davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
A GOOD LAW.

Few more important and sensible laws have been made this year than that made in Michigan providing for the establishment of wills during the life of the testators If we are not mistaken this law was unselfishly sug- gested and heartily advocated by lawyer. It may deprive him and other members of the profession of some fat fees which they would have enjoyed under the old plan, but it will save money for many who will escape expen- sive contests.
 This law provides that to any will hereto fore or hereafter executed the testator may make and annex his petition, to be sworn to before and presented to the judge of probate for the county where the testator resides, asking that such will be admitted and estab- 1ished as his last will and testament Every such petition must contain averments that such will was duly executed by the petitioner without fear, fraud, importantly or undue in- fuence, and with full knowledge of its con- tents and that the testator is of sound mind and memory and full testamentary capacity, and must state the name and address of every person who at the time of making and filing the same would be interested in the estate of the maker of such will as heir, if such maker should at the making of such petition become deceased, and may also contain the names and addresses of any other persons whom such testator may desire to make parties to such proceedings. Upon receiving such petition the judge must appoint a time for the hearing of it, and issue citations to the parties named in it, and direct published mo- tice of the hearing, and have the hearing, after proof of service of citations and of pub lication of notice, in the manner, as near as practicable, required for the pro- bate of wills. On such hearing the judge must examine into the matters alleged in the petition and into the testamentary ca pacity of the testator and examine witnesses in relation thereto, and if it shall appear that the allegations of the petition are true and that the testator was of sound mind and mem- ory and full testamentary capacity, the judge must make decree thereon, and cause copy of such decree to be attached to the will, eer- tified under the seal of the court, decreeing that the testator at the making of the will and petition was possessed of sound mind and memory and full testamentary capacity, and that the will was executed without fear, fraud, importantly, or undue influence, which decree will have the same effect as if made by said court after the death of testator on the probate of such will; and the will having been so established cannot be set aside or i'm peached on the ground of insanity or want of testamentary capacity on the part of the testator, or that the same was executed through fear, fraud, importantly or undue influence.
 This legislation is calculated to meet t'a long-felt want:n The pleas of insanity, of undue influence, etc, have been used in g scandalous way to break wills which did not please some of the heirs. If the Michigan law works well, and there is no reason appar- ent why it should not, it will probably be copied in other States before long.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
Price Three Cents.
Oh, MyBaGk!

That's a common expres- sion and has a world of meaning. How much suf- fering is summed up in it.
 The singular thing about it is, that pain in the back is occasioned by so many things. May be caused by kidney disease, liver com plaint, consumption, cold, rheumatism, dyspepsia, over work, nervous debility, &c.
 Whatever the cause, don't neglect it. Something is wrong and needs prompt attention. No medicine has yet been discovered that will so quickly and surely cure such diseases as BROWNS IRON BITTERs, and it does this by commencing at the foundation, and mak- ing the blood pure and rich.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
specially if he ezpeotorases all over the

especially if he expectorates all over the hoor.-Loweu Citizen.
 Wilmington (Del.) man went home the other night and found his house locked up. After infinite trouble he managed to gain en- trance through back window, and then dis covered on the parlor table a note from his wife, reading: II have gone out YOU will find the key on the side of the step'
 It was at the funeral of dear friend. ssIt,s just like her,'' whispered one lady to an other. 'sI was dying to know just how old she was and to think of such meanness in a solemn moment like thisi There's no age on the coffin plate She always was a selfish thing, never would give anybody a little pleasure when she could just as we'll as not. :" Boston Transcript
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02

Leading physicians and clergymen use and recom- mend BROWNS IRON BIT- TIERS. It has cured others suffering as you are, and it will cure you,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
EnIToI,IAL NOTES.

