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The New York herald., 1879-03-27


four thousand loads of rubbish every week
for several weeks to come we shall at least
see the benefit of having Mayor
to stir them mp. Nobody has failed
to observe the activity with which
the official excavators have sought for
the city pavement since the initiation
OF proceedings against the Commissioners,
and it has been thought that the Commits
sioners were getting ready to have the
streets examined by experts who would,
testify to their condition before the Gov
ernor But perhaps when they report how
clean the streets were the Governor will
want to know the date of their examine
tion. If he does this late activity will not
help but what it will do is to prove the
possibility of cleaning the streets, and
therefore show more plainly the delinquency
OF the Commissioners. We hope the Com
missioners in their present cleaning up will
not neglect their statistics, but keep an
accurate and minute account of the number
of loads and half loads removed from the
streets between the time of the Mayors
movement and the discovery of the pave
ment in every part Of the city, because
from the figures thus obtained we may
learn just how much rubbish has to be
removed every week, since the weekly
quantity will be about one-twentieth Of
what has now to be taken.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

March Is going out like crab.
Can the direct cable ever give the lie direct
The Chicago Journal calls it the widows smite.
good many lovers are laid up with newmoonia.
Bishop Fitzpatrick has been prelate OF Boston for
thirty-ive years.
AS Mrs. Oliver came from Kentucky she must be .
blue grass widow.
Mr. George S. Boutwell,. of Massachusetts. is at ths
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Queen Victoria isa good ballad singer. Only her
own family can hear her, according to etiquette.
A correspondent wishes to know whether circu-
atng library ought to be kept in stationery store
It is said that Gambetta's father used to deal In
oranges. Mrs. Oliver says that Simon did the Same.
John Sherman is now singing
o. zachariah, O. Zacharah;
Come over and sit by our kitchen fire.
Neal Dow. the temperance agitator Of Portsmouth.
Me- has recently celebrated his seventy fifth birth
day.
II the Cincinnati Commercial is trustworthy B,h
Buffers brickbats are smashing Widow divers
spring bonnet.
colonel w. T. Pelton. nephew Of 8. J. Tilden. Is
lying very i'll of nervous prostraton at his ip
the Everett House.
The wayside estate. formerly tho home Of Nathan
iel Hawthorne. at Concord. Mass. has been bought
by g. P. Lathrop, his son-in-law.
James Russell Lowell. Minister to Spain. win this
summer return to America on leave of absence. He
has just passed his iftieth year.
Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte arrived from Europe
yesterday his way to Baltimore to visit his grand
mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson -Bonaparte, who 10
very i'll. His family will come to America the 1st
of May.
Walt Whitman will lecture in New York on Abra-
ham Lincoln. Colonel Tom SCOTT has given him
pass to California and he is trying to pluck up cour
age to go there. On the 3lst of May Whitman will be
slxty and If his lecture Lincoln is not failure
he will prepare one on tramps.
Mr. f. d. Miet. ut Paris. has been maUied to Miss
Elizabeth Greeley Merrill. Among the witnesses to,
the marriage Mark Twain, Leslie p. Barnum.
Augustus st. Gaudens and W. G. Bunce. At tho
ception at Mllet's studio many we'll known
artists, journalists and officials, among whom
Consul General Fairchild and Secretary Hit. Nil.
let's last picture. of Eastern sword cutter. viii be
exhibited at the Royal Academy. London.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
Cleaning the strccts.

Fourteen thousand loads OF dirt from the
surface OF the streets and twenty thousand
loads of ashes have been removed since the
Mayor intimated to tho Police Commis-
sioncrs that he intended to take some
vigorous action in regard to their abandon
ment of the performance of their duties
At this rate the streets will present y be
clean; ia fact, they are now clean in many
places. For moro than year it has not
been possible to get so good view Of the
pavement as may bs had now, and II tho
Commissioners keep ON and remove thirty
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
CITY Salaries.

Mayor Cooper yesterday submitted to tho
Legislature his views regarding the pro-
posed reduction Of salaries in the several
departments of tho city government. The
Mayor is correct in saying that q reduction
that would not reach the Police, Fire and
Educational departments, which exhaust
about seven millions Of the ten millions
appropriated for salaries, would be an in
significant saving. lie might have added
that the pairing down of all salaries, includ-
ing these deparsments, would only b, as n
drop in the bucket Of economy as compared
with the decrease in our annual taxation
that might be secured by the consolidation
Of departments, the abolishment of useless
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
OBITUARY.
JAMES STUART.

