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Year: 1878

down stairs in the Office, but when drunk he
would sleep in her bed, compelling her TO
sleep on the floor. His efforts to drive her
away were of no avail, and she declared To
the neighbors that she would die there of
starvation before she would leave him and
let him go to new flame. He even went so
far In his brutal conduct as TO walk past the
house where she WIS., in company with q
woman who is said TO be a servant at the
Grand hotel.


PUBLIC FEELING.


The excitement in the city yesterday was
extreme in its intensity, and was not con-
flned to any one class. Hundreds of times
during the day were men heard - declare
out and hung, and WITH the name of the
accused was coupled .the names
OF the other men now in Jail
for the crime of murder. Old staid business
men, who UP to the present time have been
opposed to mob violence in any and all
FORMS were not slow in ex pressing the opin-
ion that Judge Lynch should be called on to
dispose of the murderers in the briefest pos
siple way When the report came in of still
another murder at Brightwood, the excite
ment was intense, and had the report
been confirmed, it can hardly be doubted
that some desperate work. would have been
witnessed. The feeling in the city is such
that the least sign of trifing or wavering on
the part of the authorities will lead to a de-
termined effort to punish the accused, law
or no law.


NOTES.


The police were keeping lockout about
the jail last night.


1t was rumored at an early hour this morn
ing that Nerrick had made confession to
Chief Travis.


About one thousand persons visited Rus
sell " Lees while the post mortem was be-
ing made yesterday morning.


The remains of the dead woman will be
buried to-day.
Year: 1878

The Board of Apportionmont yesterday authorized
Comptroller Kelly to issue bonds to the amount Of
s4o623 % for the purpose Of paying of certain
mory claims recently allowed by the commission ap-
pointed under q special act OF the Legislature.


communication was yesterday transmitted by
tho Park Commissioners to tho Board OF Ap-
portlonment asking for an appropriation OF
x25 900 to improve the small parks In
Fourth avenue, between Sixly-seventh and Ninety
sixth Streets In accordance with law passed last
winter ut Albany. On the suggestion OF Comptroller
Kelly cation Will be referred 10 Corpora
ton Counsel whitney ior his opinion to the powers
OF The Board IN the matter.


delegation OF properly owners In tho vicinity oil
Tompkins square urged upon several Aldermen AZ tho
City Hall yesterday the necessity OF at once passing
resolution giving authority to the PARK Com
crs imp prove rompkns Park They were INFORM cd
by Alderman keenan, that immediate action would bo
taken when the Com mmissoDcrs notified the Board as
~ their plans and tno probable cost of tho work.
Year: 1878

Joaquin Miller is captivating the Qua
ker maidens of Philadelphia, says an
Eastern journal. How the mischief does
he manage it2 - his marvellous hair is
parted four inches wide, he wears his
warm tremendous mouth flung across
one shoulder In manner that is simply
slovenly, and the hand that he kisses TO
things is like a terrapin gone wrong in
the legs. The Poet OF the Sierras IS nor
handsome, as he coniesses in the follow
ing noble lines from "Shacknasty jim"
The world turns round--turns over and over,
Like maa in pain or Il beast in clover


Turns and twists in wonderful way,


As trying to hide in its shadow. | say


Now mind say it--as trying to fly
From the face of fear or the fear of all eye!
say it again. and shall say it the last.


Yhat bard shall arise from out Of the vast
Young West with face that eternally knocks
From old world notions OF beauty the socks,
Stampedes the sun and prOvOkes the ruck
or planets and stars to get up and buck
Year: 1878

it deals only IN generals. 1t secures for
all time, the results Of all past struggles
sor civil liberty in their great and most
striking features.


