davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1874-05-04
HUDSON RIVER COUNTIES.

PoUGHKEEPsIE.-UpOn UpOnapplcatiOn ofhis coun-
sell b. Platt Carpenter Judge Barnard released satur
day James d. Philips, the alleged wife posoner, his
own recognzance, the chemists having reported that
they found no arsenic in the dead wife's stomach.
HuDsos-Charles Ernst, the officer who was assaulted
by Waltz, Is still alive. The body Waltz was buried
Oh tue iaim ON Friday night only persons in attend
ance being the 1hthef mother, sister, aud abOrer The
brain OF te murderer was sent to Albany and Dr Grey
examined II on Saturday They found If in a rarfacI
sound aud healthy condition. Ii weighed o. ounces wy
NEw-JERSEY.
JERSEY CITY.-DuriDg the past year 305 per-
sons we're killed injured on NewJersey railroads or
hese including 90 fatal cases. the result of the
careessness Of persons walking the track fired
Chester Of Jersey City Hghts caused the of John
Tetjen charge OF grand larceny and the
arragned before Justice SchackeloD, who admitted
hun TO bail Saturday The accused picked up pocket
book containing $3 Friday night but refused 10 deliver
II Mrs. Alfred Chester, the claimant because she
could not prove the property; hence the arrest. .
The May term OF tho Hudson County Court Will begin
tomorrow. Among the cases TO be presented TO the
Grand Jury those OF Louis Webber HOJukeu
charged with attempted wife poisoning; James Foster
Thomas Burdett. aud John Brady. burglary; John
McCleland the telegraph operator accused criminal
negligence resulting In the fatal collision the Penn
sylvania Central at the Point oi Rocks; Johu r. Aard
proprietor OF shoe store at Newark aud Jersey
nanslaughter ia the Of James Sherry died
wounds received during au atray ~. Pdrcks Day.
IL expected that the OF Klennen the HOboken
bank defaulter Isaac Crispe accused OF perjury
COughln bIgaIDy case, and tue Greenyilie Street
Commissioners, will come up during the term.
An inquest concerning the death OF George Williams,
a wealthy resident Of Rutherfurd Park who was run
.syss 49,. ..-es Ns19e.9py EgH gy EylaI Y&Kl9fs
New-York tribune., 1874-05-04
HOME NEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Brcrooyi Housf-Gen. Robert c. sehenck, I, - -
y,,er % Ppehnd: Horscs White Of The Choleo 4t .
Is~e Of Sprinsd Rpa5es5 Nasi hsi;e1i % 81
,sh CogDsraf Hcnry Wattersou Of TN LostSr"t -
.rt Wtrs OF the British Navy and state senator 9ou =
81 Etgs Couny....FtnA Arau Hotet-hKIo! JOIN IA ly
81. .Sohe General Busow Of kentnekY Ana ~
Ys, lane bactr Of Fsbkl " Y....M Ni,hCtls
49, m 8 Grnv: Congressnan C. W. Gihuan OF
PCT Vincent Of London aud Judge j. H. fI.e o %
DO. Nan Hotei-Gen De usy T. 3 Array. aW t III H.
- V,s,r - Gov pxe staH SfBrie ant HOUSE. t =
k,p,e n = Arnv. Bar,uB,s H0tri-lhe hon noAA' - ~
. NJ - ~ >,ouu. A.tJT HOHse-Ltsin AoamS
New-York tribune., 1874-05-04
A CASE OF NEED.

To the Editor OF The Trt6une.
SIR Is there any way of ascertaining whether
there any OF the money left undstrbuted that was
collected for the poor last Wnter unusual case OF
destituuon has TO my notice of most estimable
Christian widow lady with two children VINO has toed
hard with head and hands to feed herself aud them
until uDtoward circumstances have deprived her OF
scanty support II there IL 30 money TO be had from
the funds collected last Winter Is there any benevolent
person who desires to aid such lady L. l.
hei0- York, May 8, 1874 go.
New-York tribune., 1874-05-04
Announcements 4

