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Year: 1876

Last night, about half past l2 o'clock,
as Officers John Holland and Kingler
were patrolling their beat in the Buck
town" district they encountered, near
the corner Of Sixth and Culyert streets,
three noisy men who came down the
hill, proceeding eastward. They expos.
tulated with the drunken rowdies, and
ordered them to be quiet, but as the fel-
lows became more boisterous, and pro
posed TO fight, the officers determined on
an arrest. Holland seized one man and
started with him up the hill towards
broadway for the station house King
Ter had considerable scufflng with his
prisoner, and fell behind. The third
party ran away. Holland was about half
a square ahead Of Kingler. He was
walking along with his prisoner, holding
him by the arm, and carried his mace, a
heavy weapon. under, his arm on the op-
pOsite side. The fellow who had escaped,
followed up. and sneaking behind Hol-
land, snatched the mace from under the
officers arm and dealt him a heavy blow
on the head which knocked him down
Then the two rufiians. with the club and
bowlders, pounded the PROSTATE officer
over the head


People were attracted to the place and
their cries brought up Klingler, who let
his prisoner go. After beating Holland.
the roughs fed


Holland was picked up, and found
bleeding and badly hurt Doctor Dun
lap was at once summoned The officer
was found to have a long. CHASTITY cut in
the back part of his head, another on
his forehead, all the teeth in the right
side of his mouth were knocked out, and
his left jawbo was splintered IN two
places.


Holland was carried to his home on
the corner Of Broadway and Harrison
street. He is terribly beaten, and his in
juries, the surgeon thought, may prove
total. At any rate, if life is spared. he
will be laid up for a long time.


Last fall he was set upon in a similar
manner and brutally beaten, though by
no means so badly hurt as he was last
night. Then he was endeavoring to dis
perse a mob engaged in stoning a Wal
nut Hills street car. At that time his
life was despaired OF, but his remarkably
strong physical constitution brought him
through, and he was able to resume duty
in few weeks.


The roughs met last night were not
recognized by the officers, but from the
direction in which they were going it is
supposed they belong to the Eighth
street or Sixth street hill gang. No ar
rest had as yet been made at an early
hour this morning.-lCincin Com
mercial
Year: 1876

Between Z and 8 o'clock Sunday even
ing, a fatal shooting Attain took place
near Dublin, this county, in which a man
named Peter Connolly was shot by a
man named John G. Shank. The par
ticulars Of the case, as near as can be as
certained, are as follows:


Shank and Connolly were employed on
section thirteen of the Columbus and To
ledo Railroad, the former in the capaci-
ty Of blacksmith, and the latter as team
ster. They got some whisky at Dublin,
which was drank by party of men at
one Of the boarding houses during the
afternoon of Sunday. About the time
above stated the principals in the affair
and some others started along down the
road toward another boarding house,
Shank and Connolly being ahead. When
first observed they were quarreling
about something-those who were fol-
lowing behind did not know what. Two
Of the party named Manning and Quill.
man came up and endeayored to have
the matter settled. After some parley
Shank is reported to have extended his
hand to Connolly and desired to make
the matter up and be friends again. To
this Connolly is said to have replied: "I'll
never shake hands with a man who has
drawn a revolver on me"


Shank says that he was drunk and
does not know what was said or done
and the witnesses not having seen the
| first part of the difficulty, do not know
of course, whether a revolver had been
| drawn or not


After Connolly had made the reply
above stated, Shank went over to the
other side OF the road and told Connolly
to keep the side he was on, and if h'
| (Connelly) came over where he (Shank


was, he would blow his brains out. Th'
witnesses say that Connolly Immediately


walked over to where Shank was stand


ing and struck him. They then clinch


ed and Connolly being the larger maj


soon got the better of Shank. Shanl


endeavored to extricate himself iron
Connelly's grip, and being unable to d
Year: 1876