In drawing IL constitution for = pro-
posed State, it is very important not TO
attempt to make it contain matters OF
legislation, or what should he left to q
code ot laws. The great principles OF
national liberty are set forth in the Fed
eral Constitution. Tie State Constitu-
ton deals manly with questions of lndi'
vidual liberty, and should be drawn SO
AS to faithfully reflect the past growth
of that State, guarantee all existing
rights, afford the widest scope for, future
growth and development, and yet pro-
tect the liberty of the individual fully
from all encrOachments liable to be made
to his injury. 70 accomplish this, its
terms must he as general as possible, so
that, except upon the most essential
principles, as few Limitations as possible
be made on legislative discretion, or the
actions of individuals. To secure these
results the men selected to draw such M
important article as the proposed Con.
stitutiou should not be partisan polite
ians with an Ak to grind, nor yet merely
lawyer skilled in the business of the
courts. They should not he specialists
of any class. They should be men of the
widest, most varied and most liberal
culture in the Territory; men who know
and appreciate the difference between a
code OF laws, Judicial decision and
written Constitution which promu gates
and preserves all the beneficial social
results already achieved by given So
cety; yet imposes no shackles on the
future. They should lie men thoroughly
acquainted and identified with the inter
ests of their locality, and feel a sympa
thetic interest in the past growth of their
own community, as we'll as the whole
Territory; yet they should not be men
welded to the past but builders for the
future; that is, organizers, those who
have successfully forwarded interests ana
and institutions that have been OF great
public benefit in their several localities,
lor those who build well ut home will be
apt to build well the, institutions OF
State.


To be sure, all these qualifications are
rare to find, but the number to be selected
is SC small that by dropping all party
questions in each election district, they
can be easily found and should be select
ed.


Among matters of great importance
for this election district, and one likely
to be overlooked if attention is not
called to it in time, is the necessity of
some provision protecting the rights OF
settlers on tide marshes, river marshes,
swamps or other overtlowed lands. 1t is
the custom for all this class of lands to
90 to a State on its admission to the
Union. The general Government Is not
supposed to sell any of it to settlers; yet,
in this region, it is the most valuable
class of lands sold. Attention only need
I've called to this matter to see that these
I'M portaut rights are fully protected.
Year: 1878

THERE is said to be no danger Of a
reversal Of the VOTE by which the House
Committee of the Whole refused to re-
duce the total force of the army below
25,0N men. wigginton was one Of the
ten Democrats who united with the
Republicans IN keeping the force at this
figure, and .uttrell, though detained
from ths House by illness, has made
his vote effectual ON the same side by
means Of pair.
Year: 1878

Tue New York Herald while oppos-
ing tile Florida investigation business
thinks Potter is ''candid and fair
minded gentleman In Whose honor the
country will itpose confidence" We
don't know about that. A man who
will lend hilnse.f M tool for Sam I'll
den, Will stoop to almost any species Of
political trickeiy.
Year: 1878

Not few members in Congress are
hop-ful of an adjournment by the end
OF June, and are working to that end.
The Potter investigating committee
wouldn't interfere with such result,
as II las power to sit during the recess.
Year: 1878

SoME Of the Democratic managers
intimate that proceedings to oust the.
President will not be pushed until they
are sure the next House will he Demo-
cratic. This intimation constitutes
reason why the next House should not
be Democratic,
Year: 1878

RINGwoRM REMEDr.-Oil of paper made
by burning sheet of ordinary writing paper
upon plate, will cure a ringworm, which
is caused by contagion or some impuritv
OF the blood; the oil will be seen after the
paper is burned in the form of a yellow
spot; this applied with the finger twice
day will in very short time cure the worst
of ringworms.
Year: 1878

Professor L. B. Arnold estimates our
yearly production of butter at sOO,OOO,OOO
TBS. of which but per cent. is a perfect ar
ticle. This is deplorable state of affairs.
How vastly it would improve the condition
OF dairy farmers if. they could be induced
to study the modes of butter making
adopted by the few successful makers. It
is only where boOk-farming is adopted,
and knowledge of chemistry acknowledged
as desideratum, that we can look for
much improvement, unless what is simpler
and more practicable, the establishment of
cooperative butter making establishments
-Hould be introduced. We see no reason
why these should not become as popular
and as profitable as the great cheese diaries
have become. 1t is reasonable to calculate
that establishments properly conducted by
honest and intelligent men could make
profitable business and yet pay the neigh.
boring farmer twenty-five per cent. more
than he can make by his defective mode of
making.
Year: 1878

