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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
BATES COLLEGE.
MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF THE
FOUNDER.

LEWISTON, Me-, June 49, 1873.
In con nection with tho baocaaureate exercises at
Bates College this afternoon memorial services were
held In the City Hall, in honor OF the late Ben
jam,n Edward Bates, founder OF the COL
lece The exercises consisted OF invocation,
reading OF tho Scriptures the hymn My Faith Looss
Up to Thee" sung by the congregation; prayer, me-
mortal ode, n discourse by President Cheney
singing Of class ode by the class, closing prayer the
doxology and benedictlon.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
OFFENSIVE LoUNGERs.


To rHE EplroR HERALD
From tho day tho Metropolitan Elevated Railway
began to work ira:us until now tho stairways and
landings of Rector street station have been OBJ
sruccd by OF oaiers OF various degrees OF inn
pudence hsd hoped that the company would sup
press this nuisance without public complaint y
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
WHAT rs HE DOING?

To THE EDITOR OF the HERALD:-
What does Dir. Hurd. tho receiver OF the Third Ave-
Savings Bank. intend to do? II rs two years
received the 1rst dividend Of teen per cent.
Since then there have been several Judgments re-
corded against different trustees OF tho bank.
POOR DEPOSITOR,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
SUNDAY RAPID Transit TRAINS.

To rnE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Those who advocate the running OF cars Sunday on
the Metropolitan Elevated road, evidently do
side within hearing distance OF the line. l would
suggest that they take up lodgings for some
wnerc the route, and venture to say that their
enthusiasm the sunday train question would abae
considerably, If not die completely SUFFERER.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
STATE AND RAILROAD aoxn

Tho feature OF tho market for State bonds was tho
advance OF over 10 per cent in LOUISIANA consols.
Yesterday these bonds sold high as s3 and closed
At S1H. la railroad bonds the only points were a de.
cline in Alton and Terre Haute income bonds and an
advance In New York Elevated Hrst. Tho following
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24


The money market was very quiet and casy aud
call loans were made all tho week at a per cent.
There was good demand for prime commission paper
at 81 az per cent. The bank statement shows
gain In surplus reserve OF 81 .02s,I15 The total re-
Is s92sJo0 higher. tho difference between gain
OF nearly So COO 900 In legal tender loss
OF about 50 00o in specie Tho deposit liabilities
were reduced $4oi 100. The rcouctioa would have
been larger except Tor the receipts national bank
notes. they beng counted only In tho deposits item
The following Is q comparison Of the averages for
the last two weeks
June Is. Juns % DiGcvenccs
Loans. s234 6J0, 100 t234 Ii3 700 Inc S7a,60
Specie. ..... l7,IO5 200 Is 0Go 700 Dec. 1853 500
Legal tenders. 40 5J2 900 81 s66 900 Inc. 9GI 600
Deposits x05 1856, 100 20j 354, 100 Dec 4Ul, 100
Circulation. l9,9s4,g0 100000 Dec. 10000
Tho following shows the relations between the total
reserve and the total liabilities
June 10. June ~. DiGersnces.
Specie ST. los, 200 $15, 06g 100 Dec. ~ 035, 500
Legal tenders 4y602, 900 62.4t6900 Inc. 20bI, 900
-
Totaircsvc 500 COS 100 SOL 53e 900 Inc. SOS, 500
Res'vc req'ea
ag'tdep'sits 5l. s36,o00 81, 346,025
Excess OF re-.
serve above
legal reqnts SIS 500 $40 19o.575 Inc o2s IT'S
Eersxn exchange has been very quiet and sisady,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
THE TAX ON WAGONS.

