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Year: 1874

The MINSTRELs OTHER AMUsEHENTS.-
Haverly's Minstrel Troupe commence brief
engagement at the Theatre to-morro " night.
It is said to be an excellent company, and
the press in the South and West has been
lavish in its commentator Of the exhibition.
The performance is said to be refined in
every respect, and the troupe only ask that
il be witnessed before judgment is passed.
One of the New Orleans papers has the fol-
lowing paragraph concerning the MINISTRIES


s.'rhe dearth of amusements for some
weeks past had whetted the appetite of the
public for any respectable amusement that
might be offered but it is not out OF the
Way to say that the crowded audience that
attended the Olympic last night were sur
nrised at the delight, not to say enthusiasm,
that was aroused in them by the HaVerly
Ministries. The first part was character
izsd by newness and genius throughout,
and gave the most entire satisfaction.
while on this theme it is not out
Of place to remark that negro min
strelsy, like tue clown business OF tue
circus, is often neglected to an
extent that stale is mild WORD tor lt'
and when minstrel troupes come before at'
diences with the jokes that have been ialnl'
liar for years, the public are not dlsposeq 10
natronize them to an enormous extent. But
when troupe like the Haverly Ministries
come by. composed OF men of originality
and genius, there is something to be looked
for by those who desire novelty, This
troupe has been vastly improved by changes
and additions since they were here last
spring. Mr. Haverly has shown himself 10
he manager of the highest ability. he ap'
preciates good talent--Lhat which will please
the Million"
Year: 1874

FAR.-The ladies of Broad.street Method
ist Episcopal church will hold fair in the
basement of the church this evening, ana
will offer for sale large number OF useful
and fancy articles, besides ice-cream, caKe'
Year: 1874

vorE, LApIEs.-The only precinct IN the city
where ladss can vote Is at 'he Fair opposite Inc
post.oNice Go and cast your vote for The church
YOU desire to get the magnificent canopy.
Year: 1874

A New MIDDLE IN LOUISIANA has arisen
out of the address of the conservative State
committee, which has provoked Governor
Kellogg to make the reply telegraphed from
New Orleans and printed this morning He
accuses the conservative committee of ripping
open old sores and misrepresenting his own
action We do not see that his reply has any
tendency to produce the harmony which
he processes to desire. The arrangement
agreed on in the conference was not in
tended to silence political discussion, but
only to secure fair election and an honest
counting of the votes The McEnery party
and the Kellogg party remain as free to ex-
pose and denounce each other as If no such
arrangement about the registration and voting
had been made It is ridiculous and
childish for Kellogg to complain that he con-
tinues to be criticised by the conservatives. 1t
is an election that is to take place, not COM
promise. One party or the other will be out
voted and each is entitled to use oil the custom
ary weapons of political warfare. Neither has
bound itself to relinquish any other advan-
tage than the dishonest one Of cheating at
che polls Kellogg is very foolish in claiming
exemption from the ordinary attacks made on
nnblic officers bv their political opponents
Year: 1874

Commissioner Disbecker proposes to mod
ify the "buttons' order, 80 far as the
police are concerned. Uniforms, under his
revised rule. are to be worn when on duty.
by the regular platoons and the reserves,
and by all policemen whenever there is oc-
casion to suppose that the services of the of
duty men may be required. When not on
duty, with the above limitations private
clothes may be worn but men on the force.
whetner uniformed or in citizens dress, are
10 De subject to police regulations and to do
duty when required at all times. Commits
sioner Disbecker and Commissioner Matseu
diner In their views of the new proposition.
Dlsbecker pronounces the rule recurring
the policeman to shut himself up at all times
behind his buttons as tyrannical while
Matsell believes that the policeman must be
San automaton" if the discipline of the force
is to be made perfect. Disbecker has q
poets view of liberty and tyranny, inspired by
his literary labors on the Gtv Record.
Matsell, who is almost as old as Have
meyer, cannot get rid of the impression that
the police force of New York ought to con-
sist of one hundred good and true men.
armed with rattle, lantern and blunderbuss.
Whichever rule may eventually become per-
manent the force should be required to obey
without murmuring. Policemen in New York
are not like the military force in France or
Germany. They can resign at any moment if
they do not like the occupation, and thou
sands of men can be found ready to step into
their places When shields were first pro-
posed the men objected, and when uniforms
were introduced there was nearly revolution
in the force Now comes this new opposition
to orders. After all. why should the police
man be ashamed of his buttons? They ought
to be evidence of good character. And do
they not make their wearer the hero Of areas
and doorsteps-the admiration of nurses and
the pet of cooks and housemaids2 A sensible
policeman should be as proud of his uniform
as a peacock is of his tail or as Havemeyer is
Of his famous aerial ladder.
Year: 1874

The Comptroller and tho Record Job.


