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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-28

Cody and nn, q, , 10 S'S s $1,000
Davis Herman ana EI ySas. 10 10000
Hamilton George ana we 20 10000
HaM M foa A%ela years G Anna $500
Rice FrSnels 70 neny see S wears 1000
Rice George n 70 Mary xs3 STAFFORD 1000
Smith SaihsEnsh and h1iPa Sye iS $500
sOmon Morris and we iO dRnah 5000
Wright Arthur end sS 70 ., Ar have ydar 5000
zegor Conrad ana wife to casper 5000
RECORDED ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGES
Auehm3iy Ellen 70 freaorIoA go 600
FISHER lanes d. receiver o. the Teu'onia savings
BANK 10 hIiu i, ,o !. ,nsiie Poll ..... 1000
beTman Savins -, nSH a itr ~ pon ..... $500
Mnlon Es " institution to Ellen Vanwyck G50O
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RECORDED LEASE.
RECORDED MORTGAGES

rhurber. il 10 Theodore Il Allen and and others nos
l75 and III Chambers 81, and No 29S Greenwich
81 10 years at annual rent oi..........'......'''
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Gin Real gstate tor Sale.

Gid hcnI U5InIf lot DUIt.
NOR SALE-CHEAP H0USES.-Ten new
houses accessible bv street taken for mortgages
81 $50 81 800 less than cost. Apply to H. A NOUNG
20 Exchange-pl
DOR SALE or LEASE.-The fOur-stOry
IL stores l6 ClGst and 24l pearlst lDetween Fulton and
JohIO IS feet by 1877 ioet Address OWNER Box w. Post
Office.
ERANKFORT-ST Beekman-St., Coolest,
IL John st. and PeaTst properties for sale RUIAND &
WHITING, Boekman-st.
SMOKY CHIMNEYS CURED; 30 days trial;
> no no pay Patent NentaiOr state rights Tor sale
Hull Grippen & Co.. Sd.ave. below 24thst. New-ioT
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NEW-HAvEN. HARTFORD, &c.-Farc, 81.

NEW-HAVEN, HARTFORD, &c.-Farc, 81.
~ steamers Pecks Up daily SUNDAYS excepted for
New-HaveI at3 and IL y. N. connecting with road
NETWORK CENTRAL and HUDSON
~ RIVER RAIIROAD.-C commencing December 10,
1873 thTOuC trains will leave rand Central DEPOT:
a. Northern drawing
room Albany Rochester. Gni Albany Mon.
treal saratoga.
no. 80 a. m Special Chicago anA western Express, with
Crawng CaDandagUa, Rochester AID Buffalo
100 X 10 Albany ana Troy, with connections
10 Utica and Rutland.
90 D. m Montreal Express. with through sleeping
Adams
Ct Tof Tnnmg through every In The week also sleep
ngcars Tor Buffalo Niagara Falls Toledo ant Detroit ana Tor
Montreal. excepting sunday night, via Saratoga
$50 D. m. fOI Rochester ana Corning VIA &C.
neya Is cepn Geneva and Rochester.
$500 m Pacific Express, daily win soering cars for
ROcheste Niagara Falls, Buna Cleveland 10 edo Detroit
and Chicago and excepting Saturday night 20 LOwve and
WateItr n.
Troy.
WesrGt Express COnpany's Offices. No. ParEpate 1SI
Rrooklvn .. Il. Mi.EkER
GclcI
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9teamboais an1 Railroads.

BRIDGEPORT, and all points on H0usatOnlc
- and Naugatuch Railroads Fare 81 Steamer Bridgeport
leaves Catherine slip daily Sundays exceptedl at lSO NJ
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I EUTGU VALLEY RAILROAD.

EiihEI Al.iTE ~ ~ -, tp r>s fan
1877 depos foot OF Courandt and sta
D. No. Night daily for Easton, Bethlehem
Allentown Mauoh Chunk WIFE esbarre Pitis0n SaSrc II
mira Ithaca Auburn Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls and
the West. Pullman sleeping coaches attached
ROBT u. SAYRE. : pit and Ens'r.
General Eastern ONCE corner church and CUuTtaudsis
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RECORDED REAL ESTATE TRANsFERs
NrM YORK CITY.

