DULY CMO.f BF.RIF>-VOL. LVIII. He). M«4 ) I AIL* RECORD BEKIEB— YOL.XXVI.— SO. «*«*. ( THE DAILY RECORD-UNION. Entered at the Post Office alSaararocnto as second class matter PUBLISHED BT THE Sacramento Publishing Company. W H. H. ITM, Ccner&l Majaager. OHce, Third »!., bet. J and K. THE DAILY BKCOKD-ITKIOK •- f — "■■-■ - |■ | • - ■ - "in ii mil he one raw 98 00 Foe ill month*. I ft Vorttane months t OS Subscribers served by Carrier! at Timu Oim perireak. In all tntwior ettiea and ttnrn* the iwer oan be bad of the prlued»l Periodical Ilnlill Newameo and Agents. ldTrrsuiD* Bale* la Bally BemrtMTmlaa. OBcflqaate, 1 time «i 00 One Square, f times. IB One Square, 3 tfmea. I jo befa additional time. 10 , „ lWeek. I Week*. 1 Month Oalf Square, lat pe«e HBO $i M ft « Bag Squat*, Id paf< IM I 00 100 Ratt Square, 3d pa«e 100 4 50 t 00 Half Square, (30 ; two Waiter Girls for hrtel. MASTERS I 00. "S Emplovment Offlee, No. 1026 Eighth str«4. near K. 07-tf wantedT" "(•.■■ALlt: TWO CABPEXTERS, A HARNFJK iTJ. Maker, u Ranch Hands. 10 Wuudchoppers«4 Waiters. FEMALE: Six Qirls for Housework, 2 Chamber Girls, an Upstairs Girl, 2 Girte to Wait a*i do Chamberwork, 3 Nurse Qirls. Apply to HOUSTON & CO.'S Employment Offi , Fourth and K streets, Sacramento. aulSlpt! TO LET 0B FOR SALE. ~ — ■ r — — r- AdTerttaesuQls of fiTe lines Is this Aupattment e lawisrt tor It eents for one sine ; three tunes tot 0 seats or 75 onits per week. I^TOS SVLE-13 ACRES OF NO. 1 LAND.M ~. I 1 lyin« '•■ ' east •.' Sjprimrtn pity, nr\tV^w to the Aiken orchard. Apply to W. 8. HESICK *» ' C. CHANDLER, J street, between Second and nll-tf "''US (SUED ROOMS TO LET IS ■ «. Inquire at 916i Seventh vldress O. W. ¥.. this nS-tf ' i ■■> a KVRNTH thor- TSI-h iv. i»u4 and ra*a-ai«hi j i■ . •». *3»d ' ■ in be rentr.l by re-- n sil es !>y Use dvCwait 3t TT"I Apr 1 , n ' m ises. J_ -f~_RUS»>ta liOTgf. • .v- 'TJR- Vf oWii'.a-aJ unf jndsUra rov.n tr ,« : «ntle msii or iiu.ilh«s by Jin da\, nr< >r nonth 1018 Beeand street, between J sad K. MJtH. >• . OGO, Proprietress. _^__ n?-tf SHEEP FOR SALE. . *~. suit. FARMS and Po? LA sSssa* let. Apply to PR. CAI'Lt.. •jP"*W roiloe— t ofaaowuoento. >. ilfesJhTi TO LEASE OR BEu.LT" EROM 3*o TO l.«*0 ACRES OF THE BEST ■op sir Airmlfa Laad in the county. Oeod . Poles for sale, at $2 per hundred (standing-) ; railroad through the "and. See WILLIAM HICKS, Oosumnes; or, T. L. ACOCK, No. MM Seventh street, Sacramanto. oSO-lplm* MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE, AT A LOW RATE OF IN tans*, by PKTER BOHL 825 J street.aul7.tf HOTELS AND RESTAUfiANTg. NRW < 4MPI BEST ACS ANT, rCACI K BTKEET . H *S BEEN THOROUGHLY *J\f t" refttted and refurnished, and will hereafter be run as a Fiutcuh Rkhtauraht. Meals, only 2S oents; Board, (4 |«r week. JOHN LAMKIN, Pro|)rieto'. nll-lm GOLDEN EAQLE HOTEL, CORNER SEVENTH AND K BTREKTS BAO ramento.—trst-class in every respect. Ths L*rxeat, Finest and Best- Ventilated Hotel in the city RATES— IS, #2 60 and H per day, according t« roosß. Vres Bus to and from the Hotel. 1. MoNASBES (late of Dcrar), n*-JPI« Proprietor. HOTEL LANQHAM. /■^IOKNER FOURTH AND L STREKTo, ACRA menso— Strictly first-clasm, on ths &ir, »pean |p!an. T. D. Scri vor's CarrUgei will take all passengers free of charge from Depot to Hotel. nl-«plm TERBY ■ CO.. Managers. UNION HOTEL. SECOND AND K STREETS, SACRAMENTO, Cai. Roons, 60 cenu and $1 per day. Special atos by the rmath. Billiards, choice ilijuors and Igars. V- 1 lunch dally from 11 A. M. till ir. h. W. O. ("JOK") BOWERS, ' -.Mpim Proprietor. RESTAURANT DE FRANCE. inw K BTREET, ADJOINING *— _ X/y I the Metropolitan TheaU'r. iaadsome Private Rooms for parties. LOVIS PAYKN, Proprietor, aotO-4plm Formerly of the Hotel de Franco. MISSISSIPPI KITOKEN. • TITII AND CBtr Sllll, Third Htnwt, Betwera J ka« *, I^KXT BOOR TO REOORD-CNIUIV ••-' omoe. Open day asd night. s^^Tl3^ A J. SENATZ, Proprietor. \_J \# aJMplsn \ Friend * T^rry LUMBER ESTABLISHED 1863. tBCM »n, REDWOOD.ORECOH ATf ICKIEPIK, At Wholesale and Retail, a & •faaafaelared «• Order at the $111* *>f Ike Cemiuy. AIM Doors, Windows, Blinds, ShaUs, Shlnirles, BolMandTiem, MAIN TAKD AND OFFIdL No. 1310 Second Street,- near M. BRAKCH YARD/ C*m«r Twelfik «t J «t«.. Afetraasrato, Cal. *al»-tp8ni ' I Always s> a— Sinn stock la store. Oxmtry ■- attsnUoa. >: *r la. k MrLLER, i I~aTTV > FELLOWy TFMPUB, 4 .. treets. OoaapMs stick ODODS instinUr em * C*V ■ Ba ' ■*" >t*y orders nroamtn at- — n .atreewaaCenSss. ;«1 |^^a!j^ermilyaT^^^ J) IM^ C»r»a«r aael Badartaiko, I llsansaeved to Be.S*aJ street, bet Fifth