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Year: 1876

The Indifference with which SO many
people regard cough or cold is truly un-
pardonable. These affections often lead
to consumption, and should be checked
in time by use of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup
Year: 1876

and is proud ol the stately welcome he
gives 20 the older people OF the earth.
He goes home more an American and a
wiser man than be came. What Other
success can The Exposition ask2
Year: 1876

winds up an article on this subject in
its issue of to-day by saying:


We denounce the attempt to make
the bonds payable only in gold, as a
species of robbery that ought not to be
tolerated by civilized people.


This sharp clashing of the organs
fairly represents the lack of harmony
in the party, and the absurdity Of rum
ming Lew Steward and Sam Tilden on
the same ticket. The only bond of un-
ion in the party is the cohesive pow
er of public plunder.n
Year: 1876

coax it to come out vigorously for Hayes
and Wheeler. They will find that The
Republican doesn't coax any better than
it drives. 1t will. OF course. wheel into
the Republican lines as soon as the cam
paign Is well in progress; but It is to be
neither coaxed nor driven from the sat
isfaction of sitting on the fence and
making faces just as long as it wants to.
Worcester Press.
Year: 1876

WHAT keen sense OF sarcasm was eX-
hjbi,ed in Mr.. WADDELL's (of North
Csrolina) speech in the House on the
Centennial appropriation bill yesterday
He said that the Southern members had
"sat in silence, and taken the fire when
the gentleman from Maine had opened on
them with no other feeling than that OF
gratitude that they had escaped from
solterrible All enemy during the war
THem when BLAINE was comparatively
Young, he was in the back ground and
quiet. No1, when he is getting old and
his natural force is abating, he is all for
war. What a pity, indeed, that the
Union could not count among It's savers
when it needed saving, the gentleman
from Maine.
Year: 1876

No true Democrat (which term OF
course implies n friend OF peace and good
yovernment) can read the proceedings OF
the House yesterday, on the question OF
making an appropriation for the centen-
without-lf not pride, at least without
Il sense of relief that the Democratic
majority fully comprehend the situation,
and are determined to show the country
,ha. they are opposed to revivication
or old issues. and are unwilling that
wounds in process OF healing, should be
started to bleeding anew. The remarks
made on this question, to which We desire
specifically to call attention, are those OF
Mr. WADpsLL of North Carolina.
Though u Southern man, and even an
"ex REBEL this gentleman not only
warmly a!rocated the bill himself, but
stated upon authority, that he
knew that many Democrats who
hal been opposed to the measures
had resolved to vote for it now,
to show the people of the country that
il there was any desire to keep up sec
tionsl hate, or if there was any lack OF
the spirit Of patriotism, or wish to see the
honor and dignity OF the whole country
vindicated, neither that desire nor that
spirit was chargeable to the Democracy.


1t will be remembered that these iden-
teal sentiments were advocated only a
few days since in the columns OF the
REGISTER. We lay 10 special Claims to
credit tor having expressed them; but
We are immensely gratiied to see
that they are but the natural
result of Democratic instinct MIR.
BLAINE and his Radical followers can
receive no more decided rebuke than for
the Democratic party in the House to
vote soidly for this Centennial appro-
priation. Then, in a nutshell, it will ap.
pear that, while the Radicals are waving
the bloody shirt, and striving to call up
old prejudices and old hatreds, Demo-
Gratis are doing all they can to heal up
the divisions of the past, and look forward
solely to the future greatness of our undi-
yided country. Can any Union soldier or
any war enthusiast desire anything more
satisfactory What tremendous con-
trast this to the course of the party
which, while applauding BLAINE, has to
bear the odium OF the Credit MobilIer,
the San Domingo, the black Friday, in
short, the legion of frauds of the past,
added to the crooked whisky swindles OF
the present. Further comment is entire
ly unnecessary.
Year: 1876

And now we have confession of one
Wolf, that he was implicated in extern
sive frauds in the Navy Department at
Philadelphia; and thereupon an exami-
nation was made which disclosed sys-
tenn of bribery by which the Govern
ment has been defrauded of very large
sums, for the benefit of one Brown, a
contractor. In this case it cannot be
charged by the Press that the women
did it.
Year: 1876

