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The New York herald., 1878-12-18
of Judge Hilton's indiscreet demonstration
in connection with the Saratoga hotel.
Murder in Mexico.

Our sister Republic clings to her unre-
publican modes of governmentwith curious
tenacity. The features of arbitrary rulers,
staggering soldiers and intriguing clergy
are preserved after every revolution.
Against ono class or the other the people
from time to time revolt, but change brings
no relief. 1t is strange that when they rise
up they do not make clean sweep and put
despotism of every shape out of the way.
The fact is that Mexicans are divided into
two classes-those who eat and those who
are eaten. Like the famous eels that got
used to being skinned. the Mexicans who
are the food Of the predatory classes do not
object to giving, SO to speak, leg or an
arm now and then, but are inclined to pro-
test when they are asked to contribute their
entire bodies to the official repast. Some
faint endeavor in the way Of petition
to procure the remission Of heavy
tax upon real estate and capital in the State
of Jalisco procured the entry OF a number
Of Jaliscans into prison, and mass meet
ing with the same object in the town Of
Guadalajara brought out the soldiers, who
fired upon the assembled citizens, killing
five merchants. We cannot understand in
the United States how these things occur in
Mexico without leading to an upheaval.
We sent the English home about hundred
years ago for doing things to which the
Mexicany either submit or else. making a
change, leave themselves liable to the same
treatment from their new masters. It is
moro than probable that President Diaz will
be able to tell all meddling inquirers that
peace reigns in Jalisco, that the tax is being
cheerfully paid and as cheerfully collected,
and that the firing on a peaceable crowd,
which our correspondent writes of, was q
little indiscretion that, however, had salu-
tary result
The New York herald., 1878-12-18
A Suggestive Com pa rison.

For more than century the Black Hole
of Calcutta and the fcndish cruelty Of the
heather who. for few hours, made prison
of it, have ranked high among the stock
horrors of the world. This "hole" was O
cell about twenty feet square. and as its
two windows, both open, were too high to
be reached from the floor, its ceiling must
Into this cell the natives, who reconqucred
the city from the British, immured tho gar
rison, numbering one hundred and forty
six men, for an entire night, with the result
that only twenty three we're alive at day.
light. The cubic allowance Of air per in
dividual was only about thirty-three feet,
and the ventilation afforded by the two
open windows was not sufficient in the hot
climate of India. But in communication
addressed to the Board OF Education within
two years by committee Of ply
sicians, the air space per pupil in
some Of the rooms Of single public
schools new building-was estimated
atfrem thirty -one to thirty -four feet. There
are some important differences between the
two cases. The windows of the Black Hole
were always open, while those of the school
room are usually closed, and the Calcutta
building had no artificial heat being steadily
forced into it Still more, the sufferers at
Calcutta were grown men and soldiers, with
the adult physical quality Of resistance,
while the children are young and peculiarly
submissive to physical Influences The
The New York herald., 1878-12-18
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Texas is receiving many German cmgrants.
Capoul has lost money and has closed the Sallo
yentadour.
Governor Lucius Robinson arrived from Albany
last evening at the st. James Hotel.
Colonel John Carstairs McNeill. c. B., Equerry in
Ordinary to Queen Victoria is at the Windsor Hotel
Representative Williams of Michigan, stnl
alive at late hour last night. but not expected
to survive until morning.
Frank Buckland. the naturalist, gives entertan-
mcnts to his scientific friends Saturday evenings
and calls them pipes and grog" o.
An italian in San Francisco has been prosecuted for
cruelty to CATS of which he has been in the habit Of
buying dozens from boys. He is a sausage maker.
Lord Beaconsfeid will receive toll morrow the depu-
taton which came to present to him address
and cnsket from tho English residents Of the Pacific
Coast.
The English agricultural laborer receives the year
round little than IS . week. with small al
loxancc Of beer money The agricultural unions are
fighting for more.
Nasby:-"The Niger hez the rite to vote. We under
stand that and respect it, But there must be imta'
shuns. Ho may vote-the law that-but the Law
don't say how he shell vote. That is for u.s.
General IgnatieT writes to friend that the cause
Of Russia being better served in Constantinople by
the English Minister Sir Henry Layard whom he re-
CARDS as blunderer. than it could be served by any
Russian. j..
Norristown HerdI;-"The New York HERALD 10
giving specimens Of humor from London comic
weeklics. If q man has Just lost rich aunt. and
wants to funereal and griefstricken express
sion to it the supposed solemn occasion, he should
read the chunks Of foreign humor now appearing
daily in our New York namcsake. An able-bodied
onion producer is no comparison alongside
of them"
London World :-"For quiet extra dry sort OF
swagger give fashionable jockey! One dainty
little gentleman down at Hampton Park last week
hailed by friend Of mine. Halo. -. where
have you beens Missed your mounts lately-not
been riding much, ehY and And the languid
jockling made answer Il? No-weather quite too
bcastly horrid and damp for riding; then with the
smallest Of shiyers Really must get away to Nice for
q month or so; and on he drove in . brougham-to
Nice, suppose
Captain Richard Burton. the traveller. is living at
Trieste He is five feet eleven square shouldered
and deep chcsted and he has little feet and hands.
He resembles Arab his gray hair is close cropped.
and he has piercing black eyes, Under straight nose
and over a square mouth is black mustache. On
his travels he carries the Bible. Shakespeare Euclid
and the Dreviary. Mrs. Burton daily swims for .
couple Of in tho Adratic and takes broadsword
exercise from German trooper. after which she pro-
notes q society for preventing cruelty to animals.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18
AN AprEAL FOR THE DRIVERS.
NEW YORK. Dec. II, 1873.


