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Year: 1874




Considerable excitement was created
last evening in the vicinity Of Barry and
Fifteenth street by tho following incl
dent:


Fred. Sehirmer employed Bill Smith.
colored, 10 enter the main sewer and
crawl distance Of 100 feet to the, con-
neetion with the premises No. loO1
Barry street. and remove the debris that
choked II up. The colored man took
a lantern and descended into tho sewer.
A foolharly white boy, named John
Block, entered the same against the pro-
test OF several persons. After the two
had been in the sewer for over an hour.
some OF the citizens became anxious,
and started tho rumor that the eolored
man and the boy must have suifocated.
as they could no, be heard from the foot
Of the ladder. This rumor flew about
the neighborhood, and soon 800 persons
gathered Mt the locality OF the manhole
10 the sewer and occasionally in one
loud chorus tried to halloo so loud as to
make the two individuals hear them.
Special Office Ksuntz. OF the First Dis
trict, rushed TO the scene. lie tried to
get some one who was experienced IN
sewer crawling to search for the persons.
as the crowd seemed willing To make up
a purse for this purpose. While he was
trying TO find some one, the missing
parties made their appearance at the
loo, OF the ladder and they wondered
what the excitement was all about. The
crowd ehetred Justify ON seeing the man
and boy ON top Of the earth again, after
an absence Of two hours. Smith states
that they got turned about as to the
direction OF the inan.holo. and were
finally directed to it by hearing the noise.
50. Louis Democrat.
Year: 1874

District Attorney Phelps told a TRIBUNE
reporter yesterday that the decision OF the Court Of
Appeals in to the civil suits against the
hers Of the Ring would have effect upon the criminal
suits either decided pending Ii precisely the
came sad II the decision had been made IN refer
ence 10 entirely distinct persons.


The Joint Committee of the Common COun-
ell on the Fourth of July Celebration yesterday and
appu,nted Alderman Flanagan chairman. Aldermen
Morris aud Healy were appointed IA subcommittee TO
vut upon the President OF the Park Commission and
the Controller. in order to insure harmony Of acton.
They will report to the Committee at 10 "a H. Saturday


The new Board of Management Of the Pro-
duce Exchange will hold special meeting Friday,
when the several trade committees will be appointed.
The medallion OF the Hon. WIN. NJ Evarts will be pre-
sened 10 the Exchange by tue artist Mr. Miller In the
who contributed for It's purchase.
there will be formal ceremony The provision deal
resist the claim OF refrgcrating company who insist
that all who have refrgcrating cellars violate their
patent right


The first days session of the meeting of the
Rook Publishers Board OF Trade held yesterday
objects OF the meeting are TO make some important
changes in many matters relating to the book publish
ing interests. A constitution and bylaws have
been prepared and the Board is to he completely
earized. The resolution passed at the last meeting,
which provided for the withdrawal OF all travelling
agents. will be eyersed. large number OF firms
refused to accept tuch dicaton The question
relating reduction In the retail price Of books will
siderable reduction Will be made bot In the price and
IN the OF discounts. The session was secret one.
Year: 1874

REGATTA OF THE ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB-A DEAD


CALM-DoUBTFUL SUCCESS OF THE FLYAwAY.


The yachting season opened yesterday, under
the most unfav vorable auspices. The Atlantic Yacht
Club held its ninth annual regatta in a dead calm
The principal part Of the drifting match nnd
the Flyaway only boat completing II course i'll the
eight hours required the only boat Of her class in
the race For the principal classes the match was
declared race, and the case OF the Fyaway viii be
left to the Club decision The list OF eutres included
the following yachts:
Year: 1874

THE PEACH CROP COMPARATIVELY CNINJpRED


By LAST NIGHTS FREE.


