Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1878, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL % 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES 3 s — """ BOSTON. Mr. Howells' New Play, “A Counter- feit Presentment.” ntiss Clarke’s Rendition of the Iicroine’s Character. My, Howells Sits with the Audience, and Rises at Their Call Charley Ross’ Father in Tremont Temple---Three New Books. From Our Own Correspondent. Tostox, Aprit 3.—Mr. Howells' * Counterfeit Presentment " was pla for the first time in Boston last evenivg. The audience was what s termed a very select ome. It was also a very larze onc. Ail the high and all the fow lizhts of literature—if there are’any of the latter—were preszut. And all the dra- mave people, especially the amateurs, were out in full force. For here wasa braud-new play, which, though a socicty play of this day and generation, was known to be entirely without any of the usual complications. To be sure, it had a plot; but it was the very thinnest and craziest of plots, which would impose upon no- body. even if the story had not been common proverty through the pazes of the Atlantic months before 1€ was brought before the public. Just think of this plot: An adoring father, ‘when be finds tbat his aaughter is in love with araseal who is foreed to take himself out of the way, conceives the utterly wila and improbable plan of keeping the younz woman in {roorance of the rascality i question, for fear of souring the views and estimates of humau pature which this young persou may have con- ceived, and by this startly-romautic little fraud e connives at anothier,—that. of jilting,—which is supposed Ly this accomplished plotter, this curious fathet, to be the easiest way ont of the gilliculty. The vouns wornan's “views of life" are to be keen intact by not permitting ber to kuow that lier lover was a rascal unworthy of her love. Bat by this arrangement she is allowed to supposé that her hero has found her 50 unlovable that he repents himself of his bar- gain, and thus. LEAVEs HER TO WEAR THE WILLOW. This is all su cheaplysensational and seutiment- al that it secms hard to realiz is_Mr. How- ells’ work,—Mr. Howells, who despises much more rational sentiment and sensationalism than Tncident, plot, are not Mr. H oints, as be Limself {ully realiz in striving to make up for this—that is, in striving to create or to build in this direction —in this firet attempt he, of course, falls very short. Iu dinlogue evervthing is satisfactor; €0 far #s the purity and elezauce of the la guage are concerned; and there are fine little flashes of wit aud bamor uow and then, but they are not always forcible cnough, though on geveral oceasion: arrett, in his impersona- tion of Barteit, flings into them a force which is ratber starthng. 2 Clarke, who takes the part of Con- stance—the young maiden with tbe cecentric father and raseally lover,—is more than perfect in ber way; thatis, stue not only portrays Ar. _ Howelis” character as it is presented in the neth of reserve story, but she also muggests a st in-tiie portrayal, Wlereby weseem 1o see the pos- sibutitics of the @il when kinder cireumstances and time bave developed her. This is very unu- £ual. and shows an iutellectual conception which isof'a vers high order. My Western readers may not all know that Miss Clarke is oue of the Boston JMuseum attacher, —the leacing lady. She hus fons Beena great and’ descrved favorite with Loston aodiences for her fne representatios but I think 1hat 1n thie role of Constance she hasquile outaoue Berell, and e plucked & leaf from the TofLiest 2urel. JIER GREAT BEAUTY OF PERSON is much in her favor, but it is also =till her favor that, with' this natural advanta: has mever abated any of the hard work of the real vainetaking artist. Miss Clarke is in her tnirties, rhups Dear the end of _tnem, —but she requires 1o ** making up * to enculnt the observer in por- traving the character of a girl in her twentics. Acritie very avtly say4 of this character of Con- _that ‘- her fance, s deslctad by Mr. Howells, feminine saddennese und self-cont waich }ir. Howells has always ta 1 in displaying in hix herorn extreme which i2 absolutely lugicrous.™ And it is precisels bere that Miss+ Clarke shows her ekill, in o presenting the reserved force, 88 it were, of tue heroine, by a few subtle touches here aund there, that the diznity of the =irlis not over- thadvwed by Mr. Howeils' ideas of the feminine £uddenness and self-contradiction.” Mr. Howeils himeclf ecemed highiy delizhted with this repre- eentation. He bad 3 et with the audience. and 2t the close of the third act was called to his feet and zrected with hearty applause. The play isa cd one, without great elements. IT 13 NOT A SCCCESS. LIKE ** THE DANITES,” even in Boston. It is noLa success in any way ae aplay. taken by itself. for it woula be mmply Indicrons with other than the most skiled | actors, — & fact__ which carrics its oirn _ signiticance. Bat, with Mr. Barrett and Misslarke for the interpreters of the chief characters, the reined dialozue, with its flashes of wit and humor, and the sugaestions ol . Howells in situations. 'etc., are brouzht out with tae creative force and skill of genius: brouzht out aud mude much of, —made over, as it were. into romething larzer and more intense; touched here and there with a passion which is not in the ‘text. Women who find fault with Mr. Howells for his usual delineation of the feminine character, where he accentuatesthe incon-equenceand **sud- dennees. ™ ought to be rrateful for such an inter- pretation as Mise Clarke's. But, 1 tuis connection, one ought to remember one womanly charucter which Mr. Howells has drawn_which is not womanrsh, and thatis the charming A1tly Eltison.wno ko cfectually snubbied TILE TYPICAL BEACON-STREETER,— he in whose person, save a critic, - Boston finds its spintual sins so sorely and eurely visited upon trelf that it cannot even call the portrait a cari- cature.” The play isonly on the noards here for Monday and Tuesdsy evenings and Wednesday afternoon of this week. As a minor strain coming in with all this gayery of the play-houses, the father of Charley ltoss has been telling his pathetic story 10 Tremont Temple. Tize reason for eo doinz i’ prin’ 4lly that he may #o keep it before the public thu.. as time foes on. the chances of restoration may not be hindered and overlaid oy the tacts passingout of sight. Mothers who were present at his simple yet most paintul recital were more deeplyjmoved than by any facti- tious display, end futhers found it brd to control 1their tears. The firstevening was given to the story of the abduction, and of the efforts to trace the Xidnappers. Mr. ltoss' belief is that the abduc- tion of his boy was the beginning of 8_regular business—a trade—for extorting money. If it had ‘Deen ruccessful, no child of wealthy purents would have been safe. It was this belief that withheld him fora long time from compromising with the thieves. He entered at last, however, into an sgreement with them o paya certain sum of money tothem, in coneideration of which the child Was 10 be restored. But this contract was not car- ried ont,—Mr. Ross receiving a Jeiter from the andnctors giving as & reason Iherefor thal, eeing by a newspaper report he had gone elsewhere 10 seek a child SAID TO BE CHARLEY ROSS, they had not sent their azent to receive the money. Then followed the death of Mosher and his. ‘associate, the confessed thieves, and the preakinc of the clew. On the eecond evening Mr. Hoss nmarrated some of the incidents of his Tong search. In illustration of the wide knowleage and intercst in the story., he 10}d of a negro woman who was heard calling vut from her doorway: **You. Julius Cmsar, come Jerdis minit, or yer'll get carr'd off like Charley 8! In concluding his story of the cvening Mr. Ross ver simply, yet vers pathetically, said that his scarchvas likea quéstina geen, dark abyss by the