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Year: 1877

Men may sign the pledge, and with
out religion may perscvcrc in the path
OF temperance, but to make the reform
alton sure thing, they must be created
anew in Christ Jesus. Then they are
safe. was happy, the other dav. to
find that the result of Mr.. Moodv's large
experience and extensive observation is
that in his mind. Christ in the heart i,
the salvation of the inebriatc. or
course we rejoice to have other means
to save men from intcmpcrancc. but we
have little faith in any remedy but
Christ crucified. While that earnest
5l' brother was urging Christians to this
ing of the grounds of our confidence in
the sovereign remedy. | found it in
John iv:13, II where it is recorded OF
Jesus that he "said unto her, whosoevcr
drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
but whosoevcr drinketh of the water
that shall give him, shall never thirst:
but the water that shall give him shall
be in him well of water springing III
into everlasting life." With this we'll
of living water in the soul, what does a
man want of rum? Water, such as the
people drew from Jacobs well, might
not quarrel with whiskey. Men who
drink either water or whiskey thirst
again and often, but they who drink OF
the living water Christ offers never
need any more-they never thirst again.
The soul-craving is met and forever.
This water that Christ gives takes away
the fearful appetite for strong drink, or
what amounts to about the same thing,
imparts power to control it. The sight,
the scent, the thought of rum may dry
the palate and awaken some thirst, but
the water in the soul moistens il imme-
diately, and the awful temptation is re-
sisted. The man who undertakes TO re-
form without this living water in the
soul is always liable to fall. If he does
refuse the cup, while the result is in
many respects happy, it does not save
him from death. 1t is better to perish
Il temperate man rather than drum
kard, but why perish when there is no
need of it? Why not live forever, a
good and noble man? Beloved friend,
you have tried to reform by your own
strength. Your trust has been in the
pledge. Now try Jesus our Savior.
Test his power.-[ Vermont Chronicle.
Year: 1877

The supreme court of Georgia has
decided in the case of a murderer that
'to be too drunk TO form the intent to
kill he must be too drunk to form the
intent TO shoot" This decision will moi
be welcome TO those criminals who
steep themselves with liquor whenever
they wish TO do some dastarlly deed.
Year: 1877

A Shore Line engineer informs oor-
respondent of tho Madlsonville, KY,
Times that young man with his head
out at the car window went to kiss his
his grandmother good bye, and the train
pulled ont so fast that he kissed an old
negro woman at the next station,
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o.-An effort la
being made by some Western Demo-
Gratis to charge their Southern brethren
with perfldy and with selling out the
Democratic party to save themselves,
but On analysis OF the votes, and the
speeches In caucus last night, shows
that q geater proportion OF Northern
and Eastern Democrats than Of South
erners spoke and voted against the dila-
tory tactics. The Southern Democrats
did not talk SO freely as the Northern
and Eastern men, but when the vote
was reached, q majority of them were
iii favor OF the utmost limit Of delay
within the scope OF law, whereas O ma
iority Of the Democrats from the New
England and the Middle States favored
proceeding with the count. BUELL..
Year: 1877

Especial To the N. O. Democrat


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o.--A prominent
New York Democrat has just informed
your correspondent that Mr.. Tilden,
although very guarded In his express
sions, IL averse to the policy Of delay,
and believes that the appeal of the
Democratic party from the Tribunal to
the country should be taken tn anothe r
form. lie intimated that some time in
May Mr.. Tilden would test the Supreme
Court, on the question OF juris-
dietion In the matter OF u quo
aearranto directed to Hayes, In
order to put the entire court upon
record as the five judges on the Tribu-
nal have been. III the court decides to
take jurisdiction, tho next step will be
proceeding to cite Hayes to show
cause why he should not vacate the
presidential Office, which, Ii sustained
by the court, would open case for the
introduction of evidence; in short, to
take an appeal from the Tribunal to
the full bench Of the court. This ap-
peal will involve construction by the
court OF the electoral vote, and will
raise the question whether the decision
to exclude evidence was In proper con.
struction OF the bill itself and OF the con.
stitution. The case In any or ell OF its
stages will place the question OF sus.
tanning or reversing the action Of the
Tribunal fairly before the full bench OF
the Supreme Court. BUELL..
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o.-Kellogg is
really q pitiable object here. in these
days. He goes about the streets dejec-
ted and downeast, with defeat newt
able, and with bankruptcy staring him
in the face. He is absolutely without
friends In either party, for since the
President snubbed him so numerically
even his fellow cagpet-baggers who are
still In power pass him by. on the other
side of the street. He will be able to
pay his hotel bills, but would probably
have to walk home, IL he had any home
to walk to-. His way is the way OF the
francressor. BUELL..
Year: 1877

