Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-05-22

ready to adjourn at that time.
Yours, fraternally,
II. D. W.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE NEW BUTTER - PEDESTRIANISM-
ENNETT-MORRISSEY AND
FOX-ICE-REAL ESTATE--THE WEALTH
Err.
NEW YORK, Mag 10, 1874.
OemagaIine is in more peoples mouths
now than any other word in in New York.
/ referred to this two weeks ago. Some ln-
genious chemical fiend discovered that
the properties of butter did not differ, ex-
cept in flavor, from tallow or suet, or any
thing else in the way of fat. So this dia-
bolical wretch goes to work and finds out
the chemical atrocities that gives the flavor
to butter, and proceeds to make a butter
which he styles Olemargarine. He takes
suet or tallow and refines il, then he adds
these other ingredients and works them all
together, and the result is a compound
W ulCll lOOho IlhC DubIOlI
tastes like butter, and,-he says, is butter.
But, goodness what kind of stuff is it
When you spread it on your bread what
earthly confidence have you in it q? twill
require more sublime faith to eat it than
it does the complex hash at boarding
house. There is trouble among the dealers
about it. The dearlers who bring the yell
low article made from actual milk drawn
from the actual teats of actual COWS, insist
that they shall not be put in competition
with the manufacturers of suet and tallow.
They assert that the Olemargarine shall be
branded as such, and put upon the market
as such, that the pu5lic may know exactly
what they are buying. Then if the people
want the manufactured article they may
buy it, and if they want actual butter they
may buy it.
/ tried Olemargarine, and / hasten TO
give my testimony. 1t won't do. Poor
people may be compelled to use something
like it, but the human being who can get
pure butter will try the new article just
once, and never again. Since trying it my
respect for that noble animal, the COW, has
Increased thousand per cent. She knows
her business.
PEDESTRIANISM.
Pedestrianism is the rage here just now.
Weston, the great failure, who has tried
TO accomplish more feats than any man
/ living, came here TO walk 115 miles within
| "a hours, which for wonder, he accom-
plished. The mania for physical develop
ment has spread to the upper classes.
/ Young james Gordon Bennett, the pro-
prietor of the Herald, always fond of mus
cularity, commenced paying some attention
to pedestrianism. A lawyer named Whip
! pie had an idea there was something in his
legs and feet, and a match was made.
The race was from Mr.. Benefits house on
Fifth avenue to the gate of Jerome Park,
and the stake $4,000 side. In addition
to this, over SO, 900 was wagered by the
| Union Club alone, besides large amount
in Wall street. The journalist won the
race, making his ten miles in one hour and
forty-sx minutes. His competitor, the
limb of the law. reached the gate six min
utes and five seconds later, badly blown
and very crestfallen at the loss of the $50,
600 which his friends in The Union Club
had wagered upon him. Bennett is a
staunch sailor, and with all his other busi-
ness, manages to devote a great deal ot
time to manly sports. And speaking of
MUSCULARITY,
John Mirrissey has been and gone and
done it. There is Democratic politician
in New York named Fox, who, from a
common laborer, has in few years become
very wealthy, by which mean he has been
in the Legislature few years. Fox and
Morrissey fell out, and the other night they
met in drinking saloon. Fox stigmatized
Morrissey as prize-fghter, and MOrrissey
denounced Fox as thief. Both were cor
rect. Fox got excited, and Morrissey,
losing control of himself, became for the
moment the gladiator of old, and knocked
Fox through several partitions. Now, a
fight between ordinary men is nothing, but
between two such men it means something.
They are big chieftains, each with his fol-
lowers of thOusands-they are men whose
acts are public property, possessing public
interest. True, one was prize-fighter and
is 4 gambler, and the other was and is a
ring politician but that matters not. The
first represented Democratic District in
New York in Congress, and The other a
District in the State Senate, and between
them, they control more political power
than any two men in the State. The party
is already divided on it, and what the re-
suit will be no one can say. When Nor
rissey whips Fox, the Democratic party OF
the nation is shaken to its centre.
1t is n curious commentary on the civili-
zation of the 10Th century that such man
as Morrissey should possess any power
whatever. He was for four years Il pugi-
list by professional man whose living was
in the ring-one of the kind that had he
lived in Rome in the time of the Emperors,
would have been compelled to the life of a
gladiator for the amusement of the citizens.
But this man-this bruiser-not repentent
Of his past misdeeds, but glorying in them
changing his method of life only for the
worse, for he now runs gambling-hells-
has been elected to Congress, and to-day
holds in his hands the political destinies of
the great city that controls the great State
that really controls the Nation Is civili-
zation failure
Fox is really The worst man, for Norris
sey has occasionally good streak.
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