The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-28
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New YORK, December 20.
The first sizable snow storm of the season,
in this Vicinity, began yesterday afternoon,
but hopes of good eleighing for Christmas
| were dashed by an early thaw. Broadway
was speedily reduced to slough, through
which omnibuses pitched recklessly and spa!-
| tered mud over the garments OF sidewalk
pedestrians. The "beaulifu snow," as the
| verse writer's call it, may have lis good points
! in the interior, but here 10 the city 1t Is a
thing of ugliness and plague forever. Up
town, on the streets but little travelled, there
is snow enough left this morning to enable
sleigh to get along, butthe ride can hardly be
called pleasure by the excursionisls,
The committee of seventy has retur; I'D to
| Its inquIslorial labers after nap. whicn both
| Ring and antl-Rng citizens had fOndly hoped
| would be longer. The fact Is that respecta-
BILE body is fast becoming nuisance. 1t has lost
lts head q lit le BY It's successes, and Its men,
bers have conceived the idea that possibly 1t
may be the axis upon which the world turns
now. 1t goes poking Its respectable nose into
everybody's business. regardless of good taste
and sense The. last threat is that the private
affairs of merchants and others suspected of
completely with The e1.Ring will be investi-
gated. The committee met yesterday, and re-
solved that Mayor Hall must resign at once.
AS the resignation OF the mayor would result
in the elevation OF O worse man to the office,
Mr. Conan, president Of The board OF alder
men, and small pot house politician, 1t Is
difficult 10 see what the city would gain by
the change If Hall has robbed the city, or by
his negligence has suffered 1t to be robbed,
his power for evil ls over now, aud he can do
no more damage while he remains In office,
which will be until the Legislature can get to-
gether and turn him out.
There was q hutter among the taxpayers
Yesterday, because 1t was rumored that the
grand jury had got hold of the personal tax
book, which has been kept from The public
eye by the officials. In 1t were discovered, 1t
was said, the amounts assessed against each
taxpayer, and the amounts actually received
for taxes, the inference being that the officials
were In the habit of making handsome deduc-
tions from the former in consideration of
hush-money. In other words, If the rich real
estate owner was taxed $4,000, he visited the
city hall, "saw" the proper party, and by
indiciously investing $500, had his tax reduced
10 $4,000. OF course, if this is 80, aud the
grand jurymen have the names of the della
quents, the exposure will make a greater
sensation than that of the misdeeds OF the
uotorionsly known plunderers of the city
treasury.
1t Is understood that the programme CT the
Relormers Is to have new charter ready 10
be introduced into the Legislature as soon as
that body meets. II will provide for the elec-
tiOn of new mayor aud board OF aldermen In
March; these officials to take their seats at
once. All department appointments ore TO
be vested in the mayor, who will appoint and
remove with the consent of the aldermen.
Several candidates for The mayoratv are al
ready In the field. Senator elect Jimmy
OBrien is anxious for the Reform nomination.
AS he does not exactly come up TO the stand
ard of frespectability, aud, indeed. of honesty,
can get the moneyed wing of the
new party TO support him. But he
ia popular with the anti-Tammany rough
element, and. If he dAtarmines 10 run as an
Independent Reform candidate, Will give MS
decent competitor OF the same party a light
pull. Mr.. Simon Stern, one of the seventy,
also has aspirations In the same direction
The Tribune names Oswald Ottendorfer, the
lea Ter of the German Democrats. Mayor Hall
used to TIL the reporters when the troubles
commenced that he should run again. but
perhaps be Is sick OF the office now. 1t seems
probable there will be scrub race for the
mayoralty. Some man emlnently In the pub
lie confidence, like Andrew II. Green. the
present comptroller, will get the regular Re-
form hominalion, and all the odds and ends
of factions in the city will put up candidates
to be beaten.
A notable marriage took pace yesterday In
Ninth street, Mr.. Coypr, the Chicago Beech
er, officiating. Miss Olive Logan, as she has
been called. was united In wediock TO Dit.
writer and correspondent. Miss Logan has
been before the country. OF late years almost az
prominently as Anna Dickinson and Demos
themes Woodruff as lecturer and advocate OF
woman suffrage. She WAS once an actress OF
moderate ability, sister of the more famous
Eliza. who has retired from. the stage and
married the manager of Woods Museum IN
this civ. Olive has led an ecC ltric life. She
has writ en- score of books and poems. and
mas figured as Paris corrrsI ondent OF more
than one leading New York daily. few
years ago she played ln French comedy win
The company at the Theatre Francois In Four
teeuth street. She married an editor OF an al
ternoon paper, but they found life together IN
embraced the cause OF womaus rights, anu
has been CONSPICUOUS at all the strong-minded
conventions. The contrast between Susan b.
Anthony in plain black gown, with spectacles
on her nose, and Olive Logan, dressed In the
height OF the fashion, seated together on the
same platform, is'one ol the amusing features
of these shows.
The Loyan-Sykes nuplials were unique. The
bride wore brown walking dress. The groom
had on q dress coat, light pantaoons, straw
colored neckte and gloves, and bouquet IN
the button hole OF his coat. The bridesmaids
wore walking dresses. wedding song, writ
ten By sister poetess, was sung. The mar
riare took place at ten O'Clock A. NJ. The
mother of the bride gave her away. The re-
ception began Immediately and lasted until
ten U'clockP. NJ Letters of regret" were
read from George VIM. Curtis, oil the civil SER
vice reform commission; Senator John A. Lo-
gan, the brides cousin, and Rev, T. X. Beech
er, brother OF our Brooklyn parson. The
happy couple took the midn!gnt train OF the
Hudson River Railroad for warwick, n. l.,
where Mrs. Sykesis engaged to lecture on the
barbarilles OF the men this evening. NYM.