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Year: 1878

NEW FACTS CONCERNING THE dURDERER OF


MALLoY-GENERoUs CHARACTER OF THE


VICTIM.


Continuing the investigation into the causes which
led to the murder Of John Maoy. Saturday night.
in front OF his residence. No. AGO West Fortyfrst
street. HERALD reporter yesterday learned some new
facts, which go to strengthen the original story Of
tine murderer's base ingratitude.


Maloy's history in New York for the last fifteen
years is well known and every who speaks Of
him does so to praise. He appears to have been q
man of very generous impulses and one whom he
had befrended yesterday spoke Of him to the reporter
with tears in his eyes, He combined two elements in
his character quite uncommon among his kind
he was thrifty and at the time gen.
erous. In men Of his class either OF these
attributes rule sufficient to crowd out the
other, but he had them both strongly marked. Ftf-
teen years ago he went to work with Mr.. Hawkins
his brewery in Fortyrst street. and by his sober
and industrious habits recommended himself to his
employer. He saved about $4,000 and started a
notion store, to which his wife attended when
he at the brewery. 1t was in connection
with his employment at the brewery that
the story was told to the reporter by
weeping man yesterday who lives in the neighbor-
hood. About year ago, so the informant stated, he
was taken into the brewery to work. and continued
there for some time When business grew slack he
was to have been off the lists, II being rule OF
the establishment that when hands were to be dis
missed those who came last went first Afailoy.





wife and family to support aud no in
fuence to get employment IL he was
discharged, went to Mr.. Hawkins and told
him that he would leave so as to make room for
the man it proposed to dismiss. He explained
that he had store and could support his wife and
children what it earned but that his friend if dis
charged might starve He quit the brewery. and,
during the eight months slack time, his friend
retained. Qnte recently he was sent for and resumed
his old employment


5frs. Malioy told reporter yesterday that in her
TWENTY-FIVE years OF married life her husband had
f< .strA Arl. hat
good-natured man, who never had harsh thought
against any one.


10y Coroner Woltman. HERALD reporter spoke with
him ia his cell during the afternoon, and during the
conversation Whitney denied that he had been shell
tered by Maloy and said that he might have taken
meal or two with him when he happened in during
meal times-nothng more. He pretends that his
memory In a blank from the time he left Malloy =
until the police arrested him, and nothing could be
learned from him concerning the fight. He says he
had i'll feeling against the dead and does not
know how 1t happened that he received stab wound.
Year: 1878

The representatives Of several insurance companies
met on saturday and formed preliminary organiza-
tion for the pooling of rates inland and marine
risks One Of the members has gone TO Canada with
the view of making arrangements with all companies
doing marine business there, and the success of the
pooling plan will depend greatly the encourage
Inent he meets The object of the pooling is said TO
be the establishment of higher and more uniform
rate of insurance for grain route to Europe.
Year: 1878

The following hints, intended
for young men who are for the
first time entering fashionable So
ciety, will. if closely followed, be
productive of beneficial results


Don't joke about the food on
the table. Don't whistle and
beckon to the sausage. Never
call the hash mystery, and, above
all things, never ask your host
when the butter had its hair cut
last.


Don't eat your soup with your
folk, this is an objectionable
breach of good manners. Re-
member that your knife is the pro-
per utensil.


Always eat all you wish while
at the table, for it is very unman-
nerly to fill your pockets with pie
or pudding. Remember the 18th
commandment--eat all you want,
but pocket none.


When you have finished eating
don't stave your chair back against
the wall, and put your feet upon
the table. Place them carefully
in the lap Of the gentleman or Ia
day sitting next to you.


If you see anything you don't
want don't ask for it.


Never put the napkin rings or
spoons into your pockets, as this
is not an act of refinement, and
may leave your conduct open to
criticism.


Some persons use their bread
to dry their plates with; this is
objectionable. The pocket-hand-
kerchief is the proper article in
this emergency.


After the meal wine is general,
ly brought on, In assisting your
nearest friend you should not use
the vulgar phrase, well, Gully,
will you have a ball 2, This is
ungeDtlemanly in the extreme
Use the elegant expression, "Sir,
will you have a bulldozer r
Year: 1878

Louisiana has done less than
any other State to encourage and
attract immigration, yet she needs
it more. Many a family, who are
eking their lives out in absolute
poverty in the barren North,
would grow rich here, if they
could get here, and were encour-
aged after they arrived. There
are thousands of rich acres in St.
Mary untouched to-day-because
the labor here is not sufficient to
work them.-Franklin Enter
prise.


