New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-18
THE NEVIS THIS MORNING.

Fopr,Gx.-Several more Land League officers
have been arrested; the Land League headquarters
have been transferred to Liverpool; rioting was
renewed II Limerick yesterday. =- General saba
tier has defeated the Arabs in second battle --
The Turkish Commissioners are about TO return
from, Fo,-ut to Constantinope. - Count de Les
seps thinks of employing ticket-of-leaye men from
New-Caledonia in the construction of the Panama
Canal. - The recent storm caused great damage
and oss of life throughout North Germany.
DoNEsrIc-The Democratic Senators held can
Gus Yesterday to discuss the expediency OF an at
tempt to elect a Democratic successor 10
Secretary Birch. 80 Governor Witt, OF Louis
lana. was buried in New Orleans yesterday,
and Lieutenant Governor McEncry took the Oath
of office as Governor. 60 Henry Could, age two
and half years. was murdered by his grandmother
Mt Neyport Ohio yesterday 60 The Mississippi
River is rapidly rising, owing TO the late rams
- Governor Cornell of New York, and Governor
Farnham of Vermont, arrived at Yorktown.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The steamship Crescent
CITY careened in her dock. yesterday, killing
one man and injurng several Others 60
1t is believed that an attempt was made
10 burn the Bothnia on Sunday night. Go
The Irving Hall County Convention nominated John
McKeon as District-Attorney. =- Ripley Ropes
was named for Mayor OF Brooklyn at a meeting Of
citizens. = Gold value of the legal tender silver
dollar Gl2la grainsl $3.50 cents. - Stocks
opened weak and declined, later were active AMI
higher and then reacting closed weak at the loves,
figures of the day.
MISUNDERSTANDING local observations indi-
cate cloudy or partly cloudy weather. with chances
of rain Thermometer yesterday: Highest CS1;
lowest, go; average. 66'
The story of the shpwreck near Cape Hat
teras, in which six persons lost their lives, Is
q sad one. Heroic efforts were made by the
captain to save his wife and children, with
only tragic results.
The maintenance of Central Park is naturally
attracting considerable public attention. Yester-
day Superintendent Jones's views dis
cussed. To-day we print what practical man
like Samuel Parsons, ill., of Flushing, has to say
on the subject. His letter is both suggestive
and conservative.
The opposition Of Democrats in the Senate
to the adoption of Senator Shcrman's TcS0u
ton calling for the Mcine report is the old
story over again. They know it will put
quick end to the stories they have been circu-
latng and gossips never like to be thrown
out of employment.
Inc steamship company winch IHe CHlneSc
have so successfully managed is now, it
appears, resolved to go into the coal trade. As
it has managed to raise about 81, 100000 TO
construct a tTamway from kaiping coal mines,
there ought to be fair prospect that the Chinese
mind will tolerate railroads. To advance from
horse to steam power ought to be a possible
transition even in China.
If Mr.. McKeOn is a sensitive man, he must
vince little when he reads the accounts of
the Irving Hall Convention yesterday-how
Charles w. Brooke, declining the nomination
for District Attorney for himself, said he would
name a man who would fill the Office fully as
well as himself, and how Peter Mitchell also de-
clined it, and how both of them called for Mr..
McKeon's nomination. The world of politics is
out of joint, even in city like New-York,
when the Brookes and the "Peten Mltchells
can have the effrontery even to name them
selves in connection with such an Office as
that of District-Attorney. If Mr.. McKeon ac-
cepts nomination which men like these
pointedly confer upon him he must expect to
be known by the company he keeps.
Through the kindness of Professor James D.
Dana, of Yale College, THE TRIBUNE is ena-
bled to make an interesting contribution this
morning to the current Revolutionary litera-
ture. This consists of a transcript of the diary
of Jonathan Trumbull, private secretary to
Washington during the siege of Yorktown,
and afterward Governor of Connecticut The
original is in the hands of the family of