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The New York herald., 1878-12-19
Isa king Powders.

Recently there has been constant pur-
suit by some good people of the excellent
purpose of exposing adulterations in baking
powders. The cry began with q chemist in
the service of the United States govern
ment, and has finally reached our Board Of
Health. "Alum in tho bread" is an old cry.
One Of the famous rules for the govern
mont Of the royal household in England
under Henry VIII. was, '.the baker shall
put no alum in the bread !" and that, in
the year 1878, there should be lively
chorus Of protest on the same subject is
fact which plainly shows that there is no
progress in the yilianies Of adulteration.
But there is Mt least difference ;
and the insubstantial point in the
present onslaught against adulterated
baking powders is that the evil alleged to
result is not shown from any cases of the
use of these powders but from examples
of tho way alum was formerly employed in
England in the adulteration of bread,
which is as if one should illustrate the
case Of a mackerel by citing the case of n
porpoise. 1t is said, for instance. that
forty grains of alum have been found in
four-pound loaf. but the whole weight of
the powders used as leavan is not in that
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
Model Tenement Houses.

Prizes aggregating five hundred dollars
have just been offered for the best designs
for ten ement houses that can be erected on
single city lot, healthfulness, convenience.
seclusion and security against fire being
among the points to which special attention
is to be given. Humanity and business
shrewdness combine in such an offer, and it's
to be hoped that the landlords and tenants
of the new buildings will have frequent
cause to bless the designers. But compete
ton should not be restricted to buildings
Of the size indicated. Some unlighted, un-
ventilated rooms, such as are peculiar to
nearly every tenement house and set OF
flats in the city, are inevitable in narrow
buildings which are to yield good
return upon their cost. The model
tenement, both for owner and occu-
pant, should take air and light from
all sides. In the older portions Of the city
it is impossible to get lots large and cheap
enough for such buildings, but the exten-
sion of the elevated railways brings into
market, and within half an hour of almost
every part of the city, large quantity OF
vacant ground which can be had at moder-
ate prices. 1t is in such localities that per-
feet tenements, if they are ever to be built.
will exist, and at present they can be
erected there so as to afford handsome
profit and yet be healthier, more conven-
lent homes than can possibly exist down
town, except, perhaps, in corner houses.
The first builder who has enterprise and
skill enough to cover square with de-
tached tenements, almost anywhere be-
tween Central Park and either river, will
suddenly find himself the most popular
landlord in the city.
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proportion, SO that that is not case qf this
evil. Perhaps baking powders aaqltfffated
with alum do some harm but We lonht II
they do more harm than other powders not
so adulterated. If even a small quantity OF
alum should be regularly found in an article
of such constant use as bread it might in
jure people, but there are doubts on all these
points; doubts that it gets into the bread
and doubts ii it would be harmful if it did.
People do not make bread with baking
powder. They use yeast for that and keep
the powders for the hasty, hot horrible bis
cult of the breakfast table. Now, it is
these hot biscuit that give people dyspepsia,
not the little alum that may get in them.
We have no doubt that moderate course
of alum would do more good than harm to
the haccid systems of humanity in general.
In fact, the people take it far more largely
in certain popular remedies than they do
even in their biscuit. and fancy in some
places that they cannot live without it. In
the days when diphtheria was not known
by that learned name, but was treated by
the people with that popular remedy, con-
slant gargles Of alum water, it had fewer
victims than it has now.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

hood remote from railroad and telegraph,
OFF the road to anywhere, nearly destitute
OF schools and entirely without churches
TO find set of men and women as lawiess
and violent as any that have appeared In
the pages of Bret Harte and Joaquin
Miller. Such people may be found IN
''sets' within n hundred miles OF almost
every city in the Union indeed, they are
numerous in the cities themselves, and the
most elegant capitals OF Europe have even
more OF them than we. The ''Pike" is not
exclusively Western he is the universal,
unrestrained, gushing child of nature.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