To the EDITOR or TEE HERALD
The complaint of Justice in regard TO imposing
q tax private wagons, carriages excepted should
not 90 overlooked II is an outrage on the Now York
merchants. n. o.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
COINS AND BULLION.
The following quotations IN gold for various
CONS and bullion -


There has been good demand Tor government
bonds, and prices are well supported. During the
week the Secretary OF the Treasury issued the sixth
eth cnii tor the nvetwenties oil 0o ooc. The clos
Ing prices OF tho bonds yesterday wcre:-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
A srnANaER's INQUIRY,

To THE EDITOR rae HERALD:-
Are the seats in the city parks exclusively for male
and female tramps? STRANGER.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Please inform the many commuters OF the above
limo why they do not land Eleventh street between
6:10 r. NJ. and 715P MI There many like
myself who have 10 work I'LL SIX r. NJ, and cannot
get the dock In time TO catch the $40 r. NJ. boat,
and have tho dock ride in the horse
COMMUTER.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
HUNTERS POINT srENcHEs.

To THE EDITOR or The HERALD
Last Wednesday evening the stenchcs from Hunt
er's Point were terrible. IL impossible TO keep
our windows open. Is there way TO stop tns fear
full nusa nee? ii. D.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24

The transactions at the Clearing House for tho last
week compare follows with those OF ihs previous
week -
Cearings week ending June l5...... $500 p33 81 "a
Cearngs week .naing June 22....... 3Si 664 $40 ~
Balances week ending June H. l,2l6sg9 10
Balances week ending June 22........ 1900, 3ss 20
Tue following shows tho amount OF specie exported
for the week ending June 22:--
June 20-sieamcr Baltic, Livcrpool--Mcxican
siiver dollars ..... .................. 5000
June 2J--Stcamer Colon, Punta Arenas, - A.
Anercan soIa coo. .....:..........,.. -. 1900
juno 20--Stenmer Colon, Caliao. Pcru-Amer.
can gold coin ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 2.o25
Total ...... SIC, 025
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with very little doing.
quotations -
The following were lns iassss
Sirty Days Three Days.
4s4A a4S6K 4.s6%a 4S7A
Prime bankers sterling

IHk GOLD MARKET
Tho speculation In gold very dull, aud the price
declined slightly during the week. The following
table shows the fluctuations for the week
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24

essireq'nts SIS 500 $40 lso.s75 Inc. sio2s,77s
ForsRn exchange has been vsry quiet and sisAdy,
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FINANCIAL.

n Endowment Insurance Policies and Mortgages; same
bought OF all kinds effected with best
NJ Lowest premiums j. j. uABRICH X CO.,
Rrou Box I
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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

BAccALAUEEArE SERMON BIZ PRESIDENT BART
LETT.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31
The College Rank Of Literary Men.

The most celebrated of our essayists,
historians and poets have, as a rule,
been distinguished in college for excel
lent scholarship. George Bancroft
was high scholar in Harvard's class
in 1917, and was particularly distin-
guIshed for his attainments in philoso-
ply. He was also honored with the
class day poetship of his class, which
does not, however, indicate in itself
high scholarship. Among the high
scholars of the class of 1914 was VIM.
II. Prescott, who delivered, as his
commencement part, Latin poem,
"Ad Spem;" and OF the next class of
1915. the historian of New England,
DIR. Palfrey, was distingu shed mem
btr. Though John Lothrop Motley's
college rank was not So high as DR..
Palfrey's, yet its excellence indicated,
to certain degree, his future emf
nence and his literary tastes are mani
tested in the subject of his COM
mencement parr, ''The Infusnce
of Multiple alton OF Books upon
Liturature." The cultured scholarship
of Edward Everett, excellent in every
department of college study. gave him
the first place in the class OF 1911; and
his commencement oration, ''0n Liter
ary Evils" and Ds oration for the Sec
ond degree, ''On the Restoration Of
Greece" forecast the literary and class
icaI character of the work of his entire
life. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson
vas not among the highest scholars of
his class, vet his rank was most hon
orab,s. IL comm msncement part was
Conference" with two classmates,
"On the Character of John Knox,
William Penn, and John Wesley"
Mr. Emerson was also the class day
poet of his class of 1921. Cur great
novelist did not succeed in obtaining q
first-rate rack at B5wdo.n, as did his
classmate, Longfellow. Hawthorne
wrote, in his college days as Prof.
Packard, who was one of his instruc-
tors, informs me-s'ine Latin and Eng,
lish," but no commencement part
was assigned him, perhaps, be-
cause he requested not to have one"
Mr.. George Ripley was distinguished
at Harvard for his scholarship in the
class of 1923, and delivered an oration
iOt LIE oSOOha OCEtSC OA uC NiotAub
Of the Age on the Young Men of
America" claims which he has for the
last fifty years done 80 much to fulfill.
Mr. Longfellow was high scholar
in Bowdoin's NEST celebrated class
Of 1925 -the class Of John s. G. Alb
bott, and George b. Cheever, as well
as of Hawthorne; and some of the
most graceful Of his graceful verses
were written before his graduation.
That long list Of poems dedicated to
Harvsrd's class of 1929, with which
at their annual meetings, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes has delighted his class
mates, began on bis class, and COM
mencement day. DR.. Holmes served
as poet on both these occasions, and
was an excellent scholar OF the famous
class. Though the courfe of William
Cullen Bryant at Williams College was
limited to two years, yet IN them be
gained distinction for bis attainments
in the languages and in literature.-I
r. IEsoiH1, IN Seribner for February.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

