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Year: 1874

For tne same once the democracy have put for
ward J0hp HOag, who will, doubtless, have TO con-
tent himself With the empty nonOr OF nomina-
lion. i0r, with the "Bad Eagle Oi Westchesleru as
rival IN the 6ed tue prospects oil the former are
about as hopeless as those OF ''Dob- tailed nag in
ny time.n


THE COUNTY OFFICES.


In connection with the office OF County Register
the indications point TO the nomination Of Henry
Is. Archer by the republicans which In view OF
the democratic stronghold, Morrisania, having
mount to an election. Among tue demo-
Gratis the only candidate Tor the same
once mentioned is Theodore Pine. It
is not probable that the position OF
District Attorney will undergo any change, as
Daniel Clark Briggs, the present incumbent will
certainly be the republican candidate for re-
election to tnat important Office. That his course
has given satisfaction TO tine party may be safely
inferred from the fact that during the liberal re-
publican Presidential campaign ne followed the
banner OF the amented Horace Greeley, and was
one OF the most frank-spoken and formidable
advocates OF that movement In the county.
His having secured the conviction OF
six out or the seven .'masked burg
lars" who were each sentenced to
twenty years In the State Prison, will not soon be
tive OF party. His competitor on the democratic
side will PROBABLY be ex-County Judge Robert
Cochran. who, 1t would appear mas allowed him
self TO be switched" or from the Congressional
track only to receive the ambiguous compliment
OF nomination for District Attorney by HIS party.
For the minor county offces there is q host of
eager asprants. who are each cherishing the hope
that the County Convention may lend . favorable
ear 10 their respective claims.
Year: 1874

The Calm Of Security-Nothing Doing


and Triumph Certain.


The beautiful calm which is inspired by the cer-
tainty Of triumph was witnessed yesterday at the
headquarters OF the Republican State Committee
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The private office OF
the Secretary OF the Committee has been rendered
comfortable by the addition OF q luxurious sofa
and some velvet-covered soft arm chairs, In which
the nabobs of the party may lol at their ease.
These chairs and the sofa were occupied yesterday
by friends OF the secretary, but scarcely any
republicans OF note visited the r0Oms In the
outer room clerk was putting up parcels OF
printed speeches OF COnkling and Morgan and
that was about all the activity that was visible to
The naked eye. The secretary stated that the adj
vices rom the interior were 'all right" However.
ne subsequently ntimated that there had been no
serious detection IN The republican party in any
part OF the state, so far as ne was able to Judge
from the reports reaching him every day.. When
vote, the secretary limited that they were, upon
the whole, not unsatisfactory. and con.
concerning the strength OF the temperance move
ment he was unable to state whether 1t was capa-
ble OF doing General Dix serious injury. Some OF
the straggers, who strayed into the room during
the day, made good deal OF run OF the democratic
nominee for Governor, coupling his name, in some
broad Jokes, with that OF s.Bossn Tweed. and ridi-
culing the alleged fealty OF the Irish element 10
the ''successori' OF the noted prisoner on Black
wells Island. TINS was about the only thing
which enlivencd the Republican Healauegter
SesGerday.
Year: 1874

Prospects md Progress Of the American N


Citizen Manufa CT cture-A Few Incidents


In This Seasons Growth-.sSweet Sow


enteen" the Popular Article.


The season for the manufacture or American
citizens has arrived. For several days past this
work has been going on with all the old time dis
regard OF legal consequences II does not bear SO
brazen front as In the palmy days of political
iniquity, for In these more virtuous times it
is deemed safer 10 assume q respect for
the law, even II that respect has only
the thinnest possible outward show The
consequences Of the present mode Is to
corrupt and demoralize the citizen as deeply and
as certainly as in the days when the respective
political parties owned the judges on the bench.
The naturalization headquarters OF the republicans
and the democrats are, OF course, within the
shadow OF the law courts in Chambers street and
Centre street. The emill- OF the democracy is in
Centre street, and OF the 'republicansr In Cham
bers street. The latter Is in the cellar way of
basement lager beer restaurant, and appears 30 be
run on very economical basis. The democracy
have a large ONCE, with stan OF clerks and out
door agents, Indicative OF heavy expenditure
and external enthusiasm. For q week past
these repositories for the raw material OF citizen
ship nave been filled with men, principally OF the
laboring class, who are desrous of having a power
Of cnQtce In the election OF olccrs for the city,
Year: 1874

Intense Activity at the Democratic


Headqua rters-Esncou Reports


from the Interior.


