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Year: 1874

In a village not far from London, the
rector and curate, returning from their
summer holidays, resumed their duties
the same Sunday. The curate took the
morning service, while the rector Off
ciated for friend in a neighboring
church; but the rector was present in
the evening, to preach after the curate
had read prayers. The sermon in the
morning was considered so good that the
congregation congratulated themselves
upon the effects which the change of air
had on the preachers style and powers
generally.


The rector assembled the pulpit, and
gave out the same text which had formed
the subject of the curate's discourse in
the morning. Very soon, however, those
who were there in the forenoon found
that it was not only the same text, but
the same sermon, and their faces assumed
a variety Of expressions. There were
not many placid countenances in the
whole church, with the exception of the
preachers, who went on, quite uncon-
scious of the days history and its conse-
quences There was one face that bore
upon IL painful expression, and that
was the curate's. The more he tried to
look severe and Indifferent, the more he
looked abashed and intensely Mortified.
In short, the two worthy personages had,
unknown to each other, purchased copy
of the same sermon, il is stated, litho-
graphed, and they had the i'll luck, with
out communication with each other, to
select the same sermon to inaugurate
their return. Nothing, we believe, has
come of this little misadventure beyond
n harmless joke or two. How the rector
and curate got on is not known, but the
villagers are very good-natured people
and one old man-the sexton-of course
very regular attendant at church--de
clared that the oftener he heard the ser
mon the better he liked IL.
Year: 1874

A peculiar, and probably an unpar-
alleled case of petit larceny, came to
light in the Third District yesterday.
The particulars are given as follows: On
Sunday night the friends of Mary Noel
(colored) were holding religious cere-
monies over her remains-she having
suddenly fallen dead on Wash street, on
Friday night About fifty colored per-
sons were present, and collection was
taken up to defray the burial expenses.
Afterwards the whole assemblage kneeled
down in prayer, remaining PROSTATE for
an hour. Samuel Raney, a young and
shrewd colored man, managed to get his
chair close to the coffin, and appeared to
be among the most affected and devout
mourners. AS soon as the prayers were
over, the stewards removed the collec-
ton plate in which the money had been
placed from off the breast of the corpse,
where it had been placed as symbol of
affection. In recounting the money, it
was discovered that two or three dollars
had been stolen while the mourners were
at prayers. As Raney was the only
mourner kneeling near enough to the
coffin to be able to reach into it, he was
called outside of the room by two of the
oldest men in the party and demonstrated
with for his outrageous and sacrilegious
act. Raney denied having taken the
money, when he was searched, and some
of the money found upon him was iden-
titled.


As the colored people were dispensing
from the meeting yesterday morning at
daylight, the intended secret was let
out, and dozen excited men, in coming
out of Commercial alley, seized Raney
and were going to treat him violently or
danglc him from lamp-post. Raney,
however, screamed for mercy and pardon
so vociferously that Policemen Cassidy
and Cummings, of the Third District,
came to his rescue. To save him from
the enraged crowd the officers locked him
up in the Third-District Station. Later
in the day charge of petit larceny was
preferred against him.-,S. Louis Demo
Year: 1874

NINE people out of ten believe that the
scene Of Robinson Crusoe was the Island
Of Juan Fernandez, off the west coast of
South America. This is popular error,
since the book explicitly says that it was
near the mouth of Orinoco, and in the
Atlantic Ocean, not ut all in the Pacific.
Year: 1874

PARIS, July 22.-President Mac MahOn, in
response TO a deputatiOR Of members Of the
Assembly, said he was not summoned to
power in order to restore either monarchy
or empire. His acts proved that he would
not participate in such an enterprise.


