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fNOTTCK.—For want ot space, many questions received
remain iinamwered for .soriia time. reach query, it legiti
mate, will, in its turn, reecit'c proper attention, Vvo must
request our correspondents to write plainly and state their
wishesconci-sely, if they wo dd receive concise answers.
Many norej that are received are so nearly illegible that
they find their wav at once to the waste-basket. ]
W. H. S.—By an act of Congress ap
proved June 18tb, 1874. it was provided “that all
persons who, wbiie in the m atary or naval service
of the United States, and in the line of duty, shall
have been so personally and tota ly disabled as to
require me regular presence and attendance of an
other person, by the loss oi the sight of both eyes,
or by the less of the sight of one eye, the sight of
the other having been previously lost, or by the loss
of both bauds, or by the loss of both feet, or by any
other injury resulting in total and permanent help
lessness, shall be entitled to a pension of fifty dol
lars per month. Provided that the increase or pen
sion shall not be granted by reason of any of the in
juries herein specified, unless the same shall have
resulted in permanent total helplessness, requiring
the regular personal aid and attendance of another
person.” You will perceive from this that a person,
to receive the benefit of this act, must be so disa
bled as to require the regular presence, aid and at
tendance of another person, otherwise he would be
entitled to the rate of thirty-one dollars and twenty
five cents per month for any of the disabilities
mentioned. A bill increasing pensions to soldiers
who have lost both hands, logs or eyes, from fifty
dollars to seventy-two dollars per month was re
ported by the Pension Committee and passed the
House, but whether or not it has been acted upon
by the Senate and has become a law we have not as
yet been officially informed. For the above valua
ble and interesting information we are indebted to
the extreme courtesy and promptness of Pension
Agent Charles E. Coster.
Monaco.—lst “A and B are playing
a game of cribbage. A plays a queen, B plays a
deuce, making 12; A plays a three, making 15; B
plays a four, making a run of three; A plays a
deuce, making a run of three; B plays a
three, making a run of three; A refuses, and B
plays a douce, and claims a pair. A objects. Which
is right?” Ais right, because a trey intervenes be
tween the two deuces, thereby splitting a pair. 2d.
** A plays a four, B plays a deuce, A plays a three,
making a run of three; B plays an ace, making a
run of four; A plays a four, and claims a run of
four. B denies it. Which is right?” Ais right.
There is a four on top and bottom, but there is no
card breaking the run between tbe last four cards
played. 3d. “A plays an eight, B playa a seven,
making 15; A plays a nine, making 24 and a run or
three; B plays a seven, making 31, at the same time
claiming a run of three and two fcr his 31. A denies
bis claim to five hole?, allowing him only two for
bis 31. Which is right?” A is light. The first
■even destroys the run by interposing between tne
last seven and the eight. 4t j. “ A plays an eight, B
playsaseven, making 15; Aptays a six, making 21 aud
a run of three; B then piajs au eight, making 29 and
claiming a run of three. A disputes B’s claim to a
run of three as not being regular.” B’s claim is
correct. No card intervenes between the eight last
played and the six and seven immediately played
before. The eights are at the top and bottom.
Wax.—“ Could you kindly inform me
Why shoemakers are called Sons of Crispin, and who
and what Crispin was ?” Yes; Crispin was a very
decent saint and gentleman. He and his brother,
Crispiauus, were born at Rome, whence they trav
eled to France, spreading the gospel as they went,
and like honest men, earning tneir living by hard
labor—shoemaking. They ware enabled to sell
Choes at a very low price, as their leather cost noth
ing, it being supplied by angels direct from heaven.
The governor of Soissons, hearing that they were
Christians, had them beheaded. Their bodies were
thrown into the sea, but they were* washed ashore
at Romney Marsh in Kent. St. Crispin is the patron
of cordwainers, by many of whom he is still com
memorated every Monday. On October 25th, bis
day, in the year 1415, was fought tne celebrated
battle of Agincourt between the English and the
French, who outnumbered the former in the pro
portion of six to one. King Henry represented
by Sbakspeare in his “Henry V” as saying to his
soldiers:
“ He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil least nis neighbors,
And say, ‘To-morrow is St. Crispian.’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say, « These* wounds I had upon St. Crispian’s
day.”
B. A.—lst. King William the Fourth
Of England, was the uncle and not the father of
Queen Victoria. He was the third son of George
the Third, and was born August 21st, 1765, his
name being William Henry. Ou May 20th, 1789, be
was created Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews, and
Earl of Munster. He for many years lived with
Mrs. Jordan, the actress, and had by her a numer
ous family, who took tbe name of Fitzclarence.
On July 11th, 1818, he married Adelaide, daughter
of George, Duke of Saxe Weiningen, by whom he
had two daughters, Charlotte Augusta Louisa (born
and died 27ch March, 1819), and Elizabeth Georgina
Adelaide (born 20th December, 1820; died March
4th, 1821). He entered the Royal Navy in 1779,
held the office of Lord High Admiral in 1827-28,
and succeeded to the throne aa William IV., June
26th, 1830. He died at Windsor, on June 20th, 1837.
2d. The longest political administration in England
the past hundred yaars, was that of Wm. Pitt, com
mencing on Dec. 23d, 1783, and lasting until March
17th, 1801, or for a period of seventeen years eighty
four days. Pitt was Prime Minister and Chancellor
of tbe Exchequer; Thurlow, Lord Chancellor; the
Earl of Mortland, Home Secretary, and Earl Gran
ville, Foreign Secretary. Tne Liverpool Adminis
tration lasted 14 years, 307 days.
Red Shirt.—The first system of fire
police was established in this city as early as 1648;
the immediate cause of which is stated in the records
to have been the happening of fire in two places,
occasioned by the negligence of certain careless per
ilous who were in the habit of neglecting to clean
their chimneys and of paying no attention to their
fires. Although in that day there were several good
stonehouses in the town, yet the general construc
tion of the dwellings was of tbe simple character
found in newly-settled places; it was not uncommon
for tbe poorer classes to thatch their dwellings with
reeds, and to have wooden chimneys. The danger
attending this mode of building was made apparent
by the accident above related, and the city authorities
directed that from that time no wooden or platted
chimneys should be erected between the “fort and
the fresh water,” or, in other words, within any dan
gerous contiguity to the city. To see that this ordi
nance was properly observed, four fire-wardens were
appointed. The names of these officers were Adrian
Keyser, Jomas Hal, Martin Crizier, and Joris Wol
sey. The same ordinance enacted a penalty for non
compliance with the orders of these wardens, the
amount whereof was ordered to be set apart for the
purchase of fire-ladders, hooks, and buckets, to be
procured from the fatherland at the first oppor
tunity.
G. P. E.—lst. The place at No. 663
Broadway was formerly called Academy Hall, and
on Monday, October 16:h. 1854, it was opened as
Perham’s Burlesque Opera-House, the season last
ing up till January, 1855, when tbe company left to
return again in March, remaining this time until
July. The title was then changed to Perham’s Con
cert Rooms, and the place for a short time occupied
by the troupe called “The Alleghanians.” In Sep
tember of the same year it was again opened as
Academy Hall, with a panorama of the Battle of
Bunker Hill and the Alleghanians. In December
the “Christy Minstrels” played a brief season. Its
Bite is now occupied by the Grand Central Hotel.
2d. Irving Hall was erected for the purpose to which
it is now devoted, viz: concerts, balls, fairs, etc.,
and was opened by Messrs. L. F. Harrison & Co..
on Tuesday, January 8, 1861, the occasion being a
concert given by Miss Hawley, in waich she was as
sisted by George Simpson, tenor; Mr. Werneke,
basso; Mr. Beale, pianist; Mr. G. W. Morgan, organ
ist; Mr. Henry Appy, violinist; and Mr. W. Berge,
pianist. 3d. The Hippotheatron, or Lent’s Circus,
■was built expressly for equestrian performances.
