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Year: 1875

A very curious incident occur red recently in Terra Haute, by which a hog took a free ride across the river bridge. It was about half-past three o'clock that a freight train was approaching the city, when a large hog weigh about 200 pounds was seen on the track at the west end of the bridge. Itdid not get out of the way soon enough ,and the pilotOf the engine struck. Instead of knocking it of, however, the sloping front of the pilot caught his porkship and rolled him right up upon the little platform in front of the boiler. Then he rose and sat looking around, and by this time out over the bare ties, where if he had jumped off he would have gone down to the water. He evident ly saw this, for he remained on the front of the engine and rode all the way across the bridge. When the engine arrived on this side the hog sprang nimbly of upon the platform near MT. Twaddell's watch house, and af- ter grunting it's satisfaction at its narrow escape it moved off. It was slightly hurt in the side and one leg, but will recover.
Year: 1875

The following stanza, which con- tains g. good thought, is from a little poem referred to the pen of Charles Dickens: Don't crowd; the world is large enough

 For you as we'll as me;

 The doors of all are open wide

 The realm of thought is free. ln all earth's places you are right

 To chase the best you can-- Provided that you do not try

 To crowd some other man.
Year: 1875

l once knew snowman who traded an ostrich for mule, to g man named Leech. Leech read somewhere that Ostriches are very valuable on account of their feath. CTS and he intended to try the superintendent eultivating them, so he secured this to begin with. He turned it loose into the yard and that night it ate all the sur face of the walks, and it was busy breakfasting on the garden hoe when Leech came down to look after it. He fed it heartily, SC as 1O keep down its appetite, but that morning it swallowed tour hOTse-shoes that were lying in Q cart, and it disposed of six feet Oi trace chain belonging to the sub soil blow. LeecR was somewhat alarmed, but he gave the bird aa much supper as lt would eat, anli .e.v 5atisned that it's hunger would not rage during the night. Next morning, however, he was sur. prised to find that the ostrich had

 eaten a hole through the wall of the smoke house, and had chew.

 ed of. all the dOOr-knobs in that part of the dwelling. When

 Leech came out, the bird had

 swallowed the pump handle, and was making an earnest but inef- fectuai effort to take in the pump

 Leech disuaded it, however, and led 1t solemnly away. That day it ate nothing of a revolutionary character but a set of Mrs. Leech's old hoops, and when Leech ascer. taiued this, he collected all the second >hand hoop skirts the neighbors had to spare and fed them to the ostrich. It cleaned up the pile in less than an hour, and then it ate six of Fanny Leech's croquet balls which were lying in the grass, and swallowed the baby,s toy drum. That after noon it protruded its head through the kitchen window while the girl was washing the dinner dish. es, and suddenly swallowed three tumblers, a gravy dish, and 8 broken butter-crock. When Leech came home that night 4nd heard the news, he decided to shoot the bird the first thing in the morn. ing. He loaded the gun for the purpose and put it in the shed outside the kitchen door. Dur ing the night an explosion vas heard and wheN Leech descend ed with a lantern to ascertain the cause, he perceived the ostrich lying dead in the shed. It had swallowed the gun, muzzie foIe- most, and had fired the weapon while gnawing at the trigger. MT.

 Leecn nas given up the idea ot ~culavaang the ostrich. The bird IS too eminently digestive for

 a J7kus.,-.
Year: 1875

On the last day of the year the Chi
namen employed at Panamint were
told to "take a Walk


The reported killing of six men at
Panamint was without foundation.


H. A. Jones has gone to San Fran
cisco with magnificent specimens of
ore from Jacobs Wonder mine and
the Hemlock mine.


AT least one dozen buildings are in
process of erection, and many sub
stantial improvements are contem-
plated in the Spring.


The foundation for the twenty stamp
mill is complete and the masonry will
soon be commenced.


The average shipment from the
Wyoming mine is ten tons of sacked
ore per day.
Year: 1875

pa- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say thej e IL no
comparison between the two. 10
Year: 1875

A square mile is laid Off at an eligible point
on the tract, with lots 25xl4O; avenue 100 feet
and streets so feet wide.


