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New-York tribune., 1885-07-11
THE LONDON EXPOSURES.

The Pail Mall Gazette has carried the Grim
inal Law bill through the Commons. A week
ago that measure, designed principally for the
protection of young women of tender years,
was apparently hung up for the remainder of
the session, along with many other Radical
crOtchets and humanitarian projects. The
terrible recitals which have been published
this week have forced reluctant Parliament
to act upon it and to order it to q third reading
practically insuring its passage. This is a
result that goes far toward justifyng the
conduct of that journal in exposing the vices
and immoralities Of aristocratic London. Prac-
teal, sober minded and fastidiOus legislators
representing in the main the middle. classes of
English society, would not have token up that
Radical measure of social reform if their ndig
nation had not been aroused by the series of
articles which has caused such intense excite
ment throughout England. Mr.. Stead, the
Editor of The Pal Mall Gazette, may spare
himself the trouble OF publishing letters from
Mr.. SpurgeOn and the Bishops in cOmmenda-
ton OF his course. The Commons have given
his journal a certificate of good character and
reformatory efficiency. He may even venture
to despise the taunts of his rivals and the
denunciations of pruricnt critics in what is
known as the best society. He may hope to be
instrumental in winning great moral victory
even if Marlborough House stops taking his
paper.
AT the outset Mr.. Stead's new enterprise did
not commend itself to the judgment of sober
minded people in this country. While he
professed the highest motives in undertaking
tho work in hand, it had the aspect of being
desperate attempt to restore by foul means the
circulation of journal that had been seriously
impaired through his erratc management.
The fanatical zeal with which he entered upon
this warfare with immortality seemed to
betokcn even greater errors of judgment than
he had displayed in dragooning the Govern
ment into a campaign in the Soudan and
subsequently converting his journal into
recognized organ of Russian opinion. Mr..
Stead's energy and controversial heat are the
characteristic traits Of n,sa of intense
earnestness of nature and an overmastering
faith in the soundncss of his own jud gment and
the purity of his own motives. A man capable
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11
RAILROAD TRAFFIC AND TIE WAR OF

M Ec.
Ii will not surprise many to learn that the
rnmorcd railway settlement has not been made.
The truth is, it should have been known that
any settlement at this time was impossible.
Ml. Vanderbilt cannot buy the West Shore. il
he would because there is nobody who has
legal power to sell. The Pennsylvania could
not bny the Southern Pennsylvania, If 1t would,
until the suits recently instituted on behalf OF
parties interested in the construction have
advanced so far that somebody can get author
ity from tho courts tO sell. Nor is there any
reason 10 believe that at this time either of the
parties wants a settlement The Pennsy. wanna
is lust now threatened with n new line from
Philadelphia To New York, which the Balti-
more and Ohio is about to build. Meanwhile
that company happens to be gaining IN consr-
quencc of the war of rates more than all others.
The statement of east -bonnd shipments from
Chicago during the first six months of $50, III
comparison with the frst half of last year. casts
a great deal of light on the situation. The
total shipments have increased about 50 per
cent. While the increase in provisions has
been only three per cent, the increase in grain
has been nearly 80 per cent, and IN flour n per
cent. OF that increase the Vanderbilt roads
have galiltu scarcely HnytnlnSi iIu'cu, ic'h-
oning the Nickle Plate rs one of them, their
proportion Of the entire shipments has been
AZ 20 per cent against 42.9 per cent last year,
n slight loss. II is indeed creditable to these
roads that Notwithstanding the new competi-
ton to which they have been subjected, they
have so nearly held their own. But the Grand
Trunk has lost, in comparison with last year.
more than third of its former proportion, and
the Erie has lost nearly One-quarter, and the
Baltimore and Ohio has lost over per cent
On the other hand, the Pennsylvania roads
have gained and largely. The Pittsburg. Fort
WAYNE and Chicago moved 1877 per cent of
the entire freight, against 1915 per cent last
year.
Hero it is clear that the Pennsylvania
has no particular occasion to be troubled abont
a continuance of tho controversy. IL il also
clear that the New-York Central system is
sustaining itself remarkably WELL and intlicting
serious injury on its immediate and nearest
rivals. Ii is true that, Notwithstanding the
great increase in shipments. there has been
little gain if any in earnings. and on most Of
the roads actual losses. But the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania have more credit
great deal longer 1t is at least IN open
question whether they want to have peace just
paf
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

