Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 November 1874 — Page 4

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THE SATURDAY EVE-

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The Greatest Attraction of the Amusement Season—Engagement of the Famous

Author and Humorist,

"Eli Perkins,"

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ADMISSIONFirst floor 50 cents Family circle SS cents Gallery 86 cents. Beat* can be secured at Button A Hamilton's Bookstore, without extra charge.

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ONE RIGHT ONLY,

tv&day, November 17th, 1874.

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NEW YORK HUMPTY DUMPTY TROUPE

IN ITS KirriBKTY

GEO. H. TYLER Manager C, K. FOX Stage Manager Ini|wrUBt AsBsnneentnt.

The lireat King of the Pantomimic Art, and only

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HUJfm DUMPTY in PERSON Whose success has never been equaled in the Annals of American Amusement. The throngs of people nightly assembled for the past number of years attest by their lavish applause and hearty laughter, the undimin •wd popularity of the American OrimalUl

Surrounded by this own council, with nis brother, THE FAMED PANTALOON,

€. K. FOX.

I He will appear in his Comic Trick Pantomime of

HUMPTY DUMPTY

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A Grand Corps of SPECIALTY JH^ABTISTS, 45 PEOPLE

PANTOMIMIC

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Representing a world of Fan, Tricks, Triails and Tribulations. trcrjrtkiag Ca»»let« as Played is

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See Bills of the Day for further particulars. Seats secured 8 days in advance at Button A Hamilton's Bookstore.

W.H STRICKLAND, Agent.

H.E.PARMELEE, Business Agent.

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Wednesday, NOT. 18tb, 1874.

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PATER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRRE HAUTE, NOV. 14, 1874.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is Mid by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every leading person in the city, and Ilia form en of this immediate vicinity.

Everj- Week's Issue is, in tact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for

QNE CHARGE.

HOW TO GET RICH.

Thta Is the chief end of aian according to the new oatechism. The methods in vogue are numerous The dlfflcnlty with most of them ia, that, while they are sometimes successful, they generally foil. Speculation in some instances gives great wealth suddenly, bnt In nine cases out of ten, at the lowest estimate, It is a perfect failure, and brings poverty instead of wealth. And nine cases out often in which it is successful in securing a fortune, it afterwards destroys it. So that for permanent wealth not more than one in a hundred uses it successfully. Another method is to get the oontrol of other people's money, and manage, in some way, to get it snugly stowed away where they .cannot get it. A shrewd operator can do this without much danger to his social standing, provided ho gets enough to make it respectable. But then he knows be is a thief, and that his fortune has been stolen. This does not seem to disturb the equinimity of many who are successful in this line, and yet we have an odd notion that the man who is satisfied to be a thief and enjoys it is the meanest sort of a thief after all. A method similar to the last, is to steal from the government. Taking city, state and national governments in all their relations, these furnish many fine openings for men who are willing to be public plun derers. But, besides the difficulty which a decent man must experience in being a thief, even a respectable thief, there is such a host of hands ready to be thrust into every hole leading to the public treasury that hardly one in fifty can be accommodated. It is a good hold, pecuniarily, wh^n one can get it, but the chances are against getting it, and generally a fair fortune might be earned in honest labor while one is doing tfie mean and hard work necessary to get a good position for stealing. We cannot therefore recommend public thievery even as a successful method of getting rich, saying nothing of the moral objections. But wo cannot run through the entire list of current methods of getting wealth. An old-fashion-ed, and perhaps almost forgotten method, it was our purpose to suggest.

It is a good thing in the start to have a correct idea of what it is to be rich. In some way or another we have got into our heads the notion that it does not'depend entirely upon the amount of money which one may possess. Come to think of it, wearo inclined to conclude that this idea came from having seen so many men possessed of large scran of money, who seem BO fearfully poor. They are discontented, always grumbling about hard times, never have any thing with which to help a man or good cause needing and deserving assistance, though they have at any time plenty of money to loan at fifteen pe.* cent, or to shave a note at from twenty-five to fifty per cent. This must be the class of people to whom somebody referred when he said, "It was easy to see what the Lord thought of money by the kind of people to whom he gave it." Bat these men are not rich, though they do have money. The really rich man is he who has enongh money to provide himself and family with the comforts of life for the present, and to give a Mr assurance of alike provision for the future, and has the seme to ei\joy, this. The sense is just as much a part of his wealth as the property.

