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Year: 1876

THE DOCTORS PURSUIT OF SPECIMEN
When doctor wants a specimen" you may


pretty certainly count on his getting it. The
great surgeon. John Hunter, set an example to
the profession when he bounded that poor devil
of an Irish giant. Hunter wanted the giants
immense skeleton, and the giant knew It
Every step he took was observed by Huuteriaa
detectives, and finally, in despair, the shad-
owed giant tied stone to himself and quietly
dropped into the Thames one night But it
was no use. A month later his macerated


bones, neatly articulated with wire, cleaned


white from dark corner of Hunters private


museum. And another fellow who was hunted


like criminal was that New Englander who


had crowbar shot through his head while


blasting rock. OF course he ought to have


died. Every man before him who had shot q
crowbar through his brain had Immediately
died and allowed the coroner to secure his
regular fee. But this fellow, although at
tended by half a dozen physicians, had refused
TO die. He couldn't go from his door to the
well for bucket of water without meeting pro-
fessors of physiology from Boston and surgeons
from New York, and the entire faculty of


Boston medical college surrounded him when


he walked down town. One morning he was


missing. For twelve years the public heard


nothing about him. A short time ago an en-


thusiastic New England surgeon wrote to the
managers of Boston anatomical museum that
be was on his way back from California with
that fellows skull in his possession. Once
they discover you have any anatomical pecu-
liarity, you will never get rid OF the doctors;
they will follow you BY day and watch under
YOUR window by night, year in and year out,
! until they finally get possession OF you.
Year: 1876

The world has just discovered what th
Democrats are rejoicing over. They think
their majority in the present House is too
large, and the action of Ohio and Indiana in
reducing it twenty meets with their approval.
encouraged by their hearty appreciation the
other states will reduce it to nothing-and
then it will be just large enough.
Year: 1876

election will be had. The President IN rri.
vate conversation expresses himself in yerv
decided language, and says he is determined
to stop the shedding of innocent blood even
ifhe has to resort to extraordinary measures
to accomplish it. Unless the white-liners
comply with the proclamation the strong
arm of the military will be speedily felt.
Year: 1876

Mrs. IRENE HOUSE, recently tried for her
life in New Jersey, apparently possesses a
keen sense of humor. While her son was
testifying that she shot her husband, he made
bluff retort to some question by the exam
lining lawyer and thereupon, says the report,
''her face lit up with merry expression and
she fairly laughed"
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ucations that are not used
Year: 1876

MAKING SHORT WORK OF IT.-In the
town of Hopkinson, Mass, lived GER
tain Deacon Small. In his advanced age
he had the misfortune to lose the rib Of
his youth. After doing penance by
wearing weed on bis hat full year, he
was recommended to a Widow Hooper,
living in an adjoining town. The deacon
was soon astride Of his old brown mare,
and on arriving at the widows door be
discovered her in the act of turning the
suds from her wash-tubs. Said the dea-
con


"Is this Widow Hooper ?"


Yes, SIR" was the reply.


Well" said the deacon, ~ am that
little bit of dried-up Deacon Small
and have one question to propose to you.'


Please propose, SIR"


"Well, madam" said the deacon
"have you any objections to going K
Heaven by way of Hopkinson ?"


None at all, Deacon" was the reply
"Come in Deacon"


Suffice it to say they were married th'
next day.
Year: 1876

"NOw what can be more sickening
than to see pretty, fresh girl of eighteen
or twenty going to the altar with tot
tering old brute of sixty?" asks gush-
ing st. Louis reporter. The fellow seems
to think that it is an easy matter for ev-
cry young woman to find poor young
man with eleven dogs and without any
trade but the truth is that such young
men are not to be found on every dry.
goods box.-Nea0 Orleans Republican.
Year: 1876

A DOCTOR was discovered holding a
young lady in his lap the other evening,
but he stated that he was examining her
for an affection of the heart, and she re-
marked that there was nothing wrong in
laying her head on her piller.-Nor,Oich
Bulletin.
Year: 1876

