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wire OF his wife's brother, whom he coveted
In another case we see man Of immense
wealth, who was poor strolling actor in his
youth, riot in his passions, discard wife after
wife and take up mistress after mistress. till
his money is fought over by his victims with
all the revolving details of a debauched
life shamelessly paraded. They are sad
dening as well as disgusting pictures, and
they should be pondered by the thoughtful.
No generation can afford to pass its social
problems by, for the occasional sins Of one
may become the rooted vices Of the next
The memory Of q pure and united household
is one Of the best bequests man can leave to
those who follow him. What Dead Sea fruit
of domesticity is the heritage of those born Of
the marriages and unions" we have de-
scribed
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WEST PoINr.-A story has been in circula-
ton that the great Prussian soldier Won
Moltke had severely criticised our national
Military Academy, and had said, among
other things that the exclusive selection OF
officers from such school was more un.
likely to produce great war captains than il
the shoulder straps were within reach of the
entire male population. 1t is now stated
from Berlin that Count Moltke never uttered
the observations attributed to him; that he
would not agree with many of them, while in
others he thought exactly the opposite. We
wish the exposition was little clearer.
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Lessons from the Surrogate's Court.


When we see the novelist or the dramatist
who has got all his characters into an mex
plicable tangle suddenly produce a will or a
codicil to set things right, we are apt to com
plain that he lacks inventiveness in resorting
to such hackneyed expedient. Forged
wills and wills found after great search are
commoner in the play and the novel than in
the probate courts. Generally the testa-
mentary drama opens when the we'll attested
and carefully deposited will is sought to be
admitted to probate. Then the widow and
children begin to learn things which they
had not dreamed of; then claims ignored for
half a lifetime struggle for hearing; then
the secrets which have been guarded by q
small circle are laid bare to the world In
America a peculiar social phase of our rapid
progress in wealth is being brought to light
through the Surrogate's Court. America
boasts more than any other nation OF its self
made men. Those who began life poor and
reached well into the years of manhood
before fortune smiled on them, but who then
almost at bound reached the heights
Of wealth, are more numerous here than in
any other country. While their successes
in making money have been literally
chronicled, their domestic careers have been
let alone, yet, one by one, the Surrogate's
Court displays how we'll or how i'll their life
1t the hearth has supplemented their life in
the world Often it shows how the wife who
shared the early privations has been cher
ished 10 the end, but too often, also, it tells
that the cold tide of gold has drowned heart
and conscience. The wife is plain in person
and palmer in manner, and the courageous
speculator becomes a skulking coward at the
thought of presenting the newborn friends
Of his newborn money to her. She is
isolated. He doles out a pittance to her !;
he buys her silence he never mentions her,
and, his weak head carried away by some
new beauty in the now world of fashion, he
marries again. Such was the story in one
recent case. and we fear it is a type Our
ashoddy" women have been ridiculed here
and abroad but, better a thousand times
to bring the plain old wife with one through
the world, no matter how absurdly she
carries her new plumage of wealth, than to
strut with lady welded to lie, bearing a
brand that will stamp the man in his grave
as coward and perjurer, that will
leave mistress and not widow, and
will taint the children of the second
"wife" as illegitimatc. Then we have cases
where the divorce court has stepped in to rid
n man of q woman he could not tolerate in
the glare of wealth, but whose features were
sweet to him in the shadows Of poverty. A
so-called mutual separation" brought
about perhaps by his own cruelty, has given
man an opportunity to take to him as a
wife in name. but not in law. the divorced
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offered 10 neusdealers by sending their orders
direct 10 this office.
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ONE OF THOSE HORRIBLE CRIMES which de-
face civilization occurred in this city yester-
day. A man having shot his wife and two
children then shot himself No cause has
been assigned for the act. The man was
ianitor of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children, but he killed his own.
The mans name would indicate that he is
q German, and it must be noted with regret
that this large and generally peaceful class
of our fellow citizens furnish lately great
nnmhar Of tho crimas which end in suicide.
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was quiet.

