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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-13
WHOSE FAULT j.!
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD

10 THE EDITOR OF THE HEKALD:-
Every night about seven o'clock Sundays included)
gang of oafers calling themselves the Coral Social
Club" hang around the door of No. 236 West Thirty
fifth street playing the clappers. accordion and ffe
There policemen to be seen after six o'clock
and this thing goes night after night. There be-
are the policemen? A. X.
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WHOSE business Z

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Is there no way no society nor authority that can
and win rid of those offensive beer drinking variety
theatres that disgrace the Bowery from Bayard street
to Third avenue? tour through these places would
furnish texts for another series of sermons for Tai
mage aye. and sensational ones at that. The cause
morality calls loudly for their suppression. They
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ANOTHER VICTIM.
To THE EDITOR OF IL

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD
The undersigned has been in the liquor business
and paid S75 for license, but Murphy having run
away with the money have received no license and
being unable to pay for another compelled to
close up my store and sell out. since which time
have never received my license fee. IL you will stir
up Referee Potter pay those defrauded dealers you
will confer lasting favor
JOHN II. CONNOLLY,
Late of No. 2.2l7 Second avenue.
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tNoTE.-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address 10
insure attention Complainants who are unwililngto
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.

~ GALVESTON Jan. II 1879
Cotton quet middling $50 low middIing SIZE good
ordinary 76c Net receipts AZ baes. ESports-To the
Continent 3.51S; coastwise, l2i. Sales, +Uu stock,
1UJUuO.
~ Nkw ORLEANS, Jan. II, 1870
Cotton firm; mddling, Dlsc low middling ssac good
ordinary, s4c Net receipts, 2,773 bales gross stsl
Continent, 24s Sales, 1900; last evening, 1000
Stock, 3U3. 29l
~ - MOBILE Jan. II, 1870
Cotton firm; mddng, ssic.; low middng, SIZE. good
ordinary 7Ac. 7tsc Net receipts $50 bales Exports
coastwise, 15O2. Sales. 5000 Stock. co. 81
SAVANNAH Jan. II, 1873.
Cotton firm middling. De- low middiing, size; good
ordinary, re. Net receipts, 3iUs bales Exports-To
Great Britain, 1,2OO to the Continent 1897.
2443 Sales BOO; last evening, $40. Stock, s9UsiO
CHARLESTON, Jan. II, 1879
Cotton steady middling Osc. Usac. low mddng Sc
good ordinary, shc. Net recepts 2,24i bales. sales
1000 Stock, Uo,l27
Spirits vi turpentne firm, 2osc. Hosn nrm; 81 is Tor
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Late of No. 2,2l7 Second avenu
ICE ON THE RAPID TRANSIT STEPS.

10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Will you please call the attention Of the Third
Avenue Elevated Railroad Company to their icy
steps! Last evening passengers arriving at 125th
street warmed up by sliding down twenty steps
of their icy stairs either their face back the
might be, owing to the position they might
strike when their feet left them. Probably this is
their mode Of warming passengers instead of
with steam. A CONSTANT RIDER
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PRINT CLOTHS MARKET.

FALL RIVER, Mass. Jan II, 1879.
The print cloths market continues to show a good de-
for square cloths and 25sc, cash. bid. and 5l6c
cash. asked for 5x6O cloths The sales OF spots and futures
for tho week will exceed 2UO.OO pieces.
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A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
The sidewalks at Fifty-third street and Seventh
avenue are so bockaded with stone that we are very
much annoyed and Inconvenience by them. Will
the proper authorities that they are removedf
NJ N.
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Excess OF re-
above
legal re-
quirements ST. 27s $50 s12 397 $50 Inc. 1911 700
Foreign exchange hrmer. owing to an increased
demand the part of importers of United States
bonds and to smaller supply OF bills, probably due
to the hndranco to business caused by the late
weather Leading houses advanced the rate for ster
ling Friday to Asa and ASS for bankers long and
demand bills. but actual business was done ut a
slight concession.
The great feature of tho bond market was the
enormous purchases OF the new four per cent gov
eminent loan and the number OF calls issued by the
Treasury for the ve-twentes of 1867; 100000 900 of
the latter have been called in since the LIST day of
January and another call is expected at early day
The market for governments was strong for all the
there was very active speculation in New York
Elevated rsts, which advanced to los. and ON Friday
and Saturday the bonds of the metropolitan. which
have just been placed upon the stock Exchange list
were also active and strong In state bonds there
no material change except in Louisiana consols,
which continue decline. il is feared the interest
will not be paid.
The foreign commerce of the port of New York for
the past week was AZ folio :-Gencra merchandise
imports. including dry goods s2,22s 49,. and produce
exports. 81 i29.575. The total imports of dry goods
and general merchandise since January |, this year.
were s6.i9o.3li, against sl. 22o.l29 for the
spending period last year. and in 1876 Sl2,2i5oJi
The total exports of produce since January l, this
year. were s1429575. against sG.47'5 for the CORE
spending period last year, and s39si, $50 in 1876.
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ENFORCE THE CITY ORDINANCE.

