The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD eee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, puhlihed every Threw cent i day ta the year, Y r yeur. or at than six mo edition includ WEEKLY or your, free of post Lag its on New md the money ina remitted nt risk of se In order to insure atten: abscribers wishing th changed mast give tus well ax their jiness. news letter New York Hana nd packages should he properly sealed. Rejected communications wil 6 returned. despatches must 2 SOUTH SIXTH y YORK HERALD— | BOOTH’S THEATRE. STANDARD TH FIPTIL AVED Van Wiveie, Worp ix Ercuty Days. NEW YORK AQt GLOBE THEATR: GRAND OPE PARK THEAT GERMANIA THEATRE: LYCEUM THEATRE THEATRE COMIQUE—L ABERLE’S AMERICAN The probabilities ave that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cool and fair, with occasional light snows. To-morrow it will be cool and clear or fair. Yr: WALL SPREE —the stock mar ket was active 1 generally better. Gold sold at 100 a 100 3-64 all day. Govern- ment bonds were firm and State and railroad bonds strong. Money on call lent as low as 31) ut, closing at 41g a 5 percent. and up to 6 p of the decline in the price of coal yesterday. One MILLION AND A QuArreR to the four per cent Joan yesterday. Now is the time to sub- scribe. Wen Vir mouth the wise poli tle as soon as possi G osit meets her creditors next for her is to agree to set- NERAL Ew1nG has pooled all the silver prop- ns in one grand bill. The next best thing do is to let it die a natural death on the Speuker’s tab’ Tne Amuerst CotteGe Facurry who have suspended the editors of the college journal be- euuse of its strictures upon them do not evi- dently believe in the freedom of the press. Untess Tur Tornacco Tax is reduced’ the leading manufacturers declare that that branch ot business will be legislated out of existence. ‘This is a bad outlook for the lovers of the weed. | in three months, during which the line has ‘Taere Is at Least one point upon which the republican and democratic Senators appear to be entirely unanimous—namely, in declining to serve on the Blaine Committee. Why not let Mr. Blaine have it all to himself? Proressor Apter’s recent assertion that Judaism is on the decline has, it will be seen by a reference to another page, called out a pretty loud protest from the leading rabbies, and it must be said that they have the best of the ar- gument. Covyry CLerk Guspreron still holds the fort and the books against the committee of the Bar Association. According to the defence, the committee having no interests, has, under the } statute of 1847, no rights which the County Clerk is bound to respe Rep Leary will be produced in eourt to-day upon a writ of habeas corpus, but it is hardly probable that his rescue will be attempted. By direction of the Judge he willbe accompanied by a sheriff's posse, with orders to shoot those who attempt to interfere with the execution of the law. teresting yesterday. In the Senate a bill to amend the Patent statutes was discussed and the posse comitatus clause of the Army bill so amended as not to include the por country in which the Indians scalp and the In- dian nts steal, The House was fly oceu- pied in the consideration of the Indian Appro- priation bill, in the course of which a member elegantly and eloquently remarked that the present Indian Commissioners “knew ne more of Indian affairs than a hog did of cholera.” ions of the | | Tae Wearner.—The low area referred to in yesterday's Henatp as being over the lake re gion has moved rapidly, with falling barometer, to the North New England and Nova Seotia coasts. The precipitation attentling it in the form of light snow did not extend further than the Middle Atlantic coast, consequently the dis- tarbance was a dry one when it entered the At- lantic. It is probable, however, th: eastward to the northern Stream its ene will raj that over the v« it will develop into a storm of some force. ‘The pressure is decreasing briskly in the Southwest, where the New Mexico disturbance is presenting its eastern isobars, In the Northwest and ever the Southern States, from Indian 1 ory eastward, the barometer is high, but we anticipate a m. of the area of high pressure in the latter region @nring to-day and to-morrow. The weather eon- tinues cold in the West, Northwest and North, we well as in the region of the Mississippi | and between the lakes and On the coast it has risen slightly. Although the temper. ature will continue low it will not be unseasous | ably cold, Our specialcable weather reports from England state that Jast evening at S wind was strong from the northwest, bare 20.30 inches; St. Cath 's Point, moderate northwest wind, inches, thermom gentic west northwest w with rain, weather and a pressure of 20.28 inches; Holy- head, a fresh gale from the northwest, barom- eter 20.135 inches. The centre of the disturb- ance ison or near the herlands coast. In New York and its vicinity today the weather | will be coul and fair, possibly with occasional sit moves n of the Gulf | inerease, and | ed diminution minessee, | working girls who now derive no advantage | may properly be asked of the rapid transit | the structures. The recent accident {at Rector street and the stoppage of trains between stations shows the : | abling passengers to leave the cars on such To-morrow it will be cool ess | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET, ae