Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 September 1893 — Page 1

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

"BravoJ Bravo!" was what tbeaudience wanted toshoot at tbe First Baptist church last Sunday, when Dr. Kirtley, with an eloquence that was burning, said "I have more respe«t for that bold bandit, who with his Winchester and bis dynamite terrorizes a community and robs a through express train of its gold, than I have for the sleek bank president who accepts the savings of his fellow townsmen and, under cover of the law, loots his bank and ruins the confiding depositors."

No bank president will be found guilty in Terre Haute. Cut that remark out and paste it iii your hat. And then when charges are filed against John Smith for stealing a decayed bam, and Tom Jones for playing "craps," and at the same time an indictment is filed against any well known banker, you mnstjiot be surprised for lots of good people on this earth have been indicted.

It is quite probable that a sham battle will be fought in our courts in which the name of the Prairie City Bank will figure.. As the depositors have hired one half of all the lawyers and John S. Beach has hired the other half, the attorneys of Torre Haute feel like the undertakers of Johnstown did when the flood came. It looks very serious.to the depositors, but they might as well submit. The legal battle will show Beach the winner. Puppets will bow, dance and retire the curtain will go down the show will be over, without even the receipts left in the box office. No blood •will bo spilt. _____

But what a sad and painful case it is. One, of the depositors In Beach's bank was a policeman $1,100 was every cent of his life savings he thought It was his, poor fellow but ho was mistaken, it was Mr. Beach's. Another depositor was ft book-keoper, grown gray at his desk in a few months he looked forward to quitting and a modest retirement but on that fateful Saturday evening, early in August, be posted the books painfully, and a choking at his throat kept telling him that he was chained to his ledgers.

Mayor Ross was sought by ft bride* groom who was married on north Fourteenth street Thursday night, and an awful tale of woe was told. It seems that while the usual hideous "belling" was going on and the bride was passing from one faint to another, a policeman led the boys in a raid on the ice cream, and many a rag-muffin went to bed with a pint of Lawrence's best freezing his vitals, while the Invited guests contented themselves*with cake. The polioemnn will change his beat but Mayor Ru** decided that the city is not liable for the missing preann

Dix and Arte, of prison notoriety, are fearful that they will not be claused with b-a-d men so they spent every moment between bean »oup a. m. and beau soup p. m.,tn tiling away the pot-metal bars of our county jail. Dlx's sister was convicted Wednesday of bringing the boys their saws, and a tender hearted jury gave her three months In jail. Tom Harper d*f»»iv'ed her, and his opinion of the jur Is not elegant, but loud.

Look on this. Tbe Indiana'State Nur* tnai ushbol was built and Is maintained by tax p»y«rs'dollars, A largo n«in ber of those tax-payers attend it. and a large number send their young men and women to it not as paupers, as Murray Tiriggs would have it, but as part owners of it. President Parsons and Profeasor Tompkins became involved in a jealous quarrtl Parsons forced the Board of Trustees to expel Tompkins. The tax-payers in attendance became indignant and asked "Why f" At this the Board cried "Treason" and the class of *93 went out diploma-less, because they wouldn't sign a paper that would stultify the trained pig at Hagenbecfc's on the Midway, should he scrawl his name below It.

And look at this. A man named Zirtman, with a ruuning hop and a skip, jumped into the Normal school last May, The commencement was in June,

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teb^Hidti, SUrimAtt ft handsome, mar thy-faced follow, who crosses himself every time the name of Arnold Tompkins Is mentioned. He Is a successful organiser, and threw the Board in spasms before he bad eaten breakfast In Terre Haute. When the students hissed the president, Zarttnan too whistled through his teeth and when i/' the other students passed a resolution disavowing the outbreak, Zartman too voted

Aye." Whenever the news

papers wanted a good Interview with a large number of students*, Zarltnan multiplied himself on paper. Be left in his wake, discord, rebellion, treason and tf President Parsons' hair is gray some October morning, the public may Infer that Zartman Is In town.

