New-York tribune., 1885-08-11

Summer Hotels are frequently des.Jnated oy
the Government as regular Post Offices BEFORE
forcardino their orders for THE TRIBUNE
readers at summer resorts ,ciu do ,oel to ascer-
foin the eract Official title of the Post Office at
,clich then erpect to receive their mail. Delay
and correspondence riH be avoided BY so dong.
Justice Barrett yesterday characterized the
erection of the stands for money profit near
the temporary tomb of General Grant as dis
grace The men who persisted in keeping on
with the shameful work were rightly punished
for contempt of court. The only excuse Tor tho
vandals persistency is their plea that they had
leased the land from the owners. One owner
at least protested effectively.
The first three months experience of the
moderate High License law passed by the Wis
consin Legislature shows excellent results
In one hundred towns there has been de-
crease of 267 in the number Of liquor shops
and an increase of 1924, 200 in the public rev.
enue. Crime has also diminished. The effect
of a similar law in other States has been even
more encouraging. 1t seems to be the most
practical temperance measure yet enforced in
the West.
The Bieecker Street aud Broadway Surface
Railroad connections have been left hanging in
mid air by Judge Ingrahams decision. Jacob
Sharp's attorney believes that the connections
are authorized by the decision, yet letter must
be sent post-haste to Judge Ingraham some
where on the st. Lawrence to find out what he
really means. At all events Mr. Lacombe
will appeal from that part of the decision which
seer 20 authorize the use of Broadway by the
Bleecker Street line.
The Official reports of the deaths from cholera
in SpaiD.douDtless fall considerably short Of the
truth. From Granada, where the victims lie
unburied in the streets, accurate statistics can
hardly be expected. But with ALI new cases
reported in Spain yesterday 1t is clear that the
scourge is unchecked. Its appearance at Glib
raltar, Marseilles. Toulon, and even a case
reported in England, will add to the anxiety on
this side of the Atlantic. With rigid quaran-
tine maintained at every Atlantic port the dan
ger of the introduction of the disease is by no
means removed; and no possible sanitary
precaution should be neglected.
The general appreciation by men of ex-
perience at Albany of the need of reform in
the methods of legislation, is an encouraging
6lBus AbSCnDiy iuhA AAhohCh m0hCo oVmS
interesting suggestions on this subject else
where in to-days TRIBUNE. He thinks that
there should be limit fixed upon the time for
the introduction of bills except in cases
specially provided for and that committees
should be compelled to report without un-
necessary delay on all matters referred to them.
Some practicable changes of this kind are
certainly needed. What Mr.. Haskell has to
say ON municipal reform, however. ia better in
theory than in practice. No general act OF
incorporation which viii govern all the cities
In this State is practicable.
The President seems to be doing what he can
to encourage a repetition of election outrages
by Democrats in Cincinnati. He removed the
United States Marshal. who was instrumental
IN defeating Democratic frauds, and no has
nowpardoned man convicted of an outrageous
crime against free ballot. Michael Mullen,
lieutenant of police, on the night before the
Last October election, seized over 100 colored
voters. while they were in bed, and had them
locked up In Q cellar until after the polls
elosed. They could not be found by their