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Year: 1878

TIE TRIBUNE, at least, can with oil its heart
congratulate the Republicans of New-1Ork on
the results of their convention. Insisting ON
the gravity of the present crisis demand
ing steadily the waiver of all per-
sonal or factiOus aims, and the union
of Republicans of every class and wing
to meet the common danger, maintaining
always that questions of personal preference,
ouarTels about offices, disputes about the Ad-
ministration, must now be subOrdinated to the
imperative need for united action, we are able
to announce that tins is the precise course the
Convention has taken. 1t has nominated for
the single place on this years State ticket
the man whom THE TRIBUNE months ago
proposed that the Republicans should take
by general consent 1t has held the
party up to the high-water mark of
advanced RepublcaDlsm. Its platform
is absolutely and aggressively sound on hard
money, the resumption of specie payments,
practical and rational Civil Service reform,
the dangers from Democratic rule under the
mastery of Solid South, and the necessity for
maintaining the Republican organization as the
only bulwark against National reputation and
disgrace. If this platform had been con-
structed exclusively from TRIBUNE editorials,
1t could hardly have better pleased us.


We have not been accustomed to admire Mr.
Conkling's speeches, and we did not think
highly of the shrill demand that this COnven-
ton should be held. But we can now see it
was well worth while to hold the Convention,
if only to draw out the mastery and every
way admirable address with which Mr.. Cork
ling opened its proceedings. Now let us hope
for equally good temper under prOvOcatiOn,
and equal vigor in maintaining the right, on
the part of those who have been assailing
him.


The return of Mr.. Cornell TO the head of the
State Committee is sound politics, because he
has the ability and experience for the place and
it is sound Republicanism, because 1t Is justice
There was no sense in the clamor for his
withdrawal and he was lately removed from
Office In direct violation of the true Civil Serv-
lee Reform proclaimed by the Administra-
ton, and reaflirmed in yesterdays plat
form. The restoration to the chair
manship of the State Committee, by a con-
vention overwhelmingly in his favor, is the
fit verdict of New-York Republicans on his
services and his treatment. We have uni
formly opposed his political aspirations
and we are therefore the more anxious
TO emphasize our satisfaction that he has
been given what he so plainly deserved.


The special friends of the Administration
were gratifed by the gathering of a COnven-
ton chosen wholly without the dictation Of
the New-York Custom House. In this they
were at last able to stand up and be counted.
When they had ascertained their numbers,
they behaved with good temper and discretion.


Altogether, the meeting at Saratoga has been
most auspicious opening for the campaign.
Now let us all resolve that the end of 1t
shall be made equally inspiring.
Year: 1878

language towards the Greenbackers He says IL
is not in the nature Of things that third party
should succeed against party in power, ana all 'ne
votes given to it only weaken the party organlzed
in opposition to the party in power. We therefore
urge every voter tempted to turn asidefrom the
support of the Democratic party to some new % anu M
inefficient organization TO pause and reflect Ihat 10
make his opposition to the Money Power elective,
and to secure that change in finance and currency
that will reVivify business and reedity tue proSpSl
iy of che country, he must vote with and WORK I9r
the success of the Democratic party, when Is
pledged to this reform in Ohio"


Mr. A. H. COfroth, the Democratic nominee for
Congress in the XVIIth Pennsylvania District, Is a
statesman who writes letters. He was member OF
the XXXIXth Congress and made great preUensions
TO being a war Democrat. But it seems that While
he was voting in Congress now and then so as to
catch some stray Republicans in his net he was ex-
pressing very different sentiments in letters to pri-
vate friends He voted for the Constitutional
Amendment abOlishing slavery, and the next day he
sat down and wrote to friend: The South can
never be subjugated. We will be forced to recog-
nize them or give them explicit guarantees In the
Constitution. / am ready now to do so. wOuld
vote tomorrow for an amendment to the COnstltu,
ton recognizing slavery in the Constitution. ana
making it a capital punishment to interfere with IL
This cannot be done until fanatlclsm is dead ana
we once more get the power. These are views but
few agree with at this time-s0 keep them TO your,
self or such friends as you can trust" III WOulu
have been great deal better for Mr. COfroth II ne
had kept them to himself AS it II, he appears TO
be good man to leave at home.
Year: 1878

