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Year: 1878

could not OF his own votion elect 10 Interrupt that
examination. 1t would have TO proceed until tho
magistrate should either nd probable cause for hold
lnp The prisoner and commit Dail him, or should
nud no sufficient cause and discharge MN. The law
had framed In this way to- forward the detection
and punishment OF crime. For this purpose also tho
Jud had power compel witnesses TO be sworn and
give evidence. Mr.. Beach said IL was not Tor the Dis
Irct Attorney 10 assist stopping such proceed
but rather TO urge their prosecution. II the motion oil
Mr. Jcwetts counsel should be sustained would not
be a mere waiver but a supcrsedence OF the whole
proceedtngs Mr. Beach quoted many authorities in
favor OF his argument and Judge Dononue cited sew
eral opinrons OF a contrary character Mr.. Beach
that the Judge appeared to have already mado
up his mind II would be useless for him 10 areuo
further. Judge Donohue said he would hear anytuing
iurner that counsel might have to say but Mr Beach
declared that he had concluded his argument.


THE DEFENCE


Mr. Fellows next spoke in support OF the motion 10
fix ball He said that the statute was not SO man
might Intervene to stop action On the part Of the
magistrate. There another provision which
might step in and divest the magistrate OF siI au-
thority in the case. He wished to take proad view
OF the objects OF the law II was framed 10 allow
person under a criminal charge to make his inno-
clear TO the world Deiore an lner'or
magistrate without being subject to the annoyance
of an indictment aud tho long trial that wouid re-
suit Ii he could prove his Innocence tnen the mag
israie would have power TO dscharse MN, or u nj
ouid be held. In tho present instance the accused
agreed, Tor the purposes OF the triai IN the ponce
court TO waive an examination and ADMIT tnnt there
was probable cause to hold him. This ne wished 70
do TO escape the trouble aud annoyance OF attending
the court Mr. Jewe,t was prevented at present rom
leaving the city and time was taken from him that
bc ought 10 devote TO his business. He therefore
thought 1t best waive the police proceedings and 10
Grant that there WAS probable cause Tor holding MIN
ail that trial Of weeks could effect. The motion Of
counsel therefore that HIS Honor should nx oa.
or in his order bail to be hxed IN reason-
able sum by the magistrate, or that the magistrate
should discharge bail commit the prisoner, IN
which latter case they would have an appeal


Judge Donohue here took the papers ana reserved
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


once heard Of famous general OF the army whos
having lett active service and returned TO the practice
OF the law was engaged in litigation some years ago
in which heavy fees to be earned and some sharp
work To be performed The General found that an old
companion in arms and political chum then filing
the position OF police magistrate or justice OF the
peace of the town in which the suit was pending, or
something of that kind-t somew here out IN the
Western country-and so, uniting military strategy
with legal cunning, retained the services oil the friendly
magistrate and arranged TO make a trumped up crmi-
nal charge against the parties with whom ne was IN
litigation through some irresponsible third party.
The police magistrates instructions were TO hold the
accused any way and to persist in making an exami-
nation Tor the triple purpose OF annoyance, oackma
and influencing civil SUIT the charge was there
upon and the warrant issued. but the defendant
waived an examination and offered Dali ior MS ap-
pearance in a higher court. Inc magistrate was,
however. SO eager 90 the service required
of him that The refused TO take bail and
assumed to proceed with the case as H. he were the
dnal Court until he stopped by legal writ The
aninius was so evident tnat subsequently,, when q
criminal prosecution Tor conspiracy was commenced
against some OF the Generals party, the incident OF
the JUSTICES Court OF the main causes OF heir


notice that Now York Police Justice has ques-
toned the right Of accused party TO waive an ex-
animation and give bail in case OF alleged e
known oil the Western case TO which l
alIude he would probably have been satisfied that
1t accused PERSONS privilege to waive an exam
and his decision controlled by the purest
motives but II he had gwen the legal point little
more reflection no would have been spared the snarp
slap in the face received from the supreme Court.
uout WesLn A BACKWOODS LAWYER.
Year: 1878

EIGHTH AVENUE, BETWEEN TwBNTYFouRrH
THE FREQUENT COMMENTS OF OUR CUSTOM
EFFECT THEIR SHOPPING AT OUR ESTABLISH
We ARE NOT BLESSED WITH THE cEAsELEss
oAsa GIRLS ABE SUMMONED TO THEIR WORK
NOR BY THE RAPPING or PENCILS. BUT BY
mAxY LADIES WILL KNOW HOW TO APPRE
Year: 1878