81 de cars should be provided to transfer
passengers from the main line to the depot
Separate waiting rooms for ladies and gen.
tlemen should be supplied at the depots of
that line, as on the Sixth avenue road.
These are most desirable accommodations
of which the public should not be deprived.
All stairways leading to stations should be
rooted, and the roofs should be so far
extended over the sides and so shaped rs
to prevent the rain and snow from beating
in, as they do on the otherwise excellent
Sixth avenue stairways.' With these i'm
provements and the speedy completion OF
the upper sections of both roads and
of the Chatham square and City Hall
branch of the Third avenue line, the
people will have cause to be well
satisfied with the present elevated
railway companies. Indeed, the popular
ity rapid transit has already acquired is
well illustrated by the desire of the Third
Avenue Horse Car Company to be allowed
to use steam on their surface road, when
only few months ago that public spirited
corporation was deeply moved by the ap-
prehension that locomotives, even on the
elevated roads, would frighten horses, risk
the loss Of human life, destroy the value Of
property and bring many other deplorable
evils on the city
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
The Opposition In France.

One Of the great difficulties Of that
congeries Of factions which in France op-
poses the Republic is to geta collective name
that shall be satisfactory TO the factions
themselves that shall not offend public
susceptibilities, and that shall judiciously
conceal the real political purposes Of the
party by . thin veil of amiable or virtuous
pretence NJ. Dufaure pointed out the
great need of this important element Of
popular politics when he designated these
factions acting together as 'le parti saas
mom"-the indescribables. Until that time
the want had not been felt, but it was felt
the moment the word was spoken, and that
it was felt SO promptly showed that change
had come about in French politics ap-
parent to all, yet not recognized in the
current speech. Before that there were
Bonapartists, clericals, Cham bordists and
Orleanists, and these were classed together
as reactionares. But that was a term Of
not occurred to anybody that these
elements, SO hostile among themselves
for many years, should ever be forced into
such a unity by their common fear Of the
Republic that they would need to be known
by any other collective designation than
such as were applied in IN opprobrious
spirit by speakers who did not admire
them. But the time has come, and the
name will come, too, out of some happy
accident of debate or some folly of their
conduct, for most party names, from
tory and locofoco to jngo, nre nicknames
at first. 1t is piece of progress in France
to find the hostile elements thus coalescing
into a single compact opposition, for q
good opposition is what will insure the
Republic it's final triumph.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
Another Molly Hanged.

Jack kehoe, the last Of the condemned
Molly Maguires, suffered death yesterday
on the gallows at pottsville, Pa, for a crime
committed in 1862 Langdon, the victim,
was breaker boss in the Honey Brook Col
liery, Carbon county. He was unpopular
among the miners because of his method Of
enforcing discipline. A Aquarrel occurred at a
meeting held to arrange a Fourth of July
celebration. during which Kehoe made him
self conspicuous and uttered threats against
Lnngdon. Soon after that Langdon was
terribly beaten by a gang Of disguised men,
and died of his wounds two days after.
Kehoe met his doom protesting his inno-
cence Of the murder of Langdon, though
the denial was not Of char
Tor it has been long believed that
he was cognizapt Of the crime and
either participated in it or instigated it.
The long delay in the legal proceedings
afforded the condemned all possible oppor-
tunity to clear himself if that had been
possible. but on every appeal the sentence
was reaffirmed, the Court OF Pardons de-
clining to reopen the case, as the evidence
did not warrant such action. OF course
there will be many Of Kehoe's associates
who will hold the belief that Kehoe was
innocent, but to all impartial men the de-
cisions Of the Court will point to q differ
ent conclusion. The terrorism inaugurated
by the "Mollies" was Of such character
that the sternest measures were neces-
sary to stamp it out; and now that
the long list of executions are at an end
(for there is little probability that Bergin
will be hanged) it il to be hoped that the
miners will see the danger Of taking the
law into their own hands. These murders
and attendant executions ought also to
teach mining bosses more discretion in the
exercise Of their authority and to seek to rule
the men under their control with forbear-
ance and moderation.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

in at another, while the Lord Mayor sternly
asserted his right to such seat as Priyy
Councillor for the year, and the craven Lord
Chamberlain burst not refuse. The precc-
dent was established. The next night,
Friday, December G. Bishop Scarborough,
of New Jersey, had seat ION the steps OF
the throne" and condescendingly "held
long conversations with the Bishop OF Pc
terborough and others of the bishops.
o tempora! mores! If such things are
done in the green tree what will be done in
the dry? If such honors are within the
grasp of q simple New Jersey prelate what
seat would they not proffer to one of the
sovereigns of the United States-to Foley.
a Schell or Talmage?
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
Hack Country NInnners.

