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Year: 1877

check by strong and massive sense that its
flights were never tawdry. We have no
speaker at present who approaches them in
this respect; certainly none who can rival
the greater passages of Webster. But In
mere intellectual force the disparity is not
great, if we mako due allowance for cir
cumstances. The lawyers and statesmen of
the last generation had simple problems to
deal with in comparison with those which
have to be solved at present. Our business
life and our political life have become alto
gether more complex and various than they
were thirty or forty years ago. We have
an ininity OF now questions grow
ing out of our railway system, our
great corporations, the new aspects OF
commerce, the novel state of the
currency and the political and legal contro-
versies which have grown out of the civil
war; Aside from the novelty of the questions
the increased mass of business which de-
mands the attention of eminent lawyers and
statesmen exceeds any pressure of which
their predecessors had experience. The
consequence is that the time of our leading
men is so occupied with multiplied engage
ments that they cannot make the elaborate
preparation for great efforts which was pos
sible in the last generation, and they have
little time for the literary or classical studies
which gave an air of culture to the speeches
of the most gifted of their predecessors.
Proper allowance being made for this disad-
vantage, they may challenge comparison
with men of the last generation, who never
came in contact with such large interests
and varied questions as engross the time
and overburden the attention of the leading
men of our own period.
Year: 1877

JUDGE MrLLERs LETTER.-In another column
will he found a letter from an author, journalist
and extensive traveller rolled into one, on the
important question as to whether or not Judge
Miller did write the now famous letter, ex-
pressing certain very decided views on the
political situation. Mr.. Curley, whose letter we
publish, asserts that he heard read this very
document, or one expressing similar views to
those Judge Miller is said to have committed to
paper. This is very important evidence, if true.
OF course it is quite possible for gentleman
who happens to be an author, journalist and cx-
tcnsivc traveller to make mistake, or even to
be imposed upon.
Year: 1877

AUSTRALIA is to benefit to the extent of ninety
nine cmigrants by the hard times at present ex-
istng. 1t is little early in our history for an
exodus; but the world will keep moving.
Year: 1877

RAPID TRANSIT by an underground route waa
rendered impossible by some underhand work.
A study of the Byrne contract will make those
who purposed investing in the underground rail
way scheme feel happy that they did not.
Year: 1877

SpunIous SnvER-How much of the sill
YER in circulation is counterfeit? Scarcely
one piece in half dozen has n thor


oughly good appearance, and judged
by that merely superficial examination
which the shopkeepers commonly make
all might be condemned together with
as good reason as the few that are, end retail
traffic would come to a standstill for want of
small money. 1t is undesirable that panic
should be created on this subject, and for that
reason, doubtless, much less has been said
about it by the newspapers everywhere than
might have been but the subject gradually
forces itself upon public attention in such u
way that it must presently receive its full
share of scrutiny. There have been great
many arrests, but the police do not with all
seem to reach the real source of tho evil.


Some Systematically conducted organization
is clearly at work on q large scale practising
Year: 1877

Formerly the British government paid to
each steamer that stopped at Queenstown,
coming this way, to get the late London
mail, the sum of three thousand seven hun
dred and fifty dollars for that service. Re-
Gently it has adopted system of payment
which reduces the remuneration for each
stoppage to from five hundred dollars to
seven hundred dollars, or less than one-ffth
the sum paid upon an estimate of the real
cost and value of the service. 1t appears,
upon full examination, that under the pres
ent system of payment the steamship COM
panies not only perform this service
gratuitously, but often at an expense to
themselves and Mt the cost of great annoy
ance to the passengers (; for the stoppage at
Queenstown, on account of delays there
and the loss of tide, commonly makes the
passage one day longer, and the expense Of
IN ocean steamer loaded with passengers
ard with all things in operation is greater
for single day than the sum received for
the service. In addition to this the detri-
ment of days loss on g trip is
q great disadvantage to the reputation
of company, which is, of course, an impor-
tant part of it's capital. For these reasons
the ships of the Inman line no longer stop
at Queenstown and though this proves n
great inconvenience to our merchants there
is clearly no just ground of complaint
against the company, as it can scarcely be
supposed that for IN important mail service
the public should be indebted to the charity
of q private enterprise
Year: 1877

National Associated Press TO the star.


