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Year: 1876

we shall 60 on hoping and expecting rapid
transit roads and other improvements and
never getting them. To say that New York
has heavy debt and is severely taxed is no
answer, for it is not necessary that the city
shall carry out, at its own expense, all the
needed works. The city is not ex-
pected to build rapid transit roads,
But the citizens ought to see to
it that somebody is allowed to do
so, under proper restrictions and regula-
tions. The city need not build the docks
and piers which are needed but the citi-
zens ought to demand that private capital
should be invited to build them under
proper regulations and on plan which
should be in all respects we'll fitted for the
purpose. The same is true of warehouses,
of elevated roads, needed to make cheap
and rapid connection between ships and
warehouses and between the water front and
the railroads. Private capital would do all
these things for us if it were allowed. 1t
could do them better than the city if only
the city would mature plans and regulations
and submit these to capitalists. The docks
of Liverpool and London are neither owned
nor built by those municipalities but they
grew up in the hands of private owners,
working under q general and we'll defined
plan, whose object was to systematize the
work and to make of all the parts well
considered unit for the convenience of COM
merce In like manner New York can get
most Of her needed improvements by the
help Of private capital and with very mod
crate municipal expenditures.
Year: 1876

They are persuaded to this hope by the fact
that more or less of such claims Tor
damages have been awarded and paid
by the republicans to loyal Southern
citizens, or men supposed to have been loyal
What has been DONE they think, may be
done again and they suppose that possibly
the requirement that claimants shall prove
loyalty may be repealed.


We wish the leaders of both parties would
publish at once their pledge to grant no
such claims hereafter. of any kind whatever
whether to men claiming to have been loyal
or known to have been the reverse. The
whole business is fraud and an incentive
to fraud. The war has been over more
than eleven years. At this distance
enough may set up claims and may
hire witnesses to prove both the damage
done and the owners loyalty. 1t is high
time for the whole Southern war claims bust
ness to stop 1t is a constant source of
frauds upon the Treasury.


Here are the questions which were put to
Mr.. Milton Sayler, democratic candidate for
Congress in Cincinnati. They are brief and
pointed, and can be easily answered =


Firsf-As Representative in Congress- are you In
favor OF, or opposed to- refunding TO the Southern
States. out Of the United States Treasury the Ito
direct taxes paid by them?


Second-Are you in favor OF, opposed to, refund
Ing the cotton tax, in whole or in part, levied and
collected from 1868 TO 1868, and amounting to
$6S,O72 3SS?


Third Are you in favor Of, opposed to- the pay
ment of stores and supplies taken or Of rent for the
use and occupation Of property, including vessels,
where the Claim is in favor OF citizen who was DIS
loyal during the war;


Fouru-If you nre opposed to the payment oil such
claims, you in favor OF, and will you aid in the
passage of resolution, bill. or some declaration by
or payment OF them by the United Staicsg


We should like to see the candidates of
both parties pledge themselves to reject all
Southern war claims whatever, whether pre-
sented by persons claiming to be ''loyar or
otherwise 1t is high time to stop the whole
business. But We warn the democrats that
they run the greatest risk Of losing votes by
silence. 1t would be well for them if Cover
nor Tilden and all democratic candidates
for Congress should at once, and positively,
make answer to the above questions.
Year: 1876

WE ARE SURPRISED that Prince Bismarck,
Notwithstanding his hostility toward the
HERALD, should impose the character of a
HERALD correspondent upon one OF his spies
in order to persecute few innocent but
credulous subjects Of the German Empire
who choose to believe in m appearance of
the Virgin Mary at an insignificant town in
Germany. According to special cable
despatch this morning the astute Chancellor
has just perpetrated a serious joke of this
character
Year: 1876

