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The New York herald., 1877-10-25

iox and kill him before he has time 10 leave the cover
IN which case II becomes necessary TO hnd another
Iox y possible. Generally, however, Reynard gets
away enough 10 advance OF his pursucrs TO lead them
Rooa run, and by clever turn upon his
own tran, or by adroit trick worthy
OF MS proverbai shyness, no eludes the
pack ana saves his bacon for that day at least The
hounds are guided simply by SCENT and they lose
me iran nave 10 be put right again by the nuntsman,
whose Keen sight or ingenuity generally detects the
course taken by the anekwitted fugitive. The man
a9ement of the pack during hunt given. after the
huhtsman himself. 10 FIRST aud second
.'whipper IN" whose duty 1t is TO keep
Tagging or faulty hounds up to their work and 10
chastse any offending animal who may perchancs 20
oil on the trail OF stray rabbit or hare When after
successful run, the fox Is at last overtaken the
huntsman, who 10 usually at the head of the neld
dasnes IN among the pack, and. beating on the ds
dsounts cuts OF the head ieet ash OF the fox
throwing the body TO tho pack their reward. The
trophies then distributed to the hunters generally
Ia regard to the order Ia which they have come up
the 'brush' being Claimed by the rider who Is first
to sch the 1nish
1t necessary say that this sport presents largo
element Of rsk to the hunter. IL ~ estimated by o
sportsman tnat the deaths from tails, &c. amount TO
ten twelve in = season.
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
LACROSSE.

AN ATTEMPT TO NArURALIZE THE GAME IN
THIS coUNrRY--ITs ADVANTAGES OVER OTHER
GAMES.
The New York University Is attempting TO intro
duce the game OF lacrosse In this country, and es.
pecally among colleges. IL is claimed that the
game has decided advantages over football, and Is
particularly fitted to become . college game. Base
ball has TO great extent fallen into the hands Of pro-
fessionais Football has too many elements Of rough
ness. Lacrosse combines safety, excitement and
grace. IL Is easily comprehended by the spccta-
tors, and ID beautiful and Interesting 10 look ate
II requires 10 be vol played with graceful dodg,ng
ana running, in this respect far exceeding football
II requires steady eye quick action and cool dctcr
mnation. 1t may be played owing to the vgor Of It's
exercise, IN tho coolest weather.
These arc lew OF the advantages claimed for the
game by It's advocates, and II IL hoped that other col!
Icgcs IN this vicnttyPrinocIoD, Columbia, Stevens,
Rutgers and New York-will not be slow following
the example Of their university brethren In organiz-
Ing lacrosse CLUBS
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
A SAILORS CRIME.

THE FOURTH oYFIcER or BRTMES STEAM.
SHIP ARRESTED FOR STEALING ELEVEN THOU
SAND DoLLAEs' WORTH OF DIAMONDS.
Special ofrcer McGrath, Of tho Tenth police pre-.
cnc last ght brooqht to the station house Theodore
j. T. Myer alias George Cook fourth officer OF the
Bremen steamer Koen. charged with stealing from
the strong room OF the vessel package containing
diamonds worth $ll, 600.
Tho Kosn arrived In this port on tho evening OF
September 2s ana tho fourth oiccr lcls The ship as
contrary 10 usage. 1t was not thought that there
anything suspicious IN t. on the day following tho
second ocer Of the snip In looking about the strong
room where valuable packages were kopt missed a
package that he know contained diamonds. Alarmed,
he rushed 10 tho Captain and an immediate
investigation was held. The continued absence OF
Mycr, being his first trip on the steamer, at last
aroused the suspicious Of tho officers, aud they felt
justified In forcing open his statoroom ln u were
found ample evidence Of his being the person who
took the missing diamonds Pieces OF paper In which
the package had been wrapped wcre scattered about
well as the seals with which tho package had been
sealed The robbery was reported to the police, and
Pinkcrtou's agency was employed to nnd The missing
man n possible. Nyer, or Cook. was well hidden,
however, and all Efforts to unearth him proved iruit-
less. The police OF tue Tenth precinct have
been exceedingly reticent, particularly Captain
Foley, who declined last night to make
any statement OF the case. man called
upon Foley some days SINCE u Is learned and stated
that the missing diamonds were In his possession
Tney had Doen given him by Mycr to keep tor him,
ma at the time they were gwen wore carefully
wrapped up He was also TO d tho story OF how they
had boen taken from tho ship by Mycr The man
wnosc tue police will not reveal also showed tho
hiding place OF Mycr who was last night arrested aud
locked up fbe property has been recovered with tho
exception OF about $500 worth OF diamonds tnat arc
still mlssiDg ihe package contained "A lot OF dia-
tnonds from l 32100 TO y carat, 90 diamonds 3-l8
carsts, 81 diamonds carat, 40 diamonds carats aud
81 diamonds oi y carat There was also PACK age OF
plaslna wire worth 5000
The New York herald., 1877-10-25

