New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-01
GENERAL VOTES.

A correspondent writing from Lynn, Mass.
points out the fact thai different the country
demand different -hs3es ard styles OF Shoes and
that while to 80 casual observer these differ
ences might nTpcar trivial they sufficient
to control the neiatons OF an enormous indus
| try. OCCASION ~ the largest factories, where
there IL every facility for meeting varied demands
troll what is called general" trade and are able TO
present large variety for the Of any Market but
most establishments are content TO adapt their produc.
ton TO selected limit This correspondent whose let
ter appears The Boston Transcript makes the follow
ing broad distinctions "The North itself wears
shoe FOR what a. IL WORTH the South wears the shoe
which is fanc.cst lnd handsomest and the agricultural
West wants shoe stout to break the land for coming
population"
On the Thursday before Christmas a bag
containing presents purchased by Mrs s. 5. Bradford
OF Plymouth, Mass, was stolen in the Old Colony depot
III Boston, where she had laid it down for moment
The next day Mrs Bradford surprised receiving
her bag by express with the following letter inoosed:
" Dear Madame: return your shopping bag and con.
tents unharmed. For the first time In my life was
tempted TO take that which did belong me. took
it 20 my miserable home and opened seeing little
gir's bracelet t took back TO my happy childhood
when looked lOngingly for Chrismac come and my
conscience reproved me Although l am too poor TO
make Christmas presents, thank God l an not de.
graded enough to steal them. learned your name is
matters not how: pray God that your future life may
De blessed and that you may spend happy Christmas,
and that my future may DO happier than my past Re-
pcntanU Sinner"
The 81. JdsncS's Gazette evidently thinks that
the correspondent of The London Daily Ne,cS whose
traOrdnary adventures in Merry have been recorded
that journal during the past few months. ia a tre-
mendOus romancer and makes the following ugenerOuI
comments upon a recent nstalment from his pen: "a
remarkable narrative we have never read-out OF
the pages of the late Mr. Thaekcray. II Ia all true
doubt; but II is Just charming 1t 1t were pure
fiction. The writer has indeed, managed to clothe his
Ale In In
burlesque Look at that story of his letters. The
Hero Of Merry tells that 'on arriving at Toheran
was presented with neatly packed budget Of torn
papers which discovered upon examination 10 be
series OF letters which had written from Merv and
which had left that celebrated locality In safety and
traversed the whole of Khorassan, and in far
way OF seeing the hight Of Europe, when the courier
down by the Kurds beyond Tauris and the
OF his etterbag scattered to the winds to be collected
with difficulty by newly organized post office therer
that is not the most wonderful thing in this wonderful
history neither is the fact that at Merry Just in
occasions These are but incidental details in a story
rdiculOusy romantic that II SURPRISES both IN matter
and style the best efforts OF the most Imaginative
genius."
The authorities of the Swiss Canton Of APP
pencil recently asked the Chef-Justices for written
opinion the advsabiltv of restoring capital pun
ishment. The ChieJustices in reply declared against
its relnlroduction their argument covering the follow.
the conditions properly demanded in punitive instru.
ment. II murderer deserves death, another de-
something more, which cannot be given. ~ A
death punishment necessarily excludes all possibility OF
an improvement in the criminal and is not more de-
terring than other punishments, and crime has not
decreased where it has been introduced 3 The unjust
administration of the death penalty is irremediabe the
possibility Of judicial murder has great weight the
discussion a. The criminal statistics of the Canton OF
Appcnze arc cited. There have be9n eighteen execu-
tons In the canton during the present conturyscven-
by the sword and one by hanging, follows:
1879 four for theft; 1906 for theft 1908 for
arson 1870 two for theft 1872, for murder lsl7
for theft, for poisoning; ISIS for theft
1891, for arson; SiG for 1851, for
arson and 1862 for murder From this year, when
the punishment OF death abolished, crime ruled
worthy OF death by the Criminal Code % Appenzcl has
been committed IN the canton 81 In the voting for
against the abolition OF death punshments in the can
ton the people OF Appenzc gave their deliberate udg
ment benaf oi it, abolition. 90 The tasks OF tho
state ia its punitive system the reduction Of crime
ana the restraint Of the criminals from doing further
injury To kill them is barbarOus method OF securing
he LAT