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Year: 1876

The st. Paul Dispatch says that Frank
Hathaway murdered Miss Slayton, in
Plainview, few days ago, and then tried
Intellectually to kill himself Hathaway
wound. in the throat, endangered his
life. and he was taken to the village
hotel. where physicians attended him. A
sherif's deputy was in nominal charge OF
him, but his precariOus condition rem
dered escape unlikely. His father and
mother had an adjoining room, and they
or others watched night and day at his
bedside. AT Miss SlaytOn's funeral the
assembly included nearly the whole
population of the neighborhood, in
which she had been very popular. The
fatal wound, a bullet hole in her fore
head, was visible when the coffin was
opened for the people to look, and the
sight heightened the already reused in
dignation. After the services meeting
of young men was held in the woods
near by, and lynching was resolved
upon.


Hathaway was very low, and was be-
lieved to be dying. At midnight the
lynchers arrived at the hotel. They
numbered about fifty, were masked, and
obeyed the orders of leader who carried
rope. They entered the building at
the front and rear and went at first to
the parents room, to which they were at
tracted by light. Mrs. Hathaway arose
and the lynchers seized her husband as
he lay in the bed, supposing he was the
murderer. This mistake caused only a
brief delay and young Hathaway was
speedily found |; he was too weak to resist
or utter word, yet seemed to realize
his plight fully. A woman who had been
with him joined with his parents in
pleading for his life, but the mob hus-
tied them out of the room. Hathaway
made appealing gestures and tried to
speak, but the wretches were merciless.
The rope was put around his neck, and
six men laying hold of the sheet on
which he lay, carried him out into the
yard. There the sheet was torn by his
weight, and he fell to the ground.
Thereupon the rope was seized and he
was dragged to a tree, being nearly
strangled to death before he was sus.
pended to limb. The brutal outrage is
not very generally condemned in the ex-
cited community, owing to the nature OF
Hathaway's crime. He offered attention
to Miss Slayton, and being repulsed
when he asked her to marry him, he
shot her and then attempted to commit
Year: 1876

A young lady on Calumet avenue re-
ceived package with the following note
enclosed in it: Miss-The accompany
ing package contains ten $4,000 bonds,
registered United States skies, 1881.
Please accept them as tribute from an
ardent admirer who desires to remain un-
known. l have known many women,
and my heart has been cut to the quick
in observing their sinful practices. In
you alone have / found a woman who
don't carry her pocketbook in her hand
when out shopping. You have restored
to me faith in womankind. Bless you."


A woman on Erie street last week lost
her double set of false teeth and couldn't
speak word till she got new set. In
week the husband had gained ten
pounds of flesh, but the other night he
was seen at a lawyers Office, with wild
and haggard look, asking the lawyer
whether abandonment of ones husband,
for instance, was extraditable. The
lawyer said it wasn't; that if his wife
left him and ran away to Brazil, Holland
or Cuba, there was no earthly means of
securing her surrender, whereupon the
countenance ofthe unhappy man bright
ened up and he took his way to ticket
Office to inquire when the first steamer
for Brazil would sail.


A philosophical milkman on West
Washington street discovered that an
impecunious clearinghouse keeper, who
owed him for two months milk had
folded her tents like the Arabs and
silently stolen away, leaving neither her
address nor her effects. The loss was a
severe one to the poor but honest milk.
man, but, instead of tearing his hair OF
dilating upon the prevalence of dishon.
esty, the philosopher simply heaved a
sigh, took reef in his quart measure
and that night kept his cans under the
hydrant few minutes longer than usual.
His cry of Mey-ilk |" will be heard as
cheerfully as if everybody was as honest
as the day isn't long at this time O. year
Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1876

Whose raiseth and traineth horse for
the Lord. is counted in the number of
those who give aims day and night in
private as well as in public. He will find
his reward. All his sins will be forgiven
him, and never will any fear come over
him and dishonor his heart.


