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Year: 1875

ridiculous and inane expressions Gro v d
upon each others heels until the mind


is wearied and disgusted Then again


we have other revelations in this trial.


Virtuous wives comfort aud embrace a


man who they believe TO he both wicked


and false. They act as messengers Of


love for those they ought to condemn


and despi5e, and while acting as cOun-


sellOrs do great mischief and damsgs.


Men confess their faults to each other


and to the wives of other men, and then


deny what they have said. Suicide is


s1oken of and desire for death mani


tested. Vengeance is threatened and


forgiveness granted, only to be the pre-


lude Of war and contention. Surely such


q state of society must appal thoughtful


men and shake our confidence in the


truth of mankind. Ii il 8 revelation


that shocks the sensibility and upsets all
precOnceived ideas of our fellows. All
OF the accessories and situations are
novel and unreal, and the life lived by
these people must have been sbnormal
and false In the extreme. The
conduct of the witnesses in the trial has
been a surprise in itself. Moulton
underwent an examination such as
never befell a witness before. He was
Ied through course OF questioning that
would have upset most men; yet, SO
well had he prepared himself, both men,
tally and physically, for the ordeal, that
he left the witness chair mistaken and
apparently triumphant. Not only was
he subjected to severe mental test, but
his affections were torn by the death of
the mother who gave him being. For
under this affiction he maintained un-
shaken demeanor, and chose to finish
his testimony before giving way to nat
ural grief. The plaintiff also endured a
severe trial, and, though OF softer and
more intellectual calibre, he also con-
trived to fill his part and carry on the
burden of the trial. Now we have
another witness-the most important
one that has appeared-and, though
woman, naturally shrinking from the
publicity and embarrassment
Of her painful position, she told story
with an air OF truth and sincerity that
Is unexpected. 1t is a remarkable exhi-
bitiOn that is made by these witnesses,
and forms astriking feature in the high
ly colOred picture.
New York sun


nv
Year: 1875

We are in receipt of the monthly
report of J. R. Dodge, Statistician to
the Commissioner of Agriculture.
From this may be CLEANED much in
telligence relative to the coming
wheat crop. The acreage sown last
year is reported at 7 per cent in ex-
cess of the year before. Mr.. Dodge
says that small portion of the seed
sown has been entierly destroyed
and will be replaced by other crops.
In the southern states, from Mary
land to Tennessee the increase in area
was very large, Mississippi however
showing the heaviest increase of any
other section. In Ohio there was nc
increase of acreage. The report con
veys the unpleasant intelligence that
in more northern latitudes the con
dition of the crop is below an aver
age and much below the status o.
last spring. In the South the pros
pect is reported fattering. While
we have not space to enlarge, We
gather from the report verifcatior
of what seems apparent in our owl
section, that the growing crop ha'
been seriously injured by the wintel
and that the harvest will be far be
low an average.
Year: 1875

are marked feature of this far-of land. Every
sixteenth and thirtysixth section in each township
were donated by Congress for educational purpos-
es. In this new country one of the first buildings
erected is the School House. They build these
houses with view to neatness and durability, and
on the most of them there is neat beIfry contain
ing bell that reverberates its deep tones through
the valleys and outspread prairies of this Ear
West" j. CADWALLADER.
Year: 1875

We find the following in one of our exchanges,
and adopt it with the slight change necessary to
make it applicable to this locality:
To any person who viii solve the following, and
furnish ms correct answer next week, we viii for
ward one copy of the News for one year, upon re-
ceipt of the solution and $500:


