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Year: 1873

HALIFAX, September l4-Additional
particulars Of the recent disastrous gale
are being received. A Brooklyn schoon-
er went down of Madaglen island. All
on board twelve in number) were lost.
The bodies Of the officers and crew OF the
brig Ellen were found in a Lorick coal
laden schooner, and FIVE other persons
on board went down off DEVILS island
The ship Scotia, laden with pine, is
ashore at Port Rich, and the wreckers
are apparently endeavoring 10 do all
damage possible. They threaten to kill
the crew Of the government schooner
guarding TIE vessel. Bodies are washed
no daily on the beach
Year: 1873

The Radical reform administration,
which was installed in power in New
York city last spring, seems to have
been anything but a success in reducing
the debt Of that city. On the contrary
the New York World saws, that under
the so-ealled reform government the
debt is increasing at an alarming rate,
The eomptroller's monthly statements
exhibit the steady growth Of the debt.
as follOWs:
Year: 1873

We have taken some pains during the
past week to ascertain the sentiments Of
the Conservative press of the State on
/ the subject of nominating ticket at the
Meridian convention, with the follow
! ing result:
Year: 1873

Remarkable and Racy Breach of Promise
Cass-The Fas. Life Of a School Girl and Her
Epistolary Communications with Gay
Gambler-Ihe Outfit for Board


ing School Girl and How


She Admitted the Gambler.
Year: 1873

Yesterday in the United States District Court
In the matter OF Christian Kolle, a bankrupt, a
motion was made on the part OF creditor, who
had obtained Judgment against the assignee In
bankruptcy, to compel the receiver to pay the
Judgment recovered against the assignee. Judge
Blatchford said that such motion was entirely
irregular and ought not to have been made. 1t
was like asking one man to pay the debts OF
another. The motion was denied.


motion was made before Judge Blatchford yes
terday in the United States Circuit Court by coun-
Sci on the part OF Mr.. Abraham s. Hewitt, receiver
OF the New York, Oswego and Midland Railway
Company, to the effect that Mr. Hewtt's power as
such receiver be extended, in order that he may be
able to pay the wages OF the laborers employed
upon the road from January. instead of from june
1873. Counsel also moved for modification OF the
lease or the New Jersey and Midland Railway
Company, so to leave the upper line OF the road
under the control OF the receiver. The trains are
now running to this city over the Montclair Rail-
road. Decision OF the Court reserved.


Judge Fancher, In Supreme Court. Chambers,
has permitted the receiver or the Hercules Life In
surance Company to institute a friendly suit in
which to determine whether the matured policies
Of the company shall have preference IN payment
out of the assets. The particulars Of the case were
published in yesterdays HERALD.


The same Judge yesterday gave decision In the
matter OF the New York Floating Dry Dock Com
pany, Wherein as Will be remembered the Harbor
Masters assumed right to remove the dock. In
his decision Judge Fancher enjoins the Harbor
Masters from removing the dock until the deter
mination OF the questions involved by the suit.


Judgment was entered yesterday in the Superior
Court for $79O2 AS in favor OF Charles Guidot for
paving First avenue A judgment was awarded in
June last to the contractor for S57373 II Tor
paving Church street, and one for $5S,6o6 IS for
paving South Fifth avenue. An additional expense
Of $14,129 80 has been entaied on the city by the
Comptroller through disputing these claims.
Year: 1873

Tomorrow the Mutual and Philadelphia clubs
play on the Union grounds.


The Chelseas play the Nassaus on Prospect Park
Parade grounds total ten TO four runs. Mat
thews' pitching was altogether too much for the
Centennial boys while the Gothamites experienced
little difficulty in puhishing Mcbride. Durng the
game some remarkably nne fielding was done by
players on each side. A running catch by Gedney
OF very long hit ball to left field was particularly
noteworthy.


The Nameless and Powhattan clubs play on the
Prospect Park grounds tomorrow afternoon.
Year: 1873

A Well-Earned Victory for the Mutuals.


The eighth game Of the championship series be-
tween the Mutual and Athletic clubs was contested
on the Union Grounds yesterday afternoon in the
presence OF about 1000 spectators. From the first
the New Workers took the lead and maintained 1t
to the Close coming in the winners by several fine
stops at short STOP and got in the finest hit Of the
day-a long three-baser to the left-centre.