In fighting the City Record job the Comp
troller does good work for the people and de-
serves medal, even though it should only be
of leather made from the hide of an animal
raised on Ryan's farm. In the old Ring days
the Transcript was the organ of the municipal
magnates. There was something gorgeous
about the Transcript like Tweeds diamonds
and the Americus badges 1t flashed before
the eyes of the people now and then in the tax
levy for hundreds of thousands Of dollars. 1t
was placer yielding enormous nuggets
of pure gold and people regarded the
mysterious organ with reverential awe. To
be sure, it bore sort of mythical char
acter. Few persons saw it or knew whence
it came or whittier it went. But the
boldness of its raids on the public treasury
entitled it to the respect that one feels for
such magnificent operators as Dick Turpin
and Swartwout. The City Record is tho
organ Of the new Ring. It is petit
larceny swindle on the citizens of New
York The idea of its origin was no doubt
suggested by the knowledge of the Transcript
plunder; but the boldness that marked the
Transcript job is lacking in the City Record
The latter is run by supervisor, who is paid
five thousand dollars year. This Office pen
stoned off first o clerk of legislative COM
mittee on account of republican Sena-
tor, and next q former secretary in Mayor
Havemeyer's office. Every dollar paid out of
the public treasury for this organ, whether for
supervisor, assistants or printer, is an imposi-
ton upon the taxpayers of New York It's
publication is a direct injury to the city, since
no person sees the paper, and advertisements
for bids for labor, supplies or loans on city
bonds and stock that appear in it's columns
are thrown away. If Mr.. Green, by fighting
the publishers contract, can destroy the Cty
Record the people will be very well satisfied
AS to the matter of expense in publishing the
city advertising if the proper authorities will
send to the HERALD the notices of bids for
public works, supplies and loans, we will
publish them as news free Of charge They
will thus secure circulation somewhat larger
than they would have enjoyed in the Csty
Record, and the small leakage from the treas
ury that now drips into the City Hail cellar
will be stopped
Year: 1874

The BRIDGEPORT REGATTA came off yester-
day, and, in spite of some bungling in the
arrangements, was interesting and spirited
could watch the progress of the race from the
beautiful Seaside Park. At Yonkers the boat
clubs Vesper and Palisade rowed for the
champion pennant, and quite unexpectedly
the Palisade crew came in ahead
Year: 1874

GANGS OF RUr1ANs, it is reported, take
possession of the emigrant trains on the
Central Pacific Railroad between Ogden and
San Francisco, and plunder and maltreat the
helpless passengers without show of remon-
STRANGE or objection from the conductors
What has the Central Pacific Company to say
in answer to this charge? for it must be an
swered or it will be accepted as true by the
travelling public.
Year: 1874

: RocHEFoRr Is PAYING THE PENALTY of his
unfortunate notoriety in being driven from
pillar to post in the pleasant city of Geneva.
The hotel keepers are disposed to be
hospitable enough, but their other
guests threaten to desert them if they
give shelter to the famous ''Lanternier;" so
he is banished from hotel to hotel and finally
into the streets, where be is hooted by the
mob. He ought to initiate the example Of
great princes and travel incognito.
Year: 1874

The STRIKING FEATURE in the session of
the Episcopal General Convention yesterday
was the sermon Of Bishop Selwyn, of Lich-
field, England The reverend prelate dis
cussed at length the necessity Of the Protes-





tant pastors taking measures to advance the
missionary work and prevent the advance of
creeds not in sympathy with Professionalism.
When the missionary efforts of the Roman
Church lead to the conversion Of men like Lord
Ripon it is time for Protestants to be alert
Year: 1874

