JUDGE KELLEY'S FUNERAL.
New York Times. Jan 14, 1890
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13. -- The remains of the Hon. William D. Kelley, Pennsylvania's champion of protection, the "Father of the House," who so long and acceptably represented the Fourth District in Congress, were to-day consigned to the tomb. There was little show or display, privacy and quiet being insisted upon by the members of the dead man's family.
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FOR AN HONEST BALLOT.
New York Times. Jan 18, 1890
The New-York Ballot Reform League is getting up a great petition to aid it in its coming fight at Albany for an honest voting system. It wants every man who is interested in the movement to add his signature to the list, and to ask his friends to do likewise, until a total of at least 100,000 names is secured. In a work of the kind that the league is engaged in, which is entirely dependent upon volunteer labor, and which offers no personal or financial reward, it is extremely difficult to enlist the active assistance of a sufficiently large number of men to carry it to success.
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TWO DEMOCRATS SPEAK OUT.
New York Times. Jan 19, 1890
Gov. Campbell to the Ohio Legislature. The system of ballot reform commonly called the "Australian system" has been successfully adopted in varying forms by 85,000,000 of people. It has been tried live years in Norway seven in England and Italy, twelve In Belgium fourteen in Canada, and thirty in Australia. It has been adopted, with sundry modifications, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Montana, Michigan, Connecticut, and part of Kentucky.
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RAPPING HILL'S KNUCKLES.
New York Times. Jan 21, 1890
The cause of ballot reform was taken in hand last night by the Young Men's Democratic Club at its meeting at the Hoffman House in a way that will not be looked upon with joy by D.B. Hill, Governor and purveyor of peanut politics. The action taken shows that most of the members of the club have little faith in his Excellency's reform views.
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MR. KLAMROTH APPOINTED.
New York Times. Jan 22, 1890
The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Normal College and the College of the City of New-York was held in the hall of the Board of Education yesterday afternoon. In the election for officers of the Normal College Board, J. Edward Simmons was chosen Chairman, Arthur McMulien clerk, and Edward E. Van Saun assistant clerk -- the two last named unanimously, and President Simmons by a vote of 16 out of the 17 ballots cast, the odd vote being blank.
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THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
New York Times. Feb 14, 1890
There was an unsually large attendance at last night's meeting of the Union League Club, the special attraction being an exhibition of pictures by American figure painters, together with an exhibition of Persian and Indian art. At the business meeting the proposition to amend the by-laws so as to provide a different method of appointing the Nominating Committee was enlarged by the reference of the subject of a general revision of the by-laws to a special committee of five, to be appointed by the President.
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GERMAN SOLDIERS' TRIALS
New York Times. Feb 18, 1890
In September, 1880, the great manoeuvres of the year were held near Friburg, in the Province of Baden, and the One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment of infantry was stationed in the city. One afternoon, during a sham fight, a Hauptmann, commanding four companies, was shot from his horse and died shortly afterward.
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AT REST BESIDE HIS WIFE
New York Times. Feb 26, 1890
The funeral of John Jacob Astor yesterday was marked by simplicity. A procession of a few carriages from the house of mourning to the church, the reading of the burial service from the ritual, and the consignment of the body to the grave were its features in their order. The privacy of the family was not invaded either at their home or at the grave.
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AN EXODUS OF ENGINEERS
New York Times. Mar 2, 1890
The rate at which engineer officers are resigning from the navy is producing little short of consternation in naval circles, and it is feared that unless the Navy Department takes prompt measures to either check the wholesale resignations or fill up the vacancies the service will very shortly be in an unhappy condition. The only explanation advanced is the great number of lucrative positions offered them by shipbuilding firms and iron and steel works undertaking Government contracts.
