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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-10-07
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY oCIvBER l87s-TRIPLE SHEET
funeral was gotten up for her and q mon ument was
erected over grave. thus for bread she given
u stonei
THIS letter O nd m herr roam.

THIS letter found ia her room:-
LONDON Sept 3. 1872 No. ITS High street, Shadweil.
ne crime am alb ut to commit. and that.I must suffer
.f hereafter is nothing compared 10 misery
alone III LONDON not friend TO advise or lend
aheipng hspd tired ANA weary with looking for some
thing 70 do failing in every way footsore and heart
weary TO tho dawnng another wretch ed
morning. have only been Britain nine weeks.
rms a. nursery governess with lady from America to
pay my passage back. giving wages. which
amounted TO f3 10 After my London found
dol sold my watch. The patry sum obtained from
that soon went In paying for and In looking tor
situmton NOW am destitute: every day IL misery to
me- No iriends-no hopc-no money. Oh God OF heaven,
nave mercy upon helpless sinneri Thou knowest
now have sriven against this but tate is against
cannot tread the path OF sim for dead mother will be
on Tor the rarity of Christian heartsl mad For
Gays have ioessen that this would be- the end May all
so before whose bar must appear. Farewell to
All TINS beautiful aud ye, wretchsd World osw.n
am twenty yeSrs OF age on the 18th OF this month
The DAILY Netcs, touching the SUICIDE OF this young
person, says the thought oil hsr awful situation
latherless, mothcriess, homcless-was too much for
her brain. The severe sei-respect which restrained
iisr from telling even the people with whom she
10 shut her up TO The iaia she adopted That
letter also shows how TREMENDOUS the struggle
that took place in hcr mind before tho last resolution
was taken. 1t is evident that sue had nothing 10
learn as TO the character OF suicide In the first limo
OF her letter she her act as crime and
Inc last she commends The whole circumstances OF
her case 10 The judg ment which is unerrng and the
mercy that is Infinite And she lett the world,
without vindictiveness-not much mentioning
the name OF the woman ano had used her hars hly-
but with humble, trustful prayers. sadder story 1t
has not been lot 10 rccord-the more SAD because
IL seems that SO ttle help. had II but come IN time,
woulo have saved one Tor whom the world would
glaoly nave found or made place.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-10-07
A "TRIFI.E" OF POUNDING.

John Carroll, Of No. 81 Stockton street, through
his devotion to the idea OF personal chastsement
the best means oil tanning shrew, was locked uI
last right the Flushing avenue station house
Thirteen mon tbs ago, during alteration with hh
better ba he corrected forcibly with bag Of ten
pen nails that her injuries led to his incarceration
IN the Penitentiary Tor one year. Last night
while trying impress her the fact that she
the cause OF this Imprisonment, her objections
outruied his that he again resoried 10 physical
their continuance this time using only his
fists. Her screams brought assistance IN tho shape
OF police officer, VINO took John into custody. AZ
the station house John thong hi II outrage that he
should be locked up on the sole ground that he haQ
only "pounded her n tri1e with his nsss.D
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EOKEIGN.

| The London Times Of the 18th says:
- United States bonds have surprised many
people by advancing, instead of falling, on
receipt of the news that the Silver bill had
passed in a manner that will insure its be-
coming law in its present shape"
The Havana Official Gazette says that all
the insurgent leaders have given in their adj
hesion to the peace conditions. Friends OF
the Cuban cause in America deny the asser-
ton.
The Conclave Of Cardinals, after two I'M
successful ballots, on Wednesday, the 10Th
Of February, on the third ballot, elected
Cardinal Joachim Pecci TO the vacant Papal
chair. Pecci was the choice of the moder-
ates, who divided their votes on the first two
ballots between him and Cardinal Franchi.
Previous to the third ballot Cardinal
Franchi prevailed upon his supporters
to give in their adhesion to Cardinal
Pecci, which assured his election. The
customary announcement was made to the
public from the grand gallery Of the Vatican
Basilica, and soon afterward the new Pope,
clad in his Pontifical robes, appeared and
pronounced the benediction to an assem-
blage Of 10000 people. The new Pope will
be known rs Leo XIII. He is an Italian by
birth and is IS years Of age. He was Great
ed Cardinal in 1858, and was the Chamber
lain Of the late Pope.
The revolution in San Domingo continues,
and President Baez is besiegcd in San Do
mingo City.
An explosion of dynamite at Parma, Italy,
on the sd, killed six and wounded SO per-
sons.
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A Symmetrical Character.