To secure this competence Is sot a difficult thing. 'That it is not difficult to get the money, though it may be harder to get the sense. There is no need of specul ting or gambling. There is no need of stealing from apublio or private purse. There hi no necessity for geing into Tuffitoesa with a large capital. Good h«*:. u, good sense, and a willingness to .weffc, constitute all the capital that is

There is no need of a large

IDOMM. The rati secret of securing wealth Is in saving. The secret of the poverty of mort of those who are poor, Is In wasting. Small waste* produce poverty sod small savings lead lo a good degree of wealth. Theirs is a laboring man in this city, who has always been laboring man, earning only ordinary wages, and he has a pleasant home, and e*«ry thing to make it comfortable, and money at interest. He really has all that any man needs. He has raised a large fcraliy, nnd givtn feUdf*a a gecd edoastkm. Me has hid quite a» modi sieknesa, and "bad InA" generally as feUa to the lot of most. Yet ha is rich enough, and all heoMwe he was induced by the snea from whom ha learned his trade to mm Id* wages, and buy a email cheap lot, and was thus put In the w*y of saving. Hundreds of who have earned better wagea than

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THK young man who has nothing else to occupy his time during the lengthen ing evenings of the fall and winter is ad vised to turn his attention to study. 11 he has an eye to business, he will find it of immense advantage to cultivate a knowledge of the leading principles of arithmetic, and to ren der himself a skillful penman and correct speller. Not one young man in twenty ean write legibly or spell correctly, and as a matter of course is unfit for any position requiring a knowledge of those accomplishments.

An employer, who has several boys and young men in his establishment, in formed us a day or two since that out of the whole number only one was a suffi clently good penman, and had such knowledge of orthography, as fitted him to make an entry in apjgjnlinary account book.

Now when it is remembered that al most any one can become a good pen man, and that there is scarcely any position in life in which tho ability to write a fair hand is not a recommendation and .generally the first step to preferment, the wonder is that so few young men cultivate penmanship. It is a me chanical process, familiarity with hicb can be acquired by practice.

When His possible to procure the serv Ices of a teacher a knowledge of the art is more easily obtained, but when a copy book containing examples in writing with full instructions for holding the pen, etc., ean be obtained for ten cents no god excuse can be offered by any young man, who has winter evenings at his command, for not being a feir writer.

It seems like supererogation in this age to enlarge upon the advantages of education, and yet, when night after night wo see saloons crowded with young men whose educational acquire ments are of the most meagre character, street corners filled with youths who idly bunge there, wasting precious hours, wo cannot but feel that the subject Is but Imperfectly-understood. The young man who reads well, writes a fair hand, and has a tolerable knowledge of arithmetic, possesses real advantages of a more estimable character than were he the owner of thousands of dollars in his own right. Such montal acquirements ean be constantly turned to profitable account, There is no station or occupation In which they are not valuable.

Ton postal card is slowly winning its way in publio esteem. As the "late lamented" once said, "it is easier to pay a small debt than a large one." On this principle it is easier to buy a postal card for one cent than to pay three cents for a Iostage stamp and two cents tnero for paper and envelope. The one great good to be achieved by the postal card is that it will bring the writer's ideas down to the utmost conciseness consonant with perspicuity. The telegraph has done a good deal in this way the postal card will continue the good work. "How did you come down?" was naked of a countryman. He diffusely replied, "Well, you see Mr. Crowdy was a-ooin-in' down, ao I thought I'd oome along down With Mr. Crowdy as he was a-com in' down." Postal cards correct such a flux of words as this they save time, money and stationery. As yet people do not fully understand their availabil notwithstanding which the sales of the !H*t year foot up 112,000,000. Asa stepping stone to one cent postage the postal card csunnot be over-estimated in Impodanoa.