lizht of 3 taper. Now and then e would turn 10 bear alittle voice in the darknmess cryiuz: **This way, ere | am." lle would ¥o in the direction of Lhis vaice, to find that it was only the voice of his bopes and the whispering of his heart. And he should continae this search’ while life and healtn remained. In the world of buuks the publishers are hard at Work, and here are come of the good things prom- ised.” First, from the new firm of ouchiton, Os zood Co.. **Memorial and Biographical Sketches," by’ James Freeman Clarke, which il contain sketches of Charies Sumner, Theodore Parker, Samuel G. Howe, Dr. W. E. Chunning, George D, Prentice, J. B. Booth, the elder, and olbiers, This house will also bang outa fall me- moir, correspondence, etc., of CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, repared by her most intimate friena, Miss Stebbins. The sphinx at Roberts Brothers has a new idea for the ** No-Name Series” in a buok of anouymous Do, by tne best and bravest of Enviish and Awerican living poets, each puem contributed for the parposc; and unpublished eclsewhere at the time, t a puessing there will be. How we €uall ail know that this is by Jeun Inzelow. and that by Christina Rossctti, and another CeliaThaxter, etc., etc., and how we shall all be Distaken and correspondingly nettled and abusive, ‘or a lively irritant—s sort of epring tomc—what Conld be better than this? Butthe authors them- selves will probably sppreciate il this far more 1han the readers; for buw the majors ama the mozs will zet mized. How some of our clever mitatore will pluck the feathers of the big: Fxme and get the credit of being Hizh Cockalorums L3emselves for the Lime Leing. How the newspa- Pers will calmly. in the end, declare, *-1 told I l;xl:oiwzfialho{w wise we etill all bato make 2 phole for any znd every possibilit; ot affirming anything or delieving anything, 2% NP ————— Gushing Doctors. * “Gertrude's™ Letter from Hot Sorings to Iadianapo- tis Herald. ‘The doctors are & particularly formidable part of the popnlation, here. They swef. Their shingles disturb the atmosphere in onc almost unbroken line in the business part of the town. Some of them are ereat sushers, particularly when they prescribe for patients of the gentle and more irritable sex. The * gushers” ad- dress ladies whom they have never secn before wy dear,” “my dear little sufferer,” «my nervous baby,” aod *my darling,” ad- ministering meanwhile a variety of endearing iittle pats and carceses, and finally winding up with a eratuitous kiss or so. It is needless to say that among persous who prefer dinity and decorum to disacrecable donkeyism the *‘gush- ers” do not™take hizh rank, but they rake in money as casily as Maud Muller raked the hay. GOSSIP FOR LADIES. THE TIME TO WOO. When is the time to woo? When the siiver moon shines bright On rome baliny Summer-night, And sou and your swectheart strol} With Jove aflame in your soul— Is that the time to woo¥ When is the time to woo? When the merry sleighbells chime In the frosty Winter-time, And you and your sweetheart go A-flying over the snow— 1» that the time to woo? Oyes! Itistime to woo When the silver moon shines bright On some balmy Summer-nizht, Or you and your eweetheart go A-ying over the snow. But— 'most any time will do. : 45100 " BROBAKER. WHY A WOMAN CAN’T TIROW A STONE The practice of a whole life will not enable a woman to throw a stone with grace and ac- curacy. It wus onc of the first and most knotty physiological problems which presented jtself to our youthful mind why our biz sister, when she tried to throw a snow-ball at us, almost fuvariably sent it carcening over the top of the house, while we, in turn, could pop her iu the car almost every time. It may be that we took a_ meau advantage of this discrimination of Nature in our belalf aainst our sister; and it may be that we improved the opportunity to rake her Tore and aft whenever she came within firing distance. But that is ncither here nor there. As the time vassed on and we increased our Stock of observation, we saw the other_ fellows’ ststers labored under about the same disadvan- the matter of throwing ¢. Why this marked and un- akable difference existed we pever learned untit, at a sumewhat advanced period, we dove Into 3 hook of physiolozy, and learned that the clavicle, or collar-bone, in the anatomy of a fe- male is some inches lonser and set somedegrees lower down than in the masculine (rame. long, crooked, awkward bone interferes with the foll and iree action of the shoulder, and that's the reason why a girl cannot throw a stone. The desigm of this sort of thing is still unexpiained 1o our cntire satisfuction. We have developed a pet theory of our own, how- ever, that au all-wise and beneficeat Providence, foresceing that there would be rolling-pins, and stove-hovks, and pot-lids, and lot water in the world, set the woman’s clavicle down a hitch or two for the safety of men. It’s lucky for all of us that women cannot throw stones.—Ezxchange. THE PRE-RAPIAELITE WAIST, Mrs. Haceis' ** Art of Breawiy™ One of the most important features in 3 graceful fizurc—beuce one of the most consp ous and valuable innovations of the pre-Ra- phaclite school—is the waist. The first aim is to have au’ * autique waist "—which a vulgar mind would pronounce borribly thick—thi like the Venas de Medicis, thick Jike that far nobler Venus of Milo. And why? Because the ‘proportion of the fizure, the wrace of action and Carriage, are so dependent on the - waist being of the right size that it is imn- possible to preacl too strongly the folly and ligliness_of tisht-laciog. The coarse, abrupt curve which is formed by 3 small waist and road hips is_very far removed from Hogarth’s true *“live.of beanty,” whichis acurve extreme- 1y gradual. What is gained by an ugly, aneular Waist Jike a V¢ Nothing Dut a long list of maladics which sap the health and speil the complexion. What is gained by a somewhat large “autique waist ¢ “Good proportion io an artist’s eye, ease and erace of muvement, often a reaily statuesque carriage—impossivie to the slaves of ln_mode, with their bard, bony coirass on. The waist of a pre-Rapnaelite 1s Tather short,—where a waist ought to be, in t, between the hips and the last rib. Her skirt is cut full or scanty, as she chooses; but is mever ticd to her legs with strings and clastics. *She can, therefore, stoup without frrasping or cracking her corsei-bouc, and can sit down or walk up-stairs at will, unlike many votaries of present_fashions. Her sleeves are cut extraordiuanly high on the shoulders, some- times a little falléd to fit the ‘shoulder-bone: for it is de rigueur that 1 pre-Raphaelite should b capable of moving her arms when dressud as freely as when undressed. COURTING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Brunsicick (ifo.) Times. They were courting under difficulties. It was in a room through which the wmembers of the family were continually passing to and fro. s Dear Alice,” he said, *I caunot longer la- bor under the sus—" (Ihe old man appears.) _pension of bauks is due to the nnwise mi(&)tf—" ) Id rent passes on., ("l was going to suy, my deargirl, that I hope you will promise to be mine, and name an early day for the bonds—" {Old woman happens |r3. s—should never be paid in gold alone.” (Exit old girl). & Name the bappy day when I may call you my own, for 1 cannot believe that you will think it pre—"" sOld man slides in again). “4—sumption cannot be'so soon accomplish- ed.” ffhu intruder retires). 