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Year: 1875

About year ago the renowned Croker,
Coroner of the city and county OF New York,
and, by the grace of John Kelly, an infuen-
tial member of the Tammany General Com
mittee, was brought prominently before the
people through his alleged association with
the assassins who. killed poor McKenna with
the bullet intended for the heart of ex-Sheriff
O'Brien. The same energetic member of
Kelly's bodyguard now again appears upon
the scene as q witness before the Senate COM
mittee charged with the duty of inquiring
into the management of the several depart
ments of the New York city government
From his last exhibition Kelly's Coroner has
proved that he is less familiar with the laws
applying to the Office he holds than with the
utility of a revolver in an election fight. 1t
appears from his testimony before the COM
mittee that his diffidence as to his
own capacity is such that he has
been in the habit Of empanelling a
jury in cases where death has been
caused by smallpox, or when he has been
called upon to view the body of stillborn
infant because, in the Coroners own words,
che never wanted to take the responsibility
of rendering any verdict upon himself :"
The verdict which the people of New York
might feel disposed to render upon Kelly's
Coroner might not be very acceptable to that
lineal descendant of the historical Dogberry
But his mistrust of himself, unfortunately,
costs the city very large amount of money
in unnecessary jury fees, and as the Coroner
gets five dollars more for an inquest when he
summonses a jury than when he does not,
perhaps after ALL there is more cunning in
Croker's modesty than would at first sight
appear.


This whole business of coroners' fees is
subject to gross abuse, and Comptroller
Green, who does q great many Objectionable
things, certainly deserves credit for the per-
tinacity with which he has resisted the at
tempts of the coroners to plunder the city.
The fees allowed by law are swelled by all
manner of devices, until the coroners Office,
which occupies but an inconsiderable por-
ton of the incumbent's time. has become
one of the most remunerative in the city.
The fault lies mainly in the looseness of
legislation. No discretion, or very little,
! should be left to those officers who, under
the political dictatorship of your John
Kellys, are usually of the Croker stamp. The
statute should define in what cases juries
should be summoned and in what cases they
should be dispensed with, and the Office
should be made salaried one. 1t would be
worth while to fix liberal compensation, if
| by that means we could obtain better class
of officers than those who usually fill the
position. The office is an important one,
and it is scandalous that the political scum
of the wards should SO frequently be used
as the material out of which coroners are
made.
Year: 1875

THE HONEST SENTIMENT of the people
rebukes poor Kelly's attempt to crafty his
personal malignity against Judge Hackett,
and to deprive the Bench of fearless and
upright Judge. The Bordentown Register,
although a democratic paper, says of Re
corder Hackett This Judge has been very
severe on offenders, sending them to prison
for the longest terms. The public have
generally approved of this and hoped he
would be renominated. John Kelly stated
in the Convention last evening that in the
days of the Ring Hackett had voted with it,
and was therefore Objectionable but his
friends say that Kelly's opposition is a per-
sonal matter and arises out of the Judges
action as counsel in case where Kelly as
Sheriff was plaintiff Whoever is right. the
action of the Convention has strengthened
the anti Tammany party"
Year: 1875

The PRESS outside of New York is as en-
phatic as the city papers in denouncing the
attempt of poor Kelly to drive Recorder
Hackett from the Bench. The Ogdensburg
Daily Journal Recorder Hackett OF
New York city, has been the terror of crimi-
inals, and is distinguished as an intelligent,
courageous and pure judicial officer. Tam
many has refused him denomination. 1t is
the most significant act that reformed Tam
many has ventured upon, and is one that
will open the eyes of a great many people in
this State"
Year: 1875

