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Tho Welcome Rain.

Never was rain more welcomed than were
the refreshing showers Of yesterday morning.
The only regret was that the showers were not
more copious and Of longer continuance.
Never was rain more wanted. From all quar-
tiers we have reports of the scarcity of water.
The streams and water courses are dried up.
In our own State and in Pennsylvania miles
upon miles Of forest are on fire. AS our
Port Jervis correspondent in his letter of yes
terday showed, the fires have already proved
destructive of large amount Of valuable
property. Farm houses, and in some cases
whole villages have been consumed by the fiery
element. It is notorious that in many parts of
the State of New York the trees are parched
and withered. In our own Central Park
the health Of many of the trees has been
affected by the continued drought. AS kind
of first fruits of approaching famine hay has
gone up to an almost fabulous price. Grateful
as we are and ought to be for the rainfall Of
yesterday, it is not possible for us to say we
have had enough. We need more and much
more. We have summer before us and
autumn. With the lesser rivers and water
courses dry In the month OF May, with the
lakes and reservoirs comparatively empty, and,
with woods ablaze and threatening widespread
destruction, the prospect is not cheering
Hoping that an abundant rainfall may yet put
an end to our worst fears, we yet feel it to be
our duty to repeat the advice we gave yester-
day morning. Let our supply of water be
economically used. It will be well also for our
national authorities to consider whether the
time has not come when vigorous efforts should
be made to replace the forests which, in some
instances, accidental fire, and, in other in
Stances the rash and reckless hand of civiliza-
ton have made to disappear from the face of
the land. In proportion as our forests have
diminished our rainfalls have decreased. We
cannot begin too soon to provide against, if
we cannot prevent, great impending
calamity.
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Libbie Garrabrn MT.

The trial Of this unfortunate and misguided
woman has at length been concluded Found
guilty of the murder Of Ransom F. Burroughs
and without any extenuating circumstances or
recommendation to mercy, Judge Bedle on
Saturday, in crowded court room and amid
the most intense excitement Of all present,
pronounced sentence on the unhappy woman.
There can be no doubt of this womans guilt.
Her crime, as the Judge said, was deliberate
and most wicked" Her individual guilt is
clear; but there is q lingering doubt in many
minds whether she had not an accomplish. AS
this question ia not likely long to remain un-
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How MANY ABERDEENs ARE THERE Pit
will be seen, by reference to the HERALD of
yesterday, that there was lately another Aber-
deem, or Gordon, in the field, but who has
gone to his eternal rest james @. Fisher, late
soldier in the United States Army, and once
clerk in the Office Of General Sheridan, who
died in the Arsenal Hospital, at st. Louis,
yesterday week, claims to have been George
Gordon Murray, Of the Aberdeen family,
Scotland. From the statement made
on his dying bed and other circumstances
he Seems to have been really genuine
Gordon and q member of the noble family
OF Aberdeen. This is very curious and
romantic, and in view of the other claimant to
be Gordon, now in this city, we are led to
inquire, how many Aberdeens are there2
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proper steps to abate the nuisance complained
OF without anS further delay. Jokes about
straw are quite OFT Of season, and depriving
Us OF our cushioned seats is not calculated to
increase our good temper: Remembering that
the peoples patience has li.ait, the Commits
sioners will do well to force the car companies
to invest in mops and scrubbing brushes with
out loss Of time
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Of general amnesty the trimming Of few
shade trees in the White House yard will do.
but the tariff will rend q whole forest like
tornado Let the nation set aside forest or
two OF noble oaks and hemlocks as a vicarious
sacrifice for its cherished opinions and trem-
bling ofdce-holders, and then let it trust in
that
Divinity which shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as Horace may.
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TEE GLADSTONE CAnrNrr AND rur Geneva

