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Year: 1879

After being out twenty hours the jury in the trial
of the suit brought under tho Civil Damages act by
Mrs. Hannah L. Scully against David Buckley to
cover for damages sustained by her husband on
count OF the sale of liquor to him at the defendants


liquor saloon in West Eleventh street. in consequence
of which he failed to contribute anything for her
support, brought in verdict yesterday for $54 for
the plaintiff. Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, counsel for
defendant, moved for trial. Judge Daniels
said he would hear an argument on the motion on
next Monday. Although the verdict was in favor Of
the plaintiff. yet considering the amount sued for
and the small amount given 1t Is regarded sub
stantial victory for the defendant
Year: 1879

The Roman Catholics are to bc COM
mended for the efforts they arc max
ing to suppress useless extravaganza at
funerals. A year ago the Bishop of
New Jersey issued some instructions
for the regulation of funerals, and alb
solutely forbade the use of more than
II carriages. On recent Sunday the
doors of the cathedral in Jersey City
were closed against Il cortege of 40 car
riageS, and remained closed until the
number had been reduced to the pre-
scribcd limit. Within tho last year
several other ecclesiastical bodies have
put on record their dlsapproyal of cost
ly displays on such occasions, and it is
to be hoped that some practical results
may follow this general expression OF
opinion. The evil is wide spread and
real, aud is often an unhappy satire on
the mourners themselves. The fortu-
nate man who has found rest from his
troubles and is followed by a troupe of
sorrowing friends might have put off
the day OF lis death had little of the
money devoted to his obsequies been
used for his benefit while he was yet
in the body. A Chinaman will die
happy il he has the assurance of cost
ly funeral, but to most Christians it is a
very unsatisfactory reward for the
trials of life. 1t is no tribute to the
character OF the dead to oppress and
harass the survivors for useless demon
strations of grief, and if people are
able to spend money for this sort of dis
play it is better to hel lp the living man
with it rather than make lis funeral
imposing with unheeded evidences of
afiluent woe.
Year: 1879

SELFIsHNEss-Selfs is the moth
er OF sorrow. When one is on the
stretch to secure personal aims, he is
exposed to failure. When one acts as
a guardian for self, he is in perpetual
anxiety. Anxious only for the @usc,
aud seeking only to be expended in the
best way for its publication, any thrusts
made for self arc harmless. THUS any
iety for self is useless burden, which
may be cast off. Have you this freedom9
Tt is a part of the divine plan. IL Won
have not reached the repose where YOU
can free yourself of any CALLING cares
that may be weighing you down YOU
are missing your privilege.
Year: 1879

when she turned fresh pan OF cold piec


es into the swill tub, and would then i'm .


mediately start for the tub. The man Of


tne house grew restless and impatient.


lie tried the shotgun, and by the time he
had Killed few with that, the great re-


malnder had learned how to dodge the
gun. He could not sit up nights to kin
those rats with a club, so what should hc


o! lie would feed the rats with what he
thought he could best afford. He thought
he would kill them with kindness, if he
could no it in no other way. So lie mixed
wheat flour and plaster Of Paris, half and
half in liberal quantity, and set it down
where it.would be convenient for the tat
to get at it. Be itremembered, just here
that any place was convenient for them
to get at. The. rats gathered around the
festive board as numerously as sisters
gather at free lunch, and they ate their
hll, leaving nothing 1T was rather a dry
meal, but the canal was ever so handy,
and to it they went to. drink, The plas
terer, when he found the mixture all
eaten, made up his mind that if the TO-
dents could flourish on that kind of food
they gould digest, anything and cyerv
thing. The next day the rats were around
as usual, but they did not appear to haze
much appetite. They did not make bold
to go into the cellar Or snap up every
thing that was thrown out. They an
peared rather dozy. On the second day
all the rats were dead, and the plastcrcr
was thenccforth bothered with them no
more. A post mortcm examination showed
that the plaster had set within them.
Year: 1879

The Murder Of KereMMe A0enf Cotton


Traced to the Pe,petrator after the Lapse


Of T,r0 Years.


