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Year: 1876

Who may be suffering from the effect of youthful fol-

 lies ndiscretion will do well 70 avail themseives of this the greatest boon hid inc altar of suf fering humanity. DR. SPlkNEy will guarantee to for felt s5lO for every of seminal weakness. pri- vRte disease of any kind character which he under takes and fails 10 He would therefore say to the unfortunate sufferer who may read this notice that you arc 'readng upon dangerous ground when you longer delay in seeking the proper remedy for your complaint Ton may he in the first stage member you are approaching the last. If yeu bor iering upon the last and suffering all of its i'll effects remember that if you peTss; in ITO crnstiuation the time must when the mo.t skill full physicia render you assistance when the door of hope is closed against when angel of mercy bring you relief In has the Doe tor failed of success. Then let despair work urou mag naton, but avail yourself of the beneficial results of his treatment before your is beyond the reach of medical skill before grim death kurries you to prmature grave. Fun course of tressssent s25.0O. Send money by Post Ofhee order or Exprsss with full description of case.

 Call or Address, DR. A. B. SPIENEY, oc2syl No. Il Ksarny Street San Francisco.
Year: 1876

Silas Wilder, who killed his father
and mother with an ak at East Lyndon,
VT, cut his wife's throat, then his own,
and afterwards hanged himself, was
thirty years old and well-to-do farmer.
His parents opposed his marriage, and
made his marital relations very unpleas-
ant. A difficulty arose between them and
the result was the terrible deed. He
had been married but year.


There was terrible excitement at East
Lyndon over the tragedy. 1t is sup
posed that Wilder was laboripg under
temporary insanity superinduced by ex-
cessive excitement and passion. The
details of the tragedy are most horrible.
His father and mother were aged re-
spectively seventy-three and seventy
years. The immediate cause of the
affair was an alteration with his wife,
who in altering pair of overalls had
made them too short. After angry words
Wilder started for the shed saying he
would get an ak and end the trouble.
His wife followed him and seized the ax,
when he drew q dirk and stabbed her.
He left her for dead, and taking the ak
started for his father, who had followed
Linn, and struck him fearful blow,
the ak crushing through the old mans
head. At this point he appeared still
further infuriated, and next attacked his
mother, killing her with three fearful
blows over the head and breast, and
leaving her lying at the front door he re-
turned to the shed and found his father
had crawled into the kitchen. He struck
him as he lay upon the floor, and the ak
crushed through his head and remained
fixed on the floor. He then cut his own
throat, and, death not ensuing at once,
he ran to the barn, fastened rope
around his neck and jumped from a
beam. The fall broke his neck aid he
died instantly.
Year: 1876

hal t of removing these shavings to his
sta ,. Following the clew to the stable
it vas found that dry manure heap had
been disturbed and blood was found on
some boards near by.


It was proved that on the previous
morning Alley started from his stable
with four barrels, and teamster, in
jumping from V agon, had ascertained
that two of them were heavy. Two OF
the barrels were not satisfactorily ac-
counted for, and man testified that he
saw the team and barrels with a man
strongly resembling Alley on the mill
dam, whence they we're supposed to have
been thrown into the river. Alley owed
Ellis about 5000, needed money, and
Ellis was known to have been looking
for the suspected man on the night OF
the murder. A new Ak that Alley had
bought was missing. Stains were found
on his clothing, which experts declared
20 be the blood of the murdered man. A
woman had heard strange noises on the
night of the murder, like the rolling OF
barrels. Alley, it was shown, had plenty
of money after Ellis death. An ex-
animation of the stomach of the MUIR
dered man showed that he must have
died between six and nine o'clock on the
fatal evening. Seemingly, here was
perfect chain of circumstantial evidence.
But the defense met the theory that Al
lev had committed the murder in quar-
rel by showing his peaceable disposition
and his high reputation for honesty, and
controverted the assertion of the prose
cution that Alley was in debt to Ellis,
and without money to meet an engage
ment that fell due at the time of the muir
der, by showing that the prisoner owned
real estate in New Hampshire, and had
money in bank. Alleys abundance OF
ready money after the murder was ex-
planned by his son having repaid him
S125 the evening before. He gave sat
isfactory account of how he had spent
his time on the day of the murder. Ex-
perts called by the defense swore that
the blood on the prisoners clothes, being
dry, could not be distinguished from
the blood of a beast. This conflicting
scientific testimony confused the jury to
the advantage of the prisoner, and he
was acquitted. II he was not the muir
derer, the murderer was never found.
Year: 1876

feOpie Will 1dlk.
You may 60 through the world, but twill be
very slow,
If you listen to ali that is said as you go;
You'll be worried and fretted and kept in
stew.
For rneddlesome tongues must have something
to do,


