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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

In Cambridge, Mass. 1t seems they have "ladies
cell IN the local workhousr. The occupants probably
are graduated this to the ladies prison at sherborn
Soon ali soon. shall miss the daily reports OF the
roseate dawns at Mt. McGresor the wItteiing OF the
n bare possibility may have dssolying yciw OF tho
Row d. Newman as ne retreat" b out ., sre
should dsaI pear suddenly. leaving nothing but ghost
like impression OF mis- mouth. dil the Cheshire cat In
{" Alice In Wonderland "-Isrrngheld Union
Mr. Manning has said 1t, that he has thought OF
moving Higgins No one thought he had such thought
except a few thoughtless independents
g Are you bull bcarr' asked acquaintance Of
a Spectator on Ihirdst, yesterday. Neither he
striking proof OF the necessity uniform measure
OF time is furnished by the diversity existing in the
countries bordering the Lake of Constance there
being no less than 1--WE different systems The Austrians
compute by Prague time, the Bavarians by Munich the
Wurteberges by Stuttgart the Padeners by Carsruh.
and tho Swiss by Berne time. The latter compared
with Austrian time is twenty eight minutes late.
Choice rubes said to be higher in price than for
twenty years past while sapphircs have decreased in
value.
snake twenty iect long, four feet In crcumfor-
cnco and be0riug eighty nine rattles killed on
Boston Common. saturday after desperate fight.
When killed was placed on scales aud fonnd to weigh
dependence southern exchanges for snake stories J.
Boston Transcript
Let see" said minister who filling Quit q
marriage certificate and had forgotten date. this is
the afth Is IL not" NO. sir" replied tho bride with
Indignation this is only my second"
"Thc only thing to mar the PLEASURE o. the OCCASION
wrote an Arizona editor OF funeral, was little
difficulty between tho Clergyman and ono OF the
mourners concerning the ownership OF flask found In
the carriage they had occupied"
An American Archbishop IA soon 10 be made Car
dinan The Pope will paint the Archbshops hat red. -
Boston Transcript.
"simpe Simon" who In letter from Oakland. Cal.
the Secretary OF tho Navy offered several suggestions
"a to new vessels the Navy, canest assured he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
THE TREaSURER'S La TEST

II ia announced from Washington that
Treasurer Jordan has new plan lt Is rather
remarkable, by the way, that nobody Is moved
to inquire what plans Secretary Manning has'
or if he has any. The business OF the Secretary
of the Treasury, if one may judge from wash
ington dispatches to che various Journals
annears to be exclusively partisan and political,
while for all financial purposes MIR. JORDAN
appears to be the Secretary of the treasury
Be that as it may, Mr.. Jordan's reported piah
in this instance deserves credit lie proposes
to pay out only gold and legal-tendera' in the
purchase of the silver bullion which the law
foolishly requires him to buy every MONTH
This is entirely in the line of policy which lHE
TRIBUNE has constantly urged. The emDai :
rassment of the Treasury comes from the 1act
that more silver certificates are in circulation
than can be used without public inconvenience.
Conse lnently they go back to the Treasury IN
the payment of duties, and their virtual
redemption in gold is thus forced upon the
Department.. Instead of this, it would be
better to nay out other kinds Of money at the
beginning, and then that difficulty would soon
be removed.
Acting faithfully in this line of policy the
much less than $1O0,OOO.OOO in silver GER
tificates. Probably the amount which can now
be kept in circulation without embarrassment
will be found much less than it was prior to the
recent alarm and appeal to the banks to lift the
Government out of the bog of bankruptcy. The
appeal has done more to shake public conf
dence than any other thing for years III the
Treasury had done nothing TO impair public
confidence. but had meanwhile employed other
measures such as the one now proposed, II
would have been much more certain to succeed.
But its course has now kndlcd to the utmost
the zeal and hope of the silver fanatics, and 1t
will now be savagely criticised for paying out
gold in the purchase of silver bullion. Never
theless that course is proper one at this time,
lust as payment in silver certificates was proper
enough at a time when there was large
demand for such certificates and none OF them
were returning to the Treasury. The rule
which ought to govern the Secretary of the
Treasury is a very simple onc So far as silver
dollars, silver certificates or fractional silver
will circulate without inconvenience in astrictly
subsidiary capacity, as the representative OF
the gold which the Government stands ready
to pay whenever it is demanded, so far that
circulation is not harmful. But whenever the
return of any such kind of money to the Treas
ury indicates that the channels of circulation
are over-full. then it is the business of the
Treasury, If it means to maintain the public
faith to reduce the circulation OF that kind of
money without delay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
THE CATTLE LEASES.

