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Year: 1875

SOUTH LONG ISLAND MINISTER'S IN COUNCIL


PEcUN1ARY ASSISTANCE FOR STRUGGLING


CHURCH


The fall of the South Chassis of Long Island
of the Reformed Church in America, held yester
day in the Reformed Dutch Church. of New Brooklyn,
L. l. At the morning session two ministers were re-
ceived from other Chassis, and arrangements were
made for the installation Of the Rev. W. J. Hill
pastor of the Reformed Church at East New York,
October 10 in the afternoon at salary of 81 200 year
and parsonage The society promise him months
vacation every year besides. The Rev DR.. Dickson
will be installed in the First Reformed Dutch Church,
Brooklyn, October 2S at which time the Chassis
VII hold special session in the church
Tho Rev. r. G. Strong, the retiring moder-
ator, having been prohibited by his physician
from preaching procured Rev. Mr. Ingersol his sub
stitute. That divine delivered very practical DIS
the revival spirit and revival work His text
was, "Wit Thou not revive again that Thy people
may rejoice in Thee" Psalm xxxv,6 0.


In the afternoon report received concerning the
Rockville Centre church, which, having cut loose from
the Baptist fold and united with the Reformed (Dutch
has been existing partly by the help of the mission
board of that church Collections have been taken up
in Brooklyn churches for it, but the money has
been withheld until committee investigate its nan-
cia and spiritual condition brother from that church
made a statement, from which IL appears that the
Chassis promised them So 00O the strength of which
they built and dedicated a church. and we're doing
grandly until some twenty families LETT them and went
elsewhere and they have been dwindng ever since.
They have no stated PASTOR but obtain supplies as they
They had in their treasury short time ago
ST. COZ but this has been considerably reduced and the
church owes large sum to the gentleman who
giving the facts and who said he suffering for IT,
and the Chassis ought 10 pay it, But the brother showed
his superstition by reading from paper the opinion OF
a fortune-teller concerning himself He amused the
Chassis If nothing more committee appointed.
The South Church asked and received 5000 Tor the
Year: 1875

EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE RESUMPTION


OF WORK.


The most active preparations have been foot for
several days past for resumng work on the Hudson
River Tunnel Colonel Haskins, President Of the com
pany has gone West to secure the cooperation OF
Western railroad companies The Delaware and Lack
awanna Railroad Company is making efforts 10 OBJ
struct the progress Of the work The opposition
to the construction OF the tunnel will be with
drawn If exclusive right Of way be granted to
that company. To this proposition the Hudson
Tunnel Company give pontblank refusal. II is now
proposed TO purchase the meadow property lying be-
tween ST Peters cemetery and the Hackensack River
as the most available for depot warehouses; machine
shops etc. Negotiations for this purpose were COM
menced yesterday The property Ia question WAS de-
signed for city park two years ago bill was passed
during the last session Of the Legislature organizing
Improvement company tor this purpose but nothing has
yet been done this direction except the laying out Of
streets from West Side avenue to the river
Year: 1875

At two O'Clock yesterday morning an attempt was
made TO burn tenement house in the rear Of the line
Of houses on the south side Of Warren street. near
Third avenue The building fred on the outside in
three places the weather boards of and rags and
cotton, saturated with Kerosene OIL stuffed In between
them. The fire extinguIshed with difficulty. The
premises insured for 500. The structure oc-
cupied by poor class Of people, among the number
beng a coored man named West, who has white
for wife. few weeks ago the building was
fire, and a man who had formerly carried a
junk shop there arrested suspicion Of arson
discharged through want Of evidence. Fire Mar
shal Ready Is investigating the case. The property 10
owned by James Duffy
Year: 1875