The Boston Journal says that there will be more than one will changed when Harvard college confers degree upon Goyernor But Ter. And if Harvard college does not confer a degree upon the bold governor it will make many votes for him.
 Judge Duffy of Baltimore has decided that the sale of goodwill without anything more does not prevent the seller from setting up . similar business next door to the business sold by him. To prevent that the purchaser must have an express contract with the sell
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02

The people of Boston have an interesting of children in the old Franklin school build ing on Washington street were removed from the building Monday morning. Yesterday was the day for granting liquor licenses in Boston, subject to the following provision: No license of the first, second or third class, under the provisions of chapter 100 of the Public Statutes, shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any building or place on the same street within 400 feet of @ public school" If there were no public school in the Franklin school building on Tuesday, the liquor dealers of the neighbor- hood could apply for their licenses, and have them granted by the police commissioners. The secretary of the Citizens Law and Order league believes that this is the real object of having the school vacated. It is even thought by some of the members of the league that the transfer is 8 mere evasion of the law, designed to accommodate the liquor dealers at the expense of the schools. According to the terms of the law the pupils might, after a short time, be put back into the Franklin schoolhouse, and the claim be put forward that contract had been made with the hold CTS of licenses which debarred the city from revoking them. This argument would be disputed by the league, on the ground that Q license is not contract, and that the school was really a building occupied by public school' within the meaning of the law. It has already been decided by the courts that 8 se III. within 400 feet of a school building during the vacation time of the school, and this de- cisioh might be of uss in the present case.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
BUDS.

Buds are like some pretentious merchants They swell at first only to burst and leave soon after.-Boston Com. Bulletin. Unless the Russian police keep their eyes open the coronation of the Czar will be @ bang up affair.-Texas Siftings. Peter Cooper, the great novelist, has passed away. A man whose memory deserves to be revered by all civilized nations. -Apalachi- cola (Fla.) Tribune. Tres bien! Then the man who ees drunk you procrastinste from the cars. Ver' seemple, yer fine language. ."-Boston Transcript He rang the door bell of banker. The servant tells him Monsieur does not re- ceive to-day" ''That is nothing to me- My racket isto know if he will give anything "- Punch.
 PUZZLED VOCALIST. How can person learn to sing?
 That's what want to ask.
 started out some years ago
 All ardor for the task.
 The teacher that met with first
 My brain with terms would cram.
 Don't use the hyoid muscle so.
 Sing from the diaphragm"
 He used to open wide my iawr.
 With little mirrors set on wires, s Called laryhgoscope.
 My second teacher said myyotes Had been quite falsely tried.
 That t.rsgistsrs' were simply ''bosh,"
 And must be set aside. A third one told me that my voice
 Was built for second bass,
 And if got it focused" right
 It would improve space.
 Another told that my breath
 Must near the arm pits play.
 The next one said that force of tone
 Within the membranes lay
 :. With vocal cords and diaphragm,
 And hyo-Ehyofd bone,
 was becoming mysttd6d,
 And could not give tone.
 At last met a teacher gruf,
 Who made my heart rejoice.
 He heard me through quite patiently,
 Then said, s'You have no voice."
 -Musical Herald, Did you ever think what you would do if you had Venderbilt's income ?-Norristown Register. Well, no; but we have often won- dered what Vanderbilt would do if hs had our income. Philadelphia News An exchange remarks that medical students are s'easily sickened by tobacco-chewing corpse" We should think it might weaken mans nerves to see corpse chew tobacco,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02

United States Fish Commissioner M. F, Peirce is not believsrin fish culture as now practiced in this country. He says that the Delaware and all the large streams north of it emptying into the Atlantic were natural salmon streams' at the time the country was settled, but the clearing of of the forests and tilling of the lands has rendered the waters warm and muddy, whereas when fre- quented by the salmon they were clear and cold. For the same reason the numerous trout streams which existed through the northern and middle States fifty or more years ago no longer contain the finest variety of the salmon family. Mir. Peirce thinks that it is waste of time and money to try to re- stock the streams with salmon trout and that carp culture is the only variety of fish cul- ture which is worthy of serious attention.
 A paupers' street register has been pre- pared by those who do the work of the Charity Organization society of the city of New York, and an interesting document it is. It gives the names of all those who have re- ceiYed relief or, have been inmates of the penitentiary during the year, with the street and house number of their homes. It shows that aims have gone into, or criminals have resided at, 1886 street numbers in the past fifteen months. Those houses would make 8 street 32a miles long. The register shows that aims getting families tend to congregate The greatest number of such families con- gregated st any house was S3. A selection of 100 houses gives l, ,775 such families. The o1o Al. Al to charity for support is contagious, spread ing through tenements and neighborhoods when introduced.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
sDuruaI an6 Courier.


DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITK, IS GENTS A WEEK, 70 CENTS A MONTH, $500 A YEAR: BY MAIL, IN COUNTY, IN ADVANCE. s7.oo EXPIRATION. $76O i; S8OO
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
Gnuratiru.

