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ONCE. snd who fecm to take > delight in persc.
enttng any one who slande insthetr way nRI pre-.
vents them ,frou, Accomplishing their corrupt
schemes: and
ftsoirtd, That In our opinion. the position
matter il the correct one. and hy maintaining tho
rame he will besl the Interests OF the puhlfc.
and commend h!mttlf a. 4 faithful rntlte officer
Ab!t:tnK citizen and taxpaye. in the county.
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~.
FAlRLEE-HICltAHDS0S tho. 11th Inst,
hy tho Ht.-fler. Charles Edward Cheney, at tho
residence Of Dr. banks. b74 Michigan. nv. Julia
J., lichas1s"n u Ehscayo, md Sidney fa,slce, Of
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The little fellow wls de.

were duly act forth. The little fellow WAS de.
eervetlly Applauded.
After another song, Brother Paxton gave them
4 familiar talk. lie was followed by other
workers In the coid-wattr brigade, and the
meeting broke up. everybody well satisfied wiil,
the first English tca,partJ.
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PURE AND WHOLESOME.
d. Prices Cream Baking Powder u perfectly
pprs and wholesome, and housekeepers srs co.
sop1astn9 IL sails by liberal patronage.
, 1877-01-12

which were ttill farther enhanced by failure. IN
several pnift!va! ventures. Like many another
good a"'lI, tic pu!!tha! nea was too uctp tor
hiu,. aud he consequently failed to secure thu
]warls Of oIl!ce Tor With he sometimes sought.
Not long a.n he va, candidate lur tnu clCrk-
ship Ut tic South Side t,l!Ce G,ur. aud st,s,se
quently tor the Wartlcnship Of the County llos-
iital
nHOckWAr SUSTAINED.
Al = tnretn. of ths seventh Wati Kepub-
lican Club, Ec!l Ut their headquarters yeettr-
Hay. Alr. u. ". tiars1ner was raIlyd to tho
Cl.air, ainl Nr. l.. j. Stephens acted Is Secre-
tary. After the regular routine Of business WAS
transacted. thc lu!l"wtn. preamble an! rtaolu-
tions, nlirrcu tt Mr.. U. t. NNttry, wrrc u,lant-
IuouilY adoEtHt;
WnkEEAs, T!,r tounty Cnmmstnnrts OF Cook
County arc dsctas.EE 10 Maj. lame. ". DrcckwaY,
shs Nccosder u totk tuaRty, Ia the matter Of sp.
tuto tho ut!ce followers aud pIotcErs Ut their nwA,
whon' tho Rceor4eE does u0t want ut need. And
Who Will ~ All additional aad u'ecss expense 70
The already 1SerLutLrnsd takE3ytrs VI the county,
Inns Ignoring ll4r fact ihAl tsIe Nccosdtt ID uELe.
heavy b91'dt fo7 the psoi*F anu honest adn''n>us-
t1oa % hs oAler; und. eonseqsentay s certified,
IL all TIKI lava al common Helst Justice, au tgnt-
IT. ~ appotn' .ush nsn ,. are known 10 hin. and
WHOM hc tan ,at'y tFutt fur the proper manage.
,nsnt OF hls business. and for the care III ;hs vnIu
aete pnb!ie property IN his charge, for which hc
aiure u reRpnns!lIe; anl .....
WMEnEA.. Tie a..snspt Of the County Comui..
10 iLs Iteeosdsr. ,anI % portion Jul .he ,an,s
sllopK theis followers, II not only IN !uusIlee
n thc ltccordet. but 1leysi.s well: aau noreuser
u &lso laKa1 degrading to The public sgtvltc, and
~ . tendency to bring The rains into contempt;
TtsSirsi. rha. We tender Ma. jane. n. Brock.
r<dEs euEsclses 10 upsofd him 10 the extent OF
ess shtls1y. and 10 encourage him 70 tnantatu ths
Po:itsen ~b,sh b b. AIKEN. snd to continue 70
tpn OF set Of otlc;as who sesm 10 bs totally op.
Srossd 10 ehe heasst adnntsuAtoa eI auy Pabiie
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

