Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1881, Page 6

§ e pen RUFUS HATCH FIGUY The Telegraphic Consolida= tion Project Finds a For= midable Foe. Rufus Hatch, the Broker, Pre- paring to Fight It in the Courts, His Rights as a Stockholder in tho American Union So- rionsly Prejudiced. How Bergh Proposes to Com- bat Brutality with the Help of Brutality. dis Favorit Law to Punish Wile and Woman Beaters at. the Whip. ping-Post. Uonversation Regarding the Consolidation of the Union and Qontral Pacific Railroads. Organization of the Whittaker Courl. Marthal, and Its Adjournment to Feh, 3. ¢ The Rev. Dr. Vandyke Riddles n Re- cent Defenso of T. Do Witt Talmage. ANTI-CONSOTIDATION, NG TIHE GREAT TELE- GRAPIE SO0 ” Speetal Dispateh ta The Chlcngn Tribung, New Yong, Jan, 20,—The telegraph amal- gamation is the topie everywhere In town, In * general the impresston concerning it is that 1 <. three telegmph compant it isa movement for the organization of n elgantic monopoly, nud there are wnderenr- Tend rumors that the consolldution sehewe will be opposed aml fought with every possi- ble form of Jegal ageression. A tempornry injunction was granted by Judge Darrett In Suprems Court ehambers todday resteaining the Western fon, Amertean Unkon, al Atlantle & Pacitic Compantes from entering Into or consummating any agreement for consolidation, anmlgamation, or pooling of thelr recelpts, or for inereasing the eapital stock of the Awerican Unlon ‘Telegraph Company or that shall require the Ameriean Unton Company to abandost any of 1t3 lnes or to put them wtder the control of the West- ern Unlon Telegraph Company. +The plaintitt m the ense (urng ont to be Rufus Huteh, who is the owner of 100 shaves of the Ameriean Unlon Company stoek, and the suit Is fu behulf of Rmself sfockholducs of the Amerlenn pany who may coms In and elebie the benefit sought to ho procuved by its menns—that Is, the preventon of the consolldation of the Mr Iluteh says that thoAmeriean Unfon Tetegraph Company waa started toovercome the monopoly which was ereated when the Western Unlon t'ele- graph Company obtained control of the At- lantie & Pacific Company, nnd to bying about o liealty competitfon which Inures to the benetit of the general publie. When he be- came n stoekholder in the Amerlenn Unjon hoexpected to make Targo profits trom the, patronage which the publle genervally would glve ltas the advocate of cheap telegraph- ng, and the Amerlenn Union has now by the expenditure of nbont 810,000,000 prociited « AS COMPLETE A RYRTEM at telegraph lines and equipments ns that which i3 vossessed by the Western Unlon © Company, whose eapital stoek of 40,000,000 represents.the valug of Hs lines and egnips ments, With its eapltal of 810,000,000, My, Tlatel says, the Awerlenn Unfon ean enrn ns much a8 the Western Unlon with4dts $40,000,+ 000 capltal, and that the dividends of the Anierican Unlon would therefore be four tines ns Inrge’ns those of the Western Unfon, T1e nlteges that A COMBINATION ORt CONSPILACY has been entered luto between the Directors of his compauuy and of the other companies toconsolldate all the Hnes and companies, and to retrect the nemopoly tn the teleginph business In tho United States, For that pur- pose, he says, the Divectors propose o Issiy an - additionnl pltal of $40,000,000, fo by added to the existing eapital of S40,000,000 o the Western Unlon Telegraph Compuny, which £40,000,000 additlonnl eapltnl s to be distribated In shares withont any ensh he- ing pald {n return for such shares, The nl- ditionnd eapital ol §40,600,000, ho snys, Is to represent materlals that cost only $10,000,000, Ar. Hateh alleges thut thisis . CONTRARY TO THE INTERESTS of trade and commerce, und I8 ngainst the poliey of tnw, and that the Board of Direetors of the Awmetieat’ Ustlan: Compauy hnve wo power to Hell put-that.Company, ‘This suit probitbly ‘i “ledd to n disclosure of the wholg sthome'of consolldation, aud enuse nn oxhwl’gqgh‘u miade of tha terins upon whicl ivis ijvu gned that the thres compunies shatl amalgaiate,—n matter coneerning which tho Directors of tho varlous companies nre ull ut present clasely raticent, WALL STRERT was gquickly advised, and plensed with the news, that the resolution of Mr. Spinola in the Arsembly to-ay, direeting an Investim- on to he wade as to the pending consollibne tlon, had been adopted, Between tho ronrts aul the Legisloture (LS felt that the peoply wHE live an opportunity to fight down the *business and commerelnl” monopoly pro- Jeeted by (he plan of enfolding three tole graphie companies Into ono hinge concorn, JOIE OFRICERS OF TIE TELEGRAPIL COM- 1 5 [ maintaln great seereey s to the terms of the agreeent under which it Is proposed to unite the three prinetpal companles, ‘Thoy des cilne tamukn pubile the conditions of the pre- posed consolidation wutll after the neetings. of stockholders, which huve been enlled to take actlon on the plan, In the weanwhils public curlosity 1o leavn the terns of the proposed consolldation §s very great, uid the conjectures that have been: mande nro fnnge merable, Notone of thesd guesses could be verlfied toalny at the ofliees of the threo compaules, A Dircetor of the Ameriean Unlon Company sald, how's ever, that the vroposed Inevense of the eapitnt stoek of the Western Unlon was to b divided a5 followss A serip dividemd of SI55:5:H5 was to bo pakd te Western Union _ stockholders, while: the' Aweri- o Unlon Compuny <was to seeelvo 15,000,000, the full monnt of ftscapital nud bonded debt, and the Alluntle © & Puclfic Company £5.400,000, whieh §s 60 por cent of §i3 outstundlng stock, It was sald, also, thut no further Information in regard to tho ngrecuent could bu given at this thnes ‘These sums, with the present vutstanding stock of the Western Unlon, smmount to the propusyd capital of the cousolidated Coms pany. WALL STRERT, AN ACHIVE OPESING, Special Dispatch to The 2 ‘tyibune, New Yonrk, Jan. 20.—The stock market opened active und buoyant, witl o genergl advance in prices, but the lmprovenicnt was siterwirds Jost, and, under p pressure to aell, " NEW YORK. |% = thore was a dectine of 34 to 434 Unfon I%q- citie,"the telegraph shares, the Granger and coal stocks, aml the trunk-lne shares wero most consplenons n the downward move- nent. At the second eall there was a firmer feeting and o general recovery of 35 to 4 Unfon Paclfic fell off from X% lo 116, and recovered to 121, Central Pacific advaneed to 0 anid declined to 043¢, Northern Faelfle fell off to 334, and rallied to 8835 Tho mar- ket was decldedly stronger, and fraproved upon the second eall, with a vecovery in anotations ranging from 3¢ fo 23 from tho lower ranga of prices. Unlon Pacific had g rally of 214, * Coal shares were conslderably fwproved, Western Unlon was Irregular on the annewicement that BUFUS TATOI had begnn an injunction suit ngatnst the tel- exraph consolidation. Union Pacltic rallied, Roek Island further advanced, Paeitie Mail, Lake Shore, Northwestern, aml Chiengo, Burllmgton & Quiney rose, There was great