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Year: 1878

TESTIMONY BEFORE THE C0RONER's JURY AT


YONKERS


Coroner Hughes, of YOnkers, yesterday be-
gan an inquest upon the body Of George Howard
found on Tuesday about two miles from Non-
kers with two bullet holes I'm the head and a
revolver by his side. Roundsman Joseph T.
Johnstone, Of the Yonkers police force, testified
that the legs and Of the dead man lying quite
straight the body found at first sight he sup
posed the man was sleeping; pistol and misshaped
bullet were found the body. Detective Richard
King, of this city. Identified tho body as That OF
George L. Howard, alias George H. Lester
burglar, who had lived IN New-York and
Brooklyn, and formerly I'm Philadelphia Dr. Val
entine Browne testified that one bullet entered
the brain at the back OF the left ear and this injury
caused death other bullet entered the right side Of
the nOsri aud came out at the back OF tho right
this was only flesh wound, and there was evidence OF
pistol having been discharged near the face
the witness did not think II was possible Tor the dead
have fired the two shots himself; he might have
the shot face with his left hand after ring
nj the back OF would have been unable
the other shot the wound would have caused
loss OF consciousness; it not possible N Howard
committed suicide for him 10 have laid himself out In
the orderly manner In which his body was found


Coroner Hughes stated that the Police were In
sion OF certain Information important 10 them In search
ing perpetrators OF the crime Tho jury rendered
verdict that Howard came TO his death by injuries he
received by pstOshot wound Inflicted by some person
or persons unknown to the jury
Year: 1878

mAcONlC hEIOhlS AND OlcNOOplO-Np'
CLOSE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE GRAND


LODGE.


The session of the Grand Lodge yesterday
was opened by Grand Master Couch at o'clock The
first business was in regard TO the Hall and Asylum
Fund. The fraternity having accepted the tax OF %
cents upon member OF every lodge III the Stae OF
NewYOrs where there 81 900 members In good
standing IL was concluded that by this the out
standing debts upon the Temple would soon De hqui-
The committee on Constitution and Laws reported ad-
versey upon the proposition OF James W. simont"n TO
enable Mason TO be an active member 0 as MANY
lodges he may desire and be able and willing TO pay
dues IN The Constitution OF the Engnsh n
Grand Lodge permits this to be done. IT
was claimed that many become members % % OF


lodge and aferward desire TO be received III ana con
tribute toward the success OF another lodge sun they
held back by regrets ar leaving their nrst lodge
If they could be active members of more than one 0dge
at the same time they would thus become larger con-
trbutOrs to the Order. The Grand Lodge dd not ap-
pear he ready yet FOR the change, and sustained the
report of the committee The plan Of voting by disrics
also presented by Mr. simonton, was rejected by tne
Grand Lodge adverse report Of the committee ap
pointed to consider the question


II. p. Stowe offered resolution that since the Grand
Orient OF France had caused TO be stricken from its
Constitution that belief IN Supreme Beng is necessary
ii man would be made Mason, The Grand Lodge OF
there, hold Masonic intercourse with any person
claiming to be member OF any lodge connected with
James f. Morrison raised the point of order that as
the Grand Lodge of New-York mad held no communea-
proper to take any action upon the subject.


William Woodruff advocated the passage OF the res
land, Ireland Scotland and Nova Scotia had condemned
the action of the Grand Orient of France. The Grand
Lodge of NeW-YOrK ought 10 place itself on record on
this question The matter was referred TO su9-com
mittee of Foreign Correspondence, John L. Lewis
stephen II. johnson and Christopher g. Fox.


The time having come for the Installation or the new
officers OF the Grand Lodge Grand Master Couch re-
signed the gavel to Past Grand Master Clinton f.
Paige. The Grand Master elect Edmund L. JudsOn,
Deputy Grand Master Charles ROome and the other
elected officers of the Grand Lodge were conducted
IN front OF the platform. TDe impressive Masonic cere
mOHal OF installation then carried out The Com
mittee Warrants recommended that the applications
for charters by several lodges be granted also that
Waikiki Lodge be permitted TO chan o its place Of
meeting. The report was adopted.


Toe question Of providing for the payment Of the debt
upon the Temple discussed and the sentiment OF the
Grand Lodge expressed by the upon the various
resolutions to limit the time for the continuance OF the
fifty strongly in favor Of meeting every oD-
legation promptly.


