenor is to be
the chief clerk OF the department, but
he has given out that he is anxious TO
get at the head of the Indian bureau.
and reason may exist for pressing
these charges to get rid OF Smith. This
appointment of Grosvenor. if made. will
be taken by all St Louis people as the
highest evidence of the determination
oil the administration to inaugurate real
civil service reform, for Grosyenor has
an enyiable reputation among his old
acquaintance for high notions IN regard
TO all pecuniary transactions.
Year: 1877

We would call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of A. d
L. MitteDthal. This firm is second u
none In the city and we can assure ouI
readers If they should want anything
in their line they can be supplied and
for less money than any other house
ia the city To the ladies We wonlc
say IL you should need anything in th,
way of fancy goods go and see them
the prices are so low that you will b.
sstonished. They have a constant
buyer East, who buys all goods fol
cash nd therefore can sell very low
Go call, and see them, and no more viii
you complain of goods being high.
Year: 1877




The magnificent position occupied by
Dallas with reference to the rapidly
increasing trade of this section of the
State, consequent upon the wonderful
development of her agricultural re-
sources, is the theme of general remark
by strangers visiting here. Many of
our older citizens also understand this
in its full measure, and all are squaring
themselves to take advantage Of ito
extend and widen the circle of her
trade. Nothing viii do this more rap
idly and surely than for our city to
extend every facility and encourage
ment to farmers. Furnish them all the
newest and best machinery at reasona
BILE rates. Provide full and fair mar
ket for all their productions. Sell them
goods at reasonable figures. Encourage
them to plant full crops with the
prospect of profitable markets. To do
this, let us foster and care for our
manufacturing interests, and increase
these as rapidly as possible Our mills
have not sufficient capital to enable
them to purchase the whea, necessary
to run them during the season. The
consequence is our wheat is shipped off
to other markets, and our four is hauled
over long and expensive routes to sup
ply TIE home demand. Here is poor
encouragement for the farmer. and a
poorer policy for consumers of every
kind. Our monied men and banking
institutions are too intent after two.
three and five per cent psr month,
and neglect this important investment,


which could be made to pay much more
that in the final outcome, and instead
of being curse capital would become a
great public blessing.
Year: 1877

THE following is the Texarksna Dem
erafs ambition. and that he m ay live
to see it. is not cast quite among the
impossibilitie.. Should it come off
there will be fun among the noble Sen
ators, for Coke would go at that job on
sufficient provocation, with good deal
of zest:


We would live for one thing. if 70,
no other, just to see Senator Coke, in
his rugged way. combat Blaine in some
OF his infamous assaults on the South
ern people. That then and there will
be funeral of down east Yankee
never to be forgotten, We do not hesi
tate to predict. We heard him in hi.
first canvass skin alive Davis and hi.
mo ley crowd. and the glory Of the com
bat still fingers about our memory"
Year: 1877

''Trade is Frightening up" is the
answer from business men when in
terrogated asto the present and pro-
pective outlook of trade, The panic
has expended Its force and from now
on business will grow brigher a1d bet
ter, there is no question of doubt
In the revival of trade all should lend
helping hand, and If the right kind
of energy and push is put forth it will
not be lor G before our factories, our
furnaces and all idle mills and mand-
factories will again be the busy hives
o industry that they were previous to
I973'-Redding Eagle.
Year: 1877

SENAToR BLAINE has gone home i'll,
and it is feared that he will not be able
to return for some time. It is an open
secret that his health has never been
good since his sudden attack during the
sitting of the Cincinnati Convention.
Ha has been warned that he is In daI-
GER of a return of paralysis if he shall
not exercise the greatest care.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2o.-Numerous letters hav-
ing been addressed to the Minister of the United
states at St. petersburg. asking for information
as to what qualifications are necessary to en-
able an applicant to obtain the position Of sur
geon In the imperial army of Russia Mr. Baker
In his dispatch OF the 2lst to the Department OF
State. gives the TO lowing rules for admission:


The law Of Russia. which 1t is understood has
not been relaxed during the present war is that
an applicant for the post Of surgeon in the Rus
sian army shall be a graduate OF some medi-
cal school In Russia; that he shall be able to
pass severe examination before board OF the
medical staff Of the army: that he shall speak
and write the Russian language. and that in
receiving his commission he shall swear allie
glance to the Empire of Russia to the exclusion
OF any other allegiance Or citizenship


