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The New York herald., 1878-02-10
Who Will BE Next Pope 1~ThA
Drenm OF Pho Mono.

While the millions of Catholics through
out the world are draping their churches in
mourning, while the priests, clad in the
vestments of sorrow, are chanting their
reauiems for the soul Of the Pope lying
dead in Rome, the preliminaries for choos-
ing another occupant of ST. Peters chair are
being rapidly arranged. The good old
priest whose body now lies beneath the
lofty dome of the greatest structure ever
reared by human hands to the God
of Calvary has passed into niche of his
tory, and the funeral dirge floating in
solemn tones along the pillared ases of st.
Peters will be but an echo from the crypt of
Time. For years indeed Pope Plus had
lived with his face to the past. OF all the
temporal posses sions which had for GEN.
turies belonged to the Papal See nothing
but the Vatican remained. Natural enough
then that the Pope, with eighty years Of life
upon his shoulders, should have retreated
thither, and there taken his stand, to wait for
death amid the symbols of his perished
earthly might, amid the priceless treasures
of art and learning which the genius and
the wealth of the world hal laid ut the feet
of the popes when popes were kings and
kings of kings. Twenty years before the
soldiers of Victor Emmanuel marched into
the castle of San Angelo Pope Plus had
renounced all ideas of com promise with
ssthe revolution" When Rome acknowl-
edged an Italian king there was nothing
lot hut tp or In foil hoc II.
citadel of another authority-that of the
spiritual power. 1t makes a sentimental
picture the aged Pope, who had ruled as
a real king, sitting like second Marius
amid the ruins of the Temporal Power,
but it is picture that will not
appeal even to fervid Catholics with another
figure in the Papal robes The old era of
the Kipg-Pope closed eight years ago, but it
is only now that the older era of Bishop and
Father can be said to recommence lhe
Papacy is relegated to its purely spiritual
career, and, for all their denunciatons of
the change, there is not zealot in the
Roman Church who would admit that the
loss of an earthly throne has impaired the
religious usefulness of the Holy See. In
deed, it is no secret that things spiritual
have been better managed since the Papal
authorities had the care of their petty king
dom taken off their hands.
Who is to be the Pope of the new rfyimeY
The worldly prophets have taken up the
question ; the interested ecclesiastics are
busy trying to be forehanded with the
answer; the diviners of omens and dreams
are puzzling over it. Will he be 'mod-
crate p ask Protestant Germany and ultra
Catholic Portugal. Will he be an Italian /?
man, an Englishman or an American ask
the Catholics who see no reason now Why
The New York herald., 1878-02-10
Shall Our Dilapidated Streets BE
Repnvel

Under the old law, in operation until
1875, when the majority of the property
owners along the line of street desired to
have the street repaved they petitioned the
Common Council, and the work was done
1t was found, however, that some property
owners were willing to suffer street to re-
main in wretched, dilapidated condition,
dangerous to those who were compelled to
drive over it and injurious to the commerce
of the city, rather than to put their hands
in their pockets to pay for the repaving
In 1875 law was passed to provide q uni
form system for the requirement. of streets,
avenues and public places in the city of New
York. 1t provides that whenever the Com
missioner Of Public Works shall certify and
report to the Board of Aldermen that the
safety, health or convenience Of the public
requires the repaving of any streets, the
Aldermen shall have the power to direct the
work to be done under the direction and in
the manner specified by the Commissioner.
But the amount to be expended for such
requirements is limited to five hundred
thousand dollars in any one year.
tinct 1t was designed to insure the repay
ing of the wretched business streets in the
lower part of the city. whose horrible condi-
tion has been for years the cause of the OBJ
struction of travel and of the delay and ex-
pense of carting goods from river to river,
and from vessels and railroads to the stores
and warehouses of the merchants. If half
million dollars had been appropriated
yearly since 1875 to this purpose the busi-
ness streets would almost all be in good
condition. But the Public Works Depart
ment, under Mr.. Campbells management,
labor and to buy such materials and employ
such laborers as the Aldermen and other
politicians sought to force upon him,
and has done the work by contract,
after open competition. In consequence
of this policy the Aldermen have refused
to order such repavng as he recommends
and the Board of Apportionment has cut
down the appropriation to two hundred
thousand dollars-an entirely inadequate
amount. There is no doubt that if Mr..
Campbell would consent to make the street
pavements a political job the Aldermen
would promptly authorize all the work he
suggests and the Board of Apportionment
would give him the full half million to spend !;
only in that case the people would not
obtain in work more than half the value of
the amount expended.
A bill to facilitate the requirement. Of our
wretched downtown streets and of such i'm
portant pleasure thoroughfares as Fifth av-
enue is now before the Legislature. 1t is
said that q clause reviving or legalizing
some old contracts is in it, and if so it
should be stricken out instantly. But the
bill itself or one of similar character
should become a law. and the fact that it is
opposed by the same political influence that
opposes the Department OF Public Works,
because il refuses to make the repaving Of
the streets source of profit to Aldermen
and their friends, should only serve to
make its passage the more certain.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