10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Although it is more than week since the snow
fell yet in many places sidewalks the ice still
lies in wait for the unwary and the infirm. Cannot
the police force be invoked to bring together stag
nant capital and hungry labor. intinated IN the
HERALD? That would be public good q. w. NJ.
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The following were the closing quotations yes

The money market continues to improve in
and in confdonce. The successful result Of the
Treasurys preparations for resumption has inspired
great confidence in capitalists, and money is being
largely invested in all sound securities. Money
call lent during the week at a per cent according
to the nature of the collaterals Prime commercial
paper sold at AZ per cent The bank statement is
q very favorable document, and shows increase of
$1,197 900 in the total reserves made up of an in
of 49, 800 in legal tender and decrease of
$2.O23, 800 specie. The surplus reserve is
Sl2397 $50, which is S1,l21.700 more than week
ago. Last year, for the week ending January II the
surplus reserve was S10.9so TOO The following is
comparison of the averages Of the New York banks
for the last two weeks:-
Jan. t. jan IL. Differences.
Loans. S24 100000 230 900 Dec. 81. 56S 900
Specie. 2OoeJ. 100 lS9b2lOO Dec. 2,UG,SOD
Legal tenders Al S3e.'aW 45O55.4OO Inc. $500
Deposits 90. .2O6lI3,OOO 2O6iS2,2OO Inc. 3O92OO
Circulation. 10, SiS,SU0 191S5,OOO Inc. 63,SOO
The following shows the relations between the total
reserve and the total lab.l.ties:--
Specie 500 9sG 200 sls9G2. 400 Dec. 81. OBJ 500
Legal tenders Al $50 600 45.5JUiJO Inc. 3,222SO0
Total 62 slS 500 S640l7 500 Inc. 900
Reserve re-
quired ag'st
deposits -. 81. $50 81, 620.550
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HAVANA MARKET.

HAVANA, Jan. IT 1873.
Sugar-Better advices from New York have animated
offers centrugas Other sorts still neglected and
nominal Stocks accommodating. Grinding is being
satisfactorily everywhere Centrifugal sugars
Nos 49, in boxes and hhds, rs reals gold,
robe Stocks in warehouse ut Havana and MatanZas
boxes 1920 bags and ~ 900 hhds Receipts OF the
week 3677 boxes, 800 bags and iOU1O hhds. Exports
during the week $50 boxes, 1880 bags and $3.50 hhds
including all the bags and 2,325 hhds to the
United States. Moasses-Fifty degrees polarization
reals gold per ke Bacon, 81 $23 currency, per cwt
Flour, $S rs $ Dbl for American. Jerked
beef IS reals currency per arrobe Hams-American
cured $50 $40 quintal for Northern
per quinta do in tins $3 sa Potatoes 70 so $40 so
currency per Dbl Honey reals, gold, per gallon.
Onions SIS $16 currency per Dbl for American Lumber
nominal; white pine $32 gold per NJ White navy beans, 20
arrobe. Hoop. rmer; long shaved 1858 49, currency
NJ. Freights in fair demand loading Havana for
the United States per box of sugar soc 62
per hid OF ~ 50 - rs: Falmouth and ORDERS
the United States per hid of 81 sou 3d. hid
of moasses, 81 l2la 81 :37a Tobacco-The crop is
looking favorable. Spanish gold, a 2OO,s Exchange
irregular and fiat On the United States, 90 days gold
London, Is ~ premium. On Paris. 4 u premium.
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DEk WEST 18TH ST.-ELEGANT APARTMEl
AOCseven rooms; southern EXPOSURE; play grouI
moderate rent; new fine location.
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A SMALL HOUSE OR A SUIT OF ROOMS; RI
Amust be reasonable. Address WILLARD Herald
town Office.
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A Matrimonial Speculation.
batavia IN. " News.l


