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Year: 1874

A coIioRED MAN sUEFocATED AND HIS BODY


BURNED.


BALTIMORE, Nov. 3.
Walter Harris colored man, met painful
death, yesterday He lived alone in basement,
and being in the habit of smoking while in bod
it is supposed spark from his pipe set fire to
his bed, sufIocating him and burning his body
in shocking manner.


When discovered by some one who heard him
groaning he was nearly in nude state. The
body was badly swollen ana the flesh upon some
parts of his person was literally baked, and upon
portion of the flesh on the legs and arms there
were deep abrasons. His eyes were nearly dc.
troyed.
Year: 1874

4 THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM


A portion Of the opposition press seems
greatly agitatcd about the possibility that
General Grant may become the choice of
the people for President during the next
Presidential term. In the fear of such a
possibility it makes a great display of what
1t is pleased to designate as the traditions of
the Government, which, it AYERS, are in op-
position to such contingency. There is
not tine slightest pretence that there is any
constitutional provision which can be con-
strued into the inhibition of third incum-
bency Of the Presidential office by one and
the same person. On the contrary, it is
admitted that the Constitution is entirely
silent upon the subject And the theory of
Democratic institutions is entirely in favor
of leaving the choice Of the people free and
untrammeled in tho matter of the selection
Of ruler. By majority they designate
him. The Office is one not to be sought by
the man. Neither is it position to be de-
c.ined upon personal grounds. The will Of
the people is q command,


1t is a remarkable fact that the selection
Of both Presidents Lincoln and Grant for
their second candidatures for the Presidency
were dictated by the people in their pri.
mary assemblages, in spite of the politi-
clans. 1t was done in each instance BY a
spontaneous and unmistakable expression
of the popular will, which the politicians
could neither avert nor turn aside. No
one denies them the power to do so for
third term. These expressions were man
ifestations Of respect for the talent, wisdom
and discretion, no less than confidence il the
inlexible integrity and answering patri.
Otism of the men. The people of this
country do not expect or look for perfection
in their rulers. They ask for the high
moral courage that is necessary to maintain
the right according 20 the Judgment with
which God has endowed the man. Errors
Of judgment they expect in the best, be-
Cause they know that man is fallible, and
such errors are readily forgiven. If the
heart is right, and the head is level, and the
hand is honest, the rest is easy.


When a god man has proven himself
wise, sound, honess and efficient in his SER
vice IN either House N-G Congress, it is
unanimously agreed by the r,-ass and peo-
pie that it is to the best interests ofIlas con
stituency to keep him there. This is one
of the traditions Of our history. Each sue
Year: 1874

THE New York Herald thinks THE
national. REPUBLICAN is a good authority
upon Administration questions" 1t is the
very best authority in the country, and the
Herald is a remarkably shrewd and saga
cious newspaper. If THE NATIONAL Re-
PUBLICAN and the Herald could be cOnsol-
idated we should have perfect journal.
Year: 1874

