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AJSTP GEORGIA JOTJIINA.IL. & MESSENGER.
CLISBY, JONES & REESE, Proprietors. The
Family Journal.—Nets—Politios-“-Literature—
AGRiouLTUBEr-DoMBSTio Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
established 1S26.
MACOX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 37, 1872.
Volume LXVI—No. 27
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" Xlie Old to»t «t Gray.
jjx blosdine.
.. b th;re alone; it ie rusted and faded.
a MtdJ on the elbow, a hole in the side;
-..-think of the brave boy who wore it, and ever
k _ with pleaame and touch it with pride.
. L .'iniM to it; over and over.
TJ . pr * n d youth hurried off to the fray,
fl-Uh hie f»' m Uie oak * * ad like tbe
H.wgahaot he rode in the ranks of ‘the Gray!”
u rcD< ;h it is worn, it ie tattered in places,
Rnt I tofo it lilt moie for the story it bears—
Alton if connge in strngirie with sorrows,
And a heart that bore bravely its burden of cares.
It ia ricR' d and rnety. bat ah I it was shining
In the oilkieet sbe«>u when he wore it away,
yd hi= (mile was as bright as the glad summer
morning
ffheu h* sprang to his place in the ranks of “the
Grey.”
There's a rip in the sleeve, and the collar is tar
nished,
Ihe buttons all gone with their glitter and go.d;
lit a thing of tbe past, and we reverently lay it
Avr w.tu the treasures and relics of old.
Aitbe’fiif s of a love, solemn, sweet and unspoken,
A ee .eriahed as le*ves from a long vanished day,
ge trill keep the old jacket for the sake of the
loved one
ffbo lids iu the van in the ranks of “the Gray.”
gut ih. cugh with a ballet—right here In the ehoal-
et-r,
And down there tbe pocket is splintered and
toiled.
Ah', mote—te» the lining ie stained and discolored!
yL—biood-drcps the texture have al.ff.ned and
rp.iied. .
home when be rode at the head of the column,
(liuging down in the battle one deadli. st d«y,
ffLtn .q'l’dfont of foemen were broken arnnder
And victory rode with the ranks of " the Gray.”
Iu m< mory is sweetness and sorrow ccmmiDglcd,
Tome i. is precious—more precious than g .Id;
Is the tent ai d the shot-holt s a volume is wutteu,
Id tbe su ns on the lining is agony told,
flat was ten years ago, when in lire’s tunny
morning.
He rodo with his comrades down into the fray,
Aid tiu old coat he wote and the good sword he
wit ded
Were all that came Lack from the ranks of “ the
Gray ”
And it lies there alone; I will reverence it ever,
The pitch on the elbow, the hole in the Bide,
for a tisitanter heart never breathed than th loved
one
Who wore it in honor and soldierly pride.
La mo biuoh iff the dost from its tatters and tar-
r-h,
L„t mi. t 1 i it up closely and lav it away—
I.a ! that ia it. f the loved and the lost me
Who fought for ;lic luonr ia th. ranks of ” the
(ii ay’
Direct Trade ami Immigration.
The j'int committee appointed by onr State
hegislntnre at th.. last session of the General
Assembly, met on the 5th, in the city ot Savan
nah to oeer.tipo ns ime.'.t g,lions. The El..n-
O'ahle J din U Niitboils, Ci.irnian, and Ruins
E Lf'ter, wh John O Doll, E^q*., Oapt. J.
U. Hunter, J. ltu-a-li, Eq, represent, d the
Citoiuinee Aioji’r Henry Uryau, and E De-
Lon, E q, ot Savannah and others were
jiv-tut to usstRt in giving information
Thr Gnnnotl Chamber of tbe city was placed
at the d poaal of tbe Committte, a.d Col.
Screven, M .yor of Savannah, was present dur
ing part of me proceedings
T< e meeting of Thursday was formal and
prelimt-j„ry. A committee of citizens was ap
pointed to collate and present statistics of the
present import trade of Savannah, and other
matters bearing upon the subject of this inves
tigation. Alter a short session tbe committee
adjourned to meet on Friday morning at 9
o’clock.
At ibe adjourned meeting, Col Mann and
Gen. Wagner, of Savannsh, and Mr. McKay,
of Macon, took part in tbe proceedings, and
gave va liable information to tbe committee,,
which, afterward* adjourned to meet again on
the 26tb December.
Tbe importance of this subject to tbe mate-
nal interests of onr State cannot be over esti
mated; and, in the conception and inaugura
tion of a wise, liberal and comprehensive plan
lt>r tte carrying ont of these objects, ia involved,
lik very large extent, tbe prosperity of onr
Cin.cu.iu wealth. While there doubtless exist
tinstd.-rable general interest in tbe subject, yet
u.e public rt quires information on many impor
tant points before that only safe motive power,
public opinion, can render any legislative ac
ton effective in this direction. That this com-
mitteinvestigations will give a powerful tm-
petos in this direction cannot be doubted, and
Uie press of the State should give careful and
iti-Uined a.sihtauce to the attainment of these
otjscts.
Other S’a»es are moving strongly in this di-
ttctiuu. Virginia has already begun to realize
the fir t fruits of efforts put forth in past years,
boatsidua is arranging to get a line of trans
atlantic t-teamere to her great seaport, New
Odeaim; »nd Georgia mast bts.ir herself or be
left behind in the race for progress
Already the attention of former Legislatures
tai beau dir.-cted to this subject, and powers
*ere given to the Eexeoative during the admin-
! 'tratiua of Gov. Brown, to make arrangements
f°r a lias of steamers from Esrope to Savac-
s *h; but these were put in abeyance by tbe
*»t which immediately followed, and so this
•halation became inoperative. The direction
*wl purpose of that action, however, r-main
the Biuue, and all that is now required is to take
th 41 tbe point, and with the light far-
“bh-it hy our changed circumstances and the
esmts of the continued attention, and more in-
oraiwi judgment of those who bave kept these
“JforUat ends in view, and bave labored to
ring (hem about, to proceed to auch further
• eps as are now p-acticable and desirable.
Savannah h«s done herself honor by taking
*>* initiative in this matter, and deserves the
wpport > nd ..sststanca of the other cities of the
■4Ib. Our own oi.y of Macon has a propor-
anate interest in this great question, and
tight to take her fall share in pushing it to a sat
'•ictorj issue. It wou d be a graceful step tn
s direction, if this committee was invited to
, i lts adjourned meeting here, and the moral
th ioflu noe possessed by onr city in
«• affaire l ^ e State, thrown into the scale in
•Jtrtheranoe of these objects. In connection
•*h tins subject, the importance of onr State
“S'-’ g represented as fully as possible at the ap.
