The Evening World (New York, N.Y.)
December 26, 1887

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ijAoi 1a k PfWY W LAST 11 PRICE ONE CENT. EVENING EDITION. NEW YOItK, MONDAY, DECEMBER SG, 1837. EVENING EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT 'H HEADING'S FORCED HOLIDAY. WHAT WILL TO-MORROW BRING FORTH IN TUB GREAT STRIKE? New Ilnnd To Koii tlio Trnlns If the Striker l)i Nut Unturn to Work Tlio Men Say They Aro Out For a l'rliu-liili Dili tlio Ciiiiinnliy I'orcn Inn htrlliu 1'robnlilo llllect In New York. IsrrciALTo TiiEWom.D.I Priir.ArtELNtiA, Doc. 20. interest iu tho pient striko on tlio Hooding linos centres on tlio outcomo of to-morrow's proceedings. 'J'lio company 1ms ordered tlio men luick to work Tuosdny morning, ond if they mo not nt their posts their places will ho filled hy io w hands. If thoro is to ho any dlsturbanco it will occur when tho officials attempt to jnovo trains with green men. Thoro wns almost a complete cessation of work on tho cntiro systom yestordoy. Not a coal train ran, whilo on tho previous Sunday inoro than half a hundred trains camo to this city. The men spent tho day strengthening tholr lines and looking out for non-union men. Thoy say tho company forcod tho strike for stock-jobbing purposes. Crow s of coal-ladon tossols refued to tako them out through sympathy with, tho strlkors. One of the trains sent out from Thirteenth nnd Callow hill stroets Saturday night was side-tracked nt Bridgeport. Thousands of coal cars were hido-trncked at Talo Alto and Pottsvllle, and nt theso nnd othar places throughout tho coal region tho men havo received nnd nro obey ing tho order to quit work vory generally. Hvcrybody in tlio company's employ ot Pott s t illo, including telegraph'oporutors, struck. U'ho 2,000 shop mi i) at Heading aro undecided Vhethor tho order iipplios to tliem or not. Tho itcuding olhcials still declare their Jiopo to got 'tho men hack w ithout any seri ous trouble. No freight except, of a perish tihlo nature w as run. Tho schedule passenger trains nro running 's usual to-day. The men sav thoy aro out for a principlo nnd declare they will stay out until a satis factory adjustment is reached. Tho iiuancial condition of tho Heading em ployees' organization is n matter of impor tance especially in caso tho striko should ho continued nny great length of time. On this point one of tho rhiofs of tho con ontion said last night at Port Hichmoud: Wo havo just hoou figuring out how much cash wo can get along tho line, nnd wo find that in caso tlio company puts 15,000 men on tho road nt &8 per clay, wo can pay thorn &3.50 for two weeks 50 cents a day more. At tho end of that time tho road would ho for salo." At that rate it would require ovor half a million dollars to keep up such n campaign for two weeks only. But it is stated hy other oftlcors of tho omployceH' convention that in tho event of a long striko tho nssont hlies aro in good condition to maintain their juenihors. Blnco tho beginning of tho Lehigh I minors' strike tho Beading eniployoos havo 1 contrilmted to thorn ont of their own earn ings not less than $70,000, hut notwithstand ing this tho Heading men aio said to ho still financially strong. Thoro is no general treasury ln the em ployees' convention, hut tho treasuries of tho forty.seven local assemblies which composo it contain, it is said, in tho uggrcgato sovoral hundred thousand dollars. Besides this, tho Heading men havo on intimate ullianco with tho Union Pacific Huilroad Employees' Dis trict Assembly, No. 82; tho Pennsylvania Hnllroad Employees' District Assembly, No. 212, mid with tlio nssomhlios composed of tlio Baltimore and Ohio, Jersey Central nnd Lo iliigh Vnlloy Hnilroad eniployoos. FEAES OP A COAL FAMINE. The I!fl"ect of tlio Hemline Ntrlko Mar bo Fell In This City. Tho great struggle hetweeu tho Knights of Labor nnd tho Heading Hailvvoy Company has only just begun, nnd by to-morrow morn ing fully 40,000 mon, it is stated by tho Knights, will bo out. Tho Knights at all tho Mipply depots of tho company iu this city und elsewhere will sustain thoir brothers of the order by refusing to handlo any freight or coal dolivorod by or consigned to tho Heading Company. Cool handlers, freight handlers nnd ovon truck nnd enrt mon who movo or carry cool nnd freight aro expected to join iu tho gen eral attack upon tho railroud company. It is said that the obligations which Knights everywhere owo to each other mako such n Htep'nccetsary in tho ovent of tho Heading men calling upon their brethren in this city und olsowhorc to oid them. Is is boliovcd by loading men in tho order in this city that tho Geuerol Executive Board will soon tako tho matter diroctly in hand unless tho company yields. Such n generul striko ns that outlined would, if it lusted perhaps qvou n week, causo a coal famine such ns Now York has Jiovor experienced. Of courso tho greatest sufferers would ho poor peoplo who nro com pelled to buy coal m small quantities. Tho poor families in tho tons of thousands of tenements in this city who buy conl by tho half or the quoiter ton nnd by tho bushel nnd pailful would suffer most from a rise in price a id from n scarcity f supply. Hich and well-to-do people woulu not bonffocted, hav ing their coal supplies in for tho wintor. That is ono of tlio worst phases of a striko of tliis kind that wo havo to contend with," a Knight said to n World ro poiter to-day. "Wo had it during tho coil hnndleis' striko last wintor. But what can wo do? Evon our own brothers Miffor, and thoy nro willing to for tho sake of 1 rincijilo and to sustain tho organization. No roforms aro offoctcd without somo sacii ilcos. If our men hero handled tho Reading coal ond freight under oxistiug circumstances thoy would ho opposing tho very priuciplo for which tho men at Elifeabethport and Port Hichmond and on nil tho Heading lines nro'contending. Ourlgroat order would not bo what it clnims if its members failed to Bustain others in a bottlo for existence. Tho Heading trouble concerns ns all, nnd our motto is An injury to ono is tho concorn of all.' Our brothers of tho coal nnd freight handlers' local assemblies had u similar ox. perionoo last wintor and mado many sacri fices and they aro poor, hut they nro just ns ready to sustain tho Heading mon as thoy woro when tho men wont out at nil tho coal supply depots and the docks in Now Jorsey hvt wintor." A SMALL STOCK ON HAND. A member of tho Coal Exchnngo said that tlio supplies of coal in tho yurds in this city Were ery l,,w, ns thoy were at Phil, iloiph a. Tlio small ilenlois iu particular iini"1 !",thpy l,vo iint;boMi uffected by tho tliftlculty yet. nro likoly to tako nu parly ud I f L10 lrhlo and raiso tho prico of v?W'out23contHoton. ..'ie "S8. Bontlonum said that if the striko continued fox a week vta. odvnaoo ot 60 coats Hf lt f rfAfflf'r'.t-it'aitmii i 'imHW fttf tHw aail i n ton would result, and if it lnsted longer, 75 cents nnd 1 would ho added to piesont rotes. President Corhin, of tho Bending road, has heretofore hten considered by tho Knights of tho Heading Company as willing and agreeable to listen to nny reasonable demands or grievances, but Knights iu this city sav that ho has already shown n desiro to resist tho order nnd its in fluence m or tlio Heading mon, and they think that ho lias thrown down tho gauntlet and piepared for tlio fight. It is soldom that tho Oonerol Executive Board is called upon to direct or settlo n bis strike, but it scorns likoly that it will take hold of.tho Heading striko becauso so much is at stoke. niSCURSED BY COAL-nANDLLKS. Although thero was little or no work going on along the river front to-day ninong the conl-handlers, thero wero many of them to bo found during tho latter part of tho forenoon flouting along West street or gathered in small groups nt tho street corners discussing tho big coal striko. Tho coal shovellers and haudlers as a mlo expressed their opinions with tho utmost freedom and occasionally with nu emphasis that showed thoy woro in earnest and moant ovory word thoy said. Tho first coal-handler who waR mot by tho reportorwas iliko Gallngor, who drives n cart for tho Steam Heating Company aud was getting a load of coal from n canal-bout at Pier C. "Goon striko, is it?" ho said, as if sur prised at tho question. Not if I know it. Thero is no sympathy horo with tho Pounsy 1 vauia strikers as far ns I know, aud after our oxperieuco in striking lost wintor, you'll find very fow of us along shore now who want to tako another turn nt it. Wo got enough of it then to Inst a long time. Besides, thoro is nobody who can order us out, for tho majority working along shoro now nro non-union mon. Except in tho caso of tho olovntcd ronds nnd ono or two of the steamship lines nnd in privnto concerns, tho men nro nearly all scabs. I used to bo n union man, but no more of it for mo. I don't think they can win down in Phila delphia, because thero nro too many Italians that aro rtady to work nt any wages. This striking business is n bad thing, nnd thoy aro Miro to got tho worst of it." Charles Fnrrolly. n shoveller, who woiks for the Old Dominion Lino, whoro only non union men nro employed, said Tho coal strikers of tlio Heading road cannot win un less thoy can get tho woikors in New York and Baltitnoro to go iu and assist them. "Tlio striko can affect but a fow men in this city, and I don't think thero is nny chauco iu bringing about a sympathetic strike hero, because nearly nil tho men in tho buBiuoss now nro scabs. I think tho strikers nro hound to lose." At tho conl dock of E. W. Youmnns. just nbovo Canal street, whoro only union men nro employed, tho reporter found James Bynn, n young man, who said ho belonged to tho Ooal-ShovollorB' Union. Ho said that all tho union mon hero wero heartily iu sym pathy with tho Philadelphia strikers, and that ho was looking for ono of tho biggest strikos that Now York had over scon. Thero aro twico ns many union coal handlers in this city," ho declnred, ns thero nro scabs, and tho men are very determined. I havo heard It talkod about in tho union, and some branches havo already been told to proparo to go out at any moment and aro onlywaiting for orders, I am told. Mr. Youmans, tlio boss, who has about fifty men at work hero, thinks that thoro is a going to bo a striko in Now York and has loaded down all his boats iu Ilobokcn so as to bo ready for it. Tho organization is not only going to call out tho coal-shovellers ond drivers, but the freight. handlers all along tho riverfront and shut-down business every where They nro determined to strike a blow against tho companies wherever thoy can." It was not possible to verify those stote ments.f or Hynn was tho only man found near tho yard, and other union men whom tho ro portcr know would not corroborate thorn. Andy McCormick, another non-union man. who works in Greenwich btrect, said I tako no interest in this striko iu Philadelphia. I hud enough of it last your, nnd now I am going to look out for my own interests. As fur ns a btriko in Now York Is concerned thero way bo ono, but it will bo confined to union men." Aro thero moro union than non-union men in tho city?" ho was asked. Indeed thoro aro not," was tho reply. Most nil tho steamship and railroad com panies now employ non-union men, and sinco last winter it docs a man no good to belong to a union, so far as getting work is con cerned." MEN WHO DON'T WANT TO STRIKE. John Mack, who said ho belonged to tho Longshoreman's Union, but worked princi pally at coal-shovelling for tho steamship companies, was quite indignant when asked if there was any prosooet of his striking in sympathy with tho Heading employees. "Jlndocd there'll bo no strikt.liero this win tor," he sold, and you can hot anything you want to on it. Wo didn't go out last winter for theso Pennsylvania pooplo" and then got left in tho ond for nothing, and don't you forget it. Why thoso rascals had tho gall, otter our going on striko to help thorn to come tip horo and take our places when tho striko was ovor. No. you can bay that our union will not go out, I don't caro who says it will." Patsy Brown, another union 'longshore man, also declared very emphatically that thoro would be no striko in this city, and that no power on earth could get him out again in tho winter, and Pat Whcelan, his companion, was still inoro forciblo in tho ex pression of his opinion when ho said To blazes witli tho Philadelphia strikers. Thoy'ro no good, nnd, besides thnt, thoy'ro a set of trnitors. After tho way thoy served us last winter when wo stood out soveu weoks for them, and sturvtd ourselves umt our fam ilies to help them along, and then going back on us, I don't think it will ho very easy for thorn to get us into such n holo again." John Connolly, nlso n union mnn, declared that so long as ho could get employment at &1 n day ho would not go on striko for anv Philadelphia crowd, and said ho thought tho striko would fail bocuuso tho people down iu Peuusylvuuia had no organization. Dennis Murphy, n coal-heaver for tho Guiou line, told tlio reporterthat ho intended to keep out of any strike. "I got all I wonted of tho business last year, and it mado a good many a sight sicker than it did mo." i m Philanthropist Corcoran Ninety Yenrs Old. tl'ECUL TO TUX WOELD.l WABniNOTON, Dec. W. A sensational report was current berethii morning to the effect thai tho yenerablo philanthropist, V. W. Corcoran, had mflcrod u severe rclapie and was not expected lo recover. He was tnddenly seized while at church iMterdtj and was carried Into his carriage. Ilia pbtilclan. Dr. Uarnei, haa been with him almost conitaatlr, but auiea that thero u no occa slon lor lmcodlate alarm. Mr. Corcoran colo. Tiratea hU nlntleth birthday to-day. Ilrooklyn New nt a OlRnce. Three unknown men were having a good time lait nlglit In Hlxth avenuo, Hrooklyn, and managed to taVo all the beauty out of a large light or gUea n a Morn at the corner ot Union uvet andWxtn avenue. It will tojt J185 lo icjuir the uuuingo done. James Welch, of Jeraoy City, was broiled early thU morning by a member of the llrldiie Police force on complaint ol Saloonkeeper Henry lrtlu, of 11 Band street. Ilrooklyn. towtin complained that tho vlaltor from Jeraey had entered his laloon by forclnc open the real door. NO LONGER A SEA MONSTER. THE BIG RAFT BROKEN Ur BY THE WAVES AND HOPELESSLY LOST. Tlio Hlrnmer KntrrprUn round It Krnttered About I be Hen, 1115 III Urn from Wlirrn tlin .tllrntiiln I.ont It In t-'upl. illrCalln'n Opinion It C'nn Iln No Ilnrin lo Orrnu Mrnitirrn .Mr. l.rnry to Suit for llnnmiir. Thnt big timber rnft 1ms been scnttcrcd in 27.0(H) different directions, ond she's not worth n dollar to nny one." This was said to n Wonu rcportor this morning by Copt. Bowman McCalla, of tho United Ktntes man-of-war Eutorpriso. Tho steamer hod just reluruod from hor fivo days' voyugo in soarch of tho mammoth bundle of timber, and lay snugly In hor dock at tho Brooklyn Navy-Yard. Her officers and men, cheated by cruol fate out of tho pleasure of spending Christmas Day with thoir wives and sweethearts iu tho city, camo nshoro at tho enrliost moment, bent upon making tho most of tho remaining porlod of festivity. Cnpt. McCalln, howovor, hnd no immediate desiro to leavo tho comfortable cabin, nud tho reporter chatted with him for half on hour about tho situation and its possibilities. A big chart was Bproad out on tho table, nud tho Captain traced witli his flugor tho courso taken by tho Enterprise. After erasing for eight or ten hours in the immediate neighborhood of tho sjot whoro tho raft was abandoned, ho said, "wo headed about cast-southeast and kopt n sharp lookout during tho following day nud night. On Friday afternoon wo chuugod our courso to nearly duo south aud kept it up until uhout 10 o'clock Saturday morning. At that hour tho lookout aloft sighted a uiimbor of whito-piuo logs, and a fow hours nfterwards wo camo upon tho main body. That was in latitude !)9 deg. ,13 mill. north, lougitudo (IS deg. 10 mill, wost, about IU j miles from tho placo whero tho Miranda tbaudonod tho raft. Prom tho timo that wo sighted tho logs wo cruised about in a zigzag courso until wo had inclosed an urea of uhout a thousand square miles. An impression sceniB to havo got nhroad that tho logs wero found within a small area and cry closo together. That is altogether erroneous. Tho raft Iior gono literally to piecos, nnd no two woro found togethor. Tlio logs nro of different sizes, and thero nro many kinds of wood. For tho past weok tho woathor has boon unusually rough, and tho currents in that neighborhood ard vory strong, consequently the logs havo been scattered to tho four quar ters of tho globo, nud every moment incroasos tho distance betwocn them. "It is my firm convlotion that not tho slightest danger threatens any ocean steamer or merchant vessel from this floating timber. In tho firBt placo, it will not bo found ex copt by a stray log at a time, iu tho usual paths taken by ocean vessols, Even if it should it would not bo. danger ous. The logs havo no momentum or lm pulso of their own, nnd they will bo pushed nsido by the advance wave mads by nu np proaching vessel. If tho logs w ero in a narrow channel liko tho Bound or the East ltiver thoy might get in the way of the screws of vessols, but m tho opon sea that is an impos sibility. "Tho Entorprise steamed nt the rnto of twolve knots an hour among them with por ted safety." Would it not be a paying speculation for vessels to go in search of this valuable tim ber 1"' Capt. McCalla was askod. "Not at nil." ho returned. "I doubt if to-day any vossel, by keeping tho keenest lookout, could find n scoro of tho logs in a wook's cmiso. If it did, it would bo 1 in prac ticable to send out bouts aud got them aboard. It would not pay for the labor ovlu if a thousand of them wero found. Two weeks from now theso logs will bo found floating in tho Hay of Biscay, the Gor man Ocean and tho Irish Bea.aud iu courso of time somo of them may muko their way to tho Arctio Ocean. It is a hopolcss caso to recover nny of tho timber, nud I think theso olovor gentlemen in Nova Hcotin will havo to givo up tho big raft idea. I'm sorry for Mr. Loary, but he ought to havo known better than to try to mako such a trip at this timo of tho year. Merchant soamen in gcuoral. and especially those in tho timbor carrying trade, express a grim satisfaction ovor the disaster. The uni versal criticism is mado that tho course of tho raft from tho Boy of Fundy was most uuwisely directed. Said Capt. J. I). Stark, of tho schoonor Evelind Tho Miranda wont altogether too far south. She exposed herself unnecessarily to rough weather and strong currents, if any one will look nt tho mop thoy will see thnt tho proper course would have been through Vineyard Sound, whero there is a deep channel fivo miles wide and where Capt. Lesemau would havo been ublo to anchor in porfect safety until fair weather camo. In stead of that ho oamo 200 miles further dowu, whoro ho was quito unprotected from tho galo." Tho reporter placed this statement boforo Capt. McCalln and Lieuts. Stuart and Berry num, and they indorsed it in emphatic tonus. Mr. Jainosl). Leary, tho owner of tho raft, is proceeding against tho Miranda for its loss. Ho will apply to tho courts to.morrow for nu attachment against tho vessel. Tho Miranda's owners say that thero wns a clause in tlio con tract providing against accidents of wind nud weather, and that therefore thoy aro not liable.

PRIS0NER3 FK0JI BATTLE BOW. Tough Jnrk In Jail lor Hluulnir a Police-, mini und "Hull" O'llrlen on the Inlnnil. Phillip Strange, alias John Goff, alias Tough Juck," twenty-two years old, of 1212 Second nvenuo j Oeorgo Loris, alias "Hull" O'Brion, nineteen years old, of 938 First avenue, and Jeremiah Cornird, twenty years old, of dlO East Sixty-fourth streot, who wero arrested last ovening on n charge of assault, ing Policemen Sharkoy and Harogan In Battlo row, In East Sixty-thlrd street, woro arraigned at tho Yorkvillo Polico Court this morning. It was charged that Strange struck Police man Sharkoy on tho leg with a stono, that Iiowis throw a largo stono through tho plate, glass window of Matilda Maple's store at 41(1 East Sixty-fourth street, and that Croniu took a general part in the assault. Strange was bommittcd to await the rosult of tho injuries intlitod, Levis was sent to tho Island for six months, and Cronin, against whom thoro was no specific complaint, was discharged. Policeman Harrigan, who received a sorbins scalp wound, is in Bellovuo Hospital, but his injuries nro not considered serious. His ussailant has not yet been arrested. Henry Laux, a German baker, age fifty-two years, of 157 DeLancey alreeU died suddenly at the Uouveroeur Hospital lait night. A post-mortem examination revealed (he fact that apoplexy nu tho came ot death. a xlftaiSTPIKWBKifiHHlP iSviJ3E7aYjl!9CjnHif "SO HOPE FOR ME HUT DEATH." I.uclln A. Fouler' 1'nlllilrii Iovrr Drive Her to lllnlioumtv. ItrXCIAt. TO TIIK WOULD.) WonccsTFit, Dee. 20. A striking caso of man's perfidy nnd womnn's wrong wns brought to tho nth ntlon of tho public by tho arrost for foigoryof Lucilo A. Poster, twenty years old, by Detective Colby last night. Tho arrest was ipiietly nud secretly effected, nnd only her intimate frieudt know of tho affair, as tlio police afforded her every oppor tunity to settlo tlio caso. Tlio offense alleged is tho forgery of tho name of Qcorgo Sessions, an undertaker, as an indorsement on tlio buck of tour notes. About fivo weeks ago Miss Foster went into ho oillco of H. F. Anns, n monoy-leudor, and wanted to negotiate a loan of .50. She was told sho could have the money if somo responsible pnrty would indorse)her noto, aud sho named ovor sovcrnl, among whom was Uoorgo Sessions. Arms told her that his nanio would do if ho would sign, and after making out u nota she curriod it nwny to get Mr. Hosstons's indorsement. Sho returned soon nftor with tho noto prop erly lndorsod, ns Mr. Arms thought, nud ho paid hor tho monoy. Tho noto was mado out to run six months, nt tho usunl brokers' rnto of interest. Miss Foster then went to A. II. F. Kinney, another broker, aud had nu difllclly iu get ting him to accept another noto for $50, to run fur ono mouth, with Mr. Scssious's in dorsement. Hi nl Estato Agent II. H. Knight was next seen by tho vouug lady, and ho also counted out if1 Wl on her nota for one mouth, and to comiileto her round she obtained $K(I from Colliding ,t Murphy, two of tlio sharpest and most experienced of tho fiaternity of money lenders. Oeorgo Sessionh's namo was signed nson indorsement on every cheok, mid, strnngo ns it may seem, reseuiblnd in no particular tlio genuine signature. Tho first namo, Oeorgo, was written out u full insti ad of being ab breviated, as tin old gentleman invariably signs his uutogrnih. DiscovKiif or the roiuiEniEs. After recuivini 230,Miss Foster was not seen by her eii-v ictiras until yostorduy, when sho called to boo Mr. Arms again, and wanted to bu accommodated witli $25 on tho sumo terms. Sho had tho usual check, hut sinco hor las( visit Arms had discovered that Oeorgo SeHsions'B name on tho chock ho hold had been forgod. Ho told her that she had decoived him nnd unless she mado good tho amount at once she should bo arrested. Sho gave him hor gold watch aud chain and a noto indorsed by a man named Pellet, which ho received and lot hor off. Sho nlso pnid another visit to Kinney nnd wns found horo hy tho polico, who hnd been nut on her track. Sho was not arrested, howover until late nt night nnd wns then found at tho Parker House. AOAIN TUB FAITHLESS LOVEIt. Tho story of tho girl is a very sad ono. She belongs iu Lunonberg, in thin State, and was educated for it teaoher, but sho disliked tho business and hor guardian her parents being dead refused to havo anything mora to do with her. Sho worked as a t olograph oporator in Bos ton aud camo to this city last spring nnd was employed in a family where Bho wan ac quainted. Later sho wont to Westboro and socurcd work iu tho straw shop thoro. Sho camo hook to this city last Soptomher, and lived at tho Waldo House for throo woeks, represent ing that sho was engaged at tho Court-1 louse. At tho cud of that timo she was obliged to leavo, and left her watch for security. Bho then wcut to board nt tho Parker ilouso. Sho lived thero off nnd on until December, nnd nttracted considerable attention by her strango conduct. Nc charge, however, was brought ngainst hor character and it was not known until hor arrest thnt for sovcrnl months slm has been brooding over her condition. Tho namo of hor betrnyor sho refuses to disclose On Dec. 12 sho wcut to Boston placed her solf under medical treatment, and has just letumed. It is surmised hy tho polico that sho forged theso notes to pay tho oxponsos of hor visit to Boston, as her lover provod fatso and re fused to give her tho least help. Tho circumstances of her visit, as woll as tho name of the doctor who attended hor and who roceivod $75 for his borvices, aro known to tho polico hero and thoy intend to mako a further investigation. Miss Foster hud somo property loft to her by hor parents, but it is still in litigatiou, and perhapH sho failed to receive monoy enough from this sourco to tako up tho notes when they became duo. Sho was in charge of tho polico matron last night nnd seemed to npprcciate hor position koenly, as sho Bobbed bitterly in hor lonoly quarters nnd sighod Thore'a no hope for mo but death." Tho unfortunoto girl has attracted much sympathy among those to whom hor story is known and an effort will bo mado to settlo tho caso against hor. GEOKQE COFFIN BEAD. For ninny Year (lie Faithful Jnnltor of Tuinniiiuy Hull. George Coffin, tho janitor of Tammany Hall, diod last evening at his residence, 145 East Fourteenth street. Ho wns soventy' years of age. Mr. Coflln wis well known to tho pollti. ciaus who havo belonged to tho Wigwam during tlio past twenty yours. He officiated as doorkeeper for tho Committee 2n Organ lzation. and tlio Tammany Hall chiefs and hruves had to lo rocogni-sed by him before they wero permitted to cuter the secret chamber. He was an Englishman by birth, but had lived in this eity for moro than fifty years. Ho wns a strong parsisau ami mado it n point not to recognize it politician who fecceded from tho organization. Mr. Coflln was one of tho grcatost admirers of John Kelly, aud when that ioador diod his grief was deep and sincere. Ho leaves n married daughter, who has had somo ox. perienco ns a comio opera singer. At a reoent meeting of the Tuinmany Hall leaders $100 was voted the veteran janitor as a Christmas present. Ho was appointed jan. itor of Tammany Hull through the intlucuco of tho lata Augustus Scholl. Hid the Hot Nboat IIU Mother r Niwiusa, Deo. 23. lire. Catharine t'auedy, wife of Thomaa Caa-erly, ol thu city, died yester day and waa burled early this morning. Ituraora ol a ahootlng cue reached the ears of the local re porter!, who Inveatlgated. They learned that two ween ago lira. Caaiedy was ahot In the neck with a bullet from a toy plutol in the handa ol her ten. year-old son. 