1t is with feelings Disqualification that we make
the announcement that the freezing weather OF
last night left the peach crop, this morning, in a
state OF comparative safety. The clear weather
in the afternoon and the high wind which pre-
vailed, dried the trees to such an extent that the
cold during the night could not affect them seri-
ously. Reports from Dover. Middletown and
Townsend state that although some Of the trees
sustained slight injury, the majority Of thsm as-
capped unharmed and the prospects for an exten-
sivs crop In the notheru aectioh ot the Peninsula
are still promising. THIS is certainly good news
to every resident Of the State and to lovers ofthe
ucious fruit everywhere.
Year: 1874

GRATEFUL.-A few days ago, so u Is solem-
ly stated Delaware fishermen host q shad net
which a Jersey fisherman found and returned
without reward or even request. He 50 Id
that the Jersey fishermen, were grateful at
circle" without q license, this year, and would
take every opportunity OF expressing their
gratitude. u
Year: 1874

CAUSES OF THE COMET.-The comet
is very popular among young lovers, and
they never tire Of the heavenly hunt, but
endure with astonishing resignation the
collisions consequent upon the sudden
movements Of their heads in opposite di-
rectons. Now and then the young fel-
low is sure he sees it, and then in the ex-
element of the moment he passes his
arm about his companions neck, and,
with his hand under her chin, raises her
head toward that point Of the starry firm
ament where he thinks he has discovered
the celestial wanderer. Full Of enthu-
siasm, the girl remains gazing in this po-
sition long and earnestly, the silver moon
light Illuminating her countenance with
q radiance that gives to every feature an
angelic charm, and suggesting the idea
that she herself might be beautiful star
nodded into human form and sent upon
the earth for the delectation of mankind
But at this interesting point Of the search
the voice OF sleepy and unromantic
father penetrates the shadows of the gar
den: Ja-a.a-ne it is ten O'Clock, -
and the charm is broken.
Year: 1874

LIVE LIKE LovERs.-Married people
should treat each other like lovers all
their lives-!hen they would be happy.
Bickering and quareling would soon break
off love affairs consequently lovers in
dulge in such only to very limited ex-
tent. But some people-men and wo-
men both-when they have once got mar
ried think they may do just as they
please, and it will make no difference.
They make a great mistake. 1t causes
all the difference in the world. Women
should grow more devoted and men
more fond after marriage, if they have
the slightest idea of being happy as wives
and husba bands. 1t is losing sight of this
fundamental truth which leads to hund-
reds of divorces. Yet many a man will
scold his wife who would never think OF
breathing a harsh word to his sweetheart;
and many a wife will be glum and mo-
rose on her husbands return, who had
only smiles and words of cheer for him
when he was her suitor. How can such
people expect to be happy?
Year: 1874

For our young men, we mean. The
opportunities and invitations presented by
public affairs in this country were never
greater than to-day. A new class of in
terests and a new order of questions have
risen within quarter of century, re-
quiring new class Of men to deal with
them. The old political questions arc
mostly settled or outgrown. Very few
people feel particle of interest in the
topics that their fathers and grandiathers
were so intensely excited over and con-
tended so zealously about. Bank and
tariff, State right and slavery extension
have had their day and practically made
their exit from the stage. Each genera
ton makes its own issues as it builds its
own homes. We don't wear our grand
fathers clothes, why should we wrap
ourselves up in his opinions ? The Amer
lean has developed remarkable ability
for doing his own thinking and filing new
emergencies with happy expedients. lie
makes his own fashions, builds his own
houses, manufactures party when occa-
sion calls for it, extemporizes n railroad
or government when they are wanted,
and would excogtate a religion if he felt
the need Of one.


Within few years there has been q
growing disinclination on the part of our
young men to take an active interest in
public affairs. They have turned away
from politics with Indifference, to engage
in business, or enter the professions, or
circumnavigate the globe in quest of ad-
ventures. Nor are they to be greatly
blamed for not taking an interest in top
les that were threadbare and organizations
in which everything was cut and dried.
But the present condition Of public affairs
is very different. The new questions are
more largely social and moral than were
the old ones. They relate to the material
interests Of whole sections and classes OF
people. They take fast hold Of the moral
welfare Of communities. The railroad
fHS"e'v"j WIZ IHNStiOh VI ILOIio iIi I'iONt-
ments, the new functions of government,
the relations that should subsist between
labor and capital, the employer and en-
ployee, the prevention of crime and treat
ment Of criminals, the industrial and po-
litlcal status of woman, the proper edu-
cation of all classes for the work and
purposes Of life-these and similar prob
lens will occupy constantly increasing
place in the discussions and politics of the
next half century. And they are ques-
tions with which our young men are best
fitted TO deal. All their taste and culture
and refinement and moral perceptions arc
needed for the right solutions of the ques-
tions that are everywhere asking them
selves as never before. Here is an open
door that our young men should not hes
itate TO enter. 1t was young men who
threw down the gauntlet to England and
developed a discomfort into revolution.
1t was young men who initiated the anti
slavery crusade and formed the Repub-
lican party. The enthusiasm Of the young
is often worth more than the experience
Of the old. And never was it more need
ed in public affairs than to-day -He0rU
and Home.
Year: 1874

