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The New York herald., 1878-02-20
PROPOSALS..
PROPOSALS FOR CAST IRON WATER PIPES
CRY or BosroN. CRY H.

CITY Boston. CRY HALL.
. BOSTON WATER BOARD OFFICE, Feb. 16, 1873
o'clock NJ Of Tuesday the st day March, 1878 for sepa
Proposals for CAST Iron Water Pipes Tor tho Cochit-
I'd Proposals for Water Pipes for tho Mystic
Department"
And ut that time and place they will be publicly opened
and read.
Bidders required in their proposals their
by the bidder and accompanied by written bond Of re-
sponsbie person giving his place Of business residence
isac,ory security Tor its pcriormancs within tho time
specified this the
satisfactory collateral security in the be
deposited with said Water Board.
Tho to whom tho contract NAV be awarded will
be required to execute the contract within
including Sunday from the date of noticato OF such
award and the preparation and readiness Tor signature
The delivery Of the pipes the contract to com
the second before May 1878 aud to be-
completed for the first tho LIST dAv August
1878 =" ''' A'' S"' u 'a'y'
The estimate of quantities required. aad by which the
bids will '' e'"D'FfS Ffasf 4 as oSsTnicr 'SilGT.
80 3, tons of ie M inch p,.po. class
go go -. i :. " /. 4.
40 40 E.
SECOND CONTKACr
SsS Sso tons ..' Of 90 80 inch ne pipe class 4.
% :. special castings
M ems may be obtained and plans at the
The of security required will be such sum as NAV
be fixed by the Water Board after the are
said sum not to be less than onefourth
half of the amount Of the contract;
The Water Board the right reject any or all
proposals. should deem to be Of the city
TIMOTHY T. SAWYER.
Chairman Boston Water Board
The New York herald., 1878-02-20
NATIVE AND ALIEN BANKRIJpTs

decision in bankruptcy was rendered Yesterday
by Judge Batcnlord In the petition OF George watson
and David Bcrtan copartners. asking To be adudgcd
bankrupts. Watson Is citizen Of Newport, but Bcr.
tan Is citizen OF Canada. The petition was opposed
by The Union Bank oi Canada, creditors oil the nrm
Ihc Judge decided 10 grant the petition SO iar as
Watson concerned, but denied II IN the case of
Bcrtan The decision reviews at considerable 9Th
tho law OF bankruptcy IN Its relations TO aliens.
The New York herald., 1878-02-20
CRY FROM STATE PRISON.

An application was maae yesterday by Mr.. William
F. kintzng TO the Court Of Appeals in session in
Albany, for the discharge from the State Prison. at
Sing Sing of q convict named Carl Lesser who IS un-
dorgoing an imprisonment Of two years upon q con-
victon Tor false pretences, his trial having taken
place before Judge Gderseeve, at the October Term
Of tho Court of General Sessions 1t Is now claimed
by his counsel that his conviction was illegal,
Tho facts presented upon the trial showed that
the accused with his "pal," !" made purchase
oi some jewery, giving In payment post-dated
check upon the Chemical National Bank for $3.50,
which subsequently turned out to DO worthless. Upon
these facts Mr.. kintzng contends The crime false
pretenccs cannot be predicatcd because there
false representation OF an existing iact winch Is
OF the essential elements Of the crime, and tnat
false made by tho accused that
he mad money Ia tho bank ut tho time oil tho pur-
chase, but that he would have at some future day.
He argued At length the proposition OF law, that In
order 10 convict there must DO at least direct
and positive lase assertion TO some existing mat
ter by which tho victim induced 10 part with his
money or property aud that the false representation
complained oil against the accused prom ssory IN
It's nature and cannot be held the foundation of
. criminal charge. District Attorney Phelps repre-
sented tue people, arguing that the In
all respccis proper and no deserved Alter
hearing the respective counsel the Court reserved It's
decision The case involves INTEREST," ny and novel
question oil criminal iaw and the decision OF The
Court VIII be anxoIsy looked forward to by the legal
profcssI0u.
The New York herald., 1878-02-20

cerbraed Locust Mountain Coal, delivered per ton
ppDs from IhNdfords yard. 9th st Oth
'TN''"'
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French Business Women.

