New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-23

| agltatlOu In knOSrcSo, aiiu Az No
meeting with success. In Koenigsberg o State
farm has lately been sold TO peasant proprietors
for only $500 against valuation three years
aQo of $4,000. In Mecdenburg numerous large
owners Of land have sold out to the State, and
the farms have been relet to the tenants Mt rents
| reduced by from 90 to 40 per cent Elsewhere
| the landlords have agreed to vary the amount OF
| rent from month to month, regulating IL by the
| market price of the produce of the farms. All
tbose changes better the condition of the workers
of the soil. and hold Out hope that some day
the American system will prevail, each and every
industrious man being able to have homestead
of his own.
In all the vile history OF Southern electoral
fraud there never was q more shameless outrage
than the counting out of Congressman Smalls.
citizen s Dprc 2 Ssas Spesa 'n
He is not single citizen. He does not be-
leve that any man who has his complement OF
moral mental and physical attributes has any
right to be a single citizen. But he is genuine
American and the secret OF his success III lie Is
the courage, good humor and heartiness which
he brings to his work We wish him Merry
Christmas.
II Mr. Garland wants to make the people
Christmas present. we suggest his resignation as
the gift they would be most pleased 10 accept
aTbe Albany Argus" congratulates SuperinI
tendent Maxwell Of the Insurance Department,
upon his measures to repress wildcat insurance
agents "The Argus" should congratulate The
TRIBUNE Ii had to work hard before Dir Max
well imbibed the idea that this kind Of service
was part of his duty.
II the young New-Yorlcrs of today do not
make out to acquire the rudiments Of education
| it certainly will mob be the States fault. The
| provision made is so ample that he who runs may
not only read, but write and cipher to say moth
| Ing about the acquisition of other branches
1t appears from the report of Andrew ). Draper
SUPERINTENDENT of Public Instruction, that IL
cost TO maintain our public school system during
the past year the sum OF s13,2s5, 600. This is
! indeed a very pretty penny but then taxpayers
can reflect for comfort that no other investment,
public or private, yields such large returns. Inc
prosperity OF a commonwealth. in the mosb I'M
portant of the term, is largely conditional
upon the general diffusion Of knowledge.
| Mayor Grace recommended the appointment of
FATTY Walsh Warden of the City Prison.
What flimsy sham his pretence OIL reform Is
| The professional Blaine haters cannot find any
thing to carp at in their pet aversions Boston
| sreech on religious matters. The most they can
| say Is that il purely conventional affair.
Well for that matter Mr.. Blaines nomination
at Chicago In 1884 was q conventional affair
Ask Mr. Curtis, who took part in it and then
repudiated it, whether it was not.
It is said that Mrs. Cleveland has agreed always
| to take of her hat at the theatre, and by this
| example to establish q great social reform. 1t Is
not with Mrs. Cleveland's end Of the Adminlstra-
ton that any one can find fault. She appears to
be equal to all emergencies, and more than Justl-
| fes the beautiful romance which is the culmlna-
| ton Of her life.
| Jacob Sharp objects to being tried by jury
| Of his peers in New-York Ii must be confessed
that it would be hard to find jury of Sharps
peers here. Fortunately for the city, there Is
only one Sharp among
The emigration Of Irish during the present year
| has been up TO the first Of this month $4,000.
| against 5s,O 900 in the same time last year, a
scarcely noticeable increase During the same
| PERIOD however, 1853, 900 English and Scotch have
expatriated Themselves against 1000 last year.
It is an interesting question how far the hope of
| securing Homo Rna tends tn renress Irish "'ni-
| grafton and also how great factor the despair
Of getting rid of the evils Of free trade is in
promoting the exodus from England and Scotland.
The rrmor that Friend Whittier will write
something about Maud Muller Sixty Years
After" is discredbed.
What astounding piece of intelligence Is this
which is furnished by contributor to the
December number of "Blacllwoods Magazine. J"
He actually asserts that cricket has its best
days in England 0, come now. Pretty soon
some one will be asserting that gentlemen resid-
ing in Kentucky have lost their interest in the