New-York tribune., 1882-12-31

the Board' rated Mt $4,000 or S33,000,000 for the
full regiment and this contingent having nothing 10 do
but TO sell the personal property OF the country like
band OF self-ccnsed auctiOneers present striking
Ncw-Year's contrast TO NcwYOrk in 1870. when the
richest individual in North America, Covert LOCKER
mans, died here worth $4,000 Dutch guders or about
$12O, 600 in silver
Said Clipp the broker, to Ncw-Years eve: We
full of business yet there is outside public in the
street. but many securities each ridden by its band Of
hackers that II Is like the witch saying in Faust How
long have | not been sweeping away at the deuson,
and 1t never becomes clean There have been listed at
the Stock Exchange continued Cpp, in the past three
years aOIe, enterprises capitalized at more than the
National debt Of the United states less what has been
paid of There is for them all to grow any
moro than Dutch tulips when they sold on the
Bourse and could not get there to be exhibited
without fading for want Of oxygen
Addison Cammack, the unrcconstrrctcd bear OF the
strce said TO have a. good general Intelligence there
isin tand question almost any topic from
full mind which gets its CHIEF recreation in reading and
inquirlng He has made large fortune in the past six
months.
Henry G. Bispham who died IN Rome few days ago.
will be remembered less for his large compositions than
for portlaits and and OF rare
dogs and pets which to be fonnd in scores OF New
York and Brooklyn parlOrs. He married descendant
OF ChcfJustcc Tighman. of Pennsylvania whose cous-
ms the sons Of General Tilgman. of the Confederate
Army. are Wall street men. When Price No
Grath had his great stable of Tom Bowl
ing Aristidcs. Calvin. and Chesapeake. he en-
poycd BIspham to paint their portraits, who
made them all stand in the some position, and as
they were nearly alike in coors n horsey friend
told McGrath that Bispham had only repeated the
portrait OF Of the animals 20 the artist had TO
paint them all again, and he said privately 10 me:
An a tnffar it..
raphy to getting portrait
Said citizen TO NE lately: think government here
Is both monarchy and failure. What remedy has the
individual against the officer even for emitting his du-
ties! There is no country the earth where property
holders receive such m,ultg notices from the public
officers. couchcd in terms Turk would hardly use to
dog The first notice 10 pay tax is headed Last no
tcc and mCuacCS you with fines, the loss OF all your
household privileges. etc Ipaid $500 year taxes on
my house in siJty- hfth-st. Set had to employ pri
yate agent to wecpand the street before my door
had 10 brihe the scavcngcr t) remove my sl0p, and,
hired private watcuudn to protect my house There
fore I want to know what my $500 went for since |
paid for every element Of government out of another
pocket!'
said the above citizen again: II you down, for
ample. office OF the city what do you seel
All the clerks smoking cigars at their desks generally
looking youthful brutes picked up out of the turf
clus and corner groceries, Think Of the judges the
bench having paid assessments thousands OF dollars
10 be nominated! Consider that as a citizen Of free
America you liable to he locked up whole year IL
NewYork for not finding bail for the crime Of liv
ing in New-Jersey! Why, StGe's right is such tyranny
that at the the conqueror ought to have
taken sponge and wiped every state line out forever
Mike Murray is said 70 be the chief sporting figure in
the metropolis to-day a Troy gambler like Morrissey,
who for many year kel his hon here and stood
in with the police" lis first partners having been
superintendent of the police and John c. Heenan. The
latter the fighting man Of the place in Eighth-s,
while the superintendent shut up all the competing
houses Naturally the superintendent retired rich,
whil" Mike has become the suppergiyer TO judges
from the countrv. Presidential eXpcctanS and the
OF the party He gave his counsel to Mr. Tweed, and
that statesman is now said to have escaped to Concy
Island and sailed thence to Cuba Of the fruit
vessels OF the merchant Murray
wealthy New-York man who disposes of the medic
n4l products of the Shakers 20 Austria, Great Britain
and 20 extent to France told me some novel things
last week Daudcon extracted by the Shakers, is ex-
ported to England Tor ~ quantity, and being put up in
blown lars 10y an old firm which mentioned in the Brit
-h medical journals and the articles copied freely into
America, the same daudcion is returned to Ncw-IOrk
and sells for 50 pound nothing being added but the
ancient name in the blown glass. British wholesale
dealers would not look the American extracts at all
while the Austrian manufacturers had all the Shaker
remedies seized AZ secret medicines. When the
was appealed they showed that the elements were not
In the German pharmaeOpia Wel.' said the
Austrian Judge here is the formula III Latin. Rather
blame your stupid books which are The secret medicine
indeed" In Spain the customs authorities could let
nothing come in till it analyled by the Government
chemist. who for the Of - swore out analysis
provided for him on the Gospels yet there not one
ingredient in between the invoice and the oath
The German chemists were the most thorough in the
world but they always dealt in an inferior original ar1
cc their being equal to their science Amer
len cxcclcd In her experimentation. The French ad-
mnistercd nothing but sinples.
The failure of the cooperative store of Miss Kate Field
probably less mismauagemcnt than false original udg
meIt In country Of social equality nothing is so
chcapcnng the competitions OF business while in
ENGLAND cooperative stores the relief OF fixed sala
red classes the cxtOrtOns practsed upon the poor
in purse at the stores requentcd by the great classes
Rank raises the prices at the houses lTcquents Mr.
Poole. the tailor makes SUIT for ten pounds worth only
five pounds elsewhere, because he once made some |
trousers the Prince of Wales. Thcreupon somebody
starts the Poole cooperative tailor shop relieve the
school Of Piccadiy from eNtortion, but IN this
country Pooes patrons would not excuse his garments
either for false false price. He would get ben
eft from his sounding name and connections would |
the Poole cooperative sell like the shop the
way, kept perhaps, by some efficient Hebrew v no knew
that was dealing with Nation without preccdent5 or
shaIn Cooperation in business OF this sort was an ex
o,ic here and never will flourish in competition with (
business Individuality Some people can learn nothing
unless il i European.
A bad hotel excrts permanently evil influence on
place as witness the usual remark in reply To the ques
ton: VIII You 20 to the Amsterdam Exhibition next
Mayl" Amsterdam It's horid. First stopped al
the Amstel and dissatisfied that next time
went 10 the Old Bible and then were sorry VIC had
changed"