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Year: 1873

Burglary is reduced to science in
New York. The favorite method is by
scaling the portico with silken ladder.
The operation is performed about six
in the evening; when the families, with
the upper demestics to wait on the table
are in the basement. Boys are trained
to this dangerous business, and perform
their work with dcxterity. They are of
ten put in through the side lights OF
the door. and squeezed through panes OF
glass where hardly cat could enter
Boys are trained to this business by ex-
perts, and there is q school in that city
where lessons are given and extra feats
are accomplished.
Year: 1873

ket. dated July IS, 1873 be placed on ne with the
previous report on the same subject, and that, In
the opinion OF this Board, there Is imminent
danger from impending pestilence, and this Board
hereby declares that the aforesaid booths stalls
and stands around Washington Market and in the
neighb0ring streets constitute public nuisance
dangerous to life and health. which, in view OF the
Imminent danger now existing from impending
pestience, should be Immediately removed.


1t was also resolved that


Whereas has already been given TO the
ers occupants OF the said booths stalls and stands
and whereas the Department OF Public Works has
enabled obey the previous order Of this Board
remove the said booths stalls and stands and whereas
plans Of the of Public Markets have
been considered, and in the opinion OF this Board will
not remedy the evil nor improve the position OF the
and occupan OF said booths, stalls and stands and
whereas delay in the removal thereof Is declared
this Board dangerous life and detrimental TO public
health -


Resolved, That the Board of Police be and is hereby
reques ed and directed 10 remove before the 2s
day OF july 1873 to the removal OF the booths
stalls stands around Washington Market-on the
northery side of sai market from Washington street 70
West street. the westerly side thereof from Nesey
street to Fulton southerly side thereof from
Washington street to West street and also the tatery
side thereof the Vesey street in the neie
boring streets side thereofand to clean the side
walks street pavements and cutters in the neighboring
streets and cutters about tie said market


The Board adjourned to meet on Tuesday next.
Year: 1873

Come AHEAD" Ii we were so disposed
we could easily apply offensive names to the
HERALD editor. ."-Argvs.


Come ahead; scrspe the country over;
study and learn ou" history from our you'll,
ask OF every man who has ever known us :
ask of all who know us now, and publish
the worst You can learn. We would be
glad to see it. We defy you TO pen one
single sentence rejecting on our character
and stick to the truth.
Year: 1873

A horribly butchery was discovered
in an apartment in the third story of a
respectable residence on Second street,
a few doors below South, Philadelphia.
The room was occupied by German
mechanic, by the name of Edward
Schusterrerter, and his wife, who was
the daughter of the occupant of the
premises. The father had occasion to
90 upstairs to speak with his daughter,
and upon opening the door of the room
occupied by her and her husband, dis
covered them both lying on the floor.
He Immediately gave the alarm to the
police, and couple of patrolmen came
to the scene. The woman was found
with her throat cut in q horrible man
ner, the wind-pipe, carotid artery, and
the jugular being entirely severed.
1t was found that the husband had
taken dose of poison after killing the
woman, for by his side, along with a
bloody razor, lay an empty bottle.
There was every evidence that terri
BILE struggle had taken place, for there
were bloody fnger-marks on the walls,
the window-ledges, and the door-knobs.
The most singular fact of the tragedy
is that no noise or uproar was heard by
any one. The windows opening over
the yard of the house would have made
it comparatively easy for disturbance
to have been discovered. jealousy
was undoubtedly the cause of the muir
der. The two had been married but
six months, and had lived unhappily:
The husband was out Of work, and had
been very quarrelsome for the last
week, more so than usual. The woman
was but twenty-six years of age, and
the husband twenty-eight. The deed
created q very marked sensation down
town, and it is the most horrible which
has occurred in that section of the city
for many years.
Year: 1873




Donn Piatt writes It is grand
thing to read in popular journal that
"the newly-married pair embarked for
bridal tour in Europe" But really it
is not so grand. We have a bride on
board, and if the engaged could see her
we doubt their retaining a wish to d
tho same. Don't know, however ; any
thing fashionable will at least be en-.
dured. We saw this delicate creature
come on board, surrounded by loving
friends and fairly smothered in flowers
and tender leave-takings. She be-
longed to the extensive family OF
blondes, and her get-up was exceedingly
beautiful. What o travelling dress that
was, what a panier, what trail while
her little hat sat on the dizzy pinnacle
of blonde hair like birds nest sway
ing on tree top. Look at her now ;
to what favor has she come 80 suddenly
and think of the process {! Think, if
you can, of lover husband, sick him.
self, trying to hold the loved head OF
his bride and bowl at the same time,
while pitching, tossing vessel tumbles
him over and spills the contents of that
bowl into the bosom of his beloved.


