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Year: 1879

The fire in the Park Theatre last night
might have ended IN a great calamity like
that of the BrooIyu Theatre three years ago


II the fic had not been discovered so carly, If
the management of the theatre and the chief
actor upon lie stage had not understood
SO quickly what needed To he done. II
the police had been less etlicoEt-a few mar
row IFS only stood in the way of a real
DISASTER The fire was under the staircase
| leading 20 Broadway, and thus the means of
exit were reduced practically onc-halI at the be-
ginning. lheaudicncc were obliged to pass ont
by the Twenty entrance. The
presence of mind exhibited 10y the audi
emce themselves, by MIR. Eminei. 10y the
police and the management. was un
usual ari striking. But ii Is impossible to think
without shudder OF what might have hap
pcned if the lire had gained a good
headway before being discovered. and a
pauic-sircheu audicuce had struggled to
escape by two MINOR staircases. That
all this did not happen is a thing to
be grateful for but the lesson of the affair
should not be lost because it was not
enforced 10y IL terrible loss of life. Let
the theatre managers review their prep
arations for Just such emergencies. Long
security breeds carelcssness in these mat
ters among employee. if not among
employers. Perhaps some of them will iind
place where an additional door or staircase
may be put. Perhaps the means already pre-
pared are not, in some cases, ready fol sudden
use Many lives have been lost because a
bolt bad been allowed to rust in its socket


Every theatre should have every paIt of It's
| nfe-saving apparatus in smooth order, and
every member of its force drilled. The price
OF safety is eternal vigilance.
Year: 1879

The work that has been done In Maino
does NOT meet the approval OF the Democratic party
Although the may justify H. the spirit OF equity and
iusIice condemns It, But n II as warning 10 tho
Republiraus teaches them that roprsas In politics
are possible, It's ultimate effect may not be unwhoie-
Year: 1879

The TRIBUNE continues on another page of
to-day's issue tie publication of the names of
those citizens who admit the ownership of
personal property subject to taxation, and pay
taxes upon it.
Year: 1879

That was rather an irritating dispatch from
Ogden, Utah, saying that daughter of the pres-
dent of the Mormon Church-her name Josephine
Taylor, her age twenty-five years--had ,ried To
escape from Utah, and failed The girl boarded
the Union Pacific train, but, as she had neither a
ticket nor money TO buy one she put of at the
first station east. She appealed TO the agent at
Uintah to secTete her. but he would not and SO
she was sent back to Salt Lake City. II NAV not
be so: but suppose that this girl was flying from
the horrors Of polygamy, from the unspeakable
degradation of being the fifth or the ffteth wife
of some sensual old hypocrite. from domestic des-
potsm, from compulsory scquiescence in the forms
of so-caled religion which she utterly detested-
would it not have been little more manly and
chivalrous to have helped her forward than to have
sent her close prisoner back to the horrors from
which she was endeavorng to escaped There is
more than a suspicion, there is a toerable GER
tainty, that Mormon women tyrannically treated


and that great many of them would leave Utah if
they could. Mormon men trying to make their way
from the sham sanity city have been murdered


sure method OF arresting their exit and there Is
reason to believe that few years ago fugitive
Mormon woman would have been more lightly
dealt with. OF course, the railroad company
cannot bring away without remuneration all the
saints who are sick of the whole abomination !;
but couldn't a point have been strained in favor Of
a poor girl running away from pollution domestic
wretchednessi Recollect that this Josephine lay
lor was of age, and legally her own mistress. Her
father the Elder President, has no authority over
her. Hasn't the habeas corpus. with other Injuries
Of civilization been imported into Utah yeti
Year: 1879

present House of Representatives, which Is say
ing Good deal He was referred to in our w ash
mcton dispatches the other day as the alleged
"author" of the petitions which Congress is
receiving. asking for the payment to soldiers oi
the difference between the pay they actually
received and the amount they would have
received if they had been paid In gold
The meaning of the statement, rs shown
by the context, was that he was
the author OF the petitions, hut
Mr. Weaver. being anxious to get INTO the
newspapers. insisted on believing that he had
been charged with being the author also
OF the signatures to the petitions ana
charged upon the House with personal ex-
planation. Having denied with great fcrociiy
what The TRIBUNE did not say, Mr.. Weaver
sat down, only to hear the House break out
into general laugh at his expense.
The average politician does not mind abuse,
but even a crazy Greenbacker does not ENJOY
being laughed at rs fool. That laugh OF the
House will probably keep Mr. Weaver in his
seat for some time TO come.


