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Year: 1875




Martin Ct al Luster.-This litigation grows out Of
one OF tug and barge excursions OF
summer The plaintiffs claim that the defendant hired
from them for excursion up the Hudson under the
auspices Of the "Grand Rink Combination" " the 25th
OF August their two barges St. Nicholas and Lawton,
together with tug the price OF 5000 and that
all passengers 400 they be paid fifty cents
. head, defendant claiming that he was SO popular
among the Masons and Odd Fellows that he could per-
sonay dispose Of at least 500 tickets money TO be
paid over on the making their last landing on the
up; that the boats furnished and made all the
landings but at the last one observing that the band
was about leave In consequence of payment for
their services he big fiddle going far threaten
an assault upon somebody with his nstrumentl
the plaintiffs also demanded their money,
who Immediately took himself OF and the party dis
pereed leaving the barkeepers and other employees TO
curse their i luck being cheated out Of their anci-
pated profits The Of the story given by de-
fendant differs very materially from planils'. lie
says that, being musician, and having control OF
large band the plaintiffs approached him and proposed
that they should furnish the boats and he the music for
Sunday trip the profits Of the excursion 10 be divided
between them that he fulfilled his part OF the contract
and did his best to sell tickets but there being large
number or other trips advertised the day named,
only twenty-five paying excursioniss made their APP
pearance. that plaintiffs demanding their money the
sam or kf1 being one half Of the proceeds
dored which they got mad and swore, and the cap
tain Of the tug, who was also looking for
his pay intimatng that he would turn the
barge adrIt in the river, all hands took
fright, and led Dy the dancing master, ncontnenty
he'd He also says that on advertising afterward that
would their money 20 all ticket holders he
bad applications from twenty -four, who on being taken
into a private room, we're willing TO make oath that
they had paid out 81 each and that he therefore
of pocket AZ In cash. besides other expenses The
Jury rendered a verdict In favor Of the defendant
Year: 1875

The notorious william Gleason, alias "Big Dock, +"
was yesterday arragncd at the above named court
complaint Of Joseph Wolf cloth dealer who charged
him with robbery and fclonious assault Mr. Wolf
riding the platform Of Third car which
crowded ut the time when he felt tuggng at his
vest and missed his watch Al the moment three
men jumped OF tho Wolf followed and seized hold
OF the last Of them. This man Big Dock Y who
quickly turned round and struck Wolf In the face He
then fed, but Wolf went iu pursuit The fug-
tive down Ann street and up Theatre
alley. As Wolf was nearing him he halted
a moment aud struck his pursuer another
blow, knocking him down. AZ Wolf lay the ground
aBig Dockn drew q revolver and fred a shot al him.


hul fortunately missed him The murderous thief then
Year: 1875

At meeting OF the Commissioners ofParks yesterday
the specifications for the regarding OF Third
from l47th street TO Harlem bridge approved
proposals for the work ordered To be advertised
for The grade is at present considerably lower than
the lots bordering IL
Year: 1875

invalid and made and presented by Tweed and
Watson. The order in the case was made by Judge
Wcstbrook on June II, 1875 when suit begun but
owing TO the habeas corpus argument and appeal,
which Tweed eventually released the prosecutors
allowed the matter TO remain in satu quo.


The order Of arrest was placed n the hands Of the
Sheriff at two O'Clock yesterday and he Immediately
sent the warrant in charge OF Major William II.
Quincy who detailed Deputy David G.. McGonige to
serve the process upon Tweed at Ludlow Street Jail
No iormality was necessary, other than handing the
paper to Tweed in his room at the Jail The order Of
arrest Is returnable on the 21st of October
Year: 1875

"Mark Twain" found it necessary
20 give q description Of an sequsint-
snce once, and especially desired that
nothing in his description should be
understood as indicating prejudice
against the subject-he should contine
himself to bare facts; and this is the
array of facts: "A long-legged. vain
lightweight lawyer, from New Hamp'
shire. Ifhe had brains in proportion
10 his legs he would make Solomon
feel failure; IL his modesty equalled
his Ignorance he would make violet
seem stuck up; il his learning equal
ed his vanity he would make Won
Humboldt seem as unlettered As the
backside of tombstone; II his statue
was as well proportioned as bis con-
science he would be gem for the mi


eroseo2es; IL his ideas were rs large
as his words it would take man thres
months to walk around one OF them


