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Year: 1876

money largely. But with the
docking ofrates the transportation
business has immensely increased,
and the companies find that their
net earnings compare well with
those for the corresponding periods
of previous years. They are con-
cedcd to be far larger th1n they
would have been had the old prices
prevailed in this period of CONNER
cial prostration. We doubt not
that the coal companies would
have the same experience if they
would boldly meet the universal
demand fer cheap fuel.
Year: 1876

An unknown man, about twenty-five years of age,
while riding the top of freight ON the Hudson
River Railroad last evening struck his head against
the bridge at Sixty-Anh street and was knocked be-
tween the ana dragged to lO4th street. He was
taken out dead and removed 10 the Morgue. The de-
ceased had dark HAIR. and dressed in a blac (
jacket and vest, drab pants and white spotted shirt
An inquest will be held next week
Year: 1876

Yesterday weak, pale woman who carried in her
arms young baby arraigned in the Kings County
Court Sessions before Judge Moore 10 answer the
charge Of in tho FIRST Degree the punishment OF
which crmc in the event or conviction, Is ten years.
Imprisonment The name Of tho prisoner IL Lousa
Wiliams She is about thirty-four years of age, the
wiie an watchman OF this city, and Is tho
mother Of our children She was. taken into custody
on a warrant issued by Fire Marshal Ready about q
month ago for setting fire TO tenement house No.
40 Mnujer street, Eastern District, IN the MD
ole Of the night Tho house, which Is OF
frame, set lire In three places. Thorc wero
three families In the structure at the time, and but for
the timely discovery OF the flames calamity lnvolv


ing loss OF human life might have occurred After her
arrest she confessed the deed The properly, which
w dnnh ol ",onnaS ~ 10 Tho sanity Of
the poor creature, and, motion OF her counsel,
commission OF medical experts the subject OF In
sanity appointed by the Court to examine into her
mental condition before placing her trial upon the
indictment pending against her.
Year: 1876

MEETING OF IEprfHNDBNTs.-Am meeting OF
Independents was arranged to take place IN
Monroe Ward last night. A reporter Of this
paper secuted around the neighborhood and
tried in vain to fnd the sssemblage, but no.
body knew anything about IL. Nobody
knew that there were any Independents In
the ward
Year: 1876

CONTRACT AwARDKD.-We notice With pleasure
that the lithogr.phlc work OF the State has been
awarded to Mr. D. MoRGEsRoTHssnd are sure that
he must have received this award not from any
pariiality on the part OF the superintendent OF
Public Printing, but merited 1t by his superior
workmanship. Both he and the State are to be con-
graduated.
Year: 1876

SPECIAL NoTIcE--We desire 10 Inform our
friends and the public generally that we guarantee
eur prices FOR clothing and furnishing goods to be
AS Low as any house In the State. Z. B. SPENCE q
SON Merchant TxiloyS.
Year: 1876

The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty 10
Children might with great prOpriety take up the
investigation of some Of the institutions In TINS Guy
and Brooklyn which are styled industrial ana
charity schools. Frequent instances have iatey
been published of grave wrongs in some OF tlese'
and from letters recently received and inquiries
made by THE TRIBUNE wo. are satisfied that among
other wrongs done is the separation OF families III
the shipment of Young orphans to the West without
keeping accurate record OF their Tor the
future information of themselves or friends IL 10
due to many worthy charities for the protection Oh
the young in this city as well as to the children
themselves that a carelessly or cruelty conducted
homo should be promptly and completely exposed
and we do not know better means OF DONG this
than to remit tho duty to the Society we have
alluded to.


