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Year: 1870

WONDERFUL SAGACrTY OF A DOG. The
following story, strange rs it may appear, is
vouched tor by several witnesses whose testi-
mony is unimpeachable and may be placed
on a par with the stories told of Dr. Gilman 5
horse which our citizens know to be true


A short time ago female Newfoundland dog
was in the habit of coming to the house of a
lady in this city, who would throw to it pieces
of cold meat which the dog would eat, and,
having satisfied its hunger, 90 away again


SO confirmed did this habit become that at a
certain hour every day the lady would ex-
pect the dog and the animal would put in an
appearance. few days ago, before feeding


her. the lady said to her, ''Why don't you
BRING me one OF your puppies ?'' repeating the
question several times as she stood at the
window, the dog looking her in the face with
an expression of intelligence as if it under
stood every word the lady said. The next
day, to the lady's astonishment, at the usual


hour the dog returned, and lo and behold!
was accompanied by a little puppy The
lady fed both dogs and then took up the pn-
py into the window, when the old dog scamn-
cred off and did not return for three days.
At the end of that time the dog again appeared
when, after feeding it, the lady said, "Next
time bring all your puppies; want to see
them y and yesterday morning sure enou oh
the dog returned accompanied by three Ne1,


toundla,d pups. Several of the ncighhors
saw the whole transaction and declared that
they considered this one Of the most wonder
full proofs of the sagacity of the dog they
have ever known. Where the dog came
from or to whom it belongs is not known, but
we have the name of the lady and also of
those who were eye-Witnesses to the occur
rences as narrated by us. Portland Press
Year: 1870

Eyes like blue violets, cleaning gold hair,
Parted red lips and wondering air,
Fresh rounded checks and innocent brow
OF a child to whom grief is Il stranger now
Sad faded eyes and silvering hair.


Brow marked with many cross and a care
Thin hands whose labor is nearly done,
Calm smile of happiness lost and won.
Closely they sit as the twilight grows,
The opening blossom, the withered rose.
o, say, for which shall pity find
Her life all to come. or hers left behind?
Year: 1870

While up the river Il few days ago, says
the Mississippi Democrat, we heard rich
one on some poor fellow whose name has es-
capped u.s. He was padding to Vicksburg in
a dugout and had been informed of Il Ger
tain locality called Rick's Bend, which is
eighteen miles around, and in one place
about n hundred yards across. He was ad-
vised to land at the narrow point, and drag
his craft over, but he passed the spot going
down without observing it, and padded on
eighteen miles around, till he struck it on the
other side. Landing at once. he dragged his
boat across, and went gliding on down with
Il light heart till he came within Il few PAGES
of the same spot where he had dragged
across before. Thinking it was new cut
off, he went ashore and tugged his canoe
over again. When he got back to the river
u second time, he sauntered around little to
stretch himself and soon discovered an old
newspaper, out of which he had taken his
breakfast that morning. 1t was now about
sundown, and as he had padded thirty-six
miles without any tlattering progress. he
scuttled his dugout with q hatchet, built a
camp, and waited till next day for steam
boat.
Year: 1870

! MAN FALLS One HUNDRED AND TWENTY
EIGHT FEET. On Saturday afternoon an acci-
dent occurred to a miner in this city, the
extraordinary result of which challenges be-
lief. A man named Thomas Jones, about
thirty years of age, and weighing perhaps
100 pounds, fell down a shaft 1873 feet deep
without breaking a bone or receiving any
serious injury. Jones is lessee of mine in
Lander Hill, belonging to the Manhattan
Company, which he and his companions have
peen working with a whim About three
o'clock on Saturday afternoon Jones and q
fellow miner stepped into tub for the pur-
pose OF being lowered down the shaft they
got into the tub in the usual manner each
having his right leg hanging outside to guard
its descent. At the moment they stepped in,
the tub suddenly fell short distance, owing
to the whim being ungeared, their drought
up" but the men thinking that the break had
given way attempted to get out before it
passed below the mouth of the shaft One
OF them succeeded in springing out Of the tub
upon the ground, but in his attempt Jones
lost his balance and fell headong into the
shaft. The shaft is only four feet in diameter,
and extending through solid granite, presen-
ting rough and Jared sides from top to bot
tom. At the bottom of this uncouth pit there
there We're several large picks and Il ladder.
IL lo Dcllchc cl lllitl JOiGS nave
and caught the ladder, which "broke his fall''
and preserved his limbs and saved his life
Almost at the moment of his fall two men
got into the bucket and We're sent rapidly
down the shaft where, to their intense sur
prise, they saw Jones alive, OF his feet, SEN
sible and able to talk. He was hoisted to
the surface and carried home where DIR.
Wizon speedily attended him. An examina-
ton showed that not a bone was broken or
dislocated. There was q slight cut in the
scalp; one of his shoulders severely bruised
the skin torn from both hands, and over his
body there were as many as sixty to seventy
! slight decorations. This was the sum of his
external injuries. During Saturday light his
circulation was greatly disturbed, but yester-
day his pulse was becoming more regular.
Jones is bruised and painfully sore from head
to foot but there is good reason to believe that
he will be up and moving about ina short TIME


