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VOL. Il. | OCTOBER 11TH, 1883. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. ) Bal union there is strength, and it is sweet and comforting to observe the perfect harmony which now exists among the local leaders of Democracy. It augurs well for 1884. * * 6 WE congratulate our reverend brothers in trade upon their recognition of the long-established fact that advertising and sensational acting are necessary elements of every well-con- ducted amusement. We shall now have flaming posters and dodg- ers for the church as well as for the theatre, and the Police News and Day's Doings will sink to insignificance beside the realistic services which will be conducted in our temples of worship, and thus another field of labor shall have been wrested from the devil, os e« @ “Puae the spirit of '76 was no better than the spirits of "84, was nobly demonstrated by the Ancient and Honorables during their recent campaign in this city. The hardships and suffering of Colonial days certainly never called forth more en- durance, nor did the enthusiasm of Bunker Hill rise to more sublime heights than the enthusiasm on Broadway. In those days the militia forceshad but one head. Last week there were as many heads as there were Ancient and Honorables, This shows at a glance how much progress has been made, Then it was considered a great feat to march from Concurd to Boston, Last week a march from Boston to New York excited no com- ment. The stoutest heart sank at every encounter in those much- vaunted days, Last week each encounter provoked but a smile— sometimes two smiles—occasionally a dozen. And there were lots of encounters. “cc I SEE that Mr. Steele Mackaye is credited with the inven- tion of the chair which telescopes into a gx12 space. I am not in the chair business, but I have money to put up on the statement that I have telescoped more chairs than any man in the country."—D. Davis. * 6 «© * 8 * WE 2x pleased to observe that closely following the nautical triumph of that young but vigorous skipper, Mr. SAMUEL J, TiLDEN, over Mr. Jay GouLD in the recent race be- tween the yachts Afalanta and Yosemite, comes the checring news that Mr, HENRY Warp BEECHER won the Harlem Yacht Club race on Thursday. If the promised mill between the Hon, Roscoe Conkiine and Gov. SPRAGUE comes off at the Madison Square Garden ; if Mr. Davis keeps his contract as ballet master with the KiraLrys, and Mr. TALMAGE does not disappoint Mr, Bircu by failing to appear on the other end during Christmas week, sporting and dramatic matters will be elevated once more to their proper place in public esteem, from which of late they have fallen. e 28 ¢ THE following card explains itself : SANDUSKY, Oct. 4th. To W. W. Armstrong, Esq., Plaindealer, Cleveland, Ohio: I observe that the calumny has been revived, which I sup) was long since exploded, that I belonged to the Know-Nothings in 1854. It has no truth or semblance of truth. It probably arose from the pa erudition I have recently shown in my speeches ** that I am a Know-Nothing."—Grorcr Hoap.y. ce THE statement that the Long Island Railroad is subsidized by the Brooklyn coroner and the Undertakers’ Union, is false and malicious. Although both have made fortunes since I obtained control, not one cent has either paid into the treasury of this company.""—Corbin, . * * HE cathartic oratory of our highly esteemed fellow citizen, Dr. M. H. Henry, has done more to cool the bad blood existing between the liberals and conservatives of our medico- political arena, than the wildest and most generous phlebotomist could hope for. It is not yet decided whether homceopaths, allopaths, regulars, irregulars, hydropaths, electropaths and the other paths along which modern medicine runs, will meet lovingly on Oct. 18th, and thenceforward be merged into one broad sani- tary highway, or whether they will diverge yet more widely, to meet only in the valley of the shadow; but it is certain, whatever the issue, that the counter-irritation produced by our fellow- citizen’s disruptive effort will put all minor ecchymoses in the shade. * «© 6 M R. FREDERICK L. TINSLAR, engineer of the late lamented steamer Xodinson, admits that he screwed down the pop safety valve before the explosion took place, and thinks that this may possibly have had something to do with the boiler’s subsequent behavior. Mr. Tinslar is evidently a man of limited experience. He is provincial. He should come to this city and see how steamers run, not only with their pop valves screwed down, but with a boiler leaking at every patch, and a deck load of 5,000 merry passengers. They never explode because of the engineer's actions, When they go off, no one knows, or ever can find out, the reason, comicbooks.com