Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1885 — Page 3

SIX WEEKS “ON THE ROAD.” Krs. Lida Hood Talbott’s Experiences with the Jules Levy Concert Company. “The title of my lecture, if I do lecture.'’ said the littlo woman, “will be ‘Six Weeks in a Concert Company and Its Raid Among the Good People of New England,’ for I left the company before it had hardly begun its ravages in the West. First there was the Tall Soprano who was thought to Bing. She herself had doubts upon the subject at times I think. Then came the basso, who really conld sing, the pianist, myself in my sketches, the soprano’s maid, the agent and last the great cornetist, Jules Levy, born Isaac Levy a London cockney. “I Knew that I was among foreigners when we first sat down at table together by the way they ate, though they spoke not. Foreigners, as a make a great noise when they eat* and it is astonishing what direful sounds attend the swaliowing of soup —and they all set great store by soup. The soprano was Stella Costa, a tall girl, fair and slender, head and shoulders above Levy, whom we soon saw was in love with her. His demonstrations were not only marked, but peculiar. He would rush at her in the presence of members of the company, when she would be seated on a chair or sofa, and, seizing one of her feet, would raise it to his lips, and kiss it rapturously, crying, ‘My queen, my precious! Oh. this is divine (kiss, kiss, kiss); Oh, my God, my queenP “Mr. Levy my-godded the goddess on all occasions when he was not by-godding the agent or the company. But I soou found that everybody in the company my godded, though not with tbe lapture of love as Mr. Levy did, and with some of the members this was varied with ‘Ach Gott!’ “In truth, Mr. Levy had no difficulty in findone of the poor girl’s feet whenener he felt in an osculatory mood, for she dressed them in light a colored shoes, and they were about as big as pillows. V “I called our journey the Tower of Babel. ■The pianist spoke eleven languages, the basso lour, the soprano two. I Msoke only one. Mr. Levy would only speak Etnflish, and that very badly. The soprano was to be the great card, next to the great Levy. She had three or four high notes, and he expected great things of her. He would stand at the wings when she was on the stage, and at times wring his hands and howl and imprecate, ‘My God, she has flatted,’ or, ‘My, God, she has sharped,’ and when tears would come into her round fawn-liko eyes he would relent and cry: ‘Oh, my queen, my darling, my precious!' “The basso. Mr. O’Mahoney, was a Spanish - Jrishman, born at Cork, his mother being a Spanish woman. He was educated in Milan, and was a refined and gentlemanly artist, and so devoted to his voice that he would not give a baritone note for all the wealth of Asia. He was above it, or rather far below it, for he spoke as if his boots were implicated in the vocal effort. He would say. ‘While it does not make any difference to me whether these people (the audience) appreciate me or not, I will not sing anything tmwofthy of my voice. I care nothing for the papers.’ “All of us artists,” continued the little woman, * have great contempt for the newspapers if they speak ill ot us. Biji-jaiien they speak weljjof why, then we go and buy~asT'many"<fg' five or bijk copies. My basso will show up finely in my lecture. I said he was dignified and very much of a gentleman. He had been the basso of Carl Rosa's Opera Company. “Mr. Sternberg, the pianist, was a Russian. He said he was a Russian nobleman. He did not seem to set any great store by this, nor to force the information upon anyone. He spoke eleven languages, and was a gentleman in every one of them. He was educated in Germany, and for years had been court pianist at Berlin, I believe. He had no hesitancy in declaring that he was fond of American ladies, and not fond of Atneri* can men. ‘ln Russia,’said he, ‘where ladies and gentlemen are together, the conversation is easy and pleasant, and where gentlemen are alone it is coldly polite and dignified. In America the extreme politeness chills the enjoyment •f the occasion when composed of laaies and Sntlemen, but where the men are alone the sk of politeness allows the occasion to degenerate into one in which smutty anecdote and boisterous laughter take the place of decency and good breeding.’ Mr. Sternberg’s chief peculiarity was his long ulster, the tall of which he managed like a train. He was exceedingly clever in imitation, though nobody, I believe, could ever successfully imitate him. He claimed to be possessed of an invention —it was in his head—for a remarkable stage illusion, a mechanical novelty whicb would bring him a fortune. “Then there was the agent who was always representing us as such deucedly clever people, and who was as forcible in facial expression as those dreadful figures that stand in front of clothing stores. He was like the boy at BlimbePs school, if you cut him you might expect him to bleed white. He would tell us of the company he was with last year. He had made them. Alone he did it. This year they were coining money. All off his work. But next year—next year—he will have a snap that will oe> the most taking thing on the road. “I must not forget the Tall Soprano’s waitingmaid, She was an honest, patient Irish girl. We called her St Cecelia. I do not think the Saint could have carried the boxes and bags that her Irish namesake did. Now and then when slurred, or snubbed, or laden beyond endurance, she would for a moment forget and say an angry word or two. Then she would cross herself and with ‘Heaven forgive me’ return to her placid, patient self •gain. “The Tall Soprano’s mother and father, while ■not members of the company, were with us for a While. They are French, Monsieur and Madame Corbet,te. Tho mndame keeps a little French hotel way down on the Bowery, and she is intimate with Aimee, Tlieo, and alj the operabouffers ami ballet people, ail of whom patronize her place. She is a nice old lady. Monsieur Corbette is an idle man Whose wife keeps a hotel—he’s a Betty. He, too, k* an inventor brooding over a wonderful incu bator, one that will hatch more eggs than any other patent hen ever discovered" He seps a great fortune in the near future, and it is so near that he is approaching it very leisurely and without the sacrifice of any of his gentlemanly ease. Madame and Monsieur came to Hartford, Conn., where