General Washington, on account Of
his eminent services in the Revolution
airy struggle, has been styled the Father
of this country. Considered as whole,
he holds rank among the greatest men,
if he was not the greatest man, of that
memorable period. In eloquence, how
ever, Washington was far from being
equal to Patrick Henry. As a simple
logician, he was inferior to Alexander
Hamilton. There were many men in the
Revolutionary age greater than Wash
ington in particular respects.
What, then, was it that gave him such
an ascendency and prominence among
the distinguished actors of that age, and
has placed his name so high on the roll
of fame in all ages? Lord Brougham
has suggested-as we think, correctly
that the greatness of Washington con-
sisted not so much in any one thing as
in a remarkably propOrtionate combina-
ton of great Uarieiy of good qualities.
These, in their harmony and their
aggregate, made him the strongest
and most important man of the times,
and, indeed, one of the greatest charac-
tiers that has ever graceu the page OF
human history. This seems to be the
true theory. He was Washington on
all sides and on all occasiOns--On the
tented field, and in the Cabinet, in
peace, and in war. He was really weak
nowhere. His mind was well balanced
and his character self-harmonious. He
could probably do more things and do
them better than any other man of his
age. His virtues were unquestionable.
His intellectual composition was COM
plete and finished mechanism of power,
without leakage, wastage, surplusage,
or any damaging drawbacks. Perhaps
no man ever lived presenting a greater
degree of symmetry and proportion in
all the elements of his being Samuel
T. Spear, DID,, in the independent.
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The National Convention Of the Green
back Party was held at Toledo, o., on tn,
ncaty an OF the states. Judge Francis w
Hughes, of Pennsylvania, presided. NJ
business was transacted except the adoption
of a platform. The organization is to be
known hereafter as the National Party, and
a general organization Of local association,
is strongly urged. Among the principles
enunciated in the platform are the follow
ing; That all money be issued by the Gov
eminent direct, and that it be a full legal
tender for all debts, public and private; sill
yer to be placed on the same footing as gold
Congress to regulate the volume Of curren-
cy, fixing minimum amount per capita /;
the adoption of a graduated income tax, and
the taxation of all Government bonds and
money equally with OtherprOperty; no more
grants Of public land except to actual set
tiers in limited quantities; the encourage
ment by the Government Of our agricultural
and mineral, mechanical, manufacturing and
commercial resources, to the end that labor
may be fully and probably employed, but
no monopolies should be legalized; the abol-
ishment Of all useless offices; reduction of
the hours of daily labor, etc, etc.
Joseph c. Duncan, the defaulting Presi.
dent Of the Pioneer Bank of San Francisco,
who some months ago absconded with con-
siderable money, was arrested on the oath in
a house in which he had been secreted for
several days subsequent to his return to the
city.
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Edward l.. Goodwin, City Clerk Of New
Britain, Conn.,, and formerly of the Police
Court there, was arrested on charge Of the
transportation of $4,000 while Police
Clerk, and took poison and died.
Lewis Hill, alias Henry Williams, was
hanged at Isle Of Wight urt-house, Va,
on the 22d, for an outrageous assault upon
respectable young white lady Of that
county.
Three deaths have occurred at Richford,
Vt, from the use Of poisonous well water,
and others are reported hopelessly i'll. One
OF the dead is Walter D. Estes, well known
lawyer.
J. w. Barron, Treasurer Of the Dexter,
Maine, Savings Bank, was found lying sense
less in the bank, with a rope around his
neck and badly wounded in the head, on the
night Of the I'D. He died in few hours.
1t is supposed that he was overpOwered by
burglars, and, refusingto open the safe, was
beaten senseless. About 500 in currency
was taken from the bank.
At West Point, n. Y, on the oath, Michael
Tobin shot and killed Peter Albers. Both
were enlisted men, and jealousy regarding
a woman was the cause.
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TIE WAR TROUBLES.

