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A Husband’s Revenge.
A True Stor y.
In the beautiful, maple-shaded village of West
Liberty lives a rara avis named David Donald.
He is tne most solemn and the Blowest of mortals
He makes bis living by fiddling at frolics ard
doing odd jobs of wood-chopping and corn-cnt-
ting which he performs in a deliberate way most
aggravating to his employers.
David has a wife—a fat and frisky femme, rather
good-looking, and so fond of flattery that she
would long ago have excited the green-eyed
monster in any other hnsband than David. Bat
David plodded on and ate his beans and pork,
keeping his eyes closed to her flirtations with a
certain gay Lothario of a real-estate owner with
spectacles and a bald head, of the utmost respec
tability. At length, however, his eyes were op
ened by his obliging neighbors and a quarrel
ensued, in which the fair and frail dame ordered
her spouse from the dwelling and served publio
notice that she would not be responsible for his
pecuniary obligations. The village poet put
this sad fact into rhyme, and David, being him-
serf a musician, was vexed in soul to hear the
bad little boys singing about the street:
'Dave Donald's left my bed and board,
These few days, these few days;
He went away of bis own accord,
And ain't a coming home.
I warn the town from trusting Dave,
These few days, these few days;
His little bills they'll have to 3have,
For he ain't a-ooming home.'
This is but a sample of many verses, and to
create a diversion David went through all the
stores and volunteered to sort over the old eggs,
taking therefrom tue spoiled ones, olaiming to
know these through a dexterous shake that be
trayed their inner quality. In this way he col
lected quite a basketful of ‘decayed hen fruit,’
as it is called in the village. Thus armed and
equipped David stationed himself cn the picket
line as it were, hid by a picket fence, in sight of
his late happy home, now blighted and forever
lost to him, through an unfaithful wife and a
proprietor of real estate and steel-rimmed spec
tacles.
His watch was well rewarded in the appear
ance of the proprietor of land and spectacles,
emerging from his blighted home. The trouba
dour permitted the perfidious proprietor to draw
within short range, and then fired a hen pro
duct that took the amorous old gentleman be
tween the eyes, knocking his steel-rimmed spec
tacles off, and so blinding him that he could
not see his assailant. He opened his month to
protest io some profanity when another of the
fixed ammunition entered that oritice to his
mental edifice, exploded aud rendered him hors
du combat.
The betrayed and blighted being continued
his assault before a gathering crowd until the
aged decfiver was covered with the spoiled pro
duct of the hen-house.
The projectiles being exhausted, David retired
amid cheers from the populace. His accuracy
ot aim was greatly admired, for only one projec
tile missed its maik and hit the town constable
in the commissary, while hurrying up to quiet
the disturbance.
The proprietor of real estate and the late steel
rimmed spectacles ‘skipped the town,' as they
say oat West, and David had many honors con
ferred upon him. He is the heto of the honr
and the henyard.
The Divorced Wife.
A Sad Story.
About three years ago 0. De Trafford Black-
stone, son of Lorei zo Blacbstoae, tbo wealthi
est resident of a northern city, and a nephew of
T. B. Biackstone, president of the Chicago and
Alston railroad, was married to Miss Lillie Os
borne, who was playing in the Park Theatre in
New York City. Mr. Blachstone, the husband,
took up his residence in an elegant house in the
most aristocratic quarter of tho city. A beanti-
boy was born, which is now about two years
old. The couple lived unhappily, and lastwin-
ter Mr. Blackstone obtained a divorce from bis
wife, who then went to New York city to live
with her stepfather, Mr Kidder, who baa occa
sionally visited her chi’, i in its Norwich home
since the separation. About a week ago (he di
vorced wife visited Norwich, and took the child
and its nurse to ride in her carriage. This
morning she arrived in this city in company
with three men, one of whom was her stepfather
and the others reputed New Y'ork detectives.
This afternoon in a diiviDg rain storm, she was
driven with heretcorts in a hack to the home of
her late husband who is traveling with his fath
er ana uncle through the West. She ran up the
steps aDd rang the doorbell. The maid opened
the door and she entered the reception room.
She asked for the babe, and the nurse brought
it and placed it in her arms. She fondled it for
a moment and kissed it. Then she turned sud
denly and ran out of the Louse and entered the
carriage, bearing tho child in her arms. The
carriage was at once driven down the street. The
nurse ran after it, beggir g the driver to stop. It
went rapidly on, and the nurse fillowed bare
headed until she came to the police station,
which she entered and sank fainting on the
floor. Then she started up and cried.
