New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-25

and generally were lower and closed weak.
TEr WEATHER-TRIBuNE local observations In
d,cate clear or fair and slightly cooler weather
Temperature yesterday Highest, 90; lowest
| 46o; average, 49lso.
Sergeant Mason will spend his Thanksgiving
with "Betty and the baby" after all. Inc
President has pardoned him, considering, I'M
doubtedly, that the man has suffered enough
for undertaking to punish the assassin
Guiteau on his own responsibility. MaSons
sentence was felt by most people TO DC terribly
severe, and the confinement OF two years ana
more which he has endured, as was remarked IN
THE TRIBUNE only yesterday, has probably
been sufficient to teach him ana olner
| emotional soldiers a needed lessoh' lhe
pardon will be popular; but it is to be hoped
that there will be no effort now to make nero
Of Mason.
Apparently no one can beheld responsible 1or
the fatal shooting affray which occurred In a
Bowcry cigar factory yesterday. A crazy man
had pistol and suddenly, without any provoca-
tion. he shot dead one of the workmen near him.
He had shown no signs of insanity, ana there
was no reason to suppose he was dangerous
An asylum now awaits him, and then the matter
will be ended But after all, does not the sau
occurrence prove once more the necessity Oh
carefuflaw prohibiting the prOmiscuous sale Oh
firearms The carrying of concealed weapons
is forbidden but that ordinance or law never
will be of much practical use until some kinu
of restriction is thrown around the traihc Ill
small firearms.
The more the defeat of Hicks Pacha ana ms
| no
seems that it may be followed by consequences
which will reach Ear beyond the Nlle-lahd' Inc
Sultan of Turkey has good many 'hihss 10
make him unhappy just now, but the SUCCESS
of the False Prophet in the Soudan must appear
to him more terrible than all his other woes put
together. 1t is essential to him as the heau Oh
the Mahometan faith that the Pretcnder shall
he crushed. If England refuses to allow any
military enterprises south of Khartcuin, the Sui
fan in his desperation may undertake to assert
| his RIGHT to send Turkish force to conquer
what is nominally Turkish province. ANY at
tempt TO put such determination into action
would 90 far toward fastening the solution OF
the great Eastern Question.
II was natural, considering the recent obJec-
tions from the authorities of Cambridge Uni
tool, mart in the Princeton Yale football match
Yesterday would carefully restrain their tend
encies to make the sport too rough. Perhaps
they did try but they do not seem to have sue
ceeded very well at least. 1t appears that one
angry player struck another savagely III the lace
and blackened his eye; another " LOST portion
of his scalp" which probably means that ne was
badly cut in the head still another was oDhged
TO retire, owing to a severe kick on the SHIN
Such occurrences fully justify the comments
that the Harvard professors have made on inc
spirit cultivated by the sport at present
What was supposed to be a plot to blow up
, tbe German Embassy in London proves TO be
only y conspiracy between Wolff and French
. man IN obtain q reward which the Frenchman
l would command as an informer. These two
mon will probably find that they have made the
; mistakes of their lives. They must have been
ignorant of the law furnishing people who can
not furnish good excuse for having explosives
in their possession. Engllshmen just now are Ill
Q ANYTHING but an amablc frame of mind about
: dynamite, gun cotton and rend-rock powder
e and they will not be apt to consider that the
a hope of reward is sufficient excuse for having
buoketfuls of such dangerous stuff standing
, about. Wolff and Bolderam have an excellent
chance of being able to reflect on the folly OF
practical joking while serving term beyond
\ the seas.
0 Friends of education will be especially inter
ested in an article, published elsewhere III this
e impression, about the public schools in Brook
; lyn. The system as it exists there is not per-
, feet by any means; but Mayor Low, the presi-
dent of the Board of Education and the Super
, intendent of instruction are doing much to rem
edy its defects. The Board of Education
I itself is too uDweldy, but its mem
!, bers generally help on improvements
+ The principal need in Brooklyn seems
b. to be for more primary schools. This is fully
u u realized, and thanks principally to Mayor Low
/ liberal sum has been appropriated for new
sites and new buildings The sanitary condi'
% ton of the sch0olhouses across the East River
IS it is also evident is more carefully looked after
than in this city. In view of these and many
other facts, which will be found in the article
y referred to, we should like to have somebody
= explain, if it is possible why, with more thai
v half as many children as there are inNew York
Brooklyn gets along with about one-third al
= much money as we spend here.
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THE LAST or THE CENTENNIAL DAYS
: The series of centennial anniversaries of TIN
events of the American Revolution is brough
to "a close to-day 1t is true that two memorable