The President has returned very uncom-
promising reply to the cattle-men, who appealed
to him for delay in removing their herds from
the Indian Territory. 1t is worth while to
notice that the delegation which waited upon
him with an urgent request in this matter was
headed by Senator Cockrel and Representative
John NJ. Glover, of Missouri by Mr.. Rainwater,
the Democratic Mayor of st. Louis. by the
Democratic Mayor and chief organ grinder of
Kansas City, and by other influential Demo-
Gratis. One is moved to ask why these leading
Democrats take so large part in this matter.
1t has been constantly represented that the
people who were concerned in all the frauds of
the past and down to the present time were
exclusively Republicans.
But President Cleveland has done reason
able and just thing in insisting that there shall
be removed, without any needless delay, the
chief cause of disturbance in and about the
Indian Territory. The letter of Senator
Dawes, recently published, strongly supports
the belief that these cattle leases, which have
cen obtained from the Indians within the past
few years, have been a great cause of oil the i'll
feeling, on the one hand among neighboring
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS.

To me Edit0r or The TrsouRe.
SIR: The remarkable discovery of man in q
fossil condition Is announced In the August number
The Ilaer,can Naturalist out to-day. The discoy, rcrs
are the eminent Mexican biologists Seniors VI. lie Ia
Barcena and ID Oh A. del Castillo. In making excaya
tcns for a military shooting school near the Cit, VI
Mexico, Colonel Don Obregon loosened the fossils BY
dynamite aud Immediately placed them a, the disposal
OF the Government.
The official geological, Barccns states that the remains
were found embedded In very hard rock formed OF sci'
lied calcareous tuta of brownish gray color The ZONES
were firmly established In the stone. which nllei thelr
cellular tissues but not iDcrustated with cacareou
rock as observable IN recent formations IL VAS found
impossible to name the geological axe OF the relhins
as no fragment fossil OF other animal has YET been
found In the stratum of rock. There wen SOC
uartepary shells but these exist at present; some
human implements have been found In the same period
OF the masodon in Mexico tQuai enaryD bat these i
40 not clearly prove that the human fossils De1ohsea
to that age. -. AL ..,.,o. A., IN.
AFTER a thorough examination OF the region In inc
vicinity Professor Barccna concludes that shie TUG
exact age remains cannot DO estapsnea Tor Nam
of evidence yet clearly rney prove an astounding ana
uity OF man. beyoad anything yet surmised. ihess %
the first remains OF tile nluin species io1h I'D
condition. ard are wledged the oldest relics Oh wv
race now In existence Yours, ID
N,r- York Aug. 3, 1880.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
A RUHpTIOUS DEFINITION.

The Boston AdrertiSer undertakes To define a
Mugwump. 1t says that a Mugwump Ia "A
Republican who is able to distinguish pinch
beck craftsmanship from the genuine article.
aand when pinchbeck is the party fashion is
.willing TO be unfashionabe" This recalls
Dean Swifts famous definition of orthodoxy
orthodoxy is my doxy, heteIodoxy is somebody
clse's doxy. II follows. if The Adrertiser de-
fines correctly, that all Republicans who are
not Mugwumps are unable to distinguish pinch
beck craftsmanship from the genuine article.
Now minoritics have rights, but tho right to
arrogate to themselves all the clearness OF
vision that there is in the political world is
certainly not one of them Such arrogance Is
net right but it undoubtedly is fine piece of
dogmatic impertinencc.
The right of the majority to rule is commonly
regarded as the cornerstone of our govern
mental system. 1t is right that rests upon
the not too violent assumption that the ma
iority il better entitled to respect than the
minority. The ADVERTISER would seem TO resent
this cornerstone 1t seeks to dispose of the
conclusion reached by a majority by arily call
ing it fashion" In 1861 good many
thousand Democrats declined to obey the rule
of Abraham Lincoln. And when they were
reminded that he had been called to the Prcsi-
dency by the votes of the majority they
adopted the precise line of reasoning which The
Advertiser Is now exploiting. They remarked,
in substance, that they were able to dis
tingush n pinchbcck President from the
genuine artcle-meaning by genuine article an
article which suited their own vicws-and that
when pinchbeck was the country's fashion they
were willing TO be UNREASONABLE. IL is sus-
pected that General Grant taught these gentle
men lesson in relation to the rights that
minorities do not have which they will not soon
forget.
So we advise The AdrertiSer to try again. Its
first definition of a Mugwump does not do it
credit, unless it would have the public under
stand that Mugwump in the last analysis Is
person who holds that n majority has no right
which a minority is bound TO respect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06

