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Year: 1874

The good people of the city Of New
York have recently been greatly excited
By the discovery of case of brutality
and cruelty without a parallel, save in
the stories of fiction. The following
epitome of the story is clipped from the
st. Louis Republican, and assuredly no
parent can read it without finding his or
her eyes grow dim:


Can any one imagine little girl eight
or ten years old who has never been
kissed2 Caressing is such an early and
often experience o. children and sweet.
ems so many of the little bitternesses of
their young lives, that it seems almost
incredible that girl, poor or rich, could
live eight years without feeling the press
ure OF fond lips to hers. Yet one such
has been found in New York, and her
existence suggests that many others may
not only be going unkissed by affection,
but starved and beaten and outrageously
abused by barbarity. A charitable lady
was on visit to a poor, dying woman,
in a miserable quarter, and heard wild
screams, apparently of child suffering
abuse She inquired about It, and the
neighbors told her they were made
familiar with that music by hearing 1t
every day. II was the Connollys beating
child. The neighbors had never seen
the child, but knew it was there, and had
been for years, by its daily and nightly
walls of distress and shrieks Of torment.


Now, there happens to be no society
for the prevention of cruelty to young
children. The law is supposed to pro-
tect them by giving them to their mas
ters, parents or guardians. The law
contemplates and presupposes humanity
in civilized state, and there's where 1t
sometimes errs. Where the error exists
there the poor little babes are worse off
than the brutes. The best the lady
could do under the circumstances was
to 60 to Mr.. Henry Bergh, President Of
the society for the protection of dumb
brutes, and report the case. If it had
been a dog or a cat or a rat Mr.. Bergh
would have had undouSted and complete
jurisdiction to liberate the animal and
punish its tormentors. But it was a
child, and in truth Mr.. Bergh had moth
ing to do with the case. He, however,
interested himself in it, and collected
evidence and heard for himself, and laid
the matter before a judge. The judge
issued a writ to bring the child before
him. Her appearance revealed years
of torture, and her manner confessed
that she told the truth when she gave in
her Young experience to the court.


She said her name was Mary Ellen
Mccormack. and that she did not know
| how old she was. Her parents were
both dead, but she called Mrs. Connolly
mamma; never had but one pair OF
shoes; had no shoes or stockings this
winter; had never been allowed to 60
out Of the rooms where the Connollys
Year: 1874

I'm England.


The facts in the case of Kate Santley
who has prosecuted several persons for
trying to hiss her off the stage, are thus
stated: Miss Kate Santley was engaged
at the Alhambra, where she had become
a great favorite. A combination had
unlawfully been entered into to prevent
that lady from performing, and also to
give prominence to Miss Rose Bell, a
French actress. The head and front of
this combination was an individual who
called himself the friend of Miss Rose
Bell He had organized an opposition,
or rather a conspiracy, the expected
effect being to drive Miss Santley from
the stage. The plan adopted was to give
free admissions into the theater to from
seventy to one hundred persons nightly,
with directions that they were to hiss
Miss Kate Santley down and to. ap-
plaud Miss Bell. The effect of this
system, if it remained unchecked, must
be to ruin Miss Sanity and to give Miss
Bell the leading position at the theater.
Two detectives and two private consta-
bles had been employed in tracing out
the leaders Of this conspiracy. They had
watched persons sent into the theater,
and got clear case against several Of
them. The system of persecution had
gone on some time, and on the night of
the 7th of March the Kissing was so in
cessant that Miss Kate Santley was quite
unable to appear. He had the deposit
tions of various persons to refer TO. One
witness had been asked by the chief
mover to 90 into the gallery of the AL
hambra to hiss Miss Santley, and he was
passed in free for that purpose. Another
witness would prove that many others
we're sent into the balcony and other
parts of the house for the same purpose.
be would further prove that these par
ties were told TO Hiss Miss Santley and
to applaud Miss Bell. 1t would further
be shown who it was that supplied the
ehecks-as many as fifty nightly to be
used in the way he had described.
Year: 1874

NEW RULES ADOPTED FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE


SAME.


