Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-13

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 D.. BLISS,
 J. K. BARNES,
 J. J. WOODWARD, R. REYBURN.
 EXECUTIVE MANSION, MDN1GHT.-Dl Woodward is alone in attendance on th President tonight, and reports that the pa tient is comfortable and sleeping well. Tn, fever has subsided satisfactorily.
 NEW YORK.
 4 Horrible Sufcfde-A Woman DelIber
 @s ateIy Burns Herself to Death.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Dr. TerriIl, th county physician of Union county, N. J., to day granted permit for the burial, withou inquest, of the body of Mrs. Fannie Saun ders, who was burned to death at Elizabetl yesterday, and ascribed her death to suicide Mrs. Saunders wasthe wife of John Saunders 8 florist, and lived with him on Morris av enue, just beyond the city lines. She was widow at the time of her marriage, five months ago. Her husband had been out ot work for some time, and the woman had given way to despondency. Yesterday morn ing she arose from her bed early, as was hel habit, to start the fire for breakfast He1 husband still lay in bed sleeping. A few minutes later she was seen walking through the street in flames. A neighbor named Magee, who saw her, threw blankets over her, but not till she had been horribly burned. She died an hour or two later. It was at first supposed that she had tried to light the fire with kerosene oil. But investigation showed that no fire had been started. and there was no wood around that had been saturated with the oil. The oil can, too, stood in it's corner in the closet, with both shoppers on. A single burned match lay on the hearth There was nothing indicating that her prepa- rations for a fire had proceeded far enough to make match useful and the neighbors are of opinion with the county physician that she deliberately set fire to her clothing. After her clothing had been ignited she raised no alarm, but went so quietly into the street that her husband was not even aroused from his siumbers. Her purpose in seeking the street seems to be to fan the flames so as to make her work of death sure. She had walked two hundred feet away from the house with out a cry, when Mrs. Magee saw the figure of flame moving past her door. Mrs. Saunders made no explanation to her of the manner in which she caught fire, and while she did not repulse Mrs. Magee, she did not seem anx- ious to be saved from destruction. Some of the neighbors suspect foul play, but Dr. Ter Till is so far satisfied that there was no ground for suspicion that he refused to order an inquest.
 The Bankers 'Convention-An AddresssOn
 Caltfornia's Frosperity-
 NIAGARA FALLS, Aug. 12.-The bankers convention listened this morning to an inter ssting paper by MT. Lord Tevis, president of Wells, Fargo & Co.,, in which he treated of the industrial system of California. Refer ring to the hard times in that State in recent years he said:
 It most instructive fact that in spite of her ad herence to the coin standard in spite of her ton from the terrible fluctuations in the medium of account and exchange that unsettle all values and derange all business, California has not been exempt from the attenuation of of depression with of prosperity do not think this shows that it makes no difference whether currency is sound or unsound do not think this gives zny comport to the advocates of fiat money, invaldates what has been strongly and apty said in previous meetings of this to the dangers and losses tnsepa rable from inconvertible currency. Yet it does show that all is not secured when good currency is secured and that with the best and safest rency seasons of unreasonable imitation may occur, which sure to find their sequence in seasons of depression.
 This is I~sson which at the present time may have especial value. The long, hard effort for the sumption of specie payments has at last been with and with the exception of the Pacific s 'ates, which never deviated from com standard the country enjoys better currency than ever be- currency which, if not yet entirely purged Of all dangerous clements still convertible into gold is in domestic exchanges generally preferred to specie standard come revival activity in all of business Yet, if there were nothing show that even with good currency, g season of great prosperity if suffered beget speculation may produce imitation which, when the inevitable col lapse is sure to be succeeded by season of de- pression And 1t ma also show how reckless politi- cal agitaton, to which in times of depression our people prove to listen, may make more difficult the process of recovery.
 After tracing the effects of the develop ment of the Comstock mines and their decline he discussed the new constitution of the State, finding this to his favor:
 In many features the Constitution of California is conservative It not only contains num- Der of min provisions of anything but conmun- istic character such the requiring of property practical disfranchisement 8 considerable extent of the floating vote etc., but now that obnoxious meanings have been interpreted away it guards the interests of property from the interference hosti ity or ignorance with much more security than the that in which anything like communism would most readily manifest itself-has been very much curtailed. Nothing but general laws can of transportation has been entirely taken from the Legislature and lodged in the hands of commits son which experience has proved is much more sub jsct to conservative influences. Further than all ths sudden changes in obedience gusts of popular
 
 the provision which requires vote of thirds of all the members elected to both branches of the Leg islatre before any proposition for amendment Constitution the calling of Constitutional vention be submitted to the peope-a vote which the conservative interests the State can ever mand. Embodying such safeguards and with the interpretations which the courts have upon all it's questionable provisions, the Const- tuition of California gives every guaranty for the among California capitalists has entirely passed away. And much as the agitation that preceded and new Constitution may have cost the State it is now apparent that lesson of commensurate value has been learned.
 The latter part of the address was devoted to California's advantages as an agricultural State and the advantage she is to derive from future railroad connections. Of her agricul- tural advantages he said
 It is already evident that in the agricultural pabiities of her soil lie the of Caifor- E est wealth s oron last year. after supplying ,,..L,, all home de. uns for ss .sa
 a surplus worth st the low rates that prevailed on account of the scarcity of tonnage sa 50 900 or State Or to put it In another way, the wheat crop of California for 1880 was worth more than half as States But great the possibilities of grain growing in California it is now becoming apparent will that of the vineyard and orchard. California is by nature the France of America.
 The Italian Brfgand Identified.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12-Two gendarmes from Italy who arrived yesterday asked for and obtained an order from the United States commissioner to-day to visit the Ludlow jail for the purpose of identifying the Italian brigand Esposito. Deputy Marshal Knox accompanied them to jail and placed Esposito in line with twenty-four others. The gen darmes picked him out without any hesitation as the escaped bandit.
 Weekly Review Of Trade.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Special advices by wire to Bradstreets from thirty-fve points throughout the United States show that the general trade situation throughout the coun- try continues healthfully active, while at a number of leading cities preparations are making which indicate an early opening of a brisk fall business The corn crop in Ne braska, Iowa and Minnesota promises large yield, which will not, however, offset the shortage in Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere The Kentucky whiskey markethas, however, been benefited by the announcefnent of short