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Year: 1872

The Brooklyn Committee of Fifty mas
made public a special report of its Subcommittee Oh
the Permanent Board OF Water md Sewerage CohinS-
reviewing the record OF Senator John e. Perry
in the last Legislature but the main facts nave peen
embodied in previous report summary
of the amended statement is here presented Messrs'
Bull and Wells state that they were appointed iast ran
by the Council Vigilance 10 wait on Senator Perry ana
his political opponent and to ascertain their sentiments


in regard to pledge binding the nominee to advocate
charter election in the Spring the abolition OF all Boards
and Commissions an extension Of the powers OF the
Mayor, SO as to give linn full supervision over the
denartments a repeal Of the law authorizing
the issue Of bonds for street improvements
and various other measures OF municipal re-
form Senator Perry assured the Committee that he
heartily conceded with the views expressed In the
pledge and at no time thereafter withdrew his verbal
approval 1t is further alleged that In February Senator
Perry assured three residents that he would never consent
toI Iany legislation which would permit any Democratic
appointment the Water Board or any other local COM


mission The report that the Senator In violation
of his pledge and repeated contributed his
deliberate to the reapponment OF MI Fowler
20 the Water Board Commission the proceedings OF the
Legislature being cited support Of the allegation The
report also alleges n rmation OF the senator's IN
fuepce with the Ring that he offered 10 put prominent
Republican on the Fire Commission.
Year: 1872

To INC EdfTOF OF IHt ITFUWHt' II


SIR: "Can Women Standf' is the heading
Of an article IN late TRIBUSBa article to winch the
spirit moves to reply that women can stand They
can stand hours looking In at shopwindow, gazing at
some ay-Hgure, robed in the latest Partisan fashion
often dragging their small children by the hands or they
can without apparent fatigue, spend hour in arrsng
ing pound or two more or less, OF artificial brads
curs opsies &c they 90 into crowded assemblies,
stand for hours at bridal receptions dance tin mid
night with those pretty little feet OF which the writer OF
the article speaks say that do all this, and


and t Is odd that she cannot stand in ferryboat
for i've minutes Let her take of her hghheeled boots
let her out into the fresh air and walk three four
miles day, go about her household duties in real
sober earnest making the inmates Of home comfort
able and happy let her dress, in short, decent
ought 10 do. not seeking 10 make dronedary
camel Of herself then she may possibly be able 10 stand
up An a ferry-bOat without being subject 10 all the
physical disabilities unfelt by masculine humanity"


keD York, June Z, 1877. COMMON SENSE.
Year: 1872

The Brooklyn Board OF Aldermen, at its meeting
yesterday received communication from Mayor Powell setting forth
that he had appointed oBhen Special wadn provided for
BY Chapter 1885, for the purpose Of enforcing the
law regard the manufacture storage and sale OF er'
pove oils The Board confirmed the nomination The Board Of City
made report reference 10 Its requirements for the next as
.4va sfrnrt then mast wear are easf0
Year: 1872

The whole number Of deaths in this city for lsl was
os o7s 40 that within fraction of onehaf OF the total
number of deaths occurred in tenements The following
IS comparative statement Of the mortality in tenement
houses public institutions and private dwellings during
Year: 1872

a. AAOAn4N'


We recorded the death of Mr.. Charles Lyle
by lightning, on the night of the 18th in
slant. We also stated that no marks were
visible upon his body, indicating that death
followed from other than natural causes.
We have since learned, that in preparing
the body for sepulchre, Mr.. MQwday, the
undertaken, could distinctly SEE where the
electric fluid had entered and left the body.
It appeared to have commenced at the left
shoulder, and taking a downward course,
crossed the bresst TO the right leg, leaving
an abrasion ofthe skin between two Of the
toes. But what is quite wonderful in con-
nection with the matter is the fact that up
on the right breast was the print Of leaf
found on the floor of the piazza at the dead
mans feet. The leaf Was from an ailanthus
tree in the yard, and with the stem meas
ured about five inches in length. The ribs,
veins and cellular texture of the leaf was
perfectly printed on the skin, the whole
having a red appearance. Mr.. Lyle died
in a sitting posture, upon chair, and when
found his head inclined one side. As his
clothes were not in the least disturbed, it
would appear impossible for the leaf to
have come in contact with skin. In COM
pairing the leaf found with the impression
on the body, the two were exactly alike in
size and development. How the impress
sion was made on the skin is a mystery.
1t may have been the result of species of
photography familiar to scientists, but our
readers would no doubt be gratified if some
body would rise to explain.
Year: 1872

