New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-28
old man. and would hardly have killed him az 1t has
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old man. and would hardly have killed him az 1t has
this degenerate descendant
General Butler is represented as saying IN an IN
tervew concerning the defeat of Simmons that iour
years ago he pledged his reputation for slmmonss
uprightness and ability, and that that person had
fully justified his confidence in him. No one WIN
venture to galnsay General Buffers statement We
do not know to whom he pledged his reputation;
there has been nothing in his career during these
four yeas to indicate that 10 in pawn nor any
thing 10 show that he has redee med il but II his
maintaining the same old reputation is any sign
that Simmons filled the bill for which II was Pledged
there can be no further question abOut it. But sup
pose simmons had failed after General Sutler had
"pledged his reputation for hm-what we beg to
know. would have become Of the holder OF the
pledge
For several days past the zodiacal light has been
Noticeable. and Yesterday evening was specially
distinct and prominent. Its base on the western
HORIZON was about twenty degrees wide, and though
the outlines of the edges not sharply Defined,
the cone OF soft, white light could easily De traced
through Aries the RAM beyond the planet Mars as
far as tho Pleades. The light IL usually seen Ill
these ATTITUDES after sunset in March, ana Dei"re
sunrise in September, but at the equator II Is VisDe
nearly all the year round Astronomers are not YET
able to tell us what it is. Ncwcomb inclines to the
belief that it is reflected sunlight. probably from
an immense cloud of meteOrods filling up the space
between tho earth and the sum-" but admits that
further researches must be made before any sound
conclusion can be reached.
The appointment Of Mr.. Drnkwater rs honorary
Commissioner to tho Paris Exposition. from Name
is announced. There seems to be a singular htness
in this appointment. The State of Maine IS known
abroad chiefly as the originator OF the prohlpitory
liauor law Ii being quite impossible to place on
exhibition fair sample Of the results OF that law
what ,tter could be done than send over man
who was named after it This sounds like one OF
Mrs. Hayes appointments. There are several
Senators who ought TO get acquainted with DIihh-
water before he starts He ought at least to leave
his card printod very loud) with them to study on
in his absence.
The untmely fato of Simmons is an awful warn
ing to machine men who mediate an abandonment
of their evil ways. To the machine man who allows
himself to be regenerated and who, as reformed
civil servant attempts to do works meet Tor repent
ance there remains under "the rules only a lear
fn looking for of judgment and fiery indignation
II he wants to be let alone, the machine man must
never init that he is not tightly joined to his
idols.
Chalmers of Mississippi. has also had his innings
and in a very Southwestern way, has denounced
neople for reviying sectional anlmOslties." Like
all the rest of Them Chalmers showed that he was
shotted To the muzze with sectional aninosty him.
self but then lie was aimed at the other
section When a man is charged with sectional
animosty, it makes all the difference in the world
which end of him is pointed toward the Gulf OF
Mexico.
The people of the South keep insisting that their
great need is capital for the development OF theIr
resources" The gcntic methods they arc adopting
will be likely to allure large amounts OF 1t from the
vaults of the Shylocks.
In 1874 South Carolina scaled down her bonded
debt more than 20 per cent, and now she assigns
rs a reason for repudiating the remainder her own
criminal neglect TO scale in deeper while she was
about it.
Southland has been suddenly made famous by the
man who engendered the scheme for Presidential
tripiets.