AUBURN, N. Y, June 16.-John II.
Barrett was shot through the head in q
house of il-repute in this city ABOUT 9
O'Clock this morning by one Cora Young,
an inmate of the house. Barrett lived
one hour and half after.


Immediately after shooting him, the
girl fired TWO shots into her own body,
one OF which lodged In the brain after
taking effect in the neck. She is still
alive, but will die. The affair grew out
OF jealousy existing on account of
Barrett paying attention to another
woman here.
Year: 1877

Civilization and hunger are in COM
patible. All the virtues and graces of
humanity-certainl of male humanity
fly before an empty stomach. It may
be possible for man to be hungry and
amiable at the same time, but ii is not
safe for any wife to presume upon SO I'M
likely an occurrence habitually. Igno-
rance of this physiological truth has been
the ruin of many an otherwise happy
household, and we may set it down
from both observations and experiences
promising that our experience in this
respect has been exceptionally happy
that preprandial discretion in the sever
est test of a good wife. Just before
dinner is the worst possible time toboth-
er a husband with questions or COM
plants OF even with efforts to be aggres-
sively agreeable. Then is the time
above all others when social silence
should grace the home, and make it
seem to the tired man the most delight
full and restful place on earth. Half an
hour of quiet just then is the best possi-
BILE preparation for the enjoyment of
the coming meal, for then the nervous
tension and mental strain of business
care and anxiety can be gradually relax
ed, and the entire system brought into
conditions for enjoying food and the
amenities of social life. Yet how fre-
quently does the wife choose that par
ticnlar time to speak of her own trials
and troubles, the misconduct of servants
or children, the petty requirements OF
the household, Or other things trivial
or disagreeable, and then marvel that
her husbands temper is not SO sweet
as it ought to be The ofense is worse
even than introduction of such topics at
meal An2erican.
Year: 1877

George Miller. of Princeton, died last
Friday night, after fifteen years of the
most hideous and tortured life that one
could we'll imagine. No matter how
wonderful the flight OF fiction, there is
now and then some true story eoming to
the surface which puts it to shame and
sets all philosophers agog with amaze
ment.


The history of George Miller is enc of
horrible strangeness, and is the most
remarkable we have ever heard. Fiji
teen years ago, when Miller was nineteen
years of age, he vas suddenly seized
with an epileptic fit, and ever since then
he has been subject to them. They
cana frequently, and with fearful power
and effect. The utmost skill of physi-
clans was excited IN vain to relieve him !;
his Affections baffied all of them.


Ten years from the date of his first
attack he became insane and very dan
gerous, not only to strangers, but to his
friends and family also. His case was
incurable, and he could not be received
into the asylum Tor two years he was
chained fast to his room to prevent him
from doing any damage. But during
the remaining three years of his poor
life no chains were needed for the in
siduous disease had claimed him.


The muscles of his legs contracted SO
that his knees were drawn up within an
inch of his chin, and his arms were
drawn and distorted in most horrible
manner. By this time he had become
almost wild beast. His tortured mind
was unlit by a ray of reason. All human
instinct even was gone. His appetite
became ravenous and horrible. He
would at times, when hunger was upon.
him, seize bed blanket or quilt and
tear it to pieces like an animal, y1evour--
ing the shreds as if they were digestible
food: He would again tear his own flesh
and it MAS. with difficulty that he was
restrained from eating his owu flesh. SO.
p. Death finally released him from a.
condition as miserable as hell itself, and
on Friday he died easily, we understand.
DIR. S. H. Shoptaugh held post NOR
TEN examination of the body Sunday,
and found in the left ventricle of the
heart lump Of fat two inches long and
a quarter of an inch thick. The gaul
bladder was diseased by an enlargement,
the right lobe of the liver was enlarged,
and other arrangements of his function
ary organs. It was certainly the most
remarkable case on record.
Year: 1877

