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CONTENTS Oi? INSIDE PAGES.
SEOOW PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “ HEK JOHNNIE.”
A SWAMP MYSTERY.
j/EGEND OF THE IV V.
” UGH !”
FITTER CREEK’S BAD MAN.
A ROMANCE OF A RANCH.
AN EARNEST REQUEST.
HIS BEST FRIEND.
A MARRIAGE BOOM.
THIRD PAGE!
MASONIC MATTERS: The Freemason’s Apron; Non-
Affiliates; Board of W. Polar Star Lodge; Ques
tions and Answers; Remorseless Death; Among Our
Worshipful Matters; I’ark Lodge; Commonwealth
Lodge; Independence Lodge: Puritan Lodge; Tem
plar Notes; Royal Arch items; Personal; Pebbles
from the Stream; Scottish Rite Notes; Labor Ex
change.
SIXTH PAG® S
THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS.
A LAST CHANCE.
SOME CURIOUS WAGERS.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
THE TR KIN ROBBERY.
EXORCISING A GHOST.
THE LITTLE MAN WAS IN A HURRY.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
S® VENT FT PAG E:
THE STORY OF THE WIND.
MY LADY’S GLOVE.
A FURNACE OF FLAME.
THE CHILD TYRANT.
SOLITUDE AND PERSEVERANCE.
MORRISSEY’S ROMANCE.
NOW IS THE SEASON.
SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BIRDS.
DATES.
THESE LATE BAD DAYS.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
got# luui
J. J. R.—The following letter will ex
jtlalu itflolf : '• In your .a-ue o» r Sunday, June 12.
1837, in the column devoted to Miscellaneous Mat
lore, Is a small article headed 'Gomel of a Noble
ptrain,’ and speaking ot a descendant of Patrick
Henry. I have noticed that when any paper has
spoken of the detscendiv t» of the above-mentioned
Patrick Henry, they h«ve always been located in
the South. Now, within cannon shot of the Dis
fraTOH building, my cousin (who is a great-great
grandson of Patrick Henry) is working on a promi
llant New York paper, and J am also a great-great
grandson of the renowned Patrick Henry, although
by occupation a foundry laborer. If a re-union of
All tho lineal descendants of Patrick Henry was
Called in New York, and took part in the Fourth of
July parade there won d be over two hundred lineal
descendants of the illustrious statesman in the line
Of march.”
J. C. H.—“A twsd' B are throwing
Sice at first raffles. A throws throe fives, and says
has but one chancu to win. B says he has
■lx, meaning, of course, that he has a chance of
throwing any one of the throe of a kind. Will yon
decide which is right ?” According to Hoyle, in
ihrowing raffles "three dice are used, which are
thrown by each player until ho succeeds in throw
ing two alike; the first throw made containing a
pair counts its number spots to the thrower's
■core. Triplets, or three alike, take precedence of
pairs, so that three aces will beat two sixes and a
five.” The sixes are tho highest in the game, so
that if A threw throe fives, there was only one
throw which could boat him which was three sixes,
gnd therefore A is correct in saying that B had only
One cbancs,
H. S.—“ Some moil tils agb'l occupied
• furnished -room 'Tor'mjlf, wife and child. Soon
After I was thrown ou» of employment and had to
give up tho room dollars for rent, for
which the landlady kept my trunks. Can she hold
them until paid,or-not? I am still unable to settle,
but could easily do so had I tho trunks, as they
contain valuable articles, which I could dispose of.
How caul act?” If you received meals from th*
landlady,-she has a lien on your trunks and con
tents. If you bad the furnished room only, she has
DO right legally to retain your property. Go to the
Civil District Court in the district in which the
landlady lives and apply for a Poor Summons (it is
free) and sue her for conversion.
J. M.—The feature of curved balls in
delivery from the pitcher to the batsman is the
power to give a bias to the ball lu throwing it to tho
bat, by means of which the ball is made to go
through the air in a curve ! horizontal line, and the
ball is made to curve outward or inward toward the
batsman at the option of the pitcher. The theory
of this curved delivery is based on the fact that a
retarding effect is produced on one side of the ball
in its passage through the air. caused by its rotating
on its own axis, by which means it deflects from a
direct line on the side of the ball that passes
through the air the quickest.
J. W. o.—Edwin Forrest’s first ap
pearauce on a regular stage was as Young Norval,
at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, Novem
ber 27, 1820. J. R. Scott made his debut, July 2,
1829, as Malcolm to Booth a Macbeth, at the Park
Theatre, for the benefit of J. B. Booth. George
Frederick Cooke first appeared on the stage in Lon
don, England, at Covent Garden Theatre, as Rich
ard. October 31, 1800. He was the first star that
ever played in this country. He first appeared in
this country Nov. 21, 1810, at the Park Theatre,
&«w York, as Richard,
B. E.—To cure styes, put a teaspoon
rul of carbonate of soda in a email bag, pour on just
enough boiling water to ino.sten it, then put it on
the eye pretty warm, keep it on all night, and in
the morning, most likely, the stye will be gone; ii
not, a second application will remove it. Styes
•rise from impurity of the blood, and no permanent
cure can be effected by a mere external application.
Tho blood should bo kept in a healthy condition by
the frequent use of aom* mild purgative—say a dost,
pf rhubarb or magnesia.
J. Q. —“ A dealer sells to A, who is a
minor, soma goods on instalments. A pays one
Saif of same and then sells the same to B for cash. B
oes not know that the goods were bought on instal.
mont. and not fully paid tor. In case A should stop
paying the dealer, would he (the dealer) have any
diaim on B, or have the right to take the goods ?"
JJ, not knowing that there was a lien upon the
foods, and having bought them in good faith from
A, cannot bo deprived of them without recompense,
•nd the dealer will have to hold A, who purchased
tbs goods from him.
William.—lt would bo fortunate if
•11 our slang phrases could be traced to a classical
Origin. Many persons beside schoolboys and col
lego students use the phrase, "He is a brick,”
without tho least idea that it is supposed to be of
classic origin. It is said that King A goals us, being
•sked by an ambassador from Epirus why he had
no walls for Sparta, replied, “We have." Pointing
to his n arshailed army, i o said, "Ibcrtare the
Walls of Sparta; every man you see is a brick,”
W. C.—We were misinformed last week
tn relation to your question about Miss Mary An
derson. She played Meg Merrilies one time only,at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, which was then under
|ho management of Stephen M. Fiske, on Nov. 29,
1877. The cast was as -ollows: Lucy Bertram. Miss
J?inaVftrian; Miss Mannering, Lizzie Rich; Dandy
t)inmont, J. B. Studley: Dominie Sampson, Th os.
Whiffeu: Henry Bertram, Charles Morris, and Meg
Miss Mary Anderson.
A Reader.—To kill croton bugs boil
•no ounce poke-root in one pint of water until the
strength is extra t“d; mix the decoction with mo.
lasses and spread it on plates in tho kitchen, or
ptuer apartment* which are infested with these in
beets. Par.a green sprinkled around the apart
ments will also exterminate them; but should be
Vsed with caution aa it is very poisonous.
