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Year: 1876

Letters werc received yesterday by Superintendent
Wallng from persons in Auburn N. Y, relative to the
swinding transactions Of the man Parker who
rested a swinder few days since, but discharged
for lack Of evidence The letters received yesterday
furnish full explanation OF the manner OF the swind
ling When grocer not honest bit at Parker's
bait sufficiently 70 open q correspondence with him
the latter would send back another letter saying in
substance that any portion OF the stock would be fur
nshed twenty-five per cent below the regular trade
rates, aud the goods shipped TO any address sixty
days credit This generally brought order thus
far money called for and the purchaser could
possible swindle.


Tho third letter contained the secret In II tho
announcement that the writer tParker) had been sud-
denly called to California to sick wife. He had
however sent the goods ordered 70 the storage
Of the Manhattan Storehouse Company, No 4S East
Thirteenth street. the proprietor manager OF which
would forward them without delay. This course, tho
letter explained, necessary 70 throw Parker's
creditors of the track, and when the storage and
carriage paid TO the warehouse people the goods
would be shipped. day later the victim would
ceive q letter from the warehouse manager East
Thirteenth street. saying that be had been ordered
ship certain goods which there charges OF $50
for carriage and storage.
Year: 1876

The recent percmptory order by the Board OF Police
70 the captains enforce the law Of 1862 prohibiting
the sale of liquor In licensed places Of amusement has
caused much CONSERVATION among proprietors OF
saloons and variety theatres, where waiter girls
form prominent attraction. Yesterday afternoon the
obbies OF the Central police Office crowded With
representatives OF the various places Included in the
prohibition, anxious TO ascertain f some compromise
might not be effected by which they might continue
their business Shortly before six o'clock inforce-
ments were added 10 the number OF those present
in the shape Of organized delegation OF
propretors, with counsel Superintendent Walling


rst waited upon but he quietly blghed any hopes OF
success they might have entertained by saying that
far he concerned the law should certainly be en-
forced. President Smith next visited, and long
interview took place but II resulted unsatisacory
the former The proprietors express themselves
determined 10 procure repeal OF the law which they
stigmatiEe as PurlaRical and unjust and already
rangements have been nauguraed TO bring the
hear repeal
Year: 1876

BILL INTRODUCED IN THE RHODE ISLAND
GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PREVENT INTERFER-
ENcE WITH THE ATTENDANCE OF CHILDREN
A CONCESSION TO scBuPULoUs coNscIENcEs.


NEWPORT, Jan. 81, 1879
The following important measure has been introduced
in the General Assembly by william p Sheffield,
Of this city, and direct result OF the famous Dc Fray
burial case the particulars of which appeared the
HERALD few weeks ago, and consequently fresh
in the minds OF the public The act is entitled IAN
act to prevent interference with the attendance OF
scholars the public Schools" and foows:-


SECTION lNo person shall hereafter threaten. dss uade
hinder obstruct BY denouncng intmdang
otherwise Interfering with any parent guardian who
send wish send child under HIS control
public school in this State which such child qualified
attempt 10 hinder prevent any child from attending
public school from which such child shall have
PEELED from which he prohibited from attending In
sequence Of some law regulation Of such school.


It will be remembered that the father OF Miss Do
Fray made adavt before justice OF the peace
the mother Of the child forbidden sacred rites
Of the Catholic Church because she permitted the girl
TO attend the public school, and Informed that
long as she persisted doing she would not be en-
titled TO the privileges OF her Church.


