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Year: 1876

The CREMATION of the body Of Baron
de Palm at Washington, Pa, on Wednes.
day was successful, as far as reducing the
body of the Theosophist to ashes was con-
cerned. 1t was the qualification Of sense
less W i'm that an excentric man desired
before his death. This mode of disposiDg
of the dead will never come into even
ordinary practice in this country.
Year: 1876

We ARE glad to note that the managers
of the Grand Opera House in this city,
have, with view TO meeting the acciden.
of fire by means equal to its great dangers
introduced steam jet into the building
By this agency the building can be filled
with steam at a very short notice, and fire
smothered more etfectually than with
water.
Year: 1876

THERE is no question that when the
Board of Education determined to reduce
the night schools that they did wise
action. 1t seemed at the time like a step
backward, but it has since been discovered
that one night school properly managed,
in this city, will accommodate all who
come for purposes Of instruction.
Year: 1876

A workingman writes to The HERALD
to know when the times will get better.
1t is in the impenetrable future, but il will
never be until this great incumbus of taxa
ton can be lifted from the shoulders Of our
industries.
Year: 1876

New DUNGENEss, Oct, IL, 1876.


EDITOR ARGUS Tha Indians from
Neah Bay are here in large numbers
digging potatoes for the farmers,
and peddling mats, baskets and other
curiosities. The Clalam Indians,
along with some Indians from the
other side, are having a grand pot
latch at the head of Sequim Bay.


A gang of men from the survey
ing schooner Fauntleroy are survey
ing along the shore of Dungeness
Bav.


The weather is thick accompanied
by a mist, making Friend Tucker
at the lighthouse, sound his horn. /
had the pleasure of visiting the light
house a short time ago and was
greatly surprised to find every thing
in such apple-pie order. Looking at
the lamps and glasses in the lantern
you would never suspect that oil was
used in the lamps. The machinery
Of the fog whistle showed the same
token of neatness and care that was
seen in the lantern department.
Opening the door of the furnace /
found wood and shavings already
laid to start up steam on the first ap-
pearance of fog. Captain Tucker
has succeeded in laying the founda-
tion of a future flower garden in
front of the dwelling, making the
desert sand spit look more like a
home than it has ever looked before;
in fact everything around shows that
the keeper and his assistants are the
right men in the right place.


l was wrongly informed about the
potato blight at Port Angeles.


E. @.
Year: 1876

AND now there comes the unsaVo-
ry odor of another Indian job in
the news from the Indian coun-
try. The agent at Standing Rock
has been drawing rations for $500
more Indians than can now be found
there, and yet the number has re-
Gently been largely augmented by
the returning hostiles coming in for
their winters keep. We commend
the matter to Secretary Chandler
and his Indian Commissioner. The
people want to know how and where
their money goes.
Year: 1876

THE Colonist says the Board OF
Health" OF Victoria might not inapprO-
priately be called the s' Board Of Death. :"
and some of the people of that city COM
plain that the health officer encourages the
spread of the small pox for what he can
make out Of the funds appropriated for
sanitary purposes.
Year: 1876

nor indicate what he desired done
with them, hence they are still in the
possession of August and Barrett. AS
it may assist some poor fellow to re-
cover his horses we will describe them
gust has is bay mare said to be about
ten years old, medium size. Barretts
is brown young stallion. We have
not seen this horse and cannot de-
scribe him more accurately.


Mr.. August has consulted an attor-
ney as to what he had better do with
the mare, but is in doubt, because
there appears to be no statute provid-
ing for such a case.
Year: 1876

Our Democratic friends are max
ing the assertion in Brownville that
the revenues of this government are
not sufficient to pay its expenses.
They say this right in the face of the
fact that every year since 1866 this
government has not only paid all its
expenses, all the interest on the enor-
nous debt contracted to suppress the
Democratic rebellion, but at the same
time has paid off from 80 to 75 mil
lions of the principal of that debt an
nually.
Year: 1876

