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Year: 1875

One OF the most thrilling scenes ever
witnessed in the amphitheater at Cadiz
transpired in the autumn of 1S41. Twas
in the city at the time but was not pres.
cnt at the theater. The circumstances
were related to me by friend. 1t will
be understood thai the really thrilling
scenes on such occasions are not of blood
Blood is too common thing at bull
fight for rivers of it, be it brute or human,
to thrill an ordinary audience. Some.
thing out OF the ordinary line is what
transpired on the occasion to which
refer.


Notice had been posted in all the pub.
llc places that on certain day the bull
called Ell Moro (the Moor) would be in.
troduced in the arena, and that when he
should have been goaded to the utmost
fury young girl would appear and re.
ducc the animal to quiet subiection.
The people of Cadiz had heard of III
Moro as the most magnificent bull ever
brought into the city, and it soon became
known that the girl thus advertised to
appear in so strange and daring a part
was peasant girl Of Espera, who had
petted the bull, and fed it and cared for
it during the years of its growth.


On the appointed day, as might be
supposed, the vast amphitheater was
filled to overlooking with an anxious,
eager crowd, Two bulls had been killed
and dragged away, and then flourish of
trumpets announced the coming of the
hero Of the day, With a deep, terrific
roar Ell Moro entered upon the scene
lie was truly magnificent, a bovine
monarch, black and glossy, with eyes Of
fire, dilating nostrls and wicked looking
horns. The picadores attacked him
warily, and hurled their banderillos
(small, dart-like javelins, ornamented
with ribbons, and intended to goad and
infuriate.) The bull had killed three
horses off-hand, and had received eight
5anderillos in his neck and shoulders,
when, upon given signal, the picadores
and matadcres suddenly withdrew, leaving
the infuria.e beast alone in his wild
paroxysm of wrath.


Presently soft, musical note, like the
piping of lark, was heard, and directly
afterward a girl, not more than fifteen
years of age, with the tasteful garb of an
Andalusian peasant, and with an Anda-
lusian face, sprang lightly into the arena.
approaching the bull fearlessly, and at
the same time calling his name:


Moro Moro va voy!"


AT the sound of the sweet voice tho
animal ceased its fury, and turned to the
place whence it came. and when he saw
the girl he plainly manifested pleasure.
She came to his head, and put forth her
hand, which he licked with his tongue.
Then she sang low, sweet song, at the
same time caressng the animal by pat.
ting him on the forehead and while she
sang the suffering monarch kneeled at
her feet. Then she stopped and gently
removed the cruel banderillos, after
which, with her arm around El Moro's
neck, she led him towards the gate of tho
torri!.


Untll now tne multitude nad been held
spell.bound, but when they saw the gen
tie mistress thus triumphant shout went
up that shook the very walls. In an in
stant the bull turned, the fame again in
his eyes, bu. the girl very soon again
subdued him, and led him out from tie
arena-a prize which she was to carry
back with her to her home
Year: 1875

TIE trouble with church sociables,-
and it inheres in the very nature of
things,-is that they are apt to be over.
formal. And this formality springs from
the fact that they are not natural. The
New England conception of a church is
that it is a purely spiritual association,
and not social one at all. Hence the
"sociable" which the pastor has an.
nounced from the pulpit is a profound
embarrassment. The sociable is held in
the church ediice which they have al.
ways been taught to look upon as the
house Of God, built for his formal wor.
ship, and in which all the exercises were
to be of strictly religious character and
especially solemn.


The very atmosphere Of the place,
therefore, is destructive of that freedom
and ease oil manner, of that lightness
and brilliancy of conversation, which are
to sociable what the leaven is to the
loaf. Social life means jokes and play
full squibs repartee, flashes Of wit, the
play of humor, the pungent sarcasm, the
hearty laugh which has no reason in it
save the jovial spirits of the laughers !;
and to expect that people, especially
young people, are to feel at liberty to in.
dulge in these various pleasantries in the
very room where they have heard the
earnest prayer and solemn hymn, and
which is associated with The gravest
memories Of their lives, is asking too
much of human nature, The people are
not to blame if they are sober and stiff
and awkward distant and unsocial.


