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Year: 1878

from the San Francisco Bulletin, Nov 81


A shocking murder committed yesterday morn
ing the of Parker and Fulton street.
lonely neiehborhood west of th0Masonic Cemetery
and near the Cliff House road. The victim of the
tragedy Mrs. Ann Barry. q woman about forty


ve years old. the wife of Richard Barry. gardener
employed at the Golden Gate Park. They occupied.
with their son. boy Of twelve. small house at tho
corner of Parker avenue and Fulton street, where the
murder committed about nine o'clock in the
morning. time when the unfortunate woman was
alone in the house. her husband having gone TO his
work at the Park and her son being at school. The
tragedy first made known some two hours later.
when Edward McGuc, elderly man and q friend Of
pose of chopping some wood. AZ he entered the
dwelling he noticed the door leading to the
front bedroom ajar. and, without knocking
entered. He stamped on the floor 20 make known
his presence. but, receiving no reply. walked to tho
kitchen door and looked in. A horrible sight met
his gaze. The dead body Of Mrs. Barry lay the
floor covered with blood Her clothing was partly
riblc manner there being deep wound the left
temple; another back of that. which fractured the
skull and severed the ear another the left Jaw;
cash under the chin on the left side: deep cut over
the LEFT eye which accrated It, and still another cut
on the right side Of the neck From the appearance
of tho II seemed that the murderer had not
compshed his deed without meeting with adcspcrate
resistance. The walls OF the kitchen stained with
blood, anu STAINS VI DiOOd also vfslDle on tne
stove. On the table white carving
knife. The handle is stained. showing that some
with blood stained hand held It. There is, however.
no mark of blood on the blade. On the floor near
the corpse lay bloody hatchet with which the
fatal blows were evidently given. McGce st once
went to the Park and notified Barry of the terrible
affair, and Barry sent word in the afternoon to the
Coroner, who took charge of the body, which was
moved to the Morguc. The crime was probably COM
mttcd for the sake Of plunder.


The tramp Echncr who arrested on suspicion.
before the Police Court this morning for carrying
q concealed weapon, on which charge he was con-
victcd.


On the 23d of October. 1860 Mrs. William johnson,
her son and hired man mysteriously murdered
during the absence in the city of her husband snce
dead and her eldest son. the north flank Of Lone
Mountain adjacent 10 the of yesterday inur-
der. The circumstances of that crime Of the
most revolving nature and the axe with which the
foul deed committed Is now preserved among the
collection OF murvlcrous implements AT police head
quarters. The murderer was never discovered
although strong suspicious rested person who
subsequently disappeared from the country and has
never been heard from.
Year: 1878

The Ward Meetings. .--Remembe the
ward-meetings tonight to elect three mem.
bers from each to the City Central Commit.
tee. In the First Ward they will assemble
at the corner OF Seventh and Hull streets
in the Second at the Mayors Courtroom
in the Fourth at the corner OF Eleventh and
Hull streets. The place Of meeting in the
Third Ward has not been selected. It is
hoped that there will be full attendance
Of the voters, in order that the proper sense
of all HAY be ascertained. Persons attend.
ing will not be required to show tax-re-
ceiptS
Year: 1878

WHEAT IN HENRICo.-A Henrico county
farmer informed us on Saturday that he had
examined the wheat-feds on twenty-four
farms in his county and found that the
wheat had been so injured by rust that in
no case wculd the yield be larger than the
quantity seeded.
Year: 1878

The cause Of my trouble and discomfort
is where to get good CIGAR for cent.
Take this advice, you will lind it best:
Hereafter smoke WHITLoCK'S Key West.
And If for Gne you'll pay 10 cent,


To get something good and be content,
BE sure you get WHITLoCK's Model Cigar
They are for sale most everywhere.
Year: 1878

San Diego-the whole to be completed with
in six years after the passage of the bill.