- When you hear one Of those Til
den fellows harping on corruption,
and reform, just take a good look at
him-look at what he has been and
what he Is now, and you will find
that he has been engaged in some sus-
piciOus business, such as a railroad
Wrecker on small scale; or niSdp-
Plier of other peoples money; or q
sorehead, angry because the people
will not trust him with an office, or an
"Oltt' whose highest ambition and
most exalted principle Is TO manage
to get "iJl :" or fellow who must be
Tilden man because the PrdiSt says
he must; or else he's an ignoramus
and whines about reform because he
has heard somebody else whining
about it, and has only brains enough
to ape and immitate some more cum
ming knave. Sometimes several of
these Democratic virtues are found in
the same individual. They can be
seen daily sitting around on pine box
es in front of the stores, and are al
ways ready to commence boring with
their little augers every decent person
that comes along, and their theme is
Corruption corruption !" AS we
said, their characters and motives will
not bear close inspection, foE they are
nOtOIiousiy of that class most suscep-
tible of corrupt practices, and would
steal the country bankrupt had they
a chance to do SO; but they are not at
all dangerous because they will not be
trusted.
Year: 1876

I would respectfully inform those of
my friend, both here and at a distance,
who have ary expectation of getting
thirsty, that I have inst received a most
complete assortment of Pure Liquors
ever imported to Lake Charles, which
l am desirous Of selling at wholesale
and retail at prices to justify both seller
and buyer. My wines and brandies are
unsurpassed, and my WHISTLES 1.-THE
Simon pure Before leaving town be
sure and call around and take parting
farewell. Lager beer, Scotch ale and
porter constantly on hand. ap4n4y
Year: 1876

A BAD ENDING.-The New York


bellesa are adding another accomplishment
(?) to their lona list-that of opium eating
and smoking They indulge the habit
for the purpose of giving that particular
brightness to the eye and the ruddy ap-
pearance to the face ; probably not aware
that when the narcotic influence Is gone,
the eve is more dull and languid than
ever, and that by and by the face will
look like Il piece Of par.boiled corned.bcef
Year: 1876

A SPORTING judge is of use in more
ways than one. Recorder Hackett added
to his other sound decisions one upon
guns, the other day, which bore against
prisoner who pleaded that the shotgun,
with which he had shot some children,
went off from blow against the window
sill. The recorder examined the gun,
declared it impossible, and offered to let
the prisoner try it in that way against
him with double charge in it. The
jury was convinced by the Judge, as
an expert as well as judicially, and


the sentence was years imprisonment.
Year: 1876

The ill effects of soda on linen have
given rise to new method of washing,
which has been extensively adopted in
Germany, and introduced into Belgi-
um. The operation consists in dissolv-
ing two pounds of soap in about three
gallons of water as hot as the hand can
bear and adding to this one tablespoon
lul of turpentine and three of liquid
ammonia; the mixture must then be
well stirred, and the linen stepped in it
for two or three hours, taking care to
cover the vessel containing them as
Theoretically as possible. The clothes
are afterwards washed out and rinsed
in the usual way. The soap and water
may be reheated and used second
time, but in that case half teaspoon
full of ammonia must be added. This
process is said to cause a great econo-
my of time, labor and fuel. The linen
scarcely suffers at all, and its cleanli-
ness and color are perfect. The am
monia and turpentine, although their
defensive action is great, have no inju-
rious effect on the linen and while the
former evaporates Immediately, the
smell of the latter is said to disappear
entirely during the drying, of the
clothes,
Year: 1876

Last Monday noon, says the Smyrna
Del.) Times, the locomotive on the
Smyrna Branch Railroad ran away and
nearly killed itself. After bringing the
| noon train into town, and after Engi-
neer McCOnaughy had started to
dinner, the fireman, John Shorts,
cut the locomotive loose from the car
to shift lit the other track and get it
out of the way of frightened peach
team. He turned on steam, and as he
did so the pin fell out of the throttle


bar. He could not shut her off after
that and away she went at break-neck
speed through Commerce Street to
Clayton. Shorts made a perilous leap
from her as she whizzed by Union Street
and saved himself, though he was


