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Year: 1879

Hereupon Captain Titlow called in 9
Sergeant and file of soldiers from the mex,
room, and the Sergeant advanced to seizt
the prisoner. Immediately Mr. Davis flew
on him and seized his muskct and attempted
TO wrench it form his grasp.


Of course such a scene could have but
one issue. There was short, passionate
scuffle. In a moment Davis was flung
upon his bed, and before his four powerful
assailants removed their hands from him
the blacksmith and his assistant had done
their work--one securing the rivct on the
right ankle while the other turned the key
in the paddock on the left.


This done, Mr. Davis lay fer n moment
as if in stupor. Then slowly raising him.
self and turning round, he dropped his
shacklcd feet to tho floor.


The harsh clank of the striking chain
seems first to have recalled him to his situa-
tion, apd dropping his face into his hands,
he burst iuto passionate food Of sobbing,
rocking to and fro, and muttering at brief
intervals Oh, the shame the shame


Ii may here be stated, though out of its
due order-that we may get rid in haste of
an unpleasant subjcct-NIr Davis some
months later, when frequent visits had
made him more free to converse, gavo a
curious explanation of the last feature in
this incident.


He had been speaking of suicide, and
denounced it as the worst form of cowardicc
aud folly. Life is not like commission
that We can resign when disgustcd with
the service. Taking it by your own hand
is confession Of Judgment to all that your
worst enemies can allcge 1t has often
flashed against me as tempting remedy
for neuralgia torture; but, thank God, 1
never sought my own death but once, and
then when completely frenzied, and not
master of my actions. When they came to
iron me that day, as 4 last resource of des-
peration, l seized soldiers musket and
attempted to wrench it from his hands,
hoping that in tho scuffle and surprise
some of his comrads would shoot or bayonet
me.
Year: 1879

A JUDGE LEARNING HIS TRADE.-You
will perhaps be surprised when l tell YOU
that the ablest lawyer of this or any other
bar, when he is for the first time appointed
a judge. has to learn his trade, as much as
the mechanic apprentice. OF course do
not mean by this that he has to learn the
law, for | am supposing him to be learned
in the law. But what the apprenticed me-
chanic learns of his master is not the sci


ence of mechanical forces, at least not
mainly that. What he does acquire in that
apprenticeship. is skill in the use of his
tools. This is precisely what am saying
of new judge. Let mo illustrate this
from my own experience, for it is closely
related to training in a lawyer. 1t is in
fact tho same thing. am very sure that
it does not take me half the time now that
It did at first to eliminate from complex
case presented to me for decision what is
irrelevant or immaterial, and to ascertain the
point of conflict nee ,ssary to be decided
And this is equally true whether the con.
test be one Of law or fact, or both. BY
practice and attention can listen to law.
yer read document offer ID in evidence,
pass with him lightly over the formal parts
of the instrument, and when he comes to
the vital matter, the few words, perhaps,
which alone touch the issue, I catch their
precise meaning, and if l do not get that
clearly stop him there until do. 1t is rare
that [ need go over that instrument again.
So have acquired, hardly know, how ex.
cept by practically training-the faculty
of taking an immense record of five hun.
drea or ono thousand pages, and turning at
once to the material parts, whether of plead.
ing, Of evidence, or whatever it may be,
and in one-third tho time it took me when
| first went on the bench, I gather the ma
terials for my judgment without digesting
n mass of useless chaff ff-Justicc Miller be.
fore the Io,oa Bar association.
Year: 1879

A BUSINESS AFFAIR.-The following
curious advertisement appears in the col.
umns of German medical journal -
Through the death Of the late proprietor,
good practice (surgery) in wealthy part
OF the country is to be disposed of either
by sale or lease. The present owner, daugh-
ter of tho deceased, is young and single,
and would not object TO marry with the
buyer or tenant, if suituble arrangements
were made. Address, &c.
Year: 1879