There was an interesting debate yesterday
in the Senate upon the Voorhees, resolution
providing Tor a committee TO investigate the
causes of tho negro exodus. Mr. Windows
amendment was defended by its author, VINO
took occasion to express his faith again III the
possibility and even in the wisdom OF Negro
Territory. Mr.. Hill broke into the discussion with
a little un-Sonatorial impatience that was en-
teTtamng He said he was tired OF these
continual Congressional Investigations into
"cvery little question which comes up
The talk about the causes OF the ex-
odus 4" is all CANNON" The colored people
are "contented in direct proportion to the
" time the Southern States have been freed
from carpe;-bag rule" No Republican Sena-
tor seems 10 have thought it worth while to
suggest that the State of Mississippi. which
has suffered most by the exodus, WAS one OF
the first to free itself from carpet-bag
rule. and that the universal testimony
Of the negroes has shown the cruelty
and injustice of the whites to be the causes
of the flight. No one felt like suggesting.
perhaps. that Mr.. Hill might not care to have
the matter inquired into, even by Democratic
committee. Pit probably the best possible
answer 10 this harangue was made when Mr.
Conking so'cmnly rose and presented n bill
for the consideration of the Committee on
Patents.
Year: 1879

The almost positive statements made in
some of the New-York papers yesterday that
General Grant has accepted the Presidency
of the Interoceanic Canal Company prove to
be untrue. Admiral Ammen. who was given
as the authority for some of these statements,
admits this, aud General Grant himself, on
being questioned. abandons his reserve long
enough TO deny that he has agreed to take the
place. This leaves the subject just where it was
before, with great pressure upon the Gen
eral from one side to abandon the hard and
trying ways Of politics for the honorable posi-
tion rendered him, and from the other to
allow himself to become q candidate for a
third term. IL Is a strange situation, which
the public watches with great curiosity.


Congressman Weaver. of Iowa, is as thor
au2hlY Iidiculous persOn IA exists In the
Year: 1879

HcndIck B. Wright has revived his famous
twenty million dollar scheme for the aid OF the I'M
pecunious and hard-up. There is no danger OF 1t
becoming n law, for even the present Congress
doesn't contain enough idiots TO make that Dos
Year: 1879

one of the dullest and most brutal dema-


gogues this country has produced, after
threatening SO many people with hanging,
should be at last suspended from his own
private gallows. We hope not. for it would
be too good fate for him. But he ought
to be careful-San Francisco is a very un-
safe place for bully who commits the
blunder of making himself too numer-
Gus" as they say out there.


y 1t is pleasant to read that the decent
people of the city mean to give the General
a cordial welcome home. He will find him.
self among friends of his earlier days out
there, and will revive the memory of his
life on that coast as young and OBJ
scure army officer in new and strange
country.
Year: 1879

Our respected contemporary, the Evening
Post, asks for another assurance from Gen
eral Grant that he will not again be Presi-
Dental candidate. 1t thinks letter from
the General is required. We reluctantly,
but positively, disagree with the Post 1t
is applying in the wrong quarter. What is
needed is letter from the republican
party.


General Grant has shown plainly and
positively that he neither seeks nor wants
the nomination. So far as he is concerned
there is nothing more to say. But every
few days some republican politician-Gen-
eral Garfield or Senator Hoar or Governor
Jewell or Governor Shepherd-turns up,
who says. "Oh, but the republican party
may need him, and if it unanimously calls
for him he will not refuse" That is
perfectly true. General Grant would like
to remain out of politics. but if the party
to which he is attached should unanimously
call upon him to become once more its
candidate we think it at least possible he
might, out of q feeling of gratitude to it for
its past favors, reluctantly obey it's CON-
mand. 1t needs, however, no letter at this
time from General Grant to say that either
he would or he would not sacrifice his own
preferences in such contingency. Clearly
he ought to wait until the event occurs be-
fore deciding.