We happened to pass the stateroom
of the pair making their European
bridal tour. The door was open for air.
Sea sickness destroys the proprieties.
The most difident, shrinking creature
in the whole world will defy the eyes of
all Delaware when in q paro1yism OF
that deathly sickness. We have seen a
delicate young lady In the arms OF the
first officer, begging to be thrown over
board between attacks, and clinging to
the rough sailor (good-looking, how
ever regardless of appearances. We
saw the young husband, in his shirt and
drawers, trying to hold the head of his
beloved over bowl. And, o heavens,
such a head The lofty structure of
blonde hair had disappeared, and in its
place was diminutive knot and a little
skull hid under an arrangement that.re
sembled hair sofa in its close smooth
ness.


We did not want to look; but the
motion of the vessel was such that we
had to cling to the door. And what a
spectacle, what a tableau to be made up
by the said bridal party The poor
fellow, sick himself, was trying to hold
head and bowl in the same effort, and
sometimes he ducked the beloved coun-
tenance in the bowl, and then he would,
as the vessel gave sudden lureh, sup,
port himself by clinging to the head
which he had vowed to cherish and pro-
tect, and the head shrieked dismally.


Then when the fair bride appeared
on deck. feeble and half sick, unfeeling
comments and criticisms would provoke
any true Christian gentleman to pro-
fame language. Doubtless the announce
ment in the fashionable journals OF the
bridal tour to Europe compensates all
this. But we have our fears, and are
inclined to believe that the many un-
happy marriages terminating in elope-
ments and divorces may be traced to
the disgust created by the first three
days at sea.
Year: 1873

YoUNG WALwoRTH's IMPRISONMENT
The Albany Journal gives the following
statement of the facts concerning the
petition for a pardon for young Wal
worth, who shot and killed his father,
saying it is derived from the Executive
Department "a short time since, q
letter, signed by q single individual,
asking for Walworth's pardon, was sent
to the Governor, and, as is the custom
in all casesior application for pardon,
whether from the penitentiary, State
prison, or gallows, the evidence in this
case was sent for. But there has been
no other action, and no such expression
of opinion as would justify the Cover
nor in taking up the case with view to
it's serious examination.
Year: 1873

From a cleft in a rock harebell grew,
And gathered Of sunshine and rain and dew
It's measure of life, in its cup Of blue.
In cabin, out in western wild,
A maiden bent over her work and smiled,
For "the old, old story" her heart beguiled.
The world is wide but bit of its earth
In the cleft of rock gave Beauty birth
And nourishment, fitting its own sweet worth.
The world is wide! but the maiden well


knew,


No heart in it all was more fond and true
Than the one that her troth was plighted to.
Year: 1873

THE ALL1GAToR.-The alligator is
rather smart about some things. He
knows as much about strategy as ma
jor-general of militia. He will poise
himself on leg, open his mouth wide
by elevating his upper jaw, and remain
perfectly quiet. In short time his
mouth will fill with mosquitoes and
flies, when down will come his jaw, TAX
ing every mosquito and fly prisoner:
He swallows them, icks his chops, and
elevates his jaw to catch another floor
full. This dish is regarded by the ALI
gator as the most delicious that the
country affords.
Year: 1873

OF I'D Ay-TWO RESPECTABLR YOUNG GIRLS
o go together; one as good cook; the other to
do upstairs work and assist in washing objection to
u short distance in tho country; two years reference
Year: 1873

