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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
NoRFOLK, PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND
IN DAILY LINE to Norfolk
nd ada nd Safu do IN

burg and KichmOnd
OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
From pier 81 North River foot OF Beach street. steamers
daily r. NJ Norfolk, and passenger steamers
for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. same hour
Through bills of lading and passenger tickets issued to
all points South and southwest VIA Virginia and Tonnes
see, Atlantic Coast. Seaboard and other lines; also BY
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for Western points, and
by steamers at Norfolk for Newoern and Washington.
N. c.. and other points Office, l97 Greenwich street.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

L'oR SALE-A NEW. MEDIUM SIZED FOUR STORY
IL brown House, No ll5 asst Seventeen street
Genox Hin. built in the best manner by days work;
hard wood finish renleie and complete in every
tcusr; price very low; terms easy inquire OF CHAS
FOX IL East Forty fifth street. or W. BENTLEY, on the
premises.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
COAsTVvIsE STEAMSHIPS.

pAoIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

TINTED STATES PASSPORT BUREAU-OFrJcrAr
~ Passports OF the Department of State issued nv
O. WILLAMETTE, United States Court House. ii Chan
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

A FARM TO LBT-3i ACRES: FAIR BUILDINGS;
~ 40 minutes New Jersey Central Railroad, near
depot; rent low to the right party. Apply III person at
Ss3 Broadway, second lott.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

LNOR SALk-IHE HOMESTEAD FARM OF THE LATE
Il Henry g. Smock lJl acres: one mile from Bound
Brook n j. on Central Railroad good buildings, fruit,
boating fishing and guunlng be sold TO clos the
estate. Apply to WILLIAM SMOCK bound rrook;
GEORGE sMOCK, Doneen; or address JOHN q. VOOR-
HE'S New Brunswick. y. j.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

NEW YORK TO GLASGOW LIVERPOOL
BELFAST AND LONDONDERRY.
These elegant new Clyde built steamers will sail from
pier Sc North River ) tollows:-
STATE OF ALABAMA. Saturday March 81
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. ....... Saturday, April
And every alternate Saturday thereafter taxing passen
gers at through rates TO all parts OF Great Britain and
Ireland, Norway, sweden Denmark and Germany.
Drafts for 81 and upwards For freight apply
to AUSTIN BALDWIN co, Agents,
. No ~ Broadway
Storage Office, No. IS Broadway
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

COUNTRY PLACE.-TO LET, A COMMODIOUS AND
" comfortable House, fully furnished on the Iud son,
within mile OF the station al rarryown, from which
there are trains nearly every hour either the Grand
Central depot Thlreth street, ice house filed and an
excellent carriage house and stable For further par
ticulars apply at ia Fifth avenue.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

HUDSON RIVER OPEN TO TROY.--THE CITIZENS
IL Line will, and after Friday, March 20 receive
freight Troy and all points North and East Boat
leave pier SO North River daily Saturdays excepted
y. ". Boats will leave sunday at J. NJ
j. CORNELL, Superintendent
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
EUROPEAN STEAMSHIPS.
only DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE.

THE GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY'S NAIL
STEAMSHIPS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAVRE,
CALLING AT BREST.
The splendid vessels this favorte the Con.
tnent being southerly than any other will sail
from pier No so North River, as tollows .
FEkflhE Danre .Sdturuay, March .
AMERlQUE, KOusSan saturday, April
~ kOpE Lemarie saturday April 70
PRICE OF PASSAGE IN GOLD dncuding wine) 20
BREST OR HAVRE.
First cabin, $l2a Second cabin, SIS.
Excursion tickets reduced rates
American travellers going to returning from the
Con inent Of Europe by taking this line avoid both tran
by English railway and the discomforts crossing
the Channel, besides saving time trouble expense
,Note.-ln June and thereafter the depar will be
on Thursday OF every week.
GEORGE MACKENZIE, Agent So Broadway.
CTEAMER PEREIRE. FOR BREsT AND HAvRg.
> will leave pier No. 30, North River, loot OF Norton
street Saturday March II, at O'Clock. Passengers
are requested to be on board at O'Clock.
GEORGE ENZTE ApeD
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

