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New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
TIE INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN WORKMAN
SHIP.

The joint committee of the National Rifle
Association and Amateur Rifle Club met Saturday
afternoon No. l94 Broadway to consider the arrange
ments necessary the international rife match at
Dublin In June. Nearly all the members Of the two COIN
mttees were present, and Col Geo. W. Wingate. the
Chairman, read letter received from the American
Rifle Club Of Lima Peru, congratuatnG the Americans
on the result of the international match at Crcedmoor
in September. The Sharp and Remington ArgJs Com
panies letters Offering assistance TO the Amercaus
in the coming contest The nittce FOR raising funds
reported 5000 would be required for tho ten men
who are to represent America In the contest, and cir
cuar was prepared for the purpose of obtaining sub
scriptiOns The circular reces the details OF the vic
tory obtained last September over the Irl'h
team, which had during the Fan OF 1913
won celebrated ElchO Shield at Wimbledon
The result OF the American victory was a challenge
on the part of the Irish team 70 shoot return match IN
Dublin next june which has been accepted upon the
representations Of leading Americans that the American
rhemen should be supplied with the means for drfrav-
iug expenses The joint committee requests subscrlp
tons sent to Gen. NJ McMahOn at No 90 Nassau
st The Secretary instructed to prepare subscrp-
tiOn books. and committee, consisting OF Cen WOOD
ward Col Gildersleeve. the Hon d. W. Judd, n Afford,
Capt. L. C. Bruce, W. s. ,. Steers j. T. b. Collins, Mr.
Jewell Of the Chamber of Commerce. and Col WlnRate,
was selected to collect subscriptions.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
REFREsHMENT CONTRACTS IN THE CITY's PLAY
GROUND.

The Commissioners of Parks held a meeting
on Saturday when Mr. Stewart brought up his resolu
ton declaring vacant the Office OF Superintendent OF
Parks at present occupied by Columbus Ryan. Under
resolution of the Board, offered by Andrew II. Green
and passed In November, 1872, Mr.. Ryan was given
license TO sell refreshments in the Park for term OF five
years. certain percentage Of the gross proceeds fixed
by the Board to be paid for the privilege Under this
resolution Mr.. Ryan occupied all the buildings In the
Park where refreshments Sold his gross receipts in
two years amounting TO s25l,OOO, Of which lie paid
the city sl52il as its percentage. Commissioner
William L. Martin oferedlan elaborate opinion TO the
board on Saturday adverse TO Mr. RYans continuance In
the Office OF Superintendent and to his further holding
OF the contract the grOu that the double holding
Office contract e violation OF the charter
1873 that he vacated his Oce when he accepted the
contract and that the contract Is void because 1t could
only have been made from TO instead OF for
years. The resolution of Mr. Stewart 20 declare the
office vacant then put and lost, Commissioners
Stewart and Martin voting for u and williams and steb.
bins against 1t. The report OF the Civil EDgueer in
favor OF bridge across Harlem River at Madison
ave. was agreed 10.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

$50 total t3l23 81. Frs' .,o-,bo, Joel O. Stevens Of
the Mayor. office last ees Sranted 1sS licenses and
osiVSn TOT tne Sa tho sum seOs Major Hart Chier
eivnS fc. LII Bureau, granted 24s PERMITS anu ro
'otV' >r tho same $500. o..
,.oug the Mayors visitors Saturday were senators
DAILY with whom the status OF the bills affecting
this cry was discussed The Mayor performed the mar
riage ceremony three times during the day
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
CITY HALL FINANcEsiAND LEGISLATORS.

commissioner Van Mort has transmitted to
The Of Assessors certificates of the OF the
foIlovn1g Improvements: Regulating, grading, etc.,
OnebuIf> red eighb-st from Eghthave. TO Harlem
River slf.S2l al sewer In Lsightst between Varick
and Hudson sts, 81 S43 total tl4,264 a. He received
during the week for CrOtOD water rents and penalties
ssclS II tapD1g CrotoD Bipes ~ 0j sewer permits,
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

S. Nicholas Hotel-Dr. }. G. Aver Of Lowell, Mass.
Go, r. p Pes Of Moutsns and win Carleton OF hehigan r
Hou.eThe Hon William MsIsel Of sng'na; NJ a ~
Psml, of Hob-CbsreS Cslvert OF
ter Eng LeutGov H. q. Knight Of hassehneu SIs'
smith o3 Bnfo and O. Boudino OF the Indian Territory
politan HofeI-Gen Mcee Of schuyler CeuDty &
sor HoHL-Dr A. " Msgruer u s. Navy, and the no. !9se
square Hok-oasriermA'f D. A. "A'DA
Of West
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

