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Year: 1875

named Stephen Lacey, riggcr, was found
lying dead in his room, which is the rear base
menl OF No 500 Water street. Sunday afternoon about
three O'Clock. During the morning Of Sunday hra
Dunno, who lived on the same floor with Lacey, took
into his room eatablos for breakfast together
with some whiskey. He at partook Of tho latter
and told Mrs Dunne that he suffering from severe
pains near his heart Mrs Dunno then went out
About three o'clock in the afternoon friend Of La
.cey's named William Powers went to see tho deceased
but, receiving response to his knocks forced tho
door open and discovered the body Of his friend cold
and cess stretched upon the floor close to the stove
with deep cash the forehead, several bruises on
side Of the face and the table was the untasted
breakfast and II s supposed that the unfortunate man
being taken with spasm had fallen, striking his head
on the stove, and thereby killing himself Deceased
was wdower, seventy years OF ago and the owner OF
81 600 which was In the bank. He was known as q
sober industrious man, and lately had been complain
ing Of poor health IL had been bis intention to go to
hospital yesterday The body was removed to tho
MorQua
Year: 1875

DRINK AND FAMILY TROUBLES THE CAUSE OF


THE SUICIDE.


Desdorius schaick, German hfty-six years of age,
committed suicide yesterday afternoon by hanging
himself in his room at No. "a Grand street.


Schaick came to this country in 1s4s bringing with
him his wife and son. and applied himself to his
trade, which was that of blacksmith A few years
passed away and his wife died. Soon after that he took
TO drink and has since been known by his comrades as
q hard drinker He was a smple-hearted, good
natured sort Of and was universally liked
by all who knew him. He was married
second time but his second wife, It ia said,
ran away from him at two different times with young
men, ana finally settled down in Greenpont, where she
is now living with schack's Oldest son, Reuben These
events seemed only TO increase the unhappy mans
recklessness, and he became worse drinker than
ever He began 10 occupy the in which he
brcathed his last about three months ago. Two months
ago he turned OF his position the iron railing
mandatory Of Michael Grosz at No As Greene street.
for drunkenness, and since that time he has had no
work.


Sunday morning before going out schaick asked
Franciscus to give him drink but the landlord re-
fused to do so, saying he would not give him drop,
and that he ought to stop drinking The same evening,
about SIX O'clock Schaick threw open the door OF the
saloon from the street and fell headong the floor
in state OF pitifu noxication Franciscus lifted him
up and alter CARRYING him up stairs undressed him
and put him to bed That was the last time Franciscus
him alive The next morning, about ten O'Clock,
Mrs. Bella Sullivan had occasion to go into Schaicks
room TO draw some water, at which time Schaick
In the act Of rising. He looked At himself
in the glass and remarked that his eye bruised
IRON the fall in the previous night Mrs Sullivan then
advised him TO return TO bed which he did. About
o'clock Mrs Sullivan re-entered tho room and
found the deceased hanging by a rope, one end OF
which made ias TO the bedpost and the other tied
In slip knot round his neck. His head only about
q foot from the ground Mrs Sullivan rushed from the
In oncer Tessaro, OF the Eighth precinct
called In and he at once cut down the body,
which still warm. In his pockets
found an empty tin tobacco box, In which two
scraps Of paper having written them the addresses
OF A. Butten, No. % Beekman street. and Schmd. No
I36 avenue A. The small sparsely fur
nshed one and on a chair open razor


Coroner EickhoT and his deputy, DR.. Marsh, held an
inquest the jury rendered verdict Of suicide and
the body was removed TO the Morgue Several Of
schaicks fellow workmen heard him say that he would
commit suicide
Year: 1875

Butt has been brought in the United States District
Court against the New York Guaranty and Indemnity
Company to recover $780, 600 taxes profits no,
distributed and dividends accrung between 1895 and
1sI2 This is branch Of the litigation in which Judge
Batchford recently gave an opinion respecting the
claims for penaltes In accordance with this decision
United States District Attorney Bliss determined TO
sever the claims for taxes and penalties and TO appeal
from the decision OF the latter Similar action has
been taken in the suit against the New York and Har
lem Railroad Company which is Of the character
hs the above and brought to the amount
Assistant United States District Attorney Roger N.
Sherman appears for the government
Year: 1875

An attachment was obtained yesterday from Judge
Donohue. in Supreme Court, Chambers, on application
OF Charles KoppeL against the property in this State OF
Leonard Apply and Samuel Engle, non-residents
The action is 70 recover bill for advertising.


