New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-01

Until heard my c0mrade say:
"whom have you seen tonight"
"To guess" said. "were iruitless task
When all this maze see;
But If they ever come in mask,
Two angels spoke to me-"
Gossip says theatre is going up at -thifd-st
and seventh-ave. and works gallery Ike Tus-
saud's at Twenty third st. east Of sxth-aye.
Colonel william Craig. officer In the army from
1853 to ga VINO married relative OF Mrs President
Madison had in Southern Colorado obtained
from French Count. Vihil who got 1t from Mexico
Four or years ago he bonded for cattle ranch at
less than 100000 1t is said that Ben Butler of Massa-
ohusets got the bonds about 10 cents on the don.
chiefly from law services Craig and little money adj
vanced and ia expecting to sell the tract In Europe,
where perhaps William f. Shaer is trying 10 place IT,
Craig had bill from Butler OF $4,000. There
are lust two clements Of strength Butler has for the
Presidency the MilesaD vote and long purse to take
up collection with at the end of pole down the pews
Of the Convention.
Madame Resells great residence with large additions,
right opposite the William X. Vanderbilt house, is to be
called The Langham. aud kept by Mr.. Colt, of the
Argyle Babylon, L. whose hotel there has been very
profitable.
dry goods man said TO Inc yesterday : " The best
business going to who understands 1t is the retail
people are O'Nel has bought a whole block front.
though some of the leases he cannot pick up for two
years. Crawford Simpson near by have lately spent
$4,000 In extensions. Macy sells from three millions
to FIVE millions year. and Valentine and Webster are
now all OF Mays Two Of the Boutiler brothers are
going take the former Cooperative store leaving the
third brother in Fourteenth-st. Stern made Twenty
third-st on a hazardous experiment" He added that
when a house doing 9th wholesale and retail trade
supplied latter from the former 1t was sign or not
doing very we In brisk trade their buyers would be
well distributed Next TO Cla1in and to Bates, Reed
Cooley the growing jobbing house left. Weller
& Co. The recognized A. T. Stewards.
already very strong aud successful would forward
strongly still in another with very rare French
and German goods. Paterson silks we're rather
a drug and the commission houses which sold them full
Philadelphia goods begging, too William Lyles
quilt mills jute works at the west foot OF Twenty
third ST. ran 900 hands day and night and till recently
absorbed one third OF the ute coming into the country
Dry goods hard to get OFF this spring from the long
winter and overproductioD. Fifteen per cent the
retail profit at the largest house of its class
recent scandal at Washington led a gentleman TO
read me a letter from a friend there An the women
SAY il is true; all the say it is le.'
Fam Randall was In town last week. He has Of
the best qualities of General Grant, he conquer his
prppensities. When think of him as knew him six
teen years shave the victim OF drink. gen
uine Rip Van winkle letting such companions came
along make his society and mslead his iie and him
now without much greater mental growth except ex-
perience a subject of pride euvy national candi-
date for two great offices at once and his se-conro
unsupported and his pecuLary honesty unchaenged'
feel ike sayihg Accused be him who sets the bottle
TO his brothers ps!" Rather let il he sad A loving
and beloved wife is beyond all treasures"
The three Democratic candidates for the speakershp
have all temporarily occasionally been opers Moth
ing s less understood than drink and man. Persons
who never drink and cannot drink, Ike women and
saints think they know all about it, Warm men, warm
in brain, in mind strong in ambition. generally
airt with the bottle at time. till experience and
self-possession regulate them. After all the worst
thing about drink Improbable company II brings
although dreaded form OF inempert nee the
selfish solitary backdoor drinker The use OF wine is
10 warm the nature up and make cold men fraternal
That is why dinner leaves friends who began pale
students OF each other That temperance is to be
pected which the head and heart at last formal
and exact like the brass tacks In dry goods store
counter between which everything is measured of in
yards-and often scant yards too.
doctor tells that he has had seventeen true and
eighteen false accoucbenen in NewYork this winter
Cause absurd dressing hide the boast OF mothers
Cities are not the places 10 study America.
Here is q dresm / had truly last Friday night as
these types thought In the Albany Legislature:
the Senate was trial somehow either before the As
sembly or the Courts the People; know not what
But the Senators voted with loud defiance No.
and then applauded their for 1t clear OF
their being In the wrong and overpowered looked
along the sullen line OF half-bred men their
coarse musaches and saow skins. At last they
either beaten or withdrew know not which,-and
balloon came take them away sobersidcd omnibus
kind OF balloon, which did not excite 10
riosity They going Ia 1t to Albany. and Albany
saw 10 be kind of orb away up in the sky miles
on miles. ! knew II was Albany, though 10 was not |
labelled So started with the great remainder OF the
people to 20 Albany by the steamboat and while we
were Just embarked happened TO look at the Senate
balloon far OF up In The VISTA and suddenly burst
There was q loud exclamation all around me we
watched three men, tissue men, barely TO be known
as SUCH come tnlnbing down the infinite height. saw
Il ss plain as my ink upon these lines. Now have not
been In the Albany Legislature since the respectable
George Sloan was ih master spirit four or five years
,Ro What made dream about 1t . Probably be-
,ause 1t has become such annual nuisance. and
especially this year. with its -,a, Of striking eIcur
ioniss and press gag reorers Or perhaps the stone
cling is going to fall Koch, Grady, Kiernan ana the