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GEORGIA MATTERS*
Pendleton, of Yaldosfa, says: ‘‘Poor pay,
poor preach. So also in our business. The
quality of a newspaper upon tho
quanity of its patronage.”
We have been thinking the people of that
section failed in their duty toward newspa
pers.
W. B. Bennett, editor of the Quitman Ban
ner, has been ordained a Baptist preacher.
Mr. James K. Ballough, an old resident of
ffavannah, is dead.
Taldosta recommends vinegar lor chills.
Too sour to be good.
The State Board of Physicians will remain
in session in MiUedgevihe during the present
month for the accommodation of those who
desire licences.
Valdosta had a temperance supper. Pen
dleton destroyed a ham of fresh pork and
pronounced it a success.
Joseph E. DeLyon, a colored printer by
tra 'o, and a member of a Massachusetts Un
ion, has applied for work in Savannah.
The Thomas county cotton crop foots
up only G,21‘2 bales, whilst other leading crops
may be summarized as follows: Oats 6(5,358
bush* Is; corn 259;648 bushels, sweet potatoes
60,434 bushels, and syrup 52,129 gallons.
It is said tho Pennsylvania Centralltailroad
will purchase the Air-line and locate the
shops in Atlanta.
Tho tempcrenco cause is flourishing in
Valdosta. Seventeen new members to its
lodge within k few days.
Tho spring meeting of the Savannah Jockey
Club, which takes place in February next,
promises beyond a doubt, the weather
proving favorable, to boa most brilliant and
successful occasion.
Fifty-tlireo gin-houses have boon burned in
Georgia sinco tho 30tli of September.
A Mr. Billy, of Atlanta, lias invented a writ
ing macliino.
Horses are selling in Tunnel Hill at a dollar
and a half.
Some of tho young ladies of Savannah have
signed a document declaring their intention
not to purchase dry goods at any storo which
keeps the young men busy after seven o’clock
in the evening.
Mr.* Flora Foster, ono of tho oldest citizens
of Cuthbcrt, was drowned in Pit*aria creek
near that place oil Tuesday morning of last
week. Ho wrs fishing and is supposed to
have fallen into the water. lie was seventy
years of age.
The following eminent divines of tho Catho
lic Church are in Atlanta and officiated at the
pontifical mass hold ou Wednesday ; Bishop
W. H. Gross, of Savannah ; Itev. Fathers
Drcudergast, Baason, Lewis and Gaboure ;
also the Rev. Fathers Basine and Celetti.
The Cartcrsvillo Express says : “From all
parts of the country, we have the gratifying
intelligence that planters have sowed largely
of wheat. This is right, and in accordance
with advice we published some weeks ago—
though wo do not claim to have been instru
mental in bringing about such kuppVresults.’
A "*b Ho woman named Molly Wnldrup fell
in the streets of Macon tlio other day with
convulsions. The doctors discovered that
she had taken strychnine*
The Great Eastern Circus has stored some
of its luggage at Newnan.
• Dog fights, it seems, is tho only Bourco of
excitement in Valdosta.
Dougherty county is complaining of cotton
thieves. Twenty of the enterprising gents
aro in jail.
Albany is going to import English sparrows,
with which to destroy the cotton catterpillar.
The Editor of tlio Montezuma paper lias dis
covered a hero at last. A man walked two
miles in the uiglit time to pay his subscrip
tion.
Atlanta is worrying with a “lightning cal
culator” man.
Savknniih is arranging for bonfires during
Christmas.
The panic price for a drunk in Savannah is
three dollars.
Tho fall fights have opened in Quitman.
General Toombs has been invited to deliv
er his address on Magna Charta in Columbus.
There iR no epidemic of Bmall-pox in Macon
and no fear of ono.
A Butts county dog has treed ono hundred
and twenty o’possums this season.
Tho Telegraph if - Messenger has reefed its
canvas to the extent of nearly eight columrs,
and in its reasons therefor, virtually acknowl
edges that it has been mining non-paying
ads to make a show and keep its courage up.
