New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-28
MYSTERIOUS BARNEY.

Mr.. Barney DOnahue, the professional organ
izer of strikes, is in the Jail at Bath, n. ~ or
was there on Friday last, very much astonlshed
10 find that the necessary bail Tin 5000 had
not been put in by his friends and admirers.
He at once addressed letter to the editor OF
a neighboring newspaper, announcing that ne
intended .to send man on horseback to COM
"municate with parties at IIornelsville." Mr..
Donahue, in his Communication, also avoWcu
himself not little irritated by the failure OIL
his lawyer, Mr.. Miles Hawley, to put In an
appearance" The bail by this time may
have been procured and the dilatOry attorney
may have shown himself, but the injury to Mr.
Donahue's feelings cannot easily be atoned for'
That his hurt must have been great is evident
from the mysterious manner Ill when ne eA-
presses himself against what he calls "a grasp
cling illogical lot of premature cormOrants, VINO
"would SO much disturb the political economy or
"events, that they still think they hold the
"balance of power" There is something
very important in the mere suggestion or
ga grasping, illogical lot of premature
"cormorants." Any cormOrsnt is unpleasant,
but i'm the name of Audubon and OF all other
ornithologists, what is "a premature cOrmO-
"rantr7 Is he hungrier as to his stomach and
fussier rs to his feathers than a mature one
A "grasping cOrmorant" we can understand,
but really an illogical one is as curious as a
dodo or phoenix. Are there any cormorants
who are given to the study of Archbishop
Whatey, and so are "logical"P Moreover, 1t
is by no means clear exactly what Mr.. DOnahue
means when he says that these illogical cor
morants disturb the political economy or
"eyentsr; but mark also the other bOthera-
ton! These most reprehensibe birds " so
"much disturb the political economy OF
"events that they still think that they can
"hold the balance of power" How much
must the political economy of events be
disturbed before the cOrmorants can think that
they hold the balance of pOwer9 And what is
the balance of power which the cormorants
hold by the novel process of disturbing the
political economy of events 2
We give it upl The premature cormorants
are too much for us-the whole grasping and
illogical lot We have only to warn Mr.. Bar
ney Donahue that they may prove too much
for him. especially if they have ever been his
friends. If he lives long enough, he will find
himself doomed to even greater disappoint-
ments. The oftcner lie gets into Jail, the
slower he will find the bail in coming. The
more frequently he makes drafts upon the peck
cts of his admirers, the less he will get out of
them. The kind of popularity which he has
enjoyed is the most eyanescent of all things in
this shifting world. In little while, whether
he is incarcerated or excarcerated, nobody, of
all his long tail of admirers, will care a farth
ing. Ere many moons have waxed and waned,
he will be nobody. Then when Obscurity comes
to him, and poverty when he is denied the
poor consolation of making mischief, idling
about and talking with whoever will listen TO
him, how hard he will be upon the cormorants,
and how little the cormOrants viii care for
The DOnahue!