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Year: 1875

AN attempt was made during Wednes.
day night, between | / and IL O'clck, to ell
ter Silvey's drug store, corner OF Market
and 10th streets, opposite the Custom
House. The burglar entered the bottle
room, but failing toelFect an entrance into
the store retired in tOlerubly good''order,
and made an attempt to enter the board.
ing house of Mrs. Dunlap, on 10th be.
tween Market and Main streets, by climb.
ing on to the roof Of the kitchen. This
little enterprise was frustrated by the ap-
pearance Of a wide.awake boarder on the
scene Of operations, and the thief
in attempting 10 beat a husty retreat
lost his footing and fell from the roof, re.
ceiving, II is thought, pretty severe in


juries, though not such az to hinder his
escape. lie is another one Of those par.
ties always claimed to be known to the
police or the night watch, but somehow
never arrested. A dead thief would be a
good thing, perhaps, in the hands Of the


police, as It might enable them to know
some Of the people they see every day.
II might enable them to follow up the
links Of a chain Of associations that would
include a goodly number Of bummers,
native and foreign, that linger around
without any visible means Of support, and
are constant menace against the safety
Of life and property. It is to be hoped
that some vigilant householder may slc.
reed in putting a good sized lump Of lead
into one Of these maruuding scoundrel' in


some spot where II will do the most good.
Year: 1875

President Lewis of the Board of Aldermen a
DAY ago accoSted by stranger and asked TO
write to superintendent Carpenter OF the House OF Re
cepon connected with the Society for the Reformation
OF Juvenile DenGuents and 20 request him TO use his
influence with Police Justice Smith 10 the release
OF a lad named George Walling President Lewis de-
cllncd 20 do this Yesterday Superintendent Carpenter
showed Mr. Lewis n letter written pap bearing the
official beading OF the Common COnn, and purpo ting
70 recommendation from Mr. Lewis for the release
of the boy WaiDg P.esid mt Lewis pronounced IL an
impudcnt forgery.


The Controller yesterday appointed William Gray
cashier in the Bureau for the Collection OF City Revenue
Acting Collector.


For three days there has been large crowd VI persons
al the office Water PurycyOr Ia pay their water
taxes. there is addition OF per cent imposed after
Aug ].
Year: 1875

INQUEST UPON THE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER on


THE sIIis O. PIRRC THE CAUSE ATTRIBUTED


10 THE NEGLIGENCE or THE ENGINpkR


Coroner Kessler began an inquest yesterday
Cd the bodies OF james Mahohey and David kalter who
Aied from the effects Of injuries received by the explosion
Of the steam chimney Of the tugboat slas o. Pierce
Capt b. Craig OF the tugbost testified that he was on
sbe part Of the boat when the explosion took place.
but did not know anything relative to the cause OF tho
explosion The captain Of tugboat had no power over
The engineer IN sny way whatever therefore he never
demonstrated with the eng or nterfered In any way
IN that department Simon Carman testified that lie had
knep fireman on the sas o. Pierce for seven months he
vss In bed IN HE room at the time of the explosion he
Year: 1875

The Lieutenant Governor of South
Carolina having assumed the authority
TO commute the sentence of a murder.
er to imprisonment in the penitentiary
for twenty years, during the absence
of Gov. Chamberlain, the latter has
addressed letter to the Judge os the
First Judicial Circuit of the State,
asking for bis Interpretation of the
Lieutenant Governors act.
Year: 1875

Experience proves that it is dangerous to
unsettle the currency Of country, and it
never should be done if it can be avoided.
When Congress met after the close of the
war Of the rebellion, it commenced to
tinker the currency. Greenbacks were
legal tenders, and the Government bonds
were at par, hut were payable in the cur
rency of the country; as property the
greenbacks were equal with the bonds,
and the bonds helped to keep up the
greenbacks. But sudden fit seized upon
Congress, and to make the bonds more
saleable it resolved tina. the tonds should
be paid in gold. This carried the bonds
high above the greenbacks, and, IN fact,
destroyed them as legal tender; FOR
they could no longer be used to pay of
the bonds. They were legal tenders for
the people but not for the Government.
This act struck heavy blow at the real
estate of the country. 1t has been going
downward ever since. Ii transferred the
value to the bonds; and ever since labor
has been made to sweat to meet the gold
interest. This tax for interest must come
out Of the labor and the land and the
farmers are made to pay heavily for eve.
rything they buy. Sugar, coffee, tea, to-