The MERCHANTS OF New YORK are not
quite satisfied with the freight rates west,
allows the railroads to contract with individu-
ais at excessively low rates while excessively
high rates are charged to the general body
of traders. They are right in saying that
this does not protect New York commerce,
and their advocacy of a fair, paying rate for
everybody, without favor to any, has the
proper commercial ring about it, To dis
criminate between parties in New York is
ms bad MS to discriminate between New York
md Baltimore.
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WALL STREET YESTERDAY. Stocks were
without feature and the market was gener-
ally stagnant. Money on call loaned up to
seven per cent and 1882 commission, and
closed at four per cent Gold opened at
113 1-S and closed at 113. Foreign exchange
was quiet
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THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY dies hard. The
proposition Of the Committee on Dissolution
that the Chamber should dissolve to-day was
rejected yesterday, and the agony will be
prolonged, possibly, into January. The Left
is naturally dissatisfied with this prospect,
as il may keep the Chamber sitting up 70 the
eve ofthe Senatorial elections, thus giving the
government time to perfect its machinery for
carrying the elections in the conservative in
terest. The best thing for the Left to do is
20 expedite business and thus force the ma
jority to 60 home. great many members
OF the sections Of the Right know that It Is
their last appearance in the role Of Deputy,
and hence they are in no hurry TO dissolve.
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THE ENGLISH RFLEMES have accepted the
challenge of the New York rihemen for a
match in America during the Centennial
celebration. Sir Henry Halford will be the
Captain Of the English team. We under
stand that the endeavor to secure a range
near Philadelphia has not been successful,
and hence it is highly probable the match
will be shot at Creedmoor, which, with a
little better accommodation furnished by the
railroads, could be more successfully used
for that purpose than any range hastily
extemporized. We are now anxious to learn
If this team will be an Imperial one, or
whether we are to expect q team each from
Ireland and Scotland.
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SECRETARY BnIsTow AND THE PRESIDENT
If President Grants suspicious should
bring him into open collision with the Sec
rotary of the Treasury the latter has a
strong precedent to support him in a refusal
to relinquish his Office. General Grant him
self was once a Cabinet officer who incurred
the displcasure Of his official chief, but he
did not feel called upon to resign any more
than his predecessor, Secretary Stanton, who
followed Senator Summers advice TO "sticls =
President Grant can suspend Cabinet
officers, but cannot remove them. and he will
be wary Of sending Mr.. Bristow's case to the
Senate for decision, when his only offence is
too much zeal in pursuing the Whiskey
Ring and too little consideration for the i'm
plicated private secretary Of the President
If there should be a quarrel between Gen
eral Grant and Mr. Bristow it will be quite
safe for the Secretary to defy the President
and 'stick"
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The CoRREsPoNDENcE between the Com
mittee on Crime and their counsel on
one side and District Attorney Phelps
on the other is concluded in another
part of to-day's paper. Mr.. Townsend
replies to Mr. Phelps letters to Assem-
blyman Campbell with fire and dash,
but Mr.. Phelps waves the committee off
with q rciteration Of the charge of political
partisanship which he made in his first notes.
II is curious and refreshing to read at the
close of Mr.. Townsend's letter that he has
written it with no feelings Of bitterness" to
Mr. Phelps, but tho body of the document
reads very much as though he believed he
was passing red hotpokers through tho Dis
trict Attorney and felt rather gratifed at the
operation.
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editions Of the NEW YORK HERALD will be
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

hVu uGklIMBN ~ l. ~ ANlbll1s
->
Sixteenth street, near Broadway.-yAKIETY, at r NJ
GERMANrA THEATRE
Fourteenth sireet-CoMTEssE HELENE, nsPM
BROOKLYN THEATRE,
Washington street, BroOkiyn-nENRY Y, atsr NJ Mr.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE; ,,cy,,
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
No. 624 Broadway-yARIETY, at r. n.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
rwentyeighth street, near Broadway-PIQUE a. 9 r. NJ
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE,
Nos. 5ss and 5s7 BrOadway.-yARrETY, at p N Matt
at p. NJ.
Broadway and streetfHE cRUc1BLE, q.
sP NJ Oakley Hall
EAGLE THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirtythird street-VARIETY, at r NJ.
