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Year: 1874

THE citizens of Evansville are negotiat
ing for the timber of log cabin, all of
which was hewed by Abraham Lincoln,
in order to make it into canes, to be sold
to procure funds to erect monument in
honor of his mother.
Year: 1874

A Mrs. BEATTY arrived in Oakland,
from White Pine, few days since, in
search of a daughter Of about 13 years
OF age, whom she had not seen for three
years. She found her working in mil
linery store. The girl refused to go with
the mother because she keeps a bar on
the public road and wanted her to sell
liquor for her. Good for the girl.
Year: 1874

STATE FAIR.-We have received the
premium list for the Twenty-frst Annual
Fair of the State Agricultural Society to
be holden in Sacramento from the Dist to
the Goth Of September, inclusive. The
list is an extended one.
Year: 1874

INFERRED WHILE LIvIEG.-From Salt
Lake City comes horrible story of pre-
mature burial. A young man named
Lackhurst, while swinging, fell to the
ground in senseless state. He was taken
home and efforts made to revive him, but
with no effect. Finally the physician
pronounced him dead and he was buried.
Doubts Of his being really dead were en-
tertained and after some time the grave
was opened, when horrible sight pre-
sented itself. The body was turned on
one side, the grave clothes torn into shreds
and the finger nails worn to the quick in
the efforts which had been made to burst
the bounds Of the living tomb. An at
tempt will be made to fix the responsible
ity of this horrible blunder. 1t is in cases
like this where the advocates of cremation
find their strongest argument. Prema-
ture burials are no doubt of rare occur
renee, but every once in a while the mind
is shocked by a case like this, where the
truth cannot be denied. There can be no
more horrible fate conceived than that Of
being consigned to the grave before life
is extinct, and certainly there can be no
more senseless blundcr Of a physician
than to permit such thing to occur.
Burial should not be permitted until de-
composition has commenced, when all
fears of premature burial can be dismissed.
Year: 1874

THE GOOD OLD WAY.-Tho Arizona
Citizen thus describes the way of harvest
ing in Santa Cruz Valley: First the
grain is cut with sickles, then a rope is
attached to a raw-hide and tied to the
horn of saddle; the horse then is ridden
through the field and the grain is piled on
this raw-hide and dragged to some CEN
trail place in the field. Here it is heaped
up and horses are made to travel in a
circle around the main pile until the grain
is threshed. This mode Of harvesting
and threshing grain may seem a slow
process to our Western farmers, but it
has one virtue; it is the same way it was
done l 800 years ago, and with those who
do not believe in advancement that is
sufficient reason why it should be done so
now." The Union can clip this out and
lay it one side to be used as an editorial
when it gets the ox-teams started again
in opposition to the railroads. five have
to retrograde, we had better go all lengths
at once.
Year: 1874

The preposterous craze which seized the
Western members of Congress last winter has
been pretty effectually cured by the business
experience Of the country since the adjourn
ment. We are in the midst of the most active
season, and it is found that the banks, both
Of the East and the West have great deal
more money than their customers can employ.
Senator Shurz, who did excellent service last
winter against the imitation heresy, has re-
Gently furnished neat practical refutation Of
the pretence that the West needed more bank
circulation. He wrote to Mr. Knox, the
Comptroller Of the Currency, requesting q
statement Of the mount of addition made to
the bank notes of Missouri under the act of
June 20. Mr.. Knox shows in his reply that
although that State is entitled by law to more
than double its present circulation, and has
free permission to increase it, it has been
diminished by mo1e than million and half
since the passage of the act. Several new
banks have been authorized in that
State, but none Of them have COM
pleted their organization. No bonds have
been deposited and there is no Immediate
likelihood that any new circulation will be
taken out On the contrary, three of the
st. Louis banks have deposited legal tender
notes and withdrawn bonds to the amount of
81, 500, 600, proving that in the estimation of
Western bankers the Western Congressman
raised mistaken cry. Comptroller Knox
states that the quota of bank circulation ap-
portioned to Missouri is SIS, 459, 400, of which
50, 29S, ,S21 remains untaken, although it can
be had at any time by complying with the law.
The ST. Louis Democrat which was an infa-
ton journal last winter, has become convinced
of its error and is doing good service on the
other side. The battle against initiation has
been SO completely won that it will never have
to be fought over again in this country, but
new contests, involving the same principle,
will arise on the question of contraction when
ever serious attempt is made to restore
specie payments
Year: 1874

