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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “MADAM S WARD.”
THE DETROIT SOLOMON.
fcCIENTIFIO TRUTH.
INTRODUCED TO PINKERTON.
NEGRO BAPTISM IN FLORIDA.
A SOLDIER’S PRESCIENCE.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: The River of Life; Winter Work;
Sorrow; Curio; Questions and Answers-; Correction;
From “Uncle John;” Arcane Lodge-; Pacific Lodge;
Royal Aroh Items; Templar Notes*; Tidings from the
West; Pergonal; Limits; Quebec’s Position as Re
£arda Canada and England; How Masonry Saved a
if©; Mercenary Motives; True Masonry; Designed
for Immortality.
SIXTH PAGE l
ffr THIS WERE SO.
ELSIE.
SUN WORSHIP.
LOOKING FOR AN HONEST MAN.
EVIL OMEN.
AN AGNOSTIC.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
AN AUTUMN IDYL.
•’ENNUI HOUSE.”
MISS HILLARY’S PLAT&
FINLAND.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
MALARIAL POISON.
Temperature. —Thermometers are call
ed Fahrenheit, or Reaumur, from th© names of
two philosophers who first utilized those instru
ments. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was a native of
Jiantzic, born in 1686, and died in 1736. Rene An
oine Feuchault de Reaumur was born at Rochelle,
in 1683, He was contemporary with Fahrenheit,
and the principal difference between thoir ther
mometers is in the method of noting the degrees.
Fahrenheit starts zero, according to his scale, at
•hirty-two degrees below the freezing point of wa
ter—an arbitrary idea, the reason of which cannot ;
be suecessfully explained. One suggestion is that,
the thermometer being experimented upon princi- 1
pally at Florence., it was not easy to obtain a great
degree of oold or heat as a starting point. Fahren
heit has one hundred and eighty degrees between
the fixed points. Reaumur has but eighty degrees;
ao that the Reaumur degrees, according to numera
tion, do not seem to show the same heat or cold
Which is marked upon a Fahrenheit thermometer.
In Fahrenheit the freezing point being thirty-two
degrees, the boiling point is two hundred and
twelve degrees, thus showing one hundred and
•ight< degrees between freezing and boiling. In
fleaumur the difference between freezing and boiling
Is only eighty degrees; so that a degree (Reaumur)
M equal to two and a quarter degrees Fahrenheit.
A more sensible thermometer than either is that of
Celsius, ol Leyden, invented in 1742, which gives
one hundred degrees between freezing and boiling.
M?his is usually called the centigrade thermometer.
; Wm. F. S.—Some of the most famous
linioroßcopißts have spent a good deal of time in
.measuring and comparing human hairs and spider's
threads. It seems that the threads of spiders
'differs very much in size. As a rule, the older the
ispider is the larger is the thread he spins. But a
human hair is about a hundred times the diameter
of the largest spider’s thread; so that it would take
Something like ten thousand of the threads epun by
‘a full-grown spider—if they could be twisted to
gether—to make a thread equal in size to a single
hair. This is very wonderful, but when wa come to
the finest webs spun by young spiders, the wonder
Increases to a degree almost beyond belief. It is
said that spiders begin to spin when they are so
•mall that it takes four hundred of them to equal in
size one full-grown spider. The threads which
4heae minute ereatures spin are correspondingly
•mall—that is to say, the diameter of one of their
threads is four hundred times loss than the diam
•ter of a full-grown spider's thread. Hence, as
SLeuwenhock, one of the greatest microscopists
that ever lived, tells us, It takes four millions of
those minute threads to equal io substance the
( 4ize of a human hair. Furthermore, he says that
Sach of these minute threads is composed of many
laments, and his discoveries so overwhelmed him
k with astonishment that he exclaimed : O 1 what in
credible minuteness is hero, and how little do we
■|jnow of the works of nature I”
Olio.—lst. The battle of Stone river
twhich is also known as the battle of Murfreesboro)
■was fought on Decenjbfcr 31, 1862, and January 2,
11863. The action of December 31 was severe, but
indecisive. On January 2 Gen. Bragg made an at
tack in force on the army of Gen. Rosecrans and
was repelled with great loss. Two days after he re
treated from Murfreesboro. 2d. Article I, section 2
<>f the Constitution of the United States says : “ No
person shall be a representative [in Congress] who
bhall not have attained the age of twenty-five years,
•nd been seven years a citizen of the United States,
•nd who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant
fcf that State in which he shall be chosen.’* Section
B, of the same article, says : “No person shall be a
Senator who shall not have attained the age of
thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the
tlnited States, and who shall not, when elected, be
•n inhabitant of that State for which he shall be
fehosen." 3d. The present members of Congress re
{ire from office on the 4th of March, 1887, and those
leoted on the 2d of the present month succeed
hem on that day; but they will not be sworn into
Office until the meeting in December following, un
ksa the President calls an extra session of Congress.
San Jose.—lst. The District of Co
lumbia is a territory by itself, no part of it being
now in any State. In 1790 Maryland and Virginia
ceded 100 square miles to the United States, This
tract was named the District of Columbia in honor
pf the great discoverer of America. This district, .
about two-thirds of which was on the Maryland
•bore of the Potomac, was designed for the site of
the capital of the nation, and, in accordance with (
this intention, a city was laid out, public buildings
erected, and in 1800 the government officials went
thereto from Philadelphia. During the war of 1812
ifie British forces took Washington end burned the
Capitol—including the library of Congress—and the
President’s house. In 1846 Alexandria county was
retroceded to Virginia. 2d. At each new Congress
the Senate electa ita President, and even when the
Vice-President of the United States is alive and who ’
Is, by office, President of the Senate, a President
pro tempore is elect ed.
V. B.— We have received the follow- .
(ng information from Mr. Luther P. Hubbard, No,
gO Wall street, concerning the New England Society. ■
The officers are : Horace Russell, President.; Luther
P. Hubbard, Secretary; William Dowd, Treasurer. 1
Any person of the ago of eighteen years and over, ’
being a native or descendant of a native of any of ,
the New England States, and of good moral charac
ter, may, at any meeting of the Board of Officers, j
Or at the annual meeting of the Society, by a vote
Of the majority of the officers or members present
at such meeting, be admitted a member of tho Soci- 1
©ty; and being so admitted, shall become a member ,
thereof, on subscribing to tho constitution and pay
ing to the treasurer of tho Society an admission fee ■
of ten dollars. <
L. M. C.—“ Can you inform me how ,
many Aidermen and Assemblymen have, within the
last twenty-five years, been elected from tho dis’
tricts in which they wore born in New York city ?” i
Dear L. M. C.. wo can’t give you the information. ,
In the first place, the labor and time given to
acquiring information would not be repaid by
the information; and, in t*he second place, we do ]
not think it would be possible to get at the lives of
the Aldermen and Assemblymen. History and 1
biography have more important subjects to treat of ■
than the lives of insignificant officeholders. L. M.
C., when you •have a month or two of leisure time 3
undertake the little job which you set apart for us, <
we will publish th© results of your labors if you
Will forward them.