•They ve got the baby.’
Ofiicers were dispatched to to the depots, and
to the steamer City of Lawrence, which lay at
her wharf. The divoiced wife was found on the
steamer. An order of arrest was issned, and sho
was prevailed upon to go to the office of Col.
llipley, who had been her counsel in the past.
Mr. llipley said he knew of no Jaw that would
compel a mother to surrender her child, aud
Bhe was permitted to withdraw. Then, with the
child and her three assistants, she entered the
carriage and was driven into Preston, an adjoin
ing town. It is believtd to-night they are mak
ing for Rhode Island, or some other point out
side of Connecticut jurisdiction. They bad
hardly rolled out of sight before the influential
friends of Mr. Blackstone had resolved to pro
cure their arrest at any cost. Officers were dis
patched in carriages in pursuit of the fugitives,
and Sberifl Bate-i started on horseback late to
night on the same errand. The affair has pro
duced the liveliest kind of excitement here.
New York Nov. 1.—A dispatch from Port
Jervis gives an account of a horrible crime com
mitted at 'ihomson, Pa. where Miss Kennet, a
young school teacher, was ontraged by tramps,
who feared identification and cut out her tongue.
The victim seems to have bad strength remain
ing to have written her wrongs on a blackboard
in the school-room. The trustees, gathering
for regular meeting last Friday evening discover
ed the evidences of the crime in the lifeless vic
tim on the school-room floor, and her written
story on the blackboard.
The big railroad riug of freight thieves, now
beiDg unearthed at Dallas T xas, was first discov
ered in consequence of a freight clerk, Flint,
who bad been arrested at the instance of influ
ential m.mbers of (he ring for the loss of tour
barrels of sngar. H j blabbed in bis anger, the
detectives were set to work, and the result is
the brirgiug to light of a most ugly business,
implicating Texas and Pacific rfficers. promi
nent rmreliantB 01 Dallas, where tbethn-ves had
• regular warehouse, and others who have been
catling on the stealing for years. j
Dramatic Gossip.
Mr. Fred May has received offers to go upon
the stage; and there are those who assert that in
the event of bis acceptanje, be would prove in
time the successor ot the late J. H. Montague.
He is hesitating between this offer, with its as
surance of a good salary, and his desire to go to
Arizona, Before the footlights be would be sure
of a certain degree of suocess. The prestige ot
his sensational 1 en-counter with Beunet, together
with his social position, will draw a fashionable
house in itself; aud then, Fred May is one < f the
handsomest young men in New York. He is
tall, and of at once sinewy and elegant propor
tions. His features are regular, and his fresh-
colored, handsome face is graced by a silky
brown moustache. He has been well educated,
ib an athlete to some extent, brave and young.
Were he to go upon the stage he woald be as
oertaiu of contemporaneous human interest as
ever Montagne, Rignold or Capoul, and when
there was a May matinee the boose would be so
full of women, armed with bouquets and billet-
doux that he would wonder how he ever oould
have thought of the far, far West.
The favorite Comedian Sothern now in Eng
land is cabled as being very ill. His physicians
demand a withdrawal from the stage for six
months, and Dundreary will not delight New
York at Christmas.
At the Brooklyn Academy of Musio last week
Miss Mary Anderson, under the management of
Mr. John P. Smith, delighted theatre-goers with
a number of her remarkable impersonations. It
was her first appearance there, and she met with
the same great success that attended her in oth
er cities.
NilBBon was willing to sing in St. Petersburg
this winter for the modest sum ot $5,000 a night,
but as Albani was willing to do it for $3,000 she
is to have the engagement.
Panline Lucca, the prima donna, like Ristori,
was, in her childhood, an itinerant, barefooted
street singer, glad to earn a penny.
lteoently, daring her engagement with John
McCullough, the tragedian, at Chicago, Miss
Maude Granger was somewhat surprised, upon
reaching her hotel, at being the recipient of a
lively KiDg Charles canine, and delighted at
finding atoatebed to the bine ribbon around its
neck, a 'solitaire' diamond ring, with the rather
flattering inscription, 'To the best Virginia upon
the stage.’ The ‘solitaire’ is valued at $1,200.
