Year: 1878

: hOTSeS ana whose IamlueS VlSlL all
the great watering-places, and who
fail about once every six months
and settle up for ten cents on the
dollar, are not regarded with very
special favor by the old time den
zens of the swamp. Among the
names which are remembered with
especial reverence are old Gid. Lee
and Thorne, Watson's former part
ner, who with many others have re-
ceived the honors Of tan bark
canonization.


While every class of leather is
represented, sole-leather is the great
specially Of New York ; the greater
part of this is hemlock tanned, and
New York State tans four-ffths Of
the leather sold in New York City.
The statistics of '76 are not yet
made up, but Notwithstanding the
universal business depression, al
most without a parallel in our his.
tory, it is altogether probable
that the leather trade of IT Will
show an increase Of at least two
millions of dollars over rs.


We are growing no better very
fast-about a dozen attempts at
suicide-ive Of them successful ;
four murders, and numerous des
perate attempts at burglary have
broken the monotony of the week.
One of the would-be suicides was a
beautiful and successful shop litter.
When detected in her crime she
made g desperate attempt to shoot
the officer who arrested her. On
Monday, while being sentenced,
she acted like maniac, her screams
for mercy being heard blocks away
from the court. The parting from
her husband and child was one Of
the most pitiful scenes ever wit
messed in a court of justice. It
took four policemen, after a terrible
struggle to remove her from the
court room, and on her arrival at
the Raymond street jail, she drank
vial of laudanum which she had
secured in some manner, and came
very near finishing her career.
Another case was that of a young
blood who had the misfortune to be
born with q silver spoon in his
mouth, to which was appended an
indefinite supply of greenbacks and
financial pap. He travelled all over
the world, got sick of good things
tried getting drunk ;; even that
did not make him happy. He kept
fast horses and all sorts Of other
fast things, ami still was not a sue
cess, and desiring to vary his
amusements, on Monday last, in
disreputable house, be attempted
to blow out his brains. This proved
the deadest failure of all. He made
an ugly hole in his head, but no
brains have been disturbed. The
doctors declare that the left lobe of
the brain is gone, and that there is
an entire absence Of the right. In
case the physicians succeed in fin
ishing him, the verdict may be,
mo brains and too much money"
T would like to take just about one
half Of his complaints.


Our burglars grow bolder every
day. There was a time when they
waited for you to get to sleep and
confined their visits to the wee
hours of the morning. It is not so
now. They get mad if you don't
go to bed by half-past ten, and are
apt to revenge themselves on your
mince-pies and champagne for any
detention they may suffer. The
other night g party Of burglars
made a raid on a fashionable house
up town. They lit up the gas, got
out cold chicken, lobster salad and
champagne. They topped off with
crackers, old stilton, and coffee, and
only retreated when the sixth bot
tie of Heidsick gave them warning
that their loads were about as
heavy as they could carry.


Joseph Lopez, the Spanish gam
h1or who s17nceeded in trapping old
Morrison's foolish daughter into a
marriage in hopes of striking the
old man for some money, has sud
denly come to grief. He went for
wool and has come out shorn. A
decree of the court has annulled
themarriage, on the ground of fraud,
and the gay Joseph has been ar
rested for perjury, and it looks at
the present time as if the State
-o,,1J hova IN he resnOnsible for