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Year: 1875




EFFEcTs OF PROFESSIONAL JEALOUSY.


The evidence taken week ago before the Senate
Committee appointed to investigate the municipal de-
partments of New York city drew attention more
TO tho management of the Dock Commission. The i'm
portant undertaking of building 'front.' rather


series of piers and bulkheads around the shore line OF
Manhattan Island is of the utmost interest," consider
ing It's bearing the commerce Of the
port. The Dock Commission has now been
in several years The enterprise IL took in
hand is OF such magnitude that it would be folly to
early for any conspicuous advance in the works.
the major part OF which will always lie hidden be-
meath the water. In the engineer who is most ac-
lively engaged in carrying tho undertaking tho
public naturally expect to find man OF unquestoncd
honor and capacity. AS reflection the charac-
ter Of Colonel Meehan, who has been prominently
Identified with the works the beginning were
made In the testimony given before the committee,
HERALD reporter yesterday interviewed Colonel Nee
han to his early connection with the dock mproyo-
ment He said:-


STARTING THE DOCK DEPARTMENT.


swhen | went into the Engineering Bureau Of the
department IL was without an inch OF paper went
TO work and selected map OF the harbor which gave
the celebrated survey Of the water front of the city
made in 1857 under directions of General Toten Pro-
fessor Bache and Professor Henry Its trianguation
was executed by the late Edmund Blunt one OF the
Oldest Typographical engineers In the country. Being
we'll acquainted with the splendid geodetic qualities Of
this map. which no ordinary survey could exhibit
along with having intimate knowledge OF the harbor
lines had il transferred revised and drawn this
proceeding satisfied, was saving OF $40 600 that
a new survey would involve. Owing TO changes in the
shore line had photographic survey made TO help
Generals Mcclellan and Humphreys to more conve-
nicn and accurate determination of the pier and bulk
head lines


RRPoRTER-who succeeded General McClcllanY


Colonel MRRHAN-Afer the Generals resignation
acted Cor several weeks Chief Engineer, but de-
clncd 10 l the Office permanently, though u was the
Year: 1875

David Lyons, aged twenty eight years, while passing
through Desbrosses street early hour yesterday
morning, fell and broke his lett leg near the ankle He
was sent TO the New York Hospital


William Miller, a deckhand the steamer Nereus
lying at pier 63 North River severely injured yes
terday by falling between the decks OF the boat he
was sent to the SeamepS Hospital on Staten Island
Year: 1875

wild fowl or all kinds unusually plenty In the
Great South Bay Bank shooting for shell brakes Is
good Baymen estimate that there are
more than 10000 brosdbfls in the bay between
Sneonk ana Westhampton; also large quantities OF
other duck including canvas-back and redhead There
have been more goose shot this than during any
season for ten years past
Year: 1875

A WRITER in the Boston Globe advocates
the forming of ''crack regiment in that
city like the New York Seventh. 1t would
doubtless be fine thing, but why not avoid
the expense by borrowing one of Marcellus
Emery's regiments supposed TO be raised un-
der General Order No. 22 Gen. Roberts
might be induced to take command of it after
election, as be will then have no public en-
gagement pending.
Year: 1875

THERE is an amusing situation in Paris.
The priests refuse to pray for the Republic,
and the Radicals, who profess to disbelieve in
the efficacy of prayer and think all praying is
humbuggery, are very angry at the refusal of
the priests.
Year: 1875

tion as she is made independent OF her
cook, or housemaid, will she find these
tyrannical and high-minded persons in
clined to come to their senses, and do their
duty in that ''state of life unto which it has
pleased God to call them.n. And may we
not modestly add, that if the good women
of Austin and other Texan towns and cities
would evince the proud, independent spirit
involved in the adoption of habits and
policesbere defined, husbands and brothers
and sohg would derive infinite advantage
from the worthy example illustrated for them
within their own homes. He who could
see his wife or daughter or mother toll tire
lessly, and yet dawdle listlessly through
each weary daT on the shady side of the
village green or of the eity's thoroughfare
would become an object of lOathing to
himself and of adherence to intelligent,
honest people. He who would not drive
dray or cleanse an Augean stable, If there
were money in it, rather than become
lousy loafer, deserves a toiling mothers
curse and an honest wife's contempt.
Year: 1875

