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The New York herald., 1876-03-17

ptied but should not escape just condemnation. He
satisfied that impartial justice will be done by this
walls Justice is blind here as regards the parties but
is eyes always open 10 the preponderance of
the law and evidence from the record Take this
in all It's bearings II was, he urged, outrage upon
society," common decencY law, order and liberty, aud
should be summary rcbuked by this Court by quash
ing the conviction and liberatng innocent man and
the authors OF this wrong, he contended, should be
held up TO public execraton and Indignation.
MT W. T. Prentice counsel for the Board Of Health,
conended that the was constitutional because
ths act has been acquiesced in and never questioned
ana that public policy demands that this Board should
nave the sole power In these He also contendcu
that the court below with the witnesses and evidence
before them and the appearance upon the stand OF Tue
defendant and his conduct had undoubtedly ts lnhu-
ence with their judgment upon the weight oil eNidence
and that this Court had power to interfere
Al the close Of the argument tho Court took the pa
pers, reserving its decision
There also yesterday argument in the General
Term Of the Court OF Common Pleas brought as test
case, to the powers OF the Board or Health. lhs
was the suit brought by the Health Department against
Adam Knoll, being an appeal from judgment OF the
Third District Court holding the defendant liable TO
pay penalty Of $50 and costs not compy yng with
order OF the Board Health TO construct venti-
atng shaft The appeal is brought under the auspices
OF the Taxpayers Association OF the Tenth, Eleventh
and Seventeenth wards. Mr. George f. Iangben, their
counsel urged that the powers the Board Of Health
must be exercised with sound reasonable discretion,
and that they were bound 30 make proper
OF necessity before they had u for the exercise
OF Their great powers and authority; that they had not
uncomfortable discretion that except in Of exi
gency or emergency they could not interfere with
citizens rights or property OF compel him 20 pay a
penalty, and that in this such exigency
or emergency was shown The counsel for the Board
oil Health claimed that their powers had been adJudi.
Gated upon many times by various courts, ard Lad
never been questioned until by this association of tax
payers; that judge Pratt had rendered decision de-
caring they had the powers they now exercised. The
Court as in the previous case took the papers, rcserv
iug decision
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DECISIONS.

DECISIONS.
SUPREME COURT CHAMBERS
By Judge Donohuo
Bradley VS. Shceey.--0n further examination Of ths
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CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGEl
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

Various opinions are expressed on
this subject. A recent writer says
II oak, hickory or chestnut timber be
felled in August in the second running
of the sap, quite large tree will sea-
son perfectly, and even the twigs
remain sound for years whereas that
cut in winter and remaining till next
fall las thick as your wrist, will be
almost completely sap-rotten, and will
he almost unfit for any purpose. The
body Of oak split into rails will not
last more than ten or twelve years.
Chestnut will last longer, but no com
parison to that cut in August. Hickory
cut in the eighth month is not subject
TO be worm-eaten, and will last long
time for fencing. When 1 began
farming in 1902, it was the practice to
cut timber for post fencing in the win
ter. Winter oak pests and black oak
rails cut at that time, found did not
last more than ten years. In 1908, |
began cutting fence timber in the
eighth month. Many of the rails cut
that year, are yet sound, as well as
most of those formed Of chestnut. II
the bark be not broken off this month,
however, it will peel of itself the sec
ond or third year, and leave the sap
perfectly sound. The tops of the
trees are also more valuable for fuel
then than when cut in the winter or
spring. Iadvise the young farmers to
try the experiment for themselves, and
if post fences do not last twice as long,
l forfeit all my experience as
worthless.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

When it is remembered that forty
years ago there were not five hundred
miles Of railroad in operation in the
world, the rapid strides Of the iron
horse, since that period, in every di-
rection, are wonderful to contemplate.
1t is asserted that at the present time
the total length of lines, here and
elsewhere, reach a distance Of nearly
fourteen times the circumference of
the globe, or II times the space be-
tween the earth aud the moon. The
United States lines extend $3.50
miles England, at home and abroad,
6s, ,l01; Russia crosses Europe and
Asia with 34,9l4 miles; France 80
779, and the German Empire, 1899.
Thus the the world moves.
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Cwriew. p~~ss About Mind Tom

