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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-07
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 1873
Mr.. CRrrcHER. dem) Of Va, introduced a bill to re-
the political disabilities Of Robert NJ Hunter ~
Virginia.
On motion OF Mr. YOUNG mem) OF Ca, the Senate
amendment TO the bill spproprating SliOOOo for gov
eminent building at Atlanta Ga, was taken up and CON
Cured in.
Mr.. BUTLER, rep) Of Mass, from the conference com.
mittee the bill 10 amend
THE BANKRUPTCY LAW
made report agreeing to the Senate bill with n few
verbal amendments The report was adopted
Mr.. scouELp, rep) of Pa, from the conference COM
mitee on the bill for the construction OF steam sloopsof
war, made report agreeing construction of eight
such yesse at cost not exceeding ssaOoo The report
Mr. HNsLroS; ucpJ Of Mo-, from the Election Com
mittee, reported . resolution 10 pay o. o. Bowen the
contestant OF the scat OF Mr. DE Large from south caro-
lima both having been excluded from the seat 800
Mr. RAMsY, gepl OF South Carolina moved 10 Increase
The amount ~ tx31h
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nswer them, and made the sign Of the cross per-
~ ny IN ms forehead and breast. While he was
engaoa sSss moments the Most Rev. Archbishop
death, and during the elevation or memento' tns
HU h =, sns ayng man had e It's earthly
time beinr IN me rev Father Kearney at the same
ing. He died without ANY annarent ssrv~~,e
rnbed e tn a1S MS CORPSE last evening
clasped upon the breast in the centrs Of ,Sa hac
paror OF the pastoral residence OF the cstSanra
parish looked calm and lfe-like as when ylyiaed
The sisters OF Charity have been consts, inn. :.
care OF the Very Rev. DR.. STAIRS during the S y,
period OF his nlness, and give as their opinion tSst
fatiguing nature Of his daily duties which. heinz
9ischarged with scrupul0us exactness, Rendered.
nun gradually more and more PROSTATE. 'Dr.
O'Rourke attended him nom the outset and In
deed, has been his constant physician during some
years past. His disease, he says was not Of anv
eHt was SIMPLY
sultation was held by him with Drs. Wood ana
clark, and careful examination OF his condition
was was made. Tney could come to no other conciu-
SION regarding 1t than that given above
Inc body viii lay In state to-day and until Sum-
Gay afternoon Ia the pastoral residence of the
wa %. iI NO. 28S Mulberry street, where the
many riendS and admirers Of the good priest will
DC allowed to take their last look at his BODY On
Suhday afternoon the corpse win be transferred Ia
the the tme 1T cnarca where It will remain until
day afternoon the Office of the dead win be chanted
by the clergy ut Jour O'Clock.
On MONDAY morning at halfpast ten O'Clock, q
departed soul, at which the Archbishop viii be
present In his Ponttfcal capacity.
me Right Rev. Bishop LOughlln, OF Brooklyn, win
preach the Iunera Grafton over the body OF the de-
ceased. Delegations from the numerous Charitable
and benevolent societies will be present to all Of
whom, as well as to the whole Catholic population
or New York the Very Rev. Vicar General Starrs
was an object OF love and esteem, and to whom his
death Is consequently source Of sad regret.
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THE WILSON COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. @, 1878.
The Wilson Committee met this morning

WASHINGTON, Feb @ 1878.
The Wilson Committee met this morning.
eas %siit
held few days some Sra Q, IN $50
Eastern vision Of the road but was alter he lei
to him he %'e disposed 90 w': II H.
On al h ,
Hoover proiessed 70 know who was buying such SS
TTGdues witness 70 HSoyes followed
sond no liked Value IN e Ua ass the
not quoted Hoover finally told witness that il b. Cooke
bonds Of the character named seeing Mr. Cooke the
A'er Said No MN No, WAN, ,ucu ,oxn,
sS C he e ea % e
Isnssslsn HUNDRED q two hansrsS d ief
And .dv had :. anSwisdSs q
Health be dismissed because Of his soto
h bad ,S Se witness believed the
S SS.sin were y 70
sbasea tna either for Q, WITHOUT Pur
the only wness ever SsS
Psciac RsiSo or indirectly, In connection with the
ana v HOOVER mas yon,r rossrsr. nrrurAros
Health ns% osy By wns a. PFs: lent
personal character but the odum which 10 his
Cabinet s N a. Hsns d.sso with
state AGENT on ne s ass hrsn out Is
Division Of the Pseiso R snH sod bond Of the
Zig advance on the cost o Il: recevea shs
,ne tnonsand dollars worth Of these bonds from
@ Hoover that he dhe wnes received b"nS sa,sd
Pacific Railroad or Credit Mober from the Won
kelleyi never saw the latter gentleman until yeserdsv
@ Rs ssT Ss;d sysT
Onion Pacific stock; stated he had paid or w or
pay Judge Kelley anything; exhibited ss 10
porting TO be receipt for money or any ohnyy b,
rom Judge kelley; witness said the repuiaoa Of
4 THIEF LIAs AND prRyuRKa
Hon william ID. Kelley sworn-Said he saw r srn,,h
Tor the FIRST tne when be entered the COMMITTEE raa,
this morning; he had given receipt Tor money
anything Of value In coside alton "a service IN M
way Of LEGISLATION In Congress other than his receipt %
Wy, under the solemny Of oaih he never received
IN the way OF compliment testimonial or cempensa.
bon, previously subsequently thereto directly or in
1irecty any consideration for the legislation
q h:d followed IN sPessh or vote tas that he
Without foundation in fact or appearance OF
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PETER CURLEY Gagged.