Under these circumstances 1t will be perceived
that no citizen Of the United States who has not
received medical education in Russia is eligi-
BILE to the positi IN of surgeon in the Russian
army Some medical men have applied for
temporary. posts as volunteer surgeons, and
their services have been gratefully accented
either. by the Russian authorities or by the
societies Of the Red Cross. The pay of surgeons
In such positions Is, however, very low and they
may be considered as rendered almost wholly
In spirit Of philanthropy. and there is little
hope except under extraordinary circum-
stances that surgeon SO serving will be ulti-
mately invited to accept a commission In the
Imperial Russian army
Year: 1877

Washington, Sept. 3.-The New
York Republican association adjourned
sine die Saturday in compliance with
the Presidents order. The funds of
the association, after payment of all
outstanding obligations, were ordered
to be turned over to the Soldiers Home
at Bath, n. Y. A letter from A. NJ.
Clapp, of Buffalo, was read before ad-
journment. In conclusion he says: "Its
existence should not be cut short to
meet the behests of any one, no matter
how high OF low his state officially or
politically. Are we mere pariahs or
serfs that we must bow meekly to an
official order from the White House or
Interior Department? Must we sur
render our independence as citizens
and our integrity as Republicans, and
tear down or desert our Republican
association at the autocratic bidding
of potentates or powers? 1 for one
cannot consent to it. The abasement
is too deep to be reached without pro-
testation and an effort to prevent its
occurrence. This nation has reached
its centennial in history, and this is the
first instance in which the destruction
of peaceful and useful political organ
izations has been demanded to pro-
pitiate the seat of power. If this is
Republicanism 1 want no more of it,,
though I propose to be a Republican of
1856 so long as life lasts"
Year: 1877

Washington, August 3.-The trial of
Wells and Anderson will be called this
month. Both left here last week full
of confidence that they would never be
convicted. They were not so hopeful
that they would be acquitted by the
jury, but it would be impossible, they
believe, to secure any verdict. The
President and Secretary Sherman are
understood to share this confidence.
Well informed parties in New Orleans
seem to take the same view. and while
admitting that the prosecution will be
vigorously pushed, their conviction is a
matter of much doubt.
Year: 1877

ONE of the War Depart ment clerks
has found letter from the father of
Charles Sumner, in which request is
made that Sumner be appointed mill
tary cadet at West Point on account of
his fitness for that place. Daniel Web
ster is referred to as indorsing the
young man, who was then lad of fif-
teen
Year: 1877

THE Mormon State faces now the
great problem Of its existence. 1t is
difficult to guess what shall be the re-
suit Of Brigham's death. But it does
seem that it will be the final blow which
shall shatter the monstrous fabric of
Mormonism.
Year: 1877

once heard of vessel that was
wrecked, and there was not life boats
enough to take all that were on the
vessel, and some that were left there to
perish in the water went swimming
around these life-boats One poor fellow
swan up to life-boat, and seized il with
his left hand, and man in the boat
seized his sword, and cut off the hand.
The man was terribly in earnest to save
his life, and he swan up the second time,
and reached out his right hand, and
they cut it off too. He was terribly in
earnest to save his life Everything else
was forgotten, and he swan up again,
and seized hold of the boat with his
teeth, and it touched those men Is hearts,
and they had compassion, and they took
him out of the jaws of death, out of
watery grave, and he was saved because
he was in earnest. He was saved be-
cause he sought with all his strength
and all his mind. And so, any friends,
when you and / want salvation above
everything else, then we will get il and
not before. have very little sympathy
with those men who fold their arms and
say: well would not object to being
saved The Lord can save me if he
wants. L don't have any serious OBJ
jections to being saved" / never found
any one yet saved with that spirit. My
friends, if you are saved at all, you have
got to seek the Lord, and you never can
be saved till you do seek him. The idea
that man can speak in that way 1
think it was not "a hours ago / heard
man say that thing. My friends, you
will never get into the kingdom of heav-
ell with that spirit. If you want to find
the Lord, you must seek for him with
all your heart and soul and strength.


MOODY.
Year: 1877

Railway, these elegant, sixteen-wheeled
hotel cars will ride as easy and with as
little noise or oscillation as balloon
that floats serenely through the air and
we believe it will be found to be a result
that thousands will flock to the "Pion-
eer Line," who have hitherto gone by
some other route.


With these and other Improvements
the people of Cedar Rapids are very
largely interested and we believe will
join with us in congratulating the pro-
gressive management of this great line
in this its most advanced step; and
unite with us in saying, the Chicago q
North Western Railway has become the
foremost road in all the West.


