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New-York tribune., 1876-09-06
LONG ISLAND.
STATEN ISLAND.

SrArLErON.-The additions to the Broad-st.
public school now being erccte3 TLele VIII DC
of seating 500 additional children. The improvements
will cost 5000.
RossyIIIE.-A tower, 40 feet high, Ia now con-
s;tuci n upOu the ud Woodrow Methodist Church. aud
ne " stcc! bell weighing 1000 punds will be placed IN
H. The bell giTt Of William Asury Cole Oi Rich
mOud Village. The old chlrcn, wAch Is the oldest Meth
odi,t churcn upon staten Island hos several times been
mi
New-York tribune., 1876-09-06
announcements

LUNDBoRG's CALIFORNIA WATER for the toilet
and bath. eIghtul subsute for COIOgne Bay rum
New-York tribune., 1876-09-06
NEW-JERSEY.

ORANGE.-James Il. Durham, an aged man,
residing in West Orange, Verona, d!eG yes;erday
from the effects of laadanum Durham was in the habit
II taking laudanun TO assist IN recovering Hoin the
effects OF frequent dissipation. on Monday he purchased
two ounces of laudanun, which he took IN two ,qual
doses about hour after the purchase lie ded yes
tCrday morning.
PATrRsoS-The city Treasurer has reported a balance
of &I527g 80 the treasury There have been seven
deaths diphheria during the hve days OF Septen
ber.
New-York tribune., 1876-09-06

DR. John T. Maggie Register OF vital statistics, reported
6I0 deaths in this city for the past week. an increase O
3S over the week previous The largest number in any
ward occurred in the Nineteenth where there were
l0S deaths in the Second Ward there were none
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Tie Rush for the Rack Hills.

Already the mass have begun to move
towards the Black Hills. Yesterday a
big party left this city bound thither,
and many more will leave within the
next four weeks. All those going from
here go by the way Of Cheyenne, which
is considered the quickest and best route
at this time of the year, on account Of
the difficulty Of crossing the Platte on
the Sidney route, which would be other
wise the best way to go. A Herald re-
porter yesterday interviewed man Just
from Cheyenne, who says that town is
perfectly alive with people going to the
hills, and that all kinds of business there
is consequently brisk. Everybody who
has anything in the shape Of team is
fitting it up to carry out the people who
are pouring in from all quarters, and the
prospects are that by the lst of May
there will be more people in the Black
Hills than there are in Omaha to-day.
Mr.. Ward, who married daughter Of
Mr.. Hayrod, proprietor of the Atlantic
House, in this city, left Cheyenne yes.
terday for the Black Hills, with saw
mill, and many other persons are on the
way with everything that can be needed
to help the miners to make themselve,
comfortable.-Omaha Herald.
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BELLEVUE BossIER PARISH, LOUISIANA.

be capable of indefinite expatsioil, and
that these powers are suddenly arrested,
often just as they are becoming most
valuable. The few years which are
mans portion here ON earth vanish like
a dream in the night. Before he can
say, Il have life," it is gone; in the fol.
eible imagery of scripture. he is like the
grass" In the morning it fouflsfeth
and groweth up; in the evening it is cut
down and withereth." So brief is human
existence. Something within us says
that this is not all that beyond the
grave the mysterious thread Of life will
be carried on. Scripture declares that
this is net delusion, and reason con-
firms it, for however difficult it may be
to conceive Of a future world, it is still
more difficult to believe that man came
from nothing and goes forward to ami
hilation. To devote great powers and
much learning to the destruction of the
christian belief, franght as it is with in.
expressible consolation to the myriads, il
work which the men engaged in it must
at times find it hard to reconcile with
conscience or if the existence of con.
science be denied, as thing not to be
"proven," then to the common desire
not to inflict unnecessary pain and suf
fering upon our fellow men. Yet it j.
between these two forms of belief tha,
our children will have to choose, even a.
we have to do. It is useless to hide the
question from them-they must bt
brought face to face with it sooner Of
later. The more thoroughly they arr
made acquainted with what science ha.
done and attempted, the less will they
be liable to fall INTO the abyss of atheism
the less will they be disposed to set ur
human reason in the place OF God, anc
worship it. We are, indeed, told by Mr.
Matthew Arnold and his school that
christianity is doomed; but past ex
perience teaches us that human predic
tions about the fall of christianity arr
not worthy Of implicit credence. O
nations and empires it has itself foretolG
many things which have come to pass
Some Of it's prophecies have yet to b
fulfilled and among them is that which
declares that though heaven and earth
shall pass away, the word which ha,
come from their creator shall not fail.
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THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY.
Some STRUCTURES Upon the Course of Sci
entiAts With Regard to Religion
and the Bible.

