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Year: 1876

AS onerous as the taxes in this
County are claimed to be, and as
much grumbling as comes from ali
quarters about them, it is curious to
notice two things i'll relation there
to-. First, the marked decrease in
the amonnt OF the levy during the
past four years, and a correspond
Ing decrease in the cost of pay
ment in addition, by the deduction
IL the price of town and county Or
ders used largely in the payment of
the taxes. For instance:
Year: 1876

The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co.,
will remove their Office to the s. W. corner
of Third and Market streets, Plunkett's
Building. They will take possession of the
new office which will be on the first floor,
about the the 18Th of January next. The
office furniture will be the same that was
used by this company in the Department OF
Public Comfort, during the Centennial
Exposition.
Year: 1876

We print in another part of the HERALD
for Nurses, an institution which, although
barely three years old, has made itself in
valuable to the community and supplied
most important want in medical practice.
The school was opened in 1873 with only
six pupils. The first year of its existence
was almost entirely employed in overcoming
prejudices and inducing the right class of
women to enter as pupils 1t has now forty
pupils, all women of good character and
intelligence Organized under charter, it
is founded on the same sound principles as
those established by Florence Nightingale,
and all candidates for admission. applications
for which are now being constantly received,
are required to possess certificate from
physician and clergyman of her physical
and moral character. After one months
trial the nurses enter upon the hospital
training of the school, which means the high
standard of careful discipline and drill,
order cleanliness, method, trustworthiness
and obedience so absolute and intelligent as
to enable them to replace an absent physician
in the execution of his orders. But this
education means more. 1t adds to the mar
row list of women's means of livelihood an
organized form of work and usefulness.


These are the objects of the training
school. and they must be classed among the
highest order of noble charities. They are not
only to soothe the sufferings of the poor hos
pital patient, but to provide at every bedside
of sickness q competent and responsible
nurse, whose cool, skilled hand alleviates
pain and inspires confidence and comfort.


AS usual with benefcent enterprises of
this oharacteE the training school was origi-
mated by few thoughtful and generous la
dies, who have found time to advance the
institution to its present perfect system.
First among them stand Mrs. Joseph Hob
son, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and Mrs.
Hartman Kuhn, and the treasurer, Colonel
Henry G. Stebbins, has well seconded their
efforts. Under their auspices, and although
supported only by voluntary contributions,
the school can already boast of the entire
nursing of over three thousand patients in
Bellevue Hospital, as well as of supplying
sixty private families within the past year
with trained nurses besides this, matrons,
head nurses and superintendents have been
sent to different institutions here and else
where, who in turn become teachers and
trainers also.


To effect all this has cost very consider
able sum of money, and in common with
other undertakings of the sort the institu-
ton is in need of larger income, not only
to be enabled to enlarge its sphere of use
fulness, but TO avoid q check to its present
progress, which would now be q public
calamity. We hope, therefore, that the APP
peal which the committee make to the public
may not be made in vain.
Year: 1876

AS the Comptroller has still nrobabIv an
account to settle with the former or Tam
many administration of the Marine corr.


the statement of the first return of ,oos
under the new administration will fnrn;sb
him with an instructive ground of com
parison for the basis of the settlement Mr.
Coughlin, the new clerk, who is understoo5
to have acquired his position under the
influence of the movement for reform
represented by the last election. has lust
made his return for the month of January


which foots up twelve hundred and sixty
one dollars, and the former clerks return for
January, 1875, was two hundred and eighty
two dollars, or nearly thousand dollars less.
If the Comptroller will apply about this
difference to every month Of the returns of
the former incumbent he will have a nice
little sum due him from that gentleman's
estate-if he has any. 1t would be a very
nice point of investigation for an ingenious
adept at arithmetic to inquire whether the
Tammany administration in all our courts
returned the fees in the same way they were
returned by the former clerk of this par
ticular court, and, if so, to demonstrate what
sum the city treasury has lost thereby
through Tammany's many years of suprem-
acV.
Year: 1876

