New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-03

cent shares" What cOuld be more generous IMAM
that IA billion of dollars Is concededly good dea'
of N Jney, even in America, while even man VINO
has been OH tho wrong side in Wall Street is apt TO
have five cents We trust that Joshuas motor may
meet with success commensurate with ltS merl's
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The correspondsnt of The Toronto Mail I'D the
Northwest charges the Indian agents, on the au-
thor1ty of several missionaries, with serious COT
ruptIOn and abuses of an Infamous character Ill Vhe
statements being made are true Government III
0uiry can hardly be avoided ana the outcome may
show that the state of the Canadian Indian. 80 iohg
believed to be exceptionally good, has III fact been
in some respects than that of our own nomads
under the least sciupulous agents
The imagnations of some of the New-York cor
respondents of out-of-town papers are SIMPLY stu
pendous. A well-knOwn paper published IN one Oh
the largest cities in America printed on Sunday
lively tale of the appearance OF MIS- victoria
Scbiilng IN q box at the Metropolitan Opera House.
and represented Jay Gould as gazlsS at her WIN
much admiration from his own box. AS Mr.. Gould
was eruisn IN the Atlantic on his steam yacht at
the time this incident is said to have occurred, evil
IDENTITY the correspondent wandered little from
the truth Another writer of fiction in the same issue
of the same paper has devised a pleasing anecdote
about Mr.. Woerishoffer. the Wall Street specula-
tor According to this veracous story Mr. WORKSHOP
fer is in the habit of playing faro at Long Branch IN
the summer just for excitement One evening he
won $50 OGO and broke the bank but rs IL was still
early in the night ne gave back the S0O'OOo 10 the
head of the house in order that he might not be de-
prived of the pleasure of playing! this news VIII
surprise no one more than the leader OF the Ger
man band" himself. Next Sunday crcumStan-
tial account of Addison Cammack's plans for going
as a coporteur to Corea may be expected.
Garland sticks-in other words Pan-Eectrc
stock Is "a public trust
1t is well that the public should understand the
reason why such criminal as James d. Fish is
treated a. if he were person TO whom peculiar
honor aud consideration are due. lie Is brought
here to testify in certain legal proceedings IN the
United States Court. The counsel for the plain
tiff In whose favor he IS expected to testify, want
to make him as friendly as possible To their side
and so they secure for him every luxury aud every
privilege that can be obtained. But Is not this a
sort of indirect bribery of witnesSf And will not
Judge and jury take into account indirect influence
of this kind in estimating tho value of his tost-
mony
Commissioner Sqnlres sword is mightier than
his pen. Ask the clerks whose heads lately fell
shattered from the dial of the city payroll If this
isn't so.
Senator Vance has written a letter to The UOrd
statink that in no conceivable way, shape or form
has he had any connection with the Pan-Electrlc
Company. He has received letter from General
Young, secretary of the company, denying in I'M
equivocal terms that any stock has ever been set
down in the books in his name or in the name Of
any one else for him. Inc ladies' referred 10 III
Tho World correspondence as owning stock and as
being relatives of his are not even acduaIntances.
The Senator does not undertake TO decide whether
II il crime in Senator to purchase stock i'll this
COMPANY but the viQor wfl which he disclalms
any connection with the enterprise indicates that
he considers it necessary to protect his own repu-
tation by contradIctlng current reports. We are
pleased TO find him able to make 50 unequiyocal
denial.
To Curious Tramps You inquire the nearest way
to the Lap of Luxury You can hardly do better
than get sent mp TO Auburn "a thief and then get
habeas-cOrpused back TO town as witness. fou
want to be careful however that you don't get the
CONT while You are lingering In the Lap. 7. S.-As
You forclbly remark.'the administration of justice
Is sometimes a rum thing to behold.
This report il not very credItable 10 Yale 1t is
SAID that new lecturer on the tariff will begin his
labors by an address to the students. and that.
while his assistance Is permitted by the corporation
that tine exclusive teaching of false and un-Ameri-
can doctrines Is harmful to the country. Either the
M horlties of Yale realize that this complaint Is
well-founded or they do not IL 1t Is, their clear
duty is to get rid of the professor who teaches the
worship of British institutions d theories aud a
contempt for American ideas and methods of gov
ernment IT, on the contrary, the faculty believes
that what Mr.. Sumner teaches ought To be taught
II ~ discrrd table to admit the teaching of false
hood because somebody else is willing to pay the
expenses The root Of the matter is that Yale and
Harvard have been British institutions long enough.
The fathers who want to have their sons instructed
I'm bad manners and in hatred of American lustltu-
tons and methods of government ought to be
allowed to support such an institution as Yale now
is-ln It's department of Political Economy at least
without outside assistance.
The LONDON Lancet of January 9 says that three
fatal accidents at football have been reported re-
Gently. Ambuances with competent surgeons in
attendance are almost as necessary at friendly
football contest rs at battle.
Mr. Horace Seaver distinguished himself IN BoS-
ton the other evening at the anniversary celebra-
ton Of the birth of Tom Paine. According to The
Boston Post Mr.. Seaver told the audience some
new and remark able facts in history. He followed
the history of Tom Paine from Long Island to
Yorktown. where CORVALLIS surrendered to the
American forces owing entirely to the fact of Mr..
Paine's presence. At this the audience applauded
and n man in the gallery SAID that Seavcr knows
more history than Macauiay.'" Evidently it was
n great evening Tor Seaver and American history.
Mr. Paine, being dead is prccludel from coming
out IN a card requesting that he may be saved
from his friends.
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