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Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Real Estate i'm New York.

From the New YORK Telegram.
The rapid rate at which New York is grow
ing in size, wealth and commercial impor-
tance, is realized by but few, even of her,
own citizens. Millionaires from all parts
of the country, especially California, are
buying houses and making homes in the
city. The following advertisement is taken
hap hazard from the column "City Real
Estate For Sale" of morning contempo-
rary;
First class corner house. :. ........ $3.50, 900
First class house and stable. .... 25O,OOO
Elegant house and stable. ..... $500
Three full-sized, elegant houses,
ranging in price from $780,,
600 to. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100000
Extra large house and four lots Oh
Thirty fourth street. t........... 25O,OOO
This advertisement in itself epitomiZes
the story of the wealth and growth of New
York. Ten years ago 100000 house was
very rarely met with. Now we have them
by the sec re. The descendants of those who
have pinned their faith to and staked their
money on the growth of this city, are among
our wealthiest citizens. Witness the Astors,
Goelets, Rhinelanders, Lenoxes, Stevenses,
Whitneys, Remsens, Suydams, Hamersleys,
&o
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Private Secretary Rogers will be appointed
recorder of deeds of the District Of Columbia,
worth from SO, 900 to $40, 900 per year.
:. The committee on levees and Improvement
of the Mississippi agreed at their last meeting
to recommend the appropriation of 81 800, 900
to begin the work of Improvement.
Dr. Wilson, who went to Washington to ne
gotiate for the Oklahoma raiders had an inter
view with the president, and presented his case
President Hayes gave him no satisfaction, say
ing he should use military force to prevent in
cursions on the Indian lands.
Gen Walker thinks he will need more money
to complete the census work, owing to the
larger scope it is taking than he at first thought
of. He believed, before he begun, that we
should have population of 5000, 900 of
people; now he thinks It will probably touch
10000, 900. In day or two, when o few COR
rections are made, he will know definitely.
In consequence of the limitation Of the time
of filing claims in the quartermasters depart
rlent, their number has increased to an enor-
NOUS extent, sand. the quartermaster general
asks for $50, 900 for the rest of the fiscal year.
and 800, 900 for next year, in addition to the
estimates already submitted for salaries and ex-
penses of additional clerks. The total number
Of cases already fled is %, $50, and the amount
over $12, 100000.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Bits of Fun.

A young couple in their honeymoon are
dallying languidly with the grapes at des-
sert. She says: And you don't find it tire
some, all alone with mel You are quite,
quite sure that you don't wish to go back to
your bachelor life againP" He says: "Quite
my darling. Indeed, married life is so
awfully jolly that, you know, if you were to
die tonight, I'd get married tomorrow"
A good story is told of Colonel Fred
Chants little daughter. Last summer while
she was at summer resort in Colorado
some of the children's French maids were
boasting of some of their charges who we're
born in foreign lands. One said, MY little
girl is French; she was born in Paris" An
other, mime is German; she was born at
Berlin ''And you?" they inquired of
Gen. Grants granddaughter, who was near,
"What are your" ''Is Grant" !" replied the
little one with emphatic brevity.
A Murray Hill, New York, girl has had one
of her shapely feet modelled in marble, and
has presented it as a birthday present to her
afianced husband for paper weight. A
st. Louis girl did the same thing, but the
un@sthetic creature to whom she is to be
united heartlessly utilized the gift as
foundation for his new residence.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Increase i'm the Use of Opium.
rom the Albany Evening Journal.

