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The New York herald., 1877-10-21
POLITICAL.

At 4 REGULAR MEETING OF TIE Ex-JuDGE
N DIV ard Hogan Association ofthe Eighth district OF
Seventh Assembly district held at No 23 Batavia st.
10th day Of October inst. the following gentlemen
elected officers of said association. wit-James
Calvin Presidents William supple Vice President; Mat
thew Walsh Secretary John Manning Treaurer Michael
Walsh, Serge tat
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also bottled in Russian and ordinary styles,
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A WELL. EDUCATED GENTLEMAN OF 80 SEEKS
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DONE oF cdEHr nLl klSps FSR CASH
At 1IB THE psrSTiHs; NEsRorShlrAS 5TEIuE
2s ANN 81.
MASS MEETING For THE REDUCTION OF TIE
New York viii be held At steinway Hall on Monday octs
the the S aIS to
the electors OF the state Of the amendments
Governor Tildsn. Of which lion. William NJ warts was
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All who are in sympathy with this movement
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LOST AND FOUND.
7 osr-A PACK or KEckIPfED BILLS, or NO
IL sth st. brooklyn Reward to be given BY returning
I osT-oN FOURTH AVENUE OARS OR THERE
from TO Washington Market Yesterday Poeksooos con,
s26 Finder keep and papers no. SO
East 5ad st
I osT OR sroLEN-IN PASSING THROUGH CoRT.
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Watch, open iace. silver dial, with fragment OF black
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Office box 1877. ocr. 20 1877. ~
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+ osT-A LADy's BLUE ESAMELLED WATCH
Jlwith photograph dial The finder be rewarded II
returned to 7oS Broadway, top floor.
I OsT-IN GOING THROUGH 18TH ST. FROM 2D TO
maker si q av . 'S '"o Au' 0y poor dress
7 osT-oN THURSDAY EVENING LAST. BETWEEN
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: hAe1anse court -
REWARDS.
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Return TO 81 West 2lst st.
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May - oss s'Sirs 'aii fne un' 81
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above reward VIII be paid and no questions asked.
u rn REWARD WILL BE PAID FOR INFORMATION
RcOwhch VIII lead 10 the recovery Velvet Suit aud
scalskin sacque taken from 226 Quincy Brooklyn Oc-
tobcr 81 Address NJ. box 1871 Herald Office.
BILLIARDS.
A LARGE STOCK or BILLIARD TABLES AND
ATrimmings; newest styies, latest improvements
". w. COLLENDER, 73S Broadway.
A MEXICAN STANDARD BILLIARD TABLES NEW
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W. II. GRIFFITH Co, 40 Vesey st.
DILLIARD TABLES Ar Low PRICES: BAGATELLE
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Pool Billiard Table 2fi Cana opposite Earlos Hotel
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w est in trading with purity running vessel and
trade establshed good profits: highest references given
aud required party could assistant supercargo;
traders need apply. Address Z. Il. ~ ierall olice
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- KLABER 4 CO., WEST 5lsT 81, BETWEEN
-. Broadway and 9Th av.-fstablished 1873; Mantes.
Thing Monuments at reduced prices; Plumbers slabs
snarinltv.
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no SEWING MACHINE MANUFACTURERS WANT.
cd situation To introduce machine; superior 70
anything In the market. Address MACHINE, Herald
uliea
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
Fashionable Umbrellas.

