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Tony Pastor’s Theatre. —What was
announced as a new sensational drama, entitled
*• Another Man’s Wife,” was represented on this
fitage on last Monday and during the week. The
dialogue was not a stimulant to arouse special in
terest in its unfolding of the story of the play nor
wore its situations and individuality of character
go particularly original as to require extended com
ment. About the on>y example of acting worthy of
note was that of Mibb Edna Courtney as the heroine,
Celia Rodney. This actress deserves a better play—
Or to speak by the card, a play having something
more than cheap fustian in its composition, in
Which she can have opportunity to advantageously
display her ability in the portraiture of character.
The cast, aside from Miss Courtney's role, was in
differently represented. The author of this weird
tlrama was, happily for him or,her —withheld from
publication in the programme*.
For to-morrow evening and /or the week, includ
ing the matinees on Tuesday and Friday, Miss
Sarah McVicker with her company, will be seen in
ths play of “ Plasor, the Queen of the Mines.” It
Will be presented with new scenery and appoint
ments.
The Fall or Babylon. —The rehear-
Bals and all the preparations for the production at
St. George, Staten Island, on Saturday, June 25th, of
the spectacular, historical and biblical drama,
’•The Fall of Babylon” are now almost completed.
There will be included in the ballet alone, over two
hundred young ladies —who«e evolutions and share
in the representation, are under the absolute con
trol Of Mr. Imre Kiralfy.
The whole company involved In the performance
number? over one thousand principals and subordi
nates.
The scenic illustrations—painted in oil—are im
mense in size as compared with anything heretofore
attempted, and the costumes, purchased in Europe,
are asserted to have oost one hundred thousand
dollars. The various scenes, tableaux, and stage
pictures—the great fete of Babylon preceding its
destruction, the gladiatorial struggles, the attack
of the Persians on the city—in laot. the entire pa
geantry of this work will be lighted by electricity.
In the grand march, elephants, oamels and other
animals of the Orient wi 1 be seen in the procession
and action of the historic story. In another issue
more extended comment will be given of this mar
vellous spectacular and dramatic event, which has
So long been in preparation.
Bijou Opeba House. —Minnie Mad
dern begins a Summer engagement at this house on
Tuesday night next, in Howard Taylor's charming
■comedy drama, ‘'Caprice.” Miss Ma Idem is un
doubtedly one of the few recoin zed ingenues of
the American slage. She has just completed a very
successful engagement in San Francisco. Thera is,
perhaps, no star in the dramatic firm -nent whose
brightness is so universally admired as that of the
auburn-haired Minn e. A Frisco critic enthusi
astically pronounced her “the dramatic satellite
moving in a sphere entirely her own and created
by herself.” Her supporting company in dudes a
number of the original p avers who appeared with
her at the Turk Theatre in “Caprice" a few years
ago, when ah • received the most flattering enco
miums of the entire press as a unit.
"Ye OldhLondon Street.”—This af
ternoon and evening sacred concerts will be given.
The management announces that there will be spe
cial performances on Tuesday and Wednesday next
in observance of the Queen’s Jubilee—and a concert
Will be given—with a chorus e seventy-five voices.
Added to these attractions are the entertainments
of Hercat in his seanceeof magical diablerie and of
the eccentric Majiltoo.
“YeOlde London Street” is daily and nightly
crowded with promeuaderg. Thus far this quaint
and instructive exhibition—duplicating the archi
tecture and thoroughfares of the Loudon of an hun
dred years ago has been deservedly successful.
Lyceum Theatre. —On next Tuesday
evening the fiftieth performance of “ The Highest
Bidder" will take place, and will be duly observed
by the presentat on of souvenirs containing
sketches of scenes in tho comedy, drawn by Mr.
E. H. Sot be in. Of course it will be a gala night
at the Lyceum, and Daniel, which his other name
is Frohman, will bo “happy as happy can be.”
Heumann’s Terrace Garden. - Man
ager He u maun announces that in h a handsome lit
tle opera house, the German Comic Opera Company,
which has been playing there to crowded audi
ences, will sing “Nanon ’ on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings. On Friday evening the Ger.
man Press Club of this city will give an operatic en
tertainment and a Summer Night’s Festival, which
will fill up the round of a merry and well-spent
week.
People’s Theatre. —The final per
formance of “The Royal Guard” was given last
night. The audience was large, and the manage
ment was entirely satisfied with the financial re
sult of the fortnight’s business.
To-morrow evening and during the week, includ
ing the Wednesday and Saturday matinees, Mr.
Robert McWade will be the attraction, repeating his
performance of Rip Van Winkle. Mr. McWade will
be supported in the oast by a specially selected com
pany, and Manager Miner has taken special care
that the scenic settings will bo unusually pictur
esque. r
Globe Museum. —The managers of
this popular resort have, with commendable energy,
placed on exhibition a life-size figure of Caspar
Strombeck, the self-conlassed murderer of the
Rahway girl, who was arrested last week at Salem,
Illinois. There has never been a case of murder in
the United States that has attracted so much atten
tion, as did the mu-der of this girl, and every one
Will doubtless be anxious to see how her murderer
looks.
The life-size figure of the girl, exactly as the body
Was found on March 25th, is also to be seen. Nu
merous other curiosities are on exhibition, and
grand stave performances are given hourly of a
new drama, entitled “The Trapper's Child.”
The usual sacred concerts will be given this after
noon and evening.
Theiss’s Alhambra. —All the popular
attractions in the lyric and specialty line which
have brought ho large a degree of public favor for
this resort, will be repeated during the present
week, afternoon and evening. The si.ding roof—
the only one in use in the city—makes the audito
rium as cool as a Coney Island off-shore breeze.
Concerts this afternoon and evening.
Musical and Dramatic Items,
Playwrights never die—they write.
Here is a list of the new plays, which had production in
Lnjand a 1i various ibeitie uring thejmo. t | fMay:
•‘Tea,’ laruial comedy, >u Une« avu. uy Maurice iSod
(originally produced at Bach b'aloon, Torquay, on Janua
ry 11) —Criterion.
“ Kight or Wrong,” comedietta, in one act, by J. J. Bis
good—Criterion.
“ Nordisa.” romantic opera, in three acts (originally
produced at Riyal (curt Theatre. Liverpool, January
26), words anu music by Frederick Corder, the libretto
founded on the French drama “La Bergere des Alpes.”
Drury Lane (Carl Rosa Opera).
“The Butterfly.” play, in one act. by Walter Rhoades
(produced by amateurs?—Bloomsbury R tie Drill Hall.
“rhe Right Man,’’ romantic drau a. in five acts, by
George Comer and Lionel Ellis—Sanger's.
“Stepping Stones.” comedy, in three acts, by George
Fox (produced by amateurs)—Novelty.
*• Blue Ribbons,*' larce, in three acts, by Walter Browne
and J. E. Soden—Gaiety.
“Vittoria Contarim.” romantic play, in a prorogue and
four acts, by a. W. Dubourg (produced in the Provinces)
«—Princess's.
“Jubilation.” musical mixture in one act, by Richard
Henry, music by Ivan Caryll and H. J. Leslie—Prince of
Wales's.
“Dan and Dick.” eccentric comedy, in three acts, by
Herbert Got gh and Morris Edwards (produced by am a
tears for copyr g t purposes)—Ladbroke Hail.
“The Cupboard skeleton,” larce, by “ Aiax’’—Lad
broke Hail.
“As in a Looking Glass,” play, in four acts, adaptedbv
F. C. Grove from the novel of the same name, by F C
Phillips—Opera ('omique.
“Another .Matinee,” comedietta, by F. Castis, Lad
broke Hall.
“ A Kitchen Tragedy,” farce, by Edwin R. Barwick—
ganger’s.
“Is Madame at Home comedietta, adapted from the
Trench by Minnie Bell—Prince's Hall.
“ Peaceful War,” adaj ted by Sophie Scotti and Leopold
Wagner from Von Moser and Scnontban's “Krieg im
Frieden”—Prince of Wales’s.
“Lady Deane,” domestic play, in four aets, by Alfred
A. Wilmot—St. Gvo.ge's Hall.
Misled/’ farce, by Alfred A. Wilmot—St. George’s
“A. Crimeloss Criminal,” farce, by Martin Becker-
Kilburn Town Hall.
’* The Skeleton,” comedy, in three acts, founded on the
German of Von Moser, by Austin Stannus and Yorke
Stephens—Vaudeville.
“Alter,” play, in one act, by J. Scott Bat tarns—Vaude
ville.
••Buffalo Fill: or, Life in the Wild West.” American
drama, in four acts, by Colonel Stanley and Charles Her
mann. (first time in Loudon)—Sanger’s.
