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Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

duty to adapt our treatment Of the horse to his
acquired qualities, the service required OF him
and the circumstances in which We place h i'm
for our own purposes. We have only one sug-
gestion 10 make in regard TO this matter, and
that Is one which, from It's apparently close
relation TO the special form of disease just now
prevailing, must have occurred TO many others
The Lungs Of a horse are Just like
those Of a man, except in size; they
have precisely the same Office to perform
in precisely the same way, and need
the same conditions to perform it effect
ually. Such ventilation of the houses where
men live as will secure a supply of reasonably
pure air, is recognized as an essential condition
of humanihealth, and the forms Of disease which
are caused by the want of it are well known, as
are the means of securing the requisite supply
Of air and the methods of avoiding dangerous
impurities Everybody who has had occasion
to so into a large city stable in winter, or in
summer either for that matter, mast remember
the pungent, sitting odor OF ammonia, which,
if his lungs were at all sensitive, "took away
his breath" for a moment or two. Other foul
smells from the rotting straw and filth would
also have forced themselves upon his attention
ii the pungeney Of the one first men
toned had not overpowered them. Such an at
mosphere, in which most horses spend the
greater part of their lives, cannot be conducive
to a healthy condition of their organs of respir-
alton, and certainly not promotive of recovery
when disease has once attacked those organs.
This evil can be avoided with proper care, and
if the prevalent disease calls attention to the
subject and leads to some improvements good
results will not beless than the suffering and in-
convenience it has caused.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

A New SENsE-WHAT THE BLIND SEE
MIR. Levey, in his work on "BindneSs and the
Blind, says: When passing along a street can
distinguish shops from private houses, and even
point out the doors and windows, Sc, and this
whether the doors be shut or open When a
window consists OF one entire sheet of glass it is
more difficult TO discover than one composed of
number of small panes. From this it would
appear that glass is bad conductor of Sensa-
ton, or at any rate Of the sensation specially con
nected with this sense. When objects below the
face are perceived, the sensation seems to come
in an oblique line from the ohjecls to the upper
part of the face. While walking with friend
in Forest LANG, Srltiord, | said, pointing to
fence which separated the read from
field, "Those rails are not quite
as high as my shoulder" He looked
at them and said they were higher. We,
however, measured and found them about three
inches lower than my shoulder. AT the time of
making this observation, was about four feet
from the rails. Certainly in this Instance facial
perception was more accurate than sight. When
the lower part of a fence is brickwOrk, and the
upper part rails, the fact can he detected and
the line where the Two meet easily perceived.
Irregularities in height, and projections land in
dentalOns in walls can also be discovered.
similar sense belongs TO some part Of the animal
creation, and especially to bats, who have been
known TO fly about without striking against
anything after the cruel experiment has been
made of extracting their eyes
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
WORCESTER.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ., 1879.

The OLDEST VoTER.-Mr. Russell Phillips of
Cinnamon, n. H, IN his ninety-ninth year, who
voted for Grant and Wilson on the 5th, voted
for Washington at his second election, and has
voted at every presidential election since that
time.-B0St0B Transcript
1t is now just eighty years since Washing
TONS second election to the presidency. At that
time Mr.. Russell Phillips was in his nineteenth
year, which, Of course, he had not completed !;
that is 10 say, he was eighteen years and some
months old. Perhaps he had been made a voter
by means Of some unexplained and rather
mysterious "dispensaton." We desire light on
this point 1t is important to know how it was
made possible for him to vote at an election
held just eighty years ago; for these old gen
tleuen who voted for Washington must be
looked after Time fails to carry them away
from US, and, evidently, has no power to lessen
their number. Therefore, let every man OF
them rise aud explain The time has arrived
when they should tell US all about that voting
aud show how il was done
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
BRITISH CENSORSHIP OF THE PREss-The
Boston Advertiser says:

BRITISH CENSORSHIP OF THE PREss.-The
Boston Advertiser says:
Great Britain enjoys entire liberty of the press,
but newspaper publishers have to pass through
the torm OF obtaining an authorization from the
post Office department, that their issues may be
transmitted through the mails. This constitutes
the germ OF a censorship which may at any time
be exercised, but which IS seldom put in practice
Not long ago a cable dispatch informed US that
Mr.. BradlaugRs paper, the National Relormer,
had been refused registration for postal trans
mission. This was censorship, of course,
but the cable did not inform us that
on Mr.. Bradlaugh's applying personally
to the post office authorities, it was discovered
that the refusal of registry was the unadyised
act of a subordinate official and the former deci-
sion was promptly reversed. But there is a
more recent case which leads us to surmise that
the Subordinate official" has neither been dis
posed of nor checked in his unbridled career
The proprietors Of the Bristol Mercury sent ior
the usual annual authorization, which, after
long delay and special inquiry why it was not
forthcoming, was returned with the following
astounding postscript
THE post office act of 1870 requires that
newspaper shall consist wholly or in great part
of news and by this it is to be understood that
a little more than half the contents OF a newspa-
per must consist Of news The COPY of the
Bristol Mercury which you have sent me con
tainS nearly page more Of advertisements and
matter not coming udder the head of news
than OF news proper, and although the publi-
cation will be placed Onsthe register, | must re-
quest that in the course Of the current neWspa-
per year you will make arrangement for altering
tue contents in such manner that the news
shall exceed the other matter"
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

an opportunity to secure first class cotton and
woolen operatives. These provinces have been
the seat of the most extensive cotton and wooden
manufactures in France, in the former province
alone 100000 bales of the finest Louisiana cotton
having annually been used
A 5SS ounce gold nugget was lately found in
Australia. 1t was in the well of an old trench
that was cut about nine years ago, when a large
number Of men were at work in the locality.
The successive rain falls had, with the cOntinu-
Gus washing and crumbliug away Of the soil,
brought this handsome little fortune into day
light.
The Council Bluffs Republican says: At the
low price of corn, ald the price it is likely TO
bring the coming winter, it will undoubtedly
be cheaper for fuel than coal or wood. We
have heard persons who have tried the expert
ment say that corn, at % cents per bushel Of
q pounds, was cheaper than soft coal at 81
per ton. 1t makes a very hot fire, is easily
lighted, will last as long as soft coal, and is
much cleaner TO use.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

The slave trade of Eastern Africa seems likely
10 be suppressed. Our government as well as
that Of Great Britain will do something against
it, by virtue of the treaty with the Imam OF
Muscat, treaty which aimed and promised to
suppress an important branch of this traffic, but
which the ruler Of Muscat and his people have
Systematically disregarded. Persia seems TO be
the chief market of these kidnapping Arabian
slave traders. Here is something which shows
the character Of their business:
'R Gently slave dhow was captured by an
Euglisu yessol-the Vuture-n the Persian
gulf, the crew, passengers, ana slave merchants,
all Arabs, being found heavily armed The
condition OF their victims, who crowded deck
and hold, was mOurniul in the extreme, many
OF them being sick with small poX and scrolula
OF the worst types-the hold being foul with
bilge water aud refuse Of every description, and
the whole vessel being so filthy that the English
sailors coa'd scarcely endure 10 stay upon it
even for a moment. When the slaves were
transferred 10 the Vultufe many of them were
SO emaCialed and i'll that they had 10 be carried
about on lltters, Of 1853 OF -hem, 30 had the
small poX, aud fifteen died before the vessel
reached Butchers island, Bombay. When this
dis i7se first broke out on the dhOw those who
were attacked by il were instantly thrown over
board by the Arabs, and This vlllainous mode
oil treatment continued till forty had been sunk,
and was then abandoned only because it was
found TO be incflicacious Among the sufferers
were many women and helpless children OF all
ages"
The letters of DR.. Livingstone, received since
he was found by Stanley, have exposed the in
famous operations Of the Arabian slave traders,
in Eastern Africa, ard reinvigorated English
feeling against them; and these letters have
also disclosed the connection of certain British
subjects, the Banians OF India, with this slave
trading. a considerable number of these Ban
ians come from Iudia and reside temporarily
at Zanzibar, where they DO all they can to pro-
mote the kidnapping by which slaves are pro-
cured, buy and sell slaves, and use their means
as well as their influence to keep the business
active. The slaves on board this captured vessel
may have passed through their hands. Their
participation in the business will necessarily
be discontinued, for they are general
ly intelligent and wealthy men who do
not dream Of giving up their homes in
1ndia and the Arabians will doubtless find it
necessary to turn their attention to something
else. Ii the good work now undertaken shall
be done efiectually, that part of Africa will be-
come far more important to the world, and may
AT length rise above the condition in which it
was found By the Portuguese nearly 400 years
ago, a condition from which their brutal and
barbarous influence has brought it down to be
what il is now. Africa, on every side, has for
centuries been the prey of slave traders. We
hope the time is near when it will begin new
history and have a new importance to the civil
lied nations.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
LAGEST NTARNMra.
KEW YoRE STOCK MARKED.

