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Year: 1876

Yesterday morning, says the Virginia City
(Ney.) Enterprise Of Jan II, at the black
smith shop Of the Vivian mine, west of Sill


yer City, singular and startling explosion
occurred by which two men were severely


injured 1t appears that bucket of water
was being thawed out at the fire on the
forge. There were four men in the shop,


and while one of them was in the act Of lift
ing the bucket off the fire it exploded with
great violence. The bucket was torn to
shreds, and Samnel Tangie, blacksmith,
and George F. Oxten, miner, were struck


and wounded by the flying pieces-the buck
ct being made of sheet iron. The two men
were cut in several places, but their princi-


pal wounds are about the legs, the direction
OF most of the flying pieces of iron being
downard. Oxton's principal wound is on the
leg below the knee ,and the worst hurt Of Tan
gie is on the ankle, where a piece of iron
passed through the flesh and tore away tho
petroleum or fibrous membrane inciosine
the bone, for the space of an inch The ex.
PLANTATION OF this curious explosion unaoubt-
tdly is that giant powder cartridge had
been thawed out in the bucket, and that its
sides, and probably the surface of the water
we:e coated with scum of oily matter
(nitro-glycerine) boiled out of the cartridge
Year: 1876

HaS1sNgt0N dsSpdlcN TO Ne TTfsS. n
The attention of the President was called
to-day to statements that he had declared
to Senator Conkling that he would not be :
candidate for denomination, and that he
would not favor Senator Conkling for the
nomination. The President remarked that
he had had no conference with Senator
Conkling nor with any one else on this sub


ject, neither had he written any letters in
regard to the matter. He further said that
be had NO doubt of the election of the Re


publican nominee. He considered it deSira-


able that there should be harmony in the
deliberations of the convention and in it,
choice of . candidate. 1t is the impression
among the friends of the President that he


will maintain the same policy as he did prior
to his first and second nomination. p
Year: 1876

ration has its place of business, where the action is
against railroad corporation in any county where such
railroad corporation operates any railroad line or
track.


SEC D. The remedies provided by this act may be used
for the collection OF any such tax heretofore assessed
SEQ y. This act shall take effect when approved.


lAppr0Yea February y, lS!Gl
Year: 1876

In tho Court of Common Pleas before Judge Van
Brunt and jury, in the suit brought by Henry Frede
against the Third Avenue Railroad Company for dam
ages for Injuries verdict given yesterday. The
plaintiff provedbY himself and several witnesses that
he got on the Third No 1885, at tho corner
OF tho Bowcry and Ninth street. and then told the
driver that he wished to get out the Of
Bowery aud Broomo street The very full,
every seat being occupied and number standing up SO
that he was obliged TO stand on the front platform AS
the car reached the designated point
lady sitting the front door told the driver stop
the car which was done, and alter the lady had
alghted and while tho plaintiff was with foot on
the pavement and the other foot the steps OF the
car. the driver loosened the brakes and upset the
splalnuG, who. onging to tho rail Of the car, was
dragged forty ect the wheels Of tho running
his leg, which necessitatod amputaton The de-
fence that the plaintiff contributed by his negli-
gence, in standing the front platform and in taking
cry and Broome street, TO the injuries
and that therefore, they were not LA
bic. The foreibo summing up of tho case
for the plaintiff by Judge Dntcnhoeier
must have made strong impression upon the jury as
they gave the heavy verdict of $4,000 against the
railroad company. Messrs Runklc and Engiehart
were associated with Judge Dtonhoefer in the prose-
cution OF tho case the opposing counsel being Messrs
vanderpool, Green and Cummings An extra allow
ance OF $500 given 10 the plaintiffs counsel II Is
understood that Of The reasons or the heavy
dict was the reckless indifference of human comfort
shown by our city railway companies in overcrowdng
their cars thus necessiang passengers to ride on the
front PLATFORM
Year: 1876

In the matter of John W. Holgate, a bankrupt the
following decision has been rendered by Judge Blach
ford in tho District Court OF the United States the
Southern district of New York.


In this case, creditor after the discharge of tho
bankrupt applied TO the Court, under section 120 OF
the Revised Statutes annui the discharge Proofs
taken and the Court dismissed tho application.
The bankrupt now asks that the creditor may be
charged with the costs OF the application The creditor
contends That there Is no statute under which costs
can be awarded by the Court against creditor the
dismissal of such application; and that the Court
has no power in such case to award costs against
creditor


The proceeding provided for by section 512O
s in FORM contostation in separate and indepen-
equitable suit which there adversary par
ties rho application OF The creditor is required to be
in writing and 70 SCI torIh and sFecfy particularly
sver the application. There is to be hearing The
Court is to take proofs and " make ending on the
issues aud then to give judgment Shcr IL iavor OF
the creditor in iavor OF the bankrupt Here Are al,
the elements OF formal suit There Is section of
any statute and no general order in bankruptcy which
specifically declares that rendering such Judgment
the Court either shall may award costs TO either
of the two parties against the other The same ro
mark is true in reference to u judgment or decree
granting refusing discharge