aad I aixtk. Aiwa/s oe hand a Urn asst ; rtaieot of I MataUU ud Waaaea CasktW, linrki c^es and I Otsam. «fcsadsj«r»aae« aadynnerai WreaU«s I IrsasmsV Mb erdsvs will reortTe KrosaM ». |_yaF WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15th, GREAT CLEARANCE REMNANTS ! HITWTTHBT B THAT IT RAINED YERY HARD JUST TWO WEEKS AGO NOW, OUR STORE WAS CROWDED EAGER PURCHASERS ! Yon will do m a favor, you who did not come to test the truth of our assertion, by asking your nearest neighbor j if she was here on that day, we know fall well what her answer will be. It affords us the greatest proof that we can give to the public of our sincerity in this move, and of our determination to close these RIMHAHK entirely out on the day specified. KEEP THIS DAY IN YOUR MIND ; It will repay the trouble: Wednesday, Nov. 15 AN ABSOLUTE CLEARANCE COUNTRY ORDERS filled promptly, and, if not satis factory, money refunded. HALE BROS. & CO., 829, 831,833, 855 K street, j 026 HIMTH STJjEET, SACRAMENTO. SACRAMENTO, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1882. __ MISCRT.T.ANEOgS. Palmer & Sepulveda. DI^TJGGHSTS, Northeast Corner Second and E sueets, Sacramento. Special attention given to Compounding Prescriptions— ac-^ curacy and absolute purity guaranteed. ]* Christmas Presents ! >r Toilet Cases,^v y^Purses, Card Oases,^^ >r Illuminated Note Paper/^v y^Promenade Bags, Portfolios'^ y^ Paper Knives, Cigarette Cases/\ J Cigar Cases, Magic Charm Penoils,^v \GEMIBTWM ♦ GABDS / Glove and Handkerchief Cases, Fancy Inkstands, Gold Pens, Cases, Book Marks, ' X^Aflh-Holders, Checkers, ,J^ Scrap Books, jp H. S. CROCKER & CO. JT Blocks, jtf Games, Toys, Christinas Reticules, y^ Chromos on White Satin, \. Autograph and Photograph Ak Etc., Etc. A large Stock ofV ODMOUM * BOOKS > In Cndl«ss Variety, Ny For Jnv«aileo aiid Adults, in J^ >^ paper, cloth, and rich leather "bindings. / AIA Ap SB j^p 208-2 10 J STREET. — OLDKBT BOX FACTOB7 OKI *■* m^ m l*aw LaTE'T IMPKOVEU THE PACIFIC COAST. All t< ff If Lt W M A O H I N E R V Klsds ot Boxes on hand f^\JJK f «T^ -ro« -»nd Mmlr to Order. •»■»•' * • •■»»^bb^ BOX I'K ! N n \«. CAPITAL BOX FACTORY CORNER SECOND AND Q STREETS Pep«t I J »t., bet. Front and Second (next door to W. R. SirongA Co.) NICHOLS A CO. a!7 lpgm SAN FRANCISCO CABDS. BAN FRANCISCO Business Directory AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Ceorxe A. I»a»-tii * «'o. -Manufacturers' Agente, 327 and £29 Market street. Baltrr dt Hamilton- Importers of Agricultural Implements and Hardware ; Agents of the Uenicia Asr'l Works. Junction Market, Pine and Davis sta. ARTISTS. ■■•■Mworth— Optician and PbctognDher, No. 1! Montgomery street. Established in 1861. BUSINESS OOLLEQES. FmelOr Biulaeas Callece u SUOEHS J. BRMORT. Rm ttUSoaT GREGORY & CO. '.Successors to J. Gregory), COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND WHOLESALE Dealers in PRODUCE AND FRUIT Nea. im a nEALERS. HAVING BE-.OVKD TO MORI COMMODIOUS premises, we have enlarged our stock. Ws ofler you cho e Apples, freo from worms. Lemons ft eW^w^.^ 1000 to 1010 Swjond st£et,' bl^^j idT' Sacra. mento - fcjg-tl W. R. STRONG & COW Wholesale Commission Merchants astb dbaljw n all im or OaUWMU SKBDT t HB »&!■» rtlßi HUTU, HONXT, 8KB) A»d eeaeral ■evefcaatlae. sV AD orders promptly attended W>. Addnas I W. R. BTKONO * 00., aag-lplm Hoe. 3, 8 and 10 J street, Bmcram»nio CLAIRVOYANTS. ~ VOW 18 THE TIME TO GET YOCR FOK- »i» .4.1 tune told. -Kcadibz of the iwst, pretent.TC ate" futons. MRS. I. C. ANDREWS, the " weU-knowu Character Reader, Fortune Teller and Clairrovant, Seventh street, between O and" B, vtxt, door to A. M. E. Church. Inform tion «i%P -»^ -^_^ nil- ' to barTekrower&J 4 FULL SUPPLY OF THE CEL^B 2\_ and prolific WOODS' SIX-ROWED BAR]H Oan now be procured for eesd. Arena. «i u bashels per acre, and weiehs ten p,,,^ "']£• "»T bo»be! than anj other barley ; v.ttT«, "^" 5" brt-rins; does not fall down or JoS. , f ??w f 7 more than any other Known, d, v&S2?Jfi£ mSOELLAinSOUS. pill Wd3l^sssssss#^S E R M^Jfll T9io^-t V 1 P"V Offliffifi RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosteo Feet end Ears, and all other Pains and Mshes. ITo Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oi» ai a .«. turf, simple and cheap Externa'. Remedy. A trial entails but t3o compaimtiTe!) trifliug outlay of 50 Cents, and every ons aufferlng -with pain can have cbeap a&4 pcaitin proof of it. claims. Directions in m«T«a Langnagos. 