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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22
ROLL OF BILLS WITHOUT AN OWNER.

/ B. Phillips. of No. 331 East Ninth-St.. saw two
men running past his house on the evening oil APi,l
g. one evidently pursuing tie otL(re ne man W ~
The Sidewalk and Nh. Phillips picked mp the money,
amounting to TlOJ. He was counting II Wneh IL
was claimed by a stranger, WHO, however, could hoJ
tell the amount. Neither OF the two men VINO hdl
been ruunlng.rcappeared and Nh Phillips delivered
the money to the police, who sent II to the properly
4 Jerk at Police Headquarters. woman VINO ana
moi give her name aiterward went to the Property
CLERKS Office and SAID that the money belonged to
her brother named FuunuV. Her story was that
flaming was robbed in liquor store 10y a man
named Iubcy, and that he chased Lubcy past MI
pMIIms'S house without being able to eaten NM
Tho woman was told that tanning must present
uronfs Of ownership before the money couId he
pId to him. Neither she nor heT brother has az
PPcrtised m Tbc(iig Record for the owner Of the
money. If the owner does not appear within Six
months the money Will be paid to the Under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

rington began 70 assai Peacock with bitter WoTus
of reproach until he was called to 0ruer Juus'
Mct;iil in sentencing the prisoner said
You have been convicted under an lndctneh, Ion
spring 10 dcfraud the Supreme Council OF tne I'm
Inoon of Honor Until "A few months ago you hhd cacn
had an excellent reputation in the community. ~
Joined several benevolent associations ana WE
Gnra M snperor interest and Information lou naNo
taken advantage of Your positions to enloh
the expense one Of these associations; no e CON
fined ut hard labor I'm the state Prison Tor TWO n
YOUR case Dr. Peacock, the Court lnchueu 70 h r,tb
and did not seek To conceal anything The sencnCe rs
Prison for Two wears the term TO run with the term vi
your previous sentence.
The counsel for Harrington annonnced lnat or mI
had prepared an application for writ OIL oIlor I'M,
ns,od tbat L,s clirit he admitted to bail pending
its dcci.iun Patrick Hayes offered himself a., as
bond%man but the Court refused I" accept MN I"i
the full amount,-Sj 900 harrington "cCoih
panied Peacock back to jail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22
SHIPPING NEWS.

PORT OF NETWORK. MONDAY, APRIL 81. 1884
ARRIVED
Steamer Westphaa Oerl. FTsnzen. Hamburg ApT q with
mdsa and passengers to knnhaTdt Co
Steamer Newport, CuIus sagua Apll - and Havsns4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22
PEACOCK AND HARRINGTON SENTENCED.

Dr. Rufus W. Peacock aud John ID. Harrington
were called for lsentencr IN the Sessions Court IN
In from tile county uIl where he has been confined
since his previous conviction, but tllarlngtOn did
NOT answer and il was thought at first that he had
fled Att o'clock however, both defendants were
in court and occupied chairs near each other. HaI.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22
MARINE INTELLIG ENCk.


sunrses 300 ssts643 Moon r,es $40 Moons ssNds. 20
HIGH WATER TODAY.
4 N-Sandy Hook Al GOV Tslanl 300 Hen G1''. $3.50
PM.-ssndy h0VA 6.Ot GOy Island, 5;3s Hell Gate. 72l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22
4 LIFE SENTENCE FOR KILLING A CHILD.

Justice Barnard, at Riyerhcad, i. l., YESTERDAY
began the trial of John Jelreys and ms wlie; VINO
were indicted for the murder of their child at
Smithown last August. The child was TIE offspring
of Mrs .Jelircys before she married JcHreyS' VINO
killed 1T bv breaking its neck. When alTalghed on
The Indictment they pleaded mot gnilty; put our
ing their imprisonment Jeflrcys made iuli COMES
however. and Dislict-Attorncy Petty accepted n
plea of guilty of murder III the second degree, ne
wa, sentenced TO the state Prison for me auh ne
Indictment against his wife was dismissed Oh INC
ground OF coercion by her husband.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

We Never Will

Get tired of talking about our
new Albert Frock and Cuta-
way suits. Men with a preju-
dice against ready-made cloth
ing should see this offering
The prices are right. The ex-
hibit in the Boys Department
is a great success. We have
knee pants suits in 2 and 3
pieces for large boys up to IA
years. Also new achievement
in an odd little straight front
sack suit for boys from 4 to
IA wears.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

