Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-01

IRON OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
NEw YORK, JAN ~. 1884

IRON OUR RIG ULAR CORRESPONDENT.
/ NEw York. JAN ~. 1854
( At last the January thaw has come, with a
vengeance The wind hasn't been blowing Of
lie to sny ALARMING extent, bat the rain has
descended spd the foods have come aud gut
tiers are chokea. roofs leak and cellars are
a~ssh-Oh Delightful days are 'h-se Too
suidenlr did IL break IN the crisp freezing wea-
. Their which makes New York and its suburbs
m isicai With sl-ighhells from Jerome Park
even unto Csnrv Island Musical were tn.
road houses siih vnhl~is upru-nrd nv amateur
astronomers with raiiS chicks .nl loses blush
ia with co tact with fro u air or inhsling the
fumes Of Inner lubricants appropriate on such
occasions. Somewhat uEmusical were the
shrlrkS ami wells of q few orer-exhil rated per-
sons
F One would ihiaL We ought, by this time. in
this Tree and HAPPY country to have oqtlised
the cru-ltiss OF ''ihe good oil times - But it
seems We h,rent. 1t was only the other day
that ship captain ~. insi $500 for having
kept his second m ate nearly two months. in
irons in a dark hole FOR alleged muiiny. Now
small bow. h.m-d Luck~rt. is suing n lther
captain aud the owners Of vessel for $50 100
because be Was iriren to work at the ropes
end while - h,llv POSSIBILITIES. that on reach
t.ted- Then. another case is tina; Of nn unfor-
tunste tourist WIN was plandsrrd in feneEnrl.,
aud some charge having heen trumpet "a, a
gains, him, Was tortured 10 the mos, harhs-
rous manner for several davs His claim is for
: !5o 600 which his grand hi dren possibly
NAV recover. i he has snr. Cou.rrss moves
SLOWLY in most cases Of this kind 80 some poor
wce'ches. Who earned pensions twenty wears
ago. know 10 their cost ,o-d-y-st least the
80. a.. 4 n T.
rate pos
We are peaceful peonle and oae Congress
man. writing TO the victim jus, alluded to-
said We bad 10 be peaceful because we couldn't
help ourselves, oar navy Was small and IL
Axssldn' I do TO provoke the high -Coak oil Drum
IF any eoantrr however small II is strange
though hos American pills for periiy are
snapped uP for practical us~ by other nations
who are not SO ngsudering.
Far instance ~e find the modern imitation
of Mohsmmed. El N.hdi srmiug his wild ma
rand-rs 10 the Soudan With Remington rifles.
/ which, hV the wsv. se-m TO have held their
IN competition with the pet h1me- made Ere
arms Of several ~srlike peoples
PEACEFUL "a nation, We are particularly
peaceful in Gotham. Onc. upon time il was
10 uncommon sight 10 see 4 prominent editor
swiftly propelled down Broad .y v lh an enc
g-,ie toe of somebody he'd made . paragraph
y
tive pis'ern or buzz SOW. nothing so uniig-
ni6-i ever occurs now. Like the tat offic-r
in one OF Msrrratts novels v roth At an agile
snd tormcnting midshipman whom he couldu' I
catch. We content ourselves with desiring our
opponents TO consider themselves kicked. Two
bankers had = ro~ the other dav about q vel.
low sign which stirred the aesthetic bile Of one
OF the gentlemen IL vas removed aad the
other was ~roth. Tins Kentuekian, - he said
IL only bad you iu Keniuckv - No gore
was Oh ed. Some wine was Smiles succeeded
frowns
Not with sons hery Young students from
Brazil. lofty proprietors OF several square mics
Of jungle, which they fou nd unavailable as bail
when hauled up in police court for ssnguina
~ breaihings against each other in the pre-.
eiacts OF boarding house. The good LADY
who kept il vas quite amazed by the noisy va.
poring Of The slim little imported dudes, and
informed the authorities. Thev kissed and
made friends, but seven years in dungeon cell
looms dsrkly on their horizon. We discour-
age dueis in New York. even sham ones.
To der the impression that within ten wears
New York will have population Of 3 900, 00o
snndry colossal metropolitan impro vemeu,s
will shortly, il is expected he under weigh -
Old Gen Van Cartlandt aud other property
owners in the wilds Ct the annexed district
will prockri some millions. and New York will
he more or less enriched by the addition
of new aud gorgeous parade ground
and several parks, Including Bronx Park,
Crotons what nlmel WHY not Croion oil y
Park, ST Msrvs Park. Clsremon, Park, and
Pelham Bay Park Some , 900 acres q all TO
he converted into II superb tree and lawn Dor
dered boulevard New York is travelling on
The road TO beat Paris in artificial beauty
and good Americans need no longer look for
ward To death for unslloyed happiness
The As,ors have celebrated the Centennial of
the familr's arrival in New York in "A graceful
but splendid manner
Since the founder Of the family landed with
three old fhtes as his entire available capital
the f,mi y have made quite little money, nni
they have been liberlal while judicious in dis
sing it. Another French tandango of fu-
rious troliC was held AMI many and sore where
the headaches there ,fier. The Union League
Club turned themselves inside ont 10 a gorge.
Gus reception to the President, oaiy marred by
the unavoidable absence Of GeReral Grant,
who, however, in fast recovering, while II con
tinued jov for the leisure enjoying ella ssss is
presented in Madison Square Garden where
there is show of pet birds, beasts fishes, &c, |
to delight the very souls Of hnciers
And still there i: under current of trouble |
Mr. William II. Guion, the well known agent
for the favorite Guiou line, and always at the
fore front of any benevolent enterprise has
II
other people out of dific dlties and has had to
leave the great firm with which he has been
identified since its inception viii the loss Of all
his fortune. Every body is sorry for it. An
other failure does not excite so much sympa.
thy A Mr. Peck retired with comfortable
fortune from Chandelier Manufactorv to Oys-
ter Bay. Then he must needs feel greedy n
bout more money, stuck up his shinsle MS a
banker and soon had every spare dime in the
country side. Then he trotted over to Wall
street, and industriously set to work to lose it
al, at least all he could keep track of. He was
SO busy grumblng that he didu', keep his books
in any sort of order and was too economical ~
to hire bookkeeper. and after all the row and
and II sensational firing of three bullets at the
ceiling and one through his lip assets keep
turning up in the most remarkab BILE way In fact
it does not seem impossible, if be only had kept
his courage up, for him to have pulled out of
The scrape without any one finding out how
near he had been shaving the mark. As it is,
it's n bad case. and ruin for many of the wrech-
ed depostOrs.
RADIx.
BOYS CLOTHING, Eseman Bros, 7th and E