The friends of the Texas and Pacific ut
terly repudiate this bill as being in no sense
in their interest, and while they claim Sem
ator Johnston as the friend of their measure,
and in no sense antagonizing them, they
claim that the bill in question was prepared
in the interest OF Mr.. Huntington and is
promoted by him and his friends. The
friends of the Texas and Pacific are very
OF passing their bill as reported
from the committee and have no appreben-
sion whatever as to the effect Of the bill
Just introduced.
Year: 1878

STARTING CP.-Jackson, N.Y.
ers Il Co., Of the Muckilteo can
merry, caught a large number Of
salmon } esterday, and they are
preparing to begin cooking to-
morrow. This evening the steam
er Zephyr will go to Muckllteo
with about 80 TONS OF freight for
the firm. 1t is but lew days
since that the Zephyr took down
SO tons OF freight for the same
firm. The Indications are that
there Will be d good run Of sal
mon tins season, and lively times
at that cannery.


SEVERE CUT This morning Jack
Wilson, well known as the champion
base ball pitcher Q: the Sound,
received a severe cut in the ankle
this morning, while at work with
the surveying party on the Seattle
" Walla WalIa +. r. Ihe axeman
was clearing away the brush for the
stake to be driven when Wilson
called for a stake, which was thrown
at him. He jumped back to avoid
the stake, and was hit by the axe,
that instrument cutting into the
ankle bone ,inficting asevere wound,
the extent of which we did not learn.


COLMAN's mill shut down yes
terday morning for repairs;w which
will be completed this evening
and it will start running in the
morning. Among the repairs
are u row Of piles driven along
the north side of the mill by
Surber's pile driver.
Year: 1878

Seventeen CID crates of onions are here for army account and consigned to Camp Grant. They must be anxious to get there, for their tender green shoots are struggling out through every crack in the crates. Perhaps, being military onions, they are practising shooting. There now That little joke will bring out twenty Enterprise adjectives against us for running down the army" Camp Grant patronizes the Pueblo Viejo farmers just like Joe kept tavern.
Year: 1878

WORK is now we'll under way on the nessee and Eureka Bonanza mines, of reka, next above Castle Dome district, der the auspices of San Francisco par 8. Some orc is being taken out, but 5st of the work is being directed toward enlng up the mines. A pump has been -sged on the old shaft and is keeping down the water which formerly drove the miners out There is quite a ship ment here of material and supplies which will be forwarded to the mines by first boat.
Year: 1878

The new pumping and hoisting engine of the c. s. N. Co. is now in position and ready to run on receipt of the pipe and pump which are still at Sacramento. The water tanks have been housed and roofed In, making quite an imposing appearan cc The steamboat ways have been laid and are now being planed off. Rip rapping around the bridge piers is nearly con- rlefad
Year: 1878

THE steamer advertised to sail to-day has not yet returned from up river. Two boats will probably get here within few days. One will make the regular trip and the other will go as an extra to move accu- mulated freight. The advertised schedule of sailing days has been given up, but boats will be despatched as often as possible.
Year: 1878

SMALL PoX seems to be in a fair way of disappearing from Yuma. There have been no deaths for the past week. We have heard of but one new case and that has not fairly declared itself. The best infor- nation We have gathered leads us to be- lieve the disease is just drying out.
Year: 1878

Tho warm weather for the past week has had a
damaging effect upon tho ice in this vlcniy he fog
in the early part Of tho present week having cut 1t
into many picccs AT the Captoine Lake Brooklyn,
Tuesday the propretors constructed several large
RATS by which means they we're enabled to work the
large cakes Of to mo lower end oithe lake. IN front
oil the house. where they wcdged them securely with
stakes ana ropos. The cold snap, which set ia on
Wednesday ana continued all day yesterday, had the
effect KNITTING the old ice together and forming new
ice over the balance of the lake. The od Is from
lour To five inches thick and In fine condition. That
portion lake thrown opon to the public lust
Its surface
Year: 1878

