Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1881, Page 3

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. — The new play of Esmeralda, by Mrs. Bur- Rett, of this city, was brought out at the Madi- on Square Theater Monday night, in New York, and is very generally commended. The N.Y. Times says: “The play as a whole—with its subdued realism, bright characterization, agreeabie features of humor, and thorough gen- uineness in its sentiment—is inherently a ood work, and a very charming and interesting one.” it is a love play with the scenes laid in North Carolina and Paris. — Lotta’s new play of Bob is said by the Phil- | adelphia Times to be so much like her other Plays as really to be no novelty. — There seems to beno lack of popular ap- Preciation of Patience at the Standard Theater, New York. The house has been completely filled every evening e is every indlca- tion that this m: ng and amusing of Gilbert’s and Sui tinue to at for some time to come. —John MeCuilonzh plays six weeks at the Fifth Avenue, New York, commencing Novem- ber 14. and during the engagement will produce for the first time a new version of Jack Cade, by the Hon. Lewis Winstield, of London. The bat- tle scen+s are said to be wonderfully realistic. — Sardou’s Dicorcons will be produced at the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, next week. Like The Princes of Bagdad, it hasnot yet been seen in this country, althoughit has become well known in Europe. — The Emma Abbott Company, at Ithaca last Week announced that they would sing any one of twenty-four operas that should receive the most votes from those buying tickets up to noon. Martha, of course, was chosen. “The Last Rose of Summer” will “fetch them” every time. —Lotta has just concluded one of the most successful engazements ever known in Philadel- phia, at the Chestnut Street Opera House. She will be succeeded there on Monday next by the Abbott troupe, who open in Fra Diavoio. —Mr. Augustin Daly has the ability to recog- nize failure. He has not attempted to force Royal Youth upon public notice. The play, under favorable circumstances, could not succeed in New York; it was poorly acted and under- stood by Mr. Daly’s company; it has been, there- fore, removed m the stage. Frou-Frow will take its place for the present. This favorite play is, on the whole, well presented, and will e a good stop-gap until the new play from the German, The Passing Regiment, is ready for production. —Nym Crinkle epitomizes Janauschek in this way: “She is greatest in dramatic bas relief, those grand old mythical plays which were written like the Elgin marbles,to be looked on one side from a safe distance, and not be an- tomized or scrutinized with a microscope. As “‘Brunhilde’ she swept us with the old Teutonic | ont ad out of the actual entirely and into the As ‘Lady Macbeth’ she gave anew and sturdy vibration to that valiant mettle which was fit to bring forth men children only. As ‘Medea’ she realized the vital Greek conception of action and of beauty. As Lady ‘Deadlock’ she Feminded me of Boadicea in a boudoir.” — A young English actress, Miss Enid Leslie, has just come to New York. She is said to have been tenderly nurtured “under the influence of modern art culture”—whatever that may mean in acting. Is Miss Leslie an zsthete? —Mr. Tony Pastor's new theater in 14th street, New York, is the only house now there in which one may see ag entertainment ot the old-fashioned ‘variety” style. — Sig. Rossi's Ofiello is a great performance— moble in conception, and wrought out on the whole with an extraordinary fidelity, directness and consistency. It hardly seems to be Shake- speare’s Othello wholly; there is at times too much of the untamed savage in him, and his Jove-making in the earlier scenes is much too sensuous. His idea of the character is of a loy- ing, trusting nature, slow to suspect, but when once aroused incapable of clear thought or fair treatment, or any motive but the expiation of the fault. Rossi is now at Booth’s, but will soon appear at Ford's here. Charlotte Cush- man used to say that Rossi's Hamlet was the greatest she had ever seen. — The Philadelphia Times says:—‘“ There has been a great deal of kindly effort on the part of the critics to point out to Mr. Steele Mackaye how A Fool's Errand could be improved. Many of the sugvestions are sound enough, and no Jess sound because the most of them must have been obvious to Mr. Mackaye himself; but even if he should adopt them all he could not save the play. The essential fault of A Fool's Errand is inherent and ineradicable. The very first suggestion is that the political dialogue should be cut out. But the political dialogue is — 'y to explain the relation of the charac- —MecCullough was this week in Cincinnati. —— Booth will be in Philadelphia next week. The Vokes family are there this week —Sheri- dan is in San Francisco.