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Year: 1875

RAPID TRANSIT. In considering the various
schemes for rapid transit there is one
thought that should not be allowed to pass
from the mind of the reader. Here we have
the Fourth avenue improvement running
from Forty-second street to Harlem. 1t is
one of the best railroads in the world. It
belongs to private corporation, but for the
building Of it the city paid four millions of
dollars, practically making that sum gift to
this corporation. Now, if we had enough
engineering genius in New York to run
road from Forty-second street to the Battery,
or make connection between the elevated
railroad, which now extends to Forty-second
street and the Grand Central depot, we could
have rapid transit in very short time OF
course, the owners of the Vanderbilt railroad
have right to do their own business in their
own way and to take as much as is given
them by the city and the State The fact
that the Fourth avenue improvement cost
the people four millions of dollars certainly
entities us to suggest that it might be utilized
in the completion Of rapid transit system.
Year: 1875

A FAILURE IN THE LINEN TRADE is re-
ported from Belfast This industry has
been so fortunate in Ireland, where manu-
features for the last two centuries have been
steadily trodden out in the interest Of the
English markets, that we hope the failure
noted will not have more than momentary
influence on the staple industry Of Ulster.
Year: 1875

II DoEs Nor LOOK as though Alfonso's
government had fully made mp its mind
to be ruled from Rome. The fact is that be-
tween the strong clerical influence on one
side and tho desire to keep pace with the
spirit of the age the boy Kings advisers are
in a difficulty that needs more courage to
dispel than they dare to exhibit.
Year: 1875

THE LONDON TIMES Is PERPLExED about
the escape of Tweed. Our special despatch
shows that the Thunderer traces the possi-
bility of such an official crime to the return
Of Tweed's old followers to power in Tam
many Hall Not far wrong
Year: 1875

THE ESCAPE or THE LoUGHREY BRoTHERs
from Raymond Street Jail was just in the
nickel Of time for themselves and also I'd
give the Brooklyn detectives q chance to
work up case like unto that of Boss
Tweed's
Year: 1875




An unpleasant report comes to us from
Washington, which we mention with some
hesitation. 1t is that shortly after the argu-
ment before the Supreme Court on the Union
Pacific interest case was completed, and
before the decision was rendered, the whole
Court, including also its clerk, dined with
the principal counsel of the railroad, and
that later, but still before the decision was
given, several members of the Court dined
with Mr.. Sam Ward.


OF course we do not for moment pretend
to think that the Supreme Court was infu-
enced in its views on this important case by
these dinners. But we take the liberty Of
telling the Judges that such dining as we
speak Of was, under the circumstances, i'm
proper 1t gives rise to unpleasant remarks
about the members of a tribunal which
Americans have been accustomed to venerate
and look upon with pride. We are living in
a period Of unusual social decentralization.
In the last few years many even of our high
est public officers have shown less reserve
and true dignity than the people would like
to see in them, and many of the social re-
straints which formerly and very properly
guarded men in the higher public offices of
the country have been cast aside by them
with somewhat cynical and dangerous con-
tempt General Grant has, since he became
President, set very bad custom in this re-
gard, which has not unnaturally been imi-
tated by some Of his subordinates, and not
the least injury he has done to the country
during his Presidency lies in the bad
example he has shown to younger men
Of openly keeping low company When the
President Of the United States makes men
like the recently convicted Mcdonald in
st. Louis, and Harrington and Shepherd in
Washington, and others, who shall be name
less, in New York, his chosen companions
and intimates, and when Governor Tilden,
in New York, makes a professional gambler
his adviser at Saratoga, such conduct does
much to demoralize the young men of the
country, to lower their standard of pro-
priety and their nice sense of honor, and to
open the door to grave abuses.


In such times as these, and with such bad
examples IN nlSn places, IL Is uouDly llnPor-
tant that body like the Judges Of the Su-
preme Court should take care to break down
none of the old guards and decencies which
have made them from the earliest days
peculiarly dignifed and irreproachable
Bench, and a model to all the courts in the
land.


