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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30
The Bleakley Murder Trial.


Ten Jurors have been secured in this case
by two days labor, the additional panel Of
talesmen being exhausted yesterday. new
list will be called this morning to complete
the requisite twelve. Such difficulty and
delay in finding men competent to pass upon
the guilt or innocence of q person indicted for
murder suggests the inquiry whether seven or
nine jurors would not answer the demands of
justice just as we'll as the larger NUMBER If
the community has no absolute belief in the
virtue of round dozen there seems great
likelihood that five would discharge the duty
Of a jury just as WELL perhaps with greater
sense Of individual responsibility. A change
in this direction would greatly hasten bust
ness in the courts. After the completion of
the jury the case for the people is plain one,
the evidence of the shooting being simple and
direct Bleakley admits killing his niece, and
AYERS that he is responsible therefor, but his
counsel will attempt to show that his client
is a victim of religious mania and committed
the fatal act when incompetent to distinguish
between right and wrong. This defence will
bring mp the oft-repeated and unsatisfactory
discussion upon the wide field of insanity,
which nowadays forms SO large q portion of
almost every murder trial.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

The CREDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC BANK
are likely TO fare better than they thought
from first appearances they would. A num-
Der of missing securities have been brought
to light which will materially help redeem the
banks indebtedness. The greatest sufferers
win be the directors and stockholders, who
ought to have been less neglectful of their
Interests.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, April 20, 1879.
President Grant and party arrived here at noon
to-day and remained two hours. They were met
at the depot by military and Territorial officials
and large number OF citizens. After fine COLA
ton at the Railroad House the President received
callers until two p. NJ, when he left for Omaha.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

PORTUGAL AND THE REPUBLIC. club has
been formed in the city OF Lisbon having for
its object the union of Portuguese republic
cans. The Paris election is evidently pro-
ducing fruit in Portugal An Iberian repub-
lie begins to loom up in the far distance
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

"DEAD," says on Oregon paper, "those
twin relics of political clap-trap-civil service
reform and the Indian Peace Commission"
He jdcet, &c.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

THE CONTINENTAL BANK. --.Insinuations
against the credit Of the Continental Bank
having been in circulation for some days past
in Wall street. an examination of its affairs
was invited, and the Committee from the
Clearing House who made the examination
yesterday put q quietus on these rumors by
emphatcally asserting the banks soundness.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30
The Atlantic National Bank Embez-
element.

It is evident from the facts brought out re-
garding the management of the Atlantic Bank
that the President and Directors deserve little
sympathy for the losses they may sustain by
Taintor's embezzlement That bank with
only three hundred thousand dollars capital
and q limited business should be plundered
to the amount Of four hundred thousand dol
lars-the amount of embezzlement Taintor is
charged with-is astounding 1t is more sur
prising that the appropriation, or stealing, we
may say, of the money of the bank should
have been going on for long time until it
swelledup to such sum without the Presi-
dent and Directors suspecting the fraud, or
taking the precaution to ascertain the condi-
ton of the bank Were these incompetent
and reckless officials the only sufferers it would
not matter; but, unfortunately, there are
many others, upon whom no responsibility
rested and who were too confding, that must
suffer. These are the depositors and
stockholders. We know not how far
the officers of the bank can be made to
recompense the sufferers, but nothing should
be left undone to compel them to pay to the
full extent of the losses and their means. A
striking example should be made of such cul-
pable neglect Of duty. 1t is the old story of
a cashier or some one else having access
to or charge of the funds Of bank using
them for his own private use, and generally
for speculation in Wall street. Occasionally
we hear of rascal running away with q
banks money bodily, and the only speculation
is in some woman companion Of his fight,
but for the most part these entertainments
arise from ambitious or fast young men being
DESTROYS of getting rich or living beyond their
means. These defalcations or embellishments
are frequently occurring and show that many
Of our banks are loosely managed The ac-
tual condition of every bank should be
known at the close Of each day by the Presi-
dent or his representative, and thorough
check should be kept by one officer Of the in
stitution upon another. All should be con-
Quoted upon a strict business principle, and
nothing left to confidence merely in any
officer Will this Taintor case prove instruc-
tive? Or will it be only q sensation for few
days, to be followed by another defalcation
arising from similar causes?
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Now THAT the democratic free traders pro-
pose to read the protectionists ont of the
party, suppose the protectionists should con-
clude to read the free traders out2 Where
will your democratic party be theu2
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opinion in any political dispute, repudiates
the proposition to make free trade the corner
stone of the democratic party. The Keystone
democracy are not at all that way of thinking.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