LNOR CARDIFF BRISTOL, LONDON AND ALL
+ other points in England and Wales.
The south Wales Atlantic Steamship Companys new
first class steamships will sail Pennsylvania Rail-
road wharf Jersey City, as fOows:- -
First cabin passage, SIS and $50 currency second
cabin S55 currency seerage $50 currency. PREPAID
seerage certificates from Cardiff 1888 currency. Drafts
for 81 upwards For further particulars apply to
ARCHIBALD BAXTER & CO.. Agents,
u Broadway, New York.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

TOR sALE-AT ABARGAIN, A WELL BUILT BROWN
stone House 70 feet wide, in good order with Balt-
heater and all modern imDroyenents No. LIOg
second avenue terms TO suit Apply 70 owner, on the
premises at 81 Chambers street room TO- viii ex-
change for Morristown Property.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

L,OR SALE-AT A Low PRICE, A VERY FINE
five story House, No jackson street one door from
Grand large store with fine fixtures for butchers bust
death OF owner cause Of selling Inquire widow,
floor store OF the executor 2l6 West Fieth St
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19
WESTCHEsTER COUNTY PROPERTY
FOR SALE OR TO RKNT.

WEsTCHEsTER COUNTY PROPERTY TWENTY
w fourth ward, New York-A corner Store and
Dwelling, suitable for drug store bakery dry goods OF
grocery near fremont station. Harlem Railroad Appl,
teenth street.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

EoR SALE OR TO LBT-HANDsoME FOUR STORY
brown stone House 20 Beekman place, northwest
corner Fiftieth street finished hardwood tine view
OF East River and Long Island: high basement with
dining room and kitchen, two purlOrs and IL bedrooms
Apply the premises
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

FLUSHING PARK LoTs-NO1ICE TO LOT BUYERS
OF an increase in price-On and after March 81
1874, the prices OF the lots will be folows:-Lots on
Burling and smart avenues 5000 Bowne and Robinson
avenues, S0J Union avenue and Main ST. Get $500 First
Second and Third streets, $50 All Lots. $500
The trustees are now contracting the Introduction of
Flushing will shortly possess all the convene me-
enjoyed in cities. Maps can be had al HITCHCOCK'S
Real Estate Headquarters. 43g Third ayeuue
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-19

GOn0 TO RENT, FURNISHED, FOR ONE YEAR,
sDOOO. beautiful cottage House, with 10 rooms;
healthiest location the Morris and Essex road will
be sold low Address box 70 Post office Madison N j.
90 SOO FARM OF 60 ACRES, GOOD LAND
CC.COO. and buildings, choice fruit, pleasantly
located depos % miles rom the city, Saddle
River, Bergen county. Terms easy.
Z. YELLING, Paterson n j.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Trades Her Son for a Dog.

About month ago q woman who
was living in the Third ward of Mil
waukee, took fancy to large New
foundland dog owned by the landlady,
and she offered to give one of her little
boys and IS "to boot" for the animal.
Mrs. Cooke accepted the offer, and the
little Heinrich, who was about eight
years of age, was transferred to his
new mother, and the woman took the
dog and departed well satisfied.
Thursday she returned and demand
ed the little Heinrich back again. She
said the dog ate too much, and she
couldn't afford to keep him. But Mrs.
Cook would neither take the dog nor
refund the s5, preferring to keep the
boy, who had become very useful to
her and loved her very much. A war of
words ensued, and then q fight, but
neither conquered, and they had to be
parted by policeman. Mother Cooke
still keeps her little boy, and she is de-
termined to do it if the law will allow
her. The little Heinrich is Indifferent
as to the result, but prefers to stay
with "Mamma Cooke"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04