A MAN was found dead near Reno, Cal,
with an open Bible in his right hand and
in his left hand an open whisky bottle,
and if they could only tell which object
he applied himself to last, believers in
eleventh hour repentance would know
what to put on his tombstone.
Year: 1876

AN honest reputation is within the
reach of all men they obtain it by social
virtues and by doing their duty. This
kind of reputation, it is true, is neither
brilliant nor startling, but it is often the
most useful for happiness.
Year: 1876

"A NEVADA man recently swallowed a
wooden toothpick. While he is stand
ing erect it dosen't bother him, but when
he sits down he is painfully conscious
that he committed an indiscretion.
Year: 1876

With desire to clearly inform the public
of the actual condition of the theatres the
HERALD addressed to all the managers in this
city series of ten questions, bearing prin-
cipally upon the precautions taken in case
of panic or of fire. We are glad to say that
the answers which We publish this morn
ing are frank and full, and that
the managers are disposed to give the
public the truth. But we are also COM
PEELED to say that the truth is not entirely
satisfactory. The people may study the
facts themselves, for we prefer to postpone
analysis and comparison, but we think it
will be found that while all the theatres
make ample arrangements for putting out
fire some of them do not provide sufficient
means of egress. In the case Of q
panic large galleries in some of our popular
theatres can only be emptied by means of
narrow and wooden staircases. On ordinary
occasions these means of exit are safe,
event Of panic, they would not bear the
weight of struggling throng, and in the
case of fire would be easily destroyed. To
get out of theatre is harder than
to get in one. The audience comes in
groups, but it goes out in a crowd. We
believe that all our responsible managers
desire to execute the measures of protection
which our questions indicate, but there is
much to be done yet before doors and
starcases and lobbies will enable a
thousand people to leave q theatre in
five minutes. 1t must be considered
that panic is an impediment to speed.
A theatre which can be emptied in
| nve minutes in ordinary circumstances,
Year: 1876

The performance of the little drama of the
Comptrollership nomination was concluded
yesterday. When the scene was set for the
Board of Aldermen and those respectable
gentlemen were all in their places a mes
senger appeared before the presiding off,
GERS desk and presented several commune
cations from the Mayor. These proved to
be the withdrawal of Mr.. Thayer's name
the nomination of Mr. John Kelly for
ney for Corporation Counsel. Both nomina-
tions received prompt confirmation and the
curtain came down amid enthusiastic ap-
plause. This is all satisfactory enough
Mr.. Kelly will make very good Comp
troller. He, has frmness, honesty and
business capacity, all of which are desirable
in the head of the Finance Department
He is the right man in the right
place and a great improvement on
Mr.. Green. He will guard the treasury just
as jealously as the present Comptroller,
without being impracticable, litigious and
obstructive The people of New York will
be satisfied with Mr.. Kelly, and hence there
was the less necessity for him to play hids
and go seek in relation to the Office. In CO
quoting with the appointment he was moi
justified in making use of Mr.. Thayer, who
is q gentleman universally respected, and
whose services to the democratic party have
been great. Aside from this petty political
fnessing we approve of Mr.. Kelly's ap-
pointment, and only regret that his action
was not more frank and aboveboard.
Year: 1876




Governor Chamberlain was counted in
and sworn in yesterday, but the regularity
OF the proceedings is subject to review by
the Supreme Court of the State II the
Court decides that he has no valid title to
the office, and that the small squad Of re-
publicans who claim to be the House
of Representatives is not a quorum,
the inauguration will prove to be
On idle ceremony. To be sure, the
federal troops may be ordered to defend and
sustain him, but the federal troops cannot
collect taxes to pay the expenses of his gov
ernment. The acts for levying taxes passed
by this bogus Legislature will be declared
void by the courts, and citizens will refuse
topay. If collectors seize their property the
owners will bring suits for trespass and
recover damages, being certain that the
courts of justice will protect them in a
refusal to pay illegal taxes. In such a
state of things Mr.. Chamberlain will
be Governor only in name, and the vain
title will be Of no advantage to him when
he has no means of carrying on the govern
mcHe. IL VIC AcueIdA army StuuuS uiooi Ao
will be dispossessed by judicial proceed
ings; if the army interferes it cannot usurp
the functions of a constitutional Legisla-
ture and raise taxes, and without revenue
this sham government will be as helpless in
fact as it is null in law. If both houses
of Congress were republican they might
pass law for putting South Carolina again
under military government but with one
branch of Congress under democratic con-
troll this method Of upholding Chamberlain
and his bogus Legislature cannot be
resorted to. His government will soon be
starved ont if he nersists in his nreten sions
Year: 1876