Il is now understood that the Govern
ment, tomorrow, will demand of the As
sembly the adoption of the constitutional
bill drawn up by the Committee Of Thirty,
together with the three additional meas
ures proposed by the Minister of the In
terror to that committee on the 10Th inst.
Year: 1874

Put IN BAY, July 22 The Book Trade
Convention to-day resolved that retail book
sellers are a most important element of civ
ilization, second only to the church and
schoolhouse, and no village or town can be
thoroughly prosperous which does not con-
tain at least one good book store, where the
best literature is displayed. A resolution
was passed limiting TO twenty per cent.
the maximum Of discount to ministers,
teachers and Libraries.
Year: 1874

The Secretary of War. in view of the
protest of the Mayor of Vicksburg and the
postmaster at that city against sending
troops there, has counternanded his order
directing troops to proceed to that place
until the full particulars of the whole
trouble be received from the acting Gov
Year: 1874

A BoUNTHUL HARvEsT.-The crops in all
the States promise an increased yield over last
year, Judging from the comments Of our ex-
changes In addition to the cheering reports
we have had from all the great grain-produc-
ing States of the West and the Middle States
the intelligence is received from Ohio and
Indiana that the crop of cereals will be more
than an average. Corn and fruit in the latter
State are backward, but with few weeks of
favorable weather very large yield is antici-
pated Later reports from the cotton and
cane producing parishes Of Louisiana agree
that the harvest will be abundant The corn
crop, however, does not promise to be good.
All the Texas crops, with the exception of
corn, are good. In some of the counties the
corn raised will hardly suffice for home con-
sumption. In Wisconsin and Illinois the
prospects are brighter for all products than
they have been in ten years. This will be
gratifying news to the poor, for with abundant
harvests in all the States of the chief life
giving products prices must fall as matter
of course. The tobacco and fruit crops in
some States are poor, but as these articles are
luxuries that can be dispensed with no serious
injuries can result
Year: 1874

The Sioux Indians have evidently made up
their minds to give trouble, and it is becom-
ing clear that the warlike measures taken by
the government were fully justified by the
unsettled state Of many Of the tribes. 1t is
quite possible that unfair dealing and unnec-
essary provocation may have caused the un-
easiness noticeable among the savages. This,
however, can only be regretted, for, until
some better system of dealing with the In-
dians has been adopted, it will be impossible
to prevent bad men inficting wrongs
on the redskin, which that child of
nature will seek to avenge on
the helpless frontier settlers. We do
not believe in the canting peace policy, which
General Sherman criticises with dry humor,
but we are in favor Of treating the redskins
with justice and humanity and protecting
them from the dishonest scheming of con-
been taken in this direction it is vain to hope
that peace can be maintained at the border.
The Indian is shrewd enough to know when
he is robbed, having had a thorough educa-
ton in this respect, and having been trained
in the idea of avenging his own wrongs. See
ing no means of obtaining justice he naturally
enough appeals to the rifle and the scalping
knife for revenge Unfortunately his ven-
geance too often falls ON the innocent If it
were possible to confne his scalping opera
tons to the dishonest traders and agents who
plunder him he might be allowed to continue
uninterruptedly his samusement without serious
loss to the community
Year: 1874

The arrival in this country Of Colonel
Cespedes, son of the late President of the
Cuban Republic, once more turns attention


to the struggle going on almost at our
very doors Having escaped the Spanish
cruisers he comes to this country with
the object of procuring, if possible,
assistance for his countrymen in the
field. His account of the death of his father


the ex-President, differs very little from that
already given by the HERALD. Unfortunately,
there is reason to suspect that treachery had
something to do with the Cuban leader un-
timely end. Much as this is to be regretted
it does not furnish any good reason for de-
spairing of the ultimate success of the patriots,
for there never was a cause which escaped the
taint of treason. What it concerns most the
world to know is that, despite the
terrible sufferings of a six years war,


the spirit of the Cuban insurgents is
unbroken and that they are resolved to
continue the struggle to the end. In
view Of the resolute and tenacious spirit
shown by the insurgents there is little reason
to doubt Of their ultimate success Day by
day the resources of Spain are wasted by o
civil war, which has grown in strength within
the last year until the hope of its early sup
preston has been completely dissipated. In
Cuba the financial crisis is scarcely less dan
gerons than is the political one in the Penin-
sula. and so in both hemispheres Spain is
rapidly approaching national bankruptcy.
/ The loss of Cuba must therefore of necessity
result from national prostration induced by
the constantly recurring civil wars Under
these circumstances wise statesman would
not hesitate to surrender the island to the
Cubans in exchange for an indemnity of O
hundred million dollars Such an arrange
Year: 1874

