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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31
PERSONAL.

Gerrit Smith has sent $1,000 to relieve tho
sufferers by the fire In CanastOts, N. Y.
The Syriac Ms. which the Dean of Canter-
bury found in the Yale library Is life OF Alexander tho
Great no copy OF which exists In England.
r. B. Rbett, who killed Judge Cooley in
inel has resigned the editorshp OF The NeS orleans
Picayune at the request OF the company.
The equestrian statue Of Gen. Scott will DO
removed from foundery in this city, and placed in
position Washington by the opening of Congress.
Senators Sumner and Schurz were in this city
Yesterday the former coming from Boston the latter
having Just returned from Europe Both were In xeceI
lent health and spirits.
The Roman correspondent of the Journa! do
Byureles states that the Italian Government has
chased from Mdmc Raazz the papers left by her lato
husband In order to prevent their publication.
Brigham YOung's new house is to be on q
scale Of unusual splendor II The Salt Lake Tribune Ia
right when declares that 1t will be one OF the most
gorgeous and costly residences anywhere between sun
rise and sunset"
Prof Agassz recently answered an inquiry
concerning his health In this way: 81 an weak ana
unable 10 accomplish the amount OF work which de-
mands my attention Ny powers often fail me when 1
nayo need OF them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

THE BURNING OF THE GRAND OPERA.
The natural death of theaters is by fire, and
therefore little surprise will be mingled with
the general regret with which all good Amer
leans who have been permitted to go to Paris
in their lifetime will hear of the destruction
of the Opera House Of the Rue lie Pelletier.
1t has had noble history, and leaves cher
ished memory in the minds of millions of
people in every quarter of the globe. 1t has
witnessed the triumphs Of every great singer
of the age who has ever sung in French, of
every famous dancer, and of every opera
which has gained the sufirages of the world,
since the time when Louvet struck that
fatal blow at the Duke de Berry
which he hoped was to extinguish the
line of the elder Bourbons. IL was in
1920 that this assassination took place at the
door of the old Opera House in the Rue de
Richelieu and the building was Immediately
demolished. An open square, with one of the
most beautiful fountains in the city, recalls
the tragedy of half o century ago. The great
barn of the Rue lie Pelletier was then hur-
riedly built as provisional refuge for the
institution which had grown a national neces-
sity. But there is n French proyerb which
says, "The temporary is the only thing which
lasts and fifty years of usefulness did not
take that title from the Grand Opera House.
1t bore its name without dispute, though
there were purists in music who thought the
Sale Ventadour, the home of Italian opera,
to be more classical and more fashionable. The
French opera was literally subventioned by
the State and patrouized not only by the
Psrisians, but by those representatives of
every nation under tho sun who issue nightly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31
4 LESSON FROM TIE STOKES CASE

] A LESSON FROM THE ofOhEo Chob'
II is natural that the public should seek for
some hidden cause of the extraordinary YER
dict in the Stokes case. and perhaps we should
not be surprised at the suspicious of bribery
and other improper influences which are
pointed at the Jury. The result of the trial
was so different from anything that people
anticipated, and so clearly against common
sense. that scandal was almost inevitable.
The case has presented a travesty upon JUS
t,ce from the first, and If it has ended in q
travesty upon the jury system the denouement
is dramatically appropriate.
But it is unnecessary to place such an IN
charitable construction upon failure ior
which the law is evidently in great part re-
sponsible. The story of Edward ). Stokes IS
onIv the latest illustration of the absurditles
of the old murder law which Mr. ClintOn's
amendment recently reformed. After they had
been bomb0ozled with multitude of deiinl-
lions and determinations of the different de-
prees of murder and manslaughter, the jury
were instructed that if the killing was in the
heat of passion, without design to effect
" death.u they might convict OF manslaughter
in the third degree. Now it is quite conceiy-
with intellectual acuteness, may have CROPPED
through tho complications and over-refine-
ments of the old law until they forgot the
distinction between want of generalization and
want of design, and satisfied their conscience
that the offense was really no greater than the
low grade of homicide which they styled 1T IN
their verdict.
This gives us reason to he satisfied with the
late change in the law. If Stokes could have
been tried under the amended statute, the
same Jury which made such preDosterouS
finding the other night would probably Sup
posing it to be honesO have convicted OF
murder in the second degree, the punishment
of which is imprisonment for life. Indeed II
the statute of 1878 had been in force when
Fisk was killed this third trial would doubtless
not have been held at all. The law would
have been too plain to mislead Judge Board
man in his charge, and the conviction which
sentenced Stokes to the gallows would not
have been oyerthrOwn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

most morbid fancy. Udderrook is accused OF
numbering his brotber-in-law. w. 8. Gos'' TOT
the purpose of securing to tho family an IN
surance of $s5,OOO which the murdered man
had on his life. SO far as known the evidence
il purely circumstantial. The main facts In
the coso are that Goss has disappeared, that a
body resembling his has been found anu ~ o
derzook is declared to have been seen III 'ne
vicinity of the woods in which tho mysterious
remains were discovered. This case has many
nonts of resemblance to several others which
have lately created excitement in various
parts of the country, and its determination
will be looked for with interest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

