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Year: 1875

The Coroner's jury of Brooklyn have re-
turned verdict in the case of Krummeyer
who was crowded off the steamer William
Cook on Sunday, to the effect that 'the
owners or lessees of the William Cook are
censurable for their reckless disregard of
human life in loading their boat beyond its
capacity and also for not providing for the
better security of passengers in the event Of
accidents" 1t appeared in evidence that
when Krummeyer was crowded off the vessel
she had twenty-five hundred persons on
board, and that the passengers were obliged
to stand outside of the railing. We believe
the law limits this vessel to five hundred
passengers, so that we had fragrant viola
ton of law which resulted in the death of
one citizen. This shameless habit may at
some future day, if not amended, lead to
terrible calamity This whole business of
steamer excursions should be submitted to
the severest discipline. Sunday is
a favorite day for excursions during
the summer. On this day of rest
to so many thousands of our laboring poor
nothing is more natural than that the hard
working man, with bis wife and children,
should seek few hours at the seashore or in
the forest. Instead of ministering to this
desire in legitimate, prudent manner, our
boat owners and boat lessees are reckless,
avaricious, careless. Last Sunday there was
a race between the Long Branch boat and the
Staten Island ferryboat that frightened
women and children and came upon the
verge Of terrible accident. The William
Cook ran into RockNway burdened to the
waters edge, with two thousand five hundred
people. What excuse could there be if this
vessel had metwith an accident and had gone
down with the hundreds of souls on board
and no possible means of saving them? Now
that public opinion is awakened we trust that
our authorities will not pause until they
have remedied it altogether and made an
example of the boat owners, who care nothing
for the comfort of the people so long rs they
make large sums Of money.
Year: 1875

German journal--the Chicago Stats
Zeifunq announces that it will support Gen
eral Grant on a hard money platform against
any candidate who favors imitation or rag
money All right. But General Grant is
not the only possible hard money candidate.
There is Mr.. Washburne, who has lived
among hard money Frenchmen so long now
that he would, undoubtx ly, favor a hard
money platform. The Vice President also
would fit well on hard money platform.
Governor Morgan would prefer hard to soft
money. Mr.. Blaine has not been very zeal
ous in that direction, but he would accept
hard money if he were asked, we suppose.
All these are republicans. Then there are
among the democrats Senator Bayard, Gov
ernor Iildcn, Mr.. Grocsbcck and doubtless
others, who arc hard money men. and would
stand on no other than a hard money plat
form Finally, there is Charles Francis
Adams, who is an independent hard money
man. On the whole the hard money men
have candidates enough, and very able men
at that, III both parties. Hard money is not
going a begging; the hard money men need
not be in a hurry to hoist General Grant to
the masthead.
Year: 1875

Governor Tilden is gentleman of so much
character and has so many genuine titles t.


respect that it does not become him, even in
small matters, to practise the shams or resort
to the cant of those pests of politics who be-
long to the genus demagogue His talk with
newspaper reporters since the call of the
Convention at Syracuse about ''bearding the
Canal Ring lions in their den," and about
''marching boldly into the camp of the en-
envy does not befit a statesman who stands
so Justly high in the confidence of the peo-
pie. TO those who know the facts such
utterances will seem too nearly akin to the
small arts and boastful bravado of vulgar
politicians The truth is that Governor Til
den wished the Convention to be held at
Saratoga, and was strongly set in favor Of
that location up to the night preceding the
meeting of the State Committee. lie con-
sented to the change on the strong
representations of Mr.. John Kelly who had
come. up from New York with his Tammany
queue full of his hot quarrel with Mr.. John
MoTissey, who was not dead, although the
Tammany chief had taken his political scalp
and carried it bleeding in his belt He
found that Mr. Morrissey and Governor Til.
den were in perfect accord in desiring the
Convention to be held at Saratoga For the
purpose of humilating and circumventine
Morrissey he insisted that Syracuse should
be the place, and when he had persuaded
several others Governor Tilden yielded
This is the true history of that small affair.
1t was of no real importance whether Sara
toga or Syracuse was selected, because the
action Of the Convention will be controlled
by delegates sent from all parts of the State,
who will be too strongly in favor of Governor
Tilden's policy to " influenced by local out
side pressure. The Governor should be
content with his solid strength, without at
tempting to fortify it by disingenuous
vaporing. The master of long range shotted
cannon should disdain to explode Chinese
frecrackers in the face of his foes.
Year: 1875