1t is reported that between the President
and some members of his Cabinet there has
been ''stormy scene" on account of some
differences of opinion in regard to whiskey
trials This may be true, for even o Presi-
dent cannot be superior to those peculiari-
ties of temper and feeling out of which
stormy scenes arise. But there is one point
in the report that we hear with dismay, and
that we can only credit upon the strongest
testimony. 1t is reported that member OF
the Cabinet other than the one whose
conduct gave rise to the stormy
scene said that ''No one man is alb
solutely needed to run a government" Is
it possible that there is any one in Gen.
eral Grants Cabinet who believes this p? and,
above all, can this insidious, horrible and
dangerous theory have come from friend
and supporter of General Grant? Why, this
is the view of the people who oppose the
third term. They concede Grants merits,
but deny that either Grant or any other one
man is so absolutely needed" that great
constitutional tradition should be set aside
in his favor. Do we hear Alright, are we cor
rectly informed, when we are told that there
are others in the Cabinet besides Mr.. Bristow
who do not believe in 'providential" in
dividuals?
Year: 1876

1t would be difficult to decide which OF
these mischief-makers is the most wrong
headed and indiscreet, or which of the two
is the more ready to give way to fits OF
passionate impulse without foresight OF
consequences. On the whole, Mr. Blaine is
the more reprehensible, because he reopened
the controversy about the Andersonyille
prisoners Which, but for him, would have
slept. and gave occasion for the war of re-
elimination which has arrested the healing
of the old wounds. There is great
deal to be forgotten and forgiven if good
feeling is ever to be restored between the
North and the South, and among the things
which ought to be kept out of politics and
consigned to history there is none whose re-
vival is so purely mischievous as the horrors
of the Andersonville prison. The primary
responsibility for raking the cinders from
the decaying embers and blowing them into
fame must rest on Mr. Blaine, who reck-
which have been said in reply.


jefferson Davis has played the part of
political lunatic in writing his passionate
answer. The pretext that he was provoked
to it in self-defence will not avail him. If
he is innocent of the inhumanity with which
he is charged he could have trusted to time
for his vindication. The accusation of Mr..
Blaine is not new. 1t was made at the
time when the Andersonville horrors were
fresh, and when the government was
eager to hang him after his cap
ture. The government did hang Wirtz
connecting Mr.. Davis with those cruelties
it would have been too glad to mete out to
him the same justice which was inflicted on
Wirtz. The fact that it never even indicted
him for completely in those cruelties is a
prirnd facie vindication on which he might
have rested until impartial history shall pro-
nounce its verdict. He has played into the
hands of Mr.. Blaine in writing his foolish,
passionate letter. Mr.. Hills unwise reply
to Mr.. Blaine, on the floor of the House, was
bad enough in point of policy, but Mr.. Da-
Wis letter is worse If he had grain of polit-
ical sense he would know that his defence
could not possibly be in such bad hands as
LID OWA, 1OI Luo NOIJu ID nOt QlbpObcQ w
give him q friendly nor even an impartial
hearing. And then he can never write or
speak without Haunting his attachment to
the lost cause and thereby weakening the
moral influence of the advocates of q
magnanimous policy toward the South.
The passionate egotism and intense
personal selfshness of this man, who
is willing to assist Mr.. Blaine in
reopening the breach when he sees the
slightest chance of identifying the South
with his fallen fortunes, is perverse ex-
hibition of character which proves that he
cares more for himself than for the welfare
of the unfortunate and misguided people
who followed him in the civil war. His un-
repentant old age could be better employed
than in writing serviceable campaign docu-
ments for the malignant enemies of the
South
Year: 1876

Recorder Hackett, in commenting yester-
day on the complaint Of the last Grand Jury
respecting the inconvenience of the room
they were assigned to, disclosed very dis
creditable neglect on the part Of the city
authorities in failing to provide proper
accommodations for the important Court
over which he and Judges Sutherland
and Gildersleeve have been elected to
preside. The enormous increase of
criminal cases coming before this Court
necessitated the passage of law last year
providing for the holding of second branch
and the election Of an additional Judge
to share the work. The extra Judge has
been elected, but the Commissioner of
Public Works has given him no court to sit
in. The Grand Jury deliberates in damp
basement and the petit jury is sent to a
cheerless attic. This state of things is
ridiculous and disgraceful court which
last year disposed of seventeen hundred in
dictments, and which tries the most inn
portant criminal jury cases, is surely of
sufficient Importance to be properly housed