GADER,


NEW your subscription by
RE MITTING us 81, and then


RECOMMEND it to your friends, and


CEIVE our thanks for your favor
Year: 1875

From one who has been to Texas, de-
scribes the State in the following Parody.
Beautiful Texas what do you think?
Plenty Of Grapes, and no wine to drink
Plenty of creeks, and no water at thand
No Oats for your horse, but plenty of


land
Plenty of horses, but none fit to ride,
Plenty of poverty, and some little pride,
Plenty of hides, ami no leather that's


tanned,
Though scabby mosquitoes encumbers the


land
Plenty of cattle, no butter,Or milk,
No dress for the dairy ,bnt plenty of silk,
Plenty of rain, when it comes down at all,
Enough TO spare, would it come at your


call
Plenty of wind, no drawback on that,
And when talking of stock there is plen-


ty OF chat
Plenty of rock, the cisterns to wall.
But we cannot find time to do it all
Plenty Of boisd'arc, hot hardly hedge,
Plenty OF hogs as thin asa wedge
Plenty of bacon, year before last,
Plenty again when there comes good


mast;
Plenty of chairs, but all so low,
That to eat you must hang on you own


elbow
Plenty of grub, such as poor beef and


bacon,
Which reminds you of the home you


sadly forsaken;
o! Land of great promise, not yet full


filled,


What country you might be if people
wilicu


All tccming with beauty, plenty and
wealth,


Every requisite here for comfort and


health;


But with cornbrcad and bacon, men
have enough,
And women set happJ over q bottle Of
snuff.
Year: 1875

In 1859 Newton was elected to repre-
sent the University of Cambridge, OF
which he was the most distinguished
teacher, in parliament. But the phi
losopher was completely out of his
element in his new sphere. He listen
ed like an uninterested spectator to
the debates of the House of Commons,
and himself, it is said, spoke only once,
and that was to request the sergeant
alarms to close a window through
which came a current Of air that he
feared would give a cold to an orator
who occupied the foor.-(From Mdred
Home aud School," Louisville, KY
Year: 1875

A Young married man received bis
FIST curtain lecture the other night from
his wife Polly. He calls it "the epistle
of Polly to the rum one.' He woat be
so facetious after awhile. Ephesians the
flowing bowl, he may get rest, but Poll
will lay the law down 20 him every time
he gets Titus a brick.
Year: 1875

The pulpits yesterday, both in this city
and Brooklyn, mostly revealed strange faces,
and where the pastors were in their churches
it was because they were not yet sufficiently
well known to make a summer vacation
necessity. 1t is fact worthy of much study
that celebrity is the first step toward the
seaside or the mountain with our city
preachers, and it is perhaps a matter not so
much to be deplored as would seem at first
regular clergy gives candidates from Phila-
delphia and Boston an opportunity to be
heard in the metropolis, and the departure Of
the more celebrated among our pulpit orators
affords those who are not so well known
chance to make reputation. These PROPOSE
tions are well illustrated by the discourses
we print this morning. Not one of our more
famous clergymen was on hand yesterday to
distribute the bread of life among the faith
full. At the Church of Our Saviour the SER
mon was preached by the Rev. ]. H Hartzell,
of Boston. Professor Griffin, of Williams
College, filed the pulpit at the University
place church. DR.. Porter, of the Methodist
Book Concern, went over to the Tompkins
avenue Congregational church in Brooklyn.
The services at the De Kalb avenue Methodist
Episcopal church were made somewhat re-
markable by the Rev. S. II. Platt, of Bridge
port, who recounted his miraculous cure.
The Rev. w. T. Clarke preached at the
Church Of the Messiah and the Rev. J. M.
Ludlow at the Collegiate Dutch Reformed
church. The other pulpits were filed by
the lesser lights among the clergy, and yet
we scarcely lament the absence of the great
names, for while our distinguished pastors
are seeking fresh fields and pastures new the
focks which remain at home are finding
other shepherds. In all this there is a great
interest, and we commend our reports of the
sermons this morning as an epitome of what
can be done in the absence of our pulpit fa-
yorites.
Year: 1875