Copies OF the new edition Of the rules for the
government of the Public schools of this city
have been distributed to the teachers in the
same. The following are the principal rules
adopted since the previous edition was printed


Each teacher may take one day each year to
visit other schools of the same grade as his or
her own, for the purpose or observing methods
of instruction and discipline During the ab-
sence Of teacher for this purpose, his OF her
division may be taught by substitute, at the ex-
pense Of the Board, if the Principal cannot ar
range to have the work of the absent teacher
done by other teachers In each case of alb
sence for this purpose, the teacher shall make a
report of the time spent in visiting, to the Su-
perintendent, in form to be provided for the
purpose. The Superintendent shall enter the
day thus spent as an equivalent for days
teaching.


SIT shall be the duty of all the Principals, at
the close of each month, to make, in writing, to
the Visiting Committing of their schools,
report Of all cases in which corporal punishment
has been inflicted which report shall state the
name of the pupil, the amount Of punishment,
and tile reason for intiiction.


1.-The Superintendent shall make IL monthly
payroll of all persons drawing salary from the
Board"


The following duties, formerly belonging to
the Secretary have been transferred to the Su-
periutendent.


g. To supply the schools with books aud sta
| tionery, upon the orders of the Visiting Commit
tees, and to keep an account of the supplies sent
to each school To receive from the principals
of the several schools their quarterly reports of
| pupils who have not paid for the use Of books,
and to make to the Board a condensed report OF
| the same


" To report to the Board, at the beginning OF
each quarter, the cost of books and stationery
furnished to each school during the previous
quarter, and the amount Of money received al
each school for the use of books and stationery
during the same time.
Year: 1874

The opening chapter of autumns introduc-
ton to winters record of marine disasters is
being written. The HERALD's ship news
columns have during the past day or two
plainly indicated that the present season is
not to be an exceptional one Of freedom from
suffering for the mariner. The daily arrivals
at this and other ports Of craft variously dam
aged in their contests with the winds and
waves are melancholy forecasts of what may
be expected during the rest of the season of
storms. A hurricane that ragged on the Allan
tic from the 4th to the 9th inst, and extended
from the latitude OF Bermuda to forty de-
grees north, was very hard upon the vessels
caught in its limits, one old shipmaster de-
scribing it as the severest he had experienced
in twenty years cruising. Several vessels
succumbed to it, but, fortunately, SO far as re-
ported, the crews were rescued from the fate
OF their vessels by passing craft. Others have
managed to struggle back to their ports of
departure or found refuge in some other
haven terribly battered, with loss of spars
and decks swept of everything that stood in
the way of the ponderous boarding seas. In
one or two cases seamen were washed away
amid the wreck of spars and bulwarks, and
the broken limbs and battered frames of some
of those saved from immediate death evil
denced the severity of the contest they had
passed through. The ships that have reached
port passed many "lame ducks" in various
degrees of dilapidation resulting from the
same storm, and it is to be feared that the
worst of it has yet to be chronicIed
Year: 1874

The letter which Mayor Havemeyer COM
municates to Mr.. John Kelly through the
public press is very spicy reading. The
Mayors style is peculiar but vigorous, and his
charges are pointed and epigrammatic There
is no mistaking what he means in anything
that he says 1t is also plain that he intends
giving Kelly as good as he received. Indeed,
we suspect there is little tinge of bitterness
and bad temper in the Mayors composition
but the sophomore promise of his effort is so
great that we have high hopes of him after
he has had little more experience.
1t betrays extensive reading and large
iund Of anecdote. It shows an aptness at
figures and their application which even Mr..
Kelly must Sdmire. We are sorry, however,
that the Mayor has not that esteem for the
Hon. John Morrissey which the career of that
eminent statesman would justify And we
are grieved, too, that Ottendorfer has q lower
place in the Mayors affections than he once
had. Other little episodes of the youthful
Havemeyer's epistle are equally painful to us.
But, after all, it would have been more dig
nihed perhaps if Havemeyer had arraigned
Kelly before the proper tribunal as Kelly did
Havemeyer, though we confess that course
would not have been half so entertaining. MIR.
Kelly, for his part of this interesting affair,
promises to give the public some lively read
ING also
Year: 1874

