New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02

was poor newsboy, bornin Ireland but Of dr4vt,s
nature and he found his way into the propretonhp q
police journal which founded by IN old chief a
police, and you depend upon he s making In thai
business as much a. the large newspapers Of the most
successful character"
Captain Sampson, whom mentioned above hss proh
ably the largest collection Of gold medals to be found
this country received for having saved lives esus.
from drowning. Those medals kept at the United
States Treasury. in the vaults The latest Of them hss
been prepared by Mr. Fox, Of this CITY, a. privat.
tribute to Captain Sampson and cost $500. Il ,sm
gold, obong Sampson has led very romantic lifa ana
during the he enlisted while In the secret service N
the Government of the rebel prIvateers and h
says that the most significant object to him vas thu
yar-arm, where he expected to hang sometime He
native of England
When was boy hJuse In Philadelphia Of comfoyA
able appearance often pointed Tout to up blind
alley as the home Of q retired woman Of pleasure They
said the greatest statesman in the land there when
ever he visited sthe Quaker capital This woman died
only last week at the of seventyeght but In tho
almshouse. At fifteen eminent man led her from
Lancaster To the city, After her became notori
Gus a minister Of the gospel married her. She ww
born In 1901
Frank Rivers says there continues talk about larea
winter hotel for Northerners at NewOrlean but that
there is money In it while the ST. Charles remaia
huge old fashioned, yet central hear that largo
scheme being rpened for great he tel at Savannah
Mr. Fred" Gould says the everything Ia nst
in speculation Is that nobody has made for
year. why - "Over-proiuction In least two zelda
the manufactures and raroadng Our hope Is to reap
and sell this summers crops"
Admiral Murphy OF the pilots says he took the Great
Eastern over the bar at NewYork and also carried her
] Droh
Mr. Murphy" inquired, what is she to be employed
at ~ Carrying salt and cotton" says Murphy. In
deed" answers Old Buck" and how and where SIR
@To New-Oreans" says Murphy, without twinkle in
his eye "she just take the whole cotton crop the land
You needn't bale 1t but put II la her In the down. Shell
come back balasted with salt enough to save all the
produce they can make at the head Of the Mississippi
in one voyage" Dear dear!' said Mr.. Buchanan.
George Edgar is again enthusiastic SO Is Miss Jewet
They see clearly enough that 1t has cooled Of how
difficult it was to draw to Othello" August in the
great Sahara of the West. Not the great Sara
william Conner says that John Mccullough. tia
moment he began TO act at Denver. threw away his
melancholy and resumed his smile. Dick stockton
his travelling companion. the New Jersey Senator'S
amiabe
was talking recently with gentleman whom judge
Vanderbilt family who said: think that Mr. William
Vanderbilt the head OF the house. has shown much
sagacty in whdra wing from his large line of railroad
securities as his father showed In going In His father
took a railroad which Henry Keep said could not
per cent aud economical well as energzed It; but
then there competition whatever, present or
prospective. Al the vanderbts," said this person,
take the view that they have enough. The father
does scarcely any business Cornelius his Oldest
son. is very worthy young man, aud you can see him
any Sunday afternoon In the prayer-meetns OF the
Young Mems Christian Association at the Grand Central
Depot He organized and conducts that section OF the
Association. William X. Vanderbilt though he has TO
take hand sometimes to support some OF his INTEREST,"
Ia falling into the family view that what they have
enough Indeed the senior Vanderbilt is little shy VI
the excessive which very great fortune makes and
the legislative necessities or bis property a Albany grew
very distastefu to him When he went out OF the Cen
trail hear that he did not mpart the news to his soas
lest they might oppose him, but selected Mr. Rutter
that the public would to conound his family with
the Central Railroad, out Of which, indeed ne had been
dra wing quietly. Mr. Rutter probably was see'ted be-
of his influence With the merchants as the general
freight agent the coming railroad contest 10 get tue
freight this city West to be the point Oh adSan
tage and the young who are brought here oy tne
new companies from the Western states are very aer
and ambitious and probably wasa point for theNeh'
that the man who the merchants should 20 to tas
head OF tue road and make them feel that they nada
friend there at the top" asked this person What DO
YOU estimate Mr.. vanderbts fortune at FROM
$500 100000 to S200,0o0.00o. He has Slo,oooooom
Government bonds $25 900 600 In intermediate western
railroads and In far Western Ones prooaoV @ mum
more in special securities such as the wagner Company
the Red Line, etc."
Ia It not late the century TO permit great oiocxso
stores etc. to be pling up wooden noors ana Jos's ~
matches out OF matchbox, in the strong heart OF
4
rest for ones self
Tho building Of steamboats, and steamships never was
40 active in this country now and opens the question
whether IL is overdone is merely In ooeuienco W ~
reourement OF everything to come to New-iork' ~
atter where IL reaches the coast. Had our co~st"se
commerce not been reserved for ourselves aoho 'u
would be no shpbuding art in this country. ffo'ee
ton does there protect
An instance of the supremacy OF New-fork mahe@
over those OF the suburbs Is the absence OF pat ~ M
Shrewsbury River and the necessity OF buying u rou
the steamer going to NewYork this bait being so'
shell crabs and shedders."
General Thomas Brady, the late Assistant Postmaster
General said to I first came 10 TINS CIV io~
Indiana when I was mere boy. had stuuieu p
nography and thought could write shorthand. I've"
emnloyed by O. e. Fowler, the phrenologist TO tse'
with him and take down his lectures. went the "no'
length of New Jersey with him, and one OF my aule
to hang ND the charts showing the bumps prohes e
Said /: Why, General, what da ne want WIN 500,
rapherf ~To take down the developments nc W. W."
bring ND fellow and feel his bumps and say: iaeanV
here finely developed might make perhaps very ~
mark able poet Or: Calculation quito pronin'a.
this gentleman Is fitted for great engineer i~A
all down." said Brady. But after while gov y
homesck and wanted to see the West again. os
Are YOU still q believer In phrenology y Mercy
,hs osnar,I 7 think the general contour and size 2"
ones head IA to be taken into consideration As
act science there is not much in 1t, guess"
Speaking OF General Lew Wallace, Minister 10 iuiA'
nooaral Rradv said yasterday: Z" He Is an apie "A"