A stream of water can be brought i'm so as
to supply every lot with crystal, cool, sweet
water.


Provision will be made for a College and
Farm School.


A large lot will be set apart for each relig-
ious denomination A block will also be
given for tho erection of large hall by the
different Fraternal, Grange and Temperance
Societies.
Year: 1875

Gentlemen, rs a rule, never smoke 10 the
presence of ladies' without their consent, unless
they he Boston ladies, who. according to a
recent lecturer. are not insensible 10 the sooth-
ING influences Of nicotine, even when secured
in more vulgar manner than from the deli
cious cigarette or seductive Havana. But
a correspondent Of the Boston Gazette relates
the experience of lady returning on srail-
road train from New York, and rho had pur-
hased a SCAT in drawing room car, which


presents affairs in another light. Except her
self there were but two other occupants OF
the car Soon after the train bad started,
these two gentlemen ~ drew out their ele-
CANT cigar cases, aud one Of them lit his cigar
and the other vas preparing to do so, without
even al by your leave, madam" The lady,
however, did dot enjoy the odor of smoke,
aud did not hesitate to inform the party OF
the fact. and to refer them to the smoking car
a. The forward end Of the train. They de-
ciued to 60 into the smoking car, but removed
the obnoxious weeds with an ungracious air.
The conductor coming in soon after, a whis-
pered colloquy took place between him and
the gentlemen, which resulted in his request
ing the lady to take q scat in another car.
This she declined doing, as her bundles were
al comfortably disposed about her. As the
train advanced from point to point, numer-
ous persons came into the car and addressed
the would-be smoker as " Mr. President.


Even with this, the anti-tobacconist did not
comprehend that she was entertaining an angel
unawares, aud il was only when some one lot
drop the mystic word Grant" that she rea-
lzed the situation. Then somewhat provoked,
but still amused, she summoned the conductor
and very gladly removed TO another compari-
ment. where the air was purer and the com
psny more to her taste Courier Journal
Year: 1875

p5- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NEW YORK
adopted distinguishing Coston night signal for
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
ing green red changing from the other
in succession be several miles distant Cap
Of vessels upon seeing this signal will oblge by
pairing any marine they have for the Ship News
Department OF the HERALD


RPersons desrous Of communicating with vessels arrv
ing New York do by addressing such vessels
of HERALD yacht, pier No East River New York


received from all parts of the world and promptly de-
livered. Duplicates required
Year: 1875

The west track Of the Flushing Railroad, through
Long Island City was shifted to the depressed grade
yesterday. The Of all the roads centrng AZ the
hEries are 70 be depressed In the Same manner.
Year: 1875

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty -four hours, in com
parison with the corresponding date of last year.
Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1875

The Montreal telegraph company has
contracted with the Delaware and Hudson
canal company for the construction of the
telegraph along the New York and Canada
railroad, from Whitehall 10 the Canada
line. Work will be commenced soon at
Port Henry. where about 500 telegraph
poles have been collected.
Year: 1875

Air: Fhen. Johnny somes Marching Home
When Taylor goes sneaking home again,


Hurrah Hurrah
Well give him q bully send off then,


Hurrah J Hurrah
The men will cheer, and boys will shout.
So glad they'll be to get him out,


And We'll all feel gay
When Taylor goes sneaking home.
The swindled soldiers will delight


Hurrah ! Hurrah
To see him beaten out of sight,


Hurrah J Hurrah
By honest Hal. who'll never steal
But looks out for the public veal,


And Wen all feel gay
When Taylor goes sneaking home.
Get ready for election day,


Hurrah Hurrah
And give the duffer dead away,


HurTah Hurrah
Wen show him what the people meant,
By styling him ''Old Accident"


And Wen all feel gay
When Taylor goes sneaking home.
Year: 1875

yet fec. that 1t is our right and du-
ty to give it all tho encouragement
that time and patience will admit Of.
We certainly should recognize it %


being one of the great revolutions Of
the day. One, if propagatsd as it
should be, will prove to be of ines


tlmable value to the rising genera


ton. 1t not only served Is rscrea.


