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Year: 1878

The divorce suit OF Harriet o. against Charles A.
Kittlo, already reported In tho HERALD has been
brought to an unsatisfactory conclusion or rather
conclusion, by q disagreement Of tho jury. It
was found that II was impossible for the
jury TO agree, ana they wore yesterday
morning discharged from the further cons era.
tion OF the case by Judge Larremore. 1t stated
by somo OF the jurors that there were ten OF their
number VINO were sufficiently obstinate to refuse 10
conform TO the views ol tho other two Tho ten wero
In avor Of verdict tor the wife, while the other
favorable to the OF the husband This In
wolves the reral OF tho cause unless tho parties shall
be more successful IN rcconcng their differences than
Wero The Jurors.
Year: 1878

The Turks of Constantinople are
enjoying the luXuary of a superabun-
dance of fiat money, which a week
ago was worth one,third of its par
value, and has since been declining
at the rate of one per cent. per day.
AS the Government no longer re-
ceives it in payment of tithes or
taxes. it is all flowing into the city,
and will soon be held at its actual
value-the price of old paper. A
commission has been appointed to
devise some measures to obviate the
trouble that may be expected to flow
from too much paper money.
Year: 1878

From all parts of the country re-
ports come of the immense sales and
increasing demand for that deserv-
ingly popular Sewing Machine, The
Old and Reliable STANDARD" the
price of which the proprietors wisely
reduced to $50, including all the at
tachments, and at once secured for
them a popularity among the peo-
pie, far beyond that ever yet attain
ed by any other machine at any
price, the consequence of which is,
agents are leaving the old high priced
machines, and seeking territory for
the STANDARD" Knowing from
experience that with the best goods
at the lowest price they can outsell
all other Machines, where the supe-
ior quality and low price Is made
known. This splendid Machine
combines all the improvements. Is
far ahead of all others in beauty and
durability of its work, ease of man
agement, light running and certainty
of operation, is sensibly made upon
oOuilu Pl iiN PlCot WIN POCiOlNG "Oi IA
ing parts all steel, and can be safely
put down as the very perfection of
Serviceable Sewing Machine, in
every particular, that will outlast
any Machine, and at price far down
below any other. 1t is thoroughly
warranted for five years. Kept in
orderfree of charge. And sent to any
part Of the Country for examination
by the customer before payment Of
the bill. We can predict equally as
large demand for them in this
section as in others. Families desir-
ing the best Machine manufactured
should write direct to the Factory.


And enterprising persons wishing to
seize the chance should apply for so
desirable an agency. See advertise


ment in another part of this paper.


Address, Standard Machine Co., Cor,


Broadway and Clinton Place, New
York,
Year: 1878

life or death both crews were ac.
tive and strong, and both knew
every point of the river. They had
emptied their pistols and now lay
to their oars, the boats fairly Ay-
ing through the water they had
almost reached the dock of the Erie
railroad when a man in the stern
stood up, and, hourishing his pistol,
swore he had one shot left for any
one who should attempt to board
them. Capt.. Jim Grey stood on the
bow Of the police-boat with boat
hook in his hand, ready to grapple,
when, suddenly giving sweeping
blow as he came within striking
distance, he knocked the river pirate
into the water, and with a wild cry
he sank like a stone, and the dark
waters Of the river closed over him.
The mate Of the s'Ocean King
fingered for months between Life
and death; he recovered however
and is now, I believe, in command
of fine East Indiaman.