Why A BRIDAL TnIp WAS Nor TAKEN.
Quite sensation occurred in Crawford
County, not far from Fort Valley, last week.
n young gentleman was to have been mar
ried to very estimable young lady. The
invited guests had assembled; the clergy
man was present, ready to perform his part;
the table was prepared with the usual dain-
ties which so pleasantly assist in making
merry such occasions; the bride was adorned
for her husband in all her blushing beauty
and angelic lovelincss, with throbbing
heart, anxiously awaiting the arrival Of
her betrothed. At a tardy hour he arrived
His appearance told too we'll that he had
broken his pledge, so sacrcdly given, to
drink no more. The resolute young maid
rose to her feet and with determination that
spoke in words too plain to be misunder.
stood, sa d IL will never marry you, sir"
Friends intorcedcd and earnestly bcsought
the young heroine to rctract her words
the bridegroom pleaded with all the vehe-
mence and eloquence of a lover, but still
tho maid would have her will, and said
nay. She boarded the train in a day or
two for southwest Georgia, and took her
bridal tour without the would be BRIDE
groom.
Year: 1879

thing as odd as the Governors suggestion


to Mr.. Kelly and the democrats who act


with him in this city. ''You object to me,


he saws in effect. ''Very well, stay out Of
the Convention, and then if through your
absence L succeed in getting the nomina-
ton you can bolt and l shall have no
cause to find fault with YOU" Does the
Governor really mean this? Does he care
only for the nomination and nothing
for the election? Is that his idea of party
politics? Mr.. Tilden, some months ago,
told Southern Senator that the democrats
would lose New York this year. but that
this would not matter, as he could carry it
nextyea Governor Robinson's plan fits as
well to Mr.. Tilden's prophecy as though the
two had come out of the same shop; and the
public, which is often suspicious, will go
near to believe that in fact the Governor is
less solicitous for the important interests of
the State than to secure his friend and
patron Tilden's supremacy in the State
Convention. But if the Tilden- Robinson
plan is to lose the State this fall, in the in
terest of Mr.. Tilden's Presidential pros
poets, that ought to be known, and we ought
to hear no more about the great interests of
the State.
Year: 1879

disease OF an epidemic character, which
the physicians do not appear to under
stand, has broken out in Linn county,
Iowa, and which for want of q better name
is styled an endemic malignant dysentery.
In certain respects it resembles the Asiatic
cholera, and one physician is inclined to
pronounce it such. Cholera itself can
scarcely have reached Iowa and passed all
the other places on the way; nor is it at all
probable that this is really malady of that
nature. 1t is much more likely that gen.
era, trouble has resulted from some con-
tamination Of a common water supply, or
that some article OF diet in general use has
turned up of bad quality at the village
stores.
Year: 1879

Elsewhere will be found the report Of q
long and interesting conversation by Mr..
Kelly with reporter of the HERALD. In it
Mr.. Kelly expresses himself vigorously and
without reserve about Governor Robin
son and about the part which he and
Mr.. T1lden have taken in State and city
politics for the last year or two; charges
the Governor with signing bills injurious
to the citys interests to please his and Mr..
Tilden's workers, and with vetoing care
fully prepared measures for the same rea-
son, to the loss by the city of several
millions of dollars. He also accuses the
Governor of removing democrats Oh false
charges and substituting republicans in
their places, and of generally using his
power to break down anti-Tilden men and
to place Tilden men in positions where
they could WELD large influence.


The report of the conversation reaches us
at so late an hour that we cannot to-day
discuss it further, except to say that Mr..
Kelly is evidently in earnest.
Year: 1879

Attorney General Schoonmaker, in reply
an Albany banker. gives very clear and
conclusive opinion on the intent and effect
of the new law making the legal rate of in
terest in this State six per cent. The banker
complains of the injury the law will
work on the State banks if its pro-
visions are held to apply to them, and
argues that, as by special act the State
banks are placed on an equality with the
national banks and allowed to charge seven
per cent interest on loans and discounts,
they are taken out Of the reach of the new
law. The Attorney General admits that this
would be the case, provided that the new
law simply amended the Revised Statutes
by changing the legal rate of interest
from seven to six per cent. Special
acts allowing banks or loan commissions
to charge seven per cent would still remain
in force as granting specified privileges.
But the new law proceeds in another section
to repeal all acts inconsistent with it's pro-
visions. This repeal could not apply to
the provision of the Revised Statutes fixing
the rate of interest at seven per cent,
because that is only changed or amended as
regards the rate of interest and is not
repealed at all. The repeating clause must
therefore be held to sweep away all special
provisions of law allowing higher rate of
interest than six per cent. In the case of
the State banks they are still left on an
equality with the national banks, since by
the law of Congress the latter banks can
only charge the rate of interest established
by law in the States in which they are To-
Gated. If the new law left the State banks ut
liberty still to charge seven per cent inter-
est, instead of being on an equality with the
national banks they would possess an ad-
vantage over those institutions, as the lat
ter will be limited to the six per cent rate
of interest established by the State law.