The curious document addressed to the
wealthy merchants of Havana by Count VAL
maseda, which we publish in another
column, will give a good insight into the
condition of affairs in Cuba. Notwithstand-
ing all the Dragging dispatches from the
seat of war in which the official Spanish
journals indulge, it is plain that the Cuban
tactics are telling on the resources of Spain
So long as the fight was maintained only in
the Eastern and Central departments the
Spaniards could have continued the struggle
indefinitely at a certain outlay of human
blood, Of which Spanish governments have
never been chary. The torch has proved
more effective than the sword, and unless
the insurrection can be suppressed this
winter the wealth of Cuba must disappear
The prospect before Cuba is not very reas-
suring-to be saved by Valmaseda or ruined
by the insurgent torch is only choice of
evils But bad as is the destruction of prop
erty involved in the burning of the sugar
estates, it may in the end prove the most
humane policy. 1t will terminate the strug-
gle within a given period; for when the
Spaniards find nothing worth fighting for
they will very soon abandon the struggle to
maintain themselves in Cuba. We doubt
very much whether the twelve thousand
men promised by Valmaseda in return for
the forced loan of eighty thousand dollars
will interfere much with the march of events
even should they ever reach Cuba, which,
although the Spanish government promises
them in September, is still doubtful.
Year: 1875

We have an announcement that comes in
directors of the Western Union and Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph companies have been
In consultation for the purpose of agreeing
upon basis for consolidating the two lines.
This negotiation has been denied and re-
affirmed in every possible shape for the past
few weeks. The public will take little in
terest in the terms of the negotiation, look
ing upon the whole matter as simply stock
jobbing enterprise. The conclusion of this
alliance will virtually bring to an end all
those pleasant dreams of cheap telegraphy
with which the managers of the two lines
amused the public some few months ago. 1t
is impossible not to observe also in this con-
solidation the fact that Jay Gould becomes
prominent influence In our telegraph
system.


Whatever objections there may be to the
government taking the telegraph, and we
are not insensible to them, there is no dam
ger so great as that which threatens it now.
1t is an open secret that the stock gamblers
are preparing to makea demonstration on the
Western Union Telegraph. They have been
gambling with our telegraphs for the last
few months. 1t was to crafty this gambling
instinct that the stock of the main company
was so largely watered as to be far beyond its
real value. Once permit these desperate
spectators, such a man, for instance, as
Jay Gould, who has never put his hand
upon an enterprise he did not blight and
when he retired from the management of
great corporation two or three years ago was
compelled to return millions of dollars
which he had unlawfully appropriated-on
permit this man to take possession of the
telegraph and we have one of the most i'm
portant functions of our modern government
at the mercy of desperate adventurer who
may place any rates he pleases on the tele-
graph and make it so much burden to the
people that the government will be COM
PEELED to buy it from him at his own price.


This whole question of telegraphy and its
relation to the general government must be
settled soon. We have no especial fault to
find with the Western Union. We believe
that it is managed as well as any of our large
public interests. Mr.. Orton, its President,
is capable and honest man who will do
nothing to prejudice the rights of the stock
holders. He has no power over the holders
of the stock nor over the votes they may
choose to cast when they come to another
election. The spectacle of great interest,
an interest that belongs to the people as
much as the Post Office, or the army, or the
navy, lowering on the verge of this Niagara
of bankruptcy and degradation, that abyss
into which the Erie has fallen and to
which it was driven by Jay Gould and
his partners, is not reassuring. If the gov
ernment cannot interfere to protect the
people from one of the gravest possible dan
gers then it fails in one of the elementary
duties of government.
Year: 1875

A contemporary, speaking of the transac-
tions on Wall street recently, says:-'The
market was clearly under the subdued infu-
ence of a long-continued milking process, by
which small percentages are daily and almost
hourly drawn from the pockets of that un-
fortunate class known as outsiders. 1t is
system which begets distrust on the part of
large numbers who have other pursuits, but
who, when trade in their several specialties
is dull, endeavor to while away the weari-
some days and turn an honest penny in Wall
street. This being the class of persons from
which in the main the speculative market
must draw its recruits their general discour-
agement is a permanent and an apparently
irremedial detriment to the commissioned
brokers" This is public announcement
to the effect, namely, that the highway rob-
bers who control Wall street have not been
doing well lately because business travellers
no longer go that way.


