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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-07

I3otn street, MOI ua'eu' JAMES QUINN, aged 81
me relatives and friends OF the family are re-.
spectiuly invited to assist at a solemn mass OF
ing at st. Jeromc's church. East 137tn street. Mott
Haven. alter winch the remains VIII be convey ed
| to Westcbester Cemetery.
AT meeting OF the attaches Of the Tenth Dis.
trlct Court, held at rne court room on Saturday
morning. February 9, 1875, tae following preamb bic
and resolutions were unanimously adopted:-
| Whereas 1t has pleased Almighty God, IN the ex-
ercse OF His allwise yet lnsCrutablc proydence TO
remove from among us by the hand OF death our
late associate, James Quinn, while yet in the
flower OF his young manhood ana whereas 1t is
nttng, IN view OIL this Calamity and the uncer.
tainty OF lie, that we should express our eelings
to the sorrowlng survivors OF the family OF de-
Resolved, That while we bow with humble sub
mission to this Christening stroke OF the Almighty
Will, we profoundly deplore the loss or one who
was to us warm hearted, GENIAL and generous
companion, whose hand was always extended to
actions were charact erized by sincerity aud
genulneness that won the admiration OF all with
whom ne was brought IN contact and bound
them to MN 10y ties OF the strongest friendship
Resolved, That In the death OF James Quinn,
we and all OF his friends have met with an IRE.
parable loss, and that we Will treasure his men,
DRY green IN our hearts as long as lie lasts.
Resolved, That while we fully appreciate the
greatness OF our own loss we cannot iaIl to real
ize the deep aniiction which his wife and family
sulier. and which to them can neither be dimmed
nor effaced by the lapse OF time, aud that we
tender to them our heartfelt ana sincere SYM
patiy in this their great affection.
JOHN J. CLARKE, Chairman.
BENJAMIN F. HAsXIN, secretary.
RoBTNs.-On Friday, February s, CAROLINE
MATILDA, widow OF the late " lillian Rooms, In the
46th year OF her age.
Relatives and friends OF the family are invited
to attend tie funeral, from her late residence, No.
81 Cannon street, on Monday, February 8, OF one
O'CLOCK.
RoDGERs.-On Saturday, February O. THOMAS
RODGERS, aged 20 years.
HIS trends and those OF his uncles, Peter and
Alexander @cDonncIl are requested to attend me
tune al on Monday, the 9Th INST, at two o'clocK
p. NJ, rom 25S West Twentieth street.
| SANDERsoN.-On Tuesday morning, the 81 inst,
| THOMAS N. N. SANDERsON professionally known as
| Nelse Seymour) aged 80 years and months.
| the relatives ana lricnds OF the family aud the
dramatic profession generally are res ectlully IN
| vited 10 attend tue funeral, on sunday, the TIN
inst, at two O'Clock p. NJ, from the Churcn OF the
TraEsd guration the little church around the cor.
ner), wenty-nintn street, between Madison and
| Fifth avenues
AMlTY LODGE, No. 323. r. AND A. NJ. :-BREruREY--
| You are hereby summoned to attend special
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PATTERSON FURNITURE EXPRESS AND STOR-
ID ages 5q5 sixth avenue corner OF Ihirtynitn street.
Furniture removed in city couny also storage TOT
"'' MINUS Vi So''' o' ~" j. p. PATTERSON a co.
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NOTICE TO BRIDGE BUILDERS AND OTHERS.-
~ Proposals Will be received ut my office, Ledger
building, PHILADELPHIA, where plans ana informal tor
will be given until February ~ for the Iron Erection
the Exhibition Building, IentenniaI grounds
containing S,UO0 UbJ pounds OF iron X. j. DOBBlNS.
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r AND MIssIsSIpPI.