It was opened as the Hippotheatron on Monday,
September 25, 1865, and was destroyed by fire while
occupied by Barnum, on Tuesday, December 24th
1872.
Mary. —To thoroughly clean and renfew
B straw hat, adopt the following: Remove all trim
ming, and lining of any kind. Mane a saucepan
filled with soda and water, boiling hot; dip the bon
net into it and let it soak for a minute or two, then
lay it upon a board and scour it well with soap and
water. When thoroughly done, hang it in the air to
dry. As soon as it is dry, place it in a box, every
cranny and hole in which must be stopped up; put
into the box an earthen jar or saucer containing
sulphur, which must be set on fire; close the lid oi
the box down tightly, and let it remain twenty-four
hours to bleach; then remove it. Dissolve one pen
nyweight of oxalic acid in about two quarts of water
and steep the bonnet in it; then scrub it again
thoroughly and dry it. Make a glue of parchment
cuttings to the consistency of a jelly; rub the whole
of the inside of the bonnet well with it, then dry it
by the fire until well stiffened. It must again be
placed in the bleaching box, with the ignited sul
phur, and remain for twenty-iour hours. It will
then be sufficiently bleached; hang it in the air to
remove all smell, and send it to be blocked.
Young Bride. — Weddings are thus
Classed: At the end of th j first year comes tbe cot
ton wedding; at two years comes the paper; at
three, the leather; at the close of five comes the
wooden; at the seventh anniversary the friends as
semble at the woolen, and at ten comes the tin. At
twelve the silk and fine linen; at fifteen, the crystal
wedding. At twenty, the friends gather with their
china, and at twenty-five the married couple that
have been true to their vows for a quarter of a cen
tury are rewarded with silver gifts. From this timp
forward the tokens of esteem become rapidly more
valuable. When the thirtieth anniversary is reached
they are presented with pearls; at the fortieth comes
the rubies; and at the fiftieth comes the glorious
golden wedding. Beyond that time the aged couple
are allowed to enjoy their many gitts in peace. If,
however, by any possibility they should reach the
seventy-fifth anniversary, they are presented with
the rarest gifts tojbe obtained, at the celebration of
their diamond wedding.
Henry.—“ You onetime published a
description of Washington’s personal appearance.
■Would you now oblige an old reader by republish
ing it?” Washington was six feet two inches in
bight, with a very erect, robust, stalwai t frame.
He had a fine breadth of chest; long, well-shaped
and very strong arms; a broad large hand, with a
grasp like a vise, and very straight, well rounded
lower limbs. He had a large head, set on a strong
full neck, with a commanding carriage. His hair
was brown, or dark auburn; his eyes a grayish
blue, set far apart, and his complexion ruddy or
florid. Stuart, who painted him, declares that the
sockets of his eyes werejlarger than he had ever met
with before, and the upper part of his nose broader
and fuller. All his features were indicative of
the strongest passions, although his judgment and
great self-command made him seem different in the
eyes of the world.
i Anglo-American.— u For the informa
tion of a number of readers, would you kindly state
the combined area of Great Britain and all its de
pendencies?” They are as follows: Great Britain
Bnd Ireland, 121,115 square miles; Indian posses
sions, 1.558,254; other Eastern possessions, 25,268-
Australasia, 8,087,000; North America, 3,620.500*
Guiana, etc., 100,000; Africa, 250,000; West Indies’
12,707; European possessions, 120; and various seU
tlonjQttta. 96.HL Total area. 8»871|X35 WWO
H.—On the death of George Holland,
the comedian, in December, 1870, the mourner:
waited upon the Rev. Dr. Sabine, rector of the Curuct
of the Atonement, Madison avenue and East Twen
ty-eigbth street, and desired him to periorm the
funeral setyicss. He pertinently refused to per
form the services over tbe boJy of the dead actor,
t telling the mourners to go to the litLe church
t around the corner. They did so, going to ths
. church of the Rev. Dr. Houghton, who willinglj
performed the services. At the conclusion of the
service, Mr. Joseph Jefferson,, who was Que of the
mourners, feelingly exclaims Ji' *-God bless that lit*-
tie church around the corner!” and the words
have since become historical. Dr. Houghton is still
in charge. A pathetic song on tbe subject was writ
ten by Mr. Edward Lancaster, and became verj
1 popular.
J D. D.—“ Does every town in Ireland
styled ‘borough’ return a member to the British
t Parliament?” No; if they did so, we fear they
would have to build a much larger parliament house
than even that they at present have. The affix ‘‘bor
ough” is almost as common as the prefix “ Kil ” in
' Ireland. The total number of representatives Ire
-1 land has in the British House oi Commons is 105,
3 i and there is not a single constituency the name oJ
• whose place has “borough ” attached to it. A bor
-3 i ough in England is an incorporate town, that is, not
• a city, or a town or village that sends members tc
• Parliament Lu Scotland it is a body corporate, con
c sisting of the inhabitants of a certain district,
J erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction.
r In this country it is an incorporated town.or village.
Fair Play.—lst. “ To decide a quarrel,
• please state who wrote the play of‘lngoinar,’and
• whether the author was English or German?” The
’ play is originally German, and is known in Germans
> as “Der Sohn dcr Wildniss.” Its author was Elgina
Franz Joseph von Muench-Bellinghauseu, who died
> in Vienna, May 21st, 1871. It- was first translated
■ into English in 1848, by Charles Anthon, of this
• city, who gave it the title of “The Son oi tbe Wil
-3 deruess,” and the English version of it in general
• use, called “Ingomar, too Barbarian,” was adapted
J by Maria Lovell. 2d. “ Damon and Pythias” was
written by the Irish author, John Banim, of “The
’ O’Hara Tales” fume, and was first produced at Drury
■ Lane Theatre, London, with Macready as Dimon;
1 Charles Kemble, Pythias ; and Miss Foots/ Hermione.
i
i P. McG. —The battle of Harlem Plains
• was fought on September 16, 1776, between Ameri-
• can troops under Col. Knowlton and Major Leitch,
1 and detachments ot the British army, then in pos
session of New York city and the lower part of Man-
f hattan Island; Knowlton and Leitch were killed, but
• the Revolutionary army was victorious. Washiag
; ton Irving says of it: “The encounter was a small
1 affair in itself, but important in its effects. It was
• the first gleam of success in the campaign and re
-1 vived tbe spirits of tho army. Tbe British troops
1 were composed of a battalion of light infantry,
another of lioyal Highlanders, and three companies
of Hessian Riflemen, all under the command of Gen.
Leslie; later, they were reinforced by a battalion of
Hessians and a company of Chasseurs.”
Manhattan.—lst. Brandy is a spirit
distilled fyom wine, the fermented juice oi tho
grape, and in this country from tbe juice of other
units, as tho cherry, apple, pear and peach. In the
north of Europe the name is also applied to a spirit
distilled from grain. Cognac brandy is one of the
best brandies made, and is from wine. 2d. Cognac
brandy takes its name from the town of Cognac,
Department of Cnarente, France, which enjoys
great celebrity on account of the excellence of its
brandy. 3d. In the Province of Caampagne alone
there are 125,000 acres o‘f vino growing laud. 4th.
There are certainly real champagnes imported into
th;s country. Tne bogus wines are made here.
There is no need to import them.
