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Year: 1876

The American Jockey Club, acting on
the HERALDs suggestion to increase the
height and breadth of the jumps in all
steeplechases at Jerome Park, have, it
is understood, taken the matter into con-
sideration, and will soon arrange a set
of rules to regulate that particular style of
racing. The time test will be ignored, and
Jumping will be the paramount attraction of
the sport in future.


The sporting press of this city are dis
cussing the question as to the correct mode
of conducting steeplechasing and nearly all
of them agree with us in advocating an in
crease in the height of stone walls and
hurdles and in the abolition of the time test,
as will be seen from q few selections made
from some of the papers, which are pub
lished in another column. The New York
Sportsman is alone in its objections, and is
afraid that higher obstacles than are now in
vogue would be dangerous on account of the
great numbers that have to be gone over,
and that 'they wire in and out and
around about" and it urges that "a
good, wide stretchaway should be secured"
by running over land outside the
racecourses instead of having the race ins
side the field in front of the grand stands.
This kind of argument does not seem ten
able, for the reason that, should the jumping
be taken out of sight of the people in the
grand stands and club houses, there would
be no use in having these races The charm
of steeplechasing is in the jumps, and the
closer these are to the spectators the better
and there certainly are not too many of them
at Jerome Park if the speed of the horses is
properly regulated and bottled up for the
final half-mile run home on clear track
after all the jumping is over. We hope the
owners of all the large racing stables through
out the country will add a few steeplechaser'
to their present strings, and give notice t.
the American Jockey Club that they will b'
ready to make entries for all stakes that r"'
Year: 1876

1t will be seen from our cable dispatches
that the great London public is casting an
eye upon what rarely troubles it now-the
royal family. The fact is that matters royal
roll so smoothly over there and in an ever
contracting circle that it requires remarkable
exertion to get up popular excitement about
them. Even in Prince Albert's time Queen
Victoria did not keep very ostentatious
Court, and since his death-that is, for ff-
teen years past-she has kept no Court at all,
except by deputy Hence has arisen great
grumbling from John Bull. The low
wits have taken liberty with the Queens
good name the Regent street tradesmen
have shouted ''parsimony y the aristocracy
who have money to spend in display and
daughters they wish to see shine at Court
whisper ''abdication or a return to public
life" The mob which loves shows and
parades would echo this if it was well above
whisper, and even a vulgar book like
Edward VII" is likely to catch the public
ear sketch of this work will be found in
our cable letter, and if it had nothing
more improbable in it than special HERALD
lron-clad 1t might be taken as a prophecy.
AS an offset to whether or not
the Queen will open Parliament we are
told that the impossible DR.. Kenealy is going
down to st. Stephen with a procession of his
magma chartists-a very spurious kind of de-
mocracy. We learn, also, that the Episco-
palian clergymen are wroth at the Privy
Council allowing even Wesleyan minister
to call himself reverend, and that the Lord
Mayor of London has entered on Third Com
mandment crusade, which, if successful, will
reduce the Cockney vocabulary by stout
three-fourths We are sorry to learn that
the Universities are not likely to send crews
to the international College Regatta, but we
hope to see some of them, as promised, at
Philadelphia, in August 1t is pleasant to
see good American securities in demand
| abroad.
Year: 1876

Paris is busy with balls, parties and cleo
tions. and it is not wonderful amid so much
life that it turned aside to go to funeral
1t was eminently fitting that Victor Hugo,
the high priest of the romantic school, should
pronounce the eulogy over one who so
splendidly illustrated it on the stage as did
Frederic Lemaitre in his palmy days. Those
who have seen the great old actor mumbling
painfully within the past eight years could
Just catch glimmer of the genius that
flashed from him when young Victor Hugo
was making his fight with the classicists. 1t
was Just like Paris, too, that political turn
should be given to the solemn occasion by
cheering Victor Hugo, the radical, when they
should have let Victor Hugo the pallbearer,
pass by in silence. But then the Prefect of
Police has forbidden public meetings, and
Paris must uncork its ebullience in some
manner or overturn the government in the
attempt 1t is somewhat Partisan, also, to
see all the political parties rejoicing before
hand over victories which are yet to be won,
and out of the fights from which some of
the parties must come discomfted In Eng
land both parties would celebrate after the
fight, for defeat is better than no excuse
for dinner, and John Bull must have q
dinner on every occasion. In America the
rejoicings only go with the spoils. We have
a few choice theatrical items from the gay
capital, and one from Vienna which will set
the manager of the Bowery Theatre in q
frenzy of envy They have dramatized
Thomassen's crime there. 1t ought to sue
ceed for, as Tom Hood said of the "Miller
and His Men" when asked what were its
chances: -"Any piece that has an explosion
i'm it oucht TO go Off we'll"
Year: 1876

