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Year: 1876

A Detroit young woman tried to be
aristocratic, and did not look at the
money she gave the horse-car con-
ductOr, who meekly gave back to her
the lozenger on which was written cpl
never cease to love thee" and said that
he was an orphan, with five little
brothers to support, and must be ex-
cused
Year: 1876

The agriculturist of the Detroit Free
Press says: schuyler Colfax can de-
liver a very neat agricultural address,
but when you take him to market and
ask him to tell you beet from a ruta-
baga, he will hesitate and put his hand
on a Hubbard SQUASH"
Year: 1876

A young man told his wife last night
he was going out to make the acquaint-
ance of "Tom and Jerry" The two per-
sons who brought him home this morn
ing were probably the ones meant.
Year: 1876

Mysteries of fire are of three kinds
the mystery of fraud, the mystery OF
carelessness, and the mystery OF ignor-
ance. The latter characterizes people
OF all ranks in life, and is, seemingly, as
persistent as carelessness, and some
times as culpable as fraud. For in
stance, how many people know precisely
what a defective flue is9 How many
know anything about spontaneous com
bustion? How many know that hollow
walls are actual fues, which have the
power of carrying flames from the bot
tom of house to the top, almost in
stantly9 How many know that the
heat of stove, even when separated by
some little distance from wood, will, In
the course of time, so char it that a
spark will fire it How many know
that, under favorable circumstances,
fires will smolder for hours, ready to
flash into actual flame when famed by
the opening of door, or the slightest
current of air caused in any manner
whatever9 In brief, how many know
anything of hundred and one circum-
stances that will cause mysterious fires,
which a slight degree of practical knowl-
edge might easily prevent2
Year: 1876

A correspondent writes to the Drug,
gists' C;rcutcr, describing a mode OF
treatment for lime in the eye. He says
A colored man came to me in intense
agony, some unslaked lime having got
into his eye. That the lime must be
neutralized at all hazards felt certain.
l chose sulphuric acid. I puton drachm
and a half of the diluted acid in four
ounce graduate, filed it with water, and
told him to wash his eye with the liquid.
He did as he was told, and was relieved
almost Immediately. Then 1 made him
rinse his eye with pure water, and after
that I told him to anoint it with olive
oil and to continue the application for
some time. To-day he is almost well,
and can see with his eye again. In an
other similar case no remedy was imme-
diately applied, as a doctor had to be
sent for from some little distance, and
the man Lost his eye entirely.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Proctor, in one of his lectures on
the subject of "Other Suns than Ours, "
declared it fixed fact that all stars
were suns. Every star visible to the
naked eye on the clearest night was the
center Of a system of worlds like our
own, and although the most powerful
telescopes were still unable to reveal the
circling planets, the imagination could
certainly discern the millions of worlds
clustering around each Of these hun
dreds of th ousands of bright suns. The
nearest star to our system was Aldebaran,
in the constellation Centaur, star only
visible in southern latitudes. This star
was 200, 600 times as far from the earth
as the sun is, and it's size was much
greater than that of our sun, being
about 1,125, 900 miles in diameter. The
next nearest star, Sirius, was much
larger than Aldebaran. Astronomers
knew that this star was st least certain
number of billions of miles from our
system, but how much more distant they
could not tell. The lecturer supposed
that the progress of life in this myriad
of worlds was about the same as it is in
our system, and for every inhabited
world there were thousands of worlds
upon which life was either extinct or
had not yet begun. The thought that
death and desolation were so predomi-
nant in the universe was not so melan-
choly to the lecturer as it might be to
many others. The same change was 60
ino on in the life and death of all thSse
worlds as is seen on every hand and
among all things that are at any time
endowed with life and being.
Year: 1876

The Execution OIL women In frnuce...A


Wife's Last Request.