MACHINE PUR1rY.-An ingenious Yankee,
according to Boston journal, has invented a
machine which, if all is true that the inventor
claims, will do more to purify elections re-
store the public tone, bring the country back
to the teachings of Washington and the
fathers and prevent corruption than the reso-
lutlons of dozen political conventions and
the efforts Of two-thirds of the party press
combined This machine is called 'sthe
patent safety ballot box" and the inventor
assures us that it can neither be stuffed nor
manipulated. 1t seems to have made so deep
an impression upon the Senate that we Won
der an appropriation Was not made to send it
into South Carolina. That State stands in
more need of the virtues possessed by this
machine than any other. We should like to
see it tried on Moses and the South Carolina
Legislature.
Year: 1874

The SARATOGA REaArTA.-The amateur
oarsmen assembled at Saratoga are working
gallantly' to get themselves into trim for the
annual contest which will decide the boating
championship for the year. Considerable in
terest is already shown in the result by the
outside world, and judging from the
appearance of the men, the race prom
ises to be we'll contested The conditions
under which it takes place are very favorable,
and it depends in good part on the Regatta
Committee to make the Saratoga race as popu-
lar as is the annual struggle between Cam
bridge and Oxford in England We hope the
committee will neglect no precaution to pre-
vent any hitch in the proceedings. The race
should start without fail at the moment
appointed, and any crew failing to put
in an appearance at the time indi-
Gated should be ruled out. Nothing
Injuries the popularity of contests such as this
like bungling in the arrangements and need
less delays. The oarsmen, we feel, will do
their duty, and it only rests with the COM
mittee to see their arrangements promptly car
ried out to make the Saratoga regatta thor
oughly popular with the people.
Year: 1874




The new figures thrown on to the canvas in
the police phantasmagoria are Of a character
more ludicrous than ever. The forms OF
Gardner and Charlick, with the sentence OF
the Court of Oyer and Terminer in one hand
and the reappointment Of the Mayor in the
other, gave place, some two or three days ago.
to picture OF Matsell and Voorhis, sup
ported on one side by the aged Mayor and ON
the other by the wary Comptroller, cropping
their way up the stairs at headquarters al
midnight and feeling round for the chairs 50
recently occupied by the convicted Commis-
sioners This in turn gave place to the rep
resentation of meeting of the Police Board,
with every Commissioner voting for himself
for President or Treasurer. Next came the
shadowy likenesses of an old gentleman in
terrible rage calling on Disbecker to resign,
with the sturdy figure of the Commissioner in
the background, holding his thumb to his
nose and his fingers spread out in the shape
of fan. Now we behold a gouty sembIance
of Methuselah in the presidential chair Of
the Mulberry street mansion, crowned
with high paper cap made out
of an old number of the PoIicl
Gazette, while an equally venerable and gro
tesque figure is seen at his back, dancing
breakdown on his spectacles and teeth, which
he has sportively but recklessly cast on the
floor. On the left is Disbecker, with ons
hand under his coat-tail and the other saving
the air, delivering Fourth of July Grafton.
and on the left Voorhis disconsolate, weeping
on the shoulder Of Comptroller Green. In
the background appears slim general in full
uniform, carrying away cash box and pay
roll and apparently well pleased with himself
and the rest OF mankind.


When we say that Matsell was yesterday
elected President OF the Police Commission
we complete the humiliating history of this
police scandal 80 far as it has yet reached. A
deeper disgrace could not have fallen on the
city, even if the two convicted Police Com
missioners had been suffered to resume tho
positions from which they were expelled by
the law but the organization Of the Board
will at least enable the men to receive their
pay for June, and thus far it is well that the
deadlock was broken. After all, in such q
commission there was but little choice as to
who should be made officers of the Board, 50
far as the people are concerned. All we can
now hope for must come from the action OF
Governor Dix.
Year: 1874