Wc will say in advance that we get these
item from Harris, of the Savannah J Veics:
The Augusta Constitutionalist finds it au uphill
business to get contributions to the Fry fund.
Xo man, however benevolent ho may bo, can
be expected to givy liberally while there are
so many circuses in the land. 11 ill some pa
triot lead in prayer?
An attempt was made to assassinate the ed
itor of the Bifrimsville Patriot the other night.
He was knocked down at his own gate by
some person disguised. It is funny that these
editors refuse to go armed, especially in a
new country like Barnesville.
During October and November Gainesville
shipped one thousand and two hundred and
eighty-three bales of cotton.
Marietta is signing a petition to the Legis
lature to prevent ardent spirits from being
sold within three miles of the corporate lim
its.
George Sims, colored, was convicted at the
recent term of Newton Superior Court of com
mitting an outrage on a white woman.
Mr. Frank Dumont, who was arrested on a
charge of picking a countryman s pocket, has
paid Hie seven hundred and fifty dollars fine
imposed upon hpn by Judge Hopkins, and is
at liberty.
The grand jury at the session of MuscjjS **
Superior Court found seventy-four frneWßs
for gambling, Sunday bar-rooms, carryin o
concealed weapons, Ac.
Stonewall Fire Company, of Columbus, ha*
retired from active service.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 17,1873.
Wit and Humor,
Captain Tom Bug-bee, of the United
States army, was out with his company on
detached duty. In feet he had two com
panies under his command. He had with
him a small brass Napoleon and an ambu
lance. Captain Tom wa3 a strict discipli
narian, but a convivial fellow withal, and
fond of creature comforts, not many of
which were obtainable in the wild Country
through which he was marching. The
column had just left tho small hamlet of
Jasper’s Cross Roads, below Jacksonville,
when the captain observed that one of the
drams was beaten, and he directed* a lieu
tenant to inquire the cause. The lieuten
ant sought the delinquent and demanded
to know why he was not beating time. The
fellow nodded mysteriously, and whispered
into the officer's.ear, “I’ve got a pair o'
roasted chickens and two bottles of whisky
in my drum; and a chick and a bottle
are for the captain.”
The lieutenant returned, and in a whis
pered tone reported to the captain.
“Zounds 1” cried Captain Tom, with ve
hement sympathy, “why didn’t the poor
drummer tell me his legs had given out ?
Put him into the ambulance, sir!”
The drummer was consigned to the ambu
lance, and not long afterward Captain Tom
and the lieutenant went “to examine more
particularly” into the nature of his trouble.
W hat Dark df. Hole.— Two darkies in
the West went out to hunt’ possums, and
by accident found g large cave with a small
enterancc. Peeping in, they discovered
three young bear whelps in the interior.
“Look heah, Sam, while I go in dor,” said
one, “and gets de young bars ; you just
watch heah for de ole bar.”
Sam got asleep in the sun, and when
opening his eyes he saw the ole bear scour
ing her way into the cave. Quick as a
wink ho caught her by the tail and held on
like blazes.
“Hullo dar, Sam, what dark de hole
dar?”
“Lor’ bless you, Jumbo, save yourself,
honey ; if this tail come out you'll find what
dark de. hole.”
Prepared for the Worst. —lke Kiehl,
a Mississippi darkey, left the place of his
birth, and soon after settling in a Northern
city, became a local preacher. One of his
friends, a poor man, falling sick, Ike would
often visit him to inquire after his health.
One day, calling to see the sufferer, Ike
mentally decided that his friend was about
to give up the ghost. Going to one ol the
County Commissioners, Mr. Rudolph Kel
kol, Ike asked for an order for a cofiin,
which he received wit»h directions where to
find the county unkertaker. Ordering one
he proceeded to tho residence of his friend
to await the arrival of the burial casket.
In the course of an hour the wagon drew
up to the door, and the driver asked in
what room the dead man was. Ike promp
tly answered : “Massa Porter ain’t dead
yet; hut dis chile reckons he'll soon be
gwine to that undiscumbered plantation
dat no nigga nebber leabes, and I ordered
dat coffin to be prepared for the wust.”