Harlemite. —Work was commenced on
the Harlem river or High Bridge, in 1839. and it was
finished in 1848. The channel of the river, to which
the water is reduced at very low abb tide, is 300 feet
wide, and th<? depth 16 ieot. The whole length of
the bridge is 1,450 feet; the flight of tho river piers,
above high water line, is sixty feet to tbe spring of
the arches, and ninety-five ieat above the lowest
foundation. Tne arobes are semicircular, and tae
flight one hundred feet to tbe soffit, or under side
at crown; to tho top of parapets one hundred and
fourteen feet above tae ordinary high water line of
the river, and one hundred and lorty-nine feet above
tne lowest foundation oi the piers. Tho width
across, on the top of tho parapets, is twenty-one
leet.
Unionist.—“ Would you kindly settle
a dispute by stating the relative strength and di
mens.ons oi the rebel privateer Alabama and U. S.
vessel Kearsarge, at the time of their celebrated
naval duel?” They were as follows: Length over
all, Alabama, 220 feet ; Kearsarge, 214>£ ; length
on water-line, Alabama, 210 ; Kearsarge, 193 feet;
beam, Alabama 32, Kearsarge 33 feet; ueptn, Aia
oama 17, Kearsarge 16 feet; horsepower, Alabama
600, Kearsarge 400; officers and men, Alabama 150,
.uoarsarge 162; tonnage, Alabama 1150, Kearsarge
1030; guns, Alabama 7, Kearsarge 5; number killed,
A abama 9, Kearsarge 1; wounded, A abama 21,
Kearsarge 2. The fignt lasted for one hour.
Foul—“ A dispute has arisen in regard
to how the Atlantic cable is laid, one ciaiming that
it is at the bottom ox the ocean, while I claim it is
only at a certain depth. Please state how it is laid,
and who is right?” The cable lies at tbe bottom al
ways, where bottom can be xouud, but it must be
remembered that the bottom of tbe sea, like tbe
surface of the land, varies in formation, and has
hills and valleys just the same. Now in some in
stances it is likely that the cable may be for a
short distance suspended from bill to mil, but ior
the whole cable to be in the water at a certain depth
and not on the bottom, would ba in reality aa im
possibility.
Slavery.—An oil-cloth should never be
scrubbed with a brush, but after first being swept
with a long handled hair brush, it should be care
fully washed with a soft cloth dipped into milk and
water—halt and half; or, if the milk is not obtain
able, tepid water without soap—tbe latter ruins oil
cloth by taking off the brightness of the paint. Hot
water is also very injurious to it. When washed
over, wipe it off with a soft, dry cloth. In pur
chasing an oil-cloth, try to obtain one that has been
made lor several years, as the longer it has lain un
washed the better it will wear—the paint becoming
narder and wore durable.
M. A.—The unpleasant odor produced
by perspiration is frequently the source oi vexation
to persons who are subject to it. Nothing is sim
pler than to remove this odor much more effectually
chan by the application of such costly unguents aud
perfumes as are in use. It is first of ail necessary
to procure some of the compound spirits of ammo
nia, and place about two tablespoomuls in a basin
of water. Washing the face, hands and arms with
this leaves tbe skin as clean, sweet and fresh as one
could wish. Tne wash is perfectly harmless and
ver y cheap.
J. A. R.—lf the bunion is not inflamed,
the best remedy is to put on it first a piece of di
achlyon plaster, aud upon it a piece oi thick leather,
this last having a hole the size of tbe bunion cut in
it. If inflamed, it must be poulticed. If this does
not succeed, it must bo treated as a boil, and the
matter let out with a needle or lancet. The fol
lowing ointment is good for an inflamed bunion:
lodine, twelve grains; spermaceti ointment, half an
ounce. A portion, about the size of a horse-beau, is
to be rubbed on the bunion gently .twice or thrice a
day.
Subscriber.—You are laboring under
a very strange delusion. None of Queen Victoria’s
children are crippled or troubled with any inherent
disease, nor are we aware that any such misfortune
attaches to the members ox the Rothschild family.
It is only alter constant marriages and intermar
riages in a family that finally it may have an effect
on the issue, but it is indeed almost ridiculous to
anticipate any such result from a simple marriage
of two first cousins. If you love your cousin, and
are engaged to her, why then do your duty and
marry her.
L. T. —It is not possible for you to
qualify as a homoeopathic doctor without undergo
ing the regular course of training requisite for so
important and responsible a profession. Even a
drug clerk in this State has to undergo an examina
tion, and, as a matter of course, much greater care
is taken with tne graduation oi physicians. There
is a Homeopathic Medical College at No. 201 East
Twenty-third street. Apply to the Secretary, Mr.
F. T. Bradford, for particulars.
Disputant.—The estimated numbers
of religious denominations among English speaking
communities throughout the world are: Episcopa
lians, 17,500,000; Methodists of alt descriptions,
13,500,000; Boman Catholics, 13,250,000; Presbyte
rians of all descriptions, 10,000,010; Baptists, 3,000,-
000; Congregationalisms, 7,000,000; Unitarians, 1,000,-
U 00; minor religious sects, 1,500,000; the others no
religion in particular.
Father. — The Sun cholera remedy
consists of equal parts of tincture of opium, red
pepper, rhubarb, peppermint aud camphor. It is
a remedy for Summer complaint, diarrhea, cramps
in the bowels, and similar ailments, and affords al
most instant relief. The dose is from three to ten
drops ior a child, according to age, and ten to thirty
drops fox an adult, according to tbe severity of the
attack.
Sr. Swithin’s Day.—The statement,
“If on St. Swithiu’s Day it proves fair, a temperate
winter will follow; but ii rainy, stormy or windy,
then the contrary,” is from “ The Shepherd’s Kal
endar.” Uniortunately for the truth of the St.
Switbin story the saint’s relics were in 971 transla
ted by St. Ahelnold to a shrine, and in 1094 re-trans
lated to Winchester Cathedral by Bishop Wakelin.
( J. W. B.—We base our opinion as to
the correct way of spelling “ uniaundried ” on the
fact that “laundress” was formerly used as an in
transitive verb, and meant “to practise washing.”
Thejverb/* launder ” is from the Old English word
“lavendre.” It is possible that we are wrong in
i our opinion, though some of the best writers of the
. language spell the word in the same way.
McG.—“Can you tell me of anything
that will rid me of blotches on the face?” Yes.
lake of rose water one pint, and corrosive subli-
■ mate two grains. Mix them. Wot the face with it.
> gentiy dry it, and then touch it over with cold
i cream, which also dry gently off.
i Bookworm. —The quotation, “Cleanli-
i ness is next to godliness,” is to be found originally
: in Bishop Butler’s famous work on the “ Analogy oi
> Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature.”
i Its autaorship is often attributed to John Wesley,
i but that is a popular mistake.
Constant Reader. —Any book you take
with you to England tor reading purposes will not
■ be interfered with. It is only where one has a
number of the same books, leading to tae suspicion
that it is intended to sell tiiem, tiiat any trouble is
i probable.
Ingomar.— ‘ ‘ Have parents a legal right
1 to prevent a daughter’s marriage after she is fifteen
I years ox age? They certainly have the right tb in
s’ ter fere until she is of age.
3 An Old Subscriber.—Gramercy Pari
r we presume to have been named in imitation of z
• similar place in London, but we will, make furthei
J inquiries.
‘ G. D.—The highest premium on golc
1 ever reached in this country was 285, in July, 1864.
3 and it only remained so for about a day.
Old Bowery.—No; the New Bowen
. Theatre never had a pit similar to the Old Bowers
_ Theatre, but bad a parquette.
• H. K.—The present President of th<
; Republic of Venezuela, is General Francis L. Alcan
i; tara.
i J. C.—Both parties having the saxu<
i, count, the game la a draw onm
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JUNE 23, 1878.
1, CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES,
rs
)h gBCDND I? :
n ‘ CONTINUATION OF “THE COST OF HER LOVE.”
A DOMESTIC DILEMMA.
r> DAUBLEY’S SPECTRE.
