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i·· ~I DONALDS~ ·VILLE CHIEF. h , NVU WE SPArP2M: TESUD O1W.IPTION P~R~IOD, TW7O DOLaLA.RS AdBA~ DA rya 9VILLE, LO1ITTA'A SATIIBDAY, MARCH 8, 1884. NJB 7 L. E.IENTI~Y,Edltor and Proprietor. ADS.ARTISIBE- RATES: ?AZ. 11 P . 2 mois year o ine.eb.8....8 80 $ 5 8 .11J 00 $15 0O ' inches.. 10011 12 19 0 5 00 o. nches ... 8 ........ 15 o 23 8 200 iveinhes 1.~.. O 1 1 2 00 8 00 s v .... tone pear, ......... .....8_ o8 00 *)ne-innb..... 8 5 6 5: 100 iihtinches.. 15 8 1 8 48 200 Four inches... 850 14 15 000, 23 3000 .h. s._a.. s 4a 0 e r s 45 00 solun.ý... a 40- 55 1500,00 Oeaal or legal advertisements, $1 per aqare rt insertion; each esubsequent insertion, 50 Seditorialnotices, first insertion, 15 cents per line; subseqentlp,10 lcents per line. Cards of six lines or less is Businees Direct S Briefoommunnicationsupon subjects of public Sxteest solicited SNo1tteition paid to anonymous lettere. The editor is not responsible for the views of cerrespoztents. AdrsedsTma Cur.r, Donaldsonville. La. - I I* , I 1 i t I. e n 8 ·5 Dr. P. J. FrIedrichs,, WITH Da. W. 8. CHANDLER, u1t............ :arondelet street .........4...142 New Orleans. ) W. w . .MotALLARD OPF IC: Corner Houmas and Iberville streets. lomalddonvUlle, La. J . HANSON, K. D. OFNIGo. toeaner Houmas and Iberville streets, near C. Klinb's store, Doaaldsonville. La. JJ. ILEC..x, DRIGUGGIST, 0oiner Chetizonehes and Mississippi streete, Donaldsonville, La. A oomplete stook of pure chemicals always on had. Prescriptionsearefulh compiled at all hours. aye andnight. l E UED MILLS, AWWO3NUT AW LAW, No. St. Olarle Street, New Orleans, La. Practices in all the Courts of Louisiana, State paid Federal. Aw AND NOTAEIAL OFFICE. R. N. Sims, ATTODU"M AT LAW, Donaldsonville, La. Psaetioes in Asoension, Assumption and St. James. SB. EARHART, -ATTOZUtN AT LAW, Office: Opposite.the Court.House, DomatsonviIlle, La. Practices in the qti..Seoond Judicial Dis trict (oomprising St. dames and Ascension rishes), and in the Supreme and United states Courts. 3. N. iN. . J. E. Poas. 8I1MS POCHE, ATTOR.NETS AT LAW, 1St. James, La. Office at P. B, Pooh6's. Address: Convent O Mr. Sim wll be in t:; James every JOHN n. xILLEY, ATT@ORN. AT LAW, O5.:; Lafourche street, near Bayou Ferry. DImalalsmvlUe, La. Practices in the TwentySecond J.q icial Dis-. trict (cemprising the parishes St James and Ascension), and in the Supreme and United Statee Courts. aKs. A. BAQUJE, ATTOR.WT AT .AW, lHaluville, La. Pralcticss in the Twenty.Secqnd and Twenty mith Judicial District ooimpring th~e parish ee of Jefferson, St. Charles. 8t. John St. James mAscension, and before the Fedeial and pu i Courts in New Orleans. Special o atttion paid to the collection of Addres: Hahniille P, 0., St. Charles, La. . I. PALrER, Bailroed Avenus, near Vibqane street, Doiialdsonvflle. Plain andEancy sewing of all kinds done in heit style andon reasonabli teims. A trial ohcaiteTand .atisfction gas ateed. M.rs. Palmer hs r e =.m eres of the Hisses (illet. one of whom wilclicarge of thenctting and itting dptmept, atin as orewoman. BUSN SS DIRECT (Y. DRe GqonDs. OEOCEEIES. Etc. NI t (CX. dealers in Dry Goods, r,=' otth s, Shoes, Saddlery, B 5i55;e, C.,0 09r55T'Mi5hPianLedL555dteetS. oursiý *rtI·ine ow t Place and Ha ,C. stret. deaer in ry oods, Notions, B oot and Shoes, Qreceriee, Provisions, Corn, Oats and Briin.: JO. AD Agent, dealer in Dry Goods' Notions, CIot , _Bts.and Shoes, Hats, Groceries, iuor, urniture, H wardre To bacoo Paints, Oil.Os. Lumber, Bricks, burt. and Wagons; dib's Diner, Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street. -inWestsrzii cc, fancy end staple Gro caries, lia. Iron, Paints. Oils, Carts,.nP, , oves and Tinware, unre, all Paper .r and Honsu urnisbin. o k issiseippi street, corner JOBS GONDRAN & dtONS . dealers in Dry Gooode.Clothing, Notions, HatsGroceries, Wp.,e,.igqors. Boots, Shoes, hardware, Psint, kinds of House .urnishing Goods. Blue Store, Mississippi street. UL, ni Noti orBoots end 10-.s Hats Furniture. Ha.rdware, kery .Trunks, etc. corner MississipI and ,k Patrick streets and No. t Railroed A.uveua iverythingatlowestA figures. R LANDMAN, dealer in Dr oods Groe . ies, Pant n Sppies, Wines, iquors RCilars Tobacco, ideer acst reetc i a ds, cor- o nr Baioroad Avenue and Taylor etrent,- one block from Railroad Dept. tN . F. PAR. dealer in Staple and Fency o rooeries.Provisions, Plantation nd team boat Supplies, Canned Goods. Wins Liquors, A Bottled Beer. Ale, . td Dry Goods nd Notions, i, corner of Mississippi and Chetimaehes streets, A oppoite River Feuy. , ' M LEVY, dealer tin Dry Goods, lothing, A . Boots, Shoes. Hats. Groceries, Furniture, A Hoydware aaflantation Supplies, at Lemann's S old stand, Mississippi street. G. FEITEL, Agent. INTSURANCE AGENCIES. V. apirt