Section OF the act, which is appended will be
read with peculiar interest throughout the country IN
Of the present agitation about the reading Of the
Bible in tho public schools Of this and every other
State:-


child whose parents guardians shall request that the
tend in school at the time prayer during the reading Of
Scriptures shall child be subjected any PEN
atty for the non attendance upon these services


SIC 3Any person violating any provisions OF this act
shall be fined $50
Year: 1876

This body had interesting though not so exciting
session as the Baptists yesterday. The Rev. J. NJ
Buckley, OF Stamford, kept them together until two
O'Clock, defending the poty and order Of Methodism
from the conoclasts Of tho Church, who trying to
pull down. but making no provision TO reconstruct
Preceding speakers had advocated the enlargement OF
the Episcopacy and the changing of the bishops from
one district province to another by the General
Conference every four years This he opposed vigor
ousy. He would permit the bishops TO do they
now do, except that after any OF their number had
passed the age OF sixty years he should not
be moved about but be limited TO one
district. Some brethren had advocated the reduction
OF the number Of ncumbents, the abolition alto
gether Of the presiding eldershp Others again had
advocated the enlargement of the number of presiding
elders the reduction OF the size OF districts and the
that their support should not be placed on the dis
tricts. Mr. Buckley would not reform the Office In
any respect but he would reform the who fill the
office Instead Of making the Office retreat for
cient brethren, he would put active, earnest in
the position, and keep them 10 strict account for
fidelity therein. Their visits to the churches should
not be formal and hurried, but should be practical
and useful He would allow OF negotiation between
ministers and churches to limited extent but
not TO the extent or man setting morcy value upon
his ministry aud Insisting on that equivalent He de-
Tended the entire pohty Of American Methodsm and
weseyanism that the latter without bishops presid
ing elders is far autocratc than tho former with
both. Ministers In the Wesleyan Church must travel
four years before they marry. Then they must
give year, notice to the Conference that they intend
TO marry and atterward before they receive the per-
sent credentials for piety and standing of the
ladies they intend 10 wed.
Year: 1876

DR. John Lord delivered lecture yesterday morning
at Association Hall on "Mohsmmed." lie said:-lt
used to DO the fashion to look the great Arabian
prophet the great evil power ofthc world In times
neither his character his doctrines regarded
malign. He Is generally viewed as man Of won
derfu genius and great rcformer In the ages pro-
ceding advent OF the prophet degrading polyhe-
ism was the religion OF the land. great reform was
imperativcly needed to restore uniform behof and
set mp higher standard OF morals. Mohammed was
born in $40 and was reared the family OF an uncle
he was a beautiful and also very eloquen. He set
himse: 10 work TO produce reform amid
overwhelming obstaclcs No one but his
wife encouraged and believed Ia him With
out her sympathy and faith no would probably
have failed He became visionary man, but he was
intensely In earnest he iancied himself the ambassa-
dor ofGod TO remove idolatry At last, after he had
been shut up month In solitude one night a FORM
dvinely beautiful appeared TO him and thus spoke
90 Mohammed Of a truth thou art the prophet Of God
and am HIS angel Gabrielle Mohammed telt that this
true, aud no declared the doctrines which
were 10 revolutionize Arabia


At the age OF forty he began TO preach everywhere
that there Is but one Cod But few believed him aud
Ia three years Of exalted labor he converted only thr
teen persons, one Of whom was slave still be perse
vered He was regarded as lunatic and last hos
tites commenced, and ho was threatened
and prosecuted He ned 10 Medina IN
622 He there cordially welcomed and
soon surrounded by enthusiastic followers
After he was established AZ Medina a great change
took place IN his method Of teaching He resolved to
adapt his religion 10 the dopraved hearts Of his follow
ers, 70 tue TO secure success SO he allowed
poygamy; promised a sensual paradise TO those who
gated his ideas and then added 70 his creed the
lie that nc could propitate the deity But tho
thing the prophet did was TO appeal 10 the sword.
& G al sSo as The Key Of be S S1s
would heaven, and they foil battle their
sins would be washed away Thus did he stimulate
the anafcism OF warkc and heroic people, and what
was the resulu To propagate the faith OF hohammod
they the whole world, and when be died At the
age OF sixty three, no the successful founder
oil rellglon that the world has ever known.
Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


''Respectfully invited TO meet artists and members
Of the press Thus the invitations to the open
ing of the annual exhibition OF the American Society Of
Painters in Water Coors and at the bottom OF the card
were the words, "Gentemen only"