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counting two from Louisiana-and in the


present condition of the Southern States they
are likely to multiply unless the law is def
nitely settled


! In the present stage of the discussion we
think the President was clearly right in grant
ing Kellogg's second application, and we in
cline to the opinion-though with more hesi-
tation-that Mr. johnson correctly expounds
the law which ought to govern him. There
is q passage in Chief Justice Taney's we'll
known opinion in the Dorr case that seems to
throw light on this question, although neither
Mr.. o. Conor nor Mr.. johnson have alluded to
it. We refer to the passage in which the Court
states that Congress might, if they had
deemed it most advisable to do so, have
placed it IN the power of a court to decide
when the contingency had happened
which required the federal government
TO interfere" For the sake of illustration let
us suppose that Congress had done this.
What would have been the legal effect of the
decision OF United States court in case
like that from Louisiana? It would have
been judicial determination of the disputed
question OF the Governorship. If federal
court, clothed by Congress with the requisite
jurisdiction had decided that Kellogg was the
legal Governor Congress having made no
provision for an appeal, would the decision or
would it not have the force of final ajudica-
ton? Let us consider the extent of ground
which such decision would cover BY de-
Gliding that Kellogg was Governor the Court
would decide that he was entitled to the Office,
not merely for the nonce, but for the whole
unexpired portion Of his term of four years.
The decision would necessarily have that ex-
tent, for the very point decided would be that
he was Governor by the constitution and laws
of the State, and by the constitution and laws
the Governor holds for definite period. Once
legally in office his term could not be short
ened by the decision Of any court, nor by
Congress itself. The only question would be
whether the first decision OF the Court, from
which Congress had provided no appeal, per-
fected his legal title to the Office. If so, every
department of the federal government would
rightful Governor until the expiration Of his
term. Now, Congress having invested the
President with the same authority with which
it might have clothed court, it is fair
question for jurists whether his decision be
not as permanently binding as that of ju-
dicial tribunal. We have merely indicated
some Of the points which we would like to
see more fully discussed as means of en-
tightening the public judgment. The subject
is one Of the most complex that ever engaged
the attention Of profound lawyers, and when
men Of the ripe experience and pre-eminent
professional standing of Mr. Johnson and
Mr.. OConor maintain opposite views the
question cannot be thought free from diff
fculties.
Year: 1874

The New RULE requiring policemen to
wear uniforms when off duty is strongly COM
planned of by the men. They argue that it
not only interferes with their own privileges,
but is injurious to the public good. We do
not care whether this rule is enforced or re-
voked, SO that the police force is made eff
cient by the Commissioners But as they
have made the regulation it is likely they
will give it proper trial.
Year: 1874

There has been conference at Nashville
between the Governor of Tennessee and the
Governor of Kentucky on the proposition
submitted to Governor Brown from nu-
merous individuals in the Southern States for
conference of Southern democratic Gov
ernors as soon as practicable after the APP
proaching Republican Convention OF the
Southern States at Chattanooga, "with the
view OF meeting and resisting the anticipated
incendiary pronunciamiento from that quarter "
The conference between the two aforesaid
Governors and other persons joining them
was an agreement to recommend meeting OF
all the democratic Governors, or of all the
State Governors of both parties, North and
South, for the purpose of calm, earnest and
patriotic discussion of State rights and State
wrongs under the existing order of things
and the needful remedies for the wrongs COM
planned of. We have no objection to submit
against this proposed conference, for we think
the parties concerned in it will soon discover
that the work before them is too great for any
representative body, except o national con-
vention, representing all the interests of all
the States and all the people Of the United
States.
Year: 1874

