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DID He ATTEMPT SUICIDE?

Dr. Harrington, Of tho Asior House, was called
upon, between twelve and one O'Clock yesterday
morning, TO attend man who, 1t was said, had shot
himself at tho Cosmopolitan Hotel, corner OF Cham
bcrs street ana West Broadway When tho doctor
reached the hotel he found the patient suffering from
nervous excitement, VOL MS from wound
In the lett shoulder. The bullet Embedded iu the
muscles, and the doctor unable to extact
It. rhe name Of the wounded man. as IN
scribed by himself the hotel register,
IS a. Livingston. OF Passac, N. J. lie Informed DR..
farrn that The shooting was accidental; that IN
openlpg hrs vaiIsc IN which the pistol was, Ia sumo
unaocoutaplc way the weapon was discharged. IL IS
asserted however that the shooting was one oi sew
oral attempts at suicide which the man has made
lately ana that hts name rs J. Leroy Livingston, OF
Troy. N. " some weeks ago J. Leroy Livingston
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-09
LITTLE SUFFEKLsRS.

On tho top floor OF tho double tenement house No
81 crosby street, Mrs. johnson rented small bed
room anu kitchen, whore sho and husband and
their Two nttlo children resided. Her husband lett
her two weeks ago. since which time she mas been
p.wnng and selling ovcry article OF furniture In hcr
dingy rooms TIL vestige rema nd. Yesterday,
at two r. NJ, she won't out, locking tho door sftcr
her. tho IsiRhbors heard the children moan.
ing and crying, anu finally OF them
burst the door, when thew horn.
fled at the spectacle which met their gaze.
On the mouldy floor Law The children. The youngest
BABY four months old, ragged and squalld, but
cJnpsrativcly healthy. The other chiid BOY. three
and n half years Old. was emaclatcu Yah sick ness
aud hunger Oinccr Kelly, OF tho fouatccnth pro-
cinct Yves called ia and BIO notified Police Heatqu2r-
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to this city. having been obliged Troy,
It Is said, account OF domestic difficulties In 1874
Mr. Livingston married lady IN Troy and lived hap
PLY with her al 4 year or aga, wheu, II
Is stated, no formed an improper connection with
u lady with whom he eventually left Troy His
wife has succeeded in obtaining divorce from
him. and the whole affair, II rs further stated, gave
him Euch trouble that he attempted suicide IN
street shortly alter his first In
this ciy. II is also stated that DR.. Farrington's
patient very anxious that his wife should be
made aware OF the accident that had happened 10
him. which would seem to indicate that he aud J
Leroy Livingston are two dist,nc, persons Yesterday
afternoon the mi red man left The hotel.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-09

Stony Brook, l.. l., was visited on Friday night by
destructive fire. II broke In the buildings OF Mr.
.. r. Bsyls on the main street, occupied by S. r.
wicgs blacksmith; Forrest y. Hawkins. wheel.
wright, and seiah TiIlotson, harness maker--sil of
whom had large stocks hand Underneath the
buildings when stand on high posts, was stored
several thousand feet OF lumber IN which the Ore IN
believed TO have originated The three buildings
were burned down within lev minutes Mr.. Blyis'
horse and wagon we're rescued from the barn which
also are and burned with ns othc contents
OF hay, lime and cement, and his dwelling was with
difficulty saved. HIS loss estimated at $40, 900; In.
surcd tor So, go Mr. Hawkins was not insured. Mr..
TotsUn's loss is ST. 900; insured tor $500 Tho lire
Is believed to have tho work of an incendary.
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AN opsrnuurIoNIsr IN rnounr Z.

William Richardson, President Of The Atlantic Ave
nue. Horse Car Railroad Brooklyn, was arraigned be-
tore Judge Walsh yesterday To answer a charge OF
assault and battery preferred against him by several
laborcrs In the employ OF tho Steam Transit
Railroad Company. Tho compisnants were ON.
pioycd the DAY previous ~ excavating a hole
Tor one OF the plates OF the new elevated
railway, which IS TO span tho track OF defendants
road Tbcy aiicRe that while so occupied Mr. Richard.
directed ns servants To throw DIRT aud sanu upon
them ~ order 10 nl up the excavation. Mr. Ricnari.
sou pcsdeu not guilty. aud moved that tho charge pc
dismissed Judge Walsh. however. denied the no.
ton, aud act the case down Tor examination ON
juno L.
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ters, when the case was placed In charge OF Ohccr
Lunderbcrg, OF the Society for tho Prevention
OF Cruelty 10 Children, who conveyed tho children 20
the Central Uihcc, whore they placed In the
keeping OF Mutron Webb. The baby about ten O'Clock
last night trans lorred 10 the Infant Asylum on
kandalis Island. Mrs. johnson called al Police
Headquarters about halt past O'Clock In search OF
her hall famished children, but WAS herself detained
q prisoner.
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FATAL STABBING.

