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HUMORS OF THE POLICE.
Making Charges and not Informing the Of
ficer of Them—Waiting for Suspicious
Characters - How Bob Tail Cars Are Rob
oed—Sick Too Late to be Excused-A Ser
geant Assuming too Much-A Street Row
Continued in the Station House—Crouch
ing, not Sitting-A Woman Frightens All
Harlem—A Plain Contradiotion-The Key
to a Cellar and Its Results—All About
Patrolman Coughlin’s Hand.
A CHANGE.
Hereafter each Commissioner will take his turn
at the Police Machine. Ear the last year President
Smith has done all the trying, now, by arrange-
Blent, he is satisfied, with his tour th share in tae
grist mill. This is going back to tae old style ot
disciplining the force, giving each Commissioner a
say in its workings, and.fines.
Another feature in the trials, is the trying or a
man on the record, instead of the vidence. The trials
were heard by Mr. Erhardt last week under the
new rule, and Mr. Clark, the clerk, as has been his
custom, thrust the officer’s record under his nose
as the trial was progressing.
“What is that?” said Com. Erhardt, looking at
. the record.
•’The record of the officer,” said Mr. Clark.
’•I don’t want it,”.said the Commissioner, "jt is
. time enough to look at that after trial.”
That was sound .common sense, and speaking
hke a lawyer; but alter the third or fourth cage he
called for the record and made up his judgments as
much from the record as the evidence, as it has
be,en the custom for.a long time past.
IS THIS,DISCIPLINE?
.Burke failed to be on bis. relieving point, he was
four blocks from it.
“ Going to my relieving point,” said Burke, "an
old man living at No; ,68 South Fifth avenue, com-
Elalned to me of boys throwing rotten apples at
im. I arrested a boy,.and brought the boy back •
to.him, and he declined .to go to the station house
to make a complaint. Leaving the boy I met the
relief and went in the house.”
"Did.you tell the roundsman that?”
" I couldn’t; all I knew of the charge was.when 1
got the complaint.”
SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.
Egan .and Walker, Twelfth Precinct, were .timed
in conversation fifteen minutes. Walker said Egan
told him that he saw some suspicious characters,
and be asked.him to stand hy him and see if the/
showed up. There had been robberlea on that block
this Summer; and standing waiting and watching,
the roundsman came along.
"You saw something suspicious when the rounds
man came up?” said the Commissioner.
" Yes, sir,” said Egan.
"They said they saw something suspicious,” said
Roundsman Dean, "but I didn’t;”
A BUMMER.
Riley and Hurley, Eighteenth Precinct, were
timed in conversation.four teen minutes by Rounds
man Cosgrove.
"When I asked them what they were talking
about,” said the roundsman, "they said about a
bummer that had just been driven from the station -
house.”
Hurley said that was partly true.; be had driven a ’
bum from the station-house doer, and he told Riley
at it while they were laying for .the bob-tail car
thieves.
Riley said his associate’s story was true, but he
hadn’t half told it all. The bob-tail cars were rob
bed every night by thieves that hung out on tbe ave
nue, and the superintendent ot the road had asked
the police to look out for them. A little youngster
would run across tbe horses’ necks, and fall down,
‘exclaiming, "Oh, my God, I’m run over!” The
driver would, stop bis ear and get down to see what
was the matter, and while making inquiry, tbe
thieves would enter the bob-tail car and carry off
tbe box. This was a nightly occurrence.
Mr. Erhardt said tbe bob-tail oars had better car
ry conductors, or their own private detectives, if
that was the case. Tbe police had no right to pro
tect corporations that didn’t know how to protect
themselves.
STUPID, OR SOMETHING WORSE.
O’Brien, of tbe Twentieth Precinct, pleaded gui'.ty
to oversleeping, and hence was late at roll-call. He
should have been tried last week, and, tailing to an
swer, another complaint was made against him for
failing to appear to stand trial.
" Why weren’t you here last week ?” asked Com
missioner Erhardt.
" I was sick.”
"Who attended you?”
"Doctor DextJr.”
"Is he here ?”
"No. I thought the doctor’s record was kept at
headquarters.”
"He didn’t report sick till five o’clock in the after
noon,” said Sergeant Kelly. "This was 9A. M.”
"And he should have been here at nine,” said
Commissioner Erhardt. "What time did you re
port sick?”
" Four in the afternoon. It was my day off. I
staved off sending for the doctor as long as I could.”
"I don’t know what to make of it,” said Commis
sioner Erhardt, "You are either stupid, or some
thing else.”
THE REPRIMANDER REPRIMANDED.
Turner, of the Thirty-third Precinct, was charged
with conducting himself in a very disorderly man
ner in the station-house.
"At tbe time specified,” said Sergeant Swift,
•• t h is officer came into the station-house attended
by a number of citizsns. He had arrested am -n
for assauit and battery. I asked for tbe comp'aiu
ant, and saw no marks ot violence. Then I asked
the officer if he saw it committed. He had not seen
it; the arrest was made at the request of complain
ant’s brother. Investigating tbe case, I found noth
ing to justify the arrest, and discharged the pris
oner. The officer then began to act the part of
Judge, and I told him to stop or I would make a
complaint against him. He replied that be didn’t
care a d—n, b? COUI<J rcaign.’L^nSSb —
5. 41 f Lever used any abusive language,” said Tur
ner. "He said to me, -Turner, it’s about time for
you to go back to tbe School of Instruction.’ I said
I on.y did what I was told in the School. He said,
‘Shut up, or I’ll send you before tbe Commission
ers.’ I said, ‘Very well, I’ll appear before them.’
I thought the sergeant had no right to reprimand
me.”
"You had no right to make the arrest,” said the
sergeant. "It appears that it was a rivalry between
two grocers, and the man did not know who bad
assaulted him.”
"The repiimand should not have been male in
the presence of citizens,” slid Mr. Erhardt, "or
tbe party arrested. It weakens his power very
much.”
AN OFFICER ASSAULTING AN OFFICER.
Patrolman Sam A. Stevens, Twenty-second Pre
cinct, was charged with kicking the shins of Patrol
man Burke as he was conveying a drunken femaie
prisoner to the station-house; and then without
cause hitting him on the jaw. Burke when struck,
instead of laying his brother officer out, rau into
tbe station-house, and asked that a platoon of men
be sent out to arrest Stevens, but beiore they could
be mustered on the floor Stevens came into the st'-
tion-house with Burke’s prisoner.
Sergeant Brown was the first witness. He said
that at ten minutes before one, the 18th of August,
Burke came into the station-house, and asked taat
a section of men be sentout to arrest Officer Stevens
who had assaulted him. He had left his prisoner iu
charge of Stevens and Rabbit. Beiore tbe section
could get ready to go out Stevens came in with
Burke’s prisoner, and made a charge of drunk and
disorderly against her, and she was locked up. But
previous to locking up the prisoner he asked to
smell the breath of Stevens. He smelled nothing.