Shortly after eleven O'Clock Monday night last a
fire broke out in the dwelling house Of Mr. John Leary
on Atlantic avenue about 200 feet from Fort Hamilton
Owing 10 the high wind that prevailed the flames
speedily enveloped the building which was Of wood
The alarm was promptly given and the people turned
out en- adsse 70 render assistance The door found
70 be locked and had 10 be burst open servant GIRL
named Kelly, was rescued from the burning structure
with some difficulty she being found asleep In bed by
The nremen. Mr.. Leary ana wife absent when
the fire occurred The explosion OF a kerosene oil
lamp was the cause OF etc Ere. The loss Is about
&ZUOQ
Year: 1875

Patrick Morton, aged nineteen years OF No. Pa
ciGc street. Brooklyn, while at work yesterday after
noon on board the schooner scskey, lying at pier IA
East River fell through the main hatch Of the vessel
and broke his left leg He sent 10 the Park Hos
pital by the police.


Martin Hooper, thirty years OF age, Of No As Pitt
street while at work a scafTod at the building
in course OF erection at the corner Of Fulton and Will
ham streets yesterday afternoon accidentally fell to
the ground and received Injuries about the
head he was taken 70 the Park Hospital
Year: 1875

Some fifteen sales we're announced yesterday at the
Real Estate Exchange mostly foreclosure sales All
but three adjourned TO various dates In Octo


ber The attendance WAS very large cu.le number
Year: 1875

We like to see boy who is not fright.
ened at danger, but conquers it by good
sense and pluck and tact. An Allegheny
boy has genuine stuff in him, and is like
ly to make his mark in the world


Freddie Tenny, of Allegheny, only ten
years old, is a mate of the boy who stood
on the burning deck, if some one would
only sing him into fame. His father and
mother being away for all night, Freddie
was left to keep house and take care Of
his younger brother, five-year-old.
During the night Freddie was awakened
by smoke and nearly suffocated.


He saw that the house was on fire, the
floor having caught from the stove in the
dining-room He gathered up his little
brother and set him out in the cold and
then proceeded to carry water in a pail
and put out the fire. He extinguished
the flames, took his little brother back
to bed, and both slept till morning, when
Freddie called in family who lived in
another part of the house to see what
had happened. Two holes were burned
through the floor, one two feet in Diane
ter and the other one foot.


The little fireman had saved the prop
erty and probably some lives, and had all
the fun to himself He was charged to
take good care of his little brother and
keep house, and he did it like man.
Marietta Register
Year: 1875

claiming that upon almost every ques


ton Of public Importance party interest
was preferred to the interest of the peo-
| pie" and that during the whole ses,
| sion the question with the majority
| seemed to be not What is best for the
| republicP but What is necessary to save


the Republican party?'" when he has in
sisted and reiterated that those who do
| this deserve only public scorn, he pro-
| ceeds to say, in substance: "Fellow-citi-


zens, l have shown you how mean and
| contemplate it is to prefer party to the
| public welfare, but have come to Mans
field to tell you that that is precisely
| what l am going to do in the present
| canvass in this State. Ny party and
your party has laid down a platform
which think fatal to the interests of
the country. But the party must be sus-
| tanned. Defeat would imperil our sue
| cess next year. So am going to stand
by the party, platform or no platform,
| honesty or no honesty, the public well
fare or no public welfare, and l advise
you to do the same. We don't care for


our own honor and selfrespect, nor for
| the prosperity and industry and moral
ity of our citizens; but we do care
for our great and glorious party. Let


honor and honesty, intelligence and in


dustry, go to the dogs, but for Heaven S


sake give US a Democratic victory in
Ohio!"


