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New-York tribune., 1873-02-17

town the gift Of site for the town hail. valued at
800, but majority Of the Town Hal Committee iaVo'
n site at Southoid village valued nj $500
NEwTowH.-Tbe people OF Maspeth have organized an
Improvement Association, with the object o. opening
macadamzed paved avenue 60 feet wide from BrOOk
lyn T. d., 70 that village.
HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES
MAMARONECK.-At q meeting held here, on
Friday evening, committee OF 40 citizens ap-
pointed 70 examine the territory proposed to be included
within the incorporated limits, define the boundary
lines and obtain information in regard 10 the feasibility
and desrabillty OF securing an act OF incorporation
NEwBURGH-John Hyndman; labSTer' wac picked ,nI'Ie
mp the road two miles west Of this .y on saturday
night and soon died. IL If supposed that nc was run
by persons 10 carriage returning from race at
Orange Lake.
NEW-JERSEY.
JERSEY CITY.-A meeting Of taxpayers and
citizens was held here Saturday night to take action
in relation 10 the adoption OF measures to enforce tue
payment OF railroad property now exempt ny
legislative enactment. ExMayOr G. ID. Van keypen'
presided. The Committee appointed 10 interview lne
different railroad companies reported that lhe ETC
way was willing to enter into any arrangement WhIsh
would be satisfactory TO other companies put tnas tn
Delaware Laekawanna and Western had utterly refused
to make any compromise enter into any arrangement
to pay any percentage OF taxes discussion ehsuen e
be taken in the matter pending the passage
Of the bills now before the i@gsiattare; ta ;c1
dered his resignation which is now 10 the hanGs OF Gov
Parker awaiting acceptance Phlhp ANN s Was ru az
rested Saturday, and committed 10 the county jan,
charged with atrociOus assault ON james WELSH III
November 1874. Welsh was badly beaten that ms
life was despared OF for several days Canl ned put
returned, aud was captured and lodged IN hudso1
County Jail .J John Macdonald convict, who had
made his escape from the Hudson County JAIL was cap
tured at late hour on Friday night ana cohnheu ia nS
old quarters.
NEwARK.-The Krementz burglary, for which Hirsch
Harris has trlal during last week. continues 10
be an absorbing topic OF conversation The jury has
been out since O'Clock Saturday afternoon AZ noon
Yesterday they the Court and announced tnat
they had been unable TO agree upon verdict but Judge
Clifford said that in his opinion the ends OF Justice would
not be served by granting their application for dls-
charge He further said that the interests of the State
and Justice the prisoner demanded tha they SHOULD
speedily agree upon their verdict At o'clock they
again retired and o'clock last night were still out
It il the general belief that they will be unable 10 agree
upon verdict and will be discharged this morning
HoBoKEH-Charles Puhps butchershOp was destroyed
by fire at a late hour Friday night John NeWalIs
saloon adjoining was badly damaged Loss, $1,000; no
Insurance. The origin OF the fire is unknown. .Ine new
ferry boat seacaucus will be placed on the Barcayst
ferry, March /.
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A OBJECTIONABLE IMPROVEMENT

A well attended meeting OF citizens Of tho
wards in the iIDrneda vicinity OF Reservoir PARK
held on satSrday evening "a sixtbaye. and Forty
secoEdst TO protest against The contemplated destruc
tOp OF that Park by the building O for one OF
the city TegineDs Representatives present from
st. Lukes Methodist Church, 1T. lgnatus Church. the
West Presbyterian Church, the Church OF the Holy
Trinity, Iemple Emanuel, tho Harmony Cub, the
standard CuR AND other soeetos which VIII bc Affected
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by the building Committees were appor ated 20 obtain
the personal attendance tomorrow OF .he oeia bodies
of the several churches including tb' uasors and the
principal members OF the different ubs before the Com
mittcn OF Cities a Albany 90 pre- ent their views Tho
Board of Health Will also be wal ed ON TO obtain their
10 appear before Commit Cities with cmorIa
against the proposed budi AZ Another meeting will be
held this evening at the p .n,e place
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A yENGEFUL NEGRO.