This whole Wall street business must some
time or other come to an end. 1t is n sure
sign that the end is approaching when we
have public declaration to the effect that
the banditti complain that business is falling
off because they can find nobody to rob. 1t
shows that honest citizens who have money
to invest, and who would be well enough
pleased to put it into good securities if OPP
Year: 1875

In the hurrying growth of our modern
journalism it takes many shapes. The anx-
iety of the editor to present to the people the
best picture of the world from day to day
leads him to do frequently odd and unusual
things We have read nothing with more
pain than the series of narratives which we
find in the Western papers giving an account
of the life of Robert Dale Owen since his
retirement to an insane asylum, and the
other accounts of the life of Mrs Lincoln,
the wife of the late President, who is now
under restraint because of insanity Mr..
Owen is in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
He has lived long, honorable and useful
life, and, though not without many eccen-
tricities of thought, his is life of one
anxious to benefit his race-a conscientious,
truthful man, amiable, courteous and just


A few weeks since he fell i'll from insanity
and has been secluded in public institution
for the treatment of the insane. Mrs. Lin
coins misfortunes have been known to the
public for many years Ever since the shock
ing death of her husband she has always
seemed to hover upon the verge of insanity


1t was therefore not surprise to the country,
but rather a qualification in some respects,
when it was found necessary to officially
certify to the fact that the blow which
took her husbands life had taken her
own reason. 1t would seem to the ordinary
mind that a man as distinguished as Mr.


Owen, who had held high rank under the
government, and woman as celebrated as
Mrs. Lincoln, with n celebrity almost sacred
when we remember the great man whose life
she shared, would be protected in their sor-
rows from the prurient gaze of the public.
But, on the contrary, we have every few days
narrative of their sayings and doings. We
have elaborate conversations of Mrs Lin
coins about Spiritualism and those strange,
odd fancies which creep into the minds of
persons in this unhappy state. We have Mr..
Ovens hallucination about killing two burg
lars his belief that he is the descendant of
a great Scottish earl, and other evidences of
his wandering mind. The persons who have
charge of Mr.. Owen and Mrs. Lincoln seem
to regard them as spectacles for public news
papers. 1t is a calamity unspeakable and
far-reaching when people of any station of
life, not to speak Of Mr.. Owen and Mrs. Lin
coin, fall under the shadows of so terrible
disease but it is an insult to our humanity
that any truffie-hog, calling himself jour
nalist, should be allowed to publish from
day to day reports of what they may say or
do in their moments of wandering madness.
Year: 1875

1t is rather more than six years since that
little triangular extremity of the City Hall
Park, with its few shade trees and benches
and its fountain, passed out of sight behind q
high board fence, that became filled with the
advertising posters of the period, and now
there stands palace altogether more salts
factory than any Aladdin would have fur
nished us. Aladdin might have been
more economical architect than Mullett, for
it was one of the beauties Of his system that
several universes would not have cost eight
million dollars. He would also have been
more expeditions, and he would have deemed
it a matter of course to have included few
rainbows in his composition, or to have
thrown in their equivalents in some way for
the sake of the urban eye weary with the
collision of stone and dense material gen.
orally; but that the structures of the Oriental
friend of our youth would have been sufi-
ciently substantial to hold up under the
burden of few million tons of mail matter
every year we seriously doubt. Perhaps for
the ordinary structures of plain world the
Mulletts are better architects than the
Aladdins, though they neglect the eye, and
are prosy and plodding in their processes.
Every citizen will rejoice that we have at
last secured so fine an ediice and one that
seems likely to meet SO fully all the require
ments. 1t will always be wonder that we
were so long put off with odds and ends of
edifices and never had decent Post Office
till so late in our history; but it must neces-
sarily be great while before the service will
outgrow the one at last obtained.
Year: 1875

THE SHAKERS. The Mount Lebanon
Shakers held the first meeting this season
yesterday, and in another column we present
a very interesting report for the benefit of
'4he worlds people" These poor dupes be-
lieve they have received new dispensation,
and that Jesus Christ has appeared q second
time, in the form of woman. In other
words, Ann Lee seems to be the Christ of the
Shakers. Their peculiar tenets are set out
in the sermon of Elder Evans which we
print, and It's. .acrimony against all the Chris
tian sects cannot fail to be considered re-
marEable outgrowth of asceticism. 1t is not
surprising that society based on such feeble
notions of religion and duty should be dying
out, and Elder Evans discourse is sufficient
proof that there will be no cause to regret
the extinction Of the doctrines Of Ann Lee.
Year: 1875

