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Year: 1876

is SO great, that the Independent voter ought


to take particular care to vote only for


honest and capable men for the Assembly
and State Senate. If the candidates of both


parties are incapable or corrupt, which may
happen, we advise the voter to scratch both
names from his ticket and leave the respon-
sibility to the partisan voters. Nothing
justifies vote for candidate known to be
corrupt or incapable, not even devotion to
party; for political party is injured by
nothing so much as by the success Of inn
proper persons in obtaining public recogni-
ton and influence in it. The independent
voter ought to inquire closely into the
character for honesty of the Legislative
candidate he means to support. That is the
main question. State legislatures have but
little to do with the great political ques-
tions; stubborn honesty and vigilant oppo-
sition to jobbery are the main qualifications
for this place. Such candidates as Colonel
Wagstaff, DR.. Hayes, Hamilton Fish, Jr.;
Seward. and Alexander Taylor, Jr., ought to
be elected, and deserve the support of inde-
pendent voters.


4. We come finally to the city govern
ments. There, as in the Legislature, the
main requisite is honesty. What does it
matter whether an alderman, surrogate,
judge or mayor is democratic or repub-
lican? These officers have to do with the
administration of vast financial interests;
what they do or leave undone directly af-
fects the comfort and welfare of every family
in the city, no matter how humble or poor.
rents, provisions and clothing would be
much cheaper here to the poor than they can
be now, when the owners of houses
and the merchants who sell cloth
ing and provisions must get back not
only q profit on their wares, but
Tweed and his corrupt ring were in fact the
worst enemies Of the industrious poor in
New York. The HERALD. by its threat made
early in the campaign to oppose and expose
any improper candidate named for the
Mayoralty. happily compelled the nomina-
tion of good men. Mr.. Smith Ely, Jr., is a
citizen of probity and experience in city af-
fairs, and as he will undoubtedly be elected
his nomination is satisfactory promise of
reform. We advise the Independent voter
to examine carefully both the city tickets,
and make up from both ticket to suit him.
SELF Both contain some good and some un-
doubtedly bad names, and no citizen who
wishes for good government here can vote
either as it stands.


s. Finally, our advice to the indepen-
dent and sensible voter is to ''scratch" his
ticket without fear or favor and without
the least alarm about consequences. Neither
of the present parties is necessary to the
safety of the country; both will be badly
before we come to another elec-
tion, and no matter how vigilant the voters
are there will be in any event, in Congress,
in the State legislatures, and in the munich
pal governments everywhere, q sufficient
number Of dishonest and weak men to pre-
vent o sudden millennium.
Year: 1876




Those misguided newsdealers who were
led for time into factious resistance to
public sentiment are gradually abandoning
their position and beginning to act moro in
accordance with the dictates of common
sense. Their prime error was in assuming
o false premise, the natural consequence
being the fallacy of their whole argument.
They assumed that the chief function of
great newspaper is to support o class of
middlemen, and upon this assumption they
based good deal of specious reasoning in
behalf Of larger percentage of profit. In
reality middlemen are not at all included
among the purposes for which q newspaper
is designed and conducted. They do not
enter anywhere into the problem as an es-
sential feature, but only as a convenience.
Recognizing their usefulness in their proper
sphere the HERALD, to which more than any
other cause they owe their existence, has
permitted them to derive profit from its
large circulation, always regarding them as
convenient, but never believing them neces-
sary. When, in recognition of the eco
nomical tendency of the times, the HERALD
reduced the price of its issues from four to
three cents it SO far consulted the interests
of the newsdealers as to allow them profit
of one-sixth, or nearly twenty per cent on
their sales, correctly calculating that the
increase of the demand would make this not
only reasonable but even a liberal allow
ance. Compared with the enormous cost
of production it is certainly a generous
profit. The production of single issue
of the HERALD involves an immense
outlay of money. Great quantities of
raw material are required, the most
expensive machinery is necessary, an
army of men must be employed, the
whole world must be ransacked for news by
host of trained news gatherers, and the tele-
graph must be constantly in use, not only
from all parts of the United States, but from
various sections Of the two continents and
from every point in Europe. In all this the
newsdealers bear no share of the labor, risk
or expense. They merely carry stated
number of papers over regular routes,
getting for this simple service one-sixth of
the whole price of the article which it has
cost the producers 80 much to put upon the
market. The small dealers may not have
reasoned from this standpoint when they re-
fused to join the idle protests of the faction,
but their argument pointed to the same con-
clusion. The result has amply vindicated
their wisdom, and to their promptness and
energy they owe the benefits derived from an
increased and increasing sale of the HERALD
at the low price.


