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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

The attempt of Mr.. John Kelly, in the
new-fashioned parlance, to "bull-doze"
Mayor Ely into nominating Alderman Pur-
roy as Police Commissioner in place of
Mr.. Erhardt a republican member of the
Police Board, calls to mind the same die
tator's attempt two years ago to place the
criminal court and the public prosecutors
office in the hands OF Tammany partisans.
Recorder Hackett, u fearless, upright and
able judge, was to be superseded and Grim
inal trials were to be placed under the con-
troll of Tammany judge. himself under the
control of the Tammany leader The people
saw the danger of repetition Of an expert
ment which had proved SO damaging under
Tweed ana elected Recorder Huclsctt and the
whole anti-Tammany ticket by an over
whelming majority. II would BIO doubly as
perilous to allow Mr.. Kelly, not only to de-
stroy the non-p artisanship of the Police
Board but to place the control of the police
force and of the election bureau wholly in
the hands OF Mr.. Kclly's political servitors.
There is, fortunately, no need Of hurry
about the appointment OF Police Commits
sioner or Park Commissioner. The Com
missioners whose terms have expired hold
over under the law until their successors are
appointed, and the public interest does not
suffer by the delay. The Mayor is not likely,
it is said to send i'll any names to the AL
dcrmon to-day, and certainly he will never
destroy his reputation as business citizen
and faithful public officer by yielding to
Mr. Kellys unauthorized attempt to force
him into improper nominations.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

The extraordinary rise in the Danube,
due to the sudden melting Of the SHOWS
among its mountain sources, places barrier
to the advance OF the Russians in European
Turkey which is for the present insurmount-
able. This cause Of delay must, however,
disappear before the end of June, Mt which
time o correspondingly low level Of
the waters will facilitate the crossing
of the Danube at many points. In the
meantime sickness will undoubtedly visit
the Russian camps on the low lands OF
Roumania, rs it has already begun its
ravages among the Turks. The activity
OF the Montenegrins in Western Turkey
ably, and will probably result in the evacu-
alton of Bosnia and Herzegovina when the
Russians are ready to move into Bulgaria.
In Asia Minor the present Turkish position
may be considered hopeless. The Russian
army has now 50 completely invested it as
to render retreat on Erzeroum question
of only few days. Mukhtar Pacha has
already withdrawn his headquarters to near
that city, and evidently meditates retiring
very rapidly. The disposition of the Turkish
army at the present moment indicates moth
ing more or less than retreat. The force hold
ing the Songalu Pass and Bardess is merely
the rear guard posted to cover the move
ment. This body Of Ottoman troops is
likely to be sacrificed to the safety Of the
main body, as it can scarcely hope to escape
if the Russians attack Mukhtar Pacha
simultaneously with their right wing at
Hassan-Kaleh and their left from Toprak-
Kaleh. Erzeroum, being an open town,
cannot be held by the Turks for more
than o few days, and then they will be
forced to seek new line to the southwest
ward. They will lose the road to Trebisond
when the Russians advance to Erzeroum.
It is announced that already Russian scouts
have been seen in the vicinity of the doomed
city. The fighting Oh the Kodor River, near
Soukoum- Kaleh, has been quite spirited.
The Russians have difficult task in main
tanning their communications open while
the Circassians are in active revolt. But so
soon as the Turks retire from their present
positions near Erzeroum the moral support
of their proximity to the revolted districts
will be lost to the insurgents. The fall Of
Kars must necessarily follow that Of Free
roum, as a fruitless defence could only be
maintained that would give the Turks no
possible advantage.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05
A Just Indfctm e mt.

