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Year: 1879

A new excise bill was introduced in the
Assembly yesterday by Mr.. Ogden which
has some novel features. 1t recognizes the
right of ''local option" in the sale of liquor.
Where prohibition has not been voted it
provides that the number of licenses to bc
issued in city shall DO determined at the
commencement of the year by the Board of
Excise, but shall in no instance exceed one
for each five hundred Of population. Thus
New York, with one million and quarter
OF population, would be entitled to two
thousand i've hundred Licenses in all. The
licenses are to be sold by auction one by
one to the highest bidder whose character
isapproved by the Commissioners. The limi-
tation OF the number Of licenses to be issued
would be likely to have the effect of making
the holders OF licenses more anxious not to
forfeit them by misconduct or violations of
the law. The privilege would, of course, be
more valuable with this restriction, espe-
cially as the proportion of one license for
five hundred of population is to be carried
out in each ward and not spread over the
city at large. Nevertheless, the fewer ex-
periments made in an excise law and the
simpler its provisions the better. A fair
license fee, strict scrutiny Of the character
OF the applicant and strong police super
vision are the most desirable requirements,
and it is to be hoped that a law embodying
them will be passed this session.
Year: 1879

Theatre managers have lately brought
back to US an old acquaintance that has
been SO long absent from our stage rs
almost to need special introduction. We
allude to the farce, which in two or three
houses is now acceptably prefacing the
principal plays of the evening The merits
of the farce are numerous and freely con-
ceded. It's shortness alone generally in
sures it's goodness (; it is amusing. and the
public seldom tires of amusement it
enables q large minority of the audience,
which is always late, to take in the whole
OF the principal play, and it OBJ
viates the disagreeable fault, amount
ing in some cases almost to fraud,
of short plays being extended through
a long evening by tedious "waits. "
made moro uncomfortable by very poor
music from an orchestra which naturally
saves itself as much as possible when forced
to play against time. Even mt the end of
an evening the farce has its uses; there are
great plays which end with exceeding SOM
broness and interesting plays which leave a
bad taste in the mouth; at the end of either
of these good free may do excellent SER
vice. 1t is possible. too, that the revival of
the farce may be beneficial to that desirable
but still feeble infant, the American drama
Nearly all the prominent European dram
atists began their careers by essaying the
farce and other short works, gaining conf
dence and constructive ability before they
attempted the conventional five-act play
For the sake of every one interested in the
theatre, managers not excepted. let the
farce be heartily welcomed and persuaded
TO remain with us.
Year: 1879

Providence the Best street Cleaner.


Yesterdays rain has done something
toward cleaning tho streets and getting rid
OF the ice and snow which have been al
lowed to remain on all except few favored
thoroughfares for the past three or four
weeks. The ecceutricities of the Street
Cleaning Bureau made what would ordina-
rily have been o most unpleasant day very
welcome one. New York could we'll afford
to carry an umbrella for twelve hours cheer
fully with the prospective benefit of clean
streets, when it is compelled to carry the
yearly load of seven hundred thousand
dollars tax without any chance of getting
clean streets at oil. Should we now be
favored with regular pelting storm for
three or four hours to finish up the
work our citizens might walk the streets
with something like comfort. When the
sun again shines forth we may expect to
see troop of sweepers appear on the pub
lie thoroughfares in grand parade, followed
by report from the superintendent calling
attention to the great labor performed by
his bureau. The full monthly instalment
of the street cleaning appropriation will
then be drawn and-expended. Providence
is, after oil, our best street cleaner, and for
all the good the Street Cleaning bureau does
we might as we'll trust to Providence and
save our ready money.
Year: 1879