The session brought TO conclusion after the set
tement OF considerable routine business.
Year: 1878

/


The eel season Is now on hand in John.
sonyille, and large numbers have been
| caught in the Hoosic river by Messrs. Bar.


clay, Benack, and others. The eel has
| quite history. They were held in high
repute by the ancients; they were deified by


the Egyptians, and invoked by the ancient
Greeks as the Helen of the dinner table"


because every guest strove like Paris TO sup


plant his neighbor and keep her for himself


There are great many peculiarities con-


nected with the eel. The eel travels


up stream in the spring and returns


down to the salt water In the fall,


always going in large schools. There


are some eight or ten kinds of them, of


which several never enter into fresh water.


Some OF the varieties are, when full grown,


ten or twelve feet in length, weighing over
one hundred pounds. The kind here-the
common fresh water cells usually from


twelve to twenty-five inches IN length Eels
have both sexes in one, and spawn some
what after the manner OF other fish. They
can travel out of water for some distance.
from stream to stream, so that in almost
every Tivulet, however small, they can be
found. The gills, or breathing organs are
covered up by a most delicate curtain, which
acts like a valve and reservoir for water,
thus enabling the tsh TO take In a quantity
OF water, so to speak. to keep its gills
moist during the time IL is out OF the
stream. It has heart in its tail, the same
AS is known to exist in the salmon with pull
satIons at about ninety-four TO the minute.
The electrical eel of the warm regions of
South America is Eve to six feet long, and
is celebrated for its ability to communicate
such electrical shocks that men end animals
are struck dumb by them. All other fishes
fly from the vicinity of these formidable
cells. Even the fisherman, angling from
the high bank, fears lest the damp line
should convey the shock to him from a dis
tance. The electricity appears to he OF the
most intense character. In 1S43 an eel was
caught in the Thames near London which
nine feet seven inches in length
and two feet five inches in circumference.
Year: 1878

The main cauee o. nervousness IS indi.
gestion, and that "a cansed by weakness of
the stomach. No one can have sound
nerves and good health without using Hop
Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify
the blood and to keep the liver and kidneys
active, to carry off all the poisonous and
waste matter of the system. See another
column.
Year: 1878

Attention is called to the advertisement
OF the New York Weekly World. Under
one OF the best and most popular papers in
New York. For 10 cents il will be sent
postage paid) from now till January 1. 1879,
to any person anywhere in the United States
or Canada. This special offer is to give
every one an opportunity to see for himself
what a good paper 1t is
Year: 1878

The Centaur Liniments are OF two kind
The White Is for the human family; the Yel-
low Is for horses, sheep and other animal $
Testimonials OF the effects produced by these
remarkable preparations are wrapped around
every bottle, and may be procured OF any
druggist, or by mail from the Office Of the
Centaur Company, 10 Dey street, New York
city.
Year: 1878

Tsere are some strange bat very instructive
contrasts and parallels suggested by the course
of affairs in banking matters just row. While
the vituperative Kearney bellows away about
the banking monopolist, the Oldest bank 10 this
city, the Bank of New York, which stands as a
kind of historical temple of integrity among the
ruins of the less-favored banking institutions
that have been reared and have fallen during
the last century-.his bank with its old constit-
uency, its well founded precepts and practices
in business. and its searching perception of
what is good or bad in the money market OF
this great city, is forced By excessive taxation
to reduce its capital by one-third. Its taxation
amounts to five and one-half per centum on its
capital-alm0st equal to the rate of interest
paid on investments in five twenty bonds dur
ing the gloomy days of the war when bonds
were sold on the terms most favorable to bank
ers This fearful rate of taxation would be op.
pressive enough as naked fact, but it becomes
worse when one finds that three per centum of
it is imposed by the State and city of New
York, and that other banks in this city toll on
under an equal burden. Some banks in the
interior Of the Statee carry load of taxation
still heavier; and we heard of one in central
New York where the gross tax on capital
amounts to SIX per eentum. If this rate is
compared with the two or three per centum
paid by Philadelphia banks, for instance, New
Workers will appreciate what local burdens
have to do with the prosperity of a class of
business which Identifies itself as closely with
the general prosperity as the business of the
national banks does. If our bosterous agitat-
ors will now lay aside their epthets for mo-
ment and consider this subject of bank taxa
ton and the amounts that the banks contribute
to the national strong box they will find some
thing to their intellectual advantage. They
will also find something more to digest in the
statistics quoted at the Bankers Convention in
Saratoga recently, which prove that out of
208 486 bank stockholders in the q nited States
only seven hundred and sixty-seven hold more
than five hundred shares each. But if the
banks were big charities, with only the money
of the widow and orphan in them. we presume
that they would still be 'monopolies'' in the
eyes of our Kearneys and Batlers.
Year: 1878