Sylvester Kemple, silk merchant at No.
3s5 Broadway. visited Police Headquarters last evening
to report a well-planned robbery at his residence
No. Prospectplace. tall man, poorly dressed
called at his house several times during the
week and borrowed a shovel This. he represented
he wanted to use in delivering coal at another
house in the neighbOrhoOd. He always brought the
shovel back, and pTofuse In his thanks. He in
needy circumstances, he SAID, and would be thankful
for any work which could be given him. lie called at
the again yesterday afternoon and asked TO
Mrs Kemple. She invited him into the sitting room.
and he sald he in great need OF work Mrs.
Kemple told him 10 call when her husband was
at home, and he bowed himself out OF the
room He was heard TO walk through the hail. open the
front door and shut II again with bang, aud Mis- KEN
ne supposed that he had left the house Later the
afternoon she discovered that several private
In the upper part OF the house had been
robbed OF valuable articles Bureau drawers
had been hastily opened ana much OF their
contents strewn about the floor. Jewery valued 4
$500 was missing. One or two suits OI clothing and
revolver belonging TO Mr.. Kemple had also dsap-
pesred. ,


Detectives we're sent out 10 look for the thief last
evening and the police OF the IWenty-nIst Precinct
were also informed OF the robbery.
Year: 1878

up before Judge Davis yesterday motion to make
the complaint more:defnite Molloy was seaman on
the steamer France and the complaint says, one day
from Liverpool off Falmouth lost his life b. F. Chet-
wood asked that this phrase of Falmouth be struck
out or that tho complaint be made definite by stating
which Falmouth meant, as there were hve COonel
Spencer said that four OF the Famouths were on th
west side OF the Atlantic and scarcely thought OF
the defendants steamers could steam across me ocean
in one day. Judge Davis sted the storm OF laughter
by suggesting that of Falmouth" be struck on, 10
which both agreed and IL was so ordered
Year: 1878

and music desk aradusted. In the tuning department
the strings tested and tuned preparatory TO tile hna
tunings by the topereguators Hazeton Brothers nave
made extensive experiments In acoustics In order TO
bring the tone OF their pianos 10 the highest state OF per
lection and the rvsult is all that lid be wished Dur
Ing the the hrm manufactured between TOO and
Year: 1878


It never pays to growl and fret


When fortune is our foe,
The better bred will push ahead,
And strike the braver blow.
For luck is work, and those who shirk
Should not lament their doom,
But Weld the pay, and clear the way,
That better men have room.
1t never pays to foster pride,


And sauander time in show;
For friends thus won are sure to run
In time of want or woe:
The noblest worth OF all the earth
Are gems of heart and brain,
A conscience clear, household dear,
And hands without stain.
It never pays to hate foe,


Or cater to friend;
To fawn and whine, much less replne;
To borrow or to lend.
The faults of men are fewer when
Each rows his own canoe;
For feuds and debts and pampered pets
Unbounded mischief brew.
It never pays to wreck the health
In drudging after gain;
And he is sold who thinks that gold
Is cheaply bought with pain.
An humble lot, cosy cot,


Have tempted even kings;
For stations high that wealth will buy,
Not oft contentment brings.
1t never pays!-a blunt refrain


Well worthy of song; ,,
For age and youth must learn the truth,
That nothing pays that's wrong.
The good and pure alone are sure
To bring prolonged success.
While what is right in Reasons sight
Is always sure to bless.
Year: 1878

The OLD Folks STUPID1TY.-t is rela.
ted that when tea was first introduced from
China into England, some great mistakes
were made in the use Of it. Some persons
stepped the leaves in hot water as they were
directed; but, instead of drinking the infusion,
they threw this away, and tried to eat the
leaves as vegetable. Of course, there was
great disappointment and the new vegetable
was set down as an unmitigated fraud and
humbug by those etupid old folks. Well, the
stupid old folks are not dead dead yet. Some
are still left that we may be amused by their
mistakes. Suppose farmer piles bis manure
up in his yard or leaves it soaking in rain
water, while the strong, dark liquid is thrown
away on the roadside, or flows away into
some brook or pond and the drained, dry,
useless stuff left, is spread upon the fields in
place of good manure; might not such per:
son be thought as stupid as our good old
great.grandmothers who threw away the tea
and tried to use the worthless leaves ?-Rural
New Yorker.
Year: 1878