Wuncnii.g World’s Fair in V.enna, should not
!* l0s: M ght of. It is a fact, of which ad who
L-d auytaing to do with this subject are
J ■*» aware, tuat our State is very little known
-L trope, and its resources are a myth to the
body 0 f p^ppi e across the Atlantic. Bnt
“this international exhibition, and gathering
.* fit) commercial and financial gods of Europe
'“oiTortnoity to publish ourselves which it
11 hi almost criminal to neglect. If onr peo-
JJ* w ' r ’ folly alive to their own interests,
*‘fy department of otxr agricultural, mineral
I* 11 m .nufaolaring wealtu would be there
!***• n.ed, and one or more of onr best men
are potted on all these matters, and able to
?‘ Tl j '“formation respecting them would be
out there in onr interest It would be a
ijJJJ 1 ’-’liable investment of money to pat this
and
and
kb* 'i at ° ** r * ot ‘ oe an< * carry it out fully
Ur ' ’ * ,1< * WtJ oomnl6n d it to tbe serions
“tabie cousiderattoa of ad concerned.
(A* 1 * fecyser region has been discovered ia
horritory. Some of tbe geysers are very
arksbie, one of them sending up water from
and steam from the other. The
''oLi* 060 * 'Ue river, fora distance of nearly
*’»ini • 's lined with spriugs and geysers,
4^ tnt j its current and raising the leinper-
0 w the water many degrees.
The corruptions and vioes of mankind have
furnished to the pen 4 of the satirist themes for
animadversion from the earner ages of tbe
world down, to the present time. These themes
have offered themselves more abundantly at
some periods than others. We seem to be in
one of the periods of great abundance just now.
In morals, progression and retrogression seem
ever alternating with laws as inevitable and re
sults as certain as those whioh characterize the
ebb and flow of the sea.'
The wise well oonsider the world in three
preat aspects, viz: Moral, Intellectual and
Physical. In onr marvelous age, the physical
world is undergoing changes unprecedented for
rapidity and importance in all the long ages of
log His Illness.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
New Yobk, December 5.—Ex-Surgeon Gen.
HOW MUCH.
Something; of the Kalnrles and Fortoaes
of Aoteu riayera.
People who occupy public position in some
sort of nay belong to the public, or at least the
TJ__ J , .. .... „ V , ovu. o. iniuu. ui uig yuuuo, nr at uwu ine
Hm-ond who attended Mr. Greeley s case, dear pnblto imagines they do, and hence a very
gives his opinion that dnnng the last illness all generdl 0ur ; O oty about their private life, their
the intellectual part of the patient’s brain was
affected. There was no paralysis and his artic*
nlation was very disticot. He seemed to be in
antagonism to all around. Dr. Hammond says
“In order to test his oonscionBness he asked
him if he knew Mr. Dickens; I know that he
did, for I was present at the dimmer to Mr.
Diokens, at whioh Horace Greeley presided.
He exoiatmed: ‘I never heard the name in my
life; now mind, when I was born I died, and
when I died I was born.’ I then told him that
the n »«t Th« . .11 “T 1 meet l was oorn. a tnen torn him teat
law“4“ ““•“W-d.'-d
the moral world? Progressive, oertainly;
inquiring for him; he answered: ‘Now mind,
- . - ■ when I was born I died, and when I died I was
rapidly progressive—nay, even “fast,” bat the bora’
g °.°t, d aDd ^ e ,. hea ^ of £• wis6 / ra j “It was evident to me that no gleam of con-
pained under the conviotion that its rapidity geiousnees rtmainoj. He very r^ely answered
° h , le i Jy h el r t f d , “ questions I asked him,and vbLeverhe d.d the
soeoif-s of tarea lrnn ’ ^ 0t o < ;^T W « 6 V’ ^ nt ^i^j 1 answers were wrong. He seemed to be troubled
H t8 l U : 1 r ay deInde «»rly all the time with a pain in his head. He
Lnb Lr LaHnsH h t - l 13 f aVe,,Dgt ? t! ? e wonld continually place his hand on hisfore-
WlMime daHtottoa wMtheg Lezaroa of old head, as though ho was suffirmg intensely in
ended his journey; bnt in reality its destiny in , that region ” - 8 J
Mle P/ 801 ^ 8 in tb » e T i Dr. Hammond griatly regrets that, owing to
fnUy tdentifi.d wtth the “model man," the thu opposUion J the family, Mr. Greeley’s
Hon. Mr. Dives.
“Souls for Sa!e,” a poem of six hundred lines,
written by Mrs. Lide Meriwether, the author of
“SonLdingH,” lately presented to the pnblto. and
published by Boyle & Obapmac, of Memphis,
Tennessee, is a telling poetical satire on these j
brain was not weighed.
Tbe Grave ot Charles Dickens.
“Julias Cajsar Plantagenet.” a correspondent
^ t of aD inflaential journal in E igland, thus gos-
shams of the pretendtd F “nnco guid and rigidly Weatmicster Abbey:
righteons.” It is also a vivid word-painting of I J™? m , ome . nt 1 enter Westminster Abbey, I
the facilis {rt citbsimm) descensus Arerari of f ! 1 8 , k ' nd aw f. P 6rvade mmd wh I oh 1
modern morals. Its blows fall thick and heavv ! a^^ 6 L ^ “ tP 00 / 6e “ od 8a ‘
and telling on the corrnptions of the age. No ‘ " ed ' “ Al1 ” hn / hed “ d . 8tl “ “ d !, a,h * aw
wonder that the good Arkansas country preacher Tar ® n ,s 6 a °f of b ‘® a . pl e ’ w j’ ofie
nnKiin.iinn . j quaint pillars to*t their marole beads to bear
mistook it for a religions publication, and read A>ft iU arched and ponderous roof. By its
to hts congregation some of its powerful pen- „ . 7. . J ,
oicmresof nravalent hvnocrisies The “better > own Wfc, R ht “ a,]e steadfast and immovable,
pterarea or pwva'ent bypocnatee. me better , lookintt traoquilly.” As I looked with interest
eaaoattja in tbe cities - some of them, at least „n„
-will tbrill with factitious and sanettmonions ^° ta k upon the walls. and tbe
horror over the pnngent little volume, and com I t n,oh « s . aad the life-like carvings
phrases to denounce it The zig-zag andThe kere “ nJ th ! re > ,he England ro.e up
ss a «r' P n : ,T k,c ? T“? a
bonz.D tax ; but:«ben^ibey.r.ohj.ctela ™JJSom’U.!L,“
Zrnnt ry ,H P ? fl ^h« t fno Vhfeert J >t8 moTO pi UCefnl asSC.atioUS better fi led
corrupt idolatry, shaking the very earth under ; to moral z .. Shakspeare, Dryden, Taomson,
onr feet, they are wicked genu of the storm to • . ’
be SDeedtlv exercised and carefnllv shunned j Soutnty, and a nutnberof other grea. men have
oe speeauy exercised ana careintiy snnnned. i monnment8 erected in this part of the abbey,
We opine some creatures wrapped about in npou wh]oh Uf) fo.th, in suitable terms!
ways and habits ’behind the cnrcain. Actors
and actresses come in for a large share of this
cariosity,*and that public, npon whose approv
ing smites their whole fortune and happiness
depend, bngely enjoy any little bits of informa
tion regarding the fortunes and domestio rela
tions of their favorites. Most wonderful stories
are told and more than taoitly encouraged, as a
role, both by the parries concerned and amuse
ment managers in general, abont the wealth and
enormons salaries of the popular people, The
New York News dishes tip qnite an interesting
lot of this sort of intelligence, which we pre
sent for what it is worth. .1
the cpeea.
