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Year: 1875

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child walking with his, sister through


a church-y yard, wished to know where


all the naughty people were buried;


and who, later in life, wrote the truism


that if one-half of our departed ones


could come out Of their graves and read


their epitaphs, they would not recog-


nize themselves.


| am forcibly reminded of this when


| walk through q cemetery, or read one


of those obituaries which SO few read


and still fewer believe. When / see it


stated in the Spread Eagle Gazette that


the demise of Mrs. Brown is public
calamity-that she was the paragon Of
her sex, the amiability of whose dispo-
sition endeared her to every one who
came within her charming influence II
straightway remember-I was her nearest
neighbor, you know-that from morn
till dewy eve her voice. pitched in the
shrillest tenor, was borne to me by the
gentle breezes in beration of her SER
wants or children, and often Of poor
Brown himself. Nor do l forget the
gush of fearful confidence. induced by
too much Tom and Jerry, in which
that individual told me as I led him an
unwilling captive towards his Lares and
Peuates, that she was the one great
torment of his life


When Mrs. Jinks read in that same
obituary that Mrs. Brown had left
disconsolate husband and six interesting
children to mourn her untimely loss,
her nose took sudden elevation, and
she immediately said to her daughter:


"Very disconsolate indeed! Gallant
ing Susan Briggs home from meeting
before his wife's tracks were cold,
laughing and 'bowing; and if those
children are interesting. everybody
else's are angels I do not see why
those newspaper folks cannot tell the
truth"


And just there Mrs. Jinks struck the
question centrally. Not that | would
have the newspaper folks lay bare
the representative Mrs. Browns consti-
tutional peculiarities. for when it comes
to that, who shall throw the FIRST stone?
But it is this inflated style Of obituary,
this use Of hyperbolical language, 1
protest against. The time-honored
motto, MI nisi de nrortuas bonxn, is
but the exponent-of feeling which has
its root in Christian charity sort Of
chiyalrous sentiment which would seek
to protect those who cannot protect
themselves; very good in its place,
very proper, yet, like everything else.
liable to abuse / would simply ask
that most photographic friend of the
afflicted family, who writes an obituary
voluntarily or does SO because be is
asked, after he has said all his own
kindly feelings prompt, not to plunge
into exaggerations to please the family.
1 trust, when I have shua1ed off this
mortal coil, that whatever virtues may
have set forth in my daily walk and
conversation, may be kept for discus
sion among those who love me, and not
held up for the admiration Of an incred-
ulous public, the sole effect of which
will be to cause every sin Of omission or
commission of which have been guilty
during my whole life to be thoroughly
aired by my enemies, and the obituary
itself to be read by my friends with .
tacit ignoring Of its exaggerations, and
a look which, being interpreted means,
81 know better, but I won't say So
poor thing!"
Year: 1875

The personal politics of the next Presiden-
tial campaign are already sufficiently bewil-
deripg. But here comes something to mystlfy
them sill further We do not pretend to un-
derStand 1t, to say whether it is authentic, to
know who is responsible for it., or to
gucss its motive. We only know that
it is clearly an explosive missile, hurled
info the midst of the Presidential as
pirants on the Republican side, and likely
to damage somebody, Though whether most
dangerous to the man who throws or the man
at whom it ia thrown, time must determine


Mr.. John Y. Foster is the Editor OF Ihe
Neuark Courier, an active politician quite
conversant with the inner workings Oh
Administration politics in Ncw-Jersey. lie
seems to havo written letter on the
next Presidency to ex-Speaker Blaine, when
i'll some extraordinary way makes It's appear
ance in newspaper published at Mr..
Hlaine's home. MIR. Fosters opinions
might not in themselves prove Startling but
his facts are sensational-providcd he knows
what he is talking about--and he generally
does. Here is the substance of the message
he has to send from the heart OF the Frellng-
huysen camp to the Republican leader of the
House:


Eighteen months ago told you that you could have
NewJersey in 1876 wish TO emphasize that state


ent All our people for you and We can carry inc
State beyond peradyenture Our dangers hat the west
will demand the nomination. This can also De
averted, OF course, by union OF NeWIhgiahu'
the Middle States and strong votes from the
South potent factor in next convention will be
the secret anti order Grant is member, and
If has a good deal OF strength IN Congress think you
ought TO 20 in. Ii can be arranged 80
that you can be initiated anywhere by
one person. The order Is spreading widely.