Our neighboring city of cheese is in


sack cloth and ashes. Her idol has been


cast down into tho dust and she will not


be comforted. Some time ago. a number


Of her prominent citizens dubbed to-
gether and secured the versatile i. Til
ton, to deliver his eloquent and soul
stirring lecture at that place. There was
some opposition on the part Of few, but
a majority OF the citizens believed him to
be an innocent and much abused. man,
and were bound to show their apprecia
ton Of him. He was engaged for Friday
Year: 1876

and all public speakers who have been greatly
embarrassed by their Teeth dropping at the
most inopportune times, can now get a set OF
Teeth which will remain firmly in place under
all circumstances.
Year: 1876

AMONGST the contributions TO the CEN
tennlal is a peculiarly shaped canoe,
fashioned by the Indians of Vancouver's
Island, on the extreme northwestern
coast 1t was placed in the United
otates government building. Although
measuring sixty feet in length, and eight
in breadth not joint is discernible in
the entire boat. The government Off
cials promise that a remarkable specimen
of this peculiar class will soon be exhib-
ltsd in totem post from Cape Flattery.
1t is to measure forty-6ve feet in height
and contain various forms, combining
frogs, beavers and bears, with human
forms in such delightful postures, as to
rival the ugly totem post already set up
on the south side of the government
building.
Year: 1876

The law is not always iniallible.
Charles and Mary Fisher were sentenced
60 Sing Sing last November, the former
for seven and the latter for four years,
for an odense which the prosecution has
now become satisfied they did not com
init. The opponents of circumstantial
evidence, however, can expect no com
fort from the case for the defendants
were convicted upon direct and positive
testimony. They have been pardoned
by the governor; but there is no state
mcnt anywhere that they will be COM
pensated by the great state of New
York Tor the injury and injustice done
them.
Year: 1876

LIEUTENANT CAMERON, in his recent
travels in Central Africa, came TO a
country where the iron trade was in q
iiourishing condition, there being many
iounderies about fifty feet long by thirty
feet wide, where they frequently got one
hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds
of metal in a single smelling. Here he
saw pieces of iron worked simply by the
hammer and nodded into various shapes
including the human form, as completely
finished as if manipulated by the most
skilliul English artisan.
Year: 1876

Everybody is complaining OF the apathy
of the politicians and the general dulness Of
the campaign. In Indiana and Ohio, we
are told. the Republican National Committee
is scarcely turning its hand over to secure a
party victory that would settle the Presiden-
tial contest in advance. The democrats are
accused of supinene $ in this State. whose
electoral vote is admittedly necessary to that
side, at least II the democracy is to succeed
in the nation. Their State ticket is wander


ing about, on unnatural object. withou: u
head and with IN ill-balanced and weak
body, although we are within two months of
the Presidential election. There are no log
cabin and hard cider meetings, no Wide
Awake or Little Giant nothing,
in fact, to indicate that two great parties are
engaged in struggle for the enormous
patronage and tempting pickings Of the
national government for the next four years.
Probably the principal cause Of this appar-
ent indifference is the lack of magnetism in
the candidates Very few people know any
thing about Hayes. and very few people say
anything about Tiiden. Neither candi-
date is what is called n popular
MAJ. The republicans might have warmed
toward Blaine, ind the democrats toward
Seymour or Bayard.- As it is the parties
vote for ARurshsads. put up to represent
Year: 1876

THE GENEVA Cross. The report that a
member Of the Red Cross Society had been
killed by the Turkish soldiers and the arm
on which he wore his badge cut off will
scarcely surprise those who remember that
the Turks have no reason to regard this
emblem with peculiar favor. Between the
armies of civilized nations these Red Gross
men have gone with impunity, indifferent
in the discharge of their ambulance duty
whether they fell into the hands Of one side
or the other. from a confidence that their
emblem and their function commended
them alike to the good will of every side.
But all that implied the Christianity of the
armies. Now they fall into the hands Of a
foe who sees in the cross not sign Of good
will and charitable duty, but the chosen
emblem of oil that he is taught 70 hate. L.
might be we'll fo- members of the society
to put on their arms small copy Of the
British standard as the only thing in the
world the Turks are likely to respect.
Year: 1876




