Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1876, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES FOREIGN. A Battle Between the Servians and the Turks under Moukhtar Pasha. Osman Pasha Captured and Tak- en to the Servian Camp. French Newspapers Fined for Libelous Articles on the Jesnit College. A Town on the Swedish Coast Almost Entirely Destroyed by Fire, THE EAST. ANOTHER TURKISH DEFEAT. St. PETERSBURG, July 23.—A dispatch from Prince Nikata says: * The Turks under Moukh- tar Pasha attacked us early to-day near Urbiza. A severe engagement ensued, aud fighting is still proceeding. We have broken through the Turkish lincs. Osman Pasha was captured and brought here alive, aud we bave taken many prisouers. WORKING FOR PEACE. Loxpoy, July 29.—The British representa- tive in Servia Is endeavoring to induce Prince Milan to make the Porte an offer of reconcilia- ton. Numerous partisans of Karagorgewicz have tecn arrested. - ARMY NEWS. Motktar Pacha has outflauked Prince Mikita’s armny mear Kosito, making the position of the latter eritical. Dervis Pacha was driven back* while attempting a reinforcement of the Turks, . Josing 120 killed. Gen. Leschijaner announces that he cannon- aded Osman Pach’s camp at Izbor, compelling him to withdraw a distance of 4 kilometres. Official dispatches state that the Turks who attacked the Moutenegrins near Medum on Fri- duy were completely defeated. —_— FRANCE. 1SADELLA TAKES MER LEAVE. Paris, July 20.—Ex-Queen Isabella, on the eveof her departure for Spain, has written a Ietter to President MacMahon, thanking him for the kindness shown to her during her cight years’ residence in France. LIBEL SUIT. The whole French Radical Republican press recently made a general attack upon the heads of the Jesuit College, alleging that they had frandulently forewarned the students concern- Ing the subjects of examination at the Poly- technique; hence a libel suit, which day before Yesterday was decided in favor of Dopoc, the Director of the College, and fifty-five students. The affair has caused great excitemént, and has been made the subjeet of parliamentary in- ?_uijcj’.F rill-\eazil;w(s(x;;fllcl:si ‘;‘?dndiug) the Jie 11'3 igue 2 cita's organ), v e 2,000 Zrancs each. S PR GREAT BRITAIN. SUSPENDED. Loxpox, July 20.—Royalton & Dixon, iron shipbuilders, of Middlesborough, have suspend- ed, in consequence of Thomas Vaughan & Co.’s embarrassments. FORTNIGHILY SETTLEMENT. London, July 20.—The fortnightly scttlement #as concluded with only two moderately sized failures, CUBA. CHIARGED WITH SWINDLING. Ha® AT\, July 20.—Lieut.-Col. Teodorica Fei- joo, fu.n rly Secretary of Capt.-Gen. Valmase- da, and Senor Trotcha, of the firm of Arnan & Co., provision dealers, have beeu cited to an- - gwer charges of defaleation and misdemeanor in 1he suppiy of provisions to the Spunish army. 1t they domot appear within thirty days they will be declared culpable and sentenced by court-martial. SPAIN. A LOAN. Mapnro, July 20.—The Bank of Spain has seen instructed 10 ISSUC tvwv wud o balf wililiay of reals in mortgragre bonds. NOMINATION. Bazanallana has been nominated for Ministe: of Finence, and not Minister to France. ¥ SWEDEN. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Lowvox, July 24.—Yoderhawn, a maritime town of Sweden, was almost totally burned on the 23 inst. Great distress prevails. Thedam- age is many million crowns. CASUALTIES. THE PHILADELPHIA TIRE. PrILaDELPRL, Pa., July 29.—James Nolan, the owner, and William Johnston, the occupant, of the old Globe Mill, which was burned on Wednesday last, were committed by the Coro- ner to await trial on the charge of gross crim- inal negligence in not providing proper means of escape for the operatives employed in the mill. The charge is bascd on the verdict of the Jury to-day in the case of Ellen Hever and Mary J. Patterson, who came to their death by the fire. The jury find that the death of those vic~ 1im8 was the result of such negligence. "The funerals of Mrs. Hever and Miss Patter- son took place to-day, and were largely attend- ed. The former leaves a husband and seven children, the oldest 13 years of age and the youngest a babe. A little over a vear ago a fire occurred in the mill, aud Mrs. Hever jumped from a second- &tory window with a girl under each of her 2arms, saving their lives by the action. By her second act of beroism she lost her own life: Dispatch to the New York Herald. PHILADELPHIA, July 26.—A terrible fire oc- curred in this city this morning, causing a loss of life that was nothing less than a butchery, for which, according to the prevailing opinion here, the municipal authorities andthe owner of the building deserve to be held strictly responsi- * ble. A fire breaks out in a mill, the floors and Woodwork of which are soaked with oil, and the buflding stored with rags, aud in sight of 2,000 agonized spectators two helpless women are bumed to a cinder in a cage from Which there is no escape, onc more lies dying from inhaling the fatal flames, and every other occupant of the building has a very DAITow escape from the jaws of death more or less injured. And all beeause, through neglect ormeanness, a trap like this has no fire-escape. The scene of this fire was the Old Globe Shoddy Mill, as it was called, on St. Jobn strect, below Germantown avenue, in the extreme up- per gomon of this city, a property owned by one James Nolan, and” ocenpicd as'a mill by William Johnston, whose names deserve to be Temembered. It was four stories high aud * fronted 100 feet on St. John street, with a depth of 50 feet on Germantown avenue. The etployes ot the mill this morning were only in_number, covsisting of Jobn M. Tur- ner, Joho Brooks, Thomas Magee, Ellen Hever, Ann Peterson, Maria Hoover, Cornclia Peter- 800, Maggie Sheridan. Magrie Sweeney, sud Mattie Hoover. At 7 o’clock they went to work s usual. Five of the women went to the fourth floor and began their tusk of sorting rags; one ¥as on the third floor in the storage and stock T00m, and Ellen Hever, with the three men, Went to work on the ground floor, in the carding room. The second foor, used as the picker room, was unoccupied. Shortly after § o'clock & smell of burning caused Turner to run 25tily up stairs 1o this room, where le discoyv- tred the whole apartment in & blaze. He ¥ onee gave the alarm, but almost uicker than it takes - to tell the sto- v the whole combustible building was in es, cach room hn\"iu§ qnantities of shoddy wud greasy rags in it and all the flooring being seaked in grease and oil. So quickly did the 8ames spread, that before the women tbove :r!d flge; down-stairs that avenue of escape was off] The instant the alarm was given Ellen Hever, ¥ho Was on the first floor, with a noble_instinct t cost ber her life, ran up-stairs to the ihird and fourth fioors and urged her companions to fly for their safety. Thisbravewomanmighthave saved herself, being on the street floor; butshe determined to make a desperate effort to rescue those who were in greater peril. Followingher, the five on the fourth floor and the ove in the bird story ran down the stairway. But they were already too lute. ] the Second floor they were vonfronted by the fames *hich were making their course toward the roof. The women turned to fiee from the dreaded cle- , ment, but there was no escape from it oa the second floor, and they saw they must eitier go above or make their_escape_from the windows. dust back of the. mill stood 2n ald shed which could be reached from the second floor without 1 danger of life or limb, and, with a presence o mind which is seldom witnessed atsuch a four of the women madea rush throu"llx’?l::fz flames to the window-sill and dropped over up- gl;l:.:l‘:il.:tf::lrmn st\r{ucbure. These four were Cor- cterson, Magei i neg, and Maztlo e eridan, Maggie Swee- ornelia Peterson was missing for some t; Em_l it was thought she had gv.