activity In the share-list townrds the elose, wd the denlings were ehnvactetized by o buoyant tone. I'rices advanced X to 414 per cent in the entiro fst, with the 'acifie Hail- road shares, Northwestern, 8t I'anl, the trunk lnes, and Ontarlo & Western a8 the features, There was somo strong buying of St, Paul & Omaha preferred to-day, up o 107, bnsed on the fact thal 1t Is seling lower than any other 7 per cent stockgand the divi- dends nre palid quarterly, RAILROAD BONDS were less active than ustal of late, and prices were frregnlar. “Erle new second consols Huetuated between 10137 and 102, ° Boston, Hartford & Erie tirsts rose from 533 1o 5 md reacted to Sxaiily, Columbus, Chicago & fdlnna Central fncomes fell mf (o @k T Iron Mountain seeonds do to Sty International fiests to 10845 b Erie & Western incomes to 50; St T'and, Lan Crosse Divislon, firsts 1o 1203 St Pand & Minneupolis fivsts to 1093 Michigan Southern sinking fuwls to 10653 sl North Missourt fiests to 1205 whils Louisville & Nushville seconds rose to 1075 Lake Shore registered seconds to 1215 North- eri Macitie first 1345 do sinking-fululs, i3 Peorln, Deentur & Lvansvhld in- to9614: Tron Mountain firsts 1105 and Konsus & ‘Texns scconds to W, St Paunt T 10 bonds vose to 1273, and veneted to 127, It was reported on the street this afternoon that the NEGOTIATIONS TOR A CONSOLIDATION of the Unlon and Central Paceltie Ballroads had been renewed, Mauny think the Rend- I dififenlty Is heing prolonged for the pur- poseof widing plans by which the "Atlantle & (irent Western connections with the Hend- Ing Romed and the Grand Trunk Ralirond of Canalaean be formed Into a ngw through ronte, which will hecome n competitor of the Pennsylvanin Central, and to some extent with the Erle Company, Authorities on this “subject ndmit that some sueh sehieme 3 under way, Western Unfon was higher on the anhouncement of the con- sofidnti scheme, aml the announeement thint the ol stockholders would get 48 per cent serip; % was bld for the new stock. The threatensd injunetion fo stop l{m con- solldation comes from the bears, who have finally founda stockholder who hins promised fur substantfal rensons to begin tho legnt procecdings ngainst the project. The LI In- troduced in the Legisluture yesterday, FORMDDING TELEGRAPIIC CONSOLIDATIONS, will probably never como to anything, he- ts¢ Gov, Cornell will veto 1t My, Gonl’s friends say that he I3 very bullish on the Southwestery stoeks, which will probably soon assert themselves fn the market, 1tus- selt Sage Is nlso still bullish on the low-priced Western sl Southwestern stocks, fneluding the Wabush, and the coustant advanco in 5t "aul and Northwestern conunon I8 worryiy the old gentleman on his ealls; 108 was bid Inst night for 2,000 shaves of Chicago & Omnha preferred stocks, ‘Ihero was a rianor in tho street this morning that the Peorla, Deeatur & Evansville Rallroad was Hlkely to soon pnss futo the hunds of the Louisyilie & Nashville Compnny, WIHIPPING. BENGH'S LATEST . SCHEME OF PUNISHING CRULLTY WITH CRUELTY, Speciat Disvateh to The Chicago Tribune, NEwW Yonsk, Jan, 20.—Mr, Henry Bergh has seb iy heart upon huving the lash applied to hman bueks, and tho bl for tha ehastise- ment of wonmn-beaters which Gen, Husted Introdueed Into the Assembly yesterduy at hils Iustance, ennnot puss withoutopentg the way for the whipplug-npost ag an_ fnstrument for the prevention of erinies of almost uvery clngg, Mr. Bergh's bill provides for the eas- thaution of uny wale person who shall “willtalty beat, brudse, orwutiinte his wife orany othor femule human being,” und the matglstrate beforo whom the offender 1 - victed Is to speelfy the mumber of strokes to b fntllered, * which shall not ho less than fwenty-five, which shall be stardily lafd on the bave baek of suiid offender by means of whin or lash of sueh provortions and stvength s Wil fnsure the cnrylng out of the splrit and letter of this statute,” ‘Che punlshment 18 to be Intlieted by the SherliU of the County In which tho offense fs committed, or by n deputy or eonstable, within tho luctosure of the county prison, st I ns privato nmon- ner as may b, aithough “In the presenee of o duly Heensed physielan or surzeon,” 1t Mr. Bergh's reinedy for brntality townid women 15 effeetive, the whipping-post will probubly coma into general use for the ppre- vention of erbme. WHITTAKER, ORGANIZING 'THE COURT-MARTIAL, Nuw Yonk, Jan, 20.~The court-martinl in tho ease of Cadot Whittakercanvened fu-lay, All the members were present except Capt, Lrher, who Is on his way from the Wesl, Whittaker (in_uniforns) and his counsel wern also present, Tho ovdder for the court-martinl wos read to Whittal who lstened standing, flo was then asked If he had ooy ubjectlon to any member of the Conrt, Giov, Chamberlain, of Wils eounsel, sald they huwd no challenge strietty to offer, Mo destred that Col, Lugzen- biel sliontld be put upon his sol dire, so thoy might determino us to whethor they should offer u elmliengze, Col, Lgenblel wassworn, und fn answer to questions by Gov, Chamber- Il sald he knew nothing of the ease, flo may have conversed with soma persons on the subjeet, mud may have skl n good many things, Jf thers were any objections, he woull fike to bo eseused, Gov, Chamber fain safil they had no obfectlons except legnl objections, Qe—* 1lnvo you at.any tine expressed an opinjon ns to tho guilt or Innocenco of the neehsed $ - Col, Lugenblel="1 qm thinking, - 1 don't kuow whether 1 have or not, 1 have romd tho pewspapers from morning to wornhig, but knaw us Nttle about 1t us uuy man fn the " Inve you formed any opinlon " Answer—*No, nothing dotinit, most eer- tainly, My mind 3 freu from uny precon- ceptions or bins. Lthink as i 1 hnd never fieund of the ense. 1 lave wo prejudice, L have beon in the avmy tow long to form any oplnton befure the court wieets.” R Gov, Cluuberialy sald they did not pro- pose to make uny formul challenges, *Col, Tugenblel says he Is not prepared fo suy whather or not he has expressed un opinfon, but snys that his wind fs unbiased and free from prejudice, Wo wiil not, therefore, ke any formgd challenge, but leave it to the Court,” G, Miles snidd the Court hnd no power to exense any member unless thore hud heen o formad ehallengoe, Saf. Gardner ngaln asked Whittaker If he hind any objection to nay embor of the Court, and Whittaker replled that ho b nut, whoreunon the Judge-Advoeeato gdiph Istered the usual oath to the Court, /3'Tes- Mlent Miles by turn adubnistered the0nth to o - mally dedlared duly organized, Gov, Chamberlain salid they should need thmo to Ill\:p:\m for a defense; there was an fmmense \msn of testimony that hnd beon taken hefore the Court of Tnquiry which he desired to \review, nud 1t was just to Mr. Whittaker tip should have time, e did not urge this mu’\:m with a view to ereating un- Necessary delny, Judge-Advdenate Gardner gald o also should 1tke to\look over this evidenee, ail should foin wilh tho Governor In asking a delay, ¢ After somo diseusalon ns to the thne, tho Court adjournedputidtho i of February, PACIFIO RAILROADS, THE RUMOLS, Spectal Dispateh o The Chicago Tribunes NEw Your, Jan, '92.