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Year: 1878

What we say will be verified by our sales over the counter. Our goods are of the latest styles and of the best quality. The prices at winch ,yo sell were never known low before. By CASH for our goods 1t gives us chances to lo better by our
Year: 1878

One of the best things in the world to
be is boy.


Boys have always been SO plenty that
they are not half appreciated.


A boy is willing to do any amount OF
work that is half play.


The feeling of boy toward Inmpkin-
pie has never been properly considered.


A boy furnishes half the entertainment,
and takes two-thirds of the sc0lding, Of
the family circle.


1t is impossible to say ut what age boy
becomes conscious thath trouser legs are
too short, and is anxious about the part of
his hair.


In fact, a hoy is hard subject to get >
moral from.
Year: 1878




Mrs. Henry Ware 1-gecher. in 'h' Chris
t;an Union, says: There are very many
articles with which every housekeeper is
familiar that can be made helpful in many
wavs. and some that can Tighten labor
wonderfully. if their modest eXceliences
were only better understood; and none
can he used for so many purposes, win
greet success and entire safety, as am
monia. Let us enuinerate some OF the
wavs in which. if properly applied, IL can
make many kinds of labor easy, over which
now we groan and are troubled.


A quart of concentrated spirits OF am
monia" can be purchased at the wholesale
druggists for seventy-tive cents. THIS Is
the strongest form-so very powerfu' that
one sh,,uld take care in removing the stop
ple. which should be Of glass. not to in
hale the fiery vapor, as it would be danger
Gus.


To prepare this for common Use, or like
that found generally ut the drugstore mix
one Quart of alcohol with one quart OF
soft water; shake well together, and then
add the quart of concentrated ammonia.
and, for a trIlie, ypu have three quarts OF
one of the most useful compounds to be
found.


To remove grease spots. Put half
teaspoonfur of this ammonia to half tea
spoonful OF a ohol wet bit OF wooicl
cloth or soft sponge in it, and rub and
soak the spot with it, and the grease, II
freshly dropped. will disappear. Ii TIE
spot is of long standing, it may require
several applications. In woolen or cotton
tie spot may be rubbed when the liquid is
applied. and also in black silk, though not
hard. But with light or colored silk, wet
the spot with the cloth or sponge WIN
which the ammonia is put on. pattliig II
lightly. Rubbing silk, particularly colored
silk, is apt to leave whitish spot almost
as disagreeable us the grease spot.


For pants. coat-collars and woolens,
nothing cleansts SO quickly or so thor
oughly. For grease spots on carpets it is
unequaled. 1t will not injure the most
delicate colors. 1t is well to rinse of with
little clear alcohol.


For cleansing the hair.-A few drops IN
the water with which the hair is to &c
washed leaves it bright and clean. Rinse
with clear water after, as ammonia has a
tendency to dry the hair.


Hair brushes.--A few drops Of ammonia
put into a little water will clean hair
brush better than anything else, and does
the brush no harm. Ii very dirty. rub
little soap on the brush. After cleansing,
rinse in clear water, and hang the brush
up by the window to dry. Do not let the
Year: 1878

MUSIC HALL-Fair week Music Hall will
be occupied by dramatic company playing
farce with the highly suggestive name of "The
Tramps." How an author can find anything
romantic in the average tramp we cannot con-
not conceive. But it is said to have met with
the most flattering success.
Year: 1878


more of 1t until the clothing is de-
livered at our residences. In Paris
the purchaser selects the material
and has his measure taken, when
he is told he must come the next
day and try on the coat and vest,
and as he tries on each skeleton
garment, the cutter, filter
and tailor surround him and
supervise the operation. The
day and hour Is then appointed for
him to come and try on the fin
ished garments before they are de-
livered. When the time arrives
he is taken into hack room and
must strip again, as they will not
deliver pair of pantaloons until
they have seen them on the pur-
chaser. This time the proprietor
also accompanies the cutter, filter
and tailor, and the group stand
around and inspect each gsrment
as it is tried on. If there is any
alteration required, IL Is chalked
and altered before being delivered.
This is very troublesome, but still ii
carries with it the assurance of a
good fit. The dressmakers are
equally persistent in this trying
aud fitting process, and when a
lady in Paris gets in the hands of 9
dressmaker she must go daily until
the dress is done and must then try
it on before it Is delivered.
Year: 1878

St. Leuis GlObo-D Democrat (Anti-Hayes Re-


publican


Carl Schurz walks by the Adams
House every evening about five, on
his way home from his department,
and in face and figure he is a better
Mephistopheles than ever came on
the stage. He only needs the scar
let stockings and a red feather in
his hat to make him one now, the
light-haired Faust and all being
complete. For a man in high posi-
tion he has more enemies among
his subordinates than any one here.
There is hardly a clerk in his re-
formed department but would re-
ioice at his downfall.
Year: 1878

People who affect n shortness oI
sight must think it the height ol
fortune to he born blind.


