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Year: 1876

Frank McConachi. previously arrested on suspicion, was again arrested late Saturday night on Long Island, charged with the murder of the child Maggie Bower. He was taken to the spot where the body was found. The prisoner nembled violently. and completely broke down and made a full confession, not only of the crime, but of the manner In which he committed it. His horrible confession is as follows |: On the afternoon of the 14th of August he was in a cornfield when Maggie went to show Kate Hoffman the way thr ough the woods to the Valley Stream depot. He Saw them both go past the corndeld. watch ed for Msggie's return, and as she got op poslte to him he sprang out at her and grappled her by the throat to prevent her from making noise. the poor child mean while crying Ma, ma." At this point in the con fession the mother of Maggie, who was present, sprang upon the prisoner with the ferocity of tigress. and grappled him by the throat. The officer took her off. McC Conachi added that after choking Mag gie, he kept his grasp upon her throat and carried her through the cornfeld to the woods. where he attempted violence, and crammed leaves and the corner of her bon net into her mouth. tying the strings to- gether about her neck. He also took her waist-ribbon and tied it tightly around her neck, which completed the work of murder, He afterward broke down some cedar limbs SO that he could find the body after dark for the purpose oe hiding it more ef- fectually, but after the darkness came on he was afraid to go near the place. After McConachi had made this terrible comics. sion he was taken by he officers to the Valley Stream depot to take the train back to Jamaica. Here the confession being noised about, 8 crowd soon gathered with rope and the prisoner was saved with great difficulty from immediate death by iynching, the officers threatening to shoo the first person who approached them. He was returned in safety to his cell at Js maica.

 McConachi is 27 years old and is native of this country. His family are highly re- spected residents of Brooklyn, and fol some time past have refused to have any thing to do with him.
Year: 1876



 In recognition of that religious faith by which the people of Connecticut have been taught, as the seasons of each year revolve, to set apart day for the special manifes- tation of their gratitude to the Divine Ruler of the Universe for the bounties of His providence. I do hereby appoint Thurs day, the thirtieth day of November next, as day of public thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God by the people of Connect icut.

 And I request all persons throughout the state to observe the day in manner be- coming purpose so high and holy. Given under my hand and the seal of the state, at Hartford, this twenty eighth day of October. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy six. and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and first.

 CHARLES R. INeRRsoLL. By His Excellency's command:

 M. H. SANGER, Sec'y of State.
Year: 1876

A bear hunt on a steam boat is something of novelty. While passing down the Ot- tawa recently the passengers of the steamer John Egan caught sight of bear swim ming across Ouisseau lake. and induced the captain to send boat after him. Bruln was captured with . moose, lowed to the steamer and hoisted on board. When he reached the deck, however, he got loose and made dash for the ladies' cabin. The ladies rushed out in wild confusion and fled to the lower deck. The engineer fol- lowed the pear into the cabin and drove him out on deck, where he was shot.
Year: 1876

THR Ccsr OF LIvNa.-Provisions of all kinds have kept up in price despite hard times and the marked shrinkags in values. To the many idle and needy of the popula- tion, this has rendered hard times douhly hard to bear, and now the prospect is good for marked advance in all kinds of bread stuffs, as consequence of Russia, and perhaps other European powers, becoming parties to the Turkish-Servian war. To the great mass of non-producers this would be . gloomy promise were it not that the same cause which will create this enhanced demand for the productions of our soil, will also powerfully stimulate every industry in the country, and thus open the way fol hands now idle to earn the wherewith tc pay for dear bread and dear neat. Ger tainly, great as is cur distress, we can scarcely wish for relief at the price of peo. pie cutting each others throsts, and yet, ID no other way are we 30 likely to be set or our feet again as speedily ss through the agency of general European war.
Year: 1876

He came home one night with torn coat which she kindly undertook to mel d, but when she turned it upside down % that . letter and Domestic FAshion" of new oyerskirt, which she had given him to mail to her mother some two weeks before, tumbled out of one of the pockets, 1t was SO lively there for the next ten minutes that his first move in the morning was in the direction of wig store, to the proprietor of which he gravely explained that close application to the study of the Foreign Policy of the Khsdive of Egypt had done 1t.
Year: 1876