tion for the pupil from the regular


routine Of studies and recitations,


(which many times become quite mo-


notonous) but had tendency to ex-
pand and develop many useful germs


found in the mind of youth that other


wise would require lifetime ofsA-
perience for their developement, and
then perhaps some of the brightest
jewels of our nature left in entire OBJ
security; while in all probability had
they had access to the early instilla-
tions which this reformatory course
is bound to produce, if handled as it
IS intended to be, they might be the
means Of uncovcring and bringing to
light many useful elements that have
slumbered for long ages beneath the
darkness of the ansurveyey realms Of
the past. 1t is calculated to give
birth to that profession or branch of
business which is best adapted to the
public individuality. BY this means
the teacher viii be enabled to lay out
course of studies for his pupils that
will prepare them for natural success
in the industrial world, removing
many obstacles which the student SO
often has to contend with, which, If
let remain, are calculated to lead
him or her las the case may be) toin-
dolence and degradation.


Then let each one Of us give it our
support, for we all feel an interest in
the elevation Of society, and without
doubt we will admit that the school
room is one Of the most important
places for the commencement of the
work. It i an established fact that
the earliest ideals of life and charac-
ter formed by the human family are
those which are hardest to eradicate
in after life. Then how important it
is that we should endeavor to estab-
lish precedent that will serve as
handspring to the rolling wheels of
society, and thus be enabled TO erect
monuments of industry and enterprise
in the metaphysical world that will
survive the ancient pyramids of
Egypt. -
Year: 1875

The Danhury man says that the
maddest kind of woman is one who
spends a bali hour in arranging her
toilet before descending to the parlor
On the arrival of a visitor-who
proves to be book agent.
Year: 1875

A bogus advertisement in a shop window
recently set the whole continent buzzlng about
a book of commonplace scandal, deservedly
out of print, and gave at least one night of
golden dreams to young lawyer Of Louisville
who owned one of the many copies of it in
the country. If the search and discovery had
been genuine instead of fictitious the best
thing to do with the book might have been
to give it to Mr.. Comstock for cremation. We
have quite enough of Minute Histories and
Scandalous Passages of our own time; to
drag ont the dccaying unclcanness of George
Tvs day is verify the bringing of blacker
Goals to Newcastle We have no interest either
in helping the descendants of Mrs. Fitzherbert
to chouse the Prince of Wales out of his
birthIight. We have no right to expect any
better yield of virtue or intellect from the
blood of the disreputahe Regent and his wife
Gf wife she were) than from that of Victoria
and her thoroughly respectable husband.
George Tvs grandson would very likely de-
yelop less harmless imbecilities than taste
for pigeon n-shooting or the Opera Bouffe; and
if he should not, but should rather prove a
white crow, a very marvel among Guelphs Of
decency and sound common sense, it would but
ruin his chances. a puppet, not a sovereign, is
as much weight as the English people will now
tolerate. "The Monarchy" says The Examiner,
"survved the prohigacy of George ~, but
ait would not survive the craftsmanship of
"an able king. Providence has graciously
"guarded us from such q danger by giving to
&" the Prince of Wales an absorbing capacity
"and taste for shooting poultry"


Secret Memoirs are greedy sought for, not
because of their indecency, but simply be-
cause Human Nature is per SC q gossip. Every
man-the best of them-has keen delight in
proving every other man human like himself;
the more elevated and differing in quality, the
more agreeable is the discovery of kinship.
The publication of Yictoria's womanly Jour
nal wherein her subjects found out how she
relished leg of cold chicken and glass of
ale, and heard the Princess Royal called
Pussy, destroyed more of the divinity that
doth hedge a king than all of her uncle's
lcentiousness. The charm of Mr.. Stoddards
little Bric-a- Brac volumes lies just here. 1t is
not puerile curiosity that brings us oil
crowding together to catch these tar-off
glmpses of tho private lives of the
great dead, but tho natural desire to find
q common ground on which we can stand with
Year: 1875

the Government out Of the duties on silks on
so extensive scale as to depress the market
prices below the cost of importation to honest
dealers, greatly strengthen the conviction that,
if Secretary Bristow needs more revenue, all
that he has to do to get it is to put more
honesty and less political influence" into the
custom-houses and internal tax offices. We
are of opinion that were the revenues col
lected on business principles, after the methods
followed by Mr.. A. Il. Stewart and other great
merchants in the management of their own
vast concerns, thirty million dollars could
sooner be obtained by such reform than by
any conceivable changes in the tax laws.


