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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
DISAPPOINTED FREE THINKERS.


Another Decentralization FOlle0s
During the past week EFFORTS were made by an as
ISOLATION OF German ultra-radicals, known as the
German Free Thinkers Union, to get up demon
stration. the object OF which was TO denounce the
course Of the police authorities in regard to the
projected workIngmen's demonstration and the
conduct OF the police toward the crowd that was
assembled in Tompkins square on the day of the
intended demonstration. committee Of ar
rangements was appointed, which engaged the
New York Assembly Rooms corner OF Second ave-
nue. and First street, as the place where the "mass
meeting'' was to be held, and all arrangements for
the contemplated demonstration bad been per-
iected, which was to have come Of last night,
but the affair turned out to be complete "fzze,"
owing 10 the fact that the proprietor OF the place
referred 10 DID not keep the contract which he had
entered into with the committee OF the Free
Thinkers, but refused to admit them and their
headed By Conrad Kuhn ana otne ,ii.''e IN
vain repeatedly offered him payment in
the 81 thu e os "a ere t on as ne Prize
meeting last night
Az the appointed hour-abOut eight o'clock-a
in front OF the building in Second avenue, and
upon learning the TACT that they would
able aa%ted to the ha
OF any KIND occurred Several members OF the
free Thinkers Committee assembled the sroops OF
the building, and each brleny harangued the
crowd, violently denOuncing the police authorities
10 whom 1t was attributed that through lntimida-
ton they mad Influenced the proprietor OF the As
sembly Rooms causing him to refuse to let the place
Ior the intended demonstration. Although the
speakers relrained from melting excess, they were
violent In their denunciat0n Of this outrage,
tney characterized IL, the rights and privileges
OF American citzens-On their rights OF free speech
they were repeatedly interrupted with violent
outbursts OF applause by the crowd, which, how.
ever, as soon as the free thinkers had finished
their harangues, quietly dispersed. Although not
a single police officer was seen among the crowd
nor IN Its immediate vicinity, ample arrangements
mad been made by the police authorities Tor any
emergency. and considerable force OF detectives
were distributed among the crowd to watch the
movements OF individuals.
THE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT.
me Treo thinkers then repaired to their club
room, room 80 Turn Hall, in Forty-secOnd street.
where a meeting was held for the purpose OF tax.
ing action in the premises, Mr.. Gundlach presid-
ing. IL was then resolved at once to sue the pro-
prletor OF the New York Assembly Rooms, Mr..
Suzer, Tor damages for breach OF contract, and a
committee was appointed to make arrangements
for the lease OF the Cooper Union hall any other
large hall for some evening next week, not earlier
than wednesday, for the purpose Of expressing
their Indignation and demanding the rights OF cti-
zens without abridgement 1t was also resolved to
invite the cooperation OF other societies. view OF
the general importance and bearing OF the topics
to be discussed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
KEW YORK LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
albany. Ian. %. 1874

ALBANY, jan 81 1874
The special order the consideration OF the pro-
posed amendment to the constitution, came up
after the reading OF the journal.
Mr.. ROBERTSON rep) renewed the motion OF
Mr. Gross (dem.) to strike out section 4, article g.
OF the proposed amendments. He gave 1t as his
opinion that the section could be stricken out
without jeopardizing the remainder Of the pro-
posed amendment.
Mr.. GANsoN dem. argued that 1t was COM
petent to strike out the section. IL was an unjust
provision, as 1t would produce an inequality in the
Legislature. He argued that the action or the
senate was not final; the people at the polls will
approve or reject the amendments. The simple
question OF duty for the senate was to revise the
proposed amendments and place them before the
people to vote upon. The speaker slso aggped
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
The President replieJ:-
Art MATTERS,
Portrait Of MIR. Gladstone.