Moral: The I. 8- N. still lives. But hto the Board ot Trustees, be earefnL ,f?Treet the young genUemen and ladies of Indiana's Stat* Normal school as if they were such and It will not be unappreciated. It ia no vindication of the -. K:',^7*

Board or of Mr. Parsons that hundreds of students reassemble in Normal bail. As well might be regarded the payment of county taxes a vindication of the gross expenditures and thefts of the legislature that made the taxes. Teachers are a necessity. The Normal is a fixture. If a corps of teachers culled from the abused class of '93 were placed in power instead of President Parsons and bis associates, the Normal attendance would still be heavy.

Let the officials of the school cease playing the high and mighty role, and understand that while Indiana is a great state, there were thirt**eu states io the Union that produced more mules than we did, according to tt»« (statistics of 1892, Do^'t try to crowd our sister states

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A WEEK OF JT ARE SPORT, This is the la$t opportunity of The Mail to remind its roaders that if they neglect seeing the races of the Trotting, Association next week, they will miss the sporting event of a lifetime. Such a feast of trotting and pacing events was never placed before the lovers of good races. The ball will open Tuesday, the 26tb, with the 2:25 pace, and one of the horses entered, Ontonian, has a record of 2:07J4 while the slowest record in it is 2:21#. The same day, the 2:17 and 2:22 trots will go, with a total of seventeen entries. Wednesday will baye the 2:14 pace, |2,000, 2:12 trot, $1,000, and the 2:28 trot, 92,000, with twenty-five entries in all. Thursday, the incomparable Nancy Hanks, will go against her record, and as it will be her last performance of the season, and possibly her last publio appearance, there is an intense interest in ber effort. The track is in perfect condition, and there seems to be little doubt but that she will break ber 2:04 record. The same day the 2:20 pace, for a f5,000 purse, 2:19 trot, 2 13 trot, and free-for-all pace will be given* In the latter the entries are Manager, 2:07%, Hal Pointer, 2:04#, Blue Sign, 2:09, and Roy Wilkes, 2:05k, and It will be for blood. On Friday, tbe attractions will be the free-for-all trot, 2:17 pace and 2:25 trot, and In the former the entries includeGreenleaf, Walter E., Ryland T.," Nightingale, Martha Wilkes, Pixlev, Lord Clinton, and the phenomlnal Allx, 2:07%. It is, almost certain that all racing records will fall before the flyers in this race.

Besides these unparalleled attractions, Stamboul, Arlon, Monbars, and Belle Vara, will go against their records, and negotiations are about concluded that will bring Flying Jib and tbe sensational Directum here to go against their own records oyer the fastest track on earth. In fact, it will be the race meeting of a life-time, and every ono. who miRses it will ever regret it. "v

BUSINESS TROUBLES.

J. Q. Button A Co., of the Central Bookstore, assigned on Wednesday to Win. G. Carbee. The probable value of the property assigned is about $10,600, and consists of real estate in South Hutchinson, Kansas, Bast Chicago and five lots in Highland Place. The firm consists of J. Q. Button and bis sister, Mrs. Emma B. Bastow, who lives io the East, and tbe day of the failure they filed two chattel mortgages on the goods and merchandise of the store, and on Mr. Button's household effects, to secure the payment to Mrs. M.*R. Bution, Elbert M. Johnson, and bin wife. Flora E, Franois 8. Bartlett and W H. Soalf, of promissory note* aggregating$15,087.13. The assignment due to the unfortunate investments in Kansas lands and salt mines, and in tbe ill-fated Forest Park scheme, in all of which Mr. Button placed considerable money. He has been in the book business here since 1865, when he began as a clerk for Oliver Bartlett, and has always borne a good name as an upright citixen. General sympathy is expressed for him in the misfortune that has overtaken him after an honorable business career of nearly a third of a century. The business will be con Untied at the old stand, and it is fervently

be hoped that prosperity will again come to him,

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J. H. Simmons', the Main street gnmr, assigned en Thursday to Cbas. M. Mooney, with liabilities of about $7,000. %\,f purchase of meat market on test "Stain street, led to the assignment, as It has been a losing venture. He has been in business for himself for about six years* and it seems hard that he should have to succumb now. He has the grit and pluck, however, to try it again

The traveling men will inaugurate series of Interesting entertainments this evening, at the Post G. club rooms In the Bindley Block. The programme will include piano solos by Miss Vivian Strother and Mrs. Harlan Pritchett, violin and piano, C. M. McOohnell, solos by Omar Mewhinney and John Lightfoots, radings and recitations by C. R» Hunter, Chas Duffin, W. A. Hymn and M. B. Glenn, and a quartette by Messrs. Lightfoot, Crawford, Pritchett and Whlian,

Emancipation day waa appropriately celebrated by the colored people yesterday. There was a creditable street parade in the morning. Tbe exercises were held at the fair grounds in the afternoon and at Allen chapel last night*

BRIGHT "BAB."

