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Year: 1879

The House OF Representatives has hnaliy
completed it's detailed review of the Silver
bill. During yesterday both sides gained ad-
vantages. The Inhationists succeeded In
amending the bill so that holders of bullion
may deposit their metal IN the nearest
Assay Office or b-Treasury, and re-
ceive New-York and San Francisco prices
for it. On the other hand, through
the dulness of General Warner and the
shrewdness Of Mr.. Robson. who seems TO be
taking place in the front rank OF able par
liamentarians. the single word rated" was
stricken out of the sentence which provided
that "the market value of bullion shall be
" the value of bullion rated in coin of the
same metal at its legal-tender value" and
thus one of the most Objectionable features OF
the bill was materially modified. The section
winch authorized the President to institute
an international negotiation upon the SUD
iect OF a bi-metallic currency seems 10
have been stricken out without dispute
perhaps because the appropriation for the
expenses of the negotiation, contained IN the
Legislative bill covers the subject sufficiently.
At the conclusion of the Houses scrutiny of
the bill, its author demanded the previous
question, and resisted the natural desire OF
the Republican members to see the bill In
print before voting upon it; and in this ex-
traordinary course the Democrats have ac-
tualy sustained him during session when
bids fair, at the hour of writing, to last


through most of the night. 1t would be a
fitting climax perhaps to this dishonest ieg1s-
lation if its advocates forced the House to


vote upon it without knowing with any GER
tanty what the bill now provides, but the
Republicans are justified in resisting such
a consummation by every means in then
power.
Year: 1879

A third letter from Walt Whitman, printed
on another page, describes some of the more
picturesque phases of life in the great city,
and gives q hearing to correspondent who
makes vigorous defence of the theatrical
profession.
Year: 1879

Speaker Randall predicts that the Warner
Silver bill will pass the House by majority
of twenty votes. 1t will be partly the work
of Mr. Randalps rulings. if it does There are
classes of politicians and voters with whom
such a declaration viii give him credit, no
doubt; bat Mr. Randall will find, on the
other hand that the good opinion of honest
citizens is worth something to Presidential
candidate.
Year: 1879

TIE controversy over the DObb's Ferry and
Irvipgton drainage scheme has taken a new
and curious phase in the suit about the 0dell
ice pond. DIR. Henry Draper, who is practi-
cally the defendant in this suit, makes a
very curious statement in another column
concerning special legislation intended to
affect it. The matter will apparently bear
investigation.
Year: 1879

To THE EDrroR or THE HERALD


Allow me to speak Of o shop situated In the rear
Of Nos Is and 20 Roosevelt street whero stale beer
IL Sold The place is kept by an Italian, and the
beer dispensed therein is the refuse collected from
the kegs that allowed to stand outside the lager
beer saloons throughout the city. 1t is of tho
vilest dens In the Fourth ward. Men and women
old and young. Of every nationality and description
are to be going In every hour IN the DAY
for the purpose of drinking this horrible stun.
It Is sold, ~ I can find out, at tho
following rates One cent schooner. two cents
reach OF the lowest and most unfortunate set Of
wretches ever looked upon. The sight is per-
fectly disgusting. Men with crutches. women that
appear to be In stupened state. constantly in
front of the hallway leading to this dive The place
is we'll known the police aud why 1t is not broken
up is q wonder to the neighbors. The proprietor
has license, and furthermore. do not suppose
he could obtan one. write this not from hcsrsay
but after watc hing Of the disgraceiu people
ascertained the facts. OBSERVER
Year: 1879

10 THE EDIToR OF THE HkxAlD:-


VIII you please inform me through your valuable
paper 1t is not against the law to keep crazy
in house where there are several families? Where
live We all IN danger of lives from an in
man. Neither the landlord nor agent will do
anything long they get their rent from his
people. am living next to them and am afraid
every minute he will make rush for the hall and
get into my rooms. Last night had to go to the
roof to get away from his noise. Now, II you can
tell Us how have him removed you would
have the thanks Of the whole house.