—A vamor that the Unlon Pacitie mud Ventral - Pacitie Rnilvond Compunies had consafidated, or that an ar- rangement for thelr consolidation was onthe eve of completion, was revived to-day on Wallstreet, C I Huntington, Vice-I'resl- dent of tho Central Faclie Rultrond, was ealled on cat his house, amd questioned In - regard (o the rumor. *Thero I, %0 faras L know, nothing new n tho mat- ter,” replied Mr. Hubitington, **No new movement s been wade for two or threa months, At that {hse n proposition was made, but iteame to nothing, £ then with- drew th offer 1 had made,” “You refer to the proposition that was sub- mitted to the .hu!%»—,\dvocnlv. and tho Court was for- FREDEUICK L. AMES #nd the other Boston Direetors?? “Yes, Mr, Anes met us, sl diseussed the allvisability of consoliinting the two romls, ‘Ihiere ean be no doubt but that it woull bo to the advantuge of both” interests to have n consollidntlon, Dbuty tho Unlon Pacifiec people dun't scem to know exaetly what they want, Me Ames took howme with him the deaft of n proposed ngrie- ment, wd on the followlng day It was published. - They wsed it only to bull thelr stoek, \Within tho L few dnys some persons have ealled on ey aand have talked Indefinitly ahout cous solidution, but they *had not the papers,’ and, being nnauthortzed, theire talk amosnted to nothing, Mr. Gould Informed mon few duys nge that he had osold all s stoek In the Unlon Puclfic. Company. This Is tobe regretted, beeanse 1 have al- ways found M, Gonld to ho st good man to et under clrewmstances shmilar - to those In which the consolidation of the two companies I8 to be discussed. 1le aiways knows what he wants, and so do 3. Under such elrenmstaees, terms fre goon reached. flal, ut present, there Is no prog- péct of n consolidation seheme being earried out.’” 'Fhat there was any teuth in the re- purt was BENIED IS EVENING by the fricnds of the Unlon 1'acltie Company, who deelared that the negotiations aband- oned smne tine tigo had nut been resumed, 1t was not fmpossible, It was sald, thatthere had been some informal talk about the mat- ter, but nothing certainly had been nce complished, . g CASTLY, GARDEN. CUPTING BATES T0 IMMIGRANTS, Spectut Disjateh to The Chiicagn Tribuns, New Youk, Jan. 20.—The cutting of rates begun by the Penusylvanla Railrowd Coni- pany severnl weeks ngo, In ord; to control the Tnmlgrant passenger teallie thronghCastle Gurden, assiuned 1 uew fenture to-day, ‘Il frste reditetion made wns 20 per cent, Sub- seqtently o veductionof 80 per cent was midey aml to<dny thoe licket ngents ov “boukers" in Costle Gavden wero authorized 10 sell tickets over the Pennsylvanin Rond to competing pouints at 40 per cent below tho ledule rates for thivd-class prssengers who buy their tickétsnt Castlo Garden, “Thiy reduction does nof apply to outside oftices, but 1t I8 sad that A OTHER PEOPLE TIAN IMMIGRANTY ure getting the beneild of the reduetion, It 13 nsserted that specudators, generally known as #sealperss” visit Custle Garden upon the mrival of the' fmmigrants, and employ them to- purchass tickets 1o poluty beyom! Dittsburg, wheré logal rates e, and then take them to ountside offices, where thoy sell them at rates _below the schedule nnd mnke o fale profit. mmigrants solng to Pittsburg, to which the fare iy §7.10, nre often wdvised that they ean save: money by purehasing tickets to competing points beyond, as they ean get them ut o rate below that to Vittsburg, 2 —In the Independent of Jan, Bt a long nrl{ulc, written by the ey, Dr, 8. IV Spear, uppeared, reviewing tho Iatest eharzes ugabist o 1 ', Do Witt Falmnge In the mntter of his contract with the Admnee bufore leaving the editovship of the Chrlstian at Work, - At the close of tho nrtlele it wis hinted that it tho attacks on M. Talnage did not cense It might he neeessary to resort to the courts for pro- teetton, us mallelous defmnatlon was an in- divgable offense, Dr. Vindylio g written a reply, In it ho Sayse In a paper prepaved wider the advico and approval of bl counsel, and rend by Dr, ‘Inlmage I hls pulpit on the 5k of Decome ber, 1839, L am aeeused, I common with other nembers of the Preshytery, of varlons menn awd malielous wets, not one of whiel could’ o teathfully ldd fo the chnrge ot s, Thit paper deelares that 1ts author has In his possession proofs of the * moral rol- tenness ™ of Wis so-ealled perseeutors, and ommterinl put in'his hands by cortaln gen- themen which woulit ke s banquet for senulnl-mongers for the next year” ‘Ihils material §8 now inmy possession, mut among (v fs an wlikduvit fn Dr. Talmoge's own haudwriting, part of wiieh was read In e Synm}, with tho munilest design of aflx- frg upon My, Croshy o -certain inedn netion whiel he had festiiied before the Presbytery hehnd not performed, The history of this afiidavit can easily bo produced. These papors were sent to me, togother with certain athers, to which Ishall presently refer, by Maj B, It Corwin, who doctures that hie §s ready, whon ealted upon, Lo show hiow they cane into his possesslon, ik what vlght ha-has to use them, The dosnments mind thelr eurlous history are at the disposal of the, Presbytery of Brooklyn whonever (hoy wre willie to make tha fn- ruwll‘.;mhm, for which I huve hitherto asked n vuln, Furly in -October last Maj, B, R, Corvin, who hias been for muny years an oflicor in what I3 now eatled *'The "Tabernnele,” il until very lately nn enrnest and “oven violent defendor of DraPulmage, und who probably dll more than any other man 1o seeurs his acquittal, sont ey by the hand of another, the documents above veferved to, togethor with the contracts between D, Falminge and €, 11 Howurd & Co, - Dr, Speay says that theso papers aro privits property, nnd in- (huntes that conmon houesty required ma to sendd them at onco to D, ‘Tahnage, wha thelr fnwral owner, 1t are they privalo property?: Somo of them hind bmug,"l'llkh'fl“' holed,” and covertly boferred to 03 materinl for %o Dananet of seandad,” and tlins darkly usedd to tarnish tha good ‘nume of such sl us D, Wellseand Dre Butler, nnd D e Lelland, s well as of mygelt”Yhoy'-aro ey o b iven lul'.;ut;'w'fi‘" bo retyrned 10 that dark . plgeon-loiw’ ! ‘Toward m\l: :.].,“.ur his lutter Iy, Vimdyka wrltes: “'Thg atiilueness of the'docunients 5 not disputed. Thelr signilieancals’ fulrly sptufeeil in the fetter whleh hus novor beon apesered, and of whoss very exislenca Dr, ¢ 1s careful not to infori thg regders of the Independent. 