Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-05-24
Gotham Gossip.

Gotham Gossip.
THE Alaska, Noyagc.-A Journey
after the Style f"Around the World
IN Eighty Dlw.-Ws Sullivan
Mitchell Encounter The Churches
'GeIting Ready for the Summer Vaca.
,'tons.
New York, May 10th, 1883.
think it would have required a
very extraordinary inducement to
,,ave made me sail for Europe on the
Williams Il Guion lines steamer
last Tuesday. She and her sister
ship the Arizona are known as the
greyhounds of the ocean, and the
speed with which they travel is mar
velous. 1t is of course needless to
SAY that they are the crack vessels Of
the transatlantic fleet, and the SWELL
dom which used to fight its way to
the ticket office of the Cunard line to
secure berths in one of their steam.
era, now would travel by no other
vessel than either of these. Well,
long before last Tuesday every berth
an the Alaska had been engaged
Three or four days before the date of
her sailing came a party Of gentlemen
who ware determined to sail by her.
The captain and five Of the officers
Jet.them have their staterooms for a
heavy consideration Of course. Then
ON Sunday night party Of English
men came from the West. They had
travelled post haste in order to get
back to England in time to see the
Derby run. This great race comes off
next Wednesday. 1t was impossible
10 give them cabin accommodations
so they went to the steeragc, making
arrangements at the same times to
..at in the saloon. Now if that YES
~sl :,s to make port in time to enable
SAer passengers to get to the EPSON
dow in time for the race, you may
,magine at what rate Of speed she
must travel, something in the style
IN which the hero Of Jules Verne
So Around this World in Eighty days
went. This may be exciting. but to
the average man little less haste
would be much more comfortable.
Somebody in the District Attor-
,neys Office tells me that it is very
likely that the Grand Jury may take
5'ction against Sullivan, Mitchell and
the gettsrs up of the brutal encoun-
ter euphoniousiy termed a glove fight
vt Madison Square Garden last Mon
day night. At all events the fore
man Of the Grand Jury was there,
and as he is not sporting man, the
probabilityis that he went there for
A purpose. The fight showed that
science is of no avail before that hu-
man brute Sullivan. Mitchell got in
one good blow at his opponent, but
the applause which this evoked arous-
ed the animal in Sullivan. He broke
down Mitchell's guards and showered
blows on him. which had they been
delivered without gloves might have
killed an OK. At sll events Mitchell
went flying over the ropes under one
,Df his attacks as if he had been stand
ing a spring board. l vertically be-
lieve that if Captain Williams had
not intersred he might have killed
Mitchell. "His blood was up" as one
of his admirers said.
Soon the chunahes, that is to say,
the fashionable ones will be closed
10th ministers and congregations 60
lug away on their vacations. and then
there will be out.of door religion at
the watering places. AT the famous
odd camp meeting grounds at Ocean
Grove, Asbury Park and other noted
places in New Jersey, they are &C.
lively preparing for the season and
the accommodations this year will be
better than ever before. A number
'nf new cottages are being put up to
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