becco, whisky and many other articles
are double the price they sold for before
the war; and thousands of other articles
are made excessively dear by the tariff
4 little on each, but enough on the whole
to take all the profits the land Yields
And now it is proposed by the western
farmers to tinker the currency the othel
way. If they do succeed in making tn,
bonds payable in greenbacks, of course thu
value viii be again transferred. 1t will
ssain most likely go into real estate; ant
aelds that now are left without cultiva
tiou will be made to bloom and blossom
~ the rose; and the farmer will fn'
his lands again valuable and the pride 0
his household. Whether the change nov
would be benfcial to the country in tn


end Is questionable matter.
Year: 1875

In OFFICE TO SrAY.-Evidently the
Prettymans think they have a right to
their offices. The family have quartered
themselves on the Government and re.
gard it as an outragein Major Lofland to
attempt to get even short part of the
term. This is the inference that must
be drawn upon reading the editorials of
the Pe"snsuldr Nears. edited by DR.. Da-
wilson, who also holds snug little Office
Yielding him $3.50 a month, with few duties
70 perform. What is astonishing is that
the Republican party leaders favor long
TERMS We can only account for this BY
supposing they fear the cry Of the negroes
for share of the Offices, which is raised


every time there is prospect for a


change. Even now. they are looking for
Year: 1875

A revival must come. Because it has
not come long ago it is no reason to de.
spond. We have made too many goods,
lived in too expensive a manner, and
transacted business ns if no cloud would
ever arise in the business sky. We are
paying fer these follies, and the debt is
not yet cancelled. But this country
cannot be made bankrupt: Its wealth
ia unparalleled, it's resources beyond
computation and its people equal to any
emergency that may arise in their bust
ness history. The only matter is not to
loose hope, pluck or endurance while
the remainder OF the cloud is passing
The indications are that the fall trade
will be an improvement upon that oi
the spring, and as the causes which pro-
duced the depression are gradually pass.
ing away, the coming of sounder state
of trade may be attached to trade laws
and their operations.
Year: 1875

Where is the benefit of itr Fashion
and folly have robbed us Of nearly all
the benefits hoped for from tho introduc-
tiou Of the sewing machine. The women
who used to make dresses with the needle
have not been relieved from their work.
Fashion has added thousands of stitches
where hundreds were only necessary
And fifteen or twenty dollars are paid fol
the making of dress now, requiring @
girl 10 work q whole week upon it with
the aid also Of the sewing machine
There is twenty yards of silk in it, and
Perhaps as many yards of rufaing. Five
or six dollars used to be large sum tx
pay for making dress and it took but
ten to twelve yards of silk and the laboi
Of three or four days without the aid O.
the sewing machine.


Fashion is costly jade, and never 81
costly as now, when the country neve
needed economy more. The folly of tn,
women's dress is making millions poo
and keeping other millions from gettinl
out Of debt. Bayard Taylor has jus
written letter in which he expresse
his admiration of the dresses of tn
Woman's Centennial Committee, ar
Tayed as they we're, in the costumes Of
century ago. Ii the ladies would onl
gradually get back to the plain and sim
pie attire Of the olden time, the countr
would the sooner be able to pay its debt
and be relieved of tie terrible load c
taxation 10 keep even with rich the bond
holders.
Year: 1875

A large share of the profit of sheep hus-
bandry arises from the increase in lambs, ,and
as limited above, their number, hardness and
value depends largely on the condition of the
ewes in the winter and spring. "One of the
greatest sheep breeders has declared that
sheep, highly fed about the time the buck is
put with them in the fall, will almost invaria-
bly, have two lambs apiece, and that these
may nearly all be raised by proper attention
to the Mothers" Whatever share of truth
there may be in this, it is unquestionable that
sheep in good condition produce better lambs
and take better care of them, so that the
raise much larger number than those in
poor condition. 1t is getting to be the prac-
tice with many of those who keep pure wool
sheep to turn in the bucks about the 1st of
December, that the lambs may ii3t begin to
come before May, when sheep may usually
go to pasture, though they should still have a
daily feed of grain, and return to their sheds
in stormy weather. In the more northern
sections Of our country, and with the coarser
wooled sheep, it may be advisable to provide
Tor earlier lambs-as early as March or the
last OF February-as the season is too short
to prepare them for market or to allow them
time for growth sufficient TO endure well the
second winter, when coming after grass. In
order to get the best and healthiest lambs 1t is
always advisable to keep uD the condition OF
sheep, either by feeding plenty of good hay
or sufficient grain and straw to effect that OBJ.
ject. If hay is fed part of the day and straw
the remainder, sorhe grain must be added to
make up the deficiency. Roofs may be used
for this purpose with good economy in the
milder weather of winter.-N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1875

