St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 3, 1879
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%, 1% ‘, ? eo; . 5 ‘ : 7 7 /- / _=.. > * ; i ? _—— VOL. XXVIII. TT a NO. 16. _ EST MIDDLESEX BLUE FLANNEL SUIRS, $610.50. Fine Diagonal Coats and Vests, $10, $12, AND 313.50. NOBBY SPRING SUITS, $10, $12 and $15, AT THE - Golden Eagle, 119, 121, 123 Fifth; 508-510 Pine. ALL.GOODS REPAILEDFOR CASH at WHOLESALE PRICE ; 4 A : R ~ W D¥PORTAN? REASONS GILY YOU SHOULD BUY ‘ HAH Waal - REVIVUM! : 5] Ladies and Gentlemen, we appeal NOT A DYE. to you to give the “REVIVUM” a trial; we guarantee you quality at Fifty Cents a Bottle. THE one-half the price of any good Hair Restorer. This we have proved by actual test, and we would caution you not to take any other simply be- , cause the price is higher. Remem- £ : GREAT HAIR’ RESTORER ! ber, we warrant the “REVIVUM” to restore the Hair, to be of greater Proved to be the best article offered to the public for the purpose of RESTORING GRAY HAIR TOITS NATURAL COLOR, A few applications producing Dark, Lustrous, Silken Tresses. strength and the same quantity of any C. N. CRITTENTON, Sole Proprietor, New York. dollar article. You can have no ex- cuse for Gray Hair or Baldness when you can procure the crowning glory of man or woman, a beautiful head of hair, by using the “ REVIVUM.” a FAMOUS REMEDIES. : HALE’S HONEY OF HOREHOUND AND TAR, for Coughs and all Lung Diseases. GLENN’S SULPHUR SOAP — Clarifying, Healing, Beautifying — 25 cents. PIKE’S TOOTHACHE DROPS, which Cure in One Minute, 25 cents. HILL’S HAIR AND WHISKER DYE (Instantaneous), 50 cents. SOLE BDRUGGISTS. , Lt EN SRE GS et, tm FE ES USE HILL'S HAIR AND WHISKER DYE (Instantaneous) FOR THE Moustache AND Whiskers. Price: 50c. per Box Agd better than any other. = PUBLIC GRAIN AND STOCK EXCHANGE. MERCHANTS’ EX. BUILDING, ROOMS 125 TO 131. Trade in Chicago Wheat, Corn, Pork and Lard; New York Stocks and Cotton. Run nine instruments. Quotation posted every few minutes. Trade as low as $2 50 up to $i,000. Livest place in the city. Admittance Free. JNO. J. WHITH, MANAGER AND PROPRIETOR. a ee Qe ~ QP ANOS Ni ier len SZ ee © Al [xX VAAN — .. = . THE TIMKEN PATENT SPRING VEHICLES. A GRAND SUCCESS. . After a test of three rears they have proved their great superiority over all other springs now in use. Thev cre now introduced in eighteen states, and give entire satisfaction. The demand is rapidly inereas- mez. These wishing te purchase a First-Class Vehicle will please calland test them. I have a horse and vuggy ready for that purpose. oo ee oe OL LB FN, BUILDER OF FINE CARRIAGES. 1006, 1008, 1010 St. Charles St., St. Louis, Mo. WE STILL OFFER MANY "BRANDS OF COTTONS && - 4 4g “ Pate 1 —-_ ‘ cidted | RARE “‘s! Bedetttatcas § gure (+ Beastattise SS sHMOMAAIMH NT AEN] AAMT ARH mons 00, 9TH & WASHINGTON AVH., Respectfully announce to the public that they have, in addi- tion to their Large Wholesale Business, opened a very com- plete and comprehensive Retail Department, Where may be found the largest and most complete assort- ment {of everything that may be classed under the general head of HARDWARE HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Also a Full Line of Sporting Goods, Guns, Rifles, Pistols, Cartridges, Foils, &c. Fishing Tackle of ever Archery Goods, Base Ball Goods, Box variety, Croquet, g Gloves, Fencing In House Furnishing Goods We have every novelty. for the conv enience of Housekeep- ers’ including such seasonable goods as Refrigerators» Water Coolers, ICE PITCHERS, Silver Plated Ware, Pock- et and Table Cutlery, etc. In Hardware, We carrya FULL LINE of every description of Builders’ Hardware, Mechanics’ Tools, Carpenters’ Tools, Blacksmith Tools, goods. Coopers’ Tools, Lawn Mowers, &c. It is our intention in opening this very large and com|lpete RETAIL STORE to attract the entire trade ofthe city and county of St. Louis by selling our goods at such Exceedingly Low Prices As MUST satisfy all that our store is the[place to buy your Our Silver Plated Ware is all Quadruple Plate and War- ranted the bést in the Market, at prices which astonish the purchaser. Simmons Hardware Co. AT THE TO CARPET BUYERS! FRANKLIN AVE. CARPETSTORE You can buy Carpets for Less money than they have ever been bought for before. CALI: AND SHE. N. B.—Carpet Manufactured on the Premises. J. CRAWSHAW &SON, 809 and 811 FRANKLIN AVE. Alexander’s Drug - Store, S. E. COR. FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS. Since the burning of the Fifth and Olive Street Store, I have con- centrated on the Fourth Street Store, which has been restocked with a full line of Fancy Goods, Perfumery and Pure Medicines. The PRE- SCRIPTION FIL S of the Fifth Street Store were ALL SAVED can be refilled at the Fourth Street Store, as before, with PURE icines accurately compounded. Medicine sent of the city on receipt of order by Telephone, Mail or otherwise. Me. W. ADE XxX AN DER. NOTE—Will re-occupy Fifth and Olive Street Building as soon as completed. nd ed- romptly to any part | pee FOR SALE. NO. 224 MORRISON AVENUE. The beautiful residence and grounds of OLIVER GARRISON, having a frontage on above avenne of 210 feet by a depta of about 135 feet toa private alley 15 feet wide. i RE Ee ae eae Oe ee , “af Sy Foe are eee +“ « som eS Fg ag Ree ant ee Public Rehearsal of the Mary Institute. The new building of the Mary Institute is located at the corner of Beaumont and Locust streets, in the midst of the fashionable resi- dence neighborhood, from which the school chiefly derives its ample and still in- creasing patronage. It is a model building, substantial, commodious and elegant, and Mary Institute is a model school, in every way redeeming the fine promise of its situation and app ointments. Yesterday afternoon the _ twelfth nual musical rehearsal was given by the pupils of the Institute. There were, upon the stage, 350 scholars, less or more, lesser or larger, the bud and flower of the choice homes of the West End. A more pleasant sight than the stage presented, with its wealth of fresh young beauty becom- ingly and richly costumed in the newest fabrics of the spring séason, could hardly be imagined. The garish sun shone in through the half-closed shutters with accustmomed brightness, but there was no need that the room should be darkened and the transforming witcheries ofthe gaslight Jem- ployed to heighten for the eye of the spectator the effect of all that youthful loveliness upon the stage. The music was, of course, in charge of Mrs. Kate 1.Brainard, the well-known and accomplished vocal teacher of the school, whose department of instruction is yearly growing in interest and yalue under her faith- ful and successful administration. The programme- was arranged with exceed- ing taste, and exhibited not only the profi- ciency of the pupils, butalso their relative progress in comparison with other similar oc- casions. The accuracy and shading of tho chorus work was most admirable, evincing intelligent study and thorough preparation. There was none of the noisy vehemence which with many uathinking persons passes for music; but there was the true intonation and sustained body of tone, varying in tempo and volume by masterful interpretation, which indicate true culture. The only solos by the upils were ‘‘The Fo “Me-Not,’ as, charmingly sung by Miss Julia G with a small, sweet and true voice, and ‘‘My Mother’s Song,’’ by North, charmingly — by Miss Lizzie Gage with a large, sweet an true voice. There was a scale and key exer- cise by the very little song-birds ch was quite wonderful in its way; and a variety of vocal exerciees from Concone and others by the older pupils which served -—to. exbibit the careful training to which they have been subjected. As a whole this rehearsal] exceeded fn interest and profit the fine flavor of its most wpe tes redecessors, aud this is all the praise it coul ve. The Democrats efthe House ani Senate of the lilinots held an- New New Silk Fringes, NEw stock OF DRESS TRIMMINGS! New Beaded Passementeries, New Drop Trimmings, Marabout Trimmings, New Headings and Gimps, | New Buttons, New Ornaments, Xe. These goods will all be put in with our DAMAGED STOCK AND SOLD AT FIRE PRICES! It will be to the interest of every lady who desires to pur- chase DRESS TRIMMINGS to look at OUR STOCK. Prices Lower than Other Houses. MILLER, GRANT & CO., 609 North Fourth Street. AMUSEMENTS. THE AMATEUR ‘‘PINAFORE.’’ The second performance of ‘‘Pinaforo’’ at Mercantile Library Hall, by the amateur com- pany, forthe benefit of St. Luke’s Hospital, drew the largest house that has yet listened to ‘*Pinafore’’ in this citv, and drew according to desert. Instead of claiming allowance for am- ateurism in making any appeals ad misericordi- am, the company can safely challenge compar- ison with any of the professionals that have visited St. Louis. Mr. McCreery’s Capt. Cor- coran is the best Capt. Corcoran, by all odds, who has trod the quarter- deck. Miss Urquhart’s Little Butter- cup is the best Buttercup. Mrs. Girard’s Hebe has nothing of the amateur about it. Mr. Aull's Dick Deadeye was a gratcful relief by its freedom: from the offensive gags and exagzera- tions of nis nipdels. The choruses were admir- ably given, and Jas!, but not least, the sisters and the cousins and ihe aunts were the kind of female relatives that almost 2"y ruler of any navy would like to have keeping Jim company on bis tours of inspection. The audience concisted almost exclusively of society people, who are usually conspicuous by their absence from the theaters nowadays, ing to call forth hearty applause and unmistakable demands for encores. This was the best testimony that could be given to the excellence of the performance, which has been 2s satisfactory in its results as in its produc- tion, and which with to-dav’s matinee will re- alize a very handsome contribution to the de- serving charity which it aids. The managers have modestly kept themselves in the backgrourd, but it is no violation of propriety to mention the credit that is due to Mr. E. C. Simmons, the president of the trus- tees of the hospital, and Mr. W. H. Thom- son, for their management. Mr. Mc- Creery acted as stage manager, and a great deal of the personal beauty of the sisters and the cousins and the aunts was contributed by St. Peter’s Church. — A Correction. St. LOuIS, May 2. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: in your issue of yesterday, in your notice of your reporter’s wandering into the rehearsal of the amateur ‘‘Pinafore’’ at the Mercantile Library Hall, April 30, you do a great injustice to Miss Ella Dorsheimer, the lad¥Y who was or- iginally cast to appearas Josephine in that popular opera. Inthe third paragraph oft the article above referred to you say: ‘‘Miss Dorsheimer as Josephine sang well, and is well adapted to her part,’’ and then gently hint ‘‘that the lady was not conversant with her part at the rehearsal.’’ In justice to Miss Dorsheimer permit me to call your attention to the fact that that lady was not present at the rehearsal witnesscd by your reporter, or at any other at the Mercantile Library, except the one on the 22nd ult. The young lady has been confined to her apartments, more or less, ever since the early part of April on account of a severe attack ot intermittent fever, which bas enfeebiec her very much indeed. On the 25th ult. the amateur rehearsal was held at the residence of Mr. Dorsheimer, in order that Niss Dorsheimer might take part in the exer- cises. The next day (Saturday last) I made a professional Visit to the young lady and found her so exhausted from the exercises of}the pre- vious evening that Linformegd her that she must no longer entestair. any hope of being able to appear as Josephinein ‘‘Pinafore;’’ that if she did so it would be at the peril ot her lite, also that I would not conserttor her to take part in any more rehearsals,and that Proj, Allman should be intormed of that fact at once, in Order that he might obtain another Josephine, if possible. Having been in constant attendance on Miss Dorsbeimer from the beginning ot her illness to the present time, I feel that it is my duty to call your attention to these facts. Hoping that you will give this explanation a proper place in your valuable paper, Iam, respectfully, E. A. GRIVEAUD, M. D. AN EVENT 1N SOCIETY. Xx Scholten’s Kettle-Drum. It was a particularly graceful idea in John A. Scholten tocelebrate the opening of his mag- nificent new gallery by a tea given to the ladies, who have ever been his warm friends and con- stituents. Nothing could better have testified to the esteem in which heis held by our best society than the quick and pleased response to the gorgeous invitations sent out for the Tburs- day tea, as the cream of society came in flocks like gaily - plumed birds, fluttering over the del- icacies prepared tor them by the generous artist, who has had a world of trouble this sea- son. One disaster bis followed the other, as in duty bound—misfortanes never come singlty— until a less earnest, less energetic man would have given up in despair, and let the people go without good pictures. Scholten is one of the public-spirited men who give &t. Louis its lustre, and hisuntiring z¢al under immense obstacles should, and will be, rewarded. This is simple homage toa man who has done so wnuch tor &t. Louis. Delicate refreshments, fine floral decorations and a choice exhibition of urt specimens in crayon, plain and colored, end superb phuto- graphs, entertained the select couipany, who bbe not eufficientiv admire the excelient and commodious arrangement of the new gatlery. nd eve ° and they needed no prompt- THE SPEECH OF THE MEMBER FROM COHOES. That wasn’t quite so bad a man As people may suppose, Who was sent to the Legisiature from The district of Cohoes. A lot of bills were introduced, And passed without much bother, Granting the legislative aid To this and that and t’other. The member from Cohoes sat still, And not a word he said; He would not vote upon the bills, Nor shake or nod his head. Sometimes his eyebrows he would raise, Sometimes his jaw let fall; But when they called for speech or yote, He answered’ not at all. At last the silent member rose, And ey the Speaker’s eye, Whereat the gallery occupants In haste prepared to fly. He said: ‘‘I merely would present—’’ The Speaker’s brow Was arave— ‘*A thought to save our precious time, Though nothing else we save. **T move that we do now inquire The true and ful} amount Of all the cash we bave to spere?, By strict and honest count. ‘* Then let us vote it all away, In a sort of omnibus bil}, So portioning the sums that éW¢® May duly get his fill. ‘When we shall thus have satisfled Each private claim and need, Perbaps to public business then We may at last proceed.’’ The gentleman resumed his seat, And never more arose, For that was just the first and last Of the member from Cohoes. MORNING NEWS CONDENSED. FOREIGN. The tariff bil] is being discussed in the Reichs- ag. A dispatch from Rome state; that Garibaldi wil: soon return home. The Agricultural Insurance Company of Ot- tawa, Canada, has decided to wind up. Austria has formaliy assented to the election of Prince Alexander to the Bulgarian throne. The municipal and senatorial elections in Spain are attended with more than usual ex- citement. Among those arrested on suspicion of Nihfl- isin at St. Petersburg, is Stasov, who ventured to appear as counsel for a suspected Nihilist. A Paris dispatch states that the sub-Commit- tee on Tariff has decided to take into consider- ation the proposal to raise the duty on cotton and thread fifty per cent. Solovieff, who recently attempted to assas- sinate the Czar, declares that though he was compelled under a threat of death to fire at the Czar, he purposely missed him. “ WASHINGTON. It is intimated that the joint Democratic can- cus has decided to introduce a separate bill, embodying the same measures embracedin the appropriation bill. The Senate declined to confirm the nomina- tion ot Thos. M. Mannto be Collectorof Cus- toms at Bangor, Maine, on the ground that Mr. Fox, present incumbent, is an efficient officer. Gen. Robert Schenck, who for several years past has been drawing a pension of $30 per month from the Government for a woundin the band, was first to draw his arrearage under the new law. He drew $4,600. THE STATE CAPITAL. The parliamentary dispute relative to the in- surance bill was adjusted, and the bill passed the Senate, ; : ee ee eT ) The bill granting a pension to Fred. Miller Oh adcdoutic of injuries received while firing = - of January salute was indefinitely post- ne . A bill has been ordered to engrossment in the House prohibiting the employment of children under twelve years of age in factories and workshops. Tie St. Louis delegation inthe Senate have agreed to report fuvorably the Dryden street railroad bill. Also, a bill requiring certain officials to keep a clerk to administer oaths without extra pay. Senator Hockaday, from the Judiciary Com- mittee, reported adversely House bill 4358, authorizing the Attorney-General to institute proceedings for the recovery ot certain moneys deposited by the Treasurer inthe Mastin and other banks. The bill failed to goto its third reading, The revision committee of the House has re- rted favorably, with amendments, the Sen- ate bill revising the lawin relation to deposi- tions. Une of the amendments seeks to reme- dy the practice of asking a witness imperti- neht and irrelevant questions by providing that if the witness refuses to answer and is sent to jail, but is alterwards discharged on habeas corpus, then the coat of the proceeding shall ve paid,by the party who asked the impertinent or iyreievant question or questions. The bill passed CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Ezekiah Bradley hanged at Bryan, Texas. + am Axman, a butcber, suicides at Mem- Theodore B. Weber,recently shot at Chicago by Mrs. Roberts, is dead. Col. J, H. Whittaker was shot and fatally wounded by his son, Jonathan Whittaker, at Monterey, O. Mies Ettie Marsh, residing at Naples, Il., ia trying to cross a ruilroad track ia a buggy, was struck by « locomotive and severely, i not fa- tally, ip ° MISCELLANEOUS. Farmington, Mo., has been visited by a dis- astrous cop fiagratiun. A nan named Wood, an inmate of the Colum- bia county, Wis., jail, made his eacepe and ran away with the jailor’s daughter. The Kentucky Democratic Convention nated Jamos D, Peckett tor et omy Public Schoois, and Raiph for of Lande, A resolution was u Constitutional Convention. i _+ a _* ieee oe ese a A MODEST MARTYR. The Record of Stilson Hutchins, as Re- viewed by Himself. WASHINGTON, April 30. To Ue Editor of the Post-Dispate.: For nearly two years I have been a» watch- ful but silent observer of the progress of af- fairsin St. Louis, wmeluding the periodical ‘*disclosures’’ and consequent ‘‘investiga- tions.”’ Will you allow me a very little space for some vainglorious reflections and observa- tions? Ifthey partaketo» much of the *‘1 told you so”’ spirit. pard::me. A maaean be allowed to put on airs ovee in two years. During the twelve vex: of iay active resi- dence in St. Louis, you i!) adm i that T was charged with a good many (thiugs and eredited with a very few. ; That now thoroughly exposed journalistic : fraud, the Republican, during all that time, : never contained a good word for me. Onthe: contrary, I think it is a safe calculation to say that, first and last, 1t printed, editorially and otherwise, at least 1,000 columns of abuse of me. lt seemed to be its mission. There was never a thief. a gambler, a bleckmailer, a pettifogger or a con- vict who was denied access to its columns if he had the ingenuity to construct a new lie or invent a new suspicion against me. Now, in. two short vears, the result? Be patient that you, may. hear, My accusers were mainly Bow- man, Wakefield: and Hyde, occasionally reinforced by their subordinates, the Knapps, Nidelet and a few professional detectives, some of whom I have lost sight of probably on account of the high walls of the Penitentiary. The main accusation was that 1 was em- ployed for a consideration to warn gam)lere of threatened raids. Wakefield swore that he had .at one time in consideration therefor clandéstinely conveyed $800 to my overédat pocket as it innocently hung upon its aceus- tomed nail. It has since been proven that in order to bave the slightest knowledge of threatened raids one must be on ggriminally intimate terms with the vice-president of the board. At the time that fragrant pink of propriety ‘arose in a suit which had about as much to do with the subjectas the suit before Herod forthe head of Joun the Baptist, and swore that | was in that delecta- ble service, Judge Ferguson was the V.-P. of the P. B. Still the Republican printed forty-five columns of testimony by actual measurement, Now for the seer, Bowman hasbeen disbarred for corrupt practices as a pettifogger. Wakefield is generaliy admitted to be ‘ ‘the vilest character ever depicted in history or fiction.’’ I think Charley Johnson said thatand said it well, Hyde—well, it isn’t necessary tosay much about Hyde. He is so fat-witted that he pro- bably has not found out yet that heishurt, It T have read the papers aright, he suing to recover a few shreds of his character from their late custodians, Wakefield and compa- ny, I have been known to charge, when pul- lishing a newspaper im St. Louis, that the Po- lice Board was thorougly corrupt. Wothin the last two months the charge has been thoroughly proven. I hare charged that Wakefield was a rogue’s gallery convict, a perjurer, and an unmitigated villain. He has %d- mitted it. Not to rest even his what is , ls own in- famy on his own word, it has been lately proven, I have frequently charged that the column’ of the Republican were as much in the market and for sale as the whisky at Jacoby’s. It was as freqheutly denied. Yet not many months ago 8=E-.-ds Joo Knapp __ stood up in court and swore that it was true in the bridge stock suit. If it were necessary in order to avoid a debt or escape a responsi- bility, he would also swear that it was true inthe North Union Railroad scheme, and in the St. Louis Gas Company’s transactions. I defied my enemies so many times to point to a single evidence of my unworthiness, that it became tiresome and backneyed even to myself. Now as to proof. In two years your good people haye investigated the Hannibal and St. Joe legislation, the records of the St. Louis Gas Company, the Police Board aud its proceedings, the State Treasury frauds, the Insurance Commissioner and his actions, the whisky frauds, the new Custom-housé frauds, the gamblers and the lottery men. At one time or another, I have been charged in the Republican with complicity with each and all of these. The investigations have been tedious and, I have no doubt, thorough. In none of them was I found to be involved in the slightest degree. Please print that fact in italics. Now one or two words of assertion to add to these several negatives, and I have done. Senator Phelan, I observe, has lately tntro- duced a billtowefund the State debt at 5 per cent interest. I proposed thatin 1874, while Chairman of the House Committee of Ways and Means. It would have saved on a debt of eighteen millions in the time that has elapsed $00,000. Thereare those who will recollect that I said so. I proposed, at that session, to make the Police Board elective. It was not done. You would have.saved some scandal if it had been done. You would also have sayed some money and reputation. In 1873 I proposed, legislatively, to cut the fees of the County Coliector’s office down to $20,000 per annum. Mr. Mantz was then the incumbent. I as- serted that the office brought in more thaa $50,000 perannum. Hedeniedit. I see by the late investigation it has been proven tg be even more profitable than as I s*> ag, Theyg are many othey rhings that I might enumerate, but you have "8t Ufile space, ang I but little stomach for boasting. Time at last sets all things even. Two yearg have vindicated me. Give me credit at least for being patient. I hope your new press runs smogthly. r hope you are meeting with the success you deserve for having given St. Louis a good pa- per. You show more independence thaa was ever shown journalistically in St. Louis before. Occasionally, I notice, you oblique a little, Still, since Aristides and Diogenes, we have never had a perfectiy independent man. [ count you as about eighty out of a possible hundred. Try and close up the gap. Yours, STILSON HUTCHINS. —. -_- Le How the President Wrenched Himself. {From the Cincinnati Enquirer. | On the morning following the signing of the veto messege the President’s family were hor- rified to see Mr. Hayes slowly crawling down stairs on his hands and knees. ~ **What in the wide world is the matter?’? exclaimed Mrs. Hayes. , The President continued his painful descent on all fcur, shook his head, and mournfully made reply: “ ‘«Next time I have a veto like that t sigan I’ll let the job out. My spinal colomn hasn’t ngs in **Well, I told you not to sign it!’’ seream- never be so shan't*e able to st months,’’ and, literally walk ach, the President
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Att advertisements unuer the head of . ‘SWaNTED,” “For SALe”’ or “FoR RENT,”’ etc., thaggdo not exceed five lines, and are not of a BUSINESS character, will hereafter be inserted FREE. Those who need employment or those who need employes or servants are particularly invited to express their **wants’’ in our columns free of charge. Tur Post-Dispatcu is the only even- ing paper in St. Louis ° | If Mr. Kehr intended to act regardless | of party it was his duty to say so when he | , , | § ‘i ; a: was nominated and his name was placed | en ee ne at the head of the Democratic ticket. If Mr: Kehr intended to retain Republi- cans in office it was clearly his duty to de- clare so publicly, or privately, before he accepted the nomination and election upon precisely opposite grounds. If, on the Mr. Kehr gave no sign of dissent but consent—and in this case surely silence was consent—he was in honor bound to act with the party that elected him, not withthe one that did all it could to defeat him. Mr. Kehris a lawyer. He has too much intelligence not to see that he has violated a plain obligation to his party. He has too much personal honesty not to see that he committed political dishonesty. He has practically obtained a nomination and elec- tion under false pretenses. His plea of per- sonal honesty and scrupulous conscientious- ness makes his case all the worse. Fora man of scrupulous honor would have stated his position to those who nominated him. If he intended to act as an Independent, nota Democrat, he should have said so to the regular Democratic caucus that nomi- nated him. If he did not say so, he accept- ed it with all the obligations it implied and should not have repudiated them. contrary, The Globe-Democrat to the West What the New York Herald 1s to the East. The Globe-Democrat during this week has carried more advertising than any paper inthe United States. The amount of postage paid the Government by the Globe-Democrat is the fourth largest of any paper published. To fur- nish its readers the news as well as to accom- modate its advertisers it has been compelled to issue supplements regularly during the week. Thos. W. Wood, its advertising agent, has the reputation of having closed more con- tracts during the past year for one paper than any agent in the United States. The Globe- Democrat's circulation is the largest ot any paper in the West, and its reputation as a news- paper is second to none published. - — /-_ Miss Lavinia Goodell, of Wisconsin, a suc- cessful practicing lawyer. has just applied for the second time to be admitted to practice as attorney in the Supreme Court of the State. Asan actof the Legislature of 1877 provides for the admission of women in all the Wiscon- sin courts, it is probable that her petition will be granted. : city government. | important offices | which the Mayor had to fill, subject to the | Kehr to | o—- -— THE NOOSE. The Fate of the Nihilists in Russia. A Lieutenant Hung on the Suspicion of Being a Socialist. Attempted Revolution in Pan- ama Crushed. A Colonel Cut Down: and His As- sailant Shot. Egypt—Coal Miners’ Strike in England—Ger- many—F oreign Flashes. Russia. HANGING A NIHILIST. By Cable to Western Associated Press. St. PETERSBURG, May 3.—Lieut. Dubrovina, arrested near Novgorod on suspicion of being chief member of the revolutionary committee, was banged on Friday on the giacis of Fort Petropanlorski. : Engiand. LARGE PURCHASE OF UNITED STATES BONDS. By Cable to Western Associated Press. Lonvon, May 2.—Tbe London and Westmin- ster Bank vesterday took $5,000,000 of United States four per cent bonds at 44, maxing in all $35,000,000 United States securities this bank has recently purchased. THE COAL MINERS’ STRIKE. By Cable to Western Associated Press. LONDON, May 3.—In consequence of the coal miners’ strike upwards of sixty vessels have left Sunderland to load coal elsewhere. One hundred and forty-tour vessels await cargoes. The Northumberland coal miners are seeking anadvance of wages in consequence of the overtfiow of trade to their collieries. A CONFERENCE, LONDON, May 3.—The Durham coal owners ave invited the Miners’ Associatiou to acon- ference for the purpose of settling their diffi- culties and ending tne*strike. ENCOUNTERED A GALE. By Cable to Western Associated Press. LONDON, May 3.—The new steamer Gallia at Liverpool, trom New York, encountered a gale on the 24th of April, and was hove to fifteen hours. She lost two Doats and a seaman. ARRIVED. Arrived: Steamer Holland from New York. es Afghanistan. YAKOOB KHAN PACIFIC, By Cable to Western Associated Press, LONDON, May 3.—Yakoob Khan will leave Cabul immediately with several Sirdars an Ministers and a large retinue, to confer person- ally with the Indian authorities. Germany. IMPERIAL BANK, By Cable to Western Associated Press. BERLIN, May 3.—The statement of the Impe- rial Bank ot Germany shows a decrease in specie of 1,960,000 marks. Egypt. ABANDONED. By Cable to Western Associated Press. CAIRO, May 3.