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Year: 1879

versaiist his rooms will all be taken-but
among other denominations, there might be
q good many more rooms empty for all eter-
nifty than those he estimates for the angels.
because of lack Of references and other
qualifications among soma of the people of
oil the worlds. With anything like the ex-
clusiyenesss we are taught to- believe
is going to decide the fate of average
mortality, it is depressing to eontemplate the
waste room from any standpoint save the
Universalist. This calculation of the Rev.
Beltzly is partial to one sect in conf rming
their belief and providing apartments for
the people of the worlds, without respect to
fitness, or any OF the other Christian con-
siderations of admission, But to major
ity who do not believe they can rush in at
random where angels fear to tread, the
knowledge that there are so many rooms
aloft, will be grievous aggrasation, while
the basement regions are likely to be un-
comfortably crowded and lily ventilated.


Now puzzling question is "the two hun
dred and forty quadrillions of mansions re-
naming over unoccupied, to be occupied ty
the angels" Where are they now and what
are they doing? Are they in process Of evo,
luton, and why was the supply of rooms SO
much greater than the demand for the
class who had sure thing on the
inside ? that is if the preconceived theory
about angels is at all correct. Well, the
Rev. Beltzly's plan of heaven is ingen.
ious, and W is deep in meditation or
its roominess, and may be calculating OF
additions to the original lay out, he is il
nothing mischievous, or positively contra
band. While he is borne on rushing cur
rents Of air, and scaling heaven, it ii
pleasanter to follow him than if he wa


stirring up the social evil, or playing tn
tarantula in temptation to the dance o
DEATH. He might be censuring the press
and advertising every infamy in the land il
sermons. He might be engaged in bite
controversy about quibbles, whereas now hi
contemplation is fairly Miltonic, and eve1
better, because the poets deal was misera
BILE conspiracy and rout, and Beltzly'
scheme is a peaceful homestead allotment


It isa regret that more of the order dom
go beyond the world for inspiration. Brud
der Jasper with his doctrine that the "su


do move'' and the uplifted Beltzly with hi
celestial city plot, are visionary, it is true


but they are harmless, and their revelation


are not noisome with uncleanliness.
Year: 1879

THE opinion seems to prevail generally
that the nomination of Foster for governor
of Ohio is a decided backset to the Grant
boom. Taft was put up by the friends of
Grant as his especial champion, and his
nomination would have been accepted as a
pledge of the State to Grant in 1880. Sher-
man is reported to be in an ecstacy of de-
light, while Hayes shares his JOY, though
more reserved in expressing it. The Sher-
man wave has had boost forward, and un-
less the return should go too far out at sea he
is reasonably certain of commanding the
strength of the Ohio delegation in the next
Republ lean national convention.
Year: 1879

disadvantages Of figure she has an agree
able undulaton Of movement IN passing
from one pose to another. She has lntelli-
gence she has a manner which impresscs many
people as charming, and she las 4 thorough knowl-
edge of her business 1t Is said she has pursued her
studies far as 10 visit insane asylum, which
would point 10 n taste for realism alien from the
highest art. BE that as it may, her OpheiG was
touching and true. Ii was, moreover admirably
fitted to the Hamlet Of Mr. Irving and can readily
agree with the remark Of an accomplished actress
who was present that they were the only Hamlet
and Ophelia she ever saw on the stage who were
really in love with each other. CIV :.
Year: 1879

We hereby notify our friends an! the public generally that from this time forth we will cease to sell for credit on any terms whatever. We are aware that in order to do this we will have to sell cheaper than our neigh bors, and we are prepared to do so. As we are building we are very much pressed for cash, and therefore 1t will be better for us to sell for cost than to sell on ever so short a time, no matter how good the buyer. The facts in the case are just these: it is a necessity with us to have our goods or to have the wherewith to buy more. Of course we do not expect to do so much business, but we are de- termined to do what we can.

 Our Lumber Yard is now full and nearly com plete.
Year: 1879

trade and worldwide commerce.


He favors the immigration of cur


own people from the States east


ward, together with emigrants


from Europe; and he Is resolutely
o. posed to the importation of Chi


nese and to coolie labor. Moreover


be was conspicuous champion of
the new Constitution, and is, con-
sequently, the very man to admin
lister the State government in ac-
cordance with the letter and spirit
of the instrument. And while he
will not, as Governor, seek to do
injustice to or aggress the constitu-
tional and legal rights of any, indi-
viduals or corporations, he will
firmly maintain the cause of the
people as against the tire spass of the
railroad monopoly upon their
rights. For all these reasons, and
because he 10 an honest, incorrupt-
ible, most estimabie Citizen,
worthy in every light, and by far
the best candidate in nomination
for the exalted office, the Democ-
racy of California will ardently
rally to support him at the polls,
in common with the thousands of
others of every party affiliation
who are impatient and restive un-
der the lohg-continued abuses and
of the monopolies
which have been exhausting and
absorbing the industries and sub
stance Of the State and of every
pursuit and class.
Year: 1879

1T IL q God. send that the fervid
Eastern summer intervenes to give
pause to the fierce political con-
troversies which were lately rack
ing the East. There is now so
much material caloric In the air,
that, if q scene like that lately en-
acted between Roscoe Conkling
and Lucius Quintius Curtius La
mar were to be done over again, no
one could be responsible for the
disastrous results. Congressional
debates held when the mercury
was doing its best to climb up to
the even hundred would be excit-
ing both in the enactment and the
reading. Had the temperature
which Is now reported from the
East prevailed when Conkling
managed to SO construe the rules
Of the United States Senate as to
admit of bis calling Lamar "a liar,
a coward and a blackguard," the
OIympian Senator from New York
would undoubtedly have far sur
passed his then venial transgression
of propriety. Neither would La
mar, with the mercury throbbing
hotly at 81, have contented him
self with simply iutimating, in a
courtly way, that Conkling was a
person to whom truth was stranger
than fiction, and that brave man
would seek redress outside of Sem
atorial halls. With the mercury
thus excited, blood would un-
doubtedly have been spilled on til q
floor Of the Senate, and the London
Times would have been furnished
with a parallel to its famous sensa
ton in which twenty-six x persons
were killed, between Bowie knife
AMI revolver, on an Arkansas rail
way train.
Year: 1879

SUMNER DREssEs.-An exchange very
truthfully says: " If only young girls
could be persuaded to believe what is
an incontrovertible fact, that during
the summer weather nothing is SO be-
coming or comfortable as crisp, clean
lawn, what blessing it would be to
themselves. Linen lawns are special
ly beautiful, and the girl who has them
made up in neat style is the girl who
will win admiration wherever she goes,
no matter how much silk satin and
lace there may be- around.
Year: 1879

A West Hill man, wearied by the
opportunities Of his wife and exc his
daughters twain essayed to hang
his neighbors dog. And it was SO
that when he made him moose that he
would put tn. dog his head into the
same, but whereas he held him by his
ears the same to do, 10, the dog was
10th for to be hanged, and bit the man
his hand four times and his leg twice
and tore his clothes and ruined him his
temper and the man fled to the house
and cried out upon him and said Hang
thee for an ill-bred cur" And the dog
laughed and said "Marry came up,
quotha, an than vert as handy with
the blight Of the rope as am with the
bite of the dog. had been hanged in
deed e'er sundown." And he made
merry with the conceit aud got him i'd
to hen house aud sucked him three
aigs.
Year: 1879

GRIsTs FRon THE GRIN FACTORY.
A writer in London Society says that
while lying in bed the wheels of life are
oiled and eased. 1t is terrible hard
work, nevertheless, for seine persons to
get their wheels to move in the morn.
ing.


The San Francisco "News" Letter is
responsible for this: Scene-Hotel
reading room. Gentleman-"I beg
your pardon, but where in hell have |
seen you before, sir p Gentleman
Cooking up from papeD--'I am sure
can't tell. What part OF hell are you
from, sir %


We presume the reason why coach
man possesses such a peculiar fascina-
ton for many young ladies, because he
is so closely related to the bride hal
ter, and is sir single.
"Mother, I've come home to dye -
as the young lady said when she re-
turned home from shopping with a
bottle of hair coloring under her arm.
A certain noted member of the New
York bar one prepared to take trip
to Europe, and bought his ticket, but
did not go. On being asked the rea-
son, he replied: cone OF my wealthy
clients has died, and l was afraid if l
went across the Atlantic the heirs would
get all of his property"


A Western editor thus kindly alludes
to a contemporary: "He is young yet,
but he can sit at his desk and brush
cobwebs from the ceiling with his ears"


A German proverb says, IA man is
what he eats" So when you come
across tough customer, blame him not
for his wickedness, but lay it to the
steaks he eats.


A good many young men are using
petroleum for hair-oil. 1t washes out
of cloaks and dress fronts much easier
than bears grease.


When an honest hen is laying the
foundation for family and doing all
the hard work some absurd rooster is
ready to do all the growing.


"Do you ever go to meeting ?" asked
a minister of blue grass Kentuckian.
Certainly, sir; twice year-Sling |
and Fall meeting"


Not long since, in Texas, q juror
arose, when the evidence was all in,
said that the twelve good men and true
did not wish to hear the lawyers
speeches.


1t is sometimes pretty hard to decide
which gives us most pleasure, to hear
praised or to hear our neigh
bors run down.


Grandfather-'You are stupid, Char
lie, the dullest boy lever saw Char
lie-'You must not expect me to UNDER
stand things as quick as you do, grand
father, because you don't have the
trouble to get 'em through your hair
Year: 1879

II the good things Of the next life reserved for
those who receive none of them in this then George
Werner and his little family will have rich store of
them to enjoy by and by. At the suggestion Of o
correspondent a representative of the HERALD called
yesterday at No. GIL West Fortyninth street. in the
rear and on the second floor Of tho tenement house
he found Poverty Corner" But to destitution was
added death also and with it additional expense and
an empty exchequer Until yesterday morning
George werner's family consisted Of himself, wife
and three children, the oldest little girl just six
years old yesterday, younger daughter aged
three years. and nursing babe few months
of scarlet fever. and at four O'Clock yesterday
morning the second child followed with the
same disease, and yet the destroyer has t
done its work. In the apartments adjoining Mrs.
Werners, and where her babe is being temporarily
cared for while she looks after the dead, there is


child of another family sick with this fever. and in
the apartments up stairs there other The
women of the house say their children receive medi
attendance, but it is well to direct the attention
of the Board of Health to the house lest the disease
spread more and more


Mrs Werner's little treasures were removed to o
the top foor where the preparations for the
funeral, simple though they be, were made The
house is occupied by German families. who, far
they able. manifest deep sympathy one with an
other The case of George Werners family is deeply
touching. He has been without employment during
the fall and winter except that he does chores
and again for Mr.. May, Church street merchant, and
of milk at wholesale and selling 1t at retail He was
out yesterday looking for help to bury his children.
His wife looked haggard and careworns and sorrow
deeper than tears could express depicted on her
countenance. Her apartments consisted OF two small
rooms, and tho marketable value OF her household
stock would not exceed SIS. And yet the poor woman
did not wish to talk about her and her bereave
ment. Whatever aid is rendered should be rendered
promptly and any contributions sent to this Office
will be forwarded, while those who reside in the
vicinity will find pleasure and profit in being the al
moners OF their own benevolence and bounty.
Year: 1879

OPPOSITION TO REDUCTION OF WAGES AND TO


THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS IN TENEMENT


HOUSES.


A meeting Of cigarmakers was held last even
ing in Concordia Hail. No. % A, for the pur-
pose of taking action toward be.tering their condi-
ton. aud especially for the object Of adopting
calculated to bring about the abolition of tho
tenement house system of manufacturing cigars,
which is considered detrimental to the interests
of the journeymen cigarmakers. Mr.. E. Mann
presided and Mr.. j. Schaefer, Of the
committee to prepare some ideas for organization,
read synopsis OF plan the committee had adopted
to the following effect-The organization shall op-
pose any reduction of wages and continuation of
the tenement house system. The head of the organ
;zation shall be member of the Central Committee
and the delegates 70 that committee shall
be elected from several meetings to be held
in shops and in several parts of the
city; every hundred cigarmakers elect one delegate
make out the tariff Of weekly dues and also the
figures for the benefit Of such members may be
send to watch the shops. and in of iinpor
tarcc shall bring the matters in question before all
the members OF the organization IN several meetings
for the purpose Of having vote: the
Central Committee shall elect special committee
to prepare memorial for presentation to Congress
asking for law abolishing tho tenement house sys-
tenn of making cigars because it is both unhealthy
and demorlizing and reduces mon to condition Of
slavery. The same memorial shall be sent to the
Legislature OF the State To make this plan success
ful circulars will be printed and sent to all working
mems societies and humane people, calling them
to support the position taken by the cgarInakers


There u long discussion the proposed
plan OF remelying the evils of which the cigar
makers complain, some OF tho speakers being op
posed to it the ground that wiped out the three
existing unions Of cigarmakers and created one
tirely organization, which it was thought would
not be as effective the present Arrangement.
Without taking Anal action the plan OF OrtuniZu-
ton proposed the meeting adjourned to meet at an
early date.
Year: 1879

NEW YoHx. Feb. II, 1870.
To THE Eprron OF THE HEMLp:--


In an issue of yours of recent date you announced
tho fact that the General Term Of the Supreme Court
had made an order requiring me to show cause why
should not be stricken the roll for negecting
clients business and failing to pay moneys COL
lectcd. No such order has been served upon me- and
my object in addressing you is TO ask you to use
your potent journalistic influence in tho premises TO
the end that il such order has been made by the
General Term and returnable to the March Term of
that court you stated that ii be served forthwith
and made returnable five days hence.


Innocent Of spirit are always ready TO court
investigation under charges which insult their feelings
and slander their honor.


passed upon by Judge westbrook in ailidavit made
Dy her. on which order to show cause was granted
and denied simply because every fact therein alleged
unimpeachablc witnesses, five of whom were known
TO His Honor TO be reputable members of the bar.
and one of whom the referee who tried the
cause On that occasion had but forty Eight hours
notice. Those fortyeight hours devoted to the
preparation OF adavits vuluminods enough to leave
me not one moment OF rest. but when the motion
was called responded, Ready" as always will
respond whenever that much notice Is given me of
charges inculpating my fidelity to client or my in
While cannot disguise the fact that tho announce
ment you have made has cost me stngs of mortih-
cation sharp and bitter. yet Il ! shall lnd you as
complete az You were TO publish rumor about the
truth falsehood Of which you knew nothing. 1
snail be content.


There is a quality Of mankind tame enough when
placed by circumstances In my present position, to
ask suspension of public opinion II Is con-
dcsccnsion decline to make.


That grown up man whose knowledge of the world
and sense Of justice will permit him TO credit rumor
and contract against prejudice upon it before ho
has heard my answer TO IL, possibly, as an enemy,
may be useful TO but certainly, friend,
Respectfully. ANDREW u. II. DAWSON.
Year: 1879

NEW HANDS DRIVEN FROM THE woRKs-THE


LADoRERs sTuBBoRNLY REFUSE TO ACCEPT


THE REDUCED SCALE OF WAGES


The strike on the line of the Metropolitan "L" ex-
tension continued yesterday. Forty men on the
Ninth avenue line went to work again early in the
morning. but some of the gangs of laborers from
the Eighth avenue came down and "beat them off,
These forty men afraid that if they continued
work at the reduced rate of 81 2 per day against the
will of their comrades malicious, reckless fel-
low might throw piece of stone or rock down into
the deep excavations where they were laboring. In
spector Thorne arrived later with about fifty officers
from the two adjacent police precincts. and from
that time order and peace prevailed. He declared
that all those who desired to return to work
should do unmolested, but the strikers evidently
thought that their enormous numerical preponder-
ance--about thousand three hundred strong.
hardy. rough men against fifty police ofeers-would
prevent any Of their number from resuining their
labor. The workmen--about hundred and fifty
in numberwho do the blasting and drilling contin-
ned undisturbed Considering the greater danger of
their work their rates not cut, but lett ut
the old rate Of 81 so IA day.


OFFICERS SAY.


Vice President Jose f. Navarro said, yesterday, in
reference to the reduction that the current rate of
pay in the city by many large employers was only 81
day. while the company would still continue to
pay 81 25 day. He thought that the men would all
be glad to return to work at the reduced rate Mr..
Navarro did not anticipate any trouble. for he be-
licved the good sense Of the laborers would keep
them from committing excesses. which could only
be injurious to their cause. General Manager John
Baird also expressed the belief that the would,
in day two. quietly their labor, seeing.
they doubtless would, that they would not better
themselves by holding out against the reduction.


WHAT THE I4ABoRERs SAY.


The laborers, in conversation with the reporter.
complained that if 81 % to be the rate paid to
them it should have commenced in the beginning of
the winter and not now. Several declared emphati-
cay that they could not live 81 % day, and that
it cost them twenty cents III fare to reach their
place of work. which. they said. was material de-
duction from their actual earnings Others ad-
mi.ted that 81 % was as much as they could get
anywhere in the city, but they claimed that
the work harder and more disagreeable,
from the cold and exposed character OF the entire
line. The bricklayers and nasons, who number
about one hundred and fifty, and whose pay not
affected, naturally grumbed very much at being also
thrown out Of employment through the strike OF the
laborers. 1t was generally thought last evening by
the people along the line Of the strike that the
majority of the strikers would return work before
the end of the present week. In they do not
it is understood that large numbers willing. and
even anxious, to take their places ut the present
duced rate of wages.
Year: 1879

versation; again. four ago. went to see Jennie
and she had weary. tired look; she said to me,
"You ought to have been here yesterday; had my
trunk packed and everything ready to leave the
house,; two years ago went to the house one even-
ing and met Jennie preparing to go out and she
asked me il had met Harry; said had and she
said he was drunk; she told me. Il am beginning to
hate to him come in. and get 80 disgnsed with
him day by day that sometimes could take an axe
and split his head open.


On cross-examination by Senator Winfield she said
that she might been the first to speak about the
store; she did not think Jenny weak minded except
III her remark about Captain Lennon.


Mrs. Smith, who had been whispering to Mr. Col
lins, hearing the remark and the laughter Of the
audience raised her shapely head and smiled.


The witness said she may have had slight suspi-
cion against Jenny, but did not think that it would
atendency with her to magnify her remarks and
actions on the day of the murder.


After the Court had been adjourned the audience to
the number OF nearly athousand remained outside to
catch glimpse Of the prisoners they taken to
the jail Under sheris Peel and Foley brought them
graceful stampede to the Of the jail to them
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Anybody in search of amusement will be enter
tainci by spending short time listening to the
stories told by the money takers at the ferry house
foot of Broadway, Williamsburg. refer particularly
to the cosey ticket Offices Of the Roosevelt street
ferry. 1t is not unfrequenty the that five or
six gatemen, deck hands, &C.. congregate around the
venerable receivers Of change and listen to their good
stories while q crowd of shiyering passengers arc
standing ready to pay their fares. few days ago
noticed poor woman, with q child in her arms.
shaking with cold aud patiently waiting the conclusion
of joke in five acts which being reclcd off by
antquate fare taker II there il any head of affairs
about the ferry house aforesaid will he give heed
to the long suffering public who have to travel his
,ine? BROKER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDrToR OF THE HERALD:-


see by the HERALD that Congress is about to pass
law "taxing patents viii not the HERALD raise
its voice in opposition to such measure and advo
cate the passage of law making it offence pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment for infringing on
patent issued by the government and especially so
the patent has been tested in the courts and
pronounced valid As the law stands in
ventor may spend years in perfectng the most valu-
able invention or Improvement ever gotten up and
then pay the government S35 when document
called patent is issued. which virtually amounts to
ths:-I the inventor has got enough money to fight
infringers (''sharks who have money but no brains
and fee greedy lawyers and pay innumerable little
costs. then he can make some money; but II he has
no money then he must live and die o poor man and
peradventure fill pauper's grave


A POOR INVENTOR,
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Some time ago complaint made at the Office
Of the Department OF Buildings about the stable
built in the rear of No. 169 Eldrdge street without
permit. An inspector was sent who examined it and
subsequently admitted that the building unlaw-
fully erected but to this day steps remove the
same to hne the party building it have been
taken, On the next lot building found de-
fective, and the tenant required to immedi-
ately nuke the building secure while the party on
the next lot was allowed to 60 unmolested


IMPARTIAL.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Please call the attention of Adams Express Com
pany to the reckless and fast driving Of their wagons
The writer has repeatedly complained the subject
but gained no satisfaction and still this careless
goes on to the imminent peril OF the residents
of this city. especially such thoroughfares Lib
erty street. SLOW DRIVING.