-rish(:d in Igl:: uilding, but sbout an hour after information Was recived that she had reached her home in safety. They were all singed, however, but uogc of the tive received any serious wounds. 5 But the most terrible portion of this disaster xsis }(u tobe told. The brave woman who had risked Ler own life to save the others was not ?m?ng those who had reached the window. Be- orLl she and Ann Patierson_and Maria Hoover could follow their companions even that ave- n;xc of escape was cut off. Great tongues E flame suddenly burst up through "the ‘oor in front of this window, to PSS through which would have been certain and ter- ;'mlc death. The great crowd which had col- ected ou the streef conld sce the three women rushing from one corner of the room to the other, making frantic gestures for assistance, but help was paralyzed by the intense heat that went out from the burning building. With a cry of despair the trio saw the lurid flame in- creasing, and they were driven back up the stainway, continuing on until they reached the fourth floor. Here they felt safe for a brief time, und brief it was, fora few minutes bad only clapsed before the flames came creeping through “the floor. There was no time for thought, and only a desperate resort could save them now. The agonized crowd that was powerless to aid shouted “JuuH; jump!™ Dow't be burned to death; you hac better be maimed than that.” “Jump, and we will save vou.” Some men rolled bales of rags and shoddy under the win- dows and called again to the women, who could be seen through the smoke wildly gesticulating and imploring help as only duspal can, for the cruel flames Were even then singeing them. The excitement in the crowd was almost madness. Some lost their wits entirely, and as the nfen piled u‘;;:the rags for the women to fall upon sggcrs gged it awa y id: 0t knowing what they Ann Patterson was the first to attempt to es- cape by this terrible alternative. Climbing upon the window-sill she made the frightful leap into the street, four stories below. Stout men sick- cned and turned away their heads. There wasa moment of awful suspense. The sccond of time oceupied in falling scemed like an hour to those who' witnessed the sight, und when she struck the pavement a cry of agony arose from the multitude heartrending to liear, and which those who were present will never forget. The other two women had secured s rope, which they fastened to the sill, but it only reached down to the top of the second story windows. Itwas the best they could scetrd, lowever, and onc came down after the other, Ellen Meyer first and Ann Patterson next. The fall from the cnd of tne rope was very severe, and when the three women were picked up they were bruised aud mangled beyond Tecognition. They were tenderly lifted up by compassion- ate bunds and borne to neighboring drug stores. Ellen Hever, horribly mangled, was placed in an ambulance to be taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, after her wounds had been temporarily dressed, but died even before the driver started. _Ann Patterson was carried to St. Mary’s Ios- pital, where she died in an hour’s time. She was 31 years of age, single, and lived on Bainbridge street, near Gray’s Ferry road. Maria Hoover was carried t0 @ drug store at Third and George streets, and her burns dress- ed, after which she was removed to St. Mary's Hospital. Her appearnnce, like that of the other two, is too frightful to describe, and it is feared her injuries will also prove fatpl. She resides av Gray's Ferry road and Alter street. The three men who were working in_the mill csuared wvithout receiving any serious injury. Ellen Hever, the brave woman who refuséd to save her own life until she tried to rescue those ~who were in greater puril, wus 83 years of nrr:c and a married wonan, with seven children dependent upon Der for support. Sbe resided at 1303 Charlotte street, waere her body was removed after her death. Mrs. Hever was employed in this mill last year when the fire oceurred there, and then had there a very narrow escape from death, be- ing obliged to jump from an upper window, in- Jjuring herself quite badly. Had she not gone up-stairs to-day to give the alarm, she would have escaped as easily as the three men who were with her on the first floor when the fire broke out. - It has been proposed that this no- ble womun’s children shall not suffer by her death, so far as it is within the power of mioney to relieve their wants. L TORNADO. St. Louts, Mo., July 29.—A tornado passed over the northern part of this county between 3and 4 0’clock this morning, and did & good deal of damage to outhousts, femces, trces, crops, cte. One edge of the storm struck the cxtreme northern part of the vity and made considerable racket among some of the houscs, one of which was wrecked and a little girl named O'Toole killed. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Suecicl Dispatch o Te Tribune. EAsT SarNAwW, Mich., July 29.—Charles Wentz, one of our old German residents, was accidentally killed yesterday. while alone in the 3 woods. The body was found to-day. A shot- gun which he carried was discharged while he was pulling it through a fence after him. De- ceased was 3¢ years of age, was for tiwo years City Treasurer, and a man of considerable po- litical influence among the Germans. BURNED TO DEATH. BostoN, Mass., July 20.—By the burning of a tenement in Haverhill, Mrs, Long lost her life, 3“‘1 two others escaped by jumping from win- 0WS. - L, TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. DoveR, N. H., July 20.—The Cocheco Cotton- Mills have shut down for thirty days. Ayugrst, DMass.,, July 20.~Congressman Seelye has been unanimously chosen President of Amherst College. Care May, N. J., July 20.—A detachment of the Cincinnati Light Guards reached here this morning,and were escorted to their headquarters at the Columbia House by the CapeMay Guards and a company of the ¥ifth Maryland Regiment. A grand reception was given them in the evening. 5 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 20.—The mulatto man, named George, whose story relative to Charlic Ross has been widely circulated in this and other papers, has left for parts unknown. His exit was as sudden as his entree. Little credence s placed in the story that he told, but it will not be dropped without a proper inves- HEAUON o Dispaten to e Trivune. ToroxTO, Ont., Jduly 29.—The Count and Countess Von Arnim, of Berlin, arein Montreal. CLEVELAND, O., July 20.—In the case of the death of Mre. B. Murray Day, suspected by some to be one of snicide, the evidence tuken at the Coroner's inquest, and still stronger ovi- dence that has come to light si the inquest, renders it certain that there was no intent to comumnit suicide, and that the fatal result was due simply to an accidental overdose of the opiate. ————— MOULTON VS, BEECHER. New Yorg, July 20.