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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-13
A CHURCH BURNED.
The Beautiful Edifce, Church OF the
Ascension, Baltimore, Destroyed by

BALTIMORE, May IL, 1873.
Ascension protestant Episcopal church, Rev.
J. L. Cathell rector, one OF the finest edifces In
this city, corner Of Lafayette avenue and Oregon
street. was burned tonight by fire which origi-
mated at about halfpast eight O'Clock from the gas
lights in the roof There was no one in the build
ing at the time, and before the flames could be sub
GGed they left nothing standing but the marble
walls OF the church. The loss Il $4,000, on which
there IL an insurance Of $4,000 In Baltimore
panies. The magnificent furniture OF the interior
was entirely destroyed. The church has been built
only four wears.
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The Assistant Aldcrmen-The Annexa.
ton of Wcstchcster-The Alleged Per-
init Frauds and EOrgeries.

session Of the Board OF Assistant Aldermen was
held yesterday, when a resolution was offered by
Mr.. Haley TO appoint committee OF three from
each branch OF the Common Council to investigate
the alleged frauds in the matter OF forging the
names oil Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen to APP
pcations for permits for signs, DC, was unan-
mousy adopted. The resolution OF the Board OF
Aldermen approving OF the bill to annex certain
towns in Westminster county to New York, and
asking the Governor TO sign IL, was referred TO the
Committee on Law. Messrs. Haley. Coddington
and Simonson were appointed as the committee TO
investigate the permit frauds.
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HARTFORD, Conn., May II, 1873.
In the United States District Court, held BY
adjournment in New Haven to-day, the death OF
Ckici JusI,ce Chhse Wa ann00nScU ss'f-t-
win, Esq, acting District Attorney, who spoke
briefly In eulogy Of the deceased.
Judge Nathaniel Shipman also, In q few remarks,
paid an appropriate tribute to Mr. Chase, and the
Court was adjourned out OF respect TO his memoTfs
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THE DELAWARE YACHT CLUB REGATTA.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. May II, Isl

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May H. 1873
The regatta of the Delaware River Yacht'Club
will take place next Monday, the course extending
from shackamaxon street wharf to the Block
House and return. The signal will be given az ten
O'Clock Forty-three yachts thus far have been
registered and more are expected.
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b. the various scientific societies that united
IN an application p e the British soysrnms9t
Is:s. i the right diresten and mat the summer Of
1871, when he sailed for Smiths Sound OF the
most unfayorable seasons that have been known
years Still the severe Winter that followed and the
severity OF the present Winter naturally ma
anxious mis- vessel was not specially built for
vice In these Northern regions and provsoned only
for the 1873; and It IL very much to be regretted
that the British government, which has achieved SO
% the call made upon it. Chief Justice DAILY has already
research. He will prepare paper Tor the special
me
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Clark & Grinstead, br. c. "

Zadoc ran or with his rider at a false start and
could not be brought up till he had finished his
second mile. he was again brought out for q start
and ran OFT a second time and ran mile Veto
rine threw her rider before the first quarter was
reached in the last heat, and was consequently
distanced
The second race. the Phoenix Hotel Stakes FOR
three-year-ods. one ana one-quarter miles dash,
$50 each. play or pay, $3.50 added with the follow
ing starters, and came home in the order namcd:-
McGrath's Artist, Keene's Disney Wither's stan
ford. Time 2:12L.
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ST. LOUIS NO. May II 1913.
The Bench and Bar of this city held meeting
to-day and adopted resolutions OF respect to the
memory OF Chief Justice Chase.
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LEXIE aTON RACES.
Opening Day of the Spring Meeting Of
the Kentucky Association.

LEXINGTON, May IL, 1875
The Spring meeting OF the Kentucky Association
opened to-day with large attendance, fine weather
and the track in good order, but not fast trottng
In the first race, the McGrath Produce Stakes for
tEree-y ods, mile heats $50 each, pay play,
$3.50 added by A. p. McGrath there were five horses
started, VIZ. :-McGrath's Tabitha Bears. Fanny e.
Clark and Crihstead's Wayerlcy, Buford's Zadoc
and Viley's Nictorine.
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vantage OF these harD0rs ana remain until after
next Winter. returning the ensuing Summer.
The Captain here relapsed int silence and the
reporter withdrew.
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Bringing Home the Survivors.
WASHINGTON, May IL, 1873.
The Secretary OF the Navy has telegraphed to the
The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-07-19
Counting a Hundred.