lieye that these bonds would be take n
up, and possibly by


SENATOR JONES, OF NEVADA.


Had he any assurance that this
American Cr9sus would enter into the
scheme? Mr.. Pilsbury said he thought
SO from the conversation he had had
with Mr.. MCMILLAN, Senator Jones
engineer and agent. Senator Jones
had lots OF money and was doubtless
ready to invest it profitably wherever
he found an opportunity to do so. Be-
sides, the bill provided that the capital
stock OF the company could be increased
one million dollars II necessary, which
would give the company, together with
the original capital and the realization
on the two millions of dollars of bond,
q capital Of five millions of dollars.
During the interview Mr.. Pilsbury
said also that such of the Waterworks
bondholders who may have converted
their bonds into premium bonds would
| be permitted to subscribe to the capital
stock to the extent OF


THE BONDS CONVERTED.


Judging from the expressions OF the
Mayor he has no definite assurances
from any person or persona that they
will enter into the new corporation
but he has made the bill as attractive
as he could possibly make 1t, In order
that it might be availed OF by capitalists
as early as possible.


The stock OF the city, which will
amount, as stated above, TO over eleven
hundred thousand dollars, it Is pro.
Year: 1877

The fcklsnesE of fortune Is sadly IL
lustrated in the case of JOHN STONE
PULLes, who few years ago was q
wealthy sugar merchant At New Or
leans. When the war broke out he
loaned the Confederate government two
hundred thousand dollars, and was
colonel in the army. Yesterday he died
in g wretched tenement house in Brook
Ign, end Was buried by the charity of his
poor fellow tenants.
Year: 1877

The numbe, OF deaths IN this city for
the month of June is officially reported
TO be SO. For the same month last year
the number was u The difference in
the temperature this June and last un-
doubtedly had something to do with it
Year: 1877

SEVERAL of our merchants give notice
to their customers that hereafter they
will exact quarterly settlements instead
of semi. annual as heretofore. The ten
dency of the times is to u more restricted
credit, which adds to the heslthtulncss
of trade.
Year: 1877

Sergeant Theron Thompson, of the 'best
police in the world" underwent an examina-
ton yesterday at the Tombs Police Court on
the charge Of assaulting Michael Cannon.


The evidence was quite direct and strong
enough to satisfy the Court that case of
unnecessary and reprehensible violence and
brutality had been made out against the
sergeant, and Judge Kilbreth held him to
bail in five hundred dollars to answer in the
Court of General Sessions. number OF
reputable gentlemen who had witnessed the
assault testified to its wanton and rufianly
character, while the sergeants witnesses
were the driver and conductor Of the car
from which Cannon was elected, and SOME
persons who swore that they Ibid not see"
the officer strike the complainant. 1t is to
Year: 1877

be hoped that the Police Board will at once
take up the matter, and that the punish
ment of the offender will be swift and
decisive. Such man is unfit to be guar
dian of the peace.


