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The New York herald., 1876-08-21
DROWNING ACCIDENT.
THREE RoYs DROWNED WHILE BoATIN0-THE
CAPTAIN OF LIGHTER ARRESTED.

THREE RoYs DROWNED WHILE BoATINo-THE
CAPTAIN OF LIGHTER ARRESTED.
An accident by which two boys were drowned hap
pcned in the North River near pier No yesterday
afternoon, about four O'Clock.
Five boys-Dancl Driscoll, James Murray, George
Blake, Patrick Toole and Henry Jacobs-were In a
boat pulling toward the of the river when
the steamer Idlcwild running to C0ney Island, came
along. The boys cndesvorcd to turn around and get
clear but before they could do the wheel OF the
Idlewd struck the boat aud upset II, throwing the
boys into the river The steamboat was quickly
brought to stop and the deck hands hurried TO
the boys. Three OF the latter-Drscoll, Murray and
Blake-succeedcd in keeping anoat until res
cued but Toolc and Jacobs sank ana were
seen no more. Efforts made TO find
the bodies, but without Toole eleven
years age and resided at No. 80 Greenwich street.
Jacobs was little older, and lived at No. 26 Rector
street.
The boy Blake had his hand badly laccrated by the
paddle wheel. He taken TO the New York Hos
pitaL
Eye-wtnesses the accident differed to where the
blame lay, ascrbing 1t to the steamboat officers
and others to the boys
Another accident OF u nature nearly similar happened
about the time the East River, between PIERS
Nos. 45 and 40. Six small boys were in rowboat,
pulling between the two piers and huggng the shore
Roundsman Mckinley, OF the seventh precinct, stood
the dock of pier No. 45 and the lighter A. +.
Martha heading for tho pier. "A SAILOR was on the
bow and seeing the boys IN the boat d.
rccty In front shouted back to the Captain 10
vcer around Mckinley, seeing the danger, called out
at tho time. The lads tried hard 10 pull clear,
but the captain OF the lighter apparently regardless OF
the warning did not alter his course. minute after
ward the lighter into the boat, upsettng It. Five
OF the boys could SWIM and. being near the Shore
struck out and saved. The sxth-flmothy Sulli.
van, aged fourteen years. OF No. 1868 Cherry street
being unable swim, sank to tho bottom and was not
again
Rouud,man Mckinley, believing the captain Of the
lighter whose name is James Ginger in fault
arrested MIN and took him to tho Madison
street station house. where he locked up He will
be arraigned at court this morning All Efforts TO Ind
the body of the drowned boy proved unavuiing
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SUICIDE.

About nine O'Clock last evening man named Magill,
residing No 262 West Nineteenth street. this city,
while returning with his dsugh,cr Jennie seven years
OF age from wishing some friends 10 Brooklyn, and
when at the loot OF Pacific street suddenly lifted the
child In his arms, TO the dock and plunged into
the river. Some men who were near by heard the
cries o the child and rushed 10 her assistance. They
rescued her with much difficulty but the ather was
drowned. The child was Immediately taken to So
Peters Hospital. Brooklyn Al alate hour the police
recovered Magills body IL Is supposed lie Was intox
Gated when he jumped overheard
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POLICE COURT NOTES.

At tho Ffty-sevcnth Street Court William Wallace,
OF No l22 First avenue. was committed Tor trial on
charge OF striking his wife on the head with a'umoier
cutting her severely.
Carrie Gral OF No. 327 Fast Fifty fourth street. Was
held for Trial by Judge Kasmire, at the Fifty seventh
street Court on charge Of striking Elizabeth Geitei
same number, the forehead ~i(h a stovclid litter
sabina Gan, OF No ly3 Mott street, who struck her
husband on the head with an axe on saturday uighs
because lac came home drunk, was yesterday taken
before justice Murray at the Iombs and held 10 await
the result OF the injuries inflicted
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MORE FRAUDULENT SPIRITS.

