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Year: 1876

By American Press Association to the STAR.


WASHINGTON, March TIT is just an
nounced that Judge Taft, Of Ohio, has
been nominated as Secretary of War.


Two persons were in consultation
with the President this morning in ref
erence to the position, and it was be-
lieved one Of them would be named till
late in the day, when the President an.
nounced his selection of Judge Taft.


A member OF the Cabinet says the
President did not communicate with
Judge Taft about the matter, but feels
that he will accept.


1t is understood that the selection
of Judge Taft was made at the
instance of Leading Republicans,
who urged that the party could
not afford to have the place filled by
any but man of the highest standing
and of the first order OF ability, and that
several names suggested by the Presi-
dent were promptly ruled out as being
especially improper at this juncture.
Year: 1876

presence OF three justices. one of whom
shall be of the same political party as
the contestee; to strike out the minimum
Limitation of the act defining malicious
destruction Of property. A resolution
was adopted directing the Judiciary
Committee to inquire if any further Leg
islation IS necessary to provide for the
election of Representative to Congress.


Among the new bills presented In the
House was one to provide for refunding
taxes illegally collected. The General
Appropriation Bill was read the third
time and passed. The rest of the day
was spent in considering bills local in
their character.


FRANKFORT, March 6. = The House
spent the day in discussing the bill for
the revision of the code of practice. A
number Of small bills were also passed.


The Senate passed bill to curtail the
perquisites of those VINO appear as wit
nesses in criminal cases.
Year: 1876

Edward Taylor, middle aged man,
was on the prisoners bench this morn
ing with the charge on the docket of
burglary against him. He was arrested
by order of Col. Snebaker while he was
ON farm in Ross County near Chilli
cothe. He is charged in the affidavit
with forcibly entering the house OF Cor
don Bros, at Antwerp, Pau!ding County.
on the night Of the 23d OF February.


His case was struck from the docl1et
OF the Police Court, and the prlsoneg
remanded to cell in the Ninth-streek
Station-house to await the arrival OF
officers from Paulding County.


Col. Snelbaker stated in Court that he
should not have been brought In Court
to-day, and that he intended to suspend
the officer who brought him up.
Year: 1876

The fourth concert of the Cincinnati
Grand Orchestra will take place at
Pixies Music Hall Thursday evening,
March 8. This is announced as the LASS
of the season, and those who would EN-.
joy an evening OF delightful music should
not fail to be present. The Grand Or
chestra is an institution Of which adi
Cincinnatians are proud, and on no oc-
casion should they fail to have good
audience. The programme for Thursday
evening indicates that this concert will
be the best of the course.
Year: 1876

At masquerade ball recently given
in Atlanta, Georgia, a young Benedict
personated the Devil. Those who saw
him in costume say he was horrible to
behold. During the evening, at time
when the gay masquers were having
their best joy, this personator was re-
quested to 20 to the door. There he
found u summons from home to run for
a doctor. In the excitement he forgot
his impersonation and rushed to the
DOCTORS office and rang the bell. The
ringing was of such terrific vehemence
that it caused the doctor to get out of
bed and rush in negljge costume to the
door. He took one sudden, hasty glance
at the disturber of his slumbers, and
then ran. Being an important case, the
young man rushed through the doorway
and began vigorous search for the fugi-
tive physician. He found him under the
bed, with pistol i'll each hand. 1t took
a long time to convince the doctor that
he wasn't really the parsonage that he
represented,
Year: 1876

An exchange gives as reason why
paint peels from buildings that nearly
all the oil now sold as pure linseed is
largely made up Of porgy oil. The ma
ture Of this fish Oil is entirely different
from that made from seed, and it does
not dry nearly SO readily. Paint q
surface with lead and porgy oil, and in u
few hours you can pass the hand lightly
over it with impunity, but press the
finger OH it and push slightly, and you


will fiud, even after it has been on sew
eral days, that the paint has not "set,'
but the outer skin can be easily re-
moved, leaving that next the wood as
soft nearly as when first put on. The
way to prevent the paint from peeling
off is to let each coat-aHd particularly
the trst-remain from ten days to sew
eral weeks before applying another coat
Year: 1876

