The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-17
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NEW YORK. July l6.-U oless the meteorolog-
cal signs at the present writing are decepuVe,
the citzets of New York will be able to con-
graduate Themselves this morning that the
cheated ternIn has had its run, and they may
reasonably indu &c the hope that 1t will not
have iis rival agan this season. 1t Is now past
the middle of July, aud the records of the
therm omcter for the past forty years sho v that
the hottest days always precede The present
date. 1t has been lDg siege. and its sad effects
have teen witnessed in the Unprecedented
number OF victims whose deaths have been
recorded in our Newspapers during the last ten
days; but 1t is no small matter OF congratulation
that the hot spell through which we have passed
has not been accompanied by any epidemic, aud
that, excepting the morality and suffering
immediately resulting from the heat, the public
health has been good.
Although the temperature OF the atmosphere
this summer exceeds THAI OF 1866, when the city
was visited by sporadic cases of cholera, we are
yet without any epidemic that can be regarded
of a contagious or malignant type. In this
respect we are fortuna G; but on the other
hand, never have we had occasion to record so
many deaths, caused ei her directly or indi
r rectly by heat. In 10 previous year in the
Metropolitan district can such statement b.
found as this. From noon of Saturday, July
IL, to noon OF Sunday, July II, % detth
were recorded; from noon OF sunday 10 noon
OF Monday (l3th), Il3 from Monday to Tuesday
noon, 13l; from Tuesday TO Wednesday noon
1886, and f1om Wednesday TO Thursday noon.
174. Thus IN five days we have total OF TAG
deaths from the effects, more or less, Of heat.
But even these returns do not include the deaths
in the public Institutions, such as hospitals
nurseries, almshouses, etc. of the TAG, mo nests
were held on 81. The total of deaths during the
week preceding, commencing July and ending
July IL, was GA; and on the week opening with
June 28 and closing with July A Uncludug
those at the public mstltutiOns) the returns
were Alb.
The Norwegian barque Nordcap arrived in
port recently, when Simon Paul Farss aud LaVer
Nelson, seamen. deserted from her. Nelson
was arrested in this city and Farss in Philadel'
phia, 10th men making desperate resistance
when overhaul, d. Yesterday morning Deputy
Marshal Mccoy and d Hlre started for the vsssel
with their prisoners the barque then being an
chored amld.stream preparatory to sailing.
When the row boat containing the officers and
the deseIters cleared the wharf, the sailors made
a frantic effort to overurn the boat, and 50
escape. lney were OVerpO "eTeu, however, ana
shipped in SAFETY. 1t is said that the prisoners
will be compelled TO work out the expenses
attending their capture.
The cooperative brcklayers of this city
have decidedly practical movement in opening
their office in Demilt street and inviting orders
for contracts and jobs 1t is movement that
will oblige them to exhibit all the good sense
and judgment tlat is among them, and so
inspire the public with confidence in their plans
and purposes 1t is an ordeal calculated to do
them service in more ways than one; for they
must act under certain form of discipline
which will tend to make them sober and re-
Elective in their habits, and keep them from
many of those IudulgeDces they now consider
indispen sable. As a body, they must have those
qualities by which the individual master
mason succeeds in the municipalities OF pru-
deLce, care, forethought, thrift. The opera
tiyes have entered On hard put praiseWOrthy
trial.
The Mormons who arrived in this city few
days ago, passed through Schenectady on We'd
nesday afternoon en- route for Utah; the Sche-
nectady pagers say there did not seem to be
much saintliness about them, and that they
were a roueh-looking crowd. The heat was
affecting them considerably, one woman having
died Just before arriving in that city, aud
several more beng at the point of death when
the train left The males we're rugged-iooking,
and there was but little beauty among the
females. All ages and conditions were repre-
sented.