t oFer FerandeeS bargd :er shop. Bepreemn8ts fiet-cls companies oith ov. 4lg9.O 0 'ofcapital. Policies issued di r•ctJ _ from agetcy without delay. HOTELS AND BOARDBDINB-HOUSES. -O-D "=DYHOTEL AND -BARBBOOM, O 1 Mississippi stceet, First-rate, abcommo. T dation and reasonale prices. Western Union telegraph office in the hotel. i OBT. E. LEE HOTEL Crescent Place, near the Mar~o.ket-Ho, fos. J fag,._, propri etor. Bar iand billiard room attahed. First- tc clans entertainment and accommodation. C-ITYH OTEL P. Lefevre, Proprietor, .ail- el - road Avenue. corner lbervie street. Bar supplied with best Liquors. LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS. ti THE PLACE: sdi. Imanager, Corner Lager .Beer, Best Wines and Liquors. Fine :at Cigars. etc, us t TINSMrTE, to TOUDS J RACER. T"smrith. iIississippi' r s'treet, at Lemann' h S btd nd. Order t- 4c tended to with dispatch=sas ,tmtch:d i to . street; near corner Lessard. Bhaving. hair cutting, shampooing, etc., in most artistic style. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. [REDERBCK DUFFEL, Attorney at law and 5 Notary Public, officeon Chetinmaches street oppoaite e urt-House. EDWARD N. PUGH, Attorney at Law, Att -.. lka street, opposite Louisiana Square. Viits Napoleonville on Mondays. PAU LECHE, Attorn at Law and Notear Public, Donaldsonvine. Office: on block below the Court-House, on Attakapas street. HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. INGBY, THE PAINTER, shop at Cheap ' Tony's Store, corner Mississippi street and Railroad Avenue. House, Sign and Ornamental Painting in all their branches. Beet work at lowest prices. . UNDERTAKER. SCHONBERG'S Undertaker's Establishment, Railroad Avenue, between Iberville and At takapas streets. All kinds of burial cases, from the pine coffin to the metalic or rosewood cia ket. DIU.GS AND HEDICINES. B RYBISKI, Apothecary and Druggist, Mis * sissippi street, between St. Patrick and St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's store. MILLINERY, M R.. M. BLUM. Milliner. Mississippi street, Sbetween Lessard and St. Patrick. Latest styles of Bonnets, Hats, French Flowers, etc.; also, all kinds of Ladies Underware. SODA WATER HANUFACTORY. 8ODA WATER MANUFACTORY, H. Hether, Sproprietor, No. 11 Mississippi street. Soda, Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds of aerated waters manufactured and sold at lowest prices. BLACKSMITHS & WHEREL.RIGHTs.' QCHULER & BRINKE Blacksmiths and .Wheelwrights, Hor or Wagon and Cart makers and repairers, Railroad Avenue, between Mississippi and Iberville streets. R H. DUNN, Carpenter and Builder, Shop on Iberville street, near the corner of Houmas, Domaldsonville, La. Orders received through the Post-office will meet with prompt attention. M3 W. DARTON, Civil Engineer & Surveyor, (Parish Surveyor of Ascension.) Will attend promptly to work in all branches of his profession, such as surveying, mapping, leveling for canals, bridges, rice flumes, etc., estimating cost and supervising construction of same. Orders left at the C office will meet with immediate attention. JOIN P, FORCHA, Cistern Maker, RailroadlAenue, opposite the Post-office Donaldeoaville, La. All work guaranteed and satisfaction war. nted. Prices lower than the lowest. Piano Tuning & Repairing. A CARD, T HE undersigned takes pleasure la notifying T his former customers and his friendin gen eral that he will resume nlu business as Piano Repairer and Tuner, in which be bears the . i est reputation at hpme and abroad as a horn workman. Or ders left at the RaiYm o-tel or .received throuhi the A be promptly respon ded top ec te E VOX HOPE, Riverside Ho.al, D ialdsoaville, 1I. .I t hn't be ot of p - ·That Nell was an angel ten a - uWith a heart aspure as the vuo,, An' she had kind of an angel trick of readin', an' sich like to thesiqk , ~ An' manysthe dainty her heads 'dbear To Med, attimes, in the> l! al there.) My God! it was'nough to raise the hair On the hesd of a marble statael There Stood a crowd of at least two hundred men " None daring to enter that fiery, pen ' Men that were brave on an Injun trail, Whose couragewas never known to fail- ,But to enter the buildin' was certain death ' So they stood therestarin', and held their breath. SThan all at once, with an easer cry, a An' a bulldog look in his flashing eye! e This Med rushed up to thewailin' and, An' a paper thrust in the Colonel's hand, S"My mother's address," he said, an' then a He sorter smiled on the crowd of men, An' just like aflash of lightnin', shot , Thro' the door right into the seethin' pot! With a yel of horror the crowd looked on rhr felt for him 'twas "goodrbye; John." But halfa minute after the dash An up.stairs window burst with a crash! An' there stood Mead, likes smilin' saint, The al hi s arms m a death-like