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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29
Tile HHEAT CORNER.

The great corner in wheat at Chicago and
Milwaukee has caused no little disturbance
during the past week. But for that great
speculative movement it is safe to say that
there would have been fewer kilograms for
warded indicating n comparative failure of
crops Early in July it became known that
the wheat market at Milwaukee had been
largely oyersold, and powerful combina-
ton to put up the price began to make
itself felt IL was soon announced that this
combination believed itself able TO take all the
wheat that would be offered, and the price was
steadily advanced from 94c. for No. Mil
waukec on the LIST to 81 OLA on the 22d
instant, although the receipts in the third week
of the month amounted to 452,350 bushels
much more than double the receipts during the
corresponding week last year. The combination
soon found it necessary to extend its operations
to Chicago, and the price of No. 2 wheat
also advanced there Sl2 cents from July 1
TO July % But last week the battle became
fierce the price of No. 2 Milwaukee was
pushed upward to 81 1914, and of No. 2 Chi
cago to 81 05li. If is not necessary to say
that these prices are entirely fictitious and
forced, and are not based at all upon any
estimate Of the probable demand and supply
hereafter. Actual receipts at both cities are
larger than they were last year. after the har-
vestng of an enormous crop was assured, as
the following comparison of quantities re-
celved will show;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

AT Martha's Vineyard a Summer school has
been started for such lnveterate students as
persist in their application even during vaca-
ton times. A letter on another page gives
some account of this rather informal institute,
which has its corps of professors and hundred
students, and no doubt adds the zest of a
little labor to leisure that might otherwise be
wanting in variety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

General Butler has just furnished the Demo
cratic party with an excellent bit OF staircase
politics-he tells just how Mr.. Tilden might
have made himself President and satisfied his
Democratic critics, who seem to think that
man can seize his own coat-cOllar and hoist
himself into any Office to which he takes
fancy. 1t would only have been necessary
for Governor Tilden to intrench himself III
this city with the New-York militia about him,
and then to send a commission to Congress
asking recognition as President. Then the
price of bonds might have fallen 30 per cent,
and majority of both houses might have
taken the alarm, and, to put an end to trouble,
might have sent him bills to sign and mes
sages to read. If this had happened, the Cen
eral triumphantly asks, would there not
have been change in the Government of the
United States just as there was in the
Government Of Louisiana, and ex-COngressman
Morey says he has not the least doubt OF 1t.
1t is to be hoped that this statement of But
lerian possibilities will be kept from the
knowledge of that ligneOus old person, ex-
Governor WOOdsOn, of Missouri. Mr.. Wood
son was lately publicly indignant because Mr.
Tilden did not take tremendous Jacksonlan
oath that he had been elected, and then
proceed to take the office. Mr.. Wood
son is under the impression that man can
take the Presidency in the same way that he
takes horse-car, or with the same easy dis
patch that the Western Democracy takes its
drinks. No one could answer for the conse-
quences if Mr. WOOdsOn should suddenly dis
cover that shrewd politician who was Re-
publican when Mr.. TIlden was a candidate
believed that he might have taken" the
Presidency by relying on the well-known re-
bellious spirit of the New-York militia, and
the hystcrical tendency of Government bonds
to shrink one-third in value on every possible
OCCASION
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

Lord BeaeoDsfeld has publicly pronounced
MIR. Gladstone ga sophistical rhetorician inebri-
" atcd with the exuberaree of his own YER
''bosity and egotistical imagination" 1t may
be- that American politics cannot claim an ex-
ceptional dignity, but there is at least one
English-speaking country where it would not
be considered decOrOus for the leader of a
great party to heap such epithets upon his
rival.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

