Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1878, Page 7

SPORTING. BASE-BALL. THE NEW DAVENPORT (IOWA) CLUB. To ths Editor of Ths Tribune. : DAVENPORT, Ia., March 14.—Base-ball interest fn this vicinity has Tevived considerably since Jast season. The coming scason promikes to be o brilliant one for this town. We have fuclosed unds of our own, being 300 feet from home Dlate toleft-leld fence, and $10 feet to right- Geld fence. The grounds are situatea about & mile from the centre of the city, with street- car line runnivg within one-half block of same. An amphitkeatre of ample capacity is to be crected, and the grounds are to be properly solled axd leveled, making as good a field as most professional nincs canboast of. The gate- receipts of this town are much larger than any Jowa city, 85 We bave within a radius of five miles a population of 60,000, embracine three cities—Rock Island and Moline, of Illinois, and our own city. People have become awakened to the fact that Davenport is to have the strongest pine ever organized in fows, and are anxious to £cc the men all assembled and ready for action. Our ive has all been encazed, and is as fol- Jows: W. A. Hoflman, of Cleveland, O., catcher; Just ear bie was with the Minneapolis Club, and pasarecord of worthy note. William Bohn, river, of Cleveland, O., also, change pitch- er and 3 0. These two men thoroughly un- gerstaud cach other, and are up in ail parts of tbe pame. Bohn bas the several curve deliver- jes, also the straimht swift; he also playea with the Minneapolis Jast year. W. E. Rockwell, of Deony, 1L, pitcher. His delivery is a very traizht, swift ball. Last year he played for s, and made a fine record for himself as a pltcher, ficlder, and batter. Harry Glaspell, of this city, 10,3 beis 2 sure cateh, good batter snd runner, and has the best record for our last sear'smine. J. A, McPher, of Keitasburg, ., 1. Although a voung player. he is lightning on cecond, playing all over the diamond, backing up lis first base as weil as any professional. James W. Miller, of Des Moines, ia., s s. Last year be Captafned and managed the St. Ysul Red Caps. His record, according to Spaviding’s Guide, is better than any second eman in the country, and he bad the best il rd of the Indianapolis 1876 team. James O'Lay. of Chicago,r. f. of last year's Rea Caps. He has a finc batting record, as wellasa zood onc as a general player. H. Carmichsel, L 1., and W. Meallister, c. L., both of thiscity. As fielders und batters they are first class, especiglly the former, as he has made some of the most diflicult eatches in the field everscenon the ball ground. The only man thatis weak is our centre-fielder, but he is a Davenport boy, and has played a good game al- wars up to last sumwer, when he didn’t play at atl. and of course it will take some practice to make him eflicient. Our ofticers are_composed of business men of this city, all of financial ability. There 'is no doubt we will go all through the scason, and, should a State league be formed, we feel confident of earrying the penpaut. Qur scason will open May 15, and we are now ready to negotiate with with any club it the country for games. Our uniforms will be white and brown—white ghirts, with tbe let- ter D on breast; squarc white ca, brown_belt, «hite flanuel knce-pants, and brown stockings. The name of the clab is the Davenports. Ww. * PROSPECTS OF THE SEASON.” The time has a-rived when the papers about the country turn out a column or £0 apicce on “the prospects of the season.” There are two epecimens now at hand. The Boston Herald tiinks that Bostun’s chances areas good as those of any other club. It considers that the Cincinnati team will playa strovg game by July 1+ if nothing oceurs to cause a disruption, aud 3MeVey i successiul as field Captain” If Tu- disnapolis lacks in apvtbing it is in batting abil~ ay. Milwaukec it considers the colt team, and 100 lizht to cope with some of the other teams. Providence will depend much on the manage- ment for success. The Hereld thinks as follows of the Chicagos: The Chicazzo Club is one of which much ishoped, and with reason, 3s it is a combination of men mearly ail of whom have great reputations. They are powerful butsnien and, individually, excelient icers, 1low the poeitions of second haee, third and short-s1op are to be fitled is unknown, ix pretty certain that Ferzuson, Anson, and unkin-on will divide the work befween them, naps in the order named. All ore third base- en, snd yet are probably competent to take any one of the other positions. 1 the club has Rem- ten. sn outfield better than e, ‘and Usllnan, £nd Cassidy could hardly be named. Stark has no “uperiar on firet base, and Larkin and llarbridge are eflicient as pitcher and catcher. Unfortunately, e Jatter does not seem to be guite flrongz enough 10 +tand the delgvery of Larkin, and in that event Aneon wouid bave 10 be brouzht behind the bat, d-argnzing the nine romewbal. The cbunze pitcher, Rtels, s an experiment which has shown woll 50 far 5s trica. In basc-runnips the nine is uir, but whether the members wil? play together tlic perplesing question. Ferguson is a great disciplinariun, und will probably press more work from u man i a parucular same than any other wavazer. 3 B In conciuding, the MHerald man places the teams as folluw Boston, Indiavapolis, Chi- cago. Cincinnati, slilwauket, and Providence, Well, as this puaper has before_said, we would rather play it out. The New York Sun, in re- viewme the prospects of the scason of 187, coududes that Boston will be first, Indianapolis second, and Chicazotnird. BETWEEN HAY AND GRASS. The uatting order of the_ Indianapolis team will be: __ Quest, Nelson, Clapp, Shaffer, Will- jumson, Noian, MeKelvey, Croft, Flint. The latest anuouncement for Springfield, Mass., is_of Hickey, Corcoran, Hackett, and Brads. The team will play on Hampden Park. ‘The Harmonic Clinb, of Chicago, will present the following team this scacon: Ottaway, Mills, Bourke, Marshall, Patterson, Deane, Clurg, Wileon, Jackson. 4 Ivis expected that Ferzuson, Captain of the Chicagos, will arrive in the city this week, though the other men of the team will not be along for some time vet. Some of the Internationa) Clubs are making 2 grand kick at Malmn, the ball-maker, because Be offered his £00ds to the Leaguc at aless rate hau 10 the International Association. ‘The latest candidate for a profeseional team is Dayton, O. It won’t doj; a city woere the hogs and cows run unmolestea throush the chief streets won't do to support a ball club. The Chipper hears a rumor that several Loufs- ville zentlemen have already subscribed §5,000 for a team for 3879 - Mavbe they bave. There is po doudt that there will be a team in Loufs- ~ille next year, but it is rather carly to subscribe money for one. - The manapers of the Milwaukee Club have issued a circulur to their patrons in which they announce their team as it bas already been given in these columns, except that they add to the otbers George W. Bradley, of last yedr's Chicagos. The Clevcland Plaindealer £ays that a clab is to be formed in that city, and gives two names ~Bohn and Hoffman. If the organization has 1o better hold on any other plavers than on the two named it had best close up. They have both sizned in Davenport, Ia. At a meetiog of the Cincinnati Club Directors hield last Saotdrday, It was decided that there £hould be a ““ one-man authority.” The entire andexélusive exceutive powers over the Club were accordingly delegated to President Nefl "The richt man gt the wheel.