From the Albany Evening Journal
A quarter of century ago the use of
opium in Albany was meagre as compared
with to-day There were at that time but
about $50 pounds of opium and 375 ounces
of morphia sold during year. Then the
population was $1,000 and the consump-
ton of opium about 43 grains per annum
to every inhabitant, while the rate of NOR
phine was less than three grains a year to
each person. To-day, with the census
showing our city to contain more than 91,-
600, the annual consumption of opium has
crept up to $500 pounds, and morphia to
$500 ounces. Of the $500 pounds dis
posed of in this city annually careful in
equiry made by a Journal reporter reveals
the fact that fully one quarter is consumed
by people in it's native state. The remain
ling three quarters are used in making the
different opiates, the largest proportion be-
ing used in the preparation of laudanum.
kOne druggist states that where twenty five
years ago he made it by the gallon, he now
prepares it by the barrel. A quarter of a
century ago an opium eater was rarity; to-
day the number is large and on the in
| crease. Fully four -ffths of the opium
eaters are women. These eaters eventually
exhibit nervousness. The skin becomes
shrivelled and the complexion assumes a
Saffron hue. At times the eater has cold
sweats and nausea, besides numerous other
kindred ills .@l.-ac A. .-
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
THE SPAGUE BUSINESS.
One Woman Demurs to the Charge in Mrs.
Sprague's Bill. "
Telepram from providanoe

One Woman Demurs to the Charge in Mrs.
Sprague's Bill. r..
Telegram from Providence.
The woman most effected by the charge
in Mrs. Sprague's bill is Mrs. McCue, a
married woman of Wakefield, r. l., who is
we'll connected in New York. She was,
four years previous to her marriage, house
keeper in the Sprague family and claims to
have been Mrs. Spngues confidential advis-
er. She has written the following letter:
WAKEFIELD, R. I. Dec. 81, 1SSO.-Mrs.
Sprague: I see by the, newspapers this
morning that you have made use of my
name as being guilty of criminal intimacy
with Gov. Sprague from the year 1879. I
can't believe that you made such a state
ment, and desire you to contradict it. The
intelligence in the newspapers has made
me so nervous that 1 cannot dictate or write
decent letter. You know, Mrs. Sprague,
that I am none of that kind There is
nothing in me but the truth, and the truth
will speak until death. am innocent and
God knowsit. L have faith in God, and be-
lieve he will defend the. right. God is a
just ruler, and he pays debts without monl
ey. You must have given my name,< or it
could not have been used in the petition
andprinted in the newspaper. Why did
you say such thing about me ? I never saw
you and governor quarrel but once, and
that was the evening you came to my room
and asked me to come up stairs and witness
your quarrel, That same evening burned
that gentleman's picture for you, and you
burned the bag Of letters received from him.
Mrs. Spmgue, I would have been the last
person to injure you and your family.
Please contradict that infamous lie or
shall be compelled to defend my character.
E&e ). ELIZABETH sMCCUE. !.
P. S.-Have you any conscience left that
you belle me in such q manner? Retract
what you have said at once, or I. will make
you regret having meddled with my charac-
ter. ~ GO Mrs. MCCUE.
The picture referred to is supposed to be
that of Mr.. Conkling, although, when ques-
toned on this point, she declined to an
swer.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
THE ERA OF CHIVALRH.
The Romance of To-day Compared With That
of the Middle Ages.