Various residents Of 13lst street have applied to
Judge Donohuo for a mandamus against the Board of
Assessors to award damages to their property from
change of grade in the street. One OF the assessors
makes affidavit, information and belief that
they had sustained no damages. Judge Donohue took
the papers.


Judge Westbrook has been assigned to hold Supreme
Court Circuit Part 2 in which court the So suit
against Tweed has been down for trial on Monday
next Judge Wostbrook is from Ulster county, but at
various times during the last year has held different
branches Of the Supreme Court in this city, ana has
won for himself reputation able. strict and i'm
partial jurist


Before Judge Lawrence holding Supreme Court, Cir
cult there tried yesterday the suit between the
Sun Publishing Company and the Tribune Association,
being action for eecment being claimed that the
Tribune Building encroaches the domain OF the Sum
Originally damages sought for, but this subse
quently waived. The trial occupied nearly whole day
and a closely contested one, Mr. Willard Bartlett
appearing for the San and Bunker Engelhardt and
Judge Dtenhoefer for the Tribune Tho jury brought
In nominal verdict of six cents damages for the
plaintiff, thus carrying the point In litigation.
Year: 1875

place he put the yield at an average of
two bales per acre in this State Gone
to four bales'' but little further on
we discover this to be seed cotton,


which reduces the actual figures to
about 400 to 500 pounds of fibre, or the
same as all the bottom lands of the
Mississippi Valley produce. Irriga-
ton is pronounced absolutely neees-
sary. The costs of picking are stated
| by Mr.. WRIGHT to be one and one-half
cents per pound, and freight to San
Francisco eight to ten cents, the cost
of cultivation being estimated at five
to seven cents. The product of 1875
cost the farmer fifteen to seventeen
cents per pound laid down near the
Golden Gate. On this Mr.. WRIGHT
figured out a good profit, by assuming
price of thirty cents per pound. By
reference to the San Francisco papers
Mr.. WRIGHT would have found that on
the day his address was delivered mid
ding New Orleans cotton was worth
in Liverpool only seven and half
pence, or about fifteen cents per
pound. AS the cost of transportation
to Liverpool, with insurance and COM
missions added, would certainly be
two cents per pound, the California
grower could only sell his cotton on
the day of this address at q price two
to five cents per pound below the ac-
tual cost of production. This is fact
opposed to theory. 1t may he that
California will be able to occasionally
profit by cotton culture when abnor-
maily high prices rule, but there is
certainly no money in 1t at anything
like the present value of the staple,
and it is not probable that there will
be a return to the standard of prices
which ruled just after the war. The
South now produces as much as before
the rebellion, and with her cheap labor
is likely to retain a monopoly of cot
ton culture.
Year: 1875

While it is not our desire to under


estimate the advantages of the soil


and climate of California, it is mani


fest that there is too much expert


menting in agriculture, and that fruit


less efforts are being made to intro
duce almost every product grown in


the civilized world. Many of the in


dustries now receiving attention will


have ultimately to be abandoned as
either Improbable or less remunera-
tive than other staples. Many of our
farmers will be deceived by temporary


