The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-03
CREAM OF TIE PRESS.
EDITORIAL FLOWERS
SPRIGHTLY CULTIVATED

SPRlGHILf ClbliN albD
Reduction OF the Debt-A Century OF In
dustr iai Growth Tried aud Fouod Want
ing-yaaish Little Pigmics - Agreeable
Nofhinss- Cause of Complaint
REDUCTION or THE DEnT The re-
/ duction in the DEBT less cash in the
Treasury during the month Of April was
Sf3.O1s 2Gi. bringing the total re
/ luciion since the close OF the last fiscal
year. in round numbers. 10 $Gi CoOOOo
/ Only two months more remain 10 The
current wear, and, If the rate OF reduc-
ton of April be maintained, the total
will be 0,O00.00O, which il quite a.
great as had. been expected when Con
rress met in December last. As Vet
there has been no change and no an
nouncement Of the intention 10 make
any in the manage ment Of tie Treasury
So much WAS made Of the alleged mis-
behavior Of the Democratic policy IN
this department that We are rather sur
prised that the administration should
! lind il more important to change the
/ place-holders than 10 modify that
policy.--N J. Times.
A CENTURY or Isl UsTRiAL GRowTH'-
! The industrial parade, marvellous rs u
has seemed 10 the men of this genera
ton. needs for full appreciation diiler'
emf point Of view How would it have
appeared 10 George Washington and his
Revolutionary associates What incom-
prehensible and incredible maryels would
they have seen in lis machines and in
ventions, its arts and tools, its princely
expenditure by voluntary societies Of
wOrkingmen, ITS mighty array OF well
clad well-paid and comfortable workers.
/ II il were possible to contrast the indus
tries Of 1889, when the world had lived
and learned at least fifty-eight centuries,
with those of 1889, when only one cen
fury more had been added, what start
ling contrast Men fork Iriba1c.
TRIED AND Found WANTING" Char
lotte. nv dear. how is 1t find you weep
ing. Have you bad news from yoLr hus-
band>" "Ohl worse than that. My
Arthur writes me from Karlsbad that he
would die with ardent longing for me,
were it not that he could gaze affection
!
/ thousand kisses every day That is
really very nice OF him; and pray, is II
that you are crying for ! would give
anything to have such poetic and ten
derly loving husband as YOU have ~
An yessmy Arthur is very poctical
/ but let me tell YOU that, Just to try him.
/ | slipped my mothers photo into his
trayeing-bag instead Of my own before
he F1sgende Batter
VANISH LITTLE PIGM1Es.-NOw that
the centennial ceremonies are over il is
but proper to say that never in the his
tory of big events in this city has the
press been treated with such scant cOur-
iesy as it received at the hands of some
of the snObs and cads who identified
| themselves with this affair from the out.
set. 1t was the press which advertised
/ the celebration and made it a success
/ The pismires who dominated the com
mittees and directed the show were crazy
/ for nOtOriety and rayenOus fOi
fame, and yet they not only
INSTRUCTED the representatives OF
, the press, but actually insulieo
them in the discharge of their labors
/ What was all this wrangling and iawine
about, except that some people wanted
newspaper glory, and were anXiou. IA
keep other people from achieving il.
Why, then. were the reporters compelled
TO fight for news and information a,
though the press was 10 be punished fOl
trying to record history; The truth is
there never was big affair so beslridden
/ by pigmies, and now that they have
struued and fretted their brief hour let
them be forgotten.-N J. Worh
/ ERIN AND SCOTIA WERE THERE
That t'Other -Four hundred is an associ-
alton of New Jersey aristOcra might be
/ Inferred from the attendance 40 Tues
DAYS banquet at DelmOnicO's of the
Mayor Of Jersey City and the Bishop OF
/ Trenton. But Erin and Scotia were rep.
resented as we'll as Jersey, for Bryan Mc-
/ Swyny presided and ehiel Justice Me
Adam looked after the tOasts and
speeches. The rumof that Mr. Meal
lister would return from his seclusiOn in
the wilds of Washington 10 EXPIRE hi,
sentiments about the reyolutionized plan
and scope of the official banquet and
ball, proved incorrect. That disappOint-
ment did not mar the fesiiyity, for
the speeches were little less stupid
and the Wit much more natural than
at the eccentric dinner of cOncen-
tric tables at ihe METROPOLITAN
or the dismal feast of last Saturday in
commemOration of General Grant We
centennial people did better in our
parades than in our banquets, and if the
excellent Bryan's sendofi was not all
that his friends fiattering fancy painted,
it was still by odds the best public din
ner during the six jolly days last past
| Nep FORK Sfdr.
AGREEABLE NOTHNGs. - General
Iarrison's speech at the srb-Treasury
was Just about what might have been
expected from him. He did not attempt
to make an address worthy OF the Occa-
sion, but he sought rather 10 say few
pleasant and agreeable nOthings
which should satisfy without worry
ing the crowd. lie succeeded. at least.
in mystifying his listeners, for his sen
fences were wonderful in their complex