J. H.—Th© right of a second wife who
marries a pensioner, to a pension if she survives
him, depends upon whether his death results from
the injuries or disabilities incurred during the war
A< d for which prev.ons to bls death be is receiving
ajjensiou. I his death is due to other cautes.neith
tr a fifjt or second wife would be entitled to ape..-
Biou, but in the other case they would.
P. M.—We are unable to answer the
following query received some days ago. Perhaps
Some of our readers may know something about it;
•• I have noticed a iight resembling a star in the sky
(only that it is much larger) in the direction ©i
Adison’s Park, N. J., in the N. W, horizon, which
Koor down at about 9P. M. Is this a light put up
t)j Edison?”
Glasgow.—The best way for you to do
to discover the whereabouts or information of a
fiarson born in Glasgow, would be to advertise in
he Glasgow Weekly Mailt Py this means you would
{bo more likely to receive the information than by
•ny other means.
Jami s O. —lt is not ycur fault that
M.i cannot write poetry. Therefore do not try.
SO a have this consolation, however, that there are
fcut-uy other people in the world who are not poets.
A’ l people are not born inspired like the ‘ sweet
Bi ger of Michigan/'
G. Y. P.—The lad appear.o o> of T.
J». Cooke cn the was at t..<- rr-uceis sTheatre,
|<>r the benefit of tho widow of Mr. Saker, Thursday,
May 2, 1861. when tho famous actor played bis old
fart of Philip, in tho drama of ** Luke the Laborer.”
Jennie.—We would advise you to
place the boy on either the "St. Mary’s," or the
••Minnesota," training ships, where they will com
pel him to behave, and teach him seamanship, be
side giving him a good education in other branches.
A. R. W. —Madame Taglioni retired
from the stage on her marriage with Count Gilbert
tto Voisens, in 1847. and never appeared anywhere
afterward ss a dancer. Nobody could have seen her
a ballet at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1850.
C. D. B. —Louis Kossuth arrived in
this city, December 5. 1851. The procession in his
Jionor started from Castle Garden and rnarchad up
Broadway to the City Hall, where they were review
ed by Kossuth, and they then dispersed.
J. W. L.—lt is utterly impossible for
Us to give the names of the inhabitants of New York
City whoso names are not in th- Directory. To do
■o would require the publicatiorrof a bigger book
(han the present Directory.
Curious. —The bright star you speak
Cf seeing in the evening about 8 P. M., is Venus,
.which is Evening Star until September 21, and
Star the rest of the year.
E. H. T.—The ferry from the foot of
{Fourteenth street and North Rivr lands at the foot
Df Fourteenth street Hoboken, and belongs to the
Hoboken Ferry Co.”
J. C. G.—The Gatling gun was the
Invention of an American named Richard Jordan
patling. and his improved weapon was introduced
fato Europa in 1«65.
W. B.—Tobacco is grown in all the
states of the Union. The product of that of Wis
consin is about as large as that of any other of the
yVestarn States.
' Subscriber. — Miss Agnes Folsom
jfayed the part of Javotte, In "Erminie,” when it
Mftt first produced at the Casino on May 10, 1886.
, G. A. A.—A San Francisco directory
Bnay be seen at Trow s Directory office, corner of
Jlighth street and University Place.
' H. L.— The answer in lost Sunday’s
Tispatoh was correct. The New Bowcry Theatre
was burned December 18.1866.
A. E. W.— The date of the great wind
If Irelautl was la the m»ath «f 1833.
|<tto fork gqratcii.
NEW YORK, JUNE 19. 1887.
TO ADVKRTISEIIS.
ADVERTISING MANAGER GBO. F, KUHN.
ADVERTISING is twenty.five cents a link tn
THE NEW YORK DISPATCH.
Owing to our large edition we are eomnelled to go t.o
press at an early hour, hence ADVERTISEMENTS
NOT RE RECEIVED AFTER NINE O’CLOCK SATUR.
DAY EVENING.
To Masonic Advertisers.
Thope desiring to advertise in our Masonlo columns
must have their advertisements n our office BEFORE
TWO O’CLOCK on FRIDAY AFTERNOON. No ad
vertisement can be inserted on the Masonic Page after
that hour.
The NEW YORK DISPATCH
hns a larger circulation than any
other Sunday Newspaper pub
lished in tha United States.
THE LOYAL UPRISING.
The patriotic protest of General Fairchild
against the return of captured Bebel flags to
the unrepentant Rebels of the South rang
through the land like the blast ot a bugle.
“ May God palsy the hand that wrote the or
der 1” exclaimed the indignant veteran. '• May
Go t palsy the brain that conceived it I May
God palsy the tongue that dictated it I” This
ardent prayer, heartily approved by every
loyal citizen, was promply heard and answered.
God did palsy the purpose of tho plotters
against the honor of the country. Their hands,
brains and ton/ues filtered. They became
alarmed at the loyal uprising tor which the in
spired utterance of General Fairchild was the
signal. The next day Grover Cleveland re
voked the infamons order which would have
disgraced the Union soldiers.
But, although the crime attempted by the
Rebel sympathizers in the Democratic adminis
tration at Washington could not be carried out,
for foar of the loyal people, the intention re
mains, and with that the people will deal
sternly. In bis printed apology to the outraged
nation, Grover Cleveland says that tho cap
tured flags “ have been packed Yn boxes and
stored in the cellar and attic of the War De
partment.” Why are these trophies ot the
bravery of the Union armies thus left for the
moths to destroy? The Union flags should bo
sent back, by order of Congress, to the loyal
States which gave them to our troops. Of the
Hebei flags, a huge bonfire should be publicly
made, as infected hospital rags are burned
after the patient has recovered. To restore
tliem to the Rebels would be scandalous,
and ought to be impossible. Indeed, there
should be no Rebels left to receive or covet
such disreputable emblems of defeated trea
son. If the South were really repentant and
patriotic, the scheme to raise the Rebel flags
again would be as obnoxious in that section as
it is everywhere else in the United States.
Some overwise persons have accused tho Re
publicans ot prejudice and rancor when they
declared that the Democrats were not to be
trusted with the national government and that
the Rebel snake was scotched, not killed. This
episode of the captured flags comes like a glare
of lightning to expose the ambush of tha foes of
the Union. We have been assured that tho
States which organized the Rebellion no longer
exist; that they have been re-organized and re
constructed; that ths South is now as loyal as
the North, and that the Republicans are very
wicked and foolish to distrust this happy con
dition of affairs. But, whon the Rebel States
are called upon by a Demooratio President to
take back tbeir flags and adorn their legislative
halls with the symbols of secession, there they
are, ready to answer to their names and accept
the banners which their soldiers were not aide
to retain. It is no surprise to us to find them
thus iu tho old ditches; but it has shocked the
country to discover that another Democratic
Administration is in connivance with them and
that Cleveland is imitating Buchanan.