The answers of Police Commissioners Mat
sell and Disbecker to the charges preferred
against them and to the request Of the Mayor
for their resignation were made yesterday.
The counsel by whom the answers were writ
ten have oyershot their mark and whatever
credit they may have won as sharp contro-
yersialists has been gained at the expense of
their clients interests. They have been
numerically severe on Mayor Wickham.
They have made an ingenious and not al
together unsuccessful effort to convict him of
inconsistency They have turned upon him
with the rebuke that if the police force has,
as he alleges, been inexcusably inefficient
and demoralized beyond hope of recovery,
he has himself as the head of the city gov
ernment for over nine months made no effort
and offered no suggestion or direction for its
reformation or improvement. They have
disclosed the fact that he secretly united
with the arraigned Commissioners in
the lobbys defeat of the bill intro
duced by his own party at the last
session of the Legislature to separate the
street cleaning business from the Police De-
partment. They show that in some instances
the Mayor is not so familiar with the de-
tails of the police laws and regulations as he
might be. But at the same time they prove
conclusively that their clients, Disbecker and
Matsell, are not fit to be at the head of the
police force of the city; that their con-
tinuance in their present positions is incon-
sistent with the public interests and with
the harmony and efficiency of the city gov
ernment, and that their removal has
already been too long delayed.


1t is absurd for Disbecker and Matsell to
tell the people of New York that crime has
not increased in this city within the past
two or three years that the charge that
gambling houses and panel houses exist
throughout this city to an alarming extent
and with astonishing notoriety is a reckless
assertion entirely untrue !" that the recent
presentment of the Grand Jury was the
result of undue operations" and that the
New York police force is ''as efficient in
the discharge of its duties as any existing in
any city in Europe or America" The reckless
ness OF such statements can only strengthen
the puDlic conVlctlon tnat the present neadS
of the department are either incapable or
dishonest. When it is notorious that cap
tains of police have been the pensioners or
blackmailers of the violators of law; that
detectives have been in the pay of thieves
and have in return afforded them protection
and immunity, and when the Police Com
missioners themselves have shifted precincts
and remanded detectives to patrol duty on
these very grounds, it becomes something
worse than impudence to put forth such
assertions in an official document. If any
thing more could be needed to prove that
Commissioners Matsell and Disbecker are
unfit for the positions they occupy it would
be found in the tone of their reply to the
letter addressed to them by the Mayor in the
discharge of his official duty
Year: 1875

THE DEPosrToRs in the Third Avenue Saw
ings Bank appear to be at last on the right
road to the protection of their interests.
They have determined to obtain an order to
examine all tho books and papers Of the
bank, with the object Of discovering whether
the receiver appointed at the instigation Of
the bank is proper person to be intrusted
with the duty OF winding I'D its affairs.
Year: 1875

AT LAST TwEED's ANSWER to the complaint
in the six million suit has been filed. While
answering, however, the great defendant
reserves his right to his appeal against the
last adverse decision in his case refusing
him stay of proceedings. He denies that
he did combine, agree or conspire with the
late James Watson as charged, and gives q
general denial to all the allegations in the
complaint.
Year: 1875

THE STORY of the one million bond forgery,
in which Roberts, Gleason, Ralston and
others figured, and in connection with which
the Liberation of Spence Pettis from the Bos-
ton State Prison was sought some time since,
has been revived by the suit reached in the
Superior Court yesterday but went over to
NEXT term
Year: 1875

THE ARREST OF A P1cKPocKET on Third
avenue yesterday elected from the prisoner
the fact that regular brigade Of pickpockets
had been organized to follow up target ex-
cursions and rob the innocent lookers-on.


In this case the victim was lady. Moral
Never stop to admire target company on its
march.
Year: 1875




republican loss oA,'-'


II Is shown by these figures that the demo-
cratic gain was less by 81, 6S6 votes than the
republican loss, or in other words that re-
publicans enough stayed away from the polls
last year to have defeated Mr.. Tilden by
more than seven thousand majority. If
therefore, the vote of the State could be as
fully brought out in New York as it was in
Ohio, the republican party would have a
chance to be equally victorious We do not
believe they can accomplish this, for there
are many honest republicans who would feel
no grief at the election Of the democratic
ticket, identified as it is with an energetic
attempt to eradicate abuses III the State gov
ernment We can see no possibility of a
republican success in New York, but it is
not only possible but probable that there
will be a reduction of the democratic major
ity of last year. The 'tidal wave" which
was at its flood one year ago, has begun to
subside by the folly Of the Ohio democrats,
and the subsistence will be felt in the New
York canvass.
Year: 1875