A Paris paper recently asked show mag
istrates conducted themselves in America,
and proceeded to answer by declaring that
it was an everyday matter in our courts, at
least in winter, to see both judge and jury
men taken off their stockings, so as to dry
them on the registers in the court rooms,
while some of their number were actually
free and easy enough to habitually cut their
corns. Hence, he added, when on recent
occasion lawyer demonstrated against this
lack of judicial decorum, the Judge, glow
ering upon him, cried out, "Mr. Attorney,
cali you to order and to the respect due
this court. Mind your own business, sir. y
The lawyer abashed, continued his address
to the court, and the latter proceeded with
its pedal surgery
Year: 1872

sun, still obscured by the black and vapory
mist, this interval was followed by return
of the observation with greater density,
that rendered the first half of the night hid
eously dark beyond all former experience
of probably million of people who saw it.
Year: 1872

One of the vices of our literary class is the
superficial refinement which vents Itself
on words and phrases. Ihaye seen express
sions of both love and grief which were too
elegant for passion. The strong thought
always finds the best speech, but as its to.
tai form; it does not pause to prink itself
by the way, or to study its face in glass
Echo Club.
Year: 1872

The exhibitors at the American Institute
Fair we're addressed yesterday afternoon, by Gen. Van
Buren, Commissioner, having IN charge the American
department Of the Vienna Exposition His speech was
in substance as follows Aside from Christianity and
the printing press few agencies had exered greater in
huence upon recent human progress than the great in
ternational expostiOns which had within compare
tyely brief period sprung up 1t proposed TO have
such one in Amer ca at the centennial OF Inde-
pendence In order TO obtain the success OF that II was
essential that we should be well represented in the ap
proaching Exposition at Vienna, which would be the
greatest aeld the grounds and buildings being six


times as large those at Paris in 1867 Another
why we shOud be well represented the reflex infu
ence which a good exhibition Of American inventions
and products would have upon the German ma
ton. Every nation would be stimulated by II,
so that as matter OF dollars and cents it would pay
No Government appropriation had yet been made by
the United States but he believed that at the
sion of Congress such an appropriation would be made


II duplicate receipts for expenses were kept, he be-


eved that the appropriation would refund money eI
pended before action OF At all events in
YenOrs could get their articles ready so as TO be able TO
forward them at upon the favorable action OF Con
gress Austria was more anxious that American pro-
ducts should be well represented than that those OF any
other country should be- The speaker then showed %
side elevation OF the principal building to be used and
ground plan OF the buildings already erected and OF the
Grounds The chief building is 5000 feet long by ~ feet


wide and has number Of trausepts $50 by 90 in extent
80 that the entire surface covered by the building Will
m the world. There would a separate building
for power machinery by $50 in exent There would
also be large building Tor agricultural instruments
clusiYely The west wing OF the building which is the
one toward the city and through which most OF the


stors ESTIMATED at 1850 900 per day) would pass 10 the
other parts Of the building had been assigned 10 Amer
ica and a better position ourselves could not have
chosen He then gave the details Of an arrangement by
which inventions would be essentially projected and
showed how patent treaty would probably grow out of
the Exposition Among the interesting features OF the
Exposition would be North Western prOduetsgrasses
vegetables &c-frOm ground recently the lair Of wild
beasts Germany was especially anxious that our school
houses and school system should be shown up.
Year: 1872

The trial of Mark Flanagan, indicted for the
murder OF his WIFE begun in the Court Of General
sessOns yesterday. IThis shoemaker lived with his
family in the tenementhouse No 4O5 East Seventeenth
ST. He was in the house the evening OF Aug Is, and
asked his wife for money buy ale she could not or
would not give it, and he finally attacked her She de-
Tended herself for while but 40 last he stabbed her
with q shoe-knife, nnicting wounds which caused her
death within an hour.


