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Year: 1875

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but guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

SENATOR CoNKLING delivered his first
speech in the present campaign to an i'm
mense audience at Albany, Tuesday evening.
1t was most exhaustive presentation of the
issues in the state canvass. The Senator took
up the canal frauds and showed that all Of
the contracts so full Of astounding frauds
were made by canal boards, in which the
Democrats had large majority or were all of
that party, and were usually given to Demo-
GRATIS
Year: 1875

WHILE the nomination of ex-senator
Chandler for Secretary of the Interior may
not be the best possible. it is very certain
that affairs in the Interior Department vil


be most thoroughly looked after, and that
rogues and rings will come 10 grief What
ever may be said TO the disadvantage of the
new Secretary, il must be admitted by bis de-
tractors that he is an honest and fearless man.
1t is said that number of gentlemen in the
Indian bureau are not happy at the prospect.
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
innrnal
Year: 1875

THE Tucson Laundry is on Pennington street east Of stone Avenue, instead Of Meyers street as stated in advertisement last week. All right nov and Mir. Swiizer will be glad to have the people give him a trial.
Year: 1875

"A young lady from the rural districts
entered dry goods store the day and
asked for pair Of stockings. The clerk
politely asked her what number she wore
"Why, two, you blasted fool; lie you
suppose am a centipede, or wood leg
How many do YOU suppose a two legged
hair hin like me would wear 2"
Year: 1875

tS- The Temperance Reform Council of
Ozark give Masquerade Party in that town
on the night of the 3lst inst at the Court
House. Tickets ST. Ozark has some of the
loveiest girls and good looking gents that
can he found in any state and we know they
will have a jolly good time. Would like to
drop in on them
Year: 1875

Inc entertainment, Tonight, at the Court
house. for the benefit of the Presby terian
church. should be attended by every one.
Aside from the very worthy object in view,
the entertainment will be fully up to any.
thing ever put on the stage at Van Buren. By
a full house. then, let us show to the young
ladies and gentlemen who have brought out
THIS beautiful Cantata, The Flower Queen.'
that we appreciate their talents and enter.
prise. Tonight then, at the Court House.


we have been grieved. at some of the pub
lie entertainments given in our town, to wit
ness the noise and confusion among our
youngsters during the progress of the per.
ferinanee. This habit of loud talking and
laughing IL not only vexatious to those who
wish to HEAR. but is decidedly disrespectful
to say the least to the performers We hope
therefore. to night, to see our boys and girls
on their good behavior.
Year: 1875

ENDOWMENT FUND OF JULIA JACKSON


A movement is now on foot to endow
little Julia, the child of Stonewall Jack.
son, and it is in such hands as will doubt.
less make a success worthy the name and
fame of the great man whom two worlds
unite to honor.


The soldiers and their families are
making the movement and ehieftains en-
dorse it


Only in sums OF one dollar and hun
dredth parts Of one dollar will subscrip-
ton be received, that all may partakc OF
this feast of love. gratitude and honor
and none be debarred'


Should larger sums be contributed,
all in excess of one dollar from one per
son will be entered on the list immediate
ly after the donors name. under the head
ing. From the unreturning brave"


All contributors will be entitled to Q
printed list of contributors, which will
assume u pamphlet form, should the sue
cess be as great AS is expected


In sorest poverty IN deepest distress
let us come forward and honor cur own
children and our dead brothers by heap
ing great blessing upon the child OF
that great chieitain. " upon whose prayer
bedewed banner victory ever seemed to
waits.


Soldiers, what would you give to Jack
son living What ought you give to Jack
sons child


tSouthern papers please copy
Year: 1875

AccIDENT.-Saturday afternoon John Nc
Carly was passing the Second Parish church on
Congress street, when ladder blew off the
building and struck him on the head, serious
ly injuring him. His head was badly cut and
his back injured He was carried to his home
on the correr of Hancock and Fore streets,an
DR.. Brooks called He was quite comfortable
Yesterday
Year: 1875

