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Year: 1876

That was telling point of President Seelyes, in
his Worcester speech, when he fastened upon the
Democratic party with new force che old spirit OF
unrepentant." After rocOuntiDg some OF its gross
oenses he called attention TO the fact that 1t had
never manifested one symptom Of contrltion, and
added tnat 90 a wrong docr who will never acllnOwl
edge his wrong can never be trusted to do right and
a1Darty loaded down with misdeeds which it viii
not own with shame has not yet shaken off its SINS"
The reformation of party, like every other true
reformation must come from within. That such
regeneration is difficult to accomplish in any given
instance is sOrrowful truth; but if we are to trust
one party rather than another it surely IS the one
which, with all it's shortcomings contains a leayen
of honesty and courage which cOnfesses and ldments


its evil doing and not the which has never uttered
n syllable i'll platform, word i'll speech, or SEN
tence in newspaper which by the widest latitude
Of Interpretation could be tortured into an acknow
edgment that these enormities of wrong, of which
the Democratic party stands fairly charged are ac
tlal wrongs for which the party is TO be blamed and
the men " mo acted with it, knowing what they did
are guilty." No Democrat ever went further than
to regret the mistakes of ls party. There are many
Republicans to-day who Iare manly enough to con-
fess the sins of Repubcanisn.
Year: 1876

Returns from the Vermont State election
held yesterday come in slowly, but so far as
received show considerable Republican gains
over the vote of 1874. when the Republican
majority was 2O,325. There is an increased
vote on both sides. and the aggregate bids
fair to exceed that of any previous year.
Both parties have made an active and thor
ough canvass of the State, the Republicans
with the hope of increasing and the Democrats
of cutting down the majority for the sake of
the moral effect in other Staes. If, as now
appears probable, the Republicans have in
creased their majority, it will have tendency
to do away with the impression which the
Democrats have sought to convey. that the
hard times have created popular desire for
a change of rule which viii bring the Demo-
Year: 1876

be desired. He had food and drink in
abundance. In that climate shelter was
scarcely needed. What more could he
wish?


The first day was passed in exploring the
rock to see if there was any place which ne
might select for his abode. There were
several assures in the rock at the eastern
end, and one ofthese he selected. He then
went back for his clothes, and brought them
to this place. So the first day went.


All the time his eyes wandered round
the horison to see ifa sail might bein sight.
After two or three days, in which nothing
appeared, he ceased his constant watch,
though still from time to time. by a na-
tural impulse, he continued to look. A.
ter all he thought that rescue might come.
He was somewhat out Of the track Of the
China ships, but still not very much SO.
An adverse wind might bring ship close
by. The hope of this sustained him.
But day succeeded to day and week to
week with no appearance of any thing
wbarever on the wide ocean.
During these long days he passed the
greater part of his time either under the
shelter Of the rock, where he could best
avoid the hot sun, or when the sea-breezs
blew on its summit The frightful solitude
offered to him absolutely nothing which
could distract his thoughts, or prevent him
from broodinc upon the hopelessness OF his
situation.


Brooding thus, it became his chief occu-
patton to read over and over his father
letter and the inclosure, and conjecture
what might be his course OF action If ne
ever escaped from this place. His fathers
voice seemed now to sound to him more
imploringly than ever; and the winds at
night, as they moaned round the rock,
seemed to modulate themselves, to form
,ii.l. sounds to something like wild cry
and wall forth, Come home!' Yet that
home was now surely farther removed than
ever, and the winds seemed Only to mock
him. More sad and more despairing than
Ulysses on the Ogygian shore, he too
wasted away with home sickness.