,,or.e ave W C2lth ward) not No 2s5>, 2jxlOO Do
ia Woodruff t. CathaIiue Bui1sey
.,ore.ave w dot No $3.50. 25XlUO; John An0Ia ana
Wife 10 Della Woodruff.
rf,osiY,dce Road, u cor EmersOn-st 12ONlOO:
M khrabam ii CardozO and wife 10 Elihu Root -.
pvrknan-st e s. 90 ftsOf Shermsnaye, dOOxZVoi
~ Abraham IL Car,lozO and wife to Ellhu Root
o,,, 1--WE " = from 2O4th TO 2CjthSt, l09.lOxlOOi
Abraham II Cardozo and wife to Elihn Root -:
p,aadway g 3 ~ 1T n Of White 81, 21.9xll5 also
ai~l,t II i5f 6 Il OF Hudsou-s 23Xl75: also w
sSthsve. 25.5 ft OF lst st, 50xl01 ana also
7Gth-st, 200 II " OF llth-3ve, aS11l'o2i frduoS
prosnect-sye cath Ward. 5Oxl4s.G William Besl,
receiver of the German Savings sank VI -doitIs'
anna 10 Martin Sslmitt.
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Bnelncss Gnnnccs.


An INTEREST III established profitable
~ busiucss for talc at bargain. SUMNER Evening
Post Bui DING.
BOOKKEEPER with an experience of
~ hiry years whoss present enlargement VIII soon eN
pre- desires arrangement with some goO1 house
cashier and corresponding CLERK Satisfactory
references given. Address j. H. ROSAEL A. o. BOX $50
NNANTED-Party with $4,000 TO $4,000
w capital. buy part interest IN boarding house OF
capacity Tor guests and mineral spring OF hrs qua,
TO DO opened location GENIAL splendid opportunity .
Address DR.. POTTER Saratoga Springs, ". Y.
@IA lnn A gentleman Of ability and
- tUsOOO. experience VIII iny re-, a moleTaie
tho OF which he take lending Address
(ytb particulars and namc) T.. NJ c.. tribune Office.
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REAL ESTATE.

NEw-YoRK. Friday, Dec. 81, 1873
The following sales were held at the TX
,s.nre salesroom to-day:
By HoiOayd ". Codtsg.
,rcr b1,ldUq " lot. No IS Hidge-St, o =,
N n of Deanceys lot 25NlOO
4VV"' By T. H. LpdlOD & 90.
4story franc dwellings with lots on AyeAs COZ mn
~ Iyost each lot l7lN3O Eliza PryeS...-.. fOoo
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RALTIMORE. AND OHIO RAILROAD. -

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. -
$40 WASHINGTON. Columbus Cincinnati Indis
oils Chica and the West Richmond fhareston
South. Pullman cars from Baltimore to Newark o.. and
CHICAGO
for Washington and the West and the South via
Gordonsyie Pullman from New.YOrk % Baltimore
and Washington making close for Pttsbmrg Gin
CiInat Indianapolis Louisville, and st. Louis Through
Pullman Baltimore Cincinnati ST. lOuis and Pitts
burg aud from WashingOn Augusta and Savannah
1000 daily WASHINGTON the South Wost Pull
man sleepers from NewYOrK 20 Baltimore and Washington
making close for Chicago Cincinnati Indan1p
oils. Louisville St Louis Columbus PsbuTg the south
and Southwest Through Pullman Baltimore TO
Cincinnati connects Washington with for Lynch
burg Florida New.OTleans and the South. -
For through ticitsspleaSe call at COmpanys Office, 3lo
Broadway New.YCk ticket Offices foot Of Courilandt
and Dcsbrosses- SITS. AMI depot, Jersey City. 80. .,
ROUND TRIP TICKETS TO KANSAS, NEBRASKA AMI
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Connirp properIp 90 fet.
6ouses ano farms Danteo.