Al So called spirtualisc seance In Rochester. N
Y, the other evening, Mr.. W. c. Crum OF the Roches-
Ezpres seized the spirit ghost by the shoulder be-
fore she could the cabinet wnereupon there
was great uproar and Markell, husband Of tho pre-
tended medium assaulted the Journalist with chair
and threatened to put u bullet through his heart
Charges finally preferred against the spirtualis
offender and after hearing all the evidence the justice
fenced him fine Of S25 three months IN the
County jail
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DEATH OF A SEAL.

Some two weeks since Mr. W. c. Coup, OF the New
York Aquarium, now building corner OF Broadway and
Thirty fifth street, secured two seas from the Bay Of
Biscay-a male and female. They placed In a
large tank the centre Of the aquarium, bu. soon
aitcrward It discovered that Nellie, the female
seal. had sustained severe INJURY to one OF her
clippers route. She suffered for some time, aud
finally died on saturday en,ang loss on Mr. Coup of
some hundreds OF dollars. The death OF the white
whales months ago occasioned a loss OF some
$4,000 Ii will thus DC seen that there iew
difficulties attending the establishment OF great
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NOTICE TO MERCHANTS AND CAPTAINS

Merchants shipping and shpmasers informed
that by telegraphing the HERALD London Bureau. ad
dressing Bennett No 46 Fleet street. London to the
Paris office. addressing Bennett 81 Avenue de rOpera.
Paris the arrivals at and departures from European and
Eastern OF American and all foreign vessels trading
with the United States the will be cabled 30 this
country free of charge.
Captains arriving a; and sailing from French and Medi
ports will find the Paris Office the econom
cal and expeditions for telegraphng news
The New York herald., 1876-08-21

Cloud from Crousadt for New York July 81 lat
~ SO. lon "a 10
bark ChAs Cox (BD. from Dublin for Mirsmichi Aug 2,
LAT Al Ion 81.
Bark Csrdenas Ger) from Antwerp for Philadelphia,
July 80. lat ~. lon 30
Bark Martha tSo from Quebec for London. July 27 lst
As. Ion 33 3D.
Bark Hattie o Mcfarland. from Antwerp for -. Aug
g. lat AZ. Ion AZ. -
Bark HsKB. from Rotterdam for Philadelphia, July 49,
lat Al Ion 26.
American sark nNPs MARY stAplss. bound Z, Aug 2.
lat I5 n, Ion 40 W.
Brig Amaaa lBr from Bay Of Fundy for Cork Aug lat
AZ. ion SO
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SPOKEN.

Ship Sarah DID, Saunders, from London Tor Delaware
Brcak water. no date, lat 40 90, Ion 81 30.
Ship Car sburn tBr from Dundee tor San Francisco ~
days out. june 10 uost overheard on June ~
ship Alexandra (BD, from Antwerp Tor Pnadeiphis,
July ~, LAT ~, Ion -.
Bark LUIS Martinez (Br from stockton for Philsde
phia, no date, lat 81 N, lon IL W
sar. Edward Aitro lBD. from New York for E'sinore
July 81. lat ~. Ion 10
Bark Nnsvsh, Giles from Boston Smyrna, July ~ lat
A.. Ion ~.
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CRUSHED ON THE RAIL.

boy named James Ahcarn, eleven years old, jumped
from tho platform OF Erie Railway train at the Hen
derson street crossing Jersey City yesterday afler
noon anu fatally injured
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Wf1ALEAlEN.