5 h A SHETLAND DAINTY.
TIIIHD I’A.on .
,O MASONIC INTELLIGENCE: Air Castles; A Cordial Re
io ceotion; PejLPictures of Living Masons; Questions
t>- and Answers; Ancient Landmarks; Washington Ma
sonic Medals; The Battle and the Breeze; The Ap
pointments; The Beginning of a Masonic Revolution;
.y Empire Chapter; Presentation to Aiderman Black; A
Silver Wedding; Rhode Island Clams; Musical; Still
Another; Honors; True Craftsman’s Lodge; Com
<l mandery News; Eastern Star Notes; Labor Exchange,
iy SIXTH PAGE:
je THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY.
r- A PINT OF STRAWBERRIES.
la TAKING THE BASTILE.
J? STOLE HIS WIFE.
THE SMUGGLER’S BRIDE.
r . MERRY TRIFLES,
et ENDLESS GOLD,
io THE MAN WHO PUNS.
HE CHANGED HIS MIND.
” BOXING A BEAR.
B ; INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
i SEVENTH JPA.GJS:
] PEACEFULNESS.
SALE OF A KINGDOM.
( y THE CUNNING BOY.
18 A WOMAN IN IT.
A STRANGE DEATH.
d RENEE OF ANGERS,
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
d ENGLAND’S FOOD SUPPLY.
>3 A CAT’S ADOPTED.
.y —
* fltto ffarfi
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‘2 NEW YORK. JUNE 23. 1878.
l
it The NEW YOKK DISPATCH
n has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
>3 lished in the United States.
If NOT HEROIC, BUI INFAMOUS.
Ever since the atrocious assassination of
Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth the
r country has been flooded with stories about the
e assassin, all of them intended to throw a halo
* of romance around tho career of tho perpotra
c tor of one of the most damnable tragedies in
'j history. The latest story was published in a
a Virginia paper recently, and was furnished by
® Alexander Hunter, of Alexandria, a gentleman
□ who, the editor assured his readers, was a bril
! - liant writer who dealt only with facts. This
story states that Booth and Robert Lincoln, son
1 of the martyr President, were rivals for the
J hand of Miss “Bessie” Hale, and that tho lady
t was madly in love with Booth. It states that
* on one occasion when Robert Lincoln was
1 waltzing with Miss “Bessie” Hale, Booth
| pointed them out to a lady friend, remarking,
e “See that damned villain! Oh, I could kill
J him—and his father too ; and, by the Lord of
8 Hosts ! his sands of life are fast running out.”
a Tho narrator of this tale, which deals only with
facts, further informs us that two hours before
o the assassination Booth dined with Sonator
“ Hale’s family, and describes the parting be
1. tween tho assassin and Miss “Bessie” Hale in
J tho highest-wrought style of the “ dime novel”
a agonizers. He also informs us that after the
2 death of Booth Miss “Bessie” Hale pined
a away, and “changed in an hour from a happy,
2 radiant maiden to a sad, silent woman.” She
, is represented as having sorrowed for the as-
* sassin all these years with exceeding grief, only
a few days ago having thrown herself into a
1 heartless marriage.
J
3 Of course, like all the pther romantic stories
■ about the wretched assassin, this is without a
’ particle of truth. A Chicago Inter-Ocean ro
s porter called on Mr. Robert Lincoln—who is a
2 practicing lawyer of that city, and a modest, re
-1 tiring gentleman—and from him gleaned the
j' following facts : Ist. Robert Lincoln was not in
. Washington at the time tbe action of the story
is placed. 2d. He never knew Miss Hale—
j therefore is confident that he was not amittffn
: with her, as stated by the writer who deals
j only in facts ; and, in fact, if Mr. Lincoln un-
- derstands himself, he was anxious to form a
" t matrimonial alliance with another lady. 3d.
1 Miss Hale’s name was Lucy, not ■’Bessie.”
■ 4th. Miss Hale did not “pine away,” nor did
. she “throw herself into a heartless marriage a
; few days ago,” as she has for years been the
happy wife of Mr. William E. Chandler. Mr.
1 Lincoln also scouted the idea that Miss Hale
2 had ever loved the dissolute actor.
1 We trust we have heard tbe last of these sto
-1 ries which try to make a sentimental hero of a
y
- vile assassin. As an actor he was a failure—of
“ all the Booth family the very worst, being notb
-0 ing beyond a malo-dramatic ranter. Though
4 possessed of little talent ho had inordinate vani
ty, and longed for notoriety. His moral per-
, ceptions wore so blunt that he could not distin
guish between fame and infamy, and so he re
el solved on a crime, the overwhelming conse
s quences of which his shallow brain could not
_ comprehend. “Tbe eagle, towering in his
|: pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at
° and killed.” Since the dagger of Ravaillac slow
a Henry IV., of France, no such disastrous effects
have flown from the vile act of a vain fool,
r Tbe blow which killed Abraham Lincoln—the
’ kindest-hearted, gentlest-souled, most forgiv
e ing mortal that ever occupied a large space in
'■ the world’s history—harmed not him alone, but
the whole country. So great was the confl
-0 donee the American people had in him, that he
q would have dictated the terms of reconstruc
d tibn, and we all know that the terms would
have been much more lenient for the South
0 than those which Congress was compelled to
’■ dictate through the wrong-headed obstinacy of
a Andrew Johnson. That man, or paper, is no
L - true friend to the memory of the wretched ae
-0 eassin who attempts to surround his infamous
4 deed with a halo of romance or of sentimental
’■ heroism. His crime will stand m history as
tbe rival in infamy with the crime of Ravaillac
s —needless, aimless, most damnable, and very
° disastrous to a great nation.
1,
'• ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.
Unquestionably the most incapable of Na-
3 tional Legislatures, since tbe foundation of
our government, adjourned last week after an
eight months session characterized by the most
a reckless extravagance, the most malignant and
3 unpatriotic partisanship, and a flagrant de-
J fiance of public opinion. Led by narrow-mind
y ed blatherskites and venomous demagogues,
e by political numbskulls and financial quacks,
the majorty of the Forty-Fifth Congress dis
'’ played, at the same time, a truly astounding
•, pelitical incapacity, and a lack of understand
ing the plainest questions with which it had
2. to deal. Even as partisans the Democrats in
’• Congress frittered away the splendid oppor
tunities that presented themselves to make
0 political capital for their organization,'and! in
® adopting the Potter resolutions, they com
’ mitted not only the stupendous blunder of re-
1 uniting the Republican party, but also laid
e themselves liable to the terrible charge of en
tertaining revolutionary designs, and of seek-
g ing to involve the country in another civil
war. The poignant rebukes with which their
2 indescribably silly course met from all quar
d ters struck terror into the ranks of tho blun
derers to such a degree that they showed the
i- white feather and disavowed the real object of
J the Potter resolutions.
■> Another inexcusable blunder on the part of
the Democratic majority in Congress was the
desperate attempt to crfppla the army and
e navy of the country in the face of a tbreaten
ing Indian war, and while our relations on the
n Mexican frontier became every day more pro
's carious and unsatisfactory.
The financial course of Congress was ba
it neath contempt. In violation of all the lessons
“ inculcated by the monetary history of the world,
the majority left no stone unturned to conjure
]. down upon the heads of the American people
a tho disasters into which the assignat policy had
31 plunged France during the Revolution of 1789.
The sensible minority was fortunately able tc
d thwart the designs of the greenback lunatics
4 ’ under the leadership ot Dan Voorhees, Tow
Ewing and other financial quacks.