The fault lies in the place. There is
place to laugh as we'll as time; and
church is not place where a man
loves to explode rocket.like joke, or
where wag can tickle the company
with the dryness of his drollery. As
long as religion is preached as applicable
only to certain range of faculties it
will never elicit the hearty cooperation
Of the remaining faculties in man. Our
experience has been that q sociable held
in public hall or private house is worth
ten held in the rooms of the church. If
you want the people to be funny, to be
jolly, to be happy, meaning by these
terms what the average human means by
them, bring them together in a place
where these exercises do not seem desc
Grafton.


We have been delightfully."- surprised
to see how much good fellowship there
is in people if they only have an oppor.
tunity to show it, A man can't laugh
through tube twenty feet long. No
more can you get good human joke
through church door. Throw open the
doors OF your houses, friends, and ask
all the people to come down and see you,
throw Iormallty 10 tue uogs,and let triell.
como together in hearty, off.hand fash.
ion, and your rooms will be as full of
the pleasant murmurs Of happy fellow
ship, as grove in summer is full of the
murmur of leaves when the wind is co.
quoting with the branches. "Rejoice
eyermore - Golden Rule.
Year: 1875

The people of Keokuk, Iowa. we're
badly sold the other day by the report
that General Grant was coming up the
river. The whole town rushed to the
levee. The crowd was immense. Gen.
eral Grant came, but he was on canvass
and in frame. Only picture.
Year: 1875

A colored gentleman of Montgomery, Ala, as we notice, unexpectedly left a vacancy in the jury box to accept position on the city chaingang, kindly rendered him in conse- quence of a misunderstanding about the ownership of some hogs.
Year: 1875

STILL ANOTHER ARREsT-AN OPERATOR IN BOGUS


FIFTY CENT STAMPS CAUGHT IN BRooKLYN-


COMING DEVELOPMENTS.


Within the past three weeks the Secret Service corps
and United Marshals officers of Brooklyn have
been slngulary fortunate in discovering and arresng
the makers Of spurious money. There at present
five makers OF nickel five pieces in custody
and other dealers in that description Of bogus coin
'wanted" by the authorities Last evening still another
combination Of unlicensed money manufacturers
earthed in Brooklyn in this Deputy United
States Marshal De Clue informed that man of
genee appearance and good address had been passing
bad fifty cent stamps the propretors Of various
looms in the vicinity Of the City Hall Dc Clue
in search Of the fellow and him while in the act Of
stepping a crosstown car. He followed the man to
Frank Masseys saloon South Eighth street. Eastern
district There he took him into custody. The prisoner
gave his name William Wolf He said he resided In
Philadelphia and that he was stopping the boarding
house Of Mr Massey. The Marshal went up stairs To-
the rooms Of Wolf and proceeded to examine his trunks
While thus engaged he observed the man some
papers from vaise and throw them in
a closet The officer then took hold OF
Wolf and got possession Of bis pocketoook
in which he discovered five counterfeit hfy cent taus
They were well executed the engraving being very nne
On holding the stamps before the light il could be
that the silk stripes in the paper printed while in
the genuine the silk itself be seen inaid in the
paper and be picked in threads by the point of
penkne In all other respects the counterfeit was ex
colent He was asked whore he got them and he said
that Massey had gwen them 10 him The gentleman
thus accused Indignantly denied the assertion saving
that he had given Wolf change at all Wolf
then pretended 10 have obtained them nom
the keeper OF German lager beer saloon
in Williamsburg but when brought face 10 face
with the German the latter denied having given the
prisoner such currency Finding himself In a tight
place, VOLTS next exploit to brbe the Deputy
Marshal He claimed to have three houses Of in repute
In the city Of Philadelphia that he could afford to bo
generous in rewardng his custodian If the latter would
but let him He taken iulo hof.r
he said, for keeping "a fence" but got Off The theory
OF the Marshal is that these spurious stamps are struck
on IN Philadelphia and circulated by agents all over
the country Wolf passed the night in the county
jan Raymond street, and this morning he VIII be ar
ragned Tor examination before United States Commis-
sioner Benedict Other arrests were expected To be
made in this case last night
Year: 1875

DISASTROUS EFFECTS of THE STORM OF FRIDAY
ALONG THE NORTHERN RAILRoAD-EoUsEs
OVERTHROW AND IMMENSE LANDsLIDEs
OCCASIONED.