terest how the ammunition consumed by the
one hundred and eighty-fve guns which
Secretary Chandler ordered fred in honor of
Hayes election will be officially accounted
for. 1t might go into deficiency bill under
the head OF ''Sedative powder for Uncle
Sam I"
Year: 1876

Our despatch from Washington fully ex-
plains the steps recently taken in England
in regard to the extradition of fugitive
criminals, and states accurately the respec-
tive attitudes of the two governments with
regard to this important subject. 1t will be
seen that the facts sustain the opinion we
expressed when it was first cabled, on the
authority of an English paper, that the re-
cent orders of arrest were issued under o
new treaty, hastily agreed upon by cable.
That statement was erroneous in every par
ticular. There is no new treaty !; but the
vitality of the old treaty is revived in the
fullest degree by the volition and act of the
British government, whose highest legal
officer explicitly declares that the ground
taken by England in its refusal to surrender
Winslow was untenable. This is hand
some triumph for our diplomacy, the more
handsome as it appears that Mr.. Fish's de-
spatch is accepted in England as having
demolished the objections urged to our
claims under the treaty. But if this is
triumph justly agreeable to our pride it
must be recognized that there is in the facts
quite as much for England to rejoice over as
for us. 1t is a moral victory of the highest
order when the authorities of great nation,
convinced that they have erred, have the
boldness, the confidence in the rectitude of
their intentions, to declare the truth and re-
trace their steps rather than to persist in q
wrong through an obstinate self-will or an
apprehension of narrow prejudices. 1t will
please the American people to know that our
government has now withdrawn its objec-
tions to the amendment of the treaty, and
that measures are already on foot to adapt it
to the views urged by the English author
tiles.
Year: 1876

LET Us HAVE PEAcE.-The calm and
conservative temper that prevailed in
the caucus of the democratic Congress
men at Washington yesterday is much
to be commended. Extreme measures
are never desirable while q peaceful solu-
tion of difficulties is possible. The propo-
sition of Mr.. Scott Lord to suspend action
on all matters relating to the Southern cleo
tions until the special committees shall
have reported and the House shall
be in possession of all the facts
was exceedingly wise. Equally discreet
was the position taken by the Southern
Representatives, who expressed themselves
strongly favorable to calmness and modera-
ton, while declaring their intention not to
take an active part in the discussions at this
time. The country needs rest from excite
ment and it will be well pleased if the time
intervening before the final action of Con-
gress on the electoral vote be spent in q
careful study of the constitutional provi-
sions the laws and practice relating thereto,
with an earnest desire on all sides to arrive
at just and harmonious decision.
Year: 1876

could not be cleared at all in the case of
fire. Additional information will be afforded
the reader by the diagrams of some OF the
principal theatres which we print to-day,
showing the relative position of the stage
and auditorium and the means Of exit.
Year: 1876

The ENFORCED DECAY of our merchant
marine provoked sharp comment in report
to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday but
the subject is one to which language is
utterly inadequate. A great nation whose
laws compel it to refrain both from building
ships and buying them is in condition Of
abiect humiliation.
Year: 1876