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PUSHING BALLOT REFORM
New York Times. Apr 10, 1890
ALBANY, April 9. -- The Republicans appear to be determined to make a record on electoral reform. The Saxton amended Ballot-Reform bill came from the General Laws Committee to-day and was sent to the Committee of the Whole. In addition to this Senator Saxton introduced a new bill to prevent assessments on candidates for judicial offices and a concurrent resolution that proposes to amend the Constitution in order to overcome Gov. Hill's objections to the crucial ballot.
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MOSES SHEPPARD'S ASYLUM.
New York Times. May 11, 1890
BALTIMORE, May 10. -- The Sheppard Asylum near this city has a history which is probably unequaled. It has been in the course of construction for nearly thirty years and it is now gravely announced that the Trustees will have a part of it ready for use in 1892 "if nothing should arise to interfere with their plans." The asylum is about twelve miles from the city.
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SHALL THE DOORS BE CLOSED
New York Times. May 13, 1890
The New-York Presbytery held a long meeting in the lecture room of the Scotch Church, in West Fourteenth Street, yesterday afternoon and had an unusually lively session. Ten young men were examined for licenses to preach, but the most interesting part of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of the advisability of making public the proceedings of the Presbytery by admitting reporters to the sessions.
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TARANTULAS FOR LONDON
New York Times. Aug 17, 1890
In June last the London Saturday Review reported that a tarantula had been received by the society, and was then in the Insect House of the Zoo. This animal, however, was very short-lived, dying within a few days of its arrival. The loss has been much more than repaired, however, by the arrival in Regent's Park of not less than five of these gigantic spiders, which, though all known as tarantulas, belong to two different families, Mygalidae and Lycosidae.
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Article 14 -- No Title
New York Times. Aug 31, 1890
The HOME AND THE CHILDREN. -- The wants of children, too, must not be left out of sight, unless we determine to legislate them away and make Mr. Malthus our saint. There's no indoor romping ground for a child like a great garret, with dormers to let in sunlight like a deluge. The quaint, big old houses, we have shown, had them; and a healthy child without chance for rainy-day forays in such must grow up with a large domestic element of its nature undeveloped.
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HER POINT OF VIEW.
New York Times. Sep 21, 1890
Two well-dressed women bustled into one of the numerous ladies' restaurants of the shopping district a day or two ago, and after rejecting several tables that were offered to them as they passed through the room, finally found satisfactory places in a well-lighted corner. They were important and finical from the first. At the beginning of the meal one found her spoon sticky and the other thought her napkin damp, and so on -- all valid grounds for complaint, perhaps, except that the manner of criticism and the general effect of the critics were of a nature to arouse the suspicion that the restaurant table and service were equal, if not superior, to those associated with the home mahogany.
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RICHARD MANSFIELD
New York Times. Jan 1, 1891
Mr. Mansfield's Beau Brummell is doubtless one of the most distinct triumphs of the modern stage. Such a dainty creature is this bean, with his supreme regard for that which is "quite correct" and his horror of that which is "bad form," so abhorrent of wrinkles, so indifferent to creditors, so interested in his boots, his coat, his cravat, his finger nails, and so imperturbable.
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AN ENGLISH NATIONALIST.
New York Times. Feb 1, 1891
BALTIMORE, Jan. 31. -- Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, the distinguished English naturalist, in a letter recently written to Prof. R.F. Ely of Johns Hopkins University, called forth by reading, the latter's "Political Economy," said:
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EVEN 'FRONT' MAY GET LOST
New York Times. Feb 8, 1891
It is as comforting as a letter from home to see the West India fast mail fly by every day within twenty feet of the cottage where I am writing, because it comes straight from New-York. Whether it is in a land of flowers or a land of icebergs, anything from New-York is always a welcome sight to a stray New-Yorker. This West India fast mail train picked me up at Maitland a few evenings ago and carried me down to Tampa to see Mr. H.B. Plant and be shown the new Tampa Bay Hotel in advance of its opening.
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A LOT OF OLD GOSSIPS.