Arrived At Fsys June ~, bark swallow. Ellis NB land
ed TJ bbls oil aud sailed 18th July schrs
Acyone Fisher lrovncetows landed $40 do taxen in rs
days, and sailed lIth to cruise lth l. simmons Bui
dugton H. cean ~ for provisions. and sailed 3in or
Cape Verbs list barks Bartholomew ,sosnoId, Robinson
Nh landed $50 bbls OIL - days 24th Midas, Lap
ham, do having CO bbls oil last report put in to
land men hurt In taking whslc
Also arrived July H. brig Orana from Boston TO sail on
return Goth.
sailed frcm Flores June 49, Peru Earl to cruise July L.
Thos Hunt. Edrcd, do 9th, Lixse simmons, Budding
ton. do. 18Th. Alcyone. Fisher. do.
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BELOW,

Ship British America Brl Lockhart from Glasgow July S.
BarS Arado tins. Tarrabocha from D. rdeauS July ID
Wind at sunset. NNW ut midnight NNw fresh.
Barometer NJ sunset, 2y.v6; at - PM. 30ll.
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NEWS
OCEAN STEAMERS.
.NsuHier.

Dates OF DEPARTURES FROM NEW YORK yoR TIE MONTHS
AUGUST SEPTEMBER
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weak and his compatriots esteem him infinitely more
for his services with the sword than with
the pen | also told that IRON the
time he left the Russian army no has never
In service OF Slav Independence. such Is the man
whom the Slavs have placed all their dearest hopes
II he victorious and II he we'll by the iouso
Saws regardless OF the fact that he IS Russian
history VIII make HIM great hero Physically, the
General Is Russian in the sricest His uniform
is thai simply of commander OF the Servian army,
without any special distinguishing decoration, and his
consist OF regulation sword and brace OF nand'
me reyolyers
The New York herald., 1876-08-21

Sais. Destinatian.i Office.
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STARTING FOR THE 'FRONT.' CORPS OF NEWS
PAPER coRREsPoSDENTs-How TELKGRAMs
ARE COOKED UP IN HUNGARY FOR TURKISH
PURPOSES.

within hour shall set out Tor belgrade. Thence
go to Aexina,z. which Is some few thousand yards
only across thc Bulgarian territory. shall 20 In
company correspondents representing the Opinion
Of Paris; the Zimss and Daily Ns~s OF London; the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
influence of the Sun and Moon on the
Weather.

The astronomical man of the Chicago
Tribune says: A good many good peo-
pie who entertain the belief that the
equinoctial passages of the sun and the
positions of the moon have something
to do with the weather are anxious to
know the dates of the changes in this
month. The SUI will ''cross the line"
at 10h. Sim. in the morning of Friday,
Sept. %; and the new moon will occur
tomorrow, Sept. II, at All. Am. in the
afternoon. 1t should seem that neither
of these events can be held responsible
for our recent miserable weather, I'M
less we suppose that an effect can pre-
cede it's cause-as a wheelbarrow goes
before the man who propels it. 1t
may not be amiss to note, however,
that the meteorological halfway be-
tween tropical limits is situated some
five degrees north of the geographical
equator-the difference being due to
the unequal distribution of land and
water on the earth's surface. Hence
the disturbances we call 'eq~uinoctial
storms often occur a few days before
the date of the Astronomical Equinox
of September, and sometimes are ex-
perienced a few days after the date of
the Vernal Equinox. There is no rea-
son to doubt that the position of the
sun has much to do with the weather,
and little reason to suppose that the
moon produces any sensible effect.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
The Geysers of California.

After tea, accompanied by the old
German guide, writes a. California cor
respondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal, we armed ourselves with stout
Alpine slaves. and went down the ra-
vine at the side of the house to the
springs. A gulch only q few feet wide,
and some half a mile long, contains
steam, smoke, boiling springs of all
color, and rocks covered by salts and
minerals of various hues. Copperas,
alum and sulphur lie in thick powder
around some of the springs, and CHINA
bar and magnesia color the ground I'M
der our feet. We passed all the weird
places which have been so many times
described; sat in the DEVILS high places,
were entertained in his Office, and feast,
ed ON tea, bean porridge, and hot lemon
ade. We walked owe ground from
which steam was squirting, and
which was SO hot it burned
our shoes; the steam keeps putting
from the subterranean engines, and
some day the boiler will burst and scat
ter these rocks and visitors to the foar
winds of the heavens. A short distance
from the smoking gulch may be seen
the crater of an extinct volcano. The
ground was hollow beneath Cur tread,
and On every hand were pieces of lava
which had in past time issued in a mol
ten state from the crater. 1t is truly a
fearful and wonderful place. All night
our ears were saluted by the strange
mutf1ed sound of steam and water fore
ing their way through the assures in the
rocks just back of the house, and in the
morning we saw great volumes of steam
rising from the gulch and floating up
wards in feathery lines. OF course, the
volume Of steam increases in proportion
to the lowness of the temperature of the
surrounding atmosphere.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
s~EASONABLE RECIPES.