Verily, it is pleasant to be a popular actress in
Chicago.
‘Mm^. Modj ska’s art. as art, is admirable, bat
she does not have the eflect upon one that a hu
man being should. Sue seems so spirituelle and
unreal. Once aud awhile Nym Crinkle says a
good thing, and when he compared Modjeska to
one of those gossamer-like skeleton leaves, he
had an inspiration. ‘Mother aud Son’ does not
strike me as ut all a remarkable play.
NEW YORK STAGE.
Blind Tom may be regarded in the light of a
national cariosity—a unique specimen,as it were
of what might be called, for want of something
better, musical instinct. His engagement closed
in New York last week.
The crowds who go to Gilmyra’s seem fully to
appreciate the wonders of the menagerie, muse
um, and aviary, while the splendid ridiDg of
Miss Emma Lake, who rejoices in the proud title
of ‘America’s Sidesaddle Queen,’ is something
out of the usual run of equestrian performances.
Modjeska. the oountess actress, whom Atlanta
will see in the Bpring, m thus criticised by Anna
Dickinson:
The brother of Francis Joseph, Emperor of
Austria, is married to a popular actress. For
this he was exiled, but is now again in Vienna.
Minnie Hauck says that ‘Carman’ is a very fa
tiguing opera. She has to change costumes ev
ery act, even to stockings.
Clara Morris has been interviewed in regard
to her husband, Mr. Harriot, and she declares
she is very unhappy, and that her husband
drives her upon the stage that she may earn
money to prop up his decaying business, etc.
We Bhonld not imagine that the publication of
the interview will make her domestic life more
pleasant
Charlotte Thompson will appear at DeGive’B
opera house in Atlanta, November 20th and
21st.
Mile. Illma de Murska is always enthusiasti
cally received when she appears in concert, her
wond erlul vocal execution and brilliant sty leal-
ways raising her audiences to a high pitch of en
thusiasm.
PERSONAL^
DEATH OF BARON ABRAHAM
YON 0PPENHEIM
The first Jew who received a Title of Nobility
in Prussia.
Tennyscn is said to have a very sad expres
sion of faoe at all times.
Mme. Von Stamwitz has appeared as Leah,
which is not us pictorial as her Messalina, and
therefore not as attractive. This actress, if you
will excuse ihe vulgarism, travels professionally
on her Bhape. Her efforts as Leah are more
honest, doubtless, than as Messalina, but she
suffers by comparison with Janauschek, who
gives the curse with tremendous force and ve
locity. George S. Knight, a dialect comedian
has a play after the Fn z pattern, aud the Wil
liamson’s Struck Oil gushes forth perpetually.
At Wallack's, where they are getting up a semi
centennial benefit for the veteran John Gilbert,
that actor is now to be seen as Sir Anthony Ab
solute iu the Rivals, one of his tine old mellow
performances; none better. Mother and Son has
but a short timeiiiore to live at the Union Square
Theatre, where Bronson Howard's Lillian, re
christened ‘The Bunker's Daughter,’ is under
lined for speedy representation, with Miss Sarah
Jewett, who has been rather under a cloud of
late, as the heroine. At Booth’s an indifferent
opera bouffe company iiave been giving Jeanne,
Jeannette et Jeannelon, a pleasing work, new to
us, but without too much success. One of the
prima donnas, a Mile Z-lie Weil, from the
bouffs Parisiens, is attractive, however, and
knows how to do <qaivocal things with more
cldc thaD vulgarity. Sue can lay claim to no
good looks save the beaute da di/ible, but she
quite outshone everyone else uu tue stage. The
Italian opera relies, and not unwisely, upon
Carmen, which has had three additional repre
sentations pending Mme. Gender's expected
entree, who is being feted by her compatriots,
the Hungarians, who ought to be very proud just
now, for De Murska is here now singing every
Sunday like a Christian, and Remenyi, the vio
linist, will shortly arrive.
Little Lotta bounded out last week at (he Park
Theatre, New York, as La Cigale—in the play of
that name written for her by Olive Logan—or
rather rescued from the original Fiench. The
play is a flimsy s flair as to plot, but it is bright
ened up with tff etive situations and dashing
dialogue, and funny conceits, after the fashion
of Olive Logan. Aud it suits Lottato a T. No
body else could make much of it, but it is just
in Ler style. Bhe had a hearty greeting wuen
she was carried on in the short bine gauze skirts
of La Cigale, a poor little circus performer, who
had been found iD the woods by an artist aud
his friend, having run away from the Imperial
Circus to escape the attentions of the mauager
and clown, the Hercules and the Lightning Cal
culator, who presently appear iu their war paint.