THE WEATnER.-1hc great storm area, de-
scribcd in yesterdays HERALD, continues TO
dominate the weather from the Gulf to the
regions north of Canada and, indeed every dis
tIict of the United States east of the Rocky
Mountains. except those OF the Northwest and
extreme Southwest. The second principal de-
preston of the series embraced within the storm
area has moved from Texas and asccndcd
TO the Ohio Valley with remarkably
rapid barometric 1all. Its centre is
following the track of that which preceded it
on Friday through the same region. The at
tcndant precipitation Is. however, chiefly snow,
and extends norlward over the lake region
and westward into the Missouri Valley. Rain
is falling over vast area southwcstward and
southcastward of the storm and has been
specially heavy on the Gulf and South Atlantic
coasts. The storm centres of Friday have passed
i,to the Atlantic oil the New England and
Middle Atlantic coasts with very low pres
sres. The barometer is high but falling
in Mnnitoba rising in the Southwest and South
and steady over Lower Canada. The tempera-
lures are low northward of IL line drawn i'm
mediatcy south of aud parallel to the st. Law
renee River and the lake region to Chicago
thence soutliwcstward through St. Louis.
Steep baromctric gradients with heavy winds
FROM the northward occur along this line. In
the Southern South Atlantic and Middle States
the winds arc southwcstcfly or westerly
they are very variable in the region between
Albany, Boston and Philadelphia, Heavy
winds will be experienced here and along the
coast during and after the passage of the adj
vancng storm centre into the Atlantic. The
weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
will be cloudy and cooler with rain or snow,
followed by rising winds and gradually falling
temperature. Tomorrow the weather will be
colder and probably clearing, after light rain OF
suow.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

THE DEMONSTRATION in pittsburg yesterday
was of II very imposing character. Upward Of
fifteen thousand workinghen marched in pro-
cession through the streets and then listened
for several hours to II large number of pro-
tectionst orators. While all this was taking
place the Ways and Means Committee in Wash
ington was considering the bill 1t seems to he
very acceptable to that body. and Mr.. Wood is
sanguinc that it will pass the House
The New York herald., 1878-02-10
Stanley Levels His Elephant Gun at
the Armchair Critics.

Stanley was welcomed to England last
night by the Royal Geographical Society,
which has hitherto noticed his recent i'm
portant African discoveries only by the
charge that he was pirate because he de-
Tended his life from the savage natives of
Bumbireh. Having accomplished great feats
in African discovery this explorer returns
to England, which is q sort OF central point
in the world for militant civilization and
tea table humanity. He returns to the
country from which has gone out into all
the corners of the earth more bold
and resolute explorers than from all
other countries together, some with
Bibles, some with rum and Birmingham
samples, and some with artillery but all
inspired with the great purpose of submit
ting the heather everywhere to British COM
merce and the British missionary lie re-
turns to the land of Give and Sir Garnet
Wnlseley, who represent, in widely separated
times, the common English purpose, not SO
much to make war upon barbarous enemy
in some interest of civilization, as to make
safe routes for British traffic by the sys-
tematc slaughter of all savages disposed to
impede that traffic He comes to the land
whose people and government have sus-
tanned the enterprise of the British East
India Company by the slaughter and
starvation of many millions Of the
people of Hindostan, and who have made
war on China, bombarding its towns
oyI t,t;v &c 49, ,,ct
the wise policy of it's own government to
purchase opium in order that by his trade
in that deleterious substance the British
merchant may turn many "an honest
penny" To that country whose subjects
never permitted respect for human life
or human rights in any form to
stand in the way of even their
meanest purposes in remote or heather
lands he returns, not rs one who has
been inspired by similar ideas, but reso-
Lutte explorer who has asserted, against the
lives of handful Of savages, not the lofty
right Of traffic in cotton pocket thandkerchieis
and Brummagem trinkets, but the claims of
geographical science; and what is his re-
ception His welcome was at first a
cry from the cultivators of tea table
humanity that drowned all other voices and
all other sounds. England had to say to
him only that on such day he killed so
many Africans and that her heart is lacerated
with pity tor the savages He has slain all
those dear creatures with an elephant
rifle, and she would rather he would
have left the secrets of Africa undis-
covered at least until England could have
discovered them herself But at the meet
ing last night we note with pleasure
that that voice was smothered-Stan-
lev defended himself from the as
sault and Lord Houghton and Major
Grant practically apologized for the
untimely assertion that had been made of
so-called humanity. All that is pleasant.
1t was hardly to be expected, however, that
an unpleasant scene would have been made
on this occasion. and the fact that the as
sailants did not appear last night does not
prove that they are silenced altogether.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