While we lament the necessity which has
led us to refer so frequently to the policy of
the HERALD in this matter we disclaim all
suspicion of egotism. The conflict has been
between the newsmen and the public. and
we have endeavored, rs far as possible,
simply to reflect the sentiment of the latter.
The presumption of the faction which at
tempted to dictate to the public through the
HERALD has been fitly rebuked, and we con-
gratulate both the public and the unofend-
ing and sagacious body of small newsdeal-
ers that they have adjusted matters SO
amicably for themselves and so profitably
to each other.
Year: 1876

THERE Is SOME REASON in the appeal made
in behalf of the pugilists Neary and Clark,
convicted at Salem, N. j.. for participation
in the recent prize fight in which young
Walker was killed. People generally are not
yet educated up to the high standard of re-
garding mere presence at prize fight MS an
offence deserving very severe punishment,
and most men think that it is brutal acts
and not brutal instincts which should be
punished.
Year: 1876

TooMBs Is DISSATISFIED and is suspected
Of aiding in project to disrupt the demo-
cratic party of Georgia. Whatever happens
the occasion is one for laughter, not for
tears. Toombs ought to have following if
only for the dramatic interest in politics, and
the democratic majority in Georgia is large
enough to give him one without injury to
the party
Year: 1876

We published yesterday the estimats OF
the certain and doubtful States as mad up
at the republican and democratic headear-
tiers the previous night. An analysis oi the
figures is somewhat interesting, as it Slows
that each party now virtually concedeshat
the electoral vote of New York is necessary
to its success. The tables are as follow


REPUBLICAN ESTIMATE.
Year: 1876

THE INDIAN WAB.--The letter we publish
from our correspondent with General Crook
gives reason to fear that we are not yet done
with trouble at the Sioux agencies The
disarming so-called, of Red Clouds band,
was not very successful. The Indians only
gave mp their worst arms, and many of the
young warriors, rather than surrender, went
north to join the hosties. Unless General
Crook can meet and deal with the forces of
Sitting Bull during the winter we are likely
70 have lively times along the frontier next
spring. 1t is really time for the army to do
something. and we hope that General Crook
will effect more in his winter campaign than
he did in the summer.
Year: 1876

Owing to the action OF portion Of the carriers and
ncwsmcn, who determined that Ike public shall
not have the HERALD at three per copy they
prevent It, we have made rrangcmcnts 10 place the
HERALD in the hands OF all readers the reduced
price, Newsboys purchase any quantity they may
desire at No. 1906 Broadway and No. . Ann street.
Year: 1876

sod PBoDABnITIEs' promises fine weather
for the Jerome Park races to-day and the
polo match which is to be contested at the
close of the races. With fine weather and
such attractive sport the attendance cannot
fail TO be LARGE and brilliant
Year: 1876

-Andrers' Ba=ar:: The good old days are dead
and gone; the rich colorIng has faded out OF the
warp and woof OF the PAST, and yet ne rejoict
that it is still true that pretty woman cannot
ride By her lovers side through tunnel with
out emerging in a hat that looks as it it had
been struck by lightning.
Year: 1876

