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Year: 1875

Sec. 271. That no contractor for trans porting the mail within or between the United States and any foreign country shall assign or transfer his contract, and all such assignments or transfers shall be null and void.

 Schedules to be furnished and posted up in

 post offices. Registers to be re-

 turned and reports made.

 Sec. 70. That the Postmaster General shall furnish to the postmasters at the ter imitation of each route schedule of the time of arrival and departure of the mail at their offices, respectively, to be posted in conspicuous place in the office; and the Postmaster General shall also give the post master notice of any change in the arrival and departure that may be ordered and he shall cause to be kept and returned to the Department, at short and regular inter- vals, registers showing the exact times of the arrivals and departures of the mail. By act of Congress approved April 2i, 1908, no member of Congress can be con- tractor, or be concerned, directly or indi- IT. ctir, in any contract with the govern.
Year: 1875

SEC. 78. That no postmaster, assistant postmaster, or clerk employed in any post office, shall be a contractor or con- cerned in contract for carrying the mail.

 Persons in the employ of the Post Office

 Department (including postmasters) can-

 not become interested in 8 mail contract,

 nor act as agent of contractors or bidders.

 SEC. l2. That no person employed in the Post Office Department shall become interested in any contract for carry ing the mail, or act as agent, with or without compensation, for any contractor or person offering to become contractor in any business before the Department; and any person so offending shall be i'm medistely dismissed from office, and shall be liable to pay so much money as would have been realized from said contract, to be recovered in an action of debt, for the use of the Post Office Department.
Year: 1875

The bright and invigorating weather,
which has fingered beyond its period, shows
us the disadvantages under which we labor
in the present condition Of Fifth avenue.
This avenue is to New York what the avenue
of the Champs Elysees is to Paris. 1t is
alike the avenue Of the rich and the poor.
Here the man Of fashion and society goes for
his morning drive or his evening stroll. Here
the poor man with his wife and children goes
for his Sunday afternoons saunter, to see the
world and the great houses, and the multi
tudinous throng which sunny day, cold or
warm is sure to attract to the avenue. 1t is
also the way to the Park, our great pleasure
ground-the heart and lungs of the city. In
the decadence that has fallen upon New
York, since the downfall of our old Ring no
part has suffered more than the avenue. 1t
has fallen into decay and is no longer what it
was as the glory fNew York. What we want is
a thorough repaving of the avenue SO that
it may be to US really what the avenue of the
Champs Elysees is to Paris. This is as much
the duty Of the city as the opening of the
parks or the repair of the public buildings.
1t should be done also without delay. In
doing so we should be governed by the best
wisdom of our engineers and those who have
studied the building Of roads. We have had
our share of experiments in the making of
fanciful roads ofplaster and tar and wood The
Ring taught US amid all of its follies and
waste that the only way to secure a good
road was to build one that would last We
can learn this from the Romans. But it was
necessary that the lesson should come home
in a more emphatic manner before we could


be entirely weaned from our wooden pave
ment and tar and gravel fancies. New York
and Brooklyn, Washington and Chicago
show US the folly and unhealthfulness of
these experiments in street building. Take
! Seventh Avenue OK one Of the OUTLYING aye
Year: 1875

In honoring Mr.. Stanley the Italian Geo
graphical Society does honor to Young Italy.
The land that gave birth to Columbus can
well afford to pay a need of praise to the
adventurous spirit, the tenacity of purpose
amid discouragements, of one who halls from
the land tho great Genoese discovered.
When Deputy Caperio addressed his high
compliment to the HERALD for it's enterprise
in sending Stanley forth, the thought of at
wrought must have risen in his mind Then
the munifcence of king alone could
give the man who wanted to fill up
the map of the world the means to
carry out his project; now q news
paper, in fulhlment of its duty, enacts
the part of Ferdinand. There is a certain
amount of power always present in the
world, and from the simple comparison
above we may judge whittier it is tending.
1t is waning on the side of kings and waxing
on the side of the peoples. The accretion
Of popular power is typiied in the growing
power of the press, for the true journal is the
reflector of the wants, the aspirations and
the majesty OF the people. 1t comes fresher
from them than the most maiden legislature,
because it is renewed in the peoples
confidence and recharged with the
peoples mission daily. Hence, when
Deputy Caperio wished that Italy pos
sessed HERALD, while acknowledging
the direct compliment, we are fain to believe
that he meant it in a broader sense than the
desire for a journal which would assume the
paternity of an exploring expedition, no
matter how important. He, doubtless,
meant also to express his desire that the
spirit of personal independence which sup
ports the HERALD here existed throughout
the length and breadth Of the Italian penin-
sula. Then new Columbus would not be
forced to Spain or elsewhere for his King
Ferdinand, and then a new Galileo could
have his diagrams printed on the pages of
his Roman newspaper without retracting be-
fore the Inquisition what he is said to have
reahirmed in dramatic phrase a moment
afterward.
Year: 1875

