New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-17

this country and the publishers afraid II would
be failure. when effort made to put IL ost Ia
London. The sales there were three tmes greater
than in this country. The figures gwen me vi inc
sales hers 900 copies. The sales In LOnuon
were about 5000 copies.
Colonel James Jones Deputy United States
Collector has been hobbng about on crutches for
time He declares that his malady - CONT, and
airms that no one exempt from that aiiicfon out
mush eaters The Cooncl took "a vacation.
which he spent in Pcnnsy vania. report il abroad
that while he fishing in the Sasquehanna River
his boat was upset and he thrown the water.
As be o1i the slippery rocks he sprained hrs
right anKle. The whole affair a iudcrous one and
the Colonel may not be proud OF it
Ex-Postma ster General Thomas L. James Is hard
worker aid an industrious bank president He is
rarely or never in business hours found away from
the Lincoln Bank in Forty second-st There has
been great parade OF the Generals name oy tne
Third-part Prohibition people. VINO nave ahrmed
that he is OF them. They even went 40 TAR as to
mention his name in connection With their nomination
for Mayor | am told that the truth tnat Mr.. James
i'd strong in his eaty to the Republican party and
that his ideas regarding Prohibition are those
indicated in the Anti-SaIoon Republican platform,
which be heartily approves
An Army officer with whom chatting yesterday
said The complications arising from the court
martial of cadets az West Point on the return of the
second class from frough will be made the basis OF
an entire change IN the administration Of the Military
administration at est Point embraced within the
Engineer COrps The question that Is now being
agtaed Lv the War Department 10 whether or not the
administration of the affairs there could not De made
less t0D-heavy by the appointment. likewise OF some
efficient officer from the line OF the Army. as the
infantry or cavalry. common opinion at west
Point is that Captain Spurgeon OF the Infantry who
is now Conmissary and who has proved himself an
efficient officer at the post. under consideration lot
the superntendencv TO succeed Colonel Merritt next
spring. 1t s to Captain Sturgeon that the Govern
o many of the recent improvements THAT nave
been pu he'd to a successful conclusion, not the least
of which was the dwelling of what from time
irnmemoral has been cali led Monument I'LL. thereby
greatly charging the beauty OF the scenery OF the
Hudson"
Spirituast mediums" still find large numbers of
deuded persons attend their seances" Detectives
Pryor and Mead told the other day OF a seance
which they attended recently house above Forty
second-s. as escorts for young foreigner who was
az the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There we're fifty
or sixty persons present and nearly all OF t3em
accepted the manifestation genuine evidences OF
the return or spirits from another wOlc One OF the
who present had little glri with her. not
over ten eleven years old. who became terror
strlc zen and last nearly went into nc when der
mother insisted that she should 90 across the room
and shake hands with the alleged spirit OF little
child which had been presented 20 view IN u high
armchair IN the OF The room. It was out
rageous cruelty to terrify timId child 80 badly.