—An order has been granted extending for twenty days the time in which defendant may file answer in_the suit of Franeis D. Moulton against Heury Ward Beecher. A Tho Election of the Pope. London Standurd. A petition is being circulaicd in Ttaly which it is intended to present to the Legislature. praying that the ‘election of the Pope shall again be Jodged, as in ancient times, in the hands of the clerzy and the peuple‘ and, if we can trust the authority of the Papal Osserzatore " Teor Pius IX. has been much concerned and o ina appended to this document the names of several priests andeven some prelates. Our readers are already aware, for Mr. Glad- stone has taken much pains to impress the fact on the minds of the publie, that s considerable agitution exists in Italy for Vesting the nomiuation of the parish clurgy in parociiial constituency; and it is obvious that he two demands are apart of the gcm':ml move-. ment. The Vatican, therefore, may well be alarmed. It can oppose to the suggestion only the disputable plea of convenience and later precedents; for it is a notorious fact that fqr Several centuries Papal elections bore a strik- ingly popular character. The choice of the Bi?hop o? Rome, while almost everything clsein the policy and practice of the timé was vscillat- ing, shifting, and_unsettled, resided without change or challenge in three e ual pml\— ers for classes,—the civil authority, the people, and the clergy. Nor did it ever oceur to anyone to withdraw the privilege from this mixed con- stituency, and least of all to intrust it to an L‘sn’; teric hody of titled jecclestiasticy, until {nu:- oot the sune thne tuat the Normans were pre- paring 1o give to this islaud the beueiit of their adventurous spirit, their aristocratic u:mpfer, their continental tongue, and their talents ; 05 government. Down to the year 1059 the el e:‘ tion of the Pope was a public and popular zm&. saction, which was participated in by the entire body of the Roman clergy, induding even thoso tlen known as acalytes. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Comforting a Widow in Her Af. fliction. A Girls’ Picnic---Portraits of Some Noted Women. Taking Advantage of Leap-Year—4 Lover's Adice ~-‘“Tho Improved Bustle.” i L ANACREONTIC-~TO FANNY. Cling to me closer, nearer; Our joys are ever dearer When both, uniting, With looks inviting, Swim throngh the gladsome motion Of Love’s complete devotion. This is the bliss of living: ‘When most receiving--giving; ho yields is stronger; 0 [oes, stays longer; And most of all'delighted Are they ut home—benighted. When right is held by power, 1 would not share the dower, Amid the jangle __Of endlens wrangle, Where every hand opposcs, With thorns instead of roses, Nor yet march dumb, ike cattle, Through life’s unceasing battle, The wage of beauty, Rewards for duty, And half of life's distresses Are soathed by Love's curesses. We sing the relf-same story Told by the enges hoary: Thronzh pain and triny; And self-denial, Joys lic behind the crosses, To pay for all our losses. So still oursclves aeceiving, Nor ever half-helieving, We count the mariyr, In foolish barter, Inetead of daily {aking That for which hearts are breaking, Let's drink from Love's deep river; Be thankful to the Giver, And prize the trensnre Of present pleasure: No other may be given— And thix is present Heaven! Cnicaco, July 14, 1870. Isaac A. Poot. —— COMFORT IN A¥FLICTION. An elderly man with peaked features, large, watery eyes, and an attire of dilapidated re- spectability, called at a Davbury house (says the News) last Friday morning for o * luneh.” 1fe #aid he wus traveling from Boston to Buffalo, at which latter place he had great expectations. e sat down at the Kitehen table, with his long legs curled up under it, and his long arms spread out upou it, while his ponderous nose stood out like a grease spot on a pair of white pants. The woman of the house brought him a plate of bread and meat and a bowl of coffee. While she was placing the things he noticed that she wore a black dress and a look of pallor. ““Had a death, madam " he softly inquired, as he squared Limself for the repast. “Y s, sir.” “Lately “Last Tuesday,” she answered, faintly. “I was sure of it. Father! mother! sister? brother?” he asked, taking up a ¢ of ment with one hand, and slapping it apps a piece of bread m the other. “ My husbund, sir,” she said, drawing out a’ handKerchicf, whilé her lips quivered. She looked so white and sad and drooping as she sat there, that his heart was touched. “Did lie dic 2 natural death #"heasked, softly chewing on the food,and bending the full gh‘\ngc of ;.Ilg]arge eyes upon her., sir. ) “It’s 2 bad thing in onc so_voung as you to lose her protector. But, he dicd a natural death, and there is comfort in that.”” He slapped another piece of eat upon wnother piece of bread, and quictly put his teeth through th *“ You know,” he presently added, revolving the morsel in his mouth, and assuming an ap- pearauce of delicate cheerfulness, * thut be died calmly with every want attended to, and_loving hands to admiuigter to him—could I trouble you for a little mustard?” She weariedly srose and ot Lim the urticle. *“There's comfortin that, isn’t there?”” he continued, referring to the passing away of the deceased. eyesl 5 gald she. in s low tone, wpimg her ** Now you know,” he said, looking intently at her with his eves, while hi$ hands spread the mustard, it might have been much different and far worse. Ife might have been run over by a train of coal-cars and cut into pound lumps stuck full of graveli” T know,” said she, with g shiver. “ Then, wgain, he might have been blown up in 2 defective saw-mill,” said the stranger, tak- ing another bite of the food, and gentay closing his eyes as if the better to picture the irredeem= able horror of this proposition, “and only about two-thirds of him, and that badly damaged, ever returned to your agonized sight.”” A low sob”behind the handkerchief was the only response, while he opened his eyes in time to detect a fly making extraordinary efforts to shake its “hind-lezs free from the mustard. Coming mechanically to the assistance of the inscet, he said: “It is bad cnough to lose him. I'll admit that. No onc would be so caloused s to deny that,” he said, looking around inguiringly, as if to make quite sure that no_such a party was in sight. “Still, it could have been much worse, youknow. He might have been prematurely perforated with the ramrod of a cannon, and had to have had chloroform injected in him at an expense of 325 a day. But if he'd fallen into avat of hot oil and liad all his flesh peeled off, you'd never got over it, would you?? “No, sir,” said _she, burying her face still deceper in her handkerchief. “Qh, there are a hundred wayshe might have aled,” he went on, taking a sweep with the knife at o fly, in the exuberance of his delight that things were as they were instead of as they might have been. ©1Ie might have per- ished in a fire und been dug out of the ruins the next day with a pickax. He might have fallen off a two-story building and struck on his face, and had to have gone through the funeral on his stomach, with weeping friends pressing the last fond kiss on the back of his head.” Here the narrator shuddered himself at the awful prospect of such a catastrophe, while the bereaved woman agonizingly protesied against his procecding. “Yowll admit it might have been worse?” he asked with undisguised anxiety. “ O, yes, sir,” she replicd, wiping her eyes. “#I'm glad of that,” said he, exploring his under juw with the fork. ‘Afllictions will come, but if we try to think of those which are greater that have not come to us, then we are better able to bear those that do. It's been my object to teach you that a natural death is not a thing to despise in these times of rush, crash, and splutter, and if you have learned the lesson, ny mission s accomplished, and I go my 1 don’t want to