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The New York herald., 1872-10-26
MYSTERIOUS POISONING OF A WHOLE FAMILY

NASHVILLE Tenn, Oct rs, 1872
The entire family Of Isaac Rawls, Of Robertson
county, was poisoned q few days ago. Mrs. Rawls
and daughter have died. Mr. Rawls and another
dauQhter and son are dangerously Ill IL Is not
known how the poisoning occurred, whether acci-
dontally or intentt0nallys
The New York herald., 1872-10-26
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY OCTOBER 2s sz-rRlr1n SHEET

purpose. was to be used 10 accomplish such q
result. and the conduct of Commissioner Dav-
enport throughout gives color to the suspicion.
The most important essential Of q law of this
character is that its enforcement should be
free from every faint of craftsmanship. The
good men of all parties are interested in pre-
serving the purity of the ballot box, and
Ring democracy could be half
30 offensive and dangerous as frauds
perpetrated by one party against the
other under the cover of State or Federal
law. Hence it is desirable that every officer
charged with the execution of registry or
election law should be especially courteous,
fair and impartial in his action, and should
studiously avoid giving cause of offence to the
citizens We do not think that Commissioners
Davenport has filed these requirements, and
while it may be proper enough for him to en-
ploy bad characters as detectives on the prin-
ciple of setting thief to catch thief we re-
gard it as extremely injudicious that he
should assume doubtful powers or exercise
such authority as he legally possesses in an
overbearing and insoleut manner.
The interference of the Federal government
at all in elections is of very questionable ex-
pediency. Our present State registration laws
may be considered as perfect safeguard
against illegal voting as could we'll be devised.
Indeed, in some of their provisions they seem
to throw unnecessary and vexatious obstruc-
tions in the way of legal voters, and especially
OF naturalized citizens. II they are TO be sup
plemented by system of national espionage,
it should certainly be conducted in manner
as little offensive to citizens as possible. We
can conceive of nothing so well calculated to
incite riot in a large city rs illegal, arbi-
trary and partisan conduct on the part
OF an officer charged with the execution
Of Federal election law; for, as
we have said, federal interference in elections
is of itself repulsive to the citizens. We
should therefore advise those having charge Of
the matter to exercise great caution and pru-
dence. The ordeal Of the State registration
is by no means an easy one to pass through,
and the verifcation of the suspected names
that may get on the lists can be easily accom-
plished without contentious and arrests.
Where questions are not satisfactorily answered
suspicion may be justly entertained, and it is
then easy enough to mark down the names
for challenge. Every good citizen
will second the efforts of the proper
authorities to enforce the laws designed to
secure fair election, however Objectionable
may be the character of the statutes; but no
man worthy of exercising the franchise would
hesitate to resist an attempt to defraud the
honest voters of their rights under the pre-
tence Of legal authority. The ballot is the
constitutional right of every citizen, and no
law can deprive him of it. The very sus-
picion that distractions may be improperly
laid in his way should be an additional incen-
tive to every elector to register to-day while
there is yet time and TO cast his vote when the
day of election arrives.
The New York herald., 1872-10-26

President Theirs has according to one of
our cable dispatches OF this morning, forbid
den the sale of caricatures of the ey-Emperor
Napoleon and his family This, in our judg-
ment, is right, proper and becoming. 1t has
been the business of President Theirs since
he accepted Office to know no political party,
to conciliate as far as was possible, and to
govern France according to the wishes of
the greatest number He has avoided, and
with some skill, giving unnecessary offence to
any of the political factions. He has been
able to govern France and to restore to France
some degree Of her ancient prosperity, be-
cause he has consulted the wishes of all
parties. and because all parties have confessed
that he y the only man they can now Trust q
The New York herald., 1872-10-26
10 Horse Malady-Its Appearance
West.