Madame Luocs is tbe first one presented.—
This little lady, says tbe writer, who for ten
years has been the admiration of Earope, has
appeared in all the principal opera-honses of
j Earope and made a great deal of money. She
married two years ago a Prussian baron, an
officer in tbe army. Tbe money Bhe had made
in ten years he squandered m one. Before she
came here, sbe— Lucca—was obliged to pledge
a part of her jewelry to pay his debts.
When she landed here, bad her voiee, for in
stance, failed her, all she had in the world was
a few precious stoDes saved from fhe wreck
ttreir various accomplishment and virmes. Here,
too, I songht and found a simple inscription
npon the fl air, in the said Poets’ Corner, which,
inure than any other, touched me exceedingly
Yes, there it was beneath my feet, a p!a<n yet
~ ' 7tb
broad phylacteries will have some taalt to find
with Mrs. Merriwether’s little poem. It has
too mneb power and too much merit to escape.
We caunot extend this notice by attempting
any miunte analysis of this strange and puwer-
fdl poem The readers of this article will pro- j “curler D.ckens,’ “born
cure the little volume andread it 1 or ttemselves. ; £ el , r J812 D ed 0 .b June, 1870 ”
We can merely adtfihat the allegorical obarac- j It ^ b n ’ ot that L H group after
tersof the poem are managed with masterly 1 tu lhe spot, they would pau£, and
sk,II, and, Use the last deem,o r of the* hupr. me f ttlk / aiid look , M tn J! n ^ h ea ^ h one {o ^ d a
Conn, completely reverse the dictum, f Hugh dcar ’ triend an; , old at Stance, and common
Blatn and his antiquated ‘ Supreme Conn of , n h it Wtl8 to be J tbe teudtr ejaculation,
Rhttoncans on the aabj-ct of the employment : ,. 0 8 here - d D . oben3 .» Tbe 8logi J Dg o{
of Allegory Oat of an hundred tempting ex- | abbe ; cholr Was a treat and , he intoning by
-racts we shall append, m closing bur one- tue ^ iaur Q B v lload J ,nes, veryap
Ojb of the utterances of that gay and fa eiuat- ; a .-La,
tug dame so well known in every ctiy as the
“leader of the ton,”—to-wit, Fashion :
1 First and fo emost, the marriage code
I’ve brought ‘to the right about;’
Th d> vil much to my w.t has owed
For patting itr bond, to rout;
The marriage knot is a ne.t loot bell,
And home is tbe ph on for ‘the ton' to call;
And bn-band and child < u are nuisances ail.
And eo I have rul.d them out I"
W. G. M.
propriate to tbe entire performance. A sermon
by the ItcV. Mr. Cad man was very evangelical,
aud the service on the wnuie most enjoyable.
If yon waut a quiet hour, let me recommend
yon to Westminster Abbey The only ludicrous
item in the whole i ff.nr seemed to me to be tbe
supernumeraries or V; rger~. dilapidated speci
mens i f the “ genus homo,” and exercising an
thorny m such a manner as well nigh to ir, the
patience of a same, anil certainly that of a sin
ner like myself.
1 lie Fast Trotting .Season.
Th8 following record of the time made by
borses tha‘ bave reached 2:30 in the season,
takeu from L a. Ciark’s fori booming Trotting
THE TRAFFIC IN FACE*-'.
Pietnrcs of Popnlar People, and some Ca
rton* Facts About tbe Ante of Them.
Fr m the hew York Mail ]
Let ns step into a shop for the sale of photo- j j u „"l,i an ce from enthusiastic tnrfists
graphs in this city, and learn by what meansh ““ ...
the pictuiesof prominent people r.re taken, how : Girl..."L..2:i7'4 Grace*..!.".'.!!...
they sell, etc There is a great demand for a ! Lucy 2:18J4| u .e Parker
! Register for 1872, wUl merit more than a past- vloes Boncicanl' in his life has made some
B * . .. - . thing over $2,000,000 by hts plays alone; but
2 23
i W. H. Allen.... :a'A
Sensation i;2 l A
George Pa'mer 2:23!^
Jim Irving A2'i
Lucille Grlddu&t......Z:24y
Lulu ...2:24^
bleepy John —. 2:25
Susio - —2:25
Mohawk, Jr.-
Red Cloud.
Pilot Temple..
Crown Prince
Sea Foam
Ella Wright .21
Derby .
Morrisey „„2:26
Byron — .2:26
Lilly Blanchard....2:26!
Lydia Thompson 2:26' ;
Honest Dutchman-.2:26}A
_... 2:27
2:27*4
2:27||
picture of A T. Stewart, the merchant prime, j Gazelle...... 2;2t | fettle..........™ 2j-7A
bnt not a picture of him cau be had—there are ! jS d ^Ful d ertSn!.'".'."a2!|! L H. Sfrke™ ...LaS^
none in the maiket, aud nevtT hav« been. Mr. , Gamors - ...2:*Jl£* : Tom Keeler............^.2:28
Stewart declines to have his face phitograpbed, ! Rosalind.... ™.._^:2-M|D»untl^i
mounted on a oard, and sold to the public. Ru j Huntm”**
mor says that John Bright once sent him a po- j j enn ie 2:22i4| Phil kerid-n.
lttereqnest for hts photograph, bnt he declined, j Flora B lie Gl-);ter....
There is no merchant in tbe United Stales whose “•■**■— T "
picture would sell so well. People bave an in
tense desire to see him. Why Mr. Stewart de
clines to be popnlurized is not known, but he
probably does so for the purposes of self-pro-
teotion, that be may be able to go to Saratoga
and abont the conntry without being annoyed
by people who seek employment or Bsk for
money.
Mr. Stewart is not alone in this peonltariiy.
His great rival, H B. Ol&Stn, is in demand, bnt
no pietnre of him can be bad. After mnoh nrg
ing, Gurney was allowed to take a life s:ze por
trait of him. which was added to tbe gallery of
famonsNew York merchants and bankers. Some
small copies of this pietnre were taken, and of
fered to tbe pnblie. As soon as Mr. Glafitn
heard of the fact he mads representations to
At Wood’s Museum the salaries generally ran
very low. Miss Pauline Markham’s salary is
$40 a week. 8he is married to Wm. Barat.
That of Belle Howitt is the same, and Lisa
Weber receives $50. “Stars” at Wood’s always
reoeive half the house, after a oertain amount
is deducted for current expenses.
THE Bid ’CDS.
Mr. E Iwin Booth has now no partner in his
management of the theatre whioh bears his
name. For some time Mr. Robertson was his
partner, having oontrtbnted a large portion of
the money to bnild the theatre. He was grad
nally paid off, and this summer tbe final pay
ment was made. The theatre, therefore, at
present belongs to Mr. Booth. Daring the past
few years this gentleman has lived very moder
ately, he being anxious to pay off the debts
upon the thiatre as speedily ae'possible. He
has snoce-ded beyond his expectations. Mr.
and Mrs. Booth (Miss Mary McYiokar) live in
the theatre building on Sixth avenue. They
occupy fhe third floor, and Mr. Booth has fur
nished and deoorated it in most beautiful style.