RACING Al INDIANAPOLIS.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. "a, 1877.
This was the second day ot tho meeting At the Capt
tol city Drving Park In the AIS olass Badger Girl
the hrst heat, silversdss coming in second
aud Coxclto third. Time, $50. Tho second heat
Won by Cozsttc, Slversides second, Adelaide third
1inO, 2:3Uh. The third heat resulted In victory
for Adelaide, silversides second, Deception third.
Time, 20. Adelaide also the fourth heat,
Badgor Grl aud Silversides making u dead heat
second place. Time 2 3l. The nfth was dead heat
between Deception aud Badger Girl, Adelaide third.
Time, 2:33
In the pacing race, the DYst heat was by Sleepy
George, Bay Sale second Sucker state third. Time,
2:2S. Second heat-Bay Saline hrst Rowdy Boy sec.
ond. sleepy George third. Time, 2:22. Thrd heat
sleepy George ana Bay Sac made dead heat tor first
place, Lucy third Timo 2:25 FOurtn heat-Swect-
ser FIRST, Lucy second, Rowdy Boy third lime, 2:23.
Filth neat-Lucy first, Bay Saliie second and sleepy
George third. Time, 2:2d.
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THE YALE GAM rs.

NEW HAVEN. Oct a. 1871
Tho Yale athletic games were witnessed to-day by
about throc hundred spectators Tho 100 yard dash
was won by Brown, OF the Scientific School, IN lois
seconds; the bigh jump, by Captain Thompson, Of
the University crew, at 8 u. IN; throwing the
baseball, by Hutchinson, OF the class Of 80, the
distance ocing 34ltL l,in. tue hall mile run by
Stokes OF the class OF 79 IN I'm ISIS The two mile
walk by Cleaveanu, OF the Scientific school. IN Ism
los the tug OF war by the class oil rs against the
class oil 10 and the scentncs oil 80 against those of
Isl; the 440 yards dash by Brown OF the Scientific
School IN 81 seconds ana the throwing the hammer
by Captain Thompson, VINO tuns Il dgft. TAin.
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GRECO-ROMAN WRESTLING.

An "athlstic tournament Including exhibitions OF
,irmco. Roman wrestling, boxing and gy
cses viii take place at Turn Hail. Nos 20 and 0s East
Fourth street to-day The entertainment will DO un-
der the management Of Professor Louis Friedrich,
who will bs assisted by several wel known proies-
sionaI gymnasts. Richard Berger, Oscar Schneider,
Robert Stadted Robert Berger, have entered Tor
the Graco- Roman wrestling match, the prize IN which
wlll a gold medal
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
MORGAN 10 MERRITT.

HARLEM Oct q, 1874
/ hereby challenge Mr.. Edward Merritt, OF tho
N. Y. A. c., to run q milo Saturday af.
tsrnoon, November o. at i've o'clock, for gold medal
RICHARD MORGAN, ii. A. u
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BASEBALL.

The Alaskas, OF this CITY, aud Choscas, ot Brooklyn,
played their home and home game the Capitolino
Ground, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, IN the pres
encc OF several hundred spectators The New York
ers were the vctors by . score Of to IN eight
ing game, darkness preventing the nnish.
To-day the professional Harfofds play the amateur
Wokas the Cap,toiine Ground, and the Aiaskss. VI
Staten Island, at West Brighton tomorrow.
Al ST LOUIS the Brow MS scored 2: Bostons, o.
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GRANITE STATE PARK RACES.

DovKR, N. H., Oct -, 1877
The October meeting OF the Granite State Park
opened to-day.
In the 2:2S race for purse Of $780, 1ve heats we're
trotted.
Chestnut marc Clara J. won two, gray mare Lady
Daegetl and chcs nut gciding Frank Muns0n two.
Tine, 29-23l--2:3l 4-2:29
The race WAS postponed until tomorrow.
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
WALKING EXHIBITION.