80li^ BY ALL DBTJGCHSTS AHD DEALEBfr IN KEDIOIHE. A. VOG£UBR & CO., Baltimore, ltd.. 17. B. L No Whiskey! Brown's Iron Bitters is one of the very few tonic medicines that are not com posed mostly of alcohol or whiskey, thus becoming a fruitful source of intemper ance by promoting a desire for rum. Brown's Iron Bitters is guaranteed to be a non* intoxicating stimulant, and _ it will, in nearly every case, jtake the place of all liquor, and at, the same time abso lutely kill the desire for whiskey and other intoxi cating beverages. Rev. G. W. Rice, editor of the American Christian Re tnew, says of Brown's Iron Bitters: Cin.,O.,Nov. i6,i881. Gents : — The foolish wast ing of vital force in business, pleasure, and vicious indul gence of our people, makes your preparation a necessity ; and if applied, will save hun dreds who resort to saloons for temporary recuperation. Brown's Iron Bitters has been thoroughly tested for dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness, weakness, debil ity, overwork, rheumatism, neuralgia, consumption, liver complaints, kidney troubles, &c, and it never fails to render speedy and permanent rdief, WISTAR'S BALSAM NEVADA. H. A. MARTIN, Eureka (Nev.), writes :*»• I always recommend WlsrtKS BALSAM nr WILD (lIKKKI. as it is one of the oldeaHMid best preparations in the market. I have narer heard of a singlo complaint against it, and hare sold it for fifteen years." a. M. LEVY, of samo place, writes : " Last whiter I suffered with a severe cold, which settled upos) my lungs, and the only relief I fonnd was m WISTAK'H BALSAM OF WHO CHCRBV. a B. LUCE, M. D., Genoa, Nev., writes; "I hare uted WISTAIf* BALSAM OF WILD < llKltttl for many years in piivate pnetief, and consider it an excellent preparation for Calebs Culds, etc. I cheerfully recommend it." 053-lp2awMTh&swW3 f JOHNT.STOLX; Ha 610 K street, Sacramento, Cat, ijti niRBCT I-KTTXRS: \3y Sacramcßto. G. GRIFFITHS, PENRYN BWiniWORKS foeiv cu. mHB BEST VARIETY AHI JL Lanra* Quarries on the *?— si — 'Pacific Coasts Polished Granite Monuments, Tombstones and Takteta mad* to order. aVtSrmalte Ballrflmt BMfeeCsU, PniM a»1 raltafcod f •rd«r. all-lptini MANHATTANISMS. THS DEA.BNESB AND FIECINATION OF NSW YORK. Growing Ixpensiveness of Life In Town— Tte Burned-Out Manager— The Jersey HoUyhcck— Etc. [Correspondence Rsco*D-UsiO!f.] New York, November 2, 1882. Nearly all the absentee*, whose number and length of stay in the country or abroad increase every year, have, with the close of October, come back to town. The city is very full, and v rapidly growing fuller, as the hotels and boarding-houEes, and the active demand for any and every place to live amply attest. Many houses and apartments are now leased from October and November, instead of from May, an used to be the universal custom, and per sons who have cot yet secured domiciles for the winter have difficulty in getting in anywhere. Almost all the desirable places have already been taken, and by the end of December there will hardly be, from present appearances, a decent habitation unsecured. FASCINATION OF THE CAPITAL. Notwithstanding the extraordinary activ. ity in building since last spring, and the frequently expressed opinion that building has been overdone, especially as to apart ment-houses, the fact that the supply con tinues adequate to tiie demaud is only too obvious. The city's population is, it is estimated, fully 250,000 larger from No vember to May than it is from May to October; a very considerable part of the increase being composed of persons who pretend to live elsewhere, bnt spend more or less of the six cool months here. New York is getting to be more and more of a wintering place every year, both business and pleasure attracting thousands from other sections. A great many well-to-do families from New England, tha South and West, are in the habit ,of coming to the metropolis either this month or early in December, to enjoy the gayeties of the sea son. Manhattan certainly presents a vari ety of ways of spending money, and thoae who have a deal of money to spend can readily have what is called a good time. It is the constant and r»pid growth of wealth by accumulation witl.in and without that renders this city so w«ry dear. Prices are graduated to the incomes of the rich, not to the earnings of the financial middle c-lasß, the result being that, to psople of moderate means, life in the metropolis is an unending struggle One might think it would be so severe, so unremunerative, that any number of our citizens would be worn out with it, an>i' would seek homes under more favorable conditions, where tho strain wuuld bp less, where the chances