Blind Toms birth place is Georgia,
and he began to excite attention as a
musician at the age Of four years. All
sounds afforded him delight even the
crying Of child causes him to dance
about in state Of ecstacy. When at
home, he often bit and pinched his
brothers and sisters to make them
emit cries of pain. If kept away
from the piano, he will beat gainst the
wall, drag chairs about the room, and
make all sorts Of noise. When in
London, flute was procured for him
of a very complicated pattern and
having twenty-five keys. He fire.
queutly rises up at night and plays
this instrument, initiating upon il all
sorts of sounds which he may hear at
the time. Once when the agent
attempted to make him stop playing
the piano in a hightoned hotel at three
o'clock in the morning, Tom seized
him and threw him through the door.
In Washington be threw a man down
stairs who came into his room. When
at home in Georgia, he lives in a
building about two hundred yards
from the house, and there remains
alone with his piano, playing all day
and night like possessed with madness.
Bad weather has an effect upon his
music. In cloudy. rainy seasons, he
plays sombre music in minor chords,
and when the sun shines and the birds
sing, he indulges in waltzes and light
music. Sometimes he will hammer
away for hours, producing the most
horrible discords imaginable. Suddenly
a change comes over him, and he in
dulges in magnificent bursts of har-
mony taken from the best productions
of the masters. Since his childhood,
he had been an idiot, and he played
nearly rs well at the age Of seven as
he does now but now his repertoire,
is much larger, as he can play any
thing he has ever heard. He now
plays about 1900 pieces and picks up
new ones everywhere. 1t is curious
fact that he will not play any Sunday
School music if he can help it, having
great dislike to it.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10
a Fatal Coon Hunf.

We learn that several negroes star
ted out TO hunt coons near Harrods-
burg, in Mercer county, one night
last week. A quarrel arose between
two OF the negroes in the woods, when
one was shot and killed. His friends
remained and took charge of the body,
while the rest of the crowd proceeded
with the hunt. A little later one Of
the negroes climbed tree 10 shake
down coon. He fell aud was
insi antly killed. The coon fell among
the dogs, and a terrible fight ensued.
In attempting 10 separate coon and
dogs. another negro had his leg liter
ally torn to pieces by dog. lie then
killed the dog. The coon next sue
cumbed to fate, and his death ends the
list Of casualties during that coon
hunt. The murderer has been appre-
hendel. Midway sun.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

Mr.. Jacob Strawn, who is spoken Of
as "The Great American Farmer"
met with great success in all his
business operations, which is attribu-
table chiefly to the following maxims,
which we copy for the benefit Of those
farmers who are somewhat tar'ly in
performing the operations Of the farm
"When you wake up, do not roll
over, but roll out. It will give time
to ditch all your slougl,s, break them
up harrow them, and SOW with timothy
and red clover. One bushel clover to
two bushels timothy is enough.
Make your fences high, tight and
strong, 50 that they will keep cattle
and pigs out; If you have brush make
your lots secure, and keep your hogs
from the cattle, for II the corn is clean
they will eat il better than il it is not
BE sure to get your hands to bed
by Z o'clock they will rise earlier by
the force Of circumstances. . ..'.
Pay hand, if he is poor hand, al
you promise him ; il he is good hanC
pay HIM little more it will encour
age him to do still better.
\
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

There is no lady deserving of the
name who could witness without
feeling of horror the process of prepar-
ing for use the feathered beauties
which form such conspicuous orna-
ments in the present style of womens
hats. II those who wear such orna-
ments knew the torture to which these
helpless little creatures were subjected,
and the hcartless cruelty with which
the business is carried on, they would
shrink from even indirect completely
in it. Of course, the impression pre-
walls that all birds used for personal
decoration are killed Immediately
when caught, and prepared in the or
dinary way by taxidermists; but there
is Just where the mistake is made.
The birds are taken alive, and, while
living, the skin is skillfully stripped
from the quiverlng, CHASTITY bodies
By this process it is claimed the feath-
ers retain n firmer hold upon the skin.
Such is the method by which all birds
used in the decoration of ladies hats
are prepared. Think of the exquisite
humming-bird, the blue-bird, the card
inal bird, the oriole, and numberless
Others of beautiful plumage struggling
beneath the knife of the heartless ope'
rator; think of this, tender-hearted
ladies, as your admiring gaze rests up
on the latest novelties in fashion by
which our city bellies are crowded
Hundreds of thousands of birds of The
very brightest of plumage are literal
ly hayed alive every year, and 50 long
as our ladies will consent to wear suci
ornaments, just so long will this crue
business continue.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