Tax new fashions for bonnets are onti the female head la alio ont with them on. They are jaunty, saucy, and serviceable. Take a slouch hat, a feather, and soma strips of velvet, turn np the rim of said slouch, insert'the feather, allowing It to fall back over the neck, intersperse the velvet and trim the Hal with It then yon have a bonnet that is no "slouch," In the recent bright days of sunshine, the young female face canopied as above, had an air of abandon which most prove provocative of anatri* mony. The general air of the bonnet to {Mm* beckoning appear-

A rERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

books, who has accu

mulated some five or six thousand dollars. ^He does not smoke, chew or drink, and while he lives well, be spends nothing unnecessarily. He saves each week the small surplus over his expenses. Most young men ia his position would have spent every cent, and cursed their luck for their poverty. It is the small sums that must be looked after. Many fall In business because they do not cut off the little unnecessary expenses, and many succeed simply by saving in a small way, stopping the little leaks. Our German population is generally well off. Many of them earn but a small income. But there is economy in dress, at table, and in general expenses. In their amusements they do not think it necessary to spend a fortune to have a good time. Even their beer is the cheapest liquor that is used. They save, and consequently they all have a competence, They amass property with a certainty and a rapidity which is surprising. The way to get rich is to save, save small sums, even the smallest, and keep saving.

ane* It reminds one of the "Kiss me quick" of an earlier day. For the most mechanical or laboring occupation, and nr I. !IH-V ruv becoming, and a fensat itn- we prelum i! intends to give Us*

.r^u. the airy nathu«ntis» la- liberty to piw^atsi*H», but th:*»

L"t :.t t*1 kr! d$god to during last Summer. mentioned.

THX Civil Rights bill won't have much show in the next Congresa.

life work, and if sickness were to overtake them would fall upon charity within month. n.e difficulty b« tarn 'CwKWTY-NiNEthi.uumd Vlrginl.xro, U»t they Tber. ta

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young man in this city not twenty-five 1 .. years of age, who came to this county a perfect stranger and without a eeat, learned a trade, has worked at it constantly, lived as well as other mechanics, is intelligent, and has spent a considerable sum

In 18H0, .re »w lying IdK

ISN'T that "bloody chasm" of the Greeley campaign about closed-over? THH New York Herald says "War records'' have lost their political value.

TiTK hext President will be a Democrat—to this complection h*s it come at iaSt. rngmsm—m

Qratst's friends have always claimed that he wasnt surprised at Shiloh, Guess be was surprised last week.

Ts& Washington Chronicle apprehends danger of Jeflferson Davis being the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency.

THK dealers in ail seasonable goods wear smiling countenances, which naturally implies that trade is healthy and they are having a full sharo of it.

POSTMASTBR GENEBAL JKWET. has announced his intention of prosecuting te the extreme limit of the law the senders of scurrilous postal cards and obscene literature.

ONE of the results of the long strungout panio has been the cultivation of a spirit of economy. This style of education, although costly in this case, will, in the end, prove a cheap training.

WE came near forgetting to state that the Millerites have settled on the 20th of the present month as the day on which mundane things generally are to end, and the Chosen be carried up iQ pjti&rtata of fire.

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\s MORK than two years must intervene before the next Presidential election, politicians will have ample time to fix up their slates anew, and the probabilities are that when this is done scarcely one of the present aspirants for the next Presidential candidacy will bo regained as available.

THE Democrats now have twenty-one of the thirty-seven Governors, in the following States: New Hamshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nevada, Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, West Virginia, Georgia, 1 exas, Tennessee. Ohio, Missonri, Oregon.

IN the Brooklyn Courts they have commenced "backing and filling," asking for the usual delays and trying to spread over all possible time the Beech-er-Tilton-Moulton-Proctor suits, and the public may prepare Itself for an enormous amount of tho cheerful literature contained in voluminous reports, which the daily press will throw upon a long suffering people. Gentlemen of the press, "let up." Let the bloody chasm be bridged until we reach the verdicts.

THE Boston Saturday Evening Gazette tells "the other day, after a meeting of a certain famous women's club in New York, the ladies amused themselves comparing their garters, to see which wore the handsomest, for garters of extravagant expense have lately come into fashion, and several of these club members wear theirs clasped with gold and precious stones. The jewellers are all introducing new designs for garter clasps that promise shortly to cost as much as tho bracelets that fashion has discarded. A charming woman and singer in society is said to wear a pair of garters that cost $500." And now all society will blindly rush into idolatry and worship the Golden Calf. What freak will fashion take next?

