Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1879, Page 7

1879—TWELVE PAGES. 7 tablenn represents a ancse village; In tha uext we are t be Introduced to 4 Japancae Iand- seane, with the “Tree of Life™ In the fore- eronnd; while the laat tablean fa to show ugthe Intevlor of the Mikado's p A mreat deal PARIS. Jo of Sensational Cases A Coup b Law ::'Vembrlosll;w has h'enn szu :;}ll;y uu: \:l»rl('.— R aws he tirst of any finportance Olivier Moten has in the Frenc Jet found an opportunity of producing, though e has bren s long hefore the publle, both as ] 8 talented conductor of orchestras and as o com- e T iwuer of countleas pretly valses and ‘mhuu. Thi Countess and Hor Sixteen-Year-01d | Ile Is alto—ruperuona remark-responsible for {J Ma that hacknered atrocity, familiar to all Amerk Eflflmnd...A Runaway I can school-girls, * La Priere d'Une Vieree," Courts. 7 otherwise known as *‘The Malden's Prayer’ ’ riage Annutled. We aliall see him auon in his character of chef P Alorchestre agaln at the Opers, for he I8 to lead the band at the four erand_bais-masques fhis season, ‘I'he firat ball {s Oxed for Lthe 23th, i) in poite of elf the dreary experlence we have of this sort of entertainment, I donbt not the number of hored and 1stless mummers will be as great as 1ast year. We are looking forward to THR CARNIVAL already, and wondering whether we_shall have a0y, sensutlon like the Estudinotina Eymnoll to en Iven it thia year. Un dit that the Processiqn of the Beul Uraa is Lo be revived for our amust- ment. It would be strange, for that unfortu- nate ox has had more sarcasm poured out upcn its inolfenstvo head sfuca the war than any non- political institution of the Empire, nud that Is sayIng something, den, and Mra. (irant have been lonfzed by Lady cor Sensido Story---lHow a Lo lqn[‘ald-out an Insolent Ad- mirer, ot D}eppn. Cs e Yme, Viardot—New Oporsttas by Offen- baoh snd Leoocq—Olivier Me- tra’s Japanese Ballet, 1 Correspondenca of The Triduns. PAII’I."J’:I- 10.—The humeraus readers of the fazte dex Tritmnanz and kindred journals, e chronlcle the dolngs of the law-courts, which b o cek, First they | Paris socicty since thefr return from Ircland, bate bl & nrex :‘::‘::u‘llr:: :’nd not nutouch{ ‘There was n'l_muul reception at Minster Noves' were served tn tho &R L e and ber boy. | O Tucsany. and o dincr at the Efyace Is to be {ng story of the romantic Cou given in our ilustrious visitor's hoiior to-night, busband,—husband no longer, by-the-woz, You | ‘A quict aifair. Most of the guests are old sofs 11l probably have heard all about 1t before this | dices Jtko nimsclf, How tired ot these cternal . u:a you. Lest you sliould not, however, I | fetes the poor Ueurral must bet Kol rapldly aketcl the tale, for it 1s too strange Hannr Mzrrzzr. 5 | Ty m;'ul:rm(nn farce bytheauthorsof the ¥ Plnk WASIHINGTON SOCIETY. .t produced at tha Uymuase, lately glu;‘::f:mn‘:: to cortaln advertisements on the third page of the Paris Pigaro. Tn that estima- ble journal 8 column or o, headed * Petlte Correspondance,”” has for some time been given up to alring the wanta aud deslres of amorous females and racketty malesinscarchof partoers, —for lifeor bot, B3 the case may be. lathe WPetite Correspondance you find udvertise- nenlwlmlrvilu»nzencln‘ equivocal appoln ments, anoouncementa of “ladv housekeepers ' sod would-be neompantons,” mitugled pict- Wenther Bigns—Tho Gay SHSesson—Judiclat Receptions = Castle Iutler — Economical Dances—Gen, Myers of the Signal Service —The Presldent’s Itecoption—Tho French Tegatlon—Chincse Diplomacy—A Gay Wed- ding—Tho Senators’ Wives~Gall Humllton —Art_and Artists=The Unity Club=VFun Aheail — Washington Ifotels — Crickoters Coming=Masked Ball. Bpectat Correspondence of The Tribunt. Wasnixotoy, D. C,, Feb, 2—Wa are told that “when the days begin to lengihen, then the nke you | cold begins to strengthen,” nnd tho truth of tho urauely :I,‘;',“::‘;‘v’: b ::;'n.t: nzm“y ot | adaze has been confirmed by & polar wave which :bt:l::‘l:un\;mcm Y3 hias made fires, ulsters, and furs very enjoyable d > during the past week. The weather las, how- One fine "::i‘l:‘l‘ fifi""&:‘;‘:’;&fldg:;lfl.‘: ever, been bright and clear, and when the tradt g o e aTed, ¥ad tlonn! ground-hoz came forth at noon an thls 2 and ':f:m:"::; i nnu.?n!b ey Ulessed Candiemas-day, he could not have fatled X to sec his shadow. This, In tle minds of our {"i“.',‘.’:.“';'."}’.f.’h': lu’ill;ccd. ,%?-‘t ?; ll»::“::?;::f;: colorcd brethren, I & sure sign that the back of 2 . ¥ % the winter Is broken, or that wearo to have o b .)rl"ld:rzi: nd?m—ml?c:(: 'xfi;"i,,‘f"',fl: deal more fnclement wentucr:—l have forgot- fm:u'm/« ;o'umtul collezian named Delente | 127 Which. N'importe. Those who projose to (r:uu.\'o Tho " and you heve an cxprossive | D¢ 8AY and feative during the three and a-balf Welsh word. stgnifying *cracked ) responded weoks which are to be enjoyed before tothe tauching appeal. He wasbnt 10, buthe | o '"l'l“ :"-‘"" NELLS OF: "“"h i te tho sweotest loveletters,—some all firg | toll the knell of tle gay season caro but liitle Ly thers stocped In moonbeams and | About the weather. But the succession of e, o e eatlte of matich raid | breakfast porties, anid Iuuch parties, and_nfter- mllmanl—.x—u of Al({cd de Mussct und Ernest | Boon receptions, and dinner parties, and dancs, slght ressing tnterviow nad been | COntinucs to lncrease, and the mammas who f:f::f;:i &:rx{e‘ ec'r::t:;‘enn\:::a nnulcnan; chaperon marrlngeable daugliters are beginning gnmmjo(:nchbmer. Young Detente swora | 10 wear -lvcry j(l‘lfldd luok. As for the h‘x: prail things hoty that the Countous was the | belles, tragile and dellente In appearance, noth- \eat of his dreams. Fle had droamt of women [ 10F ¢an tire thom. They promenade, walk, from bis tenderest childhood, and sbu—sho and—must 1wtlita iti—eat and drink with sn as- Iy suswered to the vislon of womauhood ho | tonishlng heartiness, The cbrouleleot the prin- ::;hh«l i his fhmoat heart. Incredibie as it cipal gatberings of the past week will give an scemy, Sadamo de —ska and Delente soon | ideaof tho fashionablo whirl of slter packed up thelr worldly effects, | InE 00""""“: “""'.'l" i took trafn for London, and were quietly onday was the usual receptinn day at the mrledat & charch in Aldgate. Thev lived | residences of the Judges of the Supreme Court together for two full yoars, during which they | and of the notables on Capitol Hill. There was appear to Lave been lisppy enough,— on unueually large attendance {n the parlors of TIR COUNTESS ACTINU A3 BANKER, Judge Miller, whose daughtcrs recelved with of course, all the time. M. and Mime, Delente, | thelr mother. ‘Flhie Judge and his wife will leave Jen £ merey h;fl{’!‘!‘?‘fl‘“‘mm ol ?“,‘n?’lll'" to-day for Galveston, whero they will remaln n',‘,ff ',,fi'},’m,','in fmn“,:f by d{‘;,é,,, m'c'”",‘,'i until early apriag, and then journcy northward worrylag, to extort a reluctant approval of the | With green peas. Mra. Mary Clemmer, tho match from his fatber somo time after fta con- | vress writer, had wnany visitors, a8 did Mrs. i':'v!fl'u‘-l.“flbp;l.‘ih?gr‘:lfn{;?Ef’m';'c'fi‘:.a".ffifl'm'.’; Lander, the tragedivono, who also resides on Capitol ITlil. The wives of the officers at the with her infant spouse. But bitterly was she Navy-Yard and ot the marlno beadquarters always attract lote of the belles, as ihey have the disppolnted. Whether Delenta Wis, basely re- ntiug of his barraln, suggested the fdeato hundsoma young officers to ald them in dolug the honors. Then Beelenlu pere and mere, or whether, ou the con- CASTLE DUTLER trary, Delente pere and mere acted on their own lmu’l:l, 1 know nol‘lliml flm‘fnh’ C“l""w" will Z'.:{..‘},‘U',t’.}52:“:;.,‘.‘,,”:;,.