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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18

NOTICE TO COUNTRY NEwsDxALERs.-Fo For
prompt and regular delivery Of the HERALD
by fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to
this office, POSTAGE free
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18

'SUrposrSo. The neglect of Coroner
Eickhoff to have even an external examina-
ton made upon the body OF Mr.. Edward J.
Wilson, Surprising that it was a
case of deliberate suicide, is an in
stance of the gross carelessness with
which the coroners administer their
office. Marks OF violence are said to have
been found upon the body at Peekskill,
where it was sent to be buried. These may
have resulted from conclusions after death,
but we want to know what is the uso of nm
official that goes through his term sup
posing" and wanting to be certain only
about his fees?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18

THE RESCUE of the survivors of the Strath-
more by Captain Clifford, of the American
whaler, Young Phoenix, was gallant act, and
in praising and itly rewarding it England
does credit to our common humanity.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
PARTISAN VARIETIES.

PARTISAN VARIETIES.
u r. NJ Matinee st2P NJ
rnIRryFouRrH STREET OPERA HOUSE
VARIETY at II. VI.
KELLY 4 Icons MINsTRELs,
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
PlQUE atsP n. Fanny Davenport.
GLOBE THEATRE.
VARIETY, sssP.M.
WOODS MUSEUM.
UNDER THE GALLONS. atsP. NJ. Matinee at 2 r. III.
BROOKLYN THEATRE
PRIDE. at r. N. Charlotte Thompson.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.
THEATRE coMIQUE.
VARIETY, MsP.M
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.
ORCHESTRA, QUARTET AND CHORUS At T. n
GILMORES GARDEN
GRAND CONCERT. at sp NJ. onenbach.
wALLACK's THEATRE.
HOW SHE LOVES HIM. at p. NJ. Lester WallaSk
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE
VARIETY, at p. NJ.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
CONSCIENCE, At r. N. q. r. Thorne. Jr.
EAGLE THEATRE.
PARK THEATRE.
BRASS, at p. NJ. Mr.. George Fawcet Rowe.
THEATRE FRANCAIS
LIE MARQUIS DE vILLEMER, atsP.M.
BowERY THEATRE.
BUFF AND BLUE. at 4 r. NJ.
CHATEAU MABIL lE vARIErIEs,
stsPM Matinee at p
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
HUMPTf DUMPTY, at 8 r. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18

The new Tammany Excise Commissioners
have been prompt in transmitting to the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment their
estimate of the amount they desire to be al
lowed to expend next year.. The Excise
Boards last appropriation was forty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars, and as the
Tammany board increases little less than
fifty per cent on this, asking for about sixty
six thousand dollars, its demand may be con-
sidered modest enough. Comptroller Green,
however, is bent upon reducing the cost of
tho city government next year as much as he
possibly can, and, taking time by the fore
lock, he proposed at once to cut down the
new boards estimate to thirty -four thousand
dollars, or about one-half the amount de-
manded, reducing the salaries of the three
commissioners from five thousand to three
thousand dollars each, and allowing them
twenty-five thousand dollars for extra ex-
penditures OF course this early step toward
economy and reduction of the salaries
of heads Of departments was opposed by the
Mayor, Tax Commissioner Wheeler and AL
derman Lewis, Mr. Green's associates in the
Board. The Mayor, whose study of financial
questions has been diligently prosecuted
since the prospect of succeeding Mr.. Green
in the Finance Department has opened before
his minds eye, sagely remarked that the
amount of the appropriation to the Excise
Board could not affect the taxpayers, because
it came out of the receipts of the Board and
not from the tax levy But the Comptroller
blandly reminded the Mayor that, inasmuch
as the receipts of the Excise Department
were used for public purposes. the taxpayers
had a decided interest in taking care that
they are not needlessly squandered on their
way to the city treasury. This is the first
movement toward economy for 1877, and
from its defeat the people may form some
judgment of the liberality with which the
public money will be distributed among the
departments next year, especially if Tam
many can succeed in getting Comptroller
Green out Of Office.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18

The BELKNAP IMPEACHMENT trial will be
resumed to-day, and it is possible a vote may
be reached on the question of jurisdiction.
LET no guilty man escape"-through a
bubble.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18


