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THE mr.. Mr. WRIT
Causes thnt Led q" hI- strange nisnppcnr-
nnce Ending In his Death.
AMI white the lamp holds out TO burn
THE Viicst sumner MAY RETURN

The body OF the Roy John Henry Wray
Law yesterday In the rarlor Il his little cottage
in Suydam strcot. New Brunswick. ". j. lie
mystrriously disappeared on Dec. T. and died
Of laudanum poisoning in Bellevue Hospital
on tho iith inst. H. eavc m assumed name.
tu, his body was recognized on Monday In
tho room adjoining that where the body luy
yesterday the dead mans young wife. almost
crazed with grief silently paced the floor. Her
four little daughters gathered about her but
they could not soo'hc her. Occasionally she
visited the rorlor, knot down and with bead
resting upon her d"ud husbands breast. re-
rninei for minutes motioul.ss.
Namma. Is papa dcady' was the or-r"-
Then the poor woman would look up To the
qu.stionrr sadly. calm herself for ~ instant,
and answer through her soi Yes. dear.
your papn's dead d"nd. drad"
Whom Cnlrrtnkcr Rogers brought tho body
from New York on the o'clock train yesterday.
Il wuSat FIRST thought hcitor not g. take i a. the
house. ON account = tho delicate condition NJ
Mrs Wrny Sh" Is MISC sun ring from q torri-
hle cold. tho result Of her standing on the stops
~ the house IN la-t works storm watching for
hor husbands coming. Dr. Albums oi 81.
James, Church. finally decided. however. that
hcr husbands body. on Monday she had heard
81 ~" hniing IT her husband in New York. and
y hi- subsequent drnih In Bellevue Hospital.
Ever since he quilted New Brun~wick she had
insisted upon going ~ the city to look Tor him
aud WIS restrained by her friends only with
gr, at difficulty.
Il is settled bcvond doubt that Mr.. Wray was
suffering from alteration of mind resulting
from money troubles. Mr. Fisher his late en-
ploycr. SAYS tina Mr.. Wruy's notes were con-
tinunily falling due, and had to l". in many in
stances. taken m 10y the endorSers. On the
morning o. the saturday on when he disap-
peared maturcd note that hnd run through
the three days grace usually allowed was
handed 10 Mr. Wrny lie sighed heavily rs hc
returned IL to It's owner. and mex nowodgcd that
| hr could not uHci II. Although Mr. Wray was
| coon pmicnl in his living, he sucnt much money
IN pursuing botanical studies. lie WINS ouihu-
sinstie oNor nowcrs and plants. aud IL ~ said
that h" pur 'has"d them from nearly all the
| principal florists in tho neighloring cities
Besides his father-in-lAw. Mr.. Nlcet. hns boon
| a source ~ great anxiety To him. Mr.. Nlect has
| been suffering from brain troubles for scyera
| years.
The funeral 81 Mr.. wray is to bo hold or
! Thursday afternoon in 81. Jumes's Church in
I New brunswick. Tn" utormcnt is to b. in th'
| graveyard belonging 90 the church of which b.,
| WAS at one tine the pastor.
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Not far from u Rascal.

Brooklyn has one uniccholdcr whose name
should not toe forgotten. We refer To Regis
ter " Arrears RUrrs l.. ScoTr.
In making up the pay roll of his Office for
the month Of December, MIR. ScOr-r found
that IL lie paid his clerks the same amount
they had received for November and other
months. he would have an unexpcnded bal
ancc Of the sum appropriated out Of tho
taxes for his Office amounting 10 Slj0Ol.
To whom did this money belong Was it
Mr.. ScOrrsy Had he any right to dispose
oft; No. it was not his. H. had no honest
control over it except 90 restore 1t To- the city
treasury. The money belonged To the peo-
pie II Brooklyn.
Had there been no talk about economy
when Mr.. SCOTT took the oncc, he might
have been expected only Ia follow the beaten
path ~ other grabhcrs who had gone before
him. But IL was thought that Mr.. SCOrr
sincerely meant reform Yet, instead Of
covering this uncNpcndcd appropria-
tion into the treasury, whore 1t be-
longod he made n careful calculation
how ho might get rid of it otherwise.
Accordingly he divided the amount up be-
tween fourteen clcrk~; and ms this adjust
mont did not exhaust all oi the sum, In order
10 grab the last penny hr appointed mos
-eng"r for one month, aud paid him S33u6.
Doubt loss when h" had wiped out the extra
one cent of that offensive balance, Register
Of Arrears SCorr was satisfied.
It is no excuse for this misappropriation
~ public funds that the amount was only
sljlOl The rules Of honesty apply alike IL
small and large sums.
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GOLD At PAR.
Selling without ~ Premium for the First
Time in Seventeen Years.