From the New York Times.
This is not, it is vulgarly said. an era of
chivalry or romance, nor is it as respects as
sumption or outward show. But, quietly
and really, there is more chivalry and ro-
nance to- o-day-twenty times more, indeed
than there ever was in any part of the Ill
understood Middle Ages. Romance is so
common now-the columns of the daily press
TEEN with it-that it is hardly noticed; and
chivalry of the highest order is so cheap that
it passes unheeded. Such stories as those
of Romeo and Juliet, francesca and Po-
alo, Ugo and Parasina are repeated continu-
ally as local items, and the John Robinsons
and Mary Thompsons who are the contem-
poraneous heroes and heroines lose the fla
vor of romance because they are so familiar.
That alone seems romantic which, alone BE-
ing remote, appears uwonted. The very
frequency of present romance prevents its
appreciation. Occasionly the old and ap-
proved and the new and unaccepted roman
ces are conjoined, and the comparison is al
ways interesting. An example has lately
been furnished in our news columns by the
sudden death of noted actor Herr Dettmer,
in Germany. He had been for sometime
inharmonious with his wife, and had, mean
while, fallen in love with an actress, Frau
lein Lange, to whom he had given dramat-
ic instruction in Dresden. They were pas
sionately attached to one another, and we're
to be married as soon as Dettmer could
procure divorce. The actress received
the announcement of his death Just as she
was going on the stage of one of the the
ators of Hamburg Although deeply affect
ed, she went through her part, and, on 60
| ing home, she sat up all night Arranging her
affairs, and in the morning killed herself,
having left directions that she should be
buried beside her lover. The last character
| that Dettmer had assumed was Egmont, in
| Goethe's well known drama. The Prince
of Gavre was naturally idealiZed by the po-
ct; but he was picturesque figure, most il
| lustrious in linegae; of high mettlesome
qualities, and his astrocious execution has
embalmed him in the bloody history
of the Spanish Netherlands. Clarchen-
purely an invention of Goethe-takes poi
son after she hears that her lover, Egmont
has been condemned to the scaffold Jo-
| hanna Lavil, his actual mistress, is declared
to have dropped dead as he received the ia
tai stroke. Those we're occurrences in the
early part of the sixteenth century, and have
been the theme of many a song and story
| In the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
Dettmer, who had personated Egmont, dies
while studying new part; and his mistress,
upon learning of his death, deliberately
ends her life. Egmont and Clara, or Jo-
! hanna Layil, seem very romantic. and are
prolific of sentiment. Dettmer, the simu-
lator of Egmont, expires, and Faulein
Lange commits suicide. The modern trag-
| edy is chronicled in common prose, and
Immediately forgotten.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
The Winter SOlstice.

The Providence Journal, which is IA
NOUS as an astronomic and weather oracle
often embellishing these dry subjects
with poetic halo-thus discourses on the
winter Solstice:
This morning the sun entered the sign
Capricornus, or the goat and the astronom-
ical winter began. The days have reached
their shortest span, nine hours and three
minutes, and the sun has reached his ex-
treme southern limit. The winter solstice
reigns, and the sun seems to stand still IN
his southern course, while he rests his
blazing disk on the mysterious celestial cir
Gle called the tropic of Capricorn. 1t is
only an apparent rest, however, for the mo-
ment he touched the southern boundary
line he turned his steps northward Every
dweller in the north temperate zone will
welcome the earliest symptoms of his ap-
proach, for it is the harbingef of the resur
rection of nature. On Christmas eve the
first fruits of his coming will be manifest;
a precious minute of additional sunlight
will crown the parting day; encroachingg
night will be compelled to retrace its steps
toward it's own dark domains. In a week
or two the days increase will be plainly
perceptible, and, though ice, snow and
cold may rule the passing hours, there will
be consolation in the thought that the sun
is journeying to northern climes, the most
gloomy and dreary season of the year has
passed.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

The roilroad commissioners report for
1880 will show 5000 miles of railroad in
Iowa, gain Of 5S5 miles for the year. The
total earnings of the roads is $25 ,837, ,545.35,
gain for the year of SO, ,696, 1851. Oper-
ating expenses, $13, 1882, ,653.77. Increase
for the year, 81 ,O7S, ,232.85. Net increased
earnings over last year, So, ,416, ,660.06. The
net average, earning is six per cent. on q
cost Of $22, ,493.SS per mile. Seventeen
roads show an excess of earning over expen-
ses Nine roads show deficit, The net
earnings Of the Chicago & Rock Island are
twelve per cent. on capital of $50, ,000, 900.
Taxes paid to State, $591, ,843, ,08, or nine
per cent. of net income to stockholders.
Thirty-two per cent. Of mileage is laid
with steel rails.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
CONCERNING DIPHTHERIA.