HER INTERESTING TALK OF THEATER GOER^ AND THE PLAY HOUSE.

American Plays Superior to Bnjll*l and French Productions—She Tells

SWEET BETTY LIN LEY OF LONG AGO.

People had thought out all sorts or things, for people take the trouble to think out a play that Sothern is going to appear in, as he is known to be cQnr scientious, a hard worker, and a great student. My neighbor had dreamed of Di,ck Sheridan when.he was the friend of princes and lords, and when he was making worderful speeches during the Hqstlpg's trial. My other neighbor thought of him as in his sad days, when old age and poverty came, and when he was forced to sell the picture of the woman be adored that he might get bread and butter. But I had believed that something different would come, and it did. The curtain rose on the Pump Room in Bath, in tbe eighteenth century, when everywhere there was a mixture of great magnificence, and consderable discomfort—of superb* manners, And quite a deal of immorality. .The ladles and the gentlemen of that day came in for their gossip, drank tea or chocolate. The sedan chairs were brosght to the doors and unloaded their attractive burdens of brocade and lace, powdered bair and patches, perfumes and womankind, and gossip was all through the air, and every man was a loveable rake, and every lady said over ber love affairs as she did her prayers. Suddenly, one chair more rich, more covered with gilt, than any other, appeared out of it popped two little negro pages, and then came the "Balr Maid of

Bath"—Betty Linley—that most beautiful one of the family of Nightingales, at whose feet all the men fell, from David Garrick down. Was it a wonder that when his eye lighted on her, bandsome Dick Sheridan, just 20 years old, adored by all the women, quoted by all tbe men, became convinced that here at last was the woman, and the only one, he could ever love.

TERRE HAUTE, INP., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23,1893.

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a Really Good Play I»—Eatbosiasm Good for Body, Mind and Soul. [Copyright, 189S.J NEW YOBK,Sept.18 —Once a year here in New York, the literary, the artistic and the fashionable set meet It is at the new plavs always. And that new play is*invariably tbe one at which you will hear the critic, the painter, or the woman of fashion announce that itis certain to be good, for itis to be done by "young Soth ern." Always they say "young Sothern" not that they have not gotten over making comparisons between him and his father, but because they remember when they first applauded him, and they have watched him grow in public favor as one watches a handsome bpy. Tbe other night when he came on the stage as gay, gallant Dick Sheridan, just for one second tbe audience did not know its old favorite. Then it gave him that greeting which is such a delight to an actor, and, after that, it settled dj^wn to watch the play.

UPS AND IKJWNS OP PLATS.

And this was the story of the play. The story of young Dick's love for sweet Betty, and of bis determination to make his play a success, while it was as well a picture of how, even in those day*, what was real was the only thing worth listening to, for into this gay, worthless, gossiping life at Bath were all the people 'that afterwards stepped before the curtain when it went up oh "The School for Scandal." I have been to a good many first nights, but I do not know of one where my heart beat as it did when we, the real audience, sat there looking into the manager's room when "The Rivals" was being hissed off the stage, and when the London audience bad so lost its senses that it even hissed its favorite, David Garrick, when he made an appeal for tbe young author. There stood poor Dick .SbeAdan, believing that his love was lost, knowing that his piay was a failure, berated by the manager, with every one against bim, except dear David Garrick, and yet, ss he threw his head back, and said: 'The Rivals' will be talked of when you fools jir9 all damned," tbe andienee before him p6s6 with WiB, tad, for 4

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moments—for we didn't know whether w« were applauding Dick Sheridan or Ed. Sothern—«o completely had the one been merged Into the other. I think that is the true art of the actor.