We can say the same in regard
to the parish of Vermilion. There
are thousands upon thousands Of
acres lying idle for the want of
hands to work them.-TEd.
Year: 1878

Cold IN THE HEAD.--This can
be cured at once if taken care o1
at the very beginning. Dissolve
a tablespoonful Of borax in a pint
Of hot water, let it stand until il
becomes tepid snuff some up the
nostrils two or three times during
the day, or use the dry powdered
borax like snuff, az often as re
quired. At night have a hand
kerchief saturated with spirits o.
camphor, place it near the nos
trils, so as to inhale the perfumes
while sleeping.
Year: 1878

One Of the young men from
Milford sat down the other day
and wrote on the back of two pos-
tai cards. Then he turned them
over and directed them, but by
mischance placed the address on
the wrong cards. The result was
the shirt mandatory in New
York got polite invitation to
60 out carriage riding somewhere
on the Milford pike, while the
young mans girl was made fran
tic by receiving the following -
please send me q sample Of the
stuff your shirts are made Of"
Year: 1878

A LITERARY and musical enter
tainment is to be given to the public
on next Tuesday evening, at theCity
Hall. The receipts will 60 toward
paying fer the furniture of theRead-
ing Room, and as tho admission fee
will be very low, it is expected that
very large number will be present
to enjoy the rich and rare treat,
which will be provided. All those
who are willing to assist most wor-
thy undertaking, and at the same
time receive their moneys worth in
rational recreation will bear in mind
the coming event-the eve,at Of the
season.
Year: 1878

was equal to the occasion, returned
this reply: ITO the young man
with the Bad Spell: The wish to
form an acquaintance is not recipro-
cal. But, ifyou will call at my house
about o'clock in the evening, my
brother will make you acquainted
with some iirst.class calf-skin. Per-
haps you would prefer making the
acquaintance of our dog. He will
take to you naturally. He always
had a taste for calves"


Well bet this fellow is blood rel
auve OF the person who tormented(!)
the fair ones of another locality some
time ago.
Year: 1878

A NEW discovery has been made
in the water of the artesian we'll at
Prairie du Chen. The Union says
that lady of that city had the mis-
fortune to get large grease spot in
her carpet, ard had tried the usual
remedy OF soft water and soap, but
the spot would show. One Gay when
she was sweeping, no doubt little
vexed atseeing the grease-spot, there
being a stream Of artesian water
running in the gutter before the door,
she ducked her broom into it, and
onto the carpet, cold, and rubbed
away with a will, when 10, and be-
hold, the grease disappeared, and
has not been seen since. If this wa
ter will exterminate grease from q
carpet, it ought to have the same
effect on other clothing.
Year: 1878

EVERY month there is an elabor-
ate report CT the standing of mem
bers of the High school handed to
the printer for publication. In con-
sideration of the amount-wbich is
nothing-received for the labor, we
suggest that once q quarter is
Year: 1878

THE good and wonderful results
of the late temperance movement in
Platteville, we arc told, are just now
beginning to show up in nearly ev-
cry ward in the city, and the good
people there, especially the ladies,
feel proud and are more than happy
with the success they have met in
raising their fathers, brothers, and
husbands up to higher standard of
manhood. Let the good work 90 on.
Year: 1878

enough. Printers must live, and


like all other mechanics, they have
to work hard nowadays to secure
that living. Some would suggest to
US to keep the type standing, and
then the labor would not be
much. But you mustremember thatit
takes money to buy type, and to
follow such a suggestion would place
us on parallel with those who lend
money without interest, if there are
any such people. 1t is only to be
regretted that our financial condition
will not afford us this opportunity.
We believe that great majority of
our readers will agree with us as to
how often these reports need be
published, and hope that nobody
will take offence from these remarks.
Year: 1878

They Uphold no Wrongs, but only


Stand by the Right.


