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KosTE.it and Bial’s Concerts. —‘* L ti
tle Jack Shop pi rd ” and all tho bright and popular
features of the past week will bo continued aud in
augurate tho beginning of the New Year. Th j con
f cert thia evening will l.e notable for its variety aud
general excellence as well as novelty. Many ospe-
L daily interesting features will be introduced, and
I the host of patrons who hold this popular resort in
special regard will have a treat and a degree of en
joyment exceeding anything yet offered during tho
jpresent season.
I Tony Pastor’s Theatre.— For the
New Year's week—every evening and at the Tues
day and Friday matinees—Tony presents a varied
than usually attractive programme. It
will include. amo*J l ® 8 * Mf ’
Thomas Ryan as Bedalia Medanfl; the Marten’s
trio; Miss Laura Lee; the posturing Indians; the
Lenton brothers; Lester Howard and his “ Red-hot
Stone;” Prof. James H. Bruton; Messrs. Leopold
And Bun ell, in their “ Quickness;” Miss Lottie El.
liott, the dancer; Miss Nellie Hoyt and—well—
which his name is Antonius Pastori—who will war
ble sweetly and speak merry words unto his friends
in front.
Aud Harry Sanderson will be heard and seen in
the box-office, in all his glory—and a dress suit,
specially imported from London—made from a
measure por cable—by the understudy of the royal
tailor in ordinary to his highness the Prince of
Wales.
National Theatre. —Manager Hen
•miiin comes to the front with the popular east side
favorite, Dominick Murray as his dramatic attrac
tion for the presen t week. Ha will appear in his sen -
aational play of "Escaped from Sing Sing,” in which
he will impersonate seven distinct characters. The
oast will be supported by Mr. Murray’s company,
including Messrs. Powell, Jackson, Miller, Tayleur,
- Jarrett, Fisher, Misses Mamie E. Parker, Nora Lyt
ton and Jennie Bright.
The drama is in five acts, and will be presented
with now ecenic settings and mechanical effects.
Matinees on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Special aud Interesting concerts will ba given this
afternoon and evening.
Lee Avenue Academy of Music.
—The management of this house present a strong
holiday attraction during this week. Frederick
Wards, the tragedian, begins an engagement to
-morrow night, appearing in "Richard III.,” which
•will be repented Thursday evening.
On Tuesday and Friday, *«Galba, tho Gladiator,”
will be performed. At the Wednesday matinee,
“Ingomar;” Wednesday night, "Richelieu;” Satur
day. New Yecra’matinee, a double bill, "Delicate
Ground ” aud '• Katherine and Petruolo,” and Sat
urday night, “ Virginias.”
Mr. Wardo will have the support of his own ex
cellent company, including Miss Eugenio Blair.
Globe Dime Museum. —Proprietors
Meehan and \Wilson announce for their New Year's
week tho special engagement and the appearance
every day and evening of Mr. Henry Cooper, who
is said to ba "the tallest man alive,” who will be
reaching his arm up—and give a hundred dollar bill,
which ho holds in his hand, to any one who can
touch it—standing on a level with him. This is
also the last week of the lady taxidermists. All the
special animate and inanimate curios and freaks
will ba on exhibition every hour. As the dramatic
attraction, Mr. Edward Atkins will be seen in his
realistic drama of •** False Friendship," supported
► by his regular company.
Theiss’s Alhambra. — A new pro
gramme of musical, instrumental and vocal talent,*
as a farewell to the old year and the inauguration
of the now year, is announced for the present week.
It will include many interesting specialties, and, as
a matter of course, there will be crowded audi
ences.
Bijou Opera House. —Tho continued
success of Nat Goodwin in “Turned Up” and
“Those Bolls” is the record of this house. The au
diences have been uniformly large, in spite of the
holiday season. And Nat Goodwin smiloth and is
faappr* -
Jacobs’s Third Avenue Theatre.—
Under the now management, with tho popular
prices, the attraction for the New Year week will be,
commencing to-morrow evening, the drama of
“Shadows of a Great City.” The cast will be sup
ported by a capable company—the scenio settings
and the stage appointments will be the same that
characterized its original production. It will ur
doubtedly attract during the week large audiences.
Matinees will be given on Wednesday and Satur
day.
Musical and Dramatic Items.
A certain young actor who used to ba
prominent in Brooklyn amateur theatricals, was a Stat
en Island leno's hero, is reckoned a dandy ladies’ man,,
and a dat Log boy altogether, some time ago took a
young lady to supper tn Delmonlco’s, alter attending a
theatre. '1 lie lady noticed that he did not pay the bill to
the waiter, b ;t went up to the desk and spent some time
In settling it. The next day she missed the opera glasses
shehaa given him to carry, and asked him to return
them. The dandy boy sent her a note in reply, tull of
heartfelt apologies saying that they must have been left
in the carriage, and he would go to the stable and in
quire al out them. That was the last she heard of them
until about a month alteiward, when her brother re
ceived a note from the cashier at Delmonico's aaking
‘him to come aud i e leem the opera-glasses that he left
there in payment of a bill. The young lady has not
l been to Delmonico's since. The hero of the e: isode
must not be confounded with his namesake, who former
ly managed the Criterion Theatre, in Brooklyn.
“ This great talk about unemployed
actors wl o are starving on the ’Square’ is nil ‘rot.’ ”
said Mr Jam** M Warde, the other day. "I have beei
absent fiom New York for eight years, ai d now I conic
baok and find lust ex.ictly the same men loufirg around
the ‘Square ’ who v e:e there when I left. I surpos? tl e.’
ahvuys will be there as long as lie lasts. And with
hardly an exception they are men who are of no earthly
use to the profession. Actors with any talent and energy
can always find work. The profession is nomoreover
orCaded now than ;t always has been.” Mr. Warde ap
pears next Monday night in •• The Red Fox. ,; at Poole’s.
The Dlay was written tor him by Mr. Dan O’Connell,
although Mr. Roach claims a hand in it. His claim may
possibly develop into a law-suit. Mr. Warde is a thorough
* -*■. faced Irishman, and. the only actor whose performance of
“The Shangbraun” Mr. Boucicau’.t has sanctioned.
Eliza Weathersby (Mrs. Nat C. Good
win) is growing weaker as every day Dasses. When she
returned from Europe last Fall, her physicians thought
for a time that she was improving, and would ultimately
reebter. but for the past month she has been steadily
failing, and it is feared now that she will not out-last the
Winter. Mr. Goodwin is very much devoted to bis wife
and is only away from her bedside to attend to his duties
at tho Bllbu. They occupy a flat in the Rutland, where
Mrs. Goodwin’s two sisters, who are also in the Bijou
Company, live with them.
The funeral of Sig. Guiseppe Operti
was hold at the Little Church Around the Corner on the
morning of Dec. 16, Roy. Dr. G. H. Houghton officiating,
assisted by Itcv. G. R. Underhill. The Episcopal service
k was read. The pallbearers were members of the Musical
F Union, and included P. S. Gilmore, C. A. Cappa, Jesse
Williams, John Braham, W. Bayne. T. Christ, F. W. Zau
lig, H. J. Widmer, C. F. Wernig, W. C. Bowron and F. X.
Diller. The widow and her son, Albert, were present.
Tho Interment was in the Actors’ Fund plot in the Ever
green Cemetery.
The scene painters and costumers are
hard at work on the new material for "Galba, the’Gladla
- tor,” which Frederick Waide produces at tne Windsor
Theatre, January 10th, at agreat cost. Signor Novissimo
has been engaged to superintend tho grand ballet of
female dancers and Wolf Marks will furnish the large
male chorus. Thia play is entirely different from Dr.
Bird’s tragedy, formerly played by Forrest a*«d McCul
lough, and is dissimilar from the Salvlni version of “The
Gladiator.”
It is a fact that Mlle. Khea is making
her final tour of this country, and after the present sea
eon will not again be seen on the American stage. She
Is now acting in the West with excellent success, and in
April will plav le- farewell engagement in thia city,
•when she will be seen in a comedy by Meilhaoand Halevv
called “*1 lie Widow.” The piece illustrates in a piquant
wa‘. the waning of a widow's grief • under the story of a
new love and the discovery of his first spouse’s infidelity.
Manager J. Charles Davis has a re
serve contract for a52,500 half-interest in the American
rights to “ Passing Shadows.” and is given until March
25th next to accept or cancel. This piece will have its
first production early that month. It Is founded on John
A. Stevens’s play. -Her Second Love,” and that actor a i
•th or ha been working four years to sha; e it quite to h s
liking. He will superintend its production, and will not
play in it himself.
Off the stage Miss Ada Rehan is not a
really handsome nor even a pre-ty woman. Her com-
S lotion is what ;ome unkind people would call “pasty.’
ut her face shown a kindly disposition, strong character
and abundant good sense. When seen walking down
Broadway, as she frequently is with Mrs. Gilbert, her
Stately physique always commands admiration.
Manager Locke draws a salary of S7OO
a week from the American (National) Opera Company
The directors cheerfully say that they hardly expect the
company to be a money-making concern yet awhile Uu
fe doubtedly the directors are right.
* “ Tho Mascotte” will probably follow
“ Turned Up ” at the Bijou Opera House, with Nat Good
win as Lorenzo. (lever Goodwin’s oid burlesque 01
“ Pipp-ns ” is also being revised, and may possibly be
given later n the season.
Manager H. C. Miner, accompanied
by Mrs Miner and a few friends, will leave during the
second week in January on their regular visit to Florida
They will be away until April, aud will extend their trip
to the West Indie- 3 .
“The Marquis” is to succeed “Er
mini©” at the Casino by-and-by. It is a comic opera by
M. Lacombe, anglicised by Robert Reece, ami had a long
run when originally sung at the Paris Follies-Drama
tiquea.
Edward Harrigan has a new plav ready
i ro i’?'2 O’P.easans,” at the Park Theatre, in
YLsit toNeTYork^t?/ 3 a “ Ashman on a
Ihomas F. Barden, for thirty-three
years connected with the box-office at the different Wai
lacks Theatre. is to retire Horn active business at the
close of the season. e s at tne
; Clara Morris is at her home at Irving-
ton-on-the-Hi dson, where she is rapidly recovering her
health. Miss Morns renews her tour January 3d, Tn St
Paul, M:nn
George Clarke, for several years the
leading min o! Daly’s company, has returned to his first
love, and reappears at Daly’s Theatre in the next play.
Joseph Jefferson starts for his Louisi
anaj Uniation on January Ist. He b gins his regular
Spring s a on April 4th, in Fall Riser, Mass.
Kugenia Blair has been re-engaged
Varde“omp tU leadins lady ot ,ha '''Derick
“Liebig Co’s Coca Beef Tonic is far
superior to th* fashionable and illusive preparations
of beef, wine and iron,” says Professor F. W. Hunt,
M. D., Honorary Member Imperial Medical Society
of St. Petersburg, Russia, etc., etc. Care* debility,
#ile*, dyspepsia, billiouauesa.
©own.
The Brewers’ Pool is creating Con
siderable excitement among tho saloon -keepers of
this city, but Mr. Emit. H. Kosmak, tho gentlemanly
proprietor of the Brooklyn Bridge House. Nos. 65
and 67 Park Row, says that though the brewers
may, as they stato, own a large, number of saloons
outright and hold mortgages on a great many
others, no one of'them has any claims upon his
place of business. Ho buys for cash, and if the
goods furnished aro not to his guests’ liking, he
will change them in spite of ail pools, brewers or
others. Mr. Kosmak wishes it distinctly under
stood that No. 65 Park Row is run for tho con
venience of the public, and not for making money.
If Torr have sls in your inside pookot;
SSO overcoats, sls; S4O overcoats, sl2; S3O over
coats, $8; S2O overcoats, $6; $lO overcoats, $3. Cam
eron, Flatbush avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn.
Increasing In Fcpularity. —Under
the capable management 6f Mt. John P. Senninger,
the saloon at No. 2 Murray street. Increases every
day in popularity. This it well deserves, as the
proprietor provides for his customers the best ot
spirituous and malt drinks. His whiskies are of
good ago, his wines of the most approved brands,
his cigars of the highest excellence, and his lager
beer is the brewing of honest George Bechtel's
Excelsior Brewery. To a long experience in busi
ness Mr. Senninger adds the character of a truthful,
honest man. Everything he sells is exactly what it
is represented to bo.
If you have 815 in your inside pocket;
SSO overcoats, sls; S4O overcoats, sl2; S3O over
coats, $8; S2O overcoats, $6; $lO overcoats, $3. Cam
eron, Flatbush avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn.
No New Year’s Table should be with
out a bottle of Angostura Bitters, the world re
nowned appetizer, of exquisite flavor. Beware of
counterfeits.
If you have sls in your inside pocket;
SSO overcoats, sls; S4O overcoats, sl2; S3O over
coats, $8; S2O overcoats, $6; $lO overcoats, $3. Cam
eron, Flatbush avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn.
The Herald says that a bottle of Db.
Fuller’s Pocket Injection, with syringe combined,
will cure the worst case without capsules or nau
seous medicines. All druggists sl.—- Sat. Express.
If you have sls in your inside pocket;
SSO overcoats, sls; S4O overcoats, sl2; S3O over
coats, $8; S2O overcoats, $6; $lO overcoats, $3. Cam
eron, Flatbush avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn.
All private diseases cured by physi
clan in drug store, No. 90 Park street, cor. Mulber
ry. All other diseases skillfully treated.
Dr. Fuller’s Youthful Vigor Pills,
for loss of manhood, cures nervous debility sper
motorrhcea and nocturnal emissions. By mail, $2.
Depot, No. 429 Canal street and all druggists.
If you have sls in your inside pocket;
SSO overcoats, sls; S4O overcoats, sl2; S3O over
coats; $8; s2Oovercoats, $6; $lO overcoats, $3. Cam
eron, Flatbush- avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn.
®itij anti
IMoi’ton lor Senator.
THE VIEWS OF AN ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTER
—HE IS FOR MORTON ALL THE TIME.
To'Jh* Editor of the New York Dispatch :
I, along with other good Republicans, suggest the
nsme of “Levi P. Morton ” for Senator from this
great Empire State, first, because he is an honest,
straightforward man, and a gentleman who under
stands the wants of the people. Second, because
be hasfbeen the great friend of the Republican party
in the hour of need, when all the other wealthy
members of the party have been appealed to,.but all
in vain. Yet the appeal to that time-honored Re
publican, Levi P. Morton, was not in vain< for he
came tc the front time and again with his check for
a handsome amount, and needless to say that to
him more than to any one else in the ranks of the
Republican party is due the credit of turning de
feat into victory on a great many occasions-in State
and National elections. He has filled the office of
Member of Congress from the Eleventh Congres
sional District of this city, with credlt'to- himself
and likewise to the people who placed him'there.
In the halls of Congress his voice has been heard at
all times In the interest of pure and honest gov
ernment, He is not a politician, nor a political
trickster, but an honorable business man, who- has
at all times been identified with tho interests of the
working class. I myself am a workingman, and a
workingman s son, and know whereof I speak.
All good and loyal Republican members of the
Legislature will unite on the name of Hom Levi P.
Morton for U. S. Senator. We now have had six years
of Warner Miller’s service, and in the name of
Heaven in all them six years what measure of any
importince did he advocate to benefit the people of
this State, except the Oleomargarine bill. He was,
I can assure you, somewhat reluctant to pursue
the course he did in reference to that bill, until he
was compelled to show his hand.
The people of the whole State of New York, and
especially of the Eleventh Congressional District,
have watched with great interest Levi P. Morton’s
course while in Congress. His indefatigable and un
tiring energies in the interest of reform and pure
and economical government, are still fresh in their
memory. Levi P. Morton as U. S. Senator is the
only man who can possibly harmonize the dissen
tions so prevalent of late years in the-ranks of the
Republican party. Now is the time for the Re*
publicans to sow the seed; by all means hold this,
the Empire State, Republican, and reap the fruits
of it once more in 1888, by taking another twenty
four years* lease of the National Government.
Good and far-seeing Republicans must now come
to a sense of their duty at this critical time—it is
plain that we cannot afford to lose the valuable
patriotic services of Mr. Morton. Isay, unhesitat
ingly, that with Warner Miller to the front the Re
publican party will always be split. lam sure tho
Republican members from the interior and western
part of the Stato will unite on Morton, if for noth
ing else but for the sake of harmony, to unite the
party in a solid front for tho great battle of 1888.
It may be said now, perhaps, that I have dwelt a
little too much on the merits of this gentleman. I
do not know that I have ever seen Mr. Morton; do
not know him from Adam—have certainly no per
sonal interest in his election; but I have the inter
est of the Republican party at heart. With a man
possessed of such rare character, intelligence and
ability in the United States Senate, then the Repub
lican party will unite and present a solid front and
roll harmoniously on to victory in 1888.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
Joseph P. Ryan.
£*ossil>ly Tliere Was a Lkouljt.
BUT THE OFFICER SWORE TO A KEENNESS OF
SIGHT NOT USUAL.
When George Murray, a car driver, was put on .■
trial Monday, charged with assaulting John Becker,
while he was quietly walking through Fifty-fifth
street, the court was about to discharge him when
a lady who saw the assault committed, said Mr.
Becker could not have been subpenaed. The case
then went over. When it came up again Officer
John Dermody, of the Twenty-second Precinct said
on the 23d of August last, he saw Murray assault
Mr. Becker. He struck Becker, who fell on the
sidewalk, and Murray kicked him twice, and when
Backer was getting up he hit him sent
him rolling in the street. The officer stood at
Ninth avenue when he saw this. The fight was mid
way to Tenth avenue, and there was a crowd of a
hundred in the street. As Murray was walking up
to the avenue, he arrested him.
Murray said he was a car driver on the Tenth
avenue. He did not know Becker. Ha never saw
him till after he was arrested, at Fifty-seventh
Street Court. This was the first trouble he ever
was in in bis lif *. That day he went to get paid,
after having dinner, and, going through Fifty-fifth
street, he saw a crowd behind him. He said to
himself “I’m going to keep away from trouble,”
but on meeting the officer, be was arrested, and,
much to bis surprise charged with assaulting a
man. His hands weren’t out of his pockets from
the time he entered the street till arrested. There
was a sian ahead of him that might have assaulted
Becker, but Becker, coming up, told the officer to
arrest him. At first Becker could not say which of
the two assaulted him, but the officer settled it by
saying Murray is the man, and the other fellow was
Let go.
Mr. Becker, the complainant, said he was walk
ing quietly through the street when he was struck
an “awful blow.” He noticed nobody in front or
behind him. The first blow laid him flat, and, in
the fall, his shoulder blade was broken, and, when
getting up, he was sent whistling into the middle
of the street. He was laid up four weeks at home.
The officer was recalled and swore that, 200 feet
off, in the midst of a big crowd, he saw the defend
ant strike Becker.
The Court found Murray guilty.
Counsel said he could say nothing after the decis
ion. except that prisoner was a hard working man.
had no occasion to assault Becker, never saw him,
and prisoner had no grudge against him. Up till
to-day he was in the employ of the railroad com-
NEW YORK DISPATCH. DECEMBER 26, 1886.
pany, and two weeks ago be buried onj of his chil
dren.
The Court sent him to the Penitentiary for fiver
months.
Indignant Mrs. Jcfforson.
SHE SENDS HER BOY WITH A LETTER A&D
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS TO JUSTICE RSIIKE
HART FOR A DIVORCE—THE GROUIM> ON
WHICH SHE ASKED FOR IT.
A colored youth, of about twelve yoscs. entered
Justice Rhinehart's court room, on GraaA street.
Williamsburg, last Thursday aitemoon. aitec the
latter got through with the trial of a horse- case,
and was ushered into the magistrate’s private office.
The lad handed his Honor a letter, which no stated
was from his mamma. The envelope was addressed
io inft Judge of the Court, and when it was opened,
a curious and rather startling epistle met tho
*■*-*—.ta’»gajQt It md m tQUows:
** «• Degembeb 22d.
a devors rite awa’
"MR. Judge: Want yo gif ’• •'*mo is Ran*
an send it be me boy. Me ole man's . *‘**rled
dolf Jerfferson, an’ me own name be.'o’ I m..
the brute, was Emma Martha Maria Longstreet.
When I gets home from work last nite, I caught
Josie Davison in de rume wud Raudolf Jefferson,
an’ that's mo ole man. I jest went for her wool an’
dragged it out for her, an’ den I threw her out mo
self, an' de oder tenants sed dat I was rite, an’ I bo
leeve I was. Ive gud grouns for a divers. Judge, an*
all de nabors can back me up in what I say, an* dat’s
the Lor’s truf. Sind me do divors rite awa' Judge,
while mo temper is up; for if it cools down, de ole
man wud get a foolin' wud me an* I mite be temped
to forgiv’ him.
“ Dat’s how de matter stans just now, Judge, an’
I sind 25 cents wid de little boy to pay for da pa
pers. Sind dem rite awa'.aforo I cool down, for if I
do I might make an ass ob meself. an' forgiv’ him.
Don’t let do boy keep de quarter. Judge, lor he’s a
cuto one. Take it an’keep it fo’yo’r trouble. Bo
sure to giv’ da divors to Emma Martha Maria Jef
ferson, of Sixth street, in de nigger row, between
Grand aud South First streets.”
“Did your mamma tell you what showanta?”
asked tho Court.
“Yes, sir; she said she wants a divoroo from
dad.”
" What’s a divorce ?”
“I 'spect it’s Santa Claus, for she gave ma twen
ty .five cents to pay for it.”
The magistrate smiled, and the Dispatch roprea
ontativo laughed outright. The little follow did not
seem to understand what the matter was, and he
asked for the article he was sent to purchase for a
quarter.
“ What was the Cro'wblo between your papa and"
mamma ?” asked the magistrate.
“ Dad was drinking beer all the evening with Mrs.
Davison an' when mamrai she comes homesho gets
mad, and she just gave dot ole thing a good wDol
ing until Josie cried for help*. Dad he thought to
keep mamma back but mammwshe just gave him
ono punch on do nose an* Adored 1 him. Yo* bat he
didn't want any more fitin’. Ptsjs*a beat mo an’
drove me out of do house while- Mrs. Davison was
in de room wif him. Mamma said** dat everybody
saw the fight.”
"Toll your mother,” said the magistrate, “ that I
have no power to grant a divorce. It would take
several hundred dollars to buy one and 1 shat I think
is moro money than sho has got. Only tha rich can
enjoy that luxury. Tell her to forgive yotsr father
this time, to give him ono more chance and he will
do better. She can buy a Christmas present for
him with the quarter.”
“I will tell her, but can I keep ths ’ twenty-five
cents, Judge ?” said the lad.
“No, no,” replied the magistrate, “you give the
money to your mother.”
The lad then departed.
The Dispatch man went to the address indicated
in the letter. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson and their
three children occupy twe rooms on the grouud
floer of one of a row of frame structures which
open on an alley. Young Jefferson had just deliv
ered the magistrate’s message to his mother, and
tho old lady was in a towering rage, while Mr. Jef
ferson sat meekly in a chair near the stove and
never once raised his eyes or answered her.
“So I can’t get any divo’ce, an’ I must lib wid
yo’ all me life, yo’ old sinner—do yo’ hear? I’ll
nebber do it! I’ll hab a divo’ce if I hab to work
my finger nails off fo’ it. Do yo’ hear an' mind me,
Randolph Jefferson, yo* ole fool yo’ ? What was yo’
doin' all de afternoon wid dat woolly-haired nigga
wonch, Joe Davision, I would like to know, Mr.
Jefferson ?”
Mr. Jefferson prudently Kept silent.
When the reporter informed Mrs. Jefforsoh that
he would like to get the particulars of the case, she
looked savagely at the old man and replied:
“Now, see de scandal yo’re bringin’ on me in de
noospapers, Mr. Jefferson ! An’ what hab yo’ to
say fo* yo’self? Dar’s scandal enuff in de noospa
pers widout yo’ makin’ mo*. Yo’re a nice old man
to bo foolin’wid dat Josie In my room! Won’t I
gib it to yo’ !”
Aitor Mrs. Jefferson had given her husband a
sound tongue thrashing, she stated the case. Sho
had been out house cleaning for the holidays, and
when she camo home at nine o'clock in the even
ing she found her husband and Mrs. Davison in her
bed room, aud the scene which she herself so
graphically described followed.
Misfits from Fifth avenue and best
London tailors, selling at half price. Also ladies’
tailor-made garments at Shea’s, corner Broome and
Crosby
Tlie Doc tor’s Ollemma.
HE HAS A WIFE BUT HE CAN’T HAVE HER,
YET IS TO SUPPORT HER ALL THE SAME.
Dr. Elisha P. Ould seems very much like a man
that is being pitched from pillar to post. His wife
has had him in the Supreme, the Superior, the
police court and the last wind-up was in the Special
Sessions.
They agreed mutually on a separation three years
and a half ago, and to live back to back for life.
When they parted he placed $2,000 to her account
in the Trust Company. The money is gone, and
she now seeks support. He offers to take her home
and support her, but sho won't; she wants a separ
ate maintenance. He thinks he is not bound to do
that; tho wife must make her home with the hus
band, to be supported. She thinks not, and gives
as a reason that she anticipates harm. Before they
parted he mixed up two cups of "coldpia'n” and
handed one ot them to her, while holding the other,
be asked her to drink to the dregs and he would
follow suit. Life wasn’t worth a cuss, and they
might as well turn up their toes together.
But Mrs. Ould, who is well advanced in life, said
she preferred to slide down the hill in the old way,
and die after Christian fashion, and have natural
death.
It might be that when Mr. Ould held up what she
supposed to be two cups of death, it was only plain
Croton water. At all events, neither drank, and
both are living to-day. Perhaps be was only trying
her itUth, to see if she loved him enough to kick the
beam at the same time, and he found she wasn't
true to that extent.
Mr. Quid’s jolly, round, good-natured looking
mug, would indicate that he would prefer a brandy
cocktail to a “ cup of cold pis’n.”
Counsel for Mr. Ould said the proposition to take
her life was ridiculous. When cross-examined in
the police court as to this proposition, she said it
was made in bed, where these were no weapons to
take life, and they lay back to. back, a space between
them wide enough to drive a truck through.
Counsel on the other side said the three years and
a half were up, the money was all gone and she was
likely to be a charge on the county.
The court seemed to think that tho order of the
court below should be sustained—eight dollars a
week alimony. If she was in fear of her life, the
law did not compel her to go back and live with her
husband. Beside, she had no ri'ght to make an
agreement to mutually separate; if she did. it was
not binding. Now swearing that she is likely to be
a charge on the county, she is not the party pursu
ing, but the county.
From the tenor of the remarks that fell from tho
court it is very likely that the decision of the police
justice will be affirmed. That is. that he pays eight
dollars a week aud she need not go to live with him.
IVo Hope lor Him.
HE IS FATED TO BE A CRIMINAL FOR LIFE.
Fred Christianson and James Walsh were room
mates at No. 119 Chrystie street. Fred robbed his
mate of all his moveables, even to bis shaving cup
and razor. They were together in a furnished room.
Wslsh said a friend of his told him Fred was going
to rob him, and clean out all the house on Sunday.
This timely warning prevented a general cleaning
out of No. 119 Chrystie street, but while he could
save others be was a loser himself to the extent of
sll.
“ What is your business ?” said the Court, when
defendant took the stand in his own behalf.
“Actor,” was the reply.
“ Are you a comedian or a tragedian ?” asked the
Court.
“I'm a walking gentleman on the stage.”
“A what?” asked the Court,
“A supe,” said Mr. Walsh; “he sets the chairs
and tables on the stage.”
“Were you ever arrested before?” asked the
Court.
“Yes, sir. for counterfeiting, but I was discharg
ed,” replied tho prisoner.
“He told me,” said lodger Doran, “ that he had
just come out of quod after serving a sixer on Crow
Hill.”
“Three months,” said the Court.
All Remedies are too lato when tho lungs are de
stroyed. Extinguish a cough at once with Hale’s
Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache
Drops euro in ono minute.
Changeable.
TO-DAY SHE WOULD HANG HER HUSBAND—
THE NEXT SHE WOULD DIE FOR HIM.
William Seymour, a comedian and singer, was
charged with failing to give support to his wife and
children. There was nothing comic about his looks
when asked to plead. Ho said he was guiity and
would try to do better.
Officer Gardner, of Mr. Goery's Society, said the
ages of the neglected children were six and nine
years. Justice Reilly requested him to investigate
the case, and he found the husband had done noth
ing for wife or children in some time. As the
mother couldn’t support the children, they were
sent to the Juvenile Asylum. Ho learned that de
fendant was a drinking man, bad left bis homo and
neglected his family. Ha didn't know defendant's
income.
Ida Seymour, the wife, said sho had no support
from bin} since May. She partially supported her
self, and 14fid help from her father.
“ Wh&t are his opportunities to get work ?” asked
‘ho C&HJt
;r- -a . opera singer,” said
“ He is a nrst-waW
tho wilo.
“ How much could he earn it a 66b$r dud teffipfip
ate man ?”
“S4O a week, but part of that time he might be
Idle.”
“ How much on an average would ho earn ?”
“ $2,000 a year.”
“ Aud ho has paid no rent all this time ?”
“No, sir.”
“ And this is the theatrical season ?” said Justice
Kilbreth.
" Yes, sir.”
" Has ho boon arrosted boforo ?’’
“ Yos, sir. He was sentenced to three months.”
“ Did he servo his time ?”
“No, ho was released on my application because
he promised to do better.”
“ How long in jail before released ?”
" Three days.”
“ What did he say ?’’
“Ho said he had an engagement aud be couldn’t
keep it if Jacked up.’’
• r Under thia statement you got him discharged ?”
“Yes, sir.”
Mr. Seymovr said he expected counsel to be pres
ent to represent him. He had not an opportunity
to send for him. He sent a messenger for him. He
; had provided for her in the last eleven years, but
the last year tfiero hail been hundreds, like himself,
cut of an engagement. He had not paid his lawyer;
ho wao hie friend. He had no money to fee a law
yeiv Ho had suffered as much as his wife; she had
a home with'her folks-,-while he-bad to strut up
and AWn tho Rialto for days waiting and waiting
for an emgagement. He was willing to do anything.
“I would solicit advertisements-,” be said in bis
wind up/
Mr. Seymour waa remanded;-it was thought ho
had been convicted. Not sc; The case came up at
the next session and the wife Waa again put on the
stand and examined by bia lawyer, Mr. Barnard.
" What dd°u9ou know about hlwfailing to* properly
care for the children ?” asked Justice'Smith.
“He said it wua be causa hehadh'b employment.”
“ How long ?”
“Not since August. Prevldua to'that he dNS sup
port us aa long as he was in employment.”
“la thia failure his-own fault ?”
“I can’t say it was his own fault.”
“During the time your husband has- been* em
ployed ha'has been very punctual in giving, money
to you and your family.” said counsel.
" Yes, sir.”
“Ho is willing to be employed, ftnd'to’give au< h>>
his means ?”
"Yes, sir.”
“Thera are a number of-opera singers'unenp
ployed ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“ Do you know it ha has sought employment out
side of his profession ?”
“Yes, air.”
“As far as he could, when ‘he had ‘the means,- he
provided for you?”
“Yes. sir.”
In answer to Justice Murray, she said 'she was a
dressmaker, and 1 bad sometimes to • work from*
home.
“During these times waa he sober or drunk ?”
“At times, "not all tho time.”
She could not say,* if he kept sober, that 1 he could
get work. There were other professionals "as well
aa he out of employment. It was onfly onoa in a •
while that ha brought professional friends to the
house and had a convivial time.
“The truth is you don’t want him punished
now ?” said the Court.
“ What do you mean ?” asked the wife.
"You don’t want him punished to-day?'How
have you been doing at the dressmaking business ?”
“Very well.”
“Well, he is discharged, but you will have to take
the children out of tba Asylum.”
“Let me make an explanation,” said counsel.
"No, she must take the children back,” said the
Court.
Physicians prescribe Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla in cases of scrofula, and in every form of
chronic disease, because this medicine is safer to
take, and is more highly concentrated than any
other preparation. It can always be depended upon
as an effective blood purifier..
Complicated Itelatlonsliip.
A WOMAN GUILTY OF BIGAMY WHEN SHE
MARRIES, BUT HUSBAND-No. 1 DYING, WHEN
DESERTED BY No.. 2, SHE HAS HIM AR
RESTED, AND THE COURT HOLDS HER IN
THE RIGHT.
Andrew Archer was charged with abandoning bis
wife, and the police justice-having ordered him to
pay for her support, he appeared to plead in the
Special Sessions.
Mr. Oliver, for the defendant, asked to be per
mitted to make a suggestion, to save time. The
woman admitted that there waa a previous mar
riage when she married this man, her first husband
being then alive, and didn’t die till three years
after living with thia man. He would not say it
was a meretricious act on her part.
The Court asked if after .the death of the first hus
band the relationship of the second man continued
the same with the woman.
Counsel admitted that it did; there was no
change—the same as when she waa living in bigam
ous relationship.
The Court said they would, hear, the case. They,
thought there might have been bigamy for a time,
but it ceased when the husband died, and her
claim to be considered Axoher’s wile then came to
hold good. They-ordered Mrs. Archer to be sworn,
and passed her over to. Mr. Oliver to be exaaained.
Her case had been made* out on the papers.
••At the time you married Archer your husband
waa living?” asked counsel.
“Yes, sir; but he also was a married man; was
the father of children, and he brought them over
from Germany.”
«• After you married Mr. Archer, when did you
find cut that your previous husband, Capt. Ward,
was a married, man ?’•
About five years,” she replied.
“Ho.w long after you married Archer (No. 2) waa
it that Captain Ward (No. 1) died ?”
“ Three years.”
“ Were you living with No. 2 when No. 1 died?”
“Yes, sir.”
“ When you found that Capt. Ward bad another
wife did you live with him ?”
“No.”
“Then you went and married Archer ?”
“ Yes, sir. Mr. Ward died last July.”
She told Archer, before she married him* that she
had been married to Ward and had left him. Archer
and Ward knew each other, and had had beers to-
I getherin the house with her.
“Alter Ward’s death was there any change with
Archer?”
“No, not a bit.”
“ You had not obtained a divorce from Ward be
fore you went to live with. Archer? ’
“ No.”
Counsel tried to. make a point out of the fact
I that she had Archer arrested fifteen weeks ago, and
failing to pay the alimony ordered by the Justice,
she fiad another warrant issued for his arrest.
The two points counsel made were: First, she
• had defendant arrested fifteen weeks ago. He was
paroled, promising to give her some money. He
failed to keep his promise, and ho was rearrested on
I another warrant. But one warrant for this offense
| —abandonment—could be issued in the same year.
That demurrer was squelched.
I The other point waa that when this woman mar
ried Archer, the previous husband was living, and
• hence it was a meretricious cohabitation.
Justice Smith said it was a mutual consent. He
might have set up the marriage was not good, but
alter the first husband’s death, they continued to
live together as man and wife, as they had before.
“ But,” said counsel, “ there was no new con
tract, there could not be a meretricious union, even
| with the ceremonial of marriage. The marriage re
lationsbip must commence after the death of the
J husband.”
! The three solons discussed among themselves, and
I decided eventually that she was Archer’s wife now,
' although not legally that till after the captain’s
death.
Previously she might have been arrested and
punished for bigamy, now she couldn’t, the death
of the old sea salt, had wiped out her moral offense.
The Police Justices, at Sessions* having sustained
the Police Justice, came to consider the question of
alimony. Ho had been ordered to pay three
a week. Ho ho a toiler maHou
Justice Power said men at that trade earned $3 a
day.
He said he only got two and a half when working,
and didn’t average $9 a week. There was a gentle
man in court in the business who would sustain
what he said.
Justice Power said he could put him on the stand,
but he believed they got $3 a day.
The order of Justice Reilly to pay $3 a week was
affirmed.
The Wife Wanted Him. Alone.
AND NO MOTHER-IN-LAW, OR SISTER-IN-LAW,
OR NIECE-IN-LAW.
Augustus Beck, a great big stalwart fellow, who
could knock Sullivan out in the first round, was
held down by a sister, who separated him from his
wife, and broke up his business as boss. The case
came up in the Special Sessions on the amount of
allowance that his wife should ba granted. The
abandonment was admitted. Marriage was con
ceded. It took place two years and eight months
ago. He left her about the close of September last
and wont to live with her uncle, because oil ohe dc j
casion he held her by the nose with one hand, and
ptincliil her cfiii"With the oi.£e r -
Counsel said that was the way young folks had in
coddling;
She said it ♦fas father rough;
“It would be *RougU on Rats,’ " flald the prose
cuting counsel.
She said they separated, and he agreed to pay her
seven dollars a week. He neglected to pay hen
She had him arrested twice for abandonment.
Crc?s®-examinod she said her husband was in
business at No. 468 Second avenue. Ho kept a man
and three boys. Ha did very wotl in his place and
had good custom as a butcher.
The big butcher took the stand, and looked as
gentle as a lamb. His place was No. 468 Second
avenue. The shop was formerly his, is Wasn’t hU’n
now. It was his brother’s.
•‘Doyou open the place ?” asked counset
“ Yes, sir.”
•‘ Why did you sell to your brother ?”
“J couldn't get along.”
“ But your brother could 1 gst along. Your
ther has the same customers
“Yes, sir.”
Further examined, he said he sold his place to bis
brother for S2OO, and part of tb'kt he gave to his
wife as long as he could. He had dw more than his
week's pay from his brother, who bought trim out.
“But I’ll live with my wife if she lets
me,” said the defendant.
“Make it to-day,” said the Court.
“To-day,” said the accused, with grejf glee, sup
posing all the trouble was ended. .
It wasn’t.
“ You heard what your wife has said. Did you
strike her ? ' asked the Court.
“ Strike her ! Lord ! the worst I ever g«ve her
has been a smack, in bed. Who hasn’t doae the
same?” asked the big fellow.
“ You didn’t pull her nose ?” said the Court-
“No; it was a genteel draw, in fun, to bring nose
to nose.”
The defendant then went on to state that his wife
left with the baby in the carriage, packed her
clothes in the carriage, left him, and never came
back.
“Why don't you live together?” asked Justice
Murray.
“He keeps bis sister and niece and mother and
other relations. I don't know how many. I want
to live with him alone.”
* “I am willing to live with her,” said the man.
“I’ll live with her this minute.”
“She doesn’t want anybody in the same bed
£©om. ” said the court.
“I'll please her every which way I can to get her
back.” said the man.
“And I'll goback if there la no mother or sister
or niece to interfere."
“TH bargain on that,” said Gus. “ You’ll have a
whole house to yourself.”
“ When- will you take rooms for her ?” asked the
court;
“Now;”
“Now, is good.” said the court. “It is the ac
cepted 1 time: Will you promise that you won't
bring your mother there F*
“ Yes, sir,”
“ Nor your sister F’
“Yes, silt”
•* Nor your aunt ?”
“Upon>my honor.’”
“ Nor any other blood retalrve ?*’
“I swear.”
“On- these promises yow are paroled,” said the
court.
The two -left &he court rejoined. How long the re.
union will Hast, depends tipe© themselves. If they
will permit' outsiders to interfere, they can never
have a happy, home.
A. Charitable JRlrin.
MORE OUGHT lO> BE LIKE THEM.
There are more shoplifters caught at Ridley’s
dry goods store-in. Grand street, by their private de
tective, Morrison, than in ali ths other great stores
of-the city. But the strangest feature of this theft
and capture ifr, before the case comes on trial. Mr.
Ridley's manager make hie detective, Mr. Morrison,
make inquiry into the case, and report to him if he
thinks it a.case of first offense-and temptation. If
it 4s, Mr. Morrison, so reports to him, and is so in
structed to report to* the court, and ask that the
prisoner be leniently dealt with; that is, in a case
where their is a plea of guilty entered.
Thus, on. Friday,, a neatly-dressed girl was put to
the bar charged with the “ Lifting” of some trifling
articles.
Mr. Morrison bad caught her; the goods were
taken, fno m the counter. The detective never saw
her before. She was. poor. The manager told him
to investigate the case; he did, and found that the
young woman, was. poor, but very respectably con
nected* The firm asked that she be dealt leniently
with..
The court fined her five days, or five dollars if she
could raise it.
Maggie Morgan, another young girl, pleaded
guilty to.larceny, to a petty thing from a counter in
Ridley's stoce.
Her former employer came up and gave her a
good character. She bad lived with them two
years,, there never had been a more honest or better
girl in the family. Her husband was a compositor—
or type-setter.
Mr. Morrison said this was the first time to his
knowledge that she had been arraigned at the bar.
The Ridley firm had instructed him to ask her to be
dealt leniently with.
She was. The court fined her five dollars.
Tlie Tlireo I*olltlolans.
THE TWO REILLYS.
James Reilly was formerly a bartender for Thos.
Rielly. Jim was an Irving Hall man, his boss was
a County Democracy man, and Tom Roach, who
cleaned the spittons and raked the sawdust iu the
bar, was a Tammany man.
One fact was clear, Tom Reilly's till was cleaned
out of sls, but who “ tuck it ” was the rub.
Tom Reilly said at 11:30 left the store for a few
minutes, and left Jim Reilly, formerly in his em
ploy, and Tom Roach, his spittoon washer, in the
place. When he came back Reilly walked out, and
when he went behind the bar he found his money
gone; then Roach told him Reilly took it. His first
remark was, “That is just like a Irving Hall
man.” The next afternoon he saw Jim, and bottled
this Irving Hall fellow.
Tom Roach said he was in the place, was em
ployed there outside the bar. Jim was in the place,
and after the boss went out, Jim went behind the
bar and took a horn big enough to swim in. Then
he went to the drawer where the money was, and
had his back tp me.
“What did you say ?” asked the Qourt.
“ Nothing. I went inside the bar and told Reilly
he had no business there.”
Defendant said he never was behind the bar. His
accuser, ho said, was a bum, did all the dirty work
in rhe place and got drinks for it.
R .11. wa a q i
1.00 --*• CC3 1 .
A BARTENDER SELLS AN O.*’ .CER IN UNI
FORM.
Sunday, the 10th of October, Officer Price, of the
Twenty-second Precinct, went into t ie saloon where
Frank Murray is bartender, in Forty-fourth street,
called for a glass os beer, and got it. He paid for
it. Nobody else was in the place at the time but
defendant.
“ Where did he draw the beer from ?” asked
counsel.
“It came from the restauran'.”
“Are you prepared to swear : wai iger?”
“Yes, sir.”
“You are bartender in this plac. ?” askod couns al
of his client.
“Yes, sir,” replied Murray. “Half-past two
o’clock I went in to clean the place, an I the
came in, and he asked me if it wa. all ight K I said
‘Yes, sir.' ”
“You knew he was an officer?”
“ Y&3. sir.”
“Ha was in uniform ?”
“Yes, str.”
“ After he took his drink you askad for the /non
ey, and he paid you ?'*
“Yes, sir x ’'
’“Then he arrest 3-1 you ?” sid <
•‘Yas, sir.”
-Nti Said tha
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COMMANDER SHATTUCK XS /'^CTION'oF
POST AT REHEARSAL— '
DAHLGREN POST—A GOOD Iu V yEL
STALLATIONB — HE’S GOT A L. ‘ i
HEAD—ITEMS OF NEWS—ELECTIONS '
COMMANDER SHATTUCK IN LUCK.
Many very handsome articles were displayed at
the fair held in Trinity Baptist Church, Brooklyn,
on the 14th Inst., which continued for several days
afterward. One of the handsomest prizes of all was
a regulation sword, with gold sword-knot and an
elegant belt, which was to be voted to the most
popular Grand Army Commander in Kings county.
Commander M. C. Shattuck, of Middleton Post,
was the lucky individual, and on the last evening
of the fair the Rev. S. Gifford Nelson, pastor of tho
church, presented the sword and belt to Command*
er Shattuck in the presence of the assembled visit
ors. Mr. Nelson’s remarks were received with ap
plause, and Commander Shattuck responded in a
Becoming ma>.?dr. *»•
The members of Middleton Post are highly grat
ified at the result of tho balloting, and feel com
plimented at the esteem thus shown for their re
spected Commander.
DEVIN POST AT REHEARSAL.
Marching men monopolized ths Supremo Court
Room in the Kings County Court House last Mon
day evening. The members of Devin Post were re
hearsing for their installation ceremonies, and •
were perfecting themselves in the manontres with
which they propose to electrify an admiring throng
at Saengerbuud Hall, corner of Smith and Sclrer
merhorn streets, Brooklyn, on Friday evening ne£L
The kcal and energy of Commander J. F. Keenaff .
and of Comrade Georgs Hardy, Chairman of tho i
Special Installation Committee, is heartily backed
by every member of tho post,- and all are trying to
make tho occasion a notable' one. Tho boys are ex
pecting two or three thousand guests and intend
to take care of them. Colonel Follett, who is popu
lar and well'known in G. A. IL circles, will be the
installing officer, and Departaaent Commander
Sayles and staff will be present. Numerous - delega
tions from New York and Brooklyn posts will'ba on
hand. The installation will be preceded by an en
tertainment, and dancing will follow th® cere
’ monies.
INSPECTION OF DAHLGREN POST.
s>n Tuesday evening* last Assistant Inspector P.
McDermott and his staffi consisting of ComrmAndm*-
J. Stapelton, PasS Commander Phelan and
Comtttdes Johnson, O’Harw and Haggerty of Skteldir j
Post, inspected Dahlgren Post. The ceremonial 1
were conducted in good shapw, and the post rbceiv* \
ed well merited praise from c-X) inspecting office?-’ i
for its ofSftiiency and its noble Ibbors in the cause of ■
charity. i
After the’lnspectlon Comrade •McDermott and hi’s
staff wero inWed to partake of a<coHation by Com
mander McEn’tae and the member®*of his post, and
speech-making-; singing and reeftwtions were in-'
dulged in, atteSflted by tho usual coftewmitants that
make these Christmas times so full gFfraternal feel
ing and good fellowship. After due jxtaftee had been
done to the repast)-the armory of the ’V’e-teran Club
attached to Dahlgren Post was visited, sud the val
uable collection Of'war relics was looked with in
terest. Altogether the inspection of Po'df' No. 113
was a highly enjoyhble event.
A GOOD IDEA.
There is considerable talk among the Grand Army 1
veterans of late in favbr of consolidating bo mo of
the smaller posts, and thus vastly increasing l their ]
usefulness. One post having two or three hfindred (
members can m;:ke itself vastly more efficient than >
can three or four posts'numbering from fifty 1 to j
seventy-five, to say nothing of the greatly-reduced <
expenses. There is material in this city for abbut ,
twenty-five large and actiVe posts, and this number
could easily cover the entire field. The smaller
posts would doubtless fedl disinclined to give up
their own distinguishing' title, but this could be (
avoided by having the new post formed by such a
consolidation take an appellation compounded of
the names of the two smaller posts which were 1
lused into one body. The G. A. R, veterans are ‘
rapidly dying off, and the time must soon come 1
when it will be necessary to‘carry out this or some
similar plan of consolidatibn. The veterans need '
all the money and all the influence that comes from
combination and unity. and*‘the sooner they adopt ‘
a plan which will give them the greatest strength ‘
with the least possible outlay, the better for all *
concerned.
I
The installation of the officers-elect of the various
posts is the next thing in order, and by the middle
of January the Commanders and other officers will <
be in charge, and the voyage for 1887 wiil have fair- (
ly begun. Then the contest for the Department <
Commandership will begin in good earnest, and i
from the present outlook the struggle will not lack
interest by reason of any lack of candidates. Al- i
ready a half dozen or more well-known comrades i
are spoken of for the position.
Among those most prominently named are Goo.
H. Treadwell, of Albany; Senior Vice Department
Commander Crr, of Buffalo; Comrade Joseph W.
Kay, of Brooklyn; Commander J. Wesley Smith, of (
New York, and Past Senior Vice Department Com- <
mander Thompson, ot Phelps. The Dispatch would <
like to see all of the boys come out of the race a i
winner, and consequently is bound to be on the
side of the comrade who carries off the prize. We i
don’t know his name just yet, but expect to give
full particulars before the “Spring-time comes, <
gentle Annie.”
HE’S GOT A LEVEL HEAD.
Comrade J. E. Whittaker simply voices the ideas
of hundreds of comrades in the following letter:
“ I see in the last issue of the Dispatch that Miss
Markstein is to be tendered a complimentary bene
fit. No woman in this city better deserves the sub
stantial thanks of the G. A. R. than Miss Markstein.
She has always shown herself a true friend of the
veterans.” The comrade also criticizes tho action of ,
Colonel Sinn, of Brooklyn, but in this the Dispatch
connot agree with him. A man must have the right ,
to conduct his theatre or his hotel to suit himself
and the opinions of his patrons. We believe that (
every comrade meets upon a common level and
should be treated according to his deserts. But
the fact remains that a prejudice still exists in the
minds of many which cannot be overcome by mere
talk. In England such prejudice, if it ever existed,
has long bean outgrown, and the day is not far
distant when the tame feeling will obtain in our
own country. Until then we must possess our
souls in patience.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Comrades should remember that Miss Henrietta
Markstein, the popular piauiste, has her compli
mentary benefit at the Windsor Theatre to-night.
She will be assisted by many of the most talented
artists of the city, and should have a rousing ova
tion from the veterans, for whose interests she has
always freely contributed her time and talents.
Comrade Harry A. Phillips, Past Commander of
James H. Perry Post, will install the officers of. B.
F. Middleton Post, at the post room of the latter
body, corner of Gates and Reid avenues, Brooklyn,
on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 15, 1887.
The following officers of Christian Woerner Post,
No. 1, S. O. V., of Hoboken, N. J., have been elect
ed: Com., Geo. W. Bennett; 3. V. C.» Richard.Coull
lard; J. V. C., Wm. Eaas; Q. M., L. J. Hofele; Adjt.,
John J. Doran; Surgeon, W. A. Rowe; Chaplain, 0.
F. Koster; O. D., Philip Heck; O. G.» Geo. Gunders
dorff. This is one of the-most flourishing and pros-,
perous posts of the 8. O. V. in the Department of
New Jersey, and it is always on the lookout to ren
der assistance when needed. All comrades wishing
their sons to join this body should communicate
with Quartermaster L. J. Kolale, Nq. 171 Washing
ton street, Hoboken, who will gladly furnish all re
quired information.
Noah L. Farnham Post will give its entertainment
and bail at Ferrero’s .Assembly Rooms,. Tammany
Hall, on Tuesday evening next. This will be one.pf.
tho most prominent social events of the season and
there will be an immense turn-out. The. Farnham
Post veterans say they will m.ike th® occasion
worthy of themselves and o£ theU popular Com
mander, C. McK. Looser.
The officers-elect. of W. D. Kennedy Post wjll.be
installed at Schneider’s Hall in Second street, near
Avenue C, on the evening of Wednesday, January 19.
Last Thursday evening. Comrade Charles Appleby
and staff inspected Cameron Post. The inspecting
officer and other guests of the post were afterward
invited to a collation, prepared in an adjoining
room, and the boys had a jolly good time until an
early hour in the. morning,
Coroner Ferd. Levy, Commander of Steinwehr
Post; Commander MeEnteo, of Dahlgren Post, and
Judge Edward Browne, of the City. Court, went be
fore the Board of Estimate and Apportionment last
Thursday and laid before it the claims.and necessi
ties of the G. A. R. bureau of Employment and Re
lief. After explaining,the workings of the Bureau
and.the amount $f relief it is constantly affording, a
substantial appropriation was granted.
To-morrow ayenjng Koltes. Post will its. an
nual Christmas.festival to the children oS members
of the po&t, at the Germania Assembly Rooms, No,
293 Bow*«y. I’b.e little wiea of the aide always
look. Sexward to. this entertainment with, great ex-,
peetalions, and they are never disappointed. Com
mander Kloeber and Commander-elect Thum are
going to make a year to La long remetaberad.,
Reno Post will hold its thirteenth annual dra
matic entertainment and reception at the Lexing
ton Avenue Opera House, in Fifty-eighth street,
near Third avenue, on the evening of Monday Jan.
31. An excelh-nt dramatic performance -will be
given by the Amateur League.
Corer‘de Mieh •<-•: Boltz, of No. 26 Cufiond avenue,
whose somvwbat Im mens® corpo r jslty is none too
large for his heart, intends to have a little spread
for the “old boys ” at his hostelry on New Year’s
j day. Mika can rest assured that ha will have plenty
of callers.
The members of the Veteran Association of tha
Fifth N. Y. Vole. (Duryea Zouaves) are making great
preparations for their annual reception, whioh will
take place at Ferrero's Assembly Rooms, Tammany
Hall, on Tuesday evening, January 18th. Member#
' the militia and of the G. A. R. are requested to
ar in uniform.
app* ' the events wbloh .houM not be forgotten
One o. itton ball of the Minnesota Boys in Blue,
is the invK -,ff sl i rT i n g Hall to-morrow evening,
which coms, . 'es " will be out In force and see
The Miler uao. hi>Te the klnd 0( s timß>
that all their guests „„ elected offlcef 0{
Comrade John Holu , nl of Wad3worth Posi ;
Day at the last encamps. v, Mit ia not gu
Misfortunes never come sing.. , , thirtoßn 4
ing that on going home be fot<n. nt hu quarters
stranger taking up- a good tfbafS v , Oo rara(
and yelling lustily for more night ftud
Holton now goes on’ guard duty eWF - oun( ]
never sees a sign of the 1 “relief ” K
We hope this will be a leSEvni' to him.
Koltes Posts. O. V. will 1 have its - anr^flhl 1 li'a^ l *■
the Germania Assembly Relink on Saturday eveWj
ing, January 15. Professof Kolfrlf Post
Band will furnish the music t -«hd : the rest #f the
boyswill furnish the furu C’tftsniandei' “Bflly”
and Comrade Louis WW have signaliz-ed
the evbftt by getting out a'veryueMt little paper o«~
• titled the 8. O, V. “Journal.”
ELECTIONS.
During the jllwt week elections hAv^’b^n"held by
the following ps3te iu thia city ahd Brtfbfclyn:
Noah L. Fabni^^m,— 0. MoS; Looser;
( S. V. 0., Thdm&r F, Goodwin* J. V. 0,, Owen
i/XRoui-ke; Q. M;, J. Finn- Surgabtt, Jere.
Seaman; Chap. Joseph'Ferd; o.‘ D., John Campbell;
O. G., Henry Bdrmktt* Cdtiribil, Oicar A. Waller,
Jef O’- Dixon,* Joseph ShWr Joseph Maxwell, Thos.
B. Gften; Del. Mem. CoNfiir Jbfati J. Brogan, John
Finn, William Murray, C. H- McKenzie, Alknh
Shields*'- Del. to EncampmafttV Edward Gilon, Wtn<r
White; Alternates, Alex.
Jere. Sentinels, E» J. Blaney; John
na.
Wm. G. —Commais3B?/ 8. Ellison
S. V. 0., Ch£?!bs Holman; J. V. U; Cfrbrad Grenier?
Q. M., AlexarSPor’ Butts; Adja!attf£ J/
Burgeon, Robert Millbank, M. D.
John E. BEybrx.—Commander, Jbba ‘J. Hum
phreys; 8. V. G/Lo-uie Messing; J/V. <X, Herbert
Tregaskis; Q. M W. Phelan; StJfgbe®,' J. L.
i Turner; Chaplain, V. Plass; O. Di, Jtfin A. Vao
,Cleve; O. G., Waite?’ Broadhurst; befc*to Encamp*
'meat, G. 0. Bowen; ATtevDate, J. L. Ttirnw; Del.
<Men>, Com., T. W. Jitfew; Alternate, Ollie-
land,
J Josefs Hooker.—C»nS:» Bans Schacbtrß? Vc. C.,
Cfrarlos T. Toilers; J. V;01, Jacob Zweizig* Qx M.,
Lurfis - Fricke; Surgeon, Wfiii Berry, M. D.; 'oMwpfata,
Alfrbd-Diaob; O. D., GecrgirAv Eales; O. G.'PllW
Firfigtw; Del. to EncacpmeiaJi Philip ’ Asdfi’esj
AltbtfiWte, Louis Fricke. Tlifc installation wMF ttdwe
OLrv^wTiicDEN.—Com.. J. WWtey Smith; S,
HSr?y Wi-Laurence; J. V. Cs/Al J- Colling; Q.
Peter Dddfee; Surgeon, G. M.
Chaplain, Edward Rato; Adjuiibt, Gao. W. BrowS?;;'
O.'D., Joseph'Henneberger; O. Fred Becksniollj-
DeL to EncSnrpment, William J. J^rpfey/Alternated
Charles DteftF; DeL to Mem. CrSfr, Wm. Watters*-
Trustees, Murpfcy, McCord and Gstft:
Zabriskie (Jtersey City).—Com.,- Joseph Elthring--*
ham ; 8. V. Co.Ak W. Luken; J. V. P. Rook* -
ott; Q. M.. Otto’ W. Meyer; Adjt T. Robinson; >
Burg., Chas. Seibert; Cbap.,Wn&> O. i?®tpraari; 0. D. c -
Daniel F. AmeS; (j>. G., Jas Del. to En<
campment, John M. McGrath, IW. F> Tobin; Alter
nates, Joseph Loeka, T. P. Rockett.
RELIEF CORPS* ELECtTIONSI
Wadsworth.—Ptest. Mrs. C. Leary; Sy V. Pi.’Mrs.
C. J. Perrino; J. V. P„ Mrs. 0. Gill; Soei, Miss'M«
Bogardus; Treas.*'Mrs. A. Smith; L.
Banhauser; Cdnducteeea, Miss C. Dooley; ’GuAfd,
Mrs. Koarnoy; AsSt. Guard, Mrs. Anthony; Dele
gates, Mrs. Skinkle; Mra> Gill; Alton latos, Mrs. Har
vey, Mrs. Dooley.
John A. Andrew.—PrOst., Mrs. H. 1 ?ilsoh; S.V; P r
Mrs. 1 Clara Williams; J. V. P„ Mrs. R. De TusCknna;
Troas., Mrs. Mary Benson- Capt., Mrt >. E.
Sec., Mrs. J. Davis; Cohdfuctress, Mrs. Julia Smith;*'
Asst. Conductress, Mrs, R, Sylvester; Guard,-'Mrs.'
E. White; Asst. Guard, Mrs. H. Benso nt;’ Delegates, -
Mrs.' Annie B. Johnson - , Mrs. Harnett Conover; Al* *
tornates, Mrs. H. H. Hartly, Mrs. R. De TusoaEQS, - ’-
The French Ball.- —The ant tual mas.
querade and fancy dress bal? of the Cere. Ie Franca’s*-
do 1’ Harpaonio will take place this seasoi i on Mon->
day, January 17th, in the Academy Of Ml tsic,
and Nilsson Halls, tho two TO-rtoer being . connected
by A covered bridge. To conform as mudl Uas possi—
ble to tho purely Parisian styles a number of prom- K
inent French features are tc beepecially iu troduced-*-
and-some leading male and female artists will ar
rive to interpret them, the intention of tha soolety*
being to increase the attractions and no veil les each <
year. The Academy will be- -extensively . altered,
giving more dancing room and permitting* of the
construction of some additional boxes.. A Sbriee of
elegant tableaux are now in preparation, depicting
the most-conspicuous phases-of Parisian life, which
will be shown on the stage of the Academy during
the progress of the ball. Boxes will be for sale at
the rooms of the society, in Waverly Place, on Tues
day morning, at ten o'clock.
Still Hankers After Her.*
HE THINKS A DIVORCE ONLY A SCRAP GF
PAPEH.
“Francis Stump,” called out the clerks
A plainly-dressed young fellow came out Gf the
prisoner’s box and stopped up to tho bar.
“Annie Dietz,” again called the olerk, aud. up
walked a. young lady with a tread that would shake
the Statue of Liberty.
“Well,” said the Court, “ what ha&lhia young
man done to you ?”
“ I’ve got a divorce from him,” she said with the
greatest glee. “He was no good/*
“That isn’t an answer to the question.. However,,
let that pass,” said Kilbreth, looking sideways, at
Justice Power. “ How long .were you married ?”.
“Two years.”
“ What happened on this occasion?”■
“He says to me, ’lf you don’t live .with rm#, K
will kill you, and then I will go to the. gallows like
a min,' "
“Is ha,crazy ?” asked Justice Murray,.
“I don’t know.” said the .woman, ” Slnos.l
tho divorce I can’t go out but hufollows ma.”.
“ What doos ho work at ?”
“Nothing.”
“What do you do?”
“ Housekeeping for mother.”, i
“ Six,months,’.’ said theGnurt. A
“I thought,” said Annie,that,a paa
plagued his wifo after she got a divorce,
lor life.”
The Court didn’t seem to hear .her.
There is a Means of Eradicating local d- JOaso
the skinthat can be relied Qn, ,viz:
Soap.. £
Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or ..
a,
A VERY CLUMSY DEFENSE y /
Lea Sea keeps a laundry.
may or Jn»y no* have been pne, of
At any xata, Bill, that is 'William, entered the, lau.q^'
dry with another fellow, a pompanj;a, and,
or hia linen. When Leo want, to th&.shelf .ta Joqk,. >
for it. Master William put the ..grip ,pij.
his hands , were up and tossed In
room, followed in after, hip,,and rShey
tuoß6l.for a few minutes. In the jnaan.tiaao, BlU’o*.
companion rifled the money drawer ; q/, ( al} H thSM
capital—sls. The thief with tbe : escaped
Th’e thief that played second fi&flle was,
“ Your Honor,” said the p^jflQger,...wko ;( txaj4
his fellows Jn.prison two
his defense, “ I went in with this ere yqqpgjellgiir ’
for hie clothes. The Chinaman wanted tirenty.df
cents. He giv *im four pennies au a ’ivQ-caut j ijx ®
The. Chinaman said scaeihipg.. 'rikt> ~Gqfttr#
Chettu„an.d they tussled,. The .ycf-ipg
out. and I ran out to.geta *epppe**‘ ” Aa
He was .asked to explain wfcy h©. zap opt*
He had started with the.tail of
of its beginning. The new, vexslop,, w#? x A,,
friend wanted his col)ar. and when,, the
was looking for.it his friend. f
money in the till, .wap xiplUrpd.,
get out.
WUliainwaß
Tw.o Ora
THE ONE KIOH. AN&ThB OTffttf pOOR
Thera vsers. twp crazy men, u : p.,y,<»' _ erJ
Justice„Gormap, the om was, rsch,.tt> othar ’ Or *
apd, Bjranjja.to.say, h,«th.horn,thn,w a0 name V °° C ’
The penman, JoMMßGwan,.i» lagiaod
w,as th® possesses of s&&po9xQilX jj o
cousin were enaaged, to ho. ried . “
from-hew QrioMUw ttoi. >w , and laßt nl ht
tbv. went to, Father O'&UhUr lo to get
Bastoad of atarxyins them. I th9 ro , erood lather
who.had three other womesu< in fh9 privacy of tll9
church, X-shod hisa oa.t«U* . 00 k possession of tho
woman, he. had expectsdi tr 9 r 9 wife _
Th* Court win*nde4 m to examine into his
Th*other McGowan, from South Hanover.
Mass,. He wap. a highly respectable gentleman, anti
had $2.80$ in hU
Ho ordered a quail to be broiled in an
unbroken loaf of Lrr ud, and a bowl of tea to ba
made in a p«at withufat water.
Many other thlnyt wero ordered that it was im
possible for any eftofc to get np.
When the waiter called on him to get an e«)lana
tion of his ordar. ha the door bolted. An
officer was sous top. the door, broken in, ho. was
arreatod.
futpiry tjas iuis his sauit/..
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