AT THE MEETING of the Baptist Missionary
Union, which was held yesterday, DR.. Fulton
delivered an eloquent address upon the preg-
nant theme, Concentration of effort neces-
Bary to UNCONVENTIONAL SUCCESS man
must be passionate and earnest to succeed in
the Church, and the time had come for q
resolute struggle to save souls. DR.. Fulton
called attention to what the Roman Catholic
Church was doing in the missionary cause,
and he implored the members of the Union to
initiate the discipline and energy of that body
In the evening the members showed great en-
thusiasm in their work, and sang the beautiful
hymn "Work, for the night is coming
Year: 1874




A lively sensation, intensified by mystery.
has been created throughout Europe by the
imprisonment Of Count Won Arnim on the
charge of secreting important papers of which
the German government wishes to gain DOS
session. There is more curiosity about the
contents Of these documents than on anv
other point, for Bismarck's great anxiety to
get hold OF them indicates that they are of O
compromising character, and that their pub
ication would be especially awkward for
him. Won Arnim has been subjected to strict
prison discipline as means of extort-
ing either the papers or statement
of the place where they are secreted; but If
he has fortitude enough to stand out the
arrest and Imprisonment will prove great
mistake. The missing documents have been
SO sensatonally advertised that if they should
ever be published they will be universally
read with eager interest," whereas they might
otherwise have attracted little attention. II
they contain damaging facts Bismarck is
taking the surest way to spread and extend the
injury unless he can extort their return by the
severity he is practising on Won Arnim. A
Berlin despatch states that they have probably
been conveyed to England for safe keeping,
and, if 80, they are beyond reach or recovery,
unless the contumacious Count can be re-
duced TO submission. II ia rumored that the
Year: 1874

A FRESH EXAMPLE of the needless
stupidity, or revolving inhumanity, of our
police, is presented in the case Of Thomas
Weiger, who died at Bellevue Hospital
from injuries received in some unknown man
ner. Coroner Eickhof Is to hold an inquest,
and it will probably appear that the poor man,
who was given to intoxication and had fallen
from shed, had his ribs and collar bone
broken by the fall before he was taken up by
the police and arraigned on o charge of
drunkenness 1t is piece of criminal and
brutal carelessness that injuries SO severe and
which resulted in death should not have been
discerned by the policemen. Such instances
of revolving neglect Of the ordinary Offices of
humanity are quite too common in our police
forca.
Year: 1874

The LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN and several
members Of the Irish team sailed for Ireland
yesterday on board the Abyssinia. His Lord
ship was attended by numerous friends, and
carried away with him the regrets of large
circle Of acquaintances During his
stay in this city the Lord Mayor
received the customary civic hospitalities
and acquired the esteem and friendship
of those with whom he came in contact.
General regret has been felt at the shortness
of his VISIT and we hope that the example set
by the honorable gentleman will be followed
by other civic dignities OF the Old World.
Year: 1874

No man, however low down in the So
cial scale, but has some redeeming
quality. Our friend who gave the church
members a well merited rebuke, ac-
knowledged the "corn" as to his failing,
and took particular pains to show up
theirs, They had parish in our church,
writes New England correspondent,
and the great question of the salary of
the pastor of Blank was up for discus
sion.-But the debate was like the han
die of pitcher-all on one side, nearly
every one tak.1g the ground that would
be impossible to go beyond the present
starvation point. At length, to the sur
prise of all, poor old man who was
never known to speak in meeting, rose,
and holding on by the pew to steady
himself, said "Mr. Chairman, they
call me q droll fellow, and so am !;
they call me drunkard, and SO 1 am /;
they call me a swearer, and it is true,
and I'm ashamed of of all !;
but amt half so much ashamed Of it
as am that have to live in town
where the people are to stingy to give
the minister a decent living" The ef-
feet of this short speech was very happy.
It shamed the people into duty and
decency, and the salary was increased
by the unanimous vote of the congrega-
ton.
Year: 1874

The Paris papers announce the death
of Baroness Michaela de Pontalba. a
native of New Orleans, and the late
owner of princely estates in that city;
the daughter of Don Andres Almenas-
ter. the Spanish intendant of finances
of the colony of Louisiana, who founded
the cathedral in New Orleans and sew
eral charitable and religious institu-
tions, and who died, leaving his daugh-
ter the wealthiest then this side of the
Atlantic.


