New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-05

There is great publc JOY out tnIt some
body growls at it, and mover great sorrow but that
somebody finds the signing of it n favorable wind
for his sails. There men who think the Fourth
of July is not unmiXed happiness, aud 80 1t must
not be wondered at that man out of our million
readers is dissatisfied the general jubilee with
which NowYor honored the success OF her oarslnen
at Saratoga lie wrote to us the other day about and
we think the specimen odd enough to be impaled III
a conspicuous column. 1t must be confessed there
are streaks of sense in his letter. especially IN the
opening sentence He says:
whenever the community takes leave OF its senses,
and goes standing It's head without Just cause or
proyocaton fly to my TRIBUNE and nnd the sober and
sensible view OF the matter But for once am baied
antics which III beseem your and dignity over the
victory OF Columbia College at Saratoga Because the
Yale boat tried TO smash the Harvard boat aud the
Yale accused the Harvard men OF n cynical an
cestry, and the Harvard men thereupon smashed Yaes
rudder and because while TINS gentle anu JOYOUS Dach
guardsm going between the representatives OF
great Universities, Columbia buckled down to
its work and crossed the lino second or TWO aheau,
therefore the City Of NewYork Is covered with glory
aud Columbia College exalteth It's born l cannot see
the sequence. | was born In NewYork, and think no
small beer of it, but cannot see that it gained any
Eo s Sy d o
gush Of sensbity that they had done more for the
done 10 lifetime aud that hereafter when they wanted
anything from the Faculty or Trustees they would
TRIBUNE this wise and dlsorganizng speech as
IL deserved but not word appeared to show how con-
contrary this morning reprint letter to The Ma
lion written by some blueribboned idiot full OF rapture
over the speech and saying that Yale and
Harvard were beaten because hor Faculty never make
such Tnis more than can sta bo Is n nef9
the newspapers, aud will not fatten your waste
basket any further' ,
We imagine our worthy friend subsiding after this
Hast and hopping his fiery forehead with an
elderly oentleman's baudanna. He will regret his
doubts of our liberaly when he sees his letter in
nript and perhaps when he reads it calmly he will
;rk that his rage is as Incorporate the rejoicing
no denounces He may restore the tone OF his spirits
Inv reading tho lines beginning "Breathes there
man with soul SO dead"
Not while one human heart beats will the tales OF
,voman,s devotion to the objects OF her affection
cease To be told In the absence OF our poet we VIII
attempt TO note in sober prose, though with pro-
found emotion, an instance of this devotion IN the
Chicago fire. woman with heart-strings torn with
agony watched the roof of her house glowing with
prodigious flames. Those dear to her still remained
in tbe building; was it any wonder that her eye
lighted with an almost maniac glare and her
frantic movements showed all the torture she was
enduring, 1t was too much-too much. Before the
alarmed bvstanders could stop her she had rushed
des,erately into the flaming house, animated by a
heroic self-sacrifiee. Let rejoice that it was
warded she emerged unframed, carrying in her
fonr cats bowling and clawing like mad
wedding ceremony appears to be an affair which
calls out all the wild enthusiasm of poetic sympathy
of the town of Lagrange in Kentucky. runaway
pair were married there the other day in the open
air in presence of all the first citizens and oldest in
babitants, who rushed On masse" to the fateful
scene and stood up chairs and climbed the sur
rounding trees to view it. The bride was so over
| come by her feelings that when the time came to
promise love- honor, ETC., she entirely unable
| to speak. Whereupon o sympathetic and absorbed
| Young man, who had been looking on with open
month from tree by, kindly yelled at tho top
| of his voice Say yesl" Thus sustained and en-
couraged the fair girl stepped her embarrass-
ment, and the ceremony was daily concluded, to the
| delight Of the warm hearted audience. ..
! 1t grieves TO the heart to announce dreadful
| fight in the colored Methodist Church in Fort
| Wayne, Ind. One of the chief features of this
painful contest was gouging with parasols" From
| this the disheartening fact may be deduced that
the cOmbatants mainly sisters. Twelve of them
have been consigned to the lookup No fatal wounds
were given during the battle, but there a good
deal Of hair-pullipg auxiliary to the parasol per-
fVrWance.