some ..,.,s VIII Eeen shs rs%rss Of sc
and the Rible.
There never was time when the me-
cessity for bringing home to the mind
the sacred associations of the Christmas
season was greater than it is now. Men
Of unquestionable learning and ability
ar. everywhere striving to destroy the
foundations of the christian religion.
They insist that God can not and does
not exist, but that the universe is gov
erned by some unknown laws, which are
the result of spontaneous evolution.
First came atoms, and then the atoms
assumed a shape, and then the shape be-
gan to turn round the sun, and then a
germ with life appeared upon it, and the
germ gradually became man. The same
process is always being continued in
other planets. Worlds come into exis-
tence, live out their days, and then per-
ish, with all the countless myriads of
generations which pass to and fro upon
them; and this vast tragedy goes on
without design or plan, without even a
designer. There is "law," but who
made the law, or how came it into exis-
tence, the philosophers acknowledge that
they can not even conjecture. Some of
them will 60 SO far as to admit that
there must be first cause" but they
regard it as mere philosophical abstrac-
ton, inconceivable to the finite sense,
and inexplicable in all the operations
which can be traced to it. But the
belief in wise and beneficent God. or
in eternal wisdom ruling all things ac-
cording to its own immutable DEGREES, OF
in any dealings of the creator with man.
or in life hereafter-all this is sum-
marily rejected by the philosophers. 1t
almost seems at times as though the
present aim of science was not SO much
to enlarge its own boundaries and fields
of knowledge, as to convince the world
that christianity is an imposture and
that its founder was merely an amiable
enthusiast.
To protest against this warfare OF
science upon religion would be worse
than useless, for the leaders Of the new
scientific school are not disposed to listen
to any remonstrance. They will give
no quarter to christianity. It is an old
wives fable, and those who believe in it
barely surrender their reason to super
Altion, or are creatures destitute of
reason This is the tenor, often the very
language, of modern science. One is
inclined sometimes to wonder that a
philosopher, who is obliged to announce
at frequent intervals that some fresh
discovery" compels him to make a
very complete change in his "views .
concerning his new creed, or no-creed-
that such a man should be presumptuous
enough to declare that he, at length, has
,ound ont what God is, and that it is
nothing more than fetch of mans own
imagining. There is nothing fixed OF
permanent in modern science. When
Eozoon was lately found in the Lauren.
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The officers also, during the same
period, ordered out of harness and sent
home to their stables, or to the veter-
mary surgeons, 1,272 horses and mules.
The agents were called upon to destroy
1,164 horses and mules. The officers in.
yestigated over | 200 complaints, and the
evils complained of were remedied with
out arrests being made. Twenty-four
contemplated dog and cock fights were
broken up and number of birds and
bulldogs seized. The work above men
toned only includes the city and coun-
ty, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the
suburbs of New York. Many agents in
different parts of the state have not yet
sent in their returns.
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UNCLE SANS A HUNDRED., ,,

