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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11
The XCrd " Canard.3

The origin of the word canard
French for duck) when used to signify
some unfounded story, is not generally
known. The following are the terms
In which NJ. Guetelet relates, in the
-4nnu0ire de Z Acadenaie, the manner
in which the word became used in
new sense: "To give sky lift at the
ridiculous pieces of intelligence which
the journals are in the habit of pub
fishing every morning, Cornelison
stated that an interesting experiment
had just been calculated to prove the
extraordinary voracity of ducks Twen-
ty of these animals had been place to-
gether, and one of them having been
killed and cut up into the smallest pos
sible pieces, feathers and all, and
thrown to the other nineteen, had been
gluttonously gobbled up in an exceed
ingly short space of time.
Another was taken from nineteen.
and being chopped small like its prede-
cessor, was served up to eighteen, and
at once devoured like the other and so
on to the last, who was thus placed in
the position of having eaten his nine
teen companions in a wonderfully
short time. All this, most pleasantly
narrated, obtained success which the
writer was far from anticipating, for
the story ran the rounds of all the Jour-
nails in Europe. 1t then became almost
forgotten for about score of years,
when it came back from America, with
application which it did not boast of
at the commencement, and with regu-
lar certificate of the autopsy of the
body of the surviving animal, whose
9sophagus was declared to have been
found seriously injured. Every one
laughed at the history of the canard
thus brought up again, but the word
retains its novel significance.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11
CONGRESS-.

THURSDAY, May 2S-Sendte.- we're
passed setting apart portion of Mackinac Island
a national park, and donating the site of Fort
Houston, Nashville, Tenn, to Fisk University
for educational purposes. The Alabama contested
election case of Sykes VS.. SPENCER was decided in
favor Of the latter by, a strict party
ritory of Pembina was rejected-I9 to 20.
80. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, reported back the resolution of the Sem
examine and report the best mode of electing Presi
dent and Vice-President, with lengthy written
port, which was ordered printed and placed on the
calendar.
Ho,tse.-The Senate amendments to the bill to
legaze pontoon railway bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at Prairie du Chen concurred in. =.
bill for the relief Of hte widow Of Capt. Hail. of
the Polaris, was passed. o.. vote was taken on the
new Currency bill as amended by the Banking and
Currency Committee, and it was rejected by liz to
HI. The Senate substitute without amendment was
also defeated, and the whole matter was sent
to nee COMMITTEES d;n 6i FOR LA the re-
80. The Speak .r appointed as the Special Commit
tee Arkansas affairs, Poland, Ward (Ill), Wood
ford, Sayler (O.), and Sloss. The House held
evening session, which devoted solely to the
consideration, in Committee of the Whole, Of the
Tariff bill.
FRIDAY, May 29.-Senate. from
the COMMITTEES on Public Lands reported adj
versely on the bill to extend the time for
proof and payment on presumption claims upon
public lands. The Election Committee re-
ported a resolution to pay Sykes, contestant
for the seat from Alabama, $. 374. Laid over.
Ferry (Nfich.), from the Committee on Finance,
reported adversely to the resolution of the Senate
directing the committee to inquire into the expe-
diency of allowing producers of tobacco to sell
to others than licensed dealers The Chair
laid before the Senate the House Cur
rency bill with resolution of the House
dsagreeing to the Senate amendments, and asking
for a committee of conference. Wright moved til at
the Senate insst upon its amendments, and grant
the conference asked by the House. Agreed to-
81 to 24-and the Chair appointed Morton. Sherman
and Merrimon as the Committee. -. Several bills
relating to Pensions we're passed.
Housc.-The bill for the gradual reduction of the
army was taken up and passed. An amendment by
Butler that the army headquarters shall never be
removed from the capital was rejected without
division The House concluded tire consideration
of the Senate amendments to the General Appro-
pristion bill and sent it back to q conference
mitee.
MONDAY, June 1.-Sendte. Window, from
the Committee on Transportation, reported back
the bill to provide for Bureau of Internal Com
merce, with an amendment in the nature of sub
stitute- Placed the calendar The following
bills were passed Granting pension of $50 per
month to the widow of the late Gen. Candy;
appropriatng $4,000 Tor bridge across the east
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11
Compulsory Education i'm New York