The editor of the Baltimore American
writes from Paris: In examining the
French department great many of
the depositors appear before the jury
accompanied by their wives, who take
an active part in describing the mode
OF manufacture of the goods, and ex-
patiate most volubly on their superiority
and the uses for which they are intended
In many cases it is evident that the wife
is the master mind of the establishment,
and knows more about the business
than the husband. Ii is a well known
fact that there are few really prosperous
business men in Raris who do not owe q
great deal oftheir success to their wives
Indeed,there are very few establishments
in Paris, wholesale or retail, in which
women do not occupy'most of the inn
portant positions of trust and response
bihty. In many of the largest and
most successful establishments the wife
is. the principal business manager.
American merchants who come here
annually TO buy goods state that they
transact most of their business with the
wives of the merchants, who are gem
orally on duty in the wholesale houses
during business hours. When purchas-
ing goods nearly allimportant questions
are answered by the female clerks or
saleswomen, the male clerks being
mostly engaged in the handling OF
goods, leaving all the brainwork for the
women. In many eases the wife Is
called upon to make agreements or
answer questions when the husband Is
present, indicating that she was the
brains of the establishment. There can
be no doubt that the average French
woman is superior to the average
Frenchman in business tact and enter
prise, as she is also superior to him In
physical development and address
When passing the small stores at night
the wife is seen at the desk, pen 10 hand,
keeping books, and thousands of the
smaller stores of Paris are kept by
women. They'undoabtedly have great
business capacity, energy, and enter
prise, and take more than their iuu
Share in supplying the means for the
maintenance. cf the. household A
Frenchman remarked in our hearing the
otherday that he believed there are as
many woIrien in. Paris who support their
husbands as there, are husbands who
support their wives.
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= $500 n 4 ~ - -
STRENGTHENING in Paris.

1t is an interesting sight to take seat
on the top of stfeet-car at an early
hour in the morning and witness the
cleaning process that every thing is un-
dergoing. The housekeepers bring out
all their rubbish and pile it up in the
street, one pile for every four or five
houses. 1t is no sooner emptied than
the rag-pickers, who swarm the streets
with their bags and buckets and hand
carts, pounce upon it and gather all the
fragments of paper, rags or metal to be
found in the piles. They are so numer-
Gus that there is a scramble on every
street, and they move from pile to pile
a, if their lives depended on their ac-
tivitv. They seem to take away one-
third of the RUBBISH Servants are
everywhere to be seen with broom and
bucket in hand cleaning off the fronts,
The streets are being sprinkled With.
hose, and an army of men and women,
with birch-brooms, are sweeping the
streets. On the, bouieTards, horse
brushing machines are IN motion, and
the garbage-carts are removing thep piles
thrown out by the housekeepers. Wa
ter is turned on. in, all Sthe gutterss and
women are engaged in washing them.
down. Men with hose are watering al
the roots of all the hundred Of thousands
of trees on the boulevards, and taking
up the gratings SO as tofoosen the earth
around them. All,for nearly all, this
work is being danesby the city authori-
ties, and by 9 O'Clock the city is as clean
as broom and brushcan make it.-Parts
Letter to Baltimore american.
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THE ELECTORAL INVESTIGATION.
Proceeding. of the Potter Committee.

proceedings OF the Potter Committee.
The Potter COMMITTEES held a session in
New. York on the 18th, ana examined ex Gov.
Palmer Of Illinois. Gov. rAlmer went to New
Orleans Nov. Is. 1873. and was chosen chair
man ef The Deanocratic Visiting committee.
Alters their orghDizatioa be called on Gov.
kellogg and Gov. Wells anu urged upon the
latter the necessity for filling the vacancy in
the Returning Board. Gov. Wells professed
to feel great dislike for the local Louisiana
politicians of the Democratic party, and ex-
pressed an unwiflingness to filling tine va
cancy in the Returning Board. Anderson
always expressed his desire to fill the
vacancy, but Said he was unable to agree
withthe' other members as to who should be
selected The witness found, from statements
OF some colored men, that many OF the par
lsnes had been good deal disturbed; their
school money had been used up. and Demo
cratic politicians had made many promises
totheTn to capture the colored vote. Gov.
Nichols had obtained the respect of the col
Ored people down there more than.any other
Governor he knew of. and more than Gov.
Packard. The witness had conferences with
Gen. Garfield, in which he urged coalition of
the two delegations, so as today the facts be-
fore che country. Witness asked the Board
that when returns from any parish were
poIled be be given the result, but they would
not consent to do so until they were com
pleted- He also asked permission from Gov.
Wells to enter the compiling room, but was
refused, The witness thought SOME Republf-
cans had access to that room, thong CHIT he saw
MI. haze OUT OF lHtIe. lie saw Eliza
Pinkston when she was brought into the
room by two men, and her condition was
certainly horrible. He had heard Mr.. Ascher
say that Judge Levissee stated the election
was fraud, and if he could have 100000 he
would give his vote to Tilden. II the witness
were asked If the election in Louisiana. was
fair he would say not. The sense of the peo-
pie there was that Tilden and Nichols were
elected. He had heard of no prosecutions
against parties charged with committing the
Pinkston outrage. He said to Gov. Wells
and Gen. Anderson that the Tilden Electors
were chosen, but they (the Board) might,
on a fair consideration of the question,
come to a ditfereIft conclusion, but that this
conclusion should be arrived at on -ev1-
-dence that could be clearly put before, the
public. The witness satisfied himself as &c
the preparation of the Pinkston outrage by
inquiries, and told Gov. Kellogg that II
these things happened in Illinois he lthe
witness) would bring the parties TO punish
ment, or he would leave the State. he be-
lieved that the people would have been salts
fed with the Packard Government if they
thought he had been fairly elected. After a
few unimportant questions, Gov Palmer's
testimony was closed, and the committee ad
journed till the 18th of August. unless sooner
called together.
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The H0neJ-Bee.