Coroner simms was notified yesterday TO hold a.
inquest on the body OF James Ryan, who died essly
IN tue morning at St Pctcr's Hospital, Brooklyn,
from tho effects OF stab wounds received during q
lght with John u. Heating on Wednesday svenins
last Ryan cooper w trade and lived 1T No.
atcy after the occurrence, and he now 10 the Ray.
mona street JAN
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-09
KILLED BY A HORSE CAR.

Hugh McKinnon, thirteen years Of ago, son Of
Policeman McKinoon. Of tho Carmansv.llc precinct
while at play with several companions on FRIDAY
nient IN Eighth avenue, near floth street was run
over Ny an Eighth avenue cur and had his leg badly
crushed The unfortunate lad was taken to the ibiry
second precinct station house, and thence 10 the
Ninc,y-ninth street Hospital. no died nj Que o'clock
yesterday mofa ils.
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nrH AVENUE LINN.

The employ os vi the Metropolitan Elevated Rail-
way we're notincd yesterday that no trains would DO
that road to-day. fnc reason Tor this, II is
said, Is the lack OF system that will enable tho
managers TO relieve the employees VI the road
IRE cmp loy ed through week. As soon, however,
Ms proper ngeinents nave been made trains VIII
be run on sundays all through tho day and lar into
the night
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FOR THE HOME.

Tho treasurer OF the seaside Home, f. d. Wood.
Brooklyn, Acknowledges tho rccsipt or $500 toward
the funds of that institution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27

turn out for good OF the college am ruined, and
vile Tie friends Of the institution understand tar can
no lnger be its hene.acog IL "a more likely they win
generously than feould have
big doac evfn II this thing had not hrppcnc1 But asI
SAID before the college wIlnot sun way orisin-
CONS suicent 10 cary II along THE 'ny eDiow
t needs WI be 10 multiply me Dgliainss an establish
and have faith that there VIII De n0 lack ~ nuts for
sss pq,pcsf n US ce1 S s o aeonn o av e
mary cmoarfassnentS'
Prince Louis Napoleon met with q cordial
reception Denmark The object Of his VISIT IL has
been rumored, matrimonial, but the project
came to naught on account OF bis religion On this
point English paper remarks The prncesses OF the
royal house of Denmark. whose smiaDhty aud grace
capavate 50 many royal suitOrs. have never allowed
religious differences to weigh too strongly n these cases.
One Of them betrotncd 20 tho late Czarewich aBd
forthwith she commenced a course OF studies under
Greek Church clergymen TO qualify her In becoming
member OF her husbands communion The CzaFewltci
however died, the PriDcesss religious dispositions
collapsed year or 80 later on the younger brother
OF her deceased betrothed took his place IN the proposed
sumed her perceptions OF the orthodoxy OF the Greek
Catholic Church"
YoKAHAMA, July 1.-Mori Arinou, former
Charge d. AfaIres at Washington and recently Minister
to Chna appointed Second Minister of the De
partment Of Foreign Affairs The Court IL occupied
with active preparations for h Hkados Northern four
ney. which Will occupy three months.
SAN Francisco, July 26.--GeOrge +. Sew.
ard United States Minister TO China, arrived to-day
in the steamer City of Toxic.
QUEBEC, July 26.-The Very Rev. Father
QUINN VicarGeneral Of New York. and the Rev. Father
o'Farrell. OF New-york. are here.
LONDON, July 26.-The Queen has created
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia member
of the first class Of the Order OF the Bath.
HAVANA, July 26.-General Mejia sailed
for New-York Oh the Steamer City OF Vera Cruz.
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latest aids of science, and qualified by pre-
vious experience to make the best use OF
them during the few minutes in which the
SUMS disk is totally hidden. Among these
observers are such men as Professor
C. A. Young, Of Princeton College; DR..
Henry Draper, of New-York Professor s.. i.
Langley, of Allegheny Observatory. near
pittsbure, and Mr.. ]. Norman Loekyer,
of England. Each of these gentlemen has
distinguished himself in this particular field
of research. Each has made special study
of spectroscopy, and has added greatly to our
knowledge Of the suns composition, and the
action of those gigantic forces of which the sun
il the theatre. IL is safe to say that the eclipse
could not be watched by more skllful OD-
servers, and we may, therefore, confidently
expect as the result of their labors on Mon
day next valuable additions to our knowledge
of solar physics.
In order that every reader of THE TRIBUNE may
clearly understand the attendant circumstances
of this phenomenon, we print an explanatory
article on another page, accompanied by map
which shows the path of the total eclipse over
this continent and the times of the beginning
and end of the observation at numerous
nointg
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Jnoer 10 AopernsemenIs.