The speech of Mr.. Thurman is one of


the. most lamentable proofs of the politi-
cal decentralization of the time That


men should differ with their party upon


minor and indiffent subjects, and upon


the desirability of candidates, or that,
differing upon an important point, they
should refrain from speech, is something


to which we are all accustomed But
that being directly opposed to it upon a
vital and paramount public policy, upon
question which is chief issue, man
should say that he holds to his convic-
tions as firmly as ever, but that he also
means to do what he can to secure their
defeat, is to invite public Wonder and
distrust-we had almost said public con-
tempt. For what are parties, and why
do honest men sustain them and act with
them? A party in this country is vol
untary association of those who believe
that "a certain policy will promote the
common welfare, and who unite to advo-
cate it and carry it out in practice. But
when a majority of those who are thus
associated change their opinions, and
advocate and seek to enforce cardinal
policy which is fundamentally opposed
to that which was previously supported,
why should man who still believes that
it is the true policy labor to defeat it
by securing the success of its opponents
The only conceivable reason is that the
party success is indispensable for some
other still more important purpose. But
that is merely absurd. There cannot be
a more important purpose than that
which by common consent is the most
important question. Mr.. Thurman has
fallen from the higher to the lowest
grade of politician.
Year: 1875

people would assert their right to think
and have the courage to stand by their
own decisions.


4. There is one other point in which
there is an attempt to put the Demo
cratic people to sleep. 1t is said that the
Constitution will prevent any division of
the school fund Not at all; for () it is
not certain until the Supreme Court de-
cides it that the Catholic schools may
not be received as public schools, with
their teachers and teachings, and thus be
paid for by the public funds. This is
what they call compromise, and is
simply an attempt at fraud. But (2) how
long will it take to change the Constitu-
ton if victorious party wishes to do it?
By the sixteenth article of the Constitu-
ton amendments may be proposed in
three different ways, and if there is a
party majority strong enough, in two
years a different Constitution may be in
force. In this country the majority may
do as they please. The school question
was supposed to be entirely settled. But
we see it is not, and since it is to be
fought over now is a good time. Let US
settle it. The danger is that the Roman
Church will govern the Democratic par
ty, and through that change our school
policy. For this, if for no other reason,
the Democratic ticket should be thor
oughly defeated. E. D. NJ.


YAMoYDEN, Aug 10, 1875.
Year: 1875

We recently read dramatic criticism
which, in speaking of the omission of the
music of an operetta, said that ''it
suffered from the injudicous application
of the harmonic pruning knifer' Har-
monic pruning-knife is good; but did not
the critic mean to say harmonic tun-
ing-fork?
Year: 1875

A great deal has been said and writ
ten in this city on the subject of nui-
sances and the cheapest and most
practical method of removing them.
That the city is cursed with an undue
proportion of these endemic breeding,
health destroyers is fact so well es-
tablished that no one will presume to
deny its existence. There are a
thousand nuisances in this city, and
ninety-nine out of each one hundred of
them are of such nature that neither
the families creating them nor the
Health Officer can abate them without
the assistance and cooperation of the
city authorities. What the city needs
now more than anything else is main
sewers into which private sewers may
drain the sewage from residences on
either side of the street. It is due to
the Health Officer to say that he has
repeatedly called the attention of the
authorities to the great necessity for
main sewers, and we may add that
the majority of the Council cencede
that something should be done to-
ward the construction of main sewers
along the principal streets, but the
dIfflcuity of hitting on satiafaotory
plan of operations has up to this time
prevented the commencement of a
work that cannot be much longer de-
layed without seriously endangering
the health of the entire community.
The absence of main sewers in many
localities has created nuisances which
it is next to impossible to abate. They
would never have existed had there
been means for carrying the sewage
from the premises. In such cases,
and they are numerous, it is
hey ond the power of the Health
Officer or the owners of the property,
to remove, tile Objectionable matter.
For instance, the owner of property
ON Main street has been notified by
the Health Officer that the sewage
from his premises has become nui-
sance. While he admits the fact
he enquiries how he is to
remove the evil. He has dug
cesspool thirty feet deep and carried a
sewer as far away as possible, but as
there is no main sewer in Main street
within his reach he is deprived of all
means for getting rid of the sewage.
In such cases both the Health Officer
and the citizen are powerless. 1t is to
be hoped the Council will give this
subject their serious consideration and
as soon as possible provide the city
with the most efficient of all nuisance
abaters-main sewers.
Year: 1875