There is an ancient saying -
"Truth lies in we'll" May not
the modern adagc run: "The
most certain charity is at q pump


If you boast Of q contempt for
the world, avoid getting into debt.
1t is giving to gnats the fangs OF
vipers.


The heart Of great man, sur
rounded by poverty and trammel-
ed by dependence, is like an egg
in nest built among briars. 1t
must either curdle into bitterness,
or if it take life it must struggle
through thorns for the ascent.


Some connoisseurs wonld give a
hundred pounds for the head OF a
beggar, in painting, who would
threaten the living mendicant with
the prison.
Year: 1878

A man who was shocked by light
ming on the same night that a
small pox hospital was struck, was
in dreadful state Of suspense un-
ill convinced that he was hit first.
philadelphia Press.
Year: 1878

When Apollo dipped the god
Pan into the sea, what did he come
outg A dripping Pan. And the
patient readers perused it fourteen
times, and then only one in three
saw the point.-Grapbic.
Year: 1878

Warren Tate, plaintiff in suit at In
dianapolis, Ind, met VIM. Love wit
ness. in the corridor Of the Court House.
Love called Tate liar and struck him,
and Tate shot Love twice, causing his
death In a few hours. After the shoot
ing Tate went into the court room and
testified, but so much excitement prevail
ed that it was sometime before it was
considered safe to place him in Jail.
Love was a prominent real estate dealer,
and late be ongs to very respectable
family.
Year: 1878

The cells at the City Hall last evening
were without an occupant, for the hrst
time since Mayor Almond assumed his
position.


This morning there was one occupant
who was arrested for being drunk. He
was required to pay 90 cents and cost.
Year: 1878




At a meeting of the Board of Trade yester-
day, it was resolved that our Senators and
Representatives in Congress be requested to
vote for the proposed bill in favor of the re-
peal OF the 10 per cent prohibition against
State bank circulation. 1t was understood
that the bills offered by United States Sena-
tors Harris, OF Tennessee, and Butler, of South
Carolina. We're intended to do away with the
unjust and unconstitutional discrimination
against State banks and their circulation, and
the opinion OF the board was unanimously
against the continuance of the prohibition
The board very properly held that the reason
having ceased the law should cease. The con-
Shtution nowhere forbids the State from exer-
cising Its sovereign privilege of organizing
banking institutions. The 10 per cent prohi-
bition tax was a war measure and would fall
to the ground the very instant the courts
have an opportunity to pass upon it.


The only Federal provision as respects
money is the authority given Congress to
coin money. That means nothing more than
the exclusive privilege of fixing the stamp
upon gold and silver. It cannot bv any
stretch of the imagination lie made to mean
that Congress can declare ANYTHING to be
money-ean exclude anything issued by the
States from being mOney-and can establish
national banking institutions to the exclusion
OF all State banks and all State bank circuIa-
tion: The Register belongs to that old Demo-
cratic school which believes that the States
have some sovereignty left, and among the
reserved sovereign powers is the right to
Year: 1878

sation for railroad transportation of the mails,
and also providing for the appointment OF
commission TO settle the disagreements be-
tween the railroad companies and the POST
mail transportation. The committee took no
action ON ID to-day.


The committee also considered the bill au-
thOrizing the Secretary Of the Treasury to
pay the Pacific Mail Steamship Company the
sum Of $50. 333 33, due said company as q bal
anee for pro rata compensation for two round
trips in 1875. ander the contract between the
United States and said company.
Year: 1878

charter banks and to authorize bank circula-
tion.