BowERY THEATRE,
Bowery.-vALLEY FORGE, aud 1776, at p M. Mr..
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs,
Yey oprs House. Broadway corner Of street.
TIvoLI THEATRE,
Eighth street. Third avenue.-yARrETY, at 8 P. NJ.
WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway. OF Thirteth street.-THE OCTOROON,
u2P. VI.
GLOBE THEATRE.
Nos. tbs and 80 Broadway.-YARIETY, ats p NJ Matt
at r. NJ.
BOOTHS THEATRE.
twenty third and sixth avenue-JULIUS CESAR,
HSP. NJ. Mr.. Lawrence Barrett.
LYCEUM THEATRE.
Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue-LA MAlTRESSE
LEGITIME, at P. NJ. Partisan Company.
CHICKFRING HALL.
PIrh 6weoue and Eighteenth street.-GRAND CONCERT,
MSP. NJ. Won Bulow. Matinee at r. NJ.
THEATRE CoMIQUR,
No. 5l4 OVERWHELMINGLY. at T. NJ.
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE.
Third between Thrieth aud Thirty first streets
MINSTRELSY and VARIETY at s Z. NJ.
COLOSSEUM,
Thirtyfourth and Broadway-PRTSSIAN SIEGE OF
PARIS Open frcm p. NJ 10 r. NJ. and from 30 r. w.
to 10 NJ.
wALLACK's THEATRE.
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-THE ROMANCE OF
POOR YOUNG MAN, at y. NJ. closes at 10 AS r. NJ Mr.
John Gilbert
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THE WmsEEY WAR ~ CHICAGO is vigorously
carried on by the revenue officials, and the
greatest CONSERVATION exists among the dis
tillers Of the crooked" One of the impli-
Gated distilers is reported to have said that
they could not avoid cheating the govern
Ioapty -b1eeN~s " tAc dcsire Of the officials
that they should do so. This is very poor
defence If it is the best they have to make.
Meantime the prosecution will ha pnsbAd.
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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
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From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ,oedther to-day 1oiH be 1oormer,
fo10u and clearing.
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TwEED's BoNDsMEN in the criminal cases
are fighting hard to prove that they are not
responsible The case goes to the General
Term, and when it is passed on there we
shall see how far their plea Will carry them.
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ANOTHER HEAVY DEFALcATIoN is reported

ANOTHER HEAVY DEFALcATIoN is reported,
this time from Buffalo City Treasurer Bor1
has fed, leaving a deficit of over three
hundred thousand dollars. Like many others
who have gone his road he was open
handed, and apparently open-hearted
He was president Of thirteen
societies, and foremost in all phil
anthropic works. Doubtless he thus
managed to divert suspicion from his dark
doings; for who could question the man who
kept his balances straight on paper, who
had the reputation Of great wealth,
who gave homes to the working
classes for song and was foremost in
all benevolent projects? These cases are
hard to Judge without all the evidence; but
whether he lent the city money to others or
used it in other ways, he was stepping him
self in dishonesty at every STEP and it is
proverbial how difficult it is to retrace these
downward steps.
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wALLACK's THEATRE
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-The ROMANCE OF
POOR YOUNG MAN, at 3 r. NJ. closes 10 AS r. NJ Mr.
John Gilbert
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as we'll as those in which individuals take
their own lives without first burdening their
souls with other crimes
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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1875.
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COLOSSEUM.
Thirty fourth and Broadway.-PRTSS1AN SIEGE OF
PARIS Open rcm r. NJ. 10 +. NJ and from 30 7. "
to 10 p NJ.
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THIRD AVENUE THEATRE,
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MINSTRELSY and VARIETY az Z. NJ.
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THEATRE CoMIQUR,
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PARISIAN VARIETIES,
Sixteenth street, near Broadway.-NAklETY, at 7. NJ
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UNION SQUARE THEATRE
Broadway Fourteenth street-RoSE MICHEL. at
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-09-30

s. asay u gsf readers ssc leas.ag
thsif homes 81 this time faF journeys
- ralwsys. thas &c givs The following
stitch va uf.sisa ~ - emsneni
fhysseiaas
Called g prescribe fof Mrs. Az
dress iaasaea eyes learned that che
sd las 81 ciasef IN her eyes; oeeaf
red sbiic travelling Is the cars icar
aays age ere very much iaaamed
psiufal. ADD attacked with severe
headache. This IL 0pe d the hundreds
= cascs where bot very little knowl
edge would not have beea danger.
