New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-03

case it was in the ice-box. The world has long
INDUCED in grim pleasanries at the expense OF the
revolver fends who didn't know 1t was loaded"
and it seems to be high time to say word or two
for the benefit of those who are In the habit OF
administering to themselves or Others at haphazard
liquids from unlabelled bottles. or from bottles
whose labels, not being endowed with the faculty
OF speech, cannot be blamed if they give no warning
in the darkness Of night. When an individual Is
his own victim the voice OF stern condemnation Is
husned, and we only offer to the survivors our
condolences fluctuations. the case n'ay be.
But when the victim is one else it is right 10
hold his slayer up to execration. In such cases.
however, it is only fair to acknowledge that
larger portion Of wrath and shame belongs TO those
who shoot death out of revolver than to those
who pour it out Of a bottle In the former case
there is no palation whatever while in the latter
case the fool at least plead that he was seeking
to benefit his victim. and it may be no fault OF his
that the poison the dressing table or, Of all
places in the house, in the ice-box.
Superintendent Murray has shown commendabe
zeal in Kidding the streets of disreputable people.
But the opium joints and the dives still do their
dreadful work. Has he no way to reach themf
Ihe appointment OF Mr.. Hedden, wnicn seemed
from the first to require explanation is declared by
The Telegram to be the result of peremptory de-
mand by Secretary Manning. According to this
statement. the President had been influenced by Mr.
Tiden's Endorsement of Simmons. and had de-
termined to appoint that gentleman. Mr.. Manning
thereupon declared that Cleveland was in duty
bound to appoint Thompson, and if he would not do
that, to appoint Mr.. Thompson's friend: that re-
fms mn fha daat nf DemOc fic homes
New-York, and that if the President insisted upon
such course. he Manning. would resign This
terrible prospect 1t is asserted swayed the mind of
the President and left Manning master of the situa-
ton with Thompson in the Custom House by proxy.
Ii does not make bit Of difference whether this
Democratic explanation is true or not. Dir. Cleve-
land appointed Hedden. and is responsible both
for him and for Manning himself.
OF course it would be close, but in a contest of.
political jucgery, high, low, jack and the game,
between Speaker aines, of the Illinois Legislature.
and Commissioner Squire. we really think the
Boston importation would have living show.
There is something quito amusing in the demon
srativo virtue of the grain dealers of Chicago who
are not content With hunting down the smaller
gamblers of the bucketshop variety in their own
Guy, Dub i'cchis StoPPO' tho o"PP'y ~
telegraphic news to the Louisville Board of Trade,
on the ground that the dispatches there were IN
some way made known to bucket-shop managers.
Now oil this is eminently proper and praiseworthy:
the bucketshop ought to be broken up. of course.
But then, in a moral point of Wow. what else has
the Chicago Board of Trade become but a large
sized bucket-shop. and one which does great deal
more injury to the public interest than any other
gambling concern in the country, because 1t nndeI-
takes to control the price of staple articles of food
True it may be said that the little bucket-shops
all breaking concerns. But In that respect, too,
the Chicago Board of Trade is precisely on a level
with them for it uphods its members in speculative
sales in defiance of the laws of Illinois and has done
50 for years In the light of these facts the rampant
virtue of the Chicago board is rather amusing.
If William T. Smith becomes First Assistant
Posmaster-G General he may be counted on to remove
every Republican postmaster in NewYork State, at
least 1t will. indeed. be touch and go If he and
Smith ". Weed do not remove the post offices them
selves.
If dispatch from San Francisco is correct, the
people of California have contrived to dispose of
their last years crop of wheat much more nearly
than the people of the Atlantic States. The dis
patch states that the exports fro California dur
ing the year enulng june ~ ud'c Dccn 'uiiNat
TO 32OsO.0O0 bushels. Adding to this about
1000 900 bushels required for food. and perhaps as
much for seed the aggregate appears to be not
much less than the reported yield for last year IN
California. While the spectators have succeeded
in preventing exports to some extent from the
Atlantic States because the prices current IN foreign
markets were too low to suit their tastes, the Cali
forna people have at least one satisfaction that
they will not be Obliged to carry over until another
year something like a third of their entire yield.
In view OF the fact that Tammany failed to nomi-
nate MIR. Dorshener for Congress. and did nominate
its dearest foe Mr. Pulitzer. IL may perhaps be in
ferred that President Clevelands appointment of
Mr. Dorshemsr to be Dlstrict-Att0rncy Will not be
received by the Tamnany leaders with unbounded
pointment of Mcmahon should strike Tammany
men satisfactorily. The truth is that the President
knows Hubert o. Thompson Intimately well, and
Thompson knows his friends. and if the Tanmany
leaders are not friends of Thompson it is their own
fault. They should have made their peace long
some sort of shelter against the rltiless storm of
pnblc censuro which his frauds had brought upon
him. Mr. Cleveland and some other men came to
hisrescue and the result is that Thompson is happy
and Tammany is not. Thus is virtue rewarded III
this world.
PERSONAL