The following is the score -
Year: 1873

The particulars OF the controversy between two
sections OF the First Baptist church OF Harlem
were fully given in the HERALD when the matter
was first brought into Court several months since


Judge Sedgwick has decided not to grant the in
junction asked for, on the ground that the papers
fail to show who are really trustees de Jncto. He
also refuses 70 Interfere on the further ground
Year: 1873

MARROW EscApE-Last Thursday, while a.
Lipsett, proprietor of the Orleans Hotel IN this
place, was handling pistol it accidentally went
off the ball passing through the partition wall,
and barely grazing the threat Of his wife, who
was sitting in the dining room at work, in COM
pany with another lady.
Year: 1873

AAurrnS MrsE.--We learn that it is the inten-
ton of the owners of this mine to erect steam
hosting works in the place Of those now used,


as III addition to the damage the present works
sustained by thefiYe, as mentioned by us two
weeks ago, they were getting old and worn.
The mine is down some $50 feet, with prospect
of being permanent and rich, and steam hoist
ing will not alone be commendable improve
ment, but will facilitate the working OF the mine.
Year: 1873

New MEAT MARKEr-Hv referring to our new
advertisements it will be seen that honman q
Eddy have opened their new mcat marKe. IN
Auburn, and that they are now prepared ~
furnish their customers with good meats al
moderate prices. Though we have one near
market ptown, this is not stsrted with view
of running opposition in any way, but as
purely business enterprise, for the purpose OF
killing and selling meat to tho people of Auburn
at fair, living prices; and with this view they
ask, and have right to expect, fair portion o. f
the patronage.
Year: 1873

The committee desire to state that the govern,
ment Of the schools since they were transferred
to the city school buildings has been very good
indeed, and in confirmation of this assertion we
may state that since their commencement, Sep
tember 10Th, not more than one or two cases
have been brought to the knowledge of the
committee indicating want of proper govern
ment, and your committee feel confident that
with judicious management in the future, the
day is not far distant when they can be brought
up to that standard of perfection that will make
them the pride of every good citizen OF the
town.


For the information of the citizens, your
Committee will state that the teachers are now
paid according to merit in the school-roOm and
according to grade of certificate of examiners,
from $50 to $50 per month.


An arrangement has been made by the Com
mittee by which pupils outside the city limits
can avail themselves of the advantage of our
schools by paying from seventy>fve cents to
one dollar per month. We have already had
applications from persons who wish to take
advantage of the offer


Before the city schools were opened, about
800 pupils attended private schools. Nearly as
many still attend these schools and yet the
number admitted to the city schools durin 6 the
present term has been nearly 1,1OQ. Most of
these went to no school prior to Sep. g. 1S7l.


STATEMENT


Of Receipts and Disbursements for City Schools. from
Year: 1873

One day last week a lady residing in
this city wrote to her daughter in
Mobile that on three consecutive nights
she had dreamed that in the yard of
certain house on Manderville street
(and in which she resided upwards of
thirty years ago. there was gold to be
had for the digging thereof. In re-
sponse to her letter the daughter came
hither and made to mere the astonish-
ing statement that she had dreamed the
self-same thing.


With this proof positive before them,
they soon shaped their course of action.
Obtaining from the tenant of the house
the requisite permission the ladies en-
gagged two stalwart diggers of trenches,
procured q magnet, and on Saturday
night last commenced operations, first
having satisfied themselves by the use
of the magnet of the precise spot where
the treasure lay hid. Although they
toiled patiently from II p. M, until 4
a. m., and produced cavity something
like well, no glittering gold greeted
their longing eyes.


In spite of this they were not dis
couraged, but believing that the right
spot was yet to be found, they retired
with determination to return the next
night.


This they did, and choosing another
site, dug away for dear life through the
Silly watches, but with no better res
suit, not the slightest vestige of any
thing like gold offering itself for their
consideration.


Their last failure evidently dampened
their ardor, for they have not since
been heard of in that vicinity.
Orleans Picdyt0ae.
Year: 1873

President Grant sent q message to
Congress urging early legislation by
that body in relation to the regulation
of the judiciary in the Mormon Terri
tory. The reasons he advances for this
change of the law as it at present exists
are stong.


