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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

faced manner taken the principle OF the
Edison carbon telephone and applied it for
purpose to which Edison had already
practically shown it was adaptable and
then claimed it before the European scien-
tific societies as a great and original dis
coyery. The mere stealing of the idea is
cohtemptible enough, but the elaborate
system of audacious Measurements and
evasions with which these London scientific
''sharps" seek to defend themselves is too
gross for even the class to which they be-
long. We do not claim for Edison monop-
oily of inventive power, but we cannot pa
tiently witness an American inventor being
robbed even of his laurels by the parasites
of European scientific associations. 1t is
made more regrettablc when we find such
men as Huxley, Lockyer and others inno-
Gently giving currency to these spurious
claims advanced by the Hugheses and the
Freezes Of London. We have mistaken
faith in the uprigh,ness of the scientific men
of Europe, and believe that they will
promptly and Indignantly discountenance
all attempts to rob Edison OF his we'll won
fame when they are made aware of all the
facts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
A Florida Giant.

The Potter Committee yesterday exam
ined Mr.. William 4. Chandler, who proved
to have detective memory; and Mr.. Den
mis-, otherwise known as the Alachua Giant,
who remembered that General Noyes as
sured him repeatedly that Mr.. Hayes was a
stanch republican, and was pretty certain,
rs such, to take care Of Southern
republicans. Mr. Dennis appears to have
conceived an aversion to General Barlow,
which we think creditable to the latter
Also Dennis remembered that he threat
ened to give the State to Tilden in certain
contingencies, which shows that he is
rightly named little giant General
Noyes seems to have played u tolerably
harmless part in Florida; it was to assure
the republican manipulators that Mr.. Hayes
would take care Of them. He has very
faithfully done so; but they are not salts
fed, and we do not wonder that they
grumbe. Patriots who, like Dennis, felt
that they could give the State to Tilden if
they wished, but refrained on the soothing
assurance that they should be taken care
OF, must have been disappointed when they
saw all the foreign missions going to the
visiting statesmen and only the tide-waiter-
ships left for themselves. Mr.. Dennis
would evidently have been better satisfied
General Noyes inspector Of customs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
GONE TO EUROPE.

The number Of Americans In Europe this summer
will be largely increased by tho departures on yes
tsrday's steamers. Fully four hundred frat clasa
passengers and more Of the poorer left this
city on the steamers Adriatic State OF Nevada and
susva. Among the former we're MRS John T. Ray
mond Mario Gordon) who was the recipient OF nu.
merous baskets and bouquets OF flowers; Bret Harte
the poet and numorist, who goes to onier upon the
duties Of his consulate; Assembiyman Hamilton Fish,
Jr.; state Senators stephen II. wsndovsr and Ira
Davcnport; James r. 0seood Of the publishing house
OF James L. Osgood Co. Mrs Alice Oates, the act-
ress Professor l. n. HiIsard, OF thu Coast Survey;
Professors j. r. Hubbard aud O. A. Joy, W. H. Kelly
Consul General TO Guatemala and tho following
clergy s. W. Butler, samuel Colcord. j. A.
Harrs. j. Il. Turptn and l. II. I. Holmes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
A city suit settled.

The suit brought by the city to recover a
large amount Of money from the Bleecker
Street Railroad Company for unpaid car
license fees and arrears Of rent of city prop
erty hired by the company was compro-
missed yesterday and was discontinued with
the assent of the Court. The settlement is
fair one for the people, the company
agreeing to cancel the lease it holds, to sur
render the city's lands, together with the
buildings erected on them, and to give a
note of the TweDty-third Street Railroad
corporation for seventeen thousand five
hundred dollars. The claim Of the city
was for twenty-four thousand dol
lars unpaid license fees and about ms
much more for arrears of rent; but the
Blocker Street Railroad has only recently
got out of the hands of O receiver, and hence
the compromise was wise one. The
counter claim set up by the company was.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