—The Ulemas having protested against the European preponderence in the : : | Mixed Council of State projected by the hhe- Mr. Edward C. Kehr accepted both the | nomination and the election without inti- | dive, the scheme has been abandoned. Central America. PANAMA, By Cable to Western Associated Press. PANAMA, April 24.—The Star and Herald tells the story of an attempted revolution there. A | plot to upset the State Government had been It was that the election of the Demo- | S#0Cte? PY DISAFFECTED POLITICIANS, who sought to purchase the officersof the Columbian Guards on the Isthmus and secured some. , The commander of the regiment becoming cognizant of the facts, REBUKED HIS OFFICERS, which so incensed them that Capt. Obaldiah assaulted the Colonel with his sabre and WAS SHOT DOWN by the Colonel’s son, aged eighteen, Lieutenant in the battalion. THE ROW and a | then became general and continued until Col. Carvajal and his son, four other officers and | several men were killed, and from eight to ten wounded; The newsof the tragedy aroused the town, and the adherents of the Government at once decided to check an ATTEMI’T AT REVOLUTION and to punish crimes committed in cartel. They keptupafire onthe National Barracks from 6:30 o’clock until nearly 9 o’clock the follow- Ing morning,when the troops UNCONDITIONALLY SURRBNDERED. Thirty killed and as many wounded is the rec- ord of losses. The city is now quiet. | Martial law is proclaimed. South America. THE CHILIAN WAR. PANAMA, April 24.—The latest advices from tion of war by Chili against Peru and announce tne blockade of the port of Iquique by the Chilian squadron. THE EXPORTATION OF NITRATE OF SODA has been embargoed by Admiral Rebelledo, of the Chilian squadron, as his Government has determined to consider that article as acon- traband of war. THE PERUVIAN SQUADRON remainsin Callao Bay. Two ot the wooden ships lett Callao on the 7th with sealed orders. The arrival of a powerful iron-clad, purchased in Europe by Peruvian agents, is expected shortly. Immediately on the receipt of THE DECLARATION OF WAR in Lima, the Uhilian Minister demanded his passport from the Pernvian Government and went on board the U. 8. steamer Lackawanna. There is MUCH ENTHUSIASM in Lima and Callao over the war question. Gen. Doza, President of Bolivia, is reported en route to the coast with 5,000 WELL-EQUIPPED TRUOPS, to attack the Chilians, who arein heavy force in the Bolivian territory. JEFFERSON C:iTY. Proceedings in the Legisiative Assembly To- da y- Special to the Post-Dispatch. JE!FERSON CITY, May 3.—The Senate spent the morning in consideration of the revised railroad law without changing the same and will resume its consideration this evening. The House bill regulating the office of the Sheriff ot St. Louis, fixing his compensation at not exceeding $10,000 and requiring ali exeess to be paidintothe city treasury, was ordered engrossed. , The House bill concerning the publi¢&tion of judicial notices in St. Louis passed with only ten opposing votes. This is the Bar Associa- tion bill. Rush for the $10 Certificates. By Western Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Muy 3.—For some days the crowdin waiting at the Sub-Treasury for Unit- ed States $10 refanding certificates nas been immense. The approachesto the office have been filled by t applicants, and the Ite of men and =oboys, especially the latter, has extended some distance in the street. Notwithstanding the order refusing the banks the privilege of purchasing them, they have managed to obtain w lurge amount b pee. One wan eens, in the ine acknowledged he had fteen boys trom the factoriés whom he had employed to procure certificates. He had by this moans furnished one bank with severai thousand dol- lars’ worth. Another had sold the bankaa la amount at a balf per cent premium. The remount given out yesterday was over $50,00¥. The aggregate sales amount to $370,0u0.__ . Prices of Coal. - -j i= j BUFFALO, May 3.—The elevator compantes announce the new rates for elevating and transferring to be one half cent per bushel ; for elevating and storing for the first five days or part thereof, fve-cighses cent per bushel; for oar ts : ws T¢ ~-_ e te a . saat i — S eel , : e - Cee - . se "S res . =e * x ¥ ~ AES ae BE See Be he 4 ares S.-C Ca 7 =f . t ~9 * 22 a P Be. “4 a " é gt ' eS tat se Se = 1 is Y ere » ee afiy me “f ba tay SS by me. ise a: s. oo re = oe * ee * ‘3 i ay 2 Pegg on ta Ae ~ ’ ‘ ys * * ~ te a sell ~ a. $ ° ‘ ‘ os ° +» Fi / “ag ; “ 7. 2 _" : h S . ag a - > oe — * x.” MLS. 2 4 YS ie Sis | oe ie Bay 3, 1878. a = 1 eee : sneceeding . addition, one-quarter cent hel. vessel pays in addition to the one-eighth cent per bushel. ~~ SPORTING. | Fajmouth’s Winnings. Ry Cable to Western Associated Press. Lonrpon, May 3.—Lord Falmouth’s winnings in stakesthis week amount to $56,000. Bet- ting On the racc for THE CHESTER TRADES CUP, on the 7th, is 7 to 4 against Parole ana 5 tol against Lord Rosebery’s Touchet. ARCHER will ride Parole, who will carry 8 stone 12 pounds and Touchet ¥ stone. In the race for the great Cheshire handicap stakes, on the 8th instant, Parole will carry 9 stone 8 pounds. Walking Matches. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 3.—At the Induas- trial Art Building,at 10 o’ clock the score stood: Dickinson 380 miles, Willis 376, Metzger 361, Coleman 301, and Baird 187 miles. At Concert Hall the scose at 10 o’ciock stood Brodie 354, McLean 287, Lyons 280, Murray 221. The Crops in Ohio ana Indiana. CINCINNATI, O., May 3.—Crop reports from sixty counties in Ohio and Indiana show a largely increased acreage in wheat, oats and corn. The spring crops are generally retarded by the backward weather. There are excellent prospects for all the fruits except peaches, which are about all killed. —_— _ ——— - — st Dead. PROVIDEXCE R. I., May 3.—Wm. Hayer, Chief of Police of this city, died this morning of Bright’s disease of the kidnéyg. De- ceased had been attached to the police foice of this city for many years. A Large Confiagration. By Western Associated Press. . PROVIDENCE, R.1I., May 3.—Calvin’s exten- sive stables and six cottages burne4 this morn- ing. A hostier and fifty horses perished. Loss $35,000. — — Disabled, _ PORT HURON, MIeH., May 3.—The steamer Keweenaw left here atlO a. m. with a steam pump tor the propeller Benton leaking, at Ta- was City. No turther particulars. FREEMAN THE FANATIC Still Persists That God Ordered Him to Kill His Child, Will Relieve Him of All Human Penalties. And - = _ Crime and Casualty From All Parts By Telegraph. The Fanatic Freeman. Boston, May.3.—Freeman, the Adventist of Pocasset, who murdered his five-year. oid child Thursday, was arraigned at Barnstable to-day with his wife, whois held as an acces- sory. Bothinsist that God will fully justify their action and relieve them from all human penalty. A number of Adventist neighbors sustain Freeman in his course. Many of them are well- to-do farmers. Some of those resent at the; meeting at Freeman's house jon the day ofthe murder will be arrested on a charge of being accessory to the deed. Four Children Injured, By Western Associated Press. ‘(INCINNATI,May 3.—An unoccupied two-story brick dwelling on Pike street fell last evening, injuring four little children who were passing. Their names are/Mary Welsh, six years, both legs broken; Many Flaherty, seven years, one leg broken; Patj/ Flaherty, six years, badly bruised; Katie Moyle, five years, right kueo fractured. - ANOTHER ACCOUNT. sy Western Associated Press. CINCINNATI, May 3.—William Laliance and George Rhodes, who were on a hunting and fishing trip, crawled intothe drum “house of the conl works at New Haven, near Pomeroy, Ohio, Thursday night, to sleep. About one o'clock yesterday morning the house caught fire end burned to the ground, the sleeping young men being consumed in the flames. Their bodies were found in the morning charred be- yond recognition. Ringsters Arrested, By Western Associated Preés. NEW YORK, May 3.—James A. Harriott, John C. Maxwell, alias Wm.Maxwell, and Jno. M. Dailey, have been arrested ona charge of forging applications of discharged soldiers for additional bounty, and with collecting the amounts. Itissaidaring, of which the men rrrested are said to be members, has defraud- ed the Government of over $100,U0U00. Burned to Death. MIDDLEPORT, O., May 3.—Geo. Rhodes and Wm. Laliance, from Syracuse, Ohio, aged sev- enteen andfourteen, were burned to death in the drumsb@da of New Haven Coal Company. They had been out fishing and kindled a fire to sleep by until morning. The bodies were found atthe foot ofthe stack pile with both arms, legs and heads burned off. The Crazed Couple. By Western Associated Press. POCASSET, MAss., May 3.—Freeman, who made a saciifice of his child, in obedience to a ‘‘revelation,’’ hus been arrested with his wife. On the wayto prison both loudly proclaimed that the death of the child wasin obedience to | # . . | Trenton, N. | tawa, lll., Mattoon, Lil., Easton, Pa., a divine mandate. Machine Shop Burned. By Western Associated Press. BRIDGEPORT, CONN., May 3.—The machine shop and pattern rooins of the Pacific Iron Woks were burned. Loss $75,000; insurance $10,000. ‘WASHINGTON. —_ai, —- Democratic Action on the Veto of the Army Bill. _ — — Proceedings in the House—Universal Peace Society—Capital Gossip. Universal Peace Union. WASHINGTON, May 3.—About thirty delegates of the Universal Peace Union calied on the President to-day. The President was informed thattne object of the Union was to secure in- ternational peace and the settlement of diffi- culties by arbitration. The delegation pre- sented to the President a memorial of the Union asking for the appointment of an Arbi- tration Commission. The President replied that he wis in favor of the fundamental sentiment ot the union, but thought it best to make no formal answer. Dr. Breed in behalf ot the union thanked tbe President for his protection of the rights of the Indian inthe Indian Territory. The President said thatthe Indians should be dealt with justly and their rights protected in accord with the golden rule. Resolve of the Caucus. By. Western Associated Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3.—The House Democratic Caucus Committee this morning, it is understood, agreed upon a measure to be submitted to the cancus if concurred in bv the Senate Committee, which, under the title, ‘*bill to prevent military interfer- ence at the poils,’’ consists of the sixth section, of the vetoed army appropriation bill, with the words ‘‘civil officers’’ striken out, and a proviso added ‘‘Nothing in this bill shall be construed as preventing the use of the army to enforce precess of the United States Courts, or to put cown resistance against the United States by armed men.’’ The Course the Democrats Will Pursue. WASHINGTON, May 3.—A meeting of the House caucus committee was held this a. m., anda resolution was agreed upon which will be reported tothe House§ caucus, which will probably assemble this afternoon. After ad- journment of the House the resolution will recommend that all political features of the pending appropriation bills be pass- ed as separate mexusuies and sent to the President; if he refuses to sign them, to attach them tothe appropriation bills again, pass them and then adjourn. XLVITH CONGRESS. —_—_— Mr. Davidson called attention to the speschof Ruseell, printed in the record, though not de- livered, and pronounced some of its state- ments wholly and absolotely untrue. He ada- ed that the flippant manner in which members cbarged fraud on others was altogether unbe- coming the station which they occupied. Mr. responded sarcastically, ‘‘That is Mrs Stephens, from the Committes on Coin- eae, Weights an] Measures, reported a bill to enable the importers to use the metric system of weights wnd measures. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. ‘At the exp‘ration of the morning hour con. sideration was resumed of the bill reported Jrom the Coinage Committee amending the statutes relating to coinage and coin and bul- lion certificates. By Western Associated Press. | Naw YoRK, May 3.—Arrived: Steamer Oder, from Bremen, and Australian, from London. ay & | $5,000, or$15,000.On that day the Baltimore Postmas- Superintendent Kiddle’s Spiritualistic Book. It Excites Much Comment in School Circles. _ —_— Two Suicides Reported in One Hotel. Secretary Sherman—Electric Light— News Notes and Incidents. Kiddle’s Book Makes a Stir in School Circles. NEW YORK, May 3.—The book on spiritual communications by Superintendent Henry Kiddle, issued to-day, is a subject of much comment in conversation. Kiddle said he was prepared to defend his book by pen and sphere. He regards himselt as an instrument in the Lhanas of the spirit intelligence to effect the regeneration of society. He has not deter- mined to resign his public office. Members of the Board of Education are amazed at the extracts from the book published yesterday, and expressed much regret that Kiddie had been induced to make public bis peculiar views on spiritualism. ‘‘Itis avery sad and serious thing to contemplate,’’ said Wm. Wood, Pres- ident of the Board of Education, when speak- ing of Supt. Kiddle’s recent declarations of belief in spiritualism. ‘‘I believe itis hallucina- tion and delusion, and with a man having so great an influence for good or evil, it becomes more serious. While every man hasa right to his religious opinions there is a _ point where he must stop. 1 do not believe that if Kiddle was to turn Mo- bammedan that be would be a fit person at the head of the schools. Henry West, Commis- sioner of Schools, says he supposed the verdict of public sentiment on the subject would be that Kijddle was under a mental delusion. Wm. Dowd, President ofthe Bank of North America, prominent in the financial affairs of the Board of Education, said: ‘‘I regard the whole subject of Spiritualism as a blasted hum- bug. Noone can regret more than I do that Kiddle has taken up with such a delusion. I have always stood by him and been his firm friend.1 think it would be a great mistortune to have the Superintendent of Schools of this city pointed out As a great spiritualist. It certain- Jy shakes confidence in aman’s judgment to find him believing such folly. Then there is such bosh tn this book.’’ Bernard Cohn, School Commissioner, could not say how Kiddle’s views would be received by the leaders of Hebrew taith. He thought the belief in Spiritualism had nearly died out, except with some deluded women and eccentric men, and he never expected to heer of its revival by the Superintendent of Schools. A Roman @atholic member of the School soard svid: **‘Well, this is very surprising; but [suppose if Mr. Kiddle wishes to indulge in that kind of mental gymnastics we have nothing to say.’’ Commissioner Keliey says: ‘‘I thinkit would not be right to retain Kiddle if he is to contin writing and perhaps lecturing On theo subject. If he intends to resign : con't suppose any ac- tion will be taken.’’ «+ Commissioner Moriarty don’t believe Kiddle wrote the book. The Roman Catholics think Kiddle’s views On spiritualism the most alarming nonsense, and that his book will strengtlen the position of the Catholics on the public school gucstion. A BIG LIBEL SOIT. Theo. Havemeyer is suing Mr. Samson Fuller for $100,000, for some statements made by Fuller at the sugar meeting last January, THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. Edison lighted five lamps with his new dy- namo-electric machine. SHOT HIMSELF AND HANGED HIMSELF. Two suicides haye occurredin a hotel bere during the past twenty-four hours. Albert Suttiers, distracted with family troubles, shot himself, and J. Pollock hanged him- self. SECRETARY SHERMAN. Secretary Sherman yeaterday visited the Sub- Treasury, where he received culls trom Col- lector Merrit, Postmaster James, Henry Vail, President of the National Bank of Commerce, and many otbers. He wili leave to-day, proba- biy for his home in Ohio. CHANGES IN BUSINESS LOCATION. The Post-office received information yester- day of 500 business removals below Canal street and 40u above. On, Thursday about half aa many similar changes were made. Post- master James reports that there buave been more changes this year tnan in any previous one. POSTMASTERS’ BONDS INCREASED. A Washington special says the action of the Secretary of the Treasury in refusing to sell the four percent retunding certificates tothe banks for speculation has bad atendency to stir up the postmasters, who see a profit in ef fecting heavy sales. Prior to Wednesday last there was one postmaster whose bond was $2,- 000, - others ranging from $1,000 to and tew as high as $10,000 ter guve a bond for $25,000, and yesterday the Chicago Postmaster filel a bond for $50,000. Harrisburg increases from $5,000 to $25,000; J., from $12,000 to $112,00V. Ot- Staum- ford, Conn., and Port Henry, N. Y., are. also added to the list of designated depositories. THE ’LONGSHOREMEN’S STRIKK. The strike of the ’longshoremen continues, but there are no disturbances. MORE CHARGES AGAINST CAPT. WILLIAMS. A new charge has been brought against Captain Williams. QUICKEST ON RECORD. A special train with five cars loaded with to- bacco jeft Thursday morning for Chicago and reached that city in twenty-tour hours and twenty-five minutes after starting from Jersey City, after making fifteen stops and being delayed between Harrisburg and Al- tocona. Thetimeisthe quickest on recora for freight trains. James Fiske, Jr.’s, special train to Chicago fo. the sufferers by fire made the trip in little more than twenty-five hours. A tovbacco firm here had stolen a march on its rivals. The over-charge in tobacco tax stamps on the boxes inthe cars cost $16,160, being a saving of more than $8,000, BANK STATEMENT. NEW YORK, May 3.—Loans increased, $8,- 260.900; specie increase, $288,100; legal ten- ders increase, $4,216,000; deposits increase, $9.817,5v0; ctreulation decfease, $245,000; reserve increase, $2,049,725. Banks now hoid $14,373,775 in excess of legal requirements, VANDERBILT'S OBJECT. The object of Vanderbilt’s journey to the West is understood to be personal inspection of the existing facilities forthe immense cattle trade in which he has gained controlling in- terests. He and the party wiil stop one day in Kansas City to examine tue cattie yards tbere in the N.Y.C. R. R. interest, then zo to Pueblo, Colorado,by rail,thencejby private conveyance to the great Hermozella ranche, bought a few weeks ago bythe Colorado Cattle Company from Col. Craig. Ite distance trom Pueblo is twenty miles. Thatisto be made the central point for all the vast interests of Texas cattie growers. BEQUEATHED TO BERGH. A lady told Bergh ycsterday that she be- queaths $25,000 to his society, and anothe1 ludy left a small parcel with a card as tollows: ‘*Nine dollars, the contents of the mite-chest of a little girl now dead, whose money was to go to Mr. Bergh'’s poor dogs.’’ THE FREIGHT RATES. The joint cxecutive committee of the trunk lines and Western roads discnssed the subject of uniform rates on live stock shipments, and it was ugreed that all trunk line companies are to maintain their respective proportions ot tar- iff rates on cattle, bused upon sixty cents from Chicago, as soon as the division of traffic shall be agreed upon. In the discussion which took place it was insisted as impossible to secare the maintenance of rates until there was an adjustment of freights. As all the tariff reports were notin, it was decided to postpone a set- tlement of the question until Thursday, at Cleveland. Representatives ot the Western roads asked fora readjustment of the East- bound freights, and a committee of the general freight agents was ee. to meet at Chi- cago May 14. to consider the subject. ARREST OF A PROMINENT MERCHANT. Isanc Briston, a weil known merchant, re- siding in Brooklyn, was arrested this morning charged with embezzlement, the complainant being OScar Hoyt. It is charged thut while he fwas assignee of Joseph Stockbridge and Henry Martin he feioniously‘appropriated and converted to his own use $7,000 worth of trust property. ’LONGSHOREMEN’S STRIKER. The "longshoremen’s strike is unchanged. Two of the Anchor Line steamers, which should have sailed this evening, will be delayed, one until to-morrow and the other till Monday. The Theatre Comique Sale. The sale of the Theatre Comiqus under a deed of trust took place on the east steps ot the Court-bouse this afternoon. Mr. Joseph B. Brolaski officiated as auctioneer, and an- nounced that the purehascr would be expected to pay the purchase money at 2 o'clock. After the deel oftrust had b en read Mr. A, #J. P. Garesche announced that the purchaser would not get a good title, and would purcbase subject to a case now pending in the Circuit Court. After which Mr. F. L. Biair, aon of the late Frank P. Blair, bid $10,000. He was followed by W. ©. Jamison, who bid . . Blair fotlowed with $26,000. Jamt- gon then bid $30,000. The two bidders fon- tinued to bid util the property was ran up to 46,000, when it was knocked off to Mr. Jami-. was bseq ascertained purcbased for Mr. Reker. Mr. Garescha stated toa ATCH reportr that the sale did aot GOTHAM GOSSIP. particle, nee Tre Joint Hotheopathic Convention. A grand reception to the joint canvention of the homeopathic bodies, the Western Academy of Homeopathy and the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy, will be given by their friends ia Sa Louis. This convention, which isthe greatest homeo- = merge event that has ever happened in the ‘est, will call out representatives of this school frem all over the West and the Mississippi Valley. Chicago, Cincinnati, and, in fact, all the jarge towns in the West will have delegates resent. All the committees have been appointed, and every arrangement made to give the pbysicians a cordial welcome when they come, The con- vention will bein session May 7th, 8th and Sth. A grand bauquet willbe given at the Lindell, for which a limited number of tickets will be sold at $5 each. The reception committee of the Homeo- athic Convention have issued their tickets or the reeeption at the Lindell Hotel on Thursday, May 8. The list of the committee embraces the names of many of the leaders of society in St. Louis, and the reception will un- doubtediy be a brilliant affair. Tickets may be obtained from any of the committee, and from the leading homeopathic physicians. Compromused. There were several suits dismissed in the Cir- cuit Court this morning, Morrison and Ham- mond heirs having compromised and settled some of the Lindell suits on acceptable terms to each party. Among the names were those of L. W. Patchin, D. A. January, and others. The Stanley Court Martial. NEW YORK, May 3.—In the Stanley court martial to-day the judge advocate finished his address, surmmip up the case for the prose- cution, after which Gen. McMahon, counsel for the defense, answered him in a brief speech. President Hancock then declared the court closed. A secret session was then held. The decision of the court will be sent to Wash- ington but not made public until sanctioned by the President. On Fire. Boston, Mass., May 3.—The south end of the work shops at the State Prison in Concord is on fire, witha prospect of the entire destruc- tion of that end of the building. A HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL. The Ex-Presidents of the Exchange Re- member Mr. John A. Scholten. - — —_— By Presenting Him With an Address and a Gold Medal. Mr. John A. Scholten, the popular and fam- ous photographer, was to-day the recipient of a banagsome testimonial. It came from a source thatany man might Le proud of, and the occa- sion will ho doubt be remembered by Mr. Scholten with gratitude as long as he shail live. In 1875, when the new Merchants’ Exchange was opened, Mr. Scholten presentedghe ineim- bers with splendid photographs of all their presidents for a number of years back, and has made pictures of a)l their Presidents since that time. The ever thoughtfuland warm-hearted Geo. Bain, who is himself anex- president of the Merchants’ Exchange,some time ago suggested that Mr. Scholten should be rewarded for his public-spiritedness and that it would be ap- propriate to present him with a medalon the opening of his new gallery. The sug- gestion was no sooner made than udopted, and to-day at 1 o’clock number of gentlemen waited MI. Scholten among whom were . Thos. Richeson, E. O. Stanard, Win. J. Lewis, R. P. Tansey,Win. H. Scudder, Web. M. Samuel, D.P. Rowland, Nathan Cole, John A, Scudder, George Bain, all ex-presidents of the Exchange, and John Wahl, the present president; George H. Morgan, secretary Mer- chai ts’ Exchange; Basil Dake, Police Com- missioner; John Crangle, Yueger Milling Company, andJoseph'iKahn,with Eugene Jac- card & Co. Whenthe party arrived at the handsome new gallery, at the corner of Tenth and Olive, Mr. Scholten was busy inthe operating room, but, being apprised of the unexpected presence of s0 many visitors, came out, full of blushes, utterly ignorant of what was the matter. Mr. George Bain introduced Mr. Schol- ton to each one of the gentlemen present, and then Mr. John Wahl, the President of the Merchants’ Exchange,stepped foward and read the following aduress: Mr. JOHN A. SCHOLTEN: DEAR SIk—The undersigned president and ex-presidents of tlie Merchants’ Exchange, de- siring to express to you their appreciation of your kirdness in contributing to the ‘* records’’ of the Exchange the handsomely framed portraits of the ‘‘presidents,’’ have had repared tbe accompanying medul,which they hen you to accept asatokep of the esteem in which you are held by them individually, and as a recognition onthe part of the Exchange of your liberality and courtesy. Thev desire also to congratulate you on the opening of your new rooms, and trust you may receive the gen- erous patronage which you sorichly deserve as an artist and a gentleman. JOHN WAHL, President. Attest: GEO. H. MORGAN, Sec. D. P?. ROWLAND, WEB. M. SAMUEL, GRORGE BAIN, JNO. A. SCUDDER, Wma. J. LEWIS, NATHAN COLE, THOMAS RICHESON, R. IP. TANSEY, W.H. SCUDDER, E. O. STANARD. It was signed by the ex presidents of tne Merchants’ Exehange and the present presid- ing cflicer, Mr. Wahl. At the conclusion of the address Mr. Bain took the medal and gracefully fastened it to the lapelof Mr. Scholten’s coat. Some few humorous and appropriate remarks were made by various members of the party, Mr, Schoiten declined to makea speech, asitis notin his line. He. however, did the next bestthing by asking all the gentlemen present to goinand have their pictures takenina ecete. The medalis of gold and was made by Eugene Jaccard & Co., {rom a design proposed by Mr. George Bain. The face represents a circle, suspended from abar, und a Phoenix rising from the flaines. Inthe centeristhe representation of acamera. Atthe left hand side are the words ‘*Establishedin 1857;’’ at the upper side, ‘‘Opened on Olive street, 1867;’’ at the right- hand side, ‘‘ Burned out December 31, 1878;"’ ut the bottom, ‘‘Reopened Muy 5, 1879.’°’ The reverse is as follows: Testimonial of Esteem Presented to Jobn A. Scholten On Re-opening Lis Art Gallery May 1, 1879, y the President and ex-Presidents of the Merchants’ Exchange, . Louis. City Hall Notes. There were seven burial permits issued to- day from the Health Department. The collections to-day amounted to $3,- 984 30. To-day was ments. City all day. Dr. Homan,Sanitary Physician of the Health Department, wilileave to-night for Atlanta, Ga., as a delegate to the convention of physi- cians to be held at thut place on May 5th. The object of the convention is to discuss yellow fever. Dr. Homan takes with him some statis- tice showing that during the period of the pianve there were 55 deaths from yellow tever n St. Louis and 116 cases treated by the Health Department. ay-day in the different depart- all was thronged with employes es - - Linoleum Floor Cloth. This extraordinary floor covering is made of the most lasting materials—muinly cork and solidified oil. It bas been before the public for several years, and has successfully stood tests such as no oil cloth orcarpet could un- dergo. Itis unhesitatingly recommended as the handsomest, most durable and comfort- able floor-covering before the public, and is equally suitabie for the dining-room, offices, stores, etc., in fact, almost every place where an article of this kind is needed. Kvery yard of the cloth has ‘‘Linoleum’’ prmted on the back; none other is genuine. All carpet deal- ers keep it. East St. Louis. There were thirteen cases disposed of in the Justices’ courts to-day. At ’Squire Graney’s Mary Jane Clancey sued Chas.Ecklein for $15. Ecklein denied that there was any account between himself and Mrs. Clancey, and said that any shown was a forgery. Paymaster Turner of the Vandalia paid off the employes to-day. Bishop Baltes of Alton will give confirma- tion at St. Henry’s German Chureh to-mor- row forenoon and at St. Patrick’sin the af- ternoon. Benjamin Parady, constable of Centreville, obtained a judgment of $30 for services ren- dered, against E. C. Donk, Bros. & Co., coal dealers, of St. Louis. Parady’s services con- sisted in suppressing a riot at the Donk coal mine during a strike in April, last year. Jobn Dau b tauit t the Board of School T before ’Squire Noton, this morning, for fees. Uss Moiphey & Wilson's Prepared Mocking Bird Food. Sold at the Bird Emporium, 215 North Filih sirces, The Official Utterance of the Late Grand Jury Severely Censured. -— _ Interviews With Leading Lawyers of the City. Shall the Grand Jury Slander People They Cannot Indict? Perhaps no report ever made by a 58. Louis grand jury created such commotion in the com- munity as that made by tne one whose time has just expired. It was supposed from the day it was organized that its investigations would transcend the usual limits, and that it was to be an ex- traordinary grand jury. Its secrets were s0 Joosely kept tnat the public soon became familiar with its whole course of procedure. * After it hag@been in session two weeks there went a suspicion abroad that the promises ot | real results were not going to be carried out and thatthere were not tobe as many sen- sational indictments as had been expected. But nobody was tor the manner in which the grand july saw fitto wind up their work. No- body was prepared for a report severely de- nouncing citizens against whom indictments could not be found. This was a new depar- ture and one that has certainly met with no flattering reception among a very large class of eople. The lawyers of the city may be said to unanimously conuemn the course of the grand jary in at- tacking the churacters of men against whom no indictments were found. This is ae from a number of interviews obtained by Pust-Di1s- PATCH reporters, and which will be found De- low. ihe gentiemen called upon are ut the head of the profession, and they talk from a legal stand- point. They all say the late grand jury tran- scended its powers and went outside its du- ties. A reporter found MR. SAMUEL T GLOVER inthe Law Livrary, busy as usual, but he took time to exercise his usual cour- tesy and said he would be giad to say anything that was proper on the subject. ‘*Mr. Giover, what do you think of the late grand jury's report?’’ There was no .esponse except a characteris- tic shake of the head. **What do youthink of their attacking peo- ple against whom they could not find true bills of indictment?’’ ‘‘l prefer to let statutes speak on this subiect. hev clearly describe the duties of the grand jury, and you ean do no better than to quotein your paper article 111, chapter 127, under the head of criminal cases, Wagner's Statutes. There you will find out what a grand jury ought to do,’’ ‘*But, Mr. Glover, | want your own opin- ion.’’ ‘‘I would rather not say anything. But I certainly have an opinion on this subject. The duty of the grand jury, as Iun- derstand it, is to make indictments and report on public institutions. If they have the right to merely criticise individuals whom they are uuvabie to indict, then no man is sufe. the me and ruin my character, and yet I bave no chance to answer the charges. The law provides that when a munis indicted and the indictment does not hold good, he may sue the movers of the prosecution tor damages. I don’t see why the same will not apply when no indictment is found, but where the man's character is injured by a report just as inuch as if an indictment had been found. When a bill is presented to the grand jury and it is found not to be ft true will, then the charg¢s are admitted tu be false. This ought to be the end ofit. If the grand jary failed toin- dict William C, Jones, what right hadthey to censure hiun and attempt toinjure his charac- ter, and that, too, on ex parte evidence?’’ MR. JOHN C,. ORRICK had heard the rcy ort of the late grand jury much discussed, and it was generailv condemned. ‘*The proceedings of the grand jury,’’ said he, *‘are suppesed to be secret. It « particular ingividual is to be investigated and no indict- ment is found, that shuulu be the end of it. It isa dangerous thing to Cond@éimn aman on ex parte evidence. The grand jury gives an ac- cused man no Opportunity to reply to the charges brought against him. Its utterances ure supposed to have official weight. and if it does not indict it shoutd say nothing; otherwise the churacter of anv man isin dan- ger. Ithink the late grand jury went outside its province and set @ very dangerous prece- dent.’’ MR. T. A. POST said hedid not like to express himself. ‘‘For,’’ said he, ‘‘I have no doeubt the in- tentions the late grand jury were good. But I think the went too fur, rnd have seta bad precedent. Tne province of a grand jury is to indict or ignore. They occupy no muddle ground: If the evi- dence against a man is not sufficient to indict him, then they — not to say anything about it. When they indict or ignore they are functé officio; otherwise they canj attack anybody in the community. The grand jurv have tremendous powers, and they should not abuse them. They are a secret tribunal, anditis wrong and dangerous to re- veal the evidence brought ayainst a man unless they find an indictment against him.’’ M’KOMAS AND M'KEEGAN were both in their oftice when the reporter called, and Nat RO condemned the grand jury’s report. hey declared it was a mud-slinging arrangement. The luw says the grand jury shall true pre- sentwents make of the matters that come under their notice. If they can’t make a true presentment then they shovid make no presentment at all. Itis known that Judge Jones wentto McCuilugh and asked to be permitted to testify in hisown behalf, and that the grand jury find an indictment, 50 he could have an opportunity to answer the Chargesin.court and set himself right. was not granted any such privileges, but the grand jury see fit to attack him, confessing utthe same time there is no evidence upon which he can be indicted. Thisis about the substance of what the two gentlemen said. JEFF. CHANDLER was very emphatic in his views concerning the report. The grand jury had no right to report men criminals without first finding an indict- ment againstthem. The law presumed a man innocent until he was proved guilty. It was a base assumption of power to sinirch a man’s character without giving him an opportunity to vindicate himself. The grand jury wus or- genized to report and punish crime, and where no crime §was fuund clear enough to designate the criminal, ithad no authority to muke areport. He was very unequivocal in his opinion about the matter, and was not uverse to expressing himself. J.@. LODGE said thatin view of the fact that all evidence presented to agrand july was ex-parte, a re- port arraigning individuals as criminals with- vut indicting them, was wrong in principal. A personal enemy might go before the grand jury and malign aninnocent man, or aman ia the gutter might make a statement derogatory to one of our best citizens, but the grand jury, unless it found an indictment, would not be justified in branding such amanacrimnal. ‘The grand jury on examining public institutions can re port npon their cendition and criticise their officiais, Dut ft has no right under tue law to attack private citizens unless 16 has indicted them. San ae CRESUS’ CROWD. - — —_— The Vanderbilt Combination at the Lindell. - — A Quick Run from Sedalia to St. Louls. The special train bearing the Vanderbilts and some other prominent railroad magnates ar- rived here to-day at 1 p. m, after a six- hour run from Sedalia. The party, which consisted of W. H. Vanderbilt, Jacob Vander- bilt, Cornelius Vandeib‘it, W.K. Vanderbilt, F. W. Vandgerbi.t, Augustus Schell, John New- ell and W. L. Scott, were to have taken carriages at Grand avenue and —visited Shaw's Garden and the parks. They changed their minds, however, at the last minute, and kept on down to the Union Depot. They are all settled at the Lindell, and are as quiet as clams at low water. Mr. Schell stated toat he was distinctiveiy on a pleasure trip— had left politics at home in New York, and badn’tan opinion ona Presidential aspirant, He was anxious to know the dianer hour at the Lindell, and manifested an earnest yearning to be left alone. Mr. Sche:! smiles so sweetly when beis in uw hurry and hungry thatthe reporter relented and let him gO in ey en ° W. H. Vanderbilt ts father a disappointing For a great railroad king and mil- has been doing, and his manner is siow. Augustus Schell 18 a good-humored old gen- tieman, atrifie deaf, which said deafanss tf :- creases wonderfully when any question ts asked which he does not wish to auswer. The rest of th it erowd revolve in a planetary manner about sheir chief, and the whole hotel revoivesin an outer orbit about them. Allof whic! § had it come from Dick e.might Le pruuvaaceu « rvvulutionary sentiment. The stay of the d ished paryin Sth Louis wlll be short; they leave to-morrow morning, afier taking a runaround town this afte: noon. Pink Provided For. About 9 o'clock this morning Officers Lick and Carr arrested a negro named [ink Liakie. Pink and a negro named Chariie (his last name could not be ascertained) were deck hands on the steamer Clinton, which plies between St. Louis and Cincinuati. When between Clover ¥ Port and New Albany Hinkle says that be was | | prepared | A grand | jury may be organized at any time to slander | ile | the mrte wanted them. Charies began disputing and which missed fire, when Hinkle upa billet of wood and struck him, notatending to kill him. Charlie was taken ®ore and placed inthe Evansville Hospital, here he since died. John Roberts, colored, in- formed the officers of Hinkle’s arrtvl tm St Louis, waa on the buat at the time, and the deck hanks were lifting a ptece ture when Hinkle of not litting, to which Charife enraged Hinkle, who seized a viece af and dealt Cbariie a blow over the head. . diately atter the affair Hinkle hid hime, ;, hull of the boat.Every one su he haan the tat New Albany, but he did not until he reached Cairo. He came to St. Loa the train and has since made a trip on the 44 btey 2 Pink will be held until the arrivays the Clinton, when his case will be tried. © Service of Song. The regular monthly praise service of the Union M.E. Church, corner of Eleventh and Locust, will take place to-morrow evening a&® o’clock. A very interesting programme will be offered, and the choir will consist, as usual, of Miss Georgie C. Lee, Miss Nellie Uhl, Thos. C. Doan and A. D. Cunningham. Prof. Ernes- teinoff, organist. CARELESS CUSSES. - SS Those Appearing in the Police and Crim- inal Courts To-Day. A Full Record of the Events Transpiring in the Vicinity of the Four Courts. After Seven Years. Seven long years ago George Mortimer and John Clancy served the State in Jefferson City’s stronghold. George was a sort of priv- ileged character, holding the position of as- sistant cook, while Clancy was known as 4 **trusty.’’ Whileinthe pen it appears that Geo utupa job on Jobn which resulted in that individual’s receiving a liberal allowance ofraw hide. The scars are still upon his back and serve as a gentile reminder of the days that are gone. Yesterday into a Chestnut street the Levee and called for a glass of beer. While he wasin the act of driuking tt in walked Ulancy. The two had not metsince their release from the pen. Clancy asked Mortimer whether he bad forgotten the dirty trick he had played on him .while they were serving the State to- gether. George had forgotten, but John had not, so he Jet fiv his gooc right hand, and dealt George such ry blow that that individual feil like “a log. While he lay on the ground a friend of Clancy's hithim on the head with a reck. Police Officer Dunn was summoned atew mo- ments alterwards and found poor George laid out as still as a mackerel. Le recovered, however, enough to appeur in the First Dis- trict Police Court to-day and p-osecute Clancy, whom Judge Jecko found gu.ity and ussessed a fine of $5 and costs. Lucky Ed. Edward Cullerton, a big-hearte land barly Irishman, went into Fischer's iager beer sa loon ,on the corner of Seventh and Elm streeste, yesterday, and destroyed a buffalo shuper of beer. When he came cut he saw a good citizen holding Bill Brady. Now Bill had always been u good friend to Ed, and the latter had not for- rotten this fact. The citizen was holding on to sill at the request of a police officer, and when Ed. was informed of this he advised the citizen to let bill go,and, as Ed. was big and stronz,the yw. c. thought best to comply withthe reqvest. When the peeler got back and found that his bird was flown he took Ed. in tow. Tuis morn- ing the lutter appeared betore Judge Jecko, in the First District Police Ovourt, looking badly broke up. Itwas the first time be had ever been arrested, and hethougbt his incarcera- tion at this time was uncatied for. He had only heiped Bill for the reason that he beli-ved in the maxim **Never eo back on your friends.'’ Judge Jecko thought Et.'’s heart was in the right place and iet him go free. ee ee A Brick Bat Heaver. Thomas Keenan isa hard workingman who earns bis bread by heiping clear away the debris which covers the corner of Fifth and St. Charles streets. Yesterday Tom got drunk as alord, xandase@ gentieman named George MeHenry was going by the ae question Tom hit bim in the head with a brick. He was arrested for this act of injustice and this morn- ing Judge Jecko fined him $25 aud costs. If Tom Goes not raisethe bills by noon he wiil labor on the rock piie forthe neat forty days. Gay Gamboliers. Thomas P. King wasup befvre Judge Jecko in the First District ’olice Court to-day,charg- ed with violating acity ordinance in runniug a game of chance at the coriter of Fourt.: aid Al- mond streets. A quartet of police olicers were on hand to prove the guilt of the iniaac- cused. The defendant averre:l that he was in- nocent of the alleged crime, and had two wit- nesses who also swore to thistactr nevertheless Ju Jecko thought Tom wasa yambolier of the deepest dye, and asseseed a fine of $sun. Collins’ Queer Conduct. Morris Collins got full of bug-juice last night, and emused himselt if chasing people’ arvund Washington Park. He tried to run Keeper Hyde off the grounds, but the keeper yelled till Officer Gardner appeared on the scene and ran Morris into the Central Station. Before he runs Out he will have to pay the $5 assessed in his case bv Judge Jecko, in the, First District Volice Court, this morning. First District Police Court. Mary Kelly, a prostitute, was fined $10. Lawrence Johnson, tor anindecent act, was assessed $10. Eliza Wells, drunk on the streets, was fined a VV, and Morris Collins, for using bad language, was given the same dose. Ed. Quinlan was fined the costs tor fighting, and Join Dwyer was given the same medicine tor getting drunk. Wicked Josephine. Josephine Schaeffer is the fair and frail pro- prietress of a house of ill-fame located at No. 517 Spruce street. She was hauled up Detore Judge Jecko to-day to show cause why she siould notshutaps <* The Court found her guilty, and assessed née of $lv0 and costs. Two at a Time. George Walter and Zack Kehoe were arrested to-day upon acharge of assault to kill John Reeves, of Main and Myrtle streets. The two could not give bail, so were juiled to give answer. These arethetwo men who on the 5th day of April last nearly murdered Reeves by beating him over the hiead with a biliy. Courtof Criminal Correction. The seventeen cases onthe docket in this court to-day against the lottery men were all continued for the defendants until the 10thda of May next. The Star Injunction, The Star injunction is now no longer 3 mat- | ter of conjecture but a fixed fact, a temporary injunction being granted by Judge Loyle to- day. At an early hour Mr. John McGaffia, ac- companied by his cou am ared in court. A few minutes afterwards Mr. Robert MacDon- ald and W. H. H. Russell put in an appearance as representatives of Messrs. Cunningham and Hodnett. Collector Rosenblatt was also o served in attendance, anit bis frequent conferences with the coun-el on the respective sides soon located him as the individual whom Mr. MoGuiffin would present as a bondsman on his injunction bond. His presence caused the frienus of the Star to look a littie dejected, as there was no doubt cun- cerning bis solvency, or thatthe Court would accept him. At the proper time Mr. Rusenblatt affixed his signature to a $4,000 bond, drawn up in the usual style of injunction bonds, and the document was presented tur the ina - tion of the Court. The Court intimated that the form was correct, and if no objections were presented 1t would Ve approved. Mr. Russe!) said that be wouia like to interro- gute Mr. Rosenbiatt as tw hi« property. Mr. Kosenblatt was sworn and stated that his unencumbered real estate in St. uis was worth more than $5,900,and his personal propeity a yreat deal more than the umount of the bond, Me described the locxtion of his real estate, but not having the necessary Gata was not Jispused to gu iutyw the Cetatis of bis Dersonal preperty. y,h- Court stated that the bond was suflicient anu would be accepteu, and a teurporary ia- junction gru? ted. Mr. Kuseel stated that he hadin his pocees. sion a petition of a majority of the creditors of the paper, asking for the appointment of Mr. Cunningham as ver. The Court stated that if Mr. Cuaningham would give a bond to poblish the paper until it was disposed of, ne would be a Mr. F. D. Turner, coansel for said he had no objection, tt Mr. : would give a $6 ,000. Mr. Cunningham's counsel said that he woud give the bond, and lefe t court ; the Dal pese, they stated, of returning at 12 o'clock with bond. At 12 o’eloth, Lowever, the bond not been filed. The Court intimated that the counsel could consulf as to the time the case come ap tur a Learing, and that Se ee . referee, where it would be disposed of much — quicker than by the process. : counsel, however, bave not yet come te an understanding in the matter. —They were walking home from a rehearsal. Said be: ‘‘Lovest thou me?’’ Gaid she: “Thou knowest I love thee!’’ Then they measured noses, while the trees sighed, the lake murmured upon the pebble beach, — and the moon shone in soit splendor.—_ (Vidette.
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nite a Peet & s ihe a ‘Draia Opening of 08 Ts aoe poe in TAS selena the house which has dispiayed more brainsin cunning advertise- ments than any other establishment in she city, the house thatsells more goods than any of ite compétitors, had a grand opening last night. Such anevent is an item of news to every Man, woman or emid in the citv who wears clothing or shoes, and as these form a large majority of the peopie, the item is an im- portent one. ‘«Famous’’ seven years ago was Motte & Specht, who dia avery successful business at 714 Franklin avenue. After five years’ wurk at that stand they moved across the street and erected their present pre:nises. Once more their business has overflowed the house and they have been obliged to bulld a magnificent struc- ture 80x80 to accommadate their trade. There are three sky-lights, andthe lighting at night is from sixty-four gas jets arranged in magnifi- cent chandeliers. THE FIRST FLOOR, which will be richly carpeted, contains boots and shoes, hats, caps and turnishing goods in profusion; the quantity is immense and the quality superb. There are boots and shoes encugh forsllthe centipedes in Texas, and underwear enough to fit them up in clocked silk stockings and indue them in Pongee Prig- oreahs, THE SECOND FLOOR is\ taken up with iong tables, system- at y arranged, which are load- ed down with ready-made clothing of allcuts and matcrials, from the ‘‘solemn customary black’’ to the gay garments of a flashy right bower. Every taste can be suited and every form fitted. The prophetic instinct ofthe cutter has shaped those clothes to suit the halt or the straight, the short or the tuil. Practically, then, ready -made clothing has jumped to a conclusion which statistics have not yet discovered. How do they know thatin a thousand coate such a pereentage must be so lurge over the chest, and so on througa the whole thousand? Yet they have the pro- portions exactly. Take a thousand men picked up as they come, and an average thougand .coats at ‘*Famous’’ andthere will be 9 per- fect fits. THE THIRD FLOOR contains the custom department and all goods .made to order. Heretwelve cutters are clip- ping day by day, anda iurger amonnt of really good tailoring is done than would be imagined from the other specialties of the firm. The store was ciosed yesterday to get ready for the illumination at night, and the one hundred end thirty employes of the house had a busy time getting everything prepared for the blaze of gaslight and the crowd which thronged in until alate bour. THE SHOW WINDOWS are unusual and excellent. Nothing like them has been secn in the city before, but thay will probably become the rage among those store-keepers who huve good goods to show snd who want to show tkem in their best light. Iwo of these are double windows and are ex- tremely well fixed up. Standing on THE GRAND STAIRCASE, the view of the first floor, the cruwds of wall- dressed ludies and gentiemeu surgiug trom table to table, the brilliant lights and the fine arrangement of the goods make a scene which is very beautiful. To-night the illumination will be repeated, end on Monday evening no goods will be solid from seven toten o'clock, and everyboay will have one more chance to see just what FAMOUS oilers and does. The immense business transacted by this en- terprising and judicious firm is one of the strongest commentaries on the uss printers’ ink that has ever put before the people of oui In seven years ‘‘Famous,’’ .rom a sinail store doing only an average business, las risen to the very. first place in its line, first by advertising what it was . doing and then by doing honestly whatit ad- vertised. Business principles govern every trade the house makes, andthey sell articles just for whatthey are without puffing. Tue people have found outthe place where they can ¢epe nd on the representations made to them, and asaresuit ‘*Famous’’ is making its ow ners wealily. WATTS’ hymns sound sweetest when sung by those who use Casweli’s Slippery Kim Lozen; gesfortheir voice. Sold in St. Louis by M. W. Alexander, apothecary. ABOUT TOWN CLAY is Chief, and tne gang are happy. ALL the League clubs will meet to-day. SEXTON and Francis were coniirmed unanim- ously. A BLACK silk umbrella awaits an owner at the Four Courts. CORONER ATLER lost $150 yesterday through the burning of his stabie. CIRCUIT ATTORNEY BEACH will be able to attendto his duties the coming week. CHARLEs W. FRANCIS i3still Health Commis- sioner, and his subordinates again breathe easy. THE Joint Committeeon Fire Department will make a tourof the fire engine houses to-day. A. B. MEACHAM, of Modoc fame, will lect ure to-morrow night at Dr. Post's church, Tenth and Locust. LEVERELT BELL was confirmed City Counsel- or last night, and Vernon W. Knapp, his assist: ant, was in the same luck. THE Academy of Science meets at the Poly- technic Institute Monday evening. The Col- linsville tornado is to be discussed. A. C. BOERMAN, of the City Dispensary, celebrated his tin wedding yesterday at his residence, 408 South Jefferson avenue. A MEETING of the ‘‘Scientific Academy of St. Louis University’’ takes place at University Hall, corner of Ninth street and Washington avenue, Wednesday, May 7, at 8 p. m. THe House Committee on Elections met yes- terday to further consider the Seventeenth Ward contest. Arguments were heard trom both sides. The committee adjourned indefin- itely. TOMMY HIGGINS, the escaped convict who jumped from a truin on the M. P. R. R. and es- caped trom Deputy Marshal Bauer on the 24th day of last month, was captured at Cairo yes- terday. A FRAME stable on the corner of Twelfth and Angelrodat streets, owned by John H. Spring meyer,was destroyed by tire abont 4:30 o’¢lock yesterday afternoon. Damage $200; no in- surance. Alarms from boxes 382 and 275 were turned on for this fire. Mk. COVINGTON, of 3113 Lucas avenue, ana Mrs. Youngblood,of 905 Cardinal avenua, were thrown from a carriage yesterday evehing on Kighteenth and Wash streets by a heavy lumber wagon colliding with the éarriage. The driver of the wagon is unknown. AN alarm was turned on from box 232, cor- ner Of Missouriand Chouteau avenues. about 12:45 o'clock to-day, in consequence of a fire .on the roof of one of the sheds of the Harrison Wire Works. The flames were extinguished with a few buckets of water. The cause of the * fire Was some sparks trom achimney. No loss. THE Assembly Club have decided to have an afternoon and evening entertainme on the ‘24th inst., at Groveland Park, Ill., about eight miles from the city. 7 aetiaaa witha fair movement in No. 2 at 48 yo The Cotton Market. Spots were steady and firm,with sales of only 29 bales and an extremely quiet market. New York quiet and unchanged. Liverpool active, firm and ‘sd higher. QUOTATIONS. St. Louis. New York. Low ordinary....... sueooweces 9s — Ordinary Good ordinary Low middling Middling ..... Good middling Middling fair STOCKS IN 8T. LOUIS WAREHOUSE. Stocks to-day, 14,103; same day iast year, 11,932 bales. 8ST. LOUIS GROSS RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS, Receipts, Shipments baies. To-day.... 434 Same day iast year. 164 Totai tor season to date..319,068 Same time last vear....... 235,113 NEW YORE. Futares closed firm. ales 118,000 bales. _ Quotations of futures: January, March. A 92.02: June. 12.19; July. 12. 36; 12.49: September. 12.14: Uctoper, vember, 11.14: December, 11.06. RECEIPTS AT OTHER POINTS. New York. —; Savannan, 310: Galves- ton, 139: Wilmington, 11; Baltimore, 215; Boston. 221: Cincinnati. Citv ag it ; New Orieans. 736: Charleston, 91 Mobile, 116; Nortolk, 605; Philadelphia, —; Memphis, 215; Port Royal, —,; other points, ——. NET RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS FOR ONE DAY. Receipts this week, 2,455 bales; same time last year, 2,032; exports this week, 4,972; stocks to-day, 364,078; same day last year, 416,824. LIVERPOOL QUOTATIONS. . pena eteeatale Orleans, 6 13-16d. Sales 12,000 aies. RAIL FREIGHTS ON COMPRESSED COTTON. St. Louis to Boston 58; Providence. 58; New York, 53; Philadelpnia, 51; Baltimore, 50. 225,720 —;Febru- 11.51; No- Grain Inspections. Wheat—2 cars No. 3 white winter, 1 car No. 1 red winter, 12 cars and? ; barges No. 2 rea winter, 19 cars No. 3 red winter, 4 cars No. 4 winter, 1 car rejected winter 1 car no-grade winter. Total—40 cars and 2 barges. Corn—1 car and 5-6 barge No. 2 yellow, 1 carand \ barge No. 2 white, 8 cars No. 2 white mixed, 24 cars and \ barge No. 2 mix- ed, 3 cars rejected. Total—i0 cars and 1° barge. Oats—1 car No. 2. Total—1 car. Rye—3 cars No. 2. Total—3 cara. Sales on 'Change. BRAN—Scaree, slightiy higher and 1n better demand on Southern orders. Sales: Sacked— 600 sks at mills at 57c, 1 car on E. trk at 5&c del, 1,100 sks part yes. p. m. at 59cdel, 800 sks do on orders at 60c del. PORK—Sales 70 bris standard mess f. o. b. East side at $9 70@9 75, 250 brison E. trk at $9 55, 70 bris extra prime at $7 50; orders— 145 bris at $10@10 15. 5 ae: day uncbanged: demand rath- er lig BACON—20 casks and half-casks shoulders and clear rib at 4c and 5.05e, 2 oars clear rib p. t.—short clear dull at 5c. Orders (82 pkas) —shoulders 4c, clear rib 5%@c, short clear 5 4OXe. c.s.c. hams 9c. D.8.MEATS—Sales: 500,000 ts c’ribs up country (20c freight) at 4. 20¢, 100,000 ts do at same point at 4.27c. Yes. Pp. m., 25,000 Bs c’ribs at 4c and 80,000 Bs short ciear at 4.60c weighed and delivered in house here. For Junec’mbs, 4.52kc asked. Orders—small lots shoulders, c’ribs and clear at 4c and 5c and 5c; 4 cars loose f. o. b. East side—shoul- ders 4c, c’ribs 4.60¢, long clear 4.55c. SOUTHERN V EGETABLES—To- -day, re- ceipts light and market quiet. Cucumbers lower at 75@90c—one lot of 55 dozen sold at latter; string beans also lower at $1 50@1 75 ¥ bu-box; : Pen peas sold at $1 50@1 75 ¥ bu and 75¢c ¥ \-bu x; new tatoes firmer at $5@5 50 and new onions at $4@4 25 ¥ bri; beets lower at $2 50@3 ¥ bri. STRAW BERRIES—To-dayv’s principal supply train several bours behind time, arriving too late forus to obtain information regarding prices or condition of receipts. Gieneral Markets. LEAD—Quiet and steady. Soft Missouri is Syn Fie a small Ae at $3 ¥ 100 bs. = ana selling at $2 3 10 in first net we CORN MEAIL—Good demand. City sells at $210 del to cars or boat. ee ney and in demand at SALT—Domestic, $1 35@140 ¥ bri; G. A. at$l1 25 ¥ sack. Coarse or fine bulk $7 ¥vton. Foreign neglected. CHEES and w scarce, hister aol pangs sale at 800 to 87kKc; German millet y at $1 25@1 30 for pi timothy and redtop nominal at $1 20@1 30@35¢ ee DRIED T—Frime to choice Bay and in ae ag common to tair and un- 1o8—inferior to fair 2c ieee axese,” ‘Sneaker tair 35 anil ew We quote nan- soba a Manufacturers. Largest tail, and Lowest Prices of any housein the Stock of Fine ab seo r~ es city. fen minutes’ ride by Washington ave. cars from Pourd Street. Twenty-Fourth Strect and Lucas Avenue. . Ladies’ | Which ‘i FOR THE COMING WEEK WILL OFFER THE CHOICEST LINES IN LADIES’ CORSETS ever before exhibited in this city and at prices . Astonishingly Low. Ladies’ Underwear. We have received many ad- ditions. STREET SACKS, Torchon Laced, Trimmed and Embroidered, are very handsome, and our “Bride’s Robe Set’’ superb. The Children’s Pinafore Aprons the newest novelty and very becoming. Scharff Brothers. Ladies’, Misses’ and Chil- dren’s English Hosiery, The Largest and Choicest Variety, and We will Sell un- til the 15th of this Month some excellent Bargains in Brown Balbriggan Hose, Extra Long and Regu- lar Made, Four Pairs for $1. —— ee Ladies’ Brown Silk Clocked Balbriggan, Four Pairs for $1, Regular Made. Ladies’ Colored Brodquin Hose, Beautiful Patterns, Four Pairs for $1. English Fashioned § Silk Clocked Hose 30¢ a Pair. All styles and kinds of La- dies’, Misses’ and Children’s HOSIERY. Cotton, ‘Lisle Thread and Silk. Must be seen to be ap- preciated. This line of our business has our special care, and the attention paid them by our customers is quite a guaran- tee that they are attractive in quality and prices. The latest are the Polka Dot Hose, are universally ad- mired and readily bought. style received _ di) BrOlers, 309 N. Fourth St., Between Olive and Locust. at $1 to $125. do navy $130@1 40: Eastern tg By store—medium $1 49@1 45, navy at $1 60 @ ' C AST OR BEANS—Steady at $1 70@1 75. FLAXSEED—Steady at $1 35@1 50; choice sowing at$l1 80@1 85. PECANS—Steady. Western3@4c,I.T. and medium Texas 5@5c; large Texas 6c. PEANUTS—Scarce and firmer. Red at 4@4kKc, white 5@5. DRIED GREEN PEAS—Scarce and firm at oa, 40@1 56 from store. HEMP SEED—Steady, — light offerings and coment tata $1 45@1 5 oa y=? ‘RRIES—Selling Paes store at $5 50@ ; ¥ b ORANGES—Firm at $4@4 25 # box — Messi- na—$5 25@5 5U for Imperial and Cro LEMONS—Firm at $3@3 50 ¥ box for | Palermo and Messina. COCOANUTS—Steady at $35 # 1,000. BANANAS—Sound on orders $2@2 58 ¥ bunch. HOPS—New York sell from store at 10@lic. HONE Y—Dull. Comb 7@11¢c, strained 7@10c., CIDER—Dnull; sweet $3 50@4¥ bri. MAPLE SUGAR—Dull at 8@12c, as to quale ity S0RGHUM—Prime steady at 23@24c. POP CORN—Steady, at 1c to 1c. Pata CURN—Steady, at 2@3c—choice at OOL—Old dull and nominal,and not enough ge coming in to give accurate quotations on VURS—Market slow and unchanged. We quote: Western (Southern 15 to 25 ¥ cent less) —OUtter—No. 1, $5, No. 2, $3; No. 3, $1 50, No. oe 25@50c; Mink—No. Re 40: No. 2, '25@30: No. 3, 35@20: n . : . 