MAYOR WGcKHAM seems as slow in his
treatment of Mr. Townsend's charges against
the Police Commissioners as Governor Til
den was in the disposition Of the case of Cor
pontion Counsel Smith What he should
have done was to cite the accused Commits
sionors before him without an hours delay,
for it is his duty to prefer the charges to the
Governor if he thinks they ought to be re-
moved. They have the right to be heard in
their defence. and this being the case time
enough will be lost without any judicial con-
sidemtion of Mr.. Townsends charges apart
from the answers Of the Commissioners. Tho
people demand the immediate reorganization
of the Commission, and for this it ought to
be the purpose of the Mayor and the Gov
ernor to provide.
Year: 1875

RAPID TRANs1T in New York is constantly
bcset by difficulties. The latest problem is
whether the Commission must do more than
name the route within the sixty days allowed
by law, or, falling in this, whether it can per-
petuate its functions by the appointment of
another commission Neither Of these ques-
tions ought to arise The way to give us
rapid transit is to settle the whole issue
Year: 1875

A New STEP IN JOURNALISM. The EUening
Telegram of yesterday was issued at ten
o'clock in the morning, containing n special
cable despatch giving full account of the
London money market at one o'clock on the
same day. This our afternoon contemporary
is able TO do because of the difference in time
between London and New York. 1t is dis
tinct feature of the progress of modern jour
nalism. We should think that a report of
this kind, gathered by accurate correspond
ents. and in the hands Of every merchant be-
fore he begins business, would be invaluable.
1t will especially prevent any attempt to
change the price Of stocks for gambling pur-
poses as has so frequently been done with the
other reports. II WILL furthermore, give for
two cents-the price of the 7eicgrdm--the
same news which is furnished by private
news companies to subscribers at very
large rate of subscription per annum. Thus
stop by step the press supersedes the old
monopoles.
Year: 1875

The CEssIoN OF THE BLACK HILLS is lust
now question of great interest, and the
question meets at the Red Cloud Agency on
the lst of September. 1t is to be hoped that
the whole matter will be satisfactorily ar
ranged. In the meantime n miner named
John Gordon is endeavoring to have the
right of entry into the country sanctioned by
the courts, and for this purpose has brought
an action for false imprisonment against
General Ruggles, by whom he was arrested.
Year: 1875

From the rural districts is reported the odd
mshap of common tramp He went to
church; but, possessed of the perverse genius
of tramps, he did not go in the ordinary way,
when the doors were open and the bells ring
ing and the sun shining, and while the mot
ley company of Sunday citizens gossiped in
the vestibule Perhaps he was modest, and
thought that in the condition of his wardrobe
he would not cut happy figure in such
scene SO he chose the obscurity of the
night At that time the doors were shN and
the windows, but a really pious man is not
prevented by such obstacles. There was
fue open, and he went in by the flue. But
the fue, not contrived for the entry of the
congregation, proved an extraordinarily de-
vious route. Inasmuch, however as it is rec
ognized that the long and narrow way is the
right one the tramp wriggled forward with
as much energy as that famous tramp whose
experiences were recorded by Bunyan, the
tinker. But Bunyans hero never got into
a flue. and the man who did found it harder
than any of the known ways over Jordan.
He consequently decided to give it up Alas


III
tedious as to go o'er"-nay, that to re-
turn was impossible. 1t is said that the
fue was in the form of the letter u, and, of
course, the turns were too sharp. What can
be done by Christian in a fue in the form
of the letter Y, who can neither go forward
nor return? 1t is evident that he must raise
the voice of lamentation and alarm; and this
was done so effectually that the people came
and cut the tramp out of the fiue. Our pur-
pose in restating this adventure is that some
person may communicate it to that sturdy
political tramp Kelley, of Pennsylvania.
Kelley has his eyes on the temple of repub-
lican glory and we suspect that he means
to get in by way of the financial flue, if he
finds it open. We warn this adventurer that
the shape of the letter u is straight line by
comparison with the actual form of that hue;
and, furthermore, that in the case of any
accident the hue will be considered of more
consequence than the tramp. Nobody will
cut the Aue to help Kelley, but Kelley will
be torn out piecemeal to relieve the fue
Year: 1875