4T say I can’t belicve you are entirely indit- ferent £0 me, but you will scon grant me the privilege of calling vou w—" (01d lady on deck.) % ite given th¢ financial question much stuay,” (O1d lady slides of.) If you love me, just nod your head. You nod. O one sweet Kiss to seal it—one sweet— 0 b—¥! (Prospective father-in-law.) —¢ gecording to eminent divines, is a myth, a saperstition.” (They were aain left alone.) The old folks couclude that Alice -is safe enough in the company of 8 younr man who can talk nothil ut finance and theology, and 50 relax their vigilance. ECTION BY MARRIAGE. Washington (D. C.) Merald. A good thing is told of one of our city belles, Miss L., noted for ber wit. At a dinner party the lady in question, who is a daughter of a dis- tinguished Judge, wasZseated next to a gentle- man whom she had not met before, and who was oD a visit to the city on business which bad brought him in coutact with the Judwe men- tioned, who had shortly before decided a case aeainst bim. At the dinner the gentleman, who had not caught the name of the lady when intro- duced, took occasion to vent his feeling and cxpress bis opimious of the Judge in terms any- thing but complimentary. An awful pause in the conversation indicated something - wrong, and tue gentleman took oceasion to express to the lady his hope that the Judge was no rela- tion of hers, to which, to tie infinite amuse- ment of all present, she reolied, * O, 03 DHK 2 counection of my mother’s by marriage.” shout of laughter could not be prevented, and the wentleman, after a little reflection, came slowly to the conclusion that tne Judge’s family were too much for him. A COX: SIIE FELT ANXIOUS. National Free Press. Saturday forenoon a woman sbout 40 years of are apoeared at the foot of Weodward avenue and inquired of this and that one regarding her husband, a sailor. When she iwas about giving up her search a straneer came along and asked: “Were you huntine for Tom " «Yes, sir, 'm afraid he's shipped on some vessel and will be lost.” “He's all rizot, M Ileft him in a coal- drunk asa log, and he won't ship thank you very much,” ehe pleas- antly replied. “Iwill gohome’ now, fecling better. I was anxious for fearac'd take a berth on some boat for a last trip, but if he's drunk hewill §° home along in the night, and I needn’t worry.” - Sho thanked him aeain, and went away with- out further thought of her husband, who was in . the condition described by bis friend. A WIFE WHO LOOKED AHEAD. Parls Paper. Like a dutiful uncle he was striving hard to marry off bis scapegrace of a_ nephew, and, al- most in despair of accomplishing his purpose in any other manner, resorted to a matrimonial agency. He is well reccived. and the agent hands him a register containfug the list of ladies she has in_ stock, description of them, their fortunes, and so_on. [le carelessly turus over the pazes, till all at ouce his attention is riveted by the sight of his wife’s mame. He rubs his eves and reads it over; there is no mistake. She secks an alli- ance with o man between the ages of 25 and 8, Dot less thau five feet six inches higb, o bloude preferred. Stricken with horror, and fancying that there was a queer taste in his coffce at breakfust, be_drops the fatal book and makes for bome, *“Yes,” said his wife, soltlv, “that is myname. I put it down when you werc 5o sick with pneumonia 1ast spring, and the doctor said we should prepare for the worst.” CUT OUT BY HIS OWN SON. Correspondence Cincinnats Enquirer. KusoviLre, March 28.—A rather novel wed- divg was solemnized in our County Clerk’s of- fice yesterduy evening. Charles Harak, a wealthy farmer living near Ging’s Station, in his county, and whose lucks have withstood | the assaults of seventy winters, wooed aud (as e supposed) won the heart and hand ur Miss Mary d. Morris, a neighborine lady whose zolden tresses have been fanned by the zen- tle breezes of eighteen summers. Hé proposed, was accepted, and yesterday mormmg the Wwings of love walted him into the Clerk’s offlee, where he obtained the necessary license. He started home with a light _heart and smiling countenance. But alas!” During his abscuce one of his sons visited the fickle maiden and so virorously besiezed the citadel of her affections that she surrendered, jumped iuto a vevicle with him, drove to town by a circuitous route, and their bearts were beating In unisou as hus- band and wife ucfore the okl mau reached lome. A larize crowd witnessed the'ceremony. 1t is said that the old gentleman, when he d covered the true state of affairs, opened Lis mouth aud blasphermed. WER LAST LETTER. “+New York, November seventeen. My deirest Charles, my soul's delight, 1 could uot see you yesterc’en— You must not visit me to-night. Darling, I dare not tell you way, But fate so wills it; all is o'er— 1 keep my secret with a sizh, Bt iv this world we'll meet no more! And yot T love you just the sime, Bul do nut judge me as 1 seem. «« me, Charlie! Do not blame, ‘Think of me only as & dream, For 1 am doomed to fade und die— Wl meet, verhaps, some happier day; my tonib, but do ot cey, aieu? Your poor distructed May. P. §.—Charles, come to-morrow any how; The doctor #ays it hardly shows: 1'm not ashamed 0 tell you now— 1had u pimple on my Dose!” —XNew York Clipper. A PARAGON OF A IUSBAND. New York Dispatch. ¢ 0 my husband is quite 8 paragoun of perfec- tion,” said Mrs. A to Mrs. B. Ah, indeed! Doesn’t he drink any more?™ asked Mrs. B. « No," said Mrs. A.* About two months aco e came home intoxicated, and L told him if he ever did so again I'd o home to ma, and he doesn’t drink now.” ¢ That accounts for it.”” said Mrs. B. * The other night my busband met him in the strect hanging . to a lamp-post, and asked bim why he dfln’t 2o home, and he sald he would as soon as he got sober.” When Mrs. A aud Mrs. B pass each other in thestreet now, the coolness is as thick as a quart of ice- cream. THE KISSOGRAPIIL. Austin (Ner.) Receilie. An electrician of this eity bus invented an fm- provement on the telephone, which he ealls the « kissograph.” It works on a prindple of magnetic attraction, and by its meaons an absent husband can kiss bis own wife at a distance of a thousand miles. To make use of it for kiss- ing another man’s wite disarranges the inst. ment and creates a ecurrent which sets the steam whistles to blowing and the fire-beils to ringing. CELESTIAL GRACES. San Francisco Alta. She fs coming, thie belle and heiress, Miss Jeony Latretle, the handsomest girl in the Southwest,—having the fincst fizure, the small- est,_foot, the sweetest voice, the blondest hail and velvetest brown eyes ever done up in one package,—is coming to Oaklaud to spend a few monthis with her relatives. She is szid to he a most charming singer and amateur actress, aud manages a borse likea Di_Vernon: aud, worcover, is a lonely orphan with_$1,500,000 i her own right,—n real bonanza. Such a distin- guished visit has not been made since the Queen ot Sheba visited King Solomon. FEMININE NOTES. “Two for assent "’—A bridal couple. The motto of lovers is, “ E, plural buss, yum, sum!? 4 I3 it possible to fly?” If her father wears a No. 11 boot it is not only possible, but impera- tively necessary. A boy in Baltimore is about to die of a pinch on the arm by 4 woman. * We insist once more that the men and boys of our suflering vountry shall go armed and cquipped.—Buifalo Ezpress. One who_has probably realized thus solilo- uizes:* *No living wife knows her own valuc. 1 is ouly when a railroad company comes to be sucd that a-husbaod begins to learn what 2 treasure he has lost.” When reproved for failing to keep an enzage- 'ment with another gentleman. a brave but de- voted Utica busband replied: “ My dear sir, my intentions were excellent, but a man with a red- haired wife is liable to break many enzagements against his will.” No matter how thorourhly you clean the house, the wife of the next man who moves in will declare it is not fit for hogs to live in, and will slop suds around over eversthing trying to make it fit for hoes to live fn.