That he was not instantly killed is marvellous ;
but that man should fall l2S feet down a
narrow and rugged shaft without breaking so
much rs u bone almost surpasses belief.
There was an extraordinary case in this city
several years ago in which u boy, eleven
years old, fell down the shaft of the South
American, l6S feet deep, and escaped with
two broken limbs, which in about ninety
days were rs good and firm as ever. Reese
River (Cal.) Reville, March Is.
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib, the legs drop down through hollow posts. and are fasten- ed by single bolts. bringing the crib on the level

 with the bedstead. The same process with the the head. The head and foot boards are folded down over the mattress when not in use. The Crib can contain tine bed made up"for use when

 when closed in. Each bsdstead can have a single
Year: 1870

One cut shows the Bedstead as it appears with the crib or single bedstead not ill use; the other represents the Bedstead with the at- tachment drawn out. It can be entirely separat- ed from the bedstead and rolled about at
Year: 1870

At the Fair of the American Institute in New York this last fall, the contest for superiority la, between the Weed, Howe, and Wheeler & Wilson Machine, for long time the battle ragged fercely neither gaining any advantage. until the Weed, il of cloth, of many thicknesses, without a change of needle or tension, and without breakage O thread, at one boundsjumped far ahead of all it competitors, and swept the prizes from the board

 3w
Year: 1870

please deliver all packages intended for the HERALD
regularly authorized who attached Steam
Yacht lee The New York Associated Press do not now
collect marine reports attend to the delivery packages
Will be by the following extract from the proceedings
Of the regular monthly meeting held March 3, 1867:


Resolved That and after April 1868, the Associated
Press will discontinue the collection Of ship in the
harbor OF New York. Passed UNANIMOUSLY.


uS- The office Of the HERALD yachts THE HER AID,
JAMES and JEANETTE is at Whitehall slip All communi
cations from and consgnecs to the Of
inward bound vessels will be forwarded Of charge


OCEAN STEAMERS


DATE OF DEPARTURES FROM NEW YORK FOR THE
MONTHS OF JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.
Year: 1870

We admire the crow because in many
respects lie resembles ourselves. He Is
lazy, and that is human he Is cunning.
and that is human. He takes advan-
tage Of those weaker than himself and
that IS man like. He Is sly. and hides
for tomorrow what he can't eat to-day,
showing real human providence. He
learns tricks faster than useful things,
showing true boy-nature. He thinks
his own color the best aud loves to hear
his own voice. which are eminent traits
of humanity. He will never work
when he can get another to work for
him-a genuine human trait. He eats
whatever he can get his claws upon, and
is less mischievous with belly full than
when hungry, and that is like man.
He is at war with all living things ex.
cept his own kind, and with them when
he has nothing else to do. No wonder
men despise crows. They are too much
like men. Take off their wings, aud
put them in breeches, and crows would
make fair average men. Give men
wings, and redace their smartness n
little, and many of them would be al
most good enough to be crows.
Year: 1870

A fly shortened by several minutes
the life of John Real, the murderer,
who was executed at New York on FRI
day. The Sheriff had arranged to raise
cap, and afterward to waive his hand
kerchief for the cutting Of the rope.
While standing with his hat in ona
hand and his handkerchief in the other,
awaiting the end of the religious cere-
monies, fly happened to light upon
his nose, and he unconsciously raised
his handkerchief to brush it away,
which the hangman, of course took to
be the pre-arrangcd signal. aud ut once
cut the rope. 500 s<sss
Year: 1870