The charge made against ex-Judge Freedman Of the
Superior Court, Of refusal TO permit verdict TO be
entered was the subject Of lengthy argument yester-
day in the Superior Court, General Term Frances B.
Hegemsn brought suit against Mary A. Cantre 10 fore
close mortgage purporting on its face to be for
Sl2 500 The defence interposed that the defen.
dant had received but 81 l5O and that the difference
had been exacted as excess OF interest reigned is
sues to be tried by jury were awarded The cause
was tried before Judge Freedman and Jury and lasted
three days on tho issue to what amount had boen
advanced on the mortgage the jury returned $l $50
The Judge refused to accept the verdict seemed
noycd and told the jury that II took thirteen men to
find a verdict and ordered them back, after rebukng
them. They returned with verdict for the full
amount The ahdavils OF the twelve jurors were read
setting forth that the FIRST verdict their unanimous
aud conscientious verdict and in changing they be.
lieved they had no other alternative. Mr. Henry H.
Morange, counsel for appellant contended that as the
Court had power over It's records the only question was
whether this was case calling for its exercise that
II not an attempt TO their action
in The jury room, but TO establish
IT, That Judge has no right to threaten ntmidate
a Jury in order TO affect their deliberations that a
verdict thus obtained should not be conclusive upon


the parties that II is not what the law contemplated


the free and independent judgment OF twelve indier
cnt men, acting without restraint and with a sole re-
gard the obligations they had taken upon themselves
TO render true verdict and that II was the duty OF
the Court to make its records truthful He urged
most earnestly upon tho Court reversal OF the act OF
Judge Freedman quoting many authorities TO support
his points Mr. A. II. Wagner. for respondent argued
that the motion could not be made after Judgment:
that the practice should have been to make case on
appeal and thus present the question; that the Judge
said that II took thirteen concurring minds not
men, TO find verdict and tha. the verdict as rem.
dered lastly according TO the facts otherwise the
Judge would not have ordered The Court took the
papers and reserved its decision.
Year: 1876

The following decision was rendered yesterday by the
United States shipping Commissioner


Raston Cormick, John A. Brush John Owens David
Downey, Christian Juhansen and Frederick Grimshye
seamen, vs. Captain Benjamin Thompson and the ship
Great Admiral-The seamcn complain Of short allow
OF food and demand compensation provided by law
II provided by law that every seaman shall receive
while at certain specified ratons, n schedule of
which must be Incorporated into the agreement OF
articles and copy OF this must be ''posted up IN
such part OF the ship as TO be accessible TO the -
1t provided among other things that each OF the crew
shall receive pound Of bread per day, six
pounds of beef three and three quarters pounds
Of pork and one and half pounds
Of -four per week also that lime juice at the rate of
half per day and vinegar at the rate OF half
pint per week. shall be served TO each OF the crew on
long voyages, within ten days after commencing the
use Of salt provisions


is also PROVIDED for by law and varies from fifty cents
10 81 per day for each article short supplied II is
proven and admitted by the captain that for eghtysx
days OF the voyage the crew had but half allowance of
bread, and for twelve days the bread that
furnished bad, unfit eat and that neither lime
juice vinegar served during the voyage. The
quantity OF beef and pork served during ninety
five days seems to have been in the aggregate
considerably less than the lawful allowance.
The quantity OF -four served in the aggregate
during eighty-three days was little more than the
legal allowance but than the difference seems
have been absorbed by the captain and officers TO whom
that article served every day without allowance
Instead Of potatoes, yams supplied TO the crew
during large part Of the voyage but there is doubt
that the men suffered hunger lacking bread and very
often meat Such suffering not the result Of long
voyage, Of the pers of the sea- for tho passage
homeward seems TO have been unusually short and
favorable, but by the very culpable action Of the
captain first, in leaving port with the vessel insuf
cently provsoned, and alterward in nogecng 10 call
for supplies at ports directly In his route Each Of
the seshen complaining must receive SIS in addition
70 his
Year: 1876

