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Year: 1878

TooTLE, LIVINGSTON & CO. offer the only nrst-class
ladies' misses and chdens coaks and fine shaws
the city Special taken n the selection and purchase
Of the stock for this depsrmenhe selections being made
entirely from the leading fashionable manufacturers New
York Every being we'll made in the latest style
and the material and trimmings used of the finest quality


We take great pride n calling the attention Of purchasers
similar establishment only 10 this city, in the entire
vest Our Alaska Beaver Velvet, Broche and Shetland
Sbsws embracing the production Of everything choice and
aua beautiful to be found in the New York market.
Year: 1878

wHAr TO him was love or hopsi What
to him was JOY or carsr He stepped on
q plug Of Irish soap the girl had LEFT on
the topmost stair. aud his feet iiew out
like wild fierce things, and he struck
each stair with q sound like drum
and the girl below with the scrubbing
things laughed like fsnd to see him
come
Year: 1878

TuEnE Is fortune In store for the
genius who can invent q way oil carry
ing home maeksrsl so that Il will re-
semble Q parcel containing twenty-siI
xsrtis Of silk for his dear wife.
Year: 1878

The shooting by the American team at
Creedmoor yesterday and the day before for
the Centennial trophy was Of course
mere iormality. Disheartened by defeat
no foreign team presented itself to contest
with our marksmen for victory. No one
entered the lists, for the reason that the SUI
periority Of our rihemcn was so prominen
that the chances of success against them
were us one in a thousand. While
this failure of a foreign team to compete is
one of the highest compliments that could
be paid our marksmcn it is to be regretted
that 1t should have occurred and that the
year must pass away without the annual in
ternational competition which we were be-
ginning to accustom ourselves to look for
ward to with SO much interest. The record
made during the pro torna shooting of
Wednesday and yesterday shows that the
hands Of our champions have not lost their
cunning. The scores were not all COM
pleted, but the total scored and the possi-
bic of the shots unfired would still leave
the teams record little lower than that
of last year. Some of the individual scores
were the best ever made. For instance, Mr..
Blydenburgh, who last year ran up the
then unparalleled score OF four hundred
and twenty points, has bcen surpassed
this year by three OF the present team.
gratifying circumstance connected with the
present team is that in it some OF the other
States are represented, which is an evidence
that the interest in this royal amusement is
not entirely confined to our own State, but
is becoming general oil over the country.
Year: 1878

If orders had been given by the mana
gers of the Long Island Railroad to cause
what is called an accident every other
day on that wonderful line its employees
would be entitled to the highest praise for
their zeal and efficiency 1t may be that
such is the fact, and that instead of con-
demning we ought to approve the SEEM
ingly wanton carelessness that yesterday
afternoon sent n road train crashing into
a regular passenger one on the Southern
Railroad. The only thing to make us doubt
the correctness of the supposition that the
bringing about Of collisions and the killing
of people is one Of the principal rules of the
road is that in the accident yesterday the
train Of that very important official. the pay
master Of the line, was one Of those that
came to grief. 1t seems that while his train
was rushing along at full speed from one
end OF the line passenger train was COM
ing in the opposite direction on the same
trnck. A telegraph operator at Fresh Pond
was instructed to detain one of them, but
he was so overjoyed at the prospect OF
salaries being paid that he forgot all about
it and the inevitable collision took place.
Fortunately there was no loss of life. The
shoulder of a passenger was broken and
the paymnster's head was cut and probably
some of the old rickety locomotives were
injured Since the managers are unable or
unwilling to improve the working of the
road we desire to suggest in the interest of
their patrons that they erect hospitals at
convenient distances along the line and
send out a good supply of surgeons on
every train.
Year: 1878