Our illustrious visitor from the South
American Empire landed here on the 18th
ult, and, after few days spent in observing
the city and its environs, started for the Pa
cifc coast. In the four weeks which have
since elapsed His Majesty has travelled over
dred miles day, and has observed the strik-
ing features, natural and industrial, of q
great many Of our cities and traversed q
great many of our States He is now at st.
Louis, and is about to descend the Missis-
sippi to New Orleans, whence he will return
to Philadelphia to study the Exhibition in
detail. While Americans will naturally be
interested in the Emperors opinion of the
progress of the United States-and, so far,
he has proved frank and clear-headed OBJ
server-the much more pregnant question
remains, How much Of what he sees
will he wish to transplant to the
great country over whose destinies he
presides? Fresh from land where nature
supplies unlimited beauties to the eye and
where the earth seems to require little more
than asking to produce rich crops, it is not
wonderful that he looks generally on America
as mot pretty, but magnificent" He COM
pliments our spaciousness, our enterprise,
our industry; but we are not pretty. We
would, of course, like to be, butte this po-
tentate the factories, workshops, railroads,
Cities schools speak forcibly, and we have
no doubt that at the end of his journey he
will try to graft upon the natural beauty of
Brazil some of the American ''go' which he
admires. BY and by perhaps our Republic
shall grow beautiful MS well as strong, while
the Brazilian Empire adds strength to its
beauty. and then both countries will look
back with pleasure to the journey of His
Majesty among us as an event of deep his
toric interest. For the present we must take
oil the measure of ourselves that we can, for
the process, when undertaken without con-
ceit, is useful, even if it brings us no higher
compliment than the farmer bestowed on his
horse, "a queer one to look at but a good one
to 90"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-18

VOLUME xLl.................... ....No. 1879
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
BLoOD-IN FAMILIES.

Many people boast of the blood
that is in their veins, when they
have nothing else to boast about -
They tell you who their ancestors
were and what their forelathers did,
and the stock from which they
sprung. They lean upon the good
name or deeds of their ancestors as
if there was merit in Boosting, with
out so much as doing one deed
worthy Of record or penning one
thought for remembrance.
There may be some virtue in
blood when we wish to buy horse,
cow, dog or hog; and even then
there is a great deal in the quality
of the animal outside Of the mere
question OF its blood for in training
an animal it is presumed some of the
instructive and muscular qualities
will be transmitted.
But as man is something more
than a mere animal, creature more
of intellect than Of instinct, it is his
brain by which he should be judged,
He must do something himself to
command respect and consideration.
If wealth could be inherited and
never lost, then it would be reason
able to suppose that great virtues
and talents would be Transmitted to
the furiherest generation, Such IS
not the case in either suppositlon.
To hear one proclaiming the wor-
thy acts Of his sire or grandsires,
and can show no corresponding mer-
; It, is like booking at dead limb on
a magnificent tree or hunting among
the roots for the fruit the limb ought
to bear The boosters Of their an
cestor5 are very mach like bcet6--
the best part is under ground, and
they can aptly be classed as belong
ing to the underground aristocracy.
1t is q shame and disgrace for a
man to inherit a good name and
show himself unworthy Of it, and
douby disgrace to be leaning upon
the bones Of dead mon as his only
support. The pretensious Of thou>
sands to>day are bulls upon the hon
est labor Of mechanics, clerks and
small farmers, whose aristocratic
noses would be turned up could
they have been permitted to have
seen their fathers or grandfathers at
work in their shirt sleeves.
1t is brain, not blood that tell in
families for fool can be born to a
throne or immense wealth. When
Napoleon was in the height Of his
glory he was frequently annoyed by
the old and eifete nobility talking
about their families. Sale Napoleon
~ am the first Of my family and
hold my nobility on the point of my
word. If you think yourselves
worthy of the names you boast, /
will give you an opportunity, and
plenty Of them, to show Of what sort
of stuff You are made. | care moth
ing for your families. Make your
name, as have done"
Honor aud fame from no condition rise,
Act well your pant, there all the honor les
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