high prices of certain articles, conse-
quent upon scarcity, and forget the


rate that must ultimately be met
when production equals the demand,
or accessible surplus from other coun-
tries is brought in. The idea that ev-
erything will pay enormously, and
that abnormal profits from simple
farm labor will be permanent, should
not be fostered. 1t is both impolitic
and unjust to raise the hopes of the
new settlers to the realms of romance.
There are two articles which we have
particularly in our mind at the pres
ent time, and to which the foregoing
remarks apply. These are cotton and
tobacco. The latter has been grown
4 a
industry is yet in only an experiment
tai state, and certainly cannot be
classed among the profitable branches
of farming in California. The weed
fiourishes, but is of very inferior
quality; so inferior, in fact, that it
would not class anything but "reject-
ed" in any tobacco market in the
United States. No perfect process for
curing has yet been discovered, and
until this point is settled our people
should avoid tobacco planting except
on an experimenta scale, and should
first test the adaptation of their par
ticular locality to this plant. AS re-
CARDS cotton we also notice vast
deal of nonsense floating around
through the press. Editors and
lecturers get tangled in huge
punches of statistics which they
have not the strength to handle,
Mr.. J. w. A. WRIGHT lectured at the
State University at Oakland a few
days since on "Cotton Culture" and
succeeded in collecting together mass
Of dazzling generalities that are cal
culated to mislead the youths who
listened to his harangue. In the first
Year: 1875

IT seems to be generally conceded
that the contest to-day will be almost
no contest at all-that Mr.. FITzGER-
AID will be elected by large major
ity-yet there is too much at stake for
the people to look on with indiffer-
ence. The real struggle is whether or
not the people shall become the vic
Tins of the school book rings. If
through the apathy and indifference
of the voters the book rings should
chance to secure the election of Mr..
CARR, changes in the school text
books will follow, and the parents of
the State will he made to purchase
school books to the amount of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Year: 1875

We are pleased to witness the dis.
| position on the part of the millionaires
of California to invest in fine horses


We say this because progress of mod.
ern civilization has been measured by
the speed of the horse; and the num-
ber of fine studs in country is In
proportion to its enlightenment anG
refinement. The growth of the mod
ern turf system, however, is so sug-
gestive of the prominent evils of ouI
civilization that we connot avoid con-
trasting the race course of the Greek
with that of the Anglo Saxon. The
sports of the ancients had an ulterior
object, and were designed to improve
the man rather than the beast. The
proudest men of Athens won their
choicest laurels at the Olympic games,
won them by skill and endurance.
Soldiers that had led vast armies to
victory, and statesmen that hold il
their grasp the destinies of Emporer
handled the rains, as their swift c0ur-
sers plunged past the goal. The poet
and the historian read their works to
the multitude while the heroes were
resting from their tolls. The chief
glory of the modern sport Is the shall
low honor of owning swift footed
nag, or the artful trtckery of the jock
ey who directs the animal. The mul.
itude assemble on the course, and
the preponderating element which
gives tone and feeling to the
whole is one which society re-
CARDS with Indifference. The gam
bier, the trickster, and shyster come
forward with their pools, their race
track jargon, and their jockey tricks


The owner of the fine animal that
comes forth bestrode by trainer or
jockey belonging to the lower classes


of society, views the contest with in
difference or as decisive of sever al
bets. The jingle of coin browns every
other sound. Nothing shows on the
present race track but the power of
money. The only exhibition of skill
or endurance is on the part of the
hireling whom the Intelligent obser-
vers look upon with doubt. The jock
ey honors are worn in the barn yard,
the masters ownership of the win
ming horse is regarded only from Pc
cuniary standpoint, and about the on
ly ge nuine enthusiasm evoked from
the educated people who attend, is a
fieeting admiration for the noble ami
NAL that bore away the purse. OF
course it may be source of pride to
the modern CRGsUs to possess fine


animal, and he may be ranked above
the savage Arabian as he walks out
occasionally to view his stables; but
as an element of progress or means
of improving either the morals, the
taste, or the manhood of the people,
he cannot claim pre-eminence.
Still we do not hope for California to
reform the human race on this point
and will content ourselves with the
introduction of famous horses and the
maintenance of the race course as it
exists in richer and old countries.
Year: 1875

or to a distinguished General-a Lieu
tenant General of the United States
army. Let us have no more hyper
critical carping and harping. SHER-
IDAN likes fawning and he lives in a
country whose people like to fawn on
him or any one who wears title.
The SHERIDAN banquet was all right
Just the thing to those who had the
honor of being present and those who
were not need not hatter themselves
that they can ridicule or sneer this
sort of thing out of fashion.
Year: 1875

