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Year: 1876

THE FIRE AT DEER PARK, Long Island,


is likely to prove an unwelcome addition
to the horrors now attracting the public
attention. It seems indeed, strange that
the four inmates of house built in a clear
ing in the woods, and from which
escape must not have been diff
cult should all be burned to death
when the house took fire, unless
some means were taken to prevent their get
ting out. Hence the theory that one or all
were murdered and the house burned to con-
ceal the crime has q certain plausibility.
The character of Mr.. Sksmore, the owner of
the house and one of the victims, is said to
have been unenviable, and the description our
correspondent gives of the remaining in
mates leaves apparent room for any one OF
them being the object of devilish malice.
Mr.. Skidmore seemed to have belonged
to that litigious and grasping class
which creates many enemies and
seldom makes and still more rarely
keeps friend. 1t is right to saw
Year: 1876

In another column is presented the inge-
nious theory of Mr. Voolfolk, of Kentucky,
who believes that it is possible for us to get
the better of our winter weather without
moving to the tropics. His proposition is
based upon o statement Of the relations of
two great currents that sweep the surface
of our continent, one from the north, the
other from the south or southwest, and of
which the southerly or warm current moves
at the surface of the earth and the polar cur
rent above the warm one. Cold storms are
the results of the collision of these cur
rents and of the penetration of the warm by
the cold current, which tears through and
ravages with frightful temperature the re-
gions which, but for this atmospheric event,
would continue to enjoy the genial weather
that always comes with the southerly cur
rent. Evidently in this theory of "cold
terms the location and area of the storm
depends upon the point at which the cold
current penetrates, and it is at this point
that the meteorological revolutionist pro-
poses operations. He suggests that by max
ing local storm at a given place with
artillery we can determine that the upper
current shall penetrate at that point, and
thus guarantee the immunity of all other
parts of the continent. 1t is proposed to
make this local storm on one of the islands
in the Upper Pacific, and send the cold
storms streaming down on the width of that
ocean and keeping US all over the northern
temperate zone, from Atlantic TO Pacific, in
air as mild as Nav.
Year: 1876

that beyond suspicious fodhded on the
probability of the old mans harsh ways in
voking iawless vengeance and the strange
iact tnat no one escaped from the house,
there is yet no real foundation for the belief
that the burning wells quadruple murder.
Year: 1876

The CAPTURE OF NOTED BURGLAR sus-
pected Of being concerned in the recent
riding of the bank at Northampton, Mass,
leads to the hope that the true facts
relative to that affair will be soon
known, and that some Of the plum
der will be recovered. This case may also
furnish a remarkable instance Of the prac-
tical utility of lasting conversion from the
Iabyrinthine ways Of sin to the straight and
open path Of righteousness, as illustrated In
Abe truly edifying example Of Elder LutN-
Year: 1876

SEVERAL REPRESENTATIVES of that foggy
element in ideas, which Carlyle calls by the
personifying title of Dryasdust, were yester-
day present at the meeting of the
Rapid Transit Commission ready to
oppose themselves to the project Of the
New York Elevated Railroad. 1t remains to
be seen whether their enlightenment as to
the real plan of the company for the erection
of the proposed roadway will dissipate any of
the confused terrors of minds which blindly
contend against the best interests of prop
erty
Year: 1876

INTERNATIONAL RIFLE SHOOTING. The rifle
men of Scotland are moving toward tho
completion of the arrangements for a ma
tional competition with American sharp
shooters, under the American challenge for
the championship of the world. The
competition for the selection Of the
team of eight, with two reserves, will begin
Immediately in Scotland. The Scotch rifle
men are good shots, and the Americans say
the more the merrier.
Year: 1876

THE COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION have
presented their annual report to the Legisla-
ture. 1t exhibits an almost alarming de-
crease in the number of immigrants, and
the Commissioners intimate that the day as
not far distant when it will be found that
their occupation will be gone.
Year: 1876

A jury was sworn yesterday in the trial of
Rubenstein for the murder of the girl Sara
Alexander at Jamaica. Counsel for the pris-
oner made the usual endeavor to obtain
twelve men who had no opinions. At a
late hour in the afternoon this was accom-
plished
Year: 1876

The ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT Or
FIcIMs in the case of Worms, the man cap
tured at Montreal, and who made such loud
charges against President Grant, shows that
the administration is ready to put the mat
ter to the test of law as soon as q chance
offers. The country will be glad Of this.
Year: 1876

If Spain has been foolish enough in ad.
dressing the great Powers of Europe on the
Cuban question to say that she will end the
Carlist war in ten days we do not think that
she has any belief in her own power to &C.
complish in so short space what has defied
the various Spanish governments for years
past. We do not deny the present activity
of her generals, and we think it could be
easily proved that if this activity had been
manifested three years ago the Carlist wal
would long since have been ended This
promise is, however, too like Mr.. Stewards
NINETY days" to inspire us with any hope
that it will be kept. The forces Of Don Car
los have certainly been driven in upon their
centre during the past year, and they do not
appear to be Offering very spirited OF
successful opposition to the advance OF
Moriones, Iona and Primo Rivera, but there
is considerably more than fortnights work
in finishing up what has been so well begun.
The tenacity with which the brave Basque
mountaineers have clung to the fortunes Of
their Divine Right leader will probably prove
enough to keep the battalions of Don AL
fonso at work for many day. Even grant
ing that the Alfonsist campaign is successful,
as Madrid now hopes it will be, it is gravely
to be questioned whether it will be safe to
withdraw many of the troops for service in
Cuba, as is now so confidently promised. A
complete conquest would certainly allow
some troops to be spared, but in a country
where the rebel army, ON defeat, melts into
predatory bands, and the bands, when dis
persed, resolve themselves into groups or in
dividuals carrying on the war on less for
midable but more widespread scale, the
difficulty of detaching troops from service
in the Pyrenean ranges will be appreciated.


On the bayonets thus to be spared from
the north of Spain is to fall the task Of
''pacifying" Cuba. AS our special despatch
indicates, they do not believe at Berlin in
the second clause of the Spanish promise,
much as they may trust the power of Spain
to vanquish Don Carlos Captain Boabdils
plan to extinguish hostile army was to cut
it up in detail, his champion swordsmen
slicing the enemy down at so many scores a
day. Much as this plan has been ridiculed
we see that it is the only craftsmanship
Spain can apply to the Cuban question. She
says:-'T shall first slice me my score OF
Carlists and then slice me my score Of
Cubans, and that settles it." But it will not
settle it, for the Cuban question is not one
for bayonets to settle. or the revolt would
have been over long ago.
Year: 1876

THE New EDITION OF CHARLEY Ross, the
prospectus of which comes from Tifin,
Ohio, does not strike us as moro likely to be
the genuine copy than did the spurious
embodiment of fraud whose true title was
Jimmy Blanchard. But the infantile char
acter now given to the public gaze has
evidently less subtle brain and franker
youthfulness as arguments against the as
sumption that he is an imposter. The fate
of Jimmy Blanchard does not seem to
frighten new prodigies from notoriety any
more than did the failure of Lambert Sim
tinsel crown.
Year: 1876

