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Year: 1874

REV. THOMAS GUARD SUDDENLY OVER
TAKEN BY A SAD MISFORTUNE. On Thursday
last Rev. Thomas Guard, the eloquent Irish
minister of Baltimore, but well known in this
State, was overtaken with a sad misfortune at
Seaford, in Sussex co. In the afternoon he
had preached a most able discourse at the
Hurlock's Union camp meeting, in Dorchester
county, in which he exerted himself to weari-
ness, and besides was excessively warm at its
close. On taking his seat he famed himself
vigorously, and it is thought this cause super
induced the misfortune which befel him-the
sudden loss of his sight.


Late in the afternoon Mr.. Guard left the
camp ground tor Seaford, intending to take the
train north on the Delaware Railroad but after
he had lost his sight he concluded to go south
to Cris6eld and take the boat for home as
friends were going in that direction. We have
no advice Of his restoration to sight. Ii was
surmised by the friends whom he had left tha
the blindness proceeded from paralysis of the
optic nerves. Wilmington Commercial
Year: 1874

FRAZER RECAPTCRED.-EbenF Frazer, the
Eliason murderer, who escaped from New
Castle Jail with the bank robbers, was recap
tured at Strausburg. Pa, last Wednesday.


The Republican says he was discovered in
in Strausburg a few weeks ago, by an Old


prison bird named John Mannering. Frazer
was engaged in the photograph business,


having travelling car, and going from place to
place. Mannering met him and at different
times procured money from him, and pretended
to be his friend. His opportunities, how
ever. became 50 frequent as TO exhaust the
patience of Frazer. and on failing to receive
the required stipend he informed gentleman
named j. II. Hickey. Of Frazer escape from
prison. Hickey thinking that a reward had
been offered for his arrest, telegraphed the
facts to Sheriff Armstrong and received in
response an order to arrest him which was
accordingly done, and the prisoner was placed
in Jail at Lancaster. Officers went from New
Castle and brought him on last Wednesday
and paced him in his old quarters. Frazer
has gone by the name Of Williams. and had
been in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Y York
as well as Lancaster county, since his escape.
The report of his being South was entirely
unfOuRded, notwithstanding the particularly
with which it was given. While in Philadelphia
a citizen from New Castle came into the room
where he was, but he escaped observation.


He states that he lived in constant tear oi
detection, and that he would nearly as soon be


in prison as to be subject to so much Dispute


tule A number of persons called at the prison


to see him, and on prOpounding various ques


tions in regard to the escape of the bank prison
: ers, he finally became impatient an1 remarked
J that he would not give anv information what


ever in regard to them He is looking well
} has enjoyed good health. is somewhat sun
burnt, and his hair and Whiskers, which used t
be noted for their backness, are rather sandy
Year: 1874



 Tho clock business in Thomaston is very good just now.

 The Birmingham iron foundry will send ten car loads of machinery.to a western rolling mill.

 The Fowler nail mill at Seymour is run ming at its full capacity, and turns out one and one-half tons Inf nails per day of eleven hours.

 The Reed carpet works, in Bridgeport, are running on full time, with full force of hands. They are 75 pieces behind their orders.

 A little Norwalk boy went to the well to draw a bucket of water, the other day, tumbled into it, head first, falling fifteen feet before he struck the water, and, having climbed up by the ropes, filled his pail and returned to the house and gave the people there the first information of his accident.
Year: 1874

Recently it occurred TO Mr.. Smiley, Of
Darby, that it would be a good thing TO 60
two. He always kept his gun loaded and
ready in the corner Of the room, so he mere
ly shOuldered it and went out. Afler
awhile he saw a rabbit, and taking aim be
pulled the trigger. The gun failed to go
of. Then he pulled the other trigger, and
Year: 1874

BERLIN, Nov. Count Won Arnim
Tuesday last had an interview with the
Judge before whom the preliminary in
quiry in his case had been conducted, and
requested TO be permitted to make fresh
deposition.
Year: 1874

New YORK, Nov. SIT is announced
that the new Direct Cable Company ex-
pect to commence business this month, and
have made contract with the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company for the trans
mission of their messages at the end of the
Year: 1874