And people will talk.
II quiet and modest, you'll have it presumed
That your humble position is only assumed
You're wolf in sleeps clothing or else your
fool;
But don't get excited-keep perfectly cool,


For people will talk.
And then, if you show the least boldness of
heart
Or slight inclination to take your own part,
They will call you an upstsrt, conceited and
vain,
But keep straight ahead-dont stop to e1-


For people will talk.
II threadbare your dress and old-fsshioned
your hat,
Some one will surely tske notice Of that,
And hint rather strong that you can't pay your
way;
But don't get excited, whatever they say


For people will talk.
II your dress is in fashion, don't think to
escape,
For they criticise them in different shape
You're ahead Of your means, or your tailor's
unpaid,
But mind your own business ss-tbere's nsugb'
to be made


For people will talk.
Now, the best way to do it is to do rs you
please;
Fer your mind, if you have one, will then be
at ease.
OF course you will meet with all sorts Of abuse
But don't think to stop them-it aiu't any use


For people will talk.
Year: 1876

The following suggestion, given in
Scribner's Magazine, is worthy the con-
sideration of parents:


Nervousness with a child is almost
always a ma ter of the stomach. A
G ust of bread will usually put an end to
the most obstinate preverseness. Chill
dren, for this reason, should never be
allowed to go to bed, after fit of cry,
ing, with an empty stomach. A bit OF
bread and Jelly or cup of custard will
bring back smiles and happiness when
all the moral law fails, and forthe sound
est of reasons.
Year: 1876

CRoUP.-Croup may be cured in one
minute, and the remedy is simply alum
and sugar. The way to accomplish the
act is to take knife or crater and shave
off in small particles about teaspoonful
Of alum, then mix it with about twice
its quantity of sugar, to make palatable.
Almost instantaneous relief will follow.
Year: 1876

Let nothing make thee sad or fretful,
Or too regretful;


Be still
What God hath ordered must be right;
Then find in it thine own delight,


My will.
Why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow
About tomorrow,


My heart!
One wa.cheeall with care mcst true,
Doubt not that he will give thee, too,


Thy part.
Year: 1876

The ball was up yesterday a. the capItolne Grounds
and as early eight O'Clock the morning skaters
began 70 visit the pond BY eleven O'Clock there
nearly 900 persons on the ice or about the refresh
ment rooms In the forenoon the sport very coed
In the afternoon tho increasing mildness Of the day
tbawed the surface OF the ice that became slushy
and uncom Portable 70 the skaters.


The Brooklyn Park Commissioners have erected a.
the Flaibush avenue entrance TO Prospect Park lake a
spacious building lsofee length by 40 feet in breadth
for the accommodation OF the skaters Mr. o'Brien,
who Is in charge Of the refrcshment department. ex
paned ali about the preparations which he pushing
forward for the reception Of hts expected visitors he
said that in conversation yesterday afternoon Park
Engineer Cayler stated that II the thermometer should
50 down again last night below the freezing point the
lake would this morning DO declared open 70 The pub
lie


The Central Park ponds generally the last every
year 10 be thrown open 10 all comers principal
reason Tor this 70 be found IN the fact that these
ponds have TO sustain far larger number Of people
than any other The preparations for the beginning Of
the Sk.l1ae arc eoms on -stvelY
Year: 1876

AMATEURS AND ''PRoFRssIoNAL AMATEURS"


now CREWS ARE MADE UP soMETIMEs-A


REFORM NEEDED.