SIX hundred prominent names have been
lbsr5ce from published list Of found appended
evidently intended deceive the circular Of who
into Alarm plan Every
tab its bottom. gentlemen.
HOLINESS BURGLAR ALARx TELEGRAPH,
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
)R, RADWAI'S REGULATING PILLS,

A FAMOUS TONIC and INVIGORATOR-
n The perfect and the best 10 the "ord-In'
valuable and all who labor with the brain,
WINCHBSTERS HYPOPHOSPHITB OF LIME AND SODA
This TONIC VIII give Strength IL "ill BUILD UP
INVIGORATB YIrALZE the whole system, mpartn2 Tone
VVo and and Energy aud make feel Ike new
being 81 nad - bottle. Prepared only bT MNChbs-
TBR 4 Co, Chemists 36 John-st, New-fors
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
HOME NEWS.
rRoxlgRSr ARRIVALS.

Thermometer YESTERDAY. At aGoSUrs. II pr"-~"-s.
9an.-32' YooD-33' D aA-32' Adnss-2o''
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

LAMPLOUGH's PYRETIC SALINE is the cure fol
yers bihoasne smallpox diseases and other Spring
ailments Sold bE Chemists throughout the world aud tbs
Maker ll3 Hobornhl, London, England Use no substitute
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

DABY CARRIAGES AND TOYS.
ID REMOVING To 80. S2D BROADWAY least side),
Next Block above stewards
nRESS COATS for Balls, Weddings, &c,
~ SALE and HIRE. Broadway ao MSPII5 at half value.
SHEA. the Coher 43i Broome St, rear Broadway.
NICK's ENCYCLOPEDIA of 6,423 RECEIPTS
~ AND PROCESSES Price, S5. free
Ipder mailed Free DICh d FITZGERALD, Publishers,
lS AnBst, New-Yok.
EVERYTHING in HOMEOPATHY at HUM
~ pHRkYS 562 and 81 Broaiway-BookS FAMILY akDl-
CINE CASES Homeopathic Specifies Veleuav Medicines, TEeIuTs,
Diuions Pellets HU UdPHRBYS' WlTCilHALEL OIL.
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
Storage and Insurance Of Yaluables
TIFFANY & Co.,
UNaOS.s0UARE, NEw.YORK,

UNlOy-sQUARE, NEW.YORK,
Send reliable and competent men to pack wedding
Presents, Silver Ware Bronzes, Glass Pottery, Pic
tures and valuable articles OF all kinds, which they
receive on storage, and insure at moderate rates
against loss Of any kind.
Their Safes and Vaults are perfectly dry, and
adapted to the storage of shawls. Laces valuable
papers. &c.
Every facility IS given for the occasional removal
of the whole or part of packages. They send for
property to be stored with and insured by them and
return it without extra charge, assuming all re-
sponsblty from the time it leaves the owner until
its return
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

Don't risk anything with a stubborn cough,
when safe remedy bal Dr. JAYSEs EAPECrORAsT
lungs and tbroats a speedily helped by IT,
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01
LONG ISLAND.

JAMAIcA-A strange habitation was dscov-
cred by rabbit hunters in piece Of woods
this place last week German, who. according his
story, too independents to live In poor house
aud too honest 10 associate with thieves, bad dug u
square chamber IN the ground about 10 feet long feet
wide, and just deep enough to stand This he had
rooted with boards and earth. leaving small hole
for exit and entrance. A low bunk with a long used
quilt formed his bed. ana few bricks served for
IL appears that his name Is kOorner and that
he works during the Summer for the neighborng far
mers but for three Winters has lived in this primitive
hut rather than TO poor house The OF Isaac
W. Valentine against his wife, which has been for
time before County Judge Armstrong referee,
has been closed, aud Judge Armstrong will In
few days make his report 10 the Supreme Court The
suit is for absolute divorce and the custody Of
only child.
0RERNPoRT.-An number Of dogs, the owners OF which
are unknown, few nights got among valuable
New-York tribune., 1875-02-01

IhInsGncemeuul
BUREETT's ExTRACTs-Beware of substitutes.
Every Lady who wants a sweet breath should
use LIoS's ToUTH TABLErs daily.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06
The New Era in the South.

