New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-24

strange yarns about the profits Of their business
One almost renowned theatre said not 10 have made
any money for several years; another almost equally
famed had never made any money at all; third was
drawing full houses and paying very nearly the entire
re,ripts back to the stage celebrated had
spree. and the manager had seized all the money nc
the box window, amounting to about $500 refusing to
divide with his stars and az another place the money
that made on the road lost in the metropolis
Meantime 1t said tlat two varety theatres cap
tured and kept more money than am two In the eei-
mate line. leading who had exchanged from ono
theatre to another was said 10 be receiving 5000 week
salary.
Opinions differ about the Christmas trade this yeaI
one alarnis telling that the shepkeepers have not
done so badly for years past while u prominent shop.
keeper 10 whom related this alarm said II all newt
10 him. The tobacco trade Is stagnant no doubt be.
cause tho manufacturers have rushed 20 the conviction
that there Will be important reduction Of taxes and
meantime the jobbers aud retailers running down
their stocks very low while nj New Years there will be
further discharges OF cigar makers all the city, The
dry goods commission trade has been dull because goods
too plentiful and the outer dealers preferred to be
conservative At the bottom Of OF nseries lie
the resolution Of the farmers not part with their crops
and meantime they running their faces for trades
mems bills while the tradcsmen must meet their notes.
and hence the country banks beset money. which
they draw from New York city, making a stringeney
here.
The farmers said by the nnanciers 10 be the only
peculiar quantity with they have no means
OF general information shrewuess to obtain H. and
sell or hold superstitiousy according 10 byword
they have picked up. for instance, II hold long
enough the grain spectators will have to raise the
prices" This idea 10 be entertained from East
Ohio to the Ear West and most OF the farmers IL
comfortable condition. with grain enough 10 feed helI
stock with pork and high and killing not over
and with credit in the towns grdgngy given yet not &c
be wholly refused when the merchant knows that tho
barns are full
On the other hand the prices Of grain have been COM
ing down, and the farmers assured thai it Is Away,
their best policy to sell they have threshed
and dried 10 be ont of risk and at the time
out Of debt Between the farmers and the tOwnspeops
there is half grudge IN good many districts, arising
perhaps from their inability to together any
common plane of understanding. The manufacturers
Of farmers machinery who in the large
Western towns making poor sales. since the farmers
have not the money and the manufacturers Will not wait
without note day Last year the farmers made the
money and the spectators lost IT, and the farmers
unwilling take the prices this year. hut believe
they starve both the Spectators and the markets
out.
The cigar interest has become immense, chiefly
through the operation NJ the tariff and told by up.
right I'm the business that the specific dIty fore
em cigars taken OF there would be discharge OF
quarter of million laborers In the different branches ct
tobacco in the United States At there % per
cent al val0rem and - specific duty Tho manufacture
ers say that the former they could dispense with and
continue to make cigars probably Full free trade IN
cigars would let in the pOOr-h0use and prison labor OF
Austria, to which manufacturers cOnsign the refuse
tobacco they cannot use at all in America, but where
under cheaper labor the tobacco scraps pasted
| L..
which could be brought into the country oa 50
| thousand
The labor problem to be the broad difference be.
tween European aud American production and yet tho
cost of living here in makes the high wages
of sanitary social advantage. Whole houses can
be had FOR 800 year in the manufacturing towns %
England while cities like New York insulated and wh-
out adequate facilities for workmen travel ~ bese
give a tcnement-house civilization. man who en-
ploys his thousand operatives told Inc that the time was
coming when there would be half dozen bridges
| the East River instead of one and that Brooklyn
afforded the only hope Of cheap habitations around tho
| metropolis
Meeting Mr. Prouse Cooper to my surprise NJ the baths
the other day he said: Are you terribly afraid u
me- lunac calledi' "What is the cause OF yous
troubles Mr.. Cooperl" They all lie in my efforts" he
sad to do something for my poor kin and connections
could always make money, and made that mistnks
many makes OF trying 10 bring my uugratcfu kin
up to near my condition. None OF them showed any
ability, and they became my enemies because can hold
them up further Believing that had great deal
of money they pounced upon my business. Interpreted
the misconduct they had aroused 10 insanity, and
ally threw me into asylum When a man has been
locked up in an insane ASYLUM" said Mr. Cooper "ha
does usually comport himself like philosopher
That afternoon Mr. Cooper set at large having been
pronounced by the only inallibe jury IN the world,
namely, enyour persons not one Of whom is proved
to be sane to- be perfectly sound by vote Of abous
three to one.
Ioantle" suggests the terrible idea that perhaps
these cockney operas being gotten mp for Yankee
consumption the principle OF Madame Tussauds
works where the peers I'm their robes and the judges in
their wigs presented 10 those who could such
costumes nowhere else. The vein Of humOr in Brother
Gilbert is getting pumped very TO the bottom and
wind than lie escapes the wind being caught
Irish harp that cannot but be meodi)us. As Ire
land two-thirds the imagination of the whole King
DOM Sullivan is nearly all OF his partnership, and Ma
dame Tussaud the other part
The Yankee Plymouth diners do mention the fact
that geese bring the best prices in the world
Christmas They are 20 cents pound to-day in New
York and yield three pounds OF goose grCaSe,-enough
to cure the colds Of all the New England Fathers Day
orators Picked smoked geese from the German
Baltic country imported here bring 81 pound. Every
thing in Germany has to be smoked and that
the camp fires burning there IN time Of peace well
as the general pickle Europe is kept in While pay
cents to % cents for poultry In NewYork, II costs
100 miles from the city anywhere about 10 cents .
pound
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