Too MUCH ScHooL.-The following ideas,
from the Philadelphia Press, are correct:


"When the doors of the school-house close
in the afternoon upon the school children,
they should literally close out from them all
that pertains to school until the opening next
morning. A teacher should be teacher,
not simply hearer of recitations. Lessons
should be learned and taught at school
never at home. The teacher has no right to
impose upon parents the most annoying part
of her work. She has no right to take from
the child a single moment of the few hours it
has out of school"


To which the Cincinnati Star wisely adds: /:


"The hours of an active school day are
not over long, it is true, but they are as
many and as long as the average mind of
child should be kept at the tension of learn
ing. The lessons of school should be learned
as we'll as recited in school, and the home
hours should really be home hours, unbur-
dened with school tasks. Childhood needs
its recreation its sleep, its rest, quite as much
as it needs, its arithmetic, grammar and geog-
raphy."
Year: 1878

like, this count was taken with the spirit and
courage and brilliant cleverness of the girl
whom he had once sought to deceive. He
would have liked to begin second wooing
before the second marriage, and would have
been glad, no doubt, the match once settled,
to be devoted husband to such a rare woman.
But he was very coolly received, and an un-
mistakable intimation was given that he need
not present himself until the day Of the cere-
mony, and then at the church. The day
came, and the half married maid appeared,
dressed wholly in black her mother also in
black. The sombre bride met her husband
at the altar, for she would not even walk up
the aisle with hin. The ceremony was per.
formed. At its conclusion she made him q
stately salute, walked down the aisle and out
of the church; stepped into the carriage
which was in readiness for long journey,
and set out at once for the frontier. She has
never seen her husband since


"AhW says some, "what romantic story |
What pity it isn't true But it is true.
1t is romance in real life-where all the ro-
mances are that are worthy of the name.


Miss Ward belongs to an old and highly
New York family, and her father
is the famous Sam Ward of Washington
Ne,o York Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1878

No MORE SLEEpLEss N1GHTs.-Somebody
who seems to have tried it, says: The latest
method We have heard of for curing cases of
pure sleeplessness, when unaccompanied by
disease, is the following Get out of bed and
take linen bandage-although handker-
chief, neatly folded longwise, will do as well.
perhaps better. Dip one half of the handker.
chief into water; pass the wet portion around
the wrist; over this lay the dry half, and tuck
in the ends 80 as to make all secure. Lie
down again. The wet bandage will be found
to exercise most soothing influence on the
pulse; this will soon extend all over the ner-
vous system, and calm and refreshing sleep
will be the result.
Year: 1878

The DEAcoNs PRAYER.-A good story
is told of deacon in Tennessee, who was in
the habit of riding bucking mule-that is,
a mule that can make camel's back of its
straight one, and, by spasmodic movement
Of its four legs and hump, discharge its rider
like cannon ball. The other day they came
to the edge of the worst mud hole in the
State, and the mule gave unmistakable indi-
cations of bucking. The good deacon knew
that he was about to be thrown and his mind
skurried about for prayer. His table grace
came easiest: "Lord, for what We are about
to receive make us humbly grateful" he ex-
claimed, and the mule bucked and he was in.
Year: 1878

The READY REPLY.-A pretty long list
might be made of men who have owed their
advancement in life to small answer given
at the right moment. One of Napoleon's vet
Grams, who survived his master many years,
was wont to recount with great glee how he
had once picked up the Emperor's cooked hat
at a review, when the latter, not noticing that
he was private, said carelessly, THANK you,
Captain" I'm what regiment, Sire ?" instant.
Year: 1878

How LONG TO SLEEP.-The fact is, that as
life becomes concentrated and its pursuits
more eager, short sleep and early rising be-
come impossible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, because we want more. Six
hours sleep may do very we'll for mason or
bricklayer, or any other man who has no ex-
haustion but that produced by manual labor;
the sooner he takes it after his labor is over
the better. Bot for the man whose labor is
mental, the stress of work is on his brain and
nervous system, and for him who is tired in
the evening with day of mental application,
neither "early to bed nor early to rise" is
wholesome. He keeps letting down to the
level of repose The longer the interval be.
tween the active use of the brain and his re-
tirement to bed, the better his char . for
sleep and refreshment To him, an hour after
midnight is probably as good as two hours
before it; and even his sleep will not so
quickly and completely restore him as it will
his neighbor who is physically tired. He
must not 60 to bed later, but lie longer. His
best sleep probably lies in the early morning
hours, when all the nerYous excitement- has
passed away, and he is in absolute rest.
Year: 1878

