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Year: 1879

affecting the details of administration
and the personal and political character
and official acts of scores of prominent
Republicans, with the behavior of this
Potter Committee when confronted with
the proofs of a gigantic scheme of bri-
berry by the intimates and confdants OF
the Democratic candidate for President
Here is revelation of radical differ
ence in character between the two par
ties. A Republican Congress standing
off before such an array of evidence of
the guilt of prominent Republicans, and
doing nothing about it, would damage
the party thousands and thousands of
votes. The Republican party obstruct-
ing the passage of such a measure as Mr..
Blaines resolution of inquiry would
have the same effect in stampeding its
own voters. The party cannot afford to
do it. The leaders know this, and know
by what slight bonds of partisanship the
masses are held and they dare not, if
they would, shirk the fullest and most
searching investigation. The fact is
creditable, perhaps, to the intelligence
and sagacity of the leaders, but vastly
more creditable to the high sense of hon
or and honesty and patriotism of the
masses. But Democratic leaders do not
fear to let their constituents know. their
unwillingness to be investigated. No
public opinion in the Democratic party
cries out for an investigation of the ci-
pher dispatches or for cessation of the
efforts to obstruct the inquiry into the
methods of the late elections at the
South. They may almost confess the
guilt of the coparceners, and the frauds
of the tissue ballot Democracy, without
fear of any great and indignant uprising
or any fatal stampede. They seem al
most as secure as Tweed was when his
Democratic constituents elected him to
the State Senate, by an overwhelming
majority, after he had been fully exposed.
A marked contrast in the personnel and
morale of the parties is shown by these
facts. The real question then in choos-
ing between the two parties is whether to
confde in the one in which fearless hon
esty is the rule, or in that in which it is
the exception. That is the significance
of the contrast
Year: 1879

THE EXTENT OF THE DRoCGHT.-ln addI-
ton to what we said Yesterday IN regard to
the drought. we have been Informed that on
some portions OF the AtlaEtic. Mississippi
and Ohio road. especially i'll the neiShbor-
hood OF FarmviIle, the sources OF water
supplv for some of the tanks have given
out, and water has to he hauled from the
rivers and creeks to furnish the engines. a
wclldigger who has been i'll the business
for forty years says that he has never seen
the ground so dry, and to as great depth
as now prevails.


An important fact in regard to the drought
is the scarcity OF prorendcr. Owing TO tile
want OF rain in the early spring in some
sections of the State but little, ii any. hay
was made. The dry weather OF autumn
has killed the grass in the fields, and farm
crs tind it necessary even at this early sea-
son to supplement this want from the very
small stock OF dry food saved for winter
use. The consequence will probably be
that in many sections Of the State there will
be great scarcity Of food for stock before
the winter really sets in, and much suffer-
iny will result.
Year: 1879

These estimates have been purposely
made low as to receipts and high as to ex-
pcnscs, SO Us to show results for the first
three years greatly less favorable than those
promulgated by the promoters Of former
schemes. This because It was thought best
to err, if ut ALL on the safe side. There
can be no reasonable doubt that after tic
first two or three years the road will pay
handsomely.
Year: 1879

FBANKFoRT, Kan, Oct. Il, 1879.


EDITOR News Il will try to give
your readers a few Kansas items,
not for the purpose of inducing any
one to emigrate to Kansas, for I
have seen too many people come
here by persuasion Of others, with
the idea that Kansas was a Paradise,
and thinking that all they had to do
was to come here and break up the
raw prairie, as they would their tim
othy or clover sod in Ohio, and raise
heavy crops right from the start,and
that It would make no difference
whether they had any money or not
they would soon get rich anyhow I!
When such persons get here they
soon find out their mistake. They
soon find out that if they haven't
brought at least $500 or $1,000 with
them they are ''left, as the phrase
goes. All persons who have such
an idea of Kansas had better never
come here.


