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Year: 1876




Ateleven o'clock yesterday morning Judge spauding
late one the Justices Of the Marine Court died at his
residence in West Sxty-frst street. On Monday last
he caughta cold resulting in pneumonia which
assumed such speedy and acute form to battle the
skill Of his physicians. Being man of powerful
physique and OF uniform robust health apprehension
was felt OF serious termination Of the disease until
very few hours before his death Judge Spaulding
was born in ls2s Vernon Oneida county this State.
In early years he evnoed studous disposition, aud
his father sent him TO Hamilton College, where he
graduated with high honor Having chosen the law
his profession, he entered, law student,
the law Office OF Miard Fillmore at Buffalo Having
completed his legal studies he entered the practice
OF his profession at Greeley Wis He OF the
pioneer lawyers in that district and this young State
speedily acquired lucrative practice HIS active
mind however could not bide the slow growth OF the
West and 80 some twenty years ago he came TO New
York and In this city entered on the practice OF his
profession which he followed assduously, excepting
OF Internal Revenue the Eighth district through
an appointment by the late President Johnson,
until his election in 1871 as Judge OF the Marine
Court he elected the aEt-Tammany ticket.
He showed bench such admirable judicial quail


ties that the election two years ago he candl


for Judge OF the superior Court but was defeated
with the balance OF the ticket He endowed with
that strong personal magnetism that won him hosts OF
friends. A well read lawyer, careful discriminating
and able Judge of the srictest probty Of charac


dignihed and courteous OIL well on the Bench,
large hearted and generous his unexpected denise
will be deeply regretted by both the Bench and the
Bar Action will be taken on the opening OF the Marine
Court In regard to his death. He leaves wife and
three children The gements have not yet been
made for his funeral
Year: 1876

Under the excellent management of
our public school by the present teacher
and the one whom she succeeded, the
question of more school room is sprung
by the large increase of students; and
We must meet and settle this in such a
way that when few months have passed,
we shall not wake up to find that we
have made rs great II mistake in this as
we did in the planning and building of
the present school house. Mere room.
in the sense that farmer provides for
his hay and grain, is not what will meet
the requirements OF this case.


Every step we take now in this dircc.
tion should look to the grading of our
public school. A mere extension on the
rear Of the present building of thirty
feet giving us, as some propose, one
school room Of 2Gy70 feet, is not practi.
cable; we should have at least two reel
tation rooms with one more general
school room. Let us build wing on
the rear Of the present building, pro.
jcctng out on either side far enough to
give the three rooms below; then let it
be finished with French attic roof, so
as 10 give us the room above, which lat
ter need not now bc finished up As
soon as it is needed we could put Oh the
same kind Of roof on the present build.
ing, thus giving the room required and
bringing our school building in archi.
tcctural keeping with all its parts.
Year: 1876

FATAL STREET CAR ACCIDENT ON
CHESTNUT STRsRT.-Last evening
about eight o'clock, middle aged
man, about five feet six inches high.
dressed IN black cloth suit, high hat,
and wearing full beard, came up the
west side OF Eighth street to Chestnut
and turned up Chestnut on the plat
form which is laid outside the curb
for the site of the excavation for the
Times new building. AS he turned the
corner he stumbled and fell off the
edge OF the platform, which is close to
the railway track; he fell with his neck
directly across the rail in front Of car
No. 1O4 of tie Chestnut street line,
which was just passing. The front
VIII. el went over his neck and the car
was stopped before the hind wheel
struck him. He was at once pulled
out by the bystanders, but it was found
| his neck was broken and he died almost
instantly. The body was taken on a
strether to the Central Station, and
from thence to the Morgue and the
Coroner notified. The street was crow
ded and the occurrence created great
| excitement .-LedgeE.


