The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1879, Page 8

3 NEW YORK HERALD --—— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Ui SAE | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, iphie despatches must perly sented. returned, HIA OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH OF THE NEW YORK NERALD— AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, - GRAND OPERA HOt BOWERY THEATRE—Bana, CoLLeEN Baws. PARK TH LYCEUM TE BROADWAY Les FOURCHAMBAULYS. THEATRE MubiaGay Guaxp Bait. WALLACK’S—Ov mgan UNION SQUARE TH. « Banker's Davourer. CHICKERING HALL MASONIC HA BOOTIUS TE MPIC THEATE y PASTOR'S— SAN FRANC THOMAS’ O A HOU NEW YORK AQUARIU TIVOLT THEATRE—Vaniety. COOPER INSTITU. QUADRUPLE § YORK, SUNDAY. The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be colder and elear. To-morrow the same conditions. are likely to prevail. ‘The stock mar- and strong, closing at the highest s of the day. Government bonds were States dull and railroads strong. Money ill was easy at 2 a 3 per cent and closed at 1 a2 per cent. O'Leary Accerts Harriman’s pedestrian challenge, and as both men evidently mean business we shall probably see a better contest than Campana was able to make. Ir Tiers is any good reason tor reducing the pay of our firemen, who have occasioually to dic as well as work, what should be done to the salaries of the hosts of expensive, lightly worked occupants of the County Court House and City Hall? Kentvcky Court that convicted aman of wife murder on the testimony of the pris- oner’s little son may have done justice to the murderer, but what moral right had they to place the child for life in such an unnatural and horrible position ? Passaic Cov J., proposes to have the courts determine whether it isa high moral act to persuade a saloon keeper to sell liquor on Sunday and then to complain of him for viola- tion of the law. Conspiracy is what the Grand Jury calls this sort of thing. Tue Losses by Friday night's tire figure up more seriously than was expected, and the peo- \ ple who remark how good it is that some of the sufferers were well insured should try to understand that the actual loss. still remains to be borne by somebody. If they find any diffi- culty xbout this any owner of insurance stock will explain it for th Tur Cosprtion to which the streets have sud denly been brought by the great fall of snow demands more attention from the Street Clean- ing Bureau than it seems to be getting. It is not enough that some thousands of cartloads of snow have been removed. There should be some system devised by which at least the prin- eipal thoroughti may be cleaned imme- diately after a snow fall, instead of remaining in the disgraceful condition in which Broadway is | to-day. Money enough has been appropriated to ieve the streets in great measure of snow as reli well as dirt, bat money without brains and ap- | plicatic unequal to the present requirements of the city. ‘Tne Youne Lapy who was turned ont of Dr. Burtsell’s church for refusing to pay for her seat tells her story in today’s paper in a plain straightforward manner. Her mother also tells jar treatment to herself in the same while “A Citizen” states that his wife mupelled to 1 » St. Joseph's Church, Sixth avenne, because unable to pay for at. All these cases, besides others we hear of, prove that the practice of exacting woney for seats in the Catholic churches is in preity general ¢ at As Father Burtsell and his usher have not denied the rude and vio- lent treatment complained by “Truth,” we must regard it as proved unless convincing tes- | timony to the cont Tue Weratner.—The centre of the disturb lly over our district dur- ing yesterday morning, and is now over Nova Se The barometer fell very rapidly as the storm neared the Gulf Stream off the gland coast, making the gradients very steep on the western margin. ‘the pressure has risen considerably through- out all the other distriets, The centre | Ween brisk in the northern of | the utry; in the Gulf and South At jantic State they have b generally | fresh. The rain has been heavy in the South and Middle Atlantic States, and snow is reported from the lake regious and New England States. The temperature has risen in all the Atlantic coast districts and has fallen in all the other sections, particularly in the northern lake regions. ‘The high tempera- ture that prevailed in the central valley dis- triets for the past few days has caused some of the ice in the rivers to break up. Th will not prevent the floods that must inevitably + throughout the low lands that e the banks of the main streama, ; Decanse the gorges are so large that the choking up at the bends will take place, on ac nt of the rapid current eansed by the constant rains in ove the