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The New York herald., 1875-08-22
THE NASSAU BOAT CLUB.

The semi-monthly club of the Nassau Boat Club
took place yesterday afternoon, the Harlem River
and was attended by large number Of friends of tho
club many of whom unable to remain to see the
closing race, owing to the lateness of the hour 1t
wond be much to the interest of the club If they
tried to hold their races before nightfall.
The first the Nassaus six-oared gig against
their six Dared barge distance mile with the tide
The gig under control of William Robinson
coxswain and the barge in command of William
X. Foster. Lindsey Watson acted general superin-
tendent J. c. Babcock starter and referee 1t was
six O'Clock when the first got under way the
gig crew taking the lead and keeping it
for fully the first quarter Of mile 1t
apparent TO all that the gig crew
had matters all their way and could have dis
tanced their opponents fully quarter of mile; but
when th0 half mile stretch had been made Robinson
suddenly made dash toward the barge and made
one of the worst fouls that witnessed Both
boats ut to n sandstill for u second or two
when the barge again got away and started for the homo
stakeboat, winning the race in 6m IL sIs.
The second race between the heavy crew and
light crew, in four cared Shells distance two miles
with the tide. 1t quite dark when the two crews
got under way. The heavy weights won without q
struggle in 13m. 31as.
The third race for single sculls mle open to all
was postponed, owing to darkness having set in
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BASE BALL NOTES.

Dick Higham has been released from his engagement
with the Chicago Club and will probably play out the
remainder of the season with the Mutuals
Quinn, Of the amateur Flyaways, has signed articles
play short stop for tho Atantcs during the next two
months Of this season.
The Flyaways, the amateur champions of this CITY,
start Southern and Eastern tour this afternoon
They will be gone three weeks during which time they
will play games in all OF the principal towns of Penn
syvania New York and Connecticut
The Hartford and Mutual clubs will play of one or
their tie games on Monday afternoon, on the Union
Grounds, Williamsburg
a game Of base ball played yesterday on the
Champion Grounds between the Astor Base Ball Club
and the Battery Base Ball Club, the former winning by
q score of o too
The Aaskas will play the Volunteers of Poughkeop.
se Tuesday, August "a at Eastmans College grounds
Poughkeepsie, and the Sunnysides of Sing Sing on
Wednesday, August rs, at Sing Sing
On Tuesday, August 81 the Reliance and Olympic
niniaa WILL nlar a paIrn aArna In Rrnaklra
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MONMOUTH PARK.
ARRIVALS FOR THE AUGUST MEETING.

ARRIVALS FOR THE AUGUST MEETING.
LONG BRANCH, August 81 1875.
The following stables and horses at Monmouth
Park stables for the races Of next week-Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday,
H. p McGrath's Aaron Pennington Chesapeake
Aristdes and Calvin.
W. r. Babcock's Vanderbilt, Woodland, Toodles and
four-y year old colt by vandal
Matthew Burns Cape Hatteras King Bee Saunterer
and Camden.
L. A. Hhchcock's Galway, Busy Bee, Century Bay
line Lctica II. and Mollie Darling
jerome +. Wilson & Co. IS Hattie Howard, Jack Trigg
b. by Dickens and z. C. by Rogers.
Carr 4 Co IS year old b. C. by Star Davis two
year old b. by War Dance, and ch. Sister Ginger
c. II. rownsend's Rummey.
Chamberln's The Hoaxer, Tom 0chiltree, Lizzie
r., Carlina, Lord Zetland lone Gath and Dundreary.
d. j. Bannantyne x Co.'s Audubon, Ghost, Stock
wood and two or three others
Withcrs' three horses.
Colonel Schuyler Crosbys Steepechaser
Anthony rayors stable OF Ave.
A. TQylor's L. L and another.
d. McCune's Papermaker, Fadladeen, Kadi and three
four others
j. b. Pryor arrived to-day with Miner D'Artagnan
and four or tive others
Two special TO arrive Sunday from Sara
toga, loaded with horses. Colonel 5 d. Bruce tec-
graphs that there will be sixty more arrivals
The Long Branch Stakes for 1877 closed for entries
the 10Th inst with greater number than ever before
For the Jersey Derby Stakes there are aty three en-
tries for the Monmouth Oaks Stakes thirtys six entries
for the Ocean Hotel Stakes thirty three Tor the West
End Hotel Stakes, thirty your, and for the Robins
Stakes, twenty nine. .
Special trains TO Long Branch stopping at the track
will leave New York at ten o'clock the days
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out and made good time They anxiously watched
by the Beaverwycks-a very natural anxiety The
Beaverwycks do not appear TO be rowing well as they
did last year The Mutuals of Albany the great rivals
Of the Beaverwycks doing some fast rowing There
is not much elegance about their stroke, but their
boat travels very rapidly Buffalo sends her
crew here so vastly improved last year that rowing
men are not quick about giving opinion when ques.
toned regarding the way the crew are rowing The
Aalanta crew are rowing much better than what they
did the Harlem but there is a something lacking in
the boat They catch well together. but somehow or
other there is apparent Stiffness and lack of unity in
the work evident TO the observer Still there is good
stuff in the boat the men all good and strong, and
there are some days practice yet before the
TURNING RACES
good deal Of dissatisfaction is expressed by many
OF the oarsmen about the turning course. II would
have been much more popular If all the rowed
straghtaway. The time is now almost too short TO
make any change yet the thing could all the
captains unanimous in asking that straight course
be substituted meeting Of the oarsmen will be held
this evening and possibly the subject may up for
discussion.
THE roToHAc's msuAr.
The Potomac lost both their boats in the
smash up' on the Saratoga and Rensselaer, Railroad on
Friday The express ear in which they were placed
was completely wrecked Messrs. Randall and Copeey
were In the car at the time with their boats and of
the gentlemen (Mr. RandaD had most escape
He was drenched with from the engine but fortu
nately, escaped without further injury
STARTING.
Tic races each day will promptly at IL in
the forenoon provided tho water is in good condition
Every arrangement is being made make the affair
pleasant and render the Grand International Regatta
1875 the most successful and brilliant rowed ovor
the waters Of Saratoga Lake.
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OBITUARY.
GENERAL LUcIUs sToRRs

