Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-13
NEWS ITEMS.


The Massachusetts Dental Society has
resolved that the use of chloroform in
dental operation is not advisable.
Among the other "solid men" of the
country who have been compelled to
succumb to the panic is the Cardiff 81
ant, which was seized aud sold short
time ago for debt, realizing tho sum Of
eight dollars.
HAVANA, December 12-Evening.-
The steumer Virpinius was towed out of
the harbor of Havana at half-past four
O'Clock this morning by tug boat. She
was escorted by the Spanish man OF war
Isabella la Catolica. Tn. Yirginius has
gone to the port of Bahia Honda, sixty
Smiies west of Havana, where she will be
| delivered by a Spanish man of-war to o
vessel of the United States navy. Cap
tain-general Jovellar has given the ne
cessary orders for tho transfer of the
Virginius prisoners at Santiago de Cuba
to an American man.of-war to-day. The
captain-general is certain that his orders
will be carried out and the men deliver
ed at I'll e appointed time.
1t is popular error to suppose that
| steamers incur extreme danger by run
ming rapidly through the fogs on the
| Newfoundland Banks. Unless leo is
present, the faster steamer can be
driven through fog the safer are her
passengers. For the sooner the ship
can run through the fog the sooner she
is out of danger, and the faster she
moves tho less danger does she incur in
Af Et.t1 n,,1AI,1,
banks must always be crossed at the
risk of collision, but collision that
would shatter a steamer running at the
rate of five miles per hour might not
hurt her If she were moving at the rate
of fifteen. The fate OF the vessel struck
by q steamer running at such speed
does not enter into the question how
the safety of steamer in fog can best
be secured.
On Tuesday next occurs the centen-
NAL anniversary Of the destruction of
tea III Boston Harbor by patriotic Anne
ricans. Very few of us could now tell
why this tea was destroyed, though OF
course, we quite understand that the
liberties of the whole continent would
have been hopelessly lost had that in
sidious tea been landed and absorbed
by the American people. Down East
it is proposed tn celebrate this anniver-
sary by the public and private consump-
ton of enormous Quantities of ten When
| II is remembered that there are +b;rtr
thousand more women Than mon IN
Massachusetts and that these thirty
Thousand homeless nj mat,;n,o,y ara o.,
cnstomed IN drown tbn;r 5;sonno;n+.
ment Il will he nerccived tbo4 Teyen IN
ordinary circpmstoncns Mosescbnsetts
has an immense tea drinlr;no cnnao;tv
When this co,,ocitv ia etra;nod ~ its ~
most 90 II nnnnnsf;onoblv will ho newt
Tuesday. who can tell what Tho ras,,It
NAV he ? If oU New FnoIand dcvotas
;tself on tbot 6av n tbo s1;ii;no of ~
Vulnerable cups of tea, the price of that
article must go up, and the adulteration
to which it is now subjected will be in
creased until pure tea will disappear
from the memory of man.
Tn tho Vast the neo,,Io do not oar,
mncb for nrison yuSes and wban tbav
want n prisoner TO deck the fest;vitie e ~
a hanginn bolidav tbe1 ei,nrj,- o GO o,,d
take him Hern We 9dbera yyio;dlr ~ ~
The prison rnIes which ara nndonhtsaiv
GOOD tbinos in tbnir WOW hnt wh;ni,
Ought to be enforced With some daaree
Of Common sense. The d;rty vaoahonJs
who arc oydinor;lv sent ~ RlScL,colps
island nndonbtediv need a hath os d.
nroliminarv stop 70 their intro1not;on
10 prison lie Bnt wby was # neces-
sarv to force Tweed. nj n time when bo
was confessedlv IN, into q COLI ha+b
The rnle Of tho nr;son wos If course r'
enforced. hnt Il was at the risk of tbe
prisoners life. To do tbis merelv for
feor lest some one should assert tho.
Tweed had been treated with eyrart ;i,,,.
al lenitv WINS not an oct cred;toblo eitba,.
To the moral conrnne or The Good sensa
of the prison authorities.
A Strange and +r.oic Glow, 8 ,,,a4 - =