NEW YoRK, Feb. 4, 1876.
To THE EDrroR or rHB HERALD


About the hospital for chronic dseascs-I sur
prsed that any physician should state that there were
hospitals enough for the wants Of the people After
many years in active private practice in the city
have come TO the opposite conclusion There should
be established In every ward OF this city two small
hosptals-oue for surgical the other for medical
cases These could be built cheap and furnished
plainly, and II after ten or twenty years occupancy
they were found to be unhealthy let them be taken
down and rebuilt The experience OF every country
goes prove that small hospitals are more healthy
than largo ones Churches, post once court
houses and other public halls may be erected
to last for ever II people desire; but largo
palace hospitals should never be built especlaliv
in crowded cities | agree with Dr. Hart that
such hospital he proposes TO establish is required
People may say that the Doctor has object Wen,
suppose he has Does he not deserve praise " be
coed IN founding institution where suffering human
NY may be relieved al least comforedg The Doc
tor cannot 1--we iorever somebody must succeed him
perhaps your correspondent Dr. Hardy. Tie Doctors
object Is good. ! only wish that twenty
hve or thirty doctors would each separately
found hospital IN New York can assure
them that they could be allied by suderers
daily send poor patients 20 the various hospitals Of
this city, who are turned away with the reply I'VE
do not treat your case or 1--WE full They must
20 TO Bellevue where n the case looks like beng tedi.
ons II sent 70 the Charity al Backwclfs Island.
The idea Of being shipped 20 the Island rs horrd
OF the poor patents they would rather return 10
their cold, miserable v-nnes 10 die. by no means
inler that they badly treated al the Charity but
such Is the feeling among them, which suppose
arises in a great from convicts being sc AZ
there also lit be reported that has been sent
the Island he loses caste somehow ameng his friends
which he does not II he goes TO Bellevue Who would
attend mans funeral who died on the Island2 be.
eve that there is city Christian Europe that has
less hospital accommodation thar New York IN propor.
ti0n 70 ts size. Yours truly, .


NJ ITe
Year: 1876

The sleighing yesterday very good throughout
the upper portion OF the city and excellent in the Park
and on the roads beyond From early morning until
far into the night there countless numbers OF
elegant turnouts everywhere 10 be seen aud the busi
transacted at the out-town hotels made the sew
era proprictors very happy The indications last
night we're that the footing the would be even
better to-day, and II such s the there will be
merry times Manhattan Island The moonlight
nights greatly enhance the pleasures this sport and
will be the means Of bringing many who would not
otherwise avail themselves Of this opportunity 10 have
a charming ride on runners
Year: 1876

BosToN, Mass, Feb. s. 1870
The second trial OF H. W. Piper, the sexton, accused
Of the murder OF Mabel H. Young in the belny OF the
Warren avenue church, closed at noon to-day on
the part Of the prosecution and the opening made
by the defence The feature OF the thus far has
been effort the part Of the prosecution TO estab
lish the fact that death could not have been the
result Of accident the defence sought prove
on a former trial The evidence OF Mrs Drake a new
witness, offered in corroboration OF r. H. Glover
who testified TO seeing Piper jump from the belfry
window Mrs Drake saw the man in the window as II
about get out The opinion Is that the prosecution
have made much stronger case than before. The
defence rely mainly upon the claim that Piper
accounted for only during period Of about Ave
minutes and therefore could not have committed the
crl
Year: 1876

THE MarysviIle Appeal and other
journals are urging the passage of "A law
that when a plea of insanity is offered on
murder trial, it shall be accepted as
plea of guilty and all such murderers be
imprisoned for life. The suggestion is
good one.
Year: 1876

AN Iowa horse thief was accused OF
having served term in Congress, and il
he had not hustled around and proved
his innocence of the charge, they would
have hung him quicker'n lightning.
Year: 1876

Il is sometimes very convenient 10 b.


able TO mend your pans and pails. TIL


tell you what travelling tinker told me


We have proved by experiment that he


told the truth, and we find it a great con


venience to follow his instructions.


You use soldering fluid, and this i


how you make It. Buy from druggist


an ounce, or other convenient quantity, Of


muriatic acid. Handle It carefully, for Il


is powerful stuff, aud aes,s' everything


with which it comes in contact. Turn ID
into an old teacup or bowl, and put into


il few small strips or parings Of zine,
such as you can get from timer. No
matter how much you put in, as the acid
will only take up certain amount, and
the rest will remain in the bottom. Don't
turn it back into the bottle until il has
ceased to effervesee. Then put. the liquid
in the bottle, and provide small stick of
wood to apply it with. After the acid has
dissolved the zinc, it is much less zorro
sive. The muriatie acid win probably
cost but few cents, the zinc probably viii
cost nothing, and Bit of soft solder only
a triac. So now you are set up with tin
keriDg material to last long time--and
this is the way to use it, Suppose that
the article to be mended is tin-pan With
a hole in the bottom. Turn it bottom up
ward, and scape around the edge Of the
hole until the tin is as bright and clean as
you can make il. Then wet it with the
soldering fluid, lay little lump Of solder
over the hole (not too large), and hold il
over the blaze Of lighted candle, or spirit
lamp, which burn on the inner side Of the
pau. The solder will be melted down fat
and fixed fast to the pan, and the job Is
done. The tinker said he added q little
sal ammoniac to his soldering fluid, 50 as
to make it mend iron, copper and steel.
but it is not needed for tin-ware. Re
member that muriatic acid is very corro-
sive, and great caution must be used mot
to get it upon the clothing or other mate
rial that may be injured.
Year: 1876