He then asked him to walk the floor. He walked
tbe chalked line on the floor without a break. Burke
said coming up Forty-seventh street with his pris
oner Stevens stepped on his heels. He turned round
and asked Stevens what he meant, and Stevens said,
" what are you giving me?” Burke said, "I’m giv
ing you nothing,” then Stevens walked in front of
Burke and hit him iu the mouth. Burke then drew
his club and attempted to strike Stevens, but didn’t;
he thought it better to run into tbe station-house
and call out a section of men. He asked Stevens
why he did it;he said in self defense, be had struck
at him with bis club.
That was the amenities of police brotherhood on
the street.
" I then told Stevens to go to bed,” said the ser
geant; “and as Stevens and Burke went back, Ste
vens said Burke was ‘a sucker.’ I told him I
did not want to hear that language in tbe office.
He turned and walked to the back door, and looking
at Burke,'said, "You are a thief.’ I left the
desk and went in the sitting-room and ordered him
to bed.”
Up-stairs the noise was as great as below, and the
sergeant sent for Stevens and locked nim up on tbe
charge of assaulting Officer Burke. In the morning
be was discharged by Justice Duffy.
Officer Burxe, after kissing the book and coming
to the position of rest and attention, said :
" On the nijiht in question, taking a prisoner to
the station-house, Stevens came behind me and
kisKed me on tbe shins, and probed my prisoner
with his stick. Then be camo up in front of me and
said, ‘Get out, you red-headod son of a ,’ and
struct me on the mouth. I then went to the station
house. Up-stairs in the station-house he called mo
all Irish sons of so and so, and said be could lick a
dozen like me, and walk on the skin of my neck, and
so forth, and so I made a complaint against him.”
The counsel of Stevens tried to show that the
kicking on the shins was accidental, that Burke’s
prisoner swayed to and fro, and that Stevens came
upon him unintentionally. Burke said it wis
not so.
Stevens said all that happened in the street was
accidental, but witnesses tnat saw it said it was not
chance. The blow he gave, he said, was in sell-de
fense; the proof was but one blow was given, and
that by Stevens. The abuse in the station-house was
admitted. He felt sore that Barke should make
Buch a time over such a small matter. What he did
say he does not remember. The only really goad
point that Stevens did make was that he was never
previous to this heard to use abusive language and
was a faithful officer. He did not make it clear that
kicking Burke’s heels was an accident.
PERJURY SOMEWHERE.
Sitting down on a pile of lumber was the charge
agaiuet Patrolman Walsh, of the Nineteenth Pre
c.nct. Tbe accuser was Roundsman Greer, who
said ne #a# him sitting, and Officer Goodenough
was with him, bat Gmleuoujh su.. aim and touca
eu Walsh, wiio got up.
Walsh denied tbe charge. He met Goodenough
tuat morning, and toll him there was a gang o.
. . r> vtje oet o: f’lfty-toucth street. He wo it
- ; <•■> h* siceet to Gooienudgu’s p-jst to
k. iiij i. As Jiey were in a croucniu* posdiu.*,
• ■Hp.ag,” as it is caked, the roundsman came
eu them.
’Goodenough swore they were not silting.
The roundsman reswore that he saw them sitting,
and more than that, ft was in close proximity to a
lager beer brewery.
ABOUT A PISTOL AND A DRUNKEN OFFICER’S
WIFE.
Sergeant Armstrong, of the Twelfth Precinct, ac
knowledged failing to make an entry in the blotter,
of a pistol that had been taken from a drunken wo
man who bad been running around the precinct
threatening to shoot everybody and everything.
His excuse was that at the time he was very busy.
Sergeant Thompson also came up on the pistol
business, failing to send jt to court with the officer
in the morning to show evidence of her disorderly!
conduct.
"The pistol was not entered on the blotter,” said
Thompson.
"Thompson,” said Captain Davis, "knew that
the pistol should have been sent to court.”
"I knew that after the prisoner had gone to
court,” said Thompson.
Officer Muller was then 'put on trial for going to
4M>urt without thepibtoA
"Why didn’t you take that pistol to court with
your prisoner?” asked Commissioner Erbardt-
" Lord bless you,” exclaimed Muller, very inno
cently, "there was a gentleman came to me and be
says, ‘There’s a woman raising Cain at 115th street.’
When I arrested her she had no pistol.”
"Pshaw!” said Captain Davis. "The pistol was
as long as my arm, and she frightened the whole
precinct, threatening to shoot everybody at sight.”
3 " Bless your heart, the pistol hadn’t a hammer,
or—what do you call it?—a lock. It couldn’t go
off.”
"No matter whether it could gooff or not,” said
Com. Erhardt. " Why didn’t you take it to court?”
/ "When I arrested the woman she had no pistol;
she was kind of noisy. Going back on my post, a
boy handed me tins pistol and said it belonged to
11 tbe woman. I put it on the desk when I came in.
I couldn’t swear it was hers. Her husband is an
y officer in the house, and be claimed it as belonging
to him.”
t Tbe pistol case was very much mixed up. If Ser
geant Armstrong had been tried last, he would have
been acquitted, but, pleading to the charge, ne must
be convicted.
A SQUARE DENIAL.
i Patrolman Noble, of the Eleventh Precinct, was
t charged with being in an ©yster saloon. Rounds-
- man F.anagan said in passing through iwe fth
> street he saw Noble suddenly disappear in the sa
t loou. Thinking that there was trouble, he crossed
t over and asked Noble, when he came out, what the
matter was. He denied being in the place.
i Passing this oyster saloon, Noble said the man
3 halloed to him, aud he stepped to the door half a
« minute, but did not go inside.
j "It narrows, itself down to this,” said the Com
» missioner: "He swears you were in there, and you
swear you were not.”
t SITTING DOWN AND DRUNK.
On the morning of tbe 6tb, at 3:30 A. M., Rounds
men Howell and Campbell, passing No. 22 Avenue
C, looked into tbe basement and found a man
asleep. They entered, and found the man to be
a Patrolman Nugent, of the Eleventh Precinct. Canap
bell took possession of his hat aud stick, and shook
him up, and on getting on his feet he staggered. He
5 was told to go to the station-house. He was under
the influence of liquor. Campbell made a charge of
sitting down and drunk.
j Nugent said at three he saw Roundsman Camp
bell, aud at half-past three he went in the base
i ment and fell asleep. He had been taking opium
pills and they prostrated him. He denied being
t dr.unk, and they refused to send for the police sur
geon.
Sergeant Webb said the man was intoxicated and
? disorderly, and he had to be locked up. Ha was
brought in at 3:55, by Campbell and Howell. On
requesting Nugent to go in tne back room he said
[ he would be d—— d r if he would, be would stay
there till morning. \Webb told him if he didn’t go
up stairs to bed he.would lock him up. Nugent
rapped h 3 hand on the desk and said he would be
I d dn be would, he would stav all night till he
got bis rights. It took both Campbell and Howell
to hold him when taking his sbie d and putting
him m the cell. In the morning Judge Duffy dis
: charged him, remarking that the Commissioners
, could settle it.
Dr. Wm. Rogers testified that he had given Nu-
- gent pills containing opium. ‘He saw him on post
that morning, and he was very much prostrated.
He advised him to go in and report sick, or if he
I found a place open to take a glass of brandy.