PEOPLE may condenn, as they will,
the personal habits of John Morrissey
and his addictedness to the gaming
table, but those who know him we'll
are devoted to him. He is truthful
always, of boundless generosity of
purse and feeling. He condemns none
who condemn bis habits, and to the
poor and helpless there was never a
truer friend than the once brawny,
heavy-6sted Patlander. Morrissey is
a man of solid, strong intellect, and if
be CANDLES In a gilded parlor with
''chips" spread before him, he is NO
worse or better than the bull or bear
in Wall street, who is welcomed in the
or in Congress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

PRINTERS ink gives different mean
ing to everything it blazons before the
world. We have heard old editors ssy
that they read their own productions
giving them different values and differ
ent meanings; one, in manuscript; /;
another, in the proof sheet; and q
third, and still different significance is
given the production by Its appearance
i the newspaper 1t. elf. So dificu
is it now and then to determine the
exact value and effect of an article that
editors have rule which reads, "Al-
ways give the newspaper the benefit of
a doubt" If the improperly of pub
fishing letter or editorial be once sug
gestej, it should be rejected. 1t was
the publication of Fitzhugh's letter,
rather than its extravagant absurdities
aimed at himself, which made it ruin
Gus. Nobody could have improved the
production as ludicrous pricate letter,
aud nobody ever wrote worse one for
publication. Luckily for Fitzhugh the
letter was a matchless advertisement of
himself and of anything with which his
name may be connected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

Our local readers will observe that
there is a difference between the dis
patches published in the Nees and
those in the STATESMAN. The STATES
MAN was right and the Neacs wrong.
The same dispatches from the same
sources come to the two newspapers.
Referring to the ''copy" we find it as
follows:
'NoMINATIoNs.-S .-Stillwell H. Russell,
marshal for the Western District of
Texas. Wsldron, assistant district
attorney for Western Tennessee, was
rejected by the Senate, in the interest
of social science"
The Ne'cs failed to put 'period"
before Wsldron's name ard thus put a
period to Russell's aspirations. In
this the Nescs blundered fatally.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

The son and daughter of Mrs. DIS
pey, now of Austin, received the guests
of Mr.. PendletoH at his residence in
Cincinnati when he was congratulated
by the people because of his elevation
to the Senate of the United States.
Mr.. Pendleton's law partner was Geo.
e. Pugh, who went into the United
States Senate at the age of thirty. The
two were schoolfellows and lived all
their lives together till separated by
death, and now the survivor takes his
place in the Senate Chamber. Proper.
ly enough did the best people of Gin
cinnati congratulate Dir. Pendleton,
and the country rejoices that Ohio has
given the Union so wise lawgiver.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31
WHAT CON rMAO OTION Has DONE