New YoRK,O l6,-Charles Sedgwick
Hunt, u we'll known Journalist, died a: his
residence in this city yesterday of intla


mation of the brain following upon a com


plication of disorders FROM which he had
long suffered Mr. Hunt was for some
years connected with the Tribune, but
lately was attached to the editorial staff OF
the Times He was vigorous and lucid as
a writer, and as a man singuarly mild and
retiring, pure in manners and conversation.
Year: 1876

A sugar maker, who might as we'll be
called Ouesimus Smith as anything else.
died recently in one Of our country par
ishes. He was not long ill, and the day be-
fore he died he had ordered a bill of goods
through his commission merchant in New
Orleans. Tho news Of the mans death flew
on tho wings of wire, but the requisition for
supplies came along in slow steamboat
way, and arrived two or three days after
ward. A portion of the order was sent to a
wholesale drug house for an article used
largely in sugar making. 1t was a we'll
managed drug house and its order clerk be-
low was in the habit of communicating
through . speaking tube with the
book-keeper above before filling an
order. The object of this shooting Of
communi Gator being to ascertain if the per-
son ordering goods was reliable and en-
titled to credit, perhaps to zee how he had
been done by by the Dun agency. In the
case we refer to the order clerk shouted up:
"How's account of Oneeimus Smith," and
the information was Slid do Kn: Account q
o. X, but we've advices that Smiths
dead" THAT'S all right" said the man
below. "he's sent for ten barrels of sui
phur.' There was sensation in the drug
house. There lay before the confused
clerks memorandum of the death of
Smith and also an order for dray load of
birthstone received three days later. Such
is life, and death.
Year: 1876

The taxes on the property having been
paid before twelve o'clock yesterday, the
sale Of the Mechanics Institute property
was withdrawn. The law officers of the
State claim that proper legal proceedings
for obtaining possession of the property on
behalf of the State are in progress, and the
interests OF the State are in no wise i'm
vorilaI
Year: 1876

aVlOn.

 There is e,erj indication that Grant al d his special advisors are preparing to hold his admins tration over at the point of the bayonet. Orders have gone forth that the democrats must not have a victory declared if it is possible to manipulate returns to prevent such q result. To this end FlOri- da, South Carolina and Louisiana are to be counted by their return ing boards as voting for Hayes, no matter how their votes were cast. Already have the chief of hccrs of the army been summon ed to hold them selves in readiness for quick work.

 Mir. Sheridan has been mt to New Orleans with a carte blanche to declare Louisiana under mar shal law the moment, in his judg- ment, comes the time for such act.

 With the frauds of the voters at the ballot box we have nothing to do. There is law to apply the remedy for snch evils, and the law is sufficient for every such emergency. If the law can be honestly, quietly with dignity ap- piled we have no fear for the re- suit. We will in silence abide it's decision no matter who is the suf- ferer. No man fit to hold the of flee of chief magistrate of the Re- public would consent to set the bad example of conEiving at cor rapt.ol even to secure his own advancement. Let the law take it's course and the right will tri- umph. Bus no more of the bayo- net No more interference of the military.

 If the states of the South arc Federal States in the Union, em- powered to vote, that settles tho matter so far as the bayonet is concerned. Let the States regu late their own affairs in the de cent shadow of the law.

 There is no more call to send troops to the South than to the Five Points in New York. The thrust is one at law and order the people arc in no mo- d to stand l If Grant dares to SC his sword let it fall on his own neck. If tho military is to be cal'el out the militia mus. meet +.
Year: 1876

We did net advocate the cleo ton of Mir. Tilden, but before the bayohet shall keep him from en- tering uLon the duties of the of flee to which we believe he has been elected, we are ready to close our office, lay down the pen take up our rife and go direct to Washington or any other post of danger he assigns us.

 We hope it will not come to to this, but if, in defence of right and to leach the bayonet that it has no power over the ballot, we are ready to quit all business and go at once to the duty and the fate before us. There are millions of men who will do the same.

 There are enough democrats in the country who dare fight for the right to crush Grant and his ar my into the earth and do it at once.