There is much diversity of opinion as to
the best time to trim fruit trees, but we re-


gard the summer as the best time, say from


the middle of June to the middle of July.
The wound will heal over them more rapidly
than at any other season of the year. Pains
should be taken to cut the limbs and
sprouts off smoothly and not disturb the
bark more than is necessary. A small saw
will be found useful, and for removing
limbs Of any size much better than an ak
or any sharp-edged instrument. 1t is bad
practice to neglect trimming fruit trees
until they have grown large and begin to
bear. While small, the inside limbs should
be removed so as to produce a spreading
top, which will admit the sun among the
branches. Fruit will not grow in the midst
of dense shaded top. Such top should
be thinned out, whether the tree is old or
young, but it is far better to start q tree
right than to attempt to correct the diff
Guilty after the tree is ten or fifteen wears
old. Fruit, like all other crops, will pay
for careful cultivation, and avery necessary
part of such cultivation is judicious pruning.
Year: 1878

ferring to leave the details TO their own
good judgdlent; and trusting that they
will not transfer the grants Or exten-
sions or with such conditions as will
render then unable to obtain the neces
sary meanseo built road; recognizing
the fact that the undertaking is of such
vast magnitude that it will be extremely
difficult to procure the necessary means
to carry out so great an enterprise.
Year: 1878

thing and started off on a run. TIE driver
held on to the front of the wagon, and was
dragged from the corner of Vine and Nc
Micken avenue to Race and Elder streets.
where he lost his hold and fell to the
ground.


The front wheels passed over his legs
breaking one of them. and the behind
wheels passed over his chest, crusl ing it in
1t is thought that his spine is broken and
that he has also sustain, q, internal injuries
which may prov. ratal
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, June 22-The Heralds Wash
ington special says: Tuesday night last Gen.
RoSser escorted lady. to fashionable and
well known restaurant for the purpose of get
ting supper. They both heard q noise Of a
woman in an adjoining supper-room, crying
and moaning. Rosser went around to the
door of the room, and finding it locked, and
still hearing sounds of a struggle, burst it
in. To his great Indignation he discovered o
young Tennessee Congressman, all flushed
with wine, Offering lady most gross insult.
The General seized the offender, who is of
barely medium height and of dandy figure
and hurled him against the wall, knocking
him almost senseless. The lady so gallantly
brought to with the aid of restoratives and
taken home In a carriage
Year: 1878

BERLIN, June 22.-There are reports from
Berlin that neither Hadel nor Modelling will
be condemned to d"ath. 1t Is said that the
Emperor has expressed determination to
save them from the extreme penalty OF their
crime, and il is said that In wishes expressed
by himself he has been supported by one of
his most trusted counsel rs. It is thought
that this exhibition OF magnanimity will have
Year: 1878

Future.


LONDON, June 22.-Advices from Constan-
tinople are more cheerful The opinion be-
gins to prevail that the congress at Berlin
will compel Russia to Withdraw from ali the
more Objectionable demands of the Stefano
treaty. There Is a strong hope that Turkey
will come out of the ordeal Through which
she is now passing with renewed Strength
and with fair prospect for her future.
Year: 1878

LONDON June 22.-Financial advices from
Rome speak encouragingly of the effects OF
the policy OF the new administration. The
general condition of affairs throughout Italy
Is more fiattertng than it has been for q long
time There is still much discomfort and
some suffering, but the promised reductions
In taxation have inspired hope for better times,
and industry and trade are improving.
Year: 1878

an excellent effect on the discontented classes
and will incline them TO take more favora-
BILE view of the governments measures which
are to- be pressed forward in the next
Reichstag. A high official Is reported to have
said that to make martyrs OF these people
would be O mistake. Prosecutions Of them
will only harden them. They can oil be won
over by a little good management.
Year: 1878

CoLuMBUs, March lS.-ln the House
bills were introduced TO equslize bank
shares for taxation; to prohibit the pur.
chase of goods for State use from persons
in any way connected with the State
government or State Institutions.


Inthe Senate bills were introduced TO
make it unlawful for any person or cor
porstion 10 issue any check, scrip or
other evidence of Indebtedness, payable
otherwise than in lawful money; TO make
it unlawful for any person or corporation
to pay wages in goods or supplies
through the intervention of scrip, al
higher prices than current cash rates for
like goods.
Year: 1878

the kind of retribution and the powers ol
retribution. | believe that men are gel
ting more and more to believe that SUI
fering is not to be eternal. l cannot
conceive of anything that is more pre-
posterous than the continuation Of suffer-
ing when it has no other end in view
than suffering"


"Then you do no believe in the doc
trine OF eternal punishment?