Among the needs Of a great city none is
palmer than the necessity of stability in
business localities. For years the trade of
New York has been seeking special centres,
but the growth of the metropolis has COM
PEELED a change in these in every decade.
Now, however, every class of business, as we
pointed out the other day, is finding its true
and permanent home of which there is no
clearer evidence than the changes effected
by the erection of the new Post Office. 1t
is only few months since that magnificent
structure came into the occupancy of the
postal authorities, and already the neigh
borhood is becoming the financial centre of
New York. In addition to the banking
houses and insurance companies which have
seeking sites in the adjacent streets, and
very few years will effect a complete trans
formation in this respect. 1t is only natural
that this result should follow the change of
the Post Office from Nassau street to Broad
way and Park row. In London the Post
Office is the money centre of the British
metropolis, and it always was so in this city.
The change from the rickety old building SO
long occupied by our Postmaster and his
assistants to the splendid edifce in the City
Hall Park left the banking and insurance
business behind but change in the loca-
tion of the latter is now inevitable and will be
for the better Broadway and all of the lat
eral streets in the vicinity of the City Hall
are admirably adapted to business of this
nature, and even Chatham and Centre streets
and the reeking, filthy section of the city
west of the Bowery of which the Five Points
is the centre, may be transformed by this
great and necessary change. From East to
West Broadway and from Canal to Wall
street is the future money centre of New
York. This district thus used will give US
new and beautiful city, and, as the rapid
transit roads are to converge in the vicinity
of the Post Office and the New York ter
minus of the Brooklyn Bridge is to be in the
same neighborhood, it will be as accessible
as it is specially adapted to the purpose. No
city in the world can boast a more admirable
money centre, and as the change is inevita-
BILE we commend the subject to the careful
attention and study of our business men, that
the new city which is to rise in this locality
NAV be built wisely and we'll
Year: 1876

was when it struck down every Tam


many nominee on the county ticket,


despite the personal respectability
of the candidates. There is as much
need of the expulsion of Tammany
influence from the municipal government to-
day as there was when the Recorders court
and the District Attorneys Office were pro-
tected by the barrier ofthe ballot box against
the assault of the Tammany ward commit
tees. A spring election is needed to COM
plete the good work commenced last No
vember. Why should the republican wing
of the united army withdraw from the con-
test? Are the people of New York any bet
ter pleased with Tammany rule now than
they were three months agoP We believe
not. No reason existed last November why
spring charterelection should be favored
by the people that does not exist to-day. AS
the proposed change in the law would Sc
cure city government independent of Tam
many influence and free from partisanship
it is not wise to hamper it with other pro-
visions. Let the anti-Tammany organiza-
tion concentrate its powers ON this one point,
ana Otner reforms Will 1OllOW IN lbS traln
The first object of the anti-Tammany lead
ers should be to insure success in this, and
earnestness, vigilance and frmness will give
them the victory now as it gave them the
victory in November and as it will secure
their triumph in the spring election. There
could be no doubt of the result of the
charter contest with Andrew II. Green or
Charles A. Dana as the peoples candidate
for Mayor. The former would draw to the
popular banner all the solid business and
financial interests of the city and all the
intelligent workingmen who have learned
that the lawless gains of corrupt rulers come
out of the pockets of the poor as well as of
the rich. Mr.. Dana's name would be atower
of strength. He would command support as
the Bayard of reform, and withal would ex-
cite an enthusiasm among the young men of
the city which would inspirit the campaign.
A spring election under the banner of Green
or Dana would be certain victory for the
people-a certain Waterloo for Tammany.
How can the republicans justify themselves
in drawing back and refusing to act with the
independent democracy to secure so desira-
BILE result?
Year: 1876

be opened for the coming spring meeting.
BY testing the experiment. thus early all
necessary improvements could be made to
insure capital sport in the autumn But by
all means begin schooling your horses for
the work at once, so that you may be ready
for the opening of the racing season at
jerome Park
Year: 1876

