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Year: 1876

Every movement of a prominent

 railway officer, undoubtedly has some significance regarding railway busi-

 ness present or future. Very recently Mir. Green, vice-president of the great Pennsylvania Company, of which

 Thomas A. Scott is President, made a trip to the Pacific Coast. Some of the

 papers naturally enough stated be- lief that the visit evidently had some reference to a reported compromise with the Central and Southern Pacific IcOmpanies on a basis referred to re-

 gently by telegraph, wherein 1t was given out that Scott & Co. would be left alone to build the Texas Pacific

 directly to the Pacific and the other companies to alone build the Thirty fifth parallel road. We have some req sons for believing that Vice-President Greens visit had no reference to any such compromise, and very strong ones for declaring that the Central and Southern Pacific people have no thought of any such compromise which with them would be yielding

 everything on the Southern line and

 gaining nothing elsewhere in return. The California railway men are prac-

 tical railway builders, and are build ing more new road than any other company in the United States. They have decided to cover Arizona with all

 the railways she will need, and their work proves that their decision is real. They consider Arizona Pacific Coast

 Territory and that her trade naturally

 belongs to the Coast, and that the ter

 ritory is embraced within the area oi their projected system of railways. Very soon their trains will run to our

 western boundary, and no other road

 is or will then be within 700 to 1000 miles of us. It is in their plan to build

 road from MOhave, station about lOO miles above Los Angeles, to the Colo

 rado near the Needles, and thence into

 and through the Territory as may be

 deemed best at the time. They will consent to no compromise that will

 hinder their road to Yuma continuing

 eastward at least to the boundary be tween Arizona and New Mexico. We

 are quite positive they are ready 10 compromise so as tO give them unob-

 structed passage eastward to our east

 ern boundary, and they very recently, . if not now, entertained strong hopes oi f efectinC such an agreement with the Texas Pacific authorities. They in

 tend to have one and perhaps tw O through east and west roads in Ari- zona, and as many cross lines and

 feeders as business may require from time 10 time.

 With these decisive purposes on

 part of the California company, Ari- zona has only to show proper liberali- " to greatly hasten railroad facilities through her entire length.
Year: 1876

THE Colorado Farmer positively as serts that a parasite " is eating up the grasshoppur eggs, and that there fore we are not to be troubled next year. This is like the idea that rain will increase in Colorado if we only plant trees. If the parasite IS a natural enemy of inc grasshOpper, the question k why he dId not g0 Co work thousands Of years ago, and so do up the business. Tribune.
Year: 1876

MAN spit a quart of tobacco juice Tn a street car and got out. Boy got in, took his seat. Lady got in and sat op- posite boy. Looked down and saw the pond at his feet Lady to boy |" Sonny, do you chew tobacco:" Boy to lady: No, mann; but I kin get you a chew If you want it '-and the boy fixed his eagle eye upon another tobacco juice squirler sitting in the car. The lady pulled the strap and walked out.
Year: 1876

By American Press Association to the STAR.


NEW HAVEN, August 11--About four
hundred unemployed workingmen as
sembled on the green yesterday and
marched to the City Hall, where they
were met by Mayor Lewis. After listen
ing to an appeal for work, he promised
to do all In his power to help them cut.
One OF the speakers requested the Mayor
TO have them and their families conveyed
to the Aims House next Monday if i'm
mediate work was not furnished them.
1t is estimated that there are over one
thousand five hundred unemployed
laborers in the city. The entire pro-
ceedings were peaceable and orderly.
Year: 1876

lrTOm Lne troy AfeSS.


Two French girls Of Cohoes, sisters and
mill operatives, aged eighteen and twenty
years respectively, who reside on Harmony
Hill, are afflicted in singular manner. In
the early part of last week they were much
overcome with the heat and suffered in con-
sequence severely. Last Thursday evening
they retired as usual, but in the morning
they did not awaken to take their break fast,
They were called: but did not respond, and
on visiting their chamber it was discovered
that both were in a dead lethargic sleep,
from which it was impossible to arouse
them. In this condition they have remain
ed with scarcely an interval They have,
it is true, been awakened to sufficient extent
to force food upon them several times, and
on Sunday the eldest of the girls awakened
sufficient to dress herself, but on sitting
down Immediately fell asleep again. Al
the present writing the condition of the
girls remains unchanged. The physicians
that have been called are puzzled to ac-
count for the continued somnolent condi-
tion Of the patients.
Year: 1876