A correspondent tells us that recently at a
country tavern Sin the heart of Pennsylvania"
he heard "a portly man of thriving appear
ance" addressing company of young men
and endeavoring to convince them of the su-
periorty of the paper dollar to gold dollar.
The argument, which seemed most satisfactory
to himself, and which was presented with a
triumphant air of demonstration, was as fol-
lows


"The money can make you take is good
enough for me-"


This Is of the essence OF the soft-money
fraud not the transfer of something of value
in exchange for labor or comm odities, some
thing which the laborer or the tradesman takes
because it is worth; but the compulsory accep-
tance of something which is of no value, which
is only name or broken promise. Here we
have a concise definition of absolute money
money which is worthless in itself; but which
the law compels US to take. Ot course the
workingman must suffer most from this forced
payment There are many ways IN which the
rich man, the holder of capital, the manager OF
large business can protect himself Ia some
measure against the consequences. None oi
these ways is open to the workingman. II oul
"portly and thriving" friend could keep his
place among the former class, If he could main
tain the position which is described in the
words II can make you take" he might pre-.
serve his port and his thrift Butif he should
be forced to take what is given, he would socn
stop saving that such money sis good enough
for me" aud his comfortable condition would
be exchanged for one resembling the feeble
emacation of the deprecated currency whose
advocate he now is.-N. Y. Evening Post.
Year: 1878

A Lawrence despatch facetiously informs
us that Daniel Pratt, known at colleges and
other seats of ancient learning as The Great
American Traveller, has been released from
jail. Sometime last summer he picked up on
the beach at Massachusetts seaside resort a
pccket-book dropped by some saun,erer, and
thereupon the constabulary OF the Common
wealth, thinking to perpetrate mammoth
Joke. pounced upon him and he was carried
oil to prison. Soon alter he was brought be-
fore court. and, in the absence of bonds
men, bound over to appear "before a higher
tribunal" 1t was said that he ought to have
advertised the pocket.book, and that his
failure to do SO was presumptiye evidence
that he meant to steal it. These were the
terms used.


Now, passing over the fact that no news
paper in the world would advertise for Dan
lei Pratt except gratuitously in the amusement
column, the arraignment and imprisonment
and discharge-were doubtless proper. He
should be treated as other vagabonds are
treated. But he was not. His arrest and
Imprisonment were looked upon as a huge
jest. The judiciary as well as the constabu-
larry regarded it as great practical joke land
so it was upon Daniel. No man believed
that he meant to steal money, but all thought
it would be infinite amusement to hear him
"sputter" at the jail door and in the pris-
oner's dock. And so, in order to make fun
he was Gagged, much as an unusually gifted
monkey might have been. Now that the fun
is exhausted he is let loose. There is no case
against him. The newspapers have been
laughing at the prisoner ever since.


| 1t is altogether reasonable to believe that
under the circumstances the arrest and i'm
prisonment were proper, as well as the dis
charge, and-like that-could not be avoided.
But it is puerile and foolish for the press
| OF the country to seize upon the arrest of
this poor old crack-brained man as matter
TOR jest. Flrst and last they have given col
umns OF matter, alleged to be humorous,
concerning him and his misfortune. Why
the JOKE is almost as old as the tribolites.
Even the boys in colleges whom the news
papers generally affect to patronize and are
always laughing at, who pass down jokes
from class to class for decades, have discarded
it. Country newspapers who count the
defunct Joe Miller as regular contributor,
have ceased to copy it.


