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Year: 1879




[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


wu.KEsBAnRE. Pa, July Q, 1879.
This evening q number Of young boys engaged in
sports near the Conyngham shaft. After the sth-
etic the afternoon they resolved to take
bath in pond close by. large party Of the par
ticipants in the games and spectators repaired to
the pond and witnessed the disportng Of the
bathers. Among the company in the water
little fellow named Charles Gardner nine years old,
who surprised the admiring throng with his many
aquatic feats Finally he made an effort to please the
enthusiasts by dive, but when the little fellow
failed to come to the surface William, older
brother, aged twelve. standing upon the bank wit
Messing the plunged in to rescue his brother.
The younger boy rose to the rurfacc once and sank
Immediately. The older brother. weighted down
with his wearing apparel and being an Indifferent
swimmer, went down to rise again.
Both boys sank within the presence OF many good
swimmers cowardly to lend assistance. The
fortunate circumstance has called forth a universal
sentiment of sympathy. The father is the pro-
prietor of the well known Gardner's Hotel in this
CITY.
Year: 1879

From the New York Evening Post. July 81


She is not bound pleasure cruise or on .
trading trip. Utilitarians may ask whats the
use?' Without going again over the ground OF the
familiar controversy it is enough to say that. the
utitarians to the contrary notwithstanding. expe-
ditons of this kind will be repeated until the
mote North has surrendered its last secret 1t not
unreasonable to hope that the adventure of the
Jeanette will be rewarded with decisive results.
She goes better equipped her work. it is be-
lfeved. than any vessel that has gone before.
She takes with her men whose intelligence and skill
are backed by courage and faith.
Year: 1879

done on the eastsrn side Of the western continent.
and Nordenskjold having connected the European
and Asiatlc routes by his voyage along the entire
coast of Siberia, the one new thing which remains
TO be done present is to through Behring Strait
up to about IS degrees. 800 miles from the Pole


The point yet reached is 41O miles from that
long sought point, and il the Jeanette returns


safely from spot nearer the Pole, say 100 miles
she will add immensely to the probability OF
reaching the Pole itself in the future Whatever she
does have said before. she cannot fail to ad.
science to extend geographical knowledge and
to benefit mankind We therefore wish her and
those who active in her aid all possible success
Year: 1879

Ponderous David Davis has thrown his
whole weight on the Democratic side. In
a note addressed to the Democratic men,
bers of the Illinois Legislature. he says:
1T is hardly necessary for me to say that
| am in favor of perfect freedom of cleo
tions from the interference or the presence
of any part of the Army at the polls. be-
cause that opinion was emphatically ex-
pressed Oh the floor of the Senate. This
is government oflegal authority. found
ed Oh the Constitution and the laws made
in pursuance thereof. One of the griev-
ances of which our forefathers complain
ed was that the King had quartered
troops on them. and sought by military
power to coerce them into submission.
1t is little less than public scandal after
century of national existence that any
party could venture to ask the people
forbidden in England and wherever else
the parliamentary principle is respected
Which is as remarkable for its false state
ment of the actual issues, as it is for its rid
iculous comparison between the quarter
ing of troops" on English subjects, and
the protection of the polls i'll this country
from the assaults of armed rutiians. Even
the bulk of this Democratic neophyte will
not prevent his sinking into the mire. if
he keenS on prOyinr his Democracy by
talking such nonsese.
Year: 1879

troll of their party and show the country
that they can make better use of it for
the country's good than the Northern and
semi Northern demagogues and blather-
sixties who have evoked SO huge and uni
versal disgust by their mismanage
ment.''