The late Peter Hagner, for many
years third auditor of the United States
Treasury, appointed originally under
Washingtons Administration, and con-
tinuing in the Treasury Department
until General Taylor's Administration,
used to tell the following characteristic
anecdote of President Jackson "It
seemed that some politician had been
long making efforts to have Mr.. Hag-
ner removed to make place for himself.
He discovered that Mr.. Hagner, many
years before, when General Jackson was
in the army, refused to pass certain of
his accounts, amounting to some $15,.
900, for want of sufficient vouchers,
which he had lost in an active campaign.
Armed with this information he ap-
preached the General, and made the
unfortunate mistake of proposing to
him, that if he was appointed the ac-
count could be audited and paid. This
reused the ire of the General, and
threw him into violent passion he
called his servants to turn the Internal
scoundrel out of the house, and direct
ed one of them to go to Mr.. Hanger
and order him to come to him instantly.
Mr.. Hagner was quietly sitting in his
office when he received this peremptory
order, and Immediately obeyed it. He
found the General walking up and
down the room in a violent passion, and
the first salutation he met with was
Give me your hand, sir; you're an
honest man I respect you you did
right, sir, in not passing my account.
[ lost the vouchers. By the Eternal !
to be insulted in my own house OF
course all this was Greek to Mr.. Hag-
ner. The affair had happened many
years before, and was entirely forgotten
by him. 1t was sometime before he
succeeded in quieting the General
down, when he asked him what it all
meant. The General then told him the
circumstances, adding-'Go to your
Office, sir make yourself perfectly easy;
there shan't be hair of your head
touched as long as have the honor to
fill the Presidential chair. - Anaeri-
can Historical Record.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Another Of Them.

France is the fastest contributor to
the Enoch Arden class of stories, and
the case, which has just turned up in
the Saone-et- Loire, is vouched for in
every particular: A young man named
Mariner, who had been married only a
few months when the war broke out,
joined the Mobiles of the Vosges, and
was taken prisoner. On arriving in
Prussia he was sentenced to several
years imprisonment for striking his
guard. During his captivity he wrote
often to his wife, but receiving no reply
concluded that his letters were not for
warded or that his wife was dead. When
he was taken prisoner he threw away his
knapsack, which was picked up and
worn by comrade, who managed to
escape, but who was subsequently kill
ed in another engagement. The KNAPP
sack contained the papers of Mariner,
which were forwarded to his wife as the
last remains of her husband. The
young widow, after o few months of
grief, took second husband. Since
then Mariner having obtained a par
don, was allowed to return to France,
and on reaching his native cottage
found it occupied by another, and a
child of which he was not the father.
Here the drama ends for the present.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Fate OF Modest Men,

The world generally takes men at
their own apparent estimate of them
selves. Hence, modest men never OBJ
tain the same consideration which bust
ling, forward men do. 1t has not time
or patience to inquire rigidly, and it is
partly imposed upon and carried away
by the man who vigorously claims its
regards. The world, also, never has
two leading ideas about any man. There
is always a remarkable unity in its con-
ceptions of its characters of individu-
ais. If an historical person has been
cruel in a single degree, he is set down
as cruel and nothing else, although he
may have had many good qualities, all
not equally conspicuous. If literary
man is industrious in remarkable de-
gree, the world speaks of him as only
industrious, though he may be also
very ingenious,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Imaginary TerrOrs.

Instances of the deadly influence OF
fear on the minds of children are by no
means infrequent. Many little suf-
ferer has undergone agonies in the
"dark closet " that some parents make
their choice instrument of punishment,
which have had an influence on the
mind for life. To many children of ac-
tive imaginations it is positive torture
to sleep in a dark room, and they have
hours of terror at night, by calling up
visions and shapes of terror suggested
by their reading. 1t is useless to scold
at them, and cruel to laugh at them, for
it is O part of their nature which they
cannot change. Sara Coleridge, the
daughter of the poet and philosopher,
passed through untold agony from this
cause. The ghost of Hamlet seemed to
haunt her chamber. Millions picture
of Death at Hell-gate rose before her in
the darkness. The horse with eyes of
fame, in Southey's ballad of the "Old
Woman of Berkley," was worse than
either. She said, pitifully, ooh, the
agonies 1 have endured between nine
and twelve at night, before mamma
joined me in bed, in presence of that
hideous assemblage of horrors !" Her
Uncle Southey laughed heartily at her
tale of suffering. Her mother scolded
her for getting out of bed and going
down into the parlor when she could
bear the fear no longer. But her father
understood the case, and directed that
lamp should be left burning, and from
that time all her suferings ceased. All
parents should guard their children
from such terrors.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Mr.. Summers Will.