'I he attending phyalclaa niaito no report ot tho cato to tho Coroner, aud now thero are conflicting storlca aa to how the ehouilug oc cmreib The boy saya la trai accidental, while others aay the boy shut liU mother while alie u punlahlng him. The doath certificate give tho oauae ol death aa acptlexmla. Caaaedy denied the tory o the ahootlng, and said the woman died trom rheumatlam, An Investigation U In progress and the body will tie exhumed. TIRED OF BROOKLYN'S JAIL. JOHN KRAUSH LEAVES IT WITH THE HELV OFA'lOWEh ROPE. Not Willing to Hipiid Trlnl on a Clinrse or Ilrlng Impllrnleil Willi Orccntrnld III tlio JMtirilrr of Ionian H. Wcrka He IIpiiiU the Ilnr of UN Oil Window and Make. Ilia Ivnrnpc The flinrnri .uliit Him. John Krutiso, who was implicated in tho murder of Lyman S. Weoks lust March, and whowusn principal witness In thu trial of (Irecuwnhl, who wns convicted of tlio crime, escaped from tho civil prison of Hnymoiid Street Jail nt n Into hour Sunday night. Ho was held u witness by order of District Attorney Hidgw ay. The civil prison is on tho top floor of tho jail. Tlio Wurdon lives on the sumo floor, on the other side of the hall. Between the civil prison and tho hallway thero is an iron door, which dividos tho Warden's apartments. The civil prison consists ot n suit of rooms. Krnuso ocoupiod thu lost room ou tho right hand sido of tho prison. Thoro is h window iu tho room on tho outside of which the centre bar runs. At tho top of tho bur is u small bolt nnd a nut which secures it. Krauso mado his escape by unfastening tho nut, taking out tho bolt, nnd bending tho bar to a semicircle, which required much strength. Krauso had carefully planned his escape, as tho details show. IIo took three roller towels, cut them in two nud fastened thorn to the first cross-bur from the ciyjl prison, milk ing n rono. H Then ho threw n hlonkot out of tho window on to thu cobblestones in tho yard. He then lowered the window from the top, pushed back tho bolt and unfastened tho nut. Then ho lowered himself by moans of tho ropo, tho cross bars acting oh njntciiluddor. When ho reached tho last window ho dropped to tho blanket beneath, thus making good his oseapo. Tho hospital wall was all that stood in the way of himself aud freedom. Krauso quickly overcame this hy taking tho polo off ono of tho vans and placing it betwocn thu gate aud tho lowest portion of tho wall. It is one of tlio best-planned of tho escnpos that havo been mado from this jail. Warden Burroughs, when soon by a Wonui reporter, said This is tlio first timo that tho civil prison has been tycaton. It is a most remarkablo cBcapo. Tho idea was vory clever on Krauso's part. I have notified every pre cinct in Brooklyn," Tho prisoner who carries tho food to tho witnesses iu tho civil prison was the first to learn of tho oseapo. Finding Krauso gono ho went to tlio window and was startled ut socing the bar bent. Looking into tho mat ter further ho saw tho ropo mado of towel ling. Warden Burroughs was quiokly notiflod and an investigation was immediately begun, which disclosed tho circumstances ot tho escape. Krnutw'H emenpo recalls tho crime for which Greouwald will in all probability hang. As is woll known, it was tho uiurdor of Lyman S. Weoks shortly nftor midnight on tho morning of March 10, at his houso, 1071 Do Kalb avenue. Brooklyn. Mr. Woeks was a commercial traveller who hud saved a little money. A few wooks boforo his death ho purchased tho houso that ho wns mur dered iu. On tho night iu quostion ho wns about to ietiro whon ho heard a noise iu tho basement. Ho started downstairs in his stocking feet, lighting tho gas in the hall ou his way and closing tho bathroom door witli a bang. This noiso startled the burglar or burglars, and when Mr. Weeks reached tho dining, room, whero tho sculllo took placo, his assail, ant was waiting for him. During tho row that follow cd a shot was fired, Mr. Weeks heard tho saulllo and tho report of tho posted, and running to one of tho front windows, shouted for help. IIo sawn moil run down Do Kalb avenue and dart into ono of tlio Bido htreets towards Broadway. Neighbors who responded to tlio cries found tluiJHwbnnd lying doatl upon tho floor, and 'noayfMiiiSariigglu wero evident in thu disorder A. 1Bftrn(turo. Somoof tlie silvor. ware hnd 11 tJkou from a sideboard, Tho cowl j murdor arousod tho polico of both citioi, nnd a rovvard of $2,000 was offered by tho city. Subsequently tho nmount wns greatly added to. Inspector Byrnes's men first arrested Poto Inglis, whom two Now York policemen iduuti fiouastho man who shot them in Harlem. Two Brooklyn policemen, who had been sim ilarly treated for asking a man whoro ho was Soingata a. M. two nights prior to tho miir or of Mr, Wooks, also identified him. But ho provod an alibi ond escaped. A fow weoks later Krutiso, ono of n "gang" of Bowery lodging-house thiovos captured by Inspector Byrnes's men for com plicity in a robbery on Jersey City Heights, told tho Inspector that Ureenwuid, one of his partners in crimo, had declined to go to Brooklyn ou n thioviug expedition, saying that tho polico wero after him because ho had "dono a man up" ovor there. Oreeuwald and his chum, "Butch" Millor, wero nrrcstcd, and largely on the evi donco of Krauso nud Johh Tinker, nuothor member of tho gang," Urecuwald was con victed aftor u long trial. It has nlso been n question in tho minds of tho detectives wliLthor Greouwald fired tlio shot, although they believe ho was present nt the murder. On last Tuesday the appeal iu tho caso of Greouwald camo before tho Court of Appeals for argument. Distrlct-Attorney Hidg. way was present, but tho eounsol for tho condemned man failed to appear, ond consequently, on motion of Mr. Hidgwuy, tho Court dismissed tho appeal and affirmed thu conviction of mur dor In tho first degree. Luwyor Kinsley, counsel for tho condemned man, is confident of it opening thu euso, as ho says it was thu fault of thu District-Attorney why ho was not prnscnt. Supt. Cntnpboll has sent out n general alarm to tho polico in nil tho principal cities. At a Into hour this afternoon Krauso hud not been captured. Trnlllns Their llrotlier'i Murderer. Cknthk, Ala., Uec S3. Tuo trial of Carroll Mcllee, charged with the murder of young Ilard wlcx, committed hero about twenty-three years ago, ended ycaterday In a verdict of not guilty. The dramatlo story of the death-like trailing of tnclr orotner'a murderer by tho Ilardvtlck boya, who for twenty.two yean never relaxed tnclr vigi lance, would fill a large volume. 1 ho bruthera oe. Ileved Mcllee tu be the slayer, and for all thoaa long yeara they continued their aearcb for him. Time, money, hardihtp and expenae were not con. aldered. At laat they found CaitoII XI c I lee, who haa been found ."not guilty," and the Hardwlck boya must begin anew their search for a brothel! murderer. Dentil I'ollovrrd from a Man' Illtr. Ei-miiia, 7f, V., Dec, S3. Edward Hackly and John Jlollerau got Into an altercation In a Canal alreet saloon on Nor. S5. Hollcran felled Hackly toihe floor and then bit him over the eye. The wound swelled up, became very painful aud eryslp. las sot In, resulting ini Uudcly's death yesterday, llolleran haa been arrested and held lor the. (Irani Jury., Uodtnles theblUDC.. VXOI.n RAM'S CllMRTMAS RTOOKINO. FOCailT THE I1URGLAR8 AWAY.. A l'lncky Chelsea Insurnnrn Aarent Fired at Throo Time by a ltobber. rsrxcttt, to tax wobld.1 Boston, Doc. 2(1. Oharlos Willis Gould, an itiBuranco agont, had a desperato encounter with burglars nt his residenco ou Warren street, CholBea, Saturday night. Mr. Gould aud his family had been celebrating tho fes tive season with a Christmas tree aud retired lute. About 3 o'clock Mr. Gould was awakened, nnd on going to tlio first floor saw a largo, powerful with it dark lantoru iu his hand making for tho girls' room and a second man standing on tlio stairs. Without onco thinking of tho consequonco or thu odds against him, Mr. Gould sprung on tho mnn with tlio lantern nud thou com. mencod a struggle for tho mastery. Mr. Gould made sovoral ineffectual nt tenipts to throw tho burglar off tho banister, but ho was no uiatoh for his antagonist, who reached into his hip pookot, secured his re volver, and fired ovor his shoulder nt Mr. Gould, tho ball passing In closo proximity to Ids head. Tlio burglar thou flrod a second shot, which passed through tho Indox finger of Mr. Gould's right hand and lodged in tho coiling. This had tho desired effect, and Mr, Gould let go his hold of tho ruffian, who, taking advantage of tho respite, mado for tho stairs with Mr. Gould ou his hools. When nbout half wuy down tho burglars tnruod and fired n parting shut at Mr. Gould, but this also missed its mark. Tho two mon escaped by tho front door with about $50 worth of silvorware. IT DOES NOT IMPROVE THEIR LOOKS. Girls Mako n Had Mlstnko Wlieu They Illncken Their Uxellds. ii HEN n man sees tho dgf (J a tho paraphornulio of a fw w f7''l1'n'c t'"1'' beauty in Vijf vj lAF tho gcutlcr sex is quito "TV iTA mi ir' rou"y llr M M Ijj Ltlstio "maker up" iVl fill il looks ot securing somo--Xljy. JXn0 -fk. uiiiB Hko docoptiou in wm5VB hor coloring. Tholily Wfl InSaliaPr white, tho rouges, tho bistro, and tho blue which traces a delicato llttlo vein, to give tho appcarauco of a thin, transparent skin, nro laid on with a finesse that any othor painter might onvy. Behind tlio glaro of tho footlights greater freedom in applying the colors is permitted, because thoy havo to carry n greater distance, although oven thero tho real artist refines a little iu the laying on." Tho effect of a slight lino of bistro under tho oyo is too mako it seem more brilliant and larger. Hut when It is laid ou so that tho oyelashoB orop out from a sticky little ridgo of black, tho rosult is not an Oriental houri Impression, but moro ns if the damsel had boon uiado un by tho cosmotlo of a fist sent rather forcibly against her optic. Tho stick of darkening color can bo ob tained ut any drug store, aud tho dear girls lay it on as if thoy wore bootblacks. It is tho funniest tiling in tho world to bo passing down tho Bowery mid suddenly soo n pair of theso blackened eyes n squaro off, peering from somo young woman's fuco. A ruseal of n uiiwsbny, with both eyes sym metrically "blacked" by an infant Sullivan of Paradise Pork, would look liko u blood, relation of one of these cosmetized Shes-n congested blood relation. And yet tho dear things do it to mako them, selves pretty! Heaven savo thn mark! If thoy would only give their eyes a good wash ing with pure, clean water, nud rub their young cheeks with it crash towel, thoy would get n coloring from a brisk walk that would beat anything thut Prance over turned out. Let nature use tho hare's foot and put on tho ruuge of a keen winter's atmosphere, girls, and leavo tho blacking out. Your eyes ore bright enough. Condensed Loral News. Klro ransed a loss of (3 to Leopold Lefkowlth by destroying that much furniture at '8 Hecond street to-day. Annie Qalnes, eleven months old, died without a meJli-ul rtteudaut, at Uer parents' home, laia Third avenue. At 8 o'clock this morning Joseph Wilson, a prluter, fell downstairs from an upper landing and dialocaied hla aboulder. He was removed tout. Vincent's Hospital, An unknown Herman, about thirty years of age, made a Cbrlalmas present of his body to tho Alorguo this morulug. He f'.ed suddenly in a cheap lodglng-huue at 18 l'ell street. During the year istf tho Detective Ilureau under the management of IUMiector Uyrnes recovered and restored to owners ooo.ooa worth of stolen projierty, the largest on record for a single year. Last cveulng Catherine Carroll, aged alxty-four J ears, housekeeper at Ono Hundred and highly Itli streut und Kingsbndge road, fell downstairs. Her skull was fractured, und sho died almost In stantly. A pan of grease cought flro while It waa standing on the kitchen range of tho Deef and Dumb Aay. lnra at One Hundred and ttlxty-seoond street and Twelfth avenue, bat tho firo caused no alarm tad did no damage,. NO STANDING AS A HUSBAND. 11 'aSH YOUNQ IHGGINB LOOKED UP INBTEAD-OP 'jg9 GETTING AN HEIRESS. 'WJM Ilortnrn to Decide Whether He la Rune Futlirr Hliccdr ncnlcn Thnt IIo Married 'SH Him to Allfis Alexander, nnd Hays lie la JB Crnry Tlio Young I.nilr Hnfr Trom Ills T.M I.ovo Letter fur a Tluin nt I.ennt. Trancls Higgins, tho young IrMimun whoso tm present titlu to fume lies almost entiroly la 'xfl his claim that ho is tho proud husband of Miss Anna Alexander, of H4 Prospect placo, Brook. fl lyn, a blooming young heiress, nppenred bo fl faro Justice Kenun, in Brooklyn, this morn. -sV ing to soo what tho Polico Court thought of him ns a husband. 'jH Corpulent Ponton Rockwoll, tho hvwyor for Mm the young man, was on hand with n largo 'H nmount of conviction which he was roady to vl shed abroad that Miss Anna AloxnnderwM Mrs. Francis Higgins. fl Tho Court, howovor, boforo considering 9 Iliggins's standing as n husband, ordcrod an f&m examination by competent authorities of tho ,jl gray matter in Francis's corobrul region to ?uH seo if it bad a healthy normal tint or if It 'tfM wasn't n llttlo too dark for mental health. -&H In tho moan timo, until tho experts decide H whethor Higgins in qualified to nay if ha is a vB married man or not, ho will languish in -$ijB durance vile nt th pollen station, 831 Gates .wM nvenuo. &H Higgiun is n vory neat young fellow, about xfl twonty.four years old, qulot-mannorcd, and r?B good enough looking not to mako it a moral lH act to look upon him and not bo movod to jgjfl wrath. Miss Aloxauder Is about tho somo ago and possesses one clinnu which Mr. Higgins lacks Jfl n plenteous bank account. Sho claims that fl her protonding husband is unknown to her, ySQI oxcopt through the medium of his hnndwrit-1 4g9 Ing, which Higgins usod to exercise for hen benefit in amorous epistles, in which sho is gffl nd dressed as his wife. Higgins has been it nurso for two or throo Wn yonrs in Flatbush Hospital. Mr. Alexander .1 diod last year aftor having been in St Mary's "jF Hospital for somo timo. It wns Bhortly after 9, his death that his daughter began to rooelvo w Higgius'H loviug litters. riito tried to escape from thorn by flying to l jfi Huropu. When sho returned tho letters begun, until sho had HiggiiiB arrested as a means of chucking his uuwolcomo corro. 1 spondeuco. Higgins was for somo timo sexton for Father ts Sheohy, tlio pastur of St. Ambrose's Church, at tho corner of Do Kalb aud Tompkins avo- ntios. A AYoni-D roportor called onFathor Sheohy to seo whnt he know about the caso. IllggimChod suod tho priest for somo money A duo him, employing tho legal services of I. iK Worden Goduey. He got tho monoy. Lost May ho wanted Gednoy to tako up his caso 'K ngainst Miss Alexander. IIo claimed to havo S; boon married to her by Father Sheohy. I Father Shoohy, a tall, Btout man with dark Ti 4omDlexlon and jet blnok oyes, said to. the ro. I -fti portor.whon ho hod boon asked what bo knew j nbont tho case: Is there any Miss Aloxon-( der?" t Tlio roporler assured him thore was. Higgins worked hero as sexton." Father Shoehyeaid. Tho man la mad. Sometimes JjJ ho is sane enough, but at others his eyosxoU t jM and ho shows great norvouB excitement. ;g Ono day ho camo to mo nnd soldi ";rM Father, I want yon marry mo to Miss Alex-1 M an dor. I told him this was not a placo for 'jjJnl lunatios and turned him ont. Wm Bollovo mo, ns an oipert in human natnro, WM that thoro is nothing in this. I did not marry 'WM thorn." t B If you hnd wouldn't tho marnogo bo 'in yfl tho registor of tlio church nud would thero ?JU not bo witnesses?" asked tho reporter. IkH Yos. I don't boliovo ho ever saw Miss jH Aloxnudcr. I do not know the lady rayaolf. 'mM Sho is not n Catholic." II Tho fnthor had nothing to say ngainst Hig-,y tU gins's character. Ho said ho thought writing '&H letters of this kind was n weakness of Hie- :mm gins's. Headmtttod that Higgins had brought)1 fM suit for his monoy. 1 B "I had to pay him," ho said, withalaugbv' fcjpB RACING AT GDTTENBDRG. Programme of the Invents to be Decided To. If'jB morrow. i JH The entries for the racca to bo ran at the North iB Hudson Driving Park to-morrow (Tuesday) aro as )yH follows: afl FIRST RACK, $M Purse 200, of which $M to the second, for horns itM that havo run and not won at Outtenburg during jB the meeting; nyo furlongs. 'jlal u. I x. H Norwood 118 nonnle Douche.. 1 S vB Neil Difls llRIJlm Hronnan 1 S fflM Goblin US IHrnrllrown 1 s H All.noVo IIS Winter 1 S '-S Taiitlrr.., 1J5 footprint 1 -aSal Talleyrand 118 SUhnetu 1 3 tB NonKms.f 113 .lobnKlnn...., JIO 'hB (JutlfnSuri.w UAKoko 110 CM Utile M....1Cjr. U3 VSM SECOND KICK. JrlH Purse $200, of which so to the second, for all ftl ages; to carry lit) lb.; maidens allowed 10 lb.; 3 thiee-quartcra of a mile. v. x. $tfl KITrlnldsd 110 tawl 106 treunrer 10T Msltledore 10T A'M .liihn Aleiaudtr 107 Nentnnna 1QT .AtSBB Tom Kenu 107 Telegraph 100 OnH Pat Dent 1"7 Suing llsa prt lleu'llwuipson 107 iD T1IIHI1 RACE. ifH rune (SOU, of which $30 to the second, for (all MM ages; Belling allowances; seven furlongs. ftHM Veto..,......, lutflniiiT BrunatU. 100 VXJal Warren Lewis IIW tlradborn 10O SRal Sxectr IU Marguerite, Ji Mil llolfor... l'UUUt 10J AH lUclturjr Jim 10 JM rOCRTH RACE. HH rcrselioo, of whtchjw to tho second; forall Jftal ages; selling allowances; mile and a furlong. fixim M.I ih. ;'m Hrlsht Fjrcs UrVVtndex 10.1 iiNH jlaU' tu W) Twit t-Yuter..... 101 VeXM ironboo IftJICompotiior llXJ W FIFTU 1UCE. f'lCl Furse, $20.1, of which (50 to the second, for all 'ixiM ages, tu csrry is lb. ubovo tho scale, selling am Jlfl lowancea; auven furlongs. Wl Jaatln Miek.... 131 WMTr....... 13S SEfJ Kndomr l'W OiUiimnlioa. ISO "flEB lllliurd VJ Marsaorlte 150 MLffJ Jue I'lenju lit bight.Uuaaon., 1W -vJB Itaclng begins at 1.3J r. u. WM .S'MU Chance for Ulsters and Sealskins. 'BI Vasiiinqton, Deo. "41 l HVafierfnaioaftoialor 9 fflr lours beginning at 1 SrB flffi HHrl o'clock to-day. wMM Y(Mjrfi) -n'eto Jeftev, Con- WM I tfcu-Mi' i necttcut ana Dulern JB Y&4AWwBt. h Kex0 lor' JWtotMdi IH KiBMffM W threatening weather, H MMKmffiM tUoMfy, colder, with Ugtit aH ISSSS to fresh xoliuis. Thomas Dolan. forty-eight yeara old, a none t 'sftS Bt. Luke's Hospital, waa struck br an nnxnpwn JM man at Fortyeoond strest and infth arenu tola )mml Eomlng. Ilehadonaot bla hands aeTWertWft., ttV owaj attended at bu lite'a HosjiJtii, H mr iSsaaaaaaaaaaaal saaaaaaaaaaaal

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mr TR&wvtmfmftimyiwsmmmtnmitoMmiiwrimfy s m THE WOULD. jf, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26. nanHsV KjjP' evjiscjtiTTioN xo run eyjsxwQ' MOW' EDITION (Including Foitnge), Warn rsn month, soc ifeii teaii, $3.50. Hfflf l-l .1 I a I P THE NOVEMBER RECORD. HP' Total number of' World" printed daring Bra? ,ue month of November 188T K 8,505,840. KIP.' AVBItAGE PER DAY FOR TIIK ENTIRE HP MONTH, m 283,528 COPIES. WW SOrsUDBRCinCULATlOSaurino the xxutitx m& Vtari compared: KE,,' irtdiArr ytfy WW" 3SSfl 043,801 31,403 W&L 3SJ 3,301,070 4B,380 WtjL; 3884 3,84S,834 328,104 M. 388S 4,048,4tS3 304,048 fc 3880 C,107,4ilO 803,880 aw 8,505,840 283,528 ft OPEN TO ALL. H The New York "World" Invltoi every J Newspaper Proprietor and every Advertiser ,$v to examine Its Books and Pros Room to MS1' Satisfy hlmsolf about Its Circulation. txti i W. ADVBRTISING RATES. (Acata Meaaniamenl.) fflB Ordinary, 25 oenta per una. No extra prfoe for a- $p caritatle dlaplay. Buslnass or Special Notions, oppnelto Be Xaitcml pax. 00 cants per line. lUadlnc Notloea, Cj&. starred or marked "AdH."i First pace, 81.50 per jjg, line iFoarth pete, 01.25 per Unei lnalda pace, 81 ?Bhl xrbn. sfttf f A raftsor adaerff'it'flp in fA afy WORLD da aof ajt- Jw' 1 It l I A Ettnlng Un; Ifor do lAe rolo q fAol U, ue Pf THE READING! STRIKE. 5&fr The trainmen of tlio Heading road ought W to bo suro not only that thoy aro right, but K that tbey can win, boforo going on with tboir M etrlko. Bt It is truo that an injury to ono is tho con- jE cernof all;" but tho injury of all is much gpv inoro tbo concern of all. And a striko that fi! will put up the prico of coal still higher, and, jjy7 if persisted in, create n coal famine, is n very f, serious matter at this season. Tho riob can always provido for thomsolvos iSK in somo way. But how about those with no X& coal-bin? f HOT YET TOO LATE. BE A good many peoplo who wore not nt Mp' church, yesterday miBscd tho opportunity to mh" help pilo up tho collections for tho Hospital m Funi1' tfW' Hut thoy needn't lose tho opportunity alto. Km gcllior. Send a chock or tho money to tho RIsKf church treasurer to-day. Or thero aro tho K&' little boxes, by no meauB full. E-jK It is seldom too lato to do n Good deed. Wxr, TOB WOEKIHO QIEL8. Ifjjft Tho good example of tho Messrs. WAnmut, pffii of Bridgeport, in providing a beautiful club. j&r house for their working girls, has already Jgi borno fruit. Somo of tho wealthy women of tho samo busy town havo furnished a largo houso for S tho oveuing entcrtainmont of tho somo class Pft who live in boarding-houses and whoso W' only parlor is tho street." Thero will bo provision for musio, reading, jg'- games, sowing and systematic study all W freo. There could bo no more beautiful nor In: needed bcnovolcnco than to supply a choer- S f ul and safe placo for homeless girls to spend Sl their evenings in. tK, j" THE COAL "OOMBE,,, w" Tho coal combination should bo Bhakcn to yf pieces by tho strong hand of tho law. agP It is monstrous that in a free country "a fow gentlemen, meeting in a parlor," canab. 'M, solutely determine tho supply and flx tho i' prico of fuel for tho country. Sj Given such power, of course, tho coal M. barons will grind their workmen and rob tho t public. If this isn't a conspiracy," what is H A OHBIBTHAB MORAL. 