It would be well for those who
are not prepared to move to Kansas,
never to come to see the country, for
if they do they are liable to be dis
Year: 1879

Very few people are aware Of the
terrible straits to which the English
farmers have been reduced. As an
illustration of the distressed state Of
affairs, It is stated that not one farm
er in Rutlandshire and North Lei
.eester can show a shilling profit dur
ing the last four years, and two of
them have lately committed suicide
from utter despair. The American
people have reason to bevery thank
full for the abundant harvest with
which they have been blessed.
Year: 1879

In another column will be found
the act recently passed by the legisla-
ture authorizing the appointment Of
back, tax-collector and receiver for
the extinct city of Memphis. Under
this law Minor Meriwether will act.
Many delinquents may be dissatisfied
with its provisions in this respect.
Before its passage they claimed the
right Of paying taxes in any indebted
ness and bonds of the city at their
tace valueP whereas under this act
the receiver can receive them only at
Wty cents on The dollar. This is
doubling up on the back taxpayers
The compromise bonds, however, are
TO be paid in at their face value. On
the whole, we believe the bill is the
most equitable adjustment of the mat
ter that could be made, and it will be
satisfactory to debtor and creditor
alike. This act is not second in i'm.
portance to repeal of the charter.
As it will control the disposition of
the back taxes, we call especial stten-
tion to its provisions.
Year: 1879

ST.. Louis, March 14.-This city is
at present the objective point of vast
numbers of negroes from Southern
points, principally the plantations of
Louisiana and Mississippi. Every
north bound boat brings up cargo of
plantation hands and their families,
and the leyee is in points their camp
ing ground, the vast majority being
too poor to pay for even the meanest
lodging. Some parties down South
have started the story that extraordi-
nary inducements are being offered
colored people to settle in Kansas,
and that any one landing in St. Louis
will be provided by the railroad COM
pany with free pass for himself and
family to Kansas, food on the way and
farm and money to live on when the
railroad lands are reached. The peo-
pie who have already arrived are in a
most wretched condition, devoid, as a
rule, of food and money, and not in
the least cast down by their misfor-
tunes.


With the characteristic easy-going
nature of the plantation negro, they
smile when asked what they are going
to do, and aver that at any rate the
authorities here cannot throw them
into the river, and one or two have
remarked that they would prefer that
fate to being sent back to the homes
they have just left. 1t is supposed
that the canard which induced the
stampede was originated by scheming
white people in the South, in order to
get the colored residents to leave the
little properties which many of them
possessed. Much indignation is felt
at the steamboatmen for not checking
the folly, and Mayor Overstaltz has
determined to enjOin the boats from
bringing more negroes to the city, by
virtue of an ordinance which prohibits
the bringing of paupers into the city.
The Mullanphy Board, an institution
which controls the charitable bequests
of a gentleman who died some years
since, to-day set aside a sum of money
in aid of the stampeders, but if the
immigration is not at once checked,
the city will have to provide for a
small colony of utterly helpless citi-
zens, as these plantation hands are
perfectly unacquanted with city ways,
and unable to make living in any
other way than by agriculture. In
the meantime, the Southern planters
are doing their best to check the
movement, which threatens to deprive
them of their means of raising this
years crop,
Year: 1879

As the evening accommodation train
was passing Eddystone station Oh its
way to this city, it ran into a man evi-
IDENTITY about sixty years of age and
threw him violently into the air. He
struck the ground some distance from
the track. The train was stopped and
the man was taken up and found to be
dangerously hurt. DR.. Ulrich was
to the place from Chester,
and tho man taken to his residence at
Leiperville.
Year: 1879

Last evening Martin Feeley was
charged by James 4. Kelley with as
sault and battery.It seems that Martin,
while perambulating along the street
in a somewhat doubtful condition met
Kelley and insisted that there should
be a fight. Kelley didn't know Martin,
and never met him before as he knew
of and so the invitation was declined.
Martin becoming demonstrative James
had him arrested and Martin for this
public manifestation of his exuberant
nature was compelled to pay a fine of
81 with cssts Of suit.
Year: 1879

Special to the Star.


WASHINGTON, June 25.-The Joint Ad-
visory Committee of the two houses had an
extended session this morning. Senator
Thurman was too ill to be present. The
plan which has been heretofore outlaid was
agreed upon--that is to divide the vetoed
Judicial Bill into two bills


The first will make the appropriation for
the ordinary expenses Of Courts and will
couple with it clause for the repeal OF the
jurors test oath. The other bill will con-
tain the appropriation for U. S. Marshals,
with the restrictive clause in relation to
Deputy Marshals.


