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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-14
1874 1879.

Average temperature yesterday .............. 77sI
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THE ONLY FOUR TRACK ALL STEEL RAILROAD
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1.-THE TELEGRAM QUOTATIONS"
THE CABLE REPORTS
OF THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
IN THE NOON EDITION OF THE
EVENING TELEGRAM
CAN BE FOUND ON ALL
THE NEWS STANDS
AND IN FRONT OF THE
STOCK EXCHANGE, BROAD STREET,
OR SERVED BY CARRIER TO ANY
ADDRESS DOWN TOWN AT II O'CLOCK
LEAVE DIRECTIONS AT THE OFFICE
OF THE EVENING TELEGRAM,
NO. ANN STREET
CHERALD BUILDING.
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NEW PTTRI.ICATIONS

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A LOT OF RARE BOOKS.
"A Standard Works in many languages, at
APPLETON'S Antiquarian, 10 Third street. Bowers
DRIGHTS DISEASE, DIABETES, DROPSY CRAWL
I'D Calculus, Gout rheumatism Dyspepsia Disc OF the
Liver, Kidneys Bladder Prostrae Gland Premature Pros
by general practitioners Two pamphlets explaining theiT
successful treatment by Natures Specific Bethesda Mineral
Spring Water, and DR.. A HAWLEY HEATH the author
and proprietor and free to address Depot and receP
rooms 200 Broadway New York. N B.See his trade
mark, "Asaheal, Made of God" on all packages.
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FIFTY MILES AN HOI
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he starting time was recorded AS follows !:
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IN THR WORLD.

YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD
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Haps and Mishsps.

Miss Mary Whitney, beautiful young
lady of Lansing, Iowa, had one of her eyes
put out few days ago by an arrow shot
from the bow of her little brother.
Near New Albion. Iowa. the other
day. a farmer named Gid Bennett, while
planting corn in company with his wife
and hired man, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. The others were un-
injured.
BY the falling of scafold at the Cen
trail Ohio Hospital for the Insane at Col
umbus. o.. on the 10Th ult., Geo. Bow
ers, Jerry Ryan. Albert Gotleib and VIM.
Harmon were killed, and Fred Kuntz and
Ben Smith, il Is thought, fatally injured.
They fell distance Of eighty-five feet.
AT Franklin, Ohio, last week, boiler
in paper mill exploded with terrible
force. No one was instantly killed, but
eight persons Were seriously wounded,
three or four of whom il was thought
would die. The mill had been lying idle
for several days, and was just being start
ed when the explosion occurred.
AT Terre IIaute, Ind, few nights
since. the infant of Jacob MAY was
strangled by cat, in bed. Its mother
awoke and found a eat in the room, and
asked beT HusDdilu 10 uTlNe IL out. Out he
supposed she was talking in "a dream, and
went to sleep. In the morning, however.
the babe was found with the cat on its
face, and strangled until 1t was black.
A partial list of the suicides for the
week ending May 20, as furnished by tele-
graph, is as follows At Terre lIaute,
Ind. by poison, Capt. Bailey, a tanner
at Detroit, Mich, by shooting, Louis
Graulck; at Oregon, Wis, by hanging,
a son OF Mr.. Story, aged 10; at Lincoln,
Neb., (method not stated George VIII
liams. proprietor of biliard-room al
Bloomfield. Iowa. ENHANCING, j. NJ. Rob
erts, proprietor Wilson House at Oma-
Ia, Neb., by poison, Walter Black; at
Middleboro'. Mass, by cutting his throat.
the Rev Charles ;. Macresdy, pastor OF
the NJ. +. Church in that village.
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Gently. and at breakfast remarked, as he
reached his plate over Father, little
Of the mixture In the brown dish, IL YOU
please, and small piece OF the prepared
meat" The old gentleman, who is a
plain, mattcr-of- fact man, replied, AZ he
loaded up the outstrctched plate We
like TO have you come visitin' us. John,
but just remember that while you're eat
IN here II you want hash. say 30; and II
you want sassage. call for sassage, and
not 20 10 spreadin' on any Brooklyn
misery at my table"
Yesterday afternoon man who had
been beaten In "A lawsuit stood at the cor
ner OF Griswold Street and Justice Alley
and cursed high and low. He was spout
Ing away I'm vehement tones when law
yer asked: Are you swearing AT any
body in particular!n mo. blast you,
MOI" ripped the man. "Well, ies too
bad 10 have all that wasted. | wish you
would use few of the biggest and best
oaths on Hannibal Eamlin, the man who
raised the rates on postage" The man
gave il TO Hamlin right and left Tor eleven
minutes, and then the police interfered.-
Detroit Free Press.
