The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-01

New Yonk, July %. 1877.

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or honor, in anything connected with
sporting matters. The races At .Je-
rome and Fleetwood Parks are all ar.
ranged beforehand. and the inoocen.
people who bet on horses may do so
with 8 certainty that the ring have
agreed with The owners as 10 which
horses should win, and by how much.
Occasionally an honest man under.
takes to row. or run, or. fight, OF
walk, or do something, and il he can
not be bought be is disabled 10 some
way, If it is the interest Of the gam
blers to do it. A rowing match.
which excited much interest among
the sports, was arranged between
Riley and Courtney. Courtney was
known to be the best man, and bets
on him were three to one. A little
ring Of sporting d~esperadoes took all
the bets they could. and an immense
amount Of money was staked on the
event. At noon Of the day Of the
race. Courtney was in excellent con-
dition. He sat down at his hotel to
take the little refreshment allowed
him, a cup Of iced tea being a part OF
it. He drank it, and noticed that
its taste was unpleasant. A few min-
utes after he was taken very sick I;
be vomited severely, and fell into a
stupor from which he did not recover
till night. Riley rowed over the
course alone. the judges awarded
him the race, and the money in the
pools was paid over to bis hackers.
Courtney had been drugged with
arsenic. This is no more than is done
every day on the a c tracks 10 the
city, and is a fair illustration Of the
honor of sporting men.
ALARMING MORTALITY.
The excessive mortality among
children in the city is occasioning
alarm. The deaths last week were
over 500 in excess of the correspond
ing week for years, the mortality be-
ing mostly confined to children. It
is not, as usual, confined to the tene-
ment houses, but the children of the
better classes have suffered terribly.
The weather has been unusually Sc
we're, and the streets aud alleys were
never 80 filthy. The accommodations
of last winter were left on the ground
Jill late in the Spring, and then were
not wholly removed Under the Ju-
ly sun the cutters and back yards of
the densely populated streets in the
lower part Of the city emitted q con-
c%entration Of stenches that singly
were enough to kill a healthy adult
to say nothing of a weak and insult
iciently nurtured child. The germ
of disease once SET aloat was carried
into the better regions, and the child
of many o wealthy man died as an
atonement for his neglect of the
poor. whom we have always with
US" The Board OF Health, always
weeks too late, have taken hold of the
matter and their efforts have, in
some measure, checked the disease.
THE SUMNER PLACES.
The blazing sun must be endured
by the poor of New York during the
week, for they must work to earn
their bread. But on Sundays, every
one Of them who can raise the means
his wife and family to where q
mouthful of fresh air is attain able.
The poorest go to Central Park, for
i've cents will take them there. Last
Sunday s e 100, 900 people visited
he park ; poor mothers with their
'iekIy children staying all day, hsv-
ng taben with them the lunch and
that the little ones might get
Is much life as possible to fortify
themselves for the intolerable heat OF
! close tenement house for the next
'ix days. There were 80, 900 people
!. Coney Island the same day, aud
every land and water route leading
,ut of the city to cool, fresh sir was
crowded Fortunately there are
many such places about New York,
md they are of cheap and easy ac-
.ess.
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
5 progressing favorably. All the
loted orators Of the country are
to New York by turns. so
hat the feeling is not allowed TO die
II lessen. Mother Stewart, who
tarted the crusade movement 10 tie
Vest, is here, and is speaking every
lay and night, with great effect.
will open his peculiar work
lext week and Gen. Gibson of
)bio, aad other noted orators, are
'eld in reserve. The legal part of 7
be work is better organized than it
Ias ever been. The rum-shop that
) caught without a license, or that
q any way transgresses the law, is
Ield to all the penalties prescribed.
Ind as good lawyers with plenty of
money are employed, they worry the
ellers terribly. 1t is no joke to them
o be arrested, for the old tricks Of
Indefinite postponements and straw
all are not allowed to work. They
ave worried nearly two hundred
ucket shops out OF existence. The
xcise law which restricts the sale
( liquors to inns, is being rigidly
ntorced /; and consequently all the
irty little gin mills are putting up
be requisite three cots 10 their dirty,
tile back-rooms. The temperance
eople are working for a decision to
lock this game, and they will doubt
.ss get it.
LIFE INSURANCE AGAIN.
The Universal Life Insurance of
ais city is nos 10 hot water, the
tate Superintendent having made
the subject Of q special report, in
'hich he charges Encouragement
the officers and recommends that
he Company be placed 10 the hands :
/ q receiver. The Company will
such a step, and insists that it's
arc in a solvent condition. But :
ispicion 10 respect to other compan-
g hs, so often been confirmed that
he public is prepared to believe the
'orst, and the Company is already
cad 10 public estimation. Mr.. Fur.
err, the Vice President, is also the f.
aDcial manager of the Charter Oak
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