Mercantile failures recounted by r.
G. Dunn & Co., whose business it Is to
be Informed of the condition of the
merchants and bankers of the United
States, constitute only tithe of the
whole number of bankruptcies caused
by currency contraction. Farmers and
working people of all pursuits have
lost everything. Buyers of farms nave
made one or two of three or four or
Eve payments, and, unable to pay the
rest, have lost the whole aud their un-
paid paper is still held against them.
They and their families, countless
thousands, have been driven from their
homes to stsrve, half-clad and bread
less and shelterless. r. G. Dunn &
Co., and the newspaper press and our
Congressman make no note of this, and
the telegraph only adverts to ever re-
curing bankruptcies of merchants and
bankers, while the great mass of hu-
man woes, wrought by governmental
vanity and selfishness and greed for re-
spectabllity in the East and In Europe,
has destroyed the farms and homes
and hopes of more than million farm
ers and mechanics. But we give the
mercantile facts, which are surely start
ing enough:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

MANY of the lawyers of st. Louis
are seeking to disbar Mr. Bowman, the
most successful in money making of
his profession. We have read none of
the tedious proceedings which have
occupied the court more than three
weeks. Bowman is a brilliant barris-
ter, and saved the city and county
about million dollars in some railway
suits, making his clients, properly
enough, pay him $4,000. This is
only one of many enormous fees quiet
ly absorbed by the sagscious, adroit.
lively and diminutive Mr.. Bowman.
He is the object Of universal envy, and
the profe ssion has undertaken to de-
stroy him. 1t may be we'll enough.
We know nothing more than is here
stated, but it does seem to non-pro-
fessional indifference that these prose-
cutors of Bowman should have begun
the business OF cleansing the profess
sion by ejecting the knaves that prey
upon plaintiffs and defendants in JUS
tees and recorders courts. Most
villainous and numerous are the shys-
ters Of st. Louis, and Bowman surely
is not one of these. If robber, he
plumbers the rich, and not the poor
and helpless and ignorant. The pro-
ceedings against Bowman should he
suspended, at least till the profession
purges itself. It should come into
court with clean hands.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31
Communities shouId Be warned

SOubuutpbANCD buOulu pc WhIuE4 tuNt.
"whiskY and rock candy" which mix
ture is now held by barkeepers and the
Sun to be sovereign remedy for
f,ithisis 1,ttlu10ndlis, Is more dangerous
than blue glass and not much more
effective. Under the name Of "coFn
and rockn it 10 exposed for sale at many
fashionable and unfasbionable resla.s~.
rants in this city, and is said 70 be dis
posed Of In large quantities, and II De
drunk from blue glass tumblers - -
thought TO be peculiarly efilcaclous.
OF course 1t il nothing but whisky and
sugar, which has been beverage ever
since the still was first used and topeit
found comfort in Its products. Rock
candy is but crystallized sugar, and
though whisky is q recognized FeEe d19I
agent in some diseases Of the lungs and
carbon Is fattening, jet let not The cons|
sumptive person, or bin who ioBQ|f
suspects that In tins weather he I5 p1I.
ticularly liable TO contract the tsfEle.I
malsdy, take over-much 70 the no<
specific. There is q disease, NOT. ~
believe, recognized By the faculty ua1eI
that name, but known In commen p1C.
apce a. ''Whisky consumption, vt.eA
is herslded BY the "Whisky cough. Or
homeopathic principles ''corn 11f
rock" might be expected 70 cure tt's
disorder, but only, after all. accoId.1z
TO the old adage which speaks oi >
''hair Of the dog that bit you" k.-
belais once said be 'sgould be hanged
II there were not mere old dfunkes|is
thsn old doctors, !" and II the new epef'-
&c shall become as popular as blue e'e11
was few months ago the cynicas ol4
Frenchman's remark will probably -.
come even more greatly true tbap !.
was IN his day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31
SPARE THE sTocKHoLDERs.

