New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-14
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bles One OF his friends tells that Mr.. Tlden In past
years had semioccasona differences in his household,
amounting TO what the vulgar outside world denomi-
mates row. but the inner household describes as fam
lily jar. After OF these affairs Smith NJ Weed drove
up In front OF Mr. Tdcn's Gramercy Park house. on his
way down town Mr. Tilden got IN to go down with Mr..
Weed to whom he presently related his troubles In de-
tail He capped the climax by saying as no slapped his
companion the knee, BY thunder Weed I'd get mar
RED II wasn't afraid to-"
General LogaHs visit General Grant started good
deal of talk here about Illinois Senator and his
ihtnre General Logan even In defeat got great deal
ont or last autumns canvass. A n welknOwn New
Yorker expressed II to me, Logan seventeen rect
III the estimation of whose opinions in this country
are valuable The East diino half know Logan when he
started Into his canvass" 1t would scarcely be believed
that General Logans wc-6u form carries 90 pounds
OF aVoirdupos. but that Is his general average lie
fought downo 1913 during tho Senate contest In Illinois,
but lie gained flesh in tho Presidential canvass There
is no gray yet discernble in his shock OF
raven black hair and he hears his sixty years as we'll as
any public life Speaking OF his dark locks. re-
minds me OF a story heard IN Chicago. General Logan
while guest Of tho Leland House there had his attcn
ton attracted to servant girl whose face Indicated
Irish descent but whose skin brown and whose hair
and eyes were black. The General said to her. " My
girl. you from County Monaghan. Ireland are you
not 7" Yes sir but how could you know that = was
her answer. Very easily. You have the complexion
eyes ANA hair Of tho most ancient Celtic race, when
has left Its mark In County Monaghan as nowhere else
General Logan's father n Dublin originally, was
country physician He had great ut Mrphyboro
in the treatment Of and in surgical operations
But he was touchy" on tho question OF medical ethcs
lie belonged to the regular school and would fly III
passion termed n doctor Tho General saw his
father perform mum operations. man with rose
cancer I'm his back large fiat was ono OF these
subjects. The cancer would have killed INN in SIX
months time but tho knife saved him for fifteen Or
/ h. he
yet Other operations that he witnessed were for cancers
on the nose. lip and check II WAS DR. Logans belief that
while cancer could not be cured. AN operation would IRE
quenty roeve the patient and give new lease OF He
General Logan's experience In hfo mas caused
him to indorse that theory. He discusses
General Grants mildy from this point OF view, with
earnesines aud Intelligence. and with all Difference TO
the physicians. hopes they mistaken In their diasno
ss He thinks tho disease Il more IN tho nature OF
scrofuous sore throat than cancer.
heard lat week an unwrltten chapter in General
Grants history that seems somewhat TO support
Logau view especially scrOiu0us tro lhts are Hhd
to attack the weakest part When General Grant lctt
West Point, aft"r being graduated he was In OK.
TIE nelly poor health. with all the Of becoming nm
early victim consumption The Grant family has been
subrct 20 consumption fpr many generations II WIS
Thought that Ulysses would net Two beyond the year
He went out to Missouri. bought him horse and took
to tho woo14 For nearly year he
horseback
air At tho end Of That his lungs had become strong
but protr,ccd ami seemingly ncurtblc sprc throat re-
NAMED II was a long time before he hal any relief
from II AMI much longer before no was apparently
cured
when called on General LOGAN found him much
Wiling talk about whcat than politics. IIr thinks
wheat will up to 81 - bushel ANA salt The best
reports OF tho prospective wheat crop are those prepared
10y SIR Prime % Dwight L. lIo has numbers OF GORE
spoud"ut. Ia every -;ato. who mako dnGenL inquiries
and report results Michigan I, the only state that VIII
have m. whrat crop this yelr. Illinois VIII have
II OooooO bushels. where sbe ought - have over
3O.OOO.OOO Tho wheat crop OF the country
viii be short NJ least lsO.OOOODO bushels. WAS on
Change NJ Chicago, last week. when wncot dropped
eight points In dly. II hal bcen possessed of any
money aud .prcIl,tnc propensity coIld have made
fortune Al natural causes wcrn favorable TO rise
Ia price instead 81 fall whoa; il bound to 70 up"
Er.shcrIn J lnc, OBr'cn nvo years Old when no
with his parents from rcanl to this country Ho
went bnrk FOR visit the Green G-io year or two
nso In taking with him about hs trip he sad 70 me
The most remarkable thing notet WAS the absence OF
Irish MANS. the trad smrn, sSns IN DIDin. There
were Ne, %. Murphys a all to te Scen but In
their s,old the English an American Ike Cham
boria.n. smith. Bro WI. Parkinson and 50 on"
1t il about tno for the sh b. W. Burleigh.
~ whitehall tells that trout h-hng in Lake George
has attended this with great sport. There
Is trout n,hng Lake Georgc at all seasons. bnt for
eleven month, the year tho nsh remain 800 TO 800
under water tho lake being deep For about thirty
days usually bexnihg ABOUT the lst OF May they come
up nearer tho surface that trolling hook with "a
heavy sluker attracts them Trolling for trout is only
ercclcd as sport by trolling for black bass. which
gamer fish MI Burlogh slYs that party from Troy
last week ght In sovcntyye pounds Of trout the
smallest Dcilg i've AMI the largest seventeen pounds III
weight.
Dwight Lawrence called my attention yesterday to the
fact that nearly ouc-thr OF the counties OF Ne"-lork
have taken from tho original trac, embraced In
Albany County. In the early days OF state history
Albany County extended to Buffalo tho west and the
~. Lawrence River the north. incidentally mention
made Of Peter Cjmstock. who died several years ago.
having ut time owned property all the way from
Albany to the state line north Comst0ck was nbont rs
we'll known George Law. His home was at Kcoscvile
whore lie hal 900 in single tract and Larger
single fold OF cultivated land than any other landowner
In the state Mr.. Comslocks daughteris the vile OIL
v Barker OF Kocseville and inherited this property
which they live.
Asscmbymnn Jimmy d" Oliver Is Democrat with
out Kid gloves or nonsense He has his notions
about the Collect rshlp, which lie expressed TO mo AS
follows: don't want nny man that Is too big to see
plain body like mo. That's Hubert o. Thompson. I've
called on him times and never got sight OF his
face He tells tho boy say to he Is ont. That's not
Democratic it's aristocratic want Democrat from
way back, who ia u Democrat yot IN for VIII
smith, because like him, but I'd DO for him because
Smith Weed wants him. II didn't iko him. II the
County Democracy and few more candidates for Alder
man had traded much on Cleveland he wouldn't be-
President now. VIII Smith and Jimmy Oliver played
fair all the way through"
Senator Plumb OF Kansas has been keeping both eyes
the Prosld mt without blinking. He says; There
Is method IN this mans madness. He realizes. Or |
think he does that tho difference between 100000
Democrats who want offices and tho 100000 who
would still want offices II every last Republican was
turned out Is 40 slight that It would pay him make