The Chicago Tribune takes cogni-
zance of the improved condition Of
affairs in the south, arising from n di-
versity of crops and improved mt thoda
Of agriculture. Among other things II
says "a new and promising era has
dawned upon the states whore once
king cotton held undisputed Gway.
Southern planters have experimental
in the way of diversity Of products, and
the experiment has proved wonderful
success. If it had been predicted ten
years ago that any Of the cotton raising
states would in the year 1875 have a
surplus OF cereals, the existing facts
and prospects OF the time would haIdly
have borne out the prophecy. Yet
such is the fact. The states OF Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
Alabama will this year have enough
and TO spare, and the southern farmers
are proud and happy. In addition 10
this unprecedented grain yield, the old
staple, though reduced in acreage, has
by a more thorough system Of cultiva-
ton rewarded the planters as never
before, and they boast OF an indepen'
dence that has heretofore been un'
known to that portion Of the country.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

Sulh as III creams, ana lOST IN ANXIOUS GDOuEQb
My footsteps brought me to this lonely spot.
To whom belongs the field ? this fowery bed l.?
The dead." zegaz,
Enter thou in, my soul why shou1dst thou fear +?
Nought but sweet buds and flowers are blooming
here.
Whence comes the essence for these sweet per
fumes?
From tombs."
See here, man where all thy paths must end,
However varied be the way they wend.
Listen the dead leaves speak, ay, hear they must
HTO dust"
Where are the careless she1rts that on the earth
Trembled in pain, or beat so high in mirth?
Those in whose breasts the flame of hatred smoul
dered
"Mouldered."
Where are the mighty who take life by storm
Who cen to heavens heights wild wishes form?
What croak the ravens on Won moss-grown wall?
"Buried ALL"
Where are the dear ones in deaths cold sleep lying
To whom love swcre memory undying?
What wall yon cypress trees ?oh hear st thou mott
"Forgot."
To see where these once passed, did no eye crave?
May no wild longing pierce beys nd the grave?
The fir trees shake their weird heads one by one
"None, none."
The evening wind amid the trees is signing:
Fettered in dreams, my saddened soul is lying,
Tbs twilight falls, the red glow paleth fast
ATS past"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

The work of excavatipg the arena
of the coliseum at Rome, has been sus-
pended since May, as it cannot be pro-
ceeded with until the discovery of the
duct or canal used by the old Romans
to drain off the water collecting from
the adjacent slopes. The canal has been
traced in its starting point near the
ruins, and in its passage through the
forum, leading into the Cloaca Msxima;
but its intermediate course has yet to be
unearthed, which operation, together
With it's proper cleaning and repairs,
will be job of some difficulty, time and
expense. In the meantime the excava-
ton in the coliseum already made, will
have to be kept dry, or as free from
water as possible, in order that the
foundation of the building may not be
seriously damaged,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

PPoF. DONALDSON, the aeronaut,
has been travelling in company with
Barnum's Hippodrome, and making bal
loon ascensions after the conclusion of
the afternoon performances, made his
second trip frum Chicago on the 18th,
accompanied by Mr.. Newton s. Grim
wood, reporter of the Chicago Journal.
After ascending into the air the balloon
took northeasterly course, sailing
over the lake in the direction of Mus
kegon, Mich. About seven o'clock in
the evening it was sighted by schooner
about thirty miles northeast of Chicsgo,
at which time the balloon was skim
ming the surface of the lake. The
schooner followed after it until it was
observed to rise suddenly into the air,
when the chase was given up. A very
severe gale occurred on the lake
about midnight, and, as no further It'd
ings had been received in Chicago from
the balloon or its occupants up to The
morning of the 18th, grave apprehen-
sions were felt for their safety. 1t was
the opinion of experts that the balloon
could not possibly have reached the
Michigan shore before the storm burst
upon it, and that the aeronauts per-
ished in the lake. 1t is said by some
that the balloon was a rotten, patched
up affair.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

THE committee appointed by the
Delaware Fruit Growers convention to
confeIwith the steamship companies in
regard to the shipment of peaches to
Liverpool have reported that they called
upon the authorities of the American
steamship company, and they favored
the project. The company would allow
the growers to fit up the steerage for
ward cabin with their refrigerators,
which can be done with five hundred
dollars for each vessel. This portion of
the ship would hold $4,000 or 30, 900
baskets, and a compartment immedi.
diately underneath could be fitted up
which would carry 5000 additional
They would charge the growers for the
shipment of this amount of fruit to
Liverpool about two thousand dollars.
and give them the privilege of sending
out an agent free of charge with each
consignment,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06
Female Society.

