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Year: 1878

was not long, however, before the
storm burst upon him, aud his crimes
were exposed. Then the political
strikers and the men who had fattctl
off the public through his aid deserted
him, some of them even joining In the
effort to crush him in order that they
might cover up and save themselves.
But to this day among the poorer
classes of the city the dethroned and
dead Boss is spoken of kindly II not
with respect.
Year: 1878

II u little to the credit OF New York con-
noi-seur- or else NowlorK mauagers-that an artist
like whclmj should he put forward In our principal
play the Beethoven concerto Win Only
a ,aau-oforie accompaniment There - not n town OF
the fourth or NTH class on the Continent OF Europe
where he would not have been furnished WIN
an orchestra. But here he seems to have come
into 4 cheap and barren land where concerts are man
accd with much parslmony and less tast" than
respectable circus and companies are organized ana
programmes made with AL eIaspelatng disregard
Of artistic prOprieiies. The giant towers aioit
among pigrnics. who perhaps to enhance
the effect OF his greatness by the force OF
contrast vet be confessed that their presence III


sphcre so far removed from their own IL OF no HGVah
tage to hem aud certainly Of none to the public The
Beethoven concerto Is one Of the works In which VIII
helni shines the brightest, and ono IN which
no himself takes the most delight Those
VINO have heard him In anything will hardly
need TO be told how he plays this. The magnificent
intellectual pOise, the broad and noble STYLE The b'au
tiiul tone. the deep strong, healthy sentiment Tor
which he Ia 80 remarkable here have full opportunity
II would have been ont Of the question for him
TO omit the concerto altogether. But Beethoven
treated IL almost symphOnically and there are
few compositions OF the class which suffer more when
given without tho orchestra Probably therefore. Herr
Wuhelmj did well restrict himself 10 the hrst move
ment although his performance was 40 hne that when
he stopped the audience would gladly have had him 20



Max Lloblng playing the piano part The cadenza was
a superb one of Wi!helmJs own-brIlant. but iull OF
the spIrft OF tho cOmpostiOn-and at the close the
house burst into a tempest OF applause. For an
encore the viollnist then played his transcription
OF the Chopin NOcturne. Opus 27, No. Q. Nothing
could illustrate perfectly tho difference between
WihelmJ and Remeny that their manner Ofinierpfetng
Chopin The Hungarian, in his selections yesterday WAS
dainty poetic and yet wild aud fiery; the German was
grand in strength OF feeling, In spendor OF phrasDg
and in the large and sympathetic voice which
he drew forth from his priceless instrument
Who shall say that is right and the other wrong
Perhaps there in Chopin than any single per
former ever found there, and certainly we would not
willingly give up either OF the Versions heard yestr-
day In the technique WilhcimJ's performance could
hardly he surpassed his double stopping was delicious


His next selection excellent Transcription by
himself Of the from ChOpins piano forte con-
es-to 10 l. E.ovr, Mr. Lieblng again playing
the accompaniment. Recalled after this charm
ing performance, Wiheinu gave, In Cho-
pin Polonalsc, exhibition Of brilllancy In
diAcrOnt style from his previous pieces
Lastly, he was set down for POlODaisc by
Laub but this not sufficient, and beIug re-
called lie closed his part Of tine entertainment by glow
Ing Of the last movement ~ Ernsts Hun
gan concerto, and left his audience filled with excite
Year: 1878