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" the steamer Protous arrived at 81. John :
with a., 900 seals, the largest number ever
brought by one vessel.
1t is stated that the khediyc Of Egypt
has authorized the establishment, under
the direction Of DR.. Schweinfyrth, of a ge-
ographical society for Egypt, 10 serve a.
an agency for the encouragement and
prosecution of explorations In the south
ern part of the Egyptian territory.
"A pneumatic thermometer has been
invented by "A citizen Of san Francisco.
designed 10 register on deck Of vessel
carrying cargo liable to spontaneous
combustion the amount Of heat generated
In the cargo. Thus timely warning Of
danger may be given. The San Francisco
Board OF Marine Surveyors have express
cd their approval of the instrument, and
recommended its use.
The United States Fish Commission
proposes 10 make an exhibition at the
Philadelphia Centennial of 1876 Of the re-
sources OF the United States rs derived
from its waters, whether sea-coast or in
terror. The display will probably consti-
tute three principal sections first. the APP
paratus by which the products of the
waters are secured, manufactured, and
utilized; second. specimens of the various
species, either alive or preserved in the
usual manner, whether dried or
preserved In alcohol, or represented In
casts of plaster or other material, suitably
oolored from nature; third, the deriva-
tiyes from these species, whether in the
form of prepared food, skins or hides.
scales, oils. fertilizers, and whatever useful
products can be brought together.
The inventor of the life-saynQ dress
recently so successfully tested by Captain
Paul Boynton, is Mr.. &. 5. Merriman. OF
New York city. Ii is of solid vulcanized
rubber. made la two parts--a tunic with
hood and gloves attached, and pantaloons
with boots attached. The dress is secured
by a water-tight joint nc the waist, and
only the eyes. mouth. and nose are ex-
posed. IL Is inflated by means Of five
small tubes. which can be reached convc-
niently. When the upper chamber il in
nated il makes complete air pillow, upon
which The head can rest. The wearer Is
kept dry and comfortable. Swimming is
impossible; but he lies easily upon his
back, and propels himselfin any direction
by means of doube-bladcd paddle. A
small India rubber bag contains provisions
and few needful articles.
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"A small. red bug Is making IL lively
for the Western grasshoppers. Small red
bug, please consider yourself thanked.
What'l you take?
-" Lemme die now" gasped an Ohio
farmer. "Ive lived to see woman git
thirty-one yards OF cloth into one dress,
and I'm ready to pull stakes now"
How a woman can keep on talking
while she is twisting up her back hair and
has her teeth full OF hairpins, Is a mystery
not yet explained.
1t has come 10 such pass In Missouri
that a man can't be caught in another
mans back yard after dark without the
local papers giving him blast half col
umn long.
A veteran who raises his little finger
occasionally higher than the rest, is of the
opinion that the crooked" article tastes
just as good as the straight tax juice.
1t Is reasonably to be supposed. when
a gentleman moves the "quevious pres
ton, Misser Preserzent," that he has made
some progress in investigating the whisky
ring.
The average American boy will make
great fuss and complain bitterly that II
will spoil his clothes, IL asked to bring In
an armhil of wood for his mother; but
give him gun, and he will crawl half a
mile on his stomsch, througha ditch with
four inches Of water In II, 10 get a shot at
some ducks.
"A young man from the interior, who
had been visiting abroad, came home re-
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Foreign Notes.

La January. while American Their
momeiers We're registering from two TO
forty degrees below zero, in Australia the
mercury reached Ill degrees in the shade
aud $50 degrees in the sun. A very good
mean might be obtained by mixing up
such climates.
-lama Gawa. a japanese member of
the class Of 70 In the Yale Scientific
School, has left New Haven for Iokai
Japan, 10 take a position in the Imperial
college. having anticipated the concluding
work of the course and passed the exami-
nations, three months before the regular
time OF graduation.
The Bank of France owns a brick for
which | 900 francs in specie was paid. 1t
was taken from the ruins OF burnt house,
and the image and figures of a note for
1000 francs are burned on the surface.
transferred by the heat from n real note
This brick the bank redeemed on presenta-
ton, a. if il were the note itself.
An interesting and probably valuable
discovery has been made az the Bib.io-
thcque Nationsle in Paris. During the
Easter vacation a committee charged with
the revision and classification of manu-
scripts found twcnty-one letters of Rob
espicrrc. which are said TO contain some
startling facts. They arc soon to be pub
lished.
