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Year: 1877

LET THE ALDERMANIc COMMITTEE HURRY UP


WHO ARE THEY?


The Railroad Committee OF the Board OF Aldermen
will bold their final meeting tomorrow afternoon for
the purpose OF taking into consideration the proposal
to heat tho city railroad ounng the cold season.
Alderman Cole stated yesterday the HERALD repre-
sentative that there little doubt but tnat the CON-
mittee would report in favor OF the passage OF an
ordinance to compel the railroad companies to confer
this boon upon long suffering public. Mr.. Cole is
bitterly opposed the railroad corporations and de-
cares that he will leave stone unturned to
make them spend some Of their enormous profits
in providing proper accommodation IN their city pas
sengsr Hc docs believe in the idea OF con-
sulting the Board OF Health, and looks upon as
mere ''mako-shift" to gain time Tho Alderman lives
up town and has often experienced the great ncon-
venience resulting from cold and crowded cars He
rides principally ON tho Third line, and can
bear testimony to the nsolont and outrageous treat
ment OF passengers upon that line.


PERSONNEL OF THE RAILROAD COMMITTEE.


II may be OF interest at this time for the public to
know little OF the history of the Aldermen who
pose this Railroad Committee and who Writ ually have
in their hands the settling Of this problem 10 heat
ing the cars The chairman. John W. Guntzer. has
been elected threc times the Board of Aldermen.
He comes from the Seventeenth ward and unt,l lately
kept wine and lager beer saloon In Fourteenth street,
near Third avenue. At present no is not recorded
being engaged in any particular business Mr.. Guntzer
Is German by birth.


Alderman Bryan Reilly halls from the Fourth As
ssmby district Seventh ward. He is also in the
liquor business and has been active poll
tican for years. The influence OF this district
on the democratic side of the House is di-
vidcd between himself and Alderman Thomas Shells
This Mr. Reillys second term as an Alderman Some
years ago he Assistant Alderman His political
strength principally rests with the aboring classes,
and might be we'll for HIM 10 consider the subject Of
heating the In connection with the fact that thou
sands of poor workipgmen shiver MORNINGS and nights
In travelling on the street during the winter to
and from their dairy occupations.


Alderman Rufus b. Cowng makes his maiden bow
this year as Getty Father" He is young lawyer,
and was elected on the republican Alderman at Largo
ticket last alL lie halls from the Nineteenth ward.
In November 1875 he for Assembly against Joseph
?. Faon Tammauy democrat, and was defeated Mr..
Cowing cannot do better thing than support ordi
nance for the heating OF the cars AS OF his first
public acts such q would receive warm encomi.
oms from uptown constituents
Year: 1877

The thirty-nnth annual ball OF the Emerald Bencvo
lent Association for the benefit of the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum will take place ON Wednesday evening
next in tho Brooklyn Academy of Music. II will un-
doubtcdy be of the finest affairs that have ever
taken place within that building The entlre audto-
rum will for the nonce become floral bower; sweet
voiced birds will sing IN eay coverts and perfumes will
be distilled from magnn ncent fountain, which
exhibition in the Centennial Exhibition during its
entire term The promenade music is to be furnished
by Gilmore's Band, and at intervals Messrs Arbuckle
and Lelebre are to play solos the and
ophone fine orchestra will play the dancing music.
II has heen determined to make the coming ball
successful than of It's predecessors The managers
OF the Orphan Asylum in special need OF aid.
They have 800 children under their care and find II
no easy task to MAINTAIN them. The Emerald Ball, It
is hoped, will this year net So, 000
Year: 1877

dent simply upon the proclamation oi
the President of the Senate will be an
act Of usurpation that will be resisted
by the people to the last extremity, even
should that extremity be an appeal TO
arms.