Defeat or the Extra Session scheme.
1t now turns out that the movement for
an extra session OF Congress was cunning
device Of the lobby and the otfice-seekers,
who joined forces to keep the national
legislature in session for the advancement
OF their own personal interests. These in
dustrious patriots were, of course shrewd
enough TO keep under cover until their OBJ
jects had been partially gained in inducing
the majority in the House to decide upon
q policy of obstruction, so as to- make
an extra session inevitable; but it will
be seen from our special dispatches from
the capital this morning that the more saga
cious democratic leaders in both branches
have discovered the game ii was attempted
feat it, They have determined not to be
bound by the command of the caucus to
secure repeal of the federal election and
the test oath laws or force an extra session
by defeating one Of the principal appropri-
alton bills. This conclusion is wise, and
it is to be hoped they will be able to carry
their party associates with them. No one
wants an extra session, except the hungry
applicants for Office and the fam
ished following of the lobby, whose
raids upon the Treasury have thus far
been defeated. However obnoxious the
laws in question may be no possible harm
can be done by allowing them to remain on
the statute books few months longer when
they can be blotted out without the least
trouble, if, indeed, it should be deemed
advisable to do So In the present condi-
ton of business, while the country is be-
ginning to enter upon a renewed prosper
ity, an extra session, with all its possibilities
for mischief, would be almost calamity,
and it is to be hoped the leaders who are
charged with the control of the democratic
party will use every effort to avert it. A
lobby is bad lender for party.
Year: 1879

Several months ago the HERALD published
some startling letters upon an alleged scan-
dal in Tazewell county. Tenn, the parties
to the crime being, as was reported,
negro politician and the beautiful wife of a
prominent white public official. 1t was
said that the offending man had been kid
mapped by the injured husband and some
friends, carried to Kentucky and put to
death by most malignant tortures; that the
party of avengers had then fed to escape
justice; that a large reward had been offered
by the Governor of Tennessee for their APP
prehension; that rival sherffs, with their
posses, were pursuing the men; that the
whole public were taking sides in the case,
and that between lawlessness and terror
the neighborhood was almost in state
OF anarchy. To-day we publish statements
from the lips of the alleged injured husband
and of the lady herself which will add
greatly to the public interest in the case.
From these will be learned, among other
things, that the husband has voluntarily
returned to his home and within reach Of
the local officers of the law that he pro-
ROoCo
serts that the alleged offender was not only
not tortured to death, but escaped and is
still alive If this statement is substanti-
ated by the appearance Of the negro in
court when he is called for, or even if
it can be proved that he is alive, the
aspect of the case will undergo some very
important changes. Aside from these
statements, seeming to correct existing i'm.
pressions Of the affair, our Tazewell letter
contains much information upon the meth
DDS by which an alleged crafty seducer
tormented faithful but miserable wife
nearly to deaths door and into condition
of apparent moral responsibility. Taking
all its features into consideration this
Tazewell case is certainly one OF the most
remarkable on record.
Year: 1879

Chief Justice Daily ON Map Making.


The learned President of the New York
Geographical Society, not content with dis
charging the onerous duties of his high
judicial position, fills his spare hours with
investigations of the highest interest to
science, and generously gives the results to
the public in lectures, such as large
audience had the pleasure of listening to
last night at Chickering Hall. The
subject Of Judge Daly's address is
an important one, and involves in the
preparation for its discussion an amount
of patient study which few men care
to expend en- q matter of public interest.
The history of cartography is one of geo.
graphical progress from the earliest times
to those Of the Immediate past. In it we
trace the dawning of the light of geographi-
cal knowledge to the noontide Of its radi-
ance for, with few exceptions, the geog-
raphy of our world is to-day complete in oil
it's parts, and q few years of exploration
will make us familiar with every detail Of
the surface of the globe. Beginning at the
birth of geographical science Judge DAILY
traces its development by stages marked by
unmistakable lines of advancement.


The Chaldeans, Egyptians, PhUnicians,
Greeks, Romans and Arabs each in turn
contributed to draw it from the obscurity
of crude speculation to the light Of demon
strated certainty. The astronomers and
mathematicians Of ancient times, whose
works have won for them imperishable
fame, labored in the cause Of geographical
science with ON assiduity truly wonderful,
considering the opportunities that pre-
sented themselves for investigation. The
studies of Anaximander. Parmenides, Era
tosthenes and their successors inspired the
enterprise of Marco Polo and Columbus
and the host of bold Davigators whose
courage demonstrated what the genius Of
earlier days had conceived. The art
of map making was evidently known
to the Chinese, the Chaldeans and other Old
World peoples from an early date. That it
was known to the Aztecs is shown by their
curious Charts now preserved in museums.
Thus we may establish q connection be-
tween the intelligence of the past and pres
ent, and ask ourselves if many of our So
called inventions are nothing moro than the
rediscovery of long lost laws of mechanics,
art and science? We present to our
readers to-day synopsis of Judge Daly's
able lecture on the "History of Cartogra-
phy," feeling assured that it will deeply in
terest every intelligent person who studies it.
Year: 1879