intrude, of course, on the privacy of a deep grief, but if the deceased was about my build, and left behind a vest, not too gaudy in pattern, I should be }ylcnsed to take it_ulong with me as a souveair of departed worth.” He paused an irstant, and then added, with touch- ing solemity, * These were his victuals, and it would seem appropriate, as well as beautiful, to have them held in by his vestures.” When he went away he bad as a_souvenir of departed worth something he could pull down il required so to do. A GIRLS’ PICNIC. The girls (says the Watertown, N. Y., Dis- patch) got up a hen picnic kst week, and had a glorious time of it altogether. They had lots of tca, and sugar, and milk (which all got sour), but no matches, and plenty of pickles, sponge- cake, and butter, but o bread. Add to this that each of the girls got her mother tolet her bring a roast turkey, 60 'as to astonish the rest of the girls and show that she could do things in style, and fhat they had no knives and forks, and, though lots of plates, no drinking uten- sils, it is not difficult to see that their commissariat was well organized and a source of much harmony, pleasure, and eatisfaction to all concerned in its preparation. After several life-long quarrels, and_such com- ments as *I don’t care!” “You’re just a5 mean as dirt!”? “Well, it waso’t my fauit, any way!” they made a frugal repast of dismembered tur- Xy, cold_water, pickles, and sponge-cake, and then decided to amuse themselves as best they could for the remainder of the day. One girl undertook to fish, and, having puton hergloves, introduced a hook to her worm, but the fierce animal gave a squirm, and with a terrific yell she dropped the wild beast right down the back of a friend and young com- panion dear, who was sitting beneath. The f. and 3. c. d. went into active hysterics, and the guthor of the tragedy impaled her thumb on the fish-hook, and fainted at the sight of blood. After this, oue of the girls steppedintoa swamp about half-way up to lier cars, and snother got a bee into her ear, and a third unearthed a horrid gnake 7 inches long, and while a member was stooping down to collect a specimen of that rare and valaable Shm’ the sorrel, Mr. Kehoe's merino ram butted her over a seven-railed fence, irretrievably ruining a 37 thing to make her dress puff out bebind. Then they went home to find out what was good for sunburns, PORTRAITS OF NOTED WOMEN. Very intellectual women are seldem beauti- ful. Their features, and particularly their fore- heads, are more or less masculine. But there are exceptions to all rules, and Mrs. Landon Was an exception to thisone. She was exceed- ingly femninine and pretty. Mrs. Stanton, like- ‘wise, was an excecdingly handsome woman; but Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermore are both plain. Maria and Jane Porter were women of high brows and irregular features, as was also Miss Sedgwick. Anna Di son lLus = strong, masculine face. Kate Ficlds hos a good-looking, but by no means apretty face. Mrs. Stowe is thought positively homely. Mrs. Burleigh, on the contrary, is very fine-looking. Alice' and Phebe Cary were very plain in features, though their sweetness of disposition added greatly to their onal a) pearance. Margraret Fuller had a splendid heng; but her features were very irregular, ind she was anything but landsome, though some- times, in the glow of conversation, she uppeared almost rudiant. Charlotte Bronte had won- drously beautiful dark-brown ejes and a per- fectly-shaped bead. She was small to dimninu- tiveness, and was as simple in her manners as 2 child. Julia Ward lowe is a fine-looking Wwolnan—earing an aspect of grace and refine= ment, and of great force of character in her face nd_carriage. Olive Logan is anything but aaudsome in person, though gay and attractive 1 conversation. aura Holloway resembles Charlotte Bronte both in personal appearance, and in the sad experience of her youthiful life.' Neither Mary Booth vor Marian Harlan cun luy claim to hanusome faces, though they ure splen- did specimeas of cultured women, while Mary Clenimer is just as pleasing in features as her writings are graceful and popular.—New Haven Itegister. A BIT OF ROMANCE. A rather romantic ending of a leap-year ad- venture oceurred in oue of our neighboring towns a few days age. Oue of the belles of the place, remarkable for Ler good practical sense as well as her education and good looks, joined with a few of her sisters in inviting sowe of the young men to accompany them to the Literary Club onc evening last spring in the usual spirit of fun which characterizes such adventurce, intending notbing but fun, Soon afterward her friend returned the call, and then came again and again, apparently much pleased with the company he found in the girl who had escorted him “to the Club. Things went “along about as usual in such cases until. a Tew wecks ugo, when, on one occasion, she interrupted the usual course of events Dy saying, ‘“See here, Henry, I'd like to know if 5ou mcan busitiss by’ Hiese repeated calls? mean business, and” if you love me as well as Ilove you I'd like to muke you my husband, and the sooner the better.” Henry said, * Yes, business, and any time you may fix will sult me.” The two were joined in one soon after, everybody but old prudes ad- miring the matter-of-fact mauner of terminating what was begun ina bit of juvenile fun. Why not! She had #8 much right to malke her senti- meiits known iu plain English ns Le had, and she showed her good sense in doing it. Score one for the Centennial leap-year.—Judianapolis Journal. PRSI WIIAT WILL SIIE DO WITH IT? The fearful prevalence of that latest mon- strosity of female dress, “the improved bustle,” gives rise (says the Boston Glole) to the im- portant question of what is to become of the: millions of cast-off ones. - Are our ponds and docks to be filled with their ghastly ghkelctons as they were with those wiry rclics of - an undeveloped civilization, hoopskirts? We have a faint recollection that hoopskirts were occasionally turned into light, eraceful, and substantial frames for tomato viues in suburban gardens, and hasten to suggest that the “improved bustie” be collected by 2 company organized with sufficient capital, and carricd to the fishing ports, where they can be sold for lobster pots. They' would certainly be much lighter and cheaper than the present. clumsy wooden ones, and ‘would combine strength” and neatness. Then, azain, it may be urged 48 no minor argu- ment, they would doubtless be a deal mar~ at- tractive to the festive lobster. A LOVER’S ADVICE. There was a Jarge excursfon party in the city yesterday, and about noon three or four couples entered 3 Woodward-avenue confectionery store and made porchases. One girl didn't want any candy, anuso Larloverinvested in 10 cents’ worth of dates—s frin$ neither had ever eaten before —and hie gave ber the largest half. As they stood at the door, eating away, she came to oné of the seeds or piis, dropped it into ber hand and looked at him, and then tossed it back into her mouth and closed her teeth upon it. She bit and chewed and bit, and was red in the face from her exertions, when her lover looked up, realized the situation, and called out: ““ What on carth are’ye driving at? When ye come to the sceds ye must stand on yer toes and swaller Jem hull, and if she goes down hard I'm here to pat ye on the back{'"—Detroit Free Press. FEMININE NOTES. “There is music in the (h)air,” as the violinist remarked when his wife broke the instrument over his head. Abreach of ctiquette: A