THE vRGIN1Us CAsE.-The rumor that the
British have effected settlement in the
Virginius case, her government having
received large indemnity from Spain,
seems to have excited much attention in
Washington. We have an official statement
to the effect that, Notwithstanding what has
been concluded in reference to England, "our
government is still pressing upon Spain
the Importance Of an arrangement
which will satisfy our people" We
can we'll understand the difficulty Of bringing
any Spanish government to business dec-
sion, and we must, of course, consider the
unfortunate state of the country in accounting
for the delay. But General Grant must
have an answer from Serrano or submit to
defeat in our diplomacy of q most humiliat-
ing character. To indemnify England and
ignore the United States in matter where
our claims are hundred times more pressing
is an indignity that we should not suppose
that even Mr.. Fish would endure
Year: 1874

Our STATE CAMPAIGN. Hon. Lyman Tre-
main, our Congressman-a opened fire
against the democracy in a regular broadsido
at Albany the other evening. The thunder
of the artillery and the rattle of the small
arms on both sides will soon extend along the
whole line, and doubtless republicans and
democrats en- masse throughout the State will
be reused from their lethargy for the great
day Of November.
Year: 1874

That MONEY is the 'sroot of all evil, is
illustrated in the report of riot in one of the
silver mines of Nevada. -Four men were
killed and one morally wounded in fight
for the control OF company.
Year: 1874

THE D1sGRAcEFUL SCENE was last evening
presented in New York of dozen or SO wild
Texan bulls loose in the streets. BY our re-
ports to-day it will be seen that they ranged
the city almost as freely as they did their ma
tive plains. Over thirty persons were injured
by the savage animals, and owing to
the excitement several policemen were
wounded by pistol shots. The authorities
should protect citizens better, and somebody
surely is responsible for this dangerous raid.
Year: 1874

.sLET Us HAVE PEACE The Shreveport
Ga) Times points the way to practical and
noble solution Of the harassing problems now
distressing the North and South when it favors
"a national convention of all these States, the
object Of which should especially be the solu-
ton of the Southern political problem" The
editor would welcome such convention as
one summoned to accomplish great ma
tional blessing" and he is profoundly con-
vinced it 'swould find happy solution Of the
grave questions now threatening the civiliza-
ton OF at least six great States.
Year: 1874

superintendent Walling has ordered mounted
policemen TO patrol Madison avenue, from Forty.
second street to Eighty-sixth street. between
dusk and midnight. The police Centaurs. who are
under the command OF Sergeant Westing. Will
therefore Immediately begin their duties In their
new district Besides letting their horses carac0le
on Madison avenue the officers will make Occa-
sonal fncurslons into the cross streets. The Su-
perintendent does not think that the mounted
police can prove very efficient as captors
or thieves in the darkness, but he believes
that they will be useful in carrying
quickly the news OF criminal Outrages from
post To post and from precinct 70 precinct so
that the loot police will be given better opportuni-
nes 20 nnd tsew con sse crt Oa
from the sight OF pursuing police cavaliers. A per-
son VINO is an adept at lodging can very often
elude pursuing horseman. The latter will have
to descend from his saddle to take hold OF the
fugitive, but by the time he has reached the
ground the quarry will have taken = fresh breath
and have started away again.
Year: 1874

from the Evening Post


The success OF blue Beard at Barnums Hippo
drome indlsputable. Never old story told
in gorgeous and effective o Little hearts
Quacd at tho fierce OF the tyrant and his
midons and the dread tenants OF the mystic chamber
Great the excitement among the bows girls
the bloodthrsty Pasha threatened to add the
fortunate Fama TO the long list OF his hcadless wives
and great the delight the nal discontinue OF the
ceedingiv irritable potentate The scenery and the
Year: 1874

From the Evening Fxpress.l


The story is reproduced with all the splendor Of
Oriental magnifcence and wealth OF pageantry that
could only be supplied In 20 vast arena Of the
Hippodrome Wen II Is said that the actual outlay the
spectacle has been Ss3 0o it be readily understood
that 1t more than ordinary cauty spenaor
The ballet Is extremely effective from its
and OF the prees and most novel effects OF
Is where three hundred dancers
in from all the OF the and inner
circle, like moving, prancing piece ct animated
color .
Year: 1874

The following extract We take from the
New York Independent, and commend it
to the careful consideration of the boys
and young men who are among our read
ers:


The first thousand dollars that a young
man after going out into the world to act
for himself, earns and sares will generally
settle the question of business life with
him. There may be exceptions to this
statement; yet, for rule, we think that 1t
will hold true.