New YORK, December 24.-The jury
in the Bowen libel suit found II verdict
for the plaintiff, and fixed the damages
at one thousand dollars. Other cases OF
libel will be tried next term
Year: 1875

There has Just been received in this
city a formal acceptance by Pope Plus
TX of the invitation by the Centennial
authorities, requesting HIS Holiness to
give his recognition to the enterprise by
contributing to the Exposition works of
art from the galleries of the Vatican or
from the workshops over which he has
control, The letters OF the Pope are
couched in the warmest terms of friend
shin for the United States,
Year: 1875

Gentlemen farmers, says the Germantown
Telegraph, are to tho agricultural commu-
nifty what old maids, though generally worth
their weight in gold, are to society the butt
Of many joke and the treasury on which
we draw for considerable fun, but which we
find, when joking is set aside, are very often
institutions of the most commendable char
acter, and which no one would like to see
wholly set aside.


Farming, Of course, is as a general thing
an occupation to make money. 1t is right,
therefore, to measure the success of a farm.
or in most cases, by the money he makes.
If man who invests a talent in farming
can say, "Behold, have made ten talents, .
by all rules Of agricultural ethics he is en-.
titled to be considered much better farmer
than the one VINO makes only five. Yet
there are large number who farm and who
can afford to farm without any of these
money considerations being the first thing
above all.


We know of men who have their few
COWS, fruits, gardens, etc, but whose every
quart Of milk costs them a quarter Of dol
lar, and perhaps every Bartlett pear as
much more. They are often told that 1t is
absurd to pay quarter for that which they
can get for dime and it may be as true as
that person could hear as much good music
for dollar as he could play out of the in.
strument himself in a whole year. But it il
pleasure to grow and to see things growing
and this pleasure is part of the profit


And then these men are excellent neigh
bors. Many farmer is afraid to try much
that is new, and he is right. 1t is not wise
in any business, TO run risks. When ont
knows certainly what will do well, it is no
wise to run after that which may do better
Yet the whole improvement in farming o
late years, has been due to new ideas anC
notions worked into regular practice from
time to time.


The gentleman farmer can try these thing:
aud without great loss Indeed, the pleas
ure Of knowing all about them is one Of hi
greatest qualifications. The knowledge h
has gained at some cost, gets spread over tn
whole neighbOrhood for nothing, and all thu
people ridicule him and when he sells ou
and "moves back to town" as he often does
he gets little sympathy in his failure. Whel
the modest gentleman farmer, who boastetl
not Of what he is going to do, but goes OF
his way trying all things, and letting hi
neighbors see what he does is a benefit t
any place and nothing shows this more thai
tho evident comfort and prosperity OF thos
districts in which one or two have settle'
down.
Year: 1875

The grains proper of this country are not
appreciated as they ought to be, for daily
food at our tables these arc Indian corn,
wheat, rye, barley aud oats. They contain
all the elements ol nutrition necessary to the
support of the human system, and if they
could be used for two Of the daily meals, as
break fast and supper, without anything else,
there would be an incalculable advantage to
the soundness of the teeth, the strength Of
the bones, the hardness Of the muscles, the
endurance of the body, and the vigor of
the brain. They can all be made into bread
after being reduced to -four but not only is
this at serious loss Of nutriment, but it in-
wolves a useless waste of digestive power
Wheat bread requires three hours and half
to be digested in an ordinary stomach boiled
wheat will be dgested In two hours. Boiled
barley has ninety-two per cent Of nutriment !;
-four in the form Of bread from thirty to
eighty per cent. But there is another inn
portant practical consideration, relative to
children. Seventy-one parts out Of hum
dred Of the body of the teeth are composed
of lime and of the enamel of the tooth, that
which preserves it from decay, being its ex-
ternal coating, ninety-iour per cent is Of
lime This lime comes chiefly from the
bread we eat but in converting the ordinary
grain into flour, the bran, the husk of the
gram, is separated from the -four, yet it Is
this bran which contains the lime in the larg-
est proportions thus, in five hundred pounds
of fine flour there are thirty pounds Of bone ;
iu five hundred pounds Of the whole grain
there are eighty.fve pounds Of bone aud
when it is considered how much teeth add to
personal beauty, and how important they are
to the healthiul preparation of the food for
the stomach, thus saving stomach labor, it is
not easy to estimate properly the advantage
which the whole grain, as food, has over
the flour preparations. We never become
weary of bread, butter, potatoes, aud some
other articles, and if the cereals were well
prepared, cooked thoroughly, aud judibiously
seasoned, there is no doubt they could be
made as palatabe the year round as good
bread.


