New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-21
TEN PAGES.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Baker Pacha's plan for reorganizng
the Egyptian army has been published. - Cen
eral Wolseley reviewed the troops in Alexandra
Yesterday 80 The Horse Guards and the Life
Guards were enthusiastically received in London
yesterday Oh their return from the war. - Two
vessels of the Dutch Arctic Exploring Expedition
have been caught in the ice. - In the Prusslan
elections the Liberals gained thirty seats in the
Diet. MIR. Parnell has called meeting of his
supporters.
DoMEsTIC-A freight train was thrown into the
Hudson River at Rhineclh yesterday by collision.
- The Rev. Dr. Robert Paine, Senior Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at
Aberdeen Miss, yesterday. - w. II. Bailey,
candidate for Congress from Mecklenburg County,
N. c.. was assaulted by A. b. Gillespie, a revenue
agent. 60 Alexander Kier was indicted by the
Grand Jury in Freehold, n. j., for the railroad ac-
cideut at Parker's Creek last June. - Lleuten-
ant Danenhower continued his testimony before
the Jeanette Board of Inquiry. - Three
swndlers were arrested in Philadelphia for illegally
using the mails. - Five negroes were haL ged in
Eastman, Ga.
CITY AND Observation-Disclosures of Congress-
men were made by the Republicans yesterday in
the With and XIth Districts. - meeting
was held in the interest of the citizens move
ment. 60 Two nieoes of Mr.. Stokes testified in
regard to his habits and peculiarties. 60 The
BROOKLYN Democratic City Convention named can
didates. 60 Howard Carroll wrote a letter of
acceptance - A reception was given to Henry
George by the Central Labor Union at the Cooper
Institute - Gold value of the legal-tender
silver dollar (412l2 gralns) $3.50 cents -
Stocks opened weak, but later recovered, and after
lancid fluctuations closed steady at about the best
prices OF the day.
THE WEATHER-1 RIBUNE local observations in
dictate clear or far weather and slight changes in
temperature. Temperature yesterday: Highest,
$50; lowest, 40; average, 4S3i0.
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The nominations made by the Democrats
for city Offices in Brooklyn are an improve
ment on their selections for the county
ticket but still they have no particular merit
The tickets of both parties are now before
the voters of Brooklyn, and if they have the
welfare of their city so much at heart as their
professions indicate, they will have no hesta
ton in working for the success of the Re-
publicans.
Tammany Hall breaches but expects that its
ca ndidates shall do the practising-if any is
done. Therefore the pledge which Nh Kelly's
organization has adopted, and which each can
didate for Congress and the Assembly who
expects its support will have to sign, is IRON
clad with virtue. But the candidates will take
it without hesitation. The conscience of the
average Democratic candidate can stand any
strain. This is why the Tammany men laugh
at the resignation of Senator Boyd.
There is q switchman on the Hudson River
Railroad at Rhneclif who ought to have
another place; but not necessarily O promo
ton. He turned his switch the wrong way
yesterday, and thus placed freight train Oh
the wrong track. Neither he nor the engineer
noticed the mistake until another train came
along, and in an instant an engine and twelve
cars were thrown into the river. No lives
were lost. 1t is not the actualities of this
accident but the possibilities which it sug-
gests that make travellers shudder. This
switchman is an expensive railway official.
He has cost the company $4,000 at least
The examination of the affairs Of the broken
First National Bank of Newark shows how the
institution paid dividends out of the interest
on it's debts. One charm of the system OF
swindAng employed was its extreme simplicity.
The deficiencies were regularly shifted to the