'The only polut e in 1t, which he sttempts to argue, Jy tho unime portantone abuub the date” whey the- Gous trnet wns comploted, amil Tam glad that his Inbored nrgunient on this polnt was prepared without consulting his ellent, It tho matter rover comes fntow “elvil courl, this will prove of grent disndvantage to D, ‘Lalmage, “Let mo hotlee one ehiaracterlstie spechnen of Dr. Spenr's defense. e says that Dr, Tl mage had no ldea or intention whin he left homoon Oct. 0, of withdinwing from the Christion at Work, onthiat day, or of putting Iifs valedictory, ‘Good-Uy to Okl Frieids, into tho next fssue of that paper, " With n large siveteh of charlty, this 1s verbally true, bul it s not trug in fact, ‘The compositer’s copy of that valedietory now lles belore wme fn Dr, Talnuyge’s hand. writing, Aslde from the fact that It was shown taa gentleman at 5 o'eloek thal morn- Tz, It bears Internn! evidenes that it was written, according to contract, before the afternoon of Qet, . Originstly It con- tained these wor My conneetlon with the Christian al Workavill conse after o few duys,” which certainly - w nob wrltten after he determined, necording to his sworn testhnony, to leave the paper #t onee, But these words ure erossed out, and the follow- ing substituted: *My connection with the Chrlstlan at Worde now ceases.’” 'The opigie ml headivg wos A word with my® ol friends,” But this also Is erbssed ont, amd *Good-by, old frjemis,” Iterlined, In ol other res) the copy before me s identieat with the valedictory Insertedd by night in the paper. It Is Herally true, therefore, that kis “ood Il friemls,? was not written tin the afternoon of Uch 9. lut is It really true 2 L ITEMS. ILUE GOWS'S SUCCESSOR, Nuw Youx, Jan, 20.—The Spivit of the Thues says My, James 13, Keetfe s searching for.u first-class English siro (o ke tho pace of his unfortunnte horse Blue Gown,, FIHITING A LIFE-INSURANCE COMPANY, Action was begun by the Union ‘T'rust Company ngainst the Comiectieut Life-ln- surien Company to reeover 30,000 on the polley on the life of Willlam Orton, who dled while President of the Westorn Unton egraph Company, "Phe policy was lssned to the'l'rust Coinpany as ‘I'rustees for Mr, Ortow’s ehildren, Thoilefense elafin that the statentents In the application” for the polley relative to the health of Mr. Orlon were not acenrate, o CTHE RIGITS 0F CHINAMEN, Aletter aditressed o Chineso residents of this elty hasJust been received by ‘Tom Lee, a prominent Mongolinn here, from Chin Lan Lin, the Clilness, Minister ut Washington, 1t Is I response to o petition from Loon Ye Long, of th United Chineso Brethren, ropre- senting the Chinese of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, In which they nsked ro¢ advieans to the best eonrse to be pursned in regard to the recent action of the Board of Allerioen oftdivooklyn fu passing au ordl- nancee farbldding the jssunuco of lHeenses for Inundries to any but Amerieith citizens, Chin Lan Lin ndvises the Chinese that the nction of the Brooklyn Allenmen ennnot effect thelr Tight to eavn a Tiving penceably and honestly. It the clty of Brooklyn refuses to permit Chinamen to own a ey, then the prover courss to pursie i3 1o upplyde the Supreme Court for o mandamns, and thus compel Drooklynites to Issue a lleense upon the ten- dering of 5, the fee, UNwoLESoM MEAT, Dr. Walter Do I, Day, Sunltary Superin- tendentof the Bonrd of Henlth, reported yesterday au Important selzure of unwhole- somy meat, mnde by oflicers of the Sunlfary Boreau. On the 1th st Oftleers Mooney and Kennedy, who lind been detatted for the work, gained adilssion to o eellar nt No, 520 Tenth nvenue, whers fuur men ‘were found enzuged, by lnmplight, in boxlmz ment for sausnres, Belng In citizens’ elothies the ofil- cers nersunded the workmen they wers pur chusers, and learnett - that 1 the proprictor of the enfeyprise wils Julius Meyer, of No, 451 West Thirty-fifth ‘stregg, Moyer was found, and entered Into » con- tract with them to furnish 100 powuds of spusnge-ment per (lur af fivg cents a pound, the lxrluu *teaming Mgl ! Deeause of the fino auality of the meat, ~On the 12th inst,, the ofleers nnmed, nasisted by Renndsman Wise- T and Patrolmen Acker and Weisberwer, followed by s offal cart, visited the cellar and selzed elzhty-otie quarters of cow heof and ¢lght buskets of boned beef, 'n total of G500 powmds, The meat wis in‘wdreadnl stute, tho ofMicers pronounelng It the worst they ever eamo neross,” 1t was taken to the offal doele, where it was sent to Bavren Island, ‘I'he busiuess has been golie on in va days, Sines the hefory the selznre work lhad been fduy @ nleht, with locked doors, yer was hield for trindin$100 ball by Judge Patlerson, . CIDE OF A NOTION MANUFACTURER, Peter Mebaughlin, who was o brother to the MeLaughlin Bros., publishers of chil- | dren’s books und munufacterersof ehiltren’s oys, committed snleido” Monday nfiernoon ' the parlor of his reaidence, lhnlnry street, Brooklyn, by shooting himsell in the rlght temnle, ” e Wi 42 years ohl, nod lved 10t nry plensant seerounitings with his wire and ehfldren. “"Phors §s no explanation of his sulelde, - 115 hrothers employed D nt 55,000 n yerr to superintond - theinfuctory at South Lieventl and ‘Chivd streets.” 1o not only il 0o risk In conneetion with the business, but'he owned property valned b 310,000, FIE POOL TOURNAMENT, Following ls tho result of the games played 0 the pool tenrnsment to-nfght: Albert Froy defeated "Chomus Wallaen 11 to b, and Smnuel Knight was defeated by Alonzo Mor- rls 11 10 10, "To-morrow night the last v lur gamo of the tournament will bo lxlnyn-«l between Go . Wahlstrom and Kigeht,” 1 the formor wins-hoe will bo entitind to the fiest prize of 2250, For the second prize, S150, Joseph King, Sunniel 1% Knight, Albert Frox, and Alonzo Morris wre u tie, each hays e dost two - gaines, £ Knleht dofeats Withistrom tonorrow the fiest prize wil aguln be open to the plasers five nani KEARVATION AND SICK) tha eeltar for about t Slmlalu olso, hoth aged y Have Rept o bhid-store on Bleeeker street for somo thme, For nearly hirty days the store bren elused, but as thy - uttention was tmup(u wure Ty pald to this, The poltea Ol prapte In bed lardly hunge ¥ plcht found tho blo 1o speak from oy were takon L L wvas sald their reeny Loy bl by I extens nothing for nli days, M1 was at one thue it wealthy mai, but Just his money ln specutation ———— . ACCIDENTAL 'DROWNING, A cont which awas fosud Inesdny eventng on the bimks of tho river baele of tho North Chieago Nahng 3, shortly atter cries for “hwelp were henrd by sone of tha workmen, was lnst.nlght identified by Myée, Willlam ~ Arndty,, of No, avol street, whoso hushund was employed nt mill, wnd wlio had | been misshog T slieo pay-day, ‘Lhe tracks in the.show v whers the eont was found . ndleated that the mian lud witked off ipto” the river, SArdt was tn the habit of geing on a porlod- ienl spree, and his wito secgis tully sitlsted that he, uf!nurgoll L0 ot from work, fell info thoe water and Was drownal, "T'ho by wits ot recovered, ad wa Ilkvl*’ to bo o rlod under tha lea farther down the river, sTcAMEHIP NEWS, . NrEwW \'n? i 20,—Arrived, the steam- ahiip Cl uf Chester, from Liverpool, QuEENSTOWS, Jan, 20—Arrived, the Ne- Jondla, from New York: New Yousk, Jam, | H—Avrived, the T, Caland, from "Rotterdum; the Nederlund, from Antwerp, et o 1o Kode Ous 511s Dollar, Saeramenty Hce, A Jolly old follow came dawa from tho mount ulus just botoro Chrisunns to spend the holidnys