Later on, when he found thst his beautiful Betty Linley was willing to ran sway from her home and come to him in his poverty to bo his wife, when the second night "The Rivals" wss great success, and managers were pleading for bis next play, when his old friend, 1Vm Matthews, who was the original of Joseph Surface, was found to be his worst enemy, then the curtain dropped on the knowledge that the greatest comedies ever written were by the young Irishman, Richard Brinsley Sheridan then one gave

suddenly concluded tliat ono had been seeing a hit of real life, a book made of history** pages, brought forward and put into

plays when we could get good ones like this at home. SUPERIORITY OF AMERICAN PL iY8.

A man whose books you have all read said to me, "Dick Sheridan said ^hose lines." ,15' v"Yes," I answered, "but see how clever the author was to be able to use those lines in such away that they never were out of place, 4md no matter under what circumstances Sheridan might have said them, they never seemed anything but absolutely tbe right words in tire right place. I am very tired of poor

A GOOD PLAY MUST BE TRUE TO LIFE. Jiul to return to "Sheridan," I asked the cleverest man 1 know why it was a good play. I always like to ask a man fbifi my reasons. He said, "It is a good play because it makes two hours of life very interesting. It is a good play because it iB well acted. It is a good play because it Is perfectly mounted, and is the finest picture I have ever seen of those tea-cup times of hood and hoop, or while the patch was worn. It is an historically .interesting play, beoause it makes you think personally with iSlrs. MiUaprop, with Lady Sneerwell, with and Charles Surfaoe. with. Lady "Tmle, and with all thewits an&beaOs o' tfoe time. It is a good play because while there are many bright lines ip it, witty lines, clever lines, there iB not an undesirable line in it, and it has not for its motive the breaking of the Seventh

English plays—for several 3 ears we brought bim before us with a heart overh»vfe been having doses of them. Good American actors lose tlieir opportunities in attempting to produce them, and trying to make American audiences think that because the man's name is well known on the other side of ths water he is bound to produce something that we will like here. I believe in getting for our amusement the good from everywhere, but when we oan get a play like "Sheridan," written at homo, I do not see why managers should go chasing around the world looking for off-color French'farces find stupid English ones, simply that they may have a prestige of having been performed in London, or written by somebody who wa'S close to London. To me London seems to be the proverbial dog on which the plays are all tried, and then the bad ones are sent over here marked 'London Successes.' To come from the sublime to the ridiculous, did you know that song that all the boys whistled last winter about Daddy's objection to buying somebody aiiow-bow, and whioh was advertised as S great London sucoess, was never sung in London until It had made a hit in America?"

Commandment. It is a sweet story of love and ambition, and it is one that will hold the boards when many another play is forgotten."

Said I: "I think it is a good play because I like to see the people I read about come in flesh and blood before me. It gave me pleasure to see Dick Sheridan, the genius of 20, put his arm, around his sweetheart of 17, and refuse to let her earn, with her sweet voice, one cent of money to support them, so long as he bad life and strength. It pleased one to See the days when gentlemen and ladies t&ade low bows to each other, and were profuse in their thanks and their apcl ogles. I liked the whole framing—tbe tea drinking, the courteous greetings and farewells. Perhaps I even liked tbe somewhat extravagant speeches but it all seemed like a perfect picture of the eighteenth century that it was very much worth one's while to see. I liked tbe way tb« men were dressed. I liked the brocades and the powder the Bboe bftckles and the little blackamoors, and alt the dignity attendant." "Why," queried the man "why is it that although you object to-day to man being In anything more cheerful than -dead, bla&k and white in the evenjflg, yet you all love to see him come on £$e stage in his satin coat and knee breeches} in his lace ties and white glovtfi, his powdered hair and paste buckles?"

WK BUSH TOO MUCH NOWADAYS, I"Why? Well, because in those days I thick he played polo he did not pear in the morning and rush to tape see how stocks were. Life was not ti hurry and flarry it is now tod his c* Jmm suited bis manner* and hH era. could not MY 'Adzooks!' neither could he cause six bottles of port^ttf disappear after dinner. His love-making would sound a little wierd, and yet, certainly he loved just as well then if not better than he does now. Look at tb6 suffering and sorry that Betty and her Dick went through before he became tbe great celebrity that he was. And think how, through all tbe years, when ladies plead, with him for bis love, when ell England adored him, hf| heart was true to the gentle woman jgho had become his wife in the days When there wss not full »nd plenty, "Ton laugh andshake your bead, and reoiiQd me tbat^ometimes be did stray gross