Death has just removed one Of the most prominent
citizens of Western New York and the last of the busi
ness men Of Buffalo who in active life at the
period Of the burning Of the town by the British Cana
dian forces in the of 1s12-l4. Lucius Storrs was
born at Mansfield Conn., and passed in that State his
boyhood and youth Following the usual of
terprising Yankee boys he commenced his business life
by teaching school, which he did for several years in
Litchned county. In August 1S11 ho went to Buffalo,
making the trip in nineteen days'rapd transit" for
those times. He at became partner in the firm
Of Juba Storrs Co., large operators in milling and
mercantile business, having branch establish
ments at Erie, Pa; Brantford and Townsend,
Canada, and Cannndaigua N Y The firm
were large supplicrs of -four and lumber the
army during the Their store tho first brick build
ing erected in Buffalo, burned in the destruction of
the town by the British troops. Mr. Storrs subse-
ouently member of several leading mercantile firms
and at time Deputy Collector of tho Port of
Buffalo He for many years officer OF cavalry in
the New York State Militia and in 1880 reached the rank
of Major General, his command embracing all that por
ton OF the State lying OF Utica When he resigned he
was only outrankod by General stephen Van Rensselaer,
Mr. Storrs for many years member of the Buffalo
Board OF Aldermen, and at time acting Mayor in
the absence OF Mayor Hiram Pratt Ho for
than sixty years member Of the First Presbyterian
Church. and through his long life enjoyed the highest
esteem OF his Ia rye circle of acquaintances His DEATH
on the 9th inst sincerely mouTned and his funeral
was attended by all the leading citizens of the city
which he had spent a useful life
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE MUTUAIs DEFEATED BY TILE HARTFoRDs-
SCORE TO 8.
The Hartford and Mutual clubs played the last of their
series of championship games together ON the Union
Grounds Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, in the pres
OF about 500 persons The game an exceed
ingly tame affair, owing to tho easy manner in which
the visitors polished of the home club The Hartford
players in this game cded the ball with great skill and
judgment but three fielding errors and those very
cusabe ones being credited TO thom throughout the
tire nine innings played Their batting also very
strong some exceedingly fine line hits being made by
them in the early part of the game. On the Mutuas
sdc although nearly all of the players batted WELL their
poor base running and wild throwing lost them the
game. Play commenced at twenty minutes past
four O'Clock 7. NJ, with the Mutuas at the bat Mr.
Boyd, Of the Atlantic Club, acting as umpire. Follow
ing Is the score:-
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RACING All CAMBRIDGE.
CAMBRIDGE, n. Y, Augu

CAMBRIDGE, N Y, August q, 1875
The August meeting of the Cambridge Driving Park
Association took place yesterday and to-day
In the three minute yesterday horses
started Susie taking first money in three straight
heats easy. Best time given $50 In the other race
between Nellie Webster Modoc and Flora Lee for
purse Of $3.50, Lee took first money Webster second
and Modoc third Best time given, 2:3S. In the 40
first money velix second, Gray Jack third Best time
given, 2:40
In the free TO all race for purse of $175 five started
George H. Mitchell taking first money, Forest King
second, Flora Lee third. Best time given, 2:37 The
time made in most of the heats less than that given
the Judges stand The attendance yesterday was
fair To-day it very large and the races gave uni
yersal satisfaction.
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sUNsTRoKE IN JERSEY CITY.