lady perusing an jee-cream sign aloud, while she is walking with a gentleman. ¢ Ladies, without distinction of sex,” are in- vited to a mass-meetivg at Dublin, with a generosity characteristicof the noble Hibernian. Since Mr. Henpecked read that a Stoughton woman fell out of a hammock and broke her jaw, he bas had bammocks slung all around his house. Two young Iadies were standing by a ditch 13 feet wide, which they didn’t know Low to cross, when _their escort said “Suakes!” and they cleared it at a bound. Alittle lady in Schencetady_recently sent word to her absent pa in New ™ York that she must be excused from writing a long letter, as she had spent a very restless night with a sick doll. An enthusiest who had been to hear Anna Dickinson lecture wrote her, saying: “ With you 1 could be bappy in a desert.” And she wrote back: *No mun will ever have a chance to desert me.” A Southerner, writing from Cape May to his bome paper, wonders why a prudish girl who will dance with no one but her brother will run along the beach, *“npaked as to the knee,” and kicking sand at her beau. The Rochester Demaocrat gives currency to the incredible scaudal that ‘‘Statistics show that thus far in this Centennial _year two boys have been born to every girl.” Is nobody’s character safel—2New York Graphic. Susan B. Anthony is not the author of this: *The happiest lifc of a woman is perhaps at- tained when she adopts the opinions of a rea- sonably intelligent husband, and conscizntiously thinks they arc her own.” Last night was memorable in the calendar of Cupid as the first one for the Jast six weeks when you could come within carshot of a couple of lovers without hearing Amanda exclaim: ¢ Oh! don’t, Gus; it's too sticky.—ZLrooklyn Argus. 01d MacSkinflint (reading): *Hech, Becky, duuna yeken thedatet Why, it's our goldén weedin, We must just ha’e a bit celebration wi' a few friends.”” Mrs. MacS.: “Ns, na, gudeman, dinna ye think it would be mair pru- dent to wait till our next?’—London Fun, “How are breadstuffs ?”’ asked a fellow- boarder of Grits, the grain-merchant. “I don’t know about breadstutls, but the beef’s tough,™ said Grits, The l:mdlmlly made no comment, but the ice-cream was all gone before Grits got around to it.—Boaston Commercial Bulletin. Norwich Bulletin: The unhappiest man the heated term has gmduced is the one who rode, 150 miles through the dust, yesterday, to sce bis girl, and, on reaching tow, found that she had left for the country for the summer the day before, and that the servants had forgotten the name of the place where she had gone. Orer in Scotland, two young women, disap- pointed with men, resolved to cleave to one an- other. They drew lots to see which should play the man. Jfe took the name of James Ham, and dressed as a man. They went off together aud kept tavern us landlord and landlady for over thirty years, and the secret was not dis- covered till the one who played the part of the man died. According toa Cologne newspaper, there is n'thatcitya booth in which 15, cxbibited “a bearded lady.” At the entrance s stationed a irl to take the money. Recently a visitor, hay- ing feasted his cye on the strmge phenomenon, thinking on his”departure to have a joke with the little moncy-taker, said to her, fondling her under the chin the while, Well, little one, I suppose the bearded wnmlnis_P‘nur mamma, eh? ”“A\O, &ir," replied ths child, “she is my papa. THE FASHIOGNS. Noveland Charming Combinations of Beautyand Economy. Styles in Morning-Dresses---News Fash« ions in Breakfast-Cags. The First Rink in Paris---Rich and Striking Toilets. NEW YORK. BEAUTIFUL AND ECONOMICAL. Special Correspondence of The Tribune.’ NEW Yorg, July 27.—Never within the mem- ory of even ““the oldest inhabitant® have our fashions been so beautiful, so becoming, so ex- quisitely dainty, as now. Even paterfamilias, that confirmed grumbler, finds little cause for complaint, for economy enters largely futo fash- fon this year, and extravagance is a matter simply of choice, not at all of necessity. Many of the elegant toilettes that challenge admira- tion are * made-over’’ ones, sometimes, but not always, with the additional advantage of por- tions of new material. Some bandsome new toilettes show charming contrasts in a polonaise of some light-colored summer silk, with a skirt, an inserted vest and front, pockets, cuffs, col- lars and trimmings of some delicate check or stripe in two or more colors, one of whichis the same as the polonuise. A handsome street toilette has a long plain skirt with smooth front and side-gores, white the fulluess is brought to the back by a cluster of gathers 2t the belt. Asa wide train is de- sirable, the back breadth is cut perpendicularly uo the céntre, and a wide gore is inserted be- tween the knees and the hem. A double row of shirrs holds theskirt in place. The polonaise is remarkably elegant. In front it is fastened with buttons and button-holes to within a foot of the hem. At this point is a showy arrunge- ment of loops and ends of ribbon. ~The buck and side bodies are extended to form a basque, ‘which is exceedingly graceful. It is rounded up in a curve in the back, and cut into a long point on each hip. At the extremity of this pomnt is o large bow of wide ribbon. The drapery in the back is very beautiful. The back breadth is cut in a large point on the left, und ruther short on the right. Instead of being attached to a belt, this breadth is disposed in a burnouse fold. An estremely elegunt toilette is made of this by the addition of avery deep fringe around the polonaise. A bandsowe diuner toilette for acoul dayis of cremm-colored cashmere and black velvet. The skirt of the latter material is Iong, without uny “ornamentation, but witha full; sweeping train. The polonaise is of the cream-colored cashmere, fimshed around the hottom with o fringe of similar color, Wi ismingled a profusion of black, velvety The polonaise is closed down the front with square bows of black velvet, each haviug in the centre three little tassels of cream and black. Collar and_deep cuffs, and a pouket of velvet, complete this very handsome toilette. Some dninty morning-robies of organdy are Deuu- tiful,”and the material is in great demand for this purpose. A lovely oue 13 of rose-piuk or- gandy. The front I tight-fittiug, and the backat the neck is laid in a” double box-pleat, and hangs loose. The bottom of the middle breadth las narrow gore, inserted, which gives the twain o full and gracetul sweep., Up the front afine and narrow knife-pleating forms a spiralur- rangenient, narrowing to the waist and becom- ing broader again as it reaches the shoulders. Another churming morning-dress is of sheer blue organdy with skirt and sacque. The skirt has a déep rutlle of white surmounted by two full, wide puils. The sacque fits closely to the figure in the back and is short. Before, it i3 Tong, reaching to u point at the knees, and is quite loose. ~Swiss ruflies similar tothe skirt, but mnuch narrower, are the trimming. SOME PRETTY NOVELTIES in the way of dressy little sacques, with or with- out siceves, are of puils of black net and stripes of velvet orribbou. These arc finished around the edge with a ruche or plcuuuF of net. With 2 white dress, or one of bright-colored silk, these little jackets are very elegant. A pretty and new material, which is appearing for the first time, is a large-meshed silk net, in color a rich yet delicate creaw. This is designed solely for polonaises. A handsome one, elaborately trimmed with kuotted fringe, i’ wom over a skirt, and with sleeves of