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Year: 1875

The reduction Of the wages Of the laborers on the
Pennsylvania Railroad 10 ninety cents a day, which
caused SO much commoton in Philadelphia Trenton
and Bordentown, has become general along the whole
line The effect of the reduction already apparent in
Jersey City, where at the BEST the aborers had only
small pttance for themselves and families Sorekeep
ers complain in every direction Of the hopeessness Of
obtaining payment OF bills from large portion OF the
poorer class The other railroad companies have
concluded 70 follow the lead Of the Pennsylvania
The number Of hands discharged, however Is not
nearly as large as that OF last year There is great
increase 10 the number Of dodgers the police station
but they are mostly tramps and strangers The over.
seer OF the Poor has been mportuned Tor relief that
ne - convinced the appropriation for outdoor relief
Will be exhausted long before the closes There
are no public works in progress and altogether the
prospect for the is very gloomy
Year: 1875

The remarkably patient taxpayers Of Hudson county,
NJ j. to be eeced again by tho Board OF Free
holders, If the Supreme Court does not Interpose
IN injunction William Stuhr elected q Free
holder from Hoboken last spring. His opponent
James Curran, Jr., however, managed to obtain the
seat through the rascaty Of two clerks OF election who
stole the poll book and destroyed it. for which offence
they indicted and sent to the Penentary Curran
then ousted from tho seat by jury In the Circuit
Court but not till he had held the office and drawn the
salary thereof for several months. When Stuhr took
the seat he claimed the salary from the date of tho
organization Of the Board. Mr. Ltppncot counsel of
the Board. gave his opinion that Stuhr must bring
SUIT against Curran, the only legal way to


This OPINION is in direct variance with that of several
prominent lawyers, who maintain that the County
Treasurer IS responsible for Stuhrs claim. He had no
legal authority to pay away the public money TO in


truder especially a decision on the pending
in the courts Meanwhile the question for the tax
payers Is whether the county must pay both claims.
Year: 1875

The report OF the Investigating Committee Of the
Board Of Education in Jersey City on the charges of
fraud preferred by Mr.. Hoins severely censurcd by
the property owners who attended the investigation
the evidence Of the straightforward and posi-
tve character, yet brushed aside as too triva


for serious consideration. Ono gentleman who is a
very old resident and who heard mart Of
the testimony, said to HERALD reporter yes.
terday That report is nothing more than
large bucket of whtewash. What little
evidence heard enough to satisfy me that there
downright fraud, yet half the truth did not come
out Had heard the testimony when was member
OF the Grand Jury would have voted for the ndict-
ment OF nearly the whole Board There's use in ex.
pectng them TO investigate each others acts.
Year: 1875

1t was stated in Saturdays HERALp that valuable
team of gray horses with heavy set of harness, and
attached to old lumber wagon which had been stolen
on the 5th of November from farmer named Cyrus
Gaines of Penns Park Pa had been recovered this
city The conflict concerning the payment OF the
reward renders the case interesting The stolen prop
erty was brought on the 18th of November to the
street in this city, by negro who offered the horses
for SALE Cahill would not purchase them and the
negro departed, but, as it is supposed he feared
detection, did not return Cahi advertised the prop
orty in the HERALD A man named Cooper the
advertisement well as the posters, offering
ward OF $3.50 for the recovery OF the property. He
to this city, and seeing that the horses answered
the description he took them on payment of costs,
and brought them TO the owner, at the same time
claiming tho reward Cahi considers that he has
been treated unjusty, and claims the reward.
Year: 1875

Since the appointment by the Board OF Freeholders
at Jersey City last Thursday Of Michael Nathan take
the place of Mrs Jones' the present jaercss pro.
grcss has been made in the The new appoint


has yet been approved by the Director Of the
Board. Mrs Jones declares she will not give up the
keys she has retained eminent counsel have the
case tested in the courts The term for which was
elected will not expire TIL October 1877 ane she fee
confident that she cannot be removed till that time
judicial decision the question whether woman can
legally hold the Office OF ailer awaited with great in
tcrest throughout the State
Year: 1875

The London Standard Of tho 9th
inst, has an editorial article Of more
than column devoted to the late
civil war in this country, which Re.
gips with the following tribute to
Confed crate valor: -.


