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The New York herald., 1878-11-22
The Welcome to Lorne.

The Marquis of Lorne and his illustrious
consort, the Princess Louise, will, it is
thought, see the end of their ocean journey
on either Sunday or Monday next They
arc expected at Halifax about that time,
and it will be seen from our dispatches
this morning that the most extensive prep
arations are making to give them a rcccp-
ton entirely worthy of their position.
The fact that.the Duke of Edinburgh was
sent in advance Of the viceregal party
to receive them shows the interest
which the Queen and her government
feel in the event, and it must be exceed
ingly gratifying to Her Majesty and her
Ministry that the citizens of Halifax. and
the people OF the Dominion generally, have
OF their own motion so enth usastically re-
solved to more than meet the measure of
the expectation that was anticipated at
their hands. The reception at Halifax will
be invested with all the splcndor the army,
the navy and the civic authorities united
can confer. To-day tho fleet will leave
Halifax for the purpose Of meeting the
Sarmatian and escorting her in double line
to the harbor. AS they pass on their re-
turn, the forts and batteries will send forth
their laundering welcomes. On shore the
viceregal pair will find the city gay
with bunting and streamcrs, its streets
festooned with the hardy evergreens Of
Canadian forests and spanned by numerous
triumphal arches Of unique and striking
DESIGN. The train that will bear them to
Quebec will be the finest that ever whirled
over Canadian railroad. All this cannot
fail to be exceedingly pleasant to the new
Governor General and the Princess. 1t will
be unprecedented in the annals Of vice.
regal receptions, and will form an auspi-
cious opening of an administration that in
one way or another promises to bc the most
interesting and important in the history Of
Canada.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22
The New Reward.

The reward of fifty thousand dollars
offered by Judge Hilton for the arrest of
the men concerned in the Stewart grave
robbery, or Of ten thousand dollars Tor I'm y
one OF the malefactors, is in accordance
with the suggestion made in the HERALD q
few days ago, and affords, we believe, the
best possible chance of the discovery and
conviction of the criminals. 1t is, of course,
n distinct notification to all concerned that
the family and friends of the deceased have
fully resolved never to give dollar to the
robbers for the restoration of the
remains, but to leave no m cans untried
to accomplish the capture and punish
ment of the guilty parties. II will therefore
The New York herald., 1878-11-22
Suicide with Accessories.

"AIy life is my own to do what please
with, and propose to take it, said Mr..
Rowland Levine to his friends on Monday
night, and his friends appear to have as
sented to this peculiar view Of his case.
He had swallowed two ounces and half Of
laudanum two hours before; was deter
mined to die; would not swallow an
emetic-nor permit the employment of any
means to relieve his system OF the poison
and was prepared to put anybody out Of
the room who attempted to use force. His
feeble willed friends, therefore, sat and
looked on through the whole Of the period
in which it would have been possible to
save his life, and when at two o'clock he
became helpless through the operation Of
the poison taken they essayel tardy rem
edies too late to prevent death. Even the
doctor is reported as believing that his
course was proper one. AS to the as
sumption of the mans rights in the case,
which appears to be at the basis of their
error, no man in civilized societies has
ber of the community, and he is himself,
of course, member of the community. No
man has o right to kill any one in this State,
not even himself This man was therefore
engaged in the commission of crime, and
the police should have been called in and
should have used any necessary amount Of
violence to prevent the success Of the Grim
iIfal attempt. 1t is theory extensively
favored by the police OF some countries that
no man kills himself or attempts to kill
himself while in the use Of his right mind.
1t is theory that is practically convenient
and if applied in this case it would have
put the friends, had they forced proper
treatment in the charitable position Of
those who control lunatic for his own
good. In any view Of their duties as friends
or citizens they should have resisted the
suicide's attempts. AS it stands they are
accessories to the crime he committed. Any
person who deliberately assists another in
the commission Of self-murder is, under the
statute, guilty OF mansaughter; and what
attenuated proportion Of such guilt falls
upon those who only consent, but do not
actively assist, may be nice case for the
corrte
The New York herald., 1878-11-22
Mr.. Conkling aRd the senatorship.

