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Year: 1876

ISSUED FOR WILLIAM A. DARLING


AND SPENCER K. GREEN.


In the case Of Thompson W. Decker which was up
for examina at the Yorkvile Police Court yester-
day, Henry L Clinton, his counsel said he not
ready to 60 with the examination, and asked the
Court for adjournment Judge Duty set the case
down peremptorIy for Wednesday next at the Tombs,
where he is sitting this week for Judge Flammer In
the OF Mr. Clinton being ready 60 then
Mr. Decker's will be closed and the papers will
be transmitted the District Attorney. The
evidence for the prosecution is all in and all that is
needed close the the evidence for the defence


In behalf Of Mr. Morgan, another of the defendants
with Decker the charge Of perjury, Mr. Truax said
he was ready to 20 on at once.


Judge Duffy Expressed his anxiety to dispose Of the
whole quickly possible, in view Of the fact
that so many looking for decided action.
He decided therefore to take up Mr. Morgans case and
with those Of Carman Lyons and Bates also at the
Tombs on Friday afternoon


An application was then made by Benjamin A. Nc
Donald on behalf of Henry c. Ahrens hquor dealer
residing at No. 1927 Fourth avenue for for the
arrest Of William A Darling and Spencer K. Green.
They were connected with the Third Avenue Bank
ing 1S71-Green president and Darling secretary.
Mcdonald, as the expert accountant for Georgina r.
Levien the complainant against Decker Co., discov
cred during his examination OF the books OF the bank
that Green and Darling their turn had also
made q false statement OF the banks condition
TO the Bank superintendent Ahrens then de-
postor the extent of $500 and claims TO have been
derauded out OF that amount by the irregular action OF
the accused. The warrants were applied for under the
statute of 1873 The Court afer examining the statute
most carefully in book that had 10 be borrowed for
the occasion, granted the warrants, and they were
placed in the hands Of Sergeant Hicks OF the Court
Police squad for execution, The accused VIII
be arragned at tho Tombs to-day, before
Judge Duffy and will be there afforded opportunity,
together with the other distinguished gentlemen imp
Gated in this ugly business TO explain the charges pre-
ferred against them


Mr. s. IL Hard, The receiver Of the Third Avenue
Bank, in TO inquiries, yesterday stated 10 q
HERALD reporter that he expected to pay dividend OF
from fifteen twenty the dollar to the depos-
itors about the middle Of next month. BY waiting
thus long, he stated he would In all probability be able
to make better realization Of the assets than he
otherwise could do Already. he said he had made
$4,000 by waiting for the creditors on some bonds
which, had they been sold at the time he first ap
pointed would have had TO be sold at q sacrifice. Tho
total dividend the depostors may expect is more


likely TO be twenty-five cents than thirty although II
may probably reach the latter sum-
Year: 1876

MODE or ELECTING PRESIDENT
The method of electing the President
and Vice-President by a popular
vote instead Of the present clumsy
system of Presidential electors is
attracting consideration in different
portions Of the country. The main
reason for departing from the ordi-
nary course of electing chief execu-
tive officers, in use in every State,
and never opposed, so far as we
know, on any ground whatever, was,
that it was supposed that the politi-
cal excitement of a popular election
would be avoided by the system Of
electoral colleges. The theory was
that the contest would not be gen.
eral one, but the people in each
State would choose certain men in
whose character and judgment they
had confidence, and that the choice
of President and Vice-President
would devolve upon these men, who
would be unaffected by party intrigue
or popular clamor, and would make
the best selection of a chief magis-
trate of the nation. We all know
how utterly groundless this theory
has proved in practice. The parties
held their national conventions and
nominated their candidates precisely
as though there were no such things
in existence as electoral colleges.
The electors are chosen because
they have to be, and for the mere
purpose of voting for the candidate
of the party choosing them, without
exercising any judgment whatever.
Their Office is merely ministerial, and
their character and ability are of no
consequence whatever. The per-
sons whose merits are canvass
ed and who are really voted for
in the popular mind are the party
candidates for President and Vice.
President, and the popular excite
ment is the same as though there
we're no such machinery between
them and the object of their suffrages.
Thus the only object of the electoral
college device has failed, and there
IS no advantage left to weigh against
its serious objections.
Year: 1876

A. tells how ladies fish. He said he
saw four of them who had succeeded in
landing little founder No sooner lad
the poor fish struck the ground than ali
exclaimed in one voice:


Ouch Murder Take it away
Ugh the nasty thing!'