The Grand Jury, which fulfil so important
a function in melting out our criminal
law, should not be forced 10 perform
their duties with danger to their lives,
and we see nothing in the common
juryman to warrant his being marched up
three flights Of stairs TO an attic and down
again every time he ia conscientious enough
Year: 1876

1t is reported that the waste from an es-
tablishment which manufactures lampblack
flows into one of the reservoirs from which
Brooklyn is supplied with water. Waste
from slaughter house, waste from petro-
leum refinery, even waste from several of
Peter Coopers glue factories, would perhaps
be savory and fragrant material by compari-
son with the waste animal matters that have
gone through lampblack factory. 1t is not
astonishing that cases of fever attributed to
''sewer gas" are connected with the use of
this water for water so contaminated could not
but become saturated with such gas. Neither
is it astonishing that the authorities do not
interfere, for it does not appear that any of
them could make any money out of it Per-
haps it is hardly strange that the proprietors
of the factory are insensible or indifferent to
the consequences of their neglect but
surely for every case of illness and every
death traceable to such cause the propri-
etors of that factory are as clearly responsible
in damages as railway company. is for
every passenger it kills and, contrary to
what is generally supposed, the cause of
death in such case can be sworn to by the
doctors very definitely.
Year: 1876

1t must not be supposed that the ameliora-
ton in the Extensively crowded condition of
the city horse cars at all approaches
the companies infiict on the public. What
has been done only shows conclusiyely that
the full measure Of mo seat no fare" can be
carried out with great ease and at no ex-
traordinary expense. The cars still exhibit
at certain portions of the day the over
crowding, with all its concomitants of un-
healthiness, indecency, discourtesy and dis
comfort, which we originally complained
of. In fact, until the Legislature has passed
a law defining strictly the duties of the COM
panies it is idle to expect that they will vol
UNFAIRLY remedy the evil which puts so
much more money in their Golfers.
Rumors reach us from Albany of specious
efforts being made by the rail-
road lobbyists to stave of and
finally defeat this measure Of relief; but we
inform all concerned that a strict watch is
upon them, and that members will be held
hereafter to a strict accountability. Can not
Governor Tilden devote little of his at
tention to the pressing need of the chief
city of the State2 The city horse
car routes may not be SO long as the Erie
Canal and certainly if placed end to end
they would not reach from Albany to the
White House; but the voters of New York
are a little more interested in comfortable
transit just now than in making political
capital out of De Witt Clinton's great
ditch or in pipelaying for the Presidency.


He is great at figures, and let him calculate
the comfort which any one Of his constitu-
ents can get when he is a unit in the seventy
seven civzens iammed into Third avenue
Year: 1876

MEXICO appears to be on the verge Of an
Dther revolution, so hard is it to impress
upon people used to settling every little
local dispute by the sword the proper re-
spect for government by ballot. Porfrio
Diaz is the present disturber, and an alliance
with the extremists Of the Church party may
put it in his power to reduce the sorely dis
'ressed Republic TO the chaos from which
she is just emerging
Year: 1876

CARDINAL MANNING has put his foot upon
the statement that he has had anything to
do with bringing about q compromise be-
tween the ritualists and Rome Between
the Public Worship act and the exactions of
Rome from all who would join force with
. sad plight.
Year: 1876

ability and with equal earnestness by Storrs
and Hall, by rockingham and PrestonS
What truth was spoken that we do not hear
every Sabbath day? Why should thousands
pour out on a wintry night TO the cheerless
Hippodrome, which is one of the monuments
of the career of the gigantic humbug of the
generation, to hear the Scriptures expounded
by this uncouth exhorter? That is one of
the problems that we cannot solve. We con-
fess there is little to encourage the hundreds
of clergymen who study and work from
year to year to humble congregations,
whose voices are never heard beyond the
parish bounds, when they see the thousands
who follow gentlemen whose gifts have
not secured them even a Gospel ordination.
We.trust that they will do all the good their
said last evening New York had been pointed
out TO him as a peculiar city, and not apt to
respond to the influences which moved other
places But, as he well remarked, even
New York was not superior to the power of
Gods Holy Spirit. This is very true. Our
best wishes attend the evangelists We trust
they will not find that the seed has been
sown upon a rock, and that, when they leave
u.s. it will not be as q sensation, living its day
and forgotten the day after. This is the
danger with all sensational religion, and
Moody and Sankey will be more fortunate
than most of their predecessors if they
escape it,
Year: 1876