"Is there any place open on my post at that time
in tbe morning?” said Nugent.
"You have the key of that cellar,” said Webb,
" where they keep a private bottle.”
More was lost than gained by asking that last
question of the sergeant.
i WHY HE LOIfEBED.
Patrolman Townsend, of the Ninth Precinct, was
found loitering on Sixth avenue, by Roundsman
. ’ Frink. Tbe officer said a citizen was drawing his
attention to a house on Sixth avenue, and to the
young pickpockets that hang out there. Officer
Burke arrested one of them tne next day.
" Your loitering did not help him to catch a pick
. pocket next day ?”
Tae roundsman said the officer bad orders from
the captain to have an eye on th© place, but not to
loiter there.
A MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENT.
Coughlin, of the Fifth Precinct, left Greenwich
street and went off post, iu Barclay street. Sergt.
? Suttie saw Coughlin standing at the corner talking
to two citizens. The citizens went in the saloon
and up to tbe bar. Toe officer went up to the side
door of the liquor saloon. He was not in time to
see wbat Cougnlin had received—whether a drink or
a chew of tobacco; but he saw the hand inside.
The officer said that the men on tne corner were
orivate watchmen. They told him that some boys
were attempting to steal fruit up the street. When
he went up the boys fled, nnd that was why the ser
geant did not see them. He brought up the two cit
izens that went into the saloon, who swore that they
saw no liquor passed out to tbe officer.
Richard Empty, one of the citizens, said:
"There’s considerable fruit there, and I am both
ered on Saturday nights by tbe boys stealing it. I
told tbe officer they had been around again. I saw
the boys on the corner. When tney saw Coughlin
they ran up Washington street.”
"What did you take out to the officer?” asked the
Commissioner.
"Nothing.”
"Did you go and speak to him at the side door ?”
"No.”
"Did the other man ?”
"Not that I know of.”
"I saw the man at the bar go to the side door and
band something,” said the sergeant.
The other man said he handed nothing to the of
ficer, and saw no one hand him anything.
NO JUDGMENTS.
The Board rendered no judgments last week.
There were tbe political machines at Syracuse and
Saratoga to be looked after, and so far as the fines
are concerned, the Police Machine was neglected.
The postponement of the fines dojs not worry the
men—they would have no objection to have them
suspended for ever.
NEWARK NEWS.
Mr. Rivers Shoots His Father-in-law—Wil
liam Norton’s Troubles Ended—How Mrs.
Piympsell Pouts in Her Room—A Tourna
ment for a Bride.
MR. RIVERS SHOOTS HIS FAI'HER-IN-LAW.
There was a nice little family row down at the
house of Mr. Charles Rivers, No. 53 Parkhurst
street, the other night, and Mr. William Leach, tae
father-in-law of Rivers, now carries a bullet in his
flesh, just below the left shoulder. Mrs. Rivers,
Leach’s daughter, is a very pretty blonde, about
twenty-five years of age, and, according to her
story, told to a Dispatch reporter, Rivers is dread
fully jealous of her. He gets himself into a furious
passion and accuses her of things that she would
not be guilty of. Leach says that Rivers has threat
ened bis wife with botn revolver and knife. Leach
went to the house, and being somewhat intox cated,
expressed himself pretty free.y about Rivers’
treatment of his dauguter, when Rivers toot up
the quarrel. Rivers threatened to shoot. Tbe two
men, during the scuffle that ensued, got into tbe
kitchen, where it was dark, when Rivers fired and
bit Leach under the arm. He soon after gave him
self up to the police, and has been bailed in tbe
sum of SSOO.
WILLIAM NORTON’S TROUBLES ENDED.
Yesterday morning a policeman on his lonely beat
along the tow-path of tbe Morris canal, near Rip
ley’s saw-mill, discovered a dark object floating iu
the water, which proved to be the dead body of a
man. He tied it to a stake the bridge and left
it there to await the action of the County Physician.
Tbe body was afterwards taken to Compton’s
morgue, where it was identified as that of William
Norton, a batter, residing at No. 368 Broad street.
From Norton’s sons a Dispatch reporter learned
that the deceased bad been working in a hat shop
on Scott street, that suspended operations ou Thurs
day, on account of the strike. Norton dressed him
self neatly on Friday morning and told his sons
that he was going to tbe shop to get his pay. That
was the last fbey saw of him alive. He visited a
friend at Fairchild & McGowan’s hat shop, South
Market street, on Friday afternoon. His wife died
about six weeks ago, aud he was continually griev
ing about her. A physician expressed the opinion
on Friday that some trouble was working very se
riously upon him. But against tbe supposition of
suicide there were evidences of a violent struggle.
His clothing was very much disarranged, the toes
of his shoes, that were new, were scratched and
tbe corners wora off as if iu attempts to climb up
the wall of the canal, and blood was oozing from a
wound on his head.
HOW MRS. PLY MPS ELL POUTED IN HER ROOM.
Mr. and Mrs. Piympsell were married in April,
and went to live in Chestnut street. The lady con
sented to defer the bridal tour until Autumn, when
Piympsell promiSed to take her to Watkins Glen
and Niagara Falls; then he said they could highten
tbe joys ot a long honeymoon by chanting the
songs of glorious Autumn woods, and renew their
love vows by the thundering cataract.
Mrs. Piympsell was somewhat disappointed on
being denied a new traveling rig, but she
meekly; if she could only go she would put up witu
what sue had. But when Piympsell told her he had
• been disappointed about finances and that tney
would have to postponejthe trip, Mrs. P. declared
she wouldn’t speak to him for a mouth. Sue car
tied to a room on the third floor canned fruits,
pickled oysters, bottled lager, crackers, cheese,
oread and butter, and other good things, victualing
> her garrison to stand a long siege. Then sne toon
a dozen new novels up there and locked tbe door.
I The bed was in an alcove, and Plympsell couid not
see her there. But as often as be peeped throu'u
j the keyhole or climbed up and looked through the
5 transom light over the door, he saw her sitting in
; her easy chair quietly reading.
In vain did he supp.icato and call her by every
endearing name; iu vain did he.promise to buy her
j a SIOO rir, and take her to the ends of the earth if
; she would only come out and make up. See would
• not budge. On Friday night his restlessness be-
I came a frenzy, and he wont out into the back yard,
i not to commune with the handsome servant gin
j next door, but with the chaste and quiet stars
I Looking up in tbe direction of his wife’s window
I he saw a manly figure moving along tho roofs of
.• the row and descend through a scuttle that he did
I not know was there, into his own mansion. Was it
t a burglar? The cold sweat stood upon his brow.
He rushed in tne house aud up stairs. The scuttle
was over a big c.oset in bis wife’s room. He kicked
open the door of her apartment—he had not thought
' of that before—aud in less than two seconds the
’ figure of the man taat Piympsell had seen was seen
J scudding along the housetops and retreating down
1 a hole at tbe further end of the row. Tne pouting
■ woman had surreptitiously employed a carpenter
to cut a boie through the roof, that the wild winde
• might hear her melancholy moan, aud the miu who
; dki the job had ouiy c >me bck lor something t a .