The HERALD is the leading paper OF America, and,
in enterprise and news, OF the world. This must
all concedc, however much at tines may dislike
the editorial course OF tho HERALD. No feat Of Jour
nasm on cithor continent Will compare for moment
with the stupcndous effort put forth by the HERALD
In sending Stanley into the heart OF barbarous Africa
to discover Livingstone, unless Vt be the sending by
the journal OF Stanley to explore the OF
the Nile and Congo rivers ana 10 determine tho
course Of the latter river. Its success seems almost
miraculous, but is the result Of COOL clear neaded
hard work, and is entirely deserved.
Year: 1878

A writer i'll the Knoxville Chronicle,


who is inteniely disgusted with the
result of the extra session, wants a
separation from Middleand West Ten
neSsee, and the erection of East Ten
nessee into separate State sovereign
ty. If practical, it would nOfdoubt, he
good thing for some of us. There
wOtlld be a Governor, a Secretary of
State, a Treasurer, Comptroller three
Supreme Judges, and two United
States Senators. Then we would have
State Capital of our Own-at Knox
vile, of course, a penitentiary-a
ChattanoOga; anda Lunatic Asylum
the latter, for convenience sake, per-
haps at Athens. We could then pay
our proportion of the present State
debt in full, say about eight millions,
and thus be rid of the taint of repudia-
ton. Two or three millions more
would enable us to organize, erect pub
lie buildings, and get ready for busi-
ness. Rather an inviting prospect
But before we can afford to favor it
we must see how East Tennessee
stands on the COmptrOller's books,
what proportion of taxes she pays,
and how much she is behind, if any,
the other Grand Divisions in settling
with the in eXorable tax-gatheT-
er. 1t may turn out upon inVestiga-
ton that we are not oppressed as
much as we think we are, and that it
will be better to endure the ills we
have than fly to others we know not
of
Year: 1878

redundant. His voice is a pleasing


baritone and his infections are charm


ing. In the use of his voice he avoids


so successfully the two extremes of a


stilted style, and the dreary dead level


of no style at all, that the drums of
ones ears never impart sensation OF


pain. The senses are never offended


by an unexpected roar or wearied by a
continuous and painful straining of the
voice. One infection glides so Aatu-
rally into another that the smooth
flowing torrent of eloquence carries
along all his hearers, unconscious of
any feelings or emotions except those
which seem to possess the orator him
self at the time The real basis of


senator Voorhees, power as an orator
lies, | think, in his ability to exhibit
repreSSed emotion. | can call 10 mind
no other speaker off the stage who
possesses that power to anything like
the same degree. 1t is quality of
voice which leaves an impression that
the amount of emotion which the
speaker allows to creep out is but the
irrepressible overflow of the greater
hoOd which is repressed within. 1t is
1 quality OfVOice which Edwin Booth
has captured, and Barry Sullivan and
Fechter and the great Janauschek. a
Few other actors possess it in q greater
or less degree, but of the orators,
Beecher, Bob Ingersoll and Phillips
Brooks are all / remember who in
lnywise compare with Dan Voorhees,
in their ability to exhibit repressed
emotion.
Year: 1878

Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette. ]


RED OAK, a., Jan. 2l.-F'ive men
were recently arrested here and are
now on trial for the seduction of Il dOZ-
en- or more young girls of this city.
Two of the men are married. Their
plan of operation was to inVeigle
young girls into offices and other
places, under the pretense of spending
the evening socially. The practice
was kept up for some time, the girls
having no idea of any designs upon
their virtue, until the ruin of two
of their number was accomplish
ed. One was about fifteen years of
age, the daughter of a minister, and
the other was somewhat older and the
daughter of Il lawyer. The younger OF
these girls was detained from her
home, it is claimed, by these five men


now under arrest, for four days. \


part of the time, it is asserted, she was


kept in the office of one of her sedu-


GERS, and the remainder of the time at
the hotel, with the completely of the


landlord. During the absence of the
girl her father was making all possible
efforts to learn of her whereabouts
He actually made inquiries of some OF
| the gang who assisted in accomplish
| ing her ruin. Finally, after nightfall


of the fourth day, the parties became
| alarmed, and moved the girl 10 apoth'


er hotel, with the intention of taking


her to Council Bluffs the next day. In
( this they were frustrated, as the land
lord of that hotel informed the father


of the facts, and he succeeded in get
ting her away, and taking her home
where she now remains. The excite
ment throughout the community is in
| tense, and the guilty parties will sure
" meet with the punishment they sC
richlY deserve.
Year: 1878

