Year: 1873

1t is said the Postmaster General is very
confident that the abolition of the franking
privilege will result in a very material increase
in the revenues Of the postal-service. He is
of the opinion that the increase will be so
great that the Department will become entire
ly self-sustaining.


In their verdict in the Goodrich case, the
Coronors jury declared their conviction that
the Coronor's jury, as an institution for the
discovery Of crime or the detection of indi-
viduals, has outlived the period of its neces-
sity or usefulness They urge that, in cases
where the causes of death are uncertain and
an investigation Is necessary, the latter could
be more efficiently conducted by some legally
constituted criminal or health authorities, or
by both combined than under the present sys-
TEN.


A ghastly horror has been unearthed in
New York City, by the finding of the mutt
lated remains Of wealthy and eccentric
woman in her house where she resided alone.
The body had been almost entirely devoured
by rats, and it is thought the woman when
found had been dead three or four weeks.
She was q maiden lady by the name Of Will
let's


The announcement Is made that the New
York Custom officers, in their recent invest-
cations, have discovered such evidences of
fraud on the part of well-known importing
house as to compel the payment of about
100000 as apenalty to the Government, and
the Imprisonment of at least one member of
the firm.


There were 257 convicts in the Iowa Peni-
tentiary on the Both of June.
Nine fatal cases of sunstroke occurred at st.
Louis on the 10Th and nth.
Governor Thos A. Osborn has been chosen
to deliver the opening address at the coming
Kansas State Fair.


In the Industrial Congress at Cleveland, on
the 18th, resolutions were adopted favorable
to the immigration of free labor, but demand
| ing Governmental protection against the COM
petion of labor imported under contract TO
serve a fixed period at certain wages; in favor
of the adoption of laws making arbitration a
legal means of settling difficulties between en-
poyers and employees, and recommending the
miners of the country to organize National
Association.


While initiating balloon at Philadelphia the
other evening, the canvas took fire and the
aeronaut was badly burned.
Mrs. Jacob Sberfns, wife of n hardware
merchant at Winona, Mimi, was burned to
death the other morning by an explosion of
kerosene oil with which she was lighting a
fire. She died in about four hours after the
accident.


The Salt Lake Journal of the 10th announces
that Ann Eliza Webb Young, seventeenth wife
of Brigham Young, had forever left him, car
rying off lot of furniture and personal eff
fects. Her lawyers are about to institute a
suit for divorce and alimony in a large sum.


special from Mount Vernon, Ind, on the
10th, says the cholera was raging fearfully at
that place. Commencing on the 10th, there
had been about thirty deaths. Business was
almost suspended.


The Chicago Times Of the 18th says there
were two meetings of railroad officers in that
city, the day before. At one of these it was
determined that lumber should hereafter be
charged for by weight instead of by the
foot, and that the tariff for the transportation
of cattle should be increased to what it was
before it was reduced by the competition that
has been in progress for the last four months.
At the other, which was meeting of the
General Superintendents of roads in the State,
action was taken to permit the Chicago, Alton
Il st. Louis Road to issue passes, good until
the first of January, to shippers Of cattle.