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Year: 1876

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We cannot undertake to return OF reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

The work of repairing the repairs on the
new pavemen. on the north side of Pennsyl-
yania avenue, between 9Th and 18th streets
the Irregular army pavement" as ii is called
to distinguish il from others of the common
SORTS being pushed forward to-day with
commendable vigor This is well; and the
occasion seems to be proper time for a
practical suggestion bearing on the subject.
AS this Avenue is pre-eminently govern
ment thOrOughfare, and as the pavement in
question ilas been selected and put down by
a commission of gentlemen appointed spe-
cially and directly by Congress, II is respect
fully submitted that the members of the two
Houses constitute themselves a general in
vestigating committee, 10 walk over the
whole street from time TO time, and see for
themselves what the character of the mate
rial is. how the work is being and has been
done, and how the improvement is fulfilling
their just expectations and those of the general
public. In this way only can the honorable
gentlemen form an intelligent opinion on the
subject. and be able TO come to any satisfac-
tory conclusion as to what return the gov
eminent and the people of Washington are
likely to get in this case for their money
Property holders on the avenue, who have to
bear the greater part of the expense OF this
costly sO-called Improvement, are naturally
a little anxiOuSon the subject, and they en-
tertain the reasonable hope that Congress
men who assumed the management of the
affair will give the matter proper attention
before the bills are presented for payment
After that IL will be too late.


II would be a sad thing all around if the
worst work done under the reign of the much
maligned Board of Public Works should be
made respectable by job done solely and
directly under Congressional auspices.
Year: 1876

One of the strong points made by Senator
Morton against the monstrosity known as
the electoral college system, Is, that in case
the election OF President and Vice President
Is thrown into the House, as it is liable to be
under that system, the election would be de-
cided by representatives chosen two years
before, and who might not fairly represent
the sentiments OF the people at the time when
called upon TO select a President and Vice
President To show how such a system
would work IL is only necessary to state that
ifthe present House was republican Il would
disregard the public will, so far as the popu-
lar majority is concerned, and ele-t Governor
Hayes President, and VIM. A " seler Vice
President The present Hot - being demo-
cratic, however, happens TO represent the ma
tority of the people, and would OF course elect
Gov. Tilden. The next House which prom
ises to be very close, and the members OF
which were elected last fall, would elect
Hayes and Wheeler, since each state has but
one vote, and IL may be safely estimated that
mover twenty Of the state delegations the
rIqublieans will have a majority. In that
eveEt the popular will would of course be
disrs ssrcec- mere glance at the subject
shows he impropriety OF an election by the


House in any event
Year: 1876

The commission appointed by the Presi-
dent To investigate the subject of railway
mail transportation, il is understood, will
report i'm favor of the full restoration of the
fast mail service which was discontinued
because Congress, at its last session, refused
TO make the necessary appropriations. Their
conferences with the leading business men OF
the great cities have Convinced the members
of the commission that the fast mail service
is desired by the community generally, aud
when Congress once understands this fact IL
will no; probably hesitate TO make the neces-
sary appropriations. The Pennsylvania
Railroad company has agreed to replace the
fast mail train on its road on Monday next
and in consequence the eastern mail will be
received in Washington at p. IN. daily.
Year: 1876

The correspondent of the Chicago Times
insists that his report of the interview with
Justice Miller did not "embroider'' or exag-
gerate what the Justice said in regard to Til
den and the democratic party. The corre-
spondent in question is a man of character
and veracity, but as he does not deny that
the views he represents as uttered by Justice
Miller were gathered in a casual street con-
versatiOn, il would seem probable, in view
of the Judges disclaimer. that he Judge Al }
was misunderstood
Year: 1876

On account Of the pressure Of both news and adver
tisements upon columns, at the present time, and
20 enable TIE STAR be circulated at the earliest
hour possible each day, advertisers are requested to
send in their ayors early in the day practicable
They must be in hand before O'Clock to insure in
sertiOn the day, and they ought to be in much
earlier than that as is possible in each case.
Year: 1876

About seven O'Clock last night, the
spirit Of James II. IRE, d name as
familiar as household words. departed
this life for that world made for souls
pure and guileless as was his own
After a residence Of nearly fifty years
among us he went to his grave leaving
behind him a host Of friends, and
not a single enemy. What a legacy
to leave behind one, The deceased
during his connection with navigation
on the river, commanded and owned
some Of the finest steamers plying on
its waters, including the Majestic, Clip
sey and Capitol. The latter won great
reputation as being the first boat to
make regular weekly trips between
this port and Memphis.


