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Year: 1874

portion Of the congregation Of the Presby-
terian church at Woodbridge has Just seeded and
viii form Congregational society.


The Gfty-seventh annual meeting OF the Mon
mouth County Bible Society will be held In the
Centenary Methodist Episcopal church at Long
Branch on Thursday, November IL.


There are two cases Of smallpox at the house OF
Jeremiah Murphy, in Oakland avenue. Jersey
City. The Board OF Health have taken no notice
whatever OF this, although girl died IN the same
house OF smallpox twelve days ago.


Robert $. woodruff, Receiver OF Taxes in the
city OF Trenton, has just been nominated by the
democrats Tor member OF Assembly in the Third
district OF Mercer county. Mr.. Woodruff is quite
young man and graduate OF Rutgers college.


Meetings in opposition to the scheme for the
proposed water supply at a cost OF four millions
are becoming common in the northern portion OF
hudson county. At a meeting In West HoboKen,
last evening, strong speeches we're made against
the plan.


In the Mercer County Court yesterday motion
was made for the discharge OF Mrs. Dr. s. +. sandt
against whom the crime OF malpractice has been
alleged, on the ground that the Grand Jury failed
TO find a bin OF Indictment against ntr. The
County Prosecutor opposed. and said ne intended
TO proceed further IN tine matter The Court re-
fused grant the motion.
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes In
the temperature for the past twenty four hours,
in comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
pharmacy, HERALD Buidng:-
Year: 1874

LEAD astrsy-Bullets that don't hit
the mark.


The spring styles OF base balls
and marbles show little change.


INVALID northerHers seem TO have
taken entire possession OF Florida.


Why is a thunder storm like "a
onion? Because it is peal on peal.


WHEN the sun crosses the line, spring
will take up I:s line of March.


Why is it right B should come be-
fore G? Because we must B before we
c,
Year: 1874

fact that there is nothing for it to do Of sufi-
cient moment to Justify the expense. In the
118 days session last winter this Legislature
passed 119 bills. and now something like 800
bills are said to be awaiting consideration. The
fact that the State has suffered nothing from the
slumber Of the 800 innocents, supposing them
to be really innocent, while the majority were
better never considered at all, shows that there
is no necessity for 4 session nov. The Revision
of the Statutes. which will be brought before
this Legislature, may be postponed to adTan-
tage for the consideration Of the next Legisla-
ture, before whom there will probably come i'm
portant suggestions Of Law reform. The general
sentiment Of the State eeemB to be that tho
present Railroad law ahsll have longer trial, 30
that the Legislature can find no excuse for q
session in this. The Law already provides that
the schedule Of rates made by the Railroad Com
missioners shall become primo Jucae evidence
after Jan. Is, and there is nothing to add or
amend. il the law is to be more thoroughly test
ed. In point Of fact, tho Legislature will find
nothing OF Importance OF va1uo before it, and it
will be waste of s1,500 per Day to hold Sos
cir
Year: 1874

Mr.. Benjamin Butler ID statesman Of the
present day. He has something to say upon all
questions, and especially upon financial ques-
tions. He WAS recently conspicuous in support
ing the suggestion Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury that taxes be increased. In tho
course Of debate lie thus referred to specie pay
ments:


I want our currency made good specie, but
any idea Of substituting specie payment for it is de-
lusion and snare There never was specie payment
in any country, md there never viii be, because,
under any system Of banking that was ever had or
proposed Whenever specie to the amount Of s.
was called for, the banks shut down.


The reader will observe that Mr. Butler wants
the currency made as good as specie, but lie
does not want to return to specie payments. II
he will only make the currency as good as
specie, that ia all that tho most sanguine advo-
cate OF specie payments has ever asked. There
may be those who will fail to SEQ any difference
between return to specie payments and rak-
ing the currency as good as specie. Mr. Butler
thinks the former mischievous dogma, while
he thinks the latter very advisable. Nererthe-
less, az soon as he makes the currency a. good
Els specie. We promise he will hear no more
grumbling from the advocates OF specie pay
ments. That the banks have hitherto failed
when thero was an extraordinary demand for
specie redemption proves nothing more than
that once in twenty years We got into a. bad q
position as We are now all the time.
Year: 1874