The first condition is that the young
man actually earns the thousand dollars
IN question. He does not inherit this sum.
1t does not come to him by streak of
good luck, as the result OF fortunate
venture in the purchase and sale of hum
dred shares of stock. 1t is the fruit of
personal industry. He gives his time and
his labor for it. While he is thus earning
and saving it, he must earn two or three.
or perhaps four times as much to pay his
current expenses. He is consequently
held sternly to the task of industry for
considerable period. The direct conse-
vuence to him is steady, continuous and
solid discipline in the habits of industry
in patient, persistent, forecasting and
self-dcnying effort, breaking up all the
tendencies to Incidence and frivolty. and
making him an earnest and watchful &C.
onomist Of time. He not only learns how
to work, but he also acquires the love Of
work; and, moreover, he learns the ralue
OF the sum which he has thus saved out
of his earnings He has toiled for il:
he has observed its slow increase from
time to time; and in his estimate it rep
resents so many months or years of
practical labor. His ideas of life are
shaped by his own experience. These
natural effects of earning the first thous-
and dollars we hold to be very large
benefits. They are just the qualities OF
mind and body which are most likely
to secure business success in after years.
They constitute the best practical edu-
cation which a man can have as work
Ell in this working world. They are
gained in season for lifc's purposes, at
the opening period, just when they are
wanted, when foolish notions are most
likely to mislead an inexperienced
brain, and when, too, there is a full op-
portunity for expansion and develop
ment in later years. Men have but one
life to live; and hence, they start from
opening manhood but once. And the
manner in which they start, the pur-
poses they have in view, and the eabits
thev form, Will ordinarily determine
the entire sequel Of their career on
earth. To succeed, men must have the
elements OF success in themselves. One
great reason why there are so many use
less, inefficient, and poverty-strlcken
men on carth-or, rather, bows SEEM
ing to be men-consists in the simple
fact that they did not start right. A
prominent reason why the children of
the ri h so frequently amount to moth
ing may be found in luxury, ease and
Incidence which marked the commence
ment OF their lives. It is the law of
God that We should he uc0rkerS on
earth; and no one 50 we'll consults the
best development of his being as when
he conforms his practice to this law.
The workers in some suitable sphere
are the only really strong men in the
world.
Year: 1874

"A good story is told of a country
gentleman who for the first time heard
sn Episcopal Clergyman preach. He
had heard much of the aristocracy and
pride of the church, and when he re-
turned home he was asked if the peo-
pie were stuck up, 'Pshaw! no. replied
he why the minister preached in his
shirt sleeves
Year: 1874

In view OF the fact that Watts
hymns have been translated into the
Choctaw language, and have become fav-
orites of the braves, an admired of the
noble red man, says it is very affecting
to think Of noble red man sitting upon
fence and singing ''How doth the lit.
tie busy bee," while he watches his wife
carrying home a couple Of bushels of po-
tatoes upon each shoulder and wonder.
ing if he couldn't swap that squaw for a
jug of robust rum.
Year: 1874

Two young men out riding were pass
ing farmhouse where a farmer was try
ing to harness an obstinate mule. Wont
he draw said the men. "Of course, ."
said the farmer, "he1l draw the attention
OF every fool that passes this way" The
young men drove on.
Year: 1874

does not waste money on pleasure, and does not approve of those who do so. He

 lives in constant fever of hope and expec-

 tatlon, or grows sour with hope deferred

 or blank disappointment. Out of all it grows the worship of wealth and that de- moralization which results in unscrupu lousness concerning the methods of it's requirement. So America presents the lanomaly of a laboring class with unprece-

 dented prosperity and privileges and un- exampled discontent and discomfort.

