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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-05
GENERAL NOTES.

Ii is expected that the Washington Monument
will reach height 4l0 feet before cold weather stops
the work and that will be completed in the spring Of
1885 Whom the 500 vertical feet Of masonry, sur
mounted by pyrlmida cap fifty feet high, have been
actually finished imposing ceremonial gill OF course
be necessary the work, and Washington people
are already looking forward TO that event.
The police lately arrested near Ashford, Eng
and, an italian with an organ and a monkey who was
lingering In a suspicious in front OF a house
which he knew be unoccupied and when about 500
was found in his pockets they made doubt that he
iaplicated in recent robbery An investigation, how
over showed that organ and the monkey had earned
or ut least produced the money aud that the Italian had
been saving, an average $40 week over ana above
expenses during the live months OF his stay IN Ing
land.
In 1865, Mr.. A. G. Shape, now Chief III
spector OF the Postal Delivery Department who then
lived in Chattanooga, Tenn. became the possessor OF
bank-notc No. :, series A. Of the iyedollar issue OF
March l. 1853. He laid it away for preservation as a
curiosity but his robbed and the note stolen
He never heard OF it again until few days ago. when
he saw in Pitsburg paper the statement tIat Pay
master Candee, the Army, possessed the hrs nye-
TO Mr. Candee offering TO prove property ana hopes TO
the treasure, for which Is SAID tue present
possessOr has declined an Oner OIL S3Oo
Ia a hut On narrow street in the French
village Of Auberine- Gu Royans lives whose age
is declared on evidence which The London Lancet ac-
ceps rs authentic be 1913 years. Her marriage cern
cate shows that she was married hundred years ago
last January. She has inhmes except slsht deai-
ness and she Is comparatively erect She was a can
tinere under First Empire and lost two sons in the
wars She is supported entirely the aims OF visitors
who come great distances to see her. and in her
household work sue is assisted by her neighborS she
lives almost exclusively soup made with bread ana
containing little wine or brandy. A Dr. Bonne, Wno
Moreover, she is oil the lrOdgies who thrive III
spite of dirt aud neglect but Is OF scrupulousy ee~o
habits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-05
THE TROUBLE IN wool.

The recent failures In the wOOlIcn goods ana
clothing trade, though limited in their intlu-
encc Indicate over-Toduction not less surely
than the collapse of Shaw Brothers in the
leather business. The trouble began with the
railurr of Bronner & Co., ciOthiers, for whom
Levy Brothers g. Co. had indorsed largely.
This failure not only endangered Levy Broth
ers. but also Mayer & Co., because the two
LATTER firms had exchanged Endorsements to a
large amount. But while both we're in an I'M
certain position, Sedcnblch, SchwaO g. Co.,
manufacturers and iobberS in clothing, failed
for about 100000, and Mayer 81 Co. had ex-
changed paper with this firm also to a large
amount. At once Maycr & Go. concluded that
they could not pull through, and failed for
nearly So 600, 600. Then the failure Of Levy
Brothers & Co. for 81, 500, 600, if it had been
doubtful before, became inevitable. and so a
syndicate winch had been considered very
strong went down like a card castle. 1t does
not appear from this recital that the failure of
either of these firms was Immediately and
wholly due 20 losses in the woollen or clothing
business, and yet all of them had doubtless
been weakened by the Over-producton, the
sharp competition and the accumulation
OF stocks which have prevailed in that branch
of trade. Mayer g. Co. had taken great
deal OF money from the profits Of their bust
ness to put it into real estate, and perhaps
had taken too much One other firm had done
something in the same direction, while third
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-05
amusemenis 90 Mint.

