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Year: 1876

The City Auditor will sell the first real
property that he has had to dispose of vel
because of unsatisfled lien thereon, unless
the owner should come forward before ter
O'Clock this q. M, and make some satisfsc-
tory arrangement with the Auditor whereby
1t could be paid.


The Auditor is determined that
these liens shall be closed up
for there are about $4,000 out on his books.
which is justly due, and 1t is but right that
the city should have the use Of it and
the better way for all so indebted is to come
up and pay, and thereby save extra expense
In the matter.


1t is a fact, not generally known that the
auditors sale of real estate is as good as the
sheriff's, unlike the Collectors for term
of years, but in fee simple. According to
section "a Of the city ordinance, "the Audi
tor Of the city of Wilmington shall convey
to the purchaser of said ground or building,
as full and complete title to said premi-
ses, In fee simple or otherwise, as If the
same was executed by said owner thereof"
Thus 1t will be seen that there is but one
alternative, pay the assessment or suffer q
sale under execution.
Year: 1876

MAcAULAY's AwKwARDNEss. - He
dressed badly, but not cheaply. His
clothes, though ill put on, were good, and
his wardrobe was always enormously
overstocked. Later in life he INDUCED
himself in an apparently inexhaustible
succession of handsome embroidered
waistcoats, which he used to regard with
complacency. He was unhandy to a
degree quite unexampled in the exper-
fence of all who knew him. When
in the open air he wore perfectly new
dark kid gloves, into the fingers of which
he never succeeded in inserting his own
more than half way. After he had sail
ed for India there was found in his cham
bers between Fifty and sixty straps, hack
ed into strips and splinters, and razors
without beginning or end About the
same period he hurt his hand, and was
reduced to send for a barber. After
the operation he was asked what to pay.
oh, sir, said the man, whatever you
usually give the person who shaves you. 2
+" In that case," said Macaulay, 81 should
give you cash on each cheek" Mac
aulay, we are further told by his biog-
rapher, was utterly destitute of bodily
accomplishments, and he viewed his
Deficiencies with supreme indifference.
He could neither swim, nor row, nor
drive, nor skate, nor shoot He seldom
crossed saddle, and never willingly


When in attendance at Windsor, as a
cabinet minister, he was informed that
horse was at his disposal. If her
Majesty wishes to see me ride,' he
said, she must order out the elephant
The only exercise in which he can be
said to have excelled, was that of treading
crowded streets with his eyes fixed upon
book. He might be seen in such
thoroughfares as Oxford street and
Cheapside, walking as fast as other peo.
pie walked, and reading a great deal
faster than anybody else could read


As pedestrian he was indeed above the
average. Till he had passed fifty, he
thought nothing Of going on foot from
the Albany to Clapham, and from Clap.
ham on to Greenwich, and, while still in
the prime of life, he was forever on his
feet in doors as well as out.
Year: 1876

How TO COUNT MEN.-The history
of the world shows us that men are not
to be counted by their numbers, but by
the fire and vigor of their passions by
their deep sense of injury; by their
memory of past glory; by their eager
ness for fresh fame by their clear and
steady resolutions of ceasing to live, or
of achieving particular object, which,
when it is once formed, strikes off a
load of manacles and chains, and gives
free space to all heavenly and heroic
feelings. All great and extraordinary
actions come from the heart. There
are seasons in human affairs, when quail
ities fit enough to conduct the common
business of life are feeble and useless ;
and when men must trust to emotion for
that safety which reason at such times
can never give Sydney Smith.
Year: 1876

In a Photographic gallery at WASH
ington is chair which has story at
tached. Abraham Lincoln went there
to have his picture taken, but was not
satisfied with his pose" So be sent to
the capitol for large oak chair with
cushioned seat. On its arrival a fine
picture was taken, and the President
was satisfied. He told the photograph
er to keep the chair for long legged men
to keep comfortable in, when having
their "phizes taken.
Year: 1876