ut sientinenty. Hecumlug thal of footing it nbont the city, ho gat 010 u strevt-car, und when shown by'the deiver the box i walen ho shoull depegit his fure, ho 'lrnmn-ll therein w trude datlur, .'rhvuhrduummh-m ¥ chunyo, but (hvurlwrm‘lwuwd Il hovould not glyo hin guy uuless b bad padd tho colny te him, “Pora tinig tho old foltoty was 1n adileina, f1ls dollor wis i thoe Box ail ho hwd B0 show (o get it eut, Finully ho soived tho problom or getting vven with tho Ruttroud Company by notifyine tho driver thut bo would usis'up the money ho png it tho box in pides, 'Mls hudbl by remuinlug on AL e Jue e ut u“. g er;‘llnllml wl;mlnl sk of whisky nnd w, lunch o€ crickers und chioese, $ao uld fetlow udgd w plegle ull 1o blasity THE\ CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1881—TWELVE PAGES, “THE CUPR.” Alfred Tonnyson's New Play at tho Lyceum Theatre, London—Poot {ti and Playwright, Henry Irving In Mall and Ellen Terry in Paltium and Chiton—-A (inlne tian Tragedy. Toxnox, Jan, 4,—A play by tho poot lan- rente, produced ot afivst rate London theatre, is an event which stirs the Hterary and artly tie henrt of the great town to Its centro, and, when Mr. Irving and Miss Terry arve to bo Hs exponents, the esthetes plunge with fervor Tnto the matter and awell the’murmur of ex- peetation into a pertect shout of deliriwm, Su far tho dramutic attempts of Tentiyson lve been caviare to the general. * Queen Mary ? was recetved with respeetful atten- tlon, “the * Faleon” awakeued rather more interest, and now *“’I'he Cup,” given for the first time Inst night at the Lyeeum, goes o slep further, amd ereates nn linpression that the. poet may really nspire to he, or, rather, to heeome, n dramatist. *'Phe Cap?” s the advantage of beng produeed at tho one the- utre in Lomlon wherg perfection of seenory aml archweologleal tuste In necese surles enn bo absolutely counted upon under tho personnl supervision of o man who s ‘nt once ‘manager, nrlist, and eapltalist, so that I thera be any inhers ent element of sues in w play produced at thut house nothing witl be wanting to make the smecess assured beyoud doubt, .\ fivst nightat the Lyceum under such clretnms stinees §s an event; to the admirers of Irving and Miss Terry—ldolntrons Tanatles who are Yeyomt the pale of ealm reason—it ts an his- torfeal event, 1t I8 the custom of @ Lyceum ndienee to burst fnto applanse before the curinin In its nacent hns révealed more than aynrd of the stage, and to hreak into perfeet shouts when the moment has uerived for the chtrées of thelr god and goddess, ‘Thus, when Mr. Irving, in'a culragy of seale armo niicd Dy tho first, fourl mmytle ot leopard skin leps hate ot of fharls, With il bare arms and nd nJovely flowle mnss of red botnd - with o fillet . of chased [ metal work, stepped upon the seene, with Ilounn pavement in the fores ground and the peaks of tho mowntaing of Gulatln o the horlzan, there was « roar of welcome which kent Ifm bowing for ab loast wominutes and when Miss "Terrey, Jn palliun and _chiton of soft myriad-folded drapery, suddenly stamls 1iko n Ureek stutue on the roeks the seeond barre] 1s firad off with quite a8 deafenhye n bang, With such encournzes ment what artist would not fi gplred to grapple with the ideas o fhies of cven o poet htureate? And yet every man of Judietal mind uutainteid with ldolairy in the thentrddnst night must have kuown that My, Irving wits not tha hest man now In London fur thie part of the hero, nor Miss ‘Terry the only netress who coutd undertake that of the herolne, However, we st tako things as they ure pre: 1o us and he thankful,—~ thankeful that the poet lnureate does not con- deseend to write for the stage, and that the 05t popular man on the stuge does spend his money without stint in at least giving us Metures which, for color and effeet and acen- 1) have never been surpasseld on the English 'stage, IN QALATIA, The cup and the story which Is wreathed nbout Its fatal handles transports us to o “country aud a perlod not common on the atly, 1, €, Across the Galatinn after the enrtnin has risen and it murmur of tho audience hog hed to dead sllence, o tew Roman legionarles pnss; their camp and their Gen- cral, ckntonlus, nve near by, wl the porch of the temply of Artemls “is in the fure- gronml, Stnnagus, o Gulatlnn ‘Tetrareh, rules tho “tand, and Lty wife Iy Canona, 1 Galnth mlf whaloves, and, loving, avenges ler lord, Thaformer Tethareh wis - oo Synorty, who hud been driven. from tho tetrarehy by his own peovls for hils tyranny and Heentiousuess, and had gone to Rome to ullly hibmsell with the enemies of s country, With the Rmmnu avmy of Invasion hoe returnis to his native Tnd for @ double purpose, to win hael liis tetrarchy, which tho opposition of the patriot Shenatus to the mighty emplro renders o cmusmmll\wly oeasy task, and also Lo take possession of Cammer, whom ha hus Toved with n hopeless, lustiul love for many years, This s not so ensy, and, in the end eosts him all that his mbition hind de- ed, i his life. Following the armed s clivd I their famitlr wemor and 5 with the diseiplined eas¢ of tralned trdops, helmet, shleld, nud spear, Synorlc comes upon the scene n grind barbarie lg- ure, [ startlime contiast to, those who have Just nassed outof slght, Steel and sking of Wil beasts und naked flesh unite to muke “P the very Ideal of a semi-harbiarian, half Gaul, hatt Greek, for sueh the Galothans were, Greek in tho statuesgue mnfesty of his bear- ing, Ganl i the pleturesyne uncoutliness of his uttive and the wild eyes shadowed by the redd halr, ho his come biek, this fieree oxile, and ns he stands on tho stony puth ho snys: Sho prssed ine bero Three yenrs ago when Lwns fiying from My "Tetrarehy 1o Roma, 1 nlniost touched her, A minfden nlu\\-lf mn\'luf ol o) snusle Among bor mafilens to hier tamplo. Oh, Qods! Sho I my fate,—elso wherefare has my fate Brought e ngaiu to her own clty? ‘Then he takes out from the folds of his teopardeskin muntls o zolden eup—double hondled wxl of exquisit form—whieh ho sendsto Cammonwith o sceroll stating that the Kift 1s one whieh has been saved by “a Galne tian serving by forco In thearmiesof ome, from wshrine ol Avfemis fired by the - vilers. A Httle halfunked shepfierd . boy, who has been sittimge on the roeks watehbe hs Nocks, s the bewver of the cap amd seroll, i preseutly tho sound of horns and the shouts of hunters are heard drawing nearer and nenrer, Stnnatus the'letrareh §s a-hunt- fang, ol soon thy huntsinen como rushing alotg the path with howds in leashy—ren shous, of course,—and go_shouting down the Bllshte, Presontly, In charming contrast to this nolsy scene, the gentle, penceful figures of Camma qud her malilons are seen on the hizh ground watehing the ehuse, Synoria, wh seex her wppronch, stopplig back in ad costaey of joy,ob, heholding once more lis fte, the wonln tor whom hils desperats n'zlrfi. Is ahant to venture so mueh now that sho I3 anothoer’s, [IIEH A Murrioil— Sineo marriod Stunatbi, tho Totenreh hore, I8t It ho bu consplrator, Itome will