LONE WOMAN
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF rHE HERALD:-


How It. that with SO large devoted to school
purposes and truant law. that people cannot sue
ceed In entering their children tho New York pub
lie schoolsr live 100 feet from Fortieth street
school, and am refused admission for my little boy
because the school is crowded. Yet there pupils
who 1--we at great distances from the school who
obliged to come the to get there. Ihave been
obliged to send my boy to private schools three
years past. but desire the benefit of the public
schools. Must leave the State to have my children
educatsdf FATHER.
Year: 1879

ESoH.-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention. Complsinants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing.


Write only on one side Of the paper.-ED. HKRALD.l
Year: 1879

To THE EpTroR OF THE HRRALD:-


beg short space to call the attention of the
Park Commissioners to the disgusting habits Of the
men who are working the Riverside Drive. Tho
air in the eghborhood the road now under
construction Is polluted by the nuissnces commit
ted by the worknen. assailing the nostris and Of
tending the sight ut every turn We who live this
vicinity have enough else to bear in the way Of
stenches without enduring this one.


CONSTANT READER.
Year: 1879

PLACE FOR THE POLICE TO LOOK TO.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


am poor working girl. Az am on my way to
and from my place Of business I am daily insulted
by crowd Of loafers who infest grocery store on
Third avenue, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets. during the absence of the proprietor The
language they use is too filthy for publication Is
there no way that this nuisance can be abated?


AN ORPHAN.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HEnALD:-


Having had frequent occasion to pass under the
east side elevated road the past season have to
complain that have had two fine suits of clothing
spotted like o leopard with oil and grease. 1t is
positively necessary that the bottom OF this road be
ceiled with boards sheet iron. L. W.
Year: 1879

To THE EpIroR TIE HERALD:-


Before changing the hands the clock at Jefferson
Market could plainly ascertain the time from my
window st Tenth street and Fourth avenue Now
the whole thing looks like trade dollar obscured
by fog BINOCULAR.
Year: 1879

To rHx EDIroR OF THE HERALD:-


Can there be way devised to prevent the drip
ping of oil from the of the Metropolitan "L''
Railway upon the clothes of Sixth avenue pedes-
triansf An abatement of this long continued nui-
sance would earn the thanks Of more than one


VICTIM.
Year: 1879

To THE EDrroR OF THE HERALD:-


beg leave to call your attention to the crowd Of
mon and women who congregate nightly around
policy shop tcigar store) in East Seventeenth street
near First avenue. No decent person can pass by
without being subjected to their insults having
thar clothes destroyed. LEX.
Year: 1879

If you are going to paint your house,
barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder
full Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely
the best, for it is warranted by their
agents in your own town not to chalk,
crack, peel or blister; to cover better and
work easier than any other paint. The Imper-
ishable Paint was awarded the first premium,
over all other paints, at the California State
Fair, 1878. and the Gold Medal at the Oregon
Agent, which explains this wonderful discov-
cry. Try the paint and you certain would
have no other.
Year: 1879

Recently the head of Frank Tolles, the leader of a band of highwaymen, was borne into Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and exhibited to a jubilant crowd. When the people had taken a good look at it, it was buried in prairie in the outskirts of the town. In passing over the prairie few evenings ago, G. P. Clark saw the skull dancing along and bobbing up and down among the cactus bushes. His hair stood on end. Gold chills struck him. When he reached Cheyenne he was as white as a sheet. Everybody scoffed at his story :; but a few men were induced to go out and take look. They, too, saw the skull fitting hither and thither. The next morning large crowd went out to investigate. There again was the mov- ing skull. The boldest in the party ap- preached. All at once little prairie dog bounded from the skull and shot away into it's hole near by. It had ap- propriated the highwayman's head for a resting place.
Year: 1879

Calvin Hall, very eccentric charac- ter, was buried at Somers, Conn. Twenty years ago he made his will giv- ing certain amounts to his nearest rela- tives. He then went around and bought from each person the share in the will at twenty per centum discount. Some persons of whom he bought were both poor and aged, and were made comfort able and happy in their last days. He leaves fund of $5,OOO for the town of Somers, the income of which is to go to the worthy poor who have not yet be- come paupers provided the town will assume the care of 8 life fund of $5, ,000 and give the income to the Spiritualists. If the town refuses to accept the trust the whole goes to the Spiritualists, fol whom he has built a church. In middle life he was Uniyersalist.
Year: 1879