—Enquirer. The New York ferald believes that the evils that formerly belonged to the gazne—gambling, crooked vlay, and revolving—have been at last wholly banished from the arena. Does it refer to the fact that meither New York, Brooklyn, nor Philadelphna is o have a club this year? The Ciucinnati Enguirer says: * Tae Chicagzo papers announce that the first mame will be Tlaved carly in Mar with the stroug Cincinuati Ciub.” -You are too general; will you attempt 10 name the paper that made the assertion? No, you-vanuot, because no such assertion has ‘been made in auy Chicago paper- The entrics for the champiouship of the In- ternational Assouiation closed Friday with the following clubs: Tecumseh of London, Ont., Buflalo, Roclester, Star of Syracuse, Utica, Hornells of Hornellssille, Crickets ot Binzrhamp- ton, Lowell, Manchester, New Bedford, and Syringdield of Springtield, Mass. Following are the players of the Lake View, Club_tor 1§73 Yott, c.; Carter, n.; Clarkey 1b.3 Parker, 2b.; McCowell, 3b.; Walter, s. 5.3 Brandecker, 1. £.; Waller, ¢. f.; Cram, r.f. Mr. ¥. Parker will act as muoager. The Club intends to join the City Amateur Assoclation, and will hope to win the pennant. The Treasurer of the St. Lonis Clab, Mr. Charles H. Turner, bus, on bebalf of the tred- ifors, reccived judgment in the amount of $6,500 seainst the stockholders, who will be required to “pouy up.” Several of these ren- tlewmen declare toelr intention to fiznt the mat~ ter, but the debt should surely be liguidated.— St. Louis Lierald. There has been so much talk about St. Louis teams that it is refreshing to get at the facts. The Jtepublican says: *1t is bixily probable ihat there witl be two secofid-class nlaes in Sf Louis this year, but 2s yet not amau is engage Ar. McNeary wili probably reorzanize the St. Louis Reds, ana Messts. McManus and McGeary . witl run a general nine composed of such players as can be had for ruuonnbfi: figures.” That is about what evervbody expected. * Nota player enpazed yo " tells the stoj The Syracuse Courier wants the nrivilege of naming the new ball-park in its city and hands in thetitle * Champs de Mars.” Woulda't it be fun to see Dick Higham, or Galvin, or Paul Hines trying to get a orip on that name? 1t is a great temptation to tell Nick Young’s favor- ite story—but nio. The Tecumseh Club, of London, Can., haa a contract with Quinton as chauge catcher this year, but it is canceted by the plaver’s commit- ment to jail. and there is accordingly a vacaney which the Club would like 1o fill with a zood man who can play the ficid and catch. Applica- 8::5 may be made to J. L. Englehardt, London, It is said that the Allezhenys have orzanized the following co-operative_team for Pittsburg this year: Phillipps, p., Buffalo; Guise, s. Eric Browns; Wilkinson, 1st b., Stand Wheeling; Sullivan, 2d b., Maple Leaf, of Can ada; Kusi.‘ 3d b., Etna, Detroit; Wylic, L. f., Xanths; Curry, ¢ f., Xantha; Hagan, r. . and ¢ p., Standard, Wheeling. Is it, or isn't.it, curious that nearly all the c)moked ball players 1n the country come from Phifadelpbiai " Devlin, Hall, Bechtéi, and Cra- ver (ull expelled) gained their reputation and did their hest playine there. Quinton, just convicted of larceny, was fresh from there, and the twe-men not yet convicted, but_most ser- ously susnected,—viz., McGeary and Force,—aro Philadelpnians.’ s 'there something in the training which Philadelphia gives that makes rascality easy and n:uur:xll! It is pretty hard to keeptrack ot some of the plavers aunounced this year. The Ctipper an- pounces lor Sprinzfield, Mass., four of the team which arc given out as having signed in Auburn. The Cinciunati Enquirer suys that Miller has sizoed for Lynn, while the Auburn paper claims him there. The Boston Jferald claims Corcoran for Lyun, and a New York naper says be is go- fngr (o Sprinetield. The Boston #erald conttied a card from the manager of the New Bedfords saying that Iie hada contract with Bradley ana had advanced him mouey on it, while Milwaukce annouices him as one of its players. Now, who can know about this thing ¢ It is said that Clevelana expectsto have @ pro- fessfonal team, but. there is no good reason for Delieving the rumor, unless it may be that the co-operative plan is to bo adopted.—Chicago Tribune. Read the Enquirer’s base-ball news {rom Cleveland lust Sunday aud be informed.— Cincinnati Enguirer. ~ This paper never denied that iv had been eaid thut a team was to le formed. This is said at great length in the DPlandealer, but t| s no reason for belleving it, and several for doubting it. Iu the first place ouly two men are named (ol and HolTman), and they have signed to play in Davenport, Ia. The projector claimed some others, but never dared to name them. The scheme is hollow and upsuostantial, Quiton, a Philadclphia emizrant, has been manifesting the natural disposition of many Philadetphia ball-players in his adopted home in Canada. Only a tew days ago, while in Guelph, be eravitated paturally to a house of fll-tame, and, as naturally, stole a revolver which he saw {ymg around. Inasmuch s there is to be no professional club in Guelph this year, the peo- ple of that city saw no reason for excepting Quinton from the treatment due common thieves, and thev_accordingly tried him, snd sene bim to the Bridewell for three mouths. ‘they probably wrote across the commitment, “Gone to mect Jim Deviin.” The Auburn Adver{izer contains the announce- ment of the club of its ity for the coming sea- sou. The nine will be Wilson, p.; Miller, c.; Allison, 1b.; Suyder, 2 b.; Fisher, s. .3 Farr, 3b.; Roseman, I 1.; Reipschlager. c. f.; Rocuap, r. f. The zawes arranred are as follows: April 16 and 17, Rochester vs. Auburn, at Auburn: April 20, Bornell vs. Auburn, at Auburn; April 45 ana 24, Cricket Auburn, at Auburn. The monagenient of the Auburns are not in the least sanguine of resulits, and in their announce- ment, signed by their Secretars, they say: “The management expeet to lose the games of April 16 aud 17, on account of want of practice, and to win at least one of the three following games.” Candid, to say the lcast. Mr. Secretary Williams, of the Internatiopal <ociation, being induced to do so Ly the Boston Herald. has written a letter atteuinting to explain some of the lemslation had at Buffalo. He says that *“all preseat at the Convention agreed with him in bis interpreration.” Will Mr. Williams please to explafn how it is that two delegates to the Buflulo Convention have written to a revorter of this paber denylng in good set terms that Lis ifuterpretation was eant by them or any others with whom they tatked? Says ouc of the letters: * My Directors instructed mie to withdraw if anything was paseed rendering it impossible for us to play with the League Clubs, and I should have done s0 had the intention of the lind rule been such as you suggest.’’ "The war among the Lall-book publishers has apparently changed front. A week azofa New York man, beiter known as the Literary Piral was threafening Spalding for using the word stauide” as a_title for his book. Spalding didn't bother himself about that matter, but publishes a card warning all viratesnot. to touch he rulesand other matter which ne had bought, paid for, and coprrighted. Now he swears by the nine inearnations of Vishnu that, if the pirate steals any matter from Spatding’s Guide, he will call down all the penalties which the laws provide on the publisher and_all the news- compantes and merchants ho aid the schome. Spalding used to be s winning plaver in the field—maybe Lie hasn't forget how to win even yet. To show the spirit of the present Cincinnati Club the Enguirer priots the following extract from a letter recently written by a prominent official of the Cincinuati Dircetors to Harry Wright, of Boston: Your remerks at the close of your letter aro good. and I enjoyed them. You and Petnt aren gzood pair in one respect. Hle 1s going tosweep the country, and you are zoing 10 retain tho champion- £nip. My iwpression i3 that one of you will be apt o fall. As for our nine, 1 have said but little, and don’t wieh to anticipate too much; but if you, or any one elec, think that 1 have zone into hase- ball to be kicked ahout as the Cincinnati Club has Deen the last three vears. vou are mistaken. Take my advice, and keep your men atwork. They cannot affore to throw away a point with any ons of theWestern Clubs. 