James Flanagan, aged OF the prisoner testified
that he entered the just his father demaud
ing the money for ale witness sent to call the land
lady and when he returned his father attacking his
mother, she defending herself with broom he vent
again for help and returning his father knedng
upon her she cried that her husband had knife,
boy tried to assist her witness again went Tor
help this happened about O'Clock, and she died about
an hour afterward Flanagan had been subject TO s for
about months but seemed 10 be recOyering he also
used 10 complain Of pain in his head ms wife was hnd
to HIM he was intoxicated at times.


Mary Graham landady OF the house, testified that she
raI up stairs and found Flanagan, with knife in his
hand, standing his wife, who the floor; she
was found 10 have wound in the right breast and
another small one he had left the room, but returned
looked al his wife aud deliberately kicked her; ne after
ward seized bottle Of some preparation used by shoe
makers 10 put on leather and drank some OF IT, saying
ne wOuld poison himself; he threw himself the floor
for moment, got mp ana rushed ont eXclaning thai
ne would drown himself witness dragged him into a
room. where he was kept until officer arrived the
prisoner and his wife mad not lived together hap
ply The trial will be resumed to-day.
Year: 1872

The match between the Boston and Athletic
Clubs yesterday resulted in victory for the former by
score Of sto C. This renders another game necessary
the winner OF which will take the first prize, the loser
the second, and the Mutuals the third.
Year: 1872

ton will convene tomorrow evening. The Committee
of Conference will recommend TO the Convention To de-
mand representation the Iammany Judiciary ticket.
on the ground that the Conference Committee had
waived its demand for larger representation on the
AldermaRio ticket.
Year: 1872

Inc Ot. Louis democrat gives a
graphic account of an invention in
tended for the use of interviewing re-
porters, insurance agents and lightning
rod peddlers;


Brayfogle's Patent Elastic Inter
viewing Cushion is hollow hemisphere
of vulcanized India rubber, in the cen
ter of which is fixed sufficient number
Of elastic springs of fnely-tempered
Bessemer steel The cushion is worn
under the clothing, and covers that por-
ton of the reportorial person most ex-
posed in the hazardous service of inter
viewing. A cushion properly made
and fitted is not only no inconvenience
to the wearer, but absolutely adds to
the symmetry of the reportorial person.
1t may be worn constantly on the street
without attracting attention, or interfer-
ing with the locomotion of the wearer,
and adjusts itself so nice as to defy the
closest scrutiny. 1t never gets out Of
order, and will last the most industrious
reporter an ordinary lifetime, and be
handed down to his children as a family
heirloom.


The advantages Of the interviewing
Cushion are inestimable, and it will more
than pay for itself in a single week Of
active service. Armed with this cushion
the reporter bodily attacks his quarry
without any of that nervous trepidation
which naturally attends an interview with
an unfortifed rear, and which to a greater
or less extent, owing to his temperament
or recent experiences, materially units
him for the proper discharge of his du-
ties. He keeps his eye on his victim,
and as soon as he detects signs Of cutting
up rough be makes full face to the rear,
aud receives the kick uDon the cushion.
If the victim be a muscular man, and
very mad, as is usually the case, the
reporter describes q parahola in the air
and alights on his cushion about fifteen
or twenty feet in the front. The rebound
Of the elastic cushion sends him ten feet
in the air, and in coming down he slights
on his feet, and returns 70 the charge
After half q dozen kicks, the subject.
filed with amazement at the pluck and
endurance of the reporter, aud not being
up to the secret ofthe cushion win gener-
ally give in, and submit quietly TO the
interview. The reporter, having suffered
not the slightest injury, aud pleasantly
exhilarated with his aerial fight. can
then 90 for him at his leisure"
Year: 1872

A gentleman recently married in Chi
cago presented his bride at the wedding
with the original transcript of one OF
the first dispatches ever sent over the
first telegraph line from Baltimore to
Washington. 1t was the announcement
to the lady's grandmother of her birth,
and read, "0nly a girl"
Year: 1872

