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Year: 1876

Robert DespositO Arrested and Charged
With the Murder.


Last evening about half past o'clock
one OF the most diaboIical murders was
enacted at the restaurant, known as
Tony's House, New Lake End. The
actors in this fearful tragedy are
kobt. Desposito and Geo. w. Rockwell.
Desposito plays the leading part and
George w. Rockwell falls victim to his
murderous propensities. 1t appears
that these men left the city about half
past 2 o'clock. and drove out to the lake
together In a wagon. Arriving at Tony's
House, they spent some time in drink
ing and lounging about the place, then
took dinner together, after which they
repaired to the portico Of the house.
and after they had taken off their coats
they sat down to enjoy the fresh sea
lTeeze.-B But suddenly three reports OF
pistol are heard and Desposito: is seem
to leave the spot in haste with q coat
on his arm aud hat in his hand,
and, jumping into his wagon,
drives off. Two gentlemen, whose
names could not be ascertained, on
hearing the report Of the pistol, re-
paired to tho place and found Rockwell
sitting upright in u chair .ua..
.. A Corpse,
with three. gunshot wounds in his body,
one Of the balls entering the right
breast, the other in the left arm, and
the third penetrating the cheek a little
behind the cheek bone, burning the flesh,
which shows that the murderer must
have placed the muzzle Of the pistol
right against his face.


Our reporter visited the scene Of the
tragedy, and sad sight met his gaze.


The DOdy


OF the murdered man was lying on the
gallery weltering in his life's blood,
which flowed freely from the wounds,
and beside the corpse knelt the
young wife, sometimes Weeping,
and at intervals praying to the Almighty
TO forgive the sins of her murdered hus-
band, he having been torn from her in
the prime Of life and without even time
to make peace with his Maker


The following is the statement Of Mr..
Tony, proprietor OF the restaurant,
the affair. The men came
to my restaurant together and after
spending several hours, took dinner and
then went out on the gallery; all Of a
sudden. l heard three reports Of n pistol
and looking out saw Desposito leaving
the gallery in haste with q coat and
hat in his arms, and getting into his
wagon, drove off did not see him fire
any shots. / afterwards learned that he
had left his own coat and hat on
the gallery, and through mistake and
haste had taken those belonging to the
deceased. This is all know about it.


Desposito WAS arrested on the corner
Of Basin and Canal streets. and locked
up in the Central Station, charged, from
received, with murder.
Year: 1876




| The Herald, In its crusade against the
extravagant expenditures Of the WaI
Department., exposes many Of the tricks
and subterfuges resorted to by quarter.
masters and the general staff of the
army to present to Congress apparently
correct and yet moderate statements OF
the incidental expenditures Of the War
Department. On the subject of rents
paid for officers quarters, etc, the Her
aid publishes statement emanating
from the War Department., and show
ing the total to be, in round figures,
1882, 900. An amount, the same paper
thinks, much short of the sums actually
paid under the various heads OF com
mutations, fuel and forage, which, il
the truth was known, would sum up
over million Of dollars. The way it is
done for lodgings is thus described by
the Herald II 9t'f IN iai4 j
In many of the larger cities where
officers are stationed the latter prefer
not to occupy q house IN the usual imam,
ner. but to live at aspublic hotel or
boarding house. Now, it will not be ex-
pected that II Generalj Hard Tack or
Major Pork and Beans desire to luxu-
riate at the Arlington Hotel in this city
or the Fifth Avenue in New York or the
Lindell in st. Louis that Uncle Sam,
with all his foolish evtravagance, will
rent one or the other OF these magnifi-
cent hotels. But what can he do? for as
before stated. it will never answer to
allow these delicate sons Of Mars to be
thrust into one of the military forts
where he might probably forget
the latest figure in the german
and possibly gain some useful
knowledge Of his profession In
this dilemma he compromises with
his military nephews in this wise:
while l cannot, unfortunately, in the
present condition of my finances and
the agitated condition Of political senti
ments, rent each Of you u hotel, 1 will
do the next best thing ] can. Go and
select the best rooms in the most luxuri
Gus and costly hotels in the city, and at
the end Of the month | will send the
proprietor check for an amount equal
to what you would pay in case you
rented house in the ordinary manner
through the Quartermaster's Depart
ment." The result is that OF the inn
mense number Of officers stationed in
the large cities very few actually occupy
rented house; consequently the above
statement of the Quartermaster Gene
raj, while intended to Stifle further i'll
quiry, only covers a small portion OF the
expense to which the Government is
put each year by keeping 50 many Off
GERS In the cities. .rc+r
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Slowly but
surely the coils Of evidence have been
tightening about the official life OF
Landaulet Williams, and at last the
proof Of what has long been believed OF
his official turpitude is believed to be in
hand. tits stated positively to night by a
member OF the House that possession has
been obtained by one Of the Investigat-
ing Committee Of an autograph letter Of
Williams, which is of itself conclusive
proof that while Attorney General he
sold himself and his Office, in one in
stance, for the sum Of $4,000. The com
mittee feel that this is only the begin
ming Of disclosures in the Department
Of Justice, but it is said that the evil
dence Of this letter alone is abundantly
sufficient ground for an action of i'm
peachment.
Year: 1876

