New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-15

menting on the telephone scandal Nothing easier;
Ct him of them Tor libel, If they have been
telling any lies about him. Meanwhile the spec
ulatiye statesmen are trial with Mr. Garlan' as
chief defeu liant; and Alr. Young is an important
witness Did he tell the Rogers family last July
that Mr. Garland had promised to bring suit i'll
the interest Of the Pan-Elcctuc Company and that
everything would be left to Mr. GoOde ? The cOun-
try wants to have Mr. Young take the stand, and
expects the Republican members of the committee
to crO,s-eNamine him vigorously.
How many receivers of stolen goods were there in
the Board of Aldermen OF 1SS4l
Stimulated by the success Of the citrus fair
Gently held at Sacramento to show the productive
capabilities of Northern California the people of
the southern counties have arranged for a similar
exhibition ut Chicago. 10 Is to open on or abOut the
18th Instant and will remain open three or four
weeks one of the attractions will be bearing
orange grove Of dozen or more trees IN the centre
of the hail: live trces.' SAYS the prosoectns,
"takcn from orr orchlr is laden with fruit 1T
probable that with these two exhibitions the conn
try will be pretty Thoroughly impressed with the
fact that both ends Of CalifUma can grow oranges
and other c rms fruits The fair will be held in the
Exposition Building at Chicago.
"Irregnar verbs OF French, German or Latin
taught in SIX hours" is an adycrtls ment in
Boston newspaper; and the fact leads to a vague,
dreamy hope that in timcsix or eight months
AJugwump scholarship a the liub may iathom the
meaning OF innocuou9 desletude."
4 correspondent asks what is meant by the words
deuonctiledr and rcnonetized' in the state
mcnt thit Congress demonet.zel silver in 1873 and
remonetiIcd silver in ISIS. Holder, Of silver bull
ION prior to the act of 1873 could take it to the
mint and get dollars for it, aud with those dollars
could have paid delft, but were not IN fact foolish
enough to do anything of The sort because the dol
lars were worth moro money to export than to pay
debts with The act Of 1873 stopped the coinage
and made gold coin the legal tcnler and unit OF
value and so dcmOnetzel the silver in law, AZ ii
had in fact been icmOnetiIcl Tor many years by the
course of the market. So the act IF ISIS reinon-
cited it in legal and technical form but not in fact;
il required limited coinage aud made those COINS
LEGAL tender but at time when the market price
was so low that no ono wanted them IN place OF
gold Hence III Theory We have two standards, bu.
in fact only one, because the silver only clrcnlAtes
as a representative of value it does not possess.
Either dacoity has taken on large proportions in
Bnunah since the annexation. or the dispatches
represent a general revolt the movement of gangs
of robbers The probability is that the Aumpra
Princes have some stake in the present uprsings,
and that they are really trying 10 TecOnquer the
country from the English. Itls of course, hope
less unIertakiug but it threatens to increase the
cost of annexation seriously and to postpone the
beginning OF reforms calculated to make the new
government if not profitable, at least selfsustaln-
ing
District-Attoney MARITIME says that when it
appears that that out-of-town eX-AIdcrmaD has
something important to communicate to the Grand
Jury, his expenses back to this city viii be paid by
the county if necessary. Can it he that this Is the
precise objective point of this wicked eX-Alderman
The notion of cowboy pianists is not little
alarming. 1t seems to be turning he tide of prog
ress back and forward so to speak. Had number
of too well known panIsts invaded the ranks OF the
| cowboys the would have worn less gloomy
| aspect For whether the unsophisticated cowboys
welcomed them with bloody hands to hospItable
graves or tolerated Them civilization would still
have been relieved. But now that the free and
untuored OF nature whose home Is III the set
ting sun have made their truly picturesque appear
auce in the concert-room, II is impossible to say
where this will stop If the fact that man does
not know anything about an art justiies him 10
giving exhibitions of his ignorance, the public have
Il dark prospect before them.
Jules Verne Is a sensatOnaliSt, but he can scarcely
have reshcd the sensation of being shot at by his
own nephew. In novel an incident of the kind
enhances the interest for the readers he caters to- but
when the author himself is made a target OF there
ceases to be any fun III the thing.
Senator Harriss Electricity was equal to
every pa bile test; The Rogers family asked him
whether in the event of postal telegraph legislation
! bo
Electric stock. Not IN the east!" exclaimed the
Senator 81 would simply rise in the Senate and
say that was interested in the BILL That is to
say he would not have spoken or voted against it,
! He would not have felt at liberty to oppose it,,
because he was interested III it and was likely to
make fortune out of it.
| The people of Morris. Otsego County, " Y, have
been much exercised lately concerning several al
! legged faiaI-cures In one of them lady supposed
to be in the last stages of consumption suddenly re-
gained strength aud apparent health. In another
case a little girl one of whose legs was crippled
and supported by an iron instrument, was 50 far
cured as to be able to walk without any help. A
! Morris subscriber to TnE TRIBUNE writes to know
if we can explain these wonders. The general be-
lief in the neighboIhood is that the cures were
! brought about through faith. This may be true,
but before settling the matter any basis 1t would
perhaps be well to wait and SEQ whether the cures
are really permanent. Tho power of the human
| will and Imagination is great; much greater than
! is generally supposed. Belief will do wonders IN
many directions Whether it will restore diseased
! lungs and sraighten distorted bones is a question
to be- answered only after certain lapse OF time.
| Certainly there is better attcsted case OF the
kind than that of Pascals niece, and that purportS
to have been quite remarkable and radical a
cnre as any of the modern ones. But in all such
instances the first thing to be done is 10 verify the
facts and the second is to wait and if the cures
are permanent