The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent. |

NEW YORK, April 9Th, 1888.
The Rhode Island fight is over, and
the ambitious Sprague who would
pose as Ajax defying the lightning,
is no more. Rhode Islanders have
reason to rejoice over this event for
the whole Sprague boom was moth
ing further than very insidious at
tempt to give Butler lift for 1884.
For some reason or other Butler and
Tammy Hall in this city are on very
intimate terms, and for this reason
the Democracy in this State aided
Sprague considerably. That despite
this influence Mr.. Sprague was beau
tifully left, speaks greatly in favor of
the good sense of the thinking people
of little Rhody. A Democratic vic
tory there would have had a moral
effect which can i'll be afforded at
present,
Said a southeran politician to me
the other day, "you think that the
efforts at harmonizing among the
Democrats of New York State are as
amusing as they are absurd, but it is
nothing compared with the contor-
tions the Maryland Democrats are
now making. The woods are full Of
bosses and every one of them has
patent scheme of his own to produce
harmony, and while discussing them
they all fall wrangling. Their pa
pers shrek ''don't lose the State to
the Republicans through quarrel
ing" and then say awkward things
about each other and then have their
little set-to. 1t is the funiest thing /
ever saw and beats every circus that
l haYe seem"
We have had a love feast at AL
bany. The immaculate Democratic
Senator Grady whom EX-Assembly-
man Keegan accused of bribery and
corruption, and was arrested for libel
for his trouble has been cleared. Kee-
gan was at first determined to pose as
a martyr, and anguish in prison.
Then he changed his mind, got down
on his knees and wiped off the mud
he had thrown on the Young Tam
many Demosthenes by retracing his
charges. Everybody is happy. 1t is
ala mistake. | hope poor Keegan
will now be taken care Of.
On Monday the new Fulton Mar
ket was opened, and model struc-
ture it is throughout with its hard
wood and marble fittings, bright,
cheerful, we'll ventilated interior and
attractive exterior. The occasion was
further solemnized by the exhibition
of trout, the season for which COM
menced on April first in this State.
Such a crowd of people as thronged
the market from six o'clock in the
morning till ten in the evening 1
have never seen. The throng was in
fact so great that one could scarcely
get glimpse at the flesh much less
obtain full view of the rich and rare
specimens to which every State in the
Union, Canada, England, Scotland
and Germany had contributed. OF
course one must eat trout on that
day in order to preserve ones repu,
tation for observing the prophecies.
was much amused however, to see
a couple of very knowing" youths
at an uptown restaurant in the even
ing, discussing two nicely trimmed
pieces of shad and swearing that after
all trout was the only fish fit for a
gentleman to eat. Another folly that
the first of April brings with it is
that every dude about town feels in
honor bound to arm himself with
rod and fly book, and sally forth to
Long Island preserve, pay a hotel
proprietor round sum for the priv
ilige of fishing, and stop at the Fulton
Market in the evening and purchase
two or three fine specimens to take
home with him. His fish cost him
from ten to twelve dollars a pound,
but the owners of preserves and the
dealers in fishing tackle do not mind
this in the least. The former get their
money and lose no fish, while the
latter are enabled to make sales which
otherwise they could never accom-
plish.