 If Tilden is elected President he must be President! Let him call for help and it will come. If we are to have war we are ready for it.

 The country has had too much of Grant, of Republicanism, of military rule and bayonet inter- ference with the rights of sover- cign people, and ii the people and if President elect Tilden wants that chair, he can have it for all the power there is in Grant, Shet- man and Sheridan or all the uni formed bayonet soldiers in the Union to prevent.

 Mir. Grant you have heard how rockets go up and come down!
Year: 1876

KEEPING SPROUTS OFF PoTAToEs.-Put
from three pecks to bushel of potatoes
in barrel and shake them them briskly
till the sprouts are broken of. It takes
but minute and covers them with mois-
ture which prevents willing, and keeps
them fresh longer than if sprouted BY
hand. Hired help sometimes express
great astonishment when set to sprout po-
tatoes in this way, as they do more In an
hour than they have ever done before in .
day. When we have but few potatoes
we sometimes keep them, bushel in
barrel, through the spring and summer.
shaking them frequently to prevent sprouts
from growing. Another plan for keepin z
table potatoes in presentable shape from
April to July is to put bushel in each
barrel and have one extra empty barrel.
About once week begin at one end of
the row and pour the potatoes from the
first barrel into the empty one, and the
next into that. and so on till they all have
been changed into different barrel. As
"a rolling stone gathers no moss 80
moving potato makes no sprouts. The
growth OF sprouts destroys the value of the
potato in short time. ."-Cincinnati Ga
zette.
Year: 1876

CAN DO BETrRR.-Granl's f..lv odd
thousand useless otticeholdeTS-half
those now employed in the civil ser
vice-wili be dismissed by TiIden. for
be will be under no obligation to them,
Hayes cannot touch them, for they
are all radicals, and they are working
like beavers for his success. Fifty
million dollars per annum Will be
saved 10 the people by this single
measure of reform, and fifty thousand
able bodied men will have a chance
TO produce something. They are now
living npon the labor Of others. The
worst possible democrat can be better
tran the best possible radical under
'he circumstances, and hence when
The people say we want a change,
they sum up pretty well the whole
political situation.
Year: 1876

Nor FOR JACoBs.-A number Of
republican friends inform us that IN
der no circumstances will they vote
for Judge Jacobs. They are willing
to concede that he is an honest, well
meaning man but he is too slow and
inactive tc represent the interests of
new country, and hence they are not
for Jacobs.
Year: 1876

ANNEXATION. - Friends Of annexa-
tion will keep a close look out from
now until after the close OF the No
yember election. Emissaries from the
Sound are now in cur midst seeking TO
SOW the seeds of dissensioD, and divert
us from the object we all have in view
an escape from territorial vassalage.
The democratic and republican con


yentjons-both run 10 the interest OF
the Souhd-passed resolutions in favor
of a constitutional convention. This
is very much like tickling chile with
a straw, and deceives nobody. The
territory has not now, aud at The pre-


sent rate of growth wtll not have in
the next fifty years the population re-
ouisite to authorize her to ask admls


sion as a state. 1t is now a quarter of
century since the territory was orga'
n;zed in the interest of The owners Of
few town lots at Olympia, and TO-
day the prospect Of becoming state
seems just as remote as the time when
Columbia Lancaster took his seat in
Congress as the first delegate from
Washington territory We have here
a growing and progressive country,
but our enterprise is repressed and our
energies retarded by being tailed on 10
Puget Sound live body linked 20 a
dead carcass. Annexation TO Oregon
releases our beautiful valley from this
deathIy embrace and at once secures
all the advantages OF state organza-
ton. Annexed to Oregon, our intlu-
epce would be felt in unlocking the
Columbia river and that great high
way OF nature would be open to the
tide of our golden harvest. Annexed
to Oregon, our voice woIld be heard
in the councils Of the IA ion through
the potential u:terauces Of voting SEN
ators and representatives, instead Of as
now through an emasculated delegate.
Annexation will vivify every material
interest of our valley and place as on
the high road to prosperity Friends
of annexation, push IN the column
Year: 1876