A Danbuly man named Reubens recent
ly saw a statement that counting one hun
bred when tempted to speak an angry word
would save man great deal of trouble.
This statement sounded a little singular at
first, but the more he read it over the more
favorably he became impressed with it, and
finally concluded to adopt it. Next door to
Reubens lives man who has made five dis
tinct attempts to secure a dinner of green
peas by the 1st Of July, and every time has
been retarded by Reubens' hens. The next
morning after Reubens made his resolution
this man found his fifth attempt to have mis-
carried. Then he called on Reubens He
said:
what in thunder do you mean by letting
your hens tear up my garden?"
Reubens was prompted to call him mud
snoot new name just coming into general
use, but he remembered his resolution, put
down his rage and meekly observed
"One. two, three, four, five, six, seven
eight"
Then the mad neighbor, who had been
cycling this answer with great deal of sus-
picion, broke in again,
why don't you answer my question
you rascal ?"
But still Reubens maintained his equa-
nimity, and went on with the text:
mime, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four
teen, fifteen, sixteen" .,....
The mad neghbor stared harder than ever
Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
twenty-one-"
You are a mean skunk" said the mad
neighbor, backing toward the fence
Reubens face flushed at this charge, but
he only said
twenty-five, twenty-three, twenty-four
twenty-five, twenty-six-"
At this figure the neighbor got up on the
feIce in some haste, but suddenly thinking
of his peas, he opened his mouth
e" You mean. low-lived rascal for two
cents would knock your cracked head over
barn, and would"
Twenty-seven, twenty eight" interrupt.
ed Reubens, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty
one, thirty two, thirty-three
Here the neighbor broke for the house
and entering it, violently slammed the door
behind him but Reubens did not dare let
up on the enumeration, and so he stood out
there alone in his own yard, and kept on
counting, while his burning cheeks and fash
ing eyes eloquently affirmed his judgment
When he got up into the eighties his wife
came to the door in some alarm.
Why, Reubens, man, what is the matter
with your" she said. ado come into the
house"
But he didn't let up. She came out to
him, and chung trembling to him, but he only
looked into her eyes, and said :.
Ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-fve
ninety-six, ninety seven, ninety ninety
nine, one hundred-go into the house, old
woman, or I'll bust ye.'
And she went-Danburu Ne1cs.
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Termini Troubles.