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 16-Harvey johnson,
negro. while riding in Thrdst this afternoon was ac
cOsted by Archy johnson, also coored who asked
vey let him ride. The latter refusing, suddenly
seized by Archy who pulled hiu OF his horse and cut
him across the abdomen with knife, inhicting fear
fn, and probably fatal wound Archy fed, and has not
yet been arrested.
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WORTH SEEING.-The great variety of i'm
apparatus houses and property
from burglars eIhbos al the BagsI Alarm Telegraph once No
! MurfAy.st H. HOLAHs
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VHE best place in New York to buy reliable
Watches ane Dsmoods eh iashopabe Jewelry spd
Wedding Prsesu SQUIRE U Psossk DsnoDds a specially
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MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
MUSIC.
THE MILLS MATINEE.


oood ardience attended the matinee given
- "a, Nm. on saturday. at steinway Hall. There
- a,sapDointment at the absence OF Miss Antoinette
s,.,ins which became sincere regret when 1t was
.,noa that tins meritOrious artist is seriously ILL., The
..t Of the great combination were present. however
and tho concert was unusually enjoyable We sublon
,ee programme which Will show the exceptional eharac-
Ter Of the matinee;
L-OreUre-org'n Pct .ot Pes,sst ;
M.daSs Arr, B,SoD Msd.nA Ami, Kemp Bowler ,,,,
A. The Surr'' Up ar l. G. GcT;e5sii
IRveuihg CSorin
T,sssTrtc, Blue Dsnube vase .Mil
L, arranged BY MI Mills and perSomed oy l'H '0i 'Hs
Mr. s b Mills
a-Ad'''0' Madame Anna Bishop
A. ausncei by herself for soprano. -,
v,,scrs on The Csruvs Of Venice ,.'''''' .aeeendre'
Mr.. Rudolph DsrgeL -.
lsss'ed Ana I' TS's s.. S9SSn' JsSny Van Bo. A'''
a. Ave n,I1 ~ violin Solo With sHo and orss scccIpso%Sni
Aile. Bertha BTcusiL ,,.,,.,
S-''''0 N'''' NsisTs Ansie Kemp BoESI A..
81" Coed Night Beloved sT M J Hin
~ Midsummer Nights D,s,m' r Mn.
H-An' '''''''''''''''''N M. +. De- KorsSI
i~-''''O D'' MS b Mins ana M w.F Mills
e nlayinp Of Mr. Mills Of course the chief feature
nj tho and he has rarely shown greater power and
delicscy Mr. dc Korbay sang his Aria from Dohize'u
with singular grace and eloQucnce and made most fav
orabe npression upon audience which VIII oe gdo
70 know more Of him.
THE PHILHARMONIC.
The Fourth Concert of the season given by
t,e philharmonic socetycn Saturday was one strcuN
within the best traditions Of the Association Ihef'
were no socaled popular features IN II, no attempt
Pntrap tue general applause by any deviation IRON 'n
straight classical path The programme consisted o
eymphonv No s. in b. minor new, Gadei l. AHegr'
motto con fuocO; , Allegro moderate; s. Andautei
Fnale-A Allegro non trOppo Aria, from " The Creation
HAYDN Herr Carl SPccer. AdagiO, for the Niolonceo
Rarr,el Mr. Frederick Bergner Overture. CAMEL
A major (uew), Matzka. symphony No. s. III [ MINOR
Beethoven: l. Allegro con brio; D. Andante con lno'o
a Allegro: T. Finale-AlegrO.
Thr work ~ Gade elected the usual conventional ap
rroyal and the grand aria from the " Creation wa
s,ven hy MIR Spegier with admirable feehng andJuug
ueDt The overture Gailei" OF Matzka is spirited
niece fun Of animation and movement, and was excel
leptly rendered and received. The great attraction
the evening however, the always fresh and goriou
Rymphony OF Beethoven, which was performed, II pos
Eihle with more the socetys usual accuracy an
force The next rehearsal win be on the 2sth instant
when the symphony Of Haydn in G minor Oxford an
Isyt's symphony on the theme of Dantes D'e'Hd Co"
saodid will be performed.
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CHEMICAL FOOp.

Pom BHAS. NERVOUS SYSTEM. BLOOD. Wis.
cBE EEs BrPoPRosPHirss % LIsE AND soDA. Try IT,
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RoUGn, ,WMTRY, CHANGEABLE WEATHER PRO-
Lose DISORDERS DR. JArsHs
EIprcroRAsr As PaosprIr CURES
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Fair ladies and good sirs since lfst his flay
Nas acted this stsge has passed away
lis noble author from the gaze Of men
No more alas 70 WELD bis faciie pen
IH KBebwoItb's ancient Park. across the sea,
Lord LyttOn sleeps; but not bis witcbeN.
The DTamatiyi, ROmaBcer, Poet. stD
Can toncb the heart and capuyste the viii;
For lanreled cenins bas the power 20 brave
Deaths fell advance and hves beyond the grave
Bear witness this grand audience clustered Le.ei
leur plsudiis cannot reach dead Bytton's ear,
But 10 more sweet hbsuou can vou IoGr
To Lytton's memory, On tins distant shore,
Than your prolonged applause which nov JToe'a.ns
Though the gr'at authors gone ls fame ItuaiLs."
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LONG ISLAND.

