Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1882, Page 3

tistrictures anc Saggestions by a Newspaper Detee- tive. dis +3 who kept the sa- words nt remon- if is held te io the he territies al classes ience te se th. b this idea of ¢ boys and wom brutal ed. can- Yet this same apt to be drunk for with the ontices when on he own passion: he uses pre to the shame of h 3 ¢ and servile flunk ject to the infrequently potations and a friend e instru- seller that lice in- A every corner, and there is Ro long bt but that the proverb was written 1 | of the And i work no se nt of I in” with the is more to Hr ready to con- n thereby secure a al down at will, and the Whose duty it is to pay fur the game. IS THE PICTURE TOO BLACK? “But.” opposes the reader, “this is too black @picture; you have made your policeman too much of a villain; 1 know policemen who are honest, intelligent, faithful and courteous.” So do I; but these are tie unhappy exeeptions—a few rare exotics amid 2n acre of weeds. There fs nothing I have charzed above but what has Been proved of the police of the United States @uring the past year: not of one single man, But of them collectively, of them typically. Read this from the Phils hhaye urt. He p guilty to the letceny cf m trave ine-Doe. Gee aesin-t the privon-r Bad been heard ey several cf hi ier detectives tock the stand an.t testific | that the accrued was an old. thief, in suj port cf their alleations produced a photo- graph from the Rewues? ealiezy which bore a striking Fesembisnee to the accused. The ease seemed con- elasiv- sgainst Fish, when the district attorney dis- eovercd that cn the back cf ph it was written tat the pe: id gertain cabalis Fortivwith thy a rearch fo it le o bare lis arm, and ‘when lotto thestrprive and di conte ‘es and the atunseaept ot eueral ic, uct a sinwle tattoo mark was to Be fourd on either arr of the prisoner. And this, telegraped to the New York from Frederick, Maryland: An inquest was held here to-d upon the body of John Tere! Groff who was thot on elcetion day oe Por lice Some twelve witne Herald apy Provorstion fer his murderous assault. altheueh Shere hast been lance crowd of colored mén around ater at the time. Tt acemed to be tie general sense of th.tthe man Groff had been sent some Porter st the tims the altercation ve etreat from the maddened e frre: Wy i a ronsh his lefe lume and tery, caused his death. counsel for the pri hour's deliber ‘verdic! het svi death on the morning of 5 1882, K City, Mi. froma iortai wound’ inflieted with Pistol in te bands of Police Otticer Charles A. Porter.” And this from the une Mr. Edward Se 7 o ter, of 462 West obtainet "from csou Mz: BR by snd Nelson, prevent, but did After mat on x charce or ‘threstenti Inet night serv: : Mr. Scheyer, who as withesson, said her. The woman fell and seteaus A crea’ crowd was attracted by ith my f fends, ran up. As the m e woman, many cri ho was dracging thi 3 brutal manner, shout: a manne was @oing. This seemed to drive lnm fairly erazy, for he let go of her gai) sprang at me. take you in. anyway." he shou! “TE saw he wes drank. so I #im id: me fn.* he put bis hand back int » his treasers’ pocket and tol, Which he put tomy head. threatening to of ‘he crosd that followed us to the ‘wae greatly excite |, and some of those who com- © 1 Sham me! Shame! the man treated 7 wens Was taking down complaint. Keilly mate a furious assault upon me toshoot me. ‘The pi etol was taken from hin. Is, Sere-ant Havens who is a cool aud xen: patiently and to my wit- need mne. And this from the Chicazo Tin Chicazo police Justice yesterday fined a gist 85 f dag shone ih the -treet so) o'clock in the eveninss Scr man eecoste followed war: doubtens rte 4 5 entirely reapectable, but she deserved Suslahasent for being out uusttemded after darks" And this from the Philadelphia Press: ew ¥ m of about 2,300 men had rer 200 mien on thal Wednesday" for offenses of vary Sie brute! ty, from cinbbine defenseless women to sF- Festing men for sittinz on their own doorsteps. But is dia not prevent one of, the men on duty from fur- Spouse worsen down. "de ine from the ‘proportion Seeman on ‘New ‘Yerk police beats commits Some act of vio ence every month or two. ‘There is no need to multiply instances. Those aboveare from the newspapers of the past six months. The testimony cou!d be furnished to fill hundreds of pazes such as this, and the ob- Jecting reader should remember that the strength of a chain is the strength ofits weakest Tank. Bee ee Oe cictamet cane toate the eyesare shor eyes, ears - he hands ie | polie | al After the power of arrest had be j coach. The methods of policing employed five-and-forty ago are thier methods to-day. Where are not marching to the rear, they are still. If they adopt any improvement on comes from an outsider, not ; and, what is more discour- he police seem to have no ambition to ng to improve the police systems of ry. The criminal ciasses.are 200 years ad of the police in everyting indicative of cress. ‘The discoveries of science, the con- s. the triumphs of invention, the care- mercial dealings, are appreciated criminals, last by the police. The i forger knows everything about inks, z and lithozraphing: zbout chemicals and about checks, busine: forms and methods. Th 8 of the prop stands the tem ki -Heean tellsiive er is negotiable and d with the ini ie te is shut; ¥ explosi the I astudent » &killed in » metropolis to « a. what do th 1 professions ess which they indicate? rs and over the police | of the te rst att, or of the as been made to SUPPRESS THE SALE OF STOLL. = the pawabroking business. A army would hardly think of placing all his sentries iz dle of his Yet in each of ourei ne most illy- jons are the outskit EN GOODS ed to his care » prey : ull not enter on hi t I pme hres without ikely to h he will be ealled upon to stantiy oblized to de- law points that take in the commonwealth afterward. What pr men for this duty? None. pnsibiligies,the most