Mr.. James Stuart well known banker. who has
lived in this city for the last fortyfour years. died
last Tuesday at his late residence. No. ~ East Thir
tyseventh street. in the sevcntyseventh Of his
age. The deceased anancier born in 1902. at
Market HILL county Armagh. Ireland. He came to
America at the age Of thirty. and made Philadelphia
his place of abode for few years. In 1885 he came
to New York and made his permanent home here.
Al the time of his decease he leading member
of the banking firm of Messrs. j. and J.Stuart Co..
No. % Nassau street. Upon his arrival in
New York he embarked during the year 1885. in the
dry goods trade with his brother william. aud
rcd on business at No. Gold street. The house
continued for the period Of twenty years to transact
. large amount of business and became one OF the
most extensive firms at that time in the dry goods
trade. having Abranch in Manchester. England. Tho
concern extended Its operations to city branches.
which In due Of time successfully opened
in Pine william and Nassau streets. The firm sold
out its dry goods interests in the year 1885, and
commenced banking business in the premises now
occupied by 1t.
In the course Of his successful career as citizon
of New York. tho late Mr.. Stuart occupied at differ.
he was OF the Irish Emigrant Society aud
filled this position for many years to the satisfaction
of all concarned with the association. whose aim and
object to alleviate the hardships of Irishnen
seeking an occupiton and home on these shores.
lie was o director OF the Fourth National Bank,
of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company.
of tho Scottish Commercial Insurance Company,
of the Hanover Insurance Company, and presi-
dent and director of the Hanover National Bank.
lie married. in the year 1885, the daughter of the late
Mr.. William whitewrght of this city. who is
still living, by whom lie had two daughters and
one son, all married and residing in New York. Dur
ing the last fifty tho deceased gentleman and hi
wife have been members of the Fourth Prcsby teriau
Church of New York. For the most Of this half cen
tury be filed tho olicc OF elder. lie has been
mittng i'm his duties as church-goer. and was
looked upon a liberal patron of charitable institu-
tions lie owed his marked success in life 10 active
energy and unfaggng perseverance, His death 10
Tie considerable wealth which he leaves behind goes
to- hie wife and children.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

ludicrous to pretend that the freedom of
elections is endangered by the presence Of
federal troops at the polls, IL we have arith-
metc enough to compute the proportion
between the available sotliers and the
mu1titudinous polling places The dan
ger from this source is chimerical; and, on
the other hand. it would be preposterous for
the President to attach any importance to
the futile law which permits the presence
of troops at the polls. Weafe confident he
will not veto the Army Appropriation bill
fox a reason SO utterly empty and frivolous.
Next, as to the Federal Election law. The
democratic caucus has not decided TO re-
peal it entirely, but only to amend it. All
that part of it which relates to elections
outside of large cities is to stand, that
part Of it which relates to cities Of twenty
thousand inhabitants and upward is to be
repealed. The supervisors of elections in
each election district are to bc continued,
with the right to examine and
port all the stages of mn cleo
tion. This will furnish to Congress am
pie means for Judging OF the validity of the
election of its own members, and it is diff
cultto see that anything beyond this is i'm
portant. 1t is proposed to repeal those
sections of the Revised Statutes which
authorize the appointment of u chief super
visor or elections in cities of not less than
twenty thousand inhabitants and the ap-
pointment OF deputy marShals Whether
tho President will think il his duty to veto
bill which repeals the iiscriraination
between large cities and small towns in the
management of elections is question
which only he can decide.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
Elsctricity vcrsus Gas-Edison's Light.
Wa .ooon&lx adsiaad xl,a aaax,t;aa -, 4 -.

