The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-26
procession has not been seen in
Washington since Inauguration day.
PRoNo.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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--Congressmdn Coe's Boom
RandaW's Devious Ways.-Hen
drick's Caauas.-Spring ard SUI
cides.-The Influence of Cold
Heather and Rain on Marriages.
n Sad Story.-Jay Gould's Re
tirement.-A Master Stroke
Characteristics of has Son George.
The Oyster Season Closing.
New York, April II, 1883.
"Is there no way of ending the
Star Route trials?" 1 asked of a
prominent Washington office-holder
whom / met in the corridor of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening"
"Yes," he replied, "cut down the fees
of the government counsel. These
gentry are working this trial for all
that it is worth, and the longer they
keep it up the better it suits them.
You mark my words after the Star
Route trials are completed we will
have another exposure, and that is
on the question how were they con-
ductedt"
Anybody that thinks that Con-
gresham Cox, New York's hard
working, and ever clever and witty
Representative has yielded all claims
to the ~speakership is mistaken. The
comic papers are poking fun at him,
and even his own friends are hurting
light shafts of ridicule at him, yet
he is undismayed. He is now tray
cling through the South, lecturing
lon African Wit and Humor. If he
does not succeed in getting the South
solid for him, his nom de guerre
ought to be Sunrise instead of Sun
set.
Randall continues to be the great
stumbling block in the way of Dem
o~cratic harmony, and although he is
fully aware that if he keeps on he
will eventually wreck the party, he
still keeps on. Now is the time to
give him a square set back. There
is more truth than fiction in the sto-
ries about his dickering with the Re-
publican pr~otectionists.
Elk Governor Hendricks was in
town yesterday and had several in
terviews with leading Democrats
Do not believe that he considers him
self shelved for the presidency. He
is as strong as ever, and is making a
quiet and hence all the more vigor-
Gus anvas
In the Spring youths is said to
lightly turn to thoughts of love, but
this season the opposite seems to
prevail. Whatever may be the cause
of this 1 do not know, perhaps it is
the prevailing cold and rain, which
makes the weather more like autumn
or winter and thus nips affection in
the bud. Certain, it is however,
that the number of marriages as re
corded in the office of the Registrar
of Vital Statistics during the past
six or eight weeks shows q decided
decrease from former years. Then
too there has been q number of sui
cides caused by sorrow over ill or
unrequited love. OF these 10 less
than six we're attempted by senti-
mental young women, who found that
they had lost their Influence overthe
hearts Of their chosen ones. One IF
these cases was o particularly sad
one. It was that of a Brooklyn
young lady. Love among ladies is
particularly strong there. She had
been engaged TO a youth not of high
degree but Of gentle breeding for
some time. During the past few
weeks she noticed that his visits be
came fewer, and that his dsmonstra-
tions Of affection grew weaker. The
famous aphorism of she French di-
plomat "cherchez la femme"-seek
the woman, at once became her wal
cry. One day she went to his rooms
searched his desk and dressing ia.
bic, and in them found the damnine
evidence of his unfaithfulness, in the
> shape Of several love letters o frecent
| date from another young lady. She
at once wrote him a lettes unpraid'
: ing him for his conduct, informing
him at the same time OF what she
had done. He replied in an extreme
ly polite manner, that under the cir
cumstances she mustse herselftha
1 he could have no nor confidence ii
7 her, and that he must therefore de
l cline to continue his visits. Their
the poor thing cries, takes poison
: and dies. She has no sy~mpathizers
No one weeps over the remains o
e her poor, foolish little self. "Pshaw,'
4 say her friends, Brot klyn young la
I dies of cotrse. "How absurd! Why
: did she not sue him for breach o
: promise? This is no longer the age
of romance"
e Jay Gould is going to retire, a:
l you have already been informed by
telegraph. After a boyhood ant
! manhood Of incessant labor he is a
last going to take a long holiday ane
c see how a little play would go. Hi:
:, fortune is estimated in round mum
I bers at 100000 600, nearly all in
vested in securities, and his sol
i George is now to conduct the forces
which wealth like this enables a lead
. er to command. Before retiring Mi
U Gould did clever financial end lega
stroke. AS you are aware the West
e ern Union Telegraph Company wa
. enjoined from paying a quarterly div
t idend on over ifteer millions of it
g stock, the legality of the insurance @
which was at litigation. AS it wa
$ impossible to order on which fiftee
q millions of the stock the dividen,
was not to be paid, the whole bull
Is Of it was placed under the ban. Di
n the company pass its dividend, a
o loving the value of their stock to dc
E. preciate? Not much. Mr.. Goul
is was not enjoined by a court fror
n paying out what money he liked t.
1t He paid the entire dividend. and no,
the smart people who got the ~injunt
Of ton have a. awakened to the fact this