New-York tribune., 1886-08-16

prices seems to have been rather greater on the
Pacific than on the Atlantic coast for the average
export price for July from Atlantic ports was oo.o
cents per bushel last year. and only S6S cents TINS
year, but ii was 65 cents from the Pacific ports
last year and only 74.S cents this year. Ihe move
ment Of corn was smaller than O year ago, ana
there specially large decline in oats and oat-
meal. The value of all breadstufs exported IN
July was $11,57O.840 this year, against only
1921 S11 last year. This healthy movement
helps to defer still longer the graver consequences
Of silver coinage, and Its continuance is therefore
to be desired.
The Squire inquiry Is over And it seems 10
have extended over good deal Of Grace and lvins.
In London there is tradesman known as the
universal provder" who agrees to furnish at five
minutes notice any article that anybody can re-
quire. 1t is pity that there IS not q universal
provider in this country. II there were, perhaps
Mr.. Cleveland could provide himself with new
Attorney General and Mr. Garland might be pro-
vIded with permanent vacation out of Wash
ngton
Chief Clerk Conan, in whom Mr.. MARITIME has
suddenly lost confidence, was an excellent man to
be sent to Canada to confer with Keenan, & Co. 1t
looks as If Conan were the missing Canadian link
A telegram from Philadelphia states that Samue
j. Randall declines to give opinion on the ques
tion who will be nominated for Governor by the
Pennsylvania Democracy. Well, his silence is COM
parativey unimpOrtant, since whoever the nominee
his defea by the Republican candidate is one of
those things that all sagacous men like Mr.. Ran
dali count on.
According to a reporter of The Albanv Argus, the
of hat a latelV
horn Lake. Otsego County. had no other foundation
than the fact that the proprietor of OtsegO hotel
few weeks ago had the misfortune to fall into the
lake in question. The explanation will hardly be
regarded as satisfactory by the American Society
for the Advancement of Science or cognate bodies
The attempt to cOnfound a reputable inn-keeper
with a serpent Of uncertain antecedents
will not succeed Possibly there several
men in Otsego County who do not strik-
ngly resemble the Apollo Bevdere; but on the
other hand. there is not male citizen OF the coun-
try that ever was accused OF looking like sea ser
pent-eXcept possibly in an exciting campaign
when the opposition was indulging in reckless as
sertiOns.
The fact that extensive coal fields have been dis
covered in Alabama will crafty the public for two
reasons both salient. In the first place. the country
cannot have too many black diamonds; and IN
the second place, this new find may tempt Nr. Gar
lanG-the Attorney General Of PresidentC Clevelands
reform Cabnct-to remain in Alabama, Whence he
has gone for a vacation, and grow up with the
country.
Now that the President has found place for ex-
Minister to Italy and to Austria A. NJ. Kelley,
where he will not be annoyed by newspaper criti-
cisms he ought to be able to send exCollector
HedCen abroad.
Mr. Bayard is said in Washington to be so much
hagrIned over his part in the Cutting affair that
his retirement from the Cabinet would cause little
surprise. 1t is unfortunate that Mr. Garland is a
less sensitive man than his colleague. Otherwise
there would have been a vacancy in the Cabinet
some time AGO