Mr.. Lord has turned up all safe
and sound, and the letters he shows
from his loving sons and daughters
reveal a state which can make US
readily appreciate the petition of
the philosopher who said, give me
neither poverty nor riches. ADutch-
man was taken up for an attempted
outrage on a Lady from Boston, but,
on Investigation, though the Dutch
man was found not to be a model
Of Christian morality, the lady her
self was found to be little on the
queer, so that it is possible Dutchy
may escape. d. .s-...
Winter has rolled in upon US
with a vengeance, and we are blest
with the first regular snow-storm Of
the season. On Thursday it seemed
as if the wire cables of our big
bridge were going to snap asunder
those mighty ropes of steel which
are now twelve inches through re-
volved about Ike skipping-rope;
in tie height Of the storm some
sailors went out in their little
swinging cradles and lashed the
cables together. It was terrible
as well as a difficult feat, and thou
sands looked on with bated breath
while they performed their perilous
task. Two whole families were
swept into the sea during the dread
| full storm Of Thursday night, and
| when the fathers, who were watch
men at Manhattan Beach, returned
not a solitary vestige of home, wife,
or children remained, the dreadful
| sea had swallowed them up.


Our Excise Commission have been
kicked out or cleared out and no.
body puts Grape on his hat. The
outdoor relief in Brooklyn has been
stopped, and the people only dis
covered last week that the Charities
Commission has been robbing the
city of between four and five hun
dred thousand a year to maintain
an army Of able-bodied paupers,
who would do their election fight
ing and repeating.


Several more failures general
business depression lots Of tramps
as we used to say in the army,
e..woods are full of them.


Yours truly,


BROADBRIM.
Year: 1878

During the administration of Jeffer-
son, Alexander Hamilton was killed IN
q duel by Aaron Burr. His son, John
e. Hamilton, gives to a correspondent
of .he Philadelphia Times this pathetic
incident of his father:


THE day before the duel was sit
ting in a room, when, at a slight noise,
l turned around and saw my father in
the doorway, standing silent there and
locking at me with most sweet and
beautiful expression OF courtenance. 1t
was full Of tenderness and without any
of the business pre- occupation he some
times had.


John he said, when had dis
covered him, won't you come and sleep
with me to-nights'


"IIis veice was frank, as if he had
been my brother instead Of my father.
That night went to his bed, and in
the morning very early he awakened
me, and taking my hands in his palms,
all four hands extended, he said, and
told me to repeat, the Lords Prayer.
Seventy-fve years have since passed
ever my head and l have forgotten
many things, but net that tender ex-
preston when he stood looking at me
through the door, nor the prayer we
made together the morning before the
duel"
Year: 1878




One handful of hay is not much. nor,
for the matter Of that, are twenty hand
fuls the saving or wasting of so much
would neither make nor brelk a man.
But with twenty head Of cattle to feed
twice or thrice day, the saving of a
handful apiece, every time, wosld
amount to something before the pastures
are green again upon our frost-bttcn
hills, DO you ever think oft: We are
not limiting at stinting the cattle.
But how many of us allow animals to
waste handful each at every feed, for
want Of little attention to feeding ar
rangements? How many head of stock
on our northern farms require a hand
ful more Of hay at every iced to keep
up the animal heat, than they would re-
quire ftheir stables had all the cracks
stopped, that let in the cold winds of
winter


A handful of manure is but a trihe ;
yet the addition Of single handful in a
hill of corn may make the difference be-
tween long, full ears and stinted aub-
bins, when the harvest comes. How
many handfuls Of manure are going to
waste every day about our yards and
buildings? Could you not save half a
bushel day, by being careful? And
the liquid manure-is there not enough
lost every day to make a good many
long ears where we shall probably find
enly nubbins nextfall?


Handfuls ofhay handfuls ofmanure
these are small matters, say yog?
Yet upon just such small matters de-
pends many a mans success or failure
in life. Here is one man that attends
TO them carefully, and at the end of
twenty or thirty years he has COM
potency for old age anothey neglects
them as beneath his notice, and is al
ways behind hand he lives and dies
short in pocket and short in comfort.
We do not preach niggardliness it is
by saying when we may that we pre-.
pare ourselves to be liberal when we
will. Save the handfulsl
Year: 1878