Half an hours conversation the
other day with a shrewd San Francis
co politician who never runs for of
flee himself, and is therefore better
able to judge of the chances of those
who do, gave us the facts and cenjec-
lures hereinafter mentioned. 1t is al
most certain that we shall have three
sets of candidates this Fall for one set
of offices. The rumor that the Inde-
pendents were already regretting their
resolution to nominate full ticket, is
not true in fact, and that other rumor
that the leading men of that organiza-
ton cannot agree on which of their
number shall be nominated for Gov
ernor, is also canard, the authorship
and parentage of which is attributed
to their implacable enemy-the Re-
publicans. The signs of the times
point to Mayor ALvoRD as the stand
ard-bearer of the Independents in the
approaching campaign. Those who
regard him as a weak and insignifi-
cant opponent are laboring under a
mistake which may be fatal to their
own success. If the Independents
nominate ALvoRD for Governor they
will have a gallant leader, and one
who, if he falls, will fall with his feet
to the foe and his face to the sun.
Senator BooTH does not intend to de-
sert the cause that placed him in the
Senate. In place of spending his
Summer in the East he will return
and thoroughly canvass the State in
behalf of the Independent party and


in support of the Independent nomi-
nees. He wields power second to
Year: 1875

CHIEF ENGINEER CRAWFORD has
been officially informed that the
schooner Tanner, with the first install
ment of material for the new wharf at
Truxton, has sailed from Puget Sound.
She called at San Francisco and took
on board the anchor and buoy to be
used at the landing and sailed direct
for Truxton. The camp of the wharf
builders will be established on the
beach in day or two and pile-driving
will commence as soon as the Tanner
arrives.
Year: 1875

SENATOR BOOTH has refused to go
into caucus with either the Demo-
Gratis or Republicans. He could not
consistently dc. otherwise. He was
elected as an Independent and he rep
.resents an Independent constituency
Besides this he has promised to return
and canvass the State in behalf of the
Independent ticket this Summer. If
he consented to go into Democratic or
Republican caucus at Washington he
would destroy his party at home and
leave the contest of the State election
between the Democrats and Republi-
cans. This is a contingency he does
not propose to bring about.
Year: 1875

The affirmation by the Supreme
Court of the judgment of the Court
below in the case of VAsoUEz seems
to fix the doom of the bandit and rem
eralmost certain his execution on the
21st instant,
Year: 1875

The amount of gold exported from this country to Europe for the last twenty-six

 weeks has been of unprecedented magnitude. | From January lst 10 Jnly lst there was

 shipped-chiehy from New York-over fifty

 two million dollars to Europe. This only exemplifes one of the forms in which this enormous drain exists. During the Summer and Fall thousands of excursionists go to the Old Country, most of them with their pockets we'll filled with the precious metal

 Atiutervals, our Mongolian servants take their departure for the Flowery Land with an increased excbequer, and the sum total of these different drains is just tine amount the country loses every year. We use the word, not as indicating total loss of the money and no return for it, but to show that so much gold goes out of the United States and stays out. In this country the pre- mium on gold is high, in Eurape 'tis propor- tionately low, yet tue tide sets from the New World to the Old with uBdiminished volume and unaI,ated speed. The fact SC ms somewhat anomalous, and for the reason and cause we must look underneath the superficial strata of exchange and trade. If the trade between the European and the American markets was represented by sys- tem of double-entry book keeping. the ex port of gold would shsw the balance to the credit of Europe. and wonld represent the exact difference between the value of the exported goods to Europe and the imported goods from that country to the United States. That the preponderance of the one is proportioned to the diminution of the other is proven by this fact. The value of our imports is in excess of the value of the exports for the same time in just the same degree as the shipment of gold to Europe ex ceeds any former shipment for the same time. This subject is one of surpassng i'm portance to everyone. This particular phase of the financial question, viz: excess of for eign imports, is one of tbe strongest argu- ments of the protective tariff adherents, they arguing that such tariff is necessary to pre- vent an overwhelming deluge of foreign goods. The subject is an interesting one, admits of argument on both sides and will be referred to again. The leading journals of the Pacific coast are noticing and discussing this subject which involves so many others and is certainly worthy of all attention and comment Pioche Record.
Year: 1875

