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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
ELOWEK EAUES.

Once more Roswell Pettbone Flower ID a
private citizen. For a brief day he shOne re-
splendently in the fierce white light of publicity
consequent upon a nomination for Lieutenant
Governor on losing ticket. Then ambition
yielded to presence of mind, and Flower rolled
his bari back into the cellar and remarked to
himself with q wicked wink, @Guess ! will be
better able to bear up at the November Demo-
cratic funeral if | am not one of the stiffs upon
the catafalque." And saying thus the Flower
faded Ike beautiful dream out of the Demo-
cratic canvass, writing as he faded letter of
resignation touching enough to melt the heart
of an eating house sandwich.
There will be mourning in the house of the
Democracy for Flower. 1t was expected that
he would prove strong figure in the fight
some of the boys" put the figure as high as
$780, exclusive of expenses for litho-
graphic portraits And now Well it is easily
the saddest thing in the history of the Democ-
racy of the Empire State since j. Thomas
Sprigas enjoined one of the party conventions to
Ego on and finish the ticket" 1t was discreet
of Flower, but then it will be generally agreed
that it wasn't magnanimous. Misery loves
company, aud is entitled to have some.
Doesn't Flower see the position in which he
places Hill 2 Poor Hill will now be forced TO
run not only for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, for naturally no Democrat can be
induced to take a warmed.over nomination for
the place which Flower declines. And that
means that Hill is to be beaten for two places
just double the amount of punishment to which
he is fairly entitled.
Still, it is to be said in Flowers defence that
self-preservation is the first law OF nature and
pretty good law for an ambitious politician
who desires to live to fight another day" A
| duty now devolves upon Governor Hill which
he must not shrink from, however notifying
1t may be. He must order a draft to I'll the
vacancy occasioned by Flowers fight. And he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
ENGLISH SOCIETY.
Vernon.

Mr.. Escott, in to-day's TRIBUNE, presents an
interesting and lifelke picture of English
Society as it is. The drawing is vigorous and
the analysis unsparing. English Society, or
perhaps it would have been better to say
London Society, is represented as being conven-
tionally moral. actually hypocritlcal, and gen.
orally quite as Philistne as Mr. Matthew
Arnold has described It, The view is not
fattering and the conditions outlined are
neither pleasant to look upon nor hopeful for
the future.
English Society rs described by Mr.. Escott is
neither more nor less intellectual than the same
kind of society in other countries At intervals
the consciousness Of the prevailing frivolity
seems 10 make itself felt in such circles, and
then they play at devoting themselves to the
newest ideas in philosophy, religion, science or
art. But the pretence is too tiresome 70 be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
MR. GEORGE JONES AND THE GRANT FUND

From The Nal and Express
In our issue of the 9th instant we asked Mr.
George Jones the following questions:
1st Is IL trueas has been rep0rtedthat Mrs. Grant
has lately been dependent tho timely aid old and
tried friends because OF tho utter failure Of the $250000
Grant fund TO yield cent Of INTEREST,"
I'd What the law OF this State TO investing trust
fundsi Was IL violated when the funds contributed By
the friends Of General Grant invested by and with
the advice Of Mr. George Jones' with the sad results
scent
On tho 10th inst we repeated these Inquiries and,
seeing in The NeD York Times We have sought
Information IN other quarters and are told that ex0v
ernor Z. d. Morgan Mr. George Jones and Mr.. Oliver
Hoyt acted trustees VI tue Grant fund that Gov
ernor Morgnn's recommendation. 1873 wabaen Railway
11o-$2l62OO per cent above the market price being
paid to Governor Morgan for the bonds In
guaranteeing the principal and interest Governor
Morgans estate willing at any time to pay prnct
pal and interest OF these bonds but not the premium
paid for tho same viz: $4,000. Surely General
GRANTS family should not suffer loss and II Governor
Morgans estate pays the amount 1t to do, the
remaining trustees should make the deficiency them.
selves, they had right to mako this investment
without the consent OF the contributors
Tho subscribers to the fund should at once be informed
In what securities the rest Of the amount raised In
vested and what the present derived from the
various investments. This information, Mr.. George
Jones, who one OF the principal managers OF the
thus put end unpleasant and constant In.
qnriest that being made IN connection herewith
The securities belonging TO this fund should without
delay be placed In the custody OF some responsible
trust company and not remain In the possession OF any
private individuals,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
AMERICAN YACHTING.

