New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-16

1882. -Four years later the present beanf1 space eO
feet deep, obtained cheap, and abuding erected
with Sing Sing marble, by the aid OF $1,000 from the
State. The state has also given 10000 or moro
per aunum. BY 1870 this institution had ex-
pended 100000 It sad az that tmo
that while new Bible could be bought for the seeing for
As cents the cheapest Bible for the blind cost 49, and
map of the United States for the class cost 40
instead of ourdoars The blind girls play the sewing
machine beautifully
Strangers In this city often stop to see in the most
expensive part Of Fifh-aye where individual building
lots sometimes bring 100000 spacious hospital with
wide grounds Saint Lukc's-who Is said 70 have been
physcian,-was the pious work OF the late Rev. w. A.
Mulcnberg that rectors family who preached ser
mon at the Revolution with his uniform beneath his
gown, and after the benedction called the roll OF
his regiment In 1850 the hospital inoor.
porlted; q subscription raised for 10 100000
in large sums and IL received "a lots from tho
city concession for a certain number Of beds Eight
additional lots bought about thirty ago for
81 500 apiece Each OF those lots probably fortune
now. The people gave another 100000 before the
buildings were completed In 1858, at cost Of s2250oO
furnished The first Protestant Community Of Sisters Of
Charity founded to operate this hosptalj the
apothecary, too, a Not all the nuns we see
abroad are OF the Roman sect.
Roman Catholic worship not permitted in New
York until after the British evacuated H. The first
church was Ba rcayst and bore date 1856, and was
rebuilt fifty years afterward That the only Cath
ole church till 1915, when the Cathedral Of 81.
Patrick was erected Pr1ncest. As the communicates
began to increase especially after the pota'oro in Ireland,
the Catholics almost systematically bought old Protestant
churches The Rev John Hughes in 1858 set the corner
stone OF the Fifthave. Cathedral COMMANDED the shield
OF the American Union TO be put before It, and the marble
in itswalls is from Westchester County.
Some men are doomed TO live and "wak on ike the
Wandering Jew. When THINK Of Oakley Han as I first
saw him. nearly twenty years agoedtng literar'pape
District Attorney, impending Mayor and probable Gov
the STATE and yesterday in the eolde morn or
winter starting the TO begin the practice OF
law at age he should have been able TO retire.
feel Ike using the aposrophe Of Raleigh for my prayer:
40 eloauent just and nlightie DEATH whom could
advise thou least persuaded have nath doned
thou whom all the world hath battered,
thou only hath cast out OF the world and despsed Thou
hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness all
the PRIDE cruelty and ambition OF man. and covered it
all over with those two narrow Words HE iocef"
Warner Miller our Senator Washington, IA one Of the
Youngest men that body and when elected, two years
ago was only 49, In two years he has absorbed more
sagacity observation-disclosures and correct influence than we
have han from this state at Washington in many years.
He has at the same time offended and wounded no
mans feelings He made himself, and when the
man began was school teacher near
Lake Champlain. Mr. Conkling began az the
top Mr. Miller entered the United States service as
volunteer common soldier, riding cavalry horse. He
never aspred beyond Leutenantcy and was prisoner
of war taken a the battle OF Winchester Mr. C0nkling
had been in Congress and the Senate tweatythree years
when Mr. Miller was sent 10 Washington. In three
weeks began to be shouted at him that he was not
Conklng The late election at Washington shows that,
without audacity has become OF the leaders OF
that body as had previously created handsome for
tune for himself the first Senator from the state
OF New-York who took up for his country. Preyi
ousy we had exclusively represented by those who
were taking care OF the widows and the records SO, Of
course the soldier viii be reviled.