Of the great scheme. For there arc pes. ois
who would rather not have the silver than b.
followed by detectives-a foolish prejudice TO
be sure. but then we have to take human
nature as we find it, This announcement.
however, sets that matter at rest; whoever
holds any silver now can do what he pleascs
with it without fears of arrest. The great
measure is now in the full tide Of successful
operation. BY the close Of the year there will
be several hundred dollars OF silver coin in
circulation. There is danger Of course that
this expansion will revive the unhealthy
speculative tendency, but we may trust tho
wisdom and craftsmanship that are introducing
to us the half dollar and the dime TO take
measures to prevent it,
We arc already beginning 10 feel the good
effects of resumption. silver ten cent piece
was paid TO q street car conductor yesterday
right in the heart of the city, and the con-
ductor did not so much as bite it, but credu-
lousy received it and returned the change.
SO the great work goes on. Government has
to be careful of course TO whom it pays silver.
but il seems to BIO falling into the hands OF
the right sort of people, who pay it out for
drinks and car fares promisCuously, and there
is no citizen so humble but that he ia Liable
to stumble against q silver ten cent piece
almost any time. But let us not DO proud.
We owe all this to Mr.. Richardson and Presi-
dent Grant And nobody knows the amount
of talent that between the Great Minister of
Finance and the Great Silent Man has been
expended on this Great Measure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

To be a poet and have fine feelings which arc con.
tnually stepped on and hurt very much by dull.
cold world, seems TO be fate sufficiently sad TO dis
arm critics. Alasl nearly all these gentry are as
cruel AZ Mr. Weller himself to the gentle trouba-
dour Here for instance, is The Quarterly Revies
which has a sour regard and carping spirit even
for Mr. Tennyson. 1t thinks that his style is fire.
ouently too good for his subject; that the double
distilled exqusteness Of that style is oppressive 10
liberty and fresh English air. and that be has par
ticular gift for coming preposterous compounds in
words. Mr. Browning fares no better at tho hands
Of this reviewer who apparently has rather oon-
tempt for the psychological school OF winters. no
holds that Brownings manner Of conceiving charac-
ter is not poetica and that his manner of expressing
his conceptions is not dramatic; that his drdmath
persona are all odd specimens extinct species, re-
minding one more of what might be than what Is.
more of ideas than of men that his meter Is blank
verse, but of a kind only distinguished from prose-
by its Jerks and spasms As for the pre-Raphaelite
school which adheres to the simplicity Of nature"
the critic has no patience with its Identifying OF
trnes and its egotism, its presentment OF Rosseti.
dressed la Dante and coming abroad crowned with
anreoles and beset with Loves in the midst of rail-
WAYS. newspapers mechanics Institutes, and credit
mobiliers Altogether this tartary writer concludes
that the tendency of modern poetry to form schools
is a palpable i'll: that the individuality" OF the
modern poet is not sign of vigor, but Of decline
Doubtless the troubadours will tip-tt their noble
noses mt these evidently sincere opiniOns let US
hope that their author is not a rhymer also-ot an
other school.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

On the first and second pages of THE TRIBUNE,
to-day, is published very full and complete
sketch of the state of business in the New
England and Middle States This survey OF
the field is not cheerful one it is, however,
necessary that the whole situation should be
calmly looked at and provision made for the
future. Ii is evident that there must be much
suffering among the poor this Winter on ac-
count of the scarcity of work. The notice of
this has been early and positive. In some To-
calities, we are glad to observe, there is gen.
erous disposition on the part of leading manu-
facturers to cut down production, and to adopt
other expedients, rather than discharge en-
ploy6s. In this city, the darkest side of the
picture is that which shows us the very poor,
who live from "hand to mouth" looking for
ward ruefuly to the approach of hard
Winter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

of thS latter metal at given temperature.
An officer from the United States Mint Is now
engaged in investigating the details OF this
process at the Stevens Institute. There Is
great probability that this comparatively In
expensive method of manipulation will en-
tirely supersedc all other modes of ascertain
ing the amount of alloy in the precious
metals and the costly chemistry of the Assay
Office will become thing of tho past.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