Some Of the democratic papers are trying
to worry Mr.. Conkling's friends by discuss
ing the possibility of his defeat for the
Senatorship in spite Of his brilliant triumph
in the election of the Legislature. What
they have tossay on the subject is very wild
twaddle indeed Had there been any possi-
bility Of beating Mr.. Conkling he would
have been beaten in tho Republican State
Convention. A vigorous effort was made by
all his rivals and enemies of every stripe
and description to elect hostile delegates
to the Saratoga Convention. Everybody
knows what fasco they made of it. His
opponents could not muster in force enough
to dare to make even the semblance of
fight They were SO cowed and disheartened
by their failure at Saratoga that they made
no serious attempt to control the republican
nominations for members of Assembly. It
would have been idle and ridiculous fol
them to have undertaken anything of the
kind because the nominations of members
had to be made by the same Assembly
districts that chose the delegates ia
Saratoga. AS Conkling controlled the
districts when all his enemies were
strenuously working against him he had
less difficulty in controlling them after his
great success in the Convention had dis
couraged his opponents and added to his
own prestige and power. It was much
easier to nominate Conklipg men for the
Assembly than it had been to elect Conk-
ling delegates to the Convention from the
same districts, and this was done in all such
districts without even show of opposition.
Every district that sent Conkling dele
gates to Saratoga nominated a stanch
and reliable Conkling man for member
of Assembly. The consequence is that
Mr. Conkling has pledged majority,
OF the republican members-true and tried
adherents on whom he can perfectly rely
and whose fidelity cannot be shaken. All
the talk about formidable opposition to
him in the interest OF Ex-Governor Morgan
is idiotic rubbish. We shall not be sur
prised if Senator Conkling is reelected
without the formality Of caucus, as Sen.
ator Gordon was in Georgia day or two
since.
pose the confirmation Of Collector Merritt,
although he might do SO without at all en-
dangering his reelection. II Collector
Arthur should be reinstated in March he
would only have a fraction Of q year to
serve before the expiration Of his term, and
it is not worth while to embroil the party
over SO small a matter.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

TnE WEATHER.-The only marked change
That has occurred in the meteorological condi-
tons during the past twenty.four hours is the
general northward movement of the area Of
high barometer that extends over the South
western districts. Two distinct centres of low
barometer have been developed within the de-
preston that oyeElies al the districts east OF the
Mississippi River-one on the Middle Atlantic
coast and the other in the northern lake region.
Rain has fallen in the central valley and lake
districts and on the Middle Atlantic and New
England coast. Clear weather prevails IN all the
districts west OF the Mississippi River and cloudy
elsewhere. The winds have been from fresh
10 brisk over the lake region aud the Northwest,
brisk over the Western Gulf and generally light
in the other districts The temperature has
risen in the Middle Atlantic and New England
States. the Gulf districts and the Northwest
Elsewhere il has been variable. Increasing Y
winds arc probable for the Western Gull, where
steep gradients nre likely 10 be developed, and
also on the Middle Atlantic coast during tue
next few days. As soon as the depression
passes oil the coast the weather will become cold
and will continue so for few days. when it will
probably change again. 1t il possible that the
high area which extends over the Southwest
and South viii turn the depressions course
more to the north, in which ease we will not cx-
perience the rains that attend il. The weather
in New York and its vicinity today will he warm
aud partly cloudy in the morning. possibly with
occasional light rains. followed by clearing aud
colder weather. Tomorrow it promises to be
cold and fair.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

A Two HUNDRED AND FmTIErII ANNIyERsARY
of anything American should remind us that we
are not such giddy young thing Of a nation
after all. and when the occasion of such n cele-
bratou is religious sobriety of sentiment be-
comes still greater. For these reflections we
have TO thank the shades Of the sturdy Dutch
who. two and half centuries ago, estai,-
hshed their Church on Manhattan Island, and
whose act 6tiingIy co,nmemoratcd yesterday
BY their successors.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

times, while the astute detectives of Scot
land Yard declared themselves unable to
account for it. 1t was wonderful career,
but-and here is the consoling part OF it
it came to grief. In one Of his nocturnal
raids he dropped into the arms Of COM
mon policeman. There was struggle and
some shooting, but the burglar went TO Jail,
and bit by bit his story was unrayelled.
He will doubtless be hanged for the MUIR
der All there is to be said about this case
resumes itself in the thought that rascality
is the surest guide to it's own detection.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Thc stock market
was dull and ieverish. Gold was steady all day
At 1OOls per cent Government stocks were
firm, States dull and railroads strong Money
On call was easy at 3 a ! 2l2 per cent.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

