New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-11

Times" " was Inc absence OF couuoA v"SAS~AA
Randall His name does not even appear among
those who sent regrets" OF course, being
loyal disciple OF jackson, Mr. Randall would
have attended the banquet II he had received an
invitation. And of course too. he was too sensi-
tive TO direct attention to his not having received
an invitation by dining with any other company.
and too socially inclined to dine by himself.
Hence he got no dinner Saturday In that city
famed for it's good cheer; hence he went to bed
on an empty stomach and heavy heart while
his fellow Jaclssonians were still eating or at oil
events drinking The opening year has furnished
no sadder incident Of the sort and obviously the
Committee on Invitations Of that Jackson oan-
uuet have the floor. If 1t should turn out that
the committee refused Mr.. Randall an invitation
with the hope Of starving him into free trader
but doubtless there will be an Investigation.
Baby Bunting" might forget his liver long
enough now to send for a clergyman. wise
man would keep the money in the family.
II Is proposed that the Senate shall ignore Mr..
Lamar's connection with the Rebellion, because
it ended nearly quarter Of century ago. That
is true of one war in which Mr. Lamar was en-
gagged, hut 1t is not true Of the war against the
freedom and purity Of the franchise, in which ne
has been engaged for many years, and which
continues to this day. Nor does the fact that
the civil war ended more than twenty years ago
make Mr.. Lamar good lawyer.
George A. Garden who was q Sgnal-Service
observer at Poplar River during the winter OF
1885, states that one morning the temperature
out there got down to siXty-two degrees below
zero That was pretty cold and it is to be hoped
that Mr.. Garden had his overc0at with him. But
II he would like b. register weather that Is really
bitter, weather that will make 62 below zero
seem piping hot, he wants to hang up his spirit
thermometer in the enviroI meDt Of David Is. Hill
when David is invited to help Cleveland get the
New-York delegates to the Democratic National
Convention Of this year.
It is sometimes said that the safest time to
travel is Just after disastrous railway accident
the theory being that everybody will be on the
alert and thereby the probability that another
accident will occur be diminished This theory
doesn't seem to apply to the elevated roads at all
"The Louisville Courier-Journal set up the
other morning a real old-fashiOned rebel yell, all
because HE TRIBUNE is opposing Mr.. Lamar
1t says that this paper is the Red Republican
organ Of Race war and Anarchy" and not con-
tent with its nccssant, indiscriminate and brutal
utilization of the white people of the South
it is "goaded to frenzy" by Mr.. Lamar's
nomination. and like O mad bull " undertakes
to dragoon" Republican Senators to its policy
of eternal hate" But THE IKIBUNE is not only
"a mad bu' and dragOon', it is an infuri-
ated BEAST and its rest" is the roaring OF
that unreasonable animal. The TRIBUNE Is
also a dying rattlesnake," and the rest which
is the roaring of an Infatuated beast is likewise
the " hiss" of the moribund reptile referred TO.
though how anything can be roar and a hiss at
the same time is little pulling. But the article
as whole is refreshingly vigorous, ana we nave
no doubt The Courier-Journal" feels better
The only criticism we shall venture to suggest Is
that the article bears internal evidence that II
was written nearer to a. M, than a. M, ana
that the rebel yell not the only thing that
was set up during the process of composition
In an address delivered few evenings snco
at Troy, Henry L. Lamb ex-Superintendcnt of the
Bank Department estimated the cost oil maintain
ing the saloons of that city at 100000 per annum'
Mr. Murphy. the Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, who has long resided at Troy.
ought to point with pride to these figures For
they go to show that there can be no question
about the Democracy of that particular bulwark
of his party.
Holman should take warning by the fate of
Sparks
Definite tdngs from Mr.. Stanley may be conf
IDENTIFY expected by the close of January, since the
Congo steamer bearing his name is to arrive at
Leopoldville on the goth inst. from Stanley FAILS
and the camp on the Aruwhmi. 1t Is not sur
prisng that the latest dispatches and letters from
the mouth of the Congo STINT respecting the ex-
pedition since any important news would have to
be brought by canoe over thousand miles down
the river What is inexplicablc Is the failure OF
MIR. Stanley to communicate with the world by way
of Zanzibar after arrival at Emin Bey's headquar
ters lie expected when he left London to reach
his destination during August and to send news
without delay by special cOurlers to the coast OF
Zanzibar lie has undoubtedly met with serious
delay and possibly with hostitie, on the march to
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