Then they hold up their skirts and
gather around the fish, and all the time
the one who caught the fish is holding the
liue in both hands, with her foot on the
pole, as though .he had an evil disposed
goat at the other end. which she expected
to butt her at any moment, Then they
talk over it.


"How will we get it OFF,"


"Ain't it preity?'


Look how it pants"


"Wonder it it amt dry?"


Poor little thing, lets put it back


How will we get the hook from it?'


Pick it up" says girl, who backs
rapidly out of the circle.


Good gracious! Pm afraid of it,
There it's opening its mouth at ME"


Just then the fish wiggles off the hook
apd disappears in the water, and the girls
try fer another bite.
Year: 1876

An old woman, dim eyed and bent, sat
on bench at the door of hut in spring
time. Above her head rose tree that
bad just put on its first leaves. Behind
her ran river, down which a vessel was
making way in the direction of the sea.
On the roof of the little hut, birds were
resting in the fresh, warm air. Near the
old wOman's feet sat little girl who had
been reading. The book lay open at her
side,


The little girl looked up at the old wo.
man with wonder and child.ike pity,


"Shall ever be like that p thought the
little child. "Cau do anything for you
granny" said ste.


And granny. 6ozing in the run, thought
to herself, "Ah, my voice was once like
that, and my feet and hands we're swift to
nelp; out now L am old.


The wind blew softly, the birds chirp-
ed, and she dozed off into q dream of her
own childhood. The fields we're green
around her, for it was full spring; the
doves were cooiDg; and she was playing
with ball by the side of her mother.


River, river, where are you flowing to E?
The river, which came from the noun.
tains, is going to the sea, where it will be
lost in the great world of waters.


The trees and hill.sides will put on q
deeper green, fer the summer will follow
the spring. But the summer, too, will
pass; the brown autumn will come; the
leaves will fall ; the winds will blow; and
some night, when the little girl is asleep.
a frost will kill of the last struggling
flower. Good bye, flower! goodbye,
leavesl But you will come again in the
spring.


Aud what will the little maid do? She
also will pass through spring to summer,
from summer to autumn, and SO on
through the failing years, to the wintry
days. Then some one shall give her back
the love and care she gave in her own
early springtime to the old and feeble
grandmother.
Year: 1876

me to my bed and sit down and listen t
my tale" She complied with his request
and he continued. "My father and
mother were taken from me while | wa.
very young, not without riches and was
placed under the care Of one Mr.. Prince
lie sent me to the best schools of art and
there |, he said, spent all my money and
| returned without cent to buy mates
rlals to continue In my trade. l went
into a store and remained with one now
dead, until felt keen reouke from an
admirer of his daughter. Then l resolved
to make my home in some romantic region
where could picture nature. Purchasing
materials with ;he fur animals kill in
the winter. These pictures you see are
the work of ten years. For that time
have been in this haunt never once speak,
ing to man unless buying materials. l
have become, as the people say, Hermit,
so that may gain the hand of one young
lady, whom know not whether to be
alive or dead. Her father was my friend
and being rich assisted me while In his
employ. His tenderness | shall never
forget and his picture with his daughters
have. from imagination placed on canvass
l resolved to become great ard worthy of
her love. l have labored for God and
her all the time, and now he is calling
ME to Him before my purposes are sc>
compliShed-my breath comes hard-I
see an angel becoming 20 me to come up
higher" rising be tries to 60, but he's too
weak and falls back saying, "God bles:
Clara" and dies.


There sits Miss Manning over the dead
body of one who had noble intentions, but
died without performing them. Silently
she sits alone with the dead. Ills spirit
has gone above, while his body remains
to moulder back to dust. She prepares
the corpse as best she can and searches to
find some clue to who and what he is.
She finds some writings which tell the
story OF the Hermit. 1t was no other
than Hans Sachs, and be was working to
claim the love of Clara Manning. In his
will he bequeathed to his lady friend all
his paintings which afterwards adorned
her house.