At noon yesterday young man, employed in the old
sugar house, near the canal, in Jersey City, suddenly
left of work and complained that he felt very ILL., lie
went to his boarding house in Essex street and DR..
IIadden was summoned Tho physician, observing the
symptoms Of congestion from sunsrokc, applied tho
lancet to his fore arms but the blood would not dow
He then ordered the sufferer to be removed to the
Charity Hospital, where ho was attended by the resi-
dent physician His recovery was pronounced TO be
impossible. His family who reside In williamsburg
were nothed Of hia condition
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RACING At SARATOGA.
Closing Day of a Successful
Meeting.
4 GRAND ATTENDANCE.
Survivor, Wildidle, Rambler, Spmdrift and
Deadhead the Winners.
sARAroaA. August q. ls75.

SARATOGA, August 2l 1878
Yesterdays races were fitting climax Of the Au-
INST meeting of the Saratoga Association Splendid as
yesterday surpassed IT in both respects For weeks We
have not had such clear bright morning; such per-
feet sky Just dotted here and there with few
light and dainty Clouds such balmy, COOL bracng at
uosphere The crush the grand stand and the lawn
below perfectly immense, far ecDsng any previous
lay of the present racing AS usual everybodys
Iprts we're in unison with the lovely day. The gayey.
lhe laughter the general abandon the outbursts OF
eagcrness excitement and enthusiastic applause the
grand stand would have reused the torpid spirit
LAST DAY
1t rather dreary reflect that in little
hours this of animation and nerriment of hustle
and excitement would be deserted for another year
And yet the view from the grand stand a day like
this Is really itself worth q visit ut any time The
green woods and dim, hazy blue mountains in the dis
lance stepped in the warm mellow sunshine, it is such
scene az no lover of the beautiful in nature could
EASILY forget, and although of the people too
Intensely absorbed in the business of the day
contemplate natures beauties with very attentive eye
the ovolness OF the the surroundings natu
rally reflected in their bright, happy faces did not
see face yesterday that did bear lively expression
of animation and pleasure
1t was rather impatient crowd, however, a crowd
that would be necessarily amused-one that insisted
that there should be cessation its harty and
pause in the delightful sport
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THE LONG BRANCH REGATTA.

LoSG BRANCH, August 81 1875.
The first regatta of the Long Branch Rowing Associa-
ton will take place Monday at Pleasure Bay.
There will be twelve competitors for the single scu
race, which will be rowed in three heats of four each.
with winners heat for the prize The single scull
prize is handsome silver cup mile heats ending
Pleasure Bay dock large and fashionable attendance
8 anticinated
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NJ. DzLR1EN, GOVERNOR OF PoND1cHERRY.

The Acting Governor OF Pondcherry and Governor
General Of French India appears TO have fallen victim
to the extraordinary heat of tho present His
Excellency died suddenly Wednesday, July Z when
the thermometer stood ninety eight degrees, and
is sbeeved that apoplexy tho of death NJ
Delrien the deceased gentleman, the OrdonnatoGr
OF French India and ho had been acting Provisional
Governor the departure for France OF NJ Faron
the 14th of May last II Is only few weeks since
the Governor OF karikal died. also suddenly so that
death has this season been busy among tho rulers OF
Southern India AT the Offices Of the Messageres Mari
times and the French Consul at Madras the national
Gag was hoistcd half mast high
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SWIMMING MATCH.

swimming contest, distance one-haf mile for a
prize valued at $780, OF yesterday afternoon on
tho Harlem River between Merritt f. J. Hines and
James Frazer of the Athletic Club The race was won
by Merritt in 9m 45s leading Hines half length
The New York herald., 1875-08-22
BOATING NOTE.

The Watkins and Seneca Lake Rowing and Regatta
Association will hold amateur and professional
gatta at Watkins headwaters of Seneca Lake, on the
7h Sth and eth September The prizes to be rowed for
are said to be valued ut s.. 90Q
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YACHTING NOTE.

Yacht Eva, NY.YC., Mr. E. Burd Grub, from New
port for New York, and the yacht Clio, N.YYc,
Messrs. I. c. p Bradhurst and Thomas B. Asten from
Newport for New York. passed Whtestone yesterday
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Time, 3:OS.