Mother Swans Worm Syrup" for feyerish-
moss worms. c0n-t patton tas -rie-s. zoe.
Buchu psD1' Great Kidney and Urinary cure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

Now is the time take DIR. o. Phelps Browns
uucIuard BLOOD PURIFIER. Druggists. Once and LabOIa
tory 10 and A. Grand. ST, Jersey city, N
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

Smart Weed and Bclladonna combined with
, other INGREDIENTS he best pastors make
inter- " b. Backochc Pasters the best 10 tie market
pIIrr . Crms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

A FAvOEITE ANTIDOTE.
Tho Rue ian Bath Is taYetfc place. IL an anldOctQ
Soentarv and Cornwall habits and sure cure Tor COLDS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

friends among the latter being many ,promi,nen
merchants The body will be taken 10 larrS'o"n
this morning for burial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22

HENRY A. DANIELS, VI. D.,
144LexingfOn.1ye. between 2)th 1pt }) .l-1ss
Hours \ tO /. toll Diseases n TIA N1ryou4syl1B Il
GentO.UrndrY Organs. Impotence AMI sJariugE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-22
STEAMERS DCE At THIS Port
Announcements.

Genuine Johann os Mali Extract has Signature o. Johann
lTnN and N0rit Fsucr neck Of every bo- ll975b "
all physicians for general debility Beware " llllduoI'
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17
Electricity Affecting watches.

Fine, sensitive watches are particu-
larly liable to be affected by electrical
atmospheric disturbances. During the
months of June, July and August, when
these phenomena are most frequent.
there are more m~ainsprings broken than
during all the remaining months of the
year. They break in a variety Of ways,
sometimes swapping into as many as
twenty-seven pieces. 1t is a fact that
since the introduction of the electric
light has become SO general, large num-
Der of watches, some of them very fine
ones, have become magnetized. While
in this condition they are useless as
timekeepers. This defect used to be
considered incurable, and because of it
thousands of watches have been thrown
away, after much money had been spent
on them in vain attempts to persuade
them to keep good time. Among the
methods resorted to were washing the
parts in garlic juice, r%einishlng and
passing them through the fire. But all
these devices were entire failures, or
only partly effective.
\ man who had a line and valuable
movement, which kept excellent time,
transferred it from a silver case to a
secondhand gold one. Immediately it
lost all its characteristics of steadlness
and reliability, and, in fact, did not
keep time at all. When replaced in
the silver case it kept good time again.
The owner, a jeweller. puzzled himself
and experimental in vain to discover
the cause of this strange partiality on
the part of his watch for silver. At
length he sent it to an expert. He
discovered that the lifting spring of the
gold case had become magnetized. On
substituting another for it, the watch
kept IS good time in the gold Isl as in
the silver case. Watches frequently
get magnetized in iron mines or ma
chine shops where they are meautiously
brought near swiftly running belts.
1t is a well-known fact among horol-
ogists, that no watch will keep the
same time with two people. The cause
has not yet been definitely a%scertalned,
but it would seem that in some myster-
ious way a watch is affected by the
temperament of the wearer. The mere
physical difference in gait and move
ment between different peopls is not
sufficient to account for all the varia-
lions that have been observed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17
Liberty In France.

Within the last few weeks three cases
have occurred in France which illus
trate in a very striking manner how
completely individual liberty is at the
mercy Of the police. The first case
was that of a stableman in the employ
of a large cab company in Paris. This
man had been detected il~l-treating a
horse, and the manager of the stables
remarked to the Inspector of Police
that it was a pity the law did not adj
nit of the offender being sentenced to
more than a weeks Imprisonment.
Make your mind easy" replied the
Inspector. 81 will keep him in prison
for a few months before bringing him
up for trial" The second case is that
of the footman at the Rue Royale Club,
who has been in prison for two months
on suspicion of having supplied marked
packs of cards. He has now been libe-
rated, as, after all the efforts of the
police, he could not be induced to give
any information as TO his supposed &C
completes. He has never gone through
any form of trial whatever. The third
case is of a different kind. In the
course of the past year a retired officer
named st. Elme started a Radical news
paper IN Corsica. This journal, which
attacked in very severe terms the Re
publicans now in Office, was much dis
liked By the Project of Corsica, by
whose order letters addressed to the
editor were seized In the Post Office.
NJ. St. Elme, meeting the Project at a
cafe IN the town of Ajaccio, taxed him
with this, and after some strong Ian
guaGe had been used on both sides, the
landlord of the cafe and his walters set
upon NJ. St. Elme and beat him un-
mercifully. For this offence NJ. st.
Elme mot the landlord Of the cafe was
summoned and sentenced to five months
Imprisonment. He appealed against
the sentence, but a few days before the
appeal was heard he was SO badly
beaten that he had to be brought into
court upon a litter. The Judgment
pronounced by the court below was
confirmed, though the term of imprison-
ment was reduced from five months to
six weeks but the unfortunate man
! died of his injuries the next day.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17
Sayings and superstitIons.