Now that the contract has been signed to
give Winnie Ream $4,000 to make the Far
ragut statue, would it not be well to give her
another $4,000 to follow Punch's advice, land
not do so. Such course would save the
country from no little ridicule.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable, not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1875

Hard times journals allege that
greenbacks are merely promises to
pay, based on nothing but the honor
OF the government. Are not L. s..
bonds also based ON the same security =?
The government coulu just as easily
repudiate its bonds as it could repudi-
ate its greenbacks and saying they are
of no value because they arc not i'm
mediately redeemable in gold, is not
likely to add to the popularity of the
bonds, which have no security beyond
the good faith of the nation Reading
Eaqle.
Year: 1875

The end of the great strike Mt Fall


River Massachu setts, involving 15,-
600 operatives in the cotton mill around
the city, though parti al victory for
the mill owners, by no means indi-
Gates conquest Of capital and labor.
The laboring classes of New England
have before taught lessons to their fell
low laborers throughout the world,
and long since induced respectful re-
gard for their rights on the part of the
rich. In the New England and the
Middle States the issue has not been
exactly one between muscle and mon
ey. The laboring element there has
amass ed considerable wealth, and OPP
pose capital with capital. The Savings
Banks In these States hold about one
thousand million of dollars deposit,


belonging mainly to the lower and
middle classes, an amount greater
than the combined deposits of all the
National Banks in the United States.
Strange as it may seem the bulk OF
the available money in that section
belongs TO the working public
They are therefore able to maintain
Year: 1875

In accordance with announcement
in the HERALD, at ten o'clock yester-
day morning, the doors of the Far
mers and Merchants Bank were
thrown open for the regular transac.


tion of business. AS an evidence that


the financial depression so severely
feltin San Francisco has in no way
affected the credit of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank nor shaken the con-
fjdence of the people in the safety of
the establishment we may say that
yesterdays business shows deposit
of three dollars for every dollar drawn
out-the bank closing at four o'clock
with several thousand more coin than


it opened with in the morning. This
is gratifying showing and evinces
Year: 1875

"Now by st. Paul the work goes brave
ly on" The city authorities now seem
alive to the Importance ofpreserying
the health of the city by the proper
sanitary regulations. The Council at
its session Thrsday ordered the
slaughter houses, tanneries and hide
yards to remove beyond the municipal
limits within ninty days. This, how
ever, is not all that is necessary to be
done. The privy vaults throughout
the city are in shocking condition,
and are enough to breed pestilence.
Let the ordinance regarding these be
overhauled and enforced regardless of
all opposition. The property holders
are amenable to the law, and if they
refuse to obey its mandates let them
feel its penalties. Our city is grow
ing rapidly and the uncleanliness and
lack of system which has heretofore ex-
listed should be remedied. The health of
the community is of vast Importance,
and the "slipshod" management of
the past must give place to something
more in accord with the necessity of
the times. If the evil be suffered to
go on much longer the condition of
our metropolis will not be unlike the
stables of Old Augeas, requiring the
wa tiers ofa large river and the labors
of Hercules to cleanse it.
Year: 1875

FESTIVAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHRIST
CHURCH.-A festival for the benefit Of Christ
church will be opened in the house north
west corner Of Sixth and Franklin streets
this evening. The ladies will make every
effort to please those who may bestow their
patronage, and the proceeds viii be devoted
totbe use of this church, which is essentially
missionary in its character, and mas been and
is doing good work.
Year: 1875

WHITE GEMs.-Whitc gems should always
De made Of the best of fine flour and new milk.
with little salt, beaten well together into a
stiff batter, too still for grdoIle cakrs-or into
u soft dough, too soft for biscut-and baked
in II hot oven in gem pans, made hot before
the dough is dipped in. These are the best
of "warn biscuit" | think You coa put in
baking powder, but do try them without.
Year: 1875