Naturally, In Cigale takes kindly to the artist,
depicted hy Fred Robinson, in a blonde wig and
with an air of youthful gayety that sits heavily
upon the middle age. Artist loves another—
beautiful, heartless Parisian coquette, whom ev
erybody else loves, at least all the men —poor
Cigale perceives it, but winks, shuffles the cards
aud waits; before she has waited long, is pro
claimed a long-lost, strawberry-marked heiress;
refuses the reiterated offer of the imperia cir-
cur to return to itB fold; departs to hbr palatial
home, where hbr aunt has been expecting her
for some years; wears beantilui white satin gown
powdered wig,—why ? siDce the period is of to
day—futiDy business with embroidery, gets up
and puts the needle through frame, then goes to
the other side and pulls it through; dances can
can with young viscount, who is pesented to
her as a suitor for her hand; he too loves Paris
ian coquette, RiDgs oom.c Bongs aud performs
walk-rounds with the manager of the imperial
circus, who has introduced himself into palatial
residencejsaves artist from drowning; pitches in
to beautiful Parisian coquette, who is in the
same boat; b. P. c. calls her a little circus per
former; consternation of viscount and papa.
Tnird act, many pictures done by Cigale’s ar
tist, Enter Cigale, wLo oanna buckle to the
viscount, aud has run away with the idea of re
joining the imperial circus, if the worst cornea
to the worst, but wants her portrait painted first
by her favorite artist Before he can excoate
this purpose they come to an understanding
She finds that he has gotten over the Parisian
coquette aud loves her; aunt beams consent—
general joy. Such is the living skeleton, so to
Bpeak, ot Lotia's circus in La Cigale. Put with
it, to carry out the metaphor, the fat woman of
her peifurmance; and it is unquestionably en
tertaining. Loita seemed in better health and
spirits than when last here, and it was impossi
ble not to laugh at her droll grimaces, her pranks
and the quaint and piquant delivery she gives
to some of the speech put iu the mouth of the
little circus waif. She is well supported, par
ticularly by Mr. Clement D. Bainbndge, who is
clever, despite his too obvious imitation ol Sath-
rons Dundreary,
It is now finally settled that Brigham Yonng
left seventy-one children.
A nephew cf the late Charles Dickens is a
Methodist clergyman in Illinois.
It is recorded cf Ole Ball that when he was a
youDg man he attempted suicide.
Werdell Phillips says: ‘Politics is God’s way
of teaching the masses ethics.’
Garibaldi has made a successful real estate
operation which gives him a modest fortune to
ease his declining <Uys at Caprera.
The English press pronounces Gough to be a
master of the art tf public speakmg. ‘Few can
hope to equal, far'less to excel him.’
Wo are sorry to learn that Florenoe Nightin
gale is serionsiy ill. Her whole life has been
one cf self-abnegation and Cbristian charity.
Shakespeare received £5 sterling for the act
ing copy of Hamlet. Gray was paid £1500 for
the Beggar’s Opera, and Moore got 3000 guineas
for Lalta Rookh.
George Francis Train calls meat the delirium
tremens of flesh, and attributes the visit of the
yellow fever to gormandizing, alcohol, tobacco
and quinine !
Grant has been received in Spain with almost
regal honors. His personal interview with the
king was a m06t flittering and friendly one.
Whipple says very truly: ‘A politician weakly
aDd amiably in the right, is do match for a pol
itician teniciously and pugnacionsly in the
wrong.’
Hoe, the inventor of the wonderful improve
ment in printing presses, is engaged on still
another great improvement in his special line.
Mary Dolan was awarded damages a few days
since by a court in Brooklyn, N. Y., against two
ruuiselle s for npikuig Uer husband a drunk
ard. ^ '
At a meeting in one of onr neighboring coun
ties, one of the revived brethren importuned
thusly: ‘Oh Lord, come right down through the
roof of the house, and I’ll pay for the shingles!’