BCRNETT's COCAINE prevents hair falling.
POMERoY & Co., 7H Broadway, sell for a
the beat bLAsTIO TKrss ever nyened
CLoTHEs-WRINGERS of all kinds repaired by
METROPOLITAN WAsHsG-hAcnisH Co. 80 CouAndtiL
No MISTAKE ABOUT IT.-The improved PuA
BLOOsSO CEREUs and the PHALoS Wn1E o,K nav.
O equals IN pcriumery. Get the genuine
LYONS INSECT POWDER stands alone as a
reaches, bedDug, insects sold
bottles
a DULL HEADACHE, no appetite, cOstiveness,
and o~ pis Of the indications bilious attack .ps
ron TORPID liver Dr. JArsEs SANATyE PILs will r,o.
Ne nsf 70 'eou drive all symptoms Of housns from systs
'OO ''' IL oihsins about regular action Of TIE boEta
lie hhe'' quality DRY Chsmpsgnes ,hipp.ib,
"s''fa hohrG cHASDos Epen.y
hth.ir
IirH. DRI ClBHRr
EtwYOri April 80, 1874
ASTnoSI OrcH,
sols Agent for T. s.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16
Some Inventors.

From Mrs. Ames' 'Ten Years in Washington ~
With all its comprehensive cares, one
side of the Commissioners official life
tends to jollity, good digestion and long
life. In no other position in the world,
probably, could a man discover how
many crazy people there are outside of
the lunatic asylum. The born inventor
is always dreamer. For the sake of his
darling, though, he is willing to sacrifice
himself, his wife and his children, every
thing but the machine" growing in his
brain and quickening under his eager
hand. How often they fail. How often
the precious thought developed into form
is only mistake-a failure
Sometimes this is sad--quite as often it
is funny. The procession which started
far back in the ages with its machine of
perpetual motion" long ago reached the
doors Of the American Patent Office. The
persons found in that procession are some
times astonishing. A doctor of divinity
well known at the capital, and not sus-
pected Of studying any machinery but
that of moral law, appeared one day in
the Office of the Commissioner.
" | know I've got it, he said.
"What, sir %
Perpetual motion, sir Look!' and
he set down a machine. If the floor
were not in the way, if the earth were not
in the way, my weight would never stop
and my machine would go on for ever. |
know this is original with me-that it
never dawned before upon any human
mind"
So enthusiastic was the doctor it was
with difficulty he could be restrained
from depositing his ten dollars and leav-
ing his instrument to be patented. The
Commissioner quietly sent to the
library for a book-a history of attempts
to create perpetual motion. Opening at
a certain page he pointed out to the
astonished would-be inventor where his
own machine had been attempted and
failed more than a hundred years ago.
The reverend doctor took the book home,
read, digested and meditated thereon-to
bring it back and lay it down before the
Commissioner in silence. No one has
ever heard him speak of perpetual mo-
ton since.
1t would take large volume to record
all the preposterous letters and inven-
tons received at this office A very
short time since a man sent a letter to the
Patent Bureau describing a new process
of embalming which he had originated.
1t was accompanied by a dead baby
&c the model which he requested should
be placed in one of the glass cases in the
exhibition room. He considered him
self deeply injured when his request was
refused.
4 letter was recently received by the
Commissioner of Patents from man in
Portsmouth, England, offering this Gov
eminent the benefit of an invent IN of his
own for utilizing water power, so as to
force the water to great height when
confined in reservoirs constructed for the
purpose. He offers the invention free of
all charge, because, he states, it pains him
to see such mighty power as there is at
the Niagara wasted. In addition, he of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The total number of deaths in Chicago
for the year ending April 1, 1874, was
9,557.
Vermont has in its population 924
negroes, IA Indians, and 329, GA white
persons.
An aged couple recently travelled on
united ages were 206 years. The hus-
band was 104 and the wife 102.
There are in New Mexico 1854
schools, 1873 of which are public; 7,102
pupils and 1876 teachers. The school
funds amount to $66,921.57.
Prof. II. r. Palmer OF Chicago, Prof
L. o. Emerson of Boston, and other noted
teachers hold four weeks Musical Insti
tute at Dunkirk, N. Y, beginning July 10.
The patentee of the punch now used
by the passenger railroad companies
makes $4,000 per annum; he receives a
royalty of twenty cents a day for each
punch in use.
According to the Alaska Herald seven
vessels we're engaged throughout the
summer of 1878 in the capture of goldfish
on the coast of Alaska, with a total yield
of $4,000 fish, or an average OF 03,205
per vessel.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is de-
creasing each year. Before the war, 221, >
726 hogsheads of sugar and 10, 100000
gallons of molasses In 1870, having
kept on decreasing after the war, it was
80, 700 hogsheads of sugar and $500, 900
gallons of molasses. The estimate this
year fixes it at $4,000 hogsheads.
In population China still stands first
among the nations, her people numbering
425, 213, 152. The British Empire comes
next, with 199,S17,O00, and then Russia,
with 81, 172, 022. The United States are
fifth. In density of population Belgium
comes first, with 451 per square mile
England is next, with 369. The United
States are twenty-third in the list, and be-
tween Morocco and Russia.
During the year 1870 there were in
the United States 4237 tanneries and g.
0S2 currying establishments, employing
3OS11 men and using 1856, $40 cords of
bark. A CAPITAL of $50, 024, 290 was in
vested in the business, and the aggregate
sum of S12. OS9. $50 was paid as wages to
workmen. While the value of the iron
business in the United States in 1870 was
less than 500. 600, 600, of the cotton trade
less than S17S.OO0, 600, of wooden goods
less than S2OS0OO000, the value of the
leather business exceeded 1896, 100000.
The value of the timber used for fuel
annually in the United States is $4,000
600, and for fencing, S150,0O0,000. The
number of railway ties in use is 100000
900. The average yield of timber land
per acre is 200 ties; hence 100000 acres
of land have been cleared to furnish the
present supply. Railway ties last about
five years; therefore 100000 ties are
used annually in the repairs OF railways,
taking the timber on 10000 acres. There
is consumed in the manufacture of rolling
stock the timber of $4,000 acres, and the
growth of 100000 acres more for other
purposes every year. Our railways are
stripping the country of 100000 acres
per annum, and the demand is fast in
creasing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

