New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-02

To the doomed criminal just and pitful cOnsid-
Grafton is due; but his is hardly for lolpops
and caresses Guiteau's spiritual adviser appears
to have been intoxicated like the prisoner by the
lavish publication of his and opinions in the
newspapers. There is something grOtesque in the
reflection that this ir-reverend gentleman may to-
day be preaching the commands OF the Being whose
Awful Name he not only allowed but encouraged
brutal murderer to take in vain.
The subscriptions to the endowment fund of tho
Brooklyn Library have not been made so rapidly as
the directors had reason to expect. Less than
81. 900 now remains to he raised before $50, 900
will be available, but when that remnant is fur
nished $40. 600 which has been subscribed on the
basis of permanent fund Of 100000 will be
brought into use. and only $4,000 will be lacking.
1t ought not to be necessary for the directors to
make such strenuous exertlOns to complete this
permanent endowment fund. The money will not
be used in paying old debts or in repairing the
library building. 1t will enable the directors to
stock their shelves month after month with pubjca-
tions of the day which the patrons of the library
URGENTLY reauire The interest on the 90 600 will
gradually complete the equipment of a thoroughly
well-managed institution. AS the library
already be conveniently approached from Wall
st. and will be rendered still accessible by
the completion of the East River Bridge, New
Workers can VOL afford to contribute to the perma-
nent fund.
THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE is acknowledged by the
most competent judges to be the best Sunday paper
ever published. Readers in Saratoga will be fur
nished with the paper by special train during the
summer season, and at other summer resorts every
effort will be made TO supply the growing demand.
In remote places where no newsagents can be
found orders for THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE should be
sent direct to this office
The extraordinary lack of reverence and the vul-
gar curiosity which appear. to be among the faults
of democracy never showed themselves more repul
svely than in the execution of Garfelds murderer.
Justice took on therein the livelness of the variety
theatre and of the dime novel A miserable GRIM
inaI was aided by the officers of the law toexhbt his
low vanity and vindctiveness under the shadow of
the moose and clergyman far forgot all
priestly decences as to assist the wretch in pro-
claiming the fouest of blasphemes. Never was
more hideous ravesty on the dignity of justice and
the solennity of death; and it will long remain
disgrace to the country in which the disgusting
farce was played. Ii will be well if SO strong
argument as this hideous should prove
elusive inenfOrcng the propriety of strictly private
executions
If the close sultry depressing weather Of yester-
day continues, there will doubtless be a great rush
to-day to the seaside. TO those, however, who pre-
fer a quiet stroll to the glare and crowd of Coney
Island, Central Park offers many attractions and
is easily accessible The glory of the spring flower
ing shrubs has disappeared but the lindens now
coming into bloom the bees have already
found ont, and every breeze is perfumed with the
fragrance of tho hOneysuckle Several varieties of
the deutzia the spirea and the dog
wood are sill in flower and the
blossoms of the tulip tree can also be
discovered by the diigent searcher. Many dainty
herbaceous perennials are hidden away in quiet
nooks the turf is everywhere delightfully."- green,
and the outrageous of the trees perfect
These are advantages which the lovers of a quiet
Sunday will not fail to appreciate.