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New-York tribune., 1878-06-08
lcRTCULTURAL COLLEGES.

Mr.. Burnsides bill TO establish a fund to be con-
secrated to the education of the people, which was
lately put on the Senate calendar is hardly so asD
ING in ITS paternalism as Mr. Hoars bill, which was
introduced last November. Mr. Burnside's attempt
TO 'do goodD has one feature, however, which IS
worth little attention. This consecrated fund IS
to he derived n1 from the net proceeds of patents;
that is, from the extra charges which inventors
nav the Government for transacting their business
beyond the amount which that business
actualy costs and ~ from the net proceeds OF the
public lands whenever the annual expenditures OF
the General Land Office and it's branches happen to
be less than the annual receipts.
One-third of the interest on Mr.. Burnsde's
fund after he gets it. is to be annually appropriated
to the more complete endowment Of the agricultural
colleges in the various States, aud just here 1t
would be well for Congress to pause and reflect
little before voting for Mr. Burnsides bill. Under
the Act of s02 these colleges received very con-
siderable slice of the public dOmain-abOut 10000
600 acres or territory twice the size of the State
of Massaohusetts--and there is popular suspicion
that the number of trained farmers and me-
chanics which these institutions have turned
loose upon the agriculture and arts of our
country is not at all commensurate with
the volume Of the grant. 1t certainly has
NOT vet been demonstrated that the funds received
have been utilized in accordance with the spirit Of
the gift or ia a way to secure the best results.
When it is considered, too, that the prices received
for the lands and land scrip varied per acre. IN the
different States, from minimum Of IL Z cents to
maximum of s. 90, it is difficult to believe that the
grant was always disposed Of TO the best advan-
tage And if the philanthropists would also remind
themselves that the proceeds OF the National
bounty have in some of the States been invested
very recklessly to say tine least they would hardly
be in humor to throw any more good money into
pit which has already swallowed so much. Some
one ought to advise the amiable Senator
from Rhode Island. who does not appear TO
be thoroughly informed the subject, that there
is very little in the history of our agricultural col
leges as a class which ought to encourage him IN his
effort TO tax inventors for their support
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08
OFF TO FUROPE.

During these FIRST weeks of June the outgoing
steamers have been crowded as usual with Ameri-
cans who are off to Europe They are noticeably of
different class, however and are going with diff
ferent motive from those who make the ordinary
Summer exodus. There are fewer of the wealthy
class who run over to England France for the hot
season instead of to the mountains the sea-shore,
and scarcely any Of the usually large delegations of
clergymen teachers, middle-class business men and
their wives who for years have saved from their
scanty incomes the sum which will give them this
one great holiday in their lives. Men with small
incomes from trade or from salaries, are spending
very little in luxuries just now, and even the
wealthy class, whose money is invested in business,
prefer 10 remain at home to watch the markets.
There is another class, however, whose incomes
are derived from investments with which they can
not medde, who are going TO Europe this June to
Eemain there permanently until the times change
for the better They have less money to spend than
they had last year. and living is cheaper the
water. Ii will bring them larger returns in
pleasure, knowledge and beauty in everyday life if
they spend it in Italy or France instead of New
York. Besides nobody see them stint and save
in Europe. Plenty of bankrupt merchants went off
last week to Paris in halo Of delight, waited by
good wishes from envious friends and the
odors of countless floral offerings, who if they
had remained at home would have disappeared mis-
eraby IN the region of cheap boarding-houses OF in
come obscure Western town. We have been hearing
for years that trade of all kinds hotels. etc.. have
been made exorbitant in Europe by the vulgar ex-
travagance of the American tourist. We suspect
that shop aud hotel keepers will find out the other
side of hs character tins Summer. Americans who
have gone there to live will have as shrewd a care
OF the pennies as any Frenchman or Scotcbman, and
will be quick TO catch hints from their hosts TO
the best ways of caring for them. Americans are
not fools and they have lately found out that their
vulgar habit OF splurgng" has only made them
ridiculous, besides being the cause of their present
lean pockets.
The large majority Of visitors from this country to
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JnOex 10 AopernsemeuIs.