perty, our’ lives, to the Vtrust to Inck for so much con- oy t lawyer ponths to wrangle We conti vital q hands of er fidence in the police of private watchmen to at mit them to do so, for we e permit, for instance, any kin sed by private detect | allow them to stence. And nowhere are there signs of Chicago enjoys one jot of progress—a wagon. Boston made a move in the zht direction some years azo, and organized a board of police con ‘ioners. But the infant Was soon throttled by teal influence, and is dead. “Philadelphia,” says her mayor in his annual message. “has the finest foree in the country.” and the torce must be excused when respectable citizens are clubbed, because it i only doze when the po! ot arduous labor. Is it man would club a re n snaps away to the h dying men. This is the police problem: this the picture be- fore us: Incompetence, ignorance, brutality and corruption. From whence tie deiiverance? It is idle to hope for. anytiing out of the regeneration of political parties. ‘That day is too far off. Policemen must and will remain the approximation prizes of political lot- teries. The power of tie po valuable to be surrendered L a menace or a reward it usually the extent of the ward-worker’s ambi- tion, and no political manager ever yet had the least intention of abandoning the ward-worker or his desires. Reiief from this quarter, the only quarter it can now come from, is impossi- ble. A Chinese wall of selfishness is in the way. Whence then the deliverance. the solution of the police problem? In my judgment from the editorial rooms of the great daily newspapers,in the formation and operation in every large hewspaper office of a BUREAU OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. It is not necessary to detail here the methods that would be employed inthe organization of the bureau; they would be understood only by Rewspaper men. Suilice it to say the bureau would be organized with a chief and the neces- sary number of assistants. All would be able, gentlemanly journalists, with some taste and decided abilities for their work. The first step to obtain the necessary powers would be swear- ing in the men us special officers with- out pay, which would give them the au- thority to make an arrest. The want of this authority has threatened the defeat of justice in dozens of instances. Mr. Joun Norris, of the Philadelpiia Record, when he had unearthed the bogus diploma doctor, Buchanan, was obliged to take an officer with 1 to Detroit, merely that the officer—otherwise of no earthly use—might make a legal arrest. The Boston Herald representative who captured Chastine, Cox followed that murderer half on Boston streets without nd was obiiged to leave Co r that the authority necessa: his apprehension might be summoned. ce is too great,too the politician. As sallcpotent. It is to cause But no one will dispute me that the power to arrest | ct. | hould be conferred lity to de secured for the members of the bureau y should by study and examination pre i notaries public or justices of the peace, and such laws should be passed as would confer on them not only the authcrity to take a sworn deposition, but in cases ot crime the power to compel one, as have the “judges of instruction” in France. On passing the examination pre- scribed for ad:nission to the bar, the bureau re- ters would receive a license—say yearly— m the state executive, which license should be indorsed by the executives of all states in which the reporter would be likely to go. This authority to take sworn depositions in murder and other cases, depositions taken before the witnesses to the crime had opportunity to confer with each each other; or read the morning papers and make ready a tale of deception and delusion, would prove of enormous, inestimable value to the machinery of American justice. It would increase the num- ber of pontaned cases at least thirty per cent, and it Is easily appreciable low much more val- uable would be the depositions taken by keen- eyed reporters, educated to the law and having professiona! pride to sharpen their wits, than unsworn statements obtained by uneducated policemen, whose first care is to ascertain the political and social affiliations of the accused. Also, how much clearer and Intelligent would be the reporter's testimony than is that of the liceman, who usually appears in court with a sergeant or lieutenant as his prompter and Additionally, the LS Sekai would be well read in criminal jurisprudence, qualified in local law, posted in the history ofcrime, and up in chemistry,mechantics, anatomy and the habits of the criminal classes. There would be no at- tempt to do a general police business,nor make an investigation of petty misdemeanors. But there ee most soereetic, determi: + | terror of the town: ew of all the | where a | in @ court of justice is ff of quite recent date. And every journalist is aware that ifa great crime is committed, eay at 6 p.m., the newspaper which closes its columns at 3 a.m. next day will, ninety times out of a hundred, contain more information concerning the affair when it reaches poiice headquarters at 7 a.m. than is known to the police at that hour. The late Henry Pawling Ross, president judge of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, had a mur- der case before him last year, and during the examination he threatened to commit two Private detectives—who had the case In charze —as accessories after the fact, because they re- fused to give information to the reporters. being” asked about the matter he said to me that reporters had come to be a fir more efficient agency in the detec- tion of crime than the police, and that be held it a principle of law that _no one should be lowed to place obstacles in the path of justice. SOME OF THE OBJECTIONS. Objections will at once be offered to my ideas. I shall be told that “the reporter, already a ne- | cessary nuisance, if given legal license in addi- | tion to that he now assumes, will