This advice is plain, but ii is friendly
and sensible. The people are tired of the
disturbances to a generally reviving con-
tidence and activity that have been made
by Il few reckless Democratic leaders, and
the South has an especial interest in dis
pelling the apprehensionS and distrust
that have been excited by the wild talk of
some of her leaders, The special session
has damaged the South far more than as
though the elements had combined to de-
stroy her growing crops. 1t has created
mistrust among the Northern capitalists
who could have been induced to develop
the magnificent natural resources of a re-
gion that has almost been as much cursed
by Bourbon politicians as it was by the raw
aces of war
Year: 1879

THE majority in Congress succeeded in
arousing the apprehensiols and indigna-
ton Of all loyal and intelligent men, dur
ing the very first week of the special ses-
sion. In fact the more enlightened pub
lie sentiment of the country was arrayed
against the conduct of the Democratic
House which rendered special session
necessary. Every party that has been
responsible for such session has suffer-
ed by the holding of one. In the present
case the blunder of the Democrats was
aggravated by the fact that they reject
ed the fair compromise offered by Gar
field and Foster, and, from the opening
or the present session to to-day, they have
shown themselves to be more different
of asses than Mark Twain was in the
greenest period ofhis experience as a cub
pilot" They have threatened and blus-
tered and backed down and again threat
enetl, until it is difficult to see how two
Democratic Congressman can talk over
the situation without laughing at, or be-
wailing. the series of absurdities they
have helped to perpetrate.
Year: 1879

IN 1862 when President Lincoln was
visited by a delegation of colored men
who called to urged emancipation, he
sad = it may be necessary to free the
slaves IN order to save the Union Ifit is.
it will be done: but, although the war
may free you, you will enjoy neither free
dom nor peace among your old masters.
Your only hope will be in colonization.
The education of the Southern people has
been such that the master and slave will
never be able to live in peace and har-
mony. except As such. You must emf
CRATE. you must coloniZe; it is your only
hope for freedom. peace and happiness.
What a farseeing man he was!
Year: 1879

IN the vote on the final passage of the
Warner Silver bill in the House every
New England member opposed the meas
IRE, and the Boston TrareNer exclaims:
wv hat New England is solid on to-day.
the whole North will be solid on to-mor-
rOW''
Year: 1879

HE author and tinisher of the shotgun
policy III Mississippi has just been made
fhief-,Justice of that State This is a
pretty fair indication of the sort of Justice
which will he dispensed in future in the
commonwealth where Chisolm was muir
dcrcd.
Year: 1879

lT is to the credit Of the people of Ohio
that they take hold Of politics with such
tremendous energy and earnestness. 1t
has been said that there is more politics
to the square inch in Ohio than there is
to the square mile. elsewhere The
Buckeyes ought to be proud of the
compliment that is concealed in this cpl
gram. The greatest of all dangers to our
institutions is political apathy. We ought
to rejoice that an October State" like
Ohio, is capable of being aroused to such
4 healthy and exuberant degree Of politi-
cal activity. The example is excellent.


The Warner Silver Bill is certain to
have a harder time of it in the Senate
than it experienced in the House, and to
he vetoed, ifit ever reaches the President
The only results that are likely to come
out of the fight over this measure, are
that the Democratic party has been put
on record, by the action of all but nine of
its representatives in the House. as favor
ing the swindling of the people for the
benefit of the owners Ofsilver bullion and
the payment of the national debt-uow
mostly owned by our own own people.
Year: 1879

Many lives might be saved, and all
fears removed, II there was introduced
at Cape May, Atlantic City, and all
other places Of seashore resort, the
protection Of wire barrier, set in tn
ocean at a proper distance from the
shore, beyond which no bather could
20. 1t is adopted at Manhattan Beach,
where there are other coRveniences in
use not to be found elsewhere. Some
of these are the greater privacy for
bathers, the close fencing Of avenues
to the ocean, and the provision Of dress
ing rooms in large buildings as close
to the beach as is advisable, each per-
son having one to him or herself, in
separate divisions of the main building.
There is no reason why these decided
provisions for safety and comfort should
not exist at the seashore resorts on the
Jersey coast, If they should save a
single life in a season, 70 say nothing
of the feeling of security with which
persons couh enjoy the hsalthful in
diligence of bathing, they would be
satisfactory as we'll as hamane arrange
ments.
Year: 1879

