New-York tribune., 1885-01-24
Miss Myer Count sala, Alan Johnston MT Loundes'
Mrs CLAYTON McMichael and Miss Dora Milier'
WALKS AND TALKS IN TIE CITY.

neat post-election joke Is told and illustrated ny
Colonel John Tracy clerk of the Jefferson Market court
I met him last evening IN the Holman HOUSE, III 'ho
reaGing room. not at the bar where SO many County
Democracy men meet daily. and he said TO me; u was
generally asserted before election that the great corpora
tons vera for Blaine" Sail" answered.: "yes, by
Democrats to njure Blaine" We'll, he responded y
can demonstrate mathematicaily. so to speak, that
spg;e great corporation combined with itself to defeat
him." / told him TO go ahead and demonstrate lou
will admit" he said, that the New-fork Central ana
Hudson River Railroad is a great corporation" 1t was
admitted Then he wrote down the letters usually en-
ploved TO designate that corporation and then divided
them by two strokes OF the pen that they looked
thus:
Ny. c. & H. r. r. T.
HThere" he exclaimed " that was the combination
which beat Blaine; N Y. meaning New-iork state;
'C&H' meaning Cleveland and Hendricks; and H. X
r alluding to Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
could not refrain from adding, you greatly needed that
last rather ready relief"
Iheard 1t said yesterday that the S23oooo tund RAISE"
some wears ago for General Grant had been invested III
Wabash railway stock and that 1t yielded practically
nothing AS an income at this time. II there ever was
guarantee by Governor Morgan II had iapseu
7, conversation with Er,sus wiman a few days ago
Thomas Edison stated that the experiments preliminary
to running the elevated railways by electricity were a-
vancing favoraby. should not be surprised , TO sec
steam engines dispensed with on those ioaus "l'n
period Of two years-or even earlier.
In the last six months there have been seven death
assessments" OF 81 80 each levied on each mcmoer oil
the Ncw-York Mining Board and Petroleum Exchange
one was for member who soughtby false report oil MS
death TO secure the $4,000 insurance whch goes Win
each seat He was detected and the money was Ig.
covered Three Of the deaths occurred during lIi5 @
month and according to the rule of averages there WI"
be mOre-until the cholera comes
Governor w. c. Squire OF Washington Territory WHO
passed through here Sunday for Washington Cly' IL
an old New Yorker He AT one time president ol the
Remington Afns Company OF this city and llon lie
married dau ghter Of T.. Remington MT. Remington
hal purchased considerable property in washington
Territory when the jay Cooke Co. boom OF North
crn Pacific was first started When. later on, Henry
Willard gave the ~ T. a second boom" Mr.. Squire pur-
chased some of this property Of Mr.. Remington ana
settled on it in 1879. He has cleared two handsome
farms one OF which he rents for $500 month ires-
dent Arthur appointed him Governor last June ahu ne
has lust returned from Olympia. Governor -nuire was
i'm the service as volunteer from May. sol until the
close of the war. is only 'I6 years old He THINKS
WashinCtOs Territory ought to 6e admitted as state as
IL has 10000 inhabitants AMI IL 900 voters OF whom
o. 900 and women who believe In the new as
Iensaton the Far West which recognizes their rights