The mercantile navy of America has "gone
glimmering through the dream Of things that
were and her martial navy has become q jest
and by-word. OF all that race of hardy
sailors who once manned our merchant ships in
timo of peace and our frigates in time of war
only scattered remnant remains. All that is
hero to tell that we still are maritime nation
is our magnificent feet of yachts, unequalled
by any in the world save that of England. The
merchant ship and the man of war have disap-
peared, but the yacht remains. The yachts are
not mere useless butterflies, either. Luxurious
cabins and corps of French cooks may be adj
juncts of some of our larger yachts, but they are
only incidental. What yachtsman boasts OF
his cabin or his cooks But what yachtsman
would not boast of his vessels speed and her
weatherly qualities Yachts and yachting have
kept alive the salt sea spirit of nation that
has nothing else nautical on which to feed
The yacht ensign has waved on rs many distant
seas as ever were ploughed by the keels of the
Yankee clippers and the skill of American boat
Builders and mOdcIlers is demonstrated by the
fact that the Americas cup is still with us.
More and more, too, it is getting to be the
custom for yachtsmen not Only to own boats,
out 10 lnucIblduu tHcID anu Jncll management
thoroughly. The American yachtsman of to-
day not only is able to model yacht, to rig her
and make her sails, but to command her with
skill and hardihood and, if necessary, to do the
work of common sailor as well us the sailor
can do it himself. So long rs American
gentlemen spend their money for yachts. 80
long rs men born to wealth and social position
become, from pure love of things nautical, so
skilful and daring sailors as are the owners of
the Intrepid and 0riva, there is hope that the
glories of Americas maritime supremacy may
one day be revived.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

maintained, and soon the gay hypocrites return
to their natural vacations, and the wheel OF
Fashion spins round, and her vOtaries abase
themselves as before. Mr.. Escott holds that
the average of social morality is constant ;
that if a century ago socletyseemed more profli-
gate than nov, 1t is because there was less
dread of publicity; that if there is more appar-
ent responsibility now, it is because there is
more hypocrisy at present. If this is true it is
not encouraging, for 1t tends to the conclusion
that human nature, however improbable, is
very slow tn improve and that the possession OF
the best conceivable opportunities for higher
life is no more availed of to-day than in the
decline of the Roman Empire. The growth OF
democracy in England, indeed, seems to have
stimulated a certain grossness of living among
the upper classes, and in this respect there is
a distinct difference between England and the
United States. For despite our Philistinism
there certainly seems to be in this country
tendency of wealth toward intellectual ambi-
tions, the like of which, according to Mr..
Escott is no longer to be recognized in the
whirl of London Society.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
must proceed in some other way than ahpt
attempted before Judge Wallace.

The Indian in the West and Southwest is re-
earded as an unmitigated nuisance not to DC
condoned until he is dead. Whether the wniee
man or the red is responsible for tins feeling
ia omen to wide discussion but from the crimes
and misery which mark the lives of the aborig'
ines beyond the Alleghanies it is pleasant to
turn ones eyes toward the peaceful home OF
the Penobscots at Oldtown, on an island IN the
Penobscot River, Maine. They are a rem
nantn and are nearer the right way OF living,
namely, the civilized way, than the great
majority of their race now in existence. In
dustry, sobriety and honesty are their Leading
virtues, but they are not without domestic
graces, as discriminating article on the ninth
cage of THE TRIBUNE this morning shows
Yet the Ponobscots are not entirely selt-sup-
porting; they are only the happy wards OF the
State of Maine. 1t can hardly be said, there
fore, that right solution of the Indian PROB
lem is to be found in description OF their
condition, although certainly valuable hints are
discoverable there.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
GARLANDS TELEPHONE SPECULATION