FALL RIVER, Sept. 17.-By far the
most shameful outrage of the strike was
committed by strikers this afternoon.
Eight French families comprising between
seventy and eighty men, women and child
rem were brought here to-day from Cana
da. They have never worked In cotton
mill and are to work at the Stafford and
Crescent mills. The company was divided
into two parties and one was taken to the
Stafford mill, the other to a block on
Davis street. Ii was subsequently decid-
ed to remove the latter party to house in
the rear of the Crescent mill, some few
hundred yards away, The party consisted
of two men besides the agent who brought
them here, four women and the remainder
young boys and girls from IS years of age
downwards As the party came out On
the street they were hooted at by crowd
of women. children and some men, and a
few stones were thrown. To make the
shortest cut they took to what is known as
the Stone Crusher Lot" where they were
assaulted by crowd of $50, mostly men.
Rocks we're thrown at them in perfect
showers and one of the men named Bouche,
was so roughly assaulted that man who
witnessed the whole fair said be did not
expect to see hun come out of it alive. He
was severely kicked and bruised by a
stone. A woman with babe 10 her arms
was Knocked tdown and kicked. A little
boy about seven years Of age was struck
IN the face and all the little children were
stoned as well as older persons. The
party separated and ran in different direc-
tlons, which broke the crowd
Year: 1879

There is but very small proportion of
the women of this nation that do not suffer
from some OF the diseases for which Kid
Eey-Wort is specific When the bowels
have become costive, headache torments,
Kidney out of fix. or piles distress, take
package, and its wonderful tonic and
renovating8power will cure you and give
new life.
Year: 1879

To all who are suffering from the errors and In
discretions of youth, weakness early decay
loss OF manhood &c, will send a recipe that will
cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
was discovered by a missionary in South America
Send a self faddressed envelope to the REV. JOSIAH
7. INMAN Station D, New York.
Year: 1879

If anything was q moral certainty it was
that when General Grant visited Ireland he
would meet with popular reception of the
most enthusiastic description. That he was
q great and successful soldier was high
claim upon people with such admiration
of the chivalrous; that he had led to VIC
tory so many thousands of Irshmen
and sons of Irishmen in the war
for the Union brought him still
closer to them, for there is scarcely
a household in oil Ireland that has not some
family link with the Irish beyond the At
lantic. To him Fame justly ascribes the
salvation of that government and that flag
under which the famine-stricken, the op-
pressed and the evicted Of Ireland had
found homes, prosperity and freedom.
During the war for the Union the people of
Ireland prayed, like Lincoln at Gettysburg,
that this government Of the people, for
the people and by the people should not
perish from the earth" They could not fit
out ships to fight the Alabamas that England
was letting go, but they sent out many
sturdy son to do battle for the Union. To
an immense proportion of the Irish people
General Grant typifes the republican form
of government which they hope for. BY
the officials of the British government Gen.
eral Grant will, of course, be received as q
foremost citizen of friendly Power but it
is in it's popular feature that his visit will
be most interesting. He we'll said that he
had been President over more Irishmen
than Queen Victoria rules.
Year: 1879

II would be difficult to produce an exact
parallel in the annals of crime for the trial
now in progress at Norwich, Conn. First,


it was shown On trustworthy chemical evil
dence that arsenic had been found in the
dead mans body IN sufficient quantity to
cause death, on the theory that more than
two grains could not be carried in mans
system. Physicians testified in similar
careful spirit that they believed the man
had been poisoned with arsenic, md that
from grain to two grains was a fatal
dose. With the expert testimony concluded
the paramour Of the dead mans wife Is put
upon the stand and boldly tells the whole
story of the plot to murder and states the
heroic use of arsenic. On one occasion he
gave to the uniaithiul wife half an ounce of
arsenic and declares his opinion that the
husband 'got the most of it," His informa-
ton, of course, came from the wife, who adj
ministered it in coffee and other articles of
daily use. In half an ounce there are two
hundred and forty grains. If the victim
got half his endurance rather damages some
Of the medical opinions. He had taken
this quantity between March Is and the
end of April-say an average for forty
five days Of nearly three grains day.
"More arsenic," but how much is
Year: 1879