4. That the impudent and unfounded
charge that those who protest against
the exercise of illegal and arbitrary
power desire to fomentistrife and incite
civil war. is made by c0nspirators to
evil design to Illustrate the sovereign will
OF the people as expressed through the
ballot.box on the 7th of November last.
8. That we denounce the action OF
President Grant in following the eX-
ample of the military chieftains OF Mex
leo in interfering by armed force In the
elections of the people, in preventing the
lawful organization of State Leglsla'
lures, and in massing troops at Wash
ington with the apparent purpose OF pre-
venting free action of Congress respect
ing the Presidential election. 1t eYinces
purpose to render the military indie
pendent OF and superior to the civil
power, and calls Tor outspoken con-
demnation by every friend Of republican
government.


8. That the Inauguration as President
OF a candidate rejected by the people
and counted in by fraud is revolution,
aud, II acquiesced in, fatal to republican
government.


7. That the National Democratic CON-
mittee be requested to call National
Democratic Convention, to meet at WASH
ington City, February II, 1877.
Year: 1877




About II O'Clock last night the alarm
OF fire from Box 126 called the engines to
the Candle Works of Woods 6 COnahan,
N os. 678 and $50 Central avenue, and the
whole structure, with adjacent build
ing, beiug in jeopardy, it was thought
necessary to turn in general alarm.
Fortunately, the flames did not spread
beyond the small building in which they
originated.


The fire was caused by the bursting OF
one of the Oil-stills in the building ON
Providence street. RoberC Florence, a
young man employed as night watcB-
man at the place, was In the building as
the time, and was desperately burned
by the hot oil about the face and quite
seriously on the breast and abdomen.
Almost mad with pain, he found his
way out through the main building to
Central avenue and into saloon across
the street, where he gave notice of the
fire. The injured man was carried to
the house OF mis- mother, on the corner Of
Oliver and Linn streets, where medical
attendance was summoned.


The loss on the building and stock
will not fall short of 5000; fully In
sured.


This morning it was learned that Flor
ence's condition was quite critical. His
lace is all crisp from Lne burns, but, sim
gular TO state, his hair was not slnged.
Year: 1877

Arson and Attempted Suicide.
! At 3 o'clock this morning an alarm O


fire was turned in from Box Al.


The fire was discovered to be in a


large tenement house at No. 36 Nortt


street, between Seventh and New
| streets. The hremen were
prompt in reaching the place,


as usual, and upon going into q miser.
Mortified to see extended upon the floor


an Eelderly woman who was suffering
great apparent agony.


A closer examination Of the surround
ings revealed the TACT that the woman
had her throat cut and lay weltering in
pool of blood, where she had fallen,
close by the rickety bed.


She was at once carried down.
stairs, where the cool air seemed
to revive her some ewhat, and she
had strength enough left to
murmur almost inarticulately that a
man had entered her room, and after at
tacking her with knife and chtting her
in the neck, had set fire to the house.
The poor woman was placod in an am
bulance which had been dispatched for
few minutes previously, and conveyed
to the City Hospital.


Then 1t was ascertained that her
name was Bridget Brady aud that she
was O widow. The wound, an ugly
cash which penetrated the
jugular vein, severing the wind
pipe, was sewed up by DR.. Marshall,
who gives it as his opinion that although
the wound is dangerous, the patient
may survive II Inflammation does not
ensue.


At first she reiterated the same story
to the Hospital officials regarding the
cause OF the fire and her wound. saving
that tall, well-dressed man had been
guilty OF the tragedy, but after she had
became somewhat composed she yolun-
Year: 1877

The Albany Law Journal finds in
Halls history of Eastern Vermont some
account of the laws which were in force
hundred years ago:


Burglary was punished by branding
with B on the forehead, and mailing
one of the offenders ears 20 post and
cutting it off, and whipping; for the
second offence there was the like brand
ing, and mailing, and cutting off of the
other ear; for the third offence the pun
ishment was death, the offender being
deemed 'incorrigible.' Counterfeiting
was punished by cutting off the right
ear, branding with G, and perpetual
imprisonment. Perjury was punished
by fine of $50 and imprisonment for
six months, but if the offender could not
pay the fine he was let off by sitting in
the pillory two hours, and having both
ears nailed and cut off. Willful lying,
to public prejudice or private injury, or
deceiving or abusing the people with false
news or reports, was punished by fine,
sitting in the stocks and whipping, the
punishment being increased with each
repetition of the offence, except that mo
case was the number of stripes to exceed
the number of thirty-nine. Theft was
punished by compelling threefold restl-
tuition, by fine and by sort of tenn
porary slavery. the prosecutor being en-
powered to dispose of any offender i'll
service to any subject of the state for
such time as he should be assigned to the
prosecutor by the court. Unreasonable
night walking, that is to say after nine
o'clock, was prohibited, as was also the
convening of persons under the govern
ment of parents, guardians or masters
after that untimely hour. Tavern
haunters were published by posting their
names at the door of every tavern and
prohibiting the tavern-keeper from sup
/ plying them with anything in the way
of strong drink No clamorous dis
course, shouting, hallooing, screaming,
running, riding, dancing, jumping,
swimming or blowing of horns was toll
Grated on the Lords day. Listening
outside of meeting house during the
time of public worship was not permit
ted. Secular meetings OF any number
or persons in the street or elsewhere on
Saturday or Monday evening were for
hidden under penalty of a fine or the
stocks.


/ Mr.. Hall gives several notable in
stances of popular legal errors prevailing
in Vermont. One notion was that if
the friends of one dying in prison car
ried his remains beyond the
boundaries of the jail yard, they were ac-
completes of an escape and liable to
satisfy the judgment by virtue of which
he had been confined. Another notion
was that if one should bury the body of
un imprisoned debtor he thereby became
administrator in his own wrong, and
liable to discharge the debtors obliga-
tions. In the case of Judge Chandler,
who died while confined in Jail for debt,
his interment became a serious problem.
In this predicament the jailer discovered
that by stretching the chain he could in
clude within the Jail liberties small
portion of the adjoining burying-ground.
A grave was dug, commencing Just out
side the graveyard fence and just within
the iail-yard, sloping under the fence,


until a sufficient depth and obliquity was
obtained. So Judge Chandler was
buried after a Christian fashion, and yet
no escape was suffered"
Year: 1877

A man came into a restaurant last
night, and mounting a high stool,
leaned over the counter and ordered
a porter-house steak with eggs on
the side, and some ale and oyters to
begin on. In about half an hour
he had finished his rePast and was
beginning to deliberate on what KIND
of desert he would wind up on, when
a man walked in and tapping him on
the shoulder, remarked,


ais your name Billy Hicks?"


eyes, that's my name" said the
man on the stool, as the hand stole
down to his hip pocket fumbling for
the hand of a barker; "what do you
want?"


eve had little trouble once be-
fore in White Pine, and now guess
I'VE got you dead rights" continued
the new conner, pulling out a large
sized six-shooter.


"If you'd Just step into the street
and pace off your distance I'm your
man." said the feeder, who had Just
flushed his pie, and whipping out a
revolver he sprang off his perch ana
rushed after the other into the street.


The frightened restaurant man
got down behind the counter and
bent his ear to listen to the shots
and the rush of the mob; but he did
not hear anything unusual, and IN
about five minutes he fecollected
there was 81 so owing on the meal.
Then he went out on the sidewalk
to investigate.


"Was there q row out here few
minutes agog" he inquired of star
pazer on the sidewalk.


"Didn't see any. I've been her'
for the last half hour OF So"


''See two fellows with ulsters anC
revolvers come out?"


."Yes, they we're talking sbou
swapping guns, and they're owe
across the way now, takin' drink.


The restaurant man went back !
clear up the dirty dishes and rsheC
J on the profits of the transaction.
Year: 1877

Look at your flower garden, lying
yonder before your windows. You
know what care you must give
it il you would have it prosper; how
you must train the tender vines, and
water the young plants, and weed
and loosen the soil. Left to itself,
great weeds will soon choke the
flowers; and though you find it hard
to have as many roses as you want,
it would be difficult to be rid OF the
crop of nettles that would spring up
if you forgot those beds a week.