He is a renovator, and he does not
ask for money, and this is the way he
gets at it. First. He has discov-
cred certain process for colored, and
black goods, by which after cleaning
them, no matter how faded or rusty
they may be, he restores them to their
original newness of appearance. and
then he only asks for cast off clothes
as payment for his work, so don't let
us hear any more about hard times
but muster up all your old traps, and
take them to his shop. His name is
Horatio Marteen and he keeps at No.
"a, Arcadia street, one door below
Main and adjoining Mr.. Signorets sa-
loon. dec1 I'm
Year: 1875

He looked like Prince, or a retired
Major General, as he stepped out of
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Re-
quena streets, opposite the U. s. Ho-
tel, with a new black beaver suit,
which he had just paid SIS for, and as
he walked down Main street the eye
of envy was on him, and numerous
were the inquiries of where he had
that splendid fitting suit made; and
astonishment was depicted on every
countenance as he answered that it
came from the Bazaar, and he had
only paid SIS for it. There are a few
more left, so hurry up and get one be-
fore they are all gone. dec11-lm
Year: 1875

About fifty pictures were sold at Ducom-
NUNS hall yesterday morning and last even
ing, but at such low prices that Mr.. Levy has
concluded TO sell the remainder at private
sale. We regret TO notice sucha lack OF APP
probation on the part OF our people, when
works of art of this character are for sale, and
can only charge 1t to the hard times. We be-
lieve.we have a community possessing good
taste and we tiust they will exhibit 1t by buy
ing the remainder OF the pictures of Mr.. Levy
at fair rates,
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR DowNEY authorizes the
HERALD to say that he is not a candi-
date for Governor and will not permit
his name to go before the Democratic
State Convention for that office. His
private business requires SO much of
his attention that he has no time to
devote to politics or public office. The
numerous Democratic aspirants for
Governor will, no doubt, be glad to
hear that they will not have to con-
tend with an opponent as formidable
as the Governor would prove in the
Convention.
Year: 1875

: THE San Francisco Chronicle is the
most consistent Republican paper We
know of iItshas always sustained the
Administration and does so still, even
to justifying the Louisiana outrages.
1t assumes that the people of Louisi-
ana are a bad lot, and therefore mill
tary usurpation is all right. This is
an original and false style of argu-


ment, which will probably lose the
Chronicle some readers.
Year: 1875

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So far as we have been able to learn
the people of Los Angeles valley are
willing and anxious to cooperate with.
the gentlemen who have assumed
70 control Of the Los Angeles and Inde-
pendance Railroad Company, and
there seems but little room for doubt
but that the assistance asked by Sem
ator JONES will be promptly rendered.
We are certain this will be the case
if people will carefully consider the
circumstances and weigh well the adj
vantages they will secure by building
the road on the one hand, and the dis
advantages which must follow the loss
of our trade on the other hand. The
fact that the road will furnish ready
- market for the products of. the valley
] ought to induce every man who owns
an acre of land to render all the aid
possible in carrying out the enter
prise. With a road to the mines we
shah be able to dispose of our entire
surplus without the expense of ship
ment to San Francisco or being COM
PEELED to compete with tho products
of the middle portions of the State.
ltaE =
Year: 1875

' Something of an excitement arose at Princeton (N. J:) College over the ex- pulsion of about forty students for dis obedience of college laws. It seems that for some time past secret society has been in existence among the students,

 which was fast gaining headway and dangerous influence, notwithstanding the faculty did their utmost to ferret out the root of it. When the existence of the society was, discovered and it's spirits and aims, exposed, the members of it were ordered to break it up. This they stlbbornly refused to do. The faculty worked hard to dissuade. them from their amusement, but finding that it was all to no purpose measures were then taken to make an example of the leading organ izers by expelling them. Two-t thirds of the number expelled belong to the senior class. Many of the other students com plain that the faculty has acted hastily and without sufficient cause, and threaten to create trouble unless their expelled as- sociates are reinstated. It is feared that the boat clubs, base ball, and gymnastic association will have to be disbanded for some time in consequence of the expul- sion of so large number of students. Besides those already expelled, it is said that more will soon be subjected to the same fate. IT ir&ai t.eSRsE-Fr aotle2
Year: 1875