Madame Mrintenon, in speaking of Liuis
XiV., said: ‘He imagines that he is expiating
his faults, by being inexorable to the faults of
others.’ There are a few more left of the same
sort.
Ex Governor Warruofb, (Republican,) of Lou
isiana, in a recent conversation, predicted that
the Booth would be solid until the Republican
party entirely dies out there.—Washington
Post.
The Russian Government has forbidden seve
ral ladies who have gained medical diplomas to
practice in the province of Novgorod. Russian
women doctors are usually very advanced in po
litical ideas.
Don Piatt says that the Democratic party is
composed of the organized ignorance of the
country the Republican p rty the organized
rascality, the Nationals are made up of fellows
pecuniarily embarrassed, who do not like it.
The champion rabbit slayer of Connecticut
lives in Putnam. A careful eatimate of the
ueinber killed, running over a period of about
twenty years, foots up over 19,t00. The best
halfday’s work was in 1874, when sixty-five fell
victims to a well-trained ferret.
M. Remain, a French physician, declares that
to be tree fri in liability to yellow fever one has
only to drink boiled water, yellow fever being
the exclusive result ot drinking water that has
become corrupted, and that if one is attacked
by the disease he will be cured in twelve hours
it be will only drink largo quantities of boiled
water, even in the midst of the vomitings.
Farmer Gilman fixed a gun in his melon
patch, in Summerset, Iowa, in such a way that
the person who stinvd a certain targe, ripe
melon would receive acharge ol beans. He meant
to remove the gun in the morning if no thief
was caught in the night, but belore daylight
his mother-in-law went out to gtt a melon, and
got the beans. She was serionsiy wounded, and
refuses to believe that GilmaD did not set the
trap for her.
The Jacksou Railroad.
New Orleans Times.
The mayor on Thursday received the follow
ing, with the request that he get as many sign
ers as possible:
To Mr. J. C. Clark. General Manager, and to the
Officers and Employees of the Chicago, St.
Louis and New Orleans Rtilroad Company:
Dear Sirs—As the dread scourge that has af
flicted the people and country along the entire
line of your railroad from Cairo to New Orleans,
has about run its course, and the sable-winged
messenger is pluming his wings for his flight
for a season, we, the citizens along the line of
your road, desire to tender to yon one and all,
our heartfelt thanks for your monfioent gifts,
aud for the oheerlul and obliging manner in
which you have aided the stricken communities
dependent on yonr road for supplies, aud for
your hearty co-operation with the authorities
whenever requested, even at great pecuniary
loss to your company, to prevent the introduc
tion of the yellow fever.
For yourselves, individually and collectively,
we will ever entertain feelings of the pr~fonnd-
est gratitude.
Trusting that you may live long to eDjoy the
pleasure of the commendation of the survivors
of this memorable season, we are, very respect
fully, your sincere Iriends and well-wishers.
The mayor says the managers of the road
did indeed act handsomely, as they transported
free of ohargs to this city lime, provisions, etc.,
for disinfecting and for supplying the needs of
the afflicted and the destitute.
Germany.—Baron Abraham von Oppenheim
who died in the evening of the 9th inst., was the
oldest amongst the German millionaires. After
Rothschild, he bore the most brilliant name
amongst the German monetary princes. He had
attained the patriarchal age of 74, aud, notwith
standing the events which have lately occurred in
the world of commerce and industry, and which
have been felt in the Rhenish country and West
phalia as in other places, with his years his for,
tune also increased. His personal property is es
timated at about 30 millions of marks. Of course-
this is only a rough estimate, as it is difficult to
make a proper valuation of his share in the land
ed property and estates belonging to the banking
establishment, which has branches in many pla
ces. The deceased was a great favorite of the
Empress of Germany. Never has her Majesty
passed Cologne without summoning him to her.
Never was Baron Oppenheim iu Berlin without be
ing received by the Empress, and very often by
the Emperor. The Baron remained a Jew in reli
gion all bis life, like his brother, the surviving
senior partner of the firm, Baron Abraham having
had no issue, his wife dying early, he adopted his
niece, the Fraulein Springer, of Frankfort-on
Maine, who was also the niece of Baron SpriDger
of Vienna The mother of the Fraulein was a
sister of Baron Oppenheim’s late wife. She,
adopting the name of the Baroness Oppenheim,
has, in the meantime, married the Councillor of
Legation, Von Kusserow of Ber.in, and Will doubt
less receive a good portion from the millions left
by her adopted father, who, however leaves a
widow, having married a second time. The de
ceased suffered to a great extent from a painful
disease, and during his last days it was resolved
to call in a celebraled specialist, the English sur
geon, Sir Henry Thompson. A telegram was
sent to London. The reply came back that Sir.
