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Year: 1875

In what was intended for very pretty
speech great blunder was perpetrated
by dignitary of the church, who was
asked to marry young couple in a
country place where he happened to be
staying, and was also called upon to
propose the health of the bride and
bridegroom at the subsequent breakfast.
" To sum up all our good wishes for the
happy pair whom we have seen united
this morning." he said in conclusion,
we can not, am sure, do better than
express a desire that the result of their
union may prove strictly analogous to
that of the parents of the fair BRIDE"
Whereupon the fair bride" went into
the bridegroom's eyes flashed
daggers, the bridesmaids colored and
looked down, and the master of the house
blew his nose violently. He who had
caused all this commotion wisely sat
down and held his peace, wondering at
the effect of his innocent compliment to
the host and hostess. He soon, however,
found one to enlighten him. "She is
not their daughter at all" his informant
"but niece who came to
live with them when her father and
mother were divorced"
Year: 1875

At meeting Of the Farmers Club, a
correspondent wrote of the virtues of
the pumpkin, giving the following in
stance of its value for inflammatory
rheumatism: A woman's arm was swell
ed to an enormous size, and painfully
inflamed. A poultice was made of
stewed pumpkins, which was renewed
every fifteen minutes, and in short
time produced a perfect cure. The fever
drawn out by the poultice made them
extremely offensive, as they were taken
of. l knew man cured Of severe in
tlammation of the bowels by the same
kind of application.
Year: 1875

Denver, Colorado, has heroine. 1t
isn't overy town in this prosaic age that
can afford one, and Denver is proud, of
course. The other evening lady of that
place was sleeping in one part of her
house; an invalid gentleman, who was the
only other occupant, lodging in another
quarter. During the night she heard a
noise at the window. She did not scream
=" "Murder! F" Thieves" and arouse the
neiehbors. Neither did she faint. She
just simply went to dresser in her room
and got q long, sharp butcher-knife. As
the robber, for such it was, was entering
the window, she attacked him with this
weapon, and after cutting and slashing
at him awhile ended by giving him
deep stab in the chest that sent him back
ward to the ground. Here he was picked
up and carried off by his confederate,
much to the disgust of the police of Dem
vcr, who are on the lookout for the bur-
glars with which the town is infested.
Year: 1875

ROCHESTER, Democrat Now our hopes
are fully blasted. Lightning recently
struck feather bed. The geese must have
been fed on tacks. But we regain our
hope again, for we are told that Mis-
souri, farmer had COW and calf struck
by lightning daring thunder storm,
and, supposing them dead, they were
dragged off into pasture. In the morn
ing, having occasion TO visit the pasture,
he found the COW and calf as If no thun-
der storm had occurred the night before.
Hereafter we shall put our trust in veal
when it thunders,
Year: 1875

A BIG SCARE IN WEST FARMS, But NO APPRE-


GABLE DAMAGE


Shortly after two O'Clock yesterday morning the
people living the immediate vicinity ofthe gas works
on the north bank Of the Bronx River in West Farms
were awakened by loud report resembling the dis
charge OF piece Of heavy ordnance. For some time
it was difficult TO learn the Of tho report
whence it came but the OF Fifteen twenty
minutes IL became nosed about that explosion had
occurred the gas works, and thither hundreds Of
people ran expecting doubt, 10 find the buildings in
runs ana the workmen either all killed or terribly
mangled Captain Bennett OF the Thirty fourth pre-
cinc soon after earned OF the explosion and with his
entire hurried to the scene OF disaster On arrv
ing there he ordered his men 10 enter and search
the building and If any workmen had been
killed or wounded The officers soon learned that the
only persons injured were workmeD who in
the cellar where the explosion took place. and who
wore thrown with great violence against the wall. They
were not fatally injured, however


An investigation Of the OF the explosion showed
II TO have occurred q conducting pipe through
which there was a leak. The damage DONE which, by
the way was very material was repaired dnring
the day In consequence OF which there was dearth
Of gas last night Had the explosion occurred during
the day, when the buildings are full or workmen, the
disaster must have been OF decidedly serious nature
Year: 1875

