The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-12-29
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Correspondent.l

/ VI Il hUI UlII AN NLWS.
From our Special Correspondentl
Gas. kerosenility. lime light or eleC
tricity" is the song of the city fathers nov
How shall our streets be lighted? is tn
question. We are accused of evil way
but we protest against walking in dark
ness. The demands Of the great metroI
oils are not to be complied with, howev
er. While some of our streets are to b
lighted, pro tenn, with keTpsene, tn
claims of the electric light arT Being pre-
sented by such of our scientists as be
lieve it would be beneficial, and they ar
receiving attention at the hands of thos
gentlemen who have the ordering O
our civic affairs, but whose scientif
knowledge rarely gets beyond metallur
gy, or Mr. BANDS definition of Politica
Economy as the Science ofGrab." Th'
latter most of them understand perfect
ly, and the metallurgy has its fascination
in the chinck of the trade dollar, to sa,
nothing of the working of brass. Ifhal
a dozen electric lights will illuminate al
the dark corners in our city, we hope tC
have them. Perhaps if they cost more
than gas, something might he added
from curtailed prison expenses, which
under such conditions, ought certainly
to be less.
Who is Mademoiselle Marie? She i:
of high family, cultured, educated fol
lyric stage, will appear in the provinces
in tragedy, are the various replies; and
yet no one seems to know anything real
ly about her. She will probably prove
one of those myths of whom we ARE con
tinually hearing who are to be some
thing, but who are always to be, and
never are.
We are beginning TO wonder if the
SATURDAY gale is TO he n new winter fash
ion. If so. it is one of those styles New
York prefers not to adopt. We have
had iced hurricanes for the last two
weeks, and the result is that they have Sc
chilled the majority of the people that
they could not even get into the luke
warm condition On Sunday, dcspised by
Paul, much less one of spiritual warmth
to send them to church. Empty seats
have been the rule in many OF our fash
ionable churches, and / have wondered
how it would do 10 invite our army o.
freezing and starving poor to occupy
these seats. Some of the sermons are
not so very stupid, others are brilliant
and if a benediction could be added III
the way If a good warm meal at the
close, am certain there would be some
converts at any rate.
Mrs Harrison Otis, Boston belle, has
been painted by Healey, and the picture
will be placed on exhibition at the open
ing of the next Paris Salon. 1t is much
praised abroad. and is said TO equal any
of Sir Peter Lely's beauties. This may
possibly be, for Healey was good paint
er before he went abroad, but it will be
a long time before Americans forget the
a sault he made upon Miss Hosmer and
the poet-artist Story: an attack which he
failed to substantiate.
The Union Club here. is well known
as Il Iolitical club. That. under the ex-
isting excitement, an outbreak shonld
eventually occur in which strong cpl
thets were used, need scarcely be con-
sidered surprising; but when the young
blood which the aristocratic and old fogy
union congratulates itself upon having
taken into its body, gets fever heat,
and a row occurs there, then it is anoth
er matter. Quite a difference ,twixt
Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Were
YOU acquainted with some of the dignifi-
ed original members, you could imagine
how shocked they are. Starch predom-
mates, but with it an elegance ofmanner
even if it is precise, that the present
generation have forgotten, protecting
consideration for woman that belongs to
a past time. Fancy these gentlemen
then, being first startled by Prince Jim
in nasty temper, knocking the wine
glasses on the floor. because the waiter
was not expeditions enough. and eventu-
ally acting as hacker in prize fight
between two of the members, who had
a sparring Watch on the sidewalk in
front of the club After they had mauled
each other enough, the seconds interfer-
ed and the punished men went home.
Mr. Pennett and Mr. Fearing return d to
he Club butsoon got in-en- angry dispute
over the relative pluck and science Of
The former disputants, and returned tc
the sidewalk TO settle their little diff
Guilty in the same scietifc and gentel
manly way. Kid gloves we're remov-d
broad-cloth claw-hammers with white
silk lingings busted the pavement
Prince Jim got in the first blow, but his
opponent, Mr. Fearing, planted his fs'
between the Prince Of Polos' eyes, hi:
head came in contact with the curbstone
and this phosphorescent light of journal
ism, came near being extinguished. He
was carried inio the Club, senseless, and
afterwards removed to his own quarters
becoming an interesting invilid. The
first combatants. Ellison, the son of q
rich Fifth Avenue widow, and Lance
Neal, leader in the fashionable world
we're expelled. Messrs Fearing and
Bennett were upon by the august
Governing Committee, butare permitted
to remain. The sidewalk fight was moi
considered so derogatory to the Clubs
dignity, as smashed glassware.
A real estate transaction, whereby So,
100000 worth of most eligible and pro
ducfive property has changed owners
is among the sensations of the week
The property in question is located inihe
financial centre of New York-in Broad
and New streets, Exchange place and
lower Broadway. There are some thirty
buildings in all. largely occupied by
brokers, bankers and corporations, fol
whose tenacy thew have been admirably
adapted. They were formerly owned BY
operator, but have passed into the posses
sion of the Char er Oak Life Insurance
Company of Hartford The negotiation
has been successfully conducted for the
company by Mr H Furber. its financial
manager. gentleman of remarkable
energy and shrewdness The property
mentioned is under lease for thu nexi