When Safvet Paeha only offers Greece
few worthless islands in lieu of her territorial
clam, she is likely to continue her demand
for mediation and her military preparations.
With large part of the Empire in disorder
the Porte is not in a position to create pu-
IDENTITY more enemies.
Year: 1878

lew worthless lSIttnOb III lieu OF ueI
clam, she is likely to continue her demand
for mediation and her military preparations.
With large part of the Empire in disorder
the Porte is not in position to create pru-
IDENTITY more enemies


Collector Merritt aims to reOrganize the
force in the Custom House and to cut down
the current expenses about $4,000 per an
mum. The new system will be introduced
month before the election. This is so unusual
time for reducing the force that the hand
full Of officials who are to be dismissed may
well rub their eyes from sheer amazement.


The radical amendments which are being
made in committee, in the German Socialist
bill, would warrant the display OF a donger
signal in the Reichstag. Prince Bismarck,
being desperately in earnest, will not be
likely to regard TRANQUILITY the liberal inrOads
on his favOrite measure. The proposal to
limit its operation to less than three years is
judiciOus, but it will probably be very Obnox-
iOus to him.


Now that the Syracuse mob has dispersed,
phenomenal rOwdy like Cohen can project
himself into the politics of the time. He has
had the effrOntery to march to the White

House, call upon the President and ask him
for moral support in securing dollar and
half day for sons of toll. The President did
not turn him out of doors, but remarked that
he would think about it. The President is
altogether too good natured.


The good counsel which Lord DufFerin is
giving the Canadians as his successful ad-
ninistratiOn draws to a close, bears the inn
press of patriotism and statesmanship. la
his Toronto address be advises the Canadians
to live on good terms with us, declaring
that +" a nObler nation, people more generous
"or more bospitable does not exist" Yester-
day be spoke feelingly on religious strife, and
deprecated the revival on this continent of
conflicts which belong to other lands and by
gone times. Such liberal sentiments are
timely, and cannot fail to have a good effect


The Mussulman readily recognizes the hand
of fate, and lacks the fortitude needed to
bear up under great disasters. It was so
after Plevna, when the Imperial armies dis
solved as snow flakes before the advancing
Year: 1878

In consequence of the numerous complaints
made to the Commissioner Of Public Works by the resi-
dents OF the uptown Districts concerning the presence
OF fish in CrotOn waer-pipes Mr.. Fzgbbon the super,
ntendent OF the reservoir IN Central Park was directed
TO clear the reservoir OF the fish contained In IT, c
has doing this for three days. having caught ana as


rbued among the poor of the shanes adjacent TO Cen
trail Park several thousand fish; ranging from one
quarter to six pounds each in weight The catching OF
he FISH Is difficult on OF the steep slope of the
stone wall surrounding the reservoir. a net lOO
feet long By 80 feet wide, is taken out about 800
feet into the body OF water in an ordinary w9tkngpoat
and is dropped. The the stone wall having hold
of ropes connected with this net gradually haul IN the
net aud put the fish in boat They arc then brought 10
the north gate-hOuse and distributed


The first haul for the present season was mace on
Thursday when over 1000 fish we're landed at the hfst
drawing Of the seine. The fishing was done
bv ten Of the reservoir labOrers. under the
direction OF superintendent Fttzgib6on. Most
OF the hsh caught "shinetS," but IN
the seine were also found some large
pickerel bass, catfish and ees. During Thursday
about ten thousand fish were caught the west side Of
the reservoir. On Friday the fishing resumed on
the east side of the stone bank but very few hsh we're
found there.
Year: 1878

The Board of Health organized last year a


corps OF physicians whose duty to visit during the
hot weather the crowded tenements and prescribe for
sick children besides spreading useful knowledge
the treatment OF iniante disorders the plan worked


admirably and at the end Of the summer 10 found
fewer deaths had occurred among children than
during any Of the past ten years, notwithstanding
the increase OF population Encouraged by this expert
ence the board cOntemplates similar arrangement this
year and will select from the numerous applicants
cOrps OF physicians for this duty giving the preference
TO those who helped in the work last Summer The
Board OF Estimate and AppOrtOnment recently trans
ferred TO the Health Department 50 900 from X
pended balance OF 1876 70 cover the These
physcans will also distribute tickets for the floating
Year: 1878

nothing has transpred to contradict the be-
lief expressed, that the entire matter deserved
official investigation. The theory OF murder,
which was advanced yesterday among some
newsgatherers, DOES not find much credence,
as there Is o growing belief that Nine.
Restelle Is by no means dead, and in oil prob
ability is not sleeping.


