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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
A Wrong Reference.

The ill-used depart ment clerks at Wash.
ington are so Frustrated by their arduous
labors and the heat combined that they
appeal to the secretaries for relief Their
hours of service are fixed by law, and the
ingratitude of republics is shown in the
fact that these devoted servitors of the gov
ernment are compelled to work from ten
o'clock in the morning until four in the
afternoon, with only one hours allow
ance tor lunch. in order to earn
the salaries they condescend to re-
ceive from the public Treasury. They
now ask to be released from duty at three
o'clock p. NJ, and the secretaries are will
ing to grant them the favor. But in Wash
ington red tape is red tape, and as the law is
found to stand in the way of the early clos
ing movement the matter has been referred
to the Attorney General for his examination
and decision. The highest law officer Of
the government must study the provisions
of the statute, and search for some means
by which they can be evaded with official
propriety and without disturbing the red
tape deportm ent of the civil service before the
hours day at reading the papers, picking
their teeth and gossiping over current
scandals, can be cut down to four hours.
How much simpler and more practical it
would have been to refer the subject to q
janitor smart enough to understand his
business and provided with wand suffi-
GENTLY long to reach the hands OF the
highly respectable department clocks
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
The Conflict OF Ln,xs.

If two bodies moved by irresistible forces
in opposite directions encounter one
another in mid-career not even the maddest
possible astronomer can guess just what
may happen. Therefore the public must
possess its soul in patience and wait to see
the actual determination of the issue now
made between the S. p. G. A., under sew
eral statutes, and the street horse car COM
panies under the recent law made to pre-
vent the detention OF passengers. By re-
Gently enacted statute it is made INSIDE
meanor to wilfully or unnecessarily OBJ
struct the progress Of horse car through
the streets of any city in this State-a law
well contrived to reach the case of that
variety of tantalizing fends which puts
the wheels OF heavy beer cart in the
rails in front of car, and then strikes a
deliberate gait and enjoys the disgust
of the driver and the passengers.
But another law authorizes Mr.. Bergh's
officers to come summarily to the
rescue of any tortured" animal, and
it is interpreted, not unreasonably, that a
fair case OF torture is presented when a
lame uOTSc Is luduc 10 QTuW ulOuc u CIR Will
dozen passengers. Apparently the two
laws may prove inconsistent. Mr.. Bergh's
officer stops car and takes away the horse
because OF the violation of the laws for the
prevention of cruelty to animals; thereby
he has violated the law against the deten-
ton OF cars and is put under arrest. "Any
agent of the Society Tor the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals may lawfully interfere
to prevent the preparation of any act Of
cruelty" but if he SO interferes, behold! he
is taken on charges made under another
statute, and this action and reaction Of
laws will have third stage, for it is pro-
vided by law that ''any person who shall
interfere with or obstruct any officer of the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals in the discharge of his duty shall
be guilty of II misdemeanor." All this law
is naturally too much middle for police
men; but the plain truth is that the agents
of the Bergh society act under authority of
q law and their acts are not touched by the
other statute; that other statute is against
wrongdoers, not against the enforcement of
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
Two pennsylvania Conventions.

