The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-05
GATH ABROAD.
Gossip or DiGcrcut Poirts-Prices Of
Things Abroad aud nj W0mc-Thc
Duke aud fEc Cop-Kaffro1ds IN
Europe aud America.

Nhle you are sweating Ill America the
air OF London Is cool as our April weather,
sleep under blanket every night, and never
90 out without an umbrella. Yet London can
relatively be as dull in midsummer rs Wash
ington.
John I. Raymond has closed up his shop
and counted his losses. His failure here was
distinctive. The drama, so called. of The
Giided Age was Missed, as was Catherine
Rodgers in IL. Thus both Agness Robertson
and Marie Gordon are avenged. Mcsdamcs
Eytinge, child of Rose, and Jordan, child of
George. are over here beiriending the for
tunes of Raymond and Sothcrn respec-
lively. Sothern is probably gone up. Ten
brandy cocktails before breakfast, kept up
for twenty years, are likely at last to lay
hold even OF tic intangible brain of Dun
drcary.
| made soihe inquiries at the Goodwood
races about the status of American horses in
England, and found the opinion general that
our breeders and turi,ncn on this side had
learned all the English tricks. Among the
mercantile aud tradesmeu classes there seems
to lie a universal conviction that the turf has
no integrity. A journalist said to me at
Brighton "When Mr.. Lorilard and some
others came over here they were of the belief
that IL was fair racing and ran to win, but
now we think they are just as deep in schem-
ing and putting up races rs on own Jockeys.
You cannot win any money in England
unless you belong to some clique that controls
the result. See what money some of these
riders get. II certainly Is not for their riding
skill. There Is Archer. who has been riding
Parolehis income is equal TO the Prime
Minister'S of England, added to that of the
Bishop of Chichester. Do you think he gets
all that money for riding He gets it all for
In;,, fr,, al al, nd L. w, ,,I,
tricks. While racing Is passion with many
of our people, and affected by the greatest,
IL is the most dishonest thing in the En-
pirc. There Is no fair racing in England any
more"
Prices in England and France are the sub
ject of much inquiry with us at home; to
answer il at this time leads up to the politi-
cal question of whether we ought not to relax
our Bounty and Protection Laws. While the
Americans have enormously developed aud
varied their manufactures, they have been
paying huge tax themselves for doing it.
buy u suit of clothes made of the hest cloth
in England for heavy winter wear for about
$50, and the same in America will cost me
$40, made by tailor of the same class. Two.
thirds at least of the difference lies in the
protective tariff, and the rest, perhaps, in the
higher wages and better taste and education
of the American artisan. | think that we
make cotton goods fully as cheap and nearly
as good as the English and better than the
French, but on woods, linens, and silks we
pay prOdigious tax. You give your wife
heavy silk dress and il costs you $50 to $50:
the same article will cost you here about $50.
You have paid the difference to the protec.
tive tariff. There are som. other things
about which it Is almost impossible to under
stand the higher price in America: for i'm
stance, cab fares. | never was able to ride
anywhere in New York in cab for less than
81, which is four shillings or five francs.
can ride four miles in London for thirty eight
cents, or one hour in Paris for fifty cents,
and to take cab eight hours in either Lon
don or Paris will cost two persons 50 apiece,
and the same will cost in New York SIS for
the two. The finest beaver overcoat costs i'm
England and France $50 to $2J, well made to
order and lined, and its duplicate in the
United States will cost at least $50. In all
things that strengthen life, such as meats
the prices are higher in Europe. Beef is
shilling a pound, while ! can get the same
quality in New York, after it has passed
through the hands of several mddlemen, for
eight pence; oysters are extraordinary in
price-three or four shillings per dozen for
little globules called natives; but wine is ex
ceedingly cheap. ] was taken to a coopera-
i've stVIe yesterday anu bOHpnJ one uoHtn
pints of good champagne for SIS 80, or about
forty-siN cents pint, and for superior caret
such as we pay in hotels 81 per pint, paid
$3.50 for dozen pints. One gallon of fine
dry sherry costs here less than 81, and the
same quality is 50 hottie in America.
An inspector of police, who has had con-
siderable experience in America. gave me
yesterday n little incident showing the differ
ence between Yankee bred and British bred
people.
"There is a detective officer in New York
| whom you may know by the name of Tim
| Golding," said the Inspector. =" He was sent
| over here to watch a fugitive thereirom
| named Lewis, who had robbed his employer
| in New York | was detailed to give him as
| sistancc. We had no way of putting our
| hands on the man excepting through his
| wife, whom we knew TO be at St. Leonard's,
near Hastings. We intercepted her mail,
and finding where she was, and feeling pretty
sure that her husband would seek her out
| we had watched her lodging good while
She suddenly moved up to Hastings, and we
moved, too, and took n house opposite to her.
| on a corner where we could slip out by side
| door, and look from the front window right
into Mrs. Lewis's apartments. | was down
there under an assumed name, and while
there a robbery occurred at Battle Abbey of
several thousand pounds worth of iewelry
| the property of the Duke of Cleveland. The
Duke had friend in London, Lord Sidney
| by whom had been employed some time
previously. A band of robbers, finding
cObbler named Alexa nder to have access to
Lord Sidney s house for the purpose of mend
ing the shoes OF the servants, made use of
the man to prepare way for robbng the
house. The cobbler proceeded on some part
of the way, and then took fright and gave
| inlormatiOn bnt we used him as n witness
to convict the head of the gang for melting
| To n robbery. After that this cobblers
| nsishbors gave him the cold shoulder, and
| he had to leave his own vicinity, and went
| to Hastings to try to make living, and
when the robbery of Battle Abbey occurred
Lord Sidney wrote to his friend, the Duke
| of Cleveland, that this cobbler was down at
Hastings, and might have been connected
| with the job. lie also said that was also
| there under an assumed name, by which
| could bs found at certain lodgings. Now, sir.
| you know that Battle Abbey was built by
| William the Conqueror to commemorate his
great victory on that spot over the SaXons.
| The Duke of Cleveland stands very high in
| England. was sitting one day with Tim
| Golding, one of MS reading while the other
| was peeping through the halfcosed blinds
| at Mrs. Lewis's lodgings, when Il servant
| came in and said that gentleman wanted
| to see me under my assumed name of Sout-
ter. stepped to the side door, and there
stood very old hack, like night-owl CON
veyance, and beside il was queer, common
looking old man, with pair of old yellow
breeches, whom took to be somebody's old
| decayed servant. lie said he wished TO see
me privately. told him to come in, and
then he presented letter from Lord Sidney.
Where is the Duke of Cleveland, asked.
20, thought would just drive in myself
and see about it, You are not the Duke
| of Cleveland p Yes he said, Il am.
| Now, Tim Goldmg had not heard this, is,d
surprising that had some private business
with the stranger, he had dropped out a
minnie; when Tim came back the Duke of
Cleveland was telling me some particulars of
| the robbery. Al this Tim priclled up his
ears, thinking that had good case in the
way of business. The Duke hcstated u
moment, and then said You need not he
under any fear of this person, Your Grace,
| lie il fellow officer of mine, Mr.. Golding.'