Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-01-29

to palatial brilliance Of anything the city
ambitious girls of the city, in toilets of I'M
impeachable elegance, will promenade the
wide corridors on the arms of milli0naires,
maj )r-generals, and managing politicians.
The sight will be an instructive one. The
serious, stern-iipped man, to whom most
Difference will be paid for his wealth. and
influence, who speaks of the house Of"
as we do of the house of ROthschild, began
his career here as a shop-keeper in Green
wich street, where he sold the most honest
six penny-worths in the city. and first drew
custom by the basket of lace remnants
always found on his counters. The thin,
WORKOUT young man, who promenades
carelessly with the prettiest bellies, is a
stock broker who inherited millions. AT
thirty he has exhausted life, and spends
money for pleasure in loose-handed, cyni-
cal way. His mistress, to whom he Is in
different, has $4,000 a year spent upon
her and laid away a small fortune of about
5000, 900 against the day when he tires OF
her utterly, on which she will emigrate,
play the role of rich widow, and marry re-
Specially The leader of society, whose
velvets trial as uegligently as if she had
been born to them, and whose fine looks
well become her deep laces, was the daugh-
| ter of poor mechanic. The other day an
old schoolmate sat hours in the rich wo-
mans luxurious morning-roonI. among her
carvings, inland woods, and Turkey car
pets, thinking of the time when she, with
other school girls, we'll born and bred,
looked down on the idea of associating with
the shoemaker's daughter. Now she
waited, colo, fatigucd, and wet, an unre'
cognized reporter for items about the Aca.
DENY bail, Of which madame was to shine
rs as lady manager.
| THE WEATHER.
Has been very cold for this section of the
world, particularly up the Hudson. Satur
day morning the East River was packed
with ice SD firmly that people crossed on il
by the thousands rather than wait the SLOW
motion of the ferry boats. This makes thu
third time this has happened for twenty
years.
The poor are suffering terrible from thi'
excessive cold, and deaths are occurring
daily aud nightly from cold and starvation
Work is scarce and wages are low, half th
laborers in the city are working en- hal
time, and the extreme cold makes livip!
higher than ever. How anxiously the,
look for the coming Of spriug, and hov
slow the cold days pass viii come too lat
for many of them.
ALITTLE REMNANT OF FISK.
jim Fisk is dead, but his work survives
The Erie Railroad Company is puzzling it
wise head to know what to do with tn
Grand Opera House. which was the seen
of Fisk's wild revels. Fisk bought tn
Opera House of Pike with money that h
stole from the company, then he leased a
but the theatre part of it to the compan
for s76, 900 per annum. The theatre an
the rooms attached be wanted for his bev
of harlots, and therein he held the wildes
orgies that this or any other country eve
saw. He had the entire sevenues of tn
company to draw from, and he mad
things lively till Stokes Cut him down
Now the company have resumed their oil
offices, the Opera House is empty, an
what to do with it is conundrum. 1t
about the last relic of one Of the bodies
bad men the world ever saw.
BUSINESS
is dull as dull can be in most lines, thoug
why, it would puzzle the oldest man to es
plain. The country is full of money and tn
city banks are packed with it. One woul
suppose that with plenty of money peopl
would buy as many coats. bonnets, boot
and shoes rs ever, and they would drin
as much tea and coffee as ever: but the
don't, and consequently business is dull
) There are no country merchants in the city
and everything is blue. Well, it must rC
vye sometime. and the business men ar
waiting and hoping. May tie chang