New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31
The mir Of Albany is musical with the whiz Of
Kclly's shillalah.

Kclly's shilalah.
If General Butleris really getting eady to for
Governor of Massachusetts again next year he evil
IDENTIFY means 10 be in the field early. He should
avoid the danger Of exhnustirg himself In running
before he reaches the jumping point.
We arc panied to notice that some Of the Demo-
cratic journals are saying that TIE TRIBUNE, in its
efforts to spread Mr. Tlden'5 valuable discovery OF
Americas monopoly of the upward curve" is
"traducing" that eminent statesman. TIE TRIB-
UNE il doing nothing of the kind. It merely do
ing Mr.. Tilden kindness by calling public atten-
ton 10 his valuable discovery. A few years ago
remarkable scientific fact was developed in the
progress of the national game of baseball. II was
discovered that by peculiar twist force could be
impaired TO the ball which would cause it TO defect
from It's second two after il had left the
pitchers hand This was called the upward
curve" and ITS value to the game consisted in the
fact that when the striker struck where he Thought
the ball was he generally found 1t wasn't there.
MIR rilden seems TO have applied the curve" to
politics Anybody who attempts 10 damage Mr..
Tildcu for any revolutionary ntlments there are
in his recent letter Will lind himself striking 1T the
air.
THE TRBUNE's recent plain observations about
Mr. Injustice Hunt seem to have touched respon-
sive chord. Newspapers in all parts of the country
are coinciding warmly in the views expressed.
No one viii mourn the departure from life Of the
year 1881 tonight II has been a nightmare, year.
and everybody will be glad when it has gone.
The Tam1nany statesmen who have arrived In
Albany say that all they ask is the election of
officers Of the Legislature who viii suit them and
their share of the patronage. That is modest. The
Democrats of tho other wing of the party only ask
little moro. All they want Is tho officers of tho
Legislature and all the patronage.
To-day is tho last chance for Mother Symptoms
prophecy that lin eighteen hundred and eighty-one
the world unto an end shall come" If the final
catastrophe does come to-day this whole country
viii find consolation IN the thought that 1t will stop
GuIteauS talk
Everybody Is delighted with the way in which
Attoney-General Brewster takes hold Of the Star
Route prosecutions--at least everybody so far as
heard from. The Star Route operators have not ex-
pressed Themselves yet
None OF Senator Shermans detractors have had
the manliness yet TO acknowledge the falsity Of
their main charge against him. and the probability
is that none of them viii. The Senator can afford
TO be calm under this trIflIng intliction. II his
enemies keep on in the way they have begun they
viii lift him into sufficient prominence as Presi-
dential candidate BY 1884 to give them good deal
OF trouble lie IL taking just the right course to
strengthen himself wit the peOplc--deyOting hun
self quietly and effectively to the public service.
The list of public calamities for 1891 Is porten-
tousiy long: Tho assassination of the Gar; the
assassination of President Garfield; appalling fires
IN Michigan; drouth of unprecedented duration
throughout tho United States gales and wrecks ut