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The New York herald., 1878-09-30
Long Island 1ailrOad Disasters.

For some time the Long Island Railroad
has indulged in accidents with frequency
that limited at some more tangible cause
than mere bad luck, and the report which
we publish on another page shows that
causes are nearly as numerous as disasters.
The condition of the road-its rails, ties,
bridges roadbed, and ut least some portions
of it's service-i is worse than disgraceful
Ties SO rotten that cane can be thrust
down into them, bridge stringers with
rotten ends, rails which uphold ties in
stead of being supported by the latter,
rails which have jagged ends and split
flanges, roadbed containing little or
no ballast but the yielding sand and
light soil peculiar to Long Island, embank-
ments barely wide enough to accommodate
the ties, made only Of the same yielding
soil, which even wind can shift, are features
inexcusable enough to justify criminal
suits in cases Of accidents attended>b by loss
of life. Equally shameful is the danger to
which travellers are exposed by the over
work to which switchmen are subjected.
Last week fatal collision occurred near
Fresh Pond Junction. At this point our
inspector was informed that the switchman
has been working from fifteen to eighteen
hours per day, being in charge Of six flags,
nine lamps, three switches and telegraph
instrument, and at less pay than
some drivers of horse cars receive
Other switchmen were found doing
duty nearly as arduous, and fully as
many hours per day. The new receiver of
this road has earned handsome reputa-
ton elsewhere as practical railroad man,
so he must know of the disgraceful condi-
ton of his road and of the perils to which
thousands Of lives are subjected daily. II
for any cause he is powerless to remedy it
he can at least have enough regard for hu.
man life to run fewer trains, run them
slowly enough to enable passengers to save
themselves in case of accident, and plainly
warn the travelling public against ever
present danger. The captain of sinking
ship who should fail to apprise his passen-
gers OF their peril would universally be
pronounced heartless villain, and there is
no reason why the manager of worthless
railroad should not be held to as strict ac-
countability as the commander of founder
inc vessel
The New York herald., 1878-09-30
Arbitrary Orders OF Arrest.

Judge Westbrook, in Supreme Court,
Chambers, lately called attention to the
abuse Of which an order of arrest had been
he would thereafter grant no such orders
on mere general affidavits as to cause of
action. We hope other judges will follow
his example. Orders of arrest are not as
easily procured as they were in the good
old days of the Ring, when they were an
important part of the business fixtures Of
every rascal who chose to use them, but
even now they are used more for malicious
purposes than in the interests Of justice. So
long as irate creditors can, by stultifying
their consciences obtain orders against long
delaying debtors, just SO long they will
use them for the purpose OF venting their
spleen. The order to which Judge West
brook alluded was served at eight o'clock
on Saturday night an hour at which no one
could find and qualify bondsmen (; and in-
stances Of late arrests, so arranged by plain
tiffs' attorneys, are numerous, the object
being either to extort money under the fear
of being locked up over night, or to lock up
the debtor anyhow, if impecunious, to
crafty the spite of the creditor. The bonds
which are required from persons os-
tanning orders are supposed to secure
indemnity to persons wrongly arrested;
but even of this poor satisfaction
for annoyance and nominal disgrace
the injured man is usually deprived, for in
granting discharge upon discovering that
evidence does not sustain the complaint
upon which the order was issued a judge
usually forbids the defendant to sue for
damages! Except in cases of debtors abont
to leave the State the mass of orders of ar
rest in matters of debt is q disgrace to our
courts and travesty upon justice. There
is not q business house Of any importance
which could not demand dozens of such
orders on grounds as good as those upon
which many are issued, but they would
rightly consider such action malicious and
rascally. While debtors and creditors ex-
ist there will be delinquents in one class
and angry men in the other, but creditors
can devise torments enough without the
law being prostituted to their purposes.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30
O'Leary and Hughes To-Day.

1t is quite remarkable coincidence
that the two most famous athletes in their
respective lines that this country ever pro-
duced are to encounter this week, the one
on land the other on water, antagonists so
skilled and enduring that it is no easy task
to say which will win. Daniel O'Leary
last March met the best men England could
produce, fought them q whole week and
moved them down one after another until
he left the best of them several miles be-
hind, and the worlds cham pionship belt,
like the Visitors Challenge Cup at Henley,
has actually crossed the Atlantic and is
now held Oh this side. But uncommonly
tough walker and runner as O'Leary is
John Hughes will cut out plenty of work
for him every hour this week. Once or
tionable policy of running nearly thirty
miles at the very outset of the race, q terribly
hard days work for any man, even if he had
not another mile to travel, but seemingly a
most foolish step where sixty miles more
must be covered before bedtime. Ii he
will SO far change his plan as TO watch his
opponent closely and walk when he walks,
quicken when he quickens, run when he
runs and slow when he slows, he will find
when Friday and Saturday come around,
and both men are well jaded, that he has
quite as much LETT in him as the champion,
and so can give him hard race over every
foot of the ground.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30
Copcrmicus and schvyab.

In celebrated case lately tried in n
court in this city before a gentleman re-
Gently described in some European prints
as "Chief Justice Shea, OF the United
States," it appeared by the testimony that
there is man on the city police who
"don't care damn for Copernicus." Per-
haps the Police Commissioners were not
aware of this, but they are now informed,
and we do not see how they can remain in
different to the startling fact. One famous
instance in which man expressed his con-
tempt for the Equator has become proven
bal as grave case that convicted the law
itself of inadequacy, since it pre-
scribed no penalty for an offence that
morally was of the greatest magnitude.
But what is the Equator to Copper
nicus What is an imaginary line to
q great authority? But it is not merely the
dignity and repute of Copernicus that is in
danger Copernicus was cited as an au-
thority--as one whose word was an unan-
swerablc evidence that the day of twenty
four hours had ended when the twelfth
hour was sounded on the second turn oil
the dial II policeman may express his
contempt for Copernicus in such circum-
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

stances he may express his contempt iof .
police commissioner next. and even Tor the
law and the constitution of the United
States. Where will such lightness END!
By the way, it appears that there is no law
to prevent Schwab or any other man from
selling his beer for the first hour of Monday
morning or any other morning. There Is
the Sunday law. whose operation ends at
twelve on Sunday night; and there is another
law the operation of which begins On hour
later. That hour, therefore, is, free but,
alas there is no justice in the courts tos
Schwah
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

DEAN STASLEY's SERMON in Philadelphia
yesterday, which we give TO our readers this
morning, is upon subject "The Will of
God" which has caused more strife than any
other that has ever divided the religious world.
Yet in this sermon, as i'll everything else the
learned Dean says writes. the liberality of
the Christian keeps pace with the acumen of the
theologian, and the divine sympathy with all
goodness and attempts at goodness is enunci-
ated, not in soft and feeble sentimentality, but
with all the strength and force that comes of q
good mans love for the good, aud Of analogies
severely traced and well proved.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

TIE YELLOW FEVER, it will be seen from our
dispatches this morning, still retains it's hold
upon the unfortunate Southern country. In
Louisiana and Tennessee the situation is worse
than it was last week. The fever seems to have
broken out with fresh virulence, and large
number Of new cases are reported. Material
aid is of course still necessary. and the meeting
Of the city clergymen of different denominations
this evening to help alleviate the distress is cx-
ceedingly timely.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

THAT MESDIcANcY has become regular bust
ness among at least q portion of our population
is shown by the story of the exploits of two
Italian vragoes which is printed on another page.
One of them, who pretended to be very old and
aecrepit, astonished three policemen by her
agility and the strength of her muscle. The
slight punishment imposed by the police courts
upon this class of people is more calculated to
encourage than repress crime of this character
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

doubts were sustained. He was informed
by ghost of the murder of woman. who
was discovered as described. He was held
and found guilty of having known, without
any ghost, all that the ghost had told him.
1t is intimated that somebody up in Sara
toga has seen or intends to see ghost in
regard to certain points in the Billings
case, and we warn that person that it is
very dangerous practice.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

THE WEATIIER.-The storm centre has made
very little eastward progress during the past
twenty-four hours. 1t is, however, extending
itself very rapidly, and influences tho
weather throughout the districtswcst Of the lake
regions to the Rocky Mountains, and from the
British possessions to New Mexico. The large
area of high pressure that extends over the
Middle and North Atlantic coast districts acts
rs great barrier to the progress of the advanc-
ing depression, and viii continue TO relard its
movement until the latter shall have reached
The eastern section OF the lake region. The
high area will then move southward and give
northern passage to the depression. The press
are is also low, and falling gradually, over the
Gulf districts IL Is very evident that disturb
sncc has passed over the West Indian Islands
N a northcastcrly direction during the past few
days, us tho trend of the low zone seems TO lie
that way Rain has fallen over the
lake regions, the South Atlantic coast
districts and the Northwest la the north
eastern and southwestern districts fair weather
has generally prevailed. There las been gen.
eri rise in temperatures Throughout all the dis
trcts except the extreme Northwest where
they have fallen very pcrceptibly. The winds
have been from light to fresh in the lake regions
ard the South aud Middle Atlantic districts.
In the Northwest and in the Gulf districts they
have been generally fresh, on account Of
steep gradients forming on the margins of tho
dcpicssions in those vicnitics. The weather ia
New York aud its vicinity to-day will be warm
aud partly cloudy, possibly with occasional
light rains, aud increasing southwestcrly winds
toward night. Tomorrow it promises to be
warm and cloudy with fresh to brisk winds.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

The probabilities are Mat The rcalher is Ne,o
York and Us riciniy to-day scW be warns and
partly cloudy, possibly NTH occasional light rains,
md Increasing souutwesteriy aoi,,e- iocard night.
Io-morrow promises TO be trd1m aud cloudy,
piM fresh to brisk aiads
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

PENNSYLVANIA seems to be as badly split up
politically as the majority of the other States.
This years election is exceedingly important, as
upon it will depend the political control of tho
Commonwealth for some years to come The
outlook for the Cameron clan is not very brill
INIT
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

TIE WELCOME that was given yesterday to
the late Fenian prisoners, Condor and Melcdy,
by their friends and admirers, will go far to
obltcrate their recolectonsof Of British prisonlife
during the past eleven years.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

BATTLE with the Cheyenne Indians on the
line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad was fought
last Friday evening. 1t is reported tho Indians
suffered severely, but whatever victory the
troops won was dearly purchased by the death
OF Col,siel Lewis, of the Nineteenth infantry.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

NEW YORK AQUARfUM-iIERRxAsS.
PARK THEATRE HURRICANES.
BROADWAY THEATRE--A WOMAN OF TIE PEOPLE.
BOOTHS THEArRE-HESny VII.
WALLACK's THEATRE--scnooL gon SCANDAL
GILMoRE's GARDEN-PKprs1RIANisM
UNION SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND SON.
STANDARD THEArRE-fALsn TrrLE.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE CAMILLE
NIBLO'S GAR ARDEN-MLlss.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE--TnE MrcurY pOLiAn.
GEaMANiA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THEATRE coMIQUE-vAnIErY
OLYMPIC THEATRE-yARrKrY.
SAN FRANCISCO MINsrkELs
AMERICAN MISUNDERSTANDING,
HAYMARKGT THEATRE -vA,rrrY.
ST. JAMES THEATRE-vARIkrY.
FOURTEENTH sTREaT-CIRcus.
THEATRE BRIGuToN-vARIEry.
T1vOLI THEATRE-vARIRrY.
sTEINWAY HALL -OPEGArIc CONCERT
BROOKLYN PARK TIEATRE-OuEs
BROAD Sr. THEATRE, rhiiadelphia- ROBERT HELLER
The New York herald., 1878-09-30

The Herald Circulation.
One hundred and eleven thousand three
hundred and seventy-nine Q11,37O
HERAIDs were sold yesterday.
The New York herald., 1878-09-30
L RIPL e SH E e II
The Herald Circul

NEW YORK. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 80. 1878.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
BRIC-A-B AC.

Senior is questioned: "What is the name
of that ludy to whom you are engaged"
Senior blandly responds: (Which one?"
Fashionable young men in Paris affect
corpulence just now as being the style for
younge men on tore. This accounts for
the recent large number of restaurant fail
ures.
The editor of a Virgiaia paper was asked
by stranger "if it were possible that little
town kept up four newspapers" And the
reply was: No; it takes four newspapers
to keep up the town."
Says the SentiaelPs Manitowoc cores
pendent: congressman Bragg conferred a
favor on the Lake Shore people in getting
a daily mail route established north TO All
napee, along the lake shore. ''-Fon Du Lac
Journal.
A learned lawyer was once accused Of
having disgraced the bar by taking silver
from client, the etiquette Of the profession
requiring that his fee should be in gold.
81 took sileyr," he replied, because could
not get gold; but l took erery fdrthing the
tellosc had in this world, and l hope you
do not call that dissracins the profession.
Edward King writes from London to the
Boston Journal: The women's faces at the
pot-houses are scource cfperpsctusl won.
der. We never see in America these Lon
don types of women, these broad faces,
coarse, passionate, framed in enormous
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
REGULATING THE PRACTICE
OF MEDICINE.

We understand there is before our
legislature bill for Regulating the
Practice of Medicine. Y" We hope IN all
conscience it will become law, for v e
believe with the Milwaukee Sentinel,
tina, unquestionably one of the greatest
curses under which humanity labors is
the incompetency Of a large number of
doctors and the absolute villiany of the
more pronounced quacks. If the pro
cess of tar-and-feathers is ever justifi-
able it is in the case of an incompetent
scoundrel who becomes responsible for
the lives of an ignorant public. Aside
from the robbery incident to the practice
of quack, outright murders are often
committed and strong constitutions fire.
quently broken down by improper treat
ment"
Now, TO a thoughtful mind, it is most
astounding to see with what stupid IL
norence people will often select family
physician into whose care they will
trustingly commit the lives and health
of themselves and family. If any of
their friends have employed doctor
and have escaped the claws of DEATH,
they think he must be learned and skill
full, or if they or their family have es-
capped death, Notwithstanding they are
lett with broken down constitution,
with chronic disease, which renders life
a burden and death welcome messen-
ger. they persist in proelaiming their
physician the greatest doctor in the land
and are surprised when they learn that
his wonderful learning and skill is not
known out Of the neighborhood in which
he practices. You can witness in al
most any community shattered and
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21

In Africa she now holds 242, 200
square miles of territory, and 1,730, 900
subjects. India has an area of 904, 600
square miles, and population of 190,-
500, 900 souls, and her other Asiatic
possessions swell these huge figures to
927, 900 square miles and 1913, $500. 900
souls, In Europe she has in Malta,
Heligoland and Gibraltar I65, ZOO SUBJ
jects, and in the three Kingdoms, the
birthplace of the race, about 80 900, 900
people. Hence the total number Of
souls under British sway is nearly $780,
600, 600. equal, as before said, to one
fourth the worlds population, while the
area of the empire covers third of the
worlds surfaee.-Toroato Globe.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21

Saith Edmun Yates: II have seen
many services for the illustrious dad,
but none more imposing than that for
Victor Emanuel at the Madeleine last
Thursday. The whole interior was hung
with black, silver-star spangled. From
the dome hung gigantic crown, whence
enormous scarfs decended over the cat
afalque. All the windows were closed
by these mourning draperies, and the
faint light of the candelabra only served
to make the gloom of the black-tapestried
immensely apparent.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
A NECTAR FOR THE GODS.

Raspail, the late French deputy, was
a great lover of coffee. In his descrip-
ton of the joys of a cup of pure Mocha
he rose to poetic eloquence. cit must
be coffee" he wrote, "made in the an
Client fashion-before the fire and in an
earthen pot, smoke-colored by long and
honorable service, and consecrated solely
to this preparation-coffee of a golden
blonde in tint, that leaves delicious
bouquet in the mouth and in the throat
"a sort of after-taste, sauve and exotic.
Y GU might as well make your coffee in
an ink bottle as in an iron pot. All
those pretty appliances for cheapening or
expediting the preparation are swindles
that amuse the eye at the expense Of the
taste or the stomach. Coffee. The
Deity surely created it on the eighth
day, the day on which he rested from
his mechanical labors and worked only
by the spirit and the mind. have
never tastel ambrosia, but | have no
doubt it was coffee under different
name"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21

The British feet has been ordered back
about forty miles, to Moudania bay, and
simultaneously Russia has relinquished the
design of occupying Constantinople,-f
the present The reason assigned for this
backward movement is stated to be COM
mendable desire to get good anchorage for
the feet 1t would take very astute dip
Tomato to find out what there Is about any
port city worth fighting for, without good
anchorage closer by. That is decided
y watery excuse aud sounds something like
protecting the christians" Between
Russia's and England's pressing attention,
they are in q fair way to be protected to
death, and causes the rest of the civilized
world considerable anxiety on their account.
Turkey at present has too many friends; it
will prove to be her worst disease.
Those two old coquettes, Lord Beaconsr
field, aid Gortschakof are playing bluff
game. Perhaps Austria's advice and warn
ing to England that she will have to 60 to
STAMFORD alone, has more to do with the
fleet than anchorage.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21
ENGLAND HONORS STANLEY.


Our special dispatches from London
this morning announce that Henry NJ.
Stanley has been greeted On his arrival
in London with distinguished honor.
The Prince of Wales has entertained
him as a special guest at St. James
Palace. and the Royal Geographical So
ciety, before whom the explorer has lee
tured. received him with enthusiasm.
1t is creditable to the social leaders and
scientific leaders in England that they
have promptly combined to prevent the
ultra-humanitarians in their absurd de-
votion to the impossible in humanity
from disgracing their country by treat
ing Mr. Stanley with GOODNESS if not
hostility. His acts of selfdefence DUR
ing his perilous journeyings in the cause
of science and civilization were warrant
ed by every instinct of human nature
and justified by the extraordinary dan
gers that surrounded him and his fol-
lowers. Indeed. he need only point to
distinguished British examples for de
Tense of his conduct if any were needed.
Now, however, the armchair howlers
over the fate of certain innocent BAN.
birehs who attempted to murder Stanley
| and his men are efectually silenced by
the applause which burst from the as,
semblage at st. James Hall when Stan.
ley recounted his perils and successes
1t is also pleasant to record the fact thai
President Hayes yesterday signed the
resolutions of thanks rendered by Con
gress to Mr.. Stanley for his services il
the cause Typographical science. Thi
tribute from America, with that accord
ed by England, may well fill the ex
plorer's heart with satisfaction anC
almost repay him for the many grief
and disappointments that attended hin
in his work
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21

LoSDoN, Jan 25-The movement to
reform the English language is in pow
erful hands Nearly one hundred and
fifty school boards have up to day given
in their adhesion to it The duke of
Richmond, lord president of the council,
who received deputation few days
back, has since spoken in highly favor
able terms of Chicago Times.
A hundred and fifty school boards
and the duke Of Richmond will need a
few recruits, Tor their praiseworthy pur-
pose. There are some things even a
duke cannot do in England.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-21

STRIKING BACK At LNGERSOLL.
The Rev. w. T. Hatfield, in the
Eighteenth Street Methodist Church
last evening, said that Col. Ingersol
hates the Bible because the word hell is
in It, The preacher was afraid the
Colonel would get there if he did not
turn from his sins. The whole trouble
with Ingersoll was this: In Washington
there was a movement to appoint him
Minister to Berlin; but when it was dis
covered that his principles were against
Christianity, a great many Christian
ministers thought it would be a mistake
to send him to a Christian Government
to represent a Christian Government.
His name was rejected. and since that
time he has despised the ministry and
the Bible. When Tom Paine was
thrown out of Office he began to revile
the Bible. When Burr could not sup
plant Washington he turned traitor, and
there was the same trouble with satan.
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Mr.. Coleridge in his Biographia Lit
eraria cites the remarkable instance
of q young woman, who, during nerv-
Gus fever, seemed possessed of very
learned deyil. for she talked Greek,
Latin and Hebrew necessarily. It was
finally ascertaine that she had been the
servant of good Protestant pastor, who
had been in the habit of coming his
classics audibly in her presence. With.
out any effort of will On her part, the
words and made an impression on her
mind, an impression that never came to
the surface until the extraordinary and
unexplained action Of the fever sudden
lY and startlingly brought it forward.