When a detestable crime has been per-
petrated it is natural that "reminiscences of
similar offences against life and society
should be conned over, and it is generally
found that every form of criminality has in
the worlds recollection several instances to
show. Thomassen recalled Guy Fawkes; the
Northampton Bank robbery had not to
leave its own State for a congener in
the Concord Bank burglary, and host
of murders followed by butchery have
already been called up from their CHASTITY
graves to compare atrocities with the fearful
crime of last Thursday night at Green
point. 1t is too soon to speculate upon the
homicidal workings of the mind of the MUIR
derer Fuchs before the commission of his
crime, because the evidence is blurred over
by beastly cloud of drunkenness in the
case of the man and the woman; and the
story of the unfortunate child, clear
as it seems, can only outline the
action of the revolving scene, in
which the murderer lay down red-handed
to sleep beside the drunken wife and the
horror-stupefied child, with the ensanguined
corpse lying still hard by. With what went
before and what accompanied the actual
killing justice has most to deal; but, in
what followed, humanity has a Mortified in
terest That night of sleep is something to
contemplate with shudder There were in
it the sleep of innocence, sleep that could
not comprehend the horror of life
taking, the sodden, ignorant sleep of
drunkenness, the sleep of the murderer,
whose callousness was proof against the
SOLDERING influence of such o crime and then
there was the calm sleep of the dead per
haps the easiest out of all to let the mind
rest upon The sickening scenes of the
three following days are but natural
sequences of that night of stiffness
in the abode of crime. The bum
Cling brutality, stupid barbarity and
exterior GOODNESS of the man, the
silent drunkenness of the woman, and
the stupefed. silence of the child are all pro-
ducible from that first sleep with a mur-
dered man for company. We may talk of
the refining influences of our civilization
and the diminution of the display of violent
DaSSlOnS, DuJ SuCu sCtHcS COllt uOW anu
again to remind us that the vilest
crimes are still as possible as when
men ate the captives that they took
in war. Heirs of the ages of progress
as we may be, it is very GER
tain that the raw material of crime
is also furnished to every human
being that comes into this world. The hor-
ror of the mutilation of Simmons becomes
no horror when it takes place in a dissecting
room. Killing that is done on the field of
battle differs certainly from killing for
money or for fancied or real wrong in private
life; but the morbid impulses that separate
the butcher of Greenpoint from the warrior
and the anatomist have a place, smaller
or greater, in the bosoms of all. Before such
stupendous horror we may well stand
aghast but it breaches a useful lesson if it
tells all men to curb the innate impulses to-
ward evil that we see may lead, in happily
rare instances, to such a climax of atrocity.
Year: 1876

In talking with hired man who was
a smoker, asked him what his tobacco
cost him a year. With some assistance in
figuring, he found that the cost was only
twenty dollars. He thought that was not
a large sum. l told him by few minutes
calculation that if instead Of smoking away
twenty dollars yearly, he would put that
amount out at interest, and add the like
sum every year, with interest also con-
tinnally added in, he would accumulate in
this way through life, say from twenty-five
to sixty-fiv years of age, no less than four
thousand dollars. He was startled at the
amount, but had not courage to leave off
the habit.


knew another man who used much
more annually in tobacco, who discon-
tinued the practice, and it enabled him in
twenty years to build a three thousand
dollar house. There are other practices,
which, wasting a little at time, cause a
great deal annually. A domestic in the
kitchen piles on the fire one-third more
fuel than is needed. 1t amounts to few
cents daley, but twenty dollars at least in
a year. Here is another waste of four
thousand dollars in forty years. A farmer
leaves his reaping machine exposed to the
weather all through November; his plows
and harrows are out half the time and in
this way the needless decay amounts tc
more than twenty dollars annually
another sum running up to four thousand
dollars wasted.


The want of fodder racks, and the eX


posure Of his sheep and cattle to the win


ter, make waste equal to fifty dollar


yearly, and the loss of sheep by exposure


and the shrinkage in the flesh and milk o


his cattle cause a yearly loss Of fifty dollar


more over and above the cost of interest ol


properly erected shelter. These two sum


would be equal to twenty thousand dollar
in forty years of lifetime.


There are many other small leaks, bot
on the farm and in the kitchen-such a
scraps of bread thrown away-vegetable
rotting for want Of assorting-knives ruste
for want of cleaning-tumblers broken b
immersing in hot water-harness broke
for want of oiling-carpets ground out b
dirt under them-pumps split by freezin
tools decayed for want of oiling an
painting-every single dollar of which tn,
= needlessly wasted annually will amount
+ two hundred dollars in forty years, i: wit
r interest on interest. There is no necessit
for being penurious or stingy, but only
= prevent actual waste.-Er.
Year: 1876

highest evidence of judicial mind is an
ability to descend to billingsgate and per-
sonal vituperation, and especially to do this
when the victim is defenceless and cannot
respond. There is one power above law
yers and courts which can reform this prac-
tice if it cannot be reformed by voluntary
action. The power is the people; and it
may yet become necessary to demand a
pledge from judicial candidates to put down
this abusive practice as condition pre-
cedent to their elevation to the BENCH
Inter- Ocean.
Year: 1876

The girls are planning to get beau;
They dress for party, ball and show
And the old folks tell us it wasn't so =
When they were young, and used to go!
But the difference is really no more or less
Than little change in the style of dress;
And human nature itself you see,
is Just the same as it used to be.
After the verses and prayers are said,
The old folks light the boys to bed,
And they lie as still as though they were dead,
Till daddy goes off to his dreams instead;
Then down the back stairs-so sly and slow,
With their boots in their hands-and away they go,
And the old man laughs in the morning to see,
It's Just the same as it used to be!
Those good old maids are waiting yet
Over love affairs they froth and fret
OF girls they never saw such set
Every one is a silly eoquettel