TO THE EDrToR or THE HERALD
Believing that you are and always have been in
sympathy with tho working classes and especially
with those who are willing TO work for a moderate
compensation and who desire only q sub
sstcnce in these times of depression. confidently
appeal to you to your powerful influence in be-
half of the drivers of the Third Avenue Railroad.
These poor men. many Of whom have families.
find IL impossible TO support themselves and those
dependent upon them on the wages proposed by that
company, and therefore conclude and think every
humane and Just man will agree with me that this
strike the part of the drivers s at least ustabe.
know II Is not within the scope Of your power to
directly compel that company 70 do better
for their men, but have not tho least doubt that
could, IL you ft indirectly compel them. by sug
gcsting to the public. who largely sympaShize with
these poor men, to travel by other lines until this
dominant railroad shall hsyey ieded to Just demands.
p MCCARTNEY 90 Beach street.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

Bull that squats is good specimen. Heisa
daring, bold and sagacious ruler, who main
tains his hold on ruder race than the Bull
garians by his superior qualities, his elo-
quence and the success Of his plans.
With handful of savages he has repeatedly
whipped the whole United States, and
laughs at the Indian Bureau conducted by
make the Bulgarians great king. but we
warn them they will have some trouble in
catching him.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

The WEArImn.-The pressure has increased
in the Northwest and Southwest, but Is falling
along the Rocky Mouptain range as an area Of
low barometer which overiay Southern Utah
aud New Mexico Monday advances east
ward. The relatively low pressure recently
west Of the Upper Mississippi Valley has moved
TO the lake region, causing light snow from the
Upper Mississippi to the Ohio Valley. Cloudi-
ness still prevails north of Tennessee and ex-
tends eastward TO the Atlantic coast. The
weather Is clear in the South and West. Tenn
peratures continue very low all over the
country, especially in the West Northwest
aud upper lakes. They win undoubtedly rise
to-day along the Rocky Mountains and probably
on the Atlantic coast. The weather on the Eng
Iish coast last evening was cold, with light SNOW
mt some points, north to northwest winds and q
pressure of $3.50 inches. In New York and hs
vicinity to-day the weather will bc slightly
warmer aud cloudy, with, probably, light snow.
Tomorrow it will be colder and cloudy, followed
bY clearing weather.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