We cordially indorse the action OF the Board
of Trade of Mobile, and urge upon our South
ern representatives the duty of repeating at
once the prohibition against State bank cir
culation
Year: 1878

The circus now exhibiting In Richmond is
perhaps the only one ever heard of in this
country which was not visited by colored peo-
pie. The Whig says, that since the beginning
OF the great revival, no colored convert will
go in sight Of the circus tent.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


New York, Sept. SIN an interview at
Windsor VT, Mr.. Evarts said that Ex-
Governor Tilden's prospects for renomi-
nation are very poor. He thinks the Re-
publican speakers in Maine and Ohio have
followed the wisest plan in giving great
prominence to the financial question and
saying little about Southern topics.


He says General Grants name is one Of
great authority in this country, and will
continue to be so. 1t must depend upon
the events of the next two years whether
he will become of Importance again in party
politics as a standard bearer Of any party
He says the National party will have no
lasting strength, because it has no basis of
idea, and the Republicans are weary of dis
cord and are moving in the discipline Of
harmony.
Year: 1878

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


The plan of the wrought-iron superstruc-
ture for the bridge over the South Branch
of Lick Run at Westwood avenue was
adopted and the Clerk directed to advertise
for bids for the same.


The Superintendent of the Water-works
was directed to report the estimated cost
of additional pipe to supply Mt. Auburn
with water.


The weekly payroll of the mechanical
force employed by the Water-works,
amounting to 50, 1S9 15 was ordered paid.
Year: 1878

Colonel WOOlley declines to say anytbips
further at present concerning the cipher dsparhes
and Is not even willing To explain IN what Particular,
the spicy interview published in THE TRIBUNE was in
accurate Commercial reporter made sturdy aemnt
To interview him on the subject OF the Tlden cpherds
patches yesterday afternoon, but met with VERY le
success The Colonel politely, but resoutey refused Ia
he interviewed. Said he al have said 10 newspaber
present | have denied In the most positive manner
that had any dealings with the Florida or Other
Southern electors that at variance with law and
good morals, but it that every statement make
no matter how specific is twisted around by the Repub
mean press, tortured into evasion, and made 10
mand some further declaration from me- IL would Keen
me busy from morning till night and from nigh IN
morning answering the criticisms aud misrepresenia.
tOns Of the newspapers, ana have made up nay mind
not to occupy myself that way. You must Therefore,
excuse me from not going into the subject with you
Some Of these days may have something to say about
the electoral business that will be worth publishing
aud you shall have a chance at it,"
Year: 1878

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. 2i.-ln the Uniycr-
salIst General Convention this morning committee re-
ported upon proposition TO amend the second article In
tho profession OF faith by substituting the word


bring" for the word restore" that tho section
would read: THAT there ID one God whose nature Is
Iove revealed In one Lord Jesus Christ by Holy
sprt OF grace who viii finally bring tho whole family
OF mankind 10 holiness and happiness" Tho eomInlee
recommended the change. taking tho ground that tue
word restore" would be apt to convey Calvlnist4
notion. After long debate the report was reeced-J
10
Year: 1878

Johnny COylc does not mean TO be the
scapegoat OF 1Iden after ALL He Is at once according 10
his own account only the most innocent but the most


ohd-like OF Tdens agents IN the bribery business-so
free from guile that Nephew PeltOn had tO meet him by
a telegram every stopping place on the railroads TO
tell him not TO hold Communication with Mephis-
tophclean fellow who wanted to sell aim electoral votes
fr Tldcn Like all the Of the gang COye oyerdoes
Year: 1878

In every case whore the jud ge may be re
cused, and when 6 is not personally inter
eSted in the matters in contestation, he
shall select a laAYer, having the necessary
qualifications required for a judge Of his
court. to try such cases and the General
Assembly shall provide by law for the trial
OF those cases in which the judge may be
personally Interested, or when he may be
a bsent or refuses to act.


otriko cut article ninety
Year: 1878

That the seat of government shall be es-
tablished at the city of Baton Rouge or at
the city OF New Orleans, as the majority of
the voters of the State may determine at
the next ensuing election those voting to
locate the State capital at Baton Rouge
shall indorse on their tickets, "For State
Capital, Baton Rouge those voting to To-
cate the capital at New Orleans shall in
dorse on their tickets, For State Capital,
New Orleans


tStrike out article one hundred and thir-
ty-One)
Year: 1878

The various reports that have reached
the government with reference to the
whereabouts OF Sitting Bull and his band,
have not been disregarded at the war de.
partment. There is a settled determination
10 make a thorough war upon that party
whenever and wherever found in our do.
minlon. Permission has been asked of the
Indian bureau by the military authorities TO
enlist Crows against the hostile Sioux.


