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Year: 1876

A WIDow IL WAsHlSGToS.-Ag gen
tleman of reported wealth entertained
very lavishly during his residence here.
bis dinners being generally TO those
men whom be desired To influence In
the course Of time the gentleman died,
aud his affairs were found TO be very
much involved, 50 much SO, indeed, that
his widow was obliged to curtail very
essentially the style of living hitherto
maintained Madame Blank had 10
idea of living in seclusion upon limited
stipend, however after all these years
indulgence in the good things Of life, so
she sent for the various friends whom
her husband had 50 frequently wined
and suggested to them that they make
her some suitable aud substantial return
for the past hospitalities. Said one
gentleman "Well, Madame, what
amount do you consider an equivalent
for the yiands ! have consumed at your
festive board = a thousand dollars
would perhaps cover the expense. was
the cool reply, and the thousand dollars
was quietly handed over by the gentle
man aforesaid, who mentally resolved
to be very chary in tie future accep-
taoce Of dinner parties, not relisbing
the prospect of footing the expenses of
his gastronomic feals years after they
occurred.


The fashionable widow retains ner
span and equipage, and lives as luxuri-
ously as though her liege lord still con-
tinued TO furnish the wherewithaA.-
Cincinnati Gaxtite.
Year: 1876

Max Esney shot himself twice yesterday
at Second avenue and Twelfth street, in
flicting very slight wounds. One of the bull
lets was stopped merely by package of
letters and photographs in his pocket. A
third attempt was frustrated by Police Cap
tain Mccullough, who had run to the spot
upon hearing the first discharge. Esney
said 81 have been in this country about
two years. followed the girl | loved to
New York. and married her against the will
OF her parents. got employment in the
mustard mandatory of Frederick Koch,
with whom have remained at fair salary
for the last two years. For some time past
my wite's mother has had an antipathy to
me, and persuaded my wife to leave me
taking with her our little girl. This was
six weeks ago. tried to get my wife and
child back, but couldn't, and so concluded
to put an end to my life.
Year: 1876

Preparations are being made by the court
officers for the session Of the May Term of
the New Castle county which begins on
Monday. The term is likely to be somewhat
protracted owing to the large number of
petty criminal cases which will occupy the
attention of the court, and the large mum
ber of civil cases. There are but few i'm
portant cases to come up for trial, and the
court will consume so much time in the dis
posal of the small cases that it is expected
the term will last three weeks.
Year: 1876




but those who are occasionally mentioned
by newspapers, and .nay receive more Or
less votes in the Conventions. Aswe look
at this noble army Of candidates, It is no
wonder though the Conventions are close
at hand, that nobody. can give decided
prophecy as to the result Of the struggle.


This uncertainty Is due not more to the
multiplicity of candidates than to the fact
that in no previous contest were 50 few of
the delegates hampered by pledges or in
structions, or SO likely to act as they please
in making nominations.


For these reasons, all those statements
as to the strength of this or that candidate,
put forth with such assurance In some
quarters rest On sandy foundation. An
Intelligent and impartial view Of parties,
candidates, and delegates, tends rather to
prove that we shall have repetition this
year of what has often happened hereto
fore in National Conventions, when the
leading aspirants proved just strong enough
to defeat each other, and thus prepare the
way for the sudden appearance, near the
close of long and weary struggle, Of some
fresh name that broke the deadlock and
swept in triumph through the assembly.