THE PHILADELPHIA Age (democratic), old
enough to carry full weight in q matter Of
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

The OMAHA Herald claims the honor of pro-
claiming "Free Trade and Farmers Rights"
as the coming motto of the West more than q
year ago. The movement has since evinced
careful husbandry in its originators, so that
its proselytes may now be numbered by hun
dreds of thousands
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30
ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 5l4 broadway.
BURLEsoUE AND oLIo. Matinee at 21s.
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WOODS MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth ST.
BLOOD MONEY. Afternoon and evening
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

THE VIENNA EXPOSITION SCANDAL still
wears all its humiliating phases. Our
special despatcchi: informs US that General
Mayer contumaciously refuses to deliver up
the plans Of allotment and space in the
American department 1t is believed that
the new Commissioners will appeal to the
Austrian authorities for aid in the matter.
The aristocrats at Vienna comment on this
little piece of contemplate trickery with
many just sneers; but aristocracy is very far
from having all the sneering on its side.
There may be no American law to punish
offenders of General Mayors stripe; but if
ever man was likely to meet with national
scorn Mr.. Mayer is that man. We sincerely
hope that whatever villany may be hidden in
this matter will be brought to light and the
culprits dealt with summarily.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

The PROPOSED MEETING OF GOVERNORS Of
several States, in Atlanta, Ga, on the Goth of
May, will be an affair of more than ordinary
interest if the subjects treated of bear, as they
should, upon public concerns of moment.
1t is not only matters connected with trade
and commerce that demand attention from
representative body like the one proposed, but
great political questions might be discussed in
way that would have salutary effect upon
the popular mind. Prominent among these
questions is that of the Louisiana usurpation,
in relation to which the Governors of several
Substantially Virginia-have expressed
themselves in unmistakable terms. Let this
Congress of Governors, then, take up the
Louisiana question and discuss it in an
enlightened and liberal spirit, and much good
may come Of its sittings.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

ATHENEUM, 5s5 Broadway.-GRAYp VARIETY ENTER
TAINMkNT Matinee at 21a
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NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 72s and go Broad.
HHaY.-DIYnRcF
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N1BIO,S GARDEN Broadway between Prince and
Houston sts-AzRAEL: Or THE MAGIC CHARM. Matinee.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. between Houston
md Blocker streeL-HuNPrY DUaPTY. Matinee at z
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

qualities of disposition and judgment which
will render him worthy of his high destinies. -
What are those destinies now? Then the
Emperor wrote some bare words Of advice to
the boy who is a cadet at Woolwich to-day.
He was meyer to forget the motto of the head
of the family, Everything for the French
people," He was to read and ponder over
the words of the prisoner of st. Helena. The
prisoner of Ham felt that he could not afford
tomention his own long dungeon vigil; the
finger pointed only to the one fgursr-}bat
upon the lonely South Atlantic ro.s. He was
''when circumstances permitted" to war for
ideas. 1.-THE cause cf the peoples is the cause
Of France was his enigmatical way of put
tiEEg Il. ;Tvwsf =: :s heayy burden,S then he
said, and it was, of all his testament that per-
haps which he felt most. The rest of the
sentence is his only apology for his crimes
'because one cannot always do oil the good one
could wish, and because contemporaries seldom
render justice, so that in order to fulfil ones
mission one must have faith in and conscien-
tiously appreciate his duty" The blood flow
ing in the streets Of Paris, the hulks at Tou-
Ion, the convict settlements at Cayenne, the
exiled thousands, the darkened hearths, had
not been done justice to by contemporaries.
To turn from this to the boys grand uncle in
heaven is q rapid flight cit is the soul
of my illustrious uncle that has already in
spired and sustained me-" It was fashion
with the uncle to defy himself as much as
possible, aS any one can see in the picture
over the high altar of the Madeleine where in
the bespangled purple he is seen very close to
the Divinity indeed. But these gods Of the
earth touch the clay at last.
Then follow the requests to the Empress.
When her son came of age she was to
live at the Elysee, where President Napo-
leon sat with white cheeks and livid lips on
the night Of the I'd of December, 1851, when
his minions were abroad in Paris strangling
the Republic. II she tired of the Elysee
the Empress Dowaaer was 10 live by tho
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-20
A Montana Postofice.