When we were all snugly tucked up in
our berths in the gaily- decorated sleeping
saloon, one of the new corners began dream
lily to tell stories of termini troubles. Mot
much as when it was when we were here and
at Muskogee in 1870" he said. "Three
men were shot about twenty feet from this
same car, in one night, at Muskogee. O.!
this was little HE'LL this was The roughs
took possession here in earnest. The keno
and monte players had any quantity of tents
all about this section, and life was the most
uncertain thing to keep you ever saw. One
night man lost all he had at keno so he
went around behind the tent and tried to
shoot the keno-dealer in the back he miss
ed him, but killed another man. The keno
man just got a; board and put it up behind
himself, and the game went on. One day
one of the roughs took offense at something
the railroad folks said, SO he ran our train
OF the track next morning. There was no
law here, and no means of getting any. AS
fast as the railroad moved on, the roughs
pulled up stakes and moved with. We
tried to scare them away, but they didn't
scare worth cent. 1t was next to impos-
sble for a stranger to walk through one of
The graveyards were sometimes better pop
ulated than the towns next them. The fell
lows who ruled these little terrestrial hels
where they came from nobody knows.
Never had any homes-grew up like prairie
grass, only ranker and coarser and meaner
They had all been terminuses ever since
they could remember. Most of them had
two, three and four murders on their hands,
and confessed them. They openly defed
the Indian authorities, and scorned Uncle
Sam and his marshals. They knew there
was money wherever the end of the road
was, and they meant to have it"
But how long did this condition of af-
fairs continue p"
1T went on steadily until the Secretary
of the Interior came down to see the Terri
tory and to examine the railroads. He
went down in this same car, and he was
carefully informed of the lawlessness and
fragrant outrages which decent people had
been obliged to submit to. One night while
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they were on the road, the superintendent
ln-chief pushed on little ahead of the train
to get a physician, as a gentleman in the
special car was taken suddenly i'll. The
roughs captured the superintendent and pro-
posed to shoot him, as they fancied him
some local emissary of the general govern
ment He begged off. however, and ex-
planned who he was. They hardly dared to
shoot him then; so he succeeded in getting
physician, got back to the train, and next
day he took the Secretary of the Interior to
inspect this choice specimen of railroad CIV
ilization." ~
"And what did the Secretary see?
&C, all the ruffians focked to hear what
he had to say. They had killed man that
morning for mere caprice, and he was laid
out in little tent which the party passed
by as they looked around. One after an
other of the rough fellows was presented to
the party; and each one spoke very plainly,
and said he had good right to stay in the
Nation and he meant with an OATH to
stay, and he'd like to hear any one hint that
he had better go away. Then they told
stories of their murderous exploits, practiced
at marks with their revolvers, and seemed
not to have the least fear of the Secretary"
What was the result?"
Well, the Secretary of the Interior took
Decline for the nearest telegraph station,
and sent dispatch to General Grant, an
nouncing that neither life nor property was
safe in the Territory, and that the Indians
should be aided in expelling the roughs from
their midst. So, in short time the Tenth
Cavalry went into active service in the Ter
ritorv"
Did the ruffians make any resistance? 2"
"They got together, at the terminus,
armed to the teeth, and clustered a good
deal 8; but the cavalry men arrested one after
another, and examined each man separately.
When one Of the terminuses was asked his
name, he usually answered that it was Slim
Jim, or Wild Bill, or Lone Jack with an
OATH, and that he was gambler, or a
FOUNDER, as the case might be, and, further
more, that he didn't intend to leave the
Territory. Whereupon the officer command
ing would say: Well, Slim Jim, or Wild
Bill, or Lone Jack, I'll give you twelve
hours to leave this town in, and if you are
found in the Territory week from this
date, I'll have you shotp And they took
the hint"
Where are these men now?"
"Some of them are at Denison, at the end
of this road. They are secure enough there,
because when they are pursued on crimi-
nal process, they are only four miles from the
Red River, and they can escape into the
Territory, beyond the reach of United States
law, and recross the frontier in some other
direction. You will see them at Denison.
Goodnight"
A moment afterwards, the voice added:
by the way, at the next station, Musko-
gee, a man was shot before the town got
there and the graveyard was started before
a single street was laid out. You can see
the graveyard now-a-days-eleven men are
buried there with their boots on Good
night, again. y" The Great South" in
Scribner's for July.
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Binding Wheat .

