The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-26
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From Our Own Correspondent.
New YORK, MAY %. 18S,

nv " III
excuse for an official junketing party.
The latest fun has been in searching
Tor not s~earching) incoming steam
ships for the assassins of Lord
Cavendish and Mr.. Burke in Ireland.
A swarm of marshals, detec tives and
useful friends started in revenue
cutters for the mouth of the harbor
and cruised there till the Scythia, a
Cunard steamer, arrived, and the
Cunarders, which do not brag much
Of speed, have never been known to
appear before they are due. From
all accounts the officers had a Jolly
time, perhaps just a little too Jolly,
and when they met the Scythia
boarded her and held no less than
three examinations of man, woman
and child, in order to detect the red
handed Fenians and share in the
rmo rewards offered. Mean
time, the Guion steamer Wisconsin
came along, and when she got to her
pier, a mysterious passenger, who
came aboard at Queestown without
a cen or a shirt collar, jumped
ashore and disappeared, Now there
is a crazy hunt after him, while it is
clumsily given out that owing to the
unlikelihood of the assassins trying
to escape in steamers to America,
no further searches of them will be
made. The futile officials are much
chagrined. The French police have
a reputation for superior smartness.
They are shrewd enough to keep
their stupidity out of the papers.
When Uncle Rufus Hatch gets his
rapid transit Atlantic steamers under
weigh he'll probably have to i'm
prove on steam as a motor. lust in
the nick of time, as it were, comes a
sample of those wonderful Faure
Electric Accumulators we have
heard so much about, which would
appear to make it possible to collect
the force of Niagara for t%wenty-four
hours and stow it away in a satchel,
the very thing to send a ship hum
ming across the pillows, as we'll as
lighting it on its way. Also, of
course, an American inventor, or
company of inventors, controlling
the Brush light, suddenly put a
spoke in the F%renchman's wheel by
declaring that they have a claim for
a patent now pending and will
fight the intruder to the last spark.
Hurrah for pork and beans! Down
with the Kickshawsl | happen
to know of something destined to
effect a complete revolution in naval
architecture, Of more moment than
even the substitution of electric for
steam power in the propulsion of
great vessels. 1t is not patented yet,
so ! can't say anything further about
it for a while.
Talking of Frenchmen, the heirs
of DR.. Caro-, a late distinguished
) ply stefan, who was we'll known in
his declining years for the bitter war
he waged against the Elevated Rail
road, which calmly ran its tracks in
front Of his handsome residence,
have succeeded in getting an in
junction, which, unless there is some
honeyfugling, which SO far doesn't
appear, will cause a cessation of
traffic on the west.side Branch of
the Harlem line, possibly for ever,
probably till the line talks turkey.
1t has been a hard fight, and bravely
fought by an individual and his
representatives against colossal
money power. So far there seems
no reason that the Court of Appeals,
to which the matter now goes, will
do anything to mar the victory.
Talking of railroads, a new track
has been laid in the City of Churches
which has raised a grand rumpus.
1t is onlya horse-car affair, but the
residents or a majority of them didn't
want it. While they were muddling
away in the mazes of the law, the
! chief cook and bottlewasher of the
concern, Deacon and ex-Alderman
and Board of Education Member