We are surprised that the Pennsylvania
democrats do not join hands with the
observation-disclosures, who appear to have
the most brains of the two. The democrats
yesterday made themselves ridiculous by
adopting platform which charges Presi-
dent Hayes with designs upon the iber-
ties Of the people, an accusation which
is so absurd that no politician who
has a decent respect for the common
sense of his constituents would venture
to make it. The use of troops at the polls,
and of elections marshals as these are now
allowed by law, is in our judgment unjusti-
fable, and the laws which authorize them,
and which were passed during period Of
social turmoil after the war, ought to be re-
pealed. because they are liable to gross
misuse in the hands of bad men. But to
make this very proper issue the occasion of
charges of usurpation and dangerous in
tentions on the part of Mr.. Hayes is to
weaken the real argument for the repeal Of
bad laws.
The democratic platform declares for q
currency of gold, silver and paper redeem
able in coin. 1t pronounces against sub
sides which enrich the few at the Expense
OF the many; do these Pennsylvania demo-
Gratis really mean that they will oppose pro-
tective tariffs? These are subsidies, and
the only subsidies now existing.
The greenbackers. who met on Tuesday,
had more method and knew better what
they wanted. Their platform demands the
substitution of legal tender government
notes for national bank notes; the substitu-
ton of fractional paper currency for trade
dollars and fractional silver; the passage Of
an income tax law, and the prohibition of
the truck system, which is an undoubted
evil
On the whole, if the republicans are wise
they ought easily to carry Pennsylvania
this fall.
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that they have come to what we here
call a s.period of economy and reform
to time when it is necessary to
cut off such Injuries as costly
foreign policy of meddling in other peo-
Piles business, with three or four wars at
time; but this they will not see. They are
like man who has long been accustomed
to live on a lavish scale of expenditure;
who ought to retrench, because his bust
ness is no longer profitable; but who cannot
bring himself to moderate and quiet scale
of housekeeping. We all know what the
end of such man is; but there is no bank
ruptcy court for nations or for ruling
clasSas
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. N. Orr. the artist will sail for Europe to-day
It is said that Liszt has the piano at his fingers
ends.
We are afraid that somebody's mosquito has been
united.
1t is the Thermometer. and not Sankey that now
sings NINETY and-Nine.
This weather we wish that there were clouds
enough to have silver Innings.
In China the signs OF aristocracy are small feet.
This must be effete aristocracy.
Ex-senator Reuben Z. Fenton, Of Jamestown.
n. Y, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
When man pays you only half . debt you are
supposed to get it on the half shell.
The Zulus threaten that if things are not made to
suit them they will hold an extra session.
Cincinnati paper wishes to know why Talmage is
such gasser. Well. we learn that he gets SO much
q thousand feet.
Rev. DIR. Pritchard. of the First Baptist Church
of Raleigh N. c.. has accepted the presidency of
Wake Forest College.
We do not know how it is with other people this
extremely typographical weather. but the chimney
sweep is always sooted.
'Give the devil his DUE" said Eighty orator.
Then up rose backwoodsman and said. HE will
take his due; don't you be afeared."
Thomas Hughes. in the Contemporary. tells English
men that they ought to like Benjamin Franklin. the
representative democratic American against whom
they have been prejudiced.
DR.. 1. Burney Yeo thinks that where a man is so
sick that death must certainly come in few hours
days. and where he must certainly lnger in agony.
it is the duty Of the physician to produce insensi-
bility.
Jackson county, Oregon has social club which
enjoys peculiar and fascinating amusement The
young ladies and gentlemen meet at grove and on
horseback go through q number Of dances to tho
music of the violin.
We read in Arkansas journal "that Mrs. Cool,
who has been supporting her husband farm
that she works. turned him away, but relented and
took him back on condition that he would tend the
baby. She did what we cannot do this weather-she
kept Cool.
Jones says that there are three ways Of getting
restaurant lunch in this Countrywide American
plan. where you get your meal for what you pay;
the European plan where you pay for what you gets
and the Asia.ic plan. where you pay for twice as
much you get.
DR.. b. W. Richardson, who first in England investi-
gated the merits of Liebrech's discovery of hydrate
OF chlora narcotic. says that after ten years he
almost regrets that he took any part in its intro
duction and he ranks the toxicants the following
order as to extent of misuso:-Alcohols
tobacco. opium, absinthe chlorM hydrate, chlora-
dyne ether and chloroform.
Mr. Horace White formerly editor Of the Chicago
Tribune, and always profound scholar in political
economy is gaining great deal Of praise in England
for his speech before the Golden Club. Mr.. Whites
ideas striking just were in an English maya
zine ideas the article the relationship of the
federal government to the States. 1t is worth
marking that when Mr. White was interviewed after
the Chicago fire he said that above all things he
sorry lose set Of volumes on prices. volumes
which were out of print.
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yet sent on patrol duty. If he committed
the outrage, therefore, he really was not
policeman at the time. Another singular
development is made in the story OF the
wrongfully accused officer who relieved
Farrell, and who nafvely proves his inno-
cence of the clubbing by showing that from
twenty minutes past twelve until quarter
past one, or for one hour lacking five min
utes, at time when watchfulness is most
needed on the part of the police, he re-
manned on one block talking with private
watchman, the pro prietor of barroom and
the keeper of refreshment stand. Here
is an alibi with vengeance, but it is one
of the existence of which the thieves and
law breakers on the remainder of the
officers beat were likely to take advantage.
These incidents afford fair specimens of
our present police management.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

