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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
NoN-REsIDENTs AS OFFICE-HoLDERS
OF the DOck Commits.
siOners.

Examination OF the DOck Commits
siOners.
Aldermen Ottendorler, McCafferty and Billings,
and Assistant Aldermen Clancy, Healy and KehOe.
a joint committee OF both Boards, appointed pur-
suant to the following preamble and resolution,
passed January 26:-
Whereas, it incumbent the several departments
the ms1ns nd
whereas the recent publ ation in the y Record OF !he
several d1spartnenss saggesis that decided
sa to ed%s1 Sus s SSr
esolyed Inat JOINT c on, 70 consist Of three
& be hs
OF the business transacted ny the various departments
may by them be deemed iOr the best
lntere It's OF the city.
met yesterday morning at IL O'Clock. Alderman
McCaGerty presiding. Commissioner Budd and
Commissioner Gardner, OF the Dock Commission,
were present and examined.
The question was put to Commissioner Gardner
in regard TO the expenditures Of his department,
which he answered by stating that everything on
this subject had been published In the city Record.
He cannot say, nor can he remember at the mo-
ment the amount disbursed SINCE he Joined the
commission. Producing . paper and reading
thercirOm:-
can state that for nine months past we expended
81 % M pss an en u @ sn %Drs
turing ARTIFICIAL stone The improvements gong
large new piers at pier No we are also build NJ
ns aTs arg HH
about twelve men, aborers employed at pier No Il they
s% SSst !s' q re %S
aere has slight
number Of changes; am Treasurer Q! the Department.;
iouched on February these bonds are not drawing in
they haze mot n s sold can tell Mha
KEPT in the Fnanos neIar'msn we make rsSui.,on
tor Sys % want Ss s 10
not draw our money in large sums; we send our bill,
down the finance department. and they paid there;
nearly as large the months December and January
would have
think expense was larger in the winter than before
o ths as
why should do more in summer than in winter;
enSs s%Ssfs
s sss' az s1
slonemason orsmen a. * and - 81 and superin
are printed IN manual The city
divided nc gdi.fc and each has
ssh' had 8 we have made new
the 20 nj reducing the number and salaries OF en-
poves are Wiling 10 rectiv suggestions but don't
given the average statement Of the worknamen EN-.
poyed during the last two months the Office hours OF
alderman & this is question that has
many non residents have YOU empoycdf
Comm ssioner g AaDskR-That is also published.
depar mcnts make STA ements that their employees
residents the later only give their res after their
these employees were residents OF this city before their
foommi-soner UARpNKR-I can't answer that cues.
ton, SIR
superinenir nts now employed Office when tho
pres Mt commission took chargei
Commissioner GARDsER-Nearly all only one change
has been maze.
me Board then sdoprusd to meet on Saturday next
mcnt will not be resumed until Tuesday
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
CORONE s. CASES.

Death OF an Eccentric Lady-Fr0m At
huence TO POverty-A Sad Story.
Coroner Woltman was called to the tenement
house No. 252 West Forty first street to bold an
inquest over the remains 0i Mrs. Ann Dundass, O
Scotcn lady, about seventy-twO years OF age, who
had been found lying dead on the floor of her
room, located on the first floor. 1t appeared that
Mrs. Dundass very eccentric lady, had lived
there alone for years, and so averse to having
company was the old lady tnat she would not even
admit her own relatives to her abode. In her
rooms were found nearly 500 IN bills on the
Chemical and other city banks. ranging In denom-
alton from 81 to S., besides which sDe has bank
book show wing eposlts IN her favor to the amount
o, 800 In the Greenwich saving Bank.
me Coroner also discovered IN her room
lengthy written document, executed IN SEQ land
fifty yeais ago, whicn, on examination, PROVED a
marriage dover representing certain landed prop
cry IN ireland, and she also up to the day Of her
death received, thu Ouyh q banking house In this
city, annually the sum OF $50.
From MI. Robert II. McCurdy, retired mer-
chant living IN East Fourteenth street, the uOrO-
ner learned tlat deceased. the daughter OF
and accomplished women OF her age iOrtv years
ago or thereabOuts. wnen she came TO This cOunr
with her husband. They had lived in afiuence and
even luxurlOusly In their own country, out, owing
to the contraction OF bad haUits, Mr. Dundass lost
his property, and concluded to leave The scenes OF
his cnlidhOod and come TO America with his family.
Soon after they arrived iu New YORK Nc, urdy
found them In extreme want, but SIN proud and
dlsdalnng to receive ANYTHING IN the way OF
charity so long as they were auie by honest labor
to earn a living for themselves. Eventually Mr..
Dundass died OF consumption. and subsequently
the daughter married and lett her widowed
mother. VINO then lived alone the remainder oil her
II e. Mr.. McCurdy ana his family continued TO
exercise KIND care over the unfortunate widow,
aud saw that she did not wan Tor the necessaries
OF lie. MIS-. Dundass Is to be buried In st.
MicnaePs Cemetery, NewtOwn, l.. |. post NOR
TEN examination showed that death resulted rom
pneumonia. 1t may be stated that deceased had
who studied lOr the ministry,
but after his ordination he preached only one
sermon when death ensued. Mrs. Dundass, in her
excess OF lalny pr &c, was much chagr.ne when
her daughter married poor mechanic, which
some what estranged them aud u reconciliation, IL
Is said, never took place between tue mother and
daughter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
KIN.s COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
the Charity Comm issioners' Bills To BE
Audited.

