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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “DORIS’S FORTUNE.”
A LITTLE MAID OF LONG AGO.
MARY HOLT’S ENGAGEMENT
NOSES.
A SINGULAR INCIDENT.
SHRIMPS.
TWO BLOSSOMS.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Influence; “For Legislation On
ly;” From “Uncle John;” Obituary; XIII; Templar
Noles; Royal and Exalted Order ot the Amaranth;
N. M. S.; New York; Iowa; Letter from Washington;
Kentucky Masonic Widows’ and Orphans’ Home;
Japan; Personal: Relic of the Olden Time; Labor
Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE l
THE WATER FAY.
PLEADING FOR A FURLOUGH.
THE DOCTOR'S COURTSHIP.
A POCKET BATH-TUB.
HALF-MAD MONARCHS.
KIND TO ORPHANS.
TIT FOR TAT.
HR KEPT HIS OATH.
A $200,000 DICKER.
THE MOBILE RIFLES.
THE OLD ARM-CHAIR.
QUEER CHARLEY’S W F 3.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
YESTERDAY.
LORD LITTLEDALE'S LOVE.
OBLIGING A FRIEND.
HAS NO USE FOR KIDS.
COL. CORKHILL’S DUEL.
WASHINGTON TURNOUTS.
BRICK PAVEMENTS.
THE PATRON OF THE POOR.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
LOBSTER STORIES.
gote.s and Ciuem?.
Historicus.—We do not participate in
your sentiments with regard to the great French
Revolution of 1788. For whatever consequences
may have resulted to France from it politically, the
hational industry received an irresistible impulse,
which has carried her forward ever since in the
career of improvement. The coalition which de
prived the French of all external resources threw
them back upon their own. The effect was magical;
arts and manufactures sprang at once into no
feeble and infantine existence, but, like Minerva,
from Jupiter’s brain. This may be attributed, in a
great measure, to the subversion of one among
other usages inseparable from antiquated forms of
government—the selection of persons from every
other causa than merit to fill responsible and
arduous situations. Necessity reversed this pro
cedure in France; talent was cultivated, ability put
in universal requisition, and science, judiciously
employing what were apparently the most un
promising materials, almost instantaneously ren
dered the nation independent. Never did philoso
phy hold so exalted a rank as when she thus an
swered the call of patriotism. From that moment
to the present, works have issued from the French
press which developed new principles in every de
partment of science, and directed the application of
them, or suggested new processes to modify and
Improve such as were already known.
G» WtWi—Jsk We do nut w}iy
lhe Constitutional Convention adopted the 4th
of March as inauguration day for the President of
the United States. The question of the 4th of
March falling on Sunday haa nothing to do with
the matter, 2d. We have bad, since the inaugura
tion of George Washington, three 4ths of March
(which should have been inauguration days) fall on
Bunday. The first was in 1821. The oath of office
was taken the following day by President James
Monroe. The second time it happened was in 1849,
President Zachary Taylor taking the oath of office
on Monday, the 6th of March. The third and last
time was in 1877, when President Hayes was inaug
urated on Monday, March 6th.
A Victim. —The sins of the fathers
visit the children, just as the rivers flow into the
sea ; and they do not stop at the third and fourth
generation if they can go any farther. But what
does our correspondent mean by “ the sins of the
fathers?" We cannot tell his meaning. The vulgar
meanings of such sutdects are, in general, absurd ;
the true meaning lies under the surface, and you
must dig deep to find it. A farmer who does not
turn up the soil gets a poor crop, and a miner who
searches for treasure with the heel of bis boot will
never find a mine of great value. “Drink deep, or
taste not." What is sin ? Is wooly hair a sin ? Is
short stature a sin ? Is a Roman nose a sin ?
Bessie.—lst. Consult some work on
table etiquette or some old married lady friends. 2d.
The genuine apricot is a small, rapidly-growing
tree, attaining to the hight of twenty to thirty
feet, with a somewhat spreading bead, the leaves
heart-shaped, smooth and shining. The flowers are
usually white and appear before the leaves. The
Roman generals introduced it into Gaul and Brit
tain. There it seldom ripens its fruit unless trained
against a wall. In California vast quantities are
raised, of a large size aud fair quality, ripening be
fore the peach. 3d. All game is slightly tainted
before it reaches the stage known as high G.
o. W.—To clean windows and mirrors
tie up some finely powdered whiting in a small
f>iece of muslin. Daub it over the glass thorough*
y, |he dirtier the glass the more whiting will ad
hefe to it. Next smear it evenly with a damp rag, and
let it remain until perfectly dry. Then rub it off
with leather. This is an easy, clean and thorough
plan. If alcohol be used, instead of water, it will
dry in much less time and polishes the glass much
better. The corners of the window panes should
receive particular attention, they are too often left
dirty aud spoil the appearance of the window.
K. of li,—lst. The extreme length of
Long Island, from east to west, is 115 miles; the
extreme width, 23 miles; average width, about 14
miles. The area of the island is 1,682 square miles.
2d. The Catholic church forbids its members be
longing to any secret society. 3d, Staten Island in
length, from northeast to southwest, is 13 miles;
greatest breadth. 8 miles: area, 68>£ square miles.
4th. Manhattan Island is 13X miles long and varies
in width from a few hundred yards at the Battery,
to 2K miles at Fourteenth street. The area of the
island is nearly 22 square miles.
Tricky.—To accomplish the seeming
ly incredible act of putting an egg in a vial, re
quires the following preparation : You must take
an egg and soak it in vinegar and, in process of
time, its shell will become quite soft, so that it may
be extended lengthwise without breaking; then in
sert it into the neck ot a small bottle and. by pour
ing cold water upon it, it will resume its former
figure and hardness. This is really a complete
curiosity and baffles those who are not in the secret
to find out how it is accomplished.
Constant Reader. —Ist. “ A is pitch
ing and six balls are called on him, which entitles
the striker to his base. The catcher lets the sixth
ball pass him. In this case can the striker run to
second base, or must he only take his first base Y*
He oan make all the bases in his power. 2d. “ Please
name the pitcher who ranked first in the League
last year." Welch. 3d. We have no record of any
baseball player ever striking out twenty-seven
men in one League game.
F. R. L.—King Henry VIII. was led
to side with the Protestants by a quarrel with the
Pope, and many of the peculiarities of the Church
Of England are due to the fact that he cared much
more about asseiting his own supremacy in Eng
land than he cared about the doctrines of the Ref
ormation. There are many histories of the Refor
mation, and the leading events can be found in a
concise form in any history of England.
Wild S.—ln this country girls of six
teen and boys aged nineteen know no more about
the requirements of married life than a Terra
del Fuegan does of fine art. They should occupy
their time in storing their minds with knowledge
that will render them capable of making their way
in the world and let love-making alone until they
have arrived at years of discretion.
T. F.D.—lst. We are under the im
pression that Mr. Edward Eddy played “ Jack
Bhepard " at the New Bowery Theatre, while that
theatre was managed by James W. Lingard. But
neither the play nor the actor was of sufficient
consequence to be placed on record. 2d. The New
Bowery Theatre was destroyed by fire December 18,
1866.
Clara B. —For biliousness and acidity
Of the stomach, put one drachm of Turkey rhubarb
and half an ounce of carbonate of soda into a jug,
then pour into it half a pint of boiling water. Let
the mixture stand two hours, then strain. Take
half a wineglassful of this mixture night and morn
ing, which continue till the remedy is effected.
A. R. P.—The proper name of the
gentleman is Charles Stewart Parnell. He was born
in 1846. Mr. Parnell was christened after his grand
father, Admiral Charles Stewart, who was lovingly
known to the American people as “Old Ironsides."
Admiral Stewart was one of the most gallant sea
men America has produced.
Tremont.—The fastest time of a sail
ing vessel from York to Liverpool was made by
ths •• Red Jacket," Oapt. A. Eldridge. The time
was 13 days, 1 hour and 25 minutes. The ship
sailed at 7 A. M., January 11, and arrived January
24,1854. The time was computed from Sandy Hook
to barat Liverpool.
Ignorant.—Split lips arise from so
many causes that it is difficult to tell you what to
do. It may proceed from a bad state of health, in
which case it wiM not heal without medicine and
care in your diet; if it is only local and produced
by cold, a little vaseline, applied frequently, should
be sufficient.
G. B.—“ Not having been able to re
turn," or “ not being able to return," are both cor
rect, indicating different periods of time. Name
the person addressed before the person referred to;
and as the wife bears the husband’s name, when
you mention both, say Mr. and Mrs., and not Mrs.
and Mr.
W. W.—lst. “How many innings
constitute a game of baseball ?’’ Nine innings. 2d.
“ If, at the ending of the ninth inning, both clubs
have made the same number of runs, can the um
pire order the game to proceed to a finish without
consulting the captains ?" He can.
L. D. W.—You cannot protect your
self unless you patent your new invention. If you
are too to do this yourself, you may be able to
associate yourself with some person of capital, who
will undertake to bring out the invention for you.
Citizen. —There are so many books
on those subjects that it would be impossible to
name the best. Call at McHale, Rhode & Co.’s, No.
9 Gourtlandt street.
Reader.—“ In a two-handed game of
bi node A had 999, taking the last trick, and he then
molded 40 trumps and called out." A was out.
Frank.— The 75,000 volunteers asked
for by President Lincoln inJlß6l, were called out for
three months.
Dentist.—Helen Jewett was murdered
about midnight, April 9, 1836, at No. 41 Thomas
street.
Nickel.—There is no premium upon
the Uve-cent pieces without the word “cents" upon
the a.
Grateful.— Was the late John Kelly
a Freamason ? He was not.
J. H. H.—To “beat the deck” is the
proper expression.
fltto fhirk
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THE MORRISON RESOLUTION.
The Democratic party haa broken in the mid
dle. It is a house divided against itself; or,
rather against its own representative in the
White House. The passage of the Morrison
resolution, by an overwhelming majority, is a
direct vote of want of confidence in the admin
istration ot President Cleveland and his Cabinet
and a sharp rebuke to Secretary Manning and
his management of the Treasury. The resolu
tion also goes behind Cleveland and Manning
and censures the Sage of Greystone, Uncle
Sammy Tilden, who is supposed to direct the
financial policy of the administration. The op
ponents of the resolution hope that it will bo
negatived in the Senate ; but this expectation is
absurd. The sama combination of Southern
and Western Democrats which voted with the
Republicans in the House, will carry the reso
lution through the Seuate as triumphantly.
Then it is said that President Cleveland will
veto the resolution. Well, it can be passed over
his veto. But if he should veto it ho will put
himself in open opposition to the majority of
his own party and become a second Andy John
son.
We do not wonder that the Morrison resolu
tion has been a bombshell in the camp of the
Tilden clique and the Mugwumps. They are
scared out of their wits by it. They are so
frightened that they do not know how to dis
cuss the subject. The majority for it in the
House was a complete surprise to' them,
and they are still more astonished when
they see how easy it is to figure out an equally
decisive majority in the Senate. They try to
shut their eyes to the tact that the resolution is
so popular in Congress because the people are
in favor of it. Such cranks as Abram S. Hew
itt, who always squeals when Uncle Sammy
Tiden’s toes are trodden upon, misrepresents
the vote as a coalition of the West and South
against the East. He did everything he could
to cause such a coalition by one of the most in
temperate and ill-advised speeches ever deliv
ered at Washington. He deliberately claimed
that the financiers of New York have a divine
right to dictate the policy of the National Treas
ury. “The best brains of the country go to
New York,” said Mr. Hewitt—a statement
which may appear to be true when we recollect
that Mr. Hewett lives and does business in
New Jersey. “It is the headquarters of the
financial ability of this Continent,” continued
Mr. Hewitt, “ and, as you send for a doctor
when you are sick, so you must send for a
New Yorker when yon want to know anything
about finance.” The House laughed at him
and decided not to send for a New York dbetor,
but to apply the simple sticking plaster of the
Morrison resolution forthwith.
Now, what is this resolution which a majority
of both Republicans and Democrats favor, and
which only the personal adherents of Cleve
land, Manning and Tilden oppose ? It merely
orders that the surplus cash in the treasury
shall be devoted to the payment of the public
debt. Is there anything alarming in that? Is
it anything to be scared at ? The public debt
ought to be paid and we have the money to pay
it lying idle in the treasury vaults. As long as
the debt remains unpaid a thousand millions of
dollars of capital are exempted from their just
share ot taxation. It continues in office a vast
army of clerks to take care of the surplus and
pay ont the interest upon bonds. It cramps
tl • industry of the people by onerous and un
necessary interest, by revenue taxes which pro
duce more money than the government knows
what to do with, and by prohibiting many capa
ble men from engaging in the legitimate indus
tries ot the country. Pay it off and we get rid
of interest, taxes and the salaries of interest
computers and tax collectors. What would be
thought of a man who went on paying interest
upon his debts when bis pockets were overflow
ing with money ? Of course, the wealthy bond
holders, represented by cranky Hewitt and
little Perry Belmont, are opposed to the Mor
rison resolution, but the people endorse it;
their representatives have voted for it almost
unanimously, and there will be an end, not only
of Mr. Cleveland, but of the Democratic party,
if a Presidential veto is interposed to thwart the
people’s right to do as they please with their
own surplus cash.
SUMMER POLITICS.
Now is the time when piazza conventions are
usually held at Saratoga, Long Branch, New
port and the thousand and one seaside and
country hotels. Now is the time when the lead
ers of parties meet, as if by accident, and settle
nominations, arrangs deals and test the wires
which they are going to pull in the Autumn.
Other people go to thq Summer resorte to
bathe, drive, drink the waters, flirt, dance,
make love and get married; but the politicians
of the old school mingle businese with pleasure
and fix things by personal consultations while
they are enjoying the fresh air, the sunshine
and the scenery. The slates for the various
offices are now being made up, and it is not too
much to say that our future officials are being
selected by the men in straw hats and flannel
suits who seem to be quietly smoking and chat
ting on various verandas. The conventional
ceremony ot an election will have to be gone
through in the Autumn; but the people cannot
vote for candidates who are not nominated, and
the nominations are being settled during the
Summer in rural arm-chairs, over cooling bev
erages.
The only disturbance of this old-fashioned
American manner of conducting political busi
ness is the Civil Service craze. The managers
are no longer certain as to the workers upon
whom they may depend to carry out their plans.
The Custom House used to be a tower of
strength with them, and as the Cnetom House
went so went the district, the State and the
Union generally. But now the Civil Service
Examiners are investigating the Custom House,
and although Collector Hedden has put his de
pendents upon the committee and whitewashed
himself all over, there ie no knowing how the
report of his proceedings will be received at
Washington. Then here is a special pronuncia
miento of the President threatening to cut off
the heads of any postmasters or other govern
ment officials who shall take a prominent part
in politics, run a convention, edit a partisan
paper or collect funds to bring out the party
vote. It is useless to make plans on a piazza if
nobody is to be allowed to carry them out, and
if those who concoct them are not to be allowed
to benefit by them when victory is won and the
officee have to be distributed. No wonder that
the air around the Summer hotels is blue with
curses, as well as cigar-smoke, and that the
best wish expressed in regard to Cleveland is
that he had never been born.
We have never taken much stock in the Sum
mer machinery of politics ; but we confess that
we feel a sympathy for the machine managers
who are cramped and crippled by the Civil Ser
vice humbug. If it meant anything practical,
they might get used to it and employ it in poli
tics ; but it is just one of those idiocies which,
like the East wind, do nobody any good. In a
free country it is absurd that an aristocracy of
officeholders should be created. In a country
which has barred out the Chinese it is ridicu
lous that the Chinese system of selecting offi
cials should be seriously adopted. To put a
man into a place, not because he is fit for it or
has ability, industry and experience, but be
cause he can answer a cert-vn nnm'er ot ques
tions in ancient history, and to Keen bim in ’lie
place, not because ho doew th- u.iik ««;l, om
I because no><dy a .., ,• L :. ~i -
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JULY 18, 1886.
this is the vaunted Civil Service system, and no
wonder that everybody is disgusted with it.
For once the veteran political managers on the
hotel verandahs are in accord with the people,
and they will not have to wait long before the
Fat Boy in the White House and his lunatic
mugwumps will play themselves out complete
ly- f
WRONG AND UNJUST.
The workingmen know that the Dispatch has
sustained them in most of their strikes to the
utmost of its ability. It looked upon the boy
cott of Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Landgraff as peurile
and babyish. But that of the Third avenue
road was right, and received our approval and
that of the great majority of workingmen. But
there is a half-way boycott now going on which
we consider wrong and unjust. Mr. Ehret
supplies Mr. Theiss with beer. He and Theiss
are intimate. When the Carl Salm Society boy
cotted Theiss, Mr. Ehret did his utmost to set
tle the difficulty. When the men were put on
trial, through no exertion on the part of either
Mr. Theiss or Mr. Ehret, the latter gentleman
was called as a witness by the lawyers for the
men on trial. If those lawyers were so incom
petent that they did not know the proper ques
tions to ask Mr. Ehret, is ho to be blamed ?
From all wo know of George Ehret, we are
convinced that he is a man of the kindliest and
most generous instincts. He is a wealthy man,
but we know that he Is as plain in his manners
to-day as ho vras when he first engaged in
brewing with but a tew dollars in his pockets.
As the boycott of Ehret's lager beer is unjust,
those having the authority should raise it st
once. An error like the present one is more
injurious to the workingmen than to the boy
cotted person.
Otorial SWs.
She Would and She Wouldn’t. —
The old comedies are ever new, and, like his
tory, constantly repeat themselves. Mrs. Henry
Randolph, of Newark, N. J., loved, not wisely
but too well, the gay aud dashing Henry Soisco,
and agreed to leave her husband's bed and
board and elope with her affinity. So she
packed her trunk and sent it to the depot, and
then sat down to try to remember whether she
had forgotten anything beside her marriage
vows. Being a woman, she changed her mind
as she reflected, and did not go to the depot to
join the gallant Scieco. He waited for her, and,
failing to secure the woman, took possession of
the trunk. Then Mrs. Randolph told her hus
band the whole story, and, instead of fighting a
duel with Soisco or shooting him on sight, he
had the eloper arrested for stealing Mrs. Ran
dolph’s wearing apparel. The remedy, although
simple, was effectual. Alter a night in jail,
Soisco declared that there was no feminine liv
ing for whom he would sacrifice his liberty, and
Mrs. Randolph asserted that there was no man
alive for whom she would give up her trunk.
There is no moral to this true tale, except that
married ladies should sit down and think things
over before they flee from their loving lords.
But Newark, N. J., is now the scene of a new
honeymoon.
A Real Romance.—The imagination
of the most audacious of French romancers
never conceived of a double suicide so remark
able as that of Adrian and Lucie Crucy, of
Lexington avenue. They were well-to-do, re
spectable people, of matuie age ; the man in a
lucrative business down-town, the woman de
voted to their bright and pleasant home. On
the Fourth of July they went to the cemetery
to decorate the graves of their relatives, and it
is supposed that Mr. Crucy had a slight sun
stroke. He felt ill, and his physician ordered
him to refrain from business for a week or two.
Thereupon both the brother and sister seem to
have become insane for fear of poverty. They
determined to commit suicide together, and
made all their arrangements most methodic
ally. The coroner's jury pronounced them
temporarily insane ; but the authorities of the
Catholic Church, taking note of the prepara
tions which they had made for death, denied
them the funereal rites. Were they mad, or
were they simply tired of life ? If people so
circumstanced can suddenly lose their reason
and take their own lives, who of us can feel
safe ? There is a mystery about this double
sucide that has not yet been disclosed, and for
years it will remain one of the puzzles of the
period.
New Treaty With England.—The
cable reports that a new extradition treaty be
tween the United States and England has been
made and signed by our Minister at the Court
ot St. James. It should be very carefully scru
tinized before being accepted by the Senate. On
our side the reason for a new treaty is that we
went to get hold of the defaulters and other
scoundrels who flee to Canada and live there
upon our stolen funds. But, on the side of Eng
land, there is no motive for a new treaty except
the desire of the British Government to extra
dite the Irishmen who have fled from tyranny
and oppreseion and are accused of plotting in
this country to free Ireland. To exchange pat
riots for defaulters is not the policy of the
United States. The surrender of one Irieh em
igrant on the ground ot a political crime would
be altogether too high a price to pay for the re
turn of the criminal colony in Canada. Now
that the British Government has fallen into the
hands of the Tories, who are pledged to coerce
Ireland and stamp out freedom, we cannot be
too careful in weighing every provision of the
proposed extradition treaty lest we should be
entrapped into surrendering principles which
are vital to our liberties and independence.
Contempt of Court.—ls there any
more flagrant contempt ot court than announc
ing in a newspaper the decision of the Judges,
in advance of its delivery, and then comment
ing upon this supposed decision editorially,
approving it or denouncing it, according to the
views of the writer? Not only are the judges
made ridiculous by the premature and unau
thorized publication of their opinions, or of
what is said to be their opinions, but the parties
to the suit are greatly prejudiced. Apply these
principles to the rumors which have been
printed in the World, as to the verdict of the
Court of Appeals in the Jaehne case, and there
seems to have been an outrageous contempt
committed. It has been represented that
Jaehne will be released ; his friends have eulo
gized the judges for freeing him ; some papers
have abused the court for arriving at such a
decision ; the case has been tried over again in
print, and the first mutterings of a storm of
reprobation against District Attorney Martine
have been heard. This is all wrong, and ought
to be prevented, either by the good sense of re
sponsible editors, or by the punishment of reck
less and irresponsible Bohemian journalists.
Intemperate Temperance.—lt would
seem that prohibition is gaining a very strong
following in Georgia, among|people of all kinds
and classes. The question is being taken up,
discussed, and pushed forward with great vigor.
It is catching both pulpit and platform, and
Georgia seems bent on having a temperance
revival of its own. Temperance, of course, is
an excellent thing, and the wider it spreads the
better for the physical, moral and material con
dition of people generally. There is such a
thing, however, as a temperance that is intem
perate, that is too exacting and tyrannical, thus
defeating the excellent end that the movement
has in view. Moral suasion is better than
absolute coercion in matters of this kind. It is
hard to whip a State into sobriety, and in places
where the severest prohibition laws prevail will
often be found more drunkenness than else
where. There alwavs comes reaction after too
tight a pulL
Carrying It Too Fab.—A mischiev
ous crowd at Grand Forks, Dakota Territory,
enjoyed themselves in a very unique manner
some days ago. They decided that they would
scare a young laborer of that section who had
unwittingly fallen in love with a farmer’s wife,
and they hanged the young fellow to a limb of
a tree. With wild delight they enjoyed the fun
amazingly—so much so that they let him hang
a minute or two too long, and when they cut
him down the young man was beyond the
power of accepting their apologies. His mur
i de: era recognized that the joke was turned on
Uioin, aud they good-naturedly decided to give
the u i ortunate a handsome coffin.
One Day’s Crimes. —The daily press
on Thursday last gave to its readers the details
of one day's crimes throughout the country
which by no means is encouraging to the aver
age moralist. A desperate character known as
Jim Allen killed a man at Carthage, Mo., and
then fled to Arcadia, Kan. When a detective
attempted to arrest him ho resisted and was
shot dead in consequence. The desperate
deeds and hardened crimes of Steve Renfro, of
Alabama, would fill a volume. This desperado
escaped from prison recently and on Wednes
day was caught near Enterprise, Miss., and
lodged in jail. An hour afterward he was taken
out by masked men and hanged to a tree. A
tramp on Wednesday last was endeavoring to
pawn his underclothes in Philadelphia, when a
detective suspected something and arrested the
man. It was soon found that the man was no
other than James J. Mason, of New Orleans,
who a year ago had collected $30,000 for the
Chaflee Brothers in Central America and spent
the money in speculation and high living. It
was supposed that Mason had been robbed and
murdered in Central America. The Rev. John
Lakey and his son were literally hacked to
pieces at Fayetteville, Ark., by a farmer who
objected to Lakey trespassing upon his prop
erty.
The French Refugees.—The Herald,
which is apparently becoming a monarchical pa
per, with Lord Bennett as its editor and pro
prietor, says: “ Our correspondent sends by ca
ble an account of the simple and undemonstra
tive reception of the Duo D’Aumale and the
Due de Chartres at Brussels.” This is a more
juggling with words. The Duo D’Aumale and
the Duo de Chartres had no reception whatever
at Brussels, as the Herald’s own report ehows.
Not a single person awaited them at the railway
station, except the friends who had preceded
them from Paris; there was not a single cheer
as they drove to their hotel, and they dined at
the table d’hote, like any other unimportant
personages. Accused of being conspirators
against the French Republic, on behalf of an
obsolete monarchy, they have been exiled from
France. Whether the act was a wise one or
not, time alone can tell. But the treatment of
the French princes looks as though the Gov
ernment of France did not have confidence in
the stability of the Republic.
Lawyers’ Talk.—Judge Gildersleevo
recently made peace between a couple of angry
attorneys with this sage remark: “The state
ments made by one lawyer against another are
not matters at which any lawyer should take
offence.” This is a judicial utterance of which
all laymen will approve, but it is not at all
complimentary to the legal protession. Law
yers are paid to talk; they talk a great deal too
much, and if the statements they make about
each other are so utterly baseless and trivial
that no lawyer ought to take offence at them,
why should the jurors and the outsiders pay
any attention to such verbiage ?
They Wouldn't Have It. —Whatever
may be thought of Cleveland in other sections
of the country, the residents of Bellaire, Ohio,
don’t take any stock whatever in the Chief
Magistrate. There was a Democratic State Con
vention there on Wednesday last, and when the
chairman referred to Mr. Cleveland as having
the patriotism of Washington, the courage of
Jackson, and being as true as the coin of the
realm, somebody in the audience told the chair
man “to drop o i himself,” and when he didn’t
take the hint, the speaker’e sentiments about
Cleveland were loudly hissed.
Popularity Deserved.—There is no
magazine published which is more popular
with women than “ The Young Ladies* Jour
nal,” and it well deserves its popularity. It is
excellently edited, the storiee are interesting
and pure, and each number is accompanied by
an enormous fashion supplement. The August
number is now on sale.
and (EnO.
•W ~ SB ST W
ONE LETTER.
Mv Own Dear Min—We have arrived here in
the Catskills safe and sound, and we are hav
ing, oh, such a glorious time. It is just too
glorious for anything I
You can't imagine what nice young men there
are here, and we have picnics and excursions
every day.
I have already received three offers of mar
riage, but have refused all of them because, you
know, we promised each other that we should
be married together.
How I do wish that you were here and then
we would fulfill our mutual promise right
straight away.
We went fishing yesterday and I had such a
fright. I was sitting on the bank of a brook
catching a thirty-pound trout in a scap net (I
think they call it) when one of the speckled beau
ties got up my sleeve aud wriggled around. I
screamed, and would have fainted, had it not
been for Percy St. Armand, who blushingly
pulled it down.
I thought I should have died. It was most as
big as a whale.
We take a walk to Niagara Falls nearly every
evening.
Niagara Falls is only a short walk from here
and it is so pleasant.
I have never seen anything to approach the
falls in beauty, except, perhaps, the falls on the
Passaic river.
I suppose that you are sweltering in the heat
at home, and oh ! how I do pity you.
I wish that you would drop in upon us. ,
Cold ! It has been so cold here that we have
been compelled to sleep under blankets every
night and have grate fires in the room by day.
We have to change our dresses half a dozen
times a day. It is terribly laborious. Shouldn’t
you think so? Of course you can’t imagine
what a trouble it is, as you have never been
further away from home than Yaphank, L. 1.,
but maybe some time you can prevail upon
your father to bring you here.
You don’t know how tanned I am getting.
All the young fellows say that I am as brown as
a berry and that it enhances my style of beauty.
But here comes Algernon De Yere with his
pony phaeton, and I suppose I must go out to
ride with him, as I promised him yesterday that
I would. He is worth several millions of dol
lars, and I want to have the fun of having him
propose.
Be a good, dear girl until I see you.
Don’t write, as we may leave here any day for
a trip to the Million Islands.
Yours, affectionately, Jen.
THE OTHER LETTER.
Mv Darling Jen:—Your letter has just been
forwarded to me up here in the Adirondacks
and you don’t know how I was surprised to
hear that you had gone to the Catskills, as the
neighbors all said that you were spending the
Summer in Hoboken.
Talk about style !
I really and truly never saw anything like it
in my life, and as for proposals ! oh, my !
Remembering our mutual promise, I have
refused any number of counts and dukes. I
came very near succumbing, however, to a
German Prince, but thought of the promise just
in the nick of time.
Poor fellow I I felt sorry for him ! He actu
ally cried I
He owns several large estates on the contin
ent and has an inocme of a million pounds a
week.
So you see how much I love you.
It is one round of pleasure from morning to
night, and 1 have to stay in my room half the
time to keep the horrid blue-blooders from
throwing themselves at my feet.
Sorry to hear that you are “ as brown as a
berry.” It isn’t fashionable this year and I
never go out without a double-lined parasol,
which one of my maids holds over my head.
It is excruciatingly cold here too. Last even
ing we actually had to sleep under a feather
bed. It is the only thing that will prevent a
long sojourn here.
We make frequent trips, before breakfast, to
Newport and Saratoga. Only a trifling distance,
and we return with such appetites !
So you are going to the Million Islands? How
I wish I was going with you I But then it
would be impossible, for during the latter part
of the week Count Goway is to take a party ot
us in his yacht to the Billion Islands. We are
to be absent three weeks.
Don t write, aa • \»*t»r would never reach
mo. On August Iwa start for Europe in the
count’s yacht. A thousand kisses from Min.
[Note.—Min and Jen reside at Nos. 1346 and
1448 Blank avenue in this city, and neither has
been out of her bed-room since her trunks
were carried to the storehouse. Their old men
are broke, and their mammas are endeavoring
to keep up appearances. 0. and E.]
SMALL CHANGE.
Nearly every man in Kansas is a
physician since the prohibition movement origi
nated. Tarantula juice has beeen discovered
to be a remedy for every ailment that flesh is
heir to, and all manner ot citizens meet on the
street corners, look at each other’s tongues, feel
each other’s pulses and then swap prescriptions.
The whole State looks as if it was shaking
hands and endeavoring to turn itself inside
out.
Skinsinnaughty is getting to be a
great place. When they can’t wipe out a visit
ing club by fair means and the umpire, they
wipe out the visiting club and the umpire by
means of beer-glasses. The “ boys” wouldn’t
mind it so much it the beer-glasses were loaded;
but when empty glasses are used, the effect is
not only heartrending, but heartrending in the
extreme.
John Chinaman has discovered a new
source of amusement. He arranges sparrow
mains and goes over to Jersey to pit the spar
rows against each other. We don’t know what
ohance one sparrow can stand against another,
but if he’ll try sparrow versus cat, we’ll bet on
the sparrow every trip and begin to get ready
to make our annual visit to the queen.
An up-town woman owns and cares
for twenty-five cats. We haven’t heard the
true reason for this bit of eccentricity, but, if
anybody is going to sell pools in the matter, we
don’t mind wagering a small amount that she
is about to get married, and is doing a little
rehearsing in anticipation of the usual “ been
down to the club” lie.
Legislators Glover, of Missouri, and
Lowry, of Indiana, recently had a little picnic
in the House and called each other liars and
blackguards. We don’t mean to endeavor to
say that either is a liar, but for fear ot making a
mistake, wo will give them the benefit of the
doubt and believe the “ blackguard” portion of
the impeachment.
An anaconda, said to be twenty-six
feet long, has escaped from a Coney Island mu
seum, and is now roaming somewhere along the
beach. The reporters are sitting upon the
fences and the first one that reports that Anna
has cleared out the West End fakirs will be
presented with a vote of thanks and a schooner
of froth.
The captain of the “ Circassian,” who
has just completed an Eastern voyage, asserts
that he counted thirty-eight icebergs on the
trip. That accounts tor the hot weather we
have just passed through—or that has just
passed through us. The icebergs must have
sweat fearfully in endeavoring to out-lie the
captain.
John Ruskin states, gratefully, that
“he owes more to the cab-drivers than to any
other people in the world.” That’s just the
case with us, but then the debts were contract
ed when the cabs were built with big back
windows, and as it was after dark and the cab
man couldn’t recognize us, we think we’ll repu
diate.
The president and cashier of a Ne
braska bank has now skipped with SIOO,OOO. If
depositors will persist in permitting a man to
be both president and cashier of a bank, they
deserve to be fleeced. But then, perhaps it is
better; for only one family is left desolate, and
only one Sunday school is temporarily crippled.
Vennor is at it again, and predicts a
big storm that will sweep half our coast into
kingdom come. If the storm really comes, and
if Vennor could only arrange It so that he could
be at the scene of the disaster, we’d erect a
monument to his memory, even if we couldn’t
find enough of him to plant under it.
The telegraph announces that the
thermometer in some portions of Kansas stood
at 107 in the shade on Wednesday last. “The
Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,”
and maybe the Lord is taking pity on the Kan
sas folks, and wants to accustom them to the
Hereafter.
The congregation of the Sands Street
M. E. Church, Brooklyn, object to having a gin
mill on their corner. There are enough gin
mills in Brooklyn now, Heaven knows; but
maybe the whole matter could be settled if the
deacons could be furnished with commutation
tickets.
A Blufton, Ohio, bank was entered
by burglars the other night, and the cashier is
under suspicion and arrest. This is an entire
ly new way lor a cashier to work a bank; bnt
maybe the president always remained awake
all day, and that they watched each other too
closely.
Those Canadians had better drop it
and run. They are now accused of ill-treating
their Yankee captives. If they are not careful
we’ll forgive every absconding thief, present
them with free pardons, bring them home and
burst up the whole blooming Canadian institu
tion.
Somebody has been imposing upon
Buddonsiek's family by fleecing them out of
money for the avowed purpose of liberating
Bud. Who knows, now, but that Buddensiek
was also imposed upon, and that somebody
slapped those houses up when he wasn’t look
ing?
A Massachusetts Yankee has patent
ed a process by which a person can see around
a corner. This will be an excellent thing for a
man who has a large number of creditors—pro
viding the creditors don’t hear ot it and get up
a corner in the machines. Then we are all lost.
Ben Butler announces that he wont
run for Congress this year, for the reason that
Congressmen are compelled to work too hard.
Ben must mean with their jaws, and wo have
never heard that Ben had ever been troubled
with even an incipient attack of the lockjaw.
A learned scientist, an officer in the
United States army, has discoved a new brand
of mosquito, larger and more venomous than
any heretofore discovered, He probably dis
covered it while endeavoring to play the gov
ernment for a suoker with a long bill.
Several shaky buildings have recent
ly tumbled down in the city. The authorities
needn't hunt for crooked architects or builders.
Let them just ascertain if there isn’t a meeting
room of volunteer firemen in the locality and
apply the remedy.
Miss Cleveland’s book, " The Long
Run,” is promised a big run. We haven’t seen
it yet, and are therefore unable to state wheth
er it refers to a run for the Presidency or has a
lingering and humorous reference to the green
apple season.
A band of one hundred Greek gypsies
is now on its way to New York, supposably for
the purpose of exhibiting here. As soon as
they land the Fire Department should be sent
down to Castle Garden, and be given full
power.
A local mob, on Wednesday last, at
tacked a gang of dog-catchers and liberated a
score or more of canines. The only people who
applauded the act were a number of bologna
and liverwurst dealers of the surround.
Our army is after Geronimo yet, but
Geronimo manages to dodge out of the way. If
the government would shake off a little of its
penuriousness and purchase a bicycle for the
army the chase would soon be ended.
Babon db Worms has obtained a di
vorce from his wife. The Baron has had a
heap of trouble in his domestic relations.
Maybe it was the name. A little catnip tea
might have saved the whole trouble.
At Albany’s Bi-Centennial there is to
be a re-union of all the ex-members of the Leg
islature. The native Albanians will probably
take to the woods and permit the legislators to
have the whole town to themselves.
Joaquin Miller has officially an
nounced that.he wont write any more poetry. It
is strange, but it seems to us that Joaquin had
taken that nledge in his early yoaih and bad
stuck co it lit I a little man.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
What transparent rubbish is this paragraphing,
from one end of the country to another, that
Madame Janisb has a play “ written for her by
Sardou.” Sardou doesn't run a mill which grinds
out plays to order at the rate of one a week. It is
now in order for Lena Aberle to turn up with a play
“written expressly for her by Sardou.” Anyhow,
why not give poor Sardou a rest and tackle Alexan
dre Dumas or, say—mine ancient—M. D’Ennery.
Lillian Lewis stars next season in “ Odette,”
opening September 6th in Syracuse, N. Y. She has
had an entire new second act written and will ap
pear in a “Sappho’’ dress, which is likely to create
a sensation. During the play Miss Lewis will fight
a duel with rapiers, and is now taking fencing les
sons of a retired English army officer.
Miss Rose Coghlan will not be seen as “Our
Joan” next season. She wHI appear in “School for
Scandal,” “Masks and Faces,” “London Assurance,”
“The Lady of Lyons,” “Much Ado About Nothing,”
“As You Like It” and “Macbeth.”
Miss Marie Prescott will star next season in
“Pygmalion and Galatea,” “As You Like It,”
“Czaka,” “Twelfth Night,” “Meg Merrillos” and
“Romeo and Juliet.” R. D. McLean will bo the
leading man of the company.
Paul Nicholson will have the manage inent of
the starring tour of Henry E. Walton next season.
The Australian-English actor will be seen in “ The
Cuckoo,” that had a run of two hundred nights in
Melbourne and Sydney. The season begins in
August. z
On Friday morning last our esteemed and always
bright contemporary, the Sun, published as news,
the marriage of Manager Gilmore, of Niblo’s Gar
den. Barring the fact that the Dispatch of July 4th
contained an account of this matrimonial event,
the Sun’s record is correct. It shines for all.
A well known theatrical manager of this city
recently made a visit to Cape May. He wfts asked
to drive over to Cape May Point to see the light
house there, but declined the invitation, on the
ground that “he had seen enough light houses
during the past Winter to satisfy him for the rest
of his life.”
The flow of visitors to the American Exchange,
No. 449 Strand, somewhat impeded the progress of
the alterations and improvements Mr. Henry F.
Gillig, the general manager, has added to the favor
ite resort of Americans in London. But the work
is now nearly completed, and the improvements
make the building the handsomest within eyeshot
of Charing Cross. The Exchange continues the
rendezvous of American tourists and actors, as
well as travelers generally, where Mr. Gillig, Mr.
Hobart, Mr, Tozer. Mr. Glanvill and Mr. Hamilton
make Americans feel at home. There is no institu
tion in Europe more worthy of American patron*
age.
Manager J. Charles Davis has filled about two
thirds of the initial season at the new Hoboken (N.
J.) Theatre, and with first-class attractions. Lester
Wallack, Kate Claxton, Osmond Tearle. “Bunch of
Keys,” “Hoodman Blind,” «• Silver King,” “Zitka,”
”Rag Baby,” “Blackmail.” E. K. Collier. John A.
Stevens and “ Wages of Sin ” are among the com
panies booked.
Miss Helen Dauvray sails from Liverpool for
New York, August 14th, reaching here about the
20th of that month. She brings back with her an
extensive wardrobe and completely restored health.
Rehearsals of “One of Our Girls ” will begin abont
September Ist, and a brief tour of the principal
cities will be commenced at the Park Theatre, Bos
ton, September 27.
Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, is at the At
lantic Highlands of New Jersey, where he is famil*
iarly known as the “ Skipper of Navesink Beach.”
He is the happy owner of a yacht, in which he sails
the ocean blue and is getting on an Othello com
plexion for his next tour. Strictly speaking, Mr.
Keene is in splendid form and in good condition for
his next starring tour.
Miss Rose Coghlan is enjoying her vacation at
her farm on the Hudson river; divides her time
between planting morning glories, driving and
reading up the parts that will constitute her reper
toire for next season. Miss Coghlan will play a
three weeks* engagement at the Union Square The*
atre, during which she will be seen Id “Twelfth
Night,” “The School for Scandal,” “Masks and
Faces,” “London Assurance,” “The Lady of Ly
ons,” “ Much Ado About Nothing,” “As You Like
It” and “Macbeth.”
Manager J. M. Hill has signed contracts for the
appearance of the following female stars at the
Union Square Theatre: Modjeska, Margaret Mather,
Fanny Davenport, Rhea and Rose Coghlan, with
the back counties to be heard from.
Theatrical affairs in New York are quiet, with
a drooping market, for aoubrettas and first old men.
There is an indication of an overstocked market
and the bears have the field. That’s what somebody
has said in type—and of course it must be true.
The scenery used at the Union Square Theatre in
“ Romeo and Juliet” is to be transported across the
continent to San Francisco, and all the performers
will make the journey direct. Margaret Mather is
to add Peg Woffington to her repertory. There
have been few Pegs here in late years. Carlotta Le
clercq used to play the character a good deal, and
Miss Kate Field gave the character an aesthetic
worry at Booth’s Theatre, seasons ago.
Charles Maubury produces his new comedy,
“The Grass Widow,” at Pope’s Theatre, St. Louis,
November Ist.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, while exhibiting
at ths Gentlemen’s Driving Park, in Philadelphia,
attracted the vast number of 167,479 persons in fif
teen performances, and on several days it rained.
Buffalo Bill received $70,254.10 as his share, being
eighty-five per cent, of the gross receipts. The
Driving Park realized $5,018.15 as. their share for
privileges.
“ Why an Actor Quit Dbink” is the heading of an
article that is going the rounds. We have not read
it, but imagine it was because he was broke.
Mr. J. B. Studley is in London, on a visit, where
“Our Genial Jack” is being lionized. Several
managers have offered him their theatres and com
panies to appear as Edmund Dantes in "Monte
Cristo,” and Mathias in “The Bells,” and he may
be induced to treat London to a sample of his un
disputed talents and powers before returning home
—not Englished.
Mr. J. W. Collier is making extensive prepara
tions for the starring tour of Mr. E. K. Collier, who
will inaugurate his season—under J. W.’s manage
ment—at the People’s Theatre, Monday evening,
Aug. 30, appearing in the title role of “ Metamora”
—the play which the late Edwin Forrest made fa
mous. Mr. Collier will include in his repertoire
“Jack Cade,” “Virginius,” and “Damon and Py
thias.” The plays will be presented with new and
appropriate scenic settings, and the costumes and
appointments are promised to be historically cor
rect.
Mr. Ed Collier is young and ambitious, has had
ample and thorough experience as a leading man,
possesses a fine presence and withal being a dili
gent student, will make every exertion to deserve,
even though he may not gain, that success which
the aspiring expect.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett begins the rehearsals of
his company in this city August 23d.
The contract for a three weeks engagement of
Rhea at the Union Square Theatre next season has
been signed and delivered. The fair actress sails
from Havre for this city on August 14th, and will
go direct to Halifax, where she opens her next tour
August 23d. During the season, Mlle. Rhea will be
seen in several new plays.
Miss Lilian Olcott returned from Paris last Sun
day, in the “Normandie,” and appears to be in
good health and spirits. She brought with her the
models of the scenery and costumes for Sardou’s
‘•Theodora,” which she will produce at Niblo’s
Garden, September 13th, with Oriental splendor.
During Miss Olcott’s visit to Paris she has been
coached in the title role of this play by Sardou in
person, and should give an interesting impersona
tion of the part.
Osmond Tearle, the English actor, who stars
next season in an English drama, will play thirty
three weeks of one-night stands—so it is stated.
Mrs. Tearle will accompany him.
Phil H. Letmen, the manager of the Wisting
Opera House, Syracuse, Grand Opera House,
Rochester, and the New Windsor Theatre, Chicago,
is in town. His office is at H. 8. Taylor's Managers
Exchange, on Fourteenth street, where nearly all
the prominent managers are to be found when in
the city.
Augustus Pitou, having finished all his business
arrangements for the forthcoming tour of Robert B.
Mantell and W. J. Scanlan, has gone to Canada to
catch the festive salmon.
Dalziel, in a recent issue of his Chicago News
Letter, wonders “Where Nym Crinkle is disposing
of his surplus incoherency, but the Portland Ore
gonian, just to hand, explains it all. But why chose
this Athens of the northwest for such a purpose?
The festive confuter of infidels has apparently nev
er met an Athenian from Portland (Oregon), or he
would never have dared to send such trash to so in
tellectual a community. Now if he had selected
Chicago, or even Tacoma, it would not have been so
tad, -u< Portland, Oregon ! Well, Mr. Crinkle, wait
i uni.i ><>«, ■ and then you wil appreciate
! yiiir n e;-iur.
Miles and Barton havo received the manuscript
and prompt-book of “ Jack Sheppard.” This is the
latest London success in burlesques, and they
will open their regular season at the Bij >u Opera
House with it, beginning in the middle of Septem
ber. Nat Goodwin will do the leading part of
Jonathan Wild, assumed in the Gaiety Theatre,
London production, by Frederick Leslie. Goodwin
leaves Liverpool, Angust 4th, for New York, and
rehearsals will begin immediately after his arrival.
«' Jack Sheppard” is the work of Yardly and
Stephens, and is called an operatic, melo-dramatio
burlesque. Mr. Goodwin, who bought it for Miles
and Barton, says in a private letter that it is the
best thing of the kind he has ever seen. The plot is
cleverly developed, following the original story
pretty faithfully.
There was a keen competition for the American
right to the burlesque between American man
agers and their representatives in London, but
Goodwin who had sat it through four times, and
had come to the conclusion that it was just what
Milos and Barton and he wanted, bid the others out
of the field. When terms had been settled with the
authors, a new difficulty arose. The Manager of the
Gaiety Theatre claimed that the gags and business
which had bean added to the burlesque during the
continued performance of it, belonged to them, and
not to the authors, and refused to relinquish the
prompt-book. Goodwin would not take the bur.
lesque without these embellishments. After some
trouble the authors arranged matters with the
managers, delivered the prompt-book to Goodwin,
who forwarded it to Miles and Barton. Miles and
Barton are selecting a strong company to support
Mr. Goodwin In “ Jack Sheppard.” Miss Loie Ful
ler, who has made a distinct hit in “Humbug,”
will play the part of Jack Sheppard, done in Lon
don by Nellie Farren, and Jennie Weathersby will
do Mrs. Sheppard.
Mr. E. D. Price, who was once the agent of John
McCullough, will commence at the Chestnut Street
Opera House, Philadelphia, on September 13th, an
exhibition of stage relics of the past, which will dis
count even Booth's Boston Museum Company. Mr.
Price exhumed the collection from a mass of dra
matic deposits on the Pacific coast, and the prin
cipal specimens which ho proposes to present in the
cast of “ Macbeth,” are in a good state of preserva
tion, and are classified in the catalogue as Frank
Mordaunt, Dan Harkins, C. B. Bishop, J. J. Wallace
and McKee Rankin. It is possible Mr. Price may be
able to add Mrs. Rachel Cantor to the collection as
Lady Macbeth. “ And verily I say unto you the
day of Ressurection is near—be ye prepared for it.”
The Weston Brothers, known as the Musical
Kings, for many seasons with Thatcher, Primrose
and West’s Minstrels, will be seen the coming season
in their new sensational comedy drama “ Our
Minstrel Boys.”
Manager Horace Wall, who with his family U
enjoying the seclusion that a brief vacation grants
on his farm at Guilford, Conn., was in town last
week. The dates for the next season of the New
Haven Opera House are very nearly filled.
N. C. Elmendorf will produce an entirely new
and original society sensational drama entitled
“Peggy, the Fisherman’s Child,” early Id Septem
ber. He had the play written expressly for Miss
Ollie Redpatb, the little child actress. The play is
by Annie Lewis, whose Western border drama*
“Plasar.” was produced in Philadelphia, at ths
Chestnut Street Theatre.
We are in weekly receipt of more or less lengthy
“notices ” which are kindly sent us by Mr. Richard
Mansfield’s enterprising press agent, and of which
“ any mention will oblige yours truly, the manage
ment, etc.”
We therefore “ mention ” this fact to Mr. Mans
field, his heirs, agents and assigns, that the Dis
patch is not in the habit of extending the alms of
free advertising to anybody. Mr. Mansfield, his
heirs, agents and assigns will therefore avoid a waste
of paper, envelopes, postage and other trifles of ex
penditure, by sending the aforesaid “ notices” else
where than to this office.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.—Tha
attendance of visitors to this extraordinary exhibi
tion of the realism of life on the frontier seems to
ncrease with each day's performances. The grand
stands are packed long before the hour of com
mencement, atad the throng elsewhere on ths
grounds is, in its size, a spectacle of crowded
humanity worthy of remembrance. There has
never been in or near this city any attraction of
any sort which has had, “rain or shine,” such An
uninterrupted succession of immense and con
stantly increasing audiences, and it can bo truth
fully added, no attraction which in subject and in
the real sm of its illustrations, more deserving of
patronage.
It is not a matter of wonder then that, after
witnessing Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West,” Mark Twain
should have become “enthused,” and written to ths
famous scout, Mr. Cody, these lines :
I have now seen your • Wild West ’ show, two
days in succession, and have enjoyed it thoroughly.
It brought vividly back the breezy, wild life of the
great plains and the Rocky Mountains, and stirred
me like a war song. Down to its smallest details
the show is genuine—cowboys, vaqueros, Indians*
stage-coach, costumes and all; it is wholly free
from sham and insincerity and the effects produced
upon me by its spectacles were identical with those
wrought upon me a long time ago by the same
spectacles on the frontier. Your pony expressman
was as tremendous an interest to me yesterday as
hs was twenty-three years ago, when he used to
coms whizzing by from over the desert with his
war news; and you r bucking horses were aven pun
lully real to me. as I rode one of those outrages once
for nearly a quarter of a minute. It is often said on
the other side of the water that none of the exhibi
tions which we send to England are purely and dis
tinctively American. If you will take the •• Wild
West ” show over there yon can remove that re
proach.”
“The Wild West” with its wonderful gathering of
vaqueros, cowboys, hunters, Indians, sharp
shooters, and its transcripts of real life in the far
West—the robbery of the Deadwood Coach—bunt
ing ths buffalo—the Indians attack on the settler’s
cabin and their repulse—and a score of other illus
trations—make up a panorama of events which
are but pages in the history of the American
frontier.
The number of visitors during the past week
aggregated—according to the returns—a total of
193,960—and the present week doubtless will go be
yond 200,000, in the actual estimate.
To-day the grounds—as they were last Sunday—
will be open to visitors, the admission being only
twenty-five cents. In the afternoon, as well as in
the evening, the vast throngs who will gather here
will have an opportunity o boo ng h the babi aits
of the far frontier pass their Sabbaths. They will sea
the Indians in their village and their methods of
worship, and how the cowboys and sconti relieve
the monotony of one day’s rest. It will b) a glimpt•
of the peace and quiet of Sunday in the primitive
forests and border land of the West as compared
with the wild unrest, the excitements of the hunt,
the forage and raids and unsettled life of the rest of
the week.
New Windsob Theatbb.—With the
present week Manager Murtha will bring his first
season to a successful close. He has established the
new house firmly in the affections of the East-side
theatre-goers and has made money.
The attraction for the closing week will be the old
Bowery play of the “Life of Jack Sheppard, from
the Cradle to the Grave,” with a cast of old-timers,
including Mrs. W. G. Jones, Miss Millie Sackett,
Joseph P. Winter, Maurice B. Pike and N. S. Wood.
The house will then be closed until August 16th,
when the next regular season will be opened with
Frederick Warde in a round of the legitimate, to be
followed in quick succession by many of the most
popular stars and combinations.
National Theatbb.—Mr. William J.
Fleming, who has not appeared for some time upon
the local stage, comes forward at last—of course, at
the Instigation of Manager Heumann—and will
make himself heard as well as seen during the pres
ent week here in a revival of the spectacular drama
of “Around the World in Eighty Days.”
Mr. Fleming will impersonate the character of
Phineas Fogg—the eccentric hero of the play. He
will be supported by Mr. E. W. Marston, as Passe
partout, his servant.
Mr. Fleming and Mr. Marston claim to be the
original representatives in this country of these
characters. The remainder of the cast will be filled
by the memben of the regular company of the
house.
The drama wiH be presented with new scenic set
tings, mechanical effects, costumes and music.
In eonsequence of the length of time required
for the performance of this spectacle, there will not
be the usual extent of variety entertainment which
usually forms a portion of the regular programme.
Mr. Charlie Schilling will be seen and heard, how
ever, in a melange of his “originalities,” which
will be made the more notable by his performance
upon four musical instruments at one and the same
time.
Matiness will be given on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday. Special sacred concerts will be in order
this afternoon and evening.
Bijou Opeba House.—Mr. Roland
Reed, aided and abetted by Alice Hastings and
divers others of his company, played and is p aying,
and will continue to play, a sort of “Hum<ai K ,’*
to which the public has thus far extended ‘.he
liberal encouragement. In fact, ••Humbug”- thia
special “Humbug”—is a • go.” And Reed a
happy. So are Miles and Barton.. CiUo
Matinee as usual.