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The New York herald., 1874-11-28
A BANK PRESIDENT SENTENCED.

Five Years I'm the Albany Penitentiary
for Embezzlement.
RICHMOND Va, Nov. 81, 1874.
T. T. Brooks, convicted last week IN the United
States Circuit Court OF embezzement and making
false entries while president OF the Merchants
National Bank OF Petersburg, was to-day SEN
tenced TO i've years. Imprisonment in the Albany
Penitenttary. broocks' counsel leave for Wash
ington tonight to make application ior Executive
ClemelcY.
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THE CENTENNIAL.


Canada TO Take Part In the Exhibition.
PHILADELpHrA, Pa, Nov. 27, 1874.
The Centennial Commission has received com.
munication from the Secretary of state OF the
New Dominion government, announcing that
Canada desires to take part In the International
Exhibition and asking wnatspace could De allow ed
her. An answer has been returned stating tina.
guch apace 10 may be required VIII be furnished.
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THE SIGNAL SERVICE WIRES.

The United States Signal Service wre running
from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Bay, has just been
connected with the government cables and is now
working through to Cape May. BY the aid OF O
repeater at Long Branch, this wire is connected
with the Chief Signal once at Washington.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

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LIST OF NEW BOOKS
FROM MY YOUTH UP.-A delightful story by Marion
Harland One of the most fascinating she has
written Price 81 81 The other works by this popular
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Alone. True Steel.
Hidden Path. Husbands and Homes.
Moss side. Phemies Temptation
Nemesis. RubyS Husband
Miriam. The Empty Heart.
He en- Gardner. Sunnybank.
At Last. Jessamlne.
PROGRESSIVE PETTICOATS-Or, Dressed to Death.
An Autobiography OF Married Man. BY Robert b.
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illustrations printed in color after the steel engraving
gems of the famous Forentine artist, Bartoiozzi.
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WEST LAWN-Marv j. Holmes charming new novel,
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Agnes Fleming, author OF Guy Earscourts Wife," &c.
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TEN OLD MAIDS.-aFive Of Them Wise and Five Of
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81
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THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature during the last twenty-fou hours
in comparison with the corresponding date last
year. as recorded at Hudnurs drug store 2Is
Broadway -
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ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
Tho Commander Of the British Expedition to the
North Pole Commissioned.

LONDON, Nov. 28-5:30 A M.
II has been finally decided that Commander
Alfred Markham, Royal Navy, shall nave chief
command OF the government expedition which s
to start next May for the Arctic regions on a
voyage OF discovery.
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HANGED FOR OUTRAGE.

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov, q, 1874.
George Smms colored, was hanged to-day at
Covington, Ca, for committing an outrage on a
white woman in November. 1873. He confessed
hs gullt yesterdaY.
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Startlfng.-The Great Fire Test Me-
dium, Mrs SUYDAM, OF Chicago, will handle fire with
impnnity under spirit 1875 Broadway sunday
evening, November 20 Admission so cents
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WASHED OVERHEARD.

Boston, Nov. q, 1874
The schooner George B. Loring, now at Glouces-
ter, reports that captain Mckenzie was washed
overheard and drowned at the Grand Banks ON
the Sth inst.
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Evcrdell's Principal Onicc, 3O2 Broad-
way-Wedding and Bah Cards, Orders OF Dancing En-
craving and Printing, every description.
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PIRE IN BARCLAY STREET.

At thirty minutes past eleven last night nre was
discovered in the basement Of No. 35 Barclay
street. occupied BY s. r. Van Duzer, druggist. It
was extlnguished after q damage OF $5S74. The
cause Ol the fire Is at present unknown, and Fire
The New York herald., 1874-11-28

You Can Cure That Cough or Cold by
using WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY soc
and 81 o hottie; large bottles much the cheaper.
The New York herald., 1874-11-28

Ladies and Gentlemen DESTROYS OF Pro-
curing elegant SEAL CAPS and GLOVES should make
their purchases at KNOWS No. 2l2 Broadway, his
Fifth Avenue Hotel Store. his stock fancy FUkS Is
OF fmatchless excellence, embracing all eties.
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Christmas is Coming.-If You Wish
Boots, Shoes, gentemen's toilet Slippers patronze
MILLER CO., No. Union square,
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Marvellous Cure.-W. H. DonaId son,
40 Broad street. Newark N j., cured by Dr. FIrLER,S
REMEDY, l3 Bond street anu druggists.
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Mothers Protect Your Children from
Group; 1CUOO children saved this winter by wear.
inQ GRADUATED CHEST PROJECTORS; sold every.
where ISAAC A. SINGER Manufacturer. 694 Broadway
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Pure and Delicious Smoking To-
BACCo: is SURBRUG'S GOLDEN sCEpTRE Try it.
Depot LOT Fulton street,
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Cheap Luxury.-Torrey's Patent
WEATHER STRIPS; cold draughts avoided fuel saved.
+. s. d J. ToRREY, l66 Fulton street
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Cough, Cold or Sore Throat Requires
immediate attention. neglect otentimes results in
some incurabe lung disease "BRUWN'S BRONCHIAL
TROCHEo'' will amos invariably give relief
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ENGLAND.