That the Mormons, through their
Territorial Legislature, should endeavor
to impede the course of justice when it
trenched upon the institutions they
have labored to consolidate is not mere
ly consequence to be expected, but
one actually experienced. Owing to
the conflict of laws between the United
States and the Territory, it has been
found hitherto impossible to punish
Mormon for any offence which he may
have committed in what the authorities
deemed the interest of their Church.
The grasp of manlike Brigham Young
upon the fanaticisms of his followers is
enough to consecrate such an offender.
The crime of murder, even, was dressed
in fanatics phrase which yelled its
criminality in garb of heroism. When
man proved obnoxious he was madeto
fit himself for Heaven by blood atone
ment that is, by being assassinated
and then he was said to have "per-
ished in the flesh" The legal difficult
ties lie, first, in the fact that the Jurors
are appointed under Territorial law,
and hence the Mormons can pack any
jury to save friend. They have the
matter so much in their hands that they
san cause a man to be acquitted, no
matter what the evidence or the crime.
The other is an assumption by the Ter
ritorial Probate Court of the right to
grant writs of habeas corpus for the re-
lease of prisoners held under the laws
of the United States. If remedying
these things, as the President suggests,
would clearly open the way to the abo-
lition of polygamy it would be indeed a
good thing but it mustbe remembered
that these legal enactments will only
make the conviction of criminals posi-
BILE, and not touch directly such an
abuse as polygamy. Congress should,
however, do something. We cannot
afford to allow anything approaching to
Mormon war to break forth. Such n
war could only have one ending-name-
ly, the utter desolation of Utah and the
destruction of much valuable life-even
Mormon life. In pity to the poor fa-
natics who might shoulder musket at
the call of Brigham Young, we would
save them from such a fate, and Con-
gress in treating tho matter, while max
ing law invincible in Utah, should avoid
any necessity of an appeal to arms.--N
Y Pn9oeg.
Year: 1873

They are having rat plague in sew
eral of the German provinces. The
fields of clover and COLA are said to be
devastated by the vermin, and when
arsenic and phosphorus pills have been
scattered to destroy them, hares and
other game have been poisoned, and
great damage done. Under these cir
cumstances device has been brought
into play which, even as applied to rats,
seems too horrible to employ. A mix
ture Of plaster-dust and dry wheat is
mixed with oil OF aniseed, and put in
an earthenware saucer; and near by
plenty of water is placed. The rats
eagerly devour the mixture, and are
straightway seized with tormenting
thirst they then, of course, greedily
swallow water. Upon this the plaster
" "sets, and becomes solid in their in
sides, and thus, more or less speedily,
the poor creatures die in agony,
Year: 1873

The following extracts from letter
written by Miss Lucy A. Prokins, the
teacher of the haunted school-house
in Newburyport, Mass, have got into
print. 1t was written in reply to in
quiries concerning an account of the
affair published in q Boston newspaper:


"The account you send me is true,
with a few exceptions. When / first
saw the boy, he was neatly attired in a
brown suit of clothes, trimmed with
braid and buttons of the same color.


When [ reached forward to grasp him,
he seemed not like the boy, but vapory,
or, as I can only describe it, like thin
cloud scudding across the room. Still
he seemed to have the boy form. Re
ports from some of the boston papers
say tainted. Such is not the case. l
knew where 1 was and what I was about
just as well as I know [ am writing.
y One day I sent 0 boy out to
hang up the brushes, &c. He was out
about five minutes. After he had taken
his seat three raps came on the door
of the room where the brushes were
hung He said, "Miss Perkins, can [
go out and see who's there? {? 1 told
him, yes, and leave school-room door
open He did so, and when he opened
the brush-room door, q sat where. could
see all this), every one of the brushes,
both long and short-handled, came fall
ing off the nails where they were hung /;
some struck him in the face, some on
the shoulders, and the broom directly
on the top Of his head. The dust-pan,
hanging on q nail at some distance
above the brushes, came tumbling
down to the floor with q vengeance. It
then stood on its handle, then on the
bottom edge, and continued on so till
it entered the school-room, and then it
was placed as nicely against the parti-
ton as if [ had done it myself. Just
as soon as I'd raise the ventilator, q
black ball, like cannon ball, would be-
gin to roll around the attic, and make
such noise | would be obliged to
lower the ventilator. One day the room
was as quite as it could possibly be,
and all at once some one in the attic
called out Dadie Pikep Dadie thought
I spoke, and said; 'What'm 2 L said
to him, Can you say your lesson 2
Since the boy affair took place, the at
tic has been fastened up. Locks and
keys are of no use, however, for there
is as much walking upstairs, and some
times the hammering and mailing. Once
in q while sounds as of some one walk
ing will come down the attic way, go
across the entry, and open the outside
door, and be gone perhaps ten minutes /;
after it is quiet again, the door will
open, and he, she or it will go upstairs.


