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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-11
The Garbage Question Solved NJ
Last.

Last
Having awaited with becoming modesty
the action of the Boards of Health and
Police regarding the filth in the streets, and
having waited so long that patience has
ceased to be virtue, we would ourselves
suggest plan by which this most impor-
tant problem may at once be solved. Let q
number of hurdles be prepared by which
any street can be closed at any portion of its
length let certain number of streets be
daily fenced off in short sections, and then
let the city advertise itself as great hog
fattening corporation. The modest and &C
commodating nature of tho porcine palate is
we'll known. All Is grist that comes to the
pigs digestive mill, while the adequacy
of the swines snout to any amount
of investigation of the soil is uni
versally admitted. Put pigs into these
street pens, and oil garbage would speedily
be transformed into prime pork, while tho
residue would be fertilizer of established
commercial value. At first thought it would
seem that people might object to having
manure factories in front of their doors. but
this is mistake; they would, at least, know
the name and nature of what is before
them, and that would be a degree of knowl-
edge about the contents of our streets after
which the wisest Of observers have CROPPED
with only indifferent success. It may be
urged in objection that such a system
would prevent many streets from being
thoroughfares; but the truth is that many of
them ore already in this condition and
without any friendly fence to warn
the traveller against risking his life in
them either. 1t may also be urged
TINT the porkers' vocal notes would prove
unwelcome to refined ears; but it should be
remembered that many New Workers are
pious, and would prefer any sound to that
Of the swearing of the truck driver or milk
man whose way is blocked by the hills and
valleys of our city streets. Should the sup
ply of offal run short we might send the in
active scows of the Street Cleaning Bureau
after the garbage of Boston and Philadel-
phia, though the paltry filth of another city
or two could not make any considerable adj
dtion to our home supply. AS for our citi-
zens, they would never object to our streets
becoming the dumping ground Of the
nation; they have been trained to endure
any quantity of garbage. 1t seems, how
ever, that our present accumulation is sufi-
cient to feed all the hogs of all the world for
at least century to come.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-11

that, sooner or later and the sooner the better,
the Grand jury will be called on to deal with our
wastcful, worthless and dishonest officials. No
other course seems to be open to the people of
New York in stopping the system of public plum
der that is steadily draining the city of her re-
sources, without n particle of benefit resulting
from these Interpretations of the revenue.
When citizen takes IN official oath to discharge
nm important public trust for % salary con-
sideration and receives from the public treas
ury large sums of money to disbursc for special
purposes he assumes responsibility personally
"a well officially. If he fails to perform his
allotted duty and at the same time sqIanders the
public moneys intrusted to him he becomes
smcnable to the law.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-11

under President Hayes we are promised
various reforms we suggest here an evil
which needs attention.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-11

TIE AMERIoUE is once more afloat and has
been towcd safely to her dock in Brooklyn.
This is a satisfactory conclusion of protracted
effort at getting her off the Scabright beach. 1t
reflects credit on the salvage crews who rescued
the ship but no merit attaches to those respon-
siblc for running her ashore, although they also
helped to save her. They must work long and
faithfully and sail over many seas before the
stain of that piece of negligence and stupidity
can be washed from their regulations as seamen.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-11
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-TnE PRINCESS ROYAL
BOOTHS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ill.
HIBLo'S GARDEE-ANroay AND CLEOPATRA.
EAGLE THEATRE Grown or THoRSs.
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-Mtss MuLrox
BowERY THEATRE-ricxrr.oF-LK AvE MAN.
PARK THEATRE-oun BoARpIsc Housk
wALLAcK's THEATRE-Mr AWFUL DAD.
OLYMPIC THEATRE-PASroafxx
GERMANIA TnEATRE-ConrDr
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-TnE DAsIcHErvs
6TEINwAY HALI--OLg Bull
HELLER's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE-vARIErY.
NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM CuRiosIrirs.
TIvOLI THEATRE-vARmrY.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTkELs.
EGYPTIAN HALI--vAHIErr.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM.
PARTISAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE VARIETY.
THEATRE CoMIQUE-vARrErY
CILMORE'S GARDEN-MUsEuM AND CIRCUS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15
More COppeEhead Rant.