Gardner and Charlick, they were found guilty


by jury, after full and fair trial, of a shame
full offence against the most important law
under which we live-the law designed to
protect the purity of the ballot box. This is
all he has q right to be guided by, and he
cannot claim to set aside the law because he is
dissatisfied with the men prominent in bring
ing the offenders to justice. As we have said,
the Mayor, in addition to his culpable and we
believe, criminal disregard and defiance of the
verdict OF jury and the sentence of o court,
has offered an insult to the Governor of the
State and to the city of New York which
demands his removal from office Let the
people mark those time-serving, bargaining
and cowardly Aldermen who seem disposed to
shrink from the duty of bringing Mr.. Have
meyer to an account for his illegal and out
rageOus conduct.
Year: 1874

II it is true that General Zabala 'srneans to
fight the insurgents and intends to sink all
political sympathies and opinions in the strug-
GLE" we have at last POUNDS Spaniard who can
be soldier anda patriot. We have not found
many of them in the Isabella dynasty and our
confidence in Zabala can scarcely be described
as overweening. The fact that Serrano has
sent Moriones back to a northern command
indicates disposition to be on the best terms
with the radicals, and not to permit an army
intended to overthrow Don Carlos to be con-
verted into an army for the enthronement Of
Don Alfonso-a programme that the late not
very much lamented soldier Concha, would
have been very apt to have accepted. In the
meantime the Carlists are reaping the first
fruits Of victory by investing Bilbao, and the
Pope is said to be sending telegraphic bless
iugs to the national army" We presume
this means the Serrano people, as q subse-
quent despatch announces that he had not
responded to the congratulations of the Car
lists. Not the least Of the Papal embarrass-
ments is to know just what flag to bless in
Spain Serrano is certainly good Catholic,
not quite as ostentatious as Don Carlos. but in a
state of ecclesiastical efficiency. Moreover, he
is master of the revenues Of nation, and
the Pope has enough respect for temporal Pow
ers not to throw away his influence over real
nation for o sentiment like Carlism. 1t is
admitted that the attempt to make conserva-
tive republican party by the union of CASTELAR,
and Martos has failed This is an alliance
that necessarily would fail Martos is an
eloquent, insincere, dexterous trimmer, with
unusual power of statement who served
Amadeus until the monarchy was in the last
reel that preceded the fall, and hastened to
join the new Republic, which very soon had no
use for him. Martos represents nothing, not
even his party for his party never followed
him. The mere suggestion that he would
unite with Mr. CASTELAR, shows the position
into which that pre-eminent orator has
fallen. A year ago and he was leader of the
movement which had overturned Martos and
his party. He was republican among the
republicans-the hope and idol of the extreme
republican party in Europe-its one resplen-
dent. unequalled, Incompatible orator.
Power made him a conservative, and since his
fall from power before the cannon of the
usurper Pavia We have never heard Of him ex-
cept as coquetting with the monarchists, the
friends of the monarchy and the creatures of
reaction.


Events in Spain seem to point towards a
form of monarchy under the reign of some
nominee of Serrano--the son of Isabella, most
probably. The bandit and beggar clements
by which we mean the standing army-the
Established Church and the arstocracy proved
too strong for the Republic, as bandtism and
beggary have been the curse Of Spain for
generations. We do not despair of the Re-
public, but it will hardly come in this genera
| tinp
Year: 1874

We print this morning pleasant letter re-
counting the visit of the Gar Of Russia to Ems,
together with on interview with that distin-
guished sovereign. 1t is pleasant picture
our correspondent draws OF the Emperor
striding about the famous watering place with
the ease and simplicity OF mere landed pro-
prietor taking his summer recreation. Though
American readers have little respect for the
divinity which it was once supposed doth
hedge q king, yet great emperor in common
clothes cannot fail to be of interest to most OF
them. But whether it is the clothes or the
king to which this interest is due among a ma
ton of sovereigns is not an easy matter to de-
termine. Be this as it may, the universal
Yankee nation will sleep better these summer
nights for knowing that the Emperor OF Rus
sia dresses like gentleman and believes that
there is no present danger to the peace Of
Europe. The relations of Italy and Germany.
the attitude of the Ottoman Empire and the
new Eastern question, consequent upon Rus
sian movements in Central Asia, were sub
iects Of the conversation. These movements,
the Gar says, were undertaken simply
in the interest of civilization, and for that
reason he thinks no war can result from them.
This is a neat way Of putting it, but it is
scarcely logical, and the conflicting interests
OF England and Russia may overturn the
Emperor's fine theory almost any day. All
this, however, only adds to the interest of a
letter that is singularly graphic in its descrip-
ton of the Czar and his methods of life at
Ems.
Year: 1874