'f The undercurrent of tho ChriBtmas.tido fur. 5(' nishes a moral for tho day. What moro M9HA striking losson could a proacher drow than is v- v J W taught by tho death of Baklow, tho literary M hermit, among his books in a Lafayctto placo NsT ftUio fiT Tljo Btory of his lifo is a philippio ogoinst Hffi, that peoulior form of selfishness which makes Hff one a useless recluse. Tho deepest thoughts Bjg&t t of tho profoundost thinkors boro nofndtiu Ufiw the arid mind of a man living wholly unto WtiBh himself. Tho exhortations of religious en. Mat-- thusinsU, who communed with him from aii'. their dusty tomes, failed to awako tho ma. mjb terial echo of good deeds to his fellow.mcn. WRr Interdependence is a rule of existence that KJK grows stronger with increasing civilization. HE Knowledgo unapplied is half folly. Truo KE religion is a religion of unselfishness and Hra good deeds. Wfc' .GOOD FOE EVEEYBODT. Mr. Blaine's recipo for good health and 3f long lasting contains a useful hint for every. flU body. Hp; Not every one has the cood fortune to K have been born with a sound body and to Sp 'have worked on a form in youth." Nothing hR gives ono a better start in lifo than this com. JR.. bination. But everybody can live tempor- mfi otcly, choose plain dishes at table (a good m many, alas I have no cholee in this), eschew Bk pastry "and avoid "burning tho candlo at m& both ends." R Add to this plenty of fresh air, cold water, Xh exercise and sleep, and one ought to bo ablo RC. to see many happy new years. IT A ONE-SIDED LAW. kT The so-called "Anti-Oonspirftoy Law" in HT U State and in Pennsylvania U justly com. Bbb,. pWnsd of by the worklngmen. K. JKulpraelcal effect, they say, baa been to B opteftInt combinations of wogearners mm- that are essential to their protection, and to give entiro immunity to tho conspiracies of tho trusts and pools to f orco wages down and forco prioes up. A delegation of workers from Brooklyn will ask tho Logislaturo to repeal or amend section 1C8 of tho Penal Code. It ought to bo dono, Mnko tho scalos of Justico balance A morning journal announces that Turkey begins to tako alarm." With Thanksgiving and Christmas past, and Now Year's Day coming, wo should think tho scant survivors of tho flock had abundant reason for alarm. No Man's Land" seems to havo been try. ing to mako good its gruosomo namo by kill, ing all strangers who entered it. It is indeed a bad timo of tho year to bo idle," for mon whoso families depend upon their wages Even scab coal may keep a poor family from freezing. m m POUR OLD JACK WILDEr. The Man Who Organized thn Flrat Iluebnll Club In tho Country. Thoro goes a man who is scarcely known or recognized now, and yet ho cut qulto a figure in Now York politics and sporting cir cles not many years ago." TnE Woblti roportor who was addressed turned and lookod at tho tottering form of an aged man passing along I'ark row, near Broadway. Tho bristling inustaoho was qaito gray and thoro was n thick sprinkling of silver in tho black locks which scorned to rebol against tho encroaohmont of tho snows of winter boforo winter had really como, for, though old, this man had evidently not scon so many years as his appearance ludiratod. Ilisfaco woro a preoccupied air and his eycB gazed with a look scarcely indicativo of mon tal health. His figuro was clothed in a fatiguo uniform of tho old Volunteer l'iro Department. Who is ho asked tho roportor. "That's Jaok Wildey," returned his in formanl; "Jack Wildey. at ono timo tho foremost sporting man in tho metropolis. Ho it was who organized the first baseball club in tho country tho old Mutuals -and ho was its President. For yctirs his Mutual Club-room, on Broadway, between llleecker and Houston streets, wuh tho headquarters for all tho sports, and .lurk was their patron, Ho wok foreman of Eleven Engine and hod a groat pjill with tho boys. Ho was twice elected Coroner and has held other oilicial positions. Wildoy uaHiit ono time very wealthy, but his money went just an easily as it come, onil now I understand that his friends lnmlo in tho old days of his prosperity are looking after him. Jack's a littlo bit unbalanced now, and last yoar spent somo timo at the Anutyville Asylum. His demontiu is of a harmless character, houcor, and thero is no danger in allowing him to bo abroad. "1 don't suppose any of thn young ball tosscrsat the Polo Grounds know tho man who was the originator of the profession by which they make thoir living when thev see him," nndthc old. timo sport gazed sadly at tho point in the crowd whnro his friend bad disappeared, and left tho reporter without u Good-by. INSULTLD AND THEN STADDED. An IUtllnn In n Fighting Mood After a Thninp.on Hiruet Cnroueo. A party of Italians in Thompson stroot spent Sunday night caroimlng, and by mid. night many of thorn wero fighting dmuk. Henry Franklin, of 158 Spring streot, and James Kelly, of 169 Princo stroot, wero on thoir way homo when thoy mot ono of tho party, who jostled against them. Tho young men remonstrated against what appeared to bo a gratuitous insult, and worn about to pass on when the Italian turned and flashed a knife blade at thorn. They sought to avoid n collision, but wero not quick enough. Kelly received a bad out in tho left shoulder and Franklin's cheek was laid open. Tho assailant made his oscape. Kelly and Franklin wero taken to tho Mer. cor Btrcet police station, where an ambulanco surgeon from St. Vincent's Hospital dressed thoir wounds. WORLDLINGS. Tho Ilornclljvlllc (Ky. riativlealer notices, as a phenomenon which lias nut been hitherto observed, that Kentucky negroca never cat ojEters. At Weimar, (lermony, two eld peoplo named Uuyer, liuslmna unci wife, died suddenly on the slxtr-atth anniversary o( their marrljgo. A Nevada ranchman, to protect his cattle from tbo elTects ol blizzards, has painted them all with a mixture of tar, red clay and linseed oil. Senator Sherman was said to havo a fortune of a million lieforo Washington real estate beiraato rlso five years uuo, and ho U now reputed to be worth two, OOO more. A Saginaw (Mich.) minister refuses to ride In street cars on Sunday because bo Micros that II Is a violation of tho divine law for man to do any labor on tho Lord's day. Tho great financial king of New Zealand Is Johnny Jones, of Duuedln. Ills wealth runs up Into tho millions and tho greater part of It was made In steatnboattng. Mo Is a native and onco earned scant wages at an oarsman on a ferry-boat. "The latest drink In Chicago Is tho beef-blood cocktail, which as a "bracer "Is said to stand at the head of the list. It U composed of blood fresh from tho slaugluer-housis, chilled with a bit of cracked Ice and scuoncd with a dash of spirits and a little cayenno pepper. The new Clerk of tho courts of Chester County, Pa., Is Mrs. ItcbccciOl1. -Melds, the first woman who ever held that oDlce In the county. She was a deputy under Clerk Taylor, and at his death, a week ago, was appointed to the position by Judges Furtley and WaddelL Mr. John Long entered the store of Mr. Drag Allison at Wcbuter, N. C':, in search of an article of which he stood la pressing need. Not finding it, ho abased Ht. Allison roundly for keeping a one-horse storo. In a moment there was a scuinc, a flashing of knives, and now Mr. Allison is likely to die. A group of "sitters" In a Norwich (Conn.) grocery storo wero discussing dynamite and An. archlsu the other night when great consternation was caused by the explosion of a can of pumpkins. No damage was done farther than that several per sons had their clothing smeared wlih the soft con. tents of the can. Probably the best lookout point or natural watch tower in the world is Caddo Peak, In Johnson County, Tex. It U a beautiful truncated cone, rising 800 feet abote the level of the surrounding country, and from the top of It, on a clear day, one can see a distance of 400 miles up tho meander ing Brazos Hirer. Charles A. Kelly, a teamster, of Hannibal, Mo., fell Into a deathlike trance a few weeks ago that lasted for several days, inns and needles were run Into bis body and everj effort made to rouse him, bat without success, until Mrs. Woodwortb, a faith-cure doctor, took him la band and he soon revived. lie says that the vigorous measures adopted to restore him to consciousness were very powerful, bet he found it Impossible to move a muscle in resistance. CHRISTMAS DAY SOCIETY. S I OUTDOOR BrORTS THE CHIEF ATTRACTION AT TUXEDO TAKK. Mrs. Dudley Field nnd Dr. nnd Mr. For drre Ilnrker to flint Dlnnrm Thla r.rcn. Ing Mnnj Prlvnto nnd Public flnlla to Occur After the Holiday A Dlnmond llullerflr In a Now Year's Grnb Itng. 8 e. N IIEN tho holidays aro 5Jfir ver tho fashionablo rr ,J( ff privnlo and public t$2$3P W jfi balls will follow each VvU thcr in quick Biicces- Jfc f sl0"' U U Wli'1 tlmt 6 VV4 '10 crazo for bric-a- ff'M brae which has oxistod f" ytfi Jykfi now for n few yeors ml )lQJ$f makes it almost necos- aS'Ol w'ry CUK"K Bomo "5svPV'?-?Ttey public hall for private 2ySjSjr gf entertainments to so- JiwA c,,ro ro"m enough for 'ill) MffiSw 1Ir- I)nllc-v Ficl1- I ltvTV of 22 (iramorcy park, will gho a dinner this cvonlng in honor of Jndgo Field. Dr. nnd Mrs. Fordyco Barker will givo a dinner to a number of guests this evening, Including Mr. nnd Mrs. John Munroo. Mrs. Alfred Poll is entertaining n numbor of gucBts for tho holidays nt hor country scat at Highland Falls. Tobogganing will bo tho amusement this ovoniug at Tuxedo, to-morrow ovoning tho less exciting pastimo of coasting by moon light, nnd on Wednesday night thoro will bo a gonornl danco. At tho wedding of Mr. William Manico nnd Miss Salllo Itcmsen, youugost daughter of Mr. William Itemson, on Jan. 8, Mr. Do Forest Manico will bo tho host man nnd Messrs. N. Loroy, Harry llemson, Hugh Dickoy nnd Goorgo ltomsen will bo four of tho eight ushers. Miss Mario Manico, Miss Agnes Lnwreuco, Miss Louiso Whitnoy, Miss Carrie. Ilomsen, Miss Anna Wobb and Miss Lizzie ltomsen will bo tho bridesmaids, Mrs. Hiker-of !103 MadiHou avenue, will givo a ten on Dec. 2H. Miss Pilshury of this city, is visiting Miss Edith Dnrrach. at Uerimmtown, Pa. Thomnrriagn of Mr. Leon Marii! nnd Miss Hoo, of 11 East Thirty-sixth street, will tako place on Jan. l'J. Lieut. J. M. Carson, I!. H. A., and hisbrido, ik'ii Sumner, aro milking it short stay in thin city. As it gilt at their lecent wedding Sir. nnd Mrs. (itorgo W. Childs presented them with an entire dinner Het in silvor. The chances for u grab in tho Tuxedo grab bag, which will bo one of tho New Yenr'B Eve recreations, will bo sold at $1 each. Mr. Lorillaril has presented a diamond butterily to bo added to its treasures. Mrs. Hubert F. llallantiuo will give n cotil lon at her home, in Newark, which many New Yorkers will attend, on Friday oveuing. At tho next meeting of the Nineteenth Cen tury Club, which will bo enrly in January, Tho Stugo will be discussed from tho dif ferent standpoints of tho manager, tho au thor and tho oritio. Tho engagement of Mr. Hownrd TownBcnd and Miss Janet King, n daughter of Mr. Cor nelius King, is announced. A cako sale for thobonellt of tho poor will bo held at tho homo of Mrs. Gcorgo W. Ely, 108 llnBt Fifty-bovonth streot, on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Mrs. James Tolor, of 7 West Twenty.first stroot, will entertain tho Friday Evening Dancing Class this week. Mrs. Lawrouco Kip, of 45'J Fifth avenue, will ontorUun it next woek. Tho ongogoiuent of Mr. Vnu iloiibsolacr, of Boston, and Miss Mary Livingston, sister of Mr. James Dunne Livingston, is announced. Tho Charity Ball, on tlio ooning of Jan. G, will bo opened by Mr. Edward Cooper dnnoing with Mrs. John W. Ellis. If tho guests aro as numerous as tho published libt of managers it will bo u Inrgo ball. Mis. Outen Pell and Mr. nnd Mrs. William Hall arrived on Saturday from Europo. Mrs. Edward King, of 2 University placo, will givo a dance on .Inn. 4. Tho marriago of Mr. Percy Madeira nnd Miss Marie Marie, daughter of tlio late John Mnrit5, will tako place to-day from the homo of Mr. Hunter, in Philadelphia. Mrs. Douglas W. Buruhaui, of fi West Six. teenth btreet, will give a tea on Jim. 7, at which her daughter, Miss Buruhaui, will be Introduced. Two well-known matrons will choperono a party which will einbraco all tho young bet. both married and single, which starts for Hollywood on Saturday and remains there until Tuesday nnd will return in time fur the Now Year's ball. Miss Lily Stevens, a younger sister of Mrs. Lndenburg, will be ono of tho debutantes of tho winter. Miss Ferguson, of England, who is nt present a guest of Miss llewitt at Tuxedo, will have a dinner given in her honor to. morrow evening by Mr. and Mrs. Clmuncey M. Dopow, of 22 East Forty-fifth streot. Mr. nnd Mrs. Alexandre, of 2 West Six. teenth street, will give an informal danco this evening. FUN FOR AFTER CHRISTMAS DINNER. A Clirlatmna I'rrarnt. From lltirjfr't 7tair. Ah, bow I wished that I might tell The lovo which bound me as a spell! She was a wltchlnv little maid, lint then I think 1 was atruld And even tho dread time dtlayed Till Christmas came. 1 called on her on Christmas Eve, ltesolvud to ask her to recctvo My love, and In my vows believe. (Hut I didn't.) When I roso to go She whispered luw, 'dive my love to your sister, Ipray.1' I answered men wltuout delay Her words had made mure smooth tho way 'Suppose I should keep that precious prize" And looking in her deep brown eyes, Saw no exprcnaton nf nuriirlse. If you will," snesuld, With downcast head. As a Christmas gift from me. Hot Cnuard by Drlull, IfVow rAa FpotK, Doctor (feeling patient's pultc) You are suffer ing, sir, from nervous prostrutlou in a very aggra vated form. Havo you been drinking deeply of later Patient (feebly) No, sir; Pro been Christmas shopping with my wile. Thla from Montreal. Von, fA Jfjiof A.J Why, what's the matter, Johnny?" inquired a fond Montreal mother as her four-year-old camo Into the house crying bitterly. N-nurte says tn-that If I ain't a b-b-better boy the boodlers will c-catch me." The Vutortuuute Orgnnette. (from Ju.ty, Mrs. Deasy It's dlsgbustcd Ot am wld tho wringer ycz gev mo fer mo Christmas prlilntl Dlvll th' thing but a thmill sock'll go troo It, an' win 01 turns the handle It's thot rusty It equates ootsomo ohunc lolke tho "Shwate buy-an-boy." a Fort of tha Dullness. From Judg. College-bred Reporter (rushing into restaurant to his chief) Mr. Slasher, ,lu the latest edition of the Trumixt Editor Jenks calls you a double drtd liar, and threatens to tbrash you on sight. What shall we do about it t a Editor Slasher Oh, that's all right. Allow me to Introduce yon to Mr. Jenks. We generally dine together. "PAUL KAUVAR." fitcelo Mackaye's new play, Paul Ranvar, or Anarchy," which was produced Saturday night at tho Standard Theatre, has received a great deal of attention, which It undoubtedly deserves. The play Is an admirably lngcnloua construction, and Steelo Mackayc has handled It urtlstlcally. Tho effect of the production, however, was marred by the ridiculous speech Mr, Maokaye made at the end of It, The speech was more melodramatic than tho play, and It suspiciously resembled the effort which Mr. Mackaye tnado when bo produced "Pakolar." Pressing Julian Mitchell to his breast, and with tho company surrounding htm, Mr. Mackaye In n most theatrical manner told M auillcnco that to Mr. Mitchell ho owed his succtsi, and to tho "supers" gathered about film he was also deeply grateful. Julian Mitchell hail drilled tho "supers." only a week ego bo appeared at Iho I'lfth Avcnuo 'I licatre as tho tramp In "Allele In theOrnund," and he had not entirely divested himself of the pe cular expression he uied at that time. Tho three chicrs whlcn tlio "supers" gave for Mr. Mackayo were Intensely theatrical. The author then grasped poor Miss Annie Hobo with one hand and Joseph Haworth with the other, and amidst checrs tho cnrtaln fell. Mr. Mackaye should have stood on a pedestal or have "apotheosized" himself while he was about It. An error In tho production wis tho high key In which the actors started tho first act. Their voices wero bo raised that when Act IV. camo they wero absolutely played out. Mlra Hole was hysterical and Haworth pantomimic. Thero Is no comedy In "Paul Kauvar."and to what a terrible strain the audience Is subjectod I Tho melodramatic situations follow each other In quick succession. The agony Is tilled on without relief. I heard a lady In tho audience say to her companion: John, please take mo out In the cold air and let mo scream for five minutes." As 1 said, tho situations aro marvellously strong, but It Is possible to havo too much of u good thing. Mies Annlo Kobe did splendidly. In my opinion stio is tho best leading lady in the ctty, She has dramatic ixiwer, Is sympathetic, and last but not least, wbatovcr yon may Bay she Is handsome, it Is to bo regretted that Miss Kobe's exertions In the earlier part of the play wero so terrific that In the last act she was comparatively feeble. Mr. Leslie Allen clearly proved that ho has out lived his usefulness. In the fourth act he did as much as could be done by any ono actor to kill the play. lie lost his lines, and left tho other actors In a helpless condition for nearly ono minute. This has occurred several times of late, and Mr. Allen should now bo placed "on wheels." (That Is a new expression for travelling actors. Isn't It for cible:) The "supers" will probably Improve as they contlnuo in the play. On Saturday night they did much to mar tho success ot tlu mob scene, which w as far too theatrical. I am o. the opinion that Mr. Sargent's pupils would havo dino much better In this scene, Julian Mitchell notwithstanding. Paul Kaiivnr," howovor, las very many good points. Mr. Mackaye Is entitled to considerable gratltudo for thu work ho ha) dine for the American drama. Alan Dale. SAVED BY A SAUACIOUS CAT. A Lndr Annkenril by it Favorite Monger In Timo to Nnve Hrr Valuables. BrCClAL TO TUR vonLD. Boston, Deo. 20.- Dr. Carolino E. Hastings, who lives nt 115 Wobt Concord stroot, was aroused from a sound sleep Into on Saturday night by tho loud mowing of n favorite cat. Failing to sileneo thu animal, tho lady nroso, slipped on her drossiug.gown and made n tour of thn room. While doing so she heard tho low murmur of voices on tho lower lloor. Sho went quietly to tho room of a domestic, and nrousitig hor asked Why do you talk in your sleep. Jnno Tho girl denied tho charge, and thinking tho affair was a mere hallucination tho lady roturned to her room. At 8.30, whon sho nroso nnd went down stairs to tho parlor, sho found everything, from pictures on tho innntelpioco to tho chairs and tables overturned and in disorder and several articles missing. An inventory revenled tho loss of a set of surgical instruments, a lot of silverware and two clocks, valued altogothor at about 200. Thn lady is fully convinced that tho loss would havu been much greater had sho not been awakened by tho sasacious cat and thus frightcnod tho burglar awny. 'TWAS JM STEAL. Interesting Ntnrlca of thu Enrly Dnys of the Denver A; ltlu (irnudo ltond. IFrtmthfXt. Loul. Iil.l)lipalrh. "Tho account of tho manner in which tho Union Pacltla Kallroad managed to get the best of tho Government during the construction of the road, which appeared 111 tho JM-Dlaiateh a few days ago, renill to my mind the history of nearly ns Kreat a swindle, but ono In which private parties were thu victims, "said Mr. Geo. li. I.amboni, or Pueblo, to a Jtot-lilfiKitch reporter, while con versing In tho corridor of the Southern Hotel. "Thu history of the Denver Km (Irandc road, under Its former management, shows more clcaily than auy other with which I am acquainted the way In which a railroad can be manipulated In the Interest of Its oillcuils and at the expeuso of Its stockholders. This road wa complete I Irom Denver to l'uoblo In lsT4, and did u good business. A number of thedltcctors, hewover, sawncliatice of making a fortune, and laid their plans au ooruiiigly. They llrst formed a construction com pany, lonccallug their own Interest In It, but otllccrluu It with men entirely controlled hr them. They next repriscmtol to tho stockholders the great advantages that might bo gained by building lato tho mountains, and induced them to do so. Contracts were let to the construction compauy, and building on a great scalo begun. No mining camp was too ooscure tor the road lo build a tiraucli to, and tho projec tors of thu schemo secured propotty .it these points and made enormous profits. Of course the railroad was soon deeply lnvolicd, but the construction company wan most prosperous, and (Jen. James Palmer, the President of tho railroad, erected a nmgollleciit houso near Colorado bprlngs. This state of ullaus continued for some years, but In IHiU was suddenly checked, lly some incaus, the particulate of which I do not recollect, the Atchi son, Topeku and Santa To managed to get posses sion ol too Denver and It o (irandc, by an order of court, uud rim It In the interests of that road. The Atchison, Topeka and sautu l'o knew that they had no valid elulia to the Denver and ltlo (irandc, but hoped to be ablo to hang tho case up In the courts for a year or two, m tho mean time retaining pos session ol the road. Tlio eaiu was tried und de rided In favor of tho Denver and. ltlo (irandc, tint It was ut oueo appealed. When it came up before tho higher court u baud ot men, supposed to bo in tno emptor ot tho Atchison road, endeavored to kidnap thu Judge, Senator IIohcd, of Colorado, llimeu wesped and delivered k most scat h Inn optnlou, denouncing the Suits ft road. Hut It w as again appealed and tho trial uecmed likely to last for years. 1 "At this Juncture Oen. Palmci determined upon a master stroke. Carefully laypig his plans, he employed several hundred ariutd men and at an agreed lime tbo stations nil alosg the road were taken possession of, tho trains captured as tuey drew up, the Atchison, Topeka and s inta FA em ployees replaced by thoic of thf Denver .md ltlo (irandc, uud tho trains went on their way under the now management. The attorney of thoSanti t'i at Pueblo endeavored to protest, but was run out of the ion n ami all opposition put down. A more complete capluro nevtr took place In time of peace. From that day the road had no farther trouble with Its former antagonist, but the stockholders' troubles had only begun. The stock rose from Is to over f 100, and many bought In at this price. At this time the road was greatly extended, many mining camps being reached by the Hue, not ono of which had business enough lo pay the running expenses, but the construction company gTcw very wealthy, while the mines reached by the railroad and owned ny Its olllclals became very valuable. At last people began to grow weary, prosecution was threatened and the directors and otllccrs very generally withdrew, leaving the road In tho hands of those who have since operated It In tho Interest of the stockholders. Hut thosowho took hold of It feathered their nests most luxuriously, and could well afford lo bo content with what they bad obtained. A Doubtful Relative. (iron J4.l, Old Qulnson Wa-a-tl Doan' wemembah yo' TJncle Ebenezah Qulnson, de millionaire, f'ora Cheesewtll, what used ttr twot yer on his 'net moth an twenty-fl' yeaha ago T Little lUsius-N-a-wl C j SPORTS IN AND OUl1 OF TOWN. TUB MANHATTANS TO HOLD A Bid IN DOOR MEETING ON JAN. 28. I.lgtit-Wrlahtii to Fight for a Stake of 8300 with Hkln-Tlgbt Ulovea Within 100 Mllea of New York I.ocnl HportsU'Ooklng for a II on in In tho Art of Iloxlng liinlle Pnul Itendjr to linn T. Avery Collett. Cj 9 N splto of all tho talk vM$ti2$$XQ I "hout big athletic aL y""wV I mccl'nCg n Madison sa1 "b I Sl"ar Garden this iSt) N Z winter, tho cnterpris- C-r, WnK Manhattans nro tho yf sCjWJ j first to really attempt HtJcT jon0, 'I''10 "Ulcers of A-J3pts tho "Clieny Diamond" jjS I itl organization havo do- fOqk ilia wj termineduotto let tho iSTi1 Kr yIe cnnnco Riving a iwil i3kJill 'as' Krnn,l indoor mus- Sllwll c5 'cr "10 ,il)ri11tcr8, ffip&jjCKj!K e runnorB, jumpeis, 'Wsftg walkers and woight- jHjpSp5gj3 puttors pass. Tho meeting will bo given nt Madison Sipinro Garden on Jan. 28, nud besido races, a numbor of ovents for novices only will bo gived. Mr. Gus Sacks says, too, that thero will bo ono event second only in interest to tho Myers-Goorgo raco, tho details of which aro not yet finite completed. Tho entries will closo on Jnn. 21, with Mr. 0. 0- Ilughes. For tho tug of war tho foo will bo 2 per team. For nil other contests CO cents per man will bo charged. Tho following aro tho open contests t 75, 220 nnd CCP yard and ltf-milo runs, handicnp 220 yards scratch run j for novices only, two- milo walk j one-mile bicycle raco 440 yards hurdle raco j tug of war, teams of four mon, weight limit, COO pounds. Thero is littlo doubt that tho undertaking will meet with tho success that it desorves. It will bo a social as well as a sporting event and is ox- pocted to rival the recent Metropolitan Oponv-IIouso succoss. Friends of Mr. Thomas A. McEwcn, for merly champion nmntour walkor nnd woll knovvn as n judgo of that gomo, wero do lighted to greet him on his roturn from a continental tour on tho Ln Bourgoyno. William Gabig, tho "mysterious boxor" from Pittsburg, enmo down from Albany on Saturday where, under an nssumod namo, ho easily dofcated n local boxor last week, (labig and Langdon nro to box six rounds for slnkcs and tho net cnto receipts in tho Odd Fellows' Hall, Hoboken, this afternoon. t After tho 1.10-ponnd nnd 140-ponnd amatour boxing competitions of tho Manhattan Ath letic Club on next Saturday night tho mem bers will go into executive session, or, moro plainly, they will have a stag racket on New Year's live. Tho Now Year will bo vigorously rung in. Tho competition promises to bo a rattler. Young Wfiito, tho nmntour sparror, has chargo of it. Ho says that tho ontriesnro numerous. Trolan and Cunningham will contest. Harry Umiak and Billy Dncoy hnvo posted ISfiO a sido to produce 122-pound men nnd light for a stake of ,300 with skin-tight gloves to a finish. Tho battlo, which is to tako placo in a fortnight, within 100 miles of Now York, is to bo witnessed by ten men on a sido. Uinlah's man is supposed to bo Jimmy Larkins, tho Scottish-American Athlotio Club's ex.atnatour champion. This talk about knocking out said a well-known sport last night, is all wrong. I saw in a papor yesterday morning whoro Kilrain knocked out Jack AbIUoii after eating a henvy crab supper. I saw the go.' It was an eight-round ono, nnd Kilrain got tho verdict bocauso hs had sligktly tho bet tor of tho bout." Tho term knocked out has almost tnken tho place of tho word "beaten" in tho English language. It's betn so over since Sullivan used to beat all his antagonists by knocking them out or would allow tho verdict to go against himself. In this way Tug Wilson onco got a verdict over tho strong boy nud Joo Hoiser got n like decision in his favor because Jack McAuliffo failed to stop him in four rounds. By tlio wny, tlint deci sion seemed a littlo peculiar over in Hoboken tho other night. If Lo Blanche contracted to knock out Fallon in six rounds tho Brooklyn Strong Boy was entitled to n ver dict m his favor, for ho certainly stayed thero. If tho Marino did not agreo to "Btop" his opponent in tho twenty-threo minutes that thoy woro to box thou it was a funny kind of a draw. Mr. Poshall, tho Hoffman Houso dog ex pert, has prepared for tho rcadors of Titrf, 7fM rind ?Yiri what ho calls an "Emulsion on Dogs." Somo sports think Hint tho boom given boxing by the liberty allowed it recently in London will havo a favorablo effect bero. What n house Dempsoy and McCaffrey would draw with a 20-round contost with four ounco gloves Billy Edwnrds hns just givon these pugilists the chance of thoir lives nnd thoro mnst be somo good ronson if tbey don't jump nt it. McCaffrey has dono moro train ing, according to Macon, thannny six lighters in tho world, nnd ought to need at tho out side but n fortnight's finishing touches. Dempsoy 's leg muBt bo nearly well and threo woeks is all tho Nonpareil ought to ask for. Hero's a chance to pull off a cold iJl.OOO. Dempsoy trained for Iteagan on a chanco of getting in $500 at tho most, nnd ho says that ho really clcarod only $02. EmiloFnnl says that hois prepared to run T. Avery Collott. A match can lio mado by a call at tho caterer's placo of business. The officers of tho National Amatour Skating Association will hold another meeting nt tbo office qf thd .'pi'rif of the Times to-morrow at 1 i'. si. Furthor notion in relation to tho coming championships meeting, which is likely to bo held nt Fleetwood Bark, will bo taken. Tho races will bo nt 220 yards. 