New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-21

| nounce Cicero with big X, and he does spell
Nation with a big N. He fought in the Union
army, which is more than can be said for any OF Mr.
Bayard's friends who are TO 60 abroad. Mr.. VIII
Jams may be- "a bad man." but Mr. Bayards
trouble about him can be read between these lines
| without much trouble. One thing is certain. HIS
| appointment was not a boorisb insult to Hayti,
| as Keiley's was to Italy
A newly discovered poetess sings the following
| strain
| A breath Of what the summer brings
| caught to-day.
II is greatly 10 be hoped for the sake of her olac-
tory perceptions that she wasn't wandering around
| in tho sixth Ward when she caught IT.
Republicans over tho State are thinking much
| over the approaching fall election. One fact
| should be impressed on their minds at this early
stage of the canvas1 The Republican candidate
| for Governor will not merely be the opponent Of
| Mr.. Ill., Mr. Whitney. Mr.. Corning Mr.. Lockwood,
or Mr. Manning, "a the Democrats shall select.
| He will be pitted against the President OF the
United states. Not merely Mr.. Cleveland, but the
President The Republican candidate must be a
| man equal to such contest. The selection OF
candidate must DO made by higher rule than that
he has this or that man TO beat. The contest Will
! be OH a hI Cher plano. Who will the man bel
IL is not uncommon TO o such lines as this in the
| reports Of the last few days from the Assembly;
d" The resolution for an Investigation was promptly
laid on the table," The strikers " have evidently
been struck by public opinion.
Those Republican who complacently voted tho
| Prohibition ticket last fall, knowing that they
were thereby promoting Democratic success, are
reaping their reward in some of the Presidents re-
| cent appointments Jacob Mueller. the newly APP
| pointed Consul General 1t Frankforton-the-M Main.
was Lieutenant Governor OF Ohio about the time OF
| the Crusade" IIo was elected as a Republican.
| He changed his politics shortly afterward because
| of temperance legislation enacted by the Repubi
| cans lie has been since that time the bitterest
| anti ProhibitionIst and anti-temperance leader in
| Ohio lie for years land possibly IL yeti pres-
dent of tho Ohio Liquor Dealers Association. which
defeated tho prohibition amendment two years
ago He is a specimen brick of Democratic rule for
| PIohibiIonists TO contemplate.
Buddensiek awaits the condemnation OF the
courts Mean while the building examiners have
hastily condemned several of his finished buildings.
1t is not possible that Buddensek 10 the only
skin" builder in New York CITY. Ther hasty
raid on Buddensiek's structures, consequent on tho
disaster of Sixty secoudst.. will hardly b. accepted
| as covering all the death-traps OF Gotham. The
buildi ng examiners trial, as much as Bud
denslek, aud the public IL the jury.
The Haytien Mission trouble il probably due to
| the fact tlat Mr.. Williams. being q Republican.
cannot be Bavard man in 1888. That seems TO
be tho test on which foreign appointments
made.
The bitter cry of outcast New-York" at this
season is for water: water IN its streets When IN
July and August, gentle Zephyr scarcely stirs the
| f.~ h
streets are deuged with water; but when the
North Wind threatens to tear the very paving
stones from their places and hurls the accumulated
filth OF the winter into the mouth. eyes aud ears of
the staggering pedestrian the water-cart socks the
seclusion which its winter quarters grant, and
leaves the citizen TO swallow his peck of dirt un-
diluted AS the Bourbon poet feelingly remarks
"a little water and then is relished by the best
of men," and nowhere aud ut no time does this
aphorsm shine forth more brightly in the pure light
of truth than in tho streets of New-fork on
windy spring day.
That eminent republication of tho Civil Ser
vice Reform procliyites of the Treasury end Of the
Administration, Mr. Higgins, has been heard from
again. "Don't bother about me-" said Higgins to
some friends who were lamentlng the tendency OF
the press beiabor him. just think of that poor
fellow, Phelps of Vermont; see how our own pa
10 tho kettle slightly OIL color :" never weep"
said the crocodile to the alligator.
The BROOKLYN EAGLE and The Troy Press are engaged
in rather idle discussion as to the Presidents
matrimonial intentions. The Eagle processes to be
certainly informed that the goddess Of Civil Service
Reform = his one and only love. To wed the god
dess IN her present condition requires an ardent
affection and plucky nerve. Her eyes have re-
Gently become crossed. she has painfully peroepti-
BILE limp in her walk. her back bent with an
Rebel burden, and Mugwump cancer is poisoning
her blood. The goddess needs large quantity OF
tenic before she will make a presentable bride.
If there is any particular for the existence
| of Sumter Club IN Brooklyn, and If it must give
dinners and extend invitations SO widely
and invite newspaper publicity, 1t would
probably show a little better that 1t deserves the
| name ii assumes if it remembered that there are
| surviving just two of the officers who were with
| Major Anderson in Fort Sumter during the historic
| bombardment. 1t might have been civil enough to
| extend invitations to General Doubleday and to
! General Crawford when it was straining things to
| invite Mr. Beecher.
| The adventure of a renowned billiard player In
! one of the elevated trains points out new and
| dangerous weapon which seems to have been IN
vented for female use. lie noticed beautiful Tau
| in seat which had just been vacated by fashion
, ably dressed woman. Picking it mp, he opoaed 1T.
and was unploasantly astonished to discover a con-
| oealed dagger-biade on the point of entering his
| hand any more occurrences of this ssrt come to