at is exactly ten years This morn.
ing since the surrender of A Appomat.
tox Court terminated tho splendid
defence Of Virginia against the most
fearful odds with which, within the
memory Of man soldierly courage and
military genius havo ever had to CON-
tend, and brought the existence Of
the Confederate States to close.
Mover was u more glorious nat onaI
history crowned into years !;
never was a more brilliant record in
the annals of war than that Of the
vanqrished army"


The Standard then rerers to the
disposition for reconciliation which
prevailed in both armies at the close
of the war, and the malign political
Influences which succeeded, aud which
have sown seeds of bitterness which
it approhends will not soon 10 eradi.
Gated. At the same time it regards
conservative triuDphs at lato election
in the United States as indicative Of
tho return Of a happier ern.
Year: 1875

In certain Troy church on Sunday,
says the Times of that city, ayoung man


who occupied seat near the pulpit was
evidently greatly embarrassed when the
collection was taken up. His pew was


about the first into which the basket was


thrust, and he plunged his hand into his


pocket, kept the collector waiting mo-


lnent, and then quickly thrust bill


evidently the first he could get out OF his


wallet-into the basket.


After the service the young man
fingered, ana, when the congregation
had retired, approached the gentleman
who had charge Of the collection, and
who was counting it at the time, and re-
marked that he was q stranger in the
city, that he was poor young man, and
had, in the hurry Of the moment, put
$40 bill into the collection basket by mis-
take for 81 bill. He inquired modestly
if it would be unfair to ask for the return


of SO to him. The collector, appreciatine
the strangers evident frankness and
| modesty, looked over the collection, and,
| finding the $40 bill, offered to return it.
Tie stranger declined, saying ne meant
| to contribute 81, and that, as he had NJ
! small CO oange, ne would be satisfied If >,
were refunded to him. This was proc
positive to the Treasurer that the strang
er was really honest, and he accordinly


gave MIN 30, nearly all there was in the
basket, with the exception OF the bill
and the stranger departed with many


thanks and apologies. After the Treas


urer reached home he was struck by thu
appearance OF the bill and examined i
| closely. 1t was counterfeit.
Year: 1875

The CITY CONSERVATIVE CoMMITTEE.-The
City Committee met on Saturday sight and
considered several important matters, but
Without concluding its business adjourned
to meet tonight. when there will probably
be greater number Of. members present.
Year: 1875

1t is possible that there may be some ex-
aggeration in the reports which we receive
from the Gulf of Mexico; but even making
allowance for the terror of men who write
with the waves tumbling through their
streets and their roof-trees falling over their
heads, 1t is unfortunately too true that we are
In the presence of widespread, painful and
terrible disaster. The appeal of the District
Attorney is painful in its brevity and force:-
''We are destitute; the town is gone. One
quarter of the people are gone. Dead bodies
are strewn for twenty miles along the bay.
Nine-tenths of the houses are destroyed.
Send us help, for God saker' This is the ap-
peal of one American citizen to the American
people, and certainly there could be nothing
more heartrending in its brevity and truth.
Indianola is one of the oldest towns on the
Gulf 1t goes back to the Spanish occupa-
ton, before the independence of the Repub-
lie. 1t has been shipping point between
Mexico and the United States, and, although
it has grown but little in the last few years,
railroad communications and the ingress of
commerce gave to it bright future. But





people are homeless; lighthouses, wharves,
business houses, dwellings, have been
swept away; fences and trees are piled up in
broken masses, and rails are washed from
their bed. Only five houses are left stand
ing, and the people are suffering for food and
clothing. Thus far the reports show that
from hundred to one hundred and fifty
lives have been lost.