the concert company was aud put up at the same hotel. They had made the discovery that Levy was in love with their daughter and had come to tear her from the ruthless cornetist. “But I have not described the great Levy. He is a little more than four feet high and a great deal more than three feet thick, aud bald! I never saw a head of such extreme Bnd shameless immodesty. No, the hairs of his head are not numbered. There is not even an old buck number. And how he can drink beer! There’s always somebody standing at the wing with a bottle for him. cork drawn. Hi drinks four or five bottles during each performance, and more after the performance is over. He says he has to have something to blow upon. He cluttered the halls of the hotels with empty bottles to that extent that the members of the company were in danger of breaking their necks as they passed his door. A nose, a big moustache, two twinkling rat-like •yes, make up his features. He wears the bag fiost of trowsers aud a little hi key coat that ap parently has no business below its owner’s waist. Levy carries a little red bag in which are about $20,000 in diamonds. Besides my queen and before came his diamonds: next to his diamonds his dream-book. He read this dream book by day and by night, and he was perpetually asking members of the company their dreams that he might turn to the book and interpret unto them. * “To come back to Hartford. Mr. Levi Under •food that Monsieur Corbette was red with righteous wrath over his presumption in daring to lore the Tall Soprano, and there would be b lud. He prepared himself. Only tbe hotel bar keeper knows how many bottles it took. He repaired to his room, and with two revolvers on the table in oaay reach, awaited the oncoming of the father, fte kept the agent close beside him all day, and tad meals for two sent to the room. ‘My God,

Corbette is trying to take that angel from me,’ and striding his forehead, he would become freuzied for a minute or two, when he would sieze his cornet and ‘toot-tee-te-toot toot’ a few times, when he would tone down a bit Picking out a spot on the wall paper, he would take up a revolver and pointing at it, show where he would shoot Corbette. A footfall i the hallway would then give him a trembling fit, and cause the opening of another bottle of malt liquor. The agent two or three times could not help looking his disgust ‘You think I am coward? Go, go! Well, come back, and we’ll open another.’ “Nobody knew what was going on in the Corbette quarters until in the evening. The soprano came into the parlor and sat down upon the sofa. There it was told that the fiery French father had clutched her about the neck, where the prints of his thumb and fingers stilt showed very refl, aud the mother could not get him to relinquisn his hold until she had gathered a pitcher holding about, two gallons of water and poured the liquid down hu back. ‘Oh, my angel, ray queen,’ said Levy at this piteous recital, and rushing forward he grabbed one of her feet and covered it with kisses. ‘lf I had been there I would have shot the wretch,’ pointing with his finger at the imaginary Corbette, aud enunciating the magic word ‘p-h-i-t-t.’ *Mv God,’ said Levy, T love that woman better than the earth I walk on. I will take out a policy of SIO,OOO on my life, and she shall have all the diamonds I possess.’ Then he consulted his dream-book, and, in spite of Monsieur Corbette, they were married soon after at Erie. “I think,” said Mrs. Talbott, as she concluded her narrative, “that I will not waste this material in a lecture. Lovers aDd all, I have meat here for a drama.” * FRATERNITY SPIES. I. O. O. F. The initiatory degree was conferred by Meridian Lodge, No. 480, on Wednesday night, in fine style. Philoxenian Lodge, No. 44, will work the initiatory on Wednesday night We are glad to see this old reliable lodge wheeling into line again. The lodges of Terre Haute will hold a Colfax memorial service this afternoon, consisting of appropriate vocal music and an address by Col. McClain. The initiatory degree was conferred on Friday night by Corinthian Lodge; also, the first and second degrees. On next Friday night the initiatory and third degrees will be conferred. Olive Branch Lodge No. 10., D. of R, has accepted the invitation of Naomi Lodge No. 62, of Culumbus, 0., to attend a social and exemplification of the work on the sth of February, and a delegation will go over. There is more interest manifested by the Noble Grands of the several lodges to’ learn correctly the secret work than for many years. It wants nothing but a little time, and is a great satisfaction to these officers that their instructions will be correctly given. The Ridt ’y monument will be erected in Harlem square, Baltimore, the city having granted the privilege. As socm as spring opens the foundation will be laid and the superstructure pushed to completion, so that the unveiling may take place in September during the session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. Lodges generally throughout the State are holding memorial services in memory of Schuyler Colfax, No man wa held in higher esteem by the Odd fellows of the State than he, and charters will be. ilraped and resolutions adopted fa recognition of the sad event which has deprived the order of an earnest defender. The Odd fellows’ Mutual Aid Association has added a third division of SSOO to the other divisions. Daughters of Rebekah, and the wives, daughters and sisters of Odd fellows are admitted to this division. The late Schuyler Colfax held a certificate in the first division of this association for $2,500. This is said to be tho only insurance he had on his life. There are nine lodges in this city with a membership of over 1,200. During the term of six months, ending Dec. 31, these lodges paid 465 weeks benefits to sixty seven of their members; relieved ten widowed families: paid for relief to members $2,670; widowed families $142.61; for burying.the dead, $1,115; making total relief $3,927.61. The total resources of the lodges are $67,055.78. A memorial service will be held, this afternoon at 3 o’clock, in the Grand Lodge Hall. This service is held in respect to the memory of Schuyler Colfax, P. G. R. There will be music by the choir of the First Baptist Church, prayer by Rev. 8. A. Bright, and an address by the Grand Secretary. It is not confined to the order. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present. Metropolitan Encampment No. 5, of this city, having accepted the invitation of Grand Patriarch Porter, to prepare for a rendition of the dramatic work of that branch of the order, in May, before the Grand Encampment and representatives from the Encampment of the State: the members are requested to attend the next meeting of the Camp, Monday Feb. 2, when the first rehearsal will be held. Theo. P. Haughey obtained some very interesting photographs of the Colfax obsequies, while at South Bend. One of them, showing the casket with the corpße lying in it, and Mr. Haughey and Thos. Underwood, two life-long friends, standing by it, will be especially gratifying to the friends of Mr. Colfax who were unable to be present at the funeral, and take a last look at one, who while in life, loved his fellow-men. The meeting of Olive Branch Lodge No. 10, D. of R., last night, was largely attended. The following officers were installed by the D. D. G. M. Charles Wunnell: Mrs. Ellen Laporte, noble grand; Mrs. Arvilla Bistline, vice-grand; Mrs. Gardner, secretary; Mrs. Porter, treasurer. The lodge has admitted to membership during the year sixty-one (61) persons. It now has 277 members, is the largest lodge of any branch in the State, and has acquired quite a State anu national reputation for good work. Last Sunday iti this column was mentioned the circumstances connected with Mayor Latrobe’s initiation into the order, at Baltimore. We have been permitted to read a letter from Grand Secretary Theo. A. Ross of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, contradicting the statement that when the mayor was applied to for permission to erect the Ridgely monument in one of the public parks, that he regarded the order as an insignificant one and Ridgely a nobody. The grand secretary says Mr. Latrobe was no strahger to the good works of the order, and was an intimate friend of Ridgely and regarded him as a man of great intellect, and an honor to any institution, and especially so to the city in which he (Ridgely) was born and lived all his life. The secretary says that the only reason why Mr. Latrobe did not become an Oddfellow sooner in life, was, perhaps, that no one suggested the idea to him. Masonic* Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection will confer the degrees (4° to o°, inclusive,) upon a class of city candidates next Wednesday eveuing. \ erj little work is being done at present in the \ ork Rite, above the third degree, although tne C hapters and Oommandery are preparing to confer the degrees about the Ist of February. Mystic Tie Lodge, F. anil A. M., anxious to keep up its reputation for excellence in exemplifying the degrees, has been holding lodges of instruction for the benefit of its members anil new officers. Another one will be held one week from next Monday night, Tho date of the nineteenth annual convocation of Beottish Rite Masons has been fixed for March 24. 25 and 26. G. F. Holliday is secretary of the various bodies of the Rite, and will furnish Master Masons with any information they may desire relative to the degrees. The A. and A. Scottish Rite, on last Wednesday afternoon and evening, conferred the Consistory degrees on a class of twelve candidates, ten of them being from this city. Among the number receiving the 38° was A P. Charles, of Seymour, Grand Master of the Masonic order in Indiana. Knights or Pythias, Star Lodge, No, 7, will observe the fifteenth anniversary of the lodge, Feb, 10. The affair promises to be ft very enjoyable one.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1885.

THE AMUSEMENT REVIEW. What Is Doiiig in the Dramatic WorldBills for the Week. The Grand Opera-house will be occupied the first three nights of the week by the Bijou Opera Bouffe Company, in “Orpheus and Eurydice,” which achieved a long run at the Bijou Operahouse. New York. “Orpheus and Eurydice” is an adaptation of Offenbach's “Orpheo aux Enters,” and the same scenery and accessories used in the metropolitan presentation will be mounted here; and the cast will be materially the sameas when first produced. The burlesque is of the most gorgeous nature, both in ensembles and costumes, and the chorus is large and well drilled. The principal artist3 are Miss Marie Vanoni as Eurydice, Miss Urquhart as Venus, Miss Langdon a? Diana, Miss Alliston as Juno, Miss Daisy Murdock as Cupid, Miss Bemister as Public Opinion, Mr. Louis De Lange as Jupiter, Mr. Harry Pepper as Orpheus and Mr. Harry Davenport as Pluto. These names are among the brightest of opera bouffe singers, and an admirable performance should be given. English’s Opera-house will remain closed the first part of the week. On Thursday evening Mr. Wm. Eedmund and Mrs. Thos. Barry, formerly of the Boston Theater, will present Osburn’s romantic drama, “The Midnight Marriage,” the remainder of the week. “The Midnight Marriage” is favorably mentioned as a strong play, well acted and carefully mounted. The costumes are a special feature, as the action of the drama is laid in France during the reign of Francis I. “Lynwood,” the latest of Mr. J. K. Tillotson’s military dramas, will be presented at the Grand, during the latter part, of the week, with Maude Granger in the title role and supported by Mr. W. S. Harkins, Mr. B. T. Ringgold, Mr. W. H. Thompson and others. “Lynwood” was produced at the Union-square Theater, New York, during the summer, and has been favorably noticed since its provincial tour. The Monarch Museum closed a very successful week, last night, after having presented one of the best bills of the season. For the present week, opening to-morrow afternoon, there will be a sweeping change in all departments, and every feature presented a novel one. Group of east India nauteh dancers; jeweled Japanese princess and suite; Whitfield, the wonderful polyphonist, or the man of 100 faces, late of the Royal Crystal Palace, Loudon; Miss Ella Welby, prima donna; Le Monde, king of the high wire; Mayo and Southerland, sketch artists; Miss Georgia Kaine, serio comic: J. H. Symonds, aged negro impersonator; T. J. Hefron, one-legged song and dance man; last week of Master Frankie Jone3, the favorite child artist; Planchette family, in songs and sketches; Miss Ida Jeffries, Circassian girl; Bamum's Esau woman; the Eastern wonder; Punch and Judy; the glass blowers: the Herodiun mystery and other curiosities. The admission to all