In.one of the towns Of England there
is a beautiful little chapel, and very
touching little story is told in connec-
ton with it. 1t was built by an iniidel.
He had praying wife, but he would
not listen to her; would not allow her
pastor even TO take dinner with them,
would not look at the Bible, would not
GLOW religion to be talked of. She
made up her mind. seeing that she could
not influence him by her voice, that
every day she would pray TO God at
twelve o'clock for his salvation. She
said nothing to him, but every day at
that hour she told the Lord about her
husband. At the end OF twelve months
there was no change in him. But she
did not give him up. Six months more
went past. Her faith began to waYer
and she said, well haYe to give him
up at last? Perhaps when l am dead,
He will answer my prayers" When
she had got to that point, it seemed
just if God had got her where he wanted
her. The man came home to dinner
one day. His wife was in the dining
room waiting for him, but he didn't
come in. She waited some time. and
finally looked for him all through the
house. At last she thought Of going
into the little room where she had pray
ed so often. There he was praying at
the same bed with agony, where she
had prayed for SO many months asking
forgiveness for his sins. And this is a
lesson to you wives who have infdel
husbands. The Lord saw that woman's
faith and answered her prayers.
Year: 1878

A little girl who was somewhat out o.
serts but whose exact allment no one
had been able to discover amended her
evening prayer Of God bless papa and
mamma by adding and cure me il
there's anything The matter with me.
Year: 1878

A North Carolina editor declares that
the man who will read a newspaper
three or four years without paying for It
will pasture a goat on the grave Of his
grandfather That editor knows
whereof he speaks
Year: 1878

Julius Moser gives the following
counsel from a wife and mother:


II try to make myself and all around
me agreeable. 1t will not do 10 leave
a man to himself till he comes to you !;
to take no pains to attract him, or to
appear before him with long face
1t is not so difficult as you think, dear
child, to behave to a husband SO that
he shall remain forever in some meas
ure husband. l am an old woman,
but you can still do what you like
word from you at the right time will
not fail Of its effect; what need have
you to play the suffering virtue' The
tear of loving girl. said an old book,
is like dewdrop to a rose but that on
the cheek of the wife is drop Of poison
to the husband. Try to appear cheer.
full and contented, and your husband
will be so, and when you have made
him happy you will become so-not in
appearance, but in reality. The skill
required isnot SO great. Nothing fiat
ters a man so mitch as the happiness
of his wife he is always proud Of him
self as the source of it. AS soon as
you are cheerful he will be lively and
alert, and every moment will afford you
an opportunity to let fall an agreeable
word. Your education, which gives
you an immense advantage, will great
ly assist you, and your sensibillty will
become the noblest gift that nature has
bestowed on you. when it shows itself
in affectionate assiduty, and stamps on
every action soft, kind and tender
character, instead Of wasting itself in
secret replnlngs.
Year: 1878

He liveth long who liyeth we'll;


All else is life but flung away.
He 'iyeth longest who can tell


OF true things truly done each day.
Then fill each day with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above when this is past


IL the ripe fruit Of life below.
Year: 1878

The most common error Of men and
women is that oflooking for happiness
outside of fusual work. 1t has never yet
been found when thus sought, and
never will be while the world stands {;
and the sooner the truth is learned,
the better for every one. Ifyon doubt
the proposition, 90 around among your
friends and acqualntances and select
those who have the most enjoyment
through life. Are they the idlers and
pleasure-seekers, or the earnest work.
ers? We know what your answer will
be. Of the miserable human beings 1t
has been our fortune or misfortune to
know, those were the most wretched
who had retired from useful employ
meut in order to enjoy themselves.
Year: 1878

They met amid the gazing crowd,


when careless eyes were on the two;
Her soul with hopeless grief was bowed,
Yet, to warning instinct true,
She met unmoved his pleading eyes,


He took her hand and let it fall
A word, and she had passed him by.