A meeting of persons who favor burning
dead human bodies, instead of burying them,
was held in New York on the evening of the
4th. The Rev. o. B. rockingham said he was
not prejudiced against cremation. Charles A.
Dana regarded the present unscientific mode
of disposing of the dead as discreditable to the
race. Henry Bergh, President of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, de-
clared that inhumation satisfied no reasonable
demand of our nature 1t is proposed to forma
permanent organization liz a few weeks of those
favoring cremation.
Barber made a balloon ascension at San
Francisco on the 5th, accompanied by three
men and two ladies. When 600 feet in the air
the balloon collapsed and rapidly descended,
striking the ground with great force, and
dragging distance of 800 yards. All on
board were seriously injured, but none fatally.
Good sleighing in Chicago and many other
sections of the West on the 9th The snow
storm on the 5th was pretty general through
out the Northwest and is said to have been, in
many localities, heavier than was experienced
at any time during the past winter. From
six to twelve inches of snow fell during the
day.
A few days ago, at trial before the New
Orleans District Court, an alteration occurred
between d. A. Phillips, an attorney, and an
old citizen named Arestide Bienvenu, against
whom he was bringing suit. The latter of
fered a gross insult, whereupon Phillips
knocked him down. Subsequently a chal-
lenge passed between the parties, and on the
morning of the 4th duel was fought Bien-
venu was shot through the heart at the first
fire. The weapons were double-barreled shot
guns, and the distance forty PAGES.
Sanborn was before the WAYS and Means
Committee in Washington on the 9th, and
testified that he talked his contracts over sew
eral times with Secretary Richardson, and that
he mas no doubt Mr. Richardson knew all
about them, and that he went to him (Rich-
ardson) for information about them. Sanborn
ayows that none of the 100000 which
he had to pay out of the $780,
600 he received from the Government
went to any internal revenue officer or to
any member of Congress, directly or indirect
ly. He had paid Gen. Butler no counsel fees.
He had subscribed to the fund for helping him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16
Personal.

April 20 has been fixed for the eulogy at
Boston upon Charles Sumner bv Senator
schurz, The Mayor will preside, and Wendell
Phillips will Introduce the orator.
A Commission of Lunacy has adindoed Col
James Mayo, State Treasurer of VIRGINIA to
be insane, and he was sent to lupatic asrl,,n,
A New York dispatch of the 9th annonncos
the death of ex-Judge Edmonds, the Well
known lawyer and Spiritualist.
The President has nominated John w auo,
for Postmaster at Cleveland
The bankruptcy proceedings recently conn
menced against the Sprague Manufacturer
Company, of Rhode Island, have been discon2
tinued and the case is dismissed
Announcement is made of the acceptance of
the resignation of B. 6. .sayne, Special United
States Treasury Agent at New York.
Salt Lake dispatch of the 9th says a man
supposed to be John T. Bender, the oldest of
the Kansas murderers, had been brought TO
that city from the Seyerier Valley, and that
young man, supposed to be his son, was also
in custody at Salt Creek.
Lowenstein was executed st Albany n Y,
on the 10th, for the murder of a one-armed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16
Where Does II come From.

