New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-15

pIished tina: years ago whom they uncovered the
stone walls at Bounarbashi. As for the articles
which tile Doctor calls Priams treasure the critic
regards them with al impatient scorn, declaring
that me ornaments very mich resemble the jewelry
made to-day in the interior of Asia Minor in style Of
workmanship and not little in general character.
And he concludes that the relics discovered may
have come from one of the waves Of Asiatic bar
barsm which, from the earliest advance Of Pelasgie
or Hellenic civilization in Asia Minor at intervals
buried that civilization and further that the ono
thing certain about this mysterious site is that it is
not the ruin Of Troy.
Little do we dream of the miseries, the wearing
cares of the men who administer the affairs of ma
lions. Not only are they subject 10 investigating
committees and in danger Of not being reelected
when that is the tender and unselfsh yearning OF
their souls. Greater griefs may be theirs; they may
DO in the dOlefu Of the members Of the British
House of Commons. The chief clerk Of the Sta
tionery Office lately testified with soemnity before
the Select Committee on Public Contracts that the
great difficulty was to satisfy members in regard to
the cut of the pens supplied to the House. Some
want their quilts lefthanded. Others long to have
them right-handed. and whenever change Of Gov
eminent comes, the Stationery Office. said master
chief clerk is to get into trouble. There Ia no
consolation to be suggested to men whose feellngS
are thus torn by the wild porversIy of quilts and
their makers.
Anybody making statements concerning the Pbys-
oloey of Lies would probably be regarded by most
people as interesting but crazy. Yet if we are to be-
lieve Mr.. Fitzjames Stephen, the clever author OF
Liberty, Equality Fraternity" the thing Is not 10
obs oftor all Ha in
upoa the Law of Evidence, which precede his edition
of the Indian Evidence Act. curious fact told hin
by barrister who had practced In Ceylon courts
This man said that he could always guess that
Cingalese witness was skipping over the boundaries
of truth if there peculiar twitch in his toes
This statement. valuable enough to be repeated IN
Mr. Stephens dissertation, suggests the serious
question as to whether the toes of perjurers in all
other countries and climates also twitch IL they
do, many doubling court will be glad to get this
light, fantastic evidence.
Mississippi seems to be the last place in the world
for temperance experiments on large SCALE ye' INC
Mississppians are trying peculiar one. by a law
of the last Legislature licenses to sell liquor are
granted except the petition therefor be signed by
majority of the electors of the vicnage and by two
thirds of tho women over eighteen. Tho
result is said to be very disastrous to
the ardent trade. In many of the towns
all the ladies signing protests against the
traffic, and in some majority OF the males NOW
let us wait and whether this stops the sale or
whether it goes on, license no license. We can
not but remember that not glass of rum has been
legally sold in Maine as beverage for many years.
picture of great force, though it Is little dis
couraging, IS drawn by Georgia newspaper OF the
H. Qkata Lnnltn w
add nothing to it, we give it without comment:
A sorry sight it is to spike team, consisting OK
skeleton steer and skinky blind mule. with rope
harness and squinteyed driver, hauling barrel OF
new whisky over poor roads, on a hermaphrodite
wagon into farming district where the people arc
in debt and the children are forced to practice
scant attire by day and hungry sleeping by night"
What a photograph And how nicely the barrel OF
whisky is brought out as the central object IN tha
negative. = '7~'N 80
"Oiva," who is Washington correspondent.
asks whether there is any reason human or divine.
whv woman should not BIO allowed to work in any
field if she has the intellectual and physical force
to sustain herself" To which we answer promptly
and cheerfully-nonel Our female friend. however.
does not appear to see the force of her own it,"
The very point in dispute Is whether there are not
certain fields in which woman would lack intellec-
tual and physical force. Meanwhile it seems to us
that all fields have been pretty well opened at least
for the purposes of experiment. In many Of them
the lady laborers yet few; but, no doubt.
we shall see what we shall see.
OF ecclesiastical quarrels, petty or moro impOr-
tant, we should think that the West has had quite
enough. At Freeport, ILL.,, the Rev. H. D. jenkins.
Presbyterian pastor declined to sign the temperance
pledge on the somewhat reasonable ground that he
considered his ordination vow to be sufficient Upon
this the Rev. Mr. Proctor, an enthusiastic brother.
said holly: Any Christian minister not assisting
in this cause by his influence and pledges is not only
damned from all eternity but damned to all eternity
"a very comprehensive statement; and now tho
Presbytery is to settle the retrospective and
the prospective status both of the Rev. Mr. Jenkins
aud his assailant.
gism do we enter our hopeless and sorrowfui pro-
test against it. telegram tells US that one In
gersoll of Ashton, Ill, suicided on Monday" We arc
sorry for Mr. Ingersol but because he has murdered
himself we see no occasion for numbering the En-
glish language. This dreadful verb follows no
analogy, and is an unmitigated barbarism. II it
obtains footing we shall next have "hOmiclded."
"fratricided," "parricided" and many other many
sided depravties. We ought to take warning from
the comparatively respectable position which like
verbal horrors have already attained
A lady in Peoria has hit upon "a mission" She
means to agtate the important matter Of changing
the name of America" to Columbia" We suppose
that she will lecture print tracts call conventions.