Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-21
For the Republican.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
New YORK, Feb. 18th, 1883.

Death has been active last week among
the ranks of distinguished persons Yes
terday the late William E. Dodge was
buried The funeral was simple and yet
so impressive There was gathering Of
all that oas distinguished in the metropo
lis Merchant princes brushed against
cergymen and famous scientists and artists
sat side by side with statesmen and law
yers. Such collection Of fine old faces,
chastened and refined bv the polishing
steel o. time can seldom b f und ttg nth-
er, aud painter with a memory for facial
traits here found material in abundance.
A touching fact connected with the fu-
neral was the absence Of the wife Of the
daughter Of late Ex-Governor Marshall
Jewell. Mr.. Dodge died on Friday In
the midst of the grief into which the
family was plunged by the sudden death
of the venerable merchant, telegram
summoned her to Hartford, where her
father was dying. She arrived barely in
time to close his eyes.
The venerable Peter Cooper Yesterday
celebrated his ninety third birthday
Owing to his weakness his family request
ed that he be not made the recipient Of
public honor5 or addresses which would
involve the necessity Of his making re
plies. He celebrated the day quietly
among his family and in the evening had
a few old friends to dinner. Tie talk
about raising a monument to him, crea-
ted by a numberof over-officious admir-
ers has died out owing to his disapproval
He has ore monument, the Cooper Insti-
tude which has furnished thousands OF
eager and industrious young men with
the opportunities of learning sciences and
rudiments of industrial arts, and enabled
hundreds of young women to earn com
Portable living by means of teleQraphy.
sculpture, painting, etc, learnt there, ami
all of it without costing them a cent Of
money. Any man may well be satisfied
with such a monument.
The exposure Of the ring in the Office
Cf the Commissioner of Jurors, which
mulcted forty or fifty thousand dollars
year from business men anxious to avoid
the loss OF time and money Occaei0ned by
serving as jurors is likely to lead to fur
ther investigations. and it Is SAID that the
clerks Offices OF some of the higher courts
are next on the list That this sys-
TEN of bribery has not been looked into
before is a surprise to everybody, for this
species of piracy was carried on with
scarcely the semblance of concealmeut
| remember one person a messenger Of
whom it was said that he helu the larg-
est stock Of shirts, scarfs, underwear etc,
OF any man in town in fact he had
enough all the year round to stock
store. The collection Of geutleman's fur
nishing goods got to be mania with him,
just as hric-a-brec, coins or pictures are
with others. He made it point to pick
ont ali the summons for dealers in thu
class of goods for himself OF course
every one of them was anxious to evade
his duty, and said So The messenger
would examine say new line Of shirts.
GLOW much are these?" he would ask
"Twenty- five dollars a Dozen" "Well
I'll take a dozen and call for them to
morrow. You are sure you do not want
to server" this with meaning look
-"quite sure the reply would be. The
next day he would get his shirts, the deal
er would not get his summons, and who
could then charge one with receiving, the
other with giving a bribe?