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Year: 1879

To THE EprroR OF THE HERALD


Will the members OF the Board Of Health for
whom it is intended and take action in re-
gard to OF the greatest nuisances the Twenty
third ward. refer to what is called Mill Brook.
This stream which flows through the thickly settled
part of Morrisania, few years ago clear
stream Of water, and was known q trout brook.
few years since the brewers on Third avenue put
down sewer IRON their brcweries through l69th
street to this stream, through which they send all
OF their refuse. and to-day what was ut time .
bright sparkling stream of water is mass of fetd
hith, aud the stencil arising from 1t s most foul.
Are the property owners and residents along the lima
OF this brook compelled to submit to this injustice
in orde1 to accommodate few rich menY


A SUEFERER
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Have the goodness to call the attention OF ouc
worthy Street Commissioners who clean our streets
to the state Of the cutters around Fulton Market.
was in Memphis in May last. and the merchants
then congratulating themselves upon the clean
liness OF their city, and they seemed satisfied that
scourge would visit them this summer and yet
South and Fulton streets, around Fulton Market,
this morning presents amount of stagnant water,
decaying vegetables and filthy refuse which DO
not think was to be in Memphis at that time.
Some fifty thousand people will to-day breathe the
air from the locality in our city spoken OF. and
cannot we be protected from the danger OF great
scourge? Who will answer who il to bame2


GINS
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Why the managers OF the Third avenue
'L" road so unmindful Of the rights OF citizens
near the line Of their road that they have not
adopted the improvements introduced by the Metro
politan L., that the noises of their locomotives
and the disagreeable smoke and dangerous cinders
may be avoided? Has MIR. Field other interest
than that the stockholders may receive "ten per
cent dividends on their Investments? II so it
should be known and the road indicted as public
nuisance. Make less noise and consume your own
smoke and clnders II you wish to make your road
popular. IL you cannot do it and "pay ten per cent
dividends" "water your stock less and you Will
find big bonanza still


FRIEND OF RAPID TRANSIT.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


In the rear of No. BAG East Hath street quite Q
number Of colored people located. All the week
these people are comparatively quiet but on Sum
days they make the place ring with their plantation
songs, &C.: drinking beer cursing and dancing make
up the programme. In fact it appears to be meets
ing place the sons or Ham. l work hard six
days and, along with others, rest on the Sabbath.
What seems rather queer, police officer lives at No
1852 and troubles himself about the matter al.
though the disturbance is crying nuisance to the
neghborhood. Kindly inform him us what the
policemen are for. u. Z.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Permit me to suggest to persons finding stray
children the necessity Of informing the police ofi-
on duty the vicinity leaving word .
the station house in the precinct lost boy aged
two years, at halfpast ten o'clock A. NJ on Friday
last and did not recover him until eight p M. II
the police had been notified of the child's being
found by the parties who kept him might not have
had the anxiety OF over nine hours None but those
who have lost children tell the feelings of par
ents placed in such q position. Wv.
Year: 1879

[NoTE.-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention Compainants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing.
Write only ono side of the paper.-ED. HERALD.J
Year: 1879

danes and their pretty demoiseles tap the wet win
dow panes of the hotel opposite in answering and
sympathetic anguish. When the sun does come ont.
if it does again. both seller and buyer will meet
with keen appetite. But until that happy time ar
rives the American will be homesick and the poor
Frenchman will moditate suicide


Our ideas of religion are very various. 1t Is said
to supply every need. We have heard preachers
eloquenty plead this fact in its favor There is not.
they tell us. human i'll in all the long catalogue OF
ills which it will not eectually What wonder
then. that these words should sometimes be taken
literally. as. for example-A poor woman. who had
attended several combinations. was at last noticeu
by the bishop. who thought it very strange that
there should be at least half dozen old ladies IN
the world looking exactly alike and all seeking
confirmation. So one day he detained her and said.
"My friend, haven't seen you here beforeY She
huInbly curtsed and replied, with the most charm
ing innocence, "Yes Your Lordshp: find its good
for the rheumatic. and as have it bad get con-
frined often as can.


1t does not follow that will at last learn to
keep his word because he finds that nobody will
take it.