ruin every | man in the community; that he will become the that all kinds of villainies | will be practised for the sake of sensations and in the contests of rivalry; that social blackmail zantic proportions will follow any such innovation.” Such objections are not tien. The commonest, most te reporter will compare favorably with nan, and in comparison with the reporter 13 a revelation ation. But the trusts of the Bureau of minal Investigation would be in the hands of ntlemen and the best reporters. Place one of beside any police commissioner or chief of he land and the newspaper man will | “double discount” the other in every quality that makes 2 useful citizen and a man. The in- j tecuracy of newspapers to-day in regard to cr’ the ave some o1 |eriminal matters is not the inaccuracy of | sta? editors, but of —_ inexperi- lenced reporters denied. official infor- | mation, or furnished by the police with false |news. “And all other objections to my ideas | will come from those who have something to | cover up, who fear publicity, who are afraid |to let the light of day full upon the shadowy | pages of their own etory. It iom that ‘has of facts, that never hindered the course of justice. is the only thing crime fears.” With- on, publicity in uncompleted police ases will generally interfere with police - tions as now conducted! But the fiercest light that beats upon a throne, if turned full upon any case of criminsl procedure properly con- ducted, will not cast so much as a shadow upon the path of justice. I defy proof, to the con- | trary. No one knows better than the journalist when to publish and when not to. Every d: some case of rascality is disclosed that was di covered, worked up and exposed by the n | paper. from the very columns of which the y | ice receive their first intimation of the *‘croo | edness.” ! As opposed to these empty and any ot | Jections are th at over-maiching advantages |that bureaus of criminal inyestization would | confer upon the community. They are many | and appreciable. ‘True and fall testimony con- jeisely given in court I have mentioned 5 of justice, would be Impos- What a tremendous step forward this | would be! If a criminal should succeed in | silencing a single bureau he wou! easmuch He could not silence ali the nd, even supposing every bureau w: i ld not be po. e some one had printed the [no reporter would dare accept a br bureau: | one else would get the news | ble, ti faate to freedom S ably closed to the eriminal. ¢ police | would be compelled to attend to their duties in | setisdefense. Politics could no longer interfere | to save the reputation of a villain and cheat the | prison of its due. Testimony would be freed from the handcutts of dishonesty, and would ap. eto what it onl be. The fai tion of criminals would be put a stop to. as every man's case would be impartially | presented. Noone would dare interfere, be- | cause he would read of it the next day. ‘The | cause of detection would be so materially ad- | vanced that puntshment forcrime would acquire a measure of certainty; and if punishment were a certainty er uld be lessened one-half. | The country : furnished with the best detective talent; not that routine intelli- gence thadnow goes there in the guise of a city 7, and who proceeds to worl out a solu- the old-established rules, but that talent brings enerzy. ability and common sense together to effect a result. The city vietims ot the criminal weuld more readiiy 29 their whole | duty when victimized, and more gencrously ad- of and order, for they could trust where now they fear. The publica- tion of criminal acts would be more accurate d less seasational, and the machinery to de- villainy now in existence would be trebled in efficiency, force and purpose. The newspa- per would realize more nearly a part of its mis- sion, and the cominunity would attain a more healthy. progressive grow = € ee # * * «© « «# the many of the mushroom in‘quities that stand between the people and the blessing of honest, respected law. I have advanced an idea that in some office like fhat of the New York Herald, where there is both courage and money, may be ded into a force tor the benefit of the people. Though I have presented the matter somewhat sketchily, it may perhaps be taken up, for it de- serves serious consideration, and I trust, at no distant day, bureaus of criminal investigation will be matters of American histor: Wituiam Ratston Baicn. ae ee Mind-render and Spiritualist. MR. CUMBERLAND MAKES A CALL ON MR. MANS- FIELD, THE MEDIUM. Areporter of the New York World called on | Mr. Stuart A. Cumberland, the mind-reader and exposer of spiritualism, and invited him to go with him to the residence of Mr. J. V. Mansfield, the spirit medium, at No. 100 West 5%th street. Mr. Cumberland assented. They did not an- nounce their names at the door. When they were admitted Mr. Cumberland began a con- versation with Mr. Mansield on spirit mediums and mind-readers in general. Mr. Mansileld offered to give a seance of an hour’s duration for 95. Mr. Cumberland offered to glve the medium $5 if any suecessfal results were attained and £2.50 in case the spirits were busy and could not appear. Mr. Mansfield was very angry at his price being questioned, and said that he did not think Mr. Cumberland was in the piss tor any good purpose. He then #lanced at his visitor's brown velvet jacket, and noting his decidedly English appearance, must have concluded that he was addressing Mr. Cum- berland, for he immediately broke out: “No, sit; I would not have you for any amount of money. You are here for a devilish purpose. You are here with some bad, wicked purpose. I know you, Mr. Cumberland, and mark me. you will be stripped of all your disguises before you leave New York. Now, sir, put that in your pipe and smoke it.’ “I have no pipe, Mr. Mansfield,” sald the Eng- lishman, ‘but I can offer you a cigarette.” “Sir,” continued the medium, “I wish to have nothing to do with you. Youare here, as I said before, on a devilish purpose, and I wish you good day.” “Good day, sir, good day. I hope when next we meet your anger will have cooled down,” said Mr. Cumberland, taking his English Derby from the table, and, with a low bow, leaving the rooms. ANOTHER MEDIUM CALLED ON. Mr. A. H. Phillips, anather expert spirit me- dium and mind-reader, was then called upon. He did not recognize Mr. Cumberland. The first experiment was a very interesting one. Mr. Phillips gave @ paper to a gentleman and told him to write down the name of one friend among eix fictitious names. The names were written down while Mr. Cumbérand and Mr. Phillips were out of the room and the paper was not examined by them on their return. There was no touching of hands or any physicat con- nection made. Mr. Phillips picked out the name and Mr. Cumberland failed. Mr. Phillips then defied Mr. Cumberiand to pick out one name on the paper. The Englishman said that the name wus known by facial expression of the subject and also by guess-worl very common names Faustalus, Hector, were then selected by the subj Phillipe and Mr. Cumberland both fal out the name Faustulus, theory and Mr. Philipe’s Is very evident The a 8 from one brain, where they are tated upon, to another. however, an | | er Ob- Then | T will not argue further nor touch on more of j 3 PERSONAL LiVES OF BULLS AND BEARS. The Late Bear Movement. “Gath” in Cincinnati Enquirer.| New York, November 23, 1892. The excitement on the New York stock mar- ket for the past two weeks is confined to that considerable yet hardly numerous element which gambles habitualiy, and which presents something to gamble with.) The excitement is something more than that whieh follows in Europe the breaking of some notorious gamb- ling bank, as at Monaco or Baden, by a little combination of chaps who have formed an auda- cious conspiracy, and supported it with an un- usual quantity of money. I do not venture the statement, but I have heard that even a faro bank at Saratoga was beaten by the players last year, and came out $9,000 short on the season. This information was not given to me by any of the gamblers, but came from one of the hotel men, who called my atteation to the sober, heavy faces of the proprietors, who were by no means as frisky as I had generally seen them at the close of a season. ‘There are in stocks, as in faro gambling, CONSTIVUTIONAL BEARS. A bear, I need hardly say, is a man who | looks at the blue side of lite, and bets that things are going to be worse than they noware; that prices will presently be lower; that the | stock in your pocket you will not be able to | sell a month or two from this time for what you can market it ror to-day in Wall street. There are men inthis city who have been years and years speculating in Wall street, yet hardly ever changed their bet that every thing would fall off in price; that nothing wouldo up; that there woula be a coming down, a liquidation, a day of vengeance, as they express it. Twas in the house of an accomplished man, whose only weakness is his business, two weeks ago. He isa broker on the board, but in other places has a fine mind and kind, rather lofty character. We had been talking with some gentlemen on various subjects, where he showed | unusually good sense till we came to speak of t nd power of V rbtitand Gould. My friend i: “f will make a wager that three years Vani bilt will have wasted hi enormous fortun We all smiled, knowing that the remark was mer iation from one of these constituti: s; aman who, however succe in Wall street, is out of his moral element there, and who does not like to see men prosper wi ve no refinement, nor o es in common with his ft. How do you venture to say that fortune as Vanderbilt's ean be lost?” inbling. That man ickel-Plate road a few da ago for . lifting the money out of his ent bonds to pay for it. If he will spend vili be pre- or him to week or You ne ying it up. Whee ‘aph bought the Atlantic and | there was hardly an iutery American Te y ward, and when 1 Union shows itself M nderbilt har Ws the weakness of tlie ather left him. His father left him the ad- ¢ to buy nothing outside of the state of New ‘ T old man had got into trouble by from the Lake Te railroad to | He said: Fi pur eye wi in the state of But the next thing | we find William Vanderbilt buying the Michigan | Central railroad ent at such an enormous | figure that he had to dispose of a great block of. his stock in the New York Central road. What has been the result? Is the Michigan Central | railroad such a superb property that it has been | his warrant to go into that state and | the responsibilities of unpopularit | legislation far from his les | After he gets the Michi, | into the rthwestern railroad. | he is going to be embroiled, | broker, “in a rate-cutting | anticipate, will break out the northwest, where the |which a railroad can be stupendous size of the crops invite com: t from half a dozen great competit | unwilling to tolerate rivalry, and managed by |men who acquire after a time the nature of these boss politicians that they will not brook advice nor a rival. The grain fields of the northwest,” continued the broker, “is really the principal object of railroad competition now. Minnesota turned the scale several years ago as the chief wheat-produeing state. The wheat beit is extending west of Minnesota and will presently cover most of Daketa, and the | Canadian regions adjacent are splendid for wheat besides. William Vanderbilt will have to take care of the Northwestern railroad; it a competitor over a part of the way in the waukee and St. Paul, and then to the west creat railroads like the Illinois Central, the Rock Island, ete., want to thrust their prongs | up into the Northwestern company’s territory. With grain coming down in price, and the | ers affected by the grain corners trying to hold their crops for better rates, there will pres- ently be adeficiency in the cargoes, and