Some Suggestions for Rapid Transit. Long before the construetion of the Sixth avenue and Third avenue elevated railroads had become a certainty the Heraip strove to convince capitalists that rapid transit in New York could not fail to yield large profits to the investors. People are nat- urally careful when investing their own money, and our arguments and figures were received with hesitation. Even the gentlemen who enlisted in the Metropoli- tan Railway enterprise failed to appreciate the real value of the undertaking and the immediate success it would reach They did not anticipate that the road would carry more than seven million passengers in the first six months of its operation to Fifty- eighth street. Neither did the projectors of the Third avenue or east side branch of the New York Elevated road suppose that been open a portion of the time only to Fort, ond street and the remainder to Fifty-ninth street, the travel would reach nearly four millions, While these results have more than justified our predictions as to the pecuniary success of rapid transit they have found the companies overpowered by the unexpectedly large business apd puzzled how to extend their accommoda- tions sufficiently to meet the public wants and expectations. Yet it may be said that the demand on the facilities of the elevated roads has only com- menced. The bulk of the through travel is at present shut out from the use of rapid transit through being unable to pay two fares; that is tosay, the elevated railroad fare to Fifty-ninth or Sixty-seventh street and the horse car fare for the remainder of the distance home. This is especially the case on the east side or Third avenue line. When the New York elevated trains run to Harlem Bridge and the Metropolitan trains to High Bridge the travel on both sides will be nearly or quite doubled. This is shown by the fact that the operation of the sections of both roads now completed makes but a trifling difference in the travel on the two street railroads following the same routes, The number of passengers carried on the Sixth avenue horse cars was in 1877 17,000,000, and in 1878, with six months of competing rapid tran- sit, 16,400,000—a falling off of only 600,000 in the six months. On the Third avenue surface line there were 30,700,000 passengers carried last year and 30,400,000 this year, with about three months of steam competition—a decrease of 300,000. It is fair to estimate that fifty per cent of the travel on both these street railroads is through travel, the greater por- tion of which would have sought the ele- vated roads if they had been completed to the Harlem River. The question is, How can the two elevated lines accommodate twice their present travel, and by what means can their facilities be increased? The pressure comes mainly in the “cheap” hours, especially between five and seven P. M. This is caused by a rush for the trains, which crowds about three hours’ travel into two. Hundreds who could leave for home at half-past four, or could delay until half-past seven or eight, now wait till five o'clock, or hurry away before seven in order to ride for five cents. It is evident that if the fare was five cents at all hours the pressure between five and seven o'clock would be greatly relieved. We believe that this re- duction could be made with actual profit to the roads. ‘The statistics of the Metropolitan Railway show that the pas- sengers carried during the four hours of five-cent fare average 4,821 per hour, while those carried during fourteen and a half hours of ten-cent fare average 2,026 per hour. That is to say, the travel at five cents fare is more than double that at ten cents. The elevated roads, run at five cents, would draw largely upon the horse car travel. We have no doubt that one-half the passengers carried by the Third avenue horse cars since September 28 would have sought the elovated road had the fares been the same. The reduction of the fare to five centg would, therefore, we believe, increase the profits of the company, while relieving a pressure during two honrs of the morning and two hours of the evening, which is in- convenient and dangerous enough to drive a large nomber of passengers, especially females, tothe horse car lines. With this reduction, and with way-station special traims provided through the means of ie and sidings and started down town and mp town in the busy morning and even- ing hours, the travel on the whole line would be equalized, and hazardous crowding and annoying delays would be avoided. Should the companies hesitate to adopt the low fare pol- icy then the five-cent hours should certainly be extended until half-past eight o'clock in the morning and eight in the evening. This wonld benetit clerks and from the reduction in the morning hours, which are too early for them, and would serve to test the soundness of our argument in favor of a uniform five cent rate. The reduction of the fare is not all that companies, whose large profits are no | longer problematical. Both corporations have displayed ® commendable energy and an honest desire to meet the public needs, and if shortcomings aro found on either side they may be attributed to an underestimating of the extent of the busi- news of the roads rather than toa lack of enterprise and liberality in the manage. ment, canse they can be easier and better made before than atter the final