In the manufacture of umbrellas some
of the transitions and innovations are re-
plete with interest. For example, club
nabob gave an order recently for brown
silk umbrella. The stretchers, tips, and
cuff, also ferrllle, are plated gold, the
handle pure ebony finished with gold,
and the price is fifty dollars. Another
society gentleman has given an order for
a brown silk umbrella to be finished off
in silver; the figures are ten dollars. A
handsome family umbrella, thirty-one
inches long, with solid ivory handle, will
cost twenty dollars. A lovely umbrella,
in blue silk, just made for Fifth
Avenue lady, has the handle of pearl
and gold; the price is thirty dollars. A
handsome black silk rain umbrella, made
for one of our favorite actresses, has a
carved irvory handle, and is marked at
twenty-five dollars. A gentleman be
longing to the Lotus Club has ordered a
brown silk rain umbrella, to be finished
in gold-washed tips, stretchers, and a
handle of ivory and gold, at cost of
ifty-five dollars. A very pretty rain
umbrella, made for lady in Washing
ton society, has the silk of blue black ;
the handle is ivory, deliberately carved
and finished off with band of gold,
price thirty dollars.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
The Grass Tree.

Among the anomalies of Australia is a
singular growth of the forest that devi-
ates as much from tree as kangaroo
from the ordinary types of animals, al
though it is called tree. The grass tree
grows in rocky places unfavorable for
other vegetable productions. Absolute
barrennessis spot where the plant -four
ishes best, apparently, though elements
must abound there which are appropriate
nourishment. A mass of grass-looking
fibers gradually rise out of the ground.
From day to day there is an increase of
bulk and height very much resembling
an elevated tuft of long grass gracefully
falling off from central shaft. Those
pendant threads are leaves. Very soon
from the top of the pile slender stalk
shoots up perpendicularly from four to
ten feet, terminating in spike. That is
sought by natives for spears, being hard
and somewhat elastic. Within the pit is
an article of food. In the rude and saw
age condition of the indigenous Austral-
ians the grass tree furnishes weapon of
extraordinary usefulness for meeting the
circumstances of barbarous state Of So
ciety. Without it no other equally ef-
ficient instrument of defense against en-
emies, or for contending with ferocious
animals, is at their command.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
Could Not Live In Houses.
Popular Science MonthiY.l

Rosseau expresses a belief that any
man, who has preserved his native tenn
perance for the first twenty-five years,
will afterward be pretty nearly proof
against temptation, because very un-
natural habits can only be acquired
while our tastes have the pliancy of inn
maturity, and / think the same holds
good of the troglodyte habit: no one
who has passed twenty or twenty five
years in open air can be bribed very cas-
lily TO exchange oxygen for miasma.
Shamyl-ben- Haddin, the Circassian
hero chieftain, who was captured by the
Russians in the winter of 1864, was car
ried to Novgorod and imprisoned in an
apartment of the city armory, which
resembled q comfortable bed-chamber
rather than dungeon, and was other
wise treated with more kindness than
the Russians are wont to show their
prisoners, as the government hoped to
use his influence for political purposes.
But week after his arrival in Novgorod
the captive mountaineer demanded an
interview with the commander of the
armory, and offered to resign his liberal
rations and subsist on cabbage-soup like
the private soldiers of his guard, and
also to surrender some valuables he had
concealed on his person, on condition
that they would permit him to sleep in
open air. One more week of such
nausea and headache as the confinement
in a closed room had caused him, would
force him to commit suicide he said
and, If his request was refused, God
would charge the guilt Of the deed on
his tormentors. After taking due pre-
cautions against all possibility of es-
cape, they permitted him him to sleep
on the platform in front of the guard
house; and Colonel Darapski, the COM
mander Of the city. informed his gov
eminent in the following spring that the
health and general behavior of his pris-
oner were excellent, but he had slept in
open air every one of the last hundred
nights. with no covering but his worn
out mantle, and WOODEN cap he had
purchased from soldier Of the guard
to keep his turban from getting soiled
by mud and rain.
General Sam Houston, the liberator
of Texas, who had exiled himself from
his native State in early manhood, and
passed long years, not as captive, but
as voluntary companion of the Cher
okee Indians, was ever afterward unable
to prolong his presence in a crowded
half or ill-ventilated room beyond ten
or twelve minutes, and described his
sensation on entering such locality as
one of uneasiness, increasing TO posi-
tive alarm, such as a mouse may be
supposed to feel under an air-pump."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
Suspended by the Fingers Over Certain
Death.