The REAsoN.-Two men were pass
ing stable which had rooster ON it
for weather vane, when one addressed
the other thus: " What's the reason
they didn't put hen up there instead
of a rooster The other replied
" That's easy enough don't you see it
would be inconvenient to 60 for the
eggs ?"
Year: 1876

In our article of January f5. We common

 ted upon this process, so far as it had been

 made public, explicitly declaring that we

 had nothing before us except the descrip-

 tion and drawing of the roasting apparatus given in this patent of NIT. Fryer We ad-

 mitted that this might be an imperfect one, although, ofcourse, if the patent is to be held valid, 1t ought to give description which would permit any expert metallurgist to op- crate the process. This is the sole consider ation of which an inventor is protected by law. He gives the knowledge of his inven- tion completely to the public; and the law, in return, secures to him the right of prop erty in it for a certian period But the pat ent before Us did not give the details of the whole process; and We could not therefore, and did not, criticize the whole process. We have since been overwhelmed with criticisms and replies, challenges and defiancies, to which We pay no attention, for two efficient reasons. First, We decline to allow ourselves to be put in the position of condemning MT Flyers whole process, before we know what it is- Secondly, we do not regard assevera- tions of success, while the details are kept secret, as evidence worthy of our regard.

 Processes heralded with glowing but mys- terious announcements, as reyolutionizing the art of metallurgy, are usually swindles. MT. Flyers enterprise having been unfortunately attended with some of these features, We took pains to say that we did not rank it in that class. We know some of the parties concerned in it, and believe them to be quite sincere. We had, moreover, the impression that they gave prof of their sincerity by spending their own money and not trying to sell stock to an uninformed public Those who have since intimated to us that this is not the case, that the company is secretly sell ling stock, and that our article has damaged its interests in that respect, are hereby in formed that We shall pay no attention to such vague insinuations. So far as we know, the company is clearly and fully entitled to the credit we have given it.-[Ex.
Year: 1876

LEAP-YEAR NEcETIE.-"Miss Longhead, who loves us, has had the goodness to manu. fracture for our benefit leap year -necktie We acknowledge its receipt but are too deeply affected to do so in fitting terms now until we have worn it one night when if We are not strangled we shall be ready to nego- tiate further with view to procuring one of a more substantial, enduring and endearing pattern.
Year: 1876

The New York Graphic says:-Tbe bill now before the California Legislature, provi. ding that wife beaters be publicly logged, ought to pass. It is high time to revive the whipping post for few of the most cowardly and brutal crimes. A man who will strike a woman cannot be disgraced. There is only one way in which he can feel the wrath of of society-on his own bare back.
Year: 1876

The Exhibition at Philadelphia is in ita
Inconsistencies as well as its intent com.
pendulum Of the United States. It is big,
bigger than anything Of the kind ever held
in Europe; it's points of interest are fai
apart, hike our great cities it is immense in
the aggregate, but poorly digested in ar-
rangement; it has intelligence throbbing in
every part of it, but in separated nerves
rather than in ganglion. 1t i'm
presses the man who traverses its
walks and aisles at the soles of the
feet as we'll as the brain. We may say, too,
it has proved a success, and that covers q
good deal of shortcomings. The Ex.
hibition is approaching an end now,
and its attractiveness is proved by
the fact that the attendance has in
creased and averages little short OF one
hundred thousand day. Next Friday is set
down for the closing day, and it is safe to as
sumo that all efforts to keep it open as a ma
tional attraction any longer will fail.
So many thousands of the exhibitors
have made arrangements to remove
their goods after the 10th inst that
it would be almost impossible to keep any
thing like sufficiency of them together to
prolong the Exhibition as it is Those who
make up the rush to see the great fair now
are going because certain day is fixed for
the closing. The people who put things of
to the last moment would wait another week
if the date of closing was q week later. Our
Philadelphia correspondence gives some
humorous points of the attendance during
these finishing up days of the great fair.
Year: 1876

good set of city officers. That it will be
done only by small part Of the voters
ought not to discourage these or make them
less vigilant. If but one citizen had the
honesty and courage to scratch the bad
names from the ticket he votes, his single
protest thus recorded against bad govern
ment would be valuable and important, and
his example would find imitators in subse-
quent elections. The aim of political par
tisans is, of course, to carry their whole
ticket, no matter.what bad men are on it.
The aim of the voter, especially in city poll
ties, ought to be to secure the election of the
best men only, entirely regardless of general
politics. What difference does it make
whether a Surrogate or Coroner or Mayor of
New York is democrat or republican? But
it is of the utmost Importance that these and
all the other city officers should be able and
honest men.
Year: 1876