completion of necessity of supplying some means of en- We suggest improvements now be- | | ace occasions, both to avert accidents and to prevent annoying detention. A very sim- ple expedient suggests itself:-A narrow plank sidewalk, protected by an iron rail- ing, might be easily and cheaply laid on the outer side of each track, by which the passengers could reach the stations in the event of a stoppage of the trains. On the Third avenue line the Forty-second street depot trains should be discontinued, and a movable platform or side cars should be provided to transfer passengers from the iain line to the depot. Separate waiting rooms for ladies and gen- tlemen should be supplied at the depots of that line, as on the Sixth avenue road. These are most desirable aceommodations of which the public should not be deprived. All stairways leading to stations should be rooted, and the roofs sbould be so far extended over the sides and so shaped as to prevent the rain and snow from beating in, as they do on the otherwise excellent Sixth avenue stairways. provements and the speedy completion of the upper sections of both roads and of the Chatham square and City Hall branch of the Third avenue line, the people will have cause to be well satisfied with the present elevated railway companies. Indeed, the popular- ity rapid transit has already acquired is well illustrated by the desire of the Third Avenue Horse Car Company to be allowed to use steam on their surface road, when only a few months ago that public spirited corporation was deeply moved by the ap- prehension that locomotives, even on the elevated roads, would frighten horses, risk the loss of human life, destroy the value of property and bring many other deplorable evils on the city. ~ Naturalized Germans. Baumer’s case, which was the subject of a correspondence between our government and the Berlin government, exhibits strik- ingly the groundlesaness of the clamor against the Bancroft Treaty. Baumer was not expelled from Germany, and he left the country before the expiration of the period beyond which he had been informed the German government would not respect his American citizenship. But if, in fact, the man left Germany, therefore, without ex- pulsion, was he induced to take that course by the annoyances the German authorities had caused him, and by his apprehension that they might not themselves observe ac- curately the date of the warning given him? If he was that was an evil and a just ground of complaint between the governments, but not fairly a reproach to the treaty. But in the answer of the German government to our reclama- tion a statement is made incidentally which exhibits the real difficulty to be, as we have hitherto pointed out, that the Ger- man government has experience that our citizenship is obtained and used not simply to protect our citizens, but to protect resi- dents of Germany from the regular opera- tion of the German laws. Liberal as we are in thiscountry on points of this nature, we would not permit men to evade the operation of laws that imposed an onerous duty on their pretext of a foreign citizen- ship. If even the pretext was covered by regular documents, if it covered a fraudu- lent intention it would not be re- spected, Can we expect, then, that American citizenship, made this sort of convenience and placed between German citizens and their own government, shall be highly re- spected by that government? Citizenship is given to emigrants who come to make this country their home. It is meant to give political rights and political equality here to the sturdy Germans or others who come to this country. If there isa class of men resident in Germany who speculate on this privilege and obtain this citizenship— not that they want to live in this country and enjoy their rights, but because they want to keep out of the German conscrip- tion—we cannot go far in assisting them in such trickery. They not only cheat their own country—they also insult ours, Bishop Scarborough “On the Steps of the Throne.” A very weighty item of information reaches us through the active and well-in- formed London correspondent of the Liver- pool Post, a gentleman who has frequently surprised the metropolitan press by his in- fimate knowledge of what was going on at St. Stephen’s and at Downing street. It is all the more interesting because one of our neighbors—we had almost said our countrymen—the accomplished Epis- copal Bishop of New Jersey, is seen play- ing a leading part in one of those ante- chamber revolutions which are often disclosed only by the publication of secret memoirs long after all the actors therein have passed over to the majority. The British con- stitution, which is well known to be the axis around which the political world at Westminster revolves, is absolutely silent about the rights of Her Majesty's liege sub- jects to sit on the steps of the throne in the House of Lords. The occupancy of the throne itself has been the cause of a good deal of shedding of blood and of ink in times past, but it does not seem that the right to sit on the steps thercof has ever re- ceived that profound investigation to which so weighty a problem is entitled. While every police magistrate in the United King- dom would hold himself entitled both by common law and by statute to de- termine what persons may lawfully swing on the gate of Kensington Pal- or be trusted with