New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-22

whole attempt will be given up Tor lack OF a
few sheets of copper overhead.
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When the doflulting treasurer of q corporation
makes a confession. and tells how he helped himself
10 the money and how he spent it, the statement
must be interesting to the plundercd stockholders
rs a mere qualification Of a natural curiosity, II
nothing more. Walter Payne, the late treasurer
Of the American Linen Company of Fan River,
albeit a fugitive in parts unknown, has been good
enough to leave behind confession in which he says
that his salary at first 60 300 small that he
and his family could not live on 1t. lie therefore
drew about $50. 900, which he charged to himself
ON an open book account. The book may have
pccu Oprn but as none of the directors saw fit TO
look into il, OF 10 do anything about the theft if
they did inspect it, il might just well have been
shut When Mr.. Payn,'s salary was raised, and
M, stock in the mill began to pay dividends
NE reduced this Indebtedness to $4,000 !;
Jut 40 the same time went using the money of
tie mill for " futures so thaJ he now owes il
about SIS 900. All OF which Is delightfully."- frank
and would b. still more so If the coufessor were in
the dock with reasonable chance of going 10 State
Prison. WHAT strikes as peculiar is Mr.. PayuGs
excuse for raising his own salary, and paying him
self without troubling the Directors. cit was at a
time" says he, when the cost of living double
what it is to-day" lie really appears to think that
he has some sort OF equitable defence. If ali officers
on salaries who think that they too small should
take this method Of equali2,ng matters, we should
have more defalcations than overland really we
think that we have enough already. 1t is to be
hoped therefore, t,'at Mr. Payuc's view Of what is
right and proper will not be generally adopted by
gentlemen on stillcuds, with expensive families
Tbcrc vyas q time not many wears a co when tbpra
was hardly any street-beggdry in New-York, but az
we have advanced in age and population this pic
tnresque luxury has become common enough
Children to be employed IN mcndicaucy are regu-
larry ordered from Italy. and as regularly con-
signed. There has just been case of this sort
exposed in the Jefferson Market Police Court. Two
pretty flower girls shown to be the regular
slaves Of padrone who sent them out every day and
kept them every night in the streets begging and
moreover cruelty beat them when they were I'M
successful. And Ncw-lork is not alone in this re-
spect Boston also a city IN which begging has
been systematically kept under seems TO have
rather more than its share of these undesirable
Italians at present. They go about constantly with
certificates IN writing setting forth that they have
been shipwrecbed orphaned, or have met with
some other great misfortune. The EVIL VIII cease
when everybody has learned to say "No|-one Of
the shortest words III the anu ono VI the
most difficult 10 articulate.
Having made all the trouble possible and plunged
Ouebec for time into an anarchical condition. the
Shin Laborers Society and the Union Canadieune
did that which they should have done at first
they agreed to work separately. each according to
If, own rules, and that each should guarantee the
other society against interference. At the sugges-
ton of two Catholic priests. whose good sense we
cannot sufficiently praise they also agreed to alb
stain from all public professions. That IS to say.
each body agreed to mind its business and to do
nothing to provoke the other and especially to
make no irritating display. A rigid adherence to
these agreements with persistent industry and a
iudcious control Of temper, will prevent any more
riots OF the kind IN Quebec: but still We cannot
help asking why these misguided mechanics did not
do all this before getting into fury and lighting
about nothing NJ all.
After all the Memphis Howard Association has
been compelled to ask the country at large for pc
cuniary and. The funds in Its treasury have been
expended the pestilence still RACES and the actual
want in the city Is greater than ever. 1t would be
10 the discredlt OF human nature If the request
should be- made in VAIN; and, of course, IN this
Christian land it will not be. There is a feeling
that Memphis herself. by wise sanitary precautions,