Connecticut western news., 1881-07-20

STILL ANOTHER COMET. Prof. Swift, Director of the Warner Observa:or, Roches- ter, N. Y., has just verified the discovery of another comet, in the Constellation of Auriga made July 14th, by Prof. J. M. Schaeberle, of Ann Arbor, Mich. This new comet is ap- parently coming directly toward the earth and, for telescopic comet, is very bright ; indeed it can readily be seen. with good opera glass. It is quite remarkable that it should be in just the spot where the present large comet was first seen by the naked eye in this latitude, and it shows that the two bodies must have crossed each others paths This makes the fourth comet discovered with in ten weeks, @ circumstance heretofore un. known in history, Prof. Schaeberle has duly filed his application for the Warner prize of $2oo, and as yet he is the only claimant.
 The murderer, Guiteau he is no less than a murdersr-was cool and calculating in his arrangements for killing the President. For two or three weeks he was lying in wait for hlm. He purchased pistol of 'sthe largest calibre;" practiced twice with it upon mark
 in order to get it's range and to make his aim sure; examined 6 window in the church where the president attended to secure a po- sition from which he could surely kill him followed him from the White House, back and forth, watching every movement in order to get good chance to shoot him; sat for hours together, in the park opposite the Pres ident's residence, for the purpose of killing him should he appear at a favorable point followed him to the depot twice, the second repeatedly examining his pistol to see that it was in good order, and carefully protecting it from dampness, so that it would be sure to do deadly work. It is remarkable case of reconciliation, and so methodical and nicely planned as to preclude the idea that a crazy man originated and carried out the details Hartford Tunes.
 The New York Herald has gathered con- siderable array of statistics to illustrate the part which intoxicating liquors play in the production of pauperism and crime. Of 51,. 465 persons committed to the city prison in single year 25, 912 were arrested on charges directly or indirectly connected with the | abuse of liquor, and of 254 persons admitted | to the insane asylum only three were absti. nents. Assuming, by a very moderate cal. culation that 70 per cent. of the crime and pauperism of New York IS chargeable to the use and abuse of intox icating drinks, it is fail | to charge to the same account a similar per. centage of the cost of the police, the depart. ments of charities and correction, the criminal courts and considerable fraction of other departments, and the Herald concludes that rum costs the city the round sum of $4,O00,. 900 a year, or $3.30 for each man, woman and child of the population.
 To answer the question What does rum pay back a long list is given of benevolent in | stitutions to which the money for licenses goes, and the total thus appropriated last year was $4l4,5l6, which is little more thar one cent on the dollar which rum pays back to the city compared to the $4 ,0OO, ,OOO cost
 The amount received for licenses during tht last six years was $2,227 ,ll4, which is offset
 by the expenses of the excise board and the
 appropriations for charities while the cost o
 collecting the license fees was about $370, 900 When it is added that over $l, ,2OO, ,OOU wa. appropriated lsst year from the general treas. ury of the city for charitable institutions
 whose work grows largely out of the abuses of rum, it will be seen that the return whlct
 the rum trade makes to the city is 6 paltry percentage compared with the expense whict | it entails.
 | The New York Excise board do not anG
 perhaps cannot tell how many rum shops they have licensed nor how many there are in the city, but census taken by the police in 1877
 showed 7874 liquor shops of which 2177 haG licenses. In one ward there was gin mil
 to every 60 inhabitants and the number o arrests in the various precincts is somewhat proportioned to the number of rum shops, as in the l4th precinct with 3s7 shops there wert l 35l4 arrests during the last six months o | 1SSO while in the 9th precinct, with 25C 1 shons fhnro wera 1071 arrasts