Let your colt be domesticated and live
with you from his tenderest age, and
when horse he will be simple, docile,
faithful, and Injured to hardship and
fatigue.


If you have your horse to serve you on
the day of trial, if you desire him to be a
horse of truth, make him sober, accus-
toned to hard work, and inaccessible to
fear.


Do not beat your horses or speak to
them.in loud tone of voice do not be
angry with them, but kindly reprove
their faults; they will do better thereaf-
ter, for they understand the language of
man and its meaning.


If you have a long days journey be-
fore you, spare your horse at the start !;
let him frequently walk to recover his
wind. Continue this until he has
sweated and dried three times, and you
may ask him whatever you please, he
will not leave you in difficulty.


Use your horse as you use your leathern
bottle; If you open il gently and gradual
ly you can easily control the water with
in, but If you open 1t suddenly the water
escapes at once, and nothing remains to
quench your thirst.


Observe your horse when he Is drink
ing at brook. If in bringing down his
head he remains square without lending
his limbs, he possesses sterling qualities,
and all parts of his body are built sym.
metrica1ly.


-Four things he must have broad
front, chest, loins, and limbs; four things
long-neck, breast, forearm, and Group !;
four things short-pasterns, back, ears,
and tail.
Year: 1876

A DAUGHTER Of Lucius w. Pond, the
Worcester forger, has been for several
months employed in restaurant in that
city, where the table walters arc women,
voluntarily working out debt of 800
owed by her father to the proprietor of
the restaurant. Although brought up
to the use of the elegancies and luxuries of
life, this young lady shows a nice sense
of honor, modicum of which would
have saved her father from criminals s
fate, and his family from disgrace.
Year: 1876

The fruition of the hopes of those who
wished well to the struggling French Repub-
lie has come with the general elections yes
terday. The moderate republicans have
again triumphed, and the doting friends of
the monarchy and the scheming friends of
the Empire have been beaten ANONYMOUSLY.
The fortune which divided the monarchists
into bitter factions and the Bonapartists into
hostile rabbles has left the way clear for
the solid sense Of France, rejecting all
extremists to pronounce in mass for the con-
servative, practical Republic. The triumphs
of the radicals in the great centres of Paris,
Marseilles and Lyons are, we think, without
danger to the present wellbeing of France.
1t is better that their fiery ebullience should
find vent in the legislative chamber
than behind barricades. Besides, the
Republic needs a good deal of legisla-
ton in their direction, for great
many of their points of political faith,
when stripped of the CHASTITY fantaronade
they wrap them in, are not so unwholesome
as those who break into cold sweat at the
bare mention of the Red Spectre imagine.
In Legislature where they will form
small minority the wheat of their doctrine
may be safely winnowed from its chaff
There is not half the dynamite in these
gentry the old women of politics
fervently believe. The government is
in strong and, we believe, faithful hands.
When the administration has been placed in
accord with the true sentiment of the coun-
try by the ejectment of M. Buffet and the
formation of republican Cabinet, France
can be fairly complimented, not merely on
surmounting her domestic dangers, but on
setting sound republican model to the rest
of Eurone.
Year: 1876

locked up in the banks This is a curious
illustration of the New York democratic
motto STEADY steps toward specie pay
ments no step backward" There would
be steady steps backward at the rate of
seventeen million five hundred thousand
dollars each year, with an ultimate infa-
ton equal to the whole reserves of the banks
We denounce Mr.. Payne's bill as an arrant
measure of imitation under false mask of
preparation for specie payments.