1am well aware that nei- ther tne Clijiper nor any of the Bosten pavers can say anything favorable of McVevs but I have pin- ned my faith to him, and_there Tam roing to stick until Tam convinced by my own obscrvation that am mistaken. The Auburn Advertiser_contains a table made up to show-the strencth in batting and fielding of the New York State nines for ) eXCept- J ing the Iavmakers, for whom there are no figures. It is as follows: 64 rerage fiqlzcraae atting, fleldin 277 .8; iser concludes: “Judgine from Rochester leads the State. but Butfalo has a more effective picher, who isalso an excellent field captain. The Star team will be very harmonious and _admirably engineered, whether Dorgau or Mack acts as Captain. The Utieas will contest sharply any nine’s title to the pennant, and the writer is” inclined to put the position of New York State_teams as foi- Jows: Buffaio, Stars, Rochester, Utica, Auburn, Hornells, Cr1 and Haymakers.” * QUESTIONS ANSWERED. . ProressioxaL—Thie column declings to decide the bet. Write a note to both the parties. W. TwexTy—"*Is Dufly of the old White Stock- ing mine st playlng Lall®* Anewer—It je saia that he 1s servinz a term on Blackwell's Island, The Adve records alone, R V.—**How many gams ehall we see played on the Chicago grounds this reason®" Answer— Thirty for the championship, and very likely some others afterward. N. 8.—‘*Are Quinn, Lapham, O'Day, Gillespie, and Phillips of thia city eoinz to vlay ball this year$" nswer—It is understood that Quinnand Gillespic will vlay with the Franklins: Lavham is claimed by ibe Live Oake, of Lynn, Mass.: O'bay will play with the new Davenport nine; Phillips e have heerd nothing about. V. D. B.—** (1) Please give names aad positions Niohesior and criohet teams for 1578, " (2) Ara oo south_of Wash- Burkatow, €, 2b, 5 Han- £.: Glenn. c. Ward, vCrl Tipper, 1. & NieCiure..c. 1 % f.; Thomas, r. f. Piggott. 1b. ; Shoupe, 3 Dickerson, I r £’ (2) They rup south. ‘ Apax—** (1) Have the Chicazo Club yet received thbir Jease of the Lake-Front from the city? (2) When will they commence work on tie grounds? () Which way will they bati” Answer—It dovs not appear from ali that i3 known that the Club Dos vet received any lease. The other questions depend on that. THE TURF. TIME AT FAINS. At the late session of the Turf Congress 3 number of Western delegates, headed by those from Michizan, mede a strong effort 1o sccurce an amendment to the rules of the National Assoclation providing that from Sept. 1 to Oct. 15 o each year no record shall bo attached to performances of trotting horses at State or County Fairs. The matter was quietly, but summarily, squelched, and in a recent conversa- tion with a representative of this paper, one of the projectors of the proposed amendment gave what he considered some very good reasons why this action was taken, and slso advanced some orzument in support of the defeated proposi- tion. : Itisawell-known fact, which will hardly be fisputed, that the trotting at State and County Fairs is almost, without excentton, of the poor- est possible description. It is easy to see why thisis so. The purses, as a rule, are small, and 10 matter how speedy the auimals engaged in the contest may be, it is idlo to suppesc that their drivers will permit them to acquire a record which is auything like a measure of their speed. At the season when fairs are held, all ‘the important trotting meetings are over, and as there can be no trotting worth mentioning: ‘done until the succeeding spring, owners and drivers are naturally averse to putting a'record on horses in the slower classes. If records are to be obtained at ull, horsemen prefer to have their animals acquire them during the trotting season, and at large meetings, where the amount of money to be trotted for isin the thousands, instead of thetens, as is usually the case’ at fairs. These latter institutious area great resort for men With horses which they wish to educate, and the entries in cach race are 45 numerous as at more pretentious meetings, but, asa rale, the trotting is disgraceful, near- 1 all the drivers pulling tncir horses inthe most bare-faced manner, the time, in consequence, being outrageously slow. This sort of thing is seldom interfered with by the officers of the Fair, and even were they to take cognizance of it, but little zood would result, as scarcely any of them are members of the National Associa- tion, and their expulsion of a horse or driver would be of no effect. Ot tlus condition of affairs, horsemen and those interested fu the welfare of the National Association have long been aware, and the ques- tion of how to remedy it has become one worthy the serious consideration of all parties iuter- ested. The Western men above alluded to de- yoted considerable time: to the matter, tinally concluded that the only solution of the dificulty was in the abolition of the time pen- al They argued that, in the first place, it was necessary to induce the Agricultural Asso- ciations under whose auspices these fairs are lield. to become members of the National Asso- ciation, in_order that any penaltics which they might impose would be “felt by the offending parties, since as members of the Natlonal As- soviation a suspension or expulsion at their hands would bar “the horse or driver on whom it was iuflicted from participating in any meet- ings over Association tracks. In order to secure the accession of the agricultural socie- ties to the National Associatiou runks, it would ‘be pecessary to fix the admission at a low figure,—somewhat below the minimum one now charpcd. ‘The Western delegates recommend- ed that this be dome, but the New England men squulched the scheme, which up to that time bad looked so promisi Thiey could give no ood reasons for tueir opposition, and the friends of the plan are inclined to uturibute it to general moral depravity aud cussedness, They argue that the accession of 8 number of agriceitural societies to the . Tanks of the Na- tional Association would bave a teudency to sreatly inerease the interest in trotting throush- out the West, and in a general way assist the turf in ali parts of the country. In the West, State ana County Fairs are iostitutions of considerable importauce, and cach ouc has a daily attendance of from 2,000 to 40,000 people. Although thie tillers of tbe soil are there osten- kibly to exbivit their corpulent cattle and ab- normally developed squashes, they can always be found hustling toward the little balf-mile track when a * trial of specd ” is anpounced, aud will whoop and howl in the most insane manner wheo thewr favorite animal is victori- But even this enthusias could be great- ugmented, were these: tracks mewmbers of The suppression of o l?)c National Association. time, which is now such a prominent feature for a pumpkin show race-track, would in that event be almost entircly done awdy with, and thi now common scenes ol pulling and toul driving be- come a thing of the past. But the Western men suy that in New England State and County Fairs are not one-tenth as numerous us in other parts of the conniry, and that the delegates from the Atlantic Distriet fearcd that in case the practice of admitting asricultural socletics at o small figure was inaugurated, the movemeut would = become so popular that, as cach nssociation would have a vote in the ‘Furf Congress, the present supremacy which the delezates from the East- eru-aad New Eugiaud Siatos cojop would e scrionsly menaced if mot - destroyed. ‘I'nis theory 1s at least a_very plausible one, but the Eastern men - may have had better reasons Tur their action, and, if so, they sbould state their side ot the case, as_in the preseat condi- tious of affairs a bad feeling is brewing, which will undoubtedly manifest itself in no gentle ‘manner at the next sessionof the Congress. MATTESS AT ST. LOUIS. ‘Special Correspondencs of The Tribune. 81. Louis, March 15.