would be better/ Bnt comparatively few, after having /passed years here, can be persuaded to /change their abode. They prefer any anftount of friction, crowding aad pinching tfo relative smoothness, space and ease in smaUler cities. There is undeniably n fascination(in the big capital that cannot he felt awayi from it. The last quarter of the nineteenth century demand«^ptemen*. neatai add social, and such excitement is to be had alwayb b> Manhattan. lam acquainted with scores of persons who have for years been living here ftom hand to nouth, who have no pe cuniary or other prospects whatever. They could unquestionably improve their condi tion by moving away, and they believe they could. Bbt they, like so many oth ers, are wedded to New York and refuse to be divorced. They would rather rub along here than flourish Hi the interior ; they are permanently under »he spell of the metrop olis. The tens of thousands who have re turned are oomplbining of the tnaann of the cjty. This has become a chronic complaint — prices having advanced, they s»y, even during their absence. For three or four years necessities as well as luxuries have been going up, notably within eighteen months, and are higher to-day, it is said, taking them altogether, than they have ever been. As an example, the figures of boarding-houses have been put up ; those that have been charging $10 a week, now asking $12, and those that have been charging $12, asking $14 and $15. This, a most important change, must bear heavily upen a very large and industrious class. As to the hotels, rates of the leading ones on the American plan have long been $5 a day, beyond which it would be impolitic to go. Several of the principal theaters con template raising the price of tickets, for the best places, from $1 50 to ?2 each, and livery stables talk of a further upward turn for carriages, despite their large ad vance last January. These are atyled su perfluities ; but superfluities have grown to be essentials which, as commonly rated, are very dear likewise. Provisions, all household articles, servants, rents, are higher than they were at this time a year ago, and there is no probability of their being lower. No wonder there is such an unremitting strife for money in this tumultuous, wear ing town— not to get rich, but simply to keep alioat. The shifts and straits to which the average New Yorker is put, year after year, in trying to make both ends meet, is scarcely suspected by the outside public. If he were not wouted to it, it would assuredly break him down ; and then he is greatly helped, from time to time, by the ease with which he ebtains credit, though it may well be doubted if credit does not hurt him in the long run. The question is eternally asked, "Howde Nstv Yorkers live ?" The answer is, "By credit." The bulk of them, after the man ner of Americans generally, are always drawing on the future, fact that the future seldom honors their' drafts in no wise interferes with their expectations. They are ever confident that FortuneStM something in store for them, and although this is a delusion, it is a delusion to which they cling to tbe last. Thousands of Man hattanese increase their indebtedness every, year, and really depend upon their capac ity to procure credit as a source of income. It may truly be said that, in the midst of life they are in debt, which they only d'a charge by dying. But for ardent hope New York would be well nigh depopulated. Most of us fight the losing battle of life here, sustained by eager expectations never to be realized. BURNING OF THE PARK THEATER. Much and genuine sympathy has been ex pressed with Henry E. Abbey in ' he loss sustained by the burning of the Park The ater on the eve of Mrs. Langtry's engage ment. He will lose very little, if anything, on her, as the change of place to Wallack's and the delay of a week will feive no per ceptible financial effect. A hofadred thou sand dollars is not much to so enterprising and liberal a musager as Abbey, who is the most daring of all his tribe., He likes to do big things ; he is fully aa ambitious of reputation as he is of monetary gains. A few years ago he was wfcolly unknown. Coming to New York fro* Ohio, where he followed the calling of a jeweler and watch maker in a small interior town, he aspired to be a leader in the theatric world, and he has become such. /Nobody but him would have had the /courage to secure Adelina Patti last Beas/on to sing is opera at $3,000 a night af'itr her original plan* had been frustrated./ It is doubtful it he made anything