chuly Or sty b, |ty trust to i her, thon, When'tshadl inve my ‘Fetracehy restorod, ,, Then the Hunter-King Stmuatus comes, foltowing the ehuso spear in hand, and shuds Invee liis eny yes with “his linnd, Syaorks. aveosts the ‘Tetrareh, and 14 permitied ot only ta Join tho ehuse, but i3 invited to his house utterwurd, ) CAMILA AWALTS JER LOWRD, 'Eho next senne shows us the charming ine {erior of the Greeo-Romun villof Stnndlus, Canvanat, nfone, awalts the retarn of her huse band, and sings to hev lyro: Moo v the ileld and the fonm, Moo on 4o witste and 5o wokl, Muon, hrlne him homo~byjiog hin home Hitlo frum tho durk wu cotd, + Nowe, sweet woor, b m e Heamo with tho tlock g2\ the Talily Bl from e wolf— I Tersong (s Interrupted 1« tho return of tho linnters, niul n lovely plflugu of anclent wanners s presented a8 oy Galatinn luly ,fr«.'ulx thy guest and offors, wine to i unil ier hushind, "Phelr contyantion Is upon the Mvasfon of thelr country b{ tho leglons of Roare, Camnrashows hier Tushond the enp uid serotl, and e commnndids with sig- eastie foren Whon the expression that the une fnown Gulatinn presenter of the gitt servarl bygforea in the enemy’s ranks. Sinnatus 13 HOW stinoned by o essengor Lo attend n meeting of the antl-Rowan -fuetion, so the erafty Nyaocky, 'who overhears the lnl-s»u‘w. is Jefl o with the Sady—his up{;urlun ty hos eome, 118 reveals o her that her hos- band’s conspirney nalnst the Rownn power 13 known uned that he will be sl prisoner, tortured and, put to death, 1o gaes o to Ll the tear-styieken. Capnna that the only hope ,of wuving him I8 for her to ses <Ltoiiline, the communder of the lexlons, whow e promises to bring to the en- tanes of the Templo of Artemls meet hor, "This she consents b do, and S worle's husgurd fues bursts Inte o trim phnut jsuile ot the success af his ‘llnu, which, Jt need scarcely De suldy §5 to ly in “i‘r‘" Tof her at the rendezvous nnd capry hdy ofl, Fors, Stiiatus relnters tha ehamber mad with fury, for ho lus discovered thut the stranger, Stritta~for 80 Spuria bt Introduced hin- self=13 o othor than the vils ox-Tetrurel Bimself, one'ol the hunters having recognlzed Diws during the chuse. Hard wpon the heels of Shinatis §s the Galatlun mob howling for the lito of Synorltr, but the noble-lenrted dotrureh will not Alve up {o thelr (usk bis guest, and shows him nway o eseape Into the forest, Spnoriy, who dven when thus hunted preserves tho grandeur of hils bear- Ine, unsheaties tha short sword ol hissldo annd goes forth knowing that his 1ife baa been snved by his mortal for, ‘Uhen again in de- Hghtfol eontrast—it Is i play of contrasta— comes o most eharming seeno between the Imshand ml wife, She looks ont over the forest, i tells him she is goiie out to lodce in the saere shrine of Artemis the Cup, but makes hitn promise to’follow her fn half an hoir, The wearld Kimg geeks his concl, whilo Cnine, nerving herself fur the drends ed interview, bethinks herself 1o take with her hep dasger, Tite seene tien chistiges to thy Inndsenpo ns at first, butthe hour 1s dawn, and the siow-clil mountalns nye rosy with he first kiss of the morning s, Synorfe 8 ¢ 1 the shadow, ke tho Inrking spirit of evil, Cammu cones down tho hill bearing the Cup, and the ardent Synorizerles to her: Tho lark first takes tho suntight on his wing, Al f‘nu. Iwin rlster of tho morniug stary Forelead the sun, In answer to her frightencd Ingulries he assures her Antonfus will_bo - there, but wishes Der o walk with him townrd the coanp. She refuses. Tle appronehies to cont: pel her, when she draws the dagger raises it to strike. Swift ns n pantlier he sefzes her wrist, fo it down, opens hor lingers, mnl takes thy weapon, g ho anys, with tender banter, *Is 1t not casy to disarng e womnn 2 Meantlmo Shinadies, who has followed hls wife, appears on {he path, and I moment is behind Spaorkr, aud, shott- g “ Adulterons dog 1 seizes hisnrm, There i3 mowment of lieree strugglo; then, with autiek turn and n sudden stralghtening of hily am, Synorkr drives the dageer to his ene- my's eart. With his dylme breath Stnnatus tells his wife to flee Into_the temple, and shy vanishes within the porinl, ‘The murderor, standing above thestark body of the Tetrarceh, thus soliloquizes: - . Arluiterous dog! that red-faced rago at mey Then with one yulck, short ftab—cternnl peace: So ey nll pusstonss Then whut use by preslons? Ta wirm tho cokt bonmils of our dying life. leat wo freezo I mortal npathy nploy s, heat us, 118, p us, keep us om Aceing nil too near thit wen, those nshes Which ail muet he, Well used thoy serve ng well. Ihenrd nsaying in Egypt that ninbition 18 liko the s wive, Which, tho more you drink The moro you thirst, Yeal delnk tod much, a8 men Haveadnne on vafts of wreek, it drives yon mad! 1 will e no such weeck, i 1o sucl gniucster A8, havling won the stike, go pleying on Fo'double It or lose all. The Roinw Sennte, For Lhavo alwnys played into tholr hands. Means ine the crown and Camma for iy bride. The peaple lovo her—If 1 win her love They, too, whi cleave to me, ns ono with her, There, thon, I rest, Jtome’s tributary King. S hath eseapod mo Mo snved my Hle—It geemed 8o, DI he? Dead] Why il 1 sirlke Blin? Having prool cnough Ainst the mnn, 1 sm’cli' should havoe left This stroke (o ltomo. 1 have pinyed tho sudden ool ‘Lhat, oo, 8018 her nialns Commnl ~Well, well, | never found the wotnan 1 coutid nat fareeor wheedio to my will, Ehe will be gitd at Inst to wear my erown, And 1 will make Gnlath prosperous, too. ‘And wa wiil ehirp smong sur vines, and snillo At begono thiingx till that etornul peuce. ‘The eurtain drops on the first act ns Syno- 71 prononnees these st words, with o gest- ure toward the dead mam The audienes Dreaks into applase, and then settles down 1o comparo noies aud erlticise. 01 thosplon- dor and benuty of the mounting of the plny there was but one opinfon—perfect, Of the Inngnuge, 5o tarng Mr, 1evie i3 coneerned, 1t was unfortunately hnpossibleto i;uln niteh fden, for, ng usunl, much that o T to suy was unintelligible. AT THE BURIN ‘The seeond net takes place in the Temple of Artemis—tho wmost heantiful interlor that hns sver heen seen on the London stage, On cither sido Is n range of vast columnsg, and the extraordinary cave which has been Iav- Ished on the play I8 shewn in tho fact that thie lower portion of eneh colmnn 13 o copy of the aetual (e of one of the eolmns of the Templo of Diwnn ot Ephesus, now in the Britlsh Museum, In the eentre, at tho back, tho sintue of Artemls, tho muny breasted god- dess of the Galatians, rises, hitce and dack, tothe roof, In the wididle of the floov 13 tha teipod, on whiehi barns the alfar-five, avo- matle with spices and ineense, The priest- essey, Ceaagmae amonge them, are grouped « among the tohumns, wd the whole interlor I8 i subdued light, only made brighter from thue to time by the flicker of the siered fire. 1t I8 the day-of Synovie’s coronation,— for the Romaus liave placed him upon tho throne. Within the temwle the rumor las spremd among the pri gses