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FAMILY ORDERS.
How Throckmorton Deliver
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MT. Jasper Throckmorton, who lives out on Summer street, is the father of ten children. Yesterday morning Mr. Ihrockmorton was just on the point of putting on his hat to start for the office, when Mrs Throckmorton calling after him from tine kitchen:
 "Stop at Soldiers and tell him to come up and tx the water pipe and get big tin dipper and bring it with you this noon. Don't tell them to send it. they'll forget it
 MT. Throekmorton said he wonld. and then put on his hat and started. As he reached the front door his eldest daught- CT shouted from up stairs:
 Pa pa ! pa !. ]. Go to Greenbaum < bchroder's and ask MT Scott 10 give you two yards and half of brown satin, cut on bias, to match the dress I got last week; hell know the kiud Bring it with you. l do not want to wait for it.n
 And MT Throekmorton, pausing with his hand on the door, said he would get 1t. and then sighed and opened the door. Just then his oldest son shouted from the sitting-room:
 Father the man was up here twice yesterday for the money for my new boat, and l just gave him note to you and he'll call at the office to day for his money. and will give you pair of pat ent oarlocks and q dip,net Bring them up with you when you come up to din ner.n
 MT. Throckmorton kind of stified a groan like, and saying he would attend to it, went out. As he passed down the porch steps his second daughter leaned out of window and cried:
 "Oh, pa do stop at Parsons as you come to dinner and tell them to send a
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 ehs.l rnld,r and whiler thAu the faem : siwaa martiod to chIId.woman whom he worshIped That was years ago, and yei he has never touched her lips nor ever heard her sweet voice call him hus. band.r
 "Perbaps he has never tried to win her." said Maude, forcing herself to speak.
 "sbe never gave him the opportunity was the quick bitter answer. ''She left him in silence and secrecy, and now she petitions for an absolute release from the VOWS she made 10 him."
 Were those VOWS voluntaryg" asked Maude, struggling with her confusion. ''In measurement But if she had given him little time--if she had not fled from her home, he would have woo ed her patiently, and would have respect, ed her position by never approaching her as lover until he had won her heart"
 "And new?" said the girl, trembling from head to foot.
 And now-and now he will never give her up for another. l think he would kill her and himself first" an. swered Lester Eccles, with emphasis and he fixed his thrilling eyes full upon Maud's icy, bloodless face
 O,cruel cruel I" cried the girl, drop. ping limp and senseless at his feet.
 He lifted her in his arms, and holding her to his heart, pressed hot kisses upon her brow and lips
 "Maude, my love, my own, my child, what have done ?" he cried
 Had she lain in her coffin even then those caresses, those intense and pas jsionate murmurs might have stirred her. The color futtered into her cheeks her blue eyes slowly opened, and then with a shuddering sob she struggled faintly out of his embrace.
 "My love" he began.
 She put up her hands with g piteous appeal.
 II am that most hapless creature whom you have just condemned" she said Fl am Hugh Chapeer's wife"
 '''Only say that you love me, Maude- say it once-5ust once,' he pleaded.
 The mastery of the man conauered her
 "I love you," she answered.
 That is enough, my own darling you have right to love me, for l am your husband"
 " Hugh Chaucer p she murmured, in wonder
 Hugh Chaucer"he returned, smiling, "who only discovered the whereabouts of his wife few months ago, and then resolved to do little masquerading that he might win her"
 "ln which you have succeeded admi- Fa5ly,' she answered, while a smile gilt tered through the tears that would not be stayed.
 And the waves dallied on the sand and wind toyed with the dancing leaves, and the mated birds sang gayly around them, as arm-ln-arm they went home to Mrs. hirke, who kissed her petted friend. dropping tear on the bright golden head, and sue thought there had been "A Mutual Masquerading."
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-22