West.
There may be counted now in this city and
the territory Immediately surrounding it pro-
badly not less than thirty thousand horses
suffering from the laryngeal or bronchial
epihippic, which has been developing itself
for the past week. It has begun to exhibit
new symptoms here, which are looked on as
highly dangerous; the animal pants for
breath and becomes quite cold at the extremi-
ties. At least five hundred cars have been
withdrawn from the city railroad lines In
this branch alone, therefore, the disease
throws thousand men out Of work, it
is to be hoped only for few days In
city so crowded as New York the sus-
pension of even this large number of cars,
with the stoppage Of other vehicles, is not
easy to be noted at first but to-day we may
look for the thinning out being distinctly per-
ceptible and painfully felt during certain of
the busiest hours. The virtuous hackmen Of
the city, with that calm defiance Of law
which characterizes their class, took advan-
tage Of the disease to charge exorbtant fares.
These gentlemen should now be taught sharp
lesson. The avarice which exhibits itself in
times of public calamity should be treated
as it deserves. The favorite trotting mare
American Girl has slight attack, but is doing
well. Society always has an anxiety about its
elite, SO we refer to this appearance of the
malady among the equine haa ton. The
wretched car horse may have his feelings and
an infamed larynx, but society will always
have its distinctions. Lucca, with slight
hoarseness, would be an object of sympathy to
thousands; but chorus singer might 'cough
fit to break her back without wringing the
public heart to any great extent. Here is a
theme for young poets to moralize upon.
In this and the Eastern States the disease
has undergone no diminution, except, per-
haps, at Buffalo. From points South we are
happy to learn that it has not travelled in
that direction. 1t has appeared however, at
Cory, Pa; Indianapolis and ST. Louis,
which would indicate that it is taking a
Western sweep. It is to be hoped that wher-
ever henceforth it makes its appearance
measures will at once be taken for its eradi-
cation. The senseless plan of allowing the
disease to develop its worst features before
undertaking its cure should be guarded
against. 1t is stated on experience that where
taken at its inception and properly treated it
can be generally cured in forty-eight hours,
whereas neglect in this regard renders a
sickness of ten or twelve days certain, with
chance of death into the bargain
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encea Il is suAlcient for us, howevee. thAe
upon this San Juan boundary dispute we
have secured what was asked fora decision
''most in accordance with the true interpreta-
6on" of the treaty Of 1916.
Theopinion Of the London Posi-, that this
award is ''as damaging to the interests and
the diplomatic reputation of England as was
the award Of the Geneva Tribunal, is doubt
less correct, looking at each of these judg-
ments as rebuke to British presumption and
British pretensions; but in recalling the love
feasts OF the Joint High Commission, and the
nappy accord between England and the
United States confirmed in those excellent
arbitration dinners at Geneva, we would COM
mend to all our British contemporaries the
example given of 1oyal submissiveness'' to
this boundary settlement
The New York herald., 1872-10-26

