New-York tribune., 1885-08-16

Patent applied for.
II has often been said that signatures to petit
tition for the hanging Of anybody could be pro-
cured but il has been reserved for a Galveston
lawyer to prove tho literal truth of the assertion
What some petitions at least are worth was con-
clusively shown by this bold and zuccessful expert
mcnt. All the county officers and fifty prominent
citizens cheerfully put their names to petition
asking the Court TO hang one of tho most popular
men in The community. Nor can it be said that this
was "A peculiar or in any way abnormal case. IL Is
notorious that as a rule will sign any kind of
n petition out of weakness. laziness or hurry. They
will not hesitate even TO put themselves in the at
titudc of indorsng for office those whom they know
TO be utterly unfit, and curously enough they do
not seem TO realize the dishonesty of such action
The Galveston lawyers practical demonstration,
however. has administered heavy blow to the
pctition nuisance and fraud and tho attention il
will call to the practice may result In lts Doing rid
iculed out of existence. consummltion dovoutiy
to be wished if only the sake OF the public coa-
science.
We suspect that By this time The Erening Post is
fully convinced that when it assailed Rossiter
Johnson it walked up the wrong customer, in the
first degree.
London has n hospital scandal OF largo dimen-
sons Tho Homerton Hospitals arc nominaIly
under the charge of the Metropolitan Asyums Board
but really nnder subcommittee OF the board Ihis
committee has allowed state of things to grow up
so bad that The Spectator says 4" even autocratic
Russia or aIisocratc England of the last century
or the debased democracy of Tammany Hall, could
hardly beat the lIonerton Hospital authorities IN
mismanagement and tho consequent corruption"
In fact everybody seems to have done they liked
Of for the hosDtals Incred-
ible quantities of wine and beer were ordered and
divided for the most part among the doctors aud
other officers The steward partly built and
furnished house out of hospital supplies Verbal
contracts were made for large amounts OF material
not needed In short the methods OF 1.-The Tweed
ring we're adopted with a felicity and boldness
ouite phenomenal The fanlt in the MetropOl-
| itan Asylums Board. which delegated its authority
| to a perfunctory committee; but the promptness
with which the hospital staff availed themselves OF
their predatory opportunities shows that in England
as here the only certain way to prevent corruption
| Is TO make it impracticable.
1t is said that the Secretary Of War has proposed
that an army officer should be put in charge of the
! San Carlos Indian reservation. IL the troops
| supposed to be guarding the Indians were
| posted 80 that they could prevent the thrilling
departure of their charges perhaps the practical
results would be still better The first thing to be
done with these Indians is TO keep them on their
reservation. II an army officer can do that better
than civilian 1t viii be good policy to put one
| there
| All "crooksr will sympathiZe with Mr.. Beau
| ceteh, described as "one of the most successful
| confidence men in the Westp In his indignation at
discovering that jury he had confded IN as being
| fixed had found him guilty Of an offence which
involved two years in the penitentiary. 30 great
was Mr.. Beaucleigh's rage at this unsuspected ont
| come that he called the Judge "gray- -headed