Twice within several months the Com
missioner of Public Works has asked the
Board Of Aldermen for authority to set up
pumps, fixtures, &C., on high ground near
One Hundredth street and the Hudson
River, so that Croton water may be deliv-
cred ut higher levels than it is now. The
public afiirmatively and strongly indorses
the Commissioners request. Not only is
the water supply precarious on the upper
floors of residences upon high ground, but
far down town there are houses above the
second floors of which there can be no
water drawn between early morning and
late evening. The authorities have en-
deavored to stop the waste of water, and
have succeeded in creating an occasional
scare on the subject of water famine,
but this plan has not materially raised
the level of the Park reservoir, SO
the annoyance of imperfect water service
has continued. There can be no doubt of
the duty of the Aldermen in this matter.
Water taxes are collected upon each sta
tionary basin and other place where water
is supposed to flow, and the city cannot
honorably refuse to supply that for which
the citizens pay. Even the overshadowing
Importance of always supporting the Comp
troller in his opposition to the head of the
Department of Public Works should in Or
dinary decency be forgotten in the consid-
Grafton of this matter. Public officials may
waste peoples time and money in faction
fighting and no very serious complaint is
made, but when such contentious deprive
respectable citizens of drinking water and
the principal means of cleanliness the poll
ticians may expect to hear very loud and
very long complaints.
Year: 1878

The almost continuous rough water at
Lachine since Courtney's arrival there will,


if il lasts, do more than simply inconven-
icnce and drive him to take his exercise on
land--it will seriously endanger his pros
poets in the race. Since his arrival there
he has not yet been able to be much on the
racing track ITSELF owing to the heavy
weather, and thus he can have but partial
idea of its eddies and currents. The st.


Lawrence widens at Lachine into broad
water, not unlike the Tappan Zee, and,


while the current is doubtless chiefly in the
main channel, it can hardly fail to affect all
portions OF the water. Unless Courtney
can get several days practice before next
Wednesday on the track itself he is going
into the contest plainly Handicapped. Han
lan's former knowledge of this water will
prove very valuable now, and, in addition,


he was there for several days before Court
ney's arrival, and doubtless made good use
of the time. While it is unfortunate that
less exposed water was not chosen, still, if
Courtney can 20 early to the front, he is
Year: 1878

There could not be more conspicuous
and convincing proof Of the soundness Of
the Saratoga platform on tho money ques-
ton than is furnished in the warm and
eulogistic speech of Mr.. Curtis Mr. Curtis
went to the Convention in q mood to find
fault and criticise if he could find an
occasion, and the fact that he makes
one of his most brilliant and en-
phatic speeches in admiring support of
the platform evinces the consummate
skill with which the dominant -Conkling


faction has engineered the proceedings.


Senator Conkling has been victorious
throughout, as it was a foregone conclusion
that he would be rs soon as his majority
became known, but it was not expected
that Convention controlled by his friends
and run in his interest would call forth
warm eulogies from the bittcrest of his
political and personal enemies. But we
are treated to this miracle. Senator
Conkling might be justified in re-
garding the speech of Endorsement
made by Mr.. Curtis as the proudest trophy
of his victory If his former treatment Of
that brilliant gentleman had not been such


as to require him to seem Indifferent to
anything Mr.. Curtis may say. But the pub
lie. which does not share Mr.. Conkling's
affected indifference, will regard the speech
OF Mr.. Curtis in the Convention yesterday
as bright feather in Senator Conkling's 3
Year: 1878

standard, in virtue of which their news
papers seem to Americans to have
very little relation to the actual
daily life of the people and to be
made up mostly Of exceedingly we'll writ
ten essays and conscientious narratives OF
the personal adventures of correspondents,
in which narratives the writer's often come
very near to statement of the facts the
reader wants to know. This is standard
SO different from that peculiar to this coun-
try that we cannot wonder that on either
side opinions are not altogether compliment
tary to the journalism of the other side.
But conformity to standard actually
chosen is readily susceptible of judgment,
and it may be readily said that against their
own high claims in the matter of honesty in
journalism the London journalists are the
greatest sinners. For years the financial
and theatrical opinions of the London Times
were as notoriously purchasable as any COM
modify in London shop window. The
critic whom we quote alleges that its po-
litical opinions are equally purchasable to-
day-not for money, of course, since the
proprietor of the Times has no need of that
kind Of gear But if the government pur-
chases the opinions of the Times by dangling
in the eyes of the proprietor the bauble OF
title, the reader who buys it to get an inde-
pendent judgment on public topics is just
as much betrayed as if the Times sold its
applause for SO much money.
Year: 1878