Gainesville (Ga.) Special


The mystery of tue killing of Cotton, the
revenue agent, has been cleared up finally
and effectually by official investigation.
Cotton, one OF the most effective of the
revenue agents, was missing one day about
two years ago. But little was thought of his
disappearance, as he was constantly out on
secret raids, and was man of very irregular
habits. About the time CT the disappearance,
Hyrant, a worthless fellow about the town,
told several parties that he had killed Cotton,
and even went so far as to give the reasons
for it. Nobody paid any attention to it. A
few weeks ago the bones of q man were found
at the spot where Byrant said he had buried
Cotton. Byrant was dying at the time of
this discovery, and the man who found them
said nothing to disturb his last days. He
died in about week, everything being kept
quiet in the meantime. After his death the
discovery was announced. 1t was then
thought that probably the scheme was to
protect some ono else by putting the crime
on Byrant, and an investigation was had.
The result has been reached, and proved
absolutely that Byrant was the murderer.
It seems that Cotton had informed upon
some of Byraut's relatives, who had been
running m illicit still, and it was though
best to put Cotton out of the way. One
witness testified that Byrant had offered to
see him paid if he would kill Cotton, and
afterwards tried to get him to get Cot ton out
of town, where he (Byrant) could s:get fair
lick at him." The witness declined to do
either of these things, and said nothing about
it. Byrant did succeed in getting Cotton to
Year: 1879




Captain James B. Eads. who constructed
the Mississippi river jetties, advocates the
substitution of railroad, by which the
largest ships may be carried across the
lsthmus of Darien, instead of q canal.
The canal, he argues, must
cost $140,oo0,0oo, and occupy from
fifteen to twenty-five years in construction,
involving under the latest plans the cutting
of tunnel four miles long, and of such d.
mensions that tho Mont Cenis work dwindles
into insignifcance. He then proceeds to
outline the plan for railroad to cost $50,
600, 900, or one-thirl the prico of the tunnel,
which, he says, he has no question will
be successful. There need be no
grades of moro steepness than
on ordinary roads. The road-bed may be
not more than forty feet wide, nor have
more than ten rails. The vessel should be
lifted from the sea to the level of the road by
lock, or by other we'll known devices, and
placed upon car or cradle of ample strength
TO sustain the vessel with her cargo without
the possibility of injury.


The lock should be twice the length of the
| ship, and only one-half of its length should be
deep enough to receive the ship from the sea.
The bottom of the other half of the lock
| should be at the sea level, and on this the
railroad should commence. Into this upper
part of the lock the cradle to carry the ship
should be run, and the gates at the land
end should then be closed. The ship should
then be floated into the deep end OF the
lock and the sea gates closed, after which
water shonld be admitted to fill tho lock to q
| height sufficient to float the ship on the car
in the upper half, after which the water
! should be dawn eff and the gates of the
land end opened, and the Car and its burden
be then started on its journey by rail. At
the other end of the road the car should be
run into similar lock. Another method of
transfer from sea to railroad is described as u
hydraulic elevator. so arranged that the vessel
would rise and fall on even keel. The car
to carry the ship should be made in
sections to avoid strain, and each section
should have its propelling power. He COM
putes that the power of less than dozen Or
dinary freight engines would be required to
push the largest loaded ships at the rate of
eight miles an hour. Such road and lifting
appliances may be constructed in less than
four years. He expresses the utmost conf
dence in the practicability of the plan, and
of the profit in running the road.
Year: 1879

Talk OF the Various Routes-No Govern.


ment Correspondence on the Subject.


Washington, Aug. IA thorough
inquiry at the state department and an
Interview with the president to-day
enables the authoritative statement to
be made that no action has been taken
and no correspondence held by the
government either with regard to De
Lessep's canal scheme in its relation to
our foreign policy, or with regard to
the further exploration of the isthmus
by another government expedition,
with the view to the organization of an
an American canal company. As far
as DE Lessep's scheme is concerned,
both the president and secretary of
state are firmly convinced that no exi-
gency is likely to arise which can cause
disquietude or make it necessary for
the government to take steps for the
protection of American interests.
They believe that De Lesseps and the
Paris congress have selected imprac-
ticable routes, and that De Lessep's
scheme will eventually fail through
lack of financial support and for the
want of American cooperation.


Admiral Ammen is very anxious that
commission of American engineers
should be appointed to make careful
examination of, AMI an official report
upon the whole subject of an inter-
oceanic canal, with view to further
surveys, if necessary.


