New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-01
It will be a Happy New Year to the whole
country. 1t will bring in a Republican Admins

II will be Happy New Year TO the whole
country 1t will bring in Republican Admins
tratiOn
Both the Governor and the Mayor who will
be inauGurated to-day are bachelors. And it is
not leap year Some men are born unlucky
There will be two total eclipses this year-one
of the sun to-day, visible in parts of Dakota
Montana. Idaho Nevada and California the other
of the Democratic party on March 4, visible
all over the country The former otherwise diff
fers from the latter in the fact that it is the
eclipse of heavenly body.
r. will be Ill years before 1888 is followed
by another year in which there will be three
figures alike 1893 Very few of us will be
here at that time. This is a solemn thought.
Farewell, Mayor Hewitt,
The people will it
If you remain in seclusion;
Oh, pray do not do it
But firmly eschew it.
And thanks will be yours in profuson.
The telegraph advices from Colorado indicate
that Edward o. Wocott is in the lead in the
contest for the United States Scnatorship, and
will 90 into the Republican caucus with more
votes than any other candidate can muster. Mr..
Wolcott has visited New-Yoril number of times
IN recent years, and has a large number of
friends in this city, especially among
the alumni Of Yale, his alma mater. These friends
haze received such information from Denver
that they are confident of Mr.. Wolcotts success.
II they are not disappointed the Senate viii
receive an important accession to its group of
orators Mr.. Wolcott is speaker of
eloquence, wit and humor, as all the hearers of
his brilliant speech before the New-England
Society in this city year ago will readily testify
The man who doesn't write 1888 to-day in
spite of all the calendars in Christendom ought
TO receive chromo-lithograph of Father Time
with the old gentlemans autograph affixed.
The gloomest prognostication for the New Year
is that Governor Hills inaugural address will
contain 10000 words; the most cheerful is the
announcement Of the Weather Bureau that the
day will he stormy. If fair weather had been
promised us by our unlucly official guessers the
outlook would indeed have been discouraging
If President Cleveland makes full use OF his
OPPORTUNITIES, he will he able 70 work of several
more malignant sneers ut a majority of the Amcri-
can people between now and the 4th of March
His best chance will be on Washipcton's Birth
dav No man has better understood the imp0r-
tancc Of protecting home industries than the
Father of his Country, and the President would
doubtless find peculiar satisfaction in contrast
ing his own lefty and intelligent devotion to the
public welfare with tho sordid ayarice' and
grasping sellshness' of Washington
President HarrisOn's New Year will he happier
when he has got that job of Cabinet-mal1ing of
his hands.
1t is an interesting question. and one moreover
upon which depends TO a considerable degree the
future of Governor HILL how many of the ID, mo-
cratic host that has assembled to do him honor will
feel, after the Inauguration fol-dc-rol is over,
that they have been butchercd to make Roman
holiday
We beg TO offer YOU, Mayor Grant, the assur-
ance of n reasonable degree of confidence and
esteem, and cordially wish YOU a Happy New
Year. But can't give one to you, we can
only wish IT, ion have the power, however 70
give the people of Ncw-York the mppiest new
year they ever dreamed Of Don't confne your
self to good wishes. amiable intentions and fine