The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph writes as follows :
Sophie Gauthier had been found guilty
of a horrible crime she had killed all
her children by means of pins, which
she had stuck into their brain. The
death of this revolving criminal recalls a
few interesting facts connected with the
execution of women in France. Since
1910 nine women have been executed,
and they have all met their death with
great frmness. Ten years ago a man
and woman was executed at Chartres for
having murdered their parents. In
those days the guillotine was not the
horribly neat and compact little lnstru-
ment that it is now there we're steps to
ascend before coming into contact with
the executioner. When the criminal
couple reached the foot of the scaffold
the woman said 81 should like to en-
brace my husband before dying. Pray
unite my hands you can tie them again
Immediately afterward." This supreme
wish was reluctantly granted, for it was
contrary to the regulations. Her hands
were no sooner free than she gathered
up all her strength, and gave her hus-
band ringing box on the ear. Accord
ing to custom, she was the first to suffer
the extreme penalty of the law. Before
the man recovered from the stunning
blow she had dealt him, her head had
follop into Tho cou5ust


Another woman, who created great
sensation at the time, was V1rg1nle
Dezon, who had murdered her husband
and two children. She was only twenty.
five years of age, wonderfully beautiful,
and belonged to one Of the best families
of France. She had not the slightest
fear of death, and the moment the SEN
tence was passed she sent letter to the
emperor, begging there might be no de-
lay in CARRYING it out. Prison Life and
the loss of her long black hair produced
much more disagreeable impression
upon this delicate woman than the sight
of the hideous chopping block and
knife. Many summary. executions OF
women took place when the regular
troops entered Paris during the ins1r-
rection. remember seeing one of the
advanced republican ladies placed
against the wall behind the Great North
ern railway station. She had just been
taken with recently fired rifle in her
hand and standing by the side of a dying
sentry. "Did you shoot this mans" in
q;iired the officer, pointing to the writh'
ing body of the sentry. "I did, u was
the reply, "and am only sorry that I
did not see you before, as you were bet
ter worth the trouble" Two minutes
afterward she was lying ON her face with
twelve bullets in her body. Death had
been instantaneous D.; her victim, The
soldier, lived two hours after her, and
expired in horrible pain.
Year: 1876

THE ANN1vERsARY.-The New jersey
Historical Society has resolved to have
a centennial celebration at Princeton on
the second of July, the one hundredth
anniversary Of the day in ITS when
New Jersey declsres herself q free ane
independents State.
Year: 1876

The Philadelphia boys, in an over
flow of generous hospitality, have re-
fused to take a single race from the
visiting crews. They are SO polite
that they always follow in the rear.
This beats the French all hollow.
Year: 1876

Nsw YORK, Sept g. 1870
To THE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD


Beng an old reader of your worthy Journal allow me
to ask the privilege OF requesting your influence In
trying to aeate the "sprnkling with waterp of our
great horoughare-Broadway, The street is continu-
ally kept in such uddy condition that 1t is stand
ing danger TO both and horse IL Is almost i'm
sbe for person to drive his horse over the street
without the said horse falling and thereby eopardzins
the life Of tho driver business OH the sti Get
in question, and am continually witness 10
the distress caused TO poor fallen horses; In
fact the street as slippery sometimes pond.
noticed the fall OF horse ridden by a soldier
tachcd to tho United States artillery battery their
way down Broadway from the ceremonies attending
the Lafayette statue. The soldier must have
been badly injured the horse partly .cll on him.
Stage horses are continually injured from the samc
cause Let the authorities sweep the street regularly
ana properly, also make IL penalty Tor store porters
To pu' ther refuse OF stores into the street. compelling
them to put the In ash boxes. BY doing there
would not be any dust TO allay by sprinkhng with
water. The present system Is disgrace to local
government have a large acquaintance with mer.
chants from the West and south, who come here TO
buy their merchandise They all tell me that this
watering process oil our grand Broadway is disgrace
TO our city. Then. again. the ladies' ali opposed
the matter. just think of one wadng through the
mud, which cannot be avoided while crossing the
street Hoping SIR, that you will call the attention
oil the proper authorities to the matter. I remain
yours truly NJ J. FOGERTY- SaS broadway
Year: 1876

During the past month in the city OF Sava unah Ca,
with which New York has connection by rail and
steamboat there have been between 800 400 cases
Of yellow fever one.fourh OF which have p~Jved fatal
The reports show that the ravages OF the disease
the II the contagon reaches this city it
will do by some route OF travel Whatever may be
said OF tho OF quarantine system prevent tho
approach Of contagious disease by water this city does
not possess any whatever OF preventing it's ar
rival by land 1t behoovcs tho authorities lose
single day in throwing impregnabe sanitary cor
don around the infected localities In the present In.
stance 1t is thousand times true that ounce of
prevention is better than pound OF cure"