Il is worth while for conspicuous leaders
who are clutching desperately for the prize
at Cincinnati and st. Louis to remember
that, during the past third of century,
three-fourths of the Presidential nomina-
tions which were ratified at the polls, were
made under such an impulse as we have
described. In l840 the great Whig lead
ers, Webster and Clay, were thrust aside
in the Convention to make room for Har-
rison, clerk Of county court, whose chief
recommendation seemed to b. that he was
said to live in log cabin, drink hard
cider, and keep stuffed coon skin for
watch dog. In 1874 the friends of Cass,
woodbury. and Buchanan combined to
break down Van Buren with the two-thirds
rule; but his supporters were strong enough
to prevent the nomination of either of
them, and the out come, at the end Of the
long conflict, was Polk, who had hardly
been dreamed of before. In l848, CLAW
and Webster, the long-established chiefs
of the Wing party, were successful in
holding each other by the throat, while
Gen. Zach. Taylor, who had never cast
vote in his life, carried off the nomination.
And thus it was in 1852, Cass, Buchanan,
Marcy and Douglas, fought desperately for
three days at Baltimore, when, through
sheer exhaustion, they fell before Frank
Pierce, the obscure Brigadier Of whom not
one Democrat in hundred had ever heard.
The whirlwind Of applause that bore the
then almost unknown name of Lincoln
through the Chicago Convention in 1860,
to the amazement of the advocates Of Sew
ard and Chase, was memorable illustra-
ton Of our proposition; as were also the
nominations Of Fremont, Seymour, and
Greeley, though each was oyerthrown in
the elections afterward.


1t does not necessarily follow from these
examples that no one of the leading can
didates will now be nominated The facts
only show that the defeat of them all at
Cincinnati and st. Louis would be in ac-
cordance with the current Of political his
tory.-N. Y San.
Year: 1876

greatly advance. not only the material
position Of our countries, but that it will
afford to the world guaranty that in gath
ering us here together you have the in
terests Of peace at heart, aud that this will
contribute to cement the good feeling at
present existing between the nations rep
resented here"
Year: 1876

In regard to money, the creature of law,
have already said above, it should be reyu-
lated Iy ioc- If tie public make tarn pike
road for the convenience of the public, 30 one
will question its Tight-uay, duty-to FIR HE
toll on the road, in order that the public, who
make it. may have the use of it at The 1rersge
rate ltistheir creature, and this is their right.
the equal of it at the same rate, it matters
not into whose hands the stock NAV fall
Now, just so in regard to money: If The DMB


lic created money for the conreHjeRce of the
public. a standard of valuation aud medium
Of exchange, the puJi;c for the very reason
that they created it, and that money is a crsa>
:dre Of the Law, and is not and cannot be the
creature of any private individual, has un-
Year: 1876

Nothing would have been more graft
flying TO the Democratic Press than tc
have witnessed a change in the course
Of the leaders of the Republican party
on the absorbing matter of expenditures
in favor Of Retrenchment and Economy
With both political parties rivaling each
other in efforts to reduce expenditures
and to tighten the burden of taxation,
the people might with confidence have
looked for the gradual reduction Of the
public debt and the release Of their pro-
perty from the mortgage which by the
s,urse Of the Republican party in the last
ten years has been fastened upon every
inch Of real estate under management
Or cultivation. In connection with this
natter We call attention to the speech
Of Senator Salisbury made in the o. s.
Senate, on Friday.


In that brief, able. pointed and well
timed speech, it is asserted that there
have been in the last fifteen years not
much less than $40. 900 abstracted
from the people (of Delaware) and placed
Ia the Treasury of the United States-an
amount greater than all the expenses Of
the State government from the founda-
tion Of that government in 1776 until
the present time


1t seems almost incredible that our
little State with its sn all population of
agriculturists could in fifteen years have
made. saved and paid ten millions Of dol
ts~s. Yes this must be true.


Is it any wonder that the people of this
country are poor1 Delaware, perhaps,
has not paid more than her due proper
tion. But we believe she has. We be-
heve she has paid more than hundreds
OF districts in the north in which the
same number Of people live.


The people Of this country would be
justified in getting rid of fuch a party
or such government in any mode. For
the last decade the Republican party has
been the government; and it has been
in minority before the people nearly
the whole Of that time; holding power
and taxing the people by the use of the
sword in the hands of unworthy scoun-
drels in the clothing of army officers.


Hvery Department Of the government
aPpears to have been at the mercy Of
thieves and robbers. And we are now
approaching an impending crisis, which
nothing can arrest but economy and re
trenchment; and this work the Demo
srats have proposed to undertake, bu
they are opposed at every step, and il
the people wish to save what they hav,
left from the centralists at washingto,
they must drive them away from the
Capital by their votes at the approach
ing elections.
Year: 1876

there was the suspected burglar pac-
ing up and down the platform, wait
ing for the train. The officer thought
him suspicious looking character,
and his suspicious were confirmed by
the tenacity with which the gentle
man clung to the carpet-bae, for 1t
was never out of his hand from the
time he left the stage until the train
came.