they were In the Northern District. Nevertheless.
II this particular reformer comes to be known In the
histsry of the administration as Long Mile Dofs-
heimer," Mr. Cleveland may ultimately wish that
his biography had been written by somebody else.
Tho estimate of The Rural New- Yorker regarding
the yield of wheat corresponds closely with that OF
the Agricultural Bureau, and with later informa-
tion given in dispatches from time to time by The
TRIBUNE. 1t corresponds, too, with the persistent
course Of the market for prices decline in spite OF
the organized effort to put them up, and in the face
OF most extraordinary accounts of injury to the
crop. Ii 1t turns out now seems probable that
the yield this year is not far from $40, 100000
bushels the country will have most useful dem
monstration of the untrustworthiness of crop re-
ports prepared by the agents in OF the States,
or by some of the Boards Of Trade.
-
Secretary Lamar felt ca led upon to otter his
opinion that Ohio has but great man. This Is
the first brilliant stroke of politics yet attributed
TO the Southern Secretary. Ii was designed, OF
course. to throw Senator Sherman, Ex-Governor
Foster, Judge Foraker and other eminent Repub-
hcans into condition of insane iaciOnal Jealousy.
From the point of view Of man whose life has
been passed IN the land of the vendetta, 1t was
shrewd scheme. But it certainly IS little rough
on the Old Bandanna.
October 1, 1888, was fair business day for Ward
and Warner The Marine Bank checks passed
from Ward to Warner that day, and duly In
dorsed by Warner. were for the sumsof $4,000.
Sill 400, 800, 900 total. S273,4 The lump
sum of $279.04O Oh June was something even
bigger however.
The Bu0alo Express says that " if there is no ad-
vantage worth taking account Of to DO gained OF
lost" by holding the Republican State Convention
after that OF the Democrats, then there has been
q wonderful amount of pother to purpose at ALL
We should say that this abou expresses the opinion
of the average reader of the fervent articles The
EIpress has printed on this subject The Repnbh-
can newspapers ard the lenders of the party In the
state generally agree tha there Is no necessity Tor
an early convention. Ii the Democrats in the
meantime hold theirs, as they ought to do, from
their assumption of leadership, then so much the
better. but when the proper time arrives the
Republicans Will doubtless go ahead without much
concern as to what the Democrats may do.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11
THE NEWs THIS MORNING.

FoRrIGx.-Excitement over the London scan-
dals. - Cholera increasing in Spain. -
Meeting of Moderate Republican Deputies In
Paris. - Apaches Oh the warpath in Mexico.
DoMEsTIC-Fifteen thousand men idle because
of the strike in the Michigan lumber region
A landslide on Cherry Mountain, New-Hampshire,
caused by rains.-Secretary Manning suspended
the order appointing Charles L. Monfort superin-
tendent of the Federal building III Poughkeepsie
Cry AND SUBURBAN. Death of DR.. Rufus II.
Gilbert - John ii. Starin's Government con
tract to be terminated. - An excursion boat
and ferrvboat in collision. - The Academy Of
Music heavily mortgagcd. 80 Vague contracts
between Ward and Warner 80 Pddney SEN
fenced to twenty years. - The steamer STOCK
ton in collision with a sunken log --Gold value
of the egal-tender silver dollar grainsl oZ3Z
cents 60 Stecks dull and irregular, generally
lower and closed fcyersh.
The WEArHER.-rRBUNE local observations in
dicate clear or fair weather aud probably occa-
slonal rams. Temperature yesterday: Hlehesl'
$50; lowest 72o; average, 7412o.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11
MCPHERSON, hELSEY AND LITTLE
A CARD FROM THE SENATOR

To fAe Editor or The TrtoUns.
SIR A statement from Trenton appears IN
your todays ISSUE to the effect that Henry C. Kelsey
denies had anything to do with the publication OF ~
Watson memorandum II tins be true withdraw any sue.
intimatop III any) made In ny reply TO charges ssa'us
moi published ON Thursday. have also somewhere
beard IL stated that henry Little mskos snS ,v "a
him as we'll for wonla not Intentionally or win.nky ~
. wrong TO any one and common report sn3
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