1t is certainly an impropriety that mem
bers Of the Supreme Bench should dine with
the counsel or agents in an important case
pending their decision; and when we con-
slider in this case the immense interests in
yolved, the eagerness Of spectators to get id
advance at the mind of the Court, and the
effect of dinner to unloose the tongues
of even the most prudent men, we do not
wonder that Washington gossips are just
now retailing stories which would, if they
should hear them, vex and mortify the
Judges and which certainly should warn
them to be more decorous and reserved in
future.
Year: 1875

An attempt was made on Friday
night week to burn the trestle bridge Of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
above Locust Gap. and it was so much
damaged that trains we're not run over
it A terrible disafter was averted by
the presence Of mind Of watchman,
who went to the nearest telegraph
office and notified the morning express
train from Shamokin of the insecurity
of the bridge.
Year: 1875

10 We gain faint conception of the
immense amount of heat thrown out
by the sun by simple experiment
with aasmall1ens, or common glass,
of about two inches in diameter. The
heat collected by such a glass and
brought to a focus is sufficient to
light cigar and produce a blaze;
while a lens of twenty inches in dl-
ameter win collect sufficient heat to
melt not only iron, but even some OF
the rocks!l What, then, must be the
amount of heat falling upon the sur
face of the earth, eight Thousand
miles in diameter? Furthermore,
If must be remembered that the sun
warns and iHuminates all the other
planets of our family of worlds, and
still more, that an inconceivably
great amount of heat is radiated in
empty space, where there are nc
worlds to receiyeit. The same re.
mark will apply to the light of the
sun. The intensity of its light is
one hundred and forty-six. tunes
greater than the oxyhydrogen or cal
cium light, so intolerably bright even
to the strongest eye. And yet this
calcium light, when placed before
the sun, is. seen SIS a black spot upon
its surface. 81 Hence we learn that
the black spots seen on the sun 5 ;
face may not bo actually dark put ','
onlv, eoynDaratiyely so.
Year: 1875

HE subscriber offers for sale, Oh
reasonable terms, his house and lot Also two
other lots, situated on the South Ridge Road
about twenty rods south of the corporation line
Also other lots, upon the height of land command
ing beautiful view of the lake, and country
around Lads conveniently situated may be
added TO any OF the aforesaid lots II desired


1317u JAMES PHILLIPS.
Year: 1875

"A

 Army of the Tennessee.

 DEs MONIES, Sept. 29.-At the reunion of the army of the Tenes- see to-day President Grant said that he, had concluded to disap. point those who had called him ill anticipation of hearing a short speech, as he had jOtted down many things he wished to say. He then expressed qualification in recalling the days when they had suffered together to preserve the Government which we believed worth lighting for and even dying for. We will not, said he, deny to any of those who fought against the United States any privilege under the Government which we claim for ourselves. On the con- tary we welcome all such who come forward in good faith to help build up the waste places and per petuate our institutions against our enemies, as brothers in full in- tereSt with us in a common heri tage. To guard against recur- renee of the past, we must begin by guarding against every evil threatening the prosperity of our free republican institutions 1 do not bring into this assemhlage politics, certainly not partisan politics; but it is d fair subject for soldiers in their deliberations to consider what may be necessary to secure the prize for which they battled.

 The President urged the culti. vatiOn of intelligence among the people in regard to political mat ters, and said, "If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I pre- dict the dividing line will not be Mason and DixsOn's, but between patriotism aud intelligence on one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance. on the other. In this Centennial year the work of strengthening the foundation of the structure laid by our fore-fath- CTS one hundred years ago at Lex ingtOn should be begun. Let us all labor for more security of free thought, free speech, free press and pure morals, unfettered re, liglous sentiments and equal rights and privileges of all men, irrespective of nationality, color or religion. Encourage .; free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated to them shall be applied to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve, that neither State nor nation shall SUD- port institutions, save only those where every child in the land can get a common school education unmiXed with atheist, pagan or Sectarian teaching. Leave the matter of religion to the family, and keep Church and State sepa- rate. With these safe guards 1 believe the battles which created the army of Tennessee will not have been fought in vain"

 The speech was greeted with applause repeated again and again.