Fx-Goy. Joel Parker will now return to the
practice of law il the village of Freehold, NJ J., ana
the Hon. Patrick Doyle and Barney Ford, esq, VIII
piously fold up that Monmouth ensign, sprinkle II
with puyerizcd gum camphor, and lay it carefully
away in cedar chest for 1850.
Year: 1876

At intervals of few years, ever since the
CrotOn water was first brought into this city,
the question of controlling the supply by water
meters has been agitatcd 4 great deal can
he said on both sides of tie question. If
water meters were perfect as q mechanical
coDtIivance-at present they are far from it
one branch of the discussion would be closed.
There is no doubt that the introduction Of
meters would greatly rcducc the amcunt of
water used or wasted. But against The profit
thus to be gain 3D. there is to bo 5et off the harm
that would cnsue if the poor, classes were
restrained in the use Of water, rs tAcy wOuld
be if q price were charged for it. The views
of the Board OF Health on this subject should
be very fully brought out before any. great
change ia made in matter 50 seriously af-
feetiug The salubrity of the city: The pile of
meters that we're prepared under thc Tweed
administration can best be kept on storage a
little longer till the question has been fully
discussed. If the meters shoull ever be intro
ducel in tenement houses, new law would
he re1uircd.t TO compel the landlords to supply
their tenants with at least = certain amount OF
water without charge.
Year: 1876

Yale's victory o Harvard viii be geneT-
ally and Justly n ,uted to the pertInacity
with which the Yale captain has stuck to the
English system of rowing. Two years of dis
aster and defeat did not interfere with the
conviction that the new method was superior
to the old. The merits of the Yale stroke 7"
will now obtain recognition long denied them
At the same time it must be admitted that the
test IL not so satisfactory as + Harvard and
Ysla were both competitors in the National
College Regatta; the race Of yesterday being
simply question of precedence between two
that lad nat won in tie general contest. The
estimates OF our correspondents have also in
dicated that the Harvard crew was not the
cquai of the Yale men il physical development
nor was it in experience. This i3 further shown
in the fact that Yale tool, the lead yesterday,
and kept it; while If the crews had been
equal, it might have been expected that Har-
wards method of rowing would give the lead
Mt first, and that the hard contest would come
in the last half mile.
Year: 1876

The suggestion in the Presidents message
of a mode of continuing tic usual operations
OF the Government notwithstanding the delay
OF appropriations, has been adopted by Con-
grcss. The plan was, however, modified, so
as only to tide over tie embarrassment for
ten days; and it was accepted with poor grace
in the House, as of dire necessity.
Year: 1876

The National Board Of Trade wound up its
sessions with number of recommendations OF
Importance. The tendency of that body to
ask for Government interference i'll all sorts
of business affairs was even more strongly
exhibited than before. Congress is to be
called upon to legislate a5ouU bills of lrding
and storage receipts. State and national leg
islation concerning railroad freights and fares
is suggested. A revision OF the tariff is
urged. Altogether the National Board of
Trade does not seem to have learned that the
world is already governed too much.
Year: 1876

EGGs-How INcREAsED.-1f an increase
of eggs is desired in the poultry yard, be-
fore large sums of money are expended in
the purchase of everlasting layers, we
would recommend the keeping of no hens
after the first, or at most the second year.
Early pullets give the increase, and the
only wonder is that people persist as they
do in keeping up stock of old hens, whic.
lay one day and stop three, instead of lay
ing three days and stopping one; in some
parts of England it is the invariable rule to
keep the pullets one year. Feeding will do
great deal-a surprising work indeed-in
tue production of eggs: but not when the
old hens are concerned; they may put on
fat but they cannot put down eggs. Their
tales are told, there work is over; nothing
remains to be done with them but to give
them smell of the kitchen fire, and the
sooner they get that the better. OF course
there are some old faverites whose lives can
be spared as long as they can send their
representatives.. Judicious mating, by which
we mean the advantage of a comparatively
youthful cockerel, may be the means oi
even exhibition poultry making their ap
pearance from the eggs of the good old
hen, and here we have the exception tC
the rule we insist upon.-LondOn Agricultural
Gazette.
Year: 1876

