The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-04
New York July Dist. 1888.

New York July 2lst, 1883.
The suicide of the Spanish Minister
Senior Barca, has cast decided gloom
over the social community, and from the
seaside resorts came many expressions of
sympathy. Senor Barca was polished
gentlman Of the old Spanish school. A
silent but courteous man, his house at
Washington and his visits in New York |
were alike highly rated on account of the
beauty of his daughter and the charming
manner of his wife. His death is a sad
lesson on the sin of exlravagance, which
is the vice of the age.
New York society people had good
laugh over the escapade of e. Berry Wall,
one of Gotham's gilded youth at Long
Branch. He cut quite dash there with
his endless variety of clothes and horses,
and at the same time acted like such a
silly fool, that one of the papers poked no,
end of fun at him, calling him the King
Of Dudes. Some of his friends took up
the matter and sent an imaginary chal-
lenge for 6 duel to the editor of the paper
Two worse scared men than the editor
and young Wall could hardly be i'm
agincd They met on hotel veranda aud
said some disagreeable words at each
other, like two school girls who are "real
mad'' at each other, and then Berry, to
escape further trouble, skipped off to Sar-
} atoga with bag, baggage and horses,
where he signalized his arrival by drop
ping 81 800 at roulette the evening on
which he arrived. Berry, to use the An
glicism, is not half bad, only he has toe
much money and too little brain. He is
! about twenty-tnree or four years old, and
Z. his model and exemplar is the distin-
e guished Freddie Gebhard. About u yeai
q ago he went in for racing, but up to the
present he has not done much. They tel
a very funny story about his first pur
u chase OF horse, which is characteristic
L of the young fellow. There was n gra.
It colt, a three -year-old called Knight.
Y King, at Lexington, which his owne
9 would have gladly sold for $3.50, bu
could find no purchaser He was we
:, bred, being 10y King Alfonso, but h
"a showed no speed for over a iurlOng. Som
e. one in a waggish mood told Wall tnel
r was a good colt which he ought to bu.
id What does he do but so to the owner an
" asks to look over the colt. After the il
Il. spectiOn during which he looked vel
:, wise he said: Now, Mr.. X, I'm IN,
w of very few words. like the colt and
lis will give you So, 900 for him-not ce
lis more," The owner stood as if struck
I'd lightning. When he recovered suflicie
1t. breath he replied: "Mr. Wall, l W
m going to ask 50. 800 for him, but seei
- that you like linn so much, l will let y
~ have him at your price. He is yours
The horse has never won n race, and "
finally sold 10 riding academy rs a 81
lg, die horse.
to One of the most familiar sights at pt
On lie resorts, theatres, race courses, al
rv. where in fact where anything is going
Is Judge John Il, Brady. and his elev,
year-old boy. Judge Brady is one of
most shining ornaments of the Benz
His mind is filled with legal lore and
not decisions are characterized by q rare
in sight and au iucisiveness rarely to be II
with. Although his hair is snowy VIII
and from distance he looks to be crc
the slow courtly gentlemen of the
= school, he is yet active and as full of
our and enjoyment as yOungster of twel
per five.
ted heard it stated, and from pretty e
ant authority, that Mrs. Stewart, (that is
cen say Judge uilton), proposes to buit
his Convention Hall in Saratoga, so that
ore State political conventions and perh
one National Conventions may meet at
eks Springs.
mt The capture of ex-pulcuman NugC
My who with two other villains attempted
ght rob bank cashier of $40, 600 in rally
the car, has again attracted much attention
we'll the dangers to which employees of IN
hat eyed institutions are exposed.
speaking with Inspector Byrnes, Chic
Z. the Detective force, last night. lie
delighted that Nugent had been M
4. safe, and said he had at last got his
serts, for now there is no escape for h
u'ht 60
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