New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-26

THE NEWS MS MORNING.

FoRFIGN.-The London cable dispatch to THE
TRIBUNE says the Liberals will support Mr. Glad
stones motion against the Land Act Committee.
81 Mr. Bradlaughs expulsion is said to be mis-
take. 80 The Russian steamer Vcsa, with all on
board. has been lost in the Black Sea- == Several
Nihiist prisoners at ST. Petersburg have made con-
fessions. 80 The snow-storn i'll Newfoundland
continued for sixty hours.
CoNGRIss.-lhe Senate was not in session yes
terCav 60 The House amended and passed the
Post Office Appropriation bill GO In the House
resolution was adopted TO appoint select commit
tee TO whom all petitions bills and resolutions re-
specting woman suffrage shall be referred; bills
were reported TO authorize the coinage of silver
eoin Oh the metric system, to provide for ocean
mail service for the retirement Of trade dollars and
10 establish the Territory of North Dakota.
DoMEsTIC.-A warehouse in st. LOuls, recently
built aud occupied, fell yesterday morning. ==
Ex-Governor Palmer says there Is no foundation FOR
The report that Ex-Governor Tiiden has asked him
to take the second place the Presidential ticket.
- The payInaster's train on the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad ran down an embankment INTO
the river. -= The General Assembly of Virginia
elected the Readjuster candidates Judges of the
Supreme Court of Appeals. = Several towns on
the Mississippi are flooded. GO Argument i'll the
Standard Oil Company tax suit was concluded at
Harrisburg.
his city last night; he refused to say anything
about his intentions. So The Tammany members
of the Legislature yesterday expressed satisfaction
with their position at Albany. 60 Some excite
ment was caused by alarm of fire in a Newark
theatre GO The report of the City Superintendent
of Schools in regard TO truancy has been completed.
- The Rev. +. W. Donald has been called TO the
rectorslip of the Church of the Ascension. &C.
Gold value of the legal-tender silver dollar (4l2l2
grainsl S7.4i cents. -= Stocks were ieveIish and
irregular but generally higher, and closed unsettled.
The WEATHER.- tribune local observations in
dictate warmer and fair weather, followed by in
creasing coudiness. with slight chances of light
rain late in the day. Thermometer yesterday:
Highest, 80 lowest. 1So; average, 255s0.
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Mr.. Dunnell, of Minnesota, is early in the
feld anxious to begin fight to succeed Mr..
Window in the United States Senate The
publication of his exceedingly frank letter on
the subject will hardly help his chances.
1t has always seemed inconsistent to drive
unwilling children to school when there are
not schOolhouses enough for those who want
10 60. Still, while the truancy law exists, it is
well to have it enforced. But before we
build reformatories for the bad children, as the
Superintendent recommends, let us have pro-
per accommodations for the good ones
The city is to be tortured by another walk
ing match and its attendant evils. 1t is said
that this will be the last contest of its kind,
and that each walker is gathering himself to-
gether for great effort. II is not impossible
that the issue is already settled and that some
well-informed person knows who the winner
will be. Judge DOnOhue has made an order
that the police shall not interfere with book
making in the Garden. With great consider
alton for the gamblers, he has made the order
geturnable two days after the race ends.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, jr thinks that
The railroad problem in this country is so great
chat the solution must be exceedingly simple,
and he uses apt quotations from Robert
Stephenson to support his position. 1t will be
gratifying TO the persons who selected the
present Advisory Commission to know that
Mr.. Adams thinks there was not a better man
10 be found for such q task than Judge Cooley,
of Michigan. He suggests Judge Cooley as a
member of the permanent commission with
authority.
Those who love their neighbors even Only
pretty nearly as well as they love themselves