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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08
The Herald Weather Service.

The interest awakened in Europe by the
success of the HERALD storm warnings proves
how important they are considered to be
to the interests Of commerce and agriculture
on that Continent. AS announced in our
Paris cable letter this morning, NJ. Lever
rier, the distinguished director of the Paris
Observatory, has publicly rendered his con-
eratulations to the HERALD at general re-
union of the learned societies in Paris He
also stated that he had instituted an in
uuiry as to whether the Observatory should
not avail itself OF the HERALD weather SER
vice. This prompt recognition by the
scientists Of France of our meteorological
labors encourages us to continue them with
increased zeal and care. The terrible storm
that swept over the British Islands on
Wednesday last, particulars Of which we
print to-day in our London cable letter, was
duly predicted by tho HERALD on the pre-
vious Friday morning, and we gave warn
ing by cable five days in advance Of the
storm. We feel just pride in pointing to
these successes marking, as they do, new
enterprise in journalism which has been in
itiated by the HERALD.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08
Tweed's story.

Some time ago it might readily have been
judged difficult if not impossible to have
extracted any grain from that well threshed
straw, the history Of Tweed. From first to
last that history has now extended through
many years, and has been SO written and re-
written that the public might be deemed
excusable if it called for rest on that topic.
But in the story we gave the other day the
subject was presented with freshness and
piquancy that gave it the interest of novel
ty. That story, as our readers know, was
reprinted by us from Hdrper's Weekly, and
it was certainly feather in the cap Of the
conductors Of that journal; for if there is q
success that the cultured journalist pecu-
liarly appreciates it is one that he gains
while it is equally within the reach
of all others, and for which he is
indebted mainly to his acute perceptions
and his skill. Several criticisms are made
from different quarters that are intended to
impeach the accuracy Of that story. They
are, in great degree. contradictions of points
of detail, as the error in regard to the house
from which the escape was made and in re-
gard TO the hour. 1t is quite likely that the
story may be inaccurate in many such par
ticulars and yet be substantially true. There
is no doubt that the Messrs Harpers are sat-
istied that it is true, and if it be alleged that
| Tweed has deceived them in order to secure
the publication Of a romantic story that
would help his case, it must be remem-
| bered that his case is not in the hands OF
the public, but in the hands of men who are
not to be affected in that way.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08
Dumping Money and Crcma tint
Garbage.

A waggish correspondent has sent us
communication on street cleaning, which
we printed in yesterdays Complaint Book
He says 1--WE all want clean streets, and
we don't want contractors to lose money,
nor do we wish to be continually making
the heartless inquiry, where is the money
dumped?" This is quite true and suggests
the propriety of immediate action on the
part of the Street Cleaning Bureau officials.
They should without delay advertise for pro-
posals from the kitchen maids of New York
and Brooklyn for the cremation of the city
garbage Such course would at once
popularize that scientific bureau and afford
superb facilities for chemical research at a
cost of something less than thirty thousand
dollars. A joint board Of kitchen maids and
bureau scientists could sit every Monday
and Friday for the discussion Of cremation.
and splendid papers could be read at these
sessions on the effects of combustion on the
fibrous texture of cabbage stumps, the ashy
residue of full grown CATS or the tempera-
ture necessary to destroy tr,china spiralis in
piece of diseased pork. The officials
should not hesitate to adopt this sug-
gestion through difidence in their own
scientific knowledge. The kitchen maids
would supply all that is necessary-the gar
bage, the chemical knowledge and the
stoves. Our bureau officials could then
draw their salaries with the calm conscious
ness of having performed their duty, and
adverse public opinion would be silenced.
A reaction would set in and serenades and
applause would follow abuse. Perhaps tho
magnificent results of this simple expert
ment might bring about in time the ap-
pointment of kitchen maids to the sole
charge of the Street Cleaning Bureau and
the Health Board. Then, indeed, we might
look for cleanliness, both in and out
of doors, and the cremation of the city
garbage without first dumping thirty thou
sand dollars to find out how it was to be done.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

