New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-06
GENERAL NOTES.

a cricket made from one of the side panks
Of the NARROWER is now be seen at the Old South,
Boston.
"Sweet by and by" is strange death-song
for a suicide Vim. K. Martin, shipping clerk, went to
his boarding house Chicago last Tuesday AFTERNOON
and after eating supper and chatting with his room
mate struck up Sweet ny and by His roommate
Joined in the hymn, finally the chorus was reached
nsnI Martin had suddenly drawn revolver land shot
6msef There love affair back Of the revolver
A few days ago a BinghamtOn butcher saw
man take Quarter Of mutton from hook OUTSIDE inc
shop and quietly walk away with it, The butcher iO
lowed the thief to a wretched tenement and after some
hesitation pushed open the door The whole family were
eating the mutton raw The thief said that he was u
able 10 get work. and was compelled 10 tke
came in order 10 keep his family from sIarV
Ing to death The butcher had no heart To arrest te
fellow.
The luckless French Baron Arvid de Werner
who was recently sentenced TO four years Imprisonment
in the San Francisco Penentiary for alleged embezze-
pent Of two pictures langushes in the County JAN ana
vhpers 10 every newspaper reporter who happens To
pass through the corridor. have been here seven
months" he means, and have lost 10 pounds ana %
think Of four years in Penitentary Why the Judge
was very in his charge and the lnry recoAneHTu
me- 10 mercy and between them bOth they gave me louI
years" but, Baron" mildly began the reporter:
Dou't cal! Baron you please sdu tne 1
titles believe the very fact OF my beng B sdded
the secret Of all my misf9rtunes ana ne auuea
mOurnfuly is title now TO me out ruuies 10
man without slirtF
The religious papers are devOting consider
able space to national politics and constitutional ques
tions A correspondent Of The Observer calls 1t to
account for characterzing universal suffrage as delu
sion and a snare but admits that some modification OF
the present system is necessary. He holds that prop
erty qualification cannot be made basis OF Suffrage ana
sug rests tins remedy LET Congress, in behalf OF the
Territories and each state the Union enact laws re-
curing every young man. arriving at the age OF Il
years 10 be able and write before he Is pefnttu
exercise the right OF suffrage; that Wen ne presents
himself for the first voter he De fequreu, III
addition 70 reading what is prescribed, 10 write MS own
the registry, III the presence OF witnesses, anu
lei tins be the evidence OF his qualifications Educa,
Ona suffrage that not require more IMAM tnis VIII
seem to many not worth the candle
Prof Swim calls upon the preachers ana
editors who have gone of their way to attack Mrs
Sullivan in their comments upon the Hanford-sunvan
case TO state how far evidence brought out during
the trial has tended 10 acqut of part in the muir
der He saws in The Alliance that neither Mrs Sullivan
nor her husband set forth from their home 10 have any
difficulty with Mr. Hanford and not having gone iOrth
for that purpose and indeed not having set forth 10
geher at all but separately, ii cannot be that the VIE
leader Of the deed. The call MI HanfOru was
al extempOriZed matter thought OF by the way out
upon an indefinite GRAND AS from the start dd not
seem possible that Mrs Sullivan could have even con-
sented 10 any KIND Of physical revenge, II IL not very
surprising that the evidence showed her entHe hn0
cence." Prot swing is generous than Mrs. sum
vans critics will ever choose be. The TACT tha II OF
the uyIuen voted for acqutta goes Tar 10 JUSTLY ner
conduct,