At the last session of the Common Coun-
Gil pleasant tilt took place between two
gallant City Fathers who eft in the rebel
lion"-Alderman Roberts and Alderman
Burns. The latter having insisted that all
trees that ore public nuisances should be
cut down Colonel Roberts mildly rebuked
him for his ingratitude to that which had
frequently Afforded him safe shelter from
the bullets of The Confederates during the
war. The joke was received with good
humor. But. then, if Colonel Burns had
been as quick in debate as in fight he
might have answered that Tor the purpose
Of u breastvork felled tree is as available
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

In the case of the assassination in Ken
lucky of a judge who had offended an
unhappy sutton by an adverse decision it is
proved, if the testimony be unimpeached,
that the murderer has never been sane at
any time in his life-has been mostly a
raging lunatic-and that the wonder is not
that he finally murdered one judge only
but that he left any one alive in the county.
How does it happen that such person was
permitted to go at large in civilized COM
munity? If it be clearly shown on those
grounds that the man was not responsible
Tor his crime it seems to be at least as
clearly shown that the local authorities
were responsible for it through the negli-
gence OF permitting such a person to be at
liberty. Was this man insane enough to
have killed the judge if the decision had
been in his favor?
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North Carolina delegation against him, and
he ought to know that he cannot safely
trust the Southern republicans, who will
never support him while they can get
Grant or Chandler or any other of three or
four extreme men.
But why not try to establish respectable
republican party in the South before the
next Convention meets? 1t would be easy
to do; and the man who does it might
profit by the work. He might not get the
solid Southern vote in the Convention, but
he would get heavy Northern vote, for a
great many Northern republicans are tired
of seeing their party remain q sectional
party after SO many years, and are conscious
that only very poor craftsmanship keeps
If so
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
A New Feature i'm Clubbing.

new feature in clubbing was inaugu-
rated about one o'clock last Wednesday
morning on Fiity-ninth street, along the
line Of the Central Park. A citizen, face
tiously disposed, inquired the time OF q
policeman, who, probably as an indication
that it was about to strike one, hit him o
violent blow with his club across the leg
the officers number. but being deferred by
the threatening locust changed his mind
and crossed the street to join some friends.
The officer followed him noiselessly, struck
him a blow on the back of the head,
which brought him down with an
ugly scalp wound. and after administering
one or two additional taps ran away. The
wounded man was carried to the station
house, and thought he recognized as his
assailant the policeman who had gone on
In this he was evidently mistaken, the
assault having probably been committed
by the policeman who had been relieved
at that hour-Officer Farreil-against whom
two serious charges of misconduct were
already pending, and who had returned his
shield to the station house--a formal
method of resigning from the force-the
preceding afternoon.
There are two curious points about this
case. Although two serious charges were
pending against Officer Farrell, and al
though he had given up his shield, he was
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

Seventeen persons were ''prostrated by
the heat" in the streets on Tuesday--that is
to say, they succumbed to mild form of
heatstroke, as only one case was fatal.
Eleven were men and six women. Only
one in the number was sixty years old, only
three were over fifty and only six over forty.
while the youngest Was eighteen. All were
persons OF laborious occupations, which ex-
posed them 10 the direct rays of the sun.
except the few who evidently had no occu-
pations at all and were homeless wander
Representatives of the ''bummer"
class. Consequently Tuesday, though a
very hot and oppressive day, cannot be
counted in the number OF the days on ac-
count of which our climate has acquired a
bad name. 1t was not deadly. In the sun
on that day the heat must have been tor
hours together not less than hundred
and fifteen, and if that temperature only
prostrates seventeen in million, and these
the most exposed and feeble ones, the heat
is clearly not OF destructive quality.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17
Law and Digestion.