LoNG BRANCH has accepted the resignation
of that remarkable Chicfof Police who defied
OF New York are anxious to accept the resig-
nation of two or three Police Commissioners,
and if Matsell had kept his promise we would
be better off than Long Branch
Year: 1875

A CARD FROM PRESIDENT ADAMs-HIs ANSWER


TO THE CHARGES AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT
To THE EDITOR HERALD


The directors or New York Institution for the
struction Of the Deaf and Dumb have been greatly
panied, not on their own account but because Of the
many families to which their pupils belong, by the
cruel and malicious statements which have recently a
peared in quarters relative TO the condition and
management of the institution. In justice these
families and for the purpose Of aayng their apprehen
they deem it right TO simply state the following
facts:-


Some six weeks ago several cases of typhoid fever
.s -rs avspita building on our
premises and most tendery cared for. Thirty five
cases out OF total number of 535 pupils have oc-
CURED, nearly all of very mild type, yielding
promptly TO medical treatment Thirteen now in
the hospital with every prospect OF speedy recovery
the others, save three who have died, have so far
recovered as to be discharged from the hos
pita and returned 10 the Institution. The three
cases in which death epsued each and all agra
vaed and complicated by other dangerous diseases
viz, pneumonia eryspeas and abscess Of the liver.
Immediately the outbreak OF the disease the Board
OF Health notified and requested to give their Off
cal aid and counsel Upon visiting the premises they
have pronounced the sewerage, drainage and indeed
all the appliances Of the Institution, be in perfect
order The best medical counsel has been employed,
and every officer OF the Institution and of the Board OF
Directors has been unremtting in his personal exer'
tions.


The Board OF Directors win gladly receive any sugges-
tions which look to better security and OF the
unfortunates committed 70 their hands, many OF whom
It is but right TO remember are diseased from their
birth, and most OF whom in comparison with other
children may be said TO be IN that depressed condition
Of constitution which renders them especially liable to
all epdemics. II is impossible in so large institution
and among sicky class of children insure abso-
Lutte immunity from disease, but every effort that Skill
foresight and beralty suggest is made TO that end
and the Board OF Directors assure all interested in the
institution that in the present emergency all has been
done, and will be done that kindness, personal aten-
tion fidelity perform. They glad TO be able
add that there is TO suppose that the cpl
demic has been finally checked


WILLIAM ADAMS, President


THATCHER N. ADAMS, Secretary


new YORK Dec 2S 1875.
Year: 1875

The match best three in Eve, played yesterday at
McQuade's court between Nessrs McQuade and
Cotton and Messrs Brown and Burgess, proved very
interesting The first game resulted in avor OF Brown
and partner by Of q to 90 In the second game
McQuade and partner by continuous good play sue
ceeded in running out the game their opponents hav
ing only scored II. The third game resulted like the
preceding one, in favor Of McQuade and partner by
of q to Is The fourth game by Burgess
and partner The fifth and last game resulted in favor
OF McQuade and partner
Year: 1875

The second grand athletic tournament, under the
supervision Of Mr.. John Wood will take place al Wood
Gymnasium in Twentyeighth street, tomorrow even
ing The entertainment promises be one or the best
athletic displays yet given In the city Many or tho
most prominent amateur athletes will take part
tournament, and In all probability display Of collar
and elbow wrestling by OF the famous wrestlcrs
now here will c0nduce TO the attractions Of the nights
ant
Year: 1875

The Long Island Shooting Club will have its monthly
reunion today and invitations have been extended
to similar clubs in this vicinity lively time is
pected. Among the events will be classified sweep Of
20 Yards rise.
Year: 1875

crops; while their great affinity for
manures etfectually prevents the waste
OF such as are in it.


