New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-11
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND

comfy told me were developed by De Witt Chtoh anu
The Erie Canal the father having been canal ioo VI
the great work here, and as the canals were sVii
further Vest he followed the boom and MADE niue rn
drive a cart i'm the excavations. Somerset ther Nome
was an old Catholic town. BY a scratch man h"n'u
Ritcbev was elected Congress- ana he received eer
from little Phil whose activity and 6ohomme had at
1rctcd his attention asking the West Point aceand
he got H. In the vicinity originated sehaIor-eect
Bowen Of Colorado, and stephen b. Elkins
People around Columbus, Ohio, are making inquiries
about two of their local heroes who came TO New-1oN
"Ben Smith, build the Rockaway Hotel andralroaoahu
Lee who got mp the STANDARD Coal and Iron Company OF
the Hooking Valley, and, according to the tae tere
sunk $4,000 of Mr. Blaines money and $4,000 oil MI
Fkins's Both these men are described to have been
sharp sangune characters long they attended, 10
strictly Buckeye matters. The Rockaway ho'e Is INC
greatest edhce of wood known since the Ark, and Imam
ciay is lumber yard out of which no lumber can be
sold.
The Hooking Valley, Of Ohio, which is billy, sand
stone country underaid with coal has been and sun
the speculative enterprises in railroads. furnaces
mines and beds. 1t runs southeast OF columbus
toward the Kanawha and therefore the railways down
the Hooking Valley show tendency to cross the ONO
and ascend the Kanawha inquired: Why go further
10 get coal when here is already more than enoughF
The answer seemed clear The Hooking Valley coal VIII
not COKE on of the sulphur In it, The KanaWha
coal cokes perfectly Besides, the red hemae ores up
the Kanawha valuable TO mix with the ONO local
ores and the furnaces of the Hooking Valley demand
cheap coke as kindng their coal and the very
nearlash of successful iron manufacture" Thus every
thing proves the nterdependence of the sections and
States and nature aud trade are steadily at war Win
provinciasm and states rights. Jefferson Davis was an
economical fool and seeded he formerly repudiated
because solvent in neither brains nor habits
Wet I-;r.irio 4bov cav has dcvelOped strong Re
rublican tendency much by any change or heart
as by nsylvania and foreign immigration Wheeling
where Archie Campbell, who supported Fremont IN
1856 still edits The nteugencer and rasps the soul OF
Lord Roscoe by initiating his affected tones in conven-
lions is said to have become Overwhelmingly Repub-
lican The Democrats, with n close Legislature nave
sent thrty-four- ycar-od Confederate soldier to the
United States Senate. The Kanawha region Is stu be-
hind the age sympathies and snap but mo1e 'nans
will either give Charleston start OF develop ne" TOW"
in that valley.
Il The Garrett family Of Baltimore which manages the
baltimore and Ohio railroad property is not behind The
times very far Their last enterprise is TO stimulate
new railroad Columbus to Cincinnati, giving them
awo sides loop for ST. louis business ana bringing
,hen beher into the parallels of virtue and industry
Reurn Jonathan MeCs the first second Governor OF
Ohio lived on Front-st, Marietta, in neat plain stone
house side TO the street, door in the middle. ana the
street parked along the Muskngum River bank. few
doors from Returns IS the old yellow frame Congrega-
tona church the oldest in the West with wooden cupo-
las Governor Meigs not the pioneer and warrior,
but scholarly son of his saw in that town Douglas
Putnam one OF many representatives of Rufus Putnam
the Miles standish Of the West and man OF far more
sense than Miles Standsh, and also sister OF General
Don Carlos Buell., who was bred here and now lives
hermit wdowers life in some remote part of Kentucky
I'm
ancocs expression OH the tariff Of which much fun
was made The of William E. Nblack Of Indiana
remarked to me: The tariff is local issue; II 1t could
build up factories in my native town OF Nincennes
would become a Protectionlst Senator voorhees, has
already become because factories are strongly assem-
Hing around his home and neighbOrs at Tcrre Haute.
General Hancock may have inefccnty expressed him
self but the tariff Is of all things, the foremost local
issue As such supported by local Congressman in
diGerent TO party who are elected to maintain the
enecia fabrcatons I'm their districts There 10 broad
.ara Motley: IL Is the combination of local Interest,"
Indeed Hancock can be easily doomed again If his
soldier friends Federal and Confederate, will but 90
at It, He is the only National candidate In sight OF that
marty; Mcdonald, the Indiana candidate; Morrison the
Illinois; Hoadey the Ohio; Randall the Pennsylvania;
Butler the Irish; Hancock is the candidate Of the
whole nj once Missssppian through his Mssouran
Through his wife, Pennsylvania through his birth New
York through residence New-England by name. Nhoop
him NJ and hoist the banner Of Pooh Tariff Why,
hes local Issue"
Would il not be n wild grippe OF coocynth and caOmcl
60 Messrs Pendleton Hoadey and Payne to see General
Ben L Fevre the IIoopPoe District of Ohio, put up
for Vice PRESIDENT He is the Western type of General
Arthur ladies' attentive devouring indeed, IN his
devotions standing feet lovely If expansive in
dress coat and taking to white nccktic Ike dove 10
st. rf,a. He Is the strongest Congressman in patron
ee and garden his state rcspectcr OF parties
and he gets nominations made by Republican President
and has his enemies rejected by Republican Senate,
while I'm almost every town Of his district there exist
families whose scions he has taken up TO Washington and
put at a desk and who arise TO call him blessed The
ptnasters are growing stOopshC uldered over hefng
his docum pns; be is an antiquary among Old Govern
,nent publications and is cleaning out the old printed
fodder that racks the coal holes OF the Capitol like Her
cues cleansing the Augean stable with his food Of the
frankng privilege. lie voted Of course, agans Pendie-
TONS Ciyl Service bill "why" says General Ben, indig
nantly shall be forbidden TO taAe Of my rendsl
Is that Democracy Not before Consul TO NureIn-
berg" "Whoop la! For President, Turveydrop Blank;
for vioe-President. Brigadier- General Benjamin lie
FevTe"
They say around Columbus. Ohio. that ex-senator
Thurman is shaky OF his pins but in his
voice and that the effect of hearing him resound is that
of seeing the and cruches Of Lazarus assemble
together and say in a rumbIng kind of way
"Come forth. Come forth! Ha ha!"
Monsieur Poulet the French lawyer for the creoc and
half breeds OF old Vincennes Indiana, Is small witty
Jean-J ac lues- Rousseau like probably seventy
wears Of age who lives in square OF ground Enclosed
with u and to his door leads thick avenue Of cedars
his address is almost like an Irish wag's lie told mt
that he lived at ST. Frmin at the gates Of Chantiy, anC
that the Duke OF Condo the last OF that great house who
was found suspended in the chateau had been srangeC
by his MISTRESS nephews because he made will agans
her interests And have that lady," said the ole
man. repused from the grand stables OF the Montmo
rences while allowed to go in" He came to Amer
ica in ls40 Walking he says from Paris to Iavre.