French and Ger an-Classes or private les sons French class in conversation about sssrtine. Apply at 149 George street, corner College E
 w. H. MCCARTHY Teacher of French and German at the CoIeg1ase ana OnnnrnarciRl Iustitnta. fe1O eO0M
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
VEN, CONN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 2. 1ss3

CT to that effect. The law, he said, will not imply such a covenant because it is in re- straint of trade, and for the same reason the sale of sign with the firms name on it gives no exclusive right to the purchaser in the absence of an agreement for the use of the firms name.
 The bill to reduce by one.eighth of one per cent. the tax rate on railroads failed to pass the Senate yesterday. We believe that this action was not doing justice to the rail roads, which have been compelled to pay 'swar taxes" while the tax on other property has been much reduced.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-02
HEADQUARTERS POR SILKS PROCTOR, MAGUIRE 6 CO. keep asp the excitement shall offer this week
 commencing MONDAY, APRIL goth,
 IN OUR nnaTEnN1 .nITDEITQTITKTn nnDkDYnIrMY
'NTS FURNISHING DEPARTMENT

The folio wing Bargains 25O Ally Linen Collars,
 former price 25c, at ISc.
 1s5 Ably Cuffs in styles at 2Oc, reduced @ I-2c. this week. Gas he we'll SaaWknit Hose i'm ten d1f- fere mixtures 25c pair
 Case MerinO shirts i'm long and short sleeves 35 E.2 quality now marked 25c each
 MerinO Shirts and Daers ust the eWeigh weather BOsoms and Bands we'll made ana large izei in soc each
 Cotton, fine Linen Bosom this city, for 75c  all grades at attractive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
DOINGS OF WORKINGMEN.

a recent meeting Of tugbOat men was held ycsteT-
day afternoon No. 1913 BOwery, for the purpose of
directing a permanent organization. There were
25O men present, fOrty-seven OF whom nave
signed the roll of membership since the last meet
ing A permanent organization was effected under
the name of the Steamboat Mems Benevolent and
Protection Association of Ncw-NOTk llarbOr. 4 com
mittce was appointed to receive reports from the
members on the condition of the huIls and boilers
of every steamboat in the hlTbOr. After cTepOrt5
have been prepared a statement to the public Will
be drawn up and printed, calling attention 10 III"
condition Of the boats and the violations Of the law
which so frequently lead to explosions, collisions
and other accidents.
meeting Of the 'Longshorcmrn's Unions Of
New-York aud Brooklyn was held yesterday in St.
James Hotel, at New Bowcry and JamcS-st. The
difficulty which has arisen between the OngshoTc-
men and the COal-shovCIlers was idcrcd, and =
committee was appointed to confer with the coal
shOvelleTs, with instructions 10 suggest 10 them
that they stop Jumping" for forty cents an hour
and join the 'LOngshOTemen,s Union.
meeting Of the NeW-EOTk Labor Lyccum was
held last night at No. 800 BOwery The subject
under discussion was Conservatism; its relation
to social progress" The debate was participated
in by Leandcr Thompson, Edward King and others.
The wOrkngmea OF the lower wards have organ
lied the West side Mutual Benefit Association. IT
paws il members q weekly sick benefit and stated
amount goes to the relatives at the death OF mem
ber It's memberships confined to wOrklngmcn.
The regular meeting Of the Central Labor Union
was held yesterday afternoon in Odd-FcllOWs Hail.
at BowcTy and SecOnd-St. John Doran, Of the
HOuse-panters Union, presided. The Organization
Committee was instructed to agitatc the subject of
eight hours as q days work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31

$1,000 ACCIDENT INSURANCE, WITH i25 WEEK
IY INDEMNITY ~ THE PREFERHED DIVISIONS
has NEVER EXCEEDED Az ANNUAL COST OF SD
FOR ASSESSMENTS AND 81 ANNUAL DUES EX-
elusive OF, MEMBERSHIP FEE So PAID BUT
ONCE.
TO BECOME MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES
MUTUAL ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION AND THEREBY
SAVE oNE.HAIF THE USUAL COST OF ACCIDENT
INSURANCE WRITE FOR CIRCULAR AND APPLt.
TIOS BLANK, AND WHEN RECEIVED FILL OUT
YOUR APPLICATION, INCLosE 50 AND FORWARD
IT TO THE SECRETARY AT NETWORK, on RE.
CEIpr or WUICHA POLICY WILL BE PROMPTLY
MAILED 10 YOU.
CHAs PEET ,of Rogers, Peet & COZ Prest
JAMES r. PITCHER Secretary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
TWO DOG FIGHTS on LONG ISLAND.