One Of the men engaged in the ex-
cavating for the foundation Of Cal
Martins new building on First St.,
near the express Office, this morning,
struck his spade against substance
not usually met in the loan here
abounding, and a moment later the
deliver brought TO light the neck of
huge earthen. jar Of very primitive
style. This vessel, which Is now on
exhibition at Georges saloon, is about
the size Of a lager beer keg, and,
when uncorked by its lucky discover
err, was found to be full of solid gold
nuggets and dust as pure as ever came
from Dutch fat or Sacramento. How
much the treasure trove amounts to is
not yet ascertained, but the generous
discover felt that there was enough in
il to make himself and a dozen COM
rades comfortable for the rest of their
days, he having at once divided the
spoil with them. When the gold
shall have been weighed, banker on
FL Dorado street remarked that he
thought IL would realize at least half
million. This was the cause Of the
rush Of the people TO the new mine
to-day, and hundreds offered their SER
vices to Mr.. Martin to dig the balance
of his cellar for what they can make.
Au alderman went so far as to tender
a bonus for this privilege, and Others
made equally extravagant propositions
but whether they will be accepted or
not we are unable to say. At last &c
counts the city constabulary were sta
toned in front of the diggings to keeT
the mob from undermining adjacent
buildings in the search for more Jug
of the metal. The pot found is sup
posed to have been buried by an ole
alcalde, who lived here in the middl
of the last ceniury.-TSan Jose (Cal.
Patriot.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

A beer brewer has patented a new
beverage called "Jewish beer" He
brews it himself, you know.-[N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
Don't Jewish you had some p Bos-
ton Globe.
Sham, This Isreally too bad
Worcester Press.
But Judear people, the beer lsralite
and pleasant Providence Journal.
Scribes, cease this Babylon. You
deserve, a Canaan for your Levity.-
Boston Advertiser.
Jerusalem! what awful je,Os de'esprt,
Moses as bad as if we had perpetra'
ted them ourselves. Norristown Her
aid.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10
Tarruf,sg for Moneu.

The Rev. George C. Baldwin very
truthfully says;
Gold cannot buy happiness, and the
parents who compel their daughters
to marry for money or station commit
a grievous sin against humanity and
God. And the woman who marries a
churl for his wealth will find that she
has made a terrible bargain, that all
the glittering of heartless grandeur
are phosphoreseent gatherings Of heart
wretchedness that her life will be
one of gilded misery, and her old age
will be like crag ON the bleak side OF
desert mountain, where cold moon.
beams sometimes glitter, but no birds
sing, but wild storms howl and hoarse
thunders roar; and through the sweep.
ing storms shall be heard the stern
voice of the Great God, saying, Your
riches are corrupted, your garments
are moth-eaten, your gold and silver
are cankered, and the rust Of them
shall be a witness against you, and
eat your flesh as if il were fire.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

In endeavoring to take the census
for the government, the officers occa-
sionally meet with such difficulties as
to well nigh deprive them of their
senses. The following colloquy is said
to have taken place somewhere between
an official and an Irish woman:
"How many male members have
you in your familyY
"Niver one"
"When were you married?"
"The day Pat Doyle left Tipperary
for Ameriky. All, well mind it-a
sunsbiner day never gilded the sky Of
ould Ireland"
"What was the condition of your
husband before marriage?"
"Divil a man more miserable. He
said if didn't give him promise with
in two weeks, he'd blow his brains Out
with crowbar."
"Was he at the time Of your mar
riage, a widower or bachelor ?"
A which A widower did you say
All, now go way wild your nonsense
Is it the likes of me that would taxi
up with a secondhand husband? ? ID,
/ look like the wife of widowerY Al
legs and consumption like a sicl
turkey? A widswer! May l b
blessed If I'd not rather live an oulo
maid, and bring up a family on but
termilk and praties!"
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