7 One of the most contemptible features of the
policy of the Democrats in Congress was the
unfairness with which they decided every con
Q . tested election case in favor of the Democratic
claimant. This blind and stupid policy of in.
le tolerance will hear its fruits in due time. Ii
was in keening with the conduct of Soeako:
e Randall, who, during the whole of tho session,
decided parliamentary questions in favor of the
Democrats. Ho redeemed himself in the clos
ing hours of Congress to a small extent by pre
venting the passage of certain lobby bills des
tined to draw millions of dollars from the fed
eral treasury. Take it all in all, wo cannot ro
-- train from expressing the hope that Mr. Ran
-13 dall will not be re-elected to Congress. That
the same fate will overtake a great many other
j. members of the present Congress may be con
*. fidently expected, and, if tbe Republicans make
ill good nominations, they have excellent pros
“■ pects of carrying the next house. That they
”■ may pursue a sensible course and, by so doing,
organize victory, is our earnest hope.
BEN BUTLER.
We have never looked upon Ben Butler with
respect for his character, and have had little
faith in the integrity of his motives; but we
have always regarded him as a sharp, shrewd,
adroit man. We must confess that hie reoent
course has not raised him in our estimation.
For years past tho Democrats have reviled him
as tho worst of men, and have treated him as a
man destitute of honor or integrity. And now
he is coquetting with his reviiers, and lending
them all the help ho can against the Adminis
tration placed in power by the Republican
party. And ho is, also, coquetting with tbe
shallow-brained, half-crazy Nationals, and he is
evidently shaping his course to run as their can
didate for Governorof Massachusetts next Fall.
“ He seems to expect to obtain Democratic allies,
otherwise ho would not have acted on the Pot
ter Committee ot Investigation as he has done.
He dislikes President Hayes ever since tho lat-
- ter dismissed Butler’s friend, the Collector of
the Port of Boston ; but he would assuredly not
have assumed an attitude so revolutionary, had
he not ulterior motives, as to declare in favor
1’ of the eventual expulsion of President Hayes
■ from the White House. If such is his honest
conviction, he should not have accepted the
appointment as a representative Republican on
the Committee of Investigation at the hands
of intriguing Sam Randall. This looks very
f bad for Butler, and still worse is the aspect of
3 his ardent advocacy ot the execrable greenback
9 heresy, and of all the other abominations of
9 the platform ot the Nationals. If tho latter
- make Butler their standard-bearer at the im
-1 pending Gubernatorial election in Massachu
-1 setts, we earnestly wish that he be overwhelm
f ingly beaten. It is bad enough when unedu
-1 cated and brainless fellows espouse a cause so
- pernicious and fraught with serious evil; but
3 when a nian of such intellectual eminence as
1 Benjamin F. Butler pursues the same course,
3 he should be taught without fail that the most
f vital interests of the country must not be jeop
-1 ardized to further tbe ambitious schemes of
3 selfish and unscrupulous demagogues.
1
LIBERAL FRANCE.
I TV e attach no importance to the rumors set
f afloat by the reactionary press about the al
leged intentions of Marshal HacMahon to aban
-1 don his present liberal policy and to recall into
> his cabinet the disgraced political rogues—
-1 Fourtou and De Broglie. Even if the contem-
■ plated and authoritatively announced pardon of
1 eight hundred communards, now working out
’ long terms of penal servitude in New Caledo
-3 nia, did not clearly prove that MacMahon is sat-
I isfied that tbe present policy he is pursuing is
, the right one, a contrary course would be on
> his part little short of downright madness.
• True, he is a very dull sort of a man, but even
1 bo has clearly seen that a vast majority of the
1 French people are Republicans, and to coun
teract their wishes would be both foolish and
1 dangerous.
1 The brief controversy between tho Voltair-
• ians and the Ultramontanes, who insisted upon
i extraordinary honors being paid to the memory
■ of the Maid of Orleans, seems to have been
> brought to a happy end by the wise advice of
1 M. Gambetta, who declared that, in his opin
' ion, both Voltaire and the Maid of Orleans de-
■ served the highest honors at the hands of the
1 French people.
> Public attention in the country is still con-
■ centrated upon the Paris Exposition, which is
1 daily visited by vast crowds, and whose success
. is denied only by such slanderous journalists as
’ the swashbuckler, Paul de Cassagnac, and his
I eulogist, the Bonapartist Paris correspondent
i of the New York Times. The latter, in his ri-
> diculous letters, even goes so far as to ridicule
in every possible manner the balls given by the
> Republican ministers of France. This must be
pleasant reading in a country where ninety-nine
hundredths, if not more, of the people warmly
1 sympathize with the French Republic,
f
THE NATIONAL SCHUETZENFEST.
> The third biennial National festival of tbe
- sharpshooters, which began last Monday, at the
- Union Hill Park, will close to-morrow. It is
- safe to say that thia festival, in every respect,far
- surpassed those held in former years, and this,
- notwithstanding the rainy weather on several
t days last week. Whenever tbe sun was shin
-3 ing, truly enormous crowds gathered at the
t charming park. The competition of the sharp
f shooters'at tho various targets ;was very earn
-3 est, and the tans of thousands of visitors did
• ample justice to the good cheer and the good
9 beer which flowed in torrents. Every! ody
- seemed to enjoy himself to the best of his
3 ability, and there were many uxuberant mani
t festations of merriment. Yet ,there was not a
- single disturbance of any consequence, and
e everything passed off peaceably and quietly.
- No more, irrefutable argument could bo found
1 against the stupid teachings of the temperance
a fanatics than the orderly conduct of the vast
0 gatherings that thronged Union Hill nearly
f the whole ot last week. If Dr. Crosby aud his
0 followers had been present, they might have
- learned some wisdom.
s The prizes, all of which were private contri
■l butlons, were the most valuable perhaps ever
3 offered at a similar German National Festival
c in the United States. They had been displayed
y in an attractive manner, and formed one of tbe
most handsome features of the festival. They
were won by excellent shots, and it is pleasant
to state that the guests of the New York sharp-
- shooters sarried off, as remembrances of the
f festival, some of the most coveted prizes.
□
t the MONARCHS of EUROPE,
1 Probably at no time in the history ot Europe
■ have the rulers of the various States of the Old
- World been such aged and infirm men as at
• present. Only King Alfonso of Spam, and King
■ Humbert of Italy, are young men, and yet the
• former is not likely to retain his crown very
: long. Queen Victoria, Marshal MacMahon, the
■ Emperor William, the Emperor Alexander, Pope
I Leo the Thirteenth, the King ot Denmark, the
II King of Sweden, are all old men, and, to all in
'■ tents and purposes, so is the Emperor Francis
8 Joseph of Austria, who is a soured, crabbed,
8 hypochondriacal personage, which is no won
‘ der considering that he has now ruled for thir
" ty years over so wretched a country. As for
3 Abdul Hamid, the Turkish Sultan, we do not
' consider him any longer a European sovereign.
' His reign, we apprehend, will be of very short
1 duration, and who knows but we shall hear in
r a few days of another palace revolution in Con-
stantinople ? We trust that the Emperor Wil-
• liam will recover from the wounds so basely in
-8 flicked upon him by the assassin Nobiling. As
,l for the Emperor of Russia, his days seem to be
numbered. Marshal MacMahon is represented
’I to be in poor health, and it is quite evident that
5 Leo the Thirteenth is in no better condition.
The younger generation will soon be more
*' largely represented among the sovereigns ot
8 Europe.
,-
Thb Keabneyites of Califobnia.—
>- To all appearances the workingmen, headed by
is the demagogue Kearney, have elected either a
1, majority or a very strong minority of the dele
te gates to the now Constitutional Convention of
18 California. This is certainly a success that
d should not be underrated, hut to draw from it
9. the inference that the Nationals of the East
to and West will achieve similar victories would
; s he a silly misapprehension of the bearing of the
33 Kearney triumph. That triumph was caused,
to a great extent, hy the Chinese question,
10 which in the Pacific States is assuming every
io day higher importance. No such issue exists
3 * in any other part of the Union, and hence the
io Nationals have to fight their battles on the
3 - ground of the unlimited issue of greenbacks,
It an d the other heresies, which the comiqou
er sense of the peocls jussitain to CQRSkiaa.