SPARKHIL N. j., August IA, 1875
No words describe the terrible effects of the
heavy along the line of the Northern Railroad
New Jersey. No such food has ever visited this
neghborhood before and tho losses sustained by the
people living along the line amount to thousands Of
dolars The excitement is at present so great that
careful survey Of the situation is impossible The nature
and extent of the havoc created may, however, be
gathered from the sequel


THE STORM


Yesterday terrible storm set in, the vehemency Of
which each passing hour served only strengthen.
Between this point and Nyack the storm attended
with heavy winds The citizens, becoming alarmed,
clustered together here and there to devise some
to ward off the danger which threatened them.
The country down the line is hilly and mountainous
preserving, indeed pretty nearly tho same contour
the banks of the Hudson, which are only few miles
away. All at once cataract Of water fell earthward,
and landing upon the hill tops, rushed down upon the
village in a thousand different rivulets and channels
II was as If the dark, thick


THUNDER CLOUD HAD EXPLODED
and emped its contents upon this unfortunate locality
Many OF the citizens fed in terror and CONSERVATION
from their homes with their shvering wives and chill
dren, not knowing what to do Trees were torn up by
the roots and it is exsGgeration TO state that huge
rocks and bouders, weighing in some instances over
500 pounds disodged from their foundations and


HOUSES


Some faint idea may perhaps be formed Of the force
and fury of the rushing waters when 1t is stated that the
railroad track this place torn up to the length
Of fty feet and that gully washed out TO the
markable depth Of twenty feet


THIS STONE GRAVEL AND MUD
tearing down upon the houses, crushing in their
sides and almost carrying them from their foundations.
The house Of Mr. Ward, agent Of the railway company,
was almost entirely demolished


Hundreds of workmen engaged removing the
rocks from the sides of the houses and in taking away
the furniture, &c, buried under the mud.


The companys wrecking train is here and about 100
men are at present engaged in building trestleworks
the different gaps. At Norwood two passenger
trains blocked up The passengers tried TO reach
Nyack by carriage, but found the roads washed away.
They forced to return and wait for relief which
sent this morning


OTHER DAMAGE.


There ten heavy land slides the Piermont branch,
varying from ten TO eleven feet in depth Some Of them
half a mile in length | write in the greatest
haste and in the midst OF the most tremendous excite
ment not knowing whether this viii reach you not
telegraphc communication is at present wholly cut
of Several people missing and il is supposed that
they buried under the stone and mud borne from
the mountain side Many have been wounded.
Year: 1875

Rs- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The New YORK
has adopted distinguishing Coston night signal for
ing coos red green red changing from to the other
succession be several miles distant Cap
tains vessels upon seeing this signal win obge by
pairing any marine they may have for the Ship News
Department Of the HERALD


pPersons desrous of communicating with vessels arriv
New York by addressing such vessels care
of HERALD news yacht pier No l East River New York
Letters received from all parts of the world and promptly do
Hvered. Duplicates required
Year: 1875

On Saturday OF the employees Of the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company engaged in fixing wire
on pole at the corner Of Ferry and South Market
streets, Newark He was near the top Of the pole,
when it suddenly fell to the ground, carrying him with
a. He was removed 10 st. Michael's Hospital when Il
was discovered tbet bis spine most seriously
Lred
Year: 1875

The following is in reply to note address
ed to the Commissioner by the Land officers
at independence, CAL:


WASHINGTON, March 13, 1870.
Reqistcr and Receiuer, independence, Ca5:


GENTLEMEN In reply to your letter OF
the 4th ultinO, have to state that the 4th
section of the Mining Act of May 10th, 1872,
provides that the owner OF tunnel shall have
1.-THE right Of possession of all veins or lodes
within three thousand feet from the face of
such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously
known to exist, discovered in such tunnel,
to- the same extent as if discovered from the
surface" and prevents locations being made
by others, ION the line OF such tunnel.