It is with the utmost satisfaction that we
announce this morning that the Grand Jury
of Queens county have indicted Gaff,
Fleischmann u Co., the vendors Of poison
Gus swill milk. The HEHALD has exposed
the foul traffic SO completely that the
authorities could no longer remain blind
to the enormity Of the outrage perpetrated
on the community. Mr.. Bergh has also
taken an active part in bringing these heart
less torturers Of dumb animals to justice,
and deserves the thanks Of every humane
person for his efforts. Now, however, the
question arises, will these dealers in the
deadly swill milk escape UNPUBLISHED
through the loopholes of the law created by
juries com posed Of men of their own class !?
Our criminal records are filed with cases
in which men lost to all sense Of deoency, or
obtuse enough not to see their duty clearly.
have sheltered the most daring trans
gressors from the punishment due to their
safety Of the whole community is at stake.
If, through any failure of the machinery Of
the law, these men escape, the public health
will continue to be threatened by danger
at once fatal and disgusting. We APP
peal, therefore, to the citizens who will
try the cases of Gaff Fleischmann L. Co.,
and all Of their class that may be in
dicted, to remember that on their verdicts
depend the lives Of helpless infants and Of
the sick, and while dealing in strict justice
with the evidence that will be presented in
each case the interests Of the public health
must be protected and great and dangerous
nuisance must be abated.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05
Old Drivers and the New Cab Com-
pnny.

There is very little doubt that the new
cheap cab company will be n success so far
as the important point Of raising the re-
quired amount OF capital is concerned.
But there are other things just as necessary
as money to its popularity and permanent
prosperity. Good horses are needed to in
sure fair rate of speed low rates to bring
the vehicles within reach OF the means OF
the masses, and, above all, civil, ex-
perienced drivers who are entirely familiar
with the streets of the city. 1t would be a
wise stroke OF policy on the part of the
managers and stockholders OF the new cor
poration to enlist III the enterprise all the
present New York hack drivers, by giving
them certain amount Of stock in the com
pany on easy terms and hiring them as
drivers of tho new cabs. A driver might be
engaged By tho company, Tor instance, and
given share of stock for every three
months faithful service, up to q certain
some other plan by which the driver
could be made to feel and to have an in
tercst in the undertaking, would insure
good conduct and faithful work. By
employing the present drivers as body
tine company would sweep away from its
own path large amount of effective oppo-
sition, or ut least OF competition. The pres
cnt New York hack drivers are as rule
we'll behaved, obliging men, and they have
the great advantage OF experience in driving
on our crowded thoroughtares and OF an in
innate knowledge OF the city.
In Europe drivers are given in one shape
or another direct interest in the business,
and the policy is found to work well. One
London cab company admits the drivers as
stockholders, and tins gives them . pc
cuniary interest in the companys success.
In some instances large owners or combina-
tions in London and Paris hire out the cabs
and horses to the drivers at a stipulated
sum per day, with all necessary changes Of
horses, thus giving the driver the real in
tcrest in the fares collected. 1t is well tc
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

healthy dog acted in that way. Healthy
dogs only get into strange places under the
impclling power ,of their appetites. Here
there was no appetite to indulge: only an
instructive desire to escape from the light,
the noise, the movement OF the outer world;
to secure the silenc6, the tranquility, the
repose OF quiet place with an indifference
as to other points in the surroundings
OF the place. But if this taking
refuge is not characteristic of the healthy
dog it is pre-cminently characteristic
of the rabid animal, whose nervous system
is in such state of exalted function, whose
sensibilities to irritation are III such an ex-
aggeratcd condition that ordinary sounds
aud sights excite him to agony. This habit
of slowing himself in some refuge is part of
the history OF every case Of hydrophobia IN
the dog when he is free to wanderaway from
his home under the influence OF the restless
ness in which the disease begins. Three
recent cases of hydrophobia in men III this
neighborhood originated from bites received
in the effort to rid their premises OF
strange animals thus slowed in out-of-the-
way COIucrS. lulS Tule Is 50 ccrtuil tust1 ~
an unknown dog is thus seen hidden in
corner it is the greatest conceivable impru-
dence to go lear him. He should be killed at
long range. But this Hartford dog gave
other evidences of his condition. He had
paroxysms OF peculiar activity. He threw
himself against the walls, for his restless
ness was still there, but his disordered Wis.,
ion did not discover the obstacles, and he
dashed himself against them in q new at
tempt to run away from trouble. He bit at
the air also--that is, ut the phantoms of his
canine delirium. This dog was individually
mad. In an attempt to drive him out of the
house gentleman received several bites.
One month later this gentleman was taken
i'll. He exhibited in his illness some of the
more definite symptoms of hydrophobia-
symptoms that cannot be voluntarily pro-
duced. He died, and after death his body
was found in the condition that follows
death by violently spasmodic disease.
With all these as the plain facts Of the case
it has been bruited all over the country that
this gentleman was frightened to DEATH
that there was no mad dog, no hydropho-
bia, no disease at all--but only the results
Of morbid imagination.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