The fool-killers certainly ought TO be able
to find bigger game than Daniel Pratt. There
are far more dangerous and meddlesome fools
abroad than he. They may be found iu
business and politics. If the tramp is to be
the butt of newspaper wits Massachusetts
can find one within her borders, one who
but lately journeyed from San Francisco to
Boston, whom it would be well to laugh out
OF the land. The paragraphers scatter their
fire too much. Let them concentrate it on
the dangerous fool and let the harmless one
go his way.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The anne and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
mlncatiOns that are not used.
Year: 1878

THE Cleveland Anzeiger, after looking
over the results of Tuesdays elections, is
satisfied that the Democratic party is too
deeply involved in the fiat movement to re-
turn to its old hard-money principle. And if
it should now seek to do so no one would
believe it. 1t thinks the process which be-
gan in Maine and Massachusetts of the
swallowing of the Democracy by the Ma
tional party must 60 on until both, already
as good as agreed in their purposes, are
Joined in name, and as the party of mega
ton are arrayed in the next Presidential
campaign in opposition to the party of posi-
tive priIciples-the Republican party. In
view of the victory in Ohio it thinks that no
Republican will have cause to fear the result.
Year: 1878

"I will not learn trade - exclaimed
a Young city blood to his father. But
this business OF learuing.a trade Is only
a matter of time; for within year that
Young man was studying harness-mak-
ing in the State prison.
Year: 1878

II man is to be baptized it ought to
be done thoroughly. The other day
convict was immersed, and when he
went home he took with him the min
ister's pOcket-bOOk. If he had been
held under water for half an hour this
accident would never have occurred.
Year: 1878

A Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion


Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
of the Masses.
Year: 1878

TEE woman who shufilss around in
cloth slippers broken down at the heels,
and wipes her nose on fiat iron holder,
is The one who leaves gristle in her mincs
pie, AID runs a hair pin IN her bread to
sea il it Is done.
Year: 1878

TFXAs has just executed a man who
had comm tied eight murders and about
fifty rosberies He sad he was going
straight to Heaven, but some folks are
mean enough to hint that he stubbed his
toe some here on the route.
Year: 1878

Extract from Gov. Smiths ad-
dress at the Northern Wisconsin
Fair:


Now, I tell you my friends here
to-day, that he who seeks to array
one class Of our people against an
other, is a common enemy. | be-
lieve that there can be no perman-
eut prosperity or enduring civiliza-
tion without q division OF labor and
l warn you here against him who
teaches or attempts to teach that
that there is any natural antagon-
ism betv cen a man who labors with
force IN his shop or on his land, and
the one who labors in his store, in
his Office or in his counting room:
between the employer and his en-
p.oyer, each Of whom are necessary
in the economy of nature, for the
attainmeuts Of the best results. As
we'll could the hand say to the head
I have no need for thee or to the
heart or to the foot I have 10 need
or thee, a. for any one to say | can
prosper without YOU


The fact, my friends, whether we
admit it or not, we are all depend
ent. The roots and Gbers of moral,
Intelligence and political being,
branch and spread through al the
latitudes and longitudes of society,
SO that the prosperity of one is the
prosperity OF all; and calamities are
not confined to the individuals, to
the classes and occupations upou
which they first infringe. You will
not expect me on this occasion to
enter into a discussion Of the many
interesting questions connected
with practical farming. | believe,
however, that agriculture Is the
most important Of ali our industries,
not only IS giving employment to
the greatest number of individuals,
and as utilizing, in the aggregate,
the largest amount OF capital, but
because upon its success depends
very largely the success Of all 9th
er industries.


Without agriculture, and | may
add without enlightened, progress
siye agriculture, without farmers
who realize that farming is both q
science and an art, vino are willing
TO study and investigate, and to
apply the learning which it gives to
the growing Of crops and the rails
ing Of stock, it IS Idle to expect the
highest type Of civilization and per
manent prosperity.