The trial Of Chastine Cox for the murder
close to-day. The prosecution had rested
before the rising Of the Court at hali-past
eight o'clock last evening, and the defence
will open this morning The determine
ton of Judge Cowing to hold late sessions,
extending if necessary to ten o'clock,
makes it probable that the case
will be given to the jury tonight. 1t is be-
lieved that the jury will speedily reach a
decision, and there is little doubt as to
what it will be. But will the punishment
of the murderer. should the verdict be
guilty, follow promptly enough to serve as
a wholesome check on the criminal classes
who have recently been so defiant in New
York; Unfortunately there are rumors that,
through errors OF the Court, new trial is
likely to be ordered, with ali the delays in
cident to writs and appeals. This would be
a most unfortunate result. A protracted
delay caused by blunder of the Court
would destroy much of the effect of the dis
covery and swift conviction of the bold
criminal upon his associates in crime. It
is to be hoped, however. that the apprehen-
sion is unnecessary, and that Judge Cowing
will be found as sound in law rs he evil
IDENTIFY is in gastronomy. A judge who can
so ably instruct a jury how to keep their
digestive organs in good order ought to be
able to rule correctly on question of the
regularity of panel.
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KAHN Mt Lnst-A Cold Wave Coming.
That shower which people have been
assuring each other was the one thing
needful arrived Unexpectedly yesterday,
and caused general disturbance
that was very entertaining to own
ers of umbrellas and occupants of
easy chairs in breezy windows. The
shower timed itself with that impish malice
which every one knows is peculiar to sum-
mer rain, and it dropped on New York just
as the most heavily laden excursion boats
were discharging their passengers, and
parachutes and profanity became hope
lassly involved on several city piers.
The sapds at Coney Island, Long Branch
and elsewhere were cleared Of visitors
with wonderful rapidity, and the summer
boarder in general had an opportunity to
realize, as he has not had occasion to do
tor fortnight, that the insides of
houses have their uses. Further from
New York the storm seems to have
been violent, considerable damage having
been done by wind and lightning. Such a
disturbance was the inevitable conclusion
VI tuo ucdGcu tctm LuS tuQuTSu lOT
some days, and in spite of some serious
losses of life and property its general effects
would be cheap at many times their cost.
Probably in New York alone two or three
score OF lives have been saved by the
change, and throughout the country visited
by the storm the progress of a general
physical depression has been arrested.
But the greatest comfort comes to us
in the announcement in our reliable
weather report OF the approach OF a
cold wave which is on it's way from the
Northwest. This wave VIII probably
roll over us to-day, and by noon
our citizens may be revealing in it
as gleefully as they do in the surf at Coney
Island. 1t cannot too soon adopt the Dukes
motto-'I am here" The approach OF this
wave may account for the remarkable fact
that gentleman who was knocked down
by footpads on Spring street yesterday was
robbed OF an overcoat among other prop
erty. The victim came from Chicago, and
had no doubt made ready for the cold
wave of which he is the dudnt-courier.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