There is q peculiar style of manners, not
wholly independent of revolvers. shotguns
and other highly finished provocativcs of
obituary notices. which is by common con-
sent conceded only to the residents of the
far West. When romancer would write a
story of sanguinary personal disagreement
he locates his scene somewhere between the
Missouri River on the east and the Sierra
Nevadas on the west, while tho gentle
idealists who indito "pike" poetry never
allow their muse to rest and make herself
at home anywhere on this side Of Eastern
Kansas. Occasionally, however, an emu
lous cry comes up from some older neigh
borhood, which seems unable TO endure the
thought Of the West monopolizing all the
poesy and passion of America. Such u pro-
test, mute but powerful, went up from
Southern Indiana month or two ago,
where several negroes we're lynched on
suspicion of a crime of which at least one
of them was attcrward proved guilt
less. The Rogers-Caywood affair, re-
ported from Tennessee, and the latest
sweet thing from Breathitt county, KY, are
illustrations to the point, and older cases
of similar nature have been numerous
enough east Of the Mississippi during the
past few years TO assure Inissioraries,
sheriffs and hangmen of plenty Of business
for many years to come. 1t is only ncces-
sarv to find "back country""-a neighbor-
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
Bishop Scarborough son the steps OF
the ThrOne.,

A very weighty item Of information
reaches us through the active and well-in-
formed London correspondent of the Liver
pool Post, gentleman who has frequently
surprised the metropolitan press by his in
innate knowledge of what was going on mt
st. Stephens and at Downing street 1t
is all the more interesting because one
of our neighbors-we had almost said
our countrymen-the accomplished Epis-
copal Bishop of New Jersey, is seen play.
ing o leading part in one Of those ante
chamber revolutions which are often
disclosed only by the publication
of secret memoirs long after all
the actors therein have passed over
to the majority. The British con-
stitution, which is we'll known to be the
axis around which the political world at
Westminster revolves, is absolutely silent
about the rights Of Her Majesty's liege SUBJ
jects to sit on the steps of the throne in the
House of Lords. The occupancy Of the
throne itself has been the cause of good
deal of shedding of blood and of ink in
times past, but it does not seem that the
right to sit on the steps thereof has ever re-
ceived that profound investigation to which
SO wcighty q problem is entitled. While
every police magistrate in the United King
dom would hold himself entitled both
by common law and by statute to de-
termine what persons may lawfully
swing on the gate of Kensington Pal
ace or be trusted with night-kcy
to the Tower of London, it is now found,
to the dismay Of the high official who for
the moment is acting as provisional vice
the august throne Of Brtain's majesty--the
very palladium, as il we're, Of insular liber-
tes-that he has no power to prevent the oc-
cupnncy of the approaches to the hub Of
the universe by any casual Privy Councillor
who may drop in to amuse himself while
munching his bread and cheese by listening
to the debates on the second reading Of an
"Act to amend an act for granting charter
to tho European, Asiatic and North
American Muffin and Taffy Company,
limited" On Thursday, the 9Th of Decem-
Der. A. j. 1878, at precisely ten minutes to
five T.. NJ, stern and resoluto band of
patriots, headed by Sir Charles Whetham,
the Lord Mayor of London, might have
been seen boldly climbing over the garden
fence, entering Westminster Hall by the
back door, without so much as an ''opcn
sesame!" and ranging themselves on the steps
of the throne. They had not long to wait.
At five minutes 20 five on official, calling
himself superintendent "came and ruth
lessly ordered them out" They apparently
obeved- but went out at one door and came
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
VaturaliZcd Gernla ms.