faint; Heellled for a rope, and lether 4oown, To termr firma-w-ceh means the groun' Then he ted t to a winder sash .uto follow down-but there came a crash, An' the blasin' roof, with a fearful din. Throw'dthe boy to the ground as it tumbled in. We carried him 'way from the fearful heat, A hopin' the noble heart still beat; But the old post surgeon shook his head' A'eaidwit a sigh, thatMead wa de It wasn't long afore little elle ot over the shoekas soon awl - She circulated among the men With a sheet o' paper, an' ink. an' pen, An' axed each one fur to give hit mite, In remembrance o' Mead's brave work that An' aete result this monument stands, Among flowers planted by Nellie's hands. An' every evenin' she walks up here, The boys all say, fur to drop a tear! An' I've seen her, too, on her knees right there! With her face turned upwards as if in prayer! You see that line's upabove to tell As how the stone was "Ereted'blNell," An' down at the bottom, there you'll see Some Bible quotin'-"He died for me." LETTERS FROM G00OSEQUILL.' Election in Philadelphla-Weariness and Picture Galleries-The Age of Discovery, Etc. 8 PmILADELPHr , Feb. 28,188. EDITOR CaEF: Give me credit for being a true prophet 1 once. Our municipal election came off on Tuesday and went triumphantly Repub- t lican. If I had been a betting character I there might have been "millions in it" for t me, but as it was I could only explain, "'I r told you sol" The great city of Philadel- b phia has turned its back on reform and tl elected for mayor a man totally unfitted. y for the position, a man who thought it not beneath him to solicit votes in the slums, n the saloons, and the dens of inquity. a Beside the means and zeal used by the Re. - publicans, I think this greht victory was B dice to the tariff scare which was the result w of Mr. Randall's unfortunate speech, and w to the- fact that the Republicans always T rally around their party 'and utilize every a vote on the eve of a presidential campaign. 5' Mr. Randall said that the Democrats ought i to carry t election and thus make Pean- P' next; that itas a' canvass of principles and not of candidates. Mr. Randall I sup pose was urged on by the feeling that if the State could be made doubtful he would stand a good chance for the presidential nomination. He need dream no more. He had best awake to the reality that this State from this on belongs to the Republicans. Mr. Smith scored a majority for the mayoralty of over 8000, MA' Warwick for city solicitor, went far ahead of Mr. Smith, both beyond expectations, while Mr. Hun ter, receiver of taxes, got 110,0() of the 150,000 votes cast, about three out of every four. Mr. Hunter, you remember, was the nominee of both parties and the "peoples candidate," but he did not get the entire vote, because, as some Republicahs ex preesed it, he was to honest to suit all Re publicans, and too much of a Republican to suit all Democrats, and too, because, af ter Mr. Pierie, the first opponent, resigned, another took the field against him. -There was a good deal of combined effort against Mayor King, on the part of the Germans and the manufacturers and retailess of fireworks, firecrackers, toy pistols, etc., owing to the fact that he had, by enforcing the law and preserving quiet and order on Sundays-and holidays, interfered with their pleasures and profits, whereas Mr. Smith promised that the German should have all the latitude they wanted on Sunday, and that holidays should be celebrated as of old. Jacob Purnell, the negro councilman, thinks his election one of the greatest vic tories ever achieved in Philadelphia, con sidering the .prejudice against his race. Yes, the prejudice has been very great, and it is a noteworthy fact that although the Republicans are ostensibly the benefactors of the negroes, Mayor King, a Democrat, is the first mayor who has had the courage to appoint negro policemen. For that rea son Mr. King was blamed by many and lost votes. I heard influential business men in commenting on the election give that as a reason why they did not vote for him. Theyasaid they liked the negroes well enough in their places, but thought it a perfect outrage to give them office of any position, however unimportant. The "boys," of course, are perfectly elated over their success and are in hopes they have put a quietus on the Committee of One Hundred. Of that, however, nothing can be known definitely before their meeting which will be held in March. That the Committee is discouraged is but natural. It is composed of Republicans, one of whom is George Purves, a very cultivated, intelligent negro, and being truly unparti zsan, has worked sincerely for reform. It certainly has done great good--controlled many elections and ferreted out much fraud and corruption, irrespective of per son or