But if backward something like forty years
They would carry their meddlesome eyes and ears,
In firtS and freaks of their own they'd see
Its Just the same as it used to be-


OF course to the aged it's right to hold


The years they were happy the best that rolled
But the truth is plain and ought to be told,
That the world grows better in growing old;
And only love, in its show and fame,


Is ever changing and yet the same


Freaks of fashion and change, you see;


But it is Just the.same as it used to be
Year: 1876

A JOLLY GAME" Blowing Cotton is
a sitting-room game of the jolliest sort.


Let as many as may sit around the table


with hands folded and arms extended


along the edge of the table, each person
touching elbows with his on each side of
him. Take small piece of common cot.
ton batting, picked up so as to make it as
light and airy as possible. Let some one
count "one, two, three" and then let each
one blow his best to keep the cotton away
from himself and drive it upon some one
else. The person on whom it alights must
pay forfeit. No one must take up hii
arms to escape the cotton. When il
alights, take it up, and start it anew. II
will be a very sober set indeed who car
play two or three rounds without indulgins
in the healthiest sort of uproarous laughter
Year: 1876

What constitutes a call to the ministry
is a question about to be discussed by the
preachers of indianapolis. We should
think that letter from ten or fifteen re-
sponsible gentlemen offering a salary of
$l0,O00a year, with handsomely furnished
parsonage, would constitute something so
nearly akin to call to the ministry that
you could scarcely distinguish the differ.
ence with the necked eye.-Courier Journal.
Year: 1876

Experience continually contradicts that


notion that poor young man cannot rise.


If we look over the list of rich men, we


find that all of them began life worth little


or nothing. To any person familiar with


the millionaires of the United States, score
of examples will occur. On the other hand
the sons of rich men, who began life with
the capital which so many poor young men
covet, frequently die beggars. 1t would
probably not be going too far to say that a
large majority of such moneyed individuals
either fail outright or gradually eat up the
capital with which they commenced their
career. And the reason is plain. Brought
up in expensive habits, they spend entirely
too much. Educated with high notions oi
personal Importance, they will not, as they
phrase it, stoop to hard work. Is il
astonishing, therefore, that they are passed
in the race Of life by others with less capital
originally, but more energy, thrift, and in


dustry? For these virtues, after all, are
worth more than money. They make it


in fact. Nay, after it is made, they enable
the possessor to keep it, which most mel
pronounce to be more difficult than the
making. The young man who begins lif'
with resolution always to lay by part o


his income is sure, even without extraor


dinary ability, gradually to acquire suffi


cheney, especially as habits of economy


which the resolution renders necessary vii
make that competence for him whicl


would be quite insufficient for an extravc
, CANT person. 1t is really what we save


more than what we make that leads us t
fortune. He who enlarges his expenses a
7 fast as his earnings increase, must alway
be poor, no matter what are his abilities
And content may be had on comparative
little. 1t is not in luxurious living thG
! men find real happiness.-Practicat Farme
Year: 1876

All owncrs OF old Wheeler q Wilson sewing
machines should call at the Office, 155 State street,
and sec the new No. s. The Company aFc pre-
pared to exchange with all their old customers on
very reasonable terms and give them new machine
still better than the old and far tn advance of any
other,
Year: 1876

When see the manure piled up by the
side of barn under the caves, so that the
rain will wash all of the goodness out of
it, am led to wonder If the owner of
that barn has any idea of the diffe renee in
value of manure that is kept under cover
and that out-of-doors. If they only knew
and realized the waste that manure suffers
by exposure, they would try and remedy
1t; just take u little of the time that is
spent at the store, or shop, and get out
little lumber and put up shed that will
keep the rain from the manure heap, and
il will pay you the best interest OF any in
vestment that you can make. When
bought the farm where l now live there
was no manure-shed, and cellar under
the barn was not practicable, so went to
work and fixed a shed; it took about four
hundred feet of boards and little timber,
and | think that the manure is worth
double. There is a cellar under the stable
so that the manure from my horses all
goes there, and the pigs have a good warm
place to stay and the slops from the house
are all emptied down the scuttle and in
the spring there is as good manure as there
is to be had. 1t will be fine and fit tor
corn. l have heard some say that horse
manure was poor stuff. Perhaps it is
when thrown out Of doors; but not when
we get the whole liquid as well as the
solid, that is what we want the whole of
it, and then keep it where it will not waste.
| will just say to those that can get muck,
do not be afraid to put it around your
outbuildings. 1t will save good deal of
bad smell and make some good dressing
for your hungry land, few cart loads
near the sink spout, so as to be used at
different times in the course of the sum-
mer will keep from having a good many
flies, to say the least.