was reading for the third time the
other evening Carlyle's ''Sartor Resar-
tus," says a recent writer. In my
humble opinion it is one of the best
books Carlyle ever wrote. and one Of
the best things in it is his essay on
clothes. In this, however, he upholds
a popular fallacy as to the meaning Of
the saying ''Nine tailors make a man, -
and states that Queen Elizabeth used
to boast that she had a regiment of
which neither horse nor man could be
destroyed this was supposed to be a
regiment of tailors mounted on mares.
This Interpretation of the saying IS,
however. quite wrong, and the only
reason why Carlyle should have perpet-
uated it is probably that he was ignor-
ant of the real meaning, owing to his
being a Scotchman, where the practice
that gave rise to 1t was unknown. In
the first place, it should not be nine
taIlors, but nine t~ailerS, and the saying
arose in this wise In country villages
in England it used tc be the custom,
and is now in rare instances, when a
person died at night the sexton was
told, who then tolled the bell of the
village church. He first raug a short
peal and then finished up with tail
ers," three ''tailers" for a child, six
''tailors" for a woman, and nine tail
ers made a man." Nearly all old say
ings and superstitlons may be traced
to like simple causes. One of the most
common inn or "public house" signs
in England is the ''goat and compass
ses," with the picture of a goat astride
a pair of compasses. The origin of this
is that in old days generally the only
place of refreshment for the traveller
was to be found in the m~onasteries.
Over the gate of the monastery there
was the motto, "God Encompasseth
U.s." which, in course of time, was
corrupted into ''goat and compasses. -
So, too, with the superStitions of "thir-
teen at table" and ''spilling the salt >
both of these take their origin from the
last supper. At that feast there was
thirteen, one of whom shortly afterward
suffered. and there is a tradition that
Judas Iscariot spilled the salt in hand
ing it to Jesus. l have read somewhere
that this superstition takes its rise from
an old picture representing Judas spill
ing the salt in transitu, but | should
imagine that the painter would have
taken his idea from the tradition, and
not the tradition from the painter.
The origin Of Friday being an unlucky
day may be traced to the fact that on
that day our Saviour is said to have
been cruciiied, and until quite lately it
used to be known as 'hangman's day, "
owing to malefactors being generally
executed on a Friday.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17
Well Boring.

An interesting illustration OF the IN
certainties of well-boring operation has
Just occurred at Boston-on-Trent Eng
land. One of the largest breweries
there had occasion to increase its water
supply. Recourse was had to boring,
and the work was carried out by a
local well sinker. The spot chosen
proved an unfortune one, and after a
depth of 10 feet had been reached,
Messrs. LIE Grand 81 Sutcllff, artesian
well engineers of London, were con-
suited as to further search for water.
This firm, having had considerable ex-
perience III well -making operations at
Burton, advised the abandonment Of
the boring, and suggested a fresh site,
which they selected This suggestion
was adopted, and at a depth Of only
ia feet a supply of between 5000 and
6 600 gallons per hour has been obtained
from a single fye-inch tube well. 1t
should be mentioned that the level of
the two sites was practically identical,
and the distance between them about
two hundred yards.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17

About twenty years ago a young
doctor, who had been established three
years in London without making an
income, lost heart and determined to
emigrate to Australia. He sold his
small house and furniture, paid his
passage money, and a week before his
ship was to sail went into the country
to say good-by to his parents. Having
to change trains at a junction, he was
waiting on the platform when a groom
in a smart livery gallopad up to the
station and calling excltedly to a Porter
handed him a telegraphic message for
transmission. From some remarks ex-
changed between the two men, the
Young doctor understood that the Duke
Ola member of the Cabinet bad
fallen dangerously i'll, and that an
eminent physician in London was
being telegraphed for. The groom
added that be had ridden to the houses
of three local doctors, who had all been
absent, and that Ills Grace was in a
terrible way" The young doctor saw
his opportunity, and at once seized it.
Il am a medical man, ''he said to the
groom, land l will g. to the hall to
offer my assistance till another doctor
arrives" The groom vas evidently
attached to his master, for he
said: Jump on my horse, sir, and ride
straight down the road tor about four
miles; you can't miss the hall; any n
will tell you where it is" The doctor
went, was gratefully received by the
Duchess, and happened to be just in
time to stop a mistake in treatment of
the patient, which might have proved
fatal if continued for a few hours
longer. The Duke was suffering from
typhoid fever; and when the eminent
physician arrived from town he declared
that the young doctors management
of the case had been perfect. The
result of this was that the latter was
requested to remain at the hail to take
charge of the patient, and his name
figured on the bulletins which were
issued during the next fortnight, and
were printed in all the leading news
papers of the kingdom. Such an adver-
tisement is always the making of a
medical man, especially when his pa
tient RECEIVERS, as the Duke did. Our
penniless friend received a fee OF five
hundred guineas, took a house at the
West End, and from that time to this
has been at the head of one of the larg-
est practices in London.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17
Yosemite Falls.

The discovery of these wonderful
falls was made by a party of whitemen
Sin pursuit of a band of Indians who
had made themselves troublesome to
the whites, and who were understood
to have a stronghold in the mountains
where they imagined they were safe
from any attack, and in winch they
sought refuge when obliged to retreat
from the neighborhood of the settle
ment." The main fact is as stated.
The discovery was made by a small
party who were in the pursuit of the
Indians. l happen to know the princi-
pal actors in that affair, and, being a
lover of historical accuracy, even in
small matters, beg leave to recall a few
incidents by way of Renaissance of by
gone days-the good old days of 40.
l wintered in 40 on the Tuolumnes
River, and l so far digress as to say it
was the severest winter 1 eveT passed
III California, although my experience
extended to nearly twenty years subse-
quent residence, all of which was pass.
ed In the mountain regions of the coun-
try, extending from Puget Sound to the
Tulare Lakes. In the Spring of that
year, as soon as travelling became prac-
tlcable, my partner, Alonzo Ridley, and
myself packed a mule and started on a
prospecting tour towards the Mercedes
River, and reached a small stream, a
tributary of that river, where we locat-
ed a trading post. The stream was
Matsell's Creek, since and now named
Coulterville.
A few miles below the mouth of the
brook, on the main river Mercedes, dis
tant about ten miles, was a beautiful
little valley known as "Happy Valley, a"
the abiding place of a numerous tribe
Of Indians. A white man had come
among them about the time of the dis
covery of gold, and gained the conf
dence Of the tribe, and, at the time l
knew him, exercised supreme control.
The tribe consisted of about 500 men
and women, or, as they were more COM
monty called, 'bucks and squaws."
They mined and worked for him, and
all the gold flowed into his treasury. By
obtaining a constant supply of Indian
goods and trinkets, which he did by
running a large pack train to the coast,
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17