We print this morning the second of the
series of articles on the cotton industry
prepared for the HERALD by Mr.. Atkinson.
This one will interest cotton planters, and
persons in the North. Of whom there is of
late an increasing number, who are tempted
by the mild climate and cheap lands of
Southern States to begin the culture Of
cotton. It appears that in this as in every
other business the most skilful and indus
trious make the greatest profits. It appears
also that even 80 far south as Texas cotton is
proftably raised by white farmers, and that
negro labor is not absolutely necessary in q
cotton field The Southern States want
emigrants, and the accounts published by
us show that they are prepared to welcome
all who come. The settlement of the
Southern troubles, which seems neat at
hand, will, we have no doubt, lead
to such o state of good feeling in the
South as will draw many Northern men and
Europeans to the cotton States. There is
no doubt at all that workingmen who desire
to buy cheap land and become farmers have
better opportunity in such States as Texas
at this time than in any Northern State !;
and it would not surprise us to see the tide
of European emigration hereafter setting
toward the cotton States. But the people
of those States should remember that the
best, the most industrious and useful class
of immigrants from Europe seek out those
States where they find free schools,
churches, free speech and hearty well
come, and with an unfailing instinct, go
there and nowhere else.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20
The Custom House Comm ission.

There is really to be Custom House
sioners will have their board bills paid by
the Secretary of the Treasury. We had
here once a Congressional investigating
committee, which sat, and sat, and sat, and
summoned witnesses, and heard testimony
about the Custom House, and finally Matched
out voluminous report which nobody ever
read and that was the end of the matter.
We hope Secretary Sherman will remember
this and set his commission to different
work. He ought to require them to sit two
weeks, and at the end of that time report to
him briefly recommendations for the re-
forms they may find necessary. What
the commission does not know after two
weeks it will never know.
Meantime we advise the President to ask
the merchants of New York, privately, some
questions about the Custom House. They
have more to do with it than anybody else,
except, perhaps, the politicians and it is
to merchants interest to have the Custom
House business done fairly and we'll. If
YOU want to know about shop ask the men
who have to deal there. The object OF
the President is to divorce the Custom
House from politics and make it a
business establishment. There are q good
many people who do not believe this can be
done, and we do not ourselves believe it an
easy undertaking. At any rate, commits
sion will not help much. What is in
tended is to establish new system, and the
President probably sees that new system
requires new men,. Collector Arthur is
properly general favoritc in New York;
but he belongs to the old system. So do his
principal assistants, and it is not injurious
to them to shy that so great change ms is
proposed will have the fairest trial under
new men. When tho President says "civil
service reform he means, not cumbrous ex-
nninations nor any other futile machinery
he means that the federal civil service shall
cease to be political machine The last
election showed the necessity for this reform,
and the people will support the President in
making trial OF the new system under new
men.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

"Reminiscences against obstructed side
walks come frequently to our Complaint
Book" but aggrieved citizens should not
imagine they have fulfilled their duty and
lived up to their privileges when they have
written indignant letters. The sidewalks
of New York are equally the property Of
every citizen: there is an ordinance forbid
ding their obstruction, and every citizen
has legal standing in court as n complain
ant. If the owners of the coats and dresses
which are soiled by contact with filthy bar
rels and boxes or torn by hoops and bales
were to make prompt complaints they could
obtain damages and Brighten consciencelcss
merchants into carefulness. If every man
or body Of men who find truck upon the
sidewalk were to quietly lead the horse into
the street or remove the truck bodily, no
law could prevent them, nor would any
truck owner dare to complain In court of
his treatment The unloading of goods
across a sidewalk is necessary nui-
sance in any large city, but the backing
of carts across tho walk, or the leaving Of
packages on the tagging longer than il nec-
essary to their removal into buildings or
upon wagons. is not only unnecessary but
illegal, and it is the duty of every citizen to
do his share toward breaking up the practice
by making complaint in due form at the
police station of the precinct in which the
offence is committed. In London, Liver
pool or any other large English city there
are streets fully MS busy rs our own, but no
such usurpations of the sidewalks are
known there as Americans submit to, and
for the simple reason that the people are
not 80 stupidity submissive to abuse as
Americans are New Workers have been
learning for years. and by the most costly
experiences, the results OF never looking liz
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

give him firm working majority in the next
Congress. There are good men in both
parties, men who showed their patriotism
in the fight over the Electoral Commission,
who would be glad to join the combination.
There is a common ground for Mr.. Conkling
and Mr.. Lamar. Mr.. Hoar and Mr. Waiter
son, General Sherman and General Gordon.
Let the policy be one term, civil service re-
form, justice and protection to the South,
reform in the finances and the tariff, limita-
ton Of the powers of the Senate. On plat
form representing these ideas all good men
can meet We shall then have genuine
reconstruction of the sections. because it
will be reconstruction springing from
mutual respect and affection. The solid
triumphs of Grants administration will be
assured. and beyond them we shall have
once more an era of good feeling like the
green and sunny oasis in the early part of
the century which came after the strife
attending Jefferson's election and the
troubles of his reign.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