DAVIS A PRIVATE SOLDIER in the Signal Scr
vice corps, rendered such important service ut
the wreck of the Metropolis that, if he had been
OF high rank, the country would in all proba-
bility be ringing with his name and fame.
But the government is not ungratcful; it has
made linn corporal.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

understand that they can obtain assistance
and rescue from pressing misery for the
mere asking, and then we should have
fewer cases like the one to which we allude.
Judge Bixby "held the woman in $500 to
answer" but we think the kind and loving
hand of Christian charity is better adapted
to this wretched mothers case than the
stern enforcement of the law against deser-
ton
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

MIR. CmIrTESDENs reply, in the House ycster
day, to the Chicago silver fanatics, that when
that city in ruins, some years ago, they
were glad to get the money OF the Eastern bond
holders whom they aie now abusing, is likely
10 be remembered for some time
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket more active than it had been for some
days previous, but declined somewhat under
large sales of the granger stocks. Gold opened
ut 1O2 and closed at 1917 7s Government and
State bonds were steady and railroads quiet.
Money OH call lent easily ut 4 Il 8 per cent.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

IT Is To BE HOPED the report from WASH
higton that Senator Conkling has determined
not to speak the Silver bill will prove to be uIl-
founded and that he will feel it to be his duty To
unscal his lips on this important question. Mr..
Conkling's silence Is an act of injustice to his
State and his constituents.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10
QU ADRU b SH h ET
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1873.

IMPoRTANT NOTICE TO ADvERTIsERs.-I
,NSsoe Me proper classification Of advertisements
ii is absolutely necessary Hat Mey be handed im
JetOre eight Octock ere7'u crening
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

outrageous frauds and perjuries should
escape the State Prison. the people might
well despair of ever furnishing a criminal
who might have the good sense to steal
enough to make himself wealthy felon.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

PERU Has BEEN VISITED by another tidal
wave, but, fortunately, no lives appear to have
been lost. At Callao tue molcs were seriously
damaged
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

From oar reports his morning The probabilities
urc Mat ne medttei IN New York. and its ricnity
D-day sciH BE- cio"dy ond cooler. mM raj" o.
nor, follored by rising ~inds ant JrddudHy
failing tenn erottrc. Tomorrow Me neaher riH be
colder and probabiy clearing after light rain or
snOu.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

THE COUNSEL of the elevated railroad com
panes ctfectually answers the latest complaint
Of the Third avenue monppoly in opposition to
rapid transit. The assertion that their horses
will run away is exceedingly ludicrous.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

other point i'll the courts yesterday. His couil-
sci contend that to call taxes debts is stretch
of the imagination. Mr.. Tilden was evidently
Of the same opinion.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10

TIE QUEENS County HUNTING CLUB has
become one Of the permanent institutions Of
Long Island.
The New York herald., 1878-02-10
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