Topped over and over in the dusty


street when he struck the ground. In
just one minute from the time Shorts


'pulled out the stopper here the To-
comotive was ruined mass at Clay
ton. The distance between the two
points is one mile and a quarter. As
quick as possible a telegram was sent


to Clayton to ssswitch her off," but
she beat the telegram by about two
lengths and had spread herself pretty
well over the depot ground when the
dispatch reached there. She did not
obey the curve at Clayton at all, but
shot off in a straight line across the
grounds. She jumped off with such
force as to throw herself fiat on her
side, and in this condition she smashed
into the platform along the main track,
near the north end of the depot. She
slid along sideways for 1e0 yards or
more, swapping bolts and rods as if they
were ropes of sand. Her wheels that
were uppermost whizzed round like a
top, and the raging steam Kissed ike
mad from every aperture. Fortunately
the exhaust pipe broke, or she might
have burst her boiler. The whole af-
fair was over almost as quick as wink.
In two hours after wrecking train
from Wilmington was on the spot, and
by O'Clock the wreckers had picked up
the pieces, put the wreck on the track
and were off for the repair shops.
Year: 1876

Forest Hill, England, was the scene
of much excitement recently, owing
to an advertisement in morning paper
stating that domesticated young lady
was wanted stto assist a lady in her
household, to take the place of lost
niece, and receive her advantages of
salary, marriage portion, and future
provision in life with a comfortable
home.'' An early train brought down
some thirty or forty elegantly dressed
young women, nearly all travelling first
class, and the number of applicants
during the first day is estimated at five
hundred. A similar number came on
the following day, and upward of one
hundred and eighty letters were re.
ceived by post. 1t appears that the ad-
vertisement was practically for a maid
of all work.
Year: 1876

CRANBERRY DUMPLING.-1 quart of
flour, teaspoonful of soda and tea
spoonfuls of cream-tartar sifted togeth-
er. With sweet milk mix into soft
dough, using spoon for the purpose.
Roll the dough out very. thin in oblong
shapes, and spread over it 1 quart of
cranberries, picked and washed clean.
Add ! pound of sugar, sprinkled over
evenly. Fold over and over; then tie in
a pudding-cloth and put into steamer,
where let it cook over steady fire for
one hour, with faith, never looking into
the pot. Serve with sweet wine sauce,
or sugar and cream.
Year: 1876

The Spirit of the Times, in its last issue, has
a very sensible article on steeplechases and
hurdle races, which we reprinted yesterday.
It's views on the subject are the same as those
expressed in the HERALD about the man
ner in which these races should be managed.
After praising the American Jockey Club
for the wise policy it has adopted in raising
the scale of racing weights and defining
welter weights to be twenty-eight pounds
instead of forty pounds, as heretofore, as we
had previously done, the Spirit respectfully
recommends the American Jockey Club to
take another step and make steeplechases
still more exciting in their character and
more attractive to the spectators, and that is
in increasing the height and breadth of the
Jumps. At present the hurdles, fences and
stone walls rarely, if ever, exceed three feet
and half in height, and the water jumps
twelve feet and the former are at least
twelve inches too low, and only serve to
deceive horses and endanger the riders. I"
This is exactly the advice, and nearly in the
same words, that we have been giving the
American and other jockey clubs of the
country, so that they may make the changes
before the racing season commences in the
spring. Then the lovers Of the dashing
and popular style of racing may have some
thing to look forward to in steeplechasing of
much grander character than ever seen
before on any of the racing grounds of
America. We again recommend the opening
of stakes for this exciting sport, making the
subscription within every horseman's means,
and giving added money literally to the
stakes instead of in purses, as heretofore, and
as our sporting contemporary advises, edo
away with the time test in races of this kind
and make the jumping abilities of the horse
the test of his merits equally with his speed. "
With sweepstakes instead of races for
purses we think there would be less chance
for suspicion of dishonesty and that the
best horse would be more likely to win. II
we were to publish 1.-THE of what we have
heard about the perpetration of frauds since
the Canadians first introduced cross country
racing in these latitudes, our readers would
think that cheating has been the rule and
not the exception. But, knowing that
rogues are generally the FIRST to cry
stop thief, we do not credit the stories.
Still, Others may, and therefore we advocate
the adoption of sweepstakes instead OF
purse races, as they will in great Measure
dispel the suspicion of trickery and bring
new horses and new men into the steeple-
chase field.
Year: 1876

