New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-17

call forth expressions of sympathy from any
but his immediate circle OF relatives and
friends has long gone by. With the most
of our citizens the feeling aroused by his
release is exactly the reverse Of sympathy.
Gov. Hartranfts action last Winter in signing
the bill repeating local option seems to have
afforded the chief material for dcnunciatOry
! speech at the Pennsylvania State Temperance
| Convention. The PrOhibitiOnists hope to DO
| able to give $4,000 votes to their candidate
for Governor, the Hon. r. A. Brown of Law
renee County the Convention was the strongest
they have ever held in the State.
! Residents in the vicinity of Harlem Flats,
though in general delighted with the stencil OF
dead oil as compared with that of decaying
garbage, are not yet perfectly satisfied. They
| ask, like Oliver Twist, for mOre-mOre filing
| in material. We sincerely hope they may get
| it, and that it may be of substantial and
wholesome sort. Without it, when the heats
of Summer come, the disinfcctants that have
been applied will disappear in day or two,
and permanent breeding ground of pestilcnce
will be established for the rest of the season.
|
BY simple process of addition, orr CORE
spondent describing the boating performances
of Wesleyan College. shows that 1t has taken
| the highest average in the contests OF the past
two years. This season it will send out, as
before, a country crew whose strength IA greater
| than their skill Among the hardy young
giants who will fill the boat, there is one who
narrowly escapes 200 pounds weight. Shonld
they prove the winning crew, the old question
! as to the comparative merit OF city and coun-
| try training for athletic sports will be III order.
| If the terms of agreement are fulfilled, the
| war between the Pennsylvania and Baltimore
| railroad interests is not only closed, but there
is to be peace between them for ten years.
This method of limit might I've adopted to adj
vantage in greater affairs. IF, for instance,
the last treaty between France and Prussia
| had limited the peace il proclaimed to ten years
instead of making it perpetual, neither side would
be talking now about breaking it, while their
preparations for such an event could hardly he
more extensive.
| A London letter OH our second page gives
comprehensive summary of the testimony be-
fore the committee ordered in England by
the Board of Trade, to inquire into the
Schiller disaster. One point was clearly esfab-
| lished. At time when the officers OF the
vessel believed themselves TO be near the
Scilly Islands they neglected to take sound
ings This was especially reprehensibe on
account Of the uncertainty into which they had
been thrown by their inability 10 take proper
! astronomical observations.
Already the addition to the usual number OF
people in Boston il estimated at from 10000
| to 10000 Wall-st and BrOad-st. were less
lively than usual to-day, So many OF the
brokers' had gone East. There is every indica-
ton that the Bunker Hill Centennial will bring
| together from all sections the largest crowd
Boston has ever had to accommodate. The
prcparations made for the entertainment of
visitors and for the celebration Itself are. how
ever, on so prodgal scale rs 10 show that
Massachusetts is equal Ia the occasion.
| In a variety of ways the subject of urging
internal improvements at the expense of the
| General Governments, came before the National
| Board of Trade yesterday. With great good
| sense, that body declined to lend its influence
to any of these projects. The action taken in
respect to adopting uniform weights and meas
q,res is not very definite, but probably has the
metric system in view. A change in the Office
OF the Shipping Commissioner, placing it under
| the management of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, is among the noteworthy recommends
tons adopted by the Board.
People who are disposed to rcvel in wonders
not surpassed by the tales of the Arabian
| Nights will find food for their imagination in
the additional details about the Kelley motor
furnished in our Philadelphia correspondence.
Until the managers OF this marvel are ready to
lift from it the vail of mystery, and explain its
alleged powers in accordance with known cheni-
cal and mechanical laws, they can scarcely hope
for faith from the public. If the invention is what
they profess, they EN- afford TO smile at popu-
lar incredulity If il is not, the smiling will
be on the other side.
The Commencement exercises OF several
colleges crowd our columns to-day. At West
Point Academy addresses were delivered to
the graduating class by Secretary of War Bel
khan and President Gilman. At Cornell Uni
versity, Prof. Adams OF Ann ArbOr addressed
| the colleges of history and literature. Details
will he found in our correspondence from
| Hamilton, y. Y, of the Commencement OF
Madison University and the Hamilton TheO-