After these papers were read she places
them in her pocket and returned to her
home and hasted back with her friends to
bury Hans Sachs.


A while after the city of--was filled
with excitement, Mr.. Prince, the guardian
of Hans Sachs was on trial, charged with
retaining most Of his money. The case,was
at last decided, and Mr.. Prince became
an inmate of the State prison, while his
son, CHARLES Prince, the"Shallow Egotist,'
becoming depraved, died drunkard.


THE END.
Year: 1876

it in strong language. For say what they


will, it is well understood that JEFF Davis
does in his bitterness and hatred repres.
ent very large element of the South.
Such men, the party of which they ara
component parts, are uRsafe to trust with
the deStinies of the nation. II the people
of the country can see how they express
themselves they will not TO trusted.


There is really nothing of interest in
the proceedings of either House, or in
foreign affairs except that the Alionsists
of Spain seem to be about to succeed in
driving the Carlists out of the country.
The Centennial appropriation has become
a law and the buildings are being rapid
ly completed. Tie exposition at Philadel-
phia will be the grandest that the world
ever saw. MAX
Year: 1876

The Finance Department notifies the public that the
books taxes personal property aud bank stock
will be ready Tor payment on Friday next


reduction will be made at the rate OF seven per
cent per from the date OF payment TO the LIST
day OF December all taxes paid prior 10 the 1st day
o. November
Year: 1876

We Shall begin to have cold rains and
cold nights and As they draw nigh, farm
erS mechanics, and All who have voung
chickens should see that they have com
Portable places for shelter bv day and
night, where they can be kept warm and
dry, and above all, kept from a draught
OF wind BY doing this Won will avoid
most ot the diseases that fowls and chick
ems are subject TO. A cold is but a Slight
disease, Yet il neglected too long ii re-
suits IN roup. Then you begin to com
PLAN OF your fowls being sick, and thinl,
that some fatal disease has taken hold OF
them This is the case if YOU let ii 90
too long but by caution and good man
agement YOU can avoid this disease. the
worst Of all that comes upon Il flock Of
fowls. Give Your fowls good ventilation.
good clean Water-bc sure that their f0un-
tains are cleaned every day. good sweet
grain, boiled potatoes and other vegeta-
hles 1t you have them. and occasionally a
little fresh meat and oyster shells. Fowls
want change Of food often, and a plenty,
bat not enough to make them fat and lazy,
especially the Asiatic variety. a good
dust-pan filled with ashes or sand is ndls-
ptnsable to chicks that art cooped up
Attend strictly to the health OF Your birds
keep the droppings gathered up each day,
and then When You pay them a visit they
Will be glad to see Won In return for
your labor YOU viii be well paid BY a
good lot Of nice fresh eggs. and good
healthy fowl for the table when Won want
one.
Year: 1876

We cannot expect to ENJOY such warm and
beautiful weather as we have experienced in
the past month, and as It is necessary with many
Of our ladies to practice economy In the purchase
OF warm WTsppipgs for winter, to do this It is
the great oblect to invest in that which is both
useful and durable, and nothing can be found to
better fill the bill than good set of furs. seal
muf and boa, or seal-skin saeque or cap. A good
article Of this kind Will last q very long time,
and is suitable upon most all occasions, while
there Is nothing that goes to make mp lady's
wardrobe as comfortable and yet so stylish.
MessrV, Willett Ruoff's stock Of seal, mink,
martin and lynx fur goods is unequaled In the
cIty and their prices are reduced SO that all may
dTess stylishly and comfortably even If their
1esns are limited. To all desiring goods Of this
ehsTacter no greater inducements have ever been
ofeyed in the city than those held out by VIII.
Iett 4 Ruof, 9O5 PennsylTanis avenue, and GER
tsinIy their prices are remarkably low.
Year: 1876

The recent extremely hot weather
has caused a writer to speak in this
manner in regard to the power of en-.
during heat:


1t is generally supposed that the hui
man frame cannot endure great heat,
and. II exposed TO it, will soon sink
into exhaustion. This is true in hot
climate, to which people have not
been accustomed. But in this case
the effect may be due to influences
from vegetation, or to some disturbance
of nature. 1t is certain that artificial
heat far greater than the heat OF the
sun is in the Torrid Zone may be
borne without special suffering or
harm,


The "British Journal OF Science"
says that men in iron establishments
work without inconvenience with the
thermometer constantly at one hum
dred and twenty degrees, and in pits
for making the Bessemer steel at one
hundred and forty degrees. In Turk
ish baths the shampooners are often
busiiy engaged for four or five hours
in succession, with the temperature at
one hundred and ten degrees. In the
Red Sea Steamers the stokehole marks
one hundred and ten degrees, and in
enamel works the operators are COM
PEELED daily to endure heat of three
hundred degrees. The elastic power
of the body to accommodate itself to
the extremes is wonderful.



General Phil Sheriden is still filing
dispatches in Chicago to the General
of the army. Secretary Cameron ought
to detail clerk from the War DE.
partment to file the dispatches, and
send General Sheridan to the front
against the Indians. This is not the
proper business for Sheridan to be en-.
gagged in when a war is raging on the
frontier, and hundreds of gallant men
are falling before willy and treacher-
GUS foe. What are general and a
lieutenant general good for it they do
not fight when there is fighting to be
done?-Bdlt. Gdzette.


- S ~
Year: 1876

As appears by the article printed else.
where in to-day's HERALD, both the public
and the Croton officials are beginning to re-
alize the dangers of disastrous water fam-
inc unless something is done to economizs
the present miserable supply and to tap
new and reliable sources. We have so fire.
quently warned the public Of the near ap-
proach of this distressing condition of affairs
that it now seems useless to revert to the
many arguments we adduced in favor OF
the truth of our assumptions Without
eral alarm we feel impelled by the
admitted helplessness of the water off,
cials in this crisis to protest against the
bungling that has marked the management
Of this important department. AS far back
as 1884 the blundering began by the selec.
ton of the Croton watershed as the main
source of supply. The ignorance on the
part of the first Commissioners of the me-
neurological and geological conditions re-
quired to secure reliable supply of water
for great and growing city has created an
evil to-day that will take millions of dollars
to remedy.


Regarding the present failure of the sup
ply it is only necessary to state that
Commissioner Campbell has issued two
circulars, calling on the public to exercise
rigid economy in the use Of Croton water,
in order to 'avoid the serious disaster of a
water famine" He further prohibits the
use of water in certain ways for the washing
of carriages and public conveyances, and
threatens to cut off the water supply wher-
ever the regulations as announced are not
complied with. Did we need any evidence
Of the extremely unfavorable condition Of
the water supply other than that of its
failure in certain uptown districts the cir
culars referred to would furnish it, and we
must, therefore, recognize the unpleasant
fact that we are in danger of water famine.
But it must be remembered that the failure
of the supply does not entirely arise from
waste in the city. The sources in the Croton
Valley have dried up, the springs men
toned in the Commissioners last report as
pouring their waters into the lakes have no
existence, the Croton Lake itself is rapidly
filing with mud, and the whole water sys-
tenn is proving utterly inadequate for the
supply of New York, whether our citizens
waste or economize.
Year: 1876

because fragments of old iron fshed up in


the Detroit River between the United States
and Canada are made subject to duty as


'Jetsam," or because goods damaged in
foreign harbor have been taxed on their in
voice value? The amusing and applauded
parts of Mr.. Wells speech consisted
In the recital of facts as trivial as
these. facts more grotesque than important,
and which merely throw ridicule on some of
the decisions of the revenue officers, but do
not touch the root even of the free trade
question. No votes are to be made by such
topics, nor by any form of free trade discus
sion at this late stage of the canvass The
influence of Mr.. Wells speech will be MI, be-
cause it was mainly devoted to question
which is not one of the issues of this Presi-
Dental canvass.
Year: 1876

