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Year: 1879

THE QUARANTINE STAFF AT WORK ON STATEN
IsLAND-NoT MUCH PROGRESS IN NEW JERSEY.


The State quarantine staff has commenced opera
tions against diseased cattle Staten Island The
campaign was opened yesterday by Professor Law.
who made thorough examination of several stables
in the eastern section of the island. He found.
however. only one serious case Of pleuro-pneumo-
MIA. He will resume his examination tomorrow,
and continue during the entire week. The COM
plants from Richmond county to the Quarantine
Commissioners have been comparatively few so that
it is not likely that quarantine proclamation will be
called for. The stables bordering on Stapleton and
Clifton those chiefly complained Of while those
At New Dorp. Annsdale. Huguenot and Richmond VAL
ley kept in y comparatively good condition. and
the cattle afforded good food and ventilation.


General Patrick has appointed an inspector to take
charge Of Oyster Bay and North ana south Hemp mp
where. according to recent reports, pleuro-pneumo-
MIA prevails among the cattle


JERSEY BILL.


The General is not altogether pleased with the
tedious action OF the New Jersey Legislature. PRO
fessor Law and myself (" said he. 'went before the
legislative committee. explained law the
subject and gave them the beneit OF experience.
and yet they do not seem inclined to do much in the
way OF guarding against the cattle disease Our own
law has some defects, but in the main 1t is good
one" Senator Canfeld. of Morris county. N j. told
HERALD reporter. yesterday, that he doubted very
much that the bill presented in the Senate would be
passed. He took active part in the examination
before the legislative committee, ana came TO the
conclusion that while infected cattle should be
slaughtered the State should not be compelled to
for them. This view is shared by many other mem
bcrs of the Legislature aud lively opposition to the
bill is anticipated As the Legislative session will
terminate this week, and AS Governor Mcclellan is
determined to have ethcacious measures adopted
in regard the cattle disease extra session WILL
General Patrick thinks. be called il the bill does not
pass this week.


The slaughter OF Blissve cattle continued yestcr-
day at the johnson avenue stables. Some OF the
extra staff OF deputies at the stables have been re-
heved and after next Thursday only four will be
uuired
Year: 1879

The jury in the suit brought in the Brooklyn
City Court by Rachael Sloan against the Brooklyn
City Railroad Company to $4,000 damages tor
personal injuries returned their verdict yesterday
morning. The suit has been tried twice. the
hrst time in January last. when the jury
were unable to agree. eight being for the
plaintiff and four for the defendant Mrs. Sloan
was injured about eighteen months ago. She .
passenger Of the Fort Hamilton line
of CARS and when the Inebriates'
Home informed the conductor that she wished
TO get of. The conductor had charge Of the
horses the time, the driver being engaged in eat
ing his dinner The driver, she said. whistled to
the conductor, whereupon the driven slowly.
As she got the step the car. she said suddenly
started, and she throw violently to
the ground. Her hip badly fractured. aud she
claimed that she rendered cripple for life. The
verdict rendered yesterday in favor Of the plain
td for $1,000 Mrs. Sloan il about sixty years Of
age And resides in Jersey City.
Year: 1879

young German named Edward Boyer while sit
ting in the Battery Park last evening, about seven
O'Clock shot himself. inficting dangerous wound
over the heart. The flash occasioned by the firing
attracted the attention oe one of the Park police
who ran the spot where the young man had fallen
He picked him up. and after rapping for assistance
conveyed him the First precinct police station. in
New street. His searched and on
his clothing was found discharge, dated this
year. from the Third United States infantry. which
said that he born in Germany, OF good educa-
tion, OF good character, and that he dismissed
from the service because he physically unit for
duty. The young man stated that he had no home.
and it is supposed that inability to OBJ ain employ
physical ailments, led him to make the attempt to
take his own lite. The ambulance sent for and
he was conveyed to Chambers Street Hospital, where
at late hour last night, he was lying in very
critical condition.
Year: 1879