In This financial year about four millions o.
dollars will be expended in and around Phila-
delphia. Congress will yet do her duty by
the Centennial" We congratulate our neigh
Dor, and we were on the point OF saying
our suburb on her success, and, at the same
time, think from what Mr.. Kelley says that
Congress has quite done its duty.
Year: 1874

STILL ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Our
reports this morning Of the accident on the
Shore Line Railroad, at Stony Creek, Conn,
will inspire mingled feelings of sorrow az the
death of Superintendent Wilcox and the mu-
tilatioh of some sixty to seventy other persons,
and Of qualification that no more were killed
and that the injury was not greater to the
wounded. 1t was, really, providential
escape for vast number. Five passenger
cars, full of people, were thrown from
the track while running over q bridge. The
cause of the accident, it is said, was mis-
placed switch. Sometimes it is one thing and
sometimes another which in these too fre.
quent disasters kill and mutilate people, and,
perhaps misplaced switch is the more
general cause. Railroad companies and en-
ployes are too neglecttul Of their duty to the
public. Looking at the frightful results, the
penalty for such negligence or carelessness
ought to be most severe.
Year: 1874

PHILADELPHIA AND THE GENERAL GOVERN
MENT.--We have had an anxious feeling about
Philadelphia as city worthy Of encourage
ment and aid, but which somehow had been
hardly used by the government We were led
to think so by the sorrowful comments and re-
monstrances of the Philadelphia press on the
occasion of the defeat of the Centennial bill


We felt that perhaps our sister city had been
used hardly and that generosity might have
been after all the highest form Of economy.
But it seems from an address of William D.
Kelley, who is now entreating an election to
Congress, that we all this time have been mis-
taken. philadelphia, says Mr.. Kelley,
''owes the Forty-third Congress thanks.
Since the foundation of the government and
during times of peace no such amount Oh
monev has been appropriated to this city,
Year: 1874

His Holiness the Pope, in addressing ccm-
pany of the devout pilgrims who recently sur
rounded the Papal throne with gifts,
said that in America he was really Pope;
that in other countries in Europe he
was not; for here he could publish what
documents and bulls he pleased-a privi-
lege he did not enjoy in other lands. This
tribute to the freedom and humanity of
American institutions is gratifying But we
cannot cease to regret that o country
that gives the Papal Office liberty it pos
sesses in no other lands should be overlooked
in distributing the highest Offices of the
Church. Recently His Holiness made several
the long list of venerable prelates who serve
the Church in the United States. With
out questioning the judgment of infallibility,
we cannot help thinking that if cardinals are
needed in the Church we should have a fair
share in the United States We saw the
high Office merely because he was cousin of
the Emperor Napoleon. Certainly America
has as much claim upon the Pope as the Bona
parte family. The danger is that there will
be discomfort in the councils of the Church,
and the repetition Of a belief that was used
with so much force by Luther in the Reforma-
ton, that the Church was controlled by an
italian ring His Holiness presides over a
Church that is not Italian or Spanish or
French, but cosmopolitan, and the awarding
of its highest Offices to Italians mainly will
certainly dishearten prelates of other countries
Church. We are afraid our pilgrims did not
impress these arguments upon the Pope, or
they would have returned with that supreme
distinction of cardinals hat, to which
America is certainly entitled.
Year: 1874