Our first duty in considering this appall-
ing disaster is to remember that there are
fellow citizens who need our immediate aid.
We of the North should be especially prompt
in assisting the suffering in Indianola and
Galveston and elsewhere. 1t is one of the
few opportunities that have been vouchsafed
to us since the war to do a brotherly act to
brethren in distress. 1t was only the other
day that we were doing what we could to
alleviate the terrible calamity that had fallen
upon the people of France. Now the same
appeal comes from our own citizens on the
Gulf New York should send promptly to
these people supplies in the way
of clothing and food, or money
that will buy supplies in New Or
leans and elsewhere, SO that they may be
speedily helped. 1t is only necessary for our
people to know the extent of any calamity
of this kind for them to make prompt and
full response In the presence of visitation
like this-a visitation of God, manifesto
ton of His extreme and irresistible power,
when lives are lost and towns are swept
away, when the uttermost effort of mans
knowledge only shows that we are as reeds
before the wind in the presence of His awful
and inscrutable power-there can be but one
thought, and that is of assistance to those in
trouble. And this should be given not as a
duty but as pleasure. Duties of this kind
are pleasures. They show that whatever we
may be in politics or in sectional feeling we
are one in the bonds of humanity and kind
ness.
Year: 1875

We respectfully request Secretary Delano's
attention to the statements of a HERALD cor
respondent, in our journal of yesterday, con-
cerning what they call at Washington 'ir-
regularities" at the Fort Berthold Indian
Agency. The Indians at this agency are dis
satisfied, it seems, and they give as reasons
for their dissatisfaction such matters as that
the agent hires them to work, and then pays
them with goods, which are already theirs
that he charges them very high prices for this
property of their own, as, for instance, when
Black VOLTS wife wants sugar the agent sells
her four pounds of her husbands sugar for
a dollar, when she ought not to pay more
than ten cents pound at a traders store
that the agent swindles them in buying their
hides, giving them but two dollars for hides
worth twice the money that he pays them
in checks, and sometimes gives out twenty
five cent check to an Indian who should re-
ceive two dollars, and who cannot read !;
that he keeps an uncommonly profitable
boarding house and supplies it out
of the stores belonging to the
Indians that their cattle last winter starved
to death because the agents brother bought
hay which had cottonwood piled up in the
middle of the stack that when an Indian
chops wood he has to take his pay in checks
on the Indian trader, who sells goods at a
hundred per cent profit, and who, they say,
is partner of the agent that when he sells
a cord to an Indian this unfortunate finds it
afterward charged on the books as having
been ''issued" to his wife that the agent
speculates in the cord wood cut from the
reservation by the Indians that the agents
brother speculates in the potatoes raised by
the Indians, selling them on his own account
to the steamboats, that the servants at the
agency are made to sign blank vouchers for
their earnings, and so on.


Mr.. Delano will find the letter extremely
interesting, especially passage in which it
appears that Sperry, the agent, has been
boasting that he is sure to retain the agency,
at least while General Grant remains Presi-
dent. He meant perhaps, as long as Mr..
Delano remains Secretary of the Interior.
We trust the Secretary will not overlook this
Fort Berthold agency. 1t will take good
deal of whitewash to cover up the rotten
matters there, and he should set some one at
work soon
Year: 1875

This respectable body transacted its bust
ness at Worcester yesterday with easy
promptitude and results which ought to be
satisfactory to its constituents It was
matter of course that it should renominate
Governor CASTOR by acclamation. The un-
expected triumph won in his election last
year, in State which is the citadel of the
republican party, was brilliant testimony
to his great personal worth, and he has so
borne himself in Office as to justify and in
crease the confidence of his fellow citizens.
Whether in Office or out of Office nobody in
Massachusetts, has ever spoken of him but
in terms of respect and commentator, and if
his reelection depended on personal
qualities alone the result could not be
doubtful. But until last year the democrats
of Massachusetts, were so insignificant and
hopeless minority that it is doubtful whe-
ther their accidental success can be repeated.
If democratic Governor should be elected q
second time in that ancient stronghold of
the republican party it would be one of the
most significant signs of the times. The ticket
is strengthened by the nomination of General
Fairchild, of Western Massachusetts,, as the
candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Cen
eral Fairchild is a popular and much es-
teemed liberal republican, and will add to
the popularity of the ticket outside the dem
ocratic ranks


The platform is skilfully drawn. It's Sc
lection of topics throws light on the political
feeling of the State. It's strong Endorsement
of the amendments to the federal constitu-
ton adopted at the close of the war and its
reprobation of secession indicate that the
progress of public sentiment in Massachu-
sets has not been as rapid as in some other
States In most of the States these are dead
questions and the fact that the Massachu-
sets democrats think it necessary to shield
themselves from imputations in relation to
them shows that old prejudices linger there
after their extinguishment in other parts of
the country. Some local questions are skill
prohibition, and especially the labor
question. The labor question is one
of great interest in Massachusetts,
The weavers who are on strike at
Fall River have hosts of sympathizers in oil

the large towns of that leading manufactur-
ing State We suppose the Republican Con-
vention will also put in bid for their votes,
but as the hard times are chargeablc to the
republican party the democrats will prob
ably reap most advantage from the discon-
tent of the laboring classes.


