Sullivan as a Candidate for Congress.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3377, 4 December 1889, Page 2

Sullivan as a Candidate for Congress.

John L. Sullivan's letter to the Now York Sun announcing his intention of running for Congress in Boston is only « vulgar advertising dodge, While thousands flock to see him, and pay to witness his exhibitions of brute strength, not one in it hundred thousand has any regard forjiim as ft jinn' or respect for hisjudgmentin polilicsflS • Once'in this country ■ a' professionaT prizo fighter was elected to Congress,, . „ but it was Ssinn time after lie had retired from the ring, Morrissey,moi'e. over, Was infinitely; the superior of , Sullivan in all the qualities of mind and manners that inspire respect. Morrissey had been a prizefighter and was a professional when ; he was elected to Congtess, but this was regarded as his detriment rather than his qualification. In other words, his strong personality and native force made him influential in spite of;his ~ calling arid antecedents. Sullivan has ■■ all of Morrissey's vices with manyi more added, without his virtues ot'f^ brains. SuHivaa could not get a ' nomination to Congress anywhere ill . ■ this country from any, party, and •,' would not stand a ghost of a show of election if he could. Whilo the greatest of prize fighters, he is one of the lowest of human beings—a brutal ruffian of the most degraded habits and disgusting manners, No prizo fighter will ever again sit. in. ConerMs from anywhere,'much Itss . i Sullivan from Boston. Whatever may be the shortcomings of the Hub she regularly sends the strongest delegation to Congress of,any largo City in the Union, John Morrissey {ought prize lights and owned 'gamblinghouses but he was a man of intellect ; for all that. Instead of glorying in his fighting and gambling, he treated i them as misfortunes due to the rigorous necessities of his early life in tho struggle for existanco. He was not a drunkard nor a brawler, and whilo it lit cannot be said that his election to i Congress was creditable to New York , his record in the House was without i stain or suspicion, It should not be fori gotten that his sense of public honor ! was so well known that when lie ran foe J* , the Stato Senate against Augustus" . Schell he was openly supported by ; Hamilton Fish,who lntd been Grant's t Secretary of State, and by William B. . Astor. As a prize-fighter he had i been all that Jolm Sullivan is, but in j other and more honourable respects ha I was all that Sullivan is not, ife , 3 was faithful to his wife, gentle to hffi ' i mother and devoted to his son, to . whom lie gave all the graces of 1 education and refined association. ' 3 His sorrow for the death of this boy , was the touch of nature that estab--3 lished his kinship with parental f allectiou and affliction wherever this i master emotion and ineffaceable , sorrow are felt, His domestic telaj tions might have well been made the . model for men of far more exalted 3 opportunity and pretensions. He was )of metal that iB not found in the i mould of Sullivan, and while we have tno justification for tho freak that b made him-a member of Congress, we t cannot permit it to be idly quoted as' B a precedent for the election of Sullivan B who has defiled every domestic bond,' 1 natural and acquired.— American - paper.

The Confidence Trick* < A Russian officer who kd conic to Paris to see the Exhibition, has bean robbed of a'coupk of bank'notei^R. IOOOf each, in a rather curious mannor. He waa sitting outside .one of the Boulevard cafes with a glass of beer in front of him watching the passers-by, and, like the "jolly young waterman, thinking of nothingat all," when a man of gentlemanly appearance and demeanour, who was located at a neighboring table, entered into. conversatian with him. The Russian ollicor was pleased with the stranger's attentions, and before they parted ho gave liiiu tho address of tho hotel at which ho was staying, and asked him to call there on the following rooming as they could proceed together to the Camp do Mars. Punctual to the momont this fascinating acquaintance appeared at the hotel, and soon the pair sallied forth, lounging down the Boulevards in tho direction of tho Madeleine. Tlioy spent soroo lima in tho church, and were about to take a cab when the companion of tho Russian officer came across a•' friend whom he introduced to the Muscovite, The trio thon proceeded' onwards on foot, and had hardly gono many yards when they made a lialU at a cafi. Thoy were taking some? resfroshments when tho now-comer exclaimed that he had left a pocketbook containing £OOO in notes on the table of his in the hotel where ho had put up. He hurried away with profuse apologies in quest of- the pocket-book, but soon returned with it, and in a few minutes the party were on there way in a cab to the Exhibition. As thoy were crossing tho Place tie la Concorde, the Russian expressed some anxiety as to tho safety of the two_ bank, notes which he about him, whereupon the man with tho pockot-book obligingly offered to take ohargo of them for him. Tho notes woro accordingly placed in the pocket-book, tho owner of which handed, it back to tho Russian. Thoyhad gone a little way when another halt was made at a ttt/c and more beer was ordered, Presently ono of the strangers wA seized with a violent fit of coughing: and asked the Russian if ho would kindly buy some lozenges for him at i neighbouring chemist's, Tho jfficer hurried off ou this errand, but ivhen he returned the two men, wero lowhere to be seen, The pocket- j jook was lying whoro the Russian iad laid it down, but his bank notes, lad disappeared, and on examination le found that it contained nothing nit small shot. Much disgusted, he etiinicd to his hotel, and acting in the advice of the landlord, he eported tlio theft to the police, who ire looking after tho two •-.nindlers n every direction. Plymouth docks and : Brown Lephoras, In company with a great many ther people who have, given tho ifferent breeds a fair trial, we have, ays "A Farmer's Daughter," come. o tho conclusion that tho Plymouth'" locks and the Brown Leghorns he best fowls in tho world. NeithSjP* xcels in every particular, but the wo kinds complement each otbor, ind an we raiso chickens i only for'onie use, wdo not care to keep the ! reeds separate, so both are put ogethor in the same yard. The Brown jcghorns are almost non sitters,while he Plymouth Rocks are good brooders xcllent mothers, and when you get ito a good strain, the young are very ualtby, grow rapidly and are fit for be table within two. months after bey are hatched. The Leghorns roduce a great many moro egga in ■inter, but iu the spring the Ply* | louths make a fair race with theq

until lliii brooding fever sets in, when everything else' ia forgotteu. Then comes tho most troublesome time, for probably half-a-dozen hens set their hearts on tho same nest, and thoy nro all 30 much aliko that if you Bit ono you can't lull by next day which ono that wan. As mothers, the conduct . of tho Plymoutlis is irreproachable, if wooxcept tho araiablo weakness of beinp somowhat covetous, When several hens aro put out with young chickens, the strongest will take the lion's share, whether she can cover them all or not, Eaoh hen wants every little one she Bees; I havo known them oven to adopt little strays several days oldor than their own, From the first, tho littlo Leghorns are much moro active than the Plymoutlis. Put both kinds into a bjslftt, and the slender littlo brown lioads aro the first to peep out, and before you know it they have found tho way out and nro running across the floor hunting for something to cat, —Country Gcutleman. / Tlwro is to bo soon in tho window of W Messrs liothschild and Jacobs', joivT ollors, Princes-streot, Dunedin, a very old and valuablo curio, in tho shapo of a piece of ornamental needlework, executed ly Miry Queen of Scots, The hißtory of thii curio is, that on its completion it was presented to the Duko of Hamilton, from whoso keeping it was given to a mastor catton-tpiuncr named Hugh McLean by a spinster of tho house of Hamilton, whim McLein had , married secretly, Shortly after McLean &. left home fur the Australian Colonics ▼ (bruising tho curio with him), whero he ' was killed by tho aboriglnos, and the needlowork next foil into tho bands of the Eov. D. McLcau, of Hampden. It , has often been placed on show, both at exhibition and privately, and is well worthy of inspection.