All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions, and are stupid,
and have gross tastes, and revolt against
what is pure. Your club swaggerers,
who are sucking the butts Of billiard
cues all night, call female society in
sipid. Poetry is uninspiring to yokel;
beauty has no charms for a blind man (;
music does not please poor beast, who
does not know one tune from another,
but, as a true epicure is hardly ever
tired of water, sauce and brown bread
and butter, protest / can sit for a
whole night talking to well res ulated,
kindly woman about her daughter Fanny
O her boy Frank, and like the evenings
entertainment.
One of the greatest benefits a man
can derive from woman's society is that
he is bound to be respectful TO her.
The habit is Of great good to your NOR
ais, men, depend uron it. Our educa-
ton makes us the most eminently sell
fish men in the world, and the greatest
benefit that lac has is TO think OF some
body to whom he is bound to be con-
stantly attentive and respectful.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

The July returns to the department
of agriculture shows that the acreage in
corn is about three per cent. greater
than last year. New England has in
creased her acreage about eleven per
cent. and the Pacific states about one
per cent. All the great corn growing
regions have increased acreage-Mid-
ele states two per cent, South Atlantic
states three per cent. Gulf states, in
land southern states, twelve per cent,
states north of Ohio seven, west of the
Mississippi fourteen per cent. The
condition of the crop is below an aver
age in the New England and South At.
lantic states. The minimum condition,
eighty. two per cent, being in Rhode
Island, Florida and Alabama are also
below the average, but other Gulf
states and inland southern states are
about the maximum, 1I2 in Mississippi.
All sotEer states except Missouri, 103
are below the average, the minimum
NO eighty-tbeing in Wisconsin.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

The VIRTUE OF ASPARAGUS Sci
entific American says A medical cor
respondent Of an English iournsl says
that the advantages of asparagus are not
sufficiently appreciated. Those who
suffer with rheumatism are cured In
few days by feeding on this delicious
escuIent and more chronic cases are
much relieved, especially if the patient
avoids all acids, whether in food or hev-
eraoe. The Jerusalem artichoke bias
similar effect Ia relieving rheumatism.
RI NAV be we'll TO remark that most
plants which grow naturally near the
seacoast contain more or less iodine, and
ia all rheumatic complaints iodine has
long been aiavoriteremedy. One who has
been in the drug business told the writer
some years ago that many OF the popu-
lar patent nostrums which some disin-
terested people," for the good OF their
fellow creatures" at two dollars a
bottle consisted simply OF few cents
worth of iodine in solution. Iodine Is
dangerous, however, in overdoses, al
fecting especially the eye
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06
TIMELY TOPICS.

The yellow fever is at Pensacola. 1t
is unusually early for this dreaded man
Hesitation. In some of the most de-
Sastating yellow fever seasons the dis
ease has not shown itself on the gulf
coast until September.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

The Boston Journal of Chemistry re-
grets that the millers use all their
finest, soundest wheat for fine -four, and
the poorest for Graham or brown bread,
a general name given to mixtures of
bran and spoiled -four. "What we
need is good, sweet, whole wheat -four
finely ground, and put up secure
~ for family use, snd any western mil
er who viii give his earnest attention
to furnishing such flour will realize a
fortune speedily; securing the most
nutritive principles the Creator has
stored up for mans food"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

The postoffice department has sent
to the department. of justice the names
of thirty-nin mail contractors who are
to be prosecuted for failure to perform
service after their bids were accepted.
The contracts were relet by the gov
eminent, and the difference between
the amount paid and the bids, for the
thirty-nine routes, was $417, O87, which
is the amount of damages claimed
against the delinquent bidders.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

THE German minister of finance re.
ports a deficiency in the Budget for this
year of $4,000, COO, and the tax on beer
is to be raised-a proceeding which will
be immensely unpopular in Germany,
where everybody consumes largely OF
the ruby liquid. Such large deficiency
as SC, 00O, 900 would seem singular, with
the millions which have been paid by
France, were it not apparent that Ger
many has been putting all her money
nto her armies.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

The plague, or Black Death, has
walked from its thirty years sleep in the
east, and is reported to be spreading
with rapidity in Asia. About eighty
five years ago, it desolated Russia, and
one hundred and fifty years have passed
since it ravaged and almost depopu-
lated some parts of Europe,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