nues in Brooklyn, or Pennsylvania avenue in
washington, as an evidence of what our
modern tinkers have done in the way Of i'm
proving a city compared with the old
Romans. What we want is pavement that
represents the best efforts of the modern
engineers and builders This is seen in the
macadamizing process A macadamized
pavement shows the effect of wear and tear
less than any other. 1t is when we'll made
almost as near as we can come to an ever
lasting pavement. 1t will satisfy the wants
of all. 1t will be an economy in the best
sense, because we shall not be compelled to
make an appropriation every season to repair
or replace it. 1t suits our climate better
than any other. In the renewal Of New
York, which is now the main duty Of our
people, we should adopt it and make our
avenue worthy of the city and of the best
interests of all classes.
Year: 1875

there is any failure in the administration Of
law it matters little how good the law may


be. Few people take much interest in
noting who is put at the head of
the various administrative departments


Of the State government, and would


not raise a finger to change the
appointment from one name to another be-


cause they regard this as point Of politics


outside their reach. Yet on such an appoint


ment may turn the safety or the loss of all


the little hoard to gain which they have risen


at daylight in the winter mornings year in
and year out. An instance is exhibited in
the recent failure of the Bank Department to
enforce the law with regard to the Third Ave-
nue. Savings Bank. BY statute it is made
the specific duty of the department to stop
banks in the condition that bank was in last
January, and if this had been done every dol
lar deposited since that time would have
been saved to the owners. 1t has been shown
in court that the statement then made of the
condition of the bank was false, and also that
in March the Bank Department was in pos
session of the fact that the statement
was false. Yet with this knowledge the
department permitted that bank to accept
deposits-that is to take the money of the
people on false pretences-for seven months.
Is this official purity? But there is worse
than this to be said; for when it was neces-
sary to close the doors the Superintendent of
Banks put in charge one of the officers that
he knew was guilty of returning false state
ment of the condition of the bank; and the
just removal of that person by judge of
the Supreme Court is the only fact that has
made possible any effort to save the depositors.
It is to be hoped that the Court is to be
better trusted with the peoples rights.
Year: 1875

The good words which our preachers sowed
among their congregations yesterday, and
which we reproduce to-day for wider con-
gregation still, will be found we'll worthy
perusal. When Mr.. Frothingham said that
nothing can be substituted for sin
cerity," and when he adjured all
men to speak the truth that was in
them without juggling with words, he
inculcated lesson which even those can
accept who are not prepared to 90 as far on
the road Of liberalism as himself Mr.. Hep
worths plea for moral life is unexception-
able, and as he believes the best physical or
ganization is led up to by the highest mo-
rality we hope that those who read may be
induced to be good if they wish
to be strong Mr.. Beecher will be
seen to labor in his endeavor to show how
hard it is to understand God-to analyze as
chemist would, the great Being that moves
the universe. Out of this difficulty he draws
the lesson that we must do our best to serve
Him without being too inquisitive as to what
He is Mr. Talmage is still warm on the
Bible in the public schools, and as itappears
that his house has been on fire he thinks
IL right to attribute that fact to the enc
mics who would like to crowd the Bible
ito the verge of the world and then fling it
into the blackness Of darkness" He might,
we think, find another cause for if he left
a verbatim copy Of his previous Sundays
sermon round loose it might have originated
what he views as an anti-Bible arson The
Catholics yesterday dedicated new church
for the Bohemians Of this city, and we hope
they will attend il.
Year: 1875