AmusemEMIS THIS AFTERNOON AND EveNlMG
WOODS MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thirtieth St.
THRsE MUs-Kx-rERRs. Afternoon and Evening.
THEATRE COMIoUB. bN Broadway.-roRcERY-TH
PowxR or Music. Matinee at 2h.
DIAMoEDs Matinee at ~
wALLAcKs THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth
stTect-PYGnALIoN AND GAiArEA.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fourteenth street-IrALrAs
OPKRA-0RAND LuccA MATINEE at
BOOTHS THEATRE Twenty thisa street corner Sixth
BowRRY THEATRE, Bowery.-B .-BRrAKrRs-PoIrsH
Jew, &c
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty third St and Eighth
av.-RoI CARorrK, Matinee ut N
UNION SQUARE THEATRE Broadway, between Tbr-
seenth and Fourteenth streets.-AGSEs. Matinee at IL
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway between Houston
and Bleccker sts-GKsEvIEvE BRABASr Matinee at 2
MRS =. 3. CoNwAY,s BROOKLYN THEATRE.E
HoNEYxoos-BLow FOR BLOW Matinee at 2.
BRYANTs OPERA HOUSE. Twentythird St, .copdet
9th av-NEcRo MSsrRELsr kccEsrRIcIrY. &c. Mafinee|
72o BROADWAY, EMERsoN's MINsTREZs. .-GRAsD
ETHIOPIAN ECcENrRcrrrEs Matinee
WHITES ArHENEUM, 5s5 Broadway.-NHcno MIN.
srRELsY, &c
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, No. 2ol Bowery-
GRAND VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. &c. Matinee at 21a.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsrRELs, ST. James Theatre,
OF 26h ST. and Broadway-ErHIoPIAN MISsTRELsY
BAILEY's GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot
OF Houston street, East River
DEN STONES CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of
Thirty-fourth street and East River.
sTEINwAY HALL Fourteenth street.-Matnee at 2,
RuBINsrEIN CoNCRRT.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av. between Esd
and 64th streets
PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway, Fourth street.
GRAND GALA ENTERTAINMENT.
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6ls Broadway
SCIENCE ART.
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WOODS MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.
Three MUs-KETERRs. Afternoon and Evening
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wALLACK's THEATRE. Broadway and Thirteenth
strect-PYCnALioN GALArEA.
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gard to this provision OF that treaty he ''shall
decide thereupon, finally and without appeal,
which of those claims (the American or the
British) is most in accordance with the true
Interpretation of the treaty of June Is, 1S46. y
"Most in accordance" then, are the express
words of instruction of the Treaty of Washing
ton by which the Emperor William had to be
and has been guided in his settlement; and in
rendering his decision he properly sticks
to the text of his instructions. His judg-
ment according to his instructions, is per-
fectly clear and conclusive, and if he leaves
not peg to hang a doubt upon il is because
he departs not q hairs breadth from the line
of his instructions in pronouncing his award
The London Times, therefore, does well to
''accept it with loyal submissiveness, " because,
even in the last resort Of quibbling, there can
| be no appeal from this decision.
| With regard to the charge of British in
| trigues to procure modification of the judg-
ment of the Emperor, we are not disposed to
accept it as baseless or absurd upon the mere
assertion of our offended British contem-
porary. II is generally believed throughout
the Old World and the New that British
diplomacy, in extreme cases, does not stick at
triAes, and that the ancient maxim that s'all
things are fair in love and war; will equally
apply to the strategy and tactics Of England
in the settlement Of her international differ
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upon to execute. If penalties have been in
Cured under the law they must be enforced in
legal manner
Apart from the letter of the law, we regard
the course pursued by Commissioner Daven-
port as unwise and dangerous to the peace of
the city. A statute such as he is called upon
to enforce is necessarily of an Objectionable
character. II authorizes a sort Of espionage
to which the people are unaccustomed and
which is naturally offensive. A good registry
law is approved by all honest citizens and
scarcely reputable man would be found
unwilling to aid cheerfully in its enforcement.
But the clear object Of such law should be
to prevent illegal voting and to facilitate the
polling of every honest vote in the city. There
are two evils attendant upon fraudulent voting
at elections-frst, that it misrepresents the
! popular will, and next that it deprives quail
fed voters of the opportunity to deposit their
ballots. fair registration law provides
against both OF these evils it renders it diff
ficult, if not impossible, to commit frauds
upon the franchise, and it clears the way
to the polls for honest electors. Unfor-
tunately the registration laws in this
State have been tinkered by politicians
for their own purposes, and have been
framed as much for the purpose of obstructine
the honest, full vote of the city of New York
as for putting stop TO the shameful frauds
initiated by democratic ballot-box stufEess and
repeaters. It looks very much as il the Fed.
eral Election law. If not designed for the same
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DEN STONES CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot Of
Thrtyfourth street and East River
The New York herald., 1872-10-26

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Twenty-four street.
DIAMONDS. Matinee at IL.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC Fourteenth stIeet-IrALIAs
OPKRA-GRANp LUCIA MATINEE at l.
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NEW YORK HERALD
KmussnENIS THIS AFTERNOON AND EvEMMs.

Volume xKxVu.. No. 800
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
A Difficult Question.

A court in Massachusetts, is called
on to decide rather difficult question.
At the city of Worcester, there is
copperas factory in the immediate vi
cinity of cemetery. The gaseous ema-
nations of the factory have strong
chemical affinity Tor the tombstones,
and the consequence is that the latter
lose their whiteness after brief period
of exposure. Of course this renders it
less pleasant to be buried in that par
ticular graveyard than it would other
wise be, and discourages death to such
an extent that the proprietors are suf-
fering from serious falling off in their
business. Hence they are proceeding
to have the factory abated as nuisance,
and the court will be obliged to deter
mine which is the more important; that
copperas should be manufactured, or
that deceased citizens should be vouch-
safed the undisturbed enjoyment of
white tOmbstOneS.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
The Lehigh Valley Coal Mines.