AN EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE 1t is
common enough for wives to apply to the
courts and get divorces in cases of cruel
treatment by their husbands, but rarely is an
the ground of cruel treatment by wife Such
. case came up, however, before Judge West
brook in the Supreme Court yesterday. Jules
D. Meyer, the complainant charged his wife,
Ellen D. Meyer, with cruel and inhuman
treatment, and SO satisfied was the Judge with
the truth and gravity of the complaint that he
granted the divorce, though, as he said, with
great hesitation and reluctantly. There is,
then, after ALL law for the man as well as for
che woman when the case is clear
Year: 1874

The Pope s ADDRESS TO THE COLLEGE OF
CARDINALS, which is published in the HERALD
to-day, will be read with unusual interest, for
the reasons that 1t reports the facts which
have influenced the Holy Father in his deter
mination to refuse the recent offer of the
ztalian-or Piedmontese, as he calls it-gov-
ernment for reconciliation OF the differences
which exist between the lay Power and the
Church. and that it was spoken verbally to
the members of the conclave. The Pope sets
forward a strong case, the several positions
and the logic of which may be accepted as the
ecclesiastical finale Of the great argument
which was opened by Plus the Seventh when
he excommunicated Napoleon the First, and
was taken prisoner to Savona, in 1909.


EVERY CITIZEN who looks with the delight
,f lad freed from school and the gentle
hraldom of study to the mountain and the
seashore, and his summer romp and ramble,
should remember the thousands Of poor, pallid
suffering ones who remain at home. There
cannot be true enjoyment when we refec,
upon the misery left behind us enclosed within
Che waters around this island. Mr. Williams,
the phiianthropist, whose humane heart con-
ceived the idea of childrens excursions, and
under whose gentle and earnest efforts SO
many thousands of our poorest waits
have been enabled TO 60 out for q
day to the green fields, is busy organizing and
experimenting another series. There is nc
more beautiful and wholesome charity. lie
every citizen feel before he goes to enjoy hi
own summer that he must do something
towards allowing the suffering children of th
poor 10 have small share OF his comfort
and pleasures
Year: 1874

IT will be seen by our dispatches from Prescott that they have had quite fire there, and among the sufferers The Miner office has been considerably damaged. We sincerely regret this loss to our con- temporary and hope it may not prove as serious as at first supposed. A card from its editor, J. H. Marion, says that 1t may be month before The Miner can again be issued
Year: 1874

Yesterday afternoon Tammany Hall was filled
by, a respectable gathering to witness the first
premium drawing OF the Industrial Exhibition
bonds, which event inaugurated new epoch in
American finance. The system upon which the
drawing was made is one which comes to America
with the highest European Endorsement. The
French and Prussian governments have raised
immense sums oy means Of this lottery system
which Is the creation Of the Rothscnids, In
opening the drawing Mr.. +. A. Alberger stated at
great length the workings OF the system, saying
In the course OF the explanation that as each
bond only cost $40, IL was WITHIN the power OF the
workingman and tradesman to assist in one OF the
greatest schemes that New York. considered as a
city, had ever taken IN hand. The system,
besides the foreign accommodations spoken Of, mas
the sanction OF the Legislature OF the state


some time since detailed account OF the plans
of the Industrial Exhibition Company were pub
lished in the HERALD. To restate the object OF the
company tersely 1t Is to build on what Is now
known as the seattle yards" between lO0th and
Io3d streets q crystal palace which Is to serve
a perpetual museum for the industries or the ma
tion. IL Is hoped to have the buildings finished In
1876, so that all the specimens which Will have
been at Philadelphia can be brought mere ana leit
forever as monument to American Industry.


In the 100 prizes drawn yesterday The following
major ones
Year: 1874

BOSTON, Sept Z, 1873.
There was quite large attendance at Mystic
Park this afternoon to witness the race for purse
Of $500 between the well known trotters COLO
smith Maid, Judge Fullerton and American GIRL
The betting was confined to the latter two' 'udso
Fullerton being the favorite at 25 to 10.


