New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-24

tends ms action IN permitting inc pliE
San Miguel TO pass Quarantine. -= The re-
port OF a case of yellow fever at Hoboken was
unfounded. 80 Gold value of the legal-tender
silver dollar (412l2 grans) S7.21 cents. =-
Stocks generally dull but higher and closing strong
Tn WEATHrR.-TRIBUNE local observations III
dcate slight changes in temperature, and partly
cloudy and clear weather, with chances OF showers
in the morning. Thermometer Yesterday: Highest,
So; lowest, y average, 79ll-.
Among the things in everyday life that are
stranger than fiction should be rated case
reported elsewhere. A widow is compelled to
bring suit against her father-in-law to obtain
the privilege of burying her husbands body
which the father has placed in his own vault.
This being the season Of intellectual saunter-
ings, many will read with pleasure the ac-
count given elsewhere of a few quiet hours
spent in the dull but far from uninteresting
French town of Charities. The chief charm
of the city is its cathedral, which is pictur-
osouely described.
The latest bulletins from Memphis do not
give any more encouraging view Of the situa-
ton than before. There were nineteen new
cases yesterday, and the fever is said to be
spreading through the northern portion of the
city. Three cases showed themselves at Louis
vile among refugees from Memphis.
Some very interesting testimony was OBJ
famed Yesterday as to the methods employed
in the Sheriff. Office to distribute the perqui-
sites made out Of prisoners. A Deputy Sheriff
squeeZes the money out of the prisoner, and
gives a certain share to a small boy in the office.
This would seem to be a very remarkable
proceeding if the boy kept the money, but he
does not He puts it III certain spot agreed
upon, and the person whose dividend it is
goes to that place and gets it. If the money
is properly earned. it is q little singular that
so much circumlOcutiOn and shyness should
be employed in its distribution. Cakes Ames
himself was not half so secretive and peIam-
bulatOry.
The Spinoa project for a steam millennium
still sticks. The Controller made another
attempt yesterday. in the Board of Sinking
Fund Commissioners, TO have the contract
executed, but the whole matter was laid upon
the table. The longer this continues the longer
will the city be spared the pain OF knowing that
g valuable franchise has been recklessly granted,
and without sufficient recOmpense to the city.
Probably there would DE no objection any
where to allowing the steam-heating project to
be tried under proper restrictions and within
comparatively small area but there is a
great deal of reluctance, we are satisfied, to per-
mita virtual monopoly to he granted to this COM
pany, and the mass of citizens will not be
sorry to see the contamination of the scheme
deferred, and, if possible, defeated.
Lord ChelmsfOrd's victory at Ulundi will
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ley thinks so, and he has accordingly directed
the home Government not to send him any
more men or supplies. The success could
hardly be more decisive. With force of 5000
men Lord Chelmsford encountered on the morn
ing of the 4th inst twelve regiments of Zulus,
numbering about $4,000 men, posted in posi-
ton deliberately selected by their King. The
British troops formed into the historic hollow
square, which did such signal service at
Waterloo, and successfully repealed each
charge of the African hOrdes. After an
hours fighting the Zulus gave way in dis
order, and being pursued by cavalry were
reduced to a state of utter confusion. Follow
ing up the victory the British force
burned Ulundi, and the neigbboring kraals.
Only ten British soldiers were killed, and fifty
three wounded, while the Zulu loss is estl-
mated at 1000. 1t is possible for the Zulus
to prolong the warfare, for the King has no
capital city, and is not utterly demOralized
when he loses one of his strongholds. But
Cetywayo must now be convinced that fur
Their resistance will be useless and can only en-
tail heavier penalties.-Lord Chelmsford's mill
itary reputation, which has been SO sorely tried
IL this campaign, may now be regarded as re-