New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-08

President Garfields condition continues to
be satisfactory to his physicians. They were
not at all troubled by the increase in his
pulse and the rise in his temperature yester-
day, regarding these Oft-recurrng symptoms,
no doubt, as the result of the heat and of
WEAKNESS. His appetite is good and he sleeps
soundly without the aid of morphia or other
anodyne.
There is additional reason in tho latest
dispatches from London for the belief that the
Gladstone Cabinet will not accept the amend
ments made by the House of Lords to the
Land BILL and that direct issue will be mad
with the Lords by the Commons. The result
OF such contest need not be matter %
guesswork. The Lords will back down
They always do when they find the popular
body is determined not to yield
1t is usually supposed that the Catholic
Church is a despotic institution, enforcing
strict discipline upon the members of its
priesthood and settling all disputes by the
dictum of high ecclesiastical authority. Yet
two priests have been quarrelling for weeks
Tor the possession OF the Church Os St. Stan
lslaus, in this city, and neither CardineL nor
Bishop has interfered up to this time The
curious controversy hinges upon the fact that
majority of the congregation speak tie
Lithuanian tongue, and refuse to accept o
priest who breaches in Polish, kindred but
distinct language.
Ii the theory OF the police is correct and the
Brooklyn Sexton Osborne committed suicide.
he showed an odd fancy in his choice of time.
place and means for stepping off into the next
world. To fasten the doors and windows of a
room In the Church, upset tue gas stove and
produce such stencil ss h. drive q portion of
the worshippers away from the Sunday ser
vices, was certainly novel manner of
killing himself. The alternative theory is
that Osborne was drunk and knocked over the
stove by accident but in that case how did he
manage TO secure the doors and windows so
carefully Whether he was bent ON self-mur-
der or meant only to sleep off drunken AT,
the Sections death is probably not an event
which will be greatly deplored by the -congre-
CATION.
An important connection between pure sci
ence and practical farming was established
something more than a year ago in New-Jer-
sey, when the Agricultural Experiment Station
was founded. Under the efficient direction of
fTofessor Cook and his corps of assistants in
designations on many subjects of immediate
interest have been carried on, and their results
widely disseminated by means of occasional
bulletins through the State press. mucb
wider field of influence, direct and incidental
will be occupied when the progressive farmers
OF the State appreciate the value of the Sta
ton and mite under its guidance in using
1t as medium of intercommuncation, to make
q more comprehensive and thorough series of
experiments than can be conducted in any sim
gle location. 1t would seem, also, nat New
Jersey Legislators might proftably consult the
Agricultural Department of the State when
they feel in humor to develop resources of
one kind or another.
With hotel containing els rooms and sur
rounded by verandas where a regiment might |
man@uvre by platoon front, ROckaway can now |
enter the race of competition with Copev
Island as popular resort for all sorts of peo- |
pie. In one wing of the big hotel the halls
ana rooms are provided with heating appara- |
tus, 80 that they can be used in winter if DE- |
sired. seaside hotel for winter guests is
not novelty, for there are three or four in
Atant'c City that do good business the year
round Perhaps Rockaway Beach, like the
Jersey watering-place, viii be found to DOS