Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-16
GATH GOSSIP.

Schemes-Where Did Polk Loose his
Moneye-ButIer and PendIeton as Rival
Presidential Candidates,
Gath Letter
New YORK, Jan. 15.-The new tarl1 DILL
1t is believed, will fail. being full OF low
minded jobs, and business will go on as
before as soon as the present stocks are
worked OF. Meantime, the free ship bill,
It is thought, will stimulate foreign mar
ket for Us. Dorsheimer, representing
John Kelly, and Mayor Cleveland too, is
boosting Sunset Cox for speaker of con-
.gress. Blackburn is killing off Carlisle
from envy, and Randall viii probably fall
from dead weight.
Lord Smalley says from Paris that
CIemenceau will probably be Gambetta's
Succession. Clemenceau's head is not
only sound, but his heart is in the right
place. He has a charming wife, who mar
red him for love, and
whom he dearly loves. He
IS also the loving father of two beautiful
little girls and of a boy who is his own
image. His daughter Madeline, aged
twelve, Is simply idesI. She is very intel
Iectual, studious and learned for her age.
Her features have the regularity of Greek
statue, and her eyes = soft girlish elo-
Guence which imparts to the head an es-
sentiaIly modern character. The second
girl, There5e, has q physiognomy essen
bially French, and very animated. When
her father introduces her to his friends ne
calls her the little monkey" She has his
ambition, but softened and refined. Glenn
-enceau's third child IS a boy. His
name is Michael. He is nine years
old, and the repicate of his
father. The youngster is at school
at the College Norge. He is lively and
forward for his age. The boy has an air Of
American independence which greatly
amusss his father. He derives it from his
mothers family. Madame Clemencsau ia
q New Highlander, and has many of the
virtues and the graces which ths daughters
of the pilgrim fathers inherited from the
old English grandmothers.
A suit against United States Senator
Mcpherson, of New Jersey, by Jos. F. Rus
ling, seems to show that he is sly fox, and
several of his letters are at least peculiar,
as Don't come here till 10 O'Clock. night,
and don't let anyone see you come" Next
follows note inclosing a form of inter
view to be used by Mr.. Rushing. If the
writer is attacked, Mr.. Rushing is
TO say: Il confess I have tried to
get information from Mr. Mcpherson, but
was repulsed with the reply that he would
be responsible for no statements made to
a committee, except those made by him
self, which statements he would make to
no committee, except a committee of the
senate of which he is a member. I have
been forced to unearth and dig out these
facts without such assistance as he could
have proffered me if he had done his whole
duty in this matter
Instead of further signs of panic 1 see
renewed activity. Vanderbilt is building
new railroads like 8 Turk at war. He is
now in more than twenty million dollars
for new lines, and seems to be going for
the rival systems baid-headed. His lines
now projected are in the form of two
enormous circles, one embracing the
east from Niagara Falls and New Eng
land to Baltimore and PittsbUrg, and the
Their embracing the northwestern grain
field to Chicago, the hyphen being through
eastern Ohio. Referring to Vanderbilt's
Pennsylvania railroad extensions, it is said
that for some time it has been reported
that Vanderbilt has been buying New Jer-
sey Central stock to make sure of the con-
troll, as he could not depend on some hold
ings of Reading. Vanderbilt saw possibil-
tiles in the Reading that others did not.
He saw in it not only way to the coal
fields but way to the strOngholds of mis-
old competitors, the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore & Ohio, to PhiIa-
deIphia and Baltimore by lines quite
as direct as the others. The
Reading ran into Philadelphia by its own
main Lille, and by utilizing the Western
Maryland he saw his way clear into Balti-
more if he desired to tap that seaport
All that remained to complete the route to
Chicago and the great points in the West
was link between Harrisburg and Pitts
burg. The Pittsburg & Lake Erie in which
Mr.. Vanderbilt exercised a controlling in
fusncs, extended TO Youngstown. Ohio.
down to which ran g branch of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern, the western
mainstay of the railroad magnate. The
line from Harrisburg to Pittsburg is best
A44OHA % IIIS 4hCdO4A45 OAISuslOas opera
tons Oh it have begun, and
it is said two years will see it |
completed. The president, as required by !
the law of the state, is a resident of Penn |
sylvania, B. &. Sheldon, of Philadelphia |
Mr.. Vanderbilt provided the money for the |
enterprise. 1t is claimed for the line |
which the extension will complete that it |
wiz be very much shorter THAI the Penn |
sylvania, and with much easier grades.
The Vanderbilt roads leading from The |
West directly TO the East have been doing |
an enormous business, as shown by the |
tabulAted statements issued by Commas
sioner Fink The greatest year for earn
ings was 1880, but that has been far ex-
ceeded. The monthly averages over 1881 |
have been 100000 and 100000. |
The increase for December last over
December, 1881, was 100000. From Oct. |
last to Jan. l, the increase over the cor
responding three months of 1881 was
S1,500,0o0 in round numbers.
A person yesterday predicted to me that |
George Pendleton and Ben Butler would |
be the two leading candidates for president |
next year, the Republicans supporting |
Pendleton. The Butler shibboleth is to be |