Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-11-23
Our NEW YORK LETTER.
FROM orR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.

FROM oCR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.
Ngw YORK, Nov. 10, 1889.
! saw Mr. Roberts, the President of the Pos
tai Telegraph Company. few days ago, and as.
certained from him that the company intend TO
submit proposition TO the Government,
whereby il offers TO transact all the govern
ment telegraph business for Ave cents a mes
sage, limiting he number of words 10 a figure
not yet decided upon. Mr. Macksy. the Cali
fornia millionaire. who is associated with Mr.
Roberts AS a co-drector, has great hopes OF the
success Of this proposition. at is merely a
question of year or so,' said Mr.. Roberts TO
me, when the government will have to aiop,
some such measure. The volume Of business
is so large that the government will have to do
one of three III ngs, either TO build line Of
its own, or TO acquire the control of the tele-
graph wires Of The country, or to avail itself
of some such scheme We propose
When asked recently by Senator B air, of
New Hampshire, st what amount the Western
Union Telegraph Company estimated its plant
and franchises, DR.. Norvin Green, the presi-
dent of the company, replied, AT 500, 900, :
900, sir. and the same rights and property
could not he procured for that amount TO day"
These significant facts show how the wind is
blowing.
The bard, keen spell we have been having
tucec ldst lew udNs iuc w luteI
is upon US. The working populations, am
afraid, will have an unusually hard time OF it,.
Only two nilhts ago family of two adults
and seven children were discovered hudd'ed up
in the back room, or more correctly speaking,
the back cupboard of a crowded tenement,
with DO fire, and scarcely rag to cover them.
What sad commentary this is upon our boast
ed civilization
And yet one scarcely knows hsw to discrim-
mate in the giving Of aims A "blnd beggar"
who drives thriving trade was arrested the
next day in a saloon here he Was found drink
ing whskey and reading newspaper before
a stove. These are simply two of the many
queer features of New York life.
The daring escape Of Harrison and Wilson,
two noted thieves, from Sing Sing Prison, on
Wednesday morning, and for whose arrest
$500 reward is offered, has developed court
Gus Illustration of the ways and habits of Grim
inals. They made their escape by fling away
"a couple OF bars from the mess room window
at 80 A. NJ. In reply to question by re-
porter rs to the probability of the prisoners
getting away from the neighborhood in their
prison clothes, Warden Brush said 81 sup
suppose the hill and the ground around here is
planted thick with clothing. Their friends
plant suits of clothes for them, and when they
visit the prison they tell them where the clothes
aren
Notwithstanding the energetic protest re.
Gently made by the city authorities against the
importation of pauper immigrants, the influx
of Irish families Of this class continues. The
installment of these people, however, DOS not
come from Ireland, but from Canada, whittier
they Are 10 be promptly returned.
Governors Butler of Massachusetts,, and Gro
yer Cleveland of New York, are to be among
tina prominent guests at the annual banquet of
the New York Press Club, which takes place on
the 9th instant at Delmonco's.
The subject of forest preservation is again
coming to the front, and various are the sug
gestions for preventing the wholesale destruc-