New-York tribune., 1878-07-20


ing, nevertheless, and it is to be hoped the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty TO
Children win persevere in it's determination
TO secure hm the punishment which be de-
serves. ,.,,r RmG vEstT- srerErrtEF
The Co. respondent who told TRIBUNE readers
recently how one might spend two months IN
Europe at total expense, if careful economy
was exercised, of not more than $500. shows,
in another column to-day, that, the owners OF
slender purses need not be deferred from
visiting Paris this Summer by the reports
they have received of extortionate increase in
landlords prices. Outside of the circle of the
great hotels, it still seems possible to live at
O reasonable cost and our correspondent,
after a special tour of inquiry among the more
modest hotels and restaurants, declares that
good fare and comfortable accommodations
can be had for price which the closest cal
eulators could hardly expect to improve upon
even in ordinary times. q .aaas a...9,.' &
The heat of yesterday was greater than that
of the day before, and the list of sunstrokes
in New York and The neighboring eitles was
nearly double that of Thursday. 1t is true
that the highest record on the thermometer
was one degree lower than the day before,
but the general average was almost three and
half degrees higher The number of sun
strokes in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
City was sixty-four as compared with thirty
five the day before in the two cities
frst-named, and the fercer quality OF
the heat was shown in the fact that nine OF
The attacks of yesterday were fatal, while none
proved so the day before. These figures show
how necessary it will be to continue to OBJ
serve all the precautions that have already been
urged in order TO AVOID the exhaustion which
may bring danger to those who least expect it.
It is true that the Signal Bureau in Washington
holds out hope that the worst js over;
but even if there should be a change for the
better, it cannot be so sudden or 80 great as
to make any material difference in methods OF
living or working necessary or safe. Advice
enough has already been given on these points
If it is followed, New York will probably pass
through this ordeal without serious shock.
Another rebellion in South CarOlina-a re-
bellion against the authority of the United
States Courts. The case is a peculiar one, and
certainly seems to demand some Jaeksonian
frmness on the part of the National Govern
ment -Four revenue officers, approaching the
house of noted illicit dlstilIer in order to ar
rest him, were threatened by one of his ac-
completes whose gun missed fire, and who
was himself shot before he could get sec
ond chance. The officers surrendered them
selves, and have been indicted for murder.
An application TO transfer their cases to the
United States Circuit Court has been re-
iected by Judge Kershaw, who holds
that the prisoners plea that they shot
in self-defence makes their act per-
sonal one, and that therefore it was not
done in their official capacity. To this view
the Court adheres, with an apparent deter-
minatiOn TO resist the authority Of the United
States at all hazards. The Administration
seems alive to the importance of the case,
and will lose no time in asserting
the rights of the Federal Courts. Mean
while, the episode suggests an interesting
state of affairs, if Judge Kershaw's law should
be adopted by other Southern States where
"moOnshinersT are plenty, and frauds upon
the revenue are held to be no SIN. Rev
enue officers would hardly dare, under such
construction of the law, to defend their lives
against the attacks Of outlaws, for fear Of be-
ing held by some Tabid States Rights judge
aud convicted of murder by q jury OF illicit
distillers. q --L- -|