All honor to General Fairchild, whose ringing
words gave the keynote to all loyalists ! Honor
to tho patriotic Governors of the loyal States,
who at once telegraphed to Washington to pro
test against the surrender of the captured flags
and to order the Union flags to be preserved at
any eost! Honor to the Grand Army of the
Republic, the veterans of the war, the guardians
of the land in peace, as eager now to preserve,
as they were formerly to defend, the Union I
Honor to the brave soldiers who declared that,
it the Rebel flags were restored, tho lives and
limbs sacrificed to put down the Rebellion,
must be restored also ! Honor to the patriotic
citizens who joined in the great loyal uprising
and frightened the Administration conspirators
from their infamous purpose ! Palsied be the
hand, the tongue, the brain that would disgrace
and dishonor the glorious cause of the Union,
now and forever 1
LAWS FOR RICH AND POOR.
We are bound to believe that Judge Barrett
has sound reasons for refusing to lock Jake
Sharp in the Tombs during his trial and per
mitting him to sleep at home in the custody ot
the sheriff. It is stated that Sharp is suffering
from a painful disease; that the shame and the
restrictions of a prison would be fatal to him,
and that, so long as he is in safe custody, it
would be cruel to condemn him to confinement
before he is convicted of any crime. His side
of the matter is, wo think, fairly stated by us.
Doubtless there may be some truth in tho rep
resentations of his counsel. Nevertheless, we
regret that an exception has been made in his
favor from the ordinary practice oi the court,
because it is sure to be misunderstood by tho
people and will do more injury to Justice than
the Tombs could do to Jake Sharp.
Suppose that Sharp were a poor man, instead
of a rich oue, would be have been accorded
special privileges on account of his bad health ?
Suppose that hejwere Jake Lazarus, instead of
Jake Crcesus, would be be permitted to stay at
home and have three deputy sheriffs to wait
upon him ? Suppose that he resided in a
tenement house, instead ot a brown stone front,
and had to walk to court, instead of riding in
an elegant carriage, would he have been en
trusted to the care of his former friend, Sheriff
Grant, instead of being handed over to the
ruder and coarser hospitalities of Warden
Walsh ? There is only one possible answer to
these questions, which everybody is now ask
ing, and that answer is not satisfactory to those
who believe that there ought not to be one law
ior the rich and another for the poor, in this
.city.
When poor Jake Lazarus is on trial nobody
cares whether he is ill or well; nobody takes
any account of his mental or physical sensibili
ties; nobody lets him go home to dine or sleep;
nobody grants him leave ot absence, though his
wife and children may be starving. Whatever
his condition or his necessities, poor Jake Laz
arus must ride in the Black Maria and be shut
up in a cell. No deputy sheriff would demean
himself so far as to take charge of poor Jake
La-arus, who could not stand treat to epicurean
dinners, fine wines, the best cigars, and an oc
casional twenty-dollar bill. Yet, if justice were
done, this rich rogue, Jake Sharp, would be
poorer than Lazarus. His house and horses,
dollars and dinners, wines and cigars, do not
belong to him. He has stolen them all. Ho
has been a successiul thief all his long life.
Stripped of his plunder, he would be a pauper
criminal, and any Judge would commit him to
the Tombs, and be thankful if he saved tho
State further trouble by dying there.
ONE CENT REWARD.
The constant attacks of the Times upon Tom
Platt have become simply nauseous. The pub
lic are sick and tired of them. We used to have
some influence with George Jones in the days
when be was trying to behave himself and be
a decent Republican, but it is hopeless to ap
peal to the common sense of a Mugwump, since
nobody who has common sense could belong to
that gang. There'ore, after profound reflec
tion, wo have decided to sacrifie Tom Platt in
order to keep the Times quiet. Our plan is to
offer one cent reward for Tom Platt’s head on a
charge, with or without Tom Platt’s body at
tached, so that we may send it up to the Times
office with our compliments to George Jones, if
preferred, a map showing the origin and course
ot the Jones River will be substituted for the
cent.
NEW YORK DISPATCH. JUNE 19, 1887.
— — £ —7 —
Thia liberal offer is open to Dave Hill or to
any other person, male or female, who
to aaaume the part of Herqdiaa in the political
masquerade. But let no wit retort that, like
Herod, we are offering half of our kingdom.
The price oi the Dispatch is five cents a copy.
A JOURNALISTIC DUEL,
Tho air is full of oaths and dust. Old Dana,
of the Sun, and Joe Pulitzer, of the World, are
fighting a duel to the death, with tho Hon.
Amos Cumming and Col. John Cockerill aa
their aeconda. True, the two combatanta ara
three thouaand milea apart; but thia m ikes no
difference to their sanguinary natures. Instead
of hard blows they are exchanging hard words.
If wo interfere, in tho interests of peace and
quietness, it is because we sorrowiully acknowl
edge that the Dispatch was the innocent origi
nator oi this deadly quarrel. Wo urged Joe
Pulitzer to start an Eoening World, with a Har
lem edition, a Tarrytown edition, a Fifth avenue
edition and a Five Points edition, ao aa to com
pete with the Evening Sun, Old Dana was
afraid that our advice would be taken and he
determined to lay Joo Pulitzer out cold before
the new paper could be published. Hence this
fatal fight.
The duol reminds ua of the famous combat
between Saladin and Richard the Lion-heart in
its style, although the combatanta have changed
places in character. Old Dana uses a keen,
curved acimet <r, like Saladin, and tries to mor
tally wound his adversary by satire and in
sinuation. Joo Pulitzer wields a meat-axe, as
Richard did a battle-axe, and bangs away with
the biggest words in the vocabulary of Billings
gate. Old Dana insinuates that Pulitzer is a
bounty-jumper, a pickpocket and a driver lor
the St. Louis Morgue. Joe Pulitzer replies
that Dana is a coward, a liar and a blackguard.
Those things are printed of each other by the
editors of two leading New York papers, not
once or twice, in the heat of passion or contro
versy, but day after day, with malice prepense
a deliberate purpose to bring about a mur
der either of a man or of a paper. There is no
use of asking whether this sort of journalism is
not disgraceful to all concerned. Everybody
knows that it is. But still old Dana and Joe
Pulitzer keep at it, and their thousands of
readers look on in horrified amazement.
At last, however, a hint has been dropped,
which, if properly interpreted by the Counsel
to tho Corporation, will justify Superintendent
Murray in closing up both the duellists. The
World, informs the Sun that, if old Dana is anx
ious for a personal encounter, he must wait
until Joe Pulitzer returns from Europe. Some
private mossage, perhaps, in the form of a chal
lenge, must have led to this covert threat. Are
we, then, to understand that Joe Pulitzer went
abroad with the intention ot seeking a personal
encounter with James Gordon Bennett at Mary
del or Pau ? Does the World mean that, not
being able to hunt down Bennett, who has fled,
on his steam yacht, to China and Japan, the
irate Joe 1 ulitzer is now coming home to kill
old Dana, or get killed himself, according to
the chances of war ? If so, it is quite time to
call upon the police, and have both Dana and
Pulitzer bound over to keep the peace and save
the pieces.