Mr.. Herbert, the eminent Royal Academician
who has been paying visit to Mr.. Gladstone at
Hawarden Castle, daily devotes considerable time
TO painting full length portrait OF the Premier
which, when finished, is destined for the Queens
collection at Windsor. So far as the work has
already been proceeded with the likeness is adj
mirable and the picture gives promise OF all that
might be expected from an artist OF such rare
M yor
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
BROOKLYN MORTALITY,

There were 158 deaths In Brooklyn during tho
week. OF the deceased lol were males and 95
females; 1853 we're natives OF the United States,
"a OF Ireland, OF Germany, Of England of Scot
land and OF other countries. CONSUMPTION car.
rled of %; COMMISSIONS, 10; pneumonia, rs; con-
gestion, 8; scarlatina, 10; dphthera, 81 Group, Q,
and measles, 4. The highest death rate was in the
Sixteenth ward. where there were 20 deaths.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
THOROUGH EXECUTION.

A Murderer's Head Cut on by the Hang
Lgan's Cord.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Jan. %, 1874.
Marshall Morton was hanged at Martinez to-day
for the murder Of Valentine Fischer, Antioch,
Contra Costa county, Cal. On the scanold ne
said that the murdered mans wife instigated the
murder. She Is now In the Asylum for the IN
sane Morton made lull confession OF DIS part III
the crime. When the drop fell his head was en-
tirely severed from his body, which fell iiieess 70
the ground.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
MORE GAS FOR BOSTON.

BOSTON, Jan. 70, 1874
The Boston Gas Light Company has applied to
the Legislature for leave to increase Its capital
from 1000 900 to S. 600, O0O which Is required to
extend the works Of the company
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
CASUALTY FROM WIND.

PIrrsBURG, Jan. %, 1874.
heavy wind storm prevailed here to-day. The
roof of the converting house of the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works. at Braddock's FIeids, was ,orn OH
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
KILLED BY A FALLING BRICK.

Coroner Eickhon was yesterday called to No. al6
East Twenty-thrd street, to hold an inquest ON
the body OF Conrad Waller, q Norwegian lad,
twelve years OF age, who was killed the evening
previous by brick falling upon his head while
playing In the old House OF Refuge, corner OF
Twenty-third street and First avenue. There are
three or four witnesses to the occurrence.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
SUDDEN DEATH,

BUFFALO, Jan. 23, 1874
Albert Halter Tracy, eldest son OF the late
Albert II. Tracy, OF this city, was found dead
In his bed yesterday morning from apoplexy He
was a graduate OF Yale College and occupied q
prominent position " THIS his Rative clv.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

special correspondence to the HERALD, dated
at Yokohama, Japan, on the 7th OF December, re-
ports as follows:-The United States ships Idaho,
Palos, Saco and Ashuelot are at Yokohama The
MOnOcacy left on the 4th inst. for China The
Lackawanna is at Nagasaki and the Hartford mag
snip Is on her way to that port.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
A RECKLESS DRIVER INDICTED.

WORCESTER, Mass, Jan. 20, 1874
The Grand Jury have indicted Charles Moore
for cansino the death OF Asa Streeter IN this CITY,
by cayelessly DRIVING over him on TIE street,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
Movements OF the Fleet at Key West>
Arrival of the Ticonderoga and the
Shenandoah.

KEY WEST Fla., Jan. %, 1874.
The Ticonderoga, from the South Atlantic squad
ron. and the nandoah, rom the Mediterranean,
arrived here early this morning. The Mavf1oweri Is
ordered to Mobile to bring back an old hulk FOR tor
pedo practice The Powhatan, Captain beaumont,
will leave for Norfolk tomorrow with discharged
and slck men. Captain Whiting, Of the Worcester:
lieutenant Mark and Engineer John Roach ar
rived in the steamer to-day after which the Worces.
ters sailed for Havana.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-24
The Britton Case still Omen.

The Britton Case still Open.
ALBANY Jan. %, 1874.
All reports concerning the action or conclusion
Of the Governor in the case OF District Attorney
BrittOn are unfounded In TACT, the Governor says
he has not yet finished examining the testimony in
the case, and will not finish for several days.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