States is shown by the help Of some very
interesting figures given by Mr.. Wells. The
tendency Of all our laws affecting industry,
since 1860, has been 20 draw population from
agriculture to manufactures. We believe
Mr.. Wells is the first to point out how great
has been this change. He shows that If we
apply the rates Of increase in our chief agri-
cultural products between 1850 and 1860, to
the period between 1860 and 1870. and then
compare the result with the actual product
by census we shall find that we produce
actually less corn by twenty-six per cent,
less tobacco by twenty-seven per cent, less
pork by thirty-two per cent, less butter by
twenty nine per cent, less cotton by seventy
four per cent, according to Mr Wells,
than we should have produced had We
gone on at the previous rate OF in
crease. During lS50-ls60 improved land
increased forty-fo.r per cent in lS60-lS7o
only sixteen per cent. and we had in 1870
actually nine hundred thousand fewer neat
cattle, eight millions fewer swine and nine
hundred thousand fewer working oxen than
in 1850, with falling off also in the number
Of horses and mules. That is to say, large
part of our agricultural population had been
drawn off by the force and tendency of laws
largely.


The result is shown in the increase Of
manufactured produc:s-ffty-two per cent
in the period Of 1860 -1S70-with an increase
Of population Of only twenty-three per cent
Not only did more people go to manufactur-
ing, but their capacity to produce in this
direction was largely increased by new and
ingenious labor-sav;ng machinery. Thus in
1860 nine thousand persons in Cincinnati
engaged in manufacturing produced On aver
age value Of one thousand i've hundred dol
lars per head, but double the number in
produced a value of two thousand three
hundred dollars per head. Three men
can now produce as many stoves as six
in 1860. In dressing yarn one man and
boy now do the work which eight
men did in 1860. Similar results have
been obtained in great many branches
of manufacture. Unskilful legislation the
result Of ignorance and carelessness in our
rulers, has first impelled more men to manu-
featuring industries our native inventive
skill has at the same time greatly increased
the productive power of these hands, and
then our laws have disabled us from selling
the largely increased surplus product
abroad, where alone, of course, surplus can
be sold.


We should say, therefore, that this coun-
try, differently from others, suffers now
mainly from plethora of products that we
are too rich, rather than poor and that if we
could have sound currency and sufficiently
liberal revenue laws and thus revive our
foreign trade, and sell our surplus products,
our taxes, our war losses and our losses from
fires and bad investments would not seri-
ously trouble u.s.
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR TuDKNs ADDRESS to the Confer
ence of Charities at Saratoga yesterday was
one of those philosophical efforts with which
he sometimes surprises the commu unity. II
is amusing, perhaps, to hear a Presidential
candidate trenching upon the domains of
biology in the very heat Of the canvass; but
Governor Tilden does well in forgetting for
. time the requirements of the campaign by
suggesting the enforcement of scientific
methods in the treatment of pauperism, in
sanity and crime.
Year: 1876

Yesterday the area Of high pressure now
central over the lakes advanced q short dis
tance to the eastward, and, as q consequence,
We experienced clear. cool weather, with
partial cloudiness at intervals during the
day and brisk winds from the northwest
ward. 1t was noticeable that the light
clouds became speedily absorbed by the
dense dry atmosphere, and toward evening,
when the temperature fell. they disappeared
altogether. Southwest of and closely follow
ing the area of high pressure is decided
depression, which is central in the Lower
Missouri Valley and in which the barometer
has fallen below 20. 60 inches. The curva-
lures Of the isobars of this area show that its
line Of advance will be southwark fthe lake
region, and that it will reach the Allegheny
Mountains near Pittsburg and 80 bring US
storm Of considerable severity. Its arrival
at New York may be looked for by
Thursday or Friday next but many
causes combine to render its prog
ress eastward somewhat uncertain. The
wind will shift from northwest to north and
northeast in the meantime and finally to the
eastward. with a rising temperature, as the
storm draws near us.