The proposed improvement of the Battery by the Com


ssoncrs OF Parks meets with the hearty approval of all
down town residents As evidence of the
natter aborers yesterday morning engaged in
ing the unsghty heaps Of dirt there, long Of
annoyance pedestrians windy day. II the work Ia
rightly commenced and continued as promised, Will not
long before this barren spot be pleasantly changed
that the old inhabitants when wandering ahaat will JOY
ousy recall days that the thick foliage Of ia
tered sturdy old Knckerbockers; and IT, in addition gav
walks and oosey seat suitable landing stairs
for the convenience Of shpnases mariners
generally will add greatly TO tho useulness OF the old
resort


The docks Quarantine Staten Island washed away by
the terrible storm few weeks since rebuilt and
shat IN that Will long enable them to Withstand tho
Year: 1870

Leaving the Tented Field, General Jordan Comes
on Diplomatic Mission to the United States
to Feel the Popular Pulse and Try and


Touch the Popular Pocket-What lie


IL Going to Do and What He
Expects to Accomplish
Year: 1870

advocate and agent Of social reform and
advancement. After all that is said, the rear
issue involved in this election Is SIMPLY
whether or not women shall have a larger liberty
10 do good, and that they may be so far enfIan-
clrsed ought to be the wish of every true man and
woman. There is little doubt that the medical
practitioners who oppose the admission OF wo-
men To the clinics will take advantage at the
philadelphia election of the votes OF their
children, and perhaps their wives. Let the
women and children who favor the admission
of womcn-students see that their votes are not
uncounted on the other side. And since they
cannot vote by proxy, let them be sure to at
tend the election on Monday.


We have examined with care two pamphlets
nut forth anonymously in the interest OF those
who oppose the admission of the women, ana
have searched them in vain for plausible ar
gument. There are many mistatements OF facts
evident TO the most casual reader. Beyond GER
tain weak efforts at satire, in which neither
wit nor point is apparent, and great deal OF
abuse Of the Quaker gentlemen who nave long
managed and largely supported the Pennsyi-
vania Hospital, we can find nothing that de-
serves to be stated or is worthy OF reply.
Very few of the large-minded persons VINO
were wise enough to direct their charity to the
noble purpose of supporting such an lnstitu-
ton as the Pennsylvania Hospital VIII DC de-
ceiyed by The speciOus reasoning OF these
pamphlets.


We publish this morning in another column
second communication from " A Mother" on
this subject. TO which we direct attention. III
10 n strono argument in favor of admitting
women to clinical lectures that IN time, their
presence will redeem those scenes from much
that is indecent and disgraceful. The ribaldry
and profanity on the part of male students,
and the display of beartlessness by the pro-
fessors, are often far more degrading than can
possibly be the exposure of the human FORM
1t would be a gross slander on our mems ma
ture to believe that the presence OF women on
such occasions will not after time curb tins
wantOn and wicked spirit.
Year: 1870

Since our City began to construct her great
Central Park, distant cities have WED with
public-spirited individuals in making her pres
ents of rare and curious animals and birds to
increase the attractions of that Park AS the
formation therein of grand geological collec-
ton formed no part of the plan of the Park,
it was inevitable that these gifts should be
badly provided for and many of them severely
tried by the rigors and caprices of our unfa-
milar climate. Many have consequently died ;
nearly all, we presume, have suffered; and it
is high time that remedy were provided.


We ask our rulers to appoint Henry Bergh,
or some other officer of his Society for the Pro-
lection of Animals from cruel treatment, to
fill the vacancy in the Park Commission caused
by the resignation of John b. Dillon. We care
not who may be the man, provided he be one
who will make specially of seeing that our
City's growing collection of animals and birds
be treated as humanity and decency conspire
to dictate.
Year: 1870