“ A Romance <f the Harem,” loinantic opera, in two
Hets, libretto by Arthur Sketchley, music by J Parrv
Cole—Kilburn Town Hall. y -Tarry
“ Buffalo Bill,” drama, in four acts, by G. Roberts—
Elephant a;.d i astle.
“Up for the Jubilee,” farce, by Joseph Bracewell-
Grand.
“The Visiting Card,” comedietta, by Tom Craven-
Britannia
• “Never Despair,” melodrama, in a prologue and four
.*cts, by George Comer—Gaiety Theatre, Halifax.
“A Mock Doctress,” farce, by J. Scott Bat tarns—Lyric
Hall, Ealing.
“ Claire,” version, in four acts, of M. Georges Ohnet’s
•novel “ Le Mai re do Forges,” by Mrs. Bernhardt-Fischer
♦-New Cross Public Hall.
“By Special License,” drama, in prologue and four acts,
by Frank Mairyat—Theatre Royal, Longton.
‘ The Diver’s Luck; or. The Crime Beneath the Waves,”
in f ® u \ act , 8 . translated and adapted to the Eng-
Royal ta farrow red ’ Cook and W ' K ' Waldron-Theatre
av appear that the recent ervto
the effect that Ital an opera is dead was somewhat orem
*ture, inasmuch as London will, in two weeks’ S
have three Italian opera companies paying a ainst each
other, aud each possessing Br.i-rate artists. An imp™
aano ot ItaHan oi-era can. like Robin Hood, sound h .
torn and get a company together at a short notice but
It is the impre 1 r.uol English oiera that finds bis lUuds
tied owing to the scare ty of artists that sing in Emrlish
Mr. Carl Rosa has tried two debutantes this season hail
ing from the United states. viz., Miss Marie Decca and
Miss Louise Groll Mr. Rosa ha< had to get an Italian
tenor, Signor Kuncio, and the Austrian contralto Mlle
Tremelli, both of whom have had a deserved sucee«ut ail
though their English is decidedly “off color ” Mean
while, where are the English artists of the Koyal College
Ail Music and the Royal Academy? ®
“ Misled;
Hall.
Mr. Richard Mansfield, on Friday
last, had occasion to have a slight “ unpleasantness
with Mr. Harrv Stanfield, the son of the proprietor
Victoria Hotel, at which the comedian resides white
Pl ?t appear sTthat Mr. Stanfield)* rooms are dire
those of Mr. Mansfield, in the hotel, and the latter nas
been somewhat annoyed by the late hours and noi y
havior of young Stanfield. He accordingly complainea
to the young man’s father, who sa d that he wou
tend to the matter. On Friday morning they met in a
Broadway florist’s place, and Stanfield as Mr. •
field if it were true tha he had complained to tne eiaer
Stanfield. Mr. Mansfield answered in tie affirmative,
and Stanfield applied an insulting epithet to nim.
“ Don’t say anything like that. Harry,” was Mr Man
field’s temperate retort, “ for you know lam ha.ty re
P *As he moved away Stanfield r ®P eft( £ d knocked
phrase, and the next moment Mr. MaDsd ®^ d
nim down. Stanfield made no attempt to return
blow, and on returning to the hotel wrote a lette
apology io .Mr Mansfield. The latter was seen on *naav
night, at the Madison Square Theatre, and saidl. .
“ I am mortifl d that such an affair should have gainea
publicity. I was placed in an embarrassing position,
however, fori had either to tamely swallow a man
suits or to provoke a public scandal. I d d my oe.
withdraw hem the unseemly discussion.i but Mr. b
fie’d followed me and forced the quarrel upon me. unuer
the circumstances I took thw only course I could.
Three performances of the Wild West
show were announced in London for ' v, J l t Monday—-one
at eleven, another at three and a at eight in
evening. S x thousand iree seats had been P™Y’ ded rA
in the amphitheatre. The d : ors of the exhibition we e
thrown open at nine, and by ten minutes past nine a
these seats were filled. Before two o’clock the turnstiles
showed that people had passed in, and trom two
till three the throngs arriving for the afternoon P®„? r JJ'
ance were in m use. By the un e 1 he entertainment
gan. not less than from 50,G00 to bODOO PJ°P le tpo
the exhibition, or in the grounds attac I l ? < i d wo Bt t
dens? was the mass oi people at the wlld ston
of the entertainment that it became necessary to stop
the influx of visitors. Farriers had to be hastLy extern
porized, and a reinforcement ot police sent for. rms
was before three in the aiternoon, and while every train
approac ling the pla e was still pouring in people. Those
w;.o had come alter the Indians P erl . or,nll . n .. e ?_ h A7 ci n„
g.in, expec: ing to be able to see a i onion oi it by taking
th? best seats, found that not even standing-room could
be nad for love or money.
The captain of the steamer “ Alame
da,” which arrived at San Francisco on June 11 from
Australia, bringing news of the death, Ln Sydney, Aub
tralia, ot William E. Sheridan, the tragedian, says that
Mr. Sheridan was in poor health while in Australia, on
the night oi May 17, while sitting as a spectator in a
Sydney theatre, he was stricken with a fainting fit, and
never recovered consciousness. At three o clock on tiie
morning of May 13 he died Mrs. Sheridan, who had
been playing an engagement in Adelaide, arrived at
Sydney two hours alter her husband’s deaih.
Just before leavirg here for Australia, Mr. Sheridan
wrote the following lines in a friend s album:
“‘Pray for me. Pray, I enrr. a\ Pray, I command. —
Louis XI. My last words in ’Frisco. Yours, in remem
brance o’ a sojourn sometimes pleasant, sometimes sau,
W. E. Sheridan. . . b. „
“ P. S.— rhe biue is thoroughly Indicative of me.
The page which Mr. Sheridan wrote upon was ot Dine
paper, which explains the closing sentence. Mr. Shen
dan’s last appt arance in this city was at the Star Thea
tre, on which occasion he repeated one oi the best or nis
impersonations, that of Louis XI.
Happily, the sixty musical scores,
thirteen of w’hich are complete, were saved trom the re
cent Opera Coinique fire at I aris. thanks to the zeal ot
the musical conductor, M. Danbe. J h ® se . in 9l“. d ®
beautiful repertory, so interwoven with the traditions or
the Salle Favo. t, compriß.ng “La Dame Blanche. Les
Diamants de la ( ouronne,” “Zampa.’ Le Pre aux
Clercs.” “La Flute knehantee,” “lies Noces de Jean
nette,” “La Pardon de Ploermel,” and others of value.
The value o: this rescue is much enhanced by the fact
that these are perhaps the only manuscripts containing
the marginal no es with the conventional cuts ana time
honored Mage business, without which the bald score is
of little use.
Thomas T. Duff, son of the well
known John and Mary Duff, of the palmy days of the
Park Theatre, is living in Ghicago, and is desirous of re
luming to the stage. “You ng” Dutt was very popular in
the ’sos at the Broadway Theatre, and atterwaid with
Thos. Hamblin, at the Old Bowery. He was lor a time at
the Chatham, and later visited many ot the principal
cities of the South and West. He retired from the stage
in April, 1859.
Mr. Imre Kiralfy will produce two or
three of the famous Ravel family pantomimes next sea
son. The fir.'t one will probably be ••Bianco the Magic
Sword.” for which Mr. Jerome Ravel is now preparing
the models of scenery, costumes, transformations ana
tricks i’he compmy of pantomimists and dancers will
be brought irom F rance.
During the performance of “A Check
ered Life” at ti e National Theatre, Philadelphia. Pa.,
matinee of June 7th, Edith Crolius, who was playing
Reckless Nell, was shot through the thumb and knuckle
of the middle finger of her right band by H. Williams, a
rifle-shot. Miss Crolius pluckily finished her part alter
the wound was dressed.
Mme. Furscli-Madi’s suit against C.
E. Locke, manager of the National Opera <’o., to recover
s7.<jOO, alleged balance due her on a contract, has been
postponed to June 17. A judgment by default was taken
June io against the National Opera Co. by Henry Fache,
a ioriner employee, lor $531.86.
The death is announced of the Rev. J.
P. Knight, the composer of the songs “She Wore a
Wreath of Roses,” “Rocked m t ie Cra de oi the Deep,”
and “The Veteran.” Mr. Knight (l ed at his residence,
Great Yarmouth, at the age of seventy-five.
It is understood that when Abbey,
Schocffel A Grau assume control af the Star Theatre next
season Mr. Schoeflel will have entire control of the house.
Charles Burnham will continue to represent Theodore
Moss's interest in the theatre.
Barry Linden. Henry Saylor and W.