The RUSSIAN BUDGET for 1876 shows an
estimated surplus of about seventy thousand
dollars. This is not much, and if there is
my trouble around the Golden Horn it is
likely to disappear very rapidly and show
,ong list of figures on the deficit side of the
EARS ledger.
Year: 1876

ONE REPUBLICAN AND ONE RADICAL are all
that remain in the Spanish Cortes of the
two parties between which the Spanish ex-
pertinent of popular government came to so
ignominious failure The best, if not the
most practical, of the republicans survives
politically in CASTELAR,. There has been o
clean sweep there too clean to bode good to
the Spanish monarchy
Year: 1876

MONTENEGRO has been trailing its coat SO
hdustriously for Turkey to step upon, and
20 bring its big brother Russia into the fight
with the Sick Man, that its assertion of the
Porte's determination to make war upon it
Is only the offspring of its doughty wish in
that direction.
Year: 1876

New HAMpsHIRE PoLITICS.-The
first election of the centennial year
will be that of New Hampshire, early
in March. Coming as it will just be.
fore the Presidential nominations of
the National Conventions of the year,
much political significance will be at.
tached to the result, i'll view of the
fact that in every one of those six
states in which the republicans have
been successful this year, their state
conventions of this year which put in
nomination their respective tickets all
passed resolutions in favor of admins
trative reform and against a third
term. The New Hampshire politicians
now in Washington declare that at
the coming state convention in their
state the third term will be condemn
ed in stronger terms than it was last
year.
Year: 1876

The course of Father Grace, of
Newport, r. l., in refusing to perform
burial rites over the remains of Geneva
De Fray shows to what extent surly
bigolry can be carried. He was will.
ing to allow the body of the child to
be buried in the Catholic cemetry, but
he could not pray over the girls grave
good man. She had, it appears, at.
Tended Protestant school before her
fatal sickness, principally because the
Catholic school was too far for one in
her weakly condition. The imposing
burial services performed by dignita.
res OF the same church over tie re-
mains of the actress Dejazet in Paris
the other Gay area rebuke to such mar.
row Intolerance as that displayed by
this country ecclesiastic over a school.
girls corpse.
Year: 1876

The NORTHERN PACIFIc RALRoAD.-
The New York Tribune announces,
on the authority of Jay Cooke, that
the Northern Pacific Company are
not in alliance with Colonel Scott in
the effort 10 procure subsidy. Mr..
Cooke does not say that his COMPANY
will not ask for subsidy, but leaves
it 10 be inferred that each Company
viii stand on lis own merits. Mean.
time the road is in healthy financial


condition. It's land grant is much
more valuable than was supposed.
aud is u'sde so by the generosity of
the Government in giving alternate
sections TO actual settlers, which en>
sbies the Company 10 sell one snd
give the purchaser another at the ex.
pense of the public This Iiberality Of


the Government will aot probably pre-.
vent the Northern Pacific Company
from asking the Government TO build
their road for them and present it in
running er9es together witt the l7nis
Year: 1876

TROUBLES on THE MEXlCAy BORDER.
The disturbances ON the Rio GIande
continue, aud the evaporation Ihey
occasion only needs skilfuf nursing 10
make them, by and by, a Formidable
instrument of President Grants ambi.
tion. 1t suits his purpose to play the
religious card at present, but he holds
Mexico and Cnba in reserve for lat
er stage of the game if he should fnd
them necessary. 1t depends on the
mere will of the President 10 influence
the border troubles to such pitch
that a war with Mexico would be in-
evitable. Nobody doubts that wise
and prudent management wonid bring
these difficulties to an amlcabIe settle
ment; hut nobody has any confidence
that Ihey;will be dealt with in a.proper
spirit while we have a President who
is bent On a third election and will
hesitate at no means which he may
Judge necessary for success. This
torebodlng distrust of the Chief Mag


istraie of the country is a grave evil,
because it unsetlles the confidence OF
business mea in the future at time
when there are so many other ele
ments of uncertainty III connection
with the finances and the currency
President Grant could easily restore
confidence and reassu The country II
be would but renOunce his third term
pretensions in unequivocal language


