New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03

| WEATnER.-The Government report predicts cooler
and cloudy weather and occasional rain - The
thermometer in this city yesterday, $50, 69o, 570.
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| Persons arranging 10 leaue torn for the Spring
and Summer months can hare THE DAILY
TRIBUNE mailed TO them at any address, and
changed Gs often as they may desire, postpaid,
for 81 month.
The public will fully agree with Judge Brady,
that the full penalty of the law is none too great
in the case of John Power, the Keeper at
Wards Island Lunatic Asylum, who killed one
of its inmates in his charge by repeated blows
with bludgeon. The only thing to be re-
GREETED is that the imprisonment does not ex-
coed two years, that limit being fixed by law
for the offense as determined by the jury.
A vigorous retIenchment is announced by
the Dock Commissioners both in salaries and
the prices paid for labor, which is expected to
reduce the expenditures OF their Department
by more than $4,000 per annum. There is
nothing for which our citizens will be more
thankful than such economy, except, perhaps
the completion of efficient, substantial docks in
place of the rotten woOd-heaps which now
tester in the sunlight along our rvor-fr0nt.
The belief of the taxpayers of Brooklyn
that there has been great extravaganza in tho
construction of the Hampstead Reservoir is not
diminished upon examination. The work as
far as completed is said to bc imperfect, and
the prospect of finishing it under the present
management is remote, and involves heavy
OUTLAWS Perhaps when the Water Board is
ready with its defense, it can explain away
some of the facts that have been brought for
ward, but a continuance of the work on the
present scale of extravaganza can scarcely be
justified.
The example of reform in other Departments
has touched that of the Interior. An order
has been issued 10y the Commissioner OF Pen
sions instructing his subordinates that all let
tiers written Ivy them must be in plain and fair
handwriting, without Authorizations, intcrlinca-
tons, blOts, OF erasures and must be also
respectful and concise. This is not a sweeping
reform 10 be sure, but il is encouraging, az
! showing that the Reform movement Is con-
tagious. Ii is very much as though some low
down fellow in the London slums should feel
the impulse of the Moody and Sankey revival
| to such an extent as to rise right up and swear
off from taking snuff.
In the record of the work accomplished by
the Presbyterian General Assembly, as mar
rated in our Cleveland correspondence, the
closing of the famous case of DIR. Swing and
Prof Patton will bring o sense of relief to
readers who were weary of the fruitless dis
cuSsions to which the subject gave rise. Prog
ress was also indirectly made toward the long
hoped for union with the Reformed DGtch)
Church, by the adoption of the rotary elder
ship systematic most characteristics feature in
which that denomination differed from Pres
byterian forms of government. An opportunity
to further the project Of union may perhaps
be afforded during the sessions of the General
Synod of the Reformed Church which are now
in progress at Jersey City.
The Republicans Of Ohio yesterday NOM
mated the Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes for Gov
ernOr in spite of that gentleman's refusal to
be q candidate against Judge Taft. The SEN
timent Of the Convention being strongly in
| favor of Hayes, the name of Judge Taft was
withdrawn in order to relieve the prospective
| candidate of all embarrassment. The resOlu-
| tons have the merit of being short and, for
the most part, TO the point. The second reso-
lution-on fnance-is q trifle ttndcr-foOted it
lacks the solid ring of an Out-and-out hard
money utterance, but still the infationIsts will
hardly be able TO get any comfort from it.
The third term resolution leaves no doubt as
TO the position of the party i'll Ohio on that
question, and wisely omits any reference to the
late remarkable letter of the President.
Under cloudless sky and famed by cool
ing breeze, the great Masonic procession passed
over the prescribed route in our streets yester-
day, without break a blundcr, or IN unncces-