~ Ptckled Cucum5ers.-Stew very young
or ripe cucumbers (the latter pared and
seeded) in rhubaib juice, slightly
sweetered, until tender. ; Serve before
they begin to sour by decay.
Peach Tapioca.-Soak ] pint of tapi-
oca in 4 pint of cold water for several
hours. Eli a baking-dish about half
full of canned peaches, without the
sirup, sprinkle the peaches with sugar
and bake for half an hour. Add J pint
of peach strip to the tapioca, some boil
ing water and sugar; boil until it is per
fectly clear, pour it over the peaches,
and bake slowly for another half hour.
Serve with sugar and cream when cold.
Succotash Take 2 quarts of shelled
beans and put into 4 quarts of cold wa
ter in a covered iron kettle, with ]
pound of salt pork; let them boil J
hour. Take 30 ears of green corn, cut
the corn off the cob, scrape the cob
lightly TO get all the juice and pulp.
Turn the corn into the kettle with the
boiling beans and pork, and let them
boil together for ! hour, then add /
pound of butter, stir well, and send hot
to the table. This will make a dinner
for 8 hungry people, and is a good and
nutritious dish that tastes of the grand
old days that have gone by.
Sptced Apples.-Take apples, not very
tender, Tbs, peeled, halved and cored;
8 TBS. sugar, 1 pint vinegar, l OF.
cloves, 2oz. cinnamon (neither pulver-
ized). Put the sugar, vinegar, and
spices together, and let them come to a
boil. Drop in a few apples, and let
them cook until they are just soft
through, when they are to be taken out
and dropped into a jar. When all are
done so, pour the liquor left over them,
adding a half-pint vinegar. I keep APP
piles in this way perfectly the year
through, on a cellar floor of only ordi-
nary temperature, merely covering the
jar with a paper and plate.
Sweet apple Pudding.-Pour over !
pint Of Indian meal l pint of scalded
milk. While cooling chop6 large fine
sweet apples, and Stir in with them {
of a cup of nice suet, also chopped very
fine. Add ID teaspoonfuls of salt, and
nutmeg or cinnamon, as you prefer.
When the milk and meal are cold, stir
this all into it; beat 2 eggs very light
and then stir in thoroughly the last
thing. Steam 3 hours. To be eaten
with wine or hard sauce; or, leave out
the suet and spice, and bake 3 hours.
The apples will become like Jelly, and
the pudding may be used without
if preferred.
Grape Vinegar, Or Verjuice.-Take
full grown green grapes before they
have begun to turn sweet in ripening,
put them in predetermined kettle, with
water enough to cover them, and stew
until the grapes are tender. Then pour
into q hair sieve and let stand to drain,
pressing slightly. Their sweeten slight
ly and heat the juice to the boiling
point, and can in bottles and Walls in
the quantities probably wanted for use.
This will spoil if not canned in a little
longer time than common stewed fruit,
but it will not produce mother nor
breed vinegar cells. 1t a be used to
acidify cabbage, and in place of lemon
or lime juice. The strained grapes
may be returned to the kettle and sweet
ened, and with the addition of water
will prove sour enough for sauce.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