BROADWAY THEATRE-TnE GovERNEss
FIFTH AVENUE HALL-HELLER's woSDKgs
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-srRucK Oh
NIBLO's GARDEN-PEEp osDAy
PARK THEATRE-BABY.
EAGLE THEATRE-CHcAGo.
BOwERY TnEATRE-vARiKrY
LYCEUM THEATRE RICHARD ILL.,
NATIONAL THEATRE-pIoK DRIFT
UNION SQUARE THEATRE A CELEpRArEp CAsK
ACADEMY OF DESIGN WATER Colon ExnnvsoS.
wALLAcK's THEATRE SCHOOL
BOOTHS THEATRE-HANLnr.
ACADEMY OF MUsIC-GRASD OPERA.
FIFTH AVENUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
OLYMPIC THEATRE-yARiErY.
GILNORE'S GARDEN CONGRESS or BEAUTY.
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUsE-vARIErY
NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM -CuRiosIrrEs.
TONY PASTORS VARIETY.
NEW YORK AouARIU -BgoScno HORSES.
rIvoLI 1HEATRE-vARiEry
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTREl.S.
EGYPTIAN HALL-VARIEry
PARK THEATRE-RosE MICHEL.
The Morning herald., 1878-09-05
KILLED BEHIND THE BAT.

A dispatch from Utica, Oneida county,
N. Y, September 8, says: At Boonville,
Oneida county, thirty,one miles north OF
this city, this afternoon, q large crowd had
assembled on the fair grounds to witness
the match between the rival mines of the
rival towns. In the absence of the regular
catcher for one club, James Barry, of Utica,
was substitute l.. The first man was called
to the bat, and the umpire duly called two
balls and two strikes. The next ball must
have been either three balls or three strikes,
The pitcher delivered it with great force.
and the man at the bat struck foul tip
the ball passing beneath and just grazing
the club, striking Barry in the pit of the
stomach and falling him to the ground ;
Barry picked up the ball, threw it to the
pitcher and fell to the ground. The um
pire and striker spoke to him but he could
not articulate. A physician was among
the spectators, but before the doctor could
get to him Barry was dead. The deceased
was twenty-five years old, and pitched for
the Utica Club last year. The spectators
we're greatly excited when the announce.
ment was made of Barry's death.
The Morning herald., 1878-09-05
OVER 500 LIVES LOST.

EXCURSION BOAT RUN INTO AND SUNK
LONDON, Sept. 3.-The excursion steamer
Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend
to London, this evening, with about eight
hundred passengers on board, was run
down, off Barking, about eight o'clock, by
screw steamer. 1t Is reported that between
four and FIVE hundred persons were
drowned.
LONDON, Sept. 3, Midnight.-The Prin-
cess Alice was struck amidships and sunk
almost immediately. The number of
persons drowned is variously estimated at
from 500 to 900. The higher estimate l.
the latest, and is given by the London
Steamboat Company, the owners of the
Princess Alice. The Company's wharf is
besieged by crowds of people anxious to
hear Of relatives and friends who were
passengers on the ill-fated boat.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-The steamer which
sunk the Princess Alice is supposed to be
the Bywell Castle, o screw collier, bound
north In ballast. The steward of the Prin-
cess Alice states that after the collision the
other steamer proceeded without attempt
ing to render aid. He estimates that zoo
persons were on board the Princess Alice.
She sank, bow first, in five minutes after
she was struck. Some small boats and
another excurso" steamer rendered what
assistance was p e,Ible. The drowned in
clude an extraordinary proportion Of
women and children. Several of the sur
vlvors speak OF having lost as many
~ three, FIVE and six children, They
The Morning herald., 1878-09-05
BY MAI. AND TELEGRAPH.

A despatch from Constsntinople says the
Russians will enter Batoum on Friday.
The Treasury issued circular yesterday
offering to purchase greenbacks with silver
coin. e5,' = lie
EsThe Board of Pardons, in Harrisburg, yes
terday refused to recommend Jack Kehoe to
Executive clemency.
The President was received in Chicago on
Tuesday with enthusiasm. Thefiremen had
a procession five miles long. ..........
Seventeen Chippewa Indians arrived in
St. Paul, Mimi, from the White Earth
Agency last night, for the purpose Of meet
| ing President Hayes on Thursday.
Alta meeting of citizens held here Tues"
day evening, over five hundred dollars was
realized for the relief of yellow fever suff-
erels, and q committee appointed to canvas
the city for contributions. <t'f =
The Paris correspondent Of the Telegraph
says there is some talk at the Madrid of q
marriage between King Alfonso and the
Duke de Montpensier's daughter Christine,
sister of the late Queen Mercedes.
William Crook, of Philadelphia, third
baseman of the Clinton (Mass.) base ball
nine, died Tuesday morning from injuries
received by falling twenty-five feet through
q sky-light at the Belmont House last even
ing. Brook was formerly of the Athletics,
of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Rhinehart has thus far put up 50 900
cans of fruit aud vegetables, and expects by
the end of the season to run the number up
to 100000. The scarcity and high price Of
peaches has prevented him from canning
anything like the amount Of that fruit
which he desired. .-.U
An Elizabeth, N. j.. = ratcb ays: Or
vile Grant, the ex-Presiue brother, was
taken in custody here last night on his
arrival from New York, and was sent, this
morning, to the Insane Asylum at Morris
town. His mind runs on immense specula-
tions, starting q new business on q gigantic
scale, etc. Hewas sent to the asylum at
request of ais friends and Doctor Morton.
The charges against Gov, Axtell, of New
Mixico, have resulted in his suspension
from that office and the appointment in his
place of Gen. Lew. Wallace, of Indiana.
The President, before he left Washington
or Saturday for Minnesota, dett rmined on
the charge, which was made at the sug-
gestion of Secretary Schurz.
On Friday evening, while Erastus King
was lying mortally wounded iu the home Of
his father, Mr.. H. L. King, III York, Pa,
and DR.. spangler was dressing his wounds.
some one fred shot through window Of
the house at Mr.. H. L. King. The Doctor
came to Mr.. Kings assistance, and upon
search found bullet on the floor. The
affair is quite mystery.
mir. Henry J. Heath, an English gentle
man, 80 years old, who had been in the
United States for some months, committed
suicide in New York city on Tuesday by
cutting his throat with razor, and then
jumping from his room, in the second story
of dwelling to the ground, and throwing
himself into we'll. He was suffering from
typhoid fever and was delirious at the time
OF the act.
The Morning herald., 1878-09-05
EXCURSIONS, SCHOOLS, AND
PICNIC PARTIES
SHERIFF SALES.
CHERItt'S SALE.

By virtue of writ of Levari Facias. to
me directed, will be exposed to public sale,
at the Lafayette Hotel, S4l shipley street.
kept by John J. Dougherty, in the city of
Wilmington, New Castle county Del, on
SATURDAY. the 18th day of Septe nber,
1878 at o'clock pm,
The folio ing described keal Estate viz,
ALI that certain lot or piece of land and
tenement thereon erected, situate in the
city of Whining on, bounded and described
as follows. to wit: Beginning at a stake on
the southerly side of Hanover strr ct, at 80
feet broad b, tween Tatnall and Orange
streets and at the distance of go feet from
Tatnall, old corner, on the said street at
the width afOi Oiesaid, thence south 30 de-
drees west C0 feet to stake, thence north
81 degrees west 40 feet 10 another stake
thence north 80 degrees east 100 feet to q
stake in Hanover street, at the wild h atore-
said. thence down ine side of the said
south S. degrees east 4O feet to the place OF
beginning, containing 1000 square super
fetal feet of land, be the same more or less.
Book N, Vol. q, Page 272, &C., with two
story frame dwelling house thereon erected
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of Ann Jane Johnson and James
Mccullough, t. t., and to be sold by
ISAAC GRUBB, sheriff.
1878.
The Morning herald., 1878-09-05
SHERIFFS SALES.
CHERIFF'S SALE.

" a.t.
By virtue Of a writ of Venditioni Exponas
to me directed will be exposed to
public sale ut the Lafayette Hotel, SAL
Shipley street, Kept by John ]. Dougherty,
In the City of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Delaware. on
SATURDAY, the II h day offs eptember, 1873,
at2o'clock, p. m.,
The TO lowing described Real Estate viz:
All that certain lot or piece of land sit
uated In the city of " ilmington. bounded
aud described as follows, to wit: Beginning
at the corner formed by the int rsection or
northerly side CT Mexican street with the
easteriy side of Church street, there along
said side or Church street ncrtherly 30 de-
grees east15 feet. thence with a | ne pass
ing through the ant, e OF the division wall
between this and the ho use djoiDingSouth
IS deg. east so it. (be the same more or less)
to the Wes' 'erly side of an alley two ,eet
wide, thence along said tide of said alley
south % degrees west II feet to tie north
erly side of Mexican street, thence along
said side OF said street north 80 degrees
west SO feet, be the Same ore or less, 10
the aforesaid corner and place eff beginning,
with two story brick house thereon
erected.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property OF William Mckinley and Ellen
his wife, and t. It's and to be sOld by
ISAAC GRUBB, Sheriff.
Sheriff Office, New Castle, I.1gust "a,
1878. j. III.