Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-11-10
PLACES OF ADJUSTMENTS.

Places OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Halt.
The Fight Of the Faettons-.smal
-Ihe beeeher People.
PLAcEs OF AAusEMENrs.
People are IN the habit of suppOs
ing that theatres and circuses ar
mints, and that whoever can &c
control of u place of amusement i
on the high road to fortune. TIN
truth Is, there is no business so pre-
cartons. Every theatre but two il
New York, this season, has los
money, and those two have Onl,
saved themselves by lowering til,
prices in accordance with the times
The price for seate IN theatres ha'
been for some years $3.50, and til,
system of selling the entire hOus,
put that up to $3.50. This was nj
well enough when people were max
ing money at every turn, but now
that the tide is running the Other
way the managers have found l.
difficult to keep their houses hall
tall. The Grand Opera House 10
duced their prices thirty per cent.
aud 1t has had good business right
along. The enterprising company
Of musicians, all first.class, are Civ
ing concerts at Cooper Institute fol-
ten cents admission, and the hall
isn't big enough to hold the people,
and they are making money. The
lesson is obviOus-with the return
to gold everything must come down
to a gold basis. The eXtravaganl
actresses and actors must play fol-
less than $3.50 u week, rents must
come down, and the prices of adj
mission likewise. The war is over.
Oakley HALL.
Oakley Hall, Tammany politician,
author, actor, lawyer, and almost
everything else, who left New York
about six months ago, between two
days, and who has managed to keep
himself in the newspapers ever
since, returned yerterday as mys-
terious'y as he went. He says that
the interval has been to him like a
he intimates that he has
been partially insane, but that his
brain is now clear, his mind I'M
and he shall go on and full
ill his destiny. He gives no rea-
son for his going, and none for his
but people guess. The
well-posted say that it WAS not fear
Of the Tweed investigation, but that
in short, there was not only one,
bur two, women in the case. What.
ever may have been the cause OF
his escape, it has lost him all the
standing he ever had. The city re.
CARDS him now as but one degree
above Count Joannes, and long
way below Geo. Francis Train. 1t
would have been better for his rep.
ltatiOn if he had died abroad. He
s of no further use here.
THE FIGHT OF THE FACTIONS.
Augustus Schcll is the Tammany
for Senator in the Sew
nth District. and John MOrrissey
las been put forward by the Anti.
Tammanyites aided by the Repub.
leans, or rather part of the Re
,ublicans, for large number of
hem see no difference between a
prize-ighter and gam.
'ler, and professional Demacrati tic
in which they are more
han half right. Morrissey is, how
yer, remarkable man, and had he
een born and bred under better
circumstances, would have been a
.reat man. He is the son of poor
IRISH parents in Troy, was bred to
he trade of blacksmith, which he
bandoned in short time for the
rize-ring. lie was game fighter,
nd came out of all his contests vic
)rious. Naturally he gradual ID
s gambler, and from that into
lew York politics, and made him
elf power in the city. OF late
ears he has tried very hard to keep
imself in something like decent
ase, without being so decent as to
lienate the devotion OF his ragged
onstituents. He is generous to a
lult, and even in his gambling /
Ouses has dealt with tolerable fair
ess. When great swindles have
cen necessary, he has kept them
lilfull! from the public. Ho has
:quired valuable fund of inform
ion as to the government of the
ty, with which he frequently sur
rises Lis best friends. He is evil ,
entity working to sink his past in $
e present and future, and has all !
nbitiOn to associate his name with +
mething better than the prize ring :
I'd gambling table. He could bea, +
shell if the Republicans would all II
tie for him, but they will not.
lose who refuse assent that to
Act him would not split Tamma. c
that it would simply compel d
ely to take him into partnership, b
d make it stronger than ever. But fl
I'm will give Kelly a lively fight, "
d may. possibly, squeeze through. G
e has been very sick for some q
,eks, which has been very much t.
ainst him. d
SMALL BONDS. "
The recent failure of so MANY W
wings banks, and the terrible con Ell
lion of lllc insurance, has put the Il
OF who have work and who, there 4
e, have made savings, into Il
as to what they shall do t,
tn their money. There are thous- Il
ds who have fifty or a hundred
liars who are keeping 1t boarded, y,
ring to deposit it anywhere A NC
'vement has been inau gurated W
re, which l hope will spread all 3,
tr the country; Wiz have 81
new four per cent. loan pOpu- ~
lied. An association is memoir. \.
ling the authorities to have bonds Oh
ued in denominations of twenty a.,
2 dollars, registered and made -.