Too much praise cannot be accorded to
Mr.. W. S. Andrews, who Witnessed the as
sault, and through whose perseverance and
energy the matter has been prosecuted.
But for his creditable and humane action
the brutal officer would have escaped and
the victim would have had no redress or
satisfaction. If every gentleman who wit
nesses the commission of an assault or
any outrage in the public streets would take
the pains that Mr.. Andrews has taken to
see justice done we should have less such
exhibitions as that made by Sergeant
Thompson. Half such ruffianism escapes
punishment only because the victims are
too poor or obscure to prosecute success
fully, or have not time to appeal to the law.
We hope that Mr. Andrews will hereafter
have plenty of imitators.
Year: 1877

As between Russia and Turkey the lapse
of negotiations on the part of the several
Powers seems to be- interpreted as the fail
ure Of the peacemakers, and great and ener-
getic preparations for immediate war now
fill that place in public attention which was
lately filled with the notes Of the govern
ments and the projects of the Conference.
Russia, judging by the news we have pub
lished direct from the camp at Kishenef
is prepared to overwhelm her adversary.
She is ready to cross the Pruth at any mo-
ment with an army of two hundred thou
sand men, and perhaps only awaits the
season of settled weather. Behind this first
army will, Of course, follow another of equal
proportions at such delay only as the pos
sible resistance to be encountered by the
first line may make necessary. In
addition to the movement of this force in
Europe she will undoubtedly move IN
army from the Caucasus into Armenia, oc-
cupying Erzeroum and Trebizond, and
thus extending her limits on the Black Sea
coast and securing sort of back door way
to Constantinople Against all this there is
no probability that the Porte can oppose an
effective resistance. Turkey is ablaze with
IN enthusiastic war spirit, which will
strengthen the government in the degree to
which it can be kept within limits This is
IN awkward condition to be imposed upon
heroic frenzy. How can wild warriors from
ASIA whose very cohesion as q force and
whose impulse in battle depends upon
kind of passionate faith in the
Justice of their cause, be requested to
moderate their frenzy without destroying
their value as troops? All the advantage
the Sultan's government derived from the
fanatical courage Of it's soldiery in the war
with Servia was far more than countervailed
by the harm that came to it through the ex-
cesses they committed excesses which
were as much part Of their enthusiasm as
was their courage in battle. Turkey cannot
meet Russia without a repetition Of the
crimes that have already excited Europe
against her. But this time they will be
wasted butcheries. They will not arrest the
march Of the Russians, they will only make
it more impossible for Turkey to obtain
allies. Thus the armies of the Gear will be
left to solve those problems which the Con-
ference failed to solve through the insane
obstinacy of the Moslems.
Year: 1877

The New Jersey Central Scandal.


The history of railroad enterprises in any
country does not contain a more disgraceful
instance of prolonged and deliberate decep-
ton pursued by the management toward
confding stockholders than that presented
by the investigation of the affairs of the
New Jersey Central Railroad. We print to-
day, with other matter relating to this
case, the report of q committee appointed by
the deceived and outraged stockholders
which pictures q condition of things un-
paralleled in confusion and almost irreme-
diably disastrous. During the past seven
wears it has been the custom Of the managers
of the road to issue rose-colored reports of
it's prosperity, and to SO arrange the ac-
counts as to exhibit most satisfactory
profits and grounds for public confidence.
No allowance was made in these reports of
assets for any losses by wear and tear in the
company's rolling stock or other property.
The values at first quoted were main
tanned throughout for the purpose of SWELL
ing the total to the highest figures. The
actual losses sustained in the operation Of
Tie rOdu were COuCcdlcu ny CHaIbluS tHciu
to collateral interests and by placing them
in accounts specially prepared for purposes
of deception. In word, the highest arts
of swindliig were put in practice in order
to float the concern and plunder innocent
parties-widows, orphans, guardians and
others-of their investments in its stock by
giving it fictitious value on the market
and thus entrapping victims. We fear that
the New Jersey Central is not the only rail-
road and coal company that needs investi-
cation.


