The Press., 1883-05-31

of woman who fell in 8 jam of people on the steps at the New York anchorage, causing rush of people both from fear and curiosity. The oncoming stream of people piled on each other as the steps were reached, those behind pressing those in front. Fortunately company of mili- tia came to the rescue, stopped the crowd at the entrance of the bridge, and helped disentangle matters, but as nearly as can be learned from 25 to 30 persons were kill ed in the jam, and many more injured.
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 ALEXANDER was duly crowned emperor of the Russias, on Sunday, with all the magnifcence and pomp due to an autocrat. Whether he will give his people the con- sessions which they demand as the price of his life, remains to be seen. We hope he will in the interest of peace as well as of long suffering people.
 TO-DAY great streams of humanity, on foot, in carriages, and in cars, are stream ing over the New York and Brook lyn sus- pension bridge, which was opened in good form on Thursday last. Cars propelled by an endless cable are constantly running. The bridge is big success, and ranks among the mechanical wonders of the world.
 IT is becoming evident that serious, per haps fatal, result may come from the late accident to Queen Victoria. The queen is GA years old, of tendency to gout, and grows hysterical with sufferings from sci atica and other effects of the late injury to her knee. Fears are entertained that her mental faculties may suffer from her ner- vous tendencies. Albert Edward may any day be called to the throne.
 IT is most natural feeling on the part of veteran soldiers that Memorial day is set apart for observances of the most ten- der character, bordering closely on the sacred, if not embodied in that term, and that making it a boisterous holiday, with horse races to fill the day, and dances to close it, is in bad taste, to put it mildly. Of course to those confined in the mills 8 holiday means something different from 8 Sabbath day, and they seek amusement and recreation. This cannot we'll be pre- vented. But the better class of people will frown upon horse trotting, dancing, or any openly advertised junketing that takes advantage of holiday created for a purpose so far removed from any jollifca- ton purpose. The first time that the 3Oth of May come upon the Sabbath, after it was set apart for these beautiful services, observance was either held on Saturday or postponed until Monday. Many regard ed it as a mistake, arguing that the ob- servance was in the nature of religious rite, and peculiarly fitted for the Sabbath day. To-day still more are of that opin- ion, and if the disposition increases to per vert this holiday to purposes so foreign from its original design, eventually it's ob- servance will be relegated entirely to it's most fitting time-the peaceful and quiet christian Sabbath.
 CONGRESSMAN EATON advises that the in- coming democratic congress do not meddle with the tariff, though he thinks it has glar- ing faults. This latter opinion is shared by about everybody, and would be, no matter what the tariff were. Fix up tariff ever so carefully, and then ask the opinion of MT. A. and Mir. B. and MT. O., and of the rest of the alphabet. MT. A. will tell you that there are glaring faults in the sche- dule of rates, and MT. B. and MT. O., and so on down to Mr. Z.-an will echo the opinion. If you investigate the causes of complaint, MT. A. will tell you that it is all right except in the item of bees wax. He uses bees wax in his business, and it ought to come in free. But Mr. B. thinks the bees wax matter is all right. His trouble is that there is tax on timber for clothes-pins, and he makes clothes-pins. Mir. O. has laundry and thinks clothes pins should come in free of duty. This opinion stirs up Mir. B., who thinks MT. c. lacks patriotism to want to use foreign And so on. Now the object of the tariff is to give revenue and to pro- teet American industry. Some think the former should be the sole object, but the majority, we are confident, want to use the tariff to foster home industry, and not make our industrial class compete with the poor 1y paid laboring class of Europe. And so the tariff should be for the greatest good of the greatest number, and ignore the petty selfshness of MT. A., MT. B., etc. It will be impossible to suit everybody in making up schedule taxing thousands of import ed articles, as it will also be impossible to make schedule that will be perfect. For some of these MT. As, MT. B's, etc., will contrive to get their little hatchets ground, when no one is looking, be there ever so many men on guard.
 A Chicago policeman, whose brain has been punched through and through by a surgeon in the past few months, has just tO drfy nearly as oood os now