a night-key to the Tower of London, it is now fonnd, to the dismay of the high official who for the moment is acting as provisioual vice deputy third assistant under guardian to the august throne of Britain's majesty—the very palladium, as it were, of insular liber. ties—that he has no power to prevent the oc- cupancy of the approaches to the hub of the universe by any casual Privy Councillor who may drop in to amuse himself while munching his bread and cheese by listening to the debates on the second reading of an “Act to amend an act for granting a charter to the European, Asiatic and North American Muffin and ‘Taffy Company, limited.” On Thursday, the 5th of Decem- ber, A, D. 1878, at precisely ten minutes to five P. M., a stern and resolute band of patriots, headed by Sir Charles Whetham, the Lord Mayor of London, might have been seen boldly climbing over the garden fence, entering Westminster Hall by the back door, without so much as an “open sesame!” and ranging themselves on the steps of the throne, ‘They had not long to wait, At five minutes to five an official, calling himself a superintendent, ‘came and ruth- lessly ordered them out.” They apparently obeved. but went out at one door and came With these im- | in at another, while the Lord Mayor sternly asserted his right to such seat asa Privy Councillor for the year, and the craven Lord Chamberlain durst not refuse. The prece- dent was established. The next night, Friday, December 6, Bishop Scarborough, of New Jersey, had a seat ‘‘on the steps of the throne” and condescendingly “held long conversations with the Bishop of Pe- terborough and others of the bishops.” OU tempova! O mores! Tf such things are done in the green tree what will be done in the dry? If such honors are within the grasp of asimple New Jersey prelate what seat would they not proffer to one of the sovereigns of the United States—to a Foley, a Schell or a Talmage? An Appeal to the Herald, We printed the following communication yesterday, and give it a more prominent insertion now, becanse it is a4convenient text for a few remarks whliiel the recent strike and its failure scom to fastity:— New Yous, Dec. 17, 1878, To rae Eprior ov THe Henaty Believing that you sre and always have been in sympathy with the working clussex, and especially With those who are willing to work for a moderate compensation and who desire only a mere sub- sistence in these times of depression, I confidently appeal to you to use your powerful influence in be- half of thé car drivers of the Third Avenue Railroad, ‘These poor men, many of whom have families, find it impossible to support themselves aud thoxe dependent upon them on the wages proposed by that company, and theretore I conclude, and I think every humane and just man will ith me, that this strike on the part of the driv vast justifiable, Iknow it is not within the scope of your power to directly compel that company to do better for their men, but [have not the least doubt that you could, if you see fit, indirectly compel them, by suggesting to the public, who largely syinputhize with these poor men, to travel by other lines until this domi- nant railroad shall have yielded to just demands. P. McCARTNEY, 26 Beach street. ‘The writer is not in error in thinking that the Henaxp takes a deep interest in the wel- fare of the working classes. It has always felt such interest and has never doubted that on this subject it reflected the senti- ments of the community, of which the laboring classes form, indeed, a large ma- jority. Whenever any body ®f laborers has made a demonstration against their employers the Heratp has afforded them prompt facilities for stating their case to the public from their own point of view; reporting their meetings, printing their letters, interviewing their leaders, giving them ample opportunities to make their grievances known, and offering no comments which were not inspired by kindness. This uniform fairness entitles us to speak with the sincerity of honest friendship and point out errors when errors have been committed, There can be no question that an unsuc- cessful strike is always a blunder. Mod- erate wages are better than none, and la- borers who have families should think the matter over very carefully before engaging in a strike at a time when the city is ful! of people vainly seeking for employment, and at a season of the year when it would be a bitter calamity to be desti- tute of food and fuel and to run the risk of being turned into the street for non- payment of rent. It is always a hazardous thing for unskilled laborers to strike, be- cause their places are so easily filled. A strike of mechanics has better chances, but the drivers or conductors of street cars give place to successors who can perform their duties without previous training. It is of little use to present this consideration at the beginning of o strike or during its progress, and it is so sure to occur to the participants in an unsuccessful strike as an afterthought, without anybody's suggestion, that we seldom argue against strikes, even when we think them ill judged. It must now be apparent to the Third avenue strikers that it would have been cheaper for them to have made contributions for the relief of the discharged drivers than to have put it out of their power to help either them or themselves. We sincerely commiserate the hard condition of the