AnfusFHENTs-9m P00e-6th column.
BANKRUPT NOTCEs-SM id0c-4tb column
BOARD AND ROOMs-9N PQOe-5tb cOlumL
BUSINESS NOTICEs-4Lh PdOe-lst column
Coal AND WOOD--8h PQQG-2d column.
CORPORATION NOTICRs--Sth Page-3d column
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DRY GOODs-9M Pd0e-5th column.
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COUNTRY-sth P00e-3d column To ENCAANG-o"'
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sTEAMERs. OcEAN-5h Pd0e-6th column.
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~ WHERE THE SHOE PIYCHES."

"But those documents" cry the Democrats.
That Anderson has cOnclusively proved him
self the champion liar of the century, nobody
now denies. But Democrats say, unless his
"documents are shown to be false or
" fraudulent they give his assertions pain
"ful degree of weight" These documents
have by no one as yet been fairly and criti-
cally examined. " His assertions are of
three classes Q) That the election was
fairly carried by the DemOcrats s(2)
that Mr.. Sherman was informed that
n parish was to be thrown out
on forged or perjured protests, and
encouraged and promised to reward
the crime; 81 that Mr.. Matthews held a sworn
confession of the fraud by Anderson and
Weber, and yet lurged his appointment to
office. If all these assertions were true, there
would still be not q jOt of evidence that the
President even suspected that there had been
any fraud. He prohibited AndersOn's appoint
ment to any Office, as soon as he learned the
character of the man. His position Is as yet
wholly unassaied No other Republicans are
as yet assailed. save Kellogg, who is asserted
TO have engineered the fraud, and Sherman
and Matthews, who are asserted 10 have con-
sented TO it, and attempted to reward il.
|. AS to Mr.. Sherman, the only document
produced proves nothing whatever. Ii Ander-
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-Prinee Bismarck has proposed the dis
solution of the Reichstag. 80 Peace celebrations
are to be held in Cuba. So Count SchOuvaloff is
again at St. Petersburg. 80 The Oaks Stakes
were won by Lord Falmouth's Jeanette. = The
hull of the lost ironcad Grosser Kirfurs is broken
in two.
CoNGREss-In the Senate yesterday. letter was
read from Secretary GOrham asking what he should
do about answeriDgthe House subpoena duces tecnin
Mr.. Hoar, Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Edmunds, and others,
criticised the action of the House resolution was
adopted permitting Mr.. GOrham to answer the sum
mons of the House; the Army bill was then debated;
Mr.. Blaine offered an amendment for q special COM
mission to consider the transfer of the Indian Bu-
reau which was adopted; a discussion took place
on the use of the Army as a posse oOmiidtus. ==
In the House, Mr.. Kelley made personal explana-
ton in reply to an attack by Mr.. Wood in speech
printed in The Record which had not been delivered
In the House the General Deficiency bill was taken
up in Committee of the Whole; various claims OF
Naval contractors were incorporated into it.
DoMEsTIc-Secretary Thompson has sent a very
complimentary letter to Rear-Admiral Ammen, on
his retirement from active service -= The Presi-
dent sent large number OF letters IN rela-
ton to the Anderson matter to Mr. Potter s
Committee. yesterday, one Of them being
signed "John w. Bulldozer% the committee
spent several nOlfS ID secTeI beSSOn ONoI tho hou
isiana electoral returns the subcommittee In Flor
ida refused to allow Mr.. Hiscock to summon large
number of Republican witnesses. = New-YOrk
and other merchants are in Washington to
urge a tax Of Is cents pound on tea.
- Senator Wallace intends to propose the
creation of a Special Tariff Commission. -=
The Illinois Prohibtionists held a convention on
Thursday and nominated State officers. 60 The
Kensngtoa Iron and Steel Works of Philadelphia
has suspended. = Hathaway and Cbace, the
Fall River defaulters, were arrmgned for trial.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Judge Barrett decided that
he had jurisdiction to try the indicted Aldermen.
- A motion to quash the indictment of the
Health Board was argued. - The Grand Lodge
concluded its sessions. == The number of people
going to Europe unusually large even Tor this part
of the year. 80 Rapid transit is diminishing the
business Of the surface lines. - Gold 1Ol, 1O1,
1O1 Gold value OF the legal-tender dollar at
the close 90 cents. Stocks opened buOyant and e1-
cited, later reacted and closed unsettled.
The wRATHER.-TRBUNE local observations in
dicate threatening weather with rain at intervals.
Thermometer yesterday, Coz, 72o 800.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08
DIycRJvIN1TIYG EULOGY.