Who Is GRANTS SUCCESSOR ?-The Presi-
dents phraseology in the sentence, ''This
will be the last annual Message which I shall
have the honor Of transmitting to Congress
before my successor is chosen" is claimed
by his friends to be distinct disclaimer of
any intention to be candidate for third
term. As we have said, it binds him to
nothing. The question is, what meaning he
attaches to successor" Some analogy can
be found in the manner in which General
Grants salary was raised-a change for
hidden by the constitution during the period
for which President is elected. Now,
Grants salary was raised by Congress in the
period after he had been elected in 1872 and
before he had been inaugurated in 1873.
This was legally justified on the argument
that the increased salary was not given to
Grant personally, but to the President alb
stractly for the term beginning in March,
1873. When he speaks of successor" now
does he use the word as it was meant then !?
We think that he does. Successor" is SIM
ply the next President, whoever he may be.
Year: 1875

The EVIL INFLUENCE Of political society
which, like Tammany, hides away its
nefarious workings in the darkness of
secrecy and which binds its members to each
other by ties of no ordinary character, is
such as to make all classes Of honest citizens
dosirous Of its extinction. In another
column the secret rules and bylaws Of Tam
many are published.
Year: 1875

VINO nunt down liberals, priests ana Journal
lists SO successfully, have now task more
worthy of their acumen before them; one in
which the whole civilized world would only
be too glad to aid them.
Year: 1875

The INDICTMENT OF BABcocK is given in
full elsewhere. It charges him with being
party to the conspiracy to de-
fraud the government 1t now re-
mains to be seen with what vigor
the prosecution will be pushed While
anxious that nothing but justice should be
done, the country will note keenly whether
the government side is presented in all its
strength.
Year: 1875

The CARLrsTs have a new commander-in-
chief in the person Of General Mogrovejo.
AS the dissensions in the ranks are said to
continue, his first work will be to command
order, and that is what little Alfonso wants
TO re-egtablish
Year: 1875

IT Is SIGNIFICANT FACT, showing the
strength of the republicans in the French
Assembly, that two of the present French
Ministry having failed in the contests Of the
past few days of being elected to the Senate
have withdrawn their names.
Year: 1875

The LITTLE BREEZE about Nice and Savoy
and the movement to reannex them to Italy
is described in our Paris correspondence,
and some lively anecdotes therein recalled
by the death Of NJ. Schneider show how
Paris can laugh beside an open grave.
Year: 1875

4


He (the ocean telegraph operator),
says the Boston Herald, taps the "key"
as in a land telegraph, only it is double
key. 1t has two levers and knobs instead
of one. The alphabet used is substan-
TALLY like the Morse alphabet; that is,
the different letters are represented by
combination of dashes and dots. For
instance, suppose you want to write the
word "boy." 1t would read like this ::
&C.. B is one
dash and three dots O, three dashes !;
and Y, one dash, and one dot, and three
dashes. Now, in the land telegraph, the
dashes and the dots would appear on the
strip of paper at the other end of the
line, which is unwound from a cylinder
and perforated by pin at the end of the
bar or armature. III the operator could
read by sound, we would dispense with
the strip of paper, and read the message
by the "click" of the armature as it is
pulled down and let go by the electric
magnet.


The cable operator, however, has
neither Of these advantages. There is
no paper to perforate, no +" click" of the
armature, no armature TO "click." The
lhSSottSSC 10 lCtlNl ON lllCtllD VI ~ llONlllB
flash of light upon a polished scale pro
duced by the DETECTION" of very small
mirror, which is placed within ''rlirror
t'alvanometer, which is a small brass
cylinder two or three inches in diameter,
shaped like a spool or bobbin, composed
of several hundred turns of small wire
wound with silk to keep the metal from
coming in contact. 1t is wound or coiied
exactly like bundle of new rope, small
hole being left in the middle about the
size of a common wooden pencil. In
the center of this is suspended very
thin, delicate mirror about as large as a
kernel of corn, with a correspOndingly
small! magnet rigidly attached to the
back of it. The whole weighs but lit
tie more than grain, and is suspended
by single fibre of silk much smaller
than a human hair, and almost invisible.
A narrow horizontal scale is placed
within darkened box two or three feet
III front of the mirror, narrow slit being
cut in the center of the scale to allow a
ray of light to shine upon the mirror
from lamp placed behind said scale, the
little mirror in turn rejecting the light
back upon the scale. This spot of light
upon JlS SCitlt Is llo lulGA DN WHICH ull
messages are read. The angle through
which the ray moves Is double that ira
versed by the mirror itself and it is
therefore, really equivalent TO an index
four or six feet in length without weight.