—Zome Sentinel. Mary asked her father if she might marry Charles, and when the old mau_inquired about the extent of Charles’ salary, his loving daugh- ter proudly replied, ** Oh, hie makes over S100 a day.” They werc married, and Mary’s fatner has discovered that Charles does actually make over 3100 a day—but be -makes it in the mint, and bis salary is only $14 per week. Mr. Basingbal (city merchant)—* Most conye- nient! Tcan converse with Mrs. B. just asif [ was in my own drawing-room. I'll tell her you are here.” (Speaks through the telephone.) “Davwdles is here—just come from Paris—look- ingso well—desires to be,” ete., ete. “ Now you take itand you'il hear her voice distinctly." Dawdles—* Weally ! (Dawdles takes it.) ‘Ihe voice—* For goodness sake, dear, don't bring tll;mtc;nsul[emble noodle home to dinner!’’— unch, MY GRANDFATHER. My grandfather bold was an Trishman troe; Iie had 2 larze nose of a rubicund hue; Tie acres. though many, were moatly in bogd, And h’ls tenauts—bad luck to the croakersi—were rogs. In his one-story palace this monarch did rule, As befitted the rank of a mignty 0'Toole. And most like a chieftain he looked when fn bed; A three-story nighteap encircled his head; The neck of a bottle peeped out from the clothes— AD! thut was the artist that painted his nose; Though nightmares oft grazed on the grass of his Test, That bottle was aiways hugged tight to his breast, He rode like a jockey. he jumoed like a goat, And no man dire tread on the tail of his coar, And wo to the hexd, be it ever so thick, That once got a crack .from my grandfather's stick; With {1‘ii blackthorn in hand, and his back 'galnst he wall, He has oft tought a dozen, and walloped them all, And he was the hero of Pattern and Fair; No scrimmage was perfect unless he was there, The boastinz 0'Gradyx like wila ducks would fiy When the flag of O'Toole was finng out to the sky; For well they ail kmew none e'er found out the trick To get well of 8 blow from my grandfather's stick., 0 my grandfather bold, sare your like ne'er was seen; Tt was you that Invented the rale ould poteen, ‘And, when vou indulged 1n your_usual ewig, What enaipéen conld siqual You dancin' & jig? At every step, lise a lion yon'a roar, nd e splinters would iy from each board on the oor. When I'was a bos—'tis the truth T declare— 1 have oft reen my grandfuther fly through the air, One fine summer-day he was takin' a dy, When all of a endden he felt mighty dry: 1le putied out his bottle, and took big dranght Of the Snest ould poteen that ever was quaffed. The effect w2 tremendous: that terrible enp Seat my grandfather down quicker than ho went up e shattered his spine and demoliched hi: ot the pottle was Ieft him to comfort x:i’,"\?::;; Tle took a long draught, and his woes were soon o'er, For his soul took its flizht to the echeless shore. And tnen 1 knelt down at my crandfather's sides With tears 1 my eyes, in my apzuish J cried: 10 grandfainer dear, from, your bright home above, Look down on the sweet little Island you love, ‘And gravt us of potecn alib'ral sapply. And we'll bless the inventor, now fed to the sky.” RoERT TURNEY. LEITRIM. The Assassination of an Earl in County Derry, Ireland. Agrarian Murders in That Country from 1839 to the Present Time. New York Herald, Aorit s. The Earl of Leitrim was well knownasa landlord whose ideas of the rights of property prompted him to stretch the powers given him by the law to the utmost limit, and who was therefore extremely unpopular with his ten- antry and with the small-farmer class general- Iy. For over twenty-five years he had been consolidatine farms, evicting tenants, and turn- ing his land into immense grass farms. During that time he had, perbaps, received more threatening letters than any landlord or agent in Ircland, and on more than one occasion he is supposed to have narrowly escaped with his life from armed parties lying in'wait for him. 1le owned immense tracts of tland in the Coun- tics of Donegal, Leitrim, and Derry, as well as a small estate in Kildare, and probably evicted more tenants in his lifetime than any man in Ireland. It is said that, unlike other landlords, Le was quite impartial in regard to the religion of his tenants, and hundreds of sturdy Presby- terian farmers now settled in Ohio, Indiana, and Tllinois, s well as Catholics, were forced to give up thelr homes iu Donegal aud emigrate. AT WAL WITIL HIS TENANTRY. The popular press in Ircland have for years held lim up to public odium as the worst of toe “texterminating?! Jandlords, and he frequently figured in the law courts as a party in ageravat- od disputes about land. On more than one ve- casion, alsg, be apucared ut the local ® petty sessions” in cases which aroused considerable popular indignation, and gained him a great deal of newspaper notoricty. Many of his ten- antry live ou the rocky coast of the Atlantic, where the sofl is very poor, and cke out a mis- erable existence, partly by fishing, partly by srathering kelp on the seashore, which is'sold for manufacturing purposes. The right to gath- er this kelp had been exercised from thue im- memorial by the tenantry, but some vears ago Lord Leitrim and a few other landlords claimed the kelp as the property of the laadlord, and in cases where he found them eathering it had them arrested for theft. The frritation caused by these petty proseeutions was very deep, and extended over mauy parts of Ireland not im- mediately affeeted vy the litication, 1LY AND ESTATES. Sydney Cleuients, third Earl of Leitrim, ount Leitrim, and Baron Leitrim of Manorhamilton, in the Peerage of Ircland, and, Baron Clemeuts of Kilmacrenan, County .| Donegal, in that of the United Kingdom, was born gt Killadoou, County Kildare, where the family liave o hundsome cottage, in 1806, His fathcr had been 2 wild landlord anda very popular mar, and great expectations were formed of the son when, in 1554, he succceded 1o the title und estates. The family-seats are at Lough Rynn, Dromod, County Douegal, and Killadoon, Celbridee, County 'Kildare. The fumily settled in Ircland during the reign of James L, when they obtained large tracts of iscated land, and the Earl who has just urdered added largely to his estates by He was unmarried. Tilé EARL OF LEITROML . Aew Fork World, Avril3. The Earl of Leitrim, who was vesterday killed in Treland, was the bead of a family of Englisn origin which settled in Ireland after the dark days of Queen Eiizabeth, and which was en- nobled in the persou ot s grandlather, Robert Clements, Esq., raised to the Irish Peerage on the 11th of October. 1783, as Baron Leitrim, and made Earl of Leitrim twelve years atterwards. The murdered noblemau, who was the third Tarl, was 2 man of more than 70 vears of age, havihg been born in 1806. He was notorious throughout bis life as a stern and exacting landlord on his estates of Lough Rynam, in Leitrim, and Killadoon, in Kildare. It’is told of him that his favorite phirase in dismissing any uppeal made to him was to .bid the appli- cant “go to hell or America.” His nephew, who succeeds him, is the son of his brother, the Hon. and Rev. Francis Clements, clergyman of the English Church, Viear of Norton, in Englaud. o The list of agrarian murders in Ireland may be begun with that of another Irish Pecr, LORD NORLURT. On New-Year’s Day, 1839. while the Karl was walking in the shrubbery of his uwn house, Kil- beggau, County of Meath, and pointing cut cer- tain projected improvements to his steward, he was stot dead by an assassin who wus seen to escape, though in the confusion he cluded pur- suit. The print of a small and well-made boot, such as no peasant -would wear, was found \here Lic ud taken his stand, and this fact guve rise to much wild speculation as to the person and motives ‘of the murderer. A reward of $5,000, with an annuity tor hfe of $500, failed to o apy ciew to him, and, as the murdered nobicman was on good terms with his Catholic mneighbers and ~ tenants, and did not concern himselt about politics, the cause of his taking off nas ever remaincd s mysters. This crime, how- cver, was historic. 