We are all the more concerned for the result
of the election at the Pennsylvania Hospital
on Monday next, in which the right Of women
students of Medicine to be present at the elm
ical lectures of that institution is to be deter
mined, since there is just reason for serious
fear that their Punishment from 80 clinics
there will be followed by their exclusion from
Bellevue and other hospitals throughout the
country. This would be deplorable result in


every aspect in which we may view it. The
issue is of Importance not merely to the young
ladies who demand the right to the most COM
prehensive instruction in the profession they


have chosen, but to society, whose security in


large degree depend on the thOroughness of the


medical educatin. which is sought. There is
cause to be gli 4, for this latter reason, that
society and pst the medical fraternity will be
called upon to decide the question at the
Philadelphia election. AS we are informed, the
contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital who
are to vote on the issue are largely mothers
and their children. Any person contributing
the sum of thirty dollars to the Hospital is en-
titled to. vote for life in the election of its
managers and the decision of questions like
the one in issue. Many parents have made
contributions in the names of children still
minors, but these, we are told, are entitled to
vote, and we hope will vote in the interests of
society for the admission of women TO clinics.
The lady contributors have never heretofore
voted at all, but, for the sake of themselves
and their struggling sisters, we hope they will
do so now. There has been an effort made to
discourage them on the foolish ground that
for them to vote will give color to the charge
that the managers are encouraging "WOmen's
Rights We are not ourselves ardent
admirers of the class of ladies who have been
prominent agitatOrs for what are misnamed
"womens rights but We arc heartily in favor
of giving each and every one of the sex every
opportunity for acquiring an education that
makes her an independent, useful member of
society, and q positive. not mere negative,
Year: 1870

The most interesting and vigorous debate
which we have had in the House this many a
day, was heard yesterday, on the bill to grant
land in aid of an Oregon railway. Mr.. Holman
of Indiana in most illogical argument against
all land grants, mentioned that ten million
acres of land had been taken in 1869, under the
Homestead act, but concealed the fact that
nine-tenths of the acres thus settled upon were
in the vicinity of the great railways which
form the attraction to Western emigrants.
This is a fact which cannot be disputed and
which we are surprised TO see ignored. 1t is also
a clearly demonstrated fact that it is to the
interest of the railroad companies which have
completed their lines by Government land aid
to sell at low rates to actual settlers, rather
than to spectators at high rates, and there is
evidence that the companies encourage actual
settlers. The Pacific coast ought to be deyel-
oped, and there is no better disposition to he
made of part of the public lands in that
State than by giving them away in encourage
ment of internal improvements.
Year: 1870

How to deal with an insuUection when
governs another insurrection, which in ITS turn
claims authority over still another insurrec-
ton, is one of the problems of modern policy
This is the very question which our Govern
ment has had before it in dealing with Spain
New outbreaks in that unfortunate country
continually remind us that it is indeed the
country of topsy-turyy and vice-versa. Cuba
is in state of revolution tempered by rebel
lon-we mean the counter-revOlt OF Nalma-
seda; Spain is in a condition of miscellaneous
outbreak tempered by revolution-we mean
the revolution which governs at Madrid
Which is the government, and which Is the
insurrection
Year: 1870

As usual, the political meetings of Paris are
turbulent Napoleon has just been accused, the
Republic shouted for, the Marseilaise sung,
and would-be impeacher of the Great Man
"Me" arrested. All these happenings bespeak
that spirit of revolution in France which is
always on hand, but not always to order. AS
France approaches the day of the Plebiscitum her
negative seems to gain in strength; but how
will this substantially avail against the organ
lied victory of Personal Government We see
that from a comparison of the recent vote in
tho third circumscrption of the Rhone the
Year: 1870

What now about that tremendous Feman
raid into Canada, which was ''fixed" for the loh'
the 10th, and 2Sth of April, and which was
lately reported to be fixed" for the lst Oh
May, but will probably be postponed TILL the
7th. the 10TH or the 31st 7 We have, from
time to time, during the current month, given
the Canadians our opinion that the Fenians
had not fixed upon any day in ApHi Tor raid
into Canada; and we now give 1t as our
opinion that they will not make their grea'
raid at any time during the month OF May
We suppose, however the Canadians VIII think
hereafter that they know better than We DO
Just as they have heretofore thought them
selves better informed than we were. we
can't help this but we must express our srie'
at seeing them wrought up into such war
like heat, without any necessity for it.
Year: 1870