LONDON, Nov. 27, 1874.
The weather throughout England to-day Is fair.
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Tho Most Secure and Pleasant Remedy
for the cure Of Coughs, &C. il PORTERS COUGH
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Sflenced In . Few HOurs-A Dfstress-
Ing cough by HALE'S HONEY or HOkEHoUND AND
TAR.
PIXIES TOoTHAcHE DROPS cure in one minute.
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Alarming Iillfons.-Catarrh Universal.
WOLCOTT'S CATARRH ANNIHILATOR the remedy;
pnts ST.; PAIN PAINT, the greatest agent over pain.
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Perfection.-Boker's Bitters. Beware OF
counterfeita
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A.-The Revolution In Treating Rup-
ture, caused by the comfortable ELASTIC TRUSS 6ss
Broadway, has greatly restricted the sale Of metal
trusses and almost entirely annhated those wretched
instruments OF torture.
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Average temperature yesterday. ..:.....:... 4oH
Average temperature for corresponding date
last sa,I
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A1.-Furniturc Auction Sale Tuesday
and Wednesday, December and 2. see kelly CO.'S
adYarIisamAnf
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An ORer Will be Received for Two
TEN CYLINDER HOE ROTARY PRESSES; WILL. BE
SOLD Low. ADDRESS THE NEW YORK HERALD
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A.-FOr u First Class Dress or Business
HAT 60 direct to the manufacturer ESPENSCHEID. lis
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GREAT SUCCESS.
Justin Mccarthy,s new story,
Five editions sold In two weeks
General ss.';!i Isa s;;a' 81! PLAINS
Two editions in two weeks
LOSING II 10 WIN.
BY Theodore Davisa
Two editions in two weeks.
Theodore 1lls0nT fEESfss},f1l,ssrp, EXIT spysl,
Price, 81 rs Thirteen editions sold.
Either of the above by mall. post paid on re-
ceipt oi the price.
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ActIUH Oh INC NeturhIng BOdrd-Arrest0
for Violation of the Enforcement Act.
NEW ORLEANS Nov. 27, 1874
The Returning Board to-day resolved to promul-
gate the returns OF all the Senatorial districts
canvassed. Nineteen citizens OF LaIourche parish
have been arrested on warrants issued by the
United States Commissioner, charging them with
violation OF the Enforcement act. They will be
brought here for preliminary examination.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-28
How They Used the Old Man.
rFrom the Detroit Free Press.l


DR.. Henry Southell, an old man of
sixty, lives with his son-in-law on Hast
ings street, and it is said that the aged
pioneer has temper like a bear poked
up with hot pitchfork. He grunts and
snarls around at every thing and every
body, and there is no peace in the house
until his eyes and mouth are closed in
sleep. He took a new tact a few days
ago, and threatened to commit suicide if
his whims were not humored. The fam
lily didn't really think he would do such
a thing, but they weren't sure, and so
they were rather soft on him for a few
days. Saturday night he got some odd
notion into his head, and the family fiat
ly refused to CRAFTY it. He said he
would take poison, but they were firm.
Along in the night he was heard groan-
ing and rolling around, having an attack
of bilious collie, and the family reused
up under the idea that he had taken
deadly dose. He wouldn't say he hadn't,
as he wanted 10 have revenge on them.
The boy ran for the doctor, the woman
hunted for mustard, and the son-in-law
dashed about after eggs. He got cou-
pie, broke the whites into teacup, and
ordered the Old man to open his potato
trap. Old man wouldn't, but he was
taken by the throat and made to. The
eggs were followed by mustard. He shut
his gums together, but the son-in-law
sat down on him and jabbed the end of
& tooth brush into his mouth until he
opened it. When the old man heard
them call for tepid water he said it was
MT case of poisoning, but they rammed
the tooth brush at his gums again, and
he had to drink half pint Of warm wa
ter. The son-in-law said he wasn't go
ing to have his family disgraced by
suicide in the house, and he shouted for
more eggs. The old man tried to beg of
but hey held his head, .ierked down his
chin, and the eggs went down his throat
While waiting for the doctor the son-in-
/ law got the old man out of bed and
pranced him up and down the hall with
nothing on him but long night-shirt.
He made the pioneer get up and travel
like buffalo, leaping him over chairs
and up and down and around. The old
man shouted again and again that he
| hadn't tried to commit suicide, but the
son-in-law said it was too thin, and con-
tinued to prance him until the doctor
came. The doctor said it was morphine,
and he whipped out a stomach pump
and rolled up his sleeves. The old man
begged that they wouldn't pump him
out, but they were firm. He was thrown
down and held fast, and they jingled the
rubber tube down his throat and the
doctor manned the brakes and pumped
away. He said it was a grave case, but
it was barely possible that the patient
might be saved. He pumped away until
the reservoir was empty, and then they
ran the old man around again, fed him
more eggs, felt his pulse, gave him some
more warm water, and the doctor said it
was the incest little job he had had for
six months. The old pioneer is abed yet,
but is recovering, and the son-in-law ex-
poets the most gratifying results from the
experience.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-28