The chief Of the agricultural depart
ment Of the Centennial exhibition an
nounces that all the space in the build
ing has been taken, and that no more
can be granted. The catalogue Of the
exhibits in the horticultural hall is in
the hands Of the printer, being over
two months ahead Of the day of open
ing a thing unparalleled in the matter
Of international exhibitions.
Year: 1876

NEw CusToNs REcULATIoS-Th follow
ing instructions to collectors relating to
transportation over Canadian territory will
prove of immediate interest to importers:


ARTICLE 10 of the regulations of this de-
partment, dated March 80, 1875, governing
the transportation Of merchandise to, from
and through the British possessions of North
America, is amended 50 as to read 'Merchan-
disc Of domestic origin, duty paid or free of
duty, may be transported from one part
to another of the United States over the
boundary of the Dominion of Canada, with
the consent Of the proper autharites, BY
routes duly designated and bonded for such
purpose Cars must be specially appropri-
ated for such transportation, placed
under customs seal by an officer of
the customs at the port of departure in
the United States, and remain thus sealed
until they shall have passed through such
foreign territory and again arrive in the
United States. Collectors OF Customs on the
frontiers may, however, allow railway cars
laden for transit through Canada to remain
unsealed, when such cars contain perish
able merchandise or valuable animals re-
quiring the special care of attendants during
transit, and when such animals or merchan-
die are capable Of Identification by specific
description in the manifest of the ear con-
taining the same. In all other cases when
it is desired to transport live stock or other
merchandise through the Dominion of Cana
da in unsealed cars, the Collector will detail
regular or temporary Inspector of Customs
to accompany such cars during the transit.
the expense Of which service shall be paid
by the party at whose request the same is
rendered. All bulky merchandise which is
incapable os being put in sealed car may be
transported on platform cars
Year: 1876

Running IN DEBr.-I dwell on this point +,
for | would deter Others from entering that
place Of torment. Half the young men in
this country, with many old enough to know
better, would 90 into business-that is, into
debt-to-morrow, if they could. Most poor
men are so ignorant as to envy the mer-
chant or manufacturer, whose life is an inces-
sant struggle with pecuniary difficulties, who
is driven 10 constant shining, and who,
from month to month, barely eyades the in
solyency which sooner or later oyertakes
most men in business so that it has been
computed that but one man in twenty of
them achieves a peeuniary success. For my
own part | would rather be convict in the
State prison, a slave in rice swamp, than
to pass through life under the harrow of debt.
Let no man misjudge himself unfortunate,
or truly poor, 50 long as he has the full use
of his limbs and faculties, and is substantial
" free from debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard
work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach,
are disagreeable, but debt is infinitely
worse than them all. And if it had pleased
God to spare either or all my sons to be the
support Of my declining years, the lesson
which | should most earnestly seek to impress
upon them is, 'never run in debt" Avoid
pecunisry obligations as you would pesti-
lence or famine. If you have but fifty cents,
and can get no more for a week, buy a peck
of corn, parch it and live on it, rather than
owe dollar of course l know that some
men must do business that involves a risk
and must give notes or other obligations, and
/ do not consider him in debt who can lay
his hands directly on the means of paying, at
some little sacrifice, all he owes speak of
real debt-that which involves risk or sac
rifice on one side, obligation and dependence
on the other-and say from all such, let
every youth humbly pray God to preserve
him evermore.-Horace Greeley.
Year: 1876

