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New-York tribune., 1877-07-25
80 rRANcIscn vIGILANCE COMMITTEE.


SAN FRANCISCO VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
cITIz' rs ORGANIZING TO PRESERVE THE PEACE.
san FRANCIsCo, Cal. July 2i-0 T. M.-Ihe CITY
has been quiet usual during the day. but there
is a visible strong undercurrent Of apprehension
which is strengthening by the furtiye efforts oil
some reckless agators to fan the ex-
element. There is good deal OF tax 10
the effect that the mob will try it again soon. This
evening, bv invitation of ex-Goy. Low and Gen.
McComb. a large number of the most prominent
citizens met at the Chamber of Commerce. W. /.
Coleman in the chair to concert measures to assure
the public safety. Ii was decided to organize Il
committee of citizens to cooperate IN case Oh
need with the police and military, and COM
mittee of twenty four selected to organize cti
zens. Mr. Coleman reminded the meeting oi the tlihe
of the Old Vigilance Committee. OF which many VI
those present here were members, ana uhiNersd,
sentiment was expressed in favor of prompt and
thorough measures to secure safety of life ana
property against any contingency. \ Commt'ee
of twenty-four are now in executive s'ssloh'
Rolls have been opened and the citizens are signing
freely. The veteran ygilantes of san Francisco
have not forgotten the lessons of the past IL Is pe
lieyed that the action OF to-day will have powefiui
moral effect on the dangerous classes.
POSSIBLE STRIKE ON THE y. j. CENTRAL.
IL was stated positively at police headquar-
ters in jersey City last evening, that the New-Jeisy
Central brakemen won strike at midnight inquiry oi
Off als and men at the NewJersey Central station Ia ed
TO confirm or positively 10 refutc this Nothing ever
done by the employees AT the passenger sHtoh' In'ii
consultations are he'd at EastOn Phillipshurg A
moeng was called tat Phipsburg. Is said to decide
the question finally,
No sirk. however. occurred at midnight as the a'l-
tnortcs had .pccted. dispatch came over thc wire
10 th, Telegraph office the station, saying that he
strike had been postponed until O'Clock thus nornl e
Some color of prOa ~ given TO this report Dy e
fact that at that the ire ignt trains would gtntrdF
he near cir oesnatiOns ana could he conveniently de
serted Tine law cOnelS once having started WIN
tr ,in to take 1t through Everything was reporter
oupt aonV line.
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MARRIED UNDER THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

A strange and somewhat romantic wedding
occurred Monday, IN this city. between TWO true
lovers whom death parted within two hours after they
hld been made one. d. William L. II. Post made
the acquaintance, some years aso. of Miss Mary
II. Milford. daughter OF the late Edward MI
ford. of this city. lie wooed and won hei'
ana they pledged themselves to become man
oud wife The Yeas rolled by. but each year ouy
sc med TO increase their love Last Friday D. Post wa
suddenly taken m with Inflammation Of the bowels
The disease rapidly assumed dangerous symptom, ana on
Monday It was pinly lie could not recover When
informed of s fatal malady ne expressed VISA 10 see
lis intended wife, and. II size were willing, % become
united wit. hcr .n tic DOuls OF matrlEOny. Sle was
Informed of this wish and consented Accordingly ~
3 O'tlocE on Monday afternoon everything Ws> mtlc
ready for tIc wedding ion the tine Dri 'cgr00m
a. No 233 West FIlty -hTst-S Ii was pathetic ceIc-
nCu,. No months OF anxious preparation had been
sirnt for the occasion There were no brilliant hsas or
sweet music r cost cos um-s IL simple and sol
eup The Rev. Dr. Houguton OF the CIulCh Of the
Transit guraiion, called iu 20 conduct tie services.
e. ion were only OF Few minutes duration. When tnc
ceremony couclud o. the slcA t4 "a@ hscd as de-
fore. In than hours Ac DldesrOO Was corpse
a. The bude "A widow.
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THE TURKS CONCENTRATING AT PLEVNA.
L..>-r M..lunslnN ImlN -. LIZ.