IL an audience were to contract to lis


ten as long as he would talk, that au


dience would die of old age; and II h'
were to talk until be said something
he would still be on his legs when tn
last trump sounded, and he woui'
have cheek enough to wait till the dis
turbance was over and go on again.
Year: 1875

Says the San Francisco Call: To


an American nothing can be more
utterly incOmpreaensible and mOnot-


Onous than q Chinese play. Many


go once out Of curiosity; but the out


rageous music Of the orchestra, with


its wailing, stringed instruments, and


discOrdant gongs, interpreted with


the horrible jargOn OF the Celestial, 10
rarely sufficient to hold entranced the
casual white spectator when 8 free


melOdeOn entertainment furnishes


him with superior attraction.


OF late, however, the manager Of
the Chinese theater has introduced


'new business" with the idea Of Sc
curing patronage outside of that af-


forded by his countrymen. The
Chinese tumblers lately introduced


into the Jackson street Chinese
Academy of Music are indeed msrvels
in their line, and the performances
are well worth seeing. These aero


bats do not appear alone, but are in
cidental to the piece, very much as
| the circus scene is introduced in the
play OF "Old Curiosity Shop" Just
/ before the appearance of the acrobats,


a ChinAman rushes down stairs to in
form those on the street that the


tumbling is about to begin, and there


is q rush directly from below. Amid


q tremendous demonstration on the
part of the orchestra the umbllng be-
gins. A gigantic Cninaman comes
out dressed in q grotesque costume in


which every known color is blended.
/ He goes through q number Of -four


ishes and bows, which cause the un-
sophisticated portion OF the audience


to entertain the belief that he is q star


performer. Such, however, is not the


fact, as the man is only figure-head.
At last = number of athletic Mon
\ golians appear, stripped to the waist,


and begin sort of combat upon the


stage. At first the fighting appears to
be promiscuous, but six or eight final
! Iy ally themselves against one man
and try to overcome him by spring
ing against him and striking him full
in the breast with the sOles Of theiI


feet, He meets this curious mode oil


attack by standing like statue while
the others fall heavily upon the floor.
A number Of tables are next brought
out and piled one above the other un.
I'll q hight of about twenty feet is at.
tanned. A performer, whose weight
: is no less than 80 pounds, mounts
) them and, springing in the air to


ward the floor and the stage, strikes


both feet with heavy thud upon the
} bare breast Of man standing abou
ten feet from the foot Of the tables
! throwing him violently to the floor
: How man can sustain such n blow
! Is a mystery. Again the agile aero
J. bat ascends to the top taole, AM
{ sprInging upward turns q sOmersanlt
g while ali the tables except the lowe


zone are suddenly taken away. Upol
Year: 1875

Six skunks got into Pennsylvania
camp-meeting,s short time since and
after standing it as long as he could
one Of the brethren arose and remark.
ed: 'If you all say so, beloved, and
think you will, we'll get ont OF this,
The Arch Enemy of mankind must
be stirring up his fires, for I am sure
I / smell the gas"
Year: 1875

MEssRs. T. E. JEWELL aid H. w. Mas sey of San Francisco, recently combined their surplus means and procured one of the new 20-cent coins and sent it to us, and we hereby give in return our sincere thanks for the successful combinaton in our behalf The piece is beauty and its want in California and other places where coin is the circulating medium, was very great and will do much to stop small but hourly swindle on the public. It is just like the quarter dollar, save the edge IS smooth. There should have been a more marked difference. But is is better ia any form than not at all.
Year: 1875

Is always supplied with an ample variety of well-cooked food. No eXaggeration In this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand It, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully referred for information.
Year: 1875

A WILD Bor CAuGHr.-A gentleman
arrived from Marcos yesterday and
brought the news Of the capture OF wild
boy few miles from that place. The
boy was first discovered wallowing in =
pond OF shallow water, and when ap-
preached he broke like quarter horse,
running about mile before he could be
overtxkcn by men on ponies. Riding up
near the boy was lassoed, when . fierce
contest ensucd, the strange being strik-
ing, kicking and Juggling about in the
most fearful manner, and apparently be-
ing frightened almost to death. Finally
he was overpowcred, tied, and taken to
the house of the man who first discover
ed him. His body was covered with hair
about four inches long, and from size
and appearance he is supposed to be
about twelve years old. lie is unable to
talk. but possesses reasoning power, and
now follows his captor about like dog.
--Austia Ts1as) Statesman.
Year: 1875