The subject OF municipal debts is attracting
attention all over the country. Never before
was there such general borrowing by city gov
ernments to meet current expenses aud the pay
meats Of interest on pre-e1istng debt. This
dangerous proceeding is due in every instance
to the same general cause, tho reckless appro-
priation Of money by the Common Council, and
tho failure to levy taxes to produce revenue
enough to meet the expenditure. The men who
vote away the money have no. the courage to
levy the tax requisite to raise it, and the result
is an annual deficiency. Wherever the corpora
ton has power to fund its floating debt OF issue
new bonds, this deficiency is covered up; but
where the city has reached the legal limit of
debt, these deficiencies take the shape Ct q
fohting debt which is constantly accommodating.
Even the staid and sober City Of Providence,
Rhode Island, has dose Of this medicine, the
revenue raised being inadequate to meet the
expenditure.


For many years in Chicago, the Common
Council hns delayed action on the appropriation
bill until the last night and the last hour within
which the law authorizes i to be passed. The
result has hasn fez many years that tho MaToz has
Year: 1874

had no alternative but to approve the ordinance or
leave the City Government without either reve-
nue. or appropriation for year. Last year,


Mayor Medil, under the special Law Of the Leg


is1ature, vetoed somo $150,0oo Of items in the
Appropriation bill, and then the Council passed
nearly every one Of them over tho veto. The
tax OF 1873 will be largely less than the e1pend-
iture authorized, and hence there will be


another addition to the already existing def
cheney. What is wanted is Mayor and
fifteen Aldermen who will have the cour-
age and steadiness to take the re-
sponeibility Of defeating any appropriation that
a reckless and irresponsible majority Of the
Council shall 1oad down with Jobs and schemes
for the mere purpose Of dividing public money.
If no cannot ha7o rational and an honest
Common Council. let ue hope that we can have
Mayor End minority Of the Council who wih
dare to maintain the public interests, bo the con-
sequences what they may. That ia the only
defonse the public have against the ir1esponsi-
bility Of tho Common Council, and it strikes Us
that it is for this purpose, and that ho may
defend the city, thai the Mayor is given the veto
power. Let him use that power freely Whenever
he can do so, to prevent the city living beyond
it's income and becoming constant borrower Of
money to pay the interest on its previous loans.
Year: 1874

The St. Louis Law Association has done itsolf
credit by refusing an application for membership
made By lawyer who makes 8 specialty Of OBJ
tanning divorcep, and resorts to tho common
mode Of anonymous advertisements for his busi-
ness. This refusal is d proper protest on the
part Of the legal profession against the loose
ness and unscrupulousness OF divorce practices.
There is nothing discreditable or uaprofessional
in = lawyer's undertaking to secure divorce
when it ia guaranteed By the law, and in all open
and honest fashion. But anonymous advertis-
ing for cases Of this kind is Il p7-insa
facis evidence Of desire to undertake
any Kind Of divorce business that comes
along. and experience in Chicago and elsewhere
has shown that the most dagrant abuses grow
out of this practice. If the Courts aud lawyers
Of Chicago would adopt some means to express
their disapproval of such practice as the profess
sion in St. Louis have done, it would contribute
something to the abatement Of the abuse, which
is as bad bore as in any other city,
Year: 1874

It is NOW stated that the continuation OF Mr.
2orter's ealary for year to come, that gentle
nan having resigned his position at Washington
10 accept the Vice-Presidency Of the Pullman
Car Company, is authorized By an old law, which
Tas made at the time the army w2s cut down.
This law allows q resignation to date year from
The time it is rendered, and the resignng officer,
BEING granted leave Of absence for TINT time
aea1s pac without performance OF services. The
purpose Of the law wns to allow army
officials to have time to get foothold
nto civil life. In this case, however, it
S fact not only that the law is obsolete and
ALLAN into dlsuse, but alr. Porter got his foo.-
aold into his $4,000 position before he handed
n his resignation. # the President wished to
pay his Secretary compliment Of this kind, the
compliment should have come from his own
pocket and not out of the Public Treasury. The
aext best thing to do is to rescind the 1sw 60 as
20 cut off these needy gentlemen who step into
e10 600 poaitione and still draw pay from Gov
Year: 1874

