Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-07-18
NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK,
July 14th, 1890.


DEAR RRaIsTKR-New York is now
greatly troubled about its present
exact population. The late census
taken here has been a regular farce,
as far as exactness and system are
concerned i'm the taking OF 1t. Ii
would be an almost safe estimate 10
saw that in the late demonstrating
nearly sc, 600 persons in this city were
omitted. This seems very large, and
this number would make a city in
themselves, but reports have come In
of such wholesale missing by the emu
merators that the above figures will
he found very nearly correct. In the
census of 1880 New York's population
was !, 2O9, 800, and the latest reports
from Superintendent Porter, Of the
census bureau, places New York at
the ridiculously low figures OF about
800, 900 souls. Any one who knows
how this city has grown in the last
ten years, how business OF every class
has increased and how Manhattan
Island has built up, must know that
these figures cannot be correct. Chi
cago's population in 1890 was DOB, 1885,
and they claim under the late CENSUS
to estimate their present population
at over a million. True, Chicago is
now. without doubt, the second city
in the union, but such inconsistent
cies as these in the census show plain
ly that it is wrong. There would be
no sense in New York having its cen
sus appear larger than it really is, but
it would certainly lack local pride
were it to let this latest example OF
Republican fraud stand. The city is
almost sure to re-take its census and
from the thousands of complaints
from houses. and even hotels, all over
the city that have been skipped, this
would be very good move. If the
exact figures are obtained New York
will be found to be about the 1000, 900
mark, Chicago about l, $50, 900, Phila-
delphia about q little over million
with Brooklyn close fourth, if not
third. These estimates are made by
the mayors of the respective cities or
under their instructions.
Tammany Hall has three very old
men as members, Col. Thomas Dun
lap. John ID. Newman and Gen. Dan
lei f. Sickles. AS there was some
doubt as to which was the oldest a
reporter interviewed each, and the
following views Of the question by
each were published.
Col. Dunlap-Newmani sseventv-six
wears old. He was peddling Tam
many Hall tickets when | was boy.
Gen. Sickles will never see seventy
again. | ain in my sixty eighth year.
John d. Newman-I will not lie
about nv age. | am seventy-three
wears of age. Tom Dunlap tops me
about four years. AS for Gen. Sickles,
he is chasing seventy-five. Why, he
was a spouter in our Wigwam in 1850.
Gen. Sickles-John ID. Newman is
seventy-five years old, and my old
friend Col. Dunlap must be, eighty.
AS for me-let Inc see-l Wilhelm
well, | AIN over sixty.
All bets were declared off.
The marriage last Saturday of Henry
NJ. Stanley, the great African explorer,
to Miss Dorothy Tenant, OF England,
filled the Sunday papers here, and
this brings up TO mind another mar
riage that will take place this Fall.
1t will not be as celebrated a match
as Stanley's nor as widely spoken of,
but doubly dear to every Southern
heart. 1t will be that of Miss Winnie
Davis, the gifted daughter OF Jeffer-
son Davis, better known as the
daughter Of the Confederacy," to Il
Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson, of Syracuse, n.
Y. This is said to be y love match,
pure and simple, as neither have
much money. He is said to be a
yankee" and is getting for bride
one of the most universally beloved
young ladies, by all who know her, in
this country. She has just returned
from nine months visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, in Europe. She
spent month at Naples last Fall
with Mrs. Pulitzer, her cousin, and
has since been visiting her at the
latters residence in Paris. Mr.. 10
seph Pulitzer is the well-known pro-
prietoI of the New York World.
Mrs. jefferson Davis in a letter to
a friend in New York thus writes: Il
AIN not surprised that you believe
that our daughter Varina (''Winnie'D
is our only surviving child, as almost
in every notice of her it is stated that
she is the only daughter Of the late
Jefferson Davis. But it is a cause OF
constantly recurring thankfulness to
me that if we were deprived OF all our
sons by death two daughters survive.
Margaret, the elder, is the wife of j.
A. Hayes, Mississippian by birth,
now banker in Colorado Springs.
She was most tenderly beloved by
her father, and it was one Of the sor-
rows of his later years that Mr..
Hayes's health required her residence
to be so far removed from ours.
r. b. j.