Does the Managing Committee decline, then. TO
acknowledge artists the ladies who have contributed
by no the pictures their walls or
refuse TO recognize the women who
their incomes by writing for the pressH II is impos
sible to believe the desire put restriction on
smoking the real reason OF this most dscourteous
exclusion Persons Of either sex who object to the
OF tobacco were free to absent themselves,
or It would have been easy to provide a
smoking room, and thus meet the convenience OF
all No, the measure took It's rise in quite another
and less avowabIo motive-in the petty jealousy
which is popularity supposed to be a peculiarly iem-
nine feeling Women always start heavily weighted IN
the race Tor honor and money Thousands OF little
cares, duties and conventonates impede their on
ward progress Even family ties, that usually lie
lightly ON men, press with overwhelming weight
them and demand large portion OF their time and
ergy. They too often lay aside the palette and the
brush only TO take up the needle and frequently lind
themselves by the mere fact Of their sex. excluded
from the society most congcnia to their tastes Men,
the contrary the end Of their day work
seek rest and Inspiration where they will They
hampcred by restriction, by no endless round OF
small duties Surely these Disadvantages great,
and any lady who surmounts them is entitled all
spect and TO impartial judgment from her brother
artists sho will receive It, however, with
few exceptions, only from those who are
at too enlightened and too secure in their own
position to wish to crowd weaker asprauts OF the
ranks There is unfortunately, always TO be found
lamenable army OF manlings and second rate artists
who finding themselves with three times her opportu
nities unable to escape mediocrity, will solace their
self-estcem by sneerlng at the Female Artist" Oh
newspaper writer's, who remark invdiously MISS
Anthony's age ridculc the personal appearance OF
other lady celebritiesl Oh, Managing Committee
OF the American Society Of Painters in Water Colors
Let for the future assert that have tho
monopoly of petty Jealousy for you have trumphanty
proved the contrary.
Year: 1876

The Board OF Police Justices last evening at the
Washington Place Police Court The resignation OF
Victor Precbt interpreter to tho Court Of Special Ses
sons, was accepted. The resignation Of John f.
McGowan assistant clerk to the Board, accepted
and Cornelius Flynn appointed in his place


Judge Flammer complained that there not sum-
cient clerk help the Tombs Police Court and ho
moved that rule 13, which provided that each justice
may select his clerk 10 accompany him while Sit
ting the various courts be stricken out He thought
that there much help at Harlem and little
down town The motion laid over FOR further
ed.
Year: 1876

Some terrible disclosures of the want,
suffering, aud starvation in New York
have been made in the papers of that
city, and have called forth expressions
of sympathy and alarm. The Liberal
Christian thinks it is time "to seek out
the causes of poverty and. incapacity
and crime" which is a pregnant sug-
gestion. The same CHASTITY facts con-
front us everywhere; and homes Of COM
fort are clOuded by thoughts of wide
spread distress and suffering. 1t is a
hopeful thing that people cannot be in
different to such agOnIes; and it would
Ge well if this sympathy should lead to
some general movement toward perma-
nent relief and improvement. Destitu-
ton and starvation are not confined to
the incapable and vicious; capacity and
skill will be found among the victims
1t is time to seek for the causes; and
though they may be traced to methods
of business, and of the distribution oi
wealth, which we have supported and
approved, let the search not be delayed
through fear that such discovery will
be made. When there is enough for al
in society, there ought to be system
by which all may have a share, or civ.
iizatiOn is failure. To seek the cause:
of poverty and crime would be one o.
the most radical investigations evel
started.-NecO Age.
Year: 1876

THE FIRST AIM OF EDUCATIoN.-I
accept without qualification the first
principle of our forefathers: that every
boy born IN the world should be put in
the way of maintaining himself in in
dependence. No education which does
not make this its great aim is worth any
thing at all. There are but three ways
of living, as some one has said-by
working, by begging, or by stealing.
Those who do not work, disguise it in
whatever pretty language we please,
are doing one of the other two. The
practical necessities. must take prece-
dence of the intellectual. A tree must
be rooted In the soil before it can bear
flowers and fruit. A man must learn tC
stand upright upon his own feet to re-
spect himself, to be independent o.
charity or accident. 1t is on this basi:
only that any superstructure of intellec,
tual cultivation worth having can pos.
sibly be built.-Froude.
Year: 1876

