Year: 1876

from the Hoboken ferry are hoisted
up the hill by steam elevator, saving
nearly an hour lost by going mp this
grade in the old way. The two fore
wheels of the car had just passed ON
the platform of the elevator, when the
wires, gave the signal all right, the ele-
vator began to move, and the car top
pied over, falling thirty feet, throwing
passengers from the platform, and
burying others under its bloody wreck.
Hardly any of the twenty-seven pas
sengers escaped without injury. and
several have since died.


ANOTHER CHARITY FAIR.
1t is really thought by the sagacious,
that the sign of fashionable charities
is over for the season, and that no
further appeals with Workers till the
demand for midsummer excursions for
the poor comes on. The Woman's
Centennial Union has had its fln, and
picked the pockets of everybody, un-
der the promise of preserving every
donors name to be read at the next
Centennial. With true feminine per.
sistenee and inpartiality, the rich for
their checks, and the poor working
women for their five and ten cent
pieces. The result is generous ban
ner, at the Centennial, and very pref
ty building which does not hold 1.-THE
hardly of the women's exhibits, and is
of no earthly use, except to datter the
vanity of few women who cannot
bare not to make themselves conspic-
uons, and gave an awfully Unlocking
lot of them an excuse to parade at the
Centennial opening, arm in arm, with
baoges, along with the government
officials and officers of the exhibition
st. Johns Guild, not the least deserv-
ing the charities, if not the most so,
in the city, had its turn, though its re-
ceipts were cut short by the Centen-
nial measles, as it was a necessity that
the old fairy godmothers of the exhi-
bition should have their banner and
parade, whether the poor people out
of work in the city had food or not.
The Young Women's Christian Associ-
alton, taking and at the same time
rather repell;ng title, held a May fair,
which was not less brilliant than any
that went before. It was held In the
Academy of Music, and did q large
trade in dry goods and ready-made
clothing, as well as a thriving book
and stationery business, which, as all
the stock was given to the concern,
was clear profit. To add to the attrac-
tions, the owners of private picture
galleries loaned their pictures for ex-
hibition, and this offered fine chance
for the everybodies to see paintings
that are usually inscrutable to the vul-
gar eye.


THE CENTENNIAL.


is already beginning to be felt In New
York. The great mass of people on
their way to Philadelphia come by way
of New York, and the hotels and board
ing houses are beginning to look up.
The opening day in Philadelphia was
an immense success, to which New
York contributed quite as much as the
Quaker City. The city was literally
emptied. The trains to Philadelphia
were loaded tor three days in advance,
and New York was well-nigh deserted.
The next day the majority came back,
all, indeed, except those who had goods
to exhibit, and who propose to stay
during the exposition. The Centen-
nial is a great success, and / advise
every one of your readers to come and
see it. Come TO Philadelphia and see
the great show, come over to New
York and see the great metropolis, and
go home wiser and better men and
women.


BUSINESS


OOheAhuco uuii, shou6A tAo AncfCunuto
have hope that the influx of visitors
to the Centennial will enliven things
somewhat. Real estate is till on the
decline, and rents are going down as
rapidly as possible. There are nothing
but long faces on the street, ard the
mourners are plenty. Failures are as
common as blackberries-indeed they
excite no attention whatever To fail
is fashionable thing, and has become
rather creditable than otherwise.


RUBENsrRIg,


the Israelite, convicted of the marder
of Sarah Alexander, committed suicide
II his cell by starving himself to death.
1t is the most curious case on record.
The food given him he deliberately and
resolutely threw down the sewer pipe,
as soon as it was brought to him, and
he kept his resolution till he was 80
weak that death was inevitable. His
father took charge of bis dead body,
and had it buried according to the rites
of the rigid Jewish church. His ours
ing the detective who was instrumsn-
tai in convicting Ru5enstein, was as
dramatic performance as was ever
seen- ''The curse of the God OF my
father be on you, was his exclamation
as he stood between the corpse and the
detective, so that his dead sons face
should not be profaned by the gaze of
the man who had hunted him to death.
The opinion of everybody is that tho
man was guilty of the crime, but that
he was insane when he did it.


THE WEATHER


is delightfully."- cool and pleasant, and
the Park is crowded every afternoon
with magnificent equipages, and saily
dressed horsemen and horsevomen IL
is well worth an hour every day to see
the fashion of New York On dress par
ade. Sundays the poor people get
there, and they make sigh. of almost
equal interest. PIETRo.


SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.