WADE HAMPTON made a strange
prophecy when he said that the whites
Will eventually control the negro
votes in solid South, thereby govern
ing the nation, and that there will
arise a party in the North having for
is object the distranchiSement of the
negro and the weakening Of Southern
power.
Year: 1876

HARRY MEIGGs AGAIN-Mr. Harry
Meiggs has submitted to the Peruvian
Government proposition for a new
contract. He offers to build, in three
years from the date of the contract,
the unfinished section of the Lima and
Oroya road to the 0roya, and further
to extend it from that point to the
great silver mines of Cerro de Pascd;
also to build tunnel which shall
drain these mines very much below
the level of the present drainage tun-
mel, which now limits the working.
III return he asks to receive, accord
ing to the Peruvian mining law, the
right to the body of ore between the
present lowest tunnel at Cerro de Pas
co and the proposed new tunnel; als9
the right to enter and possess the
abandoned and worked-out mines
there and such new ones as have been
and may be discovered on the line Of
the Oroya Railroad and its proposed
extension.
Year: 1876

The right hand assistant of the saw
age Sitting Bull is said to be a half
breed Sandwich islander, who speaks
ahalfdozen modern languages, and
all the Indian dialects, and is man
full Of cunning.
Year: 1876

THE STATE PRISON AMENDMENT.
A SCHEME TO SMOTHER 1T IN THB AssEMBLY-TBE


PRISON OFFICIALS OBJECT TO BEING LEGIsLAIED


OUT OF OFFICE.


iBY TELEGRAPH TO The TRIsUSE1


ALBANY, Feb. 16.-The Constitutional amendment
yutting the canals under . single responsible head
passed both Houses with little reluctance and has
gone to the people The similar amendment respect
ing the State Prisons passed the Senate, but is not
80 90 through the Assembly without at least an
effort to defeat it. The plan Of the officials who Will
be legslated out of Office By it, the men whose
interests will be affected, Is to commit the
amendment to the Committee on State Prisons and
sndeavor to induce the Committee to smother OF
oppose it, This step will have this plausible excuse
that the amendment went directly to the Committee
Of the Whole in the Assembly without being first
referred to the State Prison Committee, as in the
Senate Direct efforts have been made to influence
votes in the House in favor of the scheme by the
patronage yet undisposed Of by the State Prison
officials who say they don't want to be legislated
out of Office and who propose to take care OF their
friends in the Legislature in the matter of appoint
ments While such q scheme is probably defeated as
soon as il is made known, there are members who
will ask the reference of the amendment on the
ground of sincere opposition to it, Among them is
Mr.. Post of Cayuga County, who has spoken at
length against il.
Year: 1876

A young lady came into the states
parlor this morning with her twenty
eighth dress. She has been here fourteen
days, and has displayed fresh toilet
every morning and evening. These
dresses cost on an average 1925 apiece,
or about $500 for the lot. During this
time her father has worn one cheap flan-
mel suit, costing perhaps S35. Most oi
the young lady's dresses are thin ones,
They are India muslins, light grenadines,
and light silks, trimmed with laces.--
Many of the dresses will never be worn
again. They were made for one days
wear. And this young lady, whose
father is not considered wealthy, is sup
posed TO be in the market. She is look
ing for and expects TO marry some man
Of sound brain and good looks. She is
good young lady, but not brilliant, aud
she is far from beautiful; but she is 50
we'll bred that she does not paint or
powder. She is the average New York
girl, who goes in mediocre society, but
who constantly struggles TO get into the
best set. But the set here who base their
positions OH family aud wealth will not
receive her. She Is respectable, but her
respectabIiiy is not OF long standing
enough to admit her. SO the poor girl,
with all her dresses, is really on proba-
lion. She wanders around, cutting hall
the people in her own set, aud struggling
TO get into the set above her father and
mother both pushing her forward.
Year: 1876

Fellow brethren and sistern-men,
women and children, Unfortunately
and particularly, you needn't hustle
the pages for the text, for it ain t
there. 1t is special dispensation to
your beloved pastor, and he therefore
hurls it right in your molars.