•• he hid forgotten—that was her explanation, au *
1 P.y »pseli believed her. At least tuey made it up
’ somehow, for yesterday they xeit by the Erie ro a
J for Niagara, apparently as happy as clams at nigh
water.
A TOURNAMENT FOR A BRIDE.
A young man, named Mervin, from Poughkeepsie,
and a Newark sport named Frensel have for some
months past Ueen rivals for the hand of a beautiful
3 brunette living on Broad street. Their importuni
ties have been so great that she was much puzzled
- how to decide the momentous question of her fate.
, She liked the Poughkeepsie man tne best, but her
• parents were very much set against him because he
t works in a machine shop, while Frensel we’ars kid
. gloves and talks about studyina a profession. Being
very much attracted by tne tournament at the
1 recent fair at Waverly, tbe brunette concluded that
r 'it would be glorious to bo won, as were the fair
maids in the days of chivalry, by a gallant knight
with horse and’spear, She notified the contending
1 lovers to meet in a quiet woodland road in Lewel
lyn Park, after sunset on Friday evening, and be
t who carried away the moat rings should also carry
her away as a promised bride.
) They met. ihe wires from which the framers
hung on which was placed the rings, were suspend-
> ed across tbe road from trees. The lady stood
upon a rock at tbe epd of the lists, on a rock as the
NEW YORK DISPATCH, SEPTEMBER 29, 1878-
i sole judge, while a negro boy was employed to place
the rings. On the fourth trial both of the knights
came out with five rings for the Newark man and
i four for Poughkeepsie. Newark rode first on the
’ fifth and last trial.' Tbe fortune of the day rested
ou bis taking a single ring. If he failed and Pough
keepsie failed, also, the bride was his. He missed.
i ' Then, like a flash uf lightning, Poughkeepsie rushed
along and carried away both rings upon his lance,
, and without slackening his speed he caught up the
pretty little brunette with oue arm from her perch
upon the rock and carried her away in triumgh. A
carriage waiting within the shades or tho park,
quickly bowled them off to the nearest railroad sta
tion, and yesterday afternoon they telegraphed to
the bride’s father and mother for their blessing.
tan
THE CENTAURS.
A CLASSIC FABLE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDI
NARY NATURE.
(From the Cornhill Magazine.}
The fable of the Centaurs is a fable of the high
lands. Their haunts were among the fastnesses of
the Thessalian and Arcadian mountains. Arcadia,
however, was not their earliest home-; their earliest
home was Thessaly, where they ranged the forests
of Mount Pelion, and from thence as far aa Ossa and
tbe gorge of Tempe, along the great eastern ridge
which shuts out the plain of the Enlpeus from tbe
sea. That inland plain was from time immemorial
the great horse-breeding district of the Greek wor.d,.
and it was natural that, together with many other
sacred and heroic legends of the race, this legend of
man-horse should spring up among the mountains
which fenced it round about. c -
Tue prodigious nature of the creatures was ac
counted for by the prodigious circumstances of
their birth. They were tne children or grand
children of the murderer Ixion, who, when the gods
bad granted him purification, incorrigibly repaid
their clemency by seeking to do violence to the
queen of the gods, Here. Here, so ran the story,
substituted for herself a cloud in her own likeness
(Nephele), and from the embrace of Ixion and the
c-oud was descended the monstrous progeny of the
Centaurs. y
With the exception of Cbeiron, who, as we shall
see, was of a different character and parentage, the
Centaurs passed with the Greeks as the very types
of reasonless lust and impulse. Homer calls them
"beasts” as opposed to men—"shaggy .beasts of the
mountain;” Pindar, a "pqrtentous tribe;” tbe Attic
tragedians, a "four-legged outrageouaness,” a "two
formed, indivisible, bestial cavalry, outrageous,
lawless, overbearing in strength.” Their weapons
are huge stones and pine branches; their occupa
tion, the hunting of hares, foxes, boars and deer;
their diet, raw flesh; aud the taste or even the
smell of wine makes them ungovernable. Now and
again they come swooping down from their forest
glades and precipices for war or foray among the
hauhts of men.
Their one celebrated warfare was that which
they waged to their own undoingagainst thoLapiths,
a race of rough and tough Thessalian heroes, whom
the legends of the country represented as settled
in the aame mountainous region, beneath tbe slopes
of Ossa and Othrys.
The king of tbe Lapiths was Peiritboos, and this
Peirithoos was the son of Ixion and his wife Dia, or,
as some said, of Dia not by her husband Ixion. but
by a mightier father, tbe god Zeus. The Ceutaurs
and Lapiths, then, were a kind of cousins? they had
already been at strife about the inheritance of their
common progenitor Ixion, and had come to terms
concerning that strife, when it happened that tbe
Lapith king, Peirithoos, took to himself a bride,
Hippodameia—variously named also Deidameir or
Laodameia—and invited the Centaurs to the wed
ding feast. To the same feast was also bidden tbe
Attic hero Theseus, the friend and companion-in
arms of Peirithoos. Milk was at first set before the
savage guests, and for a while all went well ; but
when wine was opened they swept away the milk
from tbe board, and seized tbe silver drinking
horns, and in a trice the wine played wildfire in
their veins. One of them, Eurytion, was the first to
go mad with brute desire; ne fell‘upon and seizsd
tbe bride; following him all the rest of his tribe
give way to the same frenzy, and break up the feast,
aud seize each upon a youth or maideu among the
marriage guests.
The Lapith heroes leap to the rescue, with The
seus foremost in the fray boside his friend; the
tables are overturned, and the charges and wine jars
snatched up for weapons, and death is dealt amid
tbe crashing of axes and brands and stakes, of
wrought stones wrenched from threshold and lintel,
nay, of the sacrificial altars themselves, which the
combatants tear up and hurl at one another in the
medley. All day long rages the fight, and accord
ing to some accounts for many days thereafter, till
at last human valor prevails over brute ferocity.
Theseus avenges his friend and s.ays the ravisher
Eurytion, and the bravest of the Centaurs perish
in like manner by other hands, though not before
they have wrought sore havoc among their enemies.
New Proverbial Philosophy.
IT BEATS TUPPER’S ALL TO PIECES.
(From the Oil City Derrick.}
A short horse is soon curried, but a mule, short
or long, will kick you into the next township.
A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool
speaks, and then reflects while his eye is getting
well.
When war begins hell’s gates are set open; and it
is the same when Congress reassembles.
Who hath a cold hath sorrow to his sops, espe
cially it his handkerchief hath starch in it.
Who wants to beat a dog soon finds a stick, but
already has the dog shot around the next corner
yelling "Ki-ki!”
What cannot be cured must be endured, but first
try Jones’ Magic Liniment.
Trust not a horse’s neels nor a dog’s tooth; nei
ther a man who says he’ll pay you Saturday.
That which is mine is all my own; that which is
yours Igo halves in. I will also take up a collec
tion.
The wolves eat the poor ass that hath many own
ers, but rot until be gets the rheumatism in his
hindlegs. • * r r‘
The second meal makes the glutton, the second ill
word makes the quarrel, and the seconds load the
pistols with blank cartridges.