Business is business, and there can be no
objection to the game that Joe Pulitzer has
played in backing up the Evening Sun so as to
destroy tho Eve ning Telegram, That was a
shrewd move and it has been successful. If, in
the meantime, the World has cut into the circu
lation of the morning, or mourning, Sun, as well
as that of the Hera d, why old Dana has a right
to feel annoyed about it and decline to publish
any longer his daily circulation at the head of
his columns. But tho only way to get ahead of
the World, is to print a better newspaper. Call
ing names will not attract the public. Blood
will not do the work of printer’s ink. If Joe
Pulitzer should kill old Dana, or if Dana should
kill Pulitzer, or if each should kill tho other,
nobody would bo benefited except the under
takers and the heirs. It is our duty, since we
unconsciously provoked the cyclonic outburst,
to remind the Sun and tho Wor d that they are
behaving foolishly and scandalously. Nobody
will respect journals conducted in a blackguard
manner. New York is wide enough for all the
papers that can be printed here, provided they
are good enough to live, and there is room in
the celestial system for both the Woi'ld and the
Sun, morning and evening.
THE NEW POLICE CAPTAINS.
The appointment of four new Captains of Po
lice is a very important matter. It encourages
the whole force, by showing that real merit and
conscientious service will be splendidly re
warded. It interests all classes of our citizens.
It notifies the rogues that they must bo more
careful, as new brooms proverbially sweep
clean. It shows all honest men that their safety
and welfare are to be entrusted to officers who
have earned promotion by good conduct. For
these reasons we cordially approve and applaud
the action of the Police Commissioners in pin
ning the gold badges of the Captaincy upon the
broad and brave breasts of Messrs. Slevin,
Reilly, Cassidy and Westervelt. They have
been first-rate Sergeants and they will make ex
cellent Captains. Their records, carefully scru
tinized, are without a blemish. The city is just
ly proud of such policemen.
It is an open secret that, in tho selection of
the four new Captains, the Board depended to
a great extent upon the experience and sagacity
ot Commissioner Voorhis. He, therefore, is
entitled to a large share of the general con
gratulations. He has been guided in his choice
by considerations of the efficiency of the ser
vice, and not by political or personal feeling.
Captain Slevin has been known for years as the
right hand of Inspector Byrnes, and could not
have a better leader. Captain Cassidy has
served faithfully, and learned his duties
thoroughly, as tho assistant of Captain Ryan,
of the Twenty-firat Precinct. Captain Reilly
knows the down town wards as well as he does
bis prayer Look, and will be warmly welcomed
to his new post at tho City Hall. Captain West
ervelt has been for sixteen years the lieutenant
oi Captain Williams, and strikes terror to crim
inals by the same jstraight-forward methods.
Tbeir deserved promotions are creditable to
themselves, the Board, the police force and the
city.
JUBILATING THE QUEEN.
The British residents of New York have
never been accused of lack of cheek. Some of
them left their country for their country’s
good, and some lor their own good;
but they all brought their insular inso
lence, habits and prejudices along with them.
They have settled in this country instead of m
Canada, because they can make more dollars
here; but they are just as bigoted and pro
vincial as the Canadians. They are with us, but
not of us. During the War lor the Union they
sympathized with the Rebels who were trying
to destroy our government. They sneer and
carp at all our institutions that are not English,
you know. They take every possible occasion
to proclaim themselves British subjects. They
would like the Queen to rule this country as she
does India and Ireland, so that they might be
granted special facilities for plundering the
natives. They are an alien and hostile colony
here, and they lose no opportunity of displaying
their fine sentiments when they can do so safely.
To-day, at Trinity Church, these British resi
dents are to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee by a
special service. This impudent desecration of
an American edifice to eulogize an English
Queen is to be followed by a jubilation at the
Metropolitan Opera House, and that by a grand
display of British fireworks at Staten Island.
Mayor Hewitt ought to prohibit these demon
strations on the ground that they are likely to
provoke a breach of the peace. If the meeting
of British residents be not mobbed and their
fireworks thrown into the Bay it will be on ac
count ot the contempt which the public feel for
them. Why do they not ask to be allowed to
erect a statue of the Queen in Bowling Green,
where the Statue of King George stood until the
Americans melted it into bullets to drive off the
ancestors of these residents and their Hessian
allies ? Why, instead of fireworks, do they not
jubilate the Queen by repeating the pageant of
the evacuation of New York by the British
troops? Why do they not persuade Mayor
Hewitt to hoist the English flag on the City Hall
in honor of the jubilee ? Why do they not march
• in solemn pilgrimage to tho site of the monu
, meat erected to Major Andre, the typical Brit
‘ ish soldier ?
There are several ways in which our British
res dents might have celebrated the Queen’s
jU' ilee w.th honor and credit to themselves
and their country. They might have signed a
petit on to the Queen begging her to show some
sympathy for her starving sisters in Ireland.
They might have gone to the City Hall in a
body and taken out their naturalization papers,
forswearing allegiance to a country which re
fused to give them a chance to earn a living
and exiled them to America as more or less as
sist ,‘d emigrants. They might have chartered
a small fleet of Canadian fishing-smacks and
sailed away iorever Irom this land, which is too
free and independent for their sycophantic dis
positions. They might have read the history
of Ireland and blushed as red as the British
flag to learn how England has played the bru
tal tyrant lor centuries. They might have sub
scribed for a handsome prize to reward the
clever fellow who could discover one good deed
which the Queen has ever done for the United
States. Either of these modes of celebrating
the jubilee would have been profitable and pop
ular. The mode which they have selected is
characteristically insolent and obnoxious.
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Editorial
A Change for the Betti r. —The
Democratic party has opposed, so long as we
can remember, any subsidies to American
steamship lines. Some years previous to the
war, when both branches of Congress and the
Administration were Democratic, we had steam
ships which were running to Europe and fight
ing tor the transatlantic trade, and our steam
ships were then the best in the world. There
was every probability, at tho time, that our con
test would not be a losing one. Suddenly our
Democratic government withdrew from the
American lines the small amount that was
being paid for carrying our mails, because our
Democratic friends discovered t> at English
steamers would carry American mails a few
dollars cheaper than that for which our ship
masters could afford to do the work. The con
sequence was that American steamers disap
peared from the trans-Atlantic trade. When
in the House of Representatives, about 1877,
Mr. Blaine proposed that lines of steamers to
Central and South America should be estab
lished with the aid of the government of the
United States, he was at once assailed as a job
ber, the friend of corporations, the robber of
the people, and a pernicious statesman who
should be driven out of public life by Demo
cratic organs and papers which are now known
as Mugwump. The House of Representatives
being Democratic, Mr. Blaine’s American ideas
were defeated, and the United States, the near
est friend of the Central and South American
republics, was not permitted to enter into com
petition with thq monarchies of Europe for this
trade. The consequence is as follows—-we take
the figures from an English paper:
•‘The value ot goods Imported into the Argentine
Republic in 1885 iroru hugland was considerably
more than twice that of the imports from any other
country. Engftntl sent over thirty-eight per cent,
of the whole import.. France coming next wth
fifteen per cent., Belginm and Germany each with
about eight per cent., and the United Stales with a
little lees than ttiat proportion.”