Concise Statement as to What the Dread Dis
ease Is.
The New York Times publishes an
article written by DIR. Kerr, of Pittsburgh,
concerning the true nature of diptheria.
The p:th of the paper is condensed in a
Times editorial, from which the following
is taken:
Whatever may be the nature of the dis
ease-a floating germ in the air, or even
tendency toward the formation of false
membrane in the throat-in It's early stage
the disease is purely local. The membrane,
which is ordinarily spoken of as fungus,
can be removed by local applications. DR..
Kerr suggests rather powerful lotion of
hydrochloric acid and glycerine. But the
moment the membrane forms the patient is
threatened with another and far more dan
gerous malady. While this process in the
tonsils is going on virulent poison is distill-
ed in the neighborhood. This secretion, an
insignificant amount of which is sufficient to
impregnate the system, passes from the
throat into the stomach producing acute
gastrits, and thence into the circulation.
The system becomes much depressed; the
the action of the heart and brain is lowered,
ordinarily, to the verge, and sometimes to
the worst condition, Of paralysis, and the
patient dies, not, as is supposed, from as
phyxia, caused by stoppage of the air pas
sages, but from the presence of virulent
poison i'll the blood, which impedes the
bodily functions and quenches the activity
of the vital organs. The patient is in this
additional plight, that his system can not
with proper treatment receive reinforcement
in the way of new tissue, for the stomach
being greatly intamed, is unable to assimi-
late food for the replenishment of the waste
that has taken place or restore energy to
throw off the poison. But the morbid condi-
tions once thoroughly understood, treat
ment to correspond should not be hard to
find, and DR.. Kerr meets the symptoms
with appropriate remedies. He detatches
the false membrane by using the wash above
named; puts into the stomach simple
chemichal preparation, calcined magnesia,
to combine with and neutralize the diphther-
itic poison and gently removes it through the
natural channels. This prevents it passing
into the circulation. Meantime he supports
the patient upon nutritious and non-irri-
tant food, until the crisis of the disorder is
reached, when wine, or, if necessary, whis-
key and brandy are copiously administered
to aid in eliminating the impurities and
throwing off the clutch that threatens to
choke the life out of heart and brain, and with
care and attention the tone returns, the poi
son is eliminated the functions are natural
| ly discharged, the membrane ceases to form,
and the poisonous secretion is no longer
| provided.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
ElOQuence mt the Bar.
Associate Justice Joseph P. Bradley in Albar

hssocitte ousice JOSepn L. brauley III ALBANY
Law Journal 49,. ...
1t is not to be wondered at that the high
est legal talent should aim at calm and
temperate method of speech. AS, in the
progress of the nation, all the arts become
more refined and subdued to the rigid laws
of taste, it is but natural that our profession
should feel the influence of this progress.
The fervid flights of Patrick Henry and the
vehement defamation of Pinckney would
hardly be deemed fitting at the present day,
in the discussion of grave questions before
q competent court. The finest exhibition
of legal eloquence to which it has been my
fortune to, listen have been made by the
late George Wood, of New York, and Judge
B. R. Curtis. Their arguments always
filed the mind, the ear, and the sense of
fitness, and good taste. And of the two, 1
always thought the style of George Wood
the more admirable. 1t was chaste, yet
rich iii choice legal diction, pervaded with
the odor of Jurisprudence, as parchments
with, the sandalwood in which they are
kept, and conveying the impression that it
was the law itself, and not an argument up
on the law, which the advocate was untold
ing, s4t9 ~ ss8f# "H8 @GH& 2& Z
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

before seems like the faded picture Of some
other face, not lovely, becomes instinct
with intelligence and sur. charged with ex-
preston. You then see that her eyes are
really fine; they become large and brilliant,
full of meaning and of light, and her mouth
has sweet expressiveness which is mar
velous. No actress that remember is her
equal in the expression Of ecstatic JOY
Inspired and remolded by the expression
of this emotion, the eyes and lips of that
mean and almost sordid visage, which de-
ies the skill Of painters and shames the art
of photography become angelic, worthy of
Raphaels conception of cherub. Such a
radiation of purity and tenderness is rarely
seen portrayed in any form of art, rarely
even in very nature"
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Reating DR.. Tanners Feat.

