New-York tribune., 1885-02-23

Liouor sellers received little or no attention
from the notice Yesterday and no topper went
thirsty for lack of place to buy his DRAM
Where is the association of liquor dealers that
wos Going to make our Sunday Excise law hate
ful 70 tbe free American public by enforcing
;t2 We have never thought that they would
succeed in their effort to make New orKers
cry on; for free drinking on the first day In the
veek Int we were anxious to see them try It,
About once in six years the observance OF
each of our holidays takes on particularly re-
Hrious coloring That is when the celebration
falls ON Sunday. Such was the case yesterday
with the observance of WashingtOns Birthday.
The Father of his Country furnished the theme
for many a pulpit, generally we suppose to the
edifcation of the congregation. To-day the
lavmen will celebrate the anniversary Ill
secular way. 1t is to be hoped they will not
Forget the admonitions of yesterday.
The Arabs of the desert are fierce Toes AT
jlose quarters, but they have not yet been 10
educated in the art of war but that they can be
tricked by neat little stIatagems. General
Ruller's .roops at Abu- Klea the other day
fooled them nicely. A small squad of soldiers
ercpt out behind hill on the enemy's flank
and gave them vOlley. Then leaving one
man there to keep up the firing the others re-
peated the manpuvre from another hilltop un-
til the Arabs fled. thinking apparently that
English troops were coming up in every direc-
ton. This exhibition of simplicity explains,
perhans. why the the Madhi drove back Sir
Charles Wilson as he approached Khartoum
instead of letting him walk into an ambush
People who take refuge i'll New-Jersey from
tbe heat of the city in summer would do well
TO consult the report of the New-Jersey State
Board of Health before deciding where they
will 90 during the coming season. There GER
tanly is great choice among the seaside places
between Cape May and Sandy Hook Some Of
them are well drained at others the hotels are
practically built over cesspools. Still the
Board OF Health reports that there Is much i'm
provement in the matter Of drainage along the
coast and in due course Of time probably all
the resorts will be healthiul, much to the salts
faction of New Workers. 1t must be admitted
that the task of the hotel proprietor is not easy
He must drain his buildings but he dares not
let the sewage reach the ocean, its natural re-
ceptacle, lest it should spoil the surf bathing
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Inc Oh thc lutClHdtloIdi tieih
near San Antonio, Texas, seems to have been
due primarily to the simplicity or stupidity of
the United States marshal and his two deputies.
They had in charge two desperadOes, supposed
to be guilty of robbery, whom they had
manacled and disarmed But these precautions
for safety were of little avail, since the pris
oners were allowed to be accompanied on their
Journey by flock of friends and relations,
male and female Naturally fight soon followed,
which ended in the death of the marshal and,
probably, two or three other persons, as well as
the escape of the prisoners. 1t is the bad habit
of many officers of the law to be altogether too
obliging to the criminals whom they arc guard
ing. The Texan border is particularly dan
eerous place for the exhibition of such good
nature.
The complicated debt question of Virginia
once more looms up before tho citizens OF that