6AsNo-8-" Prince Methusalem.
DAYS HRATRR-SS Dollars and senee ~
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-9-" La Princess ue' ""
nares." ,.,
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-s-"Facts; or, His Little
NInIsoS SQUARE THEATRE-s;30-"T The Rajah"
EmIn's GARDEN.-S--Exce
OPFpA HoUsR-S-BiTch's MnstreA
STAEpARp THE AIRES" The Merry Duchess"
STAR iHHATRE-S-" Francesca da Riminl." -, >,
THEATRE COMIoUE-2 and 8-"Muligan Guard Picnic
THIRD AVENUE IaEATRE-S-"49."
UNION SorARg THEATRE-8-" Pink Domnos"
WALIACKs THEATRES" Masks and Faces"
14TH-ST. THEATRE-S-"FedOra."
23D-ST. administrations Eyre"
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was said to have been specializing, but the
root Of the whole business was the production
of woollen goods and Of clothing far beyond
the demand for consumption.
1t seems good to some people to represent
that the failure of these firms is in some way
due to the tariff on wool and woollens. Re-
speeding that tariff it may be said that 1t In
creased the production of wool in this country
from 100, 974,S05 pounds in 1870 to about
300,000000 pounds last year, and the con-
sumption Of wool in all ways from about
100000 pounds in 1870 to 366,50O, 600
pounds in 1882. But it is also we'll to notice
that in thirteen years the imports of woOllsn
goods have scarcely increased at all, so that
substantially the whole increase in consump-
ton by a largely increased population has
been supplied by domestic production. II
there has been excessive production OF
woolen goods during the past year or two,
it may as well be attributed to the partial
failure of consumption after the short crop
of 1881, and to the mild winter OF
1928, as to the tariff which was not by
any one supposed until recently to have over
stimulated this branch Of industry. Goods
were produced in 1881, in anticipation OF a
consumption greater than that of 1880, but
the partial failure Of all leading crops caused
marked decrease In purchases. In 1882,
hoping that large crops would cause very large
consumption, the manufacturers produced
largely, but the winter was unusually untaVOr-
able to the sale of wOOllens, Hence, unusually
large stocks remained on hand this season, and
it is not at all clear that the tariff caused any
part of the excess of production over consump-
ton.
The wool-growers, too, generally ascribe the
low price of wool to the new tariff. But the
condition of the wOolen goods trade supplies
a more reasonable explanation. Late in March,
after the new tariff had been passed, the price
of wool was higher than it was year ago.
The decline since that time has been due, not
to excessive importatiOns OF WOOL but to a
partial failure of the manufacturers to keep
up the former rate of consumption. They
could not find buyers for all the goods IN the
market, and therefore could not afford to use
UP all the wool offered for sale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-05
THE IyTLSLIVERy IyAJVEPS Try

a
The cOnscicntiOus earnest men and women
who fifty years ago the present week organ
lied the New York Anti-Savcry Society prob
ably did not dare indulge the horo that the
semi-ccntcnniul celebration of that event
would see slavery abolished all over the
United States aud the black men once held
in bondage enjoying equal political privileges
with Their former masters. Public opinion
held them TO be half crazad fanatics at the
best, but had any one of them ventured the
prediction that in little more than thirty
years emancipation would be an accomplished
fact he would have been set down as a lunatic
even by his fcllow-laboIrrs in the cause. The
anti-slayury agitation fairly began with the
debates on the Missouri question in 1920. In
1921 Benjamin Lundy, to whom belongs the
title of the Father Of AbOiitiOnism began the
publication Of The GeHipS Of tHicerSal Eman-
ciDdt0n N Baltimore. In 1929 he associated
William Lloyd Garrison with him in the pub
LEGATION OF the paper. In January, 1881,
Garrison, having withdrawn from he Genius,
established The LiJcrGiOr il Boston, OF which
he was not only the publisher and sole
writer, but the printer and carrier. In January,
1882, the New England Anh-Slavery Society
was organized in BUs.oE the New-fork sac
ciety came into being in the following year,
and by December Of that year tie movement
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the line which the most advanced CIVIL service
resUrmers must approve.

A commendable sentiment was developed IN
the Academy of Medicine last night In favor OF
flropping the question of old-cOde, new-cOde or
no-code from the deliberations of that body.
DR.. Fordyce Barker introduced certain amend
ments to the constitution and bylaws having
this end in view, and they will come up Tor Il
final vote in two weeks. During the long,
calm DAYS Of summer the bitterness OF the code
controversy seems to have died away some
what, and many physicians who were decided
partsans in the spring are now said to be IN
clined to put some limit upon the influence oil
unhappy differences of opinion. Certainly,
neither the society as a whole, nor its members
individually, can be benefited by the continual
ton of this quarrel in the Academy OF Medi-
cine. The avowed object of the association is
the cultivation of medical science and good
fellowship. Quarreling does not help that on.
It is painful to us all, including Mr.. Hubert
0. Thompson, that so many people yield ready
assent to the unpleasant charges which give o
political coloring to the water rent frauds.
MIR. Woolsey, foreman Of the September Grand
Jury, states that the plan of the dishonest
clerks was to 90 to men who owed heavy Gro
ton DlllS 10 IHe Guy, uHu Boy Ih"O 0NNJ WV
authorized to reduce the amount upon the pay
ment of small sum rs political assessment.
Whom did the men thus approached suppose
this alleged authority came frOmf Possibly
good many of them, who are not so sure OF hlr'
Thompson's personal honesty as those who
know him best, actually thought the head OF
the DEPARTMENT of Public Works must under
stand what was going on. 1t could not be So OF
course, land all of the Commissioners friends Will
be truly grieved that any one should have
thought of him but all the same it is impossible
not to lament that Mr. Thompson has given so
much attention to politics and so little to the
legitimate work of his office. If he had at
tended strictly to his duties, the city's dishon-
est debtors would have known Immediately
that the clerks were lying when they came
about insinuating that they had authority to
reduce water bills for a political consideration
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REMARKS BY 4 FOREIGNER.
1t is not generally known that the following lyro
for the times will DO sold exclusively at The HeGd'
newsstands:

A million year,
IT'S perfectly clear,
Is little enough-f0r me;
There's only my self,
To squauder the pelt
But IT'S little enou2h-for met
In purple / shine.
Mynnen 70 fine,
stump uOl.s tare each day
., its perfectly clear
That million year
Is modost-tOr me, say.
A third 81 a cent?
A third OF a oentl
Is more thau enOugh-for them;
It's very absurd
To kick az a third,
o. us very absurd-for thsm:
Food, raiment and rent
For third OF cent,
It's really too much-for them;
II some who will Try
To live on IL die,
Twill be a mistake-for them
Percbed up on Pole
They'd raylsh my soul,
could not refuse their prayer
Just let them embark,
For Africa DARK.
And see how I'll suecor them thereI
My ueigh0ors love,
All mortals above,
nv nei hbors--with Europe contentj~
NEWCOMERS who sell
My papers i-well. well,
Let them live on the third OF cens'
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Judging from the reports telegraphed from
Madrid, nothing but the most AFFECT humia-
ton of the French will satisfy the Spanards
for the allronts put upon their King in Paris.
Now, there is such thing as OVERRIDING
righteous Indignation, and the Spanish people
would do well to exercise little seli-restraint.
The mistake which the French people made is
recognized by them apparently as clearly as
by any one else; and they seem inclined to
the proper thing in the way OF apology But
there is a limit in sef-abasement beyond
which the Republic will not easily go, so that
At the naughty Casulians demand too much
they may not get anything at all. Suppose
France should gather herself together and re-
fuse fatty to do anything more In the way OF
asking forgiveness 7 What would the Span
sards do about it then2
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ought TO meet with a hearty re-
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There are legitimate expenses in every can
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The crucihx which has caused such commoton
in the streets of Salisbury, Conn.,. has been carried
into the politics of the place. Father Lynch, who
was responsible for putting the crucfx where it IS
was candidate for reelection as a member of the
school board and, though another Democratic can
didate was placed IN the field against him. he was
reelected, because the Democratic voters found
thew could not deloat him without making Re
publican majority III the school board.
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Farm Notes.

Boston consumers are te to pay seven cents
a quart for milk during the coming summer
In England 2S bushels of wheat to the
acre is considered moderate crop. But the
acres are much scsrcer than they are in the
United States.
The war between the milk producers and
contractors of New York was all about half a
cent quart The producers want 81 the
contractors offer 3.
According to to the census reports there
were. in 1880, ,00s ,907 farms in the United
States, embracing 2s4, III ,042 acres Of i'm
proved land.
As to fertilizers, there is nothing equal to
wood ashes, says Hiram Sibley, and they
should be sown broadcast Immediately after
planting corn. or applied literally about the
plants soon As they are up. Corn is pot
ash plant, but requires the phosphates. Fer
tIlizers should be sought which contain both
and when sown broadcast they NAV be used
nnsparingly with profit.
An excellent imitation of silk is found in
the fibre of Mexican plant. 1t is described
as a sort of vine, yielding very strong and
fine fibre, and will bear transplanting into
other lands of the same latitude and similar
temperature with that of Mexico. Like all
limitations there are doubtless obvious defects,
but the fibre can be readily dyed and is very
strong. Mr.. r. Grenier, in the Farm and
Garden, says that the easiest and quickest
way to destroy the weeds that generally start
about the time when the potatoes are up so
that the rows can be seen plainly, is by a
thorough use Of harrow or drag. He places
great emphasis on this, and deems il far more
effective than the cultivator and hoe, at less
pxpenso
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General News.