ASusEMENTs-9M Pdce-6th column.
BOARD AND RoOMs-9h PaGe-6th column.
l3rsISKss CHAKCEs-9kh PdGe-4th oOiumn.
coPARTNERsHIP NoTICEs-sM Pd0e-5th column.
DIVIDEND NOTICRs-Sh P0Ge-4th column.
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LAW ScHOoIs-9th P0ge-1st column.
MARBLE AND SLATR MANTELs-9tA Page-4th column
Marriages AND DEATIIs-5th Fage-5th column
hIscEIIANEOUS-10th PaOe-5th and 9Th Columns
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FEMALEs- Oh age-5th 60 utpf. 49,,
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wanton shot of defeated and maddencd polit-
ical schemers.
Thus, among honorable men, Mr. Potter as
snmed very great responsibility. Not That
the charge would be proved; the most con-
scientious person is sometimes led TO make an
accusation, which, upon the failure OF evidence
he had honestly deemed sufficient, ne Is
the first to withdraw. MIR. Potter TOOK
the responsibility, before all the World
of seeing the charge sustained. or
promptly, honestly and frankly declaring
that it was not sustained. Some conscience
Tess wretch, anxious only to defame better
men, might have wanted an inquiry with the
hope that some color of proof might at last
be raked up, though he had none at the start
or that the charge might stick in some MINDS
though the proof should fail. To suppose
that of Mr. Potter is to suppose that his friends
of all parties have utterly failed to knowth man.
If he is not unworthy of them and OF his for
mer SELF he meant when he took the grave
responsibility of offering the resolution, to see
that fair chance was given to prove or dis
prove it, and, If it should not be proved, man
fully, frankly and promptly to retraet the
cruel stigma which his act had cast upon nno-
cent and conspicuous public servants.
Mr. Potter's committee has heard ii con-
clusively proved by his own witnesses and
Others, that Mr.. Noyes had no knowledge oil
any fraud, but believed that there was no
fraud, in Florida. In the case OF Mr..
Sherman he has evidence just as convin-
cling and conclusive. After all this, what does
Mr.. Potter do I Does he rise, like gentleman
cd n pottar ond sov. "Evidence led me to
belleveit but examination under oath shows
that there was no proper foundation for
"my charge, ard ] withdraw it"Y We leave
him to answer Also, we leave those to answer
who in many positions of influence, have
made Mr.. Potters reputation strong and his
charge effective.
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WITH SUPPLEMENT.
TIE NEWS rHIs MoRNLNG.