\ NOVEL and interesting case, from
Louisiana, was argued before the
United States Supreme Court last
week. II involves the question wheth-
er \, who unlawfully Stays B, whose
life is insured does not become liable
to the insurance company for the mon
ey it has to pay on the policy. 1t was
forcibly argued that, by all llauthOrities,
q lnau is responsible for any direct
damage to another, resulting from his
unlawful act. In this case it stands
admitted that the act was unlawful,
and IL would he difficult to conceive
of n more direct consequence than the
damage done to the plaintiff by the
act. The damage is not only direct,
but it is, also, certain pecuniary
loss, thoroughly appreciable in money,
according tOscientific life tables. The
plaintiff does not sue, it is alleged, for
the damage done to the insured by the
violation of his personal right TO life,
but because the slayer did an unlaw-
full act, the direct consequence of
which was TO infiict loss upon the
company. The Court has not yet
rendered its Opin ion.
Year: 1878

If the public hcstates to accept the word of
Mrs. Tilton, even when she figures of her own
accord as her own accuSCr, she has only her
self to pity, or to thank, We hardly know
which. She confessed long ago she retractcd
the confession she withdrew the retraction !;
she rctractcd the Withdrawal of the retractOn
of the confession this time under oath); and
now she has gone back to the beginning of
the scnes, and confessed again, with all the
sOemnity of n card IN the newspapers There
are many allowances to be made for a woman
in her unfortunate situation, but she seems to
be putting the charity of the public to severe
test.


Three or four weeks ago, when rum0rs of q
confession and reconciliation first became cur
rent, Mrs. TiltOn declared to n great
many newspaper reporters that there was no
foundation for them. To reporter of The
TRIBUNE in particular her denials were most
sweeping and emphatic, and they were sup
ported with considerable warmth by her
mother Mrs. Morse, who pronounced the
stories about n new confession TO be n cruel
and wantOn aggravation of the sufferings of
a woman who had already been compelled to
bear unspeakable agonies. The indignation of
Mrs. Morse Mt the mendacity of the news
papers was almost sublime. Yet it appears
that at this very time Mrs. Tilton had made
both verbally and in writing the same
confession which is now published. She mad
placed it before several friends the substance
of il had even been made known to Mr..
Bcecher and as a matter of course the news
bad run rapidly through all the scandal cir
" clegr of BROOKLYN society. Very few of the
persons most deeply interested in the affairs
of Plymouth Church were at all surprised by
the publication of yesterday.


Truth lies at the bottom of well. This is
very deep well, and when we get to tho
bottomwe seem to bring upa particularly dirty
article of truth,
Year: 1878

peculiar needs. 1t must be remembered that
a navy cannot be improvised in time OF danger
Ships cannot be built in a few weeks; officers
and sailors cannot be enlisted like volunteer
army from the farm and the WORKSHOP; and
they cannot be trained without ships to cruise
in. Half the money that is now wasted in re-
pairing rotten hulks would give us in few
years small but thoroughly efficient navy,
we'll arlned and we'll mnnned.
Year: 1878

There really does not seem to be anything TO be
gained by an open quarrel with tho President, such
as some Republicans who call themselves Radicals
are endeayoring TO bring about. THE TRIBUNE
long ago pointed out that President Hayes was
very difficult person TO quarrel with. His amiable
obstnacY or obstinate amiabihty, whichever 1t Is,
Year: 1878

Senator HOwc's personal explanation sets at
rest the stories that have been set afloat of an
arrangement whereby other Senators were to
follow him at impressive intervals, firing off
heavy guns at the Administration, and of its
failure because the alleged heavy guns refused
to go of. 1t ought to set at rest also the
charge that Senator Howe was influenced by
his chagriu at not receiving an appointment to
the Supreme bench. lie seems to dispose of
that completely. The rest of the explanation
is simply Il defence of his right as Il Senator
to make speeches-a defence quite as mneces-
sary as the speech itself was.
Year: 1878

