New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-03

private stable They get acquainted with guest
the hotel pretend be starting for Europe, to have
song to any who would take OF them. and when
they get victim they stick him with PAIR of old rack
| a-Dones at big price"
E. w. Fox. who recently bought The Washington Re
publican Is well known in NewYOrk. through the active
| campaign work which he did among the Blaine and
Logan clubs here He spoke nearly every night for two
months He Is short stout with ruddy face and
gray hair and whiskers He has history At the out
break OF the civil he of the wealhiest men
In st. Louis His firm, Childs, Pratt Fox, at that
time the largest hardware west OF the Ale
ghanies Its trade stretched of TO the Pacific coast
| FOX was Union man. When General Frank Blair was
him the needed funds and by his loyal devotion enabled
Bar TO start the movement that freed Missouri from
| FOX He remained. however, q prominent factor In the
reconstruction OF Missouri He formulated the civil
day lO7 to l08. Hs several years chairman OF
inc hepabIcan state Committee Of Missouri: HIS clam
against the Government for $250000 spent in eqppng
h rs troops was allowed by the Court OF IaiIns put
thrown out on tecnicality raised by the Attorney
| "eherh In Johnson's Administration.
am told that ex-senator Francis Herman. of Utica
mas great influence at the White House, where he was
recently visitor. / was talking with him recently
ABOUT his Washington trip when no said Things are
running along nicely at the capital The President ap-
pears TO stand the strain quite we'll He anxious to
Iearh about popular opinion the country. told
MN tha the people give him credit for good Intentions
and Tor having done well thus far though they think he
Ia moving little slow There are patriots In every
munity who want To rush ahead in everything Patience
shall have no trouble It has been impossible for the
ike one oyg Gnpdy
other. The new Democratic officials and heads of
departments ard 80 CO. VIII cr ha n'ade
mn What changes are repaired think the people are
| taken" f
Senator Herman thinks it would create uniavorable
comment II the Secretary OF the Treasury should be
candidate for Governor this fall and would create anag
onsms among the other asprants for that honor which
| than court
| Henry j.. Abbey and Maurice Grau. who partners
In Bernhardts South American engagement for 1856 T.
9re already mapping out their progTamme for that tour
lucy expect to coin money " out OF the engagement
Electric invention Is hy at an end On the
contrary 1t is more active than It Is being directed
however rather to the application Of electricity than to
the discovery OF new forces powers Electric lighting
Is IN tsef possible OF worldwide application, but
methods OF tie Of electricity light may be wholly
revolutioniEed al any time George W. StOckley, OF
Cleveland. secretary of tho Brush Electric Light Com
pany said the other day There Is nothing especially
new in the electric light world is settling down into
staple business 1t has been speculative Dusi-
ness with rs. Those companies which pushed into
speculative channel nearly all burst up Tho storage
battery Is not being pushed into the general market and
| will not be until further changes made in It, Tho
trouble Is that IL requires more s and Intelligence TO
operate II than sewing machine or furnace and the
ordinary run of people will not give IL the necessary
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Is using the
storage battery To light cars between New-YOrk and
Philadelphia. and has trouble In it's operation The
effort is boin made " make battery that any Que can
| manage"
Cyrus w. Pield ia earnest investigator and promoter
OF electrical Inventive appliances. lie believes the
electric motor will be tac motor Of the near future lie
said 20 "Cp at Gocrci-st have Just eXhl
btion Of the power OF electricity that hardly
credible The great steam engine there was set at work
and its great drive wheel went whirring round with
seemingly irresistible power would not have thought
| any power earth could stop II. The electric
motor was applied TO the machinery In contrary diree
only stopped IT, but reversed Ito motion. Why 1t looked
! ike miracle"
! Ex-senator lbanee mato this remark about General
Grant; that scribtler IN The World says that
the General cannot wife, and thar he only makes
oranda. which General Adam Badeau fills OUT for him.
| That IL great mistake Badeau does nothing OF tue
| kind. Everything General Grant has prepared has
either been with hls pen dictated ~ r stenog-
raphcr have read much OF IN is own hand writing
thinks great deal lilo is not classical writer w any
ras n down without any trouble All his messages as
President prepared by himself aud guess they wiz
| compare with anything this country has produced"
| The celebration Of Primrose Dny in London. in
Of Dsrae started mp host OF would be mitators
In this country General Gran, received largo number
81 letters asking the OF his faTOrte Dower
learned incidentally that he has none Musical and
floral tastes wholly foreign to his nature The
|
Than amy KIND 81 music Is to his he used To say that ne
| hated tho sound or band music III tio army "a 10
| flowers he scarcely khOws one nom another
"Heres story for YOU" said Colonel Carr. of the Fifth
| Avenue Hotel. | drifted In there last night. A
gentleman who has just from the Twin Mountain
House told few moments that on that hot day
| OF last week the snow 81 deep that by laying
board on to tho stills people could walk from the top OF
tb snow banks into second story OF the Twin Noun
| tain House. nc the time that tue thermometer
| transferred g3o How docs that strike you for mar
velIousr' A gentleman at tho counter romarlcd " ]
h.vc inst come from that quarter OF the world myself
nc IN n stase from Lltticon to Bethlehem. with tic
suo Ired live 10 six feet both sides OF tho road
Inv NO hot tuat one OF the horses mood 10 they call
| ifo,pcr said: At our mine We had tao Thermometer
register $50 side OF tho house while Oh the other
inc snow vas six feet deep" A. Utica man spoke up:
We had "a man sunstricki In our place wtfin twenty
| feet OF a tcn-lOot snow bank" whised aud came
| away.
| A gentlenap who has made study OF American rela
.ons with foreign countries said to me yesterday In
| the probabilities OF war between England ana kissl"
tho American mission ut st. Petersburg assumes for tho
frat time In our history important place Tho dplo-
mae correspondence between Russia and the United
os not been frcgbied with serious matter at
apy limo Meantime. friendly relations have grown up
through American enterprise engaging In Russian
zelda The Wlnans, OF Baltimore anu the keOertses OF
phuadeInha have built Russian railroads, amasslng
fortunes thereby Americans projected and control the
street railroads Moscow. American capital Is deVei
onipg Rp,,ian pctrolcum fields In time Of war. the
Mniaer 10 RssIa would have his hands full In attend
ing To the rights Americans resident In that country
m rsoairoa "A man with tho lungs OF an OK 10 i've at ot
Petersburg but the other capital Moscow rs deigh
place Our present Minister AlPbnhso lhis' 10 ~ M
and dscreet man we'll fitted for diplomacy OF the higher
order lie has OF those well-paanOea; yud NC h
miuas slow arrive at cOnciuslOhN' pu' 0oiu ~ 70
Right when fixed II IL not TO be expected that Den-
ocrato Administration VIII allow nun 10 t1rnn s
active msn may be required for the war S%erSeh hg
iaca t h,.1orv tn this iunoture. Mr.. Sargent may
rasr that hn aid not 10 there from Berlin. instead or
rcsgning."
c. NJ. Henry, OF Colorado taii' spare h'sn' VIZ"
,ons, contradictory nersonal appearance by reason