The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-09

Some Statistics Of tho Year-suicide5 and
Divorces 80 Commercial Matters - Business
Changes Dividends Commodore Wander
bilt- Staten Island and the Old Noravisn
Church-Tho Vanderbilt Tomb, Etc.
NEW YORK, Jan )
The wear clrcl with man! clouds of
sorrow, but IS we have been rev wing cen
tenti,l cve"is it mgy be suggested tia. De
ccmber 177G, Witnessed the greatest suf-
fcriug known during the revolution. The
pa'riot prisoners held in the jersey prison
ship and in other scerCs Of horror perished
by famine and frost, ~ vel as ty disease,
in such numbers that they are estimated at
ntarly ~ 0O0. Looking over the past year
one ut the muSt littnIuI aspects o. neIv
pllitan life il found in the catalogue OF
suicides. which cDnisiAs lJ2 cases, of
which III were maes. Two of these were
above three score ard ten, and seven were
under twenty. Forty nine died by poison,
and more than onc-halt took paris green,
which ocCa,iJns the most Intense suffering
Perhaps the reason Cf this pre- ercnce Is
found 10 the facility with which it can be
ubtaintd. Forty-Cght cases OF murdt r and
hiUllN II Nl' Ot tl4t ltNJius hlI } u uAl Allc
murderer Las been hanged during the year.
Accidental deaths during the past year
uumlcr 53S. The cases Of drowning reach
1870. More than 100 dead infants have
been picked up in the streets and the rivers
The entire list of inQuests contains ,239
clses, which is l3i more than last year
DIVORCE.
The Geath of Orson House is the most
tragicAl afr lr c0rnactad ID with the bar of this
city for sixty years. lie had the best prac-
tce ct any specialist in New York. Hav-
iug devoted hims If to the divorce business
for nearly twenty years, he had not only
mastered the details of practice, but con-
troled the patronage Of the matIimonially
di-coLt,nttJ. No divorce lawyer could
compete with him, and in this way he clear
Ell 500 0J0. y number of lawyers are
now sciambling for his practice, but it is
not probable that any Will attain the sue
cess OF OrsOn A House. There have been
lj9 divoIcea granted in this city during the
past yc IT, of which two thl ds were given
by the supreme court. This is a painful
feature in married life, and yet it is not the
worst ssptC' OF the case How many Chate
lulion of the knot? To answer this qucs-
ion would reveal some of the internal mis-
cries of society. Some of our readers may
remember the III of bacon" described
in the iSp>ctdt0y, which was offered to all
married m,n vino would, after the lapse of
Il year and IA day, swear that they did not
regret their choice. In cOmmen ing on this
custom Addison says "that ii requires more
virtues To make a good husband and wife
than 90 TO the finishing of the most shining
character whatever The experience of
the century and half since the days of
Addison has proved that no greater test of
true Charar ter can he found than the close
relations of mllrimony The good will be-
come lie ter, and the bad will become worse
when The restraints. selt-impCsed during
clurtshp, are laid aside-but this il an old
story, ana hence | will not expsjiatc up
on IT,
OoMMERCIALEMArTERs.
Tine column OF copartnershp and disso-
luton always commands attention, and the
condition of trade is illustrated by the fact
that the latter are the most numerous. 1t
is thus seen that among business changes
more men are leaving than entering trade
AnOtner feature Is lue lDCTehkcu proportion
of Germans, who are getting control of the
best branches of business. Among the
changes in old houses | notice that sylvia
nus T. Macy and Thomas Macy leave the
fiji i'm of Josiah Macy 4 Sous, which is the
mott Distinguish ed Quaker house in Amer
lea. William IL Macy, of this house, has
been for many years one of the strong
names of Wall street. Another old house
is that of Auchincloss, which contains four
Of that name, and is the most eminent of
the Scotch importing trade. Both Of the
above men ioned tlrms are now in the third
generation. The Wllmerding auction house
also appears among the changes, and is still
| flourishing. ! can well remember Josiah
Macy, Hugh Auchincloss and George Viii
merding as old men who left their impress
on the houses they founded IN substantial
manner. 1t is the reputation of such firms
which preserve the commercial interests of
this city from utter decentralization. Other
noble names might be mentioned, but
have only referred to such as appear in the
partnership paragraphs which mark the
new year. To show that trade has not in
creased much during the past year, | may
refer to the fact that in 1875 the amount OF
loans and dscoun's IN ide by our banks
(dity-nine in number VIVA $2j2, ,6s4 600,
while in 1866 it was S258 1928, 900, the diff.
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