At the regular weekly meeting Of the Kings
County Board OF supervisors, held yesterday
afternoon, an answer was received from the sew
eral departments to the resolution OF inquiry as 10
what employees II any, he'd two onlces. The only
dual ofllceholding was in the case OF stephen J.
Coiahan, clerk Of the CITY Court who Is q member
OF Assembly from che seventh district The
committee to winch was referred the reso-
luton respecting The auditing and pay
ment OF bills OF the commissioners Of
Charities, 80 As to guard against fraud In the Iu-
ture, submitted q report. IN WIN en- they recom-
mended That all bills should IN the future be nrst
examined IN tue manner speclhed in the act by the
County Auditor. and n they are found and certincd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
The Mysterious Murder of a Watch
mnn-No lew Yet to tho Perpctrator.

Coroner Eckhon yesterday assumed charge OF
the case OF NcbO as A. Schweich. the watchman in
the employ OF the Hudson River Railroad Company,
who, while on duty at the depot, corner OF rhirt-
ell street and Tenth avenue, on Wednesday even
ing. shot IN The right breast by u p. OIL ia the
b.. nds o. an unknown assassin, doubtless thief
who had been frustrated Ia his eiloi Is to break
open aud plunder the Ir light cars belonging me
company The remains OF tine murdered niau were
removed tn ms iate residence, 1855 eleven h ave-
nue. where Deputy Coroner Marsh will make q
post mOrtem examination. Up 10 yesterday a. ter
no captain McLiwaln, OF the Twentieth precinct.
had been unable TO gain the least ciew oi the muir.
derer, Notwithstanding he and his oticers had been
In vigorous pursuit all the night previous.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20

"A warranted; extracting with gas " cents with all
hinys, ~ cen'A ULen untay Examine spoct
mems % oixth avenue. established 1851. Remember
161
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
Killed by a Fall.

Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to No.
6l7 East Fifteenth street, to hold inquest on the
body OF Robert Mcdonald, a man twenty seven
years OF age. and born IN ireland, whose death IN
Bellevue Hospital resulted from injuries received
by accidentally falling down night oil stairs on
the corner OF avenue and Fifteenth street.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
A FATAL DaAUaRr OF INsBOT POISON
BOSTON, Mass. Pcb. II

BOSTON, Mass. Feb. IL, 1874
young man named John Magyar attended tail
and supper party on Saturday evening, given by
the "ROugh aud Ready" engine company, OF Hyde
Park, at the Hillard House, and drank from q
bottle vi ch he found IN one OF the private rooms.
IL contained bedoug poison. wnicn caused his
death last niRhk
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20

BY that oficer to be valid Just. reasonable and
proper claims against the eounty ana are then an
proved by the Board and the supervisor at Large
they snail De PAID, ana That the law requires That
course o. auditing and paying all claims. reso-
luton was adopted requiring all bills to be PAID in
accordance with the law In question.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-20
CITY AND COUNTY TREASURY.