x I am not spiritualist never
attended q sitting, in fact, never had
Year: 1873

The story is told of o man in Georgia
who lived nine days with his throat
cut. The man was found in cabin on
the bank of the Savannah River, and is
described as wretched-looking object.
From one ear to the other almost ex-
tended a wound across his throat. In
attempting to talk his voice appeared to
issue from the cut in the windpipe in
stead of from his lips, and it was with
the utmost difficulty that we could I'M
derstand what he said at all. He stated
that his name was Theobold Fahre that
he was a native of Kehl in Baden, from
which place he emigrated to the United
States four years ago. Arriving in New
York he took up his residence in that
city, where he obtained employment as
a baker, that being his trade. A short
time ago he went from New York to
Charleston, by sea, and thence came to
Augusta via the South Carolina Rail
road. Upon his arrival in Augusta,
finding that he could not obtain employ
ment as a baker, he determined, he
said, to go to Tennessee, and according
ly started out on the journey, on foot,
about nine days ago. He mistook the
direction, however, and late in the even
ing of the day on which he set out,
found himself on the bank of the Sa-
vannah River, about five miles from the
city. He wandered on a short distance,
having lost his way, and being several
times up to his knees in water, when, as
he stated to us, he was suddenly as
saulted by two men, who knocked him
down and cut his throat. He said that
they then left him, and that he rose up
and walked on about three miles, to the
cabin in which he was afterward found.
Here he remained, utterly without
nourishment except water, until dis
covered last Friday. He found some
corn, which he attempted to eat, but it
came out of the wound in his neck.
When we saw him his feet were swollen
to great extent. He had on his per-
son, when carried to the hospital, sum
of money, which he gave to one of the
Sisters of Mercy in charge of the insti-
tuition, requesting her to keep it until
his recovery. He says that he has no
family. He is a man of apparently
about forty years of age, and is of large
build, with brown hair and light whis-
karc
Year: 1873

down. Since then they had struggled
ON. Eben had sank gradually and
surely beneath the fell disease, and they
had been reduced by degrees unto this
present.


"And only yesterday" said DR.. Tap
ley, Il found them. thought, Arthur,
you would blame me if 1 did not give
you a share in this work"


There was a strange meaning in the
expression of this last sentence, and
only Arthur understood it. He under
stood it fully, and accepted itg gratefully.
His heart was in healthy tune now, and
its throbbings were strong and true.
He knew exactly why the doctor had
brought him, and he accepted the situ-
alton.


"Take heart" he said, holding again
the woman's hand. 81 will do all for
you that can be done"


And he spoke cheering words to
Eben and he went away, promising to
come again on the morrow.


On the morrow Arthur Latour visited
the place without the doctor, and on
this occasion he ventured to speak of
Ellen Wilton, the sunny-faced maiden
whom he had met at their cot in the
happier times.


"My sweet cousin-bless her r' re-
turned Mrs. Burroughs. "She does
not know of this. l have not dared to
write. Iwould not bring her here, and
L would not beg of her father"


Arthur provided every comfort pos
sible; but there could be no earthly
help for Eben Burroughs. In few
short days he sank into the sleep that
knows no earthly waking, and when the
mortal remains had been borne to rest
in the old village church-yard by the
river, Arthur removed the widow and
her two children to q comfortable house
in respectable portion of the city.


And then Sarah Burroughs wrote to her
cousin Ellen, and asked her to come
and see her. And Ellen came-a bright,
buoyant, happy girl, lqrge-hearted and
lovely-and her presence was like sun
shine in the shadowed home.


And Arthur met her there ; and when
she knew what he had done for her kim
dred she blessed him in her heart, and
blessed him in word.