CoSoREss.-In addition 10 the passage of the
Blaine election resolution the Senate yesterday
disposed of the Consular and Diplomatic Appro-
priation BILL refusing its concurrence in the
reduction OF the salaries of the different foreign
ministers which had been made by the House
aud restoring them to the old figure. The Postal
Car Deficiency bill led to a partisan debate in
the House, in the course of which each party en-
dcavored to show that tho economical profes-
sions Of its opponent had foundation in fact.
As soon the party fireworks we're all ex-
hausted the bill was passed.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

MORTON AND HUM, the Philadelphia street
railroad men whose financial exploits in putting
upon the market nearly two million dollars
worth of fraudulent stock will not soon be for.
gotten in that city, have been sent to tine State
Prison for ten years. While the sentence is Sc
we're it is at the same time richly deserved
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

world has learned great deal about ven.
tilation since the morning when hundred
and twenty-three dead Englishmen were
dragged from the Black Hole. but school
boards do not seem to have taken their fnli
part in the general improvement.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

GOVERNOR HAMPTON, this mornings de-
spatches say, has experienced change for the
better, and it il now thought that he will re-
cover. He partook of solid food yesterday for
the first time since his illness, and is himself full
of confidence in regard to his restoration to
health.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

THE UScEgTAISTY attending the action Of
Congress in regard TO the tax tobacco is,
it is alleged, the chief cause of the depression in
that important branch of business. II the
Washington legislators cannot help they as
suredly ought not to hurt trade, but they seem
20 he endowed with a peculiar faculty in that
respect.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

The CIPHER DISPATCHES were for the first
time alluded to yesterday In the House. The
style Of their reception leads to the well
grounded belief that each party hasa little col
ored chap under the woodpile.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18
II RIPPLE SH E e T
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1873.

The probabilities are that the ~eather in New
York and its ricinity today uiH be slightly
Wdsmer aud cloudy, tciM light snow. Io-moa-
ro,c sriH be colder and cloudy, Jo1ored BY clear
in1 weather
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

Ir SEEMS STRANGE that, Notwithstanding our
vast commerce, the exact mctes and bounds Of
the harbor masters authority should be q mat
ter Of doubt. That such is the fact, however,
is shown by the suit in the courts yesterday.
The result will be interesting to shipowners and
cantaipa
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active and weak at the close. Gold
opened at 1OO1s and fell to par. Government
bonds were firm, States weak and railroads
strong. Money on call was active at 312 a 4
per cent, advanced to z, and closed al s 6 per
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

IT Is Nor IMPROBABLE that the resolution of
the Aldermen prohibiting residents of other
States from holding stands in the public mar
kets has more or less remote connection with
the TaInmany machine.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

The EXECUTION OF kEHoE, the notorious
Molly Mcguire leader. is set for to-day All
hope of reprieve has been abandoned.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

The GLORY OF CREEpnooR seems to be on
the decline. Owing to the difficulty of access it
is not improbable that the spring meeting Will
be held at the Brinton range, near Elizabeth.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

New ORLEANS is not likely to suffer for a lack
of notaries. If General Butler is to be believed
no first class saloon is considered complete
without one.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

SITTING Bull, the Indian contractor will be
panied to hear intends to spend Christmas and
New Years in Canada.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18

ACCORDING TO THE DISPATCHES from Wash
ington the members of the Cabinet at the meet
ing yesterday felt like indulging in an old
fashioned breakdown over the general pc aceful
condition of the country.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

IYCEUM THEATRE-DouBLE MARRIAGE.
BROADWAY THEArRE-UScIE DAS'L
ACADEMY OF MUSIc-RoBxEr DiAsLE
BowERY THEATRE-QuEES's EvIpkNcE
wALLACK's THEATRE-MY Son
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-THE BAyKrRs DAUGHTER.
BOOTHS THEATRE-EyASGELINE
STANDARD THEATRE-AIAosr LlrE.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-Rp VAN wIsxK
NIBLo'S GARDES-ARouSp rHK WORLD EIGHTY DAYS
NEW YORK AQUARIUM-CIspEEKLLA
GLOBE THEATRE-oSLY A FARxER's DAUcHrxR
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-CogioLANUs
PARK TIEATRE-CoMEDY ERRORS.
GERMANIA THEATRE-DR KLAUS
WINDSOR THEATRE-vAREry.
TIvoLI THEATRE-vARIErY.
TONY PASTORs--yARIsrY.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELs
EGYPTIAN IIALL-vARErY
THEATRE coMIQUE-LoRcAiRr.
ABERLE'S AMERICAN THEATRE-vARIErY.
The New York herald., 1878-12-18
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The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19