4 dispatch to The Standard from Shumla dated
July 24 says: THE Russians commenced an at
tack on The outworks of Slstra this morning"
Bucharest telegram TO he taRdam says: q" The
Roumauian troops at Iurna-Slargureli VIII cross
the Danube tomorrow 10 garrison NikopoIs, the
Russian force at Nikopos being required to
move AGAINST the Turks who are concentrating at
Peynap
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REDUCING THE MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN
The Board of Health held their regular

weekly meeting Yesterday and the report Of the Sanitary
Committee in regard 20 the appointment OF the District
Ph, sicans and Fruit inspectors adopted. Dr. John
T. Nace Register OF vital Statistics. reported decrease
soventy-seven in the mortality of tn past week
pared with that OF ten weeks previous The decrease in the
mortality OF children under five years of age
marked for the latter part OF last week, although the
death of this class is still excessive, being sixty
three per cent OF the whole The decrease is largely
attributed the work Of the District Physicians, aud is
believed that If ii had not been for their labors still
greater AZ mortality among children would have
been recorded. The following ls cOMparaiiNc siale-
the cases OF contagious diseases rcd to the
Sanitary su criniendent for the past two weeks:
Week Typhus Typhoid Scarlet Measles Duh Small
ending Fever. Fever Fever % t99erla" poTT
1uIy I'm 2i.... 22ii,.... - So 80 81
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rAuuRE oF RALrMoEE SUGAR REFINERs.

BALTIMORE, July 24.-Woods, Weeks & CO..
propiictors of the Baltimore sugar Refinery, have
made an assignment Their liabilities are $4,000, oi
which S43O,OOO is secured by mortgage upon private
rourtv and coaerals Of various kinds. The assets are
estimated Nv creditors at 6i 900, aud by Woods, Weeks
n Co. at s6JOOOO Their refinery, which cost over $780,
MN nv ne rrtl al
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rATAIRAuRoAD ACCIDENT.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 24.-An up-train on the
Georgia Railroad mo COWS to-day, when the
engine was overturned and the express and baggage
aud two coaches burned. The engineer was burned
to death, and several others were wounded.
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ouction To gnlyunic battery, though u doublod him
all NJ. Because he remarked 40 ms squaw "Me buy
eu sou knock spots out spose you good
woman. You sabe me, MIS- jim"
A SUBJECT FOR lNQUIRY-(Scene-A Work
house Timt-An houI before dinner Odd lady, not
clear as she might De Ito visitor: "Sir I've serious
complaint max. I've mad u0 dinner since yesterday,
aud IoluOlrOS Will be the llnd Gay l"-l Judy.
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pIrsSIAN DETERMINATIONS ON THE BMTIC.

The Berlin CORRESPONDENT of The >'Gnddrd gives
details of various Prussian preparations for the de-
fence of the Baltic. \ frGate has just arrived at
Uelslupfors to lay torpeGoes Torpedo operations
AT Weiborg have been completed. An ironclad bat
tery is to be sent to Duenamnnde.
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PARIS RUMOR OF PEACE.
LONDON. Wednesday. july .

LONDON, Wednesday, july %, 1877.
The Standards Paris CORE, ,pondent says it Is re-
norted that Turkey has sued for peace. Russia will
not treat until she holds Constantnople. This is
probably an unfounded Bourse rumor
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THE CZAR'S MOVEMENTS.

LONDON, Wednesday, july %, ISII
The Post has the following from Berlin: g A tele-
gram from Bucharest states that trustworthy per-
sons positlycly affirm that the Gar will return TO
ST. Petersburg on the first Of August He will after
ward, visit Titli, and the Army of the Caucasus at
Alexandropo'
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TILE RIFLE COMPETITION AT CAMBRIDGE.

The rifle completion for the selection of an Inter
national team was continued at Cambridge to-day.
The weather was better but the wind was stlll
strong and shfty. Mr. Ferguson of Scotland, again
headed the score his aggregate for the two days be-
ING 4O3 Mr. Rigby was second, with an aggregate
of 3SS
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PROMINENT ARRIVALS.

Rreyoor H0usc-Jay Cooke of Philadelphia.......
Wndsor Ho,ei- william Warren Of Boston. NyrterdHt
ifose- IL T. Stancln L; : y aud Cen E3eneler
svtt r. = a Fttt not t-Olver Ames OF North
reton Mass 1890 Asf0r OUse-EN Con gresham iohn o..
Whtehonsc OF Poughkeepse and Charles Parrish OF Wilkes
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o0d-loOl,ing young man who has called at
the A0lI, - bus ness: regret miss that your father
l. not home. had important proposal 40 make 20
nim." Young lady ~ the house. demureN: well per-
hans Won could make your proposal To- me; am dl,en-
gagci at present" GoodlOOkmg young man excuses
himself ana retirr~ in confusion.
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FoRTIFY YOTRSFLF


with VtN BUsEIENs m,igoraut. and you VIII he proof
AGAINST the sudden attacks sickness Incident 20 Tie
Fifty cents. Depot, Is Nesey ST.
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lAnnonncenLents.1

No discovery since the introduction Of vac-
Gina eQualrd 30 Importance that of dbDrpfon a Illus
tratea in HOlMAN's LIVER PAD 6o Maiden Lane
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admin n Cholera Mcrbus cramps
Dairhwa Cole any sindred Affection, for which Dr,
Iavue's 1armnatlye Balsam efecfua remedy. AZ s
season every fam ly will ind in useful and nee
essary curative.
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INVESTIGATING A COLLISIO.

John Matthews, and Mr.. Jayne, of t1.. ,Oaid
of Local Inspectors o this district held a. investigation
yesterday at No % Piucs into the causes of the COLI
slo between the steamers City Point and NaIagansett
which occurred June 26 last The City Point was return
ing from the Fishing Banks. aud making for the loot o
IOthst hugging the closely. when she struck the
Narraganset Just tho latter about leaving the
dock The inony Of several witnesses showed that
the Narraganse dock at pier No. 33 North River
at 5;l5 p July 90 Just before starting the customary
long whistle was blown and nothing in the way either
shead or on either side When even with the
end Of the dock the steamer City Point discovered
lust opening out in sight The whistle was sounded
several times, the engines stopped and reversed but no
rsspOuse received from the CITY Point, nor dld SIZE
alter er course stop ner engines just as TIE Naria-
gan,ett got scrnwav. the CITY Point crossed her bow
and ncr guards in contact with the auagansets
stem An examination made OF the vessel, dnd the
damage thought tO hc trnng. .
capt lips OF the City Point testified thai his boat
hesdway could be stopped. aud tndt he Niragasett
was under way aud down, carrying away SIX on
seven deck ans wheel beam, slater Oms, guards &c
the damage beng cons erdb.e He claimed that he coul
no avoid he coils The Board wi determine 10 Whon
the blame should be attdc ed, and Will revoke thcu
license
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YTUING IN HOMEOPATHY

EVERYTHING IN HOMEOPATHY.
II Homeopathic Books and Medicines. C,se, &c, &c. at
HUMPHREYS, lO9 tulton-st. and SCI Broadway, Just
above Seventeenth 81.
STRICTI RE, Impotence, and Diseases ot the
y Geucratlve radically and speedily cured once
hours HENRY \. DANIELS MD. Ia Lex ngionN
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HOME Ne VS..

YESTERDAY AT HCDNUTS IN
BROADWAY,
oar So Noon. s6 3 m. So Midnight, 75'
Iitchest during the day. $50. lowest. 10.
Average sOl@ same day, 1876 GSas.
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LIQUOR DEALERS TO BE PROSECUTED.