Edward Harrig ans extravaganza,
AN EDITORS TROUBLES.
Ed Banker in his original PRESERVATION OF shadow First
appearance Of the celebrated ske tch artists
GOSS and Fox.
CONWAY and KERRIGAN. CONWAY and KERRlGAN
The men from Galway Irish Piper and Jig Dancer.
NELLIE ST. JOHN, GUS MILLS,
the charming operate vocalist the wonderful female i'm
personator.
Marriage Bells, by the beautiful JENNIE iEAMANS.
HEATING and SANDS The famous Musical Coons-
Mr. JAMES MESSENGER.
The Worlds Cannon Ball Performer
BILLY BARRY. BILLY GRAY. JOHN QUEEN.
iIARRIGAN and HART
concluding the with the great hit OF the
season, written bv edward Harrgan. Esq.. entitled
OLD LAVENDER WATER;
Round tho Docks y
Old Lavender-Ed. liarrigan. The RRt-Tony Hart.
Sally StacyNelie Jones. Laura CoggswellAnnie Mack
the entire dramatic company In the cast. New music
by Dave Braham. Scenery by H. L. Weed
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-22

rI1HE NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM,
1903 and 1Oo Buwery.
Grand opening Of the new Lecture Room.
MONDAY, APRIL g.
THREE GREAT ENTERTAINMENTS DAILY.
ut IL a. NJ, and r. VI.
The champion Clog Dancer, Dick Sands
The premier t.ntriioquist, Charles Young.
The great German Wizard, Herr Schlam.
The avorite Vocalist. Miss Alici Drayton.
Together with many other speciality artists
THE MUSEUM Is FILLED
with thousands OF curiosties and many
GREAT LIVING WUNDERS.
The Indians. Chieisl squaws Pappoose
Characteristic illustrations of boriginal lite.
War Dance. Grand Scalping Scenesl
The mammoth Woman OF the world,
THE CALIFORNIA GIANTESS.
A living mountain OF flesh!
The Musical I.putians! Smallest ekrthi
THE xlO0.Un REICE FAMILY.
German Mtcsl Little Midgetsl
THE WONDERFUL WILD People
Hiawanata the Bushman.
Yeppo the African Wild Boy.
Zrnobia the Fan Child.
Albin0s Circassans, Wax Fguresl
THE CUPERPHUNE
produces the sweetest music ever heard
MOVING MECHANICAL MAHvELSi
Open from 10 A. VI. to 10 r. NJ. every day.
Admission all only 10 cents
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-22

SATURDAY MATINEE. April %. 1877,
will produced Bu,wer Lyttons Romantic Play. In i've
acts, entitled the
LADY OF LYONS.
AUILNE......................M Miss BESSIE DARLING
Box Office open daily from 9to5
/yRAND OPERA HOUSE ROSE MICHEL
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y !. BAkSCMS
New AND ONLY GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
THIRD WEEK OF TRIUMPH
GILMORE'S GARDEN,
UNDATED ENTHUSIASM. IMMENSE AUDIENCES.
THE GREAT SUCCESS OF THE YEAR.
TWO PERFORMANCES EACH DAY.
RENEWED ATTRACTIONS. FRESH FEATURES.
Brilliant demonstrations of delight showered on the
of marvellous and beautiful Performing Stall
lions whose peers Mr. Barnum stands ready TO give
Miss HENGLEK. the Queen OF the Side Saddle
and her $4,000 Tandem Stallion Team The above de-
clareG by the entire press the ...r.
TWO GRANDEsT FEATURES
introduced in circus ring
Unparalleled success Of the
WORLDS GREATEST BAREBACK RIDER,
CHARLES W. FISH.
horseback than before attempted by other
performer.
An unanmity OF opinion concerning the greatness
and grandeur OF this,
THE FINEST AND MOST PERFECT EXHIBITION
ever designed by
THE MONARCH or ALL SHOWMEN.
ady stupendous collection OF living marves and auto
matte wonders
MORE THAN si.oooooo WORTH OF STERLING
NOVELTIES.
100 MATCHLESS GENERAL PERFORMERS.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14