Pints and quarts Of filthy catarrhal dis
charges. Where does it all come from I? The
mucous membrane, lining the chambers of the
nose, and its little glands, are diseased, so that
they draw from the blood its liquid and ex-
nOsure to the air changes it into corruption.
This life-liquid was to build up the system but
it is extracted and the system is weakened by
the loss. To cure, gain flesh and strength by
using DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
which also acts directly upon these glands.
correcting them, applying DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy with Dr. Pierce's Nasal Douche, the
only method of reaching the upper cavities
where the discharge accumulates and comes
from.
CATARRH OF 20 YEARS STANDING CURED
MONROE, Onachita Parish, La, Sept IS, 1871.
r. V. PIERCE, NJ. D.:
Sometime about last June commenced the
use of your medicines, and they have entirely
cured me of Catarrh Of twenty years standing
Respectfully, Mrs. G. E. PHILLIPS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

DON'T TAMPER WITH A CoUeH.-Perhaps in
the whole category of diseases to which hu-
mainly is susceptible, the cough is most neg
Iected in its early stage. a simple cough
generally regarded as temporary affection is
unpleasant and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, it is the
signal for attack for the most fearful of all
diseases-Consumpt IN. A cough will lead to
consumption-if not checked so sure as the
rivulet leads to the river yet it is an easy enc
my to thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
Aliens Lung BaIsana is the great cough rem
edy of the age, and has earned its reputation
by merit alone. Sold by all good druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

A Bayonne dispatch of the 5th says active
operations in front of Bilboa were resumed on
the 3d. A Carlist General is reported to have
surprised and captured a detachment of 600
Republicans.
Under date of March % President Gonzales,
of the Dominican Republic, announces the
failure of the SANTANA Bay Company to COM
ply with the terms of its lease requiring pre-
payment of the rental, $3.50, 900, to the Do
minican Government, and the consequent
lapse of all privileges and rights granted to
the company. The official decree is promul-
gated resuming authority by the Government
over the territory granted that company.
According to a London dispatch of the Sth
an application had been made for new trial
in the case of the Tichborne claimant
A late dispatch from the City of Mexico
states that six of the assassins of the Rev. Mr..
Stephens the American missionary, had been
condemned to death.
On the nth, Capt. Gen. Concha issued a
proclamation to the Cubans, defining his pol
icy toward the insurgents. He asks the people
to trust in him, and declares his conviction
that peace will be restored.
Intelligence was received from London on
y
the French Transatlantic Company, foundered
at sea on her recent voyage from Havre to
New York Her passengers and crew were
taken on board the steamer Greece. The loss
by the sinking of the steamer is estimated at
$1,000, 900. No lives were lost.
A formal tender of the Fiji Islands has been
made to Great Britain.
John Macaulay, brother of the historian, is
dead.
William Kaulbach, the celebrated German
historical painter, died at Munich on the
night of the 18th.
A London dispatch of the 10th says the boil
er of factory in Hamilton, near Glasgow, ex-
ploded on the preceding day with terrible eff
feet A large portion was driven several hun
bred feet through the air and crashed into a
school-house full of children. Three were in
stantly killed and thirty more or less injured
A Madrid dispatch of the 9th says that Ser
rano had surrendered to Concha the command
of the forces operating against the Carlists be-
fore Bilboa.
Dispatches from Port au Prince of late
date state that the announc ement of the death
Of the late Senator Sumner was received with
great sorrow by the Dominicans. Flags were
placed at half-mast from the forts and pub
lie buildings, and a solemn and impressive
funeral service was held at the Cathedral,
which was attended by the President, Cabinet
and the diplomatic corps.
The steamer Tigress, of the Polaris expedi-
ton, while seal fishing off the coast of New
foundland, recently, exploded her boiler.
Two engineers and twenty of the crew were
killed
Jean Luie and Capt. Brown, witnesses for
the claimant in the Tichborne trial, were
found guilty of perjury on the 10th, and SEN
fenced to five years penal servitude.
A special telegram from Calcutta reports
that the famine in that country is everywhere
under control.
The German Government and the Reichstag
have compromised their differences on the
Military bill, the former consenting to 4O1, 900
men as the peace maximum, and limiting the
term of service to seven years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