1, 6, 10 and 25 miles, the proposition to broad jump or skates in placo of tho 25-niilo event having fallen through. Pool and billiards, Bhuffioboard, bowling, shoots and rallies will bo in full blnst to-day. Horn! horses and fastor "tobogs" will bo sont for nil they nro worth and athletes will follow paper trails more enthusiastically than hounds ehaso nnise-seod bags on this morriest day of 18M7. Coursing matches lor fox tcr riorB, not ovor twenty pounds in weight, nt tho Meadow Brook Polo Grounds: n six round boxing match betvvoon Langdon and Gabig in llobokon nn indoor lawn-tennis tournament ut tho Clermont Avonuo Armory in Brooklyn nud n main of cocks nrmed with IV inch regulation stcol spurs nt Mr. Blank do Blank's luxuriously furnished nnd newly refitted pit ou tho Avonuo du Combat will furnish tho othor pleasures of tho day. The Exocutivo Committco of tho Notional Amateur Cross Country Association will moot nt tbo Grand Union, on Tucsdny, Jan. 10. The snort is rcportod blooming. The championship team raco will bo held in April. A numbor of now clubs aro joining. Obituary Notes. Mayor John P. Smoot, of Alexandria, Vs., died yesterday at the age of fifty-eight years. Passed Assistant Paymaster William C. McOowan, United States Navy, died at Elizabeth, N. J, yes terday, at the age or forty-three years. Mils Fannie Stone, a daughter of. the late LleoU Oen. C P. Stone, enaluoer of too llartholdl Statue pedestal, died on Friday at Flushing, UL John M. Barclay, for many years Journal Clerk of the House of UepreaentaUves, died at Washing, ton on Saturday at the age of seventy-one years. I OFFICIALS HAVE A DAY OFF. KcgUtcr James J. Blevln has purchasod a tobog gan. Sheridan Shook Is spending tho holidays at his Ited Hook farm, William It. Moloney sent a nnmber of presents to friends In this city. Sheriff Hugh J. Grant Intends to exercUo his trotters this afternoon. Charllo Grant and his bride ste Christmas goodies with his mother-in-law In Mew Jersey. W. llourke Cockran nnd Mrs. Cockran ate their Christmas dinner at tbo Victoria Hotel. Kx-Comtniasloncr Haughton has determined to swear off on rhcumatlo cures after Jan. 1. Nearly all tho new Assemblymen and Aldermen received Christmas presents from friends. Assemblyman Joseph Gordon, of the Eighteenth District, received a promise of reuomination. Ex-Assistant Alderman Isaac Kobluson Is looking for the man who sent him a barrel of cabbages. Alderman Harry, of the Twcnty-sccond District, was presented with a book ou parliamentary prac tices. Chief Clerk Klpp ate dinner at homo and dropped In on the Seventh Kcglmcnt boys during the after noon. County Clerk James A. Flack is spending bis Christmas trying to eaten cod at the Cholera hanks. Alderman Clancy, of the Sixth District, received a gold-headed cane Irom Congressman Timothy J. Campbell. President llsylcs, of tho Doa'rd of Health, ate his dinner and smoked his Turkish cigarettes in Or ange, N. J. Ex. Alderman John Cavanagh is the bosom friend of Police Capt. ltelliy. They exchanged Christ mas presents. Deputy Kcglstcr James J. Martin was the re cipient of a handsome diary for 1838, the glf t of several lawyers. Dr. JohnT. Nagle passed tho day out of town dining and drinking and wound up with a friendly game of whist. lToperty Clork Harriott did not disturb the com bination of bis big safe, bat had a day of recreation and home pleasure. President Stephen B. French had a royal timo at homo, and hu Christmas gifts aro reported to be on an extensive scale. Assemblyman lllumenthal, of the Twenty-second District, received a promlio of being a member of tho Kallroad Committee. Gen. Splnola Is on his Long Island farm. Among his guests are James II. Caulneld and Thomas D. ltelliy, of the Eighteenth Ward. Court Clerk John F. Carroll will havo to give Judge Moucll a New Years prosent. Tho Judge gave him a pair of sleeve-buttons tor Christmas. Dr. Cyrus EOson spont fio day at his father's homo In Fordham, whero Christmas good cheer abounded. Drothcr-ln-law Wood was ono of tho party. Patrick McCabe, ot the Seventh District, Li in search of Col. Theodore A. Hamilton. Ho says that Hamilton sent him a bull pup with an car torn ofT. What did I get for Christmas I got a Merry Christmas,' that's all. Politicians are no good nowadays," Bald Nick Langdon, tho Sixteenth District oracle. Clerk Peterson took no complaints against de linquent policemen to-day, but enjoyed an earned vacation. He mado bis family happy with a well laden Christmas tree. Inspector Peter Conlln, being ln monrning on account ot the death ot his wlto, passed the day in a quiet way. Ills brothor, Comedian Billy Florenco, remembered him. Commissioner Porter dined on tnrkey and trim mings In his cosy home at Morrlstown, N. J. The General gave a few finishing touchos to bis forth coming war volume during the attorn oon. Chief Clork Georgo Ilopcrott, llko his kindly superior, Iho Superintendent, had a holiday, nnd and he spent It at home. II s Christmas tree received several acquisitions from Headquarters. Fine cigars by tho box arrived at Pollco Head quarters as gifts to popular omccrs. Among the donors were Fire Commissioner Croker, cx-AIdcr-man Morris, Senator Murphy and John J. O'Brien. Inspector Thomas Byrnes stolo sufficient time from his onerous duties to cat a Christmas dinner ol turkey and plum pudding with his wlfo and children.. He bad a lino tree handsomely dressed. An enterprising merchant sent to the Superin tendent and Inspectors a miniature club a perfect fao simile of the nlght-stlck whlcn sometimes cats war maps on men's heads. It was a Christina gift. Inspector Henry V. Steers had a family reunion on Washington Heights and a Christmas tree was laden wltn good things for bis children and grand children. Ho mado over a dozen poor families happy with Christmas glfis. Supt. William Murray pat in a couple of hours at Pollco Headquarters and returned to his Madison avenue home to enjoy a Christmas dinner with his wife, children and grandchildren, ills son-in-law, Mr. Lalor, was ono of tho party. Inspector Alexander Williams assisted his wife ln stripping a large Christmas treo of its bountiful gifts Intended for their young bnt at tractive family. Iho Inspector was especially patriotio and sang Yankee Doodlo with his boy. m m The Circus Una Come to Town. More than a dozen yenra ago tho Fourteenth Street Circus was destroyed by nre. Since then New York has been without a winter circus, nnd yet theiCsccms nothing more appropriate to tho holiday season than an exhibition of tinsel-clad fairies on Hying steeds, of funny elephants and ponies In amusing tricks, ot comical clowns and harlequins and of great sleepy beasts shaking their mimes good-naturedly at thu children. Mr. Frank A. ItobMns seems to havo seized a golden opportunity ln furnishing tho metropolis with a gennlue winter circus ut the American In stltule. The opening performances took placo Sat urday afternoon at v, und la tho evening ut 8 o'clock. At tho regular Christmas matlnco to-day, It is ssld that a genuine Santa Clans will appear with something nice for all the children. Ilooth and Barrett at the Acni1cmy. Tho Academy of Muslo reopens to-night with tho Booth-Barrett combination In an elaborate produc tion ot Julius Caesar. Thero can be. no doubt of the cordial reception that awaits the eminent tragedians and their excellent company, and it Is qubo likely that tho old playhouse, whien m Its day lias seen somo very largo audiences, w.U have Its capacity tested thoroughly. It la to.be regretted that thu Booth-Barrett combination will not bo seen In a repertoire of Saakcsucarian tragedies, limit la expected that the presentation of "Julius Ciesar" will 1111 tho Immense theatre for the lull two weeks' engagement. Christmas-liny Arrlrnls. Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett are at tho Everett House. Justice MacMahon, of Toronto, is registered at theAlbermane. Jute Grand, a celebrated physician of Paris, Is at the Park Avenue. Capt. Drummond, U. S. A., of Chicago, is booked at the Brunswick, Among the guests of the Murray Hill are W, P. Kutter, of Liverpool, and Lieut. John A. Perry, U. a A. Tho Earl of Kerry and Lord Charles Fltzmaurlce, sons of the Marquis of Lansdowne, aro now at the BrevoorU S. II. Shelley, ot Nottingham, Eng., has stopped at the Gllsey on his way to California, where he Intends buying a vineyard. C. II. Townsend, a young lawyer and politician, of Philadelphia, who is figuring for the State ben ate, is now at the Si. James. At the Viotorla are Dr. H. A. Poole, if. D. of Gosheae IV G, Henderson, of. Scotland, and tier, doa Up(loy, a promlntnt citizen of Newport.' M. Itomero, Mexico's Minuter to Washington, and Congressional Delegate Antonio Joseph, of New Mexico, are among tho recent arrivals at the PU th Avenue. FDN AT" "PEASE'S ANNUAL" A BBEATn OF CHBI8TMA8 AIB FROM TAB VILLAGE OF WAIBACK. Observation or a City Man nt n Christmas Ilnnco In a Remote Tlllnge The (llrli All Bedecked with Illbbong nnd the Iloja Arrnred In Ilvr.Venr-Id Htjlc Driving Home the Heat Purt of tho Fun. Chnrloy Tcnso, proprietor of the American Houso, in Waybnck, Vt had decided that this year bis nnnual ball should tako place on Christmas night, and in Accordance wilt liiB usual custom had issued circulars to that 'effect among tho fanners and storekeepers for miles around. Tho circulars also mado it clear to thb neighboring public that "Peaso's Annual" was this year lo excol anything of tho sort over gotten up in Vermont, and moroovor, that tho admission fee for gentlemen" would bo CO conts per capita, bnt that ladles" wero invited freo of chnrgo." Immediately upon tho nppcarnnco of tho circulars Poaso's Annual became tho talk of Wayback's Socioty circlos that is, tho fol. lore" told each other that thoy wnn't n-goin'," nud the "gals" confided to one" nnothcr what thoy intended to wear. Por. baps tho latter told tho truth, tho former didu't. Now, city folks," with no ond of dlvor. sious and amusements to ckooso from on a holiday, can hnvo littlo conception of tho amount of happiness and fun extracted from Christmas by country peoplo with only a shootin' match," a big dlnuor, n sleigh rido nnd a danco to Bignnlize tho celebration. Tho rido nnd tho danco commonly go together, that is, tho rido leads to tho dance ana from it. On this particular Christmas Day the writer was within easy driving distance of tho Amorican Houso, nud having heard of tho splendor of the hall, tho goodness of the muBic and tho plumpness nnd beauty of tho country damsels who wero to bo thoro, ke decided to pay half n dollar and Jiccopt tho hospitalities of Mr. Pease. Tno ballroom was cortainly good, or, rather, tho floor of tho room was. It had evi dently been laid beforo tbo minister had hold forth against tho evils of roller skating and was a smooth and slippery surfneo. t At tho furthor end of tho room sat tho mu sicians. Thero wero threo of them, an or f;anist, a violinist and a mnn who blow a torn. This cotcrio wns nolitcly termed nn orchestra. As ono cntorod tho room, bo was handed an order of dances, on ono bido of which woa printed u list of thirty-soven dnuces, nnd on tho other appeared tlio announcement that refreshments would bo served at midnight to each and every ono who paid $1. By H o'clock a goodly number of persons of both soxos had arrived and tbo mannor in which thoy eutored tho bnllroom from tho dressing-rooms was peculiar. The ways of tho girls woro of course varied somo tossed their boads to ono sido nnd upward und stalked in; they might as well hnvo been preceded by n sign rending I'm stuck on luysolf." Others modestly slipped in, but tho majority of tho giddy crcntures, ns if for protection, entered tho room two or threo nt n time, nil giggling and each looking as if she had some thing immensely funny to toll tho other, but couldn't just find words in vvhioh to express herself. Tho "follors" didn't enter nt all; that is, not for somo timo and until they had adjust ed thoir cravats for tho thirtieth timo and screwed up thoir conrago to tho sticking jioiut by numerous lookin'.ins." By 8. 15 o'clock tho ochestra wns tun ing up," tho girls wore lined up on ono side of tho hall looking at and anxiously awaiting tlio approach of tho boys; and tbo boys, on tbo other side, were trying to keop their oyes from thoir shoes and pretending not to euro." Both soxos had arrayed themselves in their best nnd according to tho way back fashion; and thoy looked it I HTlio principal thing to bo noted about tho raiment of the girls wns the display of rib bons, of variegated colors which adorned their dresses, nnd as thoro is considerably moro cloth in the gown of a way back girl, especially about thu neck and shoulders, than is to be found in that of a Now York hollo, n sufficiently largo spaco was covered by those ribbons to suggest tho idea that tho ancestors of each girl must havo carofully hoarded up and for generations past havo handed down, as heirlooms, hair-ribbons to be used by the girl of to-day as decorations. Tho clothing of tho boys was a study. All tried to reproduce tho cobtumo worn by tho Villago Dude. Thnt person looked llko n fashion plate of fivo years ago. Ho wns tall and thin. Ho woro a bobtail five-button green cutaway coat, skin-tight trousors, with "spring bottoms" well "scooped," long pointed shoes nnd a bright red cravat, in which was stuck a brazen pin containing a Parisian diamond. A celluloid collar encir cled his neck. A red silk handkorchiof com pleted his got-up." f Shortly aftor 8.15 o'clook, nftcr oxocuting a bar of White Wings," tho violinist Bug- gebted that as tho music was about to begin, it was purty nigh timo fur gonts to stake partners." Tho gonts," after crocking a joko or two among themselves, acted upon tho sugges tion, and with lofty condesonsion or stam mering bashfuluess requested tho young ladies to shako thn dust off thoir feet." Now tho writer oxpectcd something funny to happen, but it didn't. Tho dancing wns almost conventional. It differed from that of city folks in but one or two minor details. In tho interludes between tho differont changes it is truo thnt tho foet of some did a littlo moro than keep timo with tho musio, nnd that when tho order was given to turn partners," tho partners mutually embraced each othor and then whirled around rather than turned but thot was merely nn im provement and gave peoplo n cbanco to got acquainted. Cotillions, reels, mnzurkns and polkas fol. lowed each other in rapid succession until 12 o'clock, tho kour sot apart for supper, and then every ono went down to tho dining room nnd nto. They didn't merely turn an iced cream ovor witk a spoon, but thoy ate'. It was said that tho handsomest girl in Wayback got away with half a chicken, besides a plate of salad, iced crcauiB nnd a pint cup of coffee. Then when everything eatablo has disap peared from tho tables tho crowd returnod upstairs ami tho dancing continued until long after tho ond of tho progrnmmo had been reached and tlio orchestra had played Homo, Sweet Homo six times, witk variations. Then, woll along in tho fashionablo hours, tho revelry ceased, tho company separated, uud silence settled down over tho ballroom. And who would describe the rido homo with his own particularly best girl, when, with tho buffalo tucked in on ono sido and bis girl snuggled up on tho other, ono is con tent to hang tho reins about tho dashboard and aduiiro tho stars Ilrudlejr'a Unhappy Lovemnklng. Joseph Bradley, who boards with Mrs. Christine Ecker, at Ono Hundred and Fifty-ninth street and Eleventh avenue, entered her room yesterday and attempted to make love to ber. Mrs. Ecker re sented this amorous pro eeding ln a very forcible manner. She threw plates, chairs and other household articles at nlra, and anally swooped down on him with a broom. Poltteman Murray, of the Thirty-Becond Precinct, who had been at tracted by the noise, entered and found Bradley lying In a corner of the room. His bead was covered with cots and bruises and his left arm was broken. In Iho Harlem Police Court Mrs. Ecker this morning was bold ln 1500 ball to answer,

An Aged Woman Killed by Iloars. SrjZLBrviu.K,,Ind,, Deo. a. Mfa- Sarah, Sw ing, mother of James Ewlng, a prominent fanner, was attacked and killed last night by hogs. Her body was fonnd this morning horribly mutilated. She was sixty years of age. i

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MERRY YULE TIDE FEAST. tiie cut giyen up to the celebra tion OP CHRISTMAS. Jlonntlfnl Provision to Make Poor People llnl7 Hreiics In Homes nnil Insttln. lloun Nnnta Clnus In a JoIIt Urrninn Household Sumo Who Hail C'nuse for UrJolcloK anil Homo Who II nil None. Olt two days tho poo- yM&M4M bocn ,loinR their best JZST to urinK dyspepsia irprrri up on themselves. 1 'lj22$j I 8 Thoro nro a four Now Pt,f4rJ Yorkers left whoso ll 5$0 f3 digestion 1ms succehs k'jaC'oldl P& fully weotliorcd tho fa KSTtffJforiM rcl1catrt assaults of Bkw&i&lj H turkey and cranberry ViJ Bnuc0 tmfllcs anil lce- fifef zJ5vV crcnm bonbons ami K-fw-lM oily uuls' Aml tllCB0 'ITJfWflK'W wil1 tftvo nnotnor HVWVMlfeilivl rolmtl nni1 wind-up l&Wtt i(JT!21i lo"(lllJ w'tu tuo fo I' ti MAT wKfeatfl who always strikes hnrdcstbclow tho belt. On ovory sldo dealers rub their hands ploasantly and declaro that tho holiday trado has not been so Rood in years, and then add, half mournfully, that tboir chiefost trouble on Friday and Saturday was that tho crowds in their ptoros wero so great as to bo difllcult to handle One family of fivo persons yosterday morn ing displayed to calling friends no less than iliucty-eight gifts. Twonty-eight of these were to a littlo girl of sovrn years. And tho family is that of a wago worker with no wealthy friends. Tho olovatod railroad trains carried moro passengers on Saturday than on any one day before, and it was positively a torturo to rido in any of tho trains going up or down town from 10 o'clock on Saturday morning to 2 .o'clock yestorday morning. SIoBt of tho trado, say tho dealers, comos from pcoplo who depend for an incomo upon tho effort i) of tho members of tho family. All of this goes to show that pcoplo aro in better circumstances and that work is plenty ior those who aro willing and able to do it. Then why should not tho greatest holiday of tho Christian year nnd the chiofest holiday for children and thoir lo crs bo celebrated gloriously Dickens insisted that thero should bo a Christinas every day in tho year. In this prosperous year, at least, thrco days aro fjiven up to its celebration. Dickens meant that there should bo tho kindly, beartful, chaiitablo feeling of Christmas swelling in tho breast of all mankind from tho lirst liost of January till tho knoll of tho year is rung. There vt as an ubuudanco of good cheer and happiness yesterday. "How sorry I leel at theso times," said mine host, us ho slipped another bit of tho dressing and a slip of tender, juicy, whito meat on tho rcportor's plate. How sorry I feel for thoso poor dovils who get their Christmas dinner at ono of thoso rcHtaurants. How they must fnirly hunger for tho holiday f oast that iBU't served on plates tho good fellowship, the homo kindnesses, tho voice of mother, the cheery word of father, .tho child ish gleo of littlo brother or sister." At tho restaurants, nverywhero, "poor devils made tho best of it, with a pint of burgundy to wash it down, and doubtless jmrsuaded themselves" into tho belief that that thoy wero having a Merry ChriBtmas. Leaving tho hospitable homo tho reporter crossed tho street to tho apartmonts apart wont would moro nearly fit tho homo of a (lermau porter in a downtown store. Dinner was just ovor horo, and the fragments of a 'duck, a dish of 'kraut, snips of bologna, bits Schwoitzor-kaso, tho shucks of peanuts, 'stems of raisins and applo.peolings wero htrown over tho tablo, and thero was tho frotli of departed beer in several glasses. Here Sehmeitzer said in a fat, husky, "too ifull voieo that tho caller was just in timo, for Santa (Jlaus is shoost comin' out." Then tJchincitzer brought a great spasm of his left !eyo within tho gazo of tho visitor and tho schmall peoblo." and tho children clapped their hands and hugged tho fat legs of their father. Schmeitzor saw tho roportor's eyo loving over the remains of the feast, and ox. lilained that ho supposed there wcru woro biimiitunus dinners in othor houses, but der 4chiitem liked it, uud dot goes a great vayB for a Ghrisdmas -dinner." Then old Sehmeitzer said ho had to call on n man down on tho avenue, and maybo GrisGriuglo" would como out before ho pot back. A sheet hung at tho back end of tho room bocamo immediately tho object of alio undivided attention of tho towheaded children on tho instant of the departure of tho head of tho family. Presently a number of tvtinkling(stars having como out and be come indistinctly v isiblo bohiud the curtain, the frail turned down tho tablo light, and, at gruff word from bohind tho curtain, she re moved it, disclosing ono of thoso conven tional, straight-stemmod ovorgreeus which tho reader has scon at tho markets and groceries for tho past week. It was a wonderfully small ChriBtmas troo, but tho children danced in glee as they bo Tield tho vision, and Santa Claus became vis ible in tho dim light of tho twinkling stars which now proved to bo bits of candlo tied to tho branches with twino. Santa Olaus's liguro was very liko Herr Schmoitzor's, and his voice, though disguised, could bo none THE mms DUEL 1 From Vie French of Albert DiWW ,gM AST year I wont to fe jiffi Besanson to attend tho i JOl"T I i wedding of ono of my rfgBM li best friends, tho Vi- m ji SLjcora0 d'Avaray. h VWb?ritd was marrying a very JIPMn pretty nnd wealthy r0"4 ")il girl, who belonged to i -dtJ 1 on0 the oldest fami- I rrt y Cl A Ues of tho Doubs. UP "j"' rj,JJ0 C()rCm0Uy WaS very flno ono and attended by hundreds of friends and relations. Tho Archbishop in per- non performed tho ceremony. At night a i splendid dinner was given by tho brido's parents at their chateau in tho neighborhood of Bcsancou. Just as I was entering tho V dining-foom somebody touched my shoulder nnd wished mo good-ovcuing." I wheeled round and found mysolf face to faco with a Blender, handsomo, fair-haired young man, wearing' the full uniform of a captain of dragoons, Do you not know mo ngaln," ho said, laughing. I acknowledged that I did not. "Why, I am Gorard Hammer, your old schoolfellow at St. Barbe. Havo you for. gotten what good friends wo were in old days?" Ye shook hands heartily, and I felt de. lighted fo renew my 'acquaintance with1 the bright boy who had been such' a favorito with both masters and pupils fifteen years provious at tho old Lycco of Bt. BAibo. other than that of tho father of tho whito. hatred eclobrants. But his hair and board, flowing out from tho rim of a big red cloth cap, was of furni. ture stuffing, and his coat looked suspiciously JIko Schmoitzor's old overcoat turned insido out, bo that tho red-striped slcovo lining showed. To bo brief, tho grnff-voicod Santa Clans proved to Ijo a very soft-hearted ono, and ho dealt out invaluable prizes of tin horns, stullod monkeys, toy books, ten-pins, tool, chests, tiny dollies and what not, judiciously interlarded with comical speeches. Christmas was being woikul for all it was worth in this humblo homo, and it will bo romembered with joyful hearts by tho littlo Sehweitzers till lima to preparo for an other coining of Santa Claus. In tho feasting and gift-giving tho lesson of tho day is not lorgottou, and tho story of tho fomiug of tlm Messiuh is told to a thou, sand auditors on the kneos of Christian parouts every hour in tho day. And that "it littlo child shall lead them" wits exemplified in leu thousand homes of this island city ycRtorday. Tho manner of celebiating tho day was as diversified as the peoplo who celebrnted. N. K. Vainlcrliilt just dropped down around tho Golden Horn and called on tho American L- gut ion at Constantinople, where lioatoavery pietty dinner under tho vory nose of the Sultun. Ho troatcd tho American Legation to a luncheon on board his steam yacht Alva, and doubtless thinks to-day (which is yesterday in tho Levant) that ho had a "pretty good timo" and a merry Christmas. President Cloveland and Mrs. Cleveland finished their dinner with a frozen water melon for an ice, and Gov. Hill's bill of faro also included a melon, tho gift of Fish Com missionor Flackford, who froze tho melons in Sopteinbor as an experiment. Kdwaid Jlurgoss, tho designer of tho May. flower, Puritan and Volunteor, undoubtedly had a comfortable feeling towards tho rest of tho world yestorday as ho sat ot tho dinner liurchasod out of tho SIO.OOO gift recognition from thoso who aro interested in yachting and American successor. Anthony Comstock was not so comfortablo however. His nicely sonBitivo feelings woro completely upset by information rcceivod from Dutchess County that the sinful and moral destroying game of hog-guessing was Soing on thero again. Ho' spent most of yoster ay wrestling with Satan on bohulf of tho poor, miserable sinners who aro tho victims of thaovil practico, and will noxt try n legal process on tho wicked onos. Mayor Hewitt forgot his dyspepsia on Saturday, and was as full of Vulo-tido humor as a man well could bo. Ho sent an order to tho Charities Commissions to purchaso a gross of rattles for tho children in tho city's infant hospital on Randall's Island, and turn tho bill in to him. Tho Mayor said in his note that an old man, who did not wish to bo known, would foot tho bill. Full of Christmas charity, tho people of Now York will generally credit their Mayor with tho act, and-idd tho hope that his dyspepsia will never return. Little "Lulu W. W.," tho Brooklyn child, whoso father, a tugboatmau, disappeared two montlisago, was gitou as cujoyublo Christ mas yesterday as oossiblo in tho absenco of her tutlier, through tho appeal mado for her by The Would, which brought nearly 30 to her from sympathetic readors of The Would. Tho wife ot Sorgt. Crowloy was also ro membered by Would readers, $0 boiug added on Saturday to tho $18 turned over to her on Friday. Mrs. Gibbons found causo for rejoicing in $4, scut to hpr through The Wobld to aid her in paying of hor debt to tho I urnituro shark." FiviS dollars from tho sarao sonrco enabled tho family of John J. Brcslin to extract a littlo happiness out of tho day and 2 was sent to The Wobld for tho Dominican Sisters at Klizabctbport. Clmu'iipoy M. Depow's appetite was not spoiled by tho Now England Club dinner, and he partook of a good dinner, seasoning and ssnoing it for himself and all thosa so lucky as to sit at tho satuo table with him wero regaled with sallies of his champagne, pop wit and good fellowship. But whilo bo many pooplo woro enjoying the holiday bounteously, tho old Baying "Tho poor yo havo always with you," should not bo forgotten. It