SARATOGA, n. T., Feb. Q, 1873
Peter curey was brought before Judge Bockes
to-day After hearing the argument Of Miles
Beach, Curley's counsel for moderate bail and the
objections OF District Attorney Ormsby, Judge
Bockes said he would consider the question OF ac-
cepting bail after the bondsmen appeared On the
reassembling OF the Court ct twelve O'Clock he
announced that In view Of the fact that there had
been no rebuttng testimony IN Curley's favor and
that the Grand Jury Will meet 80 soon-Monday
sum than the total amount stolen from the Water
ford Bank. The prisoner was accordingly remanded
- iaiL
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FREE LUNCH" POLITICIANS.
Small Economics In the New Court
House.

House.
The Committee OF Supervisors on County Ofnces
will recommend on Monday, At the meeting OF the
Board, the removal OF the cigar stand from the
vestibule OF the new Court House, ana also the
luncheon counter. The design OF this resolution is
net to remove this accommodation to the fire.
quenters OF the public offices but to destroy the
arrangement by which these privileges have been
obtained. II Is alleged that gratuitous cigars to
various ofi1cias Is the tenure by which the cigar
stand Is held. The present occupant Of the stand
offers $500 year for the privilege, and 1t Is said
that $1,000 has also been offered. 1t is, therefore,
that certain rent be paid, rather
than allow the continuance OF a demand for unlim.
tied cigars to blackmaing officials. The executive
FOR cleaning the county Offices found, on entering
On their duties, that every broom pail and brush
and all the requirements for cleaning had been
taken away by the former administration. To pre-
vent repetition Of this robbery every article be.
longing TO the county has been branded with the
name OF the respective Office In which 1t Is used.
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c. M. AT THE HUB.

Judge Wilson Overhauling tho Books
OF the Union Pacific Railroad-E. II.
Rollins Testimony-The Cost or Build
ing the Road-Divi dends en- the Ames
Contract, $40, 423, 500.
BOSTON, Feb. 6, 1873.
Judge Wilson, Chairman OF the Congressional
Committee, re-examined E. II. Rollins, Treasurer
of the Union Pacific Railroad, At some length, In
his private office to-day. and continued his
researches among the books and records.
Hm the Executive .. rscSrds
bonds WAS q g Mt
Congress al
authorizing mortgage the bridge, that the original
Of na
THE CHECK FOR NINETEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
said to have been given to J. Wilson has on It the fol-
cn;TsPay Z: +. Rollins, Secretary, Or order" signed
%sSS non.
that he had made careful for so esti.
gTYS had
c S h Mr. iii sS rs
asked an Sficer q the government, member Of tho
% s LEI Ssvs ans So % The
pied their positions He never knew Of any money Of
Sar
S IN Pasa
future. Mr.. Rollins further answered that he knew Of
ar ss III Prsa e.
paid in e &c sssss sa % % s.ss
n Rollins he sd that
SniIs WssS1%sien .Sssis sssas.ss% 9
Sen sGis s
wsS aS dihs fer Of
s g. 80 ss S % sss in
He received dollar from tho company that he did
n. c. CRANE ASSISTANT TREASURER
q s e
yssa r. az a $s; s Ds9 "
sons.ct which ncl1dsS the re%siadsT Of the line west
e. The witness eshSied The paanse
ATss sna
s nnS ss pis r
ana a. ct 81 Ss
re. 8, s %e not e udr @
oS ne
sotmesis We're made. Under the Davis Contracts there
were no allotments, but there
on account stock delivered to stockholders who, on
ssgregste q two half shares Of Union Pacific
tract at eighty was and they carried si
f ass Sond ,ss cost the
Is there anything on the books to tell the cost Of the
nfy eight miles OF road west OF the one hundredth
meridiRng A. No.
Is there anything upon the books to tell the cost
the @ miles OF road constructed before the Amcs
tractf A. No.
WHAT THE CAKES AxEs CONTRACT COST
the Union Pacific Company the witness said beyond
his power to TELL but the trustees received tho
Union PACIFIC Company $5 "a on account Of that
contract and $23 1853 10 account the Davis
tract the books had been balanced to show settle
ment he didn't think the contract had been charged up
ds aS Sa
bonds at and that the Davis contract 81 IS
in the same maeral the discounts charged to the
contract losses on securities appeared ECO
tract.
b. F. Ham will be examined to morrow on the Union
Pacific books they arrive. He states that differ
In the footing will be shown when a comparison Ia
made with the trustees books
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NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY FEBRUARY T. B7s-TRlPLE SHEET