Meantime, rs the Eoening Post reopens
this matter, we will ask it two questions:-
First, does it, as an influential organ of the
republican party. believe-whata good many
republican leaders assert-that it may be
expedient and necessary to renominate
General Grant and second, will it support
General Grant If he is renominated by the
Republican Convention? We should be
glad of definite reply to these two ques-
tions, and we believe the public would be
very much interested in reading what the
Post may have to say.
Year: 1879

look for the Presidency from precisely the
same ground. and the rivalry between them
being thus of personal rather than public
character, and involving no questions OF
policy, unless one is willing to give way to
the other each makes the others nomina-
tion difficult, if not impossible. If either
of the two stood upon a policy dis
tinctly his own this might improve his
chances. If either had the support of the
administration that might, perhaps, turn
the scale. AS matters stand, the other cam
didates-Sherman, Garfield, Washburne,
Edmunds. Chandler probably watch with
satisfaction the spectacle of the two fore
most leaders of their party marching with
equal strides and by the same road toward
the Convention, with the prospect of get
ting jammed in the doorway long enough
to give one or the other of the less promi-
aent candidates the opportunity to get in
by side entrance.
Year: 1879

ne could expect for attacking an uninsured
vessel. About the serpent, however. we
have fuller information he was five feet in
diameter and of indefinite length Gndefnite
Is good word); his movements were grace
ful and fascinating, as those of being ad-
dicted to sea bathing should be, and his
eyes were large and melancholy, which is
not to be wondered at. considering the
numerous and conflicting stories that have
been told about him and his family. If the
hotel proprietors at Coney Island or Long
Branch would combine to secure the SER
vices of this graceful ophidian, say for two
performances day, they could profta-
Oily extend the season for q month,
and not bather would be drowned along
the beach in the meantime. As for the
leviathan that indulges in CORY conflicts
with ships. he is needed in New York har-
Dor. During the early morning hours,
while light haze wells the waters, he
could make himself useful by sinking tugs
and scows that sneak softly to forbidden
dumping grounds. If he would do but this
grateful community would relieve him
from further labors during the day, for to
sink these craft and their tricky managers
would cause less obstruction than the
garbage does, while to do anything
toward improving dumping customs
would be to entitle the fish to more
consideration than at present belongs
to the Dock Commission, the Street
CLEANING Rureau and tha Chora Tnenackor
combined.
Year: 1879

The kumOrs and HumOrs OF Syracuse


Both the contending factions at Syracuse
evidently felt yesterday that it was danger
GUS to blunder, and that, in the Convention
at least. conciliatory course was advisa-
BILE. The Tilden people were especially
cautious, and showed by their course that
they are not so sure of their ground as to
make it safe for them to assume i'm
mediate and unconditional command of the
Convention, as Mr. Conkling did at Sara
toga.


Outside of the Convention. however,
there was less restraint, and both sides
expressed themselves freely, Tammanys
caucus openly declaring determination to
secede and hold an independent conven-
ton if Governor Robinson should be nomi-
mated BY the way, is it not little
''strong," as it were, for the Lieutenant
Governor of the State to publicly denounce
the Governor in political meeting? No
doubt Mr.. Dorsheimer has serious griev-
ances, but proper respect for his official
position would, we should think, lead him
to decorous silence, or if he was convinced
that the country could not get on without
hearing his voice he might have resigned
his Office before going to the Convention.


Among the numerous reasons given by
Tammany men why they should vote
against Robinson we notice that of Mr..
Schell, who said it would be degrading
to his manhood" to vote tor the
Governor. That sounds we'll, anyhow.


NJ ~ o~-oco1 No-a.co. D1h;p.op
apparently on the ground that ''Hayes went
into the White House by fraud" We are
more than ever persuaded Of the soundness
of the advice we gave the Tammany people
some weeks ago, to be content with making
public their opposition to Governor Robin
son, but enter into no explanations.