On, ye Powers! what foaf,
Such was never heard i,efore-
laundering, FROM shore to shore,
Uncle Sans hundred i''
Cannon boom and trumpets bray,
riadies i squeak and fountains play
us his great Centennial day
Uncle Sans hundred 1"
Stalwart men and puny boys,
Maids and matrons swell the noise,
Ev'ry baby lifts its voice:
Uncle Sans hundred /"
Nervous folks, who dote on quiet,
Though they're half distracted BY it
can't help mixing in the riot:
Uncle Sans hundreds"
Brutes that walk, and birds that fly,
On the earth or In the sky,
Join the un. n.versal cry,
Uncle Sans hundred !'
Well, suppose he is-what then?
Don't let us act like crazy men.
Must we take to fooling when
Uncle Sans hundred 90
Ii
Head and shoulders above all;
Yet, Pride goes before fall"
Fen though ones u hundred.
What's hundred in our day."
Foreign Uncle Sans will say;
Let us sit and watch the play
He is but a hundred.
foA ha,e ~ ~
Fair and ruddy-yet, forsooth!
Hes too voung-and that's the truth!
Only Just hundred.
When he's twice as old, pardie
Twill be easier to foresee
What will be his destiny.
Now he's but hundred.
When he played his boyish pranks,
Should he seek to Join our ranks
Wen reflect. But now-no, thanks!
Why, he's but hundred ~
Yes, our uncle's years are few;
He is y0ung-the charge is true;
Let us keep that fact in view,
Though be counts hundred.
Don't let's tempt him to ignore
Warnings that have gone before;
Perils both by sea and shore,
Now that he's hundred.
Let us strive, with earnest heart,
Each Of us to do his part,
So that he may 'scape the smart,
Seeing he's hundred.
Aud with solemn, graceful thought,
Df the dpadg that hp hQS vrrcuUhf
Guided, cherished. favored, taught,
Till he's reached a hundred.
Let us, as we vaunt his worth,
Mingle soberness with mirth,
While we shout to all the earth,
Uncle Sans hundred"
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dS lOllOWS.
Working horses with sores on their bodies chafed
Ny tno udi q
iAS Ai ~
Working sick and diseased horses .........,.
Working horses with glanders and farcy .........
Working old and worn-out horses and mules. o
UVcIuTivlng noFseS..
iscehicss
CNeflodulHS Tea
Negectlng and starving L
Driving horses until they fell dead.
Heating horses with sticks. butt-end of whips.
clubs. hammers. and rungs...
Abandoning animals to die in the streets and open
Carrying animals in cruel manne r........., i
WORRYING cats to death with dogs
Dragging horses through the streets with broken
ana dlslocated limbs
Malciously killing and mutilating dogs, cats
goats, and other animals.
Keeping animals in filthy sta hes
Working animals in machines and mis.............
Shooting and mutilating pigeons and sparrows....
Beating performing bears in the streets .........
Overcrowding
Plucking live
Poisoning animals.
1ock
Refusing to blanket clipped horses and ex posing
atlmals to storms,
Sailing the streets
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CHINAMEN stand by each other in
this country. Those employed in shoe
making in North Adams have contri-
buted out Of their scanty earnings $347
to defend one who is entangled in law in
Nevada.
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Work OF Mr.. Bergh's Society.

During 1875 the American Society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals
prosecuted $40 cases Of cruelty, divided
as follows:
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IT is now ascertained that Winslow.
the Boston 6rger, sailed from New York
for Rotterdam, Holland. He laid his
plans well, as there is no extradition
treaty with that country,
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'IHE Northampton, Mass, bank rob-
berry, turns out to have been a tremen-
dous hf.ul for the cracksmen. It is esti-
mater. that over 100000 in money,
STOCKS and bonds were gobbled by the
robbers.
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The hanging" question is being in
vestigated in Great Britain in the inter-
ests, not OF the condemned criminal alone,
but OF humanity. Prof. Haughton, of the
university of Dublin, who has given the
SUBJECT Q good deal of attention, repro
pates very strongly the use of any method
winch fails to produce instantaneous
dsa0l, and recommends long drop with
the knot under the chin.
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Mr.. Hunters Reply.