binding wheat and singing low,
watching where the reapers go;
watching where amidst the rest
otrong arms folded on his breast
Stands the noblest ofthem all,
stands the stalwart youth and tall,
Stands the hamlet's greatest pride,
stands the reaper eagle-eyed.
Watching, singing soft and low,
binding sheaves with cheeks aglow;
Where in all the country old
Are locks that burn to deeper gold
brown locks that gather sun and shade
Beneath the pointed mat of braid
And where in all the countryside
Could reaper find sun-browned bride
With daintier curve of lip or chin,
Or purer heart to give to him.
II, knee'ing by the sheaf she bound
With tardy hand, her eye hath found
Some hazy hilltop distant far,
VI glimmer of the first dim star;
II, drifting on the tide of thought
She dreams. and hath all else forgot,
Who wonders that across the grain
A hgure turning, halts again
A st.lwart figure broad and tall
With manly bearing over all
What wonder that his kindling eve
Sees not the brown thrush futtering by.
Sees not the thousand forms of grace.
Bees nothing but the sun Drowned face.
-Phila. Sat. Ere. Post.
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loving heart and a pleasant counte-
nance are commodities which man
should never fail to take home with him.
They will best season his food and soften
his pillow. 1t were great thing for a
man that his wife and children could
truly say of him, "He never brought a
frown or unhappiness across his thresh-
old"
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JACK IN PoRT-Probaby those who
most thoroughly comprehend his nature are
the clearinghouse keepers, who, however
desperate on occasion, invariably try to ca
jole before they venture to force. As soon
as ship arrives in the lower bay the tout
ers of these worst of men board her, if, I'M
der the new shipping law, they can evade
the deputy commissioners, and stealing into
the forecastle, demand the sailor to tell
where he intends to lodge while in port A
burly confederate stands near the touter
and if ready answer is refused the sailor
receives an unexpected and stunning blow
in the face. When he RECEIVERS he finds the
principal demonstrating with the confederate
for his brutal interference, and, appreciative
of the timely sympathy, Jack surrenders
himself to the tender mercies of the wolf
one of his best qualities thus becoming a
means OF his own destruction. Perhaps be-
fore the ship is fairly moored he is enticed
ashore, and driven to one of the gloomy
dens in Cherry, Water, or Roosevelt Street
where he has no more hope than a school.
boy in gambling house. His stay in port
may be week or month, according to the
amount of wages due to him ; but his treat
ment will be the same as long as his money
lasts, and when it has gone he will as surely
be cast adrift. Formerly he seldom touch
ed his own pay. The boarding house keep
er made trihing advance when the sailor
landed, and as seven or ten days elapsed be-
| fore the ship owners paid off their crews, a
heavy bill against him for food, lodgings
and raiment had been run up. The money
accruing, therefore, from winter voyage
around the Horn or across the Atlantic fell
by power of attorney, or less legal instru-
ment, into the hands of the boarding house
keeper. If the bill represented a larger
amount than the wages, Jack was shipped
off at once, an advance note, payable sever
al days after the sailing, having also been
extorted from him. At present, under the
benefcent shipping act, the sailor is paid in
person before the Commissioner at the end
of his voyage, and the clearinghouse keep
er can fleece him no more directly than by
extortionate charges. But that our seamen
are Internationally bled in clearinghouse
is not the most telling charge that can be
brought against these wicked institutions.
More vital Importance attaches to the fact
that sailor within their doors is far remov.
ed from every agency of physical and spirit
| ual good, and that with each successive voy-
age he becomes less able to perform his du-
ties on shipboard. more nervous in the per-
ilous moments when life and treasure de-
pend upon his courage, and further behind
the comprehension Of the many recent sci
entifc discoveries tending to simplify ocean
navigation.-Hdrpers Magazine for JUN.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-16
Delegates
Horror After Horror.

Tos Dixon hsrror, Of which mention is made
in .he n LEI 0 d dispatches on the hrs! page
also a full graphic account, has been rightly
termed "wholssals murder" The Truesdsll
bridges have been repeatedly condemned, but
still the Company persist in bsalding them
Why should not the builders MS we'll as the
authorities who awarded them tho contract, be
hsld esponsible for murder
Following this terrible calamity is now com
ing the siekssing details from Halifax Of a
collisry explosion on Tuesday, in which so
are known 10 have lost their lives. The fire
caught from flask of gunpOwder aud tho men
remained to put il out, when an explosion Of
the gases took place and all in tie pit are sup
posed to have bson. instantly killed. The Gre
continues to rage and in one Of the frequent
explosions that have been following at inter
rats, one man was thrown from the PIT to the
iSght Of 100 feet and landed in the woods near
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-16
One of The Remedies.