Eight years have elapsed since that time
aud Mr. Porter at present isAlive and well.
Patriot.
How to Behave ond YoTtrselfs then
you vas got Introduced. —Then you vas
got introduced mit a young ghal, don "h you
make blushes your nose bud bow ond your
head quick righd off and shdick oud your
fisd, und say, mit manliness, “Hello, how
you vas, ennerhow ?” If she says “Yes,”
k'hen you must shdard oud a leedle confer
sations, for insdance, sudeh leedle irrolefant
qvesdions like dis : “Yell, vas your niud
der, und barend all righd-ffide up-side ?”
“Yell, don'd you dink der vedder vas quide
mudeh so ladilo ?” “Con’d you dink dot it
vas cold enough, a leedle doo much not
quide?” “Eon'd you dink dot—dot—veil
—don'd you dink so ?” “Yell, vy der fam
nation don'd you say someding. vat for I
musd do all der chin-muric?” und so fourd.
If she vas a packvarkness young lady vat
choosd comes oud pv der society, you cood
omit oud dose lasd few drilling exbressions,
bud nf she vas got exberience. you could
pring eem in oggasionaly. Os all dings, you
musd dry to got ofer der foolish habits vieh
some young fellers hafe. vhen dhey vas
apout to beed inderduced mit a gooty gol:
of grabbing dliere caps, und sending oud
about sefen plocks from der house, und
dhen poking pack scared, on cound of
being bashfully. Dot vasn'd no goot senses.
Young fellers, don'd peen bashful bond der
gals—und young gals don'd peen bashful
boud dor fellers. (Yell, ve like to find
some of dot lasd kind. vars).
Mark Quencher.
Joel Konkliu. one of the oldest turfmen,
and for many years the proprietor of the
once popular and fashionable Cent rev die
Course is dead.
R. Burgess,-Richmond, Ya ; W. John
son, Petersburg, Ya.; W. F. Worthington,
Richmond. Ya.. and J. F. Mollere, Louisi
ana. are at the Imperial.
Clara Louisa Kellog had such a cold in
Chicago the other Night that she couldn't
sing. This was cruel to the audience—and
cruel to the fair Louise.
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—TH 2 UNION AS BESTOSED.
Miscellaneous Matters.
Suffering in the West. —ln various
sections of Kansas also in Northwestern
lowa, the people are suffering terribly from
the failure of crops and their destruction
by fire. In Kansas, many hundreds of
farmers have lost fences, barns, hay-stacks,
gathered crops, and all upon which they
depended to meet their winter’s expenses
or feed their flocks. Cattle and horses
have been sacrificed to speculators, who
have gone thither to trade on the necessi
ties of the people, and thus the settlers are
left without present means of flipgS Or
future fceans of farming. They have no
clothing, no fuel, and are burning twists of
hay arid rushes to keep themselves warm.
The suffering of these poor people will in
crease with the increasing severity and
heavy snow-falls of mid-winter. Already
relief is being sent forward from those who
have to spare, and the railroads are furnish
ing free transportation for relief stores.
Some months ago a Mr. Cheesborough,
of New York, suggested a plan for keeping
the Erie canal from freezing over in the
winter by artificial li-rib t.o be conveyed
along the whole length of the canal, three
hundred and fifty miles, by means of iron
pipes. The idea was very genereally ridi
culed at the time, but it seems that Pro
fessor R. H. Thornton, Professor of Engi
neering in the Stevens Institute of Tech
nology, has been considering the practica
bility of tho scheme, aud has furnished the
public an elaborate report on the subject.
Professor Thornton concedes the entire
feasibility of the project, aud after esti
mating carefully tho cost of laying down
the pipe, tho cost of coal, labor, repairs,
superintendence, Ac., gives the following
tot'il estimates : First cost, 350 miles, at
$15,750 per mile, $5,412,500: maintainance
per annum, at $4,772 per mile, $1,070,200.
Total cost first year, $7,082,700.