Nv home being many miles distant, found myself
in this city of Brothery Love- (where every loves
himself better than his brOther) acquainted with but
few and dependent the street for seat to the
great exhibition. Accordingly bought exchange
tickets and had no cause of complaint during my first
ride NV second ticket admitted me to a crowded car
without spare seat, and was forced to stand for
parenty not twenty, was comfortably sitting so near
me that was in danger of being thrown into his lap
by the jostling throng And yet he did not seem to
notice or for the awkwardneSs of my position.
other young men were engaged in chit-chat with
Young women, who destitute of politeness as
themselves. On my return to the city number of
ladies as well myself had no seats, while men and
bOus were pleasantly accommodated The women ex-
changed with another to relieve themselves but
the men and boys held on to their seats until they
were about to leave the cars.


have been acquainted with Irish, English, French,
Spanish and American gentleman, and can truly say
that the Delaware and Chesapeake Peninsula on
which was born, and always lived has produced re-
fined men that will favoEaby compare with any that
have seen. Such men would spontaneously have
ladies their seats in despite of any feeling of selfish
ness or fatigue which may have presented itself to
their minds.


We remember of reading some years ago of the un-
polite behaviour in the cars Of this city of women
towards the men. They would take their seats when
No well bred woman would act so. Some thoughtlesS
young girls and some vulgar fine dressed women who
have acted thus are cTterans to judge of ladies
II the men have determined to retaliate, they are
doing it as if they had calculated the interest and
added it to the principal


NAL Jubilee hope politeness when travelling and
on all occasions may be revived and reach the ole
standard of 1776. A DELAwAREAN.


PHILADELPHIA.
Year: 1876

ANOIuEts SHUT


10 the Editor ef The Tribune.


BURLINGTON, kan., May 6.-I was really
amused to read the ordinations Of the man
that that woman lives with about the sour bread
fried in grease. would just as soon eat the
bread as to cat eggs fried in grease, or oil On
salad. It will take stronger stomach than
mine to digest either, or to eat corn-bread or to
drink coffee or tea That Indy who fried the
sour bread did not live SO fur from the kitchen
but that she saw poor flour sometimes, and
felt that 1t was great waste to throw
it away. Now I will give you u
family Of four, use thrcc-pnt basin filled
half full with good, sweet milk; two eggs;
thckcn with shorts-we call it, SOME call it mid
.liings or coarse dour-it is better than Graham,
because ground finer; make i batter thicker
than for griddle-cakrs; haze the gcm-pans
Kissing hot Oh the stove; drop them III very
quick; place them in a very hot oycn hotter
than fur biscuit. Put cream and sugar, with
very little vinegar, on lettuce. l am very fond
Of soups if not seasoned too much. No parsley
for mc, mustard or pepper. Such trash make
drunkarls. FL. c.
Year: 1876

FARMERS are doing we'll when all other
classes are doing little or nothing The first
wants of society have to be supplied at any
rate, and that is something to be depended
on. People must live before they can make
mutual profits and the products OF the soil
are the first things that are called for. If
prices are lower than they once were, SO are
the prices Of commodities to the farmer who
has his products to sell. He gets his advan-
tage in one way, if he does not in another.
If agriculture is to be relied on in a period
of general stagnation, it certainly shows that
it contains within itself the elements of a
permanent and solid prosperity. And its
strongest recommendation is that it always
inculcates the lesson that it is folly to make
haste to be Massachusetts, Plouglsmaaa.


New CLoD CRusHER.-The Scientific
american thus describes a new clod chusher,
the invention of Mr.. John M. Crockett, of
Texas:


This implement consists of two series Of
flat parallel bars, which are curved or bent
twice, and attached at their ends to the same
cross bars. The bends Of the bars OF one
series are at such points as bring them out
of alignment with those of the others; and
hence when clod escapes being cut by a
bar Of one series, it will ordinarily pass lat
orally under the bar, and thus be subjected
a second time to q crushing action. The
clods are thus broken up, and the land lev
eled. The implement is light, cheap, strong
durable and effective.
Year: 1876

There is no small Importance to be attach
ed to the training of these plants to have the
best results. 10 leave them run at random
during the summer and only prune in the
winter or spring, is only half doing the
thing. just now is the time to pinch the
leading shoots of them. Raspberries at
four feet and blackberries at five on the
shoots Of the present year. This will not
only cause them to throw out laterals, and
make them stocky, but will give them
strength and prevent their blowing down.


