New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-18

week bv the decree in which the Bavarian Gov
ernment announces that it will no longer recog-
nize the body of Old Catholics as an independent
church In consequence of this decision the
latter are deprived of all the privileges which
they have hitherto enjoyed. Their priests will
no longer receive stipends from the State nor be
nermtted to celebrate marriages, and they will
he deprived of the use of sacred buildings be-
longing either to the State or to municipalities.
Indeed their existence as church is to all intents
and PURPOSES at an end.
According TO the published reports Of their
quarrel Gilbert and Sullivan might proftably
set it to music and advertise it as new comic
opera.
Porto Alegre. where a revolt has arisen against
the Brazilian Republic. is the most influential
town in the southernmost provinces. The popu-
lation of Rio Grande do Sui is closely connected
by industrial occupations with the neghboring
State Of Uruguay and contains larger proportion
of foreign immigrants than any other Brazilian
nrovjnce The secession Of TN southern section
from the Republican State of Brazil has been pre-
dicted by MANY shrewd observers in South Amer
ica It's interests are identified with those of the
Plate countries but it is not probable that any
movement In the direction Of separation will he
successful The Republican Government would
immediately declare war upon Uruguay If any
attempt were made TO draw Rio Grande do Sui
into the southern sphere of national action.
Governor Hill points with pride to the number
Of recommendations in his annual message when
the legislature has followed The legislators
whose action prompted the recommendations VIII
take what comfort they may ont of this admission
The opening of postal station in Thirteenth.
ST. is another proof OF the desire and purpose
OF Postmaster Van Colt to serve the public well.
This station will be Of special benefit to the
merchants engaged in business in the retail dis
trict. and will undoubtedly prove n great con-
venicnce The building is we'll adapted for the
purposes to whicl it is 10 be put, and thc location
is all that could be desired. Mr. Van Colt hazards
little in predicting that this station will soon do
more business than some Of the stations which
have been established long time.
They are the happest who know most pain, y
sings a queer spring poet in The Atlanta Con
stitution" If this is so. there is no reason why
the Democracy should not enjoy the Presidential
campaign Of 1892
There is something that will appeal powerfully
10 the great heart Of the Nation in the proposal
70 erect in Washington a statue OF Edwin NJ
Stanton The House Library Committee has
! made a favorable report on the mattrr. 1t sug
gcsts that the statue he made if possible, out Of
! condemned cannon used during the Civil War
| and recommends an appropriation of $4,000
for the work There is no man whom the Amer-
| can people can more fttingly honor than the
great Secretary Of War and Washington, tie
scene of his lobors in behalf of the Union, is Of
course the place in which his memorial should
stand. The committees report deserves favor
! able consideration.
The hotel-keepers Of the country have been
/ holding convention. And 50 far as we have oh
served. not n Boston newspaper has allowed the
phrase mine host 10 figure in It's reports Of
their doings. say what you WILL there is much
about the Hub which Justly cndears it to the
American people.
The possibility Of some sort Of unity between
the Protestant Episcopal and the Presbyterian
churches is not very great. Notwithstanding the
hopeful report on the subject presented To the Gen
eral Assembly The two bodies are essentially at
one in their belief concerning the Bible. the
| Nicenc Creed and the two SacgamentS, three of
| the four bases OF union suggested by the
! Protestant Episcopal Church. Bat II hardly
seems possible for the Presbyterian Church
to accept the Episcopal view Of the his
toric Episcopate, seeing that Presbyterian
ism is founded on n denial Of any EpiSco-
pate as Episcopalians understand it. on the
other hand the Episcopal Church cannot
| abatc any OF its claims on this question without
/ losing its distinctive character This fourth pro-
| posed base Of union will therefore prove in
| superablc obstacle 10 unity, unless each Church
| should agree TO define the word Episcopate dii-
fcrcnry; and such pueule way ont Of the
difficulty, to call it by no harshcr name, need not
he seriously considered.
Why shouldn't some entcrprising ice-dcalcr
make his fortune and repair the disasters Of "A
warm winter by capturing some of those stray
ccbcrgs that drifting about usclessly in the
North Atlantic?
The climax Of ahsurdity is reached IN the re-
ported formation OF Rudyard Kipling clubs in
| Philadelphia. II is safe TO say that not one
man woman in a hundred IN Philadelphia and
We may add. in Ncw-York. knows whether
Rudyard kipng is a man or a new brand of
tobacco. Even in England. where his fame is So
rapidly spreading. he is still far from being a
household word This being the case the forma
ton of clubs in this country 10 burn inccns,
under the nose of this new literary light is worse
than IbscnSm
Tie official orsan Of the wholesale liquor-dcalers
OF this state has been printing " a roll Of honor
And on this roll appear the names Of the sever
AsScmblymen who having been elected by Repuh
lican votes, turned around and betrayed thc
party by voting against the lligh-Iiccnsc bill
1t is pretty rough on the seven; but them they