Paul l own (stage manager), are enraged for Augusta
Van Doren’s tour in “Charlotte Russe.” Mr. Bown will
pit in tiie Summer months at Pleasure Island, N. Y.,
under Hayden, Dickson & Roberts.
It is gossiped that M. Marius (bus
band of Florem e St. John) will be the new stage man
ager at Wallack s, next season.and that the opening play
will be “Featheibrain,” with Florence Gerard in the
leading role.
"The Visiting Card” is the title of a
new corned eta, bv Mr. Tom Craven,which was produced
at the Britann a Theatre on Monday, following the very
successful revival of “ Alone in London.”
May Gallagher and Marie Brooks are
to be in"the cast of “Humanity.” which will be tried
next mouth at the Baldwin Theatre, San Francisco.
Wn.
Everything Pube. —Situated on the
corner of Eaet Broadway and Catharine street Is
Andrew Horn’s Hotel, which la one of the most
conveniently located in New York city, for me
chanics, commercial travelers and business men
generally. Connected with the hotel is a spacious,
well-ventilated and comfortable saloon, in which
are sold all kinds of beverages of the very best. The
•’ Bully Lager Beer ” is a special brewing made by
George Bechtel, and as a wholesome and invigorat
ing drink has no equal. The wines Mr. Horn sells
are unadulterated and most excellent, the brandies
and whiskies of acknowledged superiority, and the
cigars the best the market affords for the price.
To flavor your Soda and Lemonade,
and keep year digestive organs in order, get a bot
tle ef the genuine Angostura Bitters manufac
tured by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
Itlisplaoecl Confidence.
A CHILD, BY THE COURT’S DECISION, THAT
NEVER HAD A FATHER.
John Riely, a dashing young fellow, was before
Justices Gorman and White on an affiliation com
plaint The accuser was a modest-behaving young
woman, named Kato Sweeny. To corroborate her
story, she exhibited a number of tell-tale love
letters from the deceiver.
Kate said she lived at No. 339 West Seventieth
street She bad known defendant a year and nine
months. On the 16th of May last she became a
mother and John Riely a father. In June last she
became Intimate with him, and continued long
afterward, as be had promised marriage. She could
never forget the IB th of June. After she had been
deceived by Riely, Walter Morris, who had waited
on her four years, came back and wanted to marry
her. But she said she could not do it now; she told
him how she was; she did not waht to disgrace
herself and him. She denied ever keeping com
pany with Pat Clarkson or Jem Donnelly. She was
not trying to shield Walter Morris; she had not seen
him for four months, or something like that.
Defendant took the stand, and said he tended bar
at Eighty-first street and Avenue A. He had been
there seven months, and was paid $lO a week.
“You have heard her accuse you of being the fa
ther of her child?" said his counsel.
“I deny the accusation,’’ said Riely. “I never
knew the woman.”
“That is our case,” said counsel.
“Did you keep company with this girl ?’’asked
Kate’s counsel.
“Yes, sir.”
“Did you write her any letters?’’
“ Yes, sir.”
Riely was asked to read one of his effusions. He
looked at them.
•• Did you ever visit her at No. 55 West Seventy
first street ?”
•• Never. I never saw her except in the liquor
saloon where I work.”
“Did you promise to marry her ?”
“No, sir."
“Did she write to you to procure a wedding
ring ?”
“No.”
“ What do you mean by saying in this letter,
•Darling, I am very sorry for this, owing to your
sister Bridget ?’ ”
“I can’t say.”
“What do you mean by saying, ‘Dear Kate, I take
the privilege of writing these few lines hoping you
will have no hard feeling. Dear Kate, I hope there
will be no hard feeiing !’ ”
Biely’s counsel objected to these love epistles
He only served Kate with liquor at his store.
“Hew many times had you seen her between
June 16, 1886, and December ?”
“I don t know.”
“So often you ean’t remember ?”
“Saw her quite often.”
“What do you mean by saying this in a P. S. to
your letter October 25, 1886: ‘I have no more to say,
I am glad you are well of your complaint.’ What do
you mean by that postscipt ?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know what you wrote about ?”
•• No.”
•‘ What do you mean by saying affectionately
yours, in October and November ’B6 ?”
“I can t say.”
EHen Lennahan, the sister of Kate, saw defendant
and her sister once together in a room of the liquor
stere. She introduced Mr. Riely.
That closed the complaint, and the court dis.
charged Mr. Reily. Mrs. Lennahan. who had not
the fear of contempt in her eye, said that was a
rascally decision. The court smiled.
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JUNE 19, 1887.
ISeelig’s Crime.
DID HE DELIBERATELY MURDER HIS WIFE?
Julius Seelig, who shot his wife at their resi
dence, No. 567 East 146th street, on Friday, is also
expected to die. When Officer Allen entered the
house after the shooting, ho found Mrs. Seelig ly
ing on a sofa in the kitchen. She was insensible,
dying, while the husband was walking the floor,
besmeared in his own blood, and on the floor a
pool of blood that came from both,
y A little ll.year-old daughter said her parents had
words, but the ante-mortem statement of Seelig
would seem to clear the accusation of his daughter.
The ante-mortem of Seelig seems very explanatory.
He said yesterday to Coroner Messemer:
“Friday, June 17th, about 9 P. M., in my rooms
in 146th street, I was sitting in my room and talk
ing to my wife. The cats in the yard annoyed me.
I said to my wife, ’Nell, I’ll have a crack at one.’
She said, ‘Don’t.’ I said, T will,’ and I got my re
volver. As I went to lilt the window, I had the re
volver cocked. My wife said, 'Don’t.’ Just then,
while raising the window, I accidentally shot her.
She was about to fall to the floor. She said nothing,
but merely moaned. I found she was dead, as I
caught her in my arms, and to prevent her from
falling, I carried her to a louuge and then shot my
self. I did not care to live after I had shot and
killed her. How I got the shot in my arm Ido not
know. 1 suppose in the excitement I did not know
what I was doing. I had no quarrel with my wife
on that day. I never was really jealous of her in
my life. Tha shot which killed my wife was purely
accidental.”
The examination of the dying man winds up
very curiously. Being asked if they had drank any
thing, he said Thuisday they had a pint of beer at
dinner.
Whether it was an accidental or willful murder,
is not likely to be proved.
The dying statements of the man, and the little
girl, are not inconsistent. Mother and father had
words. She did not want him to use the pistol. He
would, and he did, with this fatal result.
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A. ISride’s Silicide.
SHE KILLED HERSELF BECAUSE SHE WAS A
FOOLISH YOUNG WOMAN.
Love, homesickness, melancholia and despair
wore the four causes which led Mrs. Pearl Lacey
yesterday morning to blow her brains out. She was
a handsome young woman, and had just passed her
twenty-second birthday. Her marriage was cele
brated a little over two weeks ago in Newark, N. J.,
to which place she came from Newark, Ohio, to
meet Edward Lacey, the man who made her his
wife, Lacey is a bartender in a Bowery saloon and
could not getaway from business long enough to go
to Ohio.
After they were married Mr. and Mrs. Lacey went
to live in a furnished room at No. 43 South Wash
ington square, where the tragedy occurred al two
o'clock yesterday morning.
The couple occupied the front parlor, and, ac
cording to the statement made by the woman who
keeps the house, seemed very fond of each other.
Of late, however, Mrs. Lacy had become very de
spondent and homesick, and as her husband's busi
ness kept him away most of the time, she was much
alone, and brooded over hot loneliness, so that she
finally lapsed into a state of melancholia.
Friday morning she told her landlady she was
tired of living, and kept her room, crying nearly all
day. Mr. Lacey returned home about 1 o’clock yes
terday morning, and found his wife writing at a
centre table, He undressed and went to bed, and
advised her to do the same. For a moment she
hesitated, and then getting up she went to a closet
in the room, and fired a bullet Into her brain, oyer
the right eye.
“I wanted to die, and shot myself,” was all the
foolish young woman would say, but she pointed
to the letter she had been writing. It was address
ed “To all whom it may concern,” and told bow
she had deliberately planned her own destruction.
She was removed to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where
she died about 5 o’clock.
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scrofulous taint, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the true
remedy. It s ops catarrhal discharges, removes the
sickening odor, and never fails to thoroughly eradi
cate every trace of the disease from the blood.
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Tliey Never UlColied*
BLACK EYES, KNOCK DOWNS AND ARRESTS
FREQUENT IN THE FLANAGAN HOUSE,
Austin and his wife, Mary Flanagan, don't get
along in the most amiable fashion. She bad two
black eyes and a bruise on the chin that came from
Austin’s foot or fists.
