The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-29
MISCELLANY.

MISCELLANY.
MEN WITHOUT Il COUNTRY:
Paris Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Gazette.]
Some months ago report came from
New York that arrangements were in ne
collation. that would result in the return
Manhattan Island of the ex Ring mag
late, Peter B. Sweeny. simultaneously
With the circulation of the report, the ar.
'ival Of ex-senator Bradley, brother-in-
aw Of Sweeny, was announced, and his
lame was recorded among the patrons of
he Hotel Splendide. It was given out
hat he had come over to remove to New
York the body of James NJ. Swceny, who
lied few weeks before, but there were
several American loiterers about P aris
Who claimed to know that it was the liv-
-ng and not the dead Sweeny with whom
Bradley was empowered to deal. Brad.
cy was interviewed and questioned re-
'eatedly, but nothing Of Importance was
:licited beyond few hints that showed
lin to be favorable to Sweeny's return,
provided reasonable bail could be OBJ
aimed. I understand that he was en-
covered to promise that the bail should
lot exceed $l50,000. but whether this is
rue or otherwise am unable to say.
Peter B. makes Paris his winter resi-.
lence and lives very comfortably on his
EASILY and questionably acquired fortune.
n summer he goes to watering place,
,r to Switzerland, and he does not 60 to
he same place for two seasons in success
lion. Last season he was at Trouville,
The favoritc seaside resort of the Paris.
ans, and about four hours ride from the
lily. This year he went to Switzerland,
md he had been gone some two or three
weeks when MIR. Bradley arrived. Brad.
ey remained here few days, and then
vent to Neuchatel, Switzerland, where
5weeny had established himself for the
lot season. It is, of course, impossible
men, but it is known that Bradley did
1ot talk in the same way after his visit
20 Neuchatel than he did before going
here. I am told that he found Sweeny
ess inclined to go to New York and stand
4 mis- trial than had been previously re-
ported. and possibly he may have discoy.
ksrcd that the case did not look very favor
Aable for an acquittal. Swceny is
not an idiot, and will not be likely to risk
himself in New York if there is any
chance Of a conviction. One of his
friends remarked at the time of Bradley's
visit that Peter 3. would be fool to go
back without knowing what Charles
O'Conor aud the rest Of the lawyers
had found against him. ''l1e covered
his tracks pretty well,' said the speaker,
but you never can tell if the covering
didn't blow off from some of them. -
Another friend also claimed to be conf.
dent that nothing could be proved against
Sweeny; said he was sure Peter would
go back, and that he would have lots Of
friends to meet him when he landed.
sYes," said another New Yorker, "there
will be several to meet him, and Judson
Jarvis will be there with an order Of ar
rest and pair of handouts. The re-
mark was not relished by the preceding
orator, and the conversation changed.
- KEEPING IN THE SHADE.
Sweeny's life here has been of the
quiet sort. When in Paris he spends
most of his time at home, and rarely
almost never-visits that part of the
city frequented by Americans, the region
around the Grand Hotel. Very few per.
sons call upon HIM, and his acquaintan-
ces are in very small number, as he seeks
no new ones, and the old are limited to
the stray New Workers who knew him
in his days Of power and are
willing to know him now. No doubt
Sweeny is willing to entertain any
body who will endure his society and
pass over the scandal attached to his
name. Evidently he does not wish to
absent himself altogether from the world,
if one may judge by visiting card that
was visible quite recently in the window
of an engraver in the Palais Royal. 1t
bore the name Of Piter B. Sweeny in
neatly engraved letters. Whether the
plan of spelling the first syllable with an
:si'' was the design Of the ex-magnate or
the blunder of the engraver am unable
to say. can hardly think it was an en-
graver's blunder. as saw the card dis
played there among other specimens Of
work for more than a month. 1t is not
more than week or ten days since it
disappeared from the show case.
James NJ. Sweeny, thc3 brother of Pc.
ter B., died from over.drinking. He had
nothing to do, and his associates were
not of the highest type Of modern gen.