This steady expansion of the currency by
inundating the business of the country with
the present greenback reserves of the banks
would steadily raise the premium on gold,
and as soon as specie payments We're an
nounced there would be contraction of the
currency so immense, sudden and violent as
to bring universal panic and ruin. If this
be the height of democratic wisdom the
country will be slow to trust the democratic
party with power.
Year: 1876

From every point of view it would be
highly regrettable if the English rifemen
should decline to send out team to COM
pete in the centennial rifle match. They
had team entered hundred years ago, and
it would not be gratifying to see them un-
represented now. The targets on both sides
were not on the Wimbledon model then, but
they were just as trying to the marksman's
nerve and skill. That celebrated match has
passed so entirely into the domain of history
that the descendants of the English team
can look back to it as serenely as they do to
the Wars of the Roses, or as we do, who thank
fully enjoy its fruits The century which
has rolled round finds us calling all the
nations of the earth to join us in a
hymn of thanksgiving, and the response
has been as hearty as we could desire. Our
their warmest anticipations was that of greet
ing an English team. Who, they argued,
can be more friendly than the children of
old-time chivalric foes, over the deep grave
of whose quarrel the olive has bloomed a
hundred times? What salvo of rejoicing
would be complete without the peaceful
powder smoke of those whose battle cloud
arose from the trenches that faced our own?
Whatever kindly sentiment there may be
about our centennial rifle matches demands
imperatively the presence of an English
team, and we are much mistaken if anything
will prevent the Englishmen of to-day from
taking their part in friendly trial of skill,
4 Ga11 60 cta
pose they came cheerily in thousands to look
along their shining barrels q hundred years
ago.


We have seen it stated that the English
rihemen expected to come as part of an i'm
perial team and failing that not to come at
all. This, we sincerely trust, they will reject
as too hasty a conclusion. We have pointed
out in these columns that the plan of an inn
perial team has its weaknesses but we see no
occasion at present to repeat the argument,
as our grounds for hoping to see the English
riAemen among us this year lie outside all
calculations upon the scoring strength of
those who accept the American invitation.
The gallant acceptance of the Scotch rifle
men makes it Us impossible to get an imperial
team as it would be to make q triangle out of
one side and base The acceptance of the
Canadians, who are part of the British En-
pire, shows that they are determined to
participate. We have little doubt that the
gallant Irishmen will also respond for them
selves, and hence the Englishmen should
take counsel with their acknowledged
prowess before the butts, and, waving all
as Englishmen, pure and simple, in the con-
test to come.
Year: 1876

The PosT OFFICE INVESTIGATION by the
Committee of the House of Representatives
has brought number of witnesses willing
to testify to malpractice in high places in the
department; and now the department re-
taliates by publishing the record of some of
those who have given testimony. These
certainly show badly for the reliance to be
placed on such witnesses, and if the charges
rest on their statements alone they cannot
injure anybody. 1t must, howsver, be re-
membered that vital facts often become
known to the worst Of men, and when con-
current testimony supports them their evil
dence has q certain value.
Year: 1876

IMPURE MnK.-Any legal means of pre-
venting the adulteration of milk will be
hailed with JOY by the community, which
too often pays the price of milk for large
proportion of water. The proposed law is
intended to prevent adulteration by the
wholesale dealers who supply the city re-
tailers, and if this is accomplished it will
be a long step in the right direction. 1t will
not go far enough, however. An immense
amount Of the water and other adulterations
are added after the arrival of the milk in
the city. the commonest way of doing this
being for the dealers to carry can or two Of
water. plain or colored. in each cart to the
Year: 1876

The PULPIT YEsTERDAY.-If ever meteoric
influences were favorable to that lifting MP
of the heart which the higher emotions Of
religion need yesterday was on instance
The fresh cool air and the radiant sunshine
of themselves invited the soul to worship of
the Giver of all good, and the ministers had
an easy task in turning this feeling of joy
Gus reverence to account. The Rev. Nor
gan Dix, in telling his congregation
that we want clear heads and good
weapons for the contest of life; Father
Elliott, in praying men to open their
hearts TO the heavenly seed DR.. Hepworth,
in preaching that "the prayer of the right
eous is a delight to the Lord = Mr.. Beecher,
in pleading for broad and breezy reading
of Gods Word Mr. rockingham, in pictur-
ing the bright thoughts Of life that come at
sight Of newborn babe Mr. Steele, in his
hopeful view of our unsectarian constitu-
tion, all touched responsive chords in the
human breast. At the Hippodrome multi
tudes brought the inspiration Of the day to
the aid of the revivalists and SO the Lord
was ma0nifed
Year: 1876