Mr. MuGonigle, one of the best gentlemen in
the business, is paid as business manager the
highest salary given to any one in his position
in the city. His salary is $6,000
John E. Owens is said to be richest actor in
America. His home is in Maryland, and he is
worth half a million of dollars.
Barney Williams is the second richest, and is
worth $400,000. Hts home is in New York.
Joe Jefferson is becoming one of the richest
of onr actors. His termB are $500 a night, and
after a series of triumphs which should forover his fortune is estimated at $300,000. Hts home
have placed her above want. Sbe now lives at is in HoHokns- The preo nous condition of
No. 17 East Fourteenth street, in a very unos
tentatious manner, aud earns, daring the season,
$1,000 for each night (he sings. ’ This is not as
mnoh as NiIssod, who was paid )$1,000 in gold,
for each performance, and sh&r.-d with the man-
nger after $3,000 reoetpts. Her earnings never
ran below $1,500, and sometimes reached
000 in a single night Nilsson took wt.h her
from this conntry abont $400,000 for her two
reasons of song. Madame Lucca will probably
take about $75,000 which after al! is pretty re
spectable. Kellogg ia paid $300 for each night
she sings. Stguor Ahruunedo, the tenor of the
troupe, will be paid $1,600 in gold per mouth
The other salaries fall far below this. Mtssrs.
Jarrett and Maretzek are the managers.
Mr. Jarrett was tbe agent of Nilsson in this
country, and was formerly the oriva e secretary
of Mapleson, tbe London opera mineger. In
the Strakosoh tronpe the salaries ran also very
high. Mile. Oarlutta Parti is paid $500 per
uight on an engagement of one hundred weeks.
Mile. Patti is tue sister in-law of MaxStraSosob,
bis brother Manrtoe having murned one of the
Patti sisters. Signer Mario—poor old M’rio!
—who bas earned in hts life near npon $3 000.-
000, and is now worth bnt little, is paid $1 (HiO
a niotiih in gold. Mi.-s Cary, the charming
contralto, receives $600 per month in gold; E n
coni $30 each performance and expenses. M
Lanrel and Mile. Cureno are paid nominal sal
aries compared with these.
In the Rubinstein tronpe, under tbe veteran
Gran, salaries ran somewhat lower. The great
pianist himself is paid $K)fK)0 a month. The
violinist, Wimuunki, is paid $5 000 a month.
The other salaries are nominal. Maurice Gran
also has a hand in the j.,ie, aud this seaiou runs
two institutions—Rubinstein and the Aimee
Opera B .uffe Company. Aimee, already a pop
ular favorite, bos a Salary of $1,500 per month
ia gold. Louise Holland, and the old favorite.
Gabel, are in tbe company. They receive, also,
pretty large salaries The headquarters of the
company were at Ph’.lllppe’H in Clinton place
Aimee is not tn the matrimonial field any more
She married young Jelly, the Broadway dyer
He was dying-for Atmwa ro-ieUg-!£j»t ebe t<uk
iu my house. My house had three rooms in it
and I snapped it off for a smaller one. I ain’t
. -y . - stingy ami, and ITkdtvide ihe last cent with my
him. Let us leave the field of musȣ-&nd'Goin^' jrtends, but if folks will all wozk there wont be
to that _f
DRAMATIC LITE.
For the first le: us take up Mr. and Mrs. Bun
cicault, the exponent of Irish drama at Booth’s
This couple receive $500 per night fur their Her
Nonetuch ......
Mo. cow..........
cromc
Hinkle’s H mbleto-^
steV“f the"w«^rlaSi now 8oid to be worth over $ 375 ‘ 000
J J. Bradley 2:28
George Wilkes.......2:29
S , “sevi5'LL*.™.'^29
Beppo 2:29
Joe Brown 2:29
John II - 2:29
May Howard .2:294
3t. Elmo 2:294
May Davis ...2:294
Stiidf aw„y. .2:294
Ben Flagler
Grace Bertram
_ ... -.. .. ... , N’thStar Membrino.2:2h,
Mr. Gurney whioh caused that artist to withdraw j Grand Duchess,
them. So there are none of this famous mer- i
chant to be had. The same fuots are true of
Jay Cooke, tbe well known banker. A few of
bis pictures came before the public much in the
same way as Mr. Gluflin’s, and he stopped the
sale of them.
For a long time it was impossible to get a
single pietnre of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
She alwajs insisted npon being tnk-n on the
same card with her brother, Henry Ward
Beecher. Many pe >ple wanted Mrs. Stowe by
herself. After wotk ng for months, and by the
Charlie Greco*
Lucille .—..2: ft
Mack 2:26;
Bay Edd e ...2.- 7
Thomas L. Youog...2:27
Rattier .2:2 ’
Comet 2:27
llandy Andy i
Chief. :
atarauga Chief. 2:z9,
Doubtful 2:2 ’
_ .eorge 2:29;
.2:264 Lady Ross 2:29;
J. 8- Young ‘2:29-.
'cntinel .2:29;
Mila Cal J well ......2:3')
Castle Boy ..2:30
fitla Wilson 2:30
oogan - .2:30
Rocky .......2:30
Fred .2:30
Mary A. Whitney...2 30
The Stoby op a Bid B >y By T. B Aldrich.
T. R Osgood & Co. Publishers, Boston.
This is a volume for the amusement of chil
dren written in tbe lucid, racy manner which
o characterizes the style of the author. The Bad
use of a little strategy! a prominent dealer in I Boy, as we would t>nppo3e, is not one of the
New York succeeded in getting her picture. He
offered a certain editor five dollars if ho would
induce Mrs. 8to*e to sit fir her pietnre, whioh
she finally did. The portrait thus procured was
a very good one. Mrs. Stowe looks more and
more like her famous brother as she grows to angels in^ Heaven
older. The publication of cer “True Story of
Lord Byron” damage d her popularity immense
ly, and theie wus a great falling off in the de
mand for her pictures, which has never fnliy re
covered. Her picture sells very well now.
It is not difficult to get pictures of all promi
nent actors and singers. These era pnblto
characters, and the more they are advertised
the better There is a constant demand for the
pictares of actors and siDgers who Dave a na
tional reputation, such as B ioth, Jo Jefferson,
Seebaoh, Ristori, Parepa Rosa, Nilsson, eto.
The sale of the pictures of actors always in-
orthodox saints commonly described in
Sauday School books whose prosaic doiugs
pat child readers to sleep and make them
wish in their dreams that the little saints
con'd be literally and instantly translated
He is a boy of the
real flesh and-blood type, ebullient with mis
chief—such an one as one meets daily on
the street corners exeroisiDg their oratorical
powers over a game of marbles. There are
many quaint tarns and “ hair-breadth ’scapes”
through childhood’s capricious jonrney, por
trayed with lively accuracy, which surprise, and
be spent it as fast as it came. He made the eu
gigement at Booth's before he thought of pro
ducing the great spectacle of “Bible and Be
fore” in London, and he bad to keep the en
gagement. and leave his venture in other hands
Mr and Mrs B incicauit live in georgeonH apart
ments at tbe Clarendon, tbe same which Nilsson
had lost year, and Diou enjojs life as it comes
MEa Lydia Thompson and her oompany are
managed by that very snave gentleman, Mr.