In those days, and indeed long after
ward, the fair demoiselies of the colony
finished their education at the convent,
and made their debut in society and the
fashionable world at a very early age.
And, indeed, marrying at fourteen and
fifteen years of age was no rare thing
for them to do. As Mile. Almenaster
was married in 1912, at the age Of nine
teen, to her cousin, the Baron de Pom
talba, it was some time ere that date
when she reigned belle in the parlors
of the old creole aristocracy, and where
she met the celebrated John McDon-
ough, the New Orleans millionaire. OF
marvellous beauty, and an heiress, the
young merchant fell an easy victim to
her charms, and his subsequent lonely
life and asceticism were attributable to
the early and crushing disappointment
of his love.


Young McDonough, from the cul-
tured society of Baltimore, obtained an
easy entire in the privileged circles of
the Southern capital, where his gay and
dashing habits and luxurious living soon
made him a noted parsonage 1t was not
long however before the bewildering
Spanish beauty led him captive. He
proposed marriage, but the answer he
received was as decisive as it was NOR
tifying. He was not rich enough to
marry the heiress of Don Andres AL
menaster.


In his bitter anger McDonough vowed
he would live and work until he was
richer than all the Almenasters and
Pontalbas put together. He kept his
word. A recluse from the moment of
his rejection, the energies of his pow
erful mind and indomitable will were
absorbed in getting. He accu-
mulated eight millions of dollars, and
died in lonely house, opposite New
Orleans, with only servants for attend
ants, a comparative stranger in the
city where he had lived all his life, and
of whose property he was SO largely the
owner.


In his death-hour he talked incohe-
rently of his early disappointment and
desired that small painting on ivory,
supposed to be likeness of his early
charmer, be buried with him. 1t was
done, and so faded from tine world his
romance and his life.
Year: 1874

remembrance. For Williams, on his
way to the battlefield as Colonel of a
Massachusetts regiment, which was
made up in part from his old comrades
ut the fort. made his will at Albany,
and devised all his property to the
founding of free school in the west
township ON the HOOsac, provided that
when the boundary lines were drawn
between New York and Massachusetts
the township should fall within the
latter and should be called Williams
town. Both these conditions were met,
and the free school became Williams
College in 1893, and the town has been
proud of the genial memory of its
founder from that day to this. The
sword and the watch of Colonel Viii
liams, both of them ON his person when
the fatal bullet struck him, now hang
as memorials in the trustees room of
the college.


The town is equally remarkable for
the quiet beauty of its valley, and for
the boldness and variety of the noun
tain scenery about it. 1t is, indeed, as
Rufus ChOate once expressed it on the
spot, surrounded by an eternal poem
of hills" Baptized in the blood of its
founder, and surrounded by an eternal
poem of hills, was the whole e> preston
of that magician-orator. Aside from
the college, now approachiny : its cen
tennial, whose reputation draws young
men from a very wide circle of country,
W llliamstOwn Is becoming more and
more noted as place of summer re-
sort. Formerly. there was great lack
of suitable hotels for the accOmmOda-
ton of strangers, but this lack has now
been abuiidantly supplied.
Year: 1874

THE RoPE.-Two young, ragged boys
whose names were Guy and Jack, found
an old rope lying in the road, over the
possession of which they disputed long
and loud. Guy snatched one end and
Jack the other, and both pulled with
all their force to get it. Suddenly the
rope broke and both fell backward down
into the mud, presenting a pitiable
appearance.


A passer-by said to them, at this very
moment, ''Behold what happens to
quarrellers For the most worthless
trifie they become angry at each other |;
and what then results? They cover
themselves with ridicule and shame
before the eyes of everybody, just as
you now stand before me covered with
mud and dirt"


Study to keep the peace for discord
always brings evil in its train,
Year: 1874

In numerous letters to her family end
friends, the duchess of Edinburgh de.
sGribas her life in England as one OF
perfect happiness. She speaks WITH
great gratitude of the cordial anu
friendly reception she has met with from
all with whom she has come IN confact
the Queen, the royal family, and the
court at large.
Year: 1874