Now that the great railway is to be built,
the people of Austin will naturally address
themselves to the rapid improvement of the
city in all its incidents of beauty and at.
tractiveness. There is no such site in
America as tins for schools and colleges,
and there is no country so rich in re.
sources for their maintenance. .On these
lofty heights about Austin where States
intellect and genius are often gath
cred, there should be the choicest in
stitutiOns of learning and taste and
art. Therefore the profound interest
evinced by cultured people of the city in
the fortunes of the Library Association and
therefore the assurances given the accom-
plished instructor of females, Col. w. w.
Fontaine, that he could secure the means
here of erecting a magnificent structure, as
ornamental as useful to Austin, to be devo-
ted to the training OF the daughters of the
city and State. Nothing would do more to
make the State capital attractive, to
add value to property, to make our
homes delightful by gathering here
the beauty and taste and intelligence of
Texas, and nothing would be more pro-
motive of this result than the achievement
of purposes contemplated by Col. Fon-
taine. he holds'the strongest possible tes-
timonials of personal worth, of fitness for
talks he would assume, and we can only
commend him to the good people of the
canital
Year: 1875

VERY certainly no incident in Federal
legislation or fact in the country's progress
i've history has occurred to give renewed


force or vitality to Radicalism. The cleo
ton in New Hampshire has turned upon
local, Temperance and other isms and II the
Democratic party have gained nothing it
has lost nothing. But We can form no cor
rect conception Of the facts for some days.
Year: 1875

The Commercial in commenting upon
the present immensely of crime from
conviction and punishment" brings forward
the old story concerning the discrimination
of Judges and Juries: 1t is too evident
to escape remark that the swarming Of
prisoners in the county Jail, the long lists
of Indictments found by the grand jury,
and the swollen records of the criminal
court are not at all due to any one eircum-
stance Or influence. We may Use the post
and pillory too lightly; Or it may be that
one pillury or one post is not enough; it is
quite certain that large part of the GRIM
inal business flows directly ON stream Of
rum-drinkins to the courthouse doors ;
but after allowing for all these there is a
further reason, and most cogent enc, in
the mind. of everybody, ..at this moment
crime is not punished. Trivill offenders,
who steal pair Of shoes or Il loaf of bread,
who are not able to employ skill and clo-
qucncc III their defence. may be convicted,
but those accused Of higher grad, OF
crime never enjoyed more certain in;mu-
nifty aud s,rer escape from conviction and
punishment than now"
Year: 1875

The Gazette went cunning yesterday
after the Republican. That pape
has sail "the Democrats are responsible for
all the evils which the country is now
laboring under" The Gazette loads up the
political pen and charges upon its Repub-
licaa contemporary as follows, paragraph
cally:


"The Democrats had nothing to do with
the failure Of Jay Cooke & Co., unless it
was to ask that firm to pay them some of
the money which was justly owing to them,
nor did they cause the great failures here
at home; which took SO much of the hard
earned means Of the poor laboring ropu-
lation.


The Democrats have not been in any Of
the $4,000 offices under the government,
and cannot be justly accused Of robbing
the people for the last ten Or twelve years,
as is done daily. All the Democrats who
fought against the rebellion were prescribed
by Grant long ago. Boss Shepherd is
not Democrat; Mcdonald, Of tie Whisky
Ring, is not Democrat; neither are either
of the two Fishers.


The Bank peculators are all opposed to
the Democrats; in fact the greatest difficult
ty the Democrats will have to encounter
in clecting the President is the immense
army Of rogues that have grown up under
the protection of the Administration party
leaders during the last decade"
Year: 1875

By proclamation issued by the Presi-
dent of the United States and the heads of
the different States, to-day is declared one
of thanksgiving throughout the country.
There will be Services in the different
places of worship in our city, nd as this
day seems to have been set apart as much
for the noHrishment of the stomach as
rendering thanks for blessings conferred
upon us by the Almighty in his bountiful
goodness, every family where such can be
afforded will make the inner man happy
with turkey and cranberry sauce. The
day will pass away as holiday and give
to many recreation, and time Of pleasant
feasting and rejoicing. The HERALD
will be issued tomorrow the same as upon
other days, with full and interesting re-
ports Of the : thanksgiving services in the
Churches.
Year: 1875

the event ofwar America was poorly pre-.
pared to meet the marine batteries Of an
enemy. During the Virginiaus troubles
with Spain, there was an inspection Of the
vessels constituting the navy, but it was
only temporary and gradually lost in inter-
est to the Navy Department, only to be re-
vived with the present agitation, which has
caused an unusual activity in the Navy
Department and atthe various Navy yards
along the Atlantic Coast. Only to be pre-
pared for emergencies we are told.


