Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-25

90 Semi Dec ssiOEal,' a weIl-knOwn citizen OF
Washington, by the way-tsking up the subject
with a view TO applying a remedy. He argues
that the suicide i thief and a murderer CON-
bined, in tina; he robs his God of that which is
bis, ard His alone, and al Is murder TO theft by
destroying life. This writer objects to the man
ner in which the crime OF suicide is CLOSED over
nowadays, and thinks that, while the summary
course OF the ancents in dealing with those who
laid violent hands on their lives would appear
barbaIOUs vet that every human being, in virtue
OF his duty to his fellow man and his account
ability 10 bis God, should use his best influence
TO make ~ famous the act of the suicide.
The commissioner sent ont by the New York
H>rald 10 20 through the different counties of
that state and report upon the political situ4-
ton, comes to the conclusion that things are
very much mixed, and that not unlikely Grant
will carry the state. Up to this time his re-
Iorts have been rather Greeleyish, but in his
last letter he seems to think that the tide is set
ting the other way. He estimates the straight
out democratic strength in the state very low
not above 5000 in number. The number of
democrats who will support Grant he also esti-
mates at a low hgure-not more than ten in ten
thousand; but when il comes TO the passive dem
ocratic yote-the stay home vote-then the
question assumes another phase. This passive
vote lie estimates at from sixteen 10 seventeen
thousand, outside OF New York city, AMI he says
that if the maneuvers now going on In the CITY
20 divert share of the democratic vote to
Grant-say fifteen thousand vOtes-.urn out sue
cesSful, 4" then the state Is lost to Greeley
The liberal vote in the state he puts d)En at
t,70O. The administration men, he SAYS are
making tremendous efforts 20 carry the state.
They flooding il with speakers, while the
SVfakiuy no liberals haz IN - ~,
few, and chiefly 10y Frank Herman and H1ritio
Seymour, both OF whom lack the necessary
magnetism for a country audience.
VALUE OF PENCIL WRITTEN NoTEs.-A sub
sCTiber asks the New York Journal f C5mnlsrcs
the question: lis note written in pencil. and
signed in pencil, legal ~ The Journal answers
IN the affirmative. Story on PTomissory Notes,
Gone o! our highest agthOrties.) in his first para
graph touching the requisites of this form Of
obligation, declares that "a prOmssO-y note
nus; be in writing, either in ink or pencil; that
J. TO say, tie signature OF the pTOmi SOT must be
So, the body Of the note nay be printed" This
j. conclusive: but the courts in a great many
cases, AID without a dissenting in gm ut, have
confirmed ais rule. \ note promising 70 pay a
certain amount OF money i merely an evidence
o. indejte lness, aud note without the sigma
tuTe Of the pTOmis>Or is good, if there is evil
bEuCc luhl the tIOni4-DF isti 70 execute n,
that is to say, with the additional evidence mem
TONED. The note is riHd Jacie evidence Of the
Indebtedness.
'l> America to be HoTSeless.'' Is the startling
question Propounded by the New York World in
view Of the amazing rapidly with which the
horse disease is Spreading. An active horse
could rot travel as fast this strange NAL ADV.
The seed> OF The disease seem to be in the air
and uif fac n
measure OF inspection OF quarantine would be
useless The World thinks at the rate the dis
ease Is Spreading the novel spectacle may be
presented in that city OF the busiest streets there
beng utterly hOrseless, and minus their thrOng of
carts, carriages, omnbuses, and street-cars.
We may look then TO see Broadway in its narrow
est portion easy to cross as a country road
IL would he odd, indeed. to see that horsey city
so changed, and its citizens all in as desperate
want Of the equine animal as King Richard in
the pIav.
The times have oh banged since the staple news
from America in the European press was ac-
counts of fTightful railroad accidents, In Eng
land fortnight or so ago, there were three
terrible railroad accidents in one dsy, and In
Germany, where the railways are supposed to
be managed with particular care, the number
of accidents has recently been so great that the
"SAA-eh toAAtS IaPciy N ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ADVISES
the great railroad companies that the only way
OF stopping these unpleasant catastrophes is by
not allowing any passengers TO ride their cars.
SO II would seem that recklessness in regard to
human life Is not exclusively an American
characteristic. Perhaps the late bloody wars
over there have created some OF this in Indifference
just as scenes Of blOod-shed and rough expert
esfces have done with our frontiersmen.
The LEGISLATURE of Connecticut ha
the 'last of the Mohicans" who live in that state
with the right Of suffrage. There are about one
hundred OF these Indians in New London county
And IN general INTEL. gence IL is said they will
compare fayorsbly with the whites around them
dhey own farms, and senl their children to
school, and there Is not one among them above
Inc age OF ten who cannot read and write
Under the circumstances their inyestmant with
al the rights OF tizenship was IN after of iu.-
tee too long delayed.
The British government has done a good thing
Tor Brsdiaugh's journal, u publication com
Parstively obscure in a general sense. A short
time ago its circulation was interdcted but
more lately the government has restored the
right OF circulation through her Majesty's mail
The result of all this will be that Bradlauyh's
republican paper will suddenly spring INTO
popularity in England, and will be read By those
who had heretofore never even heard Of its ex-
istence.
Oh. dear. that everlasting oil -tn-v' The
New York TrijuHs gives place 10 SON. lie
Tated chap who writes from this city a yarn
about the wholesale expectation OF negroes from
Virginia TO vote the Grant ticket in New York
This story indicates that the liberals are already
inclined 10 discount defeat in New York in
November.