The question of cheap or dear coal for the coming winter is by no means settled yet, and the fear is expressed in various quarters that the old combination will be formed again. The big companies are al- ready acting in concert so far as to agree upon at least partial suspension of work. to begin very soon. Production has de- creased in the SchuYlkill and Lackawana districts within few weeks past. and all the companles have been cutting wages se- verely. It is undoubtedly true that these concerns have been making very little money since the combination broke. but they can't get prices back to the old fig tires.
Year: 1876

B.F. Lippincott has still very large stock
of plants and flowers on hand at his nursery
and greenhouse on Broad street which he is
selling very low. Ladies call and examine
bis stock.
Year: 1876




Congress-more particularly the
House of Representatives, just now
engaged in the business of panorama
izing the rebellion, and as the ugly in
cidents of that period of unpleasant
memory pass before the audience, a
Democrat or Republican, tells what
he knows about it. They each speak
from hearsay only for be it known
that the men who talk most of the re-
bellion, and who never weary of hurl-
ing crimmations and recrimmations,
are the men whose knowledge of bat
ties and whose descriptions of the
crash and carnage of contending ar
mics, are CLEANED from books and the
letters of the war correspondent. The
men who were there-wbo fought on
one side or the other and grappled in
the struggle which they meant should
end in death or victory, are now
friends and would much rather forget
than revive their recollections of these
scenes. We do not know that any
good can come from these acrimonious
debates, but if gentlemen delight in
them, let them indulge to their hearts
content. The people are not interest
ed. What has been done is beyond
recall. What is to be done is matter
of nluch more importance, because its
shape and control is within our own
hands. What matters it now If out
rage and cruelty is traceable to both
sides in the rebellion. The incidents
of war are generally unpleasant.
There is little about them upon which
we delight to dwell in time of peace.
The nation has hideous skeleton in
the closet. 1t is a sight comparatively
few delight to look upon, but there are
a few who love to gaze on the horrible
and quite number of these have
found their way into Congress. Let
them open the closet door of their ma
lures are such that to look upon it's
contents give them pleasure. Politi-
clans aud place hunters may revive
the war and fight it over as they
fought it before-at safe distance
from the battle field-but little or no
capital can be made of that class of
stock, in trade at this late day. The
people prefer to consider how they can
best free themselves from the burdens
of the war to wasting their time in
fighting its battles over again.
Year: 1876

THE virtue and piety which the
world so we'll knows lives in q Demo-
cratic majority cannot eradicate that
foul weed, the lobby, from the Legis-
lature. We are assured that there is
well organized and powerful lobby
sucking like mammoth leech at the
peoples money through the present
Legislature. The leaders of the Goths
will turn their forces loose for the ac-
complishment of any job with dollars
and cents in it; but the great Bonanza
for which the lobby is working is a
bill for the issuance of two and a half
million dollars municipal bonds for
the San Francisco City Hall. The
Democratic majority must beware of
this City-Hall Nemesis. 1t may lose
the party the vote of San Francisco
forever. The people of that city are
heavily taxed now. et- .t.s.e
Year: 1876

The labored effort of the Express to
make it appear that the HERALD has
attacked the validity of land titles in
this valley will hardly serve its pur-
pose. 1t is the business of a newspa-
per to give the current news. In al
luding to disputes as to boundaries
and titles We made no statement that
was not known to parties interested.
Already the Government has taken
decisive action in the case of one pat
ent alluded to, and it is probable the
other disputes will come up in due
time. In regard to what was said rel
ative to the Santa Monica and San
Vicente ranches, was it not true? Is
1T not true that the question of boun-
dary between the two grants is in dis
pute? Is it not true that the owners
of five-twelfths of the Santa Monica
grant deny that the line runs where
the owner of the remainder of the
grant claims that il does? Is IL not





true that this matter Is nowinlitiga-
tion? Is 1t not true that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company deny that
the area of the San Vicente grant is as
large by three-6fths as the owners
claim? Is it not true that the briefs
are printed and the case in tbs hands
of the attorneys? And finally, is it
more than right and just that contem-
plating purchasers of land in either of
these grants should know the charac-
ter of the titles with which they have
to deal? We would not Intentionally
cloud any mans title, nor will we
knowingly deceive people by repre-
senting as perfect title which is so
far from it as to furnish the courts
with lawsuits, and the lawyers with
five thousand dollar briefs. We had
Year: 1876