The reticence OF all Immediately connected
in the matter Is singular, and the testimony,
Of other persons Is strong In the direction OF
a plot to evade justice and hoodwink not
only the authorities, but the public.


Important testimony has been elected to-
day by our reporter, and 1t Is given In our
columns, that circumstantal evidence may
as showing how haste has been expedited by
all the parties I'm interest, in receiving
acceptance Of the story Of alleged suicide.


George 2. Howe counsel for John Trow,
that he learned OF the death of Mrs. Lohman
through the newspapers. He Immediately
called upon Mr.. Trow and informed him OF
the affair, and he expressed desire to pro
ceed Mt once to the house and see the body OF
his sister, and he desired me to accompany
him. We proceeded to her residence, stop
ping at the drug store and at the Osborn
House, next door to Restelles residences,
where we asked the janitor If he had heard Of
Restele's death, who said he had not.


coffin standing in front Of Restelle's house.
I rang the door bell, leaving Mr.. Trow wait
ing on the street. Mrs. Farrall, Madame
Restele's daughter, came to the door. | told
her that Mrs. Lohman's brother had heard
the story OF her death, and he had come to
look at the body and sympathize with the


members of the family. Although he was en-
gagged in litigation with his sister, still he
would like to SEQ her before she was buried,
he being her only brother, and being very
much attached to her, as he had lived with
her over thirty years, and as he had not seen
her for come months.


Mrs. Farrell stated she would not permit
Mr.. Trow to come into the house, and he
would not be allowed TO see his sister, and on
all occasions he would be refused admittance
to the house. We then both left without be-
ing allowed to cross the threshold OF the
house. In regard to hurrying the matter
through, and the haste in probating the will
Mr.. Howe thinks the entire matter is
shrouded in mystery, and should receive the
fullest investigation


Several jurymen were interviewed, but
none would swear hat the body seen by them
was Restele's. The Enpress further states
that the impression prevails in the immediate
neighborhpod OF Restelles mansion that
the inquest was not conducted In as
thorough manner as might have been
That the coroner and his deputy did not
pursue n searching inquiry into the details oi
he suicide, the movements Of the family be-
fore and after, as the nature Of the case war
rauted.


A reporter also visited Tarrytown, where
the body was buried, and the general impress
sion there is that the funeral was conducted
with unseeming haste.
Year: 1878

There Is no danger Of the non-suecess Of
the Paris Exposition, no matter if there
should be general war In Europe. The
number of honorary commissioners from the
United States is sufficient to fill Paris to over
flowing for the entire season, though all the
rest # the world should stay away-fNew
York Mail.
Year: 1878

Fund.


Correspondence OF the Register.


BUCKHANNoN, December Is.


In looking over the Journal OF the
House of Delegates Of 1877, we find the
following bill to provide fund to be
called the State Internal Improvement
Fund:


BE IL enacted by he Legislature Of Hest Iir-


ginid:


|. That tax OF - cents on each hun
dred dollars of taxable property shall be
assessed and collected for the purpose of
providing State Internal Improvement
Fund, to be set apart and kept in the
Treasury of the State until such times
as the same may be drawn out In pursti-
ance Of appropriations made by the Leg
islature.


This bill, in our opinion the most i'm
portant which was ever introduced into
the West Virginia Legislature, was. it
appears, reported blythe Committee on
Roads and Internal Navigation to the
House, with a recommendation that il
be passed. Vim. f. Arnold, the author
of the bill, We observe is not now a
member of the Legislature; but in JUS
tice to him allow Us TO predict that the
time will come when he will need no
more enduring monument. He has, by
his skill as practical legislator, con-
structed, as it were a light house for the
friends OF public improvements TO reach
the coveted harbor The way is now
marked out by which the much needed
system Of internal improvements by the
State NAV he effectuated within the let
ter OF the Constitution. And that the
Legislature OF our young, undeveioped
State viii carry the scheme into practi-
cal effect at no distant day, there can be
no doubt.