Morton thinks there is something
wrong in Mississippi. Ames thinks the
same. So does Grant and Ben Butler,
and several Republican newspapers,
such as the Washington I~ntelligencers,
q third.termer, which gently breathed
its last the other day. Morton cannot
understand how the Republican major
ity could be reduced from 70,462 in 1873
to g. 1000 in 1875. The like has occurred
in other States without creating any
special surprise. But Morton must have
something TO howl about, and can howl
as loud at a weak and distant State
struggling TO recover from the effects OF
~csrpet-bag rule as anything else. Grant
evidently sym~psthizes with Morton, as il
appears from the morning dispatches
hat he has authorized the employment
Of troops to quell an imaginary dis.
turbsnce in some remote locality in
the State. This is q feeler to test the
sentiment Of the country and prepare,
if possible, to secure the passage o.
Morton's resolution in the Senate. The
committee to be appointed would 20 ia
Mississippi to manufacture Republicar
campaign documents for next summer
There would be a majority report recit
ing all sorts of outrages on the negroes
by theywhites, and a minority report By
the Democrats on the committee deny
ing that there had been any intimidation
or irregalsrity in the election. Congress
would perhaps do nothing, but III,
bloody shirt, with a few new holes in il
would be thrown to tho breeze onc'
mora 10 frightsn q few old women ant
delight small boys who love to read thl
thrilling yarns Of dime novels. Thu
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The MARRIAGE Of Great Men.

Byron married Miss Millbank to get
money to pay his debts. 1t turned out a
bad suit.
Robert Burns married q farm girl with
whom be fell in love while they worked
together in a ploughed field. He was
irregular in his life and committed the
most serious mistakes in conducting bis
domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, but lived with her but a
short time. he wal an austere, literary
r~ecluse, while she was a rosy, romping
country lass that could not endure the
restrainte imposed upon her; so they
separated. Subsequently, however, she
returned, and they lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
we're cousins, and about the only exam
pie in the long line of English monarchs
wherein the marital vows were sacredly
observed, and sincere affection existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded a farm
er's daughter. She was faithful to her
VOWS, but we could hardly say the same
of the bard himself. Like most of the
great poets, he showed too little discrim.
ination in bestowing his affections on the
other sex.
Washington married q women with
two children. 1t is enough to say she
was worthy of him, and they lived as
married folks should live-in perfect
harmony.
John Adams married the daughter Of
a Presbyterian clergyman. her father
objected on account of John being q
lawyer-he had a bad opinion OF the
morals Of the profession.
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. She was altogether
beneath him in social life and intellect.
ual capacity, and besides this was fifty
two years old, while he was but twenty.
five. He would not take mo" for an
answer, and they we're married and lived
happily together until she died, which
occurred two years afterward.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married q
peasant. She made an excellent wife
aud q sagacious Empress.
Humboldt married a poor girl because
he loved her. OF course they were
happy,
It is not generally known that Andrew
jackson married a lady whose husband
was still living. She was an uneducated
but smisble woman, and most devotedly
attached TO the old warrior and states
man.
John c. Calhoun married his cousin
and their children, fortunately, we're
neither diseased nor idiotic, but they dc
not eyince the talent of the great States
Rights advocate.
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NEw YoRK, December S0.-A Wash.
ington dispatch says that the present
prospect Of a peacesble settlement Of
our difficulties with Spain and Of her re
newed energy and wisdom in the paci6'
cation Of Cuba is so good, that unless a
now unforeseen and unexpected change
should occur, there 10 no possibility Of
hostilities or Of necessity Of such inter
vention as was foreshadowed in the
Presidents message. The Spanish
property-owners have but recently been
made to bear a large part of the burden
of war, and their sufferings have dis
posed them to urge peace and good
government as a means to peace. An
expert fnancier is now in Cuba with
power to rearrange the finances, and tc
make important reforms OF all kinds, in
which labors he will have the assistance
of Jovellsr, the new captain General,
1t is probable that the substance of that
part of the Presidents message, relating
to Cuban affairs, was cent in advance to
the American ministers at the principal
European courts, and hat this was com
municated to the governments to which
they were accredited as a matter Of in.
formation and TO draw out from them
some expressions Of opinion.
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people of Mississippi aeed not be
alarmed. Nothing serious will come Of
this. A public sense Of decency and
justice constrained the Grant admins
traitor to let the State alone at the last
election. There was no pretext for
turning troops over to Ames, and when
a fair election was held Republicans,
black and white, in many localities,
united with the Conservatives and Dem
ocrats to throw of a most tyrannieal
and abominable State government. The
people have already proved that they
ere worthy of success, for they have been
as cool, and temperate, and air in the
hour of triumph as they WI Q earnest
and determined during the st uggle. 1t
is the will Of the whole nation, with a
few bowling exceptions, that Mississip-
plans be permitted to make and execute
their own laws and manage their domes-
tic affairs as other States. Only let the
Legislature, which meets EARL in Janu-
sry, rise to the dignity and importance
Of the occasion and do equal and exact
justice to all classes, regardless OF color
or party. and all will be we'll. The Con-
~servative Republicans in Congress see
that no good will come of this move and
are opposed to it. Still the resolution
may pass. Its avowed purpose is to re
organize hell in Mississippi" but it will
doubtless be a failure.
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Liverpool has a mansion handsomely
furnished, where guests Of the city are
domiciled during their %sojourn. Il is
maintained by the city authorities.
A curious sale has just been held in
Paris. 1t was the furniture, rubbish,
etc, found in the ruins Of the Tuileries,
the Palais Royal and the Palace of st.
Cloud. The principal lots we're 10000
kilos Of metal, fragments Of chandeliers
and Sevres china. The value of the
sale amounted to about $4,000.
The London Pail Mall Gazette in
speaking of the recent discovery Of old
hats and caps in an old house in Minor
street, in thai city, coHcludes by saying
that ut is only by a comparison of old
hats with modern hats that we can prop
erly estimate the slow progress the world
has made on the path that leads to per-
lection"
The following is said by a French
writer to be a never-failing cure for
warts: Take a small piece of raw beef
soak it all night in vinegar. cut as much
from it as will cover the wart and tie it
on it; if the excrescence is on the fore
head, iasten it on with a strip Of sticking
plaster. 1t may be removed during the
day and put on every night. In one
fortnight, it is claimed, it will peel of.
The same prescription will, it is said,
cure corns also.
Col. Ahrendrup, whose death at the
head Of an Egyptian army corps, which
was cut to pieces by the Abyssinians, was
reported by telegraph, was a Dane by
birth, and brother of the young DR..
Ahrendrup, who during the siege Of
Paris was placed at the head Of all the
French smbulances, and who. when he
died from the effects of overwork, was
granted a public funeral at the expense
of the State, with all the honors due to q
General of Division. A third brother is
a distinguished officer in the Royal Dan
ish Engineers,
A female " evangelist, known as
Preaching Mary, says a Glasgow
paper, was in Galashiels on a Sunday
evening recently, accompanied by a male
fellow worker, aud while attempting to
address the crowd in Roxburg street the
pair we're mobbed. An address by the
female speaker was closed with a prayer
by her companion hat the word spoken
by his wife might be blessed to the au.
dience, when he was interrupted by q
shout that Mary was not his wife, and
that he had deserted both wife and
children in Berwickshlre. The pair
made of, followed by a hooting and
kissing crowd, who afterward snowballed
them, and forced them to take refuge for
their lives in a friends house.
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hHIIUUUs
Contemporary Review.l