Comptroller Green reports the following disburse.
ments and receipts OF the treasury yesterday
Claims paid number 56l amounting to- ST.
Payrolls number OF warrants 3D. amounting to. 1927
Total (number OF warrants So amounting to. i7
RECEIPTS.
From OF 1878 and interest .,.......... SIN GO
FROM arrears OF taxes assessments and 1870
From cOiIec,on OF assessments aud intercst..- 1888
From market rents anu ices LISA
From water rents. t39
From licenses, mayors ONCE 10
From hurean Of PERMITS, Mayors Office ......... l2
From Term Is to tap wafer pipes. ............. 81
From sewer permits. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LOO
From sales vitrilcd stone pipe. 6D
Total. S5409
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

THE statement of receipts and dis
bursements Of the state treasury for
the month of June were as follows
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11
BLOW THE BUGLE, AND RALLY
THE BOYS!

We have advocated the policy of
abandoning the democratic organiza-
ton and establishing party upon
true democratic principles.
We have advocated this policy be.
cause the democratic organization has
been often led into false position
by unwise and dishonest leaders, who
have brought the reproach of treason,
corruption, hypocrisy, seuility and
Bourbonism upon it,
We believed, and do still believe.
that a political organization founded
upon the principles Of true democracy
might and would succeed, if il were
uncontaminated by the shortcomings
ana mistakes of the old democracy,
which may be briefly summarized as
follows:
Aiezarder-stephensism, declaring
the right Of secession, and justifying
the rebellion;
Blairlsm' protesting against accom-
pliShed facts, and advocating the use Of
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11
THIS DISTRICT

The nomination Of Hon. Isaac Gle
ments for congress by the radicals is,
we believe, one Of the certaiuties of the
future. 1t is true opposition to him
has been developed lately in uuexpect.
ed quarters, but no pressure that eau
be brought against him at this late
hour is likely to defeat linn in the con
vention. We have no doubt, however,
he can be defeated before the people, if
the opposition act as a unite in the ap.
preaching campaign, and labor with in.
dustry to that end
The opposition cannot be united by
insction. Somebody must max e move.
ment to secure the organization Of the
opposition voters Of the district, and
should do 50 IL ance.
The congressional committee, al
pointed by the convention that nom.
iAted Hon. Geo. w. Wall as the dem.
ocrttic candidate for congress, is com.
pSed OF democrats and liberal repub!i-
eAss, mechanics, merchants and farm.
ere. II is representative com.
~isss, and may, With great proprioty,
sfs the lead in the business of organ.
ling the opposition ltshould, at the
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

prper time, issue a call for a nominal
in, convention, asking all citizens op.
poed to radicalism to participate in its
deliberations.
The convention assembling under
this call, should not be a packed
one. No man who asks county to
instruct for him, or who allows his
friends 10 do so, should receive the
nomination for congress. All the del.
egaticns should enter the convention
u1trammelled by instructions, aud
after canvassing without passion the
cl,ims of the different gentlemen who
have been suggested as opposition can
didates, should nominate that one who
will make the most vigorous canvass
and who will truly represent the 'nter-
ests of his constituency.
Such candidate % the opposition
can defeat Mr. Clements before the
pcoplc. sad such a candidate can be
fodnd, if the blunderers who
have so often led VI into defeat in this
part Of the state do not, in seek
ing to further their own interests, ruin
our chances OF success, which are ex-
,eedingly encouraging.
let the committee blow the bugle !
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

ment to the fools whohave lost an op-
portunity to redeem to party from the
Slough of Despond. But sufficient
unto the day is the evil,hereof.
So, we cry "Ri.e up Cyrus MeCor-
mick, old boy musterhe members of
your committee, blcssc and venerable
party trunchoon users hat they are,
aud 20 to tic front. Then, bugler,
give one long, loud bast upon the
buglc horn, aud rally the boys |"
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

OF real estate. BY virtue of an order and
decree of the county court of Alexander
county, Illinois, made on the petition OF the
undersigned, administrator OF the estate
OF Albert II. Whitaker, deceased,
for leave to sell the real estate
of said deceased, at the last
January term of said court, to-wit on the
twentieth day Of January, a. ID 1874, !
shall, ON saturday, the twenty-iiith day of
July next, between the hours Of ten o'clock
a., M, and twelve O'Clock NJ, of said day,
sell at public sale, at the s0uth-wcstcrly door
OF the court hous,, IN the city ot Cairo, in
said county. tll hlowing described real
estate situated in tn city Of Cairo. county
OF Alexander, aud safe Of Illinois, to-wit:
Lots numbered nin'tccn, CIp), twenty (2J.
and twcnty.onc ca, in block numbered
forty-7eyen 90; aul lot numbered thirty
ore CD, in block numbered iorty-ninc 40,
a,l In the first addition to the city of Cairo,
aforesaid
Terms OF sale to IL a. follows: One-thlrd
cash IN hand, ont-tfird IN three months. and
one third in SIX moiths from the day of sale
the purChM or to tiNc nU,ss drawing Fix
per cent interest. ios the deferred pay
Inents, secured 10y tab mortgage upon the
premises sold.
GEORGE FISHER, Administrator,
OF the estate OF Albert X. Whltaker
deceased. o-G-23-d&w-u
tune 10Th, 1874.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11
THE ANCIENT CITIES OF Arr.
IONA.