A hearty cheer arose from the throng OF
brokers in the Stock Exchange yesterday MS the
words Gold ut par were shouted from the
door Of tho gold room. The announcement
surprised nobody Gold has been ut merely n
nominal premium for several days. and the
onc-righth per ccut above par was about the
percentage charged Icy tie brokers for selling
There were not moro than five or six persons
I'm the gold room when the bottom was rnnrhcd
and they were not heavy dealers. At 1929 L.
NJ. Il. Gimbrrnht Of GO Exchange place offered
eiO.nOU ut unr. which WIS quickly taken hy J..
w Gilict Of 1G New street This sale WAS inn
modintclv folluwed by another 81 Ike amount
by Kennedy, Hutchinson n Go. 60 W. r.. Sang
close Of business. and there was an entire alb
srnce OF speculation. 800
Gold has not been mt pnr he'nr" since 1861.
Tho highest premium was In 1864. 2Sj.
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An Expensive Ulc.,ing.

II cost is any criterion by which To- judge
value, the E,orIauhml ! Land % Cuba must
surely enjoy tine best Government in the
world. The budget for the fiscal year end
ing June 81. l.s', has just been made public.
II amounts t. tine sum 81 S57.49}.,l7 in gold.
Tho population Of the island which requires
50 enormous an outlay to govern it, Is loss
than million and half ~ souls Thus,
every inhahitant. iircspoctiv" Of sex. age.
color on condition, is mulctod in the annual
sum Of nearly thirty-ninc dollars. Moreover,
n slaves own no property while they con-
stitute at least one-fuurth u the population.
the tax absolutely levied ON each taxpayer
is proportiolately heavier.
The items which form this budget are in
Ct
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To THE EDITOR on THE SUN-S0: A Success
nh resumption VIII ia the eye, u TIE world on tins
country tc suundcst financially. OF all nations. A
successful resumption Wln surely be- followed by many
years of prosperity 10 must then, De- the duty, amt
should t tAc pdr of every hauk banker. and capita i,
o. ud 300 thc WORK tr.n., 90, lpr, sumc bank managers
hud the people c,uD rally viii take business view o
tlplr duty. WNlc' d. simply tius
t'h 90 ihc Treasury 4s'cr man 70 goe' out 80 mat
w,ck and from month O. month A. tact as tho sub
Treasury $50 giN redUy, ulnCh, tht banks should
step forward with rlv gold and take uut tir ul amount
of tuth i,drnpuuls Banks in other cities aud country
banks sluud hA ul aus, dc-lst lrum ordering gold
sent To- thcm Tor thc parA ,cato pretcdng to pay gold
ltt las secure good times hN lu~uriu- successful re
IL.llLA ImLA ILLlAr..LA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-SW: Why
should the sword winner OF the Cathedral air be- singled
out from among AN the general, m the city ar-ct
for the Sharp Witst Have We NO other generals who
have Distinguished themselves By uh,vuce from the nrld
40. trhIENt y doubt there many great rails 100
the country who, lhc our own Myllc. never set a
suuudrUu iu tho field nor the division. of battle anew
Muutau turu>h roster u tAr DISTINGUISHED generals
Who Like JOB war horse, hutlcd tV battle itm ATARI
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18
suleIas of a Nlrr!nls Negro.

NORFOLK Va. Dec. l7.-Mosos Ford negro
section hand working on the railroad, near Franklin,
southampton County. Was tried before magistrate yes
toriay for stealing $40 tuuni guilty and sentenced
tnue winged After receiving the punishment, lac went
Ia his muthrrs door and hlcw ms brains uut with a
double barroled shotgun dis, harsns the second barrel
before he succeeded IN his purpose the FIRST shot having
lnlsseh INN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18
M nnrchnse Of the NorM Ann.lcan Rerie

The purchase Of the North American Rerieir
by Mr. Allen Tlorndke Rice two years ago WAS signal
ilod hy two important changes The new editor FIRST
changed the venerable periodical from quarterly to a
himontlly Hud then transferred the publication office
from Boston TO New York lie secured for II, columns
contributions from leading minds OF America and Of
England lie made It bright entertainns curront-aud
it, immediate. II is understood that the cir
culauon was quadruped within the hr't fourteen
months Encouraged 10y tins success, the editor am.
uouuces In the January number Just issued that the Re-
rnei hereafter 10 he published monthly beginning with
January. The list Of articles for the current number ~
attractive senator Edmunds contributes pape'
upon the Fishery Award Henry Mauerson upon The
Solid South; senator Boutwell, upon the Substance ami
shadow OF Finance Mr. " " story upon the Pronuuci.
alton oi the Laun Language, and CAPT HowgAtc upon
the Cruic u the or,ncc into Polar seas While lately
In Europe the editor secured certain unpublished
Of Thomas Moore, and these are given under the title ol
Fragments OF the Little Period" Articles by FcnN
l. Oswald ON The Preservation Of Forests and by
Richard Grant White on Sew Books make up the rest
Of the hrst number Of tie new scr,s-the slAty fourth
year OF the public alton.
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oo,errmen, oroeer nna Mmener shop..