Contemporary Review.l
The conditions under which our an-
cient ballad-poetry arose are tolerably
we'll understood. 1t belongs to a print
tive state Of society, in which the knowl-
edge of letters was restricted to a select
class, and tradition was the sole vehicle
Of history TO the mass Of the people;
when manners we're ruder, law less rev.
'erenced, the passions more unbridled,
the utterance Of emotien franker and
less conventional than now. Though
the writer's cannot always be supposed
contemporary with the event. they re-
cord, they uniformly address a sympa.
thetic audience, whose standard of mo-
rality or sentiment, and level Of culture,
little, il at all, differ from those prevail
ing al the period of which their traditions
refer. The Border minstrelsy, for ex-
ample, was obviously written for the
children or grandchildren of the moss.
troopers whose exploits it glorifes, a
generation to whom appeals to q higher
code or a purer taste than their ances-
tors accepted would have been wholly
upintelligible. The general characters.
tics of the best specimens that remain to
us, whether Of the narrative or legend
airy ballad or Of the lyrical and emotional
ballad, are an unconscious simplicity of
thought and language, q course but
vivid realization Of the scenes and delin-
estion of the personsges presented. They
show few marks of artistic construction
or ornament, beyond q rudimentary
sense of pictorial expression, and the
occasional introduction of abrupt
snatches Of wild fancy. In those cases
where a burden is added, it serves either
TO mark the leading motive of the theme,
to suggest the musical accompaniment
to which the piece was set, or that
rhythm Of the feet from which the
composition first took its name. The
imp0ssibility of restoring the conditions
under which this description Of poetry
arose does not oppose any obstacle to
its successful cultivation in our own day,
if the principle laid down be duly OBJ
served. To surrender the type would be
a gratuitous waste Of means, for of all
narrative aud lyrical forms it is the sim
plest and the most direct in its effects.
The testimony borne to its potency by
Sir Philip Sidney, by Addison, aud the
authority for whom Fletcher Of Saltoun
stood sponsor, would be unanimously in
dorsed to-day. The varnish of oar
social conventienalism is, after all, ex
tremely thin, and the most cultivated
audience cannot listen to a plain story
Of heroism or of pathos without flushing
cheeks and trimming eyes. For en-
shrining the memory of any grandly
heroic achievement, for giving utter
u c to any pure emotion, the ballad
still remains the. most appropriate We.
bioIa
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1t is proposed to hold an exhibition
illustrating electrical science and its ap-
plications in Paris next year.
Every third man in St. Louis is named
Jones, Brown, johnson or Smith, while
the balance answer to the name OF
Hello, therel'
Bismarck is by no means a fluent
speaker. Either the words come too fast,
or be is at a loss for a phrase to expires
his meaning. Embarrassment and great
mental excitement are visiblein his whole
being.
The Lord Mayor of London on taking
his seat in the Justice room one day not
long since, was informed that there we're
no cases to be tried, aud, in accordance
with an ancient custom, was presented
with a pair Of white kid gloves as a me
mento Of the fact.
Mr. huskln at present IS advocating
dancing as a part Of religious education
and thus assails young lsdysunday schoo
teachers: AT present" he says, you
keep the dancing to yourselves, and era
ciouSly teach your scholars the cate
chisw. Suppose you were to try fer I
little while learning the catechism your
selves and teaching them to dance"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-30