So Mr.. Dorshemcr. also, Is ono of the rascals !"
who needs TO be turned out" According to the
dispatch printed Oh Tuesday. his accounts while
United States Attorney for the Northern District Of
New-York were continually thrown out and his
charges allowed, for reasons which reflect no
credit upon him. Nevertheless, he Is q reformer A
roformer do no wrong, even il he docs charge
three OF four times for travelling the mile
or for travelling "a great many miles exclusively in
his imagination. Doubtless tho admirng Mug
wump editor will now 20 into ecstaces because Mr.
Cleveland. being compelled to appoint this partcu-
lar roformer to some office wisely appointed him to
an Office In which the chances for over-charges on
account Of constructive mileage will be less than
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11
wv1v vopK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JULY II, 1885

Higgins, but to get more Hgeinses-one for
each department.
Men, brethren and Mugwumps! Cease TINS
pother about Higgins. Higgins is the most IN
genious device of reform politics. Don't exter-
inmate him! Multiply him !!
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

THE TRIBUNE tomorrow will contain brill
dant collection of original papers The Lincoln series Is
continued. with a picturesque article by W. s. wiikin-
son there is lively paper on theatrical first nights
nv F. c. Burnand the Editor of Punch and dialogue
nv Robert Huchanan on modern culture and old
Bohemia Add to these attractive letters from England
France. and Russia, fresh domestic correspondence
merry sketch of New-England Fourth the oest cur
rent fiction and poetry with anecdotes OF the PERIOD
and the news Of the world carefully presentednd here
Is certainly newspaper particularly valuable to the
American in city or country.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

Persons leartng torn for the season, ana sum
sner trareiiers, can hare The DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed 10 them, postpaid, for 70 cents per monn,
the address being changed as often as desired.
THE DAILY TRIBUNE wiN be sent toany address
in Europe tor 81 35 per month. Waica includes
the ocean postage.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

1t would be extremely odd after all If Jacob
Sharp should be Obliged TO take his tracks out of
lower Broadway. ard yet cable railway men assert
that this will be the ultimate fate of the new liue
They ought to remember, however, that Mr. Sharp
is one OF the shrewdest railroad lawyers living"
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

the present warlikc disposition OF the Oney-
ennes Is exaggerated. there is no exaggeratlon
of the panic which prevails among the settlers
near the boundary of Indian Territory. Ihey
are leaving their homes In terror and Governor
Martin declares that they have rlght 10 ASK ~ y
be protected even fromfIight, by thepresehce oi
more troops in their country. This Is strone
point and 1t is emphasized by the fact that ior
weeks there have been rumOrs OF an outbreak
among the Cheyennes. But point can also DC
scored against Governor Martin and other Of
ficers of the State of Kansas. why 90
they not prevent or punish the outrageS
which the cowboys and other ruIiiahs
within their borders commit against the IN
dians now, almost with impunity!
Mr.. Edward Mitchell. the chairman of the
Republican County Committee, in to-days
TRIBUNE adds the weight of his counsel to that
of the other party leaders who have spoken on
the stand to be taken in the coming canvass
The timely movement begun in Brooklyn 10
secure the choice of the best representatives, OF
the party as delegates to the State Convention
has his warm approval. He thinks that the
necessity of upholdng the policy of a protective
tariff should be made conspicuous III the plat
form. and that advanced ground should be
taken on Civil Service reform, municipal
REFORM and other matters which concern the
welfare of the people. Mr.. Mitchell unques-
tionably expresses the party conviction on
these subjects. Necessarily the tariff will take
a leading part in the canvass. Secretary
Bayard has been sending Free-Traders all over
tbe world to sunplant PrOtections's, and their
reports will be usedas ammunition in Morlsons
forthcoming assault on the tariff. No doubt the
result of the elections will have considerable
influence on the action of Congress on this
important subject
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11
Inner to aoperrisements.
Bnsncss Notices.

