New-York tribune., 1885-02-11

Mrs Dudley rightly says that Rosa has no
ground for complaint because she put in practice
tho principles he had just taught her Ii the TWO
were the only persons interested they might well
cry quits But the social order is endangered as
much by Mrs. Dudleys pistol as by tho dynamite
about which Rosa talks glibly and probably
knows little. Therefore the would be assassin,
whom the PROSTATE Irishman begged to be merclful
to him. deserves due punishment for felonious
assault with intent to kill. If it is proposed to make
insanity her defence, her counsel should not have
allowed her to write the clear. concise. straight
forward letter which we published yesterday. That
Is not the letter of woman with an unbalanced
mind.
The Madison Avenue Congregational Church
used to be known as DR.. Newman's Church. II has
now become, to his exultant satisfaction, DE- Kan
ney's Church. And TO judge by the way Its officers
are pling on mortgages, it Is in o huge danger OF
soon being no church at all.
While we do not entertain an extremely exalted
view of General Lord Wolseleys military or other
abilities vet we do not believe he wrote the letter
which appeared recently, ascrIbed to him and ad-
dressed to dubious " Miss B." Ii he did, 1t might
be we'll for him. 80 soon his engagement in Egypt
can be conveniently consummated, to return 10
England and enter q common school, A contro-
versy as to the comparative merits Oh General
Grant and General Lee as military heroes is neither
profitab,e nor contemporaneous. 1t is much more
to a present purpose to call to Lord W0lseieys al
tent,on a remark made by Mr.. Blaine in his
"Twenty Years of Congress-" He says In effect
that the remarkable feature OF General Grants
military character is that he was always ready to
fight and never feared to assume responsibility. Ii
the British leader in the Soudan will act upon these
suggestive hints, the result may prove him much
more competent to indulge IN military criticisms
than popular Judgment now credits him with Deing
Justice Duffy SAYS he is not afraid to travel at
night. II he doesn't stop making faces at the Hon.
j. Lawrence Sullivan he will have reason to charge
himself with the contents Of galvanic battery OF
courage or travel at night under the escort OF Cap
tain Williams.
Another assurance has been given by MIR. Cieve-
land that he is most profound statesman, whose
election in of the present political Crisis, las
providentialIy ordered. He has publicly announced
that feature of his policy will be the personal
pavment of his hotel bills Whatever he may do
with regard to silver or the tariff he has positively
determined. after consulate with his trustest
party leaders TO pay his own hotel bills. This an
nouncement has drawn from several of our Demo-
cratic contemporaries the most picturesque eulo-
xies OF their President-elect. Now il he Will only
decide to turn of the gas himself when he goes to
bed, and personally to draw on bis boots in the
morning the country will feel that its future pros
perity is entirely certain.
cloud of fog fell on the city Of Louisville Tues
day morning so black and impenetrable that the
whole town shrouded in gloon for full hve
minutes. When it lifted. and the bulletin board of
Mr. Henry Watterson's newspaper was found to
announce the dread information that sam Randall
was again coming South, the appalling significance
of the omen was understood.
BrookIyn Judge has just decided that the "bob-
taily car must bs provided with a conductor. The
Common Council some time ago passed an ordinance
TO that effect bat has never been enforced. One
of the companies that INDUCES in "bob-tals" made
a test case. and the court holds that the ordinance
is valid The public will view this result with di-
verse feelings There is no denying that from some
points of view the d" bob-tail" is q nusancej but at
The same time "bob-tail" car is much better than
no car at all If the companies have to employ con-
ductors as well as drivers it inevitable that they
will run fewer cars and nj longer intervals. Con-
seonentIy while passengers Will gam in safety and
convenience they will lose In waiting on street
corners The use of the one-horse conductOrless
car is by no means general in Brooklyn; they are
used on but few roads, which run for long or
shorter distances through sparsey settled neighbor
hoods
II the reports correct as to the conclusions OF
the Greystone conference aud the silver bill that Is
said 60 have been prepared there, we shall soon
find out whether Mr.. Bayard is going into the CabI
net. IL he is. he will meekly vote for the bill to
place control Of the coinage OF silver in one mans
hands III he il not he will deuounce II as the most
daring scheme OF Capitalization ever sought to be
foisted on an unsuspectmg Democracy. This may
be the opportunity Of Mr.. Bayards life and en-
entering wedge for 1883.
A modern Nostradamus. De Grandselve by name.
has been making some uncheerful prognostications
concerning the royal folk OF Europe lie bases his
claim to credence ON the alleged fact that he cor
rectly prophesled the tragic death of the French
Prince Imperial To finish up the Bonapartes he
now announces that Plon.Plon is to be killed on
september 3. 1907, and his son Victor will meet
with n violent end on March 3. 1915. The
Comte do Paris will be murdered on April
l6. 1898 Even the Queen of England
is TO die through violence on September
10. iss9 and her successor, the present Prince OF
Wales will be killed IN revolution on January
90 1891. Kaiser Wuhelms enemies will spare him
until July 10, ls9). when he will be assassinated
Mt the age of ninety three years. three months ana
eighteen days. Prince Bismarck having been
murdered forty -ons days before. The Pope. too.
ia TO be killed, on July 4, lsS6-uncomfortably
soon +, while the much-menaced Car will not be
s,on until the year 900. President Grevy alone Is
10 die a natural death, on February 8. 1900. NJ.
de Grandselve may congratulate himself on not
being believed; for in the days when such proph-
ec,es were needed the prophets who made them were
hanged. beheaded, drawn and quartered, burned at
the stake. aud otherwise maltreated.
The London press does not shirk the responsible
ity of recommending international action similar