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Year: 1879

The Trinity House, London, have
found their recent experiments with a
new gas for the purpose of Lighting
buoys, which are now useless after dark,
so successful that they are having
number of buoys constructed after the
new plan The peculiarly of the gas is
that buoy full of it in compressed
state will keep light burning for some
months without replenishing. A Ian
tern has been constructed in which the
light is protected from spray at whatev-
er angle it is placed. One of the Ian
terms, arranged on buoy, was exposed
off Trinity House wharf to the action of
water from a fire engine, and it was
found impossible to extingrlish the light.
Year: 1879

The manly, vigorous and wise speeches
the Republican candidate for Governor is
making in this county are doing great
good to the cause and making votes for
him. He is man the people will like to
look upon and listen to,-and then vote
for. The meeting at Bridgton last night
was large and enthusiastic and fitting
opening of the campaign in that section
Old Cumberland is getting thoroughly
reused and promises to give a good ac-
count of herself in SEPTEMBER Portland
Press.
Year: 1879

In the stomach and bowels may announce the exist
either of dyspepsia in the first an obstruction
in the second or the approach of some cholerac
complaint simple diarrh@a. Collie bitter or sour
quotations pressing down of the bowels, feeling
of oppression or utterng at the pit of the stomach
are among these unpleasant symptoms. They and
their cause are speedily remedied by Hostetters
Stomach Bitters, single wneglassful often causing
an inm. date cessation Of pain. hen the difficulty
continues, it is only necessary to pursue the of
this standard carminatiye and ant-dyspeptic nedi-
cine to obtain entire and permanent relief Nothing
In the composition favor of the itters is in the
slightest degree Objectionable Medical men pro-
nOunce il eminently pure.
Year: 1879

While the Mdcrmanic and Citizens committees
engaged in preparing charter for Long Island
City Assemblyman Pearse, of that place. quietly
made some amendments on his own account. and
whom the fact became known last night that his bill
had been introduced there was considerable excite
in the city. The bill restricts expenditures to
the appropriations and makes the official liable for any
excess Ninety days before any officer Is be elected
appointed the Common Council shall determine
the salary to be paid. but in shall 10 exceed
the amount hxod by the present charter In addition
To the amount required by law to bc raised by tho
general levy the Common Council shall raise such an
amount in its Judgment may he necessary for tho
payment OF salaries and the expenses of departments
but in no case shall the amount exceed and ono
quarter per cent of the assessed valuo.


Objection Is made to tho Asscmblyman's bill that
II simply continues the present strife for place aud
power between the two contcndng factions and fails
to give the people any warrant Of relet by leaving
the matter OF appropriations in the discretion of tho
officials.
Year: 1879

The jury on the trial of Thomas Boland. for
making false return election inspector. out all
OF Tuesday night When the first vote taken they
stood eight conviction and four for acqutta The
last did not yield his opinion Of the innocence OF
the prisoier until O'Clock yesterday morning. At
1890 a. m the jury into court with verdict OF
guilty" Mr.. BOand hen the result was announced,
betrayed the frst emotion he had shown during the
trial Tue penalty Is mprsopment 10 state Prison from
one years. The prisoner mas "a wife and two
a
Year: 1879

represents one oil the districts Of New York
in Congress.


While we look at the fading view q the
procession Of veterans winding its length
10 the grove, the thought comes To US that,
In the midst Of the cheers and honors for
the living, are the dead heroes forgotten ?
By n9means. Their day is observed now
as National holiday, when their memo
ries are refreshed BY loving hands spread
their resting places, where on the 3Oth OF
May in each succeeding year the turf Is
dewed by tears Of mother, wife, sister or
friend, and ne sod made bright by the
scattered roses OF remembrance. They
will never meet with their comrades In q
reunion on earth, but in that grand re.
view in the Beyond all will Be in the
ranks when marshalled before the Great
Commander.
Year: 1879

ChiefJusticc Cartier, after an active and
continuous service of fifteen years, retires to-
day from the bench of the Circuit Court, and
will in the future sit in the court in banc. He
has been relieved by Justice Cox, who makes
his debut in Risi pyius court of this District.
During the long term of years that the Chief
Justice has presided in the Circuit Court he
has disposed of thrce.fourths of the cases COM
ing before that Tribunal and when cases have
appealed in large majority of them his judg-
ment has been affirmed. He has always been
a favOrite with the bar and those having cases
to be tried always preferred bringing them be-
fore him. knowing full well that the merits OF
tho cause would be brought ont and the lit
igants treated according to their deserts His
motion days--better known as field days-will
be missed, and the enjoyment tho bar has taken
in listening to his bubbling wit and quaint
sayings while making disposition of n motion
will now become rccolections of the past. His
successor is also ftvorite with the members
of the bar and as he enjoys their confidence
there is no reason why he should not become
universally popular.
Year: 1879

Tho alarm sounded from boz l23 about


hree o'clock yesterday afternoon was caused
by the burning of q tarkettle at the corner Of
Twelfth and streets northwest, The fire.
men Of the franklin Company had hardly re-.
turned TO their house when a messenger lom
the American District Telegraph Company re-
ported that there was fro at the Baltimore
aud Potomac depot corner Of Sixth and b
streets northwest. A prompt response was
Year: 1879

In tile death of Zachariah Chandler the
Nation loses a patriot and a fai thful servant,
the State of Michigan its most eminent and
usefnl citizen. The profound sensation
which the intelligence Of his decease has
caused and the general sorrow with which
it has been received indicates the large space
he filled in current national history and in
the thoughts of men.


The grief in the State Of his adoption and
his love will be universal and sincere. He
represented it in the national councils in the
stormiest days the country has ever known,
and he gave it prestige and brought it honor.
In that group of Senators which stood for
the highest aspirations and the loyal pur-
pose Of the North the Senator from Michi-
gan was marked and conspicuous. 1t should
be matter of pride to the State that its way
ward heart, once estranged, came back TO
him with more than the old loY e before he
died, and that the trust withdrawn in capri
cious impatience was rendered again with
large faith to the strong hands that had kept
it so well. The people of Michigan will not
remember him by his public services alone.
He is endeared to them by the memory of
many just and generous acts and as one OF
the architects of their material prosperity.
The year 1857, when he took upon his broad
shoulders the imperilled credit of the State
and carried it through the sea OF troubles
cannot be forgotten.


But it was as politician that the country
at large will remember Mr.. Chandler, and the
record of his life is part of the annals OF
the Nation he loved so well and served so
long and so faithfully. He had his faulths,
but they were the faults Of manly, vigor-
Gus, aggressive nature. He was an intense
partisan, but that was due to the strength
and zeal of his belief; and hatred of shams,
and insincerities and nalf-measures, some
times led him into harshness of judgment
and injustice of action. He was a born
fighter, and never happier than when giving
and taking hard blows. It is not strange
if an aggressive nature like that sometimes
goes into conflict for the sake Of the battle
rather than for the end to be achieved. But
he was a true patriot, putting love OF coun-
try above personal ends, an honest man
whose name was a synonym for business in
tegrity, good citizen who found his pleas
ure in promoting the comfort Of the COM
munity in which he lived.


His public life was measured by the years
the Republican party has lived. He rocked
its cradle. He lived to see it in its stalwart
and vigorous matu rity and to receive rever-
ence at the hands of the child he had loved
He died fighting its battles. Under his lead
the State of Michigan was the first in the
West to throw off the domination Of the
Democratic party, and the latest work of
his hands was to rescue the State of Ohio
from that threatening supremacy. In his
last conflict it was his happiness to see vic
tory kiss the banners he loved so well; his
good fortune to die as he would have chosen
to die, in harness, fighting the good fight
and wearing the armor of faith. Pray God
he be not the last Of noble strain.
Year: 1879

n u. IrlDune.J


Nearly one million of young men will vote
next year for the first time at presidential
election. Many of them have cast or will cast
their first vote this year. If they are divided
in number as the adult population is now di-
vided, about SOC, 900 of them are of Democratic
parentage or associations.


What are these young men going to do? In
the state of New York they have perceptible
influence on the result. About $1,000 or TO-
900 young men will cast their first presidential
vote next year in this State alone. Proud and
hopeful young men do not want to tie them
selves to disgraced and defeated party at the
outset. The thought of such mistake will
linger with them long With what pride and
Joy the men who voted first for Fremont
mention the fact. They were at the birth Of
the great party which has ruled the country
for twenty years and has changed the history
of the world. Does anybody ever mention
with pleasure that he cast his first vote for
| James Buchanan? Let it be granted that Bu-
| chanan was an honest man who gave no will
| inc or intentional aid to the rebellion which
| afterward deluged the country with blood;
! still, is there man who remembers with satls'
| faction that his first vote was cast for party
| which from that day to this, has never been
able to win the confidence of the American
| people?


The young men who will soon cast their first
vote have an easy choice. In 1886 wise men
hesitated. 1t was new and untried party,
this Republican party and men doubted
whether it could WELD power without disrupt
ing the Union, destroying constitutional ties
and plunging the country into anarchy. 1t
was then the thought of many that the old
and tried Democracy could more safely be
trusted But it has never been the party OF
the people from that day TO this. Twenty
three years have passed, and the Democratic
party had never been able to lift up its head
in pride for one decent thing done. Nearly a
Year: 1879

Tn1ID people who fear a revolution in
Maine may calm themselves. The insur-
gent troops are led by the fellow who,
during the late difieu.t.t with the South


hid himself under fea,her-bed to escape
the righteous wrath Of his loyal neighbors.
A movement led by this feather-bed knight
will be nothing more than military prone
Year: 1879

SENATOR CHANDLER died, like Lochiel.
with his back to the field and his feet to the
foe. To combatiye nature like his no
fate could be more welcome than to fall in
pursuit of flying enemy.
Year: 1879

THE banner of the Democracy for 1880 is
to be bloody shirt with Barksdale's or
Gully's portrait painted on one side. The
reverse will have on it those memorable
words of Tweed's, now used by Ben Hill
''What are you going to do about it?'
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publiea-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mun1catlons that are not used.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. Pullen
Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

Norristown Herald: An article on the bum
blebee in Juvenile publication starts out with
Children, did you ever stop to consider the
power possessed by bumblebee?' And, chill
dren, we advise you to be very careful in max
ing investigations in that direction. When
you do stop to consider its power, always select
a bumblebee that has white forehead. ms
insect weighs less than am ounce, and doesn
carry a concealed weapon. The Kuklux bum
blebee-the insect with o black face-is brute
that causes sorrow and mourning in the land
and if Won undertake to lift one at the end
where it carries its armory you will swear that
it weighs nearly ton. 1t may not weigh that
much, but you'll swear, anyhow.
Year: 1879

Oil City Derrick: Now the aged liar is
happy again. He can sit around in the corner
grocery, whittle the sugar and salt barrels and
lie about the Heavy snowstorms they used to
have early in August when he was boy.
Year: 1879

Albany Journal: James Gordon Benefits
income from the Herald is said to be $500
per day. But for the benefit of those about
embarking in the newspaper business we
would say that they must not expect to make
more than 81, 900 day for the first year.
Year: 1879

New Orleans Picayune: A man can never
pass around hat on the sidewalk without
kicking it; yet hat may be passed around in
church aisle, and everybody will feel obliged
to put money in it, and treat it respectfully. 1t
all depends upon the style and location of the
hat
Year: 1879

THE LIVER is more frequently the seat
of disease than is generally supposed, for
upon its regular action depends, in meas
ure. the power of the stomach, bowels,
brain, and the whole nervous system.
Regulate that important organ by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator, and prevent
most of the diseases that flesh is heir to-
Year: 1879

lChantauoua county Times
Our county has increased more than I,900
in population during the past year. 1t is ca
psble OF supporting a population OF about
three times the number we now have. or about
thirty thousand. whan we get this popula-
ton our lands will be better farmed and our
crops more substantial. With our hool dis
rricts out of debt and no railroad bonds with
our court house and jail built and paid for,
and with disposition among the people to
elect only honest men TO official positions, we
must nee. Ssarily be prosperous. We may have
an occasional streak OF i'll luck. but with the
many advantages OF this county we must
necessarily become one OF the wesllniest in
the Stale
Year: 1879

have heard much said in praise of this
county, and yet was hardly prepared for
the realization Of 20 much that is truly
beautiful in this, one Of the very bes, coun-
lies in the State.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


At the request of several fellow sufferers have
presumed to ask Of you a small space in your wide
spread paper in order to call the attention of future
travellers some Of the steamers plying to and
from Liverpool and London to this port to class Of
thieves who infest these boats under tho guise Of
cattle men. Some OF these men find it to their
interest to travel in the latter capacity. their
passage is paid for the round trip and it is their
return journey to this city that they play such
havoc with the unsuspecting eIngrants. Quite
number of these men came here the steamship
Australia of the Anchor line which arrived the 7th
inst who, while on the voyage, robbed quite num-
ber of the passengers by picking the locks of many Of
the trunks that were being used by them and steal
ing theretrom both money and clothing. and in one
instance. where the lock could not be picked, the
trunk violently forced and some valuable things
taken therefrom. During last Saturday night, while
the vessel lay in the river, my own trunk
opened and small bag taken the refrom containing
Ave sovereigns and some jewelry. and as the lock
was of a superior make, conclude that the opera
tors adopts.


WILLIAM H. RILEY. of Memphis, Tenn.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


For the sake Of others similarly situated we'll as
for my protection beg of you to give the fol-
lowing place in your more than valuable "Com-
plant Book" Since the late American war the
many Of them injured in such way that it is
not readily perceivable except when they NOV
ing. Forming large part of this class those
wearing artificial limbs (of whom I am one,, and
among the other dangers which beset is the risk
we run OF injuring our sound limbs in getting on
and off the street cars. Let me hold my hand ever
so high the most drivers will do is slow up" and
l must either make a jump tor it or lose that par
tcular aud every other that comes after. have
vanly demonstrated with drivers and conductors,
and III one instance received food of the choicest
billingsgate for my pains. One entering a the
first thing my eyes rest on is "Rules and Regua-
tions Of the - Railroad Company" or "Notice to
Passengers, and then follow certain cautions,
among which always occurs the following:-'Pas-
sengers forbidden to get off the while 1t
is in motion" and winding up with the announce
ment that 1.-The company will not be responsible for
accidents happening under violation OF the fore
lame passengerl 1t he gets on while the car is in
motion he is liable to injure himself, and, having
plainly violated of the company's rules get
damages and, the other hand, drivers will not
he must lose the car. Why don't the companies in
struct the drivers to stop for every who raises
his hand, because he thereby ntmates that he wants
the to stop? The Third Avenue Railroad Com
for plainly posted in the Is the rule that drivers
must come to q full stop for every one who raises
his hand above his head and il he raises his hand at
all the driver must ''slow up until either the
Cannot the drivers DO compelled to stop for who
arc compelled to 20 through life with ONE LEG?
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


Having been a constant reader of your valuable
paper for the last twenty-five years win ask one
favor. Will you please ask the Commissioner Of
Street Encumbrances when he will have the wagons
removed from the street and sidewalk in East Thir
teenth street. between Third and Fourth avenues? ?
There from twenty-five to fifty standing daily
this block; also horses brought on this block
and speeded to their utmost. endangerng the lives OF
many persons, and with zone OF the finest In the
world to stop all passing wagons that may inter
fere with the speed Of that horse. / own property
that block and it is impossible to let it to good
people on account OF this great nuisance.


A CONSTANT READER.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


1 beg to advise you Of nuisance in the shape of
dry goods men. called merchants. Eighth avenue,
who. catching hold of ladies by the arm and. will
ye. Mill ye, force them to 60 into their stores.
send you the name of ono who makes o regular
practice OF illusng every lady passing by attempt
Ing to push her into his practice for which
he should be punished but he boasts OF his influence
with the patrolman old man. to keep him free
to abuse any one he pleases. JUSTICE
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HEnAID:--


Can you inform the citizens living uptown If the
Board of Health have power to stop ''vile odors
coming with every easterly breeze from the bone and
fat boiling establishments at Hunters Point and
along the East River? Whether on land or water
such business should be stopped compelled to be
done by al odorless process. 1t is detrimental to
health and comfort and obnoxious to all compelled
to breathe its diseased germs. Il must necessarily
cause many families to change their residences to
other quarters where heavens pure atmosphere can
be brcathed. il allowed to continue. MEDICUS.
Year: 1879

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




The good people of jacksonville went to
bed in good time Sunday night only to be
rudely awakened about fifteen minutes be>
fore midnight by a general shaking of the
windows, blinds and doors, rlttling of
crockery, swaying of the houses, and rock
ing of the furniture. Beds shook and
trembled so that their inmates were almost
thrown out to the floor. There were two
shocks, following each other in rapid sue
cession, and the duration of both was about
twenty>eight seconds. In the towns along
the st. Johns river and on all the railroads
the shock was very severe. At Fruit Cove
glass filled with water was overturned,
and in Tallahassee and other places west
the effect was equally severe Some who
were standing on the ground say that there
was no perceptible trembling of the earth.
Others say that there was heavy undulat-
ing motion.


The occasion was replete with the most
laughable incidents. Its occurring as it
did at the hour when nearly every one was
in bed and asleep added to the humorous as
well as startling effect. Most men fancied
from the shaking of the doors and windows
that some one was trying to break into the
house, aud several seized their pistols and
made ready to shoot Others did pop away
at their supposed foes. In one house
broke loose and waltzed around
the room, scattering SCOT and CONSERVATION
among the inmates. Many got into the
streets after the shake was over, and held
on the corners to compare notes
and decide on what was best to do. Ladies
invariably got up, and screamed for
and mothers clutched their little
ones and prepared to save their lives or die
themselves


But probably the scenes in the large ho-
els outstripped all others in point of conf
ality. The guests jumped out of bed and |
ushed wildly into the dinly lighted or dark
lalls without stopping to prepare their
oilets, and as they fitted here and there,
unning about with no particular purpose,
Except to get away from the something,that
eemed to be after them, but which, in re-
-lity, was getting away from them very
asst, the scene had the look of ghostly
lance to which all the grave. yards of the
own had sent large delegations.
Year: 1879

Howard Owen, of the Kennebec (Mc.


Journal, has lecture on "The Man who


Makes a Newspaper, and in it he comes


across some first-rate ideas. Most people


imagine that a newspaper is a huge fail
with which certain individuals are to be
lashed. The person on whom the fail is to


be used, is very multitudinous. He may


be a poor actor, a tiresome lecturer, dull
speaker, an unmusical singer, troublesome


neighbor, in fact any one who happens to


offend the man who comes up TO get the


paper to ego for him" Sometimes per
son wishes to use the paper against rail-
road company, the management of a steam
boat line, the city council, or the United
States Government A Detroit man once
left The Free Press office in high dudgeon
some time since because he was not allowed
to rake the Almighty, fore and aft, and in
the columns of this paper. MIR. Owen gives
the following letter from man who wanted
the paper d licately TO insinuate that his
neghbOr is not the most dosirlble person in
tho world to live next to, and who writes
the following unobtrusive note: Here


Mr. Editor, please insert this item and oblige
a subscriber: The rlntankerous old cur
mudgeon, whose pestilential influence poi
sons the air Of BROAD street, has of late been
engaged in questionable transactions for the
purpose of adding TO his ill-gotten gains.
Murder is in the heart of this pestferous
old cuss. but the miserable blatheTskite lacks
the courage 10 execnte IL" Put that i'm As
editorial and don't let any one know who
wrote it.