NV obligations do not permit me to say more than THIS
eycept hot Grant no doubt relies upon 10 promote his
aims with wisdom at Washington and in the States We
have carried we can surely hold the country But to
hold it for haphazard candidate is hardly worth the
candle For one OF vast multitude. want 10 hold 1t
for you.


On the above sundry questions arise. Il
there such q secret anti-CathOlic orderf is
Gen. Grant member of it'll If so, how
long, and why7 Has Mr.. Blaine yet
ioned it7 If not, why not How
many members of Congress are in it :?
What do they want to accomplish by going
into itP Are we to have the Know Nothing
Society revived in form as well as in sub
stancef


Mr. Lincoln once objected to certain polit-
ical scheme that he did MT think it could be
worked because he had never yet found tho
kind of powder which could be effectively burnt
twice. If this letter is genuine-a point on
which we know nOthing-it would seem TO in
dicate that Gen. Grant thinks lac has found that
kind of powder. What does ex-Speaker Blame
think of the discovery And what do the old
politicians, who, during the last three or four
campaigns, have been busy getting ailidayits
to the effect that they were never inside
Know Nothing lodges, think of ii 7
Year: 1875

President Grant proposes system of COM
mon school education which has never been
tried in the United States, and the very sug


gestion of it is beginning to make trouble.
He wishes to prohibit by constitutional amend
ment the teaching of any religious, atheisic,
or pagan tenetS" in the common schools.
This perhaps would he pushing the principle
of secular education to its logical extreme. but
in point of fact it has not been adopted in any
American community, and large party, perhaps
majority, of Christian people, would surely
revolt at it. Although it Is admitted that the
State has no night to give an education which
is not adapted to all its children equally, to
Protestant aud Catholic, Hebrew, freethinker,
Year: 1875

Legislative Committee The claim Is paid.
Now the Suckeryillans admit that the freshet
on Miles Creek could neither have been mace
nor marred by the waters Of Chemung Canal.


Some days ago we stated that the report OF
On indictment against the Private Secretary
to the President OF the United States,
for membership in the Whisky Ring, was
renewed, and that there were now some
reasons for believing it authentic. This state
ment was promptly contradicted from half
n dozen sources. Dispatches to-day indi-
cate that. it was true that the IN
dictment has been found, that the
President is indignant-as he well may be
at the position in which he finds himself, and
that he threatens the gentlemen in
st. Louis with loss of place unless
they make good the charges they have
brought against his official household. The
President mistakes the situation, however, if
he thinks this an occasion for anger against
the officers of the law. and we incline to be-
lieve that the dispatches must misrepre-
sent him on this point. 1t Is more TO his IN
terest, as an honest officer, than 1t Is 10
that of any other citizen of the United States,
that the multitude OF charges against
Gen. BabcOck should be sifted, that the truth,
whatever it is, should he made known, and
that the guilty. whoever they are, should
be exposed. 1t only remains now to insist,
as THE TRIBUNE has insisted from the begin
ming, that it is gross injustice to mistake
charge for conviction, that Gen. Babcock


is fairly entitled to a suspension of Judgment
until he is heard, and that the country ought
tO resent and will resent any attempt to
pass sentence before the verdict of the
jury has been given. On the other
hand the country will tolerate no in
reference with the regular admin
istration of justice in st. LOUIS. The Army
Court of Inquiry must stand back, and
Gen. BabcOcks official friends can do
nothing half so good as to let the
matter severely alone. 1t is case for the
unobstructed operation of the court before
which it has been brought
Year: 1875