Although large amounts are annually
expended in Boston-between three and
four millions Of dollars-in behalf Of
various charities, yet Jennie Collins, Of
"Bofin's Bower celebrity, says in a let
ter to the Post that there is not a place
in the city where an unemployed girl
can get a meal Of victuals or q night
shelter, or a dollar in money, but Char
don street, and il is well knewn the
founders make no provision for such 9
class" Her winter mission, therefore
wal be to establish such a system Of re
lief as is here suggested; and she is
lady with whom the will and the way
always 60 together.
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The sp~iritualists are likely to have o
martyr. Laymarie, editor Of a Paris news
paper devoted 10 that faith, was sen.
fenced to imprisonment for a year for
syindling the public with spirit photo.
graphs. Two companions 10 the fraud,
convicted simultaneously, have been par.
donedi but they we're the photographer
and the medium, while Laymarie's
greater oifense was hat Of using his
journal 10 indorse the pictures as genu-
inc. The authorities refuse, therefore,
TO pardon the editor, and he will prob.
ably die in prison, bis health being very
bad.
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NEW YORK ITEMS.


NV YORK, December 30.-This norm
ing an officer wal called to No. 356 West
Fifty.third street, where he found a man
named Meyer, his wife and child in bed,
the former insensible and the child dead
from pistol shot wounds. It is supposed
that Meyer did the shooting.
John E. Grant, convicted of publish
ing the Toledo Sun and sending it
through the mails, was sentenced to-day
to eighteen months Imprisonment and to
pay a fac of $500.
One hundred and 6fty-three thousand
dollars in double-eagles we're shipped to
Europe to-day
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The magnificent jewels which were
lately the property Of the Empress Eu-
genie, and which we're sent first 10 Bonn.
bay and ultimately to Calcutta for dis.
posal, have just been purchased BY the
M~aharajsh Of Putiatka. The Jewels
comprise a brilliant cut diamobd neck.
lace, silver setting, composed Of eighteen
large brilliant.shape diamonds end
eleven small diamonds; also eleven bril-,
liant cut drop shape diamonds, q pair o.
large brilliant cut diamond earrings,
composed Of two large brilliant-shspe
diamonds, two small do. and two large
brilliant cut drop shape diamonds, silver
setting q single stone brilliant, the
"Potachin" diamond. The price is ru,
mored to have been about. six lakhs Of
rupees, or $780, 900. The Maharaiah ID
said to have one Of the finest collections
Of jewels in India.
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The President of che Republic of
Vonezuela a visitor 10 the Gen.
tennAal.