party. The highest and most influ ential officials have been weighed as care fully on the scales of honesty and purity as the most insignificant. No pains or money have been spared to put in office the pure and honest-for this campaign alone, at least $1500) have been expended, Whenone is wery in .ind apd body there is nothing more refreihing than a half hour of self forgetflness in a good picture gallery. I pat -this to the test to day in the art rooms of Earle & Sons, Chestnut street. Ani opi piece called the "Hunter's Delight" a feast for thi eyes. It was peireci and sa naturl 'that it was i4 to take: hold of the artilees- perfection o art. It represente . d 4 r such as you have seen many a ti.inrhe country, with t look anpd hingt Si on it hung in a cl a huntsmian 9 gii, powder-flask, game- hat, coat, tlrajsnd a brace o wild ducks. artlst,;k r. Hurtnett, is a Philadelphian, di in Europe and is now lving in Itwas soon sold for $100oand orders- 'been given for two duplicates. -. thing that grati fed me very much *engraving of Rosa Bonheur's last painting, "The Lions in Their Home. It represents a grand, old, forest; noarc and his mate, lying side by :side, wir three little cubs 'nestling close to the tither. The artist's knowledge ofiniisbd anever morewon derfully displayed. It .'is said that she studied her afbjects a long time in the Jar din des.Plantes. 'Somehow the engraving of;this picture has difficult process and long in hand. A`lte years 'ago when the painting was first exhibited in London, a fine engraver was a e to bring out the engraving, but he "died soon after he had etched the plate. It was finished by Mr. T. L. Atkinsoitf London. Mlle. Bon heur is entirely sa-tied with it, and re gards it the best engraving that has been made from any of h eriorks. It is certainly very fine and cost $72:' Only artist's proofs are out yet. The plate is dedicated to Queen Victoria: '"TIie' Lt Man Brother hood!" Don't that sox ud queer? Well, it is a social club that wa~organized in 1856, in the coniposing- Eoo' the Philadelphia Inquirer, by turty-thir compositors, all of whom, except twe@ belonged to that paper. Now there a only fourteen-so few, that they meet ifa private house to have their annnal supters,_ instead of a restaurant. At the siper each man must ing a song, give a toas and contribute a little money, which is laid up to buy the upper for the last b.- ther. A bottle of wine which was boi tin 1856, is also be ,g kept to console thlivery last man at the last supper. A few nights ago the Brothers celebrated the anniversary of ,eir organfsation, and I imagine they felt -ther sad at the dropping off of the mem grs. Alas! wIo can tell.who will taste of hat bottle of wine or how many more rears will be givep to it to mellow. Truly this is an agef discovery!. What Low? Why, Prof. Hairson Allen of this ity has hasthe fact ra ealed to him that riting can be done byimeans of the voice. is mind gave birth to the idea while ratching the movemehts of the soft palate, rhen experimenting the human throat. !o deo6nstrate the itinciple, he has a re eiving surfadcfof-whaie paper, coated with oot and with an insgmnment of his own sake, he registers on the surface of the aper, the lines and -es which represent [opes are entertained that this discovery dill be a great aid in diagnosine diseases Wan lI a grun Ua u iunegiujsiu g uiseeses of the palate, in the study of stammering and in comparing civilized languages, with those of the most primitive races. Prof. Allen has already proved that many sounds supposed to be formed by direct action of the lips, the teeth and the tongue are in reality formed by the action of the palate. "Excelsior," the wonderfully beautiful spectacular drama, surpassing even Jalma, has been on the boards of the Walnut Street Theatre during two weeks, jamming the house every night. It is a pantomime, not a word being spoken from first to last. The ballet dancing is superior and the tableaux are just indescribably exquisite Miss Flint, the premiere danseuse is a re markably artistic :dacer-grace itself. She is a Boston girl. There are five princi pal dancers. This play was first brought out in Milimn three years ago and after wards ran 300 nights in Paris, where it had an orchestra of 100 musicians and 630 ac tors. Of courseit is on a small scale here, Mr. Kiralfy having only 140 actors. The Kiralfy Brothers have purchased and will soon produce in this country a new panto mine ballet called "Silba." All the theatres are doing well and cele brated Washington's birthday with mati nees. The laughable comedy of "Peck's Bad Boy" at the Arch, "Storm Beaten" at the Opera House, insipid little Minnie Mad dern in "Fron Frhu" at the Chestnut, "Cinderella" at the Academy, Mr. George Cable at Association Hall, etc., none of which, would