ExPLANATIoN.-The dim gas light OF Friday
evening" in parts of the city, was caused by
small per centage of air getting into the great
main at the Works, in making repairs connect
ed with getting in new station meter 1t is
probable that similar mlshap will occur again
in a week or ten days, when the connections
are made with the new meter, although every
precaution will be taken to prevent it. A little
air spoils a great deal of good gas.
Year: 1875

DAMAGED. Saturday night, about midnight
officers Black and Hicks discovered that water
was running down into the store of H. w.
Simonton & Co., on Congress street. Going
into the third story of the building the officers
discovered that the water had been kept run.
ming in the Sons of Temperance Hall and hat
run over and was leaking down into the store
The damage was considerable.
Year: 1875

The late Alonzo Butler was insured on his
life with the Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of
New York, w. D, Little, Gen. Agent A wise
provision which every man should make with
a good COMPANY while he can.
Year: 1875

HE subscriber offers for sale, on
reasonable terms, his house and lot. Also two
other lots, situated on the South Ridge Road
about twenty rods south Of the corporation line
Also other lots upon the height Of land command
ing eeautifui view OF the lake, and country
around, LaLds conveniently situated may be
added to any Of the Aforesaid lots II desired.


taTtk JAMES PHILLIPS.
Year: 1875

The Supreme Court Of the United States
decided, on Monday, in woman suffrage
case from Missouri, that the Constitution of
the United States does not confer the right
OF suffrage upon any one, and that the
constitutions of the several States, which
restrict that trust to men alone, are not
necessarily void. The opinion of the Court,
which was unanimous, was delivered hy the
Chief Justice.
Year: 1875

JUDGE LYNCH SETTLES THE CASE OF SCHELL-
HE IS TAKEN FROM THE JAIL BY MOB AND
HANGED.


Special to the star.


BELIEFoNTAINE, O., Sept. 25.-Daylight this
morning revealed the CHASTITY sight of the body
of James schell dangling from the limb Of a
tree in the Courthouse yard. Rumors Of In
tended lynching were rile yesterday afternoon,
and in fact long before dark wagon load after
WAGON load Of determined men had arrived In
town from the direction Of Urbana.


Sheriff Chandler took every precaution to
protect the prisoner. After locking the jail
and cells he secreted the keys and placed a
strong guard on duty. About midnight the
mob approached, fully five hundred strong, and
the guard seeing the uselessness Of resistance,
gave way. They captured and searched the
Sheriff, but not finding the keys, proceeded to
break open the Jail and the coils. Five differ
ent ones were opened before the object Of their
search was. found On opening the right cell
Schell was taken out with rope around his
neck and placed in a No. drygoods box di-
rectly under the limb Of "a tree. On being ask ed
for a confession he simply said only wife killed
Allie Mclaughlin" and was about to repeat
the same thing in tremulous voice, when some
one kicked the box from under him, the rope in
the meantime having been fastened to the limb
above, and his body Writhe and dangled In the
air with the feet almost touching the ground.


There was great excitement Of course during
the proceedings, but everything was done in
the most systematic manner, especially taking
him from the Jail The lynchers came prepared
with sedgcs and tools, and as soon as it was
discovered that the keys could not be found,
went to work cutting away hinges and break
ing in doors till the prisoner was found. The
jail is this morning perfect wreck, with bro
ken doors, loose panels and hinges lying about
in every direction.


The Loroner's inquest on the body of Allie
Mclaughlin was continued yesterday alter
noon.


A warrant was issued for Mrs. Schell, aud
on being brought in, she testified that her
husband had committed the murder; that he
told her he intended to ravish her; failing in
that to kill her; that he used penknife and
butcher knife. to create the impression that
two persons had been engaged in the deed:
that after stabbing her with knife, as he did
in twenty places, he crushed in her skull with
his boot-heel, then washed his hands and boot
in the creek, and gave the alarm.