The advertising columns Of the HERALD
quintuple sheet this morning present the
most convincing evidence of its popularity
and prosperity. People seek in advertising
the best medium for making their wants
known or calling attention to their
ability to supply those of others, and
are guided in its selection by an un-
falling test which none but great paper
such as the HERALD can satisfy. We
need only point to our quintuple sheet
to-day to convince our readers that
the HERALD is the best medium for every
class of advertiser. Our immense circula-
ton alone guarantees this in a manner that
admits of no doubt. Every want that enters
into the daily life Of the merchant, the
mechanic. the farmer or the financier finds
some one who advertises in the HERALD
ready to supply it. The paper is at once
great business directory and purchasers
guide. The heaviest transactions of trade
and the simplest inquiries pertaining to the
household find their places in our advertis-
ing columns.
In comparing the evidences of the present
popularity and prosperity of the HERALD
with those of the corresponding period Of
last year we have most gratifying exhibit
TO present to our readers particularly for
the last two Sundays Of March and the first
two Of April. On Sunday, March Is, 1876,
we printed ffty-four columns of advertise
ments. For the corresponding Sunday in
1877 we had ffty-six. On Sunday, March
25, 1876, fifty-two columns for the CORE
spending day this year, sixty-four. Sunday,
April 2, 1876 sixty-three columns Sunday,
April /, this year, sixty-six. Lastly on
Sunday, April O. 1876, We printed seventy
one columns, and to-day we have nearly
seventy-six solid columns filled with infor-
nation for every reader of the HERALD in
the form Of 1891 advertisements, five
Of which occupy nine columns. These
mass Of our patrons as those devoted
to the current news Of the day. because they
touch on subjects nearer to their immediate
welfare. Although we do not publish quin-
tuple sheets every dag, still the pressure on
our advertising columns is as great on week
days as Oh Ouuuuys. IL lo"Aity WIG au'ci-
tiser derives the same benefit from his
business announcement on week day as
on Sunday. His advertisement is classified
as carefully and displayed as fully and
correctly as in our quintuple sheets. This
is done without any reference to the number
of advertisements that may be printed, the
same rule applying to all days. The mean
ing of this quintuple sheet is, therefore,
that the HERALD has steadily grown in pop
ularity and prosperity. 1t fulfils every re-
quirement that the advertising public can
demand, and is patronized on that account
by every one who has an object to serve by
advertising.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

The WEArHER.-The southwestern depression
already noted in the HERALD is assuming very
extensive area, and now covers the whole region
OF the Mississippi Valley from the Gulf to Da-
kota and Minnesota. The depression is divided
into two areas at present, but will form only one
during this morning and prove n great
storm. Already heavy rains and snow
have fallen along its longest diameter.
The heaviest rainfall has been LOS inches at
Lcavenworth and 1.72 inches at Vicksburg.
High southerly winds prevailed yesterday on
the Texan coast. The pressure in the Southwest
is decidedly low. An area OF high barometer is
now passing over the lakes and st. Lawrence
Valley, following the depression Of Wednesday
townrd the Atlantic. The latter disturbance is
now moving off the coast of Nova Scotia,
attended by rain area. Bad weather
NAV be expected on the North British
coasts on Tuesday or Wednesday next.
The temperature continues high in the
South. moderate in the Atlantic, Central and
Western districts, and low in the Northern or
uppcr lake and Red River regions The Ohio
and Central Mississippi have fallen. All the
ufi,er rivers have risen. including the Upper and
Lowcr Mississippi. The weather in New York
to-day will be cool and clear or partly cloudy
followed toward night by warmer and threaten
ing weather, and later By rain, in advance OF a
stoKza.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

that number necessary as that he will fire a
single one with that object. All the bullets
from the smaller pistol entered the mans
breast within space that biscuit would
cover, and the course they pursued in the
body indicates that the weapon was held as
it would probably have been held in the
act of suicide
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

THERE Is No PROSPECT that any steps will be
taken in the Legislature this session to provide
labor for the unemployed, so the workingmen
are spared a new disappointment. Legislators
who make propositions in this direction are usu-
ally demagogues or fools, and the sooner the
laboring classes realize this fact the they
will cease to he tricked by false hopes into voting
for any man on the ground that he is 'thc work
inomaus friend"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

