The morning call., 1892-04-11

present gang of outlaws have earned quite
as richly the vengeance OF society. The
eattle-owneTs who nave been so systemati-
caily despoiled are 10 earnest and will not
give UP the fight until they have put an end
10 the lawlessness which menaces all peace
ful industry. For the moment the robbers
seem to have beaten back their assailants
with grlev0uS loss, but in the end they will
be surrounded and shot down or dispersed.
The tone of the New York papers indi-
Gates that the Grant monument fund will be
collected Of certainty within short time.
Yet it is too soon to be jubilant, and even if
the money were in hand it is scarcely
matter on which to claim unlimited credit
for public spirit. The work has been too
long in hand and the response on the part
OF the public has been so Slow as to suggest
downright apathy. IL therefore savors al
most of bathos to be self-laudatory about
the noble deeds OF New York in the cause
OF charity, and to cite several conspicuous
instances OF aid rendered, such as the Chi
cago fire. the yellow-fever seourges of the
South and the JohBstown disaster. The
fact that stares the public in the face is
that wealthy and populous New York has
undertaken to erect a grand monument to
the memory Of General Grant, and is at last
driven to methodical canvassing to attain
the object. From the outset the project has
been neglieently managed.
There are rumors of an intention to place
on the Atlantic mail service q new line of
steamers which would make Holyhead
instead Of Queenstown the final point
Of departure. To have Holyhead as port
for mail service would often save a day as
things are at present conducted, and that is
OF very great consequence to the commercial
interests of the United States During
heavy weather the mails are frequently de-
layed in transit TO Dublin and thence to
Queenstown, and the mail steamers which
have the night before sailed from Liver
pool are compelled TO lie in the harbor un-
I'll the postal bags are sent on board. If
the mails from all points were dispatched
10 Holyhead and fast steamers there began
the voyage and continued II without inter-
mediate stoppage tina whole system would
be simplhed. II may be suspected that the
London and Northwestern Railway Com
pany have some designs to give Liverpool
and Manchester the go-by in this arrange
ment, and to take care that their railway
traffic is not injured by the Manchester
ship canal. The change can do no harm to
American interests.
During the civil war in Chile President
Balmaceda shipped TO England 90 tons of
silver, and TO make the transportation secure
was successful in obtaining the services of
the British cruiser Espiegle. This method of
shipping bullion has been common enough
and is permitted by the rules of the British
service, but as matters turned out Lord
Salisbury would no doubt have preferred
that the Espiegle had not assisted Balma-
ceda. The present Government OF Chile is
naturally Solicitous to know whether any
Of this treasure Is recoverable and cor
reSpondence has been proceeding on the
subject. Mr.. Kennedy, the British agent
in Chile. regrets that be did not make care
full inquiries about the destination of the
silver, but as the vessel employed was a
British man-of-war he must have closed his
eyes rather dreamily as to what was pass
ing around him. Lord Salisbury maintains
that no claim can lie against England.
\ French military attache is credited
with having given utterance to the opinion
that the Pinch guns intended for the Mon
terey are superior in penetrating powers
with the new smokeless powder to much
larger weapons in Europe, not excepting
the 1l0-ton guns of the ESwick factory
He has also the highest opinion of the SUI
perior efficiency OF guns Of less caliber
turned out Of our Government departments
This is encouragement which will please
the country, and we trust the time is near
when, besides having good pattern Of
ordnance, we shall see all our ports prop
ery equipped for defense. We are a long
way from that satisfactory state of things
at present. 10 superiority in guns may be
added our superiority IN the manufacture
Of defensive armor, an Illustration of which
Is furnished by Russia adopting the Hervey
plates and laying down plant therefor.
Russia and France, by little planning at
Constantinople, thought they had put Eng
land in a difficulty about the investiture of
the Khediye of Egypt. but they find them
selves beaten by another trick in the game
of diplomacy and are perhaps sorry they
made the venture. The fiTman Of invest-
ture, when it arrived By special envoy at
Cairo, WAS found by Sir Evelyn Barring TO
contain some uncoyenanted and undesirable
restrictions on frontier rights, and there
upon he put pressure on the khedive not TO
accept the conditions. At the same time
England and Italy co-operated in a naval
demonstration at Alexandria and the
British and Italian ambassadors at Con-
stantlnOple cO-Operated In something
very like an ultlmatum and warned
the ruler of the faithful that the firman
must be modified or his envoy recalled. The
Sultan understood what was necessary un-
der these embarrassing circumstances, and
the firman Is to be modified. The origin Of
this International comedy is, Of course. the
desire Of France TO hamper England in
Egypt, and render her prolonged oceupa-
ton troublesome. But, in diplomatic
way, England Is dsiuclned 10 evacuate
Egypt in order to let France in. and thus
DO time is fixed TO say adieu. The world
will be good deal older when the day of
departure IS IN sight, but 1t does not do for
England TO say SO.
Probably there is no mode of suicide less
painful or more instantaneous than by ex-
ploding ones self out of existence with
dynamite. When the deed IF self-destruc-
tion is resolved upon by this means it is,
however, needlessly shocking TO follow the
example set by a man in Pennsylvania who
greatly misiudged the force requisite to at
tain his end and threw impediments in the
way OF the Coroner holding an Inquest. He
enseonced himself in hollow tree in the
woods and touched off several dynamite
cartridges at his feet. The explosion rent
the poor mans body into a number of
pieces. HIS head was found on the top of a
tree 800 feet distant, and a leg was picked
up in lake 800 feet from the spot The
trees in the vicinity were splutered, and
the shock was felt over a great area. To
produce these results as much dynamite
must have been used as would blow up
great mass Of rocks.
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