To THE EDITOR or TUE SUN-SWi Ia yes
wrda, srN nouc,d an editorial under the head OF An
Illegal Manufacturer Of Iron Permit me to ASK II there
Is any thing n the Revised statutes which would author
the GuNcrulurut. aul othc'r ut the tumWissary
DEPARTMENT TO enrnre IN the grocery butcher busi
IS 10. the name ut the United St4tssf
The reason AK ts question Is that this b. lust what
Is being done by the Conmissary ID, partmtnt AT West
Point greatly Ia the injury "a the resident dratrs. be-
cause The Ionmis>ary sells at hrst cOst not charging
tor clerk hire rent or amy incidental expenses all nj
which are hVre 10y the Government Let Tit StN shine
on th,N uurstuuAhc uausaVuu LfsANpEA
Mtsr loiNT. bee "A
The tirrnt BonanA Mine, of Nevada ara laaa notalle
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18

Mr. BLAINEs resolution for inquiry into
alleged intimidation in the November elections
was passed yesterday by the Senate. after do
bate as spirit,c-s and slow a.. that of Monday
was hot and partisan. The vote showed no Sc
rious opposition. siN Democrats voting against
it, the other Democrats going with the Republic
cans in its favor. The speeches were by Mr..
MEIRIMoN Of North Carolina, who defended
the South against Mr. BLAINEs attacks and
who saw no suit 10 BE- obtained by the inyoati-
cation other than tho stirring up Of strife and
the inurng OF the nations industries 10y Mr.
WHITE II Maryland. who argued against eNpen-
siye rowing Commissions that reached no Salts
factory results, and ~ such lie class the loT-
TER Committee and the one To investigate STAN
LEY MATTHEW'S by Mr.. WALLACE of Pennsylya-
MIA I'm which ho intimate that Republicans kept
men from the polls in his STATED more effectively
thnn Democrats in tho South hulldo2ed colored
voters; and 10y Mr.. MoRGAN Of Alabama. who.
denying Mr.. BLAINF's charges. nAcrred that ne
grocs voted with Democrats because they had
become convinced Of the Democratic intention
to deal honestly and fairly.
Tho Senate not only struck ont those items in
the Consular and Diplomatic Till that reduced
tho salaries II our costly ana useless represent
atiVes in European capitals and abolished soy
| cral needless consular Offices but restored TO
| it the fail sums rs now paid. and also made
provision for continuing the unnecessary
agents. More than this il loaded the bin with
| additional appropriations for additional repre-
sent,tiyes in unimportant cities.
After another nstalmcnt of the Ge-
nova award debate. the House went into
Committee on the Postal Deficiency bill. This
| aupropriatcs Si50OO0. Mr.. Foster laid the
| blame for the deficiency upon ill-considorcd
| Democratic Entertainments. Mr.. CLYMER laid il
| upon the Republican officials OF the depar,-
| ment. and firing began all along the party line,
| Tho Democratic mombcrs were getting de-
| cdcdy the better Of tho engagement, when Mr.,
| CONGER OF Michigan created timely diversion
| by sneoring allusion to the cipher dispatches.
Mr. DURHAM Of Kentucky replied that the ci-
| phor dispatches would take care Of themselves,
and that the whole country know HAYEs's Adj
ministration WAS ionndrd on Fraud. Then
Messrs. CoNGER and DORIAN made humorous
speeches about the material and intelec tua
! poverty Of each others districts; after which
clash Of wit the bin was passed,
After years Of anxious waiting, JACK
KmoE tho Molly Mcguire King, is to be
hanged in the poitsyillo jail this morning.
kEHoEs fate. and the strenuous efforts Of Ger
tain Penns wanna politicians to avert it. CON
stituto one Of the most curious chapters Of
| Pennsylvania ways. A dozen or moro of his
companions have suffered ut various times
during the past two years, but kEHoE's hold
upon the ruling political clquo Of tho State has
| hitherto kept him from the gaows. For years
Gov, HARTRANFr has refused to issue the death
warrant, and now, at last, II is issued at the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18