Harry Thatcher, an English champion walker. CON.
menced a privalc cxhioi,ion OF speed last night In
the large saloon OF the Napier House. OF Mas
ssu and Fulton streets. He viii also walk against
time tonight ana tomorrow night at niue
O'Clock esch evening; He invites all Interested
last walking TO b. present
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL.

Hon. Daniel Dougherty, OF Philadelphia, will de-
liver lecture on Sunday evening next, at Cooper
Institute, IN aid OF ST. Francis Hospital Fh street,
subject "rhe Stage As IL should Be" The ability of
the lecturer, the popular title and tho deserving SUBJ
ject are . suro guarantee OF success.
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
WHITE PLAINS DRIVING PARK.

Nearly thousand people Witnessed the trotting at
the White Plains Driving Park yesterday, being the
second day oi the fall meeting. The 800 and 2:45
purses were on the programme. Alter Eve heats in
tho former It was postponed until to-day at one
O'Clock.
SUMMARY.
wHIrE PLAINS DRIVING PARK. Ocr. "a, ls7L-SKcoSD
DAY or THE FALL MRsrNG.-Purse 800, for horses
that never peat three minutes; $50 TO first. $50
second aud $40 third h0rse mile heats; three
The New York herald., 1877-10-25
FOX HUNTING NOTES.

Next Monday there will DO o hurdle race at Hunt
ington lor horses hunted with the Queens county
hounds The distance VIII be about mile and a har
ana tho weights will be something Ike loo pounds
gentlemen riGera IL 10 understood several OF tho
horses now beng hunted viii run
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POTTSTOWN DRIVING PARK.

SECOND DAY or THE SECOND FALL MEETING
SANS soUCI AND o. A. HICKoK THE WIN
NERs
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
PorrsTowN, Pa, Oct. ~, 1877.
This the day OF the second fall trotting
meeting OF the of tho Pottsown Driving Park
The weather was fine, the track In superb condition
and the aitenaanoe a sigGt improvement on that Of
the previous day. Appended are the
SUMMARIZES.
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TARGET PRACTICE.

Bosroy, Oct. "a, 1871
At the annual turgct shooting OF tho state miiitIa
At south FraminghaM yesterday, the Charlsstown
Cadets won tho nrst prize and the Roxbury Guy
Guard tho second.
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COACHING CLUB.

The autumn parade OF the Coaching Club will take
place without iail on Saturday October ~ at half
past three O'clock, from the east side oil Madison
square.
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SAME DAY.-Prrse 500, Tor horses that beat
245 $50 hrs $3 to the second and $50 to the third
horse; mile heats, three in i've, IN harness
X. Johnson's b. H. Cora Observation-Disclosures. l
q. II. Marshaii's b. m. Cora M.............. N.
W. II. Hathaway's br. IN. Grant owners Boy.
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-27
SLEEPY HOLLOW.
ger of bre;

Col. Latham Z. Strong writes to the Troy
Budget from Sleepy Hollow that the neigh
borhood Is still regarded by superstitious PEG
pie as still haunted. About two miles from
Tarrytown, in the depths of the hollow, is a
! spot which the bravest of the inhabitants dare
not cross after nightfall In an open space,
surrounded by trees, it is said that there are
to be seen at dead of night witches and war
locks without number, and pale figures and
phosphorescent lights are beheld by any one
who has the hardihood to remain near the
place after midnight To the left of the old
bridge across which Ichabod Crane was ruth
lessly pursued by the headless Hessian is a
romantic sheet of water known as Pocantico
Pond Its banks are shaded by weeping
willows, and by it stands the old mill referred
to in Irving, who says in the days of Wool
ferts Roost sit was indeed goblin-looking
pile, shattered and time-worn dismal with
clanking wheels and rushing streams, and all
sorts of uncouth NOISES" It is truly the same
appearing old rookery to-day. Col. Strong
says: eff it is more ancient than ever, it is
still more interesting with its moss-covered
roof under the grand old sentinel willows that
surround it, since Diedrich knickerbocker,
seated upon the old mill stone, had long
chats with the African sage Carl within it's
historic walls. When [ was there a red-and-
black butterfly shook the dust from its gor-
geous cloak on the window sill, and the mere
glimpse of it recalled the frey whiskered Kidd
in slouched hat and red mantle, leaning in
quiringly from the window where his ghost is
reported to guard the treasure buried some
where in the neighborhood. Within these
walls he and his pirate crew are known to sit
all in row, with faces rigid as pictures of
Miles Standish, till the tall clocks in the man.
sons of the worthy burghers strike in unsion
the hour of four in the morning, when they
suddenly disappear to the Changing of chains
and tapping of sails, sounds that have been
heard in the morning breeze"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-27
HAYES AND THE KU KLUX.

