New-York Daily Tribune Index for 1882
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PRICE SO CENTS. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE THE TRIBUNE RUI'.DINC. INDEX FOB 1883. JOHN L. WEINHEIMER, Compiler. THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION, NEW-YORK. 1 TABLE OF TOPICAL HEADS The arrangement of this Index is strictly alphabetical. Subjects, however, falling under certain general topics set down below, should be sought und<3r the Topical Head. Accidents Page 17 Failures Page 56 Negro Page 102 Agriculture 18 Finance 57 Obituarv ins Aldermen, Board of 19 Fine Arts 58 Parks ill Arctic Exploration 20 Fires 59 Pensions 113 Army • 21 Fish and Fisheries 61 Peru . 113 4 stronomy 22 Floods ... 62 Poetry 114 Forest and Forestry. .. t>2 Police 116 Forgery 63 Political 116 Canada 30 France 63 Postal 120 Fresh Air Fund 64 Prisons 121 Canals 80 Railroads 122 I Charity 32 Germany 66 Great Britain 68 Regatta 127 Chili 32 Religious 128 China—Chinese 33 Immigration 74 Indians 74 Churches 33 Robbery .... 129 Insurance 75 Russia 131 Ireland and the Irish .. 76 Schools 132 Commerce 36 Sermons 132 Congress,!!. S., proceed- Iron 77 Shipping 1 34 Italy 77 Shipwreck 135 Japan 77 Shooting 136 Conventions, political. 43 South — Southern Af- Jews 78 Copyright 44 fairs 139 Journalism 78 Spain 139 Labor 80 Sporting 140 | Lands 80 steamships 141 Story 142 Cuba 46 Lectures 81 Streets 142 Legal 82 Strikes .. 143 Democratic Party 47 Legislature, N. J 85 Suicide 143 Summer Resorts 144 Drama 49 Legislature, Ts. Y 85 E arthquak es 51 Lite-Saving Service 87 Tammany Association... 145 Literature 88 Tariff .... 145 ! Mexico 97 Taxation 145 Telegraph . ...146 Elections 52 Military 97 Embezzlement 53 Mines and Milling 98 Treasur3r, U. S 148 Emigration 54 Mormonism 99 Treaties 149 Murder 99 Turf 149 Turkey 150 Executions 55 Music 101 Exhibitions 55 Natural History 102 Weather 153 Navy 102 W omen 155 INDEX TO THE NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE AND SUMMARY OF EVENTS FOR 1882. THE YEAR'S RECORD. CIRCUIT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY. 1882 has been a year of profound peace in all parts of the world except Egypt, Austrian Bosnia and Ireland. The crisis which had been impending so long at Cairo found France unwilling to join its ally and financial partner in the dangers and responsibilities of military intervention. Great Britain, entering upon the campaign with reluctance, crushed Arabi's soldier-mob by a single blow. In Ireland thb failure of one coercion act has been followed by the practical success of another, and the island is apparently settling down into tranquillity after a transition period of assassination and lawlessness. Austria-Hungary has suppressed a revolt in its newly acquired territory; Germany,harassed by political dissensions, is still the most pacific as well as the strongest State in Europe; Russia has been spared by the terrorists, yet has remained in a state of fever- ish unrest; France is still exhausting the reputations of its public men without finding a strong, stable Government; and Italy has ventured to make hazardous experiments in educational suffrage and department elections. In the United States there has been a remark- able political reaction against an unpopular President, whowas seek- ing to build up a faction at the exnense of a great party. II SUMMARY OF EVENTS TEH UNITED STATES. When the year opened, public attention in the United States \v as concen- trated upon the murderer of President Garfield. Guiteau no longer sat among the lawyers and clamored for his rights as a member of the bar. He was in the prisoner's dock ; but even there he sought to play his part— quick-witted in some respects, but a fool withal, blasphemous, malignant, hideous, a vulgar cheat. He remained to the end noisy, vindictive and abusive, sparing neither the bench nor the counsel on either side, nor his own relatives, ani affording as scandalous a spectacle as was ever witnessed in a couit of justice; and the effect of his rioaldry and effrontery was in- tensified by the coarse harangues of his principal defender and by the levity arid buffoonery of the audience. The nricJ came to an end out Janu- ary 25, after he had been allowed to read a speech to the jury wnich the Court had previously excluded. Judge Cox's charge bore Heavily against the prisoner, and the jury, after having been out twenty-five minutes, rendered a verdict oi "guilty as indicted." Guiteau received it with an angry howl: "My blood will be upon the heads of that jury—duu't you forget it." Despite the scandalous proceedings in court, one good effect had been produced. The experts had been enabled to satisfy themselves that he was playing a part and to ground their conclusions on his conduct in the court-room while was acting entirely v\ ithout restraint; their evi- dence convinced the jury that he was not an irresponsible agent; and