A Man WITH A SILVER HEAD.
Count Paul de Gabriac publishes in
his travels the following remini-
scence Of Lima:
"One day, when dining with the
French consul, the Man with the
Silver Head was announced. He
was FrencAman, owning a small
property near the city. While taxi
lug a walk some months ago he
heard cries of agony, and fastening
ia the direction from which they
came, surprised three brigands, one
of whom held travellers head be-
tween his knees, while another cut
his ears off, and third stabbed him.
The undauoted Frenchman killed
one of the villains. whereupon the
two others fed At this moment,
and while attending to the dying
traveller, Peruvian gensdarmes APP
peared, one of whom thinking the
Frenchman murderer, with a pow
erful horizontal blow of his sword
cut the top part of his head clean off,
laying the brain bare. The French
man, after laying an hour uncon-
scious, revived, picked up the up
per part of his head, walked home in
the broiling sun, and had a silver
plate made in lieu of the original
scalp which shrank too much"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
POWDER SPRINGS DOTS.

Mr.. EDIToR-rhe dots about this
place runs to extremes on this wise:
The traveller is struck with prolific
productions of our town. When we
see a man selling corn that will pros
duce from six to fourteen ears to the
stalk, it kinder opens our eyes
Then to think our kind hostess set a
hen on fifteen eggs, and 10 when she
counted the chicks Matched, there
were eighteen. Then, again, col
ored citizen, on going to look at his
fine calf, instead of the anticipated
one, he found two
Our esteemed friend DR.. l.. was
aroused from his meditations a few
mornings since by loud rap upon
the door, which as soon as opened,
Bill Ashby, (ool.) made the follow
ing melancholy exclamation:
"MaS Doc, my boy for gone eat
all Of my backing, and fall on de
floor, kick up he heels, like he die ;
what mus | do, Mas Doc r.
The Doctor gave an emetic, and
after Bill administered it, he ex>
claimed
DE boy fling up and fling up,
and cberyting comes up look like
backing" Peeriog down the child's
throat he CALCULATED. "Umph won
der whar de box gone to y
The question remains unanswered
and the child that "poIished' it's in
side by hankering after backing,
hates every thing black it sees.
G. b. II.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

EDlToRs.-One party censures
him for writing or allowing 10 APP
pear in his columns certain articles
communication or squibs. and
another bames him for not publish
ing the identical thing for which the
first condemned him, We do not
pretend to argue that an editor does
not often make mistakes-if he did
not he would be than human
but let him see his errors and then
correct them, as other business men
are obliged to do. But after arti~
cles have appeared, to make unkind
remarks about the conductor Of the
paper, is ungenerous. OF course
the right of criticism and opinion
touching a subject discussed in print
is accorded to every one, but this
can be without manifestation of bill
iousness towards the editor.--Eat0i.-
ton Messenger.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

A NOVEL case has come up in Mil
Ter county, Missouri, under a law
passed by the Legislature three
years ago, making one who sells
liquor to a minor or a habitual
drunkard responsible, in certain
cases. Two weeks ago man nam
ed Haineo, while intoxicated, fell
from his horse 10 riding home from
Mount Pleasant and was found next
day frozen to death. His wife en-
tered complaint against the saloons
keeper who sold him the liquor, and
he has been arrested and held to
answer under the law. The law
provides that where saloonkeeper
has been warned not to sell or give
liquor to a habitual drunkard by his
wife, or any member of bis family,
and Notwithstanding the warning,
supplies the inebriate with liquor, he
may be held liable at law for the
consequences. Ia this case the
wife Of Haines, it is said, gave the
required warning several months
ago.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
A MANS THOUGHTS.

IT is said of man, as he thinketh
in his heart, so is he. A mans
thoughts form his character. A
man may, to all public appearance,
be - pure man, and yet, if he is in
dulging unclean an unholy thoughts
in his mind, he is forming base
character ard is becoming base
man. If a man be intending to
wrong, though he may not utter it
with his lips ; though he may not
communicate the conception TO his
dearest friend-he is destroying his
own true character. The world is
oftentimes astonished by base &C
tons on the part OF men supposed
previously to have been good. 1t is
an old saying that no man becomes
suddenly base, 1t is by entertain.
ing wrong conceptions, by indolg~
ing wrong thoughts, by fainillarizing
himself with improper scenes, and
by harboring wrong purposes, that
the barriers against sin are finally
broken down, and he is led to the
commission of evil; and wherever
there are influences favoriOg such
thoughts, society is unsafe.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