LITTLE NECK.-Nothing has yet occurred
shedding the slightest light upon the murder OF Graham
The officers have followed several supposed clues unsat
siactorily, and the problem az 10 who committed the
crime Is apparently far at first from solution The
brothers McCreary aud James Mcconnell were released
bail In t200O each Saturday Justice Provost be
coming bondsman for the FORMER and Michael DAILY and
John Iace for Mcconnell.
soUTDoLD.-The people Of Groonport have offered this
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town the gift Of site for the new town ha valued az
81 500 but majority Of the Town Hall Committee faVOr
a site at SouthOd village valued at $500
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NEwTowH.-Tbe people Of Maspeh have organized an
Improvement Association with the object o. opening n
maeadanzed paved avenue 60 feet wide from Brook
lyn T. d., 10 that village.
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TBE WANDERING STARS.

Miss CaTIOtta Leelercq lately acted at the
Academy Of Music, Chicago. Mr. Lester Walsek has
IerD acting at Providence. Jefferson played In
Wilmington Del, on the stb inst. Mr. and Mrs Bonc
sault are in g. Louis MI DAILY has sent troop OF
players into NewEngland, with Alike" Mile Aimee
.zbg recently IN Louisville Miss Lydia Thompson s
acting there Mise Maggie Mitchell will appear
sIa BOst0n TheAter on the 10th of April 80. Misc
easussa L. DaTFop sepeAFea III eAH Lake CITY On the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-09-04
The Mammoth Religion of. the World.


The tourist, roaming over the sunny
lands of the east. cannot but gaze with
admiring wonder on the gorgeous tenn
pie ediices that everywhere meet the
eye. Even amid the superlative rich
ness of tropical scenery they stand con.
spicuous, their slender, gilded spires
towering upward, often hundreds of
feet, till they seem lost in the blue
ether; their tinted tiles of green and
gold, rejecting as by a prism all the
colors of the rainbow; and their
myriads of tiny, tinkling bells, pendant
from every turret and gable of the
vaulted roof, breathing out sweet music
at each touch of the passing breeze
Nowhere else, not even on their own
magnificent palaces, or the gorgeous
abodes of their kings, do Orientals so
lavish time and money. taste and skill.
as on the temples of their gods. Amid
the wealth of luxuriance the Divine
Creator has scattered SO plenteously
around, these seem in perfect accord.
monuments of a devotion and self
sacrifice that challenge our admiration.
even while awakening pity for a zeal so
sadly misplaced. Never were devotees
of any creed or faith so fast bound in
its thraldom as are these dicipIes of
Buddh or Gaudama while this mann.
moth religion numbers as its votaries
more than $50, 600, 900 of human be-
ings, or nearly half the population of
our globe For $500 years it has been
the established religion of Burmab.
Siam, Laos, Pegu, Cambodia, Thibet.
Japan, Tartary, Ceylon, the Loo-Choo
and many neighboring islands, besides
about two-thirds of China and a large
portion of Siberia and, at the present
day, no inconsiderable number of the
simple peasantry of Swedish Lapland
are found among its firm adherents.
Buddhism, in its pure form, undoubted-
ly had its origin in Hindostan, where
its founder was born; and thence, by
the almost superhuman efforts of its
priests and devotees, it was scattered
far and wide all through eastern, mid
die and southern Asia. When Moban-
mechanism was first introduced into
Java, the people were all Buddlists.
and they chung to their established reIi-
glon with tenacity that even the fire
and sword of the false prophet we're in
many cases incapable of subduing. In
Hindostan, within a few centuries after
the death of Gaudama, we find the
Brahmins fiercely prosecuting the
Buddists, and, ultimately, expelling
them from the country; yet to this
day, despite the deadly malignity of
Brahmins, the persistent warefare waged
against Buddhism by Mohammedans.
and the combined prayers and efforts of
all Christendom, no decisive victory has
been achieved over this mighty host.
Some thousands have been converted to
Christianity, but the loss is made good
by births from year to year; though it
is true that, as western civilization pro-
crosses, the highest class, and in MANY
cases even the priests themselves. are
losing their hold on the doctrines of
Buddhism, and modifying their temple
worship by some admixture of Occiden-
dental if not Christian observances.
GALAXY.
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From the Yellowstone.

