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Show OCR PW'Kiif'lETTElf ' From our regular Correspondent.' ' ' :.'. . . New York, February-5, 1SS4.' ; t.-Mr; " Villard, the '? unfortunate J ' President of the Northern Pacific, is gradually recovering - from his . physical and mental prostration, t:?and his condition bids fair to ena- He him to take' an 'active interest in affairs: again,1 .A. great deal of sympathy was .created for him at . the time of the Northern Pacific ; collapse, by the statement that he : had given up his entire fortune to ; ( satisfy his creditors. A Wall ' i;. Street man, however, tells me that ;. ........ but. of the ruins hecrapedi' together togeth-er a fortune 'which iv-i-11 prove aLit-'.tle aLit-'.tle short of a 'millibnV ah'd with this the poor inah may get4 along. In f act he is said to have made another haul of half a million during the .recent bull raid in Wall Street on Northern Pacific and similar kindred kin-dred securieties. 12. The vc; diet of fifty-five dollars dol-lars which Ja-ii Hart, the publisher publish-er of "Truth," got in his $20,000 libel li-bel suit . against George Alfred Townsend, the well known correspondent, corres-pondent, is Hot much of a salve f or an injured reputation, yet as it is a yindication.it is better than if the jury decided the "other way. Said a lawyer to me, who had followed the case pretty closely, '.'Hart would never have got a verdict if Townsend's lawyer had not bullied the witnesses and rung in injurious evidence against persons not in the case, but- known by Hart, in a roughshod manner. It. was this that lost him the case." It seems remarkable that lawyers now-a-days seem to run to blackguardism in trying their cases. New York, F b. 19. The thick heavy weather-has materially, ma-terially, delayed theFrisia, which is now on lier way . across the Atlantic with the remains of Be Long, Collins Col-lins and-other heroes of the North Pole. The "Herald" boys are arranging ar-ranging for an elaborate service in .his memory, to testify to the- high regard in which -he yrasdieldby his associates in the journalistic field. Collins was :always a genial, whole souled fellow; never loud or demonstrative, dem-onstrative, and there was a quiet evenness about Iris manners which made everybody like him. Typhus, by the way, is becoming somewhat alarmingly frequent. The health authorities thus far. have succeeed in detecting most cases, and taking prompt action. They have been careful not to alarm the public mind. But I ajh ;told by a prominent phyisician, that un- tess;tle greatest cjaije da", taken; we H wiirMVe n serious eiSid'emicin a H Gbl'dBefg, the' iniigrcian, wiio" Avas H a qlevei: performer, ' a ": gentleman . U and a genial fellpy, was .tak iast U Saturday, to Blooiningdale Insane H Asylum, hopelessly and it is be- S lieved, incurably instfue.". : 1 ' : ; : H ,It is understood that Mr. St. H Clair McKelway will' 4 succeed the H late Mr. Thomas Kinsella in the H editorship of the Brooklyn "Eagle." H McKelway is a thorough newspa- H per man, an accomplished politic- H ian, and understands the politics of H Kings County fully as well as Kin- H March 18. St. Patrick's day passed off very quietly and the re- H verers of the memory of the good H saint made themselves less con- H spicuous than in former years. U i The investigation began by Sen- H ator Low's Committee on the adul- D teration of Food is ended, and it H has developed facts which almost make one shudder at the stuff tlmt H we eat. Eeally it is impossible to H see how the dairy interests of the country can be maintained if the adulteration of butter is allowed to continue in this way. "When men W who worked in oieomargfarine fac- I tories testify that their finger nails 1 were rotted off, that their hair fell 9 out, that their bodies were covered fl with sores, and that they were B seized" with hemmbrhoges :' of the H lungs in consequence of nitric acid poisoning, one can hardly, continue jH fco eat butter. And what is most remarkable, is that all the dealers wM in this stuff say that the boarding houses keep up the sale of this ma- H teriaL |