On the great national issue Of imitation the
Massachusetts democrats are sound and
right and in perfect harmony with the de-
mocracy of New York. If they re-elect Cover
nor CASTOR it will be by the aid of thousands
of republican citizens, and their success will
contribute to a reorganization of political
parties if the New York democrats led by
Governor Tilden, should undertake this
task.


Tba u
Year: 1875

They begin to talk of railroads down II
Mexico, and the Mexicans see the Importance
of building line to connect with our rail
road system to give them access with thei
products to our markets as we'll as enable
them to obtain ours more cheaply At the
same time the value of narrow gauge roads
begins once more to be discussed. 1t is
doubtful if the narrow gauge is suitable for
trunk line which has reasonable expecta-
tions of great and constant traffic; though
there are not wanting experienced railroad
men who assert that a three foot gauge is the
best for all railroads. However that may be,
there is no doubt that for branch lines for
railroads in sparsely settled districts and
for mountainous countries the narrow gauge
is the best


But the truth is that we do not yet know
all about the use and the economy of the
iron track. 1t is tremendous machine,
which we have begun to use in q crude and,
as will by and by be discovered, a costly way.
The economy of even the most costly rail.
road over such common roads as this country
has, or, indeed, over any common road, is
oo SACnO oiuo WO liuNO AuoOShCu w CApCAu Ohe
crude system, without stopping to consider
how the greatest economy might be effected.
For long time it was thought that six-foot
gauge was preferable to four-foot-eight;
and when the Pacific Railroad was planned
there was vigorous attempt to make that
six-foot gauge. Now, however, the Eric
company will, as soon as they can borrow
money to do it, narrow their gauge because
they cannot compete with their rivals on
other terms


1t is not probable that any important line
in the country will be altered to a narroweI
than the present ruling gauge but it is very
likely that hereafter branch lines will be
built on three-foot or even two-foot-and-a.
half gauge, and if this system is once begun
many localities may gain the great cons
venience and advantage of railroad cons
nection which are now without; for nar<
row gauge road, with light iron, not in>
tended for high speed, may be run as com,
mon roads are, up and down hill, at saving
of great sums in cuttings and other engineers
ing extravagances. The common desire to
60 at top speed has done much to hinder the
extension of narrow gauge and economical
iron tracks.
Year: 1875

THE FEATURE of the Newtown Creek Regatta
yesterday was an eight-oared barge race be-
tween married and single crews. The
bachelors won, beating their competitors by
three lengths, much to the delight of the
single ladies present, who signifed their in
tention TO do their best to induce the victors
to change their boat next year.
Year: 1875

favor of speedy resumption and against any
expansion of the currency. As matter
OF course it strongly favors reform
and denounces the corruptions and in
iquities of the present State administration,
which is in the hands of the democracy. 1t
is lamentable to contemplate the depraved
condition of all our State governments as
viewed from the standpoint of the ''outs." F."
Year: 1875

The OLD CRY Roman Catholic
bishops assembled at Maynooth made
themselves unhappy over the educational
system of the State, and declared that it is
perilous to liberty. They desire to retain
the power of educating the people, as far as
they are willing that they should be edu-
Gated, in the hands of Catholic professors.
The popular belief is that education is the
best promoter and the surest safeguard OF
liberty, and the bishops at Maynooth ought
to be sufficiently enlightened to recognize
that fact
Year: 1875

THE LETTER OF EARL RUSSELL and the
correspondence we publish to-day in relation
10 the Eastern difficulty will be found of in
terest and will throw additional light upon
the question now agitating Europe.
Year: 1875

