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Show CURBSTONE MUTTEIUNGS. l'oltoy Shops uml Politics Churches and Commerce The Courts aud Alger's Old Comrades. That slyest and cunnlneest of all devil-fish, , the policy wheel, lias seized fresh hold of its devotees In the last few days, tho players haviu hit it some tremendous blows and ruked buck tuaiiy a dollar on the mites that j they have each day put in its insatiate and j ever open maw. a Among other old comrades who, in a grasp ! of General Aider's hand, renewed all the j roar of camion, the thunder of artillery, the clash of glittering salires ant after ail, the stirring arias of victory, was Hon. Arthur Brown the superior oilieer in battle a candidate can-didate for the nation's presidency, the un-Hanging un-Hanging follower an honored member of the bar, with a lucrative reward each year, aud a host of clients. What roaring farce and howling folly it is for the walking delegate of a daily payer to undertake to keep its readers posted on tho vicissitudes of a mluing case involving many of the most intricate problemt of geology by a producing a fragment here and" there of the testimony that pours like a Tiber upon the jury, entangling en-tangling experts and oflimes staggering the learned court itself with the volume of its mighty flow. The reports caunot be satia-frctory satia-frctory to tho conscientious reporter, they become an ambling nightmare and typographical typo-graphical dragon to the proof-reader and un lusoiuable enigma to tho reader. To counsel coun-sel well, it depeuds on which side the re porter has put hisnhadiug. In the commuuitcs and judicial provinces where such litigation is more voluminous thu paper that undertaken under-taken to cover the rccontru covers every "round" 01 lets it alone after a plain statement state-ment of the complaint and answer. Already Al-ready counsel in the Northland-Mayflower cinbroglio is howling for all thu testimony none at all. Thu "Tuscarorai," who have suddenly do-veluped do-veluped into one of the most formidable of social political institutions have rapidly gathered in their wigwam the heavy timber of thu democratic party and it now settles down into a plain raco for supremacy between be-tween their stubborn braves and those who have been equipped with scalping bktde and tommaliuwk by the king Succuba of the tlarilo house. "Will you gather at Chicago a' Tusca-rorusy" Tusca-rorusy" was asked of ono of the warriors this afternoon. "Undoubtedly," was the. energetic reply. "The democracy of thu tribe of Tuscarora is as well known among the dumocrots of the country at this time as It that of any Other part, parcel or artery of the paty. 'l'hey will after all be simply the escort to our own delegates to the national convention." conven-tion." . The administration of Marshal Janney thus far has been characterized by a reign of peace and order that has rarely been experienced ex-perienced in Zion. Perfect harmony dwells in the police, department aud his dynasty promises to bo remembered as one of the most popular upon the calendar of lane. At tho same time the vigilance aud cleverness that characterized thu efforts of Marshal Young cannot help but express itself it-self in the trial of tho tounterfi iters which is now in progress and Ma-.u out as a mighty luminary amid tho olot d of scandal. The world of local coram ice teat is that portion of it that hetloTen in ecclesiastics instead of printer's iuk ns a mediuin of advertisement ad-vertisement is making uctive preparations for conference week which is always an eventful one. Of course the bunco and the slirk are sharpening their beaks for the unwary un-wary gudgeon, and look torirtfd to stripping him of everything but smlo and bones. These and a hundred ther things await the visitor. He is not hunt ng for them nor is he hunting alone for religi on, or an opportunity oppor-tunity to vote yes or no on some "revelation" "revela-tion" hot from the storehouses of thu Almighty. Al-mighty. Mary will have her ginghams HB(J John nit Jeans ; dad will have his semi-annual "nip," be it on lite sly, and mam will have her "allerpacker." AH these extravagant extrava-gant demands must have their effect on trade, not to mentiou the riotous run on the restaurants with two orders of h:im-'n-eggs for ma-'n-pa and the crop of eight years. The outlook is cheerful. -4- - Yesterday is said to have been another dress rehearsal for the public life aud iridescent irides-cent career that has been studiously aud zealously mapped out for John M. Zane. He was given the post of honor at thu banquet ban-quet to General Alger, and be it said to (he rising young man's credit that every movement move-ment on the gastronomic chess hoard betrayed be-trayed careful study and preparation, -t - - The commission that has been fishing for light in tho contost over the Temple block has succeeded in uncovering a great mass of interesting, if not valuabie, information. These chapters were lost for years so far us local historians were concerned, aud now that they have been supplied through a quasi court, who will be the man to insert them between the proper leaves of the gr 1 book. |