There 10 certain class of III the world who
say all of things about you when you are
absent and all kinds of pleasant things when you are
present. they unlike any of the other vermin
which lavish nature has produced. Even mosquito
would alight on the tip of your nose, right
in front of your eyes, on the bald place at the
back of your head. and the noble wasp or reused
hornet wastes no time in buzzing about the rear.
but comes in straight line for the first vulnerable
spot. 1t is reserved for the human stinger to be
cautious-hence. perhaps. his name of backbiter.
Mark Lemon has left behind him four lines which
aptly describe all these descendants of Uriah Heep:


No. varus hates thing that's base:


own, indeed, he's got knack


OF fattering people to their face,


But scorns to dot behind their back.


Some one has said that there is no pleasure that
can equal that Of going to church.


blow is hard thing to bear. generally, but
there arq certain persons in the world who strike
YOU agrtIeably.
Year: 1879

AS large area in this county
will be sown with wheat during
the present winter. and the only
risk our farmers run in sowing
wheat is the danger of rust, it be-
hooves US to profit by the expert
ence of wheat growers in rust in.
fected countries. In Australia rust
Is the great bugbear, and it has
been proven there by the expert
ence of many years that wheat
sown Oh or near the sea coast Is free
from rust. This has led the farmers
inland to try top-dressing of salt,
and where properly and plentifully
applied it has never failed to ward
Off this dreaded blight. L am not
aware whether the experiment of
sowing wheat very near the ocean
has ever been made in this county;
but if not, would suggest that some
of our farmers living near the sea
should try it. AS coarse salt can be
obtained at the salt works very
cheap, l would also suggest that
some experiments be made with
this as top.dressing, sowing, say,
a ton to the acre about the middle
of March. The Australian writer
says:


1t has been noticed that crops
subject to sea influence are seldom
damaged by rust, while crops
grown few miles inland suffer
equally with those grown at great
er distances.


Another Australian writer says:


Experiments were made by the
Rev. E. Cartwright on rust-infect-
ed crops by dressing them with
salt in solution, the inixture being
at the rate of one pound of salt to
one gallon of water. The result was
completely successful, and the crop
came to maturity.


AGRICOLA.
Year: 1879

A number of desirable rooms to
let at No. 7 Third street. The loca-
tion Is accessible and desirable
from every standpoint. The neigh
borhood is good and the house is
barely five minutes walk from the
Court House.
Year: 1879

The average time Of the passage Of
the City Of Toxic to San Francisco was
about up last evening, and there was
little doubt that she would arrive out
side during the night. San Francisco
passed another day Of idle waiting, the
expected arrival Of General Grant para
lysing general business. The decorated
streets were crowded with visitors from
near towns, including military compa-
MES and civil organizations.
Year: 1879

A sensation was created at Atlanta,
Ga, on Wednesday morning, by wo-
man, who met prominent young law
yer in the street, and presented
him with child two weeks old. He
paid no attention to her. She laid
the child down on the sidewalk. A
large crowd collected. As the lawyer
walked off, the woman followed him
with the baby, and kept with him till
he entered his Office. There is a great
social scandal over the affair, as the
lawyer is one of the rising young poll
ticians in the State.
Year: 1879

HALIFAX, Aug. 2s.-The city has been full
of strangers to-day to attend the Ross and
Smith race, but dispatch from Bedford
Basin late this afternoon says the race will
not be rowed to-day on account Of the rough
ness OF the weather
Year: 1879

The swim of Mlessrs. Tuelf and werham recorded
in the HERALD OF yesterday has excited considerable
attention among sporting men and the public gen.
orally, because of the claim Of foul that
made. The matter was settled yesterday by the pay
ment of the money to Tuelff. who reached the dock
first There is doubt that lie touched bottom and
stood up before reaching the dock and there
is very little doubt that he could not
have reached it otherwise. owing to exhaus-
tion. The other charges which made
against him by gentlemen who were with tho party
are much grave. but lack positive veRhcation.
1t is said that whileSassing the Narrows and when
the barge away astern and no one by him but
his trainer and 'judge." Tueif was towod tor fully
two miles by his boat The truth OF this cannot DO
ascertained. although there those who claim
they saw through glasses. because the manage
failed place referee in small boat where he could
have seen any hocus pocus Of the kind Tho HERALD
reporter tho judge. who was not Mr.. Dinners.
throw q rope to Tuch This shore, while
the swimmer trying to half swim. half wade to
the dock Tho rope fastened to the storm of the
small boat and Tuelf made motion II to take IL.
then seeing the reporter close by in another boat
checked himself and swan When Tueln landed,
more dead than alive. and wanted his great rubber
coat, tho Judge pu: himself and supposed 1t
was on Iucff Worham was in excellent spirits yes
tcrday and announces himself ready to SWIM Webb
an ybody else.
Year: 1879