II do not. | was q long time IN get
ting to that point where | could feel free
to say so, but l have reached it. be-
lieve that men will carry out OF this lie
essentially the dispositions IN which they
die, and will pass into another era, where,
after suffering ceases to improve them,
they will depart and be snnihilated, one
part, but such of them as will by fur
ther discipline be improved will be
brought back"
Year: 1878

MASsFIELD, ., March l2.-This al
tarnooE about tour o'clock q hosvy
stroke Of lightning struck the rod on the
spirc of the Congregational Church, and
was conducted safely down nearly TO the
ground, and then left IT, and, passing
through the wall, struck the gas pipe,
breaking II, and lighting the large Jet ~
gas The burning gas set FIRE to thu
woodwork adjacent, immediately causing
q dense smoke 10 issue from the tower.
and this led TO the discovery OF the hrr.


The alarm was immediately given AMI
the fire soon eItIngulshed, so that but
little dsmsge was done The spire Is
over 2G0 leet high. 1t is supposed either
that the lightning rod WAS not sunk sui
dciently deep in the earth, or had come
in contact with the wall Had il not
been for the rod. however, that msgnin-
cent spire would doubtless have been
shivered from top % bottom.
Year: 1878

Mark Twain, when younger than he
is now, had to report a reception at
Mrs. Fremont's, and had orders to give
full descriptions of all the dresses. A
young girl told him the names Of the
goods worn by the ladies, and he mis-
spelled them, after the manner of his
kind. and offered to describe her own
dress. which she declined. Pres "
emily" she says, "a tall young miner,
who is now millionaire, living in
France, called him outside, and he
came back to me trembling, and, l may
safely say, pale from fright, Miss, he
stammered, that wretched pirate in
the light of trousers says | must give
you good notice, or he'll take the
drop on me tomorrow; so please tell
me what you have got on. told him,
and the next day he reported me as
wearing tiara of diamonds and a cos
tune from Paris. l was then but a
little over twelve, and was wearing the
first long frock of my life. My tall
escort was satisfied, and subsequently
remarked that he knew how to put a
young lady before the world as she
should be.
Year: 1878

Mr.. John Gum, one Of our most
thoroughly practical and thoughtful
mechanics and business men, leads off
in the Avalanche to-day with some
suggestions in regard to the sewerage
Of the city, as follows;


1. Let the bayou waters and grade be
turned south from Auction street along its
length TO Pontotoc street, and at Pontotoc
street let q sewer be built tothe Mississippi
river; from South street the waters Of the
bayou will be run north to the sewer on
Pontotoc street, thence to the river. The
sand dug by making the POntotoc street
sewer will be amply sufficient for brick
work on the main sewer not a small item
in its building.


2. The bayou sewer will be the center Of
q street one hundred feet wide, and when
completed, no street in the city can COM
pare with it in cleanliness and convenience
of drainage, etc, Its easy grade and
graceful windings will make it the boule-
ward of the city.


3. The head Of the bayou sewer at Auc-
tion street being higher than the opening
at the south end, at the foot of Pontotoc
street, would suggest that 36-inch pipe
be laid from Auction street to connect
with Wolf river at low water at some
point north Of the old cotton factory, thus
giving a continuous flow Of water through
the sewer from the north end of the city
TO the opening at the Mississippi river on
POntotoc street.-the head of the pipe on
Wolf river will be higher than the south-
ern opening of the sewer-with something
more than the current in the Mississippi
river.


i have not made an estimate of the cost
of this sewer, nor do put an estimate on
the benefits, sanitary and otherwise, the
city and citizens will derive from it. A
system of sewerage we must have-no
matter what it will cost-and the sooner
we who pay the taxes see to it that the
sewers are built, the better. Let us put
our shoulders to the wheel, make our pro-
perty valuable and inviting, and fit fol
thoughtful people to reside on the whole
year. In counsel there is wisdom-let US
be up and doing.


This deserves consideration, and al
an early day. Something should b.
set on foot this winter. 1t will not dC
to wait until midsummer, and ther
rake up the filth in heaps or haul i
about the streets in carts to distribute
the poison left over from the past
season.
Year: 1878

Gently from the diplomatic service,
and I'll tell you the cause of it.
Just after the war broke out, and
Grant had got tired of pacing up and
down in the mud from the old tannery
to his house at Galena, he wrote to
Governor DennisOn, stating that he
was graduate of West Point; that
he had entered the institution from
Ohio, and would now like to serve in
the army Of his native State, and, in
short, wanted commission as captain.
Dennison received the letter, read it,
ordered it fled, and completely ignored
the writer. He did not even answer
the letter. That was enough for
Grant, and although he afterward was
finally persuaded to appoint Dennison
commissioner of the District of Co.
lumbia, he has never forgotten or
quite forgiven the snub, and when
Dennison was pressed for a cabinet
position he did not appoint him."
Year: 1878