Where the stools are strong and the three
best canes are left, the balance taken off, will
give as much and as fine fruit, thanif four
or six were left to grow. We believe that
two would do as well as four were it not on
account of accidents.


AS the strawberry season closes the rasp-
berry comes in, which is followed by the
blackberry, thus keeping up succession OF
wholesome fruit which every person should
have plenty Of, and might have if things
We're properly carried out; yet it would be
safe to say that not one in fifty has as much
fruit to eat as they should have. 1t is the
horticultural and agricultural Journals that
instill the proper fruit growing spirit into
the masses.--Cor. Journal of Ag,icuLtat7eiafad
| Farmer. 81 i5sts l**f' es III Is{&
Year: 1876

the German tongue among the "Pennsyl-
vania Dutch" In less than a hundred
years the people of German extraction In
that State had acquired dialect incompre-
hensible to those who speak the language in
its purity, and before the close of the present
century even the dialect will have disap-
peared. Can the GeSman people of New
York hope for better result in q city where
English is on every tongue? Even now the
German language with US is an accomplish
ment, not necessity. 1t is as an accomplish
ment that its desirability as part Of the regu-
lar course of study in our schools is to be con-
sidered both now and in the future. and this,
we believe, settles the question with which
the Board of Education has to deal, at least
for the present.
Year: 1876

We notice that a good many of the jour-
mails of both parties are scolding at Congress
because it has, thus far in the session, talked
SO much and done SO little. In this they are
falling into very common and very mis-
chievous fallacy-that the duty of legisla-
tive body is to adopt laws, and that unless it
does this it is not working"


Nothing is less true than such an assump-
ton. A body like the Congress is never SO
Long debates s-''interminable debates, as it
is the fashion to call them-ought to be en-
couraged. They are the only means by
which the sense of the country, the inten-
tions of political parties, the justice or in
justice, expediency or folly of measures pro-
posed can be ascertained. The previous
question" has been, during the last fifteen
years, too much used to choke off
debate and help a majority to cram
mass of ill-digested laws into
the ponderous statute book without
proper consideration. We are glad to see
debate reviving in the House, and we trust
the Speaker will encourage and foster it.
Let us nave all proposed measures ana poll
cies fully, freely and elaborately discussed;
then we shall be far more sure to have mod
crate, well considered, wise laws than under
the system, too long in favor in the House,
by which laws were secretly prepared in
committee rooms and passed without de-
bate under the pressure of that gag rule, the
previous question" There was time,
thirty years ago, when the House debates
had an effect on public opinion, and when,
while fewer laws were adopted, far fewer leg
islative follies we're found in the statute book
If any one looks at the report of proceed
ings in those days he will find that for weeks
at time the regular course was that after
prayer by the chaplain ''the House resolved
itself into Committee of the Whole" and de-
bate was the order of the day. We should
like to see the old fashion revived
Year: 1876

Our Rio correspondence tells what the
great South American Empire is doing for
our Centennial. First, Dom Pedro III. will
come to see it himself, and in this act signi-
fes great good will for the Power on the
Northern Continent which has sprung to em.
pire on the foundation of democratic Re-
public. He is potentate whom the United
States will be pleased to welcome. for his
rule has shown an earnest respect for the
will of his people and an intelligent patriot
ism whose constant exhibition has lifted
Brazil in the scale of the nations of the
earth to foremost position. That he,
the descendant of the lorily line of the Por-
tuguese kings, comes contrary to the typical
character of his race, to learn something of
free people, stamps him as king unusual
in his order From his personal interest in
the Exhibition at Philadelphia we may
assume that whatever is heretofore lacking
in the collection of Brazilian products will
be made up before the time comes for
despatching it hither. From what our cor
respondent already has seen Of this collec-
ton, and which is described elsewhere, it
cannot fail to be unusually interesting. De-
pending in great measure on native skill
and materials for their accessories of life, the
manufactured articles and natural products
of the interior provinces will give the visitor
to the Exposition an opportunity of learning
more of the people than the reading of
dozen books of travel. We may be certain
that the section devoted to this vast Empire
will not fail of interested observers while the
Exhibition remains open.
Year: 1876