The early trains Oh the Long Island Railroad yes
terday conveyed q number Of sporting" men 10
quiet httlc hamlet near a wcll-llnOwn summer
resort on the Atlantic coast. Their object was TO
witness n dog fight. Two hundred and ten men
were at the rendezvous. The first fight was be-
tween Ned a brindlo dog weighing twenty-three
pounds, ana Sport White dog with black spots,
weighing twenty-thrce and a quarter pounds The
fight was for 5000, and the betting was lively.
Ned got good hold when the dogs were let go and
they rolled and tumbled around the pit Both bed
freely and neither had advantage. In the second
and third scratches Ned gained ground, and in the
fourth he was declared the winner after lighting
one hour and forty minutes
While Ned and Sport were chewing each other an
other fight was taking place not many miles away,
between Fly, a brindle weighing u y pounds, of
Greenpoint, and Jp. white with a black spot on
his right eye, owned in Brooklyn. They were TO
fight for $25 side and the gate money There
about fifty persons present. Fly was the
favorte in the betting When the dogs were let 90,
Fly got hold of Jps throat and il was so clear that
he the best dog that Jip's hackers gave up the
fight, saying that they did not want their dog
killed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
ASSAULTED BY HIGHWAYMEN.

While James Geraghty, of Haverstraw, was pass
ing through Bayard-st., between ten and eleven
O'clock on Saturday night he was assaulted ny
three men, two of whom held him while the third
riiiCd his pockets of 500. He gTasped one Of his
assailants and held him til policeman came al no
Michael Carroll, age "a, of No 200 hiGiks,fit,
BROOKLYN. On being arraigned before justice
Power YESTERDAY at the TOmbs Police Court, he as
committed for trial without bail.
Peter A. Delambre, of No. 209G Second-ave;' wss
quietly walking IN East One-hundred-and-slx,,
teenth-st on Saturday night when he was assaulted
by two Young rufans. They were Michael Hesslan,
OF No 2,135 Third-ave., and Austin GrGogan, OF No.
162 East Northumberland enth-st. They threw
him down IN a snow bank and beat and kicked
him. One of his assailants seized his thumb be-
tween his teeth and bit it, causing an ugly wound
Finally an officer appeared and the Tuilians ,I were ere
trial by Justice O'ReIlly in the Harlem Police
Court. ~
On Christmas night Frank McGaughcy, of No.
81 East Thirty secOnd-st was attacked near ms
home by two men, who knocked him down, dragged
him into hallway and presenting pistol at his
head, robbed him of 500. George Heaney age ~,
of No 1874 East Thirty-ninth-st., who was identi-
fled as one of the hghwaymen, pleaded not guilty
in the Yorkville Police Court yesterday, but was
held in Sc, 600 bail for trial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL STATISTICS.

The patrons and friends Of the Mount Sinai Hos
pital met Yesterday in the hospital building at
SXty-slxth-St. and LeXington-avc. TO listen 10 the
annual report of the institution and TO eject ohceIs
for the ensuing year. While the meeting was IN
progress DR.. LaSker, Of Berlin was introduced anna
loud applause AT the close of the reading OF the
reports he made few remarks in German express,
ing his appreciation of the reception given him and
his admiration for charity and its fruits. The re-
port of he Treasurer showed that for the wear end
ing November 80 1888. there had been expended
for the support Of the hospital and dispensary the
sum of $685. 47 90; for buildings and I'M
provements. $24,713 95; for ground rent
and interest, $147 50; making a total Of
of 500 30S 90. The total receipts for the year were
STA PA 40.
Among ihe amounts that arc shown in the re-
ceipts may be noted SD, 10 from the PuTlm ban
$50 1872 80 from patrons and members Sl2sOO
from lcgacies and hcquest; and Sl2,JOO ior the
endowment Of perpetual beds. The report OF the
Executive Committee showed the number Of
patients treated during the year 10 have hcen2o33
at an average cost per capita per day OF , O3 l-
ThrpropoItou free patients treated was y? G3-loo
per cent: Of pay patients 431-lO0 Nine hundred
and forty-three patients were discharged cured,
and go improved 1854 died, and there are at
present in the hOspita, lJ9 of whom 81 are MAJ rs
and IS females. The averaged daily number IN the
hospital was l51 800. The whole number Of pa
tients treated since the Hospital was founded is
22S3. The old board ofdircctors and the following
officers were reelected:
President Hyman Blum; ycc-Prr-dent lsaach
Wallach; Treasurer Samuel NJ. Scnaier; secretary
L. ". Hornthcl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
,pv.vopK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 81 1888