Il Iison and the scientific Pirates.
One of the gravest difficulties that beset
the inventor lies in protecting himself and
the fruit of his genius from that mean, but
not less dangerous character, the scientific
or mechanical pirate. We divide these
plunderers into two classes because their
methods are widely different The scien-
tifc prowler is he who, under the prctence
Of satisfying deep interest in the progress
Of discovery and the advancement Of the
higher branches OF scientific research,
haunts the real student and inventor, and
by insidious inquiries and professions of
friendship, sympathy and innocent curios-
ity extracts the golden secret from the con-
fiding victim and hurries away with the
prize, which is speedily converted into fame
or profit. Tho mechanical sneak thief, with
like object, but in a different manner,
steals the fruit OF the patient toll and study
of years and often, with the cooperation of
his scientific" coatrere, robs the most dcserv-
ing inventor Of reputation and fortune at
stroke. Too often it happens that the in
ventor is powerless to rescue his discovery
or his reputation from the nanuS OF these
unscrupulous persons, but now and then
cases occur that are fortunately within the
reach of the law and of a more powerful
and often more just public opinion. One
OF these is that OF Thomas A. Edison, whose
scientific discoveries have reflected so much
credit on the American name. Mr.. Edison,
like many eminent inventors, has been
made the victim of piece of scientific
piracy, which, in his case, is almost un-
paralleled. AS shown by his letter, pub
lished in the HERALD of yesterday, and by
evidence that is presented in the scientific
journals of Europe and America, an attempt
is being made to rob him Of the honor of an
invention which he properly regards rs one
of the greatest he has made. He charges,
and presents uncontrovertible proofs, that
his friendship and his confidence have
been grossly abused by nm agent of the
British Post Office Telegraph Depart
ment That person named Hughes, Of
London, processing to possess knowledge
OF electrical appliances. has in most bare
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

The Children's Aid Society is doing n
good work in sending visiting physicians
through the tenement house districts of the
cityito render assistance to sick children.
A number of urgent and distressing cases
have been relieved, and the doctors do not
find their occupation sinecure. Tho
object is to supply the suffering little ones
not with medical treatment alone, but with
nourishing food and delicacies which in
some instances are far more needed than
drugs. In the winter when cold is added to
hunger, the destitute are in wretchod con-
dition, and charitable people are constantly
reminded of tho misery that surrounds
them by the bleak winds and storms of
the season. In the summer those who are
in comfortable circumstances 60 into the
country, and with the green fields before
them are apt to forget the poor who are left
behind in the hot streets Of the city. Yet
children suffer more in the summer than in
the winter, aud their lives are in greater
peril from the foul air Of tenement house
lodgings and uncleaned streets than from
the winters cold. 1t Is to be hoped that
the work Of the Childrcn's Aid Society and
of oil charities designed for the relief o.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
A Nice Question Of Law.

In April, 1865, at the time of the collapse
the State Of Virginia had on deposit in the
Exchange Bank of Richmond, twcnty-one
thousand dollars in gold. From this
sum H. w. Thomas, then Lieutenant Gov
ernor Of the State, and other State officers,
drew, by formal and regular warrants
through the Auditor of State, certain
amounts due them as salary. In March
of last year the United States Dis
trict Attorney brought suit in the
Federal Circuit Court against Thomas to
recover the money Give hundred dollars)
which he thus drew, on the ground that
the gold on deposit, belonging to the
State of Virginia, one of the Confed crate
or rebel States, became the property Of
the United States by RICH! of conquest ;
and the Court decided in favor of the
United States. Thereupon the case was
brought before Secretary Sherman under
motion to instruct the District Attorney
to discontinue the suit, and Mr.. Kenneth
Raynor, tho Solicitor Of the Treasury,
now delivers his opinion that the claim OF
the United States has no merit and that the
suit ought to be discontinued. He admits,
Of course, that the United States fell heir
by conquest to all the property Of the Con-
federate government; but not to the prop
erty Of the State governments whose people
chose to take sides with the rebellious
organization. If, he says, Virginia had set
up an independent national government Of
its own, hnd established or tried to estab-
lish international relations and assumed
to be a sovereign nation, in that case when
the United States conquered Virginia its
property would have passed under interna.
tional law into the possession Of the con-
queror. But there was no pretence Of such
condition.; on the extinction of the Con-
federacy the State of Virginia remained
State as before, and the State could lose
no right to its property nor the United
States gain any.
1t is odd that this question has never
come up before the Supreme Court Of the
United States for adjudication; we suppose
it probable that this Court would hold with
Mr. Raynor. He asserts, however, that as
Solicitor of the Treasury he has the author
ity to cause this and like suits to be discon-
tinued. But rs the principle involved is
Of some importance we should like to have
seen the case brought up before the Su-
.preme Court and thus finally settled.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
The Heated Spell.