In the course Of an apology for pub
fishing four sermons, the st. Louis Dem
ocrat says. Religion ought to be Of
more concern TO the human race than
politics, not TO mention the fact that
there is more thought aud culture in the
pulpit than on the rostrum. Occasion
ally q sermon Is dull, bat generally a
political speech Is dun, and dull ser
sermon is better than dull speech. We
wish all pulpit orators were Beechers;
bot anything TO beat SAtaa."
Year: 1872

BREACH OF PROMISE. - The most remarkable breach of prom ise suit on record will soon be tried in Philadelphia. A Boston woman who was to wed a Phila- delphian, became a victim of the free love mania, and as the ap- pointed time drew near, announc- ed her resolve to enter on married life without going through any ceremony. Her lover tried to shake her resolution, but could not. She said if they were not ir- revOcably bound together he would be more careful to retain her affections, and declared if she loved any other man better, she would leave him. This put an end, as her lover thought, to the engagement; but she sued him for breach of promise. The Phila- delphian is still anxious to marry her, but is unwilling to take her as his mistress. This will be the defense. What the plaintiff s coun-

 el will urge cannot .ho faSsseen
Year: 1872

On and after March 11th, 1872, all business connected with the Colorado Hotel will be carried by J. T. PILGRIM, to whom all bills against the said hotel must be pre- sented and paid by him.

 Those knowing themselves to De indebted to the late proprietor, w. King, will please call and set tie, as I wish to do the same with those to whom I am indebted.

 mchl6m1 w. KING.
Year: 1872

A dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, March 11th, says that a horrible murder of a wife and three chil- dren, by the husband, was con- mitted at a farm house, six miles from Dayton, Saturday. The wife was found in bed naked, ,strangled, and the children, aged six and eight years and six months, re- spectively, were found on the bank of the creek a short distance from the house. The baby's skull was crushed, and the two elder were evidently drowned and afterwards taken from the creek. Leonard Vanguard, the supposed murderer of his family, has been arrested. His story of the affair is that @ few days ago he read a chapter to his family from the Bible. He said he then, raising up, accused his wife of being a witch and using witch craft. He says his eldest daughter confirmed him in the accusation; also, that Saturday night he told his wife he wanted their children to leave; that both he and his wife stripped naked, knelt down and prayed for fifteen minutes. They then stripped the two chil- dren, took them out and drowned them and laid them side by side on the bank of the stream. They then dashed out the brains of the infant, and left it lying in the woods, after which they returned home and went to bed. After ly- ing there fifteen minutes he told his wife he wanted to send her to heaven also, and immediately fell upon her and strangled her to death. After that he arose and prayed till o'clock in the morn ing, when he went to a near neighbOr and told the whole story. Vanguard is evidently insane.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, October z7.--Ibe sunday
liquor law was not so vel Observed to-
day as on last Sunday, a majority o. the
saloons in all parts Of the city being
opens and in the North Division nearly
all were open al day.


A committee appointed by the mass
meeting ~ Germans, held the night
before, in opposition TO the enforcement
OF the law called OH Mayor Medill and
presented she resolutions passed By the
meeting I,'luesting the Mayor to sus-
pend the fn Orcement of the ordinance
until new City Council is elected.


The Mayor, in reply 10 the commit
tee, said he had no discretion in the
matter Of enforcing the law, that so
long as this ordinance was uurepealed
his duty was plain, and without ex-
pressing his opinion as 70 its propriety,
he could not swerve from the course he
had laid out for himself In this matter
be did not propose to enforce the law
harshly by the arrest Of offenders, but
would have them before the courts upon
summons and leave the matter there.


The Mayor also replied to the address
of the temperance men insisting that he
should enforce the ordinance by the ar
rest Of the guilty parties and the fOrcible
closing Of their places. he informed the
committee that he should continue tC
act in accordance with his understand
ing of the law and his convictions OF
official duty, and respectfully declined
to be instructed or commanded by unOf-
fetal individuals in relation thereto.