Mary A, D.—The only use that we '
have ever heard mutilated stamps being put to, is 1
by the Chinese, who paste them on the walls of
their room 3. The stories about children who col
lect a million of stamps being given free entrance 1
Into an institute of learning, have no foundation in 1
fact. Look at the time it would take to collect a
million stamps! Suppose the child collects;! a
hundred a day, which would be doing very well, it
Would take him ten thousand days to collect tho
million. Ten thousand days mako over twenty
•even years.
B. B. B.—We are indebted to a forty
year’s reader, who w 11 please accept our thanks for
th© following informatron regarding tho “ Bristol;”
•• The * Bristol ’ and • Mexico ’ were both wrecked
On Rockaway Beach, on Christmas night, 1836, in a
blinding snowstorm, and nearly all on board of
both vessels perished.”
Jersey.—The fight between Sullivan
and McCaffrey took place at Chester Park, near
Cincinnati. Ohio, August 29th, 1885. The fight was
six rounds, and the referee decided in favor of
Sullivan. Th© decision was given on the ground
and afterward the referee said he saw no cause to
ohange his decision.
Inspector.—There will be an election
fa April for members of the Constitutional Conven
tion. The election will be conducted the same as
ether elections, save that thore will bo no super
visors of election at the polls.
W. T.—The greatest number of miles
made in a six days’ go-as-you-please race at Ma<H
■on Square Garden were made by P. Fitzgera’d,
April 28th-May 3d, 1884. when he made 610 miles in
142 hours. H-e holds the championship, for long dis
tance walking, of the world.
Widow.—Your best plan would be to
OWll on Captain Theodore Feldstein, at the G. A. R.
Employment and Relief Bureau. Room No. 4, City
Hall, where you can obtain full particulars. Call
between the hours of 10 A. M. and 12 M., Wednes
days or Fridays.
W. B. 8. — Police Commissioner Fitz
3ohn Porter's term expires a year from next May.
Commissioner Vonrhis’s term runs out next May.
This makes two Democratic appointments in Mayor
Hewitt’s term.
G. H.—Capt. Henn is the owner of
the English yacht “Galatea,” which was beaten by
the “Mayflower” in this year’s races for the cup.
He was not her® last year with tho yacht “ Ge
nesta.”
Old Reader. —Tho Wilson Zouaves
were never stationed on Roanoke Island. They
were stationed at Fort Pickens, and afterward in
corporated in the army of the Southwest.
H. A. — The fire department have full
control over a burning building, and may prevent
a person entering it to save a life if, in their discre
tion, it would be dangerous.
R. L. —R. B. Man tell played at the
Grand Opera House, New York, in the “World,”
from Sept. 18th to 30th, 1882. His part was Sir
Clement Huntingford.
General. —“ Was Gen. Irvin McDow
•ll, commander of the Army of the Potomac at the
battle of Bull Run, court-martialed after that bat
tle ?” He was not.
G. W. M.—The steamship (i Great
tFestern ” arrived in this part on April 23, 1838.
Her senior officer was Lieut. James Hoakens, R. N.
Commander.
< G. B.—S. S. Cox was never elected to
Congress from New Jersey. He was elected a mem
ber from Ohio before coming to New York.
P. 8. Blackburn. —A woman is of age
In the State ol New Yerk when she reaches twenty
gn» years.
[G. A. V.—A. written ballot is as good
a printed one and would count the same.
W. G.— We know of no method of
plating with brass without a battery.
|lfhr gurfe Tlisptch.
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 14, 1896.
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lished in the United States.
ABOLISH THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Republican party already hae a great
popular shibboleth in protection to American
industries with which to carry the country at
the next election. Our championship of protec
tion cut down the Democratic majority in Con
gress, a fortnight ago; defeated one of the most
prominent Democratic leaders; imperilled the
return of Speaker Carlisle, and changed several
States from Democratic, to Republican strong
holds. Even old Virginia, the birthplace ot
Democratic advanced toward the
Republican party, and may soon be reclaimed
from its political errors by our protection poli
cy. We now propose to further increase the
1 popularity of the party by proposing the imme
diate repeal of the odious internal revenue.
This ought to have been a Democratic move
ment, and it will bo supported by many Demo
crats is the South and West, as well as in the
East. But the Democratic party, which is al
ways slow and stupid, has missed its chance to
monopolize this measure of relief to the people.
The Republicans can now take charge of it and
advocate it triumphantly.
We demand the abolition of the internal rev
enue system, not from motives of party expe
diency alone, but upon broad grounds of public
policy and of popular reform. Internal revenue
was a necessity of our Civil War. It was adopt
ed because the government had to raise money
in large sums as quickly as psssible. It was
accepted by the people because they were ready
to submit to any measure and to make anv sac
rifices that would assist tho government to put
down the Rebellion, by replenishing our empty
treasury. Bnt the treasury is now fall to over
flowing and the necessities of war no longer ex
ist. The government has more money than it
knows what to do with, and it is equally absurd
and iniquitous that tho people should continue
to be taxed through the internal revenue agen
cies when no more funds are needed beyond
those which the tariff and tho regular depart
ments will provide. It the internal revenue
were a good system, we should insist upon its
abolition as a superfluous mode of taxation ;
but it is bad in every way. The people endured
it cheerfully for the sake of saving the Union :
but it is intolerable now in these times of peace
and plenty.
Of course, we shall bo met at the outset by
the cry of the Prohibitionists that the abolition
of internal revenue means more drunkenness,
because it will make liquors cheaper. But this
is not true. Cheap liquors do not encourage
drunkenness. Countries in which drinks are
cheapest are always the most temperate. There
was less intoxication in this country when
whisky could be bought for about twenty cents
a gallon than there is at present. Higa prices
invariably have a tendency to mako the people
eovet what they do not require. Bad liquors,
not cheap liquors, aro tho cause ot so much
drunkenness and of the crimes which arise
therefrom. The cheaper the price ot liquors
the better they will become. There will be no
profit in selling impure stuff, and hence no
temptation to manufacture it. Every distiller
will try to surpass his rivals in the excellence
of his goods, because that will be the best
means to secure his market. Physicians and
reformers have repeatedly demonstrated that
ninety-nine per cent, of the crimes committed
by drunken persons aro chargeable to the infe
rior quality of the liquors they have consumed.
Nine-tenths of tho liquors now manufactured
are poisonous, because they carry so heavy a
tax that it would not pay to make them pure.
The abolition of the internal revenue would
really boa temperance reform.
To say that intemperance would bo increased
by bringing good liquors within the reach of
all is simply nonsense. The rich men of this
country already have their cellars stored with
the beet and most expensive drinks. To them
the price is no object. But srho ever saw such
men drink ? Who ever saw Jay Gould, Mr.
Vanderbilt, Mr. Huntington, Mr. Astor or any
of the other millionaires drink, on tho streets
or anywhere else ? If the facility of purchasing
liquors made a man a drunkard, then, logically,
our millionaires would always be intoxicated,
since they can buy as much wino and spirits as
they please. The internal revenue taxation
does not affect them. No, it is the masses of
the people who are burdened by this tax,
who are compelled to drink bad liquors,
because the government takes so much of the
price, and who are thus doubly injured in their
pockets and their health. The reformers who
rise above mere cant and consider the true facte
of the matter, are agreed that good, eheap
drinks do less harm to body and mind and
morals than bad, dear beverages. So far from
objecting to the abolition of tho internal revenue,
the Prohibitionists should be among the first to
support such a repeal of an obnoxious system.