An Englishman with rheumatic gout
found this singular remedya cure for his
ailment: He insulated his bedstead
from the floor by placing underneath
each post a broken-of bottom of a glass
bottle. He says the effect was magical,
that he had not been free from rheumatic
gout for fifteen years, and that he began
to improve Immediately after the appli-
cation of the insulators. We are re


minded by this statement, says the Sci
enti6o American, Of patent obtained
through this Office for physician some
twelve or more years ago, which created
considerable interest at the time The
patent consisted in placing glass cups
under the bedposts in similar manner
to the above, and the patentee claimed
to have effected some remarkable cures
by the use Of his glass insulators.
Year: 1874

A Man PlunEes into an Iron Furnace.


The Scranton (Pa.) Republican of Sat
urday says:


morning the men working on the night
shift at the blast furnace of the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal Company were hor-
rified by one OF the most shocking cases OF
self destruction that has ever occurred in
this city.


man named Theodore Marone, who, while
the Workmen at No. furnace were en-
joying short respite from their labors,
and plunged into the seething furnace,
which at the time was at q white heat.
His cries attracted the attention Of one of
the workmen named Duffy, who, together
with his companions, ran to the furnace
and looked down only to see Marone gy-
rating amid the liquid fire, and waving
his hands and feet in the most inteuse
agony. A long-handled shovel was
lowered to him, but he was un-
conscious OF its presence. One of the
men ran Immediately and stopped the
blast, hut human aid was OF no avail to
save the unfortunate man in the furnace,
and he was dragged up as quickly as pos
sible by means of large hook, char
red, disfigured, and unrecognizable mass.
He could not have been in the furnace
above few minutes, as his first shriu cry
was heard by the workmen, who hasten
ed to his assistance, but the intense heat
of the place was sufficient to destroy life
if he had been there more than q second.
Marone;was a native OF Pomarn; East
Prussia, where his father occupied po-
sltion as professor in one of the gymna-
siums or schools of the place, in which
Theodore was also employed as q teacher.
He was subsequently engaged in the war
that occurred in 1866 between Prussia
and Austria, and emigrated to this coun-
try about four years ago. The sequel OF
the suicide goes to show that the rash act
was premeditated. he was then twenty
five years of age-being tWenty.nine at
his death-and might have done well
but for his dissolute habits, which
beset him and reduced him to state Of
abiect misery. He found work in the
employ of the Oxford Iron Company as Q
common lsborer, and often at his daily
toll, when comparing his position with
what he was at home, he wept IN the
presence of his tellow-workmen, among
whom was a man named Nearle, at pre-
sent in this city. These fits OF despond-
ency had terrible effect upon him. and
his friends feared he would lose his reason
while suffering from one of them. he
came to Scranton on Tuesday last, and
found shelter at the Center street lookup


While there he attempted to take his lite
by heating a poker red hot in the stove
and placing it to his neck to destroy the
carotid artery, when he was detected by
one of the officers. He lay around the
blast furnace during the evening prior tc


his destruction in consequence of some
men being at work there With1Whom he
i was acquainted at the Oxford iron mines
Year: 1874




For Saturday over New England the
wind will shiftto the northeast and south
east, with increasing cloudiness.


For the Middle States and Lower Lake
region, increasing northeast to southeast
winds, cloudy weather, and over former
section rain.


For the South Atlantic States, cloudy
and rainy weather, with fresh and brisk
winds, mostly from southeast to north
east.


For the Gulf States, winds shifting to
the north and west, clearing weather and
rising temperature.