WANTED-A small lot, or part of large
wv one ia pleasant part OF Greenwood Cemetery. Adj
dress j. III. B.. +. o. Box 2,8lG New.YOTk.
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" Ferry station in New.YoTk foot Of Libeityst
Station in lroOkly foot Of Fulton-st.
Commencing Nov -. iS7s-Trsns leave NewYOrE foot OF
liberty st, follows:
t p:oV a. m-Eor bennington. Laston. Bclvdere Maucn
junction with d. l. and W. r. T. e.,o.,o... Maintain
S;46 o. mFOr High Bridge Branch SchOoleys Mountain
Budds Lake and Lake 1IOpatcoug, East0n. Harrsougn
WiliamspOrt, &c.
1880 and so D. .-For SOmorvlle and Pennington
pm.-For Pennington Easton. Maurh chunk, Iamaqun
Wnkcsbarlc scranton Tnnkhannock, Tamaqua Haleiton
Reading, POttsvlC HaTrisburch, &c.
a m--For High Bridge Branch, Schooey's Mountain
Budds Lake and Lake HOpatcOng, Easton Be.vdere anu
Mauch Chunk. Connects at junction with d. H. and W. X H.
5:o p Ill., daily or EastOn Allentown nnd HarrsDurgh
7:45 y. 'n.--FOr EaStOn.
trains points time tables at stations.
SUNDAY TEAISS-Leave az %. m, ~ y H. ior Hound
Brook intermediate points and at $50 m Tor IasoD
Reading ana HARRISBURG ...,..
atJerSey City station 10 aud from Brooklyn and Enc Depot
Jersey City.
NETWORK and LONG BRANCTDl DIVISION.
~ Trains Red Bank, Long ocean Grove
&c, at sis, Has q m. 4, J:lb ..-,.,,,
FREEHOLD and NEW-YORK RAILWAY
conneciioDs Leave foot Of Lberysts for Freehold at
S:15. ll:45 a. IN. 4, 5:l5 pm.
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IEW-YORK and PHILADELPHIA NEW
BOUND HRO0K ROUTE
FOR TRENTON Am IIAbELPUIA.
ENRRESS HOIrRA

FOR TRENTON AND PHILADELPHIA.
EMPRESS TRAIN TIME TWO HOURS. u,r.
Leave New York foot OF Ibeyst. for Trouton and Phl
delphla Of $50, 3, a. ll:O IN, 1870 4, $50 IL p M
Leave Philadelphia from station North Pernsyvsna haI
road bird and Bcrksst al 645 way $40 $780, ll;3oa III
l:f5 3. o. $50. ~ y.
Leave Trenton NewYOrk at 100 except Monday, 643.
SlS, 1920 m, 1915. y -, 4l2. $40 pm 900.
Pullman d. awning room attached 20 the "OOa M
p M trains from Newl oTk 10 the 7A5 a. M l'io p ip'
trains from Philadelphia.
SUNDAY TRAINs-Leave NeW:lo ana IhIade phs az
ga 5:3O IL D. m NewYOrs for Trenton al H..
$50 H. Leave Trenton at l:2O $50 a M, G:lO p. IN.
Competition made Jersey city station ~ Terry 10 ana
from brookSn and Erie Depo Jerseys Ill., ZOO On, Of,
Tickets sale at OF OF IheTtys, Nos 3ZJ anu 80
Broadway prncipa ali offices of the Ere rail-
Ncw-YOrk and Brooklyn, at No CouIst BfooN
lyn. Baggage checked IRON residence 10 Destination
H. p. BALDWIN, Gen Pass ARent
FALL RIVER LINE for Boston and the East.
Il Steamers BRISTOL ana PROVIDENCE leave New ipls
da Sundays excepted North RIVER
IeaYe Rront ivn va !. Anne1" poats az 2.
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iflusital Instruments.

A DUMAHAUT, late 8. X. BALL e. Co.
IA No rs EAST l4THST.
Chickering'S and other Pianos and Orgaas 10
IN Al an Insi nIa
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Gitp properrp 90 Eel.

TWO STORY HOUSE TO LET or LEASE.
YC 13tbst Inquire at 100 East lS'hst near Ith
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FOR NEW-HAYEN, its, surroundings and
L all stations on the Ncw-EOrk DOstOn and Ar Line
Derby and North Hampton Railroads GircCt-Steamcrs
JOHN H. STARIN and ERASTUS CORNING leave liei -
y. r.. foot COuTtlands. at every nFht IN tno
week Saturday: arrive New Haven IN time Tor an
trains ali best facilities for passengers
and freight fare gil excursion 81 90 starus He"HaVeh
Transportation Line. ,ou,, ~ er,rrN ,r,r,.,o.
| ONG BRANCH and PIlILADELPdlA, via
IL NewJersey Southern Railroai Commencing October
1873 steamers leave Ne.lork. Pier North River,
foot RectOs connecting at sandy Hook with trains for
Long Branch and Philadelphia. llOO 400 p. IL.
RariiegaI and Tuckcrtou. 400 p. IN.
Vineand, BridgtOn ana Atlantic city. 100 q. IN.
Red Bank and IONS River, II 100 o. III. and ]aO D. IN
WIN. :. SNEDEN.
Manager.
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1cc Cream.