Capt. Ure was Scotchman by birth,
and was Of noble parenrage. He was
sixty-fiye years old. His remains were
followed to their last resting place, at
Year: 1876

From the Whitehall y. Y Tirnes.l


A lady Of this place was quietly sit
ting at her sewing one day last week,
when she observed neigh Dor approach
ing the house, whom she did not care to
see. She quickly dropped her work and
stepped into a closet, SO as not ''to be at
home" to her caller. The closet door
closed with spring and imprisoned the
lady. The caller, finding the lady alb
sent, did not stop, but when the lady
tried to open the door she discovered,
alas, that she was a prisoner The lady
realized that she was consuming the air
very fast, yet she was powerless to re-
lease herself from her prison She re-
manned in the closet about four hours,
and when her husband returned home
at supper time he missed his wife, but
thought nothing about it. Having occa-
sion to look into the closet, he discov
cred his wife lying insensible On the
floor. He quickly drew her inanimate
form out, when the air revived her, and
thus was prevented what few hours
longer might have proved sad catas-
trOpne
Year: 1876

Yesterday evening as the steamer
Camelia attempted to make her landing
at Milneburg che was struck in the
middle by u terrible wave, which
broke one Of her rudder chains
and the craft became unmanage-
able. The shock sustained
was Of such violent nature that the
passengers became much alarmed, and
women and children were running to
and fro screaming at the top of their
voices. Life prescrvers were handed
round promiscuously, each one having
made up their minds 10 take the lake
if the worst came to the worst,
Captain Hanover attempted to steady
the boat by casting anchor, but even
with anchor cast the waves We're so
strong, that the vessel was tossed about
us if it wero feather. The second
anchor was lowered and the boat
was prevented from drifting
ashore. There the Camelia stood
bouncing and plunging like an untamed
animal until the storm subsided, and the
rudder fixed, when the boat was safely
moorcd, and the passengers once more
made happy by being landed on the
wharf. The passengers, after leav-
ing the boat, found new obstacles
that they had to contend with.
part Of the Nlilneburg wharf having
been washed away, the passengers found
considerable difficulty in reaching the
train but after Il little perseverance all
Of the Camelia S passengers were safely
IauIaI in tho citv
Year: 1876

LONDON, May THE SatrCtny Times
says the Mincing Lane markets con
tinue to suffer from the depression Of
trade, and ii general feeling Of caution
is now existing. Therefore speculation
is extinct, and prices lower than they
have been for some years past.


Sugar does not quite maintain last
week improvement, Ordinary quail,
and have further declined in several
cases to the extent Of two shillings per
hundred weight. Tea is dull, and in
rice nothing is doing. Spices are frmer
with rather moderate demand.
Year: 1876

have had a good time. Our only
unpleasant reflection this morning
was how we would feel the day after
the next centennial, with a hundred
more years added to the weight We
now carry
Year: 1876

ballot box, and stop this thing. It has got to be so now that Con" gress is a disgraceful body, and our best men would rather stay at home than associate with such scoundrels in a legislative capacl- ty. Let the people of the United States who really love our coun- try and desire the perpetuity of our free institutions, form a grand league. and elect no man to Con- gress or any other office unless that man is of spotless integrity and above suspicion.

