New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-27

The fool-killef is wanted in the neighborhood
90 warwick Neck in Rhode Island. Men are
5;oo;np there for the buried treasures OF
Captain Kidd.
The Bench Show of the Westminster Kennel
Club this year promises to be even more inVer-
astine than those of past seasons. There are
few exhibitions the opening OF which more
neople are glad to hear announced than this
display of fine dogs. The managers OF the
Westminster Club show admirable Judgment
in all their arrangements, and their awards are
conspicuously fair.
sGeneral - William Andrew jackson Sparks
Commissioner of the General Land Office, is
working night and day to find out the misdeeds
of his Republican predecessors with zeal that
"a commendable; and his discoveries are truly
remarkable. He finds, for instance, that the
aeventy inspectors of the Bureau spend about
Al 600. 900 year in salaries and for travelling
EXPENSES. AS the appropriation for travelling
s,nepses and salaries for these seventy men Is
only 1900. 900 annually, it would be interest
ing to know where they get the other trihng
100000. Doubtless they pay it out OF their
own pockets, for their salary is actually $l'6Oo
a year each. Oh, Sparks is bright one! lie
can see double twice just as easily as not.
How Mr. Cleveland's idea and practice OF
Civil Service Reform strike an American
abroad is described in our London letter this
morning. Admitting that the continuance OF
Mr. Pearson IN the New-York Post Office was a
GOOD thing, The TRIBUNE's correspondent
cannot understand why the Nations equally
faithful servants abroad should not continue in
office also. This is precisely what Americans
at home cannot understand either. Our con-
sular service has been immensely improved
within the last few years, as merchants and
travellers know and if the Administration
were really devoted to the principles OF the re-
form thcy profess to honor, the Consuls and
unfortunate diplomatic officers would all have
been retained.
Several points in connection with the Central
American troubles have hitherto remained in
doubt. 1t was impossible to understand why
m sbrewd man as Barrios should have
undertaken to establish union OF all the
States without assurances of help from some
other besides his own Guatemala. For with
only his O gn people to support him, the speedy
end that was put to his undertaking was only
that he might have expected. 1t now appears
howeyer, that Barrios had lost none OF hi
ahrewdness--unless to be deceived proves tina
he had lost it. He had promises of help from
Zaldivar of Salvador, and Bagran of Honduras
had been beguiled into pledging aid also
Both of them betrayed Barrios. and his defea
wus inevitable. Moreover, there seems to hav'
been base treachery in the rear. Barrios was
brave man. and never turned his back on foe
yet he was shot in the back.
The rain of yesterday will give vegetation
In this nsighborhood great start and II Tn
weather is only tolerably warm. summer in al
its glory will be upon us before we know II
Central Park viii be most attractive, and-it
lamentable that all things there will not be s
fair as they seem-the lakes for instance
While lovely to look upon they are receptacle