mountains, and the water will rise rapidly. Our special cable from states that another pre jon sent by the Heraty Weather Bureau is being fulfilled. ‘Ihe Meteorological Bureau on the other side of the Atlantic is so busily engaged in warning the people interested that a great amount of con- Jusion seems to Prevail as to the state of the weather. Tn faet, it hardly knows which storm hit them first, The weather in New York ave its jay will be colder and clear. Tomorrow the same conditions are likely to prevail. ! debt of over $278,000, they have now over | be increased, and then the trains are to be | speed than at present. | cent interest, | $1,700,000, and will draw from the road the | handsome income of ee AR ia pee ae NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANU President Field@’s Report and Equities of Rapid Transit. Mr. Cyrus W. Field’s reeent report to the stockholders of the New York “L” Railroad Company eannot fail to be gratifying to those fortunate investors, It tells them that while in May, 1877, they had six miles of single track railroad in operation, carried less than 8,300 passengers a day, had less than $10,000 in cash and owed a floating the thirty-one miles of road, carry over 93,000 | passengers in a day, have over $768,000 in bank and owe not one dollar of floating debt. This isa most gratifying exhibition for the stockholders. Will the report be equally acceptable to the people who use the road ? It might well be expected that the magnifi- cent financial success of the investment would prompt those who receive the profits to act liberally toward the public to whom they are indebted for their valuable charter. But in place of a recommendation by the president of the company to allow the people to share in the benefit of the unex- pectedly large profits by riding at five cents fare we regret to meet an extended argument intended to justify the con- tinned charge of ten cents on ordi- nary cars and of a yet higher rate on saloon cars, with rich upholstery. ‘The main point of this argument is that the conveyance of passengers from the Battery to Harlem for five cents is “by far the cheapest steam railway travelling in the | world,” and is less than the two cents a mile charge enforced by law on the New York Central corporation. It is a sufficient answer to this reasoning to say that if the New York Central Railroad trains ran all day on trips of ‘‘nearly nine miles,” and carried an average of about 75,000 passengers in a day, they would not grumble at the legisla- tive restriction even if it were one cent or halfa cent a mile. The much abused horse car companies might as fairly cite the usual charge for hack hire as a proof of their great liberality in carrying passengers from the City Hall to Harlem Bridge for the low fare of six cents, Be- sides, while five cents fora passage from the Battery to Harlem is certainly remark- ably cheap travelling, it must be remem- bered that where one passenger on the Third avenue line takes that through trip a very large number go shorter distances and each space in a car may average three occu- pants on each trip, realizing, in fact, fifteen cents for the entire distance. After all, the reasonableness of the price of an article to the retail purchaser depends on its wholesale cost and on the profit real- ized by its sale. Ifthe fortunate capitalists who have secured the stock of the New York “ZL” Railroad can make four or five times larger profit out of that investment than they could out of any other business and yet charge only five cents fare from the Battery to Harlem, then ten cents fare is too much to take from the people. This is especially the case with the “‘L” railroads, inasmuch as the rapid transit charters are valuable fran- chises given almost gratuitously to the owners, who are, therefore, under obliga- tion to run their roads in the public inter- est and for the public benefit. We can form some idea of what the profits of the stockholders will be from an incidental statement in the president's report. Mr. Field says that the five per cent of annual net profits which, by its charter, the New York “‘L” Company is required to pay into the public treasury will, at this time, with the present receipts of the road, yield to the city from $25,000 to $30,000 a year. This shows a net income now for the com- pany of from $500,000 to $600,000 a year, equal to an annual dividend of from ten to twelve per cent on the par value of the capital stock of $5,000,000, which, Mr, Field says, is mainly owned by fifteen lucky individuals. This is, however, only the starting point of the enormous fortunes in store for the stockholders. Mr. Field admits that ,the | managers of the Third avenue line had no conception of the large business