New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-25
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOUNGER.

MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF bhoAD-
WAY LoUYGER.
The small temptation for which some clergy
men will marry people often arises out OF the poV-
ery of many preachers and the SPECIAL pro'luehoo ~
marriage fees During the week Baltimore Catnonc
priest is found having enough respect for marriage sane
.itv TO file respectable cOlOed man TO whlte Woma'
and local elopement in New-York shows that "nere
there is q will the curate Is not In me way onoo
lpevv NJ case where good Methodist preacher mar
ried blind couple for five dollars the ocla Vi Vne
ASYLUM who were getting revenue from the excellent
singing OF the pair threatened the minister with law
amt He stood his ground, and the children Of the
marriage. 1 believe. had fairly good eyesight so 1t
was a literal ease Of hiding from the wise and pru-
dent and revealing unto the babes
Dr. Loring, tho Commissioner of Agriculture,
Is srewd man of the world and interesting social ac-
! quantance lie has written bulky book on amateur
farming and like Boston men generally, is reader OF
new literature He said to that he put little faith In
| the batch OF New-Engand nOyests recently starting:
q Mr. Howels" he said, has written one good char
acer and IL Is in his Aroostook tale, namely, an old
Yankee fellow with the dialect and notion pretty well
drawn while az for Mr. James think he is disgusting
prg" when Garfield appointed DR.. LOrng he sent for
HIN and said have got about barrel OF petitions IN
favor Of retaining Commissioner Leduc; the Changers
|
position Is to appoint you but under great press
ure I don't know said Garfield, but 1t might be as
well TO let the Agricultural Bureau be absurdy as
| possible considering what it Is" day or two after
ward he sent for DR.. Loring and appointed him.
As to General Butler, in Massachusetts, the Doctor
said that he would seek a denomination and next time
the Republicans would beat him. The late E. d. Nor
gan had done real work in any one business week
Of his life than Butler during his whole life. Doctor
Ioring thought Ben Harrison probably the strongest
dark horse aud said that he would net be surprised
Mr. Blaine went to his support. He thought Harrison
was strong he did not talk the Presidency ana
would not listen to anybody else mentioning It,
recent Foreign Minister said to me that II was sign
OF the Administrations weakness that 1t could not pass
through the Senate treaty its Secretary OF state had me-
otated Persona lately the White House and IN that
circle which the President frequens say that ne main
tains his genial nature best after dinner In some
nleasan household but Is manifesty tmd and sensi"e
aud without strong hpar in h Administration. finding
in experience that the element he has trained with
expects too much from him, while the hostile element Is
ALWAYS keeply watching him. Some say that the Pres-
dent f. not in good health that he needs doctor VINO
will re-ouonze his methods Of life and VIII make MN
take long walks early in the day when the air Is whole
soe and also change his hours OF retiring that he can
get sleep when it will do him good. These remarks are
not made by any others than friends Of the President
Some OF these has cXaspcraed by not empymga az once
lls entire cornucopa into their cotcre but they are
better qualified TO speak for him still than any other Gle
mont Thu President was regarded few years aeo as
remarkably cosmopolitan I'm his address and grasp OF
mon and things but ne il said to have imbibed geute
melancholy almost like shyness, particularly since the
late elections.
Davis who has been feature Of theWhite House cir
clio FOR the uast year kind and thoughtful woman whose
g,. Of owes II "A address
l. well kcd By everyone having business or friendly re-
a,i,ns with HIM His wife IL Of tie full size womanly
vet neookng Tho President has been for years in the
habit Of resting himself with this family where he taxes
nm interest I'm the children aud Is appreciated by both the
husband and wife ~ boyish-naured sympathetic man
who having lost the wife OF his youth is often at loss
FOR sincere aud uuaulbtous friendship.
know judge Thoman, who has been put on the Civil
Service Commission the Democratic member. Being
recently at Youngstown Ohio, was introduced to a
rather largo young mad with n smooth face and some
thing engaging In his address. He had TO show me some
couresy in the course OF business OF rather public
rature and I inquired about him from Republicans in
the town and got the following general answers He is
the best speaker in this county ana Is good reno" all
through and whenever he wants anything here that we
eon give him. tie Republican boys Just run him In
D.,rocrat as he a. We made him Probate Judge here
for n pcrlod OF years" Thus introduced sat In my
room at the Tod House-a part OF the War Governor
Tods estatc-with Judge Thoman and talked with him
an hour He said that Senator Pendeton now stood
We'll with tho Ohio Democrats, whether they liked MS
Civil Service bin or not because Pendleton had gone TO
the front IN the last campaign which redounded to Dem
ocratc advantage making speeches In nearly all parts OF
the STATE and had retrieved himself from former sIS-
plcon OF having been luke-warm when Book"ater ran
did not observe at that time however, any especial
affection on Thomnn's part for Pendleton' ana myself
provolel the reference. Thoman Is reading man.
Pom fstF afp L u
he will probably the Civil Service Commission study
the question without prejudice and from his principles
through his eyesight l remember asking MN Il ne had
my ambition outside OF Youngstown which Is place OF
probably sixteen IN ousand people, and he s0id' No.
have settled right here the people have treated me We
and hero mean 10 stay" lie has been twice married,
though yet young aud his present wife Is spoken
Of a. very engaging woman. lie came from neigh
boring county IN ONO
Fine house building continues IN Washington city.
Mr. Blanes house | saw last week for the first time
since It was completed and on the whole It Is the most
effective Of the largo brick houses in Washington.
beng particularly successful in the management Of the
large chimncys which take almost the form OF pavions
There are two very good fronts to this house, which
stands ont ut junction Of streets quite exposed on
every side though It will presently be covered in the
rear by new buildings. The queer edce called Castle
Stewart nearly opposite Mr. Blancs has unocoupied
look and has never recovered from the fire which burned
II out some time ago after Stewart had left 1t 70 back
and make another fortune
Stewards wso told me occasion that her h1s-
band had built nine different homes for her and let them
nil go without regret And" said she, he is just the
hest liyellcst aughingcst man you ever saw" Mrs.
Stewart is daughter OF the late crratc Senator Fooe
who WAS Governor OF Mississippi and the enemy Of jeff
Davis Stewart received about two hundred and
eighty thousand dollars In money and proceeds from the
Gould and Curry mino fee said at that time TO have
been the largest mining fee ever paid He has left behind
him In Washington a of remarkable ability though
o the slngcd order, in Curtiss j. Hllyer who