Boston correspondent of The Philadelphia
Item gives the only full report we have yet
seen of the very remarkable speech of Bishop
Haven at the Boston Methodist Epis-
copal Preachers meeting attended by the
official representatives of the Methodist Epis-
copal Sabbath school Union and Tract Society
at Boston the other day, in which that gentle
man nominated President Grant for reelection.
The meeting of these representative bodies
was attended by an unusually large number of
the most intelligent and influential members
of the denomination, the Union and Society
having present as delegates 213 ministers and
about 100 laymen. The church i'll which the
deliberations were held, though the largest
in Boston, was crowded, and many went from
the doors unable 10 gain admission Accord
ing to this correspondent, there seems TO have
been an understanding in certain religious and
political circles that something unusual was
about TO take place, which accounts for the
presence Of so great an assembly. Some init
nation of it was given in the opening address
of Prof Wells, whose theme was " Bismarck
"and the Pope" In the course of his address
he referred to Gen. Grant as the savior Of his
country, aud said the loyal and true people of
America could not dispense with his services,
Year: 1875

who witness an execution ought 10 be reduced TO the
lowest limit consistent with the demands Of deconcy
and Justice. Tho greater the gloom and mystery Ia
which an execution can be shrouded the greater tor
ror is il likely to have for those for whom il has any
af oil
Year: 1875

We once more beg all travellers who come into the
stations at F0rty-secOnds. and at ThlTtieth-st not
to leave their papers in their seats nor to throw
them away, but keep them for the boxes by the
door of tie station provided by the State Charities
Aid Association. There are about 200 needed every
day to supply the different hospitals and retreats
and only quarter of this number are usually re-
ceiyed. Those who have books magazines which
they do not care to keep should send them directly
to the rooms of the Association at No. 80 East
Twentethst. We especially commend this simple
work of charity to visitors at our hotels
who are about to leave the city. Their
rooms are frequently incumbered with maya
zines and other ephemeral publications which they
do not care to burden their luggage with No better
disposition can be made of them than to send them
to the above address. They will be distributed with
discretion and will give tenfold more pleasure in this
second employment than they could possibly give
when new: for they will go into the hands of the
poor and the afflicted to whom they will be not
only luxury, but a slight token that they are not
entirely neglected and forgotten.
Year: 1875

Among the things which hundreds of people haze
noticed, and nobody has written about is the fact
that the American coat of is the same substan-
italy as that of the Washington family. The CO.
temporary records are snguary silent in regard to
this but it was probably the design of those who
adopted our national blazon to make it conform to
the private escutcheon of the chief of the State in
case the revolutionary leader should be the founder
of dynasty. This was not matter to talk about
at that time, and retcence easier then than in
these times Of omniscient journalism and indiscree
interviews. But what can escape the eye Of genius
Martin Farquhar Upper has somewhere seen our
eagle aud shield. and, wandering in Hampshire, has
chanced upon a coat of arms of the WashingtOns Of
Wessyngion, and has seen, as many have seen
before him, that they were almost identical. But
hc alono has burst into blank verse about il, and
newspapers in the interior are deriding him for his
discovery.
Year: 1875

A case Of more than usual interest was
argued in the Court of Alabama Claims yes
terday. The owners of the bark Richmond
sued for the loss and expense that resulted
from a deed of humaDity-the rescue of 52 OF
the 25O seamen that were left crowded in
single vessel near Behring Straits, after the
ravages of the Shenandoah. 1t is to be re-
gretted that the Court was obliged TO decide
against the claim. on technical grounds. The
bark Richmond not having itself been cap
tured by the cruiser, there was no such dam
age IA the Court can recognize; but the bu-
name act of the captain of the whaler received
hearty and deserved praise from Judge Jewell.


Suckerville--that was the name Of the place.
At least that was the name before a claim for
damages went up thence; damages for a frcshct
on Miles Creek damages against the State Oh
account of the Chemung Canal oVeIfowing.
II is intimated that the name was changed
at or about the time Of making the
claim. Suckervillc" was perhaps too
suggestive. 1t might have started some in
quiry. In that event, it is just barely possible
the State might have had the benefit of the
testimony that Is now coming before the Joint
Year: 1875