FoREIGN.-An the Powers except Turkey have
ratified the Berlin Treaty. =- Lord Salisbury
saws that England has no secret engagements for
the future - The number of exhibition medals
has been increased 49, The Columbia College
crew was received in Paris. = Seventeen per-
sons were drowned in Ireland. == Further Bull
garian Outrages are reported.
DoMEsrIc-Judge Bond has been directed to
hold special term Of the United States Circuit
Court in South Carolina, in order 10 dis
pose of the case of the imprisoned Rev
enue officers 80 Int nal Revenue re-
ports show decrease for 1873 OF nearly
SIS, OOO 900. II labor riot occurred IN Washing
ton. THE Potter Committee examined General
Sypher and ex-CongressIuan Mercy - Eugene
Hale Is hopeful of the result Of the cam
paign in Maine 80 Generals SchO6eld and
Humphreys have written TO General Burnside
giving their views ON the reorganization of
the Army. == The steamer City of Toxic arrived
at San Francisco with Minister Seward and the
Chanese Ambassador ON board.
CRY AND SUBURBAS.-GeDeral Charles X. Graham
took charge of the Surveyors Office yesterday.
- John J. O'Brien was appointed Chief of the
Bureau of Elections in place of ID. j. Hasbrouck.
- Isaac P. Cooper continued his testimony in
the COoper-MaTsnaH contest. == Cool breezes
decreased the number of visitors to Coney Island.
80 Four European steamships will carry $50
passengers to-day. 80 Gold, 10012, 1909,
1OOIe. Gold value of the legal-tender dollar
at the close. $3.50 cents. Stocks active, closing
excited at partial recovery.
THE WEATHRR.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate partial cOudiness, followed by rains. Their
mometer yesterday, 7Se, 800, TO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.

Very keen interest is felt in scientific circles
in the total eclipse of the sun on Monday next.
Total solar eclipses are of rare occurrence, and
it happens that the one now near at hand will
be the last of the kind visible on this CONT
nent during the present century. The
path of the moons shadow runs almost
parallel with the Rocky Mountain ridges,
and crosses many elevated points easily Access
sble by railroad and admirably adapted for
witnessing the phenomenon under favorable
conditions. Since the last eclipse, too, great inn
proyements have been made in the spectrcscope
and in Photographic apparatus and chemicals.
and the scientists are accordingly eager to test
their powers on the outer envelopes of the sun,
which are only visible during the period OF to-
tai eclipse, and wrest from those mysterious
appendages the secret of their composition.
Extensive preparations have therefore been
made by our physicists and astronomers
to improve the rare opportunity afforded, and
large number of both Government and private
parties have already taken their stations along
the line Of totality, fully equipped with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27

II will be seen that The TRIBUNE is COM
PEELED TO make the heaviest payments. We
NAV add that we have the official postage re-
turns for the other Newly York papers as well
as for those embraced in the above
table and that The TRIBUNE is charged
more than any Of them. 1t pays, in fact,
according to the books of the Post Office De-
partment, the heaviest postage bill of any
newspaper in the United States and thus has
demonstrably, the largest circulation through
the mails.
We do not present these figures on any
theory that the largest circulation is always the
most valuable 10 advertisers. The EreRiHG Ners
may perhaps circulate ten copies TO The
Erenfng Posts one. Yet the bookseller or
ieweller who should thereupOn conclude that
he ought to advertise in The Necs instead of
The Post would be set down lunatic. Quality
of circulation is an element even more impor-
taut than its quantity, and the standing of the
paper is as important as either. There are
journals whose readers accept as mat
ter Of course what is found credited in
their columns. There are others, whose
readers as habitually think of any sprightly
matter found in them. "Well, that's lively;
IL wonder if it's true.n These last soon come
to regard the advertisements in their paper
with the same doubt as the reading mat
ter. No advertiser can judiciously select
his medium, therefore, without consider
ing the quality and the quantity of the
circulation and the general credenee
to which the paper entities itself by its care
TO avoid sensationalism and to print the facts
as they are.
But on the Grst and last Of these points
the advertiser can generally form an opinion
for himself. As to circulation there are
no accessible data for comparison that
can be absolutely accepted, save these
official statements of what passes through
the mails. We should be heartily glad TO
see some system of reports on other
circulation which should have the same
guarantees of absolute accuracy; and
we should cordially unite with our
contemporaries in an appeal to the Legis-
lature for law requiring, in the interest of
advertisers, sworn reports, to be verified by
official inspection of press-rooms, books and
bills for paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27
IN THE INTEREST OF ADHERTLsERS.

