New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14

list or gllt-edged 6ecurlJleS Dub no parJ VI tins
great sum was set down for wcaringspparel
office furniture aud books" Those items appear
in the list of articles, but the appraisers appear
to have come to the conclusion, after inspecting
the millonaire's clothes and office furniture and
library, that they could not conscientiously put
value upon them. No figures appear opposite
them, though gold watch was carefully
appraised at slOO Nobody cares very much what
sort OF clothes Mr.. Williamson wore or what
kind Of n desk he sat at but IL would have been
a comfort to know that he had spent little
money on books
Sir Charles Russell spoke six days continuously
and left his audience in tears. Other orators
have done the same thing, but they were tears OF
Joy,
member Of the Philadelphia Club who has
been South for ten days quail shooting tells re-
porter that the party OF which he was member
got 90 birds in four days. gave them all away to
the farmers whom they met and that, taking
everything into consideration the trip cost him
81 ,O00 The sport may have been worth what 1t
cost, but we suspect that there are frugal-minded
QuaSers still to be found in Philadelphia who will
feel that q man is q goose who spends $1,000 for
90 quails, and then doesn't get the quails.
lam devoting all my timSlnow to pious uses"
Allen G. Thurman tells reporter of The Harris
burg CALI Thus does the grand old Roman an-
nounce that he has withdrawn from the Demo-
| cratic party
Every week brings fresh tidings Of industrial
development in the Southern States, with a
persistent regularity that would be monotonous
were IL not highly gratifying II is evident
era, far more prosperous than any former time:
| and IL is also evident that the election OF a
Republican President and Congress has materially
aided and encouraged this growth, instead Of
checking IL and bringing down the roaring flood
of Sorrows which Bourbon politicians before
election so patheticaly predicted. The capital
needed for the development OF Southern resources,
which Southerners themselves do not sufficiently
possess, is now pouring in freely, chiefly from
the Eastern and Middle States During the
| present month New-England capitalists have
founded an industrial town at Fort Payne, Ala,
with already / 300 stockholders and have pur-
chased 5000 acres. of coal land in the same
State. Seven months ago Florence, Ala, had
$500 inhabitants. Now it Is finishing twenty
| new factories which will employ 5000 hands. and
| 900 new dwelling ana business houses have
been begun this year. From many other
of things down there mention of which would
have seemed chimerical in old plantation days. but
at which every American patriot should earnestly
rejoice.
| good deal Of mention is being made OF that
Long Island waiter who found a pOc<et-book con-
tanning Sc, 800 and accepted reward Of twenty
| five cents. The general feeling seems to be that
virtue ought either TO be its only reward when
matter OF So 500 is concerned or else can properly
| insist upon at least ninety-nine cents.
Chicago fut so TO speak. The Chicago Times
| admits as much. Just listen 10 it. " AT no preVi-
| GUS time in the history of Chicago" is its mourn
| full confession, were there so many houses on
| landlords and agents hands as at present The
tendency Of paying tenants is TO get away from
the centre Of the city and its high rentals into
the suburbs When 4" The Times says suburbs
IL, of course means Cincinnati, or il not Cincin-
| natl, then ST. Louis. This Is the worst blow
| Chicago has received since the O'Leary cow kicked
| over the lamp that started the big fire.
Here's Democratic newspaper with positive
| genius for liberation Z" We are tolerant enough
| 70 Think remarks I" The Hudson Register"
that man can be q Republican and patriot
The Register must stop talking like that or
10 win find that It's party is not tolerant enough
| to tolerate 1t.
Mayor Grant Is still keeping his eve fastened on
the stationery supplied 20 the city departments and
the prices charged for It, The discoveries he hiss
! thus far made are decidedly interesting. As q
starter. he cut off the gallons on gallons of ink
which the police justices had got in the habit OF
consuming. Then he turned his attention TO the
supplies asked for by the DistrictAttorney which
| were remarkable in more ways than one. Now
he has taken the Controller to task for certifying
as correct bills for stationery where the prices are
excessive. lie finds that in some cases the city
has been paying twice as much as IL should; this
is not guesswork, for he gives the prices charged
and the market prices at which the articles can
be bought On the whole, he finds that the
dealers who supply the city make profit Of 100
per cent. The Mayor thinks rs per cent profit
enough. and the public win agree with him. -.
The testimony as TO the efficiency Of the Pro-
hibitory laws In some Of the Western States Is not
all one way Here Is . suggestive paragraph from
The Omaha Bee = There being nothing %
! drink in High-License Omaha yesterdsy, s.oeo