—There has nothing par- ticularly fresh or stariling transpived during the past week, but preparations for the trotting and running meetings ure golus forward actively, and, as the weather has been mild, the ti each morniny presents an anfmated appearance, 15 a large number of thoroughbreds and trot- ters have already put in an appear- ance and are being worked quite etropely consideriny that the seuson canuot be said to bave fairly opened. Since last. \advices, Nino, Bragedon, and two others in charse of William T Dickson, formerly driver of Pilot Temple, and Wwho lust season had Marion in charize; Robert Lucas' Barney Kelley, the old campaistuer, and Joe, fu chargze of Bob Lindsay, and Pilot Temple,who Is being handled by Sam Ecker, have been added to thelist atthe track. Pilot Temple will not be trained for speed this season, but endeayor to guin honors in the stud, making the season at the traek. “The stables already completed, those in process of construction, aud others to be erected, will give a total of 170 stalls. Four bids were recelved for the pool-selling privileges at the running meeting, and the Ciub I decided to_award Lhem o J- R. Watts & Co., of St. Louis, who were the highest bidders. It has been suggested that a stake for 4-year- old trotting colts be opened by the trotting mecting to be beld July 16, 17, 18, and 19, un the Crub would !ike to bear from breeders and others interested in the proposition. The out- look for the trottine meeting is grand, a large number of well-known horsemen having an- nounced their- fotention of participauug in it with their stables, in_addition to those ulready onthe ground. At the Spanish Pond training and stud-farin, the celebrated trottivg stallion Woodlord Mambrino, the bay mare Lucille by Exchequer, record 2:20 obtained ot Columbus lnst fall, J. N. Steck by Golddust, and a +-year stailion of great promise, are being trained by Charley Myers. They are the property of Mr. R. C. Pute. A'sweepstakes trot, $100 a corner, for ama- teur drivers, has been arranged to take place _April 13 at the Fair-Grounds track. Sam Eck- ers has entered Pilot. Temple; R. C. Pate, Lu- cille; and T. J. Rockwood, Maxie. The race is -still open, and others may 7o in. The St. Louis Jockey Club has decided to give the following purses, at its first meeting, in addition to the stakes dlready announced: First day, mile-heat hurdle race, over four hur- Qles. purse, $250; first horse 1o receive $200; second, $50. Second day, dash of s mile and three-fourths, for a purse of £350; first Liorse to receive $250; second, $100. Third day, purse ‘of $300; two-mile dash; 3200 to first, $100 to second. Fourth' day, handicap for all ages, mile heat, purse $300; first horse, $250; second, $50; mile-heat race, threein five, all azes, pusse of $500; first horse, $100; second, 3200, 5 Honsesax. A MERITED REBUKE. Mr. Swift, of the Cleveland Post, has the fol- Jowlug to say_coucerning the thin excuse put forward by the Turf on behalf of Smuggler wheu tne fatter's owder backed out of the chai- Ienge 10 Rarus, prefacing 1t with the remark that “Theeditor of the Tury isevidently smart- ing under the fact that” Mr. Couklin prelerrad Tue Ciicaco TRIBUNE to bis paper as a medi- um in which to reply to Col. Russeli’s chal- Jenge: The Zurf manis doubtiess himself aware that Dis remarks in excuse of Col. Ruesell's ** backslid- ing™ ure s thin as anythinzof the sort could poa- #ibiy be. The 7urf und Col, Russell should have been the first people to know what was in the pos- ressiun of Mr. Conklin and Jobn Splan long ago, that Smugsler woa a sullerer froma bad forward Ieg, which was on one occasion swollen from his knce down, and he was uléo lsme behind. When at Rochester last ¥ear preparations were made 1o trot Smuegler in the {rce- for-all. “Marvin, his trainer. took lLim out repeatidly, but the best that he could drive was in 2:24. i 'was the opinion of o thoroughzuing efinary surgeon when Smuggler started for California that ie would never be it to uppear in puolicagain. There was notning whaiever said about his trotting Rarus until it was decided to have the ldtter 7 into winter quarters at Cleve- Iand and Snug.” had been got safely on the otber side of the Rocky Mountains, There was plenty of loud tulk on Smuezler's side then and since, but when Mr. Conklin. exoressed 4 willinzness throngh the pudlic prints to accommodate any zentleman who befieved be hag a horse that could eat Karus, and Splan offered to match another horse in bis stavle against Smuggler any race that 'two_ horses ever troited, for fun, money. or marbles, there was no reply. When Smuggler finally concluded to give Rarus achance, and Sr. Conklin mado teply which the Turf, Field, and Farm was compelied to sdmit was s fair one, the Smuggler parties crawled through a sms!l hole, and. the Zury worshiper at the Kusscll ehrine con- gratulsted the Colunel on his ** victory. " RACES AT SACRAMENTO. 8ax Fraxcisco, March 16.—In the race to- day at Sacramento, between Mark L., 8nap and ! he bas felt the imperions necessity of certain Playmate, mile_and repeat, Mark L. took the | conciliations, of cortain transactions. In sbort, firsi heat in 1:505 Snap second. i L. won | the second is a practical man. while the first be- the cccond heat and race in1:503¢; Snap sec- | longs solely to the contemplative domain. Con- ond. sequently, no monk! a secular priest!” The next race was a trot between Doty, A second polnt, and a_secoudary one at the Sweetbriar, Lou Whipple, and Cairo. The track | same time, which occupled the attention of 3. was a trifie heavy. Cairo took the first heat in | Thiers, was the character and qualitications of 2:20%; Doty second; Sweetbriar third, The [ the secutar priest. He thought it well. if pos- sccond heat was won by Cairo. Time, 2:29, | sible, to have a Pope familiar with the French Whipple second; Sweetbriar third. The next | langunge, speaking well the languege of the heat and race was won by Cairo, in 2:203. | leading Catholic country of Europe. He did Doty secoud; Whinple third. | not insist upon this potat, but thought it worthy TRACK TALK. of atceution. The day these dispatches are There are seventy-six nominations for the | published we shall have acurious chapter of Breckinridge Stakes, to be run at Baltimore in | modern history. All this gives us onc more October. proof of the patriotism and good sense of M. Mike Gopdwin, of Philadelphia, will handle | fhicre: In Leo XIIL we baves Fope of the ;i ) hop of Perugia, Car- thie trotter Lew Ives during the coming season, | kind Be desired. As Bl 209 hopes 1o malde a winnes of i = dival Peeef governed a diocese for a number of years, and for some time he was the Papal Matt Colvin, the well-known driver, who win- | Nuncio at Brussels. He speaks French perfect- tered fn St. Louis, was in the city a few days 15, and with very little accent. Hefsa man ago for the purposeof purchasing a sulky. thoroughly familliar with the world, and with Black Clond, a_full brother to Mr. Bonner's | the obligations of social life and administra- celebrated mare Lady Stout, has been sold by tion. Richard Peniston, of Phiadelphia, to C. A. R Bemis, of West Medford, Mass. CURRENT GOSSIP. Theodore Winter left S8an Francisco March 11 & with his cetebrated mare Mollie MeCarty, for ST. PATRICK’S DAY. St. Louis, at which place the daughter of Mon- | Breathes there a Celt in this broad land, to-day, day and Henrie Farrow will make ber Eastern | Who thinks not of the Isle where he was born? ¥ It such there 13, his must be sonlless ciay, debut. The chestnut gelding Neome, that was in Pe- | And honest men shonld pass him by in scorn; Tiis beart of every vice must be the den; ter Johnson’s stable last vear, will be handlea this season by * Nosey * Brown, who hopes to | His neme should ne'er be mentioned among men. make ancther Sheopard Boy of him. Neome has a record of 2:27. Hannis, the trotting celebrity of 1877, is re- ported to have entirelyrecovered from the lame- ness which affected him Jast fall, and will soon be shipped from Baltimore, where he wintered, to Johin Turner's stable at Philadelphia. It is now thought that the celebrated trotting mare, Lady Maude, will staud training for the coming campaign, although when she went lame last eeason it was oflicially reported that she would never be able to trat another race. The annual talk about matching Ten Broeck and Parole has already begun. Pierre Lorfilard offers to run the brown gelding against the Kentucky erack, or any horse_in America, from two to tywo and & balf miles, for $5,000 of $10,- 000 a side. ‘The once famous race-horse, Harry Bassctt, 15 10 years old, sixteen hands one and a half inches high, and in appearance looks a better bhorse than ever betore. He is the sire of fifry- three colts, but noue of them have as yet gained prominence. Callahan’s