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Year: 1877



 IL is tLe intention of the Tunnel Company to begin work early in the Fall. A shaft tweniy-eight feet deep has been dug at the foot of Fifteenth street, Jersey City, and this depth will

 be increased twenty feet From this as starting. point, the tunnel will pro ceed in a noriheasterjy direction under the Hudson river and the Christopher Street Ferry Slip. The entrance on the New York side will be in the neighborhood of Washington Square. From Jersey City the grade will de-

 scend two feet in every hundred feet until a point 2700 feet from ihe New

 York side is reached, when it will be- gin to ascend at the rate of one foot in every hundred feel. The tunnel will

 be two miles in length, with road-bed tweniy-three feet wide, with two sepa- rate tracks. Through its entire length it will be lighted by gas. The wall will be constructed of brick, with d thickness of four feel At no point will the top of the tunnel be less than thirty i've feet below the surface nf the water, and in many places il will be seventy feet below. Ooe hundred and twenty laborers will De engaged in the construction of the tunnel. The work will go on during the whole of the twenly-four hours. the force working Tn three relays, for eight hours each. Although the tunnel will be used for the conveyance of passengers, it's main object will be the transportation of freight to and from the great railroa1 lines which terminate in Jersey City The capital of the company is $l0,0O0,- American Architect.
Year: 1877

CONSIDERABLE interest is manifested in Secretary Schurz's order relative to cutting timber on the public domain. The order vests the United States au- IhOrities with power 10 seize upon the lumber or other material taken from the public lands and hold for the govern ment Should this order be strenously enforced, the Southern Colorado would be stripped of their propping IimberS, the mills torn down, every town could De razed io the ground. our grave yards could be deprived of fences and The very graves themselves entered and the boxes taken from around the re. mains of those who have died trying to make this country worth something for Uncle Sam.-San Juan ProSpectOr
Year: 1877

Reports from the Picket Post show plenty of work with good results. The mill IS running day and night and crushing about fifteen tons daily. The pulp IS carried from the battery in twn divisions, and each division is passed over two concentratnrs. By this means any of the silver is lost. We understand that about one thousand pounds of concentrated matter is the result of each days work at the mill

 Mat. Csvaness' train passed throu gh Florence this week en route for ihe Picket Post and will be employed by he Silver King Company in hauling ore from the mine 10 the mill.
Year: 1877

THE APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS FOR


STREET oPENINGs-PRoTECrIvE MEASURES


FOR PROPERTY HOLDERS.


The North Side Association held a meeting yester-
day afternoon at Carr's Hail. 15Sth street, corner
Third avenue Mr.. J. T. Angel, the chairman OF the
committee TO which was referred resolution passed
at the last meeting, to ascertain tho mode
by which eight streets had been ordered
to bo opened and regulated by the Supreme
Court IN opposition to the wishes of tho property
owners reported that account Of their inability to
compel witnesses testify, well TO obtain docu.
mentary evidence, they had to rely mainly on nforma.
ton brought them. The report stated that accord
ing chapter GOA OF the Laws OF 1874 the Department.
oil Parks was vested With unlimited discretion IN
the selection of streets to be opened and
that the Commissioners OF Estimate and As
sessments were vested with like discretion
in tho performance of their duties, hence
the action Of these bodies, though opposed to the
wishes and Injurious. a large number OF property
owners not legally wrong. Tho committee also
reported that none Of the Commissioners OF Estmate
and Assessments are residents or property holders in
tho Twenty third and Twenty fourth wards and totally
ignorant OF the location of the new streets and the
and wishes of tue citizens In the mate that Of
partner the Chairman of the Board OF Aldermen, the
other brother Of the Chairman OF last years Board,
and the third Is local politician; that they have becn
selected without regard to their knowledge OF the
topography OF the ground to be improved and the
and necessities of the people most Interested in


series OF resolutions followed the report request.
ing tho Commissioners OF tho Department OF Public
Parks to take no proceedings other than for such I'M
provements Immediately necessary, ana that In
the appointment OF any Board of Commissioners Of
Estimate aud Assessments tho properly owners be rep
resented by the appointment of persons residing IN the
Twenty-thrd and rwenty-tourth wards.