A Stabtmng Case.—The case of the
• three little boys who, “just to have a little
. fun,” placed stones on the track of the elevated
. railroad,” and thereby endangered the lives of
. numerous persons, is a sad commentary upon
; the recklessness to be found among tho young
■ folks ot New York. This recklessness and do
. pravity are tho results of our wretched teue-
> ment-house system, in consequence of which
. hundreds of families are crowded together in
an exceedingly limited space, and of which most
parents, to get nd of their noisy children, keep
them in the street as much as possible. What
is tho result ? Tho little boys learn from the
corner loafers all sorts of wickedness, they imi
; tato their foul-mouthed swearing, and many of
, them become loafers, if not something worse.
, Pass after school hours through some of our
tenement-house streets, aud you will be shocked
■ and startled by the conduct of little urchins as
well as of half-grown lads. Every stranger that
passes by will bo insulted by ibo little rascals,
and if he says the slightest thing to check the
impertinence of the boys, he will be mot with a
volley of oaths of the filthiest kind. These
. urchins, in largo numbers, become apt adepts
in crime, like the boys who piled stones on the
track of the elevated railroad.
Another Hint.—The Society for the
Suppression of Vice has once already been
asked by the Dispatch to devote some atten
tion to tho great evil and tbe terrible conse
quences of tho depravity of the foul night
birds, known as street-walkers, instead of con
. fining themselves to the prosecution of in
offensive liquor dealers; but our well-meant
and only too well-grounded advice seems not
to have been to the taste of the above-men
tioned society. And yet tbe evil in question,
whose terrible effects, especially upon our ris
ing generation, will be denied only by knaves
or fools, is daily growing in our midst to such
gigantic proportions that many of our streets,
among them some of our noblest thorough
fares, are after dark infested by such swarms
of lewd, foul-mouthed, drunken harridans that
respectable women are unable to pass through
them. This deplorable state of affairs cannot
be unknown to the officers ot the Society for
the Suppression of Vice. Why do they not try
to do something to put a stop to the evil ?
An Unpleasant Discovery.—The pub
lic at large take very little interest in the acri
monious quarrel between Messrs. Henry Wat
terson and Abram S. Hewitt. Mr. Watterson is
a talented journalist, but a very unsafe politi
cian, as was shown by his insane project to send
one hundred thousand men to Washington in
order to enforce the inauguration ot Mr. Tilden.
As for Mr. Abram S. Howitt, everybody knows
that he is a ridiculous failure as a statesman,
and that, whenever ho has tried to shape the
policy of the country, he has committed the
most inexcusable blunders. The controversy
between Watterson and Howitt, however, has
led to some piquant disclosures. It turns out
from the statement of Mr. Hewitt, who ought
to know, that Mr. Tilden used Mr. Peter Cooper
to convey to Washington bis wishes in regard
to his contemplated inauguration as President
of the United States. As a philanthropist, Mr..
Cooper is hold deservedly in high esteem. It
is very unpleasant to discover his hand in tho
dark and crooked schemes of a baffled place
hunter.
Prosecute Him.—lt is quite evident
that Anderson, Mr. Potter’s leading witness,
has repeatedly committed perjury during the
progress of the so-called fraud investigation,
and his refusal to testify before the Senate Com
mittee proves that tbe rascal is becoming
alarmed. It is high time that the criminal
authorities of Washington should institute pro
ceedings againt Anderson, and see to it that he
and bis Congressional abet tors—among whom,
thus far, the Illinois blatherskite, Springer,
seems to have played the leading part—be
called to a proper account. Mr. Potter, who
prides himself upon being a high-toned gentle
man, and who was foolish enough to rely on
the testimony of such scoundrels as Anderson,
is represented as being exceedingly sick of his
fraud investigation. He has deli berately slan
dered men of more brains and more patriotism
than be could ever boast of, and he has been
unable to prove anything. The people of New
York will not elect as their Governor a man
that has shown the length of his ears as Potter
has done.
A Good Thing.—One of the few good
things which the present Congress has done
was the passage of the bill for the increase of
the pay of letter-carriers. Tho letter-carriers
have to work harder than any other employee’s
of the Federal Government. In this city, for
instance, most ot the letter-carriers have to
perform day after day truly enormous dis
tances, which, if calculated in feet and miles,
would certainly startle lazy persons. In pass
ing so many hours in hurrying from house to
house, no matter how inclement tho weather
may be, not a few of the letter-carriers contract
serious diseases, and they should surely be
paid liberally enough to accumulate a little
money for a rainy day. This is due to them
the more as the arduous duties which they have
to perform are of vital importance to the com
mercial portion ot our community. We con
gratulate our letter-carriers upon having wrest
ed this deserved tribute from a Congress
which, in most respects, has given so little sat
isfaction to the people.
A Faithful Congressman. —How must
the Democratic Congressmen who, without any
cause whatever, wanted to deprive Mr. Rainey,
one of the colored members from South Caro
lina, of his seat, feel now when it appears that
he alone in the trying last hours of the session
was faithful enough to attend to his duties as a
member of the Enrollment Committee, when
the white members of the committee, most of
whom were Democrats, were either unfit or un
willing to do their share of the work. Even the
Democrats, it is reported from Washington,
acknowledged at the close of the session tho
valuable services performed by Mr. Rainey.
That, however, will not prevent these very
Democrats, in the next session of Congress,
attempting to deprive Mr. Riiney of his seat,
unless the disasters awaiting the Democrats
this Fall should admonish them to pursue a
fairer and juster course.
The European Congress.—The pro
ceedings of the Berlin Congress are kept
so secret that not even the best-informed
European newspapers have any trustworthy
intelligence as to what is really going on.
Only one thing seems to be certain, and
that is that Austria is coquetting with both
Russia and England, of course in order to ob
tain as large as possible an increase of her ter
ritory, and that England does not by any means
occupy the commanding position which tho
British Tory press claimed for her. In all
probability tho impending arrival of the Em
peror of Russia will have an important effect
upon the deliberations of the Congress. In due
time we shall know what the upshot of the
whole affair will be; at present all speculations
about it are quite idle.
Is He Insane?—The French papers
are seriously discussing the question whether
Paul de Cassagnao, editor of the Paris Pays, is
insane or not. It appears that Cassagnac has
recently published a series of editorials, in
which he tries to prove that Victor Hugo is
the accomplice of the wretch Nobiling that tried
' to assassinate the Emperor William. Cassag
. nac endeavors to prove this by quoting pas-
■ sages from the speeches of Victor Hugo at the
t meeting of the French Assembly of 1871 at
> Bordeaux. Political malice or insanity could
t not go any further than this. To the honor of
t France we hope it will turn out that Paul de
1 Cassagnac is brack-brained.
Docking Horse-Tails.—A jury in the
Court of General Sessions has decided that it is
j not unlawful to dock tbe tails of horses. This
3 decision may be interesting to sporting men,
3 but the public at large, which holds that the
3 whole matter is a very insignificant one, would
like to know why two solid days were devoted
i to this trial to the exclusion of by far more igj.