True to its copperhead instincts and
proclivities, the Democrat last week
discharged its blunderbuss at the Re.
publican party and the war loaded as
follows:
The relics of the Republican policy
of accomplishing the same ends, are,
an enormous number of American citi.
zens filling premature graves; an en-
ormous and oppressive national debt;
crime. rampant, and general business
generalization, a consequence of all
wars; soldiers homes filled with Grip
Piles and beggars at every street corner;
besides pensioners without end every
where and the liberties Of the Ameri-
can people we'll nigh swallowed up by
military necessity"
The Democrat does not deign to
inform US how it would have avoided
the destruction of life, or the vast ex-
penditure of money which attended the
prosecution Of the war-or, perhaps, it
thinks a gigantic rebellion could have
been put down without any of this.
Judging from its general tone, howev-
err, we conclude that it would have
avoided the war by surrendering at
once to the South and yielding to all
its demands, including the one very
modest one that Lincoln should not
take the presidential chair. In fact
the Democrat says almost as much, as
will be seen by the following extract
The Democrat does not believe in
war on general principles, and was
particularly opposed to the late Ameri.
can war, because it would have been
much cheaper to have removed the
cause of the war Slavery by purchase
There is a fat-footed acknowledg
ment that the present editor of the
Democrat "was opposed to the late
American war;" Now, we hope he will
not again abuse US for charging that
such was the fact. Having entered a
plea of confession. it is only fair now
that ne shall retract the hard words be
has said of US for having stated tina,
his sympathies were with the South
during the rebellion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

THERE will be no Democra tic State
Convention in Wisconsin this year.
The party has become ashamed of its
name and cast it off, This is con-
fession that will be worth thousands of
votes to the Republican ticket. The
Madison Democrat wants to know by
what authority the convention has
given the party any other name than
that Of Democratic, and rejects the
newsstitle as unauthorized. So f ar as
Republicans are concerned it makes no
difference what the opposition party
may call itself. It is the same old
corrupt, rotten and deceitful Demo-
cratic affair that it always was, and is
unworthy Of public confidence. Call
it what you please, its nature is still
the same.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

The Democrat takes us to task fer
what it is pleased to call our mlsrepre.
sentatlon CT Its positions concerning the
war But we insist that we have not
applied any terms to it which are not
fully justified. 1t has denounced the
war and It's results In true copperhead
style, and the tone of some of it's edi-
torials has been precisely such as cha
racterized the Chicago Times, Pome-
roy's Democrat, and other papers which
sympathized with the rebellion and
were justly denounced as incendiary
sheets. Indeed, in the very article
where it attempts to answer what we
formerly said upon the subject, the
Democrat, while maintaining that its
utterances have been entirely conss.
tent with truth and patriotism, gets off
the following:
We said in substance that slavery
should have been abolished by pur-
chase, as being much cheaper than the
method adopted by the Republican
party (war) besides not sacrificing hu
man lives by the millions to accomplish
it. We still maintain that the war
could have been avoided, and yet slav-
cry abolished, and the Union preserved.
Now, we have here an assumption
that the war was inaugurated by the
Republicans, and that its only purpose
was the abolition Of slavery. We dc
not propose to waste any time and space
in controverting such propositions.
We suggest to the Democrat, however
that people generally have different
impressions from those it gives as to
who raised their hands in rebellion
against the government, and what In
cited them to acts Of violence. 1t has
remained for the historian Of the
Democrat to advance new idea upon
the subject which is now promulgated
for the first time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

OUR friend around the corner who
boastingly admits that he was sop
posed to the late war"-WhO unblush-
ingly charges that its "outbreak was
attributable to the Republican party,
and that its object was the abolition
of slavery" says, by implication
at least, if not in direct terms, that
''the South was right and the North
was wrong" in that terrible conflict
following the Democratic rebellion -,
renews his complaint that we have
called attention to the change Of tone
in the Democrat under its former and
present management. We cannot per-
ceive that there is anything "disgrace-
full and dishoporaDle" about the mat
ter, except the course of the Democrat
in espouSing the cause of the rebels
Such views as the Democrat has been
urging, which we have copied and
commented upon elsewhere, are abom-
Unable and atrocious, and are unworthy
of any man or paper laying claim to
loyalty. We have simply contrasted
them with the sentiments which found
advocacy in that paper, during the
rebellion, when it was in other hands,
and the editor flies into passion. Be-
fore denouncing US, however, he had
better review his own position and
see whether his or ours in the minds
of loyal, patriotic citizens is most "dis-
graceful and dishonorable."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15
!Ghe RepubHrau,
AUGUST Is, 1877.
Republican State Convention.