black silk velvet. This is almost the only fabric used in combina- tion with this cream-colored net. A grenadine drese af striped light and dark blio has a trained skirt with three pleated rufilcs, and the ripper one, as 4 heading, has an upright rufile a quate description of the fairy scene, I will leave it to inspect THE NOVELTIES NOW IN VOGUE, although some do not admit of commendation. Thus, the combination of red and blue in many new goods is glaring in_the extreme, and Irish poplins are seen in solid plaids of these colors alone. These are gencrully used for children's toilettes, but rumor says they herald the style for all ages, In opposition to this, the pretty white polonaise predominates over all others at the present time, and is made of various materfals, such =23 barege, alpaca crepes, foulard "or pique. Those of mobair can be wore over skirts of the same for evening tollettes, orover black skirts on ordinary o casions, but they must be of silk, ior velvet skirts for summer wear are passe in the extreme in the beau monde. A pretiy toilette is compos- ed of ivory-white foulurd, with the skirt orna- mented by four little flounces,two of which are plaited small and headed with ruching, and the remaiving two laid in larze, hollow flatings, and placed on the skirt alternately with the others. The flutihg is placed on first, and a small plaited flounce falls over the top of it, when a ?ma: is allowed before the second fiut- ing is luid on, above which it is arramsed as the first. The tunique is laced in front and bordered with Valencicnnes lace two fingers in depth, which ulso forms rufiies on the elbow sleeves and on the draperics behind. THE PROPOSED ENGAGEMENT offered by M, Virinie to Nilsson for the opera *Paul and Vugeme™ has been refused, us she docs not wish to sing in Paris, although, having expressed herself differently to the airector of the Lyrique on a former occasion. Albani_has been engaged for the Theatre-Italivn in Puris for next sesson, and will sing five of the princi- pul roles of her repetvire: Lucle, Jtigoletto, Sonnambule, Linda, aud Don Giovauni. She will receive the sum of 60,000 francs for twenty rep- resentations. The King and Queen of Greece arrived in Paris last week with their four children, of whom the oldest son, the Duke of Sparts, is only § years old, and the Princess Alexundra 6. The King Georse, who is only 30 years old and very distiugue in his appearance, is son of Chris- tian IX. The young Queenis daughter of the Grand-Duke Constantine and Graud-Duchess Olgs, who are ulso in Pavis. The princess Olgy, notwithstauding her age, is one of the most beautiful women in Europe; she is daughter of Duke Joseph of Saxe-Altenbourg, and sister of the Queen of Hanover. MaTuLDR, CRIME. TITE MOB ASSEMBLING. Special Dispatch to The Tritune. Leaveswonry, Kan,, July 20.—~Yesterday af- ternoon a respectable woman named Mrz. Davi living 214 miles from Camden Point, Mo, near the edge of the woods, was raped by a negro brute wio is -called Jue Harris. The unfor- tunate woman was enceinte, and is now lying very low. The criminal was arrested this aiter noon and taken to the Platte City Jail. Ad- vices from that place tu-night say thit an armed mob is assembling, and that an_effort will be made to seize the wretch and swing him to the nearest tree. The whole county 18 udiguant, and Harris' life is not worth much, THE BLACK HILLS. Bz Gold Stories. Neirasta oty Press. Capt. Morrill, of Dixon, arrived at Bismard, D.'T., July %2, 'from the ‘Black Hills. He savs the Whecler brothurs have taken out §150,000 from their claim _in Deadwood Galeh, and that their gronnd will yield several months yet. Some ‘days aco they scooped up gold” by the pound, and on one day secared $2,200. Four colored men discovered Nigger Gulch, where, to his certain knowicdge, four pegroes took out $1,700 in one_day with a rocker, carry- ing the dirt several hundred yards from the mountains to water. A few clmms are paying big mouey. Miners are making from 33 to §7 per day, but the majority are idle,and some des- titute. Flour was sclling for $9 per 100 Ths when Morrill Teft. The stuge at Cheyenne, July 22, brought in $10,000 in dust from Deadwood. Mr. Garduer, a relisble man, who has spent five weeks tra- versing that regfon, intent on satisfylng himself of itsichness, reports marvelous' discoveries being made, and _fully $1,000,000 await safe transportation. He saw In the possession of Mr. Beory, of this city, one nugget weighing SI4T, ond 3 number weighing from $5 to S50, He brings also 700 pounds of quartz fur smelt- ing. 5 Omaha Merald, duly 5. Mr. M. J. Ragan, whose' residence is in Exira, Ta., errived here yesterday on his returm from the Black Hills,” Mr. Ragan_exhibited, to the evidence of our cye sight, 8530, all in coarse old-Gust,_taken from”the Deadwood country. e says he thinks there are now nearly 10,000 mituersin the 1ills, ana nearly all of them making arrangements for working their claims on ex- tensive scales. But little pick and pzn mining of blue silk. The overskirt is a long polonaise fastencd diszonally acrossthe frout, and finished here and around thie bottom with two parrow plisses of grenadine headed by the stauding ruffic of lace. _The sleeves, which reach only to the elbor, terminate in a pleating of grenadine, below which is a full ruflie of blue silk with & fali of blue silk lace. An extremely stylish toilette. FICHUS are quite ‘‘the rage,” and the ingenuity of modistes is taxed to the utmost to acnieve some fresh and bizarre triumphs in_this line. A very vaetty one is of seagreen China crupe. The crapeis laid in two broad folds, and cach of these is edged by a triple row of narrow valen- ciennes insertion and edging. A knot of se: green ribbon, 2 inches wide, mingled with la confines the fichu on the breast, midway be- tween neck and waist. Another odd but very attractive fichu consists of six folds so arranged as to form n pointed cape in the back, whert it is fastened tothe helt. Three of these folds are of corn-colored silks. The other three, alter- nating, arc of black silk net or tulle, dotted with straw. A rufile ot silk, cdged by a tiny plisse of the net, borders both sidez,aud in front this pretty little affair is fastened by g4 jabot of tulle and silk, and tiny tassels of black and yel- low. A simple fichu for morning is of dotted white Swiss, three-cornered in shupe, and made over a blue silk gieucl of similar shape. A srathered raflle of the Siwiss, edged with narrow valencicnnes and two pretty bows of blue rib- bon and Swiss back and front, complete a taste- ful addition to a morning toilctte. The faucy for becoming little BREAEFAST-CAPS grows apace, as they shiould, for nothing makes 3 pretty face still pretticr, or a plain -on¢ more attractive, than one of these Jovely little caps. A pretty one of white Swiss is gathered so as to fit snugly to the head, and staud a little above it, 85 d%cs the Normandy cap. A box-pleated rufile of Swiss, bordered by marrow Mechlin lacg, falls over the Lair, while a similar one stands up asainst the cap. Infront, between the ruches, is a double bow of scarlet ribbon, the the back in loops and euds of the same. For a brunctte, and on a cool, breczy morning in the wmountains, nothing could be prettier. Another dainty little cap, odder than the former, is even morelovely. A gathered crown of white-silk net is surrounded by a puff of the same. From this droops a gathered fall of valencieunes 134 inches wide. Dricd grasses and little vivid bar- berries twine gracefully around the crown, just above the puif. This is a charming little affair, and, perched on the head of its even more charming mistress, attracts much admiration. & MaTriE 8. . PARIS. THE RINK. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. PaRris, July 15.—According to the convention- al mode of Paris, few equipages are visible on fashionable routes after the Grand Prix, and al- though beautiful toilettes that cnlivened the Bols and Champs Elysees before that time are now rarely seen, Paris is not deserted. Itis unusually gay for the scason, and among other attractions the skating-rink promises to bea great success. It was opened Monday evening with grand eclat, when nearly 2,000 persons were present, and a more charming assemblage of the youth and beauty of Paris never graced a reception even in the height of a winter season. Amidst magical illuminations, a profousion of flowers, and inspiring music, the graceful skat- ers moved like those Homeric goddesses who tglided with winged feet over a transmuted gea.” Marvelons indeed is the fact that Paris, with all its love of 'fuycty and splendor, has never before perfected these summer fetes of ‘which London bas so long sriven us the exam- ple; but, nevertheless, no skating ground can cxcel in f:muty that of the Faubourg St. Hon- ore at the present time. AMONG THE TOILETTES many were conspicuous for their priceless In- dia fabrics and gorgeous colors, but they were no more beautiful than those of delicately tint- ed hues, or the favorite white, which robed many & !evely form, whilst the elegance and adaptation of all, proved that our Parisian modistes are always equal to an occasion, no matter how unusual the demand. The short ekirts were often covered with wreaths of em- broidery extending the whole length, and spreading in thick Iol{%c along the cage, be- neath which the high Polich boots were exposed to view. These were gencrally of bronze, al- though mauny ‘matched the toilettes in color, and were sometimes laced _with cords of silver and gold. As it is impossible to give an ader is being done; those whose claims are not rich coough, or arc impracticable for the sluice method of operations, are working for the larger companies at a salary of from 35 to $10a day. There is not, he says, a place in the Hills wlerea * color ? of gold cannot be found. Spring Creek will "be in time onme of tie best-paying gulchcs in the Hills. Dry Gulch a purty of miucrs prospected at every 50 feet, and the pans yiclded from 35 to $50 cach.* A new gulch bas been discovered, which has been called the Boxalder, and the sapd and soil is so rich that the miners have made a per- fect stampede to it. It is situated on the road between Custer and Deadwood, and has an abundance of water and is easy mining. ~ These claims _are pa_\'ln¥ a stupendous yield. Claim No. 2, “belonging to Wheeler & Co., of Montana, is a mine of wealth. On the day Mr. Ragan left, he saw them take out of this claim $2,000 in dust and nuggets. Claim No. 5 he saw yicld a reward of $7,000 for one day’s work. No. 82, in Cape Horn, in Low- ends of which pass around the cap, and tic at |- er Deadwood, is paying $600 a day. Many other claiins are paying from $50 to $100 a day. Mr. l!n:.l,'nn left the Hills on the 30th of June, and at that time he estimates that there was fully $50,000 in gold awaiting safe transporta- tion to the States.—[Ragan’s figures are not quite up to the $1,000,000 of Garducr, the Chey- enne man.~ED. TRIBUNE. LIFE IS LOVE. Fairy forms fn dreamland dwell—= Singing voices ewcetly tell, Life is love, Murmuring breezes softly hlow, Cheerfully chanting 4 they go, Litcis love. in her bright array, every sign to say, Life is love. Nature, Seems by That inner senee we cannot name— Our very souls—the truth proclaim, Life is love. Yes, 't is spoken from above: God bas told na, **Life is love "— Life is love. Lovere Laxe. s KISSES: A SUMMER FANTASY. Ran the river rippling to the bosom of the sea; Sang tle brecze, attuning every tree; Shone the sun; and warbled every mated bird, And every rn:rlct, leaf, and creature, some endear- ng wor g word. From earth to sky, Love sangits amoroca mel- odics; In Heaven angels Kissed, behind the snowy fleece; Kisses dropped the thrushes on the willing flowers: On the pebbly banks, the river-kisses fell n showens: Grass-blades bent to kiss the zround; the breeze Quivered through, with ‘msriad kisses, myriad rees; Notare sang a sweet, unceasing chord of Kisses, Nor sang to'us in vain the secret of ita blisses. —————— Leather in One Hour. Loston Commercial Bulletin. ‘Wonderful are the changes that have been ef- fected of late years in the manufacture of leather by the use of chemicals and machinery in place of the old-fashioned tan-pits and the slow manipulation of the currier and tanner. some of our old leather-manufactur- ers could be resurrected,—men who were accustomed to soaking their hides for years and turning them as- siduously at certain seasons,—how they would stare to see the present processes! But every day we hear of something new in this direction. _A joint-stock company was_ recently formed in Detroit for the purpose of tanning leather in onc hour! We give the information for what it's worth; bat it certainly does look like sleight-of-hand. The process is a chemical one, performed by the action of certain inexpensive materials, the compounding of which in the right proportions is a secret. It is claimed that robes, tanned with the hair on, are soft as the linest wool; hides of the deer, horsg, dog, etc., are smooth and soft, SShile calf and kip show the terture and grain which good shoemakers most admire. No bark is required except a little to give the proper muf? to the leather. Bgnirk is pwo?teh 3 a cord, and about 200 cords are required to fan 1,000 hides by the common method. Two cords would be sufficient to give the proper color to the same number of hides, and_the saving in this item will be enormous. We understand that the company arc turninZ out from 2.000 to 3, hides per mogth. How the article is wearing we have not been able to ascertain, but shall watch the With interest. ¢ XEWPORT. After the Rain—~3merican Timiofity— “An Unspoiled Deanty, ° The Polo and Hurdle Ex- d citement. A Costly Diamond Ring---Liter- ary Doings. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. NewpoxT, July 2i.—Browning in his “Two u the Campagna” describes the climatie at- mosphere of Rome as “an everlasting waste of air.” One is coustantly reminded of this in Newport, especially after a rain such® as ell on Sunday. Always, even in dry) weather excep- tionally soft-aired, after rain there is a dewy blandness in the atmosphere which makes New. port air such a marvel in New England. Running down from neighborly Providence the other day, where the thermometer had sud- denly jumped down into the seventies, and where, on account of such declension, every- body was in a little state of chill, X found New- port in a beatific state of balmy warmth, which astonished even such an old acquaintance and ardent admirer. Latterly, wisc pcople have Iaughed at Maury’s chart, which tells the pleas- ant story of the iuward trend of the Gulf Stream suddenly diverging into this island; but when such extraordinary weather as this of the past few days comes to us, we Wwho are experiencing it are perfectly ready to believe anything about Gulf streams or any other phenomena of nature. And, while we ex- verience it, we are in a state of wonder at the people who trot. off to the New Hampshire or the Massachusetts coast, where “nip winds blow,”—which i3 only anotlier name for the