SITTING BULI--The mysterious Indian
who killed Custer and then ran before our
troops is now in want Of ammunition and
has the audacity to ask for n. The govern
ment is astounded at this audacity and looks
at Sitting Bull much as the beadle did at
Oliver Twist when that young scamp had
the impudence to request 'more soup."
Year: 1876

when money has to be borrowed to pay inter-


est on even the temporary loans, the paper


becomes of that questionable kind that tha


holder cannot depend upon its being paid at
maturity. It would be disgrace to have the
city notes go to protest, and We trust the
banks will not permit such thing to hap-
pen, II they can prevent it. At the same time
it cannot be expected that persons or corpo-
rations Will lend two or three millions Of dol
lars to City Government which refuses to
reduce its expenditures within its income,
and which refuses to levy o tax to meet its
liabilities, and which insists upon the issue of
notes growing in amount with almost arith-
metlcal progression. If tho city cannot meet
it's liabilities now, how will it do so six
months hence, If the money received from
taxes, instead Of being applied to taking up
its temporary loans, is used for current e1-
penditures :? If as fast as one certificate is
taken up another is issued for d larger
amount, the evil is really increasing, md there
must be suspension at some time. That kind
Of business must eventually reach its limit.


We hope that the banks will cordially re-
spond to the relief Of the pressing necessities
OF the city; but in so doing there should be q
free and frank conference and understanding
as to tho future conduct and management of
city aEairs-
Year: 1876

Mr. sronE1 is permitting some Of his un-


derdngs On the Times newspaper to write


him down an ass. Either he is grown sen;la


and fails to discover the true meaning of tha


articles he prints, or he has become So rack
less as to the character Of his paper that he


gives Irresponsible persons full swing to
stu1hfy him to their hearts content


We refer, as a case in point, to
the course of the Times on the
subject of municipal retrenchment and
taxation While protesting the most loyal
devotion to the Taxpayers, aud On intense de-
sire to have the City Government econom-
ically administered, the real spirit of the con-
cern was illustrated few days ago, when an
article in favor Of retrenchment in one col
umn was offset in parallel column
BY demand that the police forca be in
creased by $50, swelling the patro7men to 700
men, that portion be converted into horse
anasines, OF some other kind Of cavalry, to
ride around town and exhibit their equestrian
skill These large additions to the force
would necessitate extra station room and
$dahles for horses, and would require more
oz1cers. and add at least quarter Of million
Year: 1876

dollars to the taxes Of the city for police
force which already costs far too much. Is
all this because the editor of the Tines and
the gentleman who enjoys tho sinecure know
as City Marshal happen to be cronies? Or is
it because Mr. STOREY has arrived at that time
of life verifying the adage "Once man,
twice child? IF sot there ought to DO
some truth in the rrmored sale Of the Times.
Year: 1876

The proposition to submit wo1nan-suf-
tage amendment to the people of Iowa has
been twice defeated in the State Senate The
people might be trusted to decide question
II this kind for themselves,
Year: 1876

CONVICTION OF HURLEY FOR MANsLAUaHTER


IN THE THIRD DEGREE


The trial of John Hurley one OF the Jackson Hollow
Gang who was arrested Tor killing Patroman Edward
Scott Of the Fourth precinct, Brooklyn, on July 2,
was resumed in tho Kings County Court OF Sessions
yesterday. Assistant District Attorney Moore summed
up for the prosecution and tho Judge charged the jury
tho law and evidence tho late the alter
shortly before O'Clock the jury into
court and announced their verdict They found the
prisoner guilty OF mansaughter IN the third degree.


The prisoner was then summoned before the Bar,
when the Court sa,d:-"rhere no reason why there
should be an abatement OF ono day in the time OF i'm
prisonmcn Nv impression is you were guilty Of
murder IN the second Degree but. of course,
to pass upon the evidence THIS punishment is not
adequate TO the crime Four years Tor taking mans
lie in this manner is less, perhaps, than you would
have got If you had broken house and robbed
him OF $50 II ought TO be great deal more. 1t Is
high this city of Brooklyn that persons who
disposed to resst the law should be taught that
they cannot commit crimes OF TINS kind with
punty. The is that you be imprisoned the
Kings County Pententary Tor the term Of four years
hard labor.n
Year: 1876