6. The more money Government has the
greater its power. 1t should not be forgotten
by the friends of honesty in politics, and by
those who prefer that the people should be
the masters rather than the slaves of those
who get their living from the Treasury, that
eighteen months more will bring us into the
midst of the Presidential campaign. The anx-
iety of the President and his Cabinet for in
creased revenues must, we admit, be ex-
plained on the most natural and obvious
grounds. But when we consider that re-
trenchment is so easy, that an increase OF the
net produce or tne present JaAcS is HoI ulhi-
cult, and deficiency therefore wholly mex
cusable and unnecessary, we must say that
some other explanation is imperatively de-
manded, if that we have suggested Is not the
true one.


7. In the calendar year 1874 so far from the
revenues falling below the expenses, there was
net surplus, as shown by the monthly Debt
statements of nearly Screateen million doHGrS
Unless the people have been deliberately de-
ceved by men holding positions OF the highest
trust and responsibility, the expenditures this
calendar year must fall sufficiently below those
of last year to give full thirty millions OF sur
plus revenue to be turned over to the Sinking
Fund, on the suppositiOn of the revenue
reaching last years figures. In all probability
it will show a considerable increase. From
the foregoing statements, all of which are
made on the authority of official reports, and
none of which should be news to an intelligent
citizen, the only possible conclusion is that an
increase of the tareS is rhOlly uVuShfaGie and
Year: 1875

has generally thought 80, and has maintained
profossorship of that language at West
Point. But every few years a movement has
been made to abolish that chair for some rea-
son or another and now Secretary Bellnap is
renewing that ancient assault. We do not
pretend to say anything about the merits oil
the present, or of any past incumbents OF that
post. If the actual Professor of Spanish is
not competent and proper person for the
place, be should unquestionably be dismissed,
and another appointed. But the aboli-
ton of the chair is matter OF
which any intelligent person is fitted to
Judge, and for which no justification can be
urged. 1t may safely be said that 10 other
language is more important to the American
soldier than the Spanish. There are only two
languages spoken to any extent upon this
hemisphere where most of our business and
most OF our fighting is to be dOne-the
English and the Spanish-and it is these two,
therefore, which should employ the most of our
young warriors attention. OF course no military
education can be said to be complete without a
knowledge of French, and this language is very
properly kept upon the list of studies en-
braced in the curriculum at the Military Acad-
emy. But for all practical purposes, Spanish
is the more important. 1t is true that other
languages aro far richer in general literature
and in works upon military science. But the
principal German and French writer's have
been translated into English, and their works
can be studied in that form. If there
we're mot printed book IN existence
in the Spanish language it would
still he an INDISPENSABLE Dart Of the
American soldiers education. 1t is the tongue
of most of our neighbOrs and of almost all
our possible adversarics, and is the sole
foreign language of our outposts and borders
1t is needed every day in Texas, Colorado,
Nevada, ewMexco, Arizona, and Calfor-
mia, and no one knows how soon it may be
of the utmost importance to have our officers
speak it and write it III regions where with
out it they will be walking or sailing in the
dark
Year: 1875

There has been a clamOrOus public demand
for the compendium of the rules of poker
playing drawn up by Gen. Schenck for the
use of the nobility and gentry of England.
We take no interest i'll such things except
when they come strictly within the sphere of
news; but we cannot OF course allow our
readers to languish in ignorance of a work
which has given rise to so much remark upon
both sides Of the Atlantic. 1t is not as a
sporting document or n matter of scandal tLat
we regard this famous libretto. 1t only inter
ests us and our public from the literary and
historical point of view. But as the work of
Gen. Schcnck, and as a singulary succinct
and perspicuOus piece of composition, it has
a value altogether distinct from its subject
matter, and we therefore reproduce it in full
this morning, from a rare copy of the original
work. Gen. Schcnck evidently thinks that
anything worth doing is worth doing well,
and he has therefore left little more
to bo said on the subject of
poker Those who follow him must restrict
themselves to gloss and commentary. The
text IS written the foundations Of the science
are laid.