of the city government. 1t is known that
this government, as it stands, is the creature
Of the Tammany Society," secret oath
bound organization that studies only its own
purposes and not the welfare of the people.
As the people repudiated last fall the
tyranny exercised in the name of that soci-
ETY. over the courts, SO they wish to repu-
diate now the tyranny it exercises over the
administration of the city government. For
this purpose the demand is made for law
to fix the municipal elections in the spring
There are other good reasons for this change
in the date of the election but the reason
that the people wish to repudiate tyranny
is better than any. Will the republican
party, that has the majority in the Legisla-
ture, give the people this chance, or will it,
by the failure to do so, substantive the re-
port that it has bartered away its interest in
the honest government of this city for a few
Offices?
Year: 1876

At the time of Carruth's death, in October
last, we commented on his case in these
columns. We then pointed out that the un-
fortunate event was the consequence of
medical incapacity, of gross ignorance and
malpractice. His chance for life was lost, as
we then showed, when his medical attend
ants permitted the wound to close while
still suppurating; or when, with the wound
closed and with symptoms of cerebral COM
preston staring them in the face, they failed
to open the wound and let out the pus that
was the sole cause of those symptoms-a
practice nationally clear and established as
correct by similar case in the practice OF
DR.. Detmold, of this city-for then, to quote
the article we printed at that time, "The
accumulating pus, pent in, excavated nearly
whole lobe of the brain, incapacitated the
essential organ for its function, and nec-
essarily caused death" At that time
we regretted also that a man so
capable as DIR. Gross, of Philadelphia, had
been excluded from the case, and we ex-
pressed the opinion that the result would
have been different if that surgeon had been
left in charge, because he ''would have pro-
vided for the discharge of the results of sup
puration, for the outflow of that which,
being pent in, became at last the real cause
of death" In the testimony given on the
trial of lands by DR.. Gross and other
medical experts this view Of the case is so
fortified by authority that it cannot be
shaken. 1t is established that while physi-
ologically the cause of death was the
pressure of the pus, this was preventable
cause, and the cause, medically speaking,
was the failure of the practitioner in charge
to let out the pus, as DR.. Gross declares he
himself would have done. DR.. Ingraham
swears that one month before Carruth's death
he gave the opinion that death from COM
preston would inevitably take place if the
wound was not opened 1t is, therefore,
testified and shown that death resulted from
another cause than Landis' shot. What is
the legal effect of this evidence? In
the general presumption of the law it
is held that the assassin is respon-
sible for whatever takes place in consequence
of his act, and certainly the doctors could
AOb HaNO oul uSb ehS1i plOOoo iAtO VIC NlCIiHl .
brain if the skull had not been previously
perforated by the bullet. But there must be
some reasonable limit to the effect of this
presumption. For every necessary or in
evitable or natural consequence of an assas-
sins act it is fair and reasonable to hold him
responsible, and that test applied here would
acquit the prisoner, for the death was neither
a necessary nor natural result of the injury.
On the part of Lands an important step was
taken toward preventing the evil result when
he sent DIR. Gross to see Carruth. Gross
was excluded, other capable physicians were
excluded, and the man died Now, who
causes mans death in these circumstances,
the person who has given wound not neces-
sarily fatal or they who exclude the ply
sicians who could save the mans life?
Year: 1876

The miseries of street car travel just now
are much enhanced by the cold weather,
which induces the passengers to close all the
means Of ventilation. AS consequence the
unfortunate mortal seated in q car crowded
with passengers standing and sitting, all
packed like sardines, runs a chance of
asphyxiation before he reaches the end of his
journey Let sanitarian attempt to open a
window and he becomes the enemy of every
rheumatic or asthmatic individual in the car
and the apertgres are Indignantly closed and
the foul process of suffocation goes on. 1t is
wonderful how complacently the public
submits to this disgraceful crowding. In
Paris the conductors steadily refuse admission
to the omnibuses if all the seats are filed /;
but here, where there is no law to prevent
overcrowding and apparently no public
spirit to put stop to it, the companies
make the public injury their profit Viewed
from the hygienic point the evil is far
greater than from that of comfort. The law
regulates the transit of cattle, but not of
human beings The scenes bordering on
brutality and full Of jndecency which the in
terror of crowded Third avenue car generally
presents call for some remedy. Who will
proceed to apply it? We have observed
recently that the Greenwich Street Elevated
Railroad, with its single rail, has become
utterly inadequate to the traffic its quick
transit attracts. In the afternoons pas
sengers are seen packing the cars as closely
as q Third avenue director could desire.
At the stations between the Battery and Hous-
ton street it is almost useless TO take ticket
for an up train at the hours of returning
from business, as the cars stopping there are
crowded to their utmost capacity when they
stop at the platform, and nobody gets out