Coroner Cannon visited the tenement house No. 1S2
steubcn street, Jersey City, yesterday, and the top
floor he found tho body of John Devine, sixty years
old the cause Of whose death is shrouded in mystery
Tho wife and daughter OF deceased were present.
and did not appear to be distressed He left
his house Saturday morning and was
not heard from I'LL Sunday afternoon, when
his son was informed that the old man had been in
1urcd al the house OF John Reilly in First street The
son proceeded the place designated and found the
osd man UNCONSCIOUS The only explanation given bv
the inmates was that he was hurt by falling down
stairs bruise the forehead over the left eye,
however suggested foul play. DR. Hadden, who made
the examination, states that the brain had been
seriously injured An inquest will be hold.
Year: 1875

DEPARTMENT PUBLIo WORKS,


CosTRAoT CLERKis OYFIcE,


HEw YoEK, Dec "a, 1873
To THE EDITOR on HERALD:-


Aproperty owner publishes card in your paper OF
this date asking information from this department con-
corning its and authority to award contract 10
hessrs- Jones McQuade to I'll IN with earth sec
ton OF First avenue between 104th and 107h Streets
what s known as the Eastern boulevard the price
Of seventy cents per cubic yard and stating in his
communication that other contractors would do the
work for less than half that price justice to Com
missioner Porter am not willing to allow statement
or this character 70 remain uncontradictcd when the
maniiestly Incorrect and at the same time
published a card by OF the leading newspapers
Of the city / will therefore, endeavor If possible 10
convince your correspondent and the public that he
was evidently misiniormed when he submitted his
statement.


In The nrst place. this property owner is In
when he that this department awarded tho said
for earth filing 10 the above named contractors
al the rate OF seventy cents per cubic yard The cs
that several proposals received by she Com
missioner Of Public Works from gentlemen engaged in
that particular line OF business a OF which are now on
Gle in this bureau and Jones Il McQuadc's bid being
the lowest received approved and accepted by
Commissioner Porter and tho contract awarded 70 them
for the OF forty-ive cents per cubic yard The
specifications OF this contract require them TO fill in
the said with good oam gravel sand and other
wholesome earth, and that no ashes street sweepings
garbage refuse any pershable or unvholesome
materials, any earth with which any OF the above
materials intermixed, will be permitted or allowed
IN the embankment


The power OF this department to award contracts
iang 20 the improvement Of the Eastern boulevard
contained in chapter 62s Of the Laws of 1879 entitled
sAn provide for the Eastern boulevard, in the
city Of New York. &c


That act specifically confers upon the Department OF
Pubic Works the power and authority to lay out and
improve The said avenue.


The price paid BY this department for this work s
considered remarkably low by contractors and in my
Judgment II the system Of economy which has
during the administration Of the present Comm Sfoner
OF Pubic Works received 50 much encouragement is
continued the saving tho city by this department
alone will amount TO thousands OF dollars annually
Respectfully, AUGUSTUS L DoCHARTY,


Contract Clerk
Year: 1875




This list does include arrivals by SAILING vessels
While the deplorable condition of business here said
TO be the cause Of the decrease of arrivals has had
also the effect Of almost entirely excluding from the
Immigrant lists class of people that in former years
passage hthcr merely escape financial pressure at
home on the other hand at least seyeneghts OF those
who this year had either their passage paid
by resident friends sufficiently supplied with
money 10 carry them to places where they had de-
signed and after arranged to business The
destination of most Of them has been west OF OHIO,
whittier they at once proceeded. OF those remaining
here nearly all have entered into business that has
afforded at least n maintenance, for the number OF
turn passports issued from the Offices Of the Consuls
General has been only about one third as many as
during the year 1874 and much smaller fraction Of
those of preceding years
Year: 1875

Fritz A. Meyer the President Of the Common Coun.
ell Of Union Hill N. j.. who SO mysteriously dsap-
peared weeks ago and was reported to have been
in Canada returned TO his home yesterday In con-
versation with HERALD reporter he declined TO give
any Tor his mysterious disappearance. He was
received home with shouts Of welcome. Bigotry, ho
said friend had had much TO do with his departure
from Union Hill Mr. Never it may be remembered,
being the OF the suspension Of reading the Bible
IN the Union Hill public school
Year: 1875