Auditor Schuylers report of the financial
condition of the Canal Department, of
which we publish an interesting abstract,
contains some statements of the compara-
tive cost of repairs under the old manage
ment and the new, and long argument in
favor of free canals. The Auditor holds
that the existing toll is large enough 10
divert shipments from the metropolis to
other seaports, thereby depriving la
boring men and others Of our citi-
zens of work and money which they might
otherwise have obtained. As the receipts
from all sources during tho fiscal year did
not quite equal the expenditures during the
same time it is difficult to see how, if the
tolls had not existed, the expenses of the
department could have been paid without
taking certain sum OF money from the
people by the process of taxation, and this
sum would have exceeded that which the
Auditor claims has been lost to New York
through THE cheaper transportation which
has been secured by other routes.
Year: 1879

Military operations and diplomatic events
in England's little difficulty with her Asiatic
neighbor seemed to move on swimmingly
when we heard Of them both in the rose
colored chronicle of official dispatches, not
corrected for errors or diminished for the
inevitable bounce Of our cousins sanguine
temperament. It appears now that Yakoob
Khan has not come in at all, and there is
great likelihood that he will entirely disap-
point the expectations that he would sur
render and hold his fathers realm as the
puppet of British authority. Even Shere
Ali's departure has been misunderstood and
misinterpreted, and instead Of flight in
panic it is q departure to appeal to a
friendly Power in view of the we'll under
stood fact that Horat is strategically the key of
Afghanistan, and that with the English at
Cabul and Candahar q war against them
would not be desperate if the friendly
Power takes any interest in the Amecr's
cause. If they should have, in the high
lands on the Cabul line, a few days of such
weather as we are having now in this neigh
borhood, campaigning would be unpleas-
ant to the invader That it is not over
pleasant as it is seems to follow from the
statements of the extremely bad condition
of the troops, with the comnissariat broken
down as usual. With all the cant and pa
laver that we hear, year after year, from
British scientific soldiers" on military
organization and administration, is it not
strange that they never can get well
equipped and effective commissary service
in any British army?
Year: 1879

in countries where we dispense with Min
lister, should be men of energy and intelli-
gence and well paid. The army is no place
for niggardly economy so long MS we have
the troublesome Indians on our hands. The
most important requisite for maintaining
our national honor abroad is an efficient
and gallant navy; not set of ves-


sells rotting in the navy yards, but noble
ships of war in constant commission, cruis-
ing in all waters and putting into all ports
which are visited by our merchant marine.
We would spend money literally on the
navy for the same reason that we would re-
trench diplomatic expenses-in order to
make the nation respectable and honored.
Year: 1879

ga Britishcr," whose letter on the Andre
monument discussion appeared in yester-
days HERALD, will find from the replies we
publish to-day that his estimate of the
character Of those Europeans who, like him
self, have made the United States their
home, meets with some dissent The
energy with which his disparaging remarks
about his own countrymen are resented by
Americans affords a satisfactory refutation
Of his insinuation that the people of the
United States are the victims of Anglo
phobia, and we have no doubt that o num-
Der Of our correspondents-only q very
small portion of whose letters we print, by
the way-would be well pleased to assure
him personally of their esteem for modest
Britishers. Meanwhile, it is well to re-
me mber, that as the bottom has fallen out
Of the Andre monument tub, it is
waste of time to pour into it
either the water of commendation or the
liquor of indignation. There is q story of
man who having been sued by neighbor
for the value Of borrowed kettle which
had been sound when loaned and leaky
kettle was not sound when he borrowed it !;
second, that it had no hole in the bottom
when he returned it, and, third, that he
never borrowed the kettle ut oil. AS Mr..
Field never proposed to erect q monument
to Major Andre it is scarcely worth while to
discuss the soundness or unsoundness of
the proposition to erect such monument.



to national impudence and pomposity"
may, therefore, safely drop the Andre issue
and confine his attention to the other inter-
esting international topics which his letter
has brought into prominence.
Year: 1879