They can never abolish tho manufacture and
sale of liquors; but they can help to abolish the
unjnst laws which render th# <rinks of tho peo
ple impure hy imposing hea. y duties upon the
manufacturers and the consumers.
Aside from this temperance view of tho sub
ject, we denounce tho internal revenue depart
ment as dangerous to our liberties. It demoral
izes the country by producing spies and inform
ers, on the one hand, and perjured lawbreakers
and adroit coneoctors of liquid poisons, on the
other hand. It is a relic ot that barbarous
feudal tyranny which makes the masses pay all
the taxes and allows the rich to go acet free.
It maintains a horde of unnecessary clerks,
inspectors and agents, and puts an immense
amount of pernicious patronage into the hands
of the beads ot the department. Nothing could
be more hateful to the American people than
the maintenance ot an army ot superfluous offi
cials. England likes the system because it
presses upon the poor and relieves the rich.
The enormous sums raised in England and
Ireland l y internal revenue, are taken from the
people. The wealthy are supplied with dainty
drinks that eome from other countries almost
free from duty; but the poor who drink beer
aud spirits pay the expenses of the government
that keeps them down. Tho Englishman or
Irishman who drinks a glass of liquor that costs
him six cents, hands five cents to the govern
ment. The Irish people thus buy the bayonets
of the British soldters to wound their own
bosoms. Wo have no place in free America for
so odious a system, and, although wo tolerated
it as a war measure, its abolition is now an im
perative duty.
LIGHT FOR LIBERTY.
Tho Bartholdi statue is again a beggar. Like
a new Freemason, it desires light. It stands in
our harbor as dark as the mystery about its
origin. 'Was it really designed for the Suez
canal? Was it hawked about from one specu
lation to another before somebody was struck
with the happy thought of getting up a lottery
to complete it and present it to tho American
people ? The French people were begged for
subscriptions to finish and cast it. The French
government was begged for a naval vessel tp
bring it here. We were begged for money to
give it a pedestal. Congress was begged for an
appropriation to inaugurate it. The skies wept
when the international beggary was over and
Liberty enlightened the World from Bedlow’s
Island, reeliristened in its honor. There was a
general sigh of relief that we were to be both
ered with no more begging from that quarter, at
least. But now it appears that no provision has
been made for lighting the torch of Liberty,
i The papers are bogging again for pennies to
supply the statue with tallow candles, kerosene
NEW NOVEMBER 14, 1886.
oil, illuminating gaa or electricity, bo that it
may dazzle the eyes of our pilots and advertise
the Wor'd by night as well as by day.
W 011, Joo Pulitzer is a mean man or he would
have arranged, before this, to pay tho expenses
oi lighting up poor liberty. Bo is the sort of
fellow to spoil a ship for a ha’porth of tar. Jim
Bonnett has returned to this country just in
timo to I brow stingy Pulitzer into the shado and
snatch all the glory of the Baa tholdi Statue
away from the World. Let the Herald establish
a fund for lighting the torch and wo shall never
hoar of Pulitzer any more in connection with
the affair. Liberty will then enlighten tho Her
ald, which sadly needs enlightenment, especi
ally upon its editorial page, which is duller than
ditohwater and denser than mud ainco tho gen
ius of old James Gordon Bennett departed. But
if neither Pulitzer nor the Herald will disburse
the few dollars required to light up Liberty, we
are in favor of giving Coogan another show. He
did not got tho Mayoralty nomination—and, if
he had, Mr. George would have beaten him like
one ot his own feather beds —but he can flame
out as the illuminator of the Statue. Should
ho also decline, wo must appeal to the redhead
ed girls of New York to volunteer. Ono of them
might sit in tho torch every night, and then tho
Statue would bo more attractive than ever and
have more nocturnal admirers,
A CLERICAL ERROR.
Col. Ingersoll, who is going to deliver one of
his lectures against religion to-night, finds in
the ignorance and stupidity of many of the
clergy his keenest and strongest arguments. If
tho clergymen do not understand the religion
whLh they profess; if they do not practise it;
if they misinterpret and misrepresent tho plain
words of Scripture, how can they blame an
infidol who laughingly exposes their errors and
then tries to ridicule the Divine revelation?
Tho eloquent but blasphemous lecturer has one
of his easiest opportunities for satire in the
Pastoral just issued by the Convention of
Episcopal Bishops and read in tho churches of
that denomination, last Sunday. These bishops
declare that they are the legitimate successors
of the apostles, and yet they have fallen into
one of thoso blunders which are worse than
criminal. They are the heads of their church
and they speak with an authority which is not
warranted by tho unchristian doctrine that they
have formally promulgated. If tho Dispatch
were to make as gross errors in the secular
sermons which we address to our large con
gregation, every Sunday, these bishops would
despise us as incompetent journalists. What
shall wo say, then, when the Episcopal ex
pounders of the Bible seem never to have
studied that sacred volume?
The long and elaborate Pastoral declares that
one ot the most grievous heresies ot tho day is
the thoory that tho individual is the unit ot so
ciety and of the nation. Instead of this theory,
the bishops contend that the true Christian
unit is the family. They will not concede
any individual rights; everything must be in
cluded in the family and sacrificed to tho fam
ily and begin and end in the family. This is
the ancient patriarchal system which was prac
ticed by the Jewish people. Blessings or
curses came upon their families. The head of
t£ie family had the power of li'e and death over
its members. But are not the bishops aware
that Christ came avowedly to destroy and su
persede this patriarchal dispensation ? He
founded a religion of the family, of tho tribe, of
the race, and he substituted for it an individual
religion, which has since become almost uni
versally adopted by civilized mankind. His
own words are so clear and explicit upon this
point that only a bench of bishops could mis
understand them: “ For I am come,” He said,
“to set a man at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother, and the
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
And a man’s foes shall be tiiey of his own
household.” What condemnation of a religion
of the family, as opposed to individual salva
tion, could be mure sweeping and emphatic
than this declaration of Jesus Christ, the
founder of tho Christian Church ?
As soon as Christ commenced his ministry
he asserted the independence of the individual
as aga nst the family. A convert said to him,
“Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my
father”—an imperative family duty. But Jesus
replied, “Follow me ! Let the dead bury their
dead.” Christ himself had no family. He
came into the family of Joseph in order to pre
pare for His earthly labors; but He acknowl
edged no human relatives. When the disci
ples told Him that His mother and brethren
desired to speak with Him; he said: “ Who is
my mother ? And who aro my brethren ?”
And, stretching forth His hand toward the
disciples, he added: “Behold my mother and
my brethren I” What do the Episcopal bishops
think of this incident as a commentary upon
their theory of a religion of the family ? But
Christ leaves them no loophole of escape. He
says: “If tby brother neglect to hear the
church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man.”
He pictures’ the results of the missionary work
of Christianity as follows: “And the brother
shall deliver up tho brother to death, and tho
father the child, and the children shall rise up
against their parents and cause them to be put
to death.” Is this a family theory of religion ?
