The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-14
Curosities to Be Seen in Its
"Smithfeld.'
ELECTIONEERIING METHODS
A Fine Business Place-SsIutatiOns
of the Northmen-"Cracks"
and Conversations
BELFAST. MAY %. 1885.


ca2 find out. The Gladstone ministI
e really seems to be constructed on ii
II three card monte plan-a regular no
!, you-see-it-and-n ow-you-don't sort of
: ministry. Since, however, statesme
0 are unable to tell which way the polit
cal wind is likely to blow for ten cor
! secutive minutes, perhaps it would b
but becoming nodesty in yours trul,
, not to prognosticate too rashly. Wha
glory men can see in holding position
which forever subject them to ridicul'
and abuse is one of the questions which
"muchly" enlightened age has yet tt
explain.
They held an election here on Wed
nesday for member to Parliament.
happened to be in the Office of bust.
ness man the day before when the sup
porters of one Of the candidates-Mr
Sinclair-called to feel the political
pulse of the gentleman with whom |
was conversing. 1t was not donation
that was wanted-they kindly asked
him how he was going to vote-ex-
patiated on the all-sufficient qualities of
| their candidate, dilated on the absence
of suitable qualifica tons in Mr. O'Neil
"a young lordling"-and hoped he
was sufficiently interested in the bust
ness welfare of Belfast to vote for a
man who, being himself business man,
would look after the interests of Belfast
In the House of Commons. Nv friend
said he had always voted with the Con-
servatives-the Mr.. O'Neill faction.
whereupon they told him they would
prefer he did not vote at all if he did
not vote for Mr.. Sinclair. / had heard
of American gall, and of lightnlng-rod
cheek, but ] must confess the modesty
OF this request partially stopped my
BREATH was case of confirmed
paralysis-for about three seconds.
They were told by the business man
that he would consider the matter.
whereat they smiled and departed with
an ease and grace that would have
turned Chesterfield green with envy,
and with an air of confidence which
seemed to indicate they had made an
unquestioned convert to Mr.. Sinclair.
On Thursday the election took place.
That evening the Conservative news
paper stated that, from clearly defined
indications, Mr.. O'Neill, Conservative
had secured about three votes for each
one for Mr.. Sinclair. The same journal
on Friday evening made the dismal
announcement that Mr. O'Neill,. the
Liberal. had been elected by 139 major
ity. Belfast has population of 100000
people. There are only 10000 voters in
that population, and of the 10000. not |
over 1000 voted.
There is curious place in Belfast |
called Smitnfeld- that there is any-
thing Barnum-like in the name, but be-
cause of what the word suggests to
every one living here. It is a sort of
Mother Madsen's secondhand store on
q large scale. 1t is the property-nr
rather the ground and the wooden
STRUCTURES are-of the city, and is
divided off into berths. In
one is displayed all kinds of second
nand furniture, with some very cheap
new stuff. In another is all manner of
cheap pictures, in gaudy frames, the
9eriest oauDs, on the most outlandish
subjects; while the position of the
and produce feelings of arson in the
most peaceable breasts. the ready.
made clothing laid temptingIy ont is
hing for profound admiration. Men
1uying pants-trousers is the genteeI
lame here and in the United Kingdom
coats, vests, shirts, hats, socks and
LII manner OF articles for ''gents.n form
IN admirable group On one side. while
women examining the texture of
iresses, skirts, petticoats, stockings
md otherand Observation-Disclosures and
rylng some of them on, presents a
'icture for the admiration of the pods {
m the other side. Here is q booth
where a mechanic can get almost anv
rticle under the sun for which The {
mechanic or artisan ever has use: he
ide 1t is cutlery establishment: at its 4
ear crockery ware, of every concely- =.
bic description; and in front is boot i,
nd shoe establishment and it would
o j.. ID. Spencer's heart good to see u
low the display is made. Laid out in
ows on the ground are shoes of every
ize and every pattern; of the most Z
antastlc shapes: wrought into all man
sr OF forms by the feet of those who ?
ore tnem before they found their way !,
ITO TINS modern and mammoth curios- =
y SHOP Ihey are in all conditions, y
utoYer al Ike halo of glory, cover 3
harity, is spread the lustre of bIacking
ut on in such abundance as In sng, a,
est black-lead polish. Man. man ir
OPP, pause and Contemplated! Think M
hat little polish will do for an old n
loel Try it on yourselfi But away Al
18th profound reflections and again TO n,
lie bowels of Smithfeld! An auction g,
carried on during the whole of each w
eek day. and large crowd is ALWAYS &C
'thered about. Two men keen ..poinp al
ing, gomez all the time. and the m
'rlety of articles that are disposed of he
something appalling. A package of lii
ms. then pair of real. hem. Fem di
I'M lace window curtains" are offered W
tne gaze of the eIpectant thronr. or
lese have been lin use but two weeks" en-
1ey are as stiff as boards; and as fuIl en-
noies as pious fraud is full of groans Ri
"a grunts at the sinful condition of vi
world. There are in it four or five th
OK stalls, where all manner of Iitera- de
re can be had, and about these tables tn
nters Tor curious works. the moor br
ldent. the intelligent Iaborer and dr.
I ana the cheap searcher for Lac
ar =. WORKS may be seen scanning these m.
luiheS, or coming that. ever and or,
on dropping few Golfers into the Is
nos OF the brisk proprietor Some fee
e bargains in excellent hooks ore try
'de In these places; and some rare m'
,kers are caught = among whom tn,
ar correspondent is a consn;cnons VIII
lch. 1t Is an understood tbipo that bei
any OF theSe places. they are always vel
= 70 .ake one-half what they ask for Te.
mithfiefdT is rooted over like large -