IF a person desires to go to Mexico to live, now is the time to start. For a plan to "encourago immigration," the law recently passed by the Mexican congress surpasses anything in the way of liberality that we have yet heard of. In the first place, acccording to the Alta, California, it appropriates #500,000 to assist immigrants this year. They are to be carried at the expense of the Republic "from the place of their residence provisions will be furnished them during the voyage they will receive |00 for their support in the first year, and if they are dimatisfied at the end of the second year, the Republic wilt pay their way back to their native country. When fifty families or more settle in one colony, they may constitute a municipal corporation, elect their own officials and adopt ordinances for their local government, not inconsistent with the state and fedora) law*. Their lands are to bo free from tax (except municipal taxes) for five years, and all their provisions, tools and material for houses, shall be imported free of duty, and any vessel bringing mora than ten immigrants shall be free from tonnage, lighthouse, anchorage and pilotage duties. All Immigrants are declared citizens from the moment or their arrival, and they ertfoy al^ the political and civil rights of tive dtlaens. Public lands will be set apart for them, and each man who desires to till the soil will receive not less than 10 or more than 1,100 acres, which be ean cultivate without charge for ten years, and at the expiration of that period my purchase, either paying the full price down or one-tenth annually for'ten years more. Sites suitable for towns will be surveyed, and a tot will be offered to every emigrant, who, however, Is not restricted to lands now wild, but way settle in any of the town*, eities or agricultural districts. The taw implies that the immigrant may follow any

WB am soon to have another royal personsge visit us. Thk tune It will be the King of the Sandwich Islands who will honor us with his august presence. He will be accompanied by a numerous train of dependents. He will also have a fall suit—of clothes, and wear it out of respect for the American people. For such self-sacrifice on His Majesty's part we should feel deeply grateful, and expend on his reception two or three times as much as the Sandwich Islands are worth. We den't often get a king to look at, and we ought to make much of liim when we have one among ns.

GOTHAM OObSIP.

Correspondence of The Mali.]

NBW YORK, NOV. II.

MI5S rrSHSIAN'H FAREWELL. In the annals of the stage there has never been such an ovation tendered an actor, as that received by Miss Charlotte Cushman en Saturday night last at Booth's Theatre. The office for the of tickets for the farewell performance, was opened at eight o'clock on Monday the 2nd ult. By ten o'clook there was not a seat to be had, excepting those sold by the speculators at an advance off 10. Later in the week, as much as 920 was being offered for a single seat, and ISO for the boxes. Such a crush of people I never beheld. By six o'eloek on the evening of the performance, the crowd began to collect in front of the theatre, and even those persons who held reserved seats were on hand by the time the doors opened. Every seat in the house was sold so that those who held simply admission tickets, had nothing to do but stand -their ground like men They were better off, however, than those who had paid |5 for camp stools, but who in many instances were unable to find a place to put them, and who felt before the evening was over very much as though they had an elephant on their hands. Behind all the seats there were rows of people standing four deep, among whom were many women who stood for nearly five hours in the position. I said in my last that I intended to be present on this occasion, if I had to hang on by a cornice after getting inside the bouse. Fortunately I was not driven to that extremity, but there were many who were, I saw two men and a boy standing en a balustrade, who held themselves in position by clinging to the cornice over tneir heads. At eight o'clock the house was filled to its utmost limit. Two dreary scenes of Macbeth were played, and finally Miss Cushman appeared upon the stage. Her appearance was the signal for around of nearty applause, and the fluttering of a few hundred handkerchiefs. Aside from Miss Cushman and the intrinsic merit of Shakspeare's words, the play was very dull. Once in a whi'.e one of the actors would become inspired by the scene before him and give a little spirit to his part, in which case the kindly disposed audience would give him a round of claps. Miss Cushman did splendidly. In tho sleep-walking scene she was superb, and was twice called before the curtain. Although the audience was interested in the performance, it was evidently impatient for the farewell ceremonies, and when the curtain feil upon the last act of the play, there was a pleasurable flutter or expectation through the house.