he given written oral promise or contract
Implied or otherwise touching any such matters witness
said he had not TO his knowledge seen Union
Pacific Railroad bond or share OF stock in that road.
although he had become the Of Union Pacific
income bond through his attorney, Mr. Townsend. who
purchased II for him IN Philadelphia out Of an award
INTERESTED and which money his attorney had collected;
REMOTELY CONNECTED PACIFIC
Railroad bonds in the way of borrowing money rom
friend, who deposited the bonds In the Fidelity Safe Trust
Company as collateral. but in which bonds he had no
ownership and had seen he had never heard OF
Hoover until last night party OF gentlemen wten
by general accord nc was characterized as swndiera
pcrIurer and thief
The committee adjourned.
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THREE sEAMBN DROWNED.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. Q, 1873.
captain Kelly, Of the brig Concord, at this port
rom Matanzas, reports that the 18th OF January,
during heavy gale, seamen Hugh Manden, Of
M nj aged 2e Thomas 7. Grnnth OF England, aged
20; and Charles Caulser. of Sweden a0ed "a were
washed overheard and drowned.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28
See, you, Yon boat, laboring through

See, you, yon boat, laboring through
that black and awful food, which is
the boundary of our burial ground?-
Oh! how it plunges upon the madly
tossing waves! Some human soul is
passing to yon shining shore, which
looks so bright, so calm beyond the
awful tide. It's occupant, who was
ready when the boat came for him,
springs up again, and again, and
stretches out his hands toward the
coast which he is nearing. But the
temptest- tossed passenger cannot land.
Is the ferryman afraid of the glorifed
Presenceupon the sinless shore, deaths
fearless conqueror? Another heavy
surge, another heavy swell, and the
dear Redeemer, for 'tis indeed He,
reaches forth his gentle hand and says,
"'tis enough, come up higher;" and the
face of the redeemed one, as he steps
upon the golden sands, wears already
a-smile ofsweet and solemn peace-the
peace of eternity.
We would say, in conclusion, that
we should be thankful that God, who
knows what is best for his creatures,
has withheld the knowledge of the fu-
ture from us-the moment of death !;
and that he has gilded, with the bright
hues of hope, the sepulchres and graves
of time.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28
QriginaI
For the Port Tobacco Times.
THE UNKNOWN HOUR OF DEATH
BY MISS P. A. PENNINGTON.