settlers, and on the other among the indiahs
themselves To the settlers OF Southern
Kansas, for instance, it was source OF no
small annoyance that they were not permitted
to secure lands for grazing purposes in the
Indian Territory, while Others, who had
obtained at merely nominal cost sO-called
leases from the Indians thereby secured an
important advantage in the cost OF raising their
herds and fitting cattle for the market. AS ior
the indians il is not strange that they Wcre
greatly disappointed and irritated when they
discovered the practical effect OF the leases
which had been made. The Senator from
Massachusetts pointed out clearly many causes
of dissatisfaction, and showed how lar the
mistaken policy of permitting such leases has
contributed to cause mismanagement In deal
ing with the Indians.
II is evident from the memorial OF the cattle
men, and especially from the remarks OF
Individuals representing them, that Inc
removal from the Indian Territory is simply
question of pccuniary loss The pretence that
no place can possibly be found for grazing the
same herds elsewhere is of course unfoundec.
1t is simply question whether those who have
been engaged in this business shall 20 per-
mitted 10 continue it until they can get out
with large profit, or shall be compelled 10
remove without delay, in order to avoid the
public difficulties and the injury to public
interests which their continuance in the
Territory involves. Apparently the President
has acted Justly in requiring that the pubic
interest shall be paramount, and that the cattle
men shall not be permitted to continue their
operations, since it appears that harm to the
public interest results from them. Nevc'the-
less, the question remains how it comes to pass
that the conspicuous persons who appeal TO
him in this matter were all Democrats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
Tile EORELGN MIL SERTICE.

| The Postmaster General having withheld the
extra compensation for the foreign mail service
TO which the American steamship lines are
entitled by an act of Congress, is reduced to the
extremity of disappearing the facts of the
case. He accuses the companies of attempting
to force the Government to back down, and
boasts that he has succeeded Mt once in ELECT
ing arrangements for speedier transportation
of the mails. The steamship companies have
simply refused TO do the work for less money
than il costs them to handle the mails. They
have exercised the same right which any rail-
way or stage company enjoys of throwing up
contract which proves unremuneratlve.
Before the passage of the Dlngley Act
they could not have done this They were
compelled under the old law to carry the mails
under penalty of forfeiting their rights OF
clearance and entry. The Dingley Act simply
placed the carriage of the mails by sea and
land on a common level of equality. The
steamship companies were enabled to decline
contracts at their own pleasure, precisely as
the railroad companies do, when the rate OF
compensation is inadequate. This they have
done, and the Postmaster-General has been
forced to employ foreign corporations.
NOW Itt us sec now Su't'Nrlui ho HiS u'NA'
The Havana mails during August are to be car
ried overland to Key West and thence carried
by company having only one small steamer
to Cuba. The Aspinwall mail will be taken by
a British line. Mails for Mexican ports are to
be sent from New Orleans by a Mexican line.
The American lines still consent TO carry the
mails TO Yokohama, Hong Kong and Honolulu.
The July schedule, however, for Hayti, Santo
Domingo, La Guayra. Panama from San Fran
cisco, Lower California and Australia has been
entirely suspended. Nevertheless the POST
master General declares that the public will
suffer no Inconvenience worth mentioning and
that no injurious results have resulted from the
attempt of the companies to drive tho Admin
Istration from its position! He Is extremely
pleased even with his partial success in finding
foreign competitors for the American lines.
Was there ever such an American Ad:ninistra-
tIou
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06