that will make these companies restive and they will be- gin to cut each other's throats.” AFTERTHOUGHTS. ‘What my friend the broker sald at that time made no impression on me until I had seen since the disorder come into Wall street, which has made Gould himself cry aloud like aboy at school being spanked, for the Secretary of the Treasury to come to his assistance, not with €5,000,000 or $7,000,000 a week. but with $25,000,000 or $30,- 000,900 at once. I*haye never seen a clearer in- stance of the superflucusness of newspaper pro- .perty to a speculator than here. 4% long as Mr. Gould was within his own personality we never knew how badly he was wounded, and he might have been bleeding almost to the death but no ‘one could see it. Now. witha daily newspaper, his wound flowed into its columns, which begin to groan when he is hurt. VAN A USED UP MAN. To resume about my friend, the broker. He said. ‘* Vanderbilt is beginning just at the wrong time upon a course of very extensive railroad acquisition and construction. Weare almost at the end of the necessity for more railroads. Though he is now attacking the Pennsylvania company in its own territory, and is not only connecting the New York Central with the Reading railroad system at very large expense over a rough and difficult country, so as to carry coal to the western states and Canada, but he is developing railroad lines across southern Penn- sylvania so as to make the Pennsylvania road come out of New England, where Vanderbilt was long supreme. Mr. Vanderbilt has also ac- quired the Canadian Southern road. He is be- Neved to be the chief owner of the Bee line, which connects the Lake Shore with Missouri. The policy he has begun is a draining one, and if we come to hard times while he is extending war, every east in these directions, even his fortune will be pushed to meet the claims: upon him, and he must inevitably be driven more and more into the street, and so, I say, I believe he will dribble away the great fortune now apparently safe in his hands.” -SKETCHES OF THE BEARS. Let us now take up for a moment some of the bears on Wallstreet. One oftheseis AddisonCam- mack. He Is tall, rudely put together, wooden- faced, southern man. He may have come from Maryland or some of the border southern states but he was long known in New Orleans, where certain of the family live. Cammack has in his countenance something of the old-style gamb- ler, solid, cold, yet affable, and alw: measur- ing you as you come along, to see if you mean business, and if so, he is ready for you. He came to New York with but little money, began were going to be ‘worse, that the bonds would fall, that disorder was natural. He was a democrat, and allowed his views about politics to into his views about stocks and securities. He made money. His home was the Fifth Avenue hotel for years, though I believe he lives at the Windsor now. The ser- liberally for what-he to a band of men called streaked with the good wine and brandy he has consumed. Travers has a touch of the aristo- cratin him. He was for several years in the brokers’ business with Leonard Jerome, and they have a kindred feeling about horses and sporting matters. Travers has humor, which Cammack has not. He is quaint, peculiar, in- domitable in his passion to make money, and is regarded as one of the stirring characters about town, Around these men assemble a rumber of the sporting characters of up-town, and take their points as to the future of the stock mar- ket. You see the MeCermacks, who were in- terested with Morrissey, join ‘the 23d street party often. OSRORN. Down town the broker who operates with this element is Charley Osborn, He is a large, heavy, fattish, black-eyed, voluptuous-iook- Ing man, with a smile on his face, yet a sharp, crafty look out of the eyes now and then, and he, between his love ot physical sports and a genius for making money in the street, has become one of the most successful men of his stamp, and is now worth more money than ever DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN LOUISVILLE. A Wealthy German Kills His Wifeand Cute Mis Own Throat The most horrible of all the long list of do- mestic tragedies in Kentucky, “the dark and bloody ground,” occurred In Louisville Wednes- day. On Saturday last an old and wealthy Ger- man named John Trinler, accompanied by his we, came to Louisville to attend to some legal matters, and took rooms with a family named Senning. For the past three years the couple had lived In Chicago, but were formerly resi Gents of New Alb river from Louisville. They appeared to live happily together, and not the slightest cause can be found for the bloody scene, The Trinlers occupied rooms on the third floor of Senning’s house, and Wednesday morning the family was startled by aloud noise and a woman's screams | for help. “Senning rushed up stairs, and went | to th proceeded. before, some putting it as Ingh as $5,000,000. His office isnot many : change, i the I pal erally siz places. ad front parts, and ge ant character of these curious of the brokers, he not for customers, but coes in for himseit. only b -He makes pools and’ combinations, takes in road men of a speculative turn, and | he is admirably adapted to plague any vested interest which he thinks the proper subject for him to make a raid upon. THE influence outside street. public occurren’ thropy, p have no hand in philan- ics, material operations. They are deeply enamored of just what they are doing— | n’s property or manage- | betting that some mai ment will come to grief. It might be supposed that people doing this kind of thing from the beginning of the year to the end would be mei- | ancholy subjects. These men manage, however, | to make themselyes believe that the institutions | and properties they are fighting are tyrannical the hands of men who an and the mass. They take a steem to themselves whe they see some property they have besiezed be- ginto show the signs of their