GIVE Us HIS NAME.-The Washington cor
respondence of the Tribune speaks of zone
member of the Appropriations Committee,
who was most conspicuous in cutting down
the clerks in the departments. has a man on
the rolls of the Post Office of the
House at eighteen hundred dollars a
year, and that the man never goes
near the office except to sign his name and
draw his pay. The man is a very good short
hand writer, and makes a capital secretary to
the member" We should like to have the
name of this member. Mayor Havemeyer
might find him useful as q member of our
Police Board, and he would be a good man to
run as a reform candidate for Congress. The
Tribune has shown great deal of enterprise
on various occasions Of its history. Here Is
an opportunity tor o new teat
Year: 1874

Apparently the two points OF supposed
Importance in DR.. Hammond's pathological
observations in the case of Mccormick are
that he found fatty degeneration or defective
nutrition in parts of certain nerves, and that
he also found extravasated blood in the nerve
tissue. Can it be argued that there is any
thing special in these facts ? Extravasation
Of blood is necessary consequence OF such
softening as was shown to exist in this case,
and extravasation from mere injection to the
presence Of clot is. according to extent, an
indication and measure of the degree OF
softening. Only the softening, therefore, is
to be explained, and it seems very bold
hypothesis 10 pretend that there is anything
to account for hydrophobia in a degeneration
of nerve substance, which is q pathological
condition as widely and universally known as
the similar degeneration in other tissues.
There seems no safe indication here and the
pathology looks far more like a mere coin
cidence than like the starting point Of the
physical derangement peculiar to the disease.
Physicians examining the dead body for the
cause Of one disease often come upon enough
to cause forty other diseases. This was the
case with Entwistle, in whom the kidneys, the
liver and the lungs were all found in very bad
condition; but these combined disorders did
not account for his symptoms, and neither
are the symptoms in McCormick's case
accounted for by the results of the minute
observations made. There is in the case, per-
haps, one instructive point Some men bitten
by hydrophobic dogs take the malady and some
do not and this indicates. no doubt, the differ
ent resistance of different systems to the same
poison. Perhaps as the medulla oblongata
and the nerves that seem to originate in and
near it are the implicated organs the question
of resistance may turn on the healthy or NOR
bid condition of these parts Of the system and
not on the condition of the system generally.
Essentially in it's effect the disease is de-
ranged action of tha organs whose operation
depends upon these nerves, and the hydropho-
bic poison circulating in the blood acts for
some unknown reason especially upon these
nerves, just as belladonna, veratrum and sew
eral other substances also act on these nerves
Now, perhaps the poison acts with certainty
and vigor where the health of the part is re-
! duced by the results of previous, probably un-
suspected, disease, while if these organs ore
thoroughly sound the resistance may be such
as to give time for the complete elimination of
the poison.
Year: 1874

TREE PLANTINa.-We learn from Western
newspaper that of four millions of trees
planted along the line of certain railway
company less than three per cent have failed,
and the rest are doing well. This is good
news from prairie country, aid goes far to-
wards solving the problem of tree-planting on
the open, wild and endless reaches OF prairle
land in the West,
Year: 1874




end.


The suggestion we made moment ago that
the republicans can better afford to wait than
the monarchists and imperialists must be
taken with some qualification. 1t is only true
upon the hypothesis that President Mac
Mahon will remain faithful As against the
monarchists it cannot be doubted that he
will firmly administer his trust He will
not allow himself to be broken down by Bour-
bon intrigues. OF this he has given the world
every assurance in his attitude throughout the
present crisis. But while we believe he would
would resist it with equal sternness. The per-
sistent selfshness of the Assembly and the
petty prosecutions to which he is subjected by
the combinations and intrigues of the Depu-
ties may not only weary him, but
discourage the whole people Though the
Assembly placed him in power he is not
likely to forget that it has no authority except
what it assumed, and that it ought to dissolve.
His supposed legitimist tendencies may be
weakened by coalitions of republicans and
royalists, made for the express purpose of an
noying him. In the end even the people may
go with him in inviting, if they do not force
him into accepting the young Louis Napo-
leon. In this respect delay is dangerous to
the Republic. 1t is so easy in France to raise
the old Napoleonic cry that the Empire is
peace" that the republican Deputies have no
right to risk it. The dissolution of the Assem-
bly, will avert this danger-the only one that
seriously threatens France.