THERE Is No END to newspaper letters and
other complaints about the price of milk. Why
do not the compliments cooperate by neighbor-
hoods to supply themselves Hundreds of farm
crs would fight for the chance Of sending them
milk, so they could enjoy all the profits and do
their own watering.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock market
was quiet, with but little doing, while gener-
ally better tone prevailed Gold continues steady
Mt 1O5. Governments are also very steady,
while railroad bonds are irregular. Money loaned
up to 8 and per cent on call, but closed at 2
per cent on call
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

ANOTHER SPIRIT has been materialized. It
was u ghost which infested n house ut Babylon
L. l., and was rapidly dcpreciating the price of
real estate and frightening the credulous when
some one bcthought himself to touch the spirit
when, like all other similar apparitions, it proved
To be n human fraud
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

GENERAL BUFFERS REMARKS to n representa-
tive of the HERALD will interest every one who
realizes how closely the General observes men
and affairs and how shrewdly he estimates BOTH
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will be discussed by Mr.. Howell. Messrs.
Bungay and Pollock will talk on temperance.
Our London and Paris Cable Letters.
The two capitals this week regard the
principal topics of interest and discussion
from very different standpoints. London
is dismally pessimist over the chances
of peace in the East, while Paris is good
humoredly optimist about the protocol.
The English look complacently at Bis
marck's retirement in high dudgeon,
being glad enough to have him out OF
power, but the French see in it as many
woes to France as Achilles fit of the sulks
brought upon the Greeks. They proba-
bly, like to know where the willy
man of "Blood and Iron" is If
they were sure he was under the Foreign
Office thimble they would be moderately
satisfied, but when he becomes an
unknown quantity up the sleeve
of Fate they are troubled indeed.
From the great to the little we slide. Bis
marck gives place to O'Leary and his great
52O-mile walk. The vicissitudes Of the
plucky Weston will stand for more impor-
lance with the thousands who put pedestrians
above premiers than the tribulations of oil
the Kaisers and Won Stosches in Christen-
dom. The difference between the two
walkers is not so great after all,
when we consider how far above
the powers Of ordinary mortals is
the performance Of either. 'Cinq Mars, !"
we learn from Paris, is not all
that was expected Of it. 1t is
said to be full Of "reminiscences
Of his former works. Little Patti again
appears occupying the attention OF kings
and such like. The Vienna story that
the Gear sent an Envoy Extraordinary
to the angry prima donna, asking her
to join the Greek Church and become Rus
sian subject, SO as to obtain an easy divorce,
seems to us to put an unpleasant face
upon what was doubtless q solicitude
about the diva's spiritual welfare. We have
had enough of such stories. 1t is OF piece
with the unfounded statement that the Rus
sian fleet was sent here to attend the opera
bouffe We have no doubt that when the
Muscovite State papers OF the period are
given to the world it will be found that the
Admirals instructions in the matter solely
referred to proselytizing "La Perichole. :
The young artists Of London and Paris are
on the anxious seat, not by any means
an easel. The hanging committees
of the Academy and the Salon
are destroying the hopes of some
and filing the hearts of others with JOY.
We have theatrical, musical and literary
gossip in abundance, SO that all our readers
can find something to amuse them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

THE LONG ISLAND POLICEMAN LowEREE was
more merciful to his victim than his fellow Off
GERS in New York might have been; he took the
mans money and watch, but he did not club him
mt all, and yet he caught him asleep and where
no observers were present.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNrANs, in
national convention assembled, solcmnly disown
the Molly Maguires Now let them prove their
assertions by their works and set private de-
tcctives upon the track of the scoundrels who
have directed so much suspicion to the Order.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

AS POSTMASTER JAMES prompt quadrennial
settlement with the government is an absolute
novelty why should it not be patented and spe-
cal local rights sold to public officials through
out the country?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