1t was this testimony OF the wife that set full
ablaze the smouldering determination Of the
people to visit speedy Justice on the fend.
Year: 1875

An interesting instance of the sagacity
with which the partridge will protect
its young is given by Mr.. Henshaw of
the Government Survey west of the one
hundredth meridian. While riding
through pine woods a brood of par
tridges containing the mother and eight
or ten young about a week old, was
come upon so suddenly that the feet of
the foremost mule almost trod on them.
The young rose, few few yards, and
dropping down, were in an instant hid
in the underbrush. The mother mean
while began some very peculiar tactics.
Rising up, she fell back again to the
ground as if perfectly helpless, and
initiated the actions of a wounded bird
so successfully that for a moment it was
thought she had really been trodden
upon. Several of the men, completely
deceived, attempted to catch her, but
she futtered away, keeping Just out of
reach of their hands until they had been
enticed ten to twelve yards of when
she rose and was off like bullet. Her
tactics had successfully covered the re-
treat OF her young.
Year: 1875

A writer in the AdUonce says 1.-THE
giving of compliments, if it be at all
well done, is very pleasant habit. /
mean truthful, hearty compliments. II
you see a man doing excellent, don't be
afraid to tell him so with ordinary
good sense, and regard for the truth,
one need not fear becoming fiatterer,
or Extensively fullsome. 1t is very
pleasant when We do well to sometimes
have cur well-doing recognized by
others. So, then, if you would be
agreeable, make the practice of seeing
the good in other people, and of some
times telling them that you see it. But
besides the positively pleasant things
by word or act, ninety nine hundredths
of the unpleasant things that are said
and done are entirely unnecessary, and
il one does well only IN a negative way
by invariably refraining from the
ninety-n he has made no small ad-
vance in the art of being agreeable.
"Put yourself in his place, is a capi-
tai motto. "Thou shalt love thy neigh.
Dor as thyself."
Year: 1875

What is there more mysterious than
blush, that a single word or look or
thought should send that inimitable
carnation over the cheek like the soft
tints of the summer sunset Strange
it is, also, that the face is capable OF
blushing, that the hand or foot does
not turn red with modesty or shame
any more than the glove or sock that
covers them. 1t is the face that is in
heaven. The blush of modesty that
woman's face when she awoke in Eden
sunny land still fingers with her fair
daughters. They caught it from the
rose, for all roses were first white but
when Eve plucked one, the bud seeing
her own fair face-more fair than the
fiowers-blushed and cast its refec-
ton on her velvet cheeks.


The face is the tablet OF the soul
wherein it writes its actions. There
may be traced all the intellectual phe.
nomena with a confidence amounting
to a moral certainty. If innocence and
purity look outward from within none
the less do vice. intemperance, and
debauchery make their indeiible i'm
pressions upon it. Idiocy, rage, COW.
ardice and passion leave deeper marks
even than the virtues of modesty,
truth, chastity and hope. Even beauty
grows more beautiful from the pure
thoughts that arise within it.
Year: 1875

And now the strange happenings have
begun to exhibited themselves in an
other Vermont village, if We are to be-
of the Troy Press. The story, however,
is so strange, and it has such suspi-
cious look, that we would advise our
readers not to place that implicit faith
in its statements which they would had
they witnessed the phenomenon them
selves. The following is the story. We
give it for what it is worth "Pownal
is at present very much excited about a
supernatural phenomenon. For about
five weeks stones have been falling on
farmer P. g house and other buildings.
1t can be accounted for in no natural
way, and it is supposed to be the work
of spirits. They are falling both night
and day, but are most plentiful at night.
Crowds of people are there every day
to witness this wonderful phenomenon.
1t has only been known by outsiders a
few DAYS, as the farmer and his family
tried to keep it q secret. The stones
are mostly small, from the size of an
egg to four or five inches in diameter,
and strike the house with great velocity,
SO as to tear nearly through the shingles
or clap boards. Sometimes they strike
the roof near the caves, and then slowly
climb up the roof over the peak and roll
off the other side. On Thursday after
noon q stone weighing over twenty
pounds fell into the yard and indented
itself in the hard frozen earth over
three inches. Several strong men tried
to throw the stone on the ground to
make like indentation, but they could
hardly make an impression on the
frozen ground. The house is situated
about thirty rods from the village
Year: 1875

There can hardly be greater sign of
prosperity in community than a dis
position to help one another-lift a
little when a neighbor's wheel gets
stuck IN the mud.