—Jauauschek is in New York. — Stephen Fiske remarks of Patti in the Spirit: The best thing yet said about the Patti expedition is that she wants to sing at the Stock Exchange, because she hears that the seats sell for $0,000 each there. But the Impecunious Club need not be in despair about Patti. Some seats will be $10, no doubt; but others will sell for $5, $3, €2 and #1. It is always worth #10 to hear Patti sing. There never was before, there never will be again, a singer like her—barring it'sa bird, as Sir Boyle Koche would say. Do Bot believe the scandal that she has lost, or weakened, or wearied her voice. She is still joung—for a prima donna—and she sings more ivinely than when we rescued her, a little girl, from Maurice Strakosch’s artistic tyranny. — Miss Annie Louise Cary, supported by the famous Temple Quartette of Boston, with Mr. Carlisle Petersilea as piano soloist and musical director, will give one grand concert at Lin- coin Hall on the evening of November 11th. Miss Cary has already retired from the operatic stage, and inthe series of concerts now given in this tour she bids farewell to the American iblic. There will be but one appearance in ashington, which will be Miss last in our city. The program is excellent. Miss Cary will sing. among other selections, Gluck’s famous -Oh. I've lost my Eurydice,” and Mars- ton’s beautifully patheticsong “Douglas, tender and true.” The quartette will render tlie ‘“Re- cordare” by Beethoven, and Mr. Petersilea will form Rubinstein’s “Concert Etude” and jensett’s “Dank nach Sturn.” — Mallory Bros., of the New York Madison Square Theater, have made $100,000 out of Hazel Kirke. At least Dan Frohman, their man- ager, says so. A third Hazed Kirke company has Just been put upon the road. — New York is doomed to have a super- abundance of theaters devoted to light opera. DOyley Carte now says he means to buil: theater of this sort in New York, similar to his new Savoy theater in London. What with this , Aronson’s new venture, Abbey & Gil- ao and the already well established jou, light opera seems doomed to Seat in New York. ney — Thirty-seven companies, which started out with brightest hopes a few weeks azo, have al- ready succumbed to popular neglect, and more are expected to do so in the next few weeks. —It is the New York gossip and pretty gen- erally believed that Barnum, Bailey & Hutchin- soa have bought out the Coup and Forepaugh eireuses. This is said THE PACIFIC SLOPE REVIVAL. Street Methodist Church last evening. Harrison is unlike the ideal evangelist in per- sonal appearance as can be imagined. He ts of a type that in this city appears most at home in the lobby of @ theater; or, crush-hat laden, saying something to assist a society belle to endure life at an evening reception. His smooth-shaven face is of the interesting pale- ness which noveling young women affect to admire, and which can be produced either by late hours, too much cigarette or, apparently, by |@ certain degree of religious enthusiasm. teeth, which he shows to advantage, with an unclerical smile, and light brown hair, cropped short behind, and kept brushed back ala Pom- padour in front by his nervous habit of constant- lyrunning through it first one hand and then the other. His strictly unevanzelical appearance is | completed by his dress, a short black Prince Al- bert coat, biack trowsers and stylish white tie. | His peculiar power is in his dramatic way of | working up to a frenzied climax, to which he | succeeds in carrying a number of hearers with various degrees of enthusiasin, some, of course, in a wild transport of religious excitement. He | works up to these climaxes as an actor works | up to his “points,” and uses as muen dramatic | ability and care in the preliminary work. | After an opening prayer by Dr. Jewell, a | hymn was announced by the revivalist, who | said, st before the last sun) the singing of the last verse a | collection wiil be taken up. If we do it now it | will be off your minds. It has always been my custom to ask for a collection, and some can give much, and those who cannot afford, little. Of course, there are some who are too mean to live, and ‘they never give anything.” After this business-like opening, he continued in a sharp, clear voice, which is dropped the mo- ment he begins his revival work: “There is no use trying to find seats here at 8 o'clock. and those who have just come in must remain standing near the door. After a few ni you won't be able to find seats at 7:30 o'clock.” ‘At this point the usher walked up the