NEW YORK, Nov. sAIoney easy at 5(l7 pr ct. Sterl-
ing nner at lOs2 q 1857 for long los Tor short sight
Cod more active and higher opened a 2M advanced to
49, and closed at ll2S q l3, Loans l64 to fiat for use
and "a per cent for carrying. Clearings S64 900 900
Treasury disbursements S3l7,0O0. Export Tomorrow
SOOOg Governments Il q per cent better and strong
state bonds dull and steady. Stocks have been weak
Under rumor that money was active in London, and
that an advance in the Bank of England rate OF Interest
Will probably occur Monday and that American secur-
ties are lower IN Amsterdam; prices declined q a ~
per cent up to P Pacific Mail falling 10 gOH Erie to
5lA, Northwestern common to S2A, Western Union 10
IlA, wabash to 7lA, Columbus Cincinnati and Indiana
Central to 30, Union Pacidc 3I ST. Paul common to
Boy, Ohlos to 46A Lake Shore 9lh and New York Cen.
tral to "a Toward the close the market rallied and
most OF the decline was recovered closing steady
United States SiNes, 1851, coupons.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

ARTILLERY TRIALs.-Both English and Ger
man gun makers are congratulating themselves
upon the results of recent trials of their weap-
ons. The new Whitworth gun, made of hydrau-
lically compressed steel, proved to have powers
of resistance not before equalled. An account
of the trial says:
A cylinder representing the chamber of
nine FOUNDER gun was loaded with one and
half pounds Of powder, and being screwed up at
the shotted end was fred through a touch hole
only one tenth of an inch in diameter, The
cylinder did not burst, but the whole charge
Kissed through the touch hole, leaving the
chamber of the gun unnjured. A nine pound
er gun, made of this steel, at one hundred yards,
drives 4 bolt through q three inch thick iron
shield, placed at an angle of forty-fve degrees
1t carries the bolt a distance of six miles. This
automatically compressed steel furnishes a met
al OF the greatest value. By using it guns can
be constructed which will combine a lightness
and power hitherto unatainable. The pressure
which the steel undergoes in process Of manu-
facture is equal to twenty tons to the square
inch. No doubt the process can be applied TO
other pieces of machinery besides guns. 1t
would be inyauablein the construction oi steam
fire and other engines.
Of the German artillery trials Berlin news
paper says that they have been successful be-
yond all expectation:
12.inch plate was completely penetrated by
shot from the new 11-inch breech-loader coil
gun, and it is hoped that a similar result will
be produced with the 1O-inch gun on slightly in
cressins the charge Of powder. At the late
Russian trials with the former Gun the iron tar
Get was only nine inches thick. "In the late
trial in England" adds the Gazette, "the IA
inch plate of the Citations was only cracked,
not shot through, with the new Woolrich 700
FOUNDER, while az Berlin the German 500pounder
went through Pinch solid plate wooden
backing of 26 inches, and an inch plate, and
even after this it had a considerable amount of
force left. The superiority of the German guns
to those of England-which alone had hitherto
competed with them-has thus again been
proved in the clearest manner at these trials,
and there Is every reason to expect that the 12-
inch Krupp breecl-loader cOl-oun, which is to
carry projectile of 666 lbs, will produce sim
liar results TO those achieved by the other guns,
on plates from Is to 16 inches thick"
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