The assault, she said, was committed in the house
where they lived, No. 505 West Twenty-seventh
street on the sth inst. He had very little reason,
she said, to knock her down and kick her. When
he lay drunk in bed. she merely took $3 out of his
pocket to get something for the children’s break
fast. Sunday morning.
•• Your worship," said Austin, ” she was to give
my wages to the landlord to pay the rent. She
didn’t. Before I went to bed I went to the grocery
for things for the house. After I went to bed she
came in drunk and took this money. She is a
habitual drunkard.”
“ She says you were drunk,” said the Court.
•* No. she was drunk; so drunk she couldn't sit
in the rocking-chair.”
•* You hear what he says. Do you get drunk ?”
asked the Court.
** No, sir. All lam doing is to look to the sup
port of my children. I get help from one of the
boy’s earnings; but he comes in drunk and abuses
us all. He went to bed with his clothes and shoes
on, and when he found I had taken the money, he
pulled me out of bed and beat me.”
He denied going to bed with bis clothes on.
She said it was not the first time that he had
beaten her. Judge Gorman gave him three months;
that did no good. Judge Duffy tried him with ten
days, and that only made him worse. He had the
family dispossessed three times. That was the
kind of life, she said, she led. She would get along
without him.
“She says she isn’t a drinking woman." said
Austin. “ I've taken her out of the • House of Ter
rors ’ —McDonald’s—drunk. I work and support
my children. She is a habitual daily drunkard.”
•• Five months,” said the Court.
Ulcebs, old sores and wounds cured
by Pond’s Extract, Insist on having the standard,
reliable article, Pond’s Extract, Spurious imitations
arc dear at any price,
Cameronvllle on Deck,
THE GREAT EXCURSION OF THE PICNIC SEA
SON.
Tho great picnic of the season takes place next
Tuesday, June 21. It is Cameron’s complimentary
excursion to Excelsior Grove, on the Hudson. Al
ready thousands of tickets have been distributed,
and six barges and three steamboats will be crowd
ed from the landings at the foot of Franklin street,
N. Y., Morris street, Jersey City, and Jewell’s
Wharf, Brooklyn. At each landing there will be two
barges and one steamboat, and they will all start
sharp at BA. M. Mr. Cameron has presented the
following prizes, for which his guests will contest
on their arrival at Excelsior Grove:
Half mile walk—Prize, satin-lined Prince Albert
suit.
One hundred yards run—Prize, satin-lined cut
away suit.
One quarter-mile backward walk—Prize, S2O gold
piece.
Sack race—Several prizes.
Potato race—Several prizes.
Tug of war, open to all—Prizes, five suits of
clothes.
Climbing the greased pole—s2o gold piece, which
will be on top of the pole.
To the best lady and gentlemen waltzers—Several
prizes.
Also prizes of gold pieces for the winners in jigs,
Irish and Scoth reels, Virginia breakdowns and
other dances.
The company will be invited to hunt in the
woods of Excelsior Grove for a greased pig.
First a cold, then bronchitis.jjeheck the first
with Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
.. ♦ —♦
What
GET OFFICERS THAT KNOW THEIR DUTY, AND
HOW TO DO IT.
Three alleged women of the town were brought
before Justice O’Reilly, yesterday, at Jefferson Mar
ket. The charge preferred was soliciting. The
accuser was Officer Miller, of the Nineteenth Pre
cinct (formerly the Twenty-ninth). The case of the
woman Lizzy Scott was the first taken up.
•• I didn’t speak a word to him," said Lizzy. “I
was speaking to this other girl on the corner, when
he came up and arrested me. When he took hold
of me, all I said was, ‘Please let go my arm; you
needn’t hold me.* Ho took hold of both of us. We
three stood talking when he came up. We never
spoke to the officer.”
“What do you say to that, officer?” asked the
Justice.
He mumbled something about seeing her on the
avenue.
“Discharged,” said the Justice.
The other two girls, Jenny Ryan and Anni® Wil
liams, said they were talking with Lizzie Scott
when the officer came up and arrested all three.
They did not solicit him, and he did not see them
solicit any one or loiter on the avenue.
The officer again mumbled something about see
ing them on the avenue.
The Court discharged all three-.
Tlxe City JF’a,tDer&-
GETTING READY FOR THEIR SUMMER TRAMP—
WHERE THEY WILL GO TO —SEEKING REST
AND RECREATION BY THE SEA-SIDE AND
MOUNTAIN TOP.
The City Fathers are preparing for their regular
Summer hegira to the mountains, the shores of the
sounding sea, etc. They are furbishing up their
fowling-pieces, straightening out their fishing
tackle, and getting ready for a good old time of
migled rest and recreation.
President Henry R. Beekman, will spend the
Summer amid the beauties and delights of New
port.
Vice-President Divver, of the Second District, will
take hie family to inhale tha saline air of Sag
Harbor, L. I. The clam-fishing there is said to be
fine, and the V. P. is a lover of this sort of piscatory
pastime.
Aiderman Van Rensselaer, of the Eleventh Dis
trict, will start after the Fourth to enjoy the en
chanting scenery and wholesome breezes of the
Adirondacks.
Aiderman Farrell, the genial member of the
Eighteenth Assembly District, will go to Far Rock
away, where he owns a handsome cottage. He will
bathe daily among the breakers on the beach, and
return to his constituents with a re-invigorated
corpus.
Aiderman Conkling, of the Seventh District, will
spend his vacation at Cape May.
Aiderman Sandford, of the Twenty-first, will hie
to the White Mountains and renew the pleasures of
bis youth.
Aiderman Corcoran, of the Fifteenth District, will
try to recruit bis feeble health by the blue waves of
Sheepshead Bay. The Alderman has been ailing
for several weeks. His friends wish him a speedy
restoration to health.
Aiderman Bennett, of the Fourteenth District,
will make frequent trips to Coney Island’s seagirt
shore.
Aiderman Joo Murray, of the Sixteenth District
will cool his heated brow by the margin of Lake
Ronkoncomo, L. 1., with a couple of his intimate
friends.
Aiderman John Murray, the rollicking member
from the Nineteenth Assembly District, will banish
dull care by flying visits all round the country.
Aiderman John Quinn, of the Seventeenth Dis
trict, the eloquent member of the Board and a good
feilow, goes with his family to Irvington-on-the-
Hudson, the home of Jay Gould.
Aiderman Smith, of the Twenty-second District,
will take in Coney Island, Rockaway, the Catskills
and Niagara.
Aiderman Fitzgerald, of the Twentieth District,
will Summer at Saratoga and try the virtue of the
springs.
Aiderman Walker, of the Ninth District, expocta
to feast his fancy where the mountains of Virginia
roar their tops of ethereal purple.
Aiderman Cowie, of the Thirteenth District, will
visit the Thousand Islands, and come home by
way of Saratoga for the races, and, incidentally, to
meet his brother politicians and arrange for the
Fall campaign.
Aiderman Nooney, of the Twenty-fourth District,
will confine his Summer wanderings to the wilds
of Westchester County, in quest of the original
Olagawalla tribes, of whose civilized descendants he
is chief.
Aiderman Cornelius Flynn, of the First District,
will not leave town during the Summer, except for
occasional trips to the races at Coney Island and
elsewhere. His friends in Sullivan County, how
ever, would be glad to see him.
Aiderman Ficke, of the Tenth District, will make
around of the picnic resorts of the city, and ex
pects to have a bully time.
Aiderman Dowling, of the Fourth District, will
while away the Summer days at the Highlands of
Neversink, where he will make a careful examina
tion of the electric lights suggested for the town
lighthouses.
Aiderman Goetz, of the Eighth District, will pass
the drowsy days of July on the hights of Hoboken.
Aiderman Holland, of the Fifth District, will go
a-fishing along the Shrewsbury river.
Aiderman Napoleon Oakey, of the hour glass dis
trict, contemplates a trip to Ireland. He will visit
the Blarney Castle.
Aiderman John Long, of the Twenty-third Dis
trict, will make a round trip of tho beautiful towns
and villages along the sound.
Aiderman Menninger, of the Sixth, will accompany
his colleagues. Aidermen Ficke and Goetz, wherever
fancy leads them, And though last, not least the Ai
derman of the Twelfth District will probably tale a
trans-continental tour.
May they all be happy.
How To Abbest Lung Diseases.— lt
has been demonstrated that consumption of the
lungs can be arrested in its early stage, and that
even in an advanced form cicatrization of the dis
eased organ may be effected and life prolonged for
years.
The science of medicine, in its application to ths
delicate mechanism of the lungs, has never been
more admirably illustrated than in the chemical
preparation known as “Winchester’s Hyphophos
phite of Lime and Soda.”
This simple remedy has been tried by thousands
of persons afflicted with weak or diseased lungs
with most gratifying results. It acts directly, heal
ing and removing irritation, assisting in the vital
izing of the blood and the restoration of weakened
tissues. ,
It is, moreover, an excellent appetizer and
strengthener of the body. Nature’s own prophy
lactic for what is commonly called general debility.
This ster ing remedy may be obtained at all first
class drug stores.
IE 11c ±>arlcys.
TWO QUARREL. AND THEY COME IN COURT.
Tho “ young Elk%” a fashionablo colored oinb,
had a picnic at 126th street and Second avenue, on
Friday night. Mr. Jones was floor manager. Up
at the picnic there was some dice chucking on the
grounds, and Mr. Jon s objected to gambling, and
ordered it stopped. Mr. Raphel Blanco thought
that the dice business was none of bis business.
Mr. Jones said it was, and enforced his authority
by trpping Blanco’s head with the head of his
cane. ' '•
That settled it then.
At two in the morning, after the picnic was o'ver,
Mr. Jones, while standing at the door of his residence.
No. 101 West Twenty-seventh street, said Blanco
sneaked up, with hat slouched over his eyes. Just
as Blanco sprang at him with a long bkded dagger,
his cane again fell on the old sore spot, and Blanco
stood dazed. Jones got his friend’s cane, his own
having been broken, and he gave him another
whack, when Blanco put the dagger in his pocket
and ran.
Blanco was held in S3OO for his good behavior for
one month.
Wobthy OF all Pbaise. —-The Chi
nese have an axiom, that the man who makes two
blades of grass to grow where but one grew before
is greater than he who conquers a city. If the man
who does this is to be commended, how much more
should they be honored who can relieve our poor
humanity of the aehes of rheumatism, the misery
of dyspepsia, the agony of headache, the collapse of
malaria, the cure of that fell disease scrofula, and
remove the terrors of blood poisoning. Those who
can accomplish such benefactions for the human
race are worthy of all honor that men can show to
their fellows. In Middletown, Conn., there is a
company named the Middletown Chemical Com
pany, which proviles means that give to the com
munity in their own homes more than the advant
ages of the celebrated sulphur springs. This is
known as the Su'phur Bath Compound. Beside
the more dangerous df-eases we have mentioned, it
is a cure lor p mples and all skin diseases, is the
best purifier of the complexion, and a specific
against contagious diseases. Fo one dollar the in
gredients of twenty baths can be procured. The
address of the company is the Middletown Chem
ical Company, Middletown, Conn.
The Mohican Club. —At the annual
meeting of the Mohican Club, the following ticket
was unanimously elected for the ensuing year:
President, Edward Aronson; First Vice-President,
Henry E. Dixey; Second Vice-President, Edward H.
Sothern; Secretary, rleo. B. Martin; Governors for
five years, Robert C. Hillyard and Walter J. Price.
The club now numbers one hundred members, was
never in better condition, and will occupy their
own clubhouse in the Fall. Among the members
present were: Hon. Amos J. Cummings, Judges
Ford and Gedney, Fred S. Gibbs, Henry E. Dixey,
Jesse Williams, Jacob Hess, C. Mullery Richmond,
Gen. Wm. B. Barton, Francis Wilson, H. C. Bang,
Goo. B. Martin, Walter J. Price, Col. E.C. James, Dr.
John H. Nesbitt, John A. Mackay, Cons. W. S. An
drews, Edward Aronson, Robert C. Hilliard, De Wolf
Hopper, Dau Frohman, Thos. J. Murray, George F.
Vail, Sydney Rosenfeld, Cyril Scott, Alfred Follin,
Joseph Frankau, Wm. Morse and Geo. Douglass.
our Hospitals, Dispensaries and Infirmaries,
Glenn's Sulphur Soap is largely used as a disinfect
ing and purifying agent. It overcomes every irrita
tion of the skin, and is anti-contagious in the
highest degree.
Two Cases of a Kind-
THE ’SALVATION ARMY DESTROYS MRS. HAR
RINGTON'S HOME AND HAPPINESS.
Joseph Harrington and his wife have separated.
They had lived ten years together, until a female ,
sergeant in the Salvation Army infatuated Joe,
while he alleges that a Mr. Peter Malone, a phan- (
tom cousin, has blighted his home.
After paying $7 a week for his wife's support, he
refused to further contribute, and failing to renew
the bond for alimony, he was again arrested. The <
Justice ordered him to pay for the support of his ,
wife; he appealed from the Justice’s decision, and «
the case came up de novo in the Special Sessions,
before Justices Kilbreth, Gorman and White.
Mrs. Harrington said defendant was her husband; *
they had been married twelve years; she had seven (
children, but only two were living. About a year ,
ago, when he aban loned her, she had him arrested, <
and he was compelled to give bonds to pay her $7 a ,
week. Since the expiration of the bond he has
done nothing. (
Cross-examined, she said she knew Peter Malone;
never introduced him to defendant as her cousin;
didn’t know that when the case was before Judge
Donohue he discovered Peter wasn’t a cousin. Pe
ter was living with her at No. 561 Hudson street,
and hired a furnished room from her. He had
been living there since last July. First made the
acquaintance of Mr. Malone when she and the
children came from Rockaway; she had known him
twenty-one years. At Rockaway she got a dispatch
that her husband was selling her things; she came
up and stopped the sale, and he left her.
“How did your husband come to leave you?”
a ked Mr. Boyd.
“He joined the Salvation Army, and was known
as ‘Smiling Joe.’ I found him in company with
Patty Kitt (Kitty Trainor). He formed an alliance
with the Salvation Army and Kitty. I have sopu
them linked arm in arm, when he wouldn’t give
me ten cents. I saw them go in a basement in
Seventh avenue, near Twenty-eighth street. I fol
lowed them, and asked him to come home. He
said, ‘Hush ! this is my mash.’ From that night
he said he never would live with me.”
She acknowledged that Mr. Malone brought beer
in the house, and so did her husband, when he
lived with her.
Defendant said he had been married twelve
years. His wife left him. On the 18th of this
month she left him, and when he asked her where
she was going, she said: “ Go to hell and find oat.”
She never to d him she was going to Rockaway.
He was asked where Kitty lived prior to his last
arrest. He said. No. 22 East Thirteenth street. She
was there six months. He believed she also lived
in Harlem; also at No. 208 West Twenty-eighth
street; also at No. 309 First avenue, and No. 17
First avenue, but was only once there. He never
roomed with her. Had been with her half a dozen
times the last six months. He never was a mem
ber of the Salvation Army, in the way counsel put
it; he did not join it to derive any benefit from it;
went to the meetings and took part at them as any
other man. Never preached and exerted. He was
intimate with Kitty as an acquaintance.
Mr. Buckley, Janitor of a building in Washington
street, where Mrs. Harrington had lived, told her
she couldn’t live there after the Ist of May.
Mr. Boyd asked Mr. Buckley if he belonged to the
Salvation Army. No; he was a member of a higher*
army.
Re-direct he said, he had seen Malone there day
after day and month after month, in the afternoon,
when Mr. Harrington wasn’t there. The neighbors
complained of it.
Miss Louisa Olsen said, she saw the children on
the street when Mr, Malone was in the house.
The Court affirmed the order of Justice Riley—s7
a week alimony.
MR. CLIFFORD CLAIMS THERE WAS NOT THE
GHOST OF A MARRIAGE.
James Clifford, a Washington Market butcher,
whose income, the wife said, was SIOO a week, de
clined to obey the order of the Court to pay his
wife, Mary, $5 a week. The case came up on appeal
before the Justices in Special Sessions. She said
she was married thirteen years ago. He denied be
ing her husband, and refused to give her support.
Cross-examined, she said before married her name
was Mary Ellen McSweeny. She could not remem
ber the day of the month in December, 1874, she
was married. Before being married she lived with
her uncle, at No. 396 Cherry street. She was mar.
ried at 9 o’clock in the evening in a maroon silk.
Mr. Clifford was met on the other side, at Catherine
Ferry, not far from it. He had a young man named
Fritz with him.
“Now, when you got on the other side and the
bridal procession formed, how did you get then in.
the procession ?” asked Mr. Hath way.
“ We went in a car together, to St. Mary’s Church,
at Court and Luqueer streets. When we got in the
church we taw the priest. They went in the vestry.
The sexton of the church and Father Cassidy were
there.”
••Now you are in the church, in the vestry with
Father Cassidy, Mr. Clifford; your sister, the sex
ton, and the boy Fritz was there. Was any one
1 else there?”
•• No.”
“ What was said by the priest in celebrating the
marriage ? What did the priest say ?”