&:;{:"{,‘, .f.,'i‘of,"i" offercd double attractions. In that portion of it inbabited by its owner, the Massachuscits Brigadicr, his niece, Miss Ileard, recetzed with great cordiality, uud intimated that next Mon- day there will be musle for thoso who may de- sire to dance, with an evening party later in the scason, ‘The northern rection of this huge granite pilo is the doinicile of Benator Jones, of Nevada,'who hired and turnished it when ho was a millionalre, and whose charming wile makes It o happy home to him now thut he fs sumewhat finonclally stranded. Many who valled on her ou Monday were Invited to'return inthe evening und celebratethe SBenator's fiftioth birthday, some amateur musiclans making the ocenslon very enjoyuble. Later in the evenlng pulslve colleglan presented o request to the French tribunsls petitioning in due form for the woulling of the Englisn marringe on the minor, such gound that thelr won, belng o w5 mot st liberty to countract cagagements without ‘the parcutal co Wten the caso came oti, the husband me failed to put in an apoearance. planations of the lacklcas Countess (who secms 1o have actea In perfect good faith throughout, were powerless to imove the unfeellng souls of the Judges; und the Court, heedless alike of broken hearts and bHehted futures, declared the marriage null und void. i ll'l":“'l MISERABLE LITTLE WRETCH that Delente muat be, thouih ! ¢! A nilt more astonishing, if decliedly leas viere wulUcrml‘u by nunantle, cass s sbortly to be called on at |~ TUBCURAP AND, HURARY CLUN, Houen, ‘Mme, A—, u_arried lady of good | &t the residence of that galiant old War-veteran, fumlty, had for u lon while bean” pestered by | Gem lluuter, whoso nlcee, Miss Stowart, is oua tbe attentlons of a' M. B—, Not wishivg to | Of the detutantes of the scason. As Lie name create & scandal, sha hod kept the fmpertinene of the Clubh [ndicates, its entertainments are In- of her sultur from the knowledge of Lier hus- | expensive,—but kittle inuslc, no favors, uid no bind, teasting that, when he found bissuft | refreshments save coffee und sundwiches,—yet Lopeless, B— “wolld' desist. However, the | sume of the shoddy set would disburss lots of tealstance he met with only intlamed M, B>—'s | ducats to wet Invited, The rematmng enter- tion, und one moming, meeting Mie. A—, | taloment of the evenlng, or ratber ulght, was with her husbunmi (an 'elderly gentleman, it | thut of ¥ould appear), un the promonado at . Dloppe, e furiot bimsell 8o far as to grusaly msult ber by allivg her—uwell, 00 mutter what., It was Dot polite; let that suflice, M. A—- did not bear the ward, but the ludy did, as you will se wd determfued to make M, 13— rojent bat lxnr ever uttered ft. Bho watched uud walted A:rrlnuppommu.y. It was not Jong comiu, ew days Iater she saw ber man out bathin, 'mc. A—, Lshould tell you, swims like rather. Bho fustantly concelvod o plun of vens f;lnrr. and Jost not”an iostant tlu putting fu lou uecu{fl:nh lnflwl’lh: lkuew wh;‘ru he was, v B=—fouud himsel! bed foreitdy ducked, Ih.:ennxnl tudy bsd -wn:f vut to Ihlm. aud OLD PRODABILITIES, or, 08 he signs himsclf, Brevet Brig.-Gen, Albart J. Myer, Chief Bignal-Offlcer, U. 8. A, The General's wifs fs wealthy, uud l\n-v own a castel- luted mansion on | street, back of Mr, Corcor- an's garden, It was hullt by Elisha Riggs, o brother of Riges, the banker. Bir Fdwand ‘Hornton hived there for u time; Knapp (who made willions durivg the War by casting can- non at Plttsbury, aud hus slnce loat them nearly all) enlarged aud lmproved It then John Chani- berlatn, the New York gumbler, occupied 1t os an srena for those who desired to flght the tiger; und now Old Probabtlities makes it a de- ghttullome, THE BEPRESENTATIVES' DAY, Tucsday, found the wives and daughiters of the members of the [louse st thelr jespective hotes, und in the evening Presldeny Huyes HOLDING IMIS 1EAD UNDRR WATKNR. e bald it so long that at lnst sho rot rather ’glk.h:ul:udh; her vietim was beginufuk to look ng sutliciently paid him out for ol et ¢ rec kY - f » Y | ul held his secoud publle reception. 'The Execu: 'J‘;‘,‘fl:,“‘ y Mwe, A—— brought bl 1. to [ tivo Mauslon was prilllautly Hebted, und Mra. T A8 8 her ol The peuple on the beach ballud | Tayes, dressed In o white corded silk, with an aaved g L6 undur tie hopression that she | oyerskirt of whito strined gauze, recelved the oy & man from drowning, und, 88 you | wyests with ber wanted cordlality und taste, e, .“Dflmc' she did mot undecelve | Thyro was a marked absence of Senators, but s, wad i geded from | tho | gy Diplomatic Corps, Department oflicals, wiremarkapry ik WAy from = Dicppe | Army uind Nudf men, unil citizens generally, il e rkable promptucss, But the matier | paid their respects to Mr. Hayes. Later in the ot rest tlere, Mme, A—, they say, it Lk‘!’l‘ynlohbn ubllzed to appear aa dolondant at " uxt arged with atlempted snurder, P Mm aiything sadder than the roappesr- e 90 opcratic * star " years aftor the voices el tuty which once delighted the wurld uhllonn forever! But the Jeany Linds aud 'hiliun"(;:lm::fluw resist the strange fas- wiblo ot iy “:‘n m to the footllchts, A 1 UEAKD MMM, VIARDOT 2 2 d:mdflflls Erard. e coucert was entirely N qu the works of a talented lady-copi- nn,:",m'i" de Urandva), und Mune. Viardot b llum‘" tlzies,—ouce taklng part in & quat- Calery Laproralat With thit other star, Mue. m:‘mrmv.l:mlln:(ter;urdl siny ug two 1;: 4 s of pucms rancof ‘“fllfnfl 20d Bully-tradbomine, 'l'lwyvl,\'ln was t the housn rpenter, bee THE CADINET-DAY, .« Wednesday, wi ed the usual mob of callers at the restuences of tho members of the Cable net, awd nowhere were they made more at homa than at the srt-aderued home of the Becretury of the Juterlor, uver which the Misses Schurx so gracefully preside. But the eveut of tha day, or rather night, was the reception of the French Miulster, wha has, Iike mauy of the other Dio- Jomuts hiere, an Amcricun wite, BHis house {s well adapted for entertaluing, and the prescot accupants have, with exquisite taste, had maldo into curtaing, furntture coverings, sid bed-hang- fugs rare Jupunese brocwdes whlch unslcur Qutrey collected whon be was Miaister of France at Jupan, cyening there was o dmxulng‘d ({ of Mn roll, {u honor of Allss Cai guest. ‘¢ Sane as of old, Lut bow differe Vel Iy ” w different the TUE CLOAK-ROOM ALREANGRMENTS lie g ‘I:-.-l:mv';:ul(“ .'.l:.'f 'opl,“ of aus frou | yorg ynusually good, with s coffee-roum close Yily e bauated o the " g% 80 UL | by, whers frugrant dlstilicd Moclia wis served L‘i}a«[." (!“"‘M' ,““: o Mn‘:lnhl: in tiny ?r.\":lmu ‘i‘v.‘lm‘hwuh uul;l ]ww\xlu lnm of Mme, " . ucen Mab woul ave euvied, Madame 1 legy, " [y pemtcrs-Lablacha basdeteriorated | (Jytrey wore a white-satin bal) Gress, tritnmed uced u yreat elfect in the diuer, and azaiy 1u 2 dub taken lromlllnu. deilral's uraturio of %8t Agnes. 