Persons tearing torn for he season. and Summer
frarelers can hOre The DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
them. postpaid. for 81 per month, The address being
changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

but are not really intended TO convince. BE &c.
composites n remarkable and certainly very serious
public achievement, aud the people laugh and clan
their bands as il il were the feat of an acrobat.
He is rewarded with place in the peer
age and they laugh again. and admire his
new coronet as il. they Thought that of course
the jewels being his, must be paste.
and the gttering metal only Grass. He returns
from the Congress conaueroT. anu the hamorists
of London would bring him into the city on the
back of an elephant Us If he were performer at
Astleys. while the graver Of opinion, carried
away by the general disposition to regard Lord
Beaconsfed joke, invent for him ridiculous IT,
ties and burlesque honors. He win be remembered
IN history the statesman who had nation OF fol-
lowers, and no believers.
One Of themany advantages which have combined
thus far to render New York City one of the most
charming Summer resorts on this side of the
equator is the facility with which can get away
from it on an excursion boat. Good steamers carry
you, by cool and pleasant voyages. to multi
tude of aIluring spots on the neighboring
bays and rivers, where the gentle roar of the surf
harmonizes with the yells of the bathers. and the
2ungent perfume of beer mingles with the more
poetic aroma of the placid clam But if the excur-
sion business Ia not better managed weshal lose
of the chief attractions of the metropolis. On most
of the regular and best known routes, the police
arrangements we believe are good, and the yoya gers
are orderly and respectable. But there in
Vulnerable special excursions, conducted by
coteries" clubs" etc. etc. with the assistance Of
barges, tugs. and whiskey, which need great deal
of looking after. They rayage the shores upon
which they descend. and then they make night
hideous as they float home, drunk and fighting, by
the light of the moon. 1t is not easy to exactly
what is to be done when three four hundred ruff
fans see fit to hire boat and take their girls out
for a little riot on the RIVER for of course the
city cannot send a platoon Of police on every
boat. And yet it would seem that the
law which protects Bath and other shore villages
from having dead hogs cast up their beach should
protect them tortiori, from live 1t is diff
fcult question. Perhaps Mr.. Buffers Committee.
which seems to have regular work at present,
could take up tins branch of the garbage nvestiga
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

a week and the dividends on a fve-dollar
share. He has lost all his real estate, has no
iewelry, and no furniture, even. This is one
of the most singular of the many mysterious
cases of distress with which the courts are
filled nowadays. Probably there is no other
instance on record in which the editor OF
paper with an alleged circulation OF half
million copies was in such restitution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

The Potter Committee express themselves not ut
all pleased with Atlantic City, and glad TO get away
They say twas the mosquitoes that troubled them.
We suspect it was the witnesses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29


The bank statement of Saturday has been
loosely called unfavorable, though the only
decline in reserve results from the enormous
purchases of per cent bonds. In view OF
the magnitude of these purchases, it is only
surprising that the banks report loss OF not
more than $2,3O6,0O0 in specie, and it may
be inferred that Government deposits with
some of the banks have been increased. The
price of gold has remained very steady,
Notwithstanding these operations, because
nobody ventures to risk money that
the premium will go higher and large
coin payments by the Treasury are about to
commence. Possibly Mr.. Sherman might
wisely consider the prOpriety OF paying out
at once for the ordinary expenses OF the Gov
eminent, some part of the gold received from
sales of bonds. Such q course would relieve
the market ard the banks, accelerate ms
preparations for resumption, and cause sun
larger sales of per cents hereafter so that
an ample supply of coin would flow in before
the later calls for 6 per cents mature.
The Washington dispatches show that there
has been no increase of bank circulation dur
ing the month, az was anticipated, but de-
crease of about $500, 1000, of which 1927, 100
was surrendered by New-YOrk banks alone
last week. The withdrawal OF bonds deposited
for circulation last week was unusually large,
amounting to $2,144,OOO, and exceeding by
nearly one million the deposits of bonds.
Present indications are that the currency will
continue to shrink for some time. The in
crease of 1865, 700 in the legal-tender reserve
of the Newly ork banks shows that the out
flow usual at this season has not yet COM
menced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

1t is dscouragIng to learn that Labor Reformer
Keaney the owner of three OF four trucks" This
will never do. In view ofthe increasing poverty ofthe
working classes, it is the duty of the Legislature,
as the Syracuse platform observes, ito limit the
growth of monopoly IN trucks, and save the citizens
from the great abuses in truck transportation that
now prevail and make serious inroads upon the bus-
ness prosperity of all classes of citizens" To this
end we call for the appointment of Board of Truck
Commissioners, consisting of men whose business
does not identify them with trucks to ascertain the
actual cost of horse transportation and to devise
scheme for the control of trucks by the State. AS
for Kearney he must step down and ont. We cam
not have any bloated truck owners in the new Re-
public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