New York Times. Mar 2, 1891
No policeman is ignorant of the existence of the "Third House" in the department, and few have failed at one time or another to be subjects of its deliberations and comments. Its members may be called delegates from the several precincts and squads, and they are generally what are known as ordinance officers, who are soft-plank barnacles, who look after violations of the municipal and other codes, and trot errands and are rewarded by exemption from strict patrol duty aud a quasi-detective rank.
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Article 14 -- No Title
New York Times. Mar 22, 1891
THE UNSOCIAL CHARACTERS OF ENGLISH CLUBS. -- The English club is a place to live in. In one of these clubs a member lives for 500 a year about as well is he could live for 5,000 a year in his own house. He, of course, wishes to make the club his own house, as far as may be. This fact explains the solitariness of these institutions.
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HARRIS TO BE EXAMINED
New York Times. Mar 23, 1891
OCEAN GROVE, N.J., March 22. -- District Attorney Nicoll of New-York City has decided to investigate the case of the death of Mary Helen Potts-Harris, the beautiful young girl who died at the fashionable boarding school in that city from alleged morphine poisoning. Mrs. Potts, the mother of the dead girl, has been summoned to attend the investigation, which will begin to-morrow.
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ANSWERED BY MR. FOSTER.
New York Times. May 23, 1891
WASHINGTON, May 22. -- Secretary Foster has written a severe letter to George Borgfeldt & Co. of New-York City in reply to a communication from that firm asking that an annual pass be issued to them, giving access to the Appraiser's Stores at that port. In their letter to the Secretary the Borgfeldt firm states that it imports large quantities of articles "of a complex nature," making it necessary to confer with the Appraiser at frequent intervals.
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TWO INTERESTING PAPERS.
New York Times. May 26, 1891
Many men prominent in the Roman Catholic Church attended the public meeting of the United States Catholic Historical Society at La Salle Institute, in West Fifty-ninth Street, last night. Archbishop Corrigan was there, as also were Mgr. Farley, the Rev. David A. Merrick, S.J., President of St. Francis Xavier's College; Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, Dr. John Gilmary Shea, Judge Joseph F. Daly, the Rev. Father Ducey, the Rev. John J. Scully, S. J., President of St. John's College at Fordham; the Rev. Father Keily of Brooklyn, Col. John A. McAnerney, the Rev. Father P. Corrigan of Hoboken, the Rev. Dr. R.L. Burtsell, Dr. Charles G. Herbermann, Major John D. Keiley, Mr. Patrick Farelly, the Rev. Dr. Charles A. O'Keeffe, the Rev. Dr. P. McSweeney, Brother James, director of La Salle Institute; the Rev. James H. McGean, Brothers Anthony and Azarlas, P.J. Kennedy, the Rev. Father Vissani, and William J. Fanning, President of the St. Patrick's Club.
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HUNTER'S ISLAND IN DISPUTE.
New York Times. Jun 8, 1891
ST. PAUL, June 7. -- The row between the United States and Canada over Hunter's Island, lying directly north of Lake County, Minn., is exciting a great deal of attention, owing to the millions of tons of iron ore which the island contains. Among the claimants are many St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth capitalists, who will at once homestead the island and raise an issue between the United States and Great Britain as to the boundary line between Canada and Minnesota.
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SOCIETY TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
New York Times. Jun 14, 1891
There has seldom been a week so given over to weddings in the city and suburbs as that which has just closed. With the exception of Friday there has been seemingly one continuous procession of brides and bridegrooms up and down the aisles of the principal churches every day, and the wedding bells have not ceased to ring in the steeples for an hour of late.
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AN ORNAMENT TO THE CITY
New York Times. Aug 16, 1891
One of the handsomest and most interesting buildings in the city is the new Hotel Renaissance, in West Forty-third Street, near Fifth Avenue. It is an example of the French Renaissance style of architecture, and is light and airy in all its features and mechanical treatment. But it is a type of the Renaissance with pronounced American interpretations, as might have been expected, seeing that the owner and builder is Mr. David H. King, Jr.