Probably the most exhaustive study ever
made of the subject Of suicide, in its medi-
cal. moral, and legal aspects, is the article
by DR.. John P. Gray, in the July No. OF the
american Journal of Insanity.
He sums up the result OF his observation on
this point by saying that "education and
custom, beng powerful influences in over
coming the instincts Of nature, and in i'll
ducing to suicide, the widespread publica-
ton OF the names of suicides, the age,
the sex, the mode, and the reasons,
promotes suicide by inducing imita-
ton and by Iessening the horror OF
the act by familiarity with it," This
is deduction which almost every
editor can confirm from bis own eXpe-
rience. Suicide is sometimes spoken OF rs
epidemic, because the widely-circulated
newspaper rarely chronicles case OF it
without being called upon, within few
days, to chronicle another case. This is so
marked that it has frequently happened to
the Utica Herald, after the publication OF
the facts in reference to case OF suicide,
to be called upon within week to record
four or five additional cases OF suicide with.
in its own parish. Whether or not this evi.
dent tendency to imitation in an unnatural
crime does not involve some degree OF re-
sponsibility on the part Of the newspaper
is question which we know to have often
perplexed conscientious Journalists. 1t
is the first duty Of the newspaper to pub
lish the news. When it ceases to discharge
that function it ceases to be wanted in a
community. The most obvious difficulty
in the way OF an exercise Of discretion on
the part OF an editor as to the character OF
the news he shall publish is that the very
news he would naturally desire to suppress
in the interests of public morality is the
news which the public demands in the full
est details. Does not the wider
intelligence which the profuse circulation
of newspapers induces carry with it the
antidote for the evil consequences which
may sometimes follow the publication Of
certain kinds Of rews? Are there any
more suicides than there were before the
days OF newspapers? DR.. Gray furnishes
no data for the answer to this question.
Year: 1878

CENTENARY EXCURSI0Ns.-In addition to
their Sunuay-school excursion TO West
Point tomorrow. the ladies OF Centenary
church will make an excursion to the White
Sulphur Springs on the 4th of September.
AS is the case with all their enterprises, this
will likely be Il success,
Year: 1878

TIE SCHOOL .FUSD.-According to q call
cuIation made in the Office OF the Superin-
terdent of Public Instruction, the State OF
Virginia was indebted to her school fund
over one million Of dollars up to the 1st OF
July.
Year: 1878

crime by the bloody trail left on the
ground by the dragging of the
body from the house to the waters
edge, to the Travers Mansion.


An investigation followed, when
it was discovered that the woman
had destroyed the bed clothes,
which were doubtless drenched in
gore, by burning them. The in.
strument of the bloody crime was
found in the search that followed
driven down between the hearth
stones. When arrested and brought
into the presence of her murdered
spouse Mrs. Travers denied any
knowledge of, or connection with,
his murder, but later in the day,
it is said, when brought before the
coroners jury, the woman candidly
confessed her guilt, and said she
had determined to become the pos
SCISSOR of her husbands wealth,
whom she did not love, in order
that she might wed the only man
for whom she had any affection.


The jury took a recess in the
afternoon, when the murderess
seized the opportunity, when the
attention Of the officers who had
her in charge was attracted by
some one in the crowd, to commit
suicide. She drew a small knife
from her pocket and inflicted sew
eral stabs in the chest, but was de-
tected and disarmed before she suf-
fered any wounds of serious ma
ture. The affair has created the
most intense excitement in the
community in which it occurred,
and the versions that reach here to-
night are conflicting. The mur-
deress is in Jail.
Year: 1878

OsNpHly DANPEONtus


Sir Isaac Newton long ago pronounced
a theory which, in spite OF its fallacy,
has had many adherents. BE insisted
that the anatomy Of the female arm is
such that it is impossible for a girl to
move her arms in the plane of her waist
band Without dwelling on the fact
that he unwsrrantably assumed the ex.
istence of female Wristbands, it is suffi.
cient TO say that facts conclusively con.
tradict his assertion. Several scientific
persons have since demonstrated BY a
simple and pleasing experiment that q
girl can move her aims in almost any
plane.


Professor Faraday took girl Of the
usual pattern and a young man selected
almost at random from his class on the
Theory and Practice cf Stone.trrow.
ing" he placed the young man on the
floor Of bis lecture.rooln, with the girl
Immediately in front of him. The lights
were then turned down for few mo.
ments in order to favor chemical action.
and on suddenly turning them up again,
the girls arms were found to be tightly
clasped around the young man in the
plane of his wsistband, although at
somewhat greater altitude. It is i'm
possible to break the force Of this ex.
pertinent


1t conclusivsly shows that the female
arm can move in the very direction in
which Sir Isaac Newton asserted that il
could not move. The same experiment
has been often repeated, and always
with the same result. Any young man
who can command the cooperation of a
girl can repeat it for his own satisfaction,
and it might be added that it is univer.
sally agreed that it .is one of the most
thoroughly satisfactory experimen nts
known to science. We nsed, then, pay
no further attention to Newton's hypoth-
esis, since it has been completely dis.
proved, aud is now held by no one who
has even a moderate acquaintance with
science.
Year: 1878