APPRECIATION OF SUAvITY. There
are some people who affect want of af-
fectation, and flatter themselves that
they are above fiattery; they are proud
of being thought extremely humble,
and would go round the world to punish
those who thought them capable of re-
venge; they are so satisfied of the suav-
ity of their own temper that they would
quarrel with their dearest benefactor
oHly for doubling it. And yet so very
blind are ali their acquaintance to these
their numerous qualifications and mer-
its, that the possessors OF them invaria-
bly, discover, when it is too late, that
they have lived in the world without a
single friend, and are about to leave il
without single mourner.-BdcoR.
Year: 1876

THE BEAUTY AND GLORY OF A GOOD
drought, you may stand upon hilltop
and look upon the parched and yellow
fields. Presently you say :-"What is
the meaning of that ribbon of green that
Ali now / remeber. That is where q
brook ran once. It's waters have been
dried up, but the verdure which they
nourished remains" And so how often
does it happen, after a good mans life
has exhaled from earth that the beauty
and glory of its benefcence abide!
Year: 1876

RECOGNITION.-TheH Illustrated Week.
Ly is responsible for this watering place
legend: "A gentleman at Saratoga, after
waving his handkerchief for an hour or
more at an unknown lady whom he dis
covered at a distant point on shore, was
encouraged by a warm response to his
signals to approach his charmer. I'm
agine his feelings when, on drawing
nearer, he saw that it was his own dear
wife, whom he had left on shore but a
short time before why, how remark
able that we should have recognized
each other at such distance . ex-
claimed they both in breath and then
they changed the sxbiect.n
Year: 1876

The Dutch have queer way of cur
ing laziness by putting subject in a
cistern and turning on a stream of wa
ter which runs in at one side as fast as a
man by steady work can pump it out.
There is nothing to do but pump or die.
Year: 1876

GENEsEo, Jan. 4.-The creditors Of the
City Bank OF this place, which suspended
in November last, have not yet received
their dividend of so per cent, owing to
the fact, the bank officers claim, that they
have not or cannot dispose as yet, of the
notes they hold. which they wish to con
vert toto cash before paying dividend The
new National, which all expected would be
established ere this, it is now feared, will
not be, if at all, until spring Business Of
all kinds very quiet.
Year: 1876

AWufty.


Herald and Gazette


Since the nomination Of Samuel j.
Tilden on Wednesday last, the air is
lighter, the land seems wholesomer, and
men draw freer breath, and the people
await with hopeful emotions an era Of
peace, prosperity and stability in every
pursuit OF life. They anxiously look
forward to the day when the thieves
and public plunderers shall be removed
from office. No better selection could
have been made for the second place on
the ticket than the name of Governor
Thomas A. Hendricks, OF Indiana. 1t is
a name above cavil or reproach. Mr..
Hendricks is one of the ablest and
purest statesmen in the United States.
It remains for the people to say whether
two such pure and distinguished states
men as Tllden and Hendricks shall or
shall not be defeated by two second
class country politicians, Hayes and
Wheeler, who would represent, as the
head Of their party, profiigacy, corrup-
ton and plunder. We have faith in the
moral sentiment of the people. There
is not the shadow of doubt in our mind
but that Tilden and Hendricks will be
elected next November; for the people
know right we'll that the election of
Hayes and Wheeler would be nothing
more nor less than a continuation, II
not perpetration, of Grantism.
Year: 1876

The Centennial canvass will be in
llll vigor in a couple Of weeks. In
s,act, as soon as the last rocket sends its
red or yarieolored glare across the
heavens the Hayesers and Tildenites
VIII begin operations. In this State the
democracy is unit for Uncle Samuel.
ne Will only have to face the regular
republican fire in front, without even
A. Scaell raising dust behind him.
Year: 1876

He held the Old shirt up by the neck
before discarding it forever, but he
wasn't mourning for the garment. He
only said, 81 wish I had all the drinks
that have gone through that old neck
band"
Year: 1876