Elsctricity Versus Gas-Edison's Light.
We recently advised the sceptics and gas
manufacturers to leave Edison alone with
his electric light and make Old Father Time
the umpire az to the merits of gas and cleo
tricity for public lighting. We felt sure
that If Edison's invention turned out to be
what he claimed it would be all the argu-
ments to prove it otherwise would be vain,
and many persons would feel anxious to
recall their hasty criticisms. 1t was in the
interest Of such persons that we rendered the
above advice, because we desired to spare
them the modification OF finding themselves
in the ranks Of false prophets, and that
the failure of their prophecies was due to
their ignorance of the ground on which
they ventured. Our report of the first
practical illustration of the progress made
by Mr.. Edison toward perfecting his plans
for electric lighting will be read with much
interest. In the battle Of the lights the
public have been hoping for the success of
nny new mode OF public and private light
ing that would relieve poor civilized hu-
mnnity from the despotic, and not always
JuSts iuic VI VIZ buS hAStci hc III
ventor at Menlo Park has, il is claimed.
practically succeeded in his object of divid-
ing the current to furnish number
OF electric lights each equal to eighteen to
twenty candle power on one circuit and in
the proportion OF six lights per horse power
expended in generating the current. These
are remarkable results, even if they ex-
haust his powers of invention. But we do
not think they do. They represent only
the first developments of system Of light
ing destined to replace that of gas, as the
latter has replaced tho ordinary candle.
But the application of gas does not end
with the superiority of its illuminating
power. We feel satisfied that instead of u
decrease in the manufacture of gns there
will bc an increase ii the chemists only
show the same amount of skill in applying
IL TO other uses MS they display ingenuity
in vainly argning the impossibility of en-
ploying electricity for lighting purposes.
Edison's successwill inspire other in ventors
TO rival and surpass him, and the world will
be benefited, although some established in
terests mny temporarily suffer.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
Have We Prophet Among Us


In the Graphic of yesterday appeared o
report of nm interesting conversation on
sThe Future" in which tho gentleman
upon whom the onus of answering fell in
dulged in predictions which, for number
and variety, cast into the deepest shade the
most oracular utterances of our other
esteemed metropolitan contemporaries. We
are informed that the present year will be.
in general, prosperous, although there will
be u widespread interest in precious metal
mining, q dangerous speculative feeling in
other industries, q partial failure of crops
and two important failures. in Wall street.
The prosperity of the year is to be as de-
ccptive a. that Of the seven fat kline Of
Pharaoh, however, for an unsuspcctod
weakness of our national banking sys-
tenn promises to expose itsolf. the bal
ancc of trade is to shift to tho
other side, Secretary Sherman mny be
nominated for the Presidency, aud foreign
war and new pcstilence, or an old one
with tendency to visiting, may be ex-
pected in the not remote future. AS these
predictions are in the line of contem-
poraneous human interest IL naturally
follows that sensible people will want
to have them at hand, where they
can follow them up. We. therefore,
scissor and reprint tho list, SO that
our readers may not complain that we
have left them unwarned. Between bless
ings and Affections the line Is drawn with
reasonable consideration, but there is still
enough OF warning in these prophecies to
cause any prudent man to keep his weather
ave omen.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

The WEATuER.-The disturbance which was
approaching from the northwest, as stated in
yesterdays HERALD, has now moved into the
central valley districts AS it passed over the
Northern Mississippi Valley it began to expand
rapidly, and yesterday evening it dominated the
weather in all the districts east of the Rocky
Mountain regions, except small section of the
New England States, where the barome-
, ter was high. but falling steadily. The
centre of lowest pressure is now moving
eastward from the Ohio Valley and the
gradients on it's eastern margin aro becoming
sleeper account Of the high area that over
lies the ocean off the Middle Atlnntic coast.
Rain has fallen in tho lako regions, the central
valley and Middle Atlantic districts, and snow
il reported in tho North. The winds have been
brisk in the central valley md lake districts
md generally fresh elsewhere. A fall has &C.
currc,l in temperature throughout the Middle
Atlantic, New England States and the North
west. In the other sections Of the country It
has risen. An electrical disturbance Of local
development passed over Cairo. ILL.,. yesterday
morning. The lightning damaged large con-
vent building considerably. In another column
il prin:cd'a cable despatch from London which
tells Of tho complete fiilflmcnt of the predictions
sent by the HERALD Weather Bureau. The
storm noticed by the Meteorological Bureau in
London approaching the west coast Of ireland
last evening was predicted Ia arrive between tho
2Jth and the 9th, attended by gales from the
southeast, backing to the northwest. II will bc
sccn by tho warming issued to the southwest
coasts from the Meteorological Office that the
storm arrived on time. The weather over the
British Islands will continue unsettled until the
early part of next wceIs, during which time the
winds will gradually back round by the north.
Tho weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
sill be warm aud cloudy, with rssin, followed to-
rard night by gradual clearing. Tomorrow II
promiscs to 10 cooler and partly cloudy or fair.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