As no action has been taken by the
government upon Ammen's proposal,
but there is little doubt that it will be
be favorably considered, and that
commission of United States engineers
will he appointed.
Year: 1879

New York, Aug. 7.-Speaking Of
the ship canal the Herald says the pres
ent enterprise of the Nicarauguan gov
ernment intended only to open naviga-
tion for river steamers of light draught
from the gulf to the lake, but it will
now probably have the effect of calling
up attention once more to the feasibili-
ty of ship canal for which both the
river and lake by all accounts offer i'm
portant helps, while between the west
ern shore of the lake and the Pacific
ocean there is but narrow neck of
land, thirteen miles across.


1t will do no harm to have several
inter-oceanic canals, and DeLesseps
will probably stir up interest in other
projects besides this one, and perhaps
lead some of the Central American
countries to undertaken canal project
on their own account.
Year: 1879

New York, Aug. Reviewing the
removal of Police Commissioner Smith,
the Sun says there is no bureau of
nincompoops to lay it to this time.
Either Tilden has very little influence
with the government and mayor of his
own making or the unjust and illegal
removal of Gen. Smith must be laid to
his charge. What the effect will be on
Tilden's political fortune remains to be
seen. He is strong man and may be
strong enough to do such things. We
shall see.
Year: 1879

Buffalo, Aug. THE attendance at
the driving park to-day was nearly
5000. The sport was excellent and
proved a damp per to at least one Sob, y
and left an unfinished race in which
there were evident sign of another.


The first event, a 2:35 race, was un-
finished owing to the darkness. The
sixth trial was declared no heat, it
being apparent that the driver of Kate
Hall did not drive to win.


Tomorrow Rarus will attempt to
beat his best time for special purse
in two heats, to be coached by rum
ming horse. e& A
Year: 1879

New York, Aug. THE Herald of
to-day says: The interest increases in
the north as well as the south over the


disposition of her vast property in
Louisiana and Mississippi, valued at
$3.50, 600, by the late Mrs Dorsey. Davis
is in quiet possession of the property
and will be able to draw from it all
resources necessary to resist the claims
of those who claim to be the rightful
heirs. Yesterday a reporter of the
Herald called at the office of Gen.


Dahlgren, step-father of Mrs. Dorsey,
in Brooklyn. He had no doubt that
had she lived little longer she would
have regretted the disposition of her
property and would have repealed her
will. But he said she seems to have
been dominated by Davis influence
and mind and the general had no
doubt but that undue influence can be
shown in the trial of the case. His son,
Mortimore,i is determined to contest the
will and so is Col. Ellis, and the gener-
al had no doubt but that they would
ultimately succeed in breaking the
will.
Year: 1879

Boston, Aug. IA Boston company
are now turning out between ten and
twelve thousand pounds of ice per day,
which they contract to deliver at half
cent pound. The process employed
is said to be the cheapest known to
science. The cost of manufacturing is
only S5 cents per ton.
Year: 1879

THE SILVER CERTIFICATEs.- The sill,
yer certificate bids fair to lake the place of
the standard dollar to very great extent
In paying out ten p0r cent. on cheeSs in
silver dollars the Treasury is generally
faced with the demand for certificates in
their stead. This is especially the case
wish the banks. The banks then pay
them out over their counters the same as
greenbaeks. In this way large amount
Of silver certificates have got into cireu-
lation in this city. The silver certificate
is the same size as the greenback, and
just as convenient. 1t passes readily in
all quarters where it is known. The ex-
perenee with tho silver dollar will
dou btess be the same elsewhere as it is
in this eity-tbe substitution for it to n
great extent of the Certificate. In this
way new form of currency will rapidly
come into general circulation.-W Wash
t1gtoN star.
Year: 1879

SIGNoR BRUMIDA, the aged artist who


has so long been engaged in decorating
the Capitol at Washington, was nearly
killed while working on the upper part of
the rotunda two weeks ago, He sat on a
chair perched on n scaffold ffty-fye feet
from the floor. In leaning over TO give a
finishing touch TO figure almost out Of
his reach, he caused the chair to slip and
fall off, and he only escaped by a sudden
clutch at the edge of the scafold. He
has been at work upon the Capitol for
twerty-threc years, and has lately been so
feeble that it has been found necessary to
lift him TO his fresco work by derrick.
Year: 1879