BOwERY THEATRE-THx Girl DETECTIVE.
wALLAcKs THEATRR--OuR ctur
UNION SQUARE Neutrality-suspicious. AND soS.
STANDARD THEATRE-ALxo;r LiFa.
ST JAMES THEATRE-TnE BELLs or coRSKvI1lr.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-TnE FooL's REvrNe&.
NIBLo'S GARDEN-AcRoss niE coSTrsEST
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-sTRuck Oh
AMERICAN INsTITUTE-ExHBIrioS
PARK THEATRE-LorrA
THEATRE CoMIQUE-suLLrvAN's CHRISTMAS.
GERNASIA THEATRE-DR. Klaus.
LYCEUM THEATRE-JosauA wHITconn
ACADEMY OF MUSIC-LuclA LAaMrRMooR
BROADWAY THEATRE-Orro.
TONY PASTORS THEATRE-yARKrY.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM-TaAISEp HoRsEs.
WINDSOR TIIEATRE-vARiEIY.
TIvDII NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EGYPTIAN HALL-yARErY.
ABERLE'S AMERICAN THEATRE-vAsIErY
EILMOREs GARDEN-BAgSUA's SHOW.
San FRANCISCO MINsTRELs.
sTEINwAY HALL-WnYSlrJ.
BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE-THE GLADIATOR
BROAD ST THEATRE. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OPERA
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

THE TESTIMONY yesterday Of two OF the
italian children alleged to have been kidnapped
for the Italian slave trade in this country shows
that they have been pretty well schooled by the
padrone. His escape is not improbable.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

ir SEEMS rs ditfcult to find out who got that
fifty thousand dollars in the settlement of the
Rogers and Jones claims as to discover the
desecrators of the Stewart grave.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

GENERAL CEsSoLA's OPINION. elsewhere
given. that the treatment OF his brother by tine
English officers in Cyprus was simply brutal is
pretty much the opinion all around.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

In PERU the outlook for the payment Of either
the interest or principal of the foreign debt is
pretty blue. II an earthquake were to swallow
up the majority of her politicians Peru would
stand good chance OF getting along.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

The ONLY 'TnING DEFINITE that b,
learned about the oil men is that their efforts
are solely directed to putting up the price.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

If THE STORIES of some Of the militsmen
who confined in Ludlow Street Jail for non
payment of fines he true Il is not very cred
table TO the military authorities. 10 expect a
who cannot buy bread TO pay fines is rather
I...nI
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

MI. SIMON SrERNE's free trade lecture last
evening contains some beautiful theories.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

SECRETARY THOMPSON thinks he will be able
to get along with about fourteen millions for the
navy next year.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

THE OLD Toll GATES between Newark and
the Hudson River are n relic of the Dark Ages.
Il is some comfort to see a movement toward
their abolition.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

Ii THE STREET CLEANING BUREAU will turn
to another column they will find tho names o
some avenues and streets that sadly need their
attention.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22

Or COURSE we could not get along without
an injunction III the of the street veiidcrs
around Washington Market.
The New York herald., 1878-11-22
II r IPLE SH e E Il
NEW YORK. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1873.

The probabilities are that The ceather la NeI
York and lis rici"ity Io7etay rH be narm and
partly ciopdyia Me n,oraing, possibly uiM occo-
Sional tigh rains, toiiowed by clearing and colder
Oeaher. Tomorrow it promises to be cold and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19
The Undying One.