In short time the train came along
ami the traveller entered and topk u
seat. The officer, intent on duty, raw
gentleman ON the train with whom
he was acquainted, pointed out the
suspected individual, impaired his
suspicious, and requested his friend to
notify the police in Norwich, ii the
gentleman stopped there, SO that they
might be on guard.


When the train arrived at Norwich,
the clergyman alighted ami went up
town, shadowed closely by the other
man, until he found policeman,
when, pointing out the suspected par
ty he inquired of the officer If he knew
that man.


"Know him? Yes. That one of our
ministers-Rev. Mr.. pastor Of the
-church.u
Year: 1876

We do not think third party IN ciey poll
itics can have anything like tho potghcy OF
efficiency of the greenback party Fh The na-
tional canvass. The power Of third parties
depends on a pretty equal diyisicn between
the two regular parties. If We could sup
pose the two great parties to have precisely
the same strength the change II . single
vote would decide the contest between them
Our two great national parties are 50 eseniy
balanced that the Insignificant vote Tor Peter
Cooper may decide the Presidential elections
but there is no such equality between the
strength of the two leading parties IN this
city. There is no reason to suppose that .
few thousand votes will determine vh9 Is 70
be our next Mayor as a few thousand may
determine who will be the next President
The democratic party has SO immense 8 pre-
ponderance in this city that no small third
party can hold the fate of a city ticket in It's
hands.


There is, nevertheless, this peculiarly
that when one party is SO overwhelmingly
strong as the democrats are in the city Of
New York the jealousies Of leaders may
cause split and revolt, and if the section
of the party which draws of is large
enough to make q majority when combined
with the opposition the regular party may
be weak by the excess of its strength. This
has often happened to the democratic party
of this city, and may happen again in the
coming city contest 1t is q frequent expe-
rience in our city elections. Mr.. Opdyke, a
republican, was elected Mayor in 1861 by
slender plurality of 6l3. although the whole
democratic vote exceeded the republican
vote by nearly two to one. republican
Mayor was elected in consequence of
democratic split, Mr.. Opdyke, the repub-
lican candidate, receiving 25, $50 votes; Mr..
Gunther, the Tammany democratic candi-
date, receiving 24,767 votes, and Mr.. Fer
nando Wood, the Mozart Hall democratic
candidate, receiving 24,l67 votes. When
a political party is strong enough to take the
risk OF split it is as much at the mercy of its
opponents as when the two parties are SO
equally balanced that small third party
may turn the scale. It does not yet appear
whether the dissatisfied democratic con-
tingent in the coming municipal election
will bring to the republicans q strong
enough contingent to enable them to elect
their local ticket. But, until this question
is determined, the result in the city is as un-
certain as the result in the State is by the
equally balanced state of parties, which
makes it possible for the Peter Cooper ticket
to turn the scale.
Year: 1876

We give place in another column to let
ter sent US by Mr.. Thurlow Weed from Mr..
II. s. Sanford, lately Minister to Belgium,
in which he discusses various phases of the
Southern question. He acknowledges that
there have been great and scandalous abuses
in the South by the republican camp follow
ers who have ruled there and still rule in
some of the States. He points out that the
credit of those States has seriously suffered
called republican rulers ran up monstrous
State debts and robbed in every direction.
He says, what is perfectly true, that those
States, with good government, have before
them an era of wonderful prosperity; and
he adds that what they now need is to be
left alone to manage their own affairs. in
which not only we but the greater part of
the Northern people agree with him. The
continued interference of the federal power
in the local affairs of the Southern States is
very strongly disliked in the North, where it
is seriously damaging the republican pros
poets, and we are glad to have Mr.. Sanfords
testimony to the fact that it is wrong, be-
cause he is not only large property owner
in the Southern States. but, as his letter
shows, an ardent republican.