About ten o'clock the other night, as
John Conley, the night Waterman at
the Battle House, in Mobile, was making
his usual round of inspection, while in
the rear of the building he heard noise
in the yard. On his way to see what
it was his foot slipped on the smooth
brass with which the stairs were faced
and plunged over the balusters, grasping
at the top rail, and turned complete
somersault. His hands slipped from
the rail, but fastened with desperate
grip on the end of one of the steps
which project only an inch or two. 1t
was fearful position. His back was to
the stairs, his hands over his head and
his head under the stairs, and far below
him the stone paved yard. He called
for help Justify, and the noise was heard
at the Office by some gentleman standing
there, who remarked that there must be
a fight in the street. The housekeeper
heard his cries and went to his assist
ance but was not able to relieve him,
but added her cries to his. The noise
was heard below, and several persons
rushed out to see what was the matter.
One of the night clerks came running
up with Babcock strapped on his back.
Mr.. Soto leaned over, and putting his
hands through the stairs-rails, took firm
hold of Conley's wrists, and encouraged
him to hold on, thatit was all right, that
they would save him. One of the other
gentlemen got hold Of Conley's coat,
and raised him so his leg could be got
hold of, when they succeeded in drawing
him safely on the stairs. His strength
was nearly exhausted, and his endurance
would have been limited to seconds. 1t
was narrow escape and timely
deliyerapce,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

CHICAGO never does any thing in a
"one-horse way. If she has ugly
women, they are the ugliest in America
or in Europe; if she puts up public
building, she puts it up quicker and
bigger than that of any other town; if
she busts up savings banks, she doesn't
slight the matter. but throws an intensity
into the business that makes the poor
depositors wish they had spent their
money like wine; if she robs, or MUIR
ders, or riots, the hair of all the rest of
the world stands right on end at the
utter recklessness of her wickedness. If
she has fire, the engines might just as
well go out of town in picnic procession
for all the good they will do. Everybody
knows of the big fire there that began
by cow kicking over kerosene lamp
in shed. And now she's gone and done
it again; not so bad as before, but bad
enough to create desire in other COM
munities that they may not have a
similar visitation. The dry goods house
of Field, Letter & Co. was burned down,
few days ago, and the losses went up
into the millions, causing sensation
among the insurance offices of the
country. Two or three lives were lost
and several persons were seriously
injured
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
Sothern-His Latest Story Of n" Rum
Co..

On the special train that whirled the
participants in Edwin Adams's benefit
from New York to Philadelphia in
ninety -nine-and-a-half minutes, Mr.
Sothern related to Miss Lolita, her
mother, Mrs. Crabtree, and little
group, number of those entertaining
anecdotes for which he is noted. can
not resist the temptation of repeating
some of the collections that sent the
merry little lady and her friends into
such uncomfortable laughter. Mr..
Sothern is great on larks," and seldom
fails to improve the opportunity. On
one occasion Mr.. Toole and he were
breakfasting with party OF friends at
an inn at Greenwich. No sooner had
the waiter left the room for an instant
than Sothern proposed that they should
remove the plate from the cloth and get
under the table. This they did without
loss of time, taking every article OF
silverware off the table, down to the
spoons, and taking the precaution to
leave the window open. After they had
waited an instant the door opened and
the waiter reappeared. Hello!" he
cried seeing the company gone, also the
silver, and the window wide open,
here's rum go! I'm blessed If they
arn't run away with the silver! Here
Dick, Ito waiter who was passing,) the
gentlemen as run away with the silver (!
Help me find the guv'norl' With that
he made hasty exit; whereupon the
party resumed their places, after shut
ting down the window and replacing the
dishes, the knives, the forks and the
spoons; when the guv'nor' appeared,
breathless and cursing, not loud but
deep, he found party of gentlemen in
the full possession of his silverware
quietly discussing the fish, for the
preparation of which the hosiery was
noted. His ejaculation Of rage changed
to astonishment and relief. Eth, whatY
said he, everything secure? Why
James, you blarsted rascal, what do YOU
meaaf' so help me, guv'nor-,
protested the mystifed garcon. Your
drunk, you IDIOT" said the incredulou
master. Gentlemen, beg your par
don. will withdraw" and the gentle
men yelled their mirth with the napkins
and smile Of forgiveness stole owe
each innocent face.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
A Modern Munchausen.

