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Year: 1879

From the London Timcsl


RoME. March II, 1S79


Menotti Garibaldi. of the General, and AchiIle
Fazzari, his intend. unless Eng
land should interposo any obstacles. to sail in tho
summer or autumn with 1000 Italians for the south
ern coast OF New Guinea establish colony there and
found city under tho name of Italia. Their
object is to find outlet for that spirit of adven-
ture and enterprise which the making Of
Italy aroused in many who are still young
men. Moro than eight years have passed
since their patriotic task accomplished.
1t might bo supposed they ought TO havo
settled down by this time. and many. indeed. have
done so but there many more either untitled
to return to the calm routine of daily lie unable
20 do so whether through want OF early training
the inpossibility of turning their abilities to
count in country where the aspirations are great,
the means OF carrying them out next TO nothing. tho
competitors many and the prizes very lew and OF
small value. The expedition to New Guinea, the
colonization OF an unopened country there ana the
Foundation of new city are the means by which
Menoft Garibaldi hopes to provide the outlet re-
uuircd 70 open careers for those who cannot fnd
Il IA az home, and 10 relieve the country from a
number OF restless minds which, wanting other
Year: 1879

THE MOTION OF A WAGON WHEEL
The instantaneous photographs of trot-
ting horses, taken by Muybridge of San
Francisco, furnish the first visible dem
onstratiOn of the much disputed fact
that the top of wagon wheel, when
running along the ground, moves faster
than the bottom, 1t is obvious that an
instantaneous photograph of a wheel,
revolving upon its axle in the air, would
show all parts of the wheel with equal
distinctness. But if the wheel have a
progressive motion, and any one Dor
ton has greater motion than its cor
responding part, above or below, there
must be liability TO blurring in that
part of the picture. These pictures are
taken with SO brief an exposure that
the horse, though moving at 2.24 gait
is sharply outlined. The wheels of the
drivers sulky, however, have a differ
ent tale to tell. The lower third ot
each wheel is sharp and distinct as 4
absolutely at rest. Not so with the top
that part of the wheel showing a Der,
Year: 1879

Sunday Afternoon for March.)
You placed this flower in her hand you sayl
This pure pale rose i'll her hand of clay
Methinks could she lift her sealed eyes
They would meet your own with grieved surpris
She has been your wife for many year,
When clouds hung low and when skies were clea
At your fee she laid her life's gid spring,
And her summers glorious blOssOming.
Her whole heart went with the hand you won;
If its warm love waned as the years went on,
If it chilled in the grasp of an icy spell,
What was the reason l pray you tell
You cannot l can and beside her bier
My soul must speak and your soul must hear.
If she was not all that she might have been.
Hers was the sorrow-yOurs the sin!
Whose was the fault if she did not grow
Like rose in the summerl Do you knowl
Does lily grow when its leaves are chilledi
Does il bloom when its root is winter killed
For little while. when you first were wed,
Your love was like sunshine round her shed;
Then a something crept between you two,
You led where she could not follow you.


With a mans firm tread you went and came;
You lived for wealth, for power for fame;
Shut into her wonan's work and ways,
She heard the nation chant your praise.
| But ah You had dropped her hand the while.
| What time had you for a kiss, smile
| You two. with the same roof overhead,
| Were as far apart as the sundered dead.
| You i'll Your manhOods strength and prime
| She-worn and faded before her time.
| 'Tis a common story. This rose You say


You laid in her pallid hand to-dayl
| When did ynu give her flower before
| All. well What matter, when all is DER


Yet stay moment; you'n wed again.


l mean reproach; It's the way of men


But pray You think when some fairer face


Shines like star from her wonted place
That love will starve ifit is not fed,


That true hearts pray for their daily bread.
Year: 1879

LIGHT FOR THE SIoK-RooM.-A kero-
sene lamp is not a suitable light for the
sick-roon, for it should never be turned
down low, on account of the disagree
able oder which results. A scientific
man once said, ''There is nothing in
the world that will produce diphtheria
sooner than bad kerosene lamp" Be
that as it may, if your kerosene lamp
emits disagreeable smell, it shows
that something is wrong-the oil NAV
be OF an inferior quality, the burner
may be poor, or it is clogged up, or the
wick needs to be evenly trimmed
Hdyper's Bazaar.
Year: 1879

n The New York World expends a
column and half of enthusiasm on the
tile stove of Germany and Russia, the
stove which maintains half dozen
rooms at an even temperature with the
expenditure of very small amount of
heat. Seven-eighths of the heat gener-
ated from fuel in ordinary stoves, is
lost according to Count Rumford, but
none is lost with the tile stove.
Year: 1879