Maid, the mare that came so near breaking the boys that. bet their money on Graves & Loomis” mare Josic at the Dexter Parlc summer meeting last year, and gained record of 2:323¢, wiil be bandled” this _year by William Delaney, of Fredonia, N. Y., who drove that erratic beast Aaele Clark through the Michizan Circult last year. The igsue of the Turf, 4ield, and Farm which will reach this city to-morrow contaigs a craw- fishing letter from Col. Russell, in which he re- treats with greatvicor from the challenge issued by Charley Green on behalf of Great Eastern to Smuggler. As Col. Russell has now taken water on every proposition ke made to trot his horse, the public will be glad to see it stated over Iis own signature that * This closes my share in the correspondence.” AMr. Thomas J. Gullagher, aside from being one of the best billiard-players in the country, {s remarkably well posted on all matters con- neeted with the turt, and whose reports of races have often appeared 1n Chicago and Cleveland ‘papers, has been appointed Assfstant Secrets of the St. Lonis Jockey and Trotting Associa- tion. The selection of Mr. Gallagher to fill this fmportant and arduous position is alike a com- pliment to bim and an cvidence of good judg- ment on the part of the Association. The newly-elected officers of the Breeders Assoclation are as follows: President—Charles Backman, New York. Vice: Presldents—LelandStanford. of California; Gen. Williom S. Tilton, of Maine; M. P, Bash, of Taftalo. 3 Secretary—L. D. Packer, No. 111 Broadway, New York. Treasurér—J. W, Gray, New York. Execulite Committee—Leland Stanford, M. P. Bush, . W. Gray, George M. Jewell, Sheppard ¥. Knapp, 11 W. T. Mall, G. 5. Moulion, W, S. Titon, L. D. Packer, B. F. Tracy, Samuel J. Morzan, 1. N. Smith, Col.” Ricourd West, J. D, Willis. Mr. James D. Lucas, Sccretary of the St. Louis Jockey Trotting Club, is rapidly acquir- ing one of the finest private stables of trotters in the West. His list at present includes Laura P., record 2:36, by Conklin’s Star; Motlic L., o converted pacer, with a fast record at_that way of going; Surah K., anouner converted one, that trotied 'a_half-mile after three weeks' handling in 1:14; Cora Wise, that can pull a road-wazon better than 2:40; Even John, record 2:36, was sccond in a race at Fleetwood Park last fell in 2:313¢, 2:32), 2:921( ; and sev- eral green ones. Mr. Lucas recently purchased the old campaigner, Barney Kelley, record 2:25. The entrees for the spring stakes of the different jockey clubs, most of which closed last Weok, filed well, At Lexington, the Filly Stakes, haif o mile; for 2-vear-old fillies, hus twelve nominations, the Colt Stakes, for ‘colts of the same aze and distancg, receiviug the same numoer. The stake for 2-year-old colts and fillics, three-quarters of a wile, bas cleven en- tries. The stake for &-year-oids that had not won prior to it closing, reccived eizhicen en- tries, and in the Lonirfeflow Stakes, for 8-year- old colts and fllies by Lonefellow, McGrath’s Eliza, Adonis, Hurper's Lizzie A., Beatty & Co.’s Harper, Wallace’s Lucille, and Dane & Co.’s Dave Moore are named. In the all ages selling_stakes, o mile and o half, the entries were Harry Peyton, Tolona, Bob Woolley, Bill Dillon, Charlie Gorham, Joe Rodes, D'Artas- nan, and Shortline. - The mile and a quarter stalie failed to il At Cincinnati the entries are as follows: Ladies’ Stakes, twenty; The- youth loves her whom he wonld make his bride; Thie mother doth her firat-born babe adore; We love the friends we've trusted and we've tried: These loves, combined with twice ten thonsand ‘more, We Irish feel for Erin's emerald sod, And in our hearts sho reigns next to our God. ‘Though other lands may bask in Freedom’s smile, And Fortune on them showers her favors rare, Yet, even in slavery, thou'rt a blessed lsle, Of Nature's daughters most divinely fair; And oft this thought brings comfort in its train: We may unite and free her once again. England, you prate of cruel Rass or Tark; Look into History and behold your work: The babe from pleading mother tora—0 shame!— And thrown into the burning cabin's flame; : Tue murdered fatber; ruined wife and maid And deeds that throw ev'n Nero's in the shade. Yes, Christian England, read our history well, And wonder not each Irish heart 's a hell That ever burns with quenchless fires of hate Tor thee, our curscd oppressor. Cursc the fate That placed a race formed to be great and free, Perildions Albion, 'neath the feet of thee. O Freedom! at thy shrine, seven hundred years, We've wept and prayed. We'ro tired of prayers and tears. The proyers of men on galning Freedom bent, We know by mouth of cannon must be sent: With bristling bayonets glancing in the sun, And men behind them, Freedom must be won. Rosenr TURSET. A DUBIOUS DEAL. Tinton (Ja.) Conservutite. Some cight ornine ycars ago, in Michigan, {wo men, named G. E. Stevens and Andrew Kepler, respectively, for and in consideration of the payment of $700 to the first pamed, traged wives, the women agrceing and submitting to the arrangement. By the terms of the contract Stevens’ wife and Kepler gained possession ot all the children, leaving the other newiy-organ- ized family without any. Kepler and his familv finally drifted to Towa and took up their abode near Independence, and a little over two years ago Stevens and bis alleged wife came to this place and opened a restaurant. They were quiet sort of people, attended to their own busi- ness, and, if they didn’t make many friends, made no enemies that we ever heard of. Their restaurant enjoyed a fuir share of business, and the general Impression seewed to be that they were making some money. At one time it was hinted, and the finpression may have remafned for aught we know, that there was somethine wrong about the relations sustained by these parties, but nothing occurred to interrupt them antil recently. Along about the rirst of the year Stevens con- cluded to leave Tipton, and made two trips westward for the allewed purpose of looking up o location. On the Tth of January be shipped the pest part of his zoods to Marshalltown, in his wife's name, and the next day foilowed them, promising to return in two weeks. The object of the early removal of the zoods, he claimed, was to keep Chicago creditors from seizing them, and with this explanation Mrs. Stevens seems to have been satisfied for a time. But she had misgivings, and wrote to Marshalitown aud_Cedar Falls for information relative to the oods, which, it scems, belonged to her, A let- ter from the former place conveyed the informa- tion that the laster bud receipted for the woods at that station and takeu them away. On the 4th of this month, having received no tiafngs from her man, Mrs. S. called on Adney Langham anl desired that he hunt him up. Langbam wrote the Mrashal of Marshalltown and Teccived word by return mail that the man was there, and ou the 6th Mrs. S, started for that place. Un application to tne Marshal she found that Stevens had rented a house in the north part of the town, and, with a woman chiming to be his wife, was occupying it. The proper complaint was made, a warrant issued, and an oflicer sent to serve it. This was the first _intimation that Stevens bad tbat his wife was in town, and he was slightly disconcerted. For o tiwe he refused to go with the oflicer, but cventually changed his mind, and went to the law office, where his wife was waiting. She, it Jockey Club Stak : ! s docke Ci o St fiu;:'utwgtus hrggkgsh'l% \]n?:‘;l"))': seems, wis z;:n anxious to prnls‘;:%ute. but, ;mx:: ; Cine : thau to lase her property would do so. Stc SoREy Gt O, Nincteen; reniy and anzious o tike the prodieil bucl ¢ e would promise to stay in tho fold. Whether BILLIARDS, the outlook dismayed or the husks” had soured on him we do not kuow, but at any rate e fell in with the overtures of mercy, and gave the reauired promise, thereby stooping further roceedings. B The wur’;mn who bad been keeping house for him at Marshalltown was none other than the wife hie had _traded off so many sears before, but who still secmed to retain considerable af- fection for him. Before Stevens left Tiptou ar- rangements bad beeu mude with his former wife and Kepier to £6 back to first principles, and it was in pursuance of this arrangement that Stevens bad brought the woman to Marshall- town. But, according to Mrs. Stevens’ yersiou of the matter, she had not been consulted about the proposed swap, aud, when it was suzgested to her, refused to comply with the terms. This upset the trade, and the woman known as Mrs. Kepler was sent to her father inIlifois, Stevens retaining their two children which she bad Dbrought with her from Independence. As mat- ters now stand, Kepleris out a wife, but has Possession of lis own children, while the worp- an known 2s Mrs. Kepler is minus both busband and chilaren. _ The Stevenses have oot only held their own in the scuflle, but are ahead two chil- dren, one of whom—au poy about 12 years old— FINGER VS. CUE. New Yorr, March 16.