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Year: 1877

EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE-Sir.-No
one acquainted with the sentimental
Character Of the chairman of the special
committee appointed TO act in coniunc-
tlon with the Water Committee in max
ing arrangements for the celebration of
the semi> centennial anniversary of the
City Water Works and filling of the new
basin, can be surprised at the ludicrous
ana eXtravagant programme adopted for
celebrating an event OF so little import
ance. Why does not the corporation to
which that amiable (only that and moth
ing more) chairman belongs, make such
an ostentatious demonstration and gor-
mandlZe at the raie of $3.50 per head
whenever 1t launches ship or accom-
plishes any other enterprise of no less
Importance thau filling new basin with
water? That banquet at which two
hundred and fifty favored gentlemen will
dine Tomorrow evening at $3.50 per
capita, will cost 1925 and not one voice
in Council raised in protest against that
eXtravagant waste of money. If the eX-
pendltnre of certain sum of money is
absolutely necessary to commemorate
passing events of no more moment
than this, l think higher standard of
public virtue could be transmitted by Civ
ing the laborers who are now out of
work at the completion of the basin all
opportunity of earning that money by
work necessary to the improvement of
the city. When this same chairman was
running for council he caused to be post
ed upon the fences of the First Ward
large posters bearing a solicitation to vote
for him the "Worklng Mans Friend"
| do not think to>morrow's jubilee will
demonstrate any friendship for the work
ing men nor any consideration for the
living of many poor families through the
coming winter. Away with sy cophauts


we want men of sterling probity, legislat
i've ability and economical habits to fill


our council chamber.


Yours truly, TENTH WARD.
Year: 1877

4 SANCTIFIED EQUvoCAToR.-Rev.
Hosea Brown, an eccentric minister, stop
ped one night at one OF the hotels in Ann
Arbor, and inquired if he could have
room and bed TO himself. the bar-keep
er told him he could, unless they should be
so full as 10 render il necessary to put an
other in with him. At an early hour the
reverend gentleman went to his room.
locked the door, and soon retired TO his
bed and sunk into comfortable sleep.
Along toward midnight he was reused
from his slumbers by loud knocking at
his door.


Halo! you there be exclaimed. what
do you want now?'- particular stress on
the last word.


You must take another lodger, sir, " ith
you said the voice of The landlord.


What? another yet?


Why, yes-there is only one in here. is
there?'


'One why, here is Mr.. Brown and
Methodist minister. ahd myself, already.
and i should think that enough for one
bed. even in Michigan


The landlord seemed to think so, too,
ant left the trio to their repose.
Year: 1877

A brave and good little Ohio boy sat
on the fence two hours, in the freezing cold
OF dead winter. watching broken rail on
the railroad tack, SO as to carry the latest
news of the impending accident to his Ia
ther, who was local editor,
Year: 1877

Plush is to be used on some of the spring
bonuets


Embossed grenadines will be much worn
this summer.


The long cornucopia pocket will be used
on spring suits.


For little girls sack and cloaks should be
void of fringe.


Combination suits are still spoken of as
being fashionable.


Rose-leaf plaitings will be much used to
ornament sleeves to polonaises.
Year: 1877

A WoNpER-WoRkING horlp.-Al-
cohol regularly applied TO a thrifty far
mer's stomach will remove the boards
from the fence, let the cattle into his
crops, kill the fruit trees, mortgage his
farm, and sow his field with wild oats
and thistles. 1t will take the paint of
his building, break the glass out of the
windows and fill them with rags. 1t
will take the gloss from his clothes and
polish from his manners, subdue his
reason and arouse his~passions, bring
sorrow and disgrace upon his family
and topple him into drunkard's S grave.
1t will do this for the artisan and the
capitalist, the matron and maiden, as
well as for the farmer; for, in its dead
ly enmity to the human race, alcohol is
no respector ofpersons,
Year: 1877

HONE iECoRATIoN.-A meager home
may be made beautiful by the ingenui-
~ of a tasi fhl woman. There Is usu-
ally no better excuse for barren home
than ignorance or carelessness. A lit
tie mechanical skill can make brackets
and shelves for the walls. A thought
ml walk in the woods can gather leaves
and lichcns and ferns for adorning the
unpiciurcd rooms. A trife saved from
daily expenses can now and again put
a new book upon the table or shelf.
The expenditure of a few sliillings can
convert the plain window into a con-
servatory. In these and. fifty other
ways can plain, bare room be conver-
ted into a scene Of beauty.
Year: 1877

WILL THE public men and newspapers In
both the North and the South who are now
striving to make the people in the two sections
think i'll Of each other, have the kindness to
tell the people what issue there is now which
should divide the country into sectional
parties
Year: 1877

Frame together four light sticks,
measuring foot square inside, and
select spot of fair average yield, and
lower the frame square over as many
heads as it will inclose, and shell out
the heads thus enlosed carefully,
weigh the grain. 1t is fair to presume
that the produce will be the 43,560th
part of an acres produce. Toprove
it, go through the field and make ten
or twenty similar calculations, and
estimate by the mean of the whole
number of the results. 1t will GER
tainly enable a farmer to make a
closer calculation of what field will
produce than he can do by guessing.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LEDGER
Year: 1877

trafficking in town orders. 1t is
also made an oifense for any town
officer to receive any order, or
money, or other property from his
town, or in any way to oyer-charge
for services. For a violation of any
of those provisions the offender is
to be puniseed by fine of not less
than $50 or more than 5000, or i'm
prisonmen5 in the county jail not
less than one or more than six
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment at the discretion of the
court.


BY the first Of these provisions it
is made Illegal to even draw town
orders in payment of debts.or ac-
counts unless the money to pay the
order has been actually voted, and
by the last two it is hoped to put a
stop to the swindles by which un-
scrupulous town officers have too
often robbed the tax payers.
Year: 1877

For some time past our mer-
chants have been missing little ar
tlcles from their stores, evidently
purloined by light fingers, and
although they kept a sharp look
out they were unable TO fasten
the guilt upon any one till last week
Mr. Geo. l.. Brooks caught young
chap-a boy about fourteen years of
age-in the act Of taking money
from his drawer. He collared the
boy and extorted from him a con
tession that he and another boy Of
about the same age had been in the
habit of taking money and o.her
things from the stores for q long
time past also that several other
boys IN town had stolen articles.
In consideration OF the feelings of
the parents of these boys, who are
worthy people, Mr.. Brooks has so
tar retrained from prosecuting them
and we Withhold their names, and if
the boys show a sincere inclination
to reform, the matter may drop,
otherwise it will be pushed to the
utmost. Right here, we cannot help
saying that many of the boys in
cur town are too IawIess, Vulgar and
ill-mannered by far; they appear to
be growing up, a set Of idle loaters
with no more aim in life than Hot
,entot. There are many good boys
in town, boys who work, play,
study and behave as boys should,
but we are sorry to say there are too
many Of whom we cannot so speak,
and these latter should enleavor to
turn over a new leaf, and mould
their conduct so as to deserve a
better opinion than We hear many
people express concerning them.
Year: 1877

We had OCCASION this week to
go out to the western limit Of the
county, some fourteen miles, over
The old ST. Paul stage road. Tie
loneliness Of the trip was really OPP
pressiYc; not a sonl did we meet or
see in the entire distance, going or
returning. From town to Fay's
turmoil, four miles, theroal is in fair
condition beyond Shat it is in very
poor order. The bridge ever the
Pokegama, buraed tao years ago,
has never been rebuilt and that
stream has to be fordcd. Further
on the bridges are burned down, or
so decayed as 10 be unsafe; the old
courduroy timbers over the swamps
have come to the surface, brush has
grown up ten to twenty feet high
on each side Of The rood, leaving q
narrow avenue over which the
branches meet, the old dsches are
choked up and full Of water, and
everything about the road and the
country indicates neglect and abar-
donmcnt. The timber on both
SIDES ofthe road was very generally
killed by the great forest fires of
1875 /; much Of it has since fallen
down and now lays on the surface,
an impenetrable, tangled mass of
inviting fuel for another and final
fire, 1t is sickening to think Of the
many thousands of dollars that were
spent by the county on this old road,
that might have been better en-
ployed If the road had been built
southwark through our own State,
the southern portion of our county
would in all likelihood not be the
bowling wilderness that it now is,
and the railroad relations of this
point might be very different to
what they now are. But SO goes
the world. There is no use in cry
ing over spilled milk.
Year: 1877

We are informed that steps are
being taken by Mr.. Setter and 9TH
ers to prevent the issuing OF tax
deeds on property sold at the tax
sale of 1874, on which deeds will be
due in May. They take the ground,
we believe, that the sale and prior
proceedings were illegal and that
therefore deeds are not justly due
to the purchasers.
Year: 1877

Moss ON YOUNG TREEs.-We hear the
inquiry many times every year: "What shall
we do to prevent moss growing on young
fruit trees s'' It may be removed by washing
with weak ley, or thin lime white-wssh, or
strong soapsuds or it may be simply scraped
of, if thick, and the bark then washed with
soapsuds. Moss is much more apt to grow on
feeble, stunted trees with old, rough bark,
than on thrifty, smooth ones, and hence good


cultivation and vigor are best to prevent it.
Sometimes it is the result only of the trees
being much shaded, in which case it is not to
be regarded as very formidable evil in it.
self. .... = :,.. l..
Year: 1877

Writing before tho Ohio Republican
convention met, and not foreseeipg
OF course, that it would fail to demand
the repeal of the resumption act, the
Cincinnati Gazette said "The rough
he "ers of the platform are having a
hard time ever that designed fraud
which in an evil day was tied to the
tail OF our party-the resumption act,
so called because there is no resump
ton in it. Like the man who had the
bear by the tail they can't hold on and
are afraid to let CO."
Year: 1877

THE EASTERN WAR is not likely to
terminate with one campaign, or two
either, as some of our contemporaries
seem to imagine. An empire is not con-
quered so easily; nor are people, once
aroused by appeals to their religious pre-
iudices to be quieted and ready to sub
NIT to their enemies because of the loss
Of few thousand soldiers, who are kept
and paid to risk their lives in battles for
the expanding of national boundaries.
1t is, therefore, improbable that Russia
expected to conquer peace without die
tating it after her forces entered Cohstan-
tinople, or that she expected to enter that
city in triumph before the great armies
of the Sultan had several times been de-
feated In pitched battles in and around
the ancient capital.


The glory of taking Byzantium from
the Turks would raise the prowess Of
Russian soldiers to the very climax of
military renown. And the Car and the
Grand Duke know this and they know,
TOO, that the Ottoman government, al
though long regarded as weak and eflem-
mate, has always proved terrible in war.
With this knowledge and with the exam
pie set so recently by Won Moltke, the
great Prussian general, in being fully
prepared to perform the work underta-
ken, it is hardly likely that the war now
going on was begun without the necessa-
ry preparation to encounter the greatest
difficulties and to muster much larger
armies than Turkey has been able tc
bring into the field For never was tn,
the Ottoman power so devoid of allies
never were its subject colonies so read,
to support the Muscovite and his cause
indeed it would seem that the foreigl
Russian soldier is, as it were, at home
while the Turk is abroad, so adverse ar
the Bulgarians to the rule OF the Sultar
and so anxious are the Christian people:
over whom the Turk holds such terribl
and horrid sway, to escape from thei
present masters and take shelter unde
the Russian yoke, for independence seem
impossible for these peoples no matte
which power has to submit in the preser
struggle. But should Russia be made I
withdraw without debating the indepel
deDce of Roumana and Bulgaria, tt
revengeful Turks will make the lives
the inhabitants of those countries hard
durable.


But the taking of Constantinople mig
be made as terrible to the Gar as Il
taking of Moscow was to Napoleon. Wi
the history OF her own wars before b.
rulers it would be strange indeed if Ru
sia should have undertaken the subjug
ton of Turkey without arming an in
mense force and being prepared to pr
cipltate them rapidly upon her weak al
apparently bankrupt enemy.
Year: 1877

machinery. At a single revolution or
stroke soles are cut ont where the human
hand was alone available formerly. Every
day or week produces something new.
They make whole wagon wheel in the
lumber regions of the West for one dollar,
transporting the finished product instead
of the material 20 the Eastern market. We
have no conception of the revolution that
is still to come. The world is transformed
by machinery. Nothing can keep pace
with it-neitter sagaci'y nor opposition"


asked if the only remedy was to emil
CRATE frUm the towns to the country.


50 That is the only remedy for the people
in the towns. Taxation, meantime, has SO
advanced by reason of costly, speculative
i'm prove ments, that property holders can
not any more employ the idle million at
opening streets, building grand edifces
and aqueducts, and ornamenting the
cities. The poor are thus thrown out of
work by n suspension of public labor as
well as by labor saving machinery"
Year: 1877

Visitors to the city should not fail to call at
the elegant dry goods emporium of the Levy Brothers
go Magazine 1t will certainly pay them WELL
If they have any purchases to make 10 make them at
this popular store the prices there charged OF
the most superior quality All goods shipped free Of
charge.
Year: 1877

The Shoe and Leather Reporter says: A
brief sojourn in the New England metropolis
confirms the information we have recently
been receiving from numerous reliable
sources, that the boot and shoe business is
sufficiently active to keep all the mani Lfactur-
ing establishments constantly employ 3D.
Several houses in the South and West, hay ing
had much larger trade than they anticipa T.
ed, are in the market replenishing their
stocks, and the demand for boots is likely to
be fully equal to the supply, up to the very
end of the seas on. Some complaints are
made that prices are lower than they ought
to be, ard new orders cannot easily be placed
at tne old rates. Still, as there have been no
substantial changes in the cost of labor or
material, it has not been an easy matter to
secure higher figures for goods. The manu-
tacturers see nothing to tempt them into the
slightest deviation from the policy of buying
sparingly, and only for immediate wants, to
which they have adhered with so much ad-
vantage for long time past. Their prudence
in this respect has served them very good
purpose. They have their business under
admirable control, and if they do not insist
upon rise in the merchandise they deal in.
it is because they feel an immovable conf
dence that the present scale of production is
guaranty against any such improvement in
leather as will essentially disturb their pros
poets of gain.
Year: 1877

we do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used,
Year: 1877

There something so unusual IN the singing of tn
choir
That the elder locked mp mildly from the tenth q
jeremiah,
And with readjusted eyeg9ss looked along the fore


most row,
While hundred necks were twisted in stare fror


all below.
as before the rolling thunder distan, wailin


moan,


tone.
Just the popping of the pickets the battles aw


tul din,
An uuprejudiced observer might have seen with hal


aneJe
There was waiting an explosion that would blov


them all sky-high
Or spontaneous combustion, to accept a moderl


name,
That was waiting just motion to burst forth into


flame.


her face,


the BASE.





nose,
And the Oreanst paved madly at the pedals with nil


toes.
How could any one but angels sing when they were


feeling so?
Though the hymn was Songs of Gladness f" they


would make it " Sounds of Woe"
When we sing about DEVOTION some devotion We


must feel,
Or plantive tones of worship will partake some


what of sqneal,
But the Alto sung her solo, and then left it to the


Bass,
Who was gnawing at his mustache. and was looking


for the place:
While the organist in anger, sung the leading part


alone,
And the Tenor tried to follow, bnt it ended in


groan.
AS the horror people heard the discord rising


higher.
1t patent tc the simplest there trouble in the


choir
And the organist in fury, closed the organ with a
crash,
And the Alto sobbed in anguish, and the choir had


gone to smash.





reconcile,
The Soprano told her story with sangunary smile
1t appears the wretched Chorister had introduced a
gil
With a brand-new stylo of singing, and most dis
tracing curl.
But to cap the bitter climax this usurper hat,
just duck gem, beauty, and it made the rest look


fat:
And the straw that broke the cames back and made
the wreck complete
She came early Sunday morning, and usurped the
leading seat.
When the Elder asked the Tenor why he left he said
because
The Soprano said his chest tones eounded Just like
filing saws;
And he overheard the Alto one night whisper to the
Bass
That man with such mustache was palpabe dis
grace"
And the Bass informed the Elder that he sacrificed
his views
When he came and iolned the Elders choir to help
fill up his pews
He was an Episcopalean, and if people thought he'd
take
Anx nntssense from Baptist, they had made great
Then the organist and Alto both put on an injured
look,
Saying something in an undertone about change OF
book;
And the Elder overheard them, as he gently closed
the door.
Use the words "A poor old Fogy,r and i" A senti-
mental Bore"
And he scratched his poor old nodde, he ambled
down the street,
With his spectacles Oh forehead and his slippers on
his feet
And really think the Elder has hope OF pouring oil
On the troubled sea of music, to aay the sad turmoil
In the meantime service opens with old China or
Bethune,'
And the Deacon with his tunefork gives the people
all the tune
And the organ gathers cobwcbs and the people gath
er grace,
When they roar out - Coronation to the Deacon's
hoarsest bass


A. T.. Worden, In the Utica ObseT9eT.


--ED~es-sESn-
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON. One of the noblest char
acteristics of the father of his country was,
in his boyhood, when he had committed an
offense which was likely to bring the in
Fiction of the severest punishment, he could
not tell lie. grieve to say that there are
reputable grocers and merchants who will
assure you that any other starch is as good
as the Duryea's. The awards of the great
Centennial at Philadelphia have settled that
question, and they have proclaimed that as
against the starches of the world, there is
none equal to that manufactured by the
Duryea's. They took the great medal at
the Worlds Exhibition, and they pro-
nounced their starch the best in the world.
All respectable grocers keep it. Ask for
Duryea's Improved Corn Starch, and Dur
yeas Satin Gloss Starch. Use it once and
you will use no other.
Year: 1877

SINGULAR FREAK AND CONSEQUENT DEATH
OF AN. INSANE MAS.-PhilQdelphia, May
22.-As an engine belonging to the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail-;
road was standing on the track on Wash
ington avenue this afternoon, and during
the temporary absence Of the engineer and
fireman, an unknown man jumped upon
the engine and started it at full speed to-
wards the river-front. Two freight-cars
which were attached to the engine struck
the bumpers at Washington-S wharf
with such force that the engine was thrown
from the track and the cars thrown into the
river. The stranger, who was evidently in
sane, was pitched into the water by the
shock and drowned.
Year: 1877

An accident, by which three men killed out
right one so grievousy wounded that he died in few
hours, two severely wounded and four escaped
with only slight bruises occurred on the hth
story OF the Post ONCE yesterday afternoon, by
the falling in Of tho root OF one Of the apartments in
shat building. The upper story OF that magnificent
structure is sti in unfinished condition, and the
rooms either unoccupied or are used as store
houses materials, except In few instances
In which they arc devoted 10 tho accommodation Of
the postal clerks and mail agents OF the routes leading
In and out OF the city. iorlorn looking place
cannot well be Imagined and death among the debris
OF u falling root in such locality only gave sort Of
lurid terror to garrei whore all the ghosts in the
metropolis might lind hiding place. The room in
which tho accident occurred was originally double
apartment on the CITY Hall side CT the building,
one-hal OF il being tor waste material and
debris and the other a reading and smoking room
for the postal clerks Originally The partition which
divided the storcroom from the smoking room was OF
brick and built tho entire length OF the building
The necessity OF providlng court room for Judge
Benedict on tho loor Immediately below re-
qurcd the partition on the fourth floor 10
be removed. SO as TO provide an apartment
sufficiently large for the purposes OF the court.
This caused a slight detection in the ceiling Judge
Benedct's room and occasioned uneasiness lest
the ceiling should fail. To tho brick partition above
was the DETECTION attributed and Mr.. Thomas II. Oak
shott the superintendent OF construction, determined
10 remove it The wall had already been down week.
and II was while the workmen were engaged in
strengthening supports OF the roof that the acci-
happened which II is the painful duty Of the
HERALD TO describe.


II. folpwing diagrams will give better idea OF the
sccne ana character OF the accident. far as the
building IS concerned, than whole column OF descrp-
ton could a1ord:--
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE AERALD-


Allow ME to suggest the proprety of having nrs
extingusher and good hose IN every school in New
York IL Is startling fact that In but few schools
there any preparations against fire. with the exception
Of cleaning hose They could be used very effectively
by tho janitors who rule, reside in the building


c. II. IL.
[NoTE-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by tho writer's full name and address 70
insure attention. Compiainants who are unwilling "a
complywith this rule SIMPLY waste time In writing
En- HERALD
Year: 1877

Tho following are the weights decided on by the
Handicapped Tor the nyers that are candidates for
tho Grand National Handicap siecplcchasc, to be run
at the spring meeting at jerome Park