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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “ DORIS’S FORTUNE.”
WIPING OUT A STAIN.
SHE SHINES BY NIGHT.
HUMOR OF THE-HOUR.
EATING IN ITALY.
AN OPIUM EATER’S STORY.
THE BLACK CAT.
A STRANGE FIGHT.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: The Grand Lodge.
SIXTH PAGE «
IF I SHOULD DIE TO NIGHT.
CONCLUSION OF “OF ONE RACE.”
SWORN TO.
A MARRIAGE ESSAY.
A SLAVER’S WEALTH.
THE MOUNTAIN LION.
GEMS OF SONG.
THE ROMANCE OF A MAINE GIRL.
SAVED BY A DREAM.
A MONTANA STORM.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
ONCE-ON-A-TIME.
BURIED ALIVE.
SLAIN AT HIS WEDDING FEAST.
41 FRESH FISH.”
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
THE TELEPHONE GIRL.
EATING.
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Dan Mulligan.—. Edward Harrigan
was born in Scammel street, in the Seventh Ward
of this city, October 25, 1845. As a youth he was
■ent to learn the trade of shipcarpenter. He did
not, however, long continue at this occupation but
started West. He found a place on the stage and
sang and danced in the variety halls as be moved
on from town to town and finally reaching San
Francisco, obtained an engagement at the “Bella
Union.” He really made his professional debut at
the Olympic Theatre in that city. This was in 1857.
From this theatre he went to the “Bella Union,”
where be remained until t. e early part of 1870.
While here he experimented with his talents in the
burnt cork line and became “end man.” Then he
*' doubled up ” with a young performer known as
Alexander O’Brien. Th s partnership did not last
long. His next venture with a partner was with
Sam Rickey, whom he met in Sacramento and hav
ing taught Rickey considerable new business the
two came on to Chicago as “character artists.”
There they did the Irish and Etbopian business.
Then they came to Now York and made their first
appearance at the old Globe Theatre on November
21, 1870, which was then under the management of
S. K. and J. B. Spencer, with Josh Hart as acting
and stage manager. They opened in a lively sketch
written by Mr. Harrigan, entitled “The Little
Fraud.” The success of this engagement was most
too much for Sam Rickey and he became recklessly
negligent of his business and Mr. Harrigan was
finally compelled to break up the partnership. Dur
ing the second week of the engagement at the Globe,
Harrigan produced “ The Mulcahy Twins,” which
made a pronounced hit. The engagement lasted
until sometime in January, 1871. Mr. Harrigan then
went to Chicago determined to have no more part
nerships. He was under an engagement with Man
ning's Minstrels but when he reached that city he
concluded to work in a variety hall. Here he met
Tony Hart, who was then h boy ballad singer with
Arlington's Minstrels and who possessed a remark
able voice.
C. G. B.—Tha phenomenon of float
ing islands was early recorded in an interesting let
ter of the younger Pliny to Gallus, in which he de
scribes the appearance of a number of floating isl
ands in the Lacus Vadimonis, now Laghetto di Bas
sano, near Rome. Th« y were covered with reeds
and rushes, and the sheep grazing upon the bor
ders of the lake passed upon them to feed, and
were often floated away from shore. On the lake
near Gerdauen, in East Prussia, the extent of such
islands is said to have be n sufficient for the pas
turage of a hundred bead of cattle; and on one in
Lake Kolm are many fine elms. These islands are
produced by drift wood, among which drifting
sands and earth collect and form a soil, in which
plants take root and flourish. The great rafts of
some of the Western rivers are of this nature; for
the most part these do not float from place to place,
but masses are occasionally detached and drift out
from the mouth of the Mississippi, carrying birds,
serpents and alligators that have taken refuge upon
them. Such islands have been seen floating one
hundred miles off the mouth off the Ganges, from
which they have been discharged. On the great
rivers of South America they are very often met
with, carrying the prolific productions of the vege
table and animal life of the tropics, and depositing
them in new localities. They have thus been the
means of distributing species of the larger animals
among the islands of the South Pacific, upon many
of which their introduction by any other mode is
difficult to account for. The primitive Aztecs
adopted the plan suggested by these natural ob
jects, and covered raits of woven reeds and rushes
with the fertile sediment drawn up from the lakes.
Upon these gardens, generally from 200 to 300 feet
in length, the Indians cultivated flowers and vege
tables for the market of Tenochtitlan. Some of the
chinampas were firm enough to sustain small trees
and a hut, and could be moved about with a pole or
fastened to it, at the will of the owner. Remarkable
floating islands occur in the Malay Archipelago,
L. H. C.—Arrack is from the Arabic,
meaning to perspire. It is a strong splritous li
quor distilled from fermented rice and from
toddy, the fermented sap of the cocoanut tree,
and also from rice and sugar or rice and molasses
fermented with cocoanut juice. The word is used
£.B a general term for all distilled liquors, as there
are arracks of grapes, berries, figs, dates and even
-of wild flowers in various parts of the East. Arrack
is sometimes made by adding different bitter prin
ciples and mastic to the fermenting liquor, putting
it into leather bottles and allowing it to undergo
alow fermentation under the earth for a year; then
‘Subjecting it to ft cruds fortjieqtatlqp, Ji b largely
imitated various parts of tier id an J, ana Holland,
arrack of commerce is derived from Batavia,
Goa, Ceylon, Madras, and Colombo. The best ar.
raok in the Levant is obtained from the island of
Scio. In order to prepare it for the long voyage,
some oil is added which, on the addition of warm
water, often imparts a disagreeable, oily, taste and
smell. It is used in the composition of punch and
for medical and culinary purposes. Anise seed and
aromatic herb's are somethin -js steeped in it to im
prove its flavor.
Felix.—Susan Brownell Anthony, the
American reformer, was born in South Adams,
Mass., February 15th, 1820. Her father was a mem
ber of the Society of Friends. She was employed in
bis cotton factory, completed her education in a
school in Philadelphia, and from 1837 to 1852 was a
teacher in tho State of New York. She became in
terested in the cause of temperance, and an admis
sion to a convention being denied her on account
Of her sex, she called a convention of women (1849),
and since that time has beeu conspicuous in vari
ous philanthropic and reformatory movements.
She has identified herself especially with the agita
tion for female suffrage, in the interests of which
she has visited many parts of the United States and
delivered numerous lectures and addresses. In
1868 she founded in New York a journal called
••Ths Revolution,” which she conducted for some
time iu conjunction with Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton and Parker Pillsbury. She has acted on several
occasions as a delegate to the New. York Working
Women's Association.
Language.—The Phoenicians, who
were a great commercial people In the early days of
tho world, are thought to have given the present
names of most of the countries around the Medi
terranean Sea. The Phoenician language contained
tho words Europe, Asia, Africa, Italy, Spain, Gaul,
Britain, &tna, Sardinia and Siberia, as well as many
others now used as tho names of minor places.
