The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-01-10
uEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YoeK Cry,


epioy his Christmas dinner, was
Henry P.ouse Cooper, the fashiona
bic English tailor, the question of
whose sanity has given a Sherlh's
Jury weeks of consi 'eration. lie
has been declared sane, free to 60 on
with his business if it has not left
him entirely, and otherwise enjoy
himself if the shattered state of his
nearves permit. This attempt Of his
wife's to rid herself of his engaging
presence cost him atrife over SIS, 600,
and quite naturally he does not see
in this anything to make him fonder
of or more tender to his wife. He
hardly took his Christmas dinner
with her, and small wonder it is; for
during the taking of the testimony
she appeared to be as much of a
crank as he is. The Hoffman House
bar will in Mr.. Cooper welcome back
Il good customer.
Mr.. Cyrus W. Field is seemingly
not entirely so grasping a monopo
list as he has been represented, at
least in so far as his operations
cover the running Of newspaper.
On the Saturday before the day he
presented each one of his employees
in the Mil and Express office, edi
tors compositors, pressmen and
clerks in the counting room with a
magnificent turkey for Christmas.
Well, perhaps this was not much for
him. The cost of $3.50 for gobblers
to be served on Christmas dinner
tables, is a very slight drain upon
his resources, but the presentation
was a pleasant surprise to the PEG
pie in the establishment in as much
as newspaper proprietors are not in
the habit of paying more than they
can absolutely help for necessary
service. Mr.. Field on the other
hand, has every reason to be satisf-
ed with bis paper. 1t is capitally
edited, we'll written, and has shown
much enterprise in the gathering Of
news and fearliness in exposing
shams and wrongs as to have drawu
an extraordinary heavy adver ism
patronage to it. For the first time
in months, we have clean streets il
our city, and this fact is due solely
to it's crusade against the negligen'
Street Cleaning Department..
Natural flowers this Winter were
very expensive, and thus. the flora
decoration of the churches came very
expensive. / know Of one fashiona
ole church uptown whose florist:
bill reached the very respectable
sum of $4,000. AS late as two year!
ago Christmas decorations consisted
of evergreens, holly or young pines
and frs. Now they form simply thu
background for the florists art. TIL
effect Of course is very beautiful
Carping critics will Of course de
nounce such "extravagance," CLAIM
as did their predecessors in Christ
days, that it would have been bette
to give the money to the poor But
be it remembered, that the varlou
public and private charities hav
this year been membered will
more than usual liberality. TIL
ladies of the flower mission particu
larly distinguished themselves b,
their activity; and the amount o
wearing apparel, articles of food
flowers, toys, sweets and.knick knack
for the sick and convalescent which
they got together was simply mar
velous.
The Christmas issues Of the spor
ting papers were the last of the boil
iday numbers to appear. The 1Nr1
Field and Farm is rich in stories o
the field and forest, the Sportsman
gives portraits of Teakes, Mr.. Pierr
Lorillard's first jockey, and Barbee
Mr.. Frederic Gebhard's jockey, to
gether with pictures of George til,
English Champion runner and Myer
the American runner. The Spiri
of the Times is wonderfully com
plete number. The frontispiece i
drawn by DuMaurier, the famous
caricasurist of London Punch. TIL
letter press contains stories and pa
pers written specially for this mum
Der by Wilkie Collins, Joseph Hat
ten, Lady Violet Granville, Henri,
Irving, Dion Boucic.uIt, ETC., togeth
er with charming poem by Georg
R. Sims, the author the Lights c
London. Wilkie Collins story
downright rot. In fact I shout
think the owners of the Spirit ha
had enough of him. Last year the
aid him a stiff sum for stor
which they copyrighted. Much t
their chagrin Collins gave the sam
story to Belgravia or some othe
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