Qua ihing and would save = world q
psia. Nothing is more distressing TO
irasclcr than piece % cindcr ia the
eye, and 90 disorder Is 50 easily rene
died CAllieg the fAmily together !
proceeded 10 show them that Il was
not ~ eyc.wAsh that Mrs. Andrews
aceJed - relieve Der suferings. bot
the removal o. the foreign Substance.
+ Ihs cinders will be found 70 be jest
nudcracath the margin OF the upper
ia, where there is a small groove OF
gutter 10 aid the fow Of tears To the 10
ner angie Of the eye. Foreign bodies
teud 10 fall into this groove, and il they
are very angular ike cInder. they adhere
10 spite Of the current Of tears which
GOV fos 10 greater abundance, and
sooner or later carry Oh smooth sub-
stances. Now. If you will raise the
upper margin Of the lid and turn il
Over. the eiBder Or grain Of sand will
De exposed, and many be removed by
the point Of pencil, or with tie hnger
covered By handkerchieis ! then
demonstrated this operation on one o.
the boys thus: Taking my pencil il
my night thumb and finger. with the
thumb and toger Of my left band
seized the eyelashes Of the upper lid
aud drawing the lid gently out from
the ball. passed the point Of the pencil
downward upon the upper surface o
the lid, about the fourth Of an incl
from the margin. and at the same tim'
carried the margin upward over the
pencil by the eye.lashes, when the liz
readily rolled over the pencil SO as Il
expose completely the gutter describ
ed. then asked one of the ladies Il
per form this operation upon her moth
G err, which after two or three failures, sh'
e accomplished, and as / had predicted
b small angular pieces OF cinder wer
b found beneath the margin OF the lid
which she very adroitly removed wit
Il the point Of the pencil Mrs Andrew
q experienced immediate relief So muc
d interest was felt in this painful
b operation, that all in turn performed
being much aided by requiring th
|. persons operated upon to look down
!. ward when the lid is being avertec
}. and upward when the operator wishes
:. to restore the lid.
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CATARRH.
Weakness of kidneys and Pains
in the Side and Back,

OF Twenty Years Standing, Cured In Two Weeks
by Lees than Bottle. A CttArrh Cough, 40
Bad a. TO Prevent Sleep Nights, unless Cs.
tArrh 5nuH was PerpetuAlly Used, Cared with
One Bottle.
Testimony II a rel kaoicn and highly esteemed
etiaef Of hetr Boston,
MEssHs IfrrLEF1rLD 4 Co Druggists II have
bad Cstarrh little rising 1--WE yeare, aud psins
tn haek and weakness in kidneys Tor twenty
My Catarrh was go bad that If / did not take
eatArrh =nnff vac troubled it'll cough, more
or less, all night | have taken MarshAll's
oaiArrh SBuH for two years, and particularly Ia
cold weather had to take IL every night 10 get
rest. / began 10 take your Constitutional Ca
tArrh Remedy aboat 4 month ago aud have TAX
cd only only one bottle. III less than week
the coughing nights left me, aud have had
uone since 10 speak ~, though have had none
II the Remedy for week.
have had pains in my side 80 bad that did
not 70 out 81 the house for two weeks at time
Sly greatest paln was IN my right kidney.
have been a. times great sufferer from nv
kidneys since 1859 In two weeks After began
10 lake your Constitutional CatArrh Remedy the
pain al lefi n G CROMBfE
Nav BosroS, n A., April "a, 1870.