that was ready for them and were not prepared to meet it. The ‘tremendous flood tide” took them “‘off their feet.” They have not as yet been able to procure a sufficient num- ber of cars and locomotives to transport all the passengers that want to travel over the road, but the deficiency is abont to be supplied, the terminal facilities and switches and pockets for way trains are to run at much shorter intervals and greater This will no doubt very largely increase the travel. Besides, the expenses nre necessarily heavier at the starting of such an enterprise, the impor- tant City Hall branch is not yet opened, and the net income, which is now, Mr. Field says, piling up at the rate of from $500,000 to $600,000 a year, ought within the next ‘six months assuredly to be nearly or quite double this amount. A net income of from $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 a year would yield the stockholders dividends of from twenty to twenty-four per cent if they had paid par for their stock, But the large owners are said to have bought in at prices varying from fifteen to forty per cent for the greater portion of their stock and from twelve to thirty-five per cent for bonds which draw a full seven per If we average the cost of the bulk of the stock at fifty per cent the fif- teen wealthy gentlemen (of whom we sup- pose and hope Mr. Field is one) have paid for their two-thirds of the stock abont from $700,000 to $800,000 a year, This income will more than pay for their stock in three years and leave them stillin possession of that very valuable property free of cost, to say nothing of their bonds, which, if they cost them on an average thirty-three per cent, produce for them twenty-one per cent on the amount actually invested, The certainty that these large gains are not illusory is shown in the fact that the stock which was bought by the fifteen owners, it is said, at an average of certainly not over forty-five per cent, would now realize them, if sold, more than $3,000,000 for every $1,000,000 invested by them, We have always feared that the tempta- tion of just such glittering, seductive profits might have the effect on the New York “L” Railroad Company that it generally has on great corporations, and induce a disposition to grasp at yet more enor- mous gains rather than to extend to the public a share in the benefits of the splendid enterprise through the boon of cheap faves. It would have beena pleasant thing to have found Mr. Field in his report, while setting before the stockholders his golden feast, reminding them that the work- ing men and women and poorly paid clerks of New York who supply its dainty dishes would be most thankful for the boon of five cent fares, at least for four hours in the morning and four hours in the evening, which would give them just so much more bread to eat. We have repeatedly insisted that a uniform five cent fare on the Third avenue line would more than double the travel, and thus yield a yet larger net income to the stockholders than Mr, Field promises them. But even if the charge of ten cents is to be coritinued and if the lower rate of fare should reduce the splendid profits of the fifteen wealthy stockholders a few dollars each year the boon of an ex- tension of the cheap hours ought at least to be cheertully conceded. Mr. Field seems to think that the city will be greatly bene- fited by the five per cent it is to receive of the net profits of the company. But, in jus- tice to the people who give the charter to the company and the income to the stock- holders, the charge for the use of the roads should be made just as low as possible con- sistently with the admitted right of those who have risked their money in the enter- prise to receive a handsome, a liberal, but not an unreasonable profit. The hours now set apart for cheap trains do not accommo- date all whose scanty means prevent them from paying a higher rate. We trust that Mr. Field will see the fairness of this posi- tion. It certainly is encouraging to know that fifteen wealthy individuals own two- thirds of the capital stock of the New York “L” Company, and thus wholly control its policy, as they will no doubt be disposed to treat the people generously, and they have it in their power#to do so promptly and without the trouble of consulting a multi- tude of stockholders. Cheyennes and Sioux. It has always been looked upon as an approved policy to fight the enemy of man- kind with fire, and that is probably the fancy that has suggested the plan of using Sioux warriors against the desperate Cheyennes. Such of the Cheyenne fighters as are still alive are so well posted and so desperate that their position cannot be carried without a very severe loss by the troops, and the commander naturally hesi- tates