New-York tribune., 1873-05-10

reputation to endanger are not proof against
temptation, why should not every petty broker
have his share Of the grab gamef
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Doubtless competition exe1ts healthy influence
in teleraphic as in other kinds Of business but the
success which has attended the extension Of CON-
peting teleRaphs in the United States during the
last few years has been mainly confined 10 enabling
| promoters" and other speculative schemers "a
pocket large profits by tho construction Of lines
which in case have proved TO be profitable 70 the
] stockholders The meeting at tho Cotton
Exchange yesterday looks very like
attempt on the part Of those connected
| with competing telegraphs-land and ocean
to get Endorsement by respectable and responsible
parties which will enable stocks Of doubtful value
| to be marketed The Bankers and Brokers line
was forecosed and sold out by the Sheriff two yean
| ago. realizing sum barely sufficient TO pay iH
debts and leaving nothing for the stockholders who
who had invested therein threequarters of million
| Within a few days the Great Western Telegraph
Company, whose lines extend from Chicago through
four States, has been adjudged bankrupt by the
United States Court. And at this time rumors probs
bly, having some foundation, assert that the Pacific
and Atlantic Company is about tobe by the
| Western Union. In the presence Of such facts the
public will hesitate about putting up any more cap
tai to extend opposition telegraphs until they know
! something as to the qualifications of the men Ia
whom its expenditure is 70 be intrusted, and see
reasonable prospect # getting return for theh
| investment.
Now the reader knows, for he has been told sos
thousand times, that smoking produces paralysis,
epilepsy tc-dououreux fits Of all the various kinds
| and sudden death. This being settled what are we
to say to the communication which an insane fumi-
gator sends to The Manchester (Eng) E1dHinerf This
| lunatic saws that "he never knew days health
until be took TO smoking" Up to the age OF 20 he
never smoked and was always sicdy, particularly
| in the Winter, when be had pulmonary troubles
Upon the recommendation. as he says, of the great
| Prof Huxley, he began TO smoke mild tobacco. hh
health at once became good, and be had no cough ID
the Winter Lately for the sake of experiment, he
gave up smoking, foolishly," as he thinks. What
was the results All his old symptoms returned. hn
cough became so violent that 1t almost brought Oh
| bronchitis. He few to his pipe. de smoked AGAIN
and was healed. He says now that he shall continue
to smoke from a sense of duty" We do not mean
TO generalize from this individual instance nor te
| glorfy smoking. But what is fair is, that othel
people shall not generalize from individual instances
| on the other side of the question.
! In Kingwood Hunterdon Co., MI, lives Mss
! King, a spirited damsel, and William Heath, who
! must be a mean fellow. Nevertheless he aspired ia
marry the lovely King, and being repulsed eircu'
lated narratives unfavorabe to her chastity. Fol
which, last Sunday, she sought his residence and
drawing whip from under her sacque and making
the explanatory observation, L viii teach you s
malgn my character" proceeded to beat, bruise and
otherwise maltreat the said Heath, her father ana
brother standing by to see fair play. The YoluDe
and slanderous Heath will have something else ts
talk about when his poor head gets well. We
cannot say that we approve the proceeding but We
really hope that it viii do Mr.. Heath good.
All this is indeed alarming! Rhythmic Algebra
is the title Of new English treatise on rhyme, Is
which the attempt is made to put the art OF rhymnl
upon strictly scientific basis. We protest. We
implore. We recalcitrate. We beg that no Amer
can publisher will reprint this book. We get yerse'
enough already. Should an easy way OF wntni
them be found out, know well enough who WI
suffer- We shall have stanzas sent us by the milhos
and poems" by the bushel. The Greeks compares
the poet to the grasshopper, and our poets would
like unto the all too numerous grasshoppers on th
Far Western plains The object should be 70 sup
press the breed. and not madly TO increase IT,
go Ahead i" is the standard form Of advice
usually addressed TO sluggish humanity. We an
not sure that it may not be suppanted At the heao
of The Albany Ga.) Nelrs stands this couplet: IL
is not rank, nor birth, state, but the GET-ur
AND-GET that makes man great and fair state
ment of simple truth it is. Nothing can be surei
than the fact that if you do not Get Up you Will mol
Get Much nor Get Far Push along keep novlngr
perhaps contains the same pth. But Get-upanG
Get is rhythmical and aliterative. as well as wisei
and Tupper if he hears of il, viii doubtless maAe"
-, 8 Of f,ran NJ hfE n
A small sinner named William Smallman. IN New
Haven. on the 9th Of May. in the City Court Ws
fined IS and costs for playing ball on Sundsy'
| The celebrated Blue Laws Of Connecticut aoou'
which so much has been said are, are told my'n-
ieal But here in 1873, boy is fined, ard we thinA
fined pretty heavily, for indulging IN a little pS
time ON Sunday. The plea is that be disturbed ~
Igious people, But how much disturbance eoulu
| small boy playing ball alone by himself efcA'o'
Nothing is said of any accomphces-he mus. nav
heen plaving alone; and what glgantc SinAii W.
lain he must have been'
Adam Weisser of Pittsburgh must have eAuaoiu
nary IDEAS of the feudal privileges OF husoSH~
On tba soth of April he was brought before mAs1
trote ON a charge Of attempting 20 hasg his "ne
The crime of which the poor woman had oeen sui,'
was n refusal TO give him money which he denAuu
sd ~ her. A kind woman, doubtless, deserving
r,,oh better husband than Adam; for when sp"
,aos before ne WAS arrested for aSsaultng her sue
-. IA ~ fine and liberated him-the most un-