But tits well settled that the right of the prevailing
party generally in all law and


in equity in the courts Of the United States, given
by acts of Congress- either expressly or by necessary
implication list Blatchford Circuit Court Reports,
652 the state of Pennsylvania VS. The Wheeling and
Belmont Bridge Company, Is How, 460.l The power
OF court OF tho United States to render docroe
judgment in q case OF equitable cognizanco includes
the power possessed and exercised by all courts OF
equity discretion to award refuse costs,
It's judgment of the right of tho case that par
ticular, may require This doctrine recognized
applicable to proceedings for discharge under the
Bankruptcy act OF 1891, IN re Guild 1st
Woodford Il Norris 299 ana in reference
TO proceedings under the present Bankruptcy act 1t is
said by Judge Lowell, in In ra George, Il Lowell 494
that it is clear that the district court sitting in bank
ruptcy has the dscretion Ike other courts OF equi-
table Jurisdicton 10 give or withhold costs in whole
or part II NAV deem Just in all proceedings not
specially regulated by stauen There is no statutory
provision. which either expressly or by implication
forbds tho awarding Of costs in like the present
| think this Is a in which 1t is proper to award
costs to the bankrupt against the creditor


Mr. T. Saunders appeared for the creditor and Mr. ].
W. Lawton for the bankrupt
Year: 1876

AT the opening OF tho Kings County Court OF oyer
and Tcrminer District Attorney Briton stated that 1t
was intended TO arraign Andress Fuchs to-day for the
murder Of Simmons He ntimated that he would be
ready TO proceed with the next week
Year: 1876

Legislative Notes.


There will be several hearings this week on the
capital punishment question, before the appropri-
ate committee.


The members of the legislature will be invited
to attend the dedication of the new chapel at the
Insane Hospital.
Year: 1876

The ladies of the city will bear in mind that the
Ladies' Temperance Christian Union will be Or
ganized this afternoon at o'clock, at the Congre-
gational chapel. Officers will be chosen, and the
work of the Union will be partially mapped out.
Year: 1876

A GOOD WORD FOR THE MOTHER-IN
LAw.-Some man of sense and feeling
has written some sensible advice con-
cerning the common treatment of this
much-abused but useful and necessary
part of humanity. His advice is
summed up this way:


Treat your mother-in-law as you
would your own mother; don't let her
feel that she is a stranger in her sons
house. You ought to love her for the
good husband she has given you. Don't
be Jealous of the affectionate attention
he shows her; remember how well she
has earned it. Your husbands heart
would be a poor contracted one, if it
could not find room for wife and mother.
Help him love and cherish her. Think
of the vacant chairs around her hearth
stone-of the voices she misses that
used to make melody in her heart. 1t
will be but fer little while; and when
her work is accomplished, when her
work is over, and the shrivelled hands
are folded meekly on that bosom on
which your husband has wept out his
childish sorrows, cOmforted by those
now silent lips, it will be the sweetest
! JOY to your heart if you can say, "She
was to me as Naomi was to her as
| Ruth
Year: 1876

much dexterity Madge moved about the
room, warming the milk and feeding
the little one with careful tenderness
that was just as willingly bestowed as
though other than angel witnesses had
taken note of her devotion to labor of
duty and love. Then, with the hushed
baby in her tired arms, she fell asleep
in her chair and dreamed.


She saw herself weighed down with
heavy manacles, that CALLED her flesh
and fretted her spirit, while she toiled
ceaselessly in climbing a rocky accliv-
ity, above which, on either side, great
perpendicular walls frowned at her in
the dense gloom of moonless night.
The journey seemed to be endless, and
the babe she bore on her bosom was so
heavy that her arms almost refused at
times to carry it; but an irresistible tor
rent of tangible impulses, that took on
fantastic shapes and bore the word
"duty" in large letters engraved upon
wands that they waved about her head
incessantly, seemed to nerve her to con-
tinued strength. After what seemed,
in her great sorrow, to be an age of
struggling, she saw, just above the sum-
NIT of the steep ascent, through which
she was now wading, ankle deep in
muddy water that, strange to say,
seemed almost boiling hot-just when
hope and strength alike seemed ready
to desert her, she saw, at the top of the
mountain, bright and steadily beam
ing star.


"It's been there, shining all the time,
but 1 couldn't see it because of the
bluffs" she said, aloud, and she seemed
to struggle harder than ever, as, inspired
by the new hope, she urged her man.
gled and manacled body onward.