by bi« monetary boldness ; but it was a superb /*d vertisement for him, and in the show butanes*, as it is popularly termed, advertising is of incalculable value. The bringing over of Sarah Bern fcttdt-sttdtorecrttotay wr* grant ritfc-^ --it seemed ventuneaorae to rathnoM — but he is believed to hive cleared $100,000 by it. He understands! the public, particularly tbe New York pub/c ; he has all the resources, and is matter xfl all the trick* of his trade. Ho posseese* a deal of insight, excellent judgment, «d is fruitful of expedients. IJef ore he ranred from tbe jewelry business in Ohio h«l had dabbled in management, having tngkged diver* acton and actresses at different time* for local tours, and foond I profit therein. His experience had be^tTi gfcmcigyt^to cjjnvince him that he could lo better in abroiS^r field, and with this con viction he came ibither. It is generally thought that tneVark.TiM&tST has not' proved lucrative, MpeMtlly within she last | two years, and that the burning of the house, beyond his loa*\ in scenery, ward-J robe*, etc., will not prove detrimental.! He will, it is reported, b«ld a new theater^ jf once, in Broadway, son* where between fliirtieth aod Fortieth strelgU, which will doubtless be an improveVient\on any on* yet constructed. Several rich mkn, having ample faith in Abbey, would aid hflto genet, ously if be should need aid^Tio betf% evidence could be given of AbbW's mana gerial talent* than in tbe manner rS which tie has worked up \. THE JENOUSH PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY. There was at first very little curiosity— this is exactly the word— respecting her, acd the predictions have been numberless that she would not draw on the stage. Nor is there any good reason why she should. She is not beautiful — to do her justice she does not pretend to be. She is not even very pretty. Any number of women in New York, who have never as pired to bellehood, are comelier than she. Her esthetic reputation, to call it such, was the result of accident, but it has been carefully and industriously cultivated. If Millaia had not painted her portrait, and the Prince of Wsles had not taken her up, she would never have been heard of either on this side or the other side of the At lantic. Even if she were beautiful, she would lose the advantage of her beauty on the stage, where a very plain, especially a coarse- featured woman, can be and gen erally is so made up as to look very well. Mrs. Langtry's face is delicate, at least the upper part (much of its effect depends on her varying complexion), and would specially suffer in consequence behind the footlights. Her figure is fine ; her voice is sweet ; her manners are graceful ; but nobody has ever claimed that she is, in any histrionic sense, an actress. But, out of the theater, she is a consummate actress. She may be named, barring offense, an adventuress, and an exceedingly clever oae. To be a professional beauty — odious expression — requires money, and money she w resolved to have at all hazards. To name her the Jersey Lily, remembering the typical quali ties of the flower, sounds bitterly satirical. She might better be called the Jersey Hollyhock or Peony ; for there is not a scintilla of genuine fineness, unless physi cally, in her entire composition. Abbey's idea of an auction was felicitous ; it made the public believe there was a great desire to see her, which there was not by any means until her manager's methods had created it. The auction was probably a bit of juggling— Charles Wyndham's pnr. chase of the first box looked very sus picious—but it served the purpose Abbey had in view. I fancy now that he will make money out of her. He is, though far quieter, a spiritual kinsman of Barnum, and must excite the cordial admiration of the veteran showman and Prince of Ham bugs. varieties. / Charles T. Congdon, the oldest member of the Tribune staff — he was the first jour nalist in the North who treated slavery in a humorous, satirical-manner — has again left the paper ; thi^r time, it is uupposed, per manently. /He began writing for the Tribune iptore than thirty jears ago, and wag considered in Horace Greeley's beat days^ne of the most effective contributors tojttie fourth page. /It was characteristic of the average re porter's mind and method- that one of the tribe sent down the bay to Mrs. Langtry on the morning of her arrival, should ask her, while they were steaming through a dense fog, what she thought of New York. And not less grotesque wu her reply that she admired New York; that it