Alexander Henderson, who A now tbe husband
of the English blonde. MIhs Thompson, when
she came here, was not worth mneb, bnt she is
Her suc
cess bus been as singular as it has been extra
ordinary. Miss Thompson is now 4S years of
age, and is still unquestionably pretty. . Those
who think Mis* Thompson gay and frivolous are
in error. There was never a more industrious
woman than Mtss Lydia. She hardly ever goes
ont excepting to the theatre. She works from
dawn of day until night at the sewing maohine,
making all the dresses of her company, includ
ing her own, and constantly refuses pletsnre
parties, beoause, as she says, ‘‘she is too busy.”
Miss Thompson has often been accused of sttng-
iness—yet she is not stingy, bnt merely a good
bnsiness woman, who knows theatrical life
th ironghly, and intends to make all there is to
be made. Harry Beokett is paid $150 per week
in gold; Amy Sheridan $80; Camille DuboiB
$70, and soon in decreasing ratio.
MOBE BIOH ONES.
They do say that Harry Beokett is worth
$70,000. When he came to this conntry, in
1868, hts salary whs $75 per week. Now it has
bten raised to $150. Tne happy family, when
at the Occidental Hotel here, bad its turmoils.
The pretty Camille Dnbots left in a short time.
Things didn’t snit h r. Bose Coghlan also
separated her menage from that of tbe others.
The attempt to domesticate a whole company in
one hostelry failed as usual. The petty jeal
ousies of the stage are too mnch for human
mtnre.
IN WAUiAOk’s.
Let os take a torn into Wallaok’s, near by.
Here is the immortal Lester himself, who is still
the best light comedian of the day. Off the
stage he shows h s years mnch more percepti
bly than when toe glare of the footlights shines
np padding and rouge—perfectly legitimate ad
juncts to the actor. Lester is now fifty-three
years of age, and is worth abont $250 000. The
income from hts theatre avernges $10,000 a
year—a pretiy neat income. Hts busmens maa-
indnee laughter in the reader, by their very
truthfulness and kinship to bis own eonrse of jagerand faototnm, Mr. Theodore Moss, is worth
action. New England life, pnritanic&l defer- about $400,000, which bas been made mainly
once to dogmas and histono reminiscences j by speonta ions in Wall street He always has
are interwoven into a charming and be-1 the theatre for the snmmer season. He made
gniling story which cannot fail to fasoi-' abont $12,000 by it this season. Though a plain
creases* while'they are playing, and then'drops J nato and improve the tetder. The bad boy j and unobtrusive gentleman himself, bis w Je is
The call for pictures of local actors stop3 is bad only in name. We look for caprice, | known as the best dressed lady in tbe city, and
i—- —u —.j.nittai «*, i,eo’.ti,fni tanniT Ahit.iran jjjg cqnipagei 4ts the most perfect and bcad-
tifnl.
Old John Gilbert is a fine old actor, who
earns his $700 per week, and has pnt bv in his
long lifetime the snag little sum of $20 000. It
has been fully earned. During tbe present sea
son Mr. Sothern will bave a part in the man
agement of the theatre. ThiB gentleman every
body knows by Ms personation of L rj Dan-
dreary. In his snccessfnl ran with hts charac
ter he made in England an ample fortane, and
lived like a prince. He has very gorgeous tastes,
and loves honnds and the chase and fine horses,
aod all the extras which make life pleasant in
England. Mr. Sothern is also a gentleman who
is getting on in'life, and mnst be very near the
fifties; so near, indeed, that tbe difference is
not wortff talking about. Many old faces bave
faded from. Wa'lack’s this season. Charles
Fisher receives $40 a week; Rockwell $40, at
Daly’s; Piessy Mordaunt $80 and Emily Moh-
taver $50, at the Union Sqnne, and so on. They
ate scattered all over.
WHAT DALY FAYS.
The largest salary list in the city at present is
at the Grand Opera-house. Mr. Daly pays
•John Brougham $300 a week; Rose Hersee,
$500; Mrs. John Wood, $300; Stuart Robson’
$150; Robert Craig, $100. John Brougham
still lives in Fourteenth street, where he keeps
open house. Rose Hersee lives with her mother
in one of the streets a J j lining >h9 theatre, and
Mrs. John Wood at a fashionable hotel. Mrs
afsoon they leave the stage. mitth and mischief in healthful happy ohtldren.
Among actors, the sale of Edwin Booth’s pio- ! We do not object to it. An energetto romp is
tnres takes the lead. Moreaie sold of him than generally an industrious worker when put to
of all the other actors in the United States. He study. We delight to see children as God made
is a narticular favorite wilh the ladies. His them. Their mischievous propensities and ir-
face is nerfectly pure in its expression, without j repressible mirth nro given for a wise purpose,
th?lelt W^sensuality, and is also high.y ; If it is only direc'o 1 in the right path they will
intelligent. It ha. a pensive, half sad expres- ; become wise, staid men and women when they
sion, which bewitches the ladies, none of whom gtowtomatnnty and ’ put away childish things
objeot to having his picture in their album. I We heartily oommend Mr. Aldrich s book, and
Among women, Mrs. Scott Stddons has the ] wish that he may be induced to write other vol-
same expression of face, which isfacinating for : nmes for the instruction and direction of the
all pure-minded men; and they purchase large- j growing youths of the country,
ly of her picture. Paotographers say no wo2 j Maby -Faith Floyd.
man ever appeared on the American stage who: " . _ ,
made a pietnre of finch absolute perfection. : The poet Campbell says that he once heard a
Very few people ever eare for the piotnre of lady of distinguished beauty and rank defend
Mr. Soott-Siddons’ husband, and the only way Sir Thomas Ltwrence from the charge of hav-
she could float his face into the market was by ing been culpable in paying attention to ladies
having it put on the same oard with herself. It without intending to follow them up by an offer
is a curious fact, too, that there is no call for of hts hand. A gentleman remarked^ that Sir
Mrs. Edwin Booth’s picture. I Thomas was highly blamable No, replied
Cbher husbands who have noted wives are the lady, (it was rnmored she herself was once
iutt as unfortunate as Mr. Scot:-Siddons. No- the temporary object of the great painter s at-
body ever calls for Prof Stowe’s picture, the tention.) “no, not exactly—nut so much to
husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe; nobody blame,” said she musingly. ‘What, exclaim
uaks for Mr. Stanton’s picture, the husband of ed the gentleman, ‘Yon astonish me. Not to
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and there was no sale blame for such conduct? ■ No, not so much,
for Riston’s husbann until ibis piotnre was dis- was still the musing repp >nse. * Can yon
Dlaved in the shop windows as “Ristori’s hns- ; really, madam, defend such behavior as de-
band.” when a few took pity on him and pur- sertion?” “Why, sir,” imenupted the lady,
. ■ I “to oonfess the truth, I am firmly of opinion
Theie are more pictures sold of Henry Ward that the majority of women would rather be
Beecher than all the rest of the clergymen in courted and jilted, than not be oonrted at all.
the United States pnt together. Now, oan this be so ?
his eyesight will prevent him from acting this
season
Billy Fiorenoe is worth, they say $150,000.