A Washington telegram to the Phila-
delphia Press says that in September,
1872, just before Senator Sumner left
for Europe, he wrote, in his own hand,
his will, by which he bequethed all his
papers, manuscripts, and letter. books
to Henry W. Longfellow, Francis E.
Balch, and Edward L. Pierce, as
Trustees all his books and autographs
to the library of Harvard College; his
bronzes to his friends of many years,
Henry W. Longfellow and DR.. Samuel
G. Howe. He gives to the City of Bos-
ton, for the Art Museum, his pictures
and engravings, except the picture of
Miracle of the Slave" which he be-
queaths to his friend Joshua B. Smith
of Boston. To Mrs. Hannah Richmond
Jacobs, the only surviving sister of his
mother, he gives an annuity of $500.
There is bequest of $4,000 to the
daughters of Henry W. Longfellow
$4,000 to the daughters of DIR. Samuel
G. Howe, and 50, 900 to the daughters
of James 7. Furness, of Philadelphia,
of whom he says: 81 ask them to
accept in token of gratitude for the
friendship their parents have shown
me-" The will directs that the residue
of his estate shall be distributed in two
equal moieties, one moiety to his sister,
Mrs. Julia Hastings, of San Francisco,
CAL, the other moiety to the President
and Fellows of Harvard College. in
trust for the benefit of the college
library, the income to be applied to the
purchase of books. In reference to this
last moiety the will adds: "This be-
quest is made in filial regard to the col
lege. In selecting especially the Ii
blary, l am governed especially by the
consideration that all my life 1 have
been user of books, and having few of
my own, l have relied on the libraries
of friends and public Libraries, SO that
what l do now is only return for what
I freely received" Francis e. Balch,
of Boston, formerly Clerk to the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, when
! Mr.. Sumner was chairman of that COM
mittee, is designated sole executor of
the will. Mr.. Sumner estate is valued
| at 800 600
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Queer Medical Facts.

The following paragraphs are taken
from q recent lecture by DIR. Brown.
Sequard:
We are indebted to the observation
af very intelligent negro, whose mas
ter was affected with disease Of the
spinal cord, which produced convul.
sions in the lower limbs. The most in
tense stiffness would manifest itself in
the lower limbs. They were rigid like
bar of iron for time and after ten
minutes of this extreme rigidity they
began to have violent jerks. The jerks
then disappeared and the rigidity re-
turned. All day long the lower limbs
were in this state of muscular contrac-
ton. His servant, the negro, having
to dress him, found it very difficult
to put on his pantaloons.
One day he by chance took hold of
his big toe, and found as he pulled it
that the limbs became perfectly soft
and movable. The commissions had
disappeared altogether. The negro
certainly had a natural genius for
science. He learned that whenever he
wanted to push his masters pantaloons
up, he had only to pull his big toe
down. He succeeded every time. And
as the master found the cessation of
the commissions useful at other times
besides when he was dressing, the
negro was asked very frequently to act
on the big toe in order to effect it.
This fact is not unique one. have
seen fourteen such cases. Many of my
medical friends have seen them also.
A friend of mine, DR.. Waller, a most
intelligent man, man of genius, found
that by pressing on the neck he could
produce the most interesting physio-
logical phenomena. He has succeeded
in curing headaches. neuralgia of the
face, and many other affections in
which there was pain or great conges-
tion of the head. An attack of epilepsy
may be stopped in that way. Many
physicians before him had produced
some of those results, but they all
thought it was from a pressure of the
carotid artery.
DR.. Waller has the merit of showing
that it is chiefy-he thought it was
only, but I have found that it is chiefly,
not only-through an irritation of that
nerve, the par vagum, that the motion
of the heart is arrested in those cases,
and that diminution of the beating of
the heart was followed by an ameliora-
ton in the circulation in the head, q
cessation of an attack of epilepsy and
of various other complaints. 1t was
something, therefore, quite different
from the mere pressure on the carotid
artery. These views were not absolutely
complete, as I have found that another
nerve which goes to the blood vessels
of the brain is also irritated by the pro-
cess and that the pressure exerted in
the neck produces three effects:
O Tt certainly diminishes the cur.
ront in the carotid artery, and, indeed,
stops that current altogether if the
pressure is considerable (2) it di.
minishes the circulation considerably,
and may induce a profound state OF
syncope by acting on the par vagum
and (3) it also acts on the cervical SYM
pathetic, and produces a contraction OF
the blood vessels in the head, by
means of which part of the good ef.
feet is obtained.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
A Big Tree In Kentucky.

