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Year: 1875

Nothing Of interest has occurred at the Deaf ana
Dumb Asylum at Carmansvfle but two OF the patients
very low and may die. number Of friends OF the
pupils who had read the report in the HERALD about
the prevalence of typhoid fever in the institution.
called yesterday to make inquiries about their friends
being very much alarmed for their safety The doctors
are very angry at the exposure
Year: 1875

A WASHINGTON special to the Boston Adj
vertiser says that one step in the reolganiz-
alton of the internal revenue office has been
decided upon. Heretofore the revenue agents
have been under the personal direction Of the
supervisor Hereafter they will be under a
chief of revenue agents connected with the
bureau at Washington, who, under the COM
missioner, will direct all their movements.
Agent Yaryan, who has been so prominent
in working up the last whiskey raid, is to be
appointed chief of the revenue agents. He
will also have full charge of all further inves-
tigation in connection with the continuation
ofthe move on the whiskey ring. A force Cf
clerks will be put at his disposal 10 examir e
and compare all the records in the office for
the purpose of testing the transactions of all
distilleries and lectifying establishments for
two years past. An investigation is to be
made at once into the case of each revenue
official believed to be improperly connected
with the frauds just discovered, and all found
to be so involved viii be promptly dismissed.
This course was deemed just, since if all ap-
parently connected with the matter should be
dismissed the chances are that some cases of
unjust treatment would occur. The Presi-
dent, however, is firm in his purpose to dis
miss every man who is in the slightest degree
involved in the frauds.
Year: 1875

THE power of capillary attraction has re-
ceived striking Illustration. In Albany not
long since woman committed suicide by
hanging herself with hair switch which she
had removed for that purpose. On the whole
this is preferable to the method brought into
fashion some years since by Absalom, and is
certainly far more expeditions and less pain
full than the manner of committing suicide by
pling great masses of false hair upon the
head and so breeding fatal and loathsome
diseases
Year: 1875

EUROPE is not unlike the child who has
been bitten by dog and thereafter passes
with nervous dread the kennel wherein the
brute abides. No sooner does Bismarck
growl than tine whole continent is alarmed.
There seems to have been little If any reason
for the scare of week ago. The fitful CLEANS
across the political sky were but the sheet
lightning OF storms which have long ceased.
1t is doubtless true that the Gar held in his
control the destinies of Europe. But Alex
auder OF Russia is too wise and patriotic SOW
ereign to leopard the interests of his empire
for the sake of gratifying his friendship for
the German Kaiser.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

THE North Star is twinkling chain light
ming for the venerable Sunrise editor. In
1871, the editor of the Sunrise said some
very disagreeable things about Mr.. Powers.
whom it now lauds to the skies. The Star
republishes, probably to the intense disgust
of the Sunrise man, some of these editorials,
Here is one of the scorching rays of the Sun
rise of 1871:


We never repeat an assertion we have once
made because somebody says it is not true,
but we say to Mr.. Powers, and he may rely
on this assertion, that if he never reaches
Congress until we help him there, he will
wait until he becomes an honest man, politi-
caly, which is an event of more unlikely oc-
currence than the elevation of Victoria
Woodruff to the Presidency.
Year: 1875

THE French are meeting with great success
in the manufacture of cider from beets. On
this side of the water the success is quite as
marked in making cheats" from cider. The
French method is decidedly preferable, and
should be naturalized at once.
Year: 1875

WHAT howl the Democratic press would
set up if Republican governor and council
should dc as Gov. Weston of New Hamp-
shire has done in reference to the counting
of the votes for senators. First, they prom
ised to refer the matter to the Superior Court
and geve the Republicans to understand that
they did SO; then they came back with the
answer that the court said there was no time
to examine the subject, when in fact Gov.
Weston only asked the Chief Justice if there
was time, and when he answered doubtfully,
did not ask the Others. Next, they set the
known will of the people at defiance by re-
fusing to count the votes given for man
known throughout the state for years as
Matt Head, thereby electing a Democrat.
And this is the Democracy to whom the
voice OF the people is the voice Of God. The
trouble is, they have no faith in the voice OF
the latter.
Year: 1875

