The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-23
GENERALITIES.
Poisoned bY Eye-NYnter.

Poisoned bY Eye-Water.
coroner Keenan, on Wednesday held an in
guest at the Founding Hospital, on Wards
Island N y, over the remains of John Gar
retta, child sixteen months old, whose death
was the result of swallowing a quantity of eve
water. The deceased was under the care of
Maria Morrow nurse in Ward 10, and on Sun
DAY last, during her temporary absence, the child
was left in charge of Ellen Fagen. Maria had
purchased bottle of eye-water for her own
child and left it on the table, and during her
absence the child got hold of the bottle and
drank portion of the contents The nurse on
hearing.the fact, notified DR.. Howard who ad-
ministered antidotes, but death ensued on Mon
day. The eye-water contained nitrate of silver
and atrophine and in the opinion of the doctor
the atrophine caused death. The jury rendered
o verdict of death from accidental poisoning.
Babe Starved to Death.
Coroner White, of HoboIen, N. Y, was noti-
fed on Tuesday morning of the death of child
named Pauline Pecant, under circumstances
which led the people to suppose that it had
dence of its parents, in Franklin street, near
Montgomery avenue West IIobOken and en-
panelled a jury, before whom the following
facts were elicited: The child was born on the 9Th
of September, and died at an early hour Tuesday
morning, and from the evidence of Mary Muller
it seems that the mother used artificial means to
decrease her natural supply of milk, and refused
to nurse the child. Mrs. Elizabeth Herben who
resides in the same house, offered to take charge
of the child, and complained TO the father of it
that the mother was starving it. Dr. Mcneil,
who made the p0st-mOrtem examination, tcSti-
fed that it died from starvation.
Lesseps TO the Indian Government.
From the Bombay Gazette, AUgust 10.
NJ. de Lesseps has addressed the Indian Cham
bers of Commerce, calling attention to the date
fixed for the opening of the SueZ Canal for
through navigation, and pointing out the sex
treme importance which attaches to n prompt
and facile development of trade between Eu-
rope and the far East. Merchandise trans
mftted from the West to the East or Uice 0erSd,
being subject at present either to the delays of
voyage round the Cape, or to the disadvan-
rage of transshipment in Egypt, trade is COM
paratively restricsed but as soon as the barrier
is removed, and the distance between the East
Indies and Europe reduced by one half, the new
route will open the market in Asia to all Euro
pean goods, and in Europe to all the produce of
Asia. This great commercial change must be
prepared for from the present time, and means
of transport provided sufficient to meet the
demand" NJ de Lesseps therefore asks the
Chambers to impress upon shipowHers and mer-
chants ''the necessity of creating sufficient
means of transport to respond to the CONNER
cial changes which the opening of the Suez
Canal will produce"
Waste of Croton.
We have frequently urged upon readers
the impending scarcity of CrOton water, and
have urged economy in It's use. Without this
economy we shall soon be in as bad condition as
the Philadelpmars have been this summer.
There is hope that the usual equinoctial rains
may relieve us somewhat, but the fact that our
daily consumption as stated by the Croton Board
@35, 900, 900 gallons ought to give us all pause
There are hand in the reservoirs, about
500 000, 900 gallons, and the reservoir at Croton
Dam is falling 2 inches daily. In this connec-
tion it is a significant fact that the Croton Board
have notified the Metropolitan Board of Health
to reduce the flow of the Croton water at all the
drinking hydrants at least one-half of the usual
quantity during the present scarcity of the sup
ply.-N. y. Commercial.
Gotham Troubled with Dirty Streets.
We call the attention OF the STRENGTHENING
Contractor and the Street-Ceaning Commission
to the shameful condition of the streets through
out our whole city. Broadway, by the terms of
the contract, is to be swept every night; and yet
from the Battery to Fourteenth street, it is
covered with dirt. The sum of $505, 900 is appro-
priated for keeping the streets of our city clean
and yet we know that the contractor does not
spend more than at the rate of $25OOOO per
annum. Mayor Hall and the other men,
bers of the Street-Cleaung Commission
made a terrible fuss about dirty streets
when Judge Whiting had the contract;
but since the members of the ring" by
putting obstacle after obstacle in Judge
Writings way, and by putting off the payments
due to him from month to month, compelled
him to give up the contract to John l.. Brown 81
Co., Mayor Hall, Corporation Counsel O'Gor-
man, and the rest, make no complaint about
dirty Streets and the contractor goes doing
little or nothing but drawing his pay Let Mayor
Hall fire another hundred guns in the Park to
celebrate our dirty streets. The "ring that is
allowing our streets to get into this shocking
condition has two motives-the one is to make as
much money as possible out of the $505, 600 now
allowed by law, and the other is to allow our
city to become so filthy that the ''ring'' can go
to Albany and say, 1--WE want more money to
clean our streets.h' We think however, that
this "street-cleaning fraud" will be stopped
much sooner than the ''ring' eXpects.-N T.
Tribune.