aisle, followed by three ladies whom he had under- taken to seat near the platform. Eyeing the usher sharply, the speaker continued: “There, now, don’t bring any more forward. The people ought to be thankful to get standing room.” After this intimation that any further interrup- tions of that nature would not meet with his approval, the revivalist started off in a high- strung, tremulous voice to exhort. Suddenly, speaking very rapidly, his voice sank almost to awhisper, and from that he broke forth in a loud, passionate appeal to his hearers to “scream. for mercy.” This he followed up by falling on his knees and praying fervently. During a long ayer, he frequently jumped to hie feet aud neeled again, clapping his hands and beating his head, and ended by calling on the leader for a hymn, selected ior his plaintive tune. By this time he had communicated some of his own apparent excitement to a portion of the congregation, and with that start he effectively worked upon their sensibilities until he had secured a fever pitch of emotion, when he jumped down from the platform and walked excitedly to and from the aisle, exhorting and praying and shouting aloud until he had gathered around him a number of kneeling sin- ners moaning and swaying, as he cried upon all to “scream for mercy.” At the very height of this excitement he again fell upon his knees, and raising his hands aloft, with the palms turned toward the people, called out in an impressive voice: ‘Silence! silent prayer!” A moment's absolute silence was broken by the Screams of a woman who could no longer endure the nervous strain, crying: “Glory! Glory! Oh, glory! Oh! ah!” The excitement became yet more contagious, and as several others joined in the cry of “Glory!” the evangelist turned to the leader. and in a low. hurried voice said: “Sing! ang auick!” The organist and leader complied, and in the midst of the excitement, prayer and music, the evangelist dismissed the congreza- tion. “There will be another meeting to-night, and on Thursday afternoon there will also be a meeting. At Church, So, Harold, you wondered, you say, at my smile, (Nay, my sneerst Well, ? my faith, you're not ‘wrong—) When that elegant lady swept up thro’ the aisle And knelt in the front pew so long. She was very devout, and so liberal, too— How freely she gave of her gold When the ‘mission plate passed for the heathen Hindoo, ‘Whom she longs to bring into the fold! Yet, Harold, I know of a grand life gone out In a madness of pain and despair, Because of that woman so sweetly devout— ‘That Christian who knelt near us there. And I know a young wife who has death in her face, ‘Tho’ she smiles and strives hard to seem bright, Whenever she looks on the beauty and grace ‘That robbed her of what was her righ. So, Harold, you see, it I sneered I had cause, At that Christian in velvet and furs; And I wondered What pagan or heathen there was Whose chances were poorer than hers. Eva Wheeler, Some of Tilden’s Peculiarities. N.Y. Cor. Chicago Times, His practice of conversing with his friends in whispers is nothing more than one of the pre- cautions he takes to preserve his strength. Mr. Tilden has a pleasant voice, and plenty of it, when he chooses to use it; but it has Jong been verse Was | Cincimmati’s New Craze. ART POTTERY, AND WHAT SHE 18 DOING IN THAT LINE. Four years ago Cincinnati was heart and soul devoted to wood carving; when that degener- ated she took to music; simultaneously with her musical excitement there was engendered a craze for ceramics. The music has gone gloam- Rg, and the number of fair workers in Limoges falence is growing beautifully less with the pas- sage of each season. But the players have been succeeded by genuine laborers, and pottery de- coration has, with some, become an earnest pursuit instead ofa mere pastime. The Times- Star of that city says: The establishment of an art pottery by Mrs. Maria H. Nichols renders it possibile to make a business of what has heretofore been little elee than an amusement. There are two sides to | He has dark eyes, rather deeply set, good | the pottery question, as onemay call it, as there are to every other question, There is the spirit- ual and the material, so to speak. The ladies attend to the former and the hard-handed | Englishmen to the latter. Culture does the decoration and labor makes the bodies. A great deal has been written about the art part of the business, but just as much can be written about the mechanical part. There are larger establishments in Cincinnati than Mre. ichols’, having more of the air of a thriving , manufactory than hers, but the general arrange- | ments of all potteries are the same, and yellow ware, Rockingham ware, ©. C. and white