1t il curious fact that the late Lord High Cham
cellor. Lord St. Leonards, who was one of the best
English authorities the laws of property and the
writer of some excellent books on that subject
left his own estate in muddle by making will and
putting it away carefully that it cannot be found
Ii is certain that will duly executed and eight
codicis are produced which refer to it, but the inn
portant document itself has disappeared. Lord ST.
Leonards had quarreled with his eldest son. and his
purpose seems to have been to put large share of
tho property out of his reach. The plaintiffs
in the action recently decided asked for
a division of tho estate according to the


intentions of the testator established by the codi-
ellis and by paro evidence of the contents of the lost
will The defendant (the present Lord ST. LeOnardsl


insisted that the will must have been revoked, or so
eminent a lawyer as the late Lord Chancellor would
have left il where it would be forthcoming when it
was wanted To this it was replied with some force
that So eminent lawyer as the late Lord Chancel'


or would never have destroyed the viii and left the
codicils to perplex his executors. The Court took
this latter view and divided the property according
to the proved provisions of the missing testament.
Altogether il is the most striking illustration of the
old SAYING about the lawyer who conducts his own
case that we have met with in many day.
Year: 1875

The Supreme Court of California de
cides, in the case Of Sherwood Va. the
Meadow Valley Mining Company that
certificate of stock stolen and passed
into the hands of d bona 6de purchaser
nevert heless conveys no title to the lat
ter, and that the owner of stock does
not lose his title when he loses the GER
titlcate or it is stolen from him. The
San Francisco Bulletin remarks: 1T will
be seen that in effect this decision re.
ders the mode OF dealing in stooks com
mon IN this city extremely hazardous


for it makes it incumbent on the pur


chaser to not only satisfy himself that
the seller has u good title 10 the certif.
Gates rendered, out also to know that
the stock stands on the books of the
company in the name OF the seller; in
other words it requires that every trans.
fer Of stock shall be made on the books
Of the corporation" This decision is
not without significance on much of the
stock business transacted here and else .
where. 1t requires generally much more
attention in the transfer of ownership
than it receives.-Ledoer.
Year: 1875

The materials required for this cusb
ION are, half yard of fine white sill
canvas, a yard and half of thick satin
ribbon three inches wide, blue or rose
colored, few skeins of floss silk. and a
silk cord AMI tassels.


Cat the ribbon into three pieces. to be
basted at equal distances on the canvas
one in the middle, the others at either
side half way between the middle and
the edge. Feather stitch the ribbon
down on both sides with pale yellow
floss. In the spaces left between the
ribbon stripes, embroider q graceful lit.
tie pattern in hosses which harmonic
with the shade of the ribbon. Make up
the cushion with lining Of plain silk
or satin, and trim the edge with the
cord and tassels.


This is an easy cushion to make, but
the effect is really charming. and we re.
commend some of you to try it. The
cushion from which our description is
taken comes from England, and we have
never seen similar one in this country
Black satin ribbon and brilliant embroi.
dery would be an effective combination
From "One Hundred Christmas Presents
and How to MAKE Them" st. Nicholas fo-
December
Year: 1875

him so large part Of his property.
1t is therefore claimed that his will
is nothing more than the final ex-
preston ol u long before announced ex-
tcnlion. 1t is also claimed that 20 lar
from the amanuensis Of the will having
exercised an improper influence on the
tcstator, the actual TACT is that he ex
pressly declined to become abeneiiciaTy in
his own right under the will, and that
without so much as asuggcstion from him
his children were made beneiiciaries in
his stead


The case is one which, when it comes
to trial, must necessarily excite consider
able interest in Marshall county.
Year: 1875

EDITOR HERALD: After enduring
an almost unbearable nuisance for
three days, I am at last obliged to call
your attention to the careless manner
in which some Of our city officials at
tend to their duties. Oh Saturday
evening or Sunday morning a mon
strous dog was poisoned and lay dead
in vacant lot on the corner of Will
mington and Requena streets. Sew
eral applications have been made to
the Marshal and one to the Health
Officer, and also to the captain of the
chain-gang, to remove the nuisance,
but all seems to be of no avail. The
families living in the neighborhood
are compelled to keep their windows
closed, and the men employed in the
adjacent foundry of Moore & Lynch
were obliged to quit work this fore
noon.. Mr.. Moore endeavored to get
private truckmen to cart 1t away, but
as the brute was poisoned and has lain
in the sun for three days none of them
will remove it. They go there and
look at it and then drive away with
out any delay. CITIZEN.