II nigh, be well II some Of government detectives
would give their attention TO the extensive business
now in progress in the manufacture and circulation OF
counterfeit Eve cent pieces in this city Recently
some convicts in Western penitentiary we're de-


tecled at it, They contrived TO get possession Of
mouds and casting the spurious coins out Of gal
vanzcd metal stolen from one OF the prison work.
shops There no doubt that our city s being flooded
with bogus Eve coins manufactured on the spot
II is said that large quantity are made on board
canal boats lying at wharves They are, probably


considered safe for this business they we're
some time back for the distation Of Illicit whiskey


set OF dies can be purchased for 80, and the
punches can be bought AZ any machine shop Ine resi-
Of the machinery is very simple The medium OF CIR.
culaon Is also an easy matter, and might De looked
for among city conductors IL Is certain that
great many o; those bogus CONS are gwen ou on INC
cars and sometimes as many - four and more re-
tnrnad at once in change.
Year: 1876

owen Pendergast, Of No. 22S East Twenty second
street. caused the arrest OF his two sons Joseph and
william. aged respectively eighteen and sixteen years
The charge was disobedience TO parental command.
Joseph was an old offender, he having spent term in
the school ship but had been recently employed in
He was discharged from there for bad conduct he being
suspected OF having stolen $40 from his employer In
court the father obtained a confession from Joseph
who admitted the the or the $40 which be had con.
ccalcd he said under the bureau in tho parlor Tho
father wished TO have both boys punished but William
was discharged while Joseph sent to the care OF
the Commissioners OF Charities
Year: 1876

Dress as plainly as your parents will
allow you, but in bright cOlors (if they
become you), and in the best materials
that is to say, in those which will wear
the longest. When you are really in
want of new dress, buy it (or make it)
in the fashion, but never quit an old
one merely because it has become un-
fashionable. And if the fashion be costly,
you must not follow it. You may wear
broad stripes or narrow, bright colors or
dark, short petticoats or long Tin modera-
tion), as the public wish you; but you
must not buy yards of useless stuff to
make a knot or founces of, nor drag them
behind you over the ground, and your
walking dress must never touch the
ground at all. have lost much of the
faith ! once had in the common sense,
and even in the personal delicacy OF the
present race of English women, by seeing
how they will allow their dresses to
sweep the streets, if it 5 the fashion to
be scavangers. Learn dressmaking your
self, with pains and time, and use a part
of every day in needle-work, making as
pretty dresses as you can for poor people
who have not the time or taste to make
them nicely for themselves. You are to
show them in your own wearing what is
most right and graceful, and help them
to choose what will be prettiest and most
becoming to their own station.
Year: 1876

Under what style and titles should a
sovereign address the chief magistrate of
a republic? In writing to the president
of the United States her majesty makes
use the dreadfully patronizing formula
of "My good friend" The Duke of
Rutland employed some similar phrase
when he issued proclamation TO the
farm laborers on his estates Kaiser


William, in cOngratulating Gen. Grant
on the American centenary, writes
Great and good friend" which strikes
one as at least better than the British
formula. The Emperor Francis Joseph
begins his letter with Honorable and
dear friend" while the car says simply
an. lie president" The czar, perhaps,
shows the best taste Of all, for the other
mOnarchs, by using an out-ofthe-way
form of address, seems to show that they
thought of beginning with "My broth
er," but on reflection decided that they
could not quite, and so bit on a
compromise. The question is a serious
one, and might worthily engage the great
mind of Lord Beaconsfeld.
Year: 1876

belief N a mind which penetrates and


permeates the whole universe, aud which


hence envelopes every heart, it will Lave


poured into mortals a new motive and


into death itself new consolation. And it


does indeed seem that the new science,


should it ever be established, will De fol-


lowed, not by atheism, but by a new


conception of the omnipotence of God.


Instead of dressing up the Deity in the


form of Moses or David, the universe


will all become the form of the Al


mighty every constellation will be in


cluded in His diadem, every howery


world be interviewer in His wreatLs; all


the floods of light become the folds


and trains of His garments. In


all times christians have loved


here and there to venture upon


this thought. From st. John, wEo saw


the creative word coming from all the


universe and encamping in the Christ,


to all the mystics of the seventeenth


century the mind has attempted 70 bring


the Infinite nearer to itself. But the


fear of pantheism on the one hand, and


the feebleness of the intellect on the
other, have always come to lead the


head back to great man on throne as
being the lawful representations of the


Eternal. Oh, that some science may
come, if come it has not, that shall
throw down our craven images in our
temple, and shall cast our hearts into an
omnipresent soul, as drops of water are
cast into the sea! Do you desire to be
lieve that a million years ago Deity
placed in certain seeds the germs of life?