If the land is in sod, the turrow slices
of compact soils should be turned over
SO as to lap on the preceding, and lie at
IN angle Of 45 degrees. This will allow
Of the burrows lying regularity and even
ly, and in the proper position Tor the
drainage Of the soil, the tree circulation
Of air, and the most efficient action OF
frosts which in this way have access to
every side Of them. Land thus >thrown
up is found to be finely pulveriz ed after
the irosts leave it, and it is comparatlve-
ly dry and ready for use some time
earlier than such as not plowad' till
spring.


For sowing, land plowed in this man
ner requires no additional blowing, but
is better fitted for the reception OF seed
than it can be by any further operation.
unless by a Slight narrowing if too
rough ihe different kinds OF grain or
peas may be >own directly upon the
surface and covered by the harrow and.
ii sown early, the grass and clover seeds
require no covering. bnt find their best
position in the slig ight depressions which
are everywhere made by the the frost.
and which the subsequent rains and
winds fill up and cover sufficiently to
secure a certain growth. Ii the land has
been previously cultivated (not in.
swardD, and i, designed for planting, a
stiff clay in is sometimes ridged up by
turning a double furrow. one on each
side, and so. close rs partially to lap
upon a narrow and unbroken surface
thus leaving the greatest elevations ana
and depression which can conveniently
be made with the plow. The frost and
air by this means have a greater surface
to act upon than is afforded by thoroush
plowing, unless it be in Il firm sod.
which maintains its position without
crumblng. The advantage Of dry
surface and early working is equally
secured by this latter method. and to
prepare for planting the burrows need
only t, be split by running q plow
through their center when they are
ready for the reception OF the seed. But
let tlllers OF the soil bear in mind that it
will be labor lost to piow heavy land IN
which there is no excess of water. Let
wet ground be drained thor roughly, then
fall plowing will prove to be douDly ad-
vanlageOus.
Year: 1875

MR.. BOWEN Mr.. Speaker would
be false to the people have the honor
to represent in this Hall were | not to
mingle my voice with the Constitu
tion-loving people of this great coun-
try, from every portion of which
comes up remonstrances against the
high-handed usurpation in the State
of Louisiana.


| had hoped, sir, that in retiring
from life / should not he compelled,
as among the last OF nay official acts,
to criticise the conduct of the Chief
Magistrate of this great Republic, aud
to denounce as the greatest political
crime Of this age the armed interfeI-
ence of Federal power i'm the organi3a-
OH Of the Legislature Of Il sovereign
State of the Union, and the election
from their seats of five OF its members
claiming to have been duly elected,
and whose rights to seats i'm that body
could be lawfully determined by the
Legislature alone. The act has had its
parallel in Eng and, but never before
in government like ours, where the
people are the soverejgns and the law
alone is king. What spectacle wss
presented to the world as a commen-
tary upod republican government on
that memorable 4th day Of January in
the city of New Orleans. The repre-
sentatives of free State assembling to
organize for deliberatiOn on affairs in
which the State WAS the party most
deeply concerned. marching into a
legislative hail suTrQunded 10y armed
soldiers and through flies Of Federal
bayonets fixed and ready to do bloody
work at the nod of usurping COVER
nor or at the command of a too willing
but still more heartless and cruel ma
ior-general, only to be dispersed when
fairly congregated and denounced af-
terward as outlaws and bauditti ~
Aud. as if the cup OF OUT shame and
humiliation as a once libeIty-loving
people was not already filled to the
brin by these lAwiess acts of tyranny
and power, men Of exalted station and
claiming to be lovers of freedom, of
law anG order, and the champions of
popular liberty. are found ready to de-
fend and spologize for such acts of des-
po,ism. They seek TO justify the Pre-
sident by imputiug 10 him ignorance
OF any attempt of the soldiery TO inter
fere with the organization of the Leg
islature, but in their effo5ts to do SO
fail to tell the public that Sheridan
was i'm New Orleans three days prior
to the outrage committed, and was
there by executive direction. Re was
sent there for some purpose, and that
purpose is abundantly manifest and
readily to be inferred from his famous
"bsnditti" dispatch to the President.


