New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-22


Gossip.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
NEW YORK, June II, 1872.
New York is dull. Everything seems
unusually quiet, and, for wonder, nothing
occurring to create a sensation. The great
labor strikes are still progressing, but very
quietly and without much public demon
stratiOn. Judging from the way the thing
stands at present the strike seems to weaken
little, and it is doubtful if it becomes sue
cessful. A great many of the large manu-
factories are closed, and unless one side or
the other gives way soon a great deal of
suffering to the families Of the strikers, and
injury to the trade of the masters, will be
the inevitable result.
| The funeral of James Gordon Bennett
took place on Thursday, from his late resi-
dence on Fifth avenue, and was attended
by great crowd, attracted mostly by curl
| Osity. A large number of prominent jour
na.ists oficiated as pail bearers, and the de-
ceased editor was placed in the family
burial plot in Greenwood Cemetery, on
Long Island.
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New York is going to Europe this summer.
The ocean steamers are crowded every
week, and berths and staterooms are at a
premium for several weeks to come. As
there are seven or eight lines Of steamships,
some of them sending two steamers a week,
with accommodations for from sixty to four
hundred cabin passengers each, one can
nariIv min ba la. 3 ~t.-A
are seeking pleasure and rest by travelling
abroad. A good cause for all this exodus
is the exorbitant charges of the hotels at
our summer watering places. 1t is said,
and with great deal of truth, that family
of four or five persons can spend three
months travelling in Europe, including the
cost of passage to and from England or
France, for really less money than they |
could live for at either Saratoga, Long |
Branch or Cape May, besides having a |
much pleasanter time and escaping the |
prosecutions of the peculiarly American |
autOcrat-the hotel clerk.
The Spanish passenger steamship Qua.
dayea exploded her boilers when at |
anchor in the port of Marseilles, France, |
yesterday. Her decks and cabins were /
crowded at the moment. Fifty-fve persons
were killed instantly, and number of |
others wounded sadly. The wreck took fire,
but the flames were subdued after much
difficulty and the loss of valuable property.
This is a very deplOrable occurrence. Can
science do nothing, or suggest nothing, as
a means of preventing deposit incrustations
forming on the inside of steam boilers
This is matter of hourly occurrence, and
in which may be found the secret of the
main cause of boiler explosions; the lumpy
aggregations tightening the plates at GER
tain fixed points. and thus, to a very great
extent preventing the uniform expansion
of the metal.
The disaster at Marseilles, like that of
the i'll fated Westfeld in the waters of New
York, occurred on Sunday And the terri
BILE loss of life on both occasions should
stimulate science to exert itself to find
preventive or a remedy.
Mrs. Horace Greeley and her daughter,
who have been for some time in Europe, re-
turned to New York yesterday by the
steamship 4luClus MIS- OIb64Gy udS D6Cu |
for long time an invalid, and the trip to
Europe was undertaken for the benefit of
her health, but it does not seem to have
done much good. Horace Greeley has
taken apartments at the st. Cloud Hotel
for the family, and they will prob ably re
main in the city for some time, and then go
to the farm at Chappaaua, where Horace
does his chopping. Speaking of Gre eley,
his popularity is increasing daily-Greeley
hats, Greeley coats, Greeley bonnets and
Greeley everything, seem to be 1.-THE thing"
just now. Many of the leading Repub-
licans of this city are announcing them
selves in favor of his election to the Presi-
dency, and what is more the enthusiasm Is
spreading everywhere.
President Grant, with the various and
members of his family, includ-
ing the venerable Dent, is at his cottage at
Long Branch, smoking his cigar in quiet
and peace. He does not receive as many
as formerly-his public career is,
doubtless, coming to a close.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, has
been suddenly threatened with complete |
caused by smoking short pipe,
and allowing the hot smoke from the bowl
TO ascend into his left eye, and not by the
light he uses for lightning in Rip" as
las been generally reported as the cause. !
An operation was performed on his eye on
the fifteenth instant, at his cOun-
.ry seat, HOhokus, New Jersey, and was,
he surgeons say, entirely successful; 50
hat, after few weeks of seclusion and
est Mr.. jefferson will return to the public
With his eyesight as good as ever.
The tribe of Sioux Indians who were here
asst week-or rather, the chiefs and braves
# the tribe have departed for fields
md pastures new" A great deal Of diff
.ulty was experienced in persuading the
Hon. Mr.. Yellow Dog, chief, ETC., to leave
he city at all He had fallen most despe- {
ately in love with nymph of the ballet at
he Olympic, as l told you last week, and
he refusal Of the lady to become "his'n" {
,nly made him love the more; and it was 8
lard work to get him to give her up. Of !
II the wO-begoDe, unhappy, dismal, incon- (
olable Indians that ever existed, poor Yel- I
Ow Dog seemed the peer. The following I
-erse contains the whole story:
A Dolly Warden in the ballet L
This savage ''IDiun' CaptivateG; Z
But Delly Warden couldn't see IL. :
And Yellow Dog is stin minated. !
This is a pure and uuadulterated history !