It is not at all wholesome to be in q
hurry. Locomotives are reported to
have moved a mile a minute for short
distances. But locomotives have often
come to grief for such great rapidity.
Multitudes in their haste to get rich
are ruined every year. The men who
go maturely, slowly, deliberately, are
the men who oftenest succeed in life !;
people who are habitually in hurry
generally have to do things over
twice. The tortoise beats the hare at
last. Slow men seldom knock their
brains out against post. Foot races
are injurious to health, as all forms OF
competitive exercises /; steady labor in
the field is the best gymnasium in the
world. Either labor or exercise car
ried to exhaustion or prostration or
even great tiredness, expressed by
tagged OUT always does more harm
than the previous exercise has done
good.


All running up stairs or to catch up
with a vehicle or ferry boat, is ex-
tremely Injurious to every age, sex,
and condition in life. It ought to be
the most pressing necessity which
should induce person over fifty to
run over twelve or fifteen yards.
Those live longest who are deliberate,
whose actions are measured, who
never embark in an enterprise with
out sleeping over it. and who perform
all the every day acts with kindness.
Quakers are proverbially calm, quiet
people and they are thrifty folk the
world over. This is common sense
advice, and if followed will always
prove beneficial to men, and women


ts0.
Year: 1878

Why are fat people always com
planning? asks some one who enter
tains the popular though erroneous
notion that health is Synonymous
with fat. Fat people complain be
cause they are diseased. Obesity is
an abnormal condition of the system,
in which the saccharine and oleagin-
Gus elements of the food are assimi
lated to the partial exclusion Of the
muscle forming and brain producing
elements. In proof of this, it is only
necessary to assert the wellknown
fact that excessively fat people are
never strong, and seldom distinguish
ed for mental powers or activity.
Besides, they are the easy prey of
acute and epidemic diseases, and
they are the frequent victims of gout,
heart disease, and apoplexy. AlIan's
Anti-Fat is the only known remedy
for this disease. 1t contains no acid,
is absolutely harmless, and is war
ranted to remedy the most confirmed
case of obesity, or corpulency.
Year: 1878

The carpet moth makes his favorite
home about the bindings and corners
of the carpet. II this is an ingram or
threeply fabric successful war may be
waged on him by wringing q cloth out
of hot water, laying it over the bind
ings and edges, and ironing with as hot
sn iron as can be used without scorch-
Ing. This will destroy both the moths
and their eggs, and after a few such
visitations they disappear. But this
steaming and ironing process is hot
effectual with Wiltons, Moquettes, or
any heavy carpetings. The heat can
not thoroughly penetrate them, and
ironing Injuries the pile of the velvet.
Still, it is best to draw the tacks occa-
sionslly, and lay the edge of the carpet
Overcome side only, or part of side,
at time-and steam and iron it on
the wrong side. Then, besides this,
the floor should be wiped as far under
as the arm will reach with q cloth


wrung out of strong and hot Cayenne
tea; and before renailing, the binding
and edge OF the carpet should also be
wiped with it. rubbing them hard.
Some have recommended spriDkling
salt around thesides of the room before
mailing down the carpet, but we
should think this Objectionable, as the
salt sbsOrbs moisture from the air and
may thus cause too much dampness.
Year: 1878

IT is noteworthy fact that thousand
dollars in paper currency taken at random
from money drawer will buy more gold
now than ever before in the whole history of
the country. In the old times of State banks
some bills were worth par in gold, but there
were few not taxed with discount by bank
ers outsite of the States where they were is
sued ranging from 4per cent up as high as 8.
The secret of the present fortunate condition
of affairs is that we are selling more commo-
dities to foreign countries than we are buy
ing from them, so that cur gold stays at
home instead of going abroad to settle trade
balances
Year: 1878

partially insane, but no person ever
lived that had purer or kinder heart.
At the time of the hanging of Mrs.
Surratt the Doctor made repeated and
successful efforts to witness the scene,
This curiosity may or may not have
arisen from q morbid desire to see q
the death penalty, but it is nevertheless
stain upon her otherwise fair reputa-
ton.
Year: 1878