The average American does not give
one-quarter of the attention to the well
fare of his digestive system that he
gives to the health of his dog or his
horse: And what is the consequence
nation of dyspeptics, and a greater
mortality from the breaking down of
the outraged digestive organs, than even
from the dreaded scourge of phthisis.
Year: 1879

There is law which is intended to guard
against the overcrowding of excursion
steamers. 1t provides that ifany passenger
tors shall issue to such steamers a special
permit in writing, in which Shall be
stated the number of passengers that
may be carried. If steamer is
used for excursions without obtaining
this permit the owner is liable to the
United States in penalty Of five hundred
dollars, one-half to 60 to the informer, and
the vessel may be seized and libelled in
any United States District Court having
jurisdiction of the offence. If, after OBJ
tanning the permit, q steamer violates the
conditions on which it was granted by car
rying greater number of passengers than
is authorized therein, the owner becomes
liable in n similar fine.


From the manner in which the excursion
steamers that leave New York on Sundays,
and especially the small Harlem River
boats, are overcrowded 1t is certain that the
law is constantly violated at the risk of
many lives, and that the inspectors are
shamefully neglectful of their duty. No
pretence is made at limiting the number
carried on these Harlem River boats, and
the passengers are packed on board until
no standing room for an additional per-
son can be found. One boat, said
to be licensed to carry two hundred pas
sengers, had on board last Sunday more
than double that number. 1t IL evident
that the inspectors are waiting for catas-
trophe before they take notice Of these
glaring and perilous violations of law. But
Year: 1879

fact until the sheriff is in possession OF
their stock and implements. Meanwhile
America and England's own colonies
are full of land to be had merely
for the taking, and need the influence
OF the thorough method and the ability to
do mixed farming which characterize Eng
lish agriculturists. If the English farmers
would hold their own they must emigrate !;
no other course is open to them, and they
would be wise to do SO before growing
poorer. Perhaps general movement
toward an exodus would have the effect OF
reducing rents. for the present prices are
based upon no intelligent principle, but
rather upon the scarcity of the home sup
ply in proportion to the number of men
who wish to cultivate. At one-half the
rents now demanded, prices OF products re-
naming as they are, no American farmer
would think of cultivating English grounds;
yet American farmers themselves are not
famous for money making.
Year: 1879

There is probably no better judge of a
well told story in the United States than
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for when a
man possesses in himself the narrative
faculty and can tell story with an in
stinctive perception of the especial merit OF
each of its parts he is the readiest to recog-
nize the happy effort of fellow worker in
the same difficult field Of intellectual
labor. Consequently we were pleased
to note that the reverend gentleman
read to his congregation from the pulpit
on Sunday nearly the whole of the admir-
able despatch in the HERALD in which our
correspondent described the funeral at
ChiseIhurst of Prince Louis Bonaparte.
It was good chronicle of an event dis
tinguished by some remarkable features
an event as to which the preacher did not
90 too far when he spoke of it as in the
number of the most remarkable events OF
his time and, as the chronicler dealt with
a notable drama Of human sympathy, he
handled it in spirit of characteristic
grace and simplicity. There are some
persons who desire that all the good things
shall be written up by the Macaulays Of
the period. 1t would not be difficult to
have that done if it were desirable. All
the city papers keep several Macaulays on
hand, and even the HERALD is not without
O limited number; but the truth is that
Macaulayism in literature is so danger
ously near to tustian at it's best that
when it is in the slightest degree
aside from it's best it tumbles full
into that fearful abyss. AS the first
great special correspondent sometimes
nodded, of course the first great professor
of the art of padding sometimes had his
lapses, and imitators, would especially re-
semble him in that particular. 1t is good
deal better to fill newspaper with contem-
porary chronicles, well and simply told, than
with labored rhetorical expansions in the
Macaulay style, and We note Mr.. Beechers
irrepressible admiration of our Chiselhurst
despatch as the unconscious testimony on
that point of man of mature and culti-
vated judgment.
Year: 1879