THE Supervisors of San Francisco
have passed an order to pay one Smith
S66, ,2S5 for damages done his lumber and
wharf property in the anti Chinese riots
of July, 1877. The City Attorney said
that it would not pay to appeal from the
ruling of the Court below to the Supreme
Court as the latter tribunal would most
undoubtedly affirm the decision, hence
it were better to pay without more ado.
Il is thought that the judgments that
may be obtained against the city for IN
jury then done to private property may
cover a quarter of q million dollars.
Year: 1879

A CONTEST between a rattesnake and q
sow and pig lately occurred in Monigom.
cry county, Georgia. The snake first bit
The pig then the old sow attacked the
snake, and in her turn was bitten. She
succeeded in killing the snake, but when
Mr.. Bridges, the owner of the farm,
reached the spot he found the reptile and
the animals side by side, dead. This
would seem to contradict the opinion
that the hog is proof against the bite of
the rattlesnake.
Year: 1879

MIX, the eolored postmaster at Black
vile, South Carolina, is in the way OF
the white people. Mr.. Mix entered a
store a few days age to make purchases,
when he encountered three or four red
shirts with Texas tooth>peks in their
hands who profanely accosted him as a
damnigger and declared that they would
not tolerate him much longer. With the
assistance of the proprietor Of the store be
was enabled to escape and take refuge
behind Uncle Sans mail bags. He
naturally wants to know what POST
master Key is going to do about it.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Globe says The Grant
boom is as strong in Massachusetts as in
California, and should Grant come to the
Bay State, the demonstrations of his Re-
publican admirers would be as numerous
and imposing as they have been on the
Pacific coast.
Year: 1879

A SURE sign Of the return of better
times is the increased importation of
champagne. For the past two months
the increase has been at the rrte of 80
per cent. as compared with the same time
last year.
Year: 1879

In A little while the silver ques.'on
NAV be settled by the rise in the bullion
and then some people will find the mon
led men and bankers laughing in their
sleeve and saying they had no expecta-
tion that there was gold enough in The
world to suffice for currency. The latest
news from England is that that govern
ment is considering the propriety OF re-
monetizing silver; and it is also stated
that Germany is about to do the same
and adopt the course of France. Eng
land secured her gold and silver while
the United States were engaged in civil
war; and Germany got her gold and sill
yer through the French indemnity But
although these two nations thus became
rich they destroyed all the advantage
they had by demonetizing silver and de-
stroying their home trade. France with
all her troubles grew happier and more
prosperous than either, because she dld
not destroy her silver money, one OF the
elements of successful trade, and thus
cut down the values of all labor and al


property to single gold purchasing
standard.
Year: 1879

THE ETHIOPIAN IN GLovEKs WooDp1Lr-In
support OF the charge made by Mr.. Mcpherson
that the attack OF Glover's committee on the
Bureau OF Engraving and Printing was In the
can be stated, on the authority of one having
much to DO with the work OF that committee.
that 1t was well understood that one OF Gloyer's
the attack on the printing bureau, was under
pay from the private bank note companies
Wash. Cor. Gin Gazette
Year: 1879

Mr.. DAVIS IN NEW ORLEANs.-Mr Jefferson
Davis visited New Orleans last week, but post
lively declined to make any statement In regard
his work in regard to the late war Is not com
pleted, the delay being because of the destruc-
ton OF his documents and private papers during
and at the close OF the war He declined also
to state whether he is an aspirant to seat in
the y. 8. Senate from MiSsissfDpf
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, August 12.-John F. Mines, who
had been missing from the Astor house for
three weeks, was found yesterday by excise
commissioner L Heidell, OF Utica, who had been
searching for him in this city for several days
He says Col. Mines had been Ill, but was In the
care OF an experienced ply sician, and hoped to
return home In few days
Year: 1879

MEAT FOR SOLDIERS.-By direction of the Sec
retary OF War, sugar cured hams and other
articles which are purchased by actual net
weight will hereafter be sold to officers and
enlisted men by actual net weight at the time
OF sale, at invoice or contract prices, with ten
per cent. added.
Year: 1879

Late European advlceS indicate that stren-
uous efoFts are being made to popularlze the
De Lesseps canal scheme. At the first glance
1t would appear that the blessing OF the Pope
was simply formal religious ceremony, which
would have been extended to any enterprise
1t now transpireS that the papal benediction
was designed by those seeking 1t to expressly
commend the scheme to the middle classes and
peasantry OF Germany and France, and to pre-
sent to them an investment wherein worldly
and spiritual gain could be set forth as an In
ducement for subscriptions.