John Ayrcs who has been connected with the Police
Department for thirty years and attery doorman Of
che First precinct station house died suddenly in his
chair in the station house al nine O'Clock yesterday
morning while reading newspaper He was seventy
TWO years Of age and s ead have left property 70
the value of s25 900 ID only Thursday that he
called upon lawyer FOR the puposc of having his Will
drawn up but was then induced 70 postpone the sign
ting until YESTERDAY.
Year: 1875




VICES AT THE cHURcH-PUBIIo SENTIMENT
ON TIE EVENT


AUGUSTA, Dec. 81, 1875.
The funeral OF the dead duellist, c. D. Tilly took
place from ST. Paul's church yesterday the regular
rector officiating The church crowded to sunoca-
ton almost there not being either the
floor or in the galleries. The minister read psalm,
offered prayer and then the choir sung
Jesus lover OF my soul,


Let me TO Thy bosom Il
Before dsmissing the audience he delivered short
discourse upon duelling, condemnng the heathenish
and barbarous practice in toto He said not only the
laws of Georgia but the laws OF God condemned it. We
could at least enforce the laws of the State
make repetition of the tragic which has
just stricken this community impossible. He denied
the right OF any not only to take his own but the
life Of his fellow Life belonged to God and He alone
had the right TO take II away.


After the service the magnificent casket, in which
the body lay was borne down aisle taken back
TO the hearse 1t covered with wreaths OF white
camelas long line Of carriages and bugges formed
in OF the hearse Three or four hundred persons
followed the remains 10 the cemetery Arriving there,
the coffin lowered while the Episcopal burial
service was being read by Rev. Mr.. Clark.


COMMENTS


No duel has occurred IN Georgia in twentyh years
which produced such profound sensation. II was
supposed that that mode OF settling difficulty had be-





think the could not be found In the city who would
engage in It, But Just let contingencies
and they would forth by the dozen. The large
crowd which attended Tly's funeral attested this,
rather a certain admiration for a man who had
the pluck 20 face his enemy at ten PAGES and
receive his death wound This people have the highest
admiration Tor personal courage and precious little
for a who fails TO show IT, Knowing this 1t would
have amounted almost social ostracisn If Ratclife
had declined the peremptory challenge Tilly sent him.
To break up duelng is now puzzling any amount OF
moralists To cure ii entirely they must first uproot
this public opinion OF man who declines to fight
when called upon


Since his death it has been ascertaned that Tily be-
longed family of blue blood ireland and that his
sister Is married TO an English nobleman-
Year: 1875

About hsli-past six O'Clock yesterday evening, while
Mr. B Carr or No 642 Second avenue, was engaged in
making some repairs in the lager beer saloon No 81
Chryste street. he chanced TO try gas pipe which he
had been stopping up by applying match Tho stopper
had become loosened and the gas gnitng exploded at
once inurng Carr severely and slightly damaging the
Year: 1875

a LITTLE over two weeks ago, says the
Reporter of Lake City, Fla, David Alex
ander, a mulatto about eighteen years of
age, of athletic frame and in vigorous
health, was accidentally shot in the head
by pistol in the hands of companion.
The pistol was very diminutive weapon,
carrying number twenty-five cartridge
ball, the smallest size, we believe, that is
manufactured. After receiving the injury
Alexander walked home, a distance of two
miles, without any difficulty. DIR. Holt
was summoned and examined the wound.
The ball penetrated the skull Just above
the right eye, and into the orifice made by
it the doctor introduced an eightinch
probe, passing its entire length directly
backward, with a slight inclination up
ward, until it touched the inner plate of
the skull on the opposite side, in which the
doctor thought the ball was imbedded.