slant, racking noise attending their OPP
GRAFTON, the nervous tension required in
keeping them up to the work and con-
stantly guarding against their freaks
and spasms, the great exertion required
to operate them, the fatiguing motion
across the loins and pelvic organs,
caused by the motion of both feet at the
same time upon the treadle, all COM
bined, require more strength and endur-
ance than the average lady, especially
the mother of children, possesses.
Of all machines yet invented, one
only-the "New Automatic''-can be
said to be at all adapted to use in the
family.
Free from the defects which distin-
guish all others-simple, noiseless, al
ways ready and eve out of order, with
no tension, shuttle or bobbin, having
but one-fourth the number of parts
possessed by the complicated contriv-
ances which have so long been inflicted
on our wives and mothers, it is really a
boon which never can be too highly
appreciated. The trade mark of the
company is imbedded in each machine
to prevent deception by imitators. For
further information address Wilcox s.
Gibbs Sewing Machine Co., Lindell
Hotel Building, 600 n. Sixth Street, st.
Louis, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Death Of Winship, the Strong Man

DR.. George P. Winship, who was
known a few years ago as a travelling
Hercules who could lift one side of a
locomotive engine and out-pull a horse,
died in Boston on Tuesday last at the
early age of -, probably a victim to
excessive atheism. It is impossible
for a man to make enormous expendi-
lures of vitality through his muscles and
still have a reasonable quantity kept
for his shrinking, digestion, and the prop
er working of his lungs and heart. Men
who are exclusively athletes generally die
of affections of the heart or lungs; they
do not live long; longevity is reserved
for those who do most Of their work in
their brains, and exercise only moder-
ately, and not as Dickens, did, to. his
hurt and premature death. The mus
cular man is by no means the strongest
on the contrary, he is often the weak
est.-Graphsc. YzW
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
A Remedy that Dedes Competition.

Hostetter's Stomach Bitters defy COMPETE
ton. Of the host OF rival tonics that have
cropped up during its long career, not one
has gained and retained such a large share of
public favor, though many have enjoyed an
ephemeral popularity. The reason is this,
advertised to perform cures of the most
startling nature, they have when tested,
almost invariably turned out TO he Of little or
no value, while the great inyigorant, whose
reputation they were intended t. rival, has
never disappointed those who have placed
their confidence in it. , 1t has vindicated in
the amplest manner its claims to be consid-
cred o positive specific remedy for liver COM
plant, dyspepsia, malarious ~fevers, debility,
constipation, and numerous other maladies
arising from general weakness and disorders
of the stomach. liver and bowels.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Coal i'm Pennsylvania.

Mr.. Andrew Roy estimates the avail
able coal of the Allegheny coal field at
734, 424, O00, 900 tons. The same writer
states the aggregate thickness of work
able coal in the anthracite regions of
Pennsylvania as 200 feet in 2,175 feet of
coal measures. In the bituminous re-
gions near Pittsburgh he estimates 60
or 20 feet of workable coal to 1900 feet
OF coal measures. In West Virginia,
where the kanawha River cuts the coal
measures to their base, IS feet thickness
OF coal in 16 seams is revealed, and
along the Ohio, from Bellaire to Pome-
roy, the proportion is 40 or 80 feet of
coal ia 1900 to 1,400 feet of rock. The
number of workable seams and conse-
quent thickness of coal in every division
of the coal area are in proportion to the
thickness of the carbOniferous rocks.
Beginning at the base of the coal meas
ures ard reaching up to the height OF
400 feet to the base of the barren meas
ures, there exist in the bituminous re-
gions 3 feet of coal for every so feet OF
strata. The next 400 are generally
barren of workable coal; but from the
Pittsburgh seam, which is the lowest
bed of the upper series, to the outcrops
or tops of the coal strata, the same gen
eral estimates of 3 feet of workable Goa
to every so feet of strata will hold good,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