The Empire State has made educa-
ton compulsory. The law to that effect
comes into force Jan. l, 1875. 1t con-
tains ten sections. The first provides
that every child between the ages of s
and IA years, not physically or mentally
incapable of study, shall be instructed,
at home or in school, at least fourteen
weeks in each year, eight of
which shall be consecutive, in spelling,
reading, writing, English grammar,
geography and arithmetic. The only
study in this list to which objection can
be made is grammar. The best educa-
tors are beginning to drop it. The
second section forbids, under penalty of
$50 fine, the employment during school
hours of any child who has not attended
school fourteen weeks of the preceding
year. The third directs School Trus-
tees to examine the manufactures of
their district, in order to see whether
this rule is obeyed. The fourth is I'M
important. The fifth authorizes Trus-
tees to enforce the preceding sections,
and fixes the fines for keeping children
from school at 81 for the first and So for
each succeeding week. These fines
cannot, however, be collected for more
than thirteen weeks. The sixth section
empowers Trustees to supply books
to poor children The seventh provides
that children shall be classed as habit
ual truants on the written statement of
their parents that they cannot make
them go to school. The eighth gives
Trustees and Boards of Education the
power to make rules, subject to the ap
proval of a Justice of the Supreme
Court for the District, for catching,
combining, and teaching habitual tru
ants. The ninth settles questions of
jurisdiction. The tenth provides that
two weeks attendance at half time or
evening-school shall be counted as one
week at a day-school. Chicago Tri6-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11

A WONDERFUL NEGRo.-They have
got coloIed man in Troy, n. Y, the
seventh son of a seventh daughter, who
has the faculty of moving the walls of
his abdomen shifting his ribs directly
over his bowels changing the position
of the heart and the right breast, and
suspending the pulse and heart-beats.
In addition to these abnormal feats, he
has travelled all over the world has
been awarded a diploma at the Edin-
burgh Medical University; speaks
French, German, Portuguese, Hotten-
tot and Hebrew; has had two wives
and twelve children bends bar of iron
seventh-eighths of an inch in thickness,
over his forearm and has fought twice
in the prize-ring. If there is anything
else that this wonderful negro can do, it
is not narrated but what little he can
do is only another proof of the remark
able achievements of American genius
and enterprise. 1t may be added that
he has brother in Paris who is six feet
two inches high, and has the wonderful
power of shutting himself up like tele-
scope to the height of three feet two
inches.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11

The selling of fraudulent " extras"
or "bogus news" has been lately pun
ished in New York, the victim being
Que Mr.. Bradley, whose particular Of
Tense was rushing along the street,
shouting at the top of his voice, eek
ira l-Great Outbreak in Europe Fifty
Lives Lostp' Five cents had been paid
for the paper, and, not liking to be vic
timized in this way, the party aggrieved
caused the arrest of Mr.. Bradley, who
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
six months.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11

"OUT OF THE HURRY BURLY. This
is the name of book full of the richest
humor, by Max Adeler. It is bound to
be very popular, both on account of its
humor and its superb illustrations, of
which there are some $50. We advise
those who wish to "laugh and grow
fat to buy copy, for such is its effect.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11

elected James A. Weston Governor for the
ensuing year.
THE report that the Hohenzollern candi-
dature for the throne of Spain is to be re-
newed, is confirmed by cable dispatches Don
Carlos, it is said. has sent the information to
Versailles, in the hope that the French Gov
eminent, in order to cripple German SUI
premacy on her southern border, will inter-
fere in his behalf. The Bonapartists in
France are exceedingly active in advancing
their cause. At the coming election for the
Assembly. some of the most prominent I'm
perialists in the nation will be presented in
all the leading departments.
THE committee of the French Assembly
having the subject under consideration,
unanimously approve the postal convention
between France and the United States.
The British Government has kept the prom
Use made at the time Of the Virginius outrage
to demand of Spain suitable apology for the
wrong done. The demand has been DELAYED
on account of the disordered state of the
country, but the British Foreign Secretary ex-
presses the hope, in his dispatch to the Span
ish Government, that the acknowledgment
will oe no longer delayed. . The Roman
Catholic pilgrims from this country have
allocnted and blessed by the Archbishop.
The French Left Center are getting alarmed
at the progress which the Bonapartists are
making. M. Jules Favre advises a fusion with
the Right Center.
THE official paper of Austria considers an
other great war between France and Ger
many, that will forever settle the status of
the two nations, inevitable. :. Caleb Gushing
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
STATE PRISON MANAGEMENT.