The Board Of Education ousht now to
examine carefully into the sanitary condition Of
the city school buildings. They are doubtless
all clean and require no dlsinfcctins; but arc
they all properly vcntlated2 Several months
ago complaints were made that many Of the
school buildings, in which Thousands Of children
pass from six 10 seven hours every day for five
days week, were not properly ventilated; and
we have not been advised that any efforts have
been made 10 improve them. And now comes
the August number Of the Sdritdritrn, contain
ING what claims To he a suppressed "Hcpor; on
school Poisoning in New York ;" which, although
prepared long since, deserves earnest considera-
ton, This report was prepared by an expert in
the science of ventilation at the special request
OF the board, but was not printed by that BODY
because 1t presented facts which would arouse
the Indignation Of the public. The report
charges that In three at least Of the public
schools the facilities for warming and yentila-
ting the rooms are wretchcdly Inadequate 4;
ana that in one there are in cold weather
alternate blasts Of hot, foul air around the
mead Tor breathing, and Of cold, chilly draughts
against the feet ana back for killing, and that
thereby the health of the l,200 chiI lren in at
tendance is daily imperlod The report Is very
damaging TO the character Of the late board for
efficiency, and II behOOves their SUCCESSORS 10
employ AZ least part Of the vacation ia investi-
eating the charges made
Year: 1873

Spain to be entitled to restitution OF their
property are United states citizens will
not alter the result as long as Don UMIL-
ToS FISH is at the head of our State De-
partment. To him more than to any other
living man is directly attributable the
present condition aud impending ruin of
Spain; for but for his support Of her bru-
tai and senseless policy in Cuba, the patri-
OTIS would long since have been free,
and Spain would have been far less
severely crippled in men, in money, in
credit, and in character.
Year: 1873

Among the bushels of chaf contained in
the long letter Of HENRY A. WISE there are some
grains Of solid, sound common sense. In n
recent communication refusing to run for Gov
ernor ns the candidate Of either the Republican
or Conservative party, he says his aim is to ex-
tract the best from both organizations and to
make peace between the colored and Caucasian
races. lie has not forgotten howto boast little
in his old age when he add, that III either con-
Nention VIII abstain altogether from a nomina-
tion, will defeat the nominee OF the other"
There Is some good stun left In him why cam
not Virginia send WISE TO Congress?
Year: 1873

NEwsPAPER ERRoRs. Every column OF news.
paper cont aims from ten to twelve thousand dis
tinet pieces OF metal the displacement OF any one
Of which would cause blunder or typographical
error, in newspaper. When such people ind a
word with wrong letter in it, they are sure they
could spell that single word right, and are happy
for whole day. That's what's the matter.
Year: 1873

Tie Long Island yards now employ about
eight hundred men, and it is estimated there are
about twenty vessels OF various tonnage now
building. The great difficulty at present is the
scarcity OF skilled labor owing to the demand in
other localities aud the refusal OF the men to
permit apprentices Wages in that vicinity how
ever, rul9 higher than elsewhere and men are
constantly arriving from Nova ScolA ant the
other British Provinces. In fact American ship
wrights are scarce, and the entire supply comes
from the north Now that wooden ship building
has revived again, American shipyards shold be
able to secure the bulk of the work
Year: 1873

There can hardly be a more innocent and
harmless amusemnt we presume, than for our
Democratic managers and newspapers to tiatter
themselves that the colored voters are about to
go back on the Republican party. By all
msaus let them think 30, il they fad comfort in
the notion
Year: 1873

FREMONT, o., april 1st, 1872.
DIR. LIBBEY-


DEAR SIR: should be ungrateful indeed
if / did not make some acknowledgment to
you, of the wonderful change you have work
ed in my physical condition during the past
three months treatment 1 have received from
you My heart and lungs were in a fearful
condition. was generally prostrated and
completely broken down. feel now as well
as nine-tenths of the women of my age. am
sure that your treatment was the cause of so
wonderful change. My friends and neigh
bors are loud in your praise. There arc many
in this place and vicinity that are anxious to
avail themselves ofyour skill, and look for
ward with great anxiety to your next visit.
That you may live TO do more of the good
work you have begun, is the constant prayer
of Yours,


MRS. MARGARET B0WLUs.
Year: 1873

TIE NEW POSTAL CARDS UNDER THE LATE POS
tai law-uscful, serviceable, and cheap. The ad'
vertser can fill the back of the cards with any
printed announcement he may wish to make public
and send them through the mail for only one cent
Can be printed at this Office at low rates.
Year: 1873

TIE NEW POSTAL CARDs-very useful for busl-
ness purposes. Cards or announcements OF any
kind printed on them will pass through the mail for
one cent. Printing for these cards neatly and
cheapIy done ut this ONCE
Year: 1873

POLICE NoTEs.-Oficer Kendall O'Dwyer
recovered on Tuesday morning valuable
gold watch and chain from party to whom
it had been sold by the thief. The name OF
those concerned are withheld for the pre-
sent.