The scene at the democratic headquarters in the
Metropolitan Hotel was one OF great commotion
yesterday. stream OF prominent democratic
politicians came pouring In from morn It'd night,
Year: 1874

people. There arc 4s7 paintings to be sold, en-
bracipg works OF the American, French. Ger
man. Belgium. and Roman schools. constituting
probably the hnest collection ever exhibited in
tho West, and one. Of the finest ever
seen In this country. This sale will af-
ford buyers such an opportunity as
they have never had before and may never have
ngain For the prospective advantage Of art in


this city, 1t is to be hoped that many OF these
beautiful works will remain here. It is tho only


important event in art which has happened here
since the fire, and the only art sale Of any con-
sequence. fit il not improved, it may be a


long time before buyers will have another such
opportunity. It is also to be considered that a
fair degree Of patronage now will materially help
the next exhibition.
Year: 1874

Hannemann Hospital Fair, which takes place in
November Tho claims Of this Hospital upon
the city deserve = prompt and hearty recoen'-
ton, and there is no pleasantef way. to dlsburse
money for charity than to disburse it for operato
enjoyment and in witnessing such an excel
lent performance as this will be-. As the
Fair Committee is composed Of the most prom
inent ladies in this city they will undoubtedly
take such an interest in this benefit that the
house will be filed. Mr. Hess lbesality IN this
direction, We trust. will secure handsome sum
for the Hospital It was a graceful act upon lls
Own part, aud it ought to be met by the public
in the largest and frecst manner. II the ladies
Of the Committee devote their time from no"
until Wednesday night for this benefit, there il
no doubt that the theatre will be crammed to
oYeruoWipg.
Year: 1874

From the route agent on the Atchi.
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Road, an
exchange gathered the following par
tieulars of brutal murder by Indians
Itseems that "a party of English tourists
arrived at Cape Supply a few days
ago for the purpose of eagaging in
buffalo hut. At Cape Supply they
purchased a complete outfit necessary
to carry on the hunt for several days.
and hired wagon and team, with a
boy seventeen years old as driver.
After being out several days their pro.
visions gave out, and they dispatched
the boy back to the town for anothe,
supply, expecting that he would easily
make the trip in three or four days at
furthest, the distance being about
thirty miles. The allotted time had
passed and day longer, the hunters,
becoming uneasy at his extended alb
sence, started for Cape Supply. Here
nothing had been seen or heard of him
since the departure of the party. A
party of hunters and scouts was i'm
mediately organized aud set out in
search of him, taking the trail towards
the hunting.graunds. The second day
out they suddenly came upon the boy.
lie had heen captured by a band of
Kiowas, the wagon taken apart aud
pileed in heap. the boy tied to the
stack, and probably burned slive. He
had also heen scalped by the brutal
towards, and his charred remains left
on the ground with all the proof of
how the devilish act had been COM
mitted. The horses, of course, we're
stolen.
Year: 1874




The Galveston News, speaking Of the
International Bond, or subsidy question,
now before the Legislature, wants no
moro foggy legislation. 1t even takes the
Legislature by the ear, and denominates
tho bill before it as monstresity. I"
This is very well for the News; but, we
presume, the Legislature is only getting
even with the News on these foggy meas
ures. When it wants fog, as in the Pub
lie Weigher Bill, it advocates it very
strongly; when it wants the MONDAY sun
to gild matters, it shines with supernat-
ural brightness. Now, we rather like
its article Of the 10Th. We like to see
these things dealt with in an open, fair
way. A little more directness and good
deal more frnnkncss is almost an impera-
tive necessity, not only to fair solution
of this vexcd question, but proper un,
derstanding of its merits, by the people
generally. To this loudly complained of
want Of 'openness and decisiveness' on
the part of the leading journal" is re-
fsrable much of the popular hatred
against the subsidy to the International
railroad.


We heartily concur in the declaration
OF the Ncwa, as to the propriety of giving
to this corporation exactly what it is en-
titled to, in the fair and honestly ex-
pressed opinion of the Legislature, the
only judges having Jurisdiction in the
| case.


If they are not entitled to the original
six million subsidy, but to smaller
amount, say SO frankly; or, if they are
not legally or clultably entitled to any
thing, say so with equal frankness, and
relieve the public mind of any further
apprehension.