IHE secretary of The treasury will not
open the mint at Philadelphia for the coin.
age OF trade dollars, and will place such re-
strieuons on the western mints as will pre-
vent their coinage for shipment east. The
coinage OF a sufficient amount To meet the
actual demand for export will be authorized
for the present, or until congress shall have
acted upon the eeinsse of the silver dollar
fes esreeissirn,
Year: 1878

ing with his wife, but stole the child and
drowned il.


AN attempt was made on the night of
the 2Sth, 10 blow up the Canadian Institute
building, at Montreal. The timely discovery
OF an explosive package in the main hall
averted the calamity. This is the institute
Guibord was excommunicated for belong
Year: 1878

Bel AIR, Mp. October S.-Intense
excitement was produced at the grounds
Of the Agricultural Society this evening
by an accident of a thrilling and distress
ing character which occurred just at the
close of the first days eXhbitionn. After
the regular trials of speed several young
men engaged in a private race on the
course. While the horses were running
at full speed one of them, ridden by
Waltor w. Amos, bolted and threw his
rider. Mr. Amos was hurled violently
against a post and his skull fractured.
lie was taken up in an unconscious CON
ditlon and efforts promptly made for his
relief, but without effect death resulting
i'll % minutes. The corpse was removed
to the residence Of his father, James A.
Amos, near Jarrettsville Much sympa-
thy was expressed for the family of the
deceased.
Year: 1878

No REPUBLICAN TICKET.-The great
mass Of the Republican party in this
county favor the policy Of running no
ticket at all. They say that to run a
ticket in this county, where the great
bulk Of the voters reside, is to destroy the
effort Of abandoning ticket in the State.
and to strengthen rather than weaken the
Democratic party-it breaks the line of
action and will create dissension in their
own ranks, where defeat awaits them
any way. Nobody asks for action in the
formation Of ticket except two or three
ambitious men who want to see their
names III the paperS as candidates, and
care very little about even their own
election. There are a few others, though,
who want to be appointed U. $. supervi-
sors, and hope to be paid for holding
ticket, &c.


There is no doubt that Mr.. Gallagher
drew out all the votes that could be cot
to the polls by the Republicans in this
city. And now the great mass of those
who voted for him are angered and de-
clare they will not vote hence the at
temp to nominate a legislative ticket last
Saturday was complete farce. The
men that do the voting at the primaries
are the men that nominated and voted
for Gallagher, and they did not put in an
appearance. To make "A ticket now.
therefore, is only to show greater weak
ness than ever.
Year: 1878

TIE DEMoCRATIC VICTORIES in In
diana and West Virginia are somewhat
modified, in the effect which they would
have on the public mind by the unsatis-
factory returns from Ohio, where it il
said the Democrats have failed to elect
their State ticket; and the Republicans
nave gained one or two Congressman
through the obstinacy of the Greenback-
ers who abandoned the Democratic party
- vote for their own men. We caution
Year: 1878

House BUILDING is now conducted


very rapidly by experienced builders, and
with great profit. Few of our people are
aware of the fact that from seventy to
eighty houses have been built in the sec
ton of our city between Seventh street
and Market and the Brandywine during
the past season, notwithstanding the
hard times. Yet this is the fact. A
larger number, We suppose, have been
erected in the western section of the city.
d. II. Kent, we hear, is about to COM
mence the building of ten or twenty fine
three-story buildings on lot above Jack
son street, on Eighth. This is beauti-
tul location, commanding view Of the
rivers and country all round the city


There is, perhaps, more men employed
in Wilmington than ever before. 1t i,
true that wages are low but so they are
everywhere. We hope times will b,
better in the spring. But there does no


seem to be anything on which we car
base our hopes, except that We are lott
TO believe that such times can last longer
Year: 1878