In eight years Of peace ono hundred and
eighty million dollars were spent the IN ted States
Navy by that lllusrious tar Secretary kohcson For n
nation which has no navy that 10 pretty steep.
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Col. John II. Almy, who has for several years
been employed A. the Wall street reporter OF u svN aoi
az the Everett House Yesterday morning lie agradu
ate Of Amherst college. ami durns the war 90 thc rebellion
h, public .,rvic,s were ol Importance lie wa, c r.ht
LAND of Gov Buckingham of Conn, cucut and GOV Smith
OF Rhode Island, and discharged duuus tive years ic
responsible duties u military agent Tor tie two states
lIc b. remembered with peculiar regard by thousands OF
soldiers whom his unurng kindness assisted lie was
man ct remarkable generosity Of character ana his
memory will long he cherished by numerous clrclc OF
friends
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18

Can man lawfully place a human skull
IN his window for the contemplation Of the
passers BYE This is the interesting question
which the Board of Health has turned over to
its legal adviser II he decides against the
skull, the secondary question will arise whether
the artistic reproductions II that organ IN mcer-
schaum which occupy places Of honor in sun
dry broadway show Windows. do or do not fall
under the same condemnation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-12-18

The Great Bonanza Mines OF Nevada are leAs notabe
than Dr. Bans Cough s5Tup.-AdS
The New York herald., 1878-10-11
Honor 70 tho Brave.

We publish to-day letter the purport OF
which should make every American blush
for shame. The writer says that the re-
mains of the gallant soldiers who met
their fate on the Little Big Horn still lie
uninterred, and worse still, that the most
conscienceless of all ghouls, the relic
seeker, has sometimes turned into trinkets
the bones of the brave fellows whom
even the savages of the prairie mention only
with respect. Probably red tape, so ex-
cellent as q safeguard but so execrable
In every other capacity, has prevented the
interment by the government Of the re-
mains, which are as deserving of honor as
any that ever earned renown on fateful
fields but if this is the case there should
be made some outside effort to render re-
spect to the brave. The three hundred at
Thermopylm may have been conscious OF
greater responsibilities than Clusters men
we're, but they could not have died more
bravely or more miserably. Let this mat
ter be kept before the people until even the
powerful bonds of red tape cannot restrain
the government from suitably honoring
those who SO nobly supported it when all
but honor was lost beyond hope.
The New York herald., 1878-10-11
A Prolific Crime.

Much as the public has desired to have
the Silver Lake mystery unravelled there
are some people who will be almost sorry
that the proper thread is apparently in
hand at last. The history Of murders
will be searched in vain for a
case which has led in one way
or another to the discovery of so
many sickening stories and crimes as have
been brought to light by the discovery of the
brutally buried corpse on Staten Island.
Such glances behind the scenes Of awful
tragedies are not pleasant, but to
the better class Of beholders they are
beneficial. Between good society, re-
fined surroundings, honorable associ-
ates and other environments, respectable
men and women are too apt to forget that
there are other worlds than theirs, and that
the malign influences of these are some-
times near enough to be dangerous. The
necessity of prompt enforcement Of laws
against capital offences is too frequently
belittled by the very class which should
charge itself with the duty Of protecting
society as well as improving it. To have
outgrown the belief in supernatural fiends
walking the earth is a poor sign of progress
If beings equally vicious are working SO in
dustriously and with such seeming i'm
punity.
The New York herald., 1878-10-11
Spirits Below Proof.

According TO standard authorities proof
spirits consists OF dilution which contains
moro spirits than water. In the interest Of
those who are compelled to endure them we
would suggest that spirits intelligent, in
stead Of alcoholic, should embody at least
the same proportion Of enuineness. The
pablic has had great deal Of poor stuff i'm
posed upon IL Of late under the plea that
IL came from tho spirits. The profcssed
revelations in the Stannard murder
case and the many things limited at in
the Vanderbilt will quarrel are as much as
any trong-backed people can be expected
to bear up under, even were the quality
mp to standard. But poorer, thinner, more
watery trash could not be imagined than all
the testimony alluded TO has proved to be.
There NAV be disembodied sDirits floating
The New York herald., 1878-10-11

invisibly around us-the weight Of opinion
among good people tends toward positive
belief in such surroundings-but If human
beings have any influence upon this mystic
circle they either exhibit q lamentable de-
gree of indiscretion in their selection
of spirits or the original article is outra-
geously watered upon coming in contact with
the human receiving medium. live are to
have our attention steadily called to mani
festations from the unknown world we have
right to insist that the spirits shall be at
least ''proof;" the drivel that has thus far
been poured out might have been equalled
by any lunatic or knave were not knaves
and even lunatics too smart and humane to
infict such feeble stuff upon an intelligent
people
The New York herald., 1878-10-11
Hard Weather in tho Arctic.