whence parties are about to be dispatched. ana
observe the little ones as TRANSPORTED by delightful
anticipation, they prepare to leave, or II they
would note the change that two weeks so)o"rn
ia tho country has made in the faces and hgures OF
the returning parties they would realize that in no
other way can so much real good be done at 80
small an expenditure as by subscribing to TIE
TRIBUNE Fresh-Air Fund. These parties should
he sent ont, has been sought to send them out'
by hundreds at n time every day or two all through
the hot season. The object is to the greatest
good to the greatest number. The generosity ana
tho unfailing Kindness OF the people in the
country reduce the cost Of the operation to the
transportation of the children. That Item OF
expense should be provided freely and fully ty the
people of New-York, whose poor are being thus
relieved and heiped and made happy.
The season is one in which all hearts should be
tender To put fresh air and health within reach OF
the Door is the simple and suflicing end sought by
the Fresh-Ar Fund. Let the little ones have
chanre.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

SFoRErGx-Egyptian policy of the Governmen.
discussed in House of Commons. = panquo'
ut Richmond, Eugland. to commemorate the laying
sc .ho frst Atlantic cable - Nearly o.Ooo
new cases of cholera reported in Spain.
DoMrsrrc.-Preparaton are making Throughout,
tho country for services in memory OF 1enera'
Grant OH the day of his funeral. - ne IT'S
ella won the race of the New-York Yacht Ciuo'
= The National League Civil Service Associa-
tion met at Newport. - The opening exercises
took Mace of the ChautauQua Assembly. -
Two more victims of tho storm in Philadelphia
died.
CITY AND SUBURBAN General Grants oody
received: lying IN state in City Hail. - POISON
foupd in Groblewskis first wIfe's stomach =
Sidney Rosenfeld in court. - murder In Now
Jersey. 80 Sickness in the Hebrew quarter
Gold value of the lega-tender silver dollar az .
Grains, SO II cents -Stocks dull and generally
lower with small fluctuations. closing featureless'
THE Observation-Disclosures local observations IN
dictate slightly cooler. far weather. Temperature
Yesterday: Highest, so; lowest. $50; average
7Also.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
HELP THE CHILDREN

THE TRIBUNE Fresh-Air Fund has sent 4, 75o
children into the country thus far this season. and
if the subscriptions were sufficiently prompt
another thousand could be sent away at Dncc In
vitations keep pouring in from the country. Calls
from twenty towns for more children are now at
hand. But the fund is exhausted the treasury is
empty and it has been necessary to put OIL Intended
excursions until more money is received. Perhaps
the public do not sufficiently understand that every
dollar subscribed TO the fund is used rs quickly rs
possible to dispatch children TO the country homes
that are waiting for them and that to keep up the
good work through the summer. which 10 the ann
OF the manager, there must be constant renewal Of
the sinews OF war; This year an unusually large
number of children have been made happy, but the
field is broad one. and there is no possibility OF
Oyerworklngt.
II those who arc interested in tho movement
would take the trouble to go to some of the dopots
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
JOHN G.. PRIEST NOT 4 "KICKER'
HE THINKS THAT THE MUGwUMPs HAVE PASSED
AWAY.

John G.. Priest, of st. Louis, one oil inc
wheelhorses OF Democracy, Is here to attend osnes
Grants funeral When TRIBUNE reporter tAiAea WIN
him on politics last night he found the 81. Loa''
inst the least bit the Administration ou' ~.
M all inclined to discuss his dissatisfaction MISSOURI
he said had got nothing in tho way Of appoin.ue".
worth mentioning, and he ddu't even know wne'H0'
not the postmasters were to DO changed.
swell, arc you kcking !" asked the reporter
81 kckr was the response in indignant 'ons
Why blast you, I'm Democrat aud DemI%' t.li Mr.
kicks II should over to Washington s YOU fell
Cleveland that don't like the way hc ~ y ~, Demo.
lows would call that kicking Nos o., hns ard mean
Gratis have way OF saying what thes ,"n H. Repab
to each others faces They don't dssemoc and hs
leans. Mr. Cleveland Is Democratic vorrat which
couldn't ask or me any service as wouId support
would not undertake In a moment i vnefher APP
him In any movement he decidea up,ant and occupies
nroved nc or not because he is Presuen. some VI
the position OF leader We cant az A. CLEVELAND lead
us must follow. We've eiecto" NA'
We will all follow"
Mugwumps aud AIT any longer. They nave
either become Democrats oatanuS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
CENTRAL AND WEST SH0RE.