The new law does not take effect until
January 1, 1880, and any contracts made
before that date at the present legal rate of
seven per cent will not be affected by its
provisions. There is n clause in tAe law
which says that it shall not affect contracts
made prior to its passage" but it could
not impair such contracts any way, and
what is meant by its passage is clearly
the time it becomes operative as law;
that is to say, the first day of January
next. 1t is absurd to suppose that con-
tract cannot be made between the actual
passage of the law and the date it takes
effect at the present legal rate Of interest,
seven per cent. 1t was clearly the nten-
ton of the Legislature, however, to limit
the rate of interest after that date
to six per cent by individuals, by
corporations-inc banks, both
State AID national-and by public
officers charged with the loaning
of money. The Attorney General advances
the opinion that the usury laws will re-
main in force and their penalties will APP
ply to any transactions in which more than
six per cent interest may be exacted after
this year, just as they now apply to the
seven per cent rate. This is no doubt cor.
rect, but it is to be regretted that the old
usury laws are still to remain on the stat
ute books.
Year: 1879

and are brought up on farms. Not more
than five per cent of the Albany, Troy and
Cohoes boys were accepted, against an
average of fifty per cent from the other
river towns.


1t was also observable that color blind
ness prevailed to great extent among the
applicants from up the river. This is a
fatal defect in the navy, on account OF the
necessity of sailors being able to distin-
guish the different colors of the signal
lamps carried by vessels at sea in the
night time. 1t is believed that sew
eral collisions which have occurred at
sea have been occasioned by color
blindness in the pilot or lookout
These facts vindicate the soundness of
Horace Greeley's advice to people to ''go
West" and raise their children on a iarm.
But then the Western lands may not be
quite as healthful and invigorating as
those of the beautiful river counties that lie
along the line of the Hudson.
Year: 1879

City politicians were excited yesterday
over rumors OF a deficiency" in the equip
ment account of the Police Department
under the control of Mr.. Wheeler, treas
urer of the Board. The particulars will be
found elsewhere. The sum whicn can
not be found amounts to six thousand
dollars, and Commissioner Wheeler says
that owing to the condition of his own
affairs-he is bankrupt-he has not been
able to examine carefully the accounts of
the Police Board for several years, and that
he cannot tell what their exact condition is,
but that he will make good the loss, if there
be one. The Mayor is looking into the
matter. He ought also to look into Com
missioner Wheeler.
Year: 1879

Elsewhere we give an excellent letter
from our correspondent in Worcester. Eng
land, which deals with some important
phases of the great problems Of British and
American competition in the markets of
the world and in the markets of Great
Britain. Our correspondent touches the
leading points of these problems with
knowledge, and shows how they COM
plicate all the difficulties that beset the
political economists who are endeavor-
ing to unite for cousin John Bull
the hard knots that the high price of the
necessities of life and the reduction Of
wages have made in all his cities. Neither
meat nor bread need be dear in England,
of course; but Englishmen will have it so,
and Englishmen will also be discontented
over it, The Englishmen who make food
dear and the Englishmen who complain
that it is dear are not the same Eng
lishmen, however. The course taken
in England with regard to the meat
we could supply illustrates the work.
ing of this queer case. Our Western
plains could supply cattle to feed the
whole world, and if the trade were en-
couraged it could supply England SO
cheaply that every man in the island might
become once again an actual beef-eater.
But what then would become of the British
farmer? He could not sell his cattle against
that competition. He could not pay his
rent therefore, and the British landowner
would be in trouble. Therefore that CON-
petition is stopped by the pretence of the
need of protecting British cattle from i'm
ported disease and an important arti-
Gle of food is made dear. At the Same
time wages are made low, for the COM
petition Of American manufactured goods
closes up many British shops and forces
those that keep going to sell at prices un-
heard of in their history before. All this Is
a story that Americans ought to understand
clearly, and we commend to our readers
careful perusal of the letter referred to.
Year: 1879

