New-York tribune., 1885-03-08

Tho nrevalepce of pneumonia in this city was
not checked at all by the pleasant weather OF
last week, and its ravages continue to be
astonishing. For the week ended Friday, 142
nersons died from it, Considering how many
cases there have been this winter, it would
seem as if the physicians ought soon to be able
40 determine whether or not the disease is con-
tagiOus.
The old-line Democrats in Massachusetts, are
Dretty hard to suit. Although massachusetts
east its electoral votes against Mr. Cleveland,
the President has taken Massachusetts man,
Judge Endicott, INTO his official family; and
vet the party in that State is dissatisfied with
the Cabinet The Democrats in Ohio and In
diana who have no representative In the Cabl-
net. NAV well wonder if their brethren In
Massachusetts would be satisfied if they had
the whole earth.
The spOrting world is once more cOnvulsed
by the important announcement that MIR. john
l.. Sullivan is going to fight MIR. Paddy Ryan
.whereyer the police will not interfere"
GOOD many people will doubt the wisdom OF
Sulliyan's consent to this broad condition, Tor
If the police had not interfered in the last fight
in the Madison Square Garden Ryan probably
vrould have "knocked out" Mr.. Sullivan. 1t
ia stated that this encounter will not be
fought under the rules of the Supreme Court OF
the State Of New-Y York, but under the rules OF
the Marquis of Queensberry
Tn the present excitement in England over the
advance of Russia in Central Asia, the Nile
campaign excites only languid interest. The
operations there, as they practically are re-
treat. naturally do not attract the adm1r1ng
eaze of the British Nation. Their policy IN
Asia is pleasanter to contemplate. General
Brackenbury's retreat to Kort will be followed
as soon as possible by Wolseley's retirement to
Dongola, and then nothing more can be done
until fall. By that time, possibly, the
English will have made up their minds that,
after all. it is hardly worth while to waste blood
and treasure by marching into the Soudan only
to march out again after the Arabs have been
slaughtered.
The roller-skating tournament which ended
last night was more exciting and less brutalizing
than many of the performances of a kindred
nature which have taken place in the Madison
Square Garden. If the skaters only = went" for
a certain number of hours day, and if they
had better ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LII tho o"Au0h ~ie
exhibition would have been pleasanter to look
at, for the participants would not have been SO
exhausted. 1t is painfal to watch weary, miser-
able human beings, no matter what they are
about. The records of the skaters are remark
able. Four or more have made over thousand
miles. There is no other means Of locomotior
than roller skates by which man could go so
far and so fast without outside help. 1t could
not be done, probably, by the best skaters
on ice.
Perhaps the most interesting passages in the
article on Nihilism published in the The TRIB-
UNE to-day relates to the spread Of these doc
trines of political annihilation in the regular
Army of Russia. According to "Stepniak,
that is now the main field in which the propa-
gsndists are working They believe they are
following an historical hint supplied by the
French Revelation which was successful In
great measure bscausc of the support which the
regular French army gave TO the movement