GEEERoUs.-The Delaware railroad
authorities. with their woHtcd gener
osity, have so regulated the running
time on that road that the j u Il. IL
II. has to run two extra trains. They
sell excursion tickets to the centennial
only for the morning train and these
are good only for two days. If the J,
s. B, road will put on steamer from
Lewes to Philadelphia it will secure al
the travel on the lower peninsula. The
nigardly policy of the Delaware road
will not improve its standing with the
next legislature.-iSasser journal.
Year: 1876

WEST PoNT was under discussion in the
House of Representatives yesterday, and the
democracy had an inning to show what they
would do in the way of retrenchment We
think the democratic majority will do well
to act carefully. in the direction they ara
taking. In their anxiety to make record
for economy they may be expected
to slash in all directions, but il
is doubtful if they believe in
their own scheme in its entirety. They have
abuses enough to deal with, but cutting SO
many inches off everything indiscriminately
is not craftsmanship. 1t is true the demo.
Gratis count on the rectifcation of the Senate
to settle the matter, but the onus of increas
ing the estimates will rest upon the repub-
licans; and this is just what the democrats
desire.
Year: 1876

we 40 not see any necessity to enter into
comparison between the relative good work
performed in Central Africa by these bold
explorers. If Mr.. Cameron has not accom-
pllshed all that he might if he had left Ujiji
for the West Coast at the head of we'll
appointed expedition, he has surely done
better than If he had turned hack TO Zanzibar
instead. The information brought by a keen
observer, who has crossed the continent ot
Africa where it is nearly three thousand
miles broad, is doubly welcome when wa
know that it has been done under excep-
tional difficulties and in the face of DELAYS
and disappointments. That he was pre-
vented from following the broad Lualaba to
its mutation into the Congo or the Nile is a
misfortune, but he has sent US an observation
of altitude which, if verified will dispose
of Livingstone's theory almost as effectually
as absolute exploration, though it leaves the
mystery of the river as great as ever. 1t is
much better to examine what Lieutenant
Cameron did see than to regret what he did
not, or to balance doub: against theory re-
garding what he guesses at or takes on hear
say. Hence the full story of his journey
from Nyangwe to Loanda may be looked for
ward to with deep interest by those who
study the ethnography of the African con-
tinent as well as its geography, and its social
and commercial as well as its natural features.
Ii there Is any real regret to be made in the
matter it is that Lieutenant Cameron has
SO barely outlined his experiences A little
more communicativeness would rot have
taken the edge on the curiosity with which
his fuller descriptive work will be welcomed;
for, Of course, he will write book


Meanwhile we get glimpse once more OF
Mr. Stanley in the sadly interesting letters
of M. Linant de Bellefonds, who was so soon
to lose his life after writing them. We see
Mr. Stanley busy with his great work, rich
in spirits and in hopes, pushing off to CON-
plete his survey of the Victoria Niyanza.
What he had accomplished up to that time
we have already published in the letters
which were borne by Colonel Bellefonda
when he met his death at the hands of tho
savages. From our gallant explorer we may
fairly expect the best possible results. Ha
has mastered the secret Of African travel,
knows how to be civil and conciliatory when
he can to pay tribute where it is needed, and
is able to fight when he must. The determi
nation of the position and size of the Albert
Niyanza and its connection with the Central
African water system will engage his atten-
ton when he has disposed of the Victorian
Lake, and, this accomplished, we may look
for q solution of the other great problems
which the successive travellers before him.
English, German and French, have left un-
solved.
Year: 1876

Now THAT THE TRUrH is leaking out about
the French Senatorial elections it becomes
evident why the government kept back the
returns so long. The voice of the nation was
against NJ. Bullets conservatism, and it is
not in him to gracefully acknowledge q
defeat which must make his tenure
of Office impossible or compel him to carry
on the government in manner which will
rob France Of the quiet she so much needs
aud make all sorts of catastrophes possible.
AS the republican majority in the new
Assembly will be doubtless still greater than
that which is computed for the Senate
Marshal MacMahon had better be looking
about for more popular adviser, as we do
not think that gallant soldier would risk q
civil war or q coup d<tat for the sake Of keep.
ing ON impracticable in Office.
Year: 1876