Ia spite of the Apaches and few
natural disadvantages, chief among
which is the necessity for irrigating
its soil to make 1t productive, Ar
iona is one of the most rapidly i'm
proving of our Western Territories.
But while its future is full of promise, its
past has history, too, a history com
prsing more than the mere fact of for
ests, unbroken and solitary save for
the camps of the red man, here and
there.
The Pueblo Viejo Valley, in Ari.
IONA, is about sixty miles long and
averages four miles in wldth, and con-
tains fine agricultural and grazing
land. Companies are now engaged in
building irrigatng canals in this valley,
and in the course Of their labors have
discovered chain Of marked
ruins of ancient cities located about
a mile apart. In some places the walls
Of the houses still show above the sur
face, and at others, tho rolling mounds,
from ten to forty feet in height, COW
cred with earth or vegetation, show
that ages must have passed since they
were laid PROSTATE. The walls are
composed Of rough stone, Land in NOR
tar. Excavations within their limits in
dictate that all the cities were
DESTROYED NV fra s"o-1 49, asb-;-,
arc found pottery. household utensils
and human bones. Evidently, orema
ton was praotieed by the people whose
bones these were, as many bones we're
found in earthen vessels, in small pieces
which crumble at touch, aud bits
Of charcoal axes, hammers and sledges,
of different size and shapes, and made
Of ston' heavier and harder than any
now known, have been found.
Among the interesting discoveries is
that o. large canal extending
from tie ella river at the eastern end
of the valley down through
the ancient cities, in each
of which is large triangular
shaped reservoir containing from three
to five acres, These are supposed to
be the ruins Of old Notifications. The
edges Of tho canal and reservoir are
laid with stone and constructed in n
very substantial manner. Some of the
reservoirs which are SIX or eight feet
deep, are divided by walls of masonry
extending from side to side.
Who built aud inhabited these cities,
aud passed away leaving behind them
only the ruins Of their habitations to
tell future ages Of their existence, is an
interesting problem. 1t has been said
that .he wanderers through Asia, a
thousand or moro years ago, crossed
Behriug's strait and rade their way
down the Pacific coast Of America into
the temperate and torrid zones, bat nc
facts can be adduced to prove that
these were the ancient inhabitants Of
Arizona.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

The johnson County Journal says
that the question GLOW can the
chinch bugs be disposed OFF" is Of far
moro importance to the farmers than
the question How can we organize
apolitical party that will defeat radio
alism, and give renewed prosperity to
the country" We do not blame the
journal" for entertaining this opin.
ion, The fact that the farmers are
now taking an interest in politics has
alarmed the radical chinch bugs who
have been destroying the prosperity OF
the republic. The ohiuch bug that is
now destroying fields Of corn is not
half az destructive of tho prosperity Of
farmers, mechapics--the people in gen,
eral-as the radical chinch bug that
has blasted t, c public morals aut
ruined the business of the union
The farmers are wise therefore in d.
recting their attention to this chincl
bug, and wo hope they may be able
drive il from the land.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

Lorenzo RANK declares, upon his
honor as an astronomer, that comets
have no tails, and Prof. Vaughn be.
licves their tails are simply lucifcrous
ether. We shall, in view of this con.
flict Of opinion among foreign astrono.
mers, be compelled to apply to the dis
tinguished star ga.er, Alderman Wal
der, the representative of Mr. William
Scott in the city council Of Cairo.
Waldor is authority on tails.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11
IoHN II. oBkRLY. Editor and pronsAsr

RcadipK matter on every page.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

L. NJ. YERoER, Esq, the heightened
southerner who killed several men in
Mississippi and elsewhere, has been
arrested at Baltimore on the charge Of
embegzling $4,000 of the money of
j. II. Maddox.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