The question often arises in our
minds, could we know the exact hour
of our departure from earth, and the
manner of it; in short, could our flu
ture existence in this world be reveal
ed us, how would we deport ourselves
under circumstances so strange and
terrible? Would we set our house in
order and stand in the door and watch
for the coming of the dreaded, uninvit-
ed visitor? Of course we would have,
in some degree, to attend to the pur-
suits of life, but these would often be
thrown down for fruitless mourning
and lamentation.
We think that the larger portion of
us would be seized with an indescriba-
BILE terror, which would wholly unfit
us for the work of preparation, work
requiring deliberation and GOODNESS,
yet energy and decision, and would
spend our fast passing probation in
counting our pulses, each beat of which
would sound more appalling than the
mightiest thunder; watching, with pal
lid faces, each rising and setting sun,
and looking with adrighted horror into
our open graves.
The nobler hearted would, with all
of earth's best selfishness, cling, re-
gardless of their own doom, to their
loved ones, mourning with hopeless
anguish their Inevitable doom. The
strong would in their despair crush
the weak; the desperately wicked
would swarm upon the earth in muir
derous bands, and with uplifted knife
or stealthy dagger strike down the
helpless and the unwary. Blasphem-
GUS curses would cause the sweet stars
to hide their light, and the wall of in
fancy, age and innocence would as
cend upon the shuddering air to heav-
en-. The frivolous and vain would still
be frivolous and vain, like the maiden
pure, in life's early morning, who, a.
mid the horr ors which surround her.
is welded to her gold and gems, and
who, although she knows that in one
year she shall be wrecked in mid ocean
tries, in dance and song, to drown re-
feetion, just as her class in tempera.
ment and intellect act in the present
existence, and clings to her diamonds
which among seaweed and pearls shall
lie. 49,
Here is group-parents and chill
dren-plunged into frantic grief, Oh
crushed by despair. Their last hour
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28

disastrous, we cannot pass it by so ca
silly. We do not intend to add any
thing to the many excellent things that
have already been said concerning the
evil effects that boots a size or so too
small produce upon the health, COM
fort business capacities, and temper
of the 5wearer. We would only beg
leave to remind all who thus immediate
themselves, under the impression that
a small foot is necessarily the object
of universal admiration, that the dom
KEY is generally conceded to have
and more delicate hoof than
the horse, which would undoubtedly
establish his claim to superior beau
ty, if it were not for the unfortunate
length ofrhis ears. Wo would also, in
this. connection, assure those gentle
men who are determined to have
small foot at any cost that the price
of the article to them will very likely
be the same as was imposed upon Mi
das for the possession which he coveted.
Science of Health. -
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28
Dwellings ''of Our Ancestors.

There is bare mountain, fronting
the stormy Irish Sea, where the steep
lcliffs, some seven hundred feet high,
with strange contortions of strata, are
|piereed and worried by the fierce con-
tending tides water. In front, a long
ragged edge of black reef runs far, out
among the waves, over which the boil
ling surf dashes, and there is a danger
Ious race. The rough mountain side,
lsloping to the south, is covered in au-
tunln with a beautiful velvet diaper of
bright pink and purple heather, golden
gorse and green fern, through which
pierce the sharp-edged crags. Here,
just below the highest point, backed
behind to the north by the inaccessi-
BILE, cliffs, and with sort of terrace
wall Of defence in front-looking out
to the wide lonely sea and the distant
mountain range to the right, and
commanding all approach by land, are
a number of rude circles of stone and
earth, the remains of the huts of some
lof our earliest ancestors. The village,
if so it can be called, seems to have
been a considerable one; above fifty
huts can be easily nude out, and there
are traces of more. Some stand singly,
some are in clusters but without any
Iplan: They are built of unhewn stones,
with double walls filledi in with sods to
keep ont the wind dwhichwould other.
wise have whistled through the dry
masonry. These in the memory Of
man, were breast-high. The circles
are about twelve or fifteen feet in di-
ameter, and with the opening always
to the southwest. The roofs seem to
have been made of poles gathered to a
point, like tent, and covered with
turf, or stepped over" each stone pro-
|jecting beyond it's neighbor till all meet
in the centre. Very perfect specimens
of these "bee-hive huts" are still to
be found in aslittle rocky island, one
of the Skellings, off the coast of Kerry,
where they have been preserved as the
holy abodes of anchorites. Circular.
dwellings seem almost universal among
savage tribes, and DIR. Livingston de-
scribes how vainly he tried to teach
his African natives to build square
hut; the moment his back was turned
they reverted to their old practice
Good Words. "s"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28
Health VS.. Fashion.

Fashion which gives to ladies so wide
a scope for the indulgence of taste and
skill in the devising Of elegant modes
of personal adornment, not only gives
besides wider scope to proportionate
abuse of them, but also denies ina great
measure these opportunities for either
to the other sex. Of those masculine
puppies, who, ignoring the fuudamen-
tai attributes of their sex-physieal
strength and manliness Of character,
and borrowing from the silliest Of wo-
men their silliest and most reprehen-
sible practices, smear themselves with
paint and enamel, and imprison them
selves in corsets, we have nothing to
say: we leave them to the well-merited
contempt they invariably gain from all
who are in any way their superiors; ;i
these, we are happy to say, being vast
ly in the majority. sra~.i ta,1, ,-yi3si-
Gentlemen in general can, we believe,
be acquitted of most all the. fashiona-,
BILE fo1lies, with the exception of hair
dye and tight boots. The use Of the
former, as its results are not injurious
to the general health, when no violent
mineral poisons enter into its. compo-
sition, may be regarded more asamat-
ter of taste than anything else land, if
man prefers to run the risk Of utter
ly running his hair and beard, rather
than to leave it as nature bestowed it
upon him, we see no other ALTERNATIVES
than to let him have has own way III
the matter, regafdlass of theaeenae-
quences. With respect towering tight
boots, however, as the results are more
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28
How TO Cure a Cold,

One of our citizens who has been
troubled with asevere cold on the lungs
effected his recovery in the following
simple manner: He boiled little
boneset and 'hoarhound together and
drank freely Of the tea before going to
bed. The next day he took five pills,
|put one kind of plaster on his breast,
another under his arms, and still an
other on his back. Under advice from
an experienced old lady, he took all of
these off with an oyster knife in the
Iafternoon, and slapped on d mustard
plaster instead. His mother put some
onion drafts on his feet and gave him
"a lump Of tar to swallow. Then he
put some hot bricks to his feet, and
went to bed. Next morning, another
lady came in with a bottle of goose oil,
and gave him a dose of it in quill,
and an aunt. arrived about the same
time from Bethel with a bundle of
sweet fern which she had made into a
tea, and gave him every half hour un-
It'll noon, when he took a big dose Of
salts. After dinner his wife, who had
seen a fine old lady of great experience
in doctoring ON Franklin street, gave
him two table-spoonfuls of homemade
balsam to keep them down. Then he
took half pint of hot rum at the sug-
geation of an old sea captain who lived
in the next honse, and steamed his
legs, with an alcohol bath. At this
crisis two of the neighbors. arrived,
who saw at once that his blood was
put of order, and gave him half gal
Ion of spearmint tea, and a big dose of
castor oil. Before going to bed he
took eight of a new kind of pills, wrap
ped about his neck a flannel soaked in.
hot vinegar and salt, and had feathers
burnt on shovel in his room. He is
now thoroughly cured and full of graf
itude. We advise our readers to out
this out and keep it where it can be
readily found when danger threatens.
-Danbury News.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28
ppery.
In ~
DOROTHY.
A REVERE SUGGESTED BY THE NAME UPON PANE

. REVERE SUGGESTED BY THE NAME UPON A PANE.
She, then, must once have looked, as
Look now, across the level rye
Past church and manor-house, and seen,
AS now see, the village green,
The bridge, and Walton's river-she
Whose old-world name was Dorothy.
The swallows must have twittered, too,
Above her head; the roses blew
Below, no doubt,-and, sure, the South
Crept up the wall and kissed her mouth -
That wistful mouth, which comes to me
Linked with her name of Dorothy.
What was she like? picture her
Unmeet for uncouth worshipper -
Soft, pensive,-far too subtly stung
To suit the sour bucolic tongue,
Whose thwarted prying could but see
"Ma' ma Fine-airs' in Miss Dorothy.
How not? She liked, may be, perfume,
Soft textures, lace, half-lt room -
Perchance too candidly preferred
Clarissa to gossip's word;
And, for the rest, would seem to be
Or dull, or proud-this Dorothy.
Poor child-with heart the down-lined nest
Of warmest instincts uncoufest;-
SoIt, callOW tnlngS tnat vaguely IelC
The breeze caress, the sunlight melt,
But yet, by some obscure decree
Unwinged from birth;-poor Dorothy!
Not less dream her mute desire
To acred churl and BOBBY squire,
Now pale, with timorous eyes that filled
At "twice-told tales' of foxes killed =
Now trembling when slow tongues grew fret
'Twixt love and Port poor Dorothy!
Twas then she'd seek this nook, and find
Its evening landscape balmy-kind;
And here, where still her gentle name
Lives ON the old green glass, would frame
Fond dreams of half-heard harmony
'Twixt heart apd heart Poor Dorothy
L'ENvoI.
These last spoke. Then Florence said,
Behind me,-"Dreams Delusions, Fredl
How strange it is you bards must go
So far to find subject though .
Are there no people living, pray,
Fit for rhymer's holiday?-
Besides, you make mistakes, you see -
Twas Iwho wrote that Dorothy
st. Paurs.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-28

They rode all night, and when En-
lily reached the door of the handsome
old-fashioned house in Springfield, she
was conscious of docking like eafright,"
and wished herself anywhere else.