granite are produced very much after the same fashion in ail potterie: | _ It will no doubt interest the general reader to | be told in a few words how crockery ware is | 8 It 1s quite a long process, and a success- | Gay when he was born. | made. | ful potter is fashioned only by the hand of long | experience. “Potting taught in twenty-five | tessons,” would be a more ridiculous announce- | ment than the similar one sometimes made to | catch lazy would-be linguists. “Potting taught | In twenty-five years,” would sound a little more | like it, and there are gentlemen connected with | the Cincinnati concerns that have been fully the modus operandi must therefore suffice for the present occasion. The clays used here are obtained in the United States, anda great many of them within the | boundaries of this state. “It must be prepared bya very elaborate and not very interesting process. Machinery generally does all this in modern-built potteries. When the clay has been brought t» a proper state of p it and throws itupon arevolving wheel before him. The clay is spun around with great rapidity, and the potter, wetting his hands, presses his fingers into the mass and allows it to slip through the hands while he shapes it into thedesirable form. It is wonderful how quickly a beautiful vase or other vessel is evolved from the shapeless Inmp of mud by this simple pro- cess. All articles of a perfectly circular form can bethus thrown, but it not infrequently hap- pens that strong plaster molds take the place of the potter's hands, and this is almost always the case where slight’ retief decoration is required. Plates and open dishes are made upona mold, by the clay being thrown upona figure that gives it its interior shape, and then revolved upon a lathe, and its exterior shape made by a simple iron instrument something likea knife. This apparatus is very similar to an ordinary wood-turning lathe. The ware thus made is put upon shelves in a its moisture, is ready for the biscuit kiln. The kiln is little more than an inverted funnel, built of brick. At the baseis a place for supplying the fuel, which is done pretty much as one puts coal into a common furnace. The ware is not subjected to immediate contact with the fire, but is encased in queer sort of boxes called sez- gars. These are made of fire clay and are piled the one upon the other and so tightly cemented that not the least particle of smoke can reach their contents. The workmen carry these seg- gars into the kilnand pile them upin long Tows until the receptacle is full. Then the kiln issealed up with doors and the cracks stopped with clay, andthe burning begun. For fifty odd hours the heat is kept up to a terrible pitch of intensity, after which the kilnis drawn—by which it is meant ve ware is removed aud a seggars opened. Now the ware is ready for the glaze, or for the decoration, in certain kinds, and after it has received this, it is refired, and brought forth the finished work that every lover of the beautiful in form and color so much ad- mires. All thisis the material part of the art, the part done by the workmen. The artistic partis where the esthetic bezins, and the part performed so skillfully and gracefully by many of our ladies. ——_——+-+-______ French Grins at Americans. A SARA BERNHARDT YOUNG WOMAN WRITES A BOOK. Paris is Just now agog over the long-promised book on Sara Bernhardt’s tour of America, written by Colombier, a pretty actress in her company; and, French fashion, it is anything but complimentary. Bernhardt is described as coming solely to make a million francs, and with the belief that Americans would ffock to see heras they would a “white elephant or a trice- phalous calf.” She earned nearly a million francs ($177,560), but when expenses were paid and sundry French creditors satisfled she had but 242,400 left. Not coming for glory, Co- lombier says Bernhardt acted in a slip-shod way, and she laughs at the audiences who couldn't tell the difference. She certainly has no respect for American intelligence, and she declares that at Hartford the audience inno- cently followed ‘Frou-Frou,” in a translation of “Phedre”—a thing which Harttord will of course stoutly deny. Washington she declares a dead and alive town, but better than any other cit because of its European residents; its many monuments resemble ‘Savoy cakes,” and the his belief that to a man so busy with other men as he has been, the almost continuous use of the vocal organs was one of the most fati; yuing of practices. He therefore acquired the habit of talking in a very low voice, or even in a whisper. ‘There is undoubtedly a good deal of truth in his theory, but he has carried it to such a length as to include it among