to expose his men to a service of that nature if there is any other possible way of getting around the wary enemy. If the Cheyennes can be overcome with only the loss of some Sioux, that is a loss the country can en’ ire with heroic patience. There is, howevc:, u certain compromise of dignity in this appeal to the Sioux that is not alto- gether satisfactory. Another Tradition Assailed. How much longer do cald-blooded stu- dents of one science and another propose to overturn the cherished traditions of the human race? ‘To say nothing of their seri- ous assaults upon Usher's chronology and the earlier passages ot Jewish history, their restriction of the Deluge toa small Asiatic valley and their degrading of Methuselah to a doubtful centenarian, they have driven out of existence many precious beliefs that never conflicted with their personal selfish- ness and othersins. They have robbed us of William Tell and Pocahontas, they have turned star dust into a lot of globes of dull earth, have removed the pots of money from the foot of the rainbow, taken the stories of “Jack, the Giant Killer,” and ‘Hop o’ My Thumb” out of the lists of standard biog- | raphies, and yet they are not satisfied. One of these inconoclasts, these miscreants, has just been attacking that darling of every- body’s juvenile days, little Cinderella, This wretch writes to the London 7imes that the famous slipper of the fireside beauty was not of glass (verre), but of a peculiar kind of fur, which once was called vair. As the story passed from mouth to mouth before there was a printed literature—and conse- quently before juvenile tales ever got into written literature at all—the cold-blooded reconstructor of history has evidently caught at an obsolete word for the sole pur- pose of gratifying a depraved craving for probability according to the modern idea. Of course if Cinderella's slipper was of fur, which was utterly common and unromantic in her day, we want no more of it, Lut before we give up the wonderful slipper of glass we demand better proof than an accidental similarity of sound. Unless such fellows are held to the strictest accountability they will be finding some other word that sounds like pumpkin—probably a word the Eng- lish equivalent of which 1s dump cart; the mice will turn to draught horses or even a single donkey, the coachman will be a to- bacco chewing boor, the prince will become atramp, or something but little better, and his palace the ancient prototype of the shanties surrounding Central Park. In the interest of tradition and sentiment we pro- pose to cling to the glass slipper that has been real enough to countless generations of our ancestors, and we will tolerate no other without being shown the original ar- ticle, with undoubted evidence, in writing, of its authenticity. Commissioners of Accounts, Mayor Cooper has made a change in the Commissioners of Accounts, which, it is to be hoped, will add to the efficiency of the office. Heretofore the Commissioners have | been supposed to have a duty to perform to the Mayor alone, and have been used to make examinations of depariments only for the purpose of placing their reports in the Mayor's hands for political or personal use. The duties of the Commissioners of Ac- counts are just as distinct and well defined as those of any other officers of the city government, and we have no doubt thut Mayor Cooper will so decide. If their duties are capably performed the Commis- sioners may become valuable public offi- cers. They may serve as a wholesome check on the departinents, and have it in their power at the same time to supply the Mayor with much useful and desirable in- formation, in France. Nearly all the news on the agitation in France is a résumé of the opinions of cor- respondents of London papers, and is tinctured with the faults of temper of the correspondents, and sometimes affected by the distorted policy of the journals them- selves. Much of it resolves itself into dif- ferent views of the relations of M, Gam- betta as the republican leader to the Min- istry, and this gentleman is characteris- tically assailed by the splenetic personage who is the Paris correspondent of the London Vines. His great influence with his party, his almost dominant position in a crisis which results from the feeble attempt of an imbecile President to have his own way on a point on which the country is determined against him-—all this forces M. Gambetta prominently forward as a pivotal person, and while it is not possible to tairly con- sider the crisis and leave out of view his re- lation to it, nothing can be more silly than to endeavor to represent him as a shallow ; schemer, eager only to stir up excitement and dodge responsibility. Pictures of this sort are inspired