reminded her of Paris. Who would have supposed that a fog- bap k and New York and Paris would have so closely re sembled one another. Mrsi Langtry mutt have been thinking of 'London and the Prince she had left behind 'her. Bessie Frothingham, daughter and only surviving child of Rev. OctaVius B. Froth ing-.ham, is soon to be married to Win. L. ; I'arkei . a Boston merchant. /.Mr. Frothing- : ham has decided to stay njr Boston Derma-, nently, and^-to devote himself wholly to' literature. TL\e reports of/ his returning' hither to resume charge of/ Yds former con gregation are witiWgt foundation. Joseph Jefferson, tut^acttor, has taken a studio and an apartmeonta rag new apart, ment house, the Remblls«v/in Fifty^ seventh street Lawrence B.«rett h»»,< since the return of his daughters from; Kurope, settled his family in an apartment] house at Fifth avenue and Twenty- eighth! street. Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has prepared' a volume of "Old Love Letters," said to be very interesting. Charles Wyndham, with his Criterion Company, has made a decided hit in the very clever farcical piece 01 " Fourteen Days." The Union Square, where he is playing, has been packed every night this week, and'wiil doubtless continue to be till the end of the engagement. The acting is very good, the company being the pick of London, though it is no better than the acting to which the audiences of the Union Square, the best theater, on the whole, in America, are accustomed. Wyndham, whose real name is Calhertson, was an as sistant surgeon in the Union army during our civil war, fand was for some time connected with Wai lack's house. He is a brother of the wife of Bronson Howard, the dramatist. Chacbert. BENEFIT OF CLERGY. It was an ancient privilege allowed to the clergy of claiming when accused of felony to be delivered up to an ecclesiast ical Judge— always favorable to bis own order— for compurgation, instead of being tried in the ordinary way before the lay Judges of the land. In ancient times few persons, except those in holy orders, could read, and accordingly the test for ao ac cused person claiming benefit of clergy vas his ability to read. If he could noti she Court* would not part with the defendant, but proceed to try him as if he were a 1 »y --man. Afterward, when education beaame more general, other persons besides cleftfi men were able to read ; and so, in the r»ign of Edward 111., Parliament extended -.he privilege of clergy, as it is called, to clefldy laymen until the reigo of Klizibeth. Women were not allowed their clergy iiitil the reign of William aed Mary, when Par liament extended the benefit to them. t> In the reign of Henry VII., however, a blow was aimed at this singular privilege a* sn joyed by laymen, and a statute was then passed against "diverse persoM lettered, who have been more bold to commit Har den,} rapes, robbery, theft, as well a* ail othea mischievous deeds," which eni»eied that persona "not within hcly ordffs" accuseh of these offense*, and fon victed thereof, were in cases } of murder to be marked witk the 'Let ter "M" on the brawn of the .eft thumb, and in all others with the letter " T," to denote, it is presumed, that the person had been guilty of theft. In o*ae« of high treason benefit of clergy was never allowed to be pleaded. It ia stated fiat when an accused person claimed his clergy it was usual to teat his iecniag by requit ing him to read the first rent oi the filty first Psalm, which in Latin begins mitb the words, " Miserere met Dey*. " In aJßdi ticß to the extraordinary character of tiiu proceeding, in which a touch' of grim hu mor seems perceptible, it* absurdity is ap parent, for of course men might easily have coached themselves up in the required tost. The ecclesiastical Judge, who w&s generally the Bishop, might, however, have given the defendant anything else to read ; and in either case, in the event of his inability to comply, might have handed him over to the law, and this proceeding generally meant death. A custom which iav»r*d. criminal* solely on account of their good education appear* to us, who live in times whea it is justly thought that superior in telli|nnoe add* a stain to criminality of any kind, to be in the highest degree absurd ; yet 9re are told by able writers that the Lenejt of clergy, or learning— for "clergy" in here tantamount thereto — was not ao ri dictions a* it seem*. Without cay ing more on the subject, it may be stated that the privilege was abolished iv the reign of Ceorf) IV.