The difference between the Spanish and
the American character is frequently illus
trated in this city by revelation not unlike
that which is contained in our columns this
morning. A circus company is about to sail
for the West Indies and South America, and
this circumstance, apparently SO unimpor-
tant in itself, at once excites the suspicion Of
the Spanish Consul in New York and
arouses all the energies OF the Alfonsist gov
ernment. When Don Carlos came here he
was followed and annoyed by so-called de-
tectives, who were the agents, it was believed,
of the Spanish government. In many other
cases has this Spanish spy system
and it is about time that the
obnoxious practice should cease. 1t is an
insult to the American people that the
Spanish government should attempt such
espionage in New York, and if it is allowed
to continue its effects will be deleterious in
more ways than one. Already we hear Of
political leaders who put spies not only upon
their enemies but their friends. Underlying
the politics of this city there is spy system
which would astonish the steady going
American citizen. Spies infest the courts
and help to manufacture evidence for the
side by which they are employed. Even in
the great corporations there is spy sys-
tenn which affects the prices Of stocks and
paralyzes legitimate business operations No
man is sure that the acquaintance who button
holes him on the street corner is not spy for
something or somebody The hospitable
gentleman may awake some day to the fact
that the friend who has been putting his legs
under the mahogany is spy earning his
bread where he is eating it. The influential
American, at home or abroad, is liable to be
shadowed by the agent of some political boss
or financial manipulation. The detective is
everywhere, and even foreign governments
act rs II he was necessary everywhere. Spain
puts spies upon every ship that sails out of
our harbors and upon every American official
who has anything to do with Spanish or
Cuban affairs, and does it with impunity.
Nobody is safe or can be safe while such a
system lasts, and it will last until those pry-
ING rascals. who are pryinG into svsrJbody's
Year: 1876

The Ottoman Empire is now on the table,
of the operation to be performed. In the
six weeks of the immediate future the
statesmen Of Europe, the surgeons in the
case. have to determine problem that has
been before them in more or less ''palpi-
tating" condition for fifty years. They may
yet quarrel among themselves and not
operate at all. This is nm eventuality that
is highly probable: for the demands made by
Russia as to preliminary conditions are
thought in some quarters to be extreme
and may be resisted SO far as to
cause an arrest of proceedings at the point
now reached. Russia demands, first, that
Turkey shall have no voice as to what is to
be done-that is that she be handed over
absolutely to the surgeons; England strenu-
ously objects to this. Russia demands that
as the fate of the Christian provinces is the
subject of deliberation they be covered by a
sort of diplomatic lis peadeas-that is that
they be taken out of the control of
the Sultan by the immediate withdrawal
from their limits of the Turkish armies.
Russia further proposes that the rev.
enue of the provinces shall be deposited,
subject, apparently, to the result Of tho ne
gotiations-that is, that the administration
shall now actually be taken from the Turk
and the property treated as if it were in the
hands Of receiver. These demands seem
to denote q foregone conclusion. 1t is this
appearance in them that is unpleasant to
nations which do not altogether sympathize
with Russian purposes and England as the
most outspoken of these, may withdraw
rather than be party to settlement
likely to be too deeply tinctured with
Muscovite views. If England objects to
conditions likely to satisfy Russia, Germany
and Austria, and withdraws on account of
them, then she will repeat her action on
the Berlin note; but the immediate alter
native will be war and the annihilation of
the Ottoman Empire in Europe If England
remains and participates the settlement
will be far more favorable to the Sultan, and
consequently to England's interest in him.
England will therefore stomach a great deal
that does not please her ere she withdraws.
1t is perceptible that certain of the Rus
sian demands do not receive unanimous
support even in Russia. There is an
ultra Russian Iparty to which the Mos
lem is the common enemy, not only Of
the Russian but of the human race, and
there is party whose national impulses are
qualified by European views and the knowl-
edge that it is wiser to endure some evils
than to endeavor to cure them. But the
former has possession of the nation just now,
and though the Czar sympathizes with the
latter he is compelled to yield his views.
The revival Of the rumor as to the Cars
abdication seems to indicate that the col
lision Of views is at present somewhat fierce.


Mr.. THAyER's SrEEcH.-Mr. James s.
Thayer made an able and eloquent speech
at the Cooper Institute meeting last even
ing. Mr.. Thayer is one of the most popu-
lar, interesting and accomplished platform
speakers in the State, and is always listened
to with great attention and pleasure by
Jorocrot,n ouJs.urn