1t is doubtless true that CONNER
cial and manufacturing interests
may sometimes seem 10 prosper.
They may accumulate wealth more
rapidly than agriculture. They may
build more costly uabitations, fill
Year: 1878


Letter in Boston Herald


The new city Of Emerson is peo-
pied with immi grants from the old
er Canadian provinces and chiefly
from Ontario. I talked with several
and found that they were delighted
with their prospects. The land is
superlatively fertile, the soil being a
black mould which Is never less
than two feet deep. Grain grows
luxuriantly, as much as fifty bush
els Of wheat to the acre being no
uncommon yield. Vegetables -four
ish and attain gigantic proportions.
l saw cucumber grown not far
from here which was six feet and
half long, Indeed, the most strik-
ing proof and Illustration OF the fer
tility Of the soil is supplied by the
land which the halfbreeds have
cultivated. I saw a crop of wheat
yielding twenty-five bushels 10 the
acre growing on ground whereon
wheat had been grown for sixty
years in succession. Such land,
properly cultivated, would prove q

yeritable gold mine. The airi8 light
and exhiIerating, in the hottest part
of summer the evenings are cool,
and a blanket can always be borne
in bed. l can speak of the winter
climate from hearsay only, yet all
those persons who have wintered
here speak of the climate in terms
Of high praise. Mr.. Taylor, the
United States consul, who has
lived in Winnipeg for six years,
confirmed to me all that have
heard from the natives in favor of
the winter climate. Perhaps the
best proof Of good health which I
saw was the closing Of a large drug
gist's store on account of insufficient
custom.
Year: 1878

\ SIMPLE REMEDY.-It is said,
on reliable authority, that, if any
man will draw breath deeply and
quickly for the space Of three min
utes or less, he will thereby lose
acute sensibility to pain, so that,
he can endure a minor surgical op-
eratiQa without Inconvenience. En-
inent surgeons have found the pro
cess Of great advantage when used
alone, not only, but when aesthetics
also were employed, in which latter
case the quantity of the drugs to be
used is greatly diminished.
Year: 1878

THE New York World is quite merry
over the fact that many Republicans in
localities where. the Democrats are
more or less in the majority have expressed
themselves for GRANT in 1850. The World
should remember that in making the NOM
ination for that year these friends Of Cen
eral GRANT will have as much strength as
the Iowa Democrats will in the next Deh,
ocratic convention. Added TO the Repubb,
cans of other sections where the party is m
undisputed majority, and where he is the
unequaled favorite, their strength will
finally amount to something serious in the
estimation of the World and the Democracy
gcnerally-for, If there is anything the
Democrats would dislike, IT would be his
denomination.
Year: 1878

see how we save the peoples money!
carefully concealing from the public mind
the dire fact that this policy embarrascs
and cripples the wheels Of Government and
spreads destitution, want and extreme suf-
fering among the people.


Ifproper appropriations had been made
for the Bureau of the Land Office in the In
terror Department, there would have been
no necessity for large dismissal on Satur-
day last, at the close Of the second month Of
the fiscal year for the want Of funds to pay,
when IL is admitted that there is plenty Of
work to afford employment. Under such
circumstances is there any doubt where the
responsibility of this consequent suffering
belongsr We think not It plainly lays
at the door of Democratic House, and,
what is more, relief from such disaster
will never come until the people rise up in
their might and purify the popular branch
Of Congress Of the humbugs quacks, thinkers,
and knaves, who, under the cloak of dema-
gogical Democracy, are prosecuting the
Government and starving the people through
~ '"'Sc huu hypocri'icai cy VI eeohVhy
for party advantage. 1t is time the people
became possessed of the real facts relating
to the causes of popular suffering, which are
laying waste the future hopes and prospects
of large class of the governed.


As the Democrats have applied their rigid
and parsimonious hand to appropriations,
they have been guilty of n crime scarcely
less in enormity than for them to have
robbed the Government of the amount Of
money they have withheld from 1t. absolute
necessities for administration purposes The
Government is crippled and embarrassed
and portion of the people are oppressed
even to great suffering by tie blind policy
Of the Democratic party, and the great re-
sponsibility, therefore, must be pressed to
its legitimate premises and held there with
strong hand. Democratic parsimony
starves the people. That is the effect.
Year: 1878

KEARNEY started from san Francisco on
his present Eastern tour with $4,000 in his
pocket, raised by subscription among his
deluded followers to pay the expenses of his
evangalizing pilgrimage to the shrine of the
Widow of Essex. He cannot have spent
this sum in n proper manner since then, but
he has nevertheless begged aims like any
other tramp since his late departure from
Boston, and his begging has not been in
vain. Possibly he finds this demagogue-
agitation business to be more profitable than
that Of boss dr,yman.