’■ portant jrjamal cases., ~ '
The Aldebmanio Nonsense.—Judge
Barrett’s decision to quash the indictments
against the Aldermen will meet with general
' approbation. The whole matter was too in
' significant to deserve the attention that has
been bestowed upon it. Whether or not a
: few outside stands exceed the limits assigned
by the corporation laws to them, is of little con
sequence, and the Department of Public Works
will be adequate to rectify the transgressions,
which, however, should not be deemed import
ant enough to waste the valuable time of our
1 criminal courts. At any rate, there is too
; much, and, we fear, only too well-grounded
’ complaint that, although we have, aside from
' the court of Oyer and Terminer, throe high
' salaried criminal Judges, the business of our
criminal courts does not make the progress desir-
■ able for the public welfare. Under these circum
stances it is inexcusable to bother the criminal
courts with such trifling indictments as those
found against the Aidermen.
Baldwin the Clothier says that hun
dreds of Sixth avenue customers now patronize
' bis store at the northwest corner of Tenth
• .street and Broadway. The noise of locomo-
• tives and running trains make car routes very
unpleasant for shoppers.
©fufe and
I
A STALE JOKE.
She had him up for assault and battery.
They were a lively-looking pair. His name was
John, but hers wasn’t—it was Mary. He had a
head as big as a prize pumpkin. His shoulders
began to descend at the bottom of his neck,
and would have slid off if they hadn’t brought
up against tho top of his arms. They were so
slanting that bo couldn’t keep any suspenders
on them, and was compelled to pin his pants to
his shirt with tenpenny nails. His herring
boxes were incarcerated in whole cows. She
was medium in bight and sobriety. Her face
was full of freckles, which made her look as if
her father kept a horse. If she had an exten
sive wardrobe, she had left it homo. She had
only one frock on (we don’t mean that any
woman would wear two frocks, but we don’t
know what the other things are called),
“John,” said his Honor, “what’s the matter
with you and Mary ?”
“Mary and I are out.”
“I’m afraid that this state of things won’t
exist long if you don’t prove a good case,” said
his Honor. “What’s tho matter, Mary!”
Mary said that John was accustomed to como
homo at 13 or 14 o’clock, P. Q., and yank her
out of bed. He would then amuse himself by
seeing how far he could sling her under the
bod. Sometimes he would diversify the pro
gramme by holding her out of the window and
threatening to drop her down fifty feet of house
to the pavement below. She had borne with
these little eccentricities until they became la
borious and she wanted him sent up.
“You see, Judge,” said John, “Mary had a
little lam, and ”
“ Now, stop right there. That joko was in
‘Bill Poole’s Almanac’in the Spring of ’39 and
Fall of ’SO. The last man that said it got six
months in a sewer.
“ When the butterfly reposes
On the buttercups an! yeses,
And the ’tater-bug bulldozes,
You’ll be making shoes."
SETTING THINGS EIGHT.
It is very seldom that we interfere with the
business of the editors of other departments of
the Dispatch, but when we see a flagrant out
rage perpetrated upon a trusting public, we
deem it our duty to explain. In last Sunday’s
issue the editor of “Notes and Queries,” in giv
ing a correspondent “ the true story of Sopho
cles’ tragedy of Antigone,” says: “Antigone
was daughter of CEdipus, King of Thebes, by
his mother, Jocasta. This incestuous union
brought a curse on the innocent Antigone, yet
she never failed in her duty to her father, but
attended him in his greatest misfortunes. She
was slain by the usurper Croon, whose son,
Htemon, being in love with her, killed himself
upon her tomb. Her death was avenged on
Creon by Theseus. She lived about 1250 B. C.”
Now that looks nice, doesn't it ? Between you
and us we think—but never mind. Antegone
was named after a character in “Drawpoker,” a
favorite book of the Greeks. CEdipus was her
brother, and he was so called because he asked
his father to dip him and his sister while they
were all in bathing at Coney Island one day.
Joe Castor was a noted prize fighter and lived
in the Fifth Ward of Jerusalem. He fell in
love with Antegone, and Hsemon-to marry her,
but was opposed by Johnny Creon ot the Sun.
Finally they all died. Theseus the facts as we
got them from Joe Castor’s mother, who used
to wash for us. We hope this thing wont occur
again.
SMALL CHANGE.
Our worst fears have been realized.
The hard times, tho ravages of which we have
done all in our power to baffle, have at last
caused an uprising of the people. This morn
ing, between the hours ot twelve and ten
o’clock, the residents of that portion of South
Brooklyn situated between Third and Fourth
avenues, and Pacific and Dean streets, arose in
their might. They were fully armed. It was
anticipated last night, from the actions of the
people of the locality named, that something
unusual was about to occur, and although the
police had been notified, as usual, they took no
action, and did not appear on tho scene until
the trouble was over. Fortunately, no lives
were lost, but many who engaged in the fight
will be unable to attend to their duties for some
time to come. In order to allay the fears of
our readers, we will add that an old woman had
been selling green apples in the neighborhood.
This caused the early uprising. When we said
that the people were armed of course we meant
with their pants and other articles of clothing.
As wago to press there is but one man miss
ing. His name is McDermott, and he is proba
bly hunting for a physician. Later —A man
named Beales is also missing from Wyckoff
street. Still Later—Mr. Beales has been found
in a neighboring bar-room, drinking brandy
and peppermint.
As they passed along the street, they
amused themselvs and tho young lady passers
by by approaching the cigar signs and wiping
tho noses of the wooden figures with their
handkerchiefs. They were real nice young
men, and wore nice little butter-cracker hats,
Seymour coats, and the pockets in their panties
were on the starboard and larboard. It was
really amusing, and their girls laughed and
they laughed quite loudly. As. they came up
to Mr. Snuff’s store, they saw his sign out. It
was that of a man fashionably dressed. “Mon
ty” (pet for Montague) stepped up to it to wipe
its nose, but Gussie wanted the honor. He
rushed ahead, took out his handkerchief, and
shoved it under the figure’s nose. * * * ? ? I !
—— .. O* That’s what Monty saw as he
struck an awning-post; and when Gussie had
crossed four car-tracks and landed in a baker’s
window opposite, he thought that another
bridge cable had fallen in his ward, and he’d
seen it coming, but hadn’t time to run. The
“figure” had been waiting for a car.
He looked very pretty in his new over
coat. It fit him to aT, and had a row of brass
buttons on either side. In his buttonhole was
a nice little bouquet of flowers, or, as we say in
Paris, boutoniere. He looked as nice as he ever
did in his lite, and his girl came in and kissed
him, and yet he did not get up and throw his
arms around her, and hug her to his bosom,
and say, “Dearest, darling, sweet, who does’oo
love?” No. Ho was too unfeeling. Because
he had that new overcoat on he was stiff. The
night before Patsy Kelly had hit him under the
west ear with a bung-starter and laid him out.
The overcoat with the double row of brass but
tons was made of wood, and he was waiting to
be taken around to the cemetery. That’s what
he got for being so stiff.
Now is the time when the somnolent
worm conceals himself behind tho pit of the
delicious cherry, and seeks fields and pastures
. new, by gliding down the throat of the sweet
toothed citizen, unless he is discovered by a
bite which severs the connection between his
north and south parts, and dashes his expec ta
, tions to the ground.
I “ The club had a meeting to-night,” is
I what the man told his wife when he came home
■ with his head mashed in cjjgsequeuce of a
tow with a polieeman,
A young woman, residing in Maine,
writes us a long letter, in which she aslsx us if
we don’t want to start a puzzle column in the
Dispatch. She will do it for nothing. Can’t
she offer some other inducement? Won’t she
throw in a chromo? Sbe isn’t the only person
in tho world who will do it for nothing. If sho
will come down to this office and stay with us
one day, She Wlil have the opportunity of being
astonished at the number of people who call on
us with their fingers on certain portions of
the “ Odds and Ends.” and ask us to explain
this and that joke. She would see that the
Dispatch has a puzzle column already.
“ An oyster shell was found in a pump
kin near Galveston, Texas, recently.” Wo sup
pose the old woman had been making pies, and
went over to ask a neighbor bow much molas
ses to put in, and hadn’t returned when that
sneaking reporter climbed in the window and
found out that she used an oyster shell instead
of a spoon.