The Louisville CouriAr-.1oarnal Is disposed to
slobber over Dosa SHEPHERD. Isn't it a little
late In the day for reform newspaper to wake
up 70 the greatness and gooluesa Of Mr.. sHEr.
Year: 1879

THR Gazette In column editorial
Yesterday did not refuts single word
of what v. said the day before as to
how the war debt Of Delaware was cre-
atcd but simply charges theREPuBlIcAS
with harboring animosities against
Democrats, and with desire to keep
the State from being reimbursed by the
General Government that thereby our
children might not be educated. We
agree that New York city during the
rebellion gave some trouble to the Gov
ernment, but the city was in a loyal
State, under loyal Legislature, with
Morgan The war Governor at the head,
and the State poured out money, with
out stint to equip regiments, pay boun-
tie; 10 induce men to volunteer, and to
supp'rt the wives and children of vol
unteers. 4he comparison OF the Cdsette
is unfortunate. 70 give its Argument
some force We would ask 1t to publish
a single instance when Delaware ever
gave a dollar to equip regiment, to
pay bounty to volunteers, or to give
even a cup Of cold water or crust OF
bread to the wives and children OF the
soldiers. /. is true the Gdzetfe did lead
in exposing the frauds which were
practictd by some Of the conseript Off
GERS, neither do We deny that such
fauds were practiced; the Gazette was
already with hatful Of bricks to SHE
at the hea Is Of Union Officers no matter
whether they were honest or dishonest,
and the brick was always thrown not
because they were dishonest. so much
as because they were Union soldiers.
The Gazette was then as now " Faithful
and fearpsssn in its advocacy OF every.
thing which favored the rebellion.


FRANCIS MURpllY has brought his tenn
perance work in Ii-w York to close.


During its continuance twenty five
thousand persons signed the pledge.
Year: 1879

An exchange says the happiest period
of a woman's life is when she Is making
her wedding garments, aoJ the ssddest
is when her husband comes hCme late
at night and yelIs at her from the front
door steps TO throw out handful OF
KEY holes Of different sizes.
Year: 1879

did not deny the story of the reward for the head
SIR p. O'Brien Justly remarked that the question
was a simple one and deserved an answer; but thc
answer dId not come The Chancellor OF the
Exchequer would only say that the Governmsnt
hal no information on the subject. and that per
sonally he did not believe the statement. Then the
debate dwinlled into discussion OF the question
whether tho Emperor Macmillan had oriered' IN
Mexico. price for the head Of Juarez; and TINS
rather ghastIy historic doubt gavo rise to much
laughter" So the debate ended. leaving an I'M
pression il must be confessed. that tho statement
was true in spite OF the disbelief Of the Chancellor
Of the Exchequer. Poor Sir z. OBrien, who wanted
10 know why tine Government had not tele0raphed
to the Cape on the subject. and who was Informed
that it was because there no telegraph TO the
Cape, got rather the worst of the matter.
Year: 1879

Ii Is now twelve veal, since that body OF
financial doctrine known as GIeenbackism


found sufficient number of advocates to
unite and organize into political force OF


sufficient consequence to make a serious as
sault upon the public credit. Mr.. Pendeton
had the honor of beng its first conspicuous
apostle, and it first assumed the dignity of IN
Issue in the Ohio State canvass of 1867.
The fundamental principles of the scheme, if
a scheme with no principle and no bottom ID
reason OF experience can be said to have any
Fundamental principles, were officially adopted
by the Democratic Convention held The next
wear, and were declared to De cardinal articles
of the faith of the National Demo-
cratic party. No arithmetic can estimate
the direct pecuniary loss which this deusiOn
has entailed upon the country, by hindering
and delaying return to rational methods in
finance. For years ii was constant menace
to the credit of the country. weakening every
promise of the Government, making the
process of conversion more tedious and
expensive, and the struggle for the res
toratioD of currency with a legitimate
value basis more laborious and trying. For
tunately the worst is over. The smooth soph-
lssrleS WHICH cdpllNUttu tnc
lost their power for evil. Every dollar IN
practical use is worth hundred cents, and the
country's credit is more stable that IL has been
at any time during our history as a Nation. 1t
looks like a complete victory for honesty and
intelligence-a victory won by the enlightened
teachings of the press, the incorporating
frnness of the Government and the genuine
virtue of the great mass of the people.