To those around them that was all.
II did not seem litter task


To meet so cslmly-these who had
Been lovers once; yet meath the mask
Each longing heart beat chill and sad,
Divided thus; apart they go


Who, Joined, had known most perfect bliss
Ah Life hath many cruel woe,


But none mere hard to bear than this
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


I landed from the steamer Spain last Sunday. and
while attending to the porerage Of several pieces Of
luggage was suddenly "button-holed'' by Custom
House official with. what have you got wrapped up
there p alluding to ulster coast and sword
which carried lin its leather easel my arm. The
folds of the ulster happened to cover up the sword
case; promptly laying it open. and observing ut
the same time that there nothing in it, dis
played the hlt in which 1t of possible to
conceal ut most silk handkerchief and pair or two
OF gloves. This, however. did not satisfy my man.
who demanded that should ''pull it out" that he
might have look at it." Now triing all this may
appear it is simply disgraceful. in my humble opin-
ion. that passengers should be subjected to such
petty annoyance. did not for moment doubt the
man perfect right to do what he did, but the point
is this: he did not appear any more surprised than
the bystanders ut not being able to discover several
hundred dollars worth of goods concealed between
sword scabbard and its tightftting leather but.
on the contrary to regard the matter the merest
joke. Doubtless before long hat bands and trouser
legs will be carefully felt boots socks and collars re-
moved, rug straps fercely seized, that the Custom
House underlngs may ''have look at them, while
the glaring farce of passing large trunks &C. con-
tinues per usual. GOPUS.
Year: 1878

During the election times Of 1874 John r. Fellows
asked John B. Haskin to assist him in raising ST. 2OO
saying that he had promise of the position Of Assist
ant District Attorney and could pay back the amount
after the election. Mr.. Haskn agreed to ndorse
note for that amount. and the Continental Bank
agreed to discount 1t in favor Of Fellows. The note
was sent to Mr.. Haskn by mail. and by mistake he
signed instead Of indorsing it. and returned 1t to
Fellows. In that shape it discounted by the
bank. On discovering his mistake Mr.. Haskin went
to the bank but there told the note had already
been passed to the credit OF Fellows but under the
circumstances, they agreed to treat Mr.. Has
kin as an indorser and give him notice
rs such. The note was not paid, and there have
been three renewals since, the last Of which the
Continental Bank haS brought suit against Mr.. Has
kin as maker. The case came before Judge Donohue,
IN supreme Court Circuit, yesterday for trial. when
Mr. Haskn set up the defence that under the agree
ment with the bank he to be considered an in
dorser, but had never received notice such. The
fact OF renewals having been stated in counsel's
opening for Mr.. Haskin, the Judge was
about to order judgment for the plaintiff,
when the additional fact stated that the
renewals were given on the same conditions the
original AS to this state Of facts the Court allowed
Mr.. Haskin to testify, when he told substantially


the foregoing story. but to the agreement extend
ing to the renewals he could speak more definitely
than that such his understanding, although he
had not any of the officers OF the bank on the
subject after the first occasion The Court ordered
Judgment in favor of the bank for the full amount
claimed.
Year: 1878

Judge Speir In the Superior Court yesterday rem
dered judgment in the suit of Maria H. Whitney
against MARITIME and Others the decision being Of
considerable Importance to real estate agents and
others. 1t seems that time ago Theodore
MARITIME. now deceased. was employed by Mrs. Whit
ney as her agent to invest for her $4,000 on bond and
mortgage MARITIME, ST.. before his DEATH turned the
matter over to his son, who invested the money in
two mortgages tenement houses in East Seven
teenth street. the being subject to two prior
mortgages for $4,000. which last two mentioned
mortgages had at the time three years yet
70 run. The prior mortgages were finally fore
closed, and upon the sale there was deficiency Of
$1,000 thus making the plaintiffs mortgages entirely
worthless. She brought suit against the executors Of
MARITIME. ST. to recover the amount of the loss. The
defence that the plaintiff had examined the prop
erty was perfectly of the existence of the prior
mortgages and approved the investment. Judge
Speir before whom the tried in his decision
rendered yesterday holds that the evidence showed
that the plaintiff had never the promises and did
not know the character of her mortgages until after
the same had been executed and returned to her. He
says that 1t cannot be prudent to advance moneys
upon mortgages when there are prior ones exist
Ing He adds further that without promis-
ing to make first class Investment in
words the defendant bound to make
good and proper investment He cannot be per-
mitted to take the risk always attending q second
mortgage and expose the plaintiff to the peril of los
Ing her money, unless with her consent and knowing
that she was provided with or could command the
means OF controlling the large sum of $4,000, in
der to protect her $G000 the assumption that
the property worth the amount of both sums.


