New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-07-18
NEW YORK, July II, 1883.

New YORK, July Il, 1883.
Butler is making strong efforts to
cajole the South into looking favor.
ably on his boom for Presidency,
but he makes little Roadway.
"Should he succeed IN getting the
Northern Democrats to back him
solidly,'' said a leading South Caro-.
lima Democrat to me the other day,
''his nomination will break up in
the South as sure as there is a sun
in the skies. The people Of the
South can't forget his conduct dur
ing the war, and the ghosts of those
that fell during the war will rise up
against him.
One by one the Democratic tidal
wave Governors are pertering out.
The Governor of Michigan has now
been found out. He has been look.
ed upon as harmless enough except
in so far as some of his yetoes to
the Legislature were concerned.
Now, however it has been discov.
cred that he has provided all his
friends with sinecures and fat of6c-
es, and what was left made himself
solid with the wire pullers. The
Democrats after their victory last
fall had a grand opportunity.
They are wasting it with all their
usual energy and rapidity.
The Ohio contest continues to
attract most attention and while
Foraker is making a splendid can
vass, Judge Hoad]y is not alone in
active himself but furthermore
hampered by the listlessness of a
portion of his own party and by
the treacherous conduct of some Of
his so.called friends who mean to
stab him in the back. At the
Fifth Avenue Hotel a few days ago
I was present when bet Of 81 500
against $500 was made that For
aker would win.
Dueling, 1t seems, is becoming
quite the fashion again. We have
failed to revive the good old fashion
of wearing knee breeches, but the
custom of letting daylight through
a man because he has offended you,
or being prepared yourself to be
similarly dealt with, will soon be in
common usage again. It is an
agreeable mode Of procedure, and
providing the business is done
strictly according to the provisions
Of the code no harm can come of
it. In fact it will be immeasurably
| advantageous as it will cause more
careful use of the English language.
The latest occurrence in this city,
however, is nothing but a farce. j
allude to the 1umored meeting
between Col. Amory Knox of Texas
Siftings and Sheahan the sculptor.
Knox has been in town for some
days in the interests Of his papers
and as birds of a feather flock to-
gether, he fell in with some Of the
most experienced FOUNDERS at the
Press Club, and in their company
he had some "high old times. .
Among the shining lights of that
ilk is Sheahan. | don't know any.
thing about his work, having nev.
er been able to see any Of it. ]
dare say he is like the greater por.
ton of the Suns editorial writer's.
Very little of their work reaches
the dignity of printers ink, but as
John Swinton said, they write
Sheahan ''sculpts," in his leisure
moments When his friends are not
with him. They had a dinner a,
Moretti's the other evening which
lasted until ten o'clock, and Of
course they drank more than sin
gle bottle each. Then they wen,
to the Prospect, flash resort, and
guzzled beer.
The result may be easily imag
ined. While in that state they
qusrreled about some silly billy
business, the lie was given and q
challenge issued. Then they told
the whole stories to the newspaper
reporters, and strutted about like
heroes, and on Thursday morning
disappeared mysteriously. In the
evening Sheahan reappeared or
Union Square, drank his usua
quantity Of beer and dropped dari
hints of a meeting" at Rockaway
at which somebody was hurt etc
The truth of the matter is that
these two fools under the combined
influence of the heat and beer ex
pected to make this an advertising
scheme. Knox expected to get hi
little sheet talked about, and She
halan expected to sell some things
which it is currently believed h,
sculpts. The scheme was fail
ure however. and about Uniol
Square where, newspaper men, ar
fists and actors congregate, boil
men are derisively laughed at.