The RIO GRANDE TROUBLES are likely to
increase in case revolution breaks out in
Mexico, and the proposition made by we'll
tntentioned journal, that both the United
States and Mexico should police the banks
of the dividing river, is likely to be only
carried out on one side if the Mexicans fall
10 fighting among themselves.
Year: 1876

THE RUMoR that a bargain has been made
to pardon Mcdonald if he gives satisfactory
evidence in favor of Babcock can be better
lifted few months hence than now. Every
hing promises lively trial and sharp
.ross-examination for the President if the
defence call him.
Year: 1876

MIR. Bright 10 the English Liberals.


When the late Mr.. Laird arose in his place
in the English House of Commons and said
that he would sooner go down to posterity as
the builder of hundred Alabamas than as
'the man who set class against class" he
thought he was fastening withering stigma
upon John Bright, And the cheers of the
country members" which greeted him,
doubtless contributed to the member for
Birkenhead's belief The builder of the Ala
bama is now mailed in his chest, " and safely
on his short journey to posterity, but the
great Commoner whom he characterized so
hippantly is still at work upon giving that
position in the government to the slower"
classes which has been 80 long denied
them by the upper" The progress of all
reforms in England is slow. We have
seen how the extension Of the suffrage
reaching those far below the British subjects
enfranchised by the Reform bill of 1882, has
left room for the return of conservative
majority in the House of Commons That
was termed reaction" by the liberals and





sent Gladstone into retirement 1t put
Disraeli in power, and he and his party are
endeavoring to balance this plan of quietude
at home by vigorous foreign policy" If
left to itself this shifting of the scene to
Egypt and India might answer for time, as
Englishmen like to exult in that marvellous
empire of theirs which lies outside the
British Isles but while the displaced whig
politicians are busy picking little holes in
the armor of Disraeli and quibbling over
slave circulars and the like John Bright
arises, and, in single speech to
his constituents at Birmingham, opens
up once more the unredressed wrongs
of the masses of the people. 1t is
not a violent appeal to the passions, but
plain, broad exposition of the inequalities of
the law by which class was set over class
and intended to be kept there He places
three live issues in British politics-the en-
franchisement of the non-voting residents of
the counties the redistribution of seats ac-
cording to population, and the abolition of
the laws by which landed property can be
entailed. Here are three points on which
the British liberals can found a sweeping agi-
tation if they are able to grasp them. 1t is
true that the liberal party in England
during the past eight years has become
barnacled over with a class of wealthy
representatives who make the word lib
eral, with a hyphen, the only distinc-
ton between them and the aristocratic
party; they call themselves liberal-conserva-
tives. From these such vigorous domestic
campaign would experience almost as much
opposition as from the conservatives pure and
simple. Hence the minority of the House of
Commons must be reduced still further in
numbers, like Gideons band, before they
will be actually ready to take up the land
entail and county franchise questions and
advance with them to victory. The liberal
party, as it is, has not single cry to march
with and it has no distinct policy to oppose
to the conservative majority. This state of
things marks the favorable moment for the
unfurling of the peoples standard once more
in behalf of the needed, wise and broad re-
forms so strikingly sketched by Mr.. Bright.
Year: 1876