The government is investigating the charg-
es regarding Hawaiian sagar.
The government agent who saws the pleuro-
pneumonia among the cattle in West Virginia
is not contagious, is not believed.
Surgeon General Hamilton of the Marin,
Hospital service. has gone to Florida, with
view of considering preventive measures
against yellow fever.
Minnesota has had a good lumber winter !;
Wisconsin has not, and Maine has cut more
lumber than it can saw. Minnesota has cut
35 600, 900 feet, and Wisconsin l59 300, 900.
At banquet given in Kensington, Eng
land. by corporation of civil engineers,
James Russell Lowell responded to the toast
"Our Visitors"
Ii has been the custom of the police court
in Washington TO take worthless bonds, and
when criminals have forfeited their bail the
bondsmen have escaped prosecution.
Twenty graduates of Dartmouth College,
NeS Hampshire, had a reunion and dinner in
San Francisco, Cal, on the evening of March
21th. There are 6j Dartmouth men on the
Pacific coast representing classes from '43 to
'75.
Bushvhead, the Chief of the Cherokee ma
ton. has applied to the Secretary of the In
terror for permissin to take small quantity
of whiskey into the Indian Territory and has
received vigorous refusal, accompanied by
a temperance lecture from Commissioner
Price
One of the most interesting contested seat
cases in the next Congress will be that be-
tween Mckinley and Wallace of the XVIIth
District of Ohio. The election was awarded
to Mckinley by a plurality of eight votes. So
small ma ority. of course, invited a contest,
and for several months past preparations
have been made to this end.
According to recent statistics the consump-
ton of tobacco in Russia, France and Eng
land amounts to one pound year for each
inhabitant; in Italy it is one and a half; in
Austria. two and two-fiths, and in Germany
three pounds. In Belgium the amount rises
to four pounds while Holland takes highest
place with five and half pounds In the
United States the amount per head is three
pounds.
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NO SO.

ly German. He is still hard at work at other
inventions, and promises to again surprise
te world.
While Senator Beck was gazing into the
clear water at Glen Cove Springs, Florida.
the other day, his gold-tramed eyeglasses
slipped off. and, as he watched them sinking,
he saw hugh catfish open his jaws and swsl
low them. As these were the same glasses,
adds the Louisville Courier. Journal. that SEN
ator Beck looked through when pouring over
an srmy-wagon load of tariff statistics, that
fish is now fit to lead the finny tribe in biting
for revenue only.
Mrs Langtry and Miss Mary Anderson are
not on speaking terms, although each might
learn something from the othe-. Coming
Easte from Buffalo on Tuesday they travel on
the same train the formers car being at the
head and the latters at the rear. Although
near together they were yet SO far apart that
Miss Anderson said, in response to the question
whether she had met Mrs. Langtry; mo !
have never seen the lady, and hardly think
we shall ever meet"
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Personal.

The Rev. David Lsthrop HUM of Buffalo,
aged 80, is the oldest living graduate of Yale
General Grant will not visit Boston during
the stay Of the Mexican guests.
Dr. o. W. Holmes had hard work 10 keep
all his usual share of the conversation with
Sslvini, at the table the other day.
Herbert Spencer was ''overworked" during
his American travels, and has been weak
invalid il England since his return
General j. c. Caldwell, lately the repre-
sentative of the United States in Paraguay
and Uraguav, has returned to his old home
at Ellsworth, Maine.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke of Bos-
ton, last week completed his "A year. Phys
ically and mentally he seems as vigorous az
he was 30 years ago.
The marriage of Miss Edith Fish and Mr..
Oliver II. Northcote, will take place in the
month of June, at Mr.. Fish's country seat,
at Garrisons on the Hudson.
DR.. Calling, the inventor Of the famous
gun. 10 Southerner, but looks like an elder.
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Crop of Peas.

There are two distinct classes of peas,
those with small round seeds, and other with
much larger, irreeularly shaped peas the
surface of which is wrinkled. The wrinkled-
| seeded, or marrow peas, are as much better
than the others as sweet corn is superior to
field corn. The round peas, while not so
good, are much harder aud earlier than the
others. Unless the soil is warm, and they
germnate quickly, wrinkled peas will de-
cav before they can come up. The round
peas are vastly better than no peas, and are
very acceptable until the others come. To
have early peas, they must be sown early
the earlier the better. After the soil has
thaw ed FOR the first four inches, even if it is
solid below, sow peas. If the ground was
manured and plowed last autumn, all the
better; if not, select the richest available
spot, and open a drill four inches deep.
Peas should he covered deeper than most
other seeds. For varieties, the Early Kent
is one of the hest; it has almost as many
names as there are dealers. "Danlel
ORourke" is one of the names of good
strain of this pea. "Carter's First Crop" is
another variety, and every spring new
extra early sorts are sent from England which
usually turn out to be the old EARLY Kent"
with new name. The peas should be sown
in the bottom of the drill rather thickly, at
least one every inch, and at first covered
with about an inch of soil. 1t is well to put
about four inches of coarse stable manure over
the rows this is to be left on in cold days, but
when it is sunny and warm, pull ii of with the
rake, and let the sun strike the soil over the
peas replacing it at night. When the peas
sproHt, gradually cover them with fine warm
soil, placing the coarse manure over them AS
needed, until the covering of soil reaches the
level of the surface. If a ridge of soil, few
inches higher than the peas, be drawn up on
each side of the row, 1t will greatly protect
them from cold winds. When the plants are
a few inches high, draw some fine soil up to
them, and stick in the brush. When the soil
becomes dry and warm, the main crop of
wrlnkled peas NAV be sown.
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