The REPORT comes from Maine that there
is no Maine law in that State 1t is clear that
some one has been drunk-either the Legisla-
ture, which thought it had passed the law, or
the persons who now think it did not. But
If they were under the impression that the
law existed how did they get their liquor
If they did get their liquor how did they
come to imagine that the law existed? 1t is
said the Attorney General is to investigate the
matter with the sobfrness due to its impor-
tance, and it is to beaoped he will settle it. To
have been drunk unconstitutionally has given
much pain to many well disposed inebriates
If it is shown that they we're drunk legally
they will feel relieved On the other hand, it
will distress the temperance party to know
that these other parties have been drunk con-
stitutionally. That somebody must suffer
seems inevitable, whether the report be true
or false.
Year: 1874

Ice Sign ais in the North Atlantic.


A very beautiful and useful system of ice
signalling has been recently adopted by one
Of the Canadian steamship lines, which prom
ises to give great safety and security to pas
sengers crossing the Atlantic. The company
has issued to all its commanders an ice chart
and tallying ice signals, by the use of which
steamers passing each other can learn when
and where dangerous bergs and ice fields have
been encountered. The ice chart is divided
into degrees of longitude and half degrees Of
latitude, nearly making squares, each of which
has separate literal designation. This in
each section of the chart consists of two letters
representing two flags of the commercial code,
and when the corresponding flags are hoisted by
a steamer they indicate to the passing ship the
exact position of the ice met. The ensign hoisted
above these means berg ice and the Union
Jack field ice likely to imperil navigation.
The flags are, of course, only serviceable in
the day time; but at night the ice signals
are made by means of Colombs Chatham
lamp The whole system is one of extreme
simplicity, both in the chart and CODE and
easily enables any steamer, after passing
through the ice track near Newfoundland, to
communicate to the steamer approaching it
the precise place of the peril, and therefore,
the imminent necessity of extreme caution in
nearing that point


The adoption of this or some similar code
by all the transatlantic steamship companies
cannot be too urgently sought after, and it is
q wonder they have not, for their own security,
long since devised one. Great as have been
the advances in modern navigation no navi-
gator has yet found any means of detecting
the presence of an iceberg until he has
approached far within the circo of great
danger. The fact that the floating ices of the
Atlantic select a pathway thronged by the
worlds commerce, and upon which their
stealthy movements are concealed by fog,
must always make them the objects of terror
to the mariner.
Year: 1874

The BLASTING OPERATIONS in the Fourth
avenue improvement have long been carried
on with reckless disregard of human life
Casualties, often of fatal character, have so
frequently occurred and may still happen that
the neighborhood must be considered an un-
safe place of residence. We have frequently
protested against the manner in which the
work is conducted, but without effect, as it
seems no public officer feels it his duty to pro-
foct the community from q danger which has
already cost many lives.
Year: 1874

federal government has no authority to do
this unless both sets of State officers resign
but in that case the whole question could be
referred to the people, and their will ought to
prevail. If the Kellogg and McEnery govern
ments would both resign and retire the solu-
ton would be direct and easy brief period
OF military government followed by fair
election and reorganized State government
would be satisfactory to the people and would
relieve the federal authority of its embarrass-
ments
Year: 1874

FRAUDS IN JERSEY CRY provoke lively
scenes, as was proved by the extraordinary oc,
currences at the meeting of the Board of Free
holders yesterday. If New York had not her
Charities and Correction frauds of like
character we might read the Jerseymen very
stern lesson.
Year: 1874

GENERAL BUTLER, it seems, is to have an
antagonist in General Cogswell for the norni-
nation for Congress from the famous Essex
district Wherever Butler is there is material
for dramatic literature, and we print this
morning letter full of just such points as can
only be made when that veteran politician
affords the occasion.
Year: 1874

