, 1876-11-12
Oriental Curiosities for Cen
tennial Visitors.
How Stokes Found . Business at
Sing Sing.
A Widows Wiles Unappreclated---
$500, 900 Lost in Litigation.
An Alabama Lover Tries to Elope with q
New York Girl.

NEW YORK. Nov. 9.-Thank goodness, LIE
election is over. No more torchlighs p1oecs-
sions, no more midnight orgies, no more ho"'e
and yells under ones window, through tae
small hours OF morning, and no more IL Is
hoped, discussions about politics, aud Partlcs'
and candidates, and districts, and similar SUBJ
iects, All these our quiet people are g1ad 10
dispcuec with for another fonr years. and ie" OF
us arc disposed to believe that we shall manage
somehow to get along even with our favoriteF de-
feated. But dear TRIBUNE, did you ever happen
to live on the opposite side OF the street from the
residence Of q Tammany Hall candidste'
If you eyes cnioycd this experience. you Know
what tis become an involuntary Listener 20 sete
usdes a1,d spceches. unwilling witness Of torch
ghi parade. aud te y'etm q nnsa5tny ycadine
lbe eventful day. Then. If you know what Tam
mauy Hall crowd nirans you cnn understand some
thing At the misery OF housekeepers who try N
vain 10 keep their door -steps clean and tidy II
Won havc .t enemy who II especially sensitive npon
The subject of clean door steps. ne surcr revenge
to live opposite IL Tammany candidate for about
two weeks. Lampblack on the steps, vitriol on Tue
dourr. hut slight tokens Of what will be the IT,
suit Of such revenge Good BY politics 1000 ~
pleasant aud peaceful.
SENT TO SOUTH AMERICA.
Last week the shipping offices atong South
street we're visited by wellknown COM
mission merchant, searching for passage to
South American port for his eldest son. The
story is 8 sad one, and illustrates the yicissi-
tudcs Of mercantile life- The young man is about
"a years old, and, although treated with all the
care and ciscu1nspection possible in his eary !fc
ut had been going from, l'ad to worse for several
years. He Is victim Of drinking habits contracted
cce.es which have led him from one vice to anothcr
rapidly thnt it was with difficulty he could be
kcpt out Of the hands Of the police. He has tnn run
the gauntlet Of all the vices outside OF the
authorizes, anu has cost his father thousands VI
dulars BY his condnct. Having done hs utmost
T. ruin his fathers credit b, nne; h,i
TIC practice Of obtaining money in his fathers
1,a1ne. and actually forging orders or requests for
on until - 's aeaye
oEt civil warrant Of arrest and placed it In I'm
officers hands. WHO teok the young seapcsrace in
an: oc.gcd for mercy. Glad 10 leave the country,
lle shipped to l;uenos Ayrcs to correspondent
Of his fathers, and letter sent by the same vessel
few years ago was the pei of the socia1 circle IN
which he lived. Tic is ! college graduate. well up
i'll Ill College sports and Prcsnnptlve heir to
atc- have ruined him, and now he is virtually an
exile from home and country because OF his own
dissipation. The saddest part Of the story is his
mothers sorrow.
THE SUPPLY OF ORIENTAL GOODS.
cd from the Centennial, states that he was
struck by the familiar appearance of many Of
the so-callea Oriental goods sold at the Turkish
and Moorish bazars aud other places, and when
he examined them--particularly the things sold as
from. Jeruealem and Palestinc-hc recognized
then. On his return, he called at the Office in
Maiden Lane where the same goods are sold 1y
saluplc, and asccrtaned t!.ai inc place Of manu-
factu-c was near Worcester. Mnss.+ for one kind
and ut rawtucket, K j.. for the rest. 1t was
ee articles le uas for the
t.llfal Ealea, and the dcmhnd has been great
tl.at tue workmen employed pn these things have
The whue stock OF some Of this Oriental traveller
II n,utie up uf articles received from this city, and
the s.cs have been 50 successful that large profits
have been received from the Venture. which recalls
the joke current couple Of years ago when old
lace was the rage for women The Joke ran that
the dena:ni for ancient lace was SO great that sew
.rai factories compelled TO rur day and night
10 supply it. The Centennial sales are almost
o,cr, and, after thut-we!, Oriental goods will be
cheaper.
