New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-03

under Montero il stationed and it is midway be-
tween Tacna and the rich Valley of Arequipa. This
detachment If the invading army, therefore, cuts
of all possibility of supplying Monter0s army
by land, while the strict blockade of africa,
the seaport of Tacna, excludes all assistance
by sea. IL ought TO be remembered as q possible
reason why the Chilians have not promptly fol-
lowed up their successes in Southern Peru by an
expedition to Lima. that the months OF December
and January in that hemisphere are the hottest and
most dobilitatng Of the year. 1t would be prudent
to select this time for filing up the ranks which
have been thinned ont by sickness and hard fight
ing. and postpone any further marching toward the
equator until more temperate and healthful
season.
few weeks ago The TRIBUNE called attention to
the invention by Captain Douglas Ottnger tof the
United States Revenue Marine Service, OF wagon
wheel and a shoe to be used IN transporting the
heavy apparatus of the Life-Saying Service through
the sand of our beaches. The value of these in
ventIons Will be recognized when 10 Is remembered
that any delay of the of the Service in render
ing aid to shpwrecked vessels mas always been
caused by the difficulty of dragging the mortar life
boats etc.. sometimes for four or five miles. from
the station to the place where the wreck has lain.
The frightful loss of life the Metropolis, on the
Currituck beach, for example. was due to the fact
that the of the Life Saving station could not
pull the mortar down to the surf IN time, as their
feet and the wagon wheels sank at every step i've
six inches in the wet, yielding sand Captain Ot-
fingers recent inventions are intended to obVate
this difficulty. He has perfected them by dint OF
much labor and expense, and patented them but
n few weeks ago, when the Government tried them
and at ordered their adoption by the Service,
Captain Ottinger thereupon presented both patents
~, for fufr, viii IN.
neration to himself 1t is to this generous inven-
tor that we owe not only the wel-known OF
finger life-car, on which many hundreds of ship
wrecked men aud women have been brought ashore
through seas in which no boat could live, but the
safety attachment to the shot and line, and other
equally ingenious appliances tor the saving of lte
Captain Otlnger of the first officers APP
pointed locate stations upon coast, and since
then period of thirty-two years. he has been a
hearty worker for the Life-Saving Service.
The circumstances of bra. atty and mystery which
surrounded the takng-olf of Policeman Smith, and
snch striking incidents in the trial of the wife of
the murdered man and her paramour as the sudden
insanity of one juryman. the unanimous verdict
of "gu lty" pronounced by twelve others, the
death sentence the new trial granted on al
legged " errors" in the Judges charge, the
subsequent verdict Of :" not guilty" unanimously |
rendered by another jury on the same testimony
before the same Judge-al this seems to justify the
classification Of the trial among the celebrated
cases IN the annals Of criminal law. OF
course everything Will be forgotten
but while the matter is fresh in the
public mind it is small wonder that people
discuss with some energy various interesting ques-
tons growing ont Of the conduct of the Judge. the
jures the accused and The counsel for the defence
and for the State. Meanwhile the one question which
ab0veal others should be satisfactorily answered in
the name Of justice, and which will probably never
be answered the gallows. as it should be, s, Who
killed Richard SMITH"
The Rev Mr. Cowlev obiec,s to being tried by |