PRISE no less than that of the public, they
for the moment monopolize. There is
in mankind natural disposition to
laugh at Growing hen as merely
ridiculous creature; but this is unkind and
injpdicious. A hen which does not crow
Is certainly to be preferred; Mysteries are
not desirable in we'll regulated household
A hen which lays an egg day and makes
no abnormal fuss about it is, on the whole,
the favorite Of the farmer. But let us have
patience with the Growing hens. They do
what they can, and even if they sometimes
utter an ill-timed crow over chalk egg
which some mischief-loving joker has put
into the nest, still there is the honorable
ambition to excel, and the natural exulta-
ton over what looks for the moment like
successful utterance, which ought to 60 in
mitigation of the Mysteries. The intention is
strictly honorable; and if Mr.. Oakley Hall had
actually been assassinated in Brooklyn
slum the self-approving cackle of those
who reported his sad ending, and who no
doubt believed the melancholy tale, would
have been no more sincere and perhaps no
more praiseworthy than it was in the actual
state of the case. It was not the hens fault
that the egg was of chalk; and it showed
the fickleness of Mr.. Halls character that
when he ought to have been assassinated in
a Brooklyn backyard he perversely turned
up in London.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

THE WEATHEk--The centre of tho storm is
now in tho Ohio Valley, where an elongated
elliptcal trough exists and causes variable winds
within small area. The winds have diminished
somewhat in velocity, but continue high on the
northern ard western margins of the depression.
Heavy rains have fallen all over the country
from the Mississippi eastward to the At
lantic, and particularly in the Ohio Valley,
the lake region and on the coast. The heavi-
est rainfall during sixteen hours yesterday was
ct Milwaukee,, 2.02 inches; Grand Haven,
1.65; Buffalo, 1913; Boston. LID, Detroit,
O.97, and ut Louisville, 096 inch At New
York four-tenths OF an inch fell during the same
time. The temperature in the Mississippi and
Ohio valleys rose decidedly as the storm centre
advanced, but the thermal gradient descended
steeply to tho northward The course Of the
storm centre will be through the Ohio Valley
md over Now York State toward Nova
Scotia. Brisk winds may be expected on
the coast and probably thunder and
lightning when the storm reaches the
ocean. A predicted by the HERALD on Wedncs
dav n violent tornado has passed over Ten
uesscs. near Nashville, causing loss Of life and
u,uch destruction OF property. Our special
despatch from Nashville gives particu-
,.rs of tho Storm Tho attention Of the
SIGNAL Service Bureau Is called to this
,or,.do and tho conditions preceding
A. The pressure is increasing, with clear
.cd vnrm weather in Tho West and South
r,reshct waves arc forming on the rivers, owing
!, ~. beavv rims. Tho Cumberland has risen
even feet at Nashville Tho weather IN New
York to-day will be- warmer, cloudy anu rainy
followed toward night BY slightly Ealing tenn
psraturc and gradually diminishing ciouuncss'
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Spnola got collar-c.
Milais will try to paint the face OF CnryIe
In linen collars tho Byron is the most worm
II Is claimed that Lamar is Hayes right bower.
bitches around fields said to catch grasshoppers.
waned-some ono who really received dollar from
Tweed
Thread gloves are imported with cocked wrists and
fingers
Seville Span Is TO have exhibition OF Its products
In wine growing
Wood wouldn't and woodln wouldn't; and the rest
were wooden heads.
Ex-Sccrotary Robson will twinkle at Boar's Head.
n. H., for the summer
What this country wants TO get rid Of are Brigham
Young and Sitting Bull
Some OF the now bonnets, composed Of fiery mass
of red and yellow, are quite hidoous
II is said that Secretary Thompson In 1855 made
speech on "Tho Divinity Of Slavery"
Judge Cardozo to be Supreme Court Justice If
the Ring had ever reached Washington.
The New Haven Journal thinks that 1t is wrong Tor
ex.prisoners OF Andcrsonvilo have annual reunions
Asparagus is much like skyrocket II goes up
in pricc--and then It down ike stick of as
paragus
II you wcrc In Florida and trying look over
tho tons OF the cornsaks that arc growing you could
not do so.
Rochester Democrat. :" Now is tho tmc,' says tho
Herald so SGT out false hair Docs this moan ro-
yivai OF the old wig party?"
Low slippers have already appeared. and when a
Chicago girl is accused OF having mended stockings,
sho says, mot by n darn sight"
The ri1cmcn are beginning 10 get ready for tho
SOP, and while some prefer the natural position in
firing, others say, .Givc us rest"
President Hayes seems be to the republicans what
the convict was when he sa!d:--''if you put me TO
picking oakum I'll tear your darncd oakum all TO
pieces"
A Pennsylvania spiritrast matcria,lzcd a har dozen
mackcrci the Other night. bat discovered the
mex, morning that they belonged the spri, OF i've
man two blocks away.
Danbury Mems There arc now three persons liv-
Ing in Hartford with bullets In their heads. Consider
ing the army Of agents It's life insurance companies
en- ploy this - not a large number
There is IN California n lake In which the fish, Of a
gold rcd color, up year so down again.
like n spring politician who decent enough TO ask
you for your and decent aitcrward.
Rome SentiRer--"He was a sole unlocking travel
Ter, and he walked through the depot singing, Heaven
is my home when OF the boys called out -. Then
you arc going the wrong way, stranger; this is the
train 10 Syracuse. p"
The time OF year has when mans wiio asks
HIM to take a length of slovcpipc tcnderly through
tho hail. gently down tho front stoop coyy across tho
walk and knock all the out Of II at bust with
out hitting his toes, confound IL.
Tho other evening Ruihcrfurd man was tangl'n
up his legs in trying so homo like soop before tho
breeze; and did he met his lacking up the
road. Said the son, '0d man, what you want to dc
Is TO stay land and make believe you're lima bear
vine carcsspg pole, and is tho time TO set then
| out.'
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20
A serenade-why Mott