Interesting Figures From the state
COmptroHcr's Annual Report-An Im-
pOrtant Increase of Expenditures Dur
Ing the Past Year.
The annual report Of the State Comptroller,
which has just been transmitted by that official to
the Legislature, contains some singular statistics
in regard TO the cost OF carrying on the State
prisons, and, compared with the report OF
last year, many rather inconsistent conclu-
slons. According to the report OF Comp
troiler Hopkins for the fiscal year ending
September &c. 1872, it appears that the
"excess Of advances from the Treasury over
cepts from earnngs'' was s4s5.ssl. while from the
present report it is ascertained that the same
amounts to S597. 2S9 Last year the expenses
$131, 4O7 less than this year. The Comptroller.
In his report took occasion to say that sit would
seem apparent and reasonable that were the pris-
ons properly managed ana their affairs JudicOusy
and Systematically administered, they would be
not only sefsustaining, but would yield o rev.
enue to the Treasury OF the State"
Notwithstanding the above excess OF over
100000, which 1t took to support the penal insti-
tutions for the year 1878, over and above that or
the preceding year, the Comptroller in his report,
cOngratulates the Legislature by ADDING ''This Is,
in point OF lact q better showing than has been
made In the prisons for some years." 1t should be
rene mbered In connection with the above figures
that it was under democratic prison administra-
ton the excess was the lowest, thus showing that
the party OF professed reform is not always the
side OF economy, 1t would be difficult to perceive
how the 'better showing" is demonstrated in the
report, since the yearly cost OF supporting the
prisons which is extolled by the Comptroller ex-
ceeds, according to his own figures, that OF each
and every year since 1867.
In order to OFFSET the suspicious looking excess
indicated, the stock and other properly at the
PRISONS Is made to appear In the most favorable
financial light. One of the sums placed TO the
credit OF Sing Sing Prison represents $3l 600
which, IN the precise language of the Comptroller,
"is reported TO be due at Sing sing for lime man.
ulactured and sold during the year and not paid
ior." Without dwelling on the unprecedented
action of the Comptroller In undertaking to re-
duce the prison expenses Of the past year with
the aid OF reported" balances. debts due the
State and stock and material on hand, the qnes-
tion may pertinenty be asked by what authority
the state Is made creditor in that or any other
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
THE MAYORS ANNUAL MESSAGE.

Both Boards Of the Common Council win meet IN
session tomorrow afternoon, and, whether the
difficulties consequent upon the existence OF two
Presidents OF the Assistant Aldermen are healed or
not, the Mayor will send his annual message to
both branches.
Owing to the passage OF q new charter since
Mayor Havemeyer transmitted his last message to
the Common Council January g. 1879 many
changes have occurred around the City Hall and
the management of municipal affairs. The Mayor
has been actively engaged on this document since
the first Of the year, and the only delay expert
enced by him aud which kept the message back
was caused by the incomplete returns sent him By
the various departments. Yesterday the docu-
meut received the final touches and was sent to tho
printer.
Judging from the voluminous slips in proof COM
posing the Mayors annual message, 1t Is not say
ing too much that it will occupy about six col
umns OF HERALD space. Mayor Havemeyer is very
reticent about its contents, and whe revising the
message would not hold any interview with the
m%Sss Of tine oF no the n
Council had been made acquainted with IT'S con-
tents
assertion that the Mayor has 'laid himself out''
on the message, and therein handles the various
subjects eaS on 0ve he Ra
office, his receipts. expenditures and approx
imatOns Tor the current year. The Commissioner
OF Public Works has considerable attention paid to
his bureau. The Department OF Lamps, Obstruc-
tons, sewers and Croton water matters form
the particular theme. Likewise does he devote
considerable space to the Police and Fire depart
partments, the Park Commission, Commissioners
OF Charities and Correction and Board OF Education.
His Honor reviews the various appointments he
has made, subject TO the powers granted him by
the charter Of 1878.
The public debt of New York city and county il
treated by the Mayor fully and in detail; but, as
matter of course, and judging from the great inti
macy between the Mayor and Comptroller 1t is to
be assumed that ne shows the iatter's exhibit az
official figures.
The annexation OF westchester and the conse-
quent labor connected with the carrying out or
all the little details receive no small share OF the
Mayors consideration, and finally the new Board OF
Police Justices come in for praise at the hands
OF the Chief Magistrate of New York for their en-
cheney In the administration OF minor criminal law.
What His Honor has to say on the recent labor
troubles has not TRANSFERRED, but it Is supposed.
from the TACT that he has been so prominently
brought in contact with the workmen, he would
make strong point on this subject with the Com-
mon Council, or demand from the Legislature such
laws Will allow the employment OF laboring men,
without the red tape required at present in giving
out contracts instead of having work done by
days labor under the restrictions OF the Commits
siOner OF Public Works. The message Is looked for
with interest by a large and interested number Of
DeODe,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18