To the Editor of the Daily Spy: 1 cut the follow
ing paragraph from the Boston Daily Journal OF
Nov. 18th:
GAS a good many people do not understand why
it is that in Louisiana the vote for president was
held on Monday instead of Tuesday, we will state
that, under the constitution of Louisiana the state
election occurs the first Monday OF n November.
As this was constitutional provision which could
not readily be changed, congress- IN order to spare
the people the trouble and expense OF elections upon
two successive days passed law providing that
the presidential election should take place on the
same day as the state election"
From the above, it appears that congress by a
special law caused allowed the presidential cleo
tion to take place on Monday, Nov. 4th, in Louis
lana while in the other states Tuesday, Nov. 9th,
was election day. ask with becoming Difference
for our Lawmakers at Washington, how this eXcep-
tion could be made. The constitution of the United
States declares, art H., section /, clause "Ihe
congress msy determine the time of choosing the
electors and the day on which they shall give their
votes; which day shall be the same throughout the
United States"
Congress passed an act March l, 1892, requiring
electors to be chosen in each state within thirty
four DAYS preceding the first Wednesday in Decem-
ber in every fourth year succeeding the last presi-
dental election; and in the year lS45 1t was en-
acted by congress that the electors shall be appoint
ed in each state the Tuesday next after the first
Monday Of November of the year in which they
are to be appointed. (Sheppard's Constitutional
Text Book. PIP. 166 aud 167l.
Were the above laws repealed by congress at the
last session? Whether they were or were NOT how
may the exception in favor of Louisiana be recon-
Cleu WIN Iile pToNlsO
day for choosing presidential electors shall be tha
same throughout the country
If these comments and inquiries shall be thought
worthy of place in your columns, this cOmmuni-
cation with your reply may be interesting to more
than one SPY READER.
November S, 1872.
more attentive reading of the clause cited
by our correspondent from the constitution will
convince him that it does not, as he supposed,
provide "that the day for choosing presidential
electors shall be the same throughout the cOun-
try" but the day for giving their electoral votes.
This, as the law now stands, is the first Wednes-
day of December. The law fixing a day on
which electors shall be chosen in all the states
was of course repealed by the act of the last
session making an exception in favor of Louisi-
ana so far as the latter is inconsistent with the
former, and no farther.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
BOSTON STOCK sALEs-Novemner

$1,000 Hartford and Erie Railroad 7s.,.......4 az
$1,000 Union Pacific railroad Gs.... ....... S55E
$4,000 Vermont Centra IS. guar. r.............. 81
$4,000 Vermont Central Equipment ss............s0 10
Boston and Albany railroad. ......... ..,.,. i4SS
40 Chicago. Burlington and Quincy r.. .la5A@l36
100 Gin. Sandusky and Cleveland R....,.,,. b go l9k
20 Eastern railroad. .......,....,.... - l6SIs
Fitchburg railroad. ..............,..... i33
"a Michigan Central railroad .......... iIlsi6iI5
2g ogdensburg Lake Champain r. pref. ..........i00
~ Old Colony and Newport railroad .....,.,l ll4sl
2 Boston and Providence. raj rOad. ......... l56E
10 Vermont and Canada railroad .,,.. ~. Ia
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09


NEW YORK, Nov. S--COtUOn quiet and in buverss
favor; sales 1904 bales; middling uplands l9c FIour
heavy 10 q l5c lower; sales s40O bbis state S5S5
Ohio 500 q S84O western SES5@ $3.50; southern
sl5 "a sl2 Wheat l@2c lower, and in moderate export
demand sales $4,000 bush; No spring SI57 a. 5g No
z 40 Sl,45A n l:52; winter red western Sl5s white
Michgan Sd'72 "a 81 Corn heavy and shade lower;
sales l469QO bush; steamer mixed western 63H a &C.
sail do 64t q Csc. Oats dull; sales 26O0O bush; new
white A q 5Oci old western mixed Al a. 4sHc. Beef
quiet Pork hrmer; new mess SIG a 1850 Lard frmer
a. ~ a &C. Butter rather more aetive state "a a SOC
Whskey active and firm at 95c. Rice lam at IsGI 8hc
sugar dnll; Muscovado a 9Sc; refining 90 "a exc
Coffee quiet; Rio 10 a lS&c. Molasses quiet ciayed 20
e. 25c Muscoyado p g SOC. Turpentine firm at 50 C;
refined 26'4c, rallow steady at "a 8 5-l6c.
CHICAGO, Nov. S.-flour quiet and unchanged Wheat
firm in air demand and shade better; sales Of No
spring at Sl.l6; NO2 ST., spot or seller November.
eO5% seller December; No do 93c rejected 80 a. sac
Corn seady sales of N02 mixed at 81 "a 81 Nc s0ot or
seller November; rejected 2Shc. Oats dun ami deriin
ing; 2Os "a 2OAc for No regular; rejected III a lsc
rye dull and unchanged; No. 53c Barley steady.
NO taH at = Ia 6O&c. ProyisOns-demand light hold
ers hrn packers not Offering much produce and saugb
erlng very lew hogs POrk-sales at SIS for new mess
Lard steady at ~ a Tc for plain Hams sold az Ii4e
l0r 10 pound averages green hams sold at Sc for same
aNerages green shoulders axe. Bulk meats dull and
lower Tor old nOmnally "A a 4Ac for shoulders; short
rih mddles ~ @S&c Whiskey firm al Sg4c Receipts
6uUl Dds flour, $4,000 bush wheat 80 600 bush corn
UOl bush oats 5000 husb rye, 81 900 harley Shipments-
9VVg Dds Hour 49OO bush wheat UU0 bush corn 600
bush oats, 5000 bush az, 900 bush harley ~
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