No; for Christ continues, with majestic force:
“He that lovebh father or mother more than
me is not worth v of me, and ha that love th son
or daughter more than me is not worthy o:
me
Wo have answered the erroneous Pastoral of
those ignorant bishops in the sublime words of
tho founder of tho religion whith they profess
to teach. It is, above all individual
religion. Each person has a soul, and he must
save it or lose it for himself,working out his own
salvation, while God works in him. To attempt
to wrest this individual religion into opposition
to tho spread of individual liberty is preposter
ous. The bishops condemn themselves by un
dertaking so vain a task. They forget that the
Biblo is free and in every tongue, and that
everybody else can road it as readily as they
and perhaps understand it much better. The
renunciation of all family ties that interfere
with individual religion, the sacrifice ot every
member of a family who prevents the salvation
of one’s own soul, are directly taught by the
Savior in sentences that put the Episcopal
bishops to tho blush. Christ tears up their
foolish Pastoral in advance, and offers the
highest rewards to those who disregard it.
“Every one that has forsaken houses, or breth
ren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or lands, for my name’s sake,” He
declares, “ shall receive a hundredfold and in
herit eternal life,” Wo commond these sub
lime words to the bishops when they hold thoir
next Convention and try to tamper with the
fundamental truths cf the Christian religion.
Blind leaders of the blind, they do more harm
than good by their blunders, their arrogance,
and their hatred of freedom.
« w ar m *
No Fbeb Traders.—The free trade
Bchraachers will be in a bopolesa minority in
the next Congress. Their most blatant leaders
will be left at home, and those who have echoed
the howls ot Morrison and Hurd will be careful
how they rouse the ire of their constituents
and invoke a similar fate. Chief among the
advocates of the free trade heresy is our Mayor
elect, A. 8. Hewitt, who, as Douglass Jerrold
said of Albert Smith, has dropped one of his
initials. It is some comfort to know that he
will bo safe in the City Hall, next Winter, and
can no longer force his crude notions upon
Congress and try to block tho wheels of reme
dial legislation. As Mayor he might open an
evening school in the basement of the City Hall
—he used to be a school master, years ago—and
give free lessons in the art of growing rich
honestly, to some of his Tammay supporters,
j He might commence a class with Dick Croker
| at the hoad and Maurice Powers at tho tail.
Pat. Divver might eome in as the bad boy of tho
school, but it would be no place for Tim. Camp
bell, who prefers to spend his evenings where
the woodbine twineth and the kegs run dry.
Very Appropriate.—The daily pa
pers announce in big head-lines that “Red
Top,” the country home of President Cleve
land, near Washington, has received another
coat ot rod paint since the elections. This is
very appropriate. The house is evidently
blushing at the sat-baok which the Demooratio
party has received, and at the manner in which
the Mugwumps have scuttled away from thoir
pet President as soon as they discovered that
he is not going to give them any more offices.
The White House needs repainting, also, as it
has become rather dirty during the Democratic
administration; but that will be satisfactorily
attended to after tho next Presidential cam
paign, and, in tho meantime, the outside dmgi
ness will bo significant.
Impartial Justice. —Jaeob Sltarp,
James A. Richmond, James W. Foshay and
Thomas B. Kerr were indicted on the ISith of
October lor bribery in connection with the
Broadway railroad. When brought up for trial
their lawyers demanded more delay, and we
are sorry to say that the presiding judge was
weak enough to grant it. If these had been
poor men would there have been any such tar
diness in the administration of justice ? Ono of
the court officials shrewdly remarked that tho
cases of “common scamps” would be taken up
as soon as the bribers were allowed their post
ponement. Is there. Ilion, one law in Now York
for “common scamps” and another for uncom
mon scamps? We hold that the rich specu
lators who offered bribes to the Aidermen wore
worse criminals than the poor wretches who ac
cepted the money, and that they should have
been tried first. This is sound logic as well as
good law. It no bribes were offered then none
could have been taken. It is one of the reason
able grievances of tho people that justice in
New York is not impartial. The delay in the
trials of the bribers will aggravate the popular
discontent with the administration of affairs in
this city and assist to prepare the way for a
thorough revolution and reform.
For All Intern ationalutes. —The
International Nows Company will put on the
market four wonderful works to-morrow. The
first is “The Young Ladies’Journal,” which
this year is a double number, and seven sup
.plemonts, and the price is but sixty cents. Tho
next is “ The Family Library Monthly,” which
contains four new novels. And the other two
are the double Christmas numbers of “The
London Graphic" and “The Illustrated Lon
don News.” If our readers are American, En
glish, French, Spanish, German, or any other
nationality, they can always find something on
the International News Company’s shelves that
will interest, amuse and instruct them.
©Ws anti
daddy punkinhead and the prophets.
“ Wot does I tink ’bontdewodder prophits ?”
asked Grandfather Punkinhead, in answer to a
question, tho other day. “I links dey should
go back to deir bases.
“Dar’s noboddy wot knows ennytinks ’bo’t
de wedder but de Lo’d an’ de angils. An’ dat
remin’s me. I he’ de ehiliin Bingin’ * I wants
ter be a angil an' wid he angils stan’.’ Now, I
tinks dat de angils has a puddin’ of hit, an’ ef I
wile a angil I wouldn't take no etan’ in mine.
I’d jest scoot down to de front an’ seoop in a
deserved seat down uoa'est de clown an’ do
hos’es.
“ Dat isn’t de questching, howsume-ver. De
questching is ’bo’t de weddor prophits. When
ever General Hazy rotes in dec noosepapers
wot dar’s gwine ter boa sto’m, den I takes off
my obercoat an’ comes out widout my umbril.
When he sez look out fur sunshine, den's when
I shoulders my green gingham suckus-tent an’
wraps my feet up in my gums.
“Dey kaint tell me ennytink abo’t der wed
der. I’ve got a co’n’s big as a sasaidge on my
off toe, an’ whin dat eo’n ’gins ter howl, den I
brings der kin’lin’ wood in by der kitchin’ stove,,
fnr fear hit’ll git drownded.
“Dey hang up deir flags wot predickates wot
der win’s goin’ ter blow nort. Den I looks out
fur a sow’easter, an’ acks in accordeon. Whin
dey say we’re goin’ ter hab warm wedder, dem
I lays in a full supply ob show-shubbels ; an’
whin dey say look out fur snow, I goes ter
sleep on der sent side ob der house.
“ Missel- De Woe, an’ Misser Piggins,, an’ all
dem odder fellers is cranks. Der time will soon
be hyar whin it won’t bo manslorter fur ter
shoot dem fellers in col’ blood.
“Look down in Chyarlston. Soon as dat airth
quake comes dan dey all shout dat dey knowed
hit, jes same like a poliytiehuner offer lectionin’
day. Pooty soon dey see anudder one cornin’
an’ dey scar de people mos’ ter def.
“My depinion is dat dem fellers shud all be
set ter work guessin’ how many sticks of kin’lin’
wood is in a cord-wood pile, an’ make ’em
proob hit.
“Now, hero’s anudder feller wot emus along
an’ sez wot deirs gwine ter be orful col’ wedder
in Decemmer and dat ef people don’t put on
warm elos dey’ll be friz ter def. He might jes
as well prcdicktionate wot derell be a warm
spell in Jooly, an’ dat de people can hang up.
deir obercoats an’ take der blankets off’h deir
beds.
“ I am so degusted wid dese fellers dat I is
almos’ mad.
“ Sposo hit do rain I Spose hit am col’ I Sposo
de sun do shine I Spose hit done snow ! Who
gwine ter stop hit ?
“Der Lo’d, wot don’t lot a sparrer grow froo
de eye of a needle auickerin’ a rich man can
inter de kingdom ot Heben’s got der bulge on
der whole of dem.
“ Hit’s gwiae ter be a werry hot time fur dem
fellers after deir las’ obsequiousness has taken
place, an’ you hyar my little antem.
“I’ll bet if you shud hoi’ a post-mortar zami
nation on dem fellers heads wid a orgur you’d
fin’ nuff sawdust fur ter san’ a whole barroom
flo’ an’ fill der spit boxes ’sides.
small CHisaa
England is almost paralyzed at the
death of Archer, the jockey. First John Brown,
now Archer. Let a few more great men die,
and England’s fate is sealed. In justice to
Brittania, the Tipton Slasher and the Quoens
bury Kid should be careful that their liver
pads do no not get out of place, as this weather
is very changeable, and there's no telling when
a full-grown case of pneumonia may sock one
or both of them into heaven.
Sam Jones lias given up the salvation
of Canada in disgust. Well, if Sam and the
Lord can’t do anything with Canada while
our folks are over there perhaps they will have
to have recourse to the old fashioned extradition
treaty, and it that don’t work we’ll send over a
few trees, some rope and a few citizens from
Texas to see what they can do toward the re
generation of the big cake of ice.
A Brooklyn man was reoantly im
prisoned eight days for kissing a girl against
her will. We never kissed a girl against her
will, but we have kissed them against fences
and barns and apple-trees, and other heredita
ments and appurtenances, and if we had been
locked up fight days for every miss-demeanor,
our life would be mortgaged for tho next
16,000,030 years. Yum 1 More !
The chrysanthemum craze appears to
be at its bight at present. We never could see
much in a chrysanthemum, but then we never
had one around the house. We always pre
ferred a canary or some bird that could sign,
j and we never yet heard of a chryanthemum
that could do more than whistle a few notes.
Now, if it was a rhododendron—ah 1 there’s
where they get us !
A friend of ours recently arose in the
night and took three blue pills. He then stayed
home from work all day, fearing that they
would catch him unaware. Toward night, as
nothing happened, he investigated and ascer
tained thathe had swallowed three allspices and
had lost a day by tho operation—or non-opera
tiou, if you’re so blamed particular about it.
“ When Harvard first opened she had
only nine students.” Students I students!
There’s the catcher, pitcher, first base, second
‘ base, third base, short stop, right field, centre
field, left field, and sometimes the right short,
but darn us if we ever heard of the student.
They’re evidently trying touring in a now man
on us and we moan to keep our eye peeled.
. A twblve-yeab old Western boy shot
and killed his eleven-year old sweetheart be
; cause she wouldn’t marry him. If our belles
are becoming so darned particular in thoir
choice of husbands, it's about timo that the gay
lotharios of the bailiwick sit down upon them
and refuse to enter into the bedded state alto
gether.
i ! Psussia’-s census has just been taken,
and shows a population of 28,318,458 persons,
j This is a pretty good showing, but it looks bad
I for the Prussian diet, and it is said that the lit
tle bow-wow.s and pussy-cats aro hurrying
across tho border, their instinct showing them
that sausages will whoop this year.
Sissy Liberty’s mouth is exactly a
yard wide, and every man who is married and
who visits the island and gazes upon her open
features, crawls behind around the pedestal,
gets down on his knees and thanks his God
that that wasn’t tho style for makiug women
when the original caveat was filed.
Two prisoners were fined twenty dol
lars by a Flatbush Justice, on Tuesday, and
when they produced a hundred dollar bill for
change, the Court was paralyzed and the whole
town took a holiday. The villagers say that so
much money hasn’t been there, all at once,
since fo’ de wah.
“Journalism is very wearing,” said a
fresh reporter of the Brooklyn Shadow to the
City Editor of the Brooklyn World, “Can you
tell me what is more tiresome than being a
journalist ?” “ Yes, working on your paper.”
Then there was a roar that killed two men.
Rev. Walter Thompson, a Navesink
clergyman, skipped from liis congregation and
family with a member of his flock. We can’t
see why a clergyman should run away with a
woman ot his congregation when he eau stay
right home and have a chronic picnic.
An American girl in Pans, has begun
a thirty days’ fast. The papers don’t state what
theatrical company she belonged to; but we
know of plenty of her fellow-actors and ac-
tresses in this country who .are at the same
thing, and she needn't feel lonesome.
We think France is the stingiest na
tion on tho face of the earth. She gave us a
statue and then made us build a pedestal for
it. Now she wants us to light it up. If we
couldn’t be a better nation than that wo
wouldn’t baa nation at all.
And now the glass manufacturers ara
on strike. Let ’em go right straight ahead.
This is a free and independent country, and
when we can't drink our whisky out of a teacup
wo can pull down the American flag and spout
ourselves on tho spot.
A Williamsburg clergy man has gained
considerable notoriety by marrying extremely
young couples. And'yet the young people of
our day, judging by the newspaper reports,
appear to get along quite-nicely without tho aid
ot clergyman. ,
Hempstead, L. 1., burglars recently 3
robbed a church and drank all' the- communion ;
wine. If it was the kind the 1 clergyman- drinks,
all right, but if its the kind he- gives the worms j
of the dust, the burglars should’ be lnua-ted up f
and hanged.
Another Tichborne claimant has ‘
turned up, this time in Brooklyn.. Tichborne ‘
claimants seem fo boa little thicker than ever (
this year, but then tho game law will soon be (
up, and thank heavens tho hunters are all half- t
starved. c
Sharp, Richmond, Foshay and Kerr, ’
have at last been arraigned and have pleaded' '
“ not guilty. Like tho old-time Milesian; they '
probably want to hear the evidence before-they a
can decide whether they aro guilty or not c
guilty.
A Brooklyn politician attributes his 1
defeat to the fact that he sent a gong aroi-tnd'in- J
a wagon labelled “Vote for an honest man.” a
Every timo the gong rang the voters yelled’ c
“Chestnut!” and the candidate was swamped.
A Minnesota man named Moore has *
been taken into camp for having attached him- 1
self to five wives. This is evidently the Moore- J
the marrier that wo have all heard so much
9
about.
President Cleveland, the other day c
refused to accept a degree from Harvard. Ho ’
slionld scoop in anything that comes along, for, e
as things look now, be may soon be out of a e
job.
1
They are talking of abolishing the c
cent fare on the Bridge promenade. Any man e
who isn’t willing to put a cent down to view <i
that magnificent scenery should be sent up.
Capt. Nabakoff, the leader of the J
recent Russian revolt, has been sentenced to f
death. By our halidome ho has a decidedly s
apropos name at this season of the year. 1
Troy has two female paperhangers 1
who do an extensive business. They probably
charge an admission fee when they strike a job, r
and let the fellers hold the ladders. c
Kalamazoo, Mich., has a female
cooper who can hoop more barrels in a day than *
any man in town. She’s just the kind of woman '
to hav® around election times.
Roswell Pettibone Flower has 're- “
tir ed- permanently from politics. The strikers „
weren’t satisfied with a petty bone but wanted ,
a big one. ,
Herb Heider, the celebrated Berlin t
tailor, has just given 800,000 marks to the Cath
olic church. He probably got them off his 1
slate. l
The Hewitt Democrats are now sing- a
ing the old time refrain: “AsWe Go Marching
Through George—ah.” c
ICMKmi TIHJ W BaBUMaPBW®—c—
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GOSSIP OF THE WEEK. f
Me. Lawrence Babrett produces tho Hon. Geo. j
H. Beker’s play of “ Calaynog,” December 13th, at j
Ncbaugh’s Grand Opera House in Washington. 2
Gooi> little Helen Dauvr.Yy made a distinct f
success last week in Chicago in the part of Kate 1
Shipley in “ One of Our Girls,” and the local critics f
are loud in their praise of the star, the play and the
supporting company. Although Misa Dauvray is :
on the road, extensive preparations are going for- i
ward for tho production of Bronson Howard's new t
play at the Lyceum Theatre next month, in which
tho popular actress will have a new part and one in j
which she will probably shine to very great ad van- t
tage. ]
Mr. Frederick Warde is making active prepara
tions for the production of Leonard Ou tram’s trag- 1
edy of “Gaiba, the Gladiator, *' in this city. The ’
scenery will bo entirely new and elaborate, and 1
there aro five great scenes: The Catacombs of Rome, !
Garden on the River Tiber, the Arena, and the Tem- 1
pie of Juno.
Miss Annie Pixley, who is always welcome in ‘
this city, plays only one engagement in New York 1
this season, and that will be at the Windsor Thea- s
tre, where she appears November 27th. in her popu- 1
lar play of “ M’liss.” ’
Miss Lilian Olcott is coining money on the road ,
with “ Theodora.” During the coming week she
produces the play in Cleveland, and the following .
Monday will begin an engagement at the Academy
of Musie in Brooklyn, where Sardou’s play will bs (
given with all the scenery and costumes used at
Niblo’s.
Frederick Warde appeared at th© Academy of
Music, in Philadelphia, last week, where the re
ceipts were upward of ten thousand dollars.
The reports that Louis James was likely to cease 1
his starring tour, are entirely unfounded. Mr.
James has come to stay, and is doing a good busi
ness in nearly every city, his last two weeks being
exceedingly profitable. Next month the young
tragedian will make his first appearance in this city
as a star, opening in “ Virginius,” which he is
making one of the chief features of his reportoire. 1
He will have the assistance of Miss Marie Wain
wright, the well known and capable leading actress,
and a good company.
•• The Bunch of Keys’’ which has been laughed
at by countless thousands, will be given at th©
Windsor Theatre, November 22d, with a strong cast
of comedians and -vocalists, and the original hotel ,
scene. Front!
Robert B. Mantell produced Mr. Keller’s new
society play of “ Tangled Lives” last Monday night,
at the Park Theatre, in Brooklyn, before a numer
ous audience. “Tangled Lives” is said to boa
strong play and effective in a high degree, and was
well acted by a well drilled company of actors and
actresses.
W. J. Scanlan appeared in Williamsburg, last
week, in his picturesque play of “ whane-na-Lawn,”
to large and enthusiastic audiences, that gave the
young comedian a cordial greeting, much applause,
and many calls before the curtain. Mr. Scanlan
will play a return engagement in this city shortly.
Miss Myra Goodwin makes her first appearance
in Philadelphia, December 12th, in Mr. Kidder’s
amusing comedy of •• Sis.”
I -lr is Manager Aronson’s to give a per
formance for the benefit of the At'^ l '*' Fund of
America, at the Casino, early in Decern I?" 3 ?'
Margaret Mather has added Peg to
her repertoire, and will probably begin her
York engagement at. tho Union Squaro Theatre
month, in thia role.
Union Square Theatre.—Madame
Modjeska’s now play. “The Ohouans,” is a dramati
zation of Ba’zac s novel of the same name, by Pierro
Borton, of Paris, a dramatist of some note, but bet
ter known as an actor, and leading man for Bern
hardt since she left tho Comodio Francaise, al
though he never accompanied her en tour farther
than London. Tho English version has been made
by Paul M. Potter. "Los Chouans,” or "La Via
Milftaire,” is the first novel that Balzao published.
The Ohouans were hands of insurgent royalists,
who, during the French Revolution, organized a re
actionary movement in Brittany. They obtained
their name from thek* leader, Jean Cotteroau.
This person, who had been a smuggler, went by
the name of Chouan; while he and his accomplices
wero engaged in their nocturnal work, they were
wont to be warned of their danger by some one on
the watch imitating this cry of an owl. At tho
period of the revolt, however, he followed the hum
ble occupation of clog-maker. The first indications
of e revolutionary spirit in Brittany manifested
themselves in the beginning of 1779, when several
trees of liberty woro destroyed at night and other
more serious outrages committed. Those disturb
ances were fomented by seditious prints. In 1792
an insurrection was planned by the Marquis da La
Ronairo, with the sanction and approval of the two
brothers of Louis XVI.
The agents of the Marquis entered into commu
nication with Jean Oottereau, well known for the
reckless audacity of his character, and other smug
glers. But having tho misfortune to be arrested,
the carrying out of the Insurrection devolved upon
the latter. After several successful exploits of the
guerilla sort, Jew Cottereau perished in an engage
ment which took place on the 28th of July, 1794,
near the wood of Misdon, the theatre of his first
efforts. Before this, however, other and more illus
trious leaders had appeared in Brittany to diroc
the movements, the chief of whom woro Georgu
Cadondel and Chai’ette. Through their endeavors
it was more widely extended and for a time seemed
likely to imperil the security ot France, but was
suppressed toward the close of 1799.
Petty spurts of insurrection, however, broke out
until about 1803, when the Chouanerie ceased for
awhile. In 1814-15 it again made its appearance on
bo^h'sides of the Loire, and after tho July Revolu
tion*, w’as once more-excited by the Duchess of Bury
on behfilf of the Duke of Bordeaux, but crushed by
the energetic measures taken by M. Thiers.
Upon these historic facts and events this play is
founded; Spectacular in nature and never more
than melodramatic' in its conditions, rather lurid
and extravagant In- incident and expression, and
having something too much of waste of gunpowder
and too frequent suggestions of an unnecessary
flow of human gore; "The CUouans” had its primal
production on last Wednesday evening at this
theatre.
The usual contingent of regular and nevor-miss
the-chance first-nighters' was- visible; there was a
sufficient sprinkling of professionals, and these,
with a numerous audience made up of the special
admirers of Madame Modjeska--*® acting, filled the
orchestra and bajeony.
It is a series of historic* pictures ac
companied by a dialogue which, although
clear in its construction, is not always his
toric in its expression. The scene* are Breton
cottages, castles and landscapes; Brittany at
a time when churches were 1 turned- into barracks;
when nobles danced stately minuets, in their ball
rooms and peasants kept guard at their doors;
when every hedge might mask a Chowan ambush,
and the silence of the night was only broken by the
cry of the owl or the shriek of the victims of brutal
assassination. The costumes- in this play are as
nearly historic in-appearance as possible- they were
more characteristic, in fact, of that far off semi
barbaric epoch of Brittany than were the actions
and speech of several of the representatives in the
cast who wore therm
The most notable fault in this drama- is, that
there is too much-of-it. There-is—to use a- batcher’s
phrase—"too much meat for the size of the bone.”
There is, in reality, material enough-ci*owded into
the three acts and eight tableaux, to make up- the
substance of three plays.
Its diction has nothing in it to suggest adverse
criticism; the story is told as concisely and directly
as the unnecessary amount of incident, action and
event forced into it permit. There is ; in it no
gleam of the lighter and brighter phase* of human
life; and even in. Brittany an hundred years ago
human life bad something of humor; something of
cheer in-its cycles; the work begins, progresses and
ends in gloom, with presages of suffering,, misery,
disappointments, treachery and death.
Yet out from all this funereal historic collection
of events,. turbulent, woeful and dark, there wer®
brought much of light—much of beauty, and much
for thoughtful comment—by the acting of two per
sons—one of whom Madame Modjeska—has already
had extensive laudations as an the other
Miss Mary Shaw, who deserves the praise she did
not TQcovta from the-press, as an artiste.
Only two critics we believe, mentioned even the
name of Miss Shaw—these were the representatives
of the Herald and the Times.
As a fast, Miss Shaw as La Barbette, shared
the honors of the- performance, and; in her scone
when she is told of the death of her husband, as in
that where she devotes her son to the life of a
soldier, that ho may avenge the assassination of his
father—" You have no father—no mother now—you
are an orphan—kill—kill all”—in- these scenes she
was as greatly dramatic, as thoroughly artistic, as
was Madame Modjeska, in . any thing the latter ac
tress did in the entire play.
The several recalls Miss Shaw received, fully at
tested the interest and sympathy she aroused in
the audience.
Being only a subordinate in the cast—of course
she did not deserve even ordinary mention.
If she had been another actress of note, how at least
one of the reporters-present—assigned to door undo
what should be the task of the regular critic—would
have give?, her half a column of flatulent gush.
That the play proved what may be termed a suc
cess, is more due to tho general excellence of the
acting ot the subordinate people-in tho cast, than to
anything extraordinary ia.the acting of Madame
Modjeska. At times she was gainfully indistinct in
her pronunciation- of English;, she was occasion
ally imperfect in her memory oi her lines and what
the critics chose to dignify m "subtle by-play ”i n
her business, was simply her device to got near
enaugh to tho prompter to 1 catch the word.”
In this regard Mr. Barry more was also at times
notable; he had on three or four occasions the same
reason to get in his fine woik—"subtle by-play ” —
to beguile the-audience Mid recall his lines.
Miss Grace Henderson as the Countess do Kersac,
gave commendable- strength and effect to tho char
acter and fully deserved the recognition accorded
her efforts by the audience.
Mr James Carhart as Colonel Hulot, while lack
ing in earnestna&s—evidently his " reserved force ”
was not on tap on this occasion—was stagey and
little like the leader, tho soldier of judgment and
man of dignity and command that the personage
ho represented should be.
In the love scenes with Da Montanan, Madame
Modjeska was at her best; in the last act she was
more effective in a melodramatic than an artistic
sense—the strength of the situations and the dia
logue carried her with them—she did not give them
additional vitality through the display of any
superlative amount of comprehension of the emo
tions and passions she was simulating.
With the exception of an exclamation from the
prompter to "Keep it up,” in the closing aceno—
which impressed some of the audience that he was
enthusiastically urging Madame Modjeska to pro
tract her death struggle—the performance passed
on to the end with a smoothness which indicated
ample rehearsals.
"The Chouans,” as a melodrama of strong inter
est and pictorial excellence, can safely be chroni
cled as a success.
People’s Theatre. — Robson and
Craro. the familiar Dromios of the " Comedy of
Errors,” closed their engagement here last evening
in the presence of a large and unusually apprecia
tive audience. This is now believed to be the last
season of their performance in this comedy.
To-morrow evening and throughout the week,
including tho Wednesday and Saturday matinees,
Manager Harry Minor’s combination will make its
reappearance upon this stage in the representation
of the "Silver King,” one of the most successful
and one of the most effectively constructed dramas
which have come to us from the English stage.
The drama will be given with all the original scenic
settings and mechanical effects which attended its
original performances in this city.
Lee Avenue Academy of Music
(Brooklyn, E. D.).— Managers Borger and Price have
luckily secured for their present week’s attraction,
Mr. William Gillette’s new drama entitled " Held by
the Enemy,” which, it will ba remembered achieved
an immediate and emphatic success at the Madison
Square Theatre in the early part of the present sea
son. The drama will be given here with all the
scenic settings and military appointments which
accompanied its original production.
Commencing on November 22, Mr. John A, Ste
vens will fill an engagement here, appearing in his
rew p'ay of • A Gre->t Wrong R ghtod.”
M.:t;n-.TS ou Wc-Lieaday and Saturday
Star Theatre.—lilt, Edwin Booth
lias so far progresses in oonrsiosonco from tb»
t-evoro attack of illness which compelled hia ah.
sence from the stage einco last Monday night, on \
which occasion be played—fn spite of the protest ot
hia physician—Berroccio, that it Is definitely an.
, nonneed that he will re-appud? to-morrow evening
tw i*go. Tho cast of " Othello ” will be as follows :
Otbatl-o, Mr. Charles Barron; Brsbantio, Mr. Carl
Ahrendt; Cassio, Mr. John Malone; Roderigo, Mr.
Owen Faiwrtott; Duke of Venice, Mr. L. J. Hender
son; Mon-fano, Mr. John T. Sullivan; Qratiano, Mr.
H. C. Bartoff; LoAovico, Mr. T. L. Coleman; Paulo,
Mr. Edwin Boyle; Marco, Mr. J. Russell; Julio, Mr,
F. K. Morse; HesaLd, Mr. Volney Streamer; Messen
ger, Mr. Walter Thomas; Desdemona, Mis® Emma
Vaders; Emilia, MS3. Augusta Foster.
" Othello ” will fey repeated on Tuesday ana« Wed
nesday. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Mr. Booth will be seaw as Richelieu. n
Standard Theatre.—Mr. Dion
cault, tho aged and muoMy too often married play>
wright, plagiarist and actor, closed his series of
appearances here last evtnia-g. The audience was
of that dimension which is easily discernable
through the medium of an ordinary microscope. It
was of about the same encouraging extent as th®
literary merit of " The Jilt,” or She morality of its
author.
To-morrow evening Miss Rosin® Yokes’ Comedy
Company will make its re-appearance upon thi-a
stage, presenting "Cousin Dick,” "In Home
Bound,” and "A Pantomine Rehearsal,”—in al! of
which the various members of the ccrspany nu de
themselves pleasantly familiar to the public ;.aat
season. On Monday week Miss Rosina Yokes, who,
happily, by that time, will have wholly recovered
from her late severe illness, will once again coma
forward at tho head of her company an® reassure
us that her “ heart is still true to Poll.” Asd every
body of the great play-going guild will be corre
spondingly happy.
The Casino.—After one of tho most
successful comio opera- engagements ever played
outside of New York, the Casino company returns
to its home- to-morrow night, to present "*Er
minie, which was withdrawn here six weeks ego
in the midst of its roma’rifsble success, owing'
contracts made months- before. Among the new
faces to appear in " Erminie-” are Miss Marie Jaa
sen, Miss Belle Thorne, M<?s» Germon, and
Mark Smith and Frederick- Clifton. Miss Paulin®
Hall and Messrs. Francis Wilson, Henry Hallam;
Max Freeman and A. W. Maflin-, well known to the
habitues of tho Casino, will appear as usual. The
chorus is to number forty and’the orchestra twen
ty .four, under tho direction'of Mr. Jesse Williams.
The costumes and scenery are to’be now, and Man
ager Rudolph Aronson-promises'that tho "Ermiuia''’
revival will bo an unusually brilliant one.
On tho return of .the company to-morrow even
ing tho house is to be prettily ornamented with
flowers, trailing vines, &C; Nearly every seat ha&
already been sold for tho first night; On Tuesday
evening the two hundredth representation of " Er«
minie” by Mr. Aronson’s company-takes- place.
Madison Square Theatre.—The im
mediate hit of "Jim, the Penman,” at tbe Mad
ison Square Theatre, is the augury of a long
run for this remarkabaly powerful- drama. Mr.
Palmer, will, therefore, have some leisure,, and ha
has signified his purpose of beginning his-series of
Wednesday matinees, announced by him'earlier in
the season, for the trial of now American plays by
American authors.
It is supposed that a number of good pi®oe<? may
exist that, for one reason or another, have missed
the chance of representation. The out-cry alleging
that injustice is shown toward local dramatic-au
thors has long been audible. Mr. Pal mor proposes
to test the validity of this outcry on the subject of
the native drama, and ho wilL begin >the contem
plated afternoon performances with Mrt- Wv G.
Howell’s play of "/l Foregone Conclusion,” which
has been cast to Mr. Palmer’s dramatic company
and is now in rehearsal at the Madifion" Square-
Theatre.
The play will have the following cast: Don:
Ippolito, Alexander Salvini; Mr. Ferris, Lb K-
Massen; Mr. Billings, E. M. Holland;-Joseph;. H;.
Hogan; Mrs. Vervain, Mrs. E. J. Philips;
Miss Mario Burroughs; Verneranda, Miss May Rob
son; Nina, Miss Marie Green wold.
Madison Square Garden..—On-Mon
day, the 22d inst. Buffalo Bill and his great*-Wild;
West exhibition will be seen again—this time- in the
Madison Square Garden, which is being altered at;
an expense ol $60,003 for-his reception. This Wild
West will be entirely new and different from the
show that met with such immense triumph on<
Staten Island last Summer. Mr. Steele Maokayot
has written a drama of civilization, which will in
troduce Buffalo Bill, his Indians, cowboys, Mexican,
vaqueros, and over a hundred trained animals ol
all kinds.
Mr. Matt Morgan has covered over 15,000 yards of
canvas with h!s magic brush, that will be used -in;
conjunction with other features and elements that
were never before utilized in an exhibition will be
called into service for the proper presentation o£
this monster novelty.
A graphic and perfect representation of the Cue,
ter massacre is to be a prominent part of the per
formic -e. Dick Curley, of the United States Army,
the sole survivor of that terrible event, will partici
pate in tho scene, as will also Chief Gaul, an Indian
warrior who* led the hostile savages. Beside, there
will be seen a score ot frontier celebrities, champion,
crack shots, aud distinguished Wild West charac
ters.
There will bo any number of soul-stirring, roman*
tic and noble dramatic situations, the whole form
ing an array of thrilling, interesting and amusing
features that will excite the community, it is coafl
dently expected, to a high pitch. The projector®'
have expended already a small fortune in organiz*
ing the entertainment, and they promise, as a.
result, the most unique and startling exhibition;
ever seen in this or any other country. On Monday
morning, the 22d inst., a most picturesque.- and
novel parade will be giv on.
Poole’s Theatre (Eighth straet);- —
The "Keep it Dark” combination gave tho-final
performance of their fortnight’s engagement her®
last evening.
To-morrow evening and until further notice, Mr.
Roland Reed will be welcomed by. the patrons, of
this pop-ular theatre in Fred Marsden’s comedy, on.
titled "Humbug.” Mr, Reed. will,, of course, re
peat his clever impersonation of the indomitable
and persevering Jack Luster. Ha will be support
ed by Miss Alice Hastings as Mrs. Arminda Ber
tram Poneby, the adventuress.
Incidental to the play,,beside ether muaicotl num
bers, Mr. Reed will sing Mr. Sydney Rooenfeld’a
song of "With the Accent On,” and intr»od®co hia
new arrangement with Nettie of "A. Pocket Edition
of the Mikado.’’
It is needless to suggest that Sir Roland should
be greeted by a crowded aud ouce.. be.
cause he will be.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday..
Windsor Theatre.—“Takan From.
Life,” the melodrama which wasaoe-n at Wallack’e
a few seasons since, was given at the Windsor Thea
tre all last week to a serie* of large audiences, with
the Phora McAllister Company in the cast. Miss
McAllister as- Kate Denb.y, made a strong impres
sion, and the acting of H. Lu Duffield as Waiter Lee,
was all that could bo required.
To-morrow night Man*g>r Murtha presents an
other Union Square Theatre success, "Storm
Beaten/’ which had a long run when first produced
at the uptown house. The pl..y will be given with
all the original sensational effects, including the
breaking up of the ice aud ths Aurora Borealis in
tlra Artic regions and other startling features.
Tho play will be given with an - xcellent cast, that
includes several well known'and popular actors aud
actresses.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—This week,
commencing to-morrow evening, the illustrious
Tony will present an unusually attractive and va
ried programme of novelties. First on the list ia.
Mr. John T. Kelly—late of Kelly & Ryan's—wba
will be seen in his popular Irish comedy, entitled
"McCann’s Off Night.’ the cast of which includes;
Felix McCann, John T. Kelly; Nicodemus Duff, Geo.
Murphy; Nicholas Mix, Charles Whiting; Cah G;H
Snapps, Charles McDonald; Flip, Georgs Topack;
O. U. Ketchum, E. J. Heffermaii: Ginger Snapps,
Miss Georgia Parker: Angelina ;>uff, Miss Flora
Zanfretta; Bella Mix, Mies Anna Whiting.
Then there will bo the $1,009 novelty, "Mephis
to,” the electric wonder, by H. F. Tuleone aud Miss
D’Alcorn; Miss Annie and Mr. Charles Whiting in a
musical duct; Messrs. Bryant and Steele, Buffer,
man aud McDonald, George Murphy, Miss Georgia
Parker, Miss Florence Kellogg (’or tho first time in
two years), Miss Flora Zanfratta, the soubretta,
and
Well, Tony Pastor, who will once again make
everybody, as well as himself, happy with his
quaint hits at things he don’t like to see and his
jolly songs, topical and otherwise.
Matinees on Tuesday and Friday.
Park Theatre. —The O’Beagans ”
as a matter of course. That great majority of <-u,«
playgoers who do not want the earth all at once
can get the greater amount of its humor and
humanliness in witnessing the per forma neo of
"The O’Reagans.” Harrigan and Hanley are happy
and "The O’Reagans” will hold its pUo» here
for many a week to com&