Some time ago resident of Bergen
lost his wife. Desiring again to enter
the connubial state, and manageable
ladies not being plentiful in that vicin-
ity, he made proposition to a peddler
who CHANGED that way, offering him $50
to secure him wife. This peddler, who
seems to have been sort of a matri-.
monial speculator, at the time the prop
osition above noted was made, was enter
tanning a similar proposition from wo-
man in Mount Morris, by the terms of
which he was to receive like sum for
obtaining her husband. The opportu-
nifty was grand one for speculation,
and the peddler succeeded in bringing
the two together, and they were united.
By the terms of the agreement he was
to receive $50 from each, but when he
claimed the reward for his intrigue, the
parties had made known to each other
the conditions of the match, and they
concluded that 500 was too good pay
for the service he had done them. After
parleying for some time, an agreement
was entered into by which the man and
wife were to give the peddler their joint
and several note for SIS. This compro-
mise was accepted and the peddler took
the note, which recently became due,
and was presented for payment. Sad as
the circumstances are, the second wife
had died before the note matured, but
the unfortunate man accepted the sit
uation resignedly and paid the $75.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

TORTURE of the most malignant kind
distinguishes the reformed administra-
tions of the State prisons. Barrett, the
mutinous convict at Sing Sing, who was
shot recently, was undoubtedly driven
into mutiny by the use of the paddle"
The paddle is designed with devilish in
genuity. DIR. Harris, president of the
State Prison Association, thus describes
it: "Unless you have seen that instru-
ment you can have no idea of its
monstrous capacity for inficting torture
on human being. 1t is from two and
half to three feet long, shaped like
canoe paddle. Or it may be likened to a
boys base ball bat shaved fat and thin
until 1t is as flexible as an Indians bow.
It's blade is perforated with twenty-five
or thirty holes, which, with each stroke,
allow the flesh to enter. The swift motion
made in lifting it to repeat the stroke
causes it TO cut and lacerate the pulpy
flesh in a horrible manner. In some
cases these paddles are made of thick
and hard sole-leather, but the leather is
as cruel as the wood. Both of these in
struments are used like a club. The
victim is lashed down to a whipping
chair, his face to the floor, so that he
cannot move nor betray the agony which
convulses his face"
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Leadville Thrown in the Shade.


Mr.. S. :Calderon, of this city, yester-
day returned from his trip to .Saltillo,
Mexico, and reports the most intense ex-
citement prevailing in Central Mexico
over the recent discovery of silver mines
of unsurpassed richness. Mr.. S. says
that parties direct from the mines state
that town of five Thousand Inhabitants
has sprung up in the, vicinity, and that
the excitement is only in its infancy.
The mines are located in the Sierra
Majadas, situated in the corner of the
State of Chihuahua, Couduila and Du-
range, and that the mountains are of
great height, and the climate, that per-
petual spring only known in Central
Mexico. The vein of auartz-bearing
metal is on an AVERAGE twenty and one
half varas thick, or in American meas
ure about fifty, and it is said to yield
ore that assays fifty per cent. pure silver.
This region is situated few leagues west
of the Chihuahua and Saltillo road, and
about 3S5 miles little south of west of
San Antonio. Mr.. Calderon reports the
excitement SURPRISING anything ever
seen in Mexico, and says that in few
weeks large city will be founded. The
mining laws of Mexico are well calcu-
lated to encourage such an enterprise.
In few days we hope to give our read
ers more definite news in regard to this
bonanza. - IL NTH yfI teG'g
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in the Legislature and defeat the Speaker of