“What do you want me to answer, all the priest
said?”
The court excused her; they did not think she
could remember the ceremonial.
Counsel said she never was present at the cere
monial; it never took place, and insisted on an
answer.
The court excused her. An exception was taken.
Father Cassidy pronounced them man and wife.
She did not ask for a marriage certificate, and never
got one.
“ I was there before you,” remarked counsel.
He offered in evidence a search made in the books
for such a record, it was not there, and Father
Cassidy was dead.
Sho said she came home with Mr. Clifford. They
had something to eat and drink, but they didn’t
have a wedding breakfast. All was private.
In answer to Mr. Boyd, she said he did not deny
when first arrested and put under bonds to pay $5
a week, that he was married. She lived with him
ten years. He introduced her as his wife, and they
lived together and were known as Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford. Goods were bought in the name of Mrs.
Clifford. She offered to show these bills and re
ciepts, but the Court did not deem it necessary.
James Clifford, the defendant, took the stand and
was examined by bis counsel.
“ Clifford, were you ever married to Ellen Mc-
Sweeny ?”
“ Never.”
“You heard her say that her protecting sister and
the sexton were there, and that Father Cassedy cele
brated the marriage between you. Is there any
truth in it ?”
•• No. I never was in that church in my life. I
allowed her to take my name for quietness among
the neighbors.”
“Do you know where you lived twelve years
ago ?” asked Mr. Boyd.
“ Either in New York or Brooklyn. If in New
York, Spring street; if in Brooklyn, Twelfth street,”
“ Have you ever been married?”
“Never.”
“ Where is this church she speaks of ?”
“ Court street, St. Mary’s Church.”
“ Who do you think was pastor ?”
“ Father Cassidy.”
“ How long have you known the sister?”
“ Nine years.”
“ Where did you first go to live with plaintiff ?”
“ She went to live with me in Eleventh street,
two months. Then we went to Monroe street, was
there about a year.”
“ During this time she was known as Mrs. Clif
ford ?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ Is it true or false she was known as Mrs. Clif
ford ?”
•• I suppose so.”
“ What do you mean by I suppose so ?”
’• I don’t know.”
“Was she known as Mrs. Clifford during that
time ?”
“ I don’t know.”
“Did you ever call her Mrs. Clifford ?”
“ No.”
“Did you ever hear her neighbors call her Mrs.
Clifford?”
“I don’t remember.”
“Don’t you remember the twelve years she lived
with you, whether or not she was not called Mrs.
Clifford ?”
“I never remember it in my hearing.”
“Do you think you could have heard it called out
of your hearing Y*
Mr. Hathaway didn’t object to that, and again
resumed the direct examination. He was a Pro
testant. He did not introduce the woman as his
wife to his mother or to her mother, or to any mem
ber of the family.
Mr. Clifford was then asked as to the route of the
Court street cars. They started at Fulton street.
Getting on the cars at Catharine street, they could
not ride all the way to the church in Court and
Luqueer streets.
“You are in litigation now with your wife ?” said
Mr. Boyd.
“Yes, sir, and I have good cause, and you know
it,” said Mr. Clifford.
Thomas Phillips, of No. 509 Fourth street, Brook
lyn, was asked if a Catholic and Protestant, coming
outside of the diocese, could be married without
the banns being published.
Mr. Boyd objected, was sustained, and exception
was taken.
Mrs. Ellen McSweeny, the mother of the com- I i
plainant, said Mr. Clifford was her son-in-law, and
he couldn't deny it. Her daughter was known for
ten years as Mrs. Clifford.
This closed the case. Mr. Hathaway held that no
marriage bad ever taken place; the ceremony had
net even been wet by a whisky punchy
Decision was reserved to look at the testimony
taken in the police court.
An Unequaled Summer Drink.—One
of the most difficult things to procure is a Sammer
drink which, while healthful, contains no alcohol.
Most of the so-called temperance drinks are injuri
ous to various functions of the body. There has
recently been discovered a beverage which contains
no alcohol, which is a tonic lor the stomach, pleas
ant to the taste, and without any injurious proper
ties for any portion of the human anatomy. This
is orange wine, manufactured from the pure juice
of California oranges by the Liebig Company, of No.
38 Murray street. New York city. This wine has been
recommended by physicians as a drink for those
suffering from fever, or constipation of the bowels*
But as a Summer drink, half wine and half water’
it is unequaled as a delicious and cooling beverage
The Ivy Club’s “Stag” Party.—
The “annual stag” of the Ivy Club, composed of
the leading Republicans of the Twenty-second
Assembly District, took place at their rooms,
corner of Seventy-first street and Third avenue, on
Friday evening, June 10. The headquarters were
tastefully decorated with flags and bunting and
handsome engravings of the late Presidents Lin
coln, Grant, Garfield and Arthur were prominently
displayed.
Mr. Isaac Frommo acted as master of ceremonies,
and was ably assisted by Alonzo L. Mason and An
drew L. Lewis. Ex-Judge J. O. Julius Langbeln de
livered the oration, and was followed by the Hon.
John D. Lawson and the Hon. Isaac Dayton. Comic
sketches were given during the evening by Prof.
Gus Schlessinger, and songs were sung by Signor
Mendoza, Jere Sullivan, Charles Gordon, O. H.
Dickinson and others. Among the well known Re
publicans present were John H. Gunner, Alfred G.
Nason, Nicholas J. O’Connell, John Little, Frank M.
Tichenor, John Donohue, L. J. Dunn, P. Ablas*, H.
C. Robinson, A. W. Herrimann, James Tichbourne,
M. Mahon, C. Kammerer, J. J. Bar, Frank J. Gun
ner, David Snow, J. Valentine, 0. C. Ablass, Thom is
Donohue, Charles F. Gunner, C. Dimond, Denis
Shea, Major A. S. Pell, Charles Freligb, Stephen Mc-
Donough. John O’Connell, James Eadie, Peter
Ewald, and a host of others.
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL—GENE
RAL FAIRCHILD IN BROOKLYN AND
NEW YORK—RECEIVING LEE CAMP OF
RICHMOND-TOUGH ON JERSEY-SHAD
OWS OF COMING EVENTS—THE NEW
HAVEN DEDICATION-ITEMS OF NEWS.
“ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.”
Matters have been pretty lively with the veterans
during the past week. In fact, for the first time in
years, they have bad a touch of the old war fever,
aud the manner in which the disease took hold of
them must have thoroughly disabused the minds
of people who imagine that the soldiers and sailors
of the Union are a body of enthusiastic but senile
warriors, “lagging superfluous on the stage” after
their days of usefulness were over. Although the
issue of the now famous Confederate battle.flag or
der is greatly to be regretted for some reasons, yet
» it has amply demonstrated the fact that the feeling
of patriotic devotion to the country and its tradi
tions is still as strong in the hearts of the veterans
and of the people generally as it was a quarter of a
century ago. The lamentable aspect oi ti»e affair is
that political partisans and their newspaper organs
will endeavor to turn the incident to account for
selfish purposes, hoping to make it an opening
wedge for the introduction of politics into a non
political organization. In this effort the Dispatch
leels assured they will be unsuccessful.
Patriotic Democrats and Republicans were equally
hearty and emphatic in their condemnation of the
order, aud the prompt and manly action of Presi
dent Cleveland, who, realizing the mistake that had
beeu made, at once took steps to rectify the error,
should be the end of the whole affair, so far as the
members of the G. A. R. are concerned. The atti
tude toward each other of the men who wore the
blue and the gray should not be changed by this
unexpected incident. The veterans of the North
and South have done more than all others combined
to bridge the gulf that separated the two sections.
They entertain a mutual liking an 1 respect for each
other, which is being continually increased by the
interchange of courtesies and hospitality at camp
fires and reunions. But, wh le we may admire the
manliness and courage of our late adversaries, and
concede that they were actuated by pure and dis
interested motives, yet we cannot, in self-respect,
admit that they were right and we were wrong, or
that the cause for which they fought was equally
just with ours. The return of these flags—the em
blem of a “lost cause” and of a government winch
does not exist—would practically amount to such
an admission; and it is for this reason that the
veteran* of the North so strenuously insisted that
the captured should remain where they
i are.
GEN. IN BROOKLYN AND NEW
. ...
On Tuesday morning *ast Commander-in-Chief
Fairchild, accompanied by Department Comman-
> (Jere Treadwell of New York and Wheeler of New
, Jersey, Senior Vice Department Commander Cleary
of Rochester, N. Y., and Col. Fred D. Grant, arrived
’ in Brooklyn and were received by a committee con
sisting of Commander Knight, Past Commander
Calvert and Comrades Price aud Squires or U. 8.