righteously. Let no words Of ours be
heard, but let the voice of an upbraiding,
reproving, condemning conscience sound
forth in all its power-speaking far more
in our favor than any reply which we
could offer. Feeble as we ali are, so in
clined to lose control over ourselves, and
to be carried too far by our feelings, how
much better, at times, is silence, than
any other reply which we might offer |
To bear injuries in all meekness, to be
silent under abuse, to resent not, but
commit all to him who judgeth right~
eously, is no evidence of weakness, but
rather of power; it is not a thing which
need call forth the least shame within
Us, but rather cause for Thanksgiving
and rejoicing that we have been enabled
through divine grace. to initiate the
perfect example OF our Lord. and to en-
deavor to display the mind which was in
him-C Church Union.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19
A Terrible Scene.

The tragedy of "The Tyraat," wal
over by 10 o'clock and the Almednug
CUR audience were laughing over an
amusing farce brought out by Parse:
theatrical club from Bomb8y, whel
suddenly cracking noise was heard il
the lower end of the house. Then arose
a cry of fire." which deepened into a
terrible shrek when it was seen that the
ceiling was already in blaze. For a
moment the audience were paral yzed with
fright, but as the flames spread q
furious rush was made for the little
entrance, and many fell and were
trampled under foot. The whole pavil.
ion quickly fl ed with flames, and BY
the time three-quarters of the audience
had escaped, the wind caught the fame
and carried it like scorching sheet
across the interior of the house. By this
time, though the door was still blocked
with struggling mass, most of those
who were able to move were safe, but
the others lay yelling and groaning IN
the agonies OF an awful death. The
whole fire did not occupy many minutes; ;
but as the scorched and wounded people
were pulled out from near the entrance
and passed into the op. air, it seemed
an eternity before the flames died down
sufficiently to enable the rescuing party
to drag the dead out of the centre of the
auditorium. The sight was simply
awful. About forty men had either
been burnt to death or had more nlerci-
fully been suHocated by the smoke.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19
How Great Desert may be Tes.
tilted.

Arizona Sentinel After all the grest
problems OF irrigating the Colorado
desert may be accomplished by natunl
means, and without the expenditure Of
vast sums of money, as has been proposed
The surveys made in 1873 of the desert
lying west of the Colorado, and extend
ing into Mexico. demonstrated fully
that it was cut off from the Gulf of Cali
fornia by the sediment deposited by the
Colorado river. The old shore lines are
distinctly recognizable away up in San
Bernardino county, and great beds of
oysters and other marine shells attest
the presence, at no very remote day, of
sea water at places from which it is now
one hundred and fifty miles distant.
The Southern Pacific railroad crosses
this dried-up part ofthe gull, running for
over sixty miles at levels from one to two
hundred and and forty feet below that
of the sea. The Colorado river has de-
posted sand and mud along its course
until its bed is, in places, fully four
hundred feet higher than it was in the
old days when it emptied into the gulf at
least one hundred miles nearer Yuma than
1t does now. 1t continued to pile up
sediment until dam was formed reacL-
ing across the guilt to the lower CaIifor-
mia shore. The head of the gulf thus be-
came lake of salt water, and, being fed
by nc streams, gradually dried up. This
dam now averages only a height of
twenty-seven feet above the mean tides.
The Colorado now flows to the south of
it, but some tnfing change of its cur
rents may yet cause it to cut away the
dam to the north, and to Teconvert the
desert into lake. This does not seem
as improbable as that the river should
abandon its old bed, north of Fort Yuma,
and force is way through a rocky hill
yet we can all see that the latter has
occurred.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19
Long Wool Sheep on the Plains.