TIC FuTIB MuIucIS pllu t4U 0U
THE SECOND RACE.
PURSE 81, 400 -Four miles
STARTERS
NJ. A. Littels b. h. Wildidle by Australian dam
Idlewild years old, ia lbs (HennesseyL ....... /
Thomas Puryear & Co 's ID. +. Brewster'sl CHI c.
Rutherfurd, by Australian. dam Aerolte, years
DID, los lbs (Donahue). ....................... 2
Time, 739.
Rutherfurd. ....... 1000 1000 400 500 1926
Wildide. .......... 1000 900 500 600 1000
The Paris Mutuels paid SIS 4O
RACR
SELLING SWEEPSTAKES for three olds of S25 each,
play or pay, with $500 added the second horse
eeve 300 out Of the stakes horses to be sold
or 5000, to carry 100 lbs for ST. 800 allowed lbs
~ ~~Anna II lhA Cor $3.50. 16 lbs ior 5000. 10 Ina
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MRS. MARY K111rRHoUsE, cENrENARIAN.

AllN9. MANI hAb-AhhOSS1, N Nn-NAAENAhlAN.
Mrs Mary Kllerhouse died at Kinderhook N. Y, on
Friday night aged 1o6 years, months and days
Her maiden name was Lick, and she born in the
town Of Kinderhook June IL, 1862 She had been mar
rcd four timeshe first at the of eighteen and the
last at eighty eight Her last husband has been dead
several years She very intelligent and had a re-
tentive memory. The Register few weeks ago pub
lished lengthy interview held with her by reporter
She always enjoyed remarkable degree OF good health
and died without any apparent bodily disease. She
leaves an extensive progeny scattered all the
country
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The usual allowance for mares and geldngs The win
ner To be sold at auction One mile and quarter.
STARTERS
A. Taylor's b. C. Rambler late COnsigneel, by Lex
ingion dam Cairn CORN, $500 92 lbs Scott ..... l
F. A. Ciabaugh's ch Violet, by vauxhall dam
Mary Watson, $500 SO lbs. tMcCarthyl.... .......
d Mcdaniel & Co y Dr. Paul Pry, by Enquirer
dam Mary Churchill $500, % lbs Clark. ......
Time. 216gs.
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le Paris Mutuels paid $40 80.

FOURTH
FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES for all ages; $40 en-
trance play pay with $500 added the second horse
TO receive Slo0 out of the stakes one mile
sTARrERa
10. Donahue's ch. h. Spindritt, BY Bonnie Scotland
dam by Wagner, aged, Ill lbs (Barbcel. ...... /
John Collects g. h. Donnybrook, by Lightning dam
Jessamine Porter, years old lO7 his wisel. 2
A. B. Lewis @ Co. IS Dr. c. Vagabond by Vandal, dam
Gem, years old rs lbs (Spilman). 8
A. B. Lewis Co. S b. m Vandalte, by Vandal, dam
Vesporght, years old, lO5 lbs. (Houston) ......
ID. McDaniels ch c. Willie Burke by haywood, dam
Katinska years old, So lbs tDcancy)..
w. Stringhelds (. c Enliser by Enquirer, dam
Crownlet, years old, S5 los. s hafdsonl. o
II. Cathcart, Jr' b. g. Kad by Lexington, dam Ka-
tona, years old lO2 lbs. lSWiml. ..............
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FREE HANDICAP STEEPLEcHAsE Purse $3.50, of which
$3.50 the second horse. Two miles and three
STARTERS.
Jo Donahue's b. Deadhead, by julius, dam Lei
sure years old, 140 los. (Maniej.. ..,........
A. II. Torrence's b. 6. Shaughrun, by Tpperary,
dam Jennie r., years old, l40 les. lMurphyL...
A p. Green's b. IN. Daylight, by Lightning, dam
Laura Spilman, years old, 1871 Iba Noland)....
Tina h.l0
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UTICA RACES.

The Paris hutuels paid $lA
And thus closed the races ut Saratoga far 1875.
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MUTUAL.
HARTFORD.

First base by errors-Mutual / Hartford, T.
Runs earned-Mutual, l Hartford. 8
Umpire-Mr Boyd, Of the Atlanucs.
Smyrna times., 1875-12-22
ESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER %, 1875

bring on her the cackling of the whole
community. Snobbishness, vulgarity, love
OF display, lie in wait for her in one place
as much as in the other Her boys will be
made to feel their infcriority to the squirc's
sons. The village, as well as New York,
will have its grog-shop ready for them, its
gambling table, its other and straiehter
roads to ruin.
The sum of the Whole matter is that it is
not the skies under which your young
friends choose to live, but the manners
which they carry with them, that will give
give them true success. Common sense.
economy, and contempt of sham will help
them to live comfortably in New York or
Pixies Peak. And if they give to their
children something better than money or
social position to stand upon, they will
never feel their inforiority to those who
have them.
Smyrna times., 1875-12-22
Curious Facts.