I pronounce very attractive. FRAGMaNTS. Pennsylvania has 7464 militia with 552 officers. Green peas are in market from Savan nah, at $2 a peck. The best butter, made from the milk of Alderney cows, sellsfor 80 cents a pound. ,Aman whofelf on the iced pavement here in 1882 has just been awarded by the city, $500 damages. In China the Roman Catholic Church has forty-one bishops, 1000 priests, 452 of whom are native Chinamen, sixty-four col leges and thirty-four convents. Mr. Charles Preston of Montgomery county, has a penny bearing the date, 17~9 the year in which pennies were first coined in the United States. Its worth is esti mated at ten thousand times its face value. GOOSEQUILL. Kendal's Sparvin Cure. BA FRANCISoo, Cal.. Jan. 16. 1882. Massas. B. J. KENDAL L & Co.. Gents: Through the recommendation of afriend about a year ago, I was inducedto give your Kendall's Spavin Cure a trial- and I am pleased to say that I was fully satisfied with the results. I used it in several instances upon splints. which after a few applications were entirely removed. I also usedit on a apavin with the same results. The medicin has grown in popularity in this vicinity in the past few months and what is sold here to-day I believe is put out upon its merits. Ax.. MaOCOmn, Foreman far City Railroad Company. Efforts are being made to establish a weather service 4 China, with the Hong Kong Observatory ~ its' enter, Meteor-olo gical registers aratobe systematically kept at the principal ports of the country, and it is expected that the Government Astron omer, who is at the head of the project, will ultimately b& able to give forecasts of the weather and to furnish information to mariners which will greatly lessen the dan gers of their voyages. he 1 SenetorBenj. Harrison e Of Indiana, Who will Go into the Nez Republiean Convention as a Candidate for the PresidbnatiL Nomination. Although it is not generally kilown to th , public, the friends and admirers of Senator t Harrison are working in a quiet way to se e cure the Indiana" and other State delega y tions to the Chicago convention-next June . Mr. Harrison has been frequently men Stioned as an available candidate for the Re npublicans, but he has refrained from ad. y vancing his personal interests through pub. ' lic "booms," and when the convention as o sembles it will be surprised at the strengtt this Indiana Senator will develop for thi t head of the ticket. There is no doubt bul , Mr. Harrison, if nominated, would carry aIndiana, Ohio and New York, and thus I practically secure the success of the Repub tlican party. In view of his increasing o prominence in this convention, we givethis i week a portrait of the Senator with a brief S BIOOGAPHIOAL szBEaRt. t Benjamin Harrison; of Indianapolis, was a born in Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, a 1883. After graduating at the Oxford, SOhio, Universitj, and having studied law two years in Cincinati, in 1854 he selected as his futue home Indianapolis, where he has since resided, and has been one of its most prominent lawyers. In 186iob he was chosen by the people as a Reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana, but at Lincoln's famous call for 75,000 volunteers, Mr. Har rison enlisted and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He then organized Company A of the Seventieth Indiana Vol unteer Infantry, and was commissioned Colonel on the completion of the regiment. While in the field he was proinmoted to be Brigadier General, and was mustered out in June 1865. Upon his return to Indian apolis he resumed the duties of court repor ter, and served four years. In 1876 he was the Republican candidate for Governor, but was defeated; and in 1879 was appointed on the Mississippi River Commission. In 1880 he was elected United States Senator to succeed Joseph E. McDonald, and took his OUR L.ETTE.R FROM BROADBRIM. OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRIM, Expenalve Opera Singers-Beecher and Irving-Aldermen and Balls, Etc. NEW YOBx. March 1. 1884. EDITOR CHIEF: The experience of the past opera season has effectually settled one thing, and that is that no manager in the future, for some time at least, will be called upon to pay $5000 a night for a prima donna. Just think of it! Paying in ten nights for a sin ger,to amuse you as much as you pay in a year to the President of the United States, who is expected to entertain all sorts- of people in regal elegance, and represents fifty millions of people. To think that in twenty nights she receives as much as Wash ington received for four years as President of the Repubiic. It is monstrous when the cry of want is going up from all the labor districts in the land. When the floods are burying towns and cities along the banks of all the great rivers, to think of