To THE EDITOR OF the HERALD


In of the scarcity OF the Croton water supply
at the present moment tho Wholesale waste OF that
precious necessary by certain persons in the city
would call for official investigation At pri-
vate residence opposite the writer's the coachman
seems TO and infinite amusement in washing the side
walk and soop and in playing the jet as high tho
second story of the house, apparently for
little else than his recreation, permit
ting tho to 10 waste in an ab-
soutely unnecessary cleaning for than an
hour each week. In the course OF walk OF mile
through the upper part OF Filth avenue this morning
the writer noticed that almost without exception at
every house domestcs were had been drawing thus
wastefuy upon the Croton for the purpose merely Of
conforming TO system OF walk washing every Satur-
DAY morning at time when nearly tho entire city Is
without that water above the Easements, or in many
instances the cellars OF the houses Is there o-
cia remedy Tor thisY An order from the Comm
oce every householder in the city, prohibiting such
useless and wanion waste not only the but
any pedestrian may observe daily, might tend to
check II not entirely abatc the cv feeble order 10
the police promu gated somewhat to this effect not
long snce but as TO tho immediate results which have
arisen from II may judge by hours walk
through the Trincpal streets any Saturday morn
Ing and unless more elective step than this be
tak the untold horrors OF absolute fam,pe
may teach the citizens OF New York the truth the
adage, "You never miss the water TIL the well runs
dry.o A CITIZEN.
Year: 1876

Highland will present Judge Steel,
who was pushed out of the race In
favor of Neal, with quasi compro-
mise that he should be ahead in the
pool-selling the next jump. There
being no "crusade" this year, Dunn
is dead, and it is probable Highland
will go solid for Steel.


We clip the above from an article
in the Ripley Times on the coming
Congressional contest in this dis
trict. If we are correctly informed,
the Times is mistaken as to Judge
Steel being candidate for Congress.
He has concluded to run for re-
election as Judge of the Common
Pleas Court, thus leaving the field
clear in. this county for Hon. H. A
Shepherd, of this place, and Hon
H. L. Dickey, of Greenfield, with thu
chances decidedly in favor of th'
former.
Year: 1876

Adams county voted at the recent
election on the question of building
free turnpikes by a general tax on
the whole county. The vote stood,
1886 for, to 1928 against pixies.
This is an encouraging sign of prog
ress, and, if the roads are fairly and
judiciously distributed through the
county, the people will be satisfied,
and the burden will be less felt than
if the roads were built under the
| two-mile law.
Year: 1876

Edwin Booth struck a bonanza
down South. Merely because he is
a brother of Lincoln's assassin the
people there focked to his dramatic
shows till the house couldn't begin


to hold them, and lined his pocket
to the tune of $4,000, more or less.
Year: 1876

MAY HILL, Adams Co., ",


April Is, 1876.


MR. EDIToR:-Many of your read
ers are aware that Hillsboro is the
principal trading point for the people
of this section. They are also
aware that there is a gap of about
seven miles between the pike run
ming south from Tranquility and
the Hillsboro and Locust Grove
pike. Now, the people of this
county will certainly build a road
from Tranquility, on the nearest
and most practicable route in the
direction of Belfast, to the Highland
county line, provided they can have
an assurance that the people of
Highland will meet them with sim
liar road of about one and half
miles in length, and beginning at a
point in the Hillsboro road on Will
liam Storer's farm.


These roads built, Mr. Editor, and
you can travel on good pike to the
Ohio river, and we to the Lakes, if
we desire. Very respectfully,


JOSEPH M. THOMAS.