Hundreds 81 cases " i similar nature cured
aiiha The lat yeu snuff and Lotions give
CAFAAhH REMEDY strikes Il the root bniidt
~ tns constitution, mAkes II new, aud drivet
asay GaiAffh and sll diseases OF the mucous
n.i noraues, aud Their attendant pains and
sehes, pertaining TO head. back, shoulders,
sta eys aud throst
Pac per bottle. Sold by al Druggists. A
Pn.nplct u 81 psEes giving a Treatise on Ca.
tArrh, and contain innumerAhle osses 81
eGres .ut fee, by addFessing the propuators
LII LEFlELD s co, Manchester, y. II.
ron SAFE ~
WAIT h HARD, Manchester, VI.
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WAIT h HARD, Manchester, VT.
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There don't appear to be much
limit 10 a farm laborers hours. A man
who has been working for a New
Canaan farmer, putting Ia thirteen 10
sixteen houts day. quit OF Saturday
What's the naiierl don't you like tie
place J asked the farmer. o. yes. /
like the place well enough. explained
the hand. bat the nights are getting so
long I'm afraid ican's 90 full day 5
work. The hraef anilAd like Az in
valid.
~--in Augusta there is an old lynn
phaiic negro who has wonderfully
large feet and IL always ready TO take
a rest. one day while lying upon the
cabin door siainbering. with bis feet
presenled 10 the glimmeriag light. be-
opened enc eye = little aud getting a
glimpse o. the dark objects, be mistook
them iof two little negroes. and cried
oat, Get run fore ne. say. kick you
In ahe era II ynu dana-I will shaah
and again be snored His dreams not
being pleasant be finally opened both
eyes, and siill seeing the pests. be
drew up his feet ior the threatened
kick, bot alarmed 70 see the cnemy
advance % hin, be beloved out. VIA
war y9a c6taiag u now Go way
dar.
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We are now filling orders from
considerable distances, and have
succeeded in giving perfect satisiac-
ton in every instance. Goods or
dered by parties outside Bennington
County arc forwarded by express,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-07
untII lhe mem of hlslory snail cense in

until the pen Of history shall cease "
record vlrlu0us deeds among men,
Young gentlemen, come OF your
fathers were friends OF my youth,
when We OF Texas were struggling lul
national eSlstoneP, wrought up, soul
and hody, IN the glory Of our beloved
laud, Agnln nad again, IN The sad
wears sineo The fall OF tho Southern
lag ut Appomall0X, have lain awake
ia lho' silent hours OF night and
prayed to the groat Ruler ot all TO
ulpas the boys OF Texas have Inn
pored Hin who rides The storm aud
doelh all things well, 10 guard and
bless the sons and daughters Of Texas
J have humility entrealcd Him 10 make
INC hoyd Of unr beloved land doubly
worthy Of their hOn0red ancestry, !
cousldder the immigrant boy Ut yes
tgrday u son OF Texas Tor rom the
beginning " the Apgd Saxon race In
this now noble state, Texas has ever
opened and ever will open her doors
ana give cordial greeting 10 the Inn
migrant, come whence he may.
Deeply impressed with such senli.
inallis, | would implore each aud all
Of you, my young friends, 10 he true TO
your ancestral blood cultivate the
love OF truth, honor charity and patrl-
| Otism. Store your minds while you
may, with useful knowledge and high
moral resolves. Steer clear Of dissipa-
ton and all the rocks and breakers up.
on which 50 many noble men have
STRANDED In the last generation. Act,
| beseech you, Ms though each one Of
you bore upon his person the unlar.
nished honor Of all Texas. Honor the
parents to whom, under God, you owe
your being, Have charity for the
fralltes 81 others. Earnestly seek
moral, as well as intellectual and phys
zeal development. Ion have splendid
opportunities Ia M institution which
Is an honor to our state, For three
years j have known two OF your
instructors, 1.-THE brothers, Colo
mel and Major James,. ] know
them to be heightened and cultured
gentlemen, deeply imhued with the
great responsibilities OF their mission.
Respect and honor them ~ your tenn
porary parents. pray God to see,
annually, 20 forth rrom The Texas
Military Institute swarm of gradu-
ates, who shall spread over our State
rs guides aud blessings TO the people.
| ask the great Judge of all the Earth
10 bless sou. young gentlemen. AS
menof my own age pass from the
stage of public action, trust to see
among you many who may sit IN the
,,,nntIs .,f t,,.,gnr hall md aou,n AZ IA q,