The proceedings at Syracuse must be
scored as q victory for Mr.. Kelly. After the
delegates had been chosen and before the
Convention met the Tilden faction put
forth confident claims that it had majority
and that it would easily shape the action of
the Convention. That proved to be
vain boast. BY superior strategy,
if not by superior numbers, Mr..
Kelly gained control Of the body, and the
result shows that it was not Mr. Tilden's
or Mr. Robinson's Convention, but Mr.
Kelly's Convention. The power, and the
prestige which accompanies q demonstra-
ton OF power, may be fairly claimed by MIR.
Kelly. AS to the State Committee, which was
the great bone of contention, there are coun-
ter claims, but the Kelly claim seems the
more plausible. Certain it is that Mr..
Kelly's allies in the rural districts will be
encouraged and strengthened by the results
of his strategy at Syracuse. But that is o
to the city apparently victorious, and his
democratic enemies here will despair of foil
ing him in the municipal elections of the
present year. But if he should presume
too much on his victory at Syracuse and put
forward an unfit candidate for the Mayor
atty he may experience in this city q, hu-
initiation which he escaped in the Conven-
ton. We suppose he will have no further
hesitation in announcing his candidate, and
the press of the city may have something to
snv ma tn whether Mr. Kellvs candidate
ought to be elected.
Year: 1878

told, to bondholders. What are they to
do with it? Will they give it away !?
They will keep it or loan it. What
good will that do? If put into cir
culation it will dilute and depreciate the
whole currency and put up prices for the
poor to pay, and the wages OF labor will not
advance fast enough to keep up with the
advance of prices Of food and commodities.
All borrowers with security can borrow at
the cheapest rates OF interest now-this is
all they can do after more greenbacks are
issued"


1t is true enough that there is nothing
original in this line of argument; but who
can dispute that it is calculated to make
greater impression on the public mind when
coming from so eminent statesman as Mr.
Conkling? His Endorsement Of such
views is important in wider aspect
1t proves that there is to be abso-
lutte unanimity in the republican party
on the great question of the cur
rency. In spite of the greenback mad
ness which rules the hour one of our great
political parties is unalterably committed
W Souuu uuOuctdfy Pi'AOAP PiSS SaN NOAANSs
dealing with the public creditors and,
even if it should suffer in the election of
this year, it need entertain no doubt that
the '1sober second thought" of the people
will support it. Senator Conkling
makes felicitous quotation from Lamar
tine on this subject:-"I place my
bark on the highest promontory of the
beach and wait for the rising Of the tide to
make it float" This assumes that the
honest money sentiments of the country
are rising tide and that it is safe to await
it's incoming food. We have no doubt. at
all that this opinion of Mr.. Conkling is
founded on correct forecast of the fu-
ture, nor that if the question between
sound money and imitation should be the
main issue in the next Presidential elec-
tion, that the advantage will be on the
side of the republican party, especially if
resumption next January should prove
success and the business Of next year
should be successfully conducted on the
specie basis.
Year: 1878

Now and then London journals. weary
ing in the effort to reduce tho newspapers
of the United States, France or Germany to
the level of conformity with their sense of
what is admirable, turn to considering one
another and lamenting each the weak
nesses of it's adversary. They find the field
fruitful one English journalists have
made for themselves O severe and heavy
Year: 1878

Ii THE TESTIMONY given yesterday by the
witness Jones, in the Billings murder trial,
to the effect that he saw the accused enter
the Washburne house some minutes before the
shot was fired cannot be broken down 1t must,
taken in connection with what is already in,
essentially aid in acquittng the prisoner. Some
expert evidence in favor of the accused was
also presented.
Year: 1878

IN THE Custom HOUSE inquiry one of the
witnesses informed Mr.. Wood that he could
suggest no improvement in the collection of
duties OH human hair. The chairman Of the
Ways and Means ought to call Sitting Bull.
Year: 1878

THE SQUALL in which the annual pennant re-
gatta Of the Atlantic Yacht Club was closed
yesterday afternoon gave some of the beauti-
full craft an opportunity to show their seaw orthy
qualities. All the boats behaved splendidly.
Year: 1878