is only ten cents. The bill at the Zoo this week, will include Mr. Joe and Miss Annie Burgess, sketch and comedy artists, in the petite comedy “Our Boarders.” Mr. Karoly Orday the Hungarian juggler, Messrs. Gallagher and Mania, Irish comedians, and Blake and Hamilton who were engaged last week will reappear, as abo other specialty artists. Owing to the many charity calls made upon the treasury of the Indianapolis Lodge of Elks during the summer just past, and the partial to the great cost of the attraction, the lodge has JecftteihciT' again call upon the friends of the order, and announces a benefit, to take place at Dickson’s Grand Opera-house on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 6. Those so far secured for the performance are Harrison and Gourlay, in one act of “Skipped by the Light of the Moon;” the soubrette star, Miss Frances Bishop, in one act of “Mugg’s Landing;” the Cook Comedy Company, in one act of “The Eejls,” in which Mr. Frank D. Richards gives an imitation of Henry Irvine, and a number of specialty artists from the Zoo and Museum. The performance will open with an overture by a grand orchestra of sixty pieces, on the stage. A second reading will be given by Mark Twain and George W. Cable at Plymouth Church, Saturday evening, Feb. 7. The selections will be entirely new and the varied talents of both these gentlemen will find ample scope. The value of Mark Twain as a tonic and dispeller of gloom is well known. On the desk of the late Dr. John Brown, author of “Rah and his Friends," lay well-worn copies of Mark Twain’s “Innocents” and “Roughing It.” in constant use. Mr. Cable’s wit and pathos will earn for themselves equally high regard as he becomes better known. The management of the College-avenue Rink have secured as an attraction Master Charles E. Beeson, the Boy Wonder, who will give an exhibition of fancy and acrobatic skating every evening of the coming week. Master Beeson performs more than 160 different movements on rollers, including somersaults, jumping over chairs, etc. Notes of the Stage. Frank Sanger has sailed for Europe. Ezra Kendall claims to have introdued the funny gags and Dusiness in “We, Us & Cos.” The “Orpheus and Eurydice” company will close their season at Dayton on next Monday. Lawrence Barrett is to have anew play by Mr. George H. Boker, author of “Francesca dl Rimini.” The latest play from the pen of Charles H, Hoyt is entitled “The Tin Soldier,” and will be produced in Boston this season. Gustavo Frohman, says the Mirror, is contemplating establishing a dramatic agency in New York. This seems to be the dernier ressort. Brooks & Dickson, through their assignee, have let “In the Ranks” to E. J. Buckley and A. N. Barney. They are engaging a company, and will immediately put it on the road. Miss Viola Allen, seen here in “La Charbonnicre,” has been engaged by Lawrence Barrett to appear in “The Blot on the’Scutcheon." which will be produced at the Star Theater, New York, during his present engagement. Harrison & Gourlay will produce their new plajf in about three weeks. This farce, by E. H. Sothern, was produced in New York under the title of “Who Are They?” It will probably be rechristened “Domestic Earthquake.” The New Standard Theater, New York, burned last season, was formally opened on Saturday. The present proprietor, Mr. Duff, intends to produce light opera in the style he did several years ago. The “Trip to Africa” is now on the boards. Charles Gayarre, a Creole critic, declares that Mr. Cable’s knowledge of the Creole patois “would not overload the back of a mouse.” There never lived such absurd Creoles, he thinks, as thos© that sun themselves in Mr. Cable’s books. The authorities of Brooklyn have notified the managers of that city that they intend to prosecute them if any more suggestive and brazen printing or lithogranhs are posted on the walls or hung in the windows. This will cut off the “Adamless Eden” and other shows of like ilk. New York Paper: It is almost a settled fact that J. H. Haveriy will place upon the road next season a mammoth minstrel organization: Billy Emei*son, Frank Cushman, Welch and Rice, with others, as members of the company The show will be constructed and directed by William Welch. Kate Claxton will soon play an engagement at Engiißhs Opera-house, presenting D’Ennery’fc “Sea of Ice.” Miss Claxton’s well-known reputation and the beauty and power of the melodrama are well known. The play will be handsomely mounted, and a local military organization will appear in the tableaux. Miss Florence Marryat, the daughter of Lap tain Marryat. the famous novelist, will give a, monologue reading at Plymouth Church, on W ednesday evening. Miss Marryat is also an author of reputation and an actress of ability in private life she is known as Mrs. McLean, and is the mother of several bright children. New story about John McCullough: One night he was playing Virginias in the Brooklyn theater, and Will McConnell, now manager*of the place, was taking a subordinate part. Tho star was dressed, of course, in the conventional toga, and upon clasping his hand upon that of McConnell, who had just made a heroic stage

speech, he found that the audacious young scamp had left a cold, hard-boiled egg in it Immediately npon the conclusion of the speech, McConnell “retired up,” leaving McCullough purple with rage, egg in band, and perfectly helpless as to what to do with it He was “on” for at least twenty minutes; there was no pocket in his toga Or in his tights; his business was iu the center of the stage, ami he was simply bewildered. The unhappy tragedian delivered heroic after heroic, egg’ in hand, growling anathemas sotto voce against tho author of his misfortune; but he couldn’t get rid of the egg. When at last he made his exit —or rather, when he and the egg exeunt —he flew to McConnell's room to kill him then and there; but that wise young person was perched by this time in the flies, chuckling over the futile rage of tlie star, who laughed heartily at his own discomfiture an hour later. The New York World, speaking of Bernhardt's new play, says: “The cable has already earried the news of Sarah Bernhardt’s overwhelming success in Sardou’s ‘Theodora.’ In common with everybody who witnessed the first performance Thursday evening. I am still too much under the all powerful impression of the play and the actress’s performance to calmly sit down and analyze either. The two great scenes about which all Paris is talking to-day are that between Theodora and Andreas in the third tableau, and the stabbing of Marcellus by Theodora, in the fourth. In the former scene nothing can exceed Mme. Bernhardt’s coquetry, her wiles, her kittenish, cunning acts by which she strives to retain Andreas.s love, who knows and loves her only as Myrtha, a young widow who is being compelled to marry the rich money-lender, Phocas.” The dramatic critic of the Figaro says: “The voice, the gesture, the look, the conflict of emotions going on within her—everything about Sarah Bernhardt at this culminating point of the drama unites to give a sensation of the most frightful reality. This is the perfection of tragic art. Andreas subsequently makes war on tho Emperor, is wounded and brought to a cave. There Theodora finds him and gives him what she thinks is a love-potion to drink. It is poison, and Andreas, now knowing Myrtba to be the Empress, dies cursing her. The Emperor has discovered her amour, and sends his executioner to strangle her. The executioner arrives as she is bending over Andreas’s body. She presents her neck to the silken noose, and this remarkable play thus ends.” ODDS AND ENDS. “I don’t like to say it,” said a lady, “but I believe most dress makers are dishonest. When I have a dress made, no matter how much stuff I send, silk, satin or velvet, I never have any pieces returned, no matter how valuable the material may be.” “I do better than that,” said another lady. “I have learned when having an expensive dress made never to send all the material at once. I keep back a couple of yards or more, and if they demand more material 1 give them half of what I have retained. I have saved several dollars worth of high-priced goods in this way.” * it it A five-year-old boy was taken to see the Chinese giant—for ten cents —yesterday. He has just begun spelling words of the cat and dog variety, and askod his mother to find him tho word for giant. He spelled it out after her —g-i-a n-t, and was disposed to question the accuracy of his instructor. Couldn’t make him believe a little word like that could spell a big man like a giant. He had heard of the giant Blunderbore, who figured in the veracious chronicle of Jack, the Giant-killer, and when he saw the Chinese Goliah he was thoroughly disappointed. The Chinaman was only eight feet high. The beanstalk giants are at least fifty feet high. itjs no easy matter to young America. now-a-davs, and Chinese giants *Srs‘unsatisfactory, even at the low price of ten cents apiece. # Said 001. A. W. Johnson, of the street car company: “I was chief of police of Louisville some time previous to coming to this city. When I took the position I determined to suppress the gaming-houses. I was told it couldn’t be done; that it never had been done. I listened to these things, but went right along and placed officers At the doors of the places with instructions to take the name of every visitor. They did so. Captain Bligh assisted me, and time and again we went in. gathered up the implements of the business and destroyed them, aud gambling was broken up thoroughly in Louisville. These things can be done if the officers are determined to do their duty, and they receive therefor the respect even of those who are counted among the law-breaking element” With this idea of the sovereignty of law and this kind of firmness, why wouldn’t the Colonel be a good man for police commissioner? * * * Sim Coy would hardly be an acceptable person to succeed Mr. Frenzel. That is, there are some squeamish people who might not be altogether pleased with Simeon. Mr. Coy has peculiar notions about gambling as well as about drinking. “Do you know,” says Simeon, “that this thing of ‘pulling’ the gambling-houses and ruining the business of our home ‘sports’ does an injury to the city? These gentlemen, who spend a great deal of money, are compelled to go to other cities to pursue their calling. Our merchants feel it. Why, a firm of tailors told me that by closing the gaming-houses here they lost at least $2,500 a year, and a dealer in gentlemen’s furnishings assured me his sales were $3,000 a year lighter for the same reason.” * * * A patron of the City Library reading-room presented a slip, the other day, bearing the words: “raban Nits.” The attendants were nonplussed for a moment; then the “Arabian Nights” was brought forth, which proved to be what the boy meant. • • ■ PERSONAL MENTION. D. C. Darrow, of Peru, Ind., is at the Denison. 001. Jno. C. Osterloh, of Philadelphia, is at the Denison House. Major S. A. Wilson and wife, of Muncie, are at the Denison House. Mrs. Horace Lemon, of Jackson, Mich., is the guest of Mrs. H. B. Sherman, at the Denison House. Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton has returned from the South much improved in health. She is stopping at the residence of Mrs. Dr. Swain. Mr. John Kidd is confined to his bed at home, 327 College avenue, by the effects of injuries received in an assault by Julius Walk on Thursday last Mrs. Lida Hood Talbott, who is visiting Miss Mary Dean, will go to Crawfordsville, on Thursday, for a short stay. She has decided to make her home in Chicago, where her children, who are now going to school on Long Island, will join her in the spring. Mr. Charles Harth, one of the proprietors of the Spencer House, died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, on Jan. 5, and news of the event was received bv his friends in this city yesterday. Mr. Harth was only recently married to Miss Kauffmann, daughter of Moritz Kauffmann, and was on hia bridal tour at tbe time of his death. He was formerly connected with Schnull & Krag’s establishment, and was well known in this city. Hotel Arrivals. Hotel English: J. A. McGinnis, Columbus: C. S. Corse, Michigan City; S. J. Bras'll, Columbus: E. Gine, Boston; G. A. Bogard, Springfield; Frank Johnson, Pittsburg. Denison House: Ed. Borall. Columbus; Wvft. E. Ganl. Meriden; J. W. Phillips. St. Loam; H. L. Little, Minneapolis; A. F. Callahan, I xraisville; O. H. Buckley. Boston; J. A. Chicago; Howard Barnes, Detroit; R E. Nivfen, Thorn town; Geo. C. Stock, New Haven.. Grand Hotel: Stanhope Boal. 0., Bush, Cincinnati; W. F. Baker, q m. Valentine, New York: E C. Leading, Michigan 00X1 Q u i nC y; ? XY Lee, Chicago; Clay V hiteley, Springfield, O *1). Marks, Wabash; M. C. Barnes, t. H. Ellison, Chicago.