THERE is in the ueighborhood of Ridge
wood an old gentleman who was once
Nimrod among the hunters. He could
shoot out squirrels eye from the top of
the tallest hickory nine shots out of ten.
Indeed, there was no limit to his skill.
He has been renewing the sports of his
youth for the past few weeks, but as
squirrels were scarce, and his eyesight
was dim, his gamebag was not well filled
on his return home. He has mischiev-
Gus rascal of a grandson who would even
play pranks on him, and, as he was mean
dering through the woods day before
yesterday, the youngster got into the
path before him and perched stuffed
squirrel on the limb of tree, tying it
fast. AS the old man came near, the
youngster showed himself and called
attention to the squirrel The old man
looked. "Sure enough, there is squir-
rel" he remarked. "Be still; I'll fetch
him." And, taking careful aim, he pulled
the trigger. When the smoke blew away,
there sat the squirrel with his tail over
his back, not in the least disturbed. The
old man loaded his gun with great care
and blaZed away again. The squirrel
stood this fire with as much eQuanlmlty
as the first, only his tail seemed to be
UIOkCu, dEu udu ONCI 1lS OlNtCs
The old man was nonplused. He did
not, however, see his grandson, who was
rolling in cOnvulsions of laughter behind
a convenient log. He had become warmed
up to the sport and thought of nothing
else but fetching that squirrel. The third
shot cut the cord that bound the squirrel
to the tree and he fell, not with the usual
heavy thud so well known to sportsmen,
but bouncing several feet into the air.
This reused the old mans suspicious,
and going up to it he found the true
nature of the sell. His change of posi-
ton brought him in full view of his affec
tionate grandson, who was tearing up the
ground in his effort to laugh without
making noise. A realizing sense of the
position crept over the old man. He
cast his eyes on the ground; they fell on
piece Of shingle, which he picked up,
and, approaching the convulsed boy una
wares, he affectionately famed him
couple of times on the seat of his
breeches. This brought the youngster to
perpendicular, and he took to his heels,
thereby stopping more loving demon
strations. The boy is just ten years old,
and his grandfather declares he will at
some time be President of the United
States. He now has most unbounded
faith in the ability of that boy.-Jersey
CSty Times.
Year: 1874

THE last kiss
Whose fond lips will give it?


The last joy
What blest heart will live it?


The last morn
What bright eyes will see that?
The last man
What poor soul will be that?


The last pang-
Whose sad heart will know it?


The last smile
What fair face will show it?


The last boon
Who will give this kindly?


The last fault
Who will pass that blindly?


The last hope
Fancy drops the curtain!


OF things last
Only two are certain:


The last aid
rI.s~,-vviH tJr a true mdn g,


The last word
That will be a woman's!
-GeO. Cooper, in Hearth and Home.
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature during the past twenty four
hours in comparison with the corresponding date
OF last year, as recorded at Hudnut'S Pharmacy.
HERALD Building, New York.
Year: 1874

ADVANTAGE OF CRYING. = A
French physician is out with a long
dissertation on the advantages of
groaning and crying in general, and
especially during operations. He
contends that groanlng and crying
are the two grand operations by
which nature allays anguish; that
those patients who give way to their
natural feelings more speedily re-
cover from accidents and operations
than those who suppose it unworthy
for man to betray such symptoms
of cowardiee as either to cry or
groan. He tells of man who re-
duced his pulse from 100 to 60 in
the course of two hours by giving
vent to his emotions. If people feel
at all unhappy about anything let
them go to their rooms and comfort
themselves with loud boohoo, and
thew will feel hundred per cent.
better afterwards. In accordance
with the above, the crying OF chill
dren should not be too greatly dis
couraged. If it is Systematically
suppressed, the result may be the
St. Vitus' dance, epileptic fits, or
some other disease of the nervous
sytem. What is natural is nearly
always useful, and nothing can be
more natural than the crying OF
children when anything occurs to
give them either physical or mental
pain. Probably most persons have
experienced the effects of tears re-
lieving great sorrow. 1t is even Gu
rious how the feelings are allayed
by free indulgence in groans and
sighs. Then let parents show more
indulgence to noisy bursts of grief
on the part of children as well as
persons, and regard the eyes and
mouth as safety valves through
which nature discharges her Surplus
steam.
Year: 1874

A LODGING HOUSE fiend tells the
story that in recent thunderstorm
the warning of the elements was so
awe-inspiring that the hair in a dish
of butter in the pantry turned COM
pletely white during the night.
Year: 1874

Do the city papers say anything in regard
to your own county? Nothing. Do they
contain notices of your schools, meetings.
churches, improvements, and hundreds of
other local matters of interest which your
home paper publishes without pay? Not
an item. Do they ever say word caleu-
lated to draw attention to your county and
aid in its progress and enterprise ? Not "a
line. And yet there are men who take
such contracted views OF this matter that
unless they are getting as many square
inches of reading matter in their own pa
per they think they are not getting the
worth of their money. 1t reminds us of a
man who took the largest pair of boots in
the box because the price was the same
as the pair, much smaller, that fitted him.
Exchange.
Year: 1874

Ought to see the importance of having their pic
set IN a handsome case or frame; also have "A large
number of Cartes De Vistes to be distributed
among their friends. For unless they do this they


will be sick abed
and die, for there are so many diseases prevalent
In these days, consumption and fevers among
adults, scarlet fever, whOoping cough, &c, among
children, that they may reasonably expect some Of
these maladies will be upon them


This Spring,
yet would urge all to take the necessary presau.
ton guard their health from the inclemencies of
the weather And


Unless they take some
such precautionary measures they will be sure to
regret it, II is expedient at all times to keep the
them as best protect them from the cold and damp.
Do not wear your


Old Boots and Shoes.
that were worn out last winter, What is more
annoying than TO get through March thaw with a
par of leaky boots or shoes? 1t is sure to


Put them in Pickle
that attempts it. They will find themselves confined
to their beds, and the doctor will have to be called,
and he will make them


Take IL Dose daily.
which is just likely to kill as to cure On these
,ions urge all to make delay but haste and
go TO


A. W. kIMBALL, Photographer,
tell him your wants, and he will most cheerfully
supply them. mar2l-ftf
Year: 1874

Why should doctors, physicians,
medical students, be permitted to
practice medicine without the written
evidence of their right to kill or cure
the human family? A pilot must
have his commission before he can
guide vessels i'm and out of port;
steamer must have the boiler inspect
or's certificate or she cannot raise
steam; when WELLS, FARGO & Co.
appoint an agent they give him a
commission and require him to keep
it in full view of all. Even the keeper
of grocery store must take out a
license. Why should class of men
who handle human life as boy his
top or sailor a marlin-spike, have
permission to cut, carve and physic
with unskillful hands and unlearned
heads. If a lawyer is no lawyer,
the fact manifests itself at the
very opening Of his first case,
but the ignorance and inef1icien-
cy of the quack doctor does not reach
the public mind until one or more
lives have been sacrificed. People
have become more careless of their
lives than of their property. Among
the army of doctors who practice in
San Francisco are large number
who never had q professional educa-
tion and who have not and never had
a diploma. The code of medical eth
les says: "a regular medical educa-
tion furnishes the only presumptive
evidence of professional abilities and
requirements and ought to be the only
acknowledged right of an individual
to the exercise and honors of the pro-
fession." The only way in which the
people may determine the status of a
physician or inform themselves as to
his professional education without
first incurring the danger of
entrusting their lives to the ig-
norant quack, is through the fact
that he is graduate of q medical col
lege and this fact is established by
the existence of his diploma. The
Code also says: "There is no profess
sion, from the members of which
greater purity of character and a
higher standard of moral excellence
are required than the medical" This
is also true, but the requirements are
too often wanting. Human life is
trified with, and destroyed by, ignor-
ant, uneducated, and in many in
stances unprincipled quacks, who
never had medical or any other kind
of education, and who on their merit
could not obtain diploma for s
proper dispensation of saffron tea il
foundling hospital. 1t is time these
murderers were compelled to suspend
operations. The next Legislature
should enact a law requiring every
physician to file with the County
Clerk, of the county in which he re
sides, certified copy of his diploma
and for failure to do this he should bt
held guilty of misdemeanor, anc
heavily fined.
Year: 1874

A POOR man or woman is found
dead with pistol in hand, or an
empty strychnine vial by their side,
and the Coroner's jury and the rest OF
world conclude that it is suicide while
laboring under fit of depression, oc-
casioned by destitution and inability
to obtain'employment. A young man
ora Young woman slips off this mortal
coil and leaves note which tells of
unrequited love. These classes of sui
cides are explainable, and the coron-
er's jury finds no difficulty in deter
mining how they died. But when
the millionaire dies by his own hands,
as did F. L. A. PIocHE sometime ago,
and more recently WM. b. BoURN,
Year: 1874

the world is puzzled and newspaper
editors begin to fill their columns with
editorials on suicide theories. Are we
to conclude that wealth is the only
incentive to live, and poverty the
beckoning finger of death?
Year: 1874

SOME people fond of experiments
propose to change the Constitution, so
that retiring Presidents may take
seats for life in the United States Sem
ate. The question, are we to have any
more retiring Presidents had Better
be determined first,
Year: 1874

An important case of Shaffer against
the Milton Mining Company is occu-
pying the attention of the Courts in
Nevada county. The suit is brought
to recover damages for injuries re-
ceived by plaintiff while working in
defendants mine, from neglect on
their part to provide for the safety of
men working in the mine.
Year: 1874

IN another part of to-day's HERALD
will be found the first part of an ar
ticle exposing the great land grabber
swindle in Santa Barbara county.
The statements there made will be
found of more than usual interest to
the people of this county. The re-
mainder of the article will appear to-
Year: 1874

The Pacific Cement Company of
Bencia has filed a libel in the United
States District Court against the
schooner War Eagle, to recover $4,000
for loss of lot of cement by the sink
Ing Of the vessel.
Year: 1874

Do HORSES REASON 20. w. Fiske, in
Our Dumb Animals, says: For many years |
have made the horse & subject of thought and
study. At times I have been led to believe
that horses have reasoning powers, and can
understand and apply them in various ways


For the last two years I have driven my
mare nearly every day over the same road.
About one mile from my home are two roads,
one leading to the church, the other to the
depot. Now six days in the week drive to
the cars, and on Sunday to the church. At
the point where these roads separate, I give
my mare her head, leaving her free to make
her choice, and on week days she will 60
straight to the depot, and on Sundays she
goes, of her own free will, to the church l
never knew her to fail me yet. tpuzzled me
for q long time to learn how she should know
any difference in days; and I have come to
the conclusion that she reasons from facts
facts connected with every day life.


On week days start from my stable in a
two.wheel carriage; on Sundays start from
my house in acarryall, thus making an entire
change, both in time, place and carriage; and
from these facts she must be guided in her
choice of roads.


Many say this is instinct; if so, where does
reason begin?
Year: 1874

The London Daily Telegraph writes: 'It
may not be generally known that the princi-
pie upon which all our guns are now made is
that discovered by Col. Fraser. Briefly, it
consists of series of coils welded together in
such way that the grain of the iron is best
opposed to the explosive force of the powder,
and encircling steel tube, the interior of
which is rifed. A long bar of iron-say eight
inches square-previously prepared, is slowly
drawn from furnace to a length of about
three hundred feet, and wound into double
coil in the form of a cylinder. This is again
heated and placed beneath steam hammer,
where it is welded together by tremendous
blows which so efectualy do their work that
cylinder capable of bearing the greatest
possible strain is formed at a omparatively
trihng expense Several of these coils being
made, they are placed in order on long steel
tube, which has been made in Sheffield, and
the weapon is finally turned out at an average
cost of about EGO a ton, as against nearly
el5O at Krupp's factory in Essen. Upon
this principle, then, it is resolved to construct
an eighty ton gun, which should be able to
pierce twenty inches of iron at distance of a
thousand yards, with a shot 1900 pounds in
weight, and by the aid of 300 pounds of pow
der. The length of this magnificent piece of
artillery was fixed at twentyseven feet, its
diameter at the trunnion six feet, and at the
muzzle sixteen inches, inside measurement. 1t
was calculated that such gun would be able
to deliver its misunderstanding missile, at q
distance of nearly ten miles, and that it would
at the same time, be easily placed in the turret
of war ship, or the embrasure of battery,
and worked quickly and without difficulty.
OF course, there were many difficulties in the
way of the construction of such weapon.
No steam hammer, such as that which Krupp
possesses at Essen, was to be found in England,
no forges were built large enough for such q
tremendous heat no cranes were in position
to hoist such weight. But all these difficult
ties were speedily overcome by the skillful Of
icials at Woolwich The forges were built, a
huge steam hammer of forty tons weight, with
double action arrangement and striking
power of nearly thousand tons, was made, and
very soon all was in readiness to begin the con-
struction of the great gun. Curiously enough,
his Majesty, the Emperor of Russia was the
first to see one of its coils welded, and since
that time the work has been gradually going
on, till now the steel tube, the breech piece,
one coil and the trunnion are finished so that
it is certain that by June next the gun will be
ready for trial. 1t will then consist Of the
following parts A tough steel tube inside,
weighing nearly sixteen tons, and measuring
about twenty.four feet in length; breech.
piece coil twelve feet in length; one central,
another coil nearer the muzzle, and the trun-
MON coil. The cascabel through which the
fire from the friction tube is communicated to
the cartridge inside the gun is of steel, and
immensely strong"
Year: 1874

jumping, I havefound just two ways effective.
Buckle surcingle around the body, then the
halter.strap through the fore-legs to this; tie
so that the horse can not get his head above
the point of :he shoulder. Second-Place
upon the horse a common halter with forehead
strap; sew to this piece of sheep'skin, the
wool side next the head, and hanging low
enough to compel him to hold up his head too
high for a spring 70 enable him to see the top
ofthe fence. This latter suggestion we value,
as applicable to colts, to which the temptation
to Jump is liable.
Year: 1874

The Wilmington, (Del.) Daily Commercial
has the following: One Of the most remarka-
BILE instances of sagacity and animal reason
;ng-for it is more than instinct-that we
have ever yet heard of, took place yesterday
afternoon at the residence of Whiteheld Craw-
ford, southeast corner of Seventh and Madi-
son streets, in this city. The principal actors
in the case were large dog belonging to Mr..
Crawford, of the St. Bernard and Newfound-
land breed, about two years old, who readily
answers to the name of Carlo, and an ordina-
ry house cat, named Dick. Between the two
strong feeling of friendship has always ex-
listed, each sharing the others meals, and at
night Dick, approaching soft bed, always
found it by lying upon the top OF his good
natured friend Carlo.


On Wednesday last, on Mr.. Crawford's re-
turn from market, he cut piece of fresh meat
into small pieces for Dick, but accidentally q
needle and thread lying close by got mixed
with the meat. This poor Dick swallowed,
or attempted to swallow, with the meat, but
not succeeding, the needle stuck in his throat,
from which he of course suffered intensely,
and in his suffering he had the entire sympa.
thies of his friend Carlo. Like skillful
physician, Carlo set about discovering the seat
of the disease, which he found existed in
Dicks neck


After an apparent consultation between the
two, one as patient, the other as physician,
Carlo commenced operations by licking Dicks
neck, the cat holding its head to one side to
give Carlo fair chance. The licking opera
tion continued all day Thursday, and at inter-
walls during the night, Carlo occasionally
pausing to press his tongue against the neck
of his feline friend, as if trying to force some
sharp pointed instrument on the inside through
the cats neck to the outside. Yesterday the
same operation was continued by Carlo, until
about four o'clock, when he was seen with his
whole body quivering with excitement, trying
to catch something with his teeth, in which he
succeeded, and giving sudden jerk he pulled
the needle through the hide of the cat, where
it hung by the thread which still held it from
the inside.


The remainder of the operation was per.
formed by daughter of Mr.. Crawford, who
pulled the thread through and stuck the
needle in the fence close by. The joy of
Carlo knew no bounds, and frisking his bushy
tail about, and rubbing his shaggy sides
against his master, he showed his full knowl-
edge of what he had done by going to the cat
and licking the wound in the neck, and then
to the needle in the fence, which he examined
very minutely, saying in actions almost as
plain as words, "See what I did," A son of
Mr.. Crawford coming home from his labor,
was met by Carlo, who turned and ran to
where the needle was, and smelled it as if to
explain the case more fully to the new conner.
We need only to say that those who doubt the
truth of this statement, should call at the
place designated, where the dog, the cat, the
needle, and the wound in the cats neck, can
all be seen. The dog himself will point out
the needle, and give evidence Of the truth of
the foregoing facts as narrated.