Fate thus far had been against him, and
the melancholy reccollections Of his past
life conld yield nothing but dependency:
Driven from home when but boy, he had
become all exile, had wandered to the other
side of the world, and was just beginning
to attain some prospects ola fortune when
this letter came. Rising up from the pros.
tration of that blow, he had struggled
against fate, but only to encounter more
overmastering force, and this last stroke
had been the worst of all. Could he rally
afterthis? Could he now hope to escape?
TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1876

A Little Boy Horribly Moss0led bv the oars


Early yesterday morning heart-rendipg
aceident by which little boy aged about -
years lost his life. The Delaware train due
in this city at 9.25, when near Hofecker' j
Pond, about one mile south of Brenford
station, ran over and cut in two the body of
an unknown white lad, who was lying upon
the track. An object wac noticed by The
engineer on the track, but he could not dis
tinguish what 1t was until too late to stop
the train, and the little fellow was actually
severed In twain. The wheels passed over
his chest, and his head fell at one side ofthe
track, and the lower part of his body and
limbs on the other. The track was covered
with blood and vitals, and the head and face
were mashed into almost pulp. The train
was Immediately stopped, and the remains
gathered together and brought to Brenford
Station. 1t was thought that the boy was
herding cattle in the vicinity and becoming
fatigued laid down upon the track and
slept.


Since writing the above it has been ascer-
tanned that the youths name was Faulkner
and that he lived with farmer named Waa-
lace, about two miles from Brenford. Mr.
Wallace took charge Of the remains. The
Coroner held an inquest yesterday, but the
verdict could not be ascertained.
Year: 1876

from the Detroit Free Press.J


Ofcourse, any great slummox Of . man
can push lawn-mower up and down and
around, and he can nibblc off the kaass
after fashion, but when 1t comes DOWN to
artistic work pass the mower over TO
young lady. At noon yesterday lassie of
eighteen put mower at work on strip Of
grass on Ledyard street, and before she was
through over thirty men were leaning
against the fence and applauding. The
first few feet were cut on the bias, leaving =
strip along the curbstone as fringe. On
the other side of the walk she started to
tuck and ruffie, but finally cut most Of tho
grass on the gore and finished up with >
deep fiounce along the street. Over BY the
fence she hemmed up narrow strip, bound
it around with clean cut, and then per-
formed some Of the incest plating ever
seen, leaving enough tall grass along tho
fence board to serve as an overskirt
to the lawn. The boys thought there ought
to be more padding around the horse block,
but she was busy falling over the handle of
the mower just then, and limped into the
house without taking any Of their advics.
Year: 1876

This morning awoman ran across the P.
W. d B. Railroad at Edgemont avenue in
front Of moving train and narrowly It,
capped being run over, the train touching her
dress.


On the evening of the Fourth man fell of
the platform at the depot in front of train
and but for the prompt assistance Of BY
stander he would have been cru shed by the
wheels. -Chsster Meas.
Year: 1876

The London Telegraph says:


ltis pity, with the thermometer
at ninety degrees in the shade, that
life in tents should not be more
general than it is among those
whose means and leisure enables
them to secure its advantages. No
doubt the practice has grown with
in the last few years. None who
are familiar with the Thames can
iail to have observed amidst its
quiet, beautiful reaches dainty little
taberRacles Of anQwy canvas stretch
ed upon many a green spot along
the banks. About them and in
their ncighborhood is every sign Of
comfort The well-appointed boat
rides at her painter a few yards off,
complete and finished, from the
white rudder lines to the dainty
little Tenders that keep her yarnish
from the rough touch of the lock
side, Without the fairy-like dwell
ings ara spread, under the shade of
oyerhanging houghs, comfortable
mattresses each resting upon a
waterproof sheet, which effectually
prevents the absorption of moisture
from the ground, Suspended from
a tripod over a fire of turf and
sticks, the kettle sings a cheerful
invitation to evening tea, while
bottles of mineral water and still
hook are left cooling in the stream.
Camping has, in short, become q
recognized institution, All who
have enjoyed ita pleasures know
how comfortable it is. and what
fresh life of a week under canvas
seems always to impart,
Year: 1876

Months ago a Detroiter was sent
to the House of Correction. The
wife, a hardworking woman, and
Sorely afflicted in health, managed
to provide food aud fuel for herself
and child until the other day, when
death came to end the struggle.
The little girl, hardly eight years
old, was all alone in the house when
her mother died. The event occur
red at dark, and at midnight the
child was heard singing in the dark
ness. A pedestrian who halted
heard her say