A State Convention representing the Re-
publican Party of Wisconsin, is hereby
called to meet At the Capitol, in Madison,
at Il o'clock NJ, on
Tuesday, September IL, 1877,
for the purpose of placing in nomination
candidates for election for State officers TO
be supp orted by the party at the next gener-
al election, and to transact such other bust
ness as may be deemed appropriate.
Fash Senate and Assembly District will
be entitled to two delegates in the Conven-
ton.
E.W. KEYES, Chairman.
IT. MOAK, Secretary.
FRANK LELAND, GEORGE MARSH,
ROBERT H. BAKER, JAMES II. FOSTER,
E. E. WooDMAN, HoBE s. SACKETT,
FRANCIS CAMPBELL. GILBERT E. PORTER,
F. J. MILLER, G. B. SOLBERG,
HENRY G. PAYNE, A. E. POUND,
S. S. BARNEY, y. A. ELLIS.
&c McFETRlDGE,
Republican State Central Committee
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

A DIVISION and an equalization of
the wealth of the country between all
the people OF the country is what the
Communists are in favor of. That is
about what the ordinary class of burg
lars and thieves are in favor of. Hav-
ing nothing of their own, and being too
lazy or too vagabondish to 90 to work
to earn an honest living for themselves,
they want to have frst-rate time at
other peoples expense. The Commun-
list claims to be philosopher and re-
former, but he is in fact nothing but
common loafer, and his doctrine is
self-contession that his instincts are
thievish and barbarous.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

the committee may entertain of deceiv-
ing the voters by the cry of Reform
they have raised, may as we'll be dis
PEELED at once. Let the party throw
off all disguise and 60 before the people
in its old Democrats habiliments.
This will entltle it to credit for politi-
cal honesty, and will not add whit to
the measure of its defeat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15
Northwestern UniyerSitv

THlS Institution with Faculty of ex-
L perenced instructors and all the nee.
essary appliance for instruction offers ex
celent facilities for education.
The next Collegiate year will begin Sept.
9th, 1877. 1t is hoped that students who
intend to enter the various departments
will present themselves promptly at the
beginning.
For information address the President or
any member of the faculty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

The Administration is contemplate
ing an increase of the regular army to
$4,000 men, and adding ten gunboats
to the navy for harbor and coast defense.
A recommendation to this effect will be
made to Congress at THE coming session.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15

A GOOD deal of opposition is devel-
oping to Gabe Bouck's aspirations for
the gubernatorial nomination on the
anti-Republican ticket. Should he be
nominated, he would be expected to
resign his seat in Congress, and this
would necessitate new election.
while it is by no means certain that
the Republicans would not this time
carry the district. The meagerness of
the Democratic majority in the House
of Representatives is urged as reason
why Bouck should not give the Re-
publicans chance to make a gain in
this way. Of course, Gabe would not
think of hanging on to his seat in Con-
gress while making his canvass for
Governor; the Democratic idea of pro-
priety being averse to clinging to one
Office while running for another.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15
Don't Like Soldiers.

The Democrat objects to any increase
of the standing army-in fact, it is OPP
posed to the maintenance of any troops
or standing army VII atever. Precisely
how it would deal with instructions or
mobs such as existed in Pittsburgh,
Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere a
while ago does not appear further than
is expressed in the following extract !:
It any class of citizens has just Gauss
for complaint, let such complaint not
be answered with cannon and musket,
bat by the law making power Of the
land. Then strikes will be less fire.
quent and our republic more secure.
The Democrats plan probably would
be to fire windy proclamations at riot
GUS crowd or perhaps initiate the ex.
ample of Gov. Seymour Of New York.
who upon certain occasion tried to
pacify his "friends" with speech;
they being engaged at the time in
numbering detenceless negroes and set
ting fire to their dwellings. Expert
ence has shown that there is little or
no efficacy in such treatment of mobs.
The presence of few blue coats, with
good stock Of ammunition, exercises
more beneficial influence at such
times, and restores order without much
delay. Mayor Heath, of Chicago,
tried the plan Of the Democrat, and
issued proclamation at least once an
hour for whole day, but the mob in
creased in numbers and violence under
such treatment until Uncle Sans bows
came to the front and dispersed the
rioters lin short metre. There is no
other plan which works SO we'll in such
emergencies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-15
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-13
Aenaatlon in Nonfersne0.