To the casual observer there is moth
ing but thin ray of light, darting to the
right and left with irregular rapidity
but to the trained eye of the operator
every fash is replete with intelligence.
Thus the word boy" already alluded
TO, would be read in this way One flash
to the right and three to the left is b.
Three flashes to The right is o. One to
the right, one to the left, and two more
to the right is Y, and so on. Long and
constant practice makes the operators
wonderfully expert in their profession,
and enables them to read from the mir
ror as readily and as accurately as from
q newspaper.
Year: 1875

The first right of every child is to be
well born and by this / mean that 1t
has a right to the best conditions, phys
ical, mental and moral, that it is in the
power of the parents to secure. With
out this the child is defrauded of his
rights at the outset, and his life can
hardly fail of being a painful protest
against broken laws. Centuries of pre-
paration fitted the earth for mans occu-
pancy, limiting thus the grandeur of his
destiny, and suggested that in an event
of such magnitude as the incarnating OF
soul provision should be exercised, and
all the best conditions secured in aid of
harmonious and happy result. Good
health, good habits, sound mentality and
reverent love should form the basis of
every new life that is involved. The
mother who gives herself up to morbid
fancies, who considers her health an ex-
cuse for petulance and non-exercise of
self-control, proves herself unworthy of
the holy Office of mother, and ought not
to be surprised if she reap at later day
the bitter harvest of her unwise sowing.
Second in importance to none, as a
means of securing the happiness and
best good of childhood and youth, is the
right TO be taught obedience. 1t is easy
TO submit to what we know is inevitable,
and to the little child the requirement
of the parent should be law without APP
peal. The tender, immature being, shut
in by the unknown, where every relation
is a mystery and every advance an ex-
pertinent, has a right to find itself evety-
where sustained and directed by her
parent. 1t should not be tempted TO re-
sistance by laws that are imperfectly en-
forced, nor subjected to the injurious
friction of discussion by having q long
list of reasons given for every require
ment. The habit of obedience to the
parents may be formed before the child
is two years old, and this is q necessary
precedent of obedience TO law, the next
stage Of a true development. The child
has right to ask questions and to be
fairly answered not to be snubbed as if
he were guilty of an impertinence, nor
ignored as though his desire for infor-
nation were of no consequence, nor
misled as if it did not signify whether
true or false impressions were made
upon his mind. He has q right to be
taught everything which he desires to
learn, and to be made certain, when any
asked-for information is withheld, that it
is only deferred till he is older and bet
ter prepared TO receive it. Answering
child's questions is sowing the seeds of
its future character. - Victoria Mdga-
zine
Year: 1875

Mr. Samuel l.. Clemens has consent
eel to lecture in Hartford for the benefit
of the poor. Following is his letter.


GENTLEMEN accede to your request
with pleasure. Many months ago per-
manently quilted the lecture field, and
said would not appear upon platform
any more unless driven there by lack
of bread. BY the spirit of that remark
| am debarred from delivering this pro-
posed lecture, and so l fall back upon
the letter of it and emerge upon the
platform for this last and final time be-
cause l am confronted by lack of bread
among Father Hawley's flock. Most
people lie by the spirit and the letter,
too, but L am not one of that kind, for /
have been very carefully brought up. /
wish to impose upon you this condition,
that the expenses of this enterprise shall
be paid out of four or five private pock-
cts (mine to be one of them), to the end
that all Of the money that comes in Mt
the door shall go to Father Hawleys
needy ones, unimpaired by taxes on its
journey. / am glad to know that you
are going to put the tickets at 81; for
what we are after now is money for peo-
pie who stand sorely in need of bread
and meat, and so the object justifes the
price. AS this will probably be the last
time L shall ever have the opportunity
of hearing sound wisdom and pure truth
delivered from the platform, wish to
buy ticket to this lecture, and herewith
send money for the purchase. / am
aware that / could get in for nothing,
and still be acting in measure honor
ably but when run my lecture over in
my mind and realize what a very treas
ure of priceless information it is, 1 find
i cannot conscientiously accept Of a free
pass. Respectfully, MARK TWAIN.
Year: 1875

Take teaspoonful of salad oil, drop a
few drops of ink in it, and rub it over the
gloves with the tip of a feather, then LET
them dry.