THE WEATHER.-As the centre of the depres-
sion moved into the st. Lawrence Valley the
pressure within it commenced TO decrease and "A
disturbance of considerable energy was devcl-
opcd, which passed into the ocean of the
Nova Scotia coast during last night. There is
now a well marked trough of low pressure ex-
tending from the lower lake regions TO Texas.
separating the two areas of high pressure that
ovcrlie the South Atlantic States and the North
west. The pressure is highest within the
last mentioned depression, and it is advancing
slowly toward the central valleys, while the
one in the Southeast is recedng into the ocean.
Very little rain fell throughout the coun-
try during the early part of yesterday, but
in the afternoon and evening the precipitation
became very great in the lower lake regions,
the Middle Atlantic and New England States.
In the latter districts the rainfall was attended
by violent electrical disturbances, which did "a
large amount of damage The winds have been
from fresh to brisk in the lake regions and
Northwest and generally light elsewhere.
There were, however, some very strong squalls
III the Middle Atlantic and New England States
during the thunder storms. The temperature
rose decidedly in the central valleys and Mid
die Atlantic States, remained nearly station
airy in the South Atlantic and Gulf States
and fell in the other districts. Conditions
favorable TO the development of tornadoes con-
tinue in the central valleys and eastward to the
Alleghanics. disturbance is passing over the
western coasts of the British Islands, attended
by heavy rain and gales. The weather in New
York and its vicinity to-day will be cooler and
fair or partly cloudy. Tomorrow it will be
warm and fair, followed by increasing cloudi-
ness.
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what May BE An Important Question.

Republican politicians in Washington are
said to be agitated over what may become
by next year a question of good deal of
importance. 1t is, whether in the National
Convention the delegates from the Southern
States shall vote on an equality with those
from Northern States. The Southern re-
publicans cannot, it is said, carry any of
their States for the republican candidate;
indeed, the present republican plan is that
they shall not even make the attempt, ex-
cept, perhaps, in Florida and North Caro-
lima, but shall disband publicly and osten-
tatiously and send their leading men
through the North to lecture and speak on
the famous ''bloody shirt"
But it is perceived by some Of the repub-
lican candidates that while they will carry
no States in the election these Southern re-
publicans will be so strong body in the
Convention that they will almost if not
quite control the nomination. Those
candidates who think they can cap
ture the Southern delegations advocate
their admission in full strength; those,
on the contrary, who do not think they
can use them, want their power curtailed.
We are surprised to see it stated that
Mr.. Blaine favors q full vote for the South
ern delegates, for he was beaten in 1876 by
the unexpected and sudden turning OF the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

SCENES AND INCIDENTS of the physicians tour
of tenement houses, reported this morning, show
how shamefully neglected the whole tenement
system is by most of the authorities. Some
hundreds of landlords seem to richly
deserve fine and Imprisonment for maintaining
uuisanccs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

IT Is PLEASANT to read of the Mississippi Val
ley Rowing Association, with its largely at
tended races, and of the enthusiastic reception
of victorious Southern oarsmen ut their homes
yesterday. General interest in athletic sports
has too long been confined to the East
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

New RoCHELLE's fight against the brewerics
on the drainage question is of more than local
interest, for fully onehalf of the distillers.
ufacturers of chemicals &c, in the country are
perfectly willing to poison soil and air if the
authorities can be coaxed or bullied into ac-
uuiesceuce
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II RIPPLE SH e e Il.
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JULY II, 1879

The probabilities are that Hc reathcr in New
York and its rcinity today wiN be cooler and
fair or partly cloudy. Tomorrow it ,rW be earn
and fair, follo,ced by increasing cio'adi'aess.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

CAIIFoRNIA's six day walk was remarkable
only i'll point of gate money and enthusiasm,
the scores being astonshngly poor. New York
could supply more boys who could make better
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

A POLICEMAN ATTRIBUTES the clubbing mania
to the heavy black felt hats worn by the force
in the summer season. He missed the truth
only by several inches, that being the distance
between the hat and the aperture through
which stimulan,s arc placed where they will do
the most good--so called.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

The POLICE OUTRAGE business is working
Southwark. The latest complaint comes from
Delaware, u child being among the alleged vic
tins.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

The AFFAIR AT Stony Point yesterday was
not so brilliant success that Of a century
ago, and several thousand people were about as
mad as Anthony Wayne ever was.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

THE CUSTOM House view of the reappraise-
ment OF silks and yelvets may be found in
another column, and the com plaints Of dealers
may be heard all over the town.