The Times in its financial article of this
morning, says that the capital required to
test the practicabiity OF channel tunnel,
is being rapidly subscribed by the French,
and they already have 100000 francs of the
requisite amount. The English company,
if not already equally advanced, doubtless
soon will be. and the experiment will be in
active progress before long.
Year: 1876

ATLANTA, March 29.-T The State Supreme
Court unanimously decided that the head of
a family can waive. both for himsel and
his family their right TO the homestead thus
enabling people to create IA valid lien on
the full value of property.
Year: 1876

Extract from letter to the New York
Eoening Post 81 am convinced: that there
is another question even of paramount i'm
portance, not that of the bloody shirt, but
the Southern democracy, namely, the de.
termination by its solid vote for Mr.. Tilden
to secure again the control of the govern
ment, in order to demand and receive it's
pay What this pay is was recently COM
municated to gentleman in this city by q
resident in Alabama. who was his guest.
Said he: we are not reconstructed we
intend to obtain remuneration for our slaves,
our cotton, our cotton taxes, our bonds, and
all OF our losses-not by force of arms, but
by the acts of the Democratic party. We
intend to carry our States by keeping the
negroes away from the polls, if not by one
method, then by another. This is our
plan
Year: 1876

The editor of the Free Press feels bad
because we tailed to notice ''nearly a
column of its editorial page" filled with
vituperation and abuse of the political
management of the TRIBUNE. We did
not expect the political management OF
the TRIBUNE wonld be pleasing to the
Free PIess. We did not intend that it
should. We are gratified that It is not.
As we have not in the past. We shall not
in the future, consult the Free Press re-
garding the political policy of This jour
nal; nor shall we go to the editor of the
Free Press to ascertain whether said
management is satisfactory to prominent
men OF his own party The fact that
the TRIBUNE has been source of SC
much uneasiness to the Free Press, il
quite satisfactory evidence that its polti
cal course has been eminently satisfactory
to the ''prominent men of his own party
We trust that the Free Press will be sat
isfied with this brief notice of .nelrly
| column CT lis editorial page"
Year: 1876

1t is rarely that the people Of county
have the privilege;of voting for so uni
formally good ticket as is presented to
them this fall by the Republican party.
Particularly is this the case as far as the
nominees effect the local interests Of the
county. There is net one, from the
member of Congress down, against
whose private character or public record
that there can aught be said. They are
honest men and true reformers. Equal
in importance to the member of Congress,
which is spoken of elsewhere, is the MEM
ber of the. .Stete Legislature. TO this po-
sition the Republicans expect to elect
Watts S. Humphrey, who received a
unanimous nomination from the party
for the place, and whose friends are num-
erous throughout the district, and who
are working for him with will which
shows how sincere is their friendship.


Mr.. Humphrey is a young man of much
more than ordinary abilities, and if elect
ed will as surely make his mark in the
House of Representatives. He was a
gallant soldier during the war, and, al
though quite young at the time, made
such record as any man might well be
proud. At the end of the war he began
life i'm earnest, commencing at the bot
tom round of the ladder and working his
way up slowly but surely until he reach
ed his present homo able position. OF
his lite since he established himself in
this place every resident of this county
is familiar. 1t is an open book and can
be real by all. He has held the Office OF
Prosecuting Attorney for q number Of
wears, and to the entire satisfaction of
the people. He is indefatigable in work,
few men being able to accomplish more
in given time. AS lawyer, few men
of his experience have better record.
Having been long resident in this coun-
try, he has as complete q knowledge OF
the necessities Of the country as any. one
can well have. As a public speaker he
has always been thought good, but he
has surprised even his most intimate
friends since the campaign opened. prov
ing himself to be, as we once before re-
marked, one of the best speakers in the
state. Thus Mr.. Humphrey possesses 10
a remarkable degree all the important re-
quirements for useful and successful
legislator. Dir. Humphrey has never
yet disappointed his friends i'll any posi-
ton in which their favor had placed
him, and if the people CT this district see
fit to elevate him to this place We are sat
isfiei that they will never regret it.