New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-20
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AID NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOCNGER.


THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOUNGER.
7 hear that William swntOn lost $4,000 by publishing
his weekly paper The Story Teller and that he has conc
mp the Amazon River for recuperaton and philosophy
said the the paper falling WA no orig
inal tales leaving the part Of Hdntet the anthor o
and relying the English mail and the scissors ThlS
latter Kind Of author ls sOnedead on this -idc OF the
ocean.
John O'Brien whom I saw the night OF the delegate
election, Friday thought nobody in the front rank OF
candidates would get the uomination Colonel Thomas
Knox thinks the undcrsvcll is strong for Lincoln
John = Cunningham the late ranking Paymaster "
the Navy. lives in NeFYork in East Fftiethst He was
entitled 10 the place OF Paymaster General as being at
the top OF the LIST President Arthur TOOK mp person
who young volunteer assistant pay master "Aeh
Cunningham fleet paymaster or squadron me
latter the OF South Carolina Editor VINO l e il
Queen st Charleston ana house hooted in'Nul-
fcaton times for his Cnonism. Mr.. Cunningham was
for years the correspondent OF President John Tyler and
visited him his home IN Charles City. Under the date
OF Ssh Tyler wrote: Merry times. dear Cunningham
Did you get any egg nosg IN L0ndon' "hAt' sr'"'
oversight not 10 have magnificent bowl OF II MADE up
by American cOnnOis-cur 1T tue great WORM - l''
Tor the especial benefit Queen Victoria Tie fame Of the
Yacht America and the VIRGINIA reaper would have been
nothing 10 it," on this letter Mllard Fillmore then
President gravey Respectfully referred 70 TIC
Commissioner Of Pensions FOR report and return "f
this"
President Arthur. Mr. John OBrien thinks. viii nave
forty Of the NewYor, delegation at Chicago. slightly
than one-haG The city delegation is for him with
out enthusiasm.
Mr. Jacob Hess paying the penalty for some Of the
delegates he took the state Convection not long ago
Tho late James W Boer left persona, Of more
than million dollars and real estate Of about half
million moro Kountze the NcwIork banker, wrote his
widow letter saving that NJ Boscr was his best friend
hear bear rimor that since the elevated railroad
decision there has been . falling ont between the min
cral, the herb and the plain.
Arthur might have been rcnominated II he had ever
possessed any public policy. Senator told me he had
no more idea OF policy than pie had.
wear or two ago Warner Miller had no ability. Now
IL il aqdted by the discoveries Of that fact 20 combine
everywhere and keep him from becoming the supreme
boss NJ the state" C0ngres Dorsheimer, Demo
crat told me that Miller ADLER man than ex >en-
tor Conkiug and said information and clear perce
tons had l-toui-hed Mr. Dor,hcmer He thought Conk-
ling had remarkable temp, but neither informed
his mind nor his eyes.
The Administration IL very desrou- or knowing
whether Secretary McCook Is 70 for Congress in his
district He ran yor something a-t Friday and seemed
70 do we'll
The bright Young German boy Who nut upon trial
in a court for selling photographs from the French
Acadcmy's salon has become the resident agent " his
cmpover the importer whose business received lift
into the first magnitude.