4 wnf:lr ladies, & falr lucturer, Mme. Au- ok .tn. vourage—It needs courage hiere u| e Introduction to thu lust * Juter- uh]_‘nuuuu 4L the Galete, 8he had o i estv—the Kussfum Dranw, with which with (umps»le«:olnmd satin wml point-lace, uid ber dlamonds were lurge and bnllisut, especiall avow ou s band of ruby velvet which encirclud Ler neck, I'ho other Diplomatic ladies prescit were elegantly attired, but the nost etrikivg tollette of the evening waa thut of Miss Busell, of New York, wbo was uttired {u vertcetly cony ith ¥ tho styls of Hewri' I of France. It Sebow 1l B, e e e deuture | vy "Ub” Ulue satlh, embrolaered ' with W Ik eraet whien s g st 4 39 | white " floss’ uitk, - and Urimoed Wit Wllic oratory, o tried Ler bund 8t | e pearlaj tho uock war cutlow i frout, ) ad o high roff, composed of a network of prearls, stood up sround e back of the weck, uud tapercd duwn to the front. “Ihe Chinvie Lugation Leople were present, fn stlken puitl- couts uml with pendant pie-tadls, evidently mas- ters of the situgtion, ss Mr. Evarts will dind out when he undertakes tu suggest the ubrogstion of the Burtivgumo ‘Treaty. Y NO WANTEE CHINAMAN," Chien Lan Pin placidly scmarks: ** Ale same. Culuuwan uo wantes Metlan flour, Melliun lumber, Melicay tleh, Mellcan votton, Bloppe ' Thers was @ weddiug oo on Wednesduy enlug, Mr, D, 1% Wrizht, cue of tue ofllclals g{lé E.rh‘:1 lhnttu;d, war .'lm a )hg: Mawle jcCay, whose father sery on Uen. eraian’s "lhu%ur:‘d,‘;“ Opers. It 13 {n threo cota,— | stalle Thu room fn whicl 1he cepemony way A g 1Y 3 SUOURN for & bablel, surely,— | verformed was decorated with flowers, lung gur- 13 3hile, Suugaiil. ‘Ll brat | lauds of siilux coming tugethiee ut u Jarge pler- far UPFENBACT AND LECOCQ o ey Vroduced wnother operetta in Paris Uty La Marucutne, merry Jacques’ unger shesls Loulles, s w dead tutiure, the VO, el s oo ors auccssiu ai Wi 9 (rand Ceshnir € full houses, It {g nop. casy to sccount ’nu mnuzd o healres risa ek i evcry dcklo puft ot public optalo. e ¥ 4Uite abanduned uow, wud the Yettuayee \‘;""l‘l'fl'i- Not long sioeo the Tl eveing w::::x'lml:"bn of the Buulles. 0 huve oLivig, ) “Yeqr o X8 METRA'S JAPANKSE BALLET, were fastencd b ded horaeshioe, on which was fuserive {iood Luck." Beneath this horseshoe young eouple exchangzed thelr yowa in accordance with the Itapressive ritual of the Episcopal Chureh, and were_pronounced husband uid wife by the Rer. Dr. Elltott. THE BENATORS' DAY Is Thurailay, and the wivesof the Benators exact first calls from every one except the Presldent. Last Thursday Mrs. Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, was voted the handromest of the ladies of “the Upper House, and Mrs, Edmunda, of Vermont, the most Inteilectual. Mrs. Conk- Mg is not here this winter, and the zossips may it 18 hecause ber linperfous lord has Leen too de- voted fu hisattentlons to Mra, Kate Hprarue, who_resides at Chicf-Justice Cliase’s former rural homeat Fdeewcod, north of the city, while little Spraguey la trying to repaie his shat- tered fortunes in ‘Rhods Ieland, Mes. Chrl tiancy, glrl-like, is charined with the Idea of go- ingz to Peru, instead of belng snubbed by lier husband's drunken fons in’ Michigan, Mrs, Bruce did not recelve, but her yonunger sister, a hundsome octoroon, did thi honors. Mrs, Blalne, matroaly um| digolticd, was afded by the vivaclons * Gall Hanulton,” whose name'it Is Dodge, and whose keen sarcasticrepartees make her the champlon conversationalist of the Dise trict. At night the Mignon Club gave a danc- Ing-party at Marini's Ilall, where there were none of the upper tens, but where scorea of the lower decimals enjoyed theipselves nuch, FRIDAY'S RECEPTIONS weraat the houses of citizens, and there'was quitea large attendunce ot the studio of Miss Raorom, the artiat, She has recently painted a fine portralt of Mrs, S8enator Uoreey, anid she is notr busy, with a host of friends at her back, in bringing about the vurchase of her full length portrait of Gen, Thol which she values nt $15,000, but which Is really worth about &1,000. At night there was s cord-reception at the house of Benator Bayari, on Highland Terrnce, where the very creme de Ia creme of \\'ufxlnglon Boclety was congregated, the most elegant toilette being that of the wife of the Danish Mintster (forinerly Mrs. Moultan, the vocalist) of corn-colored eatin, with & zauzo oyerskirt of the same color. There was al ; A UOTEL TIOP AT WILLARD'S, where every body went, a chilareu's party at Charlle Thorn’s, Aud & relect German Lzl'!{l by Mrs. Natban Liocoln [n Lionor of hier slster, Miss Gould, and her guest, Mlss Rhodes. Mrd, Lin- coln wore n dress of pale pink silk, trimmned with red, und & waist and tralos of dark green velset. The Unity Club waa to have met at the National Ilotel, but the sad death of Mrs. Ross, daughter of the landlord, made them go to the Metropolitan Tlotel, where papers were read by the Rev. Dr. James Rea and Mr. Gobright, songs wero sung, and cvery one uppeared 1o have a splend(d time, SATURDAY SLOPPING waa generally attended to, and then manv drove down to the Nny-\’lrfl to see Unpt. Boy ton paddte about {n_ an tuflated rubber sult, and show what he would do §f shipwrecked, He made a raft, built a fire on {t, caught n fiah, conked it, ate It, ond flshed about like a dalphin, greatly to the amusement of President Hayes, who was present. At night, Miss Waite, the daughter of the Chief Justice, agaln pre- sented ** i1, M. B. Plna " for charitabte pur- poses. The operotta was well put on the stage, and the performance weat off tolarably well for an amateur show. TIIE INVITATIONS FOR NEXT WEEK arg already abundant. Among them are those for a dancing-day reception at Gen. Butler's, do do at Adwmiral Porter's, and for others at the houscs of Admiral Porter, Senator Stanley Matthews, and Judge Advocate Ueneral Drum. The Skatinz-Rink will doubtloss continue Lo attract crowds, uid the debates in Congress will be of unusiual interest. There was to have been a ball at Willard’s, but a fire there last night doluged a large part of the house with water, which is to be regretted. THE HOTEYS of Washington, although not equal to those of Chicugo, are this wiuter better kept, and able to nccutnmodate more muests, thae over bolore, When the Federal Government was removed here from Pntiadelpbia, the only hotel in the District of Columbia wns Crawford's Union Tavern, in Geurgetown. For the accommuda- tlon of Con, men, Crawford used to run a larizo staice-coach, with seats on the top, called the lloyal George, between his hotel aud the Capltol. The first lhotel In this city was the Black-1lorso Tavern, kept by n Pennsylvania Dutcbnian nomed Betz, near where the Ebbitt House now stands, The next was on_Capltol 1111, and was kept by s Virgintan pamed Tuune- clitl. Noxt come THE INDIAN QUEEN, which was started by Mr. Nicholas Queen, where the Metropolitan Hotel now stauds, und had ns Queen sold its sign n lvortmu of Pocaliontos. out to Mr. Brown, who *‘ knew how to kecpa hotel,” and who greatly enlarged and lmproved “The Indlan Queen,” “Finding ereat dificulty in ubtaining vegetables, he purchased a squarc of ground near the canal,und established a kitchen- ‘This was Irrigated by a water-whenl by a camel, which hud been left Inu dying condition b{n traveling stow, amd had recovered its health, Brown left his hotel to his two sons, who in time traristormed the In- diau Quecen into the Metropolitan. Before the War it was the headquarters of the wealthy Boutheruers, nud in its attic story are ranges ol rooms lighted and ventilated by small skylights, and with heavy locks on the doors. They were for the safekecping of the *chattels of the maaters uid mistreases below. After the War commenced, Jesse Brown, the surviving som, quit 1avern-keeping avd went to reskde with his only child, the wifo of ex-Mayor Wallack. The house husalnce then changed hunds several times, wit It Is now kept by Cake, who used to b the Lost at Wiliard's. THR OLD NATIONAL wan original Kept by Mr. (adeky, who had pre- viously hod a bigh ruputation asa tavern-keeper fn Atexandria. Here Henry Clay lived nnd djed, and scors of other great men have made it their home. Colwan, of New York., kept it fora time, and then Guy, of altimore, tried his haud at Keepluz o hutel, Hut it was not untll Mr. Tenuey, the preseut proprictor, took posseasfon, that the Natloual began again to take its place among first-lass hotels, ‘'his witter mors Congress- tmen bomrd thiere than ot apy other hotel, und it has for years been the winter bome of Judge Clifford'and Judge David Davis, WILLARD'S NOTEI waa originally known ae the Mansion Housg, but 18 vow owned by Joe and llarry Willard, who kopt it up to tho breakiog out of the War, sluce when they