A SAFEGUARD TAXPAYERS


Mr.. II. n. Camp presented resolution which was
adopted, authorizing the Law Committee to take such
measures as 1t deemed proper to got act through
the Legislature to the effect that no action shall be
taken to open street unless least onc-ha OF tho
said street shall have signed petition for
tho samc This Mr.. Camp said, would throw safe
guard around property owners from any iniudcious
act on the part OF the department. Of Parks.
Year: 1877

painful conclusion that it was q piece Of
bad taste which might as we'll be omitted.
The demonstration was not merely the
act Of enthusiastic citizens who wish to
show courtesy and hospitality to rare and
honored visitors. No doubt there was a
great deal of this feeling in it, but there
was also a larger amount of political clap
trap, and the mayors and leading citizens
who Grated and brought forth the national
spread-eagle from his long obscurity un-
doubtedly looked on their action as dec
laration that they were an oppressed and
long-sufering people lately restored to
freedom.


This is the only construction which
can be put on so unusual and unnecessary
q demonstration, and we must confess to
an opinion that it gives a very silly aspect
to those who indulged in it. We utterly
refuse to Join in spplauding any Cssur-
ances of loyalty which are based on the
condition that the loyalists shall meet
with no semblance of opposition in their
political and partisan policy, and when
we are asked to gush .sentimentally over
the return of these distinguished citizens
to their allegiance, we beg to decline un-
der the belief that allegiance after so long
delay, and with SO many conditions to
it, is not worth much. We protest in toto
against that Southern view of Southern
affairs which has persisted in assuming
that the Southerners were race separate
and apart from the rest of the people of
this country. We declare that this view
has not, during the past ten years, been
held by any others than the Southerners
themselves, and we assert that what the
country needs and what the South needs
Is that the Southerners shall abandon this
unfounded assumption, and wholly cease
to look on themselves as Q separate class.
If the effusive succession of demonstra-
tions which have followed the inland
cruise of the Plymouth were to be the last
of such absurdities, we might allow the
occasion to pass unnoticed, but as it is
probable that this little game is only an
undress rehearsal Of the greater display
to be made before the President, we file
our protest, and ask the people Of the
South to act on all occasions exactly as il
they were neither more nor less than othel
citizens of our common country.-H
Louis Globe Democrat,
Year: 1877

To Our READERS. We sincerely hope
we may never again he compelled, in self
defense to reply to personal attacks Of
any kind. We assure our readers it can
not be more disagreeable to them to
read, than it is to US to pen personali-
ties, and We would gladly remain silent,
only certain class ot'newspapcr readers
will be sure to construe our silence into
60 wardice; and a moral coward is more
an object of contempt than the most
blatant bully. We must fight assailants
with their own weapons. II his satanic
Majesty pitches into US we shall procure
hoof and horns and red hot poker and
stand our ground. Ii wolf in sleeps
clothing crosses our track we shall unmask
his fangs and make him howl and turn
tail ii we can. II taken to task by our
brethren of the press we shall givs and
take freely without fear or currying fa-
v.tf.' We will not he siIenced by the
bloody threats OF any brutal bully. A
free fight, equal rights, fair show and
an ungagged press is all we ask; and if
the NORTHERN STAR cannot hold its own
on those terms then let "thc ittest sur
vive.'
Year: 1877

CLERoYMES and lawyers are uncon-
Sciousiy responsible TOR more wicked
ness than is charged to them by ordinary
mortas. Their manuscript is often 81
wretched that they make compoators
give vent to expletives not defined BY
Noah; even the devil sometimes has to
coin explosives in order to rise to the
dignity Of the occasion or retire in dis
grace.
Year: 1877

WE learn from Deputy Sheriff Whit
field, just returned from the Stillaguam-
ish, that parties are at WORK removing
the jam from that river. This will re
move great iraw back to the settle
ment of the upper Stillaguamish and
open to market large tract Of good
timber that was before inaccessible.
Year: 1877