There is not one of the European countries
mentioned in this extract which has not subsi
dized the steamship lines in this Argentine
trade, but the Great Republic of the United
States cannot afford—according to Democrats
and Mugwumps—to spend a cant for the pur
pose of increasing the maratime trade with
Central and South America. The expenditure
of a couple of million dollars a year for a few
years would give tliis country control of ail this
trade. We can afford to expend two millions a
year to get a return of thirty or forty millions.
But anything to advance American interests in
opposition to those of England and the other
European monarchies is not Democratic nor
Mugwumpish. The Republicans will return to
power, and there will be a change for the bet
ter oi the commerce of the United States.
Look After the Graver Sins.—There
are in the city of New York about 10,590 saloons
whore intoxicating liquors are sold. The city
has about 2,700 policemen. That is, about a
quarter ot a policeman to every saloon; yst out
conscientious but cranky Mayor expects tho po
licemen to shut up all the saloons on Sunday
and attend to their other duties. This expse
tation is one that only a crank would suppose
could be brodglft to any result ot consequence.
Let us make another remark for the enlighten
ment of Mr. Hewitt and other men of his way of
thinking: Tho greatest crims which a man can
commit is not the taking of a drink. Murder,
burglary, felonious assaults and theft of every
sort are much graver sins. Why not give the
police a chance to look alter the graver instead
of tho lessor sins ?
The Chamiton Objector. —Lawyer
John Graham achieved distinction as an objec
tor during tho trial of one of the boodle Aider
men. His laurels are being rapidly withered
by tho activity of Lawyer Stickney, who has al
ready made more objections in the Shirp trial
than we have ever read of in any ono ease. But
these two lawyers differ entirely in their method.
When making an obisetion Graham shook his
good right hand, and uttered his words in a
voice of appalling volume, while Stickney is
low-toned, suave and the very cream of polite
ness. Yet, notwithstanding his suave manner,
we think Mr. Stiokney is sure to win tho grand
title of “ champion objector of the world.”
Worthily a Favorite.—There is now
on sale the Jnlynu'nberof “Tho Young Ladies'
Journal.” From Its opening to its closing page
it is lull of good things. There is the beginning
of a new serial story called “ Miranda,” and
portions of other continued stories, all of high
excellence and entirely pure in tone. There
are, also, several complete sketches and miscel
laneous matters ot genoral interest. Of course,
there is the usual gigantic supplement of the
latest fashions—in colored and uncolored plates.
The magazine is worthily a favorite.
No Sympathy for Them.—We have
heard no expressions-of sympathy for the specu
lators who were hurt by the bursting of the
combination which tried to monopolize the
wheat of the West. The combination, while it
fasted, bad the effect of increasing the price of
the grain, thereby making the barrel of flour
dearer and decreasing the size of tho baker’s
loaf. It is to be hoped that every combination
formed for the purpose of speculating in the
food of the people shall moot with rapid and
thorough ruin.
Blaine is Responsible.—On reading
the Hera’d one would imagine that Mr. James G.
Blaine engineered the issuance of the order for
tho return of the captured flags, so as to put
President Cleveland in a very deep hole. What
an astute, cunning and far-reaching politician
is Mr. Blaine I What an innocent and unsus
pecting politician is President Cleveland I And
what a profoundly wise newspaper is the New
York Herald!
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A PRETTY LITTLE FABLE.
“Did you advertise for an office assistant? ’
asked a seedy looking individual of an up-town
business man the other day.
“Yes, what of it? ’
“I thought maybe I could secure the posi
tion.”
“ Have you had any experience in this busi
ness?” asked the business man, thinking to
shake the customer because oi his clycenio ap
pearance.
“No, sir.”
“ Married man ?”
“No, sir.”
“But I wanted a married man.”
“ Can you put up cash security ior your hon
esty?”
“No, sir, I haven’t a cent. Otherwise I
wouldn’t look for work.”
“Can you command any trade in town ?”
“No, sir. I have very few acquaintances
here.”
“Quick at figures ?” .
“Pr-e-t-ty fair. Not chain lightning.”
“ Write a good hand ?”
“So so. You can read it with a microscope.”
■■ Well, I wanted an intelligent man and I
don't see that you are at all suited for the posi
tion, What have joa to recomsttnd jou ?’*
“Nothing, Only they wouldn’t tak's mess a
Sharp joror.”
“What! You come right in. You're jusf the
man I want. I’ll give you a million dollars a
week and a six months holiday twjce a year.
No recommendation, eh? Ha, ha I That's
good ! Come up and live with me 1”
This fabls teaches that over the fence the
lick’s out.
SOMETHING TO BOOT.
/Our friend Pooiamey gets funny at times and
he blossoms out into so many back number
jokes that his head is lull of scars from the ap
plause of his auditors.
His features have become so corrugated, that
ono who had not seen him since his early
youth, wouldn’t recognize him.
He has to keep buying now plates for domestic
use, so o:teu does Mrs. Pooiamey encore him.
The other day they had company, and Pool
amey was in his wildest state of humor. They
all sat at tho windows gazing at the passers-by,
when suddenly a gentleman accompanied by a
pretty and well-termed lady came into view.
“There,”said Pooiamov, jocularly, “ thors’s
my idea ot a woman. I’ve halt a mind to go out
and ask that gentleman to trade wives with me.”
The company and Mrs. Pooiamey flocked
nearer the window to obtain a better view ot
Poolamey’s beau ideal.
“1 guess I’ll run out.” continued Pooiamey
playfully, “ and ask him if he'll trade with me.
1 guess he will if I givo him something to boot."
“ You’ll have no need of giving him an ything
to boot,” remarked Mrs. Pooiamey quietly.
“ I guess if you racks him that offer he’ll find
something to boot.”
And then Pooiamey didn’t break the silence
or anything else for more or less than soma time.
SMALL OHANGit.
The Connecticut clergymen insist that
Sunday papers shall be printed on Saturday.
This is amove tn the right direction and it they
can only manage it so that Monday’s papers
shall ba printed on Tuesday it will give the
“ boys " a much needed rest, and give the
ministers and Sunday school superintendents a
chance to get in their fine work on Lord’s day
and skip betore the news reaches the public.
The Cleveland dog “Hector” has
been naughty since his folks have been away to
Saranac Lake, and has been carousing with the
girly dogs of Washington. He was locked up
in the station-house the other night as a va
grant. Hector should get married, and set
tle down. It s pretty near time that he sowed
his wild oats; but then, we presume; “Evil
communications corrupt good manners.”
We see advertisements in tlie papers
every day of cures for drunkenness. If any
man wants to get cured of drunkenness he
should take a dose of Now York Sunday, but
any man who has that desire should leave it
alone. There’s hundreds of people in town who
would like to know where they could get money
enough to catch it.
Sara Bernhardt’s tiger is again on
the rampage, and recently chewed up a couple
of waiters. It looks like a new advertising
dodge on Sara’s part, but it’s a little bit tough
on the waiters, unless they are well paid for it.
We presume that Sara gets the tiger hungry by
permitting him to gaze at her when she is in
her bath.