GARLANDS TELEPHONE SPECULATION.
Nobody is very anxious to help the Bell tele-
phone, and the public generally would no
doubt welcome some restriction oil Its privileges
if satisfied that such restriction were IeRai
and Just. Nobody would mourn over Its mis-
fortunes. 1t is recognized as an exactlng
monopoly, charging enormous prices ior ser
vice that Is often Indifferent.
But the pretence of desire to protect the
publc against the Bell monopoly is the ludi-
crous feature of Attorney General Garland's
defence. rs set forth by his friends. His COM
many is to-day selling telephones at an enor-
nous profit, shade under that charged by the
Bell company, but barely enough under it to
secure its customers. Their money is to be
made merely by stopping the Bell company
from interfering with them. That is all the
action of the Attorney-General means in insti-
tuting a suit in Memphis, where the Bell COM
pany ia not in existence and in sending his
District Attorney into the court in Baltimore,
where it is trying to stop his company from
selling telephones.
In the Attorney. Generals bill he sets up
against the Bell patent the very defences which
have already been overruled by the various
Circuit Courts of the United States In the sew
eral trials already had, such as the Drawbaugh
defence, the Gray defence, the Dolbear defence.
All of these have been passed upon and set
aside by Chief Justice Gray and Judge Lowell
in Boston, Judge Wallace In New-York,
Judges McKennan and Butler in Pennsylvania.
Attorney General Garland must have thought
he owns the federal Judge in Memphis. Why,
otherwise, should he atfront all these learned
and eminent judges who have examined and
decided the very points which he now sets uD ;
and 60 down to Memphis in order to get con-
dicting decision flom court of similar
authority ?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
1.-THE TIMEys" cRAwFIsH EXPLOIT.

From Thc Neic YORK World.
In anticipation OF The TpIesS movement 20 get back
into the Republican fold, THE TRIBUNE was on hand nc
the back gate early yesterday morning win large
The Times editor appeared under the palings II re-
ceyed terrible whack-one that could be- heard to tho
most remote corner OF tho late MugwnmD encamp-
meat The blow was followed by loud cries OF
"stboy clear out OLD FaEin sna rerooous ana i ae
family newspaper Az last accounts tho embodiment OF
fast under the gate, threefourths OF the
body being on tho coveted side OF the fence and THE
TRIBUNE bounoer had sent for new and more thorough
iy seasoned club IL will really be and productive or
sadness The Times s not permitted to support the Re
publican ticket this year.
Bless you. you need not worry about Faglns not be-
ing permitted to support the Republican Ticket"
What bothers him to know how he persuade tho
Republicans forget his past and support him. The
TRIBUNE "bouncer has thousht OF driving him out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

time he legally BIO married to Nine. Patti. II she
pleases.
Florence Nightingale, contributing to tho Gordon
Memorial fund.- expressed wish that the example OF the
great pure hero therein that self longer existed
him, but only God and duty mlsht be made TO toll on
tho soldiers who would have died him and on tho
boys who should live to FOLLOW hin.
Mr. Algernon ssrtoris-the husband of Nellie Grant
has undertaken the management Of his fathers nugen
mech estate and will live there among the tenants, with
whom no is exceedingly popular
Mr. Edward Lawson, tho millionaire owner and
editor OF The LONDON Daily Telegraph, has purchased
splendid estate 10 Bucks County. England. and Is
:" going In " for social leadership.
The King OF wartomburg Is in serious falling health
and will spend the winter at Nice In desperate at
tempt to prolong his life.
Tho Prince OF Wales hal capital time up in Sweden
In particular He lost his favorte black hunt
ing loZ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.

70 the EditOr or The Trt0U"
SIR: am In trouble about my Erening Post. can
not deny that 1t is sometimes dioc but have thought
IL WAS generally grammatical Imagine my dismay at
reading this sentence IN its issue OF yesterday:
By his choice OF Commission he practically neutral
ICED the good that aimed at IN the Adirondack bsi
appointing who Is known only as the friend or
the lumber interests" and two others vdom he ought
TO have KNOWN and probably did know, could not Sepe
Can safely continue to take paper which contends
that unchasy the highest OF civic virtues aud uses
such English as whom could not serves
A FATHER CT A FAMILY.
KniekeroOcker Club, Sept 90. 1885.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