the community, which had been disposed to question his sanity, was not left in doubt in regard to the justice of the death-sectence. Wheu the legal expedients had been exhausted, the zeal of a few morbid sentimentalists was quickened and the shrill cry wag heard here and there that the Nation would be disgraced by the hanging oi a lunatic. Owing to the course adopted by Judge Cox, this was nut the judgment oi: Americans"in gen- eral, nor was their opinion shaken in the least by the gallows scene, when with Bible-reading, blasphemous prayer and doggerel droned with shrieks and tears, he made the most of his last moments of morbid egotism. This most despicable of assassins was nanged on June 30, a twelvemonth lack- ing two days from the assassination of President Garfield. THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY. Meanwhile President Garfield's successor, naturally disliking the man- ner in vvhich he had entered the White House, was looking a long way ahead with a view to securing, if possible, his ownrenoniination. The reor- ganization of the Cabinet was completed in April, when Mr. Teller was ap- pointed Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Chandler Secretary oi the Navy, his predecessor, Mr. Hunt, having been nominated as Minister to Russia. Only one member of President Garfj eld's Cabinet, Secretary Lincoln, was allowed to remain in office, and he had been a conspicuous advocate of the third term. In the Garfieid Cabinet the main bodv of the National Repub- lican Convention had four repiesentatives, ivhile the powerful minoiity that had voted lor General Grant had as many as three. In the reorgan- ized Cabinet The minority faction in the convention was given six of the seven seats. The President's determination to divide the political prizes am.->Dg the leaders and adherents of a single faction was not shaken as time went on. The great missions were given to ex-Senator Sargent, Mr. Taft, Mr. Young, and Mr. Astor, and the minor political patronage was distributed not always among partisans so blatant and so unscrupulous as Michael J. Dady, of Brooklyn, but invariably among those whose per- sonal loyalty to the President could be depended upon. At the same time these changes were made with more discretion and deliberation than his zealous supporters considered necessary. They were anxious to have a clean sweep of the Garfield office-holders, and when the President shuwed signs of vacillation, they accused him of renouncing his principles and de- serting his associates. So tierce had become the outcries during the closing week of February that he abruptly sent to the Senate the nomination ot FOR THE YJBAB 1882. Ill Roscoe Conkliog for Associate Justice of Ihe Supreme Court. The demon Btrations of anger aud indignation with, which this nomination was re- ceived in all parts oi tha country ga^e the President an opportunity for serious reflection, of which he apparently made little use. The office was declined by Mr. Conkling greatly to the relief of the public, especially as so eminent a jurist as Judge Blatchford was named in his place ; but the wire-pulling on the part of n> Kitchen Cabinet made up of the President's former associates in New-York politics went on with increased energy, Early in the spring ifc was whispered lhat Secreiriry Folger would be the Administration candidate for Governor of that State, The rumoi was de- nied many times, but tho scheming went on in the dark, and before the summer was over, the President's followers were making a systematic at- tempt to secure control of the State convention. At the same time Senator Cameron, whose arbitrary methods and personal dictation had created a formidable political revolt in Pennsylvania, was recognized as the Presi- dent's confidential advisei in Washington. " Bossism " and " machine poli- tics75 were looming up as the colossal evils of the American system, LOWER LEVELS OP DIPLOMACY. The policy of the Garfield Administration was reversed abroad as well as at home. Mr. Trescot and Mi . Walker Blame had been sent to South America to ofler the good offices of the United States in negotiating peace between Peru and Chili and to express the hope tnat ;t money indemnity for the expenses of the war would be accepted by the victorious nation and all territorial demands be relinquished. No sooner nad they sailed than. Mr. Frelinghuyfcsen decided to cancel the instructions and not to allow the envoys to make any authoritative utterance to either Chili or Peru in re- gaid to the questions at issue. The fact that tee confidential instructions had been modified was communicated to tbe Chilian Minister in Washing- ton, and telegraphed by nirn to Santiago, and when the envoys presented their credentials they were informed b.y the Foreign Secretary thart their mission had virtually ended, owing to changes of purpose of which tney had received po information from tbeir own Government.