The honey-bee is the emblem of order
and industry. The queen is the mother
of the whole hive, and her eggs become
males, females and workers, Orneuters,
which last make the combs and cells,
| and collect the honey. The queen pro-
duces some thousands of workers, and
then males, which the workers. kill at
the end of summer The workers at
tend the queen with anxious respect. II
she die, they raise new one by various
arts from a working worm. Two queens
can not live in the same hive, and one is
destroyed The females or workers
have a sting, but the males sor drones
none. In proportionate size the. queen
bee is eight and one-half, the male seven
and the workers six---Aquesn will lay
200 eggs daily for = fifty Of; sixty days,
and the eggs are Matched IN three days.
The workers are five days in the worm
state, and in twenty days, they become
bees. The males are six or seven
days in the worm state, and twenty
four days in becoming perfect bees. A
queen is five days in the worm state, and
in sixteen days is perfect. = When eggs
aresconverted into queens. the, old queen
destroys them, or if there are two young
queens they fight until one has killed tie
other. One autherasserts that single
queen has produced 100000 bees IN, a
season. Every thing depends on The
workers; they collect the honey, make
wax and build the combs; they supply
the worms with food and protect the
entrance of the hive, separate business
being performed by classes. There are
about 5000 cells in comb of foot
square. Their first purpose is as nurser-
les for the young and they are then
cleaned and filed with honey. Five
thousand bees weigh pound. Twenty
or thirty pounds of honey are generally
got from hive; sometimes eighty or
100 pounds, and even more. A swarm
of bees contains from 10, 600 to 70, 000inl
q natural state and from $4,000 70 49,
coo in hive. All the experiments on
bees prove that love for their queenand |
her progeny is the sole stimulas totheir, |
persevering industry; Their Joy, grief, |
and other passions are distinguished in \
the tone of their rhuihmifrg, which 10 I
them are articulate sounds. ~. -s~.E III
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The President has appointed Henry c.
Linn, OF Kansas, agent for the Indians Of
the Kansas Agency, and David Kern, of
Illinois, agent Of the Indians Of the Crow
Agency.
During the months Of April, May, June
and July the sales Of 4-per-cent bonds have
reached a total Of Sl1s,O00,0OO, Of which
about S4s,0OO,0O0 were by private subscrip-
ton.
The Internal Revenue Department has
Instructed Revenue Agent Chapman, Of
Greensboro, n. C., TO visit the disafected
districts in North and South Carolina and
confer personally with the leading citizens,
for the purpose Of securing their sympathy
and aid in enforcing the revenue law, IL pos
sible, without resort TO arms. Distillers
are 10 be warned that all infractious Of the
Lave will be promptly punished when dis
covered, but at the same time the Govern
ment is disposed to treat leniently all guilty
parties who show disposition hereafter to
deal honestly with the Government.
Washington, ID. c., was visited by ter
rife storm on the afterri6oR a the 5th.TA
large nurnheref buildipsS We unf6Dfed
ard several struck by lightning. y -
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