OF course we can never contemplate this
triumph of honesty and honor without graft
tude toward the men whose faith and firmness
in Congress and elsewhere secured il, nor
without some resentment against the party,
and especially the leaders of the party, Who
strove through all these years, and who, though
bafled, are striving still, to plunge the country
into ruin and disgrace. But the time has come
when we cen view the performances of such
body "a the Greenback Convention in Utica
last week with more commiseration than
anger The rawlings of these moral inebri-
ates or revolutionary maniacs will cer-
tainly have little influence upon any mind
Year: 1879

The air was full Of Summer yesterday, when the
reign of Autumn began. few leagues to the north-
ward brown leaves are iuttering to the ground. the
swamp naples are all afame, and every landscape
shows n hundred Obtrusiye evidences that the
ripened wear is fastening TO its rest. Hereabout, on
the contrary the woods and fields are all
green with lsty. life and growth. Tho lawns
in the Park never looked fresher in June. and
one would hardly bo surprised to see the bloom
of lilac and yiburnum instead or altheas and
snowy panicles of hydrangea AMI the orange-co-
ored trumpets of the bignonia. Last September
found the fields burned brown and the foliage of the
trees dry and shrivelcd, and all the early
Autumn was chokcd with drought and dust.
The exceptional and almost yernal freshness of the
year past its prime Is dde To the generous rams
which made the August just left behind memora-
BILE month in the weather records OF recent years
One can hardly recall time when the earth III ma
ture Summer was blessed with so liberal asaturation
and when in early September there was no excuse
for vegetation TO take rest rom growing except
that Inc work Of the year had been rounded and
upencd into completeness.


Bat no doubt the Almanac is right. September
has come, and all the world is packing up for the
return to town, just before the kindling color
in the woods and the dreamy haze upon
the hills transGgure every landscape, and just be-
lOic lOc uOsL} Ni.pT III EifNo % bhi'H w INV
blood and All awakening to every sense. so that the
whole man is tuned up TO enjoy intensely. ana
with all his faculties, this season Of surprising
,ovellness. OF course if one lives in Tie city he
must come home some time. The children must
90 to school and the Fall trade must De looked
after. The year cannot be all vacation. and the
courts and schools aud churches and theatres must
begin their orderly ongongs sooner or later. Alto
go!hcr the 1st of September may be the most ap-
propriate day in the calendar for sun-hrowned
judges anl teachers and preachers 20 pick
up their work where they had lad it down.
Bat there are people who return 10 the
city at this season simply because they arc bid to
30 80 bv fashions and il may be worth while to
remind these that fashion never promulgated a
more senseless decree. Swinging in hammock Is
only life by courtesy. Passive existence may be
more endurabo in the country than in the
city during the season Of midsummer Ian
guOr But life i'm the country life actual
and hearty, when living tsolf a luxury, only
comes with the crisp and stimulating breath of an
Autumn morning.


Fortunate they who have yet some vacation days
in reserve The Summer is past, but the choice
of all the year for escape to the country
and for gathering treasures of health and courage
and hope is yet to come.
Year: 1879

i0ur dispatches from Saratoga Indicate that
Mr.. Cornelrs nomination for Governor on
Wednesday is extremely probable. HIS friends
arc so sanguine that they claim his nomina-
ton Oh the first ballot, and perhaps by ac-
clamation Unprcjudiced observers concede
him 24O votes, or 13 more than a majority.
Ii is claimed that he is the second choice OF
many delegates, and that so soon as other
candidates are dropped votes will begin to 90
over to him. The anti-Cornell men admit
that he can only be defeated by general
fusion of all the opposing elements lmmedi-
ately after the first ballot. Two men are men
toned as the candidates of this fusion. See
rctary Evarts and Sherman s. Rogers. NJ.
Evarts's name is thought to be used entirely
without his authority. None of the principal
anti Cornell leaders are on the ground yet,
ard no general plan of action has been
formed. There is a marked absence of all
bitterness between the various elements, and
the general desire Is to make that nomina-
tion which shall be most certain of giving the
party victory. Whichever one OF the prominent
men now named gets the nomination, il is
perfectly clear that he will receive the hearty
support Of his present rivals. There is less
said in our dispatches about the platform than
we could wish. We are glad, however, to find
that it Will contain emphatic approval of
the Presidents course during the late session,
rs well as a hearty recognition of the great
work of the Treasury in the resumption of
specie payments and revival of prosperity.
We hope there will be also some distinct
utterance on the genuine railroad grievances
of the people of New-York. There is "A gen
eral recognition Of the extreme importance of
the election with reference to next years
Presidential contest. The Convention will
embrace as large number Of distinguished
men of the State as any one for many years
past. and their deliberations will be iclosely
watched by voters.
Year: 1879

California will lead off tomorrow with the
first important election of the year. An
unusually long ticket is to be voted for' com
prising, beside COngressmen, full State legiS-
lative and municipal officers, Chiei-Justlce
of the Supreme Court and six Associate JUS
tees. and three Railroad Commissioners.
While there are five parties in the contest,
the struggle is really between the Repu5h-
cans and three factions of the Democratic
party. Two of these factions have the same
candidate for Governor. while the third, which
is Kearney's party, has separate State
ticket. but the regular Democratic judicial
ticket. In this division of the opposition the
Republicans base their hope of victory. They
are confident of electing their candidate for
Governor and at least three of the four Con-
grcssmen 1t is impossible to judge at this
distance what effect the De loung-kalioch
quarrel will have upon the vote IN San ran
CISCO but if it shall result i'll placing the city
in control of the Republicans 1t will be an
unexpected piece of good fortune We give
in another column the tickets OF all parties,
together with full information about the prin-
clples represented 10y each.
Year: 1879

An undergraduate Of Harvard University IL, 1t
appears. serving during his vacation as q waiter IN
a White Mountain hotel at %2O month. One. of
the best things told of him il that he declines to
receive cratultes feeling that when gentleman
turns servant /" be must draw the line somewhere"
This studont-water is literally working his way
through college and Is willing to do anything hon
orable to get money enough to meet his
exoenses lie has earned something by coach
ing the other boys and before he entered
college, he kept school. One cannot help admring
such pluck Is this; ; but it is not uncommon. Every
body who has been in college has known similar
instances, and been acquainted with students who
worked nj their trades in the intervals of study.
The institutions conducted upon the manual labor
principle were designed o. make this dependence
in practice; out. for various reasons, they have
never been successful. Still, plucky lads,
determined to get through college some
how. usually accomplish their honorable
purpose ard great many self-dcnyIng.
Courageous and industrious students will he found
i'm the classes which presently will resume their
studies They are excellent examples To the
wealthy student who has nothing TO do but work at
his books and who does not DO that very goriously
We are sorry that the Harvard youth could not
find something better than waiting At table to do
but no doubt he does his waiting we'll, which Is
much more than can be said of great many pro-
fessonai walters.
Year: 1879

Brooklyn has several cases Of sickness from
impure milk. and the wonder is that New
Yorl, does not have scores Of them each day.
That mysterious composition sold for milk in
This city daily was never more unfit for con
sumption than it is at present. There are
undoubtedly some milkmen who serve pure
md wholesome milk, but there are good
many more who do not. Anything worse
than the stuff which is on sale Ill the small
groceries it would almost tax human mge-
nulfY ln concnct.
Year: 1879

The Southern MoonshneIs" have been en-
couraged to turn bulldozers by what the Dem
ocrats call their extra session triumph. They
are whipping witnesses who testify against
them. driving them away from their homes.
and are opposing the officers of the Govern
ment with armed force. The officers complain
that nothing but the lack of an appropriation
for the Marshals prevents them from abolish
ing the whole business of Illicit dIstilling.
Herein lies the nobleness Of that Democratic
victory.