BLowINs HoT AND CoID.--It is very pain
full to record the fact that the attitude of
President Grant to Secretary Bristow in rela-
tion to the whiskey fraud trials exhibits the
former in the light of one urging aloud one
day what he doggedly attempts to prevent
the next Even as policy this is mistake,
for Grant is thus making Bristow the most
important man in the country. Bristow
must not let himself be driven out, no mat
ter what annoyance it costs him to remain.
Year: 1876

The CHARGES AGAINST SENATOR SPENcKR
are to be investigated by the proper commit
tee of the United States Senate. In another
portion of the HERALD will be found the
specifications selected. They do not en-
brace all the charges of corruption in OBJ
tanning his seat which were presented by the
State Of Alabama. II, however, any of those
remaining should be made good the duty of
the Senate is plain.
Year: 1876

depots, and then. at favorable moments, to
mix the adulterations with the milk This
can be done SO easily, simultaneously with
the delivery to customers, owing to the dark
ness OF the early hours and the absence OF
people from the streets, that the retailers
and, above all, the storekeepers who sell
milk through the day, will require looking
after
Year: 1876

The State Charities Aid Association.


The qualification with which the public
have greeted the notice that Mr. Charles
O'Conor has sufficiently recovered from his
dangerous illness to venture to preside at a
public meeting to be held this week. bears
remarkable testimony to his place in the
affection of his townsmen. In the history
of New York we recall no previous instance
of such public position as his, achieved
aside from the opportunities and honors of
office nor do we recall the name Of any citi-
zen whose labors for the public good, either
in Office or out of Office have been more
disinterested. 1t is well known to Mr..
O'Conors friends that the universal anxiety
with which the daily bulletins of his condi-
ton were watched while for several weeks
he trembled between life and death was his
greatest astonishment when he first learned
of it during his convalescence. Perhaps it
was natural that one trained like himself in
the strict ways of sensitive integrity should
wonder why the public were tenderly anx-
ious about him in this era of successful
cheats and shams. Both the fact and
the surprise were honorable and no less
honorable both to Mr.. OConor and to the
public is the cordiality of the greetings with
which the announcement is received of his
return to his old fields of duty and useful
ness.


The occasion upon which Mr. O'Conor is
to preside-the fourth annual meeting of the
State Charities Aid Association, at Masonic
Hail. in Twenty-third street, on Thursday
evening relates to branch of the public
service in which he always has taken an in
tense interest. On previous occasions he has
attested in writing his sense of the value of
the association as "a benign and thus far
successful effort under the lead of Miss
Louisa Lee Schuyler, its lady president, to
rescue charity from the selfish clutches of
the politician office-holder." Now we may
expect from him some wise words in speech
upon the contrast between the efficiency of
our public institutions of charity with those
organized and governed by the voluntary
benevolence of private citizens, and
generous tribute to the good work of Miss
Schuyler and her associates.
Year: 1876

SERvIA calling out her troops and ordering
oil men between twenty and fifty to report
to the conscription officials puts an unhope-
full look upon the peace prospects in the
East In spite of all the proposals and
plans for reform it cannot be definitely said
that the great Powers are not anxious to
settle the Sick Man S affairs heroically.
Year: 1876

Some people profess to like cold feet, but
it is not often the case that they like those
cold feet to be their own. Cold pigs feet
(pickled) are wholesome for men, even if
not healthy for pigs. Calfs-foot jelly is
quite delicacy when cold. But with these
instances the merits of cold feet so far as we
remember, end But at the point where the
few merits end the innumerable evils begin.
Death should be painted, not as a skeleton,
but as a centipede, shaking his frozen heels
in defiance of his foes-the doctors.