Pour George, Happy Day,
I tell you, Bill, there’s nottun troublesyne but
the want of a job. If I can keep in work and
oat of money, I’m happy. I want a heap of
work, and 1 would like it at home. I don’t want
to be tannin abont over the country a hnntin of
it. Bill, 1 tell yon what’s a fact, 1 dreamed one
night that Old Master spake to me, and says he,
‘•George.” Says I, ‘‘Sir.” Aud bays he,
“You’re a good plasterer, and yon love to work
and you waut a job. Dow I want you to go to
banding your staging, and you must build it
high, for i want bit the blue sky above you
plastered over with a hard fiuish, and I waut
a oeuter piece put ronnd every bter.” Thinks
I taut’s a job that wul last a while, aud
went to making out my bills for poles and
staging lumber as fast as 1 could. Golly,
Bill, wnat a job it would be it a felltr coma
get at it, I cuuld plaster and whistle and
aing all the year round. I like work, but I don’t
like money. 1 rather be paid off m little or
ders—orde.s for meat and meal and molasses
and mackerel. Money bothers me. It gits
mixed up in my pocket with my knife end to
bacco and to jin pick and strings and nans and
ail suoh. Somehow 1 was born with a dislike of
money. I never see a rich man that I ain’t
nOiiy for Uim. I sympathise with him, for I
snow he must be enj ,ytn a sight ot trouble in
.Uis world, and then nts chances tn the next are
so mortal slim. 1 display a l.zj man, £.11, as
much as anybody, but if I thought I was
tu any danger of getun rich out ot moit.r,
I’d pat the pr.ee down to ten oents a yard,
more. I want to eat and bleep and sing m
peace, and I know a man can’t do it who
is j.st a wurkin his daylights out to in
crease the size of his pile. I don’t waut any
ampins about me. I don’t liko surpluses. I
never have surplus provisions, nor surplus room
no occasion to divide. They’ll all have a plenty.
Last year when me and Jinny Aun was trying
to live in three rooms, one day a great big,
duub.e shouldered second cousin ot hers, by
ner step-lather's side, oame puking in just as
we sit down to dinner. He is the nongrt-
est lookin man, geuerally, you ever seed,
and he swept the platter clean that time. He
was powerful glad to see Jenny Ann and the
baby, and thav night he come back to supper
and he set by the tire a ohawm bis tobacoo und
swapped lies with us until bed tune, and we put
him in the surplus room and ho sawed gourds
so, it was after midnight before we got to sleep.
Next mornm Jinny Aun cooked two middiin
r-izod maokerel for breakfast and he took half a
one on his plate and it was gone at two swipes
aud Jenny Ann axed him to lake sum more and
he did. He was my wile’s seoond cousin by
her step father’s side, and he stayed on fur
three days jest a kuookiu abont town a swappin
lies and ohawm tobacoo. Next mornm he
told JeDny Ann he thought so mnoh of her
and the baby he wanted hts gals to see ’em and
they wanted to cam, and as O.d John Robin
son’s Girons was a cumin to town he’d briLg the
gals up to stay a few dayB if it was ail agree
able ; aud with that he took up the baby and
said it was perhaps the parties! little oritter in
the world, and right then Jenny Aun Batd yes
sbe reckoned he might bring the gals up. Well,
you see when shetoid me what her second cous
in by her step-father’s side was up to,I resigned.
I had Btood it about as long as possible. I told
Jenny Aon that I had a power of respeotfor her
km, bat seein as how her mother was dead and
her step-fatlnr had married again and as how
her seoond consm by her step-lather’s side was
always hungry aud could eat Os mnch and as
often as a- nigger’s honn, he and his gals
shouldn’t qaarter on me, so we jest locked up the
nouse that evtmng and took a week’s board
aorots tbe street at a neighbors. They oome that
night about dark, him and the gals aud they all
got ont of the little old rickety carryall and
abont that time be looked towards the house
aod hollered “hello;” tnen waited awhile and
holered “hello” a little loader. Nary door
opehed, nary dog barked. We was watohm him
from onr nabors window and mighty nigh dyin
with iaffin. Hello! Hello!! He went np to
the door and tapped it wuh the bntt end of his
thrash pole and nays in a sorter sickly way lor
the last time, hello. Jenny thought about the
’* putty baby” jast then, and says she, “George
we onghten’t to do Vm so,” bnt I was as firm as
a rook and I chawed my tobacco with a satisfac
tion when I saw my wife's sejend cousin by her
stepfather’s side whip np that old swinnted
mnle and drive them hungry gals over to a third
class boaidm house. Now, Bill, all tha trouble
and inn cam from havin a surplus, and as for
me and my folks we hav quit it. May the good
Lord have mercy npon me, and give me plenty
ot work and a mighty little money ts my ptayer.
Lime and water and sand aud ba r, and a wall
to spread it on will do for me. If I oan git
plenty of that I’ll risk the ballance, and my
wife’s seoond oonsin by her step-fulher’s side
throw’d in.—Home Commercial.
Do Climates Change?—O.d peopleeomplaib
that tbe seasons are warmer, odder, or more
rainy than when they w.-ra yonng. Tneir com-
merts are ridiculed, because meet persons be
lieve that no very marked changes have or ever
will take plaoe in a section of conntry where
stability in nature is a Fet-.led fact—that is, it
snows tn winter, showers in April, and trees
have leaves in the spring.
Atmoapherio alteration is certainly going on
from age to age, more strongly evident in some
parts of a country than others.
Here are illustrations: Two thousand years
ago the climate of Italy was colder than now.
The Loire and Rhone, m ancient Ganl, used to
freeze over annually. Juvenal says the Tiber
froze so firmly in his day the ice had to be ent
to get at tbe water. Horace indicates tbe pres
ence of ice and snow in the streets of Rome,
and Ovid aeseris the Blaok Sea froze over every
year. t
So extreme was the cold at this far off period
in history, it stands chronicled by tbe anoients
that in Gant, Germany, Pannonta, and Thrace
snow positively covered the ground so long as
to prevent tbe cultivation of olives, grapes, and
other frnits whioh era raised there at the
present time in abundance. Ice or snow to any
considerable amount would now be a phenome
non in Italy. However, if it takes two thousand
years to work a climatic obaage, we need not
Wood is a lady over 40 years of age, and still be troubled with any appreheostou that this
b aa the oharms of youth. winter’s clothes won t do for next year.
.sdiiriq ad) oo sadJm'Td: .
How it Happened.
BY rtr HAY.
I pray you pa-don me, Elsie.
And smile that frown away
That dims the light of your lovely faoe
As a thunder cloud to-day.
I really could not help it—
Before I < bought ’twas done—
And those great gray tyes flashed bright and cold,
Like an icicle in the son.
I was thinking of the summers
When we were boys aud girls,
And wandered in the blossoming woods,
And the gay winds romped with your carls,
And you seemed to me the ssmo little girl
I ki-sed in the alder, path;
I kissed the little girl’e lips, and alas 1
I have roused a womm’s wrath.
There is not so much to pardon—
For why were your lipe so r*8-T-r-'CST'Zl,-*
Tbe blonde hair fell ia a shower of gold
From the proud provoking head.
