New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-07

now Receiving rauch money would have been saved
TO the city. And rs a.good many politicians in the
departments do scarcely any work except tho dra"-
ing Of their salare7 IT is only just that even th%5
task should sometimes be made little difficult.
reader Of THE tribune from tho first day 1t
was printed sends 20 this Office copy Of the
Morning Chronicle for November Is, 1906. This
little sheet goes Gar, he thinks TO Justify our
reflections upon the development Of tic newspaper
art, which were drawn out by TIE publication OK
The TRIBUNE INDEX to the daily files OF 1893
1t probably good Illustration Of the resources
of New-York journalism at the time Of publication
1t is q small f0ur-page paper, with five closely
printed columns. The advertising patronage was
very largo space being reserved for only four
columns Of reading matter The local news con-
ssts of Il marine list Of six entries, and briei ac-
count Of the burning of barn. The LEADER IS a
irenChan appeal to tie voters Of the Firth WardtO
cleo patriotic and sagaciOus Aldermen. The news
budget is made up mainly of clippings from private
correspondence The contrast between this badly
printed little sheet with its indecent advertise
ments aud lottery cards, AID the metropolitan
newspaper of the present year of grace is certainly
a striking one. The ndex-maker in those days
would have required five minutes in place OF five
hours IN which to fill out his reference cards.
Convention is to he cast for Sam Randall. Or, at
all events it looks so. The Texas Legislature has
Just passed a law making fence-cutting felony.
If ia not necessary TO assume that the friends of
the Oswego woman who is supposed to be dead are
fools because they decline to bury her. and because
they are confident that she will come to lie again.
1t seems they say she once before recovered from
similar condition of apparent death, and it may be
l. NH nnn " hn
they were in trance, and unbappily there is too
much ground for suspocting that some people have
been buried alive while in that condition rural
practitioner of limited experience might easily con-
| found trance with death, but when a woman has
once had trance her friends are abundantly Justl-
fled in refusing to bury her until the evidences of
death are unmistakable.
Let's see. Morrison wants to "bust" the tariff
| plank of the Ohio PLATFORM the Ohio Democrats
want to "bustD MorrisOn's bill; Mr.. Carlisle wants
| TO Dust" tie Ohio Democrats; TIE Sun wants to
"bust" Mr. Carlisle; The Louisville CO1v'ieT-J0Tadl
| wants to bust" The Sun; Sam RI ndall wants to
bust" The Courier-JouIHGl. No wonder the prop
Osition fnds favor to hold the Democratic National
! Convention so late as August. We really think 1t
would be wise for our Democratic friends TO omit
holding a National Convention this year Perhaps
! by 1888 they will have achieved Harmony on the
| tauff issue.
The Mahdis offensive powers have been greatly
extended by that English policy Of reluctant and
Ineffective action which has put into his hands in
three separate cons gnments 50 large quantity Of
arms and munitions of war. He is tOlerably wei
provided by this time with artillery and cHes, as
well as with Cartridge for both; anu the morale
Of bis army having been immensely raised by its
easy victories over the craven Egyptian forces,
which have seemingly been differed by Europeans
only to render their destruction moro significant,
he can now afford to abandon his waiting policy
and assume the aggressive on a more imposing scale.
1t must be confessed that if he had dictated the
course Of England he could hardly have made 1t
more favorable to his own pTetcnslonS