The line of the tunnel is held to be the width
thereof and no more, and that upon this line
only is prospecting for blind ]odes prohibited
while the tunnel is in progress. Other par
ties are in no way debarred from prospecting
for blind lodes or running tunnels so long as
they keep without the line of the tunnel as
herein defined, the said line being required
by the regulations of this Office to be marked
on the surface by stakes or monuments.


When q lode is discovered in tunnel, the
owner has the right to such lode and it is op-
tional with him to record his claim thereon,
taking fifteen hundred feet one side OF the
discovery, or part on one side and part on the
other.


The tunnel right is not enlarged by the dis
cOvery of q yein or lode therein, but remains
as before. The owner of the tunnel, how
ever, has the right to fifteen hundred feet on
the lode discovered, and the width Of surface
ground along the course thereof prescribed
by local law.


The said section does not give to tunnel
owners in any case surface ground seven
hundred and fifty feet IN width on each side
of their tunnel.


Very respectfully, your obedient servt,


s. 5. BURDETT, Commissjoner.
Year: 1875

London Correspondence Chicago Tribune.


Some little excitement is going on in Lon
don about u vice which threatens to become
a fashion in the highest circles of society, and
which has already cost some serious scandals.
Ladies of high rank and great wealth. for
lack of something better to do, have set the
example of gambling at cards for large stakes,
and in one or two apparently decorous draw
ing-rooms sums of money have changed OWL
crs of appalling amount. Scandal whispers
that nobleman of high rank has been obliged
to sell estates which have been in the family
for centuries in order to clear himself of the
difficulties in which his wife had involved
him by her passion for gambling. The
Duchess of Manchester is said to have lost
f140, 600 sterling, but this cannot pledge
myself. The matter is really grave one,
and it is seriously to be hoped that some way
may be found of checking the practice before
it has become widely fashionable. Unlucki]y
gambling appears to exert fatal influence
over those who have once indu]ged in it, and
it is the more important, therefore, that the
leaders of fashionable society should reso-
lutely crush the practicc-which they can do
if they choose-by closing their doors against
either man or woman who is known to be a
gambler. The utter uselessness and laziness
which ruins the lives Of both men and women
in our upper classes is the true source of such
vice as gambling, and only honest labor
will cure the diseases which are slowly eating
away all that is best and noblest from the
natures of our luxurious and idle aristocratic
class
Year: 1875

Clark Smith of Cornwall, has just had is
sued to him letters Of patent for an endless
chain water wheel for propelling STEAMBOATS,
through the water. MIR. Smith claims that a
boat furnished with wheel such as he has
invented will be driven through the water at
much greater speed with the same power.
BY the wheel nov in use but few paddles take
hold upon the water at the same time. With
the endless chain arrangement nearly one
half of the paddles take hold upon the water.
1t would be impossible for us to give minute
description of this invention. Should it ac-
complish the half that the inventor claims, it
must reyolutionize steam navigation. He
claims that boat furnished with his inven-
ton can compete with the speed of railroad
train
Year: 1875

80, mamma" said dear little girl Of nine
summers, as she ran into the maternal pres
ence, while was skipping outside on the
sidewalk ,sucha kind, pleasant gentleman came
up to where Maggie and sadie and me were
skipping, and gave us each some candy, and
told us to 60 on skipping, and said if any lit
tie girl could skip $50 times he'd give her pa
rents pretty rosewood box, Ell lined with
satin, with glass cover and silver handles,
and her name ON silver plate. And I'm
going to try and get that nice box for you,
mamma. and the gentleman said when had
skipped 750 times, for you and papa to call
at his Office and let him know. He said he
was the corner, but Ispose he meant his Of.
nee was on the corner, for how could man
be q corner?"
Year: 1875

As an illustration of the limitless number
of combinations which the three primary
colors are capable of, it may be interesting to
know that in the Gobelin tapestry manufac-
tory 28. 600 distinct shadiDgs of yarn are en-
ployed, each one distinguishable by the prac-
ticed eve
Year: 1875