Would we not better feel that the Father
is still in the sunbeam that plays around
our pathway at noon and in the moaning
winds that sigh at midnight? 1t is high
time that those who break the laws of
right, whose loves are full of all inius-
-tice and vice, should feel that there is
an omnipresent mind and power whose
empire they insult and whose very pres
ence they pollute with their deeds and
character. The human soul needs for
its virtue a ruling mind never to be alb
sent, never to be evaded, but always
present with reward or punishment the
religious heart needs to have its love in
fuenced by the thought that the Being
it wOrships is in the very air that touches
the cheek, and is mysterious agency in
the very tomb where the earthly body
returns to dust. Such a Deity, rescued
from the iIon-like form of the past inagi- |
nation, can become incarnate in Christ. |
can enter the soul of the penitent, can
explain the mental and moral phenomena |
of earth, explain its learning, its pro-
gress, its love, its beauty, and then can |
enter the chamber of death and make it |
the gateway Of a second existence.
Year: 1876

Radical Reform Demanded by Patrons
of the Turf.


One of the most serious evils of the
turf is thus discussed, editorially, by the
Turf, Field and Farm.


That the trOtting associations receive
ANYTHING but a small revenue from the
tax on pool sales are not to be questioned
for moment. At some of the tracks
the tax after dividing with the pOol-sel-
Ter, frequently amounts to five and six
thousand dollars. The commission
which the pool buyers pay in the march
from Cleveland to Springfield amountsto
a small fortune. Capital would soon be
eaten up by the percentage charged on
the in and out speculation on heat races,
did not the winnings largely Outnum-
Der the losses. The tax would ruin any
man whose aggregate winnings only
equaled his aggregate losses. Almost
every speCulator knows this, and there
fore he is not particular as to the means
by which he wins. The odds are so
great against him that he is tempted
into schemes which will not bear the
light of day. All the knavery practiced
in the trotting turf is Matched i'll the
interest of the pool box.


There are thousands Of people whoa
fond of racing, but who will not coun-
tenance a sport used to foster a gambling
spirit. We might as well look the truth
in the face first aslast. When professional
drivers lament the evils of the day, it is
time for park managers to be up and on
guard. The question for them to take
into serious consideration is whether they
can best afford to do without the five
per cent. tax on pools, or the one dollar
at the gate.


Those who believe in moderate instead
of extreme measures have suggested
plan which possibly might work we'll
They propose to retain the pool stand but
to allow no pools to be sold on a race
after the race has been called. They ar
que that this would breakup the cembi-
nations, as the speculator would have no
chance to hedge after placing his money.
If the judges believed that horse was
not trying TO win they could take him
out of the hands of his driver and put
some one up behind him in whom they
had confidence. When made TO realize
the fact that honest Judges would see to
It that horses were honestly driven, the
spectators would back their candid judg
ment of the capacities of the contending
horses, instead of lending his support to
a job. He would be without protection
should he attempt to pursue any other
course. To give force to this plan the
telegraph would have to be looked after.
1t would be ne cessary to instruct the
operator on the park grounds to refuse
every dispatch offered him giving the
betting odds. Unless this were done the
horses would be manipulated in the in
terests of jobs put up in the pool rooms
distant from the scene of action.
Year: 1876

i" Twas moonlight night" the trapper began,


As we lay by the bri .ht camp fire
Come; fill up your pipes and pile on the brands,
And draw little higher.
"'Twas moonlight night when Bet andI-


Bet-she's the old mare YOU know
Started for camp on our lonely route


Ger the dreary waste of snow.
4" had been to the clearing that afternoon.