The fiddler of the same town never plays well at
their feasts, because he is too full to distinguish
between "The Arkansas Traveler” and "Thj Dead
March in Saul.”
The fool never thinks higher than the top of his
house, aud penneth the festive joke at the expense
of the lightning-rod agent.
Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down
—say, at four swallows.
Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt,
now that the bankrupt law has expire!.
A spendthrift lets go the bridle, grabs his steed
oy the mane, and yelis " Whoa, Emma!”
Courtly Highwaymen.
A PAUPER AT THE PISTOL’S MUZZLE.
A man who lives just east of the Kansas City
(Mo.) fair grounds was going home about 9 o’clock
on Tuesday night, Sept. 24, and to shorten the
distance he would have to travel he cut across the
grounds. Just as he was passing the Fine Arts Hall
two men emerged from the shadows, and with
drawn revolvers ordered him to throw up his
nands. The man, exclaiming " Gentlemen, you’ve
struck a pauper this time, ” threw up his hands.
.Something was seen in one of his bands, and one
of them said:
" What have you there?”
"A bottle of medicine, for which I just got trust
ed at the drug store,” replied the mau.
The next request was to " throw it down.”
"It will break if I do so; let me throw my coat
down first?” he said.
With the muzzles of both pistols frowning down
on him, the man proceeded to divest himself of his
coat and throw the medicine bott.e upon it. Then
the searching commenced, but nothing but a pocket
knife, a piece of tobacco and a few papers were
found. These were not taken, and tbe robbers, see
ing that the man was really as poor as he he claimed
to be, told him to go on bis way. Then it was tbe
man's turn to ask tribute from the robbers, bo he
saia: r .v. •
"Gentlemen, I have no bread nor meat at home,
and I think that after making me go through all
this business you ought to lend me—well, say a
quarter.”
One of the highwaymen went down into his pock
et, and, bringing up a silver quarter, handed it to
the impecunious fellow.
The Old Pioneer.
A SPECIMEN OF THE REGULAR BLOWER
ABOUT FORTY-NINE.
The Eureka (Nev.) Leader describes a certain sort
of pioneer as fellows :
♦‘ Now this is suthing like old times,” said a
grizzly veteran, who had just retired from Jack
Perry’s bar, as he wiped his mouth with his coat
sleevo. Four fingers of genuine Bourbon was cours
ing through the stiff’s veins, and he was feeling like
a Mississippi steamer after a barrel of resin had
been chucked under the boilers.
" I’d aboiit gin things up, and*it ’peared to me as
if they was no room for me arcmud here any longer.
These here new Corners hain’t got any sympathy
wita us fe.lers that helped to build up this State,
and they’ve sorter got into the habit oi overlooking
us pioneers. It’s workin’ better now. These fellers
what are droppin’ in, looking for the loaves and
fishes, as my friend puts it, feel like gettin’ my po
litical inflooence, and I cotton to tne man what’s
most liberal, you bet. Tue man what sets ’em up
the oftenest, he’s tae man what I’ll pull for from
governor down. I ain’t proud, and it ain’t ’cause I
winter drink, but God Almighty never loved a
stingy man, and I’m a Curistiau that tar.”
Here he caught the eyes oi a gentleman who was
about to treat, and ambled up to the bir as lively as
it his joints were not stiffened by years of whisky
soaking and pioneer experience. He will be happy
for tne next five days, for this is a week of conven
tions, and tue old " boys will not be overlooked.”
He Doesn’t Believe It.
THAT IS, IN THE TALK ABOUT GETTING
WISER AND BETTER.
(From the Reno, Nev., Gazette.}
"Talk about getting wiser and better with age,”
said a leading citizen in a Virginia-street saloon the
other night, as he placed his hand on the side of
tue glass next the gloomy barkeeper, " that’s all
imernal nonsense. wax, when I was a boy of sev
enteen you couldn’t get me to swear, and I’d have
cut my tongue out rather than tell a lie. I was arn
oitioue and industrious and respected myself, aud
uad principles and lived up to taem. I respected
good women and liked to be iu their company, and
_,nt my leisure time in reading and other oeceut
and rational amusements. Now here iam at iorty
uve and what am 1 ? A leading citizen oi Beno and
a candidate for County , subject to the decision
of the Democratic Convention.”
The gentleman sighed heavily and drank down
his Whisky.
The Difference.
YET ONLY THREE SHORT YEARS HAD PASSED.
(From the Stamford, Conn., Advocate.}
It-.was just three years ago she wrote : ‘/Ah
George! how often do I think of you! ’ How often
in brooding melancholy do I wander by the moonlit
sliore, and vainly dream that we are walking hand
in hand, along the silver roadway which fair Luna
has laid upon the glancing bosom of the lake! ”
Her last letter was dated a week ago. She says :
"It is high time for you to get a dozen new shirts,
and as for your stockings I have darned them over
i and over again. I want a halt dozen for myself, too,
and my Sunday gaiters aint fit to be seen. I want
ten dollars to pay the dentist for filling my teeth.’*
i There is a manifest difference in the style of these
• two letters, ft is explained bv numerous circum
l stances' including marriage, which intervened be
> tweea first and the lust-
J The Stepping Stone to Health.
The acquisiti.onjof vital energy is the stepping stone
to health. When the system lacks vitality, the
various organs flag in their duty, become chronically
irregular, and disease is eventually instituted. To
• prevent this unhappy state of things, the debilitated
system should be built up by the use of that inimi-
’ table tonic, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters which in
' vigorates the digestive organs, and insures the
thorough .con version of food into blood of a nourish
ing quality, from whence every muscle, nervo and
» fiber acquire unwonted supplies of vigor, and the
• whole system experiences tho beneficial effect. Ap-
> petite returns, the system is refreshed by healthful
slumber, and nerves grow strong and calm, the
despondency begotten of chronic indigestion, and
an uncertain state of health disappears, and that
sallow appearance of the skin peculiar to habitual
invalids, aud persons deficient in vital energy, is
replaced by a more becoming tinge.
<£jwial soticcis.
Louisiana State Lottery Company.—
It Never Scales or Postpones.—loth Grand Distribu
tion at New Orleans. October Sth. 1,857 prizes, amount-
■ in £ n 0.400; capital prizes, $30,000, SIO,OOO, $5,000, &c.;
f 100.000 tickets, two ($2) dollars; haives; one ($1) dollar.
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1 Post-Office Notice.—The Foreign Mails
L for the week ending Saturday, Oct. sth, 1878, will close
> at this office on Tuesday, at 7:00 A. M., for Europe, by
i steamship Wyoming, via Queenstown; on Wednesday, at
[ 7 ;30 A. M.. for Europe, by steamship Bothnia, via Queens
town, (correspondence for France, to be forwarded by this
steamer must be specially addressed); and at 8:00 A.M.,
. for France direct, by steamship Periere, via Havre; on
Thursday, at 8:00 A. M., for Europe, by steumship Baltic,
’ via Queenstown, (correspondence for Germany and France,
to be forwarded by this steamer, must be specially ad
dressed); and atl2:00 M., for Europe, by steamship Sue-
• via, via Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg; on Satur
day, at 9:00 A. M., for Europe, by steamship City of Rich
mond, via Queenstown, (correspondence lor Germany and
Scotland, to be forwarded by this steamer, must be spe
cially addressed); and at 9:00 A. M., tor Scotland direct,
by steamship Circassia, via Glasgow: and at 11:30 A. M.,
for Europe, by steamship Mosel, via Southampton and
Bremen.
The steamships Wyoming, Bothnia, Baltic and City of
Richmond do not take mails for Denmark, Sweden, and
Norway.
The mails for Aspinwall and South Pacific ports leave
New York Sept. 30th.
The mails for Havana leave New York Get. 3d and sth.
The mails for Mexico leave New York Oct. sth.
The mails for the West Indies, Brazil and Argentine
leive New York Oct. sth.
The mails for China and Japan leave San Francisco Oct.
15 th.
The mails for Australia, etc., leave San Francisco Oct.
23th. THOS. L. JAMES, Postmaster.
Post-Office, N. Y., Sept. 38th. 1878.
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ILLIAM MANSON’S BALMORAL
HOUSE, No. 19 Beekthan st. (Established in 1849),
bet. William and Nassau sts. Importer of Scotch Whisky,
Ales, Wines and Liquors of the finest quality. McEwen’s
Finnan Haddies in season. Orders punctually attended
to, and warranted as represented.
Removal.
SANDIFER,
THE OLD ESTABLISHED DIAMOND MERCHANT,
has removed to his new store, No. 75> Broadway, corner
of Clinton Place, and is. ottering diamonds as a soecinlty
at such low urices that even the dealers are astonished.
A call is solicited.
W . H. SANDIFER,
No. 755 BROADWAY, corner of
Clinton Place.
E. REMINGTON & SONS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Breech. Loading
j Military and Sporting Rifles,
Shot G-uns, Revolvers,
l AMMUNITION, &c.
.
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e ■ x ——
e /UILMORE’S GARDEN.
y xjR Sheridan Shook and E. G. Gilmore t Lessees
i THE GREATEST CONTEST
IN THE ANNALS OF PEDESTKIANISMI
i- „ „ MONDAY, SEPT. 30th, at lA. M„ „, T „
e COMMENCEMENT OF THE LuNG-TALKED-OF WALK
i- ING-MATCH BETWEEN
* (DANIEL O’LEARyTF of CHICAGO,
CHAMPION OF THE WORLD,
and
1 JOHN HUGHES, NEW YORK,
,i For $1,009 and the champion Belt presented to O’Leary
by Sir John As.tley tor defeating all the competi
tors at the recent London tournament.
CONCLUSION OF THE CONTEST SATURDAY,
a at 11 P. M., Oct. sth. .
The man covering the greatest numb *r of miles within
the six days to receive the stakes and belt, and to be the
acknowledged champion pedestrian of the world.
Grand Promenade Concerts day and night, by Leibold’s
- celebrated Military Band.
Doors open at 10 o’clock to-night and at all hours there
t- after* Admission 5'.1c.; to the quarter-stretch, 75c.
OLYMPIC THEATRE, 622 and 624 B’way
M. W. HANLEY Manager
, GRAND INAUGURAL NIGHT,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th.
Of the FAMILY THEATRE OF NEW YORK.
; PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
3 MARK THE PRICES. MARK THE PRICES.
J Peoples’ Prices Prices?? Peoples’ Prices,
. 15, 35, 50. I 15, 35. 50. 15, 3', 50.
3 Peoples’ Prices. <$ —-—, Peoples’ Prices.
A RESERVED ORCHESTRA CHAIR ONLY 50c.
j The initial company will include the following star artists:
$> = <s> <§, -$>
’ JOHN HART DELEHANTY I
. and and
H. C. MORELAND, IIENGLER, I
. *> A>
. EDWIN FRENCH, <♦> <s> FLORA MOORE,
1 J Harry Bennett, |
; * J 1 <=>
, I Nellie Sc. John, I Neil Burgess, | Fields & Hanson, |
1 LITTLE MAC, ALICE BATEMAN mTbiLLY
1 [TILLIE ANTONIO,f URABE,'|
'i> e.> Q - -<g>
, Mr. HARRY 6LIFFORP, Miss LIZZIE EDWARDS
and a full and efficient stock co noaay. A magnificent
orchestra under the leadership ox Mr. WM. KOLLMER.
s gTEINWAY HALL.
THE MARIE ROZE-MAPLESON
GRAND OPERATIC CONCERTS.
Mr. HENRY MAPLESON, of London, has the honor to
■ announce the inauguration of his first season,
TO-MORROW (MONDAY) EVENING, SEPT. 30,
AN UNRIVALED COMBINATION.
MARIE RUZE,
BRIGNOLI,
i CARLETON.
Mr. L. BLUMENBERG, Violoncello Virtuoso,
His first appearance in New York.
Mr. FERD. DUICKEN, Pianist and Composer.
Mr. GEO. W. COLBY, Accompanist.
GRAND ORCHESTRA.
• Mr. G. CARLBERG -.Conductor
, , . POPULAR PRICES.
Admission, $1 00. Reserved Seats, 50c. extra.
Tickets now on sale at Steinway Hall, Pond’s Music
Store, RuMman’s, No. 11l Broadway, and ail the principal
. Hotels.
LYCEUM THEATRE, 14th st. and 6th ave.
Metropolitan Railway Station.
FIFTH WEEK
OF
DENMAN THOMPSON
AS
.Joshua Whitcomb.
I every EVENING AND SATURDAY MATINEE.
Haymarket theatre,
Corner of Thirtieth street and Sixth avenue.
SAM RICH Manager
■ PEOPLE DELIGHTED. STANDING ROOM ONLY.
LOOK at this MAMMOTH COMBINATION.
THE GREAT BERNARDO. THE GREAT BERNARDO.
HOLBROOK and RYAN, Song and Dance Artists.
JULIA WALCOT, Serio Qomic Vocalist.
HOWARD and THOMPSON, the Great Hebrew Team.
FANNIE DAVENPORT, the Great Contralto.
Morgan and Welch, the Refined Irish Sketch Artists.
JOHN FISHER, in his Dutch Specialties.
DORA DAWSON, the Double-Voiced Vocalist.
JOSIE CARLON, the California Diamond.
CHARLES CONSTANTINK, the Funny Man.
FRANK BUDWORTH, Comedian and Actor.
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2 P. M.
’ Admission.... 25 Cents
JOSH HART’S ST. JAMES THEATRE?
23d street, near Sixth avenue.
MONDAY, Sept. 39, Entire Change of Programme.
Jennie Engel, Scaalon & Cronin, Frank Bush,
3 Miltons, A. H. Sheldon, Geo. Madden,
4 Aces, Alfred McDowell, Dora St. Clair,
James O’Neil, Lester & Allen, Lizzie Conway,
F. J. Traynor, George Maddox, Mari' Milton,
' Elia Mayo, Tierney & Cronin, L. Cooper.
Frank Bush’s New Act—“ The Old Clothes Dealer.”
Scanlon <fc Cronin’s Sketch—“McCormack, the Copper.”
A. H. Sheldon’s Local Sketch—“ Blackwell’s Island.”
McDowell’s Comic Specialty—“ The Two Roses.”
JOSH HART’S ST. JAMES THEAt RE
i _ls Located on Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.
WC. COUP’S
• GREAT EQUESCURRICULUM,
I Fourteenth street, opposite Academy of Music.
ONE WEEK ONLY.
Commencing MONDAY EVENING, Sept. 30th.
1 The Finest Stud of Horses on Earth, Including the
Original Bronchos.
Great Equestrian Coihpanyl
Jackits-chy’s Japanese Show, and
Mme. Rhinehart’s Menagerie
ot Trained Animals!
MATINEES DAILY, at 2 (except Monday).
Admission '. 50 cents
Children under nine. 25 cents
Reserved Seats 25 cents extra
Brooklyn park theatre.
Opening of the Regular Season.
The eminent Comedian,
MR. LESTER WALLACK
As Hugh Ctialc jt, in Robertson’s comedy,
“OURS.”
New and magnificent scenery, brilliant military cos
tumes. Rosa Rand, Kate Bartlett, Jas. M. Hardie, Geo.
R. Edeson, J. Z. Little, R. F. McClannin, C. T. Murphy,
&c., in the cast. Matinees on Wednesdays aud Saturdays.
FIIHEATRE BRIGHTON. 1239 Broadway,
JL Between 30th and 31st Streets.
The Largest and Cheapest Entertainment in New York.
25 New The Great Hit
Specialty Artists Star Specialty of
added to eur Theatre McGinnis’
Mammoth Programme, of New York. Boarding House
GRAND FAMILY MATINEES.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.
Observe the Prices. Observe the Pi ices.
Balcony 2(X Reserved 50 and 75c. Matinees, 20 and 50c»
BOOTH’S THEATRE. HENRY VIII.
JARRETT & PALMER are now giving their most
important stage offering, Shakespeare’s history of the
life of King
HENRY VIII.,
spectacularly produced, with hundreds of gorgeously at
tired auxiliaries and a remarkable cast, including
GENEVIEVE WARD as...QUEEN KATHARINE.
GEORGE VANDENHOFF...as....CARDINAL WOLSEY.
*»* Box Office ODen daily continuously from 8 A. M.
MATINEE J-.VKItY SATURDAY at 1:30. '
THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.
Harrigan & Hart Proprietors
Every Evening, Wednesday and Saturday Matinees.
HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY NIGHTLY.
Second week of Edward Harrigan’s comic drama,
THE MULLIGAN GUARD PICNIC.
HARRIGAN and HART
In their happiest vein of comedy.
A GRAND OLIO OF SPECIALTIES.
COME EARLY.
THE AQUARIUM, Broadway & 35th St.
IMMENSE SUCCESS.
THE GREAT HERRMANN and his charming assistant,
MLLE. ADDIE.
WONDERFUL M.D-AIR SUSPENSION.
THE SPIRITS’ CABINET.
Most marvelous performance ever seen.
All new, and never performed before by any one.
CHANGE OF PROGRAMME WEEKLY.
Admisalon, 50 cents. Reserved Seats, 25 cents extra.
Fifth avenue theatre.
Lessees and Managers. FISKE A HARKINS
T MO DJE SK A T
WILL MAKE HER RENTREE AS
caMILLE.
•»* EVERY NIGHT and SATURDAY MATINEE. %»
Broadway theatre, Cor. 30th st.
EDGAR & FULTON Lessees and Managers
SECOND WEEK. '
Limited engagement of
ROSE EYTINGE.
Nightly, until further notice, the thrilling drama of
A WOMAN OF THE PEOPLE.
Popular Prices. Reserved seats, 35c., 75c., and sl. Ad
i mission. 25c. and 50c.
EVENING at 8. SATURDAY MATINEE at 2.
TANDARD THEATRE, B’way & 33d st.
WM. HENDERSON..- Proprietor and Manager
Continued success of Frederic Clark’s comedy,
A FALSE TITLE,
1 With its unequalled cast, every evening until further no-
> WCe ’ ADMISSION 25, 50. 75cts.. $1 00, $1 25.
’ MATINEE SATURDAY, AT 1:30.
MONDAY, Oct, 14th, J. K. EMMET as FRITZ.
! OTEINWAY HALL. WILHELMJ.
HERR AUGUS T WILHELMJ
Will give his third
GRAND CONCERT,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 2.
Admission, $1; reserved seats 50 cents extra.
Admission to Second Balcony, 50 cents.
Tickets now on sale at Steinway Hall, Schirmer’s, Pond’s
r and Schuberth’s music stores; Kull man’s, No. 11l Broad
way, and at all the principal hotels.
Bowery theatre.
Ferdinand W. Hofelr Manager
ROSE and HARRY WATKINS and
I MISS AMY LEE in
DICK DRIFT,
A SON OK THE STREETS.
To conclude with the Comedy,
DUTCH TWINS.
MISS MINNIE CUMMINGS,
one of the most beautiful and captivating Actresses
| on the EIGHT CHARACTERS,
WITH SONGS.
■LARGE REPERTOIRE OF LEGITIMATE PLAYS.
NOW STARRING EAST
WITH GREAT SUCCESS.
For dates, address, care of
CHARLES CHAMBER, Hotel Hamilton,
Broadway and Twenty-sixth street, New York.
ISS JEFFREYS-LEWIS’
GREAT SUCCESS in COUNTESS ZICKA
In DIPLOMACY.
Will be at McVicker’?, Chicago, for three weeks.
jgISMARCK HALL.
Concert every evening, under the direction of Prof.
Petersohn, at 7:30.
No. 464 PEARL STREET,
Corner of Chatham street. New York.
■ JACOB F. HAAS, Proprietor.
HARLEY WHITE,
THE VETERAN MINSTREL,
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT,
(EUROPEAN PLAN,)
NO. 39 THIRTEENTH STREET,
■ (Near tlie.corner ot University Place).
' Light, airy rooms, by the day, week or month. Every
convenience first-class. Professionals and others can find
every dbmfort and accommodation on reasonable terms,
Location central. Only one block from Union Square.
v NO. 30 THIRTEENTH STREET, ’ „
_ (Two doors west of University place).
tovinghaCl,
IRVING PLACE, opposite Academy of Music.
This hall has been entirely renovated, refurnished, and
restored tn its former position as the'»
LARGEST AND MOST ELEGANT BALL-ROOM
in the country. Engagement Book for
BALLS, CONCERTS,' LECTURES, FAIRS,
and other entertainments, now open.
To let at' reasonable rates.
A l A - GOLDSTEIN. Proprietor,
eORAND OPERA HOUSE.
83 Lessees and Managers
RESERVED SEATS (Orchestra Circle and Balcony), 50c.
Engagement with the dlstin uished artists,
Mr. and M-g. W. J. FLORENCE,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. FLORENCE,
_ , ~ , Mr. and Mrs. W. J. FLORENCE.
£- in tneir wonderously successful impersonations of the
Hon. BARDWELL SLOTE
and
t . Mrs. GEN. GIL FLORY,
in their humorously satirical picture of Lobby Life and
Society at the National Canital, entitled
THE MIGHTY DOLLAR,
, THE MIGHTY DOLLAR,
, THE MIGHTY OOLLAR.
Messrs. Poole and Donnelly would call attention to the
•y fact that “ THE MIGHTY DOLLAR ” will be placed upon
the stage in a manner, far outrivaling any previous oro
duction. Entirely new scenery, furniture and appoint
ments being prooared expressly for it. No expense what
ever being spared to make tTls a grand, complete and
n perfect presentation of one of the most successful plays ot
[e the day.
MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.
’ S JjUFTY CENTS
„ _ . Will procure a
PASSAGE BOTH WAYS AND ONE ADMISSION
V To the
•r AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION
By the
N. Y. ELEVATED RAILROAD.
To be had
AT ALL THE EAST SIDE STATIONS.
PEPOf IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
’ American Institute Exhibition,
i: 2D AND 3D AVES.. C3D AND 64TH STS.
OPEN DAILY FROM 9 A. M. TO 10 P. M.
UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS IN NOVEL MACHINERY
AND PRODUCTS OF HOME INDUSTRIES.
MUSIC BY DOWNING’S NINTH REGIMENT BAND.
3 TO 5, 3 TO 19 O'CLOCK; ALSO BY OELE
?> BRATED ORGANISTS ON JARDINE’S
| MAMMOTH ORGAN.
I, Single admission, 5 'e,; children, under ten years, 23c.
h ~ (10 admissions, 32 601
I Coupon tickets! 5 admissions, 1 6'i > Transferable.
» 1 3 adinixsieni, 1 00)
t I3ARK COMEDY.
A HENRY E; ABBEY Lessee and Manager
MONDAY EVENING. SEPT. 30,
30th and last performance ot
OLD LOVE LETTERS and
HURRICANES.
TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 1,
A new comedy from the German, t anslated and adapted
by Mr. J. W. Shannon, entitled
o BOUQUETS AND BOMBSHELLS.
Characters by Messrs. George Clarke (his first appear
ance here), James Lewis, Frank Hardenberg, Frank San
ger W. F. Owen, Wm. Cullington, J. P. Cooke, Mrs. G. H.
Gebert. Agnes Booth, Louisa Allen, Misses Minnie Palmer
and Sydriey Cowell.
NIBLO’S GARDEN THEATRE.
Edwa-d F. Starin Proprietor and Manager
SECOND WEEK and enormous success of Mias KATE
MAYHEW in
- « M’LISS.
r Purported by Mr. CHAS. J EDMONDS, driver of the Sac
ramento mail, (introducing a real team of horses and
; ‘"RANK ROCHE, Miss ANNIE WARD
c ITFFANY, and Nfblo’s superb company.
'« Matinees Wednes Jay and Saturday at 2 P. M.
WALLACK’S..
’ , aad Manager, Mr. LESTER WALLACK.
EVERY EVENING and SAfURDAY MATINEE, Sheri
dan’s five-act Comedy of the
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
All other productions for the present postponed.
r PINION SQUARE THEATRE?
U BDGINS AT 8. OVER AT 11.
OVERWHELMING SUCCESS
of the new play MOTHER AND SON.
SATURDAY MATINEE at 1:30.
ami
ROOKES’ DANCING ACADEMY, No.
361 Broome street. All the fashionable dances in
, one course of lessons.
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION AT ALL HOURS.
New classes every Tuesday a id Saturday.
The first lessons privately and no extra charge.
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SPECIALTIES FOR THE SEASON OF 1878 AND 1*79
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Tins Hail, expressly fitted up for BALLS. PARTIES.
PUBLIC and PRIVATE MEETINGS, will be let on very
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Apply to GEORGE GKOELING, Proprietor.
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TWENTY ELEGANT PRIVATE BOXES have been add
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E. FERRERO, Proprietor.
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No. 11 Frankfort street.
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* Worcester, Boston, Nashua, Portland, and Bangor, ar
riving in Boston at BA. M., Portland 1:10 P. M., and Ban
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Norwich and Worcester, and New York and New England
• railroads. Tickets, state-rooms, and all information can
3 be had upon application at Ticket Office, No. 417 Broad
way, corner Canal street, or at the office on the Pier.
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WORCESTER, MASS.
- XIETROrOLITAN
IyJL elevated railroad,
OPEN FROM 5:30 A. M. TO 12 P. M.
RECTOR ST.—Nearest point for Wall street ferry, and
- conne ns with cars for South Ferry.
COKI'LA.NDT ST.—Nearest point for Jersey City and
Communipaw terries.
PARK PLACE.—Nearest point tor Post-office, City Hall,
r aud Barclay street ferry t > ilobuken. ;
CHAMBERS ST.—Nearest puiuc ior- Pavonia ana Er.e •
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FRANKLIN ST.
GRAND ST.—Nearest point lor Desbrosses street ferry to
Jersey City and People’s Line steamers for Albany, and’
connects witii cars for Desoros .as aud East Grand street
ferries. '
BLEECKER ST.—Connects with cars for East and West.
BTH ST.—Nearest point for Christopher street terry to
Hoboken, connecting with Cars for Christopher and East
Tenth street ferries.
14TH ST.—Nearest point to Union Square, Wallack’s,
and Lyceum Theatres, Academy of Music, Irving, and
Tammanv Halls, connecting with cars for West Twenty
third and East Twenty-third ‘ and Thirty-fourth street
23D ST.—Nearest point to Boeth’s, St. James and Park
•7 Theatres, Grand Opera Aouse, Gilmore’s Garden, and Ma
id sonic Temple, Twenty-third street lerry to Jersey City.
s - 33D ST.—Nearest point to Standard, Broadway, and
Fifth Avenue Theatres, and San Franekcj
Minstrels, connecting with cars for Weehawken ferry.
42D ST.—Connects with New York Transfer Company’s
“ cabs for Grand Central Depot.
50TH ST
58TH ST*—Nearest point for Cei.tral Park.
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Cloaks, Mantles,
RICH FURS, &c., &c.
ON -
MONDAY, SEPT. 30.
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FALL anIwIKTEB
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Suitings,
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Overcoatings,
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BLACK and FANCY COLORED CORDUROYS,
HABIT and DRESS CLOTHS,
FANCY and PLAIN CLOAKINGS,
WATERPROOFS, Ao. &e.,
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®o the
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lies suppied with the Best Oysters, 20 cts. a quart “ Spe
cialty ” Pickled Oysters, 50 cts. a quart. r
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I?OB SALE—ALL KINDS OF FANCY
J 2 Dogs, Birds, &c. Medicines for all diseases; Pre
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Banjo taught by mail-3,000
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Banfo Music Company, 205 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y
F. GROTE & CO.,
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ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING DONE IN IVORY AND
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Spectacles.—Brazilian pebbles
and Double Vision Glasses, in gold, silver, and other
names. Also, the celebrated Eye Preservers, so highly
appreciated at the Eye Hospital and the Eye Infirmary,
being superior to any otner article, giving ease and vigor
to the weak, and preserving the perfect sight for many
years. Professor FRANKS. Oculist and Optician, Lec
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