New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-26

| .osu"uoi".iso. LEO principal source of
turquoise has been the mountains in Khor ass an
near Nisnapar It has also been discovered ia siiss
all the finest gems. 'sae
Senator Warner Miller who was at tho Fifth A.
Hotel on wednesday having just returned from w., =
New-Orleans, was enthusiastic over the Exhibition ~
visited Memphis, Baton Rouge and Atlanta while i, 49,
South Among other things, he said to me: The oB,,
EXHIBIT OF the Government and the several state. -
Territories In the New-Orleans Exposition is much A.
than was presented at Philadelphia The cxhib,. - !
| foreign countries are not as good. excepting ~.
| Mexico. Tho Mexican exhibit Is q remarkable ma :.
was much interested in the womans department Whit
has been gotten together under adverse
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. She has been obIgcato Ill.
lectures to get money for the work. but her efforts a
been rewarded by ono OF the most interesting den,,,
ments in the entire Exposition. There seems to h.
general stirring up Of the Southern country In busues
sense. largely In consequence of he Exposition II b..
been In the nature OF revelation TO the South Of hs
own resources and power which she has never befos
realized In this result alone 1t been worth ali ~
money expended on it by the Government Msmn NE
has been drained and severed until IL Is like lew clty
see no reason why II should not regain It's old prol
nence in business. which injured by the fever scar
Atlanta looks more like a. Northern city than any place
Planters along tho Mississippi are feeling good over h
cotton crop prospects. They expect largo crops and
course there Will be none now found great diiercncs
OF opinion existing as TO the Mississippi River improys
ment The jettles are success OF course But tfer
wide disparity OF opinion as to whether or not tina
money otherwise expended has been wasted. The plan
| or work Is both attacked and defended with greas
earnesness, and should be thoroughly nyestigated'
The manufacture of ,heap clocks and watches has
come to OF the great Industries OF the country
| In conversation with prominent engraver tho other
day he told me that several years ago officers OF the
| Ansonia Clock Company came to him to know II he
could not make an engraved paper imitation OF the
French porcelain face that was then used on their
clocks He spent several hundred dollars In the exper-
ment and finally nm in dos oh
to find paper that would answer the purpose. The
company refused to let him stop his experimenting aud
he finally hit on glazed and enameIed paper which
Clock faces fox e he's company at cost
about one cent each The old cost for porcelain was
Machinery has been specially invented for turning ou
the PAPER faces | mention this circumstance ~ afdr
instance of American ingenuity persistency and in
| ton.
hear that Governor Hill Is stiff high-tarif man. II
will hardly suit rho e-traicrs who bostered up tho
Democracy last fall to have him nominated for Gov
ern0r.
Smith NJ Weed drops into the Fifth Avenue Hotel
periodically for stay OF day or two once In two weeks
He Is frequently pointed out by New-Yorgers to
strangers who are asking to be shown prominent
persons. He looks like Western than an East
man, by reason OF his unshayed face and black
slouch hat In reply to suggestion that the Republicans
may nominate william NJ. Evarts for Governor he said:
They will be sorry for it If they do We can beat
Evarts. He has talked too much; He is frank man.
saying what he thinks on all occasions III we should 20
back through h printed speeches we would hnd things
to crush him with the Irish. immediate him with tue
Dutch, destroy him with the French, and 50 on. lie Is
the strongest man that the party can name don't
think lie will be nominated The programme, under
stand to Ira Davenport for Governor with Carr
second Davenport would run better without Can in
that place. Davenport is consunI tive, aud might die
There is page or two Of United States history on
which will always be recorded the uncouth name OF
Fiprer It was notorious and prominent a few years
tnft ha fra anln rei
West Point. I am told by gentleman who had letter
from him last week that he signs himself Henry o.
Flpper Colonel. Mexican Volunteers" His friend sad
TO me: "Flipper is exceptionally bright coiorei
man. He voracious- reader and his letter to me
TO ask about books. After his court-martial ard dis
charge for Irregularities he to Mexico. where color
is not obstacle to advancement, and now has Lgh
position in the Mexican Army WITH handsome salary
lie be twenty eight or twenty nine years OF age
lie autobiography In 1878, which Is yaluab:
addition though somewhat crude one, 10 the history VI
the cOlored race"
Ex Speaker Keller, OF Ohio who was here last week
has aged percepbly since he went out Of office Ha
stouer and thicker perhaps but though as blunt and
direct OF speech in the days Of his power at Washing
ton lie hesates somewhat In talk and is not as frank IN
discussing public matters in the old days Some things
that he said with reference to the suicide OF Barclay
johnson at Greenwich, Conn, struck me forcibly:
Charity mpels US to say that he was crazy he re-
marked Yet there a certain method and delibera-
his crime that is hard to understand In an in-
His good reputation shields him to certain
extent. With q like Guiteau who has Away been
bad likely to imputs bad motives, aud refuse to
believe thar he is not iUdIcally responsible We do not
On IL The aSclents made t odious There IS nothing
infamous this method OF Sinking the responsDl
OF life. II Is the rankest cowarce that men ever
show The old common law which decreed that tho
suicide should be buried whore five roads met, with
lis crime and talk CT it, was way. The
10 whose mind suicide was suggested shrank from
the disgrace In day, men think nothing OF Leaving
n helpcss family battle with world In which they
are too cowardly to remain"
Mining speculation has been at low ebb for years
Mining as a legitimate business has succeeded to tue
craze which the Emma Mine and Little Pittsburg vera
Incidents Yet In the legitimate pursuit Of gold aud
silver some big strikes have been made within a few
years The richest paying mine OF the Leadve dlsircs
Is an example OF this kind I was talking about It tho
other day with r. W. Kerens, OF st. Louis He bought
the Small Hopes for company In 1879, for $250.OOo
Something like $750000 was poured into Its capacious
nav in tho two years. There is nothing like al
unproducve silver mine 10 eat up money in the process
OF development The mine was capitalized al
S5,O0OOO0 OF which $1,oo0,000 was reserved al
treasury stock. II all exhausted Some OF 1t sole
for rs cents. The patience OF stockholders was ef,
se ea ehcSp s TO be 81 the as sre il now o.
bust" the resolve. There was only $4,000 n .hs
treasury when little pocket was developed that yleeea
$4,000. With this amount the MANAGEMENT vent On,
until the big vein reached dividend OF TWO pss
present Yield The original Stockholders got IN al rom
rs cents to Sl0 shae There no s,och Sn nno nov"
hear that ths apartment house on the southeast
corner OF Twenty third ST. and Broadway 20 have an
addition on the Twentythird-st side and be turned
into a hotel.
Colonel Kingman F. Page, who died suddenly OK
apoplcxy Wednesday, familiar figure in uptown
political and hotel circles He was three or four inehea
six feet In height and wors an immense roD-gray
mustache and goatee which with goldbowed eyeglasses
made him easily dlstnguishable In last falls campaign
he active up aud down theEast Side organizing irss
Democratic clubs and trying to stay the tide OF Irish de-
fection from his party. Although a Democrat, he was
ardeny In favor OF Mr. Blanes foreign policy, espec
ally as related the Central American republics Tes
was o report two three days before his death tnas
President Cleveland had rendered him the ColectorsnP
and that he had declined saw him the night DeIO.e
his death on his way to meeting OF the Young Mens
Democratic Club when he showed me draft OF resou