2, : 3. 15@20;No. 10; skunk— black 60@85c short stripe 50 0@60, narrow striped 35@40—white and broad 10@15. Cc; arubb 5c; cali 9c; kip at i de price FEATHERS—Fair demand. Prime L. 414%@42kc in large and small pa ae ferior myth do 35@37c; good mixed 15@ 30; poor 5@15c; tare, large sks 3c, small 10c. BEESWAX—In demand at 23c, DEER SKINS—Firm at 18@21c ¥ b. ROOT sinseng—small Southern 60@65c, large West 85@90c; seneca—inferior 20¢ ; choice 30c: snake 11@12c: pink 12c: dDilue flag 7c; golden seal 7c; biack 4c; may apple * SHEEP PELTS— We quote: Green—small and een poeete. large hy 15; id pee arge 55@80c;: shear an dry) fo to 25c, lungs — HEMP—Duii at _ to $85 per ton forun- dressed, 125 1 for dressed 40 ’ $65 to sn0 oa hackied cow, $40 45 for break tow—Old — at $5@10 ¥ ton less. BALINGSTUFFS—B firm at quo- tations. We quote job ag rates: B ng on basis of 8c for 2-® flax and 9\%@9c for 2-8 —J a -% twine, 9c; Iron cotton ties, $2 10 rm bags (2%-bu) agg 2%-bu 9c, 3-bu u 120; cotton N@8xc; woo! 35@450 oc Rosin—BE ,F $180,G $1 85, H $2 30, 1 $3, a oe oe i gai28, . N $4 50. a $3 bris; Tar $2 75 for Pitch $2 reed. RAGS—Low dull. Weguote ¥ 100 bs: Mixed cotton eran 0@1 75; woolen—common 65c, cloth $3, sott $6@6 50. Groceries. Jobbers’ Cash iz ca $8 TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. OMPETENT Druggist, unexceptionable city ret- erence. wishes a situation; speaks German, French and E a Address E. Blowe, 2331 . Scott avenue. 1 shoe Saibeasa n vanes at once; apply to oe Spec ht. **FAMO 3 YO SELL—A brand new es 8 Wheeler & Wilson Machine at reduced price. Address Mrs. C. O. Ross, this office. 3 Ww ISHING TO ENLARGE OUR BUSINESS— We offer to a party with a capital of $2,500, a rare chance for investment and partaership. Ad- dress A. G., this office. 3 Y A RELIABLE, indastrious young man—a sit- 5 gael some — esale house where he can work his va y up. ~appeoeme salary expected. S., this ~ Fa 3 Address, J. 2646 MORGAN STREET—S rooms on 2d. floor toa small family. Apply on premises; morning Or evening. *3 NE LARGE, PLEASANT FURNISHED ROOM for rent cheap. Inquire of Mrs. Gilmore, No. 411 Christy avenue. 3 FEW ENERGETIC CANVASSERS—Elither la- dies or gentlemen, for a fast-selling article, pay- ing a handsome profit. Apply at room 1, Insurance Building, Sixth and Locust. 3 ITUATION as companion toinvalid, or make her- self useful to parties going to Denver or Cali- fornia. Address Mrs. A. A. R.. this o office. 3 31 S. FIFTH 8T.—Two furnished ‘rooms, south- ern ex., with bath. 3 ESPECTABLE lady of intelligence wishes a situ- ation as housekeeper for a widowcr or as nurse ; willing togo inthe country. Address Mrs. Van Ar., this office. 3 OR SALE or rent, a neat ornamented little cot- tage of four rooms, with a large lot (over half an acre in size) situated both high and healthy, wit good view and pure spring water near. Forty-five adnate s ride by rail, half a minute walk from depot; fair 17 cents by commutation; school tickets 14 cents, will be sold for $250 (or less) Cash and the balance of 1,250. Can remain, if desired, for ten years at6 per cent, or will rent toa good tenant for $60 a year. M. Seaman, 625 Olive street, up stairs. OUNG MAN of some inventive talent would like a position in some manufactory or office, where he can earnaliving and have achance to improve. A lreferences for honesty and sobriety. Address, Agent, this office NOLORED man, well recommended, wishes to ob- tain a situation either as a body guard or invalid’s nurse. Apply at 2726 Franklin avenue, inrear. 3 URNISHED ROOM for $3 a week. where no ques- tions are asked. Address K. K.. this office. 3 a. ANGLER.—Friday, 2d of May. at 9 o'clock a. . THERESA WANGLER, aged 72 years 8 months. ral will take place from the residence: of her son. Jos. F. Wangler, 1419 Carr street, on Sunday, May 4, at 1] p. m., to Calvary Cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend without further no- tice. pine apple. 22c: Young America. 13c: Swiss. gen- uine. 32c: |Swiss. imitation, 18c; English dairy, l4c: Limberger. 14c. COFFER—Kio. common 12@14c: fair te good 145@15c: vrime 15\%@16\c: choice 164%@\17¢c; Singapore Java 22@24c: O. G. Java 2Zb@Zic, Mocha 27sec: Mexican l7c. CUNCENTRATED LYE. —.,ittsourg »saponifier, $8 25: Greenwich. $3 25: Universal, $3 25° Ex- celsior cama 33° eben $3 50. All above 4 doz in FRUITS. “FOREIGN—Currants. crop of 1878, small quanutiticae. @ &®. 5%c to 6c: new. 1878, by the : tigs. layers. 2, 6 and 8 Bs. crop 878. FB : prunes, 1878, choice. Besuia. B tayers, pew crop, 1878, B box, $175; lavers, raisins, new, 1878, 34-bx. $115; jayers, raisins. new. 1878, \%-bx, 65c:; London lay- ers. new. 1878, $2 25; muscatels, loose, new crop, 1878. $1 ¥U: Valencias, new crop. ]87 8. citron, Leghorn, any quantity, new, dates. Persian, 200-D frails. BD, Wet ot qu antity hm. ¥c: emon peel, ® Bb. 2ZUc: lemons, Malaga, B box. $ oranges, j.,Oulsiana, @ box, $5 00; mee each, 4c. L8—$215. rates. “0. SUGAR—Kettle, 6' a 4 clarified , 8°;@8 gc. Nile- ateonés. Ivicas, #@ DB. 19c; Brazil, new BB. Te: filberts. Sicily, BB. 1l'se: pecans, choice = xas, # b, 10c; pecans, choice Iadiam Territory, a ,8c* peanuts. raw. choice white. in ake. Oo D Be: peanuts. raw. choice red, in sacks. ®Bb, 6c; pea- nuts, roasted, cheice red, in sacks, # B, Sc; pea- nuts, roasted, cheice white, in sacks, ® DB, Yc; wai- nuts. Naples. BR. lsc. rICKLES—Uiass—Pts, 1 doz in case, BB doz, YOc; lass, ats, 1 doz. in case, ® doz, $1 50; class, +, gais, doz. im case. B doz, $250: giass. 1 gal. plain. doz, in case. @ doz. $3 75 1 gal. nexagon. }s doz, in case.Am. style. ® doz. $8: 1 cal. hexagon, }s5 doz, in case. English style # doz. $9: gherkins. Eng. style. @ doz. prs, $2 50,qts, $475; cnow chow. tne. stvle, @ doz, pts. $2 50. qts. $475: mixed, English style, # doz, pts, $2 50. qts, $4 75: cauliflower. Eng. stvle, @ doz, pts, 33 25. ats. $6 UO: onions. Englisn style, # doz, pts. $4. ats. $6. Picklesin wood—Me- diuin,. mn bris. 1.200. $5 50; do. in & bris, 600.$3 40; small. in bris, 2? 400. $6 75: do 54 Dris. 1. : herkins. in bris, 3.500. $7 50: * do. $4 25: do. in 10 gallon kegs, $3 74: doin 5 galion eggs. $2 50. (Crosse & Blackwell's. )—Gherkins 2 doz, In case. Dus. B doz. $2 50:do. 1 doz. in case y¥. doz, $6 75; chow chow. 2 aoz. in case, pts. @ $3 : chow doz. chow. 1 doz. in case, ats. @ doz, 6 75; mixed, 2 doz, in Case, pts, BP doz, $350; do. doz, in case, qts, # doz, $6 75: cauliflower. 2 doz, im case, » pts. B doz. $350: do. 1 doz. in case. qts, ® doz. $6 75: onions 7 doz. in eg $4 50. }% doz Less than caseZ5c ® aoz. €Xtia-. pr. REFINED SUGARS—UCut toaf 9%c: crushed 9"fc; nulated, standard granulated, "Qe; st. Louis, %c; powaerea Yc: fine do ¥sc; coffee, standard ; coffee, St. Louis A. 85;c; coffee. Missoun ke: coffee. extra C, 83;c; coffee, standard C, ‘cc; coffee, yellow C, 8*«c. is io me ‘arolina and Lonteane. choice per lb, 7\e; Louisiana, prime per Ib, 7c; Louisiana. fair per tb. 64.c. Tapioca per lb, 9c. Sagu, East India per Ib, 9c; sago, German per Ib, 10c. SOAP—Palm. : 34@3Ke: extra family. 4c: Castile; mottlea Marseilles. llc: white M 26, 1€-, Aneiee mottied. ¥%c. SPiCES—W hvuic—aun_pice (sacks about 100 ts. ec less), a > 17c: Cinnamon. in mats. BB 24c: Cloves, oest quality, @ B 45c: Ginger, Race. BB 10c; Gin- er, Jamaica, @ bh 25c; Mace. @ B® $125; Nutmegs, No.1 Penang. 8B 90c; r, sifted Singapore, ‘ec less in sacks. round—Cream Tartar, 6-3 cans, PB 25@275 Cinnamon, Java, Screw- tops, 6-b cans, ® DB 65c, pure, 6-b cans, Bb 50¢; Ginger, Borneo, Screw-tops, 6-® cans, B Bb. 35 Ginger, African, Pure, 6-B cans, ® BM. 25c; tard, pure, Screw-tops. 6-B cans, Dm. 35c: re, fine, 6 and 10-® cans, # B®, 33c; Mustard, Su- me ne, 6- Dm cans, PB. 30c; Pepper. Blace shot, crew-top. 6-h cans, mb. 27%c; Pepper. Black pure. 10-B anne. x) D. 25c; Pepper, Cayeane, Afri- caD. 6-b caas, Bb. SYRUPS AND MOLASSES—New Urieans motlas- sé€s--good to chot 30@40c. Belcher's—Golden syrup. B8c bris, A2e c hf bris, 45c kegs. 50c hf kega; saoee house syrup molasses. 35c bris. 40° hf bris, & 3c s,48chfkegs. Rock Candv Syrunp—B * 87'c; hai? -bbls. 92c: 10-gal meas. » SS§ 5-gal do, $2 risn lJobbers’ Quetations. | ak 200 |100 | 90 & | 15m | 12m MACKEREL. 2. | Halt Halt | Q’r | Dd Bois.) Bois. | Bois. Kits. Kits. Saco —_—— 1 mm ONO F Sl ie - beet ts ON _ J >. rer er crc cy — os CRD pe DD Ne.2 Ne¢.3 LargeFam Nc. 3 Med. trond No. 3 Small LAKZ FISH. | ue 3 Whiteash ie) Oo o Bo CO WO - 1D warceey __ Se ASD 3 Co > Go BD RESE Rass Nome ~ i) Or No.1 R'dShore| New Labrador Bplit..ccocecee| New Gibbed....' Potomac Roe.. 1 Holland, kegs.. Scaled, boxes, large and inedium No. 1, boxes, large and medium Russia Rs BOMB. oes ccec cncescccenceses Loe horses, extra... ‘ Plain common Southern iorses seeee *- Fair Southern horses........2..s02°: xtra Southern horses...... 20 35 City light spring wagon horses...... New York streeters..... ecceseocodesede New pom Renesas OXITB......, eee Draft .. 95@105 - 140@180 c — extra draft, without blemish, and sound, weighing from 1,300 to 1,500 th sdctcnndvatlececcsvuudianity Fxtra fancy driving horses, good size Extra fancy driving horses, good ac- CRG 006 0c900soreesecenceeeasen eeesccoe - 250@400 Good matched pairs for carriages.... 250@400 Extra fine horses, good steppers, 3 va to 3% minutes per mile... 125@175 BROKE MULBS. Mules, 13% hands high......... onl 300 35 00 Mules, 14 hands high Mules, 14 hands high, Mules. 14% hands hig ‘h Mules, 14% hands high, extra.. Mules, 15 hands high.. Mules, 15 bands high, extra. eceee Mules, 15% bands as ohet Mules, 16 hands high Mules, 15.3 to 16% hands, big rough plugs........ os ececee Live Stock Markets -- Telegraph. CINCINNATI, 3.—Hogs fair to 1804190 1400170 extra...... heavy shi ing, 362, shippt MAREETS BY TELEGRAPS. 12¢ ior middifng ° lands. 1 ceipts 12,000; " Receipts peek: $1 1. ©. 2 Western o. 2 Pennsylvania er winter = @e red June $1 1 y $10 Weatern: ‘oteeteen ae Gemand and | Siete eee eso NS See aaa ee Breton, Black, White and Torchon Laces. =D Mam G0 Ribbons, Parasols and Kid Cloves. HD Mam & C Silks That Won’t Cut Nor Crow Shiny. HD), Ma & 0 Silk Ties Cheap. H.D. MANN & CO. Creat Bargain. H. D. MANN & CO, Crenadines. Elegant Coods. _ H. D. MANN & CO, —— ~ _— —— ee Buntings. Full Stock, Cheap. 2D) Mal & Lawns. Handsomest Coods. tI Mal: —- SOCIETY NOTICES. TTENTION, SIR & ATEETON in mh. a > a Seventh anu Te uniform, on Sunday. May 4, a. . as escort to the remains of our late Gren. - simo Eminent Sir John B. ae e. mg grdet or CARROLL Jomns R. Panso ‘Adjuta nt. MONEY TO LOAN, KNIGHTS. ~The gir the Commanderies stationed - Vauhs. are requested to assemble at le In full dress clock a. ™m., to act * Generalis- $100, OOO 7 TO nd ou epee CA VENDER& ROWSE, 800 Olive street. A I at 92c cash, 92c May, 92XKe June. Corn weak and easier, at 330 cash, 35¢ bid May, June, Oats steady at 250 cash, 25 Rye unchanged. Uarley hicher; Te bi heavy and lower at $9 37% ¢ $9 55 o Jey Lard weak cash, 6.02c bid June, dull, littie aoi n$103 bid: extra do asked id; amber Mic n, cash hom- inally ‘1 035% May, $1 06 asked; June’ ed; 2 red cash. $1 05%; Mu ‘ asked, $1 osx bid; Jane nomina $1 06%. Corn dull high mixed 36¥e asked, 36 Ko bid; No. 2 cush or May 360 asked, 35 bid ; June 36%e asked, 36c bid; July asked, 37%e0 bid. Oats firmer; No. 2 seller May 28 ke: Eetstiean 32 aa MILWAUKBE, Mee 3 3. 1c; the noon board pede Ban 1 O01 bard, 980 for No. 1, ON ie for No. 2 and Mey, 92% tor June, 9440 for July; for No. 3; 72e for Ko. 4; €3¢ receipts ,600 bu; Corn steady ; ec for No. 2. 25¢e tor ve : CINCINNATI,
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> oO - AMERICAN WINE CoO. | In Mussey’s Billiard Parlors, Fourth & Pine Sts.--Up Stairs. Auction and Paris Mutual Pools Sold ON ALL SPORTING EVENTS eeraphic reports teneived IMMEDIATE. v e LY on closing of each Game or Race. Book Making a Specialty. RICHARD ROCHE, Prop’r. SAM GOODMAN, Auctioneer. THATCHER'S Cafe and Restaurant, FIFTH AND OLIVE. UNSURPASSED Quality, Fit a and Finish. KEEPS SHIRTS, Keep’s Custom Shirts Made to Measure. The very best that can be produced at any prite, SIX for $9. PERFECT SATISFACTION GUARAN- TEED. ad io KEEP'S PARTLY MADE SHIRTS, that can be produced at any price, 51X for $6. finished by any little girl. KEEP'S. GINGHAM UMBRELLAS, the very best PATENT PROTECTED RIBS, FIrTY PER CENT aa than any other Umbrella made, $1 KEEP’S KID GLOVES FOR GENTS. the very best. Fiatn or Embroidered, one button, $1 15; two button, $1 2 ST LINEN COLLARS, pan sopast styles, 75 ceuts per half doz. ear-All proc pow warranted to give perfect satisfaction. ieneien and Circulars mailed free. GIBER'’T Bros., 621 Olive Street, St. Louis. 180 West Fourth St., Cincinnati. THE NEW BUCKEYE the very best Easily Cuffs, 25 LAWN MOWER. 13 Reasons Why it is the Best in the World. 1. This Mower is about one-third lighter than other Mowers on the market. vs ga—amaea strength and dur- ty. 3. Ease of working and not lia- bie to get out of order. 4. All parts requiring strength > nly made of Malleable Iron and 5. The geers are so located that it is impossible to clog them with cut grass. 6. The Wheels are 8 inches in diameter, and both drivers, so that it runs lightly and will cut turning either way. 7. When drawn backward the ground wheels only reverse mo- tion, consequently is more easily handled. 8. It has four Cast-Steel Revolv- ing Cutter Blades, instead of three,as in most other Mowers, which causes it to cut the grass more evenly. 9. The cutter bar is made of Cast-Steel, TEMPERED, and is easily adjusted. 10. Has anadjustable roller run- ning the entire width of the ma- chine, to regulate the height of cut (see directions). 11. It has adjustable handles and adapts itself to irregularities of the surface. 12. Can sharpen it yourself without going to a repair shop (see directions). 13. It is a perfect “Little Beauty,” being compact, thoroughly made and beautifully finished. In short, it is the most perfect Lawn Mower ever placed upon the market. Dou’t fail to ask for **The New Buckeye,’’ or sénd for circular. Cheever, Burchard & Co 508 N. FOURTH ST.,- — Washington avenue, 12 rooms, etc.. $75 per month. 1640 Second Carondelet avenue, 6 rooms, $20 per month. CAVENDER & ROWSE, 800 Olive street. board — 836 29 bath and gas; bath and gas; bath, gas, etc.: etc. ; 25 per ICE FUR. ROOMS TO RENT, cheap, without board, at No. 1213 Pine st. JREMISES No. 309 South Fifth street, lately oc- cupied by Alex Cameron. Apply to A. 8S. Ruth- erford. 29 MALL DWELLING of 6 rooms, only $16. at No. 1021 St. Charles street, north side, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. 3 7 DESIRABLE ROOMS, with southern expo- sure, fur. or unfur., with board, in Stoddard Address L. B.. this office. 30 with or 1 Addition. FOR SALE. > ~ RE FARM. 47 miles from ~ 4 on I. M. R. = mile from depot, pleasantly situ- ated, gona @ -room house; barn and good out-build- ings; good never-falling sprin ; beautiful yard, fruit, exe. One of the most desirab é¢ homes in Jefferson county, for sale at an immense sacrifice. Apply to V. T. Cole, this office. 3 LL KINDS OF OFFICE DESKS FOR SALE cheap; desks, store and office fixtures made to order. ¥. BOLLHAGEN, 711 Pine st. 1 UTTER—Butter, best creampery 25c per pound, best dairy 20c per pownd, best grass butter L5c. stands ll and 12 Union Market, and 2326 Franklin ave. Chas. F. Fitzpatrick. IGAR STORE for sale, and factory with dwelling rooms, all on first floor. 722 Olive street. 21 OR sale or exchange for southwest Missouri town property—A two-story house, \4 acre lot; stable, cistern, blacksmith shop, young orchard, etc., on the round. Address P. Corrigan, Cheltenham. ost-office, St. Leuis. Horse-car railroad past the door. R SALE—W® have for sale more fine, eligible residence lots In the vicinity of Lafayetie ark and on Compton Hill, than any other real estate firm in the city. Persons babes, to buy will do well te examine our list. NDER & ROWBE, Olive street. OR SALE—390 feet front on N. Second street,cor of Brooklyn street arg e Reg for manufacturing and building purposes. - CAVENDER & ROWSE, 800 Olive street. Fer SALE, or will trade for house nnd lot—A nice business; valued at $1,200. Address X. T., this office. ‘ 30 OR SALE—A new brick 9-room house, with half und; also, 3 groups of lots, 2 of 4 and at Maryville, on West End N. G. R. rices to absolutely sell. Terms— me. Apply to Conn & mises, 6: Chestnut ~ vobey R SALE.—A Democratic news | ity; Democratic vr" $2. | dress **Arthur,’’ this o local- per, Ad- 9 req nee waienagenpenaaiapantn nee = OARDERS FOR THE SUMMER—In Cote Bril- | liante—two ladies o cep ewer and wife; no ob- section to one or two children; promt room; southern cheap. Address W. D., Station Cc, St. Louis, M Mo. 1 TWO yo young | gents can find a neat and fag my rnisbed room, with breakfast or $35. Rest S references exchanged. Address, deena Front, this office. PASTURAGE. ‘ T the Sutton Famn,seven miles from Court-house, onManchester road ,300 acres of fine P. U., Bt. county, Mo. SPECIAL NOTICES. INE West End Residence for sale. very low price, for cash, my house Ro. “3637 Line dell avenue, fifth west of Grand avenue. Lo- | call oor in LJ “ rouse double stone front, le and modern me gt feet, and well aes d,good able, ~ hy, etc. An exceptionally desirable property, and worth the attention of any in quest of a geod homestead. EDWARD . R SALE—1] portable saw mill and engine, running, and in order; size of engine ° 10 ) by 16 inches, ~44 -4+ ~ es in diameter. will of ane 636 by 13; fi Soak end l- n ' yw lle 80 inches, 51 inch face. Lon su 5 0. and boiler order. Enquire at 804 North w.. | os 4 J MPROVED REAL ESTATE FOR SALE—33M asbington ave.—7-room stone-front a =f lot so” 135, $7,000. Usual terms. Less for spot to take Hien thedeeth of our ate Heutenant, John B the x a on Saturday eventug, 73, at 8 o'clock are ot Capt D. i. # of Capt. HT ANGE, Secretary. PROFESSIONAL. STAVES FOR SALE. 50,000 Beer Keg Staves and . 10,000 Pipe Staves ui may sare on Seseinns strect, between Barton and a ae MARTIN MICHAEL. tal stock of Diheege ers Geet St. ‘Loulse a rc . Carriages to funerals TPHE 8. W. Xe Kansas, forsale Ste ents seaman ot — PIANOS, PIANOS, PIANOS, PIANOS! We are now receiving a splendid stock of Chicker- ing, Steinway, Decker Bros. and Mathushek Pianos, preparatory to the opening of Spring trade. We call the attention of purchasers to the fact that we sell first-class Pianos at lower prices than any other house in the West, and give a responsible guarantee for every Piano we send out. Particular attention is asked to our assortment of fine Upright Pianos, the bc §. ever displayed in this city. Story & Caiup 912 & 914 Olive Street. LOUIS C. BOHLE’S LIVERY AND BOARDING STASLES The finest Carriages in the City furnished at lower prices ae any other stabie. Party calls 3 00 Theater calls....$3% 00 Calling, Ist hour 31 50, all succeedins h’ rs. $1 ~ $4 To any of the cemeteries. Special attention given to funerals. Having secured the services of a first-class Undertaker, who has had fifteen years’ experience in the business, 1 have opened an Undertaker esitah- lishment in connection with my stables, and am pre- rpred to furnish Fanerals at low prices, and ‘furnish th 18 best quality of goods. Tm. Resewood, Glass-face —— g fim: Rosewood Caskets wm « Common Coffins Andsmali size Coffins and Caskets at prices in pro- portion. Metallic Cases and Coffins on hand at low rices. Alsoa full supply ofall articles appertaining funerals. §@~Cali and examine for yourselves LOUIS C. BOHLE, &t. Louis Stables, 610 and 612 N. Eleventh st. Globe Stables. 410 and 412 North Sixth Street. LOTTERIES. Missouri State Lottery. ny MURRAY, MILLER & CO. MANAGERS. Louisiana, Missouri & Havana Lotteries. — for sale and sealed circulars sent by address- EE. HAUB & CO.j;, 417 Walnut street. St. Louls. Mo. ESTABLISHED 1865. General Agency of the Missouri, Louisiana, Havana, and all German Lotteries. Tickets for sale, sealed circulars sent,and all informa- tion given by applying to HENRY LEHNDORF. No. SOUTH FOURTH STREET. St. Louts, Mo. _STEAMBOATS. MISSOURI RIVER. COU LSON LINE. D. W. MARRATTA, General Superint’d’t. 8. B. COULSON, General Manager. For Sioux City, Yankton, Fort Pierre, Bismarck, Fort Benton and all points in Montana and the Yel- lowstone River, THE NEW STEAMER DAKOTAH Joe Todd. master Leaves St. Louis Wednesday, May 7. This steamer has unsurpassed pas- senger accommodations. For informa- tion, rates of megs — | passage. apply in person or by letter to ARCAMI AL, Agent, *501 Olive parent, St. Louis. R. F. SASS. 210 N. Com’! st. KANSAS CITY PACKET CO.--STAR LINE, For Augusta, Jefferson City, Boonville, Glasgow Cambridge and New Frankfort. Str. BELLE ST. LOUIS CARTWRIGHT, Master. Leaves every Tuesday, at 5 p. m. For Augusta, Jefferson City, Boonville, Glasgow, Cambridge, New Frankfort, Lexington and Kansas City. Str. FANNIE LEWIS............ beeceses Yore, Master Leaves Saturday. May 3.5 p. m., alle v3 trom whart-boat foot of Olive st. ; R. J. WHITLEDGE, Sec’y. L. F. D MBAL., HUNTER BEN JENKINS, § 4”€?*S- LOWER MISSISSIPPI. NEW ORLEANS ANCHOR LINE. FOR NEW ORLEANS AND WAY LANDINGS. STEAMER CHAS. P. CHOUTEADU, THORWEGAN.........+- Peccevesoccece sec0es Master. Leaves Saturday, May 3, at5 p. m. STEAMER JAS. HOWARD, Leaves Tuesday, May 6, at Sp. m. For freight or passage applv on bene palate sd vba rmont foot of Market street JOHN W. CARROLL, Gen. Ft. Agt. a -~Through bills nding given to Shreveport via N. u. R. R. Co. (Aiken's Line. UPPER MISSISSIPPI. Keokvk Northern Line Packet Co. | For Clarksville. Louisiana, Hannibal, Quincy and Keokuk. STR. GOLDEN EAGLE........ seactt Leaves Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 4 p. m. Clarksville, Louisiana, Hannibal, Quincy and ~— Keokuk. d Str. WAR EAGLE.... --» Thompson, Master, Leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at4 p.m. For Burlington, ap eae Rock v—* bp pgronpert Subwene. La Greene, W st. Paul. inona and Wood, Master, Leaves SATURDAY, May 3, at 4 >. m. 4 W. F. DAVIDSON, President. EAGLE PACKET COMPANY. For Madison, Alton and Grafton. Str. BALD EAGLE........ - Leaves this day at 3 p. m. llr Receiving at Packet HENRY LEYHE, Sa TRUE DODGE, Adout: OHIO. The ane. new, r steamer MAR, ces seeps -M.V James A der, Clerk. até4o in; SASS. N. Commercial. : ¥. D' ARCAMBALL, 221 Olive, Agents. 5. 0. HERBERT, rf, FURNITURE! Qur Elegant Spring Stock NOW COMPLETE. The Most Attractive Styles EVER SHOWN, AT THHK LOWEST PRICHS Hiver Made by Us. FU ROH ASERS el Solel {wit A1rd get Choice, before assortment is broken. urrell, Gomstock &G0,, 402 AND 404 NORTH FOURTH ST. Jas.A. W rightéSons (ESTABLISHED 1847.) MANUPACI'U RERS. The la CLASS VEHICLES to be foun est and most complete Variety of STRICTLY FIRST-: in the West. REPAIRING & REPAINTING A SPECIALTY. Factory and Warerooms, 809 and 811 N. Fifth Street. AMUSEMENTS. ~ DE BAR'S OPERA-HOUSE. MONDAY, APRIL 28. During the week, on Ww SpE EeDAar ans SATUR- D. MATINEES pr turn of— J.C. Duff’s Standard Theater Company In Gilbert Sullivan’s H. M. 8. PINAFORE. Grand Orchestra. Grand Chorus. Max Maretzek, Musical Director. Friday evening, May 2, benefit of MISS SHAFFER—HEBE. SCHNEIDER’S GARDEN. CONCERT EVERY SUNDAY. GRAND OPERATIC FESTIVAL. DE BAR’S OPERA-HOUSE. a © ‘NURMA AND IL TROVATORE, FOR ONE WEEK, BEGINNING TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1879. ot: eer 1 cs dsedeabannente Ser IL, TROVATORE. 00.00.00 seceesesneens ..» Wednesd Thurs NORM ‘ . IL TROV ATORE...... RLS B base SON, Ses riday WORE Maa vee cdctcccccescccvsctes ...Saturday Satines Grand Chorus of 65 Selected Voices—Orches- tra of 35 Pieces. hy ee Director; Stage Manager, Signor Geraldine Albe py wm te al Circle, Parquette and Balcony, $1. No extra charge for Reserved Seats. Sale of seats now open at BALMER & WEBER'S Music Store. THE LOAN EXHIBITION, At the Old Mary Bnaqente Building, for two weeks only, ROW OPEN, Boers DAY FROM 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M. brilliant oe. of Private Treasures and Rare onan includin The Testi ee 5 Presented to Gen. Grant while in Europe. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Season Puen... peaeceabeoebont goed pdunecctoons ganens -$2 ro le Entra hildren ar 14 vears PH. A. BAMBERGER'S GROVE AND SALOON, On Gravols Road ag * paome Soathwest of Gran! enue. NOW OPEN! o imgvovemente of the os, ote ! for picnics as well as for i comforts of a first-class, call amd see, and The undersigned dn establish «a i Nag ep rural which yt yt has Socteuptished. . PH. A. 2... s § 5 3 ee om at +S RKRIALs. ASBESTOS LIQUID PAINTS. Pure, undiluted Paints: full body and full U. S. measure. No other paints for bullding purposes equal these In quality, richness of color, covering ca pacity and durability. Packed in cans, pails, kegs and barrels. ASBESTOS ROOF PAINT, Brown, Gray and Buff, for tin er shingle roofs, iron work, out-bulldings, etc. ASBESTOS ROOFING, with white fire-proof coating. The handsomest, coolest, most durable and only reliable substitute for tin, at about one-half the cost. Suitable for steep or flat roofs. In rolls ready for use. ASBESTOS STEAM-PIPE AND BOILER COVERINGS, The most durable, economical and effective non- conductors inuse. Proved ou verior to all others in U. 8. Government tests: a ect Insulator for hair- felts, rendering them indestructible. Descriptive circulars furnished, and estimates made on all kinds of work. SEMPLE & BIRGE MFG. CO., Sole Agents, 910 and 912 Washington Avenue. CHEAPER YET ! TENSION SEWING MACHINES. A large number of nearly new genuine SINGER, WHEELER & WILSON. HOWE, WEED, WILSON, GROVER & BAKER, DOMESTIC, &c., will be sold very cheap, many as low as $7.00. These machines were taken in exchange from families for the **AU- TOMATIC,"*’ or NO TENSION MACHINE. WILLCOX & GIBBS &. H. CU., 611 WASHINGTON AVE., ST. LOUTS. T LAST WE ARE ABLE TO bh bs TO THF TRADE THE LONG-DESIK Black Writing Fluid! flows freely as Arnold‘sor any Flu a rai, ‘cas is of a legible black when first ween, — ing by ex We continue to ma cture ~~ ell-known prin Fluid Inxs, Cha —- Violet w Mein y CoA and Copying Ink, Chaipion Scarict ink, Rall- LEVISON & BLYTHE, 219 O.ive Street, St. Lours. — NORTHWESTERN Mutual Liie Insurance Ca,, Of Milwaukee, Wis. H. J. SPAUNHORST, General Agent, No. 309 N. fifth St., ST. LOUTS, MO. sw Mr. E. K. Symonds remains in the office as beretofore. MOUND CITY TENT AND AWNING CO.,