"A popular theatrical manager says
he has been the means of keeping be-
tween two and three hundred young
ladies' off the stage within the space of
five years. Gone reason was, )" said he,
"because they had no talent and an
other was because 1 knew that before
they had been in the profession many
weeks they would be heartily sick and
tired of it. The life of an actor is a
hard one. People come, " said he, ''and
see the actor walking around the stage,
speaking a few lines, dressed in mag
nificent clothes, and winning the ap-
plause of the multitude. How de-
lightfulP they exclaim. Nothing in
the world to do but to dress well and
look pretty They do not know what a
dogs life it is. And travelling through
the country is the hardest work of all.
Out till twelve and one o'clock at night,
and out of bed by four or five in the
morning to take an early tn&in to the
next town. Sometimes they do not get
to bed at all.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

THE clerical newspapers in France
speculate on the causes of the great
food with some asperity. 1t appears
that the municipal council of Toulouse
recently refused to erect statue to
''the glorious and miraculous shep.
herdess of Pibrac," and one of the coun-
cilors said, "We prefer fountain. u
Whereupon the Gazette de Mines now
remarks, ''God has fulfilled the wish OF
these honorable councillors and sent q
fountain to the capital of Laguedoc
which they little expected. Had the
town voted the required sum Divine
Providence" says the editor, ''would
never have treated Toulouse SO Sc,
verely." 1t is understood that the
bishop of Charities is of the same
opinion.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06
Beautiful Villas Up the Hudson Beg.
ging fer Purchasers.

Within tat. past Season a well known
estate on the Upper Hudson, beautifully
situated and carefully laid out, which
cost the owner 100000, was sold for
less than the mortgage upon it, or for
$4,000. AS the traveller sails TIP the
Hudson from Newburg he will within a
short distance BEE three fine properties.
one Ct which belonged to a British
ambassador, another to one of orr
foreign ministers, and the other to an
equally prominent person, all OF which
are in the market, unstable and unrent,
able-one, indeed, being turned into a
briek-yard. Passing still further up
the stately river, the traveller will be
pointed to other splendid properties
belonging to old immortal estates
some whose titles came from the British
crown, and others whose deeds were
signed by the Indian chiefs-now utterly
worthless as sources of profit, the ex-
penses of keeping them up exceeding
any rent possible for them, and they
themselves not finding a buyer at the
prices Of the mortgages upon them
These places, too, it should be re-
marked, are among the finest in the
northern states, with handsome lawns
and gardens, old trees and parks, and
superb views of river and mountain.
The houses themselves are perhaps
old, but not uncomfortable, and they
are easy of access by boat and railroad.
The same state of things prevails fur
Their from the river. There is one place
in Duchess comfy which is said to
have cost $25, 000, and which could not
be rented, and probably not sod, for a
third of its value.
In the interior of the state there are
numerous other estates in the same
pHght.-N y Times
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

THAT most insufferable of all idiots,
the practical joker, does not always
escape on earth the wrath that is laid
up for him. There lived and taught
school in st. James parish, Louisiana,
recently, man by tho name of Bow
den, a well-meaning person. but af-
ficted with that peculiar sense of
humor which is sure to get somebody
or other into trouble sooner or later.
One of his most successful jokes was
that of displaying advertising bills
printed in imitation of greenbacks, and
offering to bet hundreds and thousands
of dollars with people who didn't know
that he was fooling. The other day an
offensive smell coming from an out
house led to a search for the cause, and
the corpse of Bowden was found
beneath the floor and under a covering
of corn husks, where it was rapidly
decaying. A Swedish plantation hand,
who had seen him displaying his imita-
ton bills, had mistaken him for a per-
son of large and available means, and
had murdered him for his money. The
Swede is now fugitive, and he feels
doubly the weight of the joke, for he
got no money, and the Governor has
offered 81, 900 for his arrest.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06

THE substance of Jno. d. Lees con-
fession is that thirty Mormons, with the
assistance of large number of Indians,
decoyed eraigrants from their entrench-
ment by flag of truce; that all were
murdered except seventeen children
that the deed was done under orders of
the leaders of the Mormon Church
that he took news of the massacre to
Brigham Young, who deplored the
transaction, and said it would bring
disaster upon the Mormon people. The
statement of Lee, so far as known, only
confirms precious reports in regard to
the massacre.