South Bend; W. Wilson, F. Walsh, Edinburg; C. H. Knight, Brazil; O. A. Meyers, Logansport; A. B. McGregory, Boston; C. H. Snyder, Terre Haute; G. J. Grammer, Evansville; W. E. Evans, H. S. Duncan, Pittsburg. THE CITY IN BRIEF. William L. Morgan has dismissed his suit for a divorce from his wife Pauline. William Baldwin has been granted a legal separation from Bitha Baldwin on proof of improper conduct. Charles W. Smith has been .appointed administrator of ths estate of the late David Fisher, and has tiled a bond of $20,000 for the faithful performance of the trust General Carnahan has received a letter from his assistant at the New Orleans Exposition, in which he says that $60,000 have been raised by the Cotton Exchange, enough to pay off all the employes, and from this time forward everything will go on smoothly. The annual meeting of the Indiana Short-horn Breeders’ Association will be held at the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture, on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, the Swine Breeders* Association at the same place, on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday, and the Woolgrowers’ Association on Thursday. DIED. BARTH—At Frankfort on-the-Main, Germany, on ( the sth of January, 1895, Charles Harth, in the 29fch year of his age. OBITUARY. FREEMAN—Benjamin Freeman, the most wellknown and prominent citizen of New Palestine, in dead. The deceased for thirty years has been at different times in the general merchandise business at thad place and at Fountaintown, Ind. He was also a large stock and grain raiser, as well as a dealer in these articles, and other different enterprises. He has been one of the most successful business men in that vicinity. as he had accumulated a large fortune to leave to his widow and four children —three sons and one daughter. As stated before, he was the most prominent citizen there, and his death is a great loss to the community, and will be lamented by many. The family lias the sympathy of the entire neighborhood. The deceased was born Oct. 12, 1827, in Butler county, Ohio. At the ago of two years he, with his parents, came to near Julietta, Marion county, Indiana. There he remained up to the ago of twentyseven years, when he went to New Palestine, Hancock county, where he has resided ever since as one of its most enterprising citizens. In 1855 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Maple, of Rush county, Indiana, who, with the four children, still survives him. In the month of November last he was taken sick with what was termed by the physicians a paralytic stroke of the brain. The best of medical talent was employed, but he never recovered from the shook, and sank rapidly until death relieved him from his sufferings on Jan. 21, at 4:40 p. in., at the age of fifty-seven years, three months and nine days. The funeral will be preached at the M. E. Church, New Palestine, on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 10 a. in., and the remains will be laid at rest in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, on Monday morning. ERNST H. FAUT. ANNOUNCEMENTS. ___ SOLOMON’S ORIGINAL LOAN OFFICE, 25 South Illinois street. Money advanced on all articles of value. Telephone number 742. JpILES. Hill Dr. R. W. Bula gives piles and all other rectal diseases exclusive attention. Treatment easy. Consultation free. A cure in every case of piles guaranteed. Office, 6 West Ohio street. WANTED SITUATION LARGE EXPERTence in banking, manufacturing and mercantile books and financial management. Address RELIABLE, this office. WTed-ii SMfiy-Ai'S MEN. ™ YV city or country, wishing to earns*£ a day at their homes; no canvassing; work furfP 18 * 1 '?* 1 611(1 sent by mail anv distance. For particular? 1 address, with stamp, CRYSTALLIZED PHOTO CO., 53 West Seventh street, Cincinnati, O. FOR RENT—A 250-ACRE FARM FOR RENT, within ten miles of Indianapolis; good buildings; good orchard. HAMLIN, 36 North Delaware street. F" ; OK RENT—TWGSTORY DWELL.ING—NINE rooms, good repair, 37 Central avenue—to permanent tenant only. Inquire of JAMES C. YOHN. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALE—DESIRABLE VACANT LOTS Monday, April 6; 60 feet on Vermont street, between Illinois and Tennessee; also 60 feet corner Tennessee and Herbert. __ FINANCIAL. MAVERICK NATIONAL BANK BOSTON, MASS. Capital - - $400,000 Surplus - - 400,000 Accounts of Banks, Bankers and Mercantile firms received, and any business connected with Banking solicited. London correspondent, Citv Bank, “Limited.” ASA P. POTTER, President. J. W. WORK, Cashier. K, COAL OIL. ippENGINES In operation at 31 West Maryland, Driven Well Store—l and 2-horse power. Safer than coal oil lamps. R. R. ROUSE, State Agent. MSS" I Bl FOR SALE OB RENT. H. T. CONDE, Genx Ao*t, MM- 76 ft 78 W. Wash. St., INDIAN APOLIB. MANUFACTURERS OF SSAWSi THE FINEST AND MOST DT7P*I*T,'E 'WAT'T? Chicago Weather. “I arrived at Chicago at 6 o’clock P. if., one day In June, 1884. The day had been terribly hot, and the railroad ride from Detroit a foretaste of pnrgatory*. The Western metropolis was an oven. Everybody puffed and perspired. Lake Michigan lay still and j breathless as the Atlantio just before a cyclone. Sleep j was hopeless. There was no nervous force left in the town. Even the hotel clerks stood unblushing in their * shirtsleeves. Mercury 95 degrees—plus. Now listen. ; Twenty-four hours later fires were lighted for warmth j everywhere, and doors closed to exclude the strong northwest wind. A touch of winter swept the city from the stockyards to Lincoln Park,’’—Correspondence Eastern Journal. Is it strange that lung and chest diseases figure eo largely in the vital statistics of the Occidental metropolis! Here is something to the point: Chicago, Sept 28, 1884. Messrs. Seabury & Johnson—All who are familiar with this city are aware that it has a very trying climate. People with weak or diseased lungs ran a great risk in living here. At least such is my own experience. Physicians tell me I have a cavity in rhy right lung, and. judging from what I have suffered, I think they are right. Two years ago I began the use-of Benson's Capcine Plasters, and sinee then I am almost wholly free from rain in the chest. I am satisfied that had it not been for Benson’s plaster I should haVe given oat long ago and stopped working. As it is—by the soothing, healing-and protective influence of The plaster—l lose little or no time from my business. I deem it a duty, as it cevtaitfly Is a pleasure, to Bay this for the information of the people of this oky who have any 'trouble similar to mrhe. lam connected with the Chi eago Telephone Company, nod ahall be glad to relate my experience to anyone Who may call upbn me. Yonn, W. B. Hanna, 615 Wabash Avenue.

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE. [TRAINS RUN BT CENTRAL STANDARD TIMS.) Trains marked thus. r. c., reclining ohalrear; Du sleeper; thus, p„ parlor car: tnu*, h.. hotel ear. Bee-Line, C., C., C. A Indianapolis. Depart—New York and Boston Express, daily, s 4:00 am Dayton, Springfield and New York Express, c. e. 10.10 mm Anderson and Michigan Express .11:15 am Wabash and Mancie Exyr-oss 5:55 pm New York and Boston, daily s., <x o. 7:15 pm BRJGttTWOOD DIVISION, Dftily 4:00 am 2:30 pm Daily 6:15 am 3:Jpm Daily 10: 10 am 5:25 pa . Dfcily ...-11:15 am 7.15 pm Arrive—Louisville, New Orleans and St. Louis Express, daily, s 6:40 am Wabash, Ft, Wayne aud Muncia Eatress ........ 10:45 am Benton Harbor and Anderson Express’:' 2:20 pm Boston, Indianapolis and Souther* _ Express : 6 09 pm Ntw York and St. Louis Express, daily,s, ILLS pm Chicago, SL Uuis A PittebWfT Depart—New York, Phtadolphia, Washragton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express daily, a 4u25 am Dayton and' Columbus Express, except Sunday 10-.45 am Richmond Accommodation 4:00 pm Nmv York, Philadelphia. Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express daily, s., h 4:53 pm . Dayton Express, except Sunday... 4:s6ptn Arrive —Richmond Accommodation, except Sunday.... 9 40 vm New, York, Philadelphia, Washing' ton, Baltimore aud Pittsburg Express, daily 11:37 am Columbus and Dayton Express, except Sunday . 4:35p • New York. _ Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily 10:20 pm Davton Express, daily, except Sunday 10:20 pm CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KOKOMO, P„ C. A ST. L. . R. Depart—• Louisville and Chicago Express, P- c 11:15 am Louisville and Chicago Fast Express, daily, s 11:00 pm Arrive—Chicago and Louisville Fast Express, daily, s 4:00 am Chicago and Louisville KxpresS, p. c 3:35 pm Ciaeinnali, Indianapolis, St. Louis A Chicago, CINCINNATI DIVISION. Depart—Cincinnati and Florida Fast Liue, daily, s. and c. o 4:00 am Cincinnati, Rushviile and Columbus Accommodation 11:05 am Cincinnati and Louisville Mail. p. c. 3:45 pm Cincinnati Accommodation, daily.. 0:55 pm Arrive—lndianapolis Accommodation, dailyll:os am Chicago and St. Louis Mail, p. o. ..11:50 am Indianapolis Accommodation. 6:20 pm Chicago, and St. Louis Fast Line, daily, s. and c. o 10:45 pns CHICAGO DIVISION. Depart—Chicago and Rock Island Express.. 