Oub navy came near being ship
wrecked last week. A dam smack ran into one
ot our war ships, and a mast fell through the
“Atlanta,’’ the new steel cruiser. They should
build the masts ot paper and keep clam smacks
out of our waters, or they’ll chuck all our offi
cers out ot a job and overrun the country with
tramps.
The “Tribune” shows that Presi
dent Cleveland has made changes in 40,001)
poatmasterships since his infringement on the
office. These are all fourth-class postmasters,
and we presume that means that it takes more
of that class than of any other to keep up with
the increasing business done on postal cards.
A man out in Illinois, wlto was for
merly a New York bartender, has given him
self up as the murderer of the Rahway girl. It
looks as it walking was bad between Illinois
and here, and that tho young man wants to get
homo without having his trousers lambasted
by over-officious conductors.
An Albany lobbyist has scooted with
$20,000 placed in his hands to grease the Legis
lature. If wo want our laws made right, a
bureau should be established, where the mem
bers of the Legislature can personally draw
thoir “boodies.” Lobbyists are generally more
or less dishonest.
We can’t sea why flish should be heir
to so many ills. If Janah hadn’t been a chump
when he was down among tho whale’s works he
might have studied up, and given the straight
tip to the doctors of the day, wha could have
passed it down from generation to generation.
Nathan Hale, to whose memory a
monument was erected the other day, said, on
the scaffold, that he wiebed he had a thousand
lives that he might devote to his country. That’s
just like our politicians ot to-day, and they’d
like to catch a boodle for each life.
A Pennsylvania youth permitted him
self to be accused of murder rather than let his
folks know that hs was drunk on the night of
the tragedy, and thus have proven an alibi.
We’d rather get tight than commit a murder
any day, and we imagine that that young man
must have had rats in his garret.
An exchange asserts tiiat three of the
greatest mon who ever lived—Webster, Lin
coln and Beecher—had seven letters in thoir
name. What’s tha matter with Q-u-e-v-e-d-o?
Ah, well! There’s one of us left, but we know
not what a day may bring fl th I
We are glad to see that the Bulgarian
cabinet has been at last completed. It con
tains Messrs. Ristics, Bogitchevics, Virgics,
Milojkovics, Vacumovics and Visiljevics, and
we are happy to see that there isn’t a “ ski,” a
“ koff ” or an “ itch ” in it.
There is considerable trouble over in
Brooklyn as to the appointment of females on
the Board of Education. Mayor Whitney hesi
tates. He is probably fearful that he’ll be out
of a job soon, and that he may be selected as
one of the old women.
It is rumored that the Anti-Poverty
ists, Henry George and Father McGlynn, have
an idea ot running for Assembly. They would
probably Infuse a few brains into that body,
and it would be a good place in which to dispel
their poverty.
Mahoney, the Cincinnati bridge
jumper, instead of landing all right in the
water, landed in the hospital the other day.
When he struck the water, he landed on bis
coat tails, aud the blow affected bis brain, it is
said.
A number of Az’ec mummies have
been found on the Gila river. They should
hunt two or three weeks longer, and after the
exhaustion oi all the peremptory challenges
they may be able to fill out a capable New York
jury.
Our old friend Marshall P. Wilder,
the humorist, is in Europe, and is to be pre
sented to the Queen. She should keep a pro
per distance from him when he is telling one of
his funny stories or she may fall into the hole.
Billy Moloney’s two boys nave joined
a Canadian baseball olub. They have the same
eye to business, evidently that their pa had,
and can support the family when the old man
goes broke, by accepting positions in the box.
The cable informs us that Lady Salis
bury and Lady Rosebury will hold receptions
next week. What in thunder are Lady Huckle
berry and Lady Gooseberry doing to let Salis
bury and Rosebury get tho bulge on them ?
Rollin B. Squire has gone to Eu
rope, it is said, to write a jubilee ode. If be
could be prevailed upon to dish up his owed
here, be might save boarding expenses in
Double Sing.
A Western tramp recently saved a
train from shipwreck. He had washed himself
and the engineer mistook him for a ghost and
whistled down brakes just in time.
Judging by the pictures of the Sharp
jury, as published in the World, there wouldn’t
be any brains on the walls of the court-room
U »n explosion should take place
Jake Setback:® has translated the
Governor’s message into German. This makes
it more of a puzzle than but we can lay it
aside for Sunday perusal, and jet the jimjams
without danger of violating the law.
Straw hats are here, but for the most
par! they look rocky and very much ss if they
ought to change their flannels and.indnSge in a
Turkish bath before they had the presumption
to appear out in decent society.
Gen. Rosser asserts that Democracy
is made up ot anarchism, nihilism and whisky
ism. What about Humanism, Romanism and'
liobellionism, gineral ?
The treasurer of a Coxsackie bank
has absquandered. It probably turned his
brain to try and make “ Coxsackie “ spell
“ Cooksarky.” •
The famous Yale pitcher is studying
for the ministry. His first sermon should be
on “The pitcher that goes often to the box is at
last busted.”
Wb never could see much difference
between a blacksmith and a stallion. Each is
a horse, sure. Opening chorus, “Down the
River.”
It is said that Grover Cleveland is
stronger than his party. Wo guess that’s so,
lor the party is pretty rank.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
The Bijou Opera House plans for next season con
template, for September, E. E. Bice's *• Conrad, the
Corsair;” later, “ Amanuensis,*’ a farce-comedy, by
“Frank Lynd,” with J. A. Mackay as the chief
comedian, and new music by E. E. Rice; and later
still (after the Mackay Company have gone out ou
tour), H. E. Dixey in a burlesque of Henry Irving’s
“Faust.”
By the way, who can tell what has become of
pretty little Laura Moore, who melted away like
mist during the opera season here ? Her disappear,
ance rivalled that of Victoria Schilling, only she
did not have a rich father, or a car conductor for a
busband, and was the sooner forgotten.
Talking about the chorus girls suggests another
little line anent the chorister. The very highest
thing now is a bangle made of coins, with the date
and initials of “ the latest ” engraved upon them.
That’s not very high, perhaps, but it’s worn high
all the same, for you can see half a dozen of them
at the various shows and they are fastened ju&t
above the knee.
It is not a twelve-mouth ago that pretty Violet
Cameron landed on these shores, loudly heralded
and accompanied by what was thought likely to
prove an immense drawing card, namely his illus
trious lordship, Hugh Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale.
The pretty little songtress star was very bright on
that Sunday that she landed here with all the rest
of the bouncing British blondes, and now it has
simply tumbled right out of the firmament and all
its sattolites are likewise gone. “Vi” is look’ng
for concert hall engagements in London, and the
Earl is being gradually sold out of house and home.
Mu. William Waldorf Astor, who has posed as a
litterateur for some time past, has entered the field
of playwriting, and has put forth a play. It has
not yet transpired whether it is a six-act sensational
drama or a one-act farce. Dame Rumor sys
“there's something about Italy in it, anyway.’
The author won’t find much difficulty in producing
it. In all probability his name will be printed in
bigger type than the title of the play.