To the unsophiscated mind, this may
have resemblance Of truth, but to those
who know something of Grants nature,
TIE influence he has over his Cabi-
net, and the little interest he has in pre-
pairing for emergencies, unless for ulterier
motives, there is no doubt that there is
some hidden motive behind it all that has
not yet found in the mind ofthe President Fl
opportunity for public expression. If there
was not some supposed cause, or reason for
knowing it, there would notbe occasion fol
such immediate and hurried preparation
There would not be occasion forsuch minute
inspection and preparation in the defenses
Of the different parts. 1t portends some
thing more ominous than we have been
given to understand, which is greatly in
creased in belief by the silence Of Grant
and all the members of his Cabinet. l!
was upon the tide of circumstances that
Grant rode into position as President, and
who knows, but what this same man may
endeavor to ride into the "Third Term
upon the tide Of popular circumstances
that a successful war with Spain would
surround him with. As Grant said about
the "Third Term" 1--WE don't know what
may happen"
Year: 1875

THEY are beginning already in the poll
tical circle at Washington, to speak Of the
election Of another Speaker in the Senate in
the place Of Mr.. Ferry, who is the present
Speaker, and by virtue Of that office and
the death of the late Hon. Henry Wilson,
is the Vice-President of the United States.
Rumors of change in the office, are Of
course, prematureju just now, but the Senate
has perfect right TO elect another Speak
er if it should sodesire,I Iby majority Of its
menahnrs
Year: 1875

The Republican, it would appear as
though in mockery of the Gazette has an
editorial upon Thanksgiving" And as
it renders thanks for the bountiful blessing
that have been bestowed upon the country,
it is no doubt thankful that the Democrats
are to have prospect Of gaining thoPresi.
dent in 1876,
Year: 1875

Causes for Trial and Argument
At the November Term in the year of Lord one ho,
eight hundred and cvenyfvc, before the Superior Court
held in New Castle, in and for New Castle County.
Year: 1875

A MYSTERIOUS HAND. A most re-
markable curiosity has been discover
ed in the western part OF Gibson
county. not far from YorkvilIe. A
week or two ago, gentlemen and his
wife had occasion TO ride by a neg
lected country graveyard, where also
stood an ole dilapidated church. As
they were passing, the lady attention
was attracted by peculiar bunch of
mistletoe growing upon bush in the
graveyard, and in obedience to her
request, the gentleman stopped to
procure it; and in doing so, he cut off
the limb to which it. was attached,
and very soon discovered that the
mistletoe was seemingly beld by what
appeared to lie q wooden hand. Upon
removing the mistletoe and examin-
ing the curiosity, it was found to be

a most perfect imitation of human
hand, about as large as that of boy
five or six years old. The largest
limb or branch forming the wrist, the
palm being fiat end Of perfect shape,
showing the wrinkles, etc, and the
thumb and four fingers each in proper
place and of proportionate lengths,
rounded at the ends and showing an
unmistakable indenture for a perfect
nail on each. Every joint of the
thumb and fingers is as plain and di.-
tinct as those Of the human hand, the
only solitary departure from a perfect
hand being in the first joint of the
thumb, this joint being little longer
than the others. The hand, as it grew
upon the bush, seemed stretched to-
ward heaven in an imploring manner,
at the same time partially grasping
the bunch Of mistletoe. And TO make
it still more interesting, it was dis
coverd, upon examination, that the
bush grew upon, or near the grave Of
very worthy Methodist minister.
Who had been buried there years ago.
The hand was on exhibition at Union
City, last week. and by request of the
medical faculty at Nashville, will he
taken there for a thorough examinss
lion. Whatever theories may be sug-
gested in explanation of this mysieri-
ous departure from the natural laws
which govern the vegetable world.
and however lightly it may be passed
by as a merely accidental growth, il
it is certainly one Of the most remark
able freaks Of nature upon record.
Kenton (Tenn.) Correspondence oil
The Enterprise Courier.
Year: 1875

I 1t always produces an unpleas-
ant sensation to hear boy swear
People are apt to get the notion from il
that his father is too pious.