Europe in Phoenician, meant “ white complexion,”
and was applied to the country north of the Medi
terranean, because the natives were of lighter com
ploxion than those of Asia and Africa. Africa signi
fies the •• land of corn,” and Asia meant the “mid
dle land,” being so named because it was between
Europe and Africa. Italy was the “country of
black pitch;” Spain was the “land of rabbits/’
Gaul, or France, the “ land of the yellow-haired;”
Britain, tho “ country of tin;” JStna, the •• smoky
furnace;” Sardinia, “ a man’s foot,” because it is
shaped like a foot, and Siberia, “thirsty land,”
because it is so dry.
Artist. —The flute has been in use as
a musical instrument for more than four thousand
years. It was familiar to the Egyptians from a re
mote period, and among the Greeks and Romans
was a favorite pastoral instrument, employed at
sacred and festive occasions, in military bands and
at funerals. Its present name is derived from the
Latin Jluta, an eel caught in Sicilian waters, whose
side is marked with seven spots like flute holes.
The Egyptian flute was from two to three feet long,
and the performer generally sat upon the ground,
while that of tho Greeks did not exceed a foot in
length.
Lignum Vitje.—The prevention of
decay in wood is said to be effectively accomplished
Joy exhausting the air from the pores and filling
them with a guttapercha solution,a substance which
preserves the wood alike from moisture, water and
-tbs action of the sun. The solution is made by
mixing two-thirds ot gutta percha to one third of
parafine, this mixture being then heated to liquify
the gutta percha, when it is readily introduced into
the pores of the wood, the effect of the gutta
percha being, when it becomes cool, to harden the
pores.
M. Anderson.—John Hatfield, on Oct.
15,1872, threw a regulation baseball 133 yds. 1 ft.
In. This is the longest throw on record. Ed.
Crano, of Boston Unions, is, however, alleged to
have thrown a regulation ball 135 yds. 1 ft. % in. in
Cincinnati, Oct. 12, 1884, and 134 yds, 5 in. at St,
Louis, Oct. 19, 1884.
N. O. G.—Free Thinkers was a name
applied to the opponents of Christianity, in Eng
land, iu tho 17th and 18th centuries. They were,
howoYor, never an organized sect.
G. Loos.—ln a two-handed game of
double binocle a player cannot meld 40 trumps after
he has melded 150 trumps, unless he possesses the
other king and queen of trumps.
Max.—Generally speaking, a frog is a
batrachian reptile of the anourous or tailless order,
embracing the group phanero glosses, or common
frogs, and hyladae, or tree frogs.
C. L. O.—Edwin Forrest was born in
Philadelphia, March 6, 1806, and died there Decem
ber 12,1872. His father was Scotch and his mother
was of German birth.
Jockey.—Ascot Heath, the race course
in England, is twenty-six miles from London and
six from Windsor, near the London and South
western railway.
W. K. M.—Alloy is a compound of
two or more metals fused together. When one of
the metals is mercury the compound is called amal
gar*.
George.—Either expression, “to-mor
row is >'ednes<Uy.” or “to-morrow will be Wednes
day.” is correct and sactioned by good authority.
Binocle. —ln a two-handed game of
binocle it is not permitted a player to see the last
card after the last trick is taken in.
J. L. L.—The scheme you send us in
the clipping is a very good one.
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NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 1886.
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has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the United States.
BLAINE AND HOME RULE.
On Tuesday morning, according to present
arrangements, the vote upon Home Rule will
be taken in the British Parliament, and tho
fate of the Gladstone government decided. We
say the fate of the government, hot of tho Homo
Rulo bill, bacanse wo believe that tho adoption
of the dladstouo measure is only a question of
time, and that, if the ministry be defeated now,
tbo people of England will send them back to
Parliament with an invincible majority. At
this important juncture the great speech of the
Hon. James G. Blaine, the recognized Republi
can leader, comes like a trumpet call to victory.
Tha outrageous anger which it has aroused
among tho tones shows how timely it is and
how terrific is the effect of Mr. Blaine’s states
manlike eloquence. The London Times de
nounces his speech as “ ignorant and pre
sumptuous rant,” and this is the highest com
pliment which it could receive from such a
source. If it be “ignorant,” why does not the
blundering Times point out its mistakes? In
what sense can it be called “ presumptuous ”
for tho Liberal leader of America to second tha
Liberal leader of England in demanding justice
tor Ireland ?
The force of a blow is judged by its results.
When a bully is hurt he cries out and vituper
ates. The shrieks of the Tories prove that Mr.
Blaine has hit them hard. His keen logic ents
through the tough hide of the Tories and
makes them wince and groan. Unable to deny
a single point of his lucid arraignment, they
have recourse to the foul language of a black
guard and the foolish falsehood of a liboler.
Tho Times attempts to back up its abuse ot
Mr. Blaine by a letter from an imaginary corre
spondent at St. Louis, who is quoted as saying
that there are not five thousand American citi
zens ready to back the Irish in the Home Rule
fight with either their money or their influence.
It is a matter of fact that more than ten times
that number contribute regularly to the Home
Rule fund, and that a hundred times that num
ber are already on record as sympathizers with
Ireland. Either there is no such person in the
United States as this correspondent at St.
Louis, or ho is a wandering Britisher, entirely
ignorant ot the sentiments ot onr people.
James G. Blaine, who speaks for the Repub
lican party, is a better authority upon Ameri
can feeling than an anonymous St. Louis cor
respondent, and even the bewildered readers of
the Times most acknowledge this simple but
conclusive fact.
If a vote upon Home Rille were taken in the
United States, to-morrow, instead of in Parlia
ment, ninety-five per cent, of our people, irre
spective of party, would vote in favor of Glad
stone’s bill. We assert this from a knowledge
ot the American public incomparably superior
to that of the London Times. There are in this
country more than ten millions of Irish and of
descendants of the Irish. Our Insh-Ameri
cans, and especially those born of Yankee moth
ers, are more hostile to the English in Ireland
than tho newest immigrants who land bore
fresh from the Green Isle. They have a double
reason for doubting and despising the British.
Their fathers can tell them of the outrages of
English troops on Irish soil, and their mothers
can match these horrors with traditions of the
Hessian murders here. They are taught in the
schools how England attempted to crush
America in the days of the Revolution, and they
have read in the newspapers of the British plots
to dismember the Union m the flays of the
Southern rebellion. They are opposed to Eng
land on their own account and carry a heavy
balance over to the account of downtrodden
Ireland. To say that they are hostile to Home
Rule, when their forefathers fought for it and
they are now enjoying its blessings, is tho wild
est nonsense.