Where the hen scratches there she
expects to find a bug" Have you
come from the race track of fashion to
parade your trotting harness before
the meek and lswly? Have you
dropped the dazzling gaities of bust
ness to while away the idls hours list
ening to tho mournful melodies that
are rung by angel hands upon the
dropping willows of mortality? Or
are you in a tussel with the arch enc
enemy, the almighty dollar? Verify
| say unto you, where the hon
scratches there she expects to find
bug"


My drowsy hearers: We are all
us a lot of damaged goods, trying to
palm off on each other for more than
our market value. The old firm of
Time, Death and Co. is doing heavy
commission business on our stock of
trade. hear the mechanical tap, tap,
tap, and the stolid monotone of going,
going, going, and the next moment it
will come down on some of our uncon-
cious heads and we shall be folded up
like the tents of the Arabs and as 81
lently borne to the "other side of Jor-
dan, where the dry goods man refrains
from troubling US and the grocer has
nothing to say, where the weary hen
ceases from scratching and the precious
bug is found.


"In the midst Of life we are in debt, !"
says a notable prophet, who was near
kin to your beloved pastor. If you
are tempted to tarry in the tavern of
life, and fail to settle with the land
lord, may the text rise up before you
like the fabulous Arabian, here only
to wrestle with the rough and tumble
giant, but deter you from that sink of
utter depravity, where the bummers
lead forth the trustful hens to scratch
up the bug that they may devour.


Your individual attention is fur
thermore solicited to the language of
the text Metaphorically and collec-
lively speaking in small passages to
suit the capacity, from the small boy
in the corner to the hard hearted sin
ner who stalks so loudly into your
presence. Woe unto you, young wo-
man with your coal-scuttle bonnets
and streamers flying, for you are van
ity of vanities, and you, young man,
with your neck-cloths so gay, go on
Year: 1876

which are introduced for the first time in
the present edition have been added not
for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lucidity and force to explanations
in the text They EN- race Ill branches OF
science and Of natural history, and dep ct
the most famous and remarkable features OF
scenery, architecture, and art, as well as
the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures, Although intended for in
struction rather than emhciShmeut, no
pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

Within the last ten years the progress
of discovery in every department of inowl-
edge has made new work of reference an
imperative want.


The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science
and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts AMI the convenience
and refinemen of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred,
involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment The civil war of our own country,
which was al its height when the last vol
ume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended and new course of CONNER
cial and industrial activity has been COM
menced. Large accesslons to our
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminar, labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
a successful termination.


None OF the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1876

Selected with great care at the recent
wholesale Fall Openings, respectfully in
vites the inspection and patronage of the
public Her new storeroom is elegantly
fitted, light and comfortable, and, with her
ripe experience in the trade, she believes
she can still accommodate the wishes of all.


Sept %
Year: 1876

Numerous varieties Of pern'cious and
troublesome weeds are now beginning to
ripen their seeds. A little time spent in 60
ing over the farm now and cutting down all
these weeds will save much trouble next
year. Nothing looks so slovenly and badly
as farm over grown with weeds, and no
crop pays so poorly. Every weei allowed
to go to seed this season, will scatter the
germs of hundreds of more weeds OF the
the same sort for next season. We notice
many farmers are taking time by the fore
lock and cutting them down, but care
less neighbor who does not attend to the
work wifi rllen enough weeds to stock
whole neighborhood with weeds.


Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and
freedom from weeds in secured only in the
same way.
Year: 1876

The subject Of extending the City Rail-
way tracks through Brandywine Hundred
as far ss Rtwerview cemetary has been dis
cussed for some time. Now It has assumed
something 81 more definite shape than
mere rumor, and 1t Is thought the work will
he commenced at an early day. The rail-
way company makes the offer to the people
of Brandywine that If they will build the
road themselves that the company will run
it for five years at their expense. Subscrip-
tion books are already out, ,and any one wish


ing to contribute to the fund can address
MI. Joseph Tatuall, Brandywiae. The
prospects of raising the necessary amount
are considered as very good, and the road
will extend as far 40 Twenty-fourth street