If it proves refractory, mild discipline is the thing to set 1t right. Not all tue nauseous draughts and boluses ever invented can do half us much to remedy it's disorders as a few wneglassfuls-s tbree day-of Hostet- ters Stomach Bitters which will afford It speedy relief. and eventually banish every dyspeptic aud bilious symptom. Sick head ache, nervousness, sallowness of the com those many lndescribable and disagreeable sensations caused by indigestion are too often perpetuated by injudicous dosing. An i'm. mediate abandonment of such random and ill advised experiments should be the first step in the direction of a cure; the next step the use of this standard tonic alternative, which has received the highest medical sanction and won unprecedented popularity.
Year: 1879

A MINNESOTA man while on spree
lately made bet he could swallow all
tho glass contained in u whisky flask.
Ho pulverized the flask, set about the
swallowing aud won the bet. lie ate
tallow candle at the same time TO assist
the process. 1t was success, and the
man that day felt no bad effects. Two
days afterwards he di cd in great ngony.
He had taken whisky. and eaten the
flask and tnllOw Q ndle, aud left n
wife and nine children to mourn his
loss. The moralist who makes the no.
port says: "This may prove timely
warning TO those addicted to the ex-
cessive use Of substance so deadly in
its final effects rs that swallowed by
the man who came 10 so untimely an
end"


II Is an open question whether the
chronicler means the glass, the candle
or tho whisky as tho deadly substance
that brought tbs msn to an untim ly
end. Ifowovertho warming not 10 take
glass. ,allow or whisky TO excess may
be taken at random 10y thcse addicted
10 the excessive use OF either OF these
Substances.
Year: 1879

"HE most uuaccountable exhibition
OF dePravity occurred near Cincinnati.
A boy eighteen. universally known as
OF a genial disposition aud kind hearted
as a girl, killed hiI mother, aunt, and
girl cousin. After the deed he stayed
around for days aud then went to Gin
cinnati ana visited his father. In all
this time nothing unusual was noticed
in his conduct or manner, but he re-.
turned to the scene OF his horrible trag.
ody and committed suicide. Not q
word OF explanation Of tho deed did
he leave
Year: 1879

A MARRIED woman of Virginia City
drank too much beer at picnic at Car.
son last Saturday. and was found in the
streets looking for the Office of the -io,
peal. She said she wanted TO have an
advertisement inserted Offering a re-.
ward for her recovery. The fact that
she wanted to advertise in the appeal
was regarded as conclusive evidence OF
insanity, and she was at once locked up.
-StoeE ErcLdD1e
Year: 1879

IT gives Il man n vivid conception Of
the hallowness of nll earthly things
when he sees a commander of barber
shop with a head as barren as the bot
tom OF a wash-bowl. and then reads his
name on bottle of hair invigorator
warranted to produce hyperion curls on
bald head in three months.
Year: 1879

You meet In this world with false
nirth as often as with false gravity the
grinning hyprocrite is not more un,
common character than the groaning
one. As much light discourse comes
from heavy heart as from hollow
one, and from full mind as from an
empty head.
Year: 1879

During the past week the east cross
cut from the south as foot level drift at
the Belle Isle line has been extended
:. feet 1t is no. in ledge formation
mad cutting stringers OF quartz. Ex-
:ended north drift 75.foot level 10 feet
Have cut out for and commenced winze
from the 75 level, sinking with the
vain
Year: 1879

There is but little change to report
for the past week. The east and west
drifts from the 6OO.foot level crosscut
are each following quartz vein with
bunches Of good ore. The west drift
500 level has Leen extended beyond the
main crosscut following with it strong
vein Of quartz with lunches OF pay
ore.
Year: 1879

Work has progressed favorably in the
various drifts during the week. No
important change in the ledge at any
point 10 report. The mill continues to
run steadily crushing the usual amount
of chloride ore.
Year: 1879