this reck less and sinful waste on a lot of foreign tramps, who, as a- class, outside of their peculiar calling, are as ignorant as horses. Conceited, narrow-minded, vain, arrogant and ignorant, they know absolutely nothing outside the operatic score. There is not one in a hundred who has an idea that the world was made for anything but opera, and I can scarcely wonder at it, when a lot of purse proud flunkies pamper and cringe to them, giving them more in a night than they are willing to pay their most tried and trusty servants for a year. Wm. H. Vanderbilt is a stockholder, in the New Opera House, which, notwithstand ing its attractive and magnificent patron age, closes its doors with a deficit of a quar ter of a million Mr. Vanderbilt has found it necessary to reduce the wages of the em ployees on the New York Central Railroad, and to discharge a large number of work men from the shops along the route. It is not at all astonishing that Henry George is received with open arms by the downtrod den workmen of England, when he ask the pertinent question: Why should one man absorb the labor of a thousand? If Mr. Vanderbilt wants a fast horse and pays $25,000 for him, a 1000 men will have to labor twelve-days and a half, at $2 per day, to furnish him with that luxury. If he wants a Messonier for his magnificent gal lery, the merit of which he can no more understand than he can a problem in math ematics, a 1000 men may have to work a month simply to gratify his vanity. There is no more hollow or unnatural sham than opera. If any man or woman in real life were to make such donkies and donkiesses of themselves they would be put in the lu natic asylum. There is some thing ennobling in the better class drama in the hands of compe tezit actors. You are lifted into amore ex alted admopsphere, and if the piece be good and is ac.ted well, you feel that you are bettered for having seen it But the opera is simply an amusement, and not always a very moral amusement at that. The opera in New York fr forty years has been one long history of broken promises, disgrace ful fiascoes, and lamentable financial fail ures.. I don't know what it may be worth t him, but Colonel Mapleseon has the satie faction of driving the only manager fros the operatic field who could give him an; trouble in the future. Good fortune has made Mr. Abbey somewhat conceited, as it is well enough that he should learn a some cost that there are some other man agers in the United States besides himself For a couple of years past, Mr. Abbey has been suffering from a complaint by nc means uncommon in America, called bij head. Since his operatic experience it i: said that he has reduced the size of his hat, and where nine months ago Knox had nol a block large enough to fit him, he nos gets along comfortably with a boy's size, and the chances are that hishead will shrink still more before his dramatio season is over. Speaking of theatres reminds me that in our neighbor city of-Broohiyn, is an indi vidual by the name of Justin A. Fulton. He is supposed to be a Baptist minister, and presides over the old skating rink, which he chooses to call the Temple. From the hour that this man Was transplanted from Boston to Brooklyn his life has been one long history of disgraceful squabbles, and it is by no means due to him that the Hanson Place Baptist Church, one of the foremost Baptist churches in the city, was no utterly wrecked by his pastorate. Af ter one of the most ,disgraceful church squabbles ever seen in that city, he was summarilyejeoted andsought another pas torate. He was ekpelled from the confer ence of Baptist ministers, and only got back by the christian sufferance ofits mem bers. More recently he has been accused by the Rev. Gen. Conway, of an attempt to defraud him, and the expos6 in court, is one of the most, disgraceful chapters in Brooklyn church" history. Iast Sunday Mr. Fulton tookexceptionstMr. Beecher's visit to Irving, the actor, ani Irving's visit to Beecher. This ecclesiastical numbskull, who is not worthy to black Mr. Beecher's shoes, delivered himself as follows on Sun day last: "The theatre isthe home of vile ness. It is surrounded-by vileness. Place me upon a polar iceberg, where no verdure greets the eye, where nonght but the white bear's growl can be heard; letmelive'where no friend shall cheer me witih his smile; bar me in prison walls or let the gloom of dangeons cover me; but do not, oh, do not, compel me to mingle in the. crowd of the theatre, or to be a worshiper in that temple where there is no cross or Calvary." This would have been pretty heavy ec clesiastical thunder frorna first-dlals saint; but from a fellow like Fulton, who has done as much as any other' .an in Brook lyn to bring religion into contempt, such a tirade can only awaken laughter. The