Year: 1879

Roumela will serve to remove the anxiety
which has been felt throughout Europe lor
the tranquility of the new province. III Is
little significant that the new Governor ana ho'
wear the hated fez which the Roumeiiahs
associate with Ottoman supremacy


Judge Cowing will add to the favorable
Judgment he has already obtained from tlle
public by his decision in the case OF the VII
riol thrower Ellen Mead. However great ner
provocation, the crime she committed IN re-
venge was so revolving and inhuman that It's
summary and severe punishment became
public necessity. The lighter penalty IN the
case of Kate Mcdonald for the same offence
was based upon the verdict of the jury thae
she was guilty of simple assault-a conclusion
with which the Judge evidently did not
agree: and the verdict was based upon the
evidence adduced to show that the girl had
been rendered insane by her betrayal and de-
sertion. In the provocation offered Tor 'hese
dreadful deeds and in the crimes themselves
there was a strong similarity and togetner
they form ghastly chapter of crime winch
we are not likely, let us hope, to see soon
again.


The appeal of the Roman Catholic preiates
in behalf of Archbishop Purcell is well calcu-
lated to call out generous subscriptions. Inc
plan adopted does not follow the proposed
system of assessment, or formal division OF
the deficiency among the various dloceses OF
the church, but provides simply for voluntary
subscriptions to be received in every parish
and made payable if desired, in five annual
instalments. The action of certain creditors
in Cincinnati in resigning one-half OF their
claims, not only considerably reduced the
debt, but helped to make it apparent that the
body of creditors generally would accept one
half Of the amount due them az full settle
ment. Accepting this as basis OF computa-
tation, the figure of the debt is placed at one
and-a-half milions-an amount which IL VIII
probably not be difficult to raise.


The public will care little whether the
wretched collection of tumbe-down sheds
known as Fulton Market is removed by Of
fetal or private enterprise; the tact
of its taking off will be boon enough
provided that desirable cOnsummation Is
not too long delayed. 1t is announced that
the present lessees of stands in the Market
wearying of waiting for action by the City
Government, will take the matter into their
own hands, where they will no doubt find 1t
best for their interests to have it. They Will
form a stock corporation in which the poorest
stand-Owner will have an opportunity to
take share, and will ask from the
City lease Of the ground on which the pres
ent unsghtly structure STANDS. The state
ments OF officers of the City Government
given elsewhere, indicate that there will be
10 opposition to such lease ana thereupon
handsome and commOdiOuS building
will take the place of the present
market, whose condition, one Of the Sanitary
Superintcndents says. is detrimental to the
public health. Cannot Washington Market
be renovated in the same wayT The
condition and character of our mar
kets has been for years a disgrace
to the city, and it might be SAID also to our
boasted National superiority III the com
forts of life. 1t Will be a matter for
general cOngratulatiOn if this scandal, with
which our local government seems incapable
of dealing, shall be removed at last by the
action of private citizens.