his old bachelor fussiness and crochets, of which he has a great number. For instance, he has ong been noted among his acquaintances for his antipathy to umbrellas and canes." He never carries either article. He has been heard to say that if he gets his hat or his coat wet. he had rather throw them away and procure new wearing apparel than be bothered with an um- brella. Another iarity of his (to descend to the minutest of trivialties) is that to every new pair of trousers he has a pair of suspenders firmly sewed. and thus avoids a good deal of bother with buttons. All great men have their little weaknesses, and the particular weakness of Mr. Tilden may be said to be in the direction of clothes. He has a good many of the English ideas on the subject of dress, and, like the aris- tocratic sprigs abroad, who array themselves in six or seven suits a day, redressing for every meal, donning one sort of conventional attire for the hunt, another for the seaside, etc., Mr. Tilden has vivid notions of the appropriateness of his apparel for the varying duties of the day. Latterly, however, he has not been so scrupu- lous in this reg ———$§_++-—_____ ‘The Grandest of Volcanic Action. ‘The last section of our ride through the Yel- lowstone region proved to be, in a geological sense, one of the most interesting parts of the whole journey. We found that the older trachytic lavas of the hills had been deeply trenched by lateral valleys, and that all these valleys had a floor of the black basalt that had been poured out as the last of the molten ma- terials from the now extinct volcanoes. There were no visible cones or vents from which these floods of basalt could have proceeded. We rode for hours by the margin of a vast plain of “basalt, stretching southward and westward as faras the eye could reach. It seemed as if the plain had cnce been a great lake or sea of molten rock, which surged along the base of the hills, entering every valley, and leaving there a solid floor ot bare black stone. We camped on this basalt plain, near some springs of clear cold water which rise close to its edge. Wandering over the bare hum- mocks of rock, on aed of which not a vestige of vegitation had yet taken root, I realized with . i tion means a reduction of their salaries. Te is understood to be the plan to send Coup’s show te Europe for Save Lop to let the Fore- paugh concern travel in country n ‘Under its old name. sisi he — Mile. Rhea, the French actress who H. J. vividness the truth of an assertion made first by Richthoven, but very generally negiected by ecologists, that our modern volcanoes, such a8 Vesuvius or Etna, present us with by no means the grandest type of volcanic action, but rather belong to a time of failing activity. ‘There have been periods of tremendous volcanic energy, when, instead of from a local vent, like a Vesuvian cone, the lava has found its way to the erable fissures open: Capitol and White House are “models of bad taste of which all the people of the county are very proud.” Colombier is hard upon our actors and actresses, too; she calls Clara Morris a “strolling mountebank without a spark of genius,” and ridicules her acting in anything but elegant language. Colombier has wit and this makes the book readable. It is too ridiculously untrue to provoke any feeling but amusement, but in Paris it will, with French ignorance, be taken asa true picture of Ameri- can manners and thought.—Springjleht Repub ine ——____+9-______ . Striker Stowe’s Strength. Striker Stowe was a tall, powerful Scotch- man, whose position as “Boss Striker” at the steel works made him generally known. Nearly all of the men in his department were hard ers, and he was no exception to the rule. But one day it was announced among the work- men that he had become religious, and sure enough, when pressed to takea drink hesaid:— “I shall never drink mair, lads. Na droonk- ard can inherit the kingdom 0’ God.” The knowing ones smiled and said: “Wait a bit. Wait until hot weather—untii July. When he gets as dry as a gravel-pit he will give in. He can’t help it. But right through the hottest months he toiled, the sweat pouring off in streams; yet he seemed never to be tempted to drink. Final as I was taking the men’s time, one evening, stopped and spoke wittt him. “Stowe,” eaid I “you used to take considerable liquor. Don’t you miss it?” “Yes,” said he, emphatically. “How do you manage to keep away from it ?” “Weel, just this way. It is now tan o'clock, isn’t it?” “Yes.” “Weel, Lind is the twentieth o’ the month From seven till eight, I asked that the Lord would halpme. He did so an’ I put down a dot on the calendar, right near the twenty. From eight till nine he kep’ me, and I pnt down