New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-31

d General Newton has chosen 10 disregard
Very evident public protest against the appoint
ment of d. LOwber Smith as his deputy. As
there was no reason such as special personal
fitness, engineering ability or long experience
for Smiths appointment, we are forced to be-
iicve that considerations such as we had hoped
General Newton would not acknowledge must
have urged him to take this false step. If 1T
l. to be regarded as an omen of his administra-
tion, the public will be sadly disappointed.
Believers in Pasteur's method of incubation
FOR hydrophoba will find their faith strength
encd by the remarks of DIR. Maclogan, reported
elsewhere. He declares unrescryedly that the
French investigator has solved the problem
Of the prevention of rabies and that the dis
ease will soon become extinct. DR.. MaclOgan
Is physician in ordinary to the Royal Family
of England, and was a member Of the COM
mission which recently reported favorably On
Pasteur's methods His opinion viii therefore
carry weight.
The latest dispatches from the City of Mex
leo indicate that the accounts which have
been published regarding Mr.. Sedgwicks con-
duct there were exaggerated. He was
not treated with ridicue Or discourtesy on the
contrary, he is said 10 have received marked
tokens of respect, and a series of dinners and
receptions in his honor have been arranged by
the leaders of Mexican society. This will
greatly relieve many good Americans both a,
home and abroad, who had been shocked 10y
the reports that their special envoy had behaved
himself unsecmly.
And now the men in Maurice B. Flynn's dis
trict who stand by their leader are going TO
be hauled over the Goals for presuming TO qucs-
ton the wisdom of the Executive Committee
of the County Democracy. These are they
who the other day affirmed their unwaycrinp
faith inc Flynn's "unsclfsh devotion to thu
party and the cause. For doing this their low
atty to the County body is questioned and Il
committee is to discipline " them. AS Flynn
remarked when Squires head dropped in the
basket. it is becoming more evident every day
that he Flynn) is a much-perSecuted man.
1t is satisfactory to make record of the
fact that the work Of putting underground the
wires that disfgure our streets has at last been
begun. The Subway Commission cannot be
charged with undue haste In Brooklyn,
where similar commission was appointed a
few days earlier under the same law, many
miles OF wire have bccn operated beneath the
surface for months. Now that the laying OF
the conduiis here is actually in progress let the
wires be buried as fast as possible, without the
hindrance OF iniunctions or other obstacles
which may delay, but will not prevent. the
completion Of the work.
Doubtless 1t will lie highly gratifying to the
managers OF a number of county fairs that they
will have such q lion to exhibit as David b
Hill. tour through tho State in so fine 4
month as September also cannot fail to be a
pleasant change for Mr.. Hill from ALBANY life
If the Governor in this journey should happen
to meet some Democratic politicians, of course
be will not say anything about the contests for
Che Assembly and the United States Scnatorship.
And il is q mere accident, surely, that In three