Thus far everything connected with
the Mackinaw & Marquette railroad has
been series Of di>appOintments. Time
and again during the past four years have
the prospects looked encouraging for the
early completion of the road, but just as
often have all such prospects turned out
like men OF straw. Thus, until we haye
almost lost faith in any railroad news
which we may hear. We shall. however,
continue to publish such rumors as may
from time to time come. to us. but be-
cause we publish them it must not be
thought that we place implicit reliance
upon them. We give the following for
what it is worth: A few weeks since a
party Of capitalists from New York ar
rived at Marquette for the purpose OF
looking the matter over, and, rs they
said, to take the contract if they found
things satisfactory. They claim TO rep
resent capital enough to construct the
road in two years should they make Up
their minds that it would pay. They
have gone over the entire length of the
road with the engineer who matle the
survey. and expect to take Il look at the
lands also. This, of course, looks some
thing like business, but it remains yet tC


be seen whether it will amount to any.


thing or not.
Year: 1877

The Northern Transit company report
that all their propellers are in operation
besides three barges which are towed the
round trip from Ogdensburg to Duluth
and iChicago, getting all the freight they
can carry, aud, though passenger traffic
is falling of, the lack is more than made
UP in increasing merchandise shipments.
Year: 1877

An accident resulting i'm the death of a
sailor occurred on board the schooner A.


G, Maxwell, near the Sailors Encamp-
ment, in the Sault river. on the 22d ult.


The schooner ran on rock, which raised


the centerboard about foot Arrange
ments were made to raise the centre
board and thus relieve the vessel. The
lever was put upon the machinery used
for that purpose, but just at that mo-
ment the vessel slipped off the rock and
the centreboard dropped to its place.
This threw the lever back, striking the
sailor OH the head, breaking his skull.
He lived in an insensible condition about
thirteen hours. His name was Frank
Parsons. He was about nineteen years
of age. His home was Vermillion. Ohio,
His body was taken off at the Sault. and
sent to his::home on the first down boat.
Year: 1877

For putting on the same gloss and
hard pearl finish to Shirts, Collars, &c,
as when bought new, at cost Of one
cent per week, It beats the world !
With a greene1nigrant servant We can
polish linen equal to any Laundry in
America. 1t causes the iron to run
smoothly, and prevents rust. 1t
makes an old shirt look new. 1t gives
the linen such smooth, glossy finish,
that dust and dirt will not stick
to it, A woman can do her ironing
in one half the time, and the, clothes
smell sweet and fresh.


Every box of the Cheng Weng con-
tains q package of Chinese Wash ing
Blue from which large S-ounce Bot
tie of Liquid Bluing can be made in
one minute without cost if necessary
this can be demonstrated at any time
and it will be seen how quickly the
Blueing is made from the powder, con-
vincing any person that they are ac-
tually getting the price of the Box in
Blueing alone, besides having q large
box of the Cheng Weng that will last
a family many months.


1t is the most economical article
that can be used, costing only about
one cent to do the ironing of a large
family. Warranted not to inIure
the clothes, but will make them las
much longer, because they do not have
to 90 through the wearing out process
of washing and starching SO often. 1t
gives the linen such a smooth, glossy
surface, that the dust and dirt VIII
hot adhere to it, SO that it vii, kae0
clean much longer. Even would il
keep clean no longer the beautiful
gloss finish which is impaired is sufi-
cient inducement to bring it into gen
eral use, The Polish is packed i'll a
slide box, containing "a Lozenges
which will last an ordinary family six
months.


The Cheng Weng Chinese Washing
Blue from Hong Kong is without any
doubt the best in the world. 1t nev-
or settles when in water, and contains
ten times the amount of blueing prop
erty Of ordinary bottle blueing.


Give it one trial and you will al
ways use it.


Each box contains 80 cents worth Of
polish which is sold at half price
thirty cents per box.


Beware of travelling swindlers
who will offer you bogus article for
25 to 35 cents per box and thus steal
your money.


Mr.. G. Differ is the agent for this
County who sells the only genuine
article. HEALTH & HOME.
Year: 1877

Every Description o5 Real Estate
In a section Of country unsurpassed
for health, scenery and fertility. 1t
is remarkably free from all malarious
and pulmonary diseases. Its pure
bracing air, fine springs Of fresh cool
water, short mild winters and long
seasonable summers, its gentle noun
tain slopes and rich valleys, its forests
and fields, its flowers of spring and
varied hues # autumn,-all combine
to place this region of country in the
front rank Of superiority and beauty
to the colonist and home seeker.


We continue this week our list of
the very attractive properties for sale
by this agency, in both the far-famed
Piedmont and Valley regions of Vir-
ginia.
Year: 1877

WHEATLAND, Pa, July II.


A terrible calamity befell the miners at
the Brookfield Coal Company's works,
near this place, to-day. The coal is re-
moved from the mine through tunnel
by locomotive. On account of the
smoke interfering with the working of
the mine the company ordered anthracite
coal used on the locomotive, which order
was put into effect this morning,


About eleven o'clock the engine passed
into the slope, and after being in short
time the men in charge of the engine be-
came suddenly affected by the gas from
the hard coal, causing them to fall to the
ground in scnseless condition. The
engineer managed to make his way back
to the mouth of the bank, and gave the
alarm, at which large number of men
rushed into the bank to rescue their com
rades One after another they passed in
but were almost Immediately overcome
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, July IL.


The Public Printer has just delivered
the first Annual Report on the Internal
Commerce of the United States. 1t says,
among other things, that the value of the
railroads of the United States Is about
twenty-three times the value of the ship
ping engaged in our foreign commerce,
and that the value of our internal com
merce is twenty five times the value of
our foreign commerce; that SO per cent,
of the grain shipped from the West to
the seabOard during last year was trans
ported on sail lines, and that over 90 pei
cent. of the entire internal commerce of
the country is on railroads. Although
the total amount of the contributions OF
the Government up to the close of the
year 1876 in aid of railroad construction
amounted to $l44, ,000,0 embracing
land grants and subsidies TO the Pacific
Railroads, yet this sum is only 3 3per cent
of the entire cost of the railroad system
of the country.
Year: 1877

Rev, J. Hyatt Smith, of Will
liamsburg, N. Y, during an ad-
dress on "Party Domination,
said that "party would damn the
United States if it is ever to be
damned, for the animus of par
ties now Is to defeat each other,
no matter by what means or
through what men. Compare
the legislators of the present
day to those of even less than
half a century ago. Then the
capitol was a small building with
big men; now we have a big
building with small men. The
decorum of the legislators is al
so different; then it was, 'The
honorable gentleman errs. >
Now it is, You lie." Look
where you will you will see the
same downward tendency, no.
ticeably in the recent election.
1t is the duty of the pulpit to
warn the people against this,
and continue repeating the
warning until the people rise
above the influence of party. If
We cannot do this as a nation we
are gone, and none will be left
to do US homage"
Year: 1877

1 DARE NOT fly into any discussion
of measures adopted, nor into defense
of them. That would be very idle. II
they are wrong people will soon under
stand it, or they understand it already,
and our arguments cannot help it. If
they are right they will of course be
approved sooner or later, and for the
judgment of the present and future
am for one compelled and willing to
leave my public and official conduct.


President Hayes.
Year: 1877

Organization of Cuban Leagues.


New York, August 23.-At meet
ing of the executive committee of the
League to-day an address to the people
of the United States was adopted, to-
gether with resolution that the inhab-
itants of the large cities form Cuban
leagues, for the purpose of exercising
moral influence upon our own and 9TH
er civilized governments in favor Of the
suppression Of the inhuman war waged
against Cuba for the last eight years,
and invoking the aid of the press to de-
mand her recognition as belligerent.
Year: 1877




PRESIDENT HAYES, in his speech at
Manchester, N. H., yesterday, said:


"Allow me to introduce to you the
gentleman whose appointment in my
cabinet caused some disappointment,
and some disapproval. did not con.
suit any Of you about 1t. I think
most of you would have said no, but
the longer have associated with Judge
Key, the Postmaster General, the more
confident I have felt that have made
no mistake. He was on the wrong
side at very important juncture; he
was on the wrong side at a less impor-
tant juncture, but he is getting right
indeed he is almost altogether right.
think that by the time we take him
through New England he will be as
good Yankee as any of you.
Year: 1877