The SIAMEsE TwISs-MEDICAL OPIS-
IONS. A dispatch from Mount Airy,
n. c., says that DR.. William Holings-
worth, who attended the Siamese twins,
is of opinion that the death of Eng WAS
not caused by any vital connection of
artery passing from one TO the other
through the ligamen that united them,
and believes that there was no such vital
connection through the ligament, be-
cause he has attended the twins when
one was sick and the other in good health
and when there was as much as twenty
beat 'HHrence to the minute in their
pulsa. =. The bodies, after being en-
balmed, were placed in a coffin and en-
cased in large tin box, which was
soldered and made air-tight. All was
then put in a large wooden box packed
with charcoal, and made secure, and
placed in the cellar of their house.
1t is reported that the bodies
will be disposed Of at some enormous
price, to some museum or medical col
lege, or placed on exhibition. This is to
be subject to the decision OF the members
of the family. The charge is made that
a veil of mystery has been thrown over
the death of the twins, and that the real
cause of their decease has been sup
pressed for the purpose OF obtaining pos
session of their bodies for the above
stated object. A dispatch from Green's
borough says DR.. Joseph Hollingsworth,
brother of the doctor who attended the
twins while en- route for the North, stated
that his mission was to dispose of the
dead bodies of the twins on the most IA
vOrable terms that lie could negotiate.
The sum asked for the privilege of post
mortem examination is said to be from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

Since the dawn of civilization there
has been an antagonism between capital
and labor; but just now the breach seems
to be wider than ever before. Working
mems associations have been formed all
over the country, and according to intel
ligence telegraphed from the East several
days ugo there was then, and probably
is yet, imminent danger of trouble be-
tween the laboring classes and the CAPT
talists. 1t was even said by the New
York Chief of the Police that certain in
cendiary fires had been caused by the
workingmen or those in sympathy with
them, and the Chief was also apprehen-
sive that other fires would result from
the same cause. So far as the banding
of the laboring classes together for le-
gitimate and proper purposes, that is,
the maintenance OF a fair rate Of wages
for their labor and assistance to each
other in cases Of distress or general lack
of employment, we are with them, heart
and hand. But when these associations
resort 10 means which, if carried out to
the end designated by the Hotspurs
among them, will uproot the founda,
ton of the Government and produce
chaos in society, we think it well to
pause and reflect. Labor cannot get
along without capital as we'll
as the latter can without the former
Capital awaits its favorable opportunity
labor takes the first opportunity. In
England the antagonism between these
classes has been carried to such an ex
tent that capitalists have formed. or are
forming, league, TO be called the
National Federation of Employers,
which is intended to act as a counter.
poise to the trades-unions among the
laborers. These now number 700, 00C
members, and are rapidly increasing,
and control such large sums of money
that single union has, according to the
Pail Mall Gazette, spent half million
dollars in year. The capitalists COM
plain that this vast organization i,
under the control Of small body Of
able, INSCRIPTIONS and energetic men
who make business Of formenting dis
content with existing legislation, how
ever salutary, and existing social condi
tons, however natural and legitimate
and neglect no opportunity of plungint
aud thus imperil the national pro,perit.
by filling the future with uncertaint,
and preventing the formation of con
tracts requiring long periods Of time 70
their execution.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

the death penalty. There is 10 other
form of punishment which strikes terror
TO the brutal and the ferocious element.
imprisonment for life is not an adequate
penalty for the shedding OF blood. IL
would not be even were it real. IL can
not be under a system which divests II OF
all meaning. We have no such punish
ment as life imprisonment, LOT Tue
pardoning power is always vested IN
practically irresponsible hands. II the
propensity to kill were on the decline
If the crime of murder we're inirequeht,
II the custom Of going armed ana nor
obtain. if the respect for human lie
were manifested more strongly, there
might be some reason in this proposal 10
do away with the death penalty but as
it is, we rather need taller gallows and
shorter shrifts, than any relaxation ID
the severity of our penal code. Abolish
capital punishment, as things are, ana
You abolish the criminality OF murder,
and put the slaughter Of man on par
with the forging of a note or the burglary
Of house. Does any thinking man be-
lieye that the so-called shooting
scrapes"-better described as brutal,
savage and murderous combats -
which occur nearly every day in
some part of the State. aud not
seldom two or three day, wonid be less
frequent il there were no punishment Tor
murder? Or is it because a mawkish
and diseased public sentiment has 80
often cheated the gallows, that the law
making power is to defy the teachings of
experience and the inductons of reason,
and remove the last barrier remaining
between the desperadots infesting this
quarter of the globe, and the full graft.
fcstion of their unbridled ferocity and
their homicidal propensities? The plain
truth is that our civilization is not suf-
ficiently advanced TO make any such
modification of the penal code snfe OF
proper. Before we abolish the death
penalty we must secure at least a fail
degree Of respect for the sanetity of hui
man life.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01
Pacific Coast.