The grain should be taken whole, or bro
ken into several pieces, covered with warm
water, and placed on the stove or fire, TO re.
main there three or four hours; then boil
slowly for several hours longer, with an occa'
sional stirring, until quite soft aud thick
then eat with milk, butter, syrup or salt; o.
if cold, slice off and fry brown. If, from the
age OF two TO fifteen, children were compelled
to make two of the three meals day o
these preparations of whole grain, or parch-
ing i. brown like coffee aud eaten with boiled
milk, after being itself well boiled, in al
cases of loose bowels, great gain would be
made in personal beauty, manly vigor, ,physi,
cal endurance, and mental power.


Watchman and Reflector.
Year: 1875

reputation of our goods, so long as the diff
ference is so readily perceptible, or "that its
manufacture and sale under any circum-
stances is fraught with the utmost danger to
the great cheese industry of the country"


1t is source Of surprise to cheese.makers,
that skim cheese is produced" by the use
of ga mixture of morning milk skinned
and evening milk unskimmed, in equal quaD-
titles" Where did the Grocer obtain this
elementary fact ?" We bad supposed it
was Just the reverse We trust that the
Grocer, in its 'intenticn to follow this sub
iect to some conclusion" is not actuated by
purpose to "go for" ga few misguided
manufacturers and two or three receivers of
this oleomargarine cheese"


If there is actual danger to the market
for our cheese abroad from the manufacture
aud sale under any circumstances, Of oleo-
margarine cheese, we would be among the
first to condemn it. But neither the princ-
pies involved, as we understand them, nor
the elementary facts" and reasoning Of the
American Grocer have convinced us of ex-
istence OF the peril in any such degree, or at
ALL
Year: 1875

the word factory and with the same intention


As it is our intention to follow this sub
lect to some conclusion, we have thought it
adv vsable to set forth these elementary facts
about the cheese industry as it stands at
present, in order that all interested in it may
understand the true position of the question.
If it were a question entirely confined to our
selves in this country it might, from our gen.
orally demoraized condition on the subject
Of food products, be less dangerous to the
cheese industry to deal in these inferior goods,
but it is not so. OF the l,905,97S cheeses
received here during the year ending May 81
last 1,70l 1928 were exported leaving 204,-
$50 for our home consumption, about 8 per
cent Of the total receipts. Wepresume other
seaboard markets would show similar results,
so that to us here, commercially speaking,
it is our export trade in cheese that overshad-
ows every other consideration. How is that
affected by these practices 2 That is the
paramount question. Every person here in-
terested in the export trade, and nearly every
receiver is, tells us that the presence Of these
adulterated cheeses IN the English market is
already being felt here, and that it is abso-
/ lutely CeIJaln, III tnelT nauuiaCIuTe UT SHlp-
ment is persisted in, to react disastrously up
on our cheese trade, and ultimately to drive
us out OF a market that has cost US so many
years and so much labor to establish, and
which is so sensitive to the adulteration Of
its food products as to require the most
thoughtful attention of its most celebrated
manufacturers of such products to avoid the
very difficulties into which we seem to be
willing to rush blindfolded without any re.
gard to consequences. Can the dairymen
and merchants who handle their products af.
ford to do this? Must the entire cheese in.
terest of this country be sacrificed out ol
consideration for few misguided manufact.
urers and two or three receivers Of this oleo
margarine cheese There is but one an.
swer. Those who are thus engaged must quit
it. We know the sentiment of the cheese
receivers and exporters of this city. In du,
time they will take such action as will plac,
themselves unmistakably against this article
1t would be we'll for them to say that thel
regard its manufacture and sale, under any
circumstances, as fraught with the utmos
danger to the great cheese industry OF tn
country, and that they will not recognize o
handle the product ia any shape.