in the Legislature and defeat the Speaker of
the last House.
The malignant dysentery, which has been
playing sad havoc with young children in the
vicinity of Walker and Center Point in Iowa,
is still prevalent, and there are many deaths.
The disease is not similar to the genuine
cholera, as has been reported, and is not con-
tagious. The death rate will average between
two and three a day in the section affected.
A TELEGRAM from Rome says that Signor
Gioja, engineer, has explained the Panama
Canal scheme to his Holiness the Pope, who
has bestowed q Pontifcal blessing on the
project. His Holiness said he hoped the canal
would prove morally, even more than materially,
a bond between the Old and New World.
GENERAL TERRY, commanding the Military
Department of Dakota, received dispatch
from General Miles, dated Camp on Rock
Creek, eighteen miles south of the boundary,
saying Sitting Bulls band of Sioux fed north
ward toward the mountain, leaving their prop
erty scattered along the line of the route for
fifty miles. The Sioux were estimated to
number five thousand, with two thousand fight
ing men. General Miles says he believes the
has force enough to deal with all the Indians
Sitting Bull can muster.
AN ordinary Texas telegram says: The
Sheriff of Pala Pinto County and his posse have
had a fight with the Jones gang of horse
thieves. Larkin Jones was killed, John Jones
was wounded, Enoch and old Jones and two
other thieves were captured. Jack Morris was
left to guard the wounded Jones, and assisted
the latter to escape. Morris was arrested.
Twenty five masked men overpowered the four
guards of the Pala Pinto Jail, and obtained the
keys under threats to burn the Jail, and shot
Morris dead in his cell.
SEVERE and disastrous storm ragged in the
vicinity of London on the Sd inst. 1t was at
tended with hailstones five inches in circumfer-
ence, and it is said that the damage to glass
alone around London amounts to thousands of
pounds sterling. In many places the hay crop
has been completely swept away and much
stock drowned. The rainfall in Buckingham
shire is estimated at seventy tons per acre.
Reports of damages by food and lightning
come from Cambridge, Norfolk, Guiford,
stock is serious.
A DISPATCH from Car ridge, Ohio, tells this
wonderful story: "While excavating for a
spring for reunion proposes day, on the lands
of Rev. W. H. Mcfarland, near this place, John
S. Gallup came in contact with what appeared
to be a smooth cut stone and dug down to the
foot of the third step, where he found
basin made in solid rock that will
contain fifty barrels more of water.
1t was cleaned out, and stream is pour
ing into it from the crevice of the rock, at the
rate of $4,000 gallons day. There is no
written account of these hewn steps and basin,
and the oldest citizen had no knowledge of their
existence. This was probably important
watering place during the mound builders
period. At any rate it is subject for invcsti-
cation by the antiquarians. 1t is regarded as
great curiosity and wonderful discovery
and is the theme of all conversation ON the
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

The project of making the Erie
Canal, from Buffalo to the Hudson
River, of such enlarged capacity as to
admit the passage of ocean vessels to the
like, is again attracting some attention.
Sooner or later this will probably be
done. The Erie Canal is owned by the
State of New York, and is the only sure
protection the people of New York City
and the State at large have against op-
pressive railroad combination. The
shipping of Western freight in unbroken
bulk to New York City must be pro-
vided for or else the city must abandon
commercial pre-eminence. In complet-
ing for Western business by rail, New
York has already powerful rivals, but
there can be no successful competition
with direct water route from Buffalo
10 the Hudson.
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A CURIOUS in stance of the uncertain
value of diamonds is shown in the case
of the experts who were called to testify
as to the value of the diamonds for which
"Cleopatra" negotiated the sum of
5000. One Of these gentlemen said he
would have paid 81 500 for the diamonds,
were he purchasing them as dealer,
but as to their selling value, that de-
pended on the customer and on the time
of the year. This let's some light into
jewelers. profits that perhaps they would
rather not have had exposed. 1t had
generally been believed that there was
q certain market price on the value Of
diamonds, but it would seem that the
standard Of value is according to the
length of the purchasers purse.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
Area and Population of Texas.