A Southerner for the Presidency—
Some of the Southern papers are discuss
ing the propriety of having the next Presi
dent come from their part of the country,
and Alexander 11. Stephens, of Georgia,
seems to have been mutually agreed upon
as a suitable candidate, There are not bones
enough in the body of the dauntless
little Southern giant—and he has nothing
else except skin and brains upon his frame
aud headwork—to make a respectable rat*-
tie in the contribution box of a country
church. J3ufc his friends will have their say
nevertheless; and it will not ho the first
time if they succeed, that he. has been offer
ed a similar distinction, and that too, by a
regular Democratic national convention, a
fact not generally known in our policical
history —New York Herald.
“The Prize Bale of Cotton” has been
sold for the last time in the interests of
charity. It was first disposed of at auc
tion at Little Rock, for the benefit of the
Memphis sufferers, for the sum of five hun
dred and fifty-four dollars. Subsequently
it was Shipped to Baltimore and sold for
two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and
fifty-cents, and on Friday it was again sold
in that city lor two hundred and ten dollars
—the proceeds of the different sales aggre
gating one thousand sixty-two dollars and
fifty cents.
Senator Gordon. —The Washington
correspondent of the Courier-Journal
says; “Senator Gordon, of Georgia, is
preparing a bill, which he will support in
an elaborate speech, setting forth the fi
nancial condition and needs of the South
ern States; also providing for the abolish
ment of the tax on private banking, and
removing all the protective features of the
present system. His effort will be one of
great clearness and power, and indicates
that Gordon is the rising statesman of the
South.
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An Extensive Prejudice.
The Chronicle and Sentinel usually a
staid and reliable journal, and the Milledge
ville Union and Recorder also of sober re
putation, are writing up a State Conven
tion with great rigor, backed not with ar
gument but with prejudice.
The Chronicle wants the Constitution
chanced because “it was made partially by
scalawags and carpet baggers.
The Union and Recorder wants it chang
ed because “it will carry the capital to
Milledgeville.”
We have read the fine leaders of both
Carefnllv day after day, and have aiWays
failed to find the adducation by either, Qi
any reason for a Convention, save the two
quoted above. True, there are occasional
dim suggestions thrown out as to certain
practical and beneficial reform* that may
be made, but each of them relapse inevita
bly before they have written twenty lines,
the one into the abuse of scalawags, and
the other into slanders upon Atlanta. Now
we have no objection to Mr, M alsh or
Mr. Bougliton, either entertaining pre
judices: indeed, we are somewhat in favor
of it. for they are sprightliest waen mad
dest: but we do not intend, if we can h*?lp
it, that the people shall be deluded into
wasting four or five hundred thousand dol
lars for the mere satisfaction of two chivai-
ric gentlemen of the press.
We are opposed to the calling of a State
Convention. We are opposed to it as use
less and-expensive; as irritating and danger
ous; as unwise and impolitic. The Con
stitution as it stands, while not perfect, is
a very good orie. The State has prosper
ed wonderfully under its laws. It is a thing
that ought not to be tampered with, even
if it could be done without a dime’s ex
pense; and especially not when it will cost
probably over a quarter of a million of dol
lars, all of which will be extorted from the
poor tax-payers.
If the Convention is called, it would open
the door of discussion" to crack-brained
politicians and extremists who will bring
untold trouble upon the State. We have
our eye upon a score of valuable orators
whose everlasting tongues will cost Georgia
fifty thousand dollars during the session of
the contention.
The only vivid issue which we have seen
presented yet by any of the advocates of
the convention is raade.by Colonel John C.
Reed, of Oglethorpe. He wants the prin
ciple of imprisonment for debt revived.
Do you hear that, people of Georgia ?
On this issue we are willing to meet the
conventionists at any time!
We are opposed to the convention from
first to last, and for .a hundred reasons!
Atlanta Herald.
ELOPEMENT.
Paulino Markham Runs Away
with General McMahon.