The Executive Committee of the Society for
the eycution Of Crime Heid meeting yesterday at No
lGO Broadway and resolved after the expiration
OF the ten days allowed by law for renewing licenses 10
prosecute sucn liquor dealers as the Law Committee
should see IT. The Society has issued new circular Tor
distribution. saving that during its three months exist
ence II has investigated OF the results OF the retail
hquor traffic i'm New York city and the laws relating to
H. and has exposed the vast ILLEGAL sale OF liquors ami
oi inexcusdbe neglect OF Official duties III iett"
10 IT,
In response 70 the request OF the Society. the Police
Commssinsrs furnished the following stdci,ent ln re-
& ri 10 the dram shops OF Ncw-fOlk Guy Unlicensed
boss; licensed. 2.l77 holding receipts, IL; making
IN al total of 7,S74. The circular goes ON 10 repeat
that on c0mucent Authority Our-lts of the crime am
ppe ism in the city caused by the liquor trade. ana
thai S7,OUOOOO year IS "a moderate estimate ol tIe
Increase of taxation thereby thrown upon the pubic
The movement among tle liquor dealers OF the city,
with view the organization OF Cooperative Pr"tcc-
tive Association Is expected to taNc deiui,c form To-
dav. committee of liquor dealers VIII niece III uhls"
with r.urrsentatlVrs ot tie VINE and spirit ira lci>
Society t. report plan of operation u secure me
traffic aglus what they deem unjust interference ny
on scIs and 10 take steps to insure favorable legsl
tiOn IN thcl interests.
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for their fidelity the interests OF the Companies SUD
scuuently the shOpmcn held meeting ana resolved 10
continue ~ work. rue ru-men viii hold NEE uhs F"
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engagements should be respected, ana
unintentional violations Of law. for which
public officers and not the liquor dealers
are responsible should be condoned. The
first step is to afford relief to those who have
paid the public for privilege which they
supposed to be legal and permit them TO
transact business until the expiration their
licenses. Then let as stringent liquor law
be passed as can be enforced in the present
state Of public opinion. But let nothing be
done in the nature Of a trap. In the interest
of temperance itself it is better that the
liquor dealers have full notice and fair
warning of what they are to expect, and
that no just occasion be given them to COM
plain of swindle perpetratcd under cover
Of law
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improved and cautious farming which is
taking the place Of the old system.
We seem to be nearly ms much behind
hand in cotton man ufacturing as we excel
the world in cotton growing. We have but
21S spindles per thousand Of population,
while Great Britain has !, $50 per thousand
of her people, and we export but seven per
cent OF our total cotton manufactures, while
Great Britain exports eighty-fve per cent
of hers. We have a multitude of people
unemployed, and it is evident that our
manufacturing capacity, even at time
when everybody is rigidly economizing at
home, is but a trife ahead Of the home de-
mand. We consume, at this time, at home,
all but seven per cent Of the cotton goods
we make With the return Of good times
and the natural increase in consump-
ton our cotton manufacturers would be
hardly able to supply the home market, and
il, as seems not improbable. we shall have
o steadily increasing foreign demand for
our goods, we shall need more cotton mills
Indeed, we know Of prudent and we'll
cotton manufacturers who
believe that if the Southern trou-
bles are happily settled, and q
speedy return to specie payments were
probable, it would be safe and profitable to
invest money in new mills at once, select
ing the most favorable localities and
putting in the best machinery, SO rs to
compete on the most favorable terms with
the old mills.
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from the date named would be three shil-
lings sterling (seventy-fve cents gold) per
word Now we are informed by the Super
intendent Of the Direct Cable Company that
from May its charge will be twenty-five
cents gold per word, with concession OF
half rates to press messages left to be sent
at q convenient hour. Let the public take
States Cable Company's charge will be one
third that made by its opponent, the Anglo
American Company.
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Secretary Sherman is trying, it seems, to
form commission to investigate the New
York Custom House. The object of the in
quiry is, we presume, to discover where and
how the political part of this machine can
be amputated from the business part. Re-
port says that several gentlemen, among
them General Dix and Mr.. Royal Phelps,
have declined to serve on the commission.
We do not severely blame them, because If
the inquiry is to amount to anything it will
impose tedious and thankless labor on the
commissioners Suppose the President
should request hundred or two OF our lead
ing importers and other merchants to give
him privately and briefly their ideas of
needed custom house reforms, we believe the
answers he would receive would give him
much valuable information. and that when
he had digested this he would need no COM
mission.
To put capable and experienced business
men at the head Of tho Custom House, men
not entangled in politics, and to require Of
them strict performance of duty, by them
selves and their subordinates, would prob
ably be the best way to reform the abuses.
If, in addition to this, the President should
follow the example Of the HERALD and open
Complaint Book. he would soon find where
reforms were needed What is wanted for
the Custom House army is q new gen.
eral We do not in this mean to say
anything even uncomplimentary of Collec-
tor Arthur; but he has fought under
system which the new President
means to abolish and it is necessary to
have new general, who ought to be
allowed to select his subordinates. Nobody
doubts that the work Of the Custom House
can be done more efficiently and with
much smaller force than now. Nobody
doubts that if the Custom House is divorced
from politics it will be far more economi-
cally and efficiently managed. The Presi-
dent probably sees rs clearly as everybody
else that if he means to reform the civil SER
vice he cannot SO far before he comes to the
Custom House, and that he cannot leave
that unreformed without abandoning the
whole purpose Of reform. We believe he
will not be scared of by the machine politi-
clans; but we see also that he has under
taken big job, and that commission will
hardly help him through with it.
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Packard Making Friends with the
President.

The Louisiana carpet-baggers, prompted
it is supposed by their Northern allies, are
threatening that ifPackard is not recognized
and sustained he will show up the whole
Louisiana fraud and make an explosion.
That is to say, like the late Orville Jewett,
Packard is loading hand grenade, and
means, if he cannot get his price, to attempt
to kill his political partners. 1t is one way,
but we judge the wrong way, to conciliate
the President. Packard, Kellogg K Co.
ought to see that they cannot cocrce the
President of the United States by such
threats they simply make it impossible for
him to listen to them. If after such threats
the President should recognize Packard, or
favor Kelloggs pretensions, tho country
would say that he was scared into doing it ;
and that neither the President nor the
country could afford.
But Of what account could Packard's
exposures be? He may certainly show up
the frauds committed by the republican Re-
turning Board and the republican politi-
clans in Louisiana; he can show that tho
democrats carried the State, and that conse-
auently Packard has no claim to the place
of Governor. But that does not affect the
President. Mr. Hayes, as we have on sew
eral occasions shown, holds his Office not by
the Louisiana election, but by the verdict
of the Electoral Commission, approved by
Congress- That is to say, the Presidents title
to his Office is the most perfect imaginable
and cannot be disturbed by any revelations
which Packard and Kellogg may make.
They may blow themselves into the air, and
if they do it they will give general satisfac-
ton, but their explosion cannot affect the
President.
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Hydrophobia.

