The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-02-19
Our New York Letter.

At>DASA IHI ALMANAC
LANDIs'S ACQUITAL-SWEET
CHARITY-THE Cooks BALL
Imports AND EXPORTS
IHE OPERA-"RosE MICHEL.n
From Orr Ora Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. Sth, 1876
TO THE EDITOR OF SENTINEL:
It's on Us at last, all we want of
1t. The cars on Saturday morning
were few and overloaded, and
drawn by four steaming horses.
Pedestrians looked like Santa
Clauses. or like Arctic explorers
at the very least. The l.afess
branches were heavy with a cling
ing mass, and those round brown
Saucy sparrows e%ternally hopping
ABOUT Union Square looked like
so many flies in a pan of milk.
Thousands OF men and boys who
for months have been Sinking
Idly about the streets have sud-
denly Strengthened up, put on an
air OF Importance, and armed with
all conceivable weapons, shovels.
brooms, boards, aud even shut
ters, m%anfull.y fought the enemy
out into the cutters. The bells
jingle gaily on flying sleighs-the
snow has come, and the shame of
Winter Is takan away.
Not everybody likes SHOW for
its own sake, but | guess few are
sorry to e the heecy masses
which tardily prove the correct
ness of the almanac-for really
the joke was being carried almost
too far, aud a precedent being set
for ecce%ntricitles on the part of
the weather clerk which, if allow,
Ell to continue, might eventually
damage this Old globe in which.
as our only support until We be-
come ghosts. we naturally feel
considerable interest. We also
read this morning that the ice
harvest has begun up the river,
SO that the dreaded scarcity of
"cock-tait TIMBER next summer
will probably be avoided.
After a long and exciting tria!
at Bndgeton, n. j., Lands, who
shot til" editor Carruth, has been
acquitted Of mnrder on the ground
OF insanity, whereupon our staid
and dignitied Tribune breaks out
into trinmphan applause, &C
knowledging that the insanity
part is doubtless a humbug, but
claiming that the laws of the
country afford no redress tor sncl,
injuries a. the dead man persisted
In heaplng upon the object o! his
enmlty through editorial attacks
upon his family, and that these
circumstances went far toward
lH>fll., ing the homicide. The Til
bane says: He only killed the
who had wantonIy pursued
felentle>sly from public into
private life, had outraged decencv
IN assaults upon his fainily, and
bad done this not once or twice in
hot blood, but coolly aud system.
'tlcally for years" and further
asserts that the acquittal should
laVe been expected from the FIRST.
Murder trials are =, common with
is, that tins particular case
would hardly be worthy of special
mention but for two or three
which it brings out. First.
mere Is the rare spectacle Just
'lluded to Of such Il paper as the
'ne quoted, not only defending a
homicide, but one in which a Jour
lallst Was the victim. Then there
$ the testimony in the case which
more than hints at the fact, that
jarruth died at the hands of his
nrgeons, showing that 1.-THE probe
mlgntlrr than the bullet )" and
furthermore, there is the express
ion which the case has called
orth, OF the Presidents temper
oWard the press generally. Ian
is was Postmaster of Vineland.
'here the murder occurred, and
irant was applied to for hisremov
|. "Nhy should / remove him
ON the poStmastership 2" the ,
resident is reported to have re- +
he'd. ''ue has done nothing but ,
i'll an editor" !
The annual Charity Bail, under ,
he auspices Of the ladies of New .
DIRK, came Oft on Tuesday even ,
lg at the A :alemy of Music, and l
J spite of hard times was one y
I the most brilliant and success +
IL since the Inauguration OF the ;.
The nall decorations were :,
but according to the +
lleS of the Association, severely :.
nipple. In the matter of dresses -
nj Jewelry, howe er, no such i
.strlctlons exist, and the we'll :
He'd floor Was absolutely daz
mo Fl a UhnIo ,iubt %h,o -