II the Police Comm issioners are too
direct and control the street cleaning Of
New York their fellow citizens appear de-
termined that they shall enjoy all the
honors and public recognition which their
arduous and efficient services deserve.
Among music-loving peoples the beautiful
custom prevails Of expressing their appre-
citation of great deeds and high attainments
by which the community benefits, in the
sweetest strains that can be produced
by the instruments of the period.
The Italian school favors the combine
ton of tones given forth by vibrating
catgut and delicately fashioned instruments
Of reed and brass, while the Wagnerian
enthusiasts put all their faith and senti-
ment into wind and sheepskin, believ-
ing that quantity is preferable to quality
when music is employed to express passion
and vigorous ideas. When, however, it is
necessary to supply the element of appro-
priateness in music, as in the case Of the
proposed sererade to the Police Commits
sioners, we are Of the opinion that COM
promise is necessary between the rival
schools, in order to produce the required
effect. A correspondent writes to us on this
subject in the following practical man
ner -
To THE EDITOR or the HERALD
suggestion recently offered in the HERALD TO ten
der u serenade TO our worthy Polico Commissioners
appears TO DO emincntly proper Consid.
ering that all the promises we have had Of clean
streets have turned out to be mere sound, believe
uttered them Surely the number oil dead cats found
about New York can supply the necessary strings Tor
harps and hddlcs. The materials for trumpcts and
kettledrums not wanting thanks to the berality
OF the Street Cleaning Bureau In leaving to all the
old cans pots and saucopans that cast into the
streets BY wastoful citizens. With such splendid
band be equipped at small expense, and tho Police
Commissioners can DO treated to a grand screnade.
For my part and In order to give the project start
cash basis, gladly enclose ten cents toward the
necessary expenses. CINDERELLA.
Here is grand opportunity for paying
we'll deserved compliment to some of our
most efficient public officials. Let us have
a serenade in Mulberry street, by all means,
and music that would make Orpheus go
back to Hades to get out of hearing. Jealous,
of course! With the Five Points Choral
Union and the Undertakers' Singing Society
to assist we are confident Of the success Of
the movement. The Police Commissioners,
being modest officials, may get angry at such
O public recognition of their services; but
Emusic hath charms" DC.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