Between Secretary Fish and the House the
hidden strings of our diplomacy are kept
pretty closely concealed. This is as much
due to the bungling of the House as to the
Secretary's want of frankness. The demo-
cratic leaders are too raw in such matters o
know how to ask for what they want, and, as
Secretary Fish barely gives them what they
ask for, the country remains quite in the
dark on the points in which it feels most in
terest. Mr.. Morrison framed the first requi-
sition on the Secretary, and when he COM
piled with it it was found that what he com
municated lifted only one corner of the cur
tain. A second bungler then offered another
resolution, which was 80 unskilfully drawn
that when the House lifted its net out of
the water there was nothing in it,
the willy Fish having glided through its too
wide interstices. They asked for the cor
respondence about Cuba with other govern
ments than Spain; Mr. Fish replied that
there was none What they should have
asked for were the dispatches of our Ministers
to the State Department giving an account
of their interviews with the respective
European Ministers of Foreign Affairs to
whom they read the Cushing note or
verbally stated its contents. OF course it
was not received in dumb silence of course
our Ministers sent home an exact and detailed
report of all that was said in the interviews;
and this is the information which the
bunglers ought to have asked for, and which
the evasive Secretary is able to withhold in
such manner as to make their clumsy request
seem ridiculous.
Year: 1876

RELIGIOUS ToLERArIoN under a monarchy
in Spain, if only existing in the shape of a
constitutional clause, would be a novelty.
BY the time the fanatics accustomed them
selves to seeing it there they might be in
duced to permit it to be tried in reality. A
curious feature of these religious hates is
that Christians of one sect prefer shifting
Christians of another sect to warning upon
infdelity, which is the foe of BOTH and
which alone is making proselytes on large
scale in Eurone
Year: 1876

us of the report that during Mr.. OConor's


illness persons repeatedly invaded his house


with the assertion that they were divinely


commissioned by spiritual revelations to


effect his cure We have great faith in the


inherited soundness of the patients consti-


tuition, if only he can be let alone to accom-


plish his own salvation. The first necessary


step in that course is to give the city of New
York special and separate municipal cleo
ton. day in the spring of the year is
manifestly the proper time before any of the
citizens depart to their summer residences.
This step can be taken without plicating
it with other amendments of the charter.
Let those stand or fall on their own merits.


We do not deny that many amendments are
needed-on the contrary-nor have we
faith that spring election will instantly and


magically cure all the patients ills ; but we


do assert that it is an essential feature of
any and every meritorious scheme for mu-


nicipal reform, and that, since the members
of the Senate and the Assembly have almost


unanimously committed themselves to it, as
the interviews which we have published
prove, and since the Governor has often
recommended it, there ought to be no delay
in its adoption.


When we entered on this discussion we
expected no aid from the ofice-holding and
office-seeking brigade on either side. We
had become convinced that it was for the in
terest of the city and of the State at large
that our municipal affairs be taken out of the
scramble and turmoil of party politics We
thought the present juncture favorable in
one respect to the success of this reform.
The Governor belongs to ono political party,
the Legislature to the other, and inasmuch
as this mutual check prevents either party
from gaining any unfair advantage we hoped
they would mutually consent to sound non
partisan reforms, since both admit that radi-
cal reform is necessary. Ordinarily the leg
islative and executive departments are in the
same hands, and the party in control tinkers
the charter OF makes O new one in its own
interest. When the other party comes in it
does the same, and the consequence is
that the sick horse has no other respite
than a change of its booted and reckless
riders. Governor Tilden is professed ad-
vocate of reform, but he was unwilling to
have any charter changes last winter, while
there was a republican Senate, because he
hoped both branches of the present Legisla-
ture would be democratic, when his party
could fix things in the city to suit them
selves. The republicans also pretended to
favor reform, but as the democratic Governor
can this winter veto any bill they might pass
in the interest of their party they prefer
that the question shall go over to another
year, when they hope to have Governor, as
we'll as q Legislature, of their own stripe.
SO the patient languishes and suffers, the
victim of its successive partisan doctors, who
prolong the malady for the sake of their fees.
But it is the interest of the patient to get
well, and the HERALD urges it to emancipate
itself from its medical tyrants.
Year: 1876