at twenty minutes past six O'Clock last evening
locomotive No. 20 was drawing train Of three
loaded passenger from the South ferry. on the
west side track. and when rounding the oppo-
site the of Battery place and Broadway. one
of the locomotive wheels jumped ''frog" and the
momentum pushed the engine forward, so that one
wheel actually crossed the guard rail. the others be-
coming wedged among the ties. Fortunately the
train was moving only at the rate of three miles
all hour else the locomotive would have landed
in the shrubbery of the park Another fortunate
circumstance that at the moment the wheel
jumped the frog the -.drawhead' broke, thus sever
ing the connection between the engine and the cars
the latter remaining he track. The track was
blocked up for more than hour. during which all
trains coming either way the west side
track through the park. Some CONSERVATION pre-
vailed for awhile among the ladies on the train,
many of whom imagined that tho structure
about to give way beneath them The protection
afforded by the timber guard rails was never more
clearly illustrated than in this instance.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, August 4, 1872
Advices received here by the War Department
from the Northwestern frontier show that all, or
nearly all, Of the hostile Indians who south
from Canada to hunt buffalo have recrossed the
line 1t believed by the military authorities that
they had Intention ut any time of provoking hos
Utilities. The report that Sitting Bull engaged
in the skirmsh the 18th of July is entirely dis
credited and little apprehension is felt Of fur
ther trouble
Year: 1879

The greatest wonder in the State
of Iowa, and perhaps any other
State, is what is called the "Walied
Lake" in Wright county, twelve
miles north of the Dubuque q Pa
cific railway, and one hundred and
fifty miles west of Dubuque City.
The lake is from two to three feet
higher than the earth's surface. In
some places the wall is ten feet high,
fifteen feet wide at the bottom and
five feet wide on top. Another fact
is the size of the stones used in con-
stfuction, the whole of them vary
ing in weight from three to one
hundred pounds. There is an
of stones in Wright
county, but surrounding the lake to
the extent of five or ten miles there
are none. No one can form an idea
as to the means employed to bring
them to thespot, or who constructed
it. Around the entire lake is a belt
of woodland, half a mile in length,
composed of oak. With this eXcep-
ton the country is q rolling prairie.
The trees must have been planted
there at the time Of the building of
the wall. In the spring of the year
1856 there was a great storm, and
the ice in the lake broke the wall in
places, and the farmers in
the vicinity were obliged to repair
the damage to prevent inundation.
The lake occupies a ground surface
of $500 acres depth Of water as
great as % feet. The water is clear
and cold ; soil sandy and loamy. 1t
is singular that no one has been able
to ascertain where the water comes
from nor where it goes, yet it is
always clear and fresh,
Year: 1879

In the following significant facts,
lately submitted to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Edwards county,
Illinois, the economy of temperance
is striIingly illustrated


There has not been licensed sa-
loon in this county for over twenty
five years. During that time our
Jail has not averaged an occupant.
This county never sent but one per-
son to the penitentiary, and that
man was sent up for killing his wife
while drunk, on whisky obtained
from a licensed saloon in an adjoin-
ing county. We have but very few
paupers in our poOrhouse, some
times only three or four. our taxes
are thirty-tWo per cent. lower than
they are in adjoining counties where
saloons are licensed. Our people
are prosperous, peaceable and sober,
there being very little drinking,
except near GRANVILLE, a licensed
town Of White county, near the
border. The different terms of our
Circuit Court occupy three or four
days each year, and then the dock
cts are cleared. Our people are so
well satisfied with the present state
Of things that very large majority
Of them woulG bitterly ofirsce2e any
effort made iii favor Of license, un-
Ger any circumstances
Year: 1879

As for ourselves we say unquali-
fiedly that the Legislature should
accept thankfully whatever offer
the bona fde bondholders may make,
and not indulge in any foolish hig-
Cling as though their acceptance
were an act Of grace upon the part
of the State. 1t is a genuine Robin
Hood warfare that the Democracy
of the State are waging and the
bondholders are the fat Abbots that
are forced to pay ransom. Force
them to terms you may, bat we
would rather see our names par
AIDED to the public as unfair in pri-
vatc matters, than signed to any
bill which in effect says the State
owes you and can, but sha'n't pay
you. Let my villainy, if villain /
must be, extend only to my own
private matters, and let it not force
my neighbor TO be such as /,
Year: 1879




