New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-04
aITs OF CHAT HERE AND THERE.


Crapblc,- has broad smile on his largo round lace
ever since he sold controlling interest IN that cum
Germ. Ho has gone back to work on his owner papoi'
The Daily News Prcss' at PouGhkccpsio, anu comes
to New-York rarely. Last night uptown, no seiu
II have buried myself IN what you Now-forker "ouiu
call the country and am watching events What 10 L
see in the futuroi Well, do not know as II Is a''o
gethcr clear Mr.. Cleveland will be renominatca, 4
Should think, frI The Wa things are RI IniSS NOW"
and that means tho Old fight over again
The letter Of John L. Sullivan in London in which
no details the efforts OF Smiths hackers to get up
bout with him for money making only, was talhed
about uptown yesterday when athletic Desect'o
Pryor said: Smith should to New-York IL he
is on that 'lay' Why, there moro suckers hero
who will 60 to see farce called prize fight than III
any place in the world lock how they rishea over
TO jersey City to Mccartney and Dempsey I've
seen almost hundred fights. II there ever was ono
put up this one was YOun letter from NC
Csffroy presently and a reply from Dempsey, anu
another challenge, and there will DO LOT OF pusio
blowIng and then they'll meet again, win ,w on. w
three thousand people to SEQ them paying Dy mvho3
Faughi Every the inside knows that II 10 al
put up affair."
The chubby smooth-shaven, good-natured face OF
| ex-Congressman J. Thomas Spriggs, OF Utca was W
be seen in the corridors of the Fifth Avenue ho'ei
Thursday. He has gone back TO the practice OF law
and says nc finds IT more lucrative and congenia IMAM
life at Washington. Mr.. sprggs was one oil tne sup
porers of Samuel J. Randalls tariff poicy III 'ho
House, and Just at this time he thinks that PrcSiueh'
Cleveland has made great moss of 1t lie i Is 700
politican proclaim this opinion on tno NUS.
fops but he has expressed it in private often that
evory one has come to understand 1t fully.
striking figure to be encountered at the Murray
| nn Hotel nightly is that Of ex-Congiessihan d. ~
| Paige OF Ohio, who Is one OF the heavy cohHao'oi'
on the Croton Aqucdict. lie IS large, hnt-looklng
man. with slight defect In hearing which causes nm
to Incline his head whc In conversation so As 10 near
moro distinctly the person addressing him. Mr. Paige was
the principal political agent through whom Henry d.
Payne was made United States Senator a CURIOUS
story has Just come has Just come out rage "ahc"
to be Commiss oner of Indian Affairs under this ADMIN
istratIon He was slated7 for the place by Lamar
lie had been popular among his fellow Democrats IN
Conrress and was the only who got tho sold
recommendation Of the Ohio Democratic delegation III
Congress for any place. He confidently expected INC
position and surprised ono day. after Sauoi %
Randall had called on Lamar to urge his appointment
to learn that all chance was gone tec a to his ap
poinmen. AS senator Paynes son-hlaw Was III ailt
Cabinet that settled it. But to this day PsSe can HUI
understand 1t.
Ex-secrctary william Window, Of Minnesota, VINO
is at the buckingham Hotel, preserves his Nsor re-
markably and looks the picture of health ana content
| ment as he walks down tifth-ave daily for short
distance before starting down town He Is still NJ inc
head of the Tehuantopec Ship Railway Company OF
which the late Captain James d. Eads was the moving
spirit. Mr.. Window says that the project VIII Ss
prosecuted Just as vigorously as ever, ana tna tno
managers will seek tho perfection OF charter from
Congress at the present session.
John A. Logan, jr., and his wife, who are al tho
Fifth Avenue HOTEL have come on from youngstown
to attend the wedding of two friends In Brooklyn
Young Logan has settled down in Youngstown as an
assistant of his fathernlaw Chauncey Andrews, who
IS a railroad, iron and coal magnate In Northeastern
Ohio lie has grown heavier since his fathers death
and his marriage. and is developing into robust
plexion, but not so dark his fathers: Jet black
| mustache and pleasant black eyes. MI. ana Mrs
few DAYS with Mrs General Logan before returning
Ohio. Her general health is excellent but her arm
| which was injured by being thrown from carriage
| still pains her.
George Crlst OF Iowa, who IS known as ono OF
Senator Allisons close friends, and who was at one
| time presented by him as candidate for Senate
position, is in tho city. Ho Is managing gold
| mine In Mexico, Just the border OF Arizona.
| out Of which he has made considerable money In
talking politics, he generally suggests Allison and
Ilawley, Allison and Phelps, as strong Presidenla
ticket Yesterday he said; want to 60 on roc0 ora
next Presidential election and 1t VIII carry II Win
! out The State of New York"
| David T. IItler the Illinois member OF the Re
publican National Committee, has been in New-York
| for a short time during which no has told about
every Republican politician OF his acquaintance that
Mr. Blaine, II renomInaed VIII BIO defeated by
so 900 votes In the State OF New-YOrk Mr. Litter
does not give ihe basis Il his opinion which Is 30
| different from that of Ncw-York Republicans them
selves as to smile Neither docs no say any
thing I'm public about his grievance against tho Blaine
men or the National Committee, but he claims In
! private that he snubbcd and Inundated De-
! cause he was not made a member Of the Committee
| on Arrangements for tho National Convention. Mr.
| IittIer has always been violent opponent OF MI
Baine's nomination and his present fantastic eoulitioh
| attracts little attention among the politicians.
A GRANDJURY AGAINST PA wv AND RUM $40 rs
| PHILADELPHIA Feb. (SpeclaD.-The Grand Jury
for tho January presented their report to-day,
of which the following Is an abstract: "We are con-
! WINGED that the pawnbrokng establishments largely
aid the crimes of larceny and robbery. We suggest
| that legislation should be had which would do away
with this form OF business" q Our experience In the
iury-room with the evil results OF the use OF liquor
prompts us congratulate the citizens that the no
has finally arrived when the discretionary power IN
issuing license for the sale OF liquor has been placed
In this honorable court"
| HERnAE HIRNON DEAD
Bosrox. Feb alderman T. Harmon. an uncle
of Mrs Grover Cleveland cher mothers broher), died
to-day at the Wavery House in CharlestOwn where ne
| had apartments His death caused by pneu-
| monla, which developed quito rapidly. Mr. Harmon
| was born in Wheatland, ". Y, and was thirty nlno