The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-11


MIR. CHrLDs's logic is not up to the level Of his
obituary poetry.
When O'LEARY broke down in the Gill
moro Garden contest 1t was proclaimed that
he would tread the course no more. But Cross
LAND. the Engshman who didn't win in the
recent Chicago match. has persuaded the ex-
champion to walk in n seventy two-hour con-
test for 1--WE thousand dollars and two-thirds of
the gate money and O'LEARY is to go into
training for the race. 1t is to be a hecl-and-toe
contest. not a running match. as modern go
as-you-please walks have come to be. 1t is
significant that OIEARY is to train. Formerly
he spurncd 10 prepare himself for the struggles
in which he engaged. Many believe that he
lost his chances In tho Gilmore Garden walk
because he had paid no attention 70 his physi-
cal condition. That he was not prepared for
the great strain necessary to success was pain
fully apparent ut the very outset OF the contest.
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EDWARD PAER did more toward convinc-
ing Philadelphians Of his insanity than did the
lawyer who defended him against the accusa-
ton Of numbering his daughter No sooner
had the sentence OF death boen pronounced
upon MIN than he swallowed poison. and the
court attendants bore him unconscious to his
cell He died yesterday morning. PABR indeed
acted more like an insane man from nrst to
last than like ono IN reason His crime
committed in n peculiarly atrocious manner.
Angcred Mt his daughter no pursued her. knife
in hand striking and cutting her until she was
dead. Thereafter he persistently confessed and
gloatcd over the murder. His lawyers defence
was that PARIS brain WIS affected by a frac-
ture Of tho skull and the spectators at the trial
enjoyed the novelty Of seeing the prisoners
head offered and accepted in evidence. to prove
s..t
cracked skull.
COURTNEY threw down the oars after HAN
Ian defeated him at Lachine last fall declaring
he would not row again. He sold his racing
shells and resumed work Mt his trade. But the
fever has taken him again and we have tho de-
tails OF u match between him and fRENcuY
JOHNSON 10 bo rowcd at Silver Lake. It is
hintcd too. that he desires to pull once moro
with the plucky Canadian champion. Many
persons cling u the belief that COURTNEY is
every bit as good an oarsman as HANLAN. and
that the Lachine contest WIS won by default
HANLAN's performances in England arc doing
much. however 10 dispel that notion. Ii is
nevertheless plain that COURTNEY can. il he
chooses give HANLAN lively pull. and another
race between them would be interesting.
A serious danger incurred in Offering re-
wards for the detection and conviction Of Grim
inals is that persons may be- tempted 10y their
greed for money to procure n conviction on
ueriurcl testimony. II seems according 10 nm
AFFIDAVIT by A. VI. HALE. a Boston policeman
that SOLOMON Cohen. the detective who Oh
taincd tho evidence on which JosrpH b. BUz-
zELL was found guilty OF the murder Of SUSAN
HANSON. told HALE that the promised reward
Of 81 900. which had stimulated CoHEN's zeal
had not been paid. and Cohen added that UNI
less he got his money he would give tho Ator-
ncy-Gcncral tof New Hampshircl away" that
he had done a good job. and had earned 81 OOO
and unless they paid him thore would be
trouble. Whatever may be tho facts IN tho case
OF BUELL.. thore is too much reason 10 believe
that rewards in criminal cases are often great
incentive to crime.
Many OF our readers on their way to or
from tho White Mountains. or perchance the
Hub ofthe Universe itself have caught pleasant
glimpse through the car windows of the Hart
ford Park-or Bushnell Park "a IL is now Gated
by the Harforders. in houor OF "A man who con-
trived 10 save tmc from his theological contro-
versies and his bank board To be "a public spir-
tied citizen. Formerly this Park was over
looked 10y the brown chapel and dormitores Of
Trinity College; now il forms setting for
that alleged architectural Jewel. the new Con-
intrusted TO four Commissioners. One OF the
tour. Mr.. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNuR is under
stood 10 be- the editor al intern, o. the Hartford
CoiwdnL
A week or two ago these Commissioners sent
IN Il communicated 10 the Hartford Court of
! Common Council imploring that BODY to
reconsider n previous refusal 10 vote $1,000
for Park work. or at least u appropriate
from $500 90 81 600 for nm absolutely necessary
change Of grade. ThoCourt Of Common Coun-
ell didntscc the necessity. and the Hartford
CoUrdd thereupon proceeded TO punish the
Court Of Common Council thus;
The refusal to bet the Park Commission carry ont
thtir mhinted Nan n the more troNosins, because 10
comes nom lew men who Know notlin. about the
icttN consideration not avowcd The Commission nlit
A. Well nav, in To- them chapter m the GrecE fc.
tam, NJ as tlr reasons Tor what they asked what their
motive. are We d. n.t pretend 20 Know but the erndins
can Toe dome ti mpossihc 10 The ciukcus appear
| aiew isuoramu,cs To defeat any plan proposed
This word gnorapuses seems to have given
offence 10 the Hartford Court Of Common Coun-
| ell Tho Aldermen have already formally re-
guested Mr.. WARNER to resign his place on the
Commission.
MIR. JOSEPH LA FLEsCHE and his daugh-
ter. Of the Omaha tribe Of Indians. were sent to
the Indian Territory to investigate the condi-
| ton OF the Poncas who yet remain in the region
| OF deadly levers to which they were consigned
| by CARL ScHUR2. Mr.. Ia FLEscHEs report
corroboratcs everything that STANDING BEAR
| had said in regard to the misery OF his people.
All the Poncas talked about" Mr.. la FLEscHE
| said. was their dead friends and their sick
ness. They said;
90 II we had ever given 10 come here We
might be able to bear the and death with
more ofuude but thcy have put here by force and
II Is Just ia, th,y had condemned the whole
tribe To die They tell us We Will used CLIMATE
| but by that time the whole tribe will be dead 800
| Mr. la FLEscHE added;
They asked me 10 ,ay 10 the churches and the LAWYERS
10 su try io help Them that they nIsht lives
oil their wives aud children In one family woman and
her little baiy died, and two little girls. NJ aud %
wears all mat was cit u the family dragged With their
own hnnls the bodies from the tent ard buried them
Twenty ionf iauilc, have become entirely extinct since