One of the London weekly journals of scandal and
gossip mentions the fact that number of ladies
well-knowu in fashionable society-their names are
printed in full" sat about under the trees in the
Park on recent Sunday afternoon, with their
feet on ths grass" but they were "soon literally
mObbed and had TO beat a retreat" Later on"
continues the Lady's-Mad's and Wallets Own
Chronicler, II saw hundreds of people
collect opposite Miss Crage Halket and
simply stare her out of eountenance;" and
he asks. :" Have English people lost all sense OF
manners ~ In journalism apparently they have. 1t
is rather startling picture which this writer pre-
sents of the customs of the pOpulace in Hyde Park;
but we do not know that the mob is any ruder than
the newspaper
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

No morning paper Is complete nowadays without
the story of mysterious assault upon some woman.
1t is always the victim herself who makes the COM
plant and describes the appalling incidents of the
outrage. She has been chlorofoTmed and bound.
She has been tossed into bath-tub. She has been
called to the front door at suddenly smoth
cred in a sack. She has been snatched away
in a cOal-bIack hack with dashing steeds and
grewsOme driver. She has been locked into hor-
rible but gorgeous chamber in some unacceptable
street As a rule she is thrilling as dime novel,
as contradictory and incoherent as The Daily Fly
Oobbler The masks, gags and dark lanterns the rude
hands, the whole paraphernaia of outrage, exist only
in her infaned imagination. And we need not be
at all surprised that the deluson reappears almost
daily in the same FORM Manias of this sort
VIGOROUSLY contagious. One wel-told narrative Of
a sensational outrage is sure to persuade score
of hysterical that they, too, are prosecuted
by midnight visitors, and that every passing gidd-
ness is the effect of deadly drug.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

A correspondent gives us a glimpse else
where of quaint old university town In
Sweden, the seat of the lesser of the two uni
versities Of that country, where Charles XII.
lived and Pufendorf was professor. Lund
seems to contain examples of almost all the
other grades of schools, so that description
of Its institutions of learning is near to being
description of the Swedish system of educa-
ton. The peculiarities of this system have
an interest almost equal to that of the vener-
able features of famous town.
Comparisons Of clearings and railway earn
ings with those of corresponding weeks last
year have now become valueless for the time,
because one year ago shipments, mails and
exchanges were suddenly arrested by the
great strike. 1t may be said, however, that
the returns for last week show general I'M
proyement in the condition of business. Inn
ports were small, and again fall far below
those of the corresponding week last year
but exports, excepting of specie, continue
large, and there is no room to doubt that do
nestle trade is of unusual magnitude for the
midsummer season.
1t was sufficiently sad that Mr.. Shupe should
be turned out Of the Syracuse Convention
and be compelled to eat bis humble pie on
the doorstep outside; but there was no ex-
cuse. except the irrational desire of one of
his creditors TO get his money, for compelling
Mr. Shupe to disclose IN court the fact that
his income as editor of the leading Ma
.tlonal paper is limited to salary Of $50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-29

In the eclipse as it will appear at this point to-
day. rather more than half of the suns surface will
be covered by the moon, aud the phenomenon viii
be one of considerable interest. although
there will be no marked decrease in the
amount of the suns light The eclipse begins
at Az p M, and the moon Will first appear
at an angle of 1876 degrees to the right of the high
est part OF the SUMS disk that is il the sun be rep
resented by watch held upright with the figure
XII at the top the dark body Of the moon will first
be visible at point nearly midway between Nv and
" In looking out for it, the eye will need to be pro-
tected. C0lOred glasses-green OF red-wIll do, but
ordinary smokedglass is handler and perhaps better
The weather in New York is likely to be fine but in
Colorado and Texas where the eclipse is total, the
indications are less favorable. pointing to clouds
ana light rains accompanying an area Of low
barometrc pressure, which is now just east OF the
Rocky Mountains.
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
A Tunnel Costing -Four Million Dol
lars.