1t fired the passions of the panic-stricken lundlords, and brought about the famous meeting of the magistrates of Kings County, whereat the phrase in the letter of Unaer-Secrotary Thomas Drummond refusing an mcrease of police for Tipperary, * Property has its dutics as well as its rights,” was erecte into a proverb, Lord Charleville denouncedd it as, though innocent enough in_itself, little less than a deliberate_and unfeeling insult in the circumstances under which it was offered. The formal resolutions declared that it had had *tthe unfortunate cflect of increasing the ani- mosities entertained arainst the owners of the soil by 1ts occupants, who now constitute themselves the sole arbiters of the rights as well as the duties of property.” THREE YEARS LATER, in May, 1842, outrages on the persons and properties of landowners and agents began again to be common in Ircland, particularly in Tipperary and _Kings Counties. ' Oo the 2d of July the” Special Commissiop . for the former couuty finished its worky making several con- Yictions. Patrick Byrne, for instance, was_con- victed of shooting Mr. Robert Hall, the landlord; of one Kent, who, in revenge for the ejectment of o relative by Mr. Hall, incited Byrue to the murder. Timotby Quilty was b dering Mighael Laffan, a bailiff; he was dragged from hishouse in open day and shoton the highway in sight of several passers. The bod, was left on a dunghill, no one daring to admit it into the house, and an inquest had to be held upon it in the strect. Johm Pound was convicted of fiing a gun loaded with slugs throiigh the door of his laud- lord's house into the room where the family was assembled; the landlord’s wife was dangerous- 1y wounded. Michael Hayes was still another man who was convicted; he and a_companion Iying in wait for an agent or bailiff, Jobu , Kyan, tired on him, killing the horse be rode. The day after the commission rose—a Sunday, too— snother murder and attack on property took place 10 the townland of Dolla. THE NEXT NOTABLE DEMONSTRATION was in Auzust, 1843, when a collision took place at Turloughmore Fair, near Galway, be- tween the police and peasants, ending in two men (one a_Magistrate) being killed and ten wouuded. On the 12th of November the dwell- ing of Mr. Waller, of Fiunoe Tipperary, was surrounded by his peasant tenants, who fired on the family ecated at dinuer and beat its members shockingly in _the strue- gle which followed, Mr. Waller and two others being kille. On the Gth of April, 1845, at Ballyrahan, o gang of * Molly Maguires * beat to death on the bigh- way, i daylizht, a rate-collector. ‘Though one of the murderers was captured on the spot, no one would venture to identily him, and the Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of *willful murder azainst some persons unkuown.” .\lu]y 16, 1346, took place the fatal affrav of Bird Hill, Maunsell, a sub-tenant, barricaded himself and fricnds in a house, from which the sub-SheritE of Tipperary, with a body. of police, undertook to oust him’on a writ of ejectment. The police killed four of the besieged varty, when the others surrendered. In the fast week of October threé murderous assaults werc made on land agents in Longford. The same month a year Jater was notavle for its namerous outrages und thelts of farm produce. Denunciations of unpopular landlords from the altar now began. Oct. 24 Father McDermott, of Strokestown, sald: “T'here is Maj. Mahon, absent from you all this winter, not looking after your want or distress, but amusing himself; and be returus and finds his property all safe, and the return he makes to vou is to burn and destroy your houses and Ieave your poor to starve on the road.” The next Sunday tue pricst adde “Maj. Mahon is worse than Cromwell, and yet he lives.” »If the Major lives a month aiter this,” said a gentleman to Lord Farnham, “he is immor- tal.” On the 25th of November. TIE MAJOR WAS SHOT DEAD upon the hichway, four miles from Strokes- town, as he was returning from a meetineg of the Roscommon Board of Guardians. A po- liceman sent to make inquiries was killed on the same spot. During this montk Heazlcton, a bailitf, was stabbed pear Pomeroy. Tyrone; ¥iynu, a farmer, was stabbed returning from the Fair of Newtonhamilton; Walsh, steward to a Mr. O'Callaghan, was shot on the highway near Scariff; Devitt, belping a family near Nenaeh whose house bad been invaded bv an armed gang, was slain; Mr. Hassard, Treasurer to the Fermanach Grand Jury, was shot dead entering his own avenue; a woman of Murroe Wwas shot while striving to protect her husbana from & band of assalants; Ralph Hill, azent of Mr. David Fitzgerald, was shot while distrain- ing the corn of a tenant at Rathure; the Marquis of Ormonde’s sub-agent, O’Don- mell, was ghot;’ so was the Rev. John Llvyd, Vicar of Aughrim, as he was riding home fromn service. \When, on the 29th, Sir George Grey Introduced the bill for the repres- sion of crime in Ireland, he said that, for the six months endiog with October, ninety-six homi- cides had peen committed, as, agninst sixty- cight in 18465 attempts on life by finng on passers alone ‘the highway had increased (rom fifty-five to 126; robberies of arms from 207 to ; firing of diwellings from fitty-one to 116. 0r195 crimes of these four classes during Octo- ber, 1847, 139 were committed in CLARE, LIMERICK, AND TIPPERARY. With 13 per cent of the population of Ireland, these three counties committed 71 per cent of its crime. It was at this time that Archbishop McHale, of Tuam, replicd to the Earl of Arun- del and Surrey’s comments on priestly denun- ciatious from the altar, pleading that, in the pe- culiar eircumstances of Ircland, the clergy there should not be judeed by an English standard; this, however, without seeking 10 exteouate in- diseretion in some cases. Before the Special Commission at Limerick, Jan. 4, 1848, one Ryan, alias ** Puck,” reputed as having becu concerned in nioe murders, was convicted and sentenced to death. e and four others were hanzed; between twenty aud thirty were transported. Similar results followed the sessions at Ennis and Clonmel; bere thicre were 400 prisoners in_jail. 1n the exciting events of 1848 individual outrages were lost sizht of, and the next sensation case was the shooting, as e was driving home from Dundalk, of Robert Lindsay Mauleverer, a magistrate of Lon- donderry, and agent over extensive cs- tates in the north of Irelanda. Two men, strongly suspected of the murder, were tried, but the jury refused tb convict. ' On the 4thof December, 1851, as Mr. Thomas Baiesor, brother of Sir Robert Batesou, and manager of Lord Templetou’s estate in Monaghan, was re- turning from the model farm of Castle-Blaney, three men, hidden in the shrubbery where the road ran through a hollow, fired on himj then rushed out and bent himn to denth with pistols and bludgeons. Several persons were put on trial, but the jury refuscd to conviet. ~April 10, 1854, however, Coomey, Quinn, and Grant, the murderers, were hanged exulting. * Say any- thing?”’ said Coomey; “our Savior said noth- ing when He was exceuted.” ** Heil cannct now scare us,” said Quinn; *the hangman’s doing the best job be ever did for us”; und he added, * Mary, mother of God, receive us; prepare Heaven for us.” TAR NEXT FAMOUS MURDER was that of Miss Charlotte Hends, of Bally- counell, County Cavan, who was shot and fatally wounded as she was driving home, Oct. 12, 855. ~ Months before, sbe hud been doomed to death at a secret mecting of her tenants. Be- twoen the 20th and 28th of November about twenty cases of murder or murderous assault were reported, in only afew of which could witnesses be obtained to testify against the per- sons arrested. In one instance, at Ballylinan, Leinster, four women tried to hang a process server, and, tailing, best him pearly to Jeath with clubs.. In June, 1562, another special com- mission had to be sent to Limerick, where, dur- ing the six-weeks preceding the session, several terrible crimes had been committed. Beckham and_Walsh, for ‘shooting Br. Francis Fitz- gerald, of Kimallock, in the pres- ence of his wife, were convicted and hanged; so was oune Dillion, an accessory before the fact, At Cloumel, Bohan, on beini acquitted of a charge of firing on . Knox, was received by the peasantry with manifesta- tions of joy; so was Halloran, whose trial for shooting “and wounding M. Gustave Thiebault, of Boytouratn, faled from the nnwillingness of witnesses to testify. On_ the 30th of July Mr. Broddell, a solicitor of Mallow, who had scat the Hayes family a notice to quit, was shot dead in Dobbyn’s Hotel, Tipperary, by young Hayes, who made his escape in the most deliberate ‘manner and found refage among the peasantry. On the 1st of May, 1863, M. Gustave Thiebault, already mentioned, was murdered oo his grounds near Cahir, Tipperary. His gun was found near him, with both barrels discharged— the stock smashed in beating bim about the head: a broken pitchlork and: heavy stone also las on his face. A verdict of willful murder was found agminst Thomas Halloran, also al- ready mentioved. On the 15th of April, 1865, as Mr. Howard Featherstonhaugh, Deputy Lieutepant of the County of Westmeath, was driving home with his servaot from Killacan Station,—he had been to welcome the Prince of Wales,—nbis carriage was stopped and HE WAS DEAGGED OUT AND SHOT- Mr. Featherstonhaugh was a very larze proprie- tor, nnd there had just been some evictions on his estates. On the 14th of Aurust, at Ballyco- hey, Tipperars, Mr. W. Scully’s bailiff aud a pollceman were murdered while serving notices of eviction. May 23, 1369, a farmer named Power was beaten to death at Rathgormac, Tipperary, for taking a _farm frowm which a tenant bad been evicted. Mr. Bradshaw, J. P.. of Cappach-white, Tipperary, was shot through the head on his own lawn and baroarously mautilated. Capt. Tarle- ton was shot on his own grounds, at Creggan, Athlone. Mr. Callén, Justice of the Peace of Drumkerin, Leitrim, was fired at, but escaped unhurt, and an attempt was made to blow up the mansion of Dr. Blunden, of Park- wore, Tipperary. On the 1lth of July Capt. Lambert, of Castle Lambert, Galway, was shot at four times on his own lawn by a man named Barrett, and severely wounded. The assassin hud to be taken to Dublin, as no fair jury could be impaneled in Galway. On the 19th Mr. Warburton, High Sheriff of Queen’s County, was fired at while driving to Maryborouzh to swear in the Grand Jurv. On ‘the 20th of August James Hunter, a Scotch farmer, was driving home with- his wife and children from Newport, Mayo, he was_shot dead; offense, success in s Suit to prevent & neizhbor pamed ‘O'Neil from cuttiog over & piece of bog. On the 4th of Uctober s Aeath- magistrate named Nicholson, his wife, and their coachman were all_daogerously wounded by a volley of slugs. Nov. 14, William O’Brien, of Molhill, azent for some properts in Sligo, was shot at and wounded; then strangled and stabbed from behind; then his bresst and ribs were smashed fu with a_rock weighing thirty ouuds. On the 2d of November, 1870, Capt. i\d(vcll'n balliff, oue Murphy, was stoned to death at Templemore. Such were some of THE MOST NOTORIOUS MURDERS springing from the land question recorded down to the beginning of tnis decade. The latest outrage, previous to themurder of Lord Leitrim, was that om Mr. Patten Bridge, azent for a Mrs, Buckley, at Galtce Castle, Tipperary. He was o harsh and vigor- ousman, and in 1874 raised rents by some 95 per cent upon 400 tenants. Oune of them, Ryan, refased to pay rent or «ive up bis farm, and, when Mr. Bridge threatened to evict him, fired on the agent as with his sister he was walking up, the avenue. Mr. Bridge, though badly wounded, recovered, got $1,000 from the loeal rates for liis injuries, and weut on with his work unflinchingly. On the 30th of March, 1876, as he was returning from receiving the Tents, his car being guarded, a volley was fired into it from the hedeeand the driver was killed. and Mr. Bridee got thirty buckshot wounds. He got $5,000 damares from the local rates and is coachman’s widow $2,500, and the end of the matter was a libel sujt brought by the irre- pressible agent against the wniter of a letter describing the grinding exactions_of the land- lord of Galtee, a libel suit which Mr. Bridge did not win, so powerful a picture of misery did the witnesses for the defense in this cause celebre paint. _— HAVE HOPE. Ttave hope—have hope! The darkest hour Is past; The anwn—the radiant dawn—is coming fast; No more shall cold winds hover o'er and blast. Have hope! Look up—look up! No longer faint and die. Toes not the Father hear the ravens cry? ‘And will He pass a snffering epirit by? Look up! Cheer up—cheer np! The Father anawers prayer, Ané hears you whea, in deep and dark despair, Your sad and lonely heart cries to Lim there. Cheer up! And peace—swect pesce—will gurely come to you 11 you yonr duty and the richt purste. Tiito yourself and conscience ¢'er be true. Tave peace! eace, and hope, and charity. and love, Ao Eel world ‘Sl waft you ffom 200¥¢, Theit care and goodness ever t0 yOU Drove. Tiave hope and love! Curcaco, March, 1878. CHRYSANTHEXDM. — ——— Tobacco Among the Anclent Greeks. . Indianapolts Journal. It appears to be barely possible that one of two well-settled opinfons is to be overtarned and dropped into the limbo of exploded fallg- cies, with the “ood old times ” and the * wis- Gom of our fathers.” Either tobacco is not in- Glerenous to America, or the Western Continent Was known and visited 2,000 years before the N from Greenland “found it, and g%hul:g?m Columbus saw it. Here .is the . state_ of the caser Our American Consul fu Cypras, Gen. Di Cesnola, whose dis- coyery of the antique treasures in the * Kuri- om 7 has laid Dr. Schticman aod the skeleton of Agamemnon in the shade, left s number of fors in the tombs he opened. which the natives raug for her servants. hauled ont ofter he quit, and found to contain the remains ofopium and other aromatic depos- its usually placed by the ancient Cypriotes with thelr dead, One of our Turkish Consuls brought one as a curiosity andgave it toa Wash- %ngt.on cizgar-maker, who examined a loi of ried and dusty leaves in it, and tound them very like tobacco in taste, and of the same chemical character. He managed fn some way :g fusgnre enough pliability t0 them to make 8 ¢m into cigars, and these cigars proved to ave & very fine but peculiar aromatic flavor, which might probably displace the Cubanif anybody should find the seed as well as the leaf. Wheat found in Egyotian mummies grew after being 3000 years off the stalk; why micht not old Grecian tobacco- seed sprout after 2,500 years in the grave! It gives quite a new iuterest to the liad to faney Achilles soothing his temper with & pipe during Dbis sulks at Agamemnon, or wutching the Tro- jan attack on the sbips through the cloud of bis cigar. The philosophical eleet of this dis- covery is either that the ancient Greeks hud to- bacco of their own, or that some of their ven- turesome ships landed here as early us Ulysses landed at Ithaca. Either way it cowmnpels ae- construction of generx! ovinion. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. A MAD IMTUNGARIAN IHIORSEMAN. Count Nagy-Sandor, whose death oceurred recently, married an clder sister of Prince Richard Metternich, and by her was the father of the fil-favored but fascinating lady whom Prince Richard married, asnd who long led the fashion et the Court of Napoleon ITL. Mayfuir of March 13 thus sketches some passages in his curfous career: “Not the least remarkable incident In the life of Count Maurice Saudor was his connec- tion with Prince Metternich. The Prince was as punc; ious, reserved, and measured, in words and pelitics, as the Count was brusque, reck- Icss, and harum-scarum. When he apolicd to the Prince for the hand of his daughter, the Prince said he did not care about having bis daughter’s neck broken, but, on Sandor protmis- ing to abandon his feats of centaurship, he at last gave his consent. ‘Thevery same evening Sandor rode his horse Tartar up two flights of stairs into the drawing-roowm, and coolly told the Prince, when he remonstrated ‘with” him for breaking his promise, that * on the contrary, he was . Kecping bis promise and accustoming’ his horse to polite societs.! He was incorrigible. He jumped anything and everything. At a cross-road he once weut over a peasant’s wagon. He crossed the Danube on tue floes when the ice was breakine up, gal- loped up and down the Prater backwards in his saddle, and rivaled qall the feats performed in the great circuses. Iu 1818 he was ftreated to a cherivari by the enraged populace ou account of his connection with Prince Metternich; but, sten- ping out on the balcony with a dog-whistle and tio servants, each with a sack full of cats, he quite out-whistled and out-niawed bis antagon- ists. Theo, golng down-stairs amongst them, he seized = stone, and, throwing it at one of his windows, invited the crowd to smash the rest. Taken aback at this courtesy, they refused. Thereupon Sandor cried: “Well, then, let us go to my father-in-law’a and smash bis.” This grqposal wase carried by acclamation. and the rince’s windows were duly smashed. But by this time Sandor had got the-crowd so under his control that. no further damagze was done, and what might have turned out a serious riot was changed iuto a convivial meeting. One day a remarkable transformation took place. He became as nervous and timid as he had been reckless and daring. He never mounted 2 borse again, refused to take the reins when he went out driving, and always warned his daughter to be cantious. This change, I was told by one of his fotimate friends, was due to 2 dream. The dream was to the effect that the Devil suddenly appeared with a number of mirrors, which he leld onc by one before the Count, and in which Sandor saw the danger he had run i each of his exploits. Mirror after mirror was held betore him till the sweat poured from his brow, and the last giass was reached. But, instead of showing him this one, the Devil ut it back with a leer and said: *This isthe last ooe; this has yet tocome.’ At this mo- ment the Count awoke, and vowed he woald never mount a horse sgain. Aud he dii not.” A PARISTAN BEAUTY’S REVENGE. An English Marchioness, resident in the Legitimist faubourg; and avoiding the Napol- coites as “low,” gave grand parties. To one of these an English lady took, uniovited, a pretty French woman, a friend of the Empress. The pretty woman made herselt conspicuous by ber prettiness and flirtations, but the Marchion- ess found out who she was, and was disgusted. She said to her: “T am so conscious of the honor you have done me in visiting me that 1 dare not expect a repetition ol the unexdected compliment.” “The pretty woman grew pale, but smiled, and ordered acavalier to order her carringe. The pretty woman was_ clever, and finessed 4 re- venze. She bribed the Marchiouess’ femme de chambre to give her the list of guests inviced for the next soirce. Armed with this, she prr.;fmrzd a circular note, which she dis- vatehed to each of the fuvited late in_ the afternoon of the appointed day: *The Mar- chioness presents her compliments to 50 and 80, and regrets that a domestic calamity will present” her,” ete. She then wentto a great * Mad Doctor,” representing herself as the daughter of the Marchioness, and actinz with the consent of her Ladyship’s family; she repre- sented that her mother, the Marchioness, was afliicted with insanity, and her maduess was in the delusion that she was always having great parties. For instance, if monsieur the doctor would %o to her Ladyship’s hotel that cvening he would find herdressed in ereat splendor. with the salon illuminated, adorned with flow- ers, and bufets covered with refreshments. The doctor went, on the understanding that Lie was to obtain the proper police authority to take the Marchioness to Maison DeSante in the event of the representation made to him being confirmed by his own observation. at 10 inthe evening;he was the first—ihe only— guest; aud, though the Marchioness did not remember = his mame, she took it for pranted that she had invited him, and was :Emfusely civil. His manner puzzled and his questions startled her, and as he grew abrupt as bis perception of her lunacyzbe- came more clear.she was at last offended and At the same time be made the proper intimation of his police au- thority; nod the eud of the story is, that she was taken off by the doctor . livsterics, and detained as a prisoner in his_asylum until tne wholc truth came out. All Paris was in roars, and the pretty flirt was a heroine forever. Pro- tected by her august frieud, she escaped re- taliation,—a British Marchioness istoo graud for wit. AMODERN KNIGHIS-ERRANT. Zondon Globe. There are still enulators of Don Quixote in France. A strange stors comes to us from Guingamp, in Brittany. Two youths belonmnz 10 one of the oldest and best families of Saiut- Brieue, MM. Emmanuel and Joseph de la Vil- lon, having been arrested and placed in durance Ylleunder most mysterious circumstaaces. They are accused of having assaulted a M. Ollivier, a lawyer and Mayor of Saint-Brieuc. Some two or three months ago a2 duel was fought st Guingamp between oue of the young De la Villions and an officer Uelonging tothe gurrison. The latter was.se- verely wounded. In consequence of this duel it was decided in family council that two younz Jadies, Mlles. Maurie ‘and Zoe de Courldouc should retire for & short time to the convent of Lannion. M. Ollivier, putwiths!fiudiuz the ob- Joetions raised by the brother, M. de Couridouc, and the two cousins, M. de 1a Villon, was re- quested to pat the young ladies in the hands of the Lady Superfor. The brother and two cousins stationed themselves alcag the road they' knew M. Ollivier and his fair charges would take, and, when the obaeton drove up, they called on M. le Maire to stop. He whipped up his horse and endeavored to pacs them, but Emmanuel seized the horse by the head. A parley was attempted. Thelaw- ser explained all the paing snd pepalties in- curred by those who had presumed tostop him on the highway. and refused when summoned to deliver up Sfle. Maric de Couridouc. The Young lady was 'willing to follow her cousins and ;return_ with: them to Guingamog, but the Mayor would not permit her to alight. Irrk- tatad ot the refosal of thelawyer, M. de Couri- douc pulled him from bis seat in the carriage, threw him, and rolled about in the dust with him, while the two cousins. assisted Mlle. Marle to alight, and conducted her through the fields to Guingamp. When M. Ollivier managed to escape from his youtbful assailant, he found Mlle. Zoe alone, waiting for hip. She told him the road her sister had taken, and he made all haste to arrive at Guingamp, where he pave information to the Puolic Prosecutor, who jssued & warrant sgainst the young:Ue la Villous for abduction, and one against M. de Couridouc for assault. The gendarmes were admonished to use ail dilizence and dispatch, and the Mavor, who is a most popular man, received the sympathy of ‘his fcl- low-townsmen, Wwho were furious at the manper io_ which their official’s facc had been damaged by the representatives of that ancienne noblesse who appeared still to consider that they nad a right to deal with com- moners according to their own ideas. When the people were informed that M. de Couridouc and the brothers De la Villon had been arrested and were ou their way to Guingamp in_ custody of the police, a regular crowd went out to meet them. They were hissed and hooted, while their bearing was so defiant that the zendarmes were barely able to protect them from the re- verse of alfectionate attentlons of the Guin- gampais. Tae whole affair has caused a great sensation, and the trial is looked forward to with much interest by all. TILE PAPAL TTARAS. il Mall Gazette. A correspondent writes: The history of Papal tiaras within the present century has not been uneventful. In 185 Napoleon presented Pope Pius tbe VI with the earliest that is now supposed to exist. It was of pearl-colored velvet, witk three costly gold rings, whick were each set with precious stones of various colors. The stones were each surrounded with brilliants, and the three rings were each bor- dered by a single row of pearls matchine one another with extraordinary exactaess. The apex of the tiara was of pure gold studded with pearls and rubles. 