New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-24

The tenacity with which they cling life leads to the
suspicion that they holding of for second century
The oldest NewYork centenaTian was In the habit OF
smoking several pipes before breakfast every morning
II the Connecticut centenaans have had the same habit
and have smoked domestic brands from their own CAP
bageelds they may have been killed off when they were
very young, which wcrd explain their not dying now
Miss Stella Winters, a well-educated and
charming Young lady, was driven into insanity by
drudgery in public school Milwaukee She over
tlsked herself by assuming the management OF class
Of very troublesome pupils many of whom nearly
old herself The work unnerved her and shattered
her reason. Last Saturday she so overcome with
WEAKNESS that she resolved TO to her fathers home In
Madison, where she could rest Sunday. The next
morning she remained at home, while her father (wh0 Is
clergyman and the other members of the family went
TO church. When they returned they found her lying In
bed and moaning piteously that she was weary tired
OF life" tired Of wandering" she had taken strych,
in a piece of orange while aborng under mental
arrangement The suicides OF the Cornell studen,
and the schoolgirl in Western New-YOrk were SAD
enough but the of this OvcrwOrkcd young teacher
Is even more pathetic.
The decision rendered by the United States Dis
trict Court in Baltimore Thursday narrows the aphea
ton of the Civil Rights act OF March 1873 In regard not
only to railroads but also to hotels and tbeaters and re-
srcts it to the limits defined by the United States SUI
preme Court in the louisiana slaughterhOusc The
Baltimore suits were brought by Is colOred persons
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the ground OF
action being discrimination against them account OF
and color They had not secured the same accom-
modations the which whte travellers had re-
ccved and they sought to enforce the penalties under
the Judge Giles in nstructng the jury to bring in
verdict for the railroad corporation held that so FAR as
the of Congress assumed to enforce such right or
TO give redress for its violation unconstitutional
The rights of the plaintiffs TO be enforced by sun III
the State courts and not under tie civil Rights act Inc
decision is based upon that OF the higher tribunal ana
has been anticipated by the acton OF Two othcr district
courts, so that 1t is not OF special Importance
Il la ic no al a
banker has lost large fortune at the gaming table
Reduced TO great straits he resolved to turn to account
policy of insurance on his apartments in the Rue dc
Grenelle Saint GeTmain lie left his house on Nov y,
and getting into cab 10 the Lyons railway sta
ton when flames burst Of the windows OF his cham
and he forced TO stop and watch the fire. which
ex'ngushcd promptly. On entering his apartment
the rcmen discovered that the furniture had been sat
rated with petroleum, while large bottle OF that OH was
found In tTavengbag on the table. The bankers son
arrested. AT first he pretended that he could rot
account for the petroleum. but being confronted with
the tradesnan OF whom H. had bought the oil, he SAID
that having accidentally set fire to the bed with his
candle he lost his presence OF nind ana SEEING hou OF
the petroleum poured it about with the object OF Dlh
ing himself death in his apartment. lie fcgncd mad
several days hut the medical experts declared
fore The lire Inc had sent his paIe TO his family ia the
provinces His trial began in Paris early in March.
poor young man left q sweetheart Il few
years ago in Louisville KY To support herself by teach
the owner Of several silver mines the founder of town.
and the richest capitalist in NcwMeXcO, he returns 10
marry her, stOckraiscr Ia Diamond valley, New,
looked his cabin window carly III the morning
and saw great of metal glowing at white heat
and Illuminating the earth. There had been one OF Mr.
Hartcs timely earthquakes during the night ard untold
wealth had either raned down from the skies or been
spoued up the other direction. After he had per
fccted his claim and recorded his title tie surdy herer
ordered survey. There in sight 100000 tons OF
gold silver, zinc, lead. nickel iron cobalt ana phos-
phorus, and there probably much more Undecided
in the earth. The ob5 of immigration after Mood
Irish peasants am German artisans don't seem TO rtaize
that silver dimes are llkng III ne straw oi esot3 NV
York siree:-car and that in the Great West fortune emp
ties her cOrnncopia into every mans snrt-1Gsoi. Inc
Europe aud TO restore the commercial prosperity OF the
land of freedom.
Sitting Bull is again OH the war-path. During
February the hostile Sioux, Aiapahoes, and Cheyeunes
concentrated their forces the Little Big Horn, near
Oft the Custer massacre and subsequently en-
camped near the site Fort c. f. Smith, threatening
Gen. Crooks allies The Crows, and stealing some OF th'r
ponies not far the agency. small band or Crows
descended tie Yellowstone Valley far as Pryors
Creek and attacked large Sioux Camp. On the next
day il was reported that the whole Sioux force was
marching toward Crow Agency, and the Crows in great
alarm abandoned post and reiterated TO the mouth OF
tho saltwater. where they met Major T. ii.
Stanton of Gen. Crooks staff WHO was on the
way to the station to pay the scouts Tor tier
services during the Winter He restored
order among the Crows but could not induce them 10
return to the agency Couriers dispatched to Fort
Ellis and on March four companies of the I'd Cavalry
under the command OF Major j. s. Bnsbin were march
ing down the Yellowstone to join the Crows. The base
of these operations is the Valley of the Upper Yellow
stone about 200 miles to the northeast lies the sta
ton OIL the Tongue River where Gen. N A. Miles Is en-
comned with q force OF 700 infantry As the
Missouri River is open large cavalry recnorcemcts arc
10 be sent 10 the Tongue RIVER and Gen. Miles VIII again
take the field against the Sioux