This distinguished gentleman,
whose death was briefly announced
in these columns a few weeks ago,
fell at last, as we have recently
learned, martyr to his patgiotism.
lie died of an Inflammation origi-
mating in one Of the wounds he re-
ceived in the military service i'm
Mexico. 1t would be but scant
Justice to the living or the dead,
simply to herald the death Of such
a man, without more. And yet he
died at a time when the presence of
the pestilence here had almost ig-
nored death, coming in any other
form. The chief points in his char
acter and history have been well
and elaborately portrayed in the
columns of a leading journal Of a
sister city. Ii is not necessary TO
repeat them here. They are histO-
ricaI. There was Il Well-rounded
fullness of fame in his life, which
is "protitable for instruction" to
those who are to come after him.
Year: 1879

In Smithland, some years ago


when the venerable Judge Fowler


was on the bench, q rnan was ar
rested for carrying brass lSnuekles,"
and the terrible weapons were con-
fiseated. The statute in fOrce at
that time provided that articles of
that kind should be taken by the
Sheriff and placed where they would
"never be found any Inore.p The
Court instructed the Sheriff as to the
law, when the officer demurred,
saying he did not know Of such a
place. A half-tipsey lawyer, whom
everybody believed to be asleep,
suddenly arose to his feet with this
remark: "Afay it please the Court,
as the Sheriff seems to be at a loss
whore to place the knuclkles so that
they will never be heard from any
more, move that the Court instruct
him to put them at the foot Of the
docket. Once there, they
never will be heard from again"
Year: 1879

JUST exactly what the Register
said long ago. Silver remOnitiza-
tion has aided resumption and the
silver dollar goes up TO par with
gold. The trouble heretofore has
not been that the silver dollar was
Of too little intrinsic value, but
that the gold dollar had an undue
value. Resumption brings both
gold and silver 10 an equality and
elevates the paper dollar to par
1lObiie Register.
Year: 1879

A New York letter says new diff
Guilty has arisen among the sugar mer-
chants of that city. Sometime ago many
of the leading firms signed an agreement
to purchase and sell sugars Oh the basis
of custom house fares and without light
erage allowance to the reiiners. For the
last few days, however, there has been
scarcely transaction i'll raw sugar there,
owing to the fact that the large retiners
have determined not to adhere to this
plan. Formerly the retihels were allow
ed by the importers a certain percentage
of the cost of the sugars To meet lighter
age charges. This method, as stated,
was recently changed. They now wish
to go back to the old way. They also
insist upon being allowed the old ~ pei
cent. of guarantee tare, instead of the
acoual custom house tare. as recently
agreed to by many, though not all of the
refiners. The importers generally refuse
o. go back to the old methods, and hence
the deadlock in the trade. There will
probably be a meeting about the mattel
in a lew days.
Year: 1879

An incident, somewhat ludicrious
one, too, of the fire at the Hagerstown
Hotel, has been told US by one who
was there and who literally barely
escaped with his life. He is travel
ing man Being suddenly awakened
that night by bright light shining
in his face, he discovered that the win
dow frame of his room, on the third
floor, was one blaze of flame and that
the apartment was rapidly filing
with smoke He at once left, how he
knew not but finally succeeded ia
reaching the ground by jump from
IA second-story window When safely
landed he stood watching the work
of destruction. and near by him was
group of very thinly-clad females also
gazing.


While thus staining he noticed a
party Of fisemen Eurrying past with a
quantity Of feminine apparel. He
Immediately, with that gallanry SO
in keeping with travelling man. hail
Cd the mcn with;
Year: 1879

The committee of twenty-three of the
German Democratic County Committee
met last night at the Teutonia Assembly
Rooms to complain of the action OF Tam.
many Hall in not gving them the repre-
sentation promised on the county ticket.
The conclusion reached will not be made
public until the committee make their
report to the General Committee, which
VIII probably be called together an eve-
ming or two hence.-Worid.
Year: 1879

OFFIcTous STuPIDITY.-M Mary Tucker,
the mother Of the child lately fonnd in
vault in this city and almost miracu-
lously restored, escaped from Providence
Hospital with her child on Thursday
night and took passage on the steamer
for Victoria. The purser of the boat,
with an oficiousness which exhibited
more zeal than discretion, arrested the
fugitive and delivered her to the police,
whereupon it becomes the duty of the
authorities to put her upon trial for the
attempted murder Of her child, which,
while it complies with the demands of
the law, at great expense to the county,
will be truitless of any desired results.
The mu!attO woman says the child was
born where it was found, and there is no
proof to the contrary. 1t her statement
cannot be disproved, no conviction Of
the crime charged can legally be had. At
any rate, We know of no sensible person
who wanted the woman brought back
Tor trial, and the purser will get no
thanks tor his officiousness.
Year: 1879

