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Show (ioilinm Gossip New York, 8. Tho World thinks Grant's probable change of plan about returning, part ol a little scheme to " keep him cut of harm's way during the lall elections and bring him buck with a boom just in time for the presidential presi-dential summer." The tunnel under the- Hudson will be prosecuted in September, it is said, under the auspices ol a company organized under the laws of New Jersey, of which DuWttl C. HuakiuB is president. Huskins is interested in the Panama Railroad, and the aliened owner ol large tracts of land in California. He stateB that ample capital is available to prosecute tho tunnel. Regarding the proposed reduction of laro on the elevated road, the Times, to-day, says : " The oflicera of the company, yesterday, denied lhat there wna any foundation lor the etory, but there is, nevertheless, bub-Btitntul bub-Btitntul rcHson for believing it true. O'Leary, the pedestrian, ia here, greatly eUted by his Chicag success. He says ho will contest lor the Astley belt at the proposed international tournament in the full. |