is, alas over too truo. WhiTo tables groaned with hcir toothsome loads, and happiness prev.ilcd around thorn, Henri Bnvolaud, who s'.iatchod Mrs. Mary A. d'Aubigno's purso Friday night becauso ho was starving, was lying in a coll of tho TomCs awoitiug tri1 for robbery. At least two thousand hungry men woro deprived of their Christmas by tho closing up of John II. Keysor's restaurant, at 128 West Fourth street, whero ho had attempted to feed for nothing all tho hungry who came. On tho door after breakfast Friday morning was hung a card reading: "Closed on ac count of tho place being tar too small to feed tho increasing number of applicants." Mr. KcJ'scr, who is a stove-dealer in Clin ton place, says that 2.000 poor persons ato up 1, 100 loaves of bread and consumed 100 gal Ions of soup in the place Thursday, and ho believes thero aro 5,000 able-bodied and worthy persons in tho city who do not have half enough to cat from day to day. Christmas could not huve been very glad somo to tho families of the strikers on tho Beading ilailway, and the recollection of the strike of tho 'longshoremen just before Christmas hist year and tho hardships which followed will make kind hearts pain lor thoso who have at this timo voluntarily cut off tho moans of subsistence of their families. The Would felt particularly good uatured and self-satisfied with itsolf yesterday, for it had rjsloncd to tho hurrahs of three thousand school children of Now York and Brooklyn, gathered by it under tho dome of tho People's Theatre SaturOay aftornobu to boo and hear Aladdin and His Lamp." Tho Itov. Dr. McGlynn's first Christmas unfrocked was a novolty to him, but must havo been a pleasing novelty, for whenho entered tho Academy of Music last ovoning to preach a sermon out of church ho was mot at tho door and proceded to his seat on tho stage by two fonr-yiar.old girls in whito who strewed flowors in his path, and bouqnots and enthusiasm wero his throughout tho anti- During dinner ho told mo how fortunate ho had been in his military career and how ho hoped to becomo a Major before tho ond of the-year a vory high distinction for a man not yet thirty years old, especially in tho French Army, whero promotion is but very slow work at its best. H was so confident of the futuro, so truly happy and full of lifo and fun, that it did my heart good to listen to him. At midnight wo w olkod back togothor to the railwoy station, and ho promised to como and sco mo as soon as ho camo to Paris. Months passed and I saw nothing of my friend. However, in tho month of May I read in tho Journal Offlcwl that ho had been promoted to tho rank of Major of Chasseurs, and that ho had boon sent to tho Belgian frontier. At tho beginning of August, I was walking leisuroly ono evening down tho Champs. Klysc'es. It was about 0 o'clock, and the popular thoroughfaro was crowded with people enjoying the coolness of tho evening under tho paslit trees, or loungiug on tho chairs and benches which are providod for tho convenience of tho public. Tho cafes and restaurants wero ablazo with light, and music was wafted in from all Bides on tho light summer air. Suddenly as I was passing the Palais do l'Industrie. I camo upon Gerard Hammer. I approached him with outstretched hands saying. Good evening, Major. How glad I am to see you, and to be at last able to con gratulato you on your promotion." "Ah I is that you?" replied he, in so Bad and dojoctod a tone of voice that it cut mo to tho heart to hear it. Vory clad to bco you, dear old friend." Good heavens 1 now changed the man was I He looked at leaBt ten years older than when I last saw him. His hair was turn, ing gray and he stooped as if the burden of lifo was too heavy for him to bear. I slipped my arm through his, and asked him if he would not like to, come for a short walk. Ho M sentea,iand.wailently pursued opnway.i At lengtb,diply impressed or the appear ance of suffering on his once so happy face, I ventured to question him gently t What is tho matter with you, Gerard!? Yon aro vory unhappy, uro you not" t poverty meeting. Ho was again and again assured of tho abiding lovo of his old parish, loners. Mrs. Langtry's house was made gladfiomo by it gathering of children thcr m gucsls of her littlo nioee, Jeonnette, and a Christmas troo wits plucked of. rich fruit in tho ovoning. Mrs. E. L. Fernandez was Santa Claus to tho children of the stage, who aro under her supervision. Tho treo was erected in Claren don Hall last night, and a novel entertain, mont was pit en, in which Lizzie Ingram, of tho Sho company, (lortio Hormttl, Clar enco Worrall, Lillie Hecker, Mattlo John sou, Marshall P. Wilder and others who havo played to audiences of inaturer age, tools part. Ex-Alderman Jacobus's watch, stolen by a burglar somo timo ago, was replaced on Christmas Evo by a fiuo timekeeper, with a miissito chain and an emblem of Mystic Shrino for a pendent charm, Tho tiinopieco was presented at tho Kmplio Club, 41 Grovo street, by It. M. Collard. President, backed by 1.10 members of tlm club and a host of other Republican voters of the old Ninth. Mr, Jacobus was correspondingly jovial yes. terdav, and the sinilo still lingers on his genial fnco to-day. At tho Sixtv.flfth Street Infant Asylum tho littlo ones found their stockings bulging out to their fullest rapacity yesterday morning, and tho fruit of a ChriBtmas troo was distrib uted to them also, Mrs. Olliffo, Matron of the Howard Mis sion in Riviugtou sticot, fed 200 needy rhil. dren yesterday, nnd a number of families woro provided with dinner. Santa CIiiiib visited each room at tho Foundling Hospital, and each of the 1,700 inmates receivtd a ChriBtmas gift. A big dinner followed. Tho Rov. O. R. Bouton proached yesterday morning at tho Fit o Points Mission on tho birth of Christ, and in tho evening "Our King" was histhonio. Mrs. II. B. Skldmoro led 400 children in singinc carols and tho ro sponsivo exercises. On ChriBtmas Evo 1,000 bags, each containing randy, cake, nuts, fruits and o toy wero distributed to tho poor children of tho neighborhood. Savon hundred pounds of chickens formed tho baokbono for a fricassoo which was tho Christmas dinner for Wardon Walsh's family at tho Tombs yoBtorday. Thero woro 281) malo and 75 f emalo guests. Tho Rov. Sydney Law and fourteen young women held a Bor vico in tho prison. Owing to tho lack of an appropriation, no dinner was given to tho immigrants at CsbMo Garden yosterday, and "Merry Christmas" blazoned in flowors across tho interior woll of tho Garden scomod liko a taunt. Pea soup, bread and colloo formed tho Christmas breakfast for tho immigrants. Thero wero 210 persons. But later in tho day thoso who could speak English had turkey and furnish. iiiL's at tho Cornish Arms at tho oxneuso of tho Irish Emigration Society. Tho Christmas dinner at Ludlow Street 'Tailwas eaten at noon to-day. Thero woro turkey, vegetables and plum-pudding. An entertainment, consisting of vocal and in. Btrumcntal musio and recitations, is uudor way at tho jail now. Yesterday Dr. Morgan held sorvico at tho jail, forty prisoners lit tending. jl ho celebration begun ou Friday night is not ended yet, and to-day thero is racing at Guttonbnrg and Clifton, and, as all public otllces nro closed.to-day being n legul holiday, big crowds aro in attendance. Thero will bo a supper for tho grown folks of tho Hebrow Christian Suuday-School, at 17 St. Mark's placo, this ovoning, and tho rhiidron will l.avo an ontertainmont on Weduesdny evening. Cloveland 11. Dodgo provides a dinner for tho 200 boys of the Thirty-fifth Street Lodg-ing-llouso, and gifts will bo distributed at thu oxponBo of Thoodoro Roosovolt, J. E. Roosovelt and James K. Graco. Tho boys will give n novel entertainment theniBolves. A spocially good dinner will mark tho day in tho dining-room of tho Fivo Points Mis sion, whoro tho 800 boys and girls attending tho school get their dinner at tho oxpouso of the Ladies' Homo Missionary Society of tho Mothodist Church of Now York and Brook lyn. Tho children rarcd for by tho Children's Aid Society havo a spread this afternoon and this evening thoy will bo entertained. Shoes, mittens andplaythings will bo distributed to tho little ones. At the Nowsboys Lodging Houso, in Duane street, at G.30 this evening a thousand lads without homo comforts will dino sumptu ously, and William M. Floiss will foot tho bill, whilo tho 200 regular inmates of the houso will recoivo strong, serviceable shoes from W. 8. Brown. At tho East Bide Lodging-House. in East Broadway, J. Piernont Morgan will givo Iho bovs erich a stout, knit jacket, and iho boys will colobrato Christmas right royally, tho hall being fixed up in lino style for tho occa sion. A banquet will bo followed by an en tortaiumont, musical and literary. Tho 150 homeless boys provided for at tho Tompkins Souaro Lodging-Houso will have a suppor with 1). Willis James and Judge Van Vorst this ovoning. At tho Young Men's Institute, in tho Bow ery, this afternoon, all members who havo no homes are enjoying a hearty dinner, and at 8 o'clock to-night tho Iustituto Gleo Club will givo it Christmas concert. To-morrow at 3 o'clock tho Christmas fes tival will to celebrated at tho Memorial Nursery, 275 East Broadway, and gifts will bo distributed among the children. This evening tho children of St. Bamabas's Home will revel around a Christmas treo in tho chapel in Mulberry Btreet, and tho Girls' Sowing Class will roceivo gifts from tho troo to-morrow night. At tho Virginia Day Nursery in Fifty-fifth street tho colebration will occur on Wednes day. Kind donors may bo liberal all tho week to tho children of tho Howard Mission and Homo for Littlo Wanderers, at 5G Rlvington streot. Goods things, clothing and other gifts will bo distributed to both adults and children. Tho inmates of tho Wotmoro Homo for Girls, in Washington srpiaro, will enjoy musio and refreshments to-morrow night. I A ukTXt ure oaro for coach nd colds, ADAMBON's IIotanio Dalbam. Kinsman, aoth St., 4th in, Yes," said ho in a low voice. What is it A lovo sorrow Ho seemed to hesitato, and I was about to desist, blaming myself for my meddlesome indiscretion, when ho looked up, saying Listen, I am going to toll you all about it. Any t ay, it will bo hotter for mo than koopiug all this sorrow to mysolf. Moroovor, perhaps, you can givo mo good advice. Sinco I mot you at BosanSon thoro has been a tragedy in my lifo. You did not hear of it be causo tho Minister of War took caro thut tho newspapers should not get hold of it. Do not ho afraid. My Mory is soon told. It is only another instanco of how children always Buffer for the faults of their parents, and as Bitch it may interest you. "Lust year, in June, tho young soldiers belonging to tho reserve wero sent to Mail bcugo to perform their twenty.eight days' annual service. I had been appointed Major of tho Sixth Chasseurs Regiment a month previously, and was to take charge of them. Ono morning I started for Lilio with ono of tho senior captains of my regiment, and wo stopped at tho depot to take a light lunch eon. Whilo wo were Bippingour coffee and discussing our Cotclcttes a la Diablo in tho restaurant, which was half full of passen gers, soldiers and workmen, my comrado asked mo if I hod any ono worth mentioning among my twenty.eight days 'this being tho name by which wo dcsiguato our wen of tho reserve. Oh, yes, Baid I, I hove tho Bonof tho great artist Myrian, who has just boon mado a member of the Academy.' Havo you not also got tho eon of Goorgo doFdnssetf' Yes, I replied. But ho is a colobrfty of another kind. I was much surprised to see that lovely Mme. de Fensset had got a grown-up son. Do you know her Oh, yes,' laughed he, I was very much in love with her some years ago. What a pretty woman she is. Unfortunately at that time she was on most Intimate terms with my beet friend, and that prevented me from de. olaring my love. Since thon I have had no (opportunity to do bo." A Well, that is a pity.' said I. 'She is well worth a littlo trouble. And then (her husband is so good-nututod and so conren- Mfkfi.fff. vital TALKS OF CHRISTMAS DAY. HAPPENINGS GRAVE AND GAT OP TIIE HOLIDAY SEASON. I.lllle DtMle'a Tlml Dream Clothing unit Ton Mlstrlbutci! Anions l'oor Children on the Knat Hide A t'nll on the l'rrnka of r IlotTfry Muatnni The lint Trnde lloomrd a Utile by l'ractlcal People. I don't liko yon ono bit, and I wish mamma had novor got you sol" It was a wee bit of a maiden, with tho sunny hair of four Christmases for a crown, and sho exclaimed against a two.year-old littlo brother who had just committed some awful offcuso against her, Tho baby mouth puokcred and twitched pitifully, and then a wail burst forth from tho thiobblug littlo heart. But when, an hour later, baby put up his cherry rlpn mouth for a good-night kiss from Sistor Bot-tlo," tho offended sister heeded him not, and turned away. Baby sobbed and sighed his way into dreamland that night it was last night, and BcBHio, n littlo mito repentant, kissed tho sleeping brother in a sly, Bhatnofaccd way when sho cuddled herself up bcsldo him for tho night. Sho lay a long timo thinking about her un loving words to tho littlo brnthor, and tho houso had grown vory still, whou thoro was a sound of jingling bolls, and then a rustlo, and presently thoro began to omergofrom tho firephico in tho dining-room a stuffy, fat figure of an old man whoso whito beard and whiskers wreathed a jolly red faco with twinkling black eyes and an awfnlly.absurd stubnoso. Bess could bco it all from whero sho lay through tho half-oponod door. Tho littlo man shook tho snow from off his furry great-coat and gave a hitch at tho straps on his fur-top boots as ho lookod curiously about tho room. Then ho spiod tho drapery over tho bed where Bessio lay, frightened now so that sho hardly breathed. Sho know that tho littlo man was "Santa Claus becaiiBo ho looked so much liko iho picture of him on her "'Twastho Night Bo loro Christmas card, only ho had no big bag of toys and ho was awfully solemn in tho faco. Santa Clans Bteppod to tho portiero and looked in at Bess and then beyond hor at littlo lieu. Ben's round, chubby faco shonn wnuo as marine in tuo iiuiu nom niiuui n oyes, only when a tear filled them nnd for it moment diminod tho light. So this is tho had baby you didn't want, is it Well, I'm srouud to-night gathering tin tho things thatpomo folkB havo get tired of and don't want any longer. There aro lots of othor people vho want 'em, and by ox. changing this way it saves tho trouble ot making now ones. There's Dolly Bert in tho noxt house wants a babv brother awfully. It's only n step and a lot of work is saved." Santa rattled on in this way, just as though ho was talking to teep bark somothiug in his throat. Then ho fathered littlo brother up tenderly in his fat, pully arms. Bess was crying as if her heart' would break, and when Santa actually took Ilennio from bosido her slio burst forth into a shriek of anguish. Oh dear, good Santa I I am sorry I said it. I do want a littlo brother, and he's the dearest littlo brother in tho world. I'm suro vou can find anothor littlo brothor for Dolly Bort somewhere, and I will novcr bo wicked to Bennio again. Do, do let mo havo hitn forever 1" Can't do it, you Know. I make out my lists, and I havo to look sharp for enough things to go 'round. Sorry for you, but you seo you did it yourself. You said you didn't want him. and I tako pcoplo at their word. Want to kiss him good-by Santa hold baby's faco down close to Bcs Bio's ns ho said this, and Bessio in a last fran tic burst of sorrow threw her arms about the littlo bnndlo in Santa's arms and cried hot tears ou Bcnnie's faco. Sho sobbod hysterically:" I don't want Santa to tako you, dear, dear littlo brothor. Oh, I am so sorry I was ugly to you. Don't go away with Santa I I do want you." Bennio had been asleep boforo, but this awakened him, and ho lisped, Don't oo owy. sister Bot-tio 1 Mcnnio won't do 'way. Don't cwy!" and ho patted her lovingly on tho chook with his dimplei.. fat hand. But Bessio only sobbed and sobbed. Sho forgot all about that Santa Glaus was waiting for lier to say good-by to littlo brother. Sud denly rocolfoctiiig that tho friend of tho children was waiting, sho raised hor head to plead with him once moro to sparo baby brother, when lo I ho was gono 1 But thoro was littlo brother, suro enough, clinging tight to hor in bod, and boforo sho had dono wondering whero Kris Kringlo hud gono sho noticed tliat her pillow was wet, and then sho know thut it was all a horriblo dream, como to her troubled heart through her troubled conscieuco. Sister Boss hugcid and cried ovor littlo Bon for a long t.mo, and finally fell asleep with her arms a safo anchor about his soft, fat little solf. You may bo Bure Bessio will never again speak so harshly to Ben, and when ho pulls ono of tho arms out of hor Christmas dolly to-morrow sho will not scold a bit, sho says. 0HRISTMAB WITH FREAKS. An Oriental Resort In Which Visitor are Requested Not to "Hollar." Tho delights of tho Bowery dimo museum for Christmas pleasure-seekers have always beon ovcrlookod in tho whirl of holiday.gay cty. That thoro is something in them to plcaso which could not bo found at a matinco of Wagnerian music, or, In fact, at any of tho ml 'kS At'' -1" "Vxvt oun swoiros wwie iiakded to us." Icnlly short-sighted. Ho novor sees but what she allows him to see. Sho has hail moro than twenty lovo affairs, and M. de Ferissot has never been the wiser.' I had hardly finished my sentence when a littlo bit of a soldier, wearing the uniform of Chasseurs, rushed up to our tablo. Ho was as white as a sheet and trembling from head to foot. His long sword dangling between his legs mado him reel as if ho was drunk. He stopped in front of me and raised his hand to strike. A fow soldiers caught hold of him and pinioned his arms. Ho straight ened himsolf up and. looking mo full in tho face, ho said, in a strange, hollow voico Mme. de Ferisset is my mother.' In an instant I felt how abominably I had been acting. What was the matter with mo that morning. And since when had a gentlo. man any right to speak of a woman as I had just been doing. Lot him go,' said I to the men who held him, and taking off my kepi I bowed to him, saying: 'I am entirely at your disposal, monsieufs' The train for Lille was about to start, I jumped Into a,compartuiout, and an hoijr later Christmas trmtincYs, a Would reporter im agined, and determined to investigate. Ho had read tho complaint of Mr. William Nyo and had heard tho romplaints of still others of Mr. Nye's contemporaries from tho dim distant regions of Wayhack, that most of tho museum managers promised, in tho flaming announcements and pictoral displays in front of their places of amusement, much moro than they woro prepared to exhibit i that the aggregation of beautiful ladies, so clearly depicted on tho canvas at the door, as contesting for tho beauty prize, had moted into tho next county, and that tho eighty toimer, who trat oiled on her shape hud closod her engagement and entorod upon an other with a malinger in Cohoos. Tho man who fattened upon tire, glass, tin cans and other goat and ostrirh fodder, was always found bv these Waybiiekians to havo emigrated to somo other cllino, and thoy wero treated to 10 cents worth of ungriimmnt ical dissertation upon tho antiquity of sev eral horriblo and impossible nuatomicnl pro duetions from tho studio of it Bowery special ist in horrors. Keeping well In mind thoso tales of tho dwellers from the other end of tho rainbow, tho reporter resolutely refrained from enter ing any of tho museums which ndtertised anything, ami hastened ou until his eyes were attracted by glaring reilfslgns which ad vertised absolutely nothing but insinuated much, Tho European Ploaauro Resort was open for tho entertainment of gentlemen only," who could "seo, hear but mustn't hollar." Hero tho seeker after Christmas amuse ment onteied and Bnw two frowzy .headed women with physiques nB strong as nil athlete's, and, no was assured by tho burly, bull-headed expounder of tho mysteries twenty per rent, moro 'locririty in 'em than Lulu Hurst, tho Georgia 'lectric girl." Ho saw a living mermaid, whoso ill-fitting coat of scales gavo proof that it was mado originally for n larger maid who, perhaps, had struck for higher wages. Her biiBtlo. which sho flirted about as tho body and tail of tho mythical animal which sho repre sented, would havo been quite tho fashion in tho days of tho famous pull back." Ho saw also tho timo-lionorod illusion of tho bodylesH head, but it would havo been more of an illusion had tho mirrors between the legs of tho stand on which it appeared not beon so apparent. Theso things ho saw, and ho heard tho usual learned lecture on thoso sovcral ex hibits, in tho How cry patois, delivered by tho attoudant. Tho reporter had neon and heard, and had it not beon for tho injunction on the sign to tho offect that his investment of a dimo did not carry tho privilego with it, ho would havo "hollared" chestnuts 1" NOT AS GOOD AS ELECTION TIME. Only a I.lllle Push (ilvcn to the lint Trade by the Holiday Season. Thoro aro somo lines of business which It does not seem possiblo could oxpcrieuco tho usual Christmas boom. Among them is tho hat trade. Tho fact, however, that thero aro many people who are practical in their selection of presents gives oven this branch of business a push forward in December. A prominent hatter said to a Would reporter: "Oh I yes. Wo havo our Christmas trado as well as tho jewellers, toy sellers ond fancy goods people Our trado Is fully doubled at this season. But I must admit that our Christmas business docs not comp;iro with that at election timo. Thero aro thousands of hats irrotriAahly mined during tho heat of tho campaign, and it is discovered that thousands more aro lost by confident bettors, after tho conflict is over. "Tho last cloction was a vory good ono for tho hat business, but it did not equal that of '80 in tho matter of hats won and lost, and tho record of tho Mayoralty fight will bo totally eclipsed next year when tho chiof magistracy of tho nation is at stake Last year ono unlucky follow gavo mo ono order for thirty hats ho had lost. Ho must have but tho bata (or tho crowd." POOR CIIILDKEN MADE HAITI. Warm Clothing nmt Toys Distributed Among Destitute Must Mlitera. Webster Hall, in Eleventh Btroct near Third avenuo, was thronged yestorday after noon by poor women, neody widows and des titute children. Tho occasion of tho gather ing was tho fourth annual distribution by Mrs. Josoph Pulitzor of overcoats, wagons, shawls, dolls, candies and toys to more than thrco hundred deserving boys and girls bo. tween tho agf s of three and tun years. A largo and beautifully decorated Christ mas treo stood at tho head of tho hall and Mrs. Pulitzer sat beneath its branches whilo distributing her practical holiday offerings to tho children. Iho boys and girls woro specially selected from tho most dosorviug families and woro of all nationalities and creeds. A largo majority of tho children woro des tituto of warm clothing, and many of them wero in rags. Tho boys went away with fine, heavy overcoats, and tho girls rejoiced in tho possession of winter shawls of the finest quality. Fully two-thirds of tho children were orphans or half orphans, who received pres ents and aid from no other quarter or associa tion. Tho littlo ones wero also immensely pleased with tho wagonB, dolls, toys and can dies handed thorn. Immensely Flensed. From th fpoeh, Sho So jou went to hear Joiel Itofmann list ovculnir, Mr. Wshaatij Ho (of Cnlcago) Yes. Sue Vou were floated, ofconrso? He immensely. Why, I know grown people wno can't play the piano wlm that ten-yeur-old hoy. I was at my Gonoral's telling him what had just huppeuod. Ho got into a torriblo rago, and asked mo what I meant by talking in that way in a piiblio place, lie added that it was ton stupid of tho Minister of War to choose his superior olllrcrs among men of my age. who had not yet sense enough to behave them selves, and, although 1 thought to myself that had I been a mere captain tho misfor tune would have been equally great, I kept my own counsel. Well, and what aro ou going to do now thundered Iho infuriated General. I do not tliink that I havo much choico in tho matter, General, I havo deeply in. suited this young man. I have placed my. self at his disposal, and I must allow him to fight me.' Tho General struck tho tablo so violently with his fist that his books and papers flow all around tho room. Hate you taken leave of ynurseuses.Ma jor?' he fairly yelled, How can a superior ofllrer of your rank and position fight a duel with a common soldier. It is agaiiibt tho rules of the army. Allow mo to remark, General, that no rules can hold good In the caso of certain offi cers. I havo put myself in such a position that I cannot do otherwise than fight M. do Forisbot. Please grant mo your permission to do so,' "'I cannot.' Will you then havo tho kindness to telegraph to tho Minister of War?' His Excellency will rofubo his permis sion.' '"Very woll, then, I shall in that caso acquaint M. do Ferisset of tho fact, and, as wo are close to the frontier, wo shall go and fight in Belgium.' ''Do you really mean that, Major? It will be a case of desertion, and you know the punishment which you will incur.' I regret it, General. But in that case I must desert, then. I shall bo punished after wards. I have acted dishonorably once ol. ready in speaking as I did this morning, and I am not going to do soasorond time by refusing satisfaction to thomau whoso mother I havo publicly insulted.' Tho Uonorul walked two or Uiroo times REFDflE PROM ASSYRIA. Borne Immigrants That ThU Frco Itepriolla Una No Use For. A distinguishing featuro of tho immigration during the past fow months is tho largo nnm bor of Assyrians that arocomlng to this country. Theso pcoplo aro as a rulo not very thrifty. They usually bring with them a fow Oriental trinkets which thoy peddlo about tho streots in tho lower part of tho city. A colony of them has located in Washing ton Btreet, whero they Hyo in squalor and filth. When thov earn a fow dollars thoy send it homo to bring othor of their country men to tlds country to follow in thoir foot steps. A fow davs ago a party of flfty.fivo of them lauded at Castlo Garden. On boiug (pics, tinned only twenty of them woro found to havo any means. Theso wero released. Tho remainder will probably be returned. Thin morning Supt. Heinzinan, of tho Lauding llureuii, was astonished to find an other small colony of Assyrians among tho sticrago passengers of the steamship Rotter dam, from Rotterdam. Tho party numbored about thirty and como from Mount Lebanon in Assyria. Thoy aro a poorly clad and miserable look ing class of immigrants. When they arrived at Castlo Garden the scene was amusing. Their countrymen who aro about to bo re turned woro in the rotunda in a small en closure Ah soon as they saw tho othor mot ley crowd tiling Into tho Garden, thoy greeted them with a ringing shout of welcome, ami n waving of handkorchiofB. Tho latest batch como from tho same plaoo as tho others, and nro friends. Supt, Hoinzman will question tho As syrians, and thoso who aro in destitute eir ciimstancos and devoid of any visibld means of gaining a livelihood will bo referred to tho Collector, who will probably rotttrn them. MONET FOR THE BICK TOOR. Tho Hospital Fund Collrrtlnns Fully as I.argo aa Last Year's. Tho amount of money already collected for tho Hospital Fund givos indication that bo fore tho holidays nro over tho collections will bo fully up to tho mark of last year, if not actually abovo it. Tho collections mado in tho churches yoRtorday havo not yot beon ro. ported, aH some of tho congregations nro waiting for chocks from thoir wealthy mom. bers. In tho Wost Presbytorian Churoh last oven ing tho Rov. John R. Paxtou aunouncod that tho donations to tho Hick Poor Fund nmouuted to !?2,C00. As tho Presbyterian Hospital has withdrawn from the General Association nil but $aoo of this amount will go to tho Presbytorian Hospital. Rheumatism Arcnrilnta!cnt InTMllKfttlnn 11 cftuneiUijrMceMnf lctlo iirltt In tiiM1HM., Till ncitl at tuck tho fib pun tinmen, particularly tn tlin Joint, and caunfn the local innnlfitat.m.M f tlm i1Imiim, ,mlrn and aches In tlm tack and ihouMur. and fit the Joint at I h knttei, an k If hi p and wrUt. 1 linuanuda of jHnple liavn found in HiHi.rn HarMparllla a pswitlro and porMantM.t cum for rlxuimatliMii. Thin mcdlclno, I17 1U imrifjlnn and vitalizing aitlun. niulralin tho acidity nf tho blood, and aln.i buitdH up and ntrnflthnfi the wlmlfl lodj, I wan laid up f'r ftlx month with rhftumatlflm, nd uf d many ktnda of mrdlcinra without grind rmnlt till one nf inj iifUfh.Kjra told me to take Hood'a HarMparilU. When I had uaed half a bottle I felt butter, and after tak ing two UittlftN I think I wai entirely cured, as 1 hate not had an attack nf rheumatUm tnoe,' KUOKNK II. DIXON, IlowiTille, Htaten Island, N. Y, N. Its He aura to get Hood's Sarsapnrllla Bold tij all ilnwrUU. Kl six for $S. Prepared onlj tr O. I. HOOD i. CO., Apotheoirldi, Lowall, Mass. 100 DoaoB One Dollar THE LADY or THE TIUKIt CI1UOHB WIHISI.Y. 9 f Harden. J f Out O aim. -5 Hmimtli, 3q Horatoh Taath. I a I'nllah, S S Injure Knaraef, i Itntard. A5 Uauaa Ilaoar, s (ApprOTed. a tUondsmnwl l'rofnaaloasllr. Kalr Trial insures rnnrarslon. Hand stamp fur circular flTinaurtralnnt pnife)nlonal vlawa nwsrdinr (I lilt" 'elt Tooth llrilsh. At drugaistii'.nr mailed nareoelnt of price IS telt llrush "llendt" (InikhI), 2&0. cacti. latlnj( two weeks. Trlple-p'sted Holder, 85o. Also, if wanted, llrUtle Head," bet Florence" make.nttlna; snina boldsr.loc. M't.TSo.. or sold separately. HoBSET Mm. Co.. Utloa. N. Y. The Only Polisher OP THE TEETH. Tho well-known actor. Sir. Htewart Ilobjon, kindly takes the trouble to wrltn t "Tho I'l.l.T TOOTH IIIIIINII" Is a reat sue cens. It apmars to posaoes qualities above nil other lu uiy uipurleuce." 