New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-09
me NEVIS THIS MORNING.

JHE NhU& THIS MORNING.
FoRr1oN-Nfr Dickson the Liberal candidate,
has been elected in Tyrone by nnety-one plurality
e. The betting is now four to one against Iro-
quos for the St. Leger. - "Methodsm a
Power in the State " was discussed at the Confer
ence in London yesterday. - Prince Bismarck
has arrived at Danng to meet the Emperor OF
Russia.
DOMESTIC.-The condition of the President showed
such marked improvement yesterday that DIR. Bliss
ventured to state that he was couvaescent; the
beneficial effects of a cool sea breozo We're stri.ngly
marked. - The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention met at Harrisburg; General Bailey. of
Fayette County, nominated fer State Treasurer.
- A train the Chicago and Alton Railroad
stopped Independence, Mo, by masked
men and the express messenger and passengers were
robbed. - The war in passenger rates from Chi
Dago to Eastern cities is becoming more bitter and
further reductions have been made. - Applica-
ton has been made to court at Cncinnat ii for a
change in the receivershp of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroad. - Sidney Lanier, the poet is
dead.
CIIY AND SUBURBAN.-Tho day of prayer for the
recovery of the President was appropriately OBJ
served in and about this city yesterday. - The
morning very hot, but The temperature fell
sensibly after noon. - A stableman was killed bv
his employer. -= Lille H.. GiroGa, Parole Pill
grimage Colonel Sprague, Gabriel and Joe Hunt
won the Coney Island races.
TIIE WEATHER-lRIBUNE local observations indi-
cate fair and partly cloudy weather. with slight
change in temperature. Thermometer yesterday:
Highest, 800; lowest ESQ average 7Slao.
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The Presidents condition was so great
ly improved yesterday that DR.. Bliss
and DR.. Hamilton concurred at one
time in pronouncing him "convalescent"
The term Is very encouraging, and has
grateful sound in anxious ears, but it is not,
perhaps, so definite to justify anything like
elation. At the same time, the marked
improvement of the President during
his first cool day at the seaside is a
proper cause for universal cOngratulation and
increased hope of his ultimate and complete
restoration to health.
The Liberal reaction has been checked at the
Tyrone election, which, however, turned on
Irish rather than British issues, the fair trade
cry being probably unheard. The Liberal ma
jority only 81. Compared with the votes
cast at the general election last year. Wednes-
days returns show that only 173 electors re-
Trained from voting. The Liberal vote fell off
339, the Conservative 738. The votes thus
lost were given largely to the Rev. Harold
Rylen, the Parnell candidate, who polled 9O4.
The net result shows that the Home Rulers
held the balance of power, and could have de-
feated the Liberal candidate if they had given
only slight support to his opponent. If they
persist In this practice of placing candidates of
their own in the field they will greatly unscttle
Ulster politics.
The fears entertained by some that the
Pennsylvania Republican Convention would
indulge in the costly luxury of a quarrel
were evidently entirely without founda-
ton. The gathering, which took place at
Harrisburg yesterday, seems to have been of a
harmonious character throughout There were
differences of opinion, of course, but no quar-
rels. The platform adopted deserves especial re-
cOgnition because of it's uncompromsing pledges
In favor of continuing, whether the President
lives or dies, the distinctive reform policy of
his Administration. The tone of the resolu
ton on this point is emphatic In the
highest degree. A resolution was also
adopted, favoring the early formulation of q
Civil Service policy. The resolutions respect
ing President Garfield were feryent in
their denunciation of the crime COM
United against him, and their admiration
OF the heroic qualities he has exhibited in
great trial Altogether, the Harrisburg Con-
vention gave utterance to the soundest of
Republican doctrines.
N hcSh ouopIeah OI Jlle passenger rate war
has reduced the contest to such proportions of
absurdity that the Pennsylvania Railroad will,
II 1t meets the new rate of the Vanderbilt
roads from Chicago to Boston, get only 25
cents Tor carrying "a passenger from Chicago
to New York. The Vanderbilt rate from
Chicago to Boston is SO. The PENNSYLVANIA
Road must pay, under contract, for sending its
passengers from New York to Boston IS IS.
leaving just quarter of dollar for trans
porting passengers something near a thousand
miles. The fact is illustrative of the puerile
Character OF the whole proceeding. In Chicago
the railroad managers are withdrawing ticket
cases from each others Offices and sleepinp-
cars from each others roads, and are quarrel
hing very much as crowd of angry bovs
might There is a strong element of the ludi.
crous IN this evident play of personal feeling
In the relations of great corporations, which at
the same time helps to diminish their PRESTIGE
and to cause the people TO ask whether a
more stable system of management cannot he
attained IN some way.
sThe address OF Mr.. George William Cnrtis
before the Social Science Association upon