AT Coire a marriage has lately taken
place where the bride was one hundred
and three years old, the bridegroom sixty
The bride has had four husbands land
families besides the present one. The
family by this last marriage will find itself
in curious relationship 10 that by the
first marriage. Ayoung boy of one will,
for instance. be uncle TO an old boy of
seyenty-five years of age.
The new Paris Opera-house is csii-
mated to have cost something like 500
100000. half this sum being for the
ground. This Gems an immense
amount, considering that, although very
magnificent, the audience portion of the
building, as well as the stsge, Is regarded
as too small. The new Opera-house at
Moscow cost only Sl.500.0OO, IL is stated.
and the London Royal Italian Opera-house
somewhat less than that sum.
Two Prussisn papers state that the
authorities have succeeded In tracing and
arresting the leading conspirator in the
alleged plot against Prince Bismarck's
life. Both papers assert that the plot was
also directed against the Emperor's life.
The person arrested is said by one journal
to be relative of Mgr. Ledechowski, the
Archbishop of Posen. and by the Other to
be related 10 a deceased Archbishop of
that city.
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would gladly have taken that step. When
suggested last winter that law should
be passed Offering bounty for the COOS
the Idea was ridiculed, but the people See
now how wise such course would lave
been. The eggs are laid IN dry. sunny and
especially sandy spots. and never placed in
The ground more than an inch deep, and on
number of hillsidcs the ground i so
completely fun OF these eggs they could
have been raked up and collected by hun
dredS OF bushels, II there had been any in
duceInent for people To collect them. A
lew thousand dollars appropriated by the
Legislature for the purpose would have
been The means of ayerting the present
injury.
There Is no need to take discouragine
view OF the subject. Man is capable by
united action of entirely mastering the
plague. This Is proven by experience i'm
A static countries and Southern Europe.
where they expect TO be overfun by To-
Gusts periodically, and where the govern
ments invariably, in such events, offer
bountics. My views are confirmed by
past experience and common sense.
Prot. Riley Went on 10 explain that a
rotation OF crops was one OF the best
methods OF removing noxiOus insects. as
II prevented their permanent settlement in
place.
On next Monday night. Prof Riley will
give an address on the subject of the grass
hoppers, before the Academy Of Science
at Polytechnic Building.
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AN INGENIOUS JOURNALIST.
lie never had dead head pass

lie never had dead head pass
lie never had an hours leisure;
The night and day were one TO him,
lie had 10 make his work his pleasure.
He never called man -FOUR friend !"
IIenever gushed on brilliant weddings
He never wrote ''Were panied 10 learn
lie never wasted time on headings.
His smile was like a summer morn;
The cashier loved him as a brother,
And though his stipend never rose,
The cashier seemed 70 him q mother.
Though flowers bloom for sinless smith,
And also bloom for sinful story,
lie died as good NJ he had lived,
And kept the only road TO glory.
Courier Journal.
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school aud Church.

California has forbidden making any
difference in teachers salaries on the
ground of sex.
-"Cramming." according to Prof.
bAckie. OF Edinburg. Isis species of in
id.ectual food. which j. neither preceded
BY appetite nor followed by digestion"
AT the Methodist Conference at Spring
leld, Mass, il was recommended that
parishes provide libraries of standard
works u reference, thus relieving pastors
Of the expense OF buying and removing
such books themselves. This suggestion
might well be adopted by parishes OF all
denominations.
The committees on union appointed
by the Synods of the English Presbyterian
and the United Presbyterian Churches
have had conference in London. The
dlnlculties in the way of an entire agree
ment were discussed. but no satisfactory
Plan for th'ir removal was suggested.
despite the scarcity OF money, the
baptist nome Mission Society has received
lor the financial year ls7i-75, $1,000 more
man ~ any former year. The total ofcon-
flDutions has been Sl92.0Oe. The debt Of
Sio'VOO has been reduced to $4,000. The
baptist Missionary Union (Foreign) has
sVl Jared so we'll. Its receipts have been
s-il 'OOO, $4,000 less than in the year pre-
Ssllng, and IL debt has increased to S53,-
The Rhode Island State Medical So
asy recently resolved in favor of the
hnlergarten system !" of physical cul-
l'e and gymnastic exercises i'm schools I;
y hot suffering children under seven to at
ehu public schools: of caution in appeals
emulation, especially among girls; and
Ranst study out ofschool a. "A rule. and
more Than three hours close study per
wy Tor children under twelve and four for
'uHaren over twelve.