~ In Birmingham, England, the
manufacture of gods for the heather
has advanced to such state of perfec-
ton that very nice looking god with
side whiskers can be bought for eight
dollars.


V Wood ashes and common salt,
made compact with water, will stop the
cracks of stove and prevent the smoke
from escaping.
Year: 1875

THE BEEoHER CAsE.-The jury did
not come. into court yesterday. They
are still out. Many rumors were
afioat as to the position of the jury, the
latest oeing tina, they stood nine for
acquittal and three for conviction, but
of couse such rumors are far from be-
ing worthy of credit. Judge Nelson
said in conversation during the day
lha he did not consider the length Of
time the Jury were out as indicating O
final disagreement.
Year: 1875

We can assure the Republican that
we know what VIC arc talking about,
and that we utter the sentiment of
large majority of the Taxpayers and
property-holders of Wilmington, in
advocating the suspension of the work
upon the reservoir. There is not q
particle of doubt that our present wa
ter supply with the addition which
will be added by the large mains is
sufficient for ten or fifteen gears to come.
1t is, therefore, a matter Of sheer ex-
travagance to borrow and expend three
or four hundred thousand dollars ten
or fifteen years in advance Of Its neces-
sity.


We have now four basins and four
pumps All of our fire engines may be
set to work and all the hydrants opened
to flow off the water. and yet our
pumps will flll all the basins and run
them over. The ordinary supply of
the day can be pumped up by the
Worthington pump alone in five or six
hours each day.


Wilmington never has had 30 copi-
Gus a supply of water as 1t has at
present, and it Is folly to saddle the
property with a tax unnecessarily.
Every dollar added to the lax on our
houses tends to reduce their value, and
people are leaving the northern towns
simply because of the taxes that were
heaped upon them by expenditures in
Cured during the initiation excite
ment.


A gentleman who recently purchas-
cd here, and is now building, told us
that he preferred to invest inthe town
where he lived, but the tax was 4per
cent. on the valuation, and he could
not get a return exclusive of that OF
more than per cent; which would be
reduced still further by repairs, insur-
anos, risks, &c. We mention this case
inpointto to show the necessity for keep
ing down the taxes, If we wish our
city to grow and flourish.


We ask nothing unreasonable. II
the works are found necessary in ten
years from this time, it will be very
easy for the city to complete them
and if they should be found unneces
sary then, or unwisely located, vast
saving will have been made.
Year: 1875

MORE TA1.-Our wiseacres at Wash
ington are about adopting new scheme
TO prevent manufacturers of segars from
cheating the government. Like all plans
of thieves, this ADDS to the expense, and
so necessarily increases the price of the
article, already by far too high, on ac-
count of excessive taxation. Now sim
pie plan 10 secure to the government all
the tax they levy, could easily he adopt
ed. 1t would not be hard to find some
thing like the quantity Of tobacco i'm
ported into and raisedin the country. On
this put so much duty per pound, and
let the manufacturers make it into what
they please. But as this would dispense
with quite host of office holders, it is
easy to see they would reject it. How
readily, on such plan, could the tax on
bales, hogsheads and cases, be collected
at the custom and inspection houses and
forscoth, how much larger an amount
would be paid into the Treasury. Why
the tax could be reduced one-third
easily.
Year: 1875

The Council investigating commit
tee shut the door on the reporters last
night, and gave it out that they will
not be admitted to any of the meetings
of the committee OF course this means
concealment.
Year: 1875

CENTRE STONES DISPLACED AND Pro
BApLY Losr.--We have it from good au-
thority that in laying the water main on
Second street, every centre stone has
been displaced, and the probability Is
that some Of them have been lost. These
stones have been in their places for fifty
years, and great care has always been
taken not to move them, as the grades OF
the street and the building lines on the
street are determined for the position OF
the centre stones. When they are 10 be
moved il is necessary to take the bearing
50 that they may be placed in exactly the
same position. If this has not been done,
it is matter Of great negligence and
may result il much difficulty and cause
Numerous suits about the building lines
in future. 1t is also feared that the same
negligence is shown in putting down the
mains on Third street. This is one OF
the results of having an Engineer Dc
partment with salaried officers. We are
now paying about $4,000 year in sala-
ries for this Department, when the work
now being done would cost about $1,000
If we were to return to the old system.
The City Surveyors were always prompt
to run lines and do any work the city
wanted; and the centre stones were not
disturbed without their permission
Water pipes used to be laid lew feet
from the middle Of the streets to avoid
the removal Of these important land
marks
Year: 1875