At the Door.
The mistakes of my life are many
| The sins of my heart are more,
And scarce see for weeping,


But knock ut the open door.
know am weak and sinful


1t comes to me more and more;
But when the dear Saviour shall bid me come in


III enter that open door!
l am lowest of those who love him,


l am weakest of those who pray;
But come as he has hidden.


And he will not say me nay.
My mistakes his free grace will cover;


My sins he will wash away;
And the feet, that shrink and falter,


Shall walk through the gate Of day.
The IN istakes of my life are many


And my spirit il sick with sin,
And scarce can see with weeping


But the Savior will let NE in
/ know am weak and sinful,


1t comes to me more and more
But when the dear Savior shall bid me come in
I'll enter that open door.
Year: 1875

terested friends may have proposed various but
wholly without the authority OF the principals.


In this assured the money is actually raised
and deposit the first time dollar mas been SO put
UP, These men will not 60 beyond SavohUU. Tor am
assured that and especially Tweed nave lost Deir
desire to settle al all but stu held 10 tue proposition
by some the others


must charge you not TO let any OF the counsel OF
these hear OF this negotiation for learn that all
would do all in their power 70 prevent It. These
counsel told. unit in ad dvsin2 these men that
the public never get civil Judgment nor crinl,
nal verdict against OF them; and this proposed
compromise Is by the advice friends outside OF coun-
80 ' b. a. JAYNE


New YORK. lls WALL STREET, 1uy Is ls7S
Hon. z. DELAYED NTH Corporation COUNSEL


DEAR SIR-I inclose your letter OF jayne TO YOU


have several OF the gentlemen 10 whom you re-
ferred the other day. and find them opposed 10 SETTLE


am going OF town Thursday. to be gone some
weeks When return will try and arrange meeting
with yourself and all Of these gentlemen ana We can
have full discussion In the meantime the matter can
lie


While should not deem ii my duty aiirmatvely TO
oppose settlement to which all the others were favor
aDle am yet free to say that my own views are de-
cidedly against It.


amount sued for In the civil suits and OF convctng In
the criminal With an honest Court and Jury the result
and public morality demand the punishment OF these
men, aud were mine the deciding voice they would be
punished or go free.


l believe however, in consultation, and we can all
properly decide on the matter early In September
Yours truly, WHEELER II. PECkHAM
Year: 1875

TIE SUBJECT NECESSARILY sPECuLATIvE-PRE-


yIoUs ASSUMPTIONS CONSIDERED - NATURES


SCHEME SEEMS IMPERFECT BECAUSE VIZ SEE SO


SMALL A PART-INFINITE OPPORTUNITIES FOR


LIFE AMONG PLANETS CIRCLING AROUND DIS


TANT STARS


lFRon SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE rRIBuNE.l


BosTON, Nov. 1I.-Prof. Proctor Is well qualified
by previous consideration of the subject to discuss
the question whether other worlds habitable.
Ii is probably in this respect that his present views
in matters of science will be popularity regarded as
diverging most widely from his earlier expressions
though not from those Of his previous lectures
in this country There is nothing specially heretica
however, in his present view, that the chances Of
planet being in condition 10 support life are a
million outside the solar system amid the invisible
planets that revolve around the stars to one chance
that there is any habitable globe except the earth
within the orbit of Neptune. The lecture is chiefly
remarkable for the dircctness with which il attacks
former theories upon the subject which were based
rather mems ideas as To how the universe ought
to be managed than on the slender array OF known
facts that are really pertinent TO the discussion.
Year: 1875

man, who had been getting ashes, went aud lay down
at the back the funnel The witness stated that the
second engineer seized tine by the hair OF the head
and kicked him violently three or four times IN the rms
The man cried out, co. officer you have murdered me- y
The second engineer then knocked the mans mead
against the iron plating and ultimately kicked him down
the stokehole and water hose played ON him.
He aforward carried deck. where he iel aud
began bleed from the mouth, and nostrlls Ihe
man was then conveyed TO the ships hospital and died
in two days. The doctor made post-mortem eXalnn'
ton the body and reported that disease o the hert
was the cause OF death but" continued the witness,


he died from being kicked" The deceased man. before
he died sent for Of the and told hun 10 inform
his brother in Liverpool that he had been murdered by
the second engineer. Wren said all the crew knew about
the matter