The end of the Southern troubles seems
near at hand. The Packard Legislature be-
came demoralized yesterday General Nc
MILAN made q speech, in which he declared
that it was of no use to longer oppose the
Presidents policy, threw the blame of
Packard's defeat on poor General Grant,
praised President Hayes and withdrew from
the Packard body, which Immediately fell
into vituperation and disorder. About
dozen members thereupon went over to the
Nichols House, and both branches of the
Nichols Legislature have now more than
full quorum of Returning Board members
This means that while the Nichols Legisla-
ture was before the de facto as we'll as the
constitutional body. it is now also the lawful
Legislature according to the views Of even
the EXTREMIST Louisiana republicans
Our correspondent reports that Mr.. Pack
ard still holds out, and means now, If pos
sible, to transfer the contest to Washington
and to the Senate. 1t has been believed for
some time that he was acting on the advice
and encouragement Of Northern republican
opponents of the Presidents policy, who
look with disgust and alarm upon the
attempt to ''denationalizo the Louisiana
cumulated rations enough in the State
House to stand q siege; and it is true that
sthis kind goeth not out but by fasting and
PRAYER" But in modern warfare besieged
fortress is considered as already lost, and
the Packard remainder saw the end so
clearly last night that they offered to dis
solve if Governor Nichols would guarantee
them their mileage and per diem.
Thus the long struggle ends in a ridicu-
lous demand for back pay. Mr.. Warmoth
seems inclined to hold on with Packard
and it is to be hoped he may end his career
by such blunder; he has been one of the
chief fomenters Of disorder in Louisiana
politics. A few weeks ago he was ready
enough to 60 over to Nichols for q con-si-
Objectionable trife Of Senatorship, SO
report said and more than one of Mr..
Packards more influential adherents were
willing to carry the Packard men over to
Nichols for similar qualification. For
tunately, so far, there are no indications
that the administration has countenanced
or that the Nichols men have consented to
bargain.
New Orleans is reported as quiet and
orderly MS Columbia or Boston. Governor
Nichols has written nm admirable letter to
the President, in which he guarantees abso-
Lutte order and peace says he will go in per-
son to the scene Of disorder, if any should
occur promises equal justice and general
education to both races, and harmony of
interests speaks Of fostering immigration,
and promises that when the troops are re-
moved there shall not be the least disturb
ance in New Orleans. He will probably
place guard about the State House, and
suffer all who wish to come out and no one
to enter.
And thus, at last, we may hope, the great
war is over, and we return, after sixteen
years, to the shelter Of the constitution.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

Rain has fallen in such quantities in the
Valley Of the Danube that it is believed active
military operations will not be possible for
three weeks, and thus, if even the Russians
are entirely ready, and if there is no possi-
BILE chance for peace by further negotiation,
at least the weather will prevent the imme-
date delivery Of the first blow on that pos
sible theatre Of war which is most under
the eye of the civilized world. 1t may,
however, be otherwise in Asia Minor, where
the attention has been less concentrated
and where an important part of the strug-
gle will occur. From that quarter we do
not hear of the weather, but it is not likely
to be the same as in the Valley of the
Danube. Captain Burnaby, an English
officer, just from that part of the world, is
authority it will be remembered, for the
report that Russia and Persia are allied for
operations against the Ottoman Empire.
In to-day's dispatches he points out how
these allies may effectively cooperate in q
part of the Sultan's dominions where his
sovereignty is perhaps more vital than
in the Valley of the Danube. Hoy,
through which Captain Burnaby sup
poses the Russians may move, is in the
northwestern extremity Of the Kingdom Of
Persia, where Aderbidjan lies between the
Russian part of Armenia and Kurdistan.
Russian troops carried by Caspian steamers
might be landed at the mouth Of the Kur,
or perhaps on the Araxes, and marched up
the valley Of TINT river To its little tributary.
the Kotur, the headwaters of which are
near to Van, in Armenia. Holding Van,
Erzeroum and Trebizond the Russians
would be masters Of Armenia and might
proceed at their leisure to strike at the
Sultans resources in Anatolia. If the Turks
have enough good troops concentrated in
Europe to make head against the army at
Kischeneff the Russian invasion Of Armenia
would be comparatively unresisted.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-20

"Whistling girls aud Growing hens arc no
good" says an old provcrb. Like most
proverbs it needs to be taken with grain
of salt Growing hen is not always USE
less fowl her Mysteries may be acute and
not chronic and, though prudent men are
shy of Mysteries, careful farmer would not
wiring Biddy's neck because once or twice in
her life, having laid an uncommonly hand
some egg, her cackle degenerated into a
crow.
We are saying in this good word for
some of our contemporaries, who fall into a
semi-occasional fit of Mysteries when by
good luck they come upon piece OF news,
10 it true or false, which, to their own sur