The Kinsey Murder Trial 49, Miss
Josephine White.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 3l.-The Kinsey
murder case has been continued in the
Twelfth District Court, till next Mon
day.
Counsel in the case of Robert Man
ming, for the murder Of a Chinee, COM
menced their arguments in tn case
to-day, before the jury in the Fifteenth
District Court.
Miss Josephine White, the woman who
few days since sned one of our promi-
nent merchants for seduction and breach
Of promise to marry, was before the Po-
lice Court to-day. She is accused Of
having obtained $500 or 5000 from paf-
ties in this city by giving mortgage on
land in Oakland to which it is said she
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

MEASURING LIGHTNING.-The length of
a flash of lightning is generally under
estimated. The longest known was
measured by NJ. F. Petit, at Toulouse.
This flash was ten and half miles long
Arago once measured series, which av-
ersged from seven to eight miles in
length. The longest interval ever re-
marked between fash and the report
was seventy-two seconds, which would
correspond with district of fourteen
miles. Direct researches have shown
that storm is seldom heard at greater
distance than from seven to ten miles,
while the average are barely heard over
four OF five miles of. This fact is the
more curious as cannon may be distinctly
heard double or treble that distance, and
in special cases much further.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. - Concerning
the bill before the California Legisla-
ture to abolish capital punishment, the
Sacramento Record, of Tuesday last, ex-
presses the following decided views:
The proposition is one which appeals
to an unwholesome sentimentality, a
mistaken idea of humanitarianism. A
community in which so formidable a
section regards murder as a venial
offense, can not afford to dispense with
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01
Foreign N ews.
Spanish Cruelties to the Families q
Cnhan PRtriols

spanish Cruelties TO the Families OF
Cuban Patriots.
HAVANA, Jan. 31.-A letter says
number of families of Cubans in the field
have been brought from Gobara, Bolguia,
Porto Principe, and other cities of the
Central and Eastern Departments, and
imprisoned by the authorities. 1t is a
piteous spectacle to view feeble old men
and hollow-eyed women, some with ba.
bies in their arms, and troops of little
children, some of them carrying immense
bundles, and making their way over the
rough streets to Jail. The prisoners, to
the number of two hundred, were sent
afterwards to the Isle of Pines. The
greater part were sent from Puerto Prin-
cipe, by Gen. Portillo, who qualities
them vecinos peligrosos dangerous
neighbors.)
Bilboa to Surrender.
BAyoNNE, Jan. 31.-The Carlist Junta
announces that the municipality Of Bill
boa have offered to surrender the city in
week, but the insurgents refuse to
grant more than four days.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

CURE FOR THE TooTHAcHE.-A An ex-
change gives the following simple appli-
cation for the toothache, on the princi-
pie, if no cure no charge for the advice:
If any Of you readers suffer from tooth
ache or neuralgia affections arising from
teeth in any stage of decay, they may ex-
perience relief, instantaneous and per-
manent, Ivy saturating small bit Of cot
ton or wool with a strong bit of solution
of ammonia, and apply it Immediately to
the affected tooth. The pleasant con-
trast instantaneously produced some
time causes fit of laughter, although q
moment before extreme suffering and
anguish prevailed.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01
9egal, Gts.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TAAT BY
N virtue of an order of sale made by the
District Court of the Seventh Judicial District,
Lincoln County, State of Nevada. On the 22d
day Of November, A. d. 1873, in the matter o.
the estate Of William Davis, deceased, l will
sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for
cash, at the Courthouse, in Phoebe, Lincoln
County, Nevada, on
Wednesday, the IIth Day of Febru-
ary, A. ID. 1874,
At 10 O'Clock m. all the right, title, interest and
estate that said William DAVIS, deceased had at
the time of his death, and all right, title and
interest the said estate shall have acquired since
the death of said William Davis in and to the
following described premises, viz: An undivi-
ded one-half Of that certain tract or parcel Of
land, with an undivided one-half Of all springs
or other water thereon. and water rights con.
nected Herewith. situated in the Highland
Mining District, Lincoln County, State of Ne
vada surveyed by the County Surveyor Of said
County on the 9th day Of November, A. D.
1872 and recorded in book "B" q Surveys,
Lincoln County Records, on page l6s, and in
said survey more particularly described as fol-
lows:
Beginning at the s. E. corner OF Marshall S
land, at Highland, and about seven miles west
erly from Phoebe City, Lincoln County Nevada,
and running thence north 1850 feet, to stake,
No. 2: thence east, 1851 feet to q stake, No. 3;
thence SOUTH 1850 feet, to a stake, No. 4; thence
west, 1861 feet to a stake, beginning; containing
5s74 acres, excepting piece $50 square sold by
said deceased prior to his death.
Phoebe November "a. 1878.
d. l.. DEAL,
Public Administrator Of Lincoln County.
ja20-3w
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