The GLADSTONE CABINET AND THE GENEVA
ARBITRATION CouRT.-The Solicitor General of
England has just expressed the opinion, extra
ministerial, to be sure, that the Geneva Board
Of Arbitration will inaugurate new era in the
settlement of the disputes between nations.
This is really charitable, and the expression of
the hope is, as true charity should be, universal
for the world. The learned gentleman is not
exactly certain if the arbitrators will reassem-
BILE, as he assured his hearers, in Fishmongers'
Hall, that the obstacles to the Councils re-
union are Gin fair way to be removed"
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HAS IT EVER YET OCCURRED to the authorities
that it would be the correct thing to deprive
p'Ie Jone- of Randalls Island, Of his tenn
poral power2 A man who can invent such
comprehensive system of theology as the Jone-
sian ought not to be cramped by miserable
business matters at all. Clearly, his whole
time should be devoted to spiritual matters in
the widest field, and Randall's Island is
altogether too narrow for him. We nominate
him for one of the vacant bishoprics.
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Is THE TREATY A HUGE JOKE Judging
from the diplomatic palaver between Lord
Granville and Mr. Fish, we get the impression
that the Treaty of Washington, or that part Of
it in dispute with regard to consequential
damages, is huge joke. Mr.. Fish claimed
consequential damages and stoutly main
tanned that this claim must and should
be considered by the Geneva Board
OF Arbitration, yet he blandly tells
the British. Minister that nothing was
meant by it, that this claim was not expected
to be recognized, and that it was put in purely
out of regard to England, to save our
"cousins" across the Atlantic from embarrass-
ment hereafter. How very amiable How
considerate After all, then, our Secretary Of
State has been only joking in kind way with
Her Majesty's government.
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solved, we have the less reason to take any
exception to the course pursued by
the Jersey authorities. In this age of
maudlin sentimentaity and particularly
after the disgraceful conclusion Of the
Josephine Macarty case, it is reassuring to
know that there is at least one State in the
Union in which women are not permitted to
commit murder with impunity. All honor to
the Jersey authorities It is not impossible
that the sentence in the case of Libbie Gar
rabrant may be committed. If good reason
be assigned for such course, and if the
popular sentiment demand it, we shall not OBJ
ject; but so long as capital punishment forms
part OF the law of the land we know no good
reason why distinction should be made be-
tween male and female murderers. OF late
murder by poison has become greatly too COM
mon, and in the great majority Of such cases
women have been the murderers Poison, in
fact, is o convenient woman's weapon. To
make an end Of this great and growing evil
the best thing to do is to allow the law to take
its course.
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UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth ST. and Bread.
way.-NAvAL Recommendations TMR KITCHEN.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-THE BALLH7 PAN.
TonIEE IIUNPTY DUAPrY.
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the lobby influences now laboring with
them for the success Of the English PROPOSE
ton are tempting them on to their destruc-
one which will be spurned and resented by the
people. We tell the administration, and we
tell the British government, too, that
settlement thus patched up by portion
Of the Senate against the known sentiment
Of the American people; settlement in
which we ore made to yield everything to
England and to humiliate ourselves in
the eyes Of the world q settlement
that stamps O national dishonor upon us,
would not only fail to be recognized by our
citizens as q satisfaction for the injuries we
suffered through the conduct of England in
our struggle for national existence, but would
intensity the heartburning left by long
series Of wrongs inflicted upon us by that
jealous and overbearing Power. An Eng
lish journal recently said, with o
great deal Of sense, the Treaty Of
Washington "would only be serviceable if it
gave full satisfaction to the people of both
COUNTRYSIDE the people, as apart from the
TWO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., uuu Az 10 CActI uOW tuuI
if by any subtleties yet to be discovered the
governments agreed to set aside the indirect
claims to England's satisfaction there yet
would remain among vast number of Amer
leans all the heartburning' it is our very
object to extinguish" These words, written
without knowledge of the proposition made
by Lord Granville, may be accepted by our
government as undeniable truth. The surrender
of our national honor would not even have the
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.-Too MUcu
FOR Coon NArUaE-THK DEAD SnOr, DC.
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BOOTHS TIENTRE Twenty. third street. corner Sixth
Il An
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wAILACK's THEATRE Broadway and 18th street.
Aaairu
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ST. JAMES THEATRE Twenty eighth street and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NEW HBKRNIcON
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WOODS MUSEUM, Broadway. corner 30th st-Pcr-
FINANCES afternoon and evenng.-ON HAND.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Twenty fourth street.
Arr
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The Cost of a Woman of the
Period When Fully Made Up.

Her beautiful luxuriant blonde hair
is worth-f it be wig-from $50 to
$500; if it be switch, from $40 to
500; if it be in curls, from SIS to
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Her pure white brow, her dark,
arched eyebrows, cost from "a to
SD.
Her large and liquid eyes are worth
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Her white face and neck (when
enameledl are procured at price
ranging from SIS to $35.
Her faultless, cleaning worries, if
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Her ruby lips are worth twenty
five cents.
Her round, plump cheeks, if plump
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Her swelling bosom is gotten up,
if pads, for 81 to $12; if respirators,
for SIS to SO; if balm and develop
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Her Grecian bend is worth any
where from to 80.
Her plump arm (if padded), cost
from 81 to So.
Her Italian hands and aristocratie
nails are worth from 81 upwards.
Her corsets therefore her waist),
is worth from seyenty-fiye cents to
$40.
Her hips are rounded at price
from 81 to So SO.
Her delicious limbs, when in the
shape of false calves, cost from So
upwards,
Her pretty foot and ankle cost
from 81 to $50.
Her blotches, tongue scraper, neck,
ETC., are worth 81.
The total beauty, therefore, costs
herself, or rather some man of the
period, from about Sa5 to $500 and
upward, per occasion, for her personal
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