On the goth inst a convention OF the National Asso
citation OF Amateur oarsmen will be held in this city
The meeting will be important one, inasmuch as
the prominent subject for discussion will be the
amateur question and what really constitutes anna
The matter will prove difficult to deal with best
AS the rule reads the amateur is defined to be lone
who does not enter into open competition, for
either stake public admission money or entrance
fees compete with against professional for any
prize who has taught, pursued or assisted in
the pursuit OF athletic means Of livel
hood, or has not been employed in about boats or
in manual labor the water" So far as this goes
1t appears all right but it is well known
10 every amateur oarsman that the evils
sought TO be guarded against are very in
enectually prevented. There are what are called
professional amateursn-men who belong TO boat
clubs and do nothing but They really have no
visible means OF support seldom pay their initiation
ices or tueiI inIt'alon % paul, e'e noney - eup
piled by friend or friends rarely pay dues and II the
gossip of the clubs goes for anything there are among
this class oarsmen who are either directly or indi-
rectly rewarded for their services poor man. who
from practice TO become proficient in rowing
stands poor show of beng allowed to continue an
amateur II he should thoughtlessly do something
which could be construed into the acceptance OF
ward for services done the water Indeed, the
practice of clubs in the making up Of
their crews is exceedingly reprehensibe and savors
strongly OF professionalism say the least Of IL
Take for instance club with forty or hfty members,
and OF these good oarsmcn too, but in the csma
ton OF the coterie who the club not good enough
beat from another club, and what is doneS
plumber OF good oarsmen are thought Of They may
belong Is eohge crew another boat club; but that
does not matter. Inducements OF one kind or other
held out to them TO join particular club IL Will
them nothing for boats rainingin fact they Will
be under expense for anything. They viii be well
taken o and for all these coureses they are ex
pected TO row all the Of the club they have so
Joined AS a crew composed do scarcely anything
but row, what chance has Q bond fde amateur crew,
composed of who, in the leisure hours from busi
ness indulge rowing for pleasure exercise TO make
oven decent show against such opponentsp The con-
venton will do well to consider this matter thoroughly
and thoughtfuly, or the pastime OF rowing amateur
will fall into disrepue and the sport will become
tainted with The surroundings OF professionalism and
gambling.
Year: 1876

week


Henry Dressler, German, who was recently dis
charged from the Flatbush Lunatic Asylum, where he
had been under treatment called at Justice Demar's
yesterday and said that he had been robbed Of
$40 by the men who took him from his home TO the
asylum of this sum SAT returned upon leaving the
asylum and he declares his intention of suing tor the
balance.


No arrests have been made up to the present writing
In the robbery OF the ewey store OF Bathassar Oto
of No SS4 Fulton street, which occurred Friday
evening Fifty dollars worth of the stolen rings which
dropped by the burglar, found by police
and returned TO the owner.


John Kerrgan and James Strange who were arrested
as sneak thieves examined before Justice Elliott
yesterday and held for the action Of the Grand
Jurv
Year: 1876

Fifty and boys assembled at No. 12l6 Second
avenue last evening to witness a sparring exhibition
arranged by 'Hoboken Clipper" There were but few
exponeuts OF the art of hstic culture present The
''Sparrow" and another to fame unknown first
obliged when "Yclow Davis' aud hcGlinty
donned the mittens and slogged each other until
thc former being tired OF the amusement retired
Eloriously Then two novices stepped upon the saw
dust and made poor fist Of the experiment A long
wait followed, when the Clipper and civilians"
wound up the show in merry style the former getting
the best OF H. blind fiddler did what he was able TO
keep the lads together inspire them with the feel
ing that the exhibition
Year: 1876

UMPIRE.


No. so PARK STREET, LONDON, Dec. 80, 1875.
DEAR SIR received your letter a week ago an
nouncing to the fact that had been elected umpire
for the University Regatta of 1876 by the unanimous
vote of the Rowing Association of American Colleges
! beg you TO assure the committee that | prize very
highly this honor and TO thank them and you most
heartily for the very kind way in which IL has been
bestowed and the news of II conveyed to me. de-
layed replying in the hope that l might possibly see
my way TO accepting the post but this is, am sorry
TO say, quite impossible. II would have been high
and great pleasure to 10 have acted Believe
always with all good wishes Of the season TO you
and all members of the association most truly yours
b FRANK REEFS. THOMAS HUGHES
Year: 1876