All men are controlled by habit, which
is an inward principal. leading us to do
easily and naturally. what we often do.
Tell us what a mans habits are, and We
can tell YOU what he is, and how far he
may be trusted. as well without seeing. as
seeing him. The mans character, or the
sum of those qualities, which distinguish
him from other men, is inseparable from
the mans habits. An old writer says,
"Man is bundle of habits And this
bundle is woven into our very nature and
like the woOf of cloth, the bundle is made
up of individual threads, each put in place.
in its own time. Habit begins with the in
dividual act the act repeated confirms the
habit; the act may OF itself be unimpor
tant, but the consequences of repetition
are everything. A single snow flake never
alarms mOuntaineer. but whole mining
camps live in the greatest dread OF the av-
alanche, which is but an accumulation of
snow flakes sliding down a mountain side.
Hence no one can afferd to despise the
little things of life; they are much more
potent for good or evil than great things
are. Men are not bound securely by great
cables, hut by little threads. The oxygen
our system demands daily is not provided
by one huge inhalation. hut by oft-repeat-
ed breaths.


Success in life is built upon seemingly
insignificant tritles. while failure can be
traced. nine times out of ten. to the neg.
lect of little things.


The man who has careful habits of
punctuality, for instance, in all his engage
ments, whether important or unimpor-
tant, seemingly, will find that he needs no
word to convince his acguaintances that
he can be depended upon; his character
ensures that Habit is formed chiefly in
early life. How careful that every boy
and girl learn to do everything properly,
when the very manner OF doing the every
day work of life, so modiiies and naoulds
our characters, thus adding to or taking
from our happiness and usefulness in life.
Year: 1875

A medical correspondent of the Ian
Get makes a suggestion which may
prove useful ON emergency to some of
our readers. He says In conse-
quence of the difficulty I experienced In
removing from patient q portion OF
steel bedded in the cornea, which did
not yield to the spud or needle, some
other means of removal became neces-
sary. Dry, soft, white silk waste sug-
gested itself to me, and was wound
round a thin piece of wood, so as to
completely envelop its end. This soft
application was brushed once backward
and forward horizontally over the part
of the cornea where the foreign substance
seemed fixed. To my astonishment it
was at once entangled by the delicate
but strong meshes of the silk, and was
Withdrawn with the greatest case, caught
by the same A gentleman, in turning
steel at q lathe, suddenly felt that por-
ton had entered his eye. He went at
once to a surgeon, who, with the most
skillful manipulation, failed to extract
the same, saying it would soon work out
of itself. The next morning the pa
tient saw me, having suffered severely
since the accident, and on the first ap-
plication the portion OF steel was ex-
tracted.
Year: 1875

Yesterday morning straight-haired
young man entered saloon on the river
road and asked the man who WIS trying
to start fire if he had seen anything of
lost calf.


"Look anything like you?" snapped
the man in reply.


The young man looked at the ques-
toner long time, and went out without
replying. He returned in the course OF
three hours, however, and taking off his
coat he said:


"See here, mister, I'm no fool! I've
been thinking of what you said this
morning, and l just believe you meant
sunthin! If you did, just come out here
while I make your head ache


The barkeeper convinced him that
nothing was meant, and the young mar
put on his coat and again sought the trai
of the lost calf.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1875

That copper colored statesman, ora
tor and warrior, Hon. Spotted Tail, in a
speech to the Black Hills Commission
ers, the other day, gave vent to this
burst of eloquence Yesterday, when
we called on you Commissioners, you
were all drunk, and you tried to throw a
bL rket over Iay head. To-day breathe
the free air of heaven among my own
people, and can now talk to you what I
did not wish to say yesterday. If you
7Sant our land we want the boundary
line of Nebraska changed, the reserva-
ton enlarged, and we want to know what
you say" Ugh
Year: 1875

A GREAT deal has been said about Van
derbilt's hard-heartedness, but no man
can write of him that he ever gave the
slightest encouragement to human be-
ing who parted his hair in the middle.


A PITTSBURGH woman trained all sum-
mer long for tub race, and died the
other day just twelve hours before the
match was to come off In the midst OF
tub races and all other kind of races we
are in death.