1IOI1BI.Y MFO CO Utlcs, N. Y. D.Kl). MANMNO.-In Albany, Y Dec. SI. 1887, DlMIZL JUNNINO, In the 67th yuar of his axe. Funeral aerrlce at HI. Paul's Uhurch, Albany, Tuondsy, Dec. 37, at 'J P. M. AM USEMENTS. MKTKOPOI.1TAN lll'KKA.IIOIJHK. IIOI'.lltNN I'ONrl'IITH, under the nsrsnnal Direction of Mr.HKNUV K.AIinKY. TUESDAY AFTKHNOUN. DKO. 'J7, 3i HATUHUAY ICVl-.NINU, DKO. 31, H.1S. JOSEF HOFMANN, sccompanlsd by Jims. IIPI.KNK II hTKKITnil, Prima Donna Oontraltoi THKO. lUOUKKTr.N. Tenor. MjnorUK ANNA, llarllnnai MiNhTTIK (IAUPKN TMli Mme.HAUCONI.IlBrpUti rllanor It HAPPIO.Ac oompanlBt.and A 1)01. I'll .NKUl'.NDimFF'H Orand Or. ctientra. beat now on sale. Weber (Irand Piano med. Y To-nlM at 8.11 Last Performance, Voitll.T-Ml.-MT. iThnitre cd sed luottdiy evening.) .IJNF.HDAY 1.VI-N1NO, III.O. 'J8, arand prod net Ion nf the new comedy, iti tiiu fakhiun." LsVh!!-! TIIFliSFP Matinee Hat, and Mon. I I sit. Wllsall up anil down tlio room. Tlion ho stonpeil Hliort in front of mo, ami, puttiup; liiw hand on my Hlionliler, ho naid, htdly Vory well, my poor Imv. Do an you plcaso. 1 know notliiuc. ami shall act as if you had not told mo auvthiiit! ahout the matter. Only plcaso hoar in mind that you run tho rik of a court-martial,' When 1 left tho General I wont in quest of two of my friends who did not belong to tho army, and thoy arranged with 31. do Ferisset's seconds, who wero also civilians, that wo Hlumld meet tho next morning at F a small Ilelu'ian tillauo. I did not sleep much that nicht. I had determined that I would p;lo tho poor boy every chanco of killing me, and with that in viow put all my affairs in ordor. v" Ou tho morrow, at tho appointed timo.wo arrledat V It was a rainy, cold, ills, mill day. Wo had to walk through soakod meadows, with mud up to our knees. 31. do ForUset walked on in front of us with his two friends. I followed with miiio and a younc Biirueon whom we had brought with us. It u as a dismal kind of promtnado. Wo stopped on tho outskirts of a small pino wood ami took off our coats and mado our preparations for this duel botwoon a superior ollicer in undress uniform and a common soldier. At length wo wero placed opposite each othor. 31. do Ferisset Ealutcd mo and, stopping lorward, said 3laior, I nearly btmck you yestorday when both you anil I woro in full uniform. Thislwas on my part auoffouBu against disciplino. As a soldier I beg your pardon for this, and now tho gontloman can avenuo his honor.' Our swords woro handed to us, and after tho first customary thrusts I romained per fectly still. I lookod at my adversary. Ills cyos had a wild, pitiful staro. Suddenly ho fell back two paces, and with a smilo ah, what a heartrending smile it was i I shall never forget it he gave one frantic lurch forwards and throwing himself on my still outstretched sword ho ran himself through tho breast. Ho moaned only once. A blootlv.stained froth camo to his lips and then he foil back wards and died." i ,q ..m 4aiig asLLLLLV Choking Catarrh. '''H Hsts yon awakened from a disturbed steep with all the jHH horrible sensations oi an assassin clutching yourthroat m,H snd pressing the lifsbresth from your tightened chesit lil llsta you noticed the languor and debility that succeed lirjaaaaaaaaa the effort to clear your throat and head of tills ostarrhal JaaBaBaBaaafl matter f What a depressing Influence It exerts upon the V uaaBaBBaal mind, clouding the memory and filling the head with VaJaaaBaaaaaaa pains and strsnge nolsea I How difficult It Is to rid the wawaaBaaaai nasal passages, throat and lungs of this poisonous mucna -paBBBBBBBa! all can testify who are afflicted with catarrh. HoWdlffl. '''raBBBBBBBBai cult to protect the system sgslnst Its further progrese JeBBBBBBBBBai towards the lungs, llrer and kidneys, all physicians wll esaaBBBBBai admit. It Is a terrible disease, and crloa out for rellet aaaBBBBBBB cure, HRsai Tho remarkable curatlTa powers, when sll other rem- ''iJaaaBBBBBBBa! edies ntterly fill, nf SANronD's lUDICiL Ccnr, are af VMsbbbI tr-stedby thoussndswho grstefnlly reoommend tttofel BiBBa lnweulTirer. No statement Is msda regarding It that 'saaBBBBBBBs cannot ho substantiated by the most resectable snd re- Usbbbbbbbbbb reference. JPaBBBBBBa! Kach psrket contains one bottle of the TtAOiCAL GdbC, sbbbbbI one boi of UATAnnitAL HoLVr.NT, and an Improtid la- 4bbbbbbi HAtrn, with treatise and directions, and fa sold by all '"sbbbbbbb druggMsf ir $1,00. JQbbbbbbbb 1'niTEa Unco Giif.mical Co., Doitoh. JtajB MSTRAINS, SPRAINS, PAINS, S 5-SSjftT "r"pV,,t ln ono mlnuto by that new, jlHI '&&9HLw (Mcitant, Inntftntantvmn and Infallible AntU iYSialll.lllH SSsStCF dot) to Vain, Inflammation andWeakness,, l,a........fl tho ('iitlrurii AntUFaln I'lnster. The flntt and fH onlj iialn-subdnlnff planter. The moat effloactoua, thft J1 moat agreeable and the moat apftedy of all external agenta LLLLa for tlm relief nf Tain and WoiltnoM. At all drankta, US tfR ccntai tiro for $1.00 1 or, yiaUgt. free, of Potteb DntJO) jH ANnCsirMICALOo., Itrmton, Mans. S3 ...T 'laBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl AMUSEMENTS. 'laH GETTYSBURG, B $tH VaBBBBai rnikirruicAUA. 'VBH TKUH TO NATUItK AND' lllBTOHT JH AZA HbbbbbbbbI UKHrEora. 4bbbbB OPEN DAY AND EVKNINO, H 4T1I AVR. AND 1DTII HT., 9 one block north of -ViiaBBBBBBB Union Square. HI STANDARD TIIKATRR.-IIKAaDWAT 33D ST. IJsbbbbbbbb r) Hcale of rriceOrchestra; Al.oOt Orchestra Circle. kaBH ti.DOsndSl, llalcony, itl.DU; llalcony Olrole,$li Kara- tBBBBBBa! 11 Circle, dOo. and 33o. ?Bbbbbb fcrery STenlngand Haturdsy matlneenntll further notloss aaBai ?Jlt.NI I'ltOmiCTIIIN IrbbbbbD (Under the manacement of frank T, Sang) jiaBBBBBi nf theVicturesaue Drams, 'aV!Sa 1'AUIj KAUVAlt; ,jKB ANAKCIIY, 'H Tlr Htoele Macksya. x3bbbbbbbbb HOLIDAY MATINKK. MONDAY, JAN. 1 -diaBBBBi Beats secured two weeks In adranoe. "'(sbbbbbbI UNION SOU A UK TIIKATUIt hbbbbbbbb J. M. lIlLl...... Manager bbbbbbbbi IVUUHTU (0NT7f. Jjasal ItOIlSO.V I UltONRON HOWARD'S Isbbbbbbi and (1I1KAT COMKDY, ItaBBBwaaBal crane. I 'rim hknuiktta; mIsH Krery erenlng st H. Haturdsy Msttnea. $5sbbbbbbbi Katra ho lilsy matlnea Jan. '1. KI 100th performance Haturlsy Mstlnee, Deo. 31. aaafeaa KlalmralB Honvunlrs. nVaBaaaeai HAItltlClAN'S I'AltK THIiATRl:. jsaaaaH KDWAUD IIAKHIOAN Proprletog- Hsaaal M. W. HAN1.KY Manage IKS UNANIMIIlfrl HllCukrlil OF VM mil. lilltVAItlt HAItltKlAN'M 9 ArtlHIo and Natural Ohsracter Acting of "iaWB I'HTI'. 4jIHbbbb! DAVK 11KAHAM snd his POPULAR ORCHESTRA. .VaaBaBaaal ib-Ktllsr Matinees WKDNKHDAY and MATURDAY. HNbbbbsbbbi (lllANI) HOLIDAY MATIN KB MONDAY. DKO. 3d. 'jBfl NIIILO'H. NIBLO'al ''jHbbbbI Reserved sests, Orchostra Glrelo and Raloony, OOo JflBBBBBBBB Orand Production of tho Great naaaaa Drury Lane Kuccoss. -&aaaai A RUtf OF LUCK." ,9 MAONIKIOKNT ROKNKRY AND COSTUMES. .liaaaaaH Matinees Wednesday and hatnrday at 2. TtBauai Ultra Matinee Jan. 3. New .Year's Dsy. FHbbbbI AGADUMY OK MUSIC. I T- sbbbbbbbI THIS MONDAY KVKNINO. aBBBBBBBw EDWIN BOOTH, fl LAWRENCE BARRETT, In a Oreat Production of JULIUS CESAR. S UVURY KVICNINd-MATlNHi; SATURDAY. flasH DOCKSTADER'S ll?$5: B aathst. snd llrosilwsy. Nlahtlr, H.30. Sat. MaU, 3.80, KaBH URAND CIIUINTMAH .MAI lNKK TO-DAY, 3.80. 4BH llUKITAU) HILL'S UK) INJUN," iHB New Kong.. Jokes snd Skits. .aVftal HKNIUKTTA.'' an Kthloplan afterpiece. MH SOOKSTADKK IN MODKIIN MOTHER GOOSE.". SbbbbbbbI Toys and Candles at every performance. s1bbbbbbbb1 H. R. JACOBS'S 3D AVE. THEATRE, iM Itoaerred Seats, CORNER .11ST ST.. AND 3D AVIV 'jsbbbbbbbb Ortn MAT. KVK.tY MON.. WED. A BAti SBBH UCii MERRY XMAS TO ALL. TaBBBBBal SUC. Ixmlse A mot Jk Co. eBVBVJ CO FUN ON T,IE IJU,aT0L' itaBBaal 5 0 C. s Jan. 3-MAil'ZELLK. llM GRAND OPKRA.HoIjSK; f'Hfl Ressrvwl sests, orchsstrs. circle and balcony, 80s, i-MH yyrf- I HltraCHRISTMAS MATINEB TO-DAY ff'; 'jPaaBBal 1 NAT. v. noonwiN ,M M in TURNED UPsndLKND ME FIVE SHILT.mOa. :sbbbbbbbs Nsit week, Ous Wllllsms. Next hundsy. Prof. Cross. 'lsaaa well's best lecture. I'srls. the MsgnlBoent City." tH AlTihON SQUARE THEATRE. 'l '4bbbbbbI MR. A, M. PALMKIt..... RolsMsnagea? aaaBBBai EVEN INI1S AT 8.30. AATUltDAYMATINKKS AT3., tjaBB OIIKISI'MAM MATlNEUi P" B lAIFr" l .trwaBBBBBal TO-DAY AT 3. CI AII1E. 'H NEW YKAKS MATINEE. tLMlNL. WM STAK T 1 1 KATKK. LAST WEEK. saaBwaal .III! AMI .II4CN. V. .f. PMIIIENCK. ISrawaaaal 'IHIS(ClinihT.MAH) AITHHNOON AN'DKVllNINa. IMbbbbbbbI Tuesdsy Evening, Dec. J7-T1IU SlfOllTY DOLLAR. Jsawawaal V Monday, Jan. 3, IIHIWIO NIEMANN UAAUE. sbbbbbbI Bt-ats now on ssle. IIbbbbbbbPJ MlfAVENUETllEATRE. (ISO Ueaaaal fl l'rupriet.irand Msnsirer ..Mr. JohnStetaoa tvawatai Mil. RICHARD MANHl'IELD, awaBwaVj TO-NIOHT AT rJ.SU AND MATINEE SATURDAY. VaBBBBBBBal DR.JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. 'M TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE '-;M MATINEE I HKRR PITROT, FACIAL ARTIST. saaBBBal TO- WOODhON AHKNNhrr. TbeHKALYS. BB1 DAY. I TOXY PAbTOH AND UHANP CO. 'H BI.IOII RICE'S BURLESQUE COMPANY, HbbbbbN OPERA 05 AKI'ISIH IN RICE AND DIXKV8 Jaaaawaal iioijbi;. hu.Mi'iuoim production of aM THE THIS CIIIINAIIt. "esBBBawall CQUSA1R. Orand CIIUlbTMAB MATlNKKTo-Dsy. f'aaaaaaa. fim I lmil listened brcntlilessly to Gerard Homo. i JlH inur's story mid vu wnlkcd bileutly on. I iH Ah," naid hu bitterly I know well that 'rTB I wns tli'tormiiied to letliim kill me that bo, VH bo to hay, committed suicide by rushing onto VeaBBaal my sword. I know, too, that my career is uBbbbb ruined, and that my life is without further rwaBBwal object or use smco I havo havo had toleavo "WU the army. UeaBBBai Hut all that is nothing compared to tho, i?aV rcmorso which I feol. In my own oyes I am AaBBBBBal notbius better than a murderer. Just think or SsbbbbbbI this poor buy dyini; at thu ago of only twenty utaH thrco. Think of the poor mother who known 'IKH that her only son died through her fault. JHI How intenso mu&t bo hor despair and her sor. iSbbbbbbbI row!" HIV Iliad nothing to reply. It was only too !H -IIbbbbbbI Sly poor friend's lifo was entirely ri I toil 'xCaBai by tins terriblo incident. Wo walkou ou faBBBBai sadly, arm in arm, with bent heads and heavy IhB hearts, thinking of theoo two young. promts., '1B ing livts Bacritleed by a fow rash, bantoring a'aV words uud a woman's indiscretion. 'aBaal It was getting late and every onow tJfot .Saaal turning homo. The coft! conoorts we-' jhp" "-Hh ing nnd great tiles of carriages wcrqtjdg&r VaaaD up tho Chaiilps-Klysc'cs. Htill. thrfWoro 'SfaV many who remained tcated on the iron chtfirs JteBBBBai under tho trees. I looked at them with in- IIbbbbbbbI dilTereuca as wo passed aloug. SsbbbbbbI Suddenly I tiglitcued my grasp on my com. 'SIlH panion's arm, smothoring au oath, for thore, MbbbbbbI seated in tho middle of a group of laughing "WU and woll-drebsod people, I saw a woman who, 1bH although moro than forty years of age, was fataH still remarkably hundsouio. She wore a Tory SfH elegant black dross, and large diamonds ?aBH glittered in her shelMiko cars. She waa 1H laughing aloud at some remark of a rakish. fJfsiH looking man who was bending over her and 'bbbbbbbI toving with a big bunch of violets which lay wB in' her lap. It was Mme. de Ferisset. 'aBBaae! A bitter oath escaped my lips aa I reoog. HpH nized her. ll AVliat is the matter with you eiolaimed Baaaal my friend. I slowly pointed her out, mutter. Hl ing: "There is his mother." IjaiiH Ho staggered and turned as pale aa death. "Never mind, old man," said I, "you ate -1.H this is tho'irony of fqto and wo pauvd osk H bbbbbbbbI

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Hfc 4 THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1887.' K iA NOTED BROOKLYN CHUECfl. w$t B ItTIlERE C0NGRE0ATI0XALI8T8 nATB WOE- Wtk 61I11TED NEABLY HALF A GENTIM. MmW' ijriie History of the Htone JMIflce ,he H Comer of Henry nd Hetnsen Street, HSS The Oldest Church or It Denomlnnllon He$' In the City Dr. HtorrV, Succr-asful fllln- HwS' Istry A Piece of Mymouth Hock. B$f Tho oldcit Congregational church in Brooklyn Wxt? fli the nraod old stono edlfleo on tno corner of K&T Slenry and Itemscn ttrccts, known as tho Church NT 'of the nigrum, or, u It has been familiarly and fr efftctlonately called, for now well-nigh on to half I 7 IS' Jl WIST' 1 1 R i m& I Z I Wfu cncncn or rax numiHR. Si' a century, by all tho world Id general and Brooklyn- BijftT lies In particular, "I)r. Btorra's cUuroh," because M3K forsooth tho Itev. itlobard 8. Storm, 1). I). LL. 1). U$$ )iai been pastor of the chnrch erer ilnco It had an Hmr existence, and became the "Church of the HkE (Pilgrims" and "lir. atom's church" havo been HJJ5 o long and so Intltflatclj oaioclutcd together that Hto Jt difficult for tho Vverago llrooklyn mind to dls- Bkif Boclalo them and consider them In any other Hew light than as controvertible terniB. BfS, Maw, the Church of tho I'Ugrlms wan not tho K jlrst Congregational chnrch organized In Brook- B?a'' ''yn. becauso'tho pioneer orgonlzsllon of that dc- Bw .Jiominatlou ante-dated tho present ono by more HI ,11180 half a century. Its placo of worship wai Mtr called 'ion Independent Mectlng-Uousc," nnd It KLv Vas erected on what wai nn old Episcopal burylng- HtJ3$j ground, on Hilton Btrcet, In September, 1785. A Kar Society iru funned anil duly orpnnlzcd, w.th tho KM liter. John Mattock no pastor, and (liorgo Wall an MrHL Jusslitant. John Carpenter was Trcoautcr, Oeorgc Kg. 'powers waa Secretary, ami William ilentOD, Hob. Kit; t'ert Bteatb, Barnard Cordinan, John Kniery ami Kw Vllllam lltnson, Trustccp. Just haw long U existed ?8 'l not definitely known, but that It ovcutuaily KJL came toon uutlmoly end, li certain. 'J he members Em i Jell out among themselves, and tbo church fell Into B tho hands of tho Episcopalians, under tho rrctor- Hk (hip of tho Ilov. (ieorgo Wright. It was coiiso- Hg' crated by Bishop Provost, nnd thu First Congre- B. national Church In llrooklyn ccaiod to exist. K Tho Church of tho Pilgrims was organized In Kvf; 1814, with Bovcnty-ono mombcra. Tho corner- 13', 'Btone of tho present cllllco waa lulil July!;, IBM, W-if, but so poor waa tho congregation ami an mcagro i.) was Its membership tliui tho prouross of con- Kil etruction wm slow, and at times almost dlscour- Kfil .aging. On llsy 18, lBiO, however, the udlflce was Ja complotod and dedicated, but tho estimated ox Jiendiluru of 123,003. which was their Intoution when they began, hud been tncrvated to 1,000, Kigt', nnd theru waa a hcuvy burden of debt resting upon Hg&' the society. In June, Mid, u month after tho WpA- churon was dedicated, tho Her. Itlchard a. titorra, then a young man, wax called to the pastorate. .iV lie accepted the call, and was Installed In tho fnl- lowing Wovcmlior. Ills ministry was succcsaful, KZJ. nndlal8lB thn debt of tho church waa entirely Bl Irald. In 1H.SU tho church waa enlarged, and now lit ts one of the most commodious and Imposing of 'tie numernus church edlflces In llrooklyn. B3v In 1847, nine mcmliers of tho Church of the Pil- Wf.ff lirrims united with other llrooklyn Con&rcKutlonul- uts to form and orgaulze I'ljinouth Church, jwt. There Is no man living In llrooVlju to-day, pro- HLfiF lesslou&l or otherwise, who Is more lionoroJ and K3SP respected In all tho walkB mm yff"Nv 0 ""man nfa than tho Mw All llcv.Dr. KlcliardS.StoriH. KS Fifn a. llur" ot alurdy riirltan WM- V&l -s?V stock, and descended ssgjK,- fvjft ,.l from a long lino of t'on- Er', Wivvi. K grcgatlonal prcaolicrs, w'' 0Sy'ii,fra rcaohInK way buck to the Kl Abt&f! t?3L Wy ye"' ,Jl bc preseut S&' ffi4fcifFjkxfix century, with a lino KHf jKWgtSA.vffiro physlipie, HMCII-ground- nff ?EdwM!BmwOKfh tley and n cxeep- Wtm JffiV'svWll) tlonnlly well-trained and gi JL. v'1 deeply cilucnted mlnd.ho sf has always been a power tfi "kirniRlm. uxnnn. n n 1,IC Church llfO of m& rCnBD f" llrooklrn, iiml m now and fryf lver has been looked up to as a guide and phlloso- Bt' 4.tr ,n 5n.0 nn.rH l" Cbrlsiian minister. His LV& liner UlchardS. storrs, nr., was for moretlun Si llllty years pastor of a Congregational chnrch lu K& fUralntreo, ilass., and his grandfather, alaoltlch. S, rdS., was lor forty jearspastorofaCongrt'gationdl BSv caurch at Img Mea low, Mass. while his gri'at- K i grandfather, John storrs, was for u tlrao pastor of MKW Congregational Church at SoethoU, 1. I. lie tt;li afterwards reiurned to MuntOcld.Conn., his native k- Iilace, and thcro dleu. sV& lr. Btorra, of tne Church of the Pilgrims, was Sfe- nornln Bralutree, JIass., in 1831. In his early HflT jouth be uttendt! school at the academy at Mun- asWiv fn! BUl1 waB graduated Irom Amherst College BW J?3?'l, !he aeB. uf eighteen years. Ho then hte Sl??lea 1J"f '.or a wnlle wltl1 "nfus Choatc, but In bt&F nndc tbe tunuonco of his early training and hc pious tendencies of bis race, bo concluJed to H Sn,ir tho ministry, whereupon ho eutered tho K Andover Tneolot'lcal ttcmlnary. He was com- mwtfr 5elie1 .!r hca1"1 ,0 "n'Peud his studies, which fc. be finally rentwed, and waa graduated in 14 J. ror B& tt,rea,r..1"' na? chars'" of a Congregational church In BTeWfft Urookllnc, Mass. and then caino to Urooklm. MD. bore ho still rtmalns. K& Dr. Siorra is recognized as one of the ablest K! preachers In the country. Highly educated, S 'Oeeply read and widely travelled, polished In man- PM3r ner and profound In tnoufcht. he.U looked up to aud Kmbjbss respected by all who know mm. As a pulpit orator VTIm nc Is very profound, while us a theologian and pio. T v VlliSfS,',0',"1,118 'alth ouco delivered to the J'Bsinta"lili orthodoxy tswell known to be of the J"","1 ana moB' straight-backed Puritan kind. Ho J yn;T1ca," anJ K". Uala preaches and practises Vsas5' w,t.sBVe"c,ct..Unloa t-llego conferred upon imWr blm the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1W3. llar- yafd extended tho same nouor In 19, anu In 1874. Bt iPrlnceton added tho eminent distinction uf Doctor b Dt j1-. Ur- Btorrs Is a'jo well kuown as a writer HPkh' ana a lecturer. l .Aji,Xof ,tt0 ol,a ?,onc chuvcli edlllce on the corner W of Henry and ltemsen streets, It ba long bteu ssmw ?,n?1 2U0 ,h0 landmarks of lltuokiju mm- llWl TUer8 u on distinct feature of the old ft edince.bowever, which may not be and doubtless Is PVgL mot known to many ol tho present generation. At miW tno southwest corner of tho church rles a stone mts' .tower, surmounted by a high steeple. The mfgg tower Is square, with a emooin granite aur- PKI jfaco. About seven or elyut feet Irom the K 'eround, imbedded lu tno solid masonry. Is a sVakY' ,miall, rougbt, Irreculnr-nhaped stono, prolrrtinz MX' Iputward bomu two or thteo Inches. It Is a uleci. of mm.- tli.it famous rock In tno auclcnt ajd ever mi'iiiora- if bloharborof 1'iymonth, Mass, upon wh.cn the flL 'era nrM retca when they J& t& st mm-, landed on tho Rojpcl-frto fc,SKrS12Zr WW'S. 'abocs of Amer.ca, ou thatSuaJ BgJ't fU(. .black December day OSlMF, i'tOwsr MSk" years sgu. It Is 1 IncuesijitE W& WLw nlsb and 10 Inches lonaaHKlV KV M& .Faithful bands and olommMW. IM KjjL hearts procured the aacred'IfflEsaglfJ 'memento, and conveyed It Zv2KE98&ip Mvh'- ,blSer, and for nil future ESS- 'time, until the earth rocks A rc op wtmoittii Bay and the tower falls or the U0CI- bK; wall crumbles to dust, will It stand there as a silent Mw but isbitantlal traolem of the grand idea onderiy- RKi In? aodaurmatingtbofsltbof the founders of the MBf Church of tne Pilgrims. jag As a factor In the practical cbnrcb life of Drook- b W n the Cbnrcb of tbe Pilgrims has borne a consnlc- mfXg. uous psrL The entire cost of tbe property wss not MuXi tnaob Iras than $300,000, but tbe society Is ont of MW-- ebt nii lu contributions to charitable works it Kl basnovrr been behind any of Its sisters. It is mWt looked npoo u a wealthy and an arlitooratlo m chnrch, and Justly so; and although there are In imauy others whose membership la far more nom- PKJR terous, there are lew which can boast of more ag- WKT grrgate wealth. The membership Is aboat 1,000. mm a he church yesterday was not as crowded as TWi usnsl because It was Chrlsirasa Day and heoauis Mm- thero will be an afternoon service to-day. The In- H tenor waa modestly festooned In holly, and this was MM ,ao oa attempt inane at decoration. Dr. Storrs mW .preached a short Christmas sermon, taking but Kd 'text frets Wattbew. Ji, li, wherein tbe an- PC- tpeU Mtnounoe to tbe shepherds on their way MORE! HALE BARTOW'S DEATU. No Word Yrt Hrcelved from the Aged mother or the Itrrlnae. Moroy Halo llartow, who livo tho llfo of n roclnso in a rrrUj)room on tho upper floor of tho Churchman lmlldliiR, 47 Iifnyttto plrtcc, tllod thoro midiluily on Christmas Evo. Ho wrmnfty-fltoyonrsof ngo nnd a hneh clor, nkhoiich lio hnd spoken froqttontly to tho janitor of his utrtiffKln i"'0 tko where vvithnl to set tip for hotiBekcepliiB when ho nhoiild mnrry nnd Bottlo down in n nlen littlo liomc." Ho hnd been for yonrs nn nd vtrtiniiifr ugeiit for relii;loiiH pnpera nnd hnd written short worka on rellcioiiH topics. It sentucd n ixirt (if nmtihi with lilm. Ho ih deeply IntereBted hi his own Kcncnlosv nnd hnd proud to himsolf tlmt he unsnf tiio Minn family ns Kntlinn Hale, of llavolntlonnrr fntno. Ilia (,'rcnt.KrntuHnther wns tho founder mid first pnstorof old Ht. l'nul'R Church, nnd tho Rrnudson had jttKt mused to bo mndo n brusH tnbh t in his motnorv. 3Ir. linrtownlwnys derived ft cood incomo from his vork, but his viirhiicIi n l.mdly, ehiirilnhle henrt. tlmt his enrnint'H wi nt con stuntly to tho nid of MiffcrliiK nnd impovor inlied follow boinijs. Ho was nlwnys kind mid plenKiml to Jnnltor Hehnofter nnd his wifi nnd they nloiin w ro with him when ho died, lio hnd spoken of nn need niothor mid threw sisters whom ho hnd supported nt Lognus port, Intl. 