Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-28

'Dl0 ne never near Oi thht SAs"f "NNV-,
Mark SmithSu said another. ~ does seem
as II every one In New York must remem-
Der Mr.. Mark Smiths performance IN
ale Ccntcnnalre" at the Union square
theater, under the title "a Hundred
Years old.n Mark Smith was also Q eel
ebrated DR.. Pangloss In "The heir-at-
law His brother, Sol Smith, was
well-known actor, and the life OF their
father, also named Sol Smith, would
prove interesting reading. He was
great actor and managed Tor long time
in st. Louis. Sol Smith Russell, now be-
fore the public, Is a nephew, and Mrs. sol
Smith, widow Of the younger Sol Smith,
PLAYED not long ago with Wallack's com
pany. And that old and grand actor,
william Sedley Smith, who adopted the
name OF Smith only as a nom de theater,
was the father of Mr.. Henry Sedley, at
one time on the New York Times.
Young Mark Smith, Jr., will be pleasantly
remembered by his charming baritone
voice, In the recent production Of "The
Black Hussar," in which he sang the title
role. C.E. IL.
A curious political deal has been made,
which, sooner or later, is bound to at
tract national attention. The state senate
is Republican by eight majority. 1t has
the power TO either confirm OF reject the
governors appointments. The greatest
plum within the governors gift Is the
office OF health Offices, OF the port OF New
York. II tufns into its incumbent in
fees between $4,000 and $4,000 a year.
The present officers term ran out In 1882
and he has held over for four years He
Is country physician, q Republican, aud
q friend Of Thomas G. Platt who, with
Roscoe Conkling, resigned the United
States senatorship soon after President
Garneld's Inauguration. The country
doctor is in bad odor with the anti-Pl
wing of his party. He is accused Of salt
ing down his fees, and not making any
contributions, seven of the twenty Repuo-
lican senators are Platt men, and they
have refused to go into caucus OF vote
for the confirmation of any candidate for
the place now filed by the country doc
tor, The health officer, however, Is not
the only placeman who is holding over.
Three quarantine commissioners, all
Plat men, and one Of them Platt himself,
are in the same boat A commits
sioner Of the board of claims
also holds over, The Platt senators are
thus manning the guns OF fortress that
bear directly on the United States sena-
torship soon TO be vacated by Warner
Miller This fortress can only be cap
tured by combination of the twelve Re
publican anti-Platt senator's with the
Democrats. This combination has been
made and all political eyes are now
turned toward the outworks. The
governor has nominated well.known
city physician for health-onlcer, and two
ant-Platt Republicans for quarantine
commissioners. One of the latter is DR..
John II Douglas, the physician who at
tended Gen. Grant ON his death bed.
The other is Marshal b. Blake, late col
lector of internal revenue in the richest
district in the United States. The two
remaining nominees are Democrats.
Local political interest has been CEN
tered in Marshal b. Blake. Scores of
Republicans in the city are far more pop
ular, and everybody has been wondering
who is backing him. 1t has Just leaked
out that his hacker Is ex-Presldent Ches-
ter A. Arthur He has taken quiet hand
In the deal, apparently, preliminary
to resuming his old place, as
the leading Republican diplomatist in
local politics. For years Arthur con-
Quoted all the negotiations with warning
Democratic factions in the city, and
always successfully. At one time
he fed Democratic feuds so ad-
mlrably that the Republicans, al
though in minority of 10000
votes, controlled more than half
OF the patronage in the city departments,
His resumption Of the helm means lively
times to come. 1t will have an important
bearing on the election of United States
senator next winter, and il would sur
prise few local politicians If 1t landed
Arthur himself in Warner Miller's chair.
am informed by a leading Democratic
senator that the governors nominations
will be confirmed. That the situation,
however, is rather delicate /,
predicated on the obstlnacy of
the Platt senator's, If four of the seven
give way, the two Republicans may be
confirmed and the Democratic nominees
rejected. This, however, would leave
Platt intrenched in the citadel and his
outworks in the hands of his
enemies, As matters now stand, the Re
publican nominees cannot be confirmed
without the votes OF the Democratic SEN
ators, and the three Democrats cannot
acquire Office without the support of the
dutl-Iiull scuuLQfS. One Inln9, however,
is worth noting Arthur has again dab.
bled in politics and stands TO win either
way. ZIsKA.
Public taste changes, fashions die out,
plays becomes obsolete. But Boucicault
is there all the same, The frost Of time
on him, sere and sedate, be comes up
smiling in New York, and out of his tired
antiquity shows the generation that, after
all, when it comes to making good play
he Is still the man "The Jilt" is the
best play that has been done here this
season 1t is so good in two senses that
1t Is an event New in treatment, fresh
In subject and bright in its expression, it
not only wins critical attention and com
mendation, but catches the public.
Marvellous old man is Boucicault. So
far nobody has been able to tell where he
got the plot Such raking over Of
French plays for week | never saw be-
fore But even Cazauran, who is the
court OF last resort, didn't recognize il.
Boucicault has made three or four for
times, He is the rare spectacle OF a litera
ry man 10 the nineteenth century who has
literally made millions with his pen. But
be never kept his millions. He doesn't
know to-day half rs much about money