The remarks of the director of the Meteor
illogical Office which are given above indi-
cate fully surrender Of the position taken
in April last against the HERALD weather
predictions for Europe and show tacii
acceptance of the HEuALD system.
Year: 1878

The LEE CAUCUs.-Thc caucus Of the
Conservative members OF the General AS
sembly met in the hall Of the House OF Del
egates yesterday afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock.
There was not full attendance, owing, it
is thought, to insufficient notice having
been given. Without the transaction OF
any business the caucus adjourned to meet
at the same place at 4:3O O'Clock this after
MON
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June &c The Assistant
Attorney General for the Postofice
Department has had under consideration
the question as to whether road that has
been established as a mail route can be
closed by the local authorities of country,
and has decided that the question of
highways is to be determined by the
authorities of the state; that establishment
OF post route simply means the designation
of such highways are already in existence
aud the duty does not therefore devolve
upon the government of either opening
roads or keeping roads open.
Year: 1878

It is said that one out Of every four real
invalids who go to Denver, Col, to recover
health, never return to the East or South
except as corpse. The undertskers, next
to the hotel keepers, have the most profit
able business. This excessive mortality
may be prevented and patients saved and
cured under the care of friends and loved
ones at home, if they will but use Hop
Bitters in time, This we know. See
other column.
Year: 1878

MADRID, ..June 27.-The announcement
OF the death Of the queen of Spain has
been received with profound sorrow and
sympathy throughout Europe; the feeling
IN Spain almost approaches CONSERVATION.


Hopes were raised at the crises of the
disease that the vigorous constitution of
the queen might triumph over the com
phcatlon OF maladies, but her condition
was made doubtly perilous blythe fact that
she waslexpected to become mother before
the end of the year. The queen died about
noon in the arms Of the king and surround
ed by the royal family. Her remains will
lie in state to day and be conveyed to the
royal mausoleum at the Escurial. Friday,
The president of the medical faculty Of the
royal palace in bulletin announcing to
the president ct the council of ministers
the death OF the queen attribute the pain
tul event to Nervous Gastric fever accom- :
panied by several intestinal hemorrages.
Year: 1878

AUGUSTA, Ga, June ga. II. Ste
phens spoke here to night to an immense
crowd and vindicated his course on the
Potter resolution by the logic of subsequent
events, and declared that he could not be
ruled out of the party by political tricksters.
If the coming district democratic conven-
ton failed to nominate him he would ap-
peal to the people. He said Hayes was
doing more for the south than Tilden could
have done and declared that he himself
would die in the temple of Jeffersonian
democracy, free frem party lash and caucus
lassp,
Year: 1878

Distress af;eS eating, one of the most
unpleasant results Of Indigestion. will no
luuger be experienced if tablespoonful of
Simmons Liver Regulator is taken after
each meal This will prevent the distress
referred to; aud perseyering in the use OF
this remedy for "a lew weeks a permanent
cure will be effected. and pain will no long
er be the penalty OF eating.
Year: 1878

New YORK, June Yesterdays returns
from the first precinct to police headquarters
stated that beautiful woman named Hattie
Adams, twenty-eight years old, had at
tempted suicide at the Battery sea wall, and
was prevented from doing so by an officer
named Ganly, who was on post there. It is
now alleged that the woman was assaulted
by the policeman, and during the struggle
the officer struck her in the abdomen She
tainted and could remember nothing more
until she found herself in the station-house.
She there gave her name but declined to state
however, she said her residence was at An,
dover, Mass, where her sister Is at present.
Their parents have been dead some years,
and it was only because she could obtain no
other employment that she sought situa-
ton as servant
Year: 1878

Little HRtchet, and COnceaIs the


Body I'm a Grave.


NEW YORK, June 27.-Another murder has
occurred, and one which shocks the public. 1t
is the murder OF mother by son only nine
years old. The story Is one of the most ap-
pallingtln the whole annals of human crime,
and, w1thal, 1t is heart-tOuching, as showing
the misdirection of noble nature, for the
motive OF the crime was honor, and the son
slew his mother that her blood might wash
out the stain her tntideIity had put upon her
husbands name.


