New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-11
GENERAL NOTES.

Gov. Kemper of Virginia, in his message TO
the General Assembly Thursday stated that the state
debt amounted to S33000160 70. Not dollar OF It,,
according to the GOVERNOR was cOotracea uurihS OF
since the The debt Is less than onetenth OF the as
scssed values in the State.
The feud between the freshmen and sOpho-
morcs of Brown University calls forth tins editorial
comment from The London News The ways Of stu.
dents in the American universities in the least
our ways These things are mystery, and III the
freshmen with cane and rush IN England
they might do 1t at Lords-we do not expect TO uDcer-
stand the game"
An old man was charged with stealing a
horse at Special Sessions, Baston, N " last Tues
day. and was sentenced two and half years in the
State Prison. The Judge, touched with compassion, ad
dressed few kind words TO him. suggesting that por
on of TIE sentence could be RENTED IL his friends ana
family would forward and testify as TO his previous
good character. There CLEAN OF hope In the old
mans face but 1t soon faded away He shook his head
and in trembling voice replied that ne would t rather
how deep the disgrace that had fallen upon
hin.
"The Broed Baron is the sensational title
which the Western press uvcnts to the recent little
ceremony ct Washington Penn. The incarceration OF the
remains of the late Baron dc Palm last week was wit
messed by large number of newspaper correspondents
and the exchange table is overloaded with extrava
CANT sensational accounts of the performance. Illus
raed in some instances with wretchcd wood cuts OF the
furnace and the CORPSE 1t is safe to say that public in
erest the incarceration cooled long before the retort
An eccentric gentemans dying wishes ought TO he re-
gared by his executors as matter OF course OuI thc
substitution of Incarceration for burial does not enute
him to such extended advertising.
An extraordinary railway crime is described
in the latest files Of the London papers In train run
ming between Liverpool and Chester there wcro IN one
compartment three persOns-an artist and two aborers-
father and named Holmes. Soon after tho train
passed Runcorn. the younger Holmes drew out knife
and attempted TO cut the artists throat The latter
thought that money wanted aud gave MIN bis purse
containing about So This tho man threw out OF tho
window, and watch that was offered him shared tho
same fate. In the struggle the artist received sne
deaYored 10 OverOwer the young man. nut tney tOnu
impossible The assaint attempte to get thIo1gn te
lists right thumb of and niuring one OF ms myers A
this time the train FrOdshan and the signal
being against it, 1t had TO draw up and Young Holmes
fell from the carnage into the sx,ioot way lust as ,e
vIous Sunday and had been drinking TO excess
The issue of the Presidential election in the
United states is being watched with intense eagernes
I'm England. The London Times has had special cable
dispatches the subject nearly every day ana the
varying phases OF the contest have been discussed very
in,eigently by nearly all the prominen, papers. The
complicated and rusty machinery OF the electoral system
does not commend Itself to English critics The Spectator
Nov 2jl makes this suggestion "The official trustees
of elections in each State should be made In some way
Independent Of party and unpunsbaDe by local zeal OF
preudice-sh0ud, that IT, DO agents of the only non
partisan body In the Union, the Supreme Court. VIC
have been driven this in England, and IL Is ar
more necessary In America. In this country the maj
authority az to the fairness OF election the only per
son who can order ballot to be unsealed, Is Judge ana
in this country no single election hands the Admin
istration to n party for term OF years
The SATURDAY. RCriep insists that legislative conflict
Imminent It says: 1.-THE votes are counted by tie
President Of tie Senate the presence OF both Houses
OF Congress- and It was formerly held that neither the
Senate nor the House had power 10 interfere Recent
Dreeedents point rather coordinate power OF both
yyousss 70 reject doubtful votes II the Republican can
didote IA returned the Ouse OF Representatives, VIII
nrnhably reject tho OF Florida and LOUISIANA NOT
~ outH CaroirA: IL Is understood that te Stnate
will dispute the competency of the House ~ meddIc VITA
nc returns. anlt is difficult TO the result OF such
colsDu between the two branches OF the Lcgislhtfc
A claimant TO the Presidency 10 whom etucr
the Senate or the House refused recognition
could hardly assume the powers OF lhc ONCE.
Ts Standard evidently expects the use OF armed lOfce
which IL says will give shock 10 Inc consul Suc
~ n my never recover from, and VIII endanger the
OF The country and not improbaby the existence
Of the Union The Times says the DcinOcrais Gre pIhe
ticnlly poWcrl0-s. The EeOnOntst Is colIdtlt that
tbs country Is not going 10 tine "bOwwows" III saws
No doubt the South viii be very much more deeply
discoptufed il Hayes be chosen than the Norh VIII
h n Wr dc be chosen and tie disappointment III the
first case will Ike unfortunate and may ead even 10 l
cjef Rut IL Is hardly possible for serious ana pefa
nent nocal mischief 10 bcfall people 70 sober
minded aud so keen as the Americans. Whatever mis-
chief re suits from this unfortunate capter oI
thc good sense OF the American people VIII before IohS
we do not doubt, find the means 10 remedy ncls ~
not country In which. the saying Is, the worst
Games 10 tho worst II may be excused iOr tle APP
parent bull the United states the worst Is very ap' W
come TO the better"