One of the American whalemen, who, rs
Van Campen says. "have pushed their en-
terprises far into the Arctic Ocean by Behr-
ing Strait" has just brought back re-
port which will be read with great interest
by the people who study the conditions and
phenomena of Polar meteoroiogy. Captain
Fisher, of the bark Legal Tender, arrived
at San Francisco on the 10th of September
after voyage Of thirty-five days from Point
Barrow. He reports the weather very cold
in the Arctic, the thermometer marking
twenty-eight degrees above zero on the 18th
of August, an extraordinary degree Of cold
for that season, and the SHOWS had already
set in. In coming through Behring
Strait the Legal Tender found ice extend
ing from East Cape to below St Lawrence
Bay, also o very unusual circum-
stance ct SO early a date. In ordi-
nary seasons the whalemen remain
on the Arctic side of the Strait until
late in September or early in October. and
even then are seldom driven out by ice or
extreme cold, but by the scarcity of whales
or fear of the approaching winter. They
do not 90 provisioned for wintering in the
ice as exploring vessels do, and cannot run
any risk Of being caught by the sudden
freezing which 30 often occurs in the Arctic
bays and water lanes during the autumn
months. The early cold ''snap" encoun-
tered by Captain Fisher indicates lopg
and severe winter. Should it prove to be
repetition of 1873 IL will be as likely rs not
to happen that the following year will carry
the precedent farther and make the sum-
mer Of 1879 as mild and open as was that of
1874, when the whalers advanced beyond
the latitude Of Herald Island and saw no
Ice to the northward in any direction from
the masthead. If this should come to pass
1t will be very favorable year for explora-
ton, both along the coast OF Kellett's Land
and in the direction of the Pole itself.
The New York herald., 1878-10-11
Butler Unoorksd Again.

During the late civil war q soldier who
was drunk and noisy in his company bar
racks was urgently requested to shut his
mouth. II dido shut it, he suffered; 'Ive
shut it l-lots of times, but 1t c-comes right
open again." A similar peculiarly affects the
various bottling ex periences to which General
Butler has been subjected. He was lately
bottled securely, so far as his gubernatorial
prospects were concerned. but last night
the cork few ont with loud pop while the
Central Democratic Committee Of Boston
was discussing the preparation of printed
ballots for the uso Of voters. The Butler
men insisted that their candidates name
should appear on the ticket as the regular
nominee, and the Abbott men were
equally persistent in demanding the honor
for their own standard bearer. There was
a great deal Of furious fzzing and frothing,
perhaps not entirely independent of the
contents Of bottles previously uncorked,
but the friends Of the Worcester nominee
will soon discover that uncorking is not tho
only operation requisite to liberate the con-
tents, and that breaking the bottle, which
is what their last nights operations finally
led to, liberates only by causing q hopeless
spill
The New York herald., 1878-10-11
Hints for tho Elevated Roads.

The comfort and convenience of rapid
transit to nine-tenths of the people of the
city only render It the more desirable that
the elevated roads should be made entirely
and unquestionably safe, that the accom-
modations should be first class, and that
the rates Of fare should be as low as possi-
BILE. In another column some of the de-
fects Of the roads are enumerated and
sources Of possible danger are pointed out.
This Is not done with n desire to embarrnss
or assail the management Of the roads, or
for the purpose Of exciting needless appre-
hension in the minds OF passengers. It 10
for the interest both Of the companies and
the public that accidents should be most
anxiously guarded against and that the
roads should be made popular from the
start. The crossings on the Third avenue
line, at Forty-sccond street and Chatham
square, will certainly require the greatest
caution and the most untiring watch-
fulness to guard against even the
slightest chance Of collision. On the
Metropolitan road there must be no cessa-
ton of prudence and care In turning the
6narp CURVES Wnicn unfortunately arc "
be found on that line. As to the complaint
of cheap construction and limited comforts
on the New York Elevated east side line, IL
remains TO be seen whether the close
economy practised by the company is to be
for its own or for the public benefit. The
road Is built and equipped cheaply enough
to afford to carry passengers OF five and six
cents at all hours Of the day and make q
handsome profit. If the fare is fixed at
these amounts the people will not grumble
at some Inconvenience and discomforts,
but they will not consent to repetition Of
the treatment they have received from the
Third avenue horse car lines only to put
money in the pockets Of the stockholders Of
the New York Elevated road