A special agent of the postofiice de-
partment is reported 10 have had an
amusing experience while making Off
cial visit of inspection at Iron Rod.
Going into the postofiice he found the
room divided into three sections, first n
saloon, next the postoffice, and the last
a faro bank. The mail bag was brought
in. A rough looking customer opened
il and emptied the contents on the floor.
The entire crowd got down on their
hands and knees, and commenced over
hauling the letters, among which seve-
raj were registered, and selected such as
they wanted. After they were through
the remaining letters were shoveled
into candle box and placed on the bar.
The special agent, thinking the Office
needed n little regulating, asked the
bar tender, who had received and dis
tributed the mail. if he was the post
master. He answered." No" Are you
the assistant pOstmaster?" mo"
"Where's'the postmasterP" "Out min
ing" "Where's the assistant post
master ?" "Gone TO Hell's Canon, and,
by thunder, Bill Jones has got TO run
the postofiice next week it's his turn.
The government official then asked who
he was, and demanded the keys OF the
office. The bar tender coolly took the
candle box from the bar, put ii on the
floor and gave it kick, sending IL out
of the door, saying There's your post
office, and now git" The agent says
'Knowing the customs of the country,
I lost no time in following this advice,
and got" That Office was discontinued.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-20
Coinage Man.

Apropos of the coming coinage con-
gress, is a curious little map, Just pub
lished in Vienna, called "Coinage Of
the World, which classifies the nations
of the earth into six groups, by various
ly colored lines surrounding them, ac-
cording TO the character of the map,
state that the first group, which is the
domain of $4,000 inhabitants. IL
composes the United States, most Of
the British North American colonies,
Cuba, Porto Rico, Cell, Uruguay, the
Argentine Republic, British Guiana,
japan and Malta. The domain OF the
silver dollar, which embraces Mexico,
Central America, most of South Amer
lea. Spain, Egypt, the west and north
east coast of Africa, and the whole Of
the Chinese empire, has population Of
532, 900, 900. The pound sterling is the
currency of 80, ,000, 900 people only, in
habiting Great Britain and Ireland, tho
Bermudas, Jamaica and Australia. The
franc circulates among 10000, 900 peo-
pie in France, Belgium, Italy, Switzer-
land, Alsac9, Lorraine, and all tho
French colonies. The countries using
sindry gold valuations not included IN
any of the above groupes are Turkey,
Moldavia, Wallachia, Brazil, Portugal,
Persia. and Turkistan, and have "A popu-
lation of 65,000,000. The last group,
comprising countries whose unit OF value
is a silver coin of various kinds other
than the dollar, has 492, ,0O0,0 900 inhabi-
tants. II includes Germany, Austria,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, RUSSIA,
Holland, Greece, India, and n number
Of minor Asiatic and African countries.
The orthor of the map strongly urges
the adoption of the gold dollar as the
international coin. The brewers are TO
have a congress, which all brewery
owners, master brewers, and malt makers
are invited. IL will begin its session
on the 18th Of June and end on the 2lst.
The various technical and commercial
questions connected with brewing will be
in order for discussion.
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A, TENN, FRIDAY, JUNE 90 1873.