AS to what Mr.. Sanford asserts about the
danger to our public credit abroad from q
democratic victory in November, we arc
sorry to see SO intelligent man put forward
SO absurd statement. From men like him
we expect better things than such mere cam
paign thunder He acknowledges that the
Northern democratic leaders are good citi-
zens, as we'll as the republicans. But he
need only ask himself whether they are fools
or not. If the democratic party should get
into power does he imagine that they are
going to fling away all their political future
at once by tampering in any way with the
public credit? The democratic leaders
are-like their republican rivals-fond of
Office and power Doubtless if they get in
they hope for prolonged term of Office.
Cannot Mr.. Sanford see what everybody
else sees--that to tamper with the public
credit, to increase the national debt, to act
in any way unwisely or ALPHABETICALLY,
would, in two years, send the party into an
unwelcome exile for half q century? No
party purposely commits suicide.
Year: 1876

As good wine is said to need no bush, 80
wherever Delmonico puts up o kitchen
with an eating room attached people are sure
of good dinner if they can pay for it, and
there is no necessity for covering tho city
with posters to assure our citizens oi
the fact. The late Mr.. Stewart would
not have his name over his stores
on the same principle, but everybody
knew where to find the great dry goods man,
whether yard or a cargo of calico was
wanted When the Nestors of the restau-
rant business Of New York open o new
house it is as much an event as the opening
of a royal bottle of Johannisberg or Chateau
Yquem, hoary with the cobwebs OF
quarter century, at the little dinner
of pair of veteran gourmands. On
Broadway, near Pine, the lucky house
finds itself which was yesterday bap-
tized in all kinds of desirable and stim-
ulating liquids, and on whose altar every
edible bird and beast Tin season) was offered
up, not, indeed, whole burnt offerings, but
"done to turn" 0 rare Delmonico we
would say of the great king of cuisine, az
was said Of Ben Jonson, did it not strike ua
that captious world might think the per-
feet chef Of chefs was in the habit of presenting
his viands underdone. Let rs rather say sa-
gacious Delmonico. for it is the live tradition
Of nigh o century in Gotham that las Del
monico goes SO goes the dining" In his
new palatial house Of the roasted bird and
the fragrant wine on Fifth avenue beyond
Madison square success has crowned his
brow as naturally as good humor crowns
good cheer. Marching legion Of
cooks from Fourteenth street upon tho
heels of the upholsterers and house
filters who went ahead to make
things comfortable, Delmonico completed
his conquest over the bons uivdnts as quickly
as Cesar over the Pharmacies. He came, hs
slew (birds), he cooked. The business
movements of so sagacious caterer are
matter of significance to the student of ou1
city's growth, and the abandonment of the
Fourteenth and Chambers street houses for
houses respectively half mile higher ur
town and half q mile lower down town are
suggestive of o dual concentrative movement
Of our better classes for business and pleas
ure worth noting
Year: 1876

Tho Herald and tho Newsdealers.


That obstreperous and short-sighted fac
ton of the newsdealing fraternity which pro-
tests noisily against the reduction in the
price Of the HERALD has been seeking to en-
list popular sympathy by the plea that the
small hand-to-mouth dealers are being
ground down and forced to the verge of
starvation, and that q great injustice is
chargeablc to the HERALD in consequence.
This specious but absurd plea is abundantly
refuted by the statements of the small
dealers themselves, as reported elsewhere.
Instead Of being ground or starved to the
alleged degree they are not only in fair
state OF health and comfort, but are doing q
much larger business in HERALDs than here
tofore, owing to the popular appreciation of
the reduction in price and the corresponding
increase of the demand. 'Ive sold forty
to-day" said one dealer, ''and never used
to sell more than eighteen or twenty before
the price was reduced" 1t is apparent that
at this ratio of increase the advantage to
the dealer is greater than before, and thus
the fact dawns upon the newsmen that an
old profit may return in a new dress, and
that they who most promptly accept the
new order Of things will reap tho first bene-
ft while the less sagacious and more
Year: 1876