On this subject the Poultry Recie,o has
the following pertinent and suggestive
remarks: Would ii not be wise to substi-
tute more eggs for meat in our daily diet?
About one-third Of the weight Of an egg
is solid nutriment. This is more than can
be said of meat. There are no bones or
tough pieces that have to be laid aside.
A good egg is made up of 10 parts shell,
so parts white, and 80 parts yolk. The
white Of an egg contains 86 per cent. water,
the yolk Of an egg 50 per cent. The
average Of an egg is about two ounces,
Practically an egg is animal food, and yet
there is none Of the disagreeable work Of
the butcher necessary to obtain it. The
yegetarians Of England use eggs freely
and many Of these men are eighty and
ninety years old, and have been remarka
bly, free from illness. Eggs are best wher
cooked four minutes This takes away
the animal taste that is offensive to some
but does not so harden the white or yolk
as to make them hard to digest. An egg
if cooked very hard, is difficult Of diges
tion, except by those with stout stomachs
such eggs should be eaten with bread ant
masticated very finely An egg spread o'
toast is food fit for a king, if kings deserv
any better food than anybody else, whicl
is doubtful. Fried eggs are less whole
some than boiled ones. An egg droppe
into hot water is not only clean an
handsome, but delicious morsel. Mo-
people spoil the taste of their eggs by a,
ding pepper and salt. A little sweet bu
ter is the best dressing. Eggs contai


much phosphorus, which is supposed
be useful to those who use their brsi
, much.
Year: 1876

CHALK.-Most people looking at this
substance would take it to be a sort Of
hardened white mud. Such is not the
case, as the microscope shows that it is
nothing but the agglomerations Of crea-
lures almost invisible. Bearing this in
mind, one is astonished at the power Of
organic life, which can produce masses
that form rampant to the coast Of Eng
land. Their minutencss is such that a
single visiting card covered with white
layer Of chalk contains about 100,0 ,000
shells.
Year: 1876

A newspaper has been defined as win
dow through which men look out on all
that is going on in the world. Without a
newspaper man is shut in small room
and knows little or nothing Of what is
happening outside Of himself. In our day
the newspapers keep pace with history
and record it. A newspaper will keep a
sensible man in sympathy with the worlds
current history, 1t is an unfolding ency
elopedia, an unbound book forever issuing
and never finished
Year: 1876

The next year he had less difficulty in sell
ing, and he ventured to increase the acreage.
Thus he has gone Oh until he has sold easily
and at good prices the products Of seventy
five acres of cucumbcrs, and now feels that
he is safe with no other crop but this.


Now there is scarcely district of country
in the whole United States but is able to
grow some one thing better than another.
1t should be a continual subject of expert
ment on every farm as to what will thrive
remarkably well and having found this out.
what would be the prospect of a good mar
ket for it. 1t is rare indeed. that anyone
who raises just what his neighbor does, ever
makes a great strike i'll the way of wealth.
lie makes out of wheat or corn. or pork, q
fair average living price; and if he is little
more intelligent than some as to the niceties
of cultivation, he may make more than his
neighbor; but the rich farmer is generally
he who, by careful observation and calcula-
ton, is able gradually but surely to get out
Of the beaten track.-G -Gc91nantoarn Telegraph.
Year: 1876

Every once in a While some poor fellows
head is turned at the report OF some other
bo1y's success with some one crop or an
other. The figures are astounding. He
firmly believes that what one man has done
another can do, and he ventures in the same
field, only to loose in some cases all. And
yet it is true that almost all the best success
in farming or gardening comes from close
attention to some one crop, specially and
above all.