Mr.. George Riley, of Shelby county,
cut q poplar tree on his place short
time since which measured to the fork
11S feet, and 65 feet top; the stump
measured 6 feet s inches in diameter
aud twenty feet in circumference.
There were in all ten cuts 10t feet, in
length; five of these cut 765 rails, leaving
sufficient for $50 more. In all, LIPS
rails, and seven loads of wood from one
tree. The tree had been struck by
lightning and seam opened from top
to bottom, but not in the least shatter-
ed or injured. 1t was also perfectly
solid and sound, without spot or blem-
ish. The four butt cuts averaged ITO
rails each, and it is estimated that the
whole tree would have made $4,000
shingles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Employment for Children.

The annual report of the Massa-
chusetts Labor Bureau, just issued,
contains many interesting statements
concerning the employment of chill
dren. The report says that the Bureau
had difficulty in obtaining answers to
its letters of inquiry in a very large
number OF cases. Twenty-one towns,
however, reported 1880 children under
ten employed, while twenty-eight more
reported that such children were en-
ployed, but gave no numbers. Twenty
eight towns reported 1.723 children
from ten to fifteen employed, who had
not received the legal amount of school
ing, and twenty-nine towns reported
children thus employed, but gave no
numbers. These figures, in the opinion
of the bureau, very ina1eouately rep
resent the number 81 the children
really employed. Quite q number of
towns and cities have half time and
evening schools. "Upon this subject
of the education of mill children"
says the report, "there can be but one
opinion that the matter is not attend
ed to either by the State or local au-
thorities that legislation is needed to
compel attendance, to punish illegal
employment of children, and to provide
proper schools for the instruction of
operatives along with work. Person
ally" it continues, "we believe in the
EXTREMIST legislation in this direction,
and, could we have the power given us,
we would not allow q girl under sixteen
years of age to be employed in any kind
of q factory or workshop. If she could
be free till she reached the age of
twenty, mankind would be the gamer.
This is physiological matter, and the
result of our investigation of facts in
this connection, and our careful con-
sideration of this subject, leads us to
express the hope that, if no other sub
ject connected with the labor question
is thought worthy of Legislation, this
may be selected for Legislative study
and action. No argument is necessary
to convince people of the Importance
of giving the years under sixteen in a
girls life to the growth and develop
ment of her organization, on the
healthy condition of which SO much
depends-her own health, happiness,
and usefulness, not only to herself, but
to those dependent upon her, either for
care or sustenance."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04
Fish in a Hot Spring.

A correspondent writing from Edo,
Nevada, says that there are hot springs
there in which numbers of fish can be
seen swimming about, though the water
is so hot that eggs are cooked in "less
than three seconds" The explanation
of this phenomenon lies in the fact that
these hot springs rise in the banks of
streams the water of which is intensely
cold. The cold water, on account of
its greater specific gravity, runs on the
bottom without mixing much with the
water above, and the fish keep in a cool
stratum. The water above the springs
showed q mean temperature of forty
two degrees, and by means of q ther-
mometer fastened to the end of pole
and kept as close to the bottom as pos
sible, the temperature of the bottom
water from above the springs to a point
below them was found to be very low.
This stream is one of the many that
form the head-waters of the Columbia
River, and to this point, 1900 miles
from its mouth, the salt water salmon
come in hundreds in the spring and tal
to spawn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-04

Talking the other day with the travel
ing salesman of London woolen ware
houseman-jobber, we should call him
here-there came to light a curious
custom which prevails in England in
that line of trade. A tailor, instead of
having heavy line of stock for his GUS
toners to select from, keeps on hand,
in many cases, only full line of pat
terms, representing the stocks of the
leading warehousemen. The customer
selects from the patterns the style and
make that suit at once his fancy and his
purse. Then, his measure having been
taken and his order booked, an order
goes up to the warehouseman for the
cloth. He sends it down by his porter
the whole piece-who leaves it with
the tailor. The tailor cuts off what he
wants, and the next day the porter
looks in and carries back the piece to
it's owners, who had it measured before
it left them, and again measure it on
its return, charging the tailor with the
difference. Our "jobbers have
learned that shorter way is to cut off
what the tailor wants and send it to
him but this idea does not seem to
have oc cured to our cousins over the
water, or else it is too new-fangled and
simple to suit their ideas of business.
- Commercial Bulletin.