Apart from the question of growth in
wealth and population and consequent
power of sustaining more and better estab-
ishments devoted to the dram matic and lyric
arts, the enterprising New York manager
has to consider location. When he is satis-
fed that New York can support another
opera house or another high comedy theatre
his most difficult task remains in putting
it where it will do the most good" We
suppose Mr.. Maurice Strakosch has solved
the main question to his satisfaction,
and taken his cue from Delmonico, who
has forsaken the old operate alignment of
Fourteenth street for o more advantageous
stand up town. We shall welcome q new
home for opera, particularly on such
splendid scale as Mr.. Strakosch indicates,
not because we at all believe that the use-
fulness of the Academy of Music is APP
preaching an end, but because competition
is the life Of ar. as we'll as trade. What the
in London and between Halanzier and
Strakosch in Paris has done for opera in
Europe we all know. A new house
rs large as La Scala, at Milan,
with stage appliances equal to those
of Wagner's Theatre at Baireuth, with one
hundred and sixty boxes. with seating
capacity for five thousand persons, and un-
de- the management of SO entcrprising and
experienced an impresario rs Mr.. Strakosch
would so stimulate the taste for opera in
N.w York that it would soon reap its profit
and keep the Academy of Music going as
we'll. Give New York such a house, with
first class company, headed by such artists
as Nine. Adelina Patti and Mile. de Belocca,
and Mr.. Strakosch will evoke vigorous
rival at the Academy of Music, even if his
brother Max has TO head the opposition.
We could look on even such an unfraternal
strife with complacency if we thought that
art was bettered thereby. We are even GER
tain that when Maurice stabbed Max with a
bewitching tenor, or Max defantly flung a
magnificent baritone at the head of Maurice,
each would bear the pang at wounding
his relative with the Same fortitude that
nerves Medea whom she butchers her babies
Year: 1876

There are hard words between the Aus
trian and German press that seem to have a
peculiar significance just now In the
United States the press, as we know by the
capital experience of the civil war, has O
dangerous capacity for the excitement of the
public mind and for putting the disputes
and differences of sections in such position
rs to make compromise impossible. 1t was
tho infammatory Southern newspapers more
than any other single force in the country
which made it necessary that the settlement
Of sectional differences should occur on the
battle field. This power of the newspapers
to put into a hostile attitude populations
that previously only differed in opinion is
with us consequence of the absolute free
dom of the press. But, strangely enough,
tho press seems to possess the same power
in Europe, and there it is q consequence of
its trammelled condition. Thus the stric-
lures Of the Austrian press on Ger
many's attitude excites the subjects Of this
criticism, because, as the Austrian govern
ment has the full authority to prevent such
publications, the fact that it does not pre-
vent them will be regarded in Germany as
an evidence that the opinions are not merely
those Of the journalists but Of the govern
ment. In Austria the same view will be taken
of the German answers, which will certainly
not be less tart than the Austrian criticisms.
1t would be an odd eventual settlement of
the Oriental difficulty if the two royal and
imperial" governments should become so
deeply involved in q dispute of this
nature as to leave Russia and the
Porte alone to deal with ono an
other. But even without such a quarrel
there is likelihood that Austria's influence
will be neutralized in the settlement by diff
ferences within her own limits as to her rela-
ton to the great dispute. Hungary's
antipathy to Russia provokes demonstrations
favorable to Turkey, and this is so contrary
to the requirements of the triple alliance
that it must necessarily provoke ON inter-
national scandal. This threatens to lead to
changes in the Austrian government; but
until those changes take place Austrias
position on any point in issue will not be
Of consequence beyond her own borders.
Year: 1876

Jwing TO the action OF portion OF the and
ncws- IN, who are determined that Tie public shall
not haze the HERALD at three per copy they
prevent IT, have made arrangements 10 place tho
HERALD in the hands Of all readers tho reduced
price, 70 that end We have secured wagons and
ncwsboys TO patrol every thorougharo OF this city
accommodate our readers. Newsboys can purchase
any quantity they may desire from the wagons tho
usual wholesale price and also ,o65 Broadway and
No. . Ann street.