New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-19
New2lprls daily Gtibn1le.
By HORACE GREELEY
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1885.
TIE NEDS THIS MORNING.


FoREIGN.-Message from Mr.. Gladstone In refer
ence to home-rue scheme; Loyalist demonstration
in Dublin GO Attempt to blackmail the Prince
ofWales. - Reported evacuation of Widin dis
trlct by Seryilns. - Archbishop Tache predicts
more troubles in the Northwest. - Results or
elections IN Mexico.
CONGRESS. Discussion abOut the admission of
Dakota 60 Civil Service reform in the Senate.
60 Pension for Mrs. u. S. Grant. 80 Debate
on the House rules. - Report of the Commit
lee on Rules adopted Messrs Randall and Holman
defeated. - Appointment Of Army and Navy
bureau officers.
-DoMEsrc.-Mlnes flooded at Nanticoke, Penn
- Election frauds in Chicago. 80 Uncer-
tainty about the Prohibition election in Atlanta.
g. Commerce of Great Britain; some cOmpar-
alive estimates - Controversy over a sheriff
accounts. - Trouble expected in Monongahea
Valley. - Sleighing in the Mohawk Valley.
- Rising of Indians in Montana.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-CaDe rush at Columbia
College. c. Yale alumni discussed the Presl-
deney. - The Singer Sewing Machine works
closed - Pastor Bolts case passed on. =
forger with many aliases convicted. GO Cold
value of the legal-tender SILVER dollar t4l2l2
grains), 1884 cents. - Stocks dull with an IN
proving tendency. closing strong
THE WEATuER-TRIBUNR local observations in
dictate slightly warmer, partly cloudy weather,
and possibly ram Temperature Yesterday: High
est 4O'; lowest. So average. 3740.
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Far be it from us to blame the President for
! refusing to listen any longer to the seductive
n words of Don NJ. Dickinson. This young
Michigan "bOss is doubtless responsible for
some of the bad appointments made by Mr..
Cleveland bat were Dickinson's men any
worse than Higgins, or TrOup, or Pillsbury, or
Chase, or any of the ex-convictS appointed in
Ohio Hardly Yet we have not heard that
the men who recommended these particularly
unsavory specimens have lost the Presidents
favor. No wonder Mr.. Dickinson feels hurt.
The testimony in the case of the expert
forger convicted yesterday before Judge Gil
dersleeve shows that even the bank cashier has
not a faultless vision i'll examining the sigma
lures OF checks. Several drafts to which were
forged the names of well-known customers
were paid without question at several OF the
cty's largest banks. 1t is to be hoped that
forgers so expert as this one are not common,
or that some cashiers are more careful or more
fortunate than those who examined these
forged checks.
If the object of the Governor in appointing a
commissioner to investigate the charges against
the Excise Board was to get more light on the
subject. he is likely to be disappointed in the
results. The commissioner is only going over
the ground already thoroughly covered by the
Senate Committee. But if Mr.. Hill wanted to
avoid acting on these charges until the &C
cused mems terms of office had nearly or quite
expired, and thereby win the approval of all
the rum-selling interests in the city, he Will
apparently accomplish his purpose. AT the
present rate the commissioners investigation
will not be finished until about next May.
The Hennepin Canal scheme is nowhere
Here is scheme, urged apparently i'll sober
earnest, to dig canal from Cleveland to the
Ohio River The plans are all made, it is said
and A. j. Warner will present the job to Con-
gress. The Hennepin men will doubtless Dc
much grievcd that any other jobbers should
knock at the doors of the public treasury before
their own pet scheme has been helped through
But why not The object of both projects /:
the same-tO connect the great lakes with the
Mississippi and the principle in both cases is
the same. If the United States ought to pay
for digging a canal lying entirely within the
State of Illinois, why should they not do as
much for Ohio
1t needs no extended argument to show that
royalty IN England has been brought nearer
the people in this century than it ever was
before. That is proved by an account in the
cable dispatches of the attempt of an ordinary
and decidedly stupid young couple to levy
blackmail on the Prince of Wales, in an ordi-
nary and stupid way. Such scheme would
not have occurred to anybody below noble a
century or two ago, but now it is tried by an
Englishman away down in the social scale.
Moreover. there is no more fuss made over the
affair than would have occurred if grocer in
stead of prince had been theintended victim
The police were called in and the blackmailers
will be punished in the usual way.
The authorities of the City of Elizabeth have
o pretty clear appreciation ofthe duties OF other
men toward themselves but when their own