only by those whom this crisis pushes to the wall. The attempt now made by MacMahon is _ the same in nature, but less extravagant in degree than that made with the De Broglie Ministry—an attempt to govern without the majority. With a republican majority in the Assembly the President, in May last, made a Ministry from the Right. He had to yield, after an obstinate resist- ance. He now repeats the same foolish game ; for, though his Ministry is not from the Right, it is from a faction scarcely less objectionable to the republican party, for it is from the Left Centre. An absolute re- publican majority in both houses has given the republicans so firm a faith in their strength that they will not endure that Presidential contempt of their power to which they judiciously shut their eyes when they were less sure of the country. Progress of Uptown Building. We publish in to-day’s Heap a report of the buildings and improvements that are under way or contemplated in the upper parts of the city. It isby no means discour- aging to find that the movement in real estate which was predicted as the conse- quence of rapid transit is gradual and cautious. The disposition to invest in new buildings is no sudden impulse, but is founded on the conviction that there are solid reasons to hope for better times, Values have got down toa specie basis ; labor and material are reasonably low fol- lowing the decreased cost of living, and the rapid transit roads invite back to the upper parts of the city those portions of the popu- lation that have sought New Jersey and Long Island in preference to paying ‘nibh rents or living in tenement houses. “These are advantages that will not only stay by us but will increase as the demand ‘for residences in the upper parts of the city increase, and as rapid transit facilities are extended. Betore long we shall have the Metropolitan road—a model of convenience and comfort—extended to the Harlem River and opening up for residences the beautiful sites in the new wards. The Second avenue line will also be built with- out unnecessary delay, and then the facili- ties for travel on the east side will be suf- ficient to meet the great demand. A cheap and comfortable class of houses will then be engerly sought in the uptown districts as well as more pretentious residences, and the capitalists who take advantage ofthe present prices and the ample supply, of labor to build such dwellings now will be sure to reap their reward in good time. An Advantageous Arrangement. They believe at Washington that the great trouble about the management of the Indians grows out of a divided responsi- bility. Maladministration must follow when power and responsibility are divided. ‘The natural conclusion of this argument is that either the War Department ought to have the entire control of Indian affairs or the authority ought to be wholly in the hands of the Indian Bureau and the In- terior Department, without any interfer- ence onthe part of the army. But then, when rascally Indian agents and the general mismanagement of the bureau drive starv- ing tribes of Indians to the warpath, the soldiers must necessarily do the fighting, To follow out the Wash- ington doctrine thoroughly the ad- vocates of the continuance of the Indian Bureau should be willing to approve arequirement thut when the Indians are hostile the agents shall do the fighting. This would be a decided advantage; for, while it would spare the lives of gallant officers and brave men, the country would be benefited, no matter whether the ma- rauding Indians killed the dishonest agents or vice versa, As in Iago’s case, in the fight between Cassio and Roderigo, Now, whether he kill Cassio, Or Cussio him, or each do kill the other, Every way makes my gain, Dr. Talmage will pay off his clerical critics again to-day by contrasting the re- sults of his sensations with their stagnation theories, Dr. Knapp will show the triamphs of Christ's second advent in the restoration of Israel to their own land, Mr. Guilbert will talk about ‘Dreams and Dreamers” and Dr. Rogers will have something to say about the man who never died, albeit there were two such men, according to the Serip- tures, The cause of temperance will not fail for advocates to-day, even though Fran- cis Murphy be not here and Mr, Lockwood be retired. Messrs. Shat- fer, Carlisle, Evans, Chapman, Arm- strong, Sawyer, Maslin, Esray, Judge Gildersleeve and others will hold up the crystal banner to the breeze and call for volunteers to bear it alongintriumph. Mr, Hatfield, too, will offer a remedy for this great evil, in response to the ery of the tempted. The cause of holiness, which had a day last week devoted tots promotion in Brooklyn, will take a start to-day in New York, when Messrs. Dunn, Inskip and McDonald will sound aloud its praises. Miss Neilson will show Colonel Ingersoll wherein he is mistaken in regard to Chris- tianity, Dr. King will preach o “Beautiful Snow” sermon and Mr, Affleck will give yent to some views on happy marriages, ARY 19, 1879.