The slopes are looking we'll and pro-
ducing the usual supply Of good ore.
During the past week have renewed
work in the i50.toot level drift; total
length Of Gritt 254 feet. Ledge is im-
proving. Have connected the l5O-foot
hanging wall drift with the drift south
from the west crosscut $50 foot level;
length Of the lateral drift from the
crosscut 100 feet; had a regular and a
good vein Of ore for the entire distance.
Have started a stope on this vein on
each bide Of the winze sunk from the
intermediate drift; vein two feet vide
Of good ore. The north drift from
crosscut on same vein is in 8 feet.
Year: 1879




WE often hear OF strikes in the Para
disc mines, says the Silver State, and
now the monotony is changed to a
strike in the Paradise Mill. We are
informed that the men employed at the
mill struck, Wednesday, for higher
wages, and the mill WAS shut down in
consequence. The men have been get.
ting 50 80 II day. but want 81 This
the Superintendent Of the mi II refuses
to give. so the mill has been stopped
for the present. Some OF the men who
struck for four dollars may have to
travel some distance from Paradise be-
fore they can again get 3; 90 day.
The mill will have to remain idle until
other hands can be procured to run it.
Strikes of this character in new camp
ought to be discouraged by every work.
ingmnu in the county.
Year: 1879

GEoRorASs have discovered that
mules are not deficient in intelligence.
A few days ago mule at Columbus
trotted up in q linring way to black.
smith shop and deliberately walked IN.
He seemed to be ve.y restless and 1a.
easy, exhibiting unmistakable signs Of
pain. The men in the shop were rather
taken aback by the mule who thus came
to the shop unbridled aud loose. At
last the mule lifted mp one of its legs,
and with a GESTURE OF his head directed
the attention Of one of the men to his
foot. 1t was then discovered that q
nail had worked its way into the flesh
evidently causing the apparent pain.
The nail was then drawn out, and his
muleship much relieved. gave a snort
Of thanks. A few moments after he
trotted off much pleased. aud has not
been seen since.
Year: 1879

WHAT DOCK DEPARTMENT. OFFICIALS THINK OF


CAPTAIN TIMERS POSITION.


The conflict of authority between Captain Tinker.
the State officer who has charge of the port, and
the Dock Commissioners to the right of the lat
ter TO assign accommodations ut pier No. North
River to the Old Dominion Steamship Company.
caused considerable excitement in shipping circles
yesterday. An effort made by HERALD
porter to obtain the views of the Captain OF tho
Port but Clerk Tyler unable to toll whore and
when his chief could DO found. Mr.. Tyler stated
that there is trouble between tho Captain OF the
Port and the harbor masters tho hand aud
tho steamship company on the other; but Captain
Tinker still insists that the Dock Department has
power assign any portion of tha pier in question
to any one. He stated that the company had already
been given accommodation ut the pier, aud that pos
sibly when a shed is erected over that portion of
the plcr assigned to them the conflict would


Tie reporter also called at the Dock Department
and had interviews with several of tho officials
there. Ono who was informed of the views held by
Clerk Tyler said that under subdivision OF Sec
ton chapter 574 OF the Laws OF 1871 the Board of
Docks may appropriate any of the piers or bulk
heads constructed under provisions Of sad act to
the sole use OF special descriptions or commerce.
and may, in the name of the Corporation of the city,


lease any all OF such property fora term not
ceedng ten years and covenant for renewals at nd
vanced rents" ''Mr. Tinker said this gentleman
''has evidently acted under the impression that be-
of chapter 240 Laws of 1875 the Department OF Docks
cannot set asia pier or bukhead for special kind


Another oficial Of the Dock Department made a
statement that may explain why the State officials
are opposed to the occupancy of any portion OF the
pier by the Old Dominion Steamship Company He
charged that the craft placed ut the pier by the har
Dor master of the district chiefly coal boats from
which only fifty seventy-ive cents per day
wharfage demanded. while vessels that would pay


wharfage of from $40 to $ls per day are unable to
f,1,f f.ir, horfh he there
Year: 1879