OHIO Csnai. rom cumberland, Mo-, 10 some point
q the Ohio River. In advocating the adoption OF
complains this route. surveys for which west Of
cumberland were now being made by the govern
prove the compieton Of the rolte would I'M
section m,s through which the route passes.
Tue amendment was adopted and the report OF
'ne co m11' as amended, was agreed to.
s Mr. THOMAS .I offered q resolution, which was
Governors OF the several States and the Dominion
report or the proceedings OF the Convention with
latures and ask favorable action to aid in its par
poses.
AID TO SOUTHERN CANALS.
Mr.. ABELL, President of the Bu1Ya,o Roord NJ
Trade SAID he would prefer that any natioaat aid
be extended to the Southern canals The Erio
Canal, in which he was Interested was not 40 ynueh
In want OF AID as some canals in the Southern
States.
COMMITTEES OF THE CONVENTION
The following standing committees were an
on kaaroads-F. r. Thurber, OF New York
chairman; Colonel Smedly, OF Iowa; $. r. Moore
o. Illinois; o. M. Dorman, OF Virginia, and Judge
White, Of Alabama
on Terminal Fdctltttes-B P. Baker. OF New
York; s. M. Flagg, OF Illinois; Colonel Peyton. OF
Virginia; Josiah Quincy, Of Massachusetts, and
on Arttaciai Voter Coarses-B. W. Frabel, Of
Abel, o. New York; James G. Barrel, Of District Of
Columbia, and F. @. CapreOl, OF Canada.
on Natural Water Ro,ttes-Barton Able, OF
Missouri; General Rosser, OF Minnesota; W.; =
rahhcic, vi NV 1Ork Wm1dln NJ DuiW chs vi NcW
Orleans, and Colonel Walter Il. Weems OF Alta
lanta.
The PRESIDENT before adiourning the Convention,
spoke OF the entire unanimtty existing showing
that the interests or all parts the country South
as well as North, were at heart. lie hoped the del
egates would carry these feelings to their homes,
anu thus do much to promote that feeling OF
brothery love and increase the interests of all Sec
tons in the glory Of our common country.
Mr.. CAPREOI- OF Canada, submitted plans for the
huron and ontario Canal and they were referred
to the Committee on Water Routes.
The committees of the Convention were author
lied to present the reports adopted to senator
WINDOWS transportation Committee.
The Convention then. after q vote OF thanks to
It's OfCers adjourned sine die.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18

The Bishop OF Chichester, England, has sanctioned
the erection OF an ALTAR in chapel attached to
a cemetery; a structure, remarcss the ROCK, which
can only subserye the purposes OF fostering vain
and dangerous superstition. The Archbishop OF
Canterbury has convened a meeting Of bishops, TO
be held at Lambeth Palace, Tuesday, the 18th OF
next month"; to consider divers weighty and i'm
portant matters connected with the Church. Rev.
T.. l.. Patterson has been appointed missionary at
large to the scandinavian population Of Minnesota.
Archde aeon Denison has given up all hopes OF the
Church OF England while 1t continues to be an
establishment. His opinion Is that a conspiracy
exists $40 turn everything that may be
called cathohcr out OF that Church. People
now talk, be says "about stamping ritual
ism out in the same blasphemous language
as the Privy Council talked about stamping out
the cattle plague. The London church Rerie,o de-
lends devotion 10 the sacred Heart as an onsnoot
OF the Conraternity of the Blessed sacrament, one
whose rules requires the recital OF the itany OF
the sacred Heart every Thursday night between
eleven and twelve O'Clock. The COnfraternity OF the
Blessed Sacrament has been in this city for some
time, aud the other rs expected to be taken up
shortly by the rItuaiists Dean Stanley Is threat
ehed WIN LAWSUIT tae ehjeet Of whIeR IA W test
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
shaker PentecOst.