The position OF the Democrat.
ic party towards the Hayes ad-
ministration seems not to be iul-
ly understood by Republicans
1t ought not, however, to be mis-
understood. We believe and
know that Hayes is not in the of.
fee by virture of an election by
the people, aud that he was counted
in by fraud palpable aud unmis
taxable. That the fraud taints
his title to the Office, and that the
entire Republican party of the
country irresponsible for the great
wrong which can neither be con
doned or forgotten. He is the re
ceiver of the stolen presidency,
and his party is the thief that
committed the crime. With this
knowledge and conviction fixed
indelibly in the mind of every
Democrat in the c'untry, they
have neither sought to oust him
from the Office, nor hinder him in
the discharge of the duties it inn
poses, but have, on the contrary,
as a party, aided him. as gener
al rule, in every act designed and
calculated to advance the inter-
ests OF the country. This has
been done from sense of duty to
the country, and not from any
consideration for Hayes, or from
any desire to conciliate his favor.
We want to see him do right, and
are willing to aid him in doing
so; but the Democray will oppose
every act of his administration
that is in conflict with the public
veal. He is political foundling,
abandoned by his progenitors, but
the Democray will not adopt him,
nor suffer him to be left at the
their door. In accepting the Of
fee, conferred by fraud, he did
a great wrong to the country and
its government, but he is not more
criminal than the men who placed
him where he is. He has disap-
pointed their wishes in some
things, and they now seem dis
posed to abandon him. Verify
they have their reward, and both
he and they are finding out that
"the way of The transgressor is
hard"
Year: 1878

Several children were feeding a
pet bear with corn at Austin,
Texas. An ear was dropped out
of the reach of the bear, and a
little girl handed it to him The
bear sportively pulled her to him,
when a house dog, believing the
child in danger, sprang upon the
bear. Bruin then carried the
child to the farther part Of the
hogshead in which be slept and re
turned TO fight the dog, under the
impression that the dog would
hurt the child. A party of dar
kies tried to protect the child from
her other protectors, but the little
one did not escape until be-
mother had killed both bear ane
dog with a musket.
Year: 1878

1t occurred TO small boy Of
Fond-du-Lsc, Wis, that good
way to get rid of his dog was to
give the animal a kerosene bath,
aud then touch match to him.
The result produced was brilliant
in the extreme, the entire neigh
borhood being lighted up by the
flames cf the barn under which
the dog took shelter.
Year: 1878

The Columbia Herald declares
that the Senate Chaplain at Har
risburg prays for the Senate from
manuscript! He might as well
stay at home and send his manu-
script to the senate in an envel-
ope.
Year: 1878

The gambling fraternity is
particularly interested in de-
cision just made by the New
York Court of Appeals, as it
indicates the course likely to be
pursued in complaints against
them hereafter. Two profess
sional gamblers inyeighed a
stronger into q gambling den in
New York, not long since, and
| fieeced him out Of his money.
Following their arrest the Dis
trict Attorney having found it
almost impossible to convict
gamblers upon a specific charge
of swindling in the practice of
their ncfarious profession, tried
the experiment of indicting the
prisoners for larceny. Upon
their trial in the Court OF Gen
eral Sessions. their counsel con-
tended that their offense was not
larceny, the money having been
voluntarily surrendered, and it
mattered not how lraudulentmay
have been the intent, so long as
there was no trespass. The Dis
trict Attorney took contrary
ground. The Judge charged
a conviction which followed.
The case then went TO the Court
of Appeals, which tribunal af-
firmed the decision Of the court
below, Judge Miller writing the
opinion and all the Judges con-
curing.
Year: 1878

A Nyack man is trying to in
vent a gravy bowl that will not
break when a woman throws it
at her husbands head. There
has been too much crockery bro
ken in this Christian nineteenth
century.
Year: 1878

H. Abbeville will soon have
occasion to feel proud of her
Brass Band, for under the careful
training of so able an instructor
as Prof Mouillard their progress
is rapidly assuming q decidedly
musical feature.
Year: 1878

WAR piece Of work is man How
nobls In reason How infinite IN faeul'
tissI In form and moving. how e.
pr,.a and admirable In action how
iiis an ANGEL In apprehension. how
like a god And yet somehow or other;
be never looks that whom he Is backed
up to peanut stand taking IN tall
pocket cargo OF peanuts
Year: 1878

LET the Democracy cast around for
suitable candidates for Senator and Repre-
sentatives to Dover. The working men
from what we hear are intent upon sending
one of themselves 10 the Legislature.
Howard Simpson, Of Third street, fills that
bill if the people are content. The Senator
should be man of fair culture, and large
intelligence as many of our laws want
amendment sadly. The. people, by the
new rules are sovereign, as they directly
vote for both Senator and Representative
to Dover, and few big wigs at New Castle
no longer make up State, little caring
what the people thought. The New Castle
delegation to Dover will hereafter be ex'
ponents of the popular will.
Year: 1878

The work Of grading the new railroad
between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach has
been delayed somewhat by q few parties
who claim damages on the route, and will
resort to legal process. Mr.. McNatt, con
tractor for bridging the road, has com
menced his work. Everything is expected
to be finished by the opening of the season,
and this great improvement will no doubt
add much to the prosperity of this favorite
summer resort.
Year: 1878

WILL orr friend Of the Smyrna Times
le, us know if he mails his paper regularly
TO the HERALD. If 40 some some one In
the most Office condemns it az contraband;
as It only reaches here once month on
the average. 1t is a good paper and we
want it regularly.
Year: 1878

CAPTAIN GALLAGHER was not seen
Staggering from saloon TO saloon, licensed
and unlicensed, showing his $40 bills
here and there to be expended in debauch-
ing the voters and setting them to fight
ing and killing each other. He had no
extra $1,000 salary to spend in securing
his nomination by subsidizing the gin
mills of the city.-Republicdn.


Certainly the GAZETTE has not accused
Capt. Gallagher of any such thing as the
Republican connects his name with in
the above. Nor do we know anyone
that has.


Mr.. Almonds friends are fully aware
OF his sobriety, steady business habits
and good conduct; and we believe we
never knew him to be guilty of anything
approaching the fancy picture which the
Republican has drawn.


We did not see him on Saturday, but
we passed so near him about s p. M,
in front of George p. Robinson's
confectionery, where his friends were
congratulating him, as to hear his
voice and feel quite sure he was in his
usual bright condition for business and
shortly after he met his Democratic
friends at the meeting in the engine house,
Tenth and Shipley, and they will all tes-
tify to his sobriety, and the good taste
with which he replied to the committee
who congratulated him on his nomina-
tion.


On Friday evening we met him on a
matter OF business, and we know that he
could not have been imbibing either beel
Or liquor or we should have discovered
it.


In fact we must be permitted to insure
our friends that we have the stronges
reason to believe that the Republica,
took deliberate pains to make assertion.
and throw out inuendoes in its issue OF
Tuesday that are totally false, and so in
credible as to make Mr.. Almond,
friends more active than ever. Sucl
falsehoods will recol upon its own party
already hundreds of Republicans VIII,
have known and associated with jon,
7. ALMOND intimately for many years
and who have done business with hin
until this very day, are ready to defen,
him against any such reflections an
many of these Republican friends of his
who were hesitating about going to til
polls have resolved to do so and TO vot
for JOHN P. ALLMoND for Mayor. Nc
body doubts his election; and all VIII
know him say he will make the most a,
tive and reliable executive officer our cit
has had for long time.
Year: 1878

A BoGoTA doctor attests the great age
ofMiguel Soils, half-bred farmer, who
is believed to be 18o years old. He has
proof of contributing to a religiouslfund in
17l2. Questioned as to his habits, Miguel
told the doctor that the secret of living a
century or two was very simple-merely
never getting drunk and never overfeed-
ing. Il eat only once day-a big, hearty
meal, which it often takes me halfan hour
to get through with; bat, you see, it is not
impossible in half hour to eat more The n


you can digest in the next twenty-four'
He went on to say that he hadn't made up
his mind about meat, but did not eat much
of it; he tasted on the first and middle
days of each month. but drinking all the
water he could swallow; he always let
cooked victuals cool before tasting it, that
was why his teeth were as sound as 1870
years ago.
Year: 1878

while their wives bend beneath a
similar yoke Of duty at home.


What is lacking is the power to
rise above the petty annoyances of
daily life; we need to distinguish
trifes from affairs of moment, to
know that every mole hill is not a
mountain. We need not forsake
the upper strata of sentiment,
thought and ideality-tbe atmos-
phere of the soul-because we know
that there is a lower one of routine
and small vexations, in which our
feet are told to tread. To breathe
in the one is to receive strength and
refreshment for exortion in the
other. 1t is a very good plan to
pick up needles and pins from the
floor, but picking pins ought not
to be made the chief object of ex-
iStence, for if we move along with
our head constantly downward, we
most assuredly will see nothing bet
ter than pins and needles to the end
Of cur DAYS.
Year: 1878

We were impressed not long since
with a brief experience of a good
old man who was slightly intoxi-
Gated for one night only, as related
by himself. 81 went home angry
and ashamed" he said, "and half
gone with horror, in anticipation of
what my wife Sarah would say about
it. took off my shoes and hung
them on the gate post in the excess
of my caution and timidity. Got
into the house with marvellous dex-
terlty, and into the bedroom with
out making the slightest noise.
Sarah always slept in front. The
loot-board was unusually high, and
| was never much of a gymnast,
but my success thus far had I'M
pressed me so that l felt equal to
almost anything"


His sadness was such that his
hearers were sad too, and one young
person was so much agitated at his
long pause and his deep sighs that
he burst forth, 81 see how it is:
you probably fell and broke your
neck"


"No, my young FRIEND" replied
the old man, ''it wasn't that; l
climbed that foot-board slowly,
painfully, and with the utmost eau
ton and secresy. You have heard,
perhaps, how excessively large and
threatening every noise is in the
stiffness Of dark night, particu-
larly when you are trying to keep
still yourself, and occasionally
straining your ears in fear of some
sound that is nevertheless expected
and pretty sure to come. That was
what allied me. Ny heart beat like
a drum, and the clock in the room
ticked as if it would like to arouse
the entire neighborhood. got
safely down into that bed and un-
der the clothes. l laughed at my
self till the bed shook. Ny fear
had given place to an unnatural
hilarity. | grinned and chuckled
and was exceedingly absurd. l can
never think OF that time without
shuddering and wishing that some
body would hand me sponge
wherewith to wipe itout. 1t struck
me suddenly that Sarah was unnat-
urally still. put my hand over to
her side of the bed and, merciful
heavens!--"


WAS she dead?" inquired the
young person, his jaw falling and
his eyes standing out with intense
anxiety.


"NO, young feller," replied the
good old man, "she was not there.
She had gone to a neighbor's to
pass the night, and, insuAerable
idiot that | was, l had forgotten all
about it." Hei bowed his head in
his trembling hands, and the tears
trickled through his fingers and ran
down his long gray beard.


-.a.-ss,-.uu.-
Year: 1878

and pick up something from the
floor is an awkward thing for even
a graceful, self-posSessed woman to
do on the stage, and Bessie was
neither. Laughter further discon.
certed her, and she made her exit
after giving no promise of fulfilling
Golfers anticipations. During the


week she gained in confidence, and


this account Of her conduct must
not be construed in disparagement
Of her latent powers as an actress.
Year: 1878

-. BALTIMORE, June 28.--In the case of the


United States against Frederick Dutterweich,
indicted for violation of the revenue law
touching the manufacture of cigars, tried


yesterday In the United States District Court,
the jury this forenoon rendered q verdict OF
not guilty, under instructions from the court.
Judge Giles, In his remarks, said tnat he could
not understand how Commissioner Raum
could construe the law 50 as to issue such an
order. The court then instructed the Jury as
follows: If the jury shall find from evidence
IN this case that the cigar proved to have been
sold by the traverser was of his own manu-
facture and was taken from a box. Dronnrlv
packed and stamped, In pursuance Of section
1892 OF the Revised Statutes, there can be no
conviction in the case, although the jury may
find that said sales were made at the manu-
factory OF said traverser. In accordance with
these instructions the jury Immediately re-
turned verdict Of not guilty.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, June 28.-The Times Detroit
special says: Mr.. Vanderbilt yesterday made
new move on the railroad chess board in
this region. The Grand Trunk lately pos
sessed through connections with Chicago,
what is known as the Chicago and Lake
Huron road, composed of several short lines,
and running from Port Huron westward
through Flint Lansing and Battle Creek.


=, Between, the component parts Of this line
there has lately been considerable litigation,
ostensibly based upon misunderstanding as
to their private arrangements. Yesterday
one Of the short lines, known as the Chicago
and n northeastern, and running from Flint TO
Lansing, was taken possession of by its i'm
mediate owners, undoubtedly acting in the
Vanderbilt interest, and through traffic was
entirely stopped. The Michigan Central loco
motive was used at Flint to block up the track
These tactics have completely shut the Grand
Trunk out Of Chicago by that line and its
managers declare their Intention to operate
their own line and transfer passengers and
make its terminus. These proceedings have
produced considerable stir among local rail-
road men.