10 inc T. ubtOF OF Inc lTso"Hcs
SIR: notice in Drexel, Morgan ~ Cos cir
cuar to the first mortgage bondhoders OF the NswYor
West Shore Buffalo Railroad that In exchange for
the 900 OF their bonds they offered $4,000,
900 bonds interest and principal to be guaranteed
by the Central Railroad the bonds to bear
cent be dated January 1856 and TO mature
az the expiration of the lease In 41o years or upon
default payment OF interest for two consecutive vars
Now under this latter Is II not possible Tor tho
New York Central pay only one coupon every Two
and still retain OF tie road leaving the
bondhoders redressf
NoS-AssENrISG BoNDHoLDER.
Ne,c- York, July 80. 1888
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06

VIII receive no consideration from the present Admss.
tration. His idea that for coast defences vo.ss
suggest that by act Of Congress s the people within
certain distance from the coast be compelled to 80
Lmburger cheese In their houses" at once ranks hmss
offensive partisan"
cannot establish permanent turf exchange -fNsvss
Orleans Picayune. '~"-
Beer is an excellent tonic" little Teuton,c d.
some people. -lPhiladelphia Call -
A society girl says that
The way her green dress ftsis
The music OF the band 10
No breakfast after 10 Q. m. 10
Tho way Mrs Jones comes onis
The idea o. keeping General Grant so PerseosiJ
The way Do Courcy stole from that ''''ai~
Just think of that man in Africa carry.
Ing on one thousand women to eat
-[Pittsbure Chronice-relegrsph.
The New-York Bas-Relief Sign Company, OF Ma. a1o
Broadway. is manufacturing nearly size medsons
OF General Grant. The material closely lresombls.
bronze and the likeness is well preserved.
A reflex of the dark aeges of barbirism,v IA what .
probably afraid II being hung for lis orsoraphy va.
In view Of the recent exposures regarding dseassd
meat In Chicago, blamed for taking cod6ah
balls picnic
Missouri 1t attacks only circuit riders and sIngias
school teachers. and the they have to get up and
dust makes railroad time look sick Free PresA
A Kmgshury County Dakota, man has had contriv.
arranged that In the event OF at night all
he need do is to pull a cord and his bed Will sink
through a trap door into cyclone cellar.
He in the habit OF coming home night after nyho
at O'Clock IN the morning She grew weary Of this and
rendered his atchkey useless by locking the front door
He was Obliged to ring the BELL and WAS
when his wife appeared at the window aud murmured:
moment He has become seTy domestcated since ur
saturday Evening Gazette
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06

Persons ieaung topn tor the season, and sum-
msr travellers. can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to them, postpaid, for IS cents per month,
the address being changed as often as desired
THE DAILY TRIBUNE waI be sent toany daaesS
in Europe tor 81 80 per month. "h'ca me'1aes
The ocean postage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
GENERAL GRANTS NAME.
A LETTER FROM HIS FATHER WHICH SEEMS TO sen
TIE 1T.

TO TIE Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR observe in last Sundays TRIBUNE the
transcript of General Grants signature from the hotel
register at West Point. But object to the inference
made that his then ever Ulysses Hiram
lie may have tried thus correct the bunder Of Repre-
sentative Hamer in naming him Ulysses s. Or he may
have had difference with his father to where that r.
would look sound best. And I send this note he
cause of my knowing that his father when applying to
Mr.. Hamer for the appointment, wrote the name II.
Ulysses. Shall not deem the father the better
authority enclose copy OF the fathers letter to
Representative Hamer. The original received from
General Hamer's daughter. Mrs. William Loudon. Of
Mt Vernon. Ind. in 1879 and deposited 1t with OF
our Historical Societies III. Boston Yours ETC.,
HENRY q. BADGER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06

Summer Hotels are Frequently designated by
he Government as regular Post Offices. Before
forwarding their orders for The TRIBUNE
readers at summer resorts riH do ceH TO dscer-
tain the eract Official title Of the Post Ofce at
,cLich they expect to reeeire their mail. Delay
and correspondence nciH be aroided by so dong.