shot upon its walls, Just as when a band of engi or sappers mark a gun silenced in some fortress, or see the mine sprung and the defenders blown | into the air. i iost of the elements in human nature com- | bine to make men bears rather than bulls. A bull is generally a man with a good. weak heart—a hopeful person, regarding is country and fellow-citizens in the best light, and he thinks that what they do. particularly with himas aleader, Is to be wise aad profitable. The bear is never troubled with the management of any property. He merely iooks on from across the street and at fellow yonder Is going | to fall dead in the cutter before he gets to the | next corner.” A few people hear the prophee and stop and see the man w Perhaps he gets to the next corner, but before they can say anything the habitual bear remarks: “He did it | to-day, but I week he falls into the gutter.” He then gives his reasons, Whether the ian falls into the gutter or not, he has got a certain black mark on him for been the ob prophecy. y ani she tells the ne the little boys around the ts twenty years about the man who was Goomed to fail into the gutter, and if ie ison the stage when the littl ch It they never quite t over the feelinz that there is something instrumentatities in I double my bet that before one and slander. It is as » but many are expert in it. n Jay Cooke was conducting the Northern Pacific railroad, which events have shown to be a goad thing, | though he was ruined in begin in this country for no othgr reason t ‘1 a greater name than they never risked any mone Whatever they advanecd on was a They alle rmine and break the con in Mr. Cooke, though they were on pe good relationa w . and he said to me one day, about 1872: of the most crael thins are’ being disseminated avout my enterprises that I have ever known in my life. They come from men who have been at iny table, and whom [have labored to conciliate when we were rela- tively small together. Ido not know what the source of these attacks is, unless some of iny friends are hated by some of their friends who have some mental control over them.” This was, perhaps, the true explanation. Many an enemy of a man only becomes so because ot some person that man goes with. eae eg eee Le ‘TERESA STURLA AGAIN IN COURT. Medical Testimony in Favor of the Insanity Theory. In the Sturla murder trial theeffect ofthe coldweather wasshownInadimin- nished attendance in the Criminal Court room. Teresa Sturla, the defendant, had fully regained the composure she exhibited at the opening of the trial, and, so far as appearance indicated, she had recovered from the effects of an attack of hysterio epilepsy. She had resumed her veil, and exposes but little of her face to the public gaze. It is not probable that arguments will be reached this week. Dr. Laguryo, who pursned his professional studies abroad, and has paid considerable attention to mental diseases, was catled, and in reply to Mr. Trude’s hypothetical question, said: **She was certainly suffering under mental derangement, and was irrespon- sible.” Dr. Brewer, the next expert witness tor the defense, has been connected with insane asylums at Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., and given especial study to insanity. “These epileptic fits,” he said, “are more than simple hys- teria. They give birth to tendencies to commit ‘They donot belong to general | | disorder and show die, | rsonally | Chicago yesterday | bath room, whence the ci | Ashe reached the door it sudgenty flew open, | | and Mrs. Trinler, with her threat cut from ear | to ear and a chustiy slash across her face, fell | nto his arms, with the blood tlowinz in tor- rents from her ands. Hastily laying her oa the floor, Senning attempted to euter jthe bath room, but the door was vio- | lently slammed in his fuee. Turaing, he started dowa the stairs for help, aud soon returned with two policemen. As the party entered the halla terrible crash was heard, and presently | the bloody body of the butchered woman came tumbling down the stairs. She had dragged herself tothe head of the flight and rolled down. After lying motionless a few moments up and waiked to the kitchen, where she m in. While the latt pired, | upst sly approached the b: j room, for th expected to find an armed and raving man But everything was still, and, pushing open the door, the r jlay before them. On the fh was a pool of | blood -two feet in diameter, and paper, bed clothes, and furniture were spattered with the fluid. Just inside the door lay the body of John Trinler, almost nude, covered with blocd and | perfectly. lifciess. rene of the tragedy Around him was another | poo! of blood larger than the first. His throat | | Was cut nearly in two, both Jagulars and his | wind pipe being en In his ‘clenched fst he he side ne. wildest terrible stru; reliable 5 learned that 1 worth ov had come to Louisville to orzani a nephew, who was a sort of finance proved unworthy of trust. and embarrassment was the result. posed to : led to the tragedy. ee Literature for Children. MANY OF THE CHILDT SHOWY COVERS. In the course of a lecture on Literature for Childhood at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Mr. Horace E. Scudder, of Cam- said that the “recognition of hood in past ages is nothing as compared with what we see during the present. Longfel- | low, Whittier, Lowell, Dickens, give children a great place in their productions. Many of the most noted artists have spent their genius in reproducing childhood in its most natural forms. Children were reckoned first amongthe dramatis persone in works of fiction by Goldsmith in the Vicar of Wakefleld. Since then they have as- sumed important characters in the broad field of ‘Hterature. Books of the Edgeworth school were among the first intended solely for children, | and they were much more for purposes of in- | struction and reproof than for any others. See now the prodigality of payer and binding that is | lavished