For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley,
partly cloudy weather, and over the east.
ern portion of this area probably light
rain from Missouri northward over the
Upper Lake Region, rising temperature,
brisk and possibly high southeIly winds
bearing to the westerly, and over the
northern portion rain.
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Gazette, good author
ity, as a general thing, in financial
matters, in speaking of the veto very
truly remarks that the President in veto
ing the Senate bill accomplished nothing
except to give notice that he will not
approve any bill that initiates the eurren-
cy. This is all there is in it. The bill he
vetoed would not have inflated the cur
rency. His veto does not contract the
currency. 1t leaves matters precisely as
they were. Without congressional acton
the currency cannot be contracted, except
that the Secretary of the Treasury might
if he had the means, withdraw and place
in his vaults the twenty-six millions oi
the reserve paid out last winter to relieve
the prevailing panic. This is the full ex'
tent Of his power.


The temper OF the majority of Congress
is such that there can be no contraction
of the currency, while, If there is any way
Of initiating without running against 9
veto, it will likely be done. Yesterday
propositions were made to reduce the tax
on State banks to one per cent. Thit
would place them on an equal footing
with national banks, and would revive to
some extent the State bank system. But
the President would not sign a bill tc
that effect.


A joint resolution, not requiring thu
signature of the President, might bt
passed prohibiting the Secretary of tn,
Treasury from withdrawing the twenty
six millions of the reserve now out, and
this will likely be done; but in the direc
ton of initiation but little can be done, un
Year: 1874

less the President changes his mind, !,
which is not probable. This is the as:
surance the country has that we are not
to have indefinite initiation, but q revival
of business upon a healthy basis.
Year: 1874

AN ONO SPECIMEN.-Abner Mcllrath
of Cleveland, Ohio, is sixty-one years of
age, and is six feet sever and half inches
standing on his boots, fairly proportened
in form, without pound of waste flesh.
He was, and is, giant in muscular
strength as well as physically. He has
lifted ZOO pounds of iron, and blow
with his massive fist and long arm was 50
powerful that on one occasion, when some
twelve or fifteen sailors went out to his
place to raise muss," he thrashed the
whole lot and threw them one by one out
of the door, just as one could throw so
many babies, and during that operation
he dared not double his fist for fear his
blows might prove fatal to some of the
rowdies. lie carried on the business of
cooper, and used to come to town with
his load of barrels. On one occasion,
while stopping at the Red Tavern, lately
known as the jackson House, and which
is now torn down, a snob from town, who
was out there with his turnout in the
shape Of livery horse and buggy, got
into difficulty with Abe, and having in
suited him some way, Abe resented it by
lifting the buggy right up and straddling
it across the fence, and then got on the
wagon and drove off to town, leaving the
dandy to get his buggy Off the fence as
best he was able.
Year: 1874

A New HAMPsuIRT paper relates the
following story, asserting that it comes
to it ''through a reliable source :" "In
store in Exeter a short time ago, a
hogshead had been left opened, and upon
going to it a company Of rats were found
In the bottom, having been attracted
thither by its contents, and being unable
TO get out. The store cat was brought in
and placed in position to see them, but
after taking a good look jumped down
and ran out Of the door, shortly reappear-
ing with another cat. The two now look
ed over the situation and retired, soon
coming back with the third cat. They
now seemed satisfied with their force and
made an attack, jumping into the hogs
head. The cats had, however, miscalcu-
lated OF their enemy, and two were killed,
the other being taken out in season to
save its life.
Year: 1874

WHAT foe farmers have to contend
with in the potato bug is shown by the
experience of farmer In Joliet, Ill. He
placed some of them in a bottle eight
months ago. They have been exposed
to the extremes of Winter and Sum-
mer, have had nothing to eat, and are
still living and fatter than ever.
Year: 1874

A CALIFoRNIA paper tells the following
Of Lieut.. Derby, "John Phenix," the
humorist: One evening at the theater,
Phoenix saw man sitting three seats in
front whom he thought ne knew. He re-
quested the person sitting next to him to
punch the other with his cane. The po-
lite stranger did so, and the disturbed
person turning his head little, he dis
covered the mistake-that he was not the
man he took him for. Fixing his atten-
tion steadfastly on the play, and affecting
Inconsistencies of the whole affair, he
left the man with the cane to settle with
the other for the disturbance, who, being
wholly without an excuse, of course there
was ludicrous and embarrassing scene,
during all which Phoenix was profoundly
interested in the play. At last the man
with the cane asked rather Indignantly;


Didn't you tell me TO punch that
man with my stick 20


Eyes"


"And what did you want ?"