Now the northern tobacco grower
gets just about enough at the end of
the year to pay him for his labor and
expense, and he can commence and
do the same thing over again. AL
thong ii many of them fall short, and
some have give up the business,
there are many who would seek fields
in Florida, if they only knew that
they could produce better article at
less expense that would sell tor more
remunerative prices. There are now
some reliable men in Rhode Island
preparing to organize a colony to
settle in Florida, and make tobacco
growing speciality. Being practi-
cal man in that line myself l have ia
ken much interest in this new enter
prise, and hope that at least. fifty
good men will be ready t. go with
this colony next Fall. They may be
assured of grand success, if they
will take hold properly, and work
halt as well as they do in the north.
Of course see many things in your
State, that could be entered into and
made profitable; but there are too
few practical people. 1t is plain to
be seen, that live men, with brains,
muscle and money, can do a hundred
per cent. better in Florida, than at
the north, and at the same time avoid
the severe Winters and the danger
GUS atmospherical changes, which
bring on complaints, that make life
miserable and death premature.


Throat and lung diseases, rheuma-
tism, and thousand other complaints
unknown in Florida, are destroying
thousandsaof the New England peo.
pie annually. My limited time will
not permit me t wr;-.- at any great
I. A-~-s'-. III AJl,4-~.r~I : \ -.
Year: 1879

Our cable news this morning advises us
Of u shipment Of 10000 francs yes.
terday from France to the United States,
nearly S3,0OO,0O0. This is a specimen Of
the way coin is flowing to this country.
We have now received about S4O,0OO,OOO
otgold coin thusiar this year, saying moth
ing Of what We have dug out OF our own
mines. We have coined and are coming
silver at the rate OF two to three millions
per month, and we have added largely 10
the National bank circulation during the
year And thus initiation goes on and will
so on, and yet there are lunatiCs
IN the country who are not salts
lied, and who would Upset everything and
80 back to the uncertainties and demoral-
iEation OF irredeemable paper money.
lhey have more paper money aaoGt to-
day than when the panic broke out, and
under the National banking law the
amount OF paper can be indefinitely in.
creased, according to the demands OF trade.
The system is flexible and advantageous
one, such as the inter.conyertible bond
men used to talk about so much. The
banks increase in number, and put out
more circulation when there is need Of 1t,
or rather when it will pay, and surrender
their circulation when the country cries
enough. Taking our gold, silver and pa,
per to-day, and We have in the country,
available as money, about two hundred
million more than when the panic broke
out in 1873.


By to.day's dispatches 1t will be seen
that the Treasury Department has ordered
the government sub.Treasuries and de
positories to pay out gold coin on curren
account, as, for instance, for pensions ant
all manner Of Soyesnment obligations
Year: 1879

London, Oct. 16.-The Duke of
Beaufort, who returned here last sum-
mer publishes his observations on the
American wheat prospects. He infers
that the surplus for expectation will
increase yearly and wheat will be land
ed in Liverpool from the interior of
America at an average of one dollar a
bushel with which price English farm
ers cannot compete, and must turn
their attention to cheaper and better
modes of growing beef and mutton, SO
as not to be driven out of that market
also by America.


The duke is a large land owner and
his opinion is considered of great
weight in England.
Year: 1879

Fall River, Mass, Oct. l6.-The
majority of the old spinners have now
returned to work, but several hundred
have not been able to do so. at a
meeting of the spinners last night it
was voted by those who had secured
work to tax. themselves one dollar per
week for the support of their nom
working brethren, in addition to a
weekly tax of 25 cents for the support
of the union. The callfo the meeting
stated that many members of the union
were suffering for food.
Year: 1879

New York, Oct. 16.-Bonds to the
value Of $4,000 were stolen to-day
from the safe in the office of Merritt
Trimble, well known iron merchant,
in the coal and iron exchange, by three
strangers who came in apparently on
business.