On several recent occasions the police, in
attempting to arrest disturbers of the
peace, have been set upon by the COM
panions of the offenders and beaten. One
of the worst results of the misconduct and
brutality of the force is the encouragement
of these lawless acts on the part of the
people. When policemen use their clubs
savagely and needlessly on their prisoners.
or on persons who have committed
no offence warranting their arrest,
the depraved and criminal classes are
induced to resort to violence in
their turn whenever they come in contact
with officers, and the unpopularity of the
force deters bystanders from interfering in
their defence. If the police were to dis
charge their duties in becoming manner,
using force only when it became necessary
in the arrest of criminals, treating respect
able citizens with civility and efficiently
protecting life and property public senti-
ment would check any violent resistance
of their authority and they would always
find plenty of assistance at hand if it
should be needed ior their defence against
ruffianism.


The Police Commissioners have re-
peatedly been urged to do something to
protect citizens from the police They have
been reminded that while unoffending men
are dubbed and kicked by officers because
of some iancied insult, while such cases as
the arrest of DR.. Wood and the assault on the
wife and son of the keeper OF the Battery
place boarding house are common occur
rences and go unpunished and while
policemen are found playing the part of
burglars, the respectable portion Of the COM
munity must feel that the police are public
danger instead of public protection. II
is now evident that some action OF the Com
missioners is needed as much for the pro-
lection of the force as of private citizens.
The misconduct of the few brings peril on
the entire police body, and unless we have
such change in police management as
will restore public confidence in the force
it is to be feared that violent assaults on
police officers by the depraved classes will
become as common as violent assaults on
unofending citizens by police officers have
recently been.
Year: 1879

Lawyers have done their utmost to prove
that the trial by jury is farce and that it
should be set aside. If it were not that
remedies their arguments would not have
been without great effect. But the some-
what analogous folly, the coroner's jury,
is so patent an absurdity that it is probable
a resolute attempt to put it away as an
obsolete and ridiculous machinery would be
resisted only by the coroners. There is no
formality known to the society of this time
SO absolutely empty as the pretended
inquiry by a coroner's jury. An in
quiry into the cause of death is likely
to be the first stage of an important
criminal process. 1t is the foundation
of legal structure; any fault in it is fatal
to the structure. This inquiry should
therefore be conducted by man of trained
mind, and should establish to the satisiac-
tion of jury the main points in the his
tory of crime. In truth, a coroner under
our system is some accidental ward poll
tician, and his jury nine times in ten is
group of average loungers in handy places
always ready to certify to the verdict it
may please him to 'fnd." The Seymour
cal nature OF coroners' processes. It was
deemed convenient in that case to formu-
late verdict that should cover the failure
of the police to clear up the facts of the
crime. Hence it was returned as an acci-
dent, and all testimony inconsistent with
that theory was excluded from the case.


Was Mr. Seymour robbed on the night on
which he was murdered? Was any valua-
BILE property that had been in his posses
sion when he went out of his house on the
night Of his death noted as missing when
his body was found? That would seem to
be an important point for investigation; yet
the Coroner refused to direct any portion of
his public inquiry to this point. Did he ex-
anime the subject privately and assure him
self of the facts? 1t is at all events known
that when the body was hastily examined at
night Mrs. Seymour was heard to say -
"They have taken his watch, but not his
rings" If Mr.. Seymour's watch was taken
this also may merge into an ordinary case
of homicide for robbery. 1t would
pretty certainly establish that it was
not case of accidental shooting.
Such fact would give significance to the
story of man seen to part from Mr.. Sey-
mour at about twelve, and then to approach
him rapidly at the moment pistol was


fred between the two. Suppose that man
to have been a tramp asleep in the bushes
to have become when awakened savage,
impudent sort of beggar; to have been re-
fused the assistance he demanded, and to
have turned to 60 away, but remembering
the seclusion of the place, and having OBJ
served the watch on Mr. Seymour, to have
turned suddenly, approached him, shot
him and robbed him. In that way the mys-
terious murder might become only COM
monplace crime. AS the Coroner refused
to examine the witness who heard the
above quoted declaration it must be, we
suppose that he has satisfied himself that
no valuables were lost. But why not satisfy
the jury, unless the jury is farce?
Year: 1879