Mr. O'Dwyer, the jaiIor, says that Melanc-
thon Christie, who was arrested last week
for rape alleged to have been committed
by him upon a young woman in New York
early in the summer, and who was sent to
Jail for thirty days to await information from
the alleged scene of the crime, now claims
that he accused himself of the act in hopes
that he would be sent to New York at once !;
that he had been OH spree and had no
means to return home, and adopted that plan
as last expedient. His repentance, II true,
has come too late.
Year: 1873




THE SITUATION IN VIRGINIA
AS VIEWED FROM ABRoAD.-A
Washington letter, of date September
little doubt that the Republicans of
Virginia will carry the state by hand
some majority. Those whomI meet from
the state, whether they be for or against
the triumph of the Republicans, talk in
that direction. The masses of the voting
population Of the state, 1t is said, are
fully committed TO the policy Of encour-
aging northern emigration, asking aid Of
congress in building her pet canal, and
general improvements in the agricultural
and mechanical industries of the state.
This being the policy Of the state, it means
the endorsement Of the Republican party
Of the state.
Year: 1873

SoMEtwenty years ago, an old lady and
her daughter, in Amsterdam, were
murdered and robbed of money and Jewels
to the amount of $150,000; and although
every means was used to find the guilty
party, not the slightest clue was ever
obtained. In July last it was decided to
tear the old house down, between which
and the adjoining house was a space of
about one foot in width, and hemmed in
there was found male skeleton. At the
bottom of this space lay large leathern
pocket containing the diamonds. money
and bonds of the murdered widow. This
skeleton was undoubtedly that of the
murderer Of the two women, who, after
assassinating them and bagging his
plunder, had tried to escape ever the roof
ofthe house. but, his foot slipping, had
fallen into the space between the two
buildings. There he met the just
retribution Of his terrible crime, and died
the painful death of slow starvation.
Year: 1873

Will. THEY HEED THE A ADAoNITIoN?
The finance committee of the council in
concluding their report made to that body
Monday evening. request the council during
the residue of this year to discountenance
every effort to add to existing estimates as
the only method Of preventing serious
embarrassment in the financial affairs of the
city.


Will they do it2 That is the question.
Year: 1873

SENT ON.-Sophia Turner, charged with
abandonment of her infant child in an alley
on Sunday morning, was sent on to the
grand jury of the hustings court by Justice
White this morning.
Year: 1873

GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGs.-Ths is about the sweetest
time of the year to be at the Springs, yet,
in obedience to the supposed demands OF
fashion, nearly all the visitors have pegged
out from this noted mountain retreat. A
letter from there says: At the present
the season is pretty nearly ended j; the
band of music has left, and now the ball
room is the dinilig-room. We make a
splendid show at meal times, and all of us
do full justice to the cuisine. A goodly
number of us are old fogies, but we have
some teeth left. and we need not hurry
here; even an old man can do pretty good
execution in one hour and half"
Year: 1873

The Ottumwa Democrat, the oracle
of the party i'm Southern Iowa, thus
whistles to keep up the courage and
steady the nerves Of the party in its
march graveyard. Democrats are
on furlough this year. They always
do AS they please, yet in this polite
al canvass they are loose by agree
ment, and are under no obligations
whatever to any Convention. They
can support either the right or the
left wing of the Republican, party, or
stay at home. Bully for the fur
lougII! We like itr'


That's right Sam'. Better be
jolly though you are more certain Of
Il big defeat than for years before,
thar to be sulky in view OF the ire
sistable downward tendency OF your
party, and its inevitable ana utter
overthrow.
Year: 1873

The New York Nation says: The
Liberal Republicans afford a curious
instance Of aparty living everywhere
throughout the country Oh the
strength they are supposed to have
somewhere else.N
Year: 1873

A very humorous event occurred on


Main street Saturday afternoon. A


flock OF sheep were going along the


street in one direction, and drove of


cattle in another. The latter so discon-


certed the former as to drive them in


every direction. s.i This disturbance


greatly aroused the, combatiye propen-
sites of sturdy ram that hid strayed
on to the sidewalk, and had his attention
raornentarily attracted by certain yarie-
ties in the windows, at which we may
suppose he looked very sheepishly.,
Passing by a glass deor, he espied his
ownrefection in the glass, and, not be-
ing wea posted in optics. he imagined
that some other rascally ram had placed
himself there in a belligerent attitude.
This was too much for his prond and
resentful spirit, and collecting all his
physical force he made desperate leap
with the intention of butting out the
brains of his antagonist. He dashed
through the glass at one bound as easily
as a circus equestrian could jump
through the silk paper that covers the
space inclosed by the circumference Of
a hoop, and alighted in the store, the
glass offering no resistance. to his hardy
head. gsl r7r.-.f i''.- O. a..-sr ai,a :.