There have already been several cases of yellow fever
at the Quarantine Hospital Three of the victims were
employed on steamships coming iroiu ports infected
with the disease The first that OF Daniel Drew


waiter on the Wilmngton the that OF William
Thachcrn, purser OF tho steamer Columbus, and the
third that OF fireman the City OF New York. II is
said that the Health Officer OF the Port and Comms.
siouer OF Quarantine are not IN accord with each
other, and hence there Is lack Of complete system
the port regulations


The distance of Staten Island from the Quarantine
Hospital is about three miles, ana the inhabitants OF
tho place naturally feel alarmed. The assurances OF
the authorities that there is no danger do fully
satisfy them. There are many ways, they say in
which the dreaded disease may be commuui.
Gated 10 the shore, despite the slriclcsl sur
veillancc over the shir Three miles is
short distance for conveying this contagion

other diseases less Malignant have been carried
many miles on the wind There is refuse matter that
must be thrown from The ship for her own sanitary
protection, and the disease may be out in that
The doctors may take II ashore their clothing or
1t may bo spread through the same means by the
health officers guard who relieved two or three
times each day. Vessels, too, often pass and rcpass
within "a lew rods OF the hospital


The reputation OF Fort Hamilton, which is abou,
four miles distant from tue hospital appears likely to
suner as sanitarum IN no slight degree Many OF the
more nervous Of its visitors have already made ar
rungcments Tor speedy retreat, preerrng the swell


cng heat o the city To the refreshing brcezcs OF tho
hay, when laden, perhaps with tho desth-dcaug pes
thence IL not without reason that tho regular
inhabitants oi the village have dread of the terrible
scourge with when they threatened They
cannot easily forget the ravagos OF its last
visit. twenty years ago, when. owing to tho
detective nature OF the sanitary arrupecr,euts
some sixteen or seventeen schooners iom Southern
ports, laden with pcsencc, We're allowed cast an
chor the bay. and the disease, communicating with
the shore, ragged unressted tor period OF his
during which tmc 1t numbered its victims IN and
around Fort Hamilton as many as twenty In tho
course OF single day.
Year: 1876

Mary A. Sheriff, daughter of j. and
p. Munsell, was born in Troga, Penn,
August Is, 1910. She Inherited a
rare combination Of mental and NOR
al power, which formed the basis of
ripe intellectual and moral attain
ments, and a strong, symmetrical
character. At the early age of seven
she lost her mother. Fortunately she
was cared for by an aunt and uncle
who in no ordinary degree took the
place of fparents, giving her thorough
practical training and providing ex-
cellent scholastic advantages. Though
carefully instructed from childhood !,
religiously, she did not until twenty
years of age feel the necessity ofa new
birth--a radical change of heart
wrought by the Holy Ghost. Under
deep sense Of utter sinfulness and
ruin, she then publicly presented her
self as a seeker of salvation at Meth
odist alter, and there after a renunoi-
alton of her own will and pride of
heart, she took Christ as her Prophet,
Priest and King, and received clear
evidence of her adoption into the fam
lly of God. Her moral convictions,
as well as her remarkable decision
and iirmness of character were such
that she never in subsequent life wa
vered in her allegiance to God and
duty. While visiting her sister a
short time ago, she said: "Since first
l gave myself to Christ l have not
failed to bring myself as an Offering
to him every day of my life"


While her natural feelings and So
cial relations all inclined her toward
the communion of another church, yet
the yearnings of her renewed heart, no
less than the decision of judgment and
the dictates of duty, led her to choose
the Methodist Episcopal Church as
her spiritual home. While her broad
religious views and generous Christian
sympathies caused her to recognize all
Christians of whatever name as mem
bers of a common household she ever
cherished a peculiar love for the
church of her choice and was always
ready to defend its doctrines and
usages. As a Christian worker she
had but few equals. Wherever she
lived her pastor felt the influence of
her brave sympathetic heart and
strong arm. In personal effort for
souls, in the Sunday. school, the prayer
and class meeting, she was specially
active. Most of her maiden life was
devoted to the profession Of teaching
in which she was remarkably sue
cessful, both in training the minds Of
her pupils aud stimulating them to
high and holy purposes. Through the
influence of her character and train
ing, many young gentlemen aud la
dies have entered upon Chrhtian
life and arc now filling places Of use
fulness and honor.