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{Ouiiy, with sunday rs
Daily without sunday Z w '''
Rsmit v Postal Note Money order or Regissret Lstts
By Postal Note the re- nitter WIZ peasc "ri'oo' WV
eFor rHE NRw.TORK TRIBUNE ,-.. Nor yor.
Address ali corres,on lence simply "THE TRIBUNE NH"
YORK" -.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

The letter Of the Governor of Kansas to the
Secretary of War 10 a well-written and forcible
exposition of the feeling in the Western States
toward the Indians. He argues that even if
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

Secretary Manning is taking no halfway
measures toward the extinction of the Barge
Office. Any steamship line that chooses can
now send its ships to their old pier; and yes
terday he directed notice to be given to Mr.
Starin, the contractor who transfers the bag
gage, that his contract will expire in sixty
days. Has Mr. Mann'rg any suspicion that the
Republicans, individually or as party, are
profting by the existence of the Barge Office
1t begins to look as if he had, and as If ne
meant to stop the business in short order.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

General Cour,y has adopted lenient course
IN Hue. which Is something of departure for
French general surrounded by treacherous
foe. lie demands the punishment only OF a few
leaders in the insurrection, and promises par
don to all Others who surrender within twelve
days. Ifhe has much advantage over his foes
in his present situation his course will prOba-
bly, end the present trouble. But it will by no
means change the unfriendly disposition of the
Anamites or secure permanent peace. This
can only be maintained by an efficient army of
occupation, the cost of which will be likely to
make French taxpayers terribly impatient.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

The leaders of the half-holiday movement
should lend helping hand to the Bowery sales
men who are making desperate effort to Sc
cure, not an extra half f-holiday, but Sunday,
only. AS many people probably do not know.
nearly all the BOwery shops are open seven
days in the week. The Sunday Closing League
tried to close them, but the owners are persons
of all sorts of religious faith, or no faith at ALL
and no religious or legal pressure alone could
force them to shut their doors nor 30 long as
one or two of them keep open will the others
give their rivals chance to sell. They must
all be induced to unite in the movement to
make it successful and such union can only
be accomplished through force Of public senti-
ment. The half-holiday people should support
the B0wery statesmen.
Evidently the receiver of the firm of Grant
e. Ward will get no information in regard to
the dealings Of the firm with Warner until they
summon either Warner himself or Ward. The
books and papers of the firm reveal nothing.
Elsewhere in The TRIBUNE this morning will
be found specimen contracts between Ward
and Warner, on the strength of which the
latter lent his money. More indefinite phrase
Ology it would be hard to find. In all of the
contracts the investments are referred to as
"certain pool TRANSACTIONS" certain stock
transactions" and "certain contracts" Such
expressions are certain only in their uncer-
tainty. 1t seems plain enough from these doc
t1ments, either that Mr.. Warner had remark
able and unlimited confidence in Ferdinand
Ward, or that he knew exactly what the latter
was doing.
The letter of tho Governor of Kansas to the
Secretary of War 10 well-written and forcible
exposition of the feeling in the Western States
toward the Indians. He argues that even If
New-York tribune., 1885-07-11

The Prohibitionists in Ohio plainly intend,
a. party, to play into the hands of the Demo-
Gratis this fall. Their cane didate for Governor
advises his followers that their first duty is to
defeat Judge Foraker. Fortunately, they are
not to be permitted thus to harm the cause OF
Temperance without protest. The Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Ohio is to
leave the National Union because the latter or
eanization has decided to help the Prohibition
ists which course the Ohio branch believes to
be against the best interests of the temperance
cause.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07
a Phenomenal Memory.
youths Compauion.I

I1outD companion
Men who dislike shOpping-and where is
the man who does nOt3-ShOul1 inform
themselves in regard to the meaning of "a
few little things as women interpret that
vague kind of phrase. Mr.. s. wanted
TO move from the city to a small town near
by i'll which there were but one or two
stores. He would be in the city every day,
and agreed to purchase the "few little
things" his wife could not buy in the village
stores
You'd better put them down on a piece
paper said Mrs. s., when about to
give her first order.
ooh no. said Mr.. s.; my memory
is good"
Well, then" began Mrs s. "a spool
of 60 Coates black thread
ayes" said Mr. s.
"A yard of not too light and not too dark
calico"
YES"
"A small hammer, can of peaches of
the Pasadena brand, dozen small pearl
buttons, two yards of cardinal ribbon, silk
one side and satin on the other"
YES" said Mr. S. thoughtfully.
"a pair of slippers for baby, a dozen
lemons, good tooth brush, a pineapple,
two ounces of sky-blue Germantown yarn,
an ounce phial of homeopathic nux vomica
pellets, a -"
Wait a second, said Mr. s, counting on
his fingers and looking perplexed-
And bottle of vanilla extract, and a
yard of triple box. pleated crepe lisse ruch-
ing, and three yards of small-checked main
sock, and"
But Mr.. s. had seized his hat and was
running for the station.
What the poor man brought home was a
yard of bed-ticking, three yards of black
Grape, a bottle of vinegar, eight yards of
h-br IF
yarn, sixty spOolS of coat thread q ward.
of very light and yard of very black cal :
Eco, and pint bottle of homeopathic pills.
"There, my dear" he said, triumphantly,
throwing down his numerous packages, Il
don't think you'll find a thing miss ng
Who says man can't do shoppinga My
memory never played me false yet"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07