act as partisans. 1t provided for the ap-
pointment of five republicans and five dem
ocrats by Congress, and selected two
republican and two democratic Judges OF
the Supreme Court. 1t was not expected
that the first fourteen members would di-
vest themselves of all partisan bias, and it
was accordingly arranged that the bias on
one side should balance the bias on the
other 1t is idle to exclaim against a thing
which was SO clearly contemplated. The
fifth Judge was left to be selected by the
other four, but as two of the four belonged
to each political party, neither had any
advantage in selecting the odd member. In
commission so composed bolt would
violate every principle of good faith and
personal honor.
Justice requires rs to say that
the preponderance of democratic sentiment
in Washington frowns down all such coun-
sells of dishonor. The democrats may have
bitter pill to swallow in the Louisiana
case, as they have had in the Florida case !;
but they will not reject it. They may make
wry faces, but they will, nevertheless, gulp
down the dose. Honor and interest alike
require this manly course We are conf
dent that there will be no flinching.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
A Salary Grab Failure.

The Court of Appeals has decided against
the claim of the New York Aldermen to
draw double salary, one of four thousand
dollars a year as Alderman, an Office still in
existence, and another Of two thousand dol
lars year as Supervisor. an office which,
except as to one or two technical duties, has
been abolished. No person has supposed
that the services of an Alderman are worth
more than four thousand dollars per annum,
or that there was any justification for the
salary grab attempted by the ''City Fathers"
in their assumed character of Supervisors.
The charter provides that they shall be
elected as Aldermen, shall receive their pay
as such officers, and shall when required act
as Supervisors for certain constitutional pur-
poses, and the decision Of the Court of Ap-
peals is in conformity with the clear intent
of the law. Mr.. Purroy and his associates
will therefore, have to look elsewhere than
to the hoped. for salary as Supervisors for the
means of defraying their election expenses
without infringing on their Aldermanic in
come
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Trouble i'm the Dominion.

1t is held by the people of British Colum-
bia-if correctly represented in the Cana
dian Parliament-that the terms of their
union with the Dominion are violated in o
way SO practical and extreme as to absolve
them from all further allegiance to the Do
minion, and they declare unless a remedy
is soon found that they will secede. 1t will
be remembered that the condition of their
union with Canada-the price of their adhe-
sion, in fact-was the pledge on the
part of the Dominion to build with
in ten years the Canada Pacific
Railway, by which the Eastern provinces
were to be connected with the Pacific. This
road was to be about two thousand five hun
dred miles in length. AS only four years
remain of the period within which the road
was to be built, and as the project seems to
have ceased to be even an ambitious dream
with the Northern authorities the people of
Columbia feel themselves the victims of q
great breach Of faith and are indignant ac-
cordingly But there does not seem any
likelihood that this demeanor on their part
will make the construction of the road less
impossible to the Canada authorities.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Bribery.

Somebody has undertaken to bribe the
Secretary of the Interior by the proffer
of the small sum of three hundred dollars,
and is to be prosecuted for it by the United
States authorities. If this man is found
guilty his punishment under the statute
will be fine of not more than nine hun
dred dollars and imprisonment for net more
than three years, and he will deserve all this
if he gets it for it is shocking that a man
should believe q Cabinet officer would be
corrupt, and worse still for him to suppose
he would be dirt cheap. 1t will be an
event of importance in the history of
this administration if it closes with the i'm
prsonment of man for the attempt to
bribe Secretary. In the London Times
there are published from time to time by
the authorities of the British Treasury ac-
acknowledgements of the receipt of what
is called conscience money" Some
man or woman who has dcfrauded
the government, made miserable by
the pangs of conscience, sends the
money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and requests a public acknowledgment OF
the fact. 1t has been observed that the sum
in these cases is generally about one pound
or thirty shillings. 1t is tremendous effect
of conscience for it to reach five pounds.
| These facts have given rise TO great deal OF
regret that conscience does not sometimes
trouble q man who has stolen a thousand
pounds or fifty thousand pounds. 1t may in
the same way be deeply regretted that some
/ United States officer did not take up the
case of bribery against vile scoundre
( who had offered him hundred thousand
dollars. But tho three hundred dollar mar
is certainly better than none.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
War or the Cable Companies.