that Camme in- tonds to marry the murderer of her husband,. | and slinre his‘throne, and thoy express horror e pity for her wito ean o soon_ forget and deseerate thotr holy order, ~ Ountslde the mob 1s beard shoutlng for Synorte. A horahl from Synorle enters. the temple and brings 0 Canina w messuge from the Tetrarch ask- Ings that shoe will bo its wife, and plending that the agsasination of Stnnatus was anncel- dent, that ho “knew not at the moment who Il fastened about hls thront,” and that * it was o random stroke,~ul] else was lovo for you,” "T'o ho crowned-with him sh¥ refuses, and bids tho n 1eL— L N ARTEMIS, & Artemis ts thon invoked by Synorls and Camna, the priestesses elinntine In stropho and antlsitophy at tho end of cach appenl, The bride and bridegromn then pour ffhu- tlons to the goddess, and Camune olfers 1o .s'ylnnrl.: tho marriuge cup—that very cup which he had sent hier, She drinks lierself and then bids Wim drink deep, She has drugged the wine with a deadly poisou, Cammu~Thou hust drunk dacpenough tomake * mo hapny, Diost thou not feol tho fova [ hear to theo Give glow through thy velns? Spmaorr—Tho love 1 beae (o thes Glrows through my velng sineo first I looked on [ me, far the moment, o, But wherefore slur the perfect ceremony? The sovercign of Guilutin weds his Queen, 1iet ult ho done to the fullest, I tho sight OF ull tho gods. 110 sty ] hat {8 It ngatn? ‘'his puin. W 1_had o touch af this inst year In Rome, Yew, yos; yourirm. 1 reel henoath tho wolght Q1 uiter joy—~this ull 1o BEppy diy— Crown, Queen, at onee, A moinent—1t will pass. O, il yo gods! Juplter! Jupltor! Camma=—Dost thou ¢ry out upon tho ygods of Rowa That urt Gulutlan horn? Onr Artorals T vanguished their Dl N ptz—1 nin polsoned. Let hor not tly, Campa—iluve I not drunk of the sume cup with theot Synorir—Ay. by tho gods! She, teo; she, tool Muderous, mud wonnn. | |bmfi' you, Mt m, Andamake me wialk nwhito,” Lluive beswd thoso Stay B0 Wikesd 1 May bo wilked down, ¥ My feot aro tons of lend. Thoy will break in the carthe L am sinkiog, Hold ye, . Letmo nlond, . oo lnte. Thought myself wiso— A womnn's dupe. Antontus, tell the Benato Ihave been most true to Rome—woukl havo bron truoer 'o her—If=it——. Though art coming my way, too, . 2 Cammal Good night! e dies,) Camma—Sutwe wily? Crawl, worin, crawl down thine own dnrk hoto "To the lowest hiell, My Lord Antonlns, 1 meunt thew to hive Followed—hotier thug 1F wa must go honeath tho i‘ukuul Romae, Have | the erown on? 1 will go P meet it evown'd! crown'd viotor of m{ will On iy st voyuge: bt the wine ha fallud; Urowling daris, 100, bt ght enotgh 10 row, Ttaw to the Nicszed 1slos! the Hlessed Istes) Thero lenguo an o of over-shining shares Benenth un eveesrising s, 1 sco hin, Why eomes Tio not to eet w0 It 1s the erown Orendds bl aad my hunds nre too sleepy o life it off, + “ Cnnpnnd Cumimal! Binnntus! Sinnatus! Tell him there 18 one shidow nmonyg the shad- oW Ono unu:l of all tha f{hu.m-—ad yet ag aow, Ho strange, nmong them—such an nlien thore, S much of husbaid i 1 stlll, te ir ‘Thu shout of Bynurix nnd Canmg sitting Upon one throto shoutd reach it 1t would riso, Ho—ho=—with thae ved stur between tho vibs Auil oy knlfu there, and binst the King and mo Aua ufl tha crowd with horeor, 1 daro nat, sir, Throne him—uud thun tho marriugo—ay, and h '.lt:l hl nf Y m 1 neeept tho'dindem of Galatis, £ thit you soo me erown mysolf withal walt him, bis crowned Quecn! ‘Thien, to the munzenient of the priestesses, gho crowits horselt with the dindem and mwalts the entraneo of Synorkr, 110 entors, crawned with the golden laurel and in inog- niticent cmbrofdered robes, foilowed by Zintonius and the Romansin full panoply. The udvent of theso grand tigures Hihts up £ho eoloring of the scenw, and the vriestessos How feteh tureles for the nuptial processlon, The ceremony then beglns, 'Ihio privatesses kneel uround the altur, then walk with mens- uied step around tho temple il to the foot of the statno of tho goddess, whilo elildren elud In white dnnee In and strow flowers us mu‘y come, i With this lost faint ery of “Slunatus” Canmuna sinks lteleas Into’ the arms of the priestesses und the curtaln talls wbon an ln pressive pleture, A detailed eriticism of the play beyoud the fow remmrks which aceon- may the quotations from It which 1 huva Elven you would only be wearlsome, 8o far us the language I3 converned—nelthor Mr, Diving or Miss ‘Ferry are eapablo of dofng Justlesto It, o from ks fmperfeet elocutlon, Bhe frowm ler want of power, heard an Amorfean who was present remark that ho would have liked Edwin Buoth and Gene- vieve Ward to havo been In the place of Ir- ving und Elleu ‘Leery, Loz he then would have e " out, ] hat tho pi bont. of g known what tho play was abont, mmmlmg of the plecs the opinlon ;.m‘,'f‘g,‘? by one of tho Lomtlon erithes will e gf m‘l byl wito ave seen (b Cho bietures (hat dweli on the munmrf are r'ulml]l S i not to bo effaced i apull or witehery 1y ny of tha most viunted productions 6f o stae even in the era dovoted toareleology,” y; " [rvigs was stmmoned before the ¢urtab af the close, md midy n shord, specel, slating that Mr, ‘Fennyson was many miley mm\“' but that he woitld send hits 2’ tedegran g0 nouneing the favorahla reseptlon of his play, e —. ST. ELMO'S FIRE, A Wonder of tho Sea—=Tho Myaite Finmg on the Mizzenmast=head of the Stip John o) Gaunt—Yixperiences or Mlde shipmun=Story of’ tho Ships Physle It San Franetaco Buttetin, During tho evening and the Intter part of Nov. 12}, 1880, the ntmosphero bt been dis. turhed, and had presented o our gaze fivg wonderful waterspouts, ohe of great, si and volume, which seemed, a8 It moved o |ty graml and steady conrse, s If the destruetiyy ofour ship were Uts only alw, Bt no, ape other of its brethren crosses is path and we aresafe. After the excltement consequent on watehing the waterspouls had (< cluded, and Morphens was elalining Ifs alght, L1 retired at about 8 p, e to my cabln, and had just st myselt rendy for tho night, wher the chief oflicer eame to call me on to the poop. On my ar. rival thera 1 at once perecived i bright #lobg of lizht ot the mizzen royal mast, of a clear yellow tint, burning steadily, nnd unatfeeted || either by tho motion of the ship or by thg wind, tho globe belng about the sl of o lnrge tumbler. I at once recognlzed it ag the oft-heard-of, but til now never seen by e, magie fire of 8t Elmn. 1 observed it carefully for some time, and was wishing tha whut - of tho saffor T pussessed in me was wore largely developed, that I migng ctimb the mast and mnke a nearer view of this magle tiame, when one of onr midship. mon—A. 1L Be—eame forward and volune teored to ngeemd. 