! ONE H1ON incl O@AANS NS
One hundred years ago wedding
tours were not fashionable.
One hundred years ago farmers
did not cut their legs off with now
ing machines.
One hundred years ago our moths
ers did not worry over disordered
sewing machines.
One hundred years ago horses
which could trot mile in PA were
somewhat scarce.
One hundred years ago it took
several days to procure a divorce
and find a congenial spirit.
One hundred years ago every
young man was not an applicant for
position as clerk or book -keeper.
One hundred years ago gas mon
oplies and extortion were unknown,
and the boys and girls did their
sparkling as well by the light of oil
lamps and tslIow candles.
One hundred years ago men DID
not commit suicide by going up in
balloons and coming down without
them.
One hundred years ago there were
no third term millionaire bishops to
stir up the waters of partisan polls
lies.
One hundred ago there were no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no
ELIAS suing for the nineteenth part
of divorce.
One hundred years ago the people
knew nothing of higher law true
inwardnoss, or Plymouth Church
morally, credit mobiIiers, governs
ment subsidies, or crooked whisky
rings.
One hundred years ago England
was not very far behind the United
States in all that goes to make ma
ton powerful and progressive.
One hundred years ago young
woman did not lose caste by wetting
her hands in dish water or rubbing
the skin off her knucklos on wash
board.
One hundred years ago physi-
clan who could not draw every form
of disease from the system by tap
ping large vein in the arm, was
not much Of doctor.
One hundred years ago men were
not running about over the country
with millions of fish eggs to be
hatched to order. Fish superintend-
ed their own Matching in those
days.
One hundred years ago the condi-
ton of the weather on the lst of
January was not telegraphed all
over the continent on the evening OF
December 81. Things have chang
ed.
One hundred years ago people did
not worry about rapid transit and
cheap transportation, but threw
their grain crops across the backs of
their horses and uncomplaiuingly
went to mill
One hundred years ago every
man cut his coat according to his
cloth, every man was estimated at
his real value, shoddy was not
known, nobody had struck 'ile' and
true merit and honest worth were
the only grounds for promotion.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

A farmer, whose cribs were full Of
corn, was accustomed to pray that
the wants of the poor and needy
might be supplied but when any
one in needy circumstances asked
for a little of his corn, he said he
had none to spare. One day, after
hearing his father pray for the poor
and needy, his little son said to him :;
Father, | wish | had your corn
why, my son, what could you do
with it 2 asked the father. The
child replied, 4 would answer your
prayers
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

YES, go West young man and see
for yourself, aud the sooner you 90,
the sooner you'll come back, settle
down and be contented. At least
this is the experience of several in
Cobb county, who would get insult
ed if you should now ask them to 60
to Texas.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
TIE CartersvilIe Advocate say

TIE Gainesville Advocate says,
Mr. Jas: NJ. Elliott obtained YER
diet against the ". a. A. Railroad
in our Superior Court last week for
So, OG0. This verdict, as NC under
stand it, was for damages for his
having been put off the cars, because
he refused to sign an obligation to
exempt the road from any damages
that might occur to bim-he hold
ing free pass from the road.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

THERE is no place in the "wide,
wide world" like home. 1t is the
dwelling place Of our hearts treas
ure, and the first duty of our lives
we owe to it and its inmates. To
make it pleasant and attractive,
should be the aim Of every man.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

A LETTER Of a recent settler in
Nebraska says: eve are burning
corn in our cook stoves, and it makes
the best fuel | ever used for quick
hot fire. pay eighteen cents for
seventy pounds, aud | think it fully
as cheap as wood at IS a cord p
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
IT is related of Winslow. tie Rcs

IT is related of Winslow, tie Rcs~
ton lorger, that on Sunday prior to
his departure he delivered a sermon
in the morning at Auburndale, the
theme being the good that is to be
found among men, the nobility Of
human nature, and the duty of men
to their fellow men; and in the af-
ternoon addressed the children Of
the Sunday school upon their duties
to each other and to their God.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

A MAN in New Hampshire had
the misfortune recently to lose his
vile. Over the grave he caused a
stone to be placed, on which, in the
depth of his grief, he had ordered to
be inscribed Tears cannot restore
her-tberefore, | weep"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

A father wants to know "w hat
will keep respectable, but poor
young man, from hanging round the
front of the house p Tell him the
girl is sitting on the back fence.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
Marietta. GEORGIA. Friday Morning, February
GEORGIA NEWS.

AAi ~ ~ ~ wy ~ Nt%' VIZ
vile, will locate in Marietta.
Hancock county has produced
a colIard six feet high, 1t had but
one leg.
"A Bullock county cow had lit
ter Of four calves the other day and
then died.
The cotton factory at MiIledge-
Vile has pended, the only case of
the kind in Georgia, SO far as we
know.
The fful kerosene broke
through lamp the other day in Mil
ledgevlIe and burned negro woman
to death.
The Albany Ners says that
Hon. A, II. Smith, of Lowndes, has
never yet introduced a bill or made
speech.
-Wm. Carter, Of Thomas county,
was dangerously, Il not fatally, stab
bed by VIM. Brock, one day last
week. They had taken whisky aud
women in equal parts.
A skeleton SIX feet in length
has been washed to the surface on
the bank of the Chattahoochee
near Columbus It is supposed to
be that of Federal soldier,
in JacIaasAAunty recently Mr..
A. Mother ried to Miss Sc
lima j, BGsah Ssl "What is home,
evidently bnquired the gentle Sc
lima, without A. Mother ~
Here is a chance for the bird
Of freedom to squeal: An Augusta
man shot a poor unfortunate negro
the other night simply because the
latter as stealing potatoes.
Henry Steiner, son of Dr. JOS.
Steiner, was killed last week, by the
accidental discharge of gun, near
Way nesboro, Ga. The load struck
his head, blowing it almost off.
Charlie Rowland of Gainesville
is a candidate for the vacant Cadet
ship at West Point We hope to
hear of some young man of Cobb
county aspiring to this scholarship.
Give us your name.
The Hiuesgille Ga=ette says that
there seems to be a perfect exodus Of
people from the interior in Bullock,
Tattnall and Montgomery to the
coast OF Bryan, Liberty and Mcln-
tosh. Every week some one passes
with his goods and chattel5, seeking
a home on the islands or main along
the coast. The attractions are the
mild climate, the fertile soil and the
abundance of fish and game.
Athens WatchmanS Underpre
tence of enforcing the revenue laws
many outrages have been committed
in the upper counties within the past
few years by the so~calIed govern
ment officers and certain pimps and
informer5 employed by them. That
there have been violations of the rev
enuo we do not question but these
occasasion&l violations did not usti-
fy officers in violating all laws, hu
man and divine, in searching houses
and making arrests. This thing has
gone ON, from bad to worse, uotiI res
Gently a citizen of Gilmcr county
was shot down on his own premises
by a government officer, and his
body thrown into branch and COW
cred up with logs and brush. We
do not wonder that the citizens Of
the county have become indignant
at these cutrsges, and have held pub
lie meetings for the purpose Of giving
expression to their sentiments.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

SINFUL pleasures are but shield
Of melting wax, against sword of
power they can no moFe keep an
evil conscience from tOrmeuting
than a velvet sleeve can keep a
broken arm from aching.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

AND now the negro Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi is to be i'm
peached for crimes and mi8demean~
ors, one of which is being bribed to
pardon a convict. Ames and Davis
will probably be deposed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

Lay it down as a rule never to
smile, nor in any way show approv>
al, at any trait in child which
you would not wish to grow and
strengthen.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

Two Irishmen were hunting
They met donkey. Ooe Of them
shot him, and exclaimed triumphant
ly, Patrick, now faith and be jab
Der, have killed the father of all
rabbits
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

IF is proper during leap year for
young ladies to loaf around church
doors and steps and spit all around
and talk about how pretty the blush =
ing young men look as they mod
estly go in.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

PCoR folks should remember the
money they spend for three loaves
of bread would buy some deserving
man glass of whisky.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18

The CENTENNIAL complaints
are made that the Georgia space"
at the Centennial grounds has re-
NAMED vacant and will soon be for
feited.