With the extra races at Jerome Park yes
terday, and the polo match which followed
them, the sporting season for 1876 may be
said to have virtually closed. As We look
back over the history of the year we cannot
fail to recognize the season as one of extraor-
dinary brilliancy The turf showed not
only signs of growth, but gave promise of
still greater popularity and permanence.
In the South there was something like a
revival Of the old-fashioned sporting habits
of the people. At Washington, Baltimore,
Long Branch and Saratoga the meetings
were unusually good. The races at Jerome
Park were even more brilliant than usual,
and the extra race day yesterday closed and
celebrated the first decade in the history of
the American Jockey Club in way worthy
Of an occasion so important. The new game
Of polo also made great strides in popular
favor during the year, and as it becomes
better known is sachieving a popularity second
to no attraction on the sporting calendar. 1t
will be seen from our news reports that the
match yesterday excited as much interest
MS the splendid racing even. These events
are fitting close to the sports Of as great
year rs the American Centennial, when the
skill Of all the world came here to contend in
friendly rivalry for distinguished honors.
On the Schuylkill English and Irish rowing
clubs conten ied with our own to carry off
the honors Of the oar. At Creedmoor, too,
the Irish, Scotch, Australian and Canadian
riflemen gallantly, but vainly, tried to grasp
the honors which our American team had SO
nobly won and still more nobly wear As
the first fruits of this victory the English
rifemen can scarcely fail to come here next
year to contend for the championship Of the
world, and, altogether, we ought to have
a sporting season almost if not altogether
as brilliant as the one which has just closed.
In no other part of the world is there more
magnificent field for outdoor sports, and we
have only to keep on as we begun-a Begin
ming OF which the past season was an ex-
emplifcation-to make the present pros
porous outlook the complete triumph of
manly and athletic sports in this country.
Year: 1876

From now until the polls close on Tues
day the American voter will need to guard
himself against false reports. The partisan
journals of both sides will probably bristle
with rumors. We shall hear the most aston
ishing tales, calculated to harrow the soui
of the voter, and intended, at the last mo-
ment, to make him change his vote.
The political excitement has not for many
years been so intense; each party, by long
and frequent repetition, has at last per.
suaded itself that its success is necessary ia
the salvation Of the country. OF course this
is not so. The country is safe anyhow.
The Union is not SO frail fabric, and our
liberties are not SO insecurely founded, that
any party in power can endanger them. But
good many of the political leaders of both
sides have persuaded themselves that unless
they succeed liberty, security and honor are
gone tor the country; and so'believing they
will not omit any means calculated to win
voters to alarm those who, they fear, will
oppose them; in short, to carry the election.


Election Roorbacks are among the unfail.
ing incidents of the closing days of a can
vass, when lie can make Roadway before
its exposure can get started. Our advice to
voters is to vote early; to scratch all bad or
doubtful names off their tickets; to insist
that the election shall be peaceable and
orderly, and sternly rebuke all attempts to
create disturbance; and, finally, to believe
no political rumor or tale which they do not
find confirmed in the HERALD, which, as the
organ of the independent voter, will take
care to print nothing but the impartial
truth.
Year: 1876