During the afternoon the fact that the
Kings county delegation holds the balance
of power and that its members were ex-
tremely reticent caused suspicion that
General Slocum might be the coming man,
and on this Slocum brass band began to SER
enade the Brooklyn delegates, on the chance
that they would stick to the General. At q
late hour, however, our reports say that the
Kings county men are divided, and part Of
them have determined to support Governor
Robinson, whose cha nces, the HERALD cor
respondent telegraphs, are believed to have
slightly improved during last evening.


In the Committee on Contested Seats the
policy has prevailed which will admit the
Tammany delegation to-day, the inten-
ton being to bind them to support the
action of the Convention, by making them,
without opposition. a part of it. AS the
Convention reassembles at an early hour
this morning it will probably complete its
work during the day.


One of the curiosities of the occasion is
the number of active anti -Tilden men at
Syracuse who were Jealous Tilden men at
St. Louis in 1876 Why is this thus as the
late Artemus Ward used to ask.
Year: 1879

THE WEATHER.-The of high barometer
continues to dominate the weather In all the
districts east of the Mississippi. West of that
river the pressure is decreasing steadily and
large depression is advancing eastward. The
temperature has varied very little in the Gulf
and central valley districts. 1t has risen in the
Northwest and West and has fallen in the other
sections Of the country, particularly over the
lakes. Light rains have fallen on the Gulf
south Atlantic coasts and in the Central Missis-
sippi Valley. The weather has been fair in
the other districts. Brisk winds prevailed
vest of the Mississippi They were fresh
ovcr the lakes and generally light elsewhere.
The movement OF the advancing depression
will be slow, owing to the influence of the high
area over the Eastern districts, and the gradients
for soutberly winds are likely to become steep
over the central valleys during the next few
days The weather over the British Islands Is
fine. The weather in New York and its vicinity
to-day will be warmer and fair. Tomorrow the
same conditions are likely to prevail, followed
toward night by inersasing eloudinsss
Year: 1879

The HERALp's San Francisco correspond
ent reports that the city is excited over an
atrocious proposition of Kearney to pub
licly insult General Grant on his arrival.
The half crazy blackguard wants to hang
the General in effigy on his famous sand
lot, and the angry citizens threaten to
hang Kearney bodily If he does not keep
quiet.


It would be odd If the sand lots agitator,
Year: 1879

A LADY WHO Has JUST DIED had her death
ascribed by one physician to nervous prostration
snd by another to puerperal fever and each
charged the decease to the others erroneous
treatment, while the Coroner demonstrated, in
the presence of the two practitioners, that both
were utterly wrong. The case is exactly parallel
with that Of the country, as political doctors
may suddenly find out to their sorrow.
Year: 1879

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS all very well,
but when next Wednesday Connecticut's battle
flags are escorted from the old State House to
the new by the survivors of the thousands who
fought under them the people will suddenly
learn the difference between sentiment and feel
On
Year: 1879

IT Has JUST BEEN DISCOVERED, except by
those who are interested in keeping the matter
dark, that about thirty indictments for con-
spiracy and murder in the Chisholm case have
Blumbered undisturbed in Kemper county for
two years, no arrests having been made In
such country the development of the Yazoo
plan was inevitable
Year: 1879

LONG LIVE THE PRINCESS LOUISE! She ad-
vises the young ladies of Canada to study the
art of cooking. Would that she would cross
the line and say as much to girls, who have
never yet learned that health and spirits must
first be sought at the hands of the cook.
Year: 1879

IT WILL BE NEWS TO MANY that Peru has had
bank with four million dollars actual capital
and paying ten per cent dividend on stock repre-
senting three times that amount 1t will startle
no one, however, to hear that said bank has
fniled
Year: 1879

RIVERSIDE RowDIEs will be astonished to
learn that barkeepers have rights in't the eye Of
the law, but SO it is; couple of young men are
languishing in Jail for beating q saloon proprie-
tor with his own bottles.
Year: 1879

INCREASED SERVICE The =. o. De-
partment at Washington has authorized
the carrying Of u. s. mails three times
per week hereafter instead of but once,
on the route between Port Townsend and
Port Discovery. Tie privilege is also
granted to Postmaster Learned to send the
mail every day provided it can he done
without increasing the pay above that set
for tri-weekly service. We understand
that the Port Discovery Mill Co. will make
arrangements to have daily mail on the
route This will be change which all
affected by it will appreciate. Delegate
Jacobs is continually adding to the al
ready numerous testimonials that he is the
most efficient and useful representative
that Washington la, ever had in Congress.
We congratulate our friends of Port Dis
covery upon their good fortune this time.
Year: 1879