laboring poor, and the best advice we can give them is to cling to the scanty wages they receive and look forward to better times. Business is likely to revive next year, and as soon as there is a brisk demand for labor the working classes will not be so helplessly dependent. There is one point on which it is our duty to be entirely explicit. Neither the Heravp nor the community can bestow its sympathy on any ono class of laborers to the exclusion of others who are enduring equal or greater hardships. Ifthe car drivers refase to work they cannot be per- mitted to force idleness upon others. It is their right to starve, ifthey choose, but they must not force others to starve. Nor can they be allowed to resort to violence against the property of their employers and the convenience of the public, he strong arm of the law will always be successfully invoked, with the approbation of the com- munity, for the protection of every man’s right to labor who chooses to Inbor, and every man’s right to accept any wages, how- ever scanty, which he may prefer to idle- ness and starvation. The suppression of violence against persons or property and the maintenance of the equal rights of all laborers to work or abstain from work, as they sce fit, is the clear duty of the public authorities, Baking Powders. Recently there has been a constant pur- suit by some good people of the excellent purpose of exposing adulterations in baking powders. ‘Lhe ery began with a chemist in the service of the United States govern- ment, and has finally reached our Board of Health. ‘Alum in the bread” is an old cry, One of the famous rules for the govern- ment of the royal household in England under Henry VIIL was, ‘the baker shall put no alum in the bread ;” and that, in the year 1878, there should be a lively chorus of protest on the same subject is a fact which plainly shows that there is no progress in the vilianies of adulteration, But there is at least o difference ; and the insubstantial point in the present onslaught against adulterated baking powders is that the evil alleged to result is not shown from any cases of the use of these powders, but from examples of tho way alum was formerly employed in England in the adulteration of bread, which is os if one should illustrate the case of a mackerel by citing the case of a porpoise. It is said, for instance, that forty grains of alum have been found ina four-pound loaf, but the whole weight of the powders used as lvavan ia not in that remppor | 5 : oe, ! Proportion, so that.that-is not aft ig evil. Perhaps baking powders adglteyaged with alum, dp same, haxin,: but we, gonbt if they do more harm than other powders not so adulterated. If even a small quantity of alum should be regularly found in an article of such constant use as bread it might in- jure people, but there are doubts onall these points ; donbts that it gets into the bread and doubts if it would be harmful if it did. _People do not make bread with baking powder, They use yeast for that and keep the powders for the hasty, hot, horrible bis- cuit of the breakfast table. Now, it is these hot biscuit that give people dyspepsia, not the little alum that may get in them. We have no doubt that a moderate course of alum would do more good than harm to the flaccid systems of humanity in general. In fact, the people take it far more largely in certain popular remedies than they do even in their biscuit, and fancy in some places that they cannot live without it, In the days when diphtheria was not known by that learned name, but was treated by the people with that, popular remedy, con- stant gargles of alum water, it had fewer victims than it has now. Another Molly Hanged. Jack Kehoe, the last of the condemned Molly Maguires, suffered death yesterday on the gallows at Pottsville, Pa., for a crime comuitted in 1862. Langdon, the victim, was a breaker boss in the Honey Brook Col- liery, Carbon county. He was unpopular among the miners because of his method of enforcing discipline, A quarrel occurred ata meeting held to arrange a Fourth of July celebration, during which Kehoe made him- self conspicuous and uttered threats against Langdon. Soon after that Langdon was tercibly beaten by a gang of disguised men, and died of his wounds two days after. Kehoe met his doom protesting his inno- cence of the murder of Langdon, though the denial was not of a char- acter to carry conviction with it, for it has been long believed that he was cognizant of the crime and either participated in it or instigated it. ‘The long delay in the legal proceedings afforded the condemned all possible oppor- tunity to clear himself if that had been possible, but on every appeal the sentence was reaffirmed, the Court of Pardons de- clining to reopen the case, as the evidence did not warrant such action. Of course there will be many of Kehoe’s associates who will hold the belief that Kehoe was innocent, but to all impartial men the de- cisions of the Court will point to a difier- ent conclusion. The terrorism inaugurated by the ‘‘Mollies” was of such o character that the sternest measures were - neces- sary to stamp it out; and now that the long list of executions are at an end (for-there is little probability that Bergin ‘nee will be hanged) it is to .be hoped that the | miners will see the.danger of taking the law into theirown hands. These murders and attendant executions ought