We print this morning a communication
signed Several German Readers" giving it
place in our columns notwithstanding it
does manifest injustice to the HERALD, to the
writer's themselves and to their race, sisnply
because they are very much in earnest in
the position they assume. In the first place,
we believe there is no such prejudice against
as our correspondents assume to exist. The
question of teaching German in the public
schools, however is a thing entirely apart
from any issues of sentiment or national or
race animosities 1t is a mere matter of
school economy, to be applied, if it can be
done we'll and wisely, and otherwise to
be left undone. Neither can we agree with
our correspondents in the assumption that
the introduction of the German language
into the public schools has caused some of
the German American schools to succumb.
At the same time we recognize the excellence
of most of those private schools conducted
upon the German plan, and regret that the
hard times have interfered with their pros
perity. Under present conditions these in
stitutions are the best means at the command
of our people for imparting knowledge of
German among American and German
American children, and they ought to be en-
couraged, at least until the modern languages
can be taught in the public schools without
detriment to the system. We believe in
making the free schools as comprehensive
as possible, but we would not have what are
essentially fancy studies introduced into
them at the cost of the elementary branches,
and we fear that only the latter can be taught
with safety at this time.


Another point in the letter of our corre-
spondents deserves q word of comment and
illustration. In spite of all the Vests and
Bakers in creation they say The German
people-meaning, we presume, their de-
scendants-will speak their language hun
dred years from now and yet be good
American citizens. Without doubling the
latter half of this proposition we are bound
to deny the fvrmer The experiment has
been tried in this country under better con-
ditions than those which surround the Ger
man population of this city, and the result
is complete refutation of this theory.
In proof of this we have only TO point
10 the corruption aud degradation of
Year: 1876

THE DIRECT CABLE is once more broken.
The regularity with which this intelligence is
flashed to us has made it almost as celebrated
as the old news that 'Quiet reigns in War
saw" Whether that terrible little crus-
tacean, the Li,nnorid tere6rdus, which, al
though only quarter of an inch in
length, can render three thousand miles
of electric cable of no more account
than so much old junk, has been at
work or not, we are not informed.
If the defect is in the quality of the cable
itself there is every probability of the above
announcement being repeated at intervals as
long as the Faraday will hold together for re-
pairing purposes. Without passing any
opinion upon this point we would suggest
that some scientists not connected with tho
company be deputed BY the shareholders to
examine the break.
Year: 1876

CREMATION was practised yesterday in
Milan upon the remains of the Chevalier
Rossi. The arrangements for this purpose
there are very complete. The corpse is
placed in chamber in which one hundred
gas jets combine to raise temperature of
one thousand degrees, and incineration is
neatly and thoroughly done in an hour, q
mere "pinch of delicate dust" remaining.
There is nothing spectacular about it.
Year: 1876

TURKEY will not give up the fight in
herzegovina for many day if she is not in
!erfered with by the five great European
for war, and at the same time continue the
lavish expenditure which makes Lombard
street growl, is not apparent He is acting
like man tempting fate, and he may not
have to wait long for q settlement
Year: 1876

THE NoBFoLK (VA.) NAVY YARD does not
appear to be fastening its preparations as
actively as if war had been declared, but
our correspondent at that point notes that
the six monitors there have been placed in
commission, and may be ready in q month.
They are not getting up steam to fight the
Spaniards or anybody else just now, but are
they not quietly drifting into line of battle