The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-05-31
New YORK, May %, 1883.

The men Of science and learning
feel exceedingly sad at the defeat
of Mitchell, for he was their repre-
sentative. He was "science' per
sonifed, and science" has been
beaten out of it's boots by the
heavy blows of Sullivan. Thus
once more is it proven that the
fortunes of war rest with the heay-
lest artillery. You will please bear
in mind that at the great contest in
Madison Square the other evening,
between Sullivan and Mitchell, the
ten thousand persons were not all
shoulder hitters, bummers and
thieves. There were men of stand
ing headed by Roscoe Conkling,
men Of money headed by Belmont,
and I am told that the church was
even represented by no less an in
dividual than brother Beecher. All
of the latter sided with Mitchell,
who is said to be an NJ. D., who
given up his practice in order to
handle the healthy, and when Mr..
Sullivan made mince-meat Of him
the roof was almost taken off the
building by the cheers, not of the
learned men, but of the roughs,
who, of course, now look with dis
dain upon the class represented by
Conkling and Co.
Speaking of Mayor Low, reminds
me that the firm of which he is a
member and which his father estab-
lished, A. A. Low & Bro, would
find it quite difficult to amass a
fortune as easily now days as in
the past. They are the great China
tea house, and it is only since 1ate-
ly that the government has estab:
lished strict rules in preventing the
importation Of bad teas, and now
makes stringent inspection Of all
such cargoes that arrive here. No
less than $50 chests of tea were con-
demned last week alone. 1t ap-
pears, however, that in the past we
all must have been in the habit of
drinking'very unwholesome tea.
The newspapers are so hard up
for q sensation that they are over
hauling various State stories printed
in the past, and repeat them with
great exaggerations. TO read some
Of the papers one would imagine
that all Of our working girls visit
opium dens the same as men visit
barrooms. It is an unmitigated
falsehood. There are no more hard
working persons in the world than
the factory and shop girls of New
York, and if these dens are visited
at all, it is by abandoned women.
There is far more poison sold in a
single toilet shop Of New York than
in all the opium dens put together.
You have heard Of the New York
'sbunco steerers." The are a pecu.
liar set Of knaves, but with all their
bad habits there is a good deal Of
quiet fun in all their doings. One
Of their latest exploits is their
squeezing $75 from a Boston clergy
man, whom they allured in 18th
street and took right into their dens.
The fun Of it was that the down
east parson was not in the least dis
guised. Every body could tell by
looking at him that he was ''ser-
want of the Lord" and so when the
old fellow was in about $500, the
bystanders advised the clerical in
genuity in handling the cards. To-
ward the end however, he had to
':pay up" all he had SIS, and then
he was foolish enough to 60 to a
Police Court and make a CON-
plant.
The New York Cremation So
ciety has just held its annual meet
ing, with a large increase in men,
bership.
Speaking Of cremation reminds
me of the fact that if New York
goes on building skyward as we
have been doing of late there will
be many more human beings Gre
mated than there are members of
the Society just named. The latest
addition to our enormous high
buildings in an apartment house
having no less than fifteen stories.
Just think Of it that you and your
wife and chicks should be com
PEELED to live on the fifteenth story
of a fiat house, and yet that is what