To the EdttOr OF The Trtbune.
SIR: Would it not be as well for the benefit
OF certain class who think that they have grievance
against United States Commissioner j. /. Davenport, to
state that tho nominee for Governor is different ind
vidua. have beard number OF people insist upon 1T
that they one and the same person.
kew- York, Sept 20, 1888. CITY REPUBLICAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

from TIE NeW- York Star.
The Times but little moro than two years AGO "A.
nounced Governor Cleveland for his audacions hardL
hood IN signing what IL declared to DO nalnous hill
and branded him as swndler who trying TO gain
reputation reformer and denounced what IL called
"the cheapest and scurvest trick OF even this low.
priced s,atesnan. Yet within year from that time Il
was demanding Mr.. CleyeIand's nomination for TIE
Presidency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

must set guard armed to the teeth on the
ticket to prevent the escape Of any more CT the
unfortunate nominees.
p. SIT Is understood that Mr.. Flowers
address until election will be Montreal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

Whatever charges of hazing may be laid ut the
doors Of colleges at present, IL Is only fair TO
except one institution from all reproof. Harvard
Indifference which is usually considered an I'M
fortunate attempt ut cynicism of an Anglo-maniac
type, has at least taught the young gentlemen Of
Cambridge that haziug is either brutal or silly.
During the last five years there has been not one
case OF hazing at that university. Harvard In
difference" is worth something after all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

Poor old Plon-Plon hobs 10 the surface of French
politics again with another manifesto, protesting
against the alliance of Impcrialists with Royasts
and declaring that no and all mombcrs I his family
will withdraw froEl participation in tho elections
1t really does not Inatter much to France whether
Plon-Plon "withdraws himself or not As for
all members of his family" the only one of them
that ia of real importanoe-Prnce Y,ctor-has for
long time refused to be led by Plon-Plon and Is
heading a party of his own far more powerful than
any his father can rally and Cassagnac and nearly
ali Bonapartists of influence are on the victorian
side. Plon-Plon never did count for much; but
never for so little as now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

He Is merely amusing himself by teaching FasS
place. Nine-ten.hs Of Fagns former Republican sur
porers have long since treated themselves to the SAM
amusementl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
A correspondent sends us the following /:

A correspondent sends us the following:
Emil many n gem of purest ray serene
In dark unfathonPd caves OF ocean are;
Full many a Flower is born TO b. ush unseon,
And waste its sweetness meath passing Carr
Latr.-Mr Flower having withdra the above
is respectfully declined.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
TIRED OF FEEDING ON HUsKs,
THE TURNCoAr TIMES.

The Times seems to DO glad to avail itself of tho o.
portnn thus offered to step back into the Republcas
rSnkA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

STRANGE ADVICE TO BOSTON EDITOR
Efonl The Estr. York Sun
II Pulsier would think aud write less he might
In time write more sensbly-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

II was entirely fitting that Roger A. Pryor.
whose chief distinction is that he heated and
famed the flames of rebellion. should offer in
Democratic convention "A resolution referring 10
tho armed hosts under Goneral Grant and IN battle
against him rs the heroes he led and the heroes
he conquered" The time was when the E" heroes
he conquered were known among patriotic
Americans as rebels, but now, when
two of them are members of the
Presidents Cabinet and a great many of them
sympathetic Senators. big contingent of them IN
the House aud the Government practically IN their
possession-uow, perhaps. it is nicer to call them
"heroes." Some people however in that sacri-
fetal conflict certainly must have been rebels. II
they were not Pryor. Garland, Lamar and their
allies, they must have been tho Boys in Blue. In
faith, il looks if that were the conviction that IS
being forced upon the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

The Flower under the Hill was not the lily of the
valley nor could it survive the cold wave that mot
the announcement Of the nominations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

The FIRST inquiry for honest Democrats In the
State of New-York 10 make respecting the ticket
Just nominated by their convention is how close II
comes 10 tho old Tweed regime. There are chap
ters In the history of Mr. Hill which %il at least
bear investigation before honest Democrats COM
init themselves to his support on party grounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

The Ereiing Post and The Times have been saying
that Secretary Manning and Mr.. Cleveland might,
with the changes made in General A. j. Warmers
new silver bill scheme. adopt il ms IN Admlnistra-
ton measure They have also indicated that the
changes have been made The publication of the
text of General Warmers bill discloses the fact that
il is one Of the widest imitation measures that
has been conceived since the imitation period III
the Administration has really committed itself to
tins bill, Secretary Manning has had moro credit
for financial ability and sagactty with the imam
ciers of the country than he has deserved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27

Tho Administration. having been defeated in it'
own party, will now he beaten in its own State.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-27
THE TALK or THE DAP.