IF the deluged Texans should require
any help from the public have your dol
lar bill where you can get hold of it, and
remember that in case of this kind one
dollar in cash is better than six hundred
dollars worth of the heartiest kind OF
sympathy.
Year: 1875

VIM. j. Bedwell cross-examined was Is
to 20 yards from Ahren when be threw the
stone coming back from Townsend the tramp
was lying in the same place, did not say be-
fore the magistrate that he was then Ave or
six feet from where saw him sitting; dom t
know whether the tramp was drunk or asleep;
did not say to Price only saw one stone
thrown by Ahren and that did not hit him ;
did not say 10 Jenifer Taylor that | might be
mistaken about Ahrep's throwing did not
ell McCarty that knew nothing of the trans
action; McCarty told me, yesterday, that it
would not hurt my evidence to say I did not
know anything about it. @e8


Gideon 2. Barlow sworn; First met Bed
we'll in front OF my house: Bedwell and I
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes-
paying aid most easily worked
agency in the world. Our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we have
lately added new and exceed


ingIy taking inducements, re


quirlng only intelligence and
application for any one, young
or old, of either sex, to make
really first-elass paying busi
Year: 1875

MANY who are suffering from the effects of the
warm weather and are debitiated are advised by
physicians to take moderate amounts Of whisky
two or three times during the day In little while
those who adopt this advice frequently increase
the number of dlinks,' and in time become con.
frmed inebriates. A beverage which will no
create thirst for intoxicating liquors, and whice
is inteded especially for the benefit CT debiliated
persons, whether at home or abroad, is DR..
SchencK's Tea Weed Tonic, Containing The juices
of many medicinal herbs, this preparation does not
create an appetite for the intoxicating cup. The
nourishing and the life-suppOrtUg properties OF
many valuable natural productions contained In it
and well known tomedical men have q most
strengthening influence A single bottle Of the
Tonic will demonstrate ius valuable qualities,
For debility arising from sickness over exertion Oh


from any cause whatever, winegassful Of Sea
Weed Tonic taken after meals will strengthen the
stomach and create an appetite for wholesome food
To all who are about leaving their homes, We
desire to say that the excellent effects OF DR.
Scheuck's seasonable remedies, Sea Weed Tonic
and Mandrake Pills, are partiCu ary evident wheI


taken by those who are injuriously affected bv
change of water and diet No derson should leay
home without taking supply of thess safeguards
along. For sale by all Druggists.
Year: 1875

Advertising is great bother.
II only brings lot OF folks to your
place OF business. If they want
you let them hunt you up. Then
II you get your name in the paper
you will be bored to death with
drummers and people from the
country will call on you and you
will have to show them goods, and
like enough TO have to do up bum
dies for them, which will exhaust
your stock so much that you will
be obliged to buy more goods which
is q great trouble. Ii you advertise,
too, it gives your place a rcputa.
,ion abroad; folks will 20 there and
crowd you, and make it too lively


IL you don't want TO do anything,
keep NJ still as you oan.-lN. Y,
Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1875

uTs-SSu him tha. while the rest Of the


ticket he had organized was nomi.


mated, he was himself defeated.


But Notwithstanding thie, he stil


ran for sheriff, believing that he could


carry large colored vote, and that the


white menand tax payers who had been


ln his confidence, and who had indorsed


MIN in all his acts, would still sustain


him. The result was that he was


badly beaten, but all who


have been cognizant of his
course gave him the credit Of having


broken the power OF John Brown In the
county, and this should be glory enough
for one man. But for Reid there would


have been no bolting convention. But for
the bOlting convention, Alcorn would not
have publicly denounced Brown. But for
Alcorn's denunciation, there would have
been no assembly OF armed negroes by
Brown. Bat for the ass embly of the
armed negroes there would have been
no riot. But for the riot Brown and
Smith would still have been in Coaho-
ma county with dictatOrisl power
Let all men, then, who
have judged Reid by appearances
henceforth give him the credit he de-
serves. We would say word, also, in
defense OF Governor Alcorn. 1t has
besn said that he run Brown out OF the
court ty that his son might be sheriff
This is base slander. He opposed his
sons election bitterly, and it was negro
Influence and negro friends that elected
MsJor AlcOrn sheriff. JUSTICE.