FEBRUARY S, 1876.
Ho"' j. &. Dou9lQS: My Dear Slr,-I
ha\" received yeur letter Of the 7tb, and re-
3I'" 10 !Ind that you are in favor OF q Texas
'0Hc railroad II the bill be properly
.t'HeI' HE pcLding bill never saw, and
!, 80" VIII refer 10 my letter you will lind
''A' say, III my opinion ST. Louis Is too far
"'''h ~ The eastern terminus OF this great
>o"'HtFn road. say, il Congress intends to
N'Hu The read further east. that It's eastern
"'H4'uus should be in Y Icksburg, Memphis,
~" OfItsns, a you yourself suggest. i
,,r "o' aware that the bill proposed to
'o,"'."''ec The Interest on the debt for the
i,y,' ',y,'''' O' the road completed. The circum.
I.'s y"-. H!u>, ee very peculiar to justify this.
va oyl.ciion to this ieatuie seems te me to
,t., sD~uu and honest. presume, however,
,t".! I-' 'Ae httI WIKI be stripped Of such Office
so,'.I" "Hat rleant 10 advocate was a great
rI,' t' "''" trans continental roNte, connecting
-" >'A> turWlgh that territory, j was
S,sI 1'9ta!nted with the detailsof the pending
49, i, 1'u ala 40; E'cdile with them except
.Is"'" 10 !he eastern terminus.
>, :. :. M3j0rtty IN Congress are in favor of
." i"'r!, they surely San frame q bill 90
~'' Vu' (acir scheme fairly aud fully,
i0a!" truly aLs respectfully,
K. N. Z. Ks;HrER.
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there were some very valuable private coll
lections, such as that OF Colonel Byrd, of
Westover Numbering 1925 voIumes), which
remained entire until 1876 or 's6, when it
was taken to Philadelphia by the widow Of
the last Colonel Byrd, and there sold at
auction. A complete catalogue Of the West
over library, with their arrangement in cases
duly numbered, may be seen in the Franklin
Library, of Philadelphia. A quarto volume
bound ia red morocco, 8 copy Of the catalogue,
may also be seen at Upper Brandon. RI
possess another copy. For an interesting
account of the library see Virginia Historical
Register, vol. w., PIP. e7-9O.-R. a. b.
The next largest library was that Of Sir
John Randolph, which descended to bis SON
Peytop, the first president of Congress, at
Whose death, without heirs OF his body, the
books were purchased as whole by Mr..
Jeferson-ryet volumes frequently occur
la auction sales, principally old textbooks
of the law.-R. A. b who sold them, with
the rest Of his library, to the Federal Gov.
ernment after the war of 1872. A fire, some
years back, in the Capitol, destroyed many
books of this collection.
The library of Ralph Wormley, Jr., of
Rose Gill, was very valuable, but 1t attained
it's full growth after the Revolution. It was
v
of the books. Among the books in the Col
lege library before 1776 and until 1859, when
the books were burned, was the Biblia Sacra
Polyglotta, by Briareus Waltonus, printed in
1867, in six volumes, folio. As late as 1843
a distinguished English divine pronounced
this work the most complete biblical ap.
paratus in any language" Another book OF
Immense value was the "LeXicon Hepta-
glotton of Edmund CASTILLO, two volumes,
folio, 1859" AS nearly two thirds OF the
edition was destroyed in England, this great
work rose in value, and was estimated In
1925 by Professor Campbell to be worth in
England S700. twas presented to the Col
lege by Robert Carter Nicholas. But these
books, which [ took q note Of many years
ago on visit to the library, will show its
great completeness ahd its great cost.
If you wish to see the value of these books
mentioned above consult Allibone's Diction'
ary Of Authors.
But the great source of literature in the
Colony must be sought in the houses OF the
planters, oil Of whom had large collections
| Of all the leading English classics. have
number of these in my own collection. A
library was an Indispensable ornament III
every house: and the result of such pos.
session was seen 10 the ability and skill OF the
men Of the Revolution.
If these hints can be Of any service to you
use them as you please.
In great haste, yours truly,
HUen BLAIR GRIGsBY.
TO Il. 4. Brock. Esq, Richmond, Va.
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CHARLOTTE COURTHOUSE, VA.,}

January 81, 1876. !
Ny Dear Sir,-In answer to your inquiry
about the extent of the library bequeathed
to William and Mary College by President
James Blair, am inclined to believe from
the number of books bearing his name which
I have seen in the College library that they
must have reached between six and seven
hundred volumes.
If you will visit Henrico courthouse and
look into the record OF wills from August l,
l745, when DR.. Blair died, you will tind bis
will, which may throw some light on the
subject. The scattered books to which you
alude were either some of those which the
Commissary gave his nephew, John Blair, the
father of the John Blair Of the Supreme
Court of the United States, or were taken
from the College library by borrowers and
never returned. Several months ago saw
in Prince Edward county two folio volumes
with the bookmarks Of Dr.. Blair which had
been borrowed by Frank Gilmer and kept by
him during his life. But the books OF DR..
Blair composed but small portion of the
library of William and Mary. l have seen
there books bearing the bookplate OF
nearly all our Governors from 100
to 1775, and of our leading colonial
men. There was the finest edition OF The
Fathers" In many folio volumes, splepdldly
bound and gilt, which was presented by the
Archbishop of Canterbury to the College be.
tween 1850 and 1850. There was one set OF
works in folio that were estimated to be
worth ia England thirty years sgo S70O.
should put down the books in l176 as be.
tween fifteen hundred and two thousand
volumes Of the most valuable kind in Latin,
Greek, French, and English. The splendid
set of the Encyclopedias Methodique, In
thirtg.three folio volumes, was presented 10
tue College by Louis XVI. at the close Of
the war. 1t must be remembered that as
late as 1776 oil our English classics were 10
quarto, from Shakespeare to Hume, Robert.
son, and Gibbon.
Besides the library Of William and Mary
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MoRrUARY RKroRr.-The following Is the