Hydrophobia appears again in one days
paper as the cause Of the deaths Of three
men and horse. In the case of young
Dickie, the plumber, facts enough arc given
to make out some important points in the
history of that Thirty-fourth street cat.
Samuel Richardson died several days ago
of the effects Of the bite Of q cat. His death
was attributed to fright. Now the physi-
clans in Bellevue Hospital seem to be afraid
to say that Dickie died from hydrophobia.
and the public, which accepts its opinion
on authority, even though its guides be
blind, must believe that Dickie also died
from fright. This tends to establish great
reputation for intelligence and culture on
the part Of the horse who persisted from o
bite of the same cat that bit these two men !;
for of course the horse also died Of fright.
This horse had heard OF late years oil the
foolish, sensational reports about this dis
ease of hydrophobia; he had heard that cats
rs we'll as dogs may communicate it. and
consequently when he was bitten by cat
he took to thinking about it more than was
good for him. ut preyed on his mind 1t
worried him night and day. He could not
sleep, finally refused his oats. and died from
simple nervous excitement" This is what
the doctors who are ignorant Of hydrorho-
bia say about cases like Dickie's and Rich
ardson's, and certainly the same views must
apply to the horse; and they tend to estab-
lish that this horse had more brains than
some Of the doctors. 1t is queer phase Of
medical opinion that is to be noted in the
hesitancy of many newly fedged doctors and
some Aabby minded old ones to believe in
hydrophobia From the earliest period Of
medical study it was observed that men who
had been bitten by rabid dogs were'affected
at variable periods thereafter in substan-
TALLY the same way and died with definite,
we'll marked symptoms. This group Of
symptoms following the fact of bite was
therefore classified under the name of n.y.
drophobia, and there was for thousand
wears no doubt that this association of symp-
possessed with the lunacy of logic come up
in all lines of thought and demand more spe-
cifc evidence than is in the facts, and faith
is shaken. So it happened in this case. Into
the breach thus made the societies for the
prevention of cruelty force their propa-
ganda and boldly proclaim that the
old opinions are libel on the dog. In this
city that vein of thought has been worked
with such effect that many doctors fear to
believe in hydrophobia when they see it lest
they shall be laughed at. If all this were in
the field of opinion merely it might be of no
great consequence. Unfortunately it is
practically mischievous by the obstruction
it opposes to the passage of laws for sweep
ing from the city all vagrant ours and cats
for which some one is not responsible by
taxation or otherwise.
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TIE WEATIIER.-Thc great rain storm that
now prevails over the United States east of the
Rocky Mountains is one of those unusual vista
tons that affect extraordinary areas ut the same
time. That now in progress is felt from Toronto
to New Orleans and from Pcmbna to the South
Atlantic coast. The heaviest precipitation
during the last sixteen hours has been ut
the following points:-Leayeuworth .G2 inches ,
Milwaukee, 49, Nashville, 100; Cairo 90 ;
Shreveport, %; st. Paul, 81; Brccken-
ridge, ~; Louisville, 10; Kcokuk, A. ;
Grand Haven, 3s. and New York. 30
inches The centre Of the depression is still in
the Mississippi Valley, where the barometer has
fallen to 1920 inches. Surrounding this centre
the winds vary in velocity from ten to forty
miles an hour, the gales prevailing on the
western side of the storm vortex. The tcmpera-
turc has generally fallen below what it
was on Tuesday, but will rise locally in
advance Of the storm centre us the winds
become southcrly, and fall behind the area of
,ou.cst pressure as tho northwcstcrly and north
crly winds prevail. The highest pressurcs are
st;ll off the South Atlantic coast and over New
foupdland With snch general rainfall we
must look for rapid rise in the Mississippi and
ia tributaries, particularly those Of the Ohio
Valley system. Little change OF level has oc-
cured up to tho present in any OF the rivers.
Tho weather in New York to-day will con-
tiruc cloudy and rainy, with an increase of tenn
pcrature following change Of wind 10 the
southeast and southwest