Rains have occurred at all points in front
Of the low area from Fort Sully in Dakota to
St Louis, Mo-, and extending eastward as
far as Grand Haven, Mich. Brisk easterly
winds have also prevailed along this front.
especially in its northern portion. In the
Gulf of Mexico the indications of disturb
ance continue to present themselves, and
we may regard the existence Of storm GEN.
tire moving westward through the Caribbean
Sea as certain. In the extreme northeast
the area of low barometer still remains
on the Nova Scotia coast, but will soon
move into the ocean before the pressure Of
the high barometric area that follows it. The
weather in New York to-day will be slightly
warmer, with slightly increasing cloudiness
and northwesterly to northerly winds.
Year: 1876

their organizations. and not for admired
leaders whose names fire the hearts Of their
followers. And the reason for the heaviness
OF the cam paign may be found in the fact
that politicians have learned the value of
concentrating their efforts on practical work
at the polls, and are disinclined to waste
them on blue fire displays. Money that
used to be expended on torchlights and fire.
works is now shrewdly put where it will do
the most good. When we hear that Tilden
is willing to spend fortune in organization,
and that the republican millionnaires. Nor
gan and Rogers. are prepared to carry the
State at any cost, we may calculate that,
however liberal the aspirants for Office may
be, they will none Of them cast their money
recklessly into the streets The work done
by the candidates and the committees does
not, nowadays, show itself, as Zach Chan
dler says, until after the ballots are counted
Year: 1876

COMMISSIONER FOWLER, of the Brooklyn
Board of City Works. was suspended from
office yesterday by Mayor Schroeder, it is
said, for failing to com plete the Hampstead
storage reservoir. Municipal matters in
Brooklyn are always so mysterious that it is
not surprising the reasons for this action
have not been disclosed, but it is likely that
political considerations affect the affair on
both sides
Year: 1876

get at the facts that surround and explain this
terrible affair. If the investigation can in
any degree impress the necessity of caution
OF those who use nitro-glycerine, while We
must regret the sad deaths at He'll Gate we
will feel that the possibility of such an oc-
currence in the future will be decreased.
Year: 1876

BRooKLYN's willow FEVER CASE has been
settled in the approved Brooklyn fashion.
Everybody has been exonerated and every
body is gratifed at the result. Hereafter it
would be well for physicians to call yell
low fever simply yellow fever. and then
ing Of the death certificate
Year: 1876

TIE SIGNS OF REvIvrNG TRApR.-It will
be seen from the reports which we print
this morning that our merchants are hopeful
for the future. business has been depressed
so long that these CLEANS of hope will give
great comfort everywhere
Year: 1876

The ELECTION RETURNS from Vermont are
meagre, but as far as they have been re-
ccived they indicate large republican gains
There is heavy vote on both sides. but from
present indications the preponderance Of
gain is largely with the republicans. This
election is only important as showing the
tendencies of the Presidential campaign.
Year: 1876

THE Practice AT CREEDMooR for the inter-
national rife match continues with varying
fortunes The contest possesses an interest
which no rifle match ever before possessed,
and it will not abate until it is known which
OF the teams is to carry off the honors of the
occasion.
Year: 1876

The MADRID GOVERNMENT is making
foolish blunder in suppressing all outward
Indications Of the existence of Protestant So
cieties in Spain. These are likely to do harm
only in their suppression.
Year: 1876

This gentleman, whose advertisement
appears In another column Of this paper,
IL one Of the most popular and energetic
merchants OF our city, and we take
pleasure In recommending him to our
friends and the public In general. His
stock OF stationery comprises goods OF
the most select and extensive character
and the supplies are kept fresh by steady
shipments. Mr.. Sauve also pays special
attention to all orders for printing and
binding, and will execute all work en-
trusted to him ut the very lowest rates,
and in the most workman-like manner
and style.
Year: 1876

There was man who had a clock
His name was Mathew Mears-
He wound it regular every night
For nearly twenty years.
At last his precious time-piece proved
An eight-day clock to be,
And madder man than Mr.. Mears
You would not wish to see.
Year: 1876

A Binghamton man is suing for divorce
from bis wife on the plea that she has a glass
eye that is always open nights, and the ''aspect
makes him nervous He coaxed her to close
it with red sealing-wax, but that only increased
forr
Year: 1876

Andreaos BGzar:-The good old days are dead
and gone; the rich coloring has faded out of
the warp.and woof of the past, and yet we re-
joice that it is still true that pretty woman
cannot ride by her lovers side through tunnel
without emerging in hat that looks as if it
had been struck by lightning
Year: 1876

The frightened Republicans, says the
Sun, are pretending that there is nothing
serious to them in the loss of Indiana.
With chattering teeth they tell us that
they never cared much for Indiana, and
can get along just about as well without
,t.