Mr.. Henry L. Clinton deserves great credit
for the ingenuity he displayed in the discrimi-
Mating eulogy which he pronounced upon Mr.
TIlden, before the Tammany General Commit
fee. on Thursday night. Mr.. Courtney was
clearly wrong in raising any objections to it,
In the present attitude of Tammany Hall
toward its late Presidential candidate it was
necessary TO find the vulnerable spot described
in Scripture as his fifth rib, in order to put
him permanently at rest as candidate
II would have been unseemly and
brutal TO have gone at him with a
club and disGgured his manly form, as is
sometimes done in primaries nor would it
have been quite the thing TO have sent Alderman
Purroy over to Gramercy Park to break his
Jaw. II was hardly an occasion for war paint
or scalping knife. Mr.. Clinton could teach
the Tammany braves trick worth two Of
that. 1t was a great deal better way that he
pointed out. To purT around him with soft
words, curl an aifectionate arm about his neck
and say, " Art chou in health, my brotherln and
meantime tumble round for his fifth rib and
slip knife under it this was more graceful
and polite, and withal more effective. 1t
might have been Mr.. Courtney's way TO beat
him over the head with an empty bottle or
strangle him with string of resolutions and
send the body of to the Moggue. 1t was not
Mr.. Chnton's. His way was to jrmounce a
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

the Paris Exposition have, it will be found. rons
there for business, not pleasure. Weearned in Phil
adeiphia that there is no market for goods or for
ideas like these international exhibitions. The
American has undoubtedly showed lack Of busi.
ness tact in falling to advertise his own wares IN
Paris, bat we predict that be VIII show none IN
bringing home merchantable ideas from there. He
does not trouble himself very greatly if Earoue
langls at his dental exhibit and lardpig provided
he gains some new points in science and art, which
he can bring back and turn into ready work and
ready money
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08
SILTER-E4ST IND VEST.


The absorption of silver by the East during
the past ten years, and its effect upon tinan-
cial legislation in the West, are exhaustively
discussed in letter which General John A. Dix
has received from "T. w" correspondent (and
kinsman) in Yokohama. The statistics which
ne has collated from various sources show
that the exports of silver from countries west
70 countries east of Egypt have risen from
500. 900, 600 in 1878 to over $100000,0O0
in 1877, and that the amount last year ex-
ceeded that of 1876, although the average
price was higher. He contends that the East
will absorb indefinitely all the silver that the
West will send her, and that it is even proba-
bile that the price will steadily rise as the Eu-
ronean surplus is reduced. He argues that
the West is madly playing into the
hands of the East, and in its eagemess
IN get rid of an arbitrarily created sur
Mus stock, is exchanging at ruinous
prices one of its most precious articles for all
sorts of perishable merchandise, the excessive
importatiOn of which even q free-trader like
Mr.. Rathbone, of Liverpool, regards as dan
eerous. He assumes that the total sum of
money IN circulation governs all prices. When
il expands, as it did after the gold discoveries
of 1s4s and 1850, prices rise, and the sun
shine Of prosperity penetrates everywhere.
The amount of money in circulation has
now been suddenly contracted by the ex-
pulsion Of a large quantity of silver, and, ac-
cordingly, all prices decline, and the process of
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NRy-YoRK AoUARIUM-Day ana Evening
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