On Saturday evening, says the Evans
ton (Wy. Terr.) Age, two men, who had
started for the Black Hills on foot, came
into town in q hurry, and said they had
seen bear about four miles west, close
to the track. He was in a large hole in
the snow, and as they came along, stuck
his head out. AS they had not lost any
bear, they did not stop to see whether
there was more than one, or how large
that one was. The news soon spread,
and despite the terrible snow storm a
party of dozen or more was at once
ready to start for the scene. Engine No.
25, run by w. Dickinson, was brought
into requisit1on, and for fear there might
be more bears than could be otherwise
eecomodated, the six-pouuder piece of
/, elilery that has 80 long stood guard
over the Presbyterian Church, was
mount ted on top of the tender. All the
old guns that could be got together were
procured, and the engine started for the
place where the snow would soon be
covered with fur and blood from a score
spot was reached, but the storm had fill
ed the entrance to the cave with snow
so that all that could be seen was one or
two heaps of dirty snow. As soon as the
engine stopped, Joe McManus, Mr..
Earle, Frank Foote and Mr.. Allen jump
ed off to catch the bear 'sWhere is it?'''
said Joe, and started for heap Of snow
that might be the opening Of the cave,
but just then he broke through, his feet
probably striking bruin on the head, for
he at once called for help. On being
drawn out, it was found the bear had
secured one of his boots. At this juno
ture Johnnie Hoyt and Jessie Knight,
getting considerably excited, commenc-
ed to load the artillery with Jumps Of
coal, and Joe -Edson heated 1.-the poker to
touch it off, but it would not go.~ Upon
examination it was found in the hurry
the powder had been forgotten. The,
firearms they had with them were then
brought into requisition, and the snow
for ten rods square bored with bullets.
The shovel brigade then turned loose,
bent upon finding bruin if he was there.
After digging awhile, what was their
surprise to come across the head of
COW that had been killed by train.
Concluding that must have been the
bear that was seen, the brave hunters
returned home.
Year: 1877

PERHAPS the newest illustration of
the irrepressible character of American
enterprise is afforded by the organization
of a company, now in process of forma-
ton, to work a coral reef recently dis
covered in the Atlantic Ocean, by the
UnitedStates steamer Gettysburg, betwee
Madeira and Gibralter. II is said that
single ton of pink coral of the finest
grade, at its present value, would be
worth one million dollars. From re-
ports received it is believed that tt e
wonderful reef will yield hundreds of
tons of very fine quality of pink coral.
Machinery to lift the submarine wealth
to the surface has already been perfected.
Year: 1877

The DYING LIoN.-A French officer,


who has served many years in Algeria,
writes an interesting account of a dying
lion. Fandgless, covered with mango,
and blind, is the king of beasts on ap-
preaching the close of his reign. When
not lying mournfully PROSTATE and alone
in some sheltered nook, or behind some
friendly mound, overgrown with shrub
berry, he feebly skulks within small
circuit of his lair in quest of a morsel
of prey, which, in his decrepitude, he
barely succeeds in obtaining. At this
stage of his career, if his scent does not
utterly fail him, his sole reccourse for
nutrition is an occasional nest of field
mice Inferior animals smell st him
fearlessly, and paw him with insolence,
for the forest monarch, dethroned by
disease, is incapable of resistance
Often the rustic Arab comes upon his
majesty in his utter helplessness, and
ends his troubles with blow of club.
Year: 1877

1t was three days later In a quiet
room IN small hotel in a retired town
in Pennsylvania Charles AIbro and his
young wife sat waiting an answer to O
joint letter which they had written to
Mr.. Rivers, announcing their where
Year: 1877

EDEN PARK.-This property will not
rent for over the interest of 5000 ex-
elusive of taxes and repairs, and the city
is asked to become responsible for an in
terest account of 5000 and the taxes and
repairs. Any member of the body could
buy it for less sum by paying a small
amount on 1t, and get a credit of ten
years. They will not do it. Now comes
the question. 1t is the part of wisdom
TO buy? Can the Council affirm that in
their assembled wisdom it would be
right to do for the people more question
able thing than they would do for
themselves ? Eden Park was sold for
about %, 100 when it was not dilapidated,
and when times were far better than
now, and it was worth more money. 1t
was again about year ago sold for about
the same amount at public sale and
knocked down to the present owner.