On tho evening of the 22d instant much
confusion w«s caused at Niblo's Garden,
consequent upon the sudden disapperance
of Pauline Markham. When the hour for
the performance arrived Stalacta was
missing, and Lizzie Kelsey was obliged to
fill the role, as she has ever since. It was
subsequently ascertained that Pauline had
left for parts unknown by the 5 o’clock
train from Jersey City, in company with
an habitual frequenter of Niblo’s, known
as General McMahon, formerly of the Con
federate army. McMahon had, it is said,
a proclivity for lavishing colossal bouquets
upon the fair Markham, as she nightly
sparkled on the stage. Fair Pauline’s
new admirer undertook to foot a bill ot
$55 a week at the Crittenden House for
Iter and her maid. They occupied a par
lor and two bedrooms. Markham, dis
daining a cheap locomotion, rode nightly
to the theatre in a coupe, and, as she re
turned, McMahon would enter the vehicle
as it passed the corner of Broadway and
Houston street: The General, finally,
finding it necessary to leave the city,
Pauline consented to relinquish her en
gagement without notice to the managers,
and accompany him. He left the bulk of
his baggage as security for a board bill of
S4OO at his hotel, and liquidated sllO due
La Belle Pauline at the Crittenden by a
draft for S2OO, for which S9O in change
was returned. A Broadway florist named
Iloffheimer had served about $15,00 at
different timo3 for bouquets ordered by
the General, but a bill of $425 still remain
ed unpaid. Hearing by chance of Mc-
Mahon’s departure, he posted with Detec
tive Nugent to the ra'tread station, and
presented his account as the train started.
While on the way to Newark, McMahon
offered Hoffheimer a draft for $4,000 on
Balletop's Coal Company of Texas as se
curity, requesting him to guard it careful
ly, as he would pay $425 and redeem it in
seven days. Hoffheimer therefore allowed
him to depart. Pauline appeared at first
to manifest no interest in the proceedings,
but money, she turned and remarked: “111
get out some of my diamonds, and you
can give them as collateral;” but to this
proposition McMahon very strongly ob
jected, averring that the arrangement he
had just concluded would prove satisfac-,
tory to all concerned. McMahon was ma
jor in the army during the late war, and at
its close took up his residence in this city.
He boarded in a fashionable hotel all last
winter and a portion of the summer follow
ing. Ilis rooms were of the best ? '
house afforded, and involved a heavy ex
penditure of means. But their occupant
spent money*lavishly until the opening of
the panic, when he appeared to have suf
fered heavy losses, betokening an ap
proaching condition of impecuniosity'. His
board bill, after being permitted to run
considerably beyond the period when pay
ments are usually demanded, waa present
ed to him for payment, but he stated his
inability to meet it at the time, and having
run in debt af the hotel for six week s
board, he, two weeks ago. changed his
place of residence to a less costly abode,
leaving bis baggage in possession of the
hotel proprietors until such time as he
could arrive at a settlement of his indebt
edness
McMahon is described as a man of com- !
nanding presence, about thirty-six years
of age, and a person who never wore a
necktie. In lieu of this he displayed in
variably a large diamond stud, instead of
the proverbial collar button. He is re
ported as having a wife and child living
with his relatives in Galveston, Texas, and j
daring a portion of the past summer they j
resided with him at a hotel at Long 1
t OFFICE, BROUGHTON ST., [
Sanborn Building. )
Branch. He was usually called McMahon,
and was the gentleman who furnished
Manager Greenwall. two years ago, with
money to open Lina Edwin’s Theater for
the appearance of the Chapman sisters.
A Tragedy Indeed. —One of tho most
heartrending stories of the year conies
from Fond du Lac. A young lady was
passing through a piece of ground adjoin
ing a farm house with her lover, when the
girl was attacked by a savage dog. Be
fore her escort could protect her the dog
had seized her by the breast aud torn it
from her body. When the young man
saw the dbi? shaking a portion of the body
of his intended he fainted away. The
young lady, however, did not faint. v She
was so mortified that she seized a fence
rail and she went for tlu t dog, and she
pounded him until ho laid still. When
her lover recovered the young woman was
trying to hide one of the wire screens that
people put over plants to keep Ihe flies off.