One of the Boston restaurants boasts
of an Irish Munchausen who acts in the
humble capacity of waiter, and adds
much to the entertainment of guests.
One of them being served with a small
lobster, asked:
"Do you call that lobster, Nike"
"Faix, / believe they do be calm
thin Holsters, here, SUR. We call 'em
crabs, at home"
"O," said the diner, "you have
Holsters in Irelandg p
els it Holsters? Begorra the creeks is
full of 'em. Many time have | seen
'em whin I've Topped over the shtrames:
elbow large do the Holsters grow in
IrclandT'
"Well," said Mike, thoughtfully, " to
shpake widin' bounds, SURF, I'd say
matter of five or six feet"
"What five or six feet; how do they
get around in those creeks"
Bedad, sur, the creeks in Ireland are
fifty or sixty feet wide," said the una
Dashed Mike.
"But," said the persistent inquirer,
"you said you had seen them when you
were leaping over the streams, and
Holsters here live in the sea.
"Deed / did, SUR; we're powerful
leapers in Ireland. As fur the say SURF,
I've seen it red wild 'em."
"But look here, my fine fellow" said
the guest, thinking he had cornered
the Hibernian at last, " Holsters are not
red until they are boiled"
"Doan't know that?" said Mike, re-
proachfully; but there are bilin' springs
in the ould counthry, an they shwim
troo 'em, an come out ready for ye to
crack open and ate;" and Mike walked
calmly off to wait upon the next guest,
leaving his interlocutor to digest the
lobster, and the story.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
HOW EDITORS ARE PAID.

According to the New Orleans Times,
the leading editorial writer's on the Lon
don Times get 1000 guineas per annum
which is very fair salary. The largest
salaries paid in America are not quite
equal to this DR.. Connery, the manag-
ing editor of the New York Herald, re-
ceives $4,000; Whitelaw Reid, of the
Tribune, $4,000; Charles A. Dana, the
editor of the New York San, $4,000;
Hurlbert, of the World, $4,000. The
Boston newspapers pay well. Hascall,
the editor of the Herald, gets $4,000,
and has just received years leave of
absence to go to Europe, his salary being
continued. The Western press pay
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

very fair salaries. The leading editorial
writer on the Chicago Times gets $4,000,
and the managing editor $4,000; Wat
terson, of the Co,wierJownal, 81 500, and
an interest in the profits; Sheehan, of
the Chicago Tribune, $4,000. The larg-
est sum paid in America to any editorial
writer is that received from the New
York Herald by Charles Nordhoff He
gets $4,000 year, and writes when
and what he pleases.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

Boston Pot: The Astronomer Royal of
the Royal Observatory of Scotland has
mapped out very cold winter for
Great Britain, and presumably for this
part of the world as well. He has
studied waves of heat and cold for a
period of over thirty-nine years, and
finds that the next cold wave is due at
the end of the present year, when very
frigid weather may be looked for. The
Astronomer Royal may be right, but the
average Granger will put more faith in
the muskrat.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

Miss JULIA SMITH, the elder of the
Glastonbury sisters and the translator of
the Bible, has not allowed her literary
tastes to interfere with her housekeep-
ing. She cooks and can make carpets.
Sixty years ago or SO, she longed to go
to college, but as that could not be, she
studied with her father, who had been
instructing several young men in Greek
and Hebrew year before she entered
his class. She not only caught up with
them: she quickly distanced them. Her
reason for studying these languages was
her lifelong desire to translate the Bible.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