Senator Pomeroy has materially amended and
materially improved what is known as the
Public Burdens Bill Full authority to reduce
salaries is given to the Board of Estimate and
ApportiOnment, as in the original bill passed
by the Assembly. but the board has less room
to turn itself about in. Under the Assembly
bill, requiring simply a reduction of $4,000
900 in the taxes, the salaries might have been
spared large proportion of the dininution
proposed by counting in, for instance, the con-
siderable reduction in the city's taxes which
will result from the reduction in the State
debt, and by various ways of shufilng the
municipal accounts. The new bill, however,
prescribes that there shall be a reduction Of
20 per cent in the aggregate of salaries-a
provision which the cleverest bookkeeping
cannot evade; it also hastens the day OF
economy by putting forward the date of the
reduction one year. The provision which
gives the Board of Education control over its
own funds will doubtless be stOutly resisted
by the Board of Estimate and AppOTtlOnment,
but the principle is one that the best sense of
the city has always approved
Year: 1878

There was a little discussion yesterday in
Congress of the ethics of The Record Mr..
Wood being called to account for suppress
ing Mr.. Conger's comments on letter read
during Mr.. Woods speech on the Tariff Bill,
tried to excuse himself by declaring that the
letter had been lost, and nothing remained
but to eliminate the remarks made upon it,
1t certainly would have been in better ac-
cord with the principles that should govern
the publication of The Record if the sub
stance, at least of the lost letter had been
Indicated, and Mr.. COnger allowed his say.
The incident is of Importance as showing the
freedom with what is supposed to be correct
report of the proceedings of Congress, is mod
fled when members wish. We commend to
Mr.. Wood Mr.. Blaine's statement IN the
other house that in sixteen years service in
Congress he had never altered, except for
some triding error line of his speeches
much less suppressed another mans.
Year: 1878

We have procured from Washington the
following table of the number of pounds
weight of the various editions of the New
York morning papers, upon which postage
was charged by the Post Office Department.:
Year: 1878

The passive policy, now broachcd with a
show of authority at London, may suit Eng
land, and be embarrassing to Russia, which is
now ANXIOUS to enjoy a season of repose. But
if Russia is thus forced to act on the defen-
sive, she will be certain to tighten her grasp
on Turkey, and take steps to carry every
article of the San StefanO Treaty into practical
effect. Entrcnched in this way, she can afford
to wait as long as England for the final set
Element,
Year: 1878

wellian in its rigor and completeness. BY his
prompt action in this affair, the Chancellor
proclaims to the world that German citizens
shall not be unjustly assailed anywhere with
impunity.
Year: 1878

Ex-Secretary Belknap is careful that no one
shall have a chance TO think better OF nm
than when he blubbcred to General Grant
and, in the Senate, sheltered himself behind
his wife. The man who was acquitted OF
stealing a watch gave it TO his counsel but
jeremiah Black has had to sue Mr.. Belknap
for the lawyers share of the money he real
. L. IL
Year: 1878

Colombia has set good example to the
Spanish-American nations in deciding to send
workmen abroad to acquire a knowledge of
the mechanical arts, in order that they may
instruct others on their return. The same
principle is applied more Systematically in the
Chinese Educational Mission, but the resources
and educational zeal of Colombia arc not yet
commensurate with an undertaking Of that
extent.
Year: 1878

The work of cleansing Long Branch goes
steadily on, in spite of the theft Of i'm
portant evidence. It's little curious that while
the chief obstacles in the way of the work
have been offered, naturally, by the keepers OF
low groggeries and other dens against which
this movement is directed, the first denial
from respectable source, of the sincerity of
Father Walsh, comes from brother clergy
Year: 1878

Relief for the fever stricken dis triets are coming in literally from all directions. Special dispatches from various places gives heart ren- ding description of the effect of the pestilence. Nothing like 1t ever before known in this country.