The celebrated swinlIer; Ferdi-
nand w ard, is getting tired, appar-
emily, of being shut up III Ludlow
street jail He is talking more free
" than he did when he was first ar
rested, says the Savannah News,
and pretonds to think that he is a
badly used man. lie complains that
he has suffered much, and what ap-
pears to hurt him most is that no
one has any sympathy for him.
He says that he has made Il state
ment and placed it in the hands of
the receiver of Grant & Ward
which shows the money received by
the firm, from whom it was received
and to whom it was paid. lie wants
this statement made public, antpre
tends not to know why it has not
been. T.
The funny feature of his talk,
however, is that he is being made
the scapegoat for others, and that he
did not save dollar from the
wreck of Grant & Ward. He wants
the public to believe that he swim
died people for the benefit of others,
but who the "others" are he declines
to say.
OF course no one believes that he
swindled his customers for the mere
satisfaction of swindling, and that
from the enormous sums that found
their way into his hands he did not
manage to secure something for
himself. II IS very probable that
It hers wee >oncerned with him in
win business. and what the
public wants TO find out is who they
are who, through Wards help, put
millions of dollars of other people :
money in their pocket, The public
wants to know all that Ward knows
about his transactions, and then it
wants him and his associates in crime
-efaced where they will not have a
chance to do any more swindling.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07
New York Journal.

Papa, did you ever smoke when you was
8 boy" askel 10-year-old Brooklyn lad
who was vigorously chewing coffee to dis
guise tho vile odor of q cigarette which
chung to him still.
Yes, once replied tbs father, he
sniffud the smell of tobacco in the air
"What did your papa says" asked the boy,
with unusual interest
He didn't say word, my son; but this is
what he did when he found it out"
When the father finished the temperature
of his scion was several degrees hotter than
the ambient atrnoSphere
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07

During the last nine months
from January to September 232, 900
immigrants landed at Castle Garden,
New York. The number recorded
for the corresponding period in 1884
wa. 267, 13I The decrease il 81
l69. 1t is said that there are two
causes for the decrease, namely, the
extraordinary business depression in
this country for the Last sixteen
months, and the strict execution of
the law against pauper immigration.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07

N imrncuse chart showing the
ateos of wed forests and I'M
improved Untiuding waste) land IN
each state and territory Of the ui-
ion has been prepared ly X. W, Best
of the Forestry division, Agrlcultu-
al department, for the southern
states Forestry congress to assem-
bile at DeFuniak Springs, Fla, on
December l6. The data were gath
cred very carefully by correspond
ents in every county in the union,
and verified by correspondence with
state authorities It is found that
there are 285, 100000 acres OF i'm
proved land, 40, 100000 Of forest,
and 43O, OOO, OOOacres of unimproved
and waste untimbefcd land. Incl
dentalIy it is found that forests are
disappearing at the rate of 25,000,-
600 acres yearly. The forest product
during the census year was $4,000,
900, 900 feet, board measure; last
wear it was 5000, 100000 feet.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07
Railway Travel in India.
lChicago Journal.

Railway travel in India has many Curl
Gus features. The BrahminS, who objected
to the innovation OH the ground that pill
grims would travel by rail instead of ON
foot, are now using the new mode of travel
themselves. They even occupy the same
cars with ordinary mortals and thus a lev
cling blow has been struck at caste assump-
tions. In this way the railroad is of great
social as we'll as commercial importa nce.
Gold bullion reaches an annual product
of S400, 900 in Georgia.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-07
PALATKA, FLA, OCT. Z. 1885.

Gen. Robert Toombs, Of Georgia,
is reported dying from stroke OF
paralysis. His left side is para'yz
ed, and he is completely deprived OF
the use of lis left leg and arm. His
mind waivers, and be acts as if con
stantly participating in the exciting
events Of the war, or pleading at The
bar