~ wanted to see whether you would
punch him or not"
Year: 1874

PEOPLE who are overwiso must expect
70 pay for their whims, as the Iowa man
did. He went back on his own true love
because she ate onions, and the jury gave
her So, 200 damages. How much better
for him if he had Offset her by eating
Limburger cheese.
Year: 1874

From the lightest muslins to the heaviest
cloths They work equally well upon Silk,
Linen or Cotton thread Scanning, Quilting,
Gathering, llemming, Telling, Cording, Tuck
ing, Braiding, Embrodering and making But
ton Holes with the greatest facility


If it be inconvenient for the purchaser to
cd to the office, and it will be as faithfully
hlled as if the selection had been made per-
sonaly.


Full instructions, recently compiled and
giving full information upon every point in
the most inexperienced to operate without
difficulty.


Our interest in the successful working of the
Machines is not second to that of the purchas-
err and we esteem it a privilege to aid, by cor
require it.
Year: 1874

1t is hardly necessary to say that Mr.. AVERY
stands in the foremost rank of literature ON
this coast that he is not only chaste and
conservative writer on the current topics of
the day, but that he wields the discriminating
pen of an impartial critic in science, art and
letters ; and that his contributions to geogra-
phical literature have been widely copied and
favorably commented upon.


We have also secured the services of
Year: 1874

The march has been hard one, over
a country in the main uninviting
though much Of it well adapted to graz
ing. Some of the Valleys are exceed
inelv rich and beautiful. Such is the
case in the valley in which we are now
encamped.
Year: 1874

On looking over our old files NE stumbled
upon the following address FROM General
LOngstreet, which is calculated to give rise to
some curious reflections at this time, and We
therefore reproduce it.


"HEADo'Rs RIGHT Wing,
Year: 1874

L1OR SALE LOW FOR CASH OR Will EXCHANGE
II If cash Is put in--One or two substantial brown
stone fronts arranged for three families See owner On
premises go East Eighty sixth street, WIDE street
Year: 1874

Man would not be what he is without
the thumb. This fact has been SO i'm
pressed upon US from our school-days
that We are not likely to forget it.
Without the thumb for q lever we
would be unable to hold anything
tightly, and most of the inventions of
our era would be useless, not to speak
of the enormous general power that
would be lost. Let us accept the fact
of having thumbs, then, and be thank
full and rejoice over our Darwinian
friends, the apes. We did not know,
however, till we saw it in print recently,
that the thumb represented intelligence
and affection. Born idiots frequently
come into the world without thumbs.
Infants, until they arrive at an age
when intellect dawns, constantly keep
their fingers folded above their thumbs,
but they soon know better, and as the
mind develops, recognize the dignity
and usefulness of the despised digit.
At the approach of death the thumbs
of the dying, as if impelled by some
vague fear, seek refuge under the fin
gers, and when thus found are an al
most certain announcement of the end.
So, in leaving this world, it would
seem that our hands, In their last de-
sire for movement, assume, with our
growing unconsciousness, the same
suggestive position in which the hands
of the newborn babe, with faculties all
dormant, first shape themselves.
Year: 1874

The strength of the American repub-
lie is in the universal desire to own
a house. 1t is molding all the people,


native and foreign born, into one ho-
mcgeneous mass. The ownership of a
home is something of which neither
the Irish peasant nor the German la
borer has, in his own country, any con-
ceptlon, but it is here the goal of his
hopes and desires. Education comes
next it is a something the need of
which is not felt until the adornments
of home are thought of. This desire
to own the roof under which one sleeps
is distinctively an American character
istic, and seems by nature adapted to
the growth which is raising us in i'm
portance in the scale of nations. 1t is
the link which connects the man with
the government; it adds to his interest
in the making and execution of the laws,


and identifies him with the usages and
customs of the people. 1t is the ele-
ment which gives the people of Switzer-
land their unity and power, and the
lack of it causes nine tenths of the un-
rest in Ireland. No feeling is stronger
than the attachments of home, and no
nation whose people possess this as a
common sentiment can lose its liberties.