Let every young man whose appetite
for drink is consciously growing, but
whose conscience is not yet scared by con-
firmed habit, adopt the plan of making an
accurate note of how he feels in the morn
ing after drinking too much the night be-
fore. Let him analyZe as nearly in detail
as he can his thoughts and reflections
when he first wakes up, and put down in
black and white plain, truthful descrip-
ton of them. do not refer to the sense
of physical pain or discomfort which al
ways follows debauch, but to his moral
conditions in the early morning, and in
the absence of the Fictitious excitement of
conviviaiity. Let this be done conscien-
tiously, and let the young man read over
his own words carefully, and endeavor to
thoroughly realize what he has described
on paper, every time he thinks of taking
a drink, and l believe that most young
men controlled by principle, actuated by
a-desire to do right, and struggle against
the inherent weakness of human nature,
would in a short time come to the conclu-
sion that the ''game is not worth the can
de-" and in many cases eventually give
up the desire to indulge in so treacherOus
and ddusive a relief from ennui-sO dan
gerous and false a means of excitement
Providence Journal.
Year: 1875

A young Texan, who was captured
by the Comanche Indians about a year
ago. gave the following account of his ex-
periences recently TO a correspondent OF
the Galveston Nelos


was trying to get five beef steers back
to the herd last May, when was sudden
ly surrounded by about twenty-five Co
manche Indians, and taken prisoner. This
happened near sunrise. was tied on my
horse and carried some 80 miles that day.
At night we arrived at a sort OF camp,
where we Joined fifty more Indians, and L
found they had another white man prls-
oner. | was not allowed to speak with
this man. but [ could see from the blood
on his face and clothes that he was wound
ed. As soon as the Indians had kindled
fire and eaten some meat, they began to
torture this second prisoner, though for
what reason have never learned. They
beat him with cartridge-box strap with
large buckle on the end of it, after strip
ping him of his clothes. They cut gashes
on him with knives. They sawed OFF his
thumbs with an old cavalry sabre. and
mashed his toes between rock and the
butt end of carbine After gouging out
! some of his teeth with a bayonet. and
Year: 1875

a correspondent of the american Build
er, writing from Cadiz, thus describes an
architectural novelty which he thinks
would soon become popular if introduced
in this country:


sit is sort of glass box to hang out
side of your window and sit in. 1t is not
a bay window at all, but much cheaper
and better contrivance to serve similar
purpose. The windows of the houses are
large, with French easements opening on
hinges outside there is floor about two
and half feet in width, with its inner
edge resting on the stone sill, its outer
edge being Supported by bracket. On
three sides of this floor light wooden
paneling rises about as high as the top of
a chair, and above that, in the winter sea-
son, are glass sashes, extending to the
roof of the little box, which is just little
higher than the top of the window to
which it is hung. In warm weather, which
prevails the greater part of the year in
CadiZ, the glass sashes are removed, and
fresh linen awnings on blue and white
stripes or bright silken curtains take their
place. The effect is beautiful, and man
who has seen it, as [ do at this moment,
with the mischievous eyes of fair senor-
ita peering down at hiM from behind her
fan, is net likeIy to forget the Cadiz bay
window nor the CadiZ fan, which affected
Lord Byron so seriously half century
ago.


1.-THE perch is simply five-sided box,
hung up in front of the regular window,
which takes the place of its sixth side, or
cover. 1t is portable, and can be taken
off and put on at will. 1t is usually hung
in the second and third stories of house,
sometimes higher, but never in the ground
floor, as bay-windows usually are. In
bad weather it is simply closed, and serves
as double protection without interfering
with the regular window at all. 1t is COM
mon to fit inside shutters to it in summer
to shade the interior from the blazing
tropical sun. As all large houses have a
number of these boxes at the different
windows. the effect upon the street is
highly picturesque. The passer-by might
easily fancy himself an actor, walking
down the stage OF a very long, narrow
theater, for the amusement of several hun
dreds of dark-eyed spectators occupying
the double row of prOscenium boxes
above -