DIR. Holt thinks, from the direction
taken by the ball, that it must have tray-
ersed both hemispheres of the brain; yet,
beyond little bloody sanies, there has
been no discharge whatever from the
wound. Not a particle of brain-matter
has escaped. From the first the patient
has suffered little or no inconvenience.
There has been no pain, and scarcely any
fever, no cerebral disturbance of any kind,
no paralysis of either side, and no symp
tom whatever to indicate that so sensitive
an organ as the brain had received any in
Jury. In two or three days the patient
was walking about, and now for more than
week he has been regularly on the
streets in apparently good health and spir-
its, and, except for bandage about the
head, there is nothing in either his appear
ance or manner to excite suspicion that Il
bullet is in his skull
Year: 1875

were, listening. The revulsion of hope
was too much; my faculties all became
dim and hazy. | fired off in succession the
two barrels of my gun.


My next recollection is that of knot of
colliers in semi-nudity, who had Just left
their workings and come through the
brattice which divided their portion of the
pit from the disused part, and were stand
ing around me with their safety lamps.
They had fled, they afterward told me, at
first, thinking an explosion had taken
place in the abandoned workings; and il
was long before the "hutty" could per.
suade any of them to follow him. But
when they once saw my dcplorable con-
dition, agonized with hunger and thirst,
grimy from head TO foot with coal dust,
thin and cadaverous with anxiety, no Sis.
ters of Charity could have been more ten
der in their ministrations. Warm tea and
bread in spare morses were given me
and then | was raised and carried to the
workings, put in a wagon and drawn by
one of the pit-horses to the pit-head
Never shall forget the delight of being
brought up to "bank" and once more
feeling the blessed air of heaven blow on
my haggard cheeks And il any day my
resolution not to shoot again on York
shire moor were in danger of being shaken
by the hospitable invitations of Willis, my
nightly dreams would soon force me tC
abide by my vows.
Year: 1875

THE inhabitants of the Philippines, in
saluting each other, use most complex
attitude; they bend their body very low,
place their hands on their cheeks, and
raise at the same time one foot, in the air
with their knee bent. The islanders,
near the Philippines, take the hand or
foot OF him whom they salute and with II
gently rub their face The Laplanders
apply their nose strongly against that OF
the person they salute. In an island situ-
uated in the Straits of the Sound saluta-
tions are really gymnastic performances.
Houtman said the natives saluted him by
raising his left foot, which they passed
gently over the right leg, and from thence
over his face. An Ethiopian takes the
robe of another and ties il about his own
waist so that he leaves his friend half
naked. The salutatOry ceremonies of ne
groes are farcical; the greater part pull
the fingers till they crack. When two
negro monarchs visit they embrace by
swapping three times the middle finger
When the ancient Franks would show a
peculiar mark of esteem they tore the hair
from their heads and presented il TO the
person they saluted. The slave cut his
hair and offered 1t to his master The
Chinese are singularly affected in theiI
personal ciyilities. They even calculate
the number of their reverences. They are
the most remarkable posturers. The men
move their hands in an affectionate man
ner, while they are Joined together on the
breast, and bow the head trifle If they
respect person they raise their handI
Joined, then lower them 10 the earth II
bending the body
Year: 1875

BY EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER.
SLOWLY the night is falling,


Falling down from the hill,
And all in the low green valley
The dow lies heavy and chill;
Theericket6 eryin The hedges,
ffAndlthe bats are ciFelihg low, - "a
Aud like ghosts through the bIossoming


garden


The glimmering night-moths go.
Hand in hand throu Oh the twilight
Come the children every one,
Flushed with their eager frolic,
Tawny with wind aud SUM-
Home from the sunny uplands
Where the sweet wild berries grow,
Home from the tangled thickets
Where the nuts are ripening slow.
They mock at the owls weird laughter
And the cricket's lonesome cry,
At the tardy swallows flying


Late Through the darkening sky;
And silently gliding after, -.
Through the dusk OF the shadowy street,
Comes their little angel sister,
Star white from her head to her feet
Never crossing the threshold,
Come they early orlate;
With her empty hands on her bosom,
She stops at the cottage gate.
| stretch out my arms in longing,
But she fades from my aching sight,
As little white cloud at morning
Vanishes into the light.
And spite Of the shining garments
Folded about her now,
And spite of the deathless beauty
Growing her lip and brow,
| wish for one passionate moment
She Sat on my knee again;
On her feet, so spotless and tender,
The dust and the earthly stain.
For missing her morning and evening,
The bitterest thought must be
That safe with her blessed kindred
The child hath no need Of me;
And counting her heavenly birthdays,
/ say in my jealous care:
" The babe thatlay on my bosom
Hath grown to a maiden fair;
"And now If out of the glory


