The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-12
OUR NE W YORK LETTER.
From Our Own Correspondent.
New YoRK, APRIL 81, 1882.

NEW lONh, <AIklL 4 1909.
SLATY SKIES AND sUICIDEs-MELAN
cHoLY MURDERS AND INFANT
sLAUGHTERS-THE FRENCH FAIR
| AND FRIVOLOUS FANDANGoEs -
MAJESTIC MATERNA-NEw YORK AT
THE FEET OF THE SPLENDID QUEEN
OF SoNG--PRINCE JAMES OF sACRE-
BLEU--CRUEL PROSECUTIONS OF A
YARDSTICK wiELDER,
Where has Beautiful Spring gone
The November fogs of England are
popularly supposed by Frenchmen
to be the cause Of innumerable
suicides, We are suffering from
bleak, chilly; neither fish, flesh nor
fowl nor good herring sort of wealth
er, and an epidemic of murders and
suicides, which 60 so far to confirm
the Gallo theory. Then the price
Of meat and vegetables, rents and
everything has gone up. and yet
people are not happy, and as for the
Wall street people, they are doing
SO little business, according to their
notions, that they're getting almost
too ugly to look at.
In this country of $4,000, 900 peo-
pie, with a press publishing every
accessible item, with electric facili-
ties from all over and beyond, every
paper has a catalogue of crimes in
each daily issue which would seem
impossible to Europeans where the
papers don't get all the news, and
don't print all they get, but some
times we beat the record, and that's
the case now. Perhaps one of the
most shocking murders was that by
a young scamp named Hovey, who
shot his pretty young sister-in-law in
the presence of his wife, and other
relatives without any sort of provoca-
ton. On the contrary, 1t was owing
to the woman he killed that he had
home to go to. He had i'll treated
his wife and finally was sent to the
penitentiary for theft, was out a few
days and got sent back, and was a
third time committed for stealing a
doctors overcoat. 1t was his sister
in-law who persuaded the wife to
forgive the rascal and offered them
share of her home.
Baby farming use to be a fourishing
and lucrative occupation tor Ger.
tain class of women who were de.
ficient in humanity, Lut it was sup
posed had been stamped out, and so
perhaps 1t has, on the extensive scale
that once prevailed, but smaller
boarding establishments for super
huous infants have no doubt existed.
One has just been unearthed, and
the last surviving victim, child OF
FIVE years, weighing 10 pounds, with
a general appearance hne a prepared
anatomical specimen Ia some doctor )
bottle, was taken iuto court as d
melancholy sample vi now .ruel a
cruel woman Can DC. Ii aust have
had ny nature Remarkably tough
constitution, and under Treatment is
growing vlslbly, ssiInllaling an in
credible quantity of mnk. The
policeman who captured tne trophy
gave 1t quart oi mix D,lore he
ventured to carry The cnnd ~ court,
then the judge had 1t ted, aud as it
seemed TO want more, gave more, and
then 1t was fed at the hospital. 1t
seems ready to imDlbe al one big
feed all the nourishmeul II has been
denied for SO long, and ii has been
suggested that a milkmdIn from some
dairy reservoir might be laId for the
phenomenon's convenience. 1t is a
pity such female hends as the woman
who maltreated the hapless creature
cannot, under our present laws, be
exposed for an hour or SO in pillory
Itwould be scarcely necessary to hang
her afterwards.
The French Charity Fair is the
sensation of the day in the line ot
fashionable robbery, and everybody
who thinks himself or herself anybody
goes to it and is disburdened of cash
in considerable amounts. The
French, who are noted for excellen,
taste in the less serious matter.
of life. though they are all "oHv ir