New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06

| the best landlords IN New-YOrk.
EX-SENATOR SPENCER AND HIS HOME IN THE SIERRA
SEvADAs.
went UP to see ex-United States Senator George
| H. Spencer, at the Everett House. yesterday. and
| asked him if he did not want bouquet He said:
| NO. Johnny: my wife is 5000 miles from here,
but if YOU could bring her back this minute would
| take your whole conservatory" Many Is the time
| Spencer has bought bouquet from me to give his
| wife when she was May Nunez. She was born in
| Florida and knew something about flowers, there
| fore. He was carpetbagger i'll Alabama, but love
has politics, and, although she was the niece OF
| General LorDG, the great rebel, aitcrward COM
| mander of the Khedives army. they were married,
| aud Loring came home and went into business with
Spencer, just as if they had both been in the lost
cause, or both Yankees. Said |: Senator,
| how do you live now, out IN Nevada :"
| "Well." said he Johnny, l am one hundred
| miles from any other human settlement, III the
Southern part of Nevada, and there are about one
hundred persons in my little town of Osceola. /
| was called here on some business. and my wife is
| running the mine in my absence have foreman,
and superintendent, too. but when the boss goes
away they dispute supremacy. so Mrs. Spencer acts
| for Inc. Though she was hardly ever out of New
York in her life she likes that solitude on the Sierra
| Nevadas better than this big city, The laborerS
| around the house are Indians and few Chinese
both pretty worthless except to do the chores-and
they are perpetually gambling with each other. The
Indians are real wild men, but we play no games on
them. and are as safe as living among many rab-
bits l have one baby, and at night
my wife and sit up and read
| to each ether till eleven or twelve
! o'clock. While she is putting the baby to sleep, l
go down to the Office, one hundred yards from the
house, and write my letters In the morning. after
breakfast, go down to the mill, where the quartz
being crashed and look at the results and then get
| on my horse and ride over to the mine about one
| mile distant which l enter, and examine all the
developments and receive or make suggestions.
| After have come out of the mine, get on the
horse and put him to his speed, and ride six seven
miles and back for exercise, eating nothing between
breakfast and dinner. Another visit to the mill and
some time spent in the office. bring evening and
| domestic quiet aud instruction again. There Is
nothing speculative in my mine; we don't sell 1t, or
| stock IT. but work it. The property and machinery
have cost $72 900 and in the year have been there
we have nearly paid for it, or have produced about
| $66, 100 of gold. should have gone home to-day
| but my brothers wife has just fallen dead with
heart disease. and am staying over for the funeral
and 10 dispose of some of my remaining interests in
Dakota. never pay the least attention to politics.
and would not change places now, so far as con-
tentmen and satisfaction 90, with the chiefs of the
Senate"
told General Spencer he must take buttonh0le,
any way, and carry it out to the mountains with
him, and he camo down like man. He belongs to
the family of Ambrose and John II. Spencer.of New
York and his aunt was the wife of Hon. Garrick
Mallory
SLOSsON AND THE FRENCH TRICKSTER
SlOsson likes flowers, too of cOtrse you know SlOs
son' He is the champion bllliardpayer of this
try who PLAYED two matches with Vignaux the cham
,1;o Of fi,a, orI1 Darl MI ia
big. hard-featured gambling fellow. On the con-
trary. he might be the author Of Bret
Hartcs stories or William Winters poems He is
a small refned-looked highly nervOusly organized
boy, about twent yseven years old, with pale skin
and large expressive brownish gray eyes, and
is a big reader too. the books and
newspapers, and when he went to Paris to
play in the presence of the President of the
Republic Minister Noyes, Gambetta and the great
world, lie might have been going TO enter the Acad
envy of France and read his essay. Slosson took a
sprig of my violets and said Johnny you would
not cut much figure i'll Paris selling bouquets"
"Mr. Slosson. why didn't you beat that French
mani"
"Oh! was cheated out of it, ran to that point |
where had only G7 to go and he had nearly 800. |
when he made tho issue that he had counted, after
the referee had decided otherwise, and | had the
balls along the rail just whore l wanted them and
was going out.
{. 1t was in the dining-room of the Grand Hotel,
which crowded, Americans and all other for
eigners being there in the proportion of about
in ten-a the rest being Frenchmen who were
bowling and Kissing and crying Iire la France.
They speak of French potencss; in their aggregate |
capacity they are a most impote nation, eaten up |
with vanity and ready for any unfairness. From |
the moment began to play Vgnaux they Missed |
my successful Shots hooted my runs. and whenever |
he made & cd point Numbered their huzzas They |
finally scared the referee that he reversed his de-
cison, saying that he had not seen the shot which |
lie had decided TO have been missed The Americans |
told me to lay my cue down and refuse to continue |
the game but Billy Florence, who was sitting in |
front, SAID: George. you can beat him, anyway. |
Let him have it'll But in the half an hour of the |
dispute my nervous system had gone. could play |
no more"
is Vignaux chvalrc man, Mr.. Slosson ~
"No a low trickster. IIo is big, fat man. and |
very excellent billIard.player, but that only made
more contemplate hisruses to Get from me the rooms
where practised, by operating on the landlord |
and to have my game watched, and attempts were |
even made to get me to drink their liquor, by his
emssaries. so that would be sick, and get out of
practice At the close of the game Spanish gentle
man. who had won $4,000 francs on Vignaux, paid |
it back in the office of tho hotel. saying / have
not won it Many of the Americans refused to pay |
their bets. One or two of the French newspapers. |
particularly the GaulOis, denounced Yignaux's be-
havor but all the rest stood up for him. Gatgndni
and the English papers there and in Lon don called
Vignaux a ruflian and trckster. With the Jockey |
Club, and the gentlemen of France his standing IS
all gone"
"Why don't you challenge him to play in this
countryp
AFTER the way he treated me-" said Mr.. Slosson. |
81 don't believe lie would got fair chance in this |
country. Somany Americans know of the transac