THE WEATnER.-As predicted in Mondays
HERALD. q storm Of much energy was organ
lied within the depression advancing over the
central valley and lake districts, aud during
yesterday evening it reached the Middle Allan
tic States, where it attended by very heavy
rains and high winds. The pressure is below
the mean in all the districts east of the Missis
spp River and from the Eastern Gulf to the
British Possessions. The barometer rose very
rapidly in the northwestern districts after the
storm centre had passed into the lower lake re-
gion. 1t is still high over the ocean off the
Middle Atlantic and New England coasts,
but is falling steadily as tho disturb
ance moves eastward. Rain has fallen
throughout the country, except in the northern
lake district where the low temperature has
caused the precipitation to take the form of
snow. The heaviest rain falls were experienced
in the lower lake region. The winds have been
from brisk TO high in the Middle Atlantic States,
the lake and central valley districts; they have
also increased considerably in the Rocky Noun
tain regions aud have been generally fresh
elsewhere. With the exception Of sharp fall
In the Northwest the temperature rose consider
ably during yesterday over the United States.
A very severe snow storm is reported in

Wisconsin. The snow is stated to have fallen
to tho depth of nearly two feet but it has not
caused any obstruction TO travel on the rail-
roads. A great deal of damage has been dsnc
by an ice gorge in the Missouri River near Glas-
gov. One span of a railroad bridge, just COM
pleted, has been carried away, causing "a loss of
many thousands of dollars. The weather ON
the Atlantic coast north of Cape Hattcras will
DO very stormy during the next few
days. The winds, however. will be off
shore except in the vicinity of Nova
Scotia, where they will blow from the
southeast during the early part of today, vcer-
ing, toward night, to the southwest and west.
The barometer is very low over the British
Islands, and indications point to the approach
of a disturbance. Tho weather in New York
and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy,
with rain, followed by lower temperature and
possibly light snow. Tomorrow will DC colder
aud partly cloudy, clearing towaiu Aiaht.
Year: 1879

that the Speaker, whose subservient parti-
sanship has been manifested whenever the
question of apportionment has been under
discussion, may again endeavor to prevent
tho passage Of just law. But there is good
reason to hope that all such efforts will be
defeated by combination of the more fair
minded republican with tho democratic
representatives
Year: 1879

IP TIE REPORTED Activity of the health
authorities in regard to the diseased cattle and
swill milk dealers were not merely u repetition
of the old story over again the public might ell
tcrtain the hope that the pestilcntial dens in
Blssville were at last about to be reformed or
abolished. But to expect any such result is
hoping against hope.
Year: 1879

TIE TESTIMONY in the Smith murder trial
yesterday developed the fact that the married
life of the murdered officer and his wife was not
Of the happiest character. 1t was also testified
by one of the physicians that he perceived the
smell of chloroform when he visited the house
Immediately after the murder.
Year: 1879

TIE RENO INQUIRY has at last come to an end
so far as the taking of testimony is concerned.
The last open session was held yesterday, and
the Board is now deliberating upon its report,
which will be forwarded to the Secretary OF
War
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock market
was less active. but prices were generally
higher. Government bonds were quiet, States
higher and railroads strong Money on call
lent at u per cent and closed at u 21s per
cent
Year: 1879

given at least two mo ontiis In which to
settle her tax indsbtness 10 the State land
beside, the teu per cent. charges for cvl-
lection will be thrown off. The execu-
ton is In the hands Of the Sheriff Of the
who has been instructed by A.
sistaut Attorney General Gilbert "to
give the city Of Altoona as much time to
make payments Of the claim of the Com
monwealth q his duty will permit
Steps will now be taken 80 that no fur
thor indulgence from the State will be
asked.
Year: 1879

Those articles copied by the stalwart organs
from radical journals in other States giving ad-
vice to Democrats and Greenbackers in Maine
have somehow very familiar look. Can 1t be
that the eminent statesman at Augusta IS at
his old device, and that they are simply Blaine
talking through other mouths! Ihat Is the
general opinion-Argus.