Our article on the history and character
Of the locust who has just put in his numer-
Gus appearance in New Jersey has probably
Gained the apprehensions of those whose
active imaginations foresaw the devastation
of the crops and trees. There is certainly
no danger to the crops and no danger to the
fruit trees and the locust, in fact, does
not abound in situations where most OF
these are grown. He may be found un-
doubtedly where fruit trees are-but he
shuns the broad, low valleys and the little
streams-perhaps because the waters drown
him out in the course of his seventeen
years slumber. He loves, on the
contrary the high, densely wooded ridges,
where he is out of harms way
from all such causes as afiiict him
in the valleys, not the least Of which
is the impairment plough that turns him
up unseasonably to the daylight and ex-
poses him to the attention Of the well known
early bird. Fruit growers and farmers may
therefore be confident. On the other hand,
they who have different tastes III tree Gull
ture, who care less for the little scrubs of
peach and ounce and apple trees and love
the splendid oaks, those "green robed SEN
ators Of mighty woods, have some reason
for inquietude, as the female member OF
this pestilent family may bore into many
branches to deposit her eggs, and the branch
bored dies.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
SayIcr boy OF Ohio is ahead
Bret Hartc IL in Washingt0n.

Saylcr boy Of Ohio is ahead
Bret Hartc Is in Washington
Deacon Richard Smith goes 10 horse races.
Psnncy and the drought still ravage California.
Edwards Picrrcpont is the most ridiculous thing.
II butter would only be as soft as that in winter
Mr. Theodore D. wooscy, Of New Haven, is at the
Everett
Secretary Eyarts returned to washignton yesterday
morning.
Pillow wants few sheets from Washington TO give
him comforter.
than any other State.
The sugar beat is lively. He lounges and he takes
Jumps from the top OF the barrel.
Boston Post ;.'A young man whowcnt to Texas this
spring tclcgraphs home. .Fatted cali tor one"
Dr. Rafael Nuncz president OF the State OF Bolivsj
arrived in this city yesterday by the steamer Etna
Governor Rice and the other niorscrs OF Collector
simmons of Boston, receiving much criticism for
Inconsistency.
Sir. Cross Of Pennsylvania, has new son for whom
no wants name. Call him Christopher, and then the
boys will think he is Chris Cross
In game 0! wis. tho Eric Railway yesterday
one man led tho Sultan OF hearts. but his opponent
trunpcd il with the Gar OF shovels
A woman thinks brave If nc only picks up
cockroach with his augcrs but sho doesn't think IL
requires auy courage 10 swear on lot Lnrec Weeks.
Nashville AmGicu,s:--.srhe NEW YORK HERALD
says with oi.nictalilc currency We should have
the advantage OF two OF supply. Well lots
oii some"
General Joseph Il. Johnston is childess In APP
pcaranco he Is much the during the war, ex-
ccpt that his hair and beard have whitencd and tho
burrows IN his face dccner
The watering Place season promises to 90 Lively. aud
the who nas only Sunday 10 spend tho sea-
side contcmplatcs the trouble OF getting bed ho
thinks 0! the cotter's Saturday night
A correspondent wants TO know how we prefer 10
purchase cggs--by the quart, pound or dozen. Per.
haps they better by tue quart for milk punch but
for domestic prefer them the way they arc
laid--by the dozen.
The shores Of tho PasJnc River Tor many miles
| lined With thousands OF sinking dead ish. Jersey
City IS interested In this water great deal Of tho
| milk sent to New York comes from this river VIC
learn, too that several Paterson gentlemen have ro
Gently signed the pledge, and would be criminal 10
discourage them in the OF water at this timo Al
any rate there Is death in the passac.
\ The Baltimore lmcricla;-''r Tho m ode ia which then
socallcd Jokes concoctcd is simple enough. Take
pound OF Burlon's wit aud Humor TO 1t add a page
Josh Bilngs' maxims. flavor IL with sDrinklng o
Artomus Ward kncad IS we'll with pcntcous quantity
| PhTnix Then let 1t simmer a slow ldre p no
brain, for few days; allow u to gradually COOL an,
serve up !nlnitesIma portions as required, with at
original sauce which totally obscorcs tho flavor which
ought properly 70 belong 10 isn
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