Prince Bismarck has made a speech in
which he took the ground of nOn-interyen-
ton by Germany in the settlement OF East.
ern affairs. Germany is willing to mediate
but not act as arbiter. The London Times
in its comments upon Bismarck's speech
says that it simply eliminates Germany from
Prussia, leaving the issue between Russia,
Austria and England.
4 special, dated Constantinople, Goth, re-
ports the Gar has telegraphed that the Rus
slams viii occupy Constantinople if the Turks
continue to delay signing the terms Of peace,
which include the ceSsion Of Armenia and
the surrender Of the Turkish fleet.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, accompanied
by detachment of troops and Turkish
plenipotentiaries, on the oath occupied st.
Stefano, about 10 miles west Of CONSTANT
nople, on the Sea of Marmora. Admiral
Commorell, commanding division Of the
British fleet remaining at Gallipoli, has
placed his ships on both sides Of the prom
Ontory, SO that their guns can sweep il
from shore to shore, and boats patrol night
u 70 prevent the lsying Of torpedOes.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch Of the 18th
says: The situation has improved through
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japanese Miracle workers

Among the arrivals yesterday on the
steamship City of Peking, says the San
Francisco Chro4aicle, were two priests
from the interior of Japan, claiming to
be endowed with miraculous power.
They are on their way 10 the Paris TX
position with party of their country
men, conducted by two English gentle
men who have for several years resided
in Japan. A Chronicle reporter inter-
viewed these gentlemen at their hotel
last evening and was courteously re-
ceived. They informed him that these
priests are religious enthusiasts, who
profess, through the power of faith and
by the medium of prayer, to be enabled
to do the most remarkable things-such
as are recorded in the Christian gospels
as in the power of the followers of Jesus
referring to those passages which
speak of their being able to remove
mountains, and to swallow deadly pot
sons without harm. One of the mirac-
ulous things that these priests are able
to do is to walk with naked feet over
the edges of swords ground to the keen
ness of a razor, and also over bed OF
live Goals. They never attempt this
without formal and fervent appeal to
their divinity for protection, and they
assert most positively that it would
be impossible for them to perform the
works they do without the divine inter-
ference in their behalf. They intend to
exhibit these remarkable powers in
Paris during their stay, and will chal-
lenge the devotees of the Christian or
any other faith to do the things that
they do In answer to the reporters
inquiry if they would exhibit their pow.
ers In this country, the gentlemen said
that such was not their intention, but tC
spend few weeks in seeing objects o.
interest on the Pacific and Atlantic
slopes. Thanking the gentlemen fol
their courtesy, and assuring them that
their request not to mention their name:
should be complied with, the reporter
withdrew, regretting that he would no
have the opportunity to witness this re
/ yiyal of one of the lost arts.
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ful to the original it viii be her greatest
work.-W Worcester Press.
Mrs. Moore came naturally enough
by her poetic genius. She is descend
ant from Tom Moore; on her husbands
side a1s5Hrg Net0S.
A CORRESPONDENT asks, "What is
the hest method of feeding cattle in win
ter?n We don't exactly know. One
man might prefer to take the OK in his
lap and feed him with spoon. Others
would bring his into the diDing-room
and let him sit at the table with the old
folks. Tastes differ in matters of this
kind.
A cat belonging to Il family on
south Hin has reached the ripe age of
IL years, and has entirely lost all power
of expressing its emotions by audible
sounds. And it is just heart-breaking
to see that voiceless cat go out in the
moonlight and climb on to the shed
roof and try, by violent and emotional
pantomime. to express a yowl that could
/ break a pane OF window-glass 800 yards
away Ha5okeye.
He was saying, GAS the pearly col
umn of smoke in a winters atmosphere
( rises unbroken heavenward, so my heart
rises to thee. As the sanfOwer follows
/ the cruel sun which gives it life, so my
heart follows thine. As the blue brook
runs its unhindered course to the sea, so
my soul, in slavery, goes to thee" SAID
she: "Henry, now that we're engaged,
will your nail blade cut cOrnsP"
&c Do not trample on the lowly,
Let YOU tread be firm and sure;
Step above the fallen slowly;
Darling keep the doOT-mat pure"
This little ballad is composed and sung
by the man who trails lot of Iowa rea
estate into the house with him every
time he goes home. The song is dedi
Gated to his wife and daughter. (P. S
We are the man.)
If the signs of the times mean any
thing Il new era of miracles and mar
yels is upon US. A man at Bellevue
Ohio, recently fixed up a little gun
powder plot in his wood-pile to find on
who was frying bacon at his expense
On the following Sunday the stove in
church near his premises flew to piece
lust as the pastor was clinching a mos
convincing argument to prove that Their
was hell. From the celebrity witt
which the congregation dismissed them
selves without waiting for the uSua
formalities it seems probable that tn
impression was prevalent the dispute'
region was manifesting itself too nea
home to be comfortable. 1t is surmise'
that the owner of the wood-pile enter
tains no equivocal notion on the sub
breakfast Table.
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How the Queens Speech was Trans
mitted.