AN EMBRYO WALL STREET SPECULATION.
The uncle OF a smart bov {linself promi-
ncnt Wall street opcrator) lately made prom
ise to his hopeful nephew, q lad Of l3 years,
that ii he earned S. by his own unaided exer-
tions hc {the uncle) would double it, on coudi-
tiou that he deposited I, in ! savings bank. The
rious methods to lay ur his treasures for himself.
IN tho course Of few months he had obtained the
s., and triMmphnntly showed The sum to his
uncle. at the SHINE time demanding the other
the e' condition 'a rst-nsmed aa rh|as a''o wss
ope yn gea a ST. dass and TIE nnes Tsoesd that
,.c happened to axk the youngstcr how much he
had III bank altogether. The reply wns, - Five dol
lurf: The uncle replied that lie had agreed to de-
in fch HhtfHs
lul answered that that was true, but lc had made
a.recmcnt to keep il there, ,-he thought it
woulu moi ic fair to withdraw Ills unclcs gift, but
l1r k*i withdrawn his own money. and considered
that hc had adhered to his contruct III doing II
this hoy hasn't leaEncd the spirit OF Wall street
srckcry early in life then ii isn't the fault Of Ills
ancestors.
NED STOKES AsPuALTuM PAVEMENT.
1t is announced that Ned Stokes, recently re-
leased from Auburn State Prison, has bought
The patcut of the 1mpcrishable Stone Pavement
Company fori manufacturing ashpaltum pave
n,cnt blocks. It will be remembered that one
VI the friends who received ind escorted him to
ne station upon il!. discharge WAS COL James L.
cale 'a's Mho has
bccu interested fur several ycurs In the pave
1!. nsnt blocks: The patent belonged =
1eqe bret u.ed IN san Flancisco n0 esGexe %Rsxe
ct tho Fire Department. The ' msehinery 6ess
eastward TO perfect it. By stransc coincidence
they selected the Sing Sing prison on account Of
the facilities for obtaining cheap labos as the
point fur conducting theisc1p perimcnts Machinery
VIE erected there, and large number of blocks
tar1Ied out from time to time. which were used tn
various localities 10 introduce The pavement
While these blocks wcrc being made. the attention
OF Stokes, then ccnvict- was drawn to the sub
iect, and he made it etudy. huffman BECAME
. frequent visitor to Sing Sing, showing the ma.
ch,,sTy ~ visitors and others, and thus made the
Of Stokes. The two men took |
f,licv to euch 0, her, and 1t through huffman
that Stokes became interested in the pavement 1t
is said by experts to be very superior method Of
paving streets br the Of blocks composed OF
! asphaltu1n and Limestone compaaed into homo
s.aeo1s u1es by q pressure Of 100 pounds to the
=. aarc iuch while the material Ia warm These
blocks arr claimed TO be rllupcrlshabic and lndc-
s,ructihlc. Stokes believes there il fortune in
the pavement, and, ,as he is man OF considerable
sn, and business eagacity, It is likely he will push
the enterprise in lively fashion.
SHE THOUGHT Sue WOULDN'T MARRY.
At one of our most fashionable hotels there
lives, rs permanent boardcr, so-callcd, q lively
widow not get on the shady side Of 50, Who Gu
oys sufficient income to enable her to fndulEe
!, the average amount Of life's friyolities and
ROLES. She has many friends and admirers, but
,oue Of them has eccrned to win her fancy eave
me, gentleman connected with ! prominent law
;rm in Boston. She met him this simmer At IN
EASTERN watering place, and, though his attentions
,.rc vcrv ,nodgkt aud slight compared with Others