This action of the Advisory Committee
will be submitted to a joint Democratic
caucus of the two Houses to be held this
afternoon. This caucus is necessary, be-
cause the Advisory Committee was
not unanimous, and also because
there are some impracticabes who
still say that they will vote for nothing
except the vetoed bill. If the caucus con-
firms the action of its Committee, it is
thought Congress may adjourn the last of
this week or the beginning of the next
Year: 1879

The ponies purchased by the Highland
House management for the pony track just
completed at that popular hilltop, were
exhibited on the prominent streets this
morning. The collection is well selected
one, comprising all sizes and colors. The
track will be opened for the use of the pub
lie this afternoon. This new feature should
meet with success
Year: 1879

A remarkable cave has been discovered
on the farm of David Samuels, 10 miles from
La Cross, Minnesota. The cave is so feet
long, l3 feet wide, and about feet high.
Above the quarry sand, which has evidently
drifted in and covered the floor to the depth
of from three to six feet, upon the walls, are
very rude carvings representing men, arms,
animals and implements, and some appear
be hieroglyphics. One picture represents
men with bows and arrows shooting animals,
three buffaloes and one rabbit Another
represents three animals which if large must
have been like the hippopotamus another
appears to represent mastodon on anoth
er picture moose is quite plainly delineat-
ed. There are eight representations that are
canoes much carved, or hammocks which
they more resemble. One sketch of a man
is very plain the figure wears kind of
chaplet or crown and was probably chief of
his tribe or clan. 7 ere are many fragments
of pictures where the rock had decomposed
The rock is a very coarse soft white sand
stone. On one side of the cave is space of
about two feet high and three in length
made in the rock. Above are the fragments
of pictures and below are lower fragments,
showing that they were made when the rock
was entire. Flom the depth to which de-
compositions reached in this dry and dark
cavern the inscriptions must be quite an.
cient If the carving mentioned represents
the mastodon the work must have been by
mound builders. The accumulated sand
needs to be removed to get full view, and
possibly human remains may be found. The
entrance to the cave has evidently been COW
cred by land slide there being LET. only a
small hole where traps have been set for
coons. The large number of these animals
which were caught led to the belief that the
space inhabited by them must be large and
investigation led to the discovery of the
cave. Over the entrance, since the land
slide, a poplar IS inches in diameter has
grown, which shows conclusively that the
cave has not been occupied by human beings
for more than century.
Year: 1879

Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, address,
ing the farmers at a fair in Oneida county,
n. Y, the other day, said:


i am not much of farmer, aud have lit
tie right to stand before you as such, but
brought over here for exhibition some DO
tatoes that certainly exceeded my speech.
In reference to the depression of the times
let me recs Il to you an ancient fable. There
was once giant so powerful that he could
not be overcome. But he derived his
strength from his mother earth, for no mat
ter how exhausted he might become, he re-
gained his powers the moment that he came
in contact with the soil The way in which
he was finally overpowered was by coming
into contact with an opponent so strong that
he could lift him from the ground and hold
him suspended in the air until he was
strangled to death. Now there is a lesson
in this for u.s. So long as this people of ours
can seek its support from mother-earth, so
long it cannot be overcome There never
yet was president of the United States who
when he left his office, did not seek The
country and retire to his farm. Washing.
ton did this, so did Adams and Jefferson
Our greatest statesmen have sought fo
rest, health and peace in retirement to thei


tarms-witness Webster and Clay
Year: 1879

Flour is peculiarly sensitive to the atmos-
pheric influences, hence it should never be
stored in a room with sour liquids, nor where
onions or fish or kept, nor any article that
taints the air of the room in which it is
stored. Any smell perceptible to the sense
will be absorbed by -four. Avoid damp cell
lars or lofts where free circulation of air
cannot be obtained. Keep in cool, dry
airy room, and not exposed to a freezing
temperature nor to intense summer or to
artificial heat for any length of time above
700 to 75' Fair. 1t should not come in
contact with grain or other substances
which are liable to heat. Flour should be
sifted and the particles thoroughly disin-
tergrated and then warmed before baking.
This treatment improves the color and bak-
ing properties o the dough. The sponge
shonld be prepared for the oven as soon as
the yeast has performed its mission, other.
wise fermentation sets in and acidiiy re.
suits.
Year: 1879