Instead Of calling on Heaven to save them from an
nudiciOus friend, the members of Sprague Steamer
Company No. of the Ithaca Fire Department have
adopted much more speedy method, and disposed
of one in a set of resolutions. Ii seems that tho
Cortland Fire Department invited the Sprague
steamer No. to join in it's annual parade and No.
declined the invitation in the preamble.and resou-
tons so dear 10 the heart of the native American DO
he fireman or philosopher Then, as Mr. +. A. Brown
was suspected Of undue officiousness IA the matter
of obtaining the invitation he received the follow
ing complimentary notice Resolved That this
Company is disguised in the extreme with the over
zealOusness Of T. A. Brown, who assumed the re-
sponsibity of sending word to the Cortland De-
partment that this Company desired an invitation
and as Mr.. Brown never was, and probably never
will be- member of this Company we assume tho
responsibility of suggesting to Mr. Brown that In
the future this Company will conduct its affairs
without the agency Of any outside parties and par
ticularly Of the party who in this instance as
sumed so much" II seems altogether probable that
il will be some time before either Mr.. Brown or any
other outside party" of Ithaca again assumes any
unwarranted responsibility in connection with hro
department parades.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

One of the largest, most honorable, and en-
terprising of those great business houses
which have been the chief source of the pros
perity and Importance of New-York, yesier-
day succumbed to the stringency of the money
market and suspended payment, with assets
largely In advance of its liabilities. No house
of such Importance as that of Hoyt Spragues
g. Co. has closed its doors since the failure OF
Jay Cooke g. Co. began the present revulsion
The fate of the related house of A. 81 w.
Sprague of Providence depends upon the
events of to-day. The banks of that city
have united to protect the so-called
"Sprague banks, and there is no doubt OF
their being able to sustain each other. But
it was not known at the close of business
yesterday whether this great manufacturing
firm would be able to meet its engagements
to-day. Its only reliance is upon the ProW-
dence banks and capitalists, and aid is not to
be expected from them unless 1t becomes EVIL
dent that the suspension of the Spragues will
seriously damage all the business interests of
| the State.
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amussmsnis. etr., Chs Gpsnims.

AcInzxY OF MUsIc.-strakosch Italian Opera Company
RoorHs TuEArER-"Fanchon." Maggie Mitchell.
DAYS. BROADWAY THEATBR-"F Fritz, Our Cousin Ger
man." Emmett
GRAND OPERA HoUsR.-"Round the CLOCK
N1s.o's GARDRS-varioties; " The Black Crook"
oIvvp,c TuEArER-"Rp Van Winkle." Robert Nc
Wade.
Tosr PASTORS OrERA BoUsE.-varety.
Union SQUARE THEATER.--"The Geneva Cross"
WAIILcKs THEATER.-" She Stops TO Conquer" Les
ter WailaCk.
AMERICAN ISsrrrurE-Day and Night Annual Fair.
Balm HALL-The Pilgrim.
T. T. BARNUMs WORLDS FAIR.-Day and Evening. AT
IwentY-seventh-st. and FOurth-ave.
RoRINsoS HALL-At and at 8: Varieties. Tho Royal
harOneties.
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currency and any paper money we ever had
in general circulation in the United States,
there lis all the difference between iron and
woo1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

In the hearing before the Police Board, yes
terday. the whole charges against Capt. Irving
and the detective Farley came out. These
accusations are of the gravest possible char
acter they affect the force to which these
men belong. 1t is charged by mcdonnell,
the English forger, that the accused were in
some sense his accomplices after the fact aud
shared in the division of the plumber brought
over from England. The tale, as told in the
complaint presented, is remarkable one; and
the Police Board will spare no pains, of
course. in ascertammg how far it is entitled
go belief.
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The danger which has so long impended
over the Republic in France has apparently
been dispelled, by the hand of NJ. de Chambord
himself. He has written q letter which must
destroy at once. every hope of uniting in bus
favor the monarchical coalition which threw
NJ. Theirs from power. He fatty refuses to
make any concession whatever to the con-
stitutional caprices of the 0rleanists, and
especially repudiates with scorn any discussion
of the question Of abandoning the White Flag
We may generally rely on these Bourbon
princes to do foolish thing whenever it is
wanted, but such an opportune blunder as
this is rare even in their annals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

