New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-23

Supreme Court decision IS Just reported when
will be of interest to landlords, in connection WIN
the increased efforts now making 10 suppress lou
terry shops. lady owning building in this city
leased it to one McCarty and he sublet tue base
ment to o tenant who may be called Smith. Smith
commenced selling lottery policies in the basement
When the lady-owner heard Of this she seems to
have demonstrated, but without immediate oncct;
McCarty simply served notice on Smith to quit the
basement on the first of the Iext month, and Smlth
continued selling policies meantime The owner
then applied to Justice Langbein to disposseSs Doth
McCarty and Smith from the entire building. They
did not deny that they sold policies but said that
this wa3nOt an indictable offence under the lottery
laws. When policies are sold the buyer purchases
certain number, and according to his luck IN Sc
lecting the number he either wns the sum depend
ing on 1t, or loses the amount he paid. What IS
bought is the chance of winning given sum II TIT
number selected turns up as n wilmer IN lottery
which may be conducted in a distant State and be
iswfu there. And the justice sustained this de-
fence. But the Suprc ne Court pronounced IL I'M
sound. Whether a business carried on by tenant
is lndictablc is not the question when landlord
asks to have it stopped. BY law passed III 1878
if n tenant uses premises for :" any illegal trade,
manufacture or other business the lease becomes
void and the landlord may have him dispossessed.
LOTTERY shop may not be indictabe, but it is an
illegal business, and the fact that this or any other
trade condemned by law is prosecuted by n tenant,
exposes him to he xpeled on the landlords request
Hospital Sunday occurs this year on the high
festival of the year. Christmas Day. Iii an English
institution recently transplanted to American soil,
but il has already begun to shoot down its roots and
to bear excellent fruit. In 1879 the amount placed
at the disposal of the Hospital Committee was
$4,000, and last year the collections exceeded
$1,000 This year. with the inspiring influences of
the Christmas season quickening the pulses of the me-
tropolis there should be something more than
proportionac increase of subscriptions. Is it too
much to expect that Ncw-York and Brooklyn viii
rival in generosity London itself, where 100000
is given annually for the benefit Of the sick poor in
the wards OF charitable institutions Every year
a. many as 900 patients are cared for in metro
poitan institutions, and only those who have taken
special pains to inform themselves fully appro-
ciatc the magnitude and be scdness of this
work. Let a great impulse be given to this system
Of voluntary contributions this year. Hospital Sat
urday and Hospital Sunday must not be forgotten.
At the hour of this writing there are apparently
Inactive working order in ths city only five regular
Democratic parties, TO wit: Tammany Hall, Irving
Hall the County Democracy, the Young Mems
Democratic Club. and the Anti-kclly Tammany. In
addition TO these the Young Men Club - liable at
any no.acnt to give birth 70 another organization
Mr. Peter Mitchell OF Irving Hall, is suspected Of
having one in contemplation. and the discipline
instituted by the County Democracy is liable to
give Use to two or three more. All Simou-pure
Democrats and all direct descendants of Jefferson
and by the way, what has become Of the Tammany
movement for n monument to him2 And what
must be the feeling, Of that llustrioUs shade if he
eyer look, upon this remarkable httcri Does he
look them over cur:ously, rs the too happy father
did his tiplcts, and wonder ifany Of 'em got
away - Perhaps 80.