She came to this coast in company
with her only sister-Mrs. A. Coplin
in September 1856. May I'd. 1869,
she was united in marriage to Rev. A.
r. Sheriff, of the California Confer
ence. As a wife she was deeply effec-
tionate and tender, ever studying her
husbands interests and happiness !;
ever aiding him by judicious counsel
and loving sympathy. She was al
ways firm when he might falter, brave
when his courage might be weak,
ready to suffer il by so doing she
could shield the heart of him she
loved so we'll. AS a minister's wife
she had peculiar adaptations. From
the liino of her conversion She felt a
Year: 1876

The following is the testimony Of
DR.. Loring concerning Hungarian
grass | believe / can make more
milk with this grass cut and mixed
with corn meal aud shorts than can
with the best timothy hay cut and
mixed IN the same manner. And when
you remember that you can raise on
ordinary land, by sowing the seed of
Hungarian grass late in June, from
two aud onA-half to three and one
half tons of good FODDER to the acre,
and that this crop can be sown aEer
we have ascertained whether We are
to have a good crop Of hay or not,
you will see the value Of this grass.
/ have such high opinion of il that
on my Own farm, this year and last.
/ raised from seventy FIVE to one hun
drsd tons of it for the purpose Of feed
ing to my mileh COWS during the
winter. I'd. ...


To cure poverty, sit down and
growl about it. BY so doing you'll
be sure to get rich, and make your.
self particularly agreeable to every
body.


Write your name by kindness. love,
and mercy on the hearts Of the peo-
pie you come in contract with, and
you will never be forgotten.


The three things that enrich genius
are oontsmptment of mind, the cher
ishing of good Thoughts, and sIercis'
ing the memory.


It has been ascertainod that tho
"man who held on to the last" WAS a
shoemaker
Year: 1876




Eleven of the Jurors in the case of the
United States We. Ferdinand Dudenhefer,
charged with embezzlement from the Ger
mania National Bank, received from Judge
Woods reprimand yesterday which they
will no doubt remember to their dying day.
As Judge Woods remarks are presented in
full below, it is needless to call attention
to any of the facts presented in the case.
1t might be noticed, though, that an emf
nent lawyer said that the verdict in that
case left the money of any depositor at the
mercy of any bank official who could lay
his hands on it.


Yesterday morning all but one of the
Jury were called before the bar, and Judge
Woods read the following:


The verdict rendered by you yesterday
in the case of the United States vs. Ferdi-
nand Dudenhefer was so extraordinary
that can not let it pass unnoticed. In all
nv experience in courts of justice, running
over period OF over twenty years, l have
never known q verdict rendered 80 utterly
in defiance of the law and the evidence.


am satisfied that it is impossible to ad-
minister the law and to dispense justice
even handed with Q jury capable of render
ing such verdict. l therefore order that
you be disc harged from any further attend
ance as Jurors in this court.
Year: 1876

To the great regret of suitors, and the at
torneys representing them in the Superior
District Court, tie serious illness of Judge
Hawkins has prevented the trial of any
case. Judge Lynch has opened and closed
court each day, but of course can not be
expected to preside during the usual hours,
while his own court claims his attention.
All cases have therefore been continued,
with preference.


Although Judge Hawkins sickness is con-
sidered serious still there is no ground for
apprehension, and it is hoped he will soon
appear in his accustomed seat.
Year: 1876

The following ia from an editorial in the
New York Herald OF the fourteenth:


We willingly allow Mr. Pinchback to be
sonal character, which, we believe, has been
unjustly assailed on the floor of the Senate.
If the accusations to which he replies were
true, it woald be proper for any Senator
who had evidence to prove them to etfer
that evidence for the consideration of the
Senate, and for that body to exclude him
ON those charges, without regard to the reg
ularity of his election, if they should be
substantiated. But no proof has been Of
fered, and the accusations are improbable
on their face. Nearly three years have passed
since Mr. Pinchback appe ared in Washing
ton with Governor Kellogg's certificate of
bis election as Senator, and his opponents
have refrained from no assault on his
character which had any color of probabil-
ity If he had ever been convicted and
sentenced in Louisiana for burglary the
records Of some court and the register Of
the penitentiary would show it, and the
fact could not have been concealed for 30
long q period. If it were true authentic
evidence would long ago have been in pos
session of some hostile Senator. No Senator
has right, at this late day, to cast euch il.
famous aspersions on Mr.. Pinchback's char
acter without the most incuntrOvertible
proofs. In the total absence of supporting
evidence We regard'the as q wanton and
inexcusable libel, and think it simple act
OF Justice to print Mr. Pinchback's letter in
defense of his good name.


We have always regretted the defama.
tory SCOTS OF the Democratic press against
Mr. Finchback, founded on his race and
his former pursuits. A citizen of African
decent has as perfect right to hold the
office of Senator as any white native or
white ma 'uralized citizen. To be sure, Mr.
Pirchback was once a barber, as Henry
Wilson was once cObbler and Andrew
johnson was once q tailor; but it is the
peculiar boast of our democratic institute
tions that they open the highest career to
the humblest individual, if he has sufficient
capacity and energy to surmount the die
advantages of his youth. Sneers at the
former occupation of Mr.. Pinchback are
more illiberal than they would be in the
case of white citizens, because almost every
desirable occupation has been closed by
public prejudice against colored mon.
filings against Mr.. Pin nchback because he is
q mulatto and was once q barber are un-
generous and despicable.
Year: 1876

The editor Of Tennessee paper, who was
a Confederate postmaster during the war,
has recently had calls for Confederate post
age stamps, and being unable to supply
them, makes the following explanation:


A few days before the federal authorities
took possession of Knoxville we carefully
boxed our postofice effects, including q
large number of these stamps, and cent
them to the care of the postmaster at Dali
ton, Georgia, and that was the last Of them.
The box contained some $500 worth of
United States stamps into the bargain. The
Confederate stamp We used was private
one, and we used two kinds, five and q ten
cent one. and of two colors, red aud blue.
We had the die manufactured in Nashville,
at q cost of about $40. The reason why
we used this private stamp was that the
Confederate Postofice Department was so
crowded with applicants for stamps that it
could not meet the demands, and therefore
We got up the stamp in question for the
sake of convenience. Hundreds, perhaps
thousands of them were solo, not only to
the army iu our vicinity and to our imme-
diate citizene, but to pOstmasters fr. m Bris'
tol to Chattanooga. We would be glad to
have q fine lot of them on hand now. as we
could do what we failed to do curing the
war-make some money out of the defunct
Confederacy. They would command q
large premium.
Year: 1876

The Gsrvey and Earle case has been fixed
again tor trial on the twenty fourth instant
This Will be the fifth trial. The first trial
ended with an unqualified verdict of guilty;
the second with qualified verdict; the
third and fourth in a mistrial. At the last
trial, about two months ago, eleven jurors
stood tor an unqualified verdict of guilty,
while one held out for an acquittal.


The case of joaquin Florenzo, who on
the seventeenth ultimo murdered his wife
Marie Louisa at No. 1873 Bourbon street,
was fixed for trial yesterday, and was con-
tinued until Monday next.
Year: 1876

voted to his profession and gave a
wide birth to politics. -


He was true man. Never did
any man suspect his sincerity. The
writer of this recently asked one
who knew him intimately for some
facts touching his life. Said he II
can tell you but one thing ; he was
the trucst man l ever knew"


AT his burial last Thursday it
was easy to see that Smyth county
felt the loss of her greatest citizen.
Leading men from Emory, Abing-
don, Bristol, and other points were
present and testified that a great
Southwestern Virginian had fallen.
The State press has spoken and its
aggregated voice announces the exe
tinguishment of light in the
Commonwealth.


Ordinarily he ought to have been
useful man for over half score
of years yet. Few other men
could have withstood the vast labor
and continuous strain which for
40 years have marked this man. AS
it was his intellect was to the last
moment undimmed by a mist or a
shadow, onlythe physical organism
began to dissolve. The writer of
this has seen and known him well
for twenty-five years, and while
admiring his genius and torce had
become personally fond of him.
Reader this is no ordinary Viz
gilman now dead ...F