New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-02

therefore, to remove any false impression they may
have created and to express our regret at having
inadvertently done either of the gentlemen named
any Injustice. TRIBUNE correspondents are aiways
instructed to be vigorously accurate and Impartial
in their statements. and it is only just to them as
body to say that violations of this order are ex-
tremely rare.
According to The Ne,r-Orlean States. the official
Democratic paper in that city, g. b. JONES' recently
appointed consul at Calao is fugitive from just
ice. He was it says indicted in Louisiana for tho
assassination of General Liddell in 1S7Oand escap
ing from band of lynchers fed from the country.
He now turns up the Presidents choice for con-
sui at CallaO, and The States demands that
Governor McEnery make requisition for his body
The curious thing about il is that the
louisiana members of Congress are said to have
signed the paper requesting JoneSs appointment
1t is hardly possible that Secretary Bayard, know
ing these facts asked for the appointment of Jones'
But with his experience in selecting a shotgun
postmaster IN Mississippi and in the choice of DR..
Mciere and other persons for office the President
ought by this time to nave acquired sufficient WIS.,
dom to lead him TO distrust Democratic recommen-
dations If the facts related about Jones true
and coming from the source they do there seems to
be no reason to doubt them, the appointment of
Jones is perhaps the most dIsgraceful get made.
How dishonest is the cant which rolls its eyes
and deplores the ruin of the American carrying
trade and never loses n chance to malign, injure
and insult the sbipbuilder who has made
courageous, manly and perseyering fight in behalf
ofiAmercan shIpbuding!
One of the most interesting documents published
this year. the May report of the Bureau of Agricut
urc contains IL comparative record of wages and
prices for the twenty-five years, 1S60-lSS4, in
Somerset County. New-Jersey The average prices
obtained by the farmer for wheat corn oats and hay
given, the average wages paid per year, perday
perday in hayng. and per day in harvest; and the
quantity of corn wheat and oats which the years
wages woud purchase each year. The latter state
ment is, of course the eptome of all the rest 1T
shows what proportion of the products of his labor
the farm worker gets each year for the labor given
In 1850, the years wages would purchase 93
bushels of wheat in 1891. the years wages would
purchase ISL bushels of wheat, a shade more than
twice as many. In 1860, the years wages would
purchase - bushels of corn: in 1854, the years
wages would purchase $50 bushels, little more
than twice as many. In oats, however the increase
has been small. from 1873 to $50 bushels. Reckon
ing the three together. the increase IN purchasing
power of wages has been 77G.per cent
Arc Tie Worlds continued stories Of John Keys
alleged Illness intended to bull the Thompson
stock among the factIOnsi
The captain Of the Bridge police would llf he
could have an easy way of managing the intending
suicides for whom the structure hes so strong an
attraction He would rIg NJ spring. board, from
which they could take the fatal plunge His scheme
is hardly likely to meet with general approval But
if the Bridge continues to retain its present popu-
larity with persons tired Of life, perhaps the trustees
may feel obliged to build substantial iron fence
along the outside of each carriage way Or they
might stretch strong wire netting underneath the
entire structure. The hot weather is now coming
on and if the Bridge policemen in addition to their
present arduous duties, have to bestIr themselves
unduly when they intending suicide on the
point of climbing up the trusses, they might run
Great risk OF sunstroke or some other direful
calamity.
Senator Mcdonald is out with his monthly bull
lotin of adulation for Mr.. Cleveland. The PresI-
Dental stomach has shown that 10 can stand good
deal of maple syrup and molasses, but Old Saddle
bags certainly works il hard
Mr. Herbert Spencer has taken leaf from Mr.
Gladstone's notebook, and now proposes to submit
his quarrel with Mr.. Harrison TO arbitration. IL Is
10 be hoped that he will not insist having either
the King of Denmark or the Emperor William az
arbitrator, however. since such selections would be
liable to breed confusion worse COMPOUNDED. The
Afghan frontier business is complicated enough
now, but should 1t get mixed up with evolutionary
philosophy and international copyright, 1t would
be too much for the strongest crowned head IN
Europe