There rsed TO be an old joke--and IL
there such q thmgas A new one Y-about
II very small minlsler who went into u
very high pulpit, and after announcing
in u weak, tremullus voice the teXt'
A little while, and We shall not see me,
and again little while and ye shall soc
me" stumbled oil the stool and fell Oh
backward, much TO the cdilicatlon OF
the congregation, An English peer
made ~ sudden and sensational exit n
fortnight ago while attending the Oils
ton conference on confession, lie was
sitting In u conspicuous position upon
the platform, within view OF the assem-
bly,, when trap door opened under his
chair, There was shrek Lord SadN
stocks heels were seen whore mos
ment before his head had been and
then, with u great crash, his lordship
and his chair disappeared below, and
the trap flew back A horrible suspi-
cion fell upon the conference, for few
of the evangelical audience had ever
seen auythingso complete and dramatic
before; and every one looked into his
neighbours eyes for an explanation
The hair of the good Bishop Anderson
stood on end, for il the devil had flown
away with an evangelical peer, his turn
might come yet, But in n few minutes
the eclipse Of so much right honorable
picty was explained, A conjurer had
had the use of room few days before
and this trap door was the exit of one
of his characters,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-13
Live stock I'm Great Brirain.

The diminution Olive stock in Great
Britain and Ireland within the last few
years is causing considerable anxiety in
agricultural circles in those counties.
There has been decrease in the
number of cattle and sheep in Great
Britain since 1874 of seven per cent.
There was steady increase per annum
of cattle in the united kingdom from
1866 to 1874, and theneeforward there
has been gradual falling off, The cat-
tie census this year shows only 5,69S, 600
cattle IN Great Britain, which is loss
of 42S,000 in three years. At this rate
of diminution the head of cattle would
be reduced to one>half i'm about twenty
one years. In Ireland the decrease has
been more than three per cent. Sheep
in Great Britain have decreased to the
number OF 9, $4,000 or seven per cent,
while in Ireland there has been falls
ing of Of l0l per cent, and yet there is
now in Great Britain more land under
grass OF crops for feeding animals than
there was in 1874. The decrease in the
number Of live stock keptlis due to one
or both OF two causes either the farms
ers are short of money for buying cattle
and sheep, or for keeping up the yield
Of their green crops, or disease has Wis.
tied live stock with such excessive NOR.
tally as TO discourage the farmers from
herding.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-13
THE STATE OVER.

Washington ComtH-Brenham is do.
ing good lumber trade,-Christmas
is beginning to manifest itself already.
County criminal court is in session.
Joshua Hall Davis, who has been in
Jail since June last, for murder, and who
lately had n new trial granted him by
the appellate court was yesterday res
leased on bond in the sum of 81 500
Berar County excursionists are
doing San Antonio. Extensive pre-
peration are being made for the Christ
mas holidays. Antonio is to
have a new jail--San Antonio has u
skating rink, and number ofboys with
broken arms.-A stranger, named
Willis, suffering heart disease took so
much chloriform that it killed him.
Seven deaths during the past week.
Harris COuntn-William Johnson, a
negro, was arrested, and lodged in Jail,
charged with horse stealing District
court adjourned toSday. The county
clerk, and friend were thrown from a
buggy while out riding, and slightly
bruised.--A railroad hand, named
Wilson, while camping out built fire,
and lay down on pile ofstraw close by,
which caught on fire, burning him very
bad.
Grdyson County - Some splendid
specimens of lead ore have been dis,
covered on the land of Colonel Pealel
Just across the Fannin county line.--
On Friday last the engine of the south
bound freight jumped the track at the
crossing of the Texas n Pacific and
Houston IL Texas Central railroads, tear
ing off the pilot but doing no other
damage.-Three hundred and thirty
seven letters have been registered at
our post office during the present quar-
ter, which is not yet out.
McLenndn County. The election of
alderman was very exciting.-In the
district court Monday, negro named
George Andrews was convicted of the
theft of horse from Mrs NJ. p. Price,
and sentenced to five years imprisment
in the penitentiary. Mr.. J. d. Price,
q prominent farmer of Mount Olivent,
McLennan county, reports the farmers
still very busy sowing wheat in that
neighborhood. He thinks the acreage
being sown there in small grain is much
larger that ever before.-Mr. w. I.
Treadwell, Rev. G. l.. Hickey, DR..
Lowry and Major A. Hinchman pres
sented Rev. Thomas Hunt, of Hill
county, q Methodist minister, whose
head has grown grey in the service, with
a very handsome buggy as a token of
their appreciation of his worth and in
order that he might continue with
greater ease the good work to which he
has devoted lifetime.
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