American Grocer.
Year: 1875

Some of the best farmers in this coutry
have followed the practice for some years, Of
turning over pieces of their moving fields,
that are somewhat run out, after haying;
spreading on a top-dressng Of well-rotted
manure, and the last ofAugust or first of Sep
tember-as the season may be-seeding heav-
lily with grass seed. In all instances of
this kind of which we have heard, heavy
crops of hay have been harvested the follow
ing year, and the plan has uniformly met
with success. If farmers desire to do so, and
are willing to try the experiment, they may
SOW on some winter wheat with the grass
seed, and see how it does They may har-
vest fair crop, but in some instances of
which we have learned, the grass has over
shadowed the wheat, which latter had given
but light yield. But for the purpose Of
securing advantage Of the main point--the
renovation of our grass lands-the plan if
worthy Of more general practice.
Year: 1875

A New Jersey gardener considers salt
necessary to the development Of cabbage,
especially in places far from the coast. He
finds them more crisp, Of better flavor, and
to keep better when salt is used than without.
He used it as follows: "a few days after
setting out the plants, and when they are
damp, either after a rain or when the dew is
on, take small dish Of fine salt and walk
ing among the rows sprinkle little pinch Of
salt on the centre of each plant when the
leaves begin to grow. l repeat the sailing,
and when the centre of the leaves begin to
form the head, 1 apply salt again, scattering
ii over the leaves after this l look them
over occasionally, and if l find plants that
do not head well and appear diseased, L
sprinkle the salt over freely this will save
all such plants. A quart of salt is sufficient
for five hundred plants in a season, although
more can be used with safety"
Year: 1875

Sheep are undervalued by the mass of
landholders as a means of keeping up the
fertility Of the soil and putting money into
the pockets of the farmers. The moment
one begins to talk of sheep husbandry, the
listener or reader begins to look for wool
quotations, as if the wool is all that yields
profit from sheep. One might as well look
for wheat quotations alone when there is
talk about the profits of farming.


Sheep on a farm yield both wool and NUT
ton. They multiply with great rapidity.
They are the best of farm scavengers
''cleaning field" as no other class Of ami
mails will. They give back to the farm more
in proportion to what they take from it than
any other animal, and distribute it better
with a view to future fertility of the soil.
Prove this ? There is no need of proof
to those who have kept sheep, and know
their habits and profits they yield. To prove
it to those who have not had the experience,
it is necessary they should try the expert
ment or accept the testimony Of an expert
enced shepherd. n Y. World.
Year: 1875

Among the many devices for keeping but
ter in manner that preserves the fresh rosy
favor Of new, with all its sweetness, is the
following from the Duchess Farmer, which
is said to be entirely successful


ITO three gallons of brine strong enough
to bear an egg, add quarter of a pound Of
nice white sugar and one tablespoonful Of
saltpetre. Boil the brine, and when it is
cold strain carefully. Make your butter into
rolls, and wrap each separately in clean
white muslin cloth, tying up with string.
Pack large jar full, weigh the butter down,
and pour the brine until it is submerged.
This will keep really good butter perfectly
sweet and fresh for a whole year Be careful
to not put upon ice butter that you wish to
keep for any length of time. In summer
when the heat will not admit of butter being
made into rolls, pack closely in small jars,
and using the same brine, allow 1t to cover
the butter to a depth Of at least four inches.
This excludes the air, and answers very nearly
as well as the first method suggested"