Grant Post. The distinguished guests were con
ducted to the St. George Hotel, and in the afternoon
> a pleasant drive was taken through Prospect Park
and to Coney bland. At o clock in the even
ing Grant Post, in full uni.orm and headed by Dod
worth's Thirteenth Regiment band, marched to the
> hotel and escorted the visitors to the Oxford Club,
where Gen. Fairchild was to review the parade or
ganized in his honor. Arrived at the club house,
c an informal reception was held while the posts tak
ing part in the parade were forming.
j Among those who greeted Gen. Fairchild were
Past Commanders-iu-Chief Beath, of Philadelphia,
and Burdett, of Washington; Past Department
■ Commanders Hedges and Tanner, of New York.
Burrows, of New Jersey, and Evans, of Massachu
setts; Mayor Whitney, ex-Mayor Seth Low, Gener
als Henry W. Slocum, Horatio U. King, Molineux.
Woodward, Whipple and MoLeer; District Attorney
Ridgeway, Junior Vice Department Commander C.
Hull Grant, Col. Sprague, Dep t. Chaplain Smith.
■ Dr. Burdick, Majors T. W. Greig. Chas. Appleby
and Mark D. Wilber; E. A. Du bey. J. A. Joel, Almet
F. Jenks, D. H. Hotallng, Jos. W. Kay, ex-Aiderman
Bowers, Commanders A. M. Underhill and H. B.
1 Davis, Past Commander Martin Short, Senior Vice
Commander Larry Freeland, and hundreds of
others.
It was after eight o’clock when the procession,
composed of Kings county posts, E. D, Morgan aud
i Alexander Hamilton Posts, of New York city, and
Van Houten PdlHy Of City, began to pass the
reviewing point. The display was a fine one, and
the streets on th6 line of march were thronged with
spectators. The veterans marched to the armory
, of the Thirteenth Regiment, where the main floor,
which had been reserved for their occupation) was
completely filled by them.
Past Commander Calvert, of Grant Post, made the
welcoming address, after which there was singing
by the Apollo Club and short speeches by Com
mander Henry W. Knight, Commander-in-Chief
Fairchild, Gen. H. W. Slocum, Dept. Commanders
Treadwell and Wheeler, CoL F. D. Grant aud Cor
poral Tanner, all of which were loudly applauded
by the thousands of veterans present. At the con
clusion of the exercises the guests adjourned to
Uris’s Hall, where a collation was prepared, a gen
eral good time was had, and some of the boys didn't
go home until day after to-morrow morning.
On Wednesday evening Commauder-in-Cnief Fair
child attended a meeting of Alexander Hamilton
Post, in Harlem, and there made the speech which
created such a sensation, and the details of which
have been so fully set forth and discussed in the
press of this and other cities. On the following day
be departed for New Haven, to take part in the
ceremonies attending the dedication of the soldiers
and sailors monument in that city.
RECEIVING R. E. LEE CAMP OF RICHMOND.
Stetnwehr Post, of this city, under the command
of Coroner Ferd. Levy, turned out in full uniform
last Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose or wel
coming Robert E. Lee Camp of Confederate veterans,
who arrived in this city on their way to Boston,
where they took part in the commemoration of the
anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill on Friday.
Lee Camp, with its friends, to the number of more
than 160, and accompanied by its drum and file
corps, arrived at the depot of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, in Jersey City, a little before six o’clock
P. M. The members of Stein wehr Post aud a delega
tion from Wilkes Post, ol Trenton, N J., were drawn
up in line to receive the visitors, and after heartily
cheering them, escorted them to the Annex boat,
where the veterans of the blue and gray again
cheered each other.
The Annex boat took the excursionists to the Fall
River pier, the fife and drum corps of Lee Camp
lustily playing “Yankee Doodle ” during the tran
sit. The visitors embarked on the steamboat
“Bristol,” and were soon on their way to Boston,
while Steinwehr Post marched to the hostelry of
Comrade John Lammers, in Ann street, and “took
a little something.”
The Lee Camp Veterans are expected to arrive in
the Grand Central depot, this city, on their return
from Boston, to-morrow morning. They will be
received by Steinwehr Post and escorted to the
headquarters of the latter body in Beethoven Hall,
Fifth street, where a good time generally will be en
joyed before the visitors depart for their homes in
“Old Virginny.”
TOUGH ON JERSEY.
Last Sunday several members of the Second Fire
Zouaves, viz.: Comrades J. J. Murphy, John Ross,
William MeMinnie, F. J. McDonald, Michael Shay,
and W. J. Barry, invaded New Jersey. The pre
tended object of this incursion into the territory of
a friendly nation was given out to be the desire to
visit Comrades Carberry and Miller, of Newark.
The real purpose is apparent to those who are
cognizant of Mayor Hewett’s effectual method of
closing the convenient Sunday side doors in this
city. However. Comrade McCann, of Lincoln Post,
of Newark, was fortunately on band when this
band of marauders arrived in his peaceful village,
and taking them in charge, conducted them to the
headquarters of Lincoln Post, where they were im
mediately court-marshaled, and sentenced to have
a half dozen “balls” fired into their respective
bodies at short range. The comrades took their
punishment with fortitude, and even expressed a
willingness to stand more of it. After being
allowed to gaze at the monument of gallant Phil.
Kearny, and instructed to emulate his good quali
ties, they were conducted before Comrade Mellen,
who, after advising them to remain in their usual
haunts in future, took pity on them and gave them
a square meal. They were then taken in charge by
Comrade Carberry, who took them to his house, and
kept them under guard until the time for the depar
ture ot a train for New York. A purse having been
made up to pay their passage to this city, they were
placed on board, under charge of the conductor
and brakemen. It speaks rather badly for the
Newark police that they knew nothing of this in
cursion until the visitors had made their escape.
Our Jersey friends will do well to put double
charges in their shotguns, and “rough on rats” in
their applejack, in readiness for future raids of a
similar character.
YOU BET, COMRADE!
“ Blowing its own horn” is not iu the Dispatch
line, but it simply prints the annexed letter (which
ia oulv a samvle of a dozen of similar tenor received
every week), to show that its good work for the
veterans is appreciated :
“ To the Editor of the New York Dispatch :
“Knowing that there is more Grand Ariny new<
contained in your G. A, R. column than can be
found in any other paper published, and that there
is no better medium lor one old soldier to discover
the present whereabouts of another, I would like t®
inquire, through your columns, whether Henry
Rogers, formerly a drummer of Company H, I33<T
Regiment, New York Volunteers, is living ? If e»o r
would like his address.
“Francis Hart,
“No. 455 West 37th street,”
We trust Comrade Hart’s inquiry will meet witb
a speedy response.
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
The members of Adam Goss Post are preparing
for their annual excursion, which will take place ou
Monday July 4. The objective point ot the excur
sion will be Idlewild Grove. Steamboats aud
barges will leave Rutgers street. East river, at 9:15*
A. M., and Broome street, East river, at fifteen,
minutes later.
The eighteenth annual picnic of Oliver Tilden
Post will take place on the afternoon and evening of
Tuesday next, at Brommer s Union Park, 133 d street
and Third avenue. The entertainments of Tilden
Post are al ways among the most enjoyable of the
season, and this affair is certain to be uo exception
to the rule. Under the able management ot Com
mander J. Wesley Smith the post has taken a front
rank in this department and is in a most prosperous
condition in every respect.
On the same day as the foregoing, viz: Tuesday
next, the Twentieth camp-fire and festival of Koites
Post ia announced at the Empire City Colosseum,
Sixty-ninth street and Avenue A.
This is one of the yearly festivals of the east side,
and merchants in that part of the town m ght as
well put up their shutters on that day. All sorts of
games and shooting-matches will take piace in the
afternoon, and iu the evening there will Lie a camp*
fire, dancing, and all the delicacies of the season.
Comrades should surely be on hand at nine P. M.,
as it is certain that the management intend to
“ bust ” a keg of lager at that hour.
KOLTES POST SPEAKS OUT.
At a regular encampment of Koltes Post, hold
June 17th, 1887, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That we, as veterans of the late war and
loyal citizens, most omphatically condemn the out
rage contemplated by the order of the President of
the United States, to restore the captured rebel bat*-
tie flags, in sale keeping in the War Department at
Washington, D. C., and eventually, also, those de
posited iu the State Houses of the several loyal
States, to the States to which the regiments be
longed, from whom they were captured.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the sentiments
expressed by the Comtuander-in-Chief of the G. A.
R.. Comrade Lucius Pairchild, at the reception of
Alexander Hamilton Post, in this city, on June lot to,
1887.