1ere, then, was my chance I of makime anexperiment, throngh n medinn whieh I belleve s never before been ate tempted, mixt In that way aiding on, though ounly In nsmallway, the knowledgo ol my fellow men. Iaviig distiuetly Instrueteq A, 3, n3 to earecmd o dblgent noticy of e urs'lhlmi. however trifling it might appear to him, and knowing ho coudi b relled on for daty, ho began hiz nseent, enwerly watched from the deck. On nfs arr at the pofut where the flame ap- red to he stationed, he was heard to ery Ol i6 §8 hot,” amd all was stlence, After wulting # few seconds, he was halled by the Captaln ad myself, telling him to come down, but no answer could we get. Tore, then, was n pesition o be fn, Il f, in my eraving after the knowledie of the unt Jnown, huerled oue of my fellow-nmen inly Tmmedinte peril? Such i suspense conll not g0 on, and anuthoer midshipman, L C. K. was sent upnud toll to bring A, 1L B. down, or Jet s know the reason why ho was unable to descend, giving hiw sl agsistanee, Ina short time both wero safely on deek and our minds retleved. On urrival an deek A, 1L, 13, who appeared duzed, complalned of having burnt his thumly, and 1 nt once took him to my Hehted enbin to ascortuin the amomnt of injury, On examination L found A, 11, 13.'s conne tenance Ind n - dazed or “seared look, the pupls of the cyes very muech (llfnluxl and unnifectod LY lght, the thumb of the left hand diawn and ‘very painful, aud the wholu of the arm 'Hstlnctlr numb, - Thy pulse (feken on thy affected sde), 1155 tems I»emturc. 1025, ‘The patlent stated that on his nrrival at the ‘seat of the clectric phe- nomenon the flame assumedd distinetly blu. ish eolor, nud was apparently attached to the wnst In mueh the same way~ us the flame to the wick of weandlo. — On touching v with his Jeft hand (his right meanwhils holding on to the mast) e received a distingd olectric shoek " aml felt his finger burnt. - Great cardine disturbance took place, and spasmodie respiration, combined with entire loss of power with numbness ot hand and arme, also temporary deafness, aliown by his not having heard us call him from tho deck,—tha night belng 0 good ong for tho transmission of souml, L G, K, states that on avelval. at tho n hend e found A, 1L 13, seated on the miz & te um—gnlh\utfim'nl. with his right arm round the mast. Tle complained of vinlent burnmg of his thumb and numbness of his anm, Eis couraged, howeyer, by u comrade’s proximi- ty, and with 1, C. K's nid, he deseended to the deck, ‘The numbness of the arm pnssed off in about an hour, but the thumb contlnued painul i) noext moming, when ho seemed all vight agaln, and returned to his d“'f‘ Aftorthe oxperlment I ordered lin to his bunl, glving him o stiit gluss of rumand allowhig him to smoke. My young operator in this most Interest- ing experiment Is w elear-heded youns man, aged 20, son of w Genernl iy the British nrmy, and nnost eapital subject to work oug tha ease. e wasat tha thno of the experis ment in porfeet: oalth, and 1n no way the worse for dvink, nonoe huving been tastéd by hun previnus to his ascent, About fifty seconds after it wag touched, and In fact during the time we were 80 ux- Tousty watehing A, IL 13, the finme disap- peared, and ag if it (like” tho mystic firo of tne Roseerucinns) was fenrful of “mun's |'ri)‘- lm,i ways fnto the mysteries of earth and alr, it did not agaln appenr. ‘T'he ship was In Intitudo 22 degrees sonth, and longlinde 120 degrees 40 minutes west, steering north by enst half east, with the wind southenst, "The Captain, i soveral others were on tha poup during tho whole thnp of the experhment, and equnlly anxlous with myselt 1o _know more of this interesting flame; IL Foorn-Crani, Privato I'hyslclun to shi, n 0'Guunt. xit IRolfex. Lomdon Standant, £ Tho low prices which such neticles bying nows= aduye, compared with whit wns cheorfully paid for thom torly or ity yeirs wgo, 1, wo thijk,a slgn thnt poblo Losto I8 mpeovlig. For e Atanee, i tooth of Sie Trine Nowton was sold in 1816 tor ‘thu sum of £30, Doubticss this (3 Amall compared with the L4000 which the Kime of FPegu offered the Portugiess a8 tho ransom of Budin's tuoth, now in the 'Fempla of Adum’s Peuk hit Coylon, Hut tha one bit o dentlin i3 of much the samo valueas tho othor, for though un Uwen ean reproduce o mustodon or 0 megatheriin fron i uluflu toatl, tho most Jewrmed minateur wonld fall o i eovorunything to dlstingnish a wmoler of the nuthor of the * Peincipla” trom that extracted froni the Juw of thy veriest olodhopper that wyur nto biscon, Tho Jt worn by Nupoleon 1. ut the buttle of Eylaa wis” sola o 188 for 1,020 franes, although nea recont saly nun- oraus yotles of tho - l’.mlmrnr brought e trities, ho Ivory armehnlr presonted to Guss tavua Adolphits by (he obsequlous City ol Lubeel was fold 1 TES for 55,000 torins, hils tho cout worn by Chartes XIL at tho battle of Pultowa forehed, nt n salo the same year, the OIOPIMOUS St OF LK Connes, The two pens cimployed In sizming the Treaty of dmiens wore 2!5'1’»." [aposcd of in that year of unwisdom for A wig holanging: to Sterno brought 200 guineas, thongh oue which had formerly covered the heud of Kint wia nut nssusscd by Lls countrye wen at woro than the swmo numbor of frandd. Voltalre's cano realized ut an unctlon 600 francs, awalsteont bolouging 1o Ronssenn 160 frincs, and his pinchbieek witelt newrly half as mueh. The Parisiun earfcaturlst, I8 true, sl Tepresents tho Emimhmml chipplog 1ho Luvthenan or whitiliug tho burk of tho treo under which somo famous herson aat of upon which somo hifamous ono was hangeds Rut such an Bnglishman' s now u rolle-unter of n very hinnble order, Even the Hitio cubnets of lockaof Lifir, which wero ut une thne 50 fush fonabile, Boom to have disappeared, and, with tho nmelel af tho Ashinotcui and u few other Old Warld collections, publlo samsey s aro rpe fully gotting vid of el of tho rubbish which onea lnsumberod thons. e ———— 'The Goblin Bankor, ‘This trick shoutd nlways bo tha coneluding one af o performunce, a8 will bo seen, uco onsd tuble, dn full view of the spectators, the houss cugo of cannries, n chuding-dlsh and o satver coverod by a plitn white huudkorchiof, snd & lighted cundlo of greon wax, Puss tho salver weound, neking cuchh of tho gucsts to place ot 0 hundkerchlef o voln, gold i possis ble, aftoer murking the sane 80 us (o bo readty recognized, if bo sbould ever sce it agulie While tytug up the Bandkerchiof, say *Come in" I wloud voles, Eveeybody wiil lnok t the door, when you vng 81p tho bog Into your pocke ot substitaiing anothier bundkerchiof fliled with brokon chiuu, Light sunio splrits by tho chutiok dish, dropplng the supposed coln nto lhlg Humes, Into which yon iilye throw six eimbro ored bBandkerchiofs and thres ivory funs, ¢ leeted from tho sudlenco, Next, cutolf thot e nuries’ beads und pau thom futo n hovse- ’h!““ which fire nt the chating cdish, over whlcu"n have previously pinced tn infufd box with s double fulse fid und dumiuy hinges, Thon It piesthng $0o sudiente to waich the box sbvr) vlf(-, 80 thit there muy be ho deceptlon, you piss In o NOxE oW, Whero Yot sonfedenitt awulls r»u with your kut and wister, Rapldly uesuny ng thess, you descoud gogother (lidiugh U kitchon, and, leaving by tho alloy gute, l";""; ut once to the dopot, and lake um‘.fh frali ta somo remote villago, wliero you divk This by tho beat gobling teigk kuowd.