 The great fault is, that many thousands of our best men, hav- ing a dlstate to dabling in the fil-

 thy pool ofpolitics, stay away from the elections and let demagOgues

 and scoundrels fill the offices with their own kind. This must be

 stopped if we would save oul

 country from disgrace and ruin.
Year: 1876

One of the daughters of the cente-
marian at the Mission, Eulalia de Gull
fen, is determined to carry out her de-
sign of exhibiting the old woman at
Philadelphia. On Tuesday night or
early yesterday morning the old lady
was spirited away, and Mrs.de White,
the other daughter, came to the city
yesterday to lay the matter before
Judge OMelveny. An attachment
was issued and the man who drove the
wagon which conveyed the old lady
away was arrested. He, deposed that
he knew nothing about the order Of
the court, and said that he took the
old lady to house in San0ra, in the
rear of the Catholic church. The
court has revoked its order leaving
Eulalia in the possession of Mrs. Hi
guerra and given the power of guar
dianship to the other sister, Mrs. de
White, who proposes to retain the old
lady here,
Year: 1876

re- This is the only route having Milwaukee
for its western terminus, and its rates always
the same from Milwaukee TO the East as other
lines quote from Chicago, thus protecting and
identifying itself with the interest of the great
Northwest.
Year: 1876

them with requests for "sugar." "
However that might be, he took the
failure Of his advice in good part,
and was carried out of the court
laughing heartily, and still entreat-
ing the parties to shake hands. 1t
may be feared that, although most
anxious for his own part to pro-
mote reconciliation, this amiable
cockatoo's behavior in court can
only have tended to envenom the
controversy regarding the value of
the deceased colleague.
Year: 1876

A romantic but designing young man
on West Lake street proposed not long
ago to a young woman on Congress street
and was refused. He called again on
Saturday night, resolved to bring things
to focus, and having once proposed and
been refused with the remark < that this
sort of thing was played" drew small
vial from his pocket, struck an attitude,
and crying, "Cruel girl, this is your
work W swallowed its contents, hydro
cyanate of cold tea. His girl-or rather
some one else's girl-was, however, by no
means of q romantic character, and in
stead of twining her arms around his
neck and imploring him to live for her
sake, and saying that she was a miserable
woman, and 30 on, as she would have
done in play, she just caught him by
the neck ard ran him into the kitchen,
yelling, "Maw, nav, this blamed FOOLS
pizened himself; get some mustard and
water ready for him as soon as l can run
him up to the sink SOS he won't spoil the
carpet" Then she went back and
smelled the bottle and found that the
contents were cold tea, and before the
young man had been more than half
filed with lukewarm mustard punch he
and his hat and his overcoat were all
cleaving the atmosphere together, and 1t
isn't known to certainty which first
hit the tree-box before the front door.
He says that he will never marry until
he can find woman with more heart and
less muscle. Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1876

One gate Of pearl that opened TO the soul


OF our dear child, is shut;
The key is lost, she can not even hear


The anguished cry put
To the Father, that his dear hand may
Open the door that shuts all sound away.
She only watches me, and tries to frame
The few sweet words OF speech
She learned before the silent angel came,
As one might blindly reach
For silver coin, that CLINT and slide away
The lost bright coin OF speech from day to day.
The temple that God made is very still,
Our child can hear no sound;
She does not brighten at our evening hymn;
No half-shut rose is found
To open in her cheek with sudden start
When words are read that should touch any heart
do not know this secret Of the Lord,
The anguish is so new
i have not learned to say, Goods will be done -
And yet II must be true,
That he, In loving mercy, shut the door
OF sound to that young soul for evermore.
Forever must saya My little child,
Come lean upon my knee,
And trust me, till learn through mother-love
How tender God must be.
have not said, as yet, " His will be done -
Teach me unquestioning faith, my little one.
try the wards from which Gods master hand
Hath taken the true key;
And when thine eyes are lifted to mine own,
1t almost seems to me
That thou canst read my face and catch my tone,
That soul can speak to soul, and then mine own.
The bitterness is gone that kept my soul
From trusting God In this,
The sorrow OF my life. o sweet dumb child,
1t may be would miss
The strange sweet tenderness that came to me
When first learned how still life would be.
1t lies like dew on the deep-hearted rose,
And II / keep Away
This dewy tenderness, II may be at the last
My quivering lips can say
That it was best for others should feel
This anguish pierce my soul like the sharp steel.