The New Jersey Democracy is exper-
lencing mild sort of chaotic upheaval.
senator Mcpherson is trying to build
up party for himself in the state, and
put forward Mr.. Leon Abbey as a can
aidate for Governor. Many old Demo-
Gratis won't build that way, and it is
believed that If the Republicans nomin-
ate good man like Courtland Parker
ehey will have little difficulty in carry
Ing the state.
Year: 1877

THERE are certain class of people
who claim that the government cannot
transact any business except at loss.
To these the fact, that out of $780,
900 worth Of postage stamps sold re-
Gently, there was a loss of but S1s, is
significant.
Year: 1877

THE Mansion of Divine Bliss Bone
Company of the Golden Mountains" is
the poetic title of a Chinese society,
whose tangled letters in scarlet and
black ornament the walls Of the Chinese
quarter in San Francisco. Its object
Is to gather up the fragments Of the
departed Celestials and transport them
to their native land in safety.
Year: 1877

THE Cincinnati Commercial express
es willingness to be pleased on the labor
question, but confesses that 1t is beyond
Its ability to discover that Judge West
sheds much light on the subject. The
Commercial believes that Mr.. West
overstated the Importance Of the sub
Year: 1877

The gala days at Savannah, Ga, are
on the occasion of the review of the
United States troops. There are at
present three soldiers there, by which
the city is garrisoned, and when they
dress up and come out for a show a
thrill of excitement runs through the
city. r....r srs
Year: 1877

Lord Macaulay, the great essayist and
historian, wrote these words Children,
look into those eyes, listen to that dear
voice, notice the feeling of even single
touch that is bestowed on you by that gen.
tie hand Make much of it while yet you
have that most precious of all good gifts
a loving mother. Read the unfathomable
love of those eyes ; the kind anxiety of that
tone and look, however slight your pain. In
after life you may have friends-fond, dear,
kind friends-but never will you have again
the inexpressible love and gentleness Law
ished upon you which none but mother
bestows. Often do sigh in my struggle
with the hard, unfeeling world for the
sweet, deep security felt when of an even
ing, nestled in her bosom, listened to some
quiet tale. suitable to my age, read in he1
tender and untiring voice. Never can !
forget her sweet glances cast upon me when
appeared asleep; never her kiss of peace
at night. Years have passed since We laid
her beside my father in the old church yard
yet still her voice whispers from the grave
and her eyes watch over me as I visit spots
long since hallowed to the memory of m,
MOTHER
Year: 1877

The following story is of a German
who lives in the town of Calumet


He came to this town from Germany
some twenty-five years ago, and pre-empt-
ed piece of ground in the town where he
now lives He was then very poor, proba-
bly, not having twenty-five dollars, all told,
but he possessed wonderful energy, and
an unparalleled tact for getting alongl with
out any out de aids. When he wanted
anything he wentto work TO make. it, pay
ing out nothing for wagons, sleighs, har-
ness or clothing In cutting the timber
for his log house he found bee tree, and
followed up the discovery by others of
like sort, securing both bees and honey.
The bees he kept, and for years had honey
to eat and sell. He had no money to pay for
getting his land broke up, SO he bought
five or six hogs and tying q rope around the
hind leg of each fastened the other end OF
the rope to stump, and all the grain he
sowed that year was where these sharks
had rooted up the ground. For wagon
wheels be sawed off the end Of good sized
logs, and the rest of the primitive vehicle
he had no trouble making. He made q
rude sleigh, bringing the runners high up
front and joining them together. He made
harnesses of rope or hide, which answered
every purpose, and although the man Is to-
day rich, nearly all the clothing for his
family is home made. He has now on hand
farm for one son and desires to buy ono
for another son, saying he will pay 80 600
in cash for piece of land that suits him.
He puts no money in the bank, owns no
bonds, but keeps the cash carefully hidden
away.--Eoa du Lac Coaaasonsssalta-