The case is a most remarkable one. There
seems to be no evidence of vicious dishonor
on the part of the boy, but on the contrary he
seems to have had a loving heart, and to have
been tenderly attached to his dead father, but
a cloud came over his young existence when
his mother, forgetting her duty to the living
and the dead, contracted Illicit alliance with q
government employee.


The woman seems to have troubled her
self little to con ceal her GnsOur8 from her
son, thinking child of such tender years
would not be likely to pay attention to her
action, and she does not seem to have ever
suspected the precocious sense of her child.


The boy entered his mothers bedroom,
and finding her asleep, with one


BLOW OF THE HATCHET
he killed her. He then took the body, which
he dragged to a grave he had prepared and
there Inferred it.


The trial of this strange story is progress
ing in the town of Valok, In the government
of Kharkaw. Mr.. Vledimer, professor of
criminal law at the university Of Kharkaw,
has spontaneously undertaken the defense of
the unfortunate child.
Year: 1878

LONDON, June 777.-Tf1o persistent persistent otatGS=F
of gold from the Bank Of England for Paris,
which, during the week ending yesterday,
amounted to nearly one million pounds stsr-
ling, caused rates of discount in the open
market to work up within a fraction of the
official charge and unless checked by action
Of the bank, it is believed there will be o
further drain
Year: 1878

circulation with the statement would have
been through the identical journals that had
first given publicity to it. This these papers
persistent1y refused to do, although the Gin
cinnati Gazette promptly coltradicted the
statement that yellow fever existed in Louis
vile as an epidemic.


In consideration of the fact that Cincinnati
had established q rigid quarantine against
persons suffering from yellow fever, and Lou
isville had not done so, but had met them
with oren-handed hospitality, the conclusion
is inevitable that the attempt to locate an
epidemic in the latter city was actuated by a
mean spirit Of business rivalry.


A temporary lull in business followed.
Southern merchants, on their way to Louis
vile to purchase goods, were deferred from
visiting the city, and were obliged, in many
cases against their will, to make purchases in
other Cities but the effect was transient In
the latter part of October business revived
and by the first of November the volume Of
business transacted on Main street was larger
than it had been for five years before.
Year: 1878




If any fact has been more fully demonstrated
than another during the period of the plague,
it is the inetfectiveness of inland quarantines
Aside from the migratory habits of people in
general, and the determination of the average
American citizen to exercise his God-given
right to 60 where he pleases, the tramp nuis-
ance offers an insuperable barrier TO the Of
fsctive organization of quarantine in city
surrounded by land. 1t is possible that a
single individual might establish aquarantine
against all the world, if he could exclude the
atmosphere and initiate his lungs through dis
infectants.


During two months in which the Yellow
Fever Hospital was in operation in Louisville
seventy-six patients were admitted to it, Wis.,
itors we're in daily attendsQce-not only
physicians, but ministers of the Gospel and
other citizens The ladies Of the Flower
Mission visited it regularly every Thursday,
and yet not single person who visited the
hospital contracted the disease. This would
appear to be proof positive that something
else besides contact with the disease is requis-
ite to import it from one person to another.


Certain atmospheric conditions are favora-
bic to the spread Of the disease, and when
these phenomena exist guarantees against
people or goods from infected districts, even
if they could be enforced, are utterly inef-
fective in preventing the disease. But tue
quarantine can not be enforced. Notwith-
standing the most rigid examination Of pas
sengers arriving upon the railroad trains and
steamboats, outside the limits Of Cincinnati,
the pest-house in that city had more yellow
fever patients than the hospital at Louisville.


Numerous places in the Southern States
quarsntined against the whole outside world,
and allowed no communication with it, but
the fever came upon them all the same, either
through the atmosphere or by being carried
in tho systems Of refugees, as in Cincinnati.
In the former places the disease spread, and
in the latter it did not. The Bel theory has
been fully vindicated BY the result in many
places both North and South, and has proved
tho necessity of thorough system Of drain
age and disinfecting those districts in large
towns which are liable to produce disease.


Aside, then, from the unchristian and in
human character Of quafantines, the result Of
which is constant cause Of reproach against
those cities which instituted them, the USE
lessness Of attempting to bar out pestilence
which defes all human barricades has been
proven to be 80 apparent that we doubt if it
is ever again attempted in the Mississippi
vallov