is one Of the most encouraging signs that
mea Of well knswn abilities and The highest
ehuA,ter speak In plain terms OF the great
rolitieal questions Of our times and endeaVBr
10 direct the public mind towards remedy
for The po-tsntisus evils which are destroying
tho life Of republican institutions.
A week ago last Sunday President WooLsEY,
" Yale sSlsGs, opened the forty anni-
rvrJary Of the American Homl Missionary
Society with q sermon at the Tabernacle in NeW
York. A brief report Of his discourse appears
~ the columns Of the NsW York Tribune. His
1xt vas the words, "Yea, woe is unto me II !
r,rsGch Eoi tho gospel" and he appealed for
berAi aid to home missions, especially with O
,isw 10 the PRONUNCIATION of the gospel among
tte ssttlsrs and pioneers Of tho western from
tiers. But hs felt how formal and hollow
that Christianity must bo which shrink from
,scognitisn OF II Aagrant evils prevalent in
Lish places, and he urged the increase sf mis-
lannary labor IN tue west, especially on tbs
ground that 10 SOW the seed Of sound prinei.
Mes in the new settlements would be ono Of the
hast usAns Of thEIriiug national corruption
Hs said.
Failing To do such a work would be woe
10 dat the SuTsst msthOd Of thwarting national
eoIr1puon would thus be Ignored Daring
ihs war there was sueh eaTAsstaess, and PRAYER
sod lrroism that the whsle na,inu was iftst
10 lngher tone, and il seemed as II. will
riory, a nubls career was spsn to the land
i;nin nov, that twice the years Of the war had
pnss-d. there was suoh corruption us had Rsvsi
ivrn s.sn iD the nations history. Corruptini
II puhe 0t3elals; corruption in the part,
-v'c Was tn, iasst in lnyalty during tls war
NIliauev for pa'ty eads With men Of known wan
Df principle q EsyeFish thirst for speculation
an era Of slinsj a weakRAi0g of family feslinl
and parity thSss things were most smnnus
aud especially siaee they we're denorRliEing II
tLsli .I9uEI,s 90 the best Of msn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-16
Tho B@sci Railroad Law ProneuT ced
Unconstitutional

In the Supreme Court on Tuesdey two cases
which invel,o the constitullonally Of the
Beesel railroad law, we're decided, the ful
constitutional, thus utterly nullifymg all its
Provisions, leaving ,be eutire lebor opd expense
Of building railroads for several months past,
by this process, To be charged to pr ct auA
loss. Chit Justice Wurr held as follows
First Taxation can only be authorized for
public purposes; whore, therefore, statute
authorizes county, township or municipality
h levy taxes not absvs given per cent, on the
taxable property Of the locally for the purpose
Of building 30 much bf n railroad as can DO
built Tor that amount, aud the part Of railroad
so to be built can be OF no public utility unless
sssd to accomplish an Unconstitutional purpose,
such tax is illegal, aud cannot be imposed.
Second Section 6, Art. s, Of the Constitution
declares that the General Assembly shall never
authorize any county, city, town or township,
by vote OF its eilizcns or otherwise, 10 become a
stakeholder in any joint stock company corpor-
alton or association whatever, or tn raise msnsy
fer or loan its credit to or in aid of any such
company, corporation or association. What
the General Assembly Is thus prohibited FRI m
doing directly 1t has no power to do indirectly,
When public credit or money Is furnished by
any Of the subdivisions Of the State named, to
be used in part for the construction Of work
| which, under the statute authorizing its cen.
struction can only be completed, il completed
at all, by other parties out of their own means,
who are TO eva or to have the beneficial control
| and management OF thO work when completed,
| the public money credit thus used can on
be regarded as furnished for or in aid Of such
| parties.
Tbird-Ths act OF April 20, 1872, 10 author.
ixo counties, townships and municipalities
therein named to build railroads, etc. 200, H.,
si) authorizes the raising Of money by taxation
which is equally applicable to the unlawfu
purpose Of aiding railroad companies, aud Others
engaged in building aad operating railroads
as 1t is 10 any lawful purpose, and gives to th'
officers intrusted the control aud application o
money thus raised, no means or power o
discrimination as to the lawfulness or unlaw
| fulness the work or purpose to which II Is Il
be applied, and is thus in contrnventon of Sec
S, Art. S, OF the Constitution, aud is therefore
/ void,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-16
For Board Of Pnhlic MOrks.

The name of GEoR0E W. REYNOLDS, Esq.
OF our neghboring Village acrass the river, !.
being prominently mentioned by his friends III
t4s Northwest for place on the Republican
Stats ticket rs candidate far Member Of the
Board Of Public Works. As large per cent
of the public works are located in this section
sf the State. the Northwest have just claims tC
a repre- sentative, and there are probably nsne
more csnversant and better qualified to dis
charge the dutiss of that eiiice than Mr.. RRY
HoLDs. We should be pleased, therefore. tt
see the delegates from the Northwest press
their claims upon tho consideration OF thC
Z Conyentien.