If this be true, why, did they send
thither scores Of their ablest stump speak
ers from all parts of the country, and pour
in all the money they could screw out of
the officeholders or beg from their mil
lionaires? Was it for the mere fun of the
thing? l'.-'
Year: 1876

WADE HAMPToN's PLEA FOR PEACE


HOW HE PROPOSES TO WIN.


AUGUSTA, Ca, October 21.-General
Hampton in speech at Aiken last nigh
told the people to offer no resistance to ar
rests, but to submit quietly to everything.
If United States soldiers are ordered to
fire upon the people, the latter must not
resist, but bare their breasts and be will
ling to die for the good of their country.
The people are determined upon peaceful
victory, and must give no pretext to their
enemies to find the slightess grounds for
the charges made.
Year: 1876

There are over one million oftpeopte
out of employment in..the United States
ts-day. That's what Radical robbery
and misrule have brought the country to.
Is it not time that we had change?.
Year: 1876

BY vote of 22 10 tho Common Council
has explicitly pronounced ngoinst tho roten-
tion OF Police Superintendent HroKEr in his
present position, and the vote in tho Council
Ia doubtless an accurate roaex of tho desire
throughout tho community for ohango in
tho management Of the Police Department.
An evidence Of this was brought to tho
notice Of Mayor HEATH yesterday by tho
visit Of number Of prominent gontlo-
men bearing nnmorously- -signod petitions
for Mr.. H1cKEY's removal, and 1t Is to bo re-
GREETED thht tho Mayor did not think proper
to accord to his visitors tho courtesy Of n
civil answer to tiaolr request. Aa tho caso
now stands, tho Mayor ia at loggerl,easls with
the Reform Council and Its constituency on
subject Of such importance md general
interest that It may DO expected to assert
itself at tho April election in manner more
emphatic mud decisive.
Year: 1876

The Calais (Me.) Times says: Samuel
Spaulding, of Springfield, while hunt
ing in the vicinity of that town recent
ly, encountered the devil face to face
This he persistently and with trembling
declares. In corroboration Of his testi-
mony there is a collateral fact. Where
as he formerly passed great part of his
time in the woods with his gun, he now
secludes himself at home, hardly ven
turing from his premises. All question
ers obtain from him the same statement,
accompanied by a description of his
Satanic Majesty. For many years the
story has been periodically revived of
some strange creature in the woods near
Springfield, and lumbermen have seen it
as far distant as the head of Musquash
stream; but Mr.. Spaulding is the first
man bold enough to declare that it is the
devil. If his story is true, and his man.
ner and character are in his favor, he
had very near view, and might haye
bagged the creature had he not been
afraid to fire his gun. If it was really
the devil, there are many who will new


er forgive him his remissness."
Year: 1876

Don't you know that you amt expected
to publish every bit of gossip you hear
about people?"


"Ain't?" echoed the young man;
whats the paper for, then? What oft,
anyhow? Is old Barnewell mad about
it? Did anybody tell him of it?"


The chief made no reply, and the
boys scattered to their work. A casual
watch was kept upon the door of the
private office, and late in the afternoon it
opened and the chief came out He was
alone. There was a dyspeptic look about
his eyes, like a man who had eaten too
much. and nobody ever saw the new re-
porter come out of that room or heard
anything Of him again. But we often
miss him, when the town is quiet and the
afternoons are long, and there isno cleo
tion news to stir the fever of our blood,
and wish that he would come back and
shake up the town once more Burl-
ington Hawk-Eye