4 FACT.-HORTONs ZOE CREAM IL MADE
"A FioM PURE ORANGE COUNTY CREA ~ 49,
To Gnu HCIiLs, FESTIVALS. HOTELS, kEsIAIHANI9
AND THE TRADE
25c. PER QUAIL
To FAMILIES by the GALLON. JOc PER OJANA
CUAKLOTI T. Russo ara JELLY. -.-..-
FRESH, RICH aud DElIi'lOl =, 1,.,,,-,,,
PRICE BELOW ALL OTHERS.
Depots, 900 4fhave l.5o i.r9aG AZ aud % Caala@-t.
EussClrs Ice Cream, 25c. per quart TO chufchcs.
j. Carloitcs In quantities, soc perdpz II Bule House
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BACON e. KARR {late Raven a. BacOn), Nos.
I'D l473 and l475 broadway, 42dst.. have line
reliable mako Of pianos new and
second-and) for sale reasonable terms
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Gratis ano fcn0crs.

DRASS OPEN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
ID elegant sock OF Fendcr AudiroBs sets Coal
UOds Ie Iows &c antique modern dchgns suitable
Tor Holiday retailing at wholesale tIccs uiti JaHu
]. o. ''',..,pN IN ~ 10,
rTHE LARGEST manufacturers Tor CRATE
for hard or coal wool with dumping and shaking
basket wholesale and retail Liberal discount 20 the Trade
j. p. CONONEN u Co,
300 aud SGo Canal-st.
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Religions Noilres.

AT Scotch Presbyterian Church I4ihst, bet Sth and
6thayes services TOMORROW a. 1920 a m and p ~.
Professor TG.so f WM i; TaoMs9N; n. %.
SUD ~ p NJ medical students only $50 p. m. young
thursday aud SATURDAY. s p. M. young sener.'
Union Daily Meetings Saturday and Sunday cxcepted) for
both sexes from $50 10 4:S0 o'clock.
At,he Brooklyn Tabernacle DE-. LOOMS will preach
TO-3ORROW MORNING, 1890. sunday school meeting IN
the evening $50 Christmas offerings music singing &C. &c
Westminster square SIelsodis, heseopraI d Gh9rrh
sn sstor will 81 1910 M and Sc The sTTt
and Morning star" Strangers welcome.
Al seals Church, lthaye corner 2ohstoIhe Rev Dr;
BGiLLoWS wiz preach TOMORROW MoRSI 11 9t col
dia.y invited. No evening service.
Allen Presbyterian Chnrch Aeo-s. below Grand
eiety vii be held in the church at 1880 p N ToMoRRow
gd friends iavitd Regular Preaching Service at lo3O a.
A-Na,iena, Temperance Institute Cooper rni9n
6ire4i IAN srNnAl next at 3 O'Clock. VIRGIL W.
subject: " The intellectual Drunkenness: or, the
Miod" Mss HVTiiIINGs Giau ghtcr of The celebrated
,;gnuin calculator" the wonderful phenomenon VIII pcs
rects her compositions iIcfessor SIITfHAUER with
wa '''' '''' j. b. GIBBS, President.
At she Peoples Service. in the Church OF the Hoy
' 9 Ma4.nyt ana 42Ai 90 sST y yi IT. T
p'sih course vi sermons on ,,o
TOPIC TOR DFcEM8En ~. "TRE CRoss-THE
.NFhsCRE OF SIN.
Topic Tor Ja'lsIy %, M !ros3-tne Motive Of lle
~. a'c invited.
a. iae FiGh Avenue Baptist Cburch, West 4Gihst,
eLNnAl :uKNIYG az O:3O. and n the EVENING at
..5l dcocE surtJysch,o! at a. IN Al strangers are
iB;aon 'cnoriai tiqrc4 :sih,t west q 6Gaye.1
Ihg Lrci9t t'e Rev H. HEhEn NEWTON. will preach al
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Brcoklpn Real Gstats for 9