— [The Antiquary. If Nearly Dead. Aftatt taking some highly puffed no ntuff, with 1 nog testimonials, torn to Hop Bitten, aad h ire no fear of any Kidney or Urinary Troul Ira, Bright. Disease, Diabetes or Livw Uon.f Mint These diieasea cannot reeia! the onmti re power of Hop Bitten ; b«*idjs, it is the ■> it family medicine on earth. " \ fhat shall I preach about ?" aiked a minis t r of the. jnaator of a oobred church. " Weß nro»'"any subjeS' willie 'ceptable," V— Jfte reply, "only I'd Ate to gib you •nt v«-d of caution." " Ah, what U that ?" £y> ell, ef I wu yon, I'd tech werry light on de Ten Commandments." " Indeed, and whyf* "Oh, cot, I b«b noticed lUt day mot' always htb a damp'nin' effec' upon dis congregation. ' — [Boaton Globe. %*" Magnificent promisea sumetimeii end in Mltry performance*." A mißßificent ex ception to thi* is found in Kidney-Wort, wniob inrariably perform* even more core* 'than, it proxiaw. Here is a single in »t»b*.. "Mother haa recovered," wrote an IlliooiH faLl to her Eaatern relativM. " Sha took bitten for a long time, bat w'thoat any (rood. So when ahe heard of the virtue* of Kidney Wort ahe got a box, and it haa com pletely cured her liver complaint." — \ « « '' Dost Kie in the house." " Roogh on Kaia." Ule»>i ouj rata, mice, flies, roaches, had. hum. llnntL _ I DAILY RECORft-IJKIO.V SERIES. I VOL. XVI.-NO. 73. THE FABLES OF INDIA. The study of fables owes its new life to India, from whence the various migrations of fables have been traced at various times and through various channels from Eut to West. Buddhism is not known to have been the principal source of our legends and parables. But here, too, many problems still wait for their solution. Think, for instance, of the allusion to the fable of the donkey in the lion's skin, which ocean in Plato's "Cratylus." Was that borrowed from the East ? Or take the fable of the weasel changed by Aphrodite into a woman, who, when she saw 1 a moose, could not refrain from making a spring at it. This, too, is very like a Sans krit fable, but how, then, should it have been brought into Greece early enough to appear in one of the comedies of Strattis, about 400 B. C. ! Here, too, there is still plenty of work to do. We may go back even further into antiquity, and still find strange coincidences between the legends of India and the legends of the west, without as yet being able to say how they traveled, whether from east to west or from west to east. That at the time of Solomon there was a channel of communication open between India and Syria and Palestine is established beyond doubt, I believe, by certain Sanskrit words which occur in the Bible as name* of ar ticles of export from Ophir, article* such as ivory, apes, peacocks and sandalwood, which, taken together, could not have been exported from any country but India. Nor is there aoy reason to 1 suppose that the commercial inter- J conrse between India, the .Persian Galf^^ the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean waifl ever completely interrupted, even at th^J time when the Book of Kings is supposedH to have been written. Now yon remembe^H in the Book of Kings the judgment of Sd. This seems to me, if not the more primitive, yet the more natural form of the story, showing a deeper knowledge of hu i.i»D nature and more wisdom than even the wisdom of Solomon. —[Max Muller, in Contemporary Review. THE SUN AND THE MOON. In the German language, »a is well known, the gender* of the sun and moon are respectively feminine and masculine, contrary to the rule of the Roman lan guages, where, as in I-ati", *he sun is mas culine and the moon feminine. In our own language Shakspeare speak' of the moon as " she ;"^nd in Egypt and Peru the sun and moon were regarded both as brother and sister > id husband and wife. In Arabic, Mexican^Lithuanian, Slavonic and Greenlandish thj^hmi/ind sun, accerd^^ ing to Grimm, of thought, bat the fundan^n^^^^ conception that gave them genders at all in language or in legend is clearly the same in either case, namely, that the sun and moon were actual human beings like svu* selves. This thought still lingers ii the uppef l'alaticate of Kavaria, when. it_j* . still common, or was recently, to hear the sun spoken of as Fray isoim? and W< moon as Herr Morul. But yet I strange than this is the fact tii»'. in the ' same district the tale should rti snrriv> . which accounts in the follcv.-.g coif ".'•*• place but suggestive way for ti.t< qan:U uf the lnminaries in qnc. : ' \ 2ht ™>oo:. m. '• sun were man an- 1 wr., bur Mn cr. .a . proving too col j a iuvor and to* -nuc.j ad dicted to sic .j, hs wife cne i...