We fully agree with Mr.. Frederick Douglass,
who said in a speech the other day in Phila-
delphia, that although he was himself
thorough going Republican, he would not dis
pute the right of any cOlored citizen to vote
the Democratic ticket. This is rather different
and infinitely more charitable than the ground
taken by Mr. Wendell Phillips, who told the
colored men of Boston lately, that if at any
time they ever voted for any man who had in
public life done them the slightest injustice,
he should consider them as traitors to their
race. "Never forgive !" is the maxim of the
Boston White Man, enunciated with some
thing unpleasantly like arrogance, and with
just suspicion at least of personal hatred.
" Exercise your judgment according to con-
"science, when case arises" is the advice OF
an Emancipated Slave. We ourselves think
that it will be a long time before it will be
prudent for any COlored Citizen to vote for
"Democrat'-but whether he shall do so or not
is his own business and not ours, nor yet Dir.
Phillips's.
Year: 1870

rapid growth and unprecedented prosperity.
She has less than a Million and Half Of
people to-day we shall be sOrely disappointed
if she does not return Three Millions in 1850
and Six Millions in 1900.
Year: 1870

AT printers festival on Frank
Inns birthday, the following was
one Of the regular toasts The edi-
tor and the lawyer--The devil is
satisfied with the copy Of the for
mer, but requires the original Of the
latter.
Year: 1870

June &c, 1866.


Dr. JoHN BuIL--Dear Sir: have recently
given your Worm Destroyer several trials,
and find il wonderfully effcacious. II has not
failed in single instance to have the wished-
lor effect am doing pretty large country
practice and have daily use for some article OF
the kind. ! am tree to confess that know Of
no remedy recommended by ths ablest authors
that is so certain and speedy in its effects On
the contrary they are uncertain in the extreme
My object in writing to you is to find out upon
what terms | can get the medicine directly
from you. IF can get it upon easy terms |
will use great deal of it. am aware that
the use OF such articles is contrary to the teach
| ings and proctce Of a great majority of the
| regular line Of u. D,'s, but see no Just cause
or good sense in nrdscarding a remedy (which
we know to be efficient simply because we
may be ignorant of its combination For
my part, | shall make il a rule to use all and
every means to alleviate suffering humanity
which may be able to command-not hesita-
ting because some one more ingenious than
myself may nave known its effects first and
seeurad the sole right to secure that knowledge
However am by no means an advocate oI
supporter of the thousands Of worthless nos
trums that food the country that purport tc
cure all manner of disease TO which human
flesh is heir. Please reply soon, and inform mt
of your best terms.


| | am, sir, most respectfully;


JULIUS z. CLEMENT, NJ. D.
Year: 1870

TYOW OFTEN rs THE HOUSEHOLD
1 L loaf buried with the household head and
families that might have been comfortably y
provided for, lett destitute by the want OF
proper foresight in it's deceased protector?
Year: 1870

The citizens of Maine who rejoice in the progress
of Human Freedom and Equal Rights, achieved by
tfthe Nation under the direction of the NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN PARTY during the past decade; who
heartily second the administration of President
by the restoration of confidence abroad and tran
guilty at home; who endorse its wise policy for the
reduction of the national debt and applaud Its sue
cessful endeavors establish economy and honesty
in the administration of the Government; who ap-
prove the record of the party in Maine on all
questions of public policy, including its consistent
and straightforward efforts for the suppression of
the evils of lntemperance, requested to send del
egates to a State Convention, to be held in


Granite Hall, Augusta, Wednesday, June 18th. 1870
at eleven O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose of nominal
ing candidate for Governor, and to transact such
other business as may properly come before the
Convention. fa..aA fa Hsss


The basis of representation will be as follows:


Each city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate and one additional delegate for every
IS votes cast for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor IN 1868. fraction of 10 votes will be entitled
to an additional delegate.


Delegates are required to be actual residents of
vention.


The state Committee will be i'll session in the Re
ception Room of the hall at O'Clock on the morning
OF the Convention the reception of the credentials
of delegates, and TO hear and determine all cases of
contested elections, subject to ratification by the
Convention.
Year: 1870

Census returns begin to come in quite
rapidly. but it will require some. time to
tabuiate and complete them befor any really
valuable statistical information can be
gained from them Nearly four and half
millions of names have been received, and
it is thought the number received before the
close of the month will be over six millions.