FEMALE DUPLICITY. - A Minnesota
paper gives this fresh instance Of fcmi-
nine fnesse: "a young lady Of Hutch
inson, who is fair to middling in looks,
puts on good deal Of style and would
like to be popular, and who dwells in a
house that, while it is decent and respect
able is not grand, had the luck some time
since to receive an introduction to gem
tleman from a neighboring town. 1t was
at church that she was made acquainted
with him, and he asked to see her home /;
she accepted and they started. 1t occur
red to her as they walked onward, that
after what she had said it would hardly
do to enter her humble dwelling, for the
lad might think she was not what she
seemed. A few houses distant from hers
stands fine e-looking residence, before
which she halted. He, not being ac-
quainted with Hutchinson or her, sup
posed of course that everything was all
right, and left the gate with bright Wis


ions dancing through his brain, while she
hid behind the stoop until he got out Of
sight and then went home happy"
Year: 1874

A young student from Wesleyan Un-
iversity, teaching az East Glastonbury,
saw one of his pupils, girl about l5,
writing note during school hours few
days ago, and ordered her 70 bring 1t to
him. She declined, saying it was not
suitable for him TO see, wherrupon he
told her to leave school. She was just
starting, when lie approached her, and
saying: "You are not sixteen and III
lick you," struck her three blows OH The
arm and shoulder with knotfed stick
an inch in diameter. As she was start
ing again, he seized her by the hair and
gave her another blow upon her head.
She went home badly crippled, perhaps
for life. She was the daughter of poor
widow, and was working in factory to
pay for her education.


The citizens were very insiignant,an
about fifty of them met the teacher
in the street at night, and mobbed him,
but he escaped with few bruises. The
next day he settled with the pupil by
paying twenty dollars, and was warmed
out Of the town on pain Of tar and featb-
Year: 1874

The Danbury Ne,cs says: IL is lit


tie singular how well new pair OF


boots can be made to fit at the STORE


Yeu may not be able TO get your foot


only part way down the leg at the first


trial, but that is because your stocking


is sweaty, or you haven't started right


and the shoemaker suggests that you


start again and stand up to il, and he


throws II little powder from pepper box


to aid you. And so you stand up, and


pound down your foot, and partly trip


yourself up,and your eyes stick ont in


IN unpleasant manner, and every vein


in your body appears to be on the point
of bursting, aud all the while that deal
er stands around and eyes the operatis n
rs intently as ii the whole affair WIS


perfectly new and novel TO him. When
your foot lias fairly struck bottom, There
is Il faint impression on your mind that
you had stepped into AN open stove,but


he removes il by solemnly observing
that he never saw boot fit quite as
good as thar. You may suggest that
your toe presses TOO hard against the
front or That some of the homes in the
side are too much smashed, but lac says
this is always The way with new boot
and that the trouble will entirely disap-
pear in a few days. Then you take the
old pair under your arm and start for
home as animated as relic of 1872, all
the while feeling that the world vii
not look bright and happy to you again
until you have branded that shoemaker
You limp down town tiie next day, and
smile all the while with your mouth,
while your eyes look as if You were
walking over an oyster he'd barefoot
When no one is looking, you Kick
against post or some other obstrnc-
rion, and show folnlness for stopping
and resting against something that will
sustain your weight. When ycu get
home at night you 90 for those old
boots with AN eagerncSs that cannot he
described, and the remarks that you
make upon learning that yonr wife has
disposed of them tea widowed woman In
the suburbs, are calculated to inmesli-
ately depOpulate the earth Of women
and sboemakers generally AF.
Year: 1874

At Crestline, Tuesday evening. Rev.
John Yenner, pastor of the winebrcna-
rian Church, or Church of God, cut his
throat from ear TO ear, and otherwise
mutilated himself, near his residence on
the outskirts of the town. lie had been
attending protracted meetings and had
just returned home in deranged state
of mind, resulting from religious excite
ment. lie sawed some wood and .hen
went to an adjoining wood and with his
pocket knife cut his throat, severing his
windpipe and cutting downward to the
breast bone. lie also cut through the
abdomen into the bowels. lie is beyond
all hope Of recovery.
Year: 1874