OUR report shows fall in mining
stocks yesterday. Some of the lead
ing stocks went down rapidly and the
indications are that there will be but
little, if any rally to-day. Stock deal
ers may as we'll prepare themselves
for considerable decline. The grow
ing tightness of the money market,
and the withdrawal of a large amount
of capital that has heretofore been ab-
sorbed in mining speculations, has
caused scarcity of stock buyers which
must produce decided impression on
California street. The late rise, by
which several leading stock brokers
realized handsomely, appears to have
been spasmodic effort to make win
ming on bluffing hand.
Year: 1876

THE Sacramento Record thinks it
would be an outrage and all insult to
Union soldiers to restore the Southern
veterans of the war of 1872 to the pen
sion roll. The editor of that paper,
some years ago, ridiculed the idea of
celebrating the anniversary of the bat
tie of New Orleans. The peculiar
views of the gentleman on these two
points is explained by the fact that he
is subject of Queen VICTORIA, and
declines to become a citizen of the
United States.
Year: 1876

IT has been wisely said that the man
who does not read the advertisements
in newspaper, is like the traveller
who passes along strange road with
out consulting the guide-boards, and
it may be also said that the man who
has anything to sell, and does not adj
vertise' it, is like one who invites his
neighbors to a feast and nails up the
doors of his house to prevent their en-
franpa
Year: 1876

hoped that these matters would be
permitted to take their course in the
courts without further reference there
to by us, but as the Express continues
to let its zeal TO serve its masters out
run its judgment, by making false
charges against the HERALD, we feel
it our duty to once more repeat in self
justification what all concerned know
to be true.
Year: 1876

Remaining unsold in the Park View Tract
bounded by Temple street on the South
Pearl street on the West, Canal and Reser
voir street on the North, and Philadelphia
street on the East.
Year: 1876

The Esqnimanx are not an interesting
people. Spread over nearly the whole of
the northern coasts of America, they differ
in form, manner and customs from any
other race on the continent. They resemble
more some Of the natives of the north of
Europe than the American Indians. In
stature they are below Europeans generally.
Those to the northwest of Hudson Bay are
OF larger size than those Of Labrador, but
all are dwarfish. But although they are
dlminutive, they are well-formed and hardy.
Their compilations are clear and their skin
smooth. 1t has, been remarked that in this
respect " there are more shapes of dirt than
any other shade of difference" Their hair
is black and straight; the men wear theirs
loose, but the women, who take pride in it,
separate it in two portions, so that one part
hangs over each shoulder. Some of the
men wear the beard on the upper lip and
cut the hair on the crown like the tonsure
of a monk. Many of the women and child
ren have pleasing countenances, even after
the strictness of the European standard
The old, however, are often exceedingly
ugly.


Wars are unknown among the Esqul-
ma1x, though the Indians sometimes pur-
sue them with ferocious vindictiveness.
Fighting is not their trade; they are fisher
men, not warriors. And yet the fact that
they are not towards is well established
for they will sometimes attack a bear single
handed; indeed, they frequently cour
danger that ordinary discretion would warn
them against. Inquest Of fish or game they


will fearlessly trust themselves, on floating


pieces OF ice where an European would no


dare to set his foot.
Year: 1876

his father sent him to the public house for
whiskey or gin, the little lad took his share
OF it before he brought it home. What re-
mains OF the joys that ought to surround a
family upon their domestic hearth? Not
vestlge of tenderness remains; a demorali-
zing poverty comes in it's lowest and most
hldeous form. In its train it brings all the
vices, all the coarseness, all the bestiality
which is forced upon those who have the
misfortune of perceiving this lowest and
most degrading form Of poverty.-Father
Tom Burke.
Year: 1876