REMARKs.-The road proposed by
our correspondent is much needed,
and if built would add considerably
to the trade of our town, provided
Adams county builds the proposed
pike from Tranquility to our county
line. That county was authorized,
by recent act of the Legislature, to
build turnpikes by general taxation,
and the proposition was submitted
to the people and carried at the
Spring election. There is little
doubt, therefore, that Adams county
will build the road from tranquility
to the county line, and we would
suggest to the people of our county,
living between the Belfast pike and
the point of junction, that they get
up petitions for the building of the
short piece of pike necessary to CON
meet with the new pike from Tran
quillitv. The distance being only
one and a half miles, it certainly
ought to be an easy matter to build
the road. The business men of
Hilisboro ought to take an active
interest in the project, and, if nee
essary, be ready to aid it by liberal
Year: 1876

How to Renew Subscriptions.


When your time is out, don't wait till you have
chance to come TO town, or send the money by a
neighbor but enclose it in letter at once and hand
it to your p NJ We iciH be responsible II the none,
is lost, from any post-ob5ce in this county.


Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
Is 81 or more. An order costs but 10 cents, which
the subscriber msy deduct from the amount sent.
Year: 1876

stitntiOns are about toube put to a
test compared with which the war
was insignificant~-one which will
demand that we gather together all
bur manhood and patriotism, aud all
our traditions of civil liberty and self
government = '.'.>


We still hope that we may come
ont Of this trial sound and healthy,
tor the questions now forced on the
attention Of the cronntry are so large
and so momentons that they ought to
break the bonds of selfish partisan d.
ship, and awaken patriotism and high
political philosophy, even in men
who have been careless or thought
less regarding them. Yet if such is
to be the result, it must be achieved
through the spontaneous, independent
action "f the honest Republican mas.
ses rising against the villains who
control and manage their party. But
there IS no time to lose If they are
going to do anything to save their
country, it must be done quickly.
Year: 1876

There is an American story of respect
able antiquity which tells how a fast
train outran the sound of its own signals
and came to utter grief, the sound of the
warning whistle arriving after the col
lision. The driver was killed, and the
story ended with the words, "pOOr fel-
lowl he was dead when his curses reached
him." As curious, and much more GER
tainly true, is the fact that when man
is struck by lightning he does not see
the fash. We do not know whether it
has been observed that something similar
will happen to the first man killed by the
eighty-One ton gun; within a mile OF the
muzzle, he will not hear the shot fired.
The velocity of sound is 1882 feet per
second. The muzzle velocity of the bolt
of the eighty-one.to ton gun is about l 800
feet per second. This of course rapidly
dimininishes, but the average for some
distance would be greater than that of
the sound. In fact, as the shot carries
its whistle along with it, one would hear
the whistle of the shot before hearing
the explosion of the gun. Some curious
observations might be made with regard
to this latter point as to the acoustic
effect of sound emitted by q body travel
ing faster than the sound. The only
other example we have is the lightning
flash, producing the irregular roll OF the
thunder.
Year: 1876

There are some sorts of carelessness
which are nothing short of hardihood.
Playing with firearms is one of them.
There seem always to be in the world a
fixed or very slightly variable number of
fools who imagine all guns to be un.
loaded, and who think it pleasing and
harmless pastime to point them to people
in jocular manner and go through the
motions of firing. About so many are
killed every year in this manner. If the
guns went off at the breech and killed
the fools behind them, nobody would
complain. But this never happens nor
does the recoil knock them over often
enough to afford society any satisfaction.
Something like year ago worthy and
respected gentleman was shot through
the heart by man who was playfully
lingering revolver, and it Is not many
months since "A youth dozen or fifteen
years old, by way of wooing a little
amusement from a dull forenoon, pointed
an old firearm which he had rummaged
out of some household locker, at his
little sister, and shot her cleverly through
the body. Another and quite an ex-
tensively prevailing shape of folly is
that of going sportively through the
ceremonial of marriage. Every now and
then we read Of provincial young men
and their sweethearts who have been tied
together with a genuine knot when they
were only profaning ritual. This is not
absolutely fatal affair, but the incon-
veniences and embarrassments arising
from it must at once be observable.
Year: 1876