When young woman who has mar
ried an elderly gentleman of means in
the hope that he will soon die and leave
her his money finds that he lives on and
on, i'll total disregard of his implied
contract, it is but natural that she
should look npOn herself, with that pity
which she would bestow upon any 9th
er neglected and i'll used wife. The
promise of his hacking cough is still
unfultilled. Quinsy will not carry him
have destroyed Thalaba, Septimius,
FELTON, or the old Ahasuerus. Tender
~ she watches the progress of his rheu-
matism, and while he is sleeping she
lovingly opens the window to give it
air, but the horse chestnuts which he
carries in his trousers pocket during the
day counteract the draughts of night,
and the disease fails to thrive according
to her wish. Age cannot wither him
nor nOstTums cut his infinite longevity {;
and if the young wife grows pale and
wan with weary watchings at his bed
side through the sorry midnight hours,
waiting and longing for the change that
will not come, what human heart can
wonder if at last she becomes exasper-
ated and resolves in her sore straits to
resort to harsher measures than slow
nature yieldsP AS one thinks of the
blighted promise of her years, and of
how the gnawing teeth of Time seem to
have been filed for her husbands bene-
fit and her despair, adjectives flow from
the pen as fast as the Arabian tree
drops medicinal gum. On one side are
youth and beauty and capacity fol- the
enjoyments of widowhOod; arrayed
against them are grabbed age, selfish
ness, unyielding tenacity of life and a
leathery frame, hacking away at which
Time only blunts his sickle. The SYM
pathies of any decent man especially if
he be young, poor, unmarried and ease
loving, inevitably gush out for the
weaker in the struggle for life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness Z.
World
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19
The Trials of Proof Reading.

Your Boston correspondent, in this
mornings paper, discharges a halting
vOlley of small shot at prOOf-readers in
general, and one or two in particular.
So far as it goes, his criticism is just !;
but only part of the story is told, and
that part could have been tOld-has
been told, by every ordinarily Intelli-
gent reader of the daily press or of less
frequent publications. There is another
side to the impeachment, not SO gener-
ally understood by the common leader,
and not appreciated as it deserves by
those directly interested in proof-read-
ing as branch of the publication bust
ness. In the first place, it is necessary
that prOOf-reader, to fill his position
properly, shall be little less than walk
ing cyclOpadia. He must not only be
familiar with all branches of printing as
a mechanical art, but he must be author
ity on every branch of human science,
from hOrse-trOtting and bOat-racing, up
to MIR. Joseph Cooks Biology and Oar
wins sublime guess work; and this,
not in a superficial manner, but to that
extent that he may detect the possible
errors of others, themselves professors
in their various specialties. He must be
master of all possible and impos-
sible combinations of the English lam
guage, for he is supposed to know what
every sort of writer wants to say better
than said writer himself knows, and to
possess the faculty of making all sorts
of authors Ineligible to all sorts of
readers. Then he is supposed to pos
sess sight knowledge OF all dead and
modern languages sufficiently compre
hensive to enable him to detect the errors
which have such persistent way of
cIeepiug into the literary ventures of
recent college graduates and returned
European tourists, who have suddenly
found the English tongue quite incapa-
BILE of expressing the most common
ideas. With more or less of variation,
according to the circumstances, these
are the requirements of Il professional
proof-reader-it is hard to select pro-
fession requiring so varied and critical
preparation. What is the ''encourage-
ment" to perfection held out to the
wOuldbe proof reader? Generally not
the slightest-though there are worthy
exceptions. | know prominent New
England daily paper, publishing IA week
ly edition in connection, that pays its
proof-reader the magnificent sum of one
dollar and quarter per day. Nor is
this solitary case, though there are
probably few as extreme. Book pub
fishers, whose readers are required to
exercise nicely of judgment and ex-
tent of general knowledge much more
complete than that of the newspaper
reader, scarcely better compensate them,
the cOmpositor at the case, in nine
tenths of the offices in the country, max
ing better wages than the proof reader,
with none of the mental wear and tear
of the latter. Even then, generally, the
prOOf-reader is hurried through his
work at a rate fatally fruitful in over
sights and blunders, subject to every
sort of interruption and annoyance. Are
not these hints sufficient to explain poor
proOfreading P-Letter in Springfield
Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19
An Encounter with Robbers.
A SHERIFF SHOT.

