New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-11


The plant grows like a weed on every stretch of
poor ground or mountain range, and it requires but
little culture and skill In harvesting TO add 81 20
our profitable lesser crops. 1t requires 10 be kept
free from weeds; the crop should be gathered the
year after planting, by breaking of al the leav es
after that year in Sicily the tree is either stripped
of all leaf-bearing branches az pruned down to q
straight stalk else, which is best hand licked
three times year. At prescott the crop OF American
sunac is reaped almost exclusively by negroes and
poor whites especially in Virginia. About 5000
tons arc brought annually to the Virginia mills,
care'essly gathered and cured, and consequently
worm about half the value of the imported article
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An item Of intelligence from Ireland is of rather a
curious nature considering all things and is at the
same time sufficiently suggestive John Kellagher
was an inmate of the Cork workhousc. He does not
appear to have been kept upon an oxasperatingly
low diet; or the contrary he was allc we'd mutton
chops. John, however, being of fastidously epicu-
rean turn, complained to the doctor that the chops
furnished hirn were too fat. Ills tastes were ike
those OF Mr.. John Spratt whose bostity TO adipose
meat is recorded IN the little nursery epic The
chops not coming up to him any leaner notwith-
standing his remonstIance, he adopted vigorous
measures for with poker he made "a most lnnrtier-
Gus ASSAULT upon the doctor This is the true Irish
remedy. When anything goes wrong the immediate
resort is to weapons of offence such as the shil-
leiah, or as in this case, the poker. This lat
patriot ready for revolution because he did not like
ms muttoa-chops, has met with the usual fate of
MS militant and mercnrial countrymen. lie has
been sentenced to five years penal seryitude; and
nice chops he will get nowl
M de Lafayette to the great regret of his friends
here and in France, finds himself unable by reason
OF health to join il the celebration at Yorktown
next October. The family WILL however, be repre-
scented by bis neighbors, NJ de Beauyoic and v. de
Corcelef, who is well known IN Washington as a
former secretary to the French Legation there.
The dynamite patriots were very anxions to hear
HOh hr. Blame, and they nave heard.
We would like very much to have some compe-
tent Democratic authority tell MS how a ticket with
Groenbacker 1T one end and a Readiuster at The
other can be called DebtPayerS' ticket
The one-cent contribution fund of The Cincinnati
Commercial Lad reached $3.50 II on Tuesday morn
ing. Over $4,000 persons had expressed in that
way their satisfaction that the man who said lie
hoped the President would lie had had his mouth
eIappil. Inns ~ great country, and ii II enjoys
low get his deserts.
Jeio Blacl. should have care. He Will wake up
Montgomery Blair next. and then We will have the
Illden fraud OF 1875 al raked over again.
"Isit not time" The World cried pIaintively YES
tcrday " for sensible men to concern themselves
calmly, seriously and in no narrow or personal or
partisan temper with the interesting question how
long the Government can safely be allowed to run
itself as II were, without an Execatiye head 70 The
Government presents itself TO our emotional con-
temporary in the guise of st. Denis meandering on
its ace phalous way without chart or commas and
this DISTRESSING spectacle excitss s dee pest syinpa
tnles which as rule, lie very the surface. Ii
- to be hoped that Mr. Blaine's Dispatch showing
10 t1ral4 r
any Necessary official act will comfort our excita-
bio contemporary.
Bookwalters Nincompoop Bureau is underway
evidently, for Ohio Democratic newspaper has
reached this Office with favorable mcntic of him
in II. Whether it inserted AT regular OF snecaI
ADVERTISING rates, We have no means of detelnlin-
ing.
That Irish Convention IN Chicago bears close re-
semblance to Democratic Convention. The most
prominent feature of it is noise Up To YESTERDAY
III less shat weeks session. il had had five chair
men am alnlost many successive secretaries
henever there difference between the chair
an the Convention, the chair resigned and a new
one was chosen. " Docs the chair differ wild me 7"
AXIS MIR. Naloncy, in Punch " The chair does nor
" The chair had better not" says Mr. Maloncv
" onlcss II wishes ~ take or its coat qd come ONT
slde.' That IL The spirit OF the gathering ar Chi
man left CHICAGO on TucSiav. saving lac wished ~,
had never hid IN thing to do with t6e ine"t,n ~
cali. s''-''s ."
The resilient signed an official document vcstor-
d., with firm, clear hand. Still there are news
PAPER experts who insist he is 50 weak as 70 be
unable to lift his hands to his head; and what !.
more astonishing there are people who credit these
experts IN preference 70 the oicia bulletins of the
attcndin" surgeons. It's queer world.
The dynamite sensation has been worked for all IL
is worth. What will be the next midsummer mad
messy ~
In order to comprehend tbs size of the Democratic
blundcr III nominating B0oxwalter for Governor of
ONO, vt IS only necessary to read what he said of
General Garfield "A letter latod August " 1850
" 1t is ordinarily sufficient draft upon ones conf
denco to accept upon faith man set I'D by caucus
and convention, when presumption only can ina
Raised as TO his honesty; but when one is asked IN
sustain man rho STANDS c0acictea Of bribery and ey;,,,,
by tribunal Of his peers, and mainly from his own
party, confess Ii is too much OF a draft upon my
credulity am willing TO repose some de ree of faith
IL the honesty AID ability of those who elsct our
candidates. but when are compelled to believo
black is white for myself think it is ahout time n
assas ones ght OF individual Judgment az against
party discipline. This s what we are asked 10 do
when we are told TO accept Garfield and Arthur aS
pure and untaintodthe dlreIdy copycted ~ bri
b@y end perjury. and the other turned ont by hayrs
and sherman ~ one " no did not honestly adminis
ter the duties of the Office he heidi The neonl 90
hlo sra in no mood to vote for a man who taIkod
IN this way about Tho President who has inst heen
standing face TO face with death and standinp there
~ only man WIN clear conscience could stand
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MUSIC AND TIE DRAMA.
DALYS EATRE-CINDEREIIA
Days Theatre was reopened on Tuesday evening