Abill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legls-
lature by Mr Lewis of Jersey City providing for the
extension Of the give County act' throughout the
State II this should pass great deal OF dis
tress among small property holders will bo averted.
AS the case stands mortgages liable 10 taxa
ton and the burden will be great that foreclosures
on sweeping scale will be inevitable II measure
of relief be not afforded BY the Legislature
Year: 1876

A shooting match took place yesterday afternoon be-
tween OF six representing the employees OF the
Continental and the Home Insurance companies. The
members Of the team OF the Home Company rather
astonlshed their competitors who the chalengers
and who until the Of the contest conf
dent OF winning The Home boys won by score OF
IN
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty -four hours, in com
parison with the corresponding date of last year.
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnups pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1876

Is there any remedy Tor the hard times? we
are often asked. In one sense, No; there is
no patent nostrum that will Serve-no green
back plaster, no 3.G5 bond bolus, no stimulant
of Congressional enactment that will avail to
set the patient on his feet. The mistake made
by all the financial Guacks who constantly in
trude their schemes for reviving business is
that they make false diagnosis of the case.
They insist that the prostration which always
follows a crisis is the disease. and they invent
divers remedies to cure it; while in fact this
lethargy is itself the remedy. Over-trading,
over-manufacturing, public and private ex-
travagance, the investment of capital in WIS.,
ionary and unproductive enterprises, the hot
fever of speculatiOn-these were the disease.
The crash of 1878 came as the inevitable re-
suit of their insidious and fatal influence. The
world of business has its laws as well as the
world of nature, and their violation entails
penalties which cannot be avoided . After a
man has suffered sharp and severe stroke of
illness he experiences first period of eXhaus-
tion and then one of convalescence. The par
allel with the business community is perfect.
The financial crash is the shock of the sudden
attack, the panic with its total suspension of
commercial transactions is the period of ex-
haustivn, and the hard times answer to that of
convalescence. No physician would insist on
his patients going to work as soon as the dis
/ ease had left his system Convalescence is an
: essential part of the cure. The man is kept


quiet at first, and as he gradually RECEIVERS his
strength he resumes, little by little, his old
avocations. His languor is not illness but the


effort Of nature to secure the conditions for re.


building his energies


! In just this way is the business community


recovering its lost vigor, 1t is not sick, it is


only weak and languid, and it cannot be help.
, ed by any medicines that quacks in or out OF


Congress can compound. In this period OF
Year: 1876

quiescence tie elements of future activity AM
practicing economies which had long fallel


into disuse the coat is worn another season


the old silk gown is made over, the household


expenses are retrenched, there is less outlay


for luxuries and finery; wholesome lessons o.
! self-denial are learned. Young men less fire.


quently abandon the country and flock to the
cities to swell the over-crowded ranks of those


who gain living by merely passing commo-
dities from hand to hand; they remain upon


the farm, and thus add to the number of act


ual producers of wealth. In the country


there is little Distress for the soil is just as re-


sponsive as ever to the processes of agricul-


ture. and its products command price rela-
lively as good as or better than they did three


o. four years ago. These adjustments TO the
changed conditions of business, this shorten
ing OF outlay to correspond with diminished
income, this shifting of labor from avocations
no longer remunerative to others where there
isstill room, this redistribution of population
the abandonment of the idle factory or
forge for the farm, and of the croweed East
for the more inviting West-involve good
deal of suffering, but it must be borne, and it
Will be endured with more cheerfulness if it is
regarded as the necessary preparation for a
nsK era of national prosperity. The strait
ered ways of living which the hard times
fdrce people to adopt develop in them habits
oteconomy which will surely produce better
stage of things in the end, and are the only
corrective of the vices of extravaganza and
Wild specElation which forced the country
into the hard and rough path it is now tread
ing.


'ls there any remedy for the hard times,
then: Yes; the remedy has been found, and
and people have to take it whether they will
or no. The hard times are working out their
own cure. But the slow operation is hard to
bear. Can it not be accelerated? 1t can if
the business public can be inspired with more
courage and confidence. The torpor that fol-
lows a commercial crash usually prolongs
itself beyond the time when its existence is
necessity, and thus the conditions for re-
neWal of activity exist for months, and per-
haps for year or two, before people venture
to take advantage of them. Timidity holds
them back and makes them take gloomy
view of a situation which is rapidly brighten
ing. We believe that the foundation for bet
ter times has already been laid, and that the
coming Spring ought to witness decided re-
vigal in many branches of trade. 1t is unfor-
tnnate that the Presidential campaign comes
just at this time, for it is always disturbing
influence in the channels of business, but on
the other hand we have the Centennial Exhi-
bition to set people in motion and unlock
great del of boarded wealth, and to stimulate
enterprise by arousing patriotism Heretofore
the only advice to give to those who chafed
under the burden of the hard times has been
compressed in single word-patienee; but
now the time has come for more cheering
watchword, and we say, Courage and Action
nv J. Tribune -4-
Year: 1876