The following attractions aro announced for
this weok in New York: “Erminie.” at the Casino;
Marshall's Royal Japanese Tourists at the Standard;
•• Jacquette,” at Wallack's; Richard Mansfield in
•■Prince Karl,” at the Madison Square Theatre; “The
Highest Bidder,” at the Lyceum Theatre; “Trav
ers House,” at Niblo’s; Bijou Fernandez, in “Peg.
gy, the Fisherman’s Child,” at the People’s; Mur
ray and Murphy, in “Our Irish Visitors,” at the
Union Square. Closed—Harrigan’s Park, Bijou
Opera House, Fourteenth Street Theatre, Fifth Av
enue Theatre and Star Theatre.
Margaret Mather’s next season opens August
28, at Rochester, N. Y. Frederick Paulding, Milnes
Lcvick, O’Kane Hillis, Jennie Harold and Mrs.
Smith .are among the re-engagements for her sup
port. “Thisbe,” a tragedy, by Alex. Dumas, pcre,
will be added to her repertory.
In the new comedy, “Bijah Frisby,” to be pro
duced at Tony Pastor’s, June 27, there will boa
Coney Island scene, showing the Iron Pier, the Ele
phant. the arrival of the Iron Steamboats, the
Merry-go-rounds, and all that goes to make up the
excitement of Coney Island. The old comedian,
Mr. John Jennings, will create the title role and
will be supported by an excellent cast. The scenery
is now in course of preparation by Signor Arm
bruster.
Barry Taylor, of Kentucky, who recently died,
bequeathed to Mr. Lawrence Barrett the celebrated
oil painting of George Frederick Cooke, painted by
the famous Sudy. It is said to be a valuable leg
acy.
Last week Frederick Warde presented the
legitimate drama in Salt Lake City, and the Mor
mons appeared to like it. On the opening night
the theatre was crowded, and the tragedian was
greeted with much enthusiasm and frequent calls
before the curtain.
Harry Linden, the well known comedian, and
W. Paul Bown have been engaged to support M.as
Augusta Van Doren next reason, in her new come ly
called, “Charlotte Russe.”
Imre Kiralfy’s new grand ballet of sixty hand
some, young female dancers, from the Royal Thea
tre In Berlin, will arrive iu this olty about July
15th, when active rehearsals of “ Le Bosses” will
begin at Niblo’s, where the piece will be given an
elaborate production August 15th. One of the
grand ballets is called “ Seven Ages.” and it is said
will be one of the most elaborate and beautiful
affairs ever seen on the local stage.
W. R. Crane, the alter ego Qi Robson, the other
Dromio. was visible to the nude eye last Friday —
partaking of potations of Croton Aqua, with a “little
suthiu’ into It,” in the Coleman House cafe. is
as bright, cheery and hearty as one could wish.
The past season has shown to Miss Minnie Mo
dern that she has, at last, a manager, in Mr. Millet,
who thoroughly understands his business, She
has bad an exceedingly prosperous season, and the
shadow of the second fiddler, Legrand White, was
not upon it. So glad. Mr. Mi Iler is in town, mak
ing arrangements for a brief Summer season for
Miss Maddern here. She will appear in Howard
Taylor’s play of “ Caprice.”
The colony of professionals, which, with a con
tinuous increase to its numbers, is now resident
on the west side of Harlem, can obtain, by order,
any foreign and dramatic plays, dramatic journals
and magazines from Mr. W. R. Cist, at his book
and newspaper store, Berkshire Building, south
east corner of 125th street and Eighth avenue.
Emma Abbott s*ys she can sing three notes high
er than any other living prima donna except Bem
brich. But the quality, Emma, the quality. A fog
horn can make a no se.
Jerome Eddy is really writing a play—a tragedy,
in five acts. There are six heroes and six heroines
in it. With this work he proposes to form a syndi
cate of star tragedians and tragediennes, who will
play these leading roles, and put them on “ the
road.” Eddy intends to collect from the syndicate
20 per cent, royalty on the gross receipts of each
performance, act as their manager at a salary of
fifty dollars a week from each of them, with one
hundred dollars per week for “ working the press”—
they to pay all his personal and traveling expenses,
and also to give him oae-half the profits.
If the play is a failure—then there will be “ An
archy” in the camp; but Jerome—well, he’ll be all
right—as he should be —and don’t you forget it.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, with Mr. Grau, her
manager, and her entire company, and her tiger
oub, sailed for Europe yesterday afternoon. Maur
ice Bernhardt, Mr. Grau and a few others were on
the French steamer “La Bretagne.” Mme. Bern
hardt and the remainder of the company sailed on
the “City of Richmond.” They will all meet in
London, where Mme. Bernhardt will play for a
mouth. The tour just ended is the longest ever
undertaken by any company. It lasted fourteen
months, and covered South and Central America
and the United States. There were 252 perform
ances, the gross receipts were more than $1,000,000,
and the profits $500,000.
Poole’s Theatre. —With the closing
of Mr. N. S. Wood’s engagement last night, ended
Mr. Poole's first season of the management of thia
theatre. It has been fairly successful; it would
have been more so had he began with the scale
of “ popular prices ” of admission—instead oi the
higher rates. As it is, their adoption was deter
mind on rather late in the season, but happily not
too late to bring profit to him.
He has for his next season, which will commence
in August, already made dates with many of the
most popular stars and combinations of the time,
and has every prospect of ending up his second
year here prosperously for himself and to the satis
faction of that large clientelle of playgoers who
favor first class performances and plays—at “pop
ular ” rates.
Madison Square Garden. — When
Brother John P. Smith he” ® k ® with the meek
and gentle mien and of the < ac ® which wearetli
the smile of peace to all and profit to himself,
entereth into the joys of a stand in a
good show town, and opens up business with
" Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” with jubilee and blood
hound trimmings, a tidal wave of posters, and
banners as countless as the fleas on a Strang yellow
dog—how do the skillful scribblers of thr presM
boom him ?
They Announce it as a “ grand revival.” Th.V’fr
| always the opening shot.
And the serene Smith—hallowed be his name atf
a nomenclatial luxury because of its scarcity—.
smiles and gathers in his harvest of ducats, and
cfghs for new mints to conquer.
But why refer to “ a revival” of that which is not
dead—of that which loses not its vitality.
If The legend of Salatbiel, the Wandering Jew, be
true and that remarkable champion pedestrian
shouldfeppear en promenade on Broadway training for
a new lap around the world in eighty years—would It
not be rather of an insult- to the old gentleman, who
is doomed’ to live on forever for the interviewing
space staffers of the press to allude to him as “a
revival ?”
'lhat which'is dead cannot be revived; the reap
pearance of that which is living is not a revival.
So while the reappearance of “ Pinafore,” nnder
the management of Messrs; Hayden, Dickson and
Roberts, at “the Garden,” wm not a revival, but
the repetition of a work which is not likely to
die, it came in a new suit.
It was “Pinafore” with real water for the Ad
miral’s boats; “ Pinafore” with » greatly enlarged
family of pretty and particularly shapely sister*
and cousins and aunts; “Pinafore” with topical
allusions to the Boodle Aldermen and other famil
iars of the time; “ Pinafore” with a well-represent
ed cast and with musket drills; sailor’s hornpipes*
and with all that could bo asked for in the way of
light, life, motion and music.
