The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-25
NEW YORRISM,S.
From our OWn Correspondent.

From our OUn Correspondent
New YORK, Aug. 25.
] should feel thankful if never had to say
another word about cllme. On purely selfish
considerations, and putting the benevolent view
of the subject altogether out OF consideration,
| should feel thankful to burglars, garroters
homiciies, and bummers, and bugbears of every
degree, if they would be good enough to execute
one last chef dGUUre in their respective lines,
and then forever retire from the field they have
so gloriously adorned. Magnifying my profes.
sion, feel that even the pen of the domestic
correspondent is fit for something better than
the Chronclng OF details which loom up in
police courts AMI are coored in sensation jour
nails with lurid and a bloody glamour
The same rise in the thermometer, however,
which causes overcoats to be left off, and under.
coats to be thrown open aud an undue display
thus to be made oil chains, watches, and dla-
mond spiral studs, thereby sounding the
plbroch to the thieves whose figures the runlers
and wrapping of cold weather served to keep at
q cCnven ent distarce-this same rise in the
thermometer seems to have been accompanied
by sympathetic rise of the human blood to
murder heat, and to have caused an uuprece.
dented number of homicides and suicides and
wickedness of every description.
notable instance of this was in the suicide
perperated day or two ago by an Al0is Arralth
a Frenchman, about thirty-dve years old, who
for an indefinite time has kept candy.staud at
the loot of Grand street and Broadway. His
candies were not particularly good, and his
personnel not particularly prepossessing. Still
no harm was known of the poor fellow, and his
candies despite their not being of the 6rst
order OF excellence, we're sold so rapidly that
his customers concluded, with the happy faculty
some people have Of drawing conclusions, that
he was making money fast. Late on the evening
| in question, however, he entered his lonely and
| com(ortles SIS room in Laurens street, and wrote
| a note, the contents of which did not transpire
until yesterday morning. Having written IT.,
instead of closing the windows and introducing
pan of charcoal, or of preparing the approved
| amount OF Paris green, he opened an artery in
| lis left arm with razor, and bled TO death.
| The note stated that he had been III
| Tor some months, that life having become
burden, he was weary OF II, and that all
| the property he possessed should be sent to his
| wife and two children in France. The whole
thing appeared TO have been done with the
| uuietness the satisfaction, the self.complacency
of the accomplished French suicide. Accom-
plished, because the suicides of no other natiOf
| un0ef heaven maze lnelI uhdl tAll WIN 81 COO
and comfortable grace. The tunes from thu
chorcoal-pan wrap a mist OF dark fragrance
around tie mos! commonplace career, and hell
TO romanticize it, and make it Interesting. Thi
poor candy seller had the true tact of the borI
suicide Gf may use the eXpresslon) tie for
bore to cut his throat, and had he possessed
warm balh, am convinced he would hav
stepped into it, and romantically bled to dealt
with gentlenanly lauguor that would hay
} become the most voluptuous suicides.
e Milk is like whisky in one respect, viz, tn
less water you get mixed with It the better
p; Two ingenious milkmen, who had apparentl
arrived at the conclusion that milk and water
, as beneficial to adults as to infants, have bee
c in the habit IN broad daylight of driving the
s milk carts up alongside the curb in West stree
+ and watering their milk from the hydrant ther
8 That large quantity OF liquid direct fro
e Croton is daily mixed ai.h the lacteal Qccum