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THE SENATOR'S IDLE HOURS
New York Times. Aug 30, 1891
COHASSER, Mass., Aug. 29. -- "Down the Jerusalem Road! See the houses of Crane, Robson, and Barrett! All aboard!"
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JANE TODD IN LITTLEFIELD.
New York Times. Aug 30, 1891
Some of the Littlefield church ladies had fallen into the way of saving "Poor Mrs. Maxwell," a habit so misleading that a stranger who might have heard Mrs. Maxwell mentioned with this unfortunate qualifying word would naturally have been led to suppose that she was in some sort an object of charity, a person who made a perpetual drain on the sympathies of her friends.
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THE TARIFF ON SALTED MEATS.
New York Times. Nov 18, 1891
There was very little excitement caused on the Produce Exchange yesterday by the news that the French Chamber of Deputies had approved the tariff of 25f. on salted meats, as fixed by the Senate. It was the general opinion that the American exporters would not be able to profit for some time, although a good many firms has had agents in France opening the Way for business.
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MRS. CLEVELAND NEEDS REPOSE.
New York Times. Dec 1, 1891
Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland and baby Ruth left the city yesterday afternoon for Lakewood, N.J., where they will probably be domiciled until Spring. They were accompanied only by some of the family servants. The trip was made over the Jersey Central Railroad, and upon arriving at Lakewood the Cleveland party was conveyed at once to Mr. Nathan Straus's cottage, which had been put in order expressly for the use of the ex-President's family.
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A COUNTESS'S COMPLAINTS
New York Times. Dec 2, 1891
LONDON, Dec. 1. -- In the Divorce Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice, before Mr. Justice Butt, there was commenced to-day a case which has excited much comment, particularly in the higher walks of English life. This case is the application of Countess Russell for a judicial separation from her husband, Earl Russell, the grandson of the great Lord John Russell, on the ground of cruelty.
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CLUB NEWS AND GOSSIP.
New York Times. Dec 6, 1891
" Why was Dr. Seward Webb blackballed at the Union Club?" is getting to be a chronic question in club circles. They say that history moves in cycles; certainly the history of Union Club blackballing would appear to do so, at least as far as Dr. Seward Webb is concerned. Just about a year ago -- possibly, a little less -- he encountered blackballing No. 1 at the hands of the Union's Governors.
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THE TERRORS OF THE SANTEE.
New York Times. Dec 13, 1891
ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 12. -- The public has about forgotten by this time all about the hazing trials at Annapolis in October last, but three cadets have not. They are the last of the half score that were convicted and sentenced to confinement on the United States ship Santee, all the rest having completed their terms of imprisonment and returned to the delights of quarters.
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DAYS OF THE OLD PACKET
New York Times. Dec 13, 1891
What a contrast there is between the present facilities for transportation between Europe and America and those of years ago. Now there are daily departures from either side of the Atlantic of large, well-appointed steamships. The ocean greyhounds now land passengers at Queenstown, Southampton, or New-York within a week from the day of sailing, and the longest transatlantic voyage can be made in a fortnight.
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FARCICAL BALLOT REFORM
New York Times. Dec 14, 1891
TRENTON, N.J., Dec. 13. -- The attitude of the five New-Jersey Congressmen toward the Speakership contest at Washington is boastfully paraded by the existing regime as a fresh demonstration of the extent of the Abbett influence in New-Jersey, and the Governor's household is claiming the credit of having placed the five votes in line for Crisp. It has, indeed, flattered the Governor's pride to see himself named in the newspapers, along with Hill and Gorman, as a factor in national politics.
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VACATIONS OF PRESIDENTS
New York Times. Dec 27, 1891
The President of the United States is a very important part of the Government machinery at Washington, but that the machinery can run along pretty smoothly without the chief engineer has been very well demonstrated this Summer. William the Restless, Emperor of Germany, is not more of a visitor than Benjamin Harrison, and it is many years since the capital has been so much deserted as it has been this year.
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