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to-day there was no reason why we Americans should be looking for English

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WTAOTWENT. WOJOE* TS TH* WOBL©, but be always came back, and

Le is willing to confess that but one love comes in a lifetime. Sometimes that love is gotten, sometimes it is never more than a beautiful dream but while there may be many loves, each one good, yet each one is different from that perfect love which fills all of the heart, the brain aud the soul. It seems to me that that was the love that young Sothern pictured—I do not. like to say "aoted," for he did better than that. He took out of the life that Tom Moore wrote and that ever so many .others have written front, the Dick Sheridan of 20, and

itowing with love for a beautiful, virtuous girl, and a brain overflowing with an ambition that was bound to suoceed. If all of England had hissed Sheridan he would have succeeded, for hissing to men of his build is only an incentive to success. It breaks down Chattertoo, lt kills Keats, but it urges on theSherldans and the Byrons, until their names are written high up on the temples of fame.

It iVcurious how just about opce a year this New York first night meets and is enthusiastic. It applauded joung Southern when, for dear love's sane, he became "The Highest Bidder" it applauded and encouraged again when, for friendship's sake, he introduced us to that most loveiy of characters, "ChutnleyJ' it wept tears of sympathy and welcomed back the prodigal when, going a step higher on the ladder of good acting, he bowed as "The Maister of Woodbarrow" it applauded and appreciated the good acting, rejoiced over the resurrection, and yet did not so muoh love the hero In "The Dancing Girl" and it felt that "Letterblair/' Wfcile it was sweet and pleasant, was not strong enougli for tbe actor but this year, whenk^^ jjjje ^e oUrtain •. 1 a* ja

at its best*first night, Dick Sheridan bowed and bowed his thanks to an audi-* enbe that bad so many times applauded

Ybe Rivals," it was felt that now indeed young Sothern had shown what he could do, and was doing it. It is just once in ay ear that we get enthusiastic, and this is the time. And I think it is good that we are so enthusiastic over a play that Robert Buchanan made a failure of, whioh it took some one at home to write, and whioh Edward Sothern, born in New Orleans, acted

BAB BELIEVES IN ENTHUSIASM. It is gdotlifor m&'te Butfruslaatlc^ lt starts^ the best part^'d^utf io Agoing takes away those lines on oar faces that mean disoontent and substitutes interest. Enthusiasm, that condition of mind that provoked tears and laughter, is a very healthy state.

How would you be able to enjoy a laugh if you had never shed a tear? How would you be able to adore a rose if you had never seen a weed?

How would you be able to appreciate a good picture If bad never seen a chromo?,

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How would you: be able to love a sweet if you had never tasted an acid? How would you be able to admire the gold and blue of the heavens if you bad never seen the grays and blacks?

It is all a question of contrast, my friend. And that Is the reason why I can be so enthusiastic over the good actor and tbe good play, because lately I have seen some such poor acting and some such poor plays. Everything Is a question of contrast. Then be a little lenient and contrast with some one you dislike tbe writer of this, so that by comparison there will shine like a dia' mond the name of BAB.

"BAB'S" LE1TER.

We are glad to announce that we have made arrangements for the publication in The Mail, of the famous letters of "Bab." By general consent, "Bab" furnishes the freshest, brightest and best lettei now written for American isewspapers, and It Is conceded by all that she possesses** better Idea of what the public want to know, and will read, iii a bright gossipy letter than any correspondent now writing for the press. Her knowledge of tbe faults and foibles of fashionable women, the weaknesses of pretty girls, and the little secrets of women, t« told in a bright and vivacious manner that will interest not only tbe women, but the sterner sex as well. Readers ot The Mall have a rare treat In store In these well-knoWn letters.

The trial of the safe burglars came to a sudden clos* yesterday, with tbe con viction of John Henry, who was tried by the court, on tbe evidence submitted in the Bruce trial, and given six years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Bruce was released.

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died, and she wss only 38 years old then, hy mourned for her ss a man only mourns for the love of his life."