c@HtsAai anu A1ittfaLqa
Three hundred delegates from for
eign- countries attended the Literary
Congress Ia Paris.
DIR. &c. HollsAd, lives on PINE
clad promontory 1t Thousand Island
Park, on the. st. lawrence River. E
-Mayne Reid, some years since 4
popular writer of novels and stories for
youth and a resident of New York, is
now engaged in the more lucrative oc-
cupaton of sheep-raising in England.
.r1Mr. Robert t. S.Lowell, brother
James Russell Lowell, and himself
poet and author al. no small powers
proposes to break a silence of nearly 20
years duration by the publication of
novel and poem.
Col Higginsou describes Turge-l
neiff as having the most distinguished
appearance of any literary man he has
ever seen. To say that he has Long
fellows face upon Summers figure gives
a rough impression of him. isfi
A copy of the Mentz Bible, printed
by Gutenberg in 1855 -ibeing the first
book ever printed---was sold at auction
in Paris last June for $4,000 Il is
printed on yellum, but is not quite per-
feet, several portions having been re-
stored in fac-simile.
"A recent visitor to Westminster Alb
hey noticed two bouquets of handsome
flowers upon Dickens's grave, and be-
side them more affecting tribute to the
dead lSnovelist---a little posy of dog
daisies and wild hyacinths, slightly
faded, as if it had been brought from q
distant country lane in a bot, ungl0yed
hand, -.
Rev, w.. Il. Miitburn, the blind
preacher, has returned to this country
after. an absence of two years in Eng
land, Scotland, ireland, and Wales In
the course of his travels he.delivered coo
lectures and sermons. Mr.. Milburn in
tends to lecture the coming season on
what he saw in England and Scotland.
I'm a letter to the Rev. H. Seymour
of Northampton, Mass, the late William
Cullen Bryant wrote g In two calendar
months from the time of beginning with
the powers of the Greek alphabet had
read every book in the New Testament. F"
Such rapidity in Greek was ahead OF
that recorded by Macaulay and John
Stuart Mill in regard to themselves.
The Hon. w, E. Gladstone, of Homeric
fame also, does not touch it.
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science andIndustry.


The rear teats of a COW produce a
milk richer in cream than the forward
ones. .1sE.a.t - ~
"A Connecticut plow factory is max
ing 5000 plows to. fill an order from
South America.
Tile ice factory in Knoxville is turn
ing out seven tons per day1at one cent
per pound. ol g., ,..a,r ,, .
+ 1.-The aggregate value of the petro-
leum exported from this country was
$62, 900, 600. In 1861 it was 81 100000
A cotton-mill with 10000 spindles
and employing 200 hands will begin
operations in Vancluse, S. c., in, Octo-
Der. .... 90
An Indiana farmer advises planting
few hills of broom-corn, as experience
has taught him that for tying shocks or
binding fodder this is very much pref
cradle to Irvine or rye straw.
"A North Carolina inventor, William
A. Weant, of Davie County, ha2con-
structed a switch which gives the engi-
neer of q train power to close it without
stopping, fit has been,left open before
him. .--.-.,.U 49, 81
-Wisconsin's offer of $4,000 for. II
successful steam road-wagon has pro-
7duced one which has hauled wagon
weighing $500 pounds over the 201
miles from Fort Howard to Madison in
80 hours, or over six miles-an hour.
Miss Bertha Olsen is superintend-
ent of Silk Society" in Rockville,
Kane County, Utah. The society owns
lot, has planted 10000 mulberry cut
tings, besides large quantity of seed,
has built silk-house, and has raised
plenty of eggs from five dozen imported
silk-worms.
Wood peeling-that is, stripping
the bark off oak and larch-is a business
in Scotland. Between May and July
some 1900 men, women and children,
chiefly Irish, have been employed at this
The wages, which in the last 10 years
have been more than doubled, range
from so cents to 81 for men to % to 80
cents TO children, but large importations
from abroad have diminished the price
of bark cote 25 per cent.
The cultivation of the opium poppy
which has hitherto been exclusively con-
fined to the East, bids fair to become !
thoroughly established and remunera-
tive in Eastern Africa. Seeds of the
best Kinds have been imported from
Malwa into Mozambique, where $4,000 !
acres of uncultiYated State land have !
been granted to a company with CAPT
tai of 5000, 900 for the purpose of culti-
waiting and trading in opium. 4 I- "a
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Hans and ,risbaIppas.