Louis A. Koameudy, the well known
proprietor of Koamendy's Gymnasium
Of this city, shot himself in the head
early this morning at the Briggs House,
inficting a wound which it is believed
will prove fatal. He has been partially
insane for sometime past.
Year: 1872

In ten days the excited money market
VIII have a marvelously proper sedAtive
Administered by the settling down OF po-
ltical excitement Boutwell, will open
the gateway from the Treasury, and Wall
street wiz rush forth with ali its wealth
hosrded up for weeks past. Every pro.
fita6le investment viii be sought after,
and activity in business circles will be as
marked as the present torpor that char
acterizes every commercial community.
Year: 1872

Our mother used TO say: eff they are
bad boys, don't play with them, OF others
will think the same of you This was an
admoniton in accordance with the old adage,
'bad folks keep bad company" or that 9th
or saving, "Show me man who keeps bad
campanv and will show you bad man.


As we have advanced in years we have
found there is so much truth in these say
iurs that we had become to believe them IN
inEIlibe and no longer wondered that they
had been reduced to proverbs. But at last
these trite old adages have been contradic'cd, /,
The strange anomaly has occurred, an' as
tonishing as it may be TO some, Frank Page,
of Eldorado, nominee for Congress in this
district onihc Grant nt-Sargent-Rai ticket,
is the wonderful exception. Every body
knows that Page runs with, and is partic
ular friend Of the Record, the Spirit Of the
Times and other journals Of the same ilk,
and that he is a great pet Of their old God
father, Stanford. Everybody knows, also,
ihat these papers, under the direction OF the
old gentleman, are aled against the moral
social, political and financial mteres is of
e, cry citizen in this State, outside Of their
own ring; and all men disconnected with their
interests agree in denounciug them "bad
eggs" But Page is not. No sir Page is a
good, honest, upright man, has good rec
ord, is a good lobbyist, keeps horses and
Knows how to drive them; but lie will run
with this bad company and allow them to
secure a nomination for him and labor to Sc
cure his election We marvel greatly that
hey should do these things. They must
know he will do nothing for them in return
for all their pains, he will not vote them any
subsidy, goat meat or anything else, for they
say he is not that Kind of man. The pco-
pie see how Page and the railroad company
re mixed up until they can hardly tell one
from tbc other, and it may astonsh them
hat he is not one of their kind but we have
he authority of the Record, Times and Me
Kusick that he is not. The people can see
N the railroad Journals printed matter, con-
veying the above ideas, and according to the
old saying, "seeing is believing" But they
cannot see The secret thoughts which lie hid
lien in the in the deep receses of this mans
brains, and which will rise to the surface only
when 1t will be too late for Us to oppose BIN.
And it seems plain to MS that the monopoly
in so earnestly and unanimously supporting
Page, belle their actions when they attempt
10 defend him against the accusation of be-
NC in symplthy with them.
Year: 1872

MAKE OR BREAK i- becoming the motto of
the GRANTEES. notwithstanding they lost
ground by the Louisville speculation, they
propose to try it again on the same basis.
We admire pluck. even IN dying man.
Year: 1872

ED1ToR PLACER HERALD-DEAI SIG:--In look


ng over your issue OF the 7th inst. l see that
you made mention of the Labor Reformers Of
his State rs being in an almost obscure minority,


md advise them 20 give their sire myth for Gree
ley and Brown. 1t appears to me that this is n
matter that ought to elicit the attention of all
men desirous Of bringing about thorough re
formation in matters pertaining to our Govern
ment The laborng portion of our asannlGGiU


is in the ascendancy so far us Numbers are con
cerned, audi they were proper y organized could
accomplish almost anything they might desire.
If their vote was unanimous, no aan elected
to any Of the Awmaking departments Of this
Government would slight their interests with
impunity for more than one term, and notwith-
standing the potency of some of our monopolies,
such IN organization could crcumscribe their
acts to Il very great extent. Then let US urge a
more extended organization of this element: Let
them no longer act as tn ugh san Francisco
contained all the working men of the State but


ct every county have an organization; let th


matter be thoroughly agitat,d and let union OF
all the working portion of our community be
Effected; and their efforts, properly directed,
would be ehrctual IN breaking mp all rings OPP
0osed 10 the interest and well being of society.
But until this can be accom- llished. I would urg,
iron every ktboring man in our State, both or
wnized and unorganzed, TO cast their interests
With the only National Reform party and there
po assist in cioctng from or National Capital
The present corrupt Administration; making III,
the present National Reform party successful in
.lectinG to Our future chief maglstracy Honest
Horace and b, Graft Brown. L.