Henry Thompson was on a holiday tour in Italy.
A telegram was then sent to his supposed place of
residence in Italy. The answer was that Sir
Henry was on his return journey to Vevey. A
telegram was sent to Vevey. Sir Henry Thom
son replied that, he was on a pleasure trip which
he would not like to interrupt. If he attended the
Baron he would have to ask an honorarium of
£1,000. The answer was that the fee demanded
was granted, nnd by the next traiu the eminent
surgeon set rut for Cologne. He obtained his
20 000 marks for the interrupted pleasure trip,
but was unable to restore his aged patient to con
valescence.
Speaking of the death of Baron Oppenheim, I
am reminded of a little anecdote about his life.
He had bought anl occupied a Beautiful estate on
the Rhine. Bordering his land was a small es
tate, the possessor of which imagined that the
Baron would like to buy his estate likewise. The
latter was not really indisposed to do so, but the
price demanded corresponded rather with the for
tune of Oppenheim Ilian with the value of the
laud, aud therefore the negotiations were broken
off. But the proprietor of the grouud hit upon
an idea. He established a little tavern upon his
estate with the sign of “In Abraham’s Lap.”
The Baron did not much like this, and the negoti
ations were resumed. The clever landowner ob
tained his object, for Baron Oppenheim paid the
sum demanded.
I may mention that Baron von Oppenheim, who
was also Privy Councillor of Commerce, was the
first Jew who received a title of nobility in I’rus
sia, and. what is more, the title of Baron from the
present Emperor. Up to this time there was no
precedent- f or the eunobling of an Israelite in
Prussia, although in Austria Jews had received
titles as far back as the time of Joseph II. King
Frederick William IV. did not even confirm the
titles conferred upon Prussian Jews by foreign
sovereigns, and is said to have refused to assent
to the proposal which had been made, that Meyer
beer should be raised to the rank of a noble. The
present Emperor and King has not only confirmed
the nobiiiiy granted by foreign princes upon
Prussian Jews, but has also, in some cases, grant
ed the Prussian herediiary tille of nobility to
members of the Jewish religion. The brother of
the deceased Baron von Oppenheim received his
titie of B ron from a foreign prince. King Fred
erick William IV. ennobled several proselytes
who had gone over from Judaism to Christianity,
whereas under Frederick William III. only a sin
gle case occurred (in 1810), viz., that of the bank
er. Ferdinand Moritz Levi Delniir, and this was
in consequence of an application of the Napoleon
ic Government of that time. Delniar, a Berliner
by birth, whose former name was Solomon Levi,
died about 18 years ago in Paris, where he had
lived for a long lime. He married a step daugh
ter of Sir f yduey Smith.
The funeral took place in the Jewish cemetery
at Deiiz, near Coiogue, on the 14th inst Dense
crowds assembled before the house of the de
ceased, aud along the streets tluough which the
long procession wended its way. The funerai
w is attended by numerous representatives of cor
porate bodies, and of every class and every call
ing. The Jewish community, for whom the de
ceased had at, his sole expense built the beautiful
Synagogue in the Glockengasse, wa9 also largely
represented. The Empress Augusta forwarded a
wreath to be placed on the coffin.
Tho widow has forwarded to the authorities at
Cologne the sum of 25,000 marks to be distributed
amongst the Christian poor of the town. She has
also handed to the Jewish community 25 000
marks to be distributed in the following manner:
10.000 marks to the Hebrew Asylum for the Sick
and Aged ; 10 000 marks to the different Jewish
benevolent institutions, and 5,000 marks to the
Jewish poor of Cologne.
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Chess headquarters, Young Men’s Library As.-ocia-
tion. Marietta street.
Original games and prcblemssrc cordially solicited for
this column. We bope our Southern friends will re
spond.
CORRECT SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. f0, By
Geo. E. Smith and James Bond, Norfolk, Va., in
two hours. A fine problem. I. Dresdnei, Sciiula,
Miss., 65 minutes.
PROBLEM NO. 71.