 General Sherman closed the speaking for the night with 8 humorous and short speech in which he said he wished the speeches made here to-nigh t could be printed in full and Scattered broadcast through the South, to show the people there how the ex-sOldiers of the north felt to- ward them.
Year: 1875

The new fast mail route from this city
to the west, by which letters will reach
Chicago early on the morning of the day
after that on which they are sent, ID
stead of the evening, as now, has been
fixed upoh by way of the New York
Central and the Lake Shore railroads.
Several considerations have led to the
selection of these lines, among which are
the following: The State of New York,
net including New York City, receives
and forwards five times as much matter
as the State Of Pennsylvania, not inelud-
ing Philadelphia. Eleven of the north
ern counties of the State of Ohio send
and receive more mail matter than all
the remaining seventy-eight including
Cincinnati. Chicago comes next to New
York in this country in the amount of
postal business DONE More mail matter
is sent to and received from the State of
Kansas than from Missouri, Michigan
and Wisconsin. are among the largest
contributors to the postal revenue. The
daily mails are of great service in find
ing a market for the New England
States, as through them samples of
small articles are sent to all parts Of the
country. All these considerations are
met by the northern route, while the
points referred to could not be reached
in the same time by any other route.


At present it is intended to start the
fast mail train from this city to the
West ON the first of October, and before
the year closes another train starting
say twelve hours later, will probably be
running. Few stops will be made be-
tween New York and Chicago, and the
mail will be delivered and taken up at
every postal station along the route by
means Of appliances called ''eatehers, "
which have already been in use for some
time over about so, 600 miles Of road,
and which have given great satisfaction.
A Southern fast mail train is also talked
Of but no definite arrangements have
been completed Special railway Mail
Agent Bangs is now in the West, where
he is perfecting arrangements for the
new system.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875


After this showing, how can any
Democratic editor or stumper speak of
Republican corruption or theft without
a blush of shame? 1t is true there have
been some dishonest Republican officials
but the figures above convey a solemn
warning to the people Of what they may
expect, and how their condition will be
bettered, if they restore the Democratic
party fully to power.


V .
Year: 1875

IT was at the house of a well known
doctor of divinity and the little tOddling
girl, who did not like to see her aunt
trim a lighred kerosene lamp, had come
honestly by a somewhat modified theory
of predestination, Take carel take
care? or we'll get blowed up into the
sky, and then Godll say, Girls, what are
you in such a hurry forf"
Year: 1875




INWARD PEACE.-Many say that they
have no peace nor rest, but so many
crosses and trials, Affections and sor-
rows, that they know not how they shall
ever get through them. Now he who in
truth will perceive and take note, per
ceiyeth clearly that the true peace and
rest lie not in outward things; for If it
were so, the evil spirit also would have
peace when things go according to his
will, which is nOwise the case. There
fore we must consider and see what is
that peace which Christ left to his dis
eiples when he said: "My peace j give
unto you" Christ meant that inward
peace which can break through all as
saults and crosses of oppression, suffer
ing, misery, humiliation and what more
there may be of the like, so that man
may be joyful and patient therein; and
what was bitter to him before shall be-
come sweet, and his heart shall remain
unmoved under all changes and at all
times
Year: 1875

Last year Darke County, which has
for some time been restless under the
sway of Democratic reformers, sudden
ly discovered that her Auditor, Treasur-
er, and Sheriff, mulsted the people by
overcharging and unlawfulIy appropriat-
ing to the tune Of Sc $3.50 Ii is a
great stretch of charity to admit that
this was in consequence OF ignorance
and carelessness rather than of n deIib-
ate intention to defraud; but as prefer
the most charitable construction always.
am willing to make this admission.