Does the Argus include articles from the
Boston Herald, Philadelphia Times and
Brooklyn Eagle?


The Herald says: "The Maine Demo-
Gratis will make serious blunder, as mat
ter of party policy, if they undertake to re-
verse the result of the late election by the
contingent process. Politicians are slow to
learn the fact that from all party acts there
is an appeal to the people Ii the Republi-
cans were guilty of bribery in the election,
it can be shown in the Legislature and the
courts, and the effect will appear next year.
But two wrongs will not make right, and
the Democrats will lose by an attempt at
usurpaton We know that the best Demo-
Gratis in this State deprecate any question
able exercise of power by their friends OF
Maine. 1t makes little difference which
party has. the Maine State government this
year, but next year comes the Presidential
election, and the effect of wrong act would
be felt throughout the country. The Re-
publicans have set some very bad examples,
but they have never made anything by try
ing to defeat the will Of the people"


The independent Democratic Times says
t:If the fraud shall be consummated in Maine
it must disgrace Governor Garcelon and his
party in the State beyond the hope OF resur-
rection, and it must dishonor Democracy
throughout the whole country. Every hon
est citizen must condemn it; every indepen-
dent journal must denounce it; every DEM
ocratic organ that cherishes self-respcct
must refuse to sanction it, and the Republi-
can organs will be compelled to shrek them
selves hoarse in the denunciation of what
they have been habitually commencing in
the South"


The Democratic Eagle says:-"Of course
the Eagle believes that what is threat ned
to be done by the Democrats of Maine
is almost without excuse and is who'll
" without justification. The Republican
leaders, under Blaine, have collected
in large numbers at the State capital, and
they asser! in the most vigorous language
that they will not submit to the threatened
wrong. We trust sincerely that the Repub-
licans will keep their word, and that they
will not submit, come what may. Ii the
Democrats have proof of bribery they ought
TO he able TO punish those engaged in it
through the courts, but the ballots as cast
must be counted. If the Republicans have
engaged in the wholesale bribery of voters
this wear, and if this can be made plain to
the voters of Maine, majority will doubt
less join next year in furnishing the Republl-
can party by voting against its candidates.
1t is not necessary to argue that an election
should not be set aside on the frivolous pre-
text that notice was not given of what was
known to everybody" Are these articles
all inspired by Mr.. Blaine9
Year: 1879

Waterloo Observer: To swear off smoking
and then be presented with twenty-five cent
cigar is one of those dreadful things which will
occasionally happen. People talk of suffering,
but they have no ilea of the meaning of the
word until they are brought to this experience.
Year: 1879

TO-DAY those men of Jacksonian firm
ness. the members of the Maine Executive
Council, will sit down to turkey with the
comforting consciousness that they have re-
sisted a great temptation-after looking the
thing over and finding it wasn't safe to in
Year: 1879

which had been cut and loosened by the skates But
batters and fcders did their level best and once IN
while accomplished credtable oit ot WORK. ae-
spite the disadvantages against which they had to
contend. The mines called after their iespecNe
captains-NIessrs Barnl aud Campbell Ihey ma
already played two games OF ball on the lake. a poh
or which the players under Barnils leadership de-
ieated their opponents. and they were cohhdeht oi


