The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-06-17


he married In New York about six years ago,
Miss Conway, as she then was, daughter Of
+. Ii. Conway, an actor, who had some repu-
tation, but not much mouey. The woman
from England says tha. Levy left her with
several children. He made some sort of
arrangement to supply her with money, but
stopped the supplies some time ago, and now
when she asks him to pay up he tells her Cor
rather tells her lawyer) that as he left the
children with her she ought to be satisfied,
and not come bothering about money. Ey-
erybody knows there never was anything
mean about Levy. The generosity of letting
his wife have the children on condition that
he should not be asked to give anything to-
ward their support, was worthy of his great
and noble nature. 1t Is on par with the fine
consideration for meum and tuum, that he
showed when he bought cheap cornet, as
the story goes, for the sheriff to levy on every
time he had judgment to execute, while he
went of with b costly silver one to amaze
and deafen the crowds at Coney Island. No
one In New York cares much, as to Levy
himself, whether he gets deeper in the new
trouble or gets out of ii altogether, but there
Is good deal of sympathy for his American
wife. He contrived to get divorce of some
sort before he married her, but whether it
will hold good or not remains to be seen.
For a man whom the crowd is always willing
to look at, the cornet-blower Is singularly
unpopular In a personal way. His strut and
eyeglass and rleIculously pompous airs set
everybody against him long ago, and you
might canvass the whole city and not find
anyone willing to say good word for him.
His chief rival, Arbuckle, is liked everywhere,
simply because he is modest and his ways
are those of a gentleman.
DINING A JOURNALIST.
All newspaper men may not be accustomed
to good dinners, but 1t was very good one,
indeed, that James Redpath sat down to at
Delmonico's few nights ago, as the guest of
a number of Land Leaguers. / am told the
banquet cost $1,000. Redpath, who was once
known as an exceedingly hot abolitionist, Is
Just as hot about Irish tenants now as he was
about Southern negroes then. He will start
for Ireland for the third time tomorrow, and
the leaguers thought they would give him
good send-ofI. He seems to have a notion
that he. may be arrested, but hardly think
the British Government will trouble him In
that way. / understand that he has made
arrangements to send letters to about twenty
American newspapers, and If he keeps them
all supplied he probably won't have much
time to talk at Land League meetings or give
John Bull any particular bother as an agita-
tor. Redpath. by the way, Is neither an
Irishmen nor an American by birth. He
came into the world in Scotland, but was
brought on visit to Uncle Sam as a child,
and he has been pretty thorough-going
American ever since he grew up. just now
he seems to be q good deal more Irish than
many of the Irish themselves. Considering
his reputation as newspaper man, 1t seems
a little odd that no distinctively New York
newspaper men except the reporters on duty,
met him at the Delmonico dinner.
CARL scHURz.
Since mentioned in my last the change In
the ownership as well as in the sanctum of
the Erening Post, some guesses that are be-
lieved to be good have been made as to the
money features of the matter. According to
the gnesses, the valne put upon the paper In
making the change was 81, 100000. This was
for the paper alone, irrespective Of the Post
building, which is considered worth as leaast
$4,000 The interest that was sold to Mr..
Schurz, Mr.. Godkin and Mr.. White repre-
sented s650,000. II Is reported, but cannot
vouch for 1t, that the money TO make the
purchase was advanced by Mr.. Willard, who
has lately come into some prominence In
with the Northern Pacific Rail-
road. The generel tone of the paper remains
about what it was before the change, and the
only noticeable thing since the change took
place Is peculiar twist of the English Ian
guage now and then In the leading articles,
rs though the man with the pen did not feel
quite sure of his ground. Possibly the iItri-
cacies of this mother tongue of ours are still,
just trife beyond the grasp Of
Mr.. Schurz. There are predictions already
that If question should come up some day
ON which Schurz, Godkin and White hold
three several distinct opinions, the worst kind
Of deadlock that ever was heard of may
happen In the Epening Post sanctum.
CAsPAR.