SO it is with the human garden.
The bad things grow faster than the
good, and without help, too; while
you must not only help the earthly
blossoms-the human herbs of virtue
but fight for them against the
hnman weeds.


1t is romantic and pretty to say
that good always triumphs, and that
the right is always victorious, but it
is not true; aud those who have
power should always remember this


One Of the noblest tasks a great
man can take upon himself is. to
weed the human garden and give the
good, the pure, and the honest plants
a chance to bear flowers and fruit, OF
which those stinging nettles, evil men,
arc always striving to rob them
New York Ledger.
Year: 1877

AS we wandered west along Fourth
street yesterday on our return from
the dog-show, we met an old friend
in a blue uniform, who asked cor
cerning the prospective success OF
the exhibition. the character OF the
attendance and the merits OF the
dogs. Conversation naturally turned
upon dogs in general, and subse-
quently upon mastiff dogs in partic-
ular. The man in blue listened in a
kind OF dreamy way to our criticisms
and suddenly commenced slowly and
thoughtfully to narrate the following
incident:


Il think 1t was in 80 or '51 when ]
was crossing the plains to reach the
gold fields. There were only three OF
us; and we were all the time on the
look out for Indians. / believe the
Mormons had only settled at Salt
Lake a few years previous; and to
cross the plains in those days was a
risky undertaking. We rode all day,
and at night one stood guard.


There was an awful silence on
those plains; and sometimes the
silence weighted down upon us SO
strangely that we would ride for
hours without speaking; and you
never heard the barking OF a coyote.


The air was rare and transparent,
and the expanse about us level as a
vast sea, with occasianal billowy
heaves which one could see at dis
tance OF twenty miles. 1t was nearly
always the same; except where the
buffalo skulls were very thickly
strewn, or where those queer Indian
graves raised on poles stood out
against the horizon, like odd black
insects with very long legs.


So we came at last to the head OF
the Sweetwater-then nearly one
thousand miles from any settlement;
and the skulls lay very thick there.
thick as the boulders in q torrent
bed sometimes; and there were little
mounds all over the plain; and these
mounds were all graves.


Each grave had a great buffalo or
elk skull-all white, and bleached,
and ghastly-looking--at one end OF
1t. I remember some OF the elk skulls
must have measured five feet be-
tween the tips Of the horns; and the
bone was as white and dry as salt
And on every skull that was placed
On a mound there had been written
in pencil or scratched in with a knife
Year: 1877

the name OF the dead man below,
such as William Rawlins, died sth OF
May; 81 years; Pike County, Mis-
souri,


They were nearly all from Pike
County, Mo-; and so we got tired of
reading SO many Of them. There
were other skulls lying along the
road here and there with little SEN
tences written on them with pencil
stating that So-and-So and So-and.
So had had passed by on such a day.
We used to pick up clean skull our
selves, once in awhile, and write
something Of this kind on it. so that
we might leave a sort OF clue as to
what had become of us, il we should
get killed.


Well, as we were stumbling over
the graves and reading the inscrip-
tions on the skulls, / suddenly saw
great dog rise from a mound at
some distance, and slowly retreat to
another mound still farther off, where
he turned and stared at us. He was
one Of those huge English mastiffs.
ard must have belonged to one OF
the dead men. You could see through
him; no starving wolf could have
been gaunter, and his great protrud-
ing eyes had the widest look YOU
ever saw. He seemed to have lost
his eyes and flesh together, and
looked like the very phantom Of a
dog. We called and whistled to him.
but he never barked-only stared at
us with the same wild look. Then
we went to the grave he had been
lying on, and it was nameless-there
was no skull on it, nothing to mark
1t as a grave except the long coffln-
shape OF the mound.


! We tried for ever so long to coax
the dog even to come and eat some
thing; but he would not come near
us, and would run of In weak, shy
way IL We tried to approach him.
God knows how long he had
been therei We remained a whole
afternoon, just to dig little hole for
water ;or the dog; you could strike
water there at four or five fest, right
among the graves. Then we left some
crackers and dry food for him. and
rode away west.