Mother, won't you wake mp and
light the lamp? If you will, | will
sing some more"


Suspecting what had happened,
he reused some of the neighbors,
and as they went in, the child sat in
the darkness, holding its mothers
cold hand and singing:


"The Lord will lead little child,


And teach me how to ray"


The dark room, death on The
bed, poverty, huNgcr and cold to
make her situation more desolate,
and yet the child o. shadows Was
not afraid She sml


81 kept still a hong While 80 LET
mother sleep. Then | sang all my
songs to keep me awake, Then !
looked out of the window and didn't
move, so that the angels wouldn't
be afraid to come and talk to her
and make her smile. wish God
had made more daylight for poor
folks"
Year: 1876

The Dnluth Tribune SAYS: "W e
see from our Wisconsin exchanges
that a Y ell organized and vigorous
effort Is being made by the Northern
Wisconsin road, to have that road,
wtlch has been completed to a
point forty miles this side of Hud
son, pushed through to Superior"


This is news to us, as our informa-
tion in regard to the Northern Wis
conSin Is, that but little will be
done on the main line this summer,
and that il will be long time be
fore anything IS done on the Supe-
rior branch. In fact we are strongly
inclined to the opinion, that nothing
viii ever be done by that road look
ing TO the Head Of Lake Superior.
Is objective point IS Ashland or
Bayfield,, and since the original
grant was perverted 50 as to make il
,ubservient to that interest, by max
ing the main lne to BAYFIELD, an Il
the branch to Superior, and increas-
ing the distance to The Head Of the
Lake ten or fifteen miles, Superior
has had little or no interest in the
road.


AS a tail to the Duluth kite, to
compel the L. 5. & VI. to come
down in their exhorbitant charges,
we have no doubt it might be of
service to that place. But It's bank
rnpt competitor is sample of the
folly Of building railroads a ound
Robin Hoods barn The grave OF
the ST. Croix road was dug when
the line Of the grant was change d.


We have sat up with its corpse
nigh on to twenty years, and are
now pretty thoroughly convinced,
that as far rs Superior is concerned,
our wlsest course woold be to get
up an old fashioned Irish wake, and
then turn oar energies, if we have
any left, to some Hoe project
something that will be OF lasting
benefit atGcr We get it, and that viii
noa be the elephant the L. S & 81
road is to Duiuth.
Year: 1876

Valleys lay in sunny vapOr,


And u radiance mild was shed
From each tree that like taper
At feast stood. Then We said,
''Our feast, too, shall soon be spreat


OF good Thanksgiving turkey -
Year: 1876

GENERAL NEWS OF THECITY


TIE EFFECTS or YESTERDAYS STORM
A WOMAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING
BURIAL OF AN OLD SOLDIER
ASSAULT ON A YOUNG GIRL
PRESENTING A CANE 10 A PROFESSOR
Miscellaneous Paragraphs Of Interest
Year: 1876

Ex-senator Nye's son-in-law writes to friend
in Nevada that old Gray Eagle" is happy and
in the bosom of his family, but that he will drop
into his grave without reason again visiting him.
Year: 1876

In Minnesota lady in gaping put her jaw out
of joint, and two days elapsed before the doctor
could get It in place again, in which time the de-
lighted husband AYERS he had such q vacation as
never before since he was a married man.
Year: 1876

II there are any loose straw, chips,
sticks, old barrels or boxes any ywhere
within his reach, and he can get a
match, he will make what he calls a
"bon6re" and stand around it and hold
his hands before it until he gets smc K.
ed all over.


If there Is poLd or puddle of muddy
water anywhere about he will take of
his shoes and stockings, roll up his
clean white pants and either wade in
or get dirty board or plank and push
himself about until face, hands and
cloths are one uniform dirt color from
vop to toe.