The thermometer yesterday in New York
indicated an exceptionally high tempera-
ture, the highest experienced here this year.
The memories of former heated terms were
revived by the signs Of suffering presented
on all sides, by the painting pedestrians and
the exhausted street car and stage horses.
The temperature having mounted toward
the nineties by an almost imperceptible
gradation during the past week people did
not realize that the summer heat was upon
them SO soon after the cool and almost chill
ing breezes of the previous days. But yes
terday the rays of Old Sol shot downward
with an intensity that rendered prolonged
exertion almost impossible. Toward night,
however, cloudiness, the natural result Of
this great atmospheric heat and the attend
ant evaporation, overcast the heavens
and the Saint rumbling of distant thunder
indicated that Nature was adjusting her
thermal balance by that peculiar process
that compensates while it temporarily dis
turbs. Advices from London inform us
that the heat in that city has become very
great. Only few days ago we published
accounts from the West Indies of oppressive
temperatures. Recent volcanic disturbances
in the western and South American regions
have doubtless charged the atmosphere
with an undue amount of heat, and this,
with the seasonable addition from the solar
source, has been moving over the Northern
and Southern hemispheres from west to
east with the volumes of atmosphere affected
by it. Our special meteorological reports
from the Atlantic show that the tempera-
ture has been steadily increasing from west
to east during the past eight or ten days.
In the West and Southwest the weather has
been very warm, but temporary change to
cooler airs may be looked for within day
or two.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
Death OF the Queen OF spain.

AT last medical report is given of the
cause Of the death of Queen Mercedes. Her
malady is called nervous gastric fever, with
intestinal hemorrhage-in plain terms, that
means typhoid fever with liberation Of the
bowels. Here, then, is another and exceed
ingly painful illustration Of the sanitary
condition of the palaces in Europe. How
many grave maladies, how many startling
deaths, are traceablc to the same cause.-the
defective drainage Of great houses! Not
only are the great houses badly drained, but
elaborate continuance ia made to carry into
all the apartments the poisonous gases of
cesspools and similar receptacles of rub
bish. All iscovcred up with carving, gild-
ing, frescoes and brave upholstery, and
thus the trap is made attractive. 1t has
been shown over and over again that dis
cases caused by poisonous carnations, like
diphthcria and typhoid fever, are in many
cities commoner in the houses of the rich,
supplied with 'all the modern improve.
ments," than in the houses Of the poor, and
in Madrid the same lesson is exhibited in
its extreme application.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
which Wins, tho Blue or Crimson .

The eighteenth university race between
Yale and Harvard takes place to-day, four Of
the past contests having been won by Yale.
1t is suggestive fact that while the first race
ever rowed between them was in Fights,
with coxswains, after rowing nearly twenty
five years in SKIES they are back to eights
again, and apparently mean to stick to
them. This means that the crews are to be
heavy and powerful, far more so than was
necessary in six. There never rowed
IN America as heavy an cight-oarod
crew in race of any importance as
Harvard backs up to the line to-day.
That these heavy men pay in coxswain car
rying boats has been Englands uniform ex-
perience, and nothing yet suggests that it
will not prove to DO Americas. An old,
sklful and experienced coach, who has been
looking after Yale's team, comedies that in
strength and skill Harvard is plainly ahead
and certainly not less enduring than Yale.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

however, most preposterous piece of i'm.
pudence. 1t was for over seventy thousand
dollars damages against the city for
the displacement of the company's
rails while sewer was being constructed
on Eleventh avenue. Such claim would
have been driven out of court. The fact
that the company was twenty-four thousand
dollars in arrears on license tees is a fair
illustration Of the manner in which the city
government has been managed in the past.
Under the present Comptroller railroad and
ferry companies are being brought to .
reckoning and taught that they must pay
for the privileges they enjoy.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Bill boards around tho corner.