In different community, this mar
trydom of innocent life might at least
have born harvest of love and charity
for other starving souls to reap; but
in that strange land whose silver boards
benumb the heart, the sacrifice was
lost, like bubble in the sea. I do not.
even know there was any record of it in
the Daily News, for the next day there
was a development in the mines ;"
which made every one wild with excite
ment, and editors and readers alike
were absorbed in their own sordid pos
sibilities. OUerE01ad 1fonthLv.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-20

BOXING THE EARS tends to dull the
sensibility of the nerve, even if it dose not
hurt the membrane. I knew a pitiful
case, once, of a poor youth who died
from terrible disease of the ear. He
had discharge from it since he was
child. OF course, his hearing had been
dull and what had happened was that
his father had often boxed his ear for
inattention Most likely that boxing on
the ear, diseased as 1T was, had much to
do with his dying. And this brings me
to the second point. Children should
not be blamed for being inattentive,
u1.il it has been found out whether
they are not little deaf. This is easily
done by placing them at few yards
distance, and trying whether they can
understand what is said to them in a
rather low tone of voice. Each ear
should be tried, while the other is stopp-
ed by the finger. I do not say that
children are never guilty of inattention,
especially to that which they do not
particularly wish to hsar but do say
that very many children are blamed and
punished for inattentoin when they
really do not hear. Three things should
be remembered here: First. That slight
degrees of deafness, often lasting only
for a time, are very common among chill
dren, especially during or after colds.
Second. That slight deafness, which
does not prevent person from hearing
when he is expecting to be spoken to,
will make him very dull to what he is
not expecting and third. That there
is kind of deafness in which a person
can hear pretty well while listening,
but is really very hard of hearing when
not listening.-Dr Hinton.
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AT THE LAST.
BY KATE PUTNAM oseooD.

Three little words within my brain
Beat back and forth their one refrain,
Three little words, whose dull distress
Means everything and nothingness,
Unbidded move my lips instead
OF other utterance: She is dead.
Here, lingering, we talked of late
Beside the hedge-grown garden gate
Till, smiling, ere the twilight fell
She bade me take n last farewell.
Those were the final words she said
But yesterdaY-and she is deadi
I see the very gown she wore,
Tho color / had praised before
rhe swaying length, where she would pass
Made light rustic on the grass;
There in the porch she turned her head
For one last smile-and she is dead!
Could have known what was to come,
Those hours had not been blind and dumb
would have followed close with Death,
Have striven for every glance and breath
But now-the final word is said,
The hast look taken-she is dead.
We were not lOvers-such as they
Who pledge faith to last for aye;
Yet seems the universe to me
A riddle now without key;
What means the sunshine overhead,
The bloom beIow-now she is dead?
So new my grief, its sudden haze
Bewilders my accustomed ways;
Aud yet so old, it seems my heart
Was never from its pains apart;
What was and is shall be, wed
With that one sertence-She is dead.
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Antin11itv of Umbrellas.

DIR. Morrison, the great missionary to
China, states that there is mention
made of umbrellas and parasols in
books printed in China more than $50
years ago, and that the most wonderful
traveller, Layard, relates that he dis
covered on the ruins of Nineveh, i'll bas
relief, a representation of king in his
chariot, with an attendant holding an
umbrella over his head. In India we
also find the umbrella has. been used in
remote ages and principally as an en-
blem of royalty, its shape differing very
little from those in modern use. In
Burmah the princes use very large
umbrella, and it requires separate at
tendant to carry it, and his position is
recognized one in the royal household.
One of the titles of the king is as fol-
lows "King of the white elephant and
lord of the twenty-four umbrellas.
The emperor of China, who never does
anything on.a small scale Gf he can help
it, has no fewer than twenty-four UNI
brellas carried before him when he goes
out hunting. It is used in that country
as defense against rain as well as sun,
and is principally made of a sort of
glazed silk or paper beautifully painted.
We find umbrellas mentioned as in use,
or at least known, in England, $50 years
ago. In Cambridge, we read that early
in the last century umbrellas were let
out on hire for SO much per hour, like
sedan chairs. Jonas Hanway, the
founder of hospital in London, has
the credit of being the first man in
London who had the courage to carry
habitually an umbrella. He died in
1856, and it is said that he carried an
umbrella for thirty years; so the date
of their introduction for general use
may be said to date from 1856.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-20