COUNT AENIM ON ApPEA4-The appeal of
Count Arnim to the higher Court from the
sentence of the Kammergericht is to be heard
on October II, and despatch from Berlin
predicts that the judgment of the lower
Court will be confirmed. OF course it will.
But meanwhile the Count is in Switzerland
and as his health is not good it is probable
that he will remain there.
Year: 1875




The PUBLIC SCHOOLS Commits
sioner Wood deserves credit for his cham
pionship of the cause of the female teachers
in the public schools at the meeting of the
Board of Education yesterday. The salaries
of the female teachers have been reduced
about three hundred dollars year and their
labor increased. In the primary schools
there are fifty scholars to each teacher, while
in the grammar schools the ratio is only
thirty-fve Although his resolution to in
crease the number of female teachers in the
primary schools was defeated, it is to be
hoped that the Commissioner will persevere
in his effort to obtain justice for these valu-
able and inadequately remunerated employees
of the city. There is no reason why the
female teachers should not be paid as much
salary as the males. The Board expressed in
plain terms its condemnation of the factious
course of the Comptroller in relation to the
school appropriations. Mr.. Green, it is
charged, neglects, in the teeth of a Supreme
Court decision, to hand over to the School
Department its unexpended balances, and
obstructs the payment of claims audited and
allowed by the Board. But this is only con-
sistent with the Comptroller's policy toward
all the public departments.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER BRUTAL AFFRAY is RECORDED to-
day, which will probably result in the death
of one of the parties engaged in it. Two
men, one named Grau and the other known
as Buffalo Bill, fought in lodging house on
Tenth avenue, and Grau was stabbed so
seriously with butcher knife that his life is
despaired Of The murderers story is that
the attack was made by Grau, while the
dying man declares the stabbing to have
been unprovoked
Year: 1875

The AERIAL LADDER JoB.-The inquiry
into the aerial ladder calamity was continued
yesterday. Mrs. Scott Uda testified that she
sold the right to use the ladder to the New
York Fire Department for twenty-five thou
sand dollars, and pending suit to recover
this amount she sold out her interest in the
patent and the claim to the chief clerk of the
department for fifteen thousand dollars.
Fortunately for the chief clerk the Comptroller
paid the claim very shortly after this pur-
chase. The clerk testifes that he paid the
fifteen thousand dollars to Mrs. Scott Uda
with his own money. The transaction ap-
pears on its face to be as rotten as the ladder
which cost three fremen their lives.
Year: 1875

The OSCREASfER ON THE WARPATH. The
lovers of polite literature will be gratifed by
the perusal of the address of the O'Creamer
last night on the virtues and accomplish
ments Of the O'Kclly. If the proceedings of
the anti-Tammanyites are to be accepted as
q specimen of the sort Of entertainments with
which we are TO be favored during the fall
campaign, Donnybrook Fair will be a Quaker
meeting to the political gatherings of the
next six weeks
Year: 1875

Rev. MT. Murray tells, in his Golden Rule. his experience in target shooting. Of his rife he says: tsIt is superior to human control It is inherently inde- pendent as to the range and direction of its, projectile.. Ut will shoot where it has mind to, in spite of all one. can do. It will hit everything but the target. It shoots as 8 cross eyed man does, the Lord only knows where. The more you practice with it, the moro you are amazed at it's, eceentricities You aim at abarn, and you hit house. You shoot at cat sitting on a we'll curb, and you kill sheep in the next lot. You put up target, in one town, and sheriff waits upon you the next morKing to inform you that you have killed several of the principal citizens who lived in the next, | besides women and children. He re- | lateB that he went to a company shoot in Connecticut, when similarly cratic firearms were used, and he was appoint ed marker.y He took his position fifty feet to one side of the target, but at the first shot he doubled the distance, at the second hid behind stone wall, and at the third fled with all his might, "We tore down the road, says the reverend story teller, toward the depot, with q stride that heightened an inch at every explosion behind ua The engineer oi the lightning express saw us coming

 and, supposing some dreadful danger

 was ahead, slowed up, and the rapidity ' with which we went through one O

 those car doors and got into the seal

 behind the stove made everybody lool

 around. We didn't feel really safe unti

 we had got beyond Stamford.
Year: 1875

Earth worms have been found to be of great value they promote the fer tiHty of the lands by the drainage which is maintained by their bofss for water, which are always maintained down to the water level but never below.