Only strict adherence to the rules as in
terpreted by the chairman at the late meet
ing of the directors of the Direct Cable Com
pany saved that corporation from being
overwhelmed in the interest of the ANAL
gamation scheme. By these rules the friends
of that scheme could not use the power they
really possessed to vote down their oppo-
nents. They have, therefore, resorted to the
courts for an order compelling the chairman
to count their votes in defiance of the rules
of the company. This is resisted by the
directors on the ground not only that the
votes are shut out by the rules of the COM
pany, but that the persons in regard to
whom it is claimed that they must vote as
the holders of certain shares are not the
actual or bona tide owners of these shares,
or have not given such evidence of their
ownership as the protection of other owners
requires Thus the case is fairly launched
in the courts and that war against the
Direct United States Company, WHICH was
threatened in the interest of the great ANAL
oamation has actually begun for litigation
of this sort is desperate trial who has the
longest purse.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Charity Going Astray.

The revelations regarding the Juvenile
Guardian Society cannot be contemplated
without pain. The people of New York
give nobly to charitable institutions. both
from the public treasury and from their pri-
vate purses, and it is discouraging to learn
that the money they intend for the poor is
pocketed on the way by those to whom it IS
Entrusted The secretary of this society in
forms HERALD reporter that out of twelve
hundred dollars collected and paid out on
orders in single month ''only sixty-seven
dollars and sixty cents went to actual
charity" the rest being consumed In
the expenses of distribution OF course
this must be an exceptional month yet 1t
;s abon,inable that there should be room for
anv such statement to be made. lie
further alleges that in November last out OF
reor,v one thousand dollars collected only
one hundred and thirteen dollars was
enent in the attainment of the ends ior
which the society was organized. The
balance was credited to expenses, com
MISSIONS" &c. 1t certainly will not encour-
ooe orr citizens to aid these organized
charities when they read such statements
and when they find the dispensers OF the
money they give to the poor paying unnec-
essary high prices for -four, coal ana other
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Lord Derby ON IN. E1tradis,on.

Lord Derby ON the Extradttion.
Somebody is mistaken as to the precise
source of the misunderstanding that re-
Gently arose between England and this
country in regard to the surrender of fugi-
tive criminals and the consequent suspen-
sion of the Extradition Treaty. Lord Derby
made statement on the subject yesterday
in the House of Lords in answer to a ques-
ton. and put it in way which seems to
present the United States as reced-
ing from false position. and thus
opening the way for England to
revive the operation of the treaty. On this
side the ocean it is not understood in that
way. 1t appears in this country that Her
Majesty's government unwarrantably refused
to continue to surrender criminals because
the United States refused to make, with re-
gard to certain criminal. pledge that had
never been made or required under the law;
and that England, after deliberate examina-
ton, concluded she had made mistake,
and revived the operation of the law. 1t
may not be q matter Of the greatest conse-
uuence how this is understood in different
countries, but if perversion Of the facts is
necessary to protect the dignity of one gov
ernment correction is perhaps due to the
dignity of the other.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Carnival Cnpers.