'Iho Itov. Ilrs. Trhnn nnd Stoddnrd, of tho O'mmr, lu whoso ofllco Mr. Knrtow hnd n dosk, wero sent for by tho tnuitor, nnd they lino wired tho news of his denth to his mother. No rosponso 1ms yet been received. Coroner Lovy norinittod tho romutnl of the rcmnlns to tho chnpcl of Dr. Dceum's Church, in Winthrop plnco, nnd thoy hmo been cm linlmtd by Sexton Atkinson. Tho wishes of tho naod mother will bo complied with, but should no word come from her tho body will bo lnid in the rocoivinu vnult nt Wnocllnwit on Wedncsdny nnd they will flnnlly rest in tho old Hup-uonot buryluu-Kround nt Wost elieBtcr, for Mr. Unrlow wns of old Hueuunot btock nnd very proud of it. lira. Primo nnd Stoddard will in nny ovunt bear tho attendant expenses. TO ATTEND MR. MANNING'S FDNERAL. President Cleveland trill flo to Albany In n Apr rial Car. Itrrcui. to nit woat.o.1 Vabhinoton, Dec. 20. I'rcsidont Clovo. lnnd nnd tho momhers of tho Cnbluct who nro in this city will leave- hero this evening in nspoeinl car tonttend tho f unernl of tho Into Secretary Mnuuius in Allmny. Tho enr will bo uttnehed to tho express, which leaves tho llultimoro nnd Uotomno dopot ut 10 o'clock this evening, nrriviiiK in New i'ork nt fi.20 to-morrow morniuu'. Another car willbo occupied by tho com mittee of tho Now York Htuto Democratic Association ennslHtlud of Assistnnt Heerclnrv Mnynnrd, Fifth Auditor Eickhoff. Chief Clerk Ynnpinns, T. O. Kolobnr, (1. H. llcue. diet, 1'. M. Furlonp; mid John (3rniuor. HIl'-rOCKET LAW. Major lilies, cifNevndn, Argum Its Nuperlor Ity lit the Nlrttiite Vurlvtr. ryVorn th Sin Franctirn fjramtntr, When I went over to Lomlon first to placo n mine," said Major lilies, of Nevada, rocking him self In ono .of Iho rustlo chairs of tho Palaco bar room, It made me mad tho way I was takon caro of. It was a policeman hero to tell you not to go there, a policeman there to tell you not to come hero, a guard to lock you up In tho cars lor fear you'd fall out and got killed, and ao on. Then Iho bars wero closed on Handay, and you found tho museums and every place but tbe churches pad locked. It was law, law. law everywhere, till I was alek of the law, and I'd have turned Anaroiilat It tho Anuruhlnta had been Invented then. I tell you I was ml ulit j glad to gut buok to the Comslock, wheru oviryooiiy nearly carrted his own law in his hlp-iiockol." "That must have been 'a dreadful stato of soci ety, suggested agentlemau from New Haven. "No, Hlr," said tbe Major, "It wasn't. Itwas about tnn best stato of society I know of. It made you look out for oursulf and bo careful of stepping on other fellows' toes. Bomcbody wai shot every night almost." "Ooodgraclousl" "And tno man for breakfast generally deserved to bo served no, added the Major. "I till you It's a good thing to live lu a com munity wucro men who ought to bo killed get killed." Hut," objected tho gentleman from Now Haven, wero you not constantly In daugir of your lifet" Not at all. There's no placo on earth wlicro a man Is so safo from liarm am plmol-rnled mining camp, so long ub hu minds his own btisluets nud does tho touare thing. Thu lighting you read so much about Is ronllncd prcity at.fetly to the toughs. Tbev don't bother rcapociablo people. Tncenaneoof atlgllancu ooiniulitee kieps them straight In that dlrectioj. The principal danger to men wuu ure not toughs Is from flying bullets, uml there's a remedy for that. I remember I was standing In frout of tho Dellu, ou i street, one otonlng, talking wllh Capt. Lord, tho Iuland ltev enuoc'ullector, when two follows got to punching each oilirr right bear us, ami one pulled what all hands thought was a gun. There was a miaul tiious scatter, I bopped into a doom ay unit pcep"d out. Capu Iml was standing lu the middle of tho street with his slx-BhooUr In his ltiud, watching the two men who bad clinched ami wero strug gling. In a minute they went rolling over a poa-nui-aiand Into the gutter. Tho ouuon top, who was known as Ited Mike, Johbod away at the furo aud body of tho under chap with the supposed pis tol. It was really a knllc, and ho hacked Ids nub. Ject all u pleco. Wo tore him otT. I helped to raise the cut chap to Ids tei-t. lie waited with us a few steps aud then raised bis baud to his bleeding bead and sad: Wbcre'Bmyhntt'" It was fished out of the gutter and he put It on. He went a step or two further and stopped. Hoys,' be said, It's no go. I'm Mike's meat.' Then he sighed, murmured faintly Damn him I' and f alnto I. Ho died next day. What were you doing out thcro In the street wllh your guu T' I nsked Capt. Lord. Well, 'be said, 'I've come near being hit ball a dozen time when fellows wero engagod In fights In which I bad no concern, and I've made up my mind that hereufter I'm going to have my share of the shooting as well as of tho danger. I'm going to take a hand from this out, and these fellows, when they begin a muta, will look around und In quire where lam.' "And a good plan, too," declared tho Major. "If good citizens ou the frontier would follow Cap Lord's plan, the toughs would be even tuoro ciireful thau they nro about wild shooting. Vet, aficr nil, there's not as much danger from tins coursoas there is of belug run over uero by jour cable cars. And this Ited Mike, this murderer, ho was bauged t" Inquired tho kcullcman from New 11a- 0D. Lord, no," laughed the Msjor. Mlko, wheu ho wasn't drunk, waa a bricklayer, and bo assisted lu building the County Jail. Having ancjotuthe future, hu trmiKCitfuliy lolt a weak spot luw down In the wall, and one nljlit, shortly alter his arrest, lie opened It and walked off, generously taking all tne oilier prisoners wllh lilm. 'ihalast I heaidof Mike was that he'd bad mi arm shot otf by u gam bler down lu Tombstone." Charleston's Christina Haturnnlla. ItliriiL to hie woiu.u.l CiUHLKsroN, Dec sn. -Chrlstmat Day was characterized here by federal disgraceful affrays. The police stations were crowded with prisoners and msny fatal flghti occurred. Tbe streets were thronged all day long with drunken negroes. Last n.ghl a merchant shot and killed a ucgro who at tacked blm with a knife. At lis. u. a negro Ixjy was brought to tho station-house bleeding to death frouiwouudsrrcelu'd lu n street tight. Durlugtiie afternoon two nciros had a tight in which euou re ceived wouuds that will result fatally. Lighted k Fire In Ills Cell. Joseph Whitty was arrested last night by tbe Twentieth Preolnct police and locked up In one of the lower cells of the station. The doorman on his rounds this morning saw amoke Issuing from the window gratings, and peering within found that Wbltty bad lighted a flre.ln borne unexplalued manner, in one corner. Thu blaze was citln gnlshed and Whitty placed in another cell. Acrused uf Huralnry. Detective Mullarkey, of the Kast Thirty-fifth street station, captured two men to-day wLom be aocusss of committing a burglary upon the prem ises of George Popplewell, a druggist, of (99 Second avenue. The prisoners give their names aa John oyiaAniJwacaiBUiiifc i ROME BEFORE THE JUBILEE. CROWDS OP' H1X.RIM8 AND TRAVELLERS TO ATTEND THE CELEBRATION. Mr. Illnlne to bo Anions; the Visitors Thn Itnrr nnd Costly (lifts tn the Pope to be lUlilblted nt llm Vnllcnn .llodernlzlna the Anrlent City Chat About Art nud Artluli Inforiimtlun for .lay tlould. Imtiial conntsroNnrxcx or Tne wonLH, ItoiiK, D..C. lo. Tho winter In Homo baa opened rather ipilrtly. The antnmnal rams have been very heavy nnd trslsteut, the Cainpagua Is snaked and toddin, the Appian Way is a miry lano nnd tho cwollen Tiber flows red and mrbld as n roads'ida gulltr alter u summer h'iov. or. Kogsund clouds hang ocr the ctly nearly evci, morulng, followed Uaiully by three or four honrs of sunshine, which male it cry thing bright nml hopeful; but with after noons cimcs tlio chill, Icy brculn of thu Appcniiics, which li the shadows of iho narrow streets fairly makes Itic tuctli chatter. Then, too, the usual throng of winter vliltors has been slow lo nrrhe. Tho hotels and pensions ure (.wept und garnlKhcd; Iho long lino ol omnibuses awnits inch Incoming train at tho station only to return to their expectant landlords empty, or nearly so. Tho tonrlMu are lingering at Paris, and on the Hlvlcrn, wul'.lng fur brighter weather, nnd, obnvc ell, for the !'anl Jubilee, which by New Year's Day, uiilcis all signs full, will nil Homo with such a throng of pllgtlma and travellers us has not bocn seen here fur many ytnrs. Por next month Ills Hol iness Popu Leo, taking a cue, perhaps, from Queen Victoria, will bold n Jubilee In commemoration ot tho fiftieth anniversary of his ordination as a priest of the Iloman Catholic Church. Already rnro andjcostly gifts, addresses and memorials of congratulations have been sent to blm from tho faithful lo all Christian lands, aud these will be followed on Ju bilee Day by deputations ot pilgrims and high offleials of tho Chnrch, and by princes and delegates from all Cathollo countries of tho world. Tbe gifts and memorials will bo shown at an exhibition In the Vatican which will be opened on tho 1st of Janu ary, for which splcodld preparation Is being msde. This much lu general terms has been known for some time :pust, but the programmo ot tho cere monial, what Is to be done ou each day from tho 1st of January until tho oth, Is not yet announced, sud tho landlords are grumbling because the Vutl lun, which knows so well how lo do n great many things, Is so slow and Incomtctont In the business of advertising n fcstlr.iL They havo Inquiries from all over I'.uropo lor tho dates aud order of ceremonies, which they are unnblo to answer, and they begin to dread lest for want of better adver tising the Jublleo may fall to attract any large concourBC nulsldo of tho faithful, who will lie cn tcrlulncd by tho Munslgnorl and at tho monas teries. It Is alo regretted that somo friction hai been created by the ovcrzcalous efforts ot tho Pspal psrly to junto tho coming Jublleo an occasion for Ihe restoration! of tho Popo to bis, lost temporal power. A petition to this clfeot was presented re cently to tho Italian Parliament nnd has had the cfiict, whlih might havo been easily forosctu, of reawakening much of tho latent animosity ot the Liberals tonurds tho Clerical party. Under the mild, liberal run uf tho present Gov ernment and tho preuccupatk n of public sentiment with education und arlouj piobiotus of municipal and uutloual progress, thu hostility of tbe Liberals towards the Chnrch had ncar'y died ont, and all looked forward to tho J ublloe ss an occasion wblch would mark the cheerful acceptance by tbo Pontiff of bis eplrlluul role as tho biad of tho Church and bis renuuclattun.of political ambition. It la by no means certain that thu recent memorial was directly Inspired or even approved by the Pope, b ut tbo LlberslB have ussumed that It was, and tho rebuff which the proposition received has clouded to a certain deareo tho atmosphere of tho capital on tho evo of tho te .tlval. Hut nono tho leas thu Jublleo will bo a brilliant and Impressive occaslou, und nlthough It Is probable that neither Leo XIII. nor any ui his successors) will ever again rulo pulllliuily over Home or the Pupal Hlntea, tho best IntiHIgtuoo ol Italy will continue, the pJSt and usieiublo to do the veucr.iblo Pontiff honor. To the Americans revlmtlug Koine ulter nn ab sence uf several yuars thu III at aud moat striking luipressluu Is Hut ot extraordinary chaugo and im provement lu tvery part uf Ihe oily. New atreets huve bem opened through the densely built nusr. ters; splendid blocks ot white utoue und brick buildings, balconied, with caul-Iron railings und brackets, us modem us -Minneapolis or Omaha, have taken thu place ot tho d irk, uamp and nwnrmlug structures which have madu lnouern home so pic tuteaquuuud uuheulthy. Kveu the Uhelto la coin, paralively elinti und well paved, iind tho pict uresque ruRlauswho uneil loslaugnior lames and kids In the nut row streets ure uriveu to suburban abattulis und rtuprctublo meat stalls with marble shelvta and plate-glass windows. On the Corso an Immense und magnificent build ing Is Just tJutshod which will bo to Kuiuo what Wnltcly'o Is to Loudon or Macy's to New York, nud the new palacu of tbe Nutlouul Hank on tho Via Nuiunale will be, when completed, ono of the most BUi'erlibusluisn structures In Europe. Kverj-. where thcro Is eWueucc that the nneitut Mistress of the World i rlsiuu from tho dlbrlaol her long ilecudcuiu Into u apleudnl nioJiru capital. Tbe priceless ruins uf undent Home, the iorum, thu liathf, tho Coliseum und ail the region ol tho Capi tol and tho Pulatlnc, uro sacredly preserved; but lu a lew years tho inediicval city will have passed away and thero will remain only tne untlnne, framed In a settiug of modern magntucence. Willi all theso Improvement), iho uew pavements, tbe scucrj, Kugliah plumbing and sanitary police, tho health of Home, notwiitiutuuiltug the local effect of cxtemivo excavations, has ateuddyjui proved, and tbo oealh-rale of King Humbert's capi tal is now next to tuat of London, tne healthiest large illy In Kurope. liood draiuage nud abundant water aro exorcising thu levers wnlch havo bi en the dread and scourgo ot Home tu recent yours, aud when, last summer, the cholera which bad been smouldering lu houthern Italy slnco ltl crept up and Invaded the lower quartt rs ot the city It found everything so clean and well ordered that Its visita tion never rose to the proportions of an epidemic. Thero aro? indeed, man) well-lutormed people here wno do not yet know that tbe cholera reached Home at all. Hut auuh wua tho fact. It affectodonly tbe people of the lower quarters, near tho river, who in summer subsist mainly on melons, tomatoes, bread aud thin red wines; but thu s. altary machinery was perfect, und wbut might have been a fatal opldemlo twenty years ago wai throttle as readily and surely as might have been uono ut Now Haven or Kluilra. And so the American tourist may come to Home with confidence that if bo wears his overcoat lutbe shade tuddisttusts the begulllbg sunshine, which cheats 'aim wllh iho delusion thai January is May, bis chances ot Health ure us good hero as ut Geneva or alon. the Itinera. HOME !0T THE DOUIKANT AKT CITV. With nil tlrs modernizing and purllylitg there comes lo the obsvrrlug visitor u sense ot something lost; ho feels mm a charm lias been dispelled. It Is nut merely the outurd ptcturesquencsa of the uty that has buttered, but lisicilhuio atmosphero bus been diluted, so to spcuk, by the new build tn,is uud stralithicnc I avenues Home la uo longer tho dominant art illy that sho bus been even within tho recollection uf many persons who aro still living, lu sculpture, perhaps, her former prestige s still maintained, but In respect to paint ing tiuu urcMtccturo tho precedence baa crossed the Alps to Paris and Munich. Art education In our tlmo no longer consists In studying thu masterpiece,, of lUphael, Titian aud Michael Angclo, or in painting thu shepherds aud market women of the Catnpagna. Modern att is realistic, i.ot ideal, and the painter ot our day can copy his model lu a Paris studio or study a land scape aluug the belne or Marne as well as lu Home or along the Tiber or tbe Arno. Then, too, the throng of buyers at the balon Is greater than here and prices correspondingly better. Hut tbe great fact Is that the new renaissance of Italy la practi cal, not artutla The people are content forest on the art supremacy of tnelr ancestors, and are them selves occupied with eleitrlo lighting, popular edu cation, ttei'l-cltid fighting stilt a and railway man agement. Tney aro content to bo for tho moment Ihe most rapldiy progressive loople lu Kurope. if It Is true, as some tbeorUts asstrt, that art csu only thrive best lu a civilization which Is psst Ihe vigor of lu prime and toucued with tbe mellowness of decay, tbeu tbe Italians can console themselves. They have what Is even more valuable and Im portant to them than supremacy la the market ot contemporary palming a liberal, progressive dor ernment.and that freedom of faith and opportunity wblcn alone In this age can make a people prosper ons aud content. WltV SCCUT0R8 IOVB IT. I havo said that the forelgu art students, and Americans among tho rest, lave mostly drifted nnuy f rum Huuii to the schools nf Paris and Mu. ulch. A few of tho older aud well-tstabllsbed art ists, particularly sculptors, remalu lu the city of tbelr first apd abiding love. However It may be In re.pect lo painting and architecture, there la no atmosphero for a sculptor so genial and Inspiring as that of Home and Florence. Here, among Qth. remalw ajtct tYTMlUOAra 81 CAUea, Ubcrjjul., well-earned success, Franklin blmmons, the Malno sculptor, who, although perhspa somewhat less of a figure personally than Mr. titory or Mr. Crswford In his day, Is known at home by a Hit of works, publlo and private, wblch would make tbo fume of even a more modest and unobtrusive student than be. Uf all the sculptors Irom beyond thn Atlantlo who have studied anil wrought In Italy, Mr. Him mons Is perhaps tbe most distinctively American. Although bis ideal works have been numerous and generally successful witness his oxqnlslto statue of Penelope In thu collodion of Mr. Librldge T. Gerry and the pathetic naval monument In Washington his most numerous creations have been busts snd portrait statues. of men who were prominent in our country's history, from Washington and Hoiter Williams to the soldiers and statesmen of thenar of the rebellion. lu a wide, lofty room which forms part of Ms stndlo in tbo Ma hun Ntccolii da laicotlno, and where aro collected thn piaster models of Ms works from which tho marble copies have been luada or bronzes cast, tho visitor finds himself umld surroundings as American as thoaoof Washington City. Hero are statues of Kouer Wil urns, tunstor Morton and (for. King, busts of (lens, drant, hhcrman ami msny other ot our public men, living mid dead, as well asartlrts und men of Utters, the latent add! lion to Iho group being un admirable hit it of Marl in Crawford. In this Interi sting eumpuny theiu wero assembled this afternoon tnot of the American residents and visitors now In Homo to examine Mr. Himmons's latest and, lerhut, most Imi.oitant work, thestatnuol Longli How, which ho h.ne ecutcd for tno illy of Portland, tho birthplace and boyhood home ol the pod. '1 1 a platter model has Just received tho tlnlaliiiu touches of the artUt, on Monday It will go to tno fomdry of JJiPllI, niid the bronze icpllc.i will bo cricled In thn public squaro at tho head of Mate street, lu Portland, early next summer. It was tho tinui.lmotis urdlct of tins afternoon's nssemblagu that the statue Is a work of extraordinary tnor.t. It Is of hcrolo size, tne scaled figure being seven feit in height. It represents thu poet us ho might havo nppcuiiu in his study scaled in an antique chair, the llne-i of which liat monlzo and supplement symmetrically thoso of the II if uro. The right hand hangs easily over an arm of tho chair, tho left, huldlug a manuscript, rests upon the knee, while a mantle, sklirully.drapcd aud modelled, hangs over the lelt shonluex and envel ops the lower part of tho figure, rcllovlng success fully tbe rigidity and artistic rocugreuess of tho modem dress. The pose of the figure and expres sion of the face are noble and distillled, and the re semblance striking. 'Iho son of tho poet pro nounces it the most perfeot partrslt ot his father that bos over been ellhcr modelled or painted. When erected In tbo position for whloh It Is de signed, Portland will possess one of tho worthiest monuments that has evor been raised to the mem ory of an American citizen. Among the other works of Mr. Blmmons which shared with the Longfellow tho admiration of all visitors this afternoon wero bis bronze statuette ot Washington at Valley forge, which will surely bo some day reproduced In heroic size for some patri otic American citizen orassoclstlon;hls"Jochcbed, tho Mother ot Moses," thn original uf which Is owned by Mr. Wm. Applcton, of Uoston; hU "Abdlel," from tho Paradise Lost, and the Medusa," copies of which have been made in marble for purchasers In London, Paris and Aus tralia. Another admirable work recently finished Is tho figure of an uiuol, exquisitely sculptured, and Intended for the family tomb of tho lute Sena tor Yulce, of Florida, in the ccinctory at George town, D. C. 11LAINK AND ClOULD TO fin TIIKltE. Among tho distinguished Americans who aro ex reitod In Homo at the time of tbo Jubilee are Mr. Iilaine, who has been awaiting In Paris tbe arrival ol hit cousin, Mias (all Haiilltoti Dodge, but hut rooms engaged at tho Hotel (iulnnul for Dec, so, audJuyUould, wnosuvacht, tuo Atalanta, u now moored at L"ghorn, v. Idle Mr. Gould uud his luiu lly havo been slgntso lug ut Pisa and Florence, Next week tho Atalanta will rnn down to Uvltu VccchlB, lrnm where the wizard of Wall street will advance upon tbe Italian cipltal. Already tho dealers lu pictures and antiquities bnve second the approaching millionaire u id are anticipating n harvest. Hut they will flnu the little man from Murray Hill a hard nut to truck. Ho knows all ubout modern facilities for manufacturing an tiquities, and, apropos of this subject, bo tells with great efTcot a story ubmt bis lute partner, Danker Moroslul, who, among other lestlietlo tastes, has li great appreciation for old aud richly carved Ivory. Home tlmo ago a marvellous pleco of this kind was brought to mu notice uf Mr. Moroslul by the leading Jeweller of New York. Tho banker was pleased. He went, saw anil admired. Ihe nnce wss 17,000, bnt lino antlnueB come blgh, and as this was a gem of Its kind tho uisthutto banker yielded, gav o Ills check and boro tbe treasure gently homo. Among tho visitors whom ho soon after Invited to admlro this new marvel of ancient Italian art was a plain-spoken citizen from "the Swamp," a leather merchant, if 1 remember rightly, who ven tured to state that there was a placo down in the Ilowery where an artist was nt work In an attic turning out "antiques" ot that kind with great energy and success. Moroslnl was nettled and said something hot. Tho leather man waa calm but positive. He offered to tut and prove. This met tno senso of the party. Iho bet was made, and the next day the pitiless Iconoclast led Mr. Moroslnl and a confidential friend to a rookery In tbe neigh borhood of the Tombs, where was found an un wanted Italian In the act of completing a lao simile of toe banker's seven-lhousaud. dollar treasure. Tho Jewellers were notified, acknowledged that they, too, bad beon swindled, tho ohcok was re turned, the story told, and thus Mr. Gould got u loiut on antiquities which will save blm many a lard-earned dollar during bis tour abroad. Another noteworthy symptom lu Homo Is the quantity of German languagu that ono bears every where. Uu tbo street', in tho galleries, at tho opera and In tno hotels half tho strangers you meet carry thu Germau edition of llaedeker. It was not always so; but slnco tno soldering ot the triple alliance the etilenle between tho subjects of thu linlser and King Humbert havo becomu excep tionally frlenuly and confiding, and so Instead of going to Algiers or the JFrench Itlvlcra tbe winter tourists from the Fatherland havo flocked to Han ltetno, Florence nnd Homo, whore they aro more welcome than In Franco. THE BRIDGE DISCUSSION. ninynr-Klert Chnpln nnd Hx-lteglMer flic, liimuhlln Non-L'omiiilttiil. It Is expected that during; tbo present week tho plans lor a terminus of tho bridge at Concord street, which havo been lu course of preparation for some time past by one of Ihe most expert en gineers In the country, will be completed. They have been prepared at tho Instance or tho Brookljn Citizens' and Property-Owners' Association, and as soon as that body ts granted a bearlug before tho Hoard of Bridge Trustees tbe plans will bo pre sented. The Intention Is to Bbow by these plans Ibat the best possible terminus ot the bridge will be at Concord street, where any volume of travel can be easily accommodated. With the exception ot a few bouses tbe purchase of the property up to Concord street has been con summated by the Hrldgo Trustees, upon the up iralseuient of the Commission, consisting of .terns. J. P. llolto. David Harnett and V. H. Davenport. A flguro has been placed on several houses by the Commission, aud one bouse on Washington und two on Concord street, wblch tho owners have declined to sell at private sale, havo yet to bo valued. The cost of the cntlro properly to the llrldge Trustees will be about fA'aa.uua Whether or not tho subject of the proposed further extension of tbo brlelgo structure will be brought up before the present Hoard of Trustees Is a matter that Is exciting considerable Interest on the part of tbe taxpsjeraln every section of tbe city. It Is hardly thought probable that tbe extension will bo soqntckly determined, however, in view of tho strong opposition which has for scleral wcoks past been developing, while many of tho truttees nave already exprosud them selves as decidedly opposed to tile schrmo. Mr. Heth 1- Keoney, a member of the Hoard, when approached uu the subject by a Wohi.ii re porter, said thai ho hail not given tho matter thu consideration to which ho thohght It wns entitled to enable hint to give an expression of opinion cither In favor of or against tho extension. Ho thought that, as thero wero Bomt of the taxpayers both lu favor ot snd opposed tn tho hndgo being takon to the City Hall, the wlB of the majority Bhould rule. That a terminal nt tho City Hall would be necessary In years tej come ho thought wss certain. Although Mr. Keency has substantial Interests, which, It the extension Is made, would not be benefited, ho said tnst tbts would most certainly not Influence his opinion in tho natter. He would cast his vote tn tbe Hoard as ho always bad done, In the Interests of tho city. If be tbought himself unabio to fulfil the obligations which were imposed on him lo tbo city's interest, bo would resign from tbe Board. Mayor-elect Alfred C. Chapln was also visited, but declined for tne present to express his views on tbe qnestlon of lh proposed extension. Kx.Hcgister Hngn McLaughlin when seen also declined to talk about tbe matter. Hergt. lUlulscb's Kevrnrd. Tho Christmas present most highly prized by Hergt- Charles IL Helnlscb, of tho Tombs Police Court squad, Is a letter which bo bas Just received notifying blm of bis election as an honorary mem ber of tbe Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Children. During tbe years be has been stationed at tbe Tombs Bergt. Helnlscb lias had many oppor tunities of forwarding the work of the society, and he bas been zealous la reporting deserving cases. Airs. Forbes' TnU of Itobbrry. Tho police report concerning Mrs. Lillian Forbes, of Stamford? Conn., who claimed lo havo been robbed twice lu one day, shows that she was ar rested on Wednesday night und waa fined $10 in the Kassx Market Police Court, As she haunomuney she gave ber sealskin sacque to Frank White, a court runner, who pawned It for tin. firs. Forbes paid ber One ot f it) and ptvo Whlto f 1 lor bis PASTEUR'S RIVAL IN JERSEY. THE REEVE FAMILY, OP IJL00JIIN0DALE, HAS A CURE FOR HiDROPIIOBIA. Over Flvn Ilnndrrd People Itltten by Dos; Ilnvr Hern Trented by Pntlirr, mother nnd Hon Jllnny of Thcso Declared to He C'ustn oT Hydrophobia Tho Treatment Itlgldly Insisted On to (let a Cure. Dog-blttcn men, women and chlldron to tho number of 00 havo been treated for hydrophobia hylhq Keeio family at Hloomlngdale. The llttio while farm-house bard by the station has become the Mecca of til who havo reason to dread an nttnek of that most terrible malady. Over forty years ngn David If. lteevo sutd lie had obtained a secret euro for hydrophobia. People were slow to placo much credit lu his statement until bis own son was bitten, and the father trustod to his new remedy tu cure blm. This action of the elder Hecve, testing, as It wire, bis mcdlclno on him self, g.ilbid for blm the confidence of his neigh bors. 