We all have them to bear, and there is no
escape. With some the burden is poverty,
with others ignoranance, or loneliness or
care, or neglect, or ill-health, or bereave-
ment, and no two burdens are alike Some
carry load of unsatisfied longing and of
quenchless aspiration from the cradle to
the grave. This is the grandest burden
one can bear, as that Of conscious guilt is
heaviest and most grievous


Sometimes we are able to shift the weight
from one shoulder to the other, but often
it as q yoke on our necks that with all our
efforts will stay in just the one place. Due
attention to business, careful investments
and shreWd foresight enable many to rise
from poverty to wealth, but in dong this
they by no means get rid of that trouble
to which all men are boI1l-panics frighten
and ruin them, railroads become insolyent,
banks break, flood and fire and WhirlWind
desolate, insurance companies fail.


ssAnd when he thinks, good, easy, man, full


surely


His greatness is a-ripening, ,-nips his root,


And then he falls-,'


The burden of ignorance, is another that
may be sensibly lightened so long as con-
tinued progress up the nights Of learning
gives one the consciousness of advancement,
but the higher we get the more do we see
of the unknown and the unknowable, the
further do we move ourselves from SYM
pathy with the mass of our fellows. Noun
tain tops are cold aud solitary, and, for the
most part, unfrequented. We change the
place and keep the pain, and so we are
forced at last to the conclusion that the
poet taught us long ago, though we would
not learnit, that:


Not enjoyment and not sorrow


Is our destined end of way:


But to act that each tomorrow,


Find us farther than to-day.


Wechildren, old and young, are al at
school; tasks are given us to perform,, and
there is dark closet or a hickory switch, or
keeping in after school for those who are
idle or insnbordinate or stupid. Divine
Providence takes us all in hand, and, reward
ing the diligent, visits condign punishment
sooner or later OH all offenders and delia~
quents. There is no choice at all in the
alatter; the issue is obedience or disobedi-
ence,s with reward or penalty. Not seldom
Year: 1876

Now, my friends, 1t is not only the evil of
the State as we have seen, but it is, second
ly, the domestic evil. All, my dear friends,
the highest honor that God gives to man,
perhaps, is the honor Of making him the f;l-
ther of a family. He is, under God, the Gre
ator of that family that grows around him.
He has brought his child into the world, and
God has conferred on him the honor, and at
the same time, the responsibility and obliga-
ton, to be the father of the child's soul as
the body. The little child, borne upon it's
mothers bosom, is the father of the man
that is to be in twenty years time; but the
soul can scarcely be said to be born into ac-
tive life, and that soul must be born, and
reared and brought up in that infant child
by education.


The fathers example must go before that
child, even as the Angel Of God went before
the children of Israel in the shape Of pillar
of ffre-a burning, shining light OF virtue !!
Oh! what blessing it is for the grown man,
in after life, to be able to look back to the
days of early boyhood, and say of the old
man now in his. grave: 81 never heard a
bad word from him; I never saw him in a
position unworthy of man; never heard
from his lips, or saw in his life, anything
that could teach me sin or vice; the exam
pie on which my character was formed was
tian." 1t is the highest blessing perhaps,
that God can give to man and this is sure
" blessing that the drunkard denies to the
child that God gave him in this world. How
do they grow up? They see their mother
pining away-:in unwomanly rags; they sc
her lack-lustre eyes; they see the evidences
of despair in her pale, emaciated face. They
perhaps, see her with fear and terror in
their young hearts, in the day when shs in
her despair takes to drinking and becomes
the most hideous thing in this world-a
drunken woman. In the meantime the IA
ther, loosing his employment and the conf
dence of those around him, becomes a be-
sotted dlVnkard, falls from step to step,
from one abyss of depravity to another; and
the young childtfs sent out to learn all that
Is bad in the world. Perhaps his uniform
life ofthe street, andT the nightly message
on which he is perpetrally running is to the
grog-shop or the saloon; now for beer, now
for ale, now for whiskey; the only idea OF
enjoyment as they grow up is what they
see their parents enjoying; and have my
self known a little boy, before he was four


teen years of age, become confirmed and
/ .irreclaimable drunkard> BECAUSE. every time
Year: 1876