"Did you speak to me, Madge?" asked
Mrs. Perkins, awakened by her excla-
nation of delight.


But Madge was away in dreamland,
and she did not hear.


Again she journeyed on. The way
grew yet more difficult, and the muddy
stream through which she waded was
so hot that she could scarcely endure tC
walk therein. After a while the wall:
of her narrow prison grew lower nnC
broader, and the light shone yet more
brightly at the top. Rising suddenly t.
make the last effort to mount the top
most steepo of the great ascent, she awok'
to consciousness, to find her feet aImos
blistered in the hot ashes upon tn,
hearth, the babe asleep upon her bosom
and the morning star peeping at he
through a rift in the window curtain.


"T'lIwade through all my trouble ant
outlive it," she said, as she rubbed he
smarting toes. ~ know rll conquer
for feel it in my bones"


ITO be continued.1
Year: 1876

MAKE Your HEAVEN HERE.-There
is no royal road or short cut to heaven.
If you want heaven for yourself in the
world to come, prepare it for yourself in
the life that now is. You have no
reason to think that you will enter
upon the next life in any wise changed
in character from what you are when
YOU leave this. "He that is holy, let
him be holy still. He that is unholy,
let him be unhOly STILL" And the
character with which you leave this
world will be the slow and natural
growth of the years of your whole
earthly life, and cannot be the result of
anything else, the teachings of any the
Ology or man to the contrary. The true
conception of human existence doubt
less is as one in this world and the next
this is the rill, that the river; this the
dawn, that the day; this the bud, that
the flower; this the blade, that the full
corn in the ear. Heaven is not some
thing to be won, or got, or bought,
either by ourselves, or somebody else
for US; but it is something to be grown
into. In the next world you are
simply your own old self, only moved
on, aud moved up. Swedenborg some-
where gives US representation of per-
sons who had died, and did not for a
considerable time know they were.
dead. Their old thoughts and feelings
and loves and desires of the earthly life
remained, and the world which they
had entered did not at first seem differ
ent from the one they had left, only il
was spiritual instead of physical.
Hence, they went on with their old
employments, and ran the rounds Of
their old pleasures. Only by degrees
did they perceive their change OF states,
and that as they themselves became, by


natural processes of growth and devel-
opmeDt, capable of deeper seeing and


higher knowledge.-ReU.J j. Z. Sunder-
| land
Year: 1876

real interest than I supposed could be seen on the whole l80 acres. The butter woman still attracts the thousands who visit the Woman's Department, but some fear to be borne along in the crowd con- tlnually passing in front of her. There are such vast numbers of pictures and paintings in the Art Gallery that visitor ought to have a week there. And then what wonderful show of articles manu- factured in Connecticut, as we'll as the wonderful machinery from our state con- tlnually operated by men and womeh from the Nutmeg state. But the mighty Corliss engine came from Rhode Island, and it seems like child's play for it to move all the machinery in that vast Hall. It is very warm now. but there was good fire blazing in the fireplace in the Con- necticut house those damp days last week. Those wooden nutmegs look very natnraL but not any more so than the smoked wooden ham hanging near the fire. You can meet hundreds of Connecticut people l at that house, and can see the names of our people on the great book. H. N.
Year: 1876

Laughter. Aud / say here tonight.
that think hundred times more OF
the good, honest black, industrious
man of the South, than do Of all the
white men together that don't love the
government Cheers. And / think


more of black man in the So7th than
do Of any white man in the North
Year: 1876

If there is any Presidential capital to be
made out Of vigorous and successful opposi-
tion to corrupt rings it will inure to Secre-
tary Bristow and not to Governor Tilden.
Our democratic Governor has made a great
parade of zeal, but he has not accomplished
any important practical results. He has, in
deed, suspended the Canal Auditor and sent
him to the Senate for trial, but in other re-
spects everything goes on in the State govern
ment as it would have done if our reform Gov
ernor had not been born. He has not saved
the State treasury as much money as his
Commission of Investigation has cost. Sec
retary Bristow has acted on larger scale and
with more satisfactory results. He has
broken and demolished the Whiskey Ring
at st. Louis, and the Whiskey Ring at
Chicago is equally certain to be prostrated by
his vigorous onset. He will recover large
sums to the national Treasury, whereas it
does not yet appear that the taxpayers of the
State will be saved dollar by Governor Til
dens assault on the Canal Ring. 1t is q fur
ther point in Mr.. Bristow IS favor that he has
done his work without boasting or parade or





pet Secretary Bristow has shown that he is
bent on business, not buncombe.


The proceedings against the Chicago Whis-
key Ring have been admirably managed, and
there seems no doubt that the Secretary of
the Treasury has got the thieves within the
clutches of the law He did not seize the
Chicago distilleries until he had quietly got
possession Of evidence and made sure of his
ground, and he is likely to recover great
part of the money out of which the govern
ment has been swindled. If the republican
party should nominate Mr.. Bristow as its
candidate for the Presidency there is no
democrat who would have any chance of sue
cess against him if the election should turn
on the question of official reform. At any
rate, he has quite eclipsed our more demon
strative Governor in the solid results and
practical value of his work.
Year: 1876

There are calls of all kinds about the first
of the year. You may call upon your friends,
and your friends may call on you. But how
shall the calling be? Observation-Disclosures
says in one of his heroic ments:-"Go, call
a coach and let coach be called, and let the
caller be the man who calleth, and in his
calling let him nothing call but Coach
Coach Coach =" Here is calling which will
be exclusively used to-day, when all the
Youth of New York proposes to call
upon all the Beauty. This general
dema nd for cabs and coaches makes a happy
New Years Day for those whose calling is to
keep carriages for the public good No
young gentleman with large feminine ac-
quaintance can expect to make all his calls
as pedestrian, and as the Brummagen
tailors said when they took George Frederick
Cooke home from the theatre, so may we say
of the typical buck ''Confound the expense
let's have him in coach" To-day is the
day for extravaganza in eve'v phase of life;
and it is also the day to resolve that we shall
never be guilty of such folly for the rest of
the whole year.


But about New Years calls. If your friend
calls upon you for friendship and good fell
lowship, it is a delightful compliment and
beginning of the year. But suppose he calls
upon you for loan1 New Years then be-
comes day of gloom, q day of wrath, some
thing akin to a day for fasting and swearing.
This is unhappily very often the case. By
a singular combination of fortunate and
,ai.N fofa fha e
the year is chosen as the anniver-
sary for the calls of festive revel-
lers and of duns Everybody who calls
does not call for glass of wine. The most
punctual visitors are those who call for their
little bills. We have always thought this
was bad arrangement, one which is de-
cidedly inconvenient to large number of
worthy, yet somewhat impecunious citizens.
Why should not pay day be the 10Th Of Feb
ruary or any other suitable anniversary?
But as it is, people have their good and evil
inextricably confused and New Years Day,
like all the other days in the year, must
have its share of sorrow and JOY. We can
not advise people where to call, ex-
cept upon their friends. They need
not call upon Mayor Wickham, for he will
not be in his Office. If they get into a row
they should not call upon the police, for
they might come, and would then be sure to
arrest the wrong man. They should not call
too often upon the ruby wine. If they wish
to call upon the HERALD they will find us
always sat home" to the public. Finally, if
they wish to make calls which Heaven will
hear let them call upon the poor, whom we
have always with us, but who never need
our assistance more than in this brilliant
mid-winter festival, which contrasts so
strangely with their pinched and suffering
lives.
Year: 1876

AS will be seen by our news columns, the
Grand Jury of Kings county yesterday
indicted William A. Fowler, member of the
Board Of City Works. of Brooklyn, for bribery
and corrupt practices in the discharge of the
duties of his Office. Under a contract be-
tween the Brooklyn city government and the
Peoples Gas Light Company this company
agreed to supply gas for large number of
city lamps and to keep the lamps in condi-
ton and light and extinguish them. For
lighting and cleaning the lamps there was
fixed sum due the company from the city /;
but as the price of gas might vary, and as
the amount supplied would necessarily vary
for the different months of the year, the CON-
pensation due the company had to be deter
mined at stated seasons between its agents
and the city authorities 1t was the duty of
Mr. Fowler, as a Commissioner of City Works,
to certify to the correctness of the accounts
presented by the gas company. Without his
certificate the company could not collect its
bills from the city treasury. With this
certificate it could apparently cjllect what
ever sum it demanded Here was an oppor-
tunity for that sort of collision between
those who act for the city and th1se who sup
ply it by which New York was so effectively
robbed in the regime of Tweed connolly and
company. Evidently it only was Necessary for
the gas company to add hundred per cent to
its bills and agree that the Commissioner
should get at least half of the fraudulent in
crement. For his part the Commissioner
could make an arrangement for division with
such of the disbursing agents of the city as
might stand in the way if their attention
were attracted to the company's heavy bills.
By such an arrangement commission
ers get rich and gas companies thrive,
and such an arrangement is the usual form
taken by municipal thievery il these days.
Strangely enough, however, thepresent in
dictment does not deal with such trans
action. Indeed, it is discreety, and, we
suppose, properly silent as to whether the
city was robbed by understanding between
the company and the Commissioner. 1t
charges Fowler with the attempt to extort
one thousand dollars from the company, on
a specified day, by the threat that if the sum
were not paid he would not certify to the
correctness of the company's accounts against
the city. Whether this were first demand,
promptly resisted, or whether it was his
regular monthly consideration objected
to at last as exorbitant, will, no doubt, be
shown on the trial.