The water dipped Immediately from
the river was about the consistency of
cream 1t was the dryest water I ever
saw. This did not prevent the soldiers
from drinking it plentifully, and filing
their canteens to the brim. Necessity
is the mother of submission as well as
of invention. It is singular how an
army life gradually modifies civil whims
and caprices. 1t is very natural no.
ton of a city resident that water taken
as water must look clear. A slight
tinge of earthly matter in the New
Workers. daily croton would occasion
complaint. Such proportion of liquid
mud as we have had to swallow for the
past month would create an absolute
panic. Change the conditions sufficient
ly, however, and your New Yorker,
even the most exact critic who rejects
the glass for the dust speck that floats
on the surface must succumb. Clearness
is no test for wator in this latitude. 1
have seen water in certain ATTITUDES here
as clear as a bell. To all appearances
it was as good as could be found any
where but should have less fear of
the consequences from drinking q half
dozen glasses from the earthly Missouri
than of drinking this plausible, clari-
fed soap-suds. OF all the water we
find here the alkaline is the worst. One
of the expedients for correcting or i'm
proving the bad water is the addition
of a little citric acid, which makes,
with sugar, pleasant lemonade. A lit
tie soda added afterward makes a
pleasant efervescent drink.-Cor. N.
Y. Tribune.
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fers, as we have already observed, to
this remarkable class of facts at all,
only pointing out that the obvious pre-
ference for gayly-colored plumage on
the part of the females clearly implies
a genuine taste for the beautiful in
birds, which is, of course, true, but is
not nearly as good evidence of a dis
tinct intellectual development of this
point, as the elaborate decoration of
their bowers by birds for festive pur-
poses. The mere preference of CAV
colors may be unconscious and purely
instructive, but when a bird looks ont
for bleaehed land shells and tail grasses
to ornament its reception-room, and
fetches round stones to q fix the grasses
IN their proper place, and then uses. the
hall thus provided only for festive So
elal purposes, You can hardly deny such
birds either the powers or the tastes of
landscape gardeners and ball givers.
And we fancy this kind of deliberate
taste for the beautiful, and the beauti-
full in subordination to social purposes.
IS confined among the lower animals to
birds and, as regards the social pur-
pose, to very few order of birds. A
great many birds seem to have more an
probation of beauty of color than
almost any other class Of animals. but
only in a few species has it risen to the
point of really decorative social art
We may gather from this that in the
bird the perception of harmony is of a
very high kind, and this evidently ap-
plies to sound as well as color. No
creatures utter sounds so full of beauty
or display such wonderful qualifications
for initiating the beautiful sounds thev
hear. Must we not say, then, that the
bird has, in more force than any other
species Of the lower animals. the per
cePtion of harmony in forms, coIors.
and sounds, and the further conscious
ness of the fascination such harmony
has for its own species, and the en-
haneement it lends to social endowment.
London Spectator.
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RICHES AND Power TY.-There is
great difference between having poison
and being poisoned. All apothecaries
almost have poison use upon divers oc-
casions ; but yet they are not poisoned,
because they have not poison in their
bodies, but in their shops so thou
mayest have riches without being poi
soned by them, if thou keep them in
thy parse, or in thy house, and not in
thy heart. To be rich in effect and poor
in affection is the greatest happiness of
a Christian; for he hath by that means
the commodity of riches for this
world, and the merit of poverty for the
world to come. If thou desire ardentlv
and solicitously the riches which thou
has not, it is not folly to say that
thou wouldst not have them uniusbly ::
for thou dost not cease to be covetous
for all that. If thou affect much the
goods which thou hast, if thou be much
troubled about them, setting thy heart
and thoughts upon them, and fearing
with vexing and impatient fear to lose
them, believe me, thou hast also some
kind of fever. 1t is impossible to take
great pleasure in anything, without set
ting our affection too much upon it.
De Sales.
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love Of the Beautiful Among Binds