If Judge Dufy's action in recent case
in New York, is good legal precedent
almost any man is subject to arrest and
confinement for in,anity. A gentleman
in that city was arrested last week by a
policeman, because he was eccentric f; and
although the man argued lucidly before
the magistrate that his eccentricities was
his own affair, the judge sentenced him to
the tombs to await the city Physicians
opinion. New York police justices exert
a singular authority in cases where eccen-
tricity is charged.
Year: 1876

From the Norwalk Bulletin.]
A middle-aged lady from neighborine
county, came to the city on one of the hot
days of last week to visit an old acquaint
ance on the West side. She looked robust
and her cheeks assumed even ruddier hue
than in her palmiest days, and it was evil
IDENTIFY something more than rouge, for the
perspiration which rolled down her cheek
failed to make the least impression upon it.
She brought no baggage with her although
she was going to staya fortnight or more
She said she didn't want to be bothere
with it. Yet during her sojourn she dis
played a bountiful wardrobe. She received
the attentions ofan anxions widower in a
beautiful mourning silk, and played croquet
with more youthful gentlemen in one OF
those chaste, elegant dresses, made a cen
tury ago of cambric, elaborately figured
with beautiful peacocks. And when wash
ing day came round, her accomplishments
didn't hinder her being useful, and she
helped her hostess at the washtub in cali
co as plain as a Quakeress. After she re-
turned home it came to light that she wore
all the clothing on her person when she
came to the city, which explains the mys-
terry of her ruby complexion, and mons
trous hustle which attracted universal at
tentiOn.
Year: 1876

Irro1i' t1Ie iowa STATE Register


IN the north part of the city, as vera.
cIous reporter reports, young lady and a
young man get on the steps on Sunday
evening and enter into contract. For each
shooting star he is to receive kiss. On one
OF these interesting occasions half hour
passed away and not a solitary star shot
across the sky. But after awhile the cherry
lips ofthe young lady parted and she called
her young mans attention to the f1yino
meteors that were about to escape his OBJ
serVation; then she got to calling his atten-
tion to the lightning bugs, and finaHy 90,
MIN down to steady work on the light Of a
lantern a man was carrying about the depot
girl.
Year: 1876

CUBA has a Belknap in the person Of the
present Captain General of that ever faith
full Isle. He has been trying his hand in
a line of business similar to that which the
late Secretary of War ia Washington
found so profitable. 1t must be very hu-
initiating to the pride of the Spanish Gran
dees for one of their class to come down
The level of an American post trader,
Year: 1876

ENGLAND and France are likely to be
connected by submarine tunnel. The
soundings of the great undertaking are
nearly completed, and the engineers are
satisfied about the feasibility Of the under
taking,
Year: 1876

HE news from the frontier would i'm
ply that Sitting Bull has no idea Of risk
ing general engagement with the army
against him, and that the army was look
lug out for winter quarters, believing that
it would be unsafe to follow the old Bull
Year: 1876

SECRETARY CAMERON removed an EN-.
ployee Of the War Department because he
talked too loud of Tilden and Hendricks.
1t is said that every employee who cannot
stand the jest Of loyalty to the Republican
party is to be decapitated. None bu,
loyal Republicans are to be left on duty.
Year: 1876

There was man who said to himself,
whenever I devotea dollar to pleasure
I will devote ten cents to charity. This
idea he got from personal experience,
for he had been chosen for single day
collector for contributions to celebrate
an anniversary, and also collector for a
fund for poor widows. he went forth
with the two appeals; in the right
pocket he putthe money secured for the
celebrationand in the left the money
given for widows. When he got home,
he took account, and found that five
hundred men had con tributed for the
celebration, and only five for the poor
widows. Then he moralized. Now
here, said he, in this hand I have two
Thousand dollars, alto be burned up in
bad smelling fireworks, and with this
five times as much value in buildings
that these fireworks will destroy. On
the other hand, I have twenty dollars
for Thousand of hard working widows,
who to-day cannot be sure of their din:
ners, and then this reckless man saidl
loud enough for all the world to hear =
Go to the average citizen with an appea,
tor a starving fellow creature, and you
may get penny and you may not but
show him that you can waste thousand
dollars In five minutes in noise and
smoke, and he will Immediately give
you his check for the thousand and
thank you for calling. If Hail Colum-
bia were poor widow, she might starve
unless she could eat frecrackers.
Year: 1876