The Undertook trial, now going on at Wes
Chester. Pennsylvania, is likely to develop
evidence sufficiently horrible TO stimulate the
The Republican journal., 1873-11-27

almost lives i'll tho family with his hens.
He keeps his buildings warmed by fire
heat, and uses one Of the artificial incuba-
tors, Has vegetable garden i'll connec-
ton with his poultry yard, and gets large
item Of income from the manure which is
all gathered every day thus keeping the
premises clean and healthy lie did not
give us the exact figures, but believed his
books would show profit Of full 200 per
head for each old bird kept through the
Year
Poultry il inteligcntly managet viii
pay well; but it does not follow that be
cause a dozen fowls running freely about
ones premises are profitable, that hun
dred or two hundred on the same ground
would be equally profitable in proportion
to their numbers. They must have room.
and it is the want Of ii perhaps, more than
any one thing, that makes it more difficult
to obtain equal returns per head from
large a7 from small flocl1s. n. +. Farmer
The Republican journal., 1873-11-27
There.

10 any heart, ache there, beyond the peaceful
river
DO fond souls wait with ionSingin in their eyes,
For those who come not-Till not come, for
ever
For some wild hope whose dawn viii never
DO any love there still, beyond the silent river,
The ones they loved in vain, this side lis flow:
Does the old pain make their heart-strings ache
and quivcr2
Ishall go homo some day. 60 home and know.
The hill-tops are bright there. beyond the shin
ing river,
And the long glad day, ii never turns to night; ;
They must be blest, indeed, 10 bear the light
forever,
Grief longs for darkness 10 hide its tears from
sight.
Are tears turned to smiling, beyond the biessod
river,
And mortal pain and passion drowned in its
Then all We, who >il on it. hther bank and
SILVER,
LctAus rejoicc-wc shall go home and know !.
Louise Chandler Moulton.
The Republican journal., 1873-11-27
Sheen and Worn-Out Farms.

Al Farmers Club, at Morfisyille, Vt,
MI r. q Hill, in an address upon Cots-
wold sheep and their value, said:
The one great trouble in stocking The
country with sheep, and supplying the dc
mand both for wool and mutton. is the
fear among many farmers of paying too
much for them, though it is plain enough
TO be seen they are a great Improvement
over our common sheep; so they 90 on
raising inferior stock in which there is no
profit all their lives. because they fear to
run little risk Their children are led to
think farming q hard, Improbable husi-
ness, and leave the first opportunity. Now
let the farmer commence with 4 few Of
these sheen, and have his children share
in the care and profit Of them; they will
soon feel an interest, and no longer think
farming unproiitable There is no employ
ment on the farm SO relnunerativc and SO
attractive tor children as the care OF lambs
The Importance Of improving old, worm
out pastures is apparent TO every farmer.
There is no way this can be done SO easy
as in keeping sheep; il will take but
few years to double its value
The Cotswolds are Just the Kind to inn
prove springy, swalcy pastures. They will
thrive on rank, coarse feed, bringing in
the white clover and are the best stock that
can be kept for the pasture, but for keep
ing up the supply OF hay they are gener
ally supposed to be inferior to other stock
Now the Improvements Of our moWings as
well as our pasture should be considered
No farmer can succeed unless he can keep
up his hay crop, and it is Of great impor
tance that he should ascertain the best
kind OF stock for doing this. Having my
self commenced farming on a hard, worn
out farm that would not Weld one-half a
ton to the acre. no one has studied this
subject more closely than | have, although
some have succeeded better For twenty
wears | have i>lilkcd from twenty 10 forty
cows For about fifteen years have kept
from fifty to one hundred, knowing that
it was generally considered that sheep
were not equal to cows to keep up the
moving | determined 10 satisfy myself
which vas best.
Some ten years since commenced feed
ing the hay on 4 small farm exclusively to
sheep. This lot was in fair condition, yield
ing about one ton per acre. | let the sheep
have the stable, spread the manure on the
grass, going over one-haN q it each year.
The grass continued 10 increase until it
yielded not less than three tons 10 the acre
The manure from this Yield gave ii heavy
dressing. For year or two the grass has
not been rs heavy; the ground appears to
he burnt with manure. Last spring i
plowtd Il part Of il 10 rt.-sood and sOWcd it
with wheat, ii grew very rank. but the
weed, GREW ranker-such weeds Is grow
on very rich ground This land had
been dressed with clean manure from the
stable, and the grass had been free from
weeds There had been no manure put Oh
previous to plowin@. That such weeds
should grow on sward shows III" ground
| to be- very rich