Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-04-21
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Interesting Reading from the Great
Metropolis.
HonOrs to Whitelaw Reid-The Grant
Monument to be Finished.
NEW YORK, April II, 1892

New YORK, April II, 1892.
Honors are being showered thick an,
fast upon Whitelaw Reid, -Ministe
to France. Two weeks ago banque
was given him in Paris, at which man
OF the foremost men of France wer,
present, Saturday night the Ohio So
ciety gave him arousing welcome hom,
at Delmonico's. Among those presen
were General Wager Swayne, Mura
Halstead, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Colone
A. X. Mcclure, Charles A. Dana, Geo
w. Childs, ex-senator Warner Miller
General Horace Porter, ex Secretary
Bristow, Rev. DR.. II. NJ. Field. and j
y, A Ward, the sculptor. Next Satur
day night he will be given another
great banquet by the Chamber of Com
merce. These are notable honors to be
paid to newspaper man, but all agree
that they are well deserved, in view OF
Mr.. Reid S valuable services as Minister
to France.
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Ex-Mayor Grace is quoted in the
Brooklyn Eagle as having said recently
i deem the present moment apropos
to speak the truth, and to earnestly af-
firm as my profound conviction. from
what passed between Mr.. Blaine and
myself in the thee interviews had
with him on Friday, April 1, Monday,
April 4, and Tuesday, April 5, that
while he is acting in strict adherence
to his letter of declination and all that
can be construed to imply that while
he is undoubtedly loyal to his chief,
President Harrison while he is not a
candidate in any formal and practical
sense, and while he will not raise a fin
ger to secure the nomination, James G.
Blaine is a true American, lover of
his country and its people, and, holding
the great Republican party above him
self or any man in it, he will unmis-
takably obey its call if the supreme
demand is made upon him by the Min
neapolis Convention, and again assume
command of the party of which he
has been the intellectual leader during
the past fifteen years, and will continue
to be for a decade to come, if spared to
his countrymen.
*x*
Brooklyn has guaranteed to raise
100000 for the Grant Monument Fund
The dry goods trade of this city will, it
is thought, rai'e $4,000 more. The
banks are good for $4,000 or S75, 900.
That makes Sl50,00O to $175,OOO of the
SS5O,COO needed, and PIT trade interests
yet to be heard from. There is little
fear that the entire amount will not be
subscribed before the laying of the cor
ner stone on April 81, the anniversary
of General Grants birth, and it is to be
hoped that the metropolis may, after
all, escape the disgraceful accusation
of having neglected the burial place of
one of the worlds greatest heroes.
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The Tribune says editorially: "The
bill to reduce the number of election
inspectors in this city from four to
three in every election district, and to
give two of them to Tammany Hall,
has been ordered to third reading in
the Assembly, and is practically cer-
tain to pass that branch of the Legis-
ture. 1t was concocted for the single
purpose of enabling Tammany to make
fraudulent count of votes in this
city, and every member of the Legis-
lature who helps to pass it will do SO
knowing that it was designed and will
be used to promote an infamous crime.
Nobody will tell the public that Tam
many wants majority of the election
inspectors for the purpose of stealing
the State and the Presidency, but that
is its purpose. We call upon
fair minded citizens everywhere to pro-
test against the outrage, and to unite
in a demonstration of popular feeling
which will overawe the conspirators
and their slaves at Albany"
Nv
Yesterday morning a letter from
Archbishop Corrigan, making a plea
for the new trade school for orphans,
was read in all the Catholic churches
of the archdiocese. The school will be
situate at Madison Avenue and Fifty
First Street The Archbishop says
1T is the hope and intention of the
Board of Managers to make this insti-
tuition as perfect as modern improve
ments and attention to sanitary laws
can make it, and 1 am sure that the
faithful of this diocease will cordially
appreciate whatever is done in this di-
rection."
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Chief Anarchist, Johann Most, comes
out of the penitentiary in few days
April 10. He was sent there on June 10
last for preaching a socalled funeral
sermon over the executed Chicago
bomb throwers, in which he lauded the