A traveller stopped at Brussels in a
post chaise, and being sharpset he was
anxious to buy piece of cherry pie be-
fore his vehicle should set out but he
was afraid to leave the public convey
ance lest it might drive off and leave
him. So calling lad to him from the
other side of the street, he gave him a
piece of money and requested him to 60
to q restaurant in the near vicinity and
purchase pastry and then to make as
surance doubly sure, he gave him anoth-
er piece of money and told him to buy
some for himself at the same time. The
lad went off on run, and in little
while came back, eating piece Of pie,
and looking very complacent and happy.
Walking up to the window of the chaise,
he said, with the most perfect noncha-
lance, returning at the same time one of
the pieces of money which the gentle
man had given him:


"The restaurant had only one piece of
pie, left, md that I bought with, my
money that you gave me"
Year: 1876

When sentence was pronounced Hes
ing stood as if deprived Of the power OF
movement. It was one of those mo-
ments which occasionally occur in a
court OF justice when there is such
painful intensity of excitement as for a
few seconds to rob every one present OF
their power to say or do anything.
Hesing clung to the railing behind which
he stood, and the fearful whirlwind of
emotion that passed over his face was
only observable by the judge and the
automation.li clerk. CONSERVATION
was plainly visible upon the faces of the
ten defendants left sitting in the jury
box. The Judge at last considerably
came to|the relief of the fallen giant.


You may take your seat, Mr.. Hes
ing" he said.


The cid man turned, stumbled back
to his chair, and without raising his
eyes to gaze upon the curious crowd
watching his every motion, buried his
face in his handkerchief aid burst into
tears. 1t was, indeed, a bitter moment.
.-Chicago Paper. .+5s
Year: 1876

The Allentown (Pa.) Register contains
the following curious narrative /: MIR.
George T. Hersh, of this city, while on
a recent visit to Hellertown, met an ao-
quaintance, who related most singular
story concerning an army OF worms.
The occurrence took place in Bucks
county, and the story is this: GAS I was
at home they told me that about mile
and half away there was an army Of
worms marching from one given. point
to the other and thence back sgain.
This seemed very strange to me, and !
came to the conclusion that I would go
and see for myself. Consequently I
hitched in the carriage and drove to the
place. I tied my horse to the fence,
and commenced to examine, and to my
great astonishment 7 beheld the worms
in great numbers creeping at the place
named, just from one given point to the
other, distance of about three or four
bundled yards. No worm is to be seen
anywhere else. This worm travels
only mornings and evenings-evenings
after sunset and mornings till about
eight or nine o'clock. In the daytime
they lie concealed under rocks and in
openings. I saw them lie under rocks,
one against the other. tits so full at their
marching time that you cannot help
killing number at every step you take
when walking through that place. It is
a worm about an inch or an inch and
quarter long, having whitish or yellow
ish color. with black stripe over its
back. It has sixty.six feet, with which
it hurries itself along at very lively
speed. When you catch the worm it
screams. It has also very offensive
odor. It is so tender that if you touch
it little hard it goes to pieces. 1t is
not a destructive worm, as it only eats
earth. I never saw such worn and
the curiosity of them prompted me to
procure some; 81 I caught number of
them and put them in alcohol. Hun
dreds of people flock to that place to
see the worms"


In another paragraph the Register
adds the following: Mr.. Charles Eek.
ert was in Bucks county, and by
friend taken to the place where that
singular army of worms holds forth. He
reports that the place is visited by many
people from all sections of the county
and from distant places. An immense
crowd was on the ground Watching the
marching of these curious worms.
Scientific men who have seen specimens
of the worms say that they never saw
anything Like them, and can give no
reasonable theory for their presence in
this peculiar locality. The place where
this curious phenomenon, if We may 80
call 1t, can be seen Is about three miles
from Dunnelltown. near Pleasant hill.
Year: 1876