The people of New York may be said to
gasp this appeal to the powerless guardians
OF the Croton fountains. Like the Israelites
IN the desert vast population is suffering
from the want of one of the vital necessaries
OF life, and there is no Moses to strike the
rock with his rod and cause the waters to
leap forth to the relief of the famishing
multitude. 1t has been truly said that cor
porntions. be they municipal or private,
have no souls, for if that Of New York was
gifted with the commonest intelligence
and foresight we would not now suffer
all the discomforts and be exposed to oil
the dangers created by water famine. We
are told that all we need is water storage
accommodation to remedy this crying evil.
The construction Of new reservoirs will,
it appears, make everything right again.
But in the interval between now and
the time of the completion of these neces-
sary structures what are the people Of New
York to do? The large reservoir being
built in the Croton district will take a year
to complete. There is little prospect of a
heavy rainfall over that region for long
time. The present sources are exhausted,
and the chief engineer of the aqueduct
says, s'We cannot control the heavens"
The chances, therefore, of a maintenance of
even the present poor supply of water are
very slim, so that we must look forward to q
season of dire distress unless the Depart.
ment Of Public Works awakens to the
gravity of the situation and adopts energetic
measures to relieve the city. What these
measures should be the officials are paid
large salaries to determine, and the pub
lie, not unreasonably, looks to them for
relief Judging from the condition of affairs
up town, as shown by the article printed
elsewhere in to-day's HERALD, and by letters
from citizens resident in the famine stricken
districts, the gravest catastrophes may be
looked for unless something is done imme-
diately to increase the water supply. Why
cannot temporary pumping stations be
established at once on each of the
Croton lakes and the waters below the
level of the outlets be raised and discharged
into the streams leading to the reservoir
The cost may be great, but the relief would
be certain. Five steam pumps, each with
capacity of twenty thousand gallons per
minute, would give us one hundred and
forty-four million gallons of water in twenty
four hours. The Croton and Central Park
reservoirs could at this rate be soon filled
and the city supply fully maintained, and
reserve would be created from sources that
are at present unavailable.
Year: 1876

thanks of the community. DIR. King will
tell his people what are the duties of citi-
zenship and how to discharge them; DIR.
Armitage will explain the intimacy that
must exist between the soul and the Saviour
when the former can be guided by the lat
ter's eye. and DIR. Kendrick will explain
why the wicked prosper in their way and
the lesson of eternal life
Year: 1876

Lock BOXES. Merchants, and in fact all
people doing large business, have to trust
somebody in their employ, but it is great
mistake and often great misfortune to
leave any position OF trust entirely under
one employees control. 1t has been discoy-
cred that youth who had the charge of a
law firms Post Office box used it to decoy the
HERALD's advertisers for lost articles into
sending him money on the pretcnce that he
could restore the articles. The youth was
doubtless rogue in the grain, but the
simple device of changing the messenger to
the Post Office, so that no one could abso-
lutely control all the letters arriving at the
box, would have prevented rogucry in that
direction at least.
Year: 1876

Owing to the action of portion OF the carriers and
lcwsmcn who are determined that tie public shall
have the HERALD at three per copy If they
prevent IT, made arrangements place the
herald in the hands OF all readers at the reduced
price. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may
desire at No. 1866 broadway and No. . Ann street
Year: 1876




salaries and fees in the first list There are
great private houses in England whose
owners are said to be ''eaten up by servants
wages and pickings." Might not the same
thing be said of the city Of New York? At
any rate it is easy to see why city offices are
bone of fierce contention why men are
not merely ready but desperately anxious to
serve the city. 1t is rather ''good thing"
to get in anywhere on its payroll, and a
man could hardly be SO ruined that q term
as County Clerk or Sheriff would not ''set
him on his pins.


Some day. perhaps, the people of New
York will think over these figures. We
print them just now, on the eve of the
election, in the hope that here and there
taxpayer may cut them out and
put them away for reference after we
oil return to our sober senses, and when
the brass bands and torchlight professions
no longer remind us that the country is in
imminent danger in case somebody on one
side or the other should happen to be
elected. We are supposed to be living in a
reform year, and though the year is drawing
near its close some people hope that the re-
form period will stretch over into 1877. New
York is n strongly democratic city, and the
election of the democratic candidate for
Mayor is, therefore, a conceded fact. Let us
rejoice that Mr.. Ely is so capable and hon.
est man. We have a right to expect of him
that he will do his utmost to give us good
and cheap city government. We have q
right, too to expect that he will take an in
telligent interest in those public works and
Improvements which the city needs to pre-
pare it for new term of prosperous COM
merce and to enable it to maintain it's mer-
camille pre-eminence. No city has been
so greatly and shamefuily neglected rs
New York. Its people are crowded into
narrow space and into tenement
houses for lack of rapid transit roads to
carry them to the borders of the city where
they could live in comfort. Its shipping is
crowded into small space, leaving large
part of our noble water front unutilized. Its
warehouses have no proper or rapid and
cheap connection with the piers and
wharves. It's streets are ill-paved and dirty
Its docks are inconvenient and unsafe. To
all these matters we trust the next Mayor
will direct his attention, as an intelligent
merchant and an old citizen may be ex-
pccted to.