No deaths from yellow fever during the
past twenty-tour hours is the welcome re-
port which comes from Memphis, modified
by statement sent late last evening that
one of the victims to the dread disease
had succumbed., That the death rate
should be small is natural, for there
are but few to die. Memphis has now, as
the National Board OF Health reports, a
population of sixteen thousand persons
only, of whom two-thirds are colored
people. Ten thousand out of the whole
number have actually had the yellow fever /;
likely to take the fever than whites it is
probable that the six thousand persons
there who have not had the fever are in
great degree persons of African race.
There are, perhaps, not more than
thousand or fifteen hundred white persons
in the place who have not had the fever.
Consequently it is impossible for the fever
to sweep down this year such throngs as
fell victims 70 it before, because the people
are not within its reach. There is reason
to congratulate the country upon this ad-
vantage but there are facts in the news
which show that the general ''disestablish-
ment" of society and business thus brought
about will not be neglected by the lawless.
1t will be fortunate if the precautions taken
by the authorities prevent a revel of plum
der and murder in the plague ridden city
and keep the hand OF the incendiary idle.
Year: 1879

THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
now in session, are moving in the right direction
when they consider the evils of the present COM
mon school system. We want teachers who
will pay more attention to practical knowledge
than to picturesque exhibitions and circus-like
discipline. Ask some of the little folks how
thcy like IT,
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsIERDAY.-The market
closed lower prices for the general stock list
Money was easy throughout and exchanges
were dull and steady. Government bonds were
in more active demand and stronger.
Year: 1879

As A SPECULATION the Philadelphia Centen-
nial Exhibition was not success. The parties
who lost money will ask Congress to reimburse
them in the sum Of a million and half dollars.
which they claim to have subscribed as loan
by the general government. The government can
afford to be generous for there were millions in
itv
Year: 1879

CENTRAL PARK appears to have become a
choice spot for suicides, but it is somewhat
remarkable that life should be so publicly taken
rs that of yesterday without interference.
Where were the pOlicel
Year: 1879

TIE THREE KNOT BREEZE that afilicts our
yachtsmen now on their annual cruise, while
not conducive to enthusiasm need not be dis
heartening. Let them watch the HERALD's
weather prophet and be patient.
Year: 1879

SO MAD lie BECAME BLINp.-"Blind
with rage" meant something in a Paris
workshop one afternoon three weeks ago
An oyerseer of the work, finding that one
of the men had not finished piece oi
work which was urgently required, fell
into such a state Of fury as 10 strike him
in the face. Almost in the very act OF
striking, however, he staggered back,
shouting for aid and complaining that he
could not see. The workmen CANT
around him with offers Of assistance, but
nothing could be done. 1t was certain
that he had suddenly lost the use Of both
bis eyes. Medical evidence showed :nat
some Of the bloodyessels behind the eye
had burst, and that the blood had flooded
the interior cav tiles Of the eye-balls.
Year: 1879

DID CUSTER KILL HIMSELF. AN In.
dian account of the death of Custer will
not / think, prove uninteresting. The
Indians say that, after the general STAN
pede, Custer tried to rally his men around
him. He waved his pistol in the air, and
shot i: off twice TO attract his men. Two
or three gathered around HIM, but as the
Indians still continued to advance, one OF
the soldiers tried to run away. Custer
fired at him and killed him, and then
seeing the case quite hopeless, the In
dians gathered around from all parts
turned the revolver on himself, preferring
to die by his own hand. The Indians say
that they think this person was Custer
as he was a chief but they are not GER
tain Of the fact. Rain in the; face took q
a soldier prisoner. but he was not allowed
to live long, as he was killed at dance
that followed the fight. The Indians here
all agree on one thing-that the number
of Indians killed in the fight was SO
they give their names. Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
Year: 1879

