New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-30

Candidates come aud candidates go, but the
Senatorial contest in New Hampshire is still
kept up. There is pleasing prospect, how
ever, that an end may be reached this week.
Mr.. Chandler has Withdrawn, as well as most
of the other aspirants who were early in the
struggle. According TO letter from Concord
which we PRINT this morning two comparatively
new men now divide the best chances of cleo
ton. They are Mr.. c. II. Burns and Air. A. +.
Pike The latter is acceptable TO Mr.. Chambers
friends as we'll as to the anti-caucus men.
His chances therefore, might be considered as
better than Mr.. Burns's; but too much intiu-
ence is sometimes bad thing.
The action of Mayor Edison in Offering the
Controllership to prominent member of the
Produce Exchange, seems to be certain in
dication that concerning this appointment at
least politicians are TO have nothing to say
Mr.. Orr has declined to accept the position; ;
hut there are q number of other men avail
able who would fill the place with credit to
themselves and the city. We hope Mr.. Edison
will not swerve hairs breadth from the line
OF conduct he has thus laid down for himself.
Some of the appointments which he has made
have been unquaifedly bad; but when he has
consulted only his own judgment his selections
have BEEN excellent. IL the Mayor gives lis as
good man as Mr.. Orr, we shall be satisfied.
Probably timid travellers in Italy will care
fully avoid tho island OF Ischia for some time
to como, despite its famous mineral springs.
There is no spot on the earth's surface that
has been more unstable lately than this little
island in the Mediterranean. On March and
Is, 1881, severe shocks of earthq Jake were
felt there, and in the town of Casamlc-
cola ia people lost their lives. The place
wes more severely shaken up, however, on
Saturday last, when. according TO the dis
patches, one thousand persons were killed and
eight hundred more were injured. This COM
prises about one-tbird of the inhabitants of
the town. The constant danger in which
people in that part of the world live, probably
is not generally appreciated. In the seventy
five years preceding 1857, 10000 inhabitants
of the kingdom of Naples lost their lives by
earthquakes. Since that date, however, the
proportion of deaths from this cause has not
been so large.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter's letter on Industrial
Germany this morning contains the views of
Herr T. Osann, q well-known writer and
speaker ON economic topics. Herr Osann is
an enthusiastic believer in the German Gov
ernments present policy of developing home
industries In the iron business, he declares,
the monthly wages of the laborers have in
creased during four years Of protection from
60 marks "a pfennings TO IL marks 81 pfen-
nings, and the number of persons to whom
wages for working in iron and steel are paid
has increased 33 per cont Then he points
out In addition that this increase in wages
has not been Offset by corresponding rise in
the prices of the necessalies Of life. Even if
tie purchasing power of the wages were no
more now than four years ago, free traders
would have difficulty, We think, to convince
the German workmen who were starving
under trade policy but now have plenty
of work that protection has been bad thing
for them.
Tia name Of smother man Of intelligence and
position must be added to the list of startling
Suicides which has been lengtheaing at q fsar.