And the beauty that flashed from the splendid eyes
And played around the tender mouth,
Bushed over my soul like a warm sweet wmd
That blows from the fragrant South:
And where, after all. Is the harm done ?
I believe we were made to be gay,
And. ill of yonth not given to love
Is vainly squandered away
And strewn through life’s low labors,
Like gold in the desert sands,
Are love’s .tweet kisses and sighs and vows,
And the clasp of clinging hands.
And when yon are old and lonely,
In Memory’s utagio shrine
Yon will see on your thin and wasted hands,
Like gems, those kisses of mine.
And when yon muse at evening,
At the sound of some vanished name,
The • host of my kisses shall touch your rips
And kindle your heart to flame.
TRICK* OF TOE SHOW TRADE.
History of tbe Host nneceasfat Ballet rand
Spectacle Piece Ever Produced—Am Oyster
. Stew—A Bargain—Four Trips to Earope—
Some Old Stage Trope—An ambitious Am-
tbor—A Play—A Run—and $310,100.
Apropos of the reoccnpation of Ntblo’s theatre
after its second destruction by fire, a correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette conooots a very
readable history of that remarkable theatrical
success, tbe ‘‘Black Crook” spectaole. Many of
tbe ciroumstanoes are already familiar to the
pnblio, but the whole btory has not been cor
rectly detailed before. They ran as follows :
In the latter part of 1865, Harry Palmer was
walking up Ohestuut street en Philadelphia and
encountered Henry O. Juried, who had jast
come fr>.m Baltimore. They fell into conver
sation, and adjonrned to a neighboring oyster
abop. “Wbac are yon doing now, Harry ?” said
Jarrett, at they waited for the futfi latent of
xheir orders.
'Nothing,” said Harry, with that preoise in
tonation for whioh he is famous, “not a thing,
and I am looking round for Rometbiog to do.”
“That’s just my oa»e,” replied JarretL “Sup
pose we get np a. show together. How much
money can yon raise ?”
“Abont $10,000
“That’s my figure, too,” said Jarrett “What
do yon say to getting up something to travel
about the country wuh ?”
“Agreed,” said Palmer, and jnst then came
the oysters, and temporarily stopped their
moutha They remained an bonr or so in that
restanrant, and before they left it wus decided
that they would sari on the steamer two days
later from New York Jarrett hastened to tbe
Baltimore train to say good-by to his family,
and arrange his preparations for departure.
Palmer telegraphed lor a state room on the
steamer, and next day was in New York, where
Janet joined him a couple of hours before the
sailing of the fiteamer.
OiTHEBINO THE MATERIALS.
With no veiy definite purpose beyond that of
finding an attractive novelty, they arrived in
Loudon, and began looking aronnd among the
theatres. For fpvei&l dajs they found nothing
that suited them, and at last came to Covent
Garden There was a showy performance going
on there, with a closing scene that reminded
them of the “Seven Sisters,” though it was
more gorgeous. After they had looked at it,
one of the pair sug^estt d:
“ Suppose we buy this closing scene, get up
a ballet company, and then show the two to-
g tber. We oan take it through the country,
and it ought to draw.”
“Just what I was thinking,” said the other.
They talked awhile about the matter before go
ing to bed, and tbe next morning they opened
negotiations for the machinery and properties
of the soene, for which they were to pay three
hundred pounds, the delivery to be made at the
end of the month, when the piece was to be
withdrawn. This purchase was what afterward
appeared as the transformation scene in the
“ Black Crook.” Then they sot abont engaging
tbe live material for their balU t They engaged
a few dancers in London, but could not find a
star that suited them.
Their plans were all settled to take this trans
formation srene and a ballet tronpe to America,
ran it a month in New York, a fortnight in Bos
ton, and so on through all tbe cities and large
towns. Jarrett started for New York to arrange
for a theatre for tbe first performance, and
Palmer went to the continent to secure the Rtar
performers. Jarrett arrived hare and found
Ni bio’s Garden, under the management of Wm.
Wheatleigh, the best for his purpose. It was
not doiDg a good bnsiness, and Wheatleigh was
looking around for something new. Jarrett un
folded his plans, and it did not take long to ar
range a bargain. Jarrett, Palmer, and Wheat
leigh formed a partnership, in which the money
the two first had expended was to be se: against
the lease cf the honse. The reoeipts were to be
“ pooled,” and after paying expenses there was
to be an equal division tf profits.
THE BLACK OBOOK.
They were sitting in Wheatleigh’s office, and
had jnst completed negotiations, when there
was a rap at the door, and the attendant an
nounced Mr. B.-trras, dramatic author, wno
wished to see Mr. Wheatleigh, if he was not
too busy. The manager hesitated a moment
“Tell him I'm ont—no, show him in; be may
have something that we want.” Barras came
in and explained hts business.
He had written and jnst completed a play
which he called ‘‘The Black Crook,” and wanted
Whta leigh to produce it. Wheatleigh asked
bis price, und he nuneil $2,000 aud a royalty of
$20 a night; or, $3,000 outright. He was told
to oill next day, aud leaving the manuscript,
after explaining soma of its points, he went
away.
The two managers looked over the manuscript.
“Not mnch of a play,” Bald Jarret, “but the title
is firaterate aud will do for our show. We oan
take a few scenes from the pieoe and stiok in
the ballet, or rather stick the scenes in the bal-
Iet. We can make the thing run six week*, and
we had best take this piece and pay him $2 000
and his roya’ty. Tnat will be cheaper than buy
ing it oatrigbt.”
J«rrett left Wheatleigh to complete the nego
tiations, and jumped on a steamer for England.
Wuta leigh arranged for the play, and wrote by
the next steamer that he had done so. Jarrett
reached London, telegraphed to Palmer, who
was in Berlin, to meet him in Paris. Thither
they hastened; they met in the evening, and
sat np until daylight, talking over the plans of
their campaign In a couple of days they had
everything satisfactorily 6'.tried. It was before
the days of the A'laatio cable, and the only re
liance was npon the mail. While they were
talking over the bnsiness. Palmer suggested:
“Let us make a sure thing of it. Yon have
just time to catch the Ganaid steamer from Liv
erpool. Go for it, see Wheatleigh, and take
the next steamer baok to help me cast over the
ballet troupe and machinery. I will have every
thing ready by the time yen get here.”
Jarrett assented, and in five minntes the shook
bands aud separated. ‘ He oaright the steamer,
and on a Tuesday forenoon at 10 o’olock landed
in New Yotb. In half an honr he was closeted
with Wheat’eigb, and in a. few hours the time
and all the details of tbe production of the piece
were arranged. They took dinner together, and
late in the evening Jarrett went on board the
outgoing Canard steamer, whioh was to sail the
next morning.
PRODUCTION OF THE SENSATION.
In due .time Jarrett and Palmer arrived tn
New York with their heterogenous materials for
the great Bpectaole, and in doe time, in August,
1866, the first perform&nee came off, and the
house was crowded—it was whispered that
there was a great number of dead-heads and
hired olaoquers in the audience, bnt the mana
gers strenuously deny that there was anything
of the sort. At ail events there was vootferons
applause, though there was an appearance of
nervousness among some of the spectators
when the corps de ballet, with olothing fearfaUgr
suggestive of the Venus di Medici after a bam
in red ink, made its entree to the' ‘ttemon
danoe.” There was breathlessness for a mo
ment, bnt a ronnd of applause settled the timid
ones, and the success of the pieoe was secured.