—Sexton, the ecue champion, and Yank Adams, the finger billiard- ist, played two games to-day, finishing their match. The scores were so reduced that Adams was required to make 1,000 points to Sexton’s 500. The afternoon game and stake was won by Adams, Sexton's store heing +5. The evening game for a supplementary purse resulted in Sexton, 500: Adams, 335. The best run in the games iere: Sexton, 199, 107, 105; Adame, 242, 220, 163. —— BOY HIGHWAY ROBBERS. To the Editor of The Tribune. CmroAco, March 16.—The influence of the current pernicious literature for boys was well {llustrated to-day in the robbery of a son of Wallace Carter, residing at 316 West Jackson street. His age is11, and while playing on Aberdeen street, near Jackson, he was set upon by four youug roughs, who knocked him down, and, after taking his wmarbles and 10 cents in money, gave him 3 kick in the face, | was in Tiptona few days ago, with Mrs. Stevens. vearly closiug his eye, thus disabling —— him, and then eseaped down an alley. JESSE POMEROY IN PRISON. ‘The' inspiration to such awful wickeduess no doubt often procecds from the corrupt litera- ture to which public attention was lateiy called by Toe TrIbUNE. Iu is casy enough to predict what the future of such miscreants will be, and it 12 alarming tndeed, and may well Gl us with the liveliest aporehensions to know that even our children in the strects are subject to such out- rage. Officers should be on the alert, and boys taken up should meet with condign punish- ment; for this thing is not unusual, and is on the increase. C. B. Cantza. ———— Leo XIIf. the Kind of Pope Thiers Wanted. Dorrix Latser (Feb. 22) to New York Ctmes, M. Thiers wouid be satistied with Leo XILL were he alive to-day. In 1572 Piux IX. was in very bud health, and po one supposed that he would live for many months. M. Thiers, who was then President of the French Republic, be- an to occupy bimself with the question of 'the exnected Conelave. When uews came that the health of the Pope was visibly failing, he sent to M. De Corcelles, Ambassador at Rome, some secret instructions to guide him in ease he was suddenly called uponto assistin the election of a Pope. His first idea was that the Sacred College should be left perfectly.Iree in its choice, and he only foresaw one or 1Wwo cases in which the veto of Frace mizht be rezarded as necessary. The case whick M. Thiers would not admt, and amainst which he should not hesitate to invoke Boston Globe. Probably there is more curiosity concerning the prison carcer of Jesse Pomeroy thas any other convict in the institution. His atrociti are koowa the world over, and bundreds make the vain visit to the prison togeta sight at him. Indeed, scarcely a visitor appears here but who s for the privileze, and, strange as it may seem, the most importunate and persistent of these are found among the lady visitors. It is 10 uncommou thing for the Warden to be im- portuned for half an hour at a time by a delega- tion of these philanthropic females, and, finding that their pleadings are useless, thev go off in a rage, probably declaring inwardly that Pomeroy isn saing and angel in comparlson with Gen. Chamberlain, Tiis sinzular phenomenon of a fiend aud murderer {3 even more singular since his incarceration for life in 2 lonely cell than l{e was in the paimy daysof his atrocitics. Hehas, in fact, become quite an exemplary young man, and is evidently determiped upon ac- quiring a thoroughly classical education. He is away by himself Tn a celi let,;pn.’h of the prison kuown as the Upper Arch,” out of the sight of eversthing and everybody, aud the only sounds which grect his cars are the \thw; les of the passing Jocomotives and rumbling of Ihe trains. | Three times a day only {3 the Soli- tude broken by the appearante of a keeper with the privilege of the angient Monarchy, was the u X el]:v);mu %l a monk to the l’np‘;‘ufiy. »No | his meals; and then not a word pE,sscs.‘ izef‘z monk " he wrote empbatically to the Ambassa- | them. It should be added, in ‘(X:I“?;?;;:i?;lmflr er, that the Chaplain visits and also that his mother and brotber are ak- Yowed interviews with bim every threes months. | Tuis is in’ accordance with the “zeneral rules of the prison, all of which are appliable to Pome- roy, with the terrible exception that his confine- ment is to be solitary durng his natural life. During the regular working hours he is em-. Ployed in making. shoe-brushes, but fn this respect he is ot the most profitable conrict in dor; “no monk, but a Bishop of the secular clerzy.” He then went on to develop his rea- sons, and the reader wiil remark the sterling zood sense of the aged statesman upou thls point. il t A mouk,” be said {n substaoce, nothing of the world and its giverse ne He i3 aceustomed to live in an isolated manacr, where ideas sometimes gurmeq‘;, :ontdnrl:_’p!arx:ixfig i intrigues, C) e b0 e o oy (i phvat inteeest, mith :k:ep;‘!fgg; o seems fo ave inken to litee Whicha Popo is charged. . On the otber haod, | ture riber thon 1o e mechupic sy Aed 2 Bishop who has governed a diocese for cer. | spouds much of bls tme 13, the scaafit ol & fain nuimber of years has been initiated Into the | knowleaze, 8o for as tho Eoglish Bratthes 29 seercis of admigistration, mixed up in political e is already master, - atackid ies ilfar with the oblizations | Latin, French, and German, an: géuglcv‘;{llll’isc'. flnfin‘:’m‘:fiee’fin contact with men; | ing astonishing progress in all three of « them. If it were not for the conditions which forbid his mingling with the rest of the prison- ers it frould not be o bad idea to make him Brmussm of Lanzuages? of the institution. e writesa letter to his mother everv weck, and receives one from her regularly in return. The POOr Woman brings over her communication every Saturday, and invariably finds one await- ing her. The letters which the young murderer Writes are marvels fn_the way of parental cor- ;c';pondvn:e. and some of his descriptions of s lonely life are charseterized by a sadaess which is indecd barrowing, He never maxes any reference to his crines, and, when question- e by the oflicers about the multitude of mur- ders sud outrages which he has commi ed, he iovariably suswers that he knows nothing what- ever sbout them. He has always shown a great affection for his mother, snd_her devotion to bim has shown her to possess those natural in- stincts which arc the charm of pure woman- hood. She scems to be an exempiary woman in every respect, never complaining, but always glllxcl?;s‘. :fiil has tnzg wugo!enne and sympathy v officer of the prison, a3 she shol - deed of the whole cmmx‘:um:“y'. 