ONE of Secretary Belknap's frauds
that has come to light is contained IN
the award of q contract for head
stones for National Soldiers Gene.
teries, which he gave to bis tailor and
whereby he himself is said to have
made 100000. We presume it was
under this contract that contracts for
reinterment were sublet, by which the
parties agreed 10 allow the bodies OF
the Federal dead to remain above
ground for three or four days so that
their teeth could be taken out for the
sake of the gold filling. 1t is very re-
voting, but such is certainly the case;
they took hammers and broke the
laws of all whose dentists had secur-
ed such attention for them, mark OF
respect to the Union dead which
Northern people ought to know no"
TO appreciate.
Year: 1876

COMMON SENSE IN PLowiNG.-Teams
drawing heavy loads on the roads get
q breathing spell on the descending
ground, while plowlng the draft Is
the same from morning I'll msii'.
There is certain number OF pounds
that a team can draw day af:er day
and not weary them, but If more be
added, even as little as fifteen or
twenty pounds, they walk uusieadily,
fret and soon tire. No amount Of
feeding will keep them in good con-
dition. | have many piowo IN use on
which it is an easy matter to decrease
the draft twenty-five pounds, and If
men had been drawing them instead
of horses it would have been done,
1t must be plain TO the farmer that
every pound taken Of from the draft
of the plow is SO much gained for the
horses. 1t may be done in this way:


For any soil except sand or gravel
use q steel plow. The cost Is bat ilt-
tie more, and the draft enough less to
pay the difference in blowing twenty
acres. Inplowing sod the colter does
a great deal of the work, and should
be kept sharp by forging at the black.
smiths, and grinding every day II
necessary. OF course it will wear
out sooner. but new coiters are chap
or than new teams. Set the Golfer in
line with the plow, the edge square IN
front, with all angle Of torty-tive de


grees from the point to where it is at
tached to the beam. When the STARE
gets worn out it is poor economy to
use it any longer, but replace it with
q new one. Let the traces be as short
as will allow The horses TO walk with
out hitting their heels against the
whifiletrees, aud have. just pressure
enough of the wheels on the ground
to make the plow run steady. If the
handles crowd continually one way
the draft is not right, and, if the
plow be a good Que, 1t can easily be
remedied at the cIeyis. TO prevent
the horses stepping over the traces in


turning, ,faSten weight Of about three
fourths of a pound on the outside Of
each singlet:ee-rhat is, On the left,
and Uice UcrSo. Every observing
farmer knows that horses are suscep-
tible of kindness, and equally so to
unkindness. | have seen horses that
were working steadily made reckless
with sweat in q short time by sharp
word or a jerk at the bit. Let your
horses do their work as You do yours,
as easily as possible, and be as. willing
to overlook their mistakes AS you
would the mistake Of human bein-s
Year: 1876

The Brooklyn Eagle hopes nothing
was said at the Tyndall wedding
breakfast about principles Of slecting
and the origin of species.


That's no stuff to feed a baby on,
shrieked the nurse, as she snatched
the flask from General Sher dams
hand. 'Oh, dear, what idjusts these
men are, to be sure y


Seven Brooklyn girls have formed a


Leap Year Club and pledged them
selves to help each other to get hus-
bands.


An idea of what it costs TO lead a
fashionable lite il Washington may
be formed from the fact stated by a
Cabinet lady that for the short season
of 1873, two weeks shorter than that
Just concluded, her visiting cards cost
her $40.


Some fellows kidnapped St. Louis
girl the other night but, as SON as
daylight came, they Put her right out
of the carriage and told her to go
home. They said they were homeiy
enough themselves.


A doctor was discovered holding a
young lady in his lap the other even
ing; but be stated that he was exam
| inipg her for an affection Of the heart,
and she remarked that there was
nothing wrong in her laying her head
Oh her piller.