the city is now such that a movement to
make them pave and clean the streets would
be popular enough to give them good deal
OF trouble. The people of New York are
very patient, but Tweed and his fellow cor
ruptionists discovered that their patience
has limit. We have borne for many years
with delays and impediments to rapid tran
sit; but the long delay is telling upon the
patience and the temper of large part of
the people, and the. more because single
passage on the Greenwich street elevated
road proves to every man its immense con-
venicnce-the saving it effects in time and
trouble New York needs not one, but
three or four such lines. But for tho IN
scrupulous opposition of few men who
fear that they will lose if such lines are es-
tablished we might have had all we need
years ago, and tens Of thousands Of poor
women and children now crowded into tene-
ment houses would before this have been
decently, cheaply and comfortably lodged
in the upper part Of New York. The lack
of rapid transit increases the mortality OF
New York adds to its vice and paupcrism
puts every citizen TO daily loss OF time and
to constant inconvenience causes enormous
losses to the city Expresses the Industrious
poor drives off the island every year thou
sands who would like to live here keeps
down our taxable valuation /; and, in fact,
in every way imposes needless burdens
upon the inhabitants and the taxpayers. Let
MS know who ''runs" New York in opposi-
ton to the wishes and the interests OF the
great mass of its people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05
Indian Troubles and How to Meet
Them.

We publish to-day some interesting state
ments from we'll informed source about the
strength Of the hostile and semi-hostile In
dams in the Sioux country and of the outlook
in the far West for the summer months.
These statements confirm the opinions we
have heretofore expressed that the anticipa-
tons Of peaceful season on the frontiers
may be doomed to disappointment, and that
it will at least be only common sense pre-
caution on the part Of our government, while
encouraging the coming in Of the dissatisfied
tribes and making friendly overtures to all
who may be disposed to entertain them, to
prepare against such calamities as those
which befell Fetterman and Custer by max
ing our frontier force strong enough to
finally exterminate all who are resolved not
to have peace. In treating with the Indians
we are making no new experiment and have
nothing to learn. The red men understand
our Indian policy as well as we understand
it ourselves As long as their chiefs and
young warriors can go on the warpath in the
summer, massacring and plundering at
their will, and can lay down their arms as
soon as winter comes on and live idly at the
government expense until the next opening
of spring, just SO long shall we find Sitting
Bulls in the field and be periodically horri-
fed by such sad tales as those Of Fort Phil
Kearny and the Little Big Horn.
The outlook is by no means reassuring.
The lodges that have been coming in since
April prove to be mainly women and old or
incapable males, and the ponies surrendered
have been almost NIL used up, worthless
animals. It is an old Indian trick under
the name of surrender to get rid Of the
women and other encumbrances Of tribe,
so as to enable the young warriors to take
the warpath untrammelled. The absence Of
young, able bodied men from the incoming
lodges is marked. Four hundred bitterly
hostile lodges in the Yellowstone Valley re-
main outside, and will average three able
bodied warriors to a lodge. This force, if
driven, will pass into the Big Horn Noun
tains or cross the Missouri and join Sitting
Bull, who has besides two thousand braves,
with probable reserve from the semi-hostile
Fort Peck Indians of fifteen hundred more.
In the Fetterman massacre nineteen hun
dred Indians were engaged, and in the Gus
ter butchery thirty-ive hundred. Sitting
Bull is now likely to have with him forty
five hundred warriors this summer. The
statement of these facts from an authorita-
tive source ought TO be sufficient to put the
government on the alert and to induce it
while counting peace to be prepared to deal
swiftly, summarily and effectively with those
who are determined on war.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05
Hydrophobia or Fright.

