New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-18

tion Of imported and domestic iron exceeded
| s115769 tons Indeed. it may with propriety
be reckoned even larger for each ton of manu-
| factnred iron tales the place Of more than ton
Of American pig iron in consumption. Reckon
| ing on that basis the actual consumption in 1 s7
was equivalent to about $500 900 gross tons vt
mig iron of which American furnaces supplied
about thee-quarters.
The Corporation Counsel has decided that the
Street-Cleaning Commissioner is not required to
remove snow and ice from the street cutters.
| This Of COURSE can only apply SO long as the
snow and Ice remain unmeltcd. The moment
they turn into mud and slush the Commissioner
| ia hound to get rid Of them. But that is pre-
cisely what he has not done this winter, and that
is why locomoton in the city has been 50 difficult
during every thaw. The city pays big sum to
! keen its streets clean. and now that Commits
| sioner Coleman has got official opinion defin-
! ing his duties and has heard the loud complaints
| that have gone up. it is to be hoped there Will
| be a marked improvement in the administration
/ of his department OF course he hasn't forgot
ten the promise he made to Mayor Hewitt
The members OF the Assembly need not have
been in great fear even if the ceiling had fallen.
! What with their short daily sessions and their
! long adiournmcnts from Friday to Mondaysven-
| ing there were about ten chances to one that
| they would not have witnessed the catastrophe.
N,w this Is a devillshly good argument even if the
/ newly appointed Con nj were fresh from divinity
The Evening Post.
| This is English, you know" but neverthe-
| less shocking language, even for a Mugwump
! journal We only account for 1t on he
| Suns theory. that taunts stir up Larrys dlv-
vie to extraordinary energy" With the aI"tho-
meter quoted yesterday at and with The Suns
pathetic appeal to brethren of the press to lend
| what help they can in the reformation Of The
| Evening Post" we quote the bad language with
! feelings of chastened grief and refrain from max
ing any discouraging comments
The preliminary statement of exports Of bread
stuffs for January shows that only GG2 o97 bush
els of wheat were exported, against s.0j6,66l in
the same month Of 1887, the decrease in value
being s5.170OOO More than half tile guam
| tity of wheat exported. moreover. went from San
| Francisco and Portland Oregon, namely, ,37S 118
bushels OF flour. the other hand. the exports
| from the Pacific Coast comparatively small,
though larger than III Jdnuhry OF last year reach
ing 11O,S17 barrels: but the exports from all the
| principal ports amounted to 1,016,46l barrels,
| against l072,577 barrels in the same month last
wear Thus the .ntire exports of -four and wheat
were equivalent to 7,23611 bushels wheat,
arninst l2ss3257 bushels for the same month
last wear The complete official statement for
the first six months OF the crop year showed net
exports equivalent to 49, 5, 713 bushels wheat,
Sc that all exports thus far reported for the crop
wear amount to 81 f5l ~ bushels, against
| 90. 925 $50 bushels for the same seven months
last year Only 62.420,2 bushels went out
during the remaining five months of the last crop
wear: about 90, 100000 bushels are left for eN-
port during the remaining five months or ths
vaar The outward movement of corn also
/ Dn1u
acainst 41s1,1?4 for the same month last year.
Thus the aggregate value of brcadstnffs exported
| in January was only sS,122,277, against
| s14L28 500 for the same month Of lSs'. In
this eomparison it is easy read the hurtul effect
of the speculative movement which was begun IN
| december on no better basis than the rumors OF
war between Germany and Russia. Suostap-
tally the same influences caused large decrease
| in the exports of provisions, which amounted Toe
the month to s6,s269sO, against IS, 81 442 Tor
| the same month in 1857
"rhe Charleston News and Courier quotes Bishop
! Camnbeu. OF the African Methodist Episcopal
| Conference as expressing the opinion that the
exodus of the coIored people from certain por-
tions of the South is a hnmbus.' The time
| will COME the bishop added when the negro Will
| IN, treated rs we'll on the American continent as
| be 10 in Europe Well if the time " VIII come
when he will be thus treated it cannot yet have
| arrived And IL it has not yet arrived, BISHOP,
| what's the matter with the eXodusP
T. is well understood that when David Bennett
Hi WAS heard to murmur These are the times
that try mems souls he hadn't the remotest ref
orsnce TO the pedal agonies of a six days go-as-
| rou please' 1t was simply the natural effect
&c hearing q wel-defned rumor that Edward T.
Tones had been weighing himself on the Guoerna-
,orial scales with the ultimate satisfaction OF
s,dino that he was " not wanting" And now
oyen music hath no charms for David Bennett Ill.,
or can he entice one SOFT sweet, consoatory
rote Of encoura cement from the $500 grand
And among the sadly solemn thoughts that come
60 him DER and DER is that soon, as private
i,;7ep he may sink into eX-mediocrlty and
oart his name in the middle-D. Bennett Hill
hill has been introduced az Albany to raise
Oh. salaries Of the Aqueduct Commissioners to
60 ooO each Now if their duties were so ex-
oo.irg and aborious that it necessary for the
..,n,nissioners to give all their business hours to
tho work of the city, this proposition might not
seor unreasonable. But as these duties consume
III, n few hours each week, and every one Of
The commissioners has plenty Of time to devote
n banking law practice, engineering and other
nrivate callings, this bill is simply prepostcr-
Gus.
PERSONAL
ahs nd act his Nytfe vie