The Lost Cause is the Common Cause of
the Southerners There is a monopoly of
opinion at the South. The poor white trash
have none; the blacks would not be permitted
to express any if they had ever so many.
When Hayes's agents made terms with the
agents of the Lost Cause at Wormley's they
committed him to full cooperation in the
reconstruction of the Confederacy, other
wise known as the Solid South. The Presi-
dency was made to declare war upon the Re
publicans of the rebel States. This war was
made easier of declaration because the Repub-
icans of the South had been disgraced with
epithets A gentleman can no more afford to
dress in rags than party can afford to be dis
tinguished by contemptuous nicknames In
stead of sympathising with the carpet-baggers
skallywags and ''niggers," Hayes surrendered
them, in body, to the mercy of the South.
The President aids in a movement which null
lilies the Fifteenth Amendment. The late Sal
mon P Chase represented the bastard Repub
hcanism which finds championship and illus
tration at the hand of Hayes The dispatches
state three significant things, namely: That
Hayes says he will do nothing to prevent the
completion of the Ku-klux plans in the Sen
ate; that Matthews, his agent and relative,
is believed to be in sympathy with that plan;
and that Patterson declares he has most ex-
cellent reason for his course. It is evident
that Hayes is going the whole figure. The
Rebels have got something on him" We
suspect that Hayesism, quite as much as Ku-
kluxism strengthens the conspiracy which
finds Conover and Patterson where they are
The pressure on ConoVer is the stimulant of
fear. His cowardice has been aroused 1t is
''your money or your life" with him. The
rebels have in their hands the political machi-
merry of Florida. Part of that machinery is
the guillotine Conover values his head Pat
terson, being poltroon, would rather be pill
loried in the eyes of every honest man in the
nation than endure the consequences of his
rascality in South Carolina Hayes is also
held in terror. Wormley's Treaty bound him
hand and foot to the Solid South Tilden on
the other, he stands between two fires If he
takes any part in the Senate conspiracy it will
be to influence Patterson and Conover to stand
with the Solid South. That, we believe, is
the secret influence that Patterson hints at.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-27
CALIFORNIANS TUNNELLING THE
HUDSON.

From Jersey City to New York tunnel is
in process of construction under the Hudson.
Singularly enough, the enterprise owes its orr
gin to some well known Californians. The
Sun tells the story as follows: The Hudson
Tunnel Railroad Company, as the corporation
is called, had its inception in an incident that
is not generally known. On a cold and stormy
evening in March, 1873, party of wealthy
Californians and others, on their way home
ward from Washington City, whittier they had
been called by the second Inauguration of
Gen. Grant, were temporarily storm bound at
the Jersey City terminus of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, by reason of the floating ice that
filled the river and impeded the passage of the
ferry boats. An adjournment to Taylor's
Hotel and an impromptu wine supper grew
out Of the Impotence of detention on the part
of the Californians, and at the convivial board
one of the, party, San Francisco capitalist,
experienced in mining schemes, proposed, in
view of the serious delay to which the party
had been subjected, that they form on the spot
a stock company for tnnnelling underneath
the river bed, and begin work as speedily as
possible. 81 am with you" said another. at
will be great and arduous undertaking, but
it must remunerate US in the future and more
over earn for us the gratitude of pesterity.
Here is Col. Haskins, who has successfully
tunnelled the Napa river, and constructed the
greatest mining fumes in California what
does he think of it 2" Col. Dewitt G. Haskins
attractive to men who had passed their active
lives in the prosecution of bold and colossal
enterprises there were other mechanical en-
gineers at the festive board who concurred
to the capital stock were taken OR the spot.
with accompanying memorandum, and thus,
to the clink of glasses in Taylor's Hotel, the
Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company came into
being Col Haskins was elected President of
the company. Mr.. E. H. Payne, one of the
engineers of the Brooklyn bridge, is the con-
sulting engineer and nearly all the New Jer-
sey directors are well-known civil engineers
wi. lEOlu
the Jersey City authorities for the use of the
foot of Fifteenth street, from the waters edge
to Jersey avenue, at once employed large
number of laborers, and began to sink the
shaft about midway beneath the Pavonia and
ferries. The ground to be worked
was entirely made land, the river having been
filled in to this point in the then recent extern
sion of the shore line, and the shaft was built
upon the novel principle of constructing cir
cular brick shell, thirty feet in diameter, which
should steadily sink through the loose earth
by its own weight, as fast as it was built upon
at the top This device worked admirably,
and now, at the depth that has been reached,
twenty odd feet, such is the strength of the
brick lining that it might be lifted out of the
shaft and rolled on the ground, with no dan
ger of breaking
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-27
A CAMP MEETING.