THE new King of Spain appears to be be-
having himself very sensiby. He has refused
to accede to the demand of the Papal Nuncio
for the suppression of the liberty of worship
in Snain
Year: 1875

SCIENCE. which has come to the rescue OF
nearly all our pet abominations, has word
to say for the house-ay. The noisy insect
feeds upon the animalcules which abound in
impure air, and so really does us a good turn.
He is also useful as a standard. Catch him
and weigh him. II he be lean the room is
healthy, the air being freei from animalcules.
II he be fat secure another rent at once or en-
gage colony of flies for domestic service.
Year: 1875

II does not mitigate the extent of the
outrage in Vicksburg by the military,
under Major Head, that that officer per-
formed an unpleasant duty with as little
parade as possible, and with sense Of
shame for his position. His, however,
is not the blame, but Grants. The Pres
ident is the tyrant, Head but Obeyed or
Year: 1875

GEANT sent a message to congress
Yesterday urging new guns for the coast
fortificstious. We trust our Democratic
friends will see to it that not one cent is
appropriated for any such purpose. In
fact, we think it would better accord
wi.h the convictions of our people il the
army was stricken from the rell of ap-
prapriaiions, and officers and men put
to work at useful occupations.
Year: 1875

A small portion Of the creditors Of tho
Cook County National Bank, Board Of Trade
operators who hold c'ai,as against S7u1oxs
mud ALLEN in connection with grim corner
which was unsuccessful, now seek to obtain
thoir money by auoing the suretios on the
bond furnished by ALLEN to secure tho mr.
gin deposits. The defense to the action is
bascd chiefly upon the assumption TINT tue


"corner" transactions were nothing moro
than gambling contracts, or bots upoa the
price Of grim, and therefore tho law will not
enforce the claim against tho bondsmen ;
while the Plaintiffs claim TINT tho bank had
nothing to do with the nature OF the con-
tract, but was merely d stakeholder or deposit
tory, bound to pny over tho money to the
parties entitled thereto under the contract.
Year: 1875

A New Bru nswick Judge, in his ad.
dress to the Grand Jury of Gloucester
county, draws attention to murder case
where the evidence is purely circumstan.
tial. but forms such a well connected
chsin that the prisoner charged with
the crime can hardly escape the pen.
atty. The men belonging to travelling
circus were molested by some roughs,
and just before leaving the locality where
the murder took place two of them were
fired at from clump Of bushes, one being
killed and an other seriously wounded.
The Judge said:--


"There may be some difficulty in fixing
the charge Of tho murder detinitly on any
one person. There is not direct evidence
that the prisoner fired the shot, but
there is, what isssometimes considered as
convincing, circumstantinal evidence,
which in this case may be sufficiectly
strong to lead You to find bill against
him. It will be proved that he led in the
disturbance Of the night proceeding the
murder; that he said he would have the
hearts bl.>od Of some of the circus men;
that gun which he admitted to belong
to him, and a powdcr.horn bearing his
initials, were found in the bushes near
where the shot was fired; that the slugs
found in the body Of TIE murdered man
we're indentical with those found in the
house of the prisoner; that two men>were
seen running toward the water immedi-
ately on the shot being fred, and that
about an hour after the murder the pris.
onor was seen with his feet and ankles
vet, as if he had recently been wading in
water. II those circumstances satisfy
you-as think they wili-that you
should put the prisoner on trial, it is
your duty to find true bill.


It would be difficulty to get stronger
chain Of circumstantinal evidence than
this in the Whole history Of crime and it's
punishment.
Year: 1875

W1NoxA Republican: The singular and
beautiful sight Of q crab apple tree
bearing fruit and full of blossoms for the
second time this season, may he seen in
the yard Of Mr.. A. Langdon, corner of
Wa0asha and Center streets.
Year: 1875