It Is not necessary he adds, that the defendant be
guilty OF active fraud in order to maintain the action
against him for neglecting to perform the duty he
had undertaken when he made the investment. The
relations between the parties he concludes, Of
hduciary character and largely imposed confidence
and good faith in the discharge the duties assumed
and should not be handed to another to be per-
Iormed. Judge Speir accordingly gives Judgment
Tor the Dlaintiff.
Year: 1878

New YORK. Nov. 20. 1S7S
To THE EDITOR OF THE HEnALD:-


Can you can any one inform me why rents con-
tinue so high while rooms and board are so cheap
and apparently plenty? There in this city hun
dreds Of poor women who acting agents merely
for landlords. giving them every cent they poss
bly, and deprivng themselves of the necessities
of life in order pay the exorbiant rents demanded
few years ago a decent living could be obtained by
taking dodgers or boarders Rooms brought twice as
much they do now and yet rents remain the same
as formerly. And again, most OF the houses adver-
tised as completely and elegantly furnished, con-
tain only old fashioned, shabby furniture-carpets
worn, moth eaten and filthy; beds and bedding
that have been used for the last half CEN
tury. Private families wishing to move up
town or to go abroad to make money
put their houses and old furniture, fit only to be
burned. into the market advertising them as above
and asking for them twice as much as they are worth
People take them because they think they do
nothing better. put what money they have in them
struggle along for short time, and are finally
obliged to leave them. l can understand how Hats
lessen the demand for rooms but cannot understand
why rents should remain 80 high. have house in
desirable location. every room OF which is taken
land very seldom have unoccupied room ut fair
price, but every month am obliged to pay from $50
to 500 from my private income, and wonder what
those poor women do who have no private income
women with tired haggard faces, clothed in DID,
garments, whom meets in almost every ''con-
rooms and board advertised. Would it not be
well tenants to cooperate for protection against
the selfish and exorbitant demands Of landlorlsy


JUSTICE.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


As the HERALD has always been the workingman's s
advocate hope you will do something for the
drivers Of the Beecker street and street
railroad We have to work from fifteen to seventeen
hours q day and what is harder on STILL we
not allowed time to eat meals except what over
time make II man is so unlucky US to get
blocked down town. as happens every day, he has
to go the entire day without even drink of water.


A DRIVER.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


The residents OF Prospect place and of East Forty
first street, between First and Second avenues wish
to complain Of the nattention displayed by the Street
Cleaning Department to this portion Of the city It
has been unswept since the 1st Of April and probably
much longer. The garbage remains standing in
barrels day after day. RESIDENT
Year: 1878

To THE EpIToR HERALp:-


In justice to myself and number of stand holders
in Washington Market cannot maintain silence in
relation to stands the sidewalk contiguous to
the market. We pay high rent for stand fees. and
yet those outside enjoy the privilege for almost
nothing. KY.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD-


The grocery store at the corner OF Lewis and
Broome streets has three to four cellar DOORS which
are constantly open. On Saturday evening last a
lady fell the entire distance Of twelve stone steps into
the cellar and broke her Is there law to pro-
tect the lives OF passers by? L. NJ.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Please call the attention of the Harlem police to the
gang OF unruly boys who congreeate in open lots be-
tween Fifth and Sixth avenues in 12Gth street Some
Of them children of respectable people in the
vicinity They insult ladies and gentlemen, boldly
take our ash barrels and make fires of them


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