James Caldwell, the second engineer was brought TO
the police office, and locked up on the charge pre-
against him by Wren. The of the Bri-
tannic who made the port-mOrtom examination gave "
as his opinion that the deceased died from natural
Year: 1875

We observe some of our ex- changes and some correspondents of the Gazette are advocating the remitting of the fifteen per cent. penalty imyosed upon dellnquents for 1874. We have not, however, seen any good reason given by any why this should be done, and we don't think any can be given. For ourselves we say right now, let no such thing be done. We shall oppose any such child's play. When the act imposing this pen alty was passed It was believed to be confering favor upon the people. And so it was. The pen alty was placed very low-at just about what the use of the money was considered worth. We see no oppression to any one in it. We see no justice in remitting it it and allowing taxes delinquent for one year to be paid on the same terms with those who paid when it was properly due. The poor mans taxes are no harder in proportion for him to meet than the wealthy mans. The poor man who has nothing, has but little tax to pay, and if the proper exertion was made he could pay it easier than him who has his thousand dollar tax to pay. We want to see justice as we'll as mag nanimity. Suppose the men of large means who owed large taxes, had seen some opportunity by which they could have invested their means so as to justify the payment of the 15 per cent. pen alty, and the larger bulk of the taxes have been with held. What, then, would have been the consc- quences to our state? We would have found our finances in such a deplorable condition that it would have been impossible to run the State government.

 We say the arrangement where by taxpayers were allowed to re

 tain their money for one year by the payment of fifteen per cent. was liberal leniency-more lib eral than it was wise for the state to make-and for the next legis- lature to remit it will be not only child's play, but injustice to the State and to the taxpayers who periodically came forward and
Year: 1875

It is an established fact, we believe, that in this country one man is as good as another; but it is not so evident that one State is as good as another. Here, for instance, is Illinois. It is a large State, a fertile State, populous State, a wealthy State. It is the State from which General Grant entered the army in 1861. It is the State from which he appoint ed his excellent minister to France. It is the State which contains General Logan. It is, on all these and many other ac- counts, a State which does not deserve ct the hands of the feder- al government such q grave and offensive slight as has been and is put upon it. We speak of the matter with pain, but in the pub lie interest we can remain silent no longer.

 Ku Klux have ragged in Frank lin and Williamson counties, in Illinois, not merely for weeks ol months, but for two years "Shrouded sharpshaoters" defy justice, and murder and intimi date at their own ferocious wills The law officers of the county and State are, or seem to be, unable to check violence or to punish murder and rapine; and yet we dc not hear of federal interference. General Grant remains uncon- cerned at Long Branch, while the laws are defied by masked mur- derers in his favorite State. There is no proclamation warning these Illinois Ku Klux to disperse There is no summons of troops to go to the scene of long continued bloodshed. The President, SC prompt to interpose his strong arm in South Carolina or Louisi- ana or Mississippi, so eager to interfere in Arkansas ill the cause of peace and order, is utterly neg lectful of Illinois. Why is thisi Are the people of Illinois rot as good as those of Arkansas or Louisiana? Must men nowadays live south of Mason and Dixon line to be entitled to the favorable notice of the federal government Have Northern or Northwestern men no rights that the President is bound to enforce with federal bayonets? Are Ku Klux to bs destroyed in the South and to bs encouraged in the North only
Year: 1875

SIGNIFIcANT.-Every Democrat ic governor of every Democratic State in the Union is noted for his high personal character, .un- ilinching integrity and honest ad- ministration of his office. Won't the people be apt to think that a party that can select such men as grace governors chairs of the Democratic States for its leaders, can be safely trusted to choose q President to succeed Grant?-Ex.