A poor woman in Newport, r. L.,
iustifes herself in keeping a dog by
he fact that many people will give
| the dog a bone who won't help her,
and often there is meat en- the bone
that she can eat, and it can be used in
making soup.


A bright little 3 year-olI in Hart
ford, Conn. having become a little
mixed between her religious instruc-
tion and her nursery rhymes, graveiy
recites: The Lord is the sheppard, and
ae lost his sheep,snd don't know where
TO find him.


\ lady coming out of church
What a powerful sermon | never
was before so impressed with the duty
and privilege of giveng freely. / am
determined to do better, and to send
this very week another six dress TO
my daughter.


At Washington leap year party,
a young man, thinking he Was taking
upon himself the ways Of women, re
marked to his partner that she would
not be allowed to squeeze his hand;
whereupon the impuIsive lass called
him a big BOBBY, and no girl at all.
Year: 1876

Messrs. Detwiler q Welsh, of Chadi's
Ford, are now and have been turning out
from their mill about one hundred bushels
of kiln dried corn meal, requiring about
four hundred bushels of corn daily for this
purpose. Immense kilns are constantly
running to dry the corn, which thence goes
through cooling process and is elevated to
the top of the mill, and conducted from
this point to the burrs. Night and day the
"wheel goes round," and night and day the
claJter Of the dandle-iron is heard making
lively work for the numerous hands en-
gagged about the works, using at least in
the course of the season 10000 bushels of
corn. This prepared meal is shipped to
foreign ports, mostly to the West India
Islands.-"West Chester News"
Year: 1876

In view of the opening OF the camp meeting
at Chester Heights on Tuesday of next week,
considerable activity is being manifested
upon the grounds by those who intend TAX
ing part in the exercises. Cottages and
tents ara being put up with neatness and
despatch and all through the woods very
active scene greets the eye Of the visitor.
A number of West Chestcrians are fixing up
for this religious campaign, and no doubt
the borough will be as largely represented
rs 1t has been ip former years.
Year: 1876

Chester is to have Holly Tree Inn.


Yesterday was thought by many to have
been the hottest of the season.


The prospect for fine fruit crop this
year throughout the State is very flatter-
ing, and all kinds will be very plenty.


The rains of the past few days have
cleaned off the sidewalks and streets, giving
them bright looking appearance.


The farmers are all jubilant over the com.
ing corn crop, and If reports are true, it
will exceed anything seen for years.


Travel to the Centennial from this city is
not 90 great THE week as last.


The oats crop is said to be an extraordi-
nary heavy one.


The rain of yesterday was gladly re-
ceived.


The street market continues to be we'll
supplied with vegetables.


Blackberries have male their appearance
and are selling at 10 cents quart.
Year: 1876

Last evening telegraph pole near La
mokin was struck by lightning and thrown
against passing train. Fortunately no
cars were thrown off the track. A flag
pole at the residence of DR.. Forwood was
also struck,
Year: 1876

EXTREMES MEET-"O! your nose is as cold as ice," an East New York father thought he heard his daughter exclaim, the other evening, as he was reading the Eagle in the next room He walked in for an expla- nation, but the young fellow was at the ex- treme end of sofa and the girl was at the other end, while both looked so innocent and unconscious that the old gentleman con cluded his ears had deceived him, and so withdrew without word.
Year: 1876

and votes with the negroes, and am
too white man for that; and, you
know that some of US had a sorter
hankenng after the South, hoping
that she might gain her indepen-
dence, but she did not, and all the
hopes that we have left under the
sun is to try to get some man for
President that will advise that id
Congress of ours to legislate some for
the interest of the South, we don't
care anything about the present is
sues, only we have been left ont in
the wet for long time, and we would
like to get crumb. We think if we
could get the President, then we
would have you Yanks, as Pendleton
said in his speech in Gallipolis last
fall. All we want is the power-give
us the power and then we will do
something"


We understand you, Mr.. Pendle-
ton, exactly, you wish to have power;
well. that is the very thing that we,
as body of Republicans, intend that
you shall not have.


"Tilden for hard-money, Hendricks
for soft, and Peter Cooper for rag
money, and we do not know who to
vote for" You might as well stay at
home and attend to your daily vo-
if you have any, and if you
have not then help your neighbor at
tend to his, for it is as certain as the
sun rises in the East and sets in the
West that we intend for Rutherford
B. Hayes to go to the White House
and to stay there for eight years, if
he wants to.


