The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-08
rrnoM oUR Own CORRESPONDENT

! NEW YORK, May 3.
Short work is to be made of Foster the ruiz
fian who killed Mr. Putnam as he was stepping
from Broadway car last Wednesday night.
The coroner's jury yesterday brought in aver
dict against him, ten minutes afterwards the
grand Jury indicted him, and to-day his trial
began. The speed with which this caseis
pressed is concession on the part of the OIL
GERS of the law to the popular demand for
swift justice. Ordinarily murderer Is al
lowed several months leeway, SO that public
indignation against him may cool.
Foster, though man of abandoned charac-
ter, has rich father who is 10th to see one Of
his family brought to the gallows There will
be desperate fight made, therefore, to save the
murderer The elder Foster has already dis
bursed S50O0.n lawyers fees. and has retained
three Of the best criminal lawyers ., IN New
York l0r The defence John Graham, William
F. Howe and EX-Judge Stuart. The first
named was counsel for Mcfarland. He stands
at the head of the criminal practice, and is al
most always successful. The defence will at.
| tempt 10 prove-an abb; that is. that some un-
known man struck the fatal blow, and that
Foster left the car before the assassination
| took place.
The evidence before the coroner disclosed
phase of New York character which. to use
| the miidest term, is disgracetnl TO us. The in
| difference Of passers-by In large cities TO the
misfortunes that happen to their fcllow-crea-
| lures in the streets Is notorious. Let rnfllan
knock man down and rob him In the most
crowded part of Broadway, and the chances
are that. though mob will collect, not an In
dividual will modest the aggressor. unless II Is
| q policeman luckily pr0Ximate. When NIT.
Putnam was felled to the earth senseless, The
other night, a curious crowd gathered, and
| though the ladies who were with the Injured
man entreated assistance, t1ey we were oniS y
| stared at, and were obliged to drag his body TO
the neighboring drug store themselves. They
complain that The druggists clerks exhibited
| the same calousness 10 their misfortune. Tne
car conductor, alter seeing Mr.. Putnam fall,
bothered himself no further about the matter,
but pulled the bell and rode away from tue
| scene Only one human being in the multi
tude present exhibited glimner of feeling,
and that was a.young divinity student, VINO
ran Off in search of q policeman.
| Probably much of this hcartlessness oil peo-
ple in large cities arises from the peculiar cir
| cumstauces in which we are placed. We are
! all in hurry, and cannot spare time 10 do
more than satisfy apassinS curiosity, ana II we
| meddle in. street affairs we are liable TO be
summoned, even arrested and detained, as wit
nesses, driven into the witness box half
dozen times during as many examinations or
\ trials. badgered and brow-beaten by sicn law
yers as John Graham, sketched, caricatured
and DETAINED BY the local newspapers, ana S ex'
hibte1 in frighliul woodcuts In the police Ga
zette and DAYS Doings. To be witness In an
| important criminal trial in New York Is equiv
| lent to being hanged, as far as ones repnta-
| ton is concerned. This, however. Is no eX-
cuse for our neg glect to observe our obligations
TO society. The path of duty leads often
through thorns and brambles. One should
l>n thOuCpn
he may know that the next edition OF the Sun
day Mercury will contain full and particular
account Of that curious quarrel between his
wife and the family waSher@oman last year,
and that the familiar old picture oil Gibbs the
pirate will be revamped 10 represent MIN IN
to .norrow's sun and Star.
The annual May Jay upset. IS over, and 6J
this time something like order Is coming out
Of The chaos In q Thousand Households. There
was not so much moving THIS year as last,
probably because Landlords nave oeeh con-
tented TO leave rents as they were. IL is ex,
tremely aggrlvating to have your landlord
raise on you every February, and to the ma
tural Indignation the imposition evokes may
be attributed some part OF the New Workers.
proverbial resilessness. The stream or
movers was rather over the ferries TO Long
Island and the Jersey suburbs Than around
town. Brooklyn offers small houses with
cheap rents In desirable localities The space
In New York is so valuable that it pays land
lords best to put up large houses anu exact
corresponding rents, which they can Senerany
get, as there is an insane and unreasonable
desire on the part of most people TO live on
this island. s'Oh, that dreadful ferry" keeps
some hundreds OF thousands in single rooms
and garrels In New York. when beautiful
cottage and garden and plenty of fresh air can
be had on Long Island OF half the expense.
Improvement Is the order OF the day with
the park commissioners. nave alreaGy writ
81, rFor,, n n
from muck heap into sort Of seaside Eden.
The City Hall park has likewise been laid out
with new grass plats, walks, fountains, trees
and ornamental statues, and with the gathering
green OF summer IS beginning 10 look CHARM
inM. The ancient apple women on the SIDE
walks and the Tamlnany politicians lounging
around the City Hall steps, with cigars between
their teeth, detract somewhat from the lowell.
ness of The scene. A new park Is TO be laid
out between the Boulevard and Eighth ave-
nue., above Ninety seventh street, and the
Manhattan Park is to be prepared ana graded
for the erection Of the new buildings oil the
metropolitan Museum Of Art and tho Museum
the park in Union Square Is TO be torn down,
and Tie space thrown into an open plaza.
Our other new parks the Sunnysidc and the
Mornin"sde, are coming along unely. How
magnificent we are going u be, IN inc year
1896, with our grand Boulevard on the west
Slup, ana OuT Ceuild 49, w
give the appearance OF maturity TO The trees
anil vegetation.
When somebody prepares another edition of
that English classic on the ''Calanilies OF Au-
thorS," the melancholy history Oh Pauline
Markham, the stalelirst of the blondes, must
not BE- omitted. Miss Markham, perhaps, your
readers may know. came over from England
with Mrs. Lydia Thompson Henderson, (who
appeared ut the Charleston Academy OF Music
last wintnr) and divided honors With that gor-
reous Young woman at Niblo's Garden.
During the run of the ''bondes," New York
was divided between a Thompson party and
Markham party Mr. Richard Grant White.
the eminent Sllukespearean critic, was so en-
raptured with Miss Markham's performances
as young man in n luiry spectacle, that he
published, over his own signature, in The pub
tic prints, his opinion that she pronounced her
English more sweclly and more correctly than
any other person then i'll public life. Well,
Miss Markham became so celebrated through
the praises uf the Shaliespeurean critic and her
own Iove!iliess, that the world was a1OT about
her past life. IN IL moment Of weakness she
listened, 10 the persuasive tongue uf Il newspa-
per reporter aud consented 10 be written up
IN book iolm. She furnished The biDgrapher
with multitude ori,,cls, and then retired 10 q
bed of sickness, Which she kept ivr two months
or more.
Meanwhile the newspaper man was working
like a steam engine against time. When, 1T
laSl, his facts were exhausted, and the re-
guisLe number OF pages not covered win INK,
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