The Committee on Appropriations, yesterday, did
a wise thing when they cut down the annual allow.
anoe for public printing by $325,000. And they
would do a wiser thing II they would cut IN stiil
deeper untilthe Government printing was altogether
restrained within its legitimate limits. All this bus
ness Of disseminating information which aIaLi-
tOus bureau chieftains are anxious to encourage
should be done away with at once. After the pub
lication in limited editions of certain documents.
which place in an accessible and con-
venent form such facts and figures as are
needed for intelligent legislation, the printing Of
other books with few exceptions can be safely
left to private enterprise. Either bureau IN
formation is valuable or it is not. II
not, Government has no excuse for med
ding with it. If it is, newspapers and book
publishers would gladly disseminate it, the public
would willingly buy it, and Government has no
more right to enter into competition with this III
dustry than it has to manufacture boots and shoes
or to cure hams.
An interesting letter from Mr.. Edison, on another
page, sets forth the grounds on which he claims
priority IN the telephonic inventions which PROBES
s0r Hughes has recently exhibited in London. 1t
must be granted on all hands that the discoveries
Of Mr. Edison suggested the line of experiment
which led to the micrOphOne, and it may prove
difficult to draw the exact line at which the English
instrument can claim any originality. As whole,
however it of simpler construction than previous
telephones, and it seems, according to the
accounts furnished, to have more remark
able powers. The most striking feature Of
Mr. EdsOns letter is his statement that he has been
betrayed as to these inventions by person who
was the agent for his telephone in Eng
land Considering the proyOcatiOn, Mr.. Edi-
son writes with great moderation and dignity.
He may be that the scientific world viii see to
it that he is robbed of Of the laurels he has
honorably and cOnspicuOusly won.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08
1rslness Nonres.

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great popularity Of this safe and acne
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ssfbna broBchs WhOOping cough scrOfuOus humors ana
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no one neglect early symptoms OF disease when an agent
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chest lungs on throat Manufactured only by A B. WLBoR
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Mensman's PeptOnized Beef Tonic IS the
only preparation Of beef containing It's entire nutritious
proper,eS It invaluable IN all enieebled condllonS
whether the result Of exhaustion, nervous plostat9Sl on
Overwork disease; and in every form OF ue-
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IT s friendly helpful the most delicate stomach A.
WE'LL HAzARD Co, prOpneOrs, 9th Ave HOtol Bunons'
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New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

chance, it will do no more than its sub-com-
mittee has already done in Florida. All Mr..
HiscOck's efforts to subpoena Republican wit
nesses were voted down yesterday by his Dem
Ocratic colleagues.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

Prince Bismarck's inte ntiOn to dissolve the
Reichstag and order a new election must
largely increase the agitation which Nobil-
ings crime has produced throughout Germany
The Prince declares bluntly that, as the
present Reichstag rejected the anti-So-
cialist bill submitted by the Government
last month, it would be profitless to
call q special session, and ask the pas
sage of another measure. In his hearty
hatred for Socialism, the Prince is no doubt
ready to turn the present commotion TO ac-
count and thereby secure more docile
legislature. The firm hold which the
Liberals have on Germany may, how
ever, prove too strong for him.
They have already fOrestalled this appeal to
the people by disaYowing fellowship with
political fanatics, and offering to pass extra
"ordinary measures to save and heal the State"
They will have likewise in their favor the prob
ability that NObiling will prove to be lunatic,
who would have defed all the laws that
human ingenuity can devise. The over zeal
of the authorities may also provoke irritation,
and deter the people from giving them the
srpport they would otherwise deserve. The
Reichstag, as now constituted, consists Of 397
members, who are chosen by universal suffrage
and ballot for the term of three years. AS
the number of electors is over 100000 the
social disturbance, which an election, under
the present circumstances, would cause.
threatens to be very great.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

DAILY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers $40 per annum.
SFAII-WERKIY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, S3 per an.
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Mail Subscribers 81 per annum.
Terms cash in advance
Uptown advertisers their favOrs for THE IRBUSE
Rt123s Slstst or 3OS W. 23st cor shave
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

Judge Kelley never dIdknOw when be was well
of. Mr. Fernando Wood printed a speech in
The Record instead of making it ID the House,
and Judge Kelley actually rose and COM
planned.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

1t is plain now why the South deserted Mr..
Hayes He wasn't consistent in his policy of
concEatiou--he disregarded the reasonable
request of "John w. Buldozer," of Louisiana,
that Anderson might be sent out of the cOun-
try for the eounfrYs good.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

Pesoas leariRg fOun for the season. and Summer
trareIes, can haze THE DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
them. postpaid. for 81 per month, the address being
changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

Anderson used to be more modest than he is
now. When he was full to the chin of ex-
plosive information which was liable at any
moment to blow the Administration to pieces,
he was willing to keep it all in if he could be
appointed Consul to Callao. He would even
90 to HankOw! Too cheap, James-also, too
thin.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

When the terrible explosion occurred last
Fall IN the High Bantyre Colliery, with a
loss of 215 lives, it was accounted the worst
of such disasters, with single exception, that
have happened in Great Britain. Yesterday
that gloomy record was surpassed in the hor-
rors of the Haydock COlliery, where 232
dead miners have already been drawn out OF
the pit In Scotland, Wales, Nova Scotia and
England, within less than twelvemOnth,
great slaughters of this kind, by the explo-
sion of fre-damp, have occurred successively,
and there have been several minor ones In
Great Britain. There has been much credit
Justly given to sllilful inventions and inge-
NOUS systems which were intended to
reduce the dangers of mining. The disasters
do not prove that the safeguards are
worthless; they indicate rather that for
every step of invention there has been
a parallel step in taking greater risk.
Mines that could not have been worked
at all before, are now filled with busy
laborers, and the chances for loss of life
have been little reduced. The frequency OF
such accidents is disgrace to the supervision
of mining which the British Government un-
darfaLpg
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

There is a fund of instruction for benevo-
lent people who have not yet learned the art
of wise giving in the letter from the Rev. K.
Heber Newton which we print on another
page. . Mr. Newton was one Of several
clergymen who were asked to distribute,
each in his own way, equal portions OF
an anonymous charitable contribution OF a
thousand dollars sent to the Editor of The
TRIBUNE. His letter shows what a vast deal
of good the small sum of 5000, judiciously
used, may accomplish in the hands Of an
earnest, unselfsh man, whose profession brings
him into daily contact with the deserving
poor. In this case it aided not less than
thirty OF forty families at oppOrtune times.
This money reached the class which needed
it most. Beggars and rich folk are well OFF
at all times, but there is no suffering like that
of the decent poor.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

The alleged forgery of Judge Levissee's
name to an electoral return from Louisiana
has given the Democratic press mid spasm
of delight But it is all over now. The regu-
lar return, all the signatures to which were
genuine, was counted for Hayes and Wheeler
and what puzzled the Potter Committee IN the
official reports of the Electoral Commission IS
found 70 have been merely clerical blunder.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

Mr. Muller's bill, appropriating money for a
stone building at the Battery for the Barge
Office has made marked progress, in spite Of
the opposition Of steamship companies. The
House Committee on Public Buildings is
unanimous in favor Of the measure, and a
speeial effort viii be made to pass 1t before
adjournment.
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

The Potter Committee charged Secretary
sherman with high crimes, and wholly neglects
the work Of prosecution. Secretary Sherman,
being an energetic person, offers to meet the
eommittee more than half way, and prove his
innocence. If the committee refuses him the
New-York tribune., 1878-06-08

The Senate has voted to refer the vexed
question of Indian administration to COM
mission; but in some respects, which are
pointed out in our Washington dispatches its
action has hardly been wise. 1t Is useless to
expect any more intelligent consideration OF
the subject from commission composed en-
tirely of Congressman than committees OF
Congressman have already given it, Mr..
Thurman's suggestion of a commission OF
prominent men outside of Congress would
have secured, if adopted, board much less
likely to be under political or corrupt IN
fluences than that which the Senate fayors.