There have been three partial strikes among long
shorcmon within the past few days, and couple of
the principal ocean steamship ompanics which worc
asked within few weeks to raise the wages of the
men TO thirty cents hour acccdod TO that request
no men on the Anchor line, who struck on Mon
day last. won't to work on Thursday at
the increased wages. For several days the old hands
on tho dock of the metropolitan Steamship Com
pany have been ON strike, but seem to have no im-
mediate chance of settlement with their employers.
Tho salarod men have struck for an increase from
$40 to $li week. and the time men for twenty -nvo
cents an hour instead OF eighteen. partial strike
IN still progress at pier No. 80, where the coal
mon" of the Texas and New Orleans limo struck for
thirty The freight hands aid strike at ALL
Some of them even had to work yesterday to do the
coal hands duty.
Year: 1879

THE new Constitution is dead
duck. There would be no occasion
OF wasting powder over it If the
aim were only to kill this bantling
of the Sand Lots. That job has al
ready been attended to. But the
material thing is to make the vic
tory for Law, Order, Development
and Progress all with capital let
ters-so emphatic that the fashion
of hootipg growlers to their holes
shall become universal. Then will
begin an unprecedented era of pros
perity for this State and Coast.
Kearney and Kearney ism must go.
We want State of California. not
a Kearneyfornia.
Year: 1879

WE cannot forbear certain sy M
pathy as we contemplate the sad
procession of political cadavers
who are filing forward to union
ored graves in California. These
gentlemen, for the most part, were
once watched over by tender and
devoted mothers. The precepts of
natural and revealed religion were
instilled into their virgin minds
close upon the heels of their moth
ers' milk. And yet what record
they have made! They have ap-
proved themselves fit for the
game of treason, stratagems
and spoils. Their purblind vision
discerned the mirage of office, and
they sacrificed every thing to this
unhallowed ambition-lust we
should call 1t. Assembled at Sac
ramento, their only ambition
seemed to be to vacate every Office
in the State in order that these
worthless should have "ample room


verge enough" to feed their office


holding ardor. Their greed for Of
flee recalls nothing so much or so


forcibly as a celebrated Latin au-


thor's description of the amours of
the Roman Empress Messalina.
He describes that memorable dame


as returning from the cells of the
gladiators "sated but not satisfied"
There are not offices enough in the
State of California to satisfy the


members of the late Constitutional
Convention. But give them the
power and new offices and new de.
vices of taxation would abound.
Year: 1879

WHAT devil of lot of eloquent
fellows there are hereabouts of late?
There is West, for instance, who is
being paraded as making any num-
ber of brilliant speeches. Why,
God bless your soul, there was
never farthing dip in this wretch
ed world of ours that could not
emit more brilliant light than
West, though it sputtered and
sputtered and stank most noisome-
ly as it sputtered vehemently.
Treat us to less humbug-Nessieur
who champion the ne nstitu-
tion That instrumA self is a
pitiful affair, and very many of the
men who advocate it are very small
beer. West, quotha! The brilliant
West! West the illuminator! |
West the propagandist of Constitu-
tional reform Whew! We
are sick nearly unto death. We
suggest to the gentlemen who are
experimenting the new Constitu-
tion funeral that it is not decorous
to introduce so much downright
comedy into the obsequies. In the
vulgar, "give US rest"
Year: 1879

companies have sprung up In
every part of the Union for making
an imitation Singer Machine.


Why are not similar companies
formed for making limitations of
other Se,Oing Machines


The public will draw its own in
ference.


Gold is continually counterfeited;
brass and tin never.


BD- Waste no money on inferior {
on lease or installment plan.
Year: 1879

A -A-O THE NEW IRON PIER At COMFY
"A. ISLAND DIRECT.
GREAT SUCCESS OF THIS ROUTEi
GRAND rLDTTLLA or EXCURSION sfEAk1RR


HALF HOURLY FERRY TO THE
IRON TUBULAR PIER AT COMFY ISLAND


NO CHANGE TO CARS


NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR LANDING
SURF LANDINGS sAFR AND SPEEDY
Year: 1879

with perfect GOODNESS and apparent pride
her three children. They were to start
in the night on a long journey, and he
calculated that il would be safe to mur-
der them, because the neighbors would
not readily suspect anything. He went
out and dug their graves before commit
ting the crime. 81 was not" he said to
a reporter, "any more excited than
| am now. l had studied the matter
over for a long time. had calculated
the risk ran, and | knew thoroughly
what was doing. | went at it exactly
as if l had been butchering so many
hogs"