Flowers fortune IL misfortune
First Bostonian" What the difference between tn
yacht Puritan and John l. Sullivanf
Second Bostonian-" Dunno, what is itr
First B-"well, the Puritan has been knocked down,
and Sullivan hasn't"
Second B." Oh, yes, good thing,--wharn you have !"
In Genoa the policemen silk hats aud carry silver
headed walking sticks. Genoa seems to be the only
place where policeman ean look as big as he feels
burlington Free Press.
CLEvELAND's SONG.
As some day 1t may happen that victim must DO
i've got little list,
I've got o little list,
or political offenders, who might well be underground
They never would be missed.
All people who want offices and fat misunderstanding.
All tho cowboy politicians who shake hands with IRON
Who into Indian reservations make frequent little
And that singular anomaly, the cheeky journalist;
I've got him on the list,
Fin not sure that he'd DO missed.
baltimore Every Saturday.
Even tho STONES of Missouri out against the pres
ent Administration. With all Of tho States known
wealth IN that the material for the Fed
ana-and yet indiana gave Cleveland o plurality OF
only $780, whereas Missouri put herself TO the trouble
OF honorng him With preference OF 33,OO0-5L Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Look out for tho Montreal infection. The smallpox
danger is too and alarming to admit OF any
sentiment with regard the treatment OF travellers
and imports from over the border.
A queor looking famly-father. mother and four
children-from Illinois. passed down tho West Shore
road for New-York Saturday The fathers left arm
the floor the mother was born with one eye
aud there Is socket for another. Two children have
each left nine Inches longer than the right arm
and tho youngest Dov not only 10 like his father with
very long left but also resembles his mother lie
has two eyes, but one Is not bigger than pea, ana "
winks twice as often as the larger ONE Montgomery
IN. " Standard.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-26

We offer absolute entire stock Of Boys and Mems
0YeTCOatS
We offer cost entire of Ladies'
Mems Wooden Underwear.
We offer for sale absolute cost entire stock Of Ladies'
Mems and Children's Wooden Hosiery.
We offer for sale COST entire stock Of White
COOTed Blankets and Bed Comforts.
Persons sending for suits OF clothes will please give
breast and waist and length of inside Of panOOns
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-26

puerilo is the position Of Senator Ed
munds In the light OF the facts OF
history.
For years It has been no
torious that London city has
been a rendezvous FOR those
who choose to call themselves the OPP
pressed OF other nations-that IL, OF
every country out OF English domin-
ion. Nihilists, Communists, Carl
baldians and all sorts ofcut-tnruat con-
spirators (no Irish need apply herded
there, matured their plAnr, reotuitt d
tneir finances and sailed forth on tn, Z
missions of des ruction uumolested, IL
mo- upt ly sanctioned. For libertyis
sake, save the mark England can
always see the justice of a struggle for
freedom anywhere else buton Euglish
territory or by Irish subjects Is it to
br wondered at that some of these
chickens should come home
to roost? Are there no dynamiters
except the Irish2--who all know have
great cause for dy Mantle. Shall an
| American senator with indecent haste
conclude the Irish guiity2 Perhaps
50; II may serve them only right for
largely voting the Republican ticket al
the recent presidential election. 'Tis
certain that no just man favors indis
eliminate dynamite blasts as effective
reformstory agents yet that great in
justice may invite violent explosions
OF various sorts no one familiar
with European history will question
The French revolutionlN "a much mor'
volcanic (hardly more murderous thar
even England's rule In Ireland, how
ever, and yet productive Of some gooC
results. These recent disturbance
only have the feature OF preceding tn
outbreak that would appear TO be com
ing, while formerly the destruction
usually followed the outbreak.
OBSERVER.