GENERAL TERRY, who is good authority on
such matters, does not believe Sitting Bull will
make an unprovoked attack ON the whites.
Perhaps not, but battles are frequently started
by the irresponsible ''bummers" Of one side or
the other, and even competent commander like
Sitting Bull cannot expect to be free Of these.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
Ex-coNoRgssmAN JOHN NJ. coaHLAx.

John NJ. Coghlsn. cx-Congressman from tho Third
district OF California died To-day at his residence In
Oakland San Francisco. Born at Louisville. KY.
In 1885, he enigratcd to California in 1850; was ad-
mittcd to the Bar; member Of tho California
Legislature In 1S65-6. and was elected Representa-
tive rcpubllcau from California to tho Forty second
Congress, serving from March 4, 1871, to March y
1919.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
TRIPLE SH e q T
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1879.

The probabilities are that The 'ccather i' New
York and its vicinity today scM be ,cayms and
cloudy, ,cih rain, folloced to,ca'd night by gradual
clearing. Tomorrow it promises to be cooler and
pa,'tiy cloudy or fair.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

president WHITE Of Cornell has becrfnom-
mated for the Berlin Mission. What will Simon
say-if he has time to devote to such common
matters at prcsent-to this new evidence of the
governments weakness for CONDEMNED literary
r.Il.ra
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
nn. @. L. pISHLEn.

DR.. G. r. Dlsher, one Of the most prominent and
highly respected physicians in New Jersey. died OF
scarlet fever nj Hightstown Monday night, after
an illness of only two days. He was but thrty-six
years age but had taken high rank In the profess
sion aud was secretary of the state Sanitary Council
a beloved, respected Christian gentleman, man
high in social and political circles and good ply
niciAn.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

One MURDERED SAILOR was legally avenged
yesterday by the sentence Of the murderer who
kept sailors den, to life imprisonment 1t il
to be regretted that the prisoner cannot be
accompanied by most of his clan.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

THE TRUE INwARDNEss Of political assess
ments by the National Republican COMMITTEES
began to leak out yesterday in Washington
The leaks aggregated more than hundred thou
sand dollars.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

''CoME INTo TIE GARDEN, MAUD" is all very
well when Maud has not succumbed to n multi
plication table but when she has been increased
fourtcen-fod the case Mt Gilmore's last
night the invitation comes not from the rudcr
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
JAMES DRUMMoND.

Few men were better known to bankers than old
..Jimme" Drummond, whose death is announced.
Ue was born In tho county Antrim, Ireland, and
eu,crntcd 10 America In 1881 For forty -four years o
was In the employ OF L. X /. stuart 4 Co.. ban kers,
being cighty-onc years old when he died. One OF
the nrm that he had 30 long aud faithfully served
died on the day
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

Mr.. ARTHUR SULLIVAN, whose music even be-
fore the production of "Pinafore" was very pop
ular in america, has just acknowledged receipt
of his first remittance from this side of the
Atlantic. and yet there publishers and others
who insist that no international copyright law is
necessary for the protection of authors rights.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

Both HOUSES OF CONGRESS adjourned yester-
day almost as as they met, but the Senate
considerably allowed time for the introduction
of new bills. rs the present session is to be short.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
G. Il. NIrANGsr

At his homo In Bloomfield. Tuesday. died Mr..
Christopher T. Nuangst one Of the best known citi-
zcns of Essex county. and long nn employe OF tho
Morris Canal Company. Deceased sixty years Of
but year ago Joined tho groenbackcrs. Ho loavcs
considerable property.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