great aim of his life appears-'to'have been to create a sensation, arndas fir as his res idence in Brooklyn is concerned,- he has been a great success. He has now been a res lent of Brooklyn..between seven and eight ears, and I thir he has figgred in the newspapers at least once a week in that credible manner. If he is a sample brici of the excellence of the religious teachings: it is not astonishing that Bob Ingersoll iE such a distinguished success. Whatever may be thought of BobIngersoll's religioni views, he is personally an agreeable man, and in public and private, a gentleman: this is more that can be truthfully said of the pastor of the temple. Only a few week, ago, lie made a vile attack on Monsignor Capel, in the vague hope that monsigno. would notice him, and thus give him the notoriety that he craved; but the great catholic prelate passed him in silent con tempt, and it nearly broke poor Fulton's heart. The .day has gone by when people are to-be terrorized by such absurd denun ciations. Our best citizens attend the thea tre and the opera, and will continue to do so, notwithstanding the frothy denuncia tions of such saints as Mr. Fulton. Our Board of Aldermen are liberal; they always make it a matter of principle to at tend all balls and blowouts where there is nothing to pay and lots to get. The ball of the French Cooks of the bircle Frangaise received an Aldermanic benediction, and the closing ball of the Liquor Dealers' Pro tective Association, to which a number of the distinguished gentlemen belong, was also honored by their presence. It is the prayer of every respectable man in New York that the power which they have so shamefully abused be -taken from them: and then the Rosevelt bill, which gives the Mayor the sole power to appoint heads of departments without their confirmation may soon be the law of the State. Tam many is making a desperate fight against it, as are also a number of truckle Repub licans; but the better element of both par ties are in favor of it, and as it has been :successfully tried in Brooklyn, there is no reason why it may not be equally success ful in New York. Stocks have been up and down. You can scarcely tell whether Wall street is a Bear garden or a Bull ring, perhaps it is a little of both. - We caught the tail end of the cyclone - early in the week; but if the treatment was heroic, it was effectual, for the weather, which was miserable before, settled down to quiet respectability, and for the past few days the ladies, who have been co opg up in their houses for a week, haveecrowded the streets and stores,.so that we begin to look quite springlike. Business is getting a boom. The cityis full of buyers from the West and South. But politics appear to be the all important question of the hour. Yours truly, - BROADBRIM. A Freanch meteorologist las planited in the ground hear his house two bars of iron, from which wires run to a re ceiver. The earth ourn8 ts which a~ indi cated by sounds in thg~telephone never fil to give notice to the observer, who consults the apparatus several times a day, of the approach of a stormfriah tweleV to tlfteen hours i advance. - No ocrofula can be so sesatedo soreso stubborn but that Ayer'izsessssnlla,'wiu be found helpful. It will 4ft; cure. if cure be possiblem to SCIENTIFIC .MIBCJLLA1NY. -om Mr. C. W. Heaton, an . Englsb ehait,& any has analyzed a'sample of water from the had famous Hagar's well at Mecca-to which and thousands of Mohammedanpilgrims seort at annually--and reports that the water is a an- most dangerous compound, containing an elf. extraordinarily large proportion of filth. has The total amount of solid matter found in no a gallon of it was more than twenty-five big times as great as that found in a like is quantity of the water from the Thames itt, river. not The pulse-beats of a criminal during exe .0w ction by hanging have been recorded. e, After the rope was adjusted the pulse-rate ink was 121; immediately after the drop it fell is to 5s,2,89, 20 and to 0 in the fifth minute, but the sixth minute it rose to 70, then to in 78; eighth minute 0; ninth 8t; after this no di. pulse was perceptible in the arteries, but n. the heart beat twoor three times between er, the ninth and nineteenth minutes, and "-, once in the nineteenth minute. The death m was from strangulation, the neck not being ad dislocated. en Physicists have lately been trying to de as, termine by experiment whether the eleo he tricity of thunder storms is g0e he either by the evaporation of w. or hy s the condensation of vapor: Preemelabsd r. BSlaehkaeeaeh obtained reults wthieinh ch dicate that no electricity is produced by as the evaporation iofpure wter, an1.21r.. S. c. KKalisoher has since made some; iaveta ýr tions with delicate apparatus which hve 'ot failed to show that condensation of ivaior n- or the formation of hail is a source ofi t _ mospheroi electricity. to The result oftahydrographiosurvey m de , in the Straits iofSunda since the volcniai n eruption of last August have been y .i y M. 3. Van Dorn. It appears that the ..8 southern peak of Krakiatoa f rebinah ,jt changed, and rises with an all st pirpeah jj dicular northern edge, to a height of more ' than 2500 feet above the sea. 1tie n~rthe a _- part of the i3land, however, les erely e- disappear 1, and soundings on the -ploe where it had stood reached a depth.id W"O0 feet without touching bottom.r The . 