 l There is surely something better than l this. There is something better than a lifelong sacrifice of content and enjoy-

 ment for possible wealth, which, how ever. may never be acquired. and which

 has not the power, when won, to yield it's

 holder the boon whicn heexpects it to pur

 chase. To withhold from the frugal wife the gown she desires, to deny her the jour ney which would do SO much to break up

 the nonotony of her home-life, to rear children in mean ways, to shut away from the family life thousand social pleasures, to relinquish all amusements that have a cost attached to them, for wealth which may or may not come when the family life is broken up forever surely this is

 neither sound enterprise nor wise ecom- ony. We would not have the American laborer, farmer and mechanic become i'm

 proyident, but we would very much like

 to see them happier than they are, by re-

 sort to the daily social enioyments which

 are always ready to their hand. Nature is strong in the young, and they will have society and play of some sort. It should

 remain strong in them, nntil it is expelled

 by the absorbing passion for gain. Some thing of the Old World fondness for play, and daily or weekly indulgence in it, should

 become habitual among our workers. Foil would be sweeter if there was a reward at the end of it; work would be gentler when

 used as 8 means to secure pleasure which stand closer than an old age of ease; char acter would be softer and richer and more childhke, when acquired among genial ev- ery-day delights. The all-absorbing strife for wealth, carried on with fearful strug- gles and constant self-denials, make us petty. irritable, and hard. When the whole American people have learned that a dollars worth of pure pleasure is worth more than dollars worth of anything else under the sun; that working is not

 living, but only means by which we win

 living; that money is good for nothing

 except for what it brings of comfort and

 culture; and that we live not in the future,

 but the present; then they will be happy people-happier and better than they have been. '::The morrow shall take thought for the things of itself," may not be an

 accepted maxim of political economy, but it was uttered by the wlsest being that ev-

 CT lived in the world, whose mission it was

 to make men both good and happy Scri6ncr's for AuQuSt.
Year: 1874

HINTS TO HoUsE-BUILDERs.-
Avoid such lots as will require your
house to face North. Have your
living rooms to face South always,
if possible. Put your hall on the
North side of the house. Don't spoil
your sunny WINDOWS by stretching
a piezza outside which will keep the
sun away. Live in your pleasantest
room. Build no parlors to shut up
what is good enough for you is good
enough for visitors. Have bow
window in your living room. Make
your windows large, and enough OF
them. Have plenty Of good closets.
A goodly pantry and q closet shc1ld
be connected With the kitchen.
Build Q Fireplace in your living
loom. The height Of your rooms
should be ons.third the snm Of the
width and length Of your living room
Year: 1874




Mr., EDITOR:


l send you an epistls which. ] OF
course expect you to make room for
in the STAR; even TO the exclusion OF
paying advertisement ; for you
know editors are not expected to have
any sel6shness in such small matters,
and again when we THREE, | mesn
Alice Easy, Old Bach and myself, are
contributors to your paper it will be
Star no longer, but will be Liter
ary Sun shining with pristine splen-
dor and Cumming the eastern shores
of the claccic Pascagoula, and may
be throwing few slanting beams
even to our dark and benighted other
side.


HOl TO THE RESCUE.


An ancient fable tells US Of Fox
who was travelling, and came to a
grape vine and because the grapes
were out of his reach coDsoled him-
self by saying, "Oh, well they are
sour anyhow, and we don't. want
them" Now it strikes us. that "Old
Bach," whom Alice has so EASILY
aroused and who avows himself such
a trenchant knight, must be in the
aforesaid fox's predicament.


And yet, be must cen brag, that it
will take Nepoleonic femanine to
entrap him. l rise to enquire what
would she want with him? Certainly
not as constituent Of happy home,
he has shown how he can snarl and
snap at would be kind hand, that
was trying TO point him to the better
way. And SO OUR opinion is that he
is some ugly, gross grained OLD fel-
low that none of the girls will have,
aid he consoles himself with .growl-
ing at others more happily situated.
And he even proposes for A. E. to
open an auction store and SELL them
off to the highest bidder. There
would be money in it if she could get
them at their real worth and sell
them at their estimate of themselves.
That would pay better than any saw
mill on the river, but the trouble is to
ind bidders, for most of the girls
have their eye and some their Wis
dom teeth. Everything is created for
some purpose. but for our life. we
never could comprehend what an old
bachelor or o dandy were made for,
unless really the one is to point a
moral and the other to adorn ave
had almost written TAIL.


And so far are we from consider
ing the woman q victor, we would
think her thoroughly victimised when
ever she should dsign to lift either oil
the forelorn wietches into the realms
of matrimonial felicity.


Our advice, thea to you girls, is