New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-29

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and transportation. Then the difference In
quality causes the Indian wheat to be valued in
London from pence to A sblings less per
quarter than the American wheats, or from
| about / to cents per bushel. With these
facts it is easy to see how pernicious to wheat
| growing in this country must be every artlhciai
advance of prices here beyond reasonable
| limits. This country has power to sell all the
wheat it pleases in Great Britain and on the
Continent, provided it does not allow specula-
ton to play the mischief with prices.
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! Died. at the Union Square Theatre Vera, in the
second week OF ITS age. Friends are requested not
| to send sunnowers.
| Now and then some man succeeds In making HIM
self 40 offensive TO the public that any temperance
seems like general afront-a thing to be resented.
| The Maley brothers of New Haven have achieved
| this unen viable Distinction and the announcement
that one of them proposes to air lbs grievances by
bringing libel suits against one or two newspapers
| for statements made during the murder trial Will
| be received with some disgust. The jury in That
| trial failed to convict theso young brutes oil tile
murder OF Jennie Cramer. and they are entitled to
| all the benefit which an acquIttal on such charge
! carries in tie minds of men. But they were self
convicted OF tho moral murder of the girl, and even
slight sense OF decency. such as sometimes exists
| in depraved natures should suffice to keep them
OFT of the view of the public for the rest OF their
natural lives.
1t is announced that General Durbin Ward, of
| Ohio is in attendance at Saratoga az convention
| of the Beta Theta ri Society. We supposed from
the Generals recent definition Of Civil Service Re
| form that his society was the III Eta. and that
Judge uoadlys was the M III Eta. There's no
| Ia.En Vaur.a
they transpose tie letter, describe their purpose
and call themselves the Eta Beta P. And the Ohio
Democracy won't be able to do that after the Re-
: publicans have lambda in October.
[ II said that a ladies' tricycle. club soon to be
formed in Chicago of which many prominent ladies
OF that city will he members. Anything which will
| induce American women to take more outdoor er-
ercise than they do now ought TO be encouraged.
But aside from that tricycle. riding has things
10 commend It. and there Is no why il should
not become rs populs for women ~ bicycle riding
has proved TO be for men. As compared with horse
back riding it is both less dangerous and less ex-
pcnIive and probably fully as good an exercise.
| There il only one dreadful obstacle in the way of
IL. speedy adoption. which lady plaintIvely ex-
| plains in q recent issue of The London Globe. As
trcyces are made she says, the extremely ugly
| appearances cut by the rider. while working the
| machine either front view or back, is enough to
deter any lady from Investing in one" But this
| obstacle need not remain insuperabc; and doubt
less IN the near future some inventive Yankee will
present the ladies' with a tricycle. which will skill
| fully combine the useful with the beautiful
John Kelly to the Buffalo Convention Allow me
casually to direct your attention to the fact that in
$40 1 received n. $50 votes for Governor
| Judge Hoadly's ight is evidently serious one.
| He seems to have an exceedingly thin skin, which
| must be sadly abraded by this time by all the
| kind thing, that have been said about him by men
| Of his own party. lie has no ability of reticence
whatever but is always saying whatever lie happens
10 think which IN usually something ho ought not,
as a Democrat. either to think or to say. lie has
| been In trouble from this from the veiy hour
| he was nominated, when he proclaimed the " new
Democracy" and reports now represent HIM as
| almost Frustrated by the worries and anxetes of
the campaign. His speaking engagements lave
been cancelled for time. and his friends said
TO he taking care that none Of his occasional un-
| guarded expressions about his desire TO Withdraw
from the ticket shall get out to the public With
| his impusive, unbalanced disposition, it would not
| be unlike him, at some moment Of great depression
when he felt that his chances of success were ire
treyably ruined by his own follles, and the irrita
| lions of tho campaign were too great to bear, to
! withdraw his name. His friends would do vol.
therefore, to watch him, put the party strat-jacket
| on him. and subject HIM to other measures of mid
restraint THIS for the sake of appearances; it is
not likely TO make much difference as to the result,
and on that point the Democrats themselves CIV
ing tho best possible evidence by beginning already
| TO quarrel es to who is most responsible for tho
| coming defeat
| All signs" SAYS the Troy Press. now point to
| harmonious [Bniialo convention" The signs
which do this pointing not visible to the naked
eve OF the watchmen stationed upon the TammanY
| observatory.
| Fdthe. Columbia's Paper il the odd name OF
| neyspa per which has just been started in this city
And it's mission is odd ITS name IL will labor
for the election Of General Butler to the Presidency
I'm the initial number he Is spoken of as the best
executive on earth,' and as labors lifelong real
friend" These arc lovely compliments, aud the
| Generals cheeks Will doubtless grow rosy with de-
| hpht a, he reads them But if he is indeed the
| best executive on EARTH" how comes it. rather Co.
Luibia that he is doomed to defeat il ne concludes
| TO run for Governor this falf Aud if lie is indeed
"labors lifelong friend" how did it happen that
| his sympathics before the were with the slave
holders rather than the slavesf We are AFRAID the
| new boom will die abcrning"
| The brooklyn Eagle recalls the fact that it was
! Thomas Jefferson who wrote " That Government is
best that governs least" Yes, Mr. Jefferson did
| make that remark time But judging
from typical chapters in tho history of Democracy,
| dnring the last quarter q century, that party