Banners case, which was the subject Of
correspondence between our government
and the Berlin government, exhibits strik-
ingly the groundlessness of the clamor
against the Bancroft Treaty. Banner was
not expelled from Germany, and he left the
country before the expiration OF the period
beyond which he had been informed the
German government would not respect his
American citizenship. But if, in fact the
man left Germany, therefore, without ex-
pulsion, was he induced to take that course
by the annoyances the German authorities
had caused him, and by his apprehension
that they might not themselves observe ac-
curately the date Of the warning given him?
If he was that was an evil and just ground
of complaint between the governments,
but not fairly reproach to the
treaty But in the answer Of the
German government to our reclama-
ton statement is made incidentally
which exhibits the real difficulty to be, as
we have hitherto pointed out, that the Ger
man government has experience that our
citizenship is obtained and used not simply
to protect our citizens, but to protect resi-
dents of Germany from the regular opera
tion of the German laws. Liberal as we
are in this country on points Of this nature,
we would not permit men to evade the
operation of laws that imposed an onerous
duty on their pretext of o foreign citizen
ship. If even the pretext was covered by
regular documents, if it covered a fraudu-
lent intention it would not be re-
spected. Can we expect, then, that American
citizenship, made this sort of convenience
and placed between German citizens and
their own government, shall be highly re-
spected by that government? Citizenship
is given to emigrants who come to make
this country their home. 1t is meant to
give political rights and political equality
here to the sturdy Germans or others who
come to this country. If there is q class of
men resident in Germany who speculate on
this privilege and obtain this citizenship
not that they want to live in this country
and enjoy their rights, but because they
want to keep out of the German conscrip-
tion-we cannot 60 far in assisting them in
such trickery. They not only cheat their
own country-they also insult ours.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

TIE WEAIHER.-Thc low area referred to i'm
yesterdays Herald as being over the lake re-
gon has moved rapidly, with falling barometer,
to the North New England and Nova Scotia
coasts. The precipitation attending it in the
form Of light snow did not extend further than
the Middle Atlantic coast. consequently the dis
turbance was dry when it entered the At
iantic. 1t is probable. however, that rs it moves
eastward to tic northern margin of the Gulf
Stream its energy will rapidly increase and
that over the ocean it will develop into storm
of some force. The pressure il decreasing
hrisklv in the Southwest, where the New Mexico
disturbance is presenting its eastern isobars. In
the Northwest and the Southern States,
from Indian Territory eastward, the barometer
is hah but We anticipate q marked diminution
Of the area Of high pressure in the latter region
during today and tomorrow. The weather con-
tinucs cold in the West, Northwest and North,
well in the region east of the Mississippi
and between the lakes and Tennessee. On the
coast it has risen slightly Although the temper
niurc will continue low it will not be unseason-
ably cold. Our special cable weather reports from
England state that last evening at Scilly the
wind was strong from the northwest, barometer
29.30 inches; st. GATHERINGS Point, moderate
northwest wind, fine weather, barometer 29.jO
inches. thermometer 40 degrees; Plymouth "A
gentle west northwest wind, with rain, thick
weather and pressure of 2o2 inches; Holy
head u fresh gale from the northwest, baron
etcr 29.135 inches. The centre of the disturb
ancc is ON or near the Netherlands coast. In
New York and its vicinity to-day the weather
will be cool and fair, possibly with occasional
light SHOWS. Tomorrow it will be cool and
n,ar Or faies
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

CoSGREss was not particularly lively or in
teresting yesterday. In the Senate a bill to
amend the Patent statutes was discussed and
the posse comitatus clause of the Army bill so
amended rs not to include the portions Of the
country in which the Indians scalp and the In
dian agents steal. The House was chiefly occu-
pied in the consideration of the Indian Appro-
priation bill, in the course Of which member
elegantly and eloquently remarked that the
present Indian Commissioners "knew no more of
Indian affairs than n hog did of cholera
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-fhe stock mar
ket was active and prices were generally better.
Gold sold at 100 100 1854 all day. Govern
ment bonds were firm and State and railroad
bonds strong. Money on call lent low 3la
and up to 6 per cent, closing at 4 l. . per cent.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

PROFESSOR ADLER's recent assertion that
Judaism is on the decline has it will be seen by
reference to another page, called out pretty
loud protest from the leading rabies, and it
must be said that they have the best of the ar
uumcut.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

RED LEARY will be produced in court to-day
upon writ Of habeas corpus, but it is hardly
probable that his rescue will be attempted. BY
direction Of the Judge he will be accompanied by
a shcrif,'s posse, with orders TO shoot those who
attempt TO interfere with the execution of the
1ar
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

GENERAL EWING has pooled all the silverprop-
osifions in one grand bill The next best thing
he can do is to let it die a natural death on the
Speakers table.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

WHEN VIRGINIA meets her creditors mex,
month the wise policy for her is to agree to set
tie as soon as possible.
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Il RIPPLE SH e E T
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1873.