Texas has a vast domain. Between
the Sabine River on the East, the Red
River on the West, and the four hum
dred miles of coast line on the South
you inclose two hundred and seventy
four thousand square miles, or over one
hundred and seventy-fye million acres
of territory. This one State is larger
than the Kingdom of Great Britain,
larger than France, and larger than the
German Empire. You could carve out
of Texas thirty-fve States as large as
Massachusetts,, or nearly six as large as
New York. Place the six New England
States on Texas, and you have covered
but little more than one-fourth of the
great State. Add all the Middle States
and still you have covered only about
two-thirds. Not till you have combined
Maryland, Virginia and Ohio, with the
Middle and New England States, do you
equal the immense area of Texas.
And this "lone star" isnot so lone ly
as some may imagine. 1t already has a
population of two millions, and the mar
lve1ous immigration now pouring into
the State increases the number at the
rate of three hundred thousand year.
These new settlers are mostly from the
Northern States and from Europe.
Well, let them come 5al5 1tfa~ y 3.
iiasca lUncle Sam is rich enough
To buy us all a farm" 1E}s4-i* 4 ,iE@sss !
You could gather. the entire popula-
ton of the United States into Texas,
and not have it more crowded than some
parts of our own land are now.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

JAMES E. SoRRELL, civil engineer
of New York, has addressed the fol-
lowing communication to the Sun of
that city: Various applications have
appeared in different parts, particularly
in the London papers, setting forth a
proposed plan of flooding the Desert of
Sahara, thereby making it an ocean of
inland sea, by opening a canal or chan
mel from the Atlantic ocean. The depth
and size of the desert below the level
of the ocean is stated at 500 to $50 feet |;
the area in square miles is over 2,O00,-
900: the average depth is not generally
known, but suffice it to say that if such
a project should be started, and not un-
der the complete control of those in
charge of the work, the earth could, and
no doubt would, be thrown off its bal
ance, and the surface of the waters to a
certain extent would be changed in their
level, which could be ascertained with
certainty if the actual size and depth
could be known; for, if every grain OF
sand removed alters the balance of the
world what would this great change
do2 1t might cause the 'end of the
world which, according to the pro.
phecy Of Mother Shipton,' will be in
1881. In this project all the world is
interested"
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Another Breaking Out Of Pinafore.


"Who comforted Job? was the ques-
tion put by the pastor of the Norwich
Universalist Church to the scholars of the
Sunday-school last Sunday. A bright
eyed little lady announced her readiness
to respond by raising an agitated hand.
The pastors eye caught the Jealous ac-
tivity of his little scholar, and pleased
to crafty the child's desire, he said:
We'll, Oracle, speak up loud now-who
was it comforted Job?' And the re-
sponse came clear and with sincerity:
His sisters and his cousins and his
aunts." This brief quotation from
"Pinafore" produced momentary SEN
sation, but the good pastor quietly in
formed the child that Job was comforted
long before the days of that popular
comic opera, and the review proceeded,
and the laugh also.
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Feminine Loves and Hates.
(London TRUTH


In the world of unseen influences wo-
men play by far the most important
part. Their loves and hates, their fanat-
icism and jealousy have been from time
immemorial forces in human history
which act but are not registered; and
when we think of the things that women
do we seldom add that hidden wire-pull-
ing by which we poor mannikins are
made to dance, that secret tanning by
which the fire is kept alive In the
pretty little boudoir, with its silken
hangings and Satsuma China, sits the
lady whose favors one man has slighted
and one desires to win, or perhaps has
already gained, so that claim is estab-
ished and source of secret influence
opened when she wishes to spite foe or
befriend lover. To the uninitiated,
who only see and who don't understand,
those long tete-a-tetes betoken a mar
velous fund of pleasant conversation;
to the suspicious they mean finding more
than the whites of each others eyes
pretty to look at; but if ever the true
history of any event could be written,
with Asmodeus as the editor, we should
finally turned in that blue-lined boudoir,
anu tIltG pCoWCCh COIpllhICAto anu
resses the war which made thousands of
homes desolate, had been potentially de-
cided on-the primary cause, perhaps, of
no more public gravity than the pique
of an angry woman, or the greed of an
ambitious one, acting on the momentary
fancy of the then master of the situa-
ton. Nowhere, indeed, have women
more of this secret kind of influence
than in that very domain whence they
seem to be excluded. Shut out from
open participation in politics, they re-
venge themselves by practically mould
ing what they are forbidden to design;
and in all save technical details and the
hard work of arrangement, their inhu-
ence does as much as, and even more
than, the direct action of man. This is
eminently true of foreign politics, and
the influence there of certain highly
placed women who, like SO many rats
with their tails, edo and do and do :"
things in the dark which never come out
| into the light.