An express train, going at The rate of thirty
miles an hour, was thrown from the track. near
misplacemsnt of switch. number of persons
were injured, but none seriously except the fire.
man and express messenger. Five of the cars
were burned by tho upsetting Of stove, and near.
ly all the baggage and large amount of mail
matter were destroyed. The engine was totally
disabled.
Year: 1874

Professor Blot, the celebrated
French easisinier, speaking Of the
Importance of the culinary art, says
that the United States have the most
money Of any people, and the great
est abundance of raw material for
food; yet they live more poorly than
any civilized nation. For instance,
there is millionaire who has pork
and beans every second day for din
ner. There is no country where there
is SO much dyspepsia as in America,
because our people pay but little at
tention to food, and eat too much
meat for the exercise they take. If
one has mental labor, fish every sec
ond day is requisite. Soup sets all
the glands at work, and prepares the
stomach for the more important
functions of digestion, and therefore
should be taken at dinner every day.
Beef broth is to the old what milk is
to the young. Cookery properly at
tended to keeps man in health.


If the stomach is out of order, the
brain is affected. As the body is
composed of q variety of elements,
variety Of food is requisite to nourish
it. We should eat more fruits, veg
etables, soup and fish. Good and
well prepared food beauties the
physique, the same as good and
well-directed education beauti6es the
mind Wrinkles are produced by the
want of variety of food The man
who does not use his brain to select
and prepare his food, is not above the
brutes that take it in the raw state.
Year: 1874

Archbishop Ledochowski, of Posen,
has at last reached the prison for
which his contumacy and Bismarck S
frmness long ago marked him. He
refused to pay any heed to the laws
passed last May placing the eccle-
siastics of Germany under the regu-
lation of the State. This disobedience
subjected him to fine, and his logical
refusal to pay the fine brought upon
him the confscation of all his prop
erty except his household goods. In
all these proceedings he was upheld
by the Pope, whom alone he recog-
nized as his superior. Finally, the
summons came for his resignation Of
the Archbishopric, and this he, still
acting under the orders of his Papal
chief, also declined to give. The re,
suit of the civil prosecution, which
was at once brought against him,
was his conviction, and his removal
to the prison of Ostrowo, where he is
likely to have abundant leisure for
reflection on the superiority of the
Church to the State, particularly in
Prussia.
Year: 1874

Get to the roots of things. The
gold mines of the Scripture are not
in the top soil; you must open a
shaft; the precious diamonds of expe-
rience are not picked up in the road
way; their secret places are far down.
Get down into the vitality, the solidi-
ty, the veracity, the divinity of the
Word of God, and seek to possess
with it all the inward work of the
blessed Spirit. CSpurgeon.
Year: 1874

THIsTLEs IN THE HEART.-Bad hab-
its are the thistles of the heart, and
every indulgence of them is a new
crop of weeds. A few years ago q
little boy told his first talsehood. It
was q little solitary thistle-seed, and
no eye but Gods saw him as he
planted it in the mellow soil of his
heart. But it sprang up-oh, how
quiekly-and in a little time another
and another, each IN its turn bearing
more seed and more thistles. And
now his heart is overgrown with this
bad habit.
Year: 1874

In China, a man is not allowed to
build house above his legitimate
rank in society. He may acquire q
fortune by his own exertions, but un-
less he holds some Office, OF is born
to some rank, he has no liberty Of
architecture. The laws of the en-
pire detail and enforce, with the
greatest precision, the mode of con-
structing residence of a prince OF
the first, second or third rank, of q
grandee or of mandarin. Accord
ing to the ancient law, the numb Ell
and height of the apartments, the
length and height of a building, are
all regulated with precision, from the
plain citizen to the mandarin, and
from the mandarin up to the emper-
or himself.
Year: 1874

Double Acrostic.
My first is an animal,
My second is volcano in Central America,
My third is the atmosphere,
My fourth is a river in France.
My whole the farmers clearly see
That they can do without,
But we town people needs must be
The users of it the year out. ROSE
Year: 1874

From Harrer's Magazine for May.


