New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-21

zeal sketches of the State officers ana members vi
tbe LEGISLATURE and list Of the standing COIL
mittees of Senate and Assembly.
Tho New-Jersey Legislature ought to pass
| Iau without DELAY making it felony, punishable
with heavy penalties to race horses in that State
| bet,vecn Election Day and April I. 1t is cruelty
and crime of the worst sort to use horses as they
have been used during the severest winter weather
at Clifton and Guttenburg. Only rigorous acton
bv the State Legislature can put stop to THESE
barbarities.
Tint ring for Higgins ought to have been MADE
! of the best quality Of unadulterated brass
The verdict Of round $50 900 against the
Manhattan Railway Company for damages TO
property at the Bowery and Division-st. because
of the erection and operation Of its road Is another
indication Of the calm and cold way In whlch
juies regard the obnoxious features OF the elevated
roads II any part OF the city has been made
dark gloomy and unwhoesome by the elevated
rood T. Is the Bowery from Canal-st to Chatham
eorore and the Square itself The Manhattan
Company Is fighting suits for these and other
Injuries bravely. but the accumulation of verdicts
AGAINST it must be getting to be alarming. At
present rates another SIS, 100000 watering Will
be necessary to meet the eXigcncy.
bill has been introduced in the Assembly
making legal q barbed-wire fence composed OF
three strands. with wooden rail at least lour
inches wide Mugwumps who expect to sit on
the fence during the campaign OF this year VIII
donbtlcss proceed to Albany to lobby for rail-
of more comfortable width.
The Ct Aldermanic business In this city must
he getting to he less profitable than u was III u'e
good old days Of 1884 A bill has been presented
in the Legislature by Assemblyman Brennan pro-
viding for an increase OF the salaries OF our
Aldermen from $4,000 to $4,000 year Inc
testimony in the DOODLE cases shows that there
WAS time when would-be Aldermen could aDord
TO nav from go 600 to So 900 for election expenses
And this for term Of one year only. The present
bill provides for an extension Of the term to two
wears The Aldermen must be getting into
desperate strait.
Peanut politics has broken out in new place.
VIII Governor Hill yield the palm to the Hon.
Timothy D. SULLIVAN
"Pure buncombe' is q" The Buffalo Couriers'
term for one of the temperance resolutions re-
Gently introduced in the Legislature VI course
Representative Democratic journals take unklndiv
to anything bearing on temperance reform when
does not 70 on all fours with the familiar Demo-
cratic platform plank. Resolved That we are
opposed to sumptuary laws"
Mavor Chapin of BROOKLYN thus early in his
term has done a thing which Justly subjects nm
70 severe criticism 1t was certainly not polite
in him to send Corporation Counsel jerks as
messenger to O hquor-seller with information
as to the Mayors attitude on the proposed Dill
to open the saloons Sunday afternoon. Per
haps he thought the affair would he Kept secret
II did remain so for over week. Dut wheh us
closed it put the Mayor in bad light. The com
munication sent by Mr. jerks an official one.
To send It in such way was decidedly queer 10
say the least. Is Mr. Chaplin trying to blow hot
and cold at the same timer
aTbe Christian Leader accuses THE TRIBUNE
of trying to write George William Curtis down
We submit to our contemporary that ii ought to
leave the melancholy business of fracturlng the
ninth commandment to earnest and devoted hea-
then leaders.
The effects of the enlarged appropriation for the
Department OF Charities and Correction are al
ready visible on Wards Island With ss5oooo
more than they bad last year the Commissioners
by wise expenditures, ought to be able to accom-
pish great deal Ono Of the grave causes OF COM
plant in the insane asy lums has been the poor
quality of the attendants With the salaries hereto
fore paid it was impossible to get trustworthy per
attendants has been increased 60 per cent and that
OF female attendants 80 per cent decided I'M
mOvement ought to follow Besides. the patients
to have better food, more clothing and greater
freedom. These are things worth having. and tho
taxpayers Will not complain OF the increased
amount required to provide them II the outcome
is enhanced happiness for q peculiarly unfortu
nate class Of people.
The Aldermens little scheme about twenty
cIerlSs-iuyt enough to go round-has been blocked
The poor Aldermen will have to worry through
the year without the assistance Of a clerk apiece
Can they endure the strain which their arduous
duties impoSep
At the annual meeting Of the State Agrcult-
ural Society, which was held in Albany on Thurs
day, the question OF permanent exhibition was
discussed Governor Hill is understood to be In
favor of the proposition He argues that per-
manent exhibition would increase his opportuni-
ties Of posing q fine old horny handed granger
from way back.
Prices have varied but little on the whole since
January l. the tendency to decline in some pro-
ducts. In which speculation has collapsed, being
partly ueutralized by the advance in some on ac-
count of important strikes and In others on
account Of the winter season. On the whole
breadstufs are lower. meats and dairy products
a little higher, clothing shade higher, and metal
nroducts coal AMI oil shade lower In the
aggregate. 81 90 would now buy the same quanti-
Ties OF several hundred articles that would have
cost 81 90 20 at the he ginning Of the year
The annual cut OF lumber in the AdirondaclSs is
estimated at 1000, COO feet. But even that amount
NJ lumber would scarcely suffice to make block
bead as thick as the on the shoulders Of the
:e 70 no fren-t rad MI N
tbe woodpile OF Clevelands message.
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