The timely cartoon in yesterdays Graphic
will aid in directing public attention to
the danger that threatens the city through
the neglect of the street cleaning officials
The authorities stand bowing in the midst
of slush and garbage to welcome the APP
proach of the spectre OF Pestilence, whose
grim shadow is cast dimly on the fgurative
gates Of the city, while women and children,
wading in the filth, prepare themselves for
his approach. Who can tell how long it
will be before the shadow becomes a sub
stance. and the deadly scythe is found
moving wide swaths in the cultivated
meadows of the brown stone neighbor-
hoods, as we'll as in the rank and thickly
covered fields Of the tenement house dis
tricts?


The streets of New York are in disgrace
full condition. Not the broad, healthful,
we'll cared for thoroughfares in which the
wealthier classes live and the principal
business of the city is transacted, but the
narrow, crowded, neglected streets in the
back parts of the city, where high tenement
houses shut out the light and dir and poor
people find unhealthful homes. The street
cleaning authorities are careful to clean
those neighborhoods where there is the
least dirt and the smallest danger of
contagious diseases, and to neglect those
where there is the most filth and the great
est danger of pestilence. One advantage
of this policy to them is that their work is
done on streets and avenues a majority of
which are swept by private contractors
whose labor is credited TO the bureau.
But as pestilence, when it does come, is no
respecter OF localities or of buildings, stalk
ing along broad avenues as well as narrow
streets, and leaving its mark in mansion as
well as in hovel, the residents of Fifth
avenue are put in as great peril as the resi-
dents of the foulest thoroughiare of the
Thirteenth ward by the shameful neglect
or incapacity of the authorities.


The reliable accounts of the condition of
the streets given in the HERALD to-day, yes
terday and on former occasions, show that
the note of alarm is not unn necessarily or pre-
maturely sounded. With the thermometer
creeping up to hundred it is flying in the
face of Providence to leave garbage rotting
in the uncleaned streets of populous neigh
borhoods and inviting contagious diseases.


Three months ago tho head of the Street
Cleaning Bureau was removed from office
because he notoriously failed to clean the
streets of the city while expending some
eight hundred thousand dollars year on
the work To-day the streets are in quite
as bad, If not worse, condition than thoy
were before the removal of the late Commits
sioner, and just as much money is
wasted on work neglected or insufficiently
performed 1t is evident that the change
in the management has secured no i'm
provement, and has only had the effect of
shifting the patronage OF the bureau from
one political set to another Our at
tempted reforms in municipal matters gen.
orally have this result. Recently an offer
was made by responsible citizen to re-
move promptly all the dirt and garbage
collected by the Street Cleaning Bureau,
Year: 1879

English farmers are grumbling loudly,
and with very good cause, as will be seen
by our London letter. In the best of
seasons fully half of their receipts go to the
landlord-for scarcely any of them own
land-and bad years, like the present,
reduce to ruin great number of agricul-
tursts who, if in a new country, would be
able through economy to weather u poor
season. Foreign competition, which few
years ago extended only to grain, has grad
TALLY come to be in dried and salted meats,
fruits, cheese, butter, and, finally,
live cattle and horses, so that
market gardening and poultry raising,
which farmers everywhere consider occu-
pations beneath them, appear to be the
only directions in which English soil can
profitably be handled. Unless rents are
reduced bankruptcy of the entire class is
simply inevitable; indeed, it appears at
present to be a foregone conclusion, al
though farmers, most of whom are what
they are by centuries of inheritance, are
the last men in the world to realize such o
Year: 1879

thus leaving nothing for the authorities to
do but to sweep the streets and collect the
refuse. For some unaccountable reason
this offer was rejected. and we now find
the garbage rotting in the streets and the
health OF the city seriously imperilled.
We call the attention OF the Mayor to the
accounts published in the HERALD, from
which he will learn the condition of the
streets more truthfully than from depart
mental reports.
Year: 1879