If Jersey justice, of which we have heard
so.much, has anything but its name to win
it respect and can reach the rich and power
full railroad swindler as it does the poor
and helpless criminal of a meaner type,
then we desire to see it's powers exercised
in this case. We care not who the plunder-
ers may be- Whether railroad manager or
| burglar he must be meted out the punish
ment his crimes deserve If it becomes
an established rule that criminals such as
the falsifiers of the accounts of the New
Jersey Central Railroad can pursue their
rascality with impunity and escape with
their spoils unwhipped Of justice then a
blow will be struck at every enterprise and
| credit in the country.
Year: 1877

The two men who were sentenced 20 ole
on the scaffold in Jersey yesterday are
now out of the world. One expired in his
cell on the morning fixed for his execution,
and few hours later the other met his
death by strangulation. There was the
usual accompaniment Of horrors at
Oschwald's hanging Nevertheless the
death scene in the cell. with the poisoned
man first made q drunken maniac by
liquor and then stupeded by drugs, was
probably the more revolving of the two ex-
hibitions


Now that the men are dead the doubt OF
their guilt which induced the Legislature OF
the State TO attempt to stay their execution
will be revived, both by the persistent dec
laration of innocence made by each with his
dying breath and by singular letter-a fac
simile of which we publish to-day. This
letter reaches US without signature, yet
bearing about it, we think, some evidence
of genuineness. The writer purports to
be q woman, and to possess the secret
which would have cleared Ryan and
Oschwald and fixed the murder of
Officer Brock on another person. The let
ter may be hoax for there, unfortunately,
are persons unfeeling enough to jest even
on so sad and serious o subject. The
woman protests the innocence of the con-
making known the truth. There are
enough instances on record of the convic-
ton of the wrong person for murder
through the force Of circumstantial evil
dence to show that the present case, if the
letter should be genuine one and speak
the truth, would not be without
precedent. Not long since a dying
felon in an English jail confessed that he
was one of two men who had committed a
murder for which an innocent person had
been executed. A married man had become
enamored Of girl and paid court to her,
processing to be single. When leaving her
fathers house after visit he induced the
girl to accompany him some distance on the
road subsequently her body was found in
q canal in the neighborhood, and an exami-
ton proved that she had been feloniously
assaulted and then killed. Her lover was



having been with her at all, but several
witnesses had seen the two together in the
immediate vicinity of the outrage and mur-
der. Then he shifted his defence, admitted
that he had taken her into the woods but
asserted that he had been interrupted by
two men who came, attracted by her cries,
that he had thereupon escaped, and had
never seen her since. The jury found him
guilty, and he suffered death on the gallows
protesting his innocence to the last. The
dying confession of the real murderer years
after confirmed the story.


There are other instances to show how JUS
tice may sometimes go astray and strangle
the wrong man to death for murder. The
question "were Ryan and Oschwald guilty."
will be frequently heard and their dying
asseverations of innocence will give point to
the inquiry.
Year: 1877

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The market was
dull, with irregularity in the prices of leading
stocks during the day. There was an advance in
the closing prices except in few stocks, notably
New Jersey Central and Morris and Essex. Gov
eminent stocks were strong, while railroad bonds
were mostly firm. Money on call was easy at
Gig and Dig per cent, the last prices being gig
and 3. Gold was firm at 1853.
Year: 1877

The FATAL MISTAKE Of the Philadelphia
druggist should at least have good effect upon
the bill now before tho New York Legislature
providing for an Improvement in the personnel
of prescription clerks.
Year: 1877

Midhat Pacha is reported to have remon-


strated with the Marquis of Salisbury on


the folly of Europe's continuing to annoy


Turkey on the subject of reform, and to


have limited at the possible danger to Europe


of this unreasonable, not to say impertinent,


conduct. AS Grand vizier, possessed OF


the capacity to put the case of his country


before the world in new light, Midhat is


success. Hitherto it has been thought rather


folly that Turkey should continue to
annoy Europe. There have been times when


it has even seemed certain that if the


nations of Europe could, for day or two,


so far disregard their mutual appre-


tensions as to agree upon common
course of action toward the Otto
man Empire it would thereupon become


extremely dangerous for Turkey to in
dulge herself in the aforesaid folly. But


behold Six first class Powers all assembled
by their representatives in the Sultan's
capital the most imposing council of Dip
lomatic medicine men lately assembled in
any city is there, and every individual State
is in full agreement with every other as to
the demands to be made upon Turkey. But,
Turkey bluntly tells them that their de-
mands are all nonsense that they had bet
ter clear away with themselves and cease to
annoy her, and that if they do not it may be
the worse for them. In this situation there
is such an effect of farcical solemnity as one
might conceive if corpse should sit up and
discuss with a coroner jury the propriety of
the jury's presence in his house.