The first two heats were won by the Maid WIN
the utmost ease, the battle being between fuiler-
ton aud the Girl for second place. they kept wen
her out In tina third heat Goldsmith Maid aGted
Year: 1874

NJ. Teller, one of the most acute of
French observers, adopts the theory of
the propagation of cholera by invisible
germs conveyed In the air or in water.
He places no great reliance upon the eff.
feet of antiseptics upon the air itself,
their action being, TO say the least,
doubtful and, moreover, he considers
the action of the germs unavoidably
taken in respiration as comparatively in
nocuous. because those taken into the
lungs do not reach the intestines, and
because such as are thus swallowed, be-
ing taken as it we're in small quantity
at time, the vitality of the system is
able to resist then aston, in like man
ner as it overcomes the action of poison
taken In insignificant doses. M. Teller
thioks that it is by introduction of the
germ into the alimentary canal, where
they find conditions altogether fayora-
BILE for their rapid multiplication and
development, that the disease is most
frequently and most fatally communi-
Gated. He cites fruit as being especl-
ally calculated, some by their downy
covering, as the apricot or the peach,
Others by the gummy or glutinous coat
! g which most of them possess, TO ar
rest and retain the germs carried by the
air. Fruit sbould therefore be carefully
washed, or the skins removed, in the
time Of epidemic cholera.
Year: 1874

Nearly all the parties convicted un-
der the Kuklux act have been pardoned. 1t
is said to be the intention to pardon every one
convicted under the law, who has served an
average sentence of two years. At least this
seems to have been the policy of the presi-
dent thus far.


The country will hear with interest
that in order to obviate the $1,000, 900 def
cheney in the postal service it is thought best
to abolish the free delivery system and the
postal cars. Luxuries are costly; and it is
possible that those who are not willing to
walk to the postofice will have to pay the
postnan
Year: 1874




The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the collector of customs at Baltimore
to inteEpose no further objections to the
trial trip of the steamer Edgar Stuart, pro-
viding an officer OF the revenue accompany
the steamer.


A police spy reports the number of
New York Communists at three hundred, ana
says the German and Irish organizations are
uniting with the Frenchmen. At a recent
meeting the chairman said: I" It is not only
work we want; it is also liberty and the aboli-
tion of high salaries and monopoIization. We
want the heads of some of the thieves who
are now stealing the funds of the city. We
want their hands and we shall have them. We
want to make them suffer what all are now suf-
fering There is no justice in New York city.
We will take Justice in our own hands and
administer with rifles and bayonets. We have
arms already. We will find petroleum and
use, as we did in Paris. Our German, Ameri-
can and Irish brothers will help us and we will
help them"
Year: 1874




siOners' Report to Congress.


The president has sent the following
message to congress:


To the senate and house Of representa-


tiUes:


have the honor herewith to submit
a report of the centennial commission
ers, and to add a word in the way of
recommendation. There have now been
international expositions held by three
Of the great powers of Europe. It
seems fitting that the one hundredth
anniversary of our independence should
be marked by an event that will display
TO the world the growth and progress
of the nation devoted to freedom, and
to the pursuit of fame, fortune and
honor by the lowest citizen, as well as
the highest. a failure in this enter
prize would be deplorable. Success can
be assured by arousing the public to
the Importance of the occasion. To
secure this end, in my Judgment, con-
gressiOnal legislation is necessary to
make the exposition both national and
international. The benefits to be de-
rived from a successful international
exposition are manifold. 1t will neces-
sarily be accompanied by expenses be
JOnO G1l0 lLOu b1lO CAkCStL1OH
itself, but they Will be compensated for
by commingling of people from all Sec
tions of our own country, by bringing
together people of different national
tiles, by bringing into juxtaposition for
ready examination our own and foreign
skill and progress in manufactures, agri-
culture. art, science and civil station
The selection of a site for the exposi
ton seems to me appropriate from the
fact that one hundred years before the
date fixed for the exposition, the declar-
alton of independence, which launched
us into the galaxy of nations as an in
dependent people, emanated from the
same spot. We have much in varied
climate, soil, mineral products and skill,
of which advantage can be taken by
other nationalities to their profit. In
eturn, they will bring to our shore
works of their skill and familiarize our
people with them, to the mutual advan-
tage of all parties. Let us make a COM
plete success of our centennial exposi-
tion, or suppress it in its infancy and
ackno Wedge our ine bility to give it
the international character to which our
self-esteem aspires. U. s. GRANT.


Executive Mansion, Feb. 25, 1874.