Deputy Sheriff Walden, of North
Adams, arrested in Pittstield Tuesday,
the 9th, Thomas Monahan, one of the
thee Troy desperadoes who garrotted
Thomas Buckley in a horse car last
week Tuesday, and took $4,000 from
him. On the way from Pittsfield to
Troy by the Boston and Albany road,
the prisoner succeeded in drawing his
revolver and firing half dozen shots,
one of which lodged in the f1eshy part
of one thigh of Constable Thomas Quinn
of North Adams, who was with Mr..
Walden, but it is Thought he will live.
Monahan was arrested in Troy with his
two companions shortly after the rob
berry, but escaped by leaping through a
window at the police station. On the
9TH, he got on the cars at North Peters
burg, N. Y, in company with another
man, and sat down in front of a woman,
who recognized him and told the con-
ductor who he was. The conductor
telegraphed at the next station to Sheriff
Walden of North Adams, to be at the
depot on the arrival of the train, but as
he was in Pittsfeld, Constable Quinn
acted for him, found that the two men
Intended to take the train for Pittsfield,
telegraphed to Walden, and followed
the men. AT Pittsfeld, Walden, recog-
nlzing Monahan, took both him and his
companion in charge. The latter said
he was MOnahan's brother, and was try
ing to aid him to escape
The officers left with their prisoners
on the l.30 p. m. train for Albany.
While the train was in motion near
Richmond, E. j. Cary, North Adams
drummer, watching the prisoners as
they went into the water-closet, saw
one OF them draw something apparent
ly from a pocket on the inside of his
pants. He told Mr.. Walden that he
would have trouble with his men before
he got to Troy, and kept his eye on the
prisoners after that. The younger Mon
ahan subsequently, asked Quinn to LET
him take off his coat, and as Quinn was
helping him to do it, Cary saw Mona
han draw revolver from his hind
pocket and put it between his legs.
Cary called Walden's attention and he
grabbed for it, whereupon Thomas
Monahan, the robber, who was hand
eutfed to his brother, also drew re-
volver. Cary grabbed him by the wrist
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19
The Whipping Post Necessary.

1t is worth considering seriously
whether the lash may not be introduced
into our criminal system with advan-
tage for the punishment of brutal of
fences, especially against women, and
for the repression of young desperadoes
of the dime novel type. Dime novels
do not represent their piratical boy he
roes and young highway men as com
ing to the whipping post. They end as
rule III battle against overwhelming
numbers, on the scaffold or in the dun
geOn of some romantic castle. There
is something grand, gloomy and pecu-
liar about the clank of fetters, and to
perish on the scaffold, in the ewes of
many criminals, confers a positive So
cial distinction. But there is nothing
in the least heroic about the swish of a
rod or cat, and England has returned
of late years to the doctrine of Della
ware that the whipping post is whole
some prophylactic against those pests
and perils of the weak and the unpro-
tected, the juvenile rutfian aud the
tramp.-Nelo York World.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19
The Use of Paris Green.

The excessive use of Paris green that
has followed the introduction of the
Colorado beetle seems to be reaching
the point where the remedy is worse
than the disease. 1t is a bonanza for
the dealers in this poison, but the reck
less application of the green is killing
of birds by the hundreds in all this
region. The sweet singers fall dead
from the trees, and local experts who
have examined into the cause, charge
1t to the potatoe bug poison. Fish are
also killed by eating the beetles that
get into our ponds and streams. Law
ing aside the question whether so free
use of Paris green is not dangerous to
human lite, it is asserted by competent
agriculturists that there is no sort of
need OF dealing it out so lavishly as has
come to be the fatal custom with all
growers of "Murphys." One big local
farmer even says that it would be inst
as well to let the bugs eat the vines af-
ter they had become well started. He
remembers when boy that his father
compelled him to whip off the potato
tops, so lnsuring bigger yield unde,
ground. The abundance of Paris gree,
Is certainly encouraging suicide, or al
least furnishing ready means that is be-
ing made available for self destruction
All in all, it is high time to be ecopom-
zeal ID the buying of poison which is
working much deadly evil, when hand
picking and a reasonably close over
sight OF the vines will give us all the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-19
The Good Grandfather.

The other day, when a good citizen
wanted some repairs to his boots, and
stepped into small shoemaker's shep
ON Antoine street, he was greatly as
tonished to see boy five years old.
playing with IA revolver, while the old
shoemaker pounded away at his pegs
as contentedly as if Colonel Colt had
never existed.
''Is that revolver loaded ?" asked the
customer, as he hesitated about sitting
down.
"Yaas, l s'pose So" replied the old
man, "but Johnny wouldn't hurt his
nice old grandfather, would you john
ny 2"
"Noap," briefly answered the boy. as
he poked stick into the muzzle of the
weapon.
"But he may shoot me !' exclaimed
the customer, backing off.
"Oh, no, he won't! Little JOHNNY
wouldn't shoot the gentleman, would
he 2" - 80
"Noap," was the soft reply, as the