New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-30

,u,e az vhieh Ia not disclosed bat which s attributed
., tbs deacons. 1t is hard TO think OF New'ErSauo
ohurch without that officer. For Veiy long 'lne 'ho
deacon ranked In authority TO tie preacher WIS
carefully selected for his piety ability aud sobr"y ara
as considered the leading Of the place. of the Secu
,.r art He was called By the name Of his Office, like
the militia officers and had regular hanGe 10 s nhne
ike the Squire ard the Doctor Newngianu owoS e.,
iic spirit ana intelligence: nut the ieoie saw grow ~
good and the churcnes have SO outsiown the necesS
Of discipline, that deacons have probably oe'onc super
duouA
Miss Florence Smith, age thirteen, went a
few days ago. the ladies' reeept0nrOom OF the Uned
States Senate and asked to Senator Whyte lie WAS
not there the e and OF the assistant sefseahs
alarms acted his proxy. The little girl tOd nm 'hV
her GRAND to obtain Office under the Govern
ment. She said that her mother was dead ana ner
father contributed nothing to her support she resided
with her aunt, Mrs. Frank In Washington CITY, put 'ne
latter poor, and she had determined TO earn
living for hersel She earning I'll week IN allcuu
ing to store but that not enough TO- pay LOT ner
board. When asked what she cant do. sue rep''eu :
Anything that any other girl can do" When senator
WHITE reached the Capito the next day lie found the
little girl auxiously awaiting him. She handed MIN
roll of papers showing who she was ana also recon-
tncudation her present employer tes't'hE 10 uo'
good character Delivering the papers to the Senator
che relnarked "You see. am sufficiently recommended
and highly vouched for" She hai found place IN the
Government Printing Oaice that would. she Thought ex
s sSr lett sl Pubic 81 f Pa Dffees stating her
and requesting him. possible. to md place Tor her
concluding the epstle with the words: "of such Is the
Kingdom Of heaven Little Florence received the LETT or
gratefully. and went OIL her way rejoicing, promising
that # she met with success at the printing office
she would pay the Senator another call.
G. Wadie Griffith, son of Sir Richard
Griffith, under whose supervision the last official vaua
ton Of Irish estates made 1852 has explained IN
letter to The Times (London) the methods which were
employed. The valuation made by experienced
men the value Of the soil ITSELF quite independent OF
the paid for It, but taking into consideration the
market facilities Of the district aud based the scale Of
the then prices for farm produce, and dednc'ing the
taxes, which then high. The scales OF prices. omit
ting the prices of corn, which have not much altered
are approximately the following: In 1852. butter Cos
ID per cwt, against zoos. in 1880; beef, 35o 81
against 65s; mutton, Ais, against 72S: pork. 32s..
against ASS. That tho valuation based these prices
ind the returns by the land surveyors the
time 1t made considered just and equitable one Is
proved by the abnormally few appeals that made
against 1t the held in each district for that
pose Sir Richard Griffith always spoke OF the valuation
being the Of the great landed propretos.
but 25 TO 80 per under the rents of the small land
owners and purchasers in the Encumbered + 'tates
Court used to add about that percentage to wen ia
wished TO test whether the rents of te property ex.
posed for sale fair or not. The cuncnd -.
therefore that considering the present prices of
duce compared with these Of 1S52-and that this val
uaon was then admittedly very nuderat"-if Is surely
unreasonable ask Irish landlords i'll 1885, take the
valuation of 1892 fair rent. in the face Of the
greatlyncreased values OF farm produce aud the
ucriully-ncreased facilities for its sale