7; 10 am Indianapolis and South Bend lhx.. 7'loam Chicago Fast Mail, p. e .12:10 pm Western Expross 4:55 pm Indianapolis and South Bend Ex.. 4:55 pm Chicago, Peoria and Burlington Fast Line, daily, s., r. c ....11:20pm Arrive—Cincinnati aud Louisville Fast Line, daily, c. c. ands 3:35 am Lafayette Accommodation 10.55 am South Bend and Indianapolis Ex.. 10:55am Cincinnati and Louisville Mail, p. c. 3:30 pm Cincinnati Accommodation 6:42 pm South Bend and Indianapolis Ex... 6:42 pm Vandalia Line. Depart—lndianapolis and South Bend Ex.. 7:10 am Mail Train 7:15 am Day Express, daily, p., h ..11:55 am Terre Haute Accommodation 4:00 pm Indianapolis and South Bend Ex.. 4:55 pm Pacific Express, daily, s 10:45 pm Arrive—New York Express, daily 3:50 am Indiana[>olis Mail and Accoin 10:00 am South Bend and Indianapolis Kx.. 10:55am Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Lina 3:30 pm New York Exprcas, daily, h....... 4j&P pm —jßbUlhiltePd't£3*fj.lcfianapolil 1!x... 6:42 JTiu Wabash, St. Louis A Pacific. Depart—Detroit and Chicago Mail 7:15 am Toledo, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids . and Michigan Express 2:15 pm Detroit Express, daily, s 7 - JLS pm Detroit through coach on C., St. L. & P. Express 11:00 pm Arrive—Detroit Express, daily, s 8:00 an* Pacific Express 11:30 am Detroit aud Chicago Mail 8:55 pm Detroit through coach on C., St. L. & P. Express 4:00 an Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis. Depart—Cincinnati, Dayton & Toledo 4:00 am Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and New York 10:45 am Oonnersville Accommodation 4:25 pm Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and New York Express 6:35 pm Arrive—Connersvtlle Accommodation...... B:3oam Cincinnati, Peoria and St. Louis... 11:50 am Cincinnati Accommodation 5:00 pm Cincinnati, Peoria and St. Louis... 10:40 pm Jeffersonville, Madison A Indianapolis. Depart—Southern Express, daily, s 4:10 ara Louisville and Madison Express,p.c 8:15 am Louisville and Madison Mail, p. c.. 3:50 pm Louisville Express, daily - 6:45 pm Arrive—lndianapolis and Madison Mai 1..... 9:45 am Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Express, daily, p 10:45 am New York and Northern Fast Express, r. c 7:00 pm St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit Fast Line, daily, s 10:45 pm Indiana, Bloomington A Western. PEORIA DIVISION. Depart—Pacific Express and Mai 1........... 7:25am Kansas and Texas Fast Line, r. c.. 5:07 pm Burlington and Rock Island Express, daily, r. c. ands 11:10pm Arrive—Eastern and Southern Express, daily, r. c. ands 3:50 am Cincinnati Special, r. c 11:05 am Atlantic Express and Mail 6:30 pm BT. LOUIS DIVISION. Depart—Moore field Accommodation 6:30 pm Mail and Day Express 5:02 ptu Arrive—Mail and Day Expross 11:00 am MooretieldAccommodation... 6:lopm EASTERN DIVISION. Depart—Eastern Express Mail, daily, s., r. c. 4:20 am Day Express 11:45 am Atlantic Express, daily, s. and c. c.. 7:10 pm Arrive—Pacific Express, daily, s. and c.c... 6:53am Western Express 4:45 pm Burlington and Rook Island Express, daily, s. aud r. e 10:35 pm

Indianapolis A St. Louis. Depart—Day Express, daily, c. c 7:10 am Paris Express 3:50 pin Boston and St. Louis Express, p... G:25 pm New York and St. Louis Express, daily, s. ami e. e....- 13:30pm Arrive—New York and Boston Express, duly, e. 3:45 am Local Passenger, p 9:50 ain Indianapolis Express .. 3:00 pm Day Express, c. c., daily 0.25 pra Indianapolis A Vincennes. Depart—Mail and Cairo Express 8:35 am Vincennes Accommodation 4:00 pm Arrive—Vincennes Accommodation.... 10 ; 40 * m Mail and Cairo Express 0:30 pm Louisville, New Albany & Chicago. (Michigan and Grand Rapids Line.) Depart—Michigan City Mail. . r * >ra Frankfort Accommodation 0:00 pm Michigan City Night Ex., daily, 5... 11:20 put Arrive —Indianapolis Night Ex., daily, *- -•• o : .L> am Indianapolis Accommodation 10:00 am Indianapolis Mail - 3:15 ps Cincinnati, Wabash A Michigan Railway. (Over the Bee-line.) Depart—lndianapolis and Grand Rapids Ex. 4soo am Michigan Express 1 _ ! ■}* * m Louisville and Wabash Express... pm Arrive—Wabash and Indianapolis Express.. 10:45 am Cincinnati and Louisville Express- 2:30 pm Indiauapolis and St. Louis Express. 11. Id pm ‘ Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. (Via Vandalia Line.) Leave Indianapolis. t£l 5 am, s Twave Tetre 14a**a.li0:40 am, 3:00 pm p, 4-W an ■ a!, at Evansville.. -t4:00 pm. 7:05 pm p, 7:20 am s Leave Evansville . -10:05*1" 10:30 am p, 8:15 pm Ar at Terre Haute. tItMK) am, 2:17 pm p, 1109 P** 4 * & % Sdianaptdis .13:30 pm, 4:40 pm P, 3:50 am s tiddly except Sunday. AJB other train* P parlor car; a, steeper. (Via I. & St. L. Ky.) lieuve Infllanapolis 17:30 am, 10:55 pm * At. at Tenro Haute-t 10:40 am. 3:00 pm p, 4.00 atn a Ar. at Evansville. .H:00 pm, 7:05 pm p, 7:25 am s L#ve Evniwvllle. t 605 m, 10:30 am p, 8:15 pm s Ar. at Terre Haute .110:00 am, 2:17 pm p, 11:59,pm s Ar.Kt Indianapolis.lß:ls pm, 0:25 pm p, 3:45 am s fDaily ancept Sunday. Ail other train* p parlor oar; a, sleeper.

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