Father John J. Kain, Roman Catho
lie priest, of Harper's Ferry, Virginia,
made very brief and plain statement
in answer to certain charges affecting his
Combs:
"You must declare these reports false,
as you know they are; you must deny
that any such crimes are imputed to me
in this community, and apologize; 9TH
erwise, will brand you in a court OF
justice as an infamous defamer. This
note must be replied to at once. l will
tolerate no delay"
Combs promptly retracted, declaring
that the charges were not true, and add
ing these words:
"In reporting such Infamous tales
have done an incalculable injury to the
character of this reverend gentleman
whose reputation is pure and blameless
and / regret most sincerely the harm
which have done by circulating these
base slanders; and l do fully and freely
apologize for this injury to the character
of Christian gentleman, and minis
ter of God"
Father Kain should be a model fol
other clergymen, if any should ever fine
themselves slandered by plotting de
famers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-28
A Texas AstOr.

In Southwestern Texas there is a cat
tle-raiser who has lived there for twen-
ty years. Ongoing there he picked up
a dozen cows, and branded them. He
had no land, but was the possessor of a
wife, Two or ;hree guns, a few dogs and
two or three horses. lie kept watch of
his cows, and lived in a hand-to-mouth
way for several years, subsisting his
family by the capture Of game and the
sale Of skins. IN May, 1873, he owned
10000 head Of cattle, duly branded,
ranging over the plains He has 4 fam
lily Of nine children, five of whom are
boys. His eldest child is girl, nineteen
years Of age. She can rope steer, kill
a wolf with rife, or stranggIe dog at
arms length.
In the mans house is nail-keg near
ly filed with gold coin, while in the
pantry is a -four barrel almost filled
with silver pieces. When he sells cat
tie it is for coin, which is dumped on
the premises He will not take paper
money at any rate, OuG ~ Always TSauy
to sell steers for gold or silver. His
boys are all familiar with guns, horses,
dogs and cattle. In few years more
they will have literally cart-loads of
money, provided robbers do not make a
raid upon them, in which case, with
man wife, boys, girls, dogs and shot
guns, the raiders would be apt to get
more bullet holes than bullion. The
house occupied by this prosperous
family is low, built of logs, and con-
tains three rooms. The father and
mother sleep in the dining room, the
girls sleep in the spare room, while the
boys sleep in the addition. The girls dc
not know much about Honiton lace OF
the opera, but they can show nice lot
of calves, and skin a veal as quick as
Ohio women can get up an open-ail
nrayer-meetinp
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An English Bicycle Race for 1O6 Miles

On Monday last, says the London
Times of the 9Th inst, the race for the
captaincy and sub-captaincy of the Mid
dlesex Bicycle Club took place from
Bath to London-a distance of Jog
miles. The start was from the front of
the Abbey, and all the competitors were
up to time. Mr.. Sparrow (who accom-
panied the race) started them at eight
minutes past o'clock, and owing to the
number of people assem- bled, there was
some difficulty in passing through the
crowd. In few minutes, hoYever, they
were out of town, and the running was
very sharp. Walker and Tyne were
leading. Some of the competitors had
to dismount and walk up Box Hill
They all passed through Chippenham at
the rate of fourteen miles an hour, and
Cadne nineteen miles) was reached in
one and half hour. They passed thro'
the following order: Walker, Leaver,
Tyne, Percy, Goulding, Spencer, and
Pearce. No stoppage was made until
Marlborough was reached (thirty-two
miles Walker, Tyne, and Leaver com
ing in together, the distance being got
over in two and three-quarter hours
Spencer here passed Sparrow and Gould.
| ing. From Marlborough to Newbury
| eighteen miles, Walker and Tyne led
the way. At Hungerford Gould's ma
chine gave way through striking large
projecting stone while going down hill
After an attempt to repair it he got as fal
as Thatcham, where he was compelled
TO take the train for London. Walker
and Tyne performed the journey from
Bath to Newbury fifty miles) in foul
and three-quarter hours. Leaver anC
Percy were making good time as far a
Northampton, but soon after Leave
dropped behind, and was passed by Spen
Ger at Reading. Walker soon after mad
a squirt, and Tyne saw no more of him
At Twyford Spencer overhauled Percy
and they had smart race as far as Coin
brook, where Percy stopped to rest. Th
arrivals at the club-room at KensingtoI
we're as follows: Walker 3:13, Tyne $3.50
Spencer 5:I2, Percy 6:5S, Leaver 7:35
Walker had been somewhat jaded a
Hounslow, but, upon his arrival at tn
goal, he started, after few minutes rest
to meet the remainder of the competi
tors. The time made by Walker is on
hour less than the fastest stage coac
ever performed the journey from Londo
to Bath in, and is also the best bicycl
travelling on record, the pace of the wir
ner exceeding ten and half miles pc
) hour, including stoppages. Mr.. Sparrow
the starter, although upwards of fift
years of age, followed the competition
on his bicycle, and performed the Who'll
journey in fifteen hours, including stoI
pages
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The Story Concerning the CessiOn Of
Porto Rico.