MoRTUARY REp0Rr.-The following Is the
mortuary report for the week ending satur-
day, February 5, 1879, complied from sex.
tons returns received at the Office of the
Board of Health: Cause Of Death !: Apo.
plexy, l colored; brain.disease, white;
burns, l white; congestion Of lungs, CO.
lored; consumption, 3 white, 3 colored
convulsions Gnfantilel, colored; Group, 1
colored; diarrhGa, white; fever (typhoidl,
1 colored; fever (typho-malarial), white;
marasmus, colored; myelitfs, colored;;
old age, colored; pneumonia, white, 8
colored; puerperal commissions, colorad;
tabes mesenterica, / colored; uramia, l
white. Whole number OF deaths in the
city exclusive of stili-births. Is. Still Births:
White male, /; white female, L; colored fe.
male, total, g. Sen: White males, A; co.
lored males, 10-total, IA; white females, g.;
colored females. 6-total, IL. Ase: One
month to six, colored; six months 10
twelve, Q colored: one year to three,
3 colored; three years to five, 1 white;
ten years to twenty, white, / Cor
lored-total, 3; twenty years to thirty, 8
white, colored-toial, 8; thirty years TO
forty, eolored; forty years to fifty, I
white, 8 colored-total, A; sixty years to
seventy. 8 bite, colored-total.5 g.; seventy
years to eighty, colored. Condition. Sin.
gle, white, 10 colored-total, ID; married,
white, 2 colored-total, g.; widowers, I co.
lored; widows, white, 2 coIored 8ss
unknown, l colored. Nativity: United
States, "a; England, /. Locality: Marshall
Ward, white, colored-total, 8; Jeffer-
son Ward, white, 2 colored-total, g.;
| Madison Ward, white, coiored-total, 6 !;
Monroe Ward, 2 white, 2 colored-total, 4 |;
Jackson Ward, white, colored-total, 5 |;
almshouse, 2 colored. By uhon, Certified !:
Regular practitioners, white, IL cslored----
total, 20; irregular practitioners, colored ;
Board of Health, 4 colored.
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VEGETINE.

IS " G E T 1 n E )"
says Boston physician, " has no equal as blood
purifier. Hearing Of It's many wonderful cures
after all other remedies had failed, I visited the
Laboratory and convinced myself Of It's genuine
merit. 1t is prepared from barks, roots, and herbs
each of which Is highly effective, and they are
compounded In such manner as to produce
astonishing results"
yEGETINE
is the great glood-Purifier.
VEGETINE
will cure the worst case Of Scrofula.
(. .-...--.a.-. ..-.. YEGEFIHE
Is recommended by physicians and apoth ecaries
vEGETINE
vEGETINE
cures the most innexiblc case of Canker
VEGETINE
meets with wonderful success In mercural diseases.
vEGETINE
will eradicate Salt Rheum from the system.
yEGETINE
cures the most inveterate cases Of Eryspelas.
VEG ETINE
removes pimples and Hutnors from the face.
vEGETlNE
cures Constipation and Regulates the Bowels.
vEGETINE
is a valuable remedy FOR Headache.
vEeETINE
will cure Dyspepsia.
vEGETINE
restores the entire system to healthy condition.
vEGETINE
cures pains in the Side.
vEGEIINE
removes the cause OF Dizziness.
vEGETISE
relieves Faintness at the Stomach.
vEGETINE
cures Pains In the Back.
vEGETINE
etfectually cures Kidney Complaint.
VEGETINE
is effective in Its cure of Female Weakness.
vEGETINE
is the great remedy for General Debility.
vEGETINE
is acknowledged by all classes of people TO be the
best and most reliable Blood-Puriier in the world
VEGETINE Is SOLD BY ALL DRUG GGIsTS.
[fe 5-s&w2tl
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EXPENSES FOR STREET IHPRovEaENTs.-The
following is statement Of the expenses Of
the city on account of streets during the past
year, and the amount expended in each ward
of the city:
Chain-gang, SI71.S0; chain. gang payroll,
s., ,S24.96 !; paving sidewalks, $2,644.7S; cul-
yerts, Sl2, 1896. .95 streets generally, 81, 1921;
hands and carts, SS,51954; hands and carts
payroll, S2O,330.74; street-roller payroll,
s3,005.O1; expenses street-roller, S1,Ol2 65
improvement of Venabe street, Sl2S.70 ;
repairs of streets, S595.20; streets, engineer
ing department, 1880; paving alleys,
300 42; sewer connections, S245.45.
Street improvements in Monroe Ward,
81, 455.33; Jefferson Ward, 81, 1869. 46; Jack.
son Ward, 1894 81; Clay Ward, S14 .25O.S5
Madison Ward, 52,27333; Marshall Ward,
S5,2379o,