The English papers have, of late, contained
much correspondence in regard to tue possibility
VI curing hydrophoba, and, among other let
ters, is one from DR.. Butler, an old East Indian
army surgeon, who says that in India he has
used, with great success, the German practice.
which consists in washing the wound thorough.
ly with hot water, then painting II all over and
inwardly with Indian lux, aud washing it
This must be douo three times, after which the
wound must be Kept open six weeks by The ap-
plicatioD Of lunar causlic, while the whole sys-
tem is to be kept slightly under the influence Of
mercury. Sixty years ago this treatment in
Germany preserved 80 out Of every 100 persons
bitten by rabid dogs.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

A Detroit boy has started a goat express and
conveys the baggage of travellers 10 and from
hotels and railway stations with great prompt,
ness
a finger nail artist whatever he or she
may becomes from Paris with innumerabe
credentials, and has opened an Office in New
York,
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

DIR. c. r. BRoADBENT, of New York, electrician
and physician. will arrive at the Bay State house.
Worcester, Monday at p. NJ November Il, 1872
Our readers should not fail to consult the doctor
while he is here. He can tell where and what your
diseases are by just looking at you without your
saying aword to him. He can refer to scores OF
patients in this city he has treated successfully
Advice free on all diseases for four days only in
every month, as above from A. NJ to p N. daily
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
DIR. A. n. WILLIAMSON,

Late Clinical Physician In the University Medi-
cal College, and Attending Physician in the y.
W. Dispensary, New Hork city, having devoted
many years to the study of the aDove diseases
and having had large experience in treating them.
has been requested to visit regularly certain Of
the larger towns in New England In compliance
with this wish he will visit Worcester every
WEDNESDAY, commencing
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

Closing out sale of pictures aud picture frames at
E Whitney's S95 Main street. Call early to secure
choice goods and extra bargains.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

D. F. Newton will sell real estate on Ward street
this afternoon at one O'Clock.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

Weinberg Bros, S57 Main street, will open to-day
a new lot of real Alexandra aud Jouyin kid gloves
Also, new lot of the celebrated Joseph 81 gloves
at Soc pair
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
Rice, whiting ~ BuIlocl
Investment Securities u specio'tp

Buy and Sell Railroad, City and County Bonls.
SPECIAL attention given to orders for purchase and sal
Of Stocks at Boston and New York Boards.
Agents for the various lines Of European Steamships
Passages secured to and from Europe cabin steerage
Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Exchange Drafts
drawn payable in any Of the principal cities of Europe
Allow interest ON deposits subject TO check ut sight
Special deposits for three months or longer received
with interest at current rate. ar aplO
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

Ladies, for nice French corset, go to
WEINBERG Bros, S57 Main ST
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
or hepTesentatlYe:
Stephen D. Goddard, l04; Frazier Paige

This completes the returns for this county,
and enables US 10 say that the whole vote in the
Nathaniel /. johnson, republican, $3.50; for
Cbarles Haywood, democrat, S52. The whole
vote in the fourth representative district was as
follows; For Stephen D. Goddard, republican,
964; Charles A. Gleason, republican, 964; Fra
zier Paige, democrat, S19; J. Otis Hale, demo-
crat, 819, Goddard's majority, 654; Gleason's
majority, 645.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

The HORSE DISEASE, now prevailing, can be very
much alleyiated by using the Condition P0lcders,
prepared by us for the past forty years Fifty cents
for pound box. James Green & Co., apotheearies
22l Main street
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

Roman sashes, at greatly reduced prices, at
WEINBERG Bros, 357 Main ST.
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09
SueGfaI ,M0ttces .

Lewis q. Muzzy, ACCOUNTANT. 80 Account
Books opened closed written up corrected: Sets ar.
ranged TO record any business with accuracy and sim
plclty; Partnership. Corporation and Trust accounts
properly adjusted Residence and address No. 10 May
street, Worcester Mass
Worcester daily spy., 1872-11-09

MEDICINES FOR THE HORSE DIsEAsE.-Centaur
and other Hnimeats, Tinct Aconite, Tinct Ginger,
Gum Assaetida, Chloride of Lime, Copperas, and
other remedies for relieving and preventing the
prevailing horse disease, and sold by James Green
& Co., apothecaries, 221 Main street.