2 FITzHuGH LEE-General Pitzhugh Lea vis-

 ited Boston on the occasion of the celebra- ton of the anniversary of the Battle of Bun ker Hill. and on his return to Norfolk he was complimented by serenade. In ac- knowledging the compliment he made a brief speech to the people, in which he said : -. went to Boston as guest of your own Artillery Blues" not because expected to have pleasant trip and good time, but hope for a higher, holier purpose-for the good of our State, our people and all sections of a common country. Oh how I wish had time 10 tell you of the reception corded to us by those people of Boston-Of e en- thusiastic crowds that greeted us upon every occasion-how the streets were lined with people pouring out their welcomes to us and ,biddiDg,us welcome, thrice welcome. 1 wish l could stop with you long enough to give you some of the interesting incidents of our trip, How a sightless soldier told me: "Gen- eraI, your boys put my eyes out, but | am glad 10 see you in onr midst ;" Low an aged gentleman, grasping both my hands Tn his, said: 1" General, lost two sons in the war the only two nad-but for public consider ations and for the nations good, l am glad to see you and your people here at this time." 3 How my hand was shaken by people whose overfiowing hearts prevented a single word of utterance. Do you know what all that means7 It means at that end of the line precisely what the outpouring of your peo- pie at this end of the line to meet us on our return means, Fiz: that the people of this country have taken this matter of reconstruc- tor out of tho hands of the politicians that the crust which separated them has been broken at last, and the men of the North and the South are at last allowed to see each other face to face. You, people of Norfolk, have no right to be ashamed of your dele gates to Boston. Their bearing, of and on dusy, deserve the highest praise, and you come back to your wives and sweethearts conscious of having performed your whole duty as representatives of your city. This splendid welcome of yours here shows most conclusively that Virginia responds to the hospitality shown her sons in Massachus- etts, and that we are indeed upon the thresh

 old of new century.
Year: 1875

THEssensibls young man is now living near Council Bluffs, Iowa Not long ago he became involved in quarrel with no less |, than five different men and challenged each one of them to mortal combat. All accep- ted and were upon the ground in time. The asro of the affair said he wouldn't fight them all at once, but would fight the best man fist. The five began discussing the ques- ton of who was the best man, and got fight ing. They struggled over the subject for about aquarter of an hour, the champion sitting on log as umpire, and when the question was finally settled, the l" best man could have been whipped by anybody, and wasn't ready to fight. The challenger walk cd oif with all the honors, and was proud ana Happy. This is the story and probably . lie.
Year: 1875

The celebrated razor blades produced by
Rogers, of Sheffield, and which 60 to all
parts Of the civilized world, are forged out
of bars Of the very best highly carbonated
cast steel, titled to about half an inch in
breadth, and of thickness sufficient for
the back of the razor. The blade is first
moulded at the end Of the porter-rod and
then forged, and the edge being brought
out, the concave surface is formed by
working the side on the rounded edge of
the anvil. 1t is then cut of, and the tang
is either drawn out from the same material
as the blade, or, if this be Of superior quail
ity, piece Of iron is welded to it. The
steel used is of excellent quality, SO as to
undergo the beating necessary to produce
the thinner part, while the back is left
thick. Some of the workmen are so expert
IN forging the blade, that they will produce
on the anvil an edge so sharp and even
that it can be used for shaving after being
whettcd. After forging, the blade is smit-
ted or beaten on an anvil, to render the
metal as compact as possible The blade
is also slightly ground, or scorched, after
the forging, on crOarse dry grit stone, to
bring it to the shape required, and to re-
move the black scale or coating. The
blade is next drilled for the joint, and
stamped with the name, then hardened
and tempered, and ground cs milestone
of from four to eight inches in diameter