Al. MMessrs. Moody and Sankey are not
csl ~ repartee where occasion warrants.
Jun they ask the visitors "a they 90 out
wv Ss they relished the exercises. A party
!. n'hlonable ladies thus addressed were
~ polite in their replies; one only-a
aaih'ome woman Of about thirty-five.
as5I strong-minded-wou not yield
anly. 10 the query " Had she received
NY eomiorty' she said, to the astonish-
aeht o. MIR. NJ, .'No, she had not" "Was
IL euihed I" No, she was not" Did
mi oelifve In the good work." I" No, she
what was her opinion OF the
"Neeulngg' THAT IL was all sham and
. ,,nN Hereupon the defeated saint
,oieu his forces and exclaimed. "Let us
lOr the elderly female" The attack
N, ~. ny personal appearance was smart,
ma we y. good-lookiDg frec-thinker laughed
wy walked of.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Beresiord Hope. NJ. r., who ten
aored 10 the State OF Virginia bronze
s.stne of Stonewall jackson. has Just de-
lined am invitation OF Gov. kemper TO be
present at its unwilling.
--Ristori Is travelling around the coun-
try shaking hands and bidding every body
good-bye. She makes about 81 600 night,
snd that takes OFF considerable OF the sad
ness of the thing. Brooklyn argus.
Kate Chase SprdglIc, upon learning
that the library OF her father, the late
chief Justice Chase. was to be sold AT auc-
top in Washington, has telegraphed
rom Europe forbidding the sale. She In
tends to purchase il and preserve il In the
hmlly.
The marriage of Surgeon Ruth, of the
United States Navy. To Miss Waite, daugh-
,er Of Chief Justice Waite, will take place
h Washington next month. The we'd
ding will be quiet one-priyate and
nnostentatious as circumstances will per-
nit.
1t was az New Orleans, during the eX-
citing events OF last January. that Gen.
Phil Sheridan met the daughter of his old
friend and staff officer, General Rucker,
and first took into his great fist a little
nervous hand and asked IL IL should be
his for keeps.
1t is credtable 10 the physical tough
moss and endurance OF Elizabeth futile,
If East Boston. Mass. that at the age or
onehundrcd years she can go up two flights
of stairs 20 her bedroom. Elizabeth Tut
tle also undreSses and dresses without aid.
and never has a fire in her room in the
frigidest weather.
aplapf ~ tla J{ot,e Tast,st, al
.peaks OF having seen portrait OF George
Eliot. which is in the possession of her
scotch publishers, and occupies place i'm
their private office with portraits OF other
noted authors. Ii il of life-size, and repre-
sents an intellectually strong woman, al
most masculine in strength-a strange sad
expression on the countenance.
The Rev. DR.. ). &. Bartlett writes in
the Iudependett an article entitled, 1.-THE
Answers OF Jesus i'm which he discusses
the novel theme OF Christ as a humorist.
lie measures the faculty of clever retort
displayed by Johnson. Lamb. Talleyrand,
Lincoln. Franklin and Sheridan. and ar
CUES that Christ far surpassed them all In
his sallies thar must have been received
by the crowd with smile or an ill-sup-
pressed laugh, al the expense of the
Scribes.
Rev. David swing, of Chicago, is de-
'cribed by Mr. Edward Eggleston as hav-
ing no advantage from personal appear
ance. Ills face i a marked one, but not
handsome. He is what Thomas Hughes
would call an 'underhung man : the prom
inent lower jaw and the set under-lip give
him an air OF iniexblc rcsoluteness. He
has a bright eye. an intellectual upper
face. and brown hair that curls a little at
the tips"
Mr.. Bryant turns an epigram as neat
" still as II he were but 30. Here j. his
excuse TO The Echo. the little journal of
lle Homeopathic Fair, for not furnishing
BE poem il had claimed:
gave my word. dear madam. IL il true,
Atyour request 90 write a verse or two.
gave il you az frankly a. twas sought,
And now YOU chide because keep IL not.
| TAX not Of honor, am honor's slave
None but rogue would keep the thing he gave.
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:, me present spring Ia said to be the
M ~ vne known for years for the seal fish,
vi lle Newfoundland coast. Recent
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Two days mt the pike 60. Fair.
ny \ "couenk" REPRESENTATIVE.

II wa. nmsnimouslv submitted thst the
Pair in Pike County this season was
Innrc lnrgly attended than ia aay season
formerly. The display Of stock was
fully MP to the average In point az quail
itv. though the number OF cattle an ex-
hihiion were rather ANAL. The exhiii-
tinn of horses WAS good. The Floral
Hill was moi very Imposing but con
tanned some. very fine specimens OF
patch aud needle work. The products
al the soil were rrmsrksbi, scsrce.
Two specimens Of corr. a frw Tomatoes.
yropes aud 1joesis,ts We're the wholc
stock m rxtilN1oa. The sp.cd ring
VI. the most attractive part Of The Fair.
The best time ia pacing WAS ?:e:. The
sweepstakes tro,iing ws- a contest he
tween four horses on time; best time
mad~ by lr, Ir;iton's horse; time, , 81
Tt. race excited nut little enthusiasm
because of the nonntomv at seeing but
one horse 1T time going. We feel
confident that the only WAY TIA make
aheir Fair success Auanrislly is 10 give
premiums sufficiently larg. to bring out
a liberal number al fast horses. The
display ~ mechanical arts. the products
of the soil. together with fin" stock. &C..
!. all tight aud proper. but the quantity
Of these that can I've brought together in
County Fair will not of i'seif interest
crowd for single day. This fact l.
being rrcoyniyed hy most of the conn
ties in the pocket. and the people flock
IN great numbers te tlr - Fairs which
Offer the greatest Inducements for fss,
hor-es. Tie great mass nj people attend
fairs Tor fan aud excHetnent--a holiday
season as il were WHERE the whole cont
muniiy can meet together, talk about
the events OF tho day. have laugh, say
good-hy and 90 home W ell pleased with
each other and with themselves: and IN
this respect the Pike County Fair Was =
success
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The kepab irrns always fra r
co ven nj 10 -ay hut li,le about the
iin'',sc contraction nf the currency.
wi ich snnmrnc-d in ~. two ar three
year. follow ing the war. and in that IT.
lie the, usually lie nbout il. The " r
chased IN Nav. 1868. When the eve, {
ok place eleven STATES were found en-
tirrly bare at the United States money.
" Ind not been pcimiued 10 cin,ulat-
there. and for political reason. but n
smali figure representing il was un hand
In 1855 . II wanted avery large cir
"a ating medium. Its railroads needed
e. eat repairs from the ravages OF the
war. Their rolling stock was burnt
81 were their bridges. Their iron rails
hid worn out and had not heeu re-
placed. Tens of Thousands of dwell
J -. brrn- aud ut-hou-es had been
cnn. umcd. Thousands oi miles of fences
had disappeared and needed TO lie re-
PLACED. They were ia great want oi
household furniture aud other co,uNfi :
aud ncr~sssries Of life. Their people
nrr mainly agricultural aud live over 4
great .xpansr of Territory. Money cir
cuistcd lroin hand To hand with great
sl0wnrss To meet This extensive DE-
instd Tor currency large rxparsio,i
would have hr.u proper la order 10 ,t'n-
tinu- things upon existing bssis. Bn
no increase WAS made. aud thereby tiers
WAS contraction ia the amount OF sieu
G, ia circulation of from thirty to fort ,
per ecnt iIincinnsi Enquirer.
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We take this opportunit, Ia intor.n
your readers that Spsrfor is alive and
doing we'll ~ far as We know.
"A few days ia this month would
make very good August weather.
"A fine shower of rain fell on la-t
Friday evening. O that we might ha "
another sprinkle. is the language or
those who hav. wheat ground to plcw
The public school in Otwell cam.
,mences to-day Oscar Iladlock teacher
The wheat and oat ihreshimg il fin.
ished IN this part OF the ,untry. TIL,
wheat Welded about an average crop
oats was very liyhI. the must OF theu
having roited Ia th. field. -f
Sickness l. on The imrrease. Int moi
as bad Yet ~ was anticipated, xitlimi2 4
there H. plenty Of time yet for chill
before " inter.
Lonesome times IN town last week
Near every body went 10 the Fair.
Some fiue times Tor pleasure-seeHcr'
going 10 the Fairs.
The Youngsters Of Otwell have ih'
singing mama They meet on an aver
age about Twice IA week to practice tlIei
vocal organs.
The hog cholers u sill raging il
soiae parts of the rounty.
! Mr.. Ritter offers himself a. candi
date Tor Governor Of Ring Bone. Mi
Ritter 10 bscoininy very popular sincs
he hss sdvocatcd his new botanics
theory. The people shy that man tia
rHn advance such ideas ia botany de
serves The gubernaioriai chair.
Mr.. Berry. the County Superiniend
ent. expects TO leave Otwrll in "a shoe
! time and locale nearer the ceuIer OF ~,
county. SPEc1oK.