New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-13
tho possibility that tho controversy sbous tns
Whitney business may not yet be entirely ended.

It Is asked by . correspondent whether inc pr
duction of silver Is decreasing in this conntry. on
the contrary, both tho reports OF tho MIMI anu y.
Mr. Valentine. of Wells, Fargo & Co.. indica1e .nae
the production Is increasing. II IN some ioca'i'i0'
and at some mines production at the present prizes
has been found Improbable, Others OF larger y'eio
have been developed instead.
Speaking of the delights of tobogganlng' those
who saw Judge Doolittle descend the Albany NILS
after Mr. Cleveland had sent word to him that nc
was engaged report that he was moving along u. u
higher rate of speed than ever achieved py inc
best toboggan ever built in Canada.
Bellicerent Dr. Fulton has found the huge Brook
lyn Rink too large for his congregation, and the
building will revert to its original use, and aid III
supplying the growing demand for roller skating.
IL this were contest between religion ana roliers
# would seem AS if the latter had scored poiht.
BIT Dr. Fulton probably found the strain on dis
powerful lungs too great, and perhaps MS feo-
pIe,s Church" seemed lost amid the vast area OF
empty benches. The church organization mas hoV
been abandoned, however, and new meeting
place is to no bought built. Many large poiiti-
cal meetings have been held In the INK, ana inc
place il famous as the scene OF the nrst neot'nb'
held by Moody and Sankey In this country after
they had gained reputation as revivalists In Eng
land. ne men WHO DullI III loi al oA"e'"o $1,000
"too previous" by few years.
Nuq,rnmps: As we have before remarked. MI.
Cleveland, on 1872 occasions, We don't want any
thing; we really don't. Honest Injun we:dont, 80
we don't, and it would DO ungenerous OF you 10
urge US to take anything
Clerelaad: These mugwumDs do protest too much'
methinks
1ot eta of financial
of the New. Orleans Exposition wouldssem to leave
room for a good deal of explanation. The Director
General states that tho total receipts from STOCK
and donations have been 1884 1GS. That includes
the 5000 900 appropriated by Louisiana aud the
city of Newt Orleans, leaving only S3S4,l6e from
stock subscriptions and donations. The state APP
preparation was made after May 0, 1854. and yet
on that day Mr.. Ellis and other members stated 10
the House OF Representatives that nearly SI5o,oOo
had been paid IN aad the amount was increasing
all the time Woud it not be well that some ex-
planatlon be given of what has become OF that
100000 before asking Congress for another
gratultyf
IL is no wonder that the British nethods of de-
tecting crime do not always succeed. Inc aa-
nouncement by telegraph that competent detec-
tive would at once start for the United States to
hunt ND the authors of dynamite outrages was
happily calculated to promote the do-nothng policy
of the crcnmlocution office" In this country
police detectives are not always efficient, but 1t is
not the fashion to go hunting with brass band.
An effort is being made at Albany to get reform
bills passed making tho Clerk and Register OF
Kings County salaried officials. Tho same reasons
exist for the proposed change in Brooklyn as ID
Nev-York There ought TO be no delay in passing
the bills. The law making the change In New
York will take effect when the terms OF the pres
ent incum bents expire. Candidates Will not here
after contribute 81, 900 each to the Democratic
campaign fund. Brooklyn Is entitled to the Deneht
of this salutary reform.
The proposed Sunday games of baseball at Coney
Island in the coming summer will without doubt
encounter much opposition. The association now
ever is going ahead If no obstacle could come IN
its way and has made contracts for a grand stand,
payiIions etc. which will accommodate from
10. 600 to 10000 persons This IS new expert
ment IN this neighborhood. and probably strict
Sabbatarians will make vigorous efforts to enforce
the law agains, Sunday sports The leaders Of the
enterprise threaten, if they are interfered with. to
close every place of amusement on the island that Is
open on Sunday, including dime museums shooting
galleries. dance halls aud barrooms. IL Is not clear
why one method of violating the Sunday laws
ably the vast crowds of people that go to Coney
Island from New-York and Brooklyn on every pleas
ant summer Sunday would be worse off morally
or physically if all these means of amusement were
shut off But then not so many OF them wOlld 20
Along with the painful news that 4 mouse
iumped suddenly into a eats threat and choked 1t
70 death comes the aarNing intelligence that Mr..
Cleveland has been visited by Mr. Randall and Mr.
Carlisle with reference to his inaugural address
which he is busily preparing. We connect these
facts so that the feline attache OF our neigAoor,
The un. may have no reason to complain of not
having boen forewarned should he soon meet with
a similar disaster.
The artful Mr.. BaInum Is now practising on ex-
Governor Waller the same sly game he recently tried
ON Congressman Mitchell Of NewHaven. and no
doubt with the same purpose. Hartford dispatch
TO The Sun says that the gifted mule-buyer Is now
irving to secure Cabinet position for the Little
Giant of Connecticut THIS little snare ought to
have been laid sooner-before the visit of the Con-
necticut delegation to Albany, for instance. The
fact is. Mr.. Waller il too formidable rival OF Mr.
Barnum in the fight for Senator Hawley's boots,
and too shrewd politician to be captured easily.
IL is improbable that no will either be deceived by
arv bvpocritical show of friendship, or bought of
by any small potatoes Of patronage. Among Mr.
Walters strong points is his large bump OF self
respect
Cubot the present centre of British military
onerations in the Soudan is village of 1870 houses
and about 700 inhabitants. 1t is surrounded with
vegetable gardens, which supply tho markets OF
Sbepdy. of which town Gubat is virtually suburb.
although situated the other side of the NIle 1t
contains, also, tho cemetery where were buried
some of tho most famous saints and cheftains OF
shendy, u fact which makes the village sacred in
the esteem of the entire Mahometan world. and
,v, render its occupation by the British peculiarly