The DEATH KIss.-W Woman's love! Is
there anything like it? A Canadians wife
has just died in Raleigh, and he has taken
her to Canada to, bury her under the native
sod. She died in land of strangers, but
she left behind the name of devoted
wife. 1t was love in death. He saw her
sinking fast-he knew it, she knew tit
was consumption. He nursed her like q
child, the great strong man, and there they
were in the room together the night
she died. She wanted to see out, to gaze
once more at the world outside; but he en-
treated her against it, and told told her that
to take her up would make her worse but
she told him she was dying anyway, and
he lifted her tenderly in his armsand walked
with her about the room, holding her to
his breast and showing her this object and
that, pointing out every pleasant thing, and
she kissing him with every breath till the
last breath had gone, and the kiss died cold
on his cheek. When God made man, he
put all OF heavens in woman's love, and
told him to win it, and be worthy Of it.
Tcksbug Herald.
Year: 1876

The winter fashions (says the Paris cor
respondent of the Philadelphia telegraph
have now assumed fixed and decisive
type. The hopes of the lovers of modesty
and easy movements that the tie-back was
was about to disappear have all been blight
ed. Dresses, both for street and evening
wear, are still fastened tightly back, though
Partisan good taste never suffers a fashion
to be pushed to the extreme, and so a belle
in full dress can walk and sit down without
any apparent difficulty, though to pick up
her handkerchief from the floor would be a
manifest impossibility for her to accom-
plish. lady who has recently returned
from England tells me that the tie-back
mama has ragged there in fashionable So
ciety to most absurd and exaggerated ex-
tent. Not only were dress skirts made so
marrow and fastened SO tightly that lady
in full dress could get into carriage with
difficulty, and that only at one specified
side, but not content with suppressing like
the French bellies, all under-petticoats save
one of elastic woolen webbing, the English
DANES suppressed the petticoat altogether,
confining their underwear to what l, for
modesty's sake, must style cdleoonS Of glove
fitting buckskin. No wonder that a certain
fashionable duchess, having carelessly
thrown herself down on the green sward at
garden-party, found herself unable to
rise, and was forced to be assisted into q
perpendicular position by two of her gem
tlemen friends.
Year: 1876




A large part of the criminal cases tried
at New CASTLE during this term of Court, as
at other terms, will be of trivial nature,
and ought to be heard by a court of inferior
powers, sitting more frequently. 1t is
grievous expense TO the country to maintain
in prison scores of persons charged with
minor offenses, for months, or perhaps half
a year, and how much crime and vice are
begotten in jail crowded to twice its Ca
pacity, during the intervals of Court can
only be guessed at. The rapid manner in
which the Coutrt will dispose of many Of
the charges of larceny, assault, selling
liquor, &c., &C., will show conclusively the
truth of what we say-that great part OF
the criminal business is of too trivial a
character to wait for the half yearly terms
of the Court. and ought to be disposed OF
by a Judge and jury sitting for the disposal
of such business at least once in two
menths.
Year: 1876

lather came around the corner of the
fence.


80 you have got we'll very quickly.
said father, i suspected as much from
what overheard as was going upstairs
this morning, but did not think son Of
mine would break Gods holy day in this
way. but would remember, if no one else
saw, Gods eye was upon us ALL


We did not Try to make any excuse, for
1t would have done naSood. We were
lust caught in the act. Father was firm
believer in the creed. 1.-THE rod is spared
the child is spoiled and tue rod was not
spared this lime. We could both testify
to that. and never had the least desire
aiterward 10 escape from our accus. .omed
Sabbath duties.


Although fathers fayorilc minister
preaced that day, he remained at home
with US. He first gave each of US a
bible, told US to open at the first chapter
OF John, aud commit i, 10 memory.
which We did very willingly thinking
ourselves very fortunate to ges Of so
easily as that"


Grandpa used to add, There never
was chapter could remember as
could that, and can repeat it now il !
am over seventy years old. Henry told
ne confidently tba. Sundays did not
seem so long to him, after that as they
did before