New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-26

sentiment. probably, Oh SIZE efforts of tina
police, who were called In to make invest.
cations. These supernatural visitors. or alarmed
surmisers of them, not altogether infrequent In
New-York and other places, but Brooklyn has
hitherto enjoyed long immunity from their atten-
tions; and the appearance Of tho present one
whether on wicked or charitable intent, may be
regarded with more than usual ALARM on account of
its novelty. Its manners seem rather too rude and
violent for q ghost of any respectability-a
spectre that throws bricks and breaks win
dows is disgrace to its ordinarily silent and
peaceful, though CHASTITY and blood-curdllng
species. III tho police fail to arrest this one,
it might perhaps be offered on aldermanic nom
nation by the Mclaughlin Ring of the Democratic
party Its habits qualify it fes that distinction. and
once installed in Office it would probably cease
its midnight raids upon peaceful habitations,
and wreak its evil purposes upon society
through the agency of legislation. ghost
in the Municipal Council. with a brick in
one hand and volume of Revised Statutes IN the
other ready to cite the one or throw the other or
move the previous question, would be greater nov-
city and excite more legitimate interest than tho
same spectre prowling about areas aud backyards
and throwing innocent people into Mysteries.
Ii might have been warmer Yesterday, but it was
a good, bright honest Christmas Day, as fit as DOS
sible for the peculiar eDjOyments of the festi-
val. OF all the eighteen hundred and seYenty-eght
Chrstmases which have dawnod npon a grateful
world, none could have been more brilliant than the
last. The b0Rk0mie was of a quality which
could afford TO laugh at and full
of the healihiest of calOric. He must have
been a pretty frigid character who did not
carry a stcam-pipe inside of him hand casplng
hand gave and took q cordial temperature and the
moral thermometer marked 100 all day, and not in
the shade either for shade there was none.
And il must be remembered, too that this
little social respite from carking and bothera-
TONS tolerable and intolerable, came ut a
time when it was needed-when the poor
apt to be the poorest, when the
demand for subsidiary comforts somewhat
exceeds the supply; and when what are called
the times" have that quality which is
lamentabIy designated as hard Yesterday
there was general conspiracy to see what
might be won from the hard season gain
ing" if we may borrow from Milton, who
so fifty sang of Christmas. The New-Year which is
close at hand. holds in it good hope and sorrow.
Christmas, with its nvIgOratlng lessons, comes to
prepare us for either fortune, and 70 make us pa
tient when fayOTs are denied, thankful for fayors
given"
The barroOm bell-punch. which was to bring
5000, 900 annually into the treasury of Virginia,
has produced this year only $4,000 more than the
old system This is a fact for those who propose to
bring the tintinnabulatory device into use in New
York. Whether the people of Virginia grew tenn
perate suddenly or whether the bell was not regu-
larly rung isn't STATED but the bell Is compare
tive failure