We trust the present Legislature will
deal with and settle this question def
nitely, one way or another; either LEI
them have it, or repudiate altogether the
subsidy granted by the immortal t2tt
Legislature.
Year: 1874

The Dallas papers are still barking
at the mad dogs, and the Mayor has
issued orders directing the police to
kill all dogs found on the streets.
Dallas is IN q fair way to lose large
per cent. of her population.
Year: 1874

The New York Herald asks this
nomentous question, "Shall the ma
tional homer, OF the Republican party
60 down." As far "a the national
honor is concerned, that went by the
board some time since, and as to the
Republican party, we'll be hanged if
We care how soon it follows the other.
National dishonor, is the child of the
Republican, party, and a common
grave should receive them both,
Year: 1874

The adjourned meeting of the publish
ers OF the Peninsula for tho purpose of
more fully enrolling the gentlemen Of
the press in an association, vas a very
pleasant affair, and even more success
ful than was expected, as nearly all those
who are actively engaged in the bust
ness were present. We believe thero
are thirty -seven newspapers in Della
ware and the counties of Maryland and
Virginia forming the Peninsula of these
thirty-three were represented. And the
meetings which have been initiated with
so much harmony should lo continued
in the future. A more fratcrnal feclir g
will ha the resiilt- and acquaintances
formed that will be found beneficial and
lasting. For ourselves, we regret that
we have not had more time to spend in
social way. since, OF course, much of
the short time the gentlemen of the press
spent in Wilmington was devoted to
business. Tho banquet ut the Clayton
House. last evening, given by the Board
OF Trade, was participated in by the en-
tire party and proved to be very spir.
tied and pleasant affair, and the Board
are entitled to the thanks of our entire
city for the display of public spirit the
occasion evinced. We are sure that all
that has been done was fully reciprocated
and doubly repaid our city in the kind
sentiments expressed and the hopes and
wishes promulgated for our future rapid
growth and prosperity; all Of which will
be found fully reported in our local col.
umns.
Year: 1874

On the LIST of January the new postage
law goes into effect, and nll newspapers
and periodicals are required to be pre-
paid by the publishers when deposited
in the post Office.


The GAZETTE will. therefore, be fur
nished free Of postage.


1t is therefore hoped that all who are
in arrears for subscription will make it
a special duty to cancel their indebted
ness by sending us the amounts due in
money orders or in cash. Prompt action
in this matter will obhge us and enable
us the more readily to meet the extra
expense for postage
Year: 1874

New CASTLE AND THE TAsKER. NOR
RIs q Co.'S WoRKs.-We despatched n
reporter to New Castle on Tuesday, and
reliable report of the operations of the
above firm, briefly detailed to him by a
gentleman closely connected with the
business there, will be found on our first
page,
Year: 1874

We resume onr inv estigation into the
rotten borough custom-houses.. We will
point out to the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, who is himself investigating these
nasts of corruption, one enormous swim
die in the New Orleans Custom-Hou
and the picture cannot he seen to better
advantage than by comparing the work
Of the largest port in the United States.


All foreign ships that enter a port must
necessarily have an inspector until the
vessel has discharged her cargo. There
fore, it is not question Of entering 100
packages OF goods marked 81 .O00, wy, or
loo rackages marked only sl0.OOO. They
both may require the Same number OF
hands to handle the goods and attend to
the clerical work. 1t is simply manual
labor to superintend and discharge a
given number of ships in any port.


The following statistics will show. then,
that during the fiscal year Of 1873 there
were employed in the port OF New York
inspectors to discharge foreign ships as
Year: 1874

Doubtless tI1cro is some matter for inyosti-
cation covered by tho rcSolution Of the House
yoatertlay requesting tho Secretary Of the In
terror to make detailed statement of the
disbursements of tho contingent fund in each
bureau Of his Department..
Year: 1874




EpIroR TRUE NoRTHKRNER In reply to the
many inquiries at my Office, as to when ] am
expected to return. am happy to say to my
patrons and friends that. nothing preventing,
We shall return to Paw Paw, sometime this
fall, at present I cannot tell exactly whom, put
probably in the month Of October.


In the meantime would solicit your patron
age at the old stand where may be found Mr..
N. Z. Hooper. who has been with me nearly
two years, with the exception OF few months
last winter when he was under the instruction
Of an eminent dentist OF Chicago. can now
safely recommend him to the favor and pat
ronAge OF the public. and ] will be responsible
for all dental work done by HIM during my ab-
Thankful for the many favors bestowed upon
me in the past three years, shall strive to
merit your patronage IN future, and after few
months rest and recuperstion l shall feel bet
ter prepared to serve You than ever before.


A. o. HooxKR.
Year: 1874

Life is a monstrous disappointment,
and death the only portal to peace.
There is not 4 day that passes in
which virtue does not sell itself for
bread; in which some poor, harassed
or frenzied creature does not rush mad
ly upon death in which the good are
not prosecuted and the weak trampled
upon. Behind windows YOU look
heedlessly at tragedies, red as any his
tory or fiction ever painted, are being
PLAYED, and faces YOU admire mask
with smiles AMI inward torture worse
than the agony Of the rack. Who
among our readers has realized the
fulfllment of his early hopes? Whose
life has not its notifications, its bit
ter concealments, its studied evasions,
its poignant humiliatons, its wild
uneasiness, its wrestling and defeat?
But we do not represent life. We re-
present the fairest portion and the
highest level of it. Beneath us is the
great mass of humanity, and they
writhe and moan and weep; they toll
and strive, and curse and fight, and
die. The world goes roaring on as
needless ofthose who fall as the gale
in autumn is needless of the leaves it
strips from the trees or the branches
it wrenches away.
Year: 1874

EDITOR AGE---


Last Wednesday evening as l sat
thinking what might write that
would please the Editor, their appear
ed to me vision coming out of
Heaven, an Angel, in the form of an
old man, leaning upon his staff, whose
head was silvered over with years.
As he came forward with slow and
feeble steps, said to him Father,
what shall / do to be saved My son,
said the old man, store thy mind with
useful knowledge lay hold of the
great truths of life 60 out into the
fields and learn lesson of wisdom
from the God of nature. The humbl-
est flower that raises its head to kiss
the morning dew can teach you a
lesson of wisdom, if you but heed its
instruction. | know, my son., where
of you would speak. l was taught
while on earth to look up to the skies
as the dwelling place Of our God.-
That, my son, is mistake-God is
with you and all around you-He is in
every spear of grass, in every tree,
bush or shl1b-TIe is the soul of every
flower that sheds its fragrance about,
distilling its sweets like the dews of
Lebanon. Our God, my son, is a
God of Wisdom. wisdom created all
things, it governs all things and the
more wisdom and knowledge you
gather while travelling through your
earthly pilgrimage the better it is for
YOU But, father, I have been taught
that there was something of more inn
portance than wisdom Look, my
son, at the advice Solomon gave to
his son He says wisdom is the
principal thing-therefore get wisdom,
and with all thy gettings, get under
standing length Of days is in her
right hand, and in her left riches an!
honor her ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and all her paths are peace
Go, my son, and learn lesson from
yonder purling streamlet that goes
dancing merri'y along through verdi
ant meadows, and down rocky glens,
until at last 1t finds its home III the
bosom of the father of waters. The
lesson it teaches, is this, that man
must 60 on, upward and onward until
he finds home in the bosom Of the
God of all wisdom and when your
mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall you take up the thread Of
life where you left it here, and mount
up higher and higher, throughout the
ceaseless ages of eternity. Saying
this, the old man disappeared. |
awoke to find it all a dream. NC.
Year: 1874

ever, to tell Us that Hamlet was insane, which IL
another important point settled.


Bacon would not speak. Tne seal he placed
upon his lips when In the flesh he refused TO re-
move ut TINS late day. He was present, that was
certain; but, except falling over chairs and In
vestigating things In the room. whereby he made
considers bic noise, he was dumb as an oyster.
What would have been the result had Shake
speare attempted 10 prevaricate and take unto
himself the


CREDIT BELONGING TO BACON


we can but surmise. 1t Is just probable that he
might nave initiated Mr. Moult on In his celebrated
reply TO young Raymond. But as William made
toerabiy clean breast OF II there as no occasion
for such remark While thinking of this we
asked. through the medium. whether Shakespeare
and Bacon were friends IN the other world, and
were told that they were.


Such was the substance OF the most remarkable
interview tnat has iallen to the lot OF the
reportcr. Summed UP, u Is that Shakespeare
was sort oil literary fraud, who calmly
allowed the laurel thai was not hts to be
placed upon his blow. He wrote Hamlet" but
with assistance. Bacon wrote the others that
were mentioned, and the unavoidable Inference
to be drawn is that he wrote nearly all OF what
we call "Shakespenre.n With this weighty in.
formation the reporter bade Mr.. Foster-who had
been calmly smoking his cigar oil the time-a
good afternoon and took his departure. He would
nave wished Bacon and shakespeare, also, a very
good day, but q natural timidity, ana an un-
certainty as TO wnat portion OF the room they
were IN, prevented him.
Year: 1874

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. o. 1874


I called on Daniel Doughcrty this morning He is
a prominent and eloquent lawyer in the city, and
has been Shakespearian student all his life. He
was very busily engaged at the time called, but
he said to me, ~ am one Of the few who do not
imagine Tor one moment that either Shakespeare
or any one else, single handed, wrote the dramas
ascrlbed to him. The knowledge shown in the
plays OF theology, science, natural his
tory, &C., is too consummate to nave been
the property OF single individual. l have
not time to talk this morning. but II
you will come to me at some OLher time
think can convince you that the plays Of Snake
spearc were the products or many minds and not
OF one. do not say that Bacon WI ote them but
do say that the works whcn were brought out
under the name OF shakespeare could not have
been produced by one man alone. Take one of
Shakespeares kings, ior instance, and from head
TO foot, IN word, In act, he Is king. whence
came this consummate knowledge OF court lie ?
Not from the genius within himself even II we
admit that Shakespeare was an extraordinary
man, but from the experience OF some other party
who had associated with kings and was familiar
with the dialect OF the court. Neither Shakespeare
nor Bacon could nave written what we now read
under the signature OF the former, but the plays
we regard as Shakespeare's must OF necessity be
the JOINT product oi many minds, whose individual
identifies were lost the time and nave ever since
been involved In mystery"
Year: 1874

Autopsy ON the Body OF Robert Bell


Startling Rumor.


Deputy Coroner Maowhinnie yesterday, al No.
GOT Second avenue, made post-mortem exami.
nation on the body OF Robert Bell, the boy four.
teen years OF age. whose brain was punctured BY
an umbrella wire with which he was struck by
William Harrison. also lad about the same age OF
deceased, Is previously published in toe HERALD.


DR.. MacWhinnic made the following report:--
Upon external examination found HAIR cut close
over posterior inferior portion OF right parietal
bOne, in the centre OF which was small punctured
wound. Upon removing the scalp found mncdi.
ately beneath external wound . punctured wound
OF skull about the size Of an ordinary straw.
Upon removing the calverium found puncturcd
wound OF brain substance extending to
the base OF brain. There was considerable
extravasation OF blood, while In the rIgnt lateral
vcntrcle and extending INFO the fifth ventrlcle
was large clot OF bood, weight about one and
half ounces In my opinion death was due to
compression OF brain following said punctured
wound OF braiE substance.


Coroner Croker Yesterday afternoon empaneled
jury to view the remains, SO that the relatives
could proceed with the funeral at once.


An inquest will be held next week.


Harrison, the juvenile homicide, haS not been
found, and rumor prevails In the neighborhOod OF
the occurrence thar, IN his anguish OF mind. he
jumped into the East River aud drowned himself,
but the report lacks confirmation. Captain Al.
laire, VI the Twenty precinct Is st searching
Tor Harrison.
Year: 1874

week ago yesterday the body OF colored man
was found on the Central Railroad track near
Clarenont station, Jersey City. The man was de.
Gently dressed, and near by was Q basket and .
tin pail. The body was taken to Speers' morgue
and County Physician Stout notified. 1t
was at first presumed the man was walk
ing on the track and was struck by q train.
A post mortem examination was held by DR.. Bird
winch revealed hole IN the back OF the head near
the left ear and on the other portions or the body
not q scratch could be found. The doctor said the
man was not stuck by q train, and lurther, that
the wound had the appearance or having been
inflicted with hammer When the body was found
one hand tightly held the pantaloons pocket on
the leit side, and 1t IS now feared tnat he was rst
murdered and robbed and then thrown on the
track to conceal the crime. The only money found
in he pockets was hve-cent piece. Nothing was
found which could lead to MS Identification. the
County Physician has ordered Coroner Retnhardt
to hold an inquest.