NJ DE LEssEPs


has also caused q statement to be extensively
that the United States would offer no opposi-
ton whatever to the construction OF the pro-
posed canal While no such assurances have
been conveyed, 1t Is undoubtedly true that this
government would not interfere with the pro-
posed canal. The accomplishment or failure Of
the scheme would make no difference to the
United States, as the ultimate construction OF
canal under the auspices Of our government by
the Nicaraguan route will furnish better facili
ties to our commerce. give shorter routes, and
insure water way between the two oceans,
which shall be entirely under our own control.
GEN. GRANT IN FAVOR OF THE NICARAUGA ROUTE.
Many Of the most prominent engineers OF this
country have Joined In the conclusion that the
Nicaraguan route is by far the most feasible
for connecting the waters of the Atlantic and
Pacific IL is Wei known fact that during the
past ten years Gen. Grant has taken an earnest





and during his administration he took great
pains to thoroughly inform himself in re-
gard to the advantages and disadvantages
of the different routes surveyed. After
careful examination OF the subject,
he expressed himself as satisfied that
the Nicaraguan route possessed greater advan-
tages, both as TO facility OF construction aud
the requirement of the necessary territory,
than any other route suggested. From letters
received from him by friends in this country
since his absence In the East especially since
the Darien Canal scheme has assumed such
prominence before the world, it is evident that
the generalbas been watching the subject With
the liveliest interest fully appreciating its i'm
portance In all its bearings. There is no doubt
In the minds OF his friends here that be would
be willing to identify himself with the Nicara-
guam scheme as one Of the managing directors
or, II necessary, to assume the presidency OF
such al enterprise and lend his energy, ability
and influence to carry out successfully this
great engineering work for the benefit of the
United States and of the world. He could leave
behind him no greater nor more enduring mon
unent than canal connecting the waters Of
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Year: 1879

To the Editor Of the Globe.


It appears that Alderman Mccarthy is re-
ceiving good deal of the underground op-
position of the so called stalwarts. The
people Of the Sixth ward must certainly be
aware of the fact that he has made an excel
lent representative of their interests. It is
notorious fact that in ward improvements
the Sixth ward has actually secured more
than its share both in street lamps and side
walks, nearly all of which has come out of
the general fund. At the last meeting of the
council he has had two cisterns for fire pur
poses allowed his ward. BE has at the Game
time fought with great persistency the re,
funding of the city's old debt by the issue of
new bonds, unless the Sixth ward was exempt
from taxation for the payment of the prin-
cipal or interest on said bonds. It must be
remembered by the citizens of the Sixth
ward that it was principally through the in
fuence and efforts of Alderman Mccarthy
that bill was passed through elegislature
last winter for the construction of a levee in
the Sixth ward, $4,000 of which is to be
paid out of the general fund of the city. It
is safe to say that not one dollar for said levee
would have been allowed out of said general
fund if it had been for the efforts of Alder
man Mccarthy. By his legislative expert
ence and influence with the members of
both houses he succeeded in his efforts
where less determined men would have
failed. We assert that the best interests of
| the Sixth ward demand the return of j. G.
Mccarthy to the common council, and have
no doubt that all people of good sense will
view the matter in the same light as we do.
SIXTH WARD
Year: 1879

The peevish and puerile Dispatch carps at
Gen. Averill because he declined to lead the
Republican forlorn hope. Gen. Averill was
most outrageously treated by his party.
Both health and business rendered it impos-
sible for him to serve, and he so stated in an
open, manly manner. That there might be
no mistake, he telegraphed from Appleton
an additional and positive declination, but
with persistence which was insulting (be-
cause it assumed he was acting false) the
convention nominated him. To find fault
because he will not swallow the insult, is both
mean and indecent.