New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-08
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4 SINGULAR LAWSUIT
An unoommonly queer question is now awaiting
decision in one Of the English courts. The question
comes down to this-has a man such right to hi q
own head that ne may lawfully dispose of il 10 an
! other the delivery to occur when tho head shall
have become a dead head 1t seems that some years
| ago an Engshman. who presumably had no nom
sense about him. sold his head to the local doctor
with view OF providing for ms funeral expenses
The owner Of the sold head is now dead, leaving u
! large estate and the doctor claims his head, ac-
cOrding to contract. But the friends of the lato
amented decline to acccde to the doctors request
doubtless deciding that II smacks too much of
Shylock Hence the lawsuit.
The outcome OF the trial will be looked for with
interest, not only in England but in certain portions
of our own country. The point at Issue cannot fail
to come homo to tho Dependents since it bears
directly upon the right of sovereignty under, ilame
diately undor, Ouos own hat OF course our De-
pendent friends will back the doctor. For they are
now insisting upon the right to lose their heads.
And certainly Ii man has n right to lose his head
for nothing he has the right to sell il for something.
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According to Mr.. Wattcrson, the longer Grover
Cleveland has been before the people the Ii re ne
has Weakened That is the sort of candidate
Democratic conventions usually prefer. General
/
it would be pity not to give Governor Cleveland a
chauce Time hm, by all means; see how lar he
can run away from an election in four months.
Ex-Mnster Sargent has returned from Germany
and i'm conversation with reporter sta tes that n
moro manly and vigorous foreign policy has be come
II necessity for this country New York, he OBJ
serves with truth, ia in such a deleuceless cOndi
tion that any liith-rate foreign Power could bonn
] Ns. II,.ttn.a
obsiinately refuses 10 make tho necessary appro-
piatons for the Navy or for other defensive needs
Mr. Sargent makes point winch has not been gcu-
orally noticed by others. that Bismarck evidently
! thinks tho German Americans hia ardent friends
! and ndmrcra aud calculates that he can snub or
! insult the United states ~ ho likos, with tho cor
! lalnty that Germans here will prevent any resist
! Anoo aud insist upon pcR"cablo Hubin7ei0n. 1hat
h. doca not uuito comprehend The feelings ~ those
who have chosen TO cavo Germany. aud To find
honlos olscwhcrc II IL hardly necessary to Elnio.
! IN the matter OF mpprtailons from this country
! the German Government has boon peculiarly I'M
! reasonable and to Americans odonuvc, and u docB
not appear that Ucruan.bom cti2ona ~ tho United
states pympa'hiho with German hostility TO Amcri'
can commerce,
Tho liouso rrfunrs 60 conno It's printing Of
! tpoochos 4 public cXpcuno 10 those actually de.
rect instinct. Most Of their speeches would not be
| hstcucd to by anybody, # delivered, and could
ncyor got printed anywhere else except at their
! own expense.
Kings Comfy can name the candidate" Mr. W.
! c. Kingsley tccgmphs to lbs BrOokiyn EaJie. If
! there is anywhere "A moro corrupt and odi0us po-
litical ring than the ono which has destroyed en0r
nous Democratic malouties in Kings County and
made Brooklyn Republican in its city government.
we do not know where 70 find it. Tbs ring created
and controls the delegation from Kings County 20
| the National Convention, and this Kings County
delegation proposes to "name The candidate" lt
| has named Grover Cleveland. BY all means, let
/ him be nominated
Now that the clerks at Washington have little
time It might be well to compare the signatures on
a host Of petitions begging for Office, from the
! UciChbornood Of Boston aud Now-Haven, with the
names OF persons who ale protesting against Mr..
! Blanc, on the pretext that he does not care for
civil service reform. 1t would be pleasant to know
how far profession and practice had agreed IN those
/ two cities.
Fore>eeing that one letter, however solemn
would not make Democrats believe he was telling
the truth Ir. Tilden wrote a second letter, it is
said. which ho iutrusted to Mr.. Manning. The
principal object Of tho second letter is to convince
heopio that he was honest in the first. We bid
goodbye TO the hope Of his nomination with I'M
fc.gncl grct.
Among the important bills killed by the House is
the one 10 provide for the settlement of disputes i'll
counting the electoral vote. The House wanted to
deprive the senate of all power in the matter and
! to deny the state Governments the right to decide
upon the validity of certificates given-a curious
! position which a Democratic House would never
have taken except in the hope that it might be en-
/ abcd by symmetrical majority to count in Demo-
cratic President not elected by the people, just as 1t
! has seated Democratic contestants for whom the
peopc did not vote The failure Of the bill is alto
gether preferable to the passage of bill TO give
partisan majority in one house power to steal the
! Presidency.
"Afterthe Democratic Convention, about which
they are willing to wait with solicitude until they
see if any crumbs fall-the Dependents propose to
confer again. 1t would be rational procedure for
them to ascertain prior to that meeting whether
any respectable man of either party would consent
TO be their candidate. If not, it might be waste
Of time and temper to confer ct all. Those who
mean to help the iree-trade Democracy anyhow,
whether it puts on mask OF another, could do
80 as well without the disclosure of divided coun-
sells in a faction too small to he split.
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PERSONAL
,:IOuis James and Marie Wainwright of Lawrence Bar
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