Bill boards around tho corner.
~. B. R."-"wny did William TsIls"
Mrs. jerks is better Vi . wit than as a witness.
Tho TOO mechanical pen often leads 10 the peuteu.
tiary.
Anderson smelt high treason whom he was hunting
the Ohio Senator.
A street organ, like Touring mill, grinds wheatly
and by the barrel as we'll
Agnes Is a lambnks name, bat Mrs jerks can hold
her ground as well az eve.
.Eschylus :--"Tho glory depDndent on Q womant
proclamation psrishes soon."
The Prssident has recognized Jacob Baiz 40 Consu
General Of Honduras at New York.
Spotted Tails braves win Sioux Uncle Sam for THEFT
rights. Their plea is a moving one.
The Philadelphia Press says that Long Branch Is
have Hne art exhibition this summer.
Extremes meet In SparksviIle. A girl sfrizzsd'
herself 10 death with q hot curling iron.
John b. Cough will saii Tor Europe tho Sd OF July.
or course hts friends will see him 90 Off
Senator John r. jones' OF Nevada, arrived At the St
James Hotel yesterday from ashington.
People who walk OF their cars never get their
feet wet unless they slip into their mouths.
Washington Capital :-'The South is n land or fry.
Ing pans" Warm cimatc-pandsmo nium-jokel
The Indians choose their hsirs from their white
brethren As It is willy -nilly with them there are no
probate contests.
Ockiey SAID It was comfort that although We could
read the books OF tho ancents they could not arise
from tho dead to read
Truth suggests that the Duko Of Cambridge extend
his tour from Mans 10 INDIA and investigate tho
.gross nspo,ism that exists" in the Indian army.
Professor Bismarck, OF kiei, the physician Of the
German Emperor, married a sister Of Prucs Christian
OF sehlsswig. Hoistsin and tho London World says
that they 1.-Two happily.
II Mrs. jerks choose TO cat her words who will
blame herr The Sherman Icttcr was a promis-cuora
sort OF diet bat u seems only TO have lott in hes
brain q good deal OF aikali
Rousseau the author OF the follow wing prophecy
"fhc Empire OF Russia will subugato Europe will
be subjugalcd in turn Tho Tartars Its subjects or
lis neghbors, will become ts masters ana ours
This revolution appears to me Inevitable. All the
kings Of Europe will work togsthor accelerate II.
An English paper states that General Grant was to
60 IRON the Hague to Amsterdam, Hanover. Hamburg
and Copenhagen, where he will be the guest Of his
bro,her-in-law, Minister CrameE Thence he will 20
10 Norway aud Sweden and then visit Russia, going
by way of Stockholm ana heisingiord 10 st. Peters,
Bavaria and Switzerland TO Paris when he sxpscts to
reach by the end Of October.
The wedding ceremony OF Mr.. George Nicholson,
one Of the propr,etors Of tho Now Orleans Picayus
and Mrs t. 7. Hobrook, widow OF tho late Colonel A.
NJ. Holbrook, came of IN ST. Paups Church, Now Or.
leans, last evening Tho lady Is better known AZ
writer and poetoss under the de plume Of pearl
Rivers" She Is q Mssissippian, az 10 also Mr..
Nicholson, and both are associated 10 tho joint
publication Of the Picavune.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28
A Few Words to tho Potter Come
mittee.

Do Mr.. Potter and his committee wish to
settle the vexed question of the alleged
SHERMAN letter." 1t looks very much as
though they were only playing with the mat
ter. All this stuff which they have labori-
ously and ingeniously got from Mrs. jerks,
Mr.. jerks, Haley and others settles nothing
and in fact these witnesses have made the
committee ridiculous. There is simple
way of getting at the truth, if they will only
try it. Anderson swore that Mr.. sherman
wrote letter, a copy of which he put in, not
as evidence; for Mi. Morrison ofthe commit.
tee at once said that, unsupported by other
evidence, this copy of pretended letter
was Of no weight or consequence. But
Secretary Sherman being called was not
certain whether he had written such a let.
ter or not and since then the COMMITTEES
has been, rs it seems to an indulgent but
wearied public, trying in all sorts of ways
not to fnd out about the matter. W
Now, Secretary Sherman wrote, number
of weeks ago. a letter to friend letter
which has been published, in which he as
serted that he never wrote such letter as
is alleged by Anderson, and that he was in
possession Of letters from Anderson and
Mrs.. jerks certifying that they had never
seen any such letter from him and knew
nothing Of one. If Mr.. Potter reads the
newspapers he must know that a letter such
as we describe, from Secretary Sherman,
has been printed. II, then, he really wants
to discover something, why does he not,
first summon Anderson and ask him il
he wrote to Mr.. Sherman such
letter clearly contradicting his own testi-
mony second, summon Mrs. jerks and ask
her the same question. and third, summon
Mr. Sherman and ask him to produce the
two letters? Here are three simple ques-
tons to which the committee may reason
ably expect precise answers, which, when
they have got them, will do more to settle
the question of Sherman letter" than all
the testimony they have so far taken about
it If they really want to get at the truth
why not try this way? They have certainly
failed so far.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

