New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-23


the boys on the skrmsh line let fly with their muskets
as to bring the individual TO stand They did not mean
TO kill the driver hut Just TO make him hold In. We could
this man leap of and duck his head and go back so
the barrel on his wagon and strike 1t with something and
then cut the traces, mount the horse and ride of got
up there pretty early and found that the scamp had been
trying to get away with great big hogshead of apple
jack and seeing that he could not escape had picked up
stone and STAYED the end in You may bet he WAS no
soldier" sad McCOok to be that about his
liquor Well, when came up there the liquor had run
down into the deep ruts in the road and formed little
pools and basins One OF tho slirmishers up and
STOPPING down gave q sniff with his nose and said:
Major bless your soul 1t is appleac Said I: Very
WELL my man. don't stop here nOw 90 right on But,
said the again, appealngly; Major, know it Is ap-
pie. jack. Never mind, my man. said I, take your
gun and get along Perhaps that liquor is poisoned
and you are falling into atrap.' He gave another snif
and said to me with smlr his face: NOW, Major by
Jng If you'll trust her. will and with that he took out
of the rut rst-cass drink and then got up cOntentedy
and kept on after the enemy"
Hunt Dunlap who kept the drug store under the Gil
sey House. were offered release for $1,000 If they
would pay 900 for the fixtures They removed to the
new store under walacks Theatre, where the rent
$500.
financial observer said 10 me during the week: You
lard; now I am going to say something good OF him.
have never had the benefit of his acquaintance, but
rather like who has worked hard, against whom
fortune turns The town s full Of rumors about Mr..
Wizards wealth. Let me tell you what he sad' accord
ing to the best information possess to business gem
teman recently. This person went TO see Mr. Wizards
house; think il was last Sunday. He reported TO me
that Mr. Willard said something like the following: am
Just experiencing the animadversOns OF one who has
tried TO do something and suffered himself for doing it,
This OF mine has been described all over the coun
try "a having cost five millions 10 seven millions. Now
the fact Is that bought these lots which not con-
sdered very eligible ct time of low prices and cOnsld-
ering year ago that was probably rich man,
thought could afford 10 build plain large house The lots
cost me about $50 600 Not long ago picked up West
e paper describing my house equal TO Vanderoits In
cost That IS absurd l never attempted to rival MI
Vanderbilt and got of the great avenue in quiet spot
will tell you that this entire house, including the
ground cost $500 .0O0.' He added Some. time
ago my wife went her dressmaker and thought the
charges high, and the dressmaker said to ner:
what do you carei Your husband.has just built you
house costing seven millions Of dollars, and what Is one
hundred dollars more less According 70 my In
formation" said my friend, Mr.. Willard said he was
tired OF hearing this kind OF argument when he had him
self lost great deal OF money and hardly knew
whether he could afford TO 1--we In his own house." am
told that Of his neghbors In the same block cannot
do
Understand that Mr.. Wizards block contains several
residences Mr. Wizards house Is at the corner OF
Fieth-st; at the Fifty frst-st. corner is TO live Mr.
Adams member OF the firm OF WinslOw, Lanier & Co
and part of that portonof the premises is to live Mr.
Holmes the attorney for the Northern Pacific properties
During the past snowstorm the people have not OBJ
served the bears playing the In the Swiss
city ~ Berne they keep number Of bears in kind OF pit
or submerged cage Some years unfortunate Eng
shman, who had been tanning all kinds OF beasts,
thought he would Jump I'm land corclliae the bears lie
had hardly got into the pit when they ripped him from
head 10 foot and cooy proceeded to eat him up In the
neghborhood OF Wall and Broadsts Is an invisible pit OF
this kind Several unfortunate men, supposng that hu-
man sympathies existed In that quarter, have jumped
into ,he pit aud especially since the snow-storm. The
bears have been going through them getting good meal
for Christmas emergencies Nj Willard is Of the last
parties down In the pit.
Said friend to yesterday About the most level
headed old chap around these quarters ia william H.
Vanderbilt Where you point me 10 a man who was
left S5 600 at the outside by his father who has run
It up to 900 OF actual wealth e. Said I: Is he
operating yet - Not bit. He Is absolutely ont OF
business" what is he doing in Pennsylvania toward
building a railroad =" Nothing at ALL" said my friend,
except buying the bonds of mining and iron railroad
new railroad and Vanderbilt merely advances the money
and takes the bonds"
gentleman acquainted with society In all parts Of the
world said to me during the week have mover seen
party in the United states where there were s many re-
hucd persons Mr. Vanderbilts last week His wife
dispensed the honors there with thorough prOprey as
any lady have The character Of the COM
pany was such that the sensatOnmakers were lit
tie dazed by it,"
Union Pacific Railroad stock was raided harshy during
the week. and show what rumors are ahoat whether
with or without basis will note that saw one message
which came over the wires at the very moment OF lite
ccipt saying that Senator Edmunds, OF Vermont was
abou 10 introduce resolution TO impeach the Attorney
General of the United States for having ejOned the
Union Pacific Railroad against paying It's dividends be-
fore It reimbursed the United States Of $S0O00oOo
which It owed It IN delayed principal and accrued in
terest.
Iinoured OF a friend during the week who had made
money by the bear campaign Said he: Cammack has
made great deal of IT, and woerlshOer has made pile
woerishoher." said my informant, made bet that
during the present year Union Pacific would sell ut 20
He got $4,000 that bet alone without trading one
share OF stock He has bet standing that during the
coming year Union Pacific will sell 80. and another bet
that the road will pass into the hands OF receiver the
third year You should remember" said my friend,
that woershofer made his fortune by taking those
Kansas and frontier railroads and enjoying the results OF
their appreciation after the panic Of 1873"
Mr. Hooker of Vermont who has beer displaced from
the office of Sergeant alarms OF the House of Repre-
.entatives by a Democrat, ia I'm good financial circum
stances His wife, the sister of the late James Fisk, jr,
was left 100000 by that maSnatc.
james Boscr of Carlisle, Pennsylvania died on Tues
day sitting in his business office a the gate Of his agree
able villa He only fty-one years old and had ac-
quircd fortune of probably 81 100000 originally in the
banking business the frontiers and afterward IN cat
tie and finally investments in good farms In the Cum
bcrland Valley I'm the region Of his boyhood. He
man OF a sweet nature of the old Pennsylvania Dutch
stock I'm which was an element OF French and he ap