ADveaTIsENESr-w anted.-Men women and children
with the shakers by embracing the true a TN
writing 10 the shakers Mount Lebanon, y. Y.
la consequence OF the publication on the eth ult.
OF the above advertisement IN the NEW YORK
HERALD we received on the sth Sc; 9th, AZ; 10th,
49, and 18TH 14-tota 1875 letters containing either
direct applications to join the society or asking in
formation to that end. Two-thirds Of these are
from young men, and all, with some two or three
exceptions, are well written and show intelli-
rcnce, culture and earnestness or spirit to
find the kingdom OF heaven, II 1t exists
upon earth, and TO have a lot and place
IN it.. TO each Of these writers we
nave sent publications, and have written to as
many as time would permit thus far. Many more
will be written to, and all Will receive some num-
hers of the Shaker ana Shd6eress, a monthly, pub
ushed at nfty cents per annum-F. w. crews.
editor. To these friends and to all who may con-
template s.joining the Shakers" we address the
following:-
l. Faith IL the first requsite--a belief induced BY
evidence consequent upon rational inquiry and
scientific in vestigatiOn that the same CHRIST spirit
mat created the primitive Pentecostai Church,
composed OF Jewish Israelltes. has made us sec
ond advent upon this earth and mas created pente-
costal communities composed OF Gentle lsraentes.
They have "come from the East ana the west ana
the North and the South, and have sat down III
The kingdom Of heaven" SO mucn ana SO long
prayed lor.
2. CONVICTION for sin will result from faitn and
obedience to the Christ Spirit will "take away all
the SINS OF the world" whether physical or
spiritual, OF 'men, women or Children he tnat
coniesseth and lorsageth his sins shall tnd Ian n-
hcrltance IN the Kingdom OF heaven
g. iucnes ana poverty come from false organic
laws and IRON large part of the worlds SINS
They cause luxury and desttution, wastefuI, riot
Gus living and pinching starvation; unphysiOlogi-
cal food and drinks, which induce the use OF poison
Gus medicines, eytravagant, health destroying
aud body -deormng dresses and a scanty ward
robe aud rags. Thus rs God dishOnored bv the SUI
ierings oil humanity, and Christianity mas become
"a uyword and reproach. as being no autidote Tor
the Ills to winch flesh Is heir
L. '.Au thugs commonu-a Pentec0sfal order-is
as possible now, to-day, as 1t ever was TO those
who before witness, Will "turn the battle To the
gater and confess their individual SINS and do
That which s lawful and right" and thereby
save body aud soul alive"
s. Now, "the poor and rich have the Gospel
preached unto them, and II these rich Will sell all
fnat they have and give TO these poor, thus level
ling the mountains and tlling up the valleys there
will he q Pentecost--a religious community.
d. BE Just towards yourselves and the society
with which you are about to unite by collecting
and retaining in your own possession all property
whether IN money, goods or clothing, that you mas
be not only seli-supporting but nep TO those
nbs are poorer than YOURSELVES He thai nro
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
ST. STEPHENS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,
BROOKLYN.

The new and handsome ediice Of st. Stephens
Roman Catholic church. corner OF Summit and
Hicks street, South Brooklyn, is rapidly approach
ing completion. The roof has been finished and
the cross /. about TO be placed in It's exalted posi-
ton ON the splre, 200 feet above the sidewalk. The
pastor OF the church, Rev. Father O'Riely proposes
holding lair shortly to obtain the means requisite
OF the congregation have held several meetings at
when the ways and means" OF proceeding nave
been seriously discussed. Contributions Of money
and articles for the tables are now being received
in furtherance OF the object to be attained,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
The Catholic Union Of New York.

At an annual meeting of the Catholic Union OF
New York, held on Wednesday, the 14th inst, the
following named gentlemen were elected officers
Tor the ensuing year DIR. Henry j. Anderson
President; Eugene Kelly, First Vice President !;
Joseph Thoron, second Vice President; Dr. T.. b.
O'Callaghan, Corresponding Secretary; Charles n.
Morse, Recording secretary; William j. Hughes
Treasurer, and Denis Quln, jeremiah Develn,
Joseph j. Marin, William Luinms, LOUIS u. Binsse
members OF the Executive Committee.