1t is the present policy of the Turkish
government to demand the relegatIon of all
the negotiations to the ground of the An
drassy note; to reject entirely the recon-
mendations which Europe has agreed to
make to nullify the labors of the Con-
ference actually in session, and to propose
the initiation Of new series Of intermina-
BILE deliberations, starting with the innocu-
GUS generalities laid down by the Austrian
Premier This is not an unnatural course
in the circumstances. Ottoman authorities
might well prefer to start a negotiation on
their own affairs at any other point than one
upon which all the great States of Europe
are in agreement But it is hardly to be
thought that the Powers represented at
the Conference will look upon themselves as
merely in the drift of Turkish whims, and
the important question of the hour is as to
what action they will take if the Conference
without the accomplishment of any
purpose. It would seem as if they had
already gone too far to recede now They
have undertaken to settle, from deliberate
view of the danger of Europe and the ne
cessity of the preservation of peace, some
important points of the relations of the
Sultan to his subjects, and regard to their
own dignity must prevent their permitting
a case they have thus taken up to slip
through their fingers without any settlement
whatever.
Year: 1877

In the past season three hundred and
sixty three vessels arrived at this port from
ports at which yellow fever was prevalent,
and on ninety -nino of these there were cases
of this malady. But there was no inter-
ruption to our trade with those ports-it
was greatly increased with some of them
vet no cases of the fever occurred in this
city save such as came by rail from infected
cities in the South This good result was
due to arrangements which may be re-
garded as the application to the case of
common sense rather than medical science.
BY the provision that vessels from such
cities should not carry passengers the
sources of difficulty were reduced to those
of cargo and crew; and as crews can be dealt
with far more freely than passengers can
the really principal need was an effective
system Of desinfection. which appears to
Year: 1877

It would be unreasonable to expect the
Police Commissioners, who control the
Street Cleaning Bureau, to keep all the
streets Of the city clean and free from OBJ
structions when we are visited by such q fall
of snow as that of last week. At such an
exceptional time the first necessity is to
clear the railroad tracks, as the immense
body Of travel cannot be stopped without
suspending all the business of the city.
People must 60 to their stores, their places
of employment and their labor, and even
the unavoidable delay caused by slow trips
occasions serious inconvenience. The rail-
roads cannot clear their tracks speedily
after heavy storm without piling the snow
in banks at the sides of the tracks, and even
if they should be compelled by legislation
to remove these heaps subsequently some
time would necessarily elapse before the
work could be done. At present the rail-
road companies are under no such
obligation, and the snow banks they
raise are left for the street cleaning authori-
ties or the thaw and the sun to dispose Of
1t would take an army of employees and a
vast sum of money to gather up and cart
away all the snow and ice in the city at such
q time, and these the authorities cannot COM
mand Still, with the force and the means
at their disposal, the Police Commissioners
can do something for the relief of the pub
lie, and the complaint is that for the last
week they have done nothing


President Smith, in letter to the Mayor,
sets forth the difficulties under which the
Street Cleaning Bureau labors, but he adj
vances some which do not exist AS the
Corporation Counsel and the Board of APP
portionment have decided that the appro-
priation for street cleaning for the present
year is available for the expense of remov-
ing the existing distractions of ice and
snow there can be no good rea-
son why the Police Commissioners
should hesitate to use the money for that
purpose. They can at least apply as much
of the fund as will clear the principal
avenues and relieve some Of the main busi-
ness thoroughfares. This they should do ut
once, and on their own responsibility. AS
the law imposes the duty of cleaning the
streets on them and not on the Board of
Apportionment it is unreasonable to request
the latter body to declare by resolution
what streets and parts of streets shall be
cleaned. This is precisely what the Police
Commissioners are required by the law to
do, and they should do it without any fur
ther delay.