Speaking of gall, J" remarked a printer
last evening in a O street beer-saloon,


talking of solid cheek, never saw q
man who had more of it than Pete
blvens, of Kansas City. Three of us
used TO room together there in 1872.
One night in July (it was 10 hot that If
you'd chuck water on the side of house
1t would sizz like so much hot iron) we
concluded to go down and sleep ON one
OF the timber-rafts on the river. Well,
we got on the raft with our blankets.
8 ust before turning in Pete Blivens said
ne guessed he'd cool off by taking swim.
l knew the current would snatch him


night under, but didn't want to give him
any advice, and he dived off the raft


The undertow caught him and sent him
quito sight in about three seconds. AS
soon as we saw he was drowned, me and
the other chap went for his effects. We
found eight dollars and half in his pants
pocket and an old watch. We took
them up town and soaked the clothes for
nine dollars and the watch for twelve
dollars. Then we went around town on
sort of jamboree and spent the money


About five O'Clock in the morning we
were drinking up the last dollar with
some OF the boys at the Blue Corner
Iwhen who should walk in but Pete him
ffelf, in an old suit of clothes that he'd
borrowed OF man three mi 'es down the
river. And hang me if he didn't de
mand his clothes, and next day he wa
|. round dunDiDg US for the paltry eigh
eight dollars and a hall. The gall o
some mems enough to paralyze Louisi


sna alligator."-[ Virginia (Nev.) Chron
Year: 1878

The following thought on grain ma
nuring, by correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentleman, is an excellent one:


When land has been thoroughly en-
riched, it is very easy to retain its fer
tility by seeding frequently with clover
and occasionally manuring. Only last
week passed a field which seven or
eight years ago produced three hundred
bushels of wheat on five acres, or sixty
bushels per acre. The wheat was of the
Diehl variety, as any other would grow
too rank on such rich land: In the
center of the field are dozen or fifteen
large apple trees, which diminished the
yield somewhat. The field faces two
roads, and doubt not that the owner,
one of the best farmers in the town,
takes much pride in its good appearance.
1t IL seeded again with wheat this year,
and is as perfect crop as 1 ever saw.
And yet presume that the field has not
been manured more than once or twice
since the last wheat crop. Seeding with
clover will keep such land fertile for
many years. Sixty bushels per acre
must be nearly the limit for possible
wheat production in our climate, though
this crop has been much exceeded in
England. The farmer who has land
which win produce such crops, can grow
wheat proftably, even at low prices. Il
1t not better to concentrate effort en- good
lard until it is brought up to the best
rather than to diffuse it over the whole
farm, working all the land and getting
profit from none? BY increasing the
fertility of the soil we may decrease the
cost of production, which is the best and
surest mode of increasing profits, not
only in farming. but everything else
Farmers cannot well fix the price al
which they will sell their products; but
if they learn how to grow crops at les,
cost, they reach the same result in al
equally satisfactory manner. On lanc
that is productive enough, prices of pro
duce can never go below the margin o
profit.
Year: 1878

sive farmer and close observer, saws his
hogs seem to thrive upon them as we'll "a
when fed on corn, and for stock bogs
they are better. He regards them "a he
ing in no small degree an antidote for a
disease known as hog cholera. When
digging what he desired to store awav
for winter use for his hogs, he found the
yield per acre was nearly 1000 bushels.
After digging what he desires, the hogs
are turned in, and they complete the
work, and at the same time their drop.
pings enrich the land. He says the
white variety is not only more hardy,
but more prolific than the Brazilian OF
red artichoke. The artichoke thriyes
and does as well ON nearly all kinds OF
lands as the common potato; in fact, il
proves to be a very profitable crop even
on thinner lands.
Year: 1878

The strong attachment of subscribers
to well-conducted newspapers is fully
confirmed by publishers. "Stop my
paper" words of dread to beginners in
business, lose their terror after paper
has been established for term of years.
50 long as paper pursues a just,
honorable and judicious course, meeting
the wants of its customers in all respects,
the ties of friendship between the sub
scribers and the paper are as hard TO
break by an outside third party as the
link which binds old friends in business
or social life. Occasionally defects and
errors in a newspaper are overlooked by
those who have become attached to it,
through its perusal, for years. They
sometimes become dissatisfied with it on
account Of something which had slipped
into its columns, and may stop taking
1t; but the absence of the familiar sheet
at their homes and Offices for few weeks
becomes an insupportable privation, and
they hasten to take it again, and possibly
apologize for having it stopped. No
friendship on earth is more constant
than that contracted by the reader for a
Journal which makes an honest and
earnest effort to merit its continued
support. Hence a conscientiously con-
Quoted paper becomes favorite in the
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