But no one can tell another what is best
for him to grow. Even when the soil is
specially adapted to a certain crop, there are
all the little details of practical culture to be
mastered and even then the question of
marketing enters largely into the success Of
the experiment.


1t is often Il matter of envy with farmers OF
q certain class, that mercantile affairs should
seem to make more satisfactory ventures
than farming; but it is seldom thought over
how these very successful businesses are
established. There is no reason why just
the same process may not lead to great sue
cesses on the land as in the store; indeed, it
is a common expression that it is so. Hun
dreds of men every year make money to
their entire satisfaction out of agricultural
or horticultural pursuits. They are not so
we'll known-do not make so much show as
the storc-keeper-agricult are too much
scattered to make this imposing appearance
but the profits we speak of are there as
surely in the one case as in the other.


These successful businesses are simply the
result of a series Of experiments as to What
can best be done. Hardly a business that
we know OF, that may be pointed out as
illustrative of great success, achieved that
success in the line marked out for it in the
start. A general knowledge OF some one
thing may have suggested the enterprise,
but one after another, as some parts would
be better understood, the least profitable
would be dropped, and in many instances,
firms that began dealing in dozen articles
ended in only one. We have frequently
pointed out the fact, and urged on cultlVat
ors that this is the only way to get into the
special crop business; but we have the mat
ter brought to our minds just now through
a history of a very wealthy farmer of Mas
sachusetts. which is running the rounds o


the papers, and serves very well to illustrate
the doctrine which we have so long taught
This man farmed as other men farm, bu


With an eye to any practical excellence o
anything that his land, his knowledge or hi


circumstances might suggest. lie however
kept in with the regular routine of tarn
crops in the meantime. He found that h
could grow small picking cucumbers bette


than his neiehbor, but he did not thereupo
plant all his farm with cucumbers. ii
knew that such business, like the crol
must have time to grow. His first crop Wa
upon about an acre. The crop was gooo
but the sales were bad. For these specia
| ties it is always hard to find amarket at las
Year: 1876

Regret is felt by the true friends of agri-
culture that so few farmers should be found
in tie halls Of legislation, and especially in
Congress- If it is true that national detri-
mem results from the misrepresentation of
tenalt-farmers in the British House Of Com
mos, an affirmation recently made rs fact
to b. deprecated, how much greater the loss
from lack of agricultural representation in


a ion of independent, thrifty and intelli-
gentfarmcrs. 1t is not that there is the
slightest difficulty in finding men OF the
breath and brains of an average congress
among the farmers of any individual State :;


but hrmers are isolated, and unable to COM


binewith facility; they are more independ-
cnt. and thus in feeling and in fact are less
inclined to ''crook the pregnant hinges OF


the knee where [political] thrift may follow
fawing;" they are comparatively single
minded and conscientious and are therefore
ayer:e to the insincerity and sinuosity Of the
genus politician. While agriculture is thus
Year: 1876

Early last evening Barney Lynch, Of No. 246 Ninth
avenue, found UNCONSCIOUS with fractured skull,
in Broadway, near Fifty-frst street. He conveyed
home by citizens, who notified the police. DR.. Dunkin
pronounced him a critical condition Captain Ward
took immediate steps to ascertain how Lynch
wounded. Some OF the residents in the neighborhood
stated that he had been kicked bv horse but further
inquiry showed that he had been in q fight with
In the early OF the afternoon in saloon
on Fify first street. and that of them swore he
would get even with Lynch. 1t was the opinion of his
friends that he wayaid and beaten by the SAID
Lynch had not recovered consciousness at md
night 80 that information could be gained from
Year: 1876

Al half past ten o'clock yesterday morning a sad ac
cident occurred IN the moulding and planning mill cor
ner Of Twenty-thrd street and Ninth avenue by which
ME Charles Blake, aged twenty-four, mAchinist, was
fatally injured By some as yet unknown he
was caught In the betting, whired thirty around
the shait when he fell TO the door a crushed and
bleeding mass An ambulance from Believe Hospital
was immediately summoned. but the unfortunate man
died while bong placed In the wagon. An examination
showed that nearly every bone in his body was broken
Coroner hckhOn granted permission have the body
removed lOr burial An INQUEST Will be held to-day.