-Lddies' Rep1sk0rv.
Year: 1876

There is story that an eminent
had bit of substance sub
mitted to him to decide what it was.
To an unaided eye it might be morsel
of skin which baggage smasher had
knocked off the corner of smoothly worn
hair trunk. The savant appealed to his
microscope. Entirely ignorant of this
tiny bit of matter, except as he had
taken counsel with his instrument, the
wise man declared that it was the skin of
human being, and that, judging by the
fine hair on it, it was from the so-called
naked portion of the body, and, further,
that it belonged to fair complexion per-
son. The strange facts now made known
to the man of science were these That
a thousand years before, Danish mar
auder had robbed an English church. In
the spirit of the old fashioned piety the
robber was fayed (let us hope that he
was killed first), and the skin was nailed
to the church door. Except as tradition
or archaeological lore had it, the affair
had been forgotten for hundreds of years.
Time, the great erodent, had long ago
utterly removed the offensive thing.
Still, however, the church door held to
its marks of the great shame, for the
broad headed nails remained. Somebody
extracted one, and underneath its fiat
head was this atomic remnant of that
ancient Scandinavian malefactor's pelt-
that fair skinned robber from the North.
-HdTper's MAGAZINE.
Year: 1876

A man was brought up before one of
the Brooklyn judges, recently, on a
charge of assault and battery. In answer
to the judges inquiry as to what brought
him 80 low, he said: "Your honor, /
am man ruined by novel reading. You
see," the man continued, "they always
tell how young lady gets into danger,
and some young man saves her at the
right moment. Then her rich father
takes him into business with him, and
he finally marries the girl. Well, ]
thought would save one, 80 looked
through the directory to pick out the
business liked. Then after 1 got my list
of rich men had to find out who had
daughters the right age, and which was
the best looking. So by the time l had
made my choice, my money was about
gone. Judge, you may not believe it,
but followed that girl tor two weeks be-
fore anything happened TO her but one
day, Just as she reached the corner of the
block on which she lived, she sliped
grabbed her. There wasn't any wagon
coming, but that made no difference to
me. Ipulled her into her house. She
ran up stairs, and / waited in the parlor
so that the old man could bless me. In
about five minutes her father came, but
your honor, he didn't bless me worth 9
cent. He grabbed me and he told SER
want to 20 for an officer, and, your honor
here am" The judge leaned over and
whispered something to the officer who
arrested the man, and he was escorted
out
Year: 1876

The ruling vice in japan is un-
doubtedly drunkenness. It pervades all
classes, though it is confined by force of
public opinion to the male sex. On
festival of the third month women are
indeed allowed great license, and in their
harems, from which on that day even
their lords are excluded, they may in
dulge to any extent in the forbidden cup,
but a woman of the lower class who may
be found drunk at any time would be ex-
posed 10 severe beating from her hus-
band; were she of the higher class, she
might die by the sword of her spouse.
The only fermented liquor used is, it is
said, the saki, distilled from rice, and
differing from the Chinese tin or shamshu
in that, while 1t is weaker, it often con-
tains much Of the poisonous oil Of dis
tillation. 1t is taken warm, and the bet
ter kind is not disagreeable to the taste.
Few Japanese are iit for business in the
evening, and in the afternoon many Of
the streets of Yeddo are rendered unsafe
bv drunken retainers.
Year: 1876

The dress in which George Washington
generally appeared at church was faced
hat, stone colored coat with gilt buttons,
blue surtout, buff knee breeches, boots
and gilt spurs. Being held the best horse
man and boldest fox hunter in Virginia,
it was natural he followed the fashion
prevalent among the young gallants and
came to church on horseback. He used
Pelham bit and generally rode with
holsters at his saddle peak. The portrait
by Peale, which is considered by his rel
atives the most correct one, represents
him at the age of forty in the uniform OF
Colonel of the Twenty-second Virginia
militia. There is no trace of resemblance
to the grandmotherly portrait by Stuart,
even allowing for the difference Of age.
The former agrees in personal appear
ance with the character given him by
neighborhood tradition-a bold, dashing
gallant, even after his marriage; rather
foppish in dress, and safe, according az
occasion offered, to win lady's smile OF
the fox's brush.
Year: 1876