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ee - li EE i > -o aes — “— o ee ——————— — 4 > = The Jockey Club Throw Open the ) Track to the Public. os ——— Items of Interest Gleaned From Local Boating Circles. —_—__>>_—_—_— Base Ball---Cricket---Saddle and Sulky and Cricket News. Saddle and Sulky. War Dance is in his twentieth year. The price paid for Parole, when a yearling, - was $780. Spendthrift and the Dnke of Magenta have been struck off in oil. Archer, the English jockey, got $2,500 for riding Parole in the City and Suburban. The Buffalo Trotting Association will give $30,000 in premiums at their summer meet- ing. Mr. Pierre Lorillard recently paid a round sum for thirteen yearling colts and fillies by Leamington. The promising English stallion Mars, by Marsyas, dam Necklace, by the Fallow Buck, dropped dead April 2. The trotting gelding Bay Charlie, record 2:28 1-2, has been purchased by Mr. J. D. Rockfeller, Cleveland, O. The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders’ As- sociation claim October 14 to 18, inclusive, for their fall trotting meeting. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennes- see, California and Texas will be represented in the great four-mile race. In combination pools the odds are 25 to 1 that Bramble will not win the Westchester, Baltimore and Saratoga cups. Bergamot has gone lame and has been let up in her work. Itis thought she will round to all right before the June meeting. Parole won $8,050 as a two-year-old, $7,125 as a three-year-old, $14.190 as a four-year- old, and $8,125 as a five-year-old. Parole is the first horse to win the triple events, the Newmarket Handicap, the City and Suburban and the Metropolitan. The trotting stallion Indian Chief, by B'ood’s Black Hawk, dam Lou Berry by Ned Forrest, died at Cynthiana, Ky., onthe 20th ult. The odds against Uncas for the Epsom Der- by, to be run on the 28th of May, is 40to 1. He is said to have recovered entirely from his lameness. Gen. W. T. Withers, Lexington, Ky., has lost his fine colt McGrath, py Almont, dam by Conklin’s American Star. He was impal- ed by a fence post. An adjourned meeting of the Board of Re- view of the National Trotting Association will be held at the Grand ‘Pacific Hotel, Chicago, on Monday. May 12. Two or three stables of horses will start from New Orleans to-day and will arrive here dur- ing the coming week. They cometo takea hand in the coming races. & The bay colt Leveller, by Lever, dam Sly Boots, by Rivoli, gave wavin his right fore leg, on the 23d ult., after a gallop, which puts an end to fits racing career this season, if not altogether. His lossto his owners and the turf 1s a serious one. The officers of the Jockey Club have deter- mined to make admission prices popular the coming season, and in order to do this have ‘™» reduced the sc.ile of prices as follows: General admission, for ladv or gentleman, fifty cents; to grand staod, fifty cents extra; daily quar- ter-stretch badges, $2, and weekly quarter- stretch badges, 8&8. The Jockey Club have thrown open their grounds to the public. To-day owners of light wagons will be allowed to speed their horses on the inside track. A week from to- diay amatinee will be given and a band of music will be in attendance. This matinee will be the first of a series that are to be given every other Saturday. Billiard Points. LOCAL AND FOREIGN. The match game for $1,000 and the cham- pionship of the world, between Schaefer and | Thurs- | Siosson, will take place at Chicago, cay evening, May 15. Quite a party of ad- mirers of the game, including several news- paper men, will probably go from Wednesday night and return Friday. Under the supervision of Mr. Sam. Bald- | win, MeCullagh’s elegant rooms inthe Cham- | = “2 | for we find Edward LV., in 1846, granting: to | tne card-makers of London a decree forbidding per of Commerce have been renovated recent- « ly and putin thorough repair. New cloths have been put on the tables, and other im- provements of attractive character introduced. The patronage has steadily increased since the new management took hold. Phil. Tieman, the oldest professional bil- liard player in the country. is lying very 111 at home at Cincinnati. form that the gravest ‘fears are entertained by his physician of his recovery. has been visiting inthe family of Mr. John W. McCullagh, in this city, for some “time past. Mr. McCullagh received a letter this morning from Cincinnati, giving the above information, and will probably be compelled in consequence to visit the Queen City at once. Boating. All the clubs were represented on the river on Sunday last. The Keyser, of the Mississippi Club, was out last Sunday. The Modocs had out their coming champion crew on Sunday last. ‘The Westerns pulled their new boat over the course one day last week. George Whittman is a St. Louis Club boy, and they count it another victory, bis beating the professional tramp ‘*‘Don Thomas.’’ The Modocs have had the brass row-locks belonging to the Capt. Jack’’ stolen by some - gneak-thief. This is the second time they have lost property, and the question arises, do the police have a beat down that way? St. John is training hard for his coming Walking match against time, and has tele- graphed to the Puriington boys that he has a sure thing, and wants to double the bet, pro- viding they can get ‘‘cold enough ice’’ to seep iton. Billy Knolloff is working hard for his com- og skiff race against the Unknown, and it will t be out of place to remark right here that : Unknown must be a ‘‘slick one,’’ and puéet make up his mind to pull for all he is orth if he intends to make Billy look behind nim in the race. Mr. Edell of the St.’ Louis Club says that his club has no idea of transferring the Bal- ‘tic intoa shooting gallery. His idea is to have Jake Spies cover it over with canvass and make a single scull boat out of it. He is willing to pull anyone in the Modoc Club a b scull race from five to tweuty miles in dest and best boats. | There is lotsof fun in store @6F the boys. Doc Milleur, the popular ex-president of ihe St. Louis Club, willina few days chal- age J. A. St. John, president of the Modoc tb, to a go-as-you-please five-mile match, a gold medal, the match to take place at one of the principal halls, the loser to pay all . 2 b's and the proceeds to be donated to » the club the winner represents. /- The Modocs are enlarging their boat house tan expense of $300. Since their consoli- | lation with the Universities they are cramp- | dfor room. Besides making improvements y the d ‘sing and bath rooms they are add- g thirty fect to the length of the hou-e, tak- eed here | He has been in poor | health for a Jong time}but is now in such bad | ——-- -- i ' & a £ '? =~ ~~ = a ing in the vacant space used by them as a quoit : : yard. This will notinterfere with the playing of quoits, as they will rent the adjoining south- ern let for that purpose. The Mound City Amateur Rowing Associa- tion held a meeting on Wednesday evening at Justice Von Geriehten’s office. The principal business before the meeting was the adoption of a course over which to row the ‘‘St. John Cup’’ race. The course from the foot of Anna street, along the east side, to the _ coal dyke and return 4 distance of about three miles, was proposed, favorably aceepted, but not yet decided upon. Mixed Sport. The Browns with their splendid team will play another game at the Grand Avenue Park to-morrow. The Athletics will be their an- tagonists and a lively game is anticipated. Ad- mission, 25 cents. The Syracuse meet the Cincinnatis the com- ing week at Cincinnati; the Troys the Chica- gos, at Chicago; the Bostons the Clevelands, at Cleveland, and the Providence the Buffa- los, at Buffalo. Roche will sell pools on all these events, at his exchange, in Mussey’s Billiard Parlors. At the ball game last Sunday the players seemed to be in doubt as to whether the foul bound was in vogue yetor not. For the ben- efit of all, it may be here mentioned that at the meeting of the League in Buffalo in March last, section 13 of playing rule 4 was changed back to what it was previous to the Cleveland meeting, so that fouls may be caught on bound; and section 12 of ruled, governing players put out by being hit between bases by a batted ball, was amended so as toallowa base-runner forced from his base by such play to take next base. Now that the ball tossers have got down to business the names of those players who belong to League nines will prove an item worth reading. It will be noticed that the League has five additions to its ranks, namely the Providence, Buffalo, Cleveland, Saracuse and Troy clubs: BOSTON. Snyder, c. Bond, p. Morrill, 1b. Murdock, 2 b. sutton, 3 b. Houck, 8. 8. Jones, l. tf. O’ Rourke, c. f. C. Folev,r.f Hawes, sub. CINCINNATI. J. White, c. W. White, p. McVey, 1b. BARNES, 2 b. Gerhardt, 3D. Burke, s. 8. Dickerson, 1. f. Hotaling, c. f. Kelley, r. tf. W. Foley, sub. BUFFALO. J. Clapp, c. Galvin, p. HORNUNG, 1b. Fulmer, 2 b. Richardson, 3 b. FORCE, 8. 8. Crowley, l. f. Eggler, c. f. MCGUNIGLE, r. f. Libby, sub. CHICAGO. Flint, c. Larkin, p. Anson, 1b. Quest, 2 b. Williainson, 3 vu. Peters, 8s. 8. Dalrymple, 1. f. Hankinson, c. f. Shaffer, r. f. Harbidge, sub. Gore, sub. PROVIDENCE. Brown, c. Ward, p. Start, 1b. McGeary, 2 b. Ilague, 3b. G. Wright, s. s. York, 1. ft. Hines, c. f. J. O’ Rourke, r. t. Mathews, sub. TROY. C. Riley, c. Bradley, p. CLEVELAND. Kennedy, c. McCormick, p. Phillips, 1 b. Strief, 2 b. Glasscock, 3 b. Carey, 8. 8. W. Riley, 1. f. Warner, c. f, Eden, r. f. Mitchell, sub. SYRACUSE. DORGAN, Cc. McCORMICK, % Carpenter, 1b. Farrell, 2b. Allen, 3 b. Richmond, s. s. M. Mansell, |. f. Purcell, c. f. Macullar, r. ft. J. Kelly, sub. DOSCHER, 3 b. Caskins, 8. 8. T. Mansell, |. f. A. Hall, c. f. Kvans, r. f. McManus, sub. Shoupe, sub. Those in SMALL CAPS are Clipper prize win- ners. THE BOSTON TEAM. While it is not to be questioned that the breaking up of the old team, occasioned by the withdrawal of George Wright, Leonard, ©’ Rourke and Manning, naturally has a ten- dency to weaken the Bosion forces, it has to be said that far more judgment has been dis- played in selecting new men in their places than was exhibited in 1876, when the secession of White, Spaulding, Barnes and McVey did such mischief in weakening the Boston team. But, still, the new team is, to a considerable extent, an experimental one, and, taking this fact into consideration in connection with the other fact that some of the rival League teams are so far stronger than ever before—notably 80 the Cincinnati and Providence nines—it may be set down as doubtful whether the Boston nine of 1879 will reach the goal of the cham- pionship this coming season. It is true that they have nearly the same infield as before, the only change being in_ short-field, but the change in this important position isagreatone. Five new men in a team undoubtedly make it an experimental nine to a considerable extent. That they have a fine battery and well-manned bases is un- questionable, and these cover the strongest positions of the battle-ground; but itis also essential to have the outworks well guarded, and the general support united and effective. There is one thing that the Boston team have which gives them a great advantage, and that is the superiority of their management. But, as Il said before, I don’t think ‘heir chances for success are as good as they vere this time last year.—[ Cincinnati Enquiier. -— _--— ——to Cards and Whist. As a branch of trade in England, the man- ufacture of cards attained some importance, their import; and in the reign of Henry VII. they gained the height of fashionable esteem, the amount of £5, nomean sum in those days, being devoted by the treasury to the purchase of a pack for the King’s diversion. The peo- ple of England, until this reign, had enjoved iminunity from interference With regara to such games, but the monarch enacted a statute prohibiting the apprentices from indulging in the same, ex- ~_— during the Christmas holidays, and then His daughter | only while under the roof of their respective masters. ‘This was confirmed, with due se- verity, by Henry VIII. Repression of nation- al sports must, however, necessarily be tran- sitory, and as cach generation passed away, the love of cards was transmitted in succes- sion. They became an indispensable adjunct to Christmas entertainments, and the squire of Qveen Anne’s time possessed, we are told, an almost superstitious regard for cards, never playing till the festive seasoa came round, and then the family pack was _ pro- duced from the mantel-piece with due solemnity. Stevenson, an old writer of Charles I1.’s time, says: ‘‘The country maid leaves half her market, and must be sent again, if she forgets a pack of cardson Cbrist- mas Eve.’’ Tospeak of the various games that delighted our ancestors would be a work in itself, but it may be remarked, in passing, that ‘*Primero’’ (Spanish origin) prime trump, gresco, gleek—names now vanished from our vyocabulary—were once much in vogue. Whist, or whisk, as formerly called, and which stands pre-eminent, is of compar- atively recent origin, at least in .our form of piay. It has been thought to be derived from the old.game of ‘‘trump,’’ but the rules un- der which it was framed differed very materi- allyfrom the modern. Mention is first made of whist in the ‘‘Beau’s Stratagem,’’ a play of Farquhar’s, written in 1707, but we are in- formed that it was not earlier than 100 years ago that the game began to be studied accord- ing to improved lights, by a party of players assembled at the Crown Coffee House, Bun- hill Row, London.—[The Argosy. Substitute for Carrier Pigeons. It seems that the Belgians have formed a society for the mental and moral improvement of cats. Their first effort has been to teach the cat to do the work of the carrier pigeon. The most astute and accomplished scientific person would have his ideas of locality totally confused by being tied up iu a meal-bag and carried twenty miles from home, and let out in a strange neighborhood in the middie of the night.. The experiment has, however, been tried upon cats of only average abilities, and the invariable result has been that the depart- ed animal has reappeared at his native kitchen door the next morning, and calmly ignored the whole affair. This wonderful skill in traveling through unfamiliar regions without a guide-book or a compass has suggested the possibility of cats being used as special mes- sengers. Recently, thirty-seven cats residing in the city of Liege were taken ip bags a long distance into the country. The animals were liberated at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. At 6:48 the same afternoon one of them reached his home. His feline companions arrived at Liege somewhat later; but it is understood that within twenty-four hours everv one had reached his home. It is proposed to establish at an early day a regular system of cat com- munication between Liege and the neighbor- ing villages. ’ OBITUARY POETRY. Iam thinking how the angels, At the closing ot tne day, From around the throne of glory Oame and wafted her away. - by a | 9 hla P 4 " x = i ° : ; ade aa “heed t eee A City Devoted to the Alsthetic as a Practical Interest. - — —_— The British Pre-Raphaelites—Works of Mur- ray, Stanhope and Mrs. Stillman: —Poetry in Pictures. [¥rom the New York Times. } FLORENCE, April 10.—Cities, like indivia- uals, seem to possess specific innate idiosyn- crasies of temperament which impel them with an irresistible force in certain directions of development. Thus Florence, while re- sisting. as it were involuntarily, every temp- tation to purely industrial and commercial enterprises, such as constitute the prosperity of the more northern cities like Geneva, Turin and Milan, is steadily extending itself in the line of the fine arts and manufactories of objects in which the esthetic features overpower the merely utilitarian. This is oot brought about by associative action, but by individual exertion, fol- lowing the bent of the special artistic disposi- tion. Hence the remarkable multiplication of bric-a-brac shops, shop galleries, and deposi- tories of works of fine art, ancient and mod- ern, including carved andinlaid furniture, wrought metals, majolica, ivories, mosaics, glass, and whatever gave splendor and luxury to the Middle Ages, and brilliancy and refine- ment to the Renaissance; and besides these, the modern attempts to revive allthese old arts and to invert new forms’ of Christendom beauty for the reborn taste of at large. Allthis agreeable mixture of the ornamental side of life of the old and new civilizations of Europe, to the ex- clusion of their ruder elements and unsightly, disturbing trade -ic:ces or material nuisances, such as obtei:: in most exclusively manufac- turing tovns unhappily blessed with super- abundant water or steam power, makes Flor- ence yearly becoime more attractive as a resi- dence for purposes of study, health, amuse- ment, or repose for those who are heart-sick and weary of the strain and turmoil of life in more exciting places. Yearly. too, the intel- lectual resources of Florence are increasing, as wellas the artistic advantages, so that bya natural, healthful growth, despite its financial misfortunes and lack of ordinary industrial enterprise, it is becoming more than ever one of the chief, if not the very chief, purely ws- thetic center of modern life, with uncommon economics} advantages for serious family life and education, and a corresponding conven- jent mart for the purchase and sale of art ob- jects of every age and quality. At the same time, the ranks of its sculptors, painters, and artists generally, including musicians, are rapidly swelling, and all tending toward a new departure in art, which in time may rival, and perhaps exceed, any preceding phase, notwithstanding the over-crop of fertility of the intellectual soil, that has lain fallow for two or more centuries in Italy un- der the blighting influences of despotic goy- ernments. Perhaps the most extraordinary and, in some respects, most interesting of the new elements at work here in the regeneration of Italisn art is one which now comes from En- gland, where alone it had taken firm root, and formed a special school of painting of considerable beauty and refinement, and at the same time quite opposed in motives and style of execution to all other modern forms ofart. lrefertothe subsidence of the once active pre-Raphaelite movement, as breached by Ruskin and illustrated by Holman Hunt and Millais in their earlier careers, into the distinctive styles of design, tones of coloring, and selection of sub- jects by the present distinguished chiefs, Dante Rosstti and Burne Jones. Their fol- lowingis small but intense, and remarkable for artistic and intellectual culture and mys- tical or poetical motives, forming a romantic schoo] of singular purity and singleness of purpose and novel compositions; in fine, an ideal pictorial world, utterly unintelligible or distasteful to those persons who are destitute of imagination anil judge nature and art only by the close standards of a positive, un- selected realism. This school finds its first and deepest love and inspiration in the works of the = great but narrow -in-range Florentine painter, Sandro Botticelli, who seems so equally divided in his own affections between the purest spirit of pagan art and the most mystical spirituality of feeling of Chris- tian art, always rejoicing in both in delicaey, lovelinéss, consummate chastity, and refine- ment, and a happiness that, while above the earthly standard, seems tinctured with some of its inevitable sadness and forebodings. He creates an ideal world of angels, nymphs, children, virgins, and youths, endows it witn ideal landscape and coloring, and makes it strike on the senses of sym- pathetic longers for a more perfect ex- istence like soothing of rapturous songs, inducing a calm repose and a faith in visious of better things in store for the just made per- fect. A branch of this reinspired school, origin- ating in Florence four centuries ago, revived in England in this, amid the clatter of spin- ning-wheels, the racket of iron-forging, and the smoke and grime of coal-pits, has now come to Florence to make bere its more con- geniai home. It is represented by three thor- oughly sincere, clever and accomplished ar- tists—C. Fairfax Murray, Spencer Stanhope, and Mrs. W. J. Stillman, the wife of our em- inent art critic and writer, now s80 well known in Europe and America. All of them seem to be deeply tinctured with the spirit of the English school of the pre-Raphaelite feeling. The first-named artist, however, has an accurate knowledge of the Italian old masters, especially the Venetian, and can reproduce them with a skill and accuracy as to copying that might puzzle many to distinguish his work from the origin- als, so faithfully has hestudied them. His own predilection for colors seems divided between the intense, luminous Venetian and the light- er and more ethereal tints of the best Floren- tine period for/combined purity of color and srrongly-outlined form. The direct influence of Burne Jones is more markedly manifest in the paler but har- monious tones and allegorical designs of Mr. Stanhope, which in composition combine the weaknesses in modeling and drawing that ob- tuin in both Dante Rossetti’s and Burne Jones’ own work, and throw the spectator so completely into its abstract sentiment for en- joyment. Mrs. Stillman’s compositions al- so are defective in these important points, but such are their wealth of coloring, their rich harmonies of tints, their simple romance of composition, their follow- ing of high-bred ladies and handsome girls, placed amid scenes congenial to their super- eminent refinement, that we forget shortcom- ings like the want of shadow, perspective, gradations, etc., which would be unpardona- ble in pictures that strictly challenge technical criticism on first sight, and repose at once in - ne atmosphere of pure esthetic de- ight. The paintings of Mr. Stillman are romances in color. Her color sense is so strong that it overpowers every other artistic feature, and she breathes, thinks and works under its ab- solute dictation. For it all other points in picture -composition are sacrificed or made wholly subservient. It is an effect of temper- ament, and modified only by a picturesque poetical sentiment, which finds its native ex- pression in heart-warm tints and glowing combinations and contrasts. These two forces beget a kind of troubadour and medieval literature in color, pas- tora] lyrics,and whatever breathes innocence, culture, transparent, stainless emotions, and character, hgppiness unconscious of evil and strong in its might of virtue, rejoicing in na- ture’s deepest greens, ethereal blues of per- fect skies and unbroken sunshine, bright flowers of paradisiac hues, harmonizing with rival colors, of richest, graceful costumes amid limpid fountains and emeraldine waters, their silent music stealing over the senses so irresistibly that we feel Ponce Leon’s search for the fountafn of youth has been successful and the spectator has entered the veritable Garden of the Hesperides and become one of the guileless, beautiful dwell- ers therein. Perpetual youth, beauty, gay romance and serious passions undefiled be- come tangible realities to a receptive mind, able to comprehend that art bas a loftier mis- sion than to imitate nature, and is never so great as when using its own .creative, intui- tive powers to make a world of its own apart from the natural, everyday world. The motive of Mrs. Stillman’s chief picture, called ‘‘Fiametta,’’ and just sent to the Gros- venor Gallery, London, is borrowed from **Boccaccio,’’ as its name indicates. It opens to the spectator an ideal world, like the one I have indicated, andis as refreshing to a soul weary of the chafings and crosses of actual life } as strains of earth-forgetting music from hizh- er spheres, ora bountiful oasis ina thirsty desert. Another picture representing peasant children’ at play oie mead - ows, fringed _ wit woods and fra- grant blossoms, is treated as only a trul poetic nature could compose or idealize after nature. Itraviehes the senses by delicious tones, spontaneous joy in what is best in the outer world, most su ve of another still fairer behind it. G anew interpre- tation to the best here, it hints at conditions of the one of which this Perfect gross ow. purity of single- pales i so al aa Wa tcinnat heartedness and sincerity of purpose and la- bor, a high-toned Guiostekanten of mere worldliness wholly unstrained and unaffected, of executive simplicity of manifesta- tion, but deliciously sweet and full of dreamy repose, complete the charm of Mrs..Stillman’s pepptest efforts. Her types are few, as lim . and — unvaried, but the whole is exquisitely delicate and rich in choice and method. When itis considered that quite recently this artist was a reigning belle‘in the best and most cultivated London society, where the remembrance of her exceptional beauty is still cherished asavision as bright as rare, that she was born to wealth, with every in- ducement to the brilliant career of a petted woman of fashion, the decision of character which made her renounce all to follow the profession of her ardent choic®#, and to per- sistently and laboriously study and work at it, seems phenomenal in hersex. Perhaps there is in her case an outburst of the old Greek esthetic passion, for she comes of that race renowned in art. An early union to the artist writer, her husband, 80 well able to guide and sustain her in the choice she made of a career, may help explain it, but there still remains behind all the indom- itable will and passion for art that dictat-d the career, which bids fair to be further il- lustrated by works of still greater attraction from her diligent brush, inspired by an honest admiration for what is purest in spirit and most delightful in color. JAMES JACKSON JARVES. -— INSURANCE ITEMS, Picked Up in St. Louis Offices anda Gleaned Elsewhere by Post-Dispatch Reporters. The Amity, of New York, has reinsured in the Star of the same place. The Review (of London) Almanac for 1879 is full of interesting matter. The subscriptions to the Incendiarism and Arson Reward Fund of the N. B. of F. U. amounts to $118,818 22. A certain carpet man will have an opportu- nity inthe Powell suit to tell what he knows about pencil memorandums. Genial M. C. says he didn’t go after any company, and hurried back to pay his divi- dend to the Missouri Railroad Company. Only thirty-two members answered the roll- call of the National Board of Fire Under- writers in New York at the last annual meet- ing. The attorneys for Mr. B. C. Powell have brought suit against all the insurance compa- nies in interest. The Il. G. of the P.-D. bids him God-speed! , The text of President Baker’s last message to the N. B. of F. U. was ‘‘Not yet,’’ and, apparently, the former text of ‘‘Resurgam’’ was premature. In the Powell case, an arbitration was held awarding atotal loss to the claimants. All the companies except two were included in the arbitration. / The item-gatberer of the P.-D. learns inci- Alentally that insurance on ice,either in barges 4 ° * . ‘or houses, is not considered equal to insur- weeds which now spring up out of the very Pance on pig irop. The total losses by fire in the United States for the month of March, 1879, were %,799,- 600, and the losses to insurance companies, $2.1638,900.—[Chronicle. The Washington Insurance Company of Boston has undertaken the river business, and the Mercantile of Cleveland is another aspir- ant for experience on the Western rivers. Two fire insurance agency offices have, up to May 1, paid more money for losses than they made in twelve months last year. No one can foretell the result of the remainder of the year. At last! The Sceptre and Licensed Victual- lers’ Fire Insurance Company, whose mana- ger, Mr. James Humphreys, acquired such a pre-eminence for mendacity, has given up the ghost. In three years the N. B. of F. U. has paid $15,979 80 for rewards and has convicted eighty-seven persons of arson or ineendiarism, the aggregate sentences of seventy-eight of the convicts being 507 years and six months, and nine persons sentenced for life. The following tabulation of the losses for the first months of each of five years in the United States is from the Chronicle: To Owners. $16,401,240 17,541,300 16,122,400 16,915,500 24,030,300 15,554,800 The Hand-in-Hand Fire Office, of London, chartered iv 1696, is the oldest insurance cor- poration in existence. The next oldest is thought to be the Sun Fire, of London, and itis said that the latter has not to exceed a dozen shareholders, although doing.the enor- mous business of $80,000,000 premiums an- nually. To Ins. Co. The question of whether broken rice, mil- dewed and damaged beyond question before shipment, can further be damaged by a vessel taking less water than would coverthe dun- nage, recently met with a quietus by the em- phatic statement of an underwriter of Fal- staffian girth, who vigorously denounced the rice as unmerchantable before shipment—and proved it. That committee may cry ‘‘peace’’ and say that the apportionment of blanket and spe- cific policies cut no figure in the adjustment; but the I. G. asserts to the contrary and chal- lenges any or all of said committee to deny over their own signatures that they held it to be the law and the custom to exhausta spe- cific policy before the salvage remainder of a blanket policy could be called onefor contri- bution. The Insurance Times, for April, 1879, says the Scottish Commercial was scorched so far in the January firesin New York, that in or- der to keep its surplus good, the American branch telegraphed for $20,000 to be remitted from Glasgow, and thatina statement made to the Insurance Commissioner of New York, dated March 3, 1879, the remittance enabled this agency to display inthe supplementary statement the enormous surplus of $4,252 90. The P.-D. column some weeks since chron- icled a ciaim for the loss of twenty barrels of flour, which the consignee swore was utterly worthless for any purpose. The underwriters ordered the flour forwarded to the well- known house of Glover & Odendahl to be sold, when, lo! and behold, the consignee admitted that he had sold the flour and then instructed the. shipper to draw on him for the full amount of the invoice. The consignee ex- pected to make the amount of the invoice out of the insurers, but failed. Who Owns the Land in England. {From Macmillan’'s Magazine. ] More than half the soil of the United King- domfis nominally owned by some 2,000 persons. According to a valuable analysis of the very ill-arrapged and incomplete Parliamentary re- turn of the land-owners of the United King- dom, published in the Financial Reform Al- manac for 1878, 421 persons are the owners of 22,880,755 acres, or nearly 5,000,000 acres more than one-fourth of the total area of the United Kingdom. The mind is unable to grasp what such a monopoly _ costs the country, but certain features of it stand forth with a romi- nence sufficiently notable. In a most absolute sense, the well-being of the entire population of some 32,000,000 souls 1s tee in the power of a few thousands. For these thousands the multitude toils, and it may be on occasion starves. Hence it is that all through rural England we have continually before us that most ne of all spectacles, two or three families living in great splendor, and hard by their gates the miserably r, the abject elaves of the soil, whose sole hope in life is too coat Nation, peak aa “yee —— revolution, pa or by the m e class—and the pauper’s grave. Our land- owners have not merely burdened the land with their game preserves; it up, and active , due cultivation. Ins etru which it is to t ence of the coun rabbits. akes precedence is hel teh . tivation, often riva pless . system of cul-. of private A Graphic and Thrilling Story of a Submerged City. i a How the Dykes That Should Have Saved Served to Destroy the People. [From the New York World: | VIENNA, April 6.—Nothing less than the destruction of a city of 75,000 inhabitants is the subject which urges me to address your readers—Szegedin, the capital of thorough- bred Magyarism inthe plains of the Theiss, where the Hungarians first chose to settle af- ter emigrating from theii Asian home, the plain. being the ideal country to a people which passed more than half its life-time on horseback. The Theiss plain is a district of ancient renown, where Attila with his Huns had already set- tled. It was there that the famous Avar ring or fortress was situated in which Charlemagne found so much gold and silver accumulated that the value of these precious metals after the discovery fell by one-third. It was the scene on which the Turkish wars were fought. and in ’49 the scene of the revolution quench- ed by the aid of the Russians. Allthese wars, disastrous as they were, areas nothing tothe destruction whieh the inundations of the Theiss cause every year, and which now end in 80 complete a_ catastrophe. Since Hungary has had an autonomous government great efforts have been made to regulate the course of the river Theiss, but we fear that great technical faults have been com- mitted in this work. Faults of the same kind were committed everywhere in Europe until uite lately. Germany alone seems to have ound the right means of treating rivers. Besides the embankments, impediments are thrown in the river’s way on both sides, by which it 1s forced to deepen its own bed. Although the river embankments were in good order, the Theiss, by bringing with it stones and sand, bas raised its bed so that the floods became more dangeious every successive year. Snow melted very early and very sud- denly inthe mountains this year, and on that account many avalanches fell, as, for in- stance in Bleiberg, negr Villach, where half a village was buried and thirty-eight persons remained dead on the spot. In the Carpathian mountains a great deal of snow fell this win- ter, which meited and discharged enormous quantities of water inthe valleys. Of late the inhabitants of these districts had become a little careless, relying too much upon the embank- ments of the railways which during the last ten years have been carried across the plain in every direction. Now railway embankments may be useful sometimes, but when the water gets into the country which they close in entirely they are very dangerous, because’ they retain the water, which finds no outlet. This was the case near Szegedin, which lies in the very center of a number of railway embankments, The waters of the Theiss, Maros and Koros had during a fortnight inundated the plain, which was one enormous sea of water, ex- tending over 100 square kilometers. Besides this, heavy rainfalls continued, and yet the danger was notimmediate. The inhabitants were husy raising their dykes and looked hopefully into the future, when all of a sud- den a terrible storm from the northeast arose which made the water rise in waves high enough to overpass the dykes. Of course against the elements in such an uproar nothing effectual could be done, although soldiers and pioneers were sent to aid the inhabitants of Szegedin. Only a few towns of the Theiss plains succeeded in preventing the waves from flooding them, by working day and night at their dykes. There are besides New Szegedin, Szentes, Czon- grad and Vasarhily. The first city flooded was Orashaka, where 400 houses fell. Inthe night between the 11th and 12th of March, the floods burst in upon Szegedin, so that within afew hours the roofs of most of the houses and the tops ef the lamp posts were all that could beseen. The great misfortune there, as everywhere in the Hungarian - plain, is that the few houses are built of real bricks, the greater part being built ef bricks made of lime and water and dried in the sun like Mexican adobes, which of course dissolve in water. Therefore the only houses which still stand in Szegedin are built of real bricks, andthese are scarcely atwentieth part of the town, 1n fact, little more than 200. Every- thing else disappeared in the flood. Szegedin numbered 75,000 inhabitants, according to the last census, and 9,500 buildings, of Which about 5,000 were dwelling houses. The werk of destruction was as sudden as terrible. All was over in a few hours; there- fore it is no wonder that great loss of life was incurred. The number of the dead is put at 19,000. One bundred laborers are busy from morning to night burying the dead inthe neighboring village of Szoregh. At first the number of boats was quite insufficient tosave the frightened inhabitants, many of whom the danger-bell tolled out of their sleep. When boats enough came the soldiers had hard woik to row through all the lumber tossing about on the waters and to induce the fright- ened people to let themselves be saved, as the greater part of them refused to get off their housetops into the boats without their poor property, which could not be saved under such circumstances. ‘‘Better die all of us than live without our beds ana vur coffee pots!’’ was what they allsaid. A very happy circumstance was that the em- bankments Of the Southern railway remained intact, sothat help could continually be got from ‘Tamesvar and the rescued could be sent away inthat direction. In the first hours this could not be thought of. The desperate people clung to the dykes, climbed up trees, tilled the few stone houses to eastadinn. Many were frozen in the first night, the wind blowing mercilessly through their scanty, wet clothing. ‘Twenty were found frozen to death, und twenty-three went mad from ter- ror and have been sent to the madbouse in Pesth. The brave men who risked their lives a thousand times to bring help were witnesses of the most heartrending scenes. Sometimes as they ap- proached a housetop ora tree to which drown- ing people clung, these could hold onno longer and dropping in the water were drown- ed before the boats could reach them. An old man in the center ofa mound of piled-up rubbish was heard calling desperately for help, but it was impossible to approach bim, and he perished. “A white-haired grand- mother was seen diving for something. She found it at last, her drowned grandchild, which she beld up towards heaven, laughing hoarse- ly, a mad-woman’s laugh. An expedition from Pesth, beaded by a member of Parlia- ment, arrived three days after the catastrophe, and he tells usthateven then he was a wit- ness of the most dreadful scenes. A small rafter was floating by them, when one man espied a small baby on it, tied to a divan. The expedition was quick enough in bringing the poor little one into safety, but its parents have not been found and are most likely drowned. Thenawoman signaled to them froma roof. When they approached they thought she had fainted. Sheseemed lifeless, so that they had to bear her into the boat. She was not ten minutes there when a feeble wail betrayed the awful fact that she had given birth toachild—a boy it turned out to be. Allthese people were taken tothe station a yard high in water, and some were sent away to neighboring towns and villages. Thous- ands found shelter in railway cars which came from all parts, but the greater part remained in the open air, where the cold and wet had made many of them very ill, especially, of course, the women and children. At first among the other evils that tor- mented the poor, stricken in- habitants of Szegedin was hunger, for of course with so many lives to save, vic- tuals could not be thought of. Butvery soon whole trains full of bread, cheese, meat and wine came from Tamesvar and Pesth and brought relief. The railway companies send everything gratis, and now large quantities of clothes are daily being carried to the south- ern station. Subscriptians were opened the very next dayand have had fine results. Thus the Pesther- we German-Hungarian pap- er, received ,000 florins and the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna, 15,000 florins, although it is the organ least friendly to Hungary. Berlin has sent 15,000 marks and all the institutioas in the country, societies, unions and the like, have sent large sums. The Emperor, in his own and the Empress’ name, gave 50,000 florins, and went the Szegedin in person to assure the inhabitants that everything within human power would be done for them. The Emperor was moved totears by the misery around, and told the people that the Empress was returning home earlier than she had in- tended from the hunting season in Lreland on their. account. The member for Szegedin informed the Hungarian national assembly that the dam- age done in Szegedin amounts to about 15,- 000 ,000 florins, not much, if the extent of the misfortune be considered. He believed. that a joan of 6,000,000 florins, to be repaid in 20 years, will bufid the city up again. On the day after the catastrophe the Em- peror published a letter addressed to the na- tion, in which he recommends the inhabitants of the flooded city to the mercy of all his oth- er subjects. 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No. 617 St. Charles street, having made private and chronic dis- eases the study of his life, has,regardless of Hey eres fitted up an establishment occupy ag a whole house, in which may be feund consultation, wa!ting and of- fice rooms; also an extensive laboratory and the urest drugs. The Docter has been longer engaged ere than any other so advertising, as the back files of our paper show. {From the Missouri Republican, 1869. ]} If experience, permanency of location, or facilities fo: curing disease are matters of importance, invalids should consult Dr. Whittier, 617 St. Charlies street, whose practice is confined to special diseases. RIVATE matters cured safely, speedily. advice free; nv matter who have failed; no fee until ben- efit. at old office. 705 Chestnut. Dr. Jacaues. ¥ to 7. OR GOUT weit CHRONIC A ALICYLIC SURE CURE. Manufactured‘only under the above trade mark by the European Salicylic Medicine Cempany, of Paris and Leipzig. Immediate relief warranted. Permanent cure guaranteed. Now exclusively used by all celebrated hysicians of Europe and America.becoming a staple, rmiless and reliable remedy on bogh Continents. The highest medical academy of Paris reports ninety cures out of one hundred cases inthree days. Secret —the only dissolver of the poisonous Uric exists in the blood of rheumatic and gouty patients. One dollar a box, six boxes for $5 60. Sent to any address on receipt of price. Endorsed by physicians. Sold by all druggists Address WASHBURN & CO., Only Importers” Depot. 212 Broadway, New York. LEGAL. RUSTEE’S SALE.—Whereas, by deed of trust, dated May 23, A. D. 1876, and recorded In book No. 543, pose 557 of the records in the Recorder's office of the county, now city of St. Louis, State of Missouri. Charlies ©. Sanguinet, an unmarried man, conveyed to the undersigned. J. 8. Fullerton, of the cit St. Louls, State of Missouri, as trustee, the following described real estate, lying and being in the county of St. Louis, State of Missouri, to-wit: First. west half of a tract of Sr., to ypolite of Se tember, 1831, by deed recorded in book R, page 365, St. Louis county (now city) records, described as fol- lows: Commencing ata stone on the northwest cor- ner of said tract ns, thence with the northern line of said tract south 59, east 17.69 chains to the northeast corner of this tract and northwest corner of the tract secondly described, thence south 29° ,west 32.34 chains with the division line between said first and second tracts. thence north 60° 30 chains, west 17.69 chains, the southwest corner of 134 arpens, thence north 29>, east 32.43 chains the place of beginning, and containing 67 arpens, more or less. ‘ soe A alf of = 134 arpens, esc as \ows? Degien at a stone. the northeast corner of said trac of 134 arpens, thence along its northern boundary line no 59°, west 13.15 chains to the northwest corner of this and the northeast corner of the frst described tract; thence with the line dividing said tracts south 29°. west 32.43 chains tothe south line of said tract; thence along the south line south 60° east 21.88 sou veyed on the — the last sabove and west by 1 sol LEGAL. & DMINISTRATOR’S SALE. —Notice aoe? to neue pa ag es, amoun . “apg pons PUGENE 3. GROSS, Administrator of Alonzo McCurdy, deceased. St. Louis, April 28, 1879. 194 DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.—Noticeis hereby given that letters of administration on the estate of Thomas Feasby, eased, were granted to the undersigued by the Probate Court of St. Louis County on the 20th day of February, 18; All rsons against said estate: and if such claims be not exhibitea with- in two years from the date of this publication, they will be forever barred. E. Ww. DCUGLAS., Asmigisretee of the Estate of Thomas Feasby, eceas ed. St. Louls, Mo., Aprill9, 1879. RUSTEE’S SALE.—Under the provisions of a . deed of trust given December 3, 1874, and of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for the city of St. Louis, In book No. at page 393, by Oby Robirds and his wife Priscilla, tothe undersigned as trustee to secure the yinent of certain notes therein described; and whereas the principal note therein mentioned has long since become due and re- mains unpaid. Notice is hereby given that I, at the equest of the holder of sald note, will on MONDAY. THE 26TH DAY OF MAY. 1879, atthe east frout door of the Court-house, in the city (formerly county) of St. Louls, Mo., and between the hours of 10 o'clock a.m. and 5 o'clock p. m. of that to-wit: Lots num- ber 26 and 27 in block number one In Robird’s addi- tion, a plat of which addition is on record in the office ofthe Recorder of Deeds forthe City of St. Louis; said lots having a frontage in the aggregate of fifty feet on Victoria avenue by a depth south- ward of one hundred and seventeen feet more or less to analley; and bounded on the north by said Victoria avenue, cast by lot 28, south by alley and west by lot 25 of said addition. JOUN BARRON, Trustee. St. Louis, May 2. 1879. 199 DMINISTRATOR’S SALE OF REAL &STATE. Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an or- der of the Probate Court ofthe city of St. made at the March term thereof,I, Seneca N. Taylor, administrator of the estate of Emily Linn, deceased, will,on Monday, the 26th day of May, 1879. at the eastfront door of the Court-house, in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, and during the session of the Circuit Court of said city, sell, at public auction, all the interest of Emily Linn, de- ceased, inandto the following real estate, to-wit: Lot 5 of block 5 of the 3d subdivision of the estate of Robert Wash, déceased, as per plat recorded in Plat Book 8, page 144, of the Kecorder’s office of said city. which lot has a front of 63 feet in the East line of Taylor avenue ty a depth of 150 feet to an alley; and it is bounded west by Taylor avenue, north by St. Ferdinand street, east by an by a line 63 feet south of and Ferdinand avenne. Also, lot 1 of Louis, alley, and south arallel with &t. lock 2 of Taylor avenue subdivision as laid out and recorded in Plat Book 10, page 87. of the office of said Recorder. which lot is described as follows: be- ginning ata point in the western line of Taylor ave- nue 113 fect south of the south line of Parsons street, and running thence south on the west line of Taylor avenue, 25 feet to an alley, thence west along the north line of said alley 135 feet 6 inches to the east line of another alley 15 feet wide, as shown on said plat, thence nerth- wardly along the east line of said alley 25 feet te the dividing line between said lot Land 2 of same block, thence eastwardly with said line 135 feet 6 inches to the west line of Taylor avenue, and point of begin- ning. Allofsaid land being in Said city and State, The terms of said sale will be for cash to the highest tnd best bidder and subject to the approval of said court. SENECA N. TAYLOR. St. Louis, April 26, 1879. Aduipiteee> 93 “A&A DMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. — Whereas. the Probate Court of the City of St. *Leuls, Missouri. on the 10th ap | of March, 1879, did order the sale of the following described property at public vendue, or so much thereof as may be neccs- rary to pay the debts due by John Fitzmaurice, de- ceased; thatistosay: list. Two (2) lots ground in City Block No. 590 of the city of St. Louls, .State of Missouri, fronting together 30 6-12 feet on Four- teenth street of said city by 127 6-12 fect deep, bounded west by Fourteenth street, east by an alley, and on the north and south by parts of said city block No. 590, being the same lot conveyed by A. Ward and wife to Ellen Norton, first wife of John Fitzmau- rice, deceased, by deed dated March 13, 1850, : recorded in Book No. 5. pages 169 and 170, Recorder's Office of the City of St. Lonis; the provements on said lots consist Of two brick family dwellings, cach 2 stories high, and sundry rooms and other improvements ou the rear of said premises for f-mily purposes. 2d. Alotof greund in sald city block No. 590, fronting 25 feet on Thirteenth street by a depth westwardly of 1276-12 feet to an alley, bounded on the east by Thirteenth street, west by an alley, north and south by parts of said biock, said lot being beld by lease from the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools; the terms of sale: one-third cash, remainder in two equal pay- ments due in one and two years respectively from the day of sale, deferred payments to bear six per cent interest per annumand to be secured by deed of trust on the property sold; now, therefore, pursuant to seid order of said Probate Court, I will. on THE IWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF MAY, 1879, (being the fourth Mondayfof said month), between the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'cloek in the afternoon of said day, at the eastern front door of the Court-honse, in the City of St. Louis. Mis- scuri, and during the session of the St. Louls Circuit Court, expose to sale to the highest bidder the said real estate upon the terms aforesaid. tN. T. WHITMORE, Administrator Estate of John Fitzmaurice, deceasede ANDREW KING, Attorney. rye -) Se g SALE OF REAL ESTATE.— 4 Whereas, the Probate Court of the city Louls, on the 29th day of April, by its renewed order of sale, order the sale of the following described property at public vendue to pay the debts due by George | . Stansbury, deceased; thatis to say: A_ certain lot in the city of St. Louis, in block No. 215 E.. of said city, com- mencing at the northeast corner of lot No. 9 of John S. Rundlett’s addition, thence southwardly with the west line of Twelfth street 89 feettothe southeast corner ofiot No lin block No. 3ef Ann Horrell’s addition. thence westwardly at right angles with Iwelfth street 155 feetto the southwest corner of said lot No. 1 on an alley 20 fect wide, thence north- wardly with the east line of saidalley 40 feet to the northwest corver of lot No. 1, thence eastward! with the north line of said lot No. 1 and parallel with Spruce street thirty-five feet to the southwest cor- ner of lot No. 9 of Rundlett’s addition, thence northwardly with the west line of lot No. 9, 49 feet to the northwest corner of said lot, thence eastwardly with the north line oflot No. 9 and parallel with Spruce street 120 feet tothe place of beginning on Twelfth street, said lot embractng two lots, that is: Lot one of block 3o0f Ann Horrell’s addition to the city of St. Louis, fronting 40 feet on west side of Spruce street by a depth westwardly with same width of 155 feet, the south line of said lot being 180 feet north of north line of Poplar street; and also lot 9 of John 8S. Rundiett’s addition to said city, fronting 49 feet ov west side of Spruce street and running back westwardly with same width 120 feet, this lot lying adjacent to and immediately north of the above de- scribed lot lof block 3 of Ann Horrell’s addition, of St. Spruce street. TERMS OF SALE.—One third of the purchase money in cash, and the balance in two equal installments payable in one and two years respective- ly fromthe day of sale, the deferred payments to bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, and to be secured by deed of trust onthe property sold. Now, therefore, pursuant to said order of said Pro- bate Court, I will on SATURDAY, THE 31ST DAY OF MAY, 1879, at the eustern front door of the court-house of the city of St. Louis, and during the session of the Cir- cuit Court ofthe city of St. Louis, between the hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o‘clock of that day. expose to sale at public vendue to the highest bidder the said real estate upen the terms aforesaid. LUCRETIA STANSBURY. Executrix of the last will of Geo. L. Stansbury. de- ceased. 1ys RUSTEE’S SALE.—Whereas Andrew Allen ani Lucy J., his wife,and James Allen (widower),by their deed dated March 22, 1873, and recorded in the Recorder's office of Cass county, State of Missouri, in book 10 at page 599, conveyed to the undersigned the following described real estate lying and being situate in the county of Cass and State of Missouri, to-wit: The northwest quarter ‘(%) of section 35 in township 46 and range 33. The west half of the southwest quarter (4) and lot No. 1 of south- west quarter ('4) of section 19, the south half of the southeast quarter (‘'4) of section 20, and the north half (*,) of the northeast quarter (4) of section 29,all in township 46 and range 32—also the southwest quarter (44) Of section 35, township 46 and range 33— a tract of sixteen (16) acres off the south end of the east half (44) of the southwest quarter (‘j) of section twenty-two (22), the west half (44) of the northwest quarter (44) of section 27; all of the east half (44) of the northwest quartes (i) of said section 27 which lies north of the Pacific Railroad and containing about forty (40) acres. The southwest rt ek: ) of the southwest quarter and the south half (44) the west quarter (‘,) of the southwest quarter ( 4) of sec- tion 22, and the undivided half of south half (‘;) of the southwest quarter (\) of section 27, all in town- ship 46 and range 30; which conveyance was made in trust to secure the payment of certain notes specified in said deed. Now under the provisions of said deed, the undersigned will offer sai property for sale at public auction, for cash, to the highest bidder at the eastern front door of the Ceurt-heuse, in the city of St. Louis, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. 4 o'clock p. m. oni rae pe bf 19, 1879, or e purposes eed. ° J. W. LUKE, Trustee St. Louls, April 23. 1879. RUSTEE’S SALE.—Whereas, by deed of trust dated May 13, A. D. 1872. and recorded in book No. 452, page No. 37. of the records in the Kecord- er’s office of the county [new city) of St. Louls, State of Missouri, Martin F. niey and Cyrene C. Hanley no, then of the city o en two hundredths a . county, State of Missouri, in the northwest fractional quarter of section number three (3), township 45 north, range 6 east, being lots numbers ten (10), twelve (12) and twenty-five (25), according to the lat of ‘*Mount Olive.*’ a subdivision of ad frac- onal quarter section made by Martin F. og which is recorded in t. POST-DISPATCH —_—_—_—_———— THE ST, LOUIS DISPATCH, Established 1952. THE EVENING POST, Established 1878. CONSOLIDATED DECEMBER 10, 1878, The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis Having the Press Franchise. THE RECOGNIZED ORGAN OF THE MIS- SOURI DEMOCRACY. PROSPECTUS FOR 1879: . The unprecedented success which follow- ed the consolidation of the Post and Dispatch has already made it the foremost evening paper in the West, and for many in- terests and elements the most prominent in this State. The proprietors offer their thanks for the past, and promise doubled energy and en- terprise for the future. 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a THE HOME. It ie not doubted that men have a home @ wanderer, and if he returns he ceases to wander.—([Definition from Civil Law. —_—— ee *'Then stay at home, my heart, and rest; The bird is safest in its nest; O’er all that flutter their wings and fly A hawk is hovering in the sky; To stay at bowe is best.’’ —[Longfellow. The Consequence of Over-Work. Nothing is more reprehensible and thor- oughly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfills her duty by doing an amount of work that is far beyond her strength. She not only does not fulfill her duty, but she most signally fails in it. and the failure is truly deplorable. There can be no sadder sight than that of a broken-down, over-worked wife and mother— a woman who is tired all her life through. If the work of the household cannot be accom- plished by order, system ‘and mode- rate work, without the necessity of wearing, heart-breaking toil—toil that is never ended and never begun, without making life a tread-mill of labor, then, for the sake of humanity, let the work go. Bet- ter live in the midst of disorder than that or- der should be purchased at so high a price, the cost of health, strength, hapviness and al! that makes existence endurable. The woman who spends her life in unnecessary labor is by this very labor unfitted for the highest duties of home. She should.be the haven of rest to which both husband and children turn for peace and refreshment. She should be the careful, intelligent adviser and guide of the one, the tender confidant and helpmate of the other. -How is it possible for a woman ex- hausted in body, and as a natural consequence in mind also, to perform either of these offices? No, it is not possible. The constant strain is too great. Nature gives way beneathit. She loses health and spirits, and hopefulness, and, more than all, her youth, the last thing that a woman should allow to slip from her, for, no matter how old she is in years, she should be young iu heart and feeling, for the youth of age is sometimes more attractive than youth itself. To the overworked woman this green old age is out of the question: old age comes on her sere and yellow before its time. Her disposition is ruined, her temper is soured, her very nature is changed by the burden which, too heavy to carry, is dragged along as long as wearied feet and tired hands can do their part. Even her affections are blunted, and she becomes mere- ly a machine—a woman without the time to be womanly, a mother without the time to train and guide her children as only a mother can, a wife without the time to sympathize with and cheer her husband, a woman so over- worked during the day that when night comes her sole thought and most intense longing is for the sleep and rest that very probably will not come; and even if it should, that she is too tired to enjoy. Better by far let every- thing go unfinished, to live as best she can, than to entail on herself and family the curse of overwork. What Women Can Do. The Washington Post has quite a long and interesting letter, giving a very thorough and comprehensive description of the decorative art rooms in New York. Fromit we cullthe following,which we hope may be of interest to some of the readers of the Home: The society éccupies a house on Nineteenth street. the double parlors of which have been converted into salesrooms. It is rather a bizarre effect that strikes one on first entering the rooms.They are crowded. Such a medley of color! Such glitterand glow! But presently order comes out of chaos. You begin to see that the glitter is due to the deco- rated china and tothe mirrors of metal and glass, and mantles done in tile. The soft rich- ness of textile fabrics piled up in great glass cases—that is the Kensington art needlework, infinite inits application to household fur- nishings. This Kensington work 1s lovely. It * is donein the Kensington crewels, which will wash,and the colors are so fine and so skilfully combined that the work, when done, is really artistic. and means something. There is a sereen in dead gold satin with rich border of maroon velvet and fringe, Across it is thrown a branch of blackberry, fruit and blossom. It is perfect. Whoever drew that branch felt how ablackberry bush grew. Theie is no noOweense aboutit. Itis thorny, uncomprom- ising, aggressive. Thisisthe secret of the beauty of all art work—good drawings. If you are only going to etch a bird witn black thread ona bit of crash toweling for a ‘*splasher,’’ you must draw it so faithfully thatyou can hear the light rush of its wings in flight. If you don’t it will be rejected. If you do, it will be accepted, andif it is very good indeed, it will receive the seal of the so- ciety. This ‘‘etching,’’ by the way, is ex- quisite, and, simple as it looks, requires more skill than the heavier work. Every line,every stitch, bas something to say for itself. That screen yonder for instance. Just a wo- man standing, catching doves in a net thrown above her head. It is only outiined, but the exquisite lines of the figure, the eurve of the net, the fluttering birds—it is as simple and graceful as the an- tique. ere was a distaff inthe hall. It was idyl- lic. It is the latest whim of bric-a-brac in New York parlors. ‘*Are there really so many old distaffs in garrets, or is there a manufactory somewhere that turns out old distaffs by the dozen?’’ I asked Mrs. Libby, the pleasant and efficient lady who has had the salesrooms in charge from the start. She showed me the needlework, from the dainty little doilies of linen, with a bit of grass or butterfly, or a Japanese hiero- glyphic, up to elaborate spreads and hangings of silk and sateen, heavily embroidered in silk. There are some chairs upholstered in this work, and any lady who carves in wood can get up lovely chairs with this rich fabric in contrast with the carved wood. There is less here of wood carving than of anything else. A arlor ease] anda hanging cabinet from St. vis, and a little—a very little—work from Cincinnati. The truth is, there is so good a home demand for @incinnati work that she need not go abroad to sell her wares. There are cases of decorated china, porcelain vases, painted plaques. hung like pictures on the walls. Somebody has been daring enough to copy Cabanal’s *‘Echo’’ in sepia tints on a porcelain plaque. Why will people do such things? It is don’ with much skill; but lovel woman won’t bear such treatment. The flies tints are cold and the contours hard. It is exactly the effect which is obtained by the woman who ‘‘enamels.’’ ‘*‘Who bas been working after Madame Hegg?’’ seeing some unmistakable water- color flowers on the wall. **Afier Madame Hegg? No one. Those were sent here by herself.’’ So it appears that the best water colorist in Germany has found out the New Yorkart salesrooms. The needlework—about which it seems impossible to stop writing, it was so pretty—is made up in screens of all shapes and sizes. Some are framed in simple, light, wood frames, others in ebony ard gilt, elaborately carved. There are branches of autumn leaves; the esthetic bulrush waves in every corner. and bids fair to become our lotus and acanthus. There isa mirror, with broad, beveled frame of ebonized wood, decorated in convolvulus. Another, with flat. gilt frame, over which trails a branch of scarlet runner, with sharp-pointed leaves like tongues of flame, and. in quaint, illuminated text, the motto, ‘‘I behold my shadow, and pass.’’ There are horse- shoes in all manner of devices. with the Ger- man ‘‘Gluck,’’ crowded by Japanese decora- tions. The trail of the serpent is over us all, but why should we veneer with Japanese art a legend of good luck which belongs exclusively to other nations? Thereis a little modeling, not very much—just two or three conan 3 in plaster in low relief—done by two girls in Newark, N. J. And agreat many of the tiles on sale for chimney pieces and window-boxes -aredone by some ladies in Lancaster, Pa. They do a deal of work, fill orders vee a work in a theory and practice of ecoration thatis boldand effective, rather than delicate and artistic. On the whole, however, the work shows a ho 1 out- from the idea that decoration is pic- ure-making, and we are not half so likely as we were in the beginning of this ceramtc oraze to’find a painted face on a dinner plate. We might take a hint from Oriental schemes of color, aod if the Chinese must go, we can, at least, keep their art. Care of the Hands. should be ing and the finge for cleani mse ing of b the na sis as ugly as it is the skin is h of the hand common and useful application. the hands should always be soft and flexible. How to Wash Laces. Now that lace and muslin ruffles are uni- versally worn, the pleasure of the possessors is a little dashed by the knowlege that the pretty varieties will loose their freshness and half, at least, of their beauty in the wash,un- less recourse be had tothe expensive skill of a French laundress. But if- they are washed at home after the following manner, they may hold up their heads with the best of the unwashed: Coverhalfa dozen wine or porter bottles with old stockings, sewed.on to fitas tightly as possible. | On these baste the soiled lace, carefully catching down every tiny loop in the border. This work is tedious but necessary. When the lace is fastened, cover the bottle in hot suds made of fine soap and change the cooling suds to hot again several times aday. Or, better still, put the bottle in the boiler, and let it boil two or three bours, by which time the lace will be quite clean. Settle the bottle inthe air, and leave it tillthe lace is nearly bus not quite dry. Then rip the lace off carefully, and press it in a book for afew hours. It will come out spotiess, not too white, and with the almost imperceptible stiffness which new lace has. Even point lace emerges unscathed from this rocess. With half a dozen bottles much ace can be cleaned at once, andthe lace can be tacked on at odd minutes. A Ducking Stool. In the crypt of Warwick Church, says aj correspondent of the Galaxy, the mighty arch- es of which spring from one enormous pier, there is an article which has loag gone out of use—whether advantageously or not I shall not venture to say—a ducking-stool, made for the public discipline of scolding women. This is one of the only two, I believe, that re- mainin England. It consists of a strong oak- en frame on low wheels, from which a seat rises from an inclined beam that works upon a pivot or axle. The scold was lashed into the seat, and then the ‘‘institution’’ was drawn to the river side at a conveniently deep place, and rolled in until the patient sat just above the water. Thenthe land end of the beam was tipped up, with its lading, went down under the water, where it was allowed to re- main not too long, and was then raised for breathing time. This process was repeated as often as it was thought beneficial to the lady under treatment, or necessary for the peacsa of her family and neighborhood. Whether hus- bands ever interfered for their wives thus dis- ciplined, as wives do now sometimes for hus- bands who are unreasonably interfered with in the gentle sport of blacking theireyes or kick- ing their ribs, is not recorded. Amusement for the Children. On rainy days, the active child resents his confinement within doors, and is more than usually troublesome. I know of nothing which will afford him surer amusement than the making of scrap-books. Provide the little ones witb a pair of blunt-pointed scissors and let them cut eut and trim neatly, the pictures from papers you do not care to preserve, cir- culars of farm machinery or anything they fancy, and then, armed witha cup of boiled starch and an old tooth brush (if you have one), let them exercise their ingenuity in filling the book with their collections. Quite small children find enchantment in this kind of work. A large picture may be put in the cen- ter of the page, and the space around it filled with small ones, or short pieces of prose or peetry. I have seen very pretty ornaments for these juvenile scrap-books cut out of the illustrated books for children, which had be- come badly tattered with use so that the pic- tures were all that were worth preserving. When two pages are full the book should be left open until dry before goingon. This amus@ment need not make much litter about a house, and the little workers can easily learn to pick ~ | their scattering scraps after themselves, and wash the starch-cup and brush after using it. so that it will be ready for the next rainy day. Albani. I was at Saratoga eight or nine years ago, and attended an entertainment in the ball- room of the United States Hotel. Atthe close an old French gentleman rose and begeed the audience to hear his daughter sing. Among the few who attenved to tne request this lady saw two rather shabby figures advance behind the old gentleman; they were his daughters, and one was the Albani of to-day, who was then listened to merely as a matter of courtesy, as there was nothing at all in her voice at that time to foreshadow the great fame she now enjoys. The father would, however, persist that his daughter could sing, and when others turned away in disbelief. he held steadily to his faith, and she, in spite of slights and dif- ficulties, persisted and went onward. You may have read of a magnificent homein Lon- don where Albani lives ‘with that old father and the sister who was her companion in the shabby bonnet and shawl that failed even in the slightest degree to enlist the interest of a Saratoga ball-room audience. Lately, the newspapers tell, she had twenty-three recalls in one night before a critical audience in St. Petersburg, and the great and the high are now busy in her laudation. Idle Tears. {From Harper's Bazar. ] Although there are not many objects in na- ture more beautiful than a tear on the cheek of beauty, there are few that need to be handled with more delicacy and skill in order not to become disfiguring. When the eye brims, and the liquid glow for one moment sparkles and overfiows in soft suffusion, and the crystal falls and lingers one moment like the dew-drop on the rose, the charm is per- fect. But let it be followed by another and another, and then the eyelids redden, the drops forsake the cheek and take to trickling down the nose, Which reddens at the tip, the lips are distorted, and presently it is no Goes a beauty, but a fright, that enchains the gaze. The old saying that a lovely woman is never lovelier than when in tears needs thus be read in the singular, since where one tear charms, as we see, a multitude of tears repels. Nor,is it the sense of beauty only that is repelled, it is the love of pleasure too. The worldis not so overburdened with agreeable things to many that they like to have trouble in- truded on them; and unless the trouble and grief are those that really demand sympathy and effort, and kindle pity, it does the cryi parties no good to disturb the equanimity ‘of their neighbors. Nor are men, in especial after the age of gallantry, moved by tears as some are wontto think; they are more fre- quently simply teased and annoyed by them. Tears are something, on the whole, that one should keep to one’s self as much as poasible, like one’s good resolutions and one’s prayers. Shed in secret, they relieve the heavy heart, how much! They clear the clouded brain, they open the way to remedy: unshed, their scaiding source seems to sear the very soul and paralyze all endeavor. Yet all tears are not the tears of misery, as all laughter is not the laughter of joy. Not to linger on the hysterical tear of nervous ex- citement, whether over good happenings or bad, which is a monstrosity, there are the tears of simple sadness, the tears of some divine despair that overflow the eyes one knows not why, which, if they are sad, are also sweet, 96 that if one could analyze them closely, they would be found to be a pleasure rather than a pain. Yet there is but one tear, after all, at which we can afford to smile, and that is the tear of childhood. shed so profusely, and spilling over the rosy face like beads slipping from a string, and all for things which are pinpricks in comparison with the later wounds of life. Doubtless the pin- pricks are terrible thrusts and pains to the lit- tle creatures who have no standard of meas- urement with larger pains, and while we all laugh at them, we all realize this, and we never love a __ child ; so much as when its dear face is bathed in these drops of trouble. These are the onl tears that leave no traces, that do not ploug furroughs in the face, that do not exhaust vital force, that do not ruin beauty. Yet whilethe tear yexes a man, eases 4 woman, is admired by the painter, kissed away by the mother, the chemist says of it vnly that it consists of A ips water wpiding in solution one per cent of solid matter, chiefly albumen and common salt, with a trace of phosphate of soda. There’s blood on the moon, and either Stephen English will lie again in Ludlow Street Jail, or the Scottish Commercial will accept the position into which it is being forced of its motto, ‘‘Nemo me im- ?? and so prove itself |of all kinds OUR BOOK COLUMN. Books Received. {From the St. Louis Book and News Company, 307 North Fourth street. } Perris, George T. Tne Great Italian and Freneh Composers, New York: D. Appleton & Co. (1879). Pp., 248. P., 30c. Beecher, Mrs. W.H. Letters from Fiorida. ta Naa D. Appleton & Go. (1879). Pp., Adams, W. H. Da The Secre Saccess; or, How to t On in the World. American edition. New York: G. P. Put- nam’s Sons (1879). Pp., 389. Cl., $1 50. Putnam, George Haven. Interna‘ional Copy- right. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1879). Pp., 54. P., 25c. Weigall, Chas. H. The Art of Figure Draw- ing. New York: G. FP. Putnam’s Sons (1879). Pp., 53. Bds., 50c. Alden, Joseph, D..D., LL. D. Thoughts the Religious Lite. New York: G. P. P nam’s Sons (1879). Pp., 129. COl.. $1 Beerbohm, Julius. Wanderings in Patagonia. (Leisure Hour Series.) New York: enry Holt & Company (1879). Pp.,294. Bds., $1. [From the Hildreth Printing Company, 407 North Fourth street. } t of on ut- L’Assommoir, anovel. Phila., -eterson &Bruthers. Pp., 380. P., 75 cents. Wild Life in a Southern Country. Bost., Roberta Bros., 1879. Pp., 344, cl., $1 25. Elloart, Mrs. Woman’s Wrong. Phila., T. B. Peterson & Bros. Pp., 408. Tan vellum, $1 Zola, Emile. T. B. TF Greville eee Dournot, a Russian etory. Phila., T. B. Peterson & Bros. Pp., 276. P., 50 cents. One of Rossetti’s Gems. While Dante Rossetti may be denounced as arn unnatural pre-Raphaelite, turning up in the nineteenth centurv, fossil-like, as a trilobite, yet he has points. That poem ot ‘‘Jenny’’ has a depth that Rossetti himself is perhaps hardly aware of. Heno doubt pins his hope of im- mortality on ‘‘The Blessed Damozel,’’ a thing all full of the flutter of angels’ wings and ethereal presences, of ghosts, thin flames and aureoles of straw-colored hair, but not a pulse of human blood in the whole in- vyentorv. ‘‘Jenny’’ is intensely alive; she is a woman of real flesh, and a puzzle to deeper minds than Rossetti’s. Inthat poem he acci- dentally touched a chord, outof his own atr, perhaps, but in full unison with modern thought. In a foot note to his ‘‘Last Confession’’ is this translation from the [talian: For very surely, Though my arms and shoulders Dazzle beholders, And my eyes glisten— All’s nothing purely. W hat are words said for Atall about them, It he they were made for Can do without them? Mrs. Evans’ Next Work. It is about time tora new work trom the fa- cile pen of Mrs. Augusta Jane Evans-Wilson. It will probably be called ‘‘Rikshas.’’ The hero, who might be named Owen Arran, will be a miracle of erudition sowing his wild oats. He will take distorted views of things, and have a tendency to gravitate towards the heart ot Abyssinia or to the sbrine of Mithra on the Brahmapootra. Hewill b3 very wicked, refusing to attend church onthe Sabbath, and alluding to the Rig-Veda and the Moabite Stone whenever the Scriptures are imen- tioned. The scene will be laid at some inaccessible point on the eastern shore of Maryland at the ancestral mansion of the Ar- rans, a house fuller than the British Museum of artistic loot. There will be yataghbans and chibouks, attar of roses, a re- ceipt to make Greek fire wiit- ten in the cuneiform char- acter, a lock of Berenice’s bair, an enchanted scarabeus trom the sarcophagus of Ptolemy Soter, Cingalese myrrh, haschish, betel nuts, in short aloan exhibition ofthe entire Orient, especially of Arabia Felix. The grounds wilil be tastefully laid outon designs copied from the ruins of Persipolis and Baaibec. Upas, papyrus, bamboo and camphorwood will be planted. The heroine, Guinevere di Melodian, will be discovered listliessly reading the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, in the orig- inal of course. Suddenly a nad dog will rush at her and a centipede willdrop on her shoulder, and lightning will strike the tree under which she is sitting, and, looking up, she will perceive a mountain tor- rent about to engulf hei1—she will be profound- ly calm, however. Arran will composedly snatch her out of the way of the electric fluid, put her up beyond the reach of the waters,tear the mad dogin two and devour the centipede; then, removing his faultless tile with his bien- gantee band, he will be about to take leave, when she will draw a. similitude be- tween her case and that of Wuk- sbanu Bati. He will mention Krish- na Coosba and the Taj Mahal, and the ac- quaintance will be formed. After a little while Arran will exile himself to Lake Tchad or the Hindu Koosh, and Guinevere will take a clasa in a Baptist Sunday-school, which she will teach intaglio work and Parsee. Many years will pass and Arran will return home with a hymn book under each arm and his pockets full of the publications of the American Tract Society. He will abase himself before her and eventually they wiil be married by the Patri- arch of Damascus at the Basilica Ichthea. Literary Notes. John Burroughs was ticket taker at Walt Whitman’s lecture the other night. Hawthorne’s quaint ‘-House et the Seven Gable,’’ at Salem, is about to be sold. gon received $25 for ‘‘Paradise Lost.’’and Dr. Hollaud received $12,000 for ‘*Bitter Sweet.’’ Professor Fisher discusses the foundations ot religious fuith in his new work on ‘‘Faith and Rationalism.’’ A Boston lady, going abroad, had oight copies of Phillips Brooks’ sermons sent her to read on the voyage, A writer in a Southern periodical calls Uncle Tom ‘‘that preposterous oid darkey’’ and Mrs. Stowe ‘‘the American Mrs. Jellyby.’’ Prince Metternicn’s autobiography is the only important announcement of the London publishers. It will notbe ready betore Octo- ber. A manuscript concerning the murder of Riz- zio, and Mary Stuart’s subsequent attiturle to- ward Darnley and the Leagued Lords, has been unearthed in the Cottonian Library. Macmillan & Co. have published Charles hingsley’s poems in style uniform with their one-voiume edition of Matthew Arnoid’s, and will toJow it with Arthur Clough’s, which are in piess. The Turkish Alphabet Commission have re- solved onthe important step of spelling the names of places on staff mapsin Rowan char- acters, preserving, however, the Turkish or- thograpby. Mr. Planche, the dramatist, now upward of eighty years of age, ts still under the necessity ot laboring ut bis desk, and the proposition bas been made to publish for his benefit a handsome edition of bis extravaganzas in five volumes. In fulfillment®f the wishes of the late Mr. R. R. Brash, hia work op ‘‘The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Guedhbil in the British Is- lands’’ will be published by his widow in a very short time.This work contains fifty plates, photo-lithographed trom original drawings, ener with a large number ol Ogam inscrip- tions The ‘*Bagford Ballads,’’ being a collection of street literature of England from Uharles IL. | to William III., iately published in London, show thatthe Pope andthe French were the pet detestations and the army and navy the pets of the populace, ‘‘The Jingoes certainly had the upper Dund in those times,’’ says the Atbenmuw. Colonel Waring, who visited William and Mary Howitt at Dietenheim, in the Tyrol, says: ‘*Their saion might be, for its size, the Ritter- saal Ofa castle, butit is filled now with flowers and fresh air and emiling light, and with the siuipie furniture of the temporary home, where these genial, active and happy octogenarians ~ d away the mellow days of summer with their books and their friends.’’ The prices of rare and curious books are not governed by any law yet discovered. A copv otthe ‘*breeches Bibvle,’’ interesting for its rendering of Genesis iii., 7, the copy having the title in MS and the last leaf of the table of naines Geficient, was sold i*’ London a ftort- night ago for $39. A bookseller in New York re- cently advert for $5a cory which- wanted the titlepage ofthe Old Testament, but was otherwise in good condition. At the Tennyson salea copy of the first edition of ‘‘Maud’’ brought $675. One wassold in New York a few days since for $3. Moses Coit Tyler has been recently engaged in preparing aworkon English literature which shall be suited to the needs of all classes in colleges and seminaries, using as the basis of it Prof. Marley’s well known work on the same subject. e has, however, effected a complete rearrangement of the matter, and made many retrenchmentse and additions. A system of tables and charts bas been prepared for each period, thus addi to the clearness and simplicity of the classification of the great authors. Sheldon & Uo. are to pablish it, aad expect to have it ready in June. During the six months ending in January last, 742 Euglish books, 337 French, 142 Ger- man apd 27 Chinese were adG@ed to the Astor Library. There were then in the library a total of 183,247 volumes, with an for the year from purchases and donations of 5,853 volumes. Theincreaseinten years has been 44,139 volumes. Among the curious recent ons are a copy of the first German Bibie with a date, oeing in two volumes folio (147 and printed in Gothic type; & manuscript o the fourteenth century preserved in the origin- tin Bible descri as unworthy | century. : het _1 “a bas les Masques—ou va-t on?’’ is the sss eee sad , els for everybody France from the ma arepublicina nest of - But to be deplored, the author believes, is the Epgliish influence—goddamisme, he felicitously it—which —— — ~~ the nee. and everything neh. 3 the author’s opinion that France is going to another Sedan unless this thing is stopped. The book recalls the splendid fury ot Newde- o_o Whalley in a somewhat opposite di- rection. The antograph letter of Lord Byron which was sold at the Root sale tn Boston last Tues- day was addressed to eae co and is amon the Byron ietters which are prin in the new memoir ot Hodgson. son at the time was writing poem called ‘Safia.’ He is in the most natural and fearful apprehension of the reviewers; and as you and I both know by experience the effect oft such things upon & young man, I wish you would take his productions into dissection and do it gently. I care not because it is inscribed to me; but I assure you thisis not my motive for wishing him to be tenderly entreated, but because I know the misery at his time of life of untoward remarks upon first appearances.’’ The letter is dated Fabruary, 1814. At the sale it fetched $31. Froude’s ‘‘Czsar,’’ now in press at Charles Scribner’s Sons’ tor publication near the mid- dle of May, will make a crown 8vo of several hundred pages. Mr. Froude calis it ‘‘A Sketch,’’ and explains in a preface that he does this because the materials do not exist for a portrait ‘‘which sball be at once anthentic and complete.’’ At the end ofthe final chapter he remarks that Cesar ‘‘fought his battles to establish some tolerable degree of justice in the government of this worild,’’ and that he succeeded, *‘though he was murdered for do- ing it’’—‘‘strange and starting resemblance,’’ he continues, ‘* between the fate of the tounder of the kingdom of this world and of the Founder ot the kingdom not of this world, for which the first was a preparation. Each was denounced for making himself a King; each was maligned as the friend of the publicans and sinners; each was betrayed by those whom he had loved and cared for; each was put to death ; and Cesar also was believed to have risen again and ascended into Heaven and become adivine being.’’ The Standard, of London, declares the work to be ‘‘by far the best account of Julius Owsarto be found in the —— language.’’ Froude’s estimate ot Ceesar is, it thinks, in the main, correct, while no writer bes probably better understood and depicted the characters of Marius and Sylia. Treasure in an Old Chest. [From the Londgn Telegraph. ] Material for a highly exciting three-volume novei—as three-volume novels go—might be found in the case of Orme against Shipton, which was recently heard on appeal before the Lords Justices. The defendant, in January, 1878, purchased at the sale by auctiou of the goods and chattels of an old lady named Anne Midlam, then recently deceased, an old oaken box. The article was knocked down to him for the trifling sum of four shillings, but, on examining his purchase, he founda secret drawer at the bottom, and inthis drawer there were fortp ‘‘spade’’ guineas, bearing a date anterior to the year 1792. Together with the money were two memoranda, one relating to the repair of a watch belonging to a certain John Bennett, and the other couched in the following terms: ‘‘When my Uncle Brown gave me fifty guineas at Christmas as a pres- ent for waiting on him during his illness. Anne Lofton, Broomieshall, 1798.’’ Thedis- coverer of the forty spade guineas inthe draw- er made no secret of his good luck, where- upon the executors of Mrs. Midlam claimed the money, and on the defendant declining to restore it an action was brought against him. The case was tried at Derby, by Lord Justice Bramwell, without ajury. For the defend- ant it was shown that there had been a person named ne Lofton liv- ing at Broomiesh in 1798; that she died at the of eighty-three, at Smethwick; that she had relatives by the name of Bennett, and that down to the time of her death she was in the possession of a box closely resembling that in which the spade guineas were found. At her death her niece’s husband took possession of her property and sold itin 1872. The plaintiffs, on the other hand, called two servants of the deceased Mrs. Anne Midlam, who swore that she had had the oaken box in dispute for at least four- and-twenty years, and that she was accus- tomed to keep her valuables in it, but they never beard her allude to _ the secret drawer or to the guineas. Anne Lofton, it was proved, was nei- ther related to nor acquainted with Anne Midlam. Lord Justice Bramwell held that the plaintiffs had not made out their case, and gave judgment for the defendant, whereupon an application was made for a new trial. The contention of counsel for the plaintiffs was that, although the box andthe spade guineas may have originally belonged§j to Anne Lofton she might have disposed of them in many dif- ferent ways during a vee of more than sev- enty years, but Lord Justice Brett pointed out that assuming, that the guineas had once be- longed to Anne Lofton. and had somehow passed into the hands of Anne Midlam, such possession, if it were an unconscious one, would confer no title upon the lat- ter. The guineas were in a secret drawer and Mrs. Midlam made no mention of them either in her will or on her death-bed. His Lordship arrived at the conclusion that the servants had been mis- taken in saying that their mistress had had it in her keeping for four and twenty years, and that she hadin reality bought it in 1872, at the sale of Anne Lofton’s effects. Judg- ment, therefore, went for the plaintiffs, who will consequexrtly keep their spade guineas, or such remnant thereof as will not be melted away by a neat bill of costs as between lawyer and client. Substitute a will, a parcel of bank notes, or a diamond necklace for the panes, and the romantic elements presented »y the case of ‘*‘Orme against Shipton’’ will be at once apparent. Paper Money in South America. A young American, who is now traveling on business in South America, writes from Lima, regarding the use and abuse of paper money in the several South American States: ‘*In these South American republics Gen. Butler’s ideas have long since been tried. In Buenos Ayres, for instance, the laboring man prospers tothe biggest extent possible. In that city common working men get as high as $30 a day, and even $60, and there is no or- dinance against hackmen charging $15 for the briefest kind of a ride, and the lowest class of all Jaborers will not look at you for less than $15 aday. The slowest and most ignorant of all foreign clerks gets $20,000 per annum, and I was introduced to young men who received $ 75,000 per fear. Millionaires are as plenty as grass. suppose eur laboring men, in their un- thinking way, would take this state of affairs to be pm | perfection, but people can’t for- get the gold basis, and the trouble is the pa- per dollar is worth but three cents gold, and you can’t buy cotton cloth for less than $15 a yard, nor a single small loaf of bread for less than $3! In Chili gold is at a premium of 35 percent. In Bolivia they have .a silver cur- rency only, because, long before I was born. the paper mills of the land gave out, and now the ignorant work people cannot be made to look ata paper dollar there, be it ever 80 good... In Uruguay the Jast revolution was a paper 6ne, and the only thing for them to do was to follow Bolivia’s example, so Dictator Latorre issued a fiat and snuffed out ‘‘for- ever’’ all paper money from the land. They likewise use nothing but silver coin. **In Peru gold is worth 110 per cent, though it has been 250 percent. Here everybody is trying to get rid, by some honorable method, of the curse of an overissue of paper, before it becomes too late. * * All political epee in Peru are uniting to get some tangi- le result. from the present mixed-up condi- tion of affairs, and out of the various conflict- ing interests. Our current paper money in Lima is so black, especially forty-ceat pieces, that you can with difficulty ascertain their values. bd also mutilate the currency, bad as itis, and if a man has only a forty-cent piece, and wants to pay twenty cents, or half, he tears the bill in two! As for ten or twenty cent pieces, they resemble flakes of mud for all you can read on them. This tearing pro- cess was sanctioned by special fiat of Govern- ment. The banks then refused, of course, to redeem the rags, the foreign banks appealing to their legaiions: so the tearing liberty had to to be given up, though even now pretty much all the fractional money we get has been torn. THE MAID AND THE LEAF. A JAPANESE IDEA. A dead leaf drifted along the snow— A brown leaf with edges torn; Now bere, now there, blown high and low, An outeast and a thing of scorn. Alus! as So life drifts on to hearts forlorn. Once ip & bower fresh and bright, Kissed by the sun-rays and the dew, A maid, to flee the hot sun's might, Pro “ mbs threw, ve ne on the ground her fair To Pp, to voy And dream of some one that she knew. She slept and dreamed a horrid thing— That he she loved from her would stray; And starting up, “qx 4 sorrowing. Resolved to seek him out that day. Alas! Alas! *Twas all too true—he’d fled away. oO —love's reat ban bright, og prayed that Mr. Marple is engaged on a six-foot canvass, and has taken for his subject a view in the Yosemite Valley. | Mr. Harding% name was unintentionally omitted in last week’s list of the honorary members of tif Sketch Club. Miss Josie McKellops returned from the East a few days ago. While in New York she visited Will Chase’s studio, which is one of the finest in the country. Mr. Tracy has made a very successful hit with his sheep pictures, and will make elab- orate studies with the intention of devoting himself to that class of subjects. Mr. Meeker has received an order from a gentleman in Pittsburg for one of his South- ern scenes, and will have it completed and shipped in the course of two weeks. Mr. Thonssen, on Fifth street, is refram- ing one of Meeker’s pictures painted six years ago. He has just received several new pic- tures from Carl Brenner, of Louisville, and is making quite a market for this young artist’s work. Mrs. G. 8S. Bryant is progressing finely in Mr. Meeker’s studio. Her latest effort is arocky brook scene in which she has caught those atmospheric greys which pervade all nature. She intends to make an extended sketching trip this coming summer. Mr. Meeker and Mr. Marple will probably go on a sketching trip next month, taking in the Upper Mississippi in the vicinity of St. Paul. A letter has been received from Gen. Israel Garrard, who owns the Frortenac Point watering place, inviting them to spend the summer on Lake Pepin. The whole country about Frontenac is rich in scenery fascinating to an artist. The Literary and Artistic Club met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Simpkins on Saturday night. Some members of the Sketch Club were present, and a number of ladies and gentlemen of literary tastes. Mr. Kretschmar gave a short talk onthe ‘‘Ideal,’’ an@Mr. Biddle read a very interesting paper on ‘‘*Piecture Buying in Europe.’’ Mr. Will. Pommer gave some delightful symphonies on the piano, and the ‘‘Owl Club Quartette’’ sang several of their characteristic songs. Art Notes in General. Mrs. C. J. Wilkins and Mrs. St. John are both flourishing professiona! artists in Chi- cago. The Lydian Art Club, in Chicago, has chosen for its committee on selection, for the June reception, Mr. ‘ Roy Robertson, Mr. E. L. Carr, Mrs. St. John, Mr. A. D. Beecher and Mr. Verbeck. Murillo married at twenty-seven a young Spanish beauty, and proved to be as gooda husband as he was a great painter. He had noble inspirations, and was never known to paint the figure of anude woman. Time enhances the value of works of art. In 18438 Muller painted the ‘‘Chess Players,’’ and got £25 for it. Thirty-one years after it was sold by the heirs of Gillott, the steel pen manufacturer, for the sum of £4,053. The Paris correspondent of the London Standard thinks that a picture by the Ameri- can artist Henry Bacon is likely to makea hitin the coming Salon in Paris. It repre- sents a burial at sea, conducted on board one of the trans-Atlantic packets, and is painted with scrupulous attention to detail. Mr. S. W. Benjamin, the art critic, is the son of an American missionary to the Levant, and was born at Argos, Greece, in 1837. He began his art education by the study of draw- ing and ‘‘aquarello’’ with Carlo Brindesi, of the Spanish and Italian school. He furnish- ed cuts for the Illustrated London News at an early age. E. L. Carr, a young Chicago artist, a pupil of Gerome, is painting a view of State street, in that city, on a large can- vas. The gay colors of the hang- ers and streamers over the stores, the bustie and business, the peddlers, flower wagons, and the passing vehicles, give admirable arrange- ments of color, while the glimpses of boats in the distance, of the church spire, and the rosy brick building partially filling in the back- ground will compose into a picture which Capaletti would not have despised. J. W. Champney (‘*Champ’’) was born in Boston, in 1843, studied in the Lowell Insti- tute, and entered the shop of a wood- engraver at the age of sixteen. He served in a Massachusetts regiment during part of the war, taught drawing in Dio Lewis’s school for a while, and then went to Europe in 1866, where he studied un- der Frere. He opened a studioin Boston in 1871, and two years later accompanied E. King on a tour through the Southern States, as everybody knows whoread Scribner’s Mag- azine four or five years ago. In 1876 Mr. Champney built a studio at Deerfield. Mass., where he hus settled down, with his bright young wife, whois also known to magazine readers. The Ladies’ Decorative Art Association, of Chicago, held its regular monthly meetin, last week at the Palmer House, Mrs. J. G. Scammon presiding. The reporis of the committees showed all the _ classes in 3 flourishing condition—more especially that of embroidery — several of the pupils having already succeeded in realizing a very handsome income from their deft handiwork. The applications for admission to these class- es are so numerous that the names have to be filed and taken in rotation. All of the work is immediately disposed of, and there are orders on hand from St. Louis, Cincin- nati, Louisville and Boston. Mr. Frank L. Jervis read a paper before the association on ‘* Woman in Art.’’ About sixty of the paintings from the collec- tion of Mr. W. H. Harrison, of Philadelphia, were sold at auction on ‘Thursday evening, April 17, at Kurtz’s gallery, New York. ‘Lhe attendance was large and the bidding active within a certain limit. The highest price of the sale was $900, paid for an alleged land- scape by J. Ruysdael. When it was placed upon the easel Mr. Matthews said that it was worth $1,500 in London. Some one bid $50 for it and Mr. Matthews becsme el- oquent and demanded $1,000. Then bids crept up $5 atatimeto $100. No better fig- ure was named, however, until Mr. Matthews kicked his chair away from him and rose ‘‘to explain.’’ Ashis pointer edged along over the canvas and the beauties of the picture be- came thereby apparent, the bids began to rise by $50 jumps and fairly tumbled over each other from $150 to $875. and then there was a sudden check to them. ‘*I’ll give $900,’’ said finally a quiet, blaek- eyed man near the door, and that closed the sale. The appearance of Peale’s portrait of Washineton was greeted with applause, and when Mr. Matthews said that it was the origi- nal portrait sent by Rembrant to the Soldiers’ Fairin Philadelphia the applause was re- newed. Mr. Mutthews beamed and said that the portrait was valued at $500 and was worth every ar ofit. After a pause some one bid $ 5 and no one would raise it. There was more applause when the hammer fell. Rothermel’s ‘ ‘Little Beggar Girl’’ drew out but few bids and those below $60, until it was remembered that his ‘*Battle of Gettysburg’’ brought $25,000: then there was a bold jump to $142, at which the picture was sold. A picture said to be by Corot, ‘‘Old Recollections,’” a water-color of a weather-battered homestead. of which much was being expected from the beginning of the sale and which was saved until towards the last in order to keep the buyers in attend- ance, brought after much praise and coaxing only $75. Mr. George Inness has contributed several ictures to the exhibitions this year, and they urnish some ae examples of his un- evenness. Mr. Inness has been frequently accused of imitating Corot, because in some of his landscapes there are to be found trees which are treated very much in a pure- ly mechanical sense, after the manner of Corot. Thatisto say, be producesa misty and undefined tree form, and runs a definite trunk and branches ug it, and thereby at- tains a direct technical resemblance to the yew aa superficial technique of the French lan pe artist’s work. is a very little thing to do, and it does not make Mr. Inness a Corot, nor yet an imitator of him. No land- scape painter that ever lived was more modest than Corot. He was one of the humblest pu- pils that ever approached Nature's his most ambitious estimate of himself was given when he likened himself to a mead ow lark hidden in gray mists and trilling little songs. He was content to study the more quiet and subdued moods of nature, and found his mga mages Py! noting bee poy] of ring, m ry 0 me bois haunts, and in peopling h landscapes with ig ideals of hu themes he touch the sublime itself. does; but foran artist of his power, inde- pendence, and poetic enthusiasm, he is prob- ably the most uneven of al! the im When his p evad is no tolerable mean of inoffens’ open to him. ecution and WHAT WOMEN WILL WEAR. - — —_— Short Dresses Still in Vogue—White and Black Toilets. -— - Galloons and Embroideries for the Season— New Combinations and Suits—Bon- nets and Coiffures. Short dresses continue infavor. Among these are Pompadour suits, which are cut very short and have small diaped paniers in the back. Handsome silk tissues do not re- quire anything under the panier to puff them out, but woolen and fancy goods must have the addition of ‘‘tournures,’’ with light springs, almost flat, tosupportthem. These must be very small, and great moderation should be observed in their manufacture. White and black toilets are much worn in Paris. The black toilets are mostly for street wear, while the white toilets are for house Wear and evening companies. The fashion is very convenient, as these dresses are suitable for almost any occasion, and are especially serviceable for ladies whose wardrobe is lim- ited. White dresses are made of light woolen goods, such as ‘‘voile de veuve,’’ ‘‘crepon de _ %1’Inde,’’ and ‘‘mous- selmme de laine.’’ These tissues are draped in many ways on silk underdresses, and trimmed with quantities of ribbon, made in loops. and plaited bretonne lace. Other toilets are of white cachemire, embroidered with smal! designs of flowers in white silk,and also with colored flowers. As these dresses are more elegant than those first mentioned, they are generally trimmed with satin faille and white moire antique. Plaited black bretonne lace is a novelty which is used to trim light black materials with, such materials as plain and striped gauzes,and grenadines, both plain and striped witb velvet. Black silk dresses are also trimmed with this lace. These plaitings are generally placed around paniers and princess waists, with the addition of jet passemente- rie. Waists, which are separated from the skirts, whether matching the dress or not,are cut very long in front, with ends reaching to the knees, and cut up on the hips, to prevent the dress from working up when sitting. This style is mostly made for full walking suits, which ean in this way be worn without over- garments. Jackets with white vests will be worn this summer. Asthese vests must always be very white, they are made complete with a back, like gentlemen’s vests, in order that they can be changed as often as necessary. The jacket is no longer to be buttoned in front, but is left open, and only fastened with a hook on either side of the vest. Galloons and embroideries for summer suits are in all colors. The galloons are of cotton in all colors, such as blue, brown, or red, on ecru or white groundings. They are altogeth- er in very fine open work. Other galloons are of beads, in designs of leaves and flowers, and are used to trim faille and foulard suits. Some galloons are of cotton embroidered in the shape of flowers, and also in open work resembling velvet or chenille. Old-fashioned scarfs. like those worn about fifteen yeurs ago, are againin use. Thev are now made of black satin, trimmed with fringe orlace. ‘‘Gorge-de-pigeon’’ silks are again in vogue. Whole toilets have not yet been made of this colored silk, but the first step has been taken by making out of this material some very pretty bonnets. One of these con- sists of a small capote, composed of a diadem of plaited-colored velvet, with the drapery of ‘*gorge-de-pigeon’’ silk, and a large bow forming the crown of the bonnet. The ribbon of this bow 18 taken down to form the strings. On the left side is a bunch of flowers, and to- ward the middie is a small garland of fine fiowers in the shades of the taffetas. Hair-nets are now made of chenille, and also mantillas for evening outer garments. Many fringes are now made of chenille, and have chenille combined with silk. Evening toilets have also sleevesand ornaments of chenille net-work embroidered with beads. Bouquets continue to be used by ladies for house and evening wear. They are fastened down by ornaments in the shape of serpents and lizards, withthe monogram cut in gold | as The and silver. Artificial bouquets, as wel bougets of natural flowers are used. artificial bouquets are slightly perfumed. Goods of wool and silk are much used for spring suits. Some have plain groundings, with siripes in many colors, and some a great variety of colors in the grounding. These mi- terials are called *‘mosaiques.’’ many ways of making these suits; one of aique’’ and pekin. The _ pekin plaited flounce with a small drapery of ‘‘mos- aique’’ running below the heading. The tunique is of mosaique goods. Onthe right side is a rounded panier, and onthe left are two points. In front are shirred draperies forming paniers, anda Louis XIII. vest made of satin ribbon ia mixed co'- ors. In the back are puflings. The waist has a point in front, and is very short over the hips, and cut in the back in habit shape. ‘The basque, paniers and tunique are surrounded by lace, called **Dentelle de Fer- rare.*’ Around the lace is a double piping of pekin. The waist opens in front, in heart shape, with asmall pekin plaiting on the in- side. ‘The sleeves have pekin cuffs and satin ribbon loops. These loops are on the right side of the tunique, and by the puff in the back. The buttons are of painted ‘‘ceram- ique.’’ A Henri III. suit may be of faille in two shades of gray. The skirt is of dark gray failie. It is plaited ‘‘a la religieuse’’ from the waist down, and the plaits are fistened underneath with cords. On the left side,over the seventh plait, the skirt is raised very high, and the plaits form on either side a kind of shell-shaped piece. This trimming is fast- ened up underneath by means of rings, through which a coraing is drawn. A fold of the light shade of faille is plaited under the raised part. The straight apron is of light giay faille, trimmed with a bias band, placed on to imivate an opening down the front, On this band are placed small passementerie orna- ments in the same shade as the apron. The waist is in the dark shade of faille, and laces down the back. The long basque forms two points down the front; it iscut up on the sides, and is shorter in the back and cut square. The basque is trimmed around and on the should- ers with bias bands of faille. The collar is of the same faille as the waist,and down the front is the same trimning as on the apron. The sleeves are trimmed _ with double cuffs and small bias bands ornamented with passementerie. The small cape worn over the suit is of dark gray faille, lined with ‘‘Florence’’ in the same shade. This cape is trimmed with a bias band anda collar of the light faille. It is fastened on the shoulders by a hook sewed to the cape, anda string is on the waist to tie around it. The gray satin toque is Marie Stuart shape, with the brim lined with red velvet and trimmed with a row of silver filigree beads. The drapery is of a mixed red tissue of gauze and velvst. A gray feather completes the trimming. A full lace frill is around the neck. -— — Instinct or Reason? A small English terrier belonging to a friend has been taught to ring for the servant. To test if the dog knew why it rang the bell, be was told to do so while the girl was in the room. The little fellow looked up in the most intelligent manner at the person giving the order (bis master or mistress. I forget which), then at the servant. ana refused to obey, al- though the order was repeated more than once. The servant left the room, and a few minutes afterward the dog rang the bell imme- diately on being told todo so. I give the fol- lowing as told me by my wife, now dead, who personally witnessed the transaction on vari- ous occasions: At her sister’s house in Kent a donkey which, when not employed by the children, grazed in a field with some cows, wae in the regcular habit of acting as follows: hour for the cows to home field-gate, o (which would otheiwise have swung close egal) till ali the cows passed out, then al- lowed the cate to shutand went home with the cows. Of course, no one taught the don- key to do this, but quadru fore toe bi practical lesson, from ty veabalty fer | continues There are | | Children’’ these is as follows: The suit is woolen ‘*‘mos- | skirt has a | DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. | —_—_——_—— Theatrical Doings in the Principal Cities. — Stage Cossip Concerning Actors and Singers. THE AMATEUR OPERA. On Tuesday evening, at the Grand Opera - house, the amateur opera begins with ‘‘Il Trovatore.’’ It will be repeated on Wednes- day; Thursday, ‘‘Nerma;’’ ‘*I! Trovatore’’ onFriday; Saturday matinee, ‘‘Norma.’’ A great deal is expected of this company, as they have excellent musical talent aad artistic ability. Mr. Waldauer ihas complete direction, and he is particularly well qualified to do justice to his position. The opera is being prepared at an immense expense, which comes from a few gentiemen, and their public spirit and enterprise should be promptly recognized by large and enthus!l- astic audiences. NEW ORLEANS.—Last night a testimonial | benefit was tendered Miss Sadie Vivian at the | St. Charles, when ‘‘Frou-Frou’’ was per- | formed. LOUISVILLE.—‘ ‘TheAdmiral’s Daughter, ’’ an operetta, has filled the bill at Macauley’s. At Parmele’s Novelty the May Fisk Blondes have been disporting themselves. PITTSBURG.—The Rice Evangeline Compa- ny has been the attraction at the Opera-house. Carncross’ troupe of minstrels has been draw- ing large houses at Library Hall. Theodore Tilton lectured last Thursday on ‘‘Heart’s Ease; A Plain Talk on the Hard Times.’’ SaN FRANCISCO.—Boucicault is playing at the California. The Strakosch opera is in all its glory at the Baldwin Theater. Miss Amy Sherman will make her debut in ‘ ‘Traviata, *” May4. ‘*‘A Scrap of Paper’’ and ‘‘Our Boys’’ were given at the Baldwin last week. CuHICAGO.—Maggie Mitchell, supported by William Harris, was billed at Hooley’s. McKee Rankin and Kitty Blanchard in ‘‘The Danites,’’ was the programme at Haverly’s. Edwin Booth filled the third week of his en- gagement at McVicker’s. Frank Frayne in ‘‘Si Slocum’’ was the attraction at Hamlin’s. CINCINNATI.—Clara Morris has been playing | ‘¢‘Article 47’’ and ‘‘Camille’’ at the Grand | Upera-house. The Ford Pinafore Company are at Pike’s Opera-house. Annie Pixley, in ‘‘M’liss,’’ at Heuck’s Opera-house. ‘‘Paris by Gaslight,’’ and an _ olio at the Vine Street House. ‘Tp- night the Lookout House will be opened, with Miss Minnie Cummings as Leah. BALTIMORE.—George C. Beniface has been billed in ‘*The Soidier’s Trust’’ at Albaugh’s Holliday Street Theater. At the Concordia Opera-house ‘‘Les Noces de Jeannette’’ was performed last night for the benefit of Mrs. Caroline Richings Bernard. ‘‘The Sorcerer, ’’ Mr. Charles Denham, was the programme at Ford’s Opera-house, supplemented with the musical farce of ‘*‘BoxandCox.’’ The Wild Bill Combination has been giving perform- ances at the New Central. PHILADELPHIA.—At the Broad Theater the Hess English Opera Company with Emma Abbott have been the attractions. A church choir‘‘Pinafore’’ has been appearing at the Ac- ademy of Music. Sardou’s*‘ ‘Scrap of Paper,’’ with Ada Dyas, has been.the bill at the Chest- nut. The Salsbury Troubadours are at the Park Theater. Rice’s ‘*Surprise Party’’ have been playing ‘‘Babes in the Wood’’ at the Arch. Tony Pastor isthe attraction at the Walnut. A miniature ‘‘Pinafore’’ has also been given at the Broad. NEW YorRK.—‘‘Snowball’’ with C. F. Coghlan is being performed at Wallack’s,pre- ceded by ‘‘Delicate Ground.’’ Next week at this theater there will be matinee juvenile per- | formances of ‘‘Pinafore.’’ ‘‘Fatinitza’’ is the bill at Fifth Avenue. This is the last | week of *‘Engaged’’ at the Park. Aimeecon- | tinues toamuse at Booth’s. ‘‘Aftermath’’ | is the attraction at Madison Square. *‘L’As- sommoir’’ was produced at the Olympic on Wednesday. Thecast comprised Miss Maud Granger as Gervaise, Miss Emily Rigl, Mr. B. T. Ringgold, Mr. Frank Sanger, Mr. Harry Hawk. ‘*Pinafore’’ and ‘‘Cox and Box’’ the programme at the Standard. The ‘Black Crook’’ to run at ~.Niblo’s. The Mastodon Minstrels are filling the house at Haverly’s Lyceum. ‘‘Pinafore’’ by a colored troupe is the attraction at the Globe. ‘‘His Mud Scow’’ continues to draw at the San Francisco. Last week of ‘‘ Little Red Riding Hood’’ at the Aquarium. George Knight in | **Otto’’ is the bill at the Broadway. ‘‘ Lost is stillon the boards at the Union:' Modjeska is at the Grand Opera- house. ‘**Adele’’ is the programme at the Bowery. ‘The Pat Rooney Combination and Ira A. Paine, the pigeon shot, are at Tony Pastor’s. is Square. DRAMATIC. It was somewhat of a coincidence that Josie Mansfield and Edward Stokes should have been present one evening at the California Theater, of which Frank Lawlor is the man- ager. Some doubt has been expressed as to what version of ‘*L’ Assommotr’’ was to be produc- ed at the Olympic Theater, New York, this week. But Mr. Augustus Daly states dis- tinctly that be has urranged with the Freoch authors for the production of the original play as adapted from Zola’s novel for the Paris Ambigu-Comique. Mr. Daly, however, has retouched this work, with the purpose of making it more palatable to American tastes. Writing of the great increase of salary de- manded by actors of the present day, The Theater publishes the Drury Lane pay-roll for 1802-3. **The best paid male actor of the stock companv was Jack Bannister, who got $125 a week, while Charles Kemble had to be con- tent with $55 a week. Dowton got $60,Pope, Suett, Wroughton, and Palmer $50 each, and these salaries tapered downto much smaller sums, like $30 and $25.’’ Mrs. Siddoens herself got but $125. Miss Neilson, the eminent Shakspearean actress, will commence an engagement of one hundred representations, under the manage- ment of Mr. Max Strakosch, on Monday even- ing, Oetober 6 prox. These performances will constitute Miss Neilson’s farewell tour in America. From California she will proceed to Austraha and thence return to England, where she intends to bid leave to the stage. Immediately upon the settlement of some af- fairs consequert upon an unlucky purchase of real estate in December last Miss Neilson pro- posed to sail at once for America. Butas her London engagements would have shortened ber sojourn here, both she and Mr. Strakosch agreed to postpone the farewell tour until the fall. An efficient dramatic company specially engaged will support Miss Neilson m all her performances.—[New York World. MUSICAL. Jeannie Douste, the child pianist, has met with marked success in London. She has re- cently played at Marlborough House before the Princess of Wales and many people of rank. Clara Louise Kellogg will receive $100 a night when she sings for Mapleson in London during the next three years. When she is not singing in London she will go to the continent with Strakosch. Master William fi. Lee, the boy soprano, has been engaged to sing the part of Youth, in the oratorio of ‘*Elijah,’’ to be given by the | | | | | Handel and Hayan Society, May 2, at the | Music Hall, Boston. A grand cancert of Catholic church music from Palestrina, Witt, Stehle and other cele- brated composers will be given, under the direction of Mr. Otten, at St. George's Hall, on Tuesday evening, May 13. Miss Mary Beebe, who was discharged from her position as soprano of the Clareudon Street | again. _ing from our part of the town to the populous | baskets, Baptist Chureb in Boston because she sang aa ; , ? ey o * « ’ ro oes 5 ees : oe: ih. Tae rote ¥ lS i es ot Bae indnill a2 es * Pte. se 4 = Rly 1 4 ¢ Pa te ee a a : Re bi a Sd he ee: ee ; ¥ r en : 1 ee > ? PAG o tages UE,” a, i Le eal ~~ . fe OE ee a SP Ore tig SETS RRA ; mee — ved > . > : at Mre. Seguin, it is said. is studying Bizet’s / fine creation, ‘‘Carmen,’* and intends to give the public her idea of the role next season; She ought to be successful init. Max. Mar, etzek has offered her an engagement in ai English opera troupe which he is organizin for next season, but it can be stated author- itatively that she will not accept. Mr. Saalfield, the manager of the Saalfield ballad concerts, leaves for Europe in a few weeks, where he expects to complete arrange- ments for bringing over some of the most celebrated European artists to assist at his future ballad concerts, which he expects to give semi monthly in the fall. Arrangements are con? templated by him to introduce in this country Jenny Lind, the daughter of Jenny Lind. whe is said to possess very much the same style 9° voice as that of her mother. M. 1 ecoq, the indefatigable composer, an¢ \IM. } eilhac and Halevy, the equally inde- stigubte librettists, have produced at the Re- i.aissance Theater another of those comir ' operas which have had such great vogue @ late. Itis called *‘La Petite Mademoiselle, ’* and is a burlesque en Mile. d’Orleans, grand- daughter of Henry IV., who was styled ‘‘La Grande Mademoiselle.’’ The music is lively and sparkling, and the plot amusing, but the piece, as a whole, does not come up to the previous productions of the same authors. This may perhaps be accounted for by the fact that the censorship, with its customary intel- igence, thought fit to suppress some of the morceaux which were likely to be very suc- cessful, but which ‘‘the powers that be’? feared would throw discredit on certain mem- bers of the Government. M. Emile Mendel, wiiting on the vexed sub- ject of the Opera at Paris, propounds the idea that it can only exist as a kind of musical mu- © seum. The Opera now costs tie State 4,000, - 000 francs (£160,000) a year, including the rent. Within the last thirty years 40,000,000 francs have been spent in producing over 300 works. Over twenty of these have survived, and only eight are constantly performed—three operas of Meyerbeer, the others by Rossini, Halevy, Donizetti and Gounod. Under these cjrcum- stance it is considered out of ths question to insist on the Opera trying new works, and yet by his contrsc: with the State the present man- ager is | ound each year to bring s>ut two new operas and two ballets. M. Ha'anzier has produced the following works: ‘*Jeanne d’Are,’’ ‘*‘Le Roide Lahore,’’ *‘Po'yeucte,’’ which cost him 250,000 francs each; ‘‘La Coupe du Roi de Thule,’’ which cost him 100,000 frances; **L*Esclave’’ and ‘‘La Reine Berthe,’’ which cost him 60,000 francs, and **Sylvia’’ and other ballets which cost him 200,000 francs, say £47,000 for works which will soldom or never reappear on the stage. To make the Opera pay, M. Mendel insists that the old masters alone should be perform- ed, and that youthful composers should have a lyric stage of smaller proportions. — — ae A FIRE IN CHINA, Scenes at the Great Conflagration at Hong Kong. [From the Pall Mall Gazette.) The following account of the terrible fire which lately ravaged Hong Kong will be found interesting:**We vertainly have hai an excit- ing year: first the fearful rain storm in May, then about a month since an earthquake, and now the worst fire ever known in Hong hong. 1, with some of our guests, went to the t »p of the house, where a gigantic column of flime and smoke rose before us. We soon saw that many housés were blazing. My guests left me, und I remained on the roof, seeing th: | cirele of hilis on which the city is built be- eome more ghastly brilliant every minute. The shouts, cries, yells, and crash of the falling roofs becaine louder and louder; the harbor was 80 lighted up that I could see the boats putting off from the men-of-war. At last, at half-past 3, | heard the first explosion (they were begin- ning to blow up houses); and so, quitting the house, I went through the: streets whiecn bv ¥ were blazing ruins, and soon met | omeless crow ds earrving their little household gouds, while the streets were aslightas dav, anu shaking every now and then as the engin ers blew up house after house. X. aud the do-- tor returned atnearly 6 witha fearful tale. No one would take the responsibility of blow- ing up the lines of Chinese houses; and 589 most valuable time was lost, till on the ap- earance of the governor the order was given. Then the appalling work commenced. We had barely returned fora brief rest when some coolies rushed imto our garden, carrying fur- niture, and informed us that the chief magistrate’s house had caught tire. This was awfulnews. Ifthe magistra- cy bad gone the jail and the civil hospital must go. I roused up X., when in rushed a coolie tosxsy the Roman Catholic cathedral was on fire. X. dressed himself in an instant, | leaving me to tollow with coolies carrying baskets of sandwiches and brandy and soda- water. Itrustnevertosee such a_ sight The long road shaded with trees,lead- part, was alive with Chinese carrying their goods, women huddled together over beds, boxes, stools, clothes, crockery— anything and everything in the way of person- al goods. Small-footed women tottered along, beld up by their children; while oth- ers bore some good bit of bronze or family treasure. Several sewing machines lay on the road, and I met a superb Ameri- can piano carried along. Sick people borne past in blankets told us that the hospital was on fire. Still we made our way to the front, through the smoke, up a street of small houses, mostly those of small Parsee merchants, who were huddling out bales of cotton, silks, embrcideries, framed pictures, etc.: while so great was the mass of bruken - looking-giasses that walking became difficult. At lasi we reached the cordon of soldiers; and beyoud it a blazing mass was all that remained ofthe civil hospital and eight other large hous«s.The Governor and General stood there; and the Governor said tome, ‘I had to biow it up to save the jail;’ and then he whispered, ‘God knows what we may have to do; there are nearly one thousand prisoners.’ Now came the shrill blast of the bugle, ‘Stand back all.’ Out came from the smoke the engineer ofticers, baving just laid the charges to blowup the rear of the hospital, which adjvined the jau- vard. Another explosion of bricks, blazing bits of rafter, a shower of sparks and blinding smoke and a gorgeous cloud of colored @ame showed the drugs stored in the hospital were alight. ‘Ihencame acommotion which I did not understand. Soldiers marched up, fresh cries were raised, and a stranger coming said, ‘You bad better stand up the rise of the hili, for they are about to bring out the pris- oners.’ It was like the riot scene in ‘Barnaby Rudge.’ I eould Lear the order, ‘Fix bayo- nets:’ and then down through the crowd and dust tramped the soldiers, with about one bundred wretched handcuffed creatures in their midst. When X. andl retarved we followed the Governor through the back en- trance in the jail, passing through the ceutral police station, where the inspectors who are married men have large quarters. Here Ea- glish furniture, books, Ornaments, dresses lay about drenched with water. The goveraor of tbe jail told me that the jail was saved by the blowing up of the civil hospital, but that the danger then was from the police station sta- — bles. Very econ they were gullantly broken open, principally by sailors, and huge hay handed trom man to man and thrown down the steep streets; and last night many home- lexs Chinese were cuddled under the hay. N the block ef buildings in front of the Uriental ~ Bank was to be blown up. I hasteved thither, — through a never-ending scene of distress, to find the bank hung over with handsome carpets soaked with water. Witbin doors pa-. rs were being packed io safes, bank notes re-proof boxes, and so sept down to bor, escorted by soldiers, and placed in launches. 1 watched the asco up of tailoring establishment, a fine block of ings. eral fifty - nd cha at laid, the benle eeumnaedl Ross’ ceased to exist. This, our end of the town. F ge eee! J g hat 1 tH Hl : cf ES ne es o., w tock. The fire brigade, mostly wees still woik looking hausted. Befo anl clered be cou & >