All Europe was anxiously awaiting the
electric sparks of "words that breathe
and thoughts that burn " on this auspi-
ciOus occasion. All America compla-
Gently awaited the resume of an event
which carries pari-pGsSu a potent lesson
in the law of neutrality and the power of
the governed by the governing. That
this anxiety may be illustrated, let me
here note the fact that the ceremonies
of opening this session of the British
Parliament were described telegraph
cally and forwarded as follows To Rus
STA the Queens speech, consisting of
800 words, was forwarded in seven
minutes after its reading, and consumed
% minutes and 10 seconds in delivery
at the palace of the Gar To Alexandria,
in Egypt, it was conveyed in 33 min
utes and 20 seconds. To Constantine
pie it occupied 40 minutes in transmits
sion, while Paris and Berlin had it in IA
minutes; New York receiving it in "a
minutes after it was read in Parliament,
and before the British public knew its
tenorl In one hour over 800 newspa-
pers, 220 clubs and news-rooms had it
in the United Kingdom, the Morse
printing and sound process taking about
four times longer to forward it than the
Wheatstone method.-LOHdOn Cor. Gin
cinndti Enquirer.
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The True Way to Advertise.

The superiority of advertising in first
class newspapers over all other forms is
thus aptly pointed out by the Boston
Post:
The ingenuity of business men has
been taxed to the utmost during the mad
competition of the last score of years to
devise the most effective means of adver-
Using. They have turned vandals and
painted the picturesque rocks with in
etfaceable puffs et what they could do or
had to sell. They nave printed and dis
tributed cards and circulars; they have
framed and mounted posters in railway
stations and other places where the pub
lie congregate, and they have tried many
other ways of catching the public eye
but none have stood the test SO well,
none have made such assured returns as
their patronage of the first-claSS news
papers. The shrewdest business men at
the Detroit Stove Convention, held some
time ago, advised the trade to adver-
tise exclusively with the newspapers.
The head of large and successful
business house In New York, who had
had nearly half century's experience,
said recently: "F For forty-seven years
nine-tenths of our advertising has been
in tirst-class newspapers. OF our whole
expenditure all that we regret is con-
tanned in that other tenth" Advertising
in newspapers is an art, and those who
advertise a good deal seem to under
stand it so as to make their announce
ments attractive and striking. In this
city as well as in others, our most sue
cessful business men are those who do
the most advertising. They are better
known at home, and especially are they
better known to those who come from
other places to Boston to trade This is
one of the most conclusively demon
strated facts of business, land when spring
trade opens it will be a profitable fact to
nlncn.
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Salmon in the Mississippi.

These fishermen are phlegmatic fell
lows, and, while they wondered, said
nothing about it, but left it to chance to
come to light. There they were, fat,
shining salmon, splashing and gasping
hard for breath, on the fish-dealers' Ia
bles in Beal Street Market yesterday af-
ternoon, evidently fresh from their ma
tive element.
"Why, where did you get these sal
mon?n asked the passing buyer with
wonder.
"Out of the river. Buy some, sir?"
as coolly as though salmon, not cats,
were the natural piseatorial inhabitants
of our muddy river.
What river, man?"
"Miss'ippi, of cose; jes over by the
bar there"
"'Many of them?"
"Lots. Buy some, sir? How do you
like this fellow? Not even dead yet,
you see, sir"
There Is but one explanation of the
presence of these fish of Northern wa
tiers in our great mud river. Two years
ago the planting of fish-eggs in foreign
rivers was given great attention, and
Congress made a small appropriation
for the stocking of rivers rs an expert
$780, C4.....s.sl hun Irod eIrv,Ioard Cggo
were brought here and placed in the
river near Wolf Rivers mouth, Mr.. w.
w. Mcdowell footing the experiment.
The result, long since despaired of, is
seen now in the fine fish sold in the city
markets. The theory, founded on OBJ
servatiOn, is that fish will always return
to their place of incubation to spawn
hence the presence of salmon at this
season at this point in such great num-
bers. This successful experiment should
conduce to further attempts to stock
the Mississippi River with new and de-
sirable sh.-MenlDhiS AraLanche.
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Hans and bIishaps.

Richard Kenyon, Lynn (Mass.)
locksmith, was strangled to death by
being caught in line of shafting.
Mrs. Patterson, of St. GATHERINGS,
Ont, was burned to death by the eXplo-
sion of a coal-oil lamp.
William Trainor, a 16-year-old
sehool-boy in Berks County, Pa, butted
his head so violently against the head Of
one of his school-fellows, to see which
could stand the hardest knocks, that he
ruptured blood-vesSel and died.
"A 13-year-oid son of G.. L. Miner,
living near Mitchellsville, Ky, acct
dentally hanged himself. 1t is supposed
that he was playing about rope which
had been used for weighing with steel
wards, and in some way got the loop
over his head, and the basket turning
over from under him, he was helplessly
suspended. When found life was nearly
extinct.
George Elliott, aged 60, a well
known resident of State Line, Ind, was
kicked to death in a pasture where he
had gone to feed his horses. When
found he was dead, his skull evidently
having been crushed in by Il horse 5
hoof.SSylvester Marvin, of Eaton
County, Mich, was killed by kick OF
horse in the abdomen.
Martin Dennis, engineer in Emery
saw-mill, near Roanoke, Ind, was IN
stantly killed by the explosion OF the
boiler. When found, his body was ~
ing in a field 1870 yards from the mill
1t presented terrible sight. The heac
was scalded until it cracked open, caus
inc the brain to Ooze out. The body
was bruised beyond recognition, ant
was disemboweled.
Mrs. Jessie Sibert, of Anderson
Ind, left her 5-year-old son (who wa:
a mute) alone at home while she wen
to a neighbours to assist in laying out
corpse. In her absence the boy secured
the coal-oil can and emptied the con
tents on himself, which ignited from thu
fire in the stove, and before assistance
was rendered the child was so badly
burned as to cause his death in few
hours.
Some recent suicides: Anton Beck
who lived near Lexington, KY, blew thi
/ top of his head off with a shotgun He
was a hard drinker, and was afflicted
besides, with financial and domestic
troubles. Miss Minnie Mckenuy, 4
/ beautiful and intelligent young lady o
Richmond, Va, was engaged to b.
married to a worthy but poor young
man. A few days ago he asked her t
release him from his engagement, os
tensibly on account of being unable t
support wife The cir
was apparently heart-broken anC
took a fatal dose of laudanum to enC
her troubles.-At Kennedy, n. Y, An
drew Gustafauson, a sober and quie
citizen, out of money and unable to OBJ
tain employment, lay down on the rail
road track, with his neck on the raj
and his arms folded, and coolly awaited
the approaching train, which instantly
killed him,-Mrs. Ada T. Hunt, Of r. Merit Sort
the heart. 1t was apparently a case o
sOmnambulism, and the pistol wa
| bought for her to defend herself wher
| her husband was absent. She was 2.
years old, and leaves a young child.
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Do Hens Reason.

A hen made Il nest in a box in the bag
gage-car, and in the course of time had
fifteen eggs, and stuck to them through
thick and thin, night and day, except
to step OIL the train occasionally to get
food and water, and Matched thirteen
chickens, Notwithstanding the rumbling,
rolling process the eggs passed through
The baggage-master says that after the
sitting process began she would fire.
quently, when off the nest in search of
food and water, get left by the train at
Shelbyville and sometimes at Wartrace,
and on such occasions she would quiet
city wait for the train to return, and fly
into the baggage car and get on the nest
Immediately. When the train stopped
for wood she would sometimes fly out
to get something to eat, and when the
bell rang she would fly back immediate
". She would sometimes manifest her
joy at the appearance of the train by
cackling at high rate. Mother and
chickens are all doing well.-OhiO Pa