There are those who think this knowledge
not worth acquiring, and we confess we are
of their opinion; but we cannot forget that
there are many of another mind. Indeed,
great American humorist has said, i'll one Of
his lucid moments of serious philosophy, that
the most sublime picture OF moral hcrOiSm he
has ever encountered was a gentleman of
Kalamazoo who wore nankeen trousers joy
fully all Winter because he preferred to spend
his money in draw-poker. To such the pres
cnt publication will be of transCendcnt inter
est the uninitiated will appreciate only the
authors exhaustive grasp of the subject, and
the admirable reserve and clearness of his
style. We hope that the publication of this
tract will not stimulate any of our readers to
acquire the game whose rules and chances it
depicts. If they do insist on learning it, we
hope they will rigidly reject the pennies
and sixpences which Gen. Schcnck mentions
as the prevailing stakes in Great Britain, and
will restrict themselves to bonbons, or if these
are not procurable, to the ordinary white bean
Of co1nmprcp
Year: 1875

them. Even Thackeray is already almost q
myth to the incoming generatiOn-a Power
rather than q man who with keen scalpel
dlssected human nature to tho very dividing
of bone and marrow; but when we hear him
chanting Little Bilee, or sec the tears roll
over his face as he bids his little girls good
by, we shake hands with him at once across
the gap OF years, and stand side by
side with him thereafter, and are sure
that we too, had something to do with
tho creation of Dobbin, and were old
friends once with Thomas NewcOme.
There is no field in which our own literature
is so mcager as that filled by these go5sipy
human books. Mr.. Stoddard even has taken
his heroes from the other side OF the water
There is no reason either why our early
history should be left like an articulated
skeleton, when life and flesh could so easily
be given to it by books Of memoir and
anecGote such "a make French history real.
There ought to be records, letters, AID ira
ditiOns yet fresh and alive in certain old
families from which such compilations, inval-
liable hereafter, could be drawn. Mrs. Jessie
Benton Fremont has lately attempted to
supply the want, hitherto not met. az far as
her recollection serves her Of memorable men
and women in her own day. The daughter Of
Benton, brought into intimate relation with
the leaders in the political world from Ran
dolph to those of the present time, herself always
a central magnetic figure IN the social world,
ought to give us photographs both lasting and
vivid. so far, however, feminine dclicacy or
ill-adviscd prudence have made her touches
too light, and confined her "reminiscences to
personal anecdotes when they should rather
have been political. The anccdote Of onr
living neighbor is gossip, but when 1t has
the emphasis of death to underline it, it be-
comes u necessary part Of history.
Year: 1875

The discussion as to Rapid Transit, before
Committee of the Assembly on Saturday, was
entertaining and to some extent suggestive, but
was marked by great diversity of opinion as to
methods. The desirabihty of Rapid Transit is
conceded it is for the Committee to discover
some way of making it practicable.
Year: 1875

The fourth annual course of lectures on
Preaching, before the Yale Divinity School,
was begun last week by the Rev. DIR. John
Hall of this city, The substance and style OF
the first lecture (an abstract of which is given
on our third page) afford promise OF another
brilliant and instructive course.
Year: 1875

The discovery OF the Hon. VIM. s. King on
the streets of Montreal may dissipate the be-
lief that proper efforts have not been made to
find him, but it is hardly probable that it will
lead TO his appearance as witness in the
Pacific Mail investigation. If Mr. King were
Year: 1875

on Saturday an army officer, a Grant Repub-
lican, cOlored Republican, a Northern Re
publican resident Conservative member of
the Legislature, and Republican candidate
for the Legislature gave evidence favorable to
the Conservatives.