Few people are aware of the immense
productions and resources of these won
derful coal mines. The wealth Of the
property is almost incalculable. These
companies, with the Lehigh Valley Rail
road and the leased roads, represent a
capital of not less than $300,000,000 in
landed and railroad interests, while the
production has increased from the mod
est $50 bushels 1rst brougt from the Lee
high mines to 100000 tons year.
For tens of miles the whole valley is
literally ablaze with the light of fires
from their iron furnaces. Standing at
the little village of the Upper Lehigh,
some one thousand nine hundred feet
above high-waterk level, and surrounded
by the lofty hills, it is astounding to
know that $50 feet beneath are men
hard at work raising 100000 tons of coal
per year from veins fifteen feet thick.
By the aid of an ingenious machine to
break coal-one OF the largest of the
kind in existence-the valuable mineral
is raised from these deep slopes Of $50
feet, and, with extraordinary ease,
crushed into all requisite sizes, from the
large Jumps required by steamers to the
little pieces used in our cooking stoves,
all cleaned and made ready for market.
All day the powerful engines are kept
at ork raising the coal, and all night
pumping the water from the mines.
Apart from the instruction to be OBJ
tanned from visit to this spot, there
are few scenes in the world of more
grandeur than that from Mount Pisgah
or Mauch Chunk, where the rocks de-
scend in huge perpendicular walls to the
edge of the Lehigh. At Mount Pisgah
is steep inclined plane, where, in a
length of 1892 feet, perpendicular
altitude is gained of over 664 feet. The
ascent and descent of this plane in a
safety car" rapidly propelled by iron
bands passing over drum of twenty
seven feet in diameter, and worked by
two engines of 120 horsepower each, is
one of the most pleasing and exciting
parts of the visit. Many tourist who
is at loss to decide were to go this
summer in search of novelty, recreation,
and amusement, would find their time
well employed in taking glimpse at the
mineral treasures and scenery of the
Upper Lehigh.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
Undertaking and SubsOiling.

Mr.. S. G.. Foster, of North Wilton,
Maine, in an essay delivered on Janua-
ry 30 last, before the local Farmers
Club, said:
We must underdrain and subsoil our
land if we would get rid of the trouble
with wet or dry seasons; by the term
subsoil l do not wish to be understood
as advancing the throwing up on top of
the land a portion of the subsoil, but
simply stirring it up and leaving it
where it now is. The advantages of
undertaking and subsoiling are, that
if thoroughly done they will nearly free
US from any inconvenience from an un-
usually wet season by absorbing and
conveying from the land all surplus
water, while in an unusually dry season,
the ground being light and porous to
greater depth than we usually have
it, will hold more moisture, and as the
top of the ground dries this moisture is
drawn upward and prevents the roots
of crops from being dried up. A piece
of ground trodden hard will not absorb
water to any amount. If we would
keep the dirt stirred often among crops
in dry seasons it would draw more Of
the moisture from the air than if al
lowed to get dry and hard. In fact,
believe we may by some study and ex
pertinent in draining and subsoiling
connected with judicious stirring O
the ground around growing crops, be
come Independent of any Inconvenience
or injury resulting from wet or dry
season.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
The Fire i'm Yaddn.

The conhagration that recently visited
Yedao, japan, was, in respect to area
of district burned over, even greater
than the memorable Chicago fire,
though the actual value of the property
destroyed will fall far short Of that of
the latter catastrophe. In many re-
spects it was not dissimilar to the
Chicago calamity, as will appear from
the following brief extract from the
Japan Heralds account of the affair:
"The greatest confagration that
Yeddo-a city of 6res-has ever been
subject to, broke out on the afternoon
of April 3, at about 2 o'clock, in a
house occupied by Izu Higno, situated
about one and half ri from Asaksa.
The fire is popularity attributed to be
the act of an lncendiary, but its origin,
like that of most other fires, is still en-
veloped in mystery. Most unfortunate
ly, furious gale of wind was blowing
at the time, having almost the intensi-
ty of a cyclone, which caused the fire
to spread with alarming rapidity, resist
ing and overcoming all attempts to ex-
tinguish 1t, or to limit its progress.
Block after block of houses caught fire
the confagration sped with the ut
most celebrity from street to street,
leaping the canals, and at length seized
on whole districts, which at first, from
their remoteness from the place where
the fire began, had been deemed safe
from the all-devouring visitation From
the first all efforts seemed futile. The
fire famed into fury by the wind, swept
with the exception of the fire proof
godowns-all before it, until it reached
the sea. All the afternoon and night
the fire burnt; the forked tongues of
flame shot high into the air, the smoke
was blinding-the heat intense. The
district over which the fire passed is
said to measure about four miles long
by three broad, and to have involved
the destruction of from 1000 to 10000
houses. Fortunately, as far as is at
present known, the loss of life is COM
paratively small, but the destruction
of property is, as a matter of course,
great. The Yeddo and French hotels
fell prey to the fire, but the greater
portion of foreigners houses on the
Concession have been saved. The alarm,
anxiety and excitement have been so
great that it is impossible to get, as yet,
full and authentic particulars of this
great disaster, which, in point of mag
nitude, makes some approximation to
that of Chicago Meetings have been
held in Yokohama and elsewhere by
the foreigners to subscribe funds to aid
| in the relief of sufferers"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
Woman Very Much DiSpleased.