The horrors of the Brooklyn tragedy in
crease rather than abate Twenty-one ad-
ditional bodies were found yesterday, and
the agonies of the bereaved were even
more than matched by those of hundreds
Of persons who feared that missing friends
had been in the fateful building. The Cor
oner is pressing his inquiries as to whether
the terrible loss of life was due to insufi-
cient means Of egress or to the natural re-
suits Of panic, but nothing that he can
elicit will hide the fatal first cause,
which consisted simply of unprotected
lights That at least one unavoidable acci-
dent greatly increased the loss of life is
proved by the testimony of the gallant
policeman Wessman, who found that lady
who had fallen, and over whom others
stumbled and fell, caused an obstruction
which detained many at time during
which even seconds were precious. The
testimony of the architect, a man of large
experience in theatre building, shows that
the modes Of egress were numerous, but
many OF them were utterly unknown to any
one but the attaches of the theatre, and



passable stage. Of fire escapes proper the
theatre was entirely destitute. This fact
should be kept before the people until every
theatre is compelled to keep ample contri-
vances of this sort ready for immediate use
in case of alarm. 1t is quite certain that, had
every one in the audience possessed the
speed of the swiftest horse, and had each
person predetermined course to be taken
upon exit, not all the people could
have escaped suffocation. TO the question
as to how much asphyxia or suffocation had
to do with the loss Of life the only possible
answer is that its influence was enormous.
Officer Wessman says that though he was in
the smoke but a minute he was nearly
strangled, and the result could not possibly
have been otherwise. The combustion of
many great ''fies," heavy with oil, and con-
tanning some mineral pigments which are
as poisonous when volatilized by heat rs
when in their organic condition, gave the
smoke deadly volume and peculiarly
fatal influence. From this very fact, how
ever, those who lost friends by the fire may
derive q certain amount of consolation.
The supposition that the doomed men and
women suffered at all from the flames
is entirely groundless it is absolutely GER
tain that they were suffocated long before
the fire reached them, and the effect of this
form Of suffocaton is to reduce the victim to
inconsistencies long before life is extinct,
although the duration of life itself under
such circumstances never exceeds five min
utes There has already been terrible
amount of needless suffering on account of
ignorance of these facts, and the TRUTH as we
have stated it, cannot be too widely circu-
lated among those who, either through the
loss Of dear ones or from sympathy with the
bereaved, have been in unnecessary mental
torture over the thought of the last moments
of the lost.
Year: 1876

UNCLE SANS PowDER.-By reason of an
oversight, or, perhaps, because of demo-
cratic malice, Congress made no appropria-
ton at the last session for the celebration of
republican victory in the Electoral College,
and it, therefore, becomes Q question Of in
Year: 1876

THE BILL introduced in the House yester-
day to quiet land grant claims in California
refers probably to the old Spanish grants.
If Congress cannot quiet these the only hope
of the present occupants is in an industri-
Gus, comprehensive earthquake or tidal
wave. for neither the law, the tongue nor
the pistol have ever been able to decide in
whom the titles to these lands are vested.
Year: 1876

ALDERMAN Cole objects to the payment of
the attaches of the late Board of Canvassers
on the ground that some of them discharged
no duties whatever. 'If this is the thing
that is going to obtain" what inducement is
there for any one to 60 into politics at all?
Year: 1876

CAPTAIN GR1NDLE, the story of whose in
humanity to some of his seamen Mortified
the country few weeks ago, is denied a
new trial Brutality is already fashionable
enough on shipboard and needs no encour-
apement from the courts
Year: 1876