We do not offer these remarks in a
spirit of opposition to the purchase of
"Eden Park" but we merely state facts,
We do believe however that the nur.
chase will injure the mass otthe property
hslders aid retard the growth of build
ing operations in the end far more than
it will benefit them. If the property was
offered to the city for what it was worth
at public sale it would still be question.
able whether 1t would be economy in the
city to invest in it. The tract contains {
acres
Year: 1877

From the desperate efforts that Osman
Pasha is making to revictual Plevna it is
evident that he looks forward to holding
it through the winter. and seek to pre-
pare himself for the siege. The Imperi-
al guard OF Russia, since their entrance
into Bulgaria, have been trying to cut off
the communications between Plevna and
Sophia, and should they accomplish this
the fall of the Turkish stronghold would
only be question of time, and not very
long time.
Year: 1877

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN New YORK
Henry Hausman, porter, living In New
York, shot his three children and himself
One child was Instantly killed, another
fatally and the third dangerously wounded
His own wounds are believed to be fatal He
came home and found no supper ready and
his wife intoxicated. He sent his little bow
out for beer, and as he returned fired at him
with revolver. Another child he shot in
lis bed, and the third while in its mother s
arms. He then emptied two loads from the
revolver into his own breast and fell to the
floor unconscious.
Year: 1877

Seldom has the scientific world had cause
to mourn the loss of brighter ornament
than lie Verrier. His whole life was but a
series of triumphs in the most advanced
branches of human knowledge and in those
mysterious fields of research in which 1t Is
given to but few men to enter, but where oil
the trophies won are precious. We feel that
in LIE Verrier's death the HERALD has lost an
appreciative friend. who took deep inter
est in work to which we have devoted our
labors. We refer to the HERALD weather SER
vice, which early attracted the attention OF
the famous scientist. In an interview with
NJ LIE Verrier at the Paris Observatory on
the 18th of April, this year, our representa-
tive was requested to convey to us the as
surance of the savant's desire to embody in
his new work on meteorology descriptive
memoir of the HERALD system. This it
afforded us great pleasure to furnish. We
feel we can claim the right to mourn for the
dead man with more than mere admirers
sorrow, and add tribute to his memory
which springs from deep admiration for
his great and good qualities as a scientist
and citizen.
Year: 1877

party can succeed in this State only by
compact unity, and unity is possible
only on platform which indorses the
President Mr.. Conkling must perceive
this more clearly than anybody can tell
it to him. His personal influence being
fully vindicated by his control OF the Con-
vention and his election as its president he
will wisely exert his control in such way
rs to carry the election if possible, and, if
that be impossible, in such way as to give
no color to charge that the State was lost
by his hostility to the republican admins
tration. Mr.. Conkling knows well enough
that military coercion of the South is an
obsolete question, and he is not the kind of
politician to ride a dead horse. He will
not even put the Convention in opposition
to the President on the civil service issue.
His friends are still in Office, and he will be
better able to protect them if he indorses
Mr.. Hayes than if he permits declaration
Of hostility. We incline to think that Sen
ator Conkling's success in the election of
delegates insures harmony and good feeling
in the action of the State Convention.
Year: 1877

The chief interest in the State Conven-
after tomorrow, turns upon the purposes
of Senator Conkling. His attitude toward
President Hayes is an enigma, but, in spite
of his stubborn personal silence there is
widely diffused impression that he is hostile
to the administration. We suspect that it
will be found that there has been great
deal OF exaggeration on this subject. Mr..
Conkling is q proud man, and very re-
served man in matters which touch his
pride; and his resolute silence since
his return from Europe may have been
misinterpreted by the public. The policy
of President Hayes is really very popular,
but in spite of Senator's Conkling's sup
posed opposition to it his friends have sue
ceeded in electing a majority Of the dele
gates to the Republican State Convention.
This is signal proof of Mr.. Conkling's un-
diminished influence in the republican
party OF his own State. 1t is certain that he
will be able to control the State Convention
and mould it to his wishes, but it would be
an unwarranted inference to suppose that
he will put it into open opposition, or even
into covert opposition, to the President.
He is too sagacious q politician to
do anything of the kind. His ac-
knowledged triumph in the election Of
delegates is sufficient proof OF his
power-a sufficient proof that no rival has
been able to eclipse or supplant him in the
confidence of his party in this State. Hav-
ing demonstrated his continued influence
and ascendancy over the New York repub-
lcans he will doubtless make discreet use
Of his power. He is delegate himself and
will be elected as the presiding officer if he
consents to take the position. We have no
doubt that he will consent, because there
could be no more conspicuous proof that
his leadership is mistaken. When he has
received this mark of confidence, when
it is thus advertised to Mr.. Hayes that
the distinguished New York Senator con-
tinues to hold his old position, he will
make concessions which will be more
valuable by the fact that they are voluntary