One of the engineers of the Central


Pacific Railroad Company is now or


ganizing a company in San Francisco
for the purpose of thoroughly exam
lining the different routes by which
the Southern Pacific road may pass
through the mountains between the
Los Angeles and the San Joaquin
Valleys. The examination of the
country will be very thorough, and it
is probable that some of the routes
run by this party will be adopted as
the location of the road. 1t appears
that the company fully realize the i'm
portance of connecting the roads in
this valley with the main trunk of the
Western Pacific, now completed to
Bakers field, at the earliest possible
moment. We regard the sending out
of a corps of engineers with instruc-
tions to rerun every line and carefully
examine each route, as indicative of
active operations in road building
early next Spring. The report of the
chief of the party now about TO start
out will no doubt determine the route
of the road, and this once settled, the
wires of the Atlantic and Pacific Tele-
graph Company will be extended to
this city almost Immediately, which
will be another great accommodation
to the people of this part of the world.
Year: 1874

The Southern Californian, Of Ana
helm, does not have much confidence
in the Los Angeles and Coast Railway
Company, and more than doubts the
success of the enterprise for which the
company is organized. Our southern
neighbor gives the names of number
of companies that have disbanded be-
fore accomplishing their mission and
intimates that the last on the list of
railroad organizations'will go the way
of the rest. We are more confident.
The new company is not undertaking
large job. The difference between
the cost and the Importance of the
proposed narrow gauge is considerable.
No enterprise started in this valley
has been received with as much favor by
the people generally as this one to give
us another outlet to the sea. The stock
is in demand, and already nearly the
entire amount required before COM
mencing the work, is subscribed. We
thank the Californian for it's compli-
mentary remark relative to the infiu-
ence of the HERALD, and will add
that we shall continue in the future,
as we have in the past, to advocate all
measures which we believe designed
to advance the interests Of the entire
valley.
Year: 1874

Some people have a fixed notion
that the employment of a person to
perform a stipulated service gives
them the right to control that PERSONS
every thought and action. In no in
dividual or corporation has this spirit
more strongly or arbitrarily mani
tested itself than in school directors.
Sometimes the school director pos
sesses all the characteristics of dom


key, except the ears. Such directors
are generally tyrants, and would not
under any circumstances employ a
young man or a young woman as q
teacher who did not think on all po-
litical and religious subjects just as
they did. Some of these old fellows
learned geography on the flat earth
theory, and of course they will have
no teacher holding globe notions.
Others have peculiar religious tenents,
and they will support no teacher not
so peculiarly twisted. OF these old
fossils the Chicago Teacher says: "Our
observation lately has led us to con-
clude that there are some school di-
rectors living yet, in the last half of
this nineteenth century, who believe
that when they hire q teacher they
hire all That is of him-body, soul,
mind, conscience, everything; that by
engaging to teach their school he has
engaged to hold no opinions contrary
to their opinions; to cherish no doxy
except their doxy; to vote as they vote;
to think as they think; to bless what


they bless, and to curse what they
curse. Such beings are as fit for
school directors, as a Hottentot is fit
for courtier, or Modoc for family
priest. They have yet to learn the
first principles of manhood, of Chris
tian charity, of civilization. A Aschool
board is derelict in its duty if it neg
lects to demand of teacher the full
est exercise of his powers, and a per-
feet abstinence from all instruction of
politics and religion, in the school
room, and perfectly moral character
both in the school room and out of it..
Beyond this they have no right to go.


The parliamentary law is here re-
versed. A teacher may be called to
account for words spoken IN the school
room, but not for sentiments expressed
out of it. And school official who
permits party or sectarian zeal to in
f1uence his vote for, or conduct to a
teacher, either for or against him, de-
serves the execration of the commune
ty; and 80 does the teacher who sac
rifices his manhood by becoming o
slave to the whims of school board"
Year: 1874

GEO. D. ROBERTS a well known
Stock broker and capitalist of San
Francisco was indicted some months
ago on a charge of obtaining money
under fale pretenses, through selling
stock in the Burro- Burro mines which
he knew to be worthless. The case
came up for trial few days ago and
the jury returned verdict of not
guilty without leaving their seats.
The complainant was one L. L.
TREADwELL who invested $50,0O0 in
Burro-Burro stock and not realizing
from it he undertook to play even on
ROBERTS but failed to accomplish his
purpose.