WITHIN Few MONTHS the expenditure
of the Board of Health has heen nearly as
much for stationery as for disinfectants and the
application thereof No wonder that people i'm
agine the Board work to be stationary, too.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

THE NEWEST THING in bargains in real estate
is described under ''Real Estate Frauds" and
would-be buyers would do well to read it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

Our ARTICLE ON 'eVETERAN PASTORS" would
seem to show that snglcncss of devotion to
ones fellow men is conducive to longevity. But
if this is true why are there not more venerable
editors!
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

From orr reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ,ccather IN Mem York today iciN be
cool and clear or partly cloudy, to'lo'ced to'ca'd
night By scarmer and threatening iccdther, and
later by rain, il. adpdnce Of Storm
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08
QUINTUPLE SHEET,
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL s. 1877.
NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS.

The Adams Express Company special newspaper
the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections
leaving Jersey City at quarter mast fonr NJ daily aud
Sunday carrying the regular edition Of the HERALD far
West a. Harrisburg and Sonth Washington reaching
Philadelphia 1t quarter past six A. NJ and Washington
onep T..
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08
THE "BLOOD AND IRON" RESIGNATION.
Bismarck Unmoved by the
Kaiser's Prayers.
OLEARY'S GREAT VICTORY.
Five Hundred and Twenty'DIiles in l4l Hours
Against WeStOn'S $40 Miles in l43 Hours.

DRAMATIC AND oPERATlc DoINGS.
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ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

wALLACK's THEATRE-MY Awful DAD.
UNION SQUARE TaEATRE-THx DAsrcHErrs
FIrTH AVENUE THEATRE-TnE PRixcEss ROYAL
BOOTHS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ACADEMY OF MUsIC-Ux BALLo IN MAscHERA
NIBLo's GARDEN-ASrosr AND CLEOPATRA
EAGLE THEATRE cRowx THoRss.
ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-PaINrIScs
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-Mlss MUTTON
BROADWAY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DAucHrsA
BowERY rHEATRE-AzuRisk.
PARK rHRATRE-Oun BOARDING HousE
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUsE-vARIgrY.
OLYMPIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
THEATRE COMIQUE-vARIKrY.
HELLER's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE-vARIErv.
NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM CUrloslrIE.
rIvOLI THEATRE-vAEiErr.
San FRANCISCO MINsTRELs
EGYPTIAN HALL-vAKixrY.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM.
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
GrLMORE's GARDEN-CIRcus
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LONDON, April 4 1877.
The protocol and Bismarck's resignation are the
leading topics in England this week. The English
papers have not the courage to congratulate them
selves on the anticipated efficacy OF that wonderful
document, the protocol. The Spectator says, 1.-THE
mouse is born and very little 1t is. The docu
ment, however, will be the great factor Of coming
events.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-08

Mr.. Lloyd will present the mai features OF
jacobs midnight struggle with the angel SO
familiar to Bible readers. The rich fool.
who would lay up all his treasures here and
make no provision for the future life. will
occupy Mr.. Kennard's attention, while the
disunion and union Of the Christian Church
will be discussed by Mr. Howell. Messrs
Bungay and Pollock will talk on temperance
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-01
Don't Worry about Yourself.

To retain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from anxiety concern
ing disease. The mind has power over the
body--forapersontoth think he has disease
will often produce that disease. This
We see effected when the minds intense
ly concentrated upon the disease of u
other. We have seen a person seasick,
in anticipation of a voyage, before reach
ing the vessel. We have known people
to die of cancer in the stomach, when
they had no canoe in the stomach or any
other mortal disease. A blindfolded
man, slightly pierced in the arm, has
tainted and died from believing he was
bleeding to death. Therefore persons
should have their minds diverted as
much as possible from themselves. 1t is
by their faith that men are saved, and it
is by their faith that they die. As a
man thinketh, so is he. If he wills not
to die, he can often live in spite OF disease;
and, if he has little or no attachment to
life, he will slip away as easily as a child
will fall asleep. Men live by their
minds as well as by their bodies. Their
bodies have no life Of themselves; they
are only receptacles of life-tenements
for their minds, and the will has much to
do in continuing the physical occupancy
or giving it up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-01
Something about Torpedo Boats.

The torpedo boat is a particularly
American idea. It was in 1776 and in
New York harbor that the first torpedo
boat was launched. David Bushnell, an
American Captain of Engineers, under
took to plant a torpedo under q British
man-of-war, but did not succeed. The
torpedo was to be attached to the bottom
of the vessel by means of a wooden screw,
and then fred by a clockwork-fuse. Dur
ing the following year a drifting percus-
sion-torpedo was directed against a
frigate lying off New London, and a
schooner that was moored alongside was
destroyed. Thirty years afterwardR Robert
Fulton experimental in New York har-
Dor with four classes of torpedoes of his
own invention, and in 1843 Col. Samuel
applied. electricity to the ignition of sub
marine batteries. During the civil war
torpedoes of American invention were
used in the Southern waters, and nine
iron clads, eleven wooden war vessels
and nine transports and steamboats, were
destroyed. The only weapon of this
kind which have yet been used by the
Russians Oh the Danube are spar torpe-
does, like the one which Lieut.. Cushman
put under the bottom of the ram Alder
marie, in Roanoke ;ulet. The man who
made that torpedo is the inventor of the
improved engine or war which was ex-
hibited recently at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Whitehead torpedo, which is re-
garded abroad as q marvel Of ingenuity,
is propelled by compressed air, and can
not be controlled after it starts on its
course. The Lay torpedo boat carries
in it's hold it's own engine and boiler,
besides it's freight of 100 pounds of dyna-
mite. The engine, the rudder and the
exploding fuse are under the control of
the operator on shore. There are three
keys playing on the battery on shore,
and these keys start and stop the engine
or turn it to port or larboard. The tor
pedo may be so arranged as to explode
by the operation of the keys or by con-
cussion upon striking any hard object.
When the torpedo strikes the vessel or
any other solid substance, a bell is rung
in the office on shore, and the dynamite
may be exploded or not. The velocity
which is claimed for this torpedo seems
marvelous--twelve miles an hour.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-01
The Turkish Arsenal.

A correspondent who has visited the
arsenal on the Golden Horn remarks
thai it is difficult to comprehend that
one is in the chief arsenal of a great na-
ton engaged in q tremendous war when
one sees the listlessness and apathy of
every one concerned. Anew months ago
there were 5000 people employed there,
but their numbers have been reduced to
1000. Krupp guns, which should
months ago have been at the Dardaneles
and on the Bosphorus, IRE peacefully
slumbering, side by side, with other
guns looking at them. Several wooden
frigates and corvettes are being fitted
out, but the work on them progresses
very slowly. A fine iron-clad is in course
of construction, but it is impossible to
predict when she will be finished. In
England she would require 1000 or
1900 men for six or nine months, but
the Turks have only about thirty men at
work Oh her, and they wander about
listlessly, as if the consciousness of their
utter uselessness weighed upon them.
Very little material is visible, though
they are believed to be tolerably we'll
supplied with it and the workshops,
steam hammers, and so forth are really
good
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Music in The Russian Army,

There is only one band to each
division, and it affords music at inter-
walls, but the spirits of the men are
cheered on the way by their W songs,
in which they give vent to their en-
thusiasm with a goodwill and melolious
expression which is quite enlivening.
At the head of each battalion are three
drummers, and in the van are generally
a score or more of good singers. First
one strikes up q solo, whose not I'M
pleasant air is listened to in silence, and
then the company III unison and
harmony take up the chorus, the drum
mcrs joining in, while the refrain swells
along the whole line in q manner which
is emphatically warlike and grand.
Sometimes where the musical element is
strong and solo singers rare, a soldier
with the c%larionet plays the solo, then
all the others, with the drums, take up
the chorus. The songs are often very
spirit-stirring, and the heartiness with
which they are rendered. tells how deeply
the feeling of the men lave been stirred
and the spirit in which they" are march
ing to meet the enemy. This singing is
maintained through the march, and the
effect is as pleasing as tits inspiriting.