The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-02-21

I gave verdict OF acqutttal. The other case is
one in which two milk dealers. brothers, OF
South Orange. were arrested on Wednesday.
| The allegations are that they set fire to the
house In which n Mr.. KOHL and his daughter
/ live. Insurance men say that unless the nrd is
extingushed before 1t gets under Roadway.
there is very little chance OF getting evidence OF
tho inccndiary's work. and that arson Is an ex-
ceedlngly difficult crime to prove when 1t is
done with skill.
II Is proposed in Albany to reduce the sal
airy Of the Commissioner Of Jurors in this town
to $1,000 year The Commissioner is now
paid $1,000 sum altogether beyond tho
bounds Of reason. The reduction which the
Committee have agreed to ia hardly sufficient.
$500 year being good pay for the work to DO
DONE
Oswcgo County is in n dilemma. For
twenty-Ono consecutive years LUTHER CoNK.
LIN was her Treasurer. and he was also a
worker in the Church. and q lender I'm the
enterprises OF the little village OF Mexico. He
died few months ago. and tho expert who has
Just finished investigating his accounts reports
That he began to take the county's money In
1860 and continued TO do SO TO the time Of his
death the aggregate Of the dcialeaton being
sl33sl06l. His bondsmen wero merchants
farmers, and tradcsmcn Of tho village and It's
nelghborhood. Thoy wero frequently changed
In the twenty-ono years Of his service. but rs
the liability Of n bond does not expire until
twenty years. thoy are all liable. and to pay the
amount Of tho deialcation must ruin almost ali
OF ihem-nnd that means ruin for the thriving
hamlet Oswegp County's dilemma therefore
Is whether the bondsmen shall ba prosecuted
One Of the two men arrested for Selling
one OF Mrs. DE BARY's earrings has confessed
that two other mon assisted him in his opera
tons and that they had previously attempted n
similar robbery in Fifth avenue. They had
noticed that many ladies were foGd Of display
ing their diamonds and other Jewels in the
street and they went up the avenue. Ms they did
on Friday last. in the thiers words. TO take
in the situation" Two ladies' In a carriage
driven by a man in livery. attracted their eye.
and offered them a chance. Ono OF the thieves
ran 70 the carriage opened the door and tried
10 snatch tho iewclry worn by tho Indies. One
OF the ladies screamed and struggled. and when
the horses became frightened By the noise the
thief Jumped or tho step aud fed Tint was
done in front Of Mrs. A. I. STEwARrs residence
in broad daylight The robbery on Friday last
WAS Just as bold. Now. the young men NJ + fth
avenue might get rs much fame rs NAN. the
life saver. ~ orgNni2ng an amateur associa.
ton for the protection OF ladies' from footpnds
In the mean time the ladies' must be careful In
exposing such tempting attractions as solitaires.
Tho Life Of Lincoln" by WARD II. La
MON. published in 1872 by OsaooD Co. OF Dos.
ton, Is recalled to public attention about once
every year, and serves momentarly the turn OF
newspaper gosslps. and even OF ambitious cor
respondents who may happen ut the Same mo-
ment to be out Of topic. and out OF the neces-
sary funds TO meet Il board bill. Among the
rest GATH" better known as the Venetian cor
respondent Of tho Tribune. or the poet laureate
Of the Washington Ring. with an humble imi-
tator Of his who has found means TO get into
tho Indianapolis Sentinel with the signature Of
JEROME" have laucrly taken 10 pedding
around their musty tales about MIR. LAMoN. and
selling them for what they will fetch There is
no law at present to prevent the Washington
Herald or the Indianapolis Sentinel from pur-
chasing such sun as this huta sensible news
pnper would regard 1t Us about as unmerchant-
able rs rotten eggs.
When Mr.. Lannon's book wns published It was
denounced by the goody-goody critics MS being
shamefully truthful and accurate. We do not
recoleci that single one OF them presumed to
question the fncts embraced in Mr.. LAMoS un-
vanished narrative. But they said in sub
stance. that the first duty Of bographer was
10 suppress the truth whenever the truth would
be less agreeable than n neatly constructed
fasrhood. upper HOLLAND. who had written
II life OF LINCOLN on the opposite principle, WIS
shocked out OF his seven sens $ by Mr.. Lannon's
nnolushing veracity, and his outcrips and wild
appeals for help In the desperate effort to write
down his barbarian rival were pitiful to hear.
OF course Mr.. GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND
being II person Of refined and delicate sepsi.
blitIes is precisely Of Brother TUPpER's mind.
GEORGE ALFRED seems TO have natural and
cultivated aversion to tho truth. He is, like
TuPPEn HOLLAND Il person OF fine culture"
in this respect. The truth is often vulgar and
repulsive and there are truths which would
probably cause GEORGE ALFRED to faint. He
IS. however fully acquainted with his own
weakness, and was never known to NEEDLE
with the article except upon compusion The
most critical analysis will fail to discover the
anlest trace or color OF 1t In any Of his really
ambitious compositions. always Of course ex-
ceptlng the famous letters from Venice.
But the most maladrot of Mr.. Lannon's recent
critics is witness who appears under the un-
fortunate auspices OF Mr.. JAY GoULps Tribune
He assumes that Mr.. LAMoN denied the mar
rlnge of Mr.. LINCoLNs parents. and that he in
tended the world TO infer that Mr.. LINCOLN was
not born in lawful wedlock. But Mr.. LAMoN
y
declared explicitly. ON evidence satisfactory TO
him, that they were lawfully married, but that
neither he nor Mr.. HERSDoN had been ablo to
Ind any record OF the fact. To supply this de-
hciency we are now furnished with copy Of
n record in Washington County. Kentucky.
which shows the marriage to have taken place
on the 23d day OF September 1906. This dis
poses OF the imputution respecting the Presl-
dent which these superseryiceable friends have
gotten up among themselves and gratultously
saddled upon Mr.. LAMoN But. after all, docs
not this certificate If genuine. provo too
much2 Mr.. LIEcoLN's elder sister was
born on the 10th OF February. 1907. less
than six months after tho marriage Of Tom
LINCOLN and NANCY HANKS. according to
tho Washington County certificate. We are
very much afraid that Mr.. GoULD's Tribune
and UPPER HOLLAND. and our dear, delicate
GEORGE ALFRED, are doing the LINCOLN family
no particular service in their excessive zeal
and we protest decidedly against the newspaper
discussion OF the morals Of NANCY HANKS. into