His name was HippoAam. His uncle
left him some money. He started in the
grocery and provisions business He had
read in the paper that John Jacob Astor,
A. Il. Stewart, Daniel Pratt, John Smith,
and hosts of others had once been poor,
and had made their start by advertising.
He believed it all, dough-head that he
was, and he advertised four squaresin the
TorchRght, six squares in the Badger, and
half column in the Moonshine. When
the people saw from the advertisements
that Hippoham had started into business
with fresh, large stock they rushed for
his store. Then his trouble commenced.
He had to hire an extra clerk and a cash
boy. He could not find time to sit down
on candle-box, thrust his feet under the
stove, and gossip about politics and the
Louisiana question. Every day or two
he had TO write or telegraph for new
goods, ordering more coffee, tea, sugar or
spices; and when the goods came he had
to open them out. As day after day
went by people began to notice that
Hippofam was growing thin and pale.
He looked care-wOrn and harassed, as If
driven. He keptadvertising, and people
kept patronizing him. Other groceries
could get time to go of on excursions, and
to sit down for hours at time and play
checkers and dominoes; but Hippofam
could not get an hour to himself, except
time to sleep. By and by he had to open
an account with yet another bank, got
more clerks and cash-boys: and it came
about that he kepta carriage, built fine
house wore broadcloth. and was elected
mayor of the town. Of course man
couldn't go on in this way many years
without breaking down his health, and
the day came at last when Hippoham had
the dyspepsia, the jaundice, heart dis
ease, rheumatism and several other COM
plants. The shadow ofdeath hung over
him, while the grocers who hadn't ad.
vertised at all grew fat and portly and
had double chins on 'em. They had
time to 90 fishing, were never tired out,
looking over their bank accounts, and 1t
wasn't once year that they had to order
anything more than box Of herring.
Broken down in health, feeling mad at
the world, and finding himself victim
of newspapers, Hippofam one day drew
all his money out of the bank, passed it
over toa lunatic asylum, set his store on
fire, blew up his mansion with keg of
powder, and then hung himself to peach
tree in the back yard. The coroner cut
him down, the jury sat on him, and the
verdict was: advertising killed him,
and we hereby warn all business men to
let his fate be an awful example against
patronizing newspapers"
Year: 1876

Two men went out from the fre-lit camp,


In the autumn midnight gray;
Over the quaking, croaking swamp,
To the edge of the woodland still and damp,


With ride and spade went they.
A hunting owl walled out TO its young,


And picket stood as still
In the meadow below as the shadows flung
By the beaded tent lights thickly strang,
On the silver-threaded rill.
Twas long ere the picket moved away,


And there was no time to lose;
The pits must be dug by the dawn OF the day
Said one: {" We are digging graves, / say !"
The other one whispered, Whose?"
With the morning light column of steel
Moved upward along the hill,
Toward the hidden pits, but double peal
Close In the front made the column reel


A moment, and then stand still.
The check won battlefield that day;


On the morrow the dead were laid
Head to foot in trench of clay;
But two apart in the front that lay


Were buried without spade.
Year: 1876

Two new breeds of sheep have been
introduced into England from the west
coast Of South America. One Is white
wooled sheep, with four horns, and the
other q dark brown wooled species, a
cross between the llama and the alpaca.
Year: 1876

BEFORE leaving sleeping apartment
in the morning, throw each article of
bed covering over the back of a chair.
or the foot-board, and hoist the window,
If the weather is not rainy.-Dr. Hall.
Year: 1876

THIS was made up in the New York
Sun office: A pretty little Ohio school
marin tried to whip one of her pupils,
boy of fifteen, the other day, but when
she commenced operations he coolly
threw his arms around her neck and
gave her a hearty kiss. She went back
to her desk, and her face was "just as
red"