bave lessed 1t -Another Willard— Caleb—Invested in a staall hotel opposite, call- ed the Ebbitt Housc, sud has spent his profits in enlarging aml extending it, untll it ‘18 vow one of the first-class hotels, “The Riggs House Is kept by a Bostonlan, und {s recherche in all its appolutments, but the vaunted glories of the Arlington scem to have departed, CHRICKETERS A COMING, o With us in Hovuland, vou kuow," sald one of thu attaches of her Majosty's Legation at the Bkatlug-Itink last night, *‘cwicket is the manly you kuow, und three or four ¢lubs are fo come lero next iery {w kuow, Qoo of them ls the Lacelles Hall Club of hameturs, yuu know, and another fv Lord Huwls' team, which 18 now about startiog from Austrulis, you know.” It is also sald it ateam of polo- players will cross the Atlautic wnd whip the New-Yorkers, who asplre to that game, out of theh boots. THB PRENCI MASKED BALL. 1s to come off on Tuesduy nleht. The falr wearers ol costumes aud domiuves will fuclude the French dressing-maids, miitiners, andg mauvtus- wukers hereabouts, with seme ol the csuus of tho Jubby who hava traveled in Eurol aned our youug Ulueds und bald-headed Col ereasmmen “will rival the Fronch couks und re taurant-keepers in their attentions. A correct report of who will ba thero und whast will bo dung would flad wiore resders that a debute in e Congrasional JKecord, CItAT TOPICA. . Gicorge I Buter, the (lencral® ‘haughty ucphew, Las joined the Tonwlubs, and aguin promiees to relorm, Gen, McClellau I8 here visiting bis _father-in-law, lnspector-tGenerul Marcy, Col, Nurion {s bero, druimmning up re- crults for the Woodrull Selentitic Expedition. teorge Buncrofe's hicalth 1s good, but he s very fectle, Dr. Mary Walker hopes to wet hey beoslon Increased. RaconTaun. A ——— Touislaus Ruck-Salt, Naltuaore Aun, Mr, Durus Curter, whio lus been on a viait to Louialava, broueht to this oilice Cinen of roe ot ramurkable purity, procured 1o that State. ‘The deposlt Is oue that has been frequently alluded to o all the papers, und was largely drawn upow for use fo the Southern Confederacy during the Civll War. The block shown ut the Sus ollice, aud intended for pro- sentation In the Murvland Academy of Science, s ot pure white crystals, with white exfoli: tions. ‘¥l salt njue from which It was tsken I8 vt the Talund of Potit- Anse,—a tract of 2,000 wcres tear e Gul? of Mexico, und ristog out of o salt warsh to o helghe of 170 feet. ‘Lho shial. lownesa of thy approach 10 the sland requir the constructive of o caseway Lo deep waler befory this remarkuble saltanine, which bos besn vbened into tae pure valterock to a depth of mxty feet, ean bo econowleglly worked, ‘The quantity of underlylug salt {3 cathmated s st lvaat 15,002,000 tous. ‘Lhis fs, Luwever, bul gueaswork:s but the quality omthe sait s shown Ly anulysds to be LGS uf purlty,—the best Liverpool ealt testlug but sbout 93 per ceut pure. made by the Council (referring lo the motion made by that body a tweek azo to accept the propositiona of the gaa eombantes), tut he would assume ihe right to duso. Ifc stated his ressona_for doing so at considcranie length, furnishing flgurcs to siow that the appropria- tion of last year would be exceeded, wint rlum-;’ fag law to show that it would be filegal not only to exceed the appropriation, but Lo inske a contract before an o\Puoprhuan bad been made, Yet the Council declled to treat the message 88 an ordinary communicstion, and fznored the veto it contained, some of the mem- bers uaing a little aharp parliamentary practice, to forca the more respectable element (o} GAS, GAS. GAS, Something About an Article Which Seems to Bother the City Fathers, The Mayor and Comptroller Say the Companies Are Now Acting at Their Own Risk, PRSI this insae. They werc advieed that tlel vetn would be sent In, and they un- Ope of the Conundrums of the Age-. | fertook 1o forestall the power of the Mayor by mosing a reconslderation of the motion befora the messagn had heen réal: and then trying to suppress the reading of It. This left the gassy gas question Just where it stood before, and bow all the Council will have tudo—su says the Mayor—ia to @n ahead and make fls contract to the 1at of January, sfter the appropriation has been inade. TUE CHARITABLE ALDERNEY. In this connectton, a slight historical reminfs- cence {8 not by any means uninteresting. Bud- den conversations on religlous as well as tém- poral subjects have been made frequently in fn- dividual ‘cases; but it 1 very seidom “thats wholesale business §s done. An occaslonal Jop somctimes creates an _excilement, aml becomes the town talk, whenever the flopper has aban- What Induced Elghteen Al dermen to Flop? The quibbiing upon tlie ¢as auestinn apnesrs to be interminable. The City Unvernment, un one hand, continues to officlally Inform the gas companfce of Its Inability to pay the pri asked amd at the same time keep within the a propriations, as it is bound to do by law, and’ the gas corporations continue to furnish gas rieht along, at tuc same time refuning to accept the propositions of the city, and the Iatter con- tinues to consume {t. The queation naturally ariscs, Who s responsible for il Does | duned a pronounced polfey s and in therellzious the city taciy mccept the conditions | World the converslon of a large number, cither of the gas companies In using thelr ;I:-rl(lnu l‘llm:‘ly r:vlul finr lll "hmlw‘um;y i« ation n he ar ol ieathen s, gast fo the companles virtually |y oommented on at great length. ‘Ihe recent accept the propositions of tha city in supplying It, or rre the chiel exccutive officers personally reaponsible in that they stlow the companfes to furnish the gas and the city to use t1 ‘Slere appears Lo bo varlous oplnfons regarding this question of reaponsibility, the city oflicers, on one side, taking the ground that the gas compa- ples are kent adviged of the action of the Coun- cfl, and If they funlsh gas fllegally they do s st their own risk, and must take thelr chences oo gettiog paid for 1t while the fegal advisers of the gas men clalin that sotuchody In the city converaion of the Telegoos s a case In point, but it does not equal in its proportions that ex- hibited by one-half of the City Councfl, The causc of this conversion and the mokns used to recure it may bo readily surmised by the pro- fane and skeptical reader, but to whisper or even breathe It would do a manifest injustice to the rectitude and honcaty of the floppers, 1t has been urged that the pressire ol eircuin-~ stances nud the forcibte argument of good words, like unto the apples of siiver, or dollars of silver, or something of the' eort, mentlioned in the proverb were potent factors, but this is evidently a mistake. The poverty of the gas| comopanies and the threatentd smash of their departinent s responsible 2 for hnll R385 | giockholders, as the result of Edisou's labots, | consumed o excess of that for | wil{ be found to he the {rue cause which contract Is made. The question | ‘Fhe Aldermen, with all their transcendent virtues, are slinply men after all,snd can vo more resist the l‘vwnl of a poverty-stricken gas company than that of the political bummer who, out at elbows, wants & place on the Police Ire Department, with 1he unaerstanding possiblvfuvoives s fine techoleal point, which can only be decidzd by;the Supreme Court upon sult brought by the pas compantes against the city to recover damages. The city oflicials, however, appear to thiok the question platn enough, They malotain that thie zas companies have been duly und officially notified of the actions of the Council every time a new move has been made, nnd when the ap- propriation hus been exceeded, und if _they con. llmm to supvly the streets wnd the public bulld: Inus with gas they must take thelr