2 AN OLD-TIME TOURNAMENT. A correspoudent of whe American Rigister translates the story of a tournament, which taok place before Duke Charles of Savoy and the Duchess and the ladies and lords of his court, the records of which is still preserved in the archives of Turin. Ata royal ‘banquet one of the Lords of Bionay, he being a married man, asserted that the married man was as galiant and formidable in deeds of arms, aud in all things, as the unmarried man, and that the married Woman was as virtuous and 23 worthy of praise as the unmarrivd woman, and offering to prove it by the lance or sword, if there was any one who rished to contradict it. De Cor- sant, of Savoy, an unmarried man, presented bimself as chawpion for the unmarried. Duke Charles, seeing that the question was not pro- voked by hatred or malevolence, and that tney wishd to fight topass the time and for pleasure, as well as for the exercise of arms, gave his consent. There were to be two trials with the lance, and fifteen strokes only with the sword. If the married man was conguered, he must beg {or merey of Mlle. De Savoy and of all the un miarried ladics of that house, and from one lady out of the house of Savoy, who should be ap- pointed by his conqueror. If the unmarried man was conauered, lie was to ask for merey of the Ducliess of Savoy, and of the wife of Lord Blonay. The arranzéments completed, the two champions met on ihe 12th of May, 1504, on the square befare the Custle of Turin. On the first trial they fought with so much address that the Jances were broken to pieces. Having received new lances, De Blonay broke his baldly, and Corsant, encountering the shock, breast-piece, firth, and saddle, all were carried to the ground With the chevulier in such a way that every one believed it was all over with him. Not so, how- ever; Corsant sprang finmediately to bis feet, Teady to 0o duty with the sword. * The combat was sustained long and bravely, and it would bave continued longer if Duke Chartes bad not ordered them to desist. Duke Charles Jowing the conditions of the combat, De Corsant knelt for pardon before the Duchess of Savoy and the married ludies of the Court, and then seL out for the Castle Blauay, whith, after a long aud periious journey, he reached, and ask- ed grace of Lady Catherine of the Castle; and now, having paid the penalty of the vanquished, he asked for his discharge. On the next day Lady Blonay gave a grand_banquet, and invited the lords and ladies, married and unmarried, of the meiznborhood. Then De Cersant met the beautiful Zolande, cousin of Lady Blonay, and he concluded that by taking a wife he should better sustain the cause of the married than he Mad done that of the unmarried at the tourna- ment of Turin. Lord Blonay returning four days after and giving bis consent, the puptials were celebrated in the good Castle of Blomay, wheu De Corsant bravely cried: “If any onc savs ought against the marricd man, De must scttle it with me, and I will do to him what was done to me in the tournament at Turin!”" “DE PEN AND DE SWOARD.” Iorper's Drawer for Abrd, The *“ Colored Debating Soviety” of Mount Vernon, O., must have had some very interest- fng meetings this winter. Your correspondent haopening to pass through Mount V. about Christinas-time was invited by a friend to ac- company him to ope of the “debates.” Your correspondent went. The object of the argu- ment on that particular evening was the settle- ment at once and forever of the question, “Which am de mightiest, dc pen or the swoard " Mr. Laukins sald about as follows: ¢ Mr. Chaarman, what’s de use ob a swoard unless you's gwyne to waar? Who's hyar dat’s gwyne to waar? lisn't, Mr. Morehouse isn’t, Mrs. Morehouse isn’t, Mr. Newsome isn’t; 1’ll bet no feller wot speoks on de swoard side is any ideer ob gwyne to waar. Den what’s de use ob de swoard? Ldon’ttink dere’s much show for ar- gument in de matter. Mr. Lewman smid: *What’sde use ob de pen 7ess you knows how to write? Iow’s dat! Dat’s what £ wants to know. Look at dechillun ob Isr’l—wasn’t_but one man in de bole crowd ewyne up from Egyp’ to de Promis’ Lan’ cood write, aw’ he didn’t writemuch. [A voice in the audicace, * Wrote de ten commau’ments, any- Now, vou bet.” Cheers from the pen side.] Wrote 'em? wrofe’ein? Not much; uess noty notonastove, honey. Mizht p’r'aps cut *em wid a chisel. Broke 'em - oll, anyiow, *fore e 2ot down the hill. Den when he cut a new set, de ehillun ob Isr’l broke 'em ail aguin. Say he did write "em, what good wus it? So his _pen no Jeount nohow. No, Saar. De meoard's what fotehed *em into de Promis’ Lao’, Szar. Wy, Saar, it's_ridiculous. Tink, Siar,ob David a- cuttin’ off Golialt’s head wid 3 yen, Snar! De jdeer's altogedder too ’posterous. Swar. De sioard, Suar, de suoard mus’ win de argutient, Saar.” Dr. Crane safd: *1 tink Mr. Lewman a lectle He's a-speakin’ ob de times in de dim pas’, when de ming of man was crade, an' de han’ ob man was in de ruff state, an’ not toned down to de refinement ob cibilized times. *Dey wasn't educated up to de use ob de ven. Deir haw's was ouly fit for de ruff use ob de syoard. Now, as de modern Pnct says, our swourds rust in deir cubbards, an' peas, sweet peas, covers de lan’. An’ what tus wrot all dis change? Je pen. Do I takea swoard now to git me a peck ob sweet-taters, a palr ob cnickens, a pair ob shoes? No, saar. I jess take my pen an’ write aorder for 'em. Dol want money? Idon’t it it by de edge ob de sword: I writes a clicek. f want a suit ob clothes, for instance,—a stroke obde pen, de wighty pen, de clotties is on de way. I’sdone.” Mr. Newsome said: * Wid all due ’spect to de learned gemman dat’s jus’ spoke, we mus’ all agree dat for smoovin® tings off an’ a-levelin® tings down dere’s notting equals de sword.” Mr. Hunnicut said: I agrees eutirely wid Mr. Newsome; an’ in auswer to what Dr. Crane suys, 1 would jess ask what’s de use ob drawin® a check unless you's wot de money tn de bank. or a-drawin' de order op de store unless destore truss you? §'pose de store do truss, am’t it easicr to sen’ a boy as to- write a order? If you 2ot no boy bandy, teiegral. No use for a pen— not a bit. Who ebber heard of Mr. Hill's pen! Nobody, Saar. But his swoard, Saar. swoard ob ole Bunker hill, Sasr,—is known to ebbery chile in de lan’, If it hadden bin for de swoard ob vle Bunker Hill, Ssar, whaar'd We mimmers be to-night, Saari _whaar, Saar? Not hsar, Saar. In Georzfa, Saar, or wuss, Saar. No cullud mag, Sear, should cbber g0 back, Saar, on de swoard, Saar.” Mr. Hunpicat's remarks seemed to carry a good deal of weizht with the audience. After Speeches by o number of others, the subject was haoded over to ** the committee,” who car- ried 1t out and **sot on it.” In due time they rerurned with the following decision: “ De comimittee decide dat de swoard has de most pints an’ de best backin’, and dat dc pen isde most beneficial, an’ dat de whole ting is about a stan’-ofL.” . AN ARCIEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. Rome (Feb, 22) Correspondence London Times. An important discovery, both from an archeo- lomcal and an artistic point of view, was made yesterdey in the middle of the Piszza.di Pietro, ‘hich, it will be remembered, is situated close to the Corso and the Piazza Colonna, and is adorned on one side by the eleven grand Co- rinthian columns, with the cornfce intact above them, which are supposed by some 10 be the remains of the Temple of Neptune, and by others of the Basilica of Antoninus Pios. In diggine the course of 3 new dralp, the work- men, af a depth of about eizbt fect, came *upos a large block of marble, which, on’ being turned® over, proved to be tbe front of a pedestal. measuring about two metres square, and having upon the tace of the dado thc figure, in alto-relief, of a Dacian Prince. The -ficure is a metre and a half ic beight,~the feet resting on the upper molding of the plinth, the head risinz to the cornice. Unfortunately the face has been destroyed; but the drapery, which is very fine, i3 perfect in size, form, and every other particular. This pedestal agrees exactly wit others found within the area of this Piazza during the Pontificates of Paul IIf, iu 15405 Ciement VIIL, in 1534: Ionocent X., in 1630, while muking the conduit for the supply of water to Beruiue’s 2rand fountain in the Plazza Navona; and of Alexander V1L, in 1660, in de- molishing the old Church of San Stefano del Irullo, to increase the size of the Piazza. Tnat now brought tolicht has been fonnd among the foundations of the church, into which it must have been warked as solid building ma-~ terial. Of those discoverea in past times, two are in the Capitoline Museum, oneis In the Odescalchi Palace, and the three found in the time of Paul III. were removed nearly a cone tury ago, with other gems of the Farnese col- lection of sculpture, to the Maseum