A Battle Creek, Michigan correspondent
of the Detroit Tribune, relates the following
fasting feat Eight weeks ago to-day Mrs.
Henry Ingram went to the Office of a dem
tist by the name of I. N. Merritt, and had
several teeth pulled. She was taken very
sick immediatly after the operation, and
carried home in hack. All efforts to stop
the attack of stomach sickness was unavail-:
ing, and she could not make any kind of
food stay upon her stomach, nor had she
any appetite. She has continued in this
condition for eight weeks now-beating
Tanners fast by two weeks. Nota morsel
of food has passed her lips since the first
two days of her sickness. She is loosing
flesh daily and failing in strength. Her
death is only.a question of time, and is
daily expected. No cause is known for her
singular sickness, except the nansea induc-
ed by having her teeth extracted.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Church Burned at Hastings

The Episcopal church at Hastings, caught
fire few minutes before z, Tuesday evening",
and was burned to the ground. There was a
Christmas tree and children's service being held
at the church, and by some accident, the drap-
cry back of the pulpit caught fire and that part
of the building was in flames in an instant. The
house was filled and bolt-was made for the
door and all escaped without injury. The
bells were rung and the tiremen were prompt
to the call, and with the assistance of citizens,
worked nobly in the teeth of a bitter northwest
blast All the church furniture was saved,
though somewhat damaged. Ladies worked
bare-handed tessave their church with an
nerve never equaled. Loss, SO, 900 or S4, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
FOREIGN FLASHES

The crisis in Ireland has raised excitement in
London to an +unprecedent pitch. Nothing else
Is talked about in the public resorts, and scarce
ly anything else thought about by thoughtful
people but the grave troubles which beset Che
government on every side. sy.3s - , -
1t is stated that the commercial treaty with
China contains provisions which will be very
advantageous to this country II will allow all
cotton goods to enter at q nominal rate of duty,
on condition that no opium be exported from
United States on more than equal terms Of COM
petition with Great Britain.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Minnesota Educational Association ~

The fifth annual session of the Minnesota Ed
ucational association, consisting of the leading
educators Of the State, was begun in the house
of representatives in the State capital on Tues
day evening by an address from Prof Downeyy
in favor of leadership and organization The
lecturer referred at some length to the worlds
well known leaders in politics, war, religon,s
science and education, and concluded his lectures
by contending that the world is not so far adj
.vanced but there are still great leaders wanted.
We should seek 70 find the right way. While While
we should follow no man blindiy, we should not
hesitate to follow when others lead in the right
direction
The second days session on Wednesday was
devoted principally to the discussion of an essay
read by Prof. D. L. Kiehle, Of the ST Cloud
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
The Beauty Of Bernhardt.

The criticism of Richard Grant White on
Sarah Bernhardt is refreshing after the
New York alternatives of pettiness and
maudlin. Something of it is worth copy
ing, this. for instance: II have never seen
on the stage or in real life countenance
80 changed and so elevated by passing
from repose into action. The face which
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

John Bright replies to the earl of Carnarvon's
letter protesting against Bright's speech at Bir-
mingham last month. He says: Comment on
my speech Of the 10Th received You find in
it tefrible blemishes not discovered by other
critcs. You condemn it for attacks on sovereign
aristocracy and land owners. l have defended
monrchy, although defense is little needed in
this reign. have warned the aristocracy of
the danger wished them to shun. AS for the
land league, l have been one of its prominent
supporters, and had it been obstinately resisted,
the great landowners of England and Scotland
would long ago been running for their lives as
some of the Irish landowners are reported to
be doing now. 1 will not reply at length to
your letter. am content to leave it and my
speech to the judgement of the people.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

y This is getting to be we'll dpaded
world. There are house pads, foot t-pads,
lung pads and stomach pads, and it is ex-
pected that somebody viii get up a pad for
bald heads. As the Dutchman might say,
"Dis is too pad,
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Whit Gen. Howard Will Do at West
11lf' Point.

telegram.
Howard, since his designation to West
Point, has designated the course he should
pursue as commandant. His own expert
ence as cadet, was unpleasant. He, was
ostracised or sent to Coventry" for nearly
two years by his class for the recognition as
a,social equal of his. guardians. son, then
sergeant Of the engineer corps. Howard
committed an additional offense to pro-
slavery cadets by his opposition to the ex-
tension of slavery. Howard thinks there
naustbe An abandonment Of this policy of
separation; that without surrendering dis
cipline. there must be close relation be-
tween the officials and cadets, and the spirit
of caste must be broken down.