The same admission can not be made
in the case of JacObKoch, Treasurer of
Wayne, whose stealings reached as high
as $40, 600 by estimate and who was tried
convicted, and sentenced to a year in the
penitentiary- Wayne County has since
been a little shaky in her attachment to
the corrupt Democracy, i and there is good
prospect thar she will wheel into the
Republican r,iias.
Year: 1875

FARMERs-how fares your stock dur
ing the present cold season Doubtless
you are more than wearied Of hand feed
ing and just as anxious as your animals
to see natures green mantel once more.
But what about the health and condition
of your stock-have you any restorative
at hand to meet emergencies and to i'm.
prove them in flesh and appearance II
not, we strongly advise you to lose nc
time in possessing yourself of Buck
LANDS HORSE, CATTLE and HOG powders,
which are equally reliable AS a medicine
or condiment for use in fatteniDg. They
are no new discovery, but a time-tried
and universally approved preparation,
to the inestimable value of which hun.
dreds of farmers through this and ad
joining counties can and will cheerfully
attest. Only give them a trial and W,
pledge ourselves you will never be with
out them. Sold only by BUcknAND i
Son, Front st., Fremont.
Year: 1875

Governor CASTOR and staff, executive
council and pall-bearers Of ex-governors
OF the State. Nearly every building in
tie village was decorated with elaburate
displays of mourning. The sidewalks
in Ire Deighborhood Of the public square
were throDgsd with people sttTa. d
from all the country about to view The
solemn pageant. On reaching CLARK 3
block the casket was conveyed 70 large
hall in the upper part Of the building
and placed on cstafalque. Here the
remains were delivered into the custody
OF the tcwn-selectmen by Governor Gas
ton, and were subsequently given into
the charge Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic pest, who, with the United
States marines, will remain as a guard
until the burial on Wednesday. The
decorations in the hall are elegant. The
concluding services of the day among
Mr.. Wilson's Uld-time associates were
especially solemn and impressive, deep
ly affecting the town people who had as
sembled to gay the last heartfelt tribute
of respect to their departed fellow
ciCiZen.
Year: 1875

THE Democratic convention is next


in order, aud then for nomination for
mayor that will silence all csvil on the
part Of the opponents of cur party. We
must have the most capable and
worthy man the Democracy can afford.
Year: 1875

HOW JUDGE HOFFMAN ANSWERED THEIR CHAI-


I.ENGE


The thieves who brought up in the Court of
Quarter Sessions at Jersey City, yesterday ecame
grief As they gazed upon the face of Judge Hoffman,
who presided and whose house robbed few days
ago by tramps they could readily "the days dis
aster in his morning face" That there might be no
mistake about his position 'the tramp
question:" he commenced by remarking that
it would the county Is being overrun by tramps,
and that the challenge thrown to the law by these
scoundrels must be met firmly and promptly He
would that day teach the lesson that the tramps who
TO settle down in Hudson county born under
evil STAR The Judge then proceeded to dole out JUS
was Tim Purcell who stole coat. He will repent for
three months. under the paterna of Post Snake
HILL Richard Knouse, who played the tramp a
saloon keeper by running off with his brandy, also


CONSIGNED To POSTS PENITENTIARY


for three months. Peter Weldon, tramp of most
daring character, who only succeeded in carrying Off
sl4 worth of junk, was sent TO the State Prison
darted fierce look at the Judge. James McGrath
though no tramp, was unlucky enough to appear
very bad day. and ho committed for six months for
dignity who would not stoop to anything infe-
rior in value TO n gold watch and chain,
was hustled out by constable after being told
that the State will require his services for five years
mean tramp named John Smith, who riskcd every
thing for So sentenced to three months, as was
James Reilly, who was meaner than Smith by 81. The
programme varied at this point Elizabeth Thomp-
of the colored persuasion acknowledged the theft
of four satchcls and large quantity of clothing from
lady in Bayonne, and she sent to the State Prison
for three years Josephine Meyers expert thief for
her tender years consigned to the Penitenary for
three months Then the mcanest tramp of all,
John LetZ, who stole 81 hat Tho Court dis
gustcd with his meanness that he sent him to the
state Prison for three years. This closed the days
Year: 1875