TO PREVENT TIN RUsTING.


Rub fresh lard over every part of the
dish, and then put it III hot oven and
heat it thoroughly. Thus treated, any
tinware may be used in water constantly,
and remain bright and free from rust in
definitely.


LIGHT RYE TEA-CAKEs.


One pint of sweet milk, two eggs, a
teaspoonful of brown sugar, and large
pinch of salt. Add enough rye flour to
make it as stiff as common griddle-cake
bake batter. Bake half an hour in "gem'
pans. Serve hot or cold, as required.


CHICKEN CHEESE.


Did you, reader, ever eat anyl We
like it. Boil two chickens till tender;
take out all the bones and chop the meat
fine; season to taste with salt, pepper and
butter; pour in enough liquor they are
boiled in to make moist. Mold it into
any shape you choose, and, when cold,
turn out and cut into slices. Ii is an
excellent travelling lunch.





TREATMENT OF BURNS.


Halls Journal Of Health says: On the
instant of the accident, plunge the part
under cold water. This relieves the pain
in a second, and allows all hands to be-
come composed. If the part cannot be
kept under water, cover 1t over with dry
flour an inch deep or more. In many
instances nothing more is needed after
the flour, simply let it remain until it
falls off, when new skin will be found
under. In severer cases, while the part
injured is under water, simmer leek or
two in an earthen vessel, with half their
bulk in hogs lard, until the leeks are
soft, then strain through muslin rag.
This makes q greenish-colored ointment,
which, when cool, spread thickly on a
linen cloth, and apply it to the injured
part. If there are blisters, let out the
water. When the part becomes feverish
and uncomfortable, renew the ointment,
and rapid, painless cure will be the re-
suit, if the patient, meanwhile, lives ex-
clusively on fruits, coarse bread and
other light, loosening diet.
Year: 1875

They captured, the other day, twelve
out of eighteen bandits who robbed a
freight train on the Mexican railway near
Cordova, and with exemplary prompt


ness condemned the whole dozen to
death and executed them. This pro-
Year: 1875

The suit, under the Customs Revenue laws Of the
United states against the York street Flax Spinning
Company lmitedl Of Belfast recover 800 600
forfeiture for alleged fraudulent underyaluations was
concluded yesterday by Judge Batchford directing
verdict for the defendants After the government had
introduced all its testimony and rested Its case the
defendants stated that they would put il no testimony


but would 70 the Jury the merits o the case made
against them subject however to the ruling or tie Court


as 10 what value or amount Of recovery the govern
ment had established as the basis Of forfeiture The
hTst section Of the act Of May z 1863 provides that
where frauds arc proved the goods or their value
shall be forfeited, and the Court asked to instruct
the jury that no value the goods in question had
been shown The Judge stated that under the prece-
dents IN the reports II incumbent on the District
Attorney to show the value 81 the goods contained ia
the invoices alleged to be tainted with fraud and that
his having failed TO do be taken as conclusive
that they had value and that therefore there
could be no forfeiture Mr. smith, tho Assistant DIG
Attorney asked leave TO open the case to intro
duce evidence Of value which request denied by
the Court the ground that the having been
closed BY both Sides and the evidences Of
fraud not being conclusive, the Court could
not, In the exercise OF wise discretion,
allow the introduction OF evidence tina might prolong
the trial of the indefinitely The District Attorney
then asked for the entry Of order OF Scontnuance
Mr. Eyart opposed that request and askNi for drec-
ton Of the Court for the jury to return verdict for
the defence. The motion for dscontinuance de-
med aud q verdict tor the defendants directed