A FOOLISH fellow of the name Of
J. X. Hawkins, au congressman of
Tennessee, has declared in favor
Of national liquidation.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

Tue Democratic Senatorial Conven-
ton, of the 5let senatorial district, has
been called 10 meet nj Golconda. on
--.".say, August 10th. The couveu4
ton will nominate candidates for sena-
tor and members Of the house of rep
resentatiyes to serve in the next gen.
eral assembly, and consult as to the
best means for furthering tho welfare
of the democratic party in the district.
The basis Of representation in the con-
vontion will be one delegate for each
100 votes cast for Hon. $. 6. Marshall,
in Hardin county, aud for Hon. &. W.
Wall in the other counties Of the dis
drict, in the election Of 1872, and an
additional delegate for each fraction of
over 30 votes so cast.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-11

CHICAGO has another water tunnel.
ard rejoices in an abundant supsly of
water.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-10-02
SCROFULA!
SCROFULOUS HUMORS.

II NTeFTINT viii relieve pain cleanse purify and
cure such diseases. restoring the patient 90 perfect
health amer Trying dnerenf physicians many RENE
utr suAtftnE Tor years. "a Il not conclusive proof III
you are suffcrcr. you can BE- cured, Why b. fhis
medic me performing suci great curc-, II works I'd
called the treqf oon ffirer. The great source %
disease orlgina In the blood. and 90 medicine r4r
does not act directly upon II. 10 purify and rruurafe.
las any Just claim upon pubic attention. When fIe
blood becomes liiclcSs aud siH-uali. cifhcr from
thhuge ~ weather or climate want Of exercise lr-
regular diet, or from any other canse the kfrEriNE
viii renew THE blond carry On file puirid huwnrN.
tone 81 vgur % the whole body. The c1uN lct0n b.
issiun. that the remedies supplied hy the Ifgcnhs
hng0lA are more safe more successful, n fle cure
Of disease. Than mineral medicines NFCE fINE "
composed Of roots harks and herbs. II s pheasant -
take and perfectly safe fogite an infant In ScrQila
The NEGErINE has performed wonderful cures where
many other remedies have failed. vii b. seen %
the following unsolicited fesrlmOui1i
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-10-02
A Remarkable Grasshopper story.

The Troy Kansas Chief is authority
for the subjoined narrative, which it says
comes to il from Phillips county:
About a year ago, family from Georgia.
OF German descent. named BOOmershne.
located near the western line of Phillips
county. The oldest daughter. aged about
eighteen, was addicted to the habit of clay
eating. She usually obtained the clay
from the roadside Early this summer the
grasshoppers settled down in that region.
and soon began depositing their eggs in
the gardens, fields and roadside. The
BoomershiLe girl went on with her clay
eating. as usual, with no unusual effect.
until 4 short time ago, when she began
complaining of an uneasy feeling in her
interior. and commenced gradually swell
ing, like one with the dropsy. The svmp-
toms increased, and a change began to
take place IN her appetite. She no longer
had taste for clay, but seemed to banker
after the blades OF corn. leaves of trees.
dog-fenncl, and other weeds. and She said
she frequently felt as If she could take
wings and fly away. DIR. LeDuc. of Phil
lipsburg, was sent for, who said that he
had never before met with a case of the
kind in his practice, or read OF one in the
books. He decided that she must be la
boring under some strange hallucination
Ol ule niinu. lnlngS went on thus until
recently, when one day the grasshopperS
commenced rising and taking their flight.
The girl looked at them for awhile, when.
unable TO restrain herself longer. she
rushed out Of the house. Tapped her arms
rs If they were wings. rose about ten feet
in the air. and then fell to the ground dead.
Dr. LeDuc made post mortcm examina-
ton, which revealed the wonderful fact
that her inside was literally swarming with
full-grown grasshoppers. The theory Is.
that she ate OF the clay in which the in
sects had deposited their eggs: they were
hatched out inside of her: her appetite
partook OF theirs and when the time came
for the grasshoppers TO migrate. instinc,
directed those inside of her to do the same. |
An immense concour.e OF people attended
the girls funeral. DR. LeDuc has pre- /
served jar of the grasshoppcrs. which |
he intends depositing in the Smithsonian |
Institution at Washington. and In the |
various museums throughout the country. /
. >e~
David Coiner. living near Dalevlle. /
Ind. accidentally fell into threshing- /
machine. literally tearing one of his legs
from his body. He died the same night. i