--QUADRUPLE SHEET. Mr. Newton will give the ladies an old- fashioned recipe for beautifying themselves and Mr, Seward will encourage young folk to marry by assuring them that children are a heritage from the Lord, and that the man is blest who, like the ancient hunter with arrows, hath his quiver full of them. ‘The possible results of consecrated work will be set forth by Mr. Schermerhborn, the rela- tion of sin and redemption will be made clear by Mr. Martyn, and the eross will be held upas a motive of life by Dr. Tyng, Jr. The cause of missions wil] be strengthened by the historical sketch of the progress they have made within three-tourths of a century, which Mr. Brooks will furnish, and the value of personal effort in winning men to Christ will be shown by Mr. Bureh. A glimpse of heayen will be granted by Mr. Lloyd, whose people will also have the privilege of lis- tening to a fragment of the victors’ song therein. Christian character will be described by Mr. Hepworth, God as a father will be proclaimed by Dr. Fowler, stalwart Christianity will be eulogized by Mr. Hull and the Christian pilgrim on his journey will be encouraged by Mr. Jutten. The opportunity of Mr. Colcord will be extended and the sin of not doing good be exposed by Dr. Deems, Mr. Sweetser will talk about the Sabbath and its relation to man, Mr. Richmond will point out the un- pardonable sin, Mr. Wilson will hold up ‘Thomas the Doubter as an example to be avoided, Mr. Moment will draw lessons from Nehemiah’s interruption in building the walls of Jerusalem and Mr. Ackerley will give reasons why persons who are near the Kingdom of God do not enter in, Alabama Claims. Provision for the just distribution of the money left in the hands of the government as the unpaid balances of the Alabama claims has troubled the repose of Congress for now sever.l years, because in the hand- ling of ten million dollars there are so many chances that no virtuous and patriotic rep- resentative of the people could for a mo- ment be indifferent as to who should touch all that cash. Finally, a step has been taken by the passage in the House yesterday of a bill made up of the sections proposed asa substitute by the minority of the com- mittee which had the subject before it, and an amendment which had been proposed as a modification of the bill suggested by the minority. The substitute re-establishes the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims and provides for the settlement of all claims by that body, and fixes the classes of claims it shall hear. Insurance companies cannot obtain any award under this bill unless they can show that, they lost on war risks more than they made on war premiums, Scientific Clubbing. At last a policeman Has been seen to use his club without making an imbecile or corpse of his victim) or a brute of himself. This officer, whose number we regret not to know, had occasion to arrest a drunken man who was comporting himself more actively than agreeably on Ninth avenue. Instead of béelaboriog the fellow’s skull the officer made a gentle demonstration with his club upon the offender's lower extremi- ties, and instantly the disorderly character became a most obedient prisoner. The case is a valuable precedent, or would be if many of our policemen knew how to use a club without destroying something. ‘The slightest blow upon the anterior portion of the lower leg compels the victim to tem- porarily restrict bis attention to his own sensations, as any tian knows who has ever encountered a chair or the family coal scuttle at dead of night and in a dark room, ‘To beat men over the head probably seems to some of our policemen to be a harmless show of authority, for their cranial contents are so diminutive in quantity and so solidly encased that the club of Ulysses would affect them only as a friendly pat upon the head might do. Not all our guardians of the peace are so impervious to demon- strations upon the seat of thought, how- ever, and to those who are not we commend the suggestion conveyed by the Ninth ave- nue experience. Doorstep Couches. ‘The attention of connoisseurs in facilities for quiet slumber is invited to a prav- tice which is quite common this winter. We refer to that of sleep: ag upon doorsteps, Those who thus far have indulged in it have declined the imputation of a passion for natare, and assign poverty and the crowded condition of station houses as the causes of their unconventional action, but as ‘What man has done man can do” there is no legal