- laid him a wager, by virt..e of wbicn the right of shining by day should belong in future to whichever of them should be the tint to awake. The moon laughed, bat accepted the wager, and awoke next day to fiod that the sun had for two hours already been lighting up the world. As it was also a condition and consequence of their agree ment that unless they awoke at the same time they should shine at different times, the effect of the wager was a permanent separation — much to the ailliction of the triumphant sun, who, still retaining a spouse-like love for her husband, was and always is trying to repair the matrimonial A breach. Eclipses are really due to their Am meetings fi r the purpose of reconciliation :A^k but as the pair always begin with mutujjH reproaches, the time comes for thcn^^H part before they \wre ceased to 'i'j^Hl and on that account the sun alwa^B away blood red with »nr,er, and tn^^^^^i^J of blood the weepa M her departure are often marked in the sky by the redly-set ting sun. — [Cornhill Magazine. WRESTLING CAMELS. The wrestling matches between camels is an amusement in which Turks take great delight, although they sometimes get a fine animal maimed in the sport. Many gentlemen kee^ them for no other purpose, and one person in Smyrna kept twenty at one time for the amusement of his wife, who had a fondness for the sport. The camels are trained to wrestling when quite young ; they exhibit great dexterity in throwing tbeii antagonist, and seem to take much pleasure in the fray. We had a> young one on board, only a month old, and, having been bern under the flag, he was christened " Uncle sam." One of the V Turks amused /limsilf on the voyage mak- % ing a " pehJEvau " of him, and when ■ he was six wflka old he was more than 1 a match for ' his teacher, using hi* 1 leg*, neck and jnouth sd^li much dex-^^ terity, and exhibiting sucb wonderful "* strength in so young a thing, that he became a very rorghj playmate, and frequently hurt the n.en on deck by throwing himself on them suddenly and knocking them down. This feature seems to be natural to the camel, for when two strange one* rireet together where there are any females Uta>y irtiinodiatriy li*vd * wraatliag ai*U.h for the supremacy, and the conquered one ever after acknowledges his inferiority by not so much a* daring to look at a female. Unlike the amusement of bull- baiting, this wrestling is a harmless pastime, though the animals sometimes get their legs broken, or are stirf for some time atter with their bruises. Well-trained animals seldom injure each other, being taught to throw their antagonist by getting his neck under the fore leg {the" fight) and the throwing the whole weight of their bod ■ on him and bringing hirr. to the ground. Celery as a Curb.— The habitual dail use of this vegetable i* much more be a. filial to man thsn most people are a war of. A writer who is familiar with it* vir tue* says : " I have known many men ant women who, from various cauae*, had be come so much affected by nervousness that wken they stretched out their hand* they •hook like aapen leave* on a windy day, and by a moderate daily uoe of th» blanched footstalks of (celery as a salad they became a* atrong and stoniv in limb as other people. I have known other* *o jefJirns that the least annoyance pnt thum in .» state of agitation, and they were in" ntrpfi l irrrit pnTnVrrrfti fear, who were also effectually cured by a* moderate use of blanched celery a* a salad . at meal time. I have known other* to be cared of palpitation of the heart. Everybody engaged in labor weakening to the nerve* should use celery daily in the season and onions in it* stead when not in season." To this we may add that a prom inent New York druggist draw* in winter from hi* soda fountain a hot extract of eel «ry, mixed with ! lobig's meat extract, un der the name of ox-celery. It ia a nour ishing drink at lunch time, far better than coffee or tea, and is doing a great deal in this neighborhood to promote temperance. We give celery almost daily to our canary birds, and it cure* them of fits ; they are little animals with very delicate nerves, easily frightened, and therefore they need ■uch a remedy very much, and the relish with which they take it is proof that their instinct guide* them to eat what is good for them. — [Journal of Chemistry. Hobstobd's Acid Phosphate pleasant to the tiste. Dr. A. L. Hall, Fairhaveo, N. V.. says : " Have prescribed it with marked ben efit in indigestion and urinary trouble*."