New-York tribune., 1886-04-24

have to go outside of Rochester to find the condi
tons described by the Albany correspondent" AM
IL quotes boatinen as complaining that there ar
many places along tho line of tho Eric which
fully loaded boat cannot go over without dragging
on the bottom. Mr.. Shanahan IL paid $4,000
year for looking after the canals, and is allowed
three assistants and half dozen clerks all of whom
draw comfortable salaries, to help him. IL looks a,
If he wasn't earning his money, wasn't doing vel
by the peo
The President has singular facility for doing
something at the wrong time
The mythical woman who fought mythical duel
on the field Of Waterloo is reported to have asked
DR.. Grusdevach to try on her his mythical process
of freezing patient solid and thawing him ont
after year or two fresher and brighter for the ex
perience. There could be no better use made of
women who fight duels than to freeze them solid.
But the experiment should first be tried on the
members of the Executive Committee of the En-
pIre Protective Association who ordered the reck-
less and wicked strike on the Third Avenue road.
1t would be excellent plan to tic these fellows up
by converting them into pillars of ice. And they
never should be thawed out.
Mr.. Morrisous latest attempt to get favor from
Pennsylvanians for his tariff bill, by striking out
ull the clauses reducing duties on iron and steel
and iron ore has met with failure as it deserved
TIE iron and steel manufacturers decline to be
used as q catspaw by the Democratic monkey. and
declare themselves In strong terms against the
pending bill. Possibly the expected support of Mr..
Randall and his friends may not materialize.
The President does not deny that he is going to
get married. but he inveghs heavily against max.
ing his personal affairs public. "These reports"
he says "are q shame and an outrage upon all the
prvaces and decencies Of life and the press should
find something better do than to be pitching into
unprotected girl in this brutal way" Isn't this
language much stronger than the occasion calls for
We fail to see that any dsrespect is offered the
prospective young bride by the report that she will
marry the President. And even if there should
happen to be any difference of opinion on that
score. few persons will 60 with Mr. Cleveland so
far as to regard it as "shame" and an :" outrage"
and to think it equivalent to pitching into an un-
protected girl" in brutal way" 1t is likely
that it will do Mr. Cleveland good to get married.
We trust that he will be very happy, and we are
exceedingly hopeful that before his wedding day
he will get into good humor Amability isreally
essential upon such an occasion.
Mr.. Gould thought that Mr.. Powderly needed
'bracIngup Something besides "bracing up"seems
to be needed by the leaders of branches of the
Knights of Labor in this vicinity. A little infusion
of common sense would not be out of place.
So much June weather in April as we have had
this season Is unusual, not to say extraordinary.
Thrice within a week the mercury in New-York
has been up to or above 800. Such an event oc-
curs average, only once in four or five Aprils
although twenty In succession, beginning with
that of 1885, passed without that figure being
,1oIl 30
The highest April temperature given by that au-
thorty between 1922 and 1884 was $40, this being
registered in 1922. 1851 and 1871. Yesterday
Hudnut's thermometer stood at $50. At the same
place, however April 3D. 1885. the practically un-
precedented height of $40 was reached. But for
that incident yesterdays heat would beat the
local record for this time of wear for more than
half a century. The burst of excessive heat last
April was followed by a cold reaction which lasted
until the middle of May That experience may not
be precisely paraleled this spring. but long con-
tinuance of the present abnormal weather is hardly
to be expected.
That's meek and lowly preacher in Richmond |
who SAYS from the platform in public meeting |
that there is not salt enough in the Atlantic |
Ocean to tho man who puts his hands on
him. He adds that lit would take magnifying
glass that would magnify by hundred thous sand |
times to see what is left of him." match between |
this fighting parson and Pastor Downs of Boston,
Marquis OF Queensberry rules scratching al
lowed, would excite even more interest than the
proposed prize-fght between John L. Sullivan
md "Jem" Smith.
Naturally all brokers are indignant when it is
proposed to tax speculative sales The bill pending
Vt Albany appears to them altogether viciOus and
unjust. and contrary to public policy 1t makes a
,reat difference what point of view man takes.
The late lamented John Morrissey could never be
ute persuaded that gambling at a faro table was
Objectionable Gambling in grain affects not only
hose who win or lose ana the public morals
esides, but also the interests OF all legitimate
raiders and all honest producers
Mr. Gould's testimony before the Congressional |
was calculated to give the committee
much clearer impression than many of the men, |
ers had seemed to possess of the nature of the
truggle ut the West. He testified. as usual, with
reat clearness and force and his statements as to
isputed points precisely corrOborated by other
vdcnce. But it is peculiar circumstance that /
le members of the committee who were SO anxious '
, learn all about stock operations from MI Pow ,
erly did not apply to Mr. Gould for information
q that subject.
The material growth of this Nation IS set forth in
raphic style by atlas s-makers in the changes made
their maps from year to year. There has just
me to hand. for example, fine folio from the $
ell-knOwn house Of Rand, McNaly x Co., New a
ork and Chicago. bearing the imprint 1886. 1t ;,
llows only year behind its predecessor of 1885.
Id yet its well-engraved maps show increase n
3.193 miles Of railroads 3,0S5 new railroad '
ations and shipping points 1,O66 new post-ofiices,
ID 81 new counties in the various States and W
,rrtories The of 1855 in thirteen States IL
reported, and all railroad stations telegraph. ST
press post and money order offices carefully in n
xed 80 that he who runs may read and he who D
ads may easily find out all he wants to know
out this and other countries. The work bears ic
{ the promise of its name" The Complete d
lsiness Atlas "-and is worthy OF the Nation
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