New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-17
TOPICS IN THREE CITIES.
BosroN-cH1cAGo-sAN FRANCISCO.
BOSTON.
sTAGE-sCIENCE.
lpY TELEGRAPH TO TnE TRInUNE.l


BOsTON, Dec. 1G--All eyes are turning toward
the state House TO note wha. New Years entertain
ment General Butler is preparing under the gildcd
dome Peeps behind the curtain have revealed q
fnrions ruumagng among official salaries, which
the Governor-elect is said to have discovered
to be threc-ffths Of the States whole outlay
lie will put plug into the Hoosac
Tunnel declaring that railroad that cannot
double-tracll itself is no railroad a. ALL lie viii
also, they say, demand that the Legislature require
full public statements Of earnings from gas CONF
panies that people may have gas at fair prices 10
intimate friends he declares that he has l61 votes
in the Legislators NJ his service, or twenty-four
more THAI he needs If he wants the Senatorship but
that he only wants TO beat Holr.
The Democratic capture of the mlncipli govern
ment on Tuesday was the anticipated sequel OF tho
Butler manufacture Of votes for the Statc election
Moreover. nearly $1,000 Of lie better class OF cit'
zens made apa'hetic by the rather coiorless admin
istration of the past year, failed t. vote. Mayor
elect Palmer an ex- High School teacher and eX-
State senator able enough bu ylciO1sly AMBITIOUS.
disappointed m the Republican party. turaed heico
Butlerite three years ago. Nhtn0rc, the Mrphls-
toohele, Of the Democratic City Committee and
of the comlug administration, is also a renegade
Republican Of a good Boston family
learned antiquarian and prop rfy-owner ii4
Official notification 20 Candidate Palmer tn2t he w2s
expected TO put only Democrats INTO Office horrhet
Civil Service Reformcrs and vas supposed 20 have
killed his man. but he calculated his elements o.
success moro accurately and the sweep IS a cean
one All the worst Aldermen are reelected, and
among tho new ones are two yong lr.sh news
dealers The revolution viii 40. be allrmng. shoY-
evcrasmany OF the pri Icpll pos were already filed
with Democrats under the ciiizcn3 nou-p9r,lsln
regime. Half a dozen Of the members Ices of
the Common Council nave been occasionally hned
for Illegal rum-scilng, and one of the new Boston
rppre,cntativcs IN the lower House OF the Legsla-
ture has served in the House OF Correction.
Next comes the s;r t0lr for thosucces5on to S"na-
tor IIolr. lie Is doing ms best in the Senate for
measures dear to Massachusetts, sentiment To
strengthen his somewhat damaged standing But
Governor Long, an avOwcd Prohbitionst, is strong
i'm the rural districts and with Butlerized Repub-
cans and is believed to have the busy backing Of
Butler and the Democrats. Anybody TO beat
| IToar" has been countered with anybody TO Dea6
Long, but after some talk of General Francis A.
| Walker President Fl Ot, of Harvard, President
Seelye and William G. Russell, an eminent Boston
| lawyer none Of whom would stand AGAINST Mr
| IIoar the canvass has settled back upon Hoaras
| the only practicable candidate. 4 Republican cau-
Gus would carry him through, but the ,ht will be
made on this point.
| The advocates Of woman suffrage at their annual
| tea socable Wednesday night, showed a little las
stulc over The Nebraska defeat aud the great fall
| ing on in the women's vote on tn lay for school
Committee But Mrs Julia Ward Howe pointed out
that the social olium has diminished; Mrs. Lucy
Stone Blackwell said the trouble is that the nite1
suffrage is not en0ug enlist the ac' i've pIrticpt-
| ton Of women; and Mr.. Blackwell announced hat
push will be made in this Legislature fo- fall mu-
nicipa suffrage.
After six months of strenuous denial the Boston
and Maine Railroad Company at lasi acknowledge
that they have bee1 negotiating for lease Of their
badly worsted rival, the Eastern. President Lori,
of the Boston and Maine, now cooy says It Is only
question of terms AMI NAV soOn be accomplished.
All the Boston specialtes in railroad shares are
booming" again.
The Unitarian Club who were las month thrown
into a Antter by the Rev. DR.. George EiiSs candid
paper arguing that the Bible is an orthodox book.
at their NEE ing this week received energeticaily
to raise 100000 for new buIlling, and received
80 coo 10 start with from Henry =. klddT.
The proposed sale of tha great organ in Music
| Hall By the mana Zcmcn' who give symphony
concerts every Saturday night a loss 10 Henry l..
| ig!iuSon, the pubc-splrted protector of about
| $4,000 per season, has cause a cry Of anguish.
But It's room is needed for 20 support the SYM
phony orchestra. Albani is coming TO sing at the
Handel ard Haydn Easter performance.
Mrs Langtry has been more talked about sinca
her arrival here without Mrs. La ioucherc and with
MI Gebhard than ever before. Her audiences have
been arge but not crowded. and very apathetic.
The new Bijou Theatre, with its odd Moorish arch
proscenium and novel decoration' with frezes and
| panels painted in the truly arts ic taste by tho
| NeY-York artists, MarquanI AMI LatLrop. was
opened with "Iolautho7 great state Oh Monday
| evening
There is an honorable competition between tho
American Institute of Arche DO ~ and the Peabody
| Museum of Ancrican Archaeology both Harvard
institutions. Professor Norton has raised the sum
needed to continue the explorations at Assos, Asia
Minor. but Prof ssor Putnam, OF the Peabody
| Museum wants funds 10 purchase and save tho
more important prehistoric city, known as Fort
Ancient. in the Little Miami Valley, thrty-hve
mi!es northeast of Cincinnati one Of the most re-
| markabie archaeological monuments on this cont-
| nont
With all their elaborate and extensive machinery,
the Longfellow Memorial Association are not doing
! remarkably. The school childIen's tcn-cent sub
Scliotions have produced about ~ ,300 and there -
| about 5000 besides. IL is far look 10 the
! 500, goo memorial projected.
CHICAGO.