'I lie number of blspatlents increased and his fame spread abroad. Ills secret waB divulged at first to his wlfo and by her lo their son. All three have now practised the cure, and over five hundred patients havo trended their way to tho llloomlngdalo homo to be cured of dog bites. Israel C. Jtccvu Is the third and present physician using this remedy. He has had the secret for six yean. The medicine given Is a yellow powuer. A Mblcspoontul Is taken In molasses each mornlnj for nine days. Tho stomach, It Is claimed, Bhould bo empty, aud nothing la to bo eaten for six bonis after taking tho drug. Tho Heeves stipulate that for a period of three weeks no grease, pepper or salt shall bo eaten, nothing cold drank and the pa tient's diet be limited to buttermilk, gruel, bread and molasses, -with a drink of warm, weak tea. It 1b further directed that tbe person who takes the medlctno shall abstain entirely, for a period of three mouths, from thu nso of spirituous and malt liquors and tobacco In every lorm. Tbo patients trosted by Iho Heeves como from New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, Patcr bou, Montclalr, Hacketstown, Hloomdold and towns tbrougbont tbo counties In tho northern part of New Jersey, Several patients havo come from Hockland, Orange and Wcslchoster counties, N. Y. and tho medicine bas been prescribed to ono man In Detroit, Hicli., and to another In HU Lonls, Mo. Two Instances aro noted In which tho treatment has succeeded, when falluro to nso It by persons bitten at the eamo time and by tbo same dog re sulted In death. In one ot these) cases flvo boys In Pntersnn wero bitten by one doc;. Four wont to Hloomlngdale, wero treated by Mr. Heevo nnd all liveil. The fifth, who was not treated In any way, dlod. Another coso was that of a hesoand and wlfo bitten by one dog. The woman was treated by tbo Heevo method, while the man was attended by the regular family physician. The woman lived. Iter husband died. Another case that points towards Ihe Importance of tho attending dlot was ono In which a husband ami wlfo were both treated by the Hloomlngdale method. Tho husband rofused to abstain from drink and died. Tbo woman still lives. In a conversation with u World reporter Mr. Iteevc said, utter relating tho hlslory of his cure: We do not know where father got Ins aecret. Ho w.ib a man of few words, nnd to my knowledge never told any uno where li;neard of the cure. Ho told my mother, who, surviving blm thrco years, eleuit out the medicine herself, bbo told mo the secict, and slnci her deatu. Blx years ago, I have triateel all people, who have como here. We havo never advertised the cure. Father, mother and myself have treated over five hundred coses. The composition of tno drug no one knowa but myself. I give tho medicine with directions to any one wbo applies. A Pnterson physician who bought the mcdlclno bad It analyzed, but he did not succeed in letting at tbo secret. Tho medicine is useless nn css the pcoplo taking It follow the directions wo give. Thoy don't object muolt to tne diet for three woeks, but many don't like to give up drinking and smoking or chewing. We also toll them tbey must keep dry and not get heated wbilo they are taking the medicine. Have yon bad any failures, bo was asked, Yes, he replied. Wo know of two men and a child that were treatod and who died of hydro phobia. Ho related an Interesting Incident of a wealthy man addicted to heavy drinking, wbo, after being bitten by a mad dog, went to blm for troatment, and ut first refused to take tbe mcdlclno npon tho con dition that ho should abstain from Intoxicating drink. Ho finally consented aud was cured not only of hydrophobia, but also of his love ot drink, lie it now a temperate man of wealth. Asked as to the true condition of the dogs that bit the pcoplo alleged to bave been cured, Mr. ltccvo saldi "Tho dog that bit mo, bit two of father's cows, and both went mad. I also know about the dogs that hnve bitten men and women In our Immediate neighborhood who have beon cured. We bad one man from Peterson, Halpb Van Hontcn, who was bitten ny a mad dog aud cured. He came a second time, having been bitten again by a mad dog. I once treated a valuable horse) that was bitten for Thomas Simpson, of Montclalr. hlie tho reporter was engaged In conversation with Mr. Iteevc, James Van lliarcom.with his son, both of Oaklend, Hergon County, drove up to the house. Wuen told about Hie conversation, Mr. Van Ularcom said: Hero Is my boy who was bit ten three yoars ago by a dog that was mad. Mr. Hcci e treated him, and ho is still all right. Among thoso who have been treated and alleged to bave been cured by the secret method are: Henry V. Meade.Neer York.a metropolitan polioerasn, who was taken to llloumlnsdsls hy Mr. Heevat John It. Hitilth, Jerse,y (htyj Mr. and Mrs, Georss Husor. of lUrasoyt ThexHlora Titus, hdwud Ulchuds, Miss bush Ihoinpaon and Wllhsm llesm, of Pompton; Mr. aud Mrs. ltobart Tscssrt. of 1'ouclikeopslo. N. Y. t Mr. and firs. Joseph Muna. Mrs. Wbntonour. William Da Grsy, tanry Plock, Henry Iloremus and Peter M. IJram.of Pst erson; three son or Jas, Hiss. ColerUle, bosses County l Willlsm Ulanchard. Arthur Hoberts, Thomas Hpott and J, O. Montet, of lllloouiUeldi Mrs. Fuller, wife or tho proprietor of a Greenwood Lake hotel i Lert lllrsob, wife and son, nt Uoonton: lssao Canfleld, ot Fairfield, Kssex County t Patrlok Kaue nd Charles Cor bet, of llontolslr; Matthew Van Kirk, of Hparta; 1) anlel Itbunesmlth. (leurse Tloo. Theodore Dronn. and Mrs. George llou.of MldvaletAnDS Mead and Mrs. Capt Mulford, of Newark; llerrusn Kalts, of llsckette town t Georso Thompson, ot Piue Brook t William Je.bn son, Jauies Van Orden aDdsMrs. Wagouer, of Stone I louse Plain sJoho F. 1 tiers, of ltldcewood: IVUllira 11, Ingersol, of Hamburg;: Peter A. LozTer, of tnat J. M, Van Ness, nf Gedar Grove; John lie Groot, of Hurferns. N?Y. i Heuben Vile, of Ooenen,N.Y. lsuo O. GUitn, of llorseneoki Ueorse llurkftlew. of Morristowni Abram J. Allen, and William bullish, uf Pasksok. Whether tho belief tn Mr. Hceve's mcdlclno and treatment be well-founded or not. It Is a fact that many people In llorgen, Passaic, Morris and Kssex counties, besides numbers from other places, go to the little country hamlot, w.ten bitten by a dog. Instead of submitting themselves to the care of tholr family pliyalcluns. The last patient treated by Mr. Heevo was Will lam Knglleit, of Paskack. English was poisoned In the lluger by the saliva of a bulldog that raved und roamed fur tno days, killing two docs. This dog made a (treat ileal of trouble, bit about twenty dogs and cuts, rushed ut a child and was shot while tearing a dog to pieces. English's finger first became Inflamed and swollen. Hu whole arm was ut last areitly swollen, und su painful that he could not sleep iitght. About ten dajB after tho biting he went to llloomlngdalo and was treated by Kecvc. The swelling and pain grew loss and soon disappeared. Mr. Kugllsti seems to be In good health to-day. When asked us to tbe profits of bis business Mr. Heevo said: "We charge f 10 for each case, But the majority ot the people bitten are poor, and many of them cannot ullord to pay even (lu. Tho largest number ut dogs nro kept by poor people, nndthyy arptbcclusi usually bitten. We do not bave the hoirt tu turn a case away because ot poverty, uud tako nhutover wo can gflt." The Cnttle Murket. Livb Btock. Heeves had a quick salo at strong Friday's prices, poor to strictly prime steers going at 13. ,5 a fTS, and 1 carload at clone to taper loo lb. The general bnsluess was at fw. is a $3. is. Of the 116 carloads received, Cel carloads wero sold, 19 carloads went direct to slaughterers, and SO car loads go to England, In dressed quarters. Calves steady at He a sJc, for veals, and at i,Vc to. for grassers and "fed" calves, bheep and lambs were scarce and strong ,Yc per lb. higher, with a realys.de nt .U5 n 8,1 tier 100 lu. for juor to prune shccii, uud at am h tl for common to extra lambs. No market lor hogs, dead ur alive. Nominal value, M.50 a f5.l per 100 flu. Hecelpls ,,ii2a breves, 801 calves, 8,058 sheep and lambs aud 13,017 hogs, m m Did Not Charge Admission Fees, George Jones, Secretary of tbe New York Driv ing Club, and connected with the Winter Carnival Company at Fleetwood rark, was arrested yester day for violation of the Sabbath law. Although tho slides were Mind with tobogganers Jones, in tho Harlem Court, swore that no admission fee was charged and Justice Whlto released him. pi I'lro Alarm from n Home, A pan of greaso to bo used In cooking crullers for the Inmates of the Homo for tho Deaf and Dumb at fjlxty-aecond street and Twelfth avenue caught fire early yesterday mornlnj and tbo special building fire call waa rung. Thero was bo damage, done aad no scard BI A RURAL- YOUNG MAN. Two Unanswered Qnrstlons nnd nn Obserrn lion Kxpresatve of n Discovery. A jrnilcless yonnp; man from somo lonely rnrnl district drifted iuto ono of tho big dry. Eooela stores dorinc a recent visit to Now York. He wns not without powcri) of obser vatlou and discrimination. Ho passed a largo caw in which wero cor tain long silken objects that widened out townrds tho top. Somo wero pnlo bluo, others tho color of tho olivo dark blno, cotTco color, a dolicato buff, pnlo pink nnd a rich solid magenta also greeted his cyo in lustrous tints. Homo of the objects wero nlso lirnntlftilly embroidered in bright silks. "liny I nsk what these nro for?" ho in (tulreil of u yonnp; woman who wns tnppinp; her flntfcr with a lend poncil, nnd who hud just Mid! "Cn-nshl" Ijtdies' hoso," sho answered. I don't seo why they should bo so beauti ful and expensivo whon nobody sees th" "Cn-nshl" snld thu youne Indy in n loudt r touo. Thu color in her clieok was a littlo louder, too. Later in tho day ho passed n jeweller's win dow and snw somo beautiful bracelots of silk with hondsomo cold clasps nnd procious stones set in them. May t iiKpiiro tho purposo of thcso arti cles V" ho nsked of a younr clerk. Ladies' L'atters," said tho youth. Why, what nso in having such handsomo onos inimlrod tho investigator. l'oisihly, in enso of fire," salil tho young man with u dreamy smile and n far-away look. Htill later tho observing young man wns in a downtow u neighborhood whero crowds of men aro constantly passing. Ho was crossing tho Btrcet, when n young woman came out from a largo store. Bhe was wrapped In ft long sealskin sacquo nnd woro a dainty littlo bonnet. Her right hand was busied with bundles, whilo under hor loft arm was n Vorkshlro lap-dog. Hor left hand held hor dress. Tho dog wns wobbly. Sho leaned ovor. got a bettor grip nnd hoistod tho sprawling thing up higher t also her dross. Tho observer saw a columnar, perpendic ular, diverging as it roso, covered; by a long, striped, black-and-white silk fabric. Just as ho modestly nvortcd his oyo tno twinkle of a diamond noar tho column's top caught his Blanco. "Oh I ho said, in tho tono of ono to whom a mystery is unfolded. m m CUR1STMAS DAY RACES. rrogrnnimes of tho Events Which Will be Decided To-ltnv. Thcro will be racing to-day both at the Clifton and Guttenbnrg tracks. The managers of both would do well to declare the season at an end, for although thoy havo had very favorable weather so far a change mnit como soon, and the announce ment that tbo season ts nt an end will force owners to retire their horses and give all hands a chance to recuperate before tho opening of the spring season In March, 168& The Clifton programmo Is aa fol lows! Brcond Rae. Parse (300. nf wblb(M) to tbe second, for all lea ttro fnrlsnis. Xo. JJ, Pampero..., US Man Thompson 116 James A. 11 IIS Suitor. m Ilishop 118 Richelieu 113 Vulcau US Mntteroolt US Kdltor lift Llttla Miokey 115 Hob May 116 SI. (Jlsrs 112 Caatllian 11B Olen Queen 01 Itridset Keaton lift Hekoio.. uj Topcawyer 116 LUsteC... V2 Third llaoe. Purse S20U, ot wblcb $60 to tbe second, for f our-year-olds that have ran and not won more thau one race at the OUfton autumn meeting! selling si. lowanoes 1 one mile. Zf. Lb. Carolina 115 Ttointa Ill IlarHood 113 Velvet Ho 1'ourth iUoV.-'p'u'rM eJW. of wblcb 450 to the seeond, for all acestaelllngallowanceataeTanrarlongs. Trneborn Ion nil Head 105 Frsnr 108 Nellie Van 103 Neptnnna. 106 Amber 103 Tour I'astnr 109 (Jleiidon...., 105 Joe Mitchell 106 Spring lifo 77 Chanae. 10SI t, Filth Ilaoe. Pars 8200. of whloh $60 to the second, for horses ibat have ran and not won el the Clifton an tnmn meetlnirt horses beaten onoe allowed 0 lb., twtoe 10 lb., three times IS lb., four times 20 lb. s three quarters of a mile. Playfalr flu Brilliant pj Nonsense 110 Zsmpa.. 115 JoePierson 1U6 Peaoock D5 Lnto Arnold 1U3 Vindez U6 Telegraph. St) Roisterer pa FredDavU 08 Seise Note.... u3 King Arthur 05 Teenl HO Ulr.tr llranette. US Auditor, 10 The racing will begin promptly at 1 r. u. Trains direct to the track win leave on the arrival of boats via Chambers street ferry at IL 80 a. m., 12 m. and 1S.B01'. M. GUTTENnuna iucej. The programme and probable starters at Out ton burg ore aa follows: Third IUce. Purse 9200, ot whloh S50 to the second, for all ages; to carry 2H tb. above the aoalei Belling al lovfiuscs; soven f arlongs. io. I lb, nlltiird lilt Weaver lis Pat Dennis 128 Uuttentairg 125 Tnnls...., PIS LIzsieM 125 TaUerrsnd 136 Alia Hu 123 Jool'ierson 125 (Jraole 100 Hairy it 135 Fourth Itaoe. Purse 82w. of wblch $50 to tbe second, for all ageai selling allowenceal horses entered to be sold for $30Utocsrry lOOlb,, irrespective of age or sex, with a lb. added for each ttluO up to 81,000, three-quarters of a mUe. I.K XI. Battledore..., 100 Marguerite lli-J John Alexander 110 llradbm-n 103 Nsllor. 10S Harry Hose 103 Petersburg 108 Harry Ilrown 101 Sweety IDs Chinchilla luO a lus Warder MO r Boy lUs Valun... 100 Fifth IUce Purse C200, of which 860 to Ins second, for all agest selling altowanceat one mile. Jlanero Ill Jnstln Mack...., ltti ranboe Ill Mink 100 Pocassetl.... 10e Competitor 07 Warren Lewis let) Hiring Uan HI The racing will begin at 1.80 r. u. sharp. ItACINU AT WASBINOTON. Tho stakes opened by tbe Conoy Island Jockey Club to close Monday, Jan. 2, are as follows: VOn TWO-TXAB-OLDS. New-Colts, 133 lb. 1 tulles .and geldings, 110 Ib.i 1 mile,, i.., ..t..,,..CL500 Zephyr-Cclta. iioib. ;HuIeslndgeld!ng,io7 lb., )i mile 1,000 Spring Colts, 115 lb. 1 fillies and geldings, ill lb. ;i mile., 1,000 June-Colts, lis lb.; Mies and geldings, 113 lb. Umllo 1,000 Belilng-OolH.115 Id. Allies and geldings, 113 lb. t i mile 1.01W VOU THBIE-TIAIt-OLDS. Swift Colts, 135 lb. miles and geldings. 133 lb, fa mile 1,350 Thistle-Colts, 133 lb. fillies and geldings, 118 lb. 1 13.10 mile,,, 1.350 Umporlqm-Prom 128 ib, down to lot and U0 lb. 1 1M mile 8,000 Spendthrllt-Gnlts, 118 lb, celdlugs, 1151b. i fillies. 11J lb. 1 1U wiles....,.,..,, 1,500 Volunteer Handicap Ht mile 2,000 rnu ALL AUCi. rlnburbas. Handicap Ik miles 5,000 Hay Itidge llandiusp 1 mdea 1,500 Hheepshead liar Handicap li; rndea 1,5U0 Knickerbocker Handicap 15, mllea 1.350 Unlvoreal Handicap Ik milea l,35tl KqusUty btskes 1 3-10 allies... 1,000 Coney Island-Weight for age, lit miles 1,350 Itapld Jl mile 1,000 Coney Island Cup Weight for ae, 1 miles 1,500 bpnrting Helling allowances, 1 mile 1,60) belling Stakes-1; miles 1,000 In addition entries will be received for the Flight Slakes, for two-year-olds and upward, at sevon fur longs, to be run at the autumn meeting, and fur thu ticptouiber Stakes, siren Stakes (for fillies) and Hrldgo Handicap, for tnrco-year-olds, 10 bo run at the autumn meeting; also for mures covered in 16117, tho produce to run lu the Futurity Slakes, for two-year-olds, at the autumn meeting In lB'ja Ad dress J. O. K. Lawrence, Secretary C. I. J, 0., Filth avenne and Twenty-second street, New York. Tho stakes opened by the Brooklyn Jockey Clnb to close at the same time, are as follows! VOn TWO'TXAB-OLDS. Cloter-For fillies, jmllo..., $1,000 lidford-U mile 1,360 Msy-Umlle 1,360 JOB THUEE-YCAB-OLUS. les. Hi miles 1,360 Falcon-Helling. 1 1.10 miles,....,, 1 O00 Fort Hamilton Handicap-1 mllea..,, 1,500 voh all Aota. llrooklyn Jockey Club llaodlcap 1M miles..,,..,. 8,000 llrookdale llaadioap 1H miles 1,35.) Earkway Handloap-1 M0 miles.,.., 1,000 awnvtew Usnaioap-IH miles.... 1 6w llrooklyn Cup IX miles...... 3.000 hi. Jamea'a Hotel Stakes Ik mllea 1,600 ifjrtle Biases-Belling. 1 1-lS miles, l.eiOO Address IL D. Mclntyre, Secretary, MU Fulton street, Brooklyn, The Commercial, Hyde Park, Olenwood and snowden stakes, for two-year-olds, opened Dy the Waldo Park Association, ot Kansas City, will also close nn Ihe 3d prox., as also will the Kansas City Derby.tbo Wavcrly stakes and Hanover Stakes, for tnree-yuar-olds, and tho Home makes, for bono foaled or owned fn Missouri and Kansas. Address F. UllL Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. The Wash ington Pare Stakes at Chicago, tbe St. Loula Jockey Club Stakes at St. Ijuls and the West aide Park Stakes) at Nashville, Tena will close on the 10th prox,, tbo loth falllnj on ft Buaajs BANKING AND FINANCIAL. ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO 1ST C0NS0L GOLD 6S. DDE 1027. INTilllliST JANUAUY AND JULY, ANU PAYAULH IN NEW YOUK. TUB ISSUE OF TIIESK IIONDS IS L1M1TBD TO 20,000 PKH MILK, HKCUKKI) UY ALL 1'HK PKOPF.KTY ANU FnANOHI8K3 OF THE COM. PANY. THIS JH A FIRST-CLASS PHOPKHTY FllF.K FROM FLOATING DKI1T, HAVING No OAR-TRUST BONUS OH CONSTRUCTION AC COUNT OF ANY DF.SCHIPTION. CIRCULAR CONTAINING FINANCIAL HKPORT SHOWING LAROK SURPLUB fiARMNOB OVItR INTEREST OHAROF.S ANU OTHlHt PARTICULARS CAN DH HAD ON APPLICATION TO THE UNDKRSIONKU SIMULTANEOUS ISSUE OF T1IUSK BONDS 13 MADE IN NEW YORK. BOSTON AND CHICAGO. FRANK C. H0LLINS CO., 11 WALss 8T NEW YOUK. CITY. cM)UeTwW3lMKrMted isiousu Indiscretions or 5nrrKriU"''1' SlrBBXEOTRiCLtLTciV'fTiEI.ECTRIC BELT KmMf&tWKif!e' T V- eVliaa. toi ehl, frTWS,i!-"ffi'iwl111' PT". H sires a Jilts, IhnWGJBF V35ttTfWV (nlles.in, PootttBg C.rrrsl ef S.LH-TlllllTriWr..All.KlkPillTS.rtiliLglLrmeollkLTli Md Tn.llKOrH HI HFM1TII. Alio Uotu tor I loo. Hf l,Ith..,li Kldary CoaolslaU.Ar. hlrctrlo Carrent felt loauatly or v. forfeit S3, OOO (.a. Urrsltat Improvtmalsortr all oehtri. Wont Cams trensilly Cerd I. 8 n.etks. Bested Pamphlet Xa.ltsoin. Add. THI SAMDtrl EltCTRIC QO.. 022 BROAuWAT. NEW YOaX INTEREST AND DIV1DKND NOTICES SYRACUSE BALDWINSVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY. Intoreat due Jan. 1, 1888, on theflwndsof this Company frill be paid on presentation of the coupon at the of&oe of the Fiscal Acents. FRANK C. HOLLINS CO., 11 Wall HI., Now York t 1240 ClnrU Ht., Chicago. ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO RY. CO. Coupons dne Jan. 1, 1888, on the bonds of this Com panjf will be paid on presentation at the office of the Fi, cal Agents, FRANK C. HOLLINS CO., 11 Wall Ht.. Now York 21(1 Clrtrlt Ht., CMrngo. PIANOS AND OUGANS. ESTEY PIANOS Thefto famous lnitrnmenU contain patented imprnrs ments not found In other pianos, and whloh make them superior In tone and darabllit to any other make, lie fore deciding what piano to buy, calf at No, 6 Kast Four teenth street and see and hear them. The prices arelosf for cash or on small monthly payments, 'A NUMBKROFGHAND. upright and" square pianos A of our make, slight It used, almost as (rood as new, ana fully warranted, will be sold at a liberal reduction from regular prices; pianos to rent. Wm. lCnabo &Uo,. Ill 6th are., abote lUu sU T11K "OPKUA" PIANO, the most popular and th finest In the market, only $10 monthly until patd( one quarter's muslo leaeons free; rent only $5; send for caUioguo. Peek sttion. Ulu West 47th st.,oornarU'way. DKNT1STBY. A II A Id F DOITAU for the painless extraction of ,V teeth with perfectly pure fresh (MM. Without gas, Qfto. Elegant gold fillings most beautifully finished from 81,00 op. Plastio fillings from &0o. up. Ueautirully nlsbed men $8, $10, the rery best from $10 up. TII1C IIAaNKK CO.UI'ANV.'UentlBtiiof longexpet rlenoe, successors to N, V. IJental Uo., 20J Cth are., 2d door below 14th St., opp.Macy'a. Kv'ngstoB, tSundsya,!. TELEGRAPUIO NEWS IN BIUEP. f Lord Randolph CbnrchlU will probably be re ceived by tbo Czar to-djy. A whlto deer was killed by a banter n few days ago noar Snow Sboe Mountain, Clinton County, Ts. Gen. Cassala, tbo Spanish Minister of War, bo. won tbo first prize, tfj00,ooo. In tbo national lot tery. Frank McNeally, tho Saco bank embez7ler, who bas been in Jail at Halifax, was released from cus tody last ulRlit. 1'rcsldent Cleveland's Chrlttmas present to the Tope was a beautirully bound copy of the United btates Constitution. Fred Dnnlap, known among baseball admirers) as the "King of second IiaBeinen," will undoubU cdly play In Pittsburg next season. News from San Ilcmo Is to the effect mat tho Crown Prince la much better, and tho llfo of Ills, Imperial llig-hness may yet be (.pared for many years. President Cleveland, Col. Lamont and all tho members of the Cabinet will leavo Washington to-, night for Albany to attend Secretary .Manning's) funeral. i Advices from Hawaii aro to tho effoct that thru people are on the verve of another revolution. Tho native papera uro Inciting the natives to rise to arms and assert tbelr rights. James Caldwell, a Middlesex (Pa.) farmer, swal lowed his false teeth a few days ano while eating his dinner, aud Is now In a precarious condition. Tbo doctors say that ho cannot recover. i Carroll McCcc, who was recently taken front Neosoo, Mo. to bo tried lu Cherokee County, Ala., for tuo murder of Capt. Joseph HardwlcU twenty-two years ago, has been acquitted. It ts said that members of the Brotherhood of I.ooomotlvo Engineers who lost their places In tbo strike of 1811 aro anxious to take tbe places of tho present strikers, being Inspired by a feeling of re venge. For his Christmas dlnntr Henry Irving imported a twenty-seven.pound plum pudding, npon which he was obliged to pay Uuclo Sam a duty of (5 In order to protect the pudding industry of tbla country. In connection wllh tbo charges of nefarious prac tices against Sir CJeorge Cbctwynd, tho English turf man, it is stated that Wood, his Jockey, will not upply for a license for lbbs. Tho report Is denied by Wood himself. Mrs. Annio O'Neill, a poor widow of Ithlnebeck, and her two little children, wbllo on their way home last night with arms full of humblo Christ mas presents, were struct by a Hudson ltlver train und all three Instantly killed. Officer Moore was set npon by a crowd ot toughs while patrollag his brat In Chicago last night and bailly Injured. Tho men pounded and kicked tba orllcer about tho bead, face and body, only desist. lng when thoy believed him dead. McYVillle Mitchell and John Whltcsides becamo engaged In a street quarrel In Jackson, Mich., on cnrisiiuas eve durlDg which Mitchell was fatally stabbed by tt hltesMes. Mitchell In falling drew his pistol and shot Whltcsides dead. "Pony Moore gavo a Christinas dinner In Lon don yesterday in honor of Jake Kllraln and Jem Smith. The menu presented the traditional Christmas soosc, American turkey, British deer, Welsh mutton, Devonshire sucking pig and Sussex bare. Mrs. Patrick Ilrennan, of Buffalo, N. T. cele4 brated Ciirlstmas by lining ;un with whiskey, and) when her husband catue ho found tho turkey hail, not been cooled. He Immediately assaulted tho woman, besting hor so severely that she died shortly afterwards. In spite nf the order Issned by the Mayor of Atlauts, forbidding the Bala ot liquor between Saiurday and Tuesday morning, thu city prison) was filled to overflowing yestordsy with men, women and children who had absoruod an abnor mal quantity of alcohollo cnthustjsm, Frsnk nicks, a negro, 11T years or age, I. wort., lng a small farm In a settl ement tn Texas. Woks' was formerly a slave In Q eorgla and has outlived five wives. He cannot remember tbo number of his children, but compotcnt authority plaoes the K total number of Ills descendants at 1,000. Hal Churaley and Walter Mulllns became In volved In a quarrel over a prisoner whom Chumloy was conveying by train tu Mount Vernon, Ky., yesterday, a scufflo ensued, during which the men tell from the platform aa the train was pass. lng through a tunnel. Both were Instantly killed. An attempt was made to rob the express train on the Missouri Paclflo Kallroad, near Atoka, IT,, yesterdsy. The ttaln was stopped and flftf or sixty shots fired through tbo expross car and sleeper, but tho robbers were unabio to gain, entrance, and finally allowed the train to proceed. Humll l'lroa. A small flro occurred this morning on tho fourth floor of the flve-stoty building SOI (Jrcenwlori street occupied by Mr. Shipley. Tup damago was only tML Damage to tho amount of f 1,600 was done by flro to J, Cook Co. 's cigar store at so Sixth avenus this morning. The ure was caused by aa ovew .Honed stove,. H