An intelligent writer gives this infOr-
nation regarding sheep-rais1ng on the
Rocky Mountains
The fockmasters ofthe Laramie plains
are invariably changing from fine to long
woods, and before the expiration of two
years we shall undoubtedly see the long
woods bred exclusively. The mutton of
the latter is of a much richer flavor, and
the carcass far exceeds in weight that of
the former, the weight of a three and
four-year-old being estimated to exceed
the Merino from 60 to 100 pounds per
head. The average increase from Merino
ewes bred to Merino rams is about so
per cent; that from long wool ewes bred
to long wool rams, 80 to S5 per cent. The
average yield of wool per head through
out the plains for 1877 was between five
and six pounds. This year it will un-
doubtedly exceed six pounds, the sheep
being in better condition, and more at
tention having been paid to improvement
in breed. The average price per pound
netted by the wool-growers for their
fieeces for 1876, exclusively unwashed,
was 3Oc., which 1 think compares favor
ably with the price obtained for un-
washed woods throughout the United
States.
A feok of sheep usually numbers from
$500 to 5000. 1t is herded by one man,
generally mounted ON a native pony,
accompanied by two shepherd dogs
the latter being of great assistance
in guarding the flock from the
approach of strange dogs and wolves
and in case of violent storms to
bunch the flock and drive it to the
corral. In winter the sheep are usually
herded on different range from what
they have been accustomed to in sum-
mer, to prevent either range from being
destroyed by too constant feeding OF
travel. They are corralled nightly, and
in winter have the benefit of covered
sheds. Hay is put up for them, to be
fed only in case of very severe snow
storms, when it is impossible Tor them
" pIOCufC tnciI own l5OQ. a euOW
storm is usually followed by violent
wind, which soon clears the plains and
leaves the feed in good condition. For
the last five years little or no hay has
been fed, owing to the openness of the
winters.
The usual hours of range in winter are
from o'clock in the morning till 6
O'Clock in the evening; in the summer,
from 5 o'clock in the morning till s
O'Clock in the evening, although in sum-
mer they invariably lie down by the side
of some river or creek from IL O'Clock in
the morning till O'Clock in the after
noon.
expect to shear this spring in the
neighborhood of 300 long and 2.SOe
fine woods.
1t is curious fact that the energetic
people of the United States import some
$4,000, 900 worth of wooden fabrics q
year, while they own one thousand mil
lion acres of excellent sheep-walks that
may be grazed without land tax or fence
to hinder.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19

remember tha. David, in the cave OF
Adullam, sighed for water from the
well of Bethlehem, and that three young
men, st the peril of their lives, brought
the longed for water, which David would
not, after all, drink, since it had been
procured at the peril of life. He there
fore poured out the water as libation
before the Lord" Said the speaker
i" When / entered this room l was fe-
vered, and. like David, longed for water.
a gentleman took a goblet to serve me
during his absence 1 learned that he was
the governor of Georgia. Realizing the
chasm between us, l thought of David,
and, taking the goblet from his hand.
begged that i might pom es.s chs "aUeI
az ifpat1on forever between his race
and mine"
We never saw 8 house more stricken,
thrilled and melted by speech from any
human orator. - Northwestern Chris
tian Advocate.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-19
Onion Tops and Garlic.

Young chicks, says the American
Poultry Journal, seem to require some
kind of seasoning in their food especially
ifthey are confined from the time they
leave the egg till they are full grown. A
little red (cayenne) pepper, occasionally
mixed with their food. gives a healthy
tone to the system, keeps the throat clear
and fosters improvement; but some are
apt to OVerdo the matter, and even good
things can work harm when carelessly or
injudiciously used. We use this pepper
with all opr young birds, whether chicks,
turkeys, or others, but use it sparingly.
One of the most natural things to mix
with the food is the onion. Many an
onion top have we chopped up fine and
mixed with the soft food given to the
young birds. They relish it exceedingly
and it does them good. In the absence
of the onion top, the bulb can be chop
ped up fine and fed in the same way,
but being stronger, it must be fed more
spsringly. Garlic csn be used in the
same way as onions, but it is not always
20 readily obtained.