The probabilities are that the meather in Ne,c
York and its ricinity today riU be cool and fair,
riM occasional light sno,rs. Tomorrow il acH
be cool and clear or fair.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

UNLESS THE TOBACCO TAX is reduced the
leading manufacturers declare that that branch
of business will be legislated out Of existence.
This is a bad outlook for the lovers OF the weed
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

TIE AMHERST COLLEGE FACULTY who have
suspended the editors of the college journal be-
cause of its structures upon them do not evil
IDENTITY believe in the freedom of the press.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

BROADWAY THEATRE-UScLE DAs-
BOWERY THEATRE-QuErSs EVIDENCE.
WALLACKS TTlEATRE-MY SON
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-TmE BAYKERs DAuGHrER
BOOTH 5 THEATRE-EyASGELISK
STANDARD THEATRE--ALMosr LIFE.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-RIr VAN wISRLx
NIBLO's GARDEN-ARouNp THK WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
NEW YORK acknowledgements.
GLOBE TEEATRE-ONLy A FARNER's DAUGHTER
GRAND OPERA HouSE-coRioLASus
PARK TIIEATRE-CosEDy ERRORS.
GERMANIA THEATRE-DR. KLAUS.
LYCEUM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MARRIAGE.
TIyOLT TTTEATRE--yARIErY
TONY PAsToR'S-vARrETY.
SAN FRANCISCO NINsTRELs
THEATRE CoMTQUE-LoRGAiRr.
ABERLEs AMERICAN THEATRE-vARIErY.
WINDSOR THEATRE-vARIEry
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

County CLERK GrMBLETos still holds the
fort and the books against the committee of the
Bar Association. According to the defence, the
committee having no interests, has, under the
statute of 1s47, 10 rights which the County
Clerk is bound to respect.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

THERE Is AT LEAST one point upon which the
republican and democratic Senators appear to
be entirely unanimous-namely, in declining to
serve on the Blaine Committee. Why not let
Mr. Blaine have it all TO hiinselfl
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

One MILLION AND QUARTER to the four per
cent loan yesterday. Now is the time to sub
scribe
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

Nor EVEN A WHISPER yet in the Potter Com
mittee concerning the cipher dispatches.
The New York herald., 1878-12-19

The RETAIL DEALERS will please make note
of the decline in the price of coal yesterday
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HOW WAS SHE KILLED?

Coroner Nolan held an inqusss In Judge EIliottr
court room 10 Williamsburg yesterday In the Of
Bridget Lewis. who was found dead on Union avenue
on the 18th uit The evidence went to show tha. the
deceased whvlhad separated from her husbana lived
wih young son, In such extremc poverty at No 2gl
Union avenue that sue was Obliged TO beg Tor food
Her husband meanwhile, was stated, pushed
his claims 81 one ot the contestants In ths
Lewis viii case ana did nothing Tor her support
Two married daughters living IN the vicinity Of their
mother also, u was alleged, did nothing for her ON
the evening OF March 70 last deceased started rom
the house 10 Dog some bread from = baker on North
Fourth street She does not appear 20 have reached
the bakers shop, but was picked up dead with 3
fractured skull ~ tue roadway OF Union avenue The
evidence was very conflicting. aud no wagon could
be sscertstnsd TO have passed, the wheels Of winch
might nave caused the FRACTURE the jury returned the
ioIlowing verdict.-"Brdget Lewis came TO death
from tract urs oil the OK oil from cause
TO the jury" They also recommended that the ave-
nue. be graded. paved and lighted In the vicinity
where the tragedy occurred