EVEN HAYTI DECLINES our silver currency
unless it be first subjected to q tax. And once
we were told that non-exportability was a
virfue ~
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
what the "L' Railroad Managers Say

what the "L' Railroad Managers Say
The interviews with the managers and
other officials of the IL" roads, which we
print this morning, show pretty clearly
how sharp is the struggle between the
rival roads for the possession of the
prize Of the east side traffic. We
commend the position assumed by
Mr.. Field regarding the danger to public
safety caused by switches, functions and
crossings on the III" roads, and congrat-
ulate him on his wisdom in adopting the
HEnALp's views. But as he is ''only one
among thirteen" his good wishes for the
adoption of plans that will insure safety
are not enough to satisfy the public
demands in the case. The plans must
be adopted at once, and the sooner
each individual of the particular ''thir-
teen" and of all other thirteens under
stands this imperative necessity the better
for their interests. The Grand Central
trains, except for local accommodation in
Forty-second street, should be discontinued
without days delay. and steps promptly
taken to remedy the other existing evils to
which we have SO often called attention.
Regarding the proposed crossing at Chat
hum square. the spirit of concession to public
opinion exhibited by the "1'' managers is
wonderfully modified by what these gen.
tlemen are pleased to call ''our rights :"
President Field is perfectly willing that
the safety of the public should be secured
by the abandonment by President Garrison
og Ill ssrtn htcO ko okr
He even offers the latter gentleman
"six hundred thousand Brooklynites"
in o lump to induce him to step
out of the way. President Garri-
son says, ''No; keep your Brooklynites
yourself. This Pearl street route Is as
much ours as yours, and we mean TO have
our rights" Now, beneath all this solici-
tude for the public safety expressed by Mr.
Field there is desire to prevent the Metro
politan III" from crossing the. New York
III" ut Chatham square not, we suspect,
because it would be danger, bat TO cut
Of the Metropolitan IL" from q share
in the profits of certain dis
trict. The Metropolitan IL" will make
the crossing. it is pretty certain, unless
there is compromise or the law interferes.
The directors hope that all apprehensions
of danger growing out of Tuesdays ''acci-
dent" will fade from the public mind, and
that everything patent switches, receipts,
signals and dividends-will be lovely.
Well, we shall see; but in the meantime
the HERALD will not fail to show the differ
ence between public safety as viewed from
outside tho IL" companies and as seen from
| within.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
Another Brutal murder.

The murder Of Judge Elliott at Frankfort,
KY, rs told in the HERALD's dispatches to-
day, is one of those revolving crimes which
seem to palliate, if they do not justify. the
summary punishment Of their perpetrators
at the hands of an incensed community.
A judge of the Court Of Appeals who has
rendered decision in case in which he
can have no interest save that Of doing equal
justice and vindicating sound principles of
law is met in the public streets by the
suitor against whom the Judgment of the
Court has been given, and without q word
Of warning is shot through the heart and
laid dead on the sidewalk. The murderer,
on being arrested, admits that the second
barrel of the gun with which the crime was
committed was loaded for the assassination
of another of the judges, and would have
been used upon him had not some
children been in the way. So mis-
erable o murder is inconsistent with the
idea of q sound mind. 1t is charitable to
believe that the mans brain must have
been affected, probably by his legal trou-
bles, until he was insane enough to regard
even the calm judicial tribunal before
which the case was argued as his personal
enemies. The excitement that prevails at
Frankfort is natural after such a crime !;
but it is to be hoped that justice will be
carried out in proper form and that the
murderer will be punished according to
the provisions of law after fair trial. In
this case, as in the Porter butchery in
Texas, the failure of justice would reflect
upon and seriously injure the communities
in which the crimes were committed.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

THE STATE SENATE declines to reduce legisla-
tive salaries perhaps it might begin reforming
at the other end by increasing the working
hours.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was more active and prices were higher.
Government bonds were firm, States dull and
railroads higher. Money on call lent at 6
per cent until the close, when the rate was per
cent.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27

Coal Is STILL FALLING and sunshine is be-
coming more abundant.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
JOHN n. HArcurn. uunNAIrsr.

JOHN L. Hatcher, we'll known journalist, and one
of the editorial staff of tho Iouisvo Coricr-Jos,ne
died ut Nashville. Tenn, yesterday.
The New York herald., 1879-03-27
JOHN A. GARDNER.

John A. Gardner. late United Statcs District AZ
torney for Rhode Island. died yesterday morning
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