AS for the remainder of the two tickets,
both are Indifferent. There are some good
names on each, and the intelligent voter
ought to take pains to mark his apprecia-
ton Of that fact on the ticket he votes.
Whether he prefers republican or dem
ocratic city ticket in either case he
ought to scratch of some of the
names. If this could be generally done we
might hope for the selection Of moderately
Year: 1876

WHERE Is TwEED?-What has become of
the great Boss? Where does he linger?
Do unpropitious gales blow him off the
coast? What has become of him? Is he
really at sea or is he biding his time and
waiting to make his appearance as a Boss
Koorback at the last moment?
Year: 1876

There are cities on this continent where
the Sheriff, County Clerk and Coroners
serve their public for a regular and not i'm
moderate salary and turn the fees into the
Treasury. 1t does not seem to have occurred
to any citizen of New York, at any time,
that these officers might be made to do so
here. Yet, allowing them ten thousand n
year each, which would be handsome pay,
considering the work and responsibility,
this would effect saving to the city Of one
hundred and ten thousand dollars q year-a
sum worth while saving with our heavy debt.
But it Is too late to speak OF this Just now,
or. perhaps, too early. For the next year the
taxpayers, which means all the citizens,
agree to fling away to five politicians one
hundred and ten thousand dollars more
than by the most liberal estimate they ought
to receive. Meantime, however, this is a
matter which the voter may as well think
over as he determines to which of the can
didates he will give these rather fat
pckings.


The patronage Of the superior officers, Of
course, goes to make up the bulk Of the
three and half millions Of servants wages,
| fees and pickings which the New York voter
gives away next Tuesday. That part only
which will fall in during the next year
amounts to two and half millions a good
deal to pay out as part Of our servants wages
for keeping the city in such order as it gets
for the money. Bear in mind this includes
only part Of the salaries, and none of the
cost of tools and work done, such as street
repairing, &c. We reprint here some figures
which we published several weeks ago, to
show the details of this part of the city
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Year: 1876

AS it is one of the experiences of human
history that an unusual event occurring
once is repeated several times in similar
Antonelli is to make the year memorable
with one more illustration of how near
distinguished man may so to the gates of
death and yet recover, if not his health, at
least fair hold on life. In this connec-
ton it will be comfort to the
member that he is but seventy years
old, and that is not great age in Italy.
But if we measure life not simply by the
calendar but by the possible endurance Of
painful Impressions, it. may be said that no
other vital span ever stretched over what
has been crowded into the career of the man
who was the Prime Minister of the Papal
government in 1848, and who has lived to
see Rome become the capital of constitu-
tional monarchy. In the most terrible crises
of Papal history this man has been for thirty
years in the intimate councils of the Sovereign
Pontiff his associate in the endeavor to
avert calamities that were inevitable, and
participator in the prostration of hope
which results when men believe they see
the triumph of all that is evil in the world
involved in the providence Of God. How
ever we may differ in opinion with those
who view the establishment of the Italian
Kingdom as great evil, their view
is readily comprehensive to the mind
that assumes their standpoint. Thirty
years of constantly repeated defeat and
the sublime despair Of eventual failure
in the attempt to re-establish the political
fortunes Of the Papacy must prove q tre-
mendous burden on any life and if he falls
under it the Cardinal will die n martyr to
cause that he justly deemed great one,
though it was one for which the progress of
the world had made success impossible