About one in four of the railways Of
the United States paid dividends last
year. The builders Of these benefcent
highways lost enormously. Contrac-
tion of the currency has rendered it i'm
possible for people to indulge the lux
ury of railway travel, and people hav-
ing NO money haYe no iuducement to
visit cities and towns. and the great
sufferers are shareholders in railways.
Bondholders and operatives alone are
paid. These simple facts should oblit-
crate. 20 some extent, prejudices which
Grsngers have confessed against rail
way corporations. Individuals consti-
tuting these bodies of men have suf-
fered terribly and constitute a grand
division of the mighty army of wretch
ed bankrupts led by Sherman to the
graYe's mouth of dead credit and de-
caying prosperity. All these woes we
must endure that European bondhold-
ers may be perfectly blest. The coun-
try suffers as never before. The peo-
pie starve. Property is valueless or
unstable. Taxgatherers are remorse-
less. The rich of the country and
towns become poor, very poor, ana the
poor are reduced to the utmost straits
of beggsry, and all that the bondhold-
rs in Europe-such is the burden of
the Worlds and Heralds jeremiads-
may be made happy and full of conf
dence in American honor. Were it not
wiser and juster to care for the woes
of the many rather than of the few?
Do we owe more to the rich of Eu-
rope than to the poor of cur own
land? Must we crafty European lust
for gold rather than the wants of
Starving women and children? Nei-
ther justice nor reason nor mercy exact
sacrifices such as we have made and
they Of our lawgivers, who impose
these wrongs and calamities, when
day of reckoning comes, as come it
must, will be branded with the hate of
their own countrymen. They love Eu-
rope more than they love America and
fawn upon the rich rather than pity
the woes of the poverty-stricken.
With the blessed few who clip riches
with golden shears from gold-bearing
bonds, stockholders in railways are
not numbered. They suffer with the
farmers and working people squeezed
out of employment and bereft of bread
by the money-changers who sit, even
now, at each doorway of the temple,
and there Is no Savior to overturn their
tables or kick them out. They crowd
the corridors of the Capitol and their
warm breathings exhaled upon the cold
air of Washington has gwen the pile
of white marble, in which laws are
made, the appellation of the "fog
bank" But the odor of a railway
shareholders breath is not detected
there. These builders of highways
are the country's benefactors and not
its vampires, and when Grangers In
Weigh against corporations as the coun-
try's great destroyers they should not
forget to spare the builders aud stock
holders whatever they may say of the
bondholders of railways.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31
TAXA1IUN,S TERRORS.

Before the people and their rulers
were corrupted by the influences of
baleful, d ssstrous revolution, State tax
alton was less in older commonwealths
thal ten cents on each 800 worth of
property. But here in Texas, where
the people suffered least, and where
the debt created by disorder and ruin
and crime is hardly $4,000. 900, the
people must pay fifty cents on each
800 to maintain placeholders and
courts and their costly incidents. Mu-
inequalities commonly double the State
tax, and 1t results that while we boast
of republican freedom the people are
more remorsely plundered than SUBJ
jects of European monarchs. 1t is
stated that Ireland pays only $2f, ,000,-
900 annually, or So. 50 per capita,- while
New York City exacts S33, 900, 600, er
$3.50 from each person. The govern
ment of Switzerland interposes in
everything. We are told that it builds
roads, runs railways, maintains mill
tia organization, ETC., but the annual
taxation is but $S, 900, 900, or So. 96 for
each inha5itant, while Philadelphia
pays for municipal purposes $12, 000,-
OeO a year, or $l5.25 per capita, besides
what is each year added to the debt.
Portugal, writer states, is not re
markably we'll governed, but its reve-
nues are only about twice those of
Philadelphia, while its population is
five times as great. 1t is municipal
and local indebtedness, with uncheck-
ed extravaganza in local expenditure,
that has placed the heaviest of their
burdens upon the people. 1t amounts
to nearly half the sum of the national
debt, and it far exceeds the sum of the
State debts. even with all the load
which reconstruction placed upon the
South. Mr.. Porter gives the aggregate
debt of the States at less than $311,-
600, 600, of which nearly $3.50, 900, 900
belongs to the nine Southern States,
making debt of twenty-five dollars
for each inhabitant of those States,
while the debt per capita in the East
ern States is but eight dollars, and the
Western States two dollars and eighty
Ovuts. Il ruS nrscisoly tAo same kind
of ignorance, extravagance and COR
ruption that created the debt of the
Southern States and those of North
ern cities, and unless some means
can de devised to remove these forces
from the control of affairs and sub
stitute intelligence aud honesty
we shall look for the return of
prosperous times in vain, and all the
panacess of the currency quscks will
avail nothing.