There is one other source of manure on
the farm, and that is the poultry roost. If
there is loan or plaster used and the
roosts cleaned once in a while there can
be "a good deal of valuable manure saved
in that way that will be as good as the
phosphate that costs a good deal of money,
and no farmer can afford to let the good
ness of the manure all run to waste about
his buildings, and then buy commercial fer
tilizer, but the motto should be to keep
what you get, and get all you can in the
manure line
Year: 1876

....A popular man on Friday was be who
owned double-sized umbrella.


-. Don't you think the New Orleans Pa
cifc r .ilroad is about all right now?


-. Friday was most unpleasant day,
especially for the ladies, and was not alto
gether unattended by accidents. Some ladies
there were who were compelled to visit Canal
street for shopping and other purposes;
while all were seriously inconvenienced by
the wet weather, one lady, popular Prytania
street belle, Miss l. H., was so unfortunate
as to slip on the damp pavement and fall,
barely saving herself from being immersed in
the flowing water of the gutter. Happily
some gallant friend near by assisted the lady
to rise, and escorted her safely to the car.
Although her injuries are not serious it is
feared she will be confined to her home fol
several days. We tender our sincere sympa
thies to the unfortunate young lady.
Year: 1876

1t was given out at a certain Sunday school
that the children needed several publications.
for study and amusement but the money to
pay for them was lacking. Then uprose a
timid but generous young man, who said:
"Mr. Superintendent, if you will secure
money enough for the Magazine and Visitor, l
will supply the school with Little People.
Year: 1876

4 PARRor SroGY Ny father was
an old gentleman who was very regu-
lar ia h!s habits. Every evening IL
was his custom to take a stroll after
Tea 10 visit some old friends by the
name of Tate, who lived in the next
street. Before leaving the house he
would open the door OF the dining
room where he used to sit, and would
say aloud, Only going down to Tate'5.
Now it happened one evening that
P3]ly's eape door was left OPEN We
sometimes let hlm walk about the
room when be was very good as 4
preat treat. This evening We sudden
ly missed him from the room, and
could not think where he had gone.
We all set to work and searched the
house high and low; DO Polly could
we find. So at last my father left, as
usual, TO pay his visit 10 our nelgh6or
leaving US sill looking for our pet
What was his surprise upon turning
tie corner of the street 10 see Polly
Quietly waddling down the middle OF
the road. "Why, Polly" said he
"where are you going?" Upon Which
Master Poll cooked up bis little heal
on one side and looked up and ra'!,
"Only going down TO Tate's. s."-L'd'
1ynI Christian
Year: 1876

4 MARRIED WOMAN ELorEs--A young
man by the name Of Dexter eloPed with the
wife of farmer living at Lyons, Kansas
And the woman was red-headua, too The
couple had baby one and half years old,
bu; the wife left everything TO follow Dexter.
The farmer attempted TO put an end TO the
.'cusseduess' - which be had too good reason
to believe would make sad havoc with
his domestic relations unless checked The
vile was in bed sud asleep, with the baby by
her side, and the husband al home. She
was awakened, and D., in buslness-like
way. and in the presence CT her husband,
asked if she was ready TO 90 With him. She
answered by at once bouncing out OF bed and
putting herself in marching order, and then,
without sigh of motheriy regret for her
child, she was perhaps never to see again,
she left tie house, and away they sped On
foot, down the railroad II the direction OF
Kansas City, The husband don propose 10
follow his truant wife; he Is not a reading
man, and is supposed to know but little about
WocdhuI and her peculiar views touching The
relation Of the se1ss.-76psEd (Ks-l TDAss.