Every generous motive and every selfish
motive will impel him to treat the Presi-
dent with respectful consideration. With
power to control the Convention he cannot
afford to SO control it as TO lose the State in
the election. To be sure the State may be
lost to the republicans in any event; but if
| Mr.. Conking puts the State Convention in
! opposition to the President the defeat will
be charged to him, and that would end his
career as a public man. The republican
Year: 1877

THE SEA SERPENT has been again heard from
A Scottish bark, which has just arrived, reports
that in mid ocean she passed within ten feet of
him, and that he was tbirtytive feet long and of
dull reddish color. 1t is really difficult to see
why he should be fooling away his time many
miles from land, where he can be Of no possible
service to any one. No decent serpent would be
guilty of any such folly and he certainly cannot
be in any way connected with the exceedingly
thoughtful reptile who SO opportunely made his
appearance on the New England coast "a few
months ago for the purpose of advertising the
watering place hotels.
Year: 1877

on the good latin OF the Soutn:-"Anu now,
my colored friends" said he ''let me say
another thing We have been trying it for
these six months, and, in my opinion, for
no six months since the war have there been
so few outrages and invasions of your
rights, nor you SO secure in your rights,
persons and homes than in the last six
months. Great cheering)." No colored
citizen in the whole South can dispute the
truth of this statement The magnanimity
of the President and his generous trust in
the sincerity of Southern professions has
done more to secure good treatment for the
negroes than all the military coercion and
terrorism of the preceding twelve years. 1t
is no wonder that the President
was willing to proclaim at Atlanta
more explicitly and with stronger
emphasis than he had ever done
before that he adopted his Southern
policy for the one controlling reason that,
after mature reflection, he believed it to be
right. ''Now, my friends" the President
said, II see it stated occasionally that Presi-
dent Hayes has taken the course he has be-
cause he was compelled to it, (Voice-'We
don't believe it, Now, was compelled to
it. (Applause.) was compelled to it by
my sense OF duty, under my oath of office.
(Immense enthusiasm and cheers.) What
was done by US was done not merely by
force of special circumstances, but because
we believe it was just and right to do it.


(Cheers.)" We are glad that the President
defends his policy on this broad ground,
and thereby takes away from his party IN
the North oil excuse for apologizing for it
as thing forced upon him by the
failure Of the House to pass the
Army Appropriation bill The President
scorns to descend to this imbecile,
apologetic tone. He would have pursued
the same policy il he had possessed au-
thority to pay and employ an army Of a
hundred thousand men. He did not adopt
his Southern policy from a sense Of COM
pulsion, but from sense of justice, and he
feels that the result thus far vindicates his
wisdom. This noble declaration, made in
the heart of the South, and the effect it is
certain to produce on the Southern mind,
removes the last doubt Of the COM
plete success of the policy. The
Southern Senators will not permit
the President to be obstructed by his
own party in pursuing an intention 80
honest, manly and patriotic He could not
have employed the week or two Of time it
has taken to better advantage than in
making this Southern journey, which will SO
strengthen him in public confidence that
there will be no further opposition to his
magnanimous policy. He is more useful
to the South than Mr.. Tilden could have
been, because Mr.. Tilden, instead of silenc-
ing, would have intensified the republican
opposition to such policy. The inaugu-
ration Of Mr.. Hayes was a very fortunate
event for the Southern States, and the best
public of that section SO regard it.