As we went turned and saw him
return to the grave and lie down on
it at full length. as though trying to
guard it. And 1 watched him and
watched him, until at last when /
turned in my saddle 1 could see
nothing except the white skulls all
behind me, and few wierd Indian
graves on the edge Of the horizon
where the night was creeping up
Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1877

IIfAWfOTdsNiIIIc JOufndT


There are some sixteen whiskey
saloons in town which draw the
greater part of their support, say
some $4,000 per annum. from poor
laboring men. The amount squan-
dered in saloons and for tobacco in
one year, would buy as much land as
all the idle men could cultivate. But
OF course it is preferable fer these
men to spend their earnings for whls-
key and beer and then stand around
grumbling about the hard times.
Year: 1877

(From the New York World.I


The Goose that laid the Golden
Eggs-A certain man had goose
that laid him a golden egg every day
worth about two dollars. After a
while the goose could not find much
to eat and the egg kept getting
smaller, till at last it was worth only
ninety cents. "Good for nothing
goose" said the man. Il will kill you
and cut you open, and get at the eggs
you have in your belly" he did so
and to his great sorrow and dissap-
pointment, found nothing.


Moral.-Let the goose go on lay
Year: 1877

SEVERAL Of our nail men were up at
Pittsburgh yesterday to attend a meeting
OF tho Association, but no quorum being
present nothing was done in reference to
stopping the mills for any particular
length Of time. The feeling hereabouts
is that the less nails sold the better at
present prices, and that the chances are
that the rates next month will be more
satisfactory.
Year: 1877

About one o'clock this morning Hanks,
who killed Daily yesterday, was found
dead in his cell in the city prison. By
some unknown means he had obtained
possession Of Springfield rifle, some Of
which werc stored in that part Of the
prison, and plOcing the mazzle to his
breast drew the trigger with his foot,
lie left note saying that the suicide wac
the coolest act OF his life,
Year: 1877

The amateurs who took part in the per formance given some time ago for the bene- fit tof the Methodist Episcopal Church South are to meet tonight for the purpose of ef- fecting permanent organization. They will soon afford our public a new treat, as we understand that new plays have been telegraphed for in San Francisco.
Year: 1877

Messrs. Houghtellin and Schultz have dis covered 10 the east of the Silver Prince a gold and silver lead which is causing much excitement just now. We have not learned the name of the discovery, but are credibly informed that the ore is of a very high
Year: 1877

Information has been received at Head quarters Department of Arizona that the Hualapai Indians gre frequently making complaints against inc citizens, amongst whom they live, of injustice practiced upon them by disreputable whites.

 IL is the desire of these Indians to be at peace with their white neighbors, and until the Indian Department provides separate place for the Hualapais, l; Is the duty of every citizen to protect them, and purge the settlement of the lawless white scoundrels, through whose conduct 1t Is made so dlfil- cult to manage the savage

 The good people of the locality referred to are doing themselves injustice m tolerat- inr any abuse towards these Indians, not that Indians may be. to some extent, III the wrong, but they fear the Government, and have se far refrained from overt acts; they are sasages, and 1t Is anything but creditable or safe for the whites to commit depreda- lions upon them or treat them unjustly.

 The recent enlistment of a company of Indian scouts from the Hualapais SO identi- fies them with the authorities that they feel encouraged. and they are no doubt as pro- yressive as any Indians in the Territory.

 Tho policy pursued toward them by Gen eral Kautz, from the time they left their reservation on the Colorado river, assured them that the Government would take no unjust measures in their management, and that ss long as they remained pe2ccable and gave no cause for complaint they will not be interfered with in ther old homes, where they preferred to live, except so far as the Interior Department might assume their control.

 From all the information obtained from the neichborhood of these Indians 1t ap- pears that they have been faithful to the de- plands of the Government, and that the com plaints are from direction which reflects much discredit upon the whites; but as m all such cases proper action will ferret out the guilty parties and relieve the community of any stigma. and il is hoped that the roughs. of whom the complaints are made, will soon meet with justice