also to teach mining bosses more discretion in the exercise of their authority and to seek to rule the men under their control with forbear- ance and moderation. The Opposition in France, One of the great difficulties of that congeries of factions which in France op- poses the Republic is to geta collective name that shall be satisfactory to the factions themselves, that shall not offend public susceptibilities, and that shall judiciously. conceal the real political purposes of the party by a thin veil of amiable or virtuous pretence. M. Dufaure pointed out the great need of this important element of popular politics when he designated these factions acting together as ‘‘le parli sans nom’—the indescribables, Until that time the want had not been felt, but it was felt the moment the word was spoken, and that it was felt so promptly showed that a change had come about in French politics ap- parent to all, yet not recognized in the current speech. Before that there were Bonapartists, clericals, Chambordists and Orleanists, and these were classed together as reactionaries. But that was a term of reproach and not a party name. It had not. occurred to anybody that these elements, so hostile among themselves for many years, should ever be forced into such a unity by their common fear of the Republic that they would need to be known by any other collective designation than such as were applied in an opprobrious spirit by speakers who did not admire them. But the time has come, and the name will come, too, out of some happy accilent of debate or some folly of their conduct, for most party names, from tory and locofoco to jingo, are nicknames at first. It is a piece of progress in France to find the hostile elements thus coalescing into a single compact opposition, for a good opposition is what will insure the Republic its final triumph. Back Country Manners, There is a peculiar style of manners, not wholly independent of revolvers, shotguns and other highly finished provocatives of obituary notices, which is by common con- sent conceded only to the residents of the far West. When a romancer would write a story of sanguinary personal disagreement he locates his scene somewhere between the Missouri River on the cast and the Sierra Nevadas on the west, while tho gentle idealists who indite “Pike” poetry never allow their muse to rest and make herself at home anywhere on this side of astern Kansas. Occasionally, however, an emu- lous cry comes up from some older neigh- borhood, which seems unable to endure the thought of the West monopolizing all the poesy and passion of America, Such a pro- test, mute but powerful, went up from Southern Indiana a month or two ago, where several negroes were lynched on suspicion of a crime of which at least one of them was afterward proved guilt- less. ‘The Rogers-Caywood affair, re- ported from ‘ennessee, and the latest sweet thing from Breathitt county, Ky., are illustrations to the point, and older cases of similar, nature wire been numerous enough east of the Mississippi during, the past few years to assnre missioparios, sheriffs and hangmen of plenty of business, for many years to come, It is only nede sary to find a “back country’ —o neighbor- fF ele aes hood remote from railroad and telegraph, off the’road to anywhere, nearly destitute of schools and entirely without churches— to find a set of men and women as lawless and violent as any that have appeared in the pages of Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller. Such people may be found in “sets” within a hundred miles of almost every city in the Union ; indeed, they are numerous in the cities themselves, and the most elegant capitals of Europe have even more of them than we. The ‘‘Pike” is not exclusively Western ; he is the universal, unrestrained, gushing child of nature. Model Tenement Houses. Prizes aggregating tive hundred dollars have just been offered for the best designs for tenement houses that can be erected on asingle city lot, healthfulness, convenience, seclusion and security against fire being among the puints to which special attention is to be given, Humanity and business shrewdness combine in such an offer, and itis to be hoped that the landlords and tenants of the new buildings will have frequent cause to bless the designers. But competi« tion should not bo restricted to buildings of the size indicated. Some unlighted, un- ventilated rooms, such as are peculiar to pearly every tenement house and set of flats in the city, are inevitable in narrow buildings which are to yield a good return upon their cost. The model tenement, both for owner and occu- pant, should take air and light from all sides. In the older portions of the city it is impossible to get lots large and cheap enough for such buildings, but the exten- sion of the elevated railways brings into market, and within half an hour of almost every part of the city, a large quantity of vacant ground which can be had at modere ate prices, It is in such localities that per- fect tenements, if they are ever to be built, will exist, and at present they can be erected there so as to afford a handsome profit, and yet be healthier, more conven- ient homes than can possibly exist down town, except, perhaps, in corner houses, The first builder who has enterprise and skill enough to cover a square with de« tached tenements, almost anywhere bee tween Central Park and either river, will suddenly find himself the most popular landlord in the city. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hayes is @ Grant man. Levy is the horny-handed. General Robert Toombs is in Washington. ‘Thomas Carlyle is eighty-three and in good health Why is it that when a sheriff swears he says, “Ob, hang it?” ‘The Yonkers Gazelle says that angels are the mounted police of Paradise. George Eliot will edit the works of her late hus~ band, George Henry Lewes. Indorsements nowadays are a good deal like the notches on Robinson Crusoe’s post. , The Oil-City Derrick believes that Dr. Mary Walker’a favorite song is, “I would I were a boy again.” Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., will spend two years in Paris and will write a treatise on international law. Albany Journal:—“Dion Boucicault is building a yacht to cost $60,000, He expects it will have a great run, All rights reserved."”” Dr. John Henry Newman will issue a new yolume of his ‘Apolagia,” containing his correspondence with Archbishop Whateley. A Cincinnati porkpacker who has become very wealthy has put a motto on the panel of his carriages It is, “In hog signo vinees,” “A new song should be written in sympathy with ‘The Heart Cowed Down.’ "’—New Orleans Picayune, Also one on ‘The Cart Hard Down.” ¥ Mr, Charles Francis Adams has bought lots at Kan- sa8 City, Mo., worth $40,000, and will build on'them a cotton mill.and cottages for workmen, Danbnry News:—“A Norwalk mother gave het daughter ablack cye because she would not wash This is one of the effects of a strictly Mme. H. P. Blavatsky, Colonel H. S. Oleott and one other member of the Theosophical Socicty sailed yes« terday on the steamship Canada for Liverpool,@ route for Bombay. There is # bill before the South Carolina Legislae ture providing that the cost of food for a prisoner shall no longer be thirty cents a day, but that it shall be twenty cents. Congressman Williams’ condition showed little if any improvement ata late hour last night. and his physicians were not prepared to say that there is any hope whatever for his recovery, ‘Theodore Thomas, the musical chancellor of Cm. cinnati, was looking at a dog that was chasing a pig the other day, and he remarked that in a few minutes: the dog would have a good ear for music. New Haven Register:—“The Heraup P. 1. is enjoys ing itself by poking fun at English attempts at wit, What the English newspapers think of the P. L.'s wit would be interesting in this connection.” A Hartford woman, who has fed from five to 4 dozen tramps weekly for months past, recently had @ ton of coal dumped in her front yard, and since thas not a single vagrant has appeared for a meal. Joaquin Miller's former wife has separated from her second husband. The lady is evidently very crazy. Joaquin's daughter Maud, who is about fit- rs old, is with her mother from choice. They have gone from Oregon to San Francisco. A young lady who recently called upon the editor of a weekly story paper with a serial was asked whether she had ever had any experience in the field of literature. “Wes, indeed,” said she; “I've cons tributed to the Henaty Complaint Book.” London Wor'd:—«“Clubs are but the reflections of society; and as society happens to be witty or stupid, 80 will be the world of clubmen, It is possi Die to be social without being witty, and sociability is exactly what clubs now lick.’ ‘The Dallas (Texas) Herald says the body of Philip Dunnell, baried in 1462, was taken up 8 few days ago and found to have turned to stone, A rose placed in the hand was in perfect preservation, but crumbled upon being exposed to the air, The Kvening Telryram says that the officer who in- sisted upon searching a lady who was accused of #tealing # lace handkerchief from @ store, notwith+ standing her piteous appeals to have a woman do the searching, ought to be clubbed from the force. A lady had a very valuable dog stolen, She could not by any ns find him, So at last she advertised fora dog for which she wished to pay $20. Many answers were received, and among them was a do scription of her own dog, One night lateshe had the doy taken to her house; she recognized it, and a pos liceman who was at hand restored it to her. A mesacnger endeavored to return the jewels which Sir Francis Gooch had purchased for his wife im anticipation of tho interesting event, of which sa ™ has been said; but the jeweller refused to re turn the credit, They were returned as if they had been sold to Lady Gooch, and with the explanation that the jeweller should be glad to get them back at all; which argues considerable meanness somewhere, Marysville (Cal.) Appeal :—"‘John Dusel procured @ license in this city to marry Miss Tilly O'Brien, of Sheridan. Mr, Dusel went to Sheridan to consum- mate his marriage. After arriving there he found that a marriage license issued in Yuba county would not answer in Placer, and they resolved to return ta Wheatland that evening. A hand car was procured, and the party started on their return, Unfortu nately, another party started from Wheatland about the same time to yo to Sheridan on another hand car to attend the wedding. Neither car carried alight, and somewhere betwoeu the tWo places the cars came together, and the intended bride received injurics to her legs while sitting on the edge of the car whic! rondared the amputation of both Jimbe narassary./* -