Not less absurd is it to declare that all our
public men who advocate Home Rule are
merely talking to please their Irish constitu
ents, and that James G. Blaine delivered his
great Home Rule speech in order to attract
the Irish vote. Mr. Blaine does not need to
attract tho Irish vote. He has it already. He
had it at the last election. It was that vote
which brought him so near to the White House
that a more careful count ot the ballots in New
York would have made him the President of
the United States. No writer for tho London
Times can sit in his study and invent opinions
for the American people to offset those which
Mr. Blaine expresses as the accredited repre
sentative of millions of American citizens. No
St. Louis correspondent can be imagined to
compare with Mr. Blaine in knowledge of
American sentiment. The splendid oration of
the statesman of Maine will have its effect upon
the vote in Parliament and upon tho con
sciences of the English people, and the Times
will only increase that effect by trying to black
guard Mr. Blaine and nullify his eloquent argu
ments.
EXIT JOHN KELLY.
The death of John Kelly, although, in ac
cordance with the fast lite of the present era, it
had been discounted by the politicians, de
prives New York of one of its most representa
tive men. A typical Irishman in appearance,
John Kelly was born in this city and worked his
way up from poverty to affluence, from ob
scurity to prominence, like most Americans.
He began life as a workingman, and his shrewd
brain directed his sturdy muscles and made him
a loader. He had most of the virtues and very
few ot the vices of the powerful race from
which he sprang. To an indomitable will, which
became obstinacy when opposed, ho added a
constitutional integrity and a devotion to his
friends which made them equally devoted to
him. Ignorant of letters in his youth, he edu
cated himself after he was elected to Congress.
He had no natural eloquence; but yet he
trained himself into a popular and effective
public speaker. He knew just what he wanted
to say and said it with * sledge-hammer direct
ness and force that impressed his hearers with
the sincerity of his convictions. For many
years he has had a following of fifty thousand
Tammany voters, and he has been able to decide
municipal, State and national elections.
Perhaps the quality which gave John Kelly
his greatest influence was his unswerving per
sonal honesty. The Tweed ring hated and de
feated him; but he lived to see the members of
that ring imprisoned or exiled, and he was re
called te rescue Tammany Hall from its corrupt
reputation. A born fighter, he never knew
when he was beaten until the last fatal cam
paign, when Cleveland’s victory killed him as
an ox falls at the blow of the butcher. When
his candidates were outvoted, he renominated
them at succeeding elections. Both friends
and enemies always knew where to find him.
As a rule, he fought fairly, bore reverses pa
tiently and conducted himself modestly in his
hours of triumph. Often accused ot making
political bargains, he was never accused of not
carrying out those bargains to the best of his
ability. His judgment of men and measures
was often warped by personal or partizan pre
judices ; but everybody felt that he was sincere
in his convictions and thoroughly in earnest in
his work. For this reason he was respected by
men of all parties. He held the Tammany or
ganization together without the aid of patron
age, and the majority of his followers were true
to him when he had nothing to give them but
repeated defeats.
A very different man in every other respect,
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JUNE 6, 1886.
John Kelly resembled Charles Loew, his suc
cessor in Tammany Hall, in believing that
“ honesty is the best policy,” as Loew said upon
hie death-bed. The last words of John Kelly
expressed almost the same sentiment. “ I have
tried,” said he, “to live a good Catholic.”
While some of the former associates of these
men are being sent to Sing Sing for bribery and
corruption, there is an instinctive moral in the
affectionate mourning for these honest leaders.
We hope that the class of politicians of which
John Kelly was a conspicuous and honorable
example, has passed away forever. The people
have outgrown the rule of any political bosses,
no matter how honest and how able. They are
beginning to think for themselves, to vote inde
pendently and to resent dictation. But during
the transition period of politics, John Kelly
filled a notable and useful place and filled it
well. The magnificent funeral service, yester
day, testified to his services to his church and
to the high esteem in which he was held by his
fellow-citizens, and the absence of public pomp
and parade was characteristic of the dead
leader and in strict accordance with his dying
request.
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INCAPABLE LEADERS.
We think our striking friends of tho surface
car roads have been poorly led in the present
strike. Vacillation has marked the course ot
the strike. When it first begun, a “ tie-up” of
all roads was ordered, and the next day the “ tie
up” was relieved from the roads, with the excep
tion of the Third avenue. After six weeks or so
another general “ tie-up” was ordered on Satur
day morning last. The people had no knowledge
ot the fact until they were proceeding to their
different places of employment or business. This
was not lair treatment of the working classes—
the men and women who go to work early and
return home late.
The Dispatch sympathizes with the car
drivers and conductors. It knows that they are
paid small wages and have long hours ot
labor—that they are abused and maligned by
the great corporations which they serve—
that the agreements which men like
Hart and Lyon make with them are
seldom or ever honestly kept — that they
are at times driven to desperation by the
wrongs they are compelled to endure. But the
great body politic see only the effect ot strikes,
and do not understand nor appreciate the de
tails which bring to them annoyance. Had the
first “ tie up ” been maintained, the people
would have been with the strikers in feeling.
This is best shown by tho way in which the
people have refrained from patronizing the
Third avenue cars. The leaders ot the strike
have not considered that thousands ot their
fellow workers in all branches of trade have
much incommoded themselves to aid the
strikers in every way in their power—that they
have given of their small earnings something
each week for the support of the strikers.
And consequently these leaders have shown no
capability for tho control of a great labor move
ment.
The Dispatch is tho friend ot workmen. Bnt
workmen must remember that when they
choose oTcers they must use wisdom. A fool
leader injures them in every position they
take. Nothing should be so carefully consid
ered as the leaders they choose. Men chosen
for the purpose may be entirely honest, yet
they should be guided by good judgment and
judiciousness. The Third Avenue strike has
not been conducted with either. Men of La
bor: Choose fit leaders and you will always
win that point tor which you strive.
THE PRESIDENT’S WEDDING.
We are very glad that President Cleveland
has taken to himself a wife. We are glad that
he chose a bright and intelligent American girl,
one of his own social circle, the daughter of his
former partner. Wo sincerely hope that he may
be happy and may make his young wife
Everybody joins us in these telicitations, and
yet everybody is by no means pleased at the
manner in which the wedding was conducted.
It was, so to speak, neither one thing nor the
other. It was neither public nor private. It
was neither official nor unofficial. Tho cere
mony took place at the White House and the
members of the Cabinet and their wives were
invited to be present, but all the other repre
sentatives of the people were rigidly excluded.
The bridegroom was not married like a Presi
dent nor like plain Grover Cleveland. The half
and half policy prevailed throughout. Tho
wedding night was passed in a car, and the
honeymoon commenced in a partly furnished
cottage on a bleak Maryland mountain. Is it
possible that the blunders of the Democratic
party must extend even to so common an oc
currence as a wedding ?
But the press cannot afford to find fault with
the details of the White House marriage. We
are called upon to blush for the conduct of men
of our own profession. The shameless manner
in which Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland were hounded
by audacious reporters, under the direction of
greedy publishers, is a disgrace to American
journalism. Nobody can read without indigna
tion how the White House was surrounded
by so-called gentlemen ot the press; how they
guarded every avenue by which the President
and his bride might escape; how they chased
his carriage to the special train; how some fitly
of them followed the happy pair to Deer Park,
and how they have to be kept off the grounds by
a large force of detectives. They have already
reported at what hour the bride and groom re
tired; at what hour they breakfasted; at what
hour Mr. Cleveland smoked his cigar, and it is
not their virtue which has prevented the publi
cation of further particulars. We are ashamed
of them and of tho papers which employ them,
and we repudiate all connection with such
scandalous journalism.
A GOOD LAW BADLY DRAWN UP.
The Court of Appeals has decided that the
“Police Relief Fund” Association is a volun
tary benevolent organization, and not one that
the men must be forced to sustain. This is to
be regretted for many reasons. In tha first
place it was one of the cheapest of insurance
organizations existing, and safe beyond the pos
sibility of failure. There are Life Insurance
Companies and private societies that hold out
great inducements from their cheapness. They
gather in money, just enough to pay salaries
and expenses, and when the income fails to meet
the outflow, then quickly subside like a dried
up rivulet in Summer. The loss individually
being small, and the sufferers having no voice
to reach the public ear, the swindlers are not
heard of in a court of law. The Police Relief
Fund was decided adversely by reason of the
false construction of a sentence, or rather, run
ning two sentences into one. The sentence
should have ended where it was intended, the
deduction ot $2 a month from the men on the
force. Instead of that tho sentence continued
on to say that others, clerks and members of
the Mutual Aid “ who shall desire," can join it.
The words “shall desire ” intended to apply to
men retired on the force, was interpreted by
the Court of Appeals to apply also to tne men
on the force.
The only thing now to be done by the trustees
is to get some one in each precinct, it matters
not whom, captain or patrolman, as it ie for the
benefit of all, to get an enrolment of the men
who will voluntarily join, and send a list of the
same to the Board of Trustees.
There are 600 now enrolled, without any can
vass, and there is no reason why it should not
bo run up to 2,000.
The Knights of Labor. —Every
organization of workingmen must expect to
be attacked by pretended friends, as well as by
open foes. An effort is now being made to in
jure the Knights of Labor by arraying against
it the Home Club, which is described as inimi
cal to Master Workman Powderly and hostile to
the best Interests of the institution. Columns
of this sort of fustian are published from day
to day, by newspapers which have never been
friendly to the workingmen and which are
under suspicion of being suborned by British
gold. If the Knights of Labor take the trouble
to read such stories about themselves they can
learn from their enemies what to do and what
to avoid doing. Anything which pleases the
organs opposed to protection must necessarily
be injurious to the workingmen. The tactics
which ench papers applaud must be the very
ones for the Knights of Labor to avoid. Man
for man, the representatives of the largest and
most powerful labor organization in the world
and more intelligent than the writers who
criticize them, and they are not likely to do
themselves and their comrades harm by fo
menting internal divisions to weaken the insti
tution which they have sacrificed so much to
establish.
AT* ST "W * — —
Anarchy and Free Speech. —Herr
Most and two of hie colleagues have been sent
to Blackwell’s Island tor inciting riots, and
nobody will pity them nor object to their
punishment. But nevertheless any con
victions which appear to limit the free
dom of speech and of the press in this
country should be closely scrutinized. We
could bettor afford to let Herr Most rave him
self hoarse than to abridge by a single iota the
birthright of this free people. One of the de
vices ot tyranny is to denounce free speech and
the press as leading to rebellion and revolu
tion. Patrick Henry incited his hearers to riot
when ho declaimed against tho tyranny ot En
gland. Any appeal to the people against des
potism, by tongtie or pen, can be adroitly made
to Seem like provoking a breach of the peace.
Men have been sent to the guillotine in France,
to the knout in Russia, to prison in England,
and to death in Germany for speaking and writ
ing in favor of liberty. The distinction here is
that anarchy is not liberty. Herr Most and the
fanatics whom he excites to assassination are
not lovers ot freedom, but advocates ot disor
der. To enforce the law against them is right,
but it would have been more judicious to com
mit them under some other law or send them
to Chicago, where their words boro terrible
fruit. The danger is that their sentence may
be made a precedent for bridling nobler
tongues and pens, and upon this point the peo
ple should bo always vigilant.
Fisheries and Free Ships. —Tho fish
ery question, like Banquo’s ghost, will not
down at the bidding of politic people. The
contemptuous manner in which the Govern
ment has released a Canadian vessel, seized for
violating our laws, would have been more ef
fective upon any less hardened pirates than the
Canadians. There is no use in disguising the
fact that the diplomatic relations between this
country and Great Britain are much more
strained than the Washington diplomatists are
ready to admit, and that trouble between the
two countries may break out at any moment.
Equally useless is it to disguise the truth that
tho fishery question—or, rather, the question
of simple justice to our fishermen—has been
politically complicated, in Congress, the
mevement in favor bl whai are called ire«
ships. We meet this issue as squarely as we
do the piracies of the oonscienceless Canadians.
Were our Government to permit ships to be
bought aboard, every shipyard in this country
would be destroyed, and we should be com
pletely at the mercy of England in case of a
'oreign war. At this time, when a war with
England herself is among the possibilities of
the near future, no Congressman who claims to
be patriotic should venture to advocate a
measure which would so seriously cripple us.
We may require all our shipyards to build pri
vateers before a year is over, and the man who
would do anything to close them now is as bad
as Benedict Arnold.
Another Convict.—Buddensiek, the
bogus builder, has been sent to Sing Sing, and
has done his first stroke of honest work. He
gave his occupation as a butcher, and thus un
consciously endorses his condemnation. All
his money could not save him from the penalty
of his crimes; but it enabled him to take ad
vantage of all the technicalities of the law to
delay his punishment. His prompt incarcera
tion, alter all the devices of his counsel had
been exhausted, is more impressive than his
Illegal railroading to prison would have been.
The impertinent strictures of irresponsible
writers upon the worthy judge who granted
Buddensiek a stay of proceedings are now an
swered in the most effectual way. Justice
ought always to move with cautious as well as
certain steps. Only those who are in the wrong
have anything to gain from undue haste. It is
deplorable that the judiciary of this city should
be exposed to reckless attacks; but the Bud
densiek case justifies the judges who convicted
him, and who gave him every fair opportunity
of setting aside that convictien, and it should
serve as a severe lesson to the wanton scrib
blers who have assailed them.
Prosecution not Persecution.—ln a
case before the Court of Sessions, a few days
ago, the unusual spectacle of a District Attor
ney demanding the release of a prisoner, was
afforded, much to the astonishment of the fre
quenters of criminal trials. The proprietor of
an up-town saloon had beon struck in the face
during a bar-room broil. Afterward ho played
cards, talked with his associates, took several
drinks, went late to bed, and died the next day.
The man who struck him was indicted for man
slaughter ; bnt, after the evidence had been pre
sented, ex-Judge Bedford, who appeared for
the District Attorney, addressed the court and
asked for a verdict, not of conviction, but of
acquittal. He wisely observed that tho laws
were for the protection of the innocent as well
as for the punishment of the guilty ; that the
District Attorney was a public prosecutor, not a
public persecutor, and that the ends of justice
would be subserved by the release of a prisoner
whose guilt could not be legally established.
The jury at once found a verdict in accordance
with these views, and the accused, who had
suffered enough for a hasty blow in sudden
anger, thanked the court for his immediate re
lease.
something similar.
We have but a word to say, and then we’ll
stop.
We started out to tell how our wedding was
unlike that of Grover and Frank, but the simil
itude strikes us straight in the eye every time
we break a pencil point.
Our old readers—that is, not so very old—
five years ago the twenty-ninth of the present
June, when we, our bride and us, were mar
ried, there was— Now, we started with “our
old readers.”
This causes us to hesitate.
The newspapers of that date, and long before,
informed us that we were going to be married.
Lafayette Briggs, of the Montana Clarion, at
that time printed this:
“ Mr. Walter C. Quevedo is about to be mar
ried. If he will send us that shirt, we will
send him a male one. We can’t imagine how
we made the mistake.”
David A. Sutton, of the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch, said:
“We understand that our dear friend Queve
do is about to be married. We know the girl,
and she’s good. If she will look in the alma
nac she will see that the bridegroom was con
sidered a chestnut in 1849.”
It became to become a little monotonous, and
just before the nuptials, when the blue room
had been florally and otherwise decorated, Bill
Nye, of the Boomerang, said:
“ It does seem strange what women will get on
the other end of the telephone. Tha little lady
who is about to marry our dear friend Quevedo,
must be color blind, or she would see danger
signals ahead. We don’t know anything about
his family, but we understand that his relatives
on his father’s side were good neighbors—for
chickens. We never saw a chicken that had
anything to say against them. We don’t mean
to hint that we never saw the chicken after the
Quevedo family had been seen around the roost
with a pole under its coat, but it's none of our
business, and we wish her well. That’s all
we’ve got to say; we wish her well and there’s
always a slice of bread around the office after
the cat and the managing editor signifies its in
tention to go away.”
Sutherland, of the College Hospital uhereare
wenow, said:
“ We have known Quevedo since boyhood. It
is a sad thing. Notwithstanding ths tact that
we are a friend of his he had to bo married in
slippers. ‘There are friends,’as Shakespeare
saysjfrom whom shoes neverreturn. We must
draw the line at Quevedo.
Ths Closter Deadgiveaway said that we wore
a claw-tail coat, and that the minister’s shot
gun was responsible for the claw.
It really makes us so tired that wo must go
down to Deer Park and ask Grove how to act,
it is so long since we took another fellow's
sister home and gave her the key, and told her
that unless she pulled off our boots she’d have
to send for a window.
SMALL CHANGE.
A gentleman in Idaho on Monday
celebrated his wooden wedding by pouring half
a pint of molten lead into his sleeping wife’s
ear. If—well. We were going to say some
thing about the tongue, but we know how
prone Idaho women are to sit on the fence and
spit in an inoffensive man’s eye, and we under
stand that the champion of our bicycle club is
going around that wav, and we have it directly
from him that all Idaho husbands are thieves.
We have just been informed that Gen
eral Carceres, of Lima, took the oath on Thurs
day. We have a lingering suspicion that Car
ceres is a friend of ours and wo imagine that
the rest of the country won tbe hurt. Carceres
won't keep it and the old Lima beans can stay
up on the poles,
A member of the “Old Brooklynites ”
at the last meeting of the organization recited
“Reminiscences of tho Brooklyn Bar.” Several
members, who had only been in town for seven
ty or eighty years or so, and who gazed at his
rubicund nose, wondered if his family didn’t
drop to it.
They are now emancipating slaves in
Cuba. If they could only emancipate a king
and queen or two, it wanders into our brain
that the girls and boys might live until they
could say their A, B, C's before they were
called upon to ball the country off.
The members of the Brooklyn and
Jersey City nines of the World played ball yes
terday. One man returned to this city and ho
wanted to know how the devil he had accumu
lated the patent of wearing the city editor’s hat
lor overshoes.
“ A strange disappearance ” is pla
carded all over Brooklyn. A lady’s picture is
printed in conjunction with it. It makes tho
onlooker endeavor to wonder how tho girl got
into the dress before the rest of it disappeared.
Cleveland paid Sunderland a hun
dred dollars for performing tho ceremony, and
Lamont paid a dollar for the license. One hun
dred and one dollars is a good deal of money
for such a noble little woman.
A little local boy died on Thursday
from eating corned beef. He wouldn’t have
died that horrible death if he had lived in our
boarding-house. He could have smelled it be
fore ho got it on his fork,
Any time that the laborers in any sec
tion of the country imagine that the country
can’t got along without them, they should cot
ton to the fact that ignorance ot Labor gives
Capital an easy job.
A dispatch from London informs us
that they are raising the Greek blockade. Be
bavins I if they raise any more Greek blockades
around here we’re going to buy snow-shoes and
sneak across lots.
The boys of the Press Club gave Joe
Howard a dinner the other night. If the boys
of the Press Club would take some of tho
“ leads ” out ot Joe Howard’s copy he wouldn’t
write so wide.
The Tribune, of Friday, heads a
“’gram” from Montreal: “Safety of the over
due Sardinian.” Now it struck us that way,
too; but, upon our soul, wo thought wo or
dered cheoso.
A special dispatch to the New York
papers states that a Columbus locomotive was
blown in pieces. It was a devilish good thing
for Columbus that the locomotive didn’t explode
altogether.
The bridegroom hath gone to Deer
Park. There is a wealth of meaning in that
name—we came near saying if “ Park ” were
left out, but wo will accept the amendment and
leave it in.
If they keep on excluding pool-sell
ing from our race tracks the idea strikes us
that they might as well tear down the fences
and lot the ministers take the knotholes home
with them.
Now that the whole thing is settled
the country newspapers will arrive at the al
leged belief that Governor Folsom has married
Miss Lamont, and that the least said abeut it
the better.
A correspondent asks i •• Can you
tell me anything that is good for dyspepsia ?”
Yes. A gun. We’ve never tried it ourself, but
it’s only because we’re afraid ot being sued as a
suicide.
Wb trust, for the benefit of our cashier
that there won’t be any fight between America
and Canada. Where the dev . However,
we may want to go away oureelf pretty soon.
The newspapers, day by day, appear
to be troubled about the social question. The
cnly social question that wo have ever been
troubled about was: When will I call again.
The “ Sun ” says that the light in
the Deer Park windows were put out at ton
o’clock. Grover probably took his stockings off
and Frank was afraid of an explosion.
Every important friend of the bride
and groom received a piece of cake. Of course
we got one. We have a faint suspicion that a
baker could get iu his fine work here.
Princeton was downed last week by
Harvard. Now McCosh should get up on hie
hind legs and howl because of the fact that
Omega didn’t Capps new game.
Our fly man says there are many foul
tips that are not counted in the “ errors.” The
fly man came home with a bent dollar.
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GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
During tho engagement of the Madison Square
Company at McVicker’s Theatre, in Chicago, which
begins on June 7th. Mr. Palmer intends to produce
two of the new pieces that he has recently pur
chased from their authors in Paris and London.
One of these is “The Martyr,” by D’Ennery, and
the other is “ Jim, the Penman,” by Sir Charles
Young. Both have been brilliantly successful
across the Atlantic.
Thomas W. Keene begins his next starring tour
about October Ist in a Western city. He will be
supported by a good company and will again be
seen in his familiar repertory. Mr. Keene is in
good heath and is enjoying himself at Navesink
Beach.
Manager Murtha will produce Dion Boucicault’s
famous Irish drama, “ The Colleen Bawn,” at the
New Windsor Theatre, June 14th, with a fine cast
and unusually handsome scenery.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett is en route from San
Francisco to Cohasset, Mass., where he will pass the
Summer.
A syndicate of gentlemen has been formed in
this city and Brooklyn to superintend and direct
the forthcoming starring tour of Miss Alberta Gal*
latin, the Virginia beauty.
Miss Lillian Olcott makes her debut in this city
early in the Autumn. The theatre, a first class one,
has been secured and the young actress will come
before the theatre-goers of this city under unusual
ly favorable circumstances, and in a play that will
test her abilities fully.
Miss Helen Dauvray, in a contribution to the
Dramatic Monthly Review, thus refers to “ these our
actors” of the American stage:
“The actor makes the stage, and not the stage
the actor. We have the privilege of being born in a
country which, above all others, has the possibility
of producing good actors and actresses. We have
that mixture of races which gives the best material
for the growth of all the arts, and the art of the
stage especially. What is needed, then, to bring
our young artists to the front of their profession
and place America, histrionically, by the side, if
not at the head of other nations, is a thing that lies
within the power of us all—persistent application.
Let me first point out where, in my opinion, the
American stage is weakest. Talking once to Ludo
vicHalevy, whom I need scarcely particularize as
the author of,‘Frou-Frou,’ etc,, he said: ‘ln France
we lack, on the stage, clever men—never clever wo
men.’ I think that same assertion would apply
well to our country. It is the efficient jeune pre
mier who is remarkable on our stage by his absence.
For one clever young actor I can count you a score
ef clever young actresses; and this is not because
there is more histrionic talent inherent in our sex,
but simply because women are by nature more
persevering and painstaking than their brothers.
That is the secret of it all. Our young men want,
as a rule, application. They want earnestness after
the first step is acquired, and a continuity of seri
ous purpose. This leads inevitably to that most
fatal of all vices, affectation; and the cleverer the
maa tho quicker ths conclusion.”
Thh benzpit tendered to Mrs. Bartley Campbell
by the Elks and many of the personal friends of her
husband, and which occured at the Star Theatre
last week was, what it ought not to have been, a
dismal failure.
It is asserted that the receipts of the performance
did not exceed five hundred dollars. Here was a
case where a benefit was in place and worthy of
public favor and deserving of the largest success.
Its purpose was to aid the wife and children of a
playwright, who in his days of success, not only
paid to hundreds of professionals large salaries for
their services, but was himself unstinted in his
generosity to all who claimed his assistance, nnd
who, in his work as an author, has contributed
largely to the entertainment and enjoyment of the
play.going public in almost every city and town in
the Union.
Now that in the past two years in the vagaries of
an unsettled mind, fast verging into hopeless in
sanity, he has wasted the money he had made, and
with his property in the hands of a receiver, his
wife and her children appeal, through the agency
of his friends, for such immediate relief as might
be the outcome of a benefit.
And lo the result! A benefit, in which the re
ceipts ar? absorbed by tho expenses, and a woeful
lack of interest in tho affair, not only by members
of the profession, but by the public. When such
able-bodied individuals as Mr. Edwards, Mr.
Mackay and a dozen others wo might name, who
have boon season after season, without a break, in
the receipt of salaries larger, perhaps, than their
services were worth, unblushingly, hat in hand,
come forward as the recipients of complimentary
benefits, and smilingly pocket the thousands of dol
lars thus bestowed upon them by the public, is it
not pitiful that in this whole city full of play-goers
there was not more than a beggarly account of
empty seats for the benefit of this woman in the
supremo moment of her suffering and need.
Verily it is true that to those that hath much,
much shall bo given, and to those that hath noth
ing, nothing shall be their portion in abundance.
The generous public evidently left its generosity
at home, in its other vest pocket, on this occasion.
Miss Adelaide Fitz-Allan, Mlle. Rhea's leading
lady the present season, is arranging to make a
metropolitan debut this summer. The French
actress discovered Miss Fitz-Allan in Buffalo last
Fall, and immedialy secured her services for second
roles. Since that timo Mlle. Rhea has taken a
kindly interest in Miss Fitz-Allan, and made a com
panion of her. Up to the time (three years ago)
that Miss Fitz-Allan went upon the professional
boards, she was a great favorite in amatuer circles,
being a member of tho Komblo, Garrick and other
societies.
Miss Helen Dauvray has gone to San Francisco
on a brief business trip. In three weeks she will
sail for Paris, where she goes to visit her former
comrades of the Folies Dramatique, and to secure a
wardrobe for Mr. Bronson Howard’s new play,
which she will produce in this city December 13th,
at the Lyceum Theatre.
Mr. Jerome Eddy, the well 'known press repre
sentative of many notable combinations and stars,
whose palatial offices are at No. 21 East Fourteenth
street, has taken a new departure. He has put
the finishing touches to an original four act emo
tional drama which he has written especially for a
wealthy young society lady who is shortly to make
her debutatonoof the Broadway theatres. The hexo
of the drama known as Bromley, is a young man of
nerve, but exceedingly bashful in the presence of
ladies. The heroine is said to be an exceedingly
strong and effective character. Mr. Eddy has al
ready received the first payment of one thousand
dollars upon tho work. And still he isn’t proud, and
he saunters along the Morton House pavement as
carelessly as if he hadn't a cent in the world.
Wallack’s Theatre.—On Saturday
night week Colonel McOaull’s opera company made
its appearance for the first time in the production
of Edmond Audran’s recent opera, entitled "Ser
ment d’Amour.”
The performance on the first night, despite the
nervousness of one or two of the principals in the
cast, passed off smoothly, and was witnessed and
greeted with great favor by a large and critical au
dience. Of course De Wolf Hopper was not nerv
ous; neither was Bertha Ricci.
The music of "The Crowing Hen,” as the opera
Is here styled, does not possess the beauty and
charm of that which so won the public in •’ Oli
vette” and "The Mascotte.” Nevertheless, it is
light, bright and rhythmic in the flow of its num
bers. There is a sufficiency of humor in the libret
to, and the company did full justice to the work.
Hopper, asGauvadan, the major-domo, as a matter
of course, in all that he did, kept the audience in
one prolonged roar of laughter, and his topical
song discounted, in the grotosquerie of its deliv
ery, his former efforts in "Read the Answer in the
Stars.”
Madam Cottrelly as the Marquise wan the charac
ter itself in dress, inaction and method. Bertha
Ricci charmed tho audience in her interpretation of
the character of Bosetta, and Signor Perugini as the
Count Flavignac, was as handsome, gallant and
facinating as ever, so far as the opinion of the
female audience was concerned. Take it for all in
all the cast of this version of Audran’s work could
not have had a more satisfactory and evenly bal.
anced representation. The choruses were given
with precision, the orchestra did its work well.
Tho costumes, although not new, were showy and
appropriate, and all the appointments exhibited
that care and attention to detail which are the
marked characteristics of the productions brought
forward under tho management of Colonel McGaull.
The audiences were large during the past week.
Third Avenue Theatre.—Mr. John
A. Stevens made things lively on this stage, during
the past week, in the performance of his sensa
tional drama of "Passion’s Slave.”
The company, which had evidently been gath
ered at short notice into the toils of rehearsal, were
not at all " easy ” in the business and dialogue of
the several characters, and " John A.” was there
fore in the predicament of the Western cowboy
who, after getting into a fight with a " crowd,” was
deserted by his friends.
"And what did you do ?” asked one of tho party,
to whom he had related the story.
••Do—do? Well, I had to hump myself, an’ I jest
humped—you bet.”
Mr. Stevens being measurably compelled to carry
the play through without help, did it creditably.
To-morrow evening, and for the week, the attrac
tion will be the "Big Four,” who will repeat their
popular variety and minstrel specialties. As a mat
ter of course, such an entertainment—fitted as it
is for the present season—will attract and give
pleasure to numerous audiences.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Niblo’s Garden.—Miss Ada Gray
closed her engagement at this theatre last evening.
In a critical point of view her performance of the
dual role of Lady Isabel and Madam Vine cannot
ba considered as particularly brilliant, it does not
recall to the veteran playgoer any specially vivid re
membrance of Lucille Western’s impersonations of
these characters nor is it of a quality to enlist the
sympathy of the younger patrons of the theatre.
«»But’t’will serve”—and there's the end on’t.
To-morrow evening will be presented for the first
time upon the local stage a new English.melodrama,
in four acts, written by George Conquest and Henry
Peititt entitled " Bound to Succeed.” It is sensa
tional, realistic, and is said to be full of momentous
incidents, exciting action and picturesque effects.
The cast includes twenty-one characters. We trust
that it will fulfill the intent of its title. It is said to
have achieved a marked success in London.
Fifth Avenue Theatre.—‘'The Lit
tie Tycoon” appears to have been planted upon this
stage for the season. However, planted as it is, it
has grown greatly in public favor, and, as a conse
quence, the audiences have been up, so far as the
receipts are concerned, to the managerial standard.
Much of the success is due to the topical songs as
repeated by Mr. Robert Graham, the old Knicker
bocker of the opera.
The usual matinees will be given, and at each
one every lady visiting the theatre will be the
recipient of a handsome souvenir.
Bijou Opera House.—“ The Bridal
Trap” has made so marked a success that it is now
announced for indefinite repetition. The cast will
be strengthened on Monday evening by the addi
tion to it of Miss Gaillard, as the Marquise. Miss
Gaillard is an experienced actress and a cultivated
singer, and is expected to make a hit. Mr. Reed
has added a great deal of funny business and hu
morous lines to his part of the Steward, and it goes
more effectively with the audience every night.
Mr. Rosenfeld has added a number of clever verses
to his topical song, the accent on which Mr. Reed
sings in the last act. The opera is handsomely
staged and costumed, and the chorus sing their
numbers and do their marches with all the requi
site spirit and dash.
New Windsor Theatre. —To-morrow
night Atkinson’s Comedy Company will present
scenes in the everyday life of •‘Peck’s Bad Boy and
His Pa,” without plot, but with a purpose—to make
people laugh. This is the only .authorized version
of the celebrated and amusing Bad Boy sketches by
Lew Peck, the editor of Peck's Sun. The piece is
said to be full of fun and good music, and the fol-
I lowing will be in the cast:
• Henry Peck, the bad boy, Master Harry Brooks ;
Max Schultz, the grocery man, H. Crandall. The
views are laid in Milwaukee, at a well-known gro
cery, Mr. Peck’s house and at a picnic.
The People’s Theatre. —Messrs. Bar
ry and Fay closed their engagement last evening iu
the presence of a large and particularly enthusias
tic audience. Their week’s performances here have
been very prosperous.
At least Charlie Davis—we beg his pardon—Mr. J.
Charles Davis says that tho "standing room” chro
mos have been worn out by constant use. And J.C.
D. carries his little hatchet with him as a voucher
for the truth of anything he may say.
To-morrow evening the sensational local comedy
drama, entitled "Onoof the Bravest,” will be given
its first representation on this stage. The author
of the drama is E. E. Price. Mr. Charles C. McCar
thy, the Irish comedian, will impersonate one of
the leading characters in the cast, supported by Mr.
Cronin, formerly the side partner of Scanlan. Mr.
Cronin will delineate in this play the character of
tho typical Irish woman.
This work is essentially a fireman’s play. There
is in it a realistic fire scene, in which will bo seen
tho life lines, belts and blankets, and the scaling
ladders, such as are used by the New York fire de.
partment life-saving corps. The cast will be capa
bly represented. New scenery and appointments
will be in order. Matinees as usual.
The Casino.—Notwithstanding “Er
minia ’ is in the fifth week of its remarkably suc
cessful ran, the houses are still packed and few
seats remain unsold by eight o'clock each evening.
The comical antics of tho " shivering ” thief,
Cadeaux (Mr. Wilson), and his dignified partner,
Ravennes (Mr. Daboll), and the gushing humor of
the Dowager Princess (Miss Weathersby), are re
ceived nightly with roars of laughter; while the
"Lullaby,” as sung by Miss Hall and the "Good
Night” chorus aro redemanded, and the curtain
"rung up” three times each evening ou the charm
ing finale of act second.
Mr. Rudolph Aronson does not contemplate mak
ing a change at the Casino for some time to come.
Standard Theatre,—“A Tin Sol
diet,” whereof Mr. Charles Hoyt is tho special drill
sergeant, will continue his highly enjoyable maneu
vers, aided and abetted by the very exco'.lent com
pany in his following. The audiences during the
past week have been large, and on two or three
occasions the " standing room only ” chromo has
been seen in front of the box-office.
"A Tin Soldier" will be continued until further
notice. Matinees as usual.
Grand Opera House.—Mr. W. H.
Gillette and " Private Secretary ” attracted tho
usual profitable audiences which hold this theatro
in special regard during tho past week. For tho
present week, Mr. George C. Boniface, one of the
sterling actors of the old school, will make bis ap
pearance as Badger, in Boucicault’s familiar drama,
entitled "The Streets of New York.” Ho will be
supported by a capable company, and will, wo
trust, be heartily welcomed by the patrons of this
theatre. Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday,
s National Theatre.—To-morrow even
ing and for the week, Miss Mamie Wallace, who has
long been the popular leading lady of this theatre,
will come forward as a star. She will make her
appearance as Lady Isabel and Madame Vine, in
the well-known drama of " East Lynno.” She an
nounces that "in these characters she has no living
peer.” She will be supported by the leading mem
bers of the regular company.
Preceding the drama, the Variety Olio will in
clude among its chief features Mr. Frank Bush, the
imitator of the eccentric traits of Hebrew character;
Mlle. Zitella and Matt. Flynn, in their original
comedy sketch; Dewitt and Kirwin, in their musi
cal specialties; Miss Minnie Lee, tho vocalist; and
John Carroll, the topical singer.
Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Spe
cial concerts this afternoon and evening.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—And yet a
little while longer "Dan Sally’s Grocery ” will re
main open every evening and at the matinees on
Tuesday and Friday for tho enjoyment and health
of the patrons of this theatro. "Daddy Nolan,”
which is in rehearsal, will shortly succeed the
present popular attraction. And Dan is happy, for
the audiences thus far during hie occupancy have
been remunerative.
Lyceum Theatre.—This theatre was
closed for the season last evening, Mr, Mayo hav
ing concluded his fortnight’s engagement.
Various improvements in the house will ba be
gun at once, and during the Summer elaborate
stage preparations will be made for tho inaugura
tion of Miss Fortescue’s season in October. The
opening play, which has not yet been decided upon*
is to be a new one.
Kosteb and Bial’s Concerts,—The
second month of "Ixion” is proving as profitable'
to Koster and Bial as did the first. The name ot
"Ixion ” has been associated with success sinoe ittf<
first production in this country by the Lydia.
Thompson Troupe many years ago. Thia is a new*
version of the old story reset and reconstructed by
Press Eldridge, who has handled the work so that it'
is a new piece, full of catchy music, played by pret
ty women and funny comedians-, who introduce all
kinds of specialties. What mors can be demanded l ?'
Nothing. So " Ixion ” runs od and is in a fairway
to prosper for many weeks to come.
Theatre Comique (Harlem). —Mcln-
tyre and Heath’s Minstrels closed a fairly and suc
cessful engagement at this theatro last evening. -
Commencing to-morrow evening. Manager Hart
announces as his attraction tho appearance of Mr.
Milton Nobles in his sensational melodrama entL
tied " Love and Law.” This drama involves among
its characters a blackguard who is the rightful heir
of a lost estate; a grandchild, stolen by Italian
street singers, who succeeds to the estate;.a wealthy
lady, who, having married tho villain^.is under a
cloud, but yet anxious to do right; a witty Irish
lawyer, who, in the person of Mr. Nobles, brings all
this out of the darkness of crime into the light of
truth. Ho will be supported by Miss Dollie Nobles
and Messrs. Frank Aiken, J, W. Blaisdell and others
equally capable.
The New Central Park Garden.—
This musical enterprise gives every promise of
having a most successful season, and of gaining a
permanent place in public favor. Mr. Neundorff,
who is not only the musical director, but is the
founder of this plan of giving summer night con
certs, has organized and has under his control a large
and admirably selected combination of musicians,
capable of interpreting with artistic skill the works
of the leading composers. This orchestra has al
ready proved its capability in the presence of the
large audiences which have nightly been in attend
ance since the opening of the garden.
The programme for this and the remaining even
ings of the week is especially attractive in its vari
ety and the quality of the selections. Mr; Neun
dorff is a tireless worker, and deserves success in
this commendable effort.
Theiss’s Alhambra Court.—Manager
Theiss announces as one of the principal attractions
in his programme for the present week the appear
ance of Mr. Frederick N. Innis, the celebrated
trombone virtuoso, who will be heard for the first
time upon this stage this afternoon and evening at
the special concerts. The orchestra will give its.
usual series of popular selections. The favorite
ballad singers and specialists will also add to ths
enjoyment of the audiences at each performance.
Sans Souci. —The usual musical and
variety entertainments will bo given at this popu«
lar resort during the present week. The orchestra
will be heard at each performance in many new se
lections. It must be remembered that the Sans
Souci is never open on Sundays.
MAislcal and JL>ram.atio Items,
The late Marie Heilbron’s career re
minds Edmund Yates, of the Loudon World, of those fatal
arid strong-willed beauties whom Balzac loved to pa.nt.
Born in the back shop ot a Dutch Jew at Lyons somewhere
about 1850, Marie Heilbron died at the summit of her
artistic glory --the creator of two great roles, Manon and
Cleopatra, the possessor of many millions ot francs, and
bearer ot a noble name, for she was legitimately Vicoin
tesse de la Panouse. All her success, artistic, social and
pecuniary, Marie Heilbron owed to her extraordinary
When she first made her debut on the Parisian stage,,
in 1866, and again in 1871. she seemed to have but little
talent, and her beauty was not more than ordinary. She
became an artist by dint of perseverance, and beautiful
bv force oi will and studied refinement.
In 1877 she returned to Paris a consummate artist, and
having achieved the first place by her talent as well as
renown and fortune, she wished to add. rank to her other
conquests, and so in 1881 she married the Viscounts de-ht
Panouse, a brilliant lieutenant in the navy, member
of the Jockey Club and aide de camp ot Marshal Mac-
M Then began for the beautiful Jewess a period of splen
dor that ended tragically in the ruin ot her husband.
The krach of the Union Generale left the Viscount pen
niless, and yet seemed to enrich his wife. The Viscount
went to the Cape of Good Hope to try to earn money.
When he returned to France recently h:s wife offered
him a divorce, and to the end refused to seie him. What
strange romance underlies this separation t Marie Heil
bron won many admirers by her talent and her beauty,
but very few friends. She was not sympathet c for tho
reason that she lived only to satisfy her ambition.
“S. S. P. R.” is the title of a new
comedy, by Almy Legrand (Pierce) and Fred Marsden
in which the former will return to the stage, playing;
the leading role. It is a three-act affair, with music i
trimmings, and deals with the adventures of a young
Northerner who travels through the South disposing of
patent rights. Sydney Rosenfeld i M to write the lyrics.
In London, Eng., May 28, there was
sold at auction a miscellaneous wardrobe which once b*
longed to an eminent tragedian—James K Anderson.
The prices obtained were very insignificant. Fa stafPs
complete costumes went at eleven shillings, and Shy.
lock’s, including the scales, lor fifteen shillings, while
some ot them went as low as four shillings.
Milton Nobles is forty-five years old.
He began life as a hotel clerk, and was a’so a newspaper
reporter. He went on the stage in 1867, after some pre
liminary amateur experience, and ho launched "The
Phoenix” under the title of "Jim Bludsoe.” in 1875. The
play is taken from a blood-and-tlmuder serial by Alb-**
Aiken,