We know of a place where a mans
barn with all his winters stores of grain
and hay were consumed by fire in the
night. Immediately all the men of the
country side mustered and hauled up
timber for a new barn, and then big
raising came off. After that the sound
of twenty or more hammers were heard
until the whole was shingled and sided.
But their deed of kindness was not done
vet one after another offered to take a
head of his stock and winter them for
him, thus greatly reducing his loss and
assuring his heart of the more durable
riches Of brotherly love and neighborly
good will. No one can compute in
money the value of one such example
of noble liberslity in a community, es-
pecially in Its influence upon the young.


When this spirit prevails there is sure
to be progress in place even if all the
improvements are in their infancy. Peo-
pie will come and settle in place which
bears such a good name. Now, if you
desire to see your place growing popu-
lar, do what you can to show yourself
q good neighbor, especially to those
who need a little extra help.


If man starts tin-shop or black
smiths shop in your place don't harness
up and drive five miles to buy your
pans and get your horses shod, just be.
cause you have been in the habit of
doing it. Patronize the new conner
when you want anything done in his
line. Speak encouragingly to him and
we'll of him to your neighbors. Little
words Of approval or censure go long
way, and when once you have spoken
them you cannot cali them back.


Help the sick, especially If they are
poor, for poverty and illness are indeed
heavy burden. Perform all acts of
loving charity which fall day by day in
your path, remembering who it is that
has said, "Ye shall in no wise lose your
rauard
Year: 1875

The following sensational tale is told
by that most inveterate of Rossips,
Katinka. The dramatis perSOne,
though mentioned in blank, are well
known in society: "Who would ever
have supposed the loss of ones curls
would be the means of finding a hus-
band? Such, improbable as it may
appear, has been the case of NJ. de v.
At the end of May last, she went with
her parents to Dieppe to pass the sum-
mer, and one rainy day. she started
with her waiting maid to visit friend
in a narrow but usually crowded street.
1t was SO narrow, in fact, that the per-
SONS passing through it got their UNI
brellas entangled with each other, and
it SO happened that gentleman bung-
lingly got his fastened in one of Miss
de VS. curls. The young girl did
her best to disengage herself, all the
while, OF course, blushing, frowning
and smiling, whilst the owner of the
umbrella, a handsome young man,
seemed to be busily engaged in helping
her, but, in reality, he protracted the
operation as long as possible through
admiration for the beauty whom good
luck and bad weather had thrown in his
way. Several minutes were passed in
these efforts, when suddenly the curls
gave way, and Immediately after they
were dangling at the extremity of the
umbrella. The young man renamed
motionless in astonishment, while the
poor girl hastened away shocked, vexed
and inwardly vowing never more to
wear false hair. In few hours after
wards she had entirely forgotten the
adventure but the young gentleman
whom she had entangled could not so
easily chase her from his memory, and
be could not rest quiet until he dis
covered who she was. He one day met
the waiting maid and bribed her to tell
him her name. To his great satisfac-
ton he found that he was acquainted
with her father. He Immediately called
upon this gentleman, and was intro.
duced to the young girl, who blushed
deeply, but feigned not to recognize
him. He contrived to render himself
30 agreeable to her parents that they
received him as an intimate visitor OF
the family. His admiration for Miss
de V, 1 need not say, soon ripened
into ardent love, and as he was not only
eood-looking but also intelligent and
wealthy. Miss de v speedily forgot
the contretemps of their first interview,
and engaged herself to him, with the
appreciation of her parents. They are
TO be married this month"
Year: 1875

No novelist ever imagined marriage
concluded under more eccentric cir
cumstsnces than that OF Comte de u
with Miss de V. The future
Comtesse, who is one OF the best sports
women of France, happened in the be-
ginning of the summer season to be
present with her father at the races OF
b. Her attention was here attracted
by Q small pony, which she found to be
remarkably beautiful, and which she
asked her father to purchase. Mr. de
V is immensely rich, and he adores
his daughter. Consequently he at once
called with her on the owner OF the
pony the Comte de D, who received
them in the most graceful manner, but
firmly refused to sell his horse. How
ever. as de V was trying to change
his resolution he added, looking at the
beautiful Amazon, 81 have sworn that
INV horse shall belong to no one but my
wife" Need add that Miss de V
soon found ont that the Comte was
endowed with other qualities than OF
remarkable sportsman, and that their
marriage is to be celebrated very soon.
American Register.
Year: 1875

The man who grunts aud gasps as he
gObbles up his soup, and at every other
mouthful seems threatened with q chok.
ing fit.