The Rochester Union thus describes this overgrown American youth He was born in Rochelle, Illinois, seventeen years ago. At the time of his birth he weighed but eight pounds, and continued to be small child until he was six years old, when all of sudden he began to grow, and at seven he weighed eighty pounds. On his eighth birthday he weighed 112 pounds, and continued gradually to increase, till on his eleventh birthday he weighed PIP pounds. The next year he increased in weight to the tune of 155 pounds, and being weighed when twelve years old he was found to kick the beam at 325 pounds. In his thirteenth year he suffered severely from typhoid fever, which reduced him somewhat in flesh but on recovering from the disease he soon regained what he had lost and made up time at rapid rate, and on his last and seventeenth birthday he weighed 635 pounds. This was last winter, and it is probable, judging from past experience, that his avoirdupois has increased slightly since then. His health is perfectly good as a general thing, and his flesh, instead of being fabby, is quite solid to the touch, his arm, which measures twenty four inches round the biceps, being like bar of iron. His apparently sole com plaint is that the doors of the houses are too small for him.
Year: 1878

John, because his mind and the mind of h1s age could conceive of nothing more splendid than costly metal and material gems, pictured heaven as a metallic city, more glorious than the great kings of the East ever builded. He belonged to childish age, and was 0 child in his fancies. But the nine- teenth century, educated to truer con- ception of values, with it's soul uplifted to height of spiritual discernment which apprehended it to be above the beauty of matter, looks down with con- tempt or indifference upon gold and rubies, carbuncles and earthly gems, and realizes that heaven is above such symbollzation. There may be here and there one who interprets the,Apocalypse literally, but many there cannot be. To me, for instance, Christian home hap oily placed in relation to the surround ing landscape, whose wants are easily and surely supplied; in which the father and mother love each other supre- mely in which the children are con- tented, grow thin, loving; where the days come and go in peace and concord; where God is reverenced as the over- ruling parent and Jesus loved as an elder brother; to me such scene suggests a finer idea of heaven than Johns vision of barbaric splendor. What care for golden pavements beneath my feet, or the tiresome glitter of polished metals, or the monotonous flashing of gleamlng gems? What care for the splendor of the old barbaric heathen civilization cemented with tyranny and blood ? What refined, loving, kindly man or wo- man can read with any satisfaction the gorgeous capitalization by John? It is too ostentatious and garish too vulgar, to satisfy or please one who wishes to follow the footprints of Him whose king ship was the kingship of mind; whose royalty was the royalty of spirit; and who, even while his body was clothed with coarse garments, carries round in his breast the splendor that neither costly raiment nor kingIy surroundings could type.-Golden Rule.
Year: 1878

The Japanese are very kind to animals. Professor Morse tells us that boy is never seen to throw stone at dog or bird, and crows come into the city of Tokio and lodge on the houses. They pay for their kind treatment, for they act as scavengers, picking up what rice or fish may fall to the ground. In a crowded thoroughfare he has seen dog asleep in the middle of the road. No one disturbed him, but carefully turned out from him. He once threw @ stone at dog to see how he would act. The animal rose to his feet to let the stone pass, and looked surprised, and took only the same notice of a second assault-- quite different from the way Christian dog would be likely to act. By the sides of the roads, at the foot of hills, stone monuments are placed, and have been there for hundreds of years, bearing verses that teach consideration for dumb beasts. The unregenerate Anglo-Saxon may here learn a lesson of practical hu- manity.
Year: 1878

This is dog.

 Do you see the dog

 He looks as natural as life.

 The dog is called by some, mans most faithful servant. One or two instances have been known where dog frightened away thief or bit all agent. They have also been known to bark at the moon and thus prevent it falling and dashing the earth to pieces. If it wasn't for dogs we shouldn't know what to do with our old oyster cans. You can now ask any questions you desire.

 "How large IS a dog p

 "Well, that depends. If he's running away from you he looks about the size of gallon jug, but if he's coming at you he looks as large as a yearling calf.