1t is estimated that $4,000
men and women are employed in
Philadelphia in the manufacture
of clothing, and 2O,000,0OO suits
are made there every year. Cut
ting machines are gradually find
ing their way into all Of the large
manufacturing establishments of
the city. The machines have a
capability of cutting nearly eigh-
teen garments in a day of twelve
hours, or about equal to the COM
bined results of the labor of eight
men. Button holes can also be
worked by machinery at the rate
of one hundred and eighty pei
hour, while by hand it would
take the same period to complete
three holes. BY the cutting ma
chimes cloth Of forty ply thick
ness can easily be cut through.
An instance of the value of ma
chinery in expediting manufact-
ure is afforded in the fact that
the establishment where cut
ting and button hole machines
are used turns out one hundred
suits ready for wear inside of
twelve hours.
Year: 1879

Shortly after the war the
Legislature Of Georgia made a
law cxenptilig all new factories
that might be established from
taxation for ten years. Under
this encouragementthe State has
prospered wonderfully. 1t will
appear strange that q number
of the old factory proprietors
have inst combined to test in
the courts the validity of that
exemption.
Year: 1879

Judge Bagg, who is one of the
soundest men on the bench in Iowa,
in the road case in the Grundy Circuit
Court, said that it is the privilege OF
one who desires to drive faster than
another to do so, and he may legally
pass the other by turning out on the
right-hand side of the other party, and
he other party has no right to prevent
him from so doing, and any act that
would tend to hinder or delay him
would be technical trespass for which
he would be liable. A party will
be justified when one desires to pass
him in driving up q little way and
then stopping or Stacking up, and as
soon as the other party again attempts
to pass to once more start up to run
and the party so doiug will be liable
to answer for damage.-(Des Moines
Qowa) Register.
Year: 1879

A gentleman of Philadelphia has in.
vented new apparatus for locomotion
called a pedomotor, by which an as
tonishing rate of speed can be obtain
ed by the simple act Of walking where
the surface of the ground is sufficient
ly even or smooth to admit of it. The
news carrier around the Permanent
Exhibition buildings goes his rounds
pair of these novel attachments to his
feet. The pedomotor consists of four
tough wooden wheels, very light, and
provided with an outer rim of India
rubber. These wheels are secured to
frame shaped like the foot, and
strapped on like pair of skates, un-
like roller skates, the wheels sre not
under the foot, but on each side of it,
thus giving the wearer good solid
footing. The rear wheels are 3 inches
in diameter, while those in front are
211s, thus giving slight incline to the
foot, which in motion has much to do
with impelling the pedestrian forward.
from the toe with slight
curl toward the ground is a piece of
eating called 'pusher, u led in mount
ing q steep incline. From the center
of the heel a small brass wheel extends
back as q guide as well as a brake.
The whole thing weighs scarcely a
pound. In using them no more effort
is required than in ordinary walking.
The wearer takes his ordinary step,
and is surprised to find himself skim
ming along at a great rate. The phil
osophy of it is that while lifting the
foot for another step the body is con-
tinually progressing. A man STEP
ping usually 36 inches, makes 4S with
the pedomotor, thus gaining one third
in distance. 1t certainly is a very
novel arrangement, and on smooth
rocks or walks will prove a nice thing.
Year: 1879

One of the hottest regions on the
earth is along the Persian Gulf, where
little or no rain falls. At Bahrin the
arid shore has no fresh water, yet a
comparatively numerous population
contrive TO live there, thanks to the
copi GUS springs which break forth
from the bottom of the sea. The fresh
water is got by diving. The diver, sit
ting in bis boat, winds a great goat
skin bag around his left arm, the hand
grasping it's mouth; then takes in his
right hand a heavy stone, to which is
attached strong line, and thus equip
ped he plunges in and quickly reaches
the bottom. instantly opening the
bag over the strong jet of fresh water,
he springs up the ascending current,
at the same time closing the bag, and
is helped aboard. The stone is then
drawn up, and the diver, after taking
a breath, plunges again. The source
of the copious submarine springs is
thought to be in the green hills of Os-
man, some five or six hundred miles
distant,
Year: 1879