A GENTLEMAN.-Show us the man
who is ever ready to pity and help the
deformed, show us the man who COW
ers the faults Of others with mantle
of charity, show us the man who bows
as politely and gives the street as free
to the poor sewing girl as TO the mil
lionaire who values virtue, not
clothes who shuns the company Of
such as gather at public places to gaze
at the fair sex, or make unkind
remarks OIL the passing girl; show us
man who abhors a libertine who
scorns the ridicule of his mothers sex,
and the exposure of womanly reputa.
ton; show us the man who never for
gets for an instant the delicacy due
woman, in any condition or class-and
you show us a gentleman.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10
Ancfenf Engineering.

A Suez Canal was constructed cen
turies before the time Of Cyrus the
Great, and engineering had had no lit
tie share in recovering the lower
tracts of the Valley OF the Euphrates
from the Persian Gulf long before the
Sargonids welded the scepter over
Western Asia. Iron found in the
ruined palaces Of Assyria and in the
Great Pyramid, built four thousand
years before our era, proves conclu-
sively the knowledge Of that metal at
least six thousand years ago. Engi-
neering operations such as require all
the skill Of modern mechanicians to
accomplish were accomplished in
Egypt long before Greece and Rome
had been heard Of. They have left no
record of the means by which obelisks
weighing more than four hundred tons
we're lifted to vertical position, and
yet such achievements were by no
means rare. A stone intended to be
used for the temple of Baalbock. still
lies in the quarry squared and ready
for transport, whose weight is not less
than eleven hundred and thirty-five
tons, almost as much as the base for
the statue Of Peter the Great, in the
transportation of which SO much diff
Guilty was experienced that the iron
balls on which it was proposed to roll
il, were crushed, and harder metal
had to be substituted. These facts !
could fully appreciate from what | saw
in the royal arsenal, at Woolwich, a
few days ago. In the construction Of
the enormous gun, intended to weigh
eighty-one tons when finished, consid-
erable difficulty was experienced in
getting an apparatus sufficiently strong
to lift the part already completed, and
which weighs ffty-fve tons, to VERT
cal position and swing it into the
chilling pit to receive a final strength
ening breech-band, which weighs
about twenty-five tons more. More
than a month had been employed in
building the requisite machinery fol-
this single movement And yet al
the appliances of modern engineering
were at the disposal of the contrivers
and a motive power to which no limit
can be assigned. When the compare
tive strength and tension of iron an'
stone are taken into account and th'
difference in length of the gun and th'
obelisk. how the latter was ever lifte'
into vertical position, appears littl'
short of marvellous. s.-[From Octobe
"Home and School"
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

There can be no doubt but that
God regards laziness us a sin in itself.
Incidence is one form of vice. The
idle hour is the DEVILS opportunity.
What a splendid opportunity some
people give him NOn-employment
of the mind and the sympathies pre-
vent reformation. The way to drive
out wicked Imagination is, not by en-
deavoring to stop thinking, but by a
substitution Of good for evil thoughts.
Nor is there any way which leads tC
happiness other than through the ex
ercise of the emotions and faculties
given US Of God.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10
Lirins Wifbim One's Means.

If man desires To live within his
means, and is resolute in his purpose
net to appear more than he really is,
let him be applauded. There is some
thing fresh and invigorating in such
an example, and we should honor and
uphold such man with all the ener-
gy in our power. But how difficult
to stem the direction in our best cir
cles, where approbativeness is nursed
and tickled into excessive growth in
childhood, and consequently bears its
fruitage of vanity, display, and super
cilious obedience TO conventionalities
in mature life. The extravagance Of
the development may in time bring
about a reform.
But just now the world is crazy for
show. There is not one, peahaps, in a
thousand, who dares fall back on his
real, simple self for power to get
through the world and exact enjoy
ment as he go,s along. There is no
end to the aping, the mimicry the false
airs and superficial acts. 1t requires
rare courage to live up to ones
enlightened convictions in these days.
Unless one consents to join in the gen
eral cheat, there is no room for him
among the great pretenders. May we
not indulge the hope that by and by
the intelligent classes will frown down
this demoralizing artificial, unnatural
life, and rise TO higher and purer
system i-[Halls Journal of Health
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