Los Angeles, Sept. osth, 1875.
Year: 1875

Nothing is so invigorating as ride
from Santa Monica on the stage at
night, when the moon is down and
the air foggy. The average stage horse
staggers along under his burden of
rich feed in the LATEST manner i'm
Imaginable, occasionally varying it
with kicking out of the traces and
bucking at the ponderous stage, with
its sixteen passengers, as it thunders
behind. We never before believed that
stage horses were subject to gout, but
after recent trip at night from SAN
ia Monica, we are satisfied that the
horses on that stage had the fashiona-
BILE malady. In Los Angeles the team
is boarded at a first class stable, and
we think must be overfed, from the
way they staggered and stopped. We
had a religious driver who would not
try our suggestion to take it out In
swearing, when they stopped on an up
grade, and he was compelled to block
the wheels. We finally got to town
in about four hours, but not without
having to prop the horses against
fences on several trying occasions,
when they seemed inclined to rest.
AS the driver was religious he contin-
ed himself to imprecations against the
richness of the alfalfa feed which ham,
pered the race stock used OH Santa
Monica stages. On arriving at Pico
and Main streets, his offer to pay street
car fare of all who desired to take a
safer conveyance was Indignantly re-
fused, and the stage rode up to the st.
Charles Hotel in triumph, though it
required the united exertions OF six
policemen and all the boarders to hold
the horses, which made frantic exer-
tions to start for Arizona.
Year: 1875

CONTRADICTION AND AN EXPLANATION.


To Ths EDrToR or THE HERALD


paragraph has been going the rounds OF the Boston
papers, having appeared first, am told, in the New
York HERALD to the effect that my return to Eng.
land spring take the chair Of astronomy in
the Catholic University at Kensington judged


at FIRST that there could be occasion for contradict
ing this false report seeing that my position in
scientific matters mantestly forbids my accepting the
professorship In question (besidcs that have re-
peatedly expressed my unwillingness to accept any
professionally salaried ONCE whateverl But as find
many give credsnce the report shall be obliged by
your allowing to correct It, SO far as
know, nothing has happened during eighteen
months last past 10 give origin TO this re-
port, which is alto ether untrue should be
glad If newspapers which have quoted the report
would now quote my contradiction (and also mention
my desire that this contradiction may be quoted as
widely as the report ITSELF take this opportunity of
noting certain perversity in the way in which many
well meaning persons view my remarks on certain
ons Of dogmatic theology about which, BY the way,
theologians themselves cannot agree IL seems mpos
sble for many distinguish between religion and dog
mas which long habit has taught them to associate with
religion. Two hundred years ago men were thought to
be defenders OF the faith who taught that IL
tia for Christians to believe in the xity and central
position Of the EARTH but such teachers wrought incal
culable mischief to the for which they
jealous In our own time similar mistake is being
made by persons who suppose that thereby they are
serving religion. Their intentions may be excellent
but they are TRUTH the worst enemies of religion
He who teaches to believe that certain scientific
views which are all the time gaining ground incom-
patibe with particular religious doctrines, helps to
make it certain that those doctrines WILL before long,
be widely dscredted He is the true enemy of those
doctrines, not the who would dissociate them
from dogmas whose nature is daily becoming
more manifest RICHARD A. PROCTOR .


BosToy Dec g. 1878
Year: 1875

From the Albany Evening Journal


The Board OF State Canvassers met at the ONCE OF
the Secretary Of State to-day and made the following
official declaration Of the votes cast the recent cleo
Year: 1875


cast on each office and the aggregate OF the votes for
the several candidates named represents the number Of
ballots set down as scattering blank or defective


The Board of Canvassers made no determination
10 the result of the election for Representative in Con-
creos In the Thirty third Congressional district for the
following reasons:


Fiyst9That Charles s. Cary did not receive major
ity OF all the Congressional votes in said district
both for Representative in Congress and member of
Congress combined, although receiving majority Of
the votes for Representative In Congress In saId dis
tTict


Second-That the Board cannot determine, declare
and certify pursuant act OF Congress OF February To-
1862 that Nelson Norton by the greatest number
Of votes regularly elected In accordance with the Laws
of this State" Representative in the Congress OF the
United States


The question will, therefore, be lefs for Congress IT,
self 10 determine.