A correspondent writing from Macon:
Georgia, describes negro camp meeting as
follows: ''It was night, and under an extern
sive leafy arbor aswaying mass of black forms
oscillate to every passing emotion, while
torches of pine throw yellow glare around
and under the canopy, and cast long shadows
on the ground outside the covering. In front
of rough stand used as pulpit is small
enclosure, thickly strewn with leaves and pine
straw, and in this enclosure the favored few
lie in frances or shout prophecies, and tell
what wonders the Lord has done for their
souls Around the enclosure a multitude of
men and women form the holy dance In
this the men turn their faces outward and the
women toward the center of the circle, and
taking hands each step in time to the hymn
that all are singing. Their singing is wild
and weired, and yet there is charm in the
song of negro, who untaught, sings in strict
time and with full, round tones that seem to
well up from the heart. It is like the mourn
full whoop of our 'whippoor will. Your cor
respondent has seen a negro woman carried
from the holy dance in such trance, as they
call it, that her body was perfectly rigid,
not bending in the least, although
one man carried her head and the
other her feet, and she lay in this condition
several hours While these poor deluded
creatures were wallowing in the straw before
the pulpit at this camp meeting, one old
woman, very Enthusiastically dressed, with
queer bonnet covered with plumes of various
colors, broke from the altar in holy frenzy,
and ran shouting from under the shelter.
Just outside the arbor she climbed to the top
of tall, burnt pine stump about five feet
high, and there she stood, and tapping her
arms much as fowl would its wings, she
cried out: 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory
to God! Glory Glory!! If 1 just had
two wings and few more feathers on my
head I'd fly away to Glory "
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-27
PRINTERS AND PENNIES.

The leading dailies of San Francisco have
cut down the price of composition from 60 to
90 cents. At the same time several of the
printing establishments have reduced their
force. The Pacific Life is at loss to know
what this means; and after discarding certain
theories says: We believe the real cause will
be found in the ruinous competition which
has prevailed between the daily papers of this
city for several months past In the one i'm
portant item of advertising they have been
cutting under each other to such an extent
that this source of their income has been fear
fully diminished. They have, moreover,
driven all notions of advertising out of the
heads of many leading business men by their
opportunities for their patronage. They have
set loose an army of hungry advertising solic-
appeals, until it is impossible for man to in
sert a card in one daily or weekly paper with
out having the whole pack at his heels before
he has opened his morning mail. leading
journal with a great circulation, need have no
occasion to send out men to drum up business,
and when it does so it is not what it repre-
itself to be-" Reviewing the question of in
Producing pennies into San Francisco the
same paper says: awe can take the recent
reduction in the pay of the printers as an ex-
ample of how valuable part the penny could
be made to play in the income of the working
man. When the proprietors of the Chronicle
told their employees that their compensation
would be-reduced from 60 to 80 cents Ga re-
duction of 163 per cent? the latter sought to
compromise by submitting to a rebellion Of 50
cents "a reduction of 81 per cent?. This was
not entertained, and the printers had to sub
NIT Now, if we had the one cent coin in
circulation here, if a reduction of wages were
inevitable, it would hardly be attempted on
the part of an employer to reduce wages 16
per cent. at one step. While the reduction of
81 per cent g cents) might not have been
satisfactory, reduction of 10 per cent, 6
cents thousand ems) might have been. The
printers then instead of earning so cents
thousand, would be receiving ID cents. But
as it was a question simply (under our system
of making change) of dropping down five cents
more or nothing, the printers had to suffer.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-27

The Sentinel deals plainly and truthfully
with fact when it says; Stanley Matthews is
dodger. He lodged the vote the other day
which was taken looking to immediate action
in the case of Butler from South Carolina
The public official, and especially the one in
legislative position, who strives to sneak out
of any duty devolving upon him, or who re-
fuses to shoulder the full responsibility of his
acts, is the meanest of all political frauds.
Trimmers, who look for the popular side of
public measures are usually cringing things,
unworthy of confidence or respect.