d d oOn DOWN buys SUPERIOR HOUSE.
DS.sDUU Liberal commission Address L., l'o0'
ialayetIe.ave., Brooklyn.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17

pointed which will report against all the
Butler delegates. In that case the Butler
delegates, who have an undoubted ma
jority, will hold separate convention and
nominate their favorite. But they will not
do this until after they have made strenu-
ous effort to control the Convention. They
may succeed in doing this by sheer force
of numbers. and in that case it is the pro-
claimed purpose ofthe anti-Buuer democrats
to withdraw and hold another convention.
A split, therefore, seems to be inevitable.
After q brisk fight there will be a separa.
tion of the sheep from the goats, followed
by two conventions and the nomination of
two democratic candidates, each claiming
to be regular. Butler seems certain of a
democratic nomination in any event. and
party discipline will be SO completely
broken that no democrat who prefers Butler
will be restrained from voting for him.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17
Temperature and Crime.

It seems ridiculous that so slight an in
fuence as that occasioned by change of
weather should alter the tendency of human
nature for good or for bad, yet it is On in
controvertible fact that any unusual change
of temperature is generally followed by
great mass of details of crime. The
past few days have afforded a case in
point. On Sunday and yesterday, after q
period of moisture which, besides being un-
usual, was very depressing to physique and
spirits, the newspapers were supercharged
with stories Of crimes most unusual and re-
voting. Murders, fearful assaults, quarrels
and other manifestations Of irritated mem
tality and deteriorated physique crowded
pleasanter news out of the columns
Of the HERALD, and seemed to in
dicate general outbreak Of human
viciousness. No matter how illogical the
connection between weather and wickedness
may seem, the fact that such an interde-
pendence is manifested should prompt
physicians to look more closely to causes Of
abnormal action, and see if it is not possible
to stop the undesirable developments which
law seems powerless to prevent.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17
Home Once More.

Boats, trains and ocean steamers have
during the past week been bringing into
the city the Thousands of people who
several months ago hurried away from
sitting air and dirty streets, and fathers of
families considering the whole duty of man
accomplished when they have paid the bills,
have rushed back to store and Office,
leaving their wives to reunite the thread
which was broken when the hegira began.
There is nothing unusual about this, al
though there is great deal that is un-
lust those who have most heart and most
tact always have the greatest share
of the worlds burdens heaped upon
them, so what can woman expect
but the heaviest, most responsible
and most unpleasant of lifo's dutios? To
cleanse and renovate the home is charm
ing task if one chooses to regard it under
the mellow light of sentiment but she who
finds the burden of it upon her own
shoulders knows that it implies as much
torment as taste and as many headaches as
heart promptiugs. But whatever has q
value has also price, and the woman who
spends days of torment and nights of anx-
iety over housecleaners, decorators and
upholsterers--none Of whom have an idea
The New York herald., 1878-09-17
The East siae Elevated Road.

Yesterday the elevated road in Third
avenue doubled the number of its trains,
and found even then that during the busi-
ness hours of morning and evening the in
creased facilities were not sufficient to seat
the entire number Of passengers. The plat
forms Of some Of the cars were as crowded
as those of the surface road in the
same avenue used to be in the good
old times when everybody was busy
and could afford to. ride. Some
thing should be done to obvate this diff
Guilty, for in spite of the railing with which
every platform is enclosed the possibilities
of danger are great; besides it is i'm
possible to maintain schedule time it
there is to be delay at every station in
forcing passengers back and forth through
o tightly packed mass OF humanity
Mr.. Field's statement, in another
column, contains some gratifying assur-
ances. Nearly all the projected stations are
open, though we lack any specific promise
of what these stations, when complete, will
amount to. The cars are said to be we'll
built, but Mr.. Field is silent about the
additional number necessary to properly
accommodate the populous east side. We
are glad to learn that the company is not
wholly responsible for the hitherto mex
plicable blunder of the delay with the
Chatham street branch and Tryon square
station, but it is matter for wonder that SO
important q question Of difference between
two great corporations should not have
been earlier settled, even by arbitration.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17

larger than the dollars and cents which
their bills express take considerable
private consolation from the fact that the
results will lessen the annoyances and dis
comforts of those for whom she lives To
find her husband relieved of everything
that could be cause for complaint, and
her children happy and healthful in
spite of being deprived of the greater free
dom and variety of scene which they have
enjoyed out of town, will reconcile the lady
of many house to the worst of her own
grievances, even to that never ending one
which comes of the engagement and train
ing of new corps of servants. And some
day, even though it comes not until she is
where servants cease from troubling and
the mistress is at rest, she may be sure that
the law of compensation, which never sleeps,
though it may seem to be hidden beneath
the dust of forgotten places, will award her
the dues of affection and respect which she
has SO honestly and hardly earned.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17
The Injunction Nuisance.

