Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-31

IRON 0HFFegutdr correspondents.
New YORK, May IS, 1SS3
The men of science and learing feel ex-
ceedingly sad at the defeat of Mitchell,
for he was their representative. He was
"science" persOnified, and "science" has
been beaten out of his boots by the
heavy blows of Sullivan. Thus once
more it is proven that the fortunes of
war rest with the heaviest artillery. You
will please bear in mind that at the
great contest in Madison Square the 9TH
cr evening" between Sullivan and Mitch
ell the ten thousand persons were not all
shoulder hitters, bummers and thieves.
There were men of standing headed by
Roscoe Conkling, men Of money headed
by Belmont, and [ am told that the
church was even represented by no less
an individual than brother Beecher. All
of the latter sided with Mitchell, who is
said to be an M. D., who has given up
his practice in order to handle the
healthy, and when Mr.. Sullivan made
mincemeat of him the roof was almost
taken off the building by the cheers, not
of the learned men, but ofroughs, who,
ofcourse, now look with disdain upon
the class represented by Conkling and
Co.
Extraordinary preparations are being
made for the opening of the Brooklyn
Bridge, which takes place next week.
That is to say, New York will look on,
and Brooklyn will spend thousands of
dollars, as really it will be big thing for
Brooklyn. There will be professions,
reviews, orations, music, bonfires, fire
works, receptions all jumbled into one
grand pow wow in the presence of the
President and his Cabinet, Governor,
statesmen, halfbreed, low-breed and
full-breed, and it is said that Mayor Low,
the able Chief Magistrate of Brooklyn,
will spend about $4,000 out of his own
pocket to make the celebration success.
You have heard of the New York
'bunko steerers." They are a peculiar
set of knaves, but with all their bad
habits there is good deal of quiet fun in
all their doing. One of their latest eX-
ploits is their squeezing $75 from Bos-
ton clergyman, whom they allured in
18th street and took right into their
dens. The fun of it was that the down
east parsOn was not in the least dis
guised. Every body could tell by look
ing at him that he was q Servant of the
Lord" and so when the old fellow was
in about $500, the bystanders advised the
clerical ingenuity in handling the cards.
Toward the end however, he had to
"pay up" all he had $75, and then he
was foolish enough to go to Police
Court and make complaint.
The New York Cremation Society has
just held its annual meeting, with a large
increase in membership. Sins ngular to
say the society is in a fair way of becom-
ing wealthy corporation, as many be-
quests and donations have of late in
creased it's assets considerably. But
very few church members have as vet
joined its ranks, and the candidates for
the great furnace are mostly men of
German birth and parentage.
Speaking of cremation reminds me of
the fact that if New York goes on build
ing skyward as we have been doing of
late there will be many more human be-
ings cremated than there are members
of the Society just named. The latest
addition to our enormous high buildings
in an apartment house having no less
than fifteen stories. just think of it that
you and your wife and chicks should be
compelled to live on the fifteenth story
0fa fiat house, and yet that is what New
York is coming to. The island is mar
row, small, limited, and if we have no
room on the land we can at least build
in the sky, until, like that nation of old,
we buildaT Towerof Babel. Thus history
always repeats itself
The two German Jews, known as
Pulitzer Bros, are endeavoring to create
an excitement in the newspaper world
ofNew York, but outside of Printing
House Square the attempt falls flat, stale
and Improbable. New York cares very
little who edits paper or who owns it.
In fact with all of our humorous publ-
cations there is really no place in the
world where less time is devoted to
newspaper reading than in this vast and
busy city. These Pulitzers are Smart
especially Joseph, who has bought the
World, and makes the people believe
that it was with his own money, but
neither Albert nor Joseph has any edu-
cation. They are upstarts without schol-
astic training and both of them will
readily ascertain that it is much easier to
become first class man in q small town
than even o second rate man in metro
polls like New York. Ofcourse the story
that Gould is entirely out of ''The
World" is a mere blind. He still owns
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