av a Triumph yesterday uus nrsa adt y; he, th
inning ended


When the HERALD reporter arrived on the scene the


man az the bat was lying face downwards ana at iuii
length, apparently trying to learn the thickness OF
M ne & nee oy means OF his sight his eyes being within
point. he rose with ali possible despatch and again
addressed himself to the task of getting ball past
the short stop; but his efforts futile, for the
wnd SO nsuected the of the ball after it LETT
the pitchers hand that foul" was the result, and
the batter was caught out. His chagrin miti-
gated by the spectacle of catcher sitting on par
ticularly hard bit of ice, with foretinger out of
joint. At the home base were two narrow Sits or
hoiows Tor the patter to secure the runners OF his
skates i'll when about to strike; but even
this foothold sometimes proved insufficient and
unexpected and inartistic pirouette or
ing of the bat. 1t seldom that the ball reached
"A fielder the fly. but if it struck on the ice gust
of wind would oorry it away with lightning like
rapidity. one stalwart batter managed to get in a
blow that sent tho yarn further than
it had befora been knocked blown but in his eager
haste to make home .run" he went down on his
second stroke. and had scarcely regained his feet
before the ball had passed through the hands of the
right fielder and ii rst baseman and about to leave
those of the pitcher for the bat. Midway between
the home and first bases lay wide sheet of snow,
which it was impossible to skate. so that the
player had to break into desperate run The elders
had little to do and seemed in imminent danger Of
being transformed into pillars Of e, and doubtless
would have suffered some serious injury had not the
innings been short The greatest difficulty was found
to be in starting rapidly and in coming to sudden
stop, and few players made the rounds of the bases
without scrapng more intimate acquaintance with
the ice than their skates afforded them. To hold
to the ball easy task under the most favorable
circumstances, and some few Of the players aggra-
nv Withpnt


THE "CAMPBELLs" WIN.


After an hours exposure it decided to bring
the game to an end. Only four innings played.
The score then stood in favor of the Campbells who
had made eleven runs to the eight Of their former
vanquishers.


There will be another game tomorrow if the
weather permits.
Year: 1879

another track. One rail snapped in two. and
the forward part turned over. The locomotive was
thrown OF and down an embankmen' or nine tcef.
and was badly wrecked As the train was to have
made the return trip to New York travel was mpos-
sible for several hours and those whose business
compelled them to be in New York had TO journey py
stage to Flushing.


on Friday night the train which left Hampstead
for Hunters Point at nine o'clock, and which was to
have returned to Hampstead at quarter past twelve
was thrown from the track at the Garden
city junction by the snow, which had
trifted and frozen. The locomotive and three
cars went off so badly that it was not until seven
O'Clock yesterday morning that they were righted
and the road opened travel. The men employed ut
the spot suffered terribly throughout the might.
many having their feet and hands badly frozen:
Trains were blockaded on the Glen Cove branch, ana
the road FROM Rockaway to the beach is still ini-
passabe.
Year: 1879

Seriously. when one Games calmly to
con over the conversation that has taken
place between you and most of the men
you have SIpened to meet for the last
few months {and, worst of all, are likely
to 90 on meeting for the next few
months, and perhaps, who knows for
years) why the conclusion one comes to
is that men are stupid, that they either
won't exert to talk intelligently when
they ueet an intelligent girl, or that
they have come some time ago to the
happy conclusion that all girls are next
door to idiots. Society must surely be a
shocking bore to those poor men; and if
we may judge from the worn and weary
expression generally to be seen on the
countenance of man who goes out so
much, it is bore to him. | grant that
some girls are stupid and very uninter-
esting; but my complaint is, that when
girls are nice, intelligent, and full of
oleverness, men are so lazy, or so blind,
or so stupid, that they will not behave
to them like beings endowed with the
ordinary amount of brains We girls
are always being asked why we don't do
as our incestors did before-viz, marry
the first man that asks us; we say the
world has advanced, and we have ad-
vanced, and we could not live with o
husband with whom we have no compan-
ionship, and then we 60 on to think of
the men we have met, and that we may
be said to know, and the reflection only
makes us more determined to wait till
we are old and gray, rather than link
ourselves to man who is no companion
to us, and will never appreciate any Of
the qualities that make us dear to q
large circle of friends who have taken
the trouble to talk to us, and so to know
us. | am not clever girl nor a blue
stocking, nor anything approaching it.,
but sonly girl who has heart and q
mind, and who is very anxious that the
other sex, if they do possess such quail
ties, would not endeavor to concel them,
and would try to find out the converse
tional powers of the girls they meet in
society. There is more real pleasure in
conversation than in anything, and even
though young men and girls may not be
the least inclined to a serious considera-
ton as to whether they can ever be com
panionable for life, surely they may talk
to each other.