We owe an apology to the subject
of this sketch, and your manifold
readers, for being so dilatory in our
duties as faithful correspondent
and chronicler of events. From
time to time we have put off telling
that one of our citizens had been to
Washington and returned .but a
short time ago. Before his depart
ure for the capitol of our nation,
Sans nearest friends noticed such a
startling strangeness about the man.
No swollen tonsils, no quinsy, but
whatever it was he had it bad. His
bosom constituents looked at each
other silently and solemnlY shook
their heads. He refused to chirp in
our own beautiful Anglo-Saxon, as
was his usual wont; nothing but alb
original gu.turalS would he utter;
he walked with his toes turned in !;
his full dress costume consisted of
a calico breeoh clout, bead belt with
k;nniklnnick pouch slung from it.
Matches he discarded and would
only use flint and steel. Evidently
some great change was preying up
on his mind. He suddenly disap-
peared and was gone several days
before his hitherto most intimate
bowers learned that he had taken the
trail for Washington.


Arriving at Washington he paint
Year: 1878

THE young man tried in London
county, Ga, last week, for shooting
into a crowd who visited him the
night of his marriage as calathum-
plan band, thereby killing one of
the party, was sent TO the peniten-
tiary for eight years
Year: 1878

IT may be very true, as Francis
Murphy says, that Mofett bell
punch could not tell man when
moderate drinking commenced. But
we apprehend, that: in case of many
drinkers, the record of the bell
punch would soon surprise them
with the amount of drinking they
would consider "moderate.'
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


North Troy, May 22.-There are no
Fenians in this vicinity. A few tramps
who have arrived here, but who are not
Fenians, have caused all the excitement


ST. ALBANs, VT, May 22-So far as can
be learned from reliable sources there is no
truth in the rumor that the Fenians are
congregating in this neighborhood.


New YORK, May pa Buffalo special
says Irishmen throughout the Northern
States and Canada are wide awake and
looking for an opportunity to strike blow
for their national independence, and to
cripple or hamper Great Britain if possible,
but at present no repetition of former Fe-
nian raids generally is intended. Irishmen
in Canada have no sympathy with such
movements, which would endanger their
own homes and property and involve an
outrage upon Canadian communities which
have never done them any harm. Raids
are also discountenanced by the better and
more intelligent Irish patriots on this side
of the border, from General Shields down
ward Should war be declared between
England and Russia, Irish Nationalist
would endeavor to prevent reinforcements
to the British army from this side of the
Atlantic.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


New YORK, May 22.-Monday, February
11th, was dark rainy day in the South At
lantic Ocean. The schooner Carrie E. Long,
of Stockton Maine on her voyage from
Buenos Ayres to New York, had reached a
point just south of the Equator and about
two hundred miles from the Brazilian coast,
when the lookout discovered a man on a
frail raft, followed by a school of sharks.
He was picked up, and said his name was
Manuel Francisco, and that he had been at
sea ten days when rescued.


Originally there were three on the raft,
but one had been washed overheard and
devoured by sharks before his eyes before
they were two days out. The second died
from exhaustion on the fourth day. He
threw his body to the sharks thinking in
that way to cause them to quit following
the raft; but after they had torn his com
rade to fragments they only followed him
the more intently. He dared not sleep fol
fear of walking off the raft into their open
jaws. Water gave out on the sixth day
and thirst was added to the loss of sleep.


His only food was bread which had be-
come musty from long confinement in a
kerosene can and the eating of which only
added to his thirst without satisfying his
hunger. His sufierings became SO intense
that he was about to cast himself to the
sharks, when the Carrie f. Long hove in
sight. Francisco and companions were
escaped convicts from the Brazilian penal
island of Fernands Nor0nha. He was com
mitted for small theft and escaped Oh the
raft after serving three years.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


HALIFAX, n. S., May 22.-At the time of
the explosion at the Sydney mines yester-
day there were thirty or more men i'll the
pit a number of whom escaped in safety,
ten or twelve were taken out unconscious
and are slowly recovering. Four dead
bodies have also been taken out two are at
the bottom of the shaft and two more are
said to be in the pit, but can not be reached
on account of foul air