It seems that the dog didn't draw blood,
owing to the fashions at Fond du Lae,
which is needless to describe. However,
there is great excitement at Fond du Lac,
and the young man has broken off his en
gagement and has bought the dog—what
there is left of him, and he is going to set
him again —La Cross Democrat.
Grant and Stephens?,
We are just as ready as the fire eater of
the Savannah News, who is a Yankee by
birth, to growl at Grant when we think he
makes a mistake, and we are ten thousand
times more ready to applaud him when he
does a generous act, and there are many
such in his record. We think Grant is a
better soldier than “Alec.” Stephens, and
we know “Aloe” Stephens is a better
scholar and statesman than Grant. To
use the common vulgarism of tho editor
of the Savannah Neics, we have “peeled”
our eye to watch Stephens, and we have
tho greatest faith in his ability and his
power to do good to his section. Some
how it thrilled us when Congress voted
him a special seat and assigned a page to
take charge of the noble old man’s crutches.
Stephens needs to be’ near the Speaker’s
stand, for his voice is weak, and his phys
ical frame, never strong, is daily-waning.
But the faintest word he utters in that
grand hall at Washington will be taken
up, and in clearest syllables it will echo in
every home, between tho great oceans, in
the Republic. It will kill out prejudice,
and men with hungry cars will drink in
the words of tho prophet of tho war, and
bury their prejudice as they hasten to do
justice to a glorious laud and a bravo ond
noble-hearted people. Stephens very
properly Called on the President, and he
was too infirm to mount the steps leading
to the office of the Chief Executive. But
the Chief Executive the great
Georgian was there and he ordered a par
lor thrown open his reception on the first
floor, and he left the hundreds in waiting
to come down and see the skeleton in body
and giant in brains from Georgia, and he
laid aside the crutches that he might the
better grasp the hand of the ex-Tice Pres
ident of the Confederacy. “A little thing,”
the whiners who never fought may say, as
they turn to ridicule an incident replete
with feeling, and filled with bodings of
good. Yes, it is “a lr iitc tiling,” but we
pray for more incidents of the same kind,
and it will rejoice our soul to chronicle
the growing together by little threads of
the severed heart of the nation.—Colum
bus Enguirer.
CONDITION OF TnE NA FT.
The condition of our navy is just now a
question of paramount importance. No
one who has taken sufficient interest in
the subject to investigate it thoroughly
wijl deny that, in view of the meagre rc
sourses of the Department, Secretary
Robeson ha3 succeeded in placing it upon
a better footing than we had reason to ex
pect. He ha3 so managed the important
trust imposed upon him by threatened
emergency of hostilities with Spain as to
bring tlie navy from a peace to a war foot
ing. but in so doing has been compelled to
make extraordinary drafts upon the regu
lar appropriations for the support of the
Department. He has not hesitated to as
sume a responsibility in the premises
which was imperatively requisite, and
which will be sustained by Congress as
thoroughly as it has been endorsed by the
press and the people. Sustained by tills
assurance, he has appealed to Congre33 for
aid in an appropriation of $5,000,000, the
amount needed to complete the prepara
tions for war which have been begun. In
our opinion the appeal commends itself to
the warm approval of both Houses, not
only because it is absolutely necessary, but
upon the grounds of economy. It must
be remembered that war is no child's play;
but, on the contrary, is a most expensive
reality, and although it does not exist now
a prudent foresight demands that we shall
be ready for it if unfortunately it should
be forced upon us. Hundreds expended
now may save thousands to the Govern
ment in the future. Our past experience
teaches us that the harried building of war
vessels is not only an extravagant, but ac
tually a wasteful, manner in which to equip
the navy, and the same may be said of the
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Musical ami Dramatic.
Tho dramatic business Is reported as very
dull in Chicago.
Fannie Kemble played in Bouton forty
one years ago.
Midi Noßifi terminated her Si. Louts
engagement on the 7th.