More than q year ago, the Bulletin
published, under the heading Of "a
Charming Romance" one Of the
truest stories Of worthy love and
laudable ambition ever told. Briefly
related, the facts are these Lieuten-
ant Philip Reade, heard in Topeka
Church choir, a voice so sweet and
musical, so tenderly sympathetic that
his soul was touched TO know more Of
the sweet singer. He sought her
acquaintance, was introduced, and
found young lady struggling against
the hardships Of pecuniary misfortune
to make headway. She was ambitious
to 20 abroad and study under great
masters in foreign lands Of poetry and
songs. Her genius, her aspiration
and more than all, the nobility of her
character and her modest worth, found
ready admiration in the mind Of the
young officer. He made her case his
own, and so readily responded to every
aspiration Of her young life that he
pledged his own fortune TO enable her
to 20 to Italy, and there finish her
musical education in the best schools
Of Florence and Milan. Poor in
purse but rich in womanly pride, she
declined to accept the gift or 80 much
money. Alone and with aid OF
money earned in local concerts and
private tuition, she visited Boston and
further progressed toward the fame
which she longed to achieve. Her
refusal to accept money increased
rather than diminished the young
officers regard for her, and he renewed
the offer OF aid to Minnie Beals' Tor
such was her name, with a proposal oil
marriage. They were married IN New
York, one morning, more than four
years ago. AT noon, on the wedding
day, the bride sailed for Italy, and the
husband started for Arizona, where he
had been ordered ON military duty.
Frequent letters brought him tidlng' OF
her success. Her voice was ike q
''string of pearls, said one renowned
impressario. Time went on and she
made her debut in the finest theater Of
Florence, to dense assemblage oil
music-lovers. Fortune seemed to
smile, and she secured an engagement
TO sing in the leading theaters OF
E,rone Her singing in CONSTANT.
nonla .,;.;,sd the highest praise from
,hs nress and nonulace
During the past year every letter
exch,noed between the two referred tc
a. L.n,;n... roso, v.d for ,ba reun;on
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

Mr.. Joshua l.. Bailey, a merchant
of Philadelphia, started what he called
the Central Coffee House." as u
means to draw away workingmen from
the tippling.shops. AT fast pint of
good coffee and fresh roll were fur
nished for five cents, butter included.
The bill of fare has since been enlarged
to twenty varieties, all five cents each.
So successful is the enterprise, two
adjacent stores have been taken and
forty walters attend upon the two
thousand persons who visit the place
every day. Mr.. B. has lately estab-
lished u new place, entitled the
Model. which is proving itself an un'
questionable success. Two thousand
and three hundred is the daily average
of luncbers. Mr.. Bailey is member
Of the Society Of Friends,
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

Napoleon was dreadfully afraid Of
cats. When a boy, he and his mother
shut a cat in a close room and gave
her a savage beating. Puss fought, Of
course, and gave the embryo Emperor
severe bite on the shoulder. An
officer of his personal guard, relates
that while on the march over the
simplon TO Italy, a great noise was
heard in the royal sleeping-room, which
was caused by the Emperor thrashing
about with his sword at a cat which
had taken refuge on a mantle piece,
more frightened than the mighty con
queror himself This fear Of cats last. d
all his life.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-11-10

One of the hottest regions Of the
earth is along the Persian Gulf, where
little or no rain falls. At Barhin the
arin shore has no fresh water, yet
comparatively numerous population
contrives to exist there, thanks to copi-
Gus springs which burst forth from the
bottom Of the sea. The fresh water
is got by diving. The diver sitting in
his boat, winds great goatskin bag
around his left arm, the hand grasp
ing its mouth; then he takes in his
right hand u heavy stone, to which is
attached a strong line, and thus
equipped he plunges in and quickly
reaches the bottom. Instantly open
ing the bag over the strong jet of fresh
water, he springs up in the ascending
current, at the same time closing the
bag, and is helped aboard. The stone
is then hauled up, and the diver, after
taking breath, plunges again. The
source Of these copious submarine
springs is thought to be in the green
hills of Oman some five hundred on
six hundred miles distant.