SEVERAL articles and letters have been


printed in the German papers of late
lauding the efficacy Of the sting of the
common bee as a cure for gout. Here is


one of the latest ofthese communications,
which appeared only few days ago in


the augsburg EVening Gazette: II was
lying in bed" says the writer, suffering
from heavy attack of gout, accompanied
with violent pains in my left foot, when
| CHANGED to read in newspaper an arti,
Gle describing how gout NAV he cured by
the sting of bees. at once determined TO
try the remedy, and soon contrived a
small box by means of which captured
bee could be applied TO the afflicted part.
| then let my foot be stung by three bees
in succession, each bee leaving his sting
behind in my flesh. After few minutes
these stings were extracted /; and when
the pain caused by them had subsided |
found that the gouty pain had also left
me. On the same day left my bed, and
on the morrow WAS able to walk about.
For some little time my foot was slightly
inflamed and experienced some burning
sensation but in -four or five days this
left me, and l was completely recovered" !"
Year: 1879




ORIGIN OF THE House of RoTHCH1LDs
1t had very humble origin, and it has
attained its present greatness in sur
prisingly short period of time. There is
no need to go back tn the period when the
grandfather of the late Baron stood on
the pavement by the Royal Exchange in
London, little tray Of precious stones
before him. A day came when this en-
terprisng Terson, like some of his rela-
tives in other cities of Europe, had at
tanned the position of money scrivener,
and in quite humble way, had to do
with the mysteries OF foreign exchange.
He lived in one of the by.streets frequent
ed by his race in the city of London, and
to his house there came one night mes-
senger who stated that the Prime Minis
ter of England and the Chancellor of the
Excheque; would be glad of an interview
with its owner. This was some sixty years
ago. when the Jews were still persecu>
ted people in the country, and when the
liberties, even of Euglishmen. were not
held of much account by our rulers. Mr..
Rothchild could only imagine, therefore,
that, at their wits end for money, the
authorities had sent for him, with the
idea Of despoiing him cf his wealth. In
this emergency he called his family to-
gether, this time embracing not merely
his wife and children, but his relatives
and, having denuded hin, self of every
thing he possessed in favor of those about
him, he gave them his blessing, and sor-
rowfully set out in his shabbiest attire for
the Prime Minister and the Chancellor OF
the Exchequcr, he was immensely re-
lieved to discover that all they wanted OF
him was to ascertai in whether he could
help them to make continental remittanees
to large amount without the risk of tor
warding specie. The Peninsula war was
in progress, we had to find means not
only for our own troops but also for
everybody elese's, and Napoleon's gener-
ais had an ugly way of falling upon our
treasure conveys and confscating their
money chests. Mr.. Rothschld thought
with the assistance of his relatives abroad
he could help the English government in
their d difficulty, and in effect he did help
them SO effectively that Napoleon was
literally furious to find that the English
gold" of which he was, not without
reason, so much in dread, was circulating
all over the continent in a most mysteri
Gus and intangible manner. This was
the origin Of the great house of Roths>
child in its character as an international
government financial agency. liverpool
Mercury.
Year: 1879

81 HAVEN'T been in these here parts" :"
observed grizzly old gentleman Mt our
shoulder in car l2l, for nigh on TO TWEEN
ty year till now, and | love to set my
eyes on the face of an old friend. IL does
me good to see human faces, for believe
there's something good behind 'em. I'm
forty miner. l remember the time
when l was five thousand miles from
home, straight as the crow flies, without
red cent. was hungry, thirsty, tired /,
miserable and moneyless. Hello, said
voice Hello back, said I, and then
young fellow came down the land and
he said, odd boss, how are you p Hear
ty' said /, and dead broke Then the
young fellow plunged his hand into his
hundred dollars in bright gold. Help
YOURSELF he said and turned his head
away. l knew you when | saw you
only dusty speck on the road. You
gave me Il drink and got me doctor
when | WAS threatened with the tremens,
and there is nothing in the world too
good for you.' : | love to live my life
over,' continued the old Californian, be
cause / see the noble in human nature all
along the line. Let 'em say what they
please, there is such thing as principle
among men, and there are lots Of us that
try to live up to it," AS The car stopped
on a switch, he stepped of and stretched
himself under an elm IN numerous daisy
field beaming upon the world at large
approvingly over his gold bowed specta-
cles.-PfOVidence Journal.