Mis* Rose Cogilan is expected in New
York from England soon.
Mrs. D. P. Botvers was still at the Mem
phis Theatre at last advices.
Miss Kellog is in Trhlianapolis, and is re
ported to bom excellent health.
Lit tle Nell, the California Diamond, will
Hppetfr at Memphis on the 15th.
Oliver Doud Bryon is playing at Corin
thian Hall, Rochester, this week.
Miss Marion Mordant conunonces an
engagement at Toronto on December 8.
Mr. Edwin Booth plays for one weeek
commencing December 8, at Providence.
Miss Ada Gray appears this week at tho
Richmond (Ya.) Theatre in “Camille."
Leffingwelt gushed at tho Atheneura, Co
lumbus, Ohio, on the 29th, as Clorinda.
Susini is singing with * Mmo. Arabella
Goddard’s concert company in Australia.
Miss. Maud Grey, is dissolving statues,
at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadel
phia.
Miss. Helen O’ Este’s company was to
close a four night’s stay at Evansville, Ind.,
29th.
Mr. J. M. Yv aril and Miss Minetta Mon
tague were at Cohoes, N. Y„ on the 28th
and 29th.
Herr Rubinstein has been performing at
Milan in connection with tlio Quartet So
ciety.
“The Black Crook” will receive his
quietus in New York at the close of this
week.
Mrs. F. S. Canfrau commences an en
gagement at Wood’-s Cincinnati, Decem
ber 8.
Miss Carlotta Leclerco will appear at
Rohinson’s Opera House, Cincinnati, ori
the Bth.
Lidlio Wilkinson’S company, Fall Riv
er, December 2 and 3: New Bedford, 4 and
5.
Charles Reade, tlio novelist, has assumed
the management of One of ‘the London
theatres.
IJa ry Linden, the Chicago favorite, has
made a hit as Wilkins Micawber at the
Globe, Chicago.
The Coleman sisters, in their specialties,
at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, De
cern Ner 29:
The Kellog English Opera Troupe ap
peared at Dooley's Theatre, Chicago, oh
the Ist for a brief season.
At the Salt Lake Theatre Fannie Cath
cart and George Darrell are doing “Dark
Deeds” and “Black-eyed Susan.”
Mrs. G. C. Howard will appear in “Un
cle Tom’s Cabin” at the Maryland Insti
tute, Baltimore, on the 15th instant.
Misfr JoPie Booth and an excellent com
pany produced the “Hidden Hand” last
week at the Music Hall, Portland, Me.
Mr. Sothren appears at Robinson's
Opera House, Cincinnati, on the 4th, sth,
andgflth, in his famous personation of Da
vid Garrick.
Robinsons Circus Attackted by
Frontier Ruffians,
St. Louis, December I. — Tlw Kansas
City Journal, of yesterday, has a privato
letter from Crockett, Texas, stating that
a party of Texan desperadoes attempted to
break up the performance of John Robin
son’s Circus at Jacksonville, on the 23d of
November, but were prevented and order
restored. About 5 o’clock in the evening,
however, as the circus men were loading
their animals, wagons, etc., on the cars
prepratory to leaving the town, a largo
number of roughs attacked the men with
knives and pistols. A general and deeper- *
ate fiuht ensued, in which three Texans
were killed, several wounded and six circua
men wounded. Robert Stickney had his
knee dislocated, and it is feared he will
never be able to ride again. Allen Rose
another performer, wa3 shot through the
hand, Charles Robinson was knocked
down with a club. Three canvas men were
shot through the legs ; one hostler through
the breast, and another stabbed in the back.
As the train was leaving town it was fired
on and one man slightly Wounded.—
Threats were made by the Texans that
they would go to Crocket and again attack
the circus, find Robinson had sent to Hous
ton for amunition.
M me Parqne, the Haytien lecturer, says
that Louisville is the first place where sjje
has ever received any rebuff on account of
her color.
Professor TTough has resigned the direc
torship of the Dndiey Observatory at Al
bany. He thinks the present endowment
insufficient.