at Naples. The pedestals are supposed to have belonged to the Portico of the Arzonauts, which stood fn this locality. A gmeantic fragment of cornice and an fostription relating to Germanicus, ro- . garding whow_inscriptions are very rare, have Been found. Crowds of people are gathered round tne spot looking at the sculpture and watchiog the opecations. - The end of another larre mass of marble has just been uncovered and may prove to be another, ihe eighth of these pedestals. QUIPS. For The Tridune. A gew hired girl sweeps clean. Anold settler: A piece of codfish. It you crack a joke, it won't sound well. ; ‘Why not call a brace of pugilists a knocka- eam. People who are all the time cutting-up: Butchers. It a Justice of the Peacs finds a boy Justice easy as bedfines a man, why not send one in segrch of Charlie Ross? It is observable that, when a man who ls full of beer attempts to sing, the rhvthm of his song is pretty certain to be o lager-rhythm. Says Spicer, of the Boston Commercial Buliein; 1 agme Is money, because It alwara 4 is s about a pole-cat? 9 e, M Bpleer i “Don’t give me away!” is an resgion much in vogue amoong a class of yon?gv!ellows who affect the slang of the period. But, as many of them are of no value whatever, how s it possible to dispose of them unless they are given away? = Speaking of swallow-tails, somebody remarks tnat “People don’t swallow tails so much ns they used to.” Thev swallow Hoge's tales when they can get them just as much as ever; aud pies’ tails, nicely baked, continue to go down with mosl country-people. - Nothing tends 50 10 destroy one's confidence in a paragraph asto show it to a wooden-headed maa, and have him returu it, after inspection, without a comment or a smile. You know that he Is about as well qualified to judse of a joke as a borse is 0 express an oplnion regarding the set of a claw-hammer coat; but your confl- dence in that paracraph is all shaken to picees, just the same. Sniffier read o a newspaver the other day that “Every dove has a cote, and every dog pants.” And he went home and told his wite that every dove had a coat, and every doz had a pair o’ pantalaons; and, when she didn’t sce aoything to Jaugh at, and told him so, he said be guessed she must be influenced by Mrs. Swisshelm, or bad become so goll-blamed senti- mental all at once that she couldn’t appreciate 2 good joie when she heard one. H. ELI PERKINS ON GEORGE FRANCIS, One day, writes “ Eli Perkins,” I met Georze Franeis Train in Madisor square, surrounded by children. Dr. Hammond had told me that ridt~ cale was an infallible test for ineanity; that, it 2 man got mad at agharmless joke, » joke with 10 animus in it, it was a pretty sare sigo of in- savity. 7 Do you see these hands?’ commenced Georee, as he always does. ‘““See! the blood run into them. There’s health for you! All this comes from vegetable dict, sir.~ No meat for me. I eat nothing but vezetables. Vege- tables ‘moke muscle, sinew, strengifi, man- 004, “Yes, George,” [said, “you're rizht. Meat is weakening. 1 always notice all the strong animals live on veaetables. There's the weak lion and the tender panther, they live on vege- tables; und there’s the sturdy sheep, the hardy se, tile savage calf, the wild and ravemous 53, thicy live on meat entirely—" “ It always makes me mad to talk toan in- fernal foui,” said Train, coloring up, while ho | turned on higgiee! and left ina nuff. Then I knd¥ Georgo Francis was insane.- AN INTERESTING YOUNG MAN. San Juan (Cal.) Tumes. A physician well known hercabouts was re- cently called to see a lady who was reported tc be sulfering with terrible pain. The physician hastened to the residence of the lady and found her in bed. He felt of her puise, laoked at her tongue, and commenced writing a prescription. She said to him: * Doctor, Idon’t think you understand my case.” O yes, I do,” said he, “I understand it very well.” After a little while the lady remarked tohim azain: “Doctor, 1 don’t think you know what's tae_matter with me; you dou’t understand wmy condition.” The Doctor replied: * O yes, I do, madams; I bave o paticut up fowp, a younz man, just 1n your fix, suffering with the same disease.” An hour af- terwards the ladrfzave birth to a ten-pound boy. How the younz man got along, our informant did not say. ———— PIKE-SNGOKS. To the Editor af The Tribune. Mmrorp, N. Y., March 13.—I notice an article in your issue of Feb. 26, entitled * Pike, a Man Much Wanted.” About fifty-five years ago, within balf a mile of where I now sit, a child was born whose surpame was Svook, and whio was cliristened doha. His early vouth be- spoke for bim all the qualitics described in the articlereferred to. ¢ busicd bunself the first 20 yeurs of his lif¢ in small meannesses and dode- ing through the meshes of the law, once being s0 hotly pursued as to comocl him_to swim the ~ Susquebannab River i cold weather to mike his escape. He was gone several years, when he paid his native land a visi, calling himself John Pike, aud doing a prosperous business in Syracuse, N. Y. He had patent- rights and like goods as stock in trade, and traded with some half-dozen of the younger stock of distant relatives, all of whom would like to meet bim and on the same ievel as s Chicago victims. Some bigh crimes wers com- mitted In Syracuse, and that city became oo warm for him. HIi3 friends here have known that he had been glving Chicaxo some attention in the past, but as some titne has elapsed since bearing irom him it was taourht possible be hiad passed fu his checks. Your photograph ot the Z6th sets this question entirely at rest. He stilt lives, aud the hope now is that he may et at least a'thousandth part of what he has work- cd so longand hard to earn. Yours. S.R.B. THE DE BAR W' CA%. Special Dispatch 40 The Tribune. S1. Lou1s, Mo., March 16.—The suit of Mrs. De Bar, widow of the late Ben De Bar, against John G. Priest, as Executor o her busband’s estate, came up in the Probate Court this after- noon. The principal lssue raised 1n the case is the genuineness of M. De Bar's signature to s tiower of attorney resizning her rignt of dower. Mrs. De Bar denies ever having signed the pa- per, and asserts that she must have been per- sonated, The notary who witnessed ihe deed and Ben De ar being dead, the only living persons who can testify to its ~genuineness are -Mrs. De Bar, “who denies it, and Mr. William Boswith, who was the witness. The latter vesides fo New Or- leans, aud Mr. Priest and his sttorney, Mr. Garesche, have just returaed from that city atter securing his deposition therein. ‘The wit- pess admits the genulnencss of his signature but, at the same time, denies any recollectior of ever having signed or of ever having seen Mrs. Dean in Mr. Shanpan’s (tbe Notary's)” ofice. [his naturally complicates the matier, and makes it a hard koot to untie. Some im- portaut evidence was heard intoe case, which was continued uatil Mooday. SAN FRANCISCO SQCIETY, Sax Fraxcisco, March 16.—A public meeting called by a Jarge number of prominent citizens, to protest azaipst the bill before the Legista- ture to sell the Sorine Valley Water-Works to the city at an cxorbitant figure, was held this afternoon. Agitator Kearney snd his crowd filled the hall. Kearney was called to tha chair, and made one of his_rabld harangues. He refused to allow Senator Nunan, who called the meeting, to speak, and after asccneof great disorder, during whicha number of people vainly attempted to address the audience, the ‘meeting broke up {u confusfon. At one point in the proceedings Kearney was hurled from the platform by some oue whom he was at- tempting to put cown, and a general row. seemed for a while tmmieat. ——— A New Use for Cork. The new cork_floor coverinz—Linolenm—has ingratfated {tell so nrlury into public favor that it is suberseding all appliances beretofore’ employed for a ke purpose. its most remark. able feature Is its “exuraordinary durability '3 in this respect no other floor covering can com- | are with it. The beautiful designs in which it & manufactured make v desirable for dining fififi; halls, churches, and every variety of uilding. Kept by all first-class carpet dealers, ;' f | |