THS FAREWELL CEREMONIES. After waiting for some time the curtain was rung up and displayed the stage fiiled th representatives of the iress and the theatrical profession, lanagers, actors, 'play-writers, critics and all grouped about. In the cbntre of this assembly stood William Cullen Bryant, Peter Cooper, Gov. Dix, and a few other well known citizens. Among the actors were Lester Wallack, Dion Boucicault, Miss Charlotte Thompson and many well-known faces. Just before the ceremonies began Miss Clara Morris came gliding gracefully in hanging upon the arm of a gentleman and wearing the

red* wig she had just been playing in over at the Union Square. She had hurried up te Booth's so fast that she did not take time to change her hair. Vanity had nothing to do with this, for her own hair is much prettier and more becoming than the wig.

There was a hush throughout the house, and Miss Cushman appeared arrayed in a stately toilette of grey silk and wearing diamonds in her ears. She courtesied to Mr. Bryant and to the new applauding audience. Then Prof. Roberts stepped to the front and read a poem written for the oocasion by R. H. Stoddard, who sat in a near box. The reading of the poem was several times interrupted by applause. At its conclusion Mr. Bryant came forward and delivered a short address and presented Miss Cushman with a crown of laurels on behalf of the Arcadian Club.

The distinguished actress wss evidently much moved by the old poet's words, to which she replied in simple and unstudied language, which appeared to be particularly appreciated by the actors standing upon the stage with 'her. At the close of Miss Cushman's remarks Miss Annie Kemp Bowler struck up the familiar song "Auld Lang Syne," in which the audience joined ana sang to ita last verse. Mingled with the voices of the singers were the cbtfers of the crowd outside, and the curtain fell upon one of the most exciting scenes ever witnessed in aNew York theatre.

Miss Cushman was driven to the Fifth Avenue Hotel escorted by a baud of music, men bearing torches and several dubs and ringing societies of the city.

Although the Hotel is but one block from Booth's Theatre, the crowd was so great that it look Miss Cushman's carriage nearly an hour to reach it. Her appearance in the street was greeted by a storm ofoheers, which followed her to the hotel. Madison Square and the street In front of the hotel were thronged with people the crowd most have numbered twenty thousand people. When the distinguished actress appeared upon the balcony of the hotel she was greeted with more cheers and It appeared as though New York had gone mad. Cheering, band playing and fireworks and aU to celebrate the retirement of one woman from the stage. Bnt what a woman and what a loss to the suge 1 We shall never took upoa her like again.

It ia miA that Mine CushrSarTwas guilty of a pun as she stood upon the balcony. Her manager, Mr. Jarrett, with his eyes upon a disappearing rocket, remarked that he wondered what became of the sticks. Whereupon Miss Cushman replied that Mr. Jarrett was so much occupied with "stars" that ho could pay no attention to sticks.

No one knows exactly how old Miss 1 Cushman is. If any one asks her she !S them that they will know after sho

U. »Sead. One thinjf ia ccrtain, «ihv» in over seventy years ot aga. She is a

great Invalid, but hates to speak upon the subject. If any one breaobes Itaho* will Immediately turn the Conversation. It is said that she acts more to divert her mind from her health than for anything* else, for while she ia upon the atage eho forgets her pains. "SAONBD OOKCKBTS."

The word sacred, as interpreted by the* managers in this city, see ins to have a. new meaning. By sacred concert r. Strakosch means opera. "IA Traviata,"! or "Faust," and the other managers include theatrical performances under this head. New York is getting to be more and more like Paris every year. On'Sunday night- last the Italian Opera Company sang "IA Traviata at the Grand Opera House "Eln Etfolg" was performed at tho Gertnania Theatre "Barbo Bleue'^was sung at the Stadt Theatre "Buflklo Bill" was played at the Bowery Theatre, and a number of concert saloons were -n during the evening. A stranger in the city might have easily imagined that be had mistaken the day. Carriages roll out to the Park, the restaurants are nearly all open, and do their best business on Sunday cigar stores, candy shape, and asloons innto the wanderer in. We are progrosnsing rapidly in the ways of Europe. These theatres and places are not patronised exclusively by foreigners, as might be supposed, for your native born American has learned to enjoy his Sunday evening entertainment with the beat of his foreign friends. Truly the expression "grand sacred concert" covers a multitude OF sins. |«ss

A UF8 FOB A SUPPER.