An industrious citizen of San Juan
arose a few mornings ago, while the fes-
tive lark was still snoring, and with tin
bucket under his arm went to the barn to
milk the family COW. 1t was dark afd
rainy, and in fumbling about for id
Brindle he got into the wrong pew and
began to pail the off mule Of his wagon
team. He can't remember now which
side Of the roof he went out at, but his
recollection of alighting on the picket
fence is very vivid. He expects the
bucket down in a few days.
Year: 1875

The Bazaar is edie ed with contribution of
tact and talent that we seldom find in any
journal; and the journal itself is the organ of
the great world o fashlon.-Boston Traveller.


The Bazaar commends itself to every mem
Der of the household-to the children by droll
and pretty pictures, to the young ladies by is
fashion-plates in endless variety, to the pro-
vident mafron by its patterns for the children's
clothes, TO pater-familas by its tasteful de-
signs for embroidered slippers and luxurious
the Bazaar is uniformly of great excellence
The paper has acquired wide popularity for
the freside enjoyment it atfords.-N Y Even
ing Post.
Year: 1875

A discount of twenty per cent will be al
lowed to clubs of four more persons. Thus:
four copies of Blackwood of one Review will
be sent to one address for so; four copies of
the four Reviews and Blackwood for $48, and





To clubs Of ten more, in addition to the
above discount, copy gratis will be allowed
to the getter MP of the club.
Year: 1875

Style is only the frame to hold our
thoughts 1t is like the sash of a Win
dow; if heavy it will obscure the light.


The object is to have as little sash as
will hold the light, that we may not think
of the former, but have the latter
EmmOns.
Year: 1875

FE1HE POLITICAL FOMENT among the Eu-
L ropean nations, the strife between Church
and State, the discussion Of Science in its re-
alton to Theology, and the constant publica-


ion Of new works on these and kindred topics
will give unusual interests TO the leading
foreign Reviews during 1875. Nowhere else
can the inquiring reader lind in a condensed
form, the facts and arguments necessary to
guide him to a correct conclusion
Year: 1875

have got eight grandchildren. My wife
of late years has had occasion to visit the
South since 1870 and 1871. When in In
dianapolis my wife was obliged by sickness
to visit her home. At an early period L
remitted to my wife all my money. IneveI
drew my own salary, but the checks were
made out in her name. She was sound and
efficient, l think far beyond any other per-
son.
Year: 1875

In a murder trial at Bangor, Maine,
the other day, the skull of the victim
was brought into court, where the ac-
cused caused Profound sensation by
taking it into his hands, and moralizing
thus "This skull had tongue once
I wish it had now for, If il could
speak, it wosld tell different story
from what some of these witnesses told.
II would say I never so much as in
iured a hair OF his head, by any word
or any deed of mine"
Year: 1875

The senatorial excursion to Mexico
is abandoned, Advices from Washing.
ton are that fear of the yellow fever
and the illness of Mrs. Morton are
among the causes alleged for the change
of front.
Year: 1875

In the month of June another Eng.
lish polar expedition will attempt to
unvail the mystery of the Arctic regions.
Three vessels, one of them fitted out,
in part, by the indefatigable Lady
Franklin, will constitute the fleet.
They will proceed as far as possible be,
fore winter, and next year the party will
leave on sledges for the pole.
Year: 1875

A GEOLOGICAL expedition to the Black
Hills has been ordered by the govern
ment in order to determine whether
gold exists there or not. The authori-
ties not only desire to settle that dis
puted point for the benefit of gold.
hunters, but in order to find the real
value of the territory. The Indians
are reported to bs favorable to the OBJ
jects of the expedition, and will aid it.
Year: 1875

IHE coinage of silver, for fractional
resumption is now progressing rapidly,
and it is thought the two and a half
million of bullion on hand will be
worked up by the middle of June, when
the redemption Of shinplasters will
begin.