New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-19

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A PENNSYLVANIA court has decided that rs
elections are not creatures of the common law
bets thereon are not forfeit. That may DC
sound legal decision but it is hardly IN the
line of sound public policy.
Mr.. Lowelrs eloquent and graceful Grafton at
Westminster Abbey at the unwilling of the
bust of Coleridge is printed on the sixth page
of this paper. 1t is difficult to CONCEIVE OF
anything that could have been more suitable 10
the occasion. Naturally Englishmen dislike
to see such an orator as Mr.. Lowell leave their
shores.
There has been sad increase of late IN the
number of confidential employees who are DIS
honest--or at least in the number OF cases dis
covered. The last is peculiarly sad one; a
man nearly seventy years old, and heretofore
highly respected, is accused of long series OF
thefts amounting in all to $4,000. The most
aggravated feature of the story is the mans ap-
parent devotion to religion. To rob ones en-
ployer AMI to steal the livery of heaven to wear
while committirg the crime is double ohense.
Recorder SJayth certainly did not err on the
side of mercy in his sentence of Crowley yes
terday. Seventeen years and six months at
hard labor! A fearful warning to hardened
villains who take advantage of the conbding
nf Maggie
Morris type, who go to public balls without
escorts remain out all night and accept the in
yitations of strangers to casual potations in a
bar-room. Al-night balls in public rooms in
the vicinity Of Monroe-st. will undoubtedly be
models of decurum for long time to come, but
It is not unlikely that the young women who
frequent thcm will DO compelled to rely on each
ether for partners in the dances The expert
ence of Crowley will be sufficient to scare the
young men away.
Here il a chance for the Democratic leaders
In this State, who have been posing for some
months as the fond friend Of the veteran
soldiers and sailors. to prove their love. Three
veterans of the Army Union side) who have
been watchmen III the Treasury for years have
lust been abruptly discharged. They asked
the reason of Mr.. FairchIld he advised them TO
ask some other man "; Higgins also sug-
gested that they should ask some other man (;
finally Mr. Manning referred them to some
other man. Tho discharged veterans did not
have the nerve to call at the White House and
so they have not found out yet who discharged
them, or why. VIII not the old soldiers fond
Democratic friends pursue the inquiry.
The Dominion Government are commonly
supposed to have white elephant on their
hands in the person Of Riel. III they punish
him, they may bitterly offend the French ele-
ment in their population who sympathize with
the half-breeds because they have French
blood in their veins; if they lot him Oft easily
the straight ont English will be iDcensed. and
rebellion will be encouraged. This is not &
pleasant situation; neither is it a situation
which should unncrye the Dominion statesmen.
II they take pains to remedy completely any
wrong under which tho half-breeds of the
Northwest are suffering. they should not be
afraid to punish Rel according TO law. To
remedy wrongs and punish crime ought not to
tax any Government beyond its strength.
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Paul Boyton's little sham-torpedo joke ID