The project is too important to be lost
sight OF. The interest at stake too great
and too vide spread to be allowed TO
sleep. 1t goes to the homes Of too
many persons living in districts where
there are no roads TO get TO markets
with their products, not to be pressed
upon the public ear. rs nE


The middle men and occupants OF
the log cabins, must and Will be heard.
They constitute the suffrage power OF
the State, and their just demands If un-
needed, will create an antagonism be-
tween them and the opponents of the
measure in which they consider 50
much Of their future welfare depends,
as bitter and uneompromising as that
which exists between capital and labor.


1t is the great absorbing question
which underlies our State politics, and
will in the near future become as necesr
sary for the candidate running for a
State office to support, IN order 10 be
successful, as the air We breathe, to live.


The bill is eminently meritorious, and
the member who will perfect it, and as
sure its passage by both Houss, will re-
ceive the thanks Of large majority Of
the people Of this State. K. s. T.
e1..Is n AAA
Year: 1878

to him; when Roark went In he asked Kin
caid if he hsd any money; Kincaid told


him be was too late; that the money was sl


sent on the other train that had just passed
and pulled open The drawer that was in the
counter and showed him there was mont
there; he offered us lot Of postal cardl
which We did not take; Rosrk told him tt
unlock the safe Kincaid said that Gardner
had The key and he was over to the hotel


we all lett the Office together as the train
was approaching; as We stepped outside q
man came on ibe platform and Kincaid told
him TO 90 back; says he, Blanchard, &c
back, these men have all got pistols" Bian-
chard rot understanding it came 10 where
Kmcaid was; by that time the train hsd got
TO us. West and Dement, got on the engine
Roark, Green and me was % Let into the ex-
press csr; when the engine got opposite TO us
kincaid made sudden jump landing in
front Of the C " catcher, barely missing il,
and got on the other side Of the engine; then
West and Dement, stared for the engine and
Roark started for the e1pre car; Green and
Roark went 10 the door Of the car, and /
went TO the rear Of the baggage car at the
front of the coach.


Roark then tried to get into the express
car and the shooting commenced; took the
conductor as he stepped of the coach; there
we're Several men ON the platform; i told
him and the rest Of them to go back; knew
it was the conductor from his lantern and
the badge on his hat; the first shot was fred
by the express messenger. was to have got
into the express car with the rest; the train
running beyond the platform ups.t our plan
completely, as the height from the ground
to the car door was 90 great Roark could not
get in; Roark and Green 10th ran to the car
TO get in quick; Roark spoke to the messen-
ger, don't know what he said. The fret
sho; fred by the messenger came within
three inches of hitting Green 10 the head;
was sill on the platform OF the depot; l e ed
four shots, at no one, but merely 10 keep any
from coming out of the care; the train then
started; Dement, told me that be told the en-
sineer to Start the train; the object was to
rob the train while il was in motion, and by
the time We got to our bors s; the signal, in
case We got into the expr rs car, was to be
two shote; inetead Of two there we're about
dozen, which fcar.d the men on the engine
Year: 1878

at the late election, whose only offence con-
sists in giving information, under oath, to the
United States Commissioner, respecting the
frauds and outrages committed at the polling
place to which he was denied the admission
which his Office should have secured for him.
He is to be punished, as our correspondent
said such rash offenders would be, by being
tried for perjury; and there are many Others
who are in the same predicament. All THIS
sort of thing must inevitably tend, OF course,
to invite immigration and to build up the IN
dustries of the State in the same ratio IN
which it rolls up the Democratic maontles.