Roswell G. Brainard dei at his place of residence.
in Hewes street. Lee avenue. Brooklyn of gem
eral debility. last Thursday evening. in the fty.
eighth year of his age. The deceased, who was ns-
tive of East Haddam. Conn.,. studied law in the Office
of Dudley Field when quite young man. and was
admitted TO the Bar He took up his residence In
Brooklyn upward of twenty-seven years ago and be-
came active in democratic politics. He was elected
Supervisor from the Second ward and was president
of that Board At the expiration Of his term In
that body he was elected Alderman. In 1903 he
elected Surrogate of Kings county Tor term OF
four years. At the expiration of that period he was
reelected, and retired from Office January 1867 He
then devoted his time to practice ut the Bar being
pointed ut the commencement OF the war Judge Ad-
vocate General the staff of General Jesse O. Smith,
of the Eleventh brigade, National Guard, State OF
New York. Mr. Brainard also held for one term the
position of Corporation Counsel OF the city OF
Brooklyn. few years ago he was chosen chairman
of the Democratic General Committee. He leaves
four SONS SURVIVING.
Year: 1879

Our special Albany correspondent dis
cusses in another column the chances of
the Speakership election. and concludes
that, while Mr.. Alvord's prospects are de-
cidedly the best as against Mr.. Sloan and
Mr.. Hustled, should no other candidate ap-
pear in the field, there is probability that
a movement may be made, with fair pros
pect of success, to place some new member
in the Speakers chair. The three gentle
men who have been actively engaged in
the canvass appear all to have adopted the
well established policy known rs ''bounce," :"
rs, according to their positive statements,
they are all certain of success and have al
ready secured enough pledges to settle the
contest on the first ballot. But it is sug-
gested that the members, when they reach
Albany, may evince disposition to cast
their own votes after their own fashion,
and, as it is certain that all three of the
candidates cannot have majority of the
republican strength in the. Assembly, it is
possible that they may one and all be
counting their chickens in advance of the
Matching.


The probability Of a new candidate hinges
mainly on the action of MI. Hustled. If he
should remain in the field and hold his
strength, which is set down at twenty-one
votes, there will be a triangular fight which
may lead to the result suggested by our
correspondent. This is the more likely,
since the friends of Mr.. Sloan object to Mr..
Alvord's election on principle and may
therefore be prepared to support an accept
able new candidate in order to secure Mr..
Alyord's defeat. If Mr.. Hustled should
make an arrangement with Mr.. Alvord be-
forehand and step out of the canvass the
election would be decided on the first ballot,
and would, no doubt result in Mr.. Alvord's
success. In the event Of a triangular fight
either Mr.. Sloan, who is said to be able to
hold his full vote intact, or Mr.. Hustled,
who has personal following upon whose
cooperation he could rely, would have it
in his power to make the Speaker. Should
either of these candidates propose DR.. Isaac
I. Hayes as a compromise candidate there
seems to be little doubt that the movement
would result in that members election.
There could be no objection to him on the
part tof Mr.. Sloan's supporters, who are mainly
from the country districts, while he would
be sure of strong vote from this end of the
State. As a matter of policy we believe the
republicans would benefit their party by
taking up new and unpledged Speaker of
the Assembly and compelling all the old
Speakers to stand aside. Mr.. Conkling's
election would be rendered more impress
sive and effective under a new departure Of
this kind, and the republican prospects in
next autumn's important State election
would be improved by such policy. The
selection Of SO well known and prominent
gentleman as DR.. Hayes as Speaker of the
first Assembly that convenes in the new
Capitol would be creditable to the Legisla-
ture and honorable to the State.
Year: 1879

not told, was supplied about the first
of May, and toward the last OF May the
wife, determined to be free, told her con-
federate that ''she was getting out Of
arsenic" and he bought her some more.
Between the 18th of March, therefore, and
June 6-the day of his death-this wretched
victim was fed on this freely supplied pol
son to an extent which indicates that the
Connecticut doctors would do well to make
themselves acquainted with the facts before
they stigmatize as ''stories" the well con-
sidered statements of learned men in other
countries. Bishops recital of the whole
story of his love is the most remarkable
piece of testimony ever given in court OF
Justice even in the State whose criminal
history is illuminated by the exploits OF
Mrs. Alexander.