National Republican., 1876-02-11
A SUGGESTION TO THE EDIrOkIAL FRA
TRRNITY

year 1910 DluS ialr 10 SurpaSS tnat OF any
one in our history as nation. 1t is al
ready so scarlet as to demand serious re-
Election. and to suggest the painful thought
that the world is really growing worse.
Ii will not do TO say that it is only appar-
emily worse for the reason that the multi
\ plicatioD of newspapers and the facilities
OF the telegraph bring crime and accident
into quicker and more constant review
than formerly; nor, on the other hand. to
clIsrge it TO rapidly increased population.
1t is more philosophical to trace the causes
OF cI;me to the universally of the use of in
tCNicaling and poisonous liquors, to the
feveIish snxiety for obtaining sudden
wealth, and to a deterioration in integrity
and morality among men and women, both
in cities and country towns. The press, in
obedience TO the duty of printing the news,
makes daily history Of crime and acci-
dent but the rule is that it never fails, in
editorial comment thereon, to speak in
emphatic terms for the preservation of law,
order and morality and, more than this,
there is hardly an important sermon
preached Of a Sunday that is not reported
Monday morning. What is said from the
pulpit TO congregation Of five hundred is
read the next day by as many thousands,
and we are not aware of single editor in
the United States who ever refuses to Co
operate with the Church for the moral
good of the people; and if the Church does
not command that respect and obedience
TO which,.it is justly entitled, the reason lies
in its want of unity and concentration, and
TO some most conspicuous examples of i'm
morality within its pale during the last
eighteen months.
In looking over the files Of the NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN since January l, 1876, and
with special reference to this subject, we
find its columns burdened with sickening
stories of failures, abductions, instances Of
mob law, abortions, boy murders, extensive
fires coal oil explosions, wars, divorces,
adulteries, thefts, vessels lost in storms,
suicides, imprisonments, ISLANDERS, libels,
&c, all making up a chapter Of horrors
before which the stoutcst may well tremble;
but it is not our intention to refer TO these
in detail; we simply group few of the
crimes and accidents of other classes, (acci-
dents because usually the result of crime)
forgeries, robberies and wholesale murders,
TO point our moral.
January |, three workmen were killed
by an accident at the Centennial buildings.
January =. The grand jury of the Circuit
Court of Cole county found indictments
against Gen. Grafton and his son, the gen.
cral charge being forgery and entering
bogus military warrants. Cole Rogers. of
Kansas City, was also indicted for the same
oflense, and the same day Martin Sprllslly
was murdered in Philadelphia
January 3, James S. Lyon, John Nc
Manus and Byron A. Wcstcott, partners of
Joseph Bork, in the banking firm of Lyon,
Bork * Co., were arrested, on the
complaint of Thomas Clark, rcctifer, for
the misappropriatiOn of moneys; and the
next day VIM. Babcock. engineer and
John West, fireman, were killed at Good
lander's mill, Kansas, by the explosion ofa
boiler
January ), the boiler of a saw mill ex-
ploded five miles below GallipolIs, Ohio,
on the Virginia side of the river instantly
killing Lafe Oopple and John AIRY, and
slightly wounding two others. The same
day, in Baltimore, VIM. King and Hugh
Moran, employed as dredgers on the oyster
pungy Joseph s. Cleveland, were discov-
cred, the former dead in his berth, and the
latter in an insensible condition.
January 6, in Chicago, 10 alternate these
records, the grand jury in the United States
DiGtrict Court found two joint indictments
against y. Scammon and Joseph S. Reed.
The first indictment charges tkem with the
misappropriatiOn of $251, 200 Of the money
of the Mechanics National Bank while they
were respectively president and cashier of
that bank, and with applying it to the use !
of the Marine Company in january, 1874.
The second Indictment charges them with
tmhezZling S41, coo from the Mechanics
-,ational Bank, and with applying it to pay
personal debts due the Metropolitan Bank
of New York, with intent to defraud the
Mechanics National Bank. Two separate
indictments were also found against Reed,
the first charging him with having loaned
10 himself $GS, COO, and the second charg.
ing that he made unlawful use of SEQ, 600 !
more. And, 10 make things cheerful all
round, in Philadelphia Miss Caroline John
son, young lady of wealth, residing at
No. 1902 Chestnut street, committed suicide |
by taking poison, and in New York city |
five infants cofiins mysteriOusly turned |
up in the basement of a house in BroOmc |
street.
Ohio, not to be behind her sister States,
sends out the news from Toledo, January |
7, that Alexander Williamson, a prominent |
business man of BelmOre, Putnam county, |
Ohio, has absconded, leaving unsettled |
claims amounting TO 500, ,0C0 or more VIII |
Hanson was proprietor of the Caledonia |
Stove Company and member of the firm |
of NJ. L. Barker X &C., dry goods mer-
chants.
AT Concord, \. H., January -, LIE Page, |
for the murder of Josie Langmaid, was |
sentenced to be hanged January 10, 1877; |
and. while this was going on, four burglars
were robbing the house of Mrs Miller, at /
Pa, and the same day Captain |
Josiah Briggs, Of CoXsackie, \. Y, his |
wife and two children, were drowned in |
the Hudson river, near Coxsackie. They |
were returning from church, the mother
and children on a hand-sled, which tho
captain was showing across the river on the
ice, when they all disappeared through an
air-hole. This, by the way, was pure
accident
From Little Rock, January II, we have
the newsthat George Spencer, in scuffle
with Harriet McRea, seized her by the