The Popular Science Review for July
contains some interesting but too brief
remarks by Mr.. Leith Adams on the
" Mental Powers of Birds which it
is interesting to define specifically as dis
tinguished from the mental powers of
other animals of the higher order of
sagacity. This we will briefly do.
First, it would appear from Mr.. Oar
wins discussions, though Mr.. Leith
Adams hardly refers to them, that none
of the lower orders of creatures have SO
keen an appreciation of beauty as many
kinds Of birds, and certainly that none
turn this taste for beauty so deliberate
~ to the purpose of social amusement.
That great naturalist has described how
some kinds of birds really celebrate
festivities very closely approaching to
our wedding Jetes, balls, and garden
parties, in places carefully decorated
and arranged by the birds for the pur-
pose Of social gatherings, and which
are not used for their actual DWELLING
places. " The best evidence" saws Mr..
Darwin, of a taste for the beautiful. 4" is
afforded by three genera of Australian
bower-birds. Their boUyars
where the sexes congregate and play
strange antics " (at all stranger than
our waltzes and quadrilles p "are differ
emily constructed but what most con-
Germs us is that they are decorated in a
different manner by the different spe-
cies. The satin bower-bird collects
gayly-colOred articles, such as the blue
tail-feathers of parrakets, bleached
bones and shells, which it sticks be-
tween the twigs, or arranges at the en-
trance. Mr.. Gould found one bower a
neatly-worked stone tomahawk, and a
slip of blue cotton. evidently procured
from a native encampment. These OBJ
jects are continually rearranged, and
carried about by the birds while at play.
The bower of the spotted bower-bird is
beautifully lined with tall grasses, so
disposed that the heads nearly meet.
and the decorations are very profuse.
Round stones are used to keep the
grass-stems in their proper places, and
to make divergent paths leading to the
bower. The stones and shells are often
brought from a great distance. The re-
gent-bird, as described by Mr.. Ramsey,
ornaments its short bower with bleached
land-shells belonging to five or six spe-
cies, and with berries of various colors,
blue, red, and black, which give 1t,
when fresh, very pretty appearance.
Besides these, there we're several new
ly-picked leaves and young shoots Of a
pinkish color, the whole showing a de
cided taste for the beautiful Well
may Mr.. Gould say, These highly-de-
corsted halls Of assembly must be re-
garded as the most wonderful instances
OF birds architecture yet discovered !; ,
and the taste, we see, Of the several
species certainly differs" You could
not have distineter evidence in a lady's
salon carefully decorated with flowers,
either of her taste for the beautiful, or
of the deliberate subordination of that
taste TO social purposes, than we have
here Of the same qualities in birds. Mr..
Leith Adams in his paper hardly re-
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Old hickory not a oOurteOr.

Ibwas like Jefferson, when he had won
Louisiana, to think first of Offering the
governorship to Lafayette. It had to re-
main thought only. Upon reconside-
ring the situation, he deemed it best not
to crafty a sentiment by an act which
might be construed as a reflection upon
the seller. Andrew Jackson, who was
then getting tired of serving as Judge of
the supreme court of Tennessee, was
strongly urged for the place and, be-
cause he had been urged, and, because
he would have liked the appointment, he
refrained from calling upon the Presi-
dent when he was in Washington in
April, 1904. So gathered in Nashville
from yellow and musty letter of the
learned judge, which was, perhaps, the
worst spelled and most ungrammaticaI
letter judge of a supreme court ever
wrote. He said that if he should call
upon the President, it would be regard
ed as 'the act of a eourteor''; and. there
fore, he "traviled on, enjoying his own
feelings" He confessed, too, that the
governor of Louisiana ought to be ac-
quainted with the French language.
People can forgive bad spelling when it
expresses sentiments so honorable and
happy the president when the expectants
of office behave in so considerate a man
ner.-,J0n1es Parton
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A Very Bad Bow

Max Ade1er mentions a report that
the chief astronomer at the Washington
observatory was dreadfully sold a few
days ago. A wicked boy, whose Sunday
school experience seems only to have
made him more depraved, caught FIRE
fly and stuck it, with the aid of some
mucilage, in the center of the largest
lens in the telescope. That night, when
the astronomer went to work, he per
ceived a blaze of light apparently in the
heavens, and, what amazed him more
was, that it would give couple Of
spurts and then die out, only to burst
forth again in a second or two. He ex-
amined it carefully for few moments.
and then he began to do sums to dis
cover where in the heavens that extra
ordinary star was placed. He thought
he found the locality, and the next
morning he telegraphed all over the
universe that he had discovered a new
and remarkable star of the third maCni-
tude in Orion. In day or two all the
astronomers in Europe and America
were studying Orion, and they gazed at
1t for hours until they were mad, and
then they began to telegraph to the
man IN Washington to know what he
meant. The discoverer took another
look, and found that the new star had
moved about eighteen billions miles IN
twenty-four hours. and upon exaning it
closely he was alarmed to perceive that
it had legs. When he went on the
dome next morning to polish up his
glass he found the lightning bug. Peo-
pie down at Alexandria, seven miles
distant, heard part of the swearing, and
they say he infused into it much whole
souled sincerity and vigorous energy.
The bills for telegraphic dispatches
amounted to 81, ZOO. and nov the as
tronomer wants to find that boy. He
wishes TO consult with him about some
thing.