Only a month had passed from the
day on which DR.. Tapley found Arthur
Latour dying of inanition. and yet what
a change had been wrought. Under the
influence of this blessed labor for the
suffering ones his heart had regained
its pristine strength and vigor, and the
world looked once more bright and
promising. He needed but one thing
more to insure his happiness for the
coming time and one evening he sta
ted his need to Ellen Wilton.


" 1t is for you to say" he concluded,
"whether my heart-cure shall be COM
plete, and my life be joyous from this
time forth. :"


And she rested her head upon his
shoulder, and spoke to him the word of
promise. Ledger.
Year: 1873

LdIts
Under the maple tree lying supine,
Timing the beat of pendulum vine,
Swinging tho Delawares turning to wine
Gazing straight upward mile in the blue,
Watching cloud that has nothing to do,
Wishing deed for an acre or two.
Nothing TO do but come down in the rain,
Born of the mist unto heaven again,
Nothing to SOW, and no reaping of grain.
Watching bee in his pollen pantheon
Droning him home in the crysolte noon,
Ghost of drummer boy drumming tune.
Watching jay on a cherry tree nigh.
Stranger to love with his cruel bright eye
What Of that jacket as blue as the sky
splashing his crest with the chery's red blood,
Jauntest robber that ranges the wood,
Nothing will name him but blue Robin Hood
Hearing bird with her English all right,
Calling somebody from morning till night
Calling, forever tho mystic Bob White"
Woman's own cousin since Adam began,
Beautiful voice that is wanting a man,
Quail in Golf Of the time of Queen Ann!
Counting the leaves as the drift from the rose,
Strewing with fragrance my place of repose,
Dying All! no; only changing its clothes.
Watching spider pay out her last line,
Working Euclid's geometry fine,
Web is all woven and weaver will dine
Watching fly laze along to its doom,
Silken the meshes, but death to the loom,
Shrouded and eaten. but never tomb!
Sparrow a-drowse on limb overhead
Opens an eye when the spider is fed,
Opens bill-and the spider is dead.
Watching butterfly slowly unfold
Crowning poet with blossoms of gold,
Strange as the rod that did blossom Of old,
Hinged on life is the duplicate page,
Lettered in light by wiser than sage,
Lasting summer and read for an age!
Burst from the bounds for th at coffin was thine
Tenantless thing where the sycamores shine.
Riven and rent and the worm is divine.
Born from the dust and its veriest slave,
Hail to the herald direct from the grave.
Pinion Of beauty resplendently wave
Bringing from far what no angel could say,
Something Of them who have vanished away,
Let me alone on this amethyst day.
Rent is the chrysalis hid in the sod.
All the drear tenantry dwelling abroad,
Gone through the gate of the glory of God
Year: 1873

David Hanlon, an old man of seventy
three years of age, was tried in New
York city for felonious assault and bat
terry. The provocation was shown,
however, to have been very great. The
prisoner was canaller," working on
a barge with three ether men, and on
the Goth of July last was sleeping on
the boat with his mouth wide open,
when one of the men suggested that it
would be good joke to put a quid of
tobacco between the old mans jaws.
Daniel Reardon, the complainant, was
the only man on the boat that chewed,
and furnished the quid for another man
to use in the manner proposed. The
old man woke up, spit out the filthy
morsel that had been placed between
his teeth, and was transported with
rage at the insult. Soon after he went
ashore and procured cart rung, and,
under the impression that the tobacco
must have been Reardon's work, hit
him on the head and shoulder so Sc
verely that he was in the hospital for
ten days afterwards. The jury were
compelled to find Hanlon guilty but
the Court, in consideration of the age
of the prisoner and the grossness of the
insult, inflicted penalty of only ten
days in the city prison.
Year: 1873

A Detroit tenant harrows the soul of
his landlord by posting a smallpox
sign on his door, and then when the
latter calls for the rent, inviting him to
come into the house and get It. The
landlord has appealed to the police to
clear out the house, but they declined
tle service.
Year: 1873

1t must be admitted we take it, says
a New York paper, that not day passes
over New York or vicinity without its
murder. The brutality, the reckless
ness, the utter disregard for human life
exhibited in the metropolis have swept
the contagion Of crime to the villages
Ground us,