Her face like star should shine,
Could / guess the beautiful changeling
Had ever on earth been mine?
] should veil my eyes at her splendor,
But never forget my lack
For the clinging hands of my baby,
And the mouth that kissed me back"
Yet though in my human blindness
cannot fathom His way
Who counts in His glorious cycles
thousand years as a day
Whenever the cloud is lifted,


Whenever cross the tide,
Mine own He will surely give me,
And / shall be satisfied.


~ Y. IldeDendeHt.
Year: 1875

After this display, IL being impossible
to further conceal her identity, the girl
disclosed the facts as to herself


II appears she was q resident of Mon
treal, where she resided with her father,
who is a man of large wealth and first
class social standing, besides being an ex-
member of Parliament. The old gentle
man is one of the obstinate sort, being
thoroughly English, and used to ruling
his family with an iron hand According
to the good old English custom, he few
months since selected, what he termed an
eligible match for his daughter, who, like
sensible girl, did not propose to be thus
sold or given away to the highest bidder, %
and, having a mind and will of her own
decided the matter ut once by packing up
her duds and leaving home. Thanks to
d practical domestic education received
from her mother, long since dead !, the
daughter was able TO obtain both shelter
and employment She did not relish the
work particularly, but it was the best she
could do, and she wouldn't marry that
odious man for all the world ,',so she de
termined to make the best of it,and await
the turn of events. The kind lady to
whom she told her story Immediately re-
moved the runaway girl from her rnenial
! position and received her as an honored
guest 'IetJerS anu eApldndtiOnS were lOr-
warded to the stern parent who, regretting
his harsh course toward his only child,
hastened to Detroit, and yesterday claimed
his own, Last evening the pair took their
departure, the father giving his word to
the good lady who befriended his child
that under any circumstances hewould not
! in future interfere with his daughters
happiness. At the request of the lady in
whose family this little domestic episode
took place we refrain from publishing he
names of the parties connected Herewith,
though the affair had sucha happy ending
it seems too bad to lose an opportunity of
giving the aforesaid old Englishman les
son in the shape of publicity of his at
tempted meanness. Less force and more
coaxing was this girls motto, and her ex-
ample is worthy of emulation. Detroit
| Dunpr
Year: 1875

BALTIMORE is excited over the marriage
in that city of a scion of English nobility
TO colored woman. The Baltimore
papers say the bridegroom is direct de-
scendant of the Plantagenet family of En-
gland, and that, few years ago, when
public Indignation was at its height
against the Prince of Wales, he would, had
the indignation assumed more tangible
form, have been in the direct line for as
cending TO the British throne.
Year: 1875

THE German Government has ordered
that declaration of submission by the Cath
olic clergymen TO the new laws shall be
kept strictly secret, to secure them from
persecution by the Ultramontanes.
Year: 1875

We are sorry to have to call the atten- tion of the Waterbury Index to another mistake regarding our political record. Speaking of our censure of Republican rascality at the South itsays;

 The late election seems to have knock ed the scales from off the republican eyes, in all directions, Litchfeld included.

 Our readers will bear us witness that our eyes have been open to the iniquities of the carpet-bagger, not for weeks and months only, but for years. When we first began calling attention to the dis grace that was being brought on the good name of Republicanism at the South. we were almost alone among Republican journals; now, such leading Republican papers as the New York Times. and such prominent Republican congressman as Kelley. Phelps. and Carpenter take the same view of the Southern situation.

 The ''pride of consistency" is the poor est pride there is going. People who be-
Year: 1875

If the Reading railroad will sell out it's coal mines, as expected, there may be prospect of keeping warm next winter at Isss cost, if not with less fuel, than has been the case of late.