GENERAL TooMBs ON THE THIRD Term, some
ten days ago, declared that he was in favor of
trying it with General Grant. Now he is
ready to fight once more ''the minions of the
atrocious despotism at Washington. Cen
eral Toombs has had enough of President
Grant
Year: 1874

TlBnt 10 tne oIuce WOulu De as perfect and as
unquestionable as when he first received q
majority Of the electoral votes. The country
cannot afford to depend for its security upon
mere precedents which have no binding
authority and may be set aside with impunity
whenever President in Office is able to pack
the nominating convention Of his party, and
that party proves to be majority. The out
look is becoming too ominous for the country
to trust to so frail barrier as the mere prece-
dents Of earlier and purer times. With the
vast amount Of corrupting patronage in his
hands, and with a hundred thousand office
holders always ready to act as his tools, o
President should not be permitted to intrigue
even for second election, and the constitu-
ton should be so amended as to render such
aspirations impossible. This is one among
many reasons why it is expedient to have
national convention for revising the consti-
tuition


Thus the question is no longer theoretical
but practical. The inherent weakness of the
constitution has become the danger of the
Republic. Those who believed that the ex-
ample of Washington and the good sense of
the people would always make third term
impossible now see their error, and know
that as Washingtons example is not con-
sidered sufficient in other matters, so the
good sense of the people is best shown when
they protect their liberties by fundamental
laws. Our calm and thoughtful contempor-
ary, the Tribune, which, even when it was
advocating Mr.. Greeey's election, dismissed
the idea Of Grants third term aspirations
as q political absurdity and has always
looked upon Caesar as myth, now
declares, after considering the significant
silence Of the President and the action of his
friends, that the third term movement Is 20
pronounced and tangible issue in our poll
tics" Nor does it fail to perceive the i'm
portanca of that issI,a, for it adds that third
Year: 1874

That's it! Of Iall the characteristic
faults of woman. the undeniable t,co-
sidedness. Of thes animal is the worst.
To be sure a ptetty woman is very
fine thing to look at-that is, if she be
arrayed in all the fashionable gew-gaws
so necessary to the makeup Of fine Ia
dy of the nova a-day. The very bloom
on her face has = s0rong side to it, and
below its surface is the covering intend
ed by nature to be presented to view.
Now, amt it so,i girls? I wonder if the
men, who SO pretend to admire US, do
not laugh at our folly when we are out
of sight? Fools if they don't; for onl y
think of it how we strive to obtain their
notice, and even bury all native mod
esty to attract their attention. I could
never see why the women should SO pre-
tend to be something they were not,
just for the sake of some mans good
opinion for what is a man that we
should wish to appear perfect in his
eyes? Men have their faults, and
precious little pains they take to hide
them; but woman likes all men to
think her above common faults, SO they
paint and varn;sh smile when they
feel cross; say. y.sweet words when their
hearts are boiling down vinegar, that
they may be thought always smiling
and amiable. For my part. l should
not wish to be an angel before I got
my wings; and. now think of it, I
should like to ask if you never observed
how very careless women we're of their
own faults being shown to those Of
their own sex?.. Now, it is not the ma
ture Of the lady that I object to, it is
her vain attempts to conceal it from
men. They are no better than we, and
certainly they DO not care to hide their
faults from u.s.. I say, let everybody
act out nature, Don't, for Heavens
sake, pretend to be so all perfect when
Satan holds sway within; for men
know as well al / do that we al do
have our disagreeable habits; Just as
one may see perfectly dressed woman
to all appearance, and YETI she may
have hole in the her stocking.


Another~thipg pg::--When we have
company, We always meet them with a
smile Of welcome, pretending to be so
glad to see them, when all the time
perhaps, We are in a secret rage, that
we should be interrupted in some favor
ite employment. We cannot always
disguise. There must come day when
all things shall be made known: Now,
l expect to get my share Of the expos
ure, but I cannot but smile when l
think Of all the deceptions and their
motives which must be made manifest
upon that day.; Very likely you will
wonder what I am kicking up all this
dust about :; not that Thought you did
not know all this, but wished to init
mate that the men knew it, too. Do
not contradict me, now, for I am wo-
man, subject to all woman's varieties
and two-sided airs, and I kno,o.


