New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-18


improve off-hand the paper promises of Gov
eminent which has had recourse to fragrant
reputation. We have in this country great
many unapplied devices for improving the
finances, which are at the service OF
the Porte, but we surmise it will have at
length to adopt the old-fashioned plan Of
earning more and spending less before it can
reGstablish its credit. First of all it must
abolish the Treasury's printing press-the
only one to which it allows any liberty.
Isaac Cohen, who passes around hat In
Washington and advises the unemployed to
plumber and burn if they cannot get work, has
been going about the departments with pack
of curb-stOne tramps at his back and
muttering, owe, the people" With one ex-
ception, the officials received him with re-
markable degree of Difference, and even con-
descended to pass the compliments of the sea-
son with him. 1t is a wonder that they did
not look up FarTar and the Federalist
and discuss with him the preamble
in all its bearings In one Office, however, he
was set down as pestilent nuisance, and meas
ures were taken to abate him. Like
Kearney, in San Francisco, he will be discharged
after paying a small fine, and his night Of
bondage will give him prestige among the
restless and turbulent classes.
Cleveland furnishes the Ohio Chamber of
Horrors with a companion picture to the Har-
risOn grave-rObbery. The remains of an inilu-
entail resident were inferred one afternoon IN
WillOughby Cemetery only to be found the
next morning in tank underneath floor III
q medical college. The municipal authorities
did not wait to receive explanations from
any one, but arrested the Dean, several mem
bers of the Faculty, the janitOr and
a number of students. Indiscriminate arrests
are unwise, although they may fit the humor
of the public. The detectives i'll this case
certainly ought to be able to ferret out not
only the ghOuls who stole, the corpse, but the
agents of the medical school who hired or en-
couraged them to do it; and when the
guilty men are discovered there Ought to
be some way of Furnishing them and
making their CRIME terribly Odous. If the
State statutes are at fault, the Legislature
should lose no time in mending them. 1t Is
very simple matter to regulate the supply OF
subjects for the dissecting-rOOms.
The notorious gambler and jack of all evil
"The " Allen, has been playing with revolt
ver and killing his dear friend Eddie NAL
10y. They were sitting together in his gam
bling rooms as friendly and cOntented as two
brothers with strawberry marks on both
shoulders and while they were toying with a
brand-new revolver, Eddie was shot dead
as a partridge. WhereuPon the terrified "The"
ran to Police Headquarters, held up his blood
stained hand and, gasping for breath, told
what awful deed had been wrought. touch
of mysteries at the close OF the recital added
70 its dramatic effect. Entirely accidental, he
saws, and probably the COroner's jury will have
to take his word for it, as there is no one to
contradict him for there were only two men
in the room when the revolver went of, and
only one now lives to tell the tale. Neverthe-
less. the public will shrug its shoulders; not
because ''The is a disTeputable fellow, nor
because the Aliens are a bad lot. but because
the theory of accidental death taxes credullty,
A pair of gamblers who have carried arms all
their Iives-one of them a private detective
moreOyer-can under ordinary circumstances
be expected to handle new revolver without
setting it off. Imagine Oakhurst making a
clumsy blunder such that
The Democratic rd-mOney leaders aban-
doned the field in Connecticut. They did not
wait to throw out skirmIshers or to send out
n flag of truce. They retired with indecent
haste without firing gun or having any sort
of dress parade. Early in the day, ere the
dew was off the morning cock Senator
Eaton folded his tent and stole away. with
Burr sticking close to his heels. Governor
Ingersoll Joined in the retrograde move
mont and, from force of early habit
Mr.. Barnum was also absent when tho roll
was called. Without striking blow or mar
sballing their hosts, the Greenback men were
masters of the field. SO complete and unex-
pected was their victory that they lost their
heads and neglected to raise their cOlors The
Committee on Resolutions included thirteen
of their own men, with only eight hard
money men against them-and these were
moderate-alack extremely moderate and yet
the platform which was set up was neither
soft nor hard, nor anything except pulpy. In
fact, it can be summed up briefly: &" Resolved,
"That we don't believe-Or say that we be-
"lieve anything in particular, but we want
"eyerybody's vote" The supremacy of the
Greenback faction was an acknowledged fact,
and it was unnecessary to lay stress upon it in
the platform, especially as the hard-mOney
men had been so accommodating as to get out
of the way betmes.
THE BUTLER CONVENTION.
General Butler yesterday at Worcester i'm
itated the cuckoo, which usurps the nest of
tho lark. bustles out any young that it may