1t seems almost superfluous to al
lude to the legitimate duties of the
press, as in contrast with what may
properly be termed journalistic mall
feasance. The intelligent public will
make its own discrimination, and the
day is not far off when popular senti-
ment will sustain the one, and in the
most decided manner condemn the
other. News is one thing, personal
scandal and defamation of character is
another. The Call of the Goth, allud-
ing to the late scandal from Monterey
which another cotemporary published
to the mortal ruin of the daughter OF
a citizen of Monterey remarks that
such an act is severely reprehensible.
A journal has no right to publish a
scandalous, anonymous communica-
tion any more than 1t has editorially
to attack the personal character of an
individual. The act alluded to it is
true resulted In a tragical termination
and may be regarded as an extreme
case, yet it is an illustration, that
may be borne in mind, OF
what illegitimate. journalism may do.
In all such cases where there is no
real remedy at hand to acquire ade-
quate redress, there seems to be NO
chance for relief except for journals
that claim to possess a regard for re-
spectability to endeavor to so educate
public sentiment, as to lead to the
frowning down and crushing out such
system. There is an ample field for
the legitimate, but of late it must be
confessed, to the shame of the present
age and generation, sort of craving
for the sensational and scandal bear.
ing press. By popular support door
is being opened that will introduce
into our social experiences depraved
sentiment which, if encouraged, will
lead to the most disastrous consequent
ces. 1t is time that our intelligent
citizens began to be discreet in their
patronage. 1t Is matter worthy OF
consideration.
Year: 1876

The Bakersfield, Kern County
weekly Courier and the Californian
have been consolidated and the
one paper will hereafter be known as
the Cour- Californian. In business
sense this is desirable combination.
Bakersfield and surrounding country
viii support one paper well.
Year: 1876

Division No. 1. A. O. H. will form on north aida n,
Canal street head resting Bourbon street. extending
east Divisions ?, and will form on north side OF
Canal street. head of No resting Royal street.
tending east.


AS the different Branches and Divisions arrive on the
ground they will through their marshals report to the
MARSHAL OF the Division, and the latter will as soon "a
his Division is formed report the same to the Grand
Marshal at Clay Statue The Grand Marshal accom-.
panied by his aids will then proceed to receive and
conduct the Mitchell Res place at the head of
the column.
Year: 1876

From the Atlanta Constitution, July 81
Miss Annie Wells Of Dalton, Ga, having


attired herself neatly, even to the minutest


details IF her toilet, went to her room and
shot herself in the head. She was 10 years


Of age. Her mother died by her own hand


some years ago. The following was found


on the daughters table: h
Ihope that ere these lines of mines are


read, will find what have long sought


for in rest and peace. die by my own


hand, but die at peace with the world, and
hope with my God. leave my forgive
ness to all who think they need it, although
am aware have sinned more than have


been sinned against. solemnly swear that
no person or persons are ever indirectly the


cause ofmy taking this step. For every act
have done have suffered too much not
to believe I will some day gain sight of


heaven. Let no one see me after It is all


over. Let it be as qnickly as possible /


know you will grieve awhile and remember


me at my best, but am saving you from


great deal of anxiety. Give my ring back


to Ed with my best love, and tell him If am


ever purified of my many sins will be his


guardian angel, and he must think of that


always. When think of our dear father I
am always tempted to resign my purpose,


and in leaving BIN love him better than /
ever did. Rosa must supply my place with


Henry, and am happy to know that it will


be doEe so well. To Lucy leave my love
and any little tride she may value for nay
sake. Let Emma have the little cross you
once gave me, and tell her she will be re-
warded, know, for all her kindness to us
when we SO little deserved it. Lyman and
Tom must not be forgotten-my devoted
love to them. Remember me at nv best,
and forget that have ever been unworthy
of your kindest love. Goodbye, forever.


ANNIE.
Year: 1876

This moraing ranchman brought int
town wildcat, which he had caught in q
cage trap few nights ago. The cage was
lifted out for the inspection of possible
customer at the corner of Blake and Fif
teenth streets, the cat meanwhile lying ap.
parently asleep on the floor. A verdant
youth from the East came along, admired
the beautiful animal, and, encouraged by
it's quiescence, ventured to stroke his head.
In an instant that cat was the liveliest kind
of thing. An angry spit burst from it az
it darted to the back of the cage with raised
paw, and when that young man drew his
hand out he was In condition to hunt q
surgeon, which he did instanter.