Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-04
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. TIE SUNDAY LAWS Enforced in New York and
 Brooklyn. 4 SUCCESSOR TO MARSHAL HENRY. The President Appoints a
 Personal Friend. ARABI SENTENCED TO DEATH. Bslt His Sentence Oananuat-
 ed to Exile.
NEW YORh.

The Penal COde-EfforG to Enforce the
 Sunday Law i'm New York and Broolx-
 lyn.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Some scores of men and boys were arrested in this city to day for alleged violations of the Sunday clauses of the new penal code, but serious disturb ance was reported. The attempt to enforce the law was little better than broad farce, and in its enactment the weak, poor and those without influence were the victims, while no serious attempt was made to inter- fere with the avooations of persons in po- sition to maintain their rights. A police or der was issued to close telegraph and tele- phone offices but these corporations showed fight and the order was rescinded. The same result ended the attempt to stop the running of street cars, elevated trains and ferry boats. Bootblacks, newsboys, ragpiekers, proprietors of apple stands and cigar stores and other small dealers were the only victims of the police wrath. The officers seemed to be at sea to the precise nature of their du- ties, and numerous arrests were made which certainly were not contemplated by the penal code. There was also an absence of unity of action among the police magistrates who dis posed of the prisoners, some justices hold
 
 ing boots and disposing of milk, bread and other edibles were matters of necessity while in other courts the exact reverse was held Business was livelier than usual in the | liquor saloons, and no serious attempt was 1 made to close them. The increased trade 1 was accounted for by the fact that men who 1 usually bought cigars from tobacconists were 1 forced to patronize the saloons for the pur- chase of smoking material.
 About hundred persons were arrested and all dis charged except cigar dealers and clothers, who held nominal bail. Several of the German concert halls had concerts for charitable and thus Atlantic Garden not fortunate and were held to appear before magistrate tomorrow. The city quiet up to midnight. Not single act of vio- lence reported to the police. In the Gernania Theatre Hermann Linde recitation for the ben eft of the sufferers by the recent floods in Germany agere closed and vehicles of any description except private conveyances permitted to enter. On the road small number of vehicles out, and quite number of sleighing parties among them. The Sabbath vigilant committee active from early
 morning, but not obliged to intrude their per- sonality in many
 BROOKLYN, Dec. 3.-The Sunday provisions of the new code generally observed in this city. All saloon keepers, owners of barbershops and other places that have been generally kept the first day of the week notified Saturday night that they must remain closed take the risk of arrest. So generally this warning needed that but three of storekeepers reported during the day taken up searching barrels the street. The police stopped the newsboys from calling in the sreete but did not interfere with those delivering at the residences of customers.