These hotel cars will be placed in
service about March 1st, 1s77.--RepubH-
can, Dec, 2gnd, 1876.
Year: 1877

money from flying out of the furnace
chimney, and the odor of the burned
money was an intolerable nuisance, and
was very injurious to the health of those
residing in the neighborhood of the
place where 1t was carried on. The last
reason would have been sufficient one
for changing the method, if the addi-
tional one of making an absolute saving
to the Government did not suggest itself.
Year: 1877




Benjamin Franklin was dentist, but
had sense enough to see the banefulness
of infidelity. When Thomas Paine sent
him a portion of his ''Age of Reason"
for examination, he wrote, 81 have read
your manuscript. You strike at the
foundations of all religion. You will
not succeed, so as to change the general
sentiment of mankind on that subject.
The consequence of printing this piece
will be mischief to you and no benefit to
others. He that spits against the wind
spits in his own face. You may find it
easy to live a virtuous life. You have
clear perception of the advantages of
virtue. But think how great a portion
of mankind consists of weak and
ignorant men and women and of incon-
siderate youth of both sexes, who need
the motives of religion to restrain them
from vice. Perhaps you are indebted to
your religious education for the habits of
virtue upon which you now justly value
yourself. would advise you, therefore,
not to attempt unchaining.the tiger, but
to burn this piece before it is seen byany
other person. If men are so wicked
NTH reli giOn, what would they be sciti-
out H?''-Selected.
Year: 1877

60 A newspaper correspondent writes
from Texas: Apples cannot be grown
here, and while cabbages and potatoes
grow luxuriantly, they will rot within
two weeks after being taken out of the
ground. Residents of cities dare not
allow grass to grow in the yards around
their residences, for fear of furnishing
hiding places for tarantulas and cent?
pedes. And at present can say that l
have not tasted well cooked beef-steak
since have been in the State, and more
than half the time have not had milk
enough to color coffee, to say nothing
of the utter impOssibility Of having any
to drink
Year: 1877

A MAN who is an enemy 10 the commu- nifty in and off which he lives, devoid of honesty, truth, or any of the clements of gentleman or good citizen, cannot be injured by being proven such, for he already occupies the lowest plane of deg relation.
Year: 1877

The New York Evening Post says:


The newspapers published at the lead


ing business centers of the country


speak favorably of the prospects of the


autumn trade. Within week trade has


taken a fresh start This is, to some


extent, the natural rebound from the


compulsory deadlock consequent upon


the interruption of transportation by the
strike on the railroads; but at the same


time there is satisfactory evidence of the
beginning of the regular early autumn
trade, with accompanying indi-
cations that the trade will be large and
healthy one all through the country. It
is too early in the season yet to expect
special activity in the merchandise
markets here; still goods are going for
ward to distributing points in the in
terror in no inconsiderable quantities,
and before the end of the month there is
every reason for expecting that all the
leading branches of trade will be actively
The existing conditions all
point in that direction. The stock Of
goods here is not large; the interior
country as rule is what may be called
bare of goods; and the large crops will
furnish the means wherewith to pay for
what may be needed in the way of goods
Or commodities.
Year: 1877

A persistent talker is not good con-


versationalist. The very word conversa-


tion defines its meaning; it is an inter-


change. The man who insists in talking


at you is bore. The English definition


of bore betrays the great national


weakness in this regard: "a bore is one


who insists on talking to you about him


self, when you want to be talking to him


about yourself" Neither is the confirm


ed gossip good conversationalist, for


conversation suggests discourse about


things rather than people. Here is an


other bane of social interchanges. They


are too often on the lower level of that
talk which finds its subject matter in per-


sons. That is gossip. People who do
not read or think must largely make peo-
pie and neighborhood events the staple
of their talk. but the bad habit obtains
even among those who by culture have
been fitted to make better use of their
tongues. Gossip does not always indi-
cate ignorance. 1t is to be feared it has
become fashion into which even intel
ligent people are drawn. But this kind
of talk is neither edifying nor wise. If
there were no worse results, it narrows
the mind to shut up its views to neigh
borhood details. There is no excuse for
itnow. The worlds gates all stand open.
The papers bring all lands, all govern
ments, all rising ideas, to our very doors.
Books lead lis into the liberty of the
world, and the best of its doings and
thinking. A growing vice in converse.
tion is fondness for smartness. Tart
ness, repartee, and satire are very good
for an occasional reasoning; but, like
horse-radish and mustard, they make
very poor dinner. People with this pro-
pensity of saying grinding things have q
terrible power; you go away from them
with feeling that the world is stuffed
with sawdust-that you yourself are an
and impostor. Itmay take days
for You to recover your proper standing
with yourself. Then, if you ask your
soul what fatal gift has the tormentor,
which carries with it this fatal power of
making its fellow mortals miserable, you
discover that it is the gift of selfshness.
The person to whom you have been talk
ing is ungenerous. A generous man or
! generous woman-you cannot come
hear such an one without receiving some.
hing that makes amends for your own
disappointment with, your opinion of,
Yourself. An ungenerous person adds
he weight of another to your side of the
Gales, and down you go.
Year: 1877