The robbery was not discovered
until several hours afterwards, when it
was too late to ascertain whether they
had been negotiated on the street OF
not. ~ 81
Year: 1879

both frauds. The principles by which it
. is claimed the motor will work are shown
to have been tested and abandoned forty
years ago. The Scientific American
shows how fallacious the notion is that
because a small magnet motor will run
and give certain results, large one will
give a corresponding increase of power.
The present generation seems resolved
10 have a motor that will work for moths
ing, and there seems to be ne lack OF
pretendeTs who are ready to show a
plausible machine in order to extract
cash from capitalists. 1t is sOrt of q
scientific three card monte business, and
the surprising part of it is that after it
has been shown up repeatedly by the daily
press and trustworthy scientific jourN
malls there are still wealthy dupes to be
found who will fling away money on such
things.
Year: 1879

An Opinion from Actual Observation


The late Bayard Taylor, in his work
on India, China and Japan, received the
impressions Of the Chinese which we here
quote from him from his own personal
observations and information while in
China "It is my deliberate opinion
that the Chinese are morally the most
debased people on the face of the earth.
Formes of vice, which in other cOun-
tries are barely named, are in China so
comunon as to excite no comment among
the natives. They constitute the sur
face level, and below them are deeps and
deeps of depravity SO shocking and hor-
rible that their character cannot even be
limited. There are some dark shadows in
human nature which we naturally shrink
from penetrating, and made no attempt
TO collect information of this kind but
there was enough in the things which
ara brought almost daily to the notice
every foreign resident, to inspire me
with powerful aversion to the Chinese
race. Their touch is pollution, and
harsh as the OpiEiOn may seem, justice


to our own race demands that they
should not be allowed 10 settle on our
soil. Science may have lost something
but mankind has gained by the eXclu-
sive policy which has governed China


during the past century" His opinion


it will be seen, was that justice to our


own race demands that the Chinese


should not be allowed to settle on our


soil. That opinion, formed by an intel
/ ligent observer of the habits and Practl
ces of the Chinese in their own country,
outweigh all the sentimental gush OF


those PEOPLE who, most ct them, never
saw a Chinaman and know nothing about
| them.
Year: 1879

A TRAVELLING correspondent Of the
New York Herald says: The south ia
the only part of the United States that
can afford good speculation in the way
of railroad (the Southern Pscifc), and
Tom Scott knows it. The road is sure to
come, and in view Of other facts, and
FOR Teascns.thst we believe are just and in
harmony with this universal verdict OF
the best thinkers that we know, we are
forced to conclude that the south is
rising and her future is secure. The fire
that scared her sunny felds will light
the path to glory yet.
Year: 1879

OUR Louisiana sugar growers are call
Ing loudly for an invention which some of
eour ingenious readers ought to supply,
-namely.a a cane-mill which will largely in
crease the yield Of juice obtainable by
current methods of pressing. At present
but little over half the juice is extracted
even in the best managed mills, the ma
jority of planters falling to realize so
much as 30 per cent. of the possible
yield OF their cane. The problem may
present many difficulties, but it is well
worth attempting,
Year: 1879

THREE masked robbers entered house
a Milwaukee suburb, and had packed
a large quantity of jewelry and clothing
for removal without disturbing any of
the inmates, when they came upon a
young womsn fast asleep in bed. An
impulsive robber lifted his mask and
kissed her, and she swoke and screamed
compelling the gang to decamp without
their booty.
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-Charles W. Angel was
taken before Judge Williams in the Grim
inal Court this morning, and pleaded guilty
to the charge Of embezzlement and was sem
fenced to ten years Imprisonment in the
Penitcntiary. He was advised to this
course by friends to save time and expense
of a trial. the evidence being so strong
against him that the result Of the trial
could be nothing but conviction. He was
advised that by pleading guilty at once the
sentence would be lighter which is doubt
less the fact. The Pullman Company were
determined to prosecute him to the fullest
extent, having expended SO much in his
apprehension.
Year: 1879

a Detroit husband Of month did not
come home at night, aud, as this was
his first irregularity, his wife sat up
until morning waiting for him. Then,
nervous aud weak-for she ate no break
fast-she went up 10 his Office to look
for him. There she was informed that
he had been on drunken trip with a
woman. She found him at hotel, re-
covering from intoxication, aud profess
edly repentant. She forgave him, and
returned quietly TO her home, but soon
became a raving maniac, and her dis
order is thought to be iDcurable.