The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-05
NEW YORK LETTER.
From our own Correspondent.

their own way at Albany when the
Legislature meets, Republicans need
not feel uneasy. A Democratic love
feast can no more end without a quar-.
rel or a fight all around, than fair
in old Ireland. The fight will begin
in this city. If Mr.. Edison, the new
Mayor, is the man everybody takes
him to be, he will not consent to be
ruled by Mr.. Kelly. Now, Mr.. Kelly,
although he may be perfectly willing
to let Mr.. Edison run his department
unmolested for the first three months,
yet will certainly make his demands
and enforce them too, for, as every
body knows, Tammany and her "hon-
ored leader" are nothing if not agrees
sive.
The trouble will probably COM
mence when the question of new
charter for the city comes up. Tam
many will attempt to dictate, the
county Democracy will interfere. Mr..
Edison will object to be forced, and
the upshot will be the formation Of
new local Democratic party with
the Mayor at its head. This will be
but history repeating itself. Mayor
Ely formed his party, Mr.. Wickham
did likewise and Mr.. Grace was the
mainstay of the present county DEM
ocracy. This local fight will prove to
be the apple of discord in the Legis.
lature, where, judging by previous ex.
perience, one or the other faction
will certainly pick quarrel with the
Governor. The Democrats have
shown an ingenuity bordering on
genius in the matter of blocking their
game, and thus if the Rep ublicans are
wise, they will run a waiting race
while their rivals, in the vernacular
of the turf, "run each others heads
off," Many months have vet to
elapse before tn, elections of 1884
come on, and up to that time the
Democrats will have and make every
opportunity to remain true to their
record.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field is seemingly
not entirely so grasping 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 employ ees in the
Mail and Express office, editors, COM
positors, pressmen and clerks in the
counting room, with magnificent
turkey for Christmas. Well, perhaps
this was not much for him. The
cost of S2so for gobblers to be served
on Christmas dinner tables, is a very
slight drain upon his resources, but
the presentation was a pleasant little
surprise to the people in the estab.
lishment 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 satisfied wi tn his paper.
1t is capitally we'll edited, well writ
ten, and has shown much enterprise
in the gathering of news and fearless
ness in exposing shams and wrongs
as to have drawn an extraordinary
heavy advertising patronage to it.
For the first time in months, we have
absolutely clean streets in our city,
and this fact is due solely to its cru
SADIE against the negligent Street
Cleaning Department.
Natural flowers this winter were
very expensive, and thus the floral
decoration of the churches came very
expensive. | know of one fashiona-
BILE church uptown, whose florists
bill reached the very respectable sum
of $4,000. AS late as two years ago,
Christmas decorations consisted of
evergreens, holly or young pines and
frs. Now they form simply the back
ground for the florists art. The
effect of course is very beautiful.
Carping critics will of course de-
nounce such "extravagance," claim
as did their predecessors in Christ's
days, that il would have been better