The triumph of tbe evenieg culminated when
the transformation seene displayed its wonders
and opened ape fairy world, suoh m had never
before been known in America. “I never im
agined anything half so gorgeous,” said a cler
gyman who made a surreptitious Visit to the
“Blaok Crook” after it had run e few weeks.
“My imagination has never equalled this, and
I have obtained a realizing sense of the New
Jerusalem.”
ANXIETY.
In the manager’s office that evening, before
the opening of the doors, there was an anxious
trio. The expenses, of the preparations had far
exoeeded the original estimate, and the firm of
Jarre'.t, Palmer & Wheatleigh bad very little
eash to show. Before the sale of tickets began
they had spent all they oonld raise, with the
exception of a single 6-20 bond of $1,000. to
which they dung as the laud out of wiiioh the
first week’s salaries should be paid. Tbe £ 20
bond was locked up iu the safe, and only the
three managers knew of its existence. Had the
pieoe failed, the salaries would have been paid
on Saturday, the forfeit money for tbe foreign
artists, already deposited in Earope, would have
been surrendered, the oompeny would have
been dismissed, and the “BlackCrook” would
have been numbered among the hnndreds of
theatrical wrecks that preceded it.
TRIUMPH.
The reoeipts of the first night were $2,900;
for the seoond they were $3,100 and so they
went on at an average of $3,000 for each per
formance of the first week. Tbe managers had
counted npon running the piece for six weeks,
bnt on the firat evening they conclnded it would
laBt two months. Next mernin^ some of the
papers astailed the performance. “Good for
three months, ” said Jarrett, as he glaooed over
the criticisms. On the following Sunday a sen
sational preacher began to'denounce it from
bis pulpit, and bis ser Aon was reported. “ The
piece will ran six months,” snid Palmer, as he
read the abstract of the sermon; “ pnt the fel
low on the free list, and bave a g >od seat for
him every time he wants it.”
THE STOCK RISES.
Next the Herald assailed it, and the papers
geuerally took np tile discussion. “We will
have a year of it now, and quite likely a year
and a half,” said Jarrett; “we let ourselves in
rather badly by not paying Bartas bis price out
right, instead of giving him a royalty. ” .
The “Black Crook” mn five hundred and a
few odd uighls, »ni netted $310 000 toits man
agers. Barras, the sutLor, rto-ived over $12,-
000 for his share. It was always considered a
good joke by many persons to assert that the
piece ever had an author, as it was little else
than a string of bailetpe formanceB without any
particular continuity- The name and the in-
oantation scene were abont b11 that were used
of the original piece as Barras delivered it to
Jarrett aud Wheatleigh, and the author has
never yet qnite recovered from his chagrin at
the sad mutilation which the child of bis brain
reoeived. I am told that be has repeatedly of
fered $5 000 to have the pieoe produced as it
was originally written It contained no ballet,,
nor anything like one, bnt was simply a melo
drama of the sensational and hobgoblin sort.
The “White Fawn" was tne natural successor
of the “Black Crock,” and cleared $85,000
profit. Tne subsequent revivals of tha “B ack
Crook” have been profi’able, and bring smiles
of delight to the faoe of Z mmerman, tbe treas
urer of the establishment.
A HUMAN PHENOMENON.
A Han with a Portable Heart, Revolving-
Bowles, anti Two Set* oi Ribs.
From the Port Jervis Tri States Union:]
The most remarkable specimen of physical
organiz .tion we bave ever seen is Mr. Gecrge
Thomas, a Brazilian, who has been in Port
Jervis since Thursday of la-<t week. ' He has
been exhibiting himself in Various places in tbe
village, and has puzzled not only the people,
bnt the physicians and surgeons—they are una
ble to nndestand his anatomy. He can move
his heart to any part of his body, at pleasure,
and even stop its beating for nearly sixty seo-
Onds.
He has two sets of ribs, one of whioh he can
move from its position to the front of the body,
oovering the abdomen. He causes a revolving
motion of the bowels, both upward and down
ward, the abodraen undulating and rtsembling
the corrugating motions of a flig or piece .of
cloth when disturbed by the wind He oan so
arrest his pnlae that for a short time one oan-
not disoern that he has any. . Another wonder
ful thing he does is to bend an iron bar fire-
eighths of an inch in thickness by striking it
aaross his left arm. The mnsoles of his arm he
so oontraots that the fl:sh feels as hard as
wood.
Mr. Thomas is oertainly a wonderful speci
men of physical construction, and he has puz
zled the soientifio men of the world. At onr re
quest he called into onr office yesterday and
gave ns his history, from whioh we glean the
following:
He was bom in Brazil, South America, tbe
4th of Maroh, 1820. His father was an Ethio
pian’ and his mother a SpanixU woman. When
four years old he whs taken to London, En
gland, by bis mother, and was there examine
by Surgeon Kent. The latter took him to Edin
burgh, Scotland, where ho made an ineisiio:
near the heart, and discovered that he had n<>
diaphragm, and that the heart was not inelostd
in a pericardium, bnt ia suspended by two ooro*
instead of one. Some years afterwards he was
given a like examination in Paris by Sargeo .
Lcais, and with tbe same result. None of tLe
soien ifio men of Earope understood his struc
ture, and they advised him to corns to America
and see if onr learned men coaid comprehend
his formation. Bnt no oneherehas before sect,
such a creature, and could not understand his-
organization. It was iu 1S63 he came here, and
In 1865 he went back to Europe. In 1867 he
was at the Paris Exposition', a-d was examined
by several eminent surgeons, among them Pro
feasor Smith, of Bt'timore. Since that year t .•
has been in this country. His home is in E -
gland, and says he likes that country mnch bet
ter than this—there he is treated as a gentlema’ ;
here, as a worthless, traveling vagrant. He is
not married, and his parents are now dead. He
has a brother who is six feet three inches m
height, bat who cau contract himself so that he
is bnt three feet three inches tall. This is hi»
only peculiarity. There was nothing remarka
ble abont their mother, bnt their father was ap
parently destitute of ribs. The latter, at one
time—many years ago—worked upon the Erto
canal, and lived in Lockport.
George has a consm who oan throw his left
hip to his right side and vice versa. The former
is in good health, weighs 165 pounds, is abou>
five feet eight inches in height, and appears to-
be not over thirty years old.
Mr. Thomas goes to Middleton to-day. He wilt
visit Albany, and return to this village in thn-.-
or four weeks, soon after which he intends to
bid farewell to Amerioa.
One of the most singular incidents of tbe greet
fire was the faot that three gentlemen (who are
brothers-in law) in bnsiness in diff.rent streets,
each esoaped being burnt oat by the interven
tion of a single store, the fire coming within
one building of the three establishments. They
did not get burnt out, bnt all “oame within one
of it."
The National Methodist Convention in De
troit last week, after debate, resolved that im
moral or worldly species of amusements should
be heartily dtsoonraged.