chances up-| on getting their pay, the same as every depart- ment, every oflicer, and every clerk In “the em- ploy of the city does to get his, » A 'TRIBUNE reporter visited some of the city oflices yeaterdsy, for the purpose of aining knowlcdee concerning the above queation. The AMayor had not been down since houn, and was not expected. The Corporstion Counsel had Just marched off to the melancholy keyof G with a sore throat. The Comptroller alone oc- cupled his oftice, and upon him the reporter DIRECTED NI8 DATTERT, Tle was asked what portion of the past there might be in which the city was indebted to the gas companice for the fluld consumed, The Comptroller replied that he balleved o portfon of the last quarter of the year 1875; o part of the balance of the last quarter of 1877, smountiog perhaps to o the nelghborhood of £50,000; and all of the year 1878, excent about 23,200, which ane of the companies had taken in or that, at the next election, he will devote all bis energies in favor of his patrou, At the meeting of the Comuon Council held Dec, 80, 1878, Ald. Cary iutroduced a resolution accepting the propoeition of 1he South Sile Cotnpaoy to furnish gos at $21.50 per latp nnd $1.60 per thousand. It was rejected by the fol- lowing vote: E arsons, Taley, Ballard, Cary, Phelos, Mallory, Seaton, Hyan, Waldo, Schweiss thal, Janssens—i2. g andern, Tally, Turner, Lodding, Culler- ton, Riordan, McNaily, Oliver, Lawler, 1 Smyth, McNurney, Biszner, Cook, Thro leigh, Thompson, Knopf, Htauber, Niesei terer, McCaTrey, Daly, Jonas—24, Four weeks Inter the chango of hesrt became apparent. Ald, Cullertun moved to -cu?u the prapolmon, and it was adopted by the following vote: Year—8anders, Tolly, Tutner, Lodding. Caller- ton, Rlordan, McNally, Oliver, Lawler, Beldler, McNurncy, Elezner, Cook, Thraop, ltyan, Niesen, Wetterer, Janssens, dcCaftrey, Jonas—20, Vays— nna, Tuley, Uailard, Cary, Phelps, Mauilory, Bmvth, Rawleigh, ‘Tbompson, Kuopf, Stauber, Waldo, Schwelsthal, Daly—14, .. The lollolvlng elghteen, who compose one-half of the Councll, were seen—by the ni eye~—to have turned a complete somersault: unt ed Werip 1o pay s taxes, Ho mafd the city_could | fanders. o, Tumete not poy them i anything but serip for 1878, Oliver, wier, 7'l contracts are made from May 1to May MeNurney, Einznes 1, ure they not?” asked the reporter. Throop, N o YesM MeCadlre “\Why aro they made from May to May in- stead of from Januory to January, the ilscal year of the clty?" “1 don't kuow why this fs doue, unlosa It Is: beenuse the contracts were started i this way years ago, and huve never been changed.” ‘“Iie law rays tho city has no right to make uny contracts for anv time until after an appro- priation has been made for the purpose, and that the smount expended shall not exceed the apuropriation. Why have not the oflicers stoppead the gus rompanics from {urnishing gas after the appropriation has been used \1{1!" ] don't know how the oflicers are going to work to stop the companics from furuishing #as," " e “I'ie Comptroller wont on to state that the Muyor notlfied the Connell Jast suminer that the ity could not pay over §1.25 per 1,000 foet, wmil keep within the appropriation. The Councll fixed the prico ut ¥1.25, and the Mayor and hiw- sclf ofticially notitied the corporations of the ction, * What did the companies 01" ““They did nothive, only to say they wantea more, nud kept on furnishing gas.' Do they clahin the full amount according to thelr propositions " “ehey clalm nothing.” * What do their bjlls yél for i *“They hisve scut fu nd'bills for a long time, Billings did send [n & bill some time agw calling for $4a thousand; but 1sent it back. 1 be-. leve he claims that his old charter has never been abroguted, aud is stk in force. TIE QA8 COMVANILS At the last meetioe of the Council,~Monday evening,—all of the cizhteen,with the exception of Lawler,—and it 18 falr to presumo be did not know what he was dolur,—voted to recunsider the action taken at the previous meeting, so as to bead off the Muyor's veto, and in_ thla they werc succesefal, ns {s was treated simply as @ communieation and placed on file. In order ta befilend the needy gus companies, the cichteen charitabla Aldermen will have to flnd eix more of thelr brethren whose sympathles jan be as caslly worked ujion. REFORM 18 NECESSARY. Ualted States District Courts=Ifow Things Are Done—Double Commissions, Lucrative Foes, eto, To the Editor af The Tribune. Cnicano, Feb, 8.—The Blodgett Investigation now in progreas Is very sugwestive of reforms in the laws of the United States, in, around, und about the United Btutes Courts, aud by the United Btates Judees thereof, 1. No Clerk of the United States District or Circult Court should hold ofice for more thsn twenty year: 2. There should be more than one Master in Chancery, and uo Master In Chancery should be allowea to take and approprizto to his own uso more than §17,000 & year, 8. Double comtnlssions abould not bo allowed upon any sum of mouey vald by n Master fnto are working fur the clty just as every depart- meot an fodividusl working ~ for | court for any purpose whatever,—that fs, the it sinco Jan. 1,—in expectation. We | Master should not be allowed a commlsslon for will all huve to work in that way, if wa work st all, until the uporopristion is made. LEvery ofll: cery every clark, policeman, tireman, street borer,—even 1 mysell um workig for the cflyi without kuowing what 1 sin working for or | whather 1 wil) get o cent. 1 cannot tell whether will he any appropriation made at sll, All clerks ure workine in the samo way. | have nut told them to stop, it 1s true, but they under- stund that fll('i‘lrc working at thelr own risk, und they taok fo Llie eity for thelr pay." “ Didyou ever notily thy gas companiea to shut off thelr gras whon the unpmurlumn had Leen exceeded ' Joth the Mayor and myself notjfied them ofticlully of the action taken by the Council, both lust summer and the 8lstof December.t Iuat, and when wo had dons thut the responsi- bllity of the city ceased. 1f they continue to supply gas they must take thelr chances on the appropristion ~bolog wmade large ecnough to cover the amount they want, uuless they can suo the clty und get judgment, MAYOR IBATH WAH SUDSEQUENTLY BERN paying asum of moncy futo court, anmd the Clerk allowed a commission for psying thesams out, and the amount of commissions mul the compensation of the Master fn Chancery should ba clearly deflued and resulated by law. 4. No mao should be allowed to receive an un- reasonable compensation for services which he erforms by virtue of holdinz sny public oflice, Now Masters tu Chancery are, like Registers in Baukruptey, maklug fortuncs, while the public are paying cuormous amounts to defray the ex- penses of the United Btates Conrts. Judee Drumuiond haaup tothie present time utterly refused to appoint an additioval Master in Chancery, uiut now the Master bas a perfect monopuly of all of the reference business in the United Statea Courts, nud the oresent Master Lias made: a fortune out of his busiuess, 5, ‘Ihere shiould ba o new deal in the oflices of Clerk, Master In.Chancery, aml Comnissioncr, Now the entire detatl fusivess ol the Unfted States Courts {s contined tu & rivg as atrong und compact as ever exlsted anywhere on the face of the earth, Judes Drummond’s attentlun has upon the subject. He cated what had been | porFoincy ot tter repeatedly, but b told the reporter by the Comptroller. Mo satd | Deen called to this mutier repetiufiv, but e ':"; Dmal’" ’:uul écnruv:&ll by recent ude allurly reluses to do anything whatever about, clslons ol uproma ~ Court o [ i ow fired by law for United the ety officers had becn acting tlegally for alf o'k The slarr m y Lerm of years, but that now they Lo whag | States District Attorney, except that of the Soutbern Distriet of New York, s $200 per year, und the balance of their compensation cou of pickinge and scrupines in 1he snape of feoa und commissions. | sulary of the District Attorney for the Southeru bistrict of New York is 6,000 a year absolute, Would it not oceur 10 sty one tliut a Unlied States Dis- trict Attoruey, **with s memory,” should re- celve for the performance of e duties In this Ihistrict au much a8 1hut of the United States District Attorney of New Yorki ‘Uhe lepal de- partient of the City of Chicago s paid over $15,000 & yesr, which ls consfderably more than the Uplted Biates District ~ Attoruey’s offie B pald; and yet the wiatters which ho #s culled upon to deal with are of the very highest inportance 1o the country, and theolllee should command the services of the very best tulent fin the lund. In this Dis trick not a single case of Importance has arisen but what extra outshde counse! bave been called In, and the whole course of procedure uud the entlro managument of that ofllce bias been chur- acterizod by weukness and finbecllity, s is o ulsgrace to Lhe natlon, 7. ‘Ihe name of the Department of Jusilea of the United States will pass {uto history as u by- word und a reprod gy uuless 1L clears ltself from the charges vow @anding szaelust it aud the peotle of this country have a right to kuow whother it s orgaulzed 1o obstruct courts of Justice und to shield crimivals from prosceation wud prevent their puulshment. 8. “Ihe mutter of Heceivers of corporstions shiould be rezuluted by fuw ; and, while woure not akiug spy specitic charges sgainst the Judve whuse couduct Is now belug exumiced luto, yot the munver in which the poor, ignorsut, snd helpless. mass of volicy-holders ju the Chicago Howme Mutual Iusurance Company bave beeu slaugbtered and their money culen up by the Assfzuge and his attornevs, bas scidom been vqualed in o court of justice in this country, 'e’ l(lm..idtl Receivers 8o fur are Murphy ang ocke. thelr duties were they could not be excused from dolng what was right amd legal, Because thiey had been dolng wrong heretofore, it was no reason why they stiould cootinng to du wrong, now that ‘they Kuew what thelr duty was, ‘The queation was plain to be understood b & nut- shell, ‘Il Jaw said they could make no appro- priation for deflclencles; ft sald no contract could exceed ap appropristion mado tor thut purpose, und thut no coutract could be wade to; run uver a tiscal year, With these orders ln view, the Mayor thought it was plaln enough to understaind the gas queitlou, The cit: coult wot sy the companles to exceu the amouut appropristed for thut purpose, The corpurations vould accept the swount offered, or they could sbut off thelr gas. There wus no alternative for him, only to ubide by the decis- iuna of the Couvcil. e sald the gas men were working for tbe ey precisely as ho und every cmploye of the city wos working. They werd tukiug their chunces upen an wppropriation. . Noue of them knew whetlier auy appropriation would he wade. 'Lhie reporter told bis Honor that the question had beeu rulied as to the respouslbility of usiug 1he pas, and that 1t bad beeo sugeested that the executlve ollleers of the dilfercut adwinlstra- tions mignt be huld responsible. Mayor fleath replicd that, so far as he was couccrued, he would psy every dollar of his respousibility, I they could get judgment sgutnst bhin, Ho sald this talk was uousensc. ‘They wight 88 Wi y the Pollea and Fire De- partments, und ry ludividual fu the clty em- pluy, could Liold blai responsible tor their” puy thel whows Wus ho to Luld respunsiblo for hils owa payl ‘They all stuod uoun the sawe fout- fuiz, 80 Tur 83 Uie principle was concerned. BOTI TUB MAYOK AND COMITEOLLER anpeored Lo be atrony in thelrconylctions upou this point, ‘The attorueys for ihe gas compa- nies, it 18 understood, watntain that, If the city cmlxluyul hit the gus 10 the public bulldtogs, Asto how maoy raflroads bave been and vonsume {t, eliber ' the city or (s | eaten up bytho varlous railroad Receivers, wedo respousible oficer fs lable to the full na;knul:v.’ Lux Fiar. smuunt charged by the companles, In o 2, this, huwever, It Is clafined by some they do Defense of MscMahon's eralshiyn not cover ull the ground of equlty as Jatl down the common law, ‘The public bullaings sre vroperty, just as much us ls the pri- Ninnnaall Commere al, The Phladciphia f'reas, jo teiliog all the late Marshal-Presldent of France, Vi 4 MacMution was ol enldi mean und [tullan Franco-Prusshan_cauy; 9 commanded the Fires Ariy Corpa, aind waa de- feated at Woerth utd Bewumont, atter whlch he perutted the vast foree which b led to full futo & cu/-desuo ut Bedan plees o geuvral- sbip »o bad that e probubny e ed Lelng court- wartlslud, ae Bazatue was, only by the tuct that b3 wus wounded."” Thos by faid ol fwjustice aud yofairneas, It is about 1 cit vate dweiling or otllee of 8 business man. " It 1he gas compaules turn thar, ges foto tho bulld- 0z or oftlee of & man after be bas notifed them to either shut it olf or tako less, theu, if it ls wasled or used oy the purtics owntog the bulld- jug, the laster are not respousible fur any wours thaa the offored the companles, “Llie Mavor expresscd hhwes)! fully upon the subject of yus lust l{uudu{nluhl n Lis votu wesssee 10 the Couneil, o wakl bo was not Quate auis Lt be Lod w1z to vetu 8 wolon fl H true MacMahon was defeated st Woerth; but he was in & good position with an army of but af!,fll) cifectives, and was assailed by the Crown Prince of Giermany with nesriy 150,000, The French fought desperately, and inflicted {m- menac Josses upon the Germans. Thers was no Iack of personal travery or good vonduct on the part of MacManon. ~ His Chif-of-Stafl was killed by his side, and his ficid-glass shot from hir hand. He put lo his reserves, {nfantry and cavalry, and fought his army to the last man. But his line was too thin, and” was broken, and, a3 the struggle hud been an atrennous, the de- feat wan disastrous. He was not to blame for the inferfority of hia force. He could not re- treat nnd abandon Alsace to the Germans with- out a struggle. Ila was the victim of the In- ferior military ayatem of his country. The bat- tle that he délivered was honorable to him, and a credit to the spirit and tenscity of the French soldiers, It is true that MacMehon's retirement from the field was precipitate, but he remained until all was lost—but honor. He repaired to the camp at Chalons, and there, when a fragmentary force had been col- lected. was ordered by the idiots at Paria to re- Meve Bazaine, who by that time had heen knotked sight and left, and shut up in Metz,— Napoleon Li1., with his’ young son *baptized in fire,” enzapivg in & thirdclaas railway-carrisge to Joio MacMahon's forlorn advance, it is prob- abie the Emperor and his little boy would not iave buthered MacMahon with their company at this thine, but they did ot like to be shut up in Metz, und were afratd to return 1o Paris, so they bad no boarding-house, Thera necver was 8 more bopeicas muddle, MacManhon's remark on being urdered to relieve Bazaine was: *\Ve have only to die as well as we can.” He knew the movement, in a military seuse, was prepos- terous. It cost Francean’ ariny thatmight, if well handled, have defended or “relleved Paris: Lut the sacrifice was made through dynastic and political considerations, The military reputa- tion of Marsha! MacMahon should not suffer from the sius of othe: e has bheen as Presl- dent of France too honest to betray the Ropub- Ttc to any of the gangs of monarchical conspira- tors, and lie has chivalrously resigued his great office because he wouid not sfgn decrees dis- plrcing his old cotnrades. ‘Lhis was not a statcs- manlike proceeding on his part, but it Is what might be fairly expected from an old soldler sensitive about the Lionur of the army fo con- nection with which bis history s herofc, CURRENT GOSSIP. THE GERMAN MISSION. By Julta 4. nore, the ** Siteet Singer uf Michigan.