Always carry a revolver when you
go out horseback riding with a young
lady. Mr.. Bragg, of Visalina, Cal,
carried one when he>took Miss Kemp TO
ride, the other day, and as they were
both on the same horse, when the weap-
on went of, the bullet entered the
young lady's knee and came out at the
ankle. Her dress was set on fire, and
she was seriously injured by the falling
from the horse, but such incidents are
trivial in comparison with the sense OF
security an able-bodied man derives
from, the possession of pistol.
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-Carbonic Acid in the Human Bod,

-Carbonic Acid in the Human Body.
The qnantity of carbonic acid exhaled
in given time from the skin of man
has been made the subject of some Curl
GUS researches by Herr Aubert, the re-
suit of which appears in the Archiv fur
PhysioIogie. The experiments were
carefully made, it is stated, in an air
tight chamber, in which the subject for
experiment was seated, and through
which current of air, freed from car
bonic acid, was steadily passing, while
the proportion of carbonic acid in the
air on leaving the chamber was esti-
mated by transmission through Dubbed
tubes containing a solution of salt of
barium. Thus it would appear, from
this unique test, that 90 grains of car
bonic acid are exhaled from the body of
a full-grown man, through the skin, in
the brief period of "a hours.
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Edmund Sloan, baker on Missis-
sippi steamer, thrust fatal number of
inches of bowie knife into the abdomen
of David Warn, the other day, because
the latter had basely insinuated that he
sold the company's pies for his own
profit,
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Ready Made Clothing for Women.

Ready Made Clothing for Women.
Ten years ago hardly an article of
women's wear could be bought ready
made an the city of New York, with the
single exception of cloaks. 1t was
urged then, by the present writer, that
it was as practicable for much of the
clothing of women to be furnished
ready-make as that of mex, and that
the time was rapidly coming when it
would be graded, made, and sold in the
same day. The prophecy has been full
filed, and more. Ladies' furnishing
houses do not stop, as mems clothing
stores do, at q certain average limit of
cost and popular design; but go farther
and vie with each other in the splendor
of their single toilettes, in their efforts
to suit individual patrons. This is the
cause of enormous expense and world
of trouble. 1t compels them to keep
corps of expensive dressmakers, whose
waste of costly material is something
frightful. Then there is the heavy loss
upon fitted garments of fanciful design,
which are not easily altered, will only
suit certain persons and upon which are
expended quantities of costly trimming.
All this is a mistake. Dressmaking
should only be done to order, and fitted
garments of every description should
be classed with dressmaking. Ready
made clothing should comprise, in addi-
tion to underclothing, skirts, skirt
waists, loose-ftting suits and costumes
of linen, cloth waterproof, and alpaca !
and half-htting jackets. These graded !
in different sizes, IN common parlance, |
fit everybody; and if well and neatly |
made, with due regard to popular re-
quirements, sell faster than they can be |
produced. But by a singular fatility |
you will never find more than one we'll
cut, neatly-made, suitably-trimmed gar
ment out of hundred in any store
the ninety-nine are invariably hideously
ugly and the one is too big or too little,
or costs too much. This is not the case
with underclothing. In this depart
ment perfection, both for ladies and
children, has been as nearly arrived at
as can be expected. Not an article
worn but is furnished of good material
tolerably well made, at prices scarcely
exceeding the individual cost of labor
and material. This is boon TO women,
such as they alone can appreciate. But
5he sooner our great Quitting estab-
ishments rid themselves of dressmak.
ng, and subside into their legitimate
business of outfitters," +" the better for
Jennie ,Jst1le.