he kept them contented and reaped the
benefit of their labor. How he obtain
ed such supremacy over not only that
tribe, but all the Indians with whom he
came in contact was, and is a mystery
to me-. There was nothing imposing in
his personal appearance; IN the con-
trary he was small in stature, but active,
quick in motion, and fearless. | have
known many men VINO had great sway
and control over the Indians, but never
one like him. James Savage, Major
Savage or Jim Savage, as he was more
commonly called, was the a The
amount of gold that he collected was
immense, and when he went below to
the coast it was scattered with a pro-
fuse hand, as though he knew where to
find more, which he certainly did. He
was finally killed in a personal difficult
tyr on Kings River, by a white man,
concerning a disputed land claim. In
1851 all the Indians in Southern Cali
%fornia, living IN the mountain regions,
seemed possessed of the war spirit.
Whatever may have been the origlnat-
ing cause of that feeling, the fact exists
that all that region of country in the
Mariposa and Mercedes was in a state
Of war excitement, and in all camps
there was the greatest vigilance and
every mar on the alert, and a general
warfare was carried on for some time.
1t was literally "war to the knife and
the knife to the hilt."
1t was after a raid by a wild band,
which had attacked and committed de-
precautions on a mining camp, that a
small party of whites under the direc-
ton and command of James Savage and
my partner, Alonzo Ridley, followed up
and penetrated the Yosemite valley,
which expedition resulted in their COM
ing upon the great natural woDder-the
Yosemite Falls. This was in the early
part of 1862. On the return of the
party | had the account of the discov-
cry from Ridley himself, who was an
enthusiastic admirer of the mountain
life which he had adopted, and together
we passed through many adventurous
scenes, both by ''1ood and field" Saw
age was a Western man, and, as we
have stated was afterwards killed. Rid
ley was from Maine; a hraver, truer
heart eve beat; independent of
thought, conscientious in his convic-
tons, iufieXible of viii, and although a
Northern man, when the var of the re-
bellion broke out he went where the
conviction of duty led him and fought
in the Southern army against home and
kindred, and yielded up his life in their
cause. When those officers on the Pa
ciGc coast resigned and joined the
Southern army, Ridley raised a company
and escorted them across the country,
being himself killed in one of the great
battles of the war.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17
The Reverse Way.

An extraordinary scene took place a
few days since at the Leek cemetery,
in Z gland, on the occasion of the tu-
neral of a retired farmer. On arriving
al the grave the officiating clergyman,
the Rev. W. Beresford, vicar Of st.
Luke's, Leek, pointed out that the
corpse's feet would not point to the
eastward, and although the sexton told
him that the grave was in a similar po-
sition to hundreds OF others, and show
ed him the headstones in continuation,
the clergyman insisted upon his point,
referring to the difficulty which would
be experienced on the day of resurrec-
ton if the corpse was placed otherwise
than with his feet to the east. a rule
was then procured, when it was found
that the grave would just take the coffin
the reverse way, and the ceremony was
then proceeded with,
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-17

A dealer in periodicals on Dearborn
street, Chicago, rolled up a comic jour
nal and a religious weekly together.
after tucking away between their
leaves u dozen circulars relating to the
superior quality of sundry inks, new
novels and cooks on cookery, twisted
a piece of wrapping paper around the
whole and handed the parcel to a Gus
toner with a graceful bow. The pur-
chaser was a closely-shaven old gen.
tleman who had a thoroughly benevolent
air and apparently a mind above jokes
and funny pictures.
"That last cartoon fetched him, y
chuckled the dealer. ''IIe's been on
the verge of buying a funny paper for
a long time and now he's done it."
rs this his first purchase of comic
literature2' asked a reporter.
Yes, sofar as | know, and he's been
a steady customer Of mine for over a
year. He has unth o confined HIM
self to magazines and newspapers with
sermons in them. But he has a hui
morous streak in his composition, and
| have often seen him lingering vel
the papers containg cartoons. | think
he would have begun to buy them long
ago if he had not been afraid the mem
bers OF his family would laugh at him
Perhaps he thought such leyity on his
part would shock the Old lady and
prove a bad example to his descendants
But that cartoon which dishes up the
Presidential candidates as museum GU
rlosities has knocked him cold. He
couldn't resist buying 1t. He'll buy
plenty of picture papers after this"
"What class of cartoons is the most
taking with the public?"
amy clever picture which treats a
familiar and important subject in a
novel way is sure to be popular. the
sale of picture papers, however IS very
steady. A good picture frequently
entices people to buy a particular num-
Der of a certain paper, but when they
have acquired an appetite for cartoons
they are likely to purchase bad ones as
well as good ones from that time on.
Colored cartoons catch the eye quickly
and are more commonly appreciated
than plainly printed ones The comic
papers have of late years considerably
Injured the sale Of the standard illus
trated weeklies. The illustr ations
which bring the greatest return are
those in the papers displayed at the
store entrance. They attract a crowd
all day long, draw attention of passers-
by to the place and induce people to
come in and make purchases which
they never would have thought of
making if it had not been for the pic
lures. They attract l%oafers, too, but
loafers are necessary n~uisances in every
business, and are as inevitable as taxes. "