We have received from the Post Office De-
partment the following official statement OF
moneys paid for postage on regular edi-
tons of New-York morning newspapers for
the quarter just ended These figures
do THE TRIBUNE far less than JUS
tce, however, unless the reader remembers,
Q) that they show its postage on only
six daily issues per week against the postage
on seven daily issues of its contemporaries;
(2) that the payments on The Herald are
nearly double as much for the same number
of copies as on THE TRIBUNE, because OF the
excessive weight of The H9Glfs constant
supplements. triple, Quadruple, and even
quintuple sheets; and (3) that the
payments on The Times are also much
greater than on the same number of copies OF
The TRIBUNE because of the heavy wood
paper its Walter presses compel 1t to use. In
spite of these facts, the comparison for post
ages actually paid on regular editions stands as
follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27

An important series Of political manuals has given
the Hon. Edward Mcpherson a national reputation
as a statistician He has not only the studicus and
orderly habits Of experienced compiler, but also
the training of n practical politician. He knows
how TO collect aud arrange the facts of politics
and public life, aud, furthermore to separate the
wheat from the chaif, and 10 garner in his
storehouse only what is of real and per-
manent value. Those who are familiar
with his work in connection with recent
issues of THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC will scarcely
need to be reminded of his eclectic talent. but
is so well illustrated by the table of contents of
his Handbook of Politics for 1878 that we must
be pardoned for directing attention 10 1t. The two
years which have elapsed since the publication of
his last manual have been. perhaps, the busiest and
most eyentful in recent American history, and yet
we find in the volume complete record of
whatever has been of exceptional interest and
lasting importance. 1t contains the electoral
count Of 1876, the constitutional amend
ments in various States, an outline of ex-
ecutiye action affairs in Louisiana
and South Carolina the financial and political meas
ures Of the XLYth Congress- the platforms Of State
conventions the investigation relating to the Presi-
dental title the principal judicial decisions and in
short all that politicians and awysrsFill expect to
find in a reference-book Of this kind. CIR summary
does scant justice to the merits Of th6work. 1t is
certainly the most useful volume Of Mr. MePherson's
invaluable series.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27

ton that New-YorlI is at this torrid season
entirely without a circus, Mr.. Potter has
most handsomely resolved, so it is said, to
bring his ANIMALS here. With one ex-
ception, which Mr.. Barnum will please
note, this is undoubtedly "the finest
" show on EARTH" though it Is undoubt-
edly of inferior moral character to one
we might mention-but won't. New-York
will have the blessed privilege, free of charge,
of seeing General Butler try to stir up the
MacYeagh Commission, and of seeing who will
be getting stirred up when the General is
through 1t is our impression that at last
accounts Mr.. Macy eagh had hold of the pole.
The increase of wages demanded by the
employees of the Pennsylvania Coal Company,
and the formation of new organization to
press their claims, may mean more than
appears on the surface 1t will be re-
membered that in q letter from cor
respondent of THE TRIBUNE. printed the other
day. twas stated by manufacturer of Northern
Pennsylvania that a general strike might
be expected throughout the country on
or about August 10, and that there
was danger of widespread lawlessness at
the miners in the Northern part of the State
comes at a time when there are mutterngs
of trouble in the Schuylkill region also. 1t
must be admitted, however, on the other band,
that there seems to be an excellent pretext, at
least, for this new movement in the fact
that the promise, which the coal company is
said to have made, to raise wages from the
point to which they had been reduced. when
the rise in prices should Justify it, has not
been kept, though marked increase In prices
has taken place.
If all friendly Indians are treated by the
Government as the two tribes referred TO in
the Washington dispatches seem to have been
treated, it Is not strange that friendly Indians
are too often the midnight allies" OF the
hostiles. The loyalty of the Utes and the
POncas seems to have been made an excuse
for plumber by those who felt sure that no
outrage or fraud, however heinOus, would turn
their friendship into enmity. For two years
no clothing or camp utensils, and very little
food, have been issued to the tirst-pamed tribe,
and for nine months goods purchased for them
have been lying at a railroad station less
than two hundred miles away. BY whose
fault the delay has occurred is not stated.
The Poncas have been deprived of their old
lands without pay and have been driven,
wrongfully, it would appear, and with cruel
force, to new lands to which they have been
given no title. Stories like this-and ten of
them ore true where one is false, and ten are
suppressed where one sees the Legitimate
Indian outbreaks sadly ineligible, and give
look of brutal justice sometimes even to
savage atrocities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27

efforts Of parents and teachers would be ore profit
ably directed in mixing the rising generation IA
miliar with the and characters Of the gov
errors Of New-Jersey. The rising generation would
belablc todseovcr that molesty is the disiinsnish
ing virtue of the surviving ex-govcrnors OF that
State.