He will not do this, and the public
mind is accordingly full of jealousies
and apprehensions, watching every
small cloud III the political horizon IL
the fear that it will gather into a
storm, blacken the whole sky and
pour down deluge ofills. When the
remedy is so simple President Grant
is iuexcusabie for not uttering the few
decisive words which would be accept.
ed as guarantee of tranquility.
Year: 1876

HERE is probably not more con.
temptible business in the world than
that of office seeking. The man who
Is conducting an honest and legiti.
mate business occupies more honor.
able position than he who depends up


On The instability and disappointment t.
OF any pnblic office for his daily bread
Year: 1876

The San Bernardino Times makes
the statement that, in the whole
route of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road to the Desert, though ii crosses
an altitude of four or five thou
sand feet. there is not cut six feet
deep nor an embankment eight feet
high.
Year: 1876

AFTER an Indian baby had swal-
lowed button and been stomach
pumped out, it was observed that he
would sadly turn from floor strewn
with buttons, to play with the nose
OF a hot tea kettle.
Year: 1876

Academia young man from
Iowa City named Abner Graham.
jumping from a buggy last night in
front of the Palmer House, either frac-
tured or seriously dislocated the bones
fhis left ancle, and is lying on a
painful bed. In company with chum
from the same place he came here, it
seems,to "settle up his fathers estate" !"
and there are reasons to fear that he
mistook the beer saloon for the probate
court. At the time of the accident a
very valuable watch and chain belong
ing to the injured man disappeared
and has not yet turned up.


Later.-The missing watch was
found in bed with the broken ancle
this morning.
Year: 1876

THE PROTRAcTED AGONY Link
ed sweetness long drawn out" can be
nothing, neither for intensity nor con-
tinuance, to the interest and excite
ment over the result Of the Presiden-
tial election which has lasted in this
community ever since the 7th inst,
and is as yet existant. 1t is true it
may be somewhat dulled to outward
appearance by time and familia rity-
but let either side have positive assur-
ance of success and you will see q
flame of jubilance which will prove
that the heart of fire was only the hot
ter for the ashes of uncertainty which
had gathered about it.


Wednesday of last week, and Thurs
day until nearly night, were devoted
to Tilden. The Democrats captured
the street and poor long-faced Re-
publican received a regular fusilade a.
he passed group after group. But a
change came over the spirit Of their
dream. The "Solid South" wasn't
quite so solid after all, and on Friday
you could hardly find democrat with
microscope.


Saturday they cheered up trifle,
but that exultant assurance was gone;
and since that they have been profess
sedly certain but evidently detected,
while the Republicans, without claim
ing anything, have been increasingly
hopeful and cheerful. All this time
the deep interest was manifest by the
celerity with which two earnest talk
ers would be surrounded by an in
quiring crowd-by the number OF
times man coming from the depot
with paper in his hand would be
asked what is the news?" and by
the rush for papers whenever mail
| arrived.
Year: 1876

In ORDER to sustain the reputation
thst We have worked for, it was nee.
essary for u to buy very heavy this
fall, for We were satisfied il We offer
ed the best goods for the least money
that there 10 noshing to prevent us
FROM doing the largest business in
the county which will be TO the ad-
van'ago Of our customers - we'll %
to ourselves. Our stock 10 not only
larger but select and tho only way
you can form any idea Of Whist We are
selling and what we have to sell 10 to
call and see for yourself. We are
going to sell more goods this fall
than We ever sold, and the way
We arc going to do it is BY selling
bstter goods cheaper. We know II
We sell good goods cheap, that We
can get The patronage Of the people,
and II they will call and sec us we
will do what We say. Come on, you
will always end ~ ready and willing
to wait on you, it 10 nothing but .
pleasure to show you goods, especial.
y such goods - We have. We like
for you to ask our prices for W know
We can name them lower than any
one.
Year: 1876

EDITOR ADvERTIsER:-Plea allow
me through your columns to express
the sincere thanks Of myself and fam
lily to those generous citizens of
Upton, who SO unexpectedly and at
such an opportune moment placed in
our home such gem Of A stove as the
"Hecla" with all the outfit complete.
And we would hereby welcome them
to q warm reception when it may
please them to make theinselvs known
unto us. S. A. LEE,