reason why well-to-do people should not enjoy the sensations peculiar to the habit of lying upon a bed of stone while the thermometer is wavering between freez- ing and zero. The patriarch Jacob had an after dark experience upon a cool couch, but he used stone only for a pil- low, and in the heated atmosphere of Asia | Minor it is probable that a cold stone was a delightful head rest. In New York, how- ever, and during the winter, the difference between a doorstep and the usual arrange- ment of mattresses, sheets and blankets within doors is quite noticeable in point of comfort. The man who seeks sach a couch is not likely to have had a full dinner at a late hour, nor a bottle of wine to keep out the cold, nor is he in the habit of wearing athick ulster. ‘Lhe moment he stretches himself upon his springless bed the stone begins to rob him of physical heat. He ob- jects, turns over and the stone continues its natural work. Ifthe slumberer has been fortunate enough to find a doormat fora go-between the undesirable effects may be postponed, but only for a time, for door- steps can find place forall the warmth that can be imparted to them by a human body. The farce of resting continues, the slumberer playing his part faithfully, being under severest compulsion, but soon it seems a matter of life and death, with the odds and agonies decidedly in favor of the latter, so the couch is deserted and the would-be sleeper curls himself as tightly as possible under the blue counterpane of heaven and wishes he were strong enough to get to the river and drown himself, Next morning he is physically and mentally as worthless as almost any incurable in hospital; he has not even wit enoughto steal a loafofbread | hat and be committed to a comfortable jail for it, Andall this is be- cause brains and money, a very little of which in combination would prevent his sufferings, are too busy about minor affairs to pay any attention to misfortune and misery, Indignation in Italy. Italy is fertile in parliamentary surprises, bat the oddest proposition fora vote of want of confidence yet suggested even there is that with which the Ministry is menaced in regard to the case of Colonel Gola. This officer was appointed by his government member of one of the international commis- sions called for by the Treaty of Berlin and was to assist in defining the Servian boundary. He went to Belgrade and thence to Bucharest, and there all trace of him is lost. He has disappeared suddenly and absolutely—not a trace of him to be found in any way whatever. Interpellations on this point have produced from the govern. ment a statement of the facts, which it re- grets, but does not see what else it can do, Bat this is not deemed satisfactory and the Ministry is assured that the government of Roumelia is responsible for the sifety of this Italian, and that if it is not held toa strict accountability by Italy then an enor- mous number, of exuberant opposition Deputies will know the reason why. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ben Hill and Alexander H. Stephens are bitter ene- mies, Colonel W. F. Shaffer, of San Francisco, is at the Hotel Brunswick. The negroes of Washington are suffering greatly from the cold of winter. The President has recognized Giovanni Battista Raffo as Consul General of Italy at New York. Sir Edward Thornton and family have been visit- ing Niagara Falls, which are iefly pretty just now. Superintendent Smyth, of the Insurance Depart- ment offers to resign if the insurance companies say 80. Kearney says that in San Francisco the women drink more than the men and he was not talking about tea either. P. 8. O'Brien, the reputed brother of the dead bonanza king, is reported to be still disappearing from one place and another. Mrs, Hayes’ Saturday receptions will be from three until five P. M., so that persons on the rear of the line will have to push the others ahead a little. Detroit Free Press:—“Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen hopes to get us to pronounce his name Yalmar Yort Boye-sxen, but wej’ll sjee hjim in Hjaljt)x first.” Senator Thurman always drops a little of the judi- cial dignity 80 as to get into the lower stratum of politics, and he is one of the few men who can do this dropping well. The monument to the American, Captain Ward, who became Commandcr-in-Chief of the Chinese army, is very costly, and has on its top an ever- growing lily, which is watered every day. In Georgia politics are likely to be broken into parts by the opposition of Governor Colquitt, an old time democrat, and Ben Hill, who represents the old whig clement. Hill is a sort of Kilkenny cat whom nobody can find out. Morrison, of Illinois, was very much of a man at one time in Congress, but failed because he is