MANY who aic suffering from the effects of the
warm weather and deblitiated are advised by
physicians to take moderate amounts Of whisky
two or three times during the day In little while
those who adopt this advice frequently increase
the number Of drinks" and in time become con-
frmed inebriates. A beverage which will no
create thirst for intoxicating liquors, and whice
is inteded especially for the benefit CT debilitated
persons, whether at home or abroad, Is DR..
SchencK's Tea Weed Tonic, Containing the juices
of many medicinal herbs, this preparation does not
create an appetite for the intoxicating cup. The
nourishing and the lifc-supportiug properties Of
many valuable natural productions contained in it
and we'll known tomedical men have q most
strengthening influence, A single bottle Of the
Tonic will demonstrate ius valuable qualities,
For debility arising from sickness, exertion
from any cause whatever, wineglassful of Sea
Weed Tonic taken after meals will strengthen the
stomach and create IN appetite for wholesome food
To all who are about leaving their homes, we
desire TO say that the excellent effeots of DR..
Scheuck's seasonabe remedies, Sea Weed Tonic,
md Mandrake Pills, are particu ary evident when
taken by those who are injuriously affected bV q
change Of water and diet, No dcrson should leave
home without taking a supply of these safeguaidi
along. For sale by all Druggists
Year: 1875

little before ten O'Clock last night Of the guests
rooming ON the second floor Of the Van Dyke House.
No 2S Bowery heard the loud report of pistol appar
emily proceeding from adjoining room. Notifying
the propretors investigation was made, and it
found that Arnold Aronson occupying of the
second floor rooms had shot himself in the head with
a revolver. The wounded discovered
the floor nsensble and profusey bleeding.
On the table in his note, written partly in
English and partly in German, in which it was stated
that the writer Aronson) had determined to take his
own life. The assigned written in such
egibe that but little could be CLEANED with
regard TO them but enough ascertaned to warrant
the belief that temporary insanity had set in The de-
ceased twenty eight years OF and native of San
Francisco residing when there at No 81 Monroe street
He came to New York from Philadelphia where he
had been for six weeks past Tuesday of this week
and took rooms at the hotel above mentioned. On
Thursday he went TO Bellevue Hospital to be treated for


deep-seated maady, but remained there only day.
1t Is believed that his Illness which of long stand
ing had preyed upon his mind and affected his brain.
He removed promptly after the occurrence to the
Park Hospital, where at midnight he was still living,
but hopes entertained Of his recovery the ball.
which entered the left temple, remains imbedded in the
hrai
Year: 1875

GO on with your match' So long you have the
present rules you must have the boundary. Again,
take away your boundary and you Introduce tempta-
tion fraud, for what might quarter of
mile behind fences and hedges"


BoGARDus ESTIMATED.


swell, though have no desire to make this per-
sonal matter, would like to have your honest opinion
OF Bogardus as a shot," said


'Ie Is simply excellent, possessing almost all the
cessary qualities but He has great skill undoubted
pluck and wonderful endurance-greater steadincss
than ever saw in any other But do not think
he is rapid enough when the birds are really first class
am led to say this from the fact that with all his i'm
practice, exceeding my own all times he has
only succeeded making higher score with slow
birds In the instance named with the English blue
rocks was a trne ahead should like to have met
him in England and contested for anything-money,
badge cup-with 100 good strong English blues,
which would have set the matter forever at rest, Of
course"


PAINE AccEPTs MATCH.


81 have heard that you do not to meet him, now
that he is back Is that So


Nothing will give pleasure than to meet
Bogardus for a trial Of skill l ready to meet all
comers-ether the Captain any one else. AS proof
of my willingness in this respect have accepted
proposition meet the Captain to shoot for cup tor
baugcl which has been subscribed for by OF the
gentlemen Of the Newport Club The match is to take
place at the Narrsganset Club grounds, Friday the
Sd of September next my birds each, distance thirty
yards The club will furnish tho birds, which have
no doubt viii be good.


''What desire to convey, in conclusion is this, and
say il with all frendness, that regret that Bogardus
did not dive deeper while in England find out the best
men and the best methods try conclusions with the
real crack shots, then he could have returned with
truer estimate of them, could have fairly compared
their system with ours and given any little advan
tages that might bo derived from It, and when he had
vanqushed the strongest, held up his aurels uni
versal challenge
Year: 1875

The police of the Fifteenth precinct raided gam
bling house at eleven O'Clock last night Broadway,
near Fourteenth street The effected by
Detectives Carr and Steven who managed to evade the
Cerberus watching at the door by slipping in the latter
opened the door admit player Before the officers
could reach the room which the gambling going
the players took alarm and general stampede
made to get outside. The keeper of the house and
arrested, the others managing to escape via
the back The prisoners locked up in the
Fifteenth precinct station house.
Year: 1875

Bs- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The NRw YoRK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing night signal
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
ing the coors red green red changing from the other
In succession. and be distant Cap
tain of vessels seeing this signal will obge by
pairing any marine they may have for the Ship News
Department of the HERALD.