The long and delightful story of our cor
respondent at the Court of the Carnival
King will make many man, no matter
what his politics, wish that, in spite Of
returning boards and bulldozers, he
had been yesterday citizen Of Louis
lana and visitor at the State cap
ital. Fun reigned supreme, and governors
and legislatures ceased for the day to tor
ment the public mind. Even Jupiter Plu-
vius was vanquished by Rex of the Car
nival when the jealous old god tried to
intimidate his rival by dropping cold water
upon him. His Majesty was pleased to
be followed by representations of the
arms of all ages, but with the ex-
auisite taste born of true royalty he
spared his admirers the infiiction of any re-
presentatives of the Louisiana militia among
his armed followers. AS night approached
His Royal Highness went off duty and con-
fided his responsibilities to his cousin
Comus, with what brilliant success our
dispatches attest. The humorous youth did
not for an instant forget that true fun
always rests upon shrewd sense, so in
rapid succession he displayed to admiring
eyes history of the world, written in char
acters that even the wayfaring man and the
fool could read. Like all great historians
his record abounded in surprises; his tab
leaux of 'the Dark Ages" did not present
the figure of single carpet-bagger; venus
and the Satyrs" gave no hint of modest lady
stared upon by hotel loungers; none of his
Crusaders" prayed in barrooms and broke
the heads of liquor barrels; ''Science" and
''Religion" dominated over ''War," instead
of having war between them, and partisan
electoral tribunal did not appear in the
tableau of "Our Follies." Like wise
prophet, Comus regarded the signs of all
times and concluded his display with an
.Apotheosis of Woman" emphasizing the
same by presenting it in ballroom. If, after
perusing the story, the delighted reader
cannot about the next carnival breathe in
faith John Gilpins prayer, MAY be there
to see, he can, at least, hope that Rex may
display himself another year in our own
fun-loving city.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Shepherd CowIev sticks.

The Rev. Mr. Cowley, the late shepherd
of the Childrens Fold, who retired from
the immediate management of that charity
a short time since, still claims the privilege
of ruling over its interests in the character
of a trustee and refuses to yield his posi-
ton in the Board. If the charges made
against Mr.. Cowley were sufficiently well
established to authorize his removal from
the resident management of the institution
they ought certainly to disqualify him from
acting in the capacity of trustee, and as the
city of New York mainly supports the char
ity the people have q right to insist that
Mr.. Cowley shall have nothing to do
with it. The management of the
Fold requires to be completely reformed,
and this must be done through the trustees.
Mr.. Cowley thought proper to rent four
story brown stone house on one of the best
streets up town, where the rents range from
eighteen hundred to two thousand dollars a
year. 1t made a handsome residence for
the shepherd of the Fold, but is not in any
manner fitted for the accommodation of his
flock. much more roomy and convenient
house Tor the purpose could De nlreo iurther
up town on the east or west side for five
hundred or six hundred dollars year,
whore the children would have play
ground for air and recreation and where
the Fold would not be a serious injury to
the adjoining property. There are other
evils of Mr.. Cowley's management that re-
quire to be broken up, and it is not de-
sirable that their author should be allowed
as trustee to pass upon his own acts.
The New York herald., 1877-02-14
Specie Paym q N Is.

We begin to despair of any action by this
Congress on the important Message Of Presi-
dent Grant. The counting of the electoral
votes so monopolizes attention and interest,
and is consuming so much time, that it will
be difficult to get the appropriation bills
through previous to the final adjournment
on the Sd of March. Night sessions will be
necessary for this purpose during the short
residue of time after the Presidential
question is decided. There are good
reasons for thinking. however, that
even under existing legislation early
resumption is practicable if the
new administration should be courageous
enough to make the attempt The Secre-
tary of the Treasury has full power, under
and half per cent bonds at not less than
par in coin which may be necessary for re-
deeming the greenbacks. The four and a
half per cent bonds are slightly above par,
and it is contended, with considerable
show of reason, that he could dispose of
them for greenbacks provided the green
backs were taken at their coin value. What
the President recommended was a law
authorizing their exchange for four
per cent bonds without regard to
the premium on gold. 1t would
answer almost equally well to take them at
their gold value in exchange for four and a
half per cent bonds. This would. indeed,
swell the interest account somewhat. but
not to any large extent. because very mod
crate withdrawal of greenbacks would bring
them to par The withdrawal of fifty mill
ions would probably suffice, and half
of one per cent interest on that
amount would be bagatelle in
comparison with the incalculable ad-
vantages of sound currency. But it is
useless to discuss the subject in detail at
present for the outgoing Secretary of the
Treasury cannot be expected to take the
subject in hand. But when the new admin.
istration comes into power it will be its
duty to examine it's powers under the Re.
sumption act and determine whether it can.
not restore the currency to the specie stand
ard without new legislation.