For powder and ball, and whisky, too,
For game was plenty, furs in demand,


And plenty Of hunting and trapping to do.
"a had no fear of the danger that Iurked


In the region through which my journey lay
I'LL bet OF sudden pricked up her ears,


And smiled the air in n curious way.
" knew at once what the danger was


And Bet struck out at a forty gait;
Twas life or death for the mare aud me-


And all could do was to trust to fate.
90 Wolves our track, ten miles fr m homeI


pleasant prospect that eh, boys7
could see them skulking among the trees,


And the woods re-echOed their hideous noise.
I" AT last, as their number began to swell


They bolder grew and pressed us close
So Old Pill-Driver brought to bear,


And gave the leader leaden dose.
Now you must know, if you draw the blood
On one OF the sneaking, ravenous crew.
The rest will turn on the double quick,


And eat him up without more ado.
- IhlS gave me q chance TO load my gun,


With just q chance to breathe and rest
When on they came a-gaining fast,


Though Bet was doing neI level best.
' began to think it was getting hot;


Pill Driver says /. this will never do;
Talk to 'em againp You bet she did,


And right in his tracks lay number two.
" Well, boys, TO make n long story short,


/ picked them off till but one was left
But he was whopper, you'd better believe
A reg'la mammoth in size and heft.
e Yes. he was the last of the savage pack.


Fer, as they had followed the nat'raI law,
They had eaten each other fast as they fell,
Till all were condensed in his spacious maw."
Year: 1876

How Its Poison CreePs Over n City.


We quote the following stat ment
lately made by DR.. Elisha Harris, of New
York, who is an excellent authority:


The death rate in yellow fever is from
twenty-five to thirty. five per cent. 1t
was twenty-five per cent. in Shreveport
and thirty per cent. in Memphis. In the
New Orleans epidemic it has usually
been about twenty-five per cent. Balti-
more is much more secure against vel
low fever epidemic than New York is,
for there the greater part of the pOpula-
tion live on high ground, and the dis
ease will not travel up the steep hills of
Baltimore. 1t will be more likely to
travel along the coast, and should the
coming winter be mild one in the south,
we may look for yellow fever in the
spring.


The true nature of the poison has not
yet been ascertained, and cannot be un-
til more scientific progress is made. The
time will come when we shall doubtless
be able to meet the enemy, and fully
understand how it effects its work. The
disease does not travel through the air,
as many used to think. 1t is thing that
creeps on the ground. IL travels on a
level or down a decline much faster





demonstrated by the examination of the
progress of epidemics, particularly the
one which passed through this city in
1922. 1t began at the foot of Rector
street, on the North river, where the
poison had been deposited from a sailors
luggage. 1t travelled slewly up Rector
street, which is pretty steep. Coming
to Broadway, it branched out in both
n Il
the streets leading toward New and Broad
streets.


At the same time it was spreading up
and down, and at one time the fence that
was put up to check its progress inclosed
the city hall and the park. All the
merchants and bankers moved up to
of Ninth avenue and
clined to 90 outside of the enclosure, and
many of the obstinate ones lost theiI
lives as the result of their folly. The
poison was propagated on about an average
of about fifty feet each day, and over
spread nearly the whole city. As l said |
before, the poison goes up hill with ap-
parent difficulty, and, in its march |
the city, it never went over the !
houses, but always round them. Persons |
living in the upper stories of tall houses
would, therefore, not be likely to be af-
fected if they remained in their domi-
Giles all the time.


Absolute cleanliness is the best pro-
lection. Bathing all over once or twice
every day, and putting on clean cloth
ing every time; securing, sweeping,
scrubbiDg, ETC., everything that could
keep the body and its surroundings clean,
would be the course to pursue. People
should keep their spirits up and the
pores of the skin open. Care should be
aiken to keep the dwelling and out
houses dry by the use of lime, and no
me should venture out in the night air
when yellow fever is around.
Year: 1876

avoid food in grief Dependency is
nothing but the result of incomplete nu-
triton of the nerves, which give way un-
der outward pressure it is only neces-
sary TO be judicious, and give good nour-
ishment to respondent persons, such as
will invigorate and prove of tonic value,
and the nervous system will return to its
natural elasticity. Dependency ex-
hausts the nervous system greatly, for
all thought is action, and desponding
thought wastes more force than joyous
thought Nervous diseases are the con-
sequence of continued waste of nervous
action and incomplete nutrition, and
require nothing but judicious dietic treat
ment. We have at the outset of our
movement always maintained that all
nervous disorders and so-called lunacy
can be greatly affected by diet, and we
maintain this now healthy and judicious
food molds the character and nourishes
tho hroiu