JUDGE MOORE, of the Chicago Superior
Court, has given a decision that causes
great satisfaction among depositors in
savings banks. He says that stock
holders of banks must pay in the
amounts for which they are liable, to be
disbursed as a general fund equally
among depositors. Judge, you are a
righteous man, and your decision could
not be bettered.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

PROBABLY few people in Albany know
whence their town originally got its
name. Albany is the ancient Gallo for
Scotland, and thence came to be the
term applied to an extensive highland
district which includes Braid-alban (from
which Lord Breadalbane takes his we'll
know title) and Glenorchy. King
Robert II. of Scotland first created the
title in the person of his second son.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

AN offer of arms was made to the
Turkish government the other day for
twenty thousand dollars, but the funds
in the Porte's exchequer were so beastly
limited that the arms were rejected on
that account Nations can not fight
without arms, however indomitable they
may be with an empty provision de-
partment. Alas for the Turk
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

JUDGMENT by confession was entered
against Tweed, on Thursday, in the
Supreme Court of New York, to recover
$685., 646, paid by the city on fraudulent
claims. Tweeds gorgeous wealth is
gradually melting back into the Golfers
of the State.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

THE official returns from Pennsylvania
give the Democratic candidate for State
Treasurer, who has the largest plurality,
1901; and the smallest, for Supreme
Judge, $500. AS compared with last
year, the Democratic gain is $4,000. The
Greenback labor vote polled about 3d.
600 votes, and if the organization is
maintained, it is thought not improba-
BILE that it may influence the election of
United States Senator in 1879.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

HARRY HIoKEN, of Philadelphia
and Bill Mcclellan, Of new York,
pugilists, mauled each other to poul
tice in a private room in New York, last
Thursday night. Only select number
of the best bloods of society were per-
mitted to witness the interesting exhibit
ton of brutality. AS the heightened
bruisers lay painting in their respective
corners, at the end of the eighteenth
round, the seconds put the pieces to-
gether in a bag, wiped up the blood,
and declared the fight "draw." O,
for a shaft of virtuous lightning!
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

A NEW sect called the Purifiers !"
has sprung into existence in Russia.
Their characteristic doctrines are that
all persons must marry on becoming of
age, that the wife must be recognized as
the head of the family, and that the
husband must confess his sins to his
wife once a week. And now who says
that Susan B. has lived in vain?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

New York Express: According t.
DIR. Linsley, Mr.. Vanderbilt suffered
from hernia, heart disease, chronic
cystitis and dyspepsia; he was afflicted
with dropsy, and met with q railroad
accident, which drove the ends OF sew
eral fractured ribs into his lungs, caur
ing pleuro-pneumonia. For over forty
wears be was an invalid, and had an All
nual wrestle with fever and ague.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

EDITORIAL OHIO.

THE Montenegrins are whipping the
Turks, too. The other day near Antivari,
they took fort from the knights of the
fez, and captured all the Turkish pro-
visions and depots,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

LOOKING under her bed before she re-
tired recently a widow in Sherman,
Texas, found trunk which some one
had secreted under that piece of furni-
ture, and which contained fifty dollars
in gold and several pieces of clothing.
The burglars will denounce this as
campaign lie.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

THE Turks are reported short of
funds. But as long as Turkish soldier
can get glass of water and two crumbs
of black bread, he is all right. He
would rather fight Russian than eat
meal any time.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

THE late Senator Morton is to have a
noble monument erected to his memory.
An association has been thoroughly or
gained to collect the means, and they
have gone to work with considerable en-
arru
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08

GONE touch of nature makes the
whole world kim" Morton's mother
died when he was less than three years
old. Yet he tenderly preserved every
memento she left behind until he died.