NEW YoBK, August 21.-James A.
McMaster, of the Freeman's Journal,
which paper originated the story about
the cessIon of Porto Rico to Germany,
publishes letter this morhing, in the
course of which he says:
"I hold the transcript of dispatches on
the evidence on which ! have received
them. | do not hold them subject to the
call of Hamilton Fish, nor of any one
occupying public place. Had the peo-
pie Of the United States, as a Govern
ment, had men filter for their places,
either in the Department of State at
Washington, or at Madrid, or at Berlin,
| would have had no revelations possible
for me to make. The matter was 'on the
cards year ago. The overtures of the
wretched Spanish Junta at Madrid, and
the responses of Admiral Polo, are such
as | have stated them to be. l will COM
promise no one by revealing my sources
of information at present. In a short
time, it may be some months, when King
Carlos VII will be in the Escurial, and
hold Madrid and all the Spains, for their
honor, will, perhaps, tell who my infor-
mants have been. All have done has
been in privste, in St. Michael's Associ-
alton, Of New York, to help in sending
little aid to the Pontifcial Zouaves in
active service in Spain, for hospital pur-
poses, under her Royal Highness, Donna
Biancf, wife of Don Alphonso, brother
of the King, as freely used for the un-
happy conscripts of the Madrid Dicta-
torship as for the Carlist wounded. But
coming, some months ago, into the acci.
dental knowledge of the intrigues of the
overgrown and insolent German empire
for getting a foothold through which tc
expand its power in this Western hemis
phere, my sentiments as a Democrat o
the old school, and an adherent to it,
fullest extent Of the Monroe doctrine,
have led me to sound the alarm, perfect
ly well authorized in what I have done
and that it is to the confusion Of SerranC
and Bismarck, rejoice that it has sc
perfectly succeeded"
Baron Schlozer, Minister Of the Ger
man Empire in Washington, says Of th'
story: "a more monstrous absurdity
could not be conceived. have scarcely
patience when / think of the mischie
the falsehood is designed to create. Ny
country has but one ambition, and tina
is to establish itself on the foundation o
lasting peace. Such encroachment, there
fore, as is now the subject of newspaper
discussion, would directly antagonize tn,
policy of the Empire. The policy, wis
dom, sentiment, the very patriotism o
the people represent, is hostile to en-
larging our domain"
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A Nice Little Game.
experience

San Francisco people love strangers,
and they sometimes take 'em in. One
of 'em loved me. 1 stepped into a gor-
geous saloon, of course only to get "a light.
There was a bakers dozen of nice fellows
in there. One of 'em spoke:
"Just in time" says he.
"For what?" says 1.
"Penny under the heel" says he.
"All right" says I.
"Take hand?" says he.
"I WILL" say 1.
Then he said the way to play it was
to put one heel on penny laid on the
floor, then reach forward with piece of
chalk, and mark off the floor, as far as
possible from the toe, and the one whose
mark proved to be the nearest to the toe
was stuck for drinks. It's lovely game
I marked, then another fellow marked,
and in reaching forward lifted his
heel from the penny; then cuss behind
him, quick as fash, picked up the
penny, and he gave me a sly wink; then
he said:
"Your heel amt on the penny"
at is" said he.
at amt" says I.
Drinks that it is" said he.
"Done," says I.
I found 1 was done. That cuss hauled
/ off his shoe and shook out another pen
ny. They sell champagne by the drink
here at two "bits" a glass. They had
some, and 1 disbursed 1925 in coin
/ That cuss then came over and said, "I'll
give you chance to get even"
"How?" says l.
"Odd or even," says he.
"All right" says 1. Then he made &
on a piece of paper, and held it SO
could see it; then, Odd OF even?"
Even" says 1.
"You're stuck" says he, and turned
that six upside down and it was nine.
murmured just little. l told him i
was hardly fair to ask me if 1 wanted t.
get even, and then show me odd. H
said it did look odd.