She's long in the face, she's fine IN
her horn she'll quickly get fat with
out cake or corn she's clean in her jaw
and full in her chin; she's heavy in
flank and wide in loin she's broad in
her rib and long in the rump - straight
and fiat back with never hump; she's
wide in her hips and calm in her eyes |;
she's fine in her shoulders and thin in
her thighs she's light in her neck and
small in her tail; she's wide in her
breast and good at the pail she's fine
of her bone and silky of skin; she's
a grazier's without and a butchers
within.
Year: 1879

REMEMBER that the only way to se-
cure an honest livelihood is to work
for it.. Many young men. imagining
that there are other modes of making
and obtaining money than by honest
labor, indulge in extravagant follies
and visionary schemes and end in ruin
crime and disgrace. Speculative fol-
lies. Honest labor with economical
habits is the safe road for travel.
Year: 1879

never saw q garment too fine for
man or maid there never was chair
too good for q cooper or cobbler or .
king to sit in never house too fine 10
shelter the human head. These ele-
ments about us, the glorious sky, the
imperial sun, are not too good for hu-
man race. Elegance fits man. But
do we not value these tools for the
housekeeping little more than they
are worth, and sometimes mortgage
house for the mahogony we would
bring into it? l had rather eat my
dinner off the head of a barrel or dress
after the fashion of John the Baptist
in the wilderness, or sit on block all
my life, than consume all myself be.
fore 1 got home, and take so much
pains with the outside that the inside
was as hollow as an empty nut. Beau.
ty is great thing, but beauty of gar
ment, house and furniture, are tawd-
ry ornaments compared with pure
domestic love. All the elegance of
the world will not make home, and
would give more for q single spoon
full of sound hearty love than for
whole shiploads of gaudy furniture,
and all the gorgeousness that all the
upholsters in the world could gather.
-[Dr. Holmes.
Year: 1879

Stop q minute. Don't hurry 30.


Move slower, it may be you will move
surer. Grind, grind, grind /; one ever
lasting grind from five In the morning
till ten at night, chasing the bubble of
human riches. What is the need, pray
tell me-? You already have enough
and even more than you can use. You
are heaping up wealth for others to
waste, or perhaps quarrel over when
you are dead. And half your heirs,
instead of recollecting you gratefully,
will contemplate your departure from
this hurrying scene with infinite sat-
isfaction. Do rest q whilel You are
wearing out the vital forces faster than
there is need, and in this way sub
tracing years from the sum total of
your lite. This rush and worry, ay
after dav, this restless anxiety after
something you have not got, is like
pebblestones in machinery they CRATE
and grind the life out Of you. You
have useless burdens, throw them of.


You have a great load of needless
care; dump it. Pull in the strings.
Compact your business. Take time
for thought of better things. Go out
into the air, and let Gods sun shine
down upon your busy head. Stop
grumbling at adverse proyidences.


You will probably never see much
better times than these in this doomed
world. Your most opportune season
is now; your happiest day is to-day.
Calmly do your duty, and let God
take care of His own world. He is
shll alive and is the King. Do you
imagine that things will go to ever
lasting smash when you disappear
from the mortal stage. Don't fancy
that the curse of heaven, in the shape
Year: 1879

where else mighty quick. They are
almost as tenacious of life as the snap
ping-turtle. The head Of this ono, for
some time after being severed from
the body, would snap its jaws on q
stick so tight that the head could not
be shaken off. KNICK.
Year: 1879

THE BOARD OF HEALTH occupies a
more important place in our city's we'll
fare now than ever. 1t is hoped that
they will not bulge one inch from the
position they have assumed in regard to
the dye stuffs that have been fouling the
drinking water of the city for number
of years. The foul matter should not
b, emptied into either race to mingle
Will, the " ater near the city mill.
Year: 1879

Not satisfied with looking up Presi-
Dental candidate for the Democrats for
1880, the Republican journals are now
busy at work to fix up ticket for us for
1884. Well, it is presumed the Demo
Gratis will make their own choice after
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