Oh give not way to selfish thoughts


When others are In pain,
Nor e'or rejoice At their mishaps


Because they bring You gain;
But rather kindly comfort give,


A friendly hand extend
Think, should misfortune thee ovcrtake,


How priced would be friend.
A surgeon and carpenter


Together walked ono night,
Tho moon was full, and on the scene


Diffused her mellow light;
The road was long, and sore fatigue


Their limbs began to tire,
When, in the distance, they perceived


A hamlet was on fire.
Tho carpenter then rubbed his hands,


Exclaiming with delight;
"Look at yon blaze there grove my wheat
II blossoms In my sight !"
For, while the raging flames arose,


He thought but Of his trade,
And for each burning house he knew


Another must be made.
While gazing ho did not perceive


A ditch as passing by,
But, heedloss walking, quickly fell,


And instant broke his thigh;
The surgeon drew him from the ditch,
Began his wound to wipe,
And to the fainting man he said,


"My wheat's already ripe"
Year: 1877

.
Ell it first, that is all, and we found 1t
more convenient than to devote our
time there, while now it will be more
convenient to devote mUre Of our time
nearer at home.


Yet We don't expect to neglect the in
trrrsts of those abroad, because the
knowledge WE have acquired will here
ut,er enable u in less space and time to
represent them iully ms accurately as be-
tore we rould in much greater space, and
with much more time devoted to the
matter


Another objection urged is that we
uvrrratr the regions outside OF this val
leg. and undGrratc those at home. To
i We say, that before II paper was
started in either locality specially repre-
-rutrd by the STAR. it was not supposed
That there we're many things worth rep
rcscnting in print hut we found so
many things betWe uanoiiced that we
adopted the plan Of always under, rather
than overrating any thing; hut what
ever we described to state it accurately,
and use the most positive language we
could use that accurately, without exag-
erration, represented the matter. The
consequence is, each local community
found many things previously unnoted
at home, for which they are brought in.
to notice; they also find that adjacent
communities possess advantages by them
unlhought of before, and finding things
at home understated, rather than over
stated, yet so stated as to produce de
cidedly beneficial effect for their COM
munity as a whole, many at once said
other regions are described in an exag.
gcruted manner, greater credit is gwen
than they deserve.


As an illustration we refer to an art!
Gle published last week upon the growth
of this place, where it was stated that
upwards of ont dozen buildings were
commenced during the year 1875, which
was strictly true ; complaint was made
that We had not stated fully the truth,
because more had been done than we
represented. The fact being that OF
buildings commenced prior to 1876 aud
completed within that year, together
with those commenced in 1876, and those
largely improved in that time, over two
dozen buildings were commenced, erect
ed or completed, yet the results were not
difft rent than first stated, and to the
person coming here W verify our state
ment, one would appear to be an exag-
geration, the other 10 be within the
truth. We believe the least exaggerated
form of statement TO he the most bene-
fetal.


We would not have taken up this
space only to illustrate the folly of at
tempting to please all or to silence criti-
cism. We neither expect nor desire this.
What we do intend is to publish jour
nal that will, in measure, do the work
marked out for it-that will benefit its
patrons, be descriptive Of the growing
interests Of the community, and repre-
sent its literary and scientific develop
ment.


We expect our friends will frequently
find many things that may honestly Of
fend them; while we hope our enemies
will frequently find that which they
will not relish, and if they are OCCASION
ally pleased by what appears in our col
umns, we cannot help it.
Year: 1877

Public opinion in turn praises every
thing and condemns everythipg-rises
and falls like u scale, according to tho
amount of pressure upon it, and is ever
Huctuating like a restless ocean over
which blows IN everlasting winh.
Year: 1877

A number of interesting experiments
have been recently carried cut at Metz by a
committee Of engineer officers appointed to
investigate the practica oility of employing
electric light during siege operations. On
the night of Oct 20, Forts Frederic, Charles
ana Alvensleben were illuminated by throw
ing the electric light upon them. when il
was found that at distance of from two to
three kilometres not only buildings but also
individual men could be plainly made out.
On the night ofThe 9th of October the eltc'
trio apparatus was arranged on the exerci
sirg ground, outside the Chambiere Gate,
and the light directed upon row of targets.
Fire was then opened against these latter by
squad Of rihemen, and the practice made
was nearly as good as that recorded when
firing by day-a result which was consid
cred exceedingly satisfactory, as a thick
mist materially intekfered with the action
of the light. The committee concluded that
the electric light may in future be employed
with advantage not only in siege operations
but also during outpost duty and engage
ments at night.