* *Tin & matter of great Importance That our great conntry should be Approptiately represented At the Court of Germany. And If our Government should send ‘To Berlin, as American Minister, The Doston poet, Charles P, Adams, 1t would be far from sinister. Ho wrote ' Leedle Yawcop Stranas, ' nd bas many other ciaims, For be las pruved his eflici l:g An Mii r at the Court of St. James, STUFFING A STRANGER. Ruvdette. Do you remember, soine weeks since, I was greatly annoyed by an inqnisitive man down in Malne, and abruptly closed my letter for the purfinlu of stufMiug the aforesald man, Weil, I stuffed him, # Much of a place, your towni" he anid, #0O yes,' 1 said,—with the matter-of-course carclessness of a citizen of the great Westorn maotropolls,—* about 43,000, 1 guess," The man eyea me with keen, awakening fnter- est. “*Eo big as that " he sald. 1 nodded; and he presently sald, *Well, I had no {dea there was such a larwe city in Tows, Stste must be pretty well settled up, I reckon ' 1 satd, “*Yes, it “was. Some portions of it pretty wild, though.” « Any larce game [n the State?” “flerds of it,” sald. ‘1 killed deer last winter not two miles from the Burlington Court- House.” 1 pacified my conscience for thia lio by ex- plainine to that rebellious and vociferous moal- tor that there was no Burlington Court-Houe that it was burnt down seven years ago, and th county was walting until it coukl buy a second- hand Court-llouse for §1.55 before replacing it. ‘Iierclore, | could trutbully say that I killcd all the deer that came within iwo ‘miles of our Court-House, [ want to know!" the natiye exciaimed. Do you, though?" thought 1,—*then I'Il tell you."' Andso 1went ou: ** Why, the wolves, anly two years ago, made a rald right fnto Hur- Mngton and killed a1l the chickens on Bouth . LUonsclence ralsed a terrible protest at this, but ! hushed It up too quick by citine the well- known cass of Meizs Schenck’s wolf that got fouse umnd fn owe sloele summer-night ate up everything on South Hill thut wore feathers, The nottve looked astouished uud doubly inter- . ented. “ Any Indlana?” e sald. o Land, yes!" I told bim, yawning wearily, as one who talks of old, stale things, ¢Bitting- Bult was educated st the Baptist Colleguate In- stitute {n Burlington, und was expelled for try- ing to scalp Prof. Wortioan with & borse-shos magget.” “You don't tell mo!” exclaimed the native, In wild auszement. By this time 1 wos per- fectly recl 0, unid told consclence 1o keep its tnouth sbut und rive me a chance, wQ yes,” 1 smd, **Yellow-Woll's old medi- cine lode {s still stunding, right out on West i ‘The indians come into the ¢ity very fre- quently, tearing through the strects on their ittle pouies.” Ever Lave any trouble with them1” the man ked. 0y no" I sala, carclessly,~the citizeos scl- dom do. The cowbo; who come up from Texas with cattle, bote them terribly, nud oeca- aivnally drapone Inthe streots just for revolver- practive, But nobody clse interferes In thele bt * [ supnosc,” the man said, “{ou oll carry revulvers strapped around you oul there ™ “0 yes," I replied, “of course. We have tod a map bever knows when o s going to lave trouble with sumcbody, sud, In case of auy litile misunderstanding, it"wouldw’t do for a fellow uot to be beeled.™ Tthink the man shuddered a litle. Then, fearing be might ask to louk at my revolver, casuaily remurked that I never carrlvd my bark- ers when 1 came East, He aafa uo, pposed not. Then b looked out of the window a lonz time and sull notb. tng, Finatly I ssked him wm what part of Maine he made his home, lle looked up at me fu surprise s Mel” ho sald, " Lord! Tdou't live In this rock-patch, i'm only ou hers visitiog somu relative In n fecble volee I asked bim where did be Uve then, "The man yawned, and again looked listleaaly out of the window, » Ol he satd, *1 live on a farm just out by Letiler's, about six miles oyt of Burllugton. 1 wirh 1 wos back there now. I wished bo had never 1 Sodid !, So did L left there, We didn't talk together auy longer, Shortly after thut the weather chauged, the car grew very cold, ang L went loto the smokiug-car to look fur a fire, THE SUN AND ITARD TIMES, New York Gruvhee. Prot. Jevoos, In the London Times, vicorously follows up his recent surprising and spparently whimsicul claim that the bankruptelos in trado and collapaes fn Lhe world’s commerce are caused. by sun spots. Ilo furnishes abundant figures to show that fluanciul crises and sun-spot recur- reuces appear In every decade, the commercial period belug 10,40 years und the solar period 1045 years. He does not fodeed {osist that the sun-vuqling perlods are simultancous with the hayd-thBes pertods, fur this caunot be shown, but Lo does clain that seventecu solar waves have been followed alternately lgu seventien vommercial waves during the last 170 yoars, uod thiat the Jatter allictions have Leen the result of the furmer phenomens. Ho sayss “The followivg 8 my present working hypothesis us tu the productiva of decenois crives, a bypothesls quits gpen to moditcation by additional fuformation, A wave of lucreased sulur radlations favorably affecta the weteorolus gy of 1he tropical regions so as to produce u ruccession of oqd crops fn Iaills, Chlva, anl other tropical of seml-tropleal countrics. After several vears of prosperity the 600,000,000 or B, 000,000 of tububitauts of thuse countries buy our wmanufactures {n unususl quastitiea; trade fn Lancashiro and Yurkshire leads the manufacturcrs to pust thelr extittug means of production to the utmost aud then to begin buflding new wmills and fa:torles. Whlle & tauia of uctive iuduatry s thus sct golng in Western Furope the solar radistion is sluwly waning. 80 thiut just about ihe thine when our wanufactur- ers are prepared to turn out 8 greatly-incrensed supnly of gonds fumiues iy Tudia wnd’Chiva sud- dealy’ept off the demamd, This ©s, 1 believe, the slmple explatath n of the overproduction somuch complatned of ot presvut, Our prae- tieal wien, deplsing all thyory und leaving the waln factor {u ailirs (the sun) out of their cal- culations just manase to waky demand und sup- ply oot w ‘Lheir yrrangemeuts are wade sbout live yuars too lute; just whu they are i jepties” of despondency they ought to be ly preparing lur the cowlog favoravle o change In the Tndian trade, and when they are all hopeful and excited the real opportuniiy has slready slipped by.”” 1f this remarkable thcory should be snuhstan- tiated by futare ecientific investizations, thea it will become quite possible to ascertaln dedue. tively when to zo to manulacturing and lauit out boldly, and when to furl salls and keep nes shore. Uradaally sclence s coming tothe re Hef of the race and enlisting as the prophet ¢ the future, THE OFFENBACII MYSTERY. London Glnbe. The “*Offenbacher lady,” who has been a llv- Ing riddle to curlous Germans for the last quare ter of a century, has just died in her house st Ofenbach, leaving the problem of lier namaand origin unsolved. Nearly all she knew of hierscl? was that she was a flungarisn by birth. On the @ith of November, 1853, & splendid equipage was driven to the borders of a large wood nenr Fraokfort, Auoldlady descended from the carriage, the servants banded out a beautiful little girl to her, and the two wandered soma distance Into the forest. The old lady. havin: given the child some meat and bresd “wranpe: in a fine linen napkin, sald: * Wait here a few minutea. Imust go back to the carriage, and will bring mammna to you.” She never returned, The child wandercd, as she sald, threc dags and three nighta o the fcrlm. crying for ¢ Mamma ¥ and “Bertha.” On the morning of the fourth day she was found by a peasant girl, who took ber toa houss lo a nelghboring village, where ghe slept for one night, bat on the next morn- {og she was strinped of her bandsome clothes, her earrings, and 8 gold medalilon, was dressed in poor rags, aud turned out upon the road. 8he wandered to the villaze of g"elnklrchon crrwnz out fu ITunarian, *Where Is mamma?’ The pevple could not understand her. Bhe was taken befure n Judge at Offenbach, but, as he know no Huogarian, he could not get at her story. 8he was suppused to be a beagar who had been taught to fetzn dumbness, for hep questioner imagined that her Magyar explanae tiuns did not belong to any human languaze. Bhe was condemed to a month's imprisonment, but Ler remarkable beauty and the refinement of her manners made such an jmpression hn] the sentene: was not carrfed out. The towa ofticials of Uffenbach decreed that she should ba taught to read and write German, and she re- ma(nea for a long time the favorite ward of the corporation. When she knew suflicient German she certainly unfolded 8 most extraordinary story. Bhe could onlv remember two names,— *Temeser ! (Temesvar?) and * Bertba,” Sho and her brother had ‘been Kept for some months 1o a cellar, where there wers geese. Bertha fetched her from the cellar. Fricdrich Eck published her story, ns taken from ber own lips, and it caused a great sensation both In Germany nnd Austria-liun- gory, 'The Vienna papers demanded that stringent inquirics should be made at all the great houses In the nelehborhood of “Temesvar, vut the proposal was never thoroughly carried out. Prol, Hermann Weber,of Kaemark, vistted Offenbach, spuke Hungarian with her, snd com- munieated her tale 10 the Pati Nap'o; nud other Hungarian schiolars interested themsolves in the attempt to doravel the mystery. Sho married o Offenbach, and tad two clifldren; but although Lier marriage was a singular lmnfly and prosperous one, she was ncver able to shake off a certain melancholy, and she has dled wich- out aoy discovery as to who aud what she orig- Dally was. ALBERT EDWARD'S INTIMATES, TWitehall (London) Retiee, The members of the Marlborough Iouss roterie are nearly all clever and amusing, und the remaining minority, If not composed of thoso gifted with brilliant intellectual power, is certainly made up of people celebrated aud re- markahte for somcetbing. One may be quita certain when one sces H, R. H. on terms of {n- timacy with any ouc, should some one not ba cpizrammatic. brilliant, and origrinal fn conver- sation, that hie or abie §s in some way extraor- dinary, remorkable, or out of the wav, If it be a” woman, it {s probable she will be tho most beautiful woman in London, or, quite as likely, the most ugly; at all evevnts sne wilt excel. I [t be a oan, ho will either be the great- est fool, the grreatest wit, the poorcat, the rick~ sty the thinnest, or the fattest man to boe found in our fsland soclety, o will either be celo- brated for his adventures among the savages, for his amours, or cven—we kuow a case in point—for his relicions cestacy. One horrible woman o London (weuld thiat'we could mention lier naine, but wo will hiave more pity for her than she for otliers, und call her Lody Blank, of Blank ~—tun't you cueas who it lu")(wn taken up by the Prince not very long hack, rather to her sur- pring, and greatly to hier crotifieation and des lrbt, DPerbaps,” however, she would not have been quite 8o pleased hod aha been awaro that H. R H. tolerated Ler for a brief space within his fuper clrele, simply bocause abe is par excel- lence, tha most mallcious woman fn Londont ‘To sum up, apart from those Inthnates chosen because of thelr brilliunt conversational powers, pungent wit, or emninence in some hich walk of art, the remalnjug minority of those who et~ #oy an ofticiu! and familine fotercourse with our uture soverelgy, resembis a museum of curioss {tfes more thun anything clse—k would be hard and unjust, perhaps, to say a menagerie. THE WAYS OF WICKED AMAN, Hurdette. s It & man Is on the cars aud sces & young lady be doesn’t know frum Eve and never saw Lefore, trylng to let down the window, ho throws duwn his paper, tnkes off his Lat, bows blmself double, emiles clear round to his niter- collar button, says sweetly, ** Allow mel” and closes the window with graceful skill and charm- ing courtesy. If his sister says, **Tom, won't sot pleass tet this window down for mel” ho tucks his paper savagely under his arm, aml, stalklng geroas the alsle, atands on his foet while be bangs the window down with a stamn thut fills her facc awl hatr with dust. And i€ 1ifs wife, holding the bahy fn ono arm s lunch-basket on the other, trics to et down tha window, and says timidly and suggrestivoly, * o dear] §don’t belleve I 'ean ot it duwn,” ho he grunte, saya 2 Ehl obi" and buries himseid stilt deeper in uis paper, That’s what you're coming tu, Laure. A GERMAN GQIRL’S LETTER. The German Kniser has received by mall & naive letter by o servant-givl, ** Majesty, she writes, “do scod a couple of lnes to my Roboert, Tell him that he must marry me, and that 4 he marrivs me he shull have work at the raliway-stotion ss long as he lives, but that i€ he does not marry mie be shall not be allowed any work. But do, [ pray, send your most blzh coinmands to him at the latest by SBaturday, so that he may come agaln to vislt mao nest Sun- day.”* Bbo oes i Lo say that, i the Kalser wiil not writs *ber Robert," she does nut bo- lieva 1t any power on carth cau move bim, and that she will be obllged to throw hersell Iuto thw Oaer, — ourps, The toot assemble—A Lugle-call. Bound money—The organiet's salary, A highly colored tale—The peacock’s. A retired Boston firemaan calis bimself an en spurt. ¥ ‘There {s nothing gou under the sun but the horned horse. Itls wulgar to call m man *“bow-legred.,” Just speak of b as a parentheticsl pevestrian, No self-reapecting old colored womnan nowas days thinks of dyivg until she hns reached the 80 of 101, When the schoalmaster reduced tho boy ta submission it was uu uulalr coutest, becauss it was lutor won, Bollloquy by & tiopler: **The public alwava notives when you have been tippllug, but nevee when you are thinity."” In th tlstle duys, when you aro asked to tako adriuk, your ars requested 1o conie and Hdecorate your lostae," The boy who was getting a little too large to enjov the flattery of bis wother's sisters, sald be had got **syc-oph-ants * jong ago. ‘4 Sea how I rids o'er the raging mane clalned 8 man who was thrown over his horse 3 byad futo & ditch on the othor side of the feuce. A New Haven editor sunounced 'that bo had seen *a pure white swallow,” und the Louts. ville Courier-Journal supgests thut it was ouy ot ltolland gin, A pupll in one of our public schoals recently revised sn old saying found fu hils grammar, a3 follows: 41t {s better to give than to receive— a thrashiug.” A merchant of this city, who ruceutly folled, has addressed to bis creditors an explapatory circular, fn which bosays: ** Aiter baving fougit the tger of wdversity for, years 1huve been comwpelled to succumb!? The * tiger uf sdver- aity 1 Is good.— Troy L'ress, Bome acicntific men claim that the carth i drawing nearer the sun every year. Wu don’t know sbout that, but we du kudw that through- out the scasou the bottom of the strawbcriy and blackberry boxes cowus closer and closer tu the top uvery day.—Bunrdeite, Ia the pesr future the customer will say uuto the barkeeper, * Gimne 8 cockiall with pleaty of glucose und clirle aeld, sl ot too much metbylinted eplirits™; sud, havioa tasted, will sav: * Not quite s0 swect as I usually take it,— & little wore wuriate of tiy, please.”