At Holly Springs, Miss, during a
recent storm, James Briggs, aged 16,
and Louise Malice,aged IA, were struck
by lightning.
At Hagerstown, Md, at a pigeon
shooting match, Samuel Donahqe, aged
80, was shot dead accidentally by VIM.
Cokenour.
AT Thornton, Ind, Tom Casey, aged
16, while carelessly handling arevolver,
shot himself in the abdomen, fatally.
Oscar Kinney, aged II, son of VIM.
S. Kenney, of Davis County, Iowa, was
frightfully lacerated by reaper, and it
was thought his injuries were fatal
AZ Lanaconing, Nd, Mary Pritch-
ard, aged 10, was killed; Robert Dick.
aged ~, probably fatally injured, and
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Tho loct,,re business ;s in tho NJ.

The lecture business is in the main
managed by two concerns-one in New
York and one in Boston. The latter
makes contracts for concerts and operas
as we'll The manager says that only
the most attractive lecturers are now
much in demand, and that dramatic
readers find more favor than formerly.
Last year Beecher travelled $4,000 miles
and lectured 139 times. He has already
arranged dates for next season. Wen
dell Phillips spoke 100 times, and, next
to Beecher and Cough, made more
money than any other lecturer. Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore received $4,000,
and is travelling in Europe to recuper-
ate. Helen Potter, with readings and
limitations, also did well. Burdette, the
Burlington tHatokeye humerist, leetured
1l3 times. James i. Fields, Gen.
Banks, and Robert Collyer had all the
calls that they could respond to: The
odore Tilton had his own agent, and is
said to have cleared $4,000 Fsi
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-p,,r,o,f .Ioobn w. Mears. writing

Prof. John W. .Mears, writing of
college rowdyisrn, says that it is almost
wholly connected with the dormitory
system, and that it is kept up. because
students think they must do as students
have done before them. He adds: "No
circle in America is more dominated and
tyranized over BY, established opinion.
The inwiliingness of individuals to differ
from :. classmates and cohegemates
amounts, to a clear case of moral inabil-
ity That independence which would
be applauied as manliness in other cir
clesis liable to receive the deepest brad
Of -unpopularity here"
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GENERAI-

Rref. Riley has organized a special COM
mission of entomologists 30 investigate the
cotton-worrn. Besides Prof. Riley, il con-
kEfFof Prof A. r. Grote, of Buffalo, Prof.
ia. Comstock, Of Cornell University, snd
several local observers The work, khich is
already commenced, win be continued until
.eald weather, and resumed in the spring.
Fhe worm, accordingfOA Prob Grote. is not
y INDIGENOUS 10 the Sovsh, fut esms.ffsin the
West Indies and Mexico, where the plant is
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School and Church.

"A Boston minister of the sensation
al order takes steamboat load of peo-
pie down the harbor of a Sunday to an
island, and there breaches a sermon to
them, all for round-trip price.
-Four successive speakers at the
Pan-Anglican Conference the other day
were: their -lordships of York, Eng
land; of Bombay, India; of Saskatche-
wan, North America, and of Bloemfon-
tein, South Africa.
The Bishop of Manchester says that
some of the English clergy are so poor
that they do not taste meat more than
once or twice week, and are glad to
get the cast-off clothing of their parish
toner's.
Mrs. Patterson, wife of the Rev.
DR.. Patterson, of the Highland Univer
salist Church in Boston, will not 90 to
Europe with her husband this summer,
but will supply his pulpit while he is
absent. She is said to be fine off
hand preacher.
DIR. Payne, now President of Ohio
, Wesleyan University, formerly pegged
shoes for his living in Providence, Il. l.
He is one of the most popular ministers
in the Methodist Church, and has been
pastor of several of the most fashiona-
BILE churches.
The best of our American colleges
bear no comparison in the strength of
their faculties with the German uniyer-
stiles. The University of Leipsic, for
the present year, has corps of 1913 pro-
fessors, 46 tutors, and So assistants.
This university has $500 students.
In Great Britain there is an ordain-
ed minister for every 673 of the inhabit-
ants. In this country about 700 is the
number that falls to each preacher.
China would require more than 100000
ordained missionaries to stock it in the
same proportion. DR.. Duff estimated
that to fully supply India would require
the entire ministry of Scotland, and
many pious laymen beside.
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LCbicaeo claims a popnlafion of half

ambition, and her Bishop -Chepey,- ia
discussing church failures to reach the
masses, declared that only 5e,0ee We're
habitual worshipers in CHICAGO ssnetua-
ries. The Bishop recommended. large
and cheap places of worship, that poor
clothes would not soiieahd hat swonld
no. leave SO strong contrast-betyeenth s
six day and the Sunday homes Of the
poor.