New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-20
WALKS AND TALKS IN THE CITY.

Vermont attorney made this diagnosis Of the Repub-
lican politics OF the Green Mountain State yesterday
The opposition to Senator Edmunds Ia extremely bit
ter where 1t exists but lie not general and hence will
not be sufficient to retire him the expiration OF his
present term Then there really strong enough
on his side Of tho mountains to lead successful contest
for his place Our State almost like Maryland. where
they have awit may be part Of the Constitution
that the Senators shall be from each OF the shores
Into which the State Is divided. Wehaye no statutory
provision, but Is the unwrten law that the Senators
shall be chosen from either side Of the Green Mountain
range that runs right through the State Governor Smith
Is the leading candidate against Edmunds, and
has warm supporters but he Is quite adj
vanced In years, and to take old O man
without legislative experience to supplant one with the
experience of Edmunds viii hardly be acceptable. 1t 10
past denying that Senator Edmunds ia not popular
man. Senator Morrill, is far the better politician He
takes care OF every man. big little in his province In
some way other. At Washington he entertans with
all the caboraeness Of modern society," even to having
broadeoh 10 open your carriage door at the
curbsone. When he gets back home he takes manure
fork under his and sheep shears In bis hand and
saes out to help his farmer friends clear out their sta
Bile yards and shear their sheep He accommodates him
self 10 all conditions and circumstances and hence Is
exceedingly popular"
Uriah Painter. the veteran Washington newspaper
correspondent is engaged In railroad enterprise that
cuts down the shore OF the Norfolk Peninsula In
Virginia. with Norfolk as It's terminus This
region hitherto almost wilderness. 1t is part Of the
Congressional district from which Henry A. Wise came
to the National councils with the boast that there was
not q newspaper in his bailIwick. Mr. Painter says
that many Of the Inhabitants had never seen ocomo-
tive. The track-layers stopped work one Satur-
day near @ brick church. The next morning
locomotive and run down to put of
ties. The escaping steam attracted the
~ tha
came streaming OF the church. ut first by twos and
threes but huny In a mass Last OF all came the old
preacher himself with prayer-book In his hand They
stood about curiousy inspecting the engine until 1t de-
parted and then back to their church services
which resumed with redoubled zeal The Norfolk
peninsula Ia heavily studded with nne timber. and has
long been the OF supply for ship Knees for one or
two large ship building concerns.
TALL spare man. with face ike the typical Virginia
and East Tennessee mounaneers that Porte Cayon de-
picted in Harpers Monthly twenty-five years ago, has
been recent guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel whore he
attracted curious attention made his acquaint-
ance by chance and found him TO be Southern gentle
Of the old school, Joseph Lenoid OF Memphis, Tenn,
whose principal business 80 he told mo- Is that OF pres-
dent OF EmwoOd Cemetery at that place This position
he held for forty years. aud during parts OF that
time IL has been anything but a sineouro. "They kept
busy in the great fever epemcs, especially in 1871
sail Mr.. Lenoid to mo. 1T Is miracle
that escaped alive Why Memphis at that time
was the nasuost city in America. Her people didn't
know &C. yet there the pesencebreeding NTH right
under all The last OF the fever was IN Decem-
Der. 1879. since then have revolnhonized the CITY,
paved with stone drained II In every direction our
people understand thoroughly that cleanliness by which
secure absence OF fever Is our all Even touch OF
tic fever again would give such reputation that we
conldu everybody Is interested TO keep the
city clean We have ahead In other respects we
had a debt Of s8.OOOOOO IA 1879 told our people II
wa. worse than the pestlence. They have cut IL down
To - 500 900 and viii knock OF the half mios In July
We hat eig raj a
Kansas City connection that brings US wonderful
trade"