anofher dot. From nine till tan he’s kep’ me, an’ noo I gie him third dot. Just’ as I mark these, I pray, ‘O Lord halp me—halp me to fight it off for another “How long shall you keep this up” 1 inquired. “All o’ my life,” was the earnest reply. “It keeps me sae fall 0” an’ happiness that I wouldna gie it up for anything. he took me by the hand and said, “Wark awa’, Sriker Stowe, I'm wi’ ye. Dinna’ be fearfu’. a ates o’ yeer regular beck an =e re e de'll an’ the an’ 8 troub’e ye.’” ane es ee Ae Sour interesting statistics of the ages at which girls are married in Germany have been collected. It is shown by them that the most favorable prospects last year existed at the ages of26 and 27. Out of 1,000 girls, 103 married at 26and the same number at 27. This was the highest for any age. At 28 there were 102 mar- ried out of the 1.000, and at 20, 95, while at 30 the number was 82. There were 53 married at 35, or more by 2 than at 19. At 40, no fewer than 46 were For ages below figures are as followe:—At 19, 51 at 22, 80; at 23,90, and at 25, pears that at 29 German girls haye better chances than at 23, and that at 40 they are not anvolved in ae a= Saher than they are at 19, except after 19 tl Prospects become better, while after 40 they do not. 2 Hoyle indulged incessantly in the qhist antil he was 3 man's ife,—Horristown eral a : he that long at the business. A mere outline of ration, the potter takes a lump of drying-room, and when sufficiently deprived of the glory as I put down the | It is just as if | Frei AMEBICAN THOROUGHBREDS. Jehn Ball Scared. ‘From the London Field. Writing upon Wednesday last from thecountry toafriend in London, one of the ablest and most practical among our veteran trainers re- marked that ‘if the Americans continue tosend such animals to England as Foxhall and Iro- quois, few of our noblemen and gentlemen will Jong remain upon the turf; for it is evident that three-year-olds and beat our best four and five yearolds at even weights overtwo and a quarter miles. Ihave often known a good three-year- old capable of accomplishing great things over @ mile; but I have never known an English three-year-old which could beat good old horses at even weights over two and a quarter miles. When a horse wins by a dozen lengths you can- Not handicap him with othersthat he has beaten. How, for instance, would you set to work to bring Foxhall and Fiddler together: If Foxhali be a three-year-old, of which I entertain no sort of doubt, he is the best horse that Newmarket has seen in my time.” It is impossible to lay the flattering unction to our souls that the win- ner of the Grand Prix and the Cesarewitch is older than he professes to be, and that, in the words often employed by the late Mr. Greville to Mr. E. R. Clark, when they were examining the yearlings at Enfield paddocks, where Mr. Clark’s brood mares were stationed, “That colt looks as if he had been six months old upon the No stud farm in the world is managed with greater regularity and method than at Woodburn, in Kentucky, where, jin April, of 1878, Foxhall first saw the light. | The very day may be found In “Krik’s Guide to the American Turf;” and, indeed, the character of Mr. Alexander, and of his late brother, from | whom the famous stud and farm in Kentucky | descended to their present owner, forbid the | supposition thatinsuch anatmosphere trickery would ever be resorted to. Moreover, the career of Foxhall from the commencement testifies that he was buta moderate two-year-old—his de- feat last year by Savoyard at Newmarket. has never been explained except on this supposi- tion—and that for the first six or eight months of the present year he was a moderate three-year-old. It was whispered that not very long before the St. Leger he was galloped—as to the truth or falsity of the whisper we express no opinion—with Mr. Crawfurd’s St. ous across the Flat, when the latter won with con- | summate ease. But the improvement between | the Foxhall that won the Grand Prix and the | Foxhall that won the Cesarewitch is so amazing that it could not have been made by a mature horse. There have in the past been many simi- lar cases of improvements in three-year-olds be- the spring and autumn—as, for instance, with Faugh-a-Ballagh, Julius, ‘Stirling and Achievement—but none in four or five-year olds which haye ben honestly run throughout the year. Nevertheless, we cannot agree with the vete- ran trainer whom we have just quoted when he says that a series of such three-year-olds as the two American colts which have just covered themselves with English and French glory would soon drive our own noblemen and gentlemen off theturf. Of the two colts Foxhall alone seems to us an exceptional animal. As regