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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “BEWITCHING LORRTB.”
DIGGING FOR LIBERTY.
ON A BROADWAY CAR.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
BOVS AND EAGLE.
AMERICAN FABLES.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Aftrr Clouds, Sunshine; The• Ma
non ic Charity Entertainment; A New Association,
Third Masonic Listriot; independent Lodge. Har
mony; Templar Notes; Hiram Bodge; mcg nan-c
Lodge; National Lodge; Commonwealth Lodge,
chancellor Walworth Lodge; Centennial LoJfft-.
Royal Arch items; Varieties; Questions and An
swers; Personal; Nearing the End.
SIXTH PAGE t
THE OLD HOUSE AT HOME,
LILIAN'S ENGAGEMENT.
TEXAS GHOST SIORY.
MOUNTAIN BULLIiS.
A FINE BOY.
GRAND HEROISM.
THE SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM,
WHITE AND BLACK.
OUTSIDE THE DOOR.
THE RUSSIAN CHUKOH.
PLEASANTON 8 RETIREMENT.
A. WOMAN’S THOUGHTFULNESS,
INTERESTING,MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS,
SEVENTH PAGE:
A PSALM OF LIFE.
THE LAND LOTTERY FRAUD.
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.
“JAMES AND JOHN.”
FATE OF A MORMON GIRL.
FIENDS OF Till? COMMUNE.
A WESTERN CYCLONE.
NEGRO SUPERSTITION.
ELOPERS SURE ENOUGH.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
D. C. B.—The origin of the phrase,
•‘Sending to Coventry,” has not been determined
by tho learned in nucii matters. Hutton, the histo
rian of Birmingham, makes a very improbable sug
gestion. Hu says that after Charles 1. had loft Bir
mingham lor Shrewsbury, ths Parliamentary army
successfully attacked parties of the Royalists, anu
Bent their prisoners to Coventry, thus giving rise to
the phrase, “Beudiug to Coventry,” as applied to
removing obnoxious persons out of the way. An
other account is that the military garrisons station
ed at Coventry made themselves so disagreeable to
the townsmen that they held as little intercourse as
possible with the soldiers. If a female was known
to speak to a man in a scarlet coat, she became the
obj-ct of scandal, bo rigidly, indeed, did the in
habitants abstain from communication with the
military, that the officers had no society beyond the
mess-room, aud “to send a man to Coventry” be
came a slang phrase for excluding him from conver
sational auu social intercourse. Perhaps, after all,
and the suggestion may be confidently hazarded,
the phrase has its origin in Sir John Falstaff’s de
termination not to march through Coventry with
the famous ragged regiment. They were absolutely
too disreputable to t o seen and he “sent them to
Coventry*' by tnemselres.
J. W.—To be eligible as naval ap
prentices, boys must not be less than fourteen nor
more than eighteen years old. They must come
voluntarily, and agree to serve in the United States
Navy until they arrive at the age of twenty-one
years. Good phys.cal condition is a prerequisite,
and evidence of good moral character must be pro
duced. Boys who are bad or whose parents wish
to have them disciplined will not be accepted.
Should those who succeed in securing admission
develop bad traits afterward, they will be promptly
dismissed, and the parents assume the responsibility
if any deceit has been practiced. Boys will not be
taken without their parents' or guardian's consent.
You must go through a thorough physical exam
ination. Boys are allowed a reasonable amount of
leave o! absence, aud can visit their homes twice a ’
year while in the waters of tho United States, pro
vided they are out of debt and in good standing as 1
to conduct and ability. From the moment he en- i
lists his pay per month is $9. He receives his food
in three substantial meals per diem, and is placed
in a class where he gradually acquires a knowledge '
of tho rudiments of his prospective profession as a
sailor. As ho advances in knowledge and his con
duct and deportment warrant it. he is advanced to
the rating of second aud first class apprentice, with
$lO or sll per month.
H. S.— The bombardment of Fort
Sumter began at 4:20 A. M., April 12th, 1861. The
steamer “Star of the West” left New York, unan
nouncod, during the night of January sth, 1861,
laden with reinforcements and supplies for Fort
Sumter. A dispatch from this city reached the
South Carolina authorities next day, advising them
of her destination and objects. Secretary Thomp
son likewise sent a dispatch from Washington to
the same effect, directly after leaving the Cabinet
council, la which he had ascertained the facts. He
resigned bis office on the Bth. asserting that the
attempt to reinf rce Fort Sumter was a violation of
tho promises of the Executive. The “Star of the
West,' having 250 soldiers aud ample provisions on
board, appeared off the bar at Charleston on the
9th. Attempting to steam up the harbor to Fort
Sumter, she was fired upon from Fort Moultri.e
aud a b.itt-ry on Morris Island, and, being struck
by a shot, put about and left for New York, without I
even communicating with Major Anderson.
W. H. A.—borne time ago the Legis
lature passed a law granting $35 for the funoral ex
penses. and sls lor a headstone tor veterans who
die in needy and friendless circumstances. But as
far as the headstones are concerned, the law re
mains a dead letter, as no contract has been made
for the stones, and there is no fund from which the
money can be paid. The U. 8. Government, how
ever, will lurnieh headstones for veterans who die.
without leaving any m*-ans for the purpose, pro*
Tiding the cemetery authorities will permit the
erection of the stone. In Greenwood and Calvary,
for instance, the authorities will not allow these
stones to be erected unless the parties placing them
in the cemetery conform to the regulations in re
gard to foundations, ©te., at their own expense. You
should apply to the Employment and Relief Bu
reau. Room 4, City Hall, whore you can get full par
ticulars.
L.—" I loaned a party nine years ago
three hundred dollars and he gave me a*deed for bls
right and title in the estate left by his father, which
was a house and lot in New Jersey. The deed was
recorded in New Jersey. He now wants to pay me
back the money and interest and take back his in
terest in the property. How shall I proceed in the
matter ?” Yow are at liberty to do as you like with
the property as there is nothing mentioned in the
transaction, of the lots being put up as collateral
and as the deed is recorded in your name they be
long to you absolutely. If you wish, however, to
return the property to him you may, on the pay
ment of the amount of the loan, with interest and
costs, re-convey tho property back to him by deed.
Gbebnpoint.—“ Please decide the fol
lowing question in eassino to decide a bet: A has
10 points to go out. He has cards, spades, 3 ace»
and $ sweeps—sweeps to count. B has big and lit
tle eassino, 1 ace and has 4 points to go out and
claims the game, who wins the game?” The first
player who succeeds in scoring the number agreed
upon wins the game. No one point takes any
precedence over another; the pointe are scored as
soon »s made and the player wins the moment he
has made the requisite points. When playing cae
■ino for a given number of points, sweeps are
scored as soon as made and are not turned down, as
in tho single deal game.
Red Sblrt. —We are indebted to Fire''
Commissioner John Ennis, of Brooklyn, for the
following information concerning the fire in Fnr
tnau street: “The fire at Nos. 93-95 Furman street
occurred at 1:15 A. M. Tuesday, April 4th, 1865.
During the fire the roof of one of the buildings fell
in, carrying with It a number of firemen, who were
killed and injured, as follows: Casper Cammeyer,
Hose 2; Louis Gardner. Hose 5; Alox. Benson, late
Hoke 11, doing duty with Engine 17, killed; Jos. H.
Brown, badly injure*!, died shortly after; W. H.
William aud W. A. Lee, Engine 17; Ed Bassett, Hose
•—.lnjured."
May.—The following is a cosmetic
which may be used for wrluklss and is also said to
be very softening, cooling, and refreshing. Take of
oil of almonds, 4 ounces avoirdupois; hog’s lard, 3
ounces; spermaceti, 1 ounce; melt, add of expressed
juice of house-leek three fluid ounces, and stir un
til tho mixture solidifies by cooling. A few drops
of esprit de rose or of eau do cologne or lavender
may be added to scent, at will. This may also be
used as a general skin cosmetic. We know nothing
of tho advertised washes for the complexion.
Sailing.—lst. All three vessels, the
Groat Republic, the White Squall and the Joseph
Walker wore burned December 27th, 1863, in the East
river. The White Squall was entirely burned ex
copt tho hull; the Great Republic was afterward
rebuilt. .The Joseph Walker sank and remained
under water until May Sth, 1855, when she was
raised. 2d. The fastest time across the ocean by a
Bailing vessel was made by the Red Jacket, New
York to Liverpool, Eng., in 13 days, 1 hour, 25 min
utes, from Hook to bar at Liverpool, 1854.
Lena. —"If a person leaves a bundle
of clothing in your care, and promises to call in the
evening and take it away, and does not come again
for oyer six months, what am I supposed to do with
it ? 'Can I sell it or throw it out ?” You are not
compelled to keep the articles, but it would be
better to hold thorn a little longer, and if they are
not claimed, you would be justified in selling them
and giving the money received to the owner should
that person call and pay storage.
S. T. A.—lst. A female is not of age
in this State until she reaches the age of twenty-one
years. 2d. No minor can make any engagement
for which she can be held accountable. 3d. Alter a
girl reaches the age of fourteen years and is dis
satisfied with the guardianship of her father, she
can apply to the Court to have another guardian
appointed, and can select the person she desires,
aud, if agreeable to the Court, he will be appointed.
Foist Schuyler. —A, B and C are play-
Ing whisky poker. A deals; B and C pass. Is not A
suppose ! to either turn up tho dummy or else take
th© dummy and fae« up his hand?” By the dummy
we mi pi osb be means tho widow, and, according to
Hoyle. “.Should no one take the widow, but all pass
to the dealer, he then turns the widow, and all par
ties have the right to draw until some one is satis
fied.
Robert. —There are a number of pa
pars in this city devoted to the horse, as the Spirit
of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm and Wallace's
Monthly. Due of the best books on the horse is
Stonehenge on the “Horse in the Stable and the
Field.” To obtain these, apply to the American
News Company, 39 Chambers street.
H. A. H. —Mr. Pettus, a wealthy iron
merchant, who was tho owner of the trotting mare
Flora Trmpie, having purchased her for the sum of
iv.O'JO, sold her in 1864 to James Irving for $5,400.
Irvt.ng “oid her soon after to J. D. McMann, who
ov. nt-d her for a number of years, or until the end
of 1057.
L. >S. —To obtain the rules for con
dueling a club and the duties of the different
officers, procure a copy of Cushing's Manual, which
xnav be obtained from any publishing house, and
study it.
Roman Coin.—lt is very difficult to
tell from the coin sent, the condition of the coin or
Its value. It is not very valuable. It is a Roman
coin with the head of one of the Constantines.
Rats.—We have no time or space to
answer such idiotic questions. Our answers in this
column are for the information of our readers and
not for cranks to spread their nonnousot
Wk
NEW YORK. MARCH 27, 1887,
TO ADVERTISERS.
ADVERTISING IS TWENTY FIVE CENTS A LINE IN
THE NEW YORK DISPATCH.
Owing to our large edition we are com nN led to tro to
prewar, an early hour, hence ADVERTISEMENTS CAN
NOT BE RECEIVED AFTER NINE O'CLOCK SATUR
DAY EVENING.
To Masonic Advert
Those demnug to advertise in our Manoni© column*
must have their advertisements n our office BEFORE
TWO O’CLOCK oo FRIDAY AFTERNOON. No ad
▼ertiaefnent ean be inserted on the Masonic Page after
that hour.
The NEW YORK DISPATCH
has a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in the ©nitea States.
BUNDAY CLOSING.
As wo hoped and predicted, the High License
bill has passed the Assembly. It Is certain to
pass the Senate. Then it will become law, un
less Governor Hill makes a bold bid for the
Prohibition vote by vetoing it. The only practi
cal effect of the peculiar oombine of the Prohibi
tionists and the free groggists against the bill is
to give the Republicans the whole credit of car
rying such a wise and neceeeary measure. Sim
ultaneously, Mayor Hewitt, a loading Democrat,
suggests another wise and necessary bill, per
mitting the sale of beer and wine after one
o'clock on Sundays, The Rev, Dr. Crosby, who
worked hard for the fflgL license bill, opposes
Mayor Hewitt's suggestion on the ground that
it would destroy the day of rest. Brother Dana,
who is now the proud proprietor of two papers,
both daily—the rising and tho sotting Sun—
shrewdly replies to Dr. Crosby that, as the sa
loons are now really in operation on Bundays to
a great extent, and as tho day of rest is not yet
destroyed, a lew legal hours for the sale of beer
and wine would not do any harm and would
considerably increase the comfort and pleasure
of our citizens. The bill suggested by Mayor
Hewitt says nothing about spirits; but that is a
detail. It ought to contain a provision for tho
prompt closing of the saloons at a fixed hour on
Sunday night—nine o’clock, or ten at the latest.
Thus amended, it would be worthy of the sup
port of all sensible legislators, who look at
human affairs, not as they ought to be, but as
they actually‘exist.
The fact is undeniable that ;«OBt of the sa
loons in New York are now open to anybody
who wants to got a drink. He may have to
sneak around to a side door, or knock accord
ing to a preconcerted signal, or be recognized
as a safe customer by the proprietor,’or in
struct his servant to hide the bottle or pitcher
under her apron; but, by adopting each sim
ple precautions, everybody knows that he can
get liquor. This is, of course, in defiance of
the Sunday law. Experience has shown that
the law cannot possibly be enforced. Public
opinion condemns it, and thus a law-abiding
community is arrayed against the law. The
police are blamed for not arresting all who buy
or sell liquor on Sunday. It they arrested all
the culprits, we should not have jails enough
to hold them overnight, and every policeman
would march through the streets, like an
African chief, with a long tail of prisoners —
men, women and children—at his heels. Some
times arrests are made, here and there; but
the interruption to the sale is only temporary ;
the bartenders are let off with a fine ; the pro
prietors give bail and are never brought to
trial, as we have not judges enough to deal
with the excise cases. Now, this is the exaot
state of tho case. Tho law is a sham, a byword
aud a reproach. Tho common sense of the
community is against it. One law, thus prac
tically nullified, brings all other laws into con
tempt, Beside, the extortions and persecu
tions practiced under it by corrupt informers
and greedy policemen are intolerable. Indi
viduals are forced to pay hushmoney or to
suffer from personal piques, under cover of the
law, while the majority of Sunday dealers go
scot-free. In Utopia this would not be so;
but all of us are aware that it is so in New
York.
Open the saloons at one o’clock on Sundays,
and close them at nine or ten, and the principal
objection of sincerely religious people would be
removed. Those who prefer to go to church
would not be annoyed by the sight of the morn
ing drinkers slinking into the sidedoors of pub
lic houses. In the afternoon and early evening
there would bo ample time tor temperance recre
ation. Our German citizens, who take their fami
lies along with them ior a Sunday outing, could
enjoy themselves in their beer gardens without
fear of molestation from the police and without
that slainmpon their consciences which always
accompanies an illegal action, no matter how
harmless it may be otherwise. Why should the
thousands of our people who desire to take a
glass of wino or beer on Sundays be obliged to
skulk, like outlaws, and break the law which
they should honor aud respect ? The fault is
in the law itself, because it is contrary to hu
man nature and public opinion. Let it be sen
sibly modified and it will be cheerfully obeyed.
We are not in favor of unlimited drinking, on
Sundays or any other days; but we are-in favor
of everybody being allowed to do as he pleases,
within decent limits, in this free country. The
man who takes his refreshments quietly, on
Sunday afternoon, and goes homo early to bed
to prepare for the work of the coming week, is
not half as likely to do barm to himselt or oth
ers as the man who slips in at a sidedoor or
sends an aproned servant or child for his bev
erage. We believe, also, that the dealers would
be glad of a half holiday on Sunday, and that
the new law proposed would be popular and
respected.
THE EEPUBLICAN SOUTH.
Senator Sherman's tour through tho Southern
States is deservedly attracting the attention of
the whole country. He was received, st Nash
ville, by the Governor of Tennessee, and he de
livered, in the hall of the Legislature, a thor
oughly Republican and statesmanlike speech,
good to hear, good to read and good to remember
and think about. In regard to the war lor the
Union and tho abolition of slavery, he was as
frank and patriotic as it he had been addressing
an audience in Massachusetts, and it is a grate
ful sign of the regeneration of the South, that
his remarks were received with hearty approba
tion. But Senator Sherman is a practical states
man, and he soon left the issues ot the past to
discuss ouch living questions as taxation, the
currency, education, internal improvements
and domestic and foreign commerce. In these
questions, as he insisted, the South has as
vital an interest as ths North. They are not
sectional. They affect all American citizens
and should be studied and understood by
every voter, whits or black. The policy of ths
Republican party in regard to such issues has
never been more clearly stated than by Senator
Sherman, and those Southerners who have
blindly voted with the Democratic party must
open their eyes to the irrefutable array of facta
and figures in his eloquent oration.
The Solid South ia as great a danger to the
country in our Presidential elections now ae it
was during the Civil War. Two sections ol the
same nation should not be opposed to each
other politically if national unity and harmony
are to be preserved. To break up the Solid
South by arousing a national sentiment and by
proving that the Republicanism which is pop
ular at the North ought logically to be popular
in the South, also, is the grand mission which
Senator Shernaan has undertaken. Ho ought
to be, and probably will bo, followed by
other Republican statesmen, now that freedom
of speech is assured in the Southern States.
But Senator Sherman does not ignore tho
negroes in order to conciliate the Southern
whites, la the procession, at Nashville, his
carriage was escorted by colored men, and in
his speech he addressed the colored people as
citizens and voters. We have contended that,
in a fair, free vote at the South, the Republican
party would be much more largely represented
at ths polls than it has hitherto been, and one
of the effects ot Senator Sherman’s tour will be
to enlighten the colored men ae to their rights
and encourage them to assert their citizenship
as guaranteed by the Constitution. Why should
1 not the Southerners hear aurl consider both
! aides of ali political quest.one * If by should
not thay be as open as other ntoa to argument
NEW YORK DISPATCH, MARCH 27, 1887.
and conviction ? It is an Insult to their in
telligence to think that the Democratic party
owns them, aa they once did their slaves, and
that they must vote lor it, right or wrong.
The policy of the Republican party is truly
national. It aims to benefit the whole country,
not to aggrandize any particular section at the
expense of tho others. When the South thor
oughly comprehends this, there will be such a
revulsion of sentiment that the solidity of the
Democratic party will no longer be a barrier
against tho general diffusion ol prosperity and
patriotism. Senator Sherman has shown that
Republican statesmen can now aland where
Rebels once orated and find eager listeners to
their words ot wisdom. This is an opening for
missionary work which the Republican party
will not neglect. The petty politicians declare
that tho object of Senator Sherman's tour is to
work up a Presidential boom for himself and
capture the Southern delegates to the next Re
publican National Convention. He does not
need such a boom. His record is boom enough
for any candidate. But, if ho have any rivals
tor the nomination, let them also go South and
preach the glad tidings of Republicanism.
Only one of them may be nominated to the
Presidency; but all of them will benefit the
country by making tho South more loyal, more
intelligent, more progressive and more truly
national.
AGREED TO DISAGREE.
Cleary, the wealthy janitor, who can offer half
a million dollars bail, is still suspended midair,
like Mahomet’s coffin, or like one of his own
elevators. The jurors who tried him were se
lected expreaslly for stupidity, and (they natu
rally agreed to on the first ballot; and,
tike a inule, adhere! obstinately io their Opin
ion. Six of them made up what they call their
minds that Cleary was innocent, and six thought
him guilty. So they split and so they stuck
until Judge Barrett discharged them, The Dis
trict Attorney says he is tired, and will not take
up any more boodle cases before June. Rest,
wo are proverbially informed, is a change of
work, and perhaps the District Attorney, who
is tired of trying ox-Aldormen, may find rest in
tackling old Jake Sharp byway of variety. But
if all the boodle cases are postponed until sum
mer, that will boa dreadful blow to Coney
Island and other pleasure resorts. Our citi
zens will have so much amusement afforded
them tree, ia the courts, that they will not care
to leave town to sport lu the surf, see the ele
phant and admire the fireworks. For this rea
son wo are not sorry that tho Cleary jury agreed
to disagree. We shall have the whole enter
tainment all over again just when the dull season
is supposed to begin. Spring, gentle spring, is
close at hand, and, with wild, untamed She er
and the mellifluous Doughorly engaged as sum
mer stars, no New Yorker need bo in a hurry to
hunt up a boarding place lu the country.
Tho close of tho Cleary trial was peaceful.
No blood dyed the forum. That Hungarian
Hebrew, Joo. Pulitzer, or Politzer, ot tbo World,
still lives to torment and ridicule our loading
jurists. That thundering advocate, irreverent
ly called Airy Shafer, swore by the gods that
either himself or Pulitzer should bite the dust
as soon as tho verdict was rendered. Technical
ly, there was no verdict, and, practically,
neither Shafer nor Pulitzer has had to eat dirt.
Perhaps Shafer is so placated by the disagree
ment of the jury that he feels disposed to spare
Pulitzer. This may be a disappointment to the
publio; but life ia full of disappointments.
Having found six men whom he could bully,
Shafer ia temporarily satisfied. Men who are
born to be hung cannot be drowned, and upon
this principle Pulitzer can claim that he has
nothing to fear from Shafer, as his obvious des
tiny is to be annihilated by Joe Howard.
Pulitzer has an imagination strong enough to
claim anything—oven a circulation of 259,080%
for bis paper, the one-half being credited to the
reader who sent back the supplement because
he did not like the pictures. The Herald, rush
ing in, where angels fear to tread, to the de
fense of the World, insinuates that Shafer
spoke in a Pickwickian sense when he threat
ened to elay Pulitzer. But the Herald does not
kuow Shafer. He meant all that he said at the
time, and his iron nerve never failed him until
the disagreement of the jury took all the starch
out of his sanguinary vows. Nobody familiar
with Shafer can entertain a reasonable doubt
that if Cleary had been convicted, Pulitzer’s
body would now be lying in state at the World
office and the Bartholdi statue shrouded in
mourning.
Well, as the French say, that which is only
postponed is not lost. Shafer Will appear again,
ladies and gentlemen, during the summer sea
son. So will Dan Dougherty, tho sweet-singing
siren from the banks of the Schuylkill. In
leafy June, when the robins nest again, we shall
hear the bellowings of our legal bull of Bashan,
and the still, small voice of tho genial orator
from the land of Penn. Then, perhaps. Joe
Pulitzer will meet his doom for daring to poke
tun at tho lawyers for the defense, unless he
previously seeks safety in a trip to bis native
Hungary. Tom Cleary is piling up another
colossal fortune by attending to his business as
janitor, so that he may again avail himself of
the legal combine of the bull and the bird.
How some of his old Aldermanio associates,
who sre now keeping lockstep at Sing Siug or
shivering in Canadian exile, must envy him his
sagacity in choosing lawyers who could make
even a jury divide 1 But the people, who take a
serious interest in the boodle trials, since it was
their money that was stolen when the Broadway
franchise was bribed away from the city, may
not be so much inclined to laugh at the legal
performances in June. Nobody desires to con
found the innocent with the guilty; but the
people are determined that no guilty man shall
escape.
A BRAVE WOMAN.
Maggie Chaemar is a young little lady en
gaged as station agent at a village called Gran
ton, about'eight miles from Jersey City. The
village is infested by a gang of hobbledehoy
ruffians, too big to be called boys and not old
enough or good enough to be called men. One
day, last week, a little motherless girl, named
Lena Wentling, started from her home, in broad
daylight, to do an errand at the grocery. She
cut across lots to shorten the journey, and had
to pass a clump of thick woods. Out from the
shadow of the trees jumped five of tho village
hoodlums: seized the little girl; carried her into
the woods, in spite of her struggles, and tried
to compel her to be quiet But the screams of
little Lena had been beard by Maggio Chaemar,
who ran from tho station, picked up a couple ot
pieces of rook as weapons and boldly attacked
the ruffians. Four of them ran away. The
fifth, an overgrown rascal, stepped toward Miss
Chaemar; but she faced-him with the piece of
rock uplifted in her right hand, and frightened
him off. Then, having arranged little Lena’s
dress and seen her safely home, the brave lady
returned to her duties at the railroad depot.
Thia act of heroism occurred within ten miles
of New York, tho metropolis of American civili
zation. Miss Cbasmar recognized each of the
five ruffians and gave their names to the re
porters. We may suppose, therefore, that the
citizens of Granton have held a meeting; hand
ed the hoodlums over to the authorities to be
tried, and adopted resolutions thanking Maggie
Chaamar for her courage and promptitude. We
might almoet suppose that they had contributed
a few dollars each to present her with some tes
timonial of their gratitude. But, as a matter of
feet, nothing has been done by the citizens of
Granton. The five ruffians have not even been
arrested. They still loaf about the village,
ready to carry off any little girl who may stray
into the fields. Their ringleader boasts that
Miss Chasmar herself may be their next victim.
Must we, then, believe that the men of Granton
are more cowardly than tbo women ? Must Miss
Chaamar's bravery shins all the brighter from
tho poltroonery or stolid indifference of the
Granton citizens ? If so, we shall have to tele
graph out West for Judge Lynch and request
him to pay the New Jersey village an early visit,
and a few athletic New Yorkers might take a
Sunday train to Granton to welcome his honor.
Wondebs Wiw. Never Cease.—Mr.
James G. Blaine was in the city last weak for
two days, yet, strange as it may seem, neither
the Herald nor Times discovered that he was
here for the purpose of upsetting the Constitu
tion of the country, nor to conspire against the
peace and prosperity of Christendom. Won
ders will never oease.
Opening the Museums.—lt is hinted
that the directors of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art have concluded to let the publio see tbo
pictures and curiosities on Sundays, the only
time when the majority of our citizens can in
spect them. This reform has been brought
about, not, wo regret to say, by argument, but
by a threat that the public mousy will be with
held from tho Museum if the directors continue
to keep it closed against the people,who supply
tho money. No matter; the world doss move,
and the silly notion that only the worst amuse
ments should be open on the day of rest is be
ing rapidly abandoned in all directions. Before
long we hope to see all the museums, art gal
leries and libraries which belong to tho public
or have been donated tor the use ot tbs publio
thrown open on Sundays. Logically, tho same
persons who close such institutions should also
shut the public out of the parks. There has
never been the slightest show of reason on tho
part of those curmudgeons who hold that, on
one day of each week, our citizens must either
go to church or stay at home. Year by year
this stupid and unchristian prejudice against
making Sunday a day ot pleasant recreation
has been giving way, and the opening of the
Metropolitan Museum will mark ■ decided ad
vancement in civilization.
A Great PhxsioiaN.—At the last meet-:
ing of the Academy of Medlo’ne, its president
presented the council a splendid portrait of Dr.
GunningS. Bedford, the lather of popular Ex-
Judgo Bedford and ot a doctor who worthily
follows his sire in New York practice. Al
though the first Dr. Bedford has been dead for
sixteen years, he still lives in his work and in
his works. He was one of the founders ot the
New York University Medical College, in 1841,
and was one of its professors until ill health
obliged him to resign, in 1862. He established,
in 1850, the first obstetric clinic in this coun
try, and be gave medical advice and treatment
to over 30,000 persona without pecuniary re
muneration. His anatomical collection, one of
tbo finest in the world, he gave to the college.
He was the author of two books upon diseases
of women and children, which are standard
authorities in this country and Europe. In his
case, lame tor bis learning and discoveries is
mingled with gratitude forhia beneficence and
regret for hia delightful social and personal
qualities. It is a pleasure to find from the
recent tributes of his former associates that this
great physician, although dead, ia not forgotten.
Of Variable Moods.—Mayor Carter
Harrison, of Chicago, ia a gentleman of variable
moods and quick changes of opinion. A couple
of weeks.ago he declined to be a candidate for
renomination. A few days afterward he con
sented to permit his name to be presented to
the Democratic convention, and on last Wed
nesday he was unanimously renominated. On
Friday he emphatically declined to run for the
Mayoralty. What is the matter with Mayor
Harrison ? Is ho afraid ot “ the great troubles”
that be predicted would occur in Chicago in the
next two years; or does he fear that he would
bo leading a forlorn hope ? As Mr. Harrison is
rather a shrewd politician, we guess the latter
reason is the one that prevails with him.
A Question. —Mayor Hewitt is per
forming excellent work for the people of New
York in bis efforts to have tho disreputable
dives and unlicensed doggeries closed by the
police. The decent men in the liquor business
as heartily applaud the Mayor’s conduct in this
instance as any portion of our citizens, no mat
ter what their line of trade. Are tho Prohibi
tionists going to combine with the keepers of
dives and doggeries against Mayor Hewitt ?
To Broaden the Democracy.— A
Democratic paper, the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph,
thus sneeringly pays its compliments to Speak
er Carlisle: ” Colonel Carlisle threatens to go to
Europe. A little travel might broaden the
vision of Colonel Carlisle so that he could not
mistake a faction for the people.” The Tele
graph’s advice would prove good for many
other so-called statesmen ot the Democracy
beside Colonel Carlisle.
A Brief Life.—An exchange says:
“The life of an ordinary freight car it put
down at thirteen years.” Our exchange is sar
castic. The time spoken of is about that of
Grover Cleveland’s politioal life.
oil
A WORD WITH •• UNOLE JOHN.”
While we have been toiling and slaving in the
city our dear old and honored friend Uncle
John has been enjoying himself in his moun
tain home, and has been creating sad havoc,
we fear, with the hearta of the sleighride-doting
sex.
And now, as the Spring time comes, gentle
Annie, he says that be has seen a blue bird and
that he is getting ready his farming implements
to raise oats, wheat, beans and barley grows,
and tomatoes, and topunkins and tothundor
with the soil.
Aa we had a year’s country experience a time
or two ago, we may be able to help him a little
in his efforts to provide something for the
Winters wants.
He must not plant his punkins whole, but
should out them in twain—mark ? twain—else
that nice brittle crust will not have a proper
chance to sprout around tbo pies ere they are
ready lor the harvest.
Onions should be plentifully planted here and
there between each of the other anticipated
crops to keep the toads away. The breath of
an onion will scare the toads over into his
neighbors’ farms. The onions should be well
boiled, else a late frost may nip them in the
bud. The boiling process will keep them warm
until they are ready to be mowed.
Plant your cabbages with the stems down,
Uncle John, after having boiled them up to
Summer beat. A slice ot corned-beef between
the hills will give them an excellent flavor, and
should times be hard next Winter you will thus
have corned-beef and cabbage already on tap
and will thus save your door-bell being jerked
out by the butcher and need not spend the
warm Summer days in the cellar or under the
bed. We neglected to do this one year, and had
to bang a small-pox flag on our front porch and
had to do the back fence act when we wanted to
come to the city.
When planting horse-radish, gat the radishes
first and then let a horse walk around the farm
for a few days. This will insure a rich harvest,
and also avoid the necessity of purchasing ma
nure, aa you have it already on draft.
The old-fashioned way of planting potatoes in
rows is fast becoming obsolete. Plant yours,
Uncle John, in barrels, with the tops of the bar
rels just above the ground. This saves trouble
in watering them and yon don’t have bo much
trouble in gathering them. You can get out to
the barrel with a snoe-knite, and pick and pare
a hatful in almost lees than no time. The over
eoats can be chucked right into the barrel and
a second crop is thus provided for.
To raise succotash, build a raised trough
from the barn roof to the kitchen window with a
slight incline toward the former. Place a
kernel ot corn and a lieutenant-kernel of bean
at suitable intervals and cover the trough over
with a wet blanket covered with earth. Then
pour peppered and salted milk over the seeds,
and by the Fourth of July yon will have
enough succotash to supply your family, and
enough left over for the neighbors and their
eats.
When you feel feel succotashy, all you have to
do is to draw the spigot at the kitchen window
end of the trough, hold your pail under, and
there you are. Waltbk C. Quevedo.
P. S.—Don’t pull the things up more than
once a day to see how they are growing.
W. C. Q.
p. P, S Good-by and God bless you.
W. C. Q.
P. P. S.—This information is of course given
gratis. If you should want self and wife to
come up and stay a month or so and superin
tend matters, write. W. O. Q.
SMALL CHANGE.
The Legislature has taken up the sub
ject of heating railroad cars with stoves and
they will probably be abolished. Going to and
I coming from Albany, our legislators generally
I carry individual stoves inside their waisteoata.
"After all, what does a man get in this
world but something to eat, something to wear
and somewhere to live Jay GmM. If you'll
spell world with a big “ W,” Jay, we’ll answer
the conundrum with one eye shut and both
hands tied behind us. He gats laid out in
every issue, but you’re all right, Jay, and we
imagine that it doesn’t worry yon much and
that you sloop well and have always money
enough in your pocket to buy a obew of tobacco,
a glass of beer and an occasional banquet of
beef and beans.
Up to the present writing the yachts
have net arrived on the other side. The heavy
storms reported suggests tho idea that they
have either struck an iceberg or have
been compelled to hail a canal boat to tow
them into port. Both yachts have, however,
several reporters on board, and they'll get
there. If Ira Shafer could be induced to blow
at them, they’d arrive instanter.
A crank named Winfield Scott Han
cock called at tho White House one day last
week and persisted in relieving the President of
all duties, proposing to take the reins ot gov
ernment in hia own bands. If people will in
sist upon naming thoir children after great men,
they must expect this sort of thing. But the
aforesaid naming superinduces the thought that
tboorankism is hereditary.
I'M prevalence of small-pox lias ren
dered it necessary thaii SVvyjbody should be
vaccinated, but tho old-time arm-scJalohlflg
gains little favor with our society ballas. They
are now being vaccinated on the big toes, as
that is the only place where the sore is not visi
ble when they are harnessed for undress pa
rade.
A correspondent asks us : " What is
a good cause tor divorce?” There is but one
cause for absolute divorce in this State, and
that is “ the old, old story.” But 11 you should
happen to see a minister hanging around your
house, you might fake up a divorce on circum
stantial evidence.
The Brooklyn Female Suffragists as
sert that they will vote next Fall if the troops
have to be called out. It will be a good thing
if they gain their point, and we trust they will.
How strange it will seem to see a man vote aud
go right straight home with a woman soldered
to his ear.
The High License bill was passed,
notwithstanding the fact that every Democratic
Assemblyman voted against it. The Assembly
men evidently thought that it was a scheme to
elevate the price of executive drinks, and voted
against tho bill in tho interests of seif-protec
tion.
During the progress of a do-nation
party, held in a Utica Methodist Church, the
floor caved in and spilled all the donationists
into the cellar. The minister probably had
coffin-lid feet, and tbo weight of the presenta
tion-slippers busted the foundation.
Iba Shafer made a holy show of him
self in court during the Cleary trial, but suc
ceeded in engendering a disagreement of the
jury. If Shafer had been the defendant, they
would no doubt have convicted him without
leaving their seats.
As is usual about this time of year,
eggs are cheaper than usual and are equally as
degenerated aa to their habits of cleanliness.
The only way in which to tell a good egg from a
bad egg is to break it on the groceryman’s nose.
Two Denver editors recently fought a
duel with their fists. Things must be remark
ably quiet in Denver when editors are com
pelled to muss with each other. All the other
citizens must be chasing Chinamen,
Bernhardt gave a special matinee to
the actors and actresses on Thursday last.
Many of them oarried telescopes with powerful
lenses, mads to look around the French roof
hats.
Geobgb Francis Train has again
broken out in the same spot, and it’s a wonder
to us that Queen Victoria doesn’t knight him,
as his poetry is aa good as Tennyson’s—and as
bad.
The British Government is consider
ing the advisability of changing the name of
Canada. What’s the matter with Skedaddle
town or Scootville.
GQ33IP Off THS WESS.
Thk following attbactions afe announc©! for
thia weak in New York and Brooklyn: “ Erminia” at
the Casino; “McNooney’s Vieit” at Harrigan’s Park;
J. K. Emmet at the Standard; N. C. Goodwin in the
new opera, “Big Pony,’* at the Bi.jou; “The Domi
nie’s Daughter,” at Wallacks; “Taming of the
Shrew” at Daly’s; Dockstader’s Minstrels; “Ruddy
gore,” at the Fifth Avenue; “Jim, the Penman.” at
the Madison Square; “Walds Lamar,’’ at the Ly
ceum; Barnum and Forepaugh’s Circus, at the
Madison Square Garden; Agnes Herndon in “Tho
Commercial Tourist’s Bride,” at the Union Square;
Denman Thompson, in “The Old Homestead,” at the
Fourteenth Street; Vaudeville at Tony Pastor’s;
Paulins Markham, at the Third Avenue Theatre;
Genevieve Ward, at the Windsor; Mrs. D. P. Bowers,
at the Peoples; R. L. Downing, atNiblo’s; Old Eng
lish music at the “Olde London Street;* Janauschek,
at Hart’s; Milton and Doilie Nobles, at Proctor's;
“ The Ivy Leaf," at Lea Avenue Academy.
Miss Annie Pixley comes to the Union Square
Theatre April 25th, in Mr. A. C. Gunter's new com
edy-drama, “ The Deacon’s Daughter,” which will
be given a special presentation with entirely new
scenery and accessories.
One of the brightest of the young American act
resses now on the stage is Miss Jessie West, who is
now playing the character of Clip in •• A Messenger
from Jarvis Section.” She has made a pronounced
hit in singing the topical song written (or her by
Mr. John M. McCormick, of the Philadelphia J>Tews,
In addition to her talent. Miss West possesses more
than an ordinary share of personal beauty.
Mb. Robert G. Morbis has nearly completed his
new comedy of fashionable society, called “ Char
lotte Russe,” in which Miss Augusta Van Doren
will come forward as a star. The new play is in
four acts, with the scenes laid in this city and in
Newport, and the author thinks he has fitted Miss
Van Dorena good part. The management are now
looking about for a good company to support the
young star.
The scene painters are hard at work on the
grand banquet scene which Mr. Lawrence Barrett
will use in his forthcoming production of “ Rienzi,
the Last of the Tribunes,” at Niblo’s, on May 2d,
when one ol the most elaborate and costly present
ations of a legitimate drama ever seen on the local
stage will be given. In addition to Mr. Barrett, in
the title role, there will be a good cast, a large
chorus of men and boys, soldiers, priests and
monks, in all nearly three hundred people.
All crimes committed within the hallowed walls
of the Olde London Street are punished by placing
the offenders in the stocks. The ladies with
ankles (of the Elizabethian period) are doing all
kinds of petty depredations to get the authorities
to place them to the best advantage to exhibit their
charms. It’s do use, as the stocks were made for
Chicago sizes.
The Hanlon's appear at tho Windsor Theatre the
week of April 4th, in their epectacular and trick
pantomime, entitled “Fantasma,” followed by the
W. H. Powers company in the picturesque Irish
drama entitled “The Ivy Leaf.*’
Janauschek has this season added to her reper
tory the play of “Meg Merrilles,” aud will be seen
in it for tho first time in New York, May 2d, at the
Windsor Theatre.
Within the next forty-eight hours a new drop
curtain is to be hung, and the Casino building will
ba handsomely re-carpeted.
A well-known and prominent manager, dow in
New York, is likely to come to the front and tell
what he knows of the financial dealings of Gillig's
American Exchange in London, with actors, man
agers and American tourists. He says that ho has
been there, and was badly “ scotched.”
Mb. John Stevens says that “ Passing Shadows”
is not as Russian a play as he wanted it to be, be
cause the scene painters did not do their end. Most
dramatists nowadays rely more on the work of the
scene painter than they do on the product of their
brains. Canvass playa the star part in “Harbor
Lights," “Hoodman Blind," “Alone in London,”
“The World," “Theodora,” ani dozens of others.
Thebe is very good reason to believe that Mr.
Marcus Meyer will be Mrs. James Brown Potter’s
manager when she comes to this country next sea
son.
A journalist in New York is utilizing the myete
rious horror of the Donmoad hut in New Bruns
wick, N. J., for the hinge around which a melo
drama of to-day is to swing,
The following letter from Mr. Howitt. in ref
erence to his comedy, which is now being played at
the Union Square Theatre, explains itself:
"New York, March 2ft, *B7.
*’ To the Editor of the New York Dispatch :
“Dear Sib—The 'Conuneroinl Tourist's Bride'
was produced at the Union Square Theatre, March
14. and it was critically noticed as the work of Fred
erick Hall and myself.
” Originally it was our work. When the play was
first put on the road, however, two months ago. It
was found to play short. The manag ror the com
pany started in to lengthen it. and in a short time,
from alt I can hoar, the first half of the play was in
a chaotic condition. In Chicago some one was em
ployed to write a new first act. The act was re
hearsed without a stage manager and produced here
in Now York.
"From this it will be seen that the authors are In
no way responsible for the first half of the play.
They also desire to say that the vulgarity, the slaug
and the puns distributed through the work are not
of their orig nating. The last half of the second act
and the third act only are played as written by
them.
“ As the play seems to be a box-office success, the
motives for making these facts known, will not be
misunderstood. Yours, respectfully,
“H. 8. HEWITT.’*
In the death of Edward Lafayetto Tilton the
American stage has lost one of its oldest as well as
ono of its most earnest and conscientious workers.
His long career of more than forty years in active
dramatic service was marked by a nobility of pur
pose and a manly sense of the dignity and require
ments of his mission. In his friendships he was
true and steadfast, to his family he was the devoted
husband and the loving father, and in his social in
tercourse with his fellow-professionals he was gen
erous and kindly. Of those whom ho may not have
liked or with whom ha may have had a passing dis
agreement, he was never hoard to speak Hl. If ho
coujd qo| utter a good word for any one wh<? had.
offended him. Le t»4id nothing. He Waft in all his
hum-inly attributes a Christian and a gentle,
man. Mr. Tilton's highest ambition was to act
well his part to the fullest extent of his abil
ity. A.s a stage manager he was a kindly and con
siderate, yet thorough disciplinarian; as an actor,
he was careful and conscientious.
As he was In life, so he was in his doath—at peace
with all the world.
His last words to his son bonding over him while
he was dying were characteristic of his nature: “If
I must go. lam content, my son. I have tried to
do good to and for all. I have never wronged living
mortal, and I have nothing to reproach myself
with." There camo a pause; the son bent closer,
nearer, to the dying father, the pallid lips parted
once more and feebly murmured the word “ Moth
er," and with the utterance of that dear name the
drama of his life ended.
The next benefit at Wallack’s will occur on the
3d of April. The recipient of the proposed testi
monial favor is Mr. Maze Edwards. The bill will be
long and strong, as the volunteers are numerous
and of the beat artistic quality.
On Thursday night last, JHiza Weathersby, wife
of Mr. N. 0. Goodwin, died at her home in the
Rutland, Fifty-seventh street and Broadway, at 9:46
o’clock. An operation was performed by Dr.
Marion Sims and Dr. T. 8. Robinson, her family
physician, at 9 o’clock in the morning, but it was
not successful. She remained in a comatose con
dition until 2 P. M , when she recovered conscious
ness. and throwing her arms about her husband's
neck, whispered something in his ear. Her voice
was so low, however, that he could not distinguish
what she said. She became unconscious again
about 4 o'clock, and her life ebbed slowly, and.
apparently painlessly away, in the presence of her
husband, her mother, her three sisters, and her
husband's brother, Edward F. Goodwin. Mrs-
Goodwin was born in London about 38 years ago,
and at an early age went npon the stage.
In 1888 she came to this country with the Elise
Holt burlesque troupe, and had minor parts. She
went back to England and remained there until
Lydia Thompson came to New York for the second
time with a burlesque company, of which she was a
member. She and her sister Jennie afterward
played with Mr. W. H. Crane, at Niblo’s, in “Baba,"
and in 1875 she joined Mr. Rice’s “ Evangeline,"
taking the part of Gabriel. The next season Mr,
Goodwin joined the company and played the lead
ing parts with her. They were married in the Fall
ol 1876, at Larchmont, and in the following Spring
they organized the “Eliza Weathersby’s Froliques."
During the same season they appeared in •• Hob
bies," and traveled about the country with that
popular farce. Her last public appearance was at
the Standard Theatre Chicago, in the Spring of
1884. Since than she has remained in private life,
but has gone with her husband wherever he went.
With this month closes Mr. James J. Brady’s
connection with the Union Square Theatre as its
acting manager and the trusted representative of
Manager J. M. Hill’s business. In resigning his
position, he will go out of the theatrical business
entirely. He will become a partner of Mr. English
in the National Advertising Company on Murray
street. Mr. Brady joined Mr. Hill’s forces at the
Court Street Theatre in Buffalo, and is an expe
rienced journalist and a man of unquestioned in -
tegrity, kindly in disposition, an earnest worker,
and one of the ablest executive officials Mr. Hill has
ever had in his management.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Brady was called to the
stage by one of the employees of the theatre, and
there made the victim of a very pleasant surprise.
In other words, ba was presented with a handsome
gold watch by the various attaches of the house as
an evidence of their appreciation of the uniform
kindness, consideration and seusa of justice he had
shown in his official relations with them.
It was a deserved testimonial to a deserving gen
tleman.
Mr. Nat. C. Goodwin, by permission of Messrs.
Miles & Barton, has tendered a benefit in aid of the
Masonic Hall and Asylum Fund, which will take
place at the Bijou Opera House on Wednesday after
noon, March 30th, at 2 o’clock. Ho will appear in
Audran’s charming opera, “The Mascot," sup
ported by the Bijou burlesque company. The
Masonic fraternity will doubtless respond in a
liberal manner to this generous offering of Mr.
Goodwin and show their appreciation of his kind
ness.
Madison Square Theatre.—Just as
fifty is a milestone in life and in money-getting, so
the fifties are milestones in the run of a drama.
“Jim the Penman," current and prosperous einoe
November 1, 1886, attains to its 150th consecutive
performance at this house on Monday evening,
March 28, Every time it has been acted the thea
tre has been full and the audience has been
pleased.
It will hold its course in sparkling vitality, and
be strong and bright and charming to tho last.
The projected presentation of “The Penman" at
Washington has, of course, helped to kept it a cen
tral topic in the public view. Society in Washing
ton will make the performance a great theatrical
event. The President and his wife, the chiefs of
the Cabinet and of the Army and Navy, the foreign
ministers, and many other leading residents of the
capital are to attend. Mr. Corcoran has paid SIOO
for a box. Mr. T. E. Roessle has invited Mr.
Palmer and his dramatic company to become his
guests at the Arlington House during their stay in
the city. Mr. Roessle's Invitation has been accept
ed. Mr. Palmer and hie company will go to Wash
ington on Sunday, April 17, the day before that
which is assigned for the benefit performance—
Monday, April 18.
The Casino.—What is to be an un
usually beautiful souvenir will be the one to bo
presented at the 300th representation of “Erminie,"
on Tuesday evening, April 12. It represents a mo
rocco leather portfolio, on the front of which are
heavy gold letters In bus relief.
Inside are sixteen cabinet photographs, including
those of Mieses Pauline Hall, Marie Jansen, Isabelle
Urquhart, Mrs. Germon, and the Messrs. Francis
Wilson, Mark Smith, Jesse Williams, Henry Hallam.
Max Freeman and Rudolph Aronson, wit h their au
tographs.
The miniature folios are tied with varl-colored
ribbons, quite unique in design, and will make a
pretty little memento of the 300th representation of
the most successful comic opera ever presented at
tho Casino.
Niblo’s Gabdbn.—Robert Downing,
under the management of Mr. Joseph H. Mack,
commences tn engagement at this Louse to-morrow
evening, appearing as Bpartaous in Dr. Bird’s trag
edy of “The Gladiator," first produced Id this city
at tho old Park Theatre, by Mr. Forrest, on Monday
evening, Sept. 26, 183 L
All of the original scenery, costumes and armors
used in the successful production at the Star The
atre will be employed in the representation here.
The supporting company is an exceptionally ca
pable one, and includes Henry Aveling. Harry Mer
edith, Lawrence Hanley, T. F. McCabe, John Swin
burne, Chas, Nevins. Miss Mercedes Malariui and
Miss Gail Forrest. The famous athlete Wm. Mul
doon appears as the Fighting Gaul in the arena
combats.
The euccess that has attended Mr. Downing in his
recent tour in the provinces has been highly en
couraging. This will be his last appearance in New
York this season, prior to his California engage
ment.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Harrigan’s Park Theatre.—Me-
Nooney’s Visit" still holds the fort here, and could
easily round up the present season to its close were
it not that Mr. Harrigan has determined to shortly
withdraw it and bring forward a revival of “Cor
dell,’, Aspiration.." This UtUr place has boon
rewritten by Mr. Harrigan and many new songs
Introlucecl by Mr. Dare Braham. The revival will
bo attended by entirely now sconio illustrations.
Matluoes on Wednesday and Saturday.
Fourteenth Street Theatre Man-
ager Itoseuquest ehould boa happy man, for it Is
evident that he is making money very rapidly. To
morrow night “ The Old Homestead " enters on the
twelfth week of its extraordinary run, and the rush
to see Denman Thompson’s quaint personation of
the sturdy and honest old New Englander. Joshua
Whitcomb, is as great as ever, and hundreds are
being turned away at every performance unable to
secure seats. During the past week the attendance
has been the largest of the season, and as the weeks
roll on the public appear to take more interest in
thia really entertaining play and the demand fol
places is far in advance of the capacity of the house.
Mr. Thompson as old Joshua Whitcomb, and Mr.
Brane as Bi, keep the audience in roars of laughter
On Tuesday evening, April 12th, the 100th perform
ance will take place, and it is likely that the present
bill will be continued until the advent of warm
weather.
Union Square Theatre.—Miss Agnes
Herndon has been doing a good business at thia
house, and has won naw admirers by her imperso
nation of the chief part in “The Commercial Tour
ist's Bride." The piece has been improved in many 1
ways, and as now given is greeted with shouts of
laughter and much applause.
Mias Herndon is a decidedly pretty woman,
dresses handsomely and acts with much intelli
gence agd vivacity, She receives numerous calls
before the ouriain nightly. 44 The Commercial
Tourist’s Bride" will ba continued all of the present
week.
Miss Herndon and her company are busy rehears
ing tho new puy, “A Wonderful Woman," a»d will
give it during the fourth and last «eok of her ea*
gagement. In the chief scene of tho new play Miss
Herndon fights a duel with the villain, using swords.
Academy of Music.—This evening,
Messrs. Koster and Bial will give the first of a series
of concerts ou this stage. A large orchestra, under
the direction of W. J. Rostetter, has been engaged,
and the soloists include many well-known names,
among whom are Miss Louisa Searle, soprano; Jas,
B. Radcliff; character comedian; the Martens fami
ly, Tyrolean singers; Manning and Drew, instru
mentalists; the four musical kings, Wood, Beasley,
Grant and Bryant, and others. The programme of
this evening’s performance will include many no
table and attractive features, and there will doubt
less be a large audience present to inaugurate by
their approval, this new lyric enterprise of these
well-known managers.
Babnum and Fobepaugh Shows.—
To-morrow begins the third week of the enormous
success of the combined Barnum and Forepaugb
Shows in Madison Square Garden.
With but one or two exceptions the doors were
closed all last week at o’clock P. M., and many
were turned away unable to gain admission, a fact
due as much to the excellence of the exhibition as'
the constant changes being made In the big pro
gramme.
This week more changes will be made and new
acts introduced, considerably lengthening the al
ready great number. In the museums there have
beeu. placed a Chinese princess with remarkably
small feet, the second one which ever left Chins,
and a real curiosity.
A two-headed cow has also been added to the
curiosities, while the hairy family continue to ex
cte the wonder of all visitors. On the whole, tha
show is the best ever seen in this city and the per
formances of a character to charm and delight
every one.
Jumbo, his skeleton; Alice; the double menage
ries; the boxing elephant; Blondin, the horse tight
rope walker; the Silbons; Madame Garetta and her
trained birds; the dancing elephants and the fa
mous Beckwiths, champion swimmers of the world,
are all certainly the most excellent features ever
seen.
Bijou Opera House.—“ The Skating
Rink," in all probability, had its final performance
for the present sea : on on Wednesday evening last.
On Thursday evening the theatre was closed, in
consequence of the doath of Mrs. N. 0. Goodwin,
On Friday evening Audran’s opera of “The Mas
cot" was revived, and closed the week’s record last
evening.
A new American comic opera is announced as
very nearly ready for production. It bears the title
of “Big Pony, the Gentlemanly Savage," and is in
tended as “ a satire on tho Wild East.’* Tne book
is by A C. Wheeler, the dramatic critic, and tho
music by Mr. E. L Darling.
Fifth Avenue Theatre.—“ Ruddy
gore” continues to entertain and amuse numerous
and evidently greatly pleased audiences. The
changes which have been made in it since its first
performance add largely to its interest and humor,
and the opera in its present form will probably hold
place ou this stage for many weeks to come.
Standard Theatre. — To-morrow
night Mr. J. K. Emmet will begin his farewell week
at this theatre. Emmet will be seen no more la
Now York this season as Fritz,or anything else, after
Saturday night, and hie admirers will no doubt take
advantage of this fact to crowd the theatre at each
performance. On Easter Monday, Apr.l 11th, the
J. C. Doff Comic Opera Company with Lillian
Russell, Zelda Seguin, Lou iso Parker, J. H. Riley, a
chorus of sixty, and a grand orchestra, will appear
in a spectacular production of Von Suppe's comio
opera, “ A Trip to Africa."
Dalt’s Theatre.—“ Taming of the
Shrew" will be repeated during the present week
and.so far as indications can be accepted as prophet
ic, it is likely that this superb Shakespearean revival
will be continued until tho close of the regular sea
son. The advance demand for seats is steady, and
the audiences large and of the best quality. Tho
usual matinees will be given.
Windsor Theatre. — Tho Thatcher,
Primrose and West minstrel company appeared at
this house last week and succeeded in pleasing large
audiences. To-morrow night Miss Genevieve Ward
and Mr. W. H. Vernon begin an engagement of ono
week, appearing io inr very strong and interesting
play of “Forget-Me-Not," every evening and at ths
Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
Miss Ward is well and favorably known for her
exceedingly picturesque and emotional impersona
tion of the chief part, and Mr. Vernon made an ex
cellent impression at the Star Theatre early in tha
present season. This will ba the farewell engage
ment of Miss Ward and Mr. Vernon in New York,
and their friends are likely to turn out in full force.
Tons Pastor’s Theatre. — Another
complete change of programme is in order for the
present week, commencing to-morrow evening. It
includes Alma Don Janata, the snake charmer; Miss
Pearl Ardon, in her specialty of “The Little News
girl;’’ Harry Thorne and Miss Maggie Willett; Mr.
Wm. Melville, in his burlesque, “Magic;” Mr. Har
ry Braham, the vocalist; Mr. Ed. Foreman and Miss
Ida Meredith, and half a score of others equally
notable.
On Thursday next, at a special matinee, Mr. Har
ry Sanderson will take unto himself tho emolu
ments ol his annual benefit A large number of
professionals have volunteered their services to
make the occasion specially memorable. Among
these aro Mr. Geo. Thorne and F. Fraderici. of the
D’Oyly Carte Opera Co.; Denman Thompson’s “Old
Homestead" quartette; Billy Birob. Alma Janata,
with her pythons; Miss May Howard and the Gil
more Sisters, With such an array of attraction*
Mr. Sanderson will insure for himself a crowded
audience and receipts galore.
The Old London Street.—The at
tendance at this interesting place of amusement is
increasing daily and it is now thronged from early
morning until late in each evening by men. women
and children, who take delight in viewing the many
attractive features of this unique exhibition. There
can be seen a realistic reproduction of many of tbs
most famous of old Loudon buildings.
Among the novel things to ba seen are thoaficUnf
“stocks," the old fire engine, and tvo Old printing
presses in full operation. The old Lottloa Street,
embracing as it does a history ol ancient art, to.
gether with the life, manners and custom* of a by
gone life, ia one of the most unique and interesting
places to visit in this city.
Regular concerts are given every afternoon and
evening, and no pleasanter place for a stroll can be
found. The new features are the famous Firth pho
tographs, depicting scenes aud historical building#
in and near London, and artisans can always b<
seen at their work.
Hart’s Theatre Comique (Harlem). —
M. B. Curtl,, otlwrwi.e familiarly known as Samuel
ot Poson, attracted a series of large audiences during
the past week. He appeared m his new play,entitled
“ Caught in a Corner.’’ Ho closed the term of his
engagement last evening.
To-morrow, and every night of the current week,
Madame Janauschek and her company will be the
dramatic attraction. To-morrow, “Mother and
SonTuesday and Friday, “ Bleak House;" Wed
nesday, “Marie Antoinette;" Thursday and Sat
urday night, “ Mary Stuart," and at the Sat it rd aj
matinee, “Mother and Son ’’ will be repealed.
Proctor’s Novelty Theatre (Brooklyn,
E. d.)_For the current week Manager Proctor an
nounces the appearance of Milton and Dollie No
bles in two of the popular plays in which they have
won so large a showing of popular favor. They
will be supported by their own company, and the
scenic illustrations will be appropriate and effect
ive. Matinees on Monday, Wednesday., Friday
Saturday,