Mr.. Editor, / am already too te-
dious. You will please publish this
if you think it worth publishing, and
l will finish my letter next week.
am, as l ever have been, true Re-
publican. Hurrah for Hayes and



G. w. C.
Year: 1876

Mr.. EDIroR:-Thinking perhaps
that in all probability something
might happen to me that would not
be here in 1876, L would take the
present opportunity of writing you a
few lines to let the people of old Gal
liza, and surrounding country know
how the Republicans of this neigh
borhood are rejoicing over the nOmi-
nation of R. B. Hayes for President,
and HI. A. Wheeler for Vice Presi-
dent. We think that a better choice
could not be made, although our
friend Democrats think that it is q
poor choice, that Hayes does not
know enough to be president of these
U. S. of America. Wonderful in
deed! They think that it will take
some such man as Sam Tilden. Oh,
how dreadful! To tell you the truth
of the whole thing, they are as sick
in this neighborhood as young pup
pies that have taken too much milk
from their mothers pap, they have
been looking so bad that it really
makes true, honest and tender
hearted Republican feel sorry for
them their dear party have left them
and hey are calling upon the rocks
and hills to fall on them and hide
them from the face of the one who
will set in the chair at the White
House after the 4th Of March next.
l thought last fall we would have to
bury some of them, they looked SO
sick out of their eyes, but they are
still staggering around saying, "what
on earth are they going to do with
us?"


I will tell you, Mr.. Democrat, we
are going to try to make men of you,
if you will not of yourselves.


Well, they say that "we have been
misled by our head leader" Well,
we know you have, have we not told
You time and again that anything,
lord, so that we get the honor, If we
can not get greenback man then we
will be satisfied with hard-money
man." You see how they are drag
ging you round by the nose.


Sam. Tilden for the East and Hen
bricks for the West is the way it
stands now, boys; it can not be
helped, the dog is dead, you may as
well vote for Hendricks for rag-mon-
ey, and then vote for Hayes, for
hard-money, and you see by this
means you can sort O. mix the thing,
and have both men in the West.
"No, can not vote for Hayes" Why,
boys? "Well, he was in the army,
Year: 1876

riot is unknown, while 10000 people


can assemble in its most fashionable


park to hear q Cardinal demand from


Parliament amid applause, what


every man Of the 10000 knows will


be refused? We may talk of the gas


and water as imperfect and so they


are, but where else can every body


get them for payment, or what stops


the House of Commons from making


both as perfect as sanitary reformers


care to ask? Is Paris so well water


ed or Berlin so well supplied with


light? Certainly the absence of a


municipality does not prevent good


water and gas, for that body would


be cOerced by the great ''interests"


more stringently than Parliament is,


for in Parliament the ''interests' can


not control the House of Lords. Pa


wing and lighting, and the like,


might be improved, but where else


are they at once so good and so uni


versal, and what are paving and
compared with social order
stringently preserved without the
bayonent and the saber? As for
taxation, it is bad enough in some
parishes, and in all its incidence is
perhaps unscientific, but head for
head the taxation of London is nota
fourth that of Paris or New York,
while wealth for wealth, it is proba-
bly, not a sixth, and it's average posi-
tive amount is not seventeen per cent.
on rental. The incidence of the tax
alton is harsh, but does any body
propose, even Lord Elcho or Mr..
Lowe, to intrust any Council what
ever, except the House of Commons,
with the correction of the incidence
of London taxationi We think VIC
see the Duke of Westminster's face,
or Lord Overstone's, or that of any
member of Parliament, when inform
ed that Municipal Council, elected
by manhood suffrage, is
in future to adjust the taxation of
London according to the comparative
means of the taxpayers. The truth
is that London has secured, in a very
strange and almost accidental way,
the essential conditions of good
goyernment-security, freedom, light
taxation and the constant attention
Of the ablest politicians in the King
iom. and prudent men will not light
y sanction any change which may
andanger that condition of affairs.
Imagine a municipality with the
power of putting on an OctrOj, and
London consequently unfed for forty
eight hours!