Once upon time a gentleman drew
up his horse near a smithy in a York
shire village. On entering it he kind
lv arrested the attention of the boy
who seemed to be absorbed in the
work Of blowing the bellows. Closer
observation revealed the presence of a
book--its pages kept open by two bits
Of iron placed on a shelf near the lad S
head Each time he brought down
the bellows or released it he seemed to
catch a sentence from the book.


4 generation passed away. The lit
tie village had grown to be brilliant
town. Low thatched houses had
made their way before fine mansions,
and the smithy in which the above in
cident was observed was drawing near
to its day of disappearance. But be
fore that day arrived another gentle
man appeared at the door, and inspect
ed with some interest an anvil standing
in the centre Of the stIop.


How long hiss that anvil been
here ?" he asked of the blacksmith.


why" said the workman, ''it
must have been 80 or 40 years.


"Wen,' = said the gentleman, Il will
give you twice as much for that anvil
as will buy new one. -


"Certainly,'' replied the puzzled
smith but I would like to know
what YOU want with this anvil


81 will tell you. There was former
y an apprentice in this shop who used
to work on it. That boy has now be
come a great man. Thousands love
and honor him as friend and teach,
er, and | wish to carry back this anvil
as memorial of the humble begin
ming Of his life
Year: 1874

BE actuated by true motives, and
the Church Of God will break down
the partition walls and bring men to-
gether: and the crown Of their char
acter, of their righteousness, Of their
worth in Gods sight, shall be the
badge of distinction and the bord Of
union. Then we can unite in the long
pull Of moral forces, and the world
will come together.


O for an abrogation Of mere tech
nical Christians, Christians by courte-
sy, Christians by position, like ciphers
at the right hand of significant inte-
gers @ for the coming of the meat
and marrow of things, for so we will
be Judged at last. This is not disin-
tegrating, it is integrating truth,
Christ and life it is construction, the
very breeding of God in the garden Of
our humanity.


Keep mellow; keep tender. You
never like to see a hard man or hard
woman. No man is the worse for be-
ing woman-hearted; no woman is the
worse for being strong in that strength
which nerves the very heart of Deity.
Keep mellow, keep tender in soul. IF
you study the Bible, do not study it
under those theories that make you
wiry, bony or dry, You may find a
great deal Of fault with it. There is
great deal in it that doubtless would
not have been there had the Bible
been written a hundred years ago.
But don't 90 to it with the carping
and fippancy that leaves you ike a
dead dessected bird, songless as an
epltaph. Keep clear of all that, keep
the bud in your nature warm and juicy
and open. Then the very atmosphere
of the Bible Will be full Of life-giving
moisture, and feed you with It's great
stimulation. The first you know you
will be blooming, and the next you
will be bearing fruit. Men sometimes
60 al the Bible "a Woodpeeksr goes
Year: 1874

i would rather have written that
hymn of Wesley's


Jesus lover Of my soul,


Let me to thy bosom fiy."


than to have the fame of all the kings
that ever sat on the earth. 1t is more
glorious. 1t has more power in it. I
would rather be the author of that
hymn than to hold the wealth Of the
richest man in New York. He will
die. He is dead, and does not know
it. Tie will pass, after little while,
out Of mems thoughts. What will
thcre be to speak Of him? What will
he have done that will stop trouble or
encourage hope? His money will 90
to his heirs aid they will divide it.
1t is like a stream divided and gaow-
ing narrower by division And they
will die, and i viii go to their heirs
IN three or four generations every
thing comes to the ground again for
redistribution. But that hymn viii
90 on singing until the last trump
brings forth the angel band; and
then, I think, it will mount up on
sons lip to the very presence eff God.
And | would rather have written such
q hymn than to have heaped up all the
treasures Of the richest man on the
globe. 4 man may be very useful
and influential and not be rich.-H.
H. Beecher.
Year: 1874

Henry Ward Beecher talks in
this way of the Pope: Il have a
great many friends in Rome, the Pope
among them. He never came to see
me, but I would just as lief go to see
him as not. He would hardly say [
was orthodox, but | really believe he
is orthodox. | would ordain him to
preach, and I would let him preach
here if he asked me. I really believe
the old man is a good man, with some
eobwebs in his head, but they will be
brushed away before long; we all have
got them, in some way or another,
and whatever there is in him that is
pure, and true, and right, makes him
my brother"