In regard to the Lee mausoleum at
Lexington, Va, and incidents connec-
ted with the dedication, correspon
dent says: after the election of Cen
eral Lee to the presidency of the
Washington and Lee University-the
Washington College-there was built
on the grounds ofthe university, Just
in front ofthe main building, a chapel
intended for all the public services of
the university. After General Lee S
death Mrs. Lee requested that the
body should be laid under the chapel.
which, being eminently proper, was
granted, and 50 here together lie the
remains of General and Mrs. Lee, and
near by those of Miss Agnes Lee, their
daughter. Mr.. j. Crawford Nelson.
of Baltimore, an eminent architect, as
labor of love, furnished the plan of
an apse, to be built in the eastern end
Of the chapel, in which the remains of
General Lee now repose. This build
ing viii conform in its exterior to the
architectural features Of the chapel.
The lower story, Of heavy range work
of gray limestone, with brick above, is
of superior construction and entirely
fre-proof, the interior is to be built of
handsome Salem marble and pressed
brick, laid with red joints. The cell
ing Of the mausoleum will be of
ground glass in panels of a richly
nodded iron construction. The light
will come in through skyliglt on the
northern side Of the roof. It will
have on the level of the basement of
chapel a sort Of yestibule, paved, and
reached through Q large open arch.
Within tbiS yestibule are doors, one
of iron opening into ths vault, and two
others to the basement Of the present
chapel. One of these doors opens into
the office of General Lee, which still
remains in the condition he left it,


The old cbancel arch to the chapel
still remains, and a corresponding one
IN the plaQsolepm walls will give full
view Of the statue from the chapel but
every precaution will be taken to cut
of even smoke from the mausoleum,
and the arch in the mausoleum is so
arranged that it can be closed byheavy
iron sliding doors. 1t is the corner
stone Of tAia building that was laid
to-day"
Year: 1878

THE Bankrupt law was defined by an
EngIsh Judge asa system by which sn
assignee aud q lawyer divide the ssasts OF q
broken merchant, leaving nothing tor the
creditors. The Senate passed law to re.
pal our bankrupt act, we hope the House
will also pAss 1t.
Year: 1878

THE Resumption act ought to be repealed
a once. The present price of gold and the
6paucisl outlook may have been brought
about by the Gold Bugs. to flank the moves
ntLt of the people for mousy reform. If
foreign snake we're to enfold its scales Of
gold, trust 1t not. Onward, aud repeSl the
Year: 1878

TEE Republican Is grestly exercised
shout the action of the Democratic Execa-
tive Committee Is to the assessment Of
caudld ates for the Democratic nomination
It is also sxdly mistaken rs to facts. Good
Republican! attend to your own troubles.
We are able to take care of ourselves.
Year: 1878

THE POTTER COMMITTEE TO SIT WITH


OPEN DooRs-DEvELoPMEN PROM


IsED THAT WILL PUT TO AN END THE


REPUBLICAN CRY OF REVOLUTION.


WASHINGTON, May 3O.-The era OF
revelation dates from tomorrow. The
desperation of the men who have been
yelling revolution" for fortnight will
be apparent when the session OF Mr.
Potter's committee terminates tomorrow
evening. That yelling "revolution" Is
equivalent to the cry of ''stop thief" will
not be disputed after the days work is
finished


To-morrow's work bv the Potter Com
mtttee will be to elicit the evidence in
regard to the doings of John Sherman
and Company in Louisiana.


The first witness will be Joseph E. An
derson.


The committee will sit with open doors
and there will be some mighty interest
ing reading for the public on Saturday
morning.
Year: 1878

FROM the Austin (Nev.) Reveille.


In Chinatown there is a Chinaman
who is afflicted with peculiar sickness
which is probably the result of a free
and continuous indulgence in opium
smoking. He is perfectly conscious,
but has horrible visions, which he des-
cribes to his friends and visitors of his
own race with great minuteness. He is
not violent, but the other Cinnamon
assert that he is possessed of devil, and.
for fear that the evil spirit may get loose
and make things warm in Chinatown,
they have chained the bedeviled Mon
gol a. ia to hi b d, and he entire pop
ulaeion OF Chinatown are engaged in
the attempt to exercise the devil by
means OF fire crackers and joss paper.


ne chinese are very superstitious Oh
the devil question.