 "Do dogs guard the house?'

 Yes; particularly the kitchen door. Nothing hurts dogs feelings so much as to have his master think he's waiting for bones, instead of being there on guard"

 Gan dog take hint?"

 Yes as soon as one sees 8 farmer coming across the fields with gun he knows that killing sheep is over for that morning, and away he goes.

 "Are dogs very strong?"

 "Youd think they could pull a saw log by the amount of bowling they will do between dusk and daybreak, but the minute boy wants ride on h1s sled the family dog is troubled with heart disease and general weakness.

 "Can dogs find the1r way home from long distances ?" It's according to the dog. Hits one you want to get rid of he can find his way back from California. If it's good one he's apt to get lost if he goes round the corner"

 "Can dogs see in the dark"

 "Some appear to, but instances are not rare where dogs, commanded to rush out and devour the fellow hooking wood; have rushed under the bed by mistake and stayed there. That all about dogs"
Year: 1878

"Lower the life-boats, save all the passengers, and then pitch me over- board" is what Captain Howard of the steamship Georgia, is reported to have said after the vessel went upon the rocks. If all else that is said of him be true says an exchange, it would have served him right to have cast him into the waves. He was in command of a great vessel and many lives were in his keep ing. The passengers say he was con- tinually drunk from time of starting, and that he was in revel in his cabin when the shock came. He staggered on deck and gave orders until led away The perils of the sea are many under most favorable conditions, but it must be admitted that they are greatly in- creased if the voyage is made with 8 drunken Captain.
Year: 1878

The New York Herald says A stranger to our shores could not read the columns of many of our contemporaries without becoming convinced that only very wicked men receive nominations for office. A resident, however, knows bet ter, and when he sees one Candidate de- nounced as thief, another as burglar, a third as homicide and fourth as pirate he only says to himself, "this is the time for the squirt guns of islander. ," Why must a candidates private life be searched and paraded before the public eye? Not to help the great cause of truth or justice, for where maliginity can find nothing to magnify or distort it does not hesitate to invent whole cata- logues of imaginary crimes to be laid at his door. It would seem to be as necess- ary for a candidate to have criminal re- cord created by his opponents as to have an honorable record for his friends to blazon forth. The whole gamut of islander has been so played over that It is "played out," to use aphrase politicians will understand. It deceives nobody. Its object is dishonest one, for the en- tire aim is to keep the eyes of the people off the real issues of canvass. It seeks to place the issue not, for instance, on whether the city or State shall have good and strong government, but on whether Hezekiah Franklin, the republi- can candidate for Assembly, was a bounty jumper, or Peter McBranigan, the democratic aspirant for Alderman, 8 clothesline robber. It is time to stop this. We have surfeit of it. The men in the background, who pull the wires and organize these campaign islanders, do it so that their hands may be con- cealed. Our citizens have had so much of it that they may be relied on to reject it in the lump, and vote for men and measures as they know them, and not as the malignant fancy of the opposition paints them.
Year: 1878

A Cincinnati paper says A move ment started by a few gentlemen in Ohio to put an end to ostentation at fu- nerals should receive the encourage ment of all sensible people. Nothing could be in worse taste than display in the presence of death.

 A few months ago funeral in Cincin- natl came under our observation. The husband and head of the house had died. It was very moderate cottage in which husband, wife and children had lived for some years, toiling hard, for they were industrious people, for the sheerest necessities of life. But being dead, it seemed to the wife that her late husband must have as grand funeral as her more opulent neighbors. So there was, in addition to the minister and undertaken, @ band and twenty hacks, and concourse of people drawn together to witness the funeral of man who had not in all his life attracted as much attention as in going out of it. The hats of the pall-bearers had the regulation crape, and their hands were covered with the usual black gloves. There were flowers, too-nct appropri- ate as testimonials of affection-and whatever was needed to give to the fu- neral the proper exaltation as social event. But as the heavily-plated casket. borne by the stout pall-bearers, came across the threshold of the door into the street, one was 1nvoluntarily attracted by the rusty sign of "Washing and Ironing" which was nailed to the side of the house, and had not been taken in.
Year: 1878

A crime perhaps without precedent is reported from Thompson, Penn, a small hamlet on the Jefferson branch of the Erie Railway, about 70 miles from Port Jervis. The trustees of a school just outside the limits of the village gath cred at the school house for their regu- lar meeting last Friday evening. There was some difficulty in getting the door open, but, after gaining admission, the dead body of Miss Alice Kennett, the young school teacher, was found upon the floor. In her lifeless hand was tightly grasped piece of chalk, and on the blackboard was written story almost too horrible for belief.