He will go over any fence or wall or
through any tangled thicket of briars,
thorns or brushwood, regardless of the
strength of his trousers, even when 1t
would be quite as handy to go aronnd
by the proper path.


He will plunge into any muddy ditch
or swamp after q mud turtle or a min
now, and then, after carrying II about
for while. will throw his prize away.


He will climb any ladder, pole, scaf-
fold or tree, with no undvrsta a liable
reason except TO get where he knows
he ought not to be, and with the sure
result Of getting into danger,
Year: 1876

When his kite lodges in q tree or on
telegraph wire he will try to get IL
down by throwing stones and sticks at
1t until the kite Is broken all to pieces.
and will spend rs much time and energy
IN this vain pursuit as would serve to
make dozen other kites.


He will trudge through the snow and
slush In preference to walking on a per.
fectly clean path or pavement.


He will spend hours in throwing clubs
and stones to knock candlesT from
the catalpa tree, to knock " beans"
from the locust tree, to knock " SWITCH
es" from the ai'anthus tree, ard to
knock " button balls" from the button
wood tree ; and then when he has got
them and gets his clothes in disorder he
will gather up his candles" d" "switch-
es" or button.balls," and Immediately
find he don't want them and give them
away to some other boy who don't want
them either.


lie will make racket and noise
without any possible reason for 1t ex.
cept the ''fun" of making a noise


Finally, he will get his clothes dirty,
or his fingers cut, or his shlns or head
bruised, If there is any show or chance
for either within a mile.


Wherein the average American boy
differs from the American girl: This
differentiation" Is a problem for the
~ eyolutionists to solve.
Year: 1876

Although both parties profess to be desir.
ous OF civil service reform, the election Of
any particular candidate TO the Presidency
win nave but little effect In prom oting It.
The remedy lies with Congress and Congress
alone, and when that body takes hold OF the
matter In dead earnest and eli inmates the
obnoxious political feature from our civil
service system We shall have the much
needed reform. The old Jefrersonisu test
applied TO ascertain the moral and mental
qualincafiops OF applicants for ON CO should
be revived AMI injected Into our present
vicious system
Year: 1876

The projectors OF tine permanent exhibition
movement In Philadelphia speak hopefully
OF the prospect Applications for space con-
tinue to pour IN upon the gentlemaa ap-
pointed 10 receive them, and already aggre-
gate considerably over four hundred. The
number includes scores OF the larger exhibi-
tors in Machinery Hall, Agricultural Hall,
and the Main Building, with q sprin killing of
prominent manufacturers of large cities not
heretofore represented at the exhi ibition
Among some of the foreign exhibI q mere
favorable disposition to Co operate appears to
be manifest The financial prospects OF the
undertaking are reported to os such as to give
reasonable assurance that 1t will be carried
through without delay. A public meeting Of
the citizens OF Philadelphia viii soon be held
TO take nnal action. The Philadelphians
Know something of q good thing and want to
Know more. The benefits of the great show
have reached almost every class, and
therefore the formal closing is contemplated
with Keen regret. Ii is hardly probable that
The hopes of the projectors OF the permanent
exhibition will be fully realized. General
interest In the exhibition will doubtless
cease with its formal closing and but few will
take the trouble to visit PHILADELPHIA to see
what must necessarily be q fragmentary
show.
Year: 1876

For the first time In the political history
of the country, readers of the evening papers
are furnished on the day OF the Presidential
election with q report OF the weather in every
state OF the Union-sometimes not an un-
important element In such contests. By
reference 10 the weather bulletin In this issue
OF THE STAR II will be seen that while it is
rainy or cloudy along the Atlantic coast, IL
is clear and cold In the interior states clear
through To the Pacific coast.
Year: 1876

ARE THE PHILADELPHIA HOTELS GFTTIN


SCARED.-We have received a circular from


the Philadelphia Board of Trade contra


dieting the reports about exorbitant hote
charges in that city. The circular state.


that "there have been no increase in OIL


Hotel charges, and there will be None" II


seems to US that it is saying little too


much to assert that there has never been


an increase in rates. We know that such


hotel as the Washington, for instance.


the second night of the opening, demanded
$3.50 for lodging and breakfast. This is
at the rate of S. per day. And hundreds of
people all over the country know well
enough how they were extortioned upon
during the first few days of the big show.