Resolved, That we urge Comrade Fairchild to
spare uo honorable means to prevent a repetition or
en oroement of a similar order, lor the revocation
thereof was not caused by remorse at the outrage
intended, but because the author thereo thiuka
that the laws of the land prohibits him from issu
ing such an order.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
to Comrade Luc.us Fairchild, to be used by him as
he thinks fit.
THE NEW HAVEN DEDICATION.
Probably New Haven felt itself to be the biggest
town in the United States, or in the world, on Fri
day last, and the quiet Connecticut city had good
reason for feeling proud, lor 100 000 strangers
thronged its streets to witness the ceremonies con
nected with the dedication of the handsome sol
diers’ and sailors’ monument, erected by the pub
lic-spirited citizens. Am ng the-visitors w- re some
oi the greatest men of the country, a lew of the
most distinguished being Generals Sherman, Sheri
dan, Terry, Greely and Fairchild; Senators Hawley
and Platt, Admiral Luce, Governor Louusbury, and
scores of lesser dignitaries. The parade was par
ticularly fine, and elicited continuous applause
from the throngs that filled the streets. The pre
siding officer at the dedicatory exercises was Presi
dent Dwight, of Yale College, and the oration was
delivered by the Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth. A tine
display of fireworks in the evening brought to a
close a day which will long be proudly remembered
by New Haven.
New York city and Brooklyn were well repre
sented, some of the comrades who took part in or
witnessed the ceremonies from the two cities being
William McEntee, T. J. Odium, Fenl. Hofele aud
Thomas Mountain, of 113; Henry B. Davis Samuel
Lewis, F. Burkart, Horman Eckert, 8. J. Burrows,
J. 3. Loveau, Phil. Kreuscber. R. P. Tighe, Alex.
Rnssell, J. C. Vanderbilt and Ed. Elwell, of 35; J. W,
Adeo, J. G. Jenny, Jos. Saunders and W. H. Duncan,
o: 24; Sam. Minnes, M. F. Hatch. C. A. Swartho it,
John Reid and W. A. Treadwell, of 307; N. It, Middle
ton and B. F. McDonald, of 8; James Washington,
Alfred Mitchell, Dick White, John Benson aud An
dr w Sinex, of 234; C. W. McKie, W. Johnson, W. 11.
Pritchard, R, A. Jackson and H. A. Bennett, of 255;
Fenton Rockwell, David C. Waring. Charles G. Hall.
Phil. Rothman. Jacob Rossitor and Luke O’Brien,
Of 205; T. F. Godwin. W. A. Thomson, John Kenny
and Owen O'Rourke, of 458; Harro Schacht, Frank
Traendly, George Failes and Leo Kosrlh, of 128;
Frank Hecklar. of 330; J. Robinson, S. N. Richards
and Frank Hart, of 552; G. W. Morton. M. D., and
J. J. Wilbig, of 436; R. J. Garland, 143; John T.
O’Brien, of 399; M. J. Cummings, of 148; A. V. Ber
gen, of 84; David Graham, of 13; George Winner, of
77; Christ. Knoepfel, of 32; Benjamin Beckter, of 42;
8. Seide, 557; aud Henry J. Mohler, of Post 1, New
ark, N. J. Kilpatrick Post, under Commander S. H.
Bailey, and Naval Post, Commander F. H. Grove*
Were present in a body.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Comrade E. M. W. is informed t’*' Kava!
d.n u i»‘ oieb ~ wery °“ -i Mot’
comrades who haV6 tjot visited the naval pane*
rama of the “ Merrimac and Monitor,” Filty-ninth
street and Madison avenue, should do so before the
end of this month, and call for tickets issued for the
benefit of Comrade JohnS. Martin (“Old Crackers ’),
a member of Cameron Post. The panorama is well
worth seeing more than once, aud Comrade Martin
deserves a rousing benefit.
Comrade John Lammers, of Steinwehr Post, hafl
beeu appointed an aide on the staff of Department
Commander Treadwell, and Comrade E. B. Duffy,
M. D., of Hancock Post, has beeu similarly honored
by Commander-in-Chief Fairchild.
Last Wednesday evening the Monument Commit
tee of the Seventy-third N. Y. Volunteers (Second
Fire Zouaves), met at the residence ot Comrade J. J.
Murphy, and made further arrangements for the
erection of the monument at Gettysburg in 1838, on
the ground where the regiment so gallantly fought
in 1863. A model of the proposed monument was
received from Comrade Brown, of Riker Post, aud
the design will undoubtedly be adopted.
On Tuesday night last Comrade Fred. Elliott, the
b-a-a-d man of Morgau Post, attended the reception
given to Gen. Fairchild, in Brooklyn, and became
so bewildered that he was unable to find the Brook
lyn Bridge until seven o clock Wednesday morning.
The many friends of the brave commander of the
Sixty-ninth Regiment, Col. Cavanagh, will be sorry
to learn that he is lying seriously ill at his residence
in Brooklyn. His sickness results from a severe
cold which he contracted when the regiment acted
as escort to Mr. William O’Brien during the latter's
recunt visit to this city.
Comrade George E. Lemon, of Washington, treas
urer of the fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logan, has
turned oyer to her more than $63,000. Among the
large subscribers in this city were Judge Hilton,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, w, k. Vanderbilt and J. D.
Rockefeller. Mr. Gould’s nanio is conspicuous by
its absence, as usual.
Captain William Fowler, of W. 8. Hancock Post,
and formerly commanding a company in the
Twelfth New York, has in his possess on the dis
charges of the iollowing-named members of Co. D,
Capt. J. D. Ottiwell, which can be had by those en
titled to them upon application at No. 37 John
street: G. Rosenborg, Lewis Bell, W. H. Cortelyou.
Charles j. Cross,John H. Campbell, Robert W.Davis,
William Fritsche, Michael lagan, Lewis Hill, Jo
seph Harper, Thomas W. Murray, John Batchelor*
Henry Lock burner, David McGill, Fred Myer, 8.
Mortimar, Henry A. Connor, Denis O. Flaherty*
John 8. Starkins, Sidney H. Wilson. Charlea Wilson,
John Willis, John N. Wryer, J. C. White, J. W.Chap
man.
Some drunken hoodlums began throwing stones
at the members of Mansfied Post and calling them
insulting names, while the post was on its way to
take part in the Brooklyn parade last Tuesday
evening. In just about five minutes. Past Com
mander Martin Short had landed the ringleader in
the lockup, another tough was ou his way to the
hospital with a broken head, and the balance of the
gang were doing some lively running. They found
the old soldiers pretty lively fellows in a muss,
even if they are sometimes troubled with the
rheumatism.
Wade Woman’s Relief Corps wlli give an excur
sion to Linden Grove, Staten Island, on Wednesday,
June 29th. As this is the first excursion these la
dies have given, they hope to be favored with the
company of many G. A. R. comrades and members
of sister corps. The barge will leave the foot of
Filth street, E. R., at 8:30 A. M., and Eleventh
street, N. R., at 9A. M. Good music will be pro
vided.
At the regular encampment of George G. Meade
Post, on Friday evening, the order oi President
Cleveland in regard to rebel flags was called to the
attention of the comrades, and a series of ringing
resolutions were adopted denouncing the proposed
action, and a copy ordered to be lorwardod to th®
President.
On Wednesday evening, June 15th, the annual
picnic of Frank Head Post of Brooklyn was given ac
Schutzen Park, lor the benefit of the Belief Fund,
and it was honored by a very large attendance from
the various posts ot Kings county, also being re
membered by the residents of the Sixth Ward.
Commander O’Brien was in his glory, and he was
never known to be so happy as he was on this par
ticular occasion. Comrade Furey deserves great
credit for his energetic work, as does also Comrade
Glass. Among those who participated in the recep
tion were 8. V. Commander Fallon, J. V. Com
mander Fitzgerald, Adjutant M. E. Arment and
their wives; Comrades Treacey, Hall, Golding,
O’Neill and McNoble. Comrades Arment and Hall
were very jolly, having lately been appointed OU
the st iff of Department Commander Treadwell.
Under date of June 17, Capt. Theodore Feldstein
has received the following communication, signed
by Deputy Quartermaster General J. G. Chandler,
U. 8. A.: “By direction of the quartermaster gen
era', I have to acknowledge receipt of your appli
cation for headstones for soldiers graves at various
cemeteries near your place, but regret to inform
you that the appropriations granted by Congress
for this purpose are only sufficient to enable ths
department to fill the requests received prior to
March 25, 1887. Your application, with all others
received after that date, has been placed on file, and
will be given prompt attention whenever another
appropriation for this work shall be made, but in
any event it will not be possible to supply the
stones until the Spring of 1888.
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