This company opens its extension to Fifty
ninth street tomorrow, but this will only in
crease the public inconvenience in the direc-
ton we have named. Now, we are thankful
to this line for showing to capital that rapid
transit is profitable, but we protest against
its cars being turned into miasmatic
generators on the Third avenue horse car
principle. We observe that the latter
line has recently constructed few we'll
lighted and fairly ventilated cars, but they
are also made to hold more standing passen-
gers, and are thus quickly reduced in this
cold weather TO the fetid condition of the
stufiest little collins on the line. The pub
lie does not bear the overcrowdinG with good
Year: 1876

The silence Of our government regarding
the contents of Mr.. Fish's circular note to
the European Powers remains the more sur
prising as, day by day, we gather portions OF
that document from the various capitals OF
Europe. But we have something for Mr..
Fish in our special dispatches from Madrid
which will astonish him-namely SPANS
takes is likely to throw the American note
out of court in Europe, and so Spain may
play directly into the Presidents hands If he
is anxious for war. The statement that
Cubas trade with the United States is greater
than ever before is meant to counteract
the Presidents complaint of losses to our
commerce. The statement that Americans
have lived in Cuba engaged in business and
made fortunes there, is to defeat the plea
that our citizens are in jeopardy there What
happens to native Cubans, it inferentially
argues, is no concern of ours. But IN the
final clause of the Spanish note will be
found its strongest point-namely, that all
Just claims which America has brought
against Spain have been adjusted or are In
course of judicial adjustment This argu-
ment is very ingenious, and leaves it very
difficult to force q quarrel upon Spain by
mere diplomatic means.


The long course of extreme forbearance
and moderation which Mr. Fish has dis
played to Spain now returns to plague him.
We have no doubt that Spain, by quoting
from his own notes for the past five years,
can utterly confute him and laugh him
out of court The old-fashioned diplomacy
which delights him is here all against him,
and it leaves the question naked for the
President to handle in very different man
ner if he SO desires We have had adjust
ments," but not settlements, with Spain.
There was diplomatic patch up
in the case Of the Virginius, but no
satisfaction" Diplomacy has nominally
refined all the difficulties of our relations to
Cuba out of existence, but they remain for
all that fresh enough to be used by bold
hand Still, Spain has gained such an ad-
vantage in the diplomatic contest that it will
require roughshod work to put her in the
wrong, The Spanish note leaves the ques-
ton of war open, but it somewhat effectively
disposes of diplomatic reasons for conflict,
and puts the last touch of ridicule to the en-
deavor to make it a European question.
Year: 1876

Ever since the misgovernment of this city
became a public scandal the republican
party has been identified with the endeavors
to find remedy for the evil. 1t has made
many endeavors perhaps honestly intended,


to remedy the gross corruption but it has
been charged that the republican anxiety to
legislate rogues out of Office was not separable
from the desire to put republicans in their
places. But the party thus by the policy of
many years committed at least to the pre-
tence that it wishes to see this city honestly
governed is now in power at the State capital.


1t has majority at Albany, and, under the
recognized principles of government by
party, is responsible for the legislation of the
winter. 1t is demanded on the part of the
people of this city that the opportunity be
given them to rid themselves by election of
corrupt government. Last fall the people
rose up to fight their own cause at the polls,


and redeemed the courts from the domination
of the secret society that made and unmade
judges, not from any view of the public
interest, but from considerations Of the
control that Tammany politicians could
exercise over their action on the
Bench. From tile shadow of that
tyranny every judge was redeemed by the
viet5Ey Of the people. Now the people wish
to have the same opportunity with regard to
the officers charged with the administration