To MAKE THE HAIR Grow UPON 4
Spor WHICH has BECOME BAbD.-Rum
and sweet oil 6; mix equal parts; then
wash the spot three times day. Rum
constantly used to wash the hair keeps
it very clean and free from disease and
promotes its growth, and is also very
strengthening to the roots OF the hair.
Year: 1876

THE GOVERNMENT PRlNTER.-The
Senate conferences on the sundry civil
appropriation bill have agreed to the
proposition contained in the bill as it
passed the House, which virtually
legislates out of office Mr.. Clapp, the
congressional printer. The appoint.
ment of public printer is taken from
the Senate and vested in the President,
with the advice and consent of the
Senate. The Office shall be called the
Government Printer" shall have all
the powers and be subject to all re-
strictions pertaining to the officer now
known as the Congressional printer"
who shall give $100,o bond for the
office, the bond to be approved by
the Secretary of the Interior, and he
must be practical printer and versed
in the art of bookbinding.
Year: 1876

A bill was passed in the House yes
terday removing the political disabili-
ties of P. G.. T. Beauregard, of New
Orleans. Beauregard was one of the
very first "rebs" to become famous.
aud it is perhaps just enough that he
should be among the last to have his
penalties removed. But this whole
business OF individual amnesty seems
very absurd. We have had rebel
soldiers in Congress and in the Cabinet
and IN various offices under the FEEDER
al government, and here is a quiet
gentleman, following his profession
down in Louisiana, and almost forgot
ten by the general public, who must
have special act of Congress to re,
enfranchise him. Why not enact a
general amnesty for the whole of them
and be done with it?-7imes.
Year: 1876

and who set that above party, stand
waiting TO see which will give the
strongest assurance that their wishes
will be met. That, as we understand
it, is the present attitude of the in
dependent voter, and that, we venture
to hope, it will continue to be- at least
until events disclose the need of alb
solutely independent action The
New York Tribune.
Year: 1876




A Mrs. Wood, residing about


four miles from Morristown, on


U. & B. r. Railway, was arrested
on Friday last and taken to Nor
ristown, on charge of placing OBJ
structicns on the track. 1t seems
that the petulant lady was very
much annoyed by the railway
passing directly in front of. her
house, and although the directors
paid her a good round sum for her
property, and even employed men
to move her house back from the
line, yet she had determined to
annoy them in one way or another.
On the day mentioned some one
placed large sized piece OF tim
ber and several pieces of board a
cross the track at a point where
the train moves at good speed, but
instead of a regular passenger train
meeting the obstruction, a special
going to Hammond went ahead.


The obstruction was seen in
time to stop the train, and wo
man was seen going across an ad


joining field. The attaches of
the train gave pursuit, and catch
ing up with her found her the ver-
liable widow who had made many
threats of one kind or another
Returning to the track they found
fresh footmarks in the gravel, and
measured them. On the follow
ing day she was arrested and
brought before Squire White at
Morristown. The shoes she had
on when arrested corresponded
with the impressions found in the
embankment, with the exception
that the length was nine inches,
while the footprints in the sand
measured just eight and one-half
inches. The evidence was Of the
strongest kind, but the magistrate
thought the prisoner should have
the advantage of the half inch of
sole leather unaccounted for, and
discharged her.
Year: 1876

An army officer in the Big
Horn expedition wrote a letter
to a friend in this city a few
days prior to the slaughter of
Clusters command, from which
we are permitted to copy as
| follows:


81 think this will be a very
long and very tiresome cam
paign. l doubt if we see our
posts again before fall. if then.
The scarcity of water adds much
to our difficulties, and l think
the country generally much
worse than Arizona, the only
growth for miles being the ir-
repressible cactus. TheTndians
are very strong in numbers and
.splendidly armed, and they
boast that they can and will
clean out anything the United
States can send against them.
Spotted Tail Pretends to be
friendly, and on the strength of
it he goes to Cheyenne, buys
10000 rounds Of ammunition,
and returns to the agency with
it. The following day a fresh
party Of Indians starts out full
ly equipped. Of the wisdom
of allowing this proceeding l
say nothing. He was in Chey-
enne when we were there on our
march up, He picks up all the
information he can get concern
ing our movements, and for
wards it to his friends. If this
sort of thing continues, you
can judge how successful we
shall be-"
Year: 1876

A lady being asked why she


grew handsome every year, re.
piled at once, Because I have


such a good husband" And we
sincerely believe husbands are re-


sponsible for the beauty of their


wives, since beauty is not SO much


In features as in expression. e.,


the highest style of beauty.