This grand exposition opens on Mon
day, Oct ?, and closes Saturday, Oct.
7, and will, in extent and variety in
every department., surpass all others;
in a word, it will be the Great Centen-
NAL Fair of the West. Upward of $780,
GOO is offered in premiums, and both
railroad and steamboat fares have been
reduced. The addition of the Zoolog;-
cal department., on which the manage
ment will expend STE, 1000, will greatly
increase the popularity of the Fair.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

The Congregattonaltst says that
s'the new fashion in Brooklyn is said to
be to call a pastor at a nominally very
high salary, with a private understand
ing that he is to, pay part OF. it back.
What is gained by thisP" Even SO.
One distinguished $1,000 pastor COM
menced by donating VITO hislchureh
$1,000 of his salary, and followed it up
by "donating'' 5 1000 more. Another,
whose nominal salary is a6 ,000,, really
gets $500. In another case, the pas
tor, who was to get $4,000, generously
donated the whole of it to the church,
the treasury being so straitened in its
circumstances as to be unable to pay
him SO much as cent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Invalid Wives.

The alarming decline in the health of
American ONE which has marked
the last decade and which threatens to
sap the very foundations of our future
well-being as q people, is at last attract
thropists, medical practitioners, scien-
lists, clergymen, and thinking, reflect
ing men in every department. of life are
coming to be fully aware of the most
startling fact that our wives and daugh-
tiers bear no comparison in physical
health to our mothers. And the con-
v%iction, forced upon us by the facts
which are every day presenting them
selves and demanding recognition, that
this wasting of vigor and consequent
suffering is increasing by regular stages,
unveils to u startled view the impend-
ing doom which hangs like Q. pail over
our homes, threatening u dearest in
t~erests, and which, if not speedily avert
ed, will eliminate in untold misery.
1t is fruftless to close u eyes to these
most lamentable truths. The manly
part is to meet them squarely in the
face, and, if possible, by ascertaining
the cause, correct the evil in so Ear as
we may be able, Notwithstanding the
valuable time and opportunities already
squandered, and heralmost fatal faults
and errors, of the past. ~-.fA.+o
1t a not be denied that the foolish
and fippant habits of our fashionable
ladies and their abject slavery to the
reigning 90 style'' accounts in a great
measure for the fact that they are, as a
rule, inva1ids. r, But for the equally
patent.faet that the health and strength
of the great middle classes have SO fap-
idly and sadly d~eteriorated, we must
look for another explanation.
Many of the so-called labor-saving ia
ventions of the past thirty years have
proved in actual use sadly destructive
OF health. No invention of the nine
teenth century car boast so many vic
| TINS as the Sewing Machine. The con-
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He Wouldn't Lie for q Mule.

"Speaking about mules" remarked
q s~ix-footer from Harnett County, as he
cracked his whip at the market yester-
day morning, 81 have got a mule at
home that knows as much as | do, and
| want to hear somebody say that I'm
half fool.n
Nobody said so, and he went On.
GIVE stood around her, and heard
men blow about kicking mules till I've
got disguised. When you come down
to kicking, 1 want to bet ON my mule.
A preacher came along and took din
ner with me the other day as he SEEM
Ell a little down-hearted, / took him out
to see Thomas Jefferson, my champion
mule. / was telling the good man how
the mule would flop his hind feet
around, and he said he'd like to see a
little fun. He'd passed his whole life
in the South, but had never seen a mule
lay his soul into a big time kicking"
"Well," he continued, after borrow
ing some tobacco, CT took Thomas out
of the stable, backed him up agin a hill,
gin him a cuff on the ear, and we stood
back to see the amusement. 1t was a
good place to kick his qdarndest, and
what dye 'spose he did? In ten minutes
by the watch he was out of sight. In
five more we couldn't feel him with a
12-foot pole, and-and---"
The crowd began to yell and cheer,
and the old man looked around and
added:
"Does any body think I'm lyingf
Would 1 lie for one mulep"-Ralesgh
IN, C,O Sentinel. .