New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-23


Mir. Miller has served public notice on the other
twenty -four collectors to got ready to move out
Six mors mills i'm Fall River have agreed to close
for some time to come, and it is announced that
manufacturers in New Bedford and Rhode Island
have agreed to Join the Fall River people IN the
reduction of output. According to statements
telegraphed, the SUSPENSION of work now agreed
upon will reduce the production for the next two
months by 1000 900 pieces. This course IS DOUBT
| less the wisest that the manufacturers OF print
cloths could have taken in the present state OF
business The public observes with satisfaction
that their combination is not attended, as some
others are, with effort to extort from the people
unreasonable prices for the goods the production Oh
which is thus curtailed. But it is not to be denied
that the taken gives proof OF considerable
shrinkage in consumption, and is therefore On nd-
cation of the continued operation of causes which
have for some time past embarrassed important
industries.
Jonathan Mason, in his diary for the winter OF
ISO4-5, says: Washington City is as it has been
1t does not improve and is filled with discussions"
The last word explains the Jelersonian model OF
the present Administration.
| TIE removal of the Broadway stages emphati-
cally renews the demand for some means of transit
between the downtown ferries and Broadway.
The west-side ferries have long been without any,
and now Wa-st. is reduced to the same condition,
while Fulton is made dependent upon the unspeak-
able stencil boxes of the Bleecker-st car line.
number of small, neat cabs, similar to those III
MOntague-st., Brooklyn at cent fares, ought to
do a good business in Fulton, Wall, Cortlandt,
Barclay and Chambers SITS.
IL Will
virtuous Indignation that the upward movement in
the stock market last week was simply "gunnIng
for shorts" Well, if it WAS. why not Is there
any reason under the sun why a sh ,rt that Is
TO say, person VINO mas sold property which he
does not and did not own-should be considered
sacred ndividual' Why should his interests be
regarded by anybody rather than the interests oil
other people who have put their money INTO some
thing! One does not quite sec how, in the present
state of the market anybody can be more proitably
or hon0rably employed than in hunting down
shorts" and compelling them to get back at more
or less heavy loss the property which they had no
business TO sell IN the first place. vast deal oil
sympathy is wasted in Wall Street. in other
speculative markets at Chicago and elsewhere, upon
the people who deliberately attempt to destroy the
value of property which other people own by selling
what they do not possess. But in justice these
persons are entitled to no consideration whatever
Il
They take the risk with their eyes Open anu know
right well that the owners of the property which
they have sold can 60 cunning" for them when
ever they please. and rnin them Also II they can
sufficiently agree. Under su,h circumstances
whatever the short seller gets is good enough for
him. But it would be a serions m STAKE to suppose
that all advance in prices which las for ITS basis
only campaign against short" sellers is likely to
last long enough to benefit substantial investors
The most extraordinary effect of one of the re-
cent Iowa lorna oes was the blowing away OF a
three-year-old child to such distance from It's
home that its parents have not get been traced
The poor little thing was found IN held dying
II appeared to have been blown out OF bed, Tor 1t
WAS almost naked, and no doubt the house from
which II came was completely destroyed by Tie
storm. Tie presumption OF course is tAat Ii was
carried considerable distance by the wind. as II 1t
| had belonged in the neigabOrhood 1t would nave
been ldenufed, even ii its relatives had all been