The truth of the matter is that the de-
mand for hotel accommodations is not as
great in reality as it looked to be in antici.
patton, and the hotels have determined to
accommodate themselves to circumstances.
They have got the Board of Trade to come
10 their assistance and notify the press of
the country that boarding is as cheap there
now as it was before the Centennial onened
There is no doubt of this fact. but if there
mad been no extortion in the beginning in
some quarters there would have been no
necessity for this circular from the Board Of
Trade.


1t Is all true enough that millions of
visitors will be in that city during the sum-
mer: but the vastness of the influx will not
De 50 directly felt by the old established
hotels as was first supposed. In the first
place the visitors have six months to come
and go; if it were six weeks they might
pour into the hotels with all the fullness at
hfst predicted. In the next place. the
known necessity that would exist for hotel
accommodations has caused the demand 70
exceed the supply. This has been dome
more to knock extortion out of the pro.
yrlmme than all else combined. So MANY
lofels' restaurants and lodging houses have ,
oeen called into existence by the emer.
geney that they are almost as numerous 90
'lstors. 1t is the hotels and NOT tba q
'isitors that go begging.
Year: 1876

claim fever that will ensue under the Til
den rule, should the frauds in New York
secure his election. We cannot believe 1t
possible that the honest yeomanry of the
rural districts will permit the contemplated
outrage to be perpetrated. The majorities
that they are capable of rolling up in the
western, northern and interior cou 1ties
should render the result in the State en-
tirely safe for the Republicans. A full
vote in New York is always Republican
victory. The preponderance OF the Re
publican vote over the Democratic In that
State, under full and fair canvass, is more
than fifty thousand. This cannot be over
come, except through fraud or inertness,
and we are assured that the Republicans
are alive and exceedingly active throughout
all the western and interior counties OF
New York. In that is our hope of triumph,
if the legal authorities will vigilantly guard
the ballot-box from repeating, stufing and
such other frauds as lie along the pathway
of Samuel ]. Tilden and his henchmen in
New York and Kings counties.


Unless law has lost its power and right,
its savior in government, the cities of New
York and Brooklyn will be watched and
guarded with that vigilance which is the
recognized price of liberty. The purity of
the elective franchise will be preserved,
and then all danger to the Republic will
fee away. IT. however, the old game OF
Tilden and Tweed is to be reinaugurated,
and the returns from those cities are to be
held back until the result in the remainder
of the State is substantially known, and
the will of the people is subverted by fraud
as heretofore, the event will bring dire dis
aster in its train.
Year: 1876

THE CAMPAIGN in North Carolina pro-
ceeds with more than ordinary vigor.
The joint canvass between Judge Settle
and Governor Vance is most thorough.
At the same time meetings are being held
for joint discussion between opposing can
didates in every section of the State. For
example, barbecue is appointed for Ashe-
vile, on the 26th instant at which arrange
ments will be made for the accommodation
of Is, 900 people. This kind of a campaign
cannot fail to bring out the full vote of the
State, and the natural consequence will be
the election of Judge Settle to be Governor
and ten electoral votes for Hayes and
Wheeler
Year: 1876

lFrom the New York Evening MaiI.I


Yesterday we showed that Mr.. Tilden, in
the event of his election, must consent to the
secession of South Carolina, If she should de-
sire to secede. We will now show that the
Democratic party is equally pledged to allow
peaceable secession, and has never at any
time, before. or since the war, repudiated the
right. We do not question that a considerable
portion of the members of the Democratic
party Of the North would be found In the
Year: 1876

WEHEA of complaints regarding the
management of the pending campaign by
the National Republican Committee. The
Southern States seem to have been ignored
by the committee, and are virtually left
without aid or encouragement. At the
same time the Democrats are using money
freely in that section. A word to the wise
is erficipnt