upon the juveniles. See what a tast interest is Involved. It has become a distinct class of literature, grown up within the mem- ory of the present man. I fear that children are allowed to do too much reading of a sort which is unfitted for their expanding minds. gaudy books which now toss about on ounters of the bookstores—where will they year? There is too much trash. Selec- ise people is a safeguard against aim- less or vicious read at and best of literary work. I have great hh in noble literature when brought in con- ith the child's mind. But how can we is to read it to them yourselves. In the hadit of reading aloud is the power—too tine for analysis—of welding souls together. See also the trash, the feast of scraps, in which our young ones are drilled every day in the pablie schools; the miscellaneous readers con- taining third’ and fourth-class matter. Why could not the children be made familiar with the great writers, and lea prove wholesome pabulum? To children is largely owing the purity ot our literature of to- day as compared with that of our grandfataers. As the children once had nothing but the books of their elders to read, so do now the adults grow to enjoy that which is written for the children. Writers become aware of this new j and great audience. Most of the contributions td juvenile literature now, however, are mere trash. A great and common seed is that books abeut children must necessarily be for | children. Children have very little sentiment, and the more refined that sentiment is the more out of place is it in their literature. “Chil- dren’s Laments,” tales of wierdness or subtle sadness, are exceedingly objectionable. Another popular fallacy is that children must be coaxed | into the enjoyment of interesting facts by hay- ing them dressed up in flowery style: another is | that children like only to hear about children. All these things, and many more, tell us that we do not understand the little ones exactly yet. that which will ——— Political Matters. THE OFFICIAL VOTE OF NEW YORK. The New York state board of canvassers de- clare the result of the yote for governor at the | recent election as follows: Cleveland, 525,318; Felger, 342.464; Howe, 11,974; Hopkins, 25,780; blank and scattering, 3,555; total vote, 918,894. For lieutenant-governor, Hill, 534,636; Carpen- t Ind., directly across the | ng, which leads the child | ‘Tragedy on the Mimic Stage. AN AMATEUR ACTOR SHOT BY HIS BROTUER IT A PLAY IN A COUNTRY SCHOOL HOUSE. Two young men of Makanda, Ill, having formed a dramatic association for the amuse ment of themselves and friends, assembled im the school-house on Saturday evening to pro- doce a play written by ove of their namber, which was filled with blood curdling massacres. In the third act one highly virtuous young man was Intended to fall a victlin go the murderous passion of ad Joon Perl assumed the character first mentioned, his brother James personated th: conflict be- n the two Was Ve hence deep. While the excitement was at its height, James Perl drew one of revolvers which ornamented fis perso John. who, as iat do pire immediat “ dat his brother nin the play, was toex- s knew that the re- volver war loaded with bali cartridges, and .be- fore the performance John had called James’ attention to it. Jal ad promised to r ° the balls, but forgot todo so. He fired point lank at his brother, who fell with a bullet in his he A sorrowful scene ensued. The wounded boy remained wncor until he died, three hours later, the bi trated nis brain. An ingu Jury pronon: the death ac is 15 years old, older. ss Take Mrady at His Word, # if he does not get fe hers by . Give Mr. Brady a chance Let Mr. Brady talk: And give lita sentence enough, so he has a chance to tell it all. League. AYING RULES IDENT ELECTED, pall at Provi- the schedule series was pd from twelve to fourteen games, The ying rules were amended so that the pitcher's hand in delivering the ball must pass below the shoulder instead of the waist. made for the appointme pires at an annual salary of rules for their government w layers whose k, Pike, I pn, Crowle n, Nol eley, Brown and Caskins were reinstated to full membership. In the evening on A. G. Mills, of Chicago, Was elected president. New York and Phile adelph ing colors in t reed Up raze will name t directors. sss oe = The Mother Above the Queen. The kissing of his mother by President Gare field at the time of his inanguration had a fitting parallel in the motherly action ot Queen Victoria at the distribution of the Egyptiaa medals among the vietorsof Tel-cl-Kebir. The incident is thus describe ribbon striped yertic: and blue, bears her silver, with the folds of a ping from @ diadem over the back of the head. On the ob- verse of the medal is a sphinx, the emblem of | Exypt. When the smail contiugent of the naval je had gone b: and the turn of the army had_ come, Mr. Childers was the introdacer, while Sir Garnet Wolseley took up the task of handing the medals to her Majesty from a small table in front of the dais. Sir John Adye waa first to present himself. Q had affixed the medal th. wore the aniform of a cen ‘al, with th ribbon ot the Garter, heartily shook hands with the distinguished chiet of the staf, This act, accompanied with fitting congratufations, his Royal Highness repeated in several cases dure ‘als Willis and Sir By the first and second " pt, followed Sir John | Adye. Then came the Duke of Connaught; and. when he had stepped up to the dais and had saluted his royal mother in military form the aeen, in pinning thy forward and him. The mo- | ment must have been a proud and happy one on | either part: and asa tender ey i mony graciously formal in its general character, the action had a deep interest for all beholders.’ _ +o- Coburn, the Pugilist, Relensed. Joe. Coburn, the pngilist, was released from Sing Sing prison yesterday, A large number of his friends were there to escort him to New York city, where he had a reception last eve- ning. On March 6, 1877, he was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years for shooting and dangerously wounding Policemen Tobias and Jerfies in front of his saloon, October 11, 1876. Three and one-baif years commutation time for good behavior would bring his release next August, but the governor commuted the re- maining nine months. eee News Brie! S ne isto become editor of the Cornhill Magazine. An association. is being formed to operate zine works at St. Louis. Col John W. Porter, president of the lowa state agricultural society, died yesterdi The National bank of the state of New York, in New York city, has becun business as a state with a capital stock of 800,000, W. C. Candee, of Watertown, Y., the Hamilton college student who had his skull fractured while coasting, died yesterday. The construction of a railroad from the Mext- can line, through Lower California and Sonoro to Calabazas, in Arizona, was begun yester- day. company of tal $59,000, was Incorporated at Albany jester- ye Windsor avenue Co! ational church, of Hartford, Conn., has extended a pastoral call to Rey. Chas, E. Stowe, son of Prof. Calvin E. Stowe and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. At Makanda, Ili., Saturday evening, during crime, such as murder or arson.” Dr. H. M. EL man’s testimony was strongly in favor of the in- sanity plea. ‘It would be very remarkable,” he | ter, 887,855; Allen. 11,794; Boole, 27,158; blank’ and scattering, 4,318; i Fe Congressman-at-large, the performance of a play by a party of boys, James Perl, on® of the performers, azed 15, ace cidentally shot and mortaliy wounded his said, “if with her nervous temperament, and ill- treated as she was, that she should still be A NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION | brother Joh aged 18. James Leonard, of Astoria, N. Y., has been arrested onthe charge of killing his wife. The sane.” Mrs. W. P. Black, wife of the late dem- ocratic condidate for Congress in the 3.1 dis- In the case of the United States against Op» neighbors heard sounds of a fight in the house trict, took the stand. She had called frequently at the jail to see defendant, and there had been no soirees there to her knowledge. The de- meanor of the defendant had always been mod- est. Her interest, and that of other ladies, had been roused by the sorrowful history of Teresa. ‘Are you the lady,” asked Mr. Trude, “who de- sires to take cliarge of the future of this defend- ant?” Mr. Mills objected, and the question was not answered, . Some important testimony for the defense was received trom Frank Harvey and from Georgia Taylor, a colored “domestic of Mrs. Harvey's. ; | terminat ‘Then Mrs. Sybil Catherine Stiles, mother of the | ¥28 instituted in the superior court at Wilming- « murdered harlie Stiles, was’ placed on the | stand by Mr. Mills in rebuttal. She told the story of the death of her husband, Charles’ father. It was her desire to impress upon the jury that there was no coldness on_her part ae Mr. Stiles. The case forthe defense is clos —_-e-____ The Philadelphia Ghouls, ACTJON OF THE COLORED PEOPLE IN REGARD TO THE OUTRAGE. An indignation meeting of the colored people of Philadelphia was held yesterday with regard to the grave robbing exposure. Addresses were delivered by prominent colored men. A resolu- tion was adopted tendering heartfelt thanks to the proprietors of the Press, Mr. Louis F. gargee, the city editor of that paper, and all penhelmer, Pittman and White, one of the Hall« | fax, N.C., election cases, the evidence for the | government was so insufficient that the district attorney withdrew the case and the matter drops, | the defendants being released. THE ALABAMA CONGRESSIONAL VACANCY. General Joseph Wheeler was yesterday nom- inated by the democrats of the Eighth Alabama district to fill the vacancy in the Forty-seventh Congress caused by the death of Mr. Lowe. THE LYNCH-MARTIN SHERIFFALTY CONTEST ton, Del. yesterday by a quo warranto applica- tion, The rule was made returnable on Mon- day next. Martin holds the office by a returned votes ca-t for Martin were illegal. ANNE ARUNDEL, MD., ELECTION CASES. United States Commissioner Bond partly dail tor interfering with W. F. Petherbridge, supervisor of elections in the eighth district, Anne Arundel county, at the November elec- tion. The lights were put out while the bal- lots were beitig counted, but were relighted in aminute afterwards. Mr. Petherbridge said he others connected with arrest and imprisonment of the grave robbers. When a trustee of Leba- non cemetery, named Barton, appeared on the platform there was great excitement. razors and revolvers were drawn. Nearly everybody arose, and shouts for ve were mingled with calls for pedce by Campbell and other clergymen. The makers were succesefal, but the meeting once adjourned after the announcement subscriptions to would office. mecelven at ne 9) Lebanon cemetery one-half of them the taken. The health d i g i efit z A ; iu E i on Tnesday-night, aud she was found dead on the floor nextanorning, The New York senate finance committee, which, is investigating Castle Garden ailaira, met again yesterday. Anemploye of the rail- road companies testified that during the past eleven months €200,4%4.54 lad been divided among the New York Central. Erie and Penn- eylvania railroads from the sale of emigrant passenger tickets. The fourth game of chess in the second series between the champion Steinitz and D. M. Mar. tinez was played in Philadelphia yesterday, and in a draw. Fifty thousand dollars was appropriated yes- terday for a soldiers’ monument by the citizens of New Haven, Conn., in town meeting. Ata meeting of the New York Chamber of | majority of nine. Lynch claims that 85 of the | Commerce yesterday the executive committee Hepburn for reported the name of A.B. asserts that the go’ 1876-7, paid his attentions to Miss Mary Burlin- game, a young lady ot Holl Patent, a little rr enek tem afte now will become