New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-29

scout has reached Battieford with the news
| that Big Bear has broken up his camp Frog
Lake and is moving eastward. The presumption is
| that he has received the of Ries and Pound
makers surrender and that he wants 10 get out of
| his present difficult position. His surrender would
end the rebellion. which has othus far lasted Just
two months and has been nearly e1tingul shed with
the loss of about $50 lives; not a great number
vet still far too many for n peaceful community,
aud enough TO have embittered popular sentiment
greatly against Rirl and Dumont. The latter has,
however, succeeded in crossing the Canadian
border, and Is now under arrest in Minnesota.
For several months past we have been publishing
| an early edition OF TnE SUNDAY TRIBUNE for the
benefit OF few out-of-town readers who could not
be- promptly supplied with our regular Sunday
issue There has been no money In the enterprise,
but il has accommodated a number OF our subscrb-
ers, and has gwen little advertising; and we
have been content. We have tried-not altogether
unsuccessfully we bclieve-to make tins edition the
best paper in the market for the money, and there
has never been anything hidden mysterious
about it, Country readers and advertising patrons
have ali along been familiar with its character and
have appreciated our efforts; but I'VE have never
felt like Dragging of the modest results OF the en-
tcrprise. UnwttnRly, however, We have troddcn
On the toes Of our amable contemporary The Eren-
ina POST There appears to have been. according
IN the admissions of The Pot itself great drop in
the Saturday circulation Of that jonrnal-one news
dealer alone having discontinued his order OF
twenty-five to forty copies because the early Sun
DAY TRIBUNE had captured the trade. Hence The
posrs bitter tears and lamentations. Well, we
firmly sorry; but what can we do to console itl As
We have said there is money in this early edition.
but # happens to he little pet of ours and hate
NV "a gye r. riSl "A faiu
that the bantling may yet reach n vigorous
bood-proyided that The Post and other kind con-
tetnporaries will only continue to help its growth
bv their free advertisements. Need we add that the
smallest favors of this kind will always be thank
fully receiyedf
Infinite Providence has even for reptiles
II is said SO the grain cornerng spectators of the
Northwest may possibly prove of some for once
if it be true, dispatches now report that the
great advance in tho price Of wheat for some
months past has caused a considerable increase in
the acreage Of spring wheat in Dakota and Mime
sofa The European prospects sonnet what less
favorable since the cold spell early this month"; and
il Is possible that decrease in the American yield
of spring wheat might have given the spectators n
chance to make food too costly for Industrial pros
perity.
The season OF Jnunutf anu lghtnlnR opens Olul-
nously. Already this week several fatal strokes
have been reported and nervous people will temble
at the sight of every black coud from now until
October. Tho terrifying feature of n lightning
stroke il that one never knows how it is coming"
and in this respect science has been Of little aid
Last year statistics were gathered of all noticed
casualties from lightning in France, and carefully
tabulated, in the hope that from them might be ex-
tracted formula or some information as to the
course of action of the electric fluid. IL was found
however, that the various were 80 contra
dctory that nothing could be learned from them
Under apparently exactly similar circumstances tho
lightning acted in directly opposite ways. The only
real good gained by the observations was the
knowledge that the number of lives destroyed by
lightning is small, in comparison with the
mortality from other causes, that the popular APP
prehensiOn in regard thereto seems altogether dis
proportionate to the danger
II is an interesting story which was cabed from
London the other day telling how CAPTAIN Awkward,
who helped the Beers 10 make good fight against
England and afterward came to this country to be
toasted and toasted for brief period by his COM
patriots and then dropped, had secretly visited
Paris in January, obtained assistance from the
french to loment rebellion among the half breeds