New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-25


gable croaker couldn't apply it to Thanks
| giving with snow on the ground
| One Of the things for which the public can
hardly be thankful is the able and elaborate
mismanagement Of the East Side Elevated
roads during the past three days.
Judge Folger's plurality is 44,791. These
are not the official figures, because the count
has not been completed. but the plurality
cannot lee much reduced 1t seems safe to
call him Chief Judge.
The unfortunate citizen who lacks an appe
| tite for his THANKSGIVING dinner can get one
by reading the long list of charitable institu-
tons where thousands of the very poor are to
| have day of pleasure.
The capture of Dulcgno by the Turkish
! troops ought to be followed by ITS speedy sur
render to the MOntenegrns. The Sultan at
least cannot any longer plead that the Albani-
ans are thwartIng his benevolent designs
| a step in the right direction. The directors
of the Old Colony Railroad have adopted a
| resolution that. inasmuch as rallIoad accidents
are often due TO drunkenness on the part of
employees, they will not retain or engage any
subordinate who is addicted TO the use of in
toxcating liquors.
Among the queer incidents of immigration
is the expected arrival to-day of the whole
staff of German Soci list news 'aper who were
given twenty-iOur hours in which to leave the
country They accepted the invitation. Some
account of one of the most prominent of Ger
man Socialists who has just fled from this
persecution to our city is given on another
page.
The verdict in the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner yesterday WAS as grim a lesson III the
folly of an undiScipliued temper as the courts
have given i'll years. The crime was a blow
strack in a heat OF passion. The jury brought
in Il verdict Of murder IN the second degree,
alter an absence of fifteen minutes. The
prisoner, who was boy seventeen years old,
was then sentenced to imprisonment for life,
ID tie presence of his heart-broken mother.
Statues are multiplying in the vacant places
Of h. parks at a rate which suggests the pos
sibilty That elbow room may be exhausted at
20 distant day. The statue of Burns had
hardly been uncovered when the dedication
of the Hamilton memorial was announced
and now the statue of Farragut is stated to
he merely awaiting the completion of its pc
destal. This latter VIII be a unique work A
description of IT, as " Ii as of the statue,
viii be found elsewhere
One of the most curious of that class of
marriages which clergymen shou d refuse to
perform is disclosed in Brooklyn. The BRIDE
groom, boy of seventeen years, is now
locked mp i'll his home until his parents
can take steps TO annul the marriage
1t should be said for tie clergyman who
performed the ceremony that he declined to
marry the couple until the grrs mother
showed herself, which she did. He was there
fore more sinned against than SHINING, and
the whole affair was more of q conspiracy than
a comedy.
Begging must soon take its place among
The liberal professions. It's prizes are won by
systematic ingenuity and entire devotion to
business. Two children were arrested yester-
day for begging, whose parents have seven
children mostly employed in this pursuit.
Four of them were committed to the Catholic
PIotectOry year ago through the efforts of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, but the parents succeeded in getting
them released, and sent them back to their |
old work. A Z" One-armed soldier was found |
by the police yesterday to have two sound |
and seryiceable limbs of that description. |
Doubtless if they had investigated his record |
they would have found he was as little of a
soldier as of cripple. On the whole, impos-
ture and frand seem as busy as ever in pocket
ing the money that ought TO relieve cases of |
real restitution.
The testimony of Mr.. John II. Strahan be-
Tore the Senate Committee will repay read
ing, not only because Mr.. SCrahan is a man
IF ability who has given much attention to
municipal matters, but because he has appeared
1t Albany in years past in the interest, il was
OF Controller Kelly. But Mir.
Kelly never gave such candid and valuable
testimony as this before committee on mu-
licipal expenditures. Mr. Strahan sets out
yiUh the proposition that there is not De-
,artment which could not be run "at one
third of the present expense" The salaries
md general expenses co Id be reduced. Bureaus
ould be abolished, and departments cOnsOi-
lated. Among the bureaus Air. StIahan would
bOsh are those Of Licenses, City Revenue and
Markets. lie would abolish the BOaId of AS
essors, the Public Administrators and Cor
Dorati0n Attorneys Oilices-the work Of the
after. he says, could be done by single
Jerk in the Corporation COunsers oGice-le
would consolidate the Offices of the Receivers
f Taxes and of Water Rents; reduce the
expenses of the courts including the salaries
{ Judges reduce the fees of the Sheriff cut
own the number OF civil district courts from |
leven to five; lessen the number OF employees !
the police courts, ETC., etc. No one doubts
nat all these reforms and more are possible. {
he man who expects them TO be achieved by '