In any event the Assembly is best out of the
way. 1t has no right to exist. 1t can achieve
nothing for France though It's sittings con-
tinue forever. While it lasts it must be an
element Of constant discord. Its discussions
must be as they always have been, mere dis
sension. Its continuance is a bid for legiti-
mist and Bonapartist intrigues Its interpella-
tons are all reminders that France has no set
tied government. The excitement Of q gen.
eral election and the struggle in defining the
form of government are better than this weary,
wasting policy Of the selfish men who persist
in ruling France while they can AT the gen.
eral election the people would speak and the
Assembly would then become the voice
of the people. Discussion would mean
something, for it would be directed
to one great and ultimate object
the adjustment Of the constitution. The day
for platitudes has gone by If France is to
have o permanent government it must be based
upon written constitution. The formation
of that constitution is the work of the next
Assembly, not of this. 1t is work not to be
accomplished in single day nor even in q
SINGLE year. While it is being perfected Mar
shal MacMahon may well be trusted with the
Presidency, and we see no reason why the terms
of the Septennate should not be allowed to ex-
pire before a successor shall become necessary.
The danger of France is in the undetermined
and anomalous form of her government; secu-
rity can only come with carefully worded
and we'll defined constitution, prepared by an
Assembly specially chosen for this duty.
Year: 1874

ment would enable the national government
of the Peninsula to restore the financial credit
of Spain and suppress the insurrection. This
would be q much wiser and more patriotic
course to pursue than to continue useless
struggle in Cuba, which can only result in the
complete ruin of the island and the total pros
tratiOn of Spain,
Year: 1874

By SPECIAL TELEGRAM to the HERALD we
are informed Of graceful tribute paid
by the people of London to the memory
Of President Lincoln. In commemoration
of the emancipation of the slaves they
site on the south side of London, which will
be known as the Lincoln Tower, in recognition
of the lamented Presidents consistent advo-
cacy Of the abolition Of slavery. The repre-
sentative Of the United States, Minister
Schenck, was present and made an appro-
pirate address
Year: 1874

TERMINATION OF THE FoRMOsAN WAR. The
special despatch to the HERALD from Annoy
announces that the Japanese expedition
to Formosa has been brought to an end
by the interposition Of the Chinese gov
ernment. The Celestials seem to have
suddenly discovered reasons for taking
renewed interest in the affairs Of that in
hospitable country. Probably this awaken
ing is due to jealousy of the progressive and
piucky nation that seems destined to play a
prominent and worthy part in reviv-
ing the torpid energies of the East.
We almost regret the moderation which
the japanese seem to have displayed
in retiring from Forrnosa merely
on the promise Of China to protect foreign
ers and pay the expenses of the expedition.
So far as the interests of civilization are con-
cerned, it would have been infinitely better
for the japanese to have taken possession of
Formosa and reduced its semi-barbarous pop
ulation to obedience The interference of
China can only have been prompted by selfish
and Jealous reasons, and it will encourage the
Formosans in their hostility to foreigners
rather than prevent the recurrence OF similal
outrages to those which impelled the JAPANESE
government to undertake distant and ex
pensiye expedition in the interests Of humanity
and civilization
Year: 1874

OuR GLORIOUS DETECTIVES. it appears
that during the whole time while the Nathan
house was in the hands of the police, and
while the hunt was hot for evidence, there
was somewhere on the premises the bloody
nightshirt probably worn by the murderer
when the crime was done. Gould the failure
to find it have been an oversight? Was it
possibly an accident? Here was clew lead
ing directly to the fact that the murder was
done by an occupant of the house, who had
probably got out of bed to do it, and who
might have been distinctly identified by the
testimony of the laundress as to the owner
ship of the shirt. Here is grand opportunity
for the Mayor. He should assume the au-
thority to appoint commission to investigate
this subject We suggest that he name as
such Commission Mr.. Hugh Gardner and
Mr. Oliver Charlick. If Matsen cannot be
lett out they could make him permanent
secretary and send him TO Coney Island