Love is the grand beautifer. It


produces happiness, and happiness


is the foundation OF health. We


believe happiness is oftener the


cause of health than the reverse,


although they usually exist in


conJunetion-so closely allied that,
1t is difficult to assign either to its


proper place. Like the Siamese


twins, neither lives long without


the other, its counterpart. A sad


looking unhappy wife, therefore.


10 d sorry comment on the hus-


band. The same lady said. "It is
not enough for me that my hus-
band told me yesterday, last week.
or last year, that he loved me: /
wish him to tell me so every dav.
and several times a day. | like
10 bear bin say tit makes me
glad and happy, and when he
tells me this constantly, I'm a.
shamed to be pettish and cross. as
1t ls sometimes so easy to be; nv
husband tells me in return he new.
er wishes to become loveless in lit
tie ways. For instance, if we've
been riding,he does not wish me
because I'm his wife-to help nv
self out of the carriage any more
than when he was my lover: he
wishes to assist me now quite as
much rs then. Isn't his wife as
dear to him be says, 'as the young
lady he hoped to make so'9 And
doesn't he take as much pride and
pleasure in waiting upon herr
and so we love each other better
all the time, and are happier every
year of our lives" Now. many
husbands, most of them 1 presume,
love their wives as we'll as this
husband did, but they are in too
much of a hurry to tell them so,
and SO hungry through the long
hours at home for something
sweeter than they have known :"
and this hunger often leads to
search for comfort and happiness
In other things and ways, ard it's
well for the home if they are not
unlawful. Let every husband be
a lover the next year, be careful,
and true as in the days of wooing,
and see if the effect in the house
hold. is not as if there were a new
sun IN the heavens. Remember
you are responsible for all the
homely wives in the world.
Year: 1876

The exploits of Gen. Sheri-
dan in the Piegan campaign
ought to satisfy the most scep-
tical that he is not afraid to
fight the Indians, even though
he seems reluctant to go to the
front just now. Wait till the
Sioux warriors are disposed of
and then send Little Phil. to
finish up the women and chill
dren. You'll see what a brave
man he is when he comes to
tackle. somebody of his own
size.
Year: 1876

A Michigan paper says that a
Detroit man has "a piece of bark
from a tree that grew on the farm
of an uncle whose grandfather's
brOther-in- law started with Gen.
Jackson to the battle of New Or
leans, but was detained by Sc
we're attack of cholera morbus, and
he would send that to the Centennial
Exposition if he had any adequate
assurance that he would get it
back again.
Year: 1876




1t is sad as we'll as startling
fact that in New York CITY,
with its vast wealth, people are
actually dying of starvation.
While some of its citizens can
count their wealth by tens of
millions, others are actually
starving for the bare necessaries
of life. The following brief ed
itorial in Tuesdays Herald tells
the tale:


1t is fearful to contemplate
the amount of misery that is
hidden away in the tenement dens
of New York. In the forlorn
abodes, without hope of relief, al
though within hearing of the busy
world without, men. women and
children die of starvation, slowly
waste away for want Of nourish-
ing food until merciful death
comes to their rescue. Such a
scene, surrounded with a double
measure of horror, because the
sufferers were little children, was
witnessed by police officer yes
terday morning in Washington
street. Four orphans, the oldest
not more than eleven years of age
were found dying of starvation on
the bare floor of their wretched
apartment. They had not eaten
anything since the previous Mon
day. This is a centennial scene
not laid down in the programme.
1t makes an awful tableau.
Year: 1876

Sam. Cox, of Jersey City, made
a complaint before a justice a.
gainst his neighbor, August
Lehne. The affidavit states that
during the night Lehne dug a deep
trench on his own property and
Immediately against the dividing
line and then cut under from the
trench, taking off under the sur
face the roots of seven grhpeviues
belonging to Cox. Lehne took
this method of satisfying an old
grudge. The vines died, and Cox,
in digging to find the cause of
death, made the above discovery.
Lehne gave bonds in the sum Of
$500 to answer.