It has been some time sinoo the oolumns of our local papers have had to record a murder, and we were beginning to think that New York was not so murderous a city after all, when Joseph Rosenstein. a porter in a wholesale establishment, broke the charm by murdering his wife. This Rosenstein, who lives on the upper floor of a five story tenement house, returned home last Saturday evening, and used harsh words to his wife for not having his supper to suit him. After quarreling for awhile he attempted to leavo the room, but his wife, Mary, lock&d the door to prevent him from going out and Bpehding his wages in riotous living. After a little while she took her son Matthew, a boy of eight and ascended to the roof to take in clothes. Joseph climbed out at tho window, and getting on the fire escape, started down to the ground, but changing his mind he re-ascended, and reaching the roof, renewed the quarrel. While his wife was standing by the edge af the roof, calling for assistance, he shoved her off, and falling to the ground, a distance ot one hundred feet, she was air most instantly killed. The above is the story as told by young Matthew, the only witness. The father, however, states that he quarreled with her, but did not throw her off the roof, and after leaving the room went to a barber shop and got shaved. He first appeared on the premises when a police officer was examining the woman's body. Thlb is not the first case in which such men have murdered their wlfes in this city for neglecting their suppers. Some time since there was an exactly parallel ease to this one.

HERE AND THERE.

The Grand Opera House, since the day of its dedication, has been an elephant on the hands ot its owners. Fisk make the most of it, and ruined it too. After his management of the place, no decent people cared to go there. Daly tried to arag it out of the mire, but almost swamped himself In the attempt. Jarrett A Palmer are going to run the "Black Croak" there for a while, and then it will probably stand idle again. It is a thousand pities that such a beautiful Opera House should be so unfortunate. Another of the difficulties, that it has had to contend with, is its out-of-the-way situation. Eighth avenue and Twentvthird street is pretty fur across town. Mr. Stewart's idea of converting it into a dry roods store. I understand Is abandoned. The present proposition, is to dispose of the property by lottery. Tho Grand Opera House will be the first prize, and the property owned by the Erie Railway Company on Eighth avenue, Twentythird and Twenty-fourth streets, will be offered a9 second premiums. Tickets to the number of 2,500,000 are to be disposed of, and offices for their sale are to be opened all through this country and Europe, Tho Erie directors deny having any interest in the scheme. the storm that has been brewing for some Mr,

ne time between manager Daly and George Clarke, has finally buret. Mr. Daly insisted that Mr. Clarke should shave off his moustache, and Mr. Clarke refused to do so. It is required that actors wear no hair upon their faces in "The School for Scandal." in accordance with the fashion of the time. Mr. Clarke knew this, and let it be understood that ho was going to comply with the rule, until just before ho was to appear upon the stage, when he refused point blank to bare bis lip. Whereupon Mr. Daly discharged him from his Company, It is said that Mr. Clarke did this same thing at Wallack's Theatre some time ago, In the hope of breaking up the piay. Mr. Daly is to be congratulated upon his loss.

The Democratic victories in the recent elections are thorns in the flesh of the Republican party. Over in New Jersey, mrtlcularly, the greatest astonishment felt. Halsey, Ward and Phelps, were considered the strongest candidatea that could bo offered by either party. The Republicans do not hesitate to lay their defeat at President Grant's door. They say that if he had oome out and declared positively that he would not

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nomination for a third term that he might have saved his party. A gentleman of this city, who wss named as a possible Republican candidate for Mayor, told me that nothing would induce him to allow his name to be used, for, said he, this third term business ia going to knock tho Republicans higher than a kite."

The Free TrainingSchool, for Women, on East Tenth street, has just issued it» first annual report. Three thousand women have enjoyed the privileges of this school up to April 1st. Twentythree hundred of these nsve been trained aa seamstresses, and work has been provided for them by the ladies of the Society. During the bard times, of last winter, over six thousand meals were

rovided within six weeks. Ordinarihowever, food is furnished only to the sick. In the short time this school has been in operation, it has done a world of good, and many a tale equal to the strangest fiction could the managers tell, if they would. Persons from all ranks of life have drifted into this place

—many from distant cities, and many who have onoe had fortune at their command. ...

SAD INFLUENCE OF HATS*

(New York Mail.)

The average female is just now cnucy over hats. If she hasnt got a soft felt* With a rakish crown and a thievishlooking brim, she Is crazy to get one, and if she has got one she is mad bosho didn't get the other pattern.

8KBT!SP Mail's new chro.ncs, on hibition at the Postoffiee Looby.