The Garrote is the instrument of
death always employed in executions
in Spain. Moncasi was it's latest
victim, and It is stated that since
the restoration of 1875 nearly fifty
persons in Spain have felt it's dead
ly clutch. The executioner is q bull
fighter named Hernandez. The
execution is in public, the con>


demned being seated in chair
with the clamps of the carrot
about his throat at the signal the
executioner whirls round the heavy
handle that turns the screw, and
the mans throat is instantly cons
pressed, while an iron projection at
the back is squeezed with rosistless
force into the nape of the neck.
The body remains in view for some
hours, surrounded by praying
monks in penitential garb. = b
Year: 1879

TIE Use OF THE LEMoN.-There are three
ways of making lemonade. TO squeeze the
Juice into cold water-this is the shortest
way; or to cut into slices and let it soak in
cold water; or to cut it in slices and then
boil it. Lemonade is one of the purest
and safest drinks for a person whether in
health or not. 1t is suitable to all stomach
disease, is excellent in sickness. The pips,
crushed, may also be mixed with sugar
water, and used as a drink. We advise
every one to rub the gums daily with lemon
Juice to keep them in health. The hands
and nails are also kept white, soft and
supple by the daily use of lemon instead Of
soap. 1t also prevents chilblains. Lemon
is used in intermittent fevers, mixed with
strong, hot black coffee without sugar
Neuralgia may be cured by rubbing the
part affected with q cut lemon. 1t i:
valuable also to cure warts, and to destroy
dandruf on the head by rubbing the root
of the hair with it.
Year: 1879

The reports regarding harvest operations
throughout the greater part of Europe tend
to prove that there will be an increasing
demand for American wheat. In Southern
Russia and Roumania no, more than half an
average crop appears to have been secured.
Year: 1879

The man who attempted to ruin Edison
when the phonograph was exhibited, by
surreptitiously substituting for the foil
registering the notes of a celebrated primaa
donna a foil registering the vocal efforts of
a cat suspended by the tail, had the salts
faction of hearing the enlightened New
York audience, including several musical
critics, go into raptures over the correct re-
production of the diva's singing, while the
only man who found fault was leather
dealer from Boston.-BoSton Post.
Year: 1879

Those whose stock of wisdom con- sists in the coarse, familiar outcry that we "don't want coward who was elected President and hadn't the pluck to take the office," might be dispellcd with silent scorn, but there is reverse ard positive side to their silly clamor, Illuminating a real danger in our path.

 The Democratic party can only fail to nominate Tilden for cause and the only cause which will be as- signed, or generally accepted, must embrace dissatisfaction with some act or omission on hls part after his election. To say truth, the only dissatisfaction which has ever been expressed relates to his failure to be seated. As we do not live in Mexi co, where a mans simple belief of his election is regarded as good enough excuse for revolution, but under a Constitution which pre- scribes methods for the induction of successful candidates to office, those who complain of Mir. Tilden's failure to perpetrate some movement or de- vice unknown to the organic law, or unrecognized by it, are bound to own that they were willing to pre- cipitate the country into anarchy and confusion. and that they are an gry at Mir. Tilden, because he refused to propose or to countenance such an attempt. If he is set aside, there fore, the Democratic party must put itself upon this inevitable, logical alignment, accepting all the conse- quences. It must go to the country as the party of strife. It must de- fend its sacrifice of a man whose sole fault was his refusal to lead a hopeless civil war,

 And how shall it defend itself? It was It's own inadequacy, not the cowardice of Mir. Tilden, winch brought his exclusion. Not at Grammercy Park, but at Washing ton, was the job of buccaneering on the one side, of vacillation and sur render on the other side, accomplish ed. Even had NIT. Tilden wished to lead an unorganlzed, unequipped. unassembled army of unpaid molly coddles upon the White House, his party failed to supply him the pre- text Whilst he was carefully pre- pairing for a constitutional battle in the House--a peace battle against