New-York tribune., 1891-08-26
, pn,7n WEDNESDAY AUGUST q, lsol-TwELyE PAGES

leghanies last Friday, Saturday and Sunday was
efectualy checked in its progress before reacnii9
the Atlantic seaboard, and it subsidized completely
Yesterday. While this is to be regretted SOME
what. there are many interests which wouid De
harmed by severe cold weather in the East at TINS
time especially if it lasted several days Noc
only would corn, tobacco and some other crops
suffer from frosts but so would the summer re-
sorts and excursion lines Of boats and railroaoS'
Even when June starts In as she did this year, the
season as whole is apt TO he only too shoro ior
the innkcepers at the shore and in the mountains
and the annual outing Of fortnight OF month
at this time Of year means so much to people OF
moderate means that it ought not to be prema'ureV
shortened. New-Yorkers particularly, whose
streets are in condition suggestive Of prirneval
chaos-to say nothing of being infinitely more per
nicious to heath-might justly regard it dire
fate which condemned them to return to town
day earlier than was absolutely necessary. III the
court please, we'd like further stay Of proceed
ings.
1t is hard to imagine q more fendish act than
that Of the man in New-Jersey who put quahuty
Of poison in q neighbors well in revenge for Deihg
arrested on the charge OF stealing blackberries.
Jersey Justice should take free and speedy course
in the case. If the punishment of such mis-
creant should flo the crime, it would be an ex-
ceedngly long term Of years before he were al
lowed to walk abroad free man again; and there
would be no call for the Board of Pardons to in
terpose in his behalf
Seven baths have been opened by the Demit
Dispensary for the benefit of working people In
the Eighteenth and Twenty first wards. With the
bot he ida6 htr ri PeODlcS
Baths opened last week. and these new ones, there
is little excuse for unceanDess in New-fOrk.
The new baths are not free, charge Of ten
cents being made for their use. This is twice
the charge at the Peoples Baths. If the charge
is simply to remove the idea of charity from the
enterprise, the smaller sum would seem ID be
sufficient. Experience, however will show whether
ten cents is too much to keep away the class OF
people it is desired to benefit. The provision Of
these baths is an excellent thing. II is practical
benefcence in one of it's most prasewOrthy forms.
The art of smuggling will soon be among the
lost arts if it is not carried sxlfully than
it was by o man who came off a steamship on
Monday afternoon wearing heavy overcoat lined
with sealskin. He must have thought that the
customs inspectors were afflicted with myopia or
some other defect of the optic nerves AS
warming however, such O person may have his
uses.
Governor Hill is puzzling to- the politicians OF
his parity THE Brooklyn Eagle" thinks that il
he wants the nomination for Governor he ought to
say so and try for it. 1t speaks Of his curvllnear
course" regarding the Senatorship, and winds up by
saving: whether he is really In IL or not, The
Eagle does not know and does not believe any
one else knows except the Governor himself
We are inclined to believe that the Governor him
self is not fully informed on that point That
| he would like to be in it" we have not the
least doubt But can he afford the risk-the
| double risk? There is danger that he might
| not get the nomination if ne should openly try
| for it, There is danger that he might be de-
| reatcd in case he was able TO carry the conven-
ton in his favor. In either event there would
| be an end Of the larger ambition that he has
| set before himself Just where David Is. Hill
stands on the Governorship question is not likely
| 10 be known many hours before the Saratoga Con-
vention meets. lie is waiting TO see which way
70 iump; and he is not taking any body into
| his confidence.
Emperor William, if he wishes to live up to his
reputation as a monarch abreast Of the enllghten'
ment and progress of the age, would do well to
abolish the ridiculous laws Of lese majeste, which
oro now enforced with medieval severity in his
domnions. Only the other day the aged parish
priest of the Catholic village of Wollsein, in Prus
| sian Polnnd was condemned TO four months I'M
prisonmpnt for having remarked to parishioner,
| who had hung a portrait of Emperor William be.
tween two pictures of saints, that the arrangement
was not respectful to the saints.
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