The man who. having by an accident
been thrown once in your company,
makes bold to bawl your name ont, and
to shake your hand profusely when you
pass him In the street.


The man who, pleading old school.
fellowship, which you have quiet for
gotten, never meets you without trying
to extort a five pound note.


The man who volunteers his crit.
clsm on your new play or picture, and
points out its worst faults in presence
Of your wife.


The man who artfully provokes you
to play game of billiards with him,
and, though he feigns to be novice,
produces his own chalk.


The man who can't sit at your table
on any set occasion without getting Oh
his legs to propose some stupid toast.


The man who, thinking you are musi-
cal, bores you with his notions on the
music of the future, of which you know
as little as the music of the spheres


The man who wears q white hat in
the winter, and smokes a pipe when
walking, and accosts you as sold fel-
low" just as you are hoping to make a
good impression on some well-dressed
lady friends.


The man who knowing that your
doctor faces him at the table, turns the
talk so as to set him talking doctors
shop.


The man who, with look of urgent
business when you are in hurry, takes
you by the button-hole to tell you bad
joke.


The man who, sitting just behind you
at the opera, destroys half your enjoy
ment by humming all the airs.


The man who makes remarks on your
personal adornment, asks you where
you buy your waist coats, and what you
paid for your dress boots.


The man who lards his talk with lit
tie scraps of French and German after
his return from a Continental tour.


The man who spoils your pleasure
in seeing new play by applauding in
wrong places, and muttering in stage
whispers his comments on the plot.


And, to finish with, the man who,
when you draw back slightly to appre-
ciate picture, coolly comes and stands
in front of you, and then receding, also
treads upon your toes.-Punch.
Year: 1875

Jesus wept 20 sacred tear.
Glistening through the mist Of years;
Not for those whom we call dead.
We're those holy tear-drops shed;
Not for those who're passed away
To the realms Of cloudless day.
But for us. who linger here,
Bending DER a pall-clad bier,
For the lone who watch and wait,
BY the hearthstone, desolate,
For the feet that ne 'er will come,
Tho the weary day be done.
Jesus wept The Lord of glory.
He-the undefiled, the holy,
Marked our sorrows, doubts, and fears,
Passing through this vale Of tears
Where each human heart must know
All the bitterness of woe.
Sacred chrism thus consecrate
For the sad and desolate,
For the sister, brotherless,
For the child, all motherless,
Many q grief hath calmer slept
Since the son OF Mary wept
oh. ye tears no jewels rare
Resting on q brow most fair;
Not the lustrous orient gem
In q monarch's diadem
Shall their pristine brightness keep
When the eye hath learned to weep.
Backward, through the ages past
Many longing look is cast
To the spot where Lazarus slept,
Where the Son Of Glory wept;
There would submissive bend,
Find q sympathizing friend.
Sacred be that holy shrine,
Hosry with the touch Of time;
Many pilgrim there shall rest
With his cross hid in his breast,
Reverent bow and kiss the sod,
Melted by the tear of God.
Year: 1875

A clergyman's cat at West Springfield
has shown some remarkable symptoms
of natural depravity. After giving
birth to seven kittens recently, of
various colors, she removed the two
blackest from the group and utterly
refused to take any notice of them. No
sooner were they restored to her nest
than she again and again eiected them,
and death finally relieved the little
waits, And this in defiance to the
fifteenth amendment, which declares
there shall be no distinction on account
of colorl No other than Massachusetts
cat would have dared to thus offend
the majesty of the law.
Year: 1875

A TRUE GOOSE SToRY.-Among a
flock of geese, was a goose with three
goslings, one of which had become
injured. In feeding, the goose with
the well goslings got separated fiom
the injured one, when the gander
walked up to her and by some means,
known only to the goose family, in
duced her to go TO the sick one.
Squatting by its side and slightly rails
ing her wings, she waited till the gan
der, with his bill, had very carefully
placed the gosling on her back, and
then she returned to her place of feed
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