Mr.. Howe introduced q bill in the Senate
yesterday declaring it felony punishable
on conviction with minimum fine and i'm
prisonment of ten thousand dollars and ten
years for any person who shall do any act
pertaining to the Office of IN elector for
President and Vice President of the United
States without having been duly appointed
to act as such elector in accordance with the
laws of his State, or for any person to carry
to Washington or deliver to the President
Of the Senate return of votes for President
and Vice President certified by persons not
duly appointed to act as electors. We are
glad to see Mr. Howe moving in the direc-
The country has seen enough recently to
admit the necessity of some provisions diff
ferent from those that now prevail in re-
gard to scrutinies, revisions and counts
in q Presidential election. Still, we
doubt the sufficiency or expediency Of the
bill prepared by Mr.. Howe. 1t seems to
have been drawn in haste-possibly in the
excitement of anger-and scarcely reaches
far enough to cure existing evils. If in
tended to affect the present situation it
would prove valueless and be embarrassing
to both political parties. There have been
serious complications in regard to the cleo
toral votes in several States. Mr.. Howe and
his party have held firmly to the doctrine
that the returning or canvassing boards are
supreme, even over the State courts, in de-
claring what electors have been duly ap-
pointed; that the electors bearing the GER
the judgment of the said boards, alone are
qualified to cast the Presidential vote; that
the duty of the President of the Senate is
ministerial only; that the returns to be
opened by him in the presence of the
two houses of Congress and counted
can be only the returns signed by
the electors bearing the certificate and seal
of the Governor of their State, and that no
power exists of going behind those duly
certified returns. Others entertain differ
ent opinion and in some instances, believ-
ing, no doubt, in the justice and legality of
their action, have made preparations to try
the issue by sending on to Washington con-
testing returns. This is notably the case in
Louisiana, where the democratic electors
have met and voted for Tilden on the certif-
cate of McEnery, who they pretend to re-
gard as Governor, and in Oregon, where
the republican electors have met with
out any certificate either of Returning
Board or Governor. and cast their
votes for Hayes In both these cases
the irregular electors, no doubt. believe hon.
estly that they are right, and it would
scarcely be just to hold them to be felons
when they intend no criminal act But then
it is scarcely worth while to argue the case,
as it is certain that Mr.. Howes bill will not
pass the democratic House Of Representatives,
and cannot, therefore, become law.
Year: 1876

WHEREAS, The great and Ail-wise Ruler Of
the universe, in his supreme wisdom has seen
fit TO remove from our midst our most Worthy
Master and beloved brother CAPT. JOSEPH NJ.
BARR, ET s@ E


Bet Resolued, That this Grange feels deeply
sensible of the loss of one of its foremost and
intelligent defenders of the noble principles
of our order, and a sanguine believer in its
eventually relieving the agricultural interest
Of much of the burdens under which it labors.


Resolced, That our late Worthy Master by
his uniform kindness and happy disposition
always added very materially to social plea
sures resulting from our association.


Resolved, That the loss of our late brother
has left void which we feel cannot be satis-
factorily filled by any of his remaining
brothers. 5-l fu7efa


Resolved, That we tender to the family of
the deceased our sincere coincidence, feeling
our loss however great, is without COM
parison to their sore and art-broken be-
reavement
Resolved That copy of these resolutions
be sent to The TRANSCRIPT and Farmers Friend
with the request they be given publication.


H. A. NowLAND, Sec.
Year: 1876

The Pioneer Press has a special dispatch
from Bismarck which says that Gen. Miles
had successful fight after an unsuccessful
council with Sitting Bull on the 21st and
22d of October, on Cedar Creek, killing a
number of Indians and wounding many
Miles own loss was two men wounded, He
chased the Indians about 60 miles, when,
they divided, one portion going toward the
agency and the other with Sitting Bull to-
ward Fort Peck, General Miles following
the latter. General Hazen has gone to Fort
Peck with four companies of infantry and
rations for General Miles. Sitting Bull
crossed the river below Fort Peck on the
24Lh inst. He sent Word to the agent that
he was coming in and would be friendly, but
wanted ammunition.
Year: 1876

in this way The Marshal Of the District this morning
served upon the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
a bench warrant. requiring the body OF Haliet


Kilbourn under tho regular process of the court


The Sergeant-at-Arms refused to deliver the pris-
oner except by the order of the House. The Com
mittee the District Real Estate Pool which con-
Quoted the investigation IN respect of which Mr.


Kilbourn is in contempt, Immediately presented to
the House resolution instructing the Sergeant-at-
Arms not to deliver the prisoner to the
officers Of any court or TO any person except
by the order of the House. Upon this
resolution debate continued throughout nearly
the entire day. The discussion was confined to
Messrs. New, Kasson, Geo. Hoar, and Beverly
Tucker. All of the speakers opposed surrendering
Kilbourn to the civil authorities, and maintained


that Congress, and not the courts, could punish for
contempt. The House decided by large majority,
irrespective of party that the witness shall be kept


in jail until he answers. Mr. Kilbourns lawyers are
thus checkmated, as they had fully expected to
secure his release bail under the judicial process