SENATOR MoRRIssEY's speech in the State
Senate yesterday will not hurt him in pub
lie estimation anywhere He gave secta-
rian faggot- binders zone from the shoulder"
and his eulogy of the public schools has q
pathos of its own about it which will come
home to thousands
Year: 1876

The SULTAN INSISTING on getting his full
interest on his share of the public debt
when all Europeis put off with half coupons.
is very amusing picture of an absolute
ruler in his financial moments 1t will do
more to disgust England with him than if he
took another thousand wives.
Year: 1876

THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CRIME in
their report will make great many sweep
ing propositions, all of which will deserve
earnest discussion. Many changes are
needed in our criminal machinery, and it
remains to be seen whether the ones to be
offered are among them
Year: 1876

By the report of the Secretary of War we
learn that the labor on the channel between
Staten Island and New Jersey, which was
very obnoxious to the oystermen and canal
company, is to be discontinued. This labor
was in pursuance of plan proposed by
General Newton, which involved the dredg-
ing of the channel and the construction Of
dikes, so placed as to cause current in the
channel swift enough to maintain the depth
to which the dredging was carried. This
plan was thought necessary for the COM
merce active in those waters when it was
made; but it encountered opposition, and
the delay thus caused seems to have sent
the traffic to other points, so that now no
more is to be done on the dikes, and the
depth deemed necessary by the commerce
that remains must be maintained by occa-
sional recurrence to the dredges. 1t was the
tendency of things at the time the first plan
was made to build up on the Kill Won Kull
and Arthur Kill and Newark Bay an extern
sive seat of shipping trade-a port whose
issue would have been on Raritan Bay-but
the oystermen of that neighborhood pre-
ferred to save their oysters, and this city has
no reason to lament the result.


THE HERzEGovrNAN INsURREcTIoNIsrs are
opposed to the peaceful solution of their
grievances through reform to be admins
tered by their enemies, the Turks. 1t is
very natural that they should have taken a
leaf from the Mussulman's book, and prefer
TO ''smite his soul to hell" rather than make
a ''pact with the infdel." Their view is one
that Russia and Austria may be believed to
share privately. They have also had several
successes lately, and that makes It bad time
to treat propositions that do not look TO 8
final deliverance from barbaric misrula
Year: 1876

The CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE CARLIsTs is
being pushed with a fair show of vigor. The
Alfonsist Generals are carrying out long
prepared plan, but the counter movements
of the Carlists do not appear TO have taken
q decisive shape as vet,
Year: 1876

In speaking of PERSONS faults


Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with house OF glass
Should seldom throw stone.
If we have nothing else to do


But talk of those who sin,
IT'S better we should lcok at home,


And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge man,


Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults-and who has not
The old as well as young,
Perhaps for aught we know,


Have fifty to the one.
III tell you of q better plan,


| find it works full well,
To try my own defects to cure,


Before of others tell;
And though sometimes hope to be


No worse than some | know;
My own shortcomings bid me let


The faults Of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence,


TO slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do


TO those we little know
Remember that curses sometimes,


Like the chickens "roost at home;'
Don't speak of others faults until


we have none of our own.
Year: 1876

For BOYS TO RENEMBER.-A gen.
tleman adv ertised for a boy to assist
him in his Office, and nearly fifty ap-
plicants presented themselves. Out
of the whole number, he in a short
time selected one, and dismissed the
rest.


"I should like to know" said q
friend, con what ground you select
ed that boy, who has not single re-
commentator p


You are mistaken, my FRIEND
was the reply, he had a great many,
and if you care to listen, l will emu
marate some of them. He wiped his
feet when he came in and closed the
door after him, thereby showing that
he is careful, He instantly gave up
his seat to an old man who is lame,
showing that he is kind ard thought
full. He took off his cap when he
came in, and answered my questions
promptly and respectfully, showing
that he is polite and gentlemanly..-
He picked up the pocket book that I
had purposely laid on the floor and
replaced it upon tie table, while all
the rest either stepped over it or
showed it aside, and he waited pa
tiently for his turn instead Of pushing
and crowding, which evinces an hon
est and orderly disposition. When I
talked with him | noticed that his
clothes were cleanly brushed, his hair
in nice order, and his teeth as white
as milk; and when he wrote his
name, | also noticed that his finger
nails were clean, instead Of being tip
ped with jet like tnat handsome little
fellows in the blue jacket. Don't
you term these things letters of re-
commendation | do, and | would
give more for what I can tell about a
boy by using my eyes for ten minutes
than all the fine letters you can bring
me.
Year: 1876