The venerable Peter Cooper, of New

 York city, lifelong friend of the late

 Wm. B. Astor, was interviewed by re-

 porter. To the query as to what amount

 of property MT. Astor had become pos

 sessed of during his life MT. Cooper

 said 1t was, of course, simply impossible

 to estimate it with accuracy, neverthe-

 less he felt sure that it exceeded by far

 even the widest estimate of the public.

 Giving to it the estimate of value which

 would have been fair before the late great and very general decrease in values he was sure that $2O0, GOO, 900 would be 8 nearer expression of it than other which was likely to be made by others than those in charge of his, ac- counts. The reporter expressed surprise at the magnitude of the sum named, and MT. Cooper responded, saying that his ownership of real estate was enormous, and even that was larger than was generally supposed. Then, in addi- were really very great. He held stocks not so much as basis for speculation as to draw dividends, hence his transac- tions were not generally noted. Many who have tried to estimate MT. Astor's wealth, said MT. Cooper, have forgotten, even if they ever knew, the amount his father left to him. And then, in addi- tlon to that they are very apt to forget that his uncle, who was a very wealthy man, left him nearly all that he had ac- quired. With two really vast fortunes thus left in his careful hands many years ago, and his own untiring effort to add to the gross amount, onewho would give the question of his wealth at the time of his death it's due consideration would soon realize how natural it was that two vast fortunes carefully handled and add ed to during so many years should have grown to an, almost incalculable aalue.
Year: 1875

In his treatise on physiology, Hinton gives us to understand thaf the passage of the ear does not require cleaning by us; nature undertakes that task, and in tho healthy state fulflls it perfectly. Her means for cleansing the ear is the wax which dries up into thin scales and peals off and falls away imperceptibly. In health the passage of the ear is never dirty, butan attempt to clean it will in- fallibly make it so. Washing the ear out with soap and water is bad; it keeps the wax moist when it ought. to become dry and scaly, and makes it absorb dust. But the most hurtful thing is the intro duction of the corner of towel screwed up.and twisted around. This proceeding irritates the passage and presses down the wax and fakes of skin upon the membrane of the tympanum, producing pain, inflammation and deafness. The washing should only extend to thecuter surface, as far as the fingers can reach.
Year: 1875

The largest measure of liberty
consistent with the well being of
the citizen, and the safety of the
State is fundamental principle of
the republican plan of government.
The obligation to defend govern
msnt implies the right to voice in
such government. The defeat Of
the poll tax provision in the Con-
vention, was a righteous disposi-
tion of the matter, and we trust it
will be long before such another at
tempt will be made to debar the
poor frem the ballot-box. 1t is a
maxim, that while the rich have all
the money, the poor have most of
the patriotism. With a good free
school system inpractice for twen,y-
one years, an intelligence qualifica-
tion may be insisted upon, but
while our form of government re-
mains as it is, no property or money
qualification can safely be advoca-
ted.
Year: 1875

A Baltimore merchant was the
victim of sharp swindle the other
day. A man appeared at his store
in the guise of a telegraphic mes
senger, and delivered what purport-
ed to be dispatch from customer
in Washington, ordering some
goods. He signed his name in the
delivery book opposite the figures
which were supposed to represent
the number Of the dispatch. 1t
turned out, however that he had
signed his name to check for S233,
which was ingeniously concealed
under the page on which he wrote
his name, and so arranged that the
signature appeared in the usual


place for signing check. The ras.
cal Immediately went to the bank
got the money and made his escape.
Year: 1875

We are indebted to the Secretary
of the Salado Fair Association for a
premium list of the third annual
fair, to be held there on the 26th
instant. This exhibition will be be-
hind neither of its predecessors in
interest, and will be an honor to
Bell county, judging from the very
hasty and incomplete examination
we have been enabled to give the
list of premiums.