Some time since q wandering, skulking
cur made his way into house in Hartford,
where he was not at home and not known,
and slowed himself in taking
refuge rs it were against the world and an
adverse destiny. In the whole history of
the race of dogs it would, perhaps, be i'm
possible to produce an instance in which q
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

let the driver feel that the business IS at
least partially his own, and then he viii be
civil, accommodating and honest. We COM
mend the suggestion 10 the notice OF the
Metropolitan Cheap Cab Company, for we
are certain that they could not do more
wise, popular or profitable act than to give
the present New York hack drivers direct
and valuable interest in the success OF the
new enterprise.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Thc stock specu-
laton continues active, the market being irregu-
lar. Generally there was decline, followed by
o rally, which, however, was lost before the
close. Government stocks were higher and in
good demand while railroad bondsfcll of. Gold
opened and closed at 1864, selling up to 1858
in the interim. Money on call was easy ut 2 per
cent, closing at L, per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

Nor ONLY New YORK but the whole country
has deep interest in the investigation into the
management of the Custom House now in prog
ress in this city. Yesterday several Of our lead
ing merchants presented their views and sng
gestions to the commission in regard to the
imposition and collection of duties and matters
Of detail generally, all of which will be found
fully reported i'm our columns
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

POLICE NoNsENsE.-On Saturday bank was
robbed Of bundle Of banknotes Now we
hear that the bank officers and the police are dc
sirous that the circumstances of the robbery
shall not become public, @ in the hope Of sccur
ing the thief" Nonsense; publicity in such
rases does not impede justice. The thief knows
he stole the money. He needs no newspaper
notice to tell him. The way to catch him is to
make every detail as public as possible.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

TIE YACHTING PROGRAMME for the season
will be found in other columns. Among the in
teresting features this year will be tho new cat
amarans, with which American yachtsmen are
not as yet very familiar.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

MIR. TnDEN AND Mr.. HENDRICKS, Governor
Robinson and Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimcr
will be given reception Mt the Manhattan Club
this day week, and it is announced that all the
war horses of the democracy throughout tho
country have been invited and accepted tho in
yitation. What does it all mean! Not, it is to
be hoped, rcopening of the Presidential cam
paign, is darkly minated. The people do
not want any more of that kind of business for
wear or two.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

THIS AFTERNOON the boys will enjoy free
swim, the Bureau OF Supplies and Repairs hav-
ing at last succeeded IN placing at least one OF
the public baths in position.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

The LIST OF CENTENNIAL AWARDS printed
elsewhere may be studied with profit OF the
entire number, 1906, citizens Of the United
States received more than one-third. Portugal
and Spain lead the foreign countries. The
figures show that there was fair play all around.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

From oar reports this morning the probabilities
are that the sceather IN New York .o-day uiN be
partly cloudy, or cloudy and rarm, aciM threat
ening indications toward night, possibly UiM rain
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

SOME GooD RACING may be expected ut Je-
rome Park to-day, if the weather is favorable.
The great events will be the Maryland Stakes,
the race for the Westchester Cup, and the
Grand National Steeplechase, i'll which many Of
the best horses in the country will run.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

THE SULTAN still takes fathcrly interest in
Moldavia and Walachia. The Turkish Minister
ut Washington has formally notified our govern
mcnt that, notwithstanding their rebellion, the
Empire will still protect their citizens abroad.
This is as much as the Sultan can do Just now
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05
Il r Up T. e SH Il # L
NEW YORK. TUESDAY, JUNE 5. 1877.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

IN future all advertisements presented Jar pub
Hcation after eight O'Clock r. N. sciH De charged
1ouble rates.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-05

THE TRAM WREcKERs Of Missouri are ahead
in cold-blooded atrocity. The attempt Sunday
night to destroy the train on its way to St. Louis
is almost without parallel in this or any other
country