Thebe was a young mnn from Australia,
Who at acting was always a failure;
He caned a reporter,
Which he hadn’t o tighter—
Look cut, or the scribblers will maul yer!
Wo mean whale yer.
Crimes of all sorts, such as murder,
theft, “nothin’,” etc., are caused by rum. The
vile stuff should be banished from our other
wise great and glorious land. It appears that
the last-named crime is in the aggregate, for
who ever asked a prisoner in the Tombs, or
indeed anywhere else, what he was in for that
ha wasn’t told that ha was in “for no-thin’ ?”
Two tramps recently slept in a lime
kiln in Baltimore and died from inhaling the
fumes. This may be called a mortaruary no
tice, and we suppose that they said to each
other before giving up the ghost, “ Well, lime
kilned.” Every citizen will no doubt have a
lime-kiln under his back stoop as soon as this
is perused.
An English medical authority has dis
covered that those who blow the big horns in
bands rarely live beyond a period of three
years. Won’t those little horns, and concerti
nas, and violins, etc., grow into big horns, and
won’t their owners learn to play on them I Hell
hath no fury like an amateur ipusician.
Thief—One who takes what isn’t his'n.
One who swipes. A flicker of other people’s
goods. A person who hooks.— Webster's Dic
tionary. When wo print anything not entirely
original we give credit for it. United States
papers please copy. .
The Hotel-Keepers’ Protective Union
was organized last night. Any man who fails
to connect on his board-bill will have his name
telegraphed to every hotel in tho country. Have
we no rights which the hotel-keopers arebound
to respect ?
“ The first silver dollar ever coined is
held by forty-seven American citizens.” Yes,
and tho last has been spent by 47,000.
A bad Actor’s Club—Arnott’s cano.
Buds of Promise—Red noses.
MUSICAL.
Grand Opeba House—Bryant’s Min
steels—A pleasing variety was effected for a week
here by the engagement and appearance of Neil
Bryant’s famous minstrel troupe, the legitimate
successors of the ever to be remembered comedian,
Dan Bryant’s company. It is one of the best min
strel organizations now in existence, and is very
strong alike in vocal, instrumental, mimetic, ora
torical, terpsichorean and burlesque talent, in
cluding such genuine comic artists as Hughey
Dougherty, Little Mac, Billy Bryant, Eddie Fox,
Dave Reed, Griffin and Rica, Ernest Linden, an ex
cellent burlesque prima donna, and such vocalists
as J. M. Norrie, Arthur Cook, C. W. Harley, D.
Bairon and J. N. Pistorio, with many others. Every
act on the programme was uproariously applauded,
and a series of very large and appreciative audi
ences greeted the minstrels during the week.
Terrace Garden.—On next Friday
evening, June 23th, a grand Summer night’s festi
val, promenade and reception dansante, will be
given at Terrace Garden, Fifty-eighth street, be
tween Third and Lexington avenues, under ths
management of Mr. J. Fernando. Music will ba
furbished by Kauer’s celebrated orchestra, under
the direction of Mr. J. Kauer, the Fifth Regiment
Band, and the' eminent pi mist, Senor Gonzalo Ku
nez. The admission will be for gentlemen fifty
cents, ladies and children twenty-five cents each.
The concert will be from 7:30 to 10 P. M.; the prom
enade and dance from 10 P. M. to 1:30 A M.
DRAMATIC.
Union Squabe Theatre—Mb. Tissing
ton’s Benefit.— lbis interesting event took place
at the famous “little theatre around the corner,”
on Tuesday evening, and while the attendance was
by no means commensurate with the deserts or
abilities of the popular beneficiary, the entertain
ment was one of the best ever given in an off sea
son, and engaged much of the best of our musical
and dramatic talent. In “Frou-Frou,” Miss Rose
Osborne played Gilberts, Miss Granger being dan
gerously ill, and made a most favorable impression,
and Messrs, Frank Evans and Tom Whiffen, and
Mrs. Sol Smith and the Misses Lulu Jordan and Jo
sephine Baker distinguished themselves in the same
play. Mrs. J. H. Hackett appeared in tho sleep
walking scene from “ Macbeth,” and gave a highly
intelligent and strikingly original interpretation of
it, and this was followed by a high-class concert, in
which Mr. James G. Peakes, Carl Lanzer, Ed Has
lam, Mlle. Buzzotti, and Mlle. Galimberti partici
pated. Miss Hattie Anderson recited, Mr. E. H.
Johnson showed the wondenul faculties of the pho
nograph, and the whole concluded with the im
mensely funny farce of “ Home from the War,” in
which Mr. T. G. Riggs kept everyone in a state oi
unsufferab’.c hilarity by his rich, comic acting,
Niblo’s Garden.—“A Celebrated Case''
was produced at Niblo’s Garden on Monday, and ia
evidently booked, should the management so desire
it, for a surprisingiy good and brilliant Summer
run. The mounting of the play Is as perfect as was
that given it on its original production at Union
Square Theatre, the scenery, effects, costumes and
appointments being in every instance superb. Mr.
E. K. Collier plays Jean Renaud, and greatly distin
guishes himself by the impersonation. His im.
pressive manner, sonorous voice, and fine stage
presence admirably qualiiy him for the part, and
recognizing his right to differ with his predecessor
in his realization of the trying role, he succeeds in
gaining the sympathy and commisseration of his au«
diences for the unjustly condemned hero, and excitea
admiration for his own finely drawn impersonation.
. Mr. Frank Mordaunt makes a good O'Rourke, and
ably represents the humorous element of the play.
Mr. Edmund Varrey is a heavy but effective Duke,
and Mr. E. L. Tilton, a sufficiently villainous impos.
tor as the Count De Mornay. Little Eva French played
the child Adrienne charmingly, and the girl Adrienne
was represented by Miss Emily Baker, who, in the
unavoidable absence through sickness of Miss Maud
Harrison, acquitted herself with great credit. Her
part of Valentine De Mornay was assumed at short
notice, but in in a very able manner by Miss Meroe
Charles. The whole performance was a very smooth
and effective one, commanding the sincerest approv
al This great play will be repeated on every even
ing of the present week, and on the afternoons of
Wednesday and Saturday.
Park Theatre.—Mr. F. B.Warde with
drew from tho cast of “Our Boys ” after the per.
formance of Saturday, June 15th, and his place was
taken on Monday last and succeeding evenings by
Mr. Charles H. Rockwell, who played it in a manner
at once artistic, natural and excellent. Mr. Rock
well is an actor who is always earnest, studious and
refined, and his Charles Middlewick is a performance
that will commend him highly alike to audiences
and managers as a proof of his versatility and quiet
character-acting excellencies. The rest of tho cast
remained unchanged. Mr. Lingard introduced sev
eral new impersonations, and the week’s entertain-*
ment was a highly pleasing one.
In addition to “ Our Boys” and Mr. Lingard’s int
personations, Gilbert’s charming little comedietta,
“Creatures of Impulse,” wili be presented for tb<
first time here. Afternoon performance on Sator,
day.
Standard Theatre.—Mr. J. K. Em*
mett’s “ Fritz” continues to attract and intensely
amuse large assemblies of his admirers, whose
name is evidently legion, and it will be cause for
many to regret that his engagement is now ap
proaching a£ termination. He has been constantly
adding something or other to the already many ec«
centric features of the play, and his versatility, as
displayed in his instrumentation, vocalization, and
dancing never fails to excite hearty laughter and
applause. His supporting company is a good one,
and a night with “Fritz” we can guarantee to be a
happy and pleasant one. Afternoon representation
of “Fritz” on Saturday. The version of “Fritz”
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