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VOL. IIL. APRIL 1oruH, 1884. NO. 67. 1155 BRoapway, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, to cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 20 cents per copy; Vol. II., at regular rates. Tue editor begs to announce that he cannot undertake to re- turn rejected contributions, HE most wonderful discovery of modern times is that made recently by Zhe Shoe and Leather Reporter that no brass band can play as many airs as a drum major can put on, * * * ON’T Mr. DANA come out and tell us whether he really wants ARTHUR or BLAINE? It’s clear he’s not for any Democrat. * * * T is said that Mr. BEECHER, we mean the Reverend HENRY Warp BEECHER, is to head the delegation from this State to the Republican Convention at Chicago. Is he to reiterate his Cooper Institute free trade speech for the edification of pro- tectionist Republican brethren ? * * * 667 SEE that Mr. TiLpEN has declined to run for President because he is seventy years old. Permit me to observe that that is not my reason for not running. Do you not think the weather remarkably cold ?”—Roscoe. * * ® Y cable the Western Hemisphere was again informed several days ago that Emperor WILLIAM washoarse. This, in ad- dition to the Cincinnati riots, made the misery of the American people complete. Providence was merciful, however, and alater dispatch brought the cheering news that he had tied a red flannel poultice around his imperial throat, and would be better unless his condition remained the same or changed for the worse. It is gratifying, by-the-way, to know that in view of the great demand for daily bulletins regarding the dyspepsia of Prince BISMARCK, the bone felon troubling the Duke ALEXIS, the Sprain which the youngest son of Emperor JosEPH suffered last week while skating, together with the minute history of MARY ANDERSON’s life in London, there are to be three new cables laid. ® * * R. E. L. CUSHING has been secured as Pitcher for the Milwaukee Base-Ball Club at a salary of $3,000; Ha! Now how do the maligners of Harvard feel ?’—Z/iott, “ce HERE seems to linger in the Western mind a fond remem. brance of the days of the Vigilance Committee in Cali- fornia ; the days when the strong and honest men of a young and lawless community took the law into their own hands, and in the name of Judge Lynch stamped out crime by giving the criminal short shrift and an equally short rope. This may have been the only practical method of eradicating crime in a new country, which by accidental circumstances was suddenly filled by desper- ate characters, before the usual machinery of the criminal law had been set up; but in Cincinnati, where such terrible events have taken place, how different are the circumstances. There, by the neglect of the community, the machinery had been allowed to grow rusty, so that criminals went unwhipped of justice, There.was, of course, much public indignation, and a great meet- ing was called by ‘‘ influential citizens.” The public mind was in so inflamed a state, that the great hall was a storehouse of the most dangerous elements. If the laws had not been properly executed, it was the fault of the people of Cincinnati; for from them the jurors came and from them the court officials derived their power. But the mob rushed at the jail, filled with those awaiting trial, as if it were the Bastile crammed with the victims of Jettres de cachet, Baulked of their purposes, they attacked the Court House and destroyed the public records upon which their and their children’s property rested. ; There certainly should be a-happy mean between burning down a court house because a jury does not bring in a satisfactory verdict and neglecting political duties, while the cities are being. mismanaged and plundered by scoundrels, * * * 6¢ 7 NOTICE that that very satirical journal, the New York Times, says: ‘A Saratoga man set a steel trap for skunks and caught an eagle.’ Of course the word ‘ Saratoga’ is but a delicate substitute for the party, and the Zimes takes good care not to name the eagle, but what I want to know is who the others are. I have my suspicions.” —Kelly. * * * Y a recent decision of the Treasury Department, dried liz ards are now subject to an import tax of 40 per cent. ad valorem. This shows more than ever the wisdom of selecting Mr. Caruiste. In less than four months has come about this important result. Native dried lizards are now virtually pro- tected and the country may be congratulated. It is hinted that within a year Mr. CARLISLE will be able to secure a removal of the present exorbitant tax on crystallized osmium, which at least four colleges in this country want to show the boys occasionally. This tariff question has hitherto seemed formidable, but it really looks now as though the clouds were rolling by.