New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-05

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printer of the pirated edition of The Encyclopedia
Britannica which lately found stuffed as full OF
printers errors as an egg is Of meat.
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The Treasury Is gaining little rather than
losing, for day OF two. Since April l. 1t has
taken in So. 1890 gold certificates, losing only
$407, 5O3 gold. But it has put out S206,97O moro
silver certificates, while taking in $94,9 39 in sll-
YER and has increased the amount of legal-tender
notes held by the public $1,139,434 In other
words 1t has borrowed about 81 100000 on. legal
tenders and silver certificates issued, and paid
about 81. 100000 gold certificates.
The meeting of those who favor the preservation
of the Adirondack forests, which Is to be held at
Chickering Hall on Wednesday evening next will
doubtless give adequate expression to the pubic
sentiment Of the metropolis. The call for the meet
ing is signed by the committees Of the Board OF
Trade and transportation. the Mercantile Ex-
change tho Maritime Exchange, the Anti
Monopoly League, tho Real Estate Exchange,
tho New-York Produce Exchange. the Stock
Exchange. tho Citizens Committee of One
Hundred and by other representative bodies rs well
as by a large number of prominent citizens repre-
sentng all the elements in the community. The
meeting will be addressed by Mayor Edison, Chaun-
cey Depew Carl Schurz and others. 1t time that
the voice of this great city was heard at Albany.
The time for the Legislature to adjourn is fast APP
preaching, and as yet no one of the many Adlron-
dack bills that have been introduced has
passed. The meeting may have the effect of iuduc-
ing Senators and Assembymen who favor the
preservation of the forests to prompt action and 1t
ought to be largely attended.
The friends of the Tariff bill In Congress are
going around with blood in their eyes and shot
guns over their shoulders asking for the of the
hend in human form who wrote the anonymous
circular signed MANY Democrats" They madly
yearn for his name, not necessarily for publica-
ton but in order that they may not pour their
bucksbot into the wrong man.
1t is not strange that the stock market was weak
yesterday The continued inability of the trunk
Line managers to agree upon more effective ar
rangement for regulating traffic, and the slender
ness of the business at this season, combine to
affect prices unfavOrably. Nor is it TO be expected
that the outlook will change materially until the
Clearing House system for competitive traffic. or
some other plan giving equal promise of preventing
strife the future, has been accepted by the man
ayers of the leading companies. But 1t Is well not
to forget that the great decline in prices of grain
will cause active movement. There is noticed
already marked increase in demand for ocean
freights.
A dispatch from Santiago dc Cuba states that
shock of earthquake occurred there on the 25th of
March. On the same date San Francisco was
shaken up, and though there may have been no
moro than a coincidence in the simultaneity of
these events the facts certainly Justify suspicion
that a single may have produced the phe-
nomena in both places. Notwithstanding their dis
tance from ono another. Such thing, however.
would seem to demand the pOstulatlon of a centre
of disturbance from which the earthquake waves
should have radiated and as yet there is no indi-
cation that such centre of disturbance existed,
though of course 1t may have been in some place so
isolated that tho news would be long time in
coming.
Wheat still sinks, closing 9SSs cents for May at
New-York. A little while ago there were people
who thought the same price at Chicago absurdly
low and looked for a sudden and great advance.
Reports of tho failure of Lindbom 81 Co. at Chi
cago increased the pressure to sell here yesterday,
but the "bottOm fact" is that the country
spoiled its market for grain this year by demand
ing high prices until customers abroad had sup
piled themselves elsewhere. Any grocer or butcher
knows what happens to him when he drives away
his customers by demanding higher prices than are
made at the shop across the way. We have been
dong that sort of thing a Nation for two years,
and must now bear the consequences.