crcosed about fifteen per cent Objection was mad
M lie con ference on Saturday and the Board
Finance consented to reduce the valuation OF ono
railroad property to the original figures On cUd
This arrangement was mutually satisfactory
James McCann, the iunkman,. who, with MIs.
Phoebe Ta.y, was found dead under his own wagon E3a
ON Friday morning, was buried YESTERDAY. an = nc nc
wonan's body has not been claimed, aud IL VIII no
buried i'm the POtter's Field.
MAsPErH-The cornerstone of the African he,n-
odist Episcopal Church. in Fifth-aye., was iaId yes
tcIIay afternoon with appropriate CEREMONIES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
A NOTE. A PISTOL. AND AN ARREST.

William Wall, age 20. of No. AZ Park ave-, in
the Yorkville Police COuTf yesterday, said that on
December 1 he received the following note from a
messenger boy. II was written in pencil a
sheet Of cream-cOlored nOte-paper:
Billy Wall: want you TO be here at my house be
tween and O'clock to settle for the damage of last
night. If you not here by that time you will be ar
rested with your friends To keep out OF trouble and
keep the thing quiet you had better come and nothing
will be done 10 you. Answer. Mrs. LIE WE'VE,
No. 49 West Twenty -siIth-st.
Mr.. Wall responded -prOmptlyto the invitation,
and was received by Mrs. lie We've, who told him
that her furniture had been damaged in q visit
from him and his friends on the previous evening,
but if he would settle with J. j. Ward, who was
present, it would be all right. Mr.. Ward displayed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
TIE soIrND STEAMER WATERBURY.

Tho stcamboat Laura of tho bridgeport steam-
boat Company has been almost rebuilt and her
name has been changed to the Waterbury: me i hui
has bceu plauked from stem to stern win o-iuCh
stern-posf and ruddcr, and new keel $50 feet In
length IS inches wide by inches deep and entire
Nv of oak. Between the iron hull and the OAK
IRON from corrosfon by the wood acids and to pro-
tec the boat against Ice she has been sheathed with
rive her inches moro frce-bOard, Is inches more
beam. and a capacity for - more tons freight with
the same draft of water. The interior alterations
cabin. n capacious saloon new carpets, new bed
ding. etc. and she is heated throughout by steam.
She Will make her first trip from New-lork to
Bridgeport at IL a. m. to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
PURSUIT AND CAPTURE OF BURGLARS.

The house of @. 5. Croker, of No. PIT East Eigh-
teenth-st was entered yesterday morning by
burglars who ransacked the house from top to bot
TOM MIR. Croker, who asleep III the back paTlor,
was awakened by a noise as if some one walking,
aud seeing light in the basement procured revol-
yer and ran down TO the lower floor in time to see
three young men dash out of the basement door,
each one with large bundle under his arm The
burglars separated two going in the direction of
Third-aye. while the other ran toward Second-ave.
tives but without effect, and turning, fired at the
solitary thief with like result. HIS pistol shots
were esard, however, by Officers Joyce, Gilbrde
and Hogan who pursued the fugitivesand captured
them at iwentieth-St. and 1hird-aye. Jewelry and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-31
MR.. GROW EXPLAINS HIS RETICENCE.

Ex-Governor Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
has been staying for few days at the Victoria llO
tel where a TRIBU Ne reporter sought to get FROM
him an expression of opinion public topics, with
this result: " Pm out OF politics; when man has
10 the Grand Trunk Railroad, he has no time TO
study politics Unless one is inside, his opinions
afe worthless When | was III politics | knew
what was going on, and was willing to say. Now
only know what / read in the papers and fire.
Quenty L find in them interviews from men who
suspect are farther outside than l., The public
NAV be deceived by belief that they know some
thing but il must make sport for those who really
please" p