IT is well for the Democratic party that its
leaders in Congress pursue the bottling up
policy with reference to most of the Southern
members. 1t turns out that Blackburn. OF
Kentucky, VINO was SO extremely anxious to
get at Blaine, commanded guerrilla company
during the war, and made a business of mur
dering women and children on the Kentucky
border. His brother was DIR. Lewis Black
burn, who introduced the yellow fever cloth
ing into New York in 1868, and his sister was
Mrs. Morris, who was tried in Cincinnati for
the Chicago conspiracy. Had he been let
loose he would have smashed the party into
smithereens in his blinded Bourbon fury.
Year: 1876

Don't stop to tell stories in business
hours.


If YOU have q place of business be
found there when wanted.


No man can get rich by sitting
around stores and saloons.


Never "foOl" in business matters.


Have order, system, regularity and
also promptness.
Do not meddle with business you
knew nothing OF.


Do not kick everyone in your pain.


More miles can be made in day Dy
going steadily than by stopping.
Pay as you go.


A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.


Help Others when you can, but never
give what you cannot afford to, simply
because it is fashionable.
Learn TO say no. No necessity Oh
Swapping it out dog fashion, but say IL
firmly and respectfully.
Use your own brains rather tnnn
those OF others. =,


Learn to think and act for yourself;


Keep ahead rather than behind tne
times.


Young men, cut. this out, and II there
be any fallscy in the argument, let US
know.
Year: 1876

Newark Advertiser.


/ We have no sympathy with that shrinking
| sentimentalism which protests against Mr.
| Blaine's interposition in the amnesty debate,


or his terrible philippe against JEFF. Davis


We are told by the men who propose to bury
all memories of the war in a silence as mute as
the graves of Andersonville, that it is unwse
to renew these memories. 1t is unwise to for
get them, however rich we may be in forgive
ness. They are black chapter in history, a
lesson in the laws of war, and ought to live as
long as the story of the Duke of Alva And
Mr. Blaine, as we understand it, is only ac-
cused of having paSsionately declared before
God that Andersonville was an infamous
crime and that the one man most responsible
for it should stand ostracised forever That
man means to come back to the United States
Senate an insult TO all the true feaity of the
nation. He lciU come back if Mr. Randaii's
bill is passed, and we say with reverence 10
the truth that no event could happen more
demOralizing 1t would make our great war
a jest and by-word, the suffering Of our pris-
oners jibe. We can not forget these things.
When we do, when we permit the central fig
ure of the rebellion, mean as he is, and his
very littieness is the argument for lis amnes-
ty, to come into the Capitol of the United
States as he hopes to, and will, should Ran
dalrs bill become a law, we all stand dishon-
ored
Year: 1876

Ar the close of his series of six Christina:
lectures, in London, On electricity, Prof.
Tyndall remarked that five of them had been
illustrated with apparatus which any teacher
could make of the commonest material, at
scarcely any cost. He hoped the example
thus set would be followed, for the future of
science depended to some extent on teachers
in the public schools. The masters of schools,
he said, should look the problem of scientific
education straight in the face, for science was
growing day by day, and hour by hour, and
although he would deprecate any change from
without in the public school system he would
advi:e the masters to make the change from
within, before the outside pressure became too
strong.
Year: 1876

THE Headquarters of the Ohio delegation to
the National Conventian have been engaged at
the Grand Hotel, with Indiana on one side and
Connecticut on the other. The reservation
covers only sufficient quarters for the delega-
ton proper Lobby members will have to
look after their own quarters.
Year: 1876

The Montgomery Nail thanks heaven that
the day has come when the South may hold
up her beautiful head and confront her ac-
cusers on the floor of Congress through her
beloved and trusted representative sons.