By I. Dresdner, Schula, Miss.
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CHESS IN NEW TURK.
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An interesting game, played at tlie rooms ot the
New York Chess Club, between Messrs. Teed and
Brumme, the former giving the odds of the if K,
REMOVEW
HITE’S U. R.
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Black.
While.
Black.
Mr. T.
Mr. li.
Mr. T.
Mr. ii.
L
B Kt
P K 4
13. Kt tf B3
It K
2.
Kt KBS
Kt tf B 3
'4. Kt tf 5
P K R 3
3.
B (f B t
B tf ii4
15. Kt tks Kt
Ptks Ktch
4.
Castles
Kt K B3
fii. B Iks it P
K it 2
5.
Ptf B 3
Castles
17. B tks K B
K tks B
0.
P If 4
PtksF
P bi
7.
Btks P
B Kt.'i
IS. Kt K R 4
R K 5
8.
P K5
Kt K (it)
lit. tf K Kt 4
R K Kt 4
9.
I* tf 5
Kt K 2
20. Kt B 5 ch
K R 2
10.
Ptf <>
P tks P
2t. tf It 4 ch.
nml mates
n.
P tks P
Kt tf B 3
next move.
12.
B K Kt 5
Kt K B 4
fa)
NOTES.
By retreating 3 lie Kt, Black gets a very
cramped game ; lie ought to have advanced B (f 4.
(b) Ktoch; lias also its points; but the text move
is quite satisfactory, and leads to a very neat termi
nation. T. F. FARM,
Correspondence Tourney 1S78.
Between Prof. B. M. McIntosh, Dalton, Ga., nnd
A. F. Wukm, Atlanta, Ga.
(King’s Gambit declined)
Wurm, McIntosh.
Black. j White
P K 4 10. I|XH
McIntosh
White
1. PK4
2. P K B 4
P CM
8. Kl. K B 3 (a) P X
4. Kt X P
5. Cf Kt B 3
6. O It 5 +
7. Kt X kt P
8 . If X B P
». y K 5 X (e)
Wurm.
Black.
Kt K B 3
Kt If 2 (f)
8 K Kt 4
(h 12. PKht5(g) Castle
15 K 3 ic) ,1.‘. P X Kt Kt X P ( b)
PK li 4 (aj .4. P <4 Kt 3 BKt2,i;
PKKCj jlS. B(fK3 QB2U)
B K B 2 ! 16. B B 4 tf tf 2
B x Kt |,i. BK6 (f y (K)
Cf li 2 1.8. y X B Bn-ek resigns.
A traveller, on a miserably lean steed, was
hailed by a Yankee, who was hoeing bis pump
kins by the roadside. ‘ Hullo, friend,’ said the
farmer, 'where are you bound?’ ‘I am going
out to settle in the western country, ’ replied
the other. ‘ Well, get off and straddle this here
pumpkin-vine • it will grow and carry yon fas
ter than that’ere beast.’
Rachel, the actress, wrote delicious billets.
‘My dear friend, they tell me that I have a
chance of reconciliation with you. I am going
to try. Here’s a box I offer yon for this even
ing. If I see you, I shall play Camille very
well ; if you do not couie, 1 snail aveuge mj-
self on you by playing still better, so that you
will regret not having oome. Rachel
— ‘Stop your noise, children! suddenly call
ed out a little nine-year-olu to those of his play
mates who, forced to remain iu the house be
cause of the rain, were makiDg a racket. * Why,
the people g dug along the streets will think
this house is hollow.'
It is a curious fact that the land which
surrounds the North Pole is undergoing a gen
eral movement ot upheaval. Tuere is ample
evidence that there has been an upward move
ment since any subsidence took place,
The 'governnien! o' South Australia has
offered a reward of $20,000 to the inventor of
the best machine, combining within itself the
various operations at the same time of reaping
an i cleaning tic fer bagging oa the field cue va
rious oereal crops of that country. The com
petition tor the prize will be tested in Decem
ber, 1879.