The MAGIC Observation-Disclosures OF these
valuable articles have been sold in Europe, and
since their introduction into this country the
demand has been equal to the supply 1t bids
fair to sweep all other inks cut of the market
1t is called magic" simply because you pour
water into one end of the little factory" and
ink of the best quality comes out of the other.
For sale by r. G. RooT, ANTHONY & Co, New
York City; ]. NJ W. JONES, Chicago, and all
Stationers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

HANNAFoRD & THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, sold the first large edition of
Periam's History of the Farmers Move
ment" in two weeks. A second edition,
embracing proceedings of the St. Louis
Convention held in Feb, 1874, is just be-
ing issued. Agents are reaping rich har-
vest with it. We advertise it this week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

The encalypti, or fever tree, imported
by several South Carolinians few
months ago, is doing well, and they think
that very soon each man can sit under his
own eucalyptus and defy malaria.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

MONEY AND EXPERIENCE-Five Hundred
Thousand dollars, and Fifteen years. expert
ence-have made the National Surgical Insti-
tute, Indianapolis, Indiana, the largest and
most benefcent of It's kind in America. 1t
cures annually thousands of cases of deformi-
ties of the Spine, Limb and Face, Catarrh,
Chronic Diseases, Piles and Fistula. BY writ
ing to the Institute large journal giving
full particulars will be sent you free.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

peddler last fall. He maintained to the last
that he was innocent.
Prague Bryant (colored), the murderer of
Alex. Sente, was hanged at Pulaski, Tenn,
on the 10TH
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

Reeds Temple OF Music, Chicago.
Good secondhand pianos, 1925 to 500.
New Rosewood pianos, 5000 to $500.
New Square Grand pianos, $3.50 to S475.
Warranted to please or money refunded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

DR.. a. JOHNSON, one of the most successful
practitioners of his time, invented what is now
called Johrasors's Arsodyne Ltni,aent. The
great success of this article in the cure of
Bronchitis and all diseases of throat and lungs
will make the name of johnson not less ia
vorably, If less widely known, than that of
Louis Napoleon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

THE public are hereby assured that Parsons
PurgGtiUe Pills contain no injurious principle,
but that they may be administered to children
and the most weak and shattered constitu-
tions in small doses with great certainty of
SIIpceSs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

A MAN who does not appreciate the
" Yankees" says the noblest Inheritance
which New England leaves to her children
is poverty and consumption.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

KUHN'S EUROPEAN HOTEL, Chicago, is
close by McVicker's Theater, in the heart of
the city, is S1.00 per day, and first-elass in
every respect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

DR.. WnHoFT's ANTI-PERIoDIC OR FEVER.
AND AGUE Tonic !-Wilhoft's Tonic has estab-
lished itself as the real infallible Chill cure
1t IS universally admitted to be the only re-
liable and harmless Chill medicine now ia use
Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of GER
tifcates of the very best people from all paI :
of the country. 1t cures malarious diseases
of every type, from the shaking agues of the
lakes and valleys to the raging fevers of the
torrid zone. Try it! It has never been known
to fail: WHEELoCK, FINLAY & Co, Propri-
etors, New Orleans
For SALE BY ALL DRTTGGTSTS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGIsTs.

The ORGAN as household instrument
has been rapidly growing in favor, and
the yearly sales are now enormous. A
good Organ remains in tune, is easily
kept in order, and blends naturally with
the quality of the voice The advertise
ment of the Smith American Organ Co,
in another column, is referred to the con-
sideration of our readers. This house has
an enviable reputation for good work and
fair dealing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-16

Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From other cause than having worms In the stom-
ach.
BROWNS VERMIFUGE COMFITS
will destroy Worms without injury to the child being
perfectly WHITE and free from all coloring other
injurious ingredients usually used in prepare
lions.
CURTIS d. BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York.
Sold By Druggists aud Chemists. and Dealers 80
Medicines, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box.
ssWGTETTNG BETTER - said DR.. John Ware. OF
Boston, than Cutler Bros celebrated VEGETABLE
PULMONARY BALSAM, for Colds and Consumption.
ey- ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise