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Year: 1879

Some important light has in the opinion
of Irish agitators been thrown on this i'm
portant point by striking passage in q
recent letter from Mr.. Gladstone. He seems
to reason that the barrel of gunpowder
which was rolled against the wall of The
Clerkenwell Prison did not merely blow
down that wall, but was, in fact, the force
that blew up the Established Church in
Ireland. He distinctly attributes to that
remarkable crime and to the murder
Of policeman in Manchester in
the course of the same Fenian agitation
the introduction of Irish grievances to the
ground of practical politics, as they showed
fury under oppression which demanded
All efficient remedy. This view Of past events
is one that bids fair to be utilized by the
agitators of to-day, who already reason that
If one or two outrages In England were SO
fruitful of good results others may be
equally fruitful; and that If O little expen-
diturc in that way will help it is not worth
while for Ireland to deny herself any con-
ceivable satisfaction.
Year: 1879

1t was gala day yesterday in the Span
ish capital, and the whole public seems to
have sympathized earnestly In the pleasure
and satisfaction that are naturally supposed
to be inseparable elements of such an event
as o royal marriage. Madrid is not one of
the great capitals of the world in the sense
of magnitude, and particularly not in the
sense of personal isolation that is commonly
incident to life in great cities. 1t is
rather like pleasant country town,
where everybody knows all about every
body else; and His Majesty the King, his
comings and goings and sayings and doings,
are as much in the eye and ear of the peo-
pie as the town constable in the rural
region. Indeed. there is kind of genial,
hearty, personal relation between Span
ish sovereign aud the people of his capital
such as does not exist in any other country
in Europe, and more nearly resembles what
may be imagined Of these relations in the an
cient heroic monarchies than what is known
of modern States. With such o sentiment
everybody probably felt as Immediately
concerned in the pleasures of the
occasion as if he had marriage
in his own family, but one as to
WHICH ho had no responsibilities. Happily
for Europe no sinister consequences can be
imagined as related to this event by any
possible thread. With republic in
France-a republic inspired with the grand
principle of minding its own business,
without dynastic hopes or apprehensions in
regard to the Spanish throne-thero is no
possibility of putting Europe in arms to
force Spanish sovereign to accept bride
he does not want or deprive him Of one he
does want. Consequently the marriage is
the happy union of young people some
what glorifed by the exalted station OF
each.
Year: 1879

The WEATHER The storm centre that passed
north OF this district, and the influence of which
was felt in the early portion of the day, is now
moving into the ocean off the Nova Scotia coast.
The barometer is rising rapidly throughout the
West and large area of high pressure is adj
vancing from the regions of Texas and Wyo-
ming. Rain fell in the lower lake regions, the
Middle Atlantic and New England States. Else
where the weather was generally clear. The
temperature fell in all the districts except the
New England States where it remained nearly
stationary. The winds have been from brisk to
high ON the New England coast, fresh in the
Middle Atlantic States and light elsewhere.
The weather in New York and its vicinity to-
day will bc colder aud fair. Tomorrow it will
be cold and clear.
Year: 1879

answerable in more rational way. We
cannot see at least that this method is any
mora just in Ireland now than it was
in England in the days of Jeffreys.
As for the clamor that demands the
abolition of landlordism-a cry that
is or bids fair to become the platform
of the agitation--it is characteristically
Hibernian. The Irish people. says Mr..
Parnell, ''will stand by the movement un-
til landlordism as an institution is forever
abolished in Ireland" Now, we do not
believe the Irish people want to abolish
landlordism; they want to abolish landlords.
that is to say the present landlords, and as
the practical attempts in that way with shot
guns show the labor to be tedious they
would be glad of any help in the shape
of legislation. To abolish lapdlordism
would be to abolish property. and nobody
is fonder of owning nice bit of property
than an Irishman. Pat does not want
property abolished, he only wants i to
change hands He wants to have some
magical process that will suddenly make
him the owner of a snug farm, as he has
not the means of buying one in the ordi-
nary way. Just now he believes Mr.. Par
nell has discovered some scheme of that
but when he discovers that the agitation is
to be as barren in that respect as were the
promises to Sambo after the war of forty
acres and mule he will give it all up in
fierce disouSt
Year: 1879

THE SAD ENDING OF SUPPOSED LOVE AFFAIR.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1


NORFOLK. Va. Nov. 30. 1879.


Last night at a late hour Miss Virginia Rawls the
young and interesting daughter OF Francis II.
Rawls the Town Sergeant OF Suffolk. left her home.
as her mother supposed. to visit ncighbor. Not
returning In q short time her father went for her.
but found. to his surprise. that she had
not been to tho neghbors house. Tho parents.
becoming alarmed, made search for her all
night without avail. The mysterious disappearance
of the young lady threw tho whole town OF SUFFOLK
into excitement to-day and conjecture was rife on
every hand. Finally colored man was found who
professed to have her going to the Nansornond
River after leaving home. The river has been
dragged for tho body all day long. but so far with
out success. There are persons who believe that
the young lady alive and will be heard from, but
the more general opinion is that her dissppesrsnce
IL the sad ending of q love affair and that she has
drowned herself. In the meantime the parents ere
In an agony of alarm and distress.
Year: 1879

In our cable dispatches to-day will be
found an extended and lucid report OF the
Judgment of the Master of the Rolls in the
case of the recent attempted expulsion OF
Mr.. Labouchere from the Beefsteak Club, by
which it is held that this gentleman has,
in fact, not been expelled, because of the
irregularity Of the proceedings taken with
view to that end, and by which it is
ordered that he ''be restored to oil rights
and privileges of the club"-the costs of the
litigation to be paid by his opponents.


The judgment and the statement of the
grounds of personal right upon which it is
based will be of interest to all members of
whether called clubs or described by other
names, inasmuch as they rest the case upon
principles of common justice that must be
the same in the laws Of every country. In
it's broadest sense the judgment holds
that the constitution and rules OF the
club, as they are its laws, to which
every one has subscribed, and to
which all must submit, must be as
strictly and justly applied when appealed
to for the protection of an individual as
when welded in the interest Of discipline;
and consequently that since they provide a
regular procedure for the expulsion of Of
Tending or delinquent members nobody
can be expelled save by steps in specific
accordance with that procedure, and that the
steps for the expulsion of Mr.. Labouchere
were not so taken, and are, there
fore, not valid. It is declared by
one of the rules Of the Beefsteak
Club that if the committee, "upon inquiry"
shall be convinced that o member has been
guilty of conduct "injurious to the welfare"
of the club it may call upon him to resign,
and if he refuses expel him by the method
described in other rules; and the Court holds
that if the committee acts strictly under
this authority no tribunal can, in the name
of law or equity, impeach its action but
it's violation of the authority affords proper
ground for legal remedy. In this case
the committee, it is adjudged, did not pro-
ceed "upon inquiry" 1t did not give the
delinquent an opportunity to be heard in
his own defence-not even so much of an
opportunity US OuI NAayOT BaNo tuo ucllu-
quent Police Commission ners-and thus at
the very outset it vitiated its action.
Furthermore, no meeting of the club
has power to expel member. save
one held after fourteen days notice.
and the meeting which voted his expulsion
was without that power, because it was
called on the 1st and held on the 14th--or
at thirteen days notice. Also it is the rule
of the club that an expulsion must be
voted by two-thirds of those present. On
this occasion one hundred and seventeen
were present and seventy-seven voted for
expulsion-which is not two-thirds. Those
who in such a case do not vote practically
support the accused. Altogether this is a
very interesting judgment, and puts in u
queer light the capacity to understand
plain principles of justice of the seventy
seven English gentlemen who set them
selves up as authorities in this case How
can these men, who prove unable to apply
in simple honesty the plain rules Of their
own social organization, be supposed to
Judge fairly the nice ethical points in
volved in the conduct of othersp
Year: 1879

ALTHOUGH the street cleaners have removed
the ashes and garbage from n certain block in
Park street the public are none the less curious
to know why the operation was postponed for
two whole months. Not single general ex-
planation ever made by Commissioner MacLean
bears upon the question.
Year: 1879

WIZARDS have not been raised in the public
estimation this week. Besides the attempted
crime charged upon two of them in this city a
negro woman in the same business is said to
have instigated Il shocking murder in Kentucky,
the murderer also being killed in some unknown
manner
Year: 1879

IF BURGLARS CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN in
genuity they will one day be fit to go into politics
The latest trick is to set up dummy" safe
made of sticks and canvas and drag the real
article aside to be manipulated at leisure.
Politicians have u similar trick regarding men.
setting up a fgurehead or dummy to conceal
their important operations
Year: 1879

WE PUBLISH the record Of the Staten Island
Cricket Club for the year May it stimulate
other clubs to more play and practice, SO that
competitors from abroad may earn their honors
more hardly than heretofore.
Year: 1879

INDIANA is said to be the probable destination
of an impending negro exodus and to an extent
that will change her political complexion
Here is the negro in politics with q vengeance,
and no carpetbaggers handy for the democrats
TO blame.
Year: 1879

The RUMORED SUBSTITUTION of Western
Union for Atlantic and Pacific stock is denied
by the president of the first named company,
and his statements provoke wonder as to who
could have believed imagined the story.
Year: 1879

The NEW CouRT-HoUsE SITE.-It
will be seen by reference to the report OF
tho proceedings Of special meeting OF
the City Council held last night, that the
square OF ground enclosed between Mar
ket and King and Tenth and Eleventh
streets is rendered to the Levy Court fol
the site of the new county courthouse
and county buildings.


This is one of the most central and
prominent and convenient positions in
the city, and 50 far as We are able to
judge it is the wish OF large majority
of our citizens that the county buildings
be here erected.


1t will be seen that the Council alsc
rendered the thanks of the city to the
General Assembly, which will meet the
views of all good citizens We feel quite
sure.


The committee appointed to confer with
the Levy Court and make the tender Of
the ground will do SO to-day.


1t is the hope and expectation Of the
Council that their tender will be imme-
diately accepted, or accepted as soon as
the dignity Of the Court and the due con-
sideration of SO responsible a matter will
permit, in order that measures may Dr.
taken without any unnecessary delay iol
the sale of the bonds aud the issue o.
proposals for the erection of the build
ings.


1t is expected, of course, that the Levy
Court will not enter upon the work O
construction until it secures proper plan.
for the buildings, aud that these plan.
will be allowed to have the sanction o
the judiciary, and to have the scrulin,
and TO some extent meet the wishes an,
expectations of such citizens as are capa
Bile Of passing judgment upon architectu
raj designs.


1t is doubtful, therefore, whether worl
will be commenced upon the bailding
for several months. We will be bette
able to judge of this, however, after tn
Levy Court shall have spoken on tn
matter.
Year: 1879

ELEGANT JEWELRY AND SILVER
WARE AT AUcrIoN.-It will be seen by
an advertisement that a sale Of jewelry
aud silverware will take place in The
auction store Of Mr.. Merrick, in The Ma
sonic Temple, this afterroon aud even.
ing. The assortment is the finest and
most elaborate and costly ever seen in
his city. Among the jewels are some
diamonds rated as high as 500, 500 am,
even $500. The stock is really wort
looking at, whether you want to buy o
not.
Year: 1879

SENATORS ANTHONY AND CoskLIyG
Shed an ocean of crocodile tears over the
election of Democrats to the offices of
the Senate yesterday. The Democratic
Secretary and other officers were elected
and sworn in notwithstanding. Senator,
Beck and VOORHEES, gave Conkling seye-
raj raps, which made him as mad and
insolent as Billingsgate tish-monger.-
We hope the Democrats will give these
old party hacks plenty of rope and let
them squirm and whine to their hearts
content They have had no mercy on
the people and have held thousands of
men IN office whom they knew were 10
better than thieves and they also sym-
pathized with others and excused them
when their crimes We're exposed. The
Republicans have been in office long
enough and should be made to know
That other parties had rights TO public
favor as well as they.
Year: 1879

Cdit. Akey, who killed man in
Nevada recently, was mining in Tuol-
umne county, Cal, when the war
broke out and with number of other
residents, volunteered his services. A
company was raised, all good men, and
he was elected captain. Much TO their
disappointment, the Government de-
cided To keep them in California, and
they were ordered 10 Humboldt Bay.
Alleys head was turned by the author
ity conferred upon him, and he began
series OF petty prosecutions which al
most drove his men mad. They bore ii
for months, until it passed beyond the
limits of endurance. and then they re-
solved 10 end it. This resolve took the
form of determination never to obey
another command of Akey's. This
was nothing more nor less than mutiny
and was punishable with death; but
the boys preferred that to the tyranny
under which they had groaned and suf-
ferGd 20 long. An order had been re-
ceived TO proceed from Humboldt Bay
TO Red Bluffs and Akey went by way
of the ocean to San Francisco. while
the company crossed the mountains.
They were encamped on the bank of the
Sacramento river when he arrived. and
the crisis came aS soon as he put his
foot in camp. He called the company
out on parade, and ordered all those
who had resolved to repudiate him to
step to the front. Ninety men, the en-
tire company, firmly took the steps
The Sheriff of I'ehama County was
with him and turning to that officer he
asked dim if he would assist him in ar
resting the orderly sergeant. The Of
iicer replied that he would. and the
two started 10 do so, when they were
both covered with fifty revolyers, the
omInous click of which sounded pain
fully intense. The Sheriff took to his
heels, and never stopped until he
reached the ferry, quarter of mile
distant, but Akey confronted the angry
men as coolly as if nothing extraordi-
nary was happening. The color never
left his face, nor did tremor disturb
his equanimity, although he fully re
allied thar the men were thirsting for
his blood. Nothing but his bravery
saved him, for they had fully deter
mined upon killing him, but as he ran
his eyes up and down the line and said,
Boys, the odds are too much, ;" they
respected his courage, dropped their
weapons, and allowed him to slowly re-
tire. The upshot of the affair was that
he was relieved of his command. and
after an investigation of the circum-
stances, was discharged from the SER
vice
Year: 1879

In the early part of this century the
western portions of North Carolina
were infested bv wild game, among
which was the elk, now entirely ex-
met in the South. The last elk was
killed in Mitchell county, it is said,
about 1924. Some time about 1915, a
party of veteran and daring hunters
we're in the mountains of Buncombe.
engaged in a hunt for these animals.
They spent several weeks usually in
such expeditions, sleeping in the for
ests, always in danger from wild
beasts. One evening just before night
fall, the party retsrned, one by one, to
the rendezvous, all save one very old
man, most enthusiastic and tireless
sportsmen. Knowing his habits, his
absence caused little remark, but as
time slipped on and he came not, IL
was determined to make a search fol-
him. While preparing to do this the
well-known report Of his rifle rang out
on the air and then all was still. The
noise of the report came from d
canebreak, quarter of mile away


Taking lights, two of the hunters made
their way thither and found their COM
rake but few rods from the brake


lying on the ground so badly injured


as to be helpless and well nigh ex


hausted. In reply to inquiries he said
he had tracked bear and fired at hin


wounding the ferocious beast. h'
thought, fatally. On going up to hi'
prize the bear arose and seized him. A
Year: 1879

terrific struggle ensued between the
two. Losing his knife in this contest
the hardy hunter said he had no other
means than 10 seize Bruins nose in his
teeth. He declared that he had done
this. and with snch effect as to bite of
the tip of the entire end of the nose.
The earth near by was bloody and
trampled, but his comrades ridicule d
the idea of his having bitten off the
bears nose lie continued TO assert it
and said that the bear, discomfited had
fed and taken refuge in the brake,
where he would wager he then lay
dead. The wounded man was taken
into camp and his injuries attended to
At Daylight next morning several of
the hunters went into the brake. and
there found the bear shot through the
body aud with the tip of his nose bitten
off. The Old hunter lived many years
but always spoke with peculiar pride
of his having thus overcome the bear,
and exhibited a score of wounds made
by the animals claws. as proof of the
story.
Year: 1879

Presence of mind has lately proved


valuable in several interesting cases.
HelIy Kuhn, at the bottom of a
Dubuque well, drove pickaxe into the
slide, and stood under il when he saw


the earth laden bucket falling, thus


saving himself from being crushed.


John Carey, when lightning struck the
New Haven mil of which he was fore


man, knocked down three of the panic


stricken operators, who were madly
r;:shing toward the narrow exit, and so


prevented a dangerous jam on the
stairway. Mrs. Dunkin of Long P.a-
rie,.. Mimi, was threatened with an axe
by her crazy son, she said, well, if
you want to cut my head of let's go to
the chOpping-block." He nodded, and
they passed out to the wOodpile. Ii
was dark; addressing him with ''Now
l'll put my head on the block, she
drew the white kerchief from her neck
and threw it down and slipped away.
The lunatic struck the kerchief heavy
Dul HdIilIltSS DlON- Oultd tldTkt, a
San Francisco factory girl, was caught
in a machine by her long hair She
seized pair of shears and cut off her
tresses so quickly that she was not
drawn between the wheels and killed,
as she otherwise would have been. Ten
men started down the shaft of Nevada
mine in a small skip. The donkey en-
gine broke and the miners felt their
vessel sink downward with lightning
speed. Deathly fear turned every face
white. In the panic most Of them
clutcbed the skip to wait for the crash.
At the first intimation of disaster Pat
rick Mccarthy the enginter at the top
of the shaft, seized a a heavy plank
and thrust the end between the piniOn
shaft and the reel, from which the
cable was running off. The drum was
revolving with terrific speed, and the
friction produced streams of fire and
smoke. But the engineers thrust was
exactly at the right point, and the end
of the board soon checked the descent,
bringing TIE skip TO a standstill few
feet from the bottom.
Year: 1879

Many persons complain of always get
ting up tired in the morning. This is
very often due to defective ventilation
of the bed clothes and bedding. Feath-
er beds are too soft and yielding, and
partially envelop the sleeper, thus pro-
ducing prOfuse perspiration. Again,
it Is a common error to suppose that by
simply opening window at the top a
room can be ventilated. People forget
that for proper ventilation there must
be an inlet as well as an outlet for the
air. In bedrooms there is often neith-
er, aad if there is fireplace, it is gon-
orally tightly closed. Again, 1t Is
mistake to suppose that foul air goes to
the top, but chief impurity, the
carbonic acid falls to the bottom.
There is nothing so eflicacious In re-
moving the lower strata of air, as the
ordinary fireplace, especially if there
is fire burning.
Year: 1879

People generally suppose that there
is no danger to be apprehended from
liohtning until there have been sharp
reports OF thunder quickly following
the flash, and indicating a near explo-
sion of the electric fluid. Such is not
the case. When the celebrated James
Otis. of Massachusetts,, the great orator
of the Revolution, was killed, it is said
that but a single bolt fell from the cloud
during the shower. He had often ex-
nr.ssed a wish for a sudden death, and
had remarked thatwhen his time should
come. he should prefer to be struck
dead. instantaneously, by lightning.
One day he was standing in his front
door watching a small cloud which had
arisen and from which rain drops had
beeun to fall. There was single flash
and he lay lifeless on the floor in ac-
eordance with his often expressed pre-
ference. Numerous other cases could
he cited. showing it is not safe at any
time during a thunder shower TO stand
by an open window or door.
Year: 1879

At Traverse City we were Joined by
on the BRAIN. He shook hands with
every redskin he could corner, patIed
on the head every papoose he could
reach, and the sight of bark wigwam
would send him off on a journey OF
three miles along the sandy beach.
When we got up to Old Mission liza
warlIa," as we called this Boston man,
found plenty of food for his character
IsTic. Lots of Indians were loafing
aTound-greGsy, sloyenly redskins VINO
hardly knew enough to catch fish, and
the Bostonian let himself loose. He
was the friend of the red man from the
word go" His charity extended to
the Indian and no further. The iugen-
uity of the Indian surprised and de-
lighted him, and after paying three
dollars for bark lamp-mat worth
about twenty-five cents lie exclaimed :


"Why, sir, give the red man halt a
show aud his ingenuity would outshine
tic W lilt llldll : III iAp sAh al ~
has been knocked down and stepped on
and kept down, but I'll improve him II
have TO stay here ali summer"


The next day. while We were hunting
around for harvest apples, we came up
on about twenty Indians on the shore.
One was using "lIiawatha's" fine comb ;
another had his toothbrush cleaning
the sand out of a sore heel; a third was
trying to wind up his watch backwards
a fourth had his wallet; fifth had his
hat and cane. The Boston man had a
bottle of perfumery in his satchel, and
one old squaw was pouring the contents
on the soles of her big, black feet, and
then smelling each foot in succession.
Her face bore the brOadest, blandesr
smile one ever saw, and was darkened
ONLY when her husband came along
and drank up what pcrfumcry she had
left.


They sailed away down the bay in
their canoes, and an hour after we
came across the Goston man. His en-
thusiasm had so carried him away that
he had spent the night in wigwam.
While he slept and dreamed of i'm
proving the poor indian, tue poor In
dian had remained awake and inprov-
ed his chances. 1t was a sad blow to
the trusting man, and when We took
up a shake purse to send him across
to Petoskey, he had only one wish. lie
wanted to be turned loose in paddock
with all the red men of Michigan fol
about half an hour.