1t has generally been admitted that tho
risk of attending the first representation of
a new play is great enough of itself to appall
any but the most intrepid theatre-goer, but
when this is enhanced by the probability
that the play announced will not be seen
at all, but will, on the contrary, be closely
curtained by an injunction, the pub
lie cannot be blamed for regard
ing first nights more suspiciously
than ever. The much enjoined ''M'liss"
has already. drawn two houses which
were compelled to look at plays many
thousand nights old, while "Mliss"
herself remained sort of ward Of court in
strict seclusion. No American branch Of
the Richardson family has yet applied for
an injunction restraining the resurrection
of the long dead "Clarissa Harlowe," and
the reproduction of 'Henry VIII" has not
as yet upon complaint of some pretended
descendant Of Shakespeare, been forbidden
by legal authority, but it is hard to imagine
any step too ridiculous or improbable
while injunctions are easily procured upon
affdavits. 1t is time that little legal
sense should be put to use in such cases.
The tendency to withhold proceedings
during the period of preparation of piece.
but to force them ut almost the last moment
before production, should be regarded by o
magistrate as it would be by any other man,
and the law should be saved the disgrace
of assisting business trickery. We allude
to the proceedings in no particular case,
but it is a notorious fact that those who
know the stage bsst have least respect for
the honesty of injunction proceedings in
general.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17
Parental Love.

Few stories told of the horrors Of the
famine in China were more horrible than
those which represented parents selling
their children that they might gain few
coin with which to get food and continue
their wretched lives for few days longer.
Ven and women, made savage by hunger.
and at their best lacking in that tender
ness Of sentiment for their children that is
part of the culture of the family as found
in Christian countries, were thought to be
shown at their worst in that fierce trait.
YET, how much better people are a great
deal nearer home may be guessed when we
note that in England the papers are just
now discussing the operation of the law to
prevent the insurance of the lives of chill
dren. 1t is believed that the small amount
of money that is made dependent by insur-
ance upon the lives of little ones--and
made payable if they die-not only
reconciles parents to the most distressing
mortality in their families, but even makes
them indifferent to the ordinary precautions
for the prevention of disease and the ordi-
nary methods of avoiding fatal result. By
law it is already forbidden to place upon
the life of an infant more than six pounds,
or thirty dollars, and nominally this is in
tended to give it handsome funeral in
case il does die; but il is believed that anx.
iety about the funerals of we'll children
does not account for the extent to which
these insurances are made. As portion of
the money must certainly go for funeral
when it is collected the margin between the
sum so spent and thirty dollars must be
small; so that, if the English papers reason
accurately on this subject, the money actu-
ally gained cannot vary greatly between
England and China--and in England there
is not famine.
The New York herald., 1878-09-17

TIE WEATHEg.--The pressure is highest in
the Middle Atlantic and New England States
but is gradually receding into the ocean. The
barometer is low over the Missouri and Northern
Mississippi Valley districts, and is falling the
depression moves eastward. The centre of the
area Of lowest pressure is now over the northern
lake regions. Its generaLcourse, however, will
probably be northeastwardly, so that the Middle
Atlantic coast districts arc not likely to be very
much affected during its passage. Rain has fnllen
only ia the northern lake regions, and there it
has been very light. Morning fogs have pre-
vailed in the Ohio Valley districts, and else
where the weather has been generally fair or
hazy. The winds have been from fresh to brisk
ia the lake regions aud in the Upper Missouri
aud Mississippi valleys. They have been fresh
on the Atlantic coast and in the other sections
light. There has been general tall
in temperature in The Middle Atlantic
and New England States and the North
west. IL has risen in the other districts.
Reports still coming in giving further details
OF the destrlctiveness Of last weeks storm,
which will be found elsewhere. The weather in
New York and its vicinity to-day will he
warmer and fair or partly coudy. Tomorrow
IL will be warm and fair in the early part of The
day, followed by increasing cloudiness.