RS-Persons desirous Of communicating with vessels arriv
ing New York do by addressing vessels
OF HERALD yacht pier No East River, New York
from all parts of the world and promptly
livered- Duplicates are required.
Year: 1875

William Riddle, young man employed In Lord
Tayors store died in the Ladies' Hospital at Paterson,
yesterday few days since he went TO Paterson to at
tend the funeral of friend when he fell from the wag
by sudden jar and sustained internal injuries that
resulted in his death. The distance he fell not
over three feet but as he fell two companions fell upon
him, which probably the Of the fatal internal
inin
Year: 1875

WAR DEPARTMENT,


OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WAsnISGToS, August 2S-1 A NJ.


Probabilities
For New England the Middle States, the lower lake
region and South Atlantic States, clear clearing and
weather, with northeast to southeast winds
and stationary slowly falling barometer
For the Gulf States Tennessee aud the Ohio Valley
and partly cloudy weather eastery southcrly
winds slowly falling barometer and rain In the south
west and in the Mississippi Valley.
For the upper lake region the Upper Mississippi and
Lower Missouri valleys partly cloudy and warm
weather during the day with local ran southerly
westerly winds, followed by lower temperature and
rising barometer


The Mississippi will fall rapidly except at stations
below vicksburg, where It will change but slightly


THE WEATHER YESTERDAY
The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty -four hours in compar
ison with the corresponding date Of last year as nd
Gated by the Thermometer at Hudnuta pharmacy
HERALD Building
Year: 1875

formed, but they can unite as men of other callings do, take their destiny in their own hands and work out their own salvation. But just so long as they purchase on credit and on mortgages they will be at the mercy of the world. This is an exceptional year, but Heaven grant that it may be the last. Next year will begin a new century with the American peo- pie, let them try to begin it alright. Cotton, credit and whisky is the trinity which has ruined Arkan- sas. It would be better for the country if the seed of the first were lost, for credit would go with it and we should only have the last to fight.

 I repeat, farmers! unite and MAKE farming pay, for the ques- tion is not so much whether it pays, as, can it be made to pay.

 T.
Year: 1875

MINoNK, March l., 1879.


To the Edit"r y the woRsi>eaAN's Auyoc,rs


VIII you allow small space il your
valuable paper for one more plain letter
On Mime Ventilation. What is the cause
Of Natural Ventilation in mines Tho
cause rs the natural heat that i in the
mines. What time Of the year il natural
ventilation mostly predominant In win
ter Why I Because the atmosphere ont
side the mines is 50 much colder than The
ar inside the mines, consequently the
weight IT the atmosphere above ground
has natural tendency to fall or press
itself down into the mines. While at the
same time the natural heat in the mines
has undoubtedly strong tendency to force
les way mp through the highest channel il
can ind, until 1t reaches its own degree Of
heat IN the atmosphere, above ground.
From the above it is plain, that Natural
Ventilation, is entirely due to the heat in
the mines, together with the atmospheric
pressure from outside. What is the cause
Of the stagnation of air currents in mines
through the summer season Because the
air in the mines is then generally colder,
consequently denser, than the atmosphere
above ground. 1t may then happen at
this season Of the year that the ventilating
currents will be reversed. But certainly
not for any length Of time and only until
Year: 1875

van, Of better air but the Superintendent,
for he Won't allow the boss to make the air
courses better.


Now the Kenosha shaft is 462 feet
inches from the surface to the coal, and
wc have no means Of escape but one, and
that ia up the hoisting shaft and ! think
~ place of Il being called the Labor Re
former 1t will stand great deal Of reform
ing. He does not say We are paying to
the company from sixty to seventy dollars
per month for sharpening more than any
other shaft which il in the District, for the
same amount of work Now. all we want
is truth. and hope II ". will speak the
truth next time he says anything about
kanosha, for his article has caused so,ne
excitement amongst us miners.


