The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1882-12-16
Gotham Gossip.

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dal Sait.-Hor q Manicure and Chiropo7
dist rose to Emiaeaee and Health. and is
said 10 hare Fallen. Uhyhe is beliercd to
be IREoctnt.
New York, December Sth, 1852.
had an extended conversation with a
leading Western Republican Senator, who
was Ill town Tor Il few days. on the results
OF theelections and their effect on bust
ness as We'll as on the action Of Congress.
lhe gentleman is a great admirer of Secre
tary iolGer. aud some of his remarks UNI
der these circumstances struck ne as pecn
liar. Said he! "a great many Republican
papers argue that there can be 10 change
i'll the tariff, because the new House does
not meet until December 1885. at which
tine the Senate will be divided as to its
politics. and the President probably strong
~ inclined towards the protectionists.
Now this is all talk. Being u Republican,
l cannot help admitting that the party is
committed to protectiouism. The tariff us
it stanMis one of the outgrowths of the
civilT 1t was passed WHEN the South
era members OF Congress left thei, seats,
but it wa, then only regarded as Il tempo
larry measure. That it has lived so long
is only another proof OF the trutlialiness
CT the observations of English students OF
American politics. that ..oW!ere else in the
civilized woriG are people content to let
things DRIFT along as much as in the Uni
ted States. The exist n1 tari.f is as much
Il relic of the past as tie 'binoIy shirt
and the ku.!,luy Clan. The Republican
party held on it too long. and when the
people gave the Democracy the axe to cut
it down, the part went down with it. l
tell you Il change in the tariff is i'll the air.
All the internal taAes. except those on j.
Iuor, tobacco and II few other items will
be abolished, and import dntuies greatly
reduced. This ofeourse will be followed
by IA cheapening OF goods. which is u boom
for the poor and the middle classes, and a
consequent loss on all sorts of stock which
will hit the rich corporations and indivi
''oh D"1 4 Cal you SAL, lHC CUuLitLy ID
Democratic at present, and will remain
so for a couple of years ut least, and if the
Republican party opposes tariff reform at
present, it will not have votes enough, left
i'll 1854 to go to a primary with, much less
to carry the country
OF Secretary Folyer, he said: "DidInot
know him SO well, and We're | not ~conyinc
ed ofhis integrity, could hot help beliey
ing that he had ieasued himself with the
Wall Street bulls. | am satisfied that he
means wei! enough, bat he onght 10 have
let the market alone. The money market
is tight at present. but had there been II
sharp crisis III stocks. the convulsion which
would nave resulted would have cleared
the air. Money would have brought high
Ell rates of interest and funds would have
flown i'll from all over the country to sup
ply the demands, and u better state of
things would have been the consequence
Mr.. folger's tinkering has brought me to
the conviction that he lacks breadth OF
view and foresight and that he IS not the
financeering genius people supposed Kim
to be-
The Transit o Venus. is happily passed
and the scientists are now hard at work
'tiguring.' as the plumbers would say on
their observations, so as to obtain the pre-
else amount of miles the earth is away
from the sun, and thus how long this plan
ct has still to revolve before it will be
swallowed by the greet fiery lnminary. 1t
is hard to say whether the event was great
er treat to the astronomers or to the small
boy. Certain it is that there was "a corner
in aid window-glass and lamp-black. Thou
sands of people stopped in the streets to
have their eyes blinded. by gazing at the
flaming disk of the sun, in the hope of dis
covering the little black spot on it, which
was meant to represent the fair planet
Of course the light fingered gentry rose to
the occasion. and they managed to relieve
a number of interested star gazers of their
timepieces and pocket books. It was too
bad that the transit could not be seen at
night, 1t would have afforded a splendid
excuse for the model husband who now
and then goes tout with the boys Just to
see nat they no not cut up too much.
The Maillard scandal is happily over
and the young woman whom a rich young
Hebrew named Levy treated so shabbily,
after leading her astray, is now busy tax
ing steps to bring suit for the damages
against the wretch who in order to rid him
self Of her, had her indicted for perjury.