The Halifax Award has been paid by Minis
ter Welsh to the British Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, and the payment has been accompanied
by protest which is at once plain and dignl-
fed. The President, through Mr.. Welsh, ex-
presses the feeling that 4" the maintenance OF
"goOd faith in treaties and the security ana
"value of arbitration as a method of set
Ting national disputes, are above all other
questions and that, while the Government OF
the United States therefore submits to
the decision of the Halifax Commission,
it accompanies the payment OF the five ana
a half millions with an explicit statement that
it does not consider this sum of money to be
"any just measure of the value of the par
"ticipation by our citizens in the inshore fish
:" cries of the British Provinces" This closes
the Halifax case, so far as the Treaty OF
Washington is concerned. and the ner-
vous people who thought the principle
of arbitration had gone to wreck or would
be destroyed by reputation of the award
on the part of our Government may now see
how groundless their fears have been. The
principle of arbitration has never been in
danger from that source; but it was subjected
to a pretty severe strain when one award was
made apparently with the idea of getting
"cyenn for another.
Year: 1878

The Public Health Association is now under
full headway in Richmond, and there is q good
deal of anxiety felt all through the country
as to what or how much it can do, or whether
1t can do anything. The American public has
learned from experience not to put too coniid-
ing a faith in the immediate effect of
associations for the reform Of drunken
ness, prisons, or any kind of national
evil. physical or moral. The zeal of
such societies Is usually unquestionable,
their theories are admirable, but by some
i'll chance 1t too often happens that the re-
form reforms nothing the cup of medicine
never reaches the lips of the patient. Ordi-
narily such Il reform remains q theory, and
Year: 1878

In the eyes of Frenchmen there is nothing
singular in the spectacle of great statesman
like Gambetta fighting vulgar duel with an
opponent because of words uttered in debate ;
and no doubt the only sentiment that will
make itself felt, even among the intelligent
thinkers of his own party, will be one of sat
isfaction that he passed through the ordeal
unhuIt.
Year: 1878

There is a brief but emphatic temperance
sermon in the statement of the causes which
brought about a bank presidents retirement
in Massachusetts. His incorporate habits in
vOlved his private affairs IN confusion, and he
made improper use of his position in ths bank
1t is now found that his bookkeeping has not
been honest, and he retires with brand upon
him which will not soon wear away.
Year: 1878

Three instances of lamentable carelessness
in handling firearms are reported in the dis
patches this morning. In two of the cases
life was sacrificed, and in the third it will be
saved, if at all, only by a serious surgical
operation. The number of such unintentional
murders is not likely to decrease until some
bold law reformer of the future ventures to
propose that there shall be "a point at which
carelessness shall become a crime.
Year: 1878

Additional confirmation of the statements
made by our staff correspondent in South Car
slina is given in the Washington dispatches.
A letter is printed there, which was written
m jail by one of the United States supervisors
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of Florida has reversed
Democratic gain of one by declaring to be
valid the votes which were thrown out to de
feat Congressman Bisbee. Mr.. Bisbee is,
therefore, pronounced elected by the highest
authority in the State. But the new Demo-
cratic House will hardly allow such tritles as
an election by the vote as actually cast, and a
confirmation of its legality by the highest
Court in the State, to stand in the way of a
Democratic gain of one.
Year: 1878

The rafflcs lotteries, etc, at the Catholic Fair
have created renewal of the discussion concerning
the morality OF such ways Of making church fairs
pecnnIariy profitable. This is a very ancient de-
bate which thus far does not seem to have done
much toward diminishing the practice which still
prevails al Protestant well Catholic bazaars.
At the Catholic Fair the business of wooing Fortune
has been conducted upon scale unusually large,
but the difference between this and other relig


ous lotteries has been one of degree rather than of
kind, nor does there seem to be any particular call
for unusual animadversIOn. The ladies of the
Catholic church found the custom; they certainly
did not establish it and it no more fosters love
of gambling than it has always done. The pro-
moters of the Fair hold that the money spent In
their lotteries is really given for good
and religious purpose; if 1t brings the
donor a handsome return, SO much the better for
him or for her. Those who are anxious to prevent
dabbling in lotteries may just as well turn their at
tcnton 10 the constant sale of lottery tickets in this
CITY. where it is a regular business, regularly adj
yersed in direct contrayenton OF the spirit, II not


the letter of the law. There such thing as strain
inqout gnat and swallowing camel.