What he says about Jones shaft IS not
ali true, but hope some Of the miners
from there will correct him


A kEN0SHA MINER.
Year: 1875

There could be 10 filter story to read as we
sit about the Christmas fire than that of the
loss of the Water Witch, which comes to us
this week from Conception Bay. Nine ship
wrecked people find themselves at midnight
of Dee. g clinging to frozen rock, the waves
dashing over them necessarily, while above
them tower gigantic peaks. There is no
escape for them below is the sea; it is I'M
possible to climb these precipices, sheeted with
ice. The fishermen of a poor village, having
been reused by others of the crew, collect at
the top of the rocks. the good clergy


man at their head. In the dark
ness and driving storm they can see
nothing, only hear the faint cries in the abyss
below. There is no way to help the ship
wrecked people unless some man will be low
cred to carry them rope at the almost GER
tain risk of death. The man offers himself
rough fisherman, Alfred Moores by name


Three times he is swung down into the ter
rible chasm and brought back exhausted; the
fourth he reaches the crew, and after long
effort they are one by Que carried safely to
the top and so to the houses of the friendly
fishermen to he warmed and cured.


Surely this is a story for Christmas. The
custom is right and beautiful by which we
bring st. Nicholas and fairy tales and gifts,
and all the little tender sympathics of home
wherewih to celebrate the day on which
Christ was born but not the less belong to it
heroic acts of self-sacriGce and every decd by
which man greatly serves his brother man.
On Christmas morning we will go to church,
or make our own children happy, or give a
little pleasure to some poor woman in the
alley and feel that we have partaken of the
spirit of Him who gave His life for
us. But this fisherman (who, for aught
we know. may have been Catholic,
Protestant. or outside of any church, Is roused
out of his sleep at the dead of night to look
into black abyss and to hear human voices.
That is all he cannot even see whether they
are men or women there below, struggling with
death he does not know from what part of
the world they came they are strangers
nothing to him. Nothing but brothers, and
he takes his life in his hand and offers it for
Year: 1875

1t is reported that the Committee on ApprO-
priatons intends to recommend large rcduc-
ton in the expenditures of the Navy Depart
ment. We doubt whether there is any branch
of the Administration to which the pruning
knife can he applied with greater ease or with
more benefit. For long time there have been
Iumors of gross extravagance-to use no harder
tcrm-in this Department, and the pu1lic has
agreed in believing that Mr.. Robeson, of all
the Cabinet officers, spent the most money for
the meagerest returns. We do not undertake
to decide how far these reports and suspicious
are we'll founded but if any proof is needed
of the facilities for retrenchment in this
quarter we have had 1t abundantly during the
past three weeks.


The Navy has suddenly and without any appa-
rent cause been put upon war footing. Almost
every ship that can be kept ailoat has been
fitted out for active service; supplies have been
purchased, and officers have been placed upon
sea pay. The exact cost of these preparations
We are not likely ever to know; but it must
have been very heavy. Where was the money
obtained Mr.. Robson says in his Annual
Report that it all came from the current ap-
preparation for peace expenditures and the





Congress at the time of the Virginius excite
ment. IF this is the case then The current ap-
preparation was altogether too large, and the
opportunity for retrenchment is plain.


1t was not the intention of Congress to
place in the hands of the Executive the power
of fitting ont military or naval expeditions at
his discretion. He cannot declare war, and it
is not designed that he should have the means
of threatening or provoking war. Mr. Robe
sons extravagant expenditures were incurred
in support of demonstration against Spain
planned by President Grant without the assent
of Congress, without the slightest necessity,
without any reason whatever except such as
might be found in the exigenCies of his own
political fortune. IF we said that the Secre-
tary of the Navy had squandered hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars in promoting the Third
Term scheme we should not go far beyond
the truth Now we trust the House Of Repre-
sentatives viii make such a close scrutiny of
the Navy accounts, and cut down the appro-
priatOn so remorselesSly to the exact SUN re-
CURED to keep our fleets on peace footing,
that there shall be no such tritling with
matches and gunpOwdcr hereafter