1n 1391 Gregory XVI. caused it, with several otber valuaole possessions of the Vatican, tv be hidden for fcar of plunder by the mob, and whto, a few months afterward, order was re- stored and the bidden articles were dug up, it was foaud that the velvet of the tiara was quite spoiled, and that a great many of the gems were altogether 1&t. Gregory XVI. is said to bave been extremely vexed at thus, and he ordered the jeweler Hannibal Rolta, in the year 1833, best he could. to fepaic the tira as This was dome accordingly; but the restored work of art was found, to weigh no less than eightecn poands, and to be too heavy for the august wearers. Accordingly it became the practice to wear only the imitation tiara made by Leo V1L, which is of pastebourd, Erl)fusely ornamented with gold and silver em- rofdery, paste diamonds and some real gems. Gregory was, however, never satisfied with'the pecessity of wearing this sham ornament, and toward the end of his Pontificate he caused an- other tiara to be made of pure_gold, but much thinner and lighter. Itscost is stated by thc Thnita Cattolica to have becn $1,500. ‘The fourth tiara, made in the presentcentury, was that which Queen Isabells of Spain pre- sented to the Jate Pope in 1355 at a cost of about $50,000. This, however, was sold by Pius IX., who devoted the proceeds of the sale to pious and benevolent purposes. _Finally, inasmuch as the tiara of light zold made by Gregory XVI. was found too small for the head of Pius IX., the latter had another made on a similar plan, and this last seems to be the ope which the new Pope, Leo XIIL, will wear. There seems to be much doubt whether the tiara of Nupoleon is now in the Vatican or is hidden somewhere, as it was in 1831, and again in 1818. s e —— SUBURBAN NEWS. EVANSTON. The Village Trustees held sn adjonrned meeting Friday evenicg at the oflice of the Board on Davis street. There were present Trustees Kedzie, Gage, Davis, Jenks, ond Kellogz. The annual report of the Strect Commiesioner for the year included between April 11877, and April 1, 1878, showed that the sidewalks laid during that period measared 1,455 feet, and cost, average, 20 cents 4 foot, making a total of pended by this department dnring tue year was TThe report of the Village Trustees for March showed: Receipts, $5,:40.32; disbarsements, 268.20; and balance on hand, $12. 463, 80. Seth E. ‘Bradley, John Culver, and George W. Reynolds were appointed judges, and \¥ tiam M. Knox and J. Will Scozt clerks,of the village clec- tion, which will ocenr April 16. Next Friday evening und Lyons Hall were desiz- pated as the time and place for holdin the next annual meeting, whereata statement of the condi- tion of the village and nominations for village of- ficers for the ensuing year will be made. HYDE PARK. Last evening the elections for the Board of Ed- neation took place. 1o the First Districtan unusual interest was manifested, ond where there aro usaallynot more than 100 votes polled, there were 330. The contestants in the_ield were Jonn B. Calhoun, Dr. J. Ramsiy Flood, and John K. Hsooay, of Grand Crossing. bronght 150 votes from the Crossing, and, with- Calhoun, was elected, the vote be- ing, Calboun, 354: Iiannay, '203: Flood, 179. The district hus sixteen divisions or_schools seven school-buildinze, inclading the High 3cnool. The expenses for schools have been for the yeur $20,615.87, of which $13,087.75 have been mdcd for teachers’ wages. The expenses of tne Hizh Scliool have been $3,981. 69, with Afty-six pupils, or S71.14 per pupil, The number of the pupils in the schools is Therc inot 8 _minor in the district who is nnable to read and write. At a_very hotly contested school-election at South Chicugo between the Beck and Colehonr parties, for two membess of the Board of Educa- tion, at_which the lurgest vote ever polied was cast. the Beck party elected their men by the fol- lowinz vote: Hansler, 243; Webster, 232; Far- rell, 140; Spahn, 125. B Col. II. B. Compsen was clected School Director in Forestville, the Seventh District, with only ono vote against him. . *Aman comnfiticd saicide by jumnping off Mor- gan's Pier yesteroay afternoon. By documents fonud in Lis pocker he is_suppused to be N. K. Wydert, of Aurora, TIl. The Coroner was noti- fied. ‘Thieves entered the residence of J. B. Calhoun, on Washington avenue neac Fith-third street, ¥'ri- day might or yesterday morninz, — dud took about $100 in bills and an overcoat. Their entrance was effected by prying open a bay window on the side of the house. The same partics entered the resigence formerly occu- pied by Mrs. Dovie, on Washington avenue. 1nto He arrived | whichJ. C. Laverty was just moving. They aid not remove anvthing, however, but broke open every chest and box in the honse, and tarned everything upside down without finding cash or jewels. Mr. Henry M. Osborne, of Madison Park, ‘was aleo blt during the evening. Haying to make 2 call on_Michizan averme, mear Thirty-niuth streer, he hitched Lis horse in_ front of the house, and when hecame to mount found hisssddls taken, VOICES OF NIGHT. Vimi the pale stars are keeping, In the silence sp mystic snd dread; Tlours to the midnight now creeping, To Eternity aoon -1l be wed: Sadly the night-wind is sighing, And the cadenen Is mournfally clear; Darknees on Nature is lying, And awakens the spint of fear. Heart that is throbbing so wildiy, Like a cuptive that longs for release, Gnze on those stars shining mildly— In their depths lies a Ieséon of peace: Enow tkat each gleam of their pale light 13 & message to thee from above, Bidding toee trust, through the dark night, Ina ffeuvenly, Infinite Love. Mounrner who weeps throuch the long honrs For thy heart's treasure laid m the tomb; Sorrow's cloud over thee lowers, And hzs shroade'! thy life In its gloom: List to the wind!1 it is speakicg In & tone that 15 solein and low, Grieving that thou art not reckinz For o Heavenly balm for thy wi Soul o'er whom shadows are falling 'As thou'rt nearing stern Sacrifice’ shrine, ‘Fenr not—the aarkness appalling: Wil be lost in a halo divin Moments are sifently feetin: And tny life-tauk is utill to be done Strive, und a lgavenly zrecting Will be thine when the victory is wo. Father, thy children are knecling, Tor our hearts have been won by Thy love; - Echoes of spirit-tunes, stealin, ‘Breathe the pardon we ask from above: Not we can look to the morrow, When the gloom will give place to the light, Glad that we listened. in sorrow, "To the Heavenly Volces of Nigh Cmicaco, April 5, 1878. 9 AMBITION. Once there was o little flower Nestling closely ‘idst the grass; Suzly hidden in its bower, ‘One scarce noticed a3 he'd pass. Soon into her little heartic Crent the gnome Ambitioa dire; Said she had her little heart set To a tatler size acquire. But with size increased her troubles— . Wind znd slorm soon bent her head; And Ambition, like ali babo ‘Burat, and Dalay soon was dead. Take 1o heart the leseon given, Or you will sce, when too late, That yos're slowly, surely driven ‘To a dark, untimely IKIE-F~ Cmcado, April's. zD Man THE WONAN'S HOSPITAL The Woman’s Hospital of the State of Iinois, 273 THIRTIETH-ST., Chicago, Between Wobash and Mickigaocavs, | The Woman's Pree Dispensary consected wit Institation I8 open every Wednesday and Saturday from 11w 1 v'cluck for the gratuitous Grestment of Dlseases of Women. A. Forzr, ALES. FAIRBANKS STARDARD SCALES OF ALL XINDS. FAIRBANKS,MORSE & CO. 111 & 113 Lake St., Chicago. ~ Becarefultobuycaly the Geauine,