HER MIss1oN.-Yesterday after
noon while several men were drinking
at a Giswo!d street bar woman slow
ly and softly entered. Some of the
men sat down while others stared at
the woman and the bar keeper timidly
inquired;


Come to pray p


mo, sirI' she promptly responded
1--WE come here to get the wash bill,
and if you don't fork over I'll make
those gin bottles sing a funeral
march,


He forked.
Year: 1876

AN old lady residing in Ohio lost
the companion with whom she had
logged for many years. She neglect
ed to mark the spot of his burial by
even a stone. Not long after coming
into possession of small legacy,
sister of the deceased said to her: Il
suppose you will now put up stones
for Daniel?" Her answer was a set
tier. "If the Lord wants anything of
Daniel at the resurrection, | guess he
can find him without guideboard.'
Year: 1876

A LAW POINT.-There lived at one
time, in Merrion Square, Dublin, (the
fashionable quarter of that city, an
eminent lawyer, who afterward came to
occupy place on the judicial bench.
He was man of high professional at
tainments, but of testy and irritable
temper. His next-door neighbor was
retired major noted for the eccentrici-
ties of his habits. Between the two
there was anything but friendly feeling,
and they did all in their power to an
noy and harass each other. One night,
memorable in Ireland as "the night of
the great Storm" the majors chimneys
were blown down. Crash they went
through the roof of the lawyers house,
and thence down through floor after
floor, carrying havoc in their course.
The man of law was in no good humor
as he contemplated the destruction, and
what made matters worse was that it
was the majors chimneys that had
caused the wreck. His mind was ac-
lively engaged in devising some process
by which he could get satisfaction from
his arch enemy, when a missive arrived
from the latter couched as follows:
"Send me back my bricks Immediately,
or Pll put the matter iuto the hands of
an attorney"
Year: 1876

WEARING MOURNING.-A movement
has been set on foot in England to abOl-
ish the custom of wearing mourning for
all relatives, far and near, and thus, if
the connection happens to be a large
one, of passing large portion of life in
felt or feigned woe. A sOciety-every-
thing moves by societies nowadays
has been organized, whose members
pledge themselves to limit mourning to
the heads of the family, except that
children may wear it for their parents,
brothers and sisters. This is very Sc
we're troubling of customs stagnant
pool. Does it not seem too absurd for
a whole family to go into mourning
for their great uncle's wife's sister, and
not only put on "inky cloaks" them
selves, but to array their servants, as is
the custom in England, in black? Ex-
travagant, silly, ridiculous, are few Of
the adjectives which are applicable to
the custom, not only in England, but at
home, where, if story once current in
this city may be believed, young lady
went into mourning for the child of an
intimate friend. Mourning does not
make people mourn. Even if it did it
would be out of place in a world where
there is sorrow enough already. 1t is
not always a sign of real grief, and
therefore donning it often partakes of
the nature of hypocrisy. For all these,
and many other reasons, its use ought
to be, and when people learn to live less
artificially, will be, without doubt,
abolished.
Year: 1876

Ida Lewis now has the charge of the
Lime Rock Lighthouse, and lives there
with her mother and her dogs. She
has not much regard for the tyrant sex,
although she has saved so many from
drowning. When complimented upon
the walls of her house, which she tinted
herself, she said: ''The Government
gives US men to do this, but we'd have
to board them, and I'd rather do any
thing in the world than have men in the
lighthouse L like dogs better" And
she patted affectionately an immense
Newfoundland, and glanced lovingly at
her pet terrier.