The performances every afternoon and evening
during the week were witnessed by very Urge au
diences.
The only drawback was that of the vastness of the
Garden, which prevented all who wore not close
to the stage from hearing the dialogue, or. for the
matter of that, of appreciating the lyrio efforts of
the company, except in the choruses.
Through the exertions oi Managers Haydon*
Dickson and Roberts the experiment was a success.
Billy” Hayden never deals in failures.
Wallack’s Theatre.—A comic-opera,
new to our stage, entitled “ Jaquotto,” was brought
forward on Monday evening last by Colonel Me-
Caull’s Company. It cannot properly be styled an
operetta. It is in its composition a sort ot orosa be*
tween comic-opera and a musical comedy—with—
as given here, something of the flavor of the ex
travagance of a farce. Mr. J. Cheever Goodwin iff
the adaptor of the book from the original, and ha
has done his share of the work with a fair showing,
o! what the old Connty Judge called “proper
judition and circumspicion.”
Whatever of brightness and humor there irin it
to recommend it sweetly to the sense of the multl«
tude which attends the theatre fcr amusement
rather than criticism— should be accredited to
ll adame Oottrelly, Mr. De Wolf Hopper and Mr*
Alfred Klein—respectively impersonating with a
quaint and hilarious-earnestness, the characters of
Jaquette, the Chevalier Pomponio, and the Duke of-
Parma. The argument of the opera has already
had publication in these columns. It is well told
in the acting and the s nging of the principals and
the various minor personages in the cast.
The music is of a better and purer quality-, Is-*
brighter and more vital than has heretofore been
given us in the lyrio importations from tha •* iader--
land ” in the past few seasons.
There are a duett, a finale, a trio and an excep
tionally pretty lullaby in the second act, and a cho
rus and solo in the first which were accorded a de
served aud hearty recognition from the audience.
Miss Manolaas Bianca and Mr. Wilke as the Cap
tain, achieved marked distinction in their acting
and singing.
De Wolf Hopper, with a wonderfully and fearfully
constructed nose, got in his full share of. topical
song with all the boodle, base ball and- Cleveland
piscatorial business as the trimmings.
The opera was appropriately staged, the costumes
pretty and the chorus gave evidence of careful and
thorough rehearsal.
Ebastina Pabk. — History repeats,
itself in the matter of a nation’s amusements, no
loss than in the more important affairs of life.
And now, after a lapse of moro than twenty cen
turies, the historic sports of ancient Greece—ths
Olympian games—are to be reproduced, in the open,
air, with all possible correctness of detail,at Eras
tina Park, Staten Island, under the direction aud.
management of Mr. Adam Forepaugh, who will,
combine with this Olympian festival all the fea
tures of his great traveling exhibition. The Olym
pic games, by the mere fact of their having contin-.
ued in unbroken quinquennial celebration for a.
thousand years from the period of their revival,
command a sort of reverence, aud excite a feeling of
involuntary sadness at the thought of their disco Ur
tlnuance and oblivion.
That institution which had endured for
so many ages, and formed the delight ot
such numerous generations of mankind,
is now only an empty remembrance, a subject
for the antiquary and the historian. Olympia
is no more; its solid temples, the colossal statue of
Jupiter; the sacred grove with its myriad of
statuos, altars, trophies, columns, monuments of
gods, kings and heroes, in brass, marble and iron,,
have crumbled into dust, and become so effectually
mingled with the earth, that even, the site which
they embellished can be no longer recognized.
An artistic and historically, correct illustration of
this “ New Olympia.” has been sent out by Mr. Fore
paugh. The stadium, the hippodromus, the sacred
grove, the statues of gods and heroes, the temples,
and altars ot the old Olympia are all well pictured,
in contrast with the Olympia of the nineteenth;
century.
The plan-of this great Summer open air show. Ist
certainly novel, and the fact that Staten Island is
only twenty minutes, sail from Naw York, the faro
only ten cents and the ride a most delightful one*
will add largely to the success of this novel under
taking.
Niblo’s Garden.—The most im
portant event of the coming weok at this theatro
will be the production of a new drama at Niblo’s
to-morrow night, called “ Travers House.” It has
been several weeks in preparation and will ba givan
with entirely new scenery, by Gaspard Maeder and
W. Schaffer; new mechanical devices by William IL
Crane, and a cast of unusual note, that will include-
Misses Bolgarde, Adelaida Stanhope, Andrews, Mrs*
Carrie Jamieson, and Messrs. Forrest Robinson*
Nelson Wheatcroft, John T. Sullivan, Howard Cov
enay, Charles D. White and Kennett Lee.
The new play is described as powerful and full
of human interest. The scene of the prologue is
laid in Verona, Italy, aud the remaining three acts
at Travers House, a few miles out of London.
There has been a large sale of seats aud the first
performance of the new play will be witnessed by a
large audience.
Windsob Theatre.—That old Bowery
favorite, “Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler,” with all its
laughable and exciting incidents, with Otianfrau in
the title role, will be presented at the Windsor next
week. This wljl-be the first production of thia
famous drama on the East side for four years, aud
will probably be the final appearance of Chanirau
In this character, as he has purchased a new play.
I The company is adequate to all demands and all
the strong situations of the play will be brought
out. The complete cast is composed of Thomas G.
Patton, Odell Williams, Jas. Garey, E. J. Radcliffe,
Robert McNair, W. B. Alexander, W. H. Turner, R.
C. Variau, C. J. Jackson, Emily Baucker, Carrie
Reynolds, and Bertie Willis, with jubilee singers,
etc. _____
The Casino.—•-Erminie’s” great sue
cess continues, and night after night the houses
aro crowded—mostly with strangers visiting the
city. Mr. Rudolph Aronson is already making
preparations for a floral and gala night on the occa
sion of the 460th representation, Thursday, July
21st. •
Miss Fanny Rice has joined Mr. Aronson’s forces,
and will make her first appearance here on Tuesday
evening. One hundred members of the New York
Press Association witnessed yesterday’s aftornoou
performance of “Erminie.”
Madison Square Theatre. —Mr. Mans
field’s success has had but few precedents in Sum
mer theatricals. The present revival of “Prince
Karl” is making the receipts a third greater than
they were last Summer.
He is fully maintaining the standard of the house
and his comedy performances are artistic and care
fully directed. Mr. Mansfield has given to the stage
a most fascinating creation in the courier prince.
“Prince Karl” is light, bright, laughter-provok
ing and thoroughly seasonable. It will not ba with,
drawn so long as the houses are crowded. The
500th performance was reached Friday night.
Star Theatre.—Madame Bernhardt
closed her series of three nights' performances and
made her farewell appearance in this city on Friday
evening—as Dona Sol, in “Hemani.” She will not b«
seen here again for three or four seasons. Her audi
ences, in numbers and enthusiasm, were fully equal
to those which crowded the theatre during her per
formances in the earlier part of tha past season.
The Star U bow closed*