Pastor NJ. +. Church. !
Year: 1876

This IL the year when people want
cheap goods. What we mean by
cheap goods are those that will wear
well and give Satisfaction for . small
sum Of money. The City Hall Shoe
Store h prepared to furnish you with
all you want. They will make you
satisfied with the prices you pay and
will guarantee satisfaction on all the
goods you buy from them. Their GUS
toners always 60 out pleased with what
they get and are sure to come back when
they want anything else in the boot
and shoe line.
Year: 1876

WE were surprised to learn that Rev.
Mr.. Bloom took final leave of his
Congregation at the Lutheran Church
in this place last Sabbath. We don't
understand that the reverend gentle
man proposes to change his residence,
and presume that the dissolution OF
Of his PASTORAL relations has been
some time decided upon though not
made public.
Year: 1876

ANOTHER BRIDGE. A petition
bearing something over seven hundred
signatures, asking the appropriation
of $25 900, or as much thereof as may
be necessary, for the purpose of build
ing q bridge over the Cedar river at
Rochester, was formally presented to
the Board Of Supervisors on yesterday.
Very many names on the petition are
from Mechanicsville, Stanwood and
vicinity-showing conclusively that
the citizens in the north part of the
county are not averse to second
bridge over the river.


The petition was laid over by the
Board until the June session, 1877.
The indications are that within three
years at the farthcst another bridge
will be built at the point best calcu-
lated for the convenience of the great
est number Of people in Cover, Iowa,
Springdale and Rochester townships.
Year: 1876

We have no hesitation in saying
that the Charter Oak is best arrang-
for burning any kind of fuel of any
stove we have ever seen, and our GUS
toners, without IA single exception,
proclaim them perfect in all their ar
rangements, and especially adapted to
the soft coal Of the West.
Year: 1876

ONE Person can buy % cheap
- another from US. We try
TO treat oil alike. Send your child
ren in, they can buy Is cheap As you
can and We will give them goods that
will suit you ss we'll as them. He
Who buys at our store is bound to
get the bottom prices on all he wants.
Try 10 on.
Year: 1876

WnAr is more disagreeabie than 4
boot or shoe when they do not 6t.
Come in our store and We will rive
you - neat st - can be made. We
nave goods made on all the different
width lasts and If We cannot it you,
you cannot be ct.
Year: 1876

A mans dress IL never complete
unless he has . psir of nice boots or
shoes: Gty Hall Shoe Store has new
style Dox-toe boot which will lust
suit. They are the incest and best boot
that ever came to Upton and will be
sold for the least money.
Year: 1876

Il acknowledged and recommended by physicians
and apoth-earies to be the best purifier and cleanser
Of blood yet discovered and thousands speak N
its praise who have been restored 10 health.
Year: 1876

Bets Draun.-In consequence OF the posi-
tive intimation that the authorities had in
contemplation an Indictment against them
for violating the laws against gambling,
several parties have drawn their bets on the
result OF the presidential election. Itis not
known whether or not the indictments will
be pressed, but it is certain that the case
will be a novel one: that of two citizens Of
Old Virginia arraigned for trial for the Of
fence OF betting on the result Of presi-
dental election. Massachusetts, cannot beat
this
Year: 1876

FEAST IN HENRlCo.-The weather was so
bad last night that the ladies concluded to
re0pen the feast and fair at Four-Mile Creek
church on Friday night. Some good cha
rades will also be added on the occasion.


The ladies of this congregation have been
using every effort to pay off debt con-
tracted in rebuilding their church, which
was destroyed during the war, and they in
vite the cooperation OF their friends in this
laudable work. The enter tainment to-mor-
row night will be one every way worthy Of
this object.
Year: 1876

The Old Folks Concert to be given at
Pine-Street Baptist church, in your citys
next week, will be most delightful enter
tainment, and your people will certainly be
convinced OF the superiority OF Manchester
musical taste and talent.
Year: 1876

1t is something of a consolation in this
weather to reflect that man who holds 9
$20O-pew sits down Just as firmly on the
sidewalk as fellow who occupies one OF
the free seats back by the door without any
cushion in it.--NorsosGh Bulletin.