A NASHVILLE printer recently had some
very bad manuscript copy to set up.
Every word needed close study before its
meaning could be guessed at, but at
length two or three words came in sue
cession which it was quite impossible to
decipher. All hands in the Office tried
and failed, until at length the printer, in
despair, set up, copy books ten cents
EACH" and continued the work, after
wards sending the proof to the author for
correction. The hint was taken, and the
author employed an amanuensis.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

The Utah Central snow-plow weighs
1000 pounds.
The Denver banks have sold 1924, 000,-
600 in exchange during the past year.
A Mrs. PLEASANT, OF Fort Laramie,
has sued paper for saying that she has
murdered three husbands. when the fact
is she hasn't murdered bnt two; the third
one getting away with broken rib.
The Indian Commissioner has ordered
that no more rations Of corn be issued to
the Apaches, because they use it to make
an intoxicating liquor called "tiz-win,
and get drunk on it.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

A NEW circulating library, imported ci-
gars, tobacco, stationery and confection-
cry at ]. Levin & Co.'S, opposite Hamil-
ton s saloon. Main street.
A POLICY of life insurance is the cheap
est and safest mode of making certain
provision for ones family.
BREAD-Eight loaves of good bakers
bread, made from California -four, for 81,
at the Eagle Bakery, Main street.
dG-tf H Prudential
To make money, buy OF Ashim
Bros. NJ
PIONEER News DEPOT, Main street-C.
Wiederhold.
Limburger Cheese at $. Ashim &
Bros. d27.f
White and Gray Merino Drawers,
Fifty Cents, Mt 5. Ashim d Bro. 3. d27-tf
White and Gray Merino Undershirts,
Fifty Cents, Mt 5. Ashin & Bro. =. d27-tf
s. AsHIM 4 BRO.
BLACK FRocK SUITS. $40; worth $50.
to be found at Ashim Bros. NJ
3. AsHIM BRO.
BLUE. BRows AND BLACK BEAVER surrs, $25
worth s35.
Six pounds Crushed Sugar for 81. 90
at ;. Ashim d Bros. M
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

The total number of deaths in New
York city during the past year have been
a little over 49, 900, or $500 less than the
previous year, making the death rate 80
in 1000 per annun,, assuming the popu-
alton to be 100000 on an average
through the year.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

Four Milwaukee capitalists have just
completed the purchase from the n. p.
Railroad Company of 1900 acres of land
in the Cheyenne Valley, near the cross
ing of the railroad, and will in few
days make contract for an additional
10000. Their object is to locate col
ony there next Spring, and with this
view they have contracted to put at least
500 acres Of the first named purchase
under cultivation the ensuing season.
Duluth Tribune.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

GENERAL KIMBALL, of indianapolis, In
diana, and successor to General Glenn
ents as Surveyor General of Utah, has an
rived in this city and taken charge of his
Office While we regret to lose so good
man and faithful officer as General Glenn
ents, we are pleased to know that he is
succeeded by brother-chip of the Faber,
an old newspaper man, who comes
among us highly recommended, and is
well qualified for the position Salt
Lake Tribune, 25th
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-01

Mr.. KENpALL's bill to provide for
erecting a building at Carson for the
Postofice and United States Courts, and
his bill for the relief of persons injured
by Indian depredations, will receive ut
tention in Tuesday 8 issue.