There is reason to fear that woman is
very much displeased with the result of
the debate the other evening in the
House of Commons respecting her
suffrage question, and that she intends
to vent her displeasure on man. Fore
warned is forearmed, and some hints
which woman let drop at the conference
called on Thursday by the Central Com
mittee of the National Society for Pro-
noting Woman's Suffrage plainly show
that man not only stands in most per-
ilous position, but that it will require
the utmost tact on his part to escape
from it. His wisest plan evidently is to
say very little, and appear to be fond of
poetry. After several ladies had in
Weighed against the conduct of the ma
iority who had thrown out the Woman's
Disabilities Removal bill, Miss Bell
urged all women householders to re-
fuse to pay taxes unless they had a
vote. Last year she refused to pay
taxes, and allowed the authorities to
come and take away her furniture. This
year another lady was going to do the
same thing. She found that tables and
chairs had more effect with some per-
sons (evidently alluding to man) than
principles. After all, the pocket argu
ment was very effective. 1t was not, Of
course, pleasant for single women and
widows to have man in their house,
as she had for nine days. here there
was laughter, as though some ladies
present were rather doubtful as to the
speakers estimation of the feelings of
women as rule on this point :" but, /"
continued Miss Bell, "she was bound
to say the man put in possession of
her house behaved admirably; he was
very fond of reading, especially Shakes
peare." Here there was loud laughter,
as though women plainly saw through
the cunning of the vile and inferior an
imal who thus feigned innocence, but
was inclined, on the whole, to take an
indulgent view of his shallow artifce.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
Heart Disease.

Those ladies who suffer from the dis
tracing grievance and disability of
being treated too much as drawing room
pets, and shielded too carefully from
the rougher blows of the battle of life,
may possibly learn resignation, if they
cannot derive complete consolation,
from some dry but significant researches
which DIR. Quain has made, and in
which he stated the result in his first
Lumleian lecture on disease of the
heart, at the College of Physicians. En-
largement of the heart, one Of the most
distressing and fatal diseases, is more
than twice as frequent in males as in fe
males, the precise proportion being
eight to three. This remarkable liabil-
ity to the enlargement of mems hearts,
as compared with those of women, is,
he thinks, unquestionably due to the
greater amount of work and anxiety
which, in the present dispensation, falls
upon men. Ladies may take this fact
to heart, and reflect whether, in claim
ing the rights of women, they may not
at the same time incur the risks of men,
and with them new and unexpected
form of debility. They might do wisely
to rest content for their sex, with hearts
suffering, it may be, from those tender
affections which often pain, but never
kill.-British Medical Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-06
Graham Bread.

There is but one way only to make
Graham bread, viz:-Obtain frst-class
-four and make it precisely in the same
manner as wheaton bread, with bakers
yeast. It is the most natural and whole
some of all breads. Some people fancy
that with the addition of soda, molasses,
steaming, etc., it becomes more palat-
able. This is all bosh; for the manner
in which it is generally made renders it
by no means healthy or digestable, while
an contraire, the simpler it is prepared
the better, like all other food. l have
used it made according to the above
plan for twenty years, only varying from
the same when travelling, and then have
been compelled, at hotels, to worry
down trash, yclept Graham bread, made
out of villainous compounds and pre-
pared, no doubt, according to some of
the precious recipes occasionally ap-
pearing in various newspapers.-P. l. c.,
Vinezand, New Jersey.