The Virginia City CNev) Chronicle
says: Ground was broken for the Sutro
tunnel, on the 10Th Of October, 1869.
The work has therefore required eight
years, eight months and ten days to CON-
plete. The progress was very slow at
first, all drilling having been by hand; {;
but in the spring of 1874, experiments
with Burleigh drill having demonstrat-.
ed the advantages to be derived from the
use Of that machine, carriage capable of
supporting six of those drills while at
work was made, and on the 22d day of
June, 1874, four were started. The progress
was now much more rapid than ever be-
fore IN the history of tunneling in the
world, and on August 7, in the same
year, two more drills were put to work.
this made six altogether. From that
date the average progress was over 300.
feet per month to up April. 1877, when,
the header having entered the broad
Comstock mineral belt, the heat became
so intense that two drills had to be taken
off the carriage. From that day the aver
age monthly progress did not exceed
$50 feet Work has been continued un-
interruptedly from the time that ground
was broken until to-day,at times only two
men were at work in the tunnel The
greatest progress was in December. 1875,
when the heading was advanced At
feet, and the least in October when it
was only advanced nineteen feet. The
total length of the tunnel, as stated in
the official chart published last Septemb.
ser, is 20, ,270teet. The tunnel being con-
nected with the Comstock workings, the
next move of Mr.. Sutro will doubtless be
to start north and south drifts to connect
witt, all the mines on the lode; The
work has cost naerly. s., ,000, 900. -.
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
PERSONAL IND funITICAL.

PERSONAL IND FunITICAL.
s Joseph Naudel, the French historian
is dead. IS. - S# 5
The British parliament was prorouged
August 18th. 81 .sS W. o., u
Attorney General Devens has left
Washington, on visit to Massachusetts.
Postmaster General Key, is about tc
make Western trip, extending to California.
Col. Rereshaw, the we'll known mill.
tary author, killed himself in Zurich, switzer-
Queen Victoria has invited LORD Bea-
consfeld, England's idol for the hour, to visit
her at Osborne. s92@2 - s1<sz'>'1s2 I2At<:;'
Queen Victoria's speech prorouging
Parliment, was published in the United States
morning daily papers, Of August 10th.
:. A public reception to- Gen. Grant, has
been given at frankfort, by the authorities Of
that city. It was held in the Palmer Garden.
John H. Raymond, President and pro.
fessor of mental and moral philosophy
Vassar college, died at his residence at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, August ID, aged 81 years
The Attorney general of South Carolina
reached Washington August 18th, for consulta.
ton with Attorney general ,Devens He de-
livered a personal message to President Hayes
from Gov. Hampton. The conflict of authori.
ty between the State Government of South
Carolina and the United States Government
is the subject matter of his visit, :
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
Snutf-Dipp1ng.

An Atlanta (Georgia) paper says that
it is not generally known to what an ex-
tent the practice of dipping snuff is car
ricd in some sections Of our Fair South,
nor how matrons and young gills of in
telligence and high social standing are
slaves to habit that gradually under
mines their health, skaters their nerves,
and too often insidiously opens the door
TO the terrible opium habit. Snuff dip
ping is demoralizing in the first instance,
because in most cases it fosters conceal
ment and deceit. The habit is kept
secret from parents and friends. We
know daughters whose snuff boxes are
concealed in their rooms, where they
use it constantly without the knowledge
of their parents. We have seen at boaro-
schools girls 60 into Mysteries when de-
prived of their snuff, and borrow tobacco
from the servants, as substitute, until
they could obtain Their usual stimulant
Of Scotch and Maccaboy, and we are
we'll acquainted with three sisters beau
tiful young girls, were it not for the sal
low hue furnishing their compilations
who are at present under medical treat
ment for derangment of the nervous
system, and digestive organs, arising
from the constant use of snuff. Their
physicians have assure them that it was
the cause of the disease thus bli ghting
their young lives, and that medicine
must be in vain as long as the practice
was continued; and still they cling to
their snuff-bottles as persistantly as the
topper to his demijohn. And this when
they know that the vile poison nourishes
the worm disease at the root Of life,
silently, slowly, but surely destroying it
ere its prime; for aside from the filth
ness OF this habit, the constant drain OF
the sallvary glands throw the delicately.
balanced system out Of order, and bring
on train Of diseases to render life in
supportablY ,burdensone.
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
ss'reaZieS.o

One ofthe strangest things con lected
with the fine woolen cloth manufacture
is the use of the common teazle, which as
yet no invention has superseded, and
which is to be seen growing in the fields
in many districts in the West, yielding
the farmer very fair, profit: After the
cloth has been woven and secured, to re-
move the oil which has been added to 1t
in the spinning, it. is .ful1ed, "a process
which col sists in beating it by heavy
hammersEfor a considerable time; then it
is secured again, and then teazled. This
is accomplished by means of q cylinder,
which revolvcs upon the cloth with these
teazles attached to it. By thismeans all
the loose woolly particles are raised up
SO that they can be clean cut of, and thus
make easily a very fine glossy finish. SO
effective is the teazle for its purpose that,
though several inventions have been tried
in its stead among others, peculiar
.contriyance of wire fixed into leather
band-none of them have been found in
the least to approaehit Nature here as
serts her superiority to science. England
produced only about 3one-third of the
teazles needed for the cloth, manufacture,
the others being imported from, the con-
dnet. These foreign teazles are said by
the manufacturers to be By far the best
Good Words.
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22
Milwaukee Produce Market.

GRAIN-Wheat opened firm and Hc higher, and
closed unsettled; No. j. $1.12; No. 2 1.O6A August
1.OsK; September 88Ac; October 96Mc; No. g. SIC.
Corn easier; No. q 500. Oats easier; No. old 22Ac;
No.2 old cash $1.l5; new 1906 September l.0.
PROvISIONS-Easier and quiet; mess pork $1O:5O
cash and August. Lard, prime steam $3.50. { 2 !
Chicago Produce Market ~
GRAIN-Wheat active; No. red winter 98H @99c.
No. 2 do g7A@98c cash; e8c August; osh septem
Der; No. Chicago 98Ac cash and August; 94Hc
September; 93c October; No. 8 Chicago 66K@87c.
Corn fair demand; lower rates; 38Hc cash and Sep
tember; 391c October; rejected 36hc. Oats steady;
good demand; 22214c cash; 221@22hc September;
l32X@23c Octobeh; rejected 1870. Rye good de.
mand; lower rates; bOc. Barley fair demand; $114H
September; 1.12H October. ~ 42G& 3il
PROVISIONS-Pork heavy, acive, weak and low
er; $40 O7h@D1O.10 cash and September; 10.22h0
1925 October; sales 1O.10010.AO September. Lard
irregular, active, weak and lower 7.3607.37H cash,
September and October. Bulk meats ,dun; $6.62h
@6.87h. S'ES%2 s2's<Sss 81 '-1 - ."&
New York Produce Market.
@& GRAIN-Wheat, winter opened 1c higher; closed
irregular and more active; spring $1.16t; No. Mill
waukee do 1.19; No. Chicago 1.14: ungraded red
liz: No. new L13O1.14; steamer No. 2 do 1.O9A
ungraded amber 1.07@1 1917 No. 2 do 111A91l2H;
Nos do 1.1311; steamer No. 4 do 1.09h@1.1Q; un.
graded white L1O0I22: No. do LIZ; Nos . do LA
steamer white 1a01.18h; do state 1:21h; receipts
269OOO bushels sales S90, 600 bushels. Rye firm
western 6a065c. Barley nominal. Malt quiet. Corn
declined kc; moderate business; ungrsded 46049zsc;
No. 3, 47A0474c: steamer 4oc; steamer yellow
5O4e; steamer white 54kc; receipts 1900 bushels;
cefpss III 900 bushes; sales 6S 600 bushels: No.
3O40Hc; No. 2 SIC; do white 324@3Sc: No.
3OHc; No white s703714c; mixed 27033hc;
mixed state 3O033c: white 310S7c. ~ ~ {
Little Falls transcript., 1878-08-22

and the impromptu duel was soon to take
place. DR.. Hill said, ''Well, sir, I'm ready
at, the > Same time drawing Q 5derringer.
Major scroggins said, "And SO am I. May
the Lord have mercy on us both - With
that he fred twice in rapid succession, neith-
or shot kjng effect. The doctor fred once,
killing his antagonist Instantly. He then
rode back home and told the awful news.
Friends carried the majors remains off for
burial, and the doctor gave himself up.
F. The greatest excitement prevails, though
DR.. Hill is justified in the opinion of the
puplic. The deceased was quite prominent
farmer and politician. DIR. Hill is Baptist
minister of great popularity and usefulness
III this section of the State, and has written
several orthodox works, which have received
the commentator of his brethren.