cast wind,~ard where people get cramps, and coughs, and colds, as. 1 KNEW A DEAR CHICAGOAN or two to do lust summer, “But I can't afford Newport. I know it iy lovely. Iknow itis full of health and ble.sing as [ar as nir goes, but I can’t allord those prices, —and then the dress!? This is the excuse that the benighted traveler offers from the east wina region. Bemightedt indecd. Dear souls, -come to Newport and es- tablish your own order of things. You cando it if you have character_ cnough. The ouly thing thiat will prevent you from establishing this i dependent order’is what D: y aud truthfully interpretsas American timidi- ty.” The timidity that makes you follow in somebody’s else footsteps, that tauses you tu blush because some P STEERFORTI'S VALET looks at you with hiS elbows! and thinks, or you think’he thinks, that you arc not ax suit to the habits of the ton; that you do not know drag from a dog-cart, a beack-wagon from a tilbury. The timidity that makes you fidgetty because your skirt hasu't five flounces of Sclid yand asbamed becanse you “ean’y keep u lady’s maid to cheat apd scandalize you! T am constantly reminded here of this crying sin of Americans; forit & a sin, a perfect gangrene of a sin, which eats into every good quality and sups the virtue and strength, and blights all the possible origiuality of our mental aud maoral constitutions. "We talk aboutthe snobbishuc: the rauk-warship, of the English peopie. The are English fools, to be sure; but our people who arg not fools, persons who are cultured and refined, and have a fair amount of self-respect, make fools of thewselves by thinking they must order their lives as near a3 possible after their richer neighbor, in every detail and particalar of soctul life. T can’t come to Newport and stay because it costs 8o much to keep up appear- ances!" suid a degr soul to me yesterday. And another, *‘Obscare people here have no chanve ! DEAR FELLOW-COUNTRYWOMEN, you have cracked the nut of the whole thing. Tt is a matter of appearances, of shining dowir, end making as good u show as the next person. And how funny it all is, when you consider that the finest uppearances are as often made by the moneyed vulgarian, and that mot only virtus and talent, but blue blood, go afoot quite fre- quently. And as for obscurity, how many per- sons are not obscure in this world outside of their own little circle? But to show that there are exceptions to this sheep-over-the-wall busi ness, there is a beautiful young woman licre who two or three years ago married, not money, as beauty and fashion i3 prone to do, but love and worth. And back she comes to the scens of her girlhood triumph, sets up her household gods il modest fashion, and, absolufely with. out a servant of any kind, putsher pretty shoul- der to the wheel,—inother and less florid words, * does her own work,” washes and dresses her baby, and trandles it out upon the sidewalk,— after which performances you may, perhaps, see her prettily arrayed f some swell garden_party, or driving on the avenue with some fine Xrient who has & fine turn-out. K NOBODY'3 PROPRIETY TAKES COLD at this. Nobody turns up their nose at_thisine dependence. ““Ab, well,” comments Miss Obe scurity, “sheis iu the ranks of the blessea few—born to the purple socially, she may g:ug i any gaitshe pleases.” A fallacy'on the pirt od § obscurity, which presents a counter ant;wyul;s_{ comparisou—that those not in the ranks;yould 1 run great risk of never getting in by conducting ! themselves in this poverty-stricken manuery— a vain delusion of possibilitics which cori:mone + place obscurity constantly saoffers from. Another story, which makes me think of Mrs. Kemble's nuecdote of Mrs. Inchbald in the dtlantic, *Old Woman's Gossip,” and I'll drop story-telling for immediate items which are just Dow “down on the L A young woman of inherited social advantages, but not of inherited pecuniary advantages, is walking, not driving, on the avenue one after- noon, faking her way toa sick friend with a bowl of suus: of some delicate concoction suited to an invalid appetite and digestion. Tho bowl is wrapped gingerly in fine napery and. white paper, and the Dearer steps gigedly In her cure of it. Presently a landau slackens up, and dropping out of the line pulls upat the curb- stone, and Mrs, Mayflower calls out, “ How-de- do, mydeur; get in and let us take you where you are going. Here, let me take your fowers!” “Q0h, no, no, don’t—youw’ll spill it. ’Tis nut flowers; it's soup!” *SoUP!” TOEY ALY LAUGH, and still Mrs. Mayflower invites “my dear” to “get in,” and “mydear ” refuses the invitation because the process will “joggle the soup over;” and, after much laughter and badinage, the Jandau proceeds on its way witbout an add- ed passenger. Llereis the independence which one likes 0 see, and which would leaven the whole Jump of society’s little cowardices if in- dulged in to a greater extent. 1 But srcnkinz of avenue-driving brings me to the Polo Club gamo of the first of the week, which literally emptied the avenue of its gay equipages. It was a perfect day, and strangers in town who were unaware of Polo came buck to a late tea with lugubrious stories of the fall- iug off of the season. “Actually nobody on the avenue sarcely!” “Never saw the sight before!"” “Suppose the people are getting sick 'cn,s the high prices and have gone somewbere else Not exactly, for the polo ground was packed, carriages three deep, and pretty faces, illusioned into greater loveliness, thick as blackberries. JAMES GORDON BENNETT fs making a very deep impression here a8 a per- sonwho ok only in favor of outdoor games, but as & public-spirited person who means to do all he can to improve the City of Newport. The yachting club owes much to him, and now it i3 Suid that that much-needed improvement, the introduction of water, will come through his money and influence more than by any other means. He is & graceful rider, and wins or loses at polo with equal sang-froid. Lord Mun- deville, gossips say, bas not gone home on a diplomatic errand, but_because my Lord Duke could not stand such drafts upon the paternal money-bags. But, as gossip seldom'scomes within a mile of the truth, we may safcly con- clude that there I3 a better resson still. And yesterday there was a hurdle-race by the polo players on the polo grounds. Bennett is one of these players, as wellas of polo, and rides on 8 mustang pouy which wins most races easily. Looking on at these rucesisa youny lady who wears "2 $3,000 solitaire engzagément- ring. She looks like ‘*‘a nice girl,” who takes geuuine foterest in one of the players at least, and who might break ber heart as easily ag another girl ont of genuine ‘affection if things should go awry between herself and the giver nf the ring, which is 3 good lock when one is In Vanity Tair! Outside of all these glories of VANITY PAIR, the literary clique or club, called the Towr and Country Club, hold a weekly merting. I has some df lnguiahed names onit3list of mem bers. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, GEORGE BANCROFT, THE HISTORIAN, Alexander iz, George Warirg, the charm ing writer of the Atlantic, who cfa make ever sewerage Interesting to novices, &nd . Col. Hig on, being among the most p nent, Anu t night there wasa hop ut t3¢ Ocean House where the people who go to see the polo piayed and the hurdle races put in an sopearance wit} the }met people, though for different reasons The former attend for the lcgitimate reasons o; dancing and firtation, the latter. to ses the presty mnnd to hear Lander’s orchestra.