New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-29
Metu'alork Daily Grihat,re.
FOUNDED BY RACE GREELEY.
MONDAY, AUGUST 20. 1881.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING..


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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.
FoRE1eN-It appears from details of the recent
skirmsh at Hammamet Tunis, that the French loss
was trihing; tho Arabs left fifteen dead
and a number of wounded on the field. -
The second Congress of the German Chess Club
opened at Berlin yesterdays there are eighteen COM
petitors for the championship - meeting to
protest against the expulsion of Prince Krapotkine
has been prohibited in Geneva.
DoMEsrIc.-The President showed considerable
improvement in condition yesterday, and there was
general agreement that the prospects of his recovery
much brighter. - 1t was learned yesterday
that the Apaches murdered seventy residents of
the town of Eureka New-Mexico, on Friday. -
Thomas A. Marvin was SURRENDERED to the Richmond
police for trial charge of forgery and bgamy.
- The yacht Mabel Emma was capsized off
Long Beach, and Colonel William Chalmers of this
city, was drow ned.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The encouraging from
Washington yesterday caused much qualification
Hope for the Presidents recovery expressed by
many cergymen. - Samuel Is. Ruggles died at
Fire Island. - An inquest was held on the two
girls drowned at Glen Island on Saturday. - A
young drowned in the Hudson River.
The WEATHER-TRIBUNE local observations indi-
cate fair and partly cloudy weather, with slight
changes i'll temperature and chances of rain late in
the day. Thermometer yesterday: Highest, $780,
lowest, $40; average, 74l2o.
Guiteau is not writing his life. This is the
only commendable thing we have heard of
him.
1t is source of satisfaction to know that
the "gentlemanly" polygamist and swindler
Marvin, who has married dozen or more
over-cOnfding women and made off with the
spare cash of their relatives is safely lodged
in Richmond Jail and is likely to be restrained
for the rest of his life from further marital
and financial exploits.
Probably the notice sent to the Chicago pa
pers, warning Americans and friends of Ire
land" against embarbing upon British vessels
after September 1, is only a stupid joke, but
If any British steamer should be missing soon
after that date the self-advertised dynamite
villains and skirmishng fund rascals will do
well to hunt an obscure hiding place without
, moments delay.
There were few churches in all this broad
band where prayers were not offered yesterday
Cor the recovery of the President. We live in
, materialistc age, and science is constantly
examining into the realm of fixed law phenOm-
ena which were once thought to be dependent
upon supernatural power, but the mysteries
OF life and death are as great ever Who
can say that the prayerful sympathy of fifty
millions of people may not have some effect
in strengthening the courageous sufferer in
the White Housea
The venerable Samuel b. Ruggles, whose
death is announced to-day, will be remem-
bered as one who labOred zealously to promote
the commercial prominence of this city, es-
pecially in connection with the Erie Canal
His extensive information on economic ques-
tOns, his knowledge of local history, and his
public spirit made him q valuable citizen, and
his death is a serious loss to the community.
News comes from Tombstone, Arizona, of
the slaughter by Indians of the entire popula-
ton of the mining town of Eureka, NewMexico,
numbering seventy persons. The report is too
horrible to be fully credited on the scanty evil
dence of report from town far distant from
the scene of the tragedy. We may hope at least
that the terrible story is exaggerated. If true,
Eureka has been the scene of the most san
culinary massacre which has occurred in the
Far West since the gallant Clusters little army
was exterminated by the savage Sioux.
While people in this city were looking yes
terday for the wind storm which the Weather
Bureau had reported to be working up the At
lantic coast, dead calm came, and with it an
oppresslVely sultry atmosphere. The heat was
not great as it has been on several occa-
sions during the present summer; but it was
peculiarly aggravating because so unexpected.
The night was almost as warm rs the day.
Travel to the beaches, which had fallen off of
late, became once more brisk, and the crowds of
pleasure-seekers fastening to the ferries and
steamer landings gave the streets midsummer
look.
From the description in our Washington
dispatches of the fortress-like strength Of the
Jail in which the murderous wretch Guteau is
confined, it would seem as though the author
tiles had taken unnecessary precautions i'm
bringing large force OF soldiers into the
city to guard against possible mob attack
There has unquestionably been q great deal Of
reckless talk in Washington about lynching
the assassin. This was to be expected in the
excited state of the public mind, but it may
well be doubted whether any one man, much
less body of men, would rashly risk life
for the chance of killing this criminal.
1t is one thing to talk about raising a
lynching party and quite another to attack a
strong and weil-guarded prison for the pur-
pose OF forestalling justice. No one doubts