 What a striking contrast is here presented between the pres eat regime and that of the recon struction, carpet-bag governments which have happily passed away. Not only is the contrast remarka- ble in the personal character of the governors but also in the con dition of all things in these states. The change for better will be equally as great and happy, when we get Democratic National Ad- ministration in 1876.
Year: 1875

brave and honest men who dared stand out for their convictions. They hustled out of their so-called church the one time bosom friend but afterward formal accuser of their pastor, and made the sacred edifice ring with their violent out cries. They took back their stain ed pastor with unexampled gush- l ing of affection, and voted him . bonus of $S0,000 as q sort of re :. ward for his scandalous behavior. Mir. Beecher's friends surely serv- ed him in better stead than Col. Bakers, even though among the latter was the heir to the British throne.

 There is as much difference be- tween the conduct of the two men as the circumstances of their trial. Mir. Beecher's defence was abuse of his accuser, and-infamous be- yond belief-abuse of the victim of his unholy passion! He had the impudence to declare that 1t was she who thrust her love on him unsought, and to lay on her shoulders such blame as there was in their relations, while he represented himself as an unsus- pecting holy man whose thoughts

 

 were occupied with heavenly while hers were filled with earthly love! He, coward that he was, tried to escape the penalty of the law and of public opinion by rep resenting Mrs. Hilton as wife, at least in heart, adulterous to her husband.

 Col. Baker sustained his repu- tation as a man of honor and bray cry by making no attempt at the trial or through his exalted friends to throw reproach on the charac ter of Miss Dickinson, thereby to gain for himself dastardly i'm munity which would have been more scandalous than the outrage he committed in the railway car. His counsel expressly declared to the jury that he had received in structions from his client to make no attempt to discredit Miss Dick -inson, and not 8 word was utter ed to that end.

 How do these two cases and these two men compare? Yet Col. Baker justly loses his liberty, his position, and his character; while Henry Ward Beecher flaunts be- fore the public as an honest man, devout soul, a messenger of heaven and an exemplar for his fellows. Those who believe in his guilt are bad men, and delud- cd partisans ransack Brooklyn to get up a triumphal reception for him when he returns from his shameful proceedings in the White Mountains to renew his defiance of public opinion from Plymouth pulpit.

 We think every one will give Col. Valentine Baker the credit of being 8 far more credltable speci- men of human species than the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
Year: 1875

Of all the disgraceful exhibi- tions of intolerance and bitterness that have come to our knowledge, the storm that has been raised in

 Illinois over the proposed visit of Mir. Jefferson Davis to Rockford

 is the most contemptiblc and ig-

 noble. Those same people, the

 Guard Army of the Republic, the

 Chicago Inter Ocean and similar types of sectional hate reproach

 us of the South in pious horror

 because we feel and express dis

 like for such tyrants as Sheridan

 and such morally unclcan creat-

 ures as Butler and Morton. We

 have never held indignation meet

 ings in view of q contemplated visit of any person, however ob- noxious to us; we have never dreamed of resenting the presence of a man in our midst, whether that man were our most implaca- ble foe or most odious betrayer. We who have real and living wrongs to suffer; who can look back across the grievous years that have lnteryened since the war. aud see only the long record of injustice and oppression; who need not go back a twelvemonth for injuries that touch cur dear est rights; we have never once broken into this base clamor which is now deafening decent ears from Illinois. Men more ob- uoxious to us than this broken old man should be to any living soul; men who have done us darker wrongs than Jefferson Davis and all his hosts combined ever did the people of Illinois; these men by scores walk our streets, occu- py our public places, fatten on the plunder of our people, parade their stolen wealth before the gaze of their victims, and this with an immunity from violence and insult that the Christianity of Illinois does not seem to contem. plate.

 It is from such lying sheets as the Chicago Inter-Ocean that we hear of ostracism and political as sassination in the South. The hired tools of islander and defama- tion whom that journal employs, dwell among us unharmed to libel and malign us for pitiful ends it has to serve. And yet this Chi cago Inter- Ocean, which lives by its indignation over the outrages of it's own degraded coinage, has been the one to strike the key note of a chorus that should and will disgrace It's authors and it's desecrates the cen tennial anniversary of our com mon liberation.

 It is through such revelations as this that we identify the senti- ment on which Chicago Inter Oceans thrive, and the world is shown why the Western boor cannot affiliate.