 The hapless girl had dismissed her scholars that afternoon, and was putting the room in order for the evening meet ing of the trustees when two tramps suddenly entered and seized her. Her screams could not be heard, and she was helpless in their hands. She must have threatened the scoundrels with certain identification, for, with almost incredi- ble savagery, they cut out her tongue, and left her dying on the floor. She crawled to the blackboard, and with desperate strength, wrote briefly the circumstances of the terrible crime, and minute description of the two men. The room bore evidence that she had made a desperate struggle.

 The sparse community was at once aroused, and search begun in every direction. The men may escape, but if they are caught their punishment win be instant and terrible.
Year: 1878

Two little fellows, who could easily have been carried in the arms of the officer who led them, went trotting down the aisle of the courtroom, in Pater- son, N. J., to answer to @ charge of burglary.

 Burglary what do you mean :? These babies ?" And the judge had to lean clear over the railing to see the tiny prisoners. They stood looking up at him with their great eyes, the only clean feature about their faces, while their hair was matted and snarled, and baby colored. Rags covered their little legs, somehow or other hitched up around the waists, and through the gaps of their cotton shirts the white skin that proved their race was seen. Their hands were black as the earth, and no wonder, for they were so little that it didn't take much soil to cover them, and their faces were smeared and grimy.

 It was clear case against the babies, and they admitted that they had gone to the chicken coop at two o'clock in the morning, with some other fellows, and robbed the roost. They could not have denied it had they been old enough to have tried a defence, because they were caught in the act.

 "But I can't imprison such children as these," said the judge. "Where's their father? Where do they live ?"

 He was told that they lived almost anywhere, and that their father and mother were too poor, and perhaps too careless, to watch over them so they had spent the time since they had climbed out of the cradle, two or three years ago, upon the streets of Paterson.

 Whats your name ?" the judge asked the older.

 "I'm Willie Aslam, and me brothers Eddy"

 "How old are you?"

 "Me brothers five and I'm six, guess"

 Then an officer and gentleman who was in court told the judge that the urchins had been begging their food for months, and sleeping wherever night found them.

 "They ought to be taken care of, but the jail is no place for them"

 "Oh, they have been to jail before, your Honor"

 "Those babies been to jail !"

 Yes twice.

 Here the father came in, weary-eyed, over-worked laboring man. He said that he was away from home so much that he couldn't look after his children, and he passed lightly over the reason why the mother did not care for them. He agreed with the judge that the boys would have better care in the State Reform School, and so they were ordered by the Court to be taken there.
Year: 1878

Kind friends, I'm glad to meet you here,

 stand before you all, A soldier who has served his time

 With old King Alcohol. I've stood by him through thick and thin,

 Until they call me sot, And when for him I sold my coat

 This was the coat I got. fought for him, I bled for him,

 As through the street I'd rave, And when through him lost my hat,

 This is the hat he gave. My boots were of the neatest fit,

 As fine as boots could be; For him gave away my boots,

 And then he booted me. My eyes were of the deepest blue,

 Nor lustrc did they lack; But now you see they both are red,

 And one Is also black! My nose was never beautiful,

 But still was not amiss; Old Alcohol, he touched it up,

 And what dye think of this7 He promised I should courage have

 For all the ills of life; The bravest thing he made me do

 Was beat my little wife. He promised he would give me wit,

 And should ne'er be sad, Instead of which he took away

 The little sense had. The health and wealth he promised me

 He never, never gave; But when he'd taken all had,

 I found myself slave. So now I'll fight for him no more,

 For woe is all his pay; He's cheated me and lied to me

 I'll sign the pledge to-day!