The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-14
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

Correspondents of the Democrat
The star on Butler.-How 1t wiU
benefit him.-What Republican
harmony amounts to.-Ihe Hen
bricks boom.-Ihe demolition of
old Washington market postponed
until the faU.-Iraditions.-Jay
Gould and steam Yatchtng.-The
Dog days.-Sad scene in the
pound.
New York, June 9Th, 1883.
Everybody is agreed that the in
suit offered to General Butler by
Harvard University, III refusing him
the honorary title of LII D., is a
downright boom for him, as it shows
the animus of the old Massachusetts
fossils against progressive ideas. 1t
is the old fight of a would be aristo-
cracy against the classes who have
to work for a living. Whatever err
ratio ways Butler may have INDUCED
in, this much is certain that the Har-
ward cranks'hnve done the n thing
which will restore him to his former
popular hold, and the Republicans
may find out too late that it was very
unwise on their part to make the
dead set" against him which they
did.
what does the present scheme of
hnrmonizing the New York Republi-
cans amount to-" I asked of a prom
inent politician the other day.
"Simply this, that all factions will
be united if the machine can get on
top and induce other parties to sing
dumb. Otherwise there will be no
harmony. Talk Of Democrats in this
State being at daggers drawn
Whatever dissentions there are, they
are open at least, and they are more
in words than in fact. The Repub-
lican quarrels however are more Sc
cret; they rankle, the factions find
it hard to forgive each other; the
leaders all feel sore over some one
point, and unless some unforeseen cir
cumstance should intervene the
breach in their camp will grow wider
instead of being healed up"
The Hendricks boom for 1884 is
growing very strong, and during the
past week has really assumed large
proportions. An Indiana Congress
man said the other day: eff Hen
bricks is nominated he will carry his
State by o tremendous majority, and
if it came to an issue between him
and Mcdonald, he would carry the
latter off his feet"
The work of demolishing the old
Washington Market was to have been
yesterday, but somehow the stall
keepers managed to get another re-
spite until the fall. This is certain
ly sensible, for if the old recesses
under the flooring of the market
which by courtesy are called cellars,
were to be opened in the heat of the
summer season they would be eer-
tain to give vent to o very respecta-
Bile amount of sickness. AS it is they
are regular hatcheries of malaria
For the sake of old New York tradi-
tions one cannot help reg1etting the
approaching destruction of the old
rookery, but or the other hand q new
market there is absolutely necessary,
more so than at Ninth Street and
Sixth Avenue where q new Jefferson
Market is rising, phoenix like out OF
the ruins of the old one. The mar
kets we have were built in early New
York days. They were than large
enough to supply all exigencies.-
The time for these wooden struct.
ures is gone by.
One of the siliest and vaincst
modes of expenditures demanded by
fashion is the custom ofsending huge
baskets of flowers to friends sailing
for Europe. Now all these pretty
and costly gifts are thrown over.
board before the ship reaches Sandy
Hook, for they could not remain in
the cabin as the air there, naturally
close and sitting would be absolute
ly s%uffocating from the orders ex.
hailed by flowers. A project is now
on foot among the ladies of the Flow
err Mission, who provide the sick
poor in the hospitals with such lit.
tie reminders of better days as flow.
ers and fruit and little d~elicacies, te
have either the pilots remove the
flowers, or have a boat in readiness
into which the blossoms might bt
placed and. carried back to town,
there to delight some poor SOUL
This is sensible charity.
Mr.. Edwin Booth and his daugh
ter Edwima, are on their way back
to this country. Miss Booth returns
to render the last days of her lover
happy, who is dying of consumption
The engagement is one. of many
years standing, and all the friends
of the young lady and the young man
deeply regret that there is scarcely
a possibility Of a happy ending. MIR
Booth, by the way. made more mon.
ey during his short engagement il
Germany, where he played with 6
German company, than in England
This certainly testiies to the high
admiration in which genuine art is
held in the Fatherland.
Jay Gould finding that despite his
millions he could not get into any
recognized Yacht Club, has together
with a number of other plutocratie
nobodies who aim to be considered