The profits arising from the invest
ment of money in pasturing stock in
this region are enormous. Mr.. Alfred
Smith, a prominent citizen of Austin,
Texas, whom met in the Indian Nation
on his way home from trip to New
York, informed me that at the close of
the war he invested $1,000 in horses. By
judicious sales from the large number of
horses this amount purchased, and by
the shrewd investment of the money thus
realized in the purchase of other horses,
and by the natural increase of his stock
he is now the owner of four thousand
head. How much besides he made in
cattle, sheep, and land he did not inform
me, but when in Austin was informed
by prominent banker that "Old
Smith" had realized half million by
his faith in the stock pasturage of
Western Texas. Sheep. raising is said to
be a source of surer profit than either
horses or cattle. The sheep ranges of
Western Texas are unsurpassed. 1t is
almost impossible for any person who
goes into the sheep business in Western
Texas with little capital to keep from
getting rich. A great many of the capi-
talists of Eastern Texas buy few thous-
and sheep on the frontier when mesquit-
grass can be had, and then give them in
charge to some party who personally at
tends to them, who pays all the expenses,
and takes half the gross profits for his
pay. Mr.. William Kelleher, of Austin,
prominent sheep-raiser, informed me
that he had made an annual profit of
from thirty to forty per centum on the
amount invested.


To understand the enormous profits
made in sheep-raising in this section it is
only necessary to state that one man can
take care of and properly attend two
thousand sheep. Taking into considera-
tion accidents, disease, etc, the sheep
double themselves every three years.
No feed is required during the winter
except the mesquit-grass SO plentifully
afforded, and the genial and mild climate
precludes the necessity of housing dur
ing the same period. But while this
country is marvelously adapted for graz.
ing, it is also fine agricultural country.
Year: 1876

A little earth shaped into pair OF
cheeks, and pinched into u nose, and
made into lips, chin and forehead, with
some humors mixed together for eyes.
These are face.


Old bachelors have been styled unprO-
ductive consumers, scissors with but one
blade, bows without fiddles, irregular
substantives, always in the singular
number and objective case, unruly
scholars, and when told to conjugate
always decline.


All of us have a little speck of fight
underneath our "peace and good will to
man,"-just a speck for revolutions and
great emergencies-sO that we should
not submit to be trOdden quite fiat by
the first heavy-heeled aggressor that
came along.


A coquette would have triumphed in
such captive as Petrarch. He had
gay and captivating exterior; his COM
plexion was fair; sparkling blue eyes,
and ready smile. He is very amusing on
the subject of his own coxcombry, and
tells us how cautiously he used to turn
the corner of a street lest the wind
should disorder his elaborate curlsl
When Petrarch walked the streets of
AvignOn the women smiled, and said,
"There goes the lover of Laura"


The impression which Dante left on
those who beheld him was far different.
When years of persecution and exile
had added to the natural sternness of
his countenance the deep lines left by
grief, he happened to be at Verona
where, since the publication of the
Inferno, he was we'll known. Passing
one day by a porticO where several
women were seated, one of them whis-
pered, with look of awe, DO you see
that man? That is he who goes down to
hell whenever he pleases and brings us
tidings of the sinners below" Gay;
indeed" replied her companion, every
likely. See how his face is SCARED with
fire, and blackened with smoke, and
how his hair and beard have been
curled in the fames!"


In the art of elegant leisure, in the
art of wise trifing, we are sadly
deficient. We are bred to business,
tempered to high excitements. We
hardly know what to do with tran
quillity. We long to make silence talk
and stir up quietness till we get a glow
upon it. We are forever planning some
thing for vacation amusements. 1t is
riding, rowing, picnics or some excur-
sion with its fringe and frill of excite
ment. We want friend or two in our
solitude to take off its sOlitariness.
There seems to be no such thing as
exquisite enjoyment, in simple conscious
ness of existence. The great theater is
open; its scenes arc shifted every hour;
its actors are innumerable its orchestra
full and tuneful, but men still yawn and
stretch and wish they had something
IN do