Show GOTHAJl GOSSIP Bcerherd Power lu Politics Metropolitan Slutferti Generally Gen-erally New York Telegraphic report state that the weather is springlike allover all-over the west The Tribune alluding to the petition ofthe bullion club in Congress asking to restrict the issue of paper money below I twentygdollars in order to force smaller gold und silver coins into general circulation circu-lation says we wish it could be but wo fear it wont be done People like paper and they dont like to be bothered with specie Even California where they were always on a specie basis just as soon as the resumption of specie paj meats had lif ed paper to par people were found to prefer greenbacks to gold for ordinary daily use yet if ever a people on this continent had a chance to get used to specie and weaned away from paper it was the California The Tribune thinks the nitric ion beow ten dollars would stand a bttter chance of success Ihe Times says a caucus will bo held tonight at the howe of Lcrin Pnlxer Brooklyn for the purpose of shaping Brooklyn legislation on the joint interest of republicans who were recently expellee from the republcan party and the ring democracy It is lumored bill has been proposedproviding for a single headed commission in Brooklyn and mtrustinc tho appointing power to the mayor city auditor and controllers Just before the election when Conkling spoke in the Academy Music Beecher also delivered an address one in which he made an earnest appeal for the united support of tho whole republican state ticket He particularly asked that republicans re-publicans would refrain from scratching the name of Cornell This speech it is aid secure Cored thousands of votes not only in Brooklyn but throughout the state The democrats say that the governor mindful of Beechers efforts will listen attentively and give heed to any suggestions the pastor of Plymouth Church may have to make in regard to local legislatioa for Brooklyn The Herald says 22000000 bottles of champagne is the annual demtnd of the civilized world of which the United States takes 10000000 The supply this year is only 20000 000 It is pleasant to remember that there is a State of California Cali-fornia where champagnes arc made as good as any in the w irld acd other wines besides The London Standard publishes a letter highly commendatory of California Burgundy ai well as olher while wines written by a Londoner who had received samples At a meeting of the Bullion Club last evening Professor Morgan Draper of Lake City Colorado lectured on the San Juan mining country Ho gave a glowing description of the country The Panama Railroad has declared a dividend of 4 percent rayablo on the 2d of February |