portunity offered, keep away from the street
and place their money in other directions
If we look down the list of stocks and shares
which we report from day to day and which
we have been reporting for months past we
find that they represent rotten, suspicious
gambling interests. People look upon Wall
street as given over to thieves and robbers.
If they continue to withhold their patronage
and avoid purchasing any of 1.-The favorite
stocks, !" in time the business must come to
an end. One thing is certain, when the
Wall street banditti do not find outsiders"
to rob they will retire altogether.
Year: 1875

too little credit to abuse, but too much. If the
Ohio infationists drag this topic into their
canvass, let them be put to silence by con-
slant demands to explain how greenback
currency in California would have checked
Mr. Ralston's injudicious speculations or
have saved him from their consequences.


The continued depression of business,
which the recent San Francisco and Balti-
more failures serve to emphasize, will no
doubt operate in favor of the democrats both
in Ohio and elsewhere Prolonged business
stagnation fills the public mind with discon-
tent, and the natural tendency is to wreak 1t
upon the party in power. The democrats
recovered Ohio from the republicans two
years ago because the panic struck the coun-
try in the midst of the canvass. The tidal
wave" last year swelled so high because the
depression of business still continued. The
condition of the country has grown no bet
ter, and the political effect of the hard times
will probably be the same as heretofore. No
real relief can come except through wise
financial policy, and it is to be deplored that
the Ohio democrats, instead of utilizing the
public discomfort to secure vigorous steps
toward a sound currency, are appealing to
popular ignorance and following will-of-
the-wisp which will lead them into bogs and
mire. We are sorry that the Ohio republi-
cans do not see their way to defeat the inda-
ton party without appealing to religious
prejudices and confusing the canvass by
irrelevant issues
Year: 1875

There seems to be some danger that the
struggle between the Turkish government
and its Christian subjects may extend. A
thousand Servians have crossed the from
tier into Herzegovina. BY the unwise,
forcible occupation of convent near
the Bosnian frontier the Turks have
provoked an outbreak just at one of those
points where every effort should have
been made to preserve the peace. The meet
ing of the Servian Skouptchina is also not
without danger, as it is well known to be
radical in its composition. 1t is, however,
difficult to see what advantage Bosnia could
obtain by breaking off its present relations
with the Porte SO small O territory, sur
rounded by powerful States, can only hope
to enjoy nominal independence and the
liberty enjoyed by Bosnia under its present
relations with the Porte is certainly greater
than would be permitted to it if an Austrian
pfotectorate were to be substituted. In all
probability the great Powers will interfere
to restore peace, or, at least, to prevent the
trouble spreading. Neither Russia nor Aus
tria can Just now desire any interference
with the affairs of Turkey 1t is evident
that the disintegration of that Power ap-
proaches rapidly; but the consequent divi-
sion of the spoils would be so certain to pro-
woke general European war that all saga
cious statesmen desire to stave off the sick
mans last hour as long as possible.
Year: 1875

BLAcKwELL's ISLAND is so often the scene
of brutality and cruelty that we are not sur
prised that two of the keepers are to be ar
rested on a charge of murder. The HERALD
has often exposed the wrongs inflicted on
prisoners by the officials, but it is only the
punishment of the guilty which can prevent
the recurrence of outrages like that in the
Stockvis case.
Year: 1875

The HERMANN FEsTrvAL@-The details of
The Hermann festival, concerning which we
had such full reports by cable, now reach us
through the mails. Although telling the
story of the celebration over again, the sub
iect and the ceremonies possess SO much in
terest that our letter this morning will be
read with avidity by all who care for Ger
MANY or Germanys hero.
Year: 1875

THE AMERICAN CONSUL AT TRIPoI1 has gone
away because it is deemed expedient to
avoid unpleasant incidents It is perhaps
expedient that he should not return to his
post, but this is a most remarkable way to
sustain American honor
Year: 1875

A FEARFUL RAILROAD COLLISION has taken
place in England, suggesting an accident
similar to the recent disaster on the South
Side Railroad of Long Island. Now we shall
see what our English cousins are able to do
ahout IL