Fishes swallow their food whole. They
have no dental machinery furnished fo,
them.
Frogs, tOads, and serpents never take
any food but that which they are satisfied
is alive.
II bee, wasp, or hornet stings, it is
nearly always at the expense of his life.
Serpents are so tenacious of their life
that they will live for six months without
food.
Turtles dig holes in the sand by the sea.
shore, and bury their eggs, leaving them to
be hatched by the sun.
Lobsters are very pugnacious, and fight
severe battles. If they lose a claw, another
grows out.
Naturalists say that a single swallow will
devour six thousand flies in day.
The tarantula of Texas is nothing but an
enormous spider.
A single Goldfish produces more than a
million eggs in one season.
A whale suckles its young, and therefore
Is not fish. The mothers affection is re.
markable.
Toads become torpid in winter and hide
themselves, taking no food for five or six
months.
Serpents of all species shed their skins
annually like sea-crabs and Holsters.
Turtles and tortoises have their skele.
tons partly outside of, instead of within.
the body.
1t is believed that crocodiles live to be
hundreds of years old. The ancient Egyp.
tians embalmed them.
In South America there is a prolific
honey-bee that has not been furnished with
a sting.
In the darkest nights fishes pursue their
usual movements, the same as by daylight.
Seals are as intelligent as dogs, and may
be made to perform many tricks like them.
The head of the rattlesnake has been
known to inhict fatal wound after being
separated from the body.
If the eye of a newt is put out, another
perfect eye is soon supplied by rapid growth.
Fishes have no eyelids, and necessarily
sleep with their eyes open.
Alligators fall into a lethargic sleep
during winter, like toads.
There are agricultural ants in Texas that
actually plant grain, and reap before the
harvest
Smyrna times., 1875-12-22

another week; then another week passed
then one evening some one rang the he'll
Cook IS back and wants to see you.'
said Bridget.
Inc master went into the parlor. There
sat the long absent woman. Her hair he'd
been cut short and curled about her tenn
pies; bat her comllcxion was not sno;lod
though She was thin and wan again.
I've como to see whether you want NC
to cook for you again. she said.
-" No!" he answered.
" Very we'll" said She.
" You Lad 10 business to 20 Off that
way" said he.
" Who'd have taken care of mc?~ She
asked
" It was my duty to sec to that, after all
you'd done for me- said he.
Not at all = said she. Then bn sa+
down by her. "What bear was to vouy,
said he.
" Yes, indeod!' said she.
Fretted and found fault with YOU"
$50 unreasonably, too" said She.
And yet you'd cook for me again. said
he.
"Yes."
Not as cook said he"
ooh :" said She.
The kitchen is 10 place for you?. said
he.
Its better than sewing" said she.
But if make you another ofIer?" said
ne. VIII You marry me? l like YOU
better than amy woman ever knew
Bat its matter Of mutual liking"
SAID She, mot Of yours alone"
"Answer my question:, said he.
" 1t IS too unexpected" said She.
Don't belieycr said he. eyes or
Nor"
"0h~ said She. "Wcn. Nor
" Now YOU are angry, said he.
" You are in tempcr. said She: not
"I'll ask you second time, said he
. Will you have me?''
" Second thoughts are always best" said
she. "Yesr
And they were married And, as they
never were divorced, it is proper to presume
hey were happy.
Smyrna times., 1875-12-22

1t seems proper that the local celebra.
tons of the Fourth Of July. 1876. which
Will be held throughout the land, should
oe made to contribute to a permanent his.
torlcal memorial of the Centennial Celebra.
ton. In each county provision should he
made4or the delivery of an address tracing
the history of that particular community
for the past century, or from the time of
its settlement, and including a sketch of
its growth, its resources, industries, pros.
poets, etc. These addresses should be pub
lishcd in a uniform size, that of the Con
gressIonal documents, for instance, in order
that they may be bound together by States.
To competent persons the preparation of
such addresses would not be an unduly
burdensomo task; but in the aggregate
they would constitute an invaluable histori-
cal repository such as no nation has ever
had the opportunity to collect
Designations of the historians ought to
be made without delay, in order that they
may have time to accomplish their work.
1t is to be hoped that the press will give
general circulation to the project, and that
each journal will see to its consummation
in its own locality, and that the slight
expense involved be assumed by the county
or town authorities.