HATTIE HATEFUL.
Year: 1874

-One.half Of the tobacco crop Of
Kentucky has been killed by frost.


"A farmer. in Oregon has had a
field of sixty acres Of grain eaten by
rabbits.


Look around the garden before the
frosts become too severe and see if you
have any plant, or shrubbery that need
care. Don't neglect them.


There is danger Of another hop fe-
yer. Profits have been large to the
hop growers for the past two or three
seasons. But , few years since many
hop yards were plowed up. If they are
a success in this locality our farmers
should raise them in small Quantities.


Our advice to our farmers Of this
county is to pay their old debts and
make as few new ones as possible, COL
lect what is due from Others, keep
all your matters straight, and know just
what you owe and how much you are
worth.


How to plow and plant is Of much
more Importance to farmers than when
to plant. The seasons are beyond our
coutrol, but the: principles ofagriculture
are always the same ant. We must strive
to adapt them to our soil and climate.
Our success in ! great measure will de.
pend upon our power to economize our
own energy and the strength Of our Ia
borers and teams.


Brains are a requisite of farm
work as well as muscles. Every year
this becomes more and more the case
in consequence of ths Introduction Of
improved and labor s{yinf machinery.


"A farmer qf Chester County, Penn
sylVania, made during The past year
1890 pounds of butter from fifteen
COWS which brought him the neat little
sum of 81, ,670.93.
Year: 1874

A GENTLEMAN on whose statements we have the utmost reliance, who recently re- turned from trip to the Little Colorado, informs us the sheep herds in that vicini- ty suffered nothing from the late destruc- tive storm, but on the contrary it was said that the yield of lambs Tn that neghbOr- hood would amount to about forty-One thousand.

 We take the above from the Albuquer- que Review, and this reminds us that we were informed some time ago that there were about 100000 sheep on the Little Col orado in Yavapai county. They have all been brought from New Mexico, and we are glad to note that they are doing so well. The property on the Little Colorado will materially increase the taxable pro perty of Yavapai county, and is strong argument in favor of mail service between this rich settlement and Prescott, the coun- ty-s9at.
Year: 1874

IT is now evident that eastern members of Congress are determined to put of from time to time the limit when mines shall be considered abandoned and sub ject to relocation without a certain amount of work being done upon them. There fore the only way left to decide owner ship and prevent future litigation to the property, is to apply for patent. By the sixty days advertising, notice is given to the world. and if these old dormant claim ants do not appear within that time and assert ownership they are forever debar- red. Unless a patent is obtained we ven- ture the prediction that there is scarcely mine in Arizona which may prove valuable, where old claims will not arise, and the history of mining litigation in Nevada shows that it is an easy matter to obtain witnesses to prove almost any, thing.
Year: 1874

A farmer by the fire was doomed To see his earthly all conSUmed; When by his neighbOrS, friends and kith, Yea, even his favofite dog forthwith Forsaken, lie was left to mourn Ger his unhappy fate alone Alone but for d tabby cat Who on the ground beside him sat. "Poor puss," he said, "art thou indeed My only friend in time of need? An! why am l too poor to share With one so kind a beggar'S fare? Yet no, there still remains to me One scrap of meat-Til give it thee," "Ah! cried the cat, as with bound She snatch'd the meat up from the

 ground,

 "I knew you had this by the smell: Now you have nothing, so farewellr' AhI vilest of all villains he Who preys on friends poverty.
Year: 1874

A LETTER from PheniX says: "Barley will be very light here in consequence of the sudden change from cold to extreme heat. We shall not have half the crop that we did last year, and we have not more than three fourths of a million poundSGf the old crop left" There will be laN e in- crease of demand for barley this yearsand taking into consideration that less ss las been sown than last year and in many places the crop is lighter, leads us to be- lieve that all the grain we have and will raise will be needed. We hope farmers can hold on to their grain until a fair price is given them.