Notes by tbe Victor :
(a) P + Q, P is usually played here, hut the text
move is tbt- best; because it evades the powenul
counter-attack of 3. BK5 3. P + K P is ooviousiy
b. ii.
|b) If 3. B K Kta 4. B K 2, P+P or (A), 5. Kt x P,
B + B, 6 Qxl, Kt K JB 3, 7. Cf Kt B 3, auU While has
the better game. , „
(A; 4. iixKt, 5. BxB, KtKI>2, 6. PXkP, KtXP,
7. Castles; and still While’s game is prelerabie.
(C) iff. Kt K B 3, 5. ii q, 15 4; or 4. 3 q. IS 4,
5, If K It o,fouowcp by KtxB For Kli J , itadvaueed,
uuu, in either ease, \\ Lite lias tne advantage.
Id, ihis is it must important juuciuieiu Black’s
game, slid it is difficult to detrrmiue las best move,
for ll fit- plays o, P ii. n. 3, \vuite gams an over
powering attack, as lo.lows: j. r lillo, o. tf lv
B K Kt 5, 7. Ktxiv Kt P. ii K li 2, a. If tf Kt a+,
Ac. il lie plays a. Ivl K ii 3, tne following variation
is apt to lake piacc : 6. Kt K li 3, 0. if lv.2, ii K 1>4,
7 tf tf Kt o+, tf K tf 2, 8. ii tf ii i, B K 3, i>. mtxtf Kt,
iixKi, 10. tf Atf al p, and IV uite lias a Pawn aiicad
and the better g.due.
If he plays6. P K B 4, the following is given:
5. p K. fi 4, t>. tf lv. li o-T, P K Kt 3, 7. KtXK Kt P,
li KB, 8. tf A K i> 1', ii X Kt, y. tf K a t, tf iv 2,
IU O X R, Kt K li 3; ll. i K Ktf, tf Ki if 2, m. b lio,
Casties, 13. B X B, li Kt 2, 1-i. Ii a It +, K X if,
and tlie “Haudouncli” prefers liiack’s game, nut 1
hold that w lilie s iweiltfi move in tne above varia
tion is weak and mill Hie move in tue text is ihe
true one. t^ee note on tweillh move, pre.-eui game).
And lunuermoie, 1 believe that alter Black s move
of 5.’ B K B i, \\ hue may have taken tbe King’s
pawn with Knight, and uiatilBiuck luul dated to
take the Kui fe lil with Pawn on ms sixth move,
W lute couid have speedily wen a decisive advaiu-
age, as loimws : 5. PK B 4, 0. tf ktx P> P X Kt,
7. o i\. Q .j -f,
i woUiU can .special attention to tins variation ;
lor it is original with mo, so iar as 1 know, anti, if
ilia sound, me usual methods of deleuce in me
“Kino s Bishop’s Gambit Declined,” bt
2. B i. are ceriamly lusuiucient to
tack- and, thereto!e, llim having
the best line ol deleuce in me opening, it is saier
foi the second player lo accept the "King’s Gainful’
than to decline it. , , . ,
e . n seems mat White could now have obtained
at leasi an iqual game both in forces and position,
bv piai ingy. tf tf Kt -i-r, followed by iu. tfXKl B, i tc.
Kt-, Kl i gives black a very harrassiug attack.
1 have lrequenuy play ed ll successiuny lu oll iiaud
games btu never tried il m any serious contest.
b X -new departure,’ Uu. t is much stronger
Ulan 12. >’KB5, as given by the authorities, be
cause it effectually leueves me pressure m \v Hite’s
position and secures him a winning advantage.
(li, He uas’no better move. Aliy other uouid let
the tfueeu out loribwiib.
(ii B tf ii 4 count nave accomplished no more.
(ji Again be has holulc-g better indeed all of
Black's plays since bis mm move, if we except tbe
dangerous d.isn suggested ai- ms eleventh, seems to
have neen forced, mid lie must now submit lo an
exeban-e ol tfueeus, aud come out o. tins hotly
contested lieiu, With ihe "exchange” and a pawn
a-ainst him, vvmch is lautainoum, theoretically at
leasi to a lost game. And here collies in another
“merelore” ugaiiisi Blues’s liltu move. With em
phasis enough to condemn its adoption, without
any help iroiu the variation pointed out in tue
iattor part ol tne notes already made on tual move.
1'Jrayo, 11 tne two "inereloies” appropriate sound
ness, the present Hue ol defence, founded uul B tf 4
is unreliable.
(ki Merely desperate, as was his iast moxe. Why
not i7. li or rtxtfand ihus win a piece alter the
exchange of tfueeus. But even lhal could not have
saved his game.
til
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