Any person interested in the study Of cold
feet will find the best field in New York
street car. There is generally on a chilly
day or night nice draught from the door,
and, as it is the nature of cold air to sink
and warm air to rise, the passenger has the
benefit of two temperatures which are
equally disagreeable. His feet are often
below zero while his head is above boiling
point. The extremely tall man named
Shell, of whom it was written that 'to stick
his head in heaven he must thrust
his feet in hell" was not more ac-
customed to thermometrical extremes.
The doctors tell US that to be well we
ought to keep our heads cool and our
feet warm but the car companies are not
managed by the medical faculty. A lady
passenger may have on thin shoes or a gentle
man thin boots, but the companies care more
for their own punches" than they do for
other peoples "cobblers. What care these
cold-hearted directors for the cold-footed
public? So long as the conductaire punches
in the presence of the passenjaire buff trip
slip for six cent fare, what is it to
them whose toes are froze? They en-
dure none of the evils they inhct, for
never was q street car director seen in one of
his own cars. If seventy people ride to
Harlem in Third avenue car it is safe to
say that not one of them has anything to do
with the management of the road. If we
could compel the directors to ride in their
own cars there would be no necessity for the
press and the Legislature to enforce reform.
The rule would be as beneficial as P,nchs
plan for preventing railroad accidents,
which was to put railroad president on the
cowcatcher.


Cold feet in the street cars contribute
largely to the death list of the city. Nothing
is more appropriate to the scene than the ad-
vertisement of a doctor in the panel
of a car. The man who is contracting
pneumonia from a crack in the door, or who
is getting lumbago from window that will
not shut the lady who is absorbing
bronchitis from a river of cold air along the
Aoor, and he who at once hangs on to a strap
and a consumption, all have the inestimable
privilege of reading of the remedies for
those diseases. This is the only favor the
companies see fit to bestow upon the public.
But, stop we are wrong. Their advertising
directories may be still more useful, for
sometimes they are kind enough to place in
their cars the sign of an undertaken.


THE Story OF Mrs. THOMAS, the widow of
the author of the dynamite horror, as told
elsewhere in an interview, adds another
Year: 1876

The Story OF Mrs THOMAS, the widow of
the author of the dynamite horror, as told
elsewhere in an interview, adds another
deeply interesting chapter to that fearful
tale, which would seem incredible in the
pages of romance
Year: 1876

When you are in a hurry, the store
keeper will have to weigh the coin in his
hand and sound it twenty. FIVE times on
the counter before he can determine
whethsr it is good. The baby win swal
low dime day. A boy with a quarter
will lose it in a crack in two minutes,
from which no amount of coaxing with
FORKS and chips oan recover it. Sleepy
men will put buttons and lozenges into
contribution boxes as of yore"
Year: 1876

Governmental system, and compel what
ever change or reform may be absolute.
ly necessary"


So long as the right-minded and right
hearted citizens of this country shall ad-
here to the Republican party, taking pos
session of its organization and making it
the agency of the popular will and the In
strumentality of wise, good and right gov
ernment, so long will the patriot have
cause for hope and confidence. But
should they forsake that party and be de-
luded into the perilous mistake of intrust-
ing the Government to the hands of the
rebel-cOntrolled, honor -despising, spoils-
hungry Democracy, then would the coun-
try, the interests of the people, the honor
and integrity of the Nation be indeed in
jeopardy. The people cannot afford to
do this-not just yet, if ever at all. The
Republican party is their party now, as il
was during the Nations years of severe
trial, and through and by that party they
can accomplish whatever they please, II
they will but take control of 1t and make
it the agency of their will. This is what
they have done, and are preparing to dc
gain.-OhicdgO Journal.