New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-14
The Conversations.

THERE was a little lull in the CONVEX
sation, and presently Miss Sillibub
asked the first society young man
So what the Syndicate wasp
The first society young man stared,
and presently said he believed it was
the name of . new opera. Last time
he twas in Chicawgo, heard Mapleson,
fellah that runs Queens Opera Com
pany, say he was going To-
'''Taint that, q best young man
broke in; II read all bout it tothah
day. It's q kind of-haw-d arkies all
going to Kansas, you know; whole boat
loads OF 'em going every day. Politi-
cal scheme. Coin to be a war if faint
stopped"
.:Guess you're wrong,'' said a son
of one of our first families. "Syndi-
Gates nothing to do with politics;
heard some fellows talking bout it
down town to-day. Aw--fellow has
one in the new Court House, has to
have it, you know, or they wouldn't
let him build it, That's what Syndi
cate is"
The son of one of our first families
was looked up to with so much conf.
dence that there was at first general
inclination to accept his theory, which
was disturbed, however, by q young
lady who said ''she couldn exactly
understand how that could be, because
she read or heard somewhere that Cen
eral Sherman had ordered the Syndi-
cate, or had something to do with it's
"Oh yes, fencesr' suddenly broke out
q young man who makes a living by
sucking his cane. "Fences," he add
ed vaguely, but still with considerable
enthusiasm. "Don't you know? Mend.
in his fences; Sherman's fences,
fences"
And the sudden CLEAN of intelli-
gence died out of his face and his voice
sank into a feeble mutter. He reached
around for his cane, intending to re-
cruit his failing intellect by long suck
at the ivory knob, but he had left it
out in the hall, and dejectedly sucked
the knob on the back of camp.stool.
instead.
swell, Syndicate, as understand
it," remarked a fragile young man who
was straining himself by trying to see
something through a pair of eyeglasses,
"a Syndicate is when fellows going
to do something and another fellow
doesn't want him to; other fellow goes
to court and the Judge gives him. sues
him out, law fellows call it, sues him
out a Syndicate, then this fellow can't
do it,
This was SO clearly put that the COM
pany sat for little while, wrapped in
silent admiration of the young mans
profound knowledge of the law. But
the whole question was finally settled
by the decision of q young man who
was wasting rare and valuable life by
trying to raise eleven whiskers on each
cheek and look over his collar at the
same time. He looked up with an air
OF dawning interest, and after q painful
intellectual effort, asked:
''Wha' is itp Wha' talkin' aboutp''
They told him.
"SyndicateP" he asked, "Syndicatep
Yes, l know. Blamed vulgar thing. Low.
Beastly low. Beastly piece of beastly
political business. faint no wav fit
to talk about here"
And then the company very properly
dropped the indicate subject, and
resumed the conversation about the
lawn party.-Burlimgtoas Ha,ok-Eye.
An Eccentric Mlser.
MIR. MARVIN BANNING, of Hadlyme,
who died on Thursday, the 18th inst,
at the age of seventy-four years, has
been the object of much comment in
this and adjoining villages. 1t is al
legged that the poor old man starved
himself to death, which report is SUBJ
stantiated by the physicians who at
tended him in his sickness. His man.
ner of living and the circumstances
connected with his death, if given in
detail, would make an interesting book
for Silas Wegg to read to Mr.. Boffin;
for seemingly no miser's library could
be complete without an edition of the
life of the late Marvin Banning. By
dint of industry, remarkable finan-
ceering and rigid economy the de-
ceased had accumulated an ample for
tune before attaining the age of fifty.
Unlike most young men on beginning
life for himself, Marvin was not in
clined to be uxorious; consequently his
whole attention was directed to the &C.
of money, and he, as he
would frequently remark during the
last years of his life, "never had any
lime to look for q wife,
During tho last ten years of his life
le lived like hermit, his diet consist
ng mostly of raw pork and hard
'read, so cunuingly concealing his true
that many were led to
believe that he could not afford the
luxury of housekeeper. Denying
himself the actual comforts of life,
rom misery motives alone, by going
Without eating during long periods, and
taying in his house on cold winter DAYS
without fire, is the alleged cause of
lis sickness, which resulted in his
leath. Thus he sacrificed even him.
elf on the altar of his idolatry-the
dollar. This peculiar man
lad manifested no particular desire to
possess much real estate until about
hree years since, when he suddenly
out and purchased three ex-
ensive farms, which, In addition to the
erritory bequeathed by his mother,
made him the largest land-holder in
he place where he resided. The
prompt manner In which he paid the
lash for this property led his neighbors
o believe that there was more truth
han poetry In the prevailing rumor
hat this old chan had q mint of money.
The day before Mr.. Banning died he
that there were hidden
reasures in and around his residence,
which declaration was delayed so long
hat the poor cid mans strength gave
'ut before he was able to particularize
III the various hooks and corners which
le had utilized as banks of deposit.
After this unexpected disclosure very
areful search throughout the premises
vas instituted, which resulted in the
hiding Of several bags of gold and
liver in barrel of butternuts in tho
jarrett, amounting in the aggregate to
bout three Thousand dnllars. A h0x