1t t ground of Krakatoa is evidhntly tosg~d a re few miles to the north, where the. de~h. of . the water has been greatiy diminished qpd one ;1d island has been much enlarged, Shile several new ones have appearedabove the ai'race. The entire eamination of e the north of Kranatoa suggested thie idea that the surveying ship was above a rater which had been filled with water ,.nd t; quenched-byit. Out of the 700 species -osolcamm kppqn to botanists, according to a pape. read by Mr. J. G. Baker before a recent uaiipOf the Linnean .Society of L.ndon, there re Sonly about six which prqtdce taberespad only one of these, tfi comaion potato, $solansa tuberosum, hasyetbeencuItiva 4. The native home of the potato is in tse dry and levated pat. -of (Ihili. In Ath.r. species, S. Jfagii., which should be much it better adapted to general cultivation, asit k grows in moist places. As. long ago as 1826 the cultiva'on of this species in 4 Sgland was attempted, with most proii results, but was soon abandoned because - the plant was believed to be identi al with the common potato. Another species, S. Commessoni, from the easternpasrtof Squth America, is now being oultivated experi mentally in France, and is likewise saiia ble for damp soil; while a thiid wild sea r ies, S. Jamesii, is being triedfathe Uniftd r States. This last species is the one which e Mr. J.G. Lemmon discovered in south eastern Arizona in 1881. _- •~ The Late A. Franklin Pugh of As * sumption.. A correspondent of the New Orleans Plea grun, writing over the nore de plume of "A Friend," gives-the following sketch of the life of the late A. Franklin "Pugt which will be read with intetest by all who knew that la mented gen.tleman: A native of this perish, he was set to thold North State. the birthplace ofhi parens, to attend school and prepare himsef for the higher education for which his vigorous ntel lect and studious habits eminently fitt bim. In due time his attainments enabled him to enter, college, and he became a member of the Collegiate Institution of Nashville, Tenn., from which he was graduted w)thhonor. ' His father wished him to adopt the law ass profession; his means being ampl he we.. ato Cambridge, and there pursued and..complted his legal studies. After his return hometo gether with his fellow-etudeut, .rdeJ.hn Perkins, he opened a law ofiee in New .-Orn. How long the firm continued to await the ar rival of clients I am unable to esy, but uan state that the fathers of both were men of Isage property and of tha age which required the assistance and activity of younger men to man ageandontrol their esttes. Owing to this crcnmstance the firm was diolved, and each of its members sought the paternal roof It was not long before both of these romis ing yo men entered the m 5514 re ne representiughis pariah in the lgistiatuicand the other his district in (ongress of the United States. It is needless to say that in his public capeci ty he was faithful to his trust and -wttchful of the public interests. Upto the e enof the war hatook an active interest in a t tat eonoerned his parish, and was ever ready to promote any sheoe, by whomiceve.preposed, calculated to advance the rospierity, of his friends, neighbors or State.; e wasat all times ready and wllngto serve his friends and his `ris, the utaost of his ability. At thetime of desth he was a member of the State Lee Boar, whose meetings he regalarly attended and took sa ac tive pert in ird proeeding. During his whole life he was a diligent setdenet, and ketu with the literature and polities of the . Hie was one of the best read -men in a parish which can iboast of more than usual -cltivation amougte t es idente. As ayun. man he devoted much time to the edas rivl his siste, snatrý on, to thatof hitt.t odaghter, not onlo sepe. - He was a gene in. . most anteniveo of srdne qar "anthd ep Wo byi n e one arrived at ms tatos t tcoibhrtir oee ad the devotion tohe & W s tho't lovs and.respect of e e tises. Acolored uxafluanawa tis4· dioarlplioar of Jobiy'Washingtcea, th·e>> iaeF i tr deaer of ..ag e~ ai: w4 lt Clinton;t' and Sheriff patched i e ftwo iueg the pbchpee book to fa ut'a uita fwiru at Clintonit laers' dls e 1 though bearing eabreentz