The President of the Republic OF
Vonezuela a Visitor 20 the Cen
tenntal.
New York, December 30.-News has
been received in this city Of the most
reliable nature that President Guzmsn,
of the Republic of Venezuela, will be a
visitor to the Centennial exhibition al
Philadelphia, and that he will also travel
extensively in the United States. Mr..
Pile, former minister of the United
States to Venezuela, will shortly leave
Caracas on board the steamship Bolivar,
for Philadelphia, rs minister plenipo-
Tertiary and envoy extraordinary OF
Venezuela to this country. One of the
most important tasks he has been in
trusted with is to facilitate the settle
ment of the claims of this country upo
the Venezuelan government. Pile will.
it is understood, also solicit the interveni
ton of our government in the grave dis
putes which have lately arisen between
Holland and Venezuela.
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FOREIGN.

MADRID, December 3O.-The Impair
cial newspaper asserts that Spain will
shortly address a communication Of i'm
portance to the various European cabi
nets on the subject Of Cuba.
LONDON, December 3O.-0n and after
January l, 1876, the Anglo-American
telegraph's tariff for general news dis
patches will be one shilling twenty-five
cents gold per word.
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THE New York Herald If the 18th has
the following rather sensational tele-
gram from Spain by way of London:
There are indications Of the near adj
vent of serious diplomatic complica-
tons. There is a strange rumor aioat
in trustworthy quarters which alleges the
heal advent of European intervention
ia Cuba. The nations which may coal.
esce for this purpose are not named.
The United States government is prob
ably forewarned Of the fact, as it is as
sured hat lengthy dispatches, in cipher,
are passing between Madrid and Wash.
ington."
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a shipbuilder at Blackwell, England,
has invented a new ~life-saving vessel,
with which very successful experiments
have been made. It is circular 10 form
and capable Of carrying sixty passsn-
gers below deck, ell Of whom q be
safely housed before the vessel takes the
water. 1t is fitted with masts, sails and
rudder, water.tight compartments to
hold fresh water, lockers for provisions,
and a shifting keel. In the center is an
aperture fitted with a network made Of
hemp combined with igdia rubber, allow,
ing free play for the waves, whereby il
is believed, will be insured a cOmpass.
tive immunity from capsiging.
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There is a sort Of a Charley Ross ex.
element in Western Massachusetts,
Some weeks ago a tramp named John
Rierdon enticed away from his home the
thirteen-year-old son OF +. p. Gowdy, OF
Scitico, Connecticut. Rierdon, the
+" hired man" was discharged for some
U%ffense, and retaliated by persuadiug his
employers young son TO run away with
him, taking one hundred dollars, and
from that time to the present, despite
diligent search, no trace of the boy has
been fosnd. He was a delicate child,
and the theory is that the mar has muir.
aered him for the money.
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River TeIeKrAma.

CAIRO, December 30.-Arrived-St
Genevieve, St. Louis, 8 pm. Belle Mem
phis, Memphis, 6 IN. Departed-St
Genevieye, Vicksburg, l am; Bell,
Memphis, St. Louis, 10. Cloudy snt
warm.
CINCINNATI, December s0.-River Al
feet 8 inches and stationary. Weathei
cloudy and warm.
PITTsBURG, December l3O.-Riyer J
feet 8 inches and falling. Weather clea
and warm.
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Probe

WASHINGTON, December 3O.-For Ten
uessee, Ohio valley, upper lakes, upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys,
rising barometer, southwest to northwest
winds, warmer, followed by colder, partly
cloudy and clear weather, with occa-
sional rain or snow on the lakes.
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FAiIure.

BALTIMORE, December 3O.-The credi-
tors of h. ]. Hall & Co., dry goods aud
notion dealers, have attached goods
foaud ia their store, No. 6 Howard street,
and removed them to an auction house.
The claims against the firm are said to
amount to nearly 100000. The property
attached is valued at $500.
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SECRETARY RoBEsoS is too nervous to
sit down; at least, he is on bis feet all the
time bowling to Democrats and trying to
make fair weather with that side of the
house.. Mr.. Whitthorne. as Chairman
of the Committee on Naval Affairs, will
have the opportunity to make things
very lively in naval circles.
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The rumor that Boss Tweed has
turned up in Cuba is generally discred-
tied by those who know that he is too
large to go in one ship, an6 it is not
likely that he could have chartered two
and sailed in them without attracting
attention.