We leave the reader to imagine how
the parties within were surprised at the
abrupt arrival Of such a strange custom
er. But the people outside were at first
not less surprised to conceive the cause
that prompted the animal to perform
such gymnastic feat without any ap-
parent proyocation. -Leri,ayton Press.
Year: 1873

IL The President has signed the bill to


encourage the growth Of timber on the


Western prairies., It provides that any


person who shall plant and protect, and


keep in healthy growing condition. for


ten years, forty acres of timber trees


theieon, not being nore than twelve feet


apart each way, on any quarter section


Of any public lands of the United States,


shall be entitled to a patent for the


whole of said quarter section at the end
of the ten years, on making proof Of the
fact by not less than two creditable wit
nesses The bill further provides that
each and every person who under the
pre-emption and homestead laws, hav-,
ing a homestead, and who at the end OF,
the third year OF his or her residence
thereon shall have had under culti1stioni
an, acre ofItiniberi trees thereon, not
more than twelve feet apart each way
ind in good and thrifty condition; for
each and every one hundred and sixty
acres Of homestead, shall, on the proof
Of two creditable witnesses, receive pat
emit for the said homestead, and that
none of the lands shall become liable for
the satisfaction Of any debt or debts
contracted before. tEge: sr. .''in EtIa'
Year: 1873

British Quarterly Review.


Most Of philosophers who have
set to work to define mental SEN
sations insist that laughter supposes
feeling Of superiority in the laugh
er over the laughed at; but they
seem to overlook the great distinc-
tion between laughing at and laugh
ing with anyone. Doubtless feel
ing Of contempt often raises a laugh
and the absurdities Of men and
women are constant food for laugh
ter; but humorists often laugh at
themselves. Nothing will illustrate
better the absurdity of the whole
sale statement that laughter implies
contempt than Charles Lambs re-
lation to, Coleridge. He constantly
laughed and joked at the preaching
of the philosopher, but he reveren-
ced his friend of fifty years, and
looked up to him with childish love.
A "W estminster Reviewer" defines
the cause oflaughter as the repre-
sentation Of objects with qualities
opposite Of their own; but all incon-
gruities do not cause laughter.
Ludicrous incongruity is opposed
to dignity, and this is why those
who have little wisdom to fall back
upon hate a laugh. Lord Boiling
broke said that gravity is, the very
essence of imposture; and Joe. Mill
er is the authority for the assertion
that as the gravest beast is an ass,
the gravest bird is an owl, and the
gravest fish is an oyster, so that the
gravcst man is a fool. If anyone is
inclined to doubt Joe Miller's die
tum, we can corroborate it by the
authority of Plato, who, when in
dulging in the gayety of his heart,
used sometimes to cay: "Silencc,
my friends! let us be wise now;
here is fool coming" Lord Ches-
terfeld was no fool, and he dis
approved OF laughter; but he allow
ed his son to smile, for he did not
advocate gravity. He considered
laughter as ill-bred, not only on ac-
count of the disagreeable noise, but
because of the shocking distortion
of the face that it occasions?" 1t is
happy for the world that such false
notions are not now received. Some
suppose that laughter is caused by
novelty and surprise, and a French
philosopher, in accounting for the
fact that although We arc told that
our Lord wept, we never hear that
he laughed, suggests to us the rea-
son that nothing was new to Him.
Although this is good enough as n
theory, it is grounded npon mis-
taken idea of laughter, for we often
laugh on the recollection of y criti-
cism. Nevertheless, surprise is a
material element of laughter, al
though it is not confined to that
emotion. 1t has been well-observed
that "the only constant effect that
follows on an original striking COM
parison is shock ofagreeable sur
prise; it is as if q partition wall in
our intellect was suddenly blown
out; two things formerly strange to
one another havc flashed together,