About midnight on Wednesday Onlcer McIauCh-
lin two on Grand street. Jersey City, one Of
whom carried piece Of black silk which he was en-
dcvoring to sell The officer watched their movo-
mcnts closely and them enter house where they
offered the silk for $50. Having heard of the
late robbery OF silk at the Rotterdam wharf
the officer thought he had seen enough He
arrested the and brought them to the First pre-
cnct station house where they gave their names as
Thomas Mclaughlin and David Harney The former
was intoxicated Yesterday morning they were brought
before Justice Reese when Harnoy said ho was a nrc-
man tho Cunard steamer Scytha and that he was in
of any collusion with Mclaughlin lie had only
come out with him to take drink. Mclaughlin adj


nitted that narneys statement true but he could
not account satisfactorily for his possession of the silk
He was thereupon committed and Harncy was dis
charged.
Year: 1875

JERSEY CITY FERRYMASTERS SECOND AND Sue


CEssFUI ATTEMPT TO KILL HIMSELF


Passengers who have travelled the Jersey City
ferry for years past have become familiar with the
face of Ferrymastcr Trcmain Van vakenburg, tall
man, with subducd expression upon his face about
thrtyeight years of age. He managed to accumulate
considerable means, and he left the ferry
and entered into the broom business This
became a total failure, and Van vakenburg,
to a homey phrase, never afterward the same
He overpowercd by mental depression
after his failure that he attempted suicide by swallowing
poisonous draught. Before he swallowed the entire
contents the bottle was snatched from him and he i'm
mcdiately tried to jump out through window In this
he also foied He then thrust his head in a bucket
of water, oxcaiming,


''HERE I ovERBoARD"


He was then taken TO the First precinct station and
medical aid was summoned. Under careful treatment
his returned. He again employed at tho
ferry foot of Cortandt street. but for weeks although
large stream Of passengers kept pouring past him. he
never gave cheerful look. He had decided to
from his residence in Fourth street to house Bar
row street yesterday morning. He passed restless
night and frequently declared to his wife he would


NEVER BARROW STREET


His wife endeavorcd TO soothe him, but about eight
O'Clock yesterday morning he became violent that he
began TO butt his head against the wall His wife be.
alarmed and rushed down stars but before she was
half down she heard the report of pistol followed
by heavy fall When she rushed back she found her
husband lying his back with the blood flowing from
called in and he found that the bullet had Van
Nalkenburg's BRAIN Forty minutes after the pistol
discharged he was n corpse The deceased had
served in the Ninth New York infantry during the late
He allied to some old and respectable families in
Jersey City, Ho leaves young wife and one child.
Year: 1875

post-mortem examination made yesterday OF
the remains OF an unknown man found in dying con-
don in the colorcd district OF tho Eighth ward the
morning OF the 3lst ult, and who died at the Prince
street station house Extensive bruises and othcr evil
dcnces Of violent death were found. Captain McDon-
nell who thoroughly probcd the circumstances Of the
case is satisfied that the injuries were received by fall
into an areaway. The Captain found witness TO the
accident in Maria Brown, colorcd woman, who Will
testify To tho fact at the inquest next week.


Joseph Rurb, aged twenty nine years, died suddenly
Yesterday at his residence No 1sl West Twenty eighth
street


Marcella DAILY an infant three days old died suddenly
at No. lis Mulberry street yesterday


o. n C. Shack OF No. 1T3 Madison avenue, died sud-
denly yesterday at his residence
Year: 1875

Information was yesterday received at tho Coroncrs
Office of the sudden death Of Wolfram Fogbach rcsid.
ing at No. $40 East Thirteenth street, in tho ninety.
ninth year OF his age Tho deceased was born in Ger
many, but came to this country many years ago set
Ting in New York. where he has followed the occupa.
ton OF a ragpicker Up to within three weeks of Ills
death he engaged in the above avocaton attending
TO his work with regularity and activity astonishing
IN ono OF ms years week ago he began ailing, and
yesterday, although his symptoms were not alarming
he dropped of suddenly.