No plea of ignorance will avail where
facts reveal a knowledge OF what was
10 be done and who was to do it,
Sheridan was obeying the orders Of his
Year: 1875

In the Conservative caucus last
Thursday evening Judge Henry
w. Thomas, Senator from Fairfax,
was nominated for the office OF
Lieutenant Governor, made vacant
by the election of Col. WitherS to
the Z. S. Senate. The contest
was between him and Mr.. Coghill,
OF Amherst. Of course this is
equivalent to an election,


Judge Thomas IS an able and
honest man, one that in every sense
will make creditable Lieutenant
Governor, and in case of a vacancy
would in every sense but one
make an excellent Governor. He
is a Funder, and is therefore, not
in sympathy with the oppressed
people of the State. We believe
Mr.. Coghill is also a Funder. 1t
is to be regretted that the Legisla-
ture continues TO contine its gifts to
its own body. AS the matter now
stands no man can bcregardcd as eli-
giblc to any Office TO be filled by
the General Assembly We doubt
whether Judge Thomas is eligible
under the constitution to this posi-
ton. Certainly in moral sense
he cannot be. The two houses
have proceeded to create this va
csncy for one Of their own members
and they have made good that in
tent by elovating one Of them to it.
Year: 1875

season. prefer to give my cows in Au'
gust the second crop Of grass, rather than
corn fodder before it, natures. use to
raise roots for my COWS in the fall, but do
not now because l can keep them up in milk
with the sweet corn fodder and make just as
good butter. In regard to preparing the
ground, would have it in just as good con.
dition as l would for common corn. But
you caught good growth OF fodder on green
sward if you do not manure it, il it Is in a
good state Of cultivation. If you manure
greensward, do not plough it in, put 1t on
the surface aud harrow it in. The better the
condition the land is in the better it will pay.
1 raise some four or Eve acres year, and
1 know that il il was not for my corn fodder
[ should not make as much butter. l make
about the same through the fail as summer
and make butter all winter; keep some
twenty cows or more, and make some 300
pounds COW, heifers included. My COWS
last season averaged me 1926 each, aud they
are from one.half TO three-fourths Alderney
or Jerseys, which | think from my ex.
perienee. is best for dairy.


II. A. PARKS.
Year: 1875

1t is the almost universal testimony of
poultry raisers that the first food which
should be given to young chicks is hard
boiled eggs chopped fine. Some think the
yolk only should be used, others use both
yolk and white, and still others recommend
to mince finely the entire egg, shell and all.
Some think it best to add also few bread
crumbs, or stale bread soaked in milk and
then squeezed nearly dry.


1t matters little which of these ways
is chosen, since we know that very salts.
factory results are obtained by either course,
provided proper care is taken of the chicks
in other respects. Until they are fully
day old they need no food at all.


When brood matches out irregularly it
is best to take away the oldest, in order that
the hen may remain quietly on the nest.
Those taken away should be covered up
snugly in box or basket and put out of
hearing Of the hen in warm place, until
night, when they should be returned to the
nest. By the next morning all ought to be
ready to come off.


Food as above mentioned should be given
for the first two or three days, changing grad
ually to Indian meal and cracked wheat, or
what is known as wheat shorts or middlings.
Where oat meal can be had it is preferable
to any other as a staple article Of diet for
growing chickens, but the difference in its
favor does not seem to justify any very
extra trouble or expense to obtain it. For
a number Of years we have prepared our
chicken feed as follows


Shelled corn is ground in an old farm
mill and then sifted through n sieve of eight
meshes to the inch The coarse part is
reserved for feeding dry to the chicks when
they are couple of weeks old and for the
last feed at night. The fuer meal is mixed
half and half with wheat shorts or middlings.
AT feeding time, to each pint of mixed meal
required, should be added an even teaspoon
ful of fine salt, and occasionally little cayenne
pepper, the whole well mixed together and
then wetted up stiff with clabbered milk.
This is the chief diet, but is varied almost
daily with scraps from the table, or by using
at times wheat bran in the place of corn meal,
or by changing the proportions of meal and
shorts.


As the chicks are kept on grass pats, no
care is required to supply them with green
food. Where it Is necessary to keep them
In close quarters, fine cut grass and lettuce
and other green food must be given them
daily. Good clean water should OF course be
at hand for them at all times.


Chicks thus fed are sure to thrive, other
conditions Of success being attended to.
One of these, too frequently lost sight of, is
to keep them free from vermin,-Prairie
Edrmer