The WEATHER.--A general increase Of pres
sure has taken place from the lake regions south
ward aud eastward. The low barometer over
Nova Scotia has moved to the northcastwnrd
over Newfoundland into the Atlantic, and the
depression which was over the upper lakes on
"Wednesday ~ now north Of Canada, with n ten
dcncy To descend over New brunswick before
leaving the continent. The general rise Of the
barometer took place in the early forenoon.
When the temperature rose rapidly the pressure
decreased somewhat, but maintained itself
above the mean over ali the territory indicated.
Local rains and threatening cloudiness occurred
IN several districts, notably on the East Allan
tic coast, in the central valley regions and on
the Gulf coast. On the Middle Atlantic
coast tho weather was fair, with morning
and evening haze, and toward night threaten
ing coudincss, with distant thunder. Except
In the lake region, the West Gulf States and
the Northeast, the temperatures were high, being
highest on the Middle and South Atlantic
coasts. The winds freshcned on the coast, and
increased to very strong in the West Else
where they were moderate 10 fresh. IN New
York and its vicinity to-day the weather will he
warm and partly cloudy or coudy. with proba
bic showers. followed by cooler winds from the
northwest. Tomorrow IL will be warm and
fair.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

strange that they should say they do not
mean the robbery of shops, nor the butch
cry Of priests, nor the blowing up of gov
eminent Offices and astronomical obserya-
tories, nor the burning of libraries. But
they have taught all the theories that lead
inevitably to these acts, and they are not ut
liberty to withdraw from the responsibility.
They play with fire day and night, and
everywhere and on all occasions, and then
tell you that the blowing up of the maya
zine or burning down the house were facts
quite outside their intentions. They are
like the people who ''didn't know it was
loaded" They point gun and pull a
trigger, and pretend that they have nothing
to do with the making of the corpse
Writers who make great point of the fact
that the forcible attempt to put theory in
practice is not prejudice to the theory
simply acknowledge how little is their ac-
quaintance with the practical logic of mobs
and other civil disturbance. They argue
that the people are only the slaves OF land
lords, and the tenants declare it is true and in
theinext emeute they proceed to a systematic
massacre OF landlords in order that in future
the people may Be free from at least that
one slavery; and that through the chapter is
the practical relation OF fact and theory on
this subject. In the French Revolution OF
l848, and in that bloody yet farcical imitator
of it, the Commune of 1871, the point OF
honor was to adhere to Louis Blnncs or
ganization of labor, and they put that piece
Of moonshine very desperately in practice.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

this morning TO the colleges, academies and
schools. The reports from all Of them are of q
most encouraging character. Old Amherst
sends forth the largest class since lrer founda-
ton. Trinity College, Hartford, moves into its
new buildings in few weeks. The interesting
feature at Yale was the reading Of letter from
Mr.. Gladstone, who had been invited 10 he
present. At Georgetown College it was cx-
pcctcd that President Hayes would have con
fcrrcd the degrees, but he had another engage
ment. His predecessors, from Washington to
Grant, have always performed that ceremony at
the college.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-28

The TESTIMONY GIVEN by one of the officials
of the Department of Buildings that that model
branch Of the municipal machine has no rules or
regulations in regard TO the time when examina-
tons of factories or workshops shall be made
will not be q surprise TO the public. They had
suspected much from the frequency with
which rotten buildings tumble down. Human
life is not n matter of very great consequence TO
the Commissioners of Building.