consti- tutionally slow. But he thinks he may be Speaker, and he is in favor of Bayard for President, which may benefit him greatly among Eastern hard money democrats. “Daisy Dewdrop” writes, asking that bread crumbs: be thrown into the streets for the sparrows. We give her request; but we doubt, without rashness, whether these chattering, quarrelsome little nuisances ought to be fed. The question always is whether they really are nuisances, Senator Christiancy, of Michigan, who was made & phenomenon by being elected over Zach Chandler in the moral-independent movement, and who made a sensation and no little cheap talk by marpying a girl clerk, is sixty-five years old. He was once a free soiler, and very much of a radical, intellectual politi- cian in his State. New Yorkers quite long ago got rid of the idea that if they had any good butter it came from Orange county, N.Y. Orange county butter is good, but it is about as scarce, considering the number of people to eat it, as Saddle Rock oysters are. Yet in New Ore leans the superstition remains about ‘Goshen’* (Orange county) butter. Senator Edmunds has been growing rapidly of late as a possible candidate on the republican side for the Presidency. Mr. Edmunds is one of our halts dozen big (if he were dead we should say great) men, For a man who is never spoken of as “magnetic,” as, for instance, Blaine is, he is wonderfully “thought about,” because he has weight in discussion, When he rises to speak in the Senate on any q@estion the noisy little mice who have somehow got into that body keep quiet. He is hardly aman to swing torch- lights around, and he would have made a good chiet justice. Evening Te‘egram:—"A correspondent in Salem, Mass., sends us some statistics about Miss Sally Nichols, an estimable lady who died there last week at the age of seventy-tour years, which will be in- teresting to female pedestrians, She began to take regular walks tor exercise in 1828, and continued them without the intermission of a single day till near the end of 1878, During those fifty years, ao cording to a register which she kept carefully, she walked 149, iniles—never more than twenty nor less than five miles a day. On rainy days vhe paced up and down a barn floor, This is a betier example for imitation than Mrs. Anderson's,” “OBITUARY, REV. HORATIO N, LRINSMADE, D. D, ‘The reverend and venerable patriarch of the Presby« terian Chureh of New Jersey, Dr. Horatio N. Brins- made, of Newark, has just followed the late Method- ist patriarch, Rev. Mr. Weed, also of Newark. Dr. Brinsmade died yesterday morning at his home om North Seventh street, Roseville, a portion of Newark, in the eightieth y. of his age. He was. a native of New Hartford, Conn., was educated at Philips’ Academy, Andover, Mass., and afterward at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1824 he was or. duined a Presbyterian minister. He preached @ year in Hartford, ‘next in Collinsville, then in Pitts field, and after that for twelve years in Newark, being pastor of the jird Pres. byterian Church, ‘Then, for the sake of | his wife's health, he went to Beloit, Wis.; was pastor there seven care, and thea turned to Newark, where he had been ever sines, jas three times married, his — wite ~—— ‘The Doctor's death was quite *' . He iy complsined ot heart ‘rouble, but on Friday felt well enough to shovel light «now off his honse steps. While writing during the evening be was attacked with his old heart trouble, aud passed away peace. fully about dawn yesterday. JOUN K. HATHAWAY. John K, Hathaway, a well known sea captain, has just died in New Bedtord. His firat vdyage to Europe was made in the brig Clitus, of New Bedford, ‘This was in 1841. He soon after made several successful whaling voyages. He commanded the Fenelon, Cow. r ‘nnd Harrison, making tour voyages, each ave ng three years and a half, He was very suce by pecurartly and otherwise, He loaves a wite, one som and two danghters. He was only thirteen years of aye when he made his first voyage, g ALFRED Cort. Alfred Coit, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of New London county, Conn., since July, 1877, died Friday night, from congestion of the lungs, after five days’ illness, He was a representative in the Leqgialature in 1862 and @ State Senator from the Sev. enth district in 1868. | KENNY FITZPATRICK. Alderman Kenny Fitzpatrick, the senior Alderman of Hamilton, Ont., having been a member of the Board for seventeen years, died suddenly in the City Council Chamber, at midnight, Friday, while in the act of moving a resolution, GEORGE W. SMITH, George W. Smith, School Commissioner, Second district, died at Port Chester, N. ¥., yesterday morn ing, of pneumonia, He was elected Commissioner November last tor the third time,