Sixteen persons killed by the heat in one
day in city of but little more than fifty
thousand inhabitants implies a terribly op-
pressive temperatures; and this experience
of Charleston recalls the much severer
visitation that afflicted st. Louis last year
short time before the yellow fever
epidemic declared itself. In st. Louis
on that occasion the largest number
of deaths was, we believe, forty in
one day; and as the population OF that
city is at least six times larger than the
population of Charleston, the mortality re-
ported from the latter place is twice as
great proportionately as that for the worst
of ST. Louis bad days last year. In Charles
ton on Saturday the temperature at two
P. M. was Ill degrees, and in st. Louis last
July the highest point attained was 1O3 de-
grees. From the comparison of the degree
of heat, as we'll as the extent of the NOR
tality, itappears, therefore, that the vista-
ton this year on our South Atlantic
coast is severer than that Of last year in
the Mississippi Valley. In view of what
followed lower down the river that great
fatality OF the heat ut st. Louis might
fairly be regarded as a premonition OF q
bad year for the people and it is to be
hoped that the premonition may not hold
good in the present case, and may not i'm
ply that the fever which ravaged the Mis-
sissippi cities will not spare us this year,
but will change its seat to the region where
the mortality already indicates unusually
oppressive atmospheric conditions.
Year: 1879

LOWER New YORK seems devoted entirely
to business houses, yet the concert ut the
Battery last night was listened to by
crowd as great as Central Park usually holds
about the music stand. Where did it come
'front.'
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock specu-
latiOn was rather dull, and prices declined a
fraction. Government and railroad bonds were
in demand and advanced while State securities
were stagnant. Money call was plentiful at
2 per cent on stock collateral.
Year: 1879

HANIAN believes that total abstinence from
liquor and tobacco is necessary to the most
ccssful physical effort. He has certainly demon
strated his theory most handsomely, and he
ought to be sent ON a Iecturing tour among ath-
lctic clubs in general
Year: 1879

THE YELLOW FEVER SCARE is subsiding at
Memphis and elsewhere but the citizens will do
well to regard the sanitary precautions sug-
gested by the National Board Of Health. There
was yellow fever in the South when the army
compelled clean streets
Year: 1879

per cent Of the total vote cast, and Wiscon-
sin, in which two years ago the republicans
cast only A "a per cent of the total vote.
All these, it is urged. are republican States
in which such combination of the oppos-
ing elements on an electoral ticket might
defeat the republicans and cause them
fatal losses.


There is, of course, nothing contrary to
the constitution in such plan; on the con-
trary the trainers Of that instrument ex-
pected the members of the Electoral Col
lege to vote Independently and if two
political parties can combine upon joint
ticket. with an agreement to divide the
electoral vote afterward upon a prearranged
basis, they are free to do this. The main
and probably fatal difficulty about it is that
in Presidential years, as long experience
shows, the voters, almost without excep-
ton, go back to their original parties.
Every man wants his vote for President to
tell and whatever may be the greenback
national vote this year, next year, unless
all precedents fail, the republican nationals
will vote the republican Presidential ticket
and the democratic nationals the demo-
cratic ticket. Moreover, the difficulty of
dividing the electoral votes, the suspicion
of each of the two contracting parties that
the other would cheat it, the jealous ambi-
tion of candidates--all would contribute to
make the plan TAIL There is no doubt,
however, that it is entertained by shrewd
politicians, and it may play part in the
great game Of $780, especially if California
should 60 solidly republican and Ohio
democratic.
Year: 1879

Minneapolis, MINI, May 31.-O. H.
Chance was brought down from Month
cello to-day and lodged in Hennepin
county jail, charged with having shot a
girl on Sunday last. During the even
ing several mischievous boys were an
noying Chance by knocking at his front
door, and he rushed to the door and,
revolver in hand, fired at some one he
supposed to be implicated in the matter.
Instead thereof the bullet took effect in
the person of Miss Lizzie Hotten, who
was passing at the time, striking her
arm and lodging in the breast. produc-
ing very dangerous wound. The
community was greatly excited over
this piece of recklessness, and lynching
was limited at, but wise council pre-
vailed, and he was arrested and bound
over for trial Chance is a young man,
a graduate of the st. Cloud normal
school, and had recently opened law
Office in Monticello.