Again my eynle laughs, but these Ji quaver in tbe laugh, and I think even

was no question, morally,

of her connection with the crime, but it was feared tbe evidence agains^her might fall short ot conviction. In the Supreme court reverses the lower court in the Bruce ease, Henry is to be given whatever benefit may from it.

Despite the croakings about tbe fall term of tbe State Normal, it began on llrotndey, with an attendance almost as Urge as last year, and with excellent prospects for increase. Miss Alice Beckman, of Clinton has been engaged as assistant in tbe depsrtmentof English in tbe faculty. She Is a graduate of the tffiiflfli, and bee recently been attending the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston

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A "RED LfeTTER W -v NEXT

"Soperba" With its Meohanlim—"Sit Haute Girl In

Menqy"To-Nifht. The play at Naylc the pen of Herbert enjoys the attra6tii of Money." It, is^ with sensational ments. The^torJ ab&tltLthe-i*I« the repen'tancei poor girl yho country bpy, h'e 0 imaxes. lit* thSj heroine, is Ued by mense rpvolvlngb&j niok of time piece is fori by a strong comedy workJfftitr formers, wbilktbe sjjj piece are not pejml^t

ThS marvel©oa^s ul niffcent faooy trick perba," comes\tO $a^j for four .Wghts^cbttli These inventive gsnitc other stage tribks p* ment that carinot Jail for many siaon8«to '.i character tb«tf3£aWi*t because?It iaJlgliVaud is so much vim and sxy that the eye and and the entre aots: as the Attontiohbf tl

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"Superba" l/inateriaU last season, every bit. mechanical effects bright and attraotl the adventures* umph. of the lierol Leander, still rema changed, but most the specialties, veto. of the new featu Golden Ghalr.'^ by the wicked placed in the fatal form, wbiohi# feui* »talW«tft

in a few moments it is raised, bub the heroine has disappeared most mysteriously. This ls.rettlly the best of the many "vanishing lad#' tricks yet seen*

But the* play is replete with startling and pleasing effects, such as a man walking up the side of a wall, his body in a horizontal position, the introduction of funny mechanical cats and other anl*: mals, shadow pantomimes,-a serpentine danoe by five graceful young women, the fine acrobatic act of the Schrode brothers, etc. In the company are Julie Ma6key, Maud Midgeley, Rose Sutherland, Belle Muni, Jean Mawson, Louis Peters, Demonio, and forty others,

Manager Hayman is sparing no expenee to make the engagement a big success. The production will be Cflven here in its entirety, and it is safe to say the theatre will be crowded nightly. Seats are selling at Button's. If you are wise you will secure your seats in ad-

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One of the best plays of tbe day is an- A|, nounced for Friday evening, Sept. 29th. Mf It is Bartley Campbell's far-famed pS "Siberia," under tbe management of ?|f MacDonougb A Kennedy, a story of rj| Russian life, dealing with love, war, and intrigue. A better field for the dramatist cannot be found than that which exists in tbe great northern empire, whose banner bears tbe odd sym» bol of the double-headed eagle. It is a hind of mystery—of strange people—of strange deeds and the play-wrigbt has amply improved bis opportunity. New scenery, with novel effects, costumes, appointments, and an excellent company ensure a good performance. "Siberia" is under the immediate direction of Thos.B. McDonough, and its production here, will be of more than ordinary interest, as Miss Maude Horsford, of this eity is a member of the company.

Much interest attached to the piay owing to the appearance of Mie» Flora Keller and Miss Sylvia Hall, who made an excellent impression by their singing «md acgtng#.*

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Igg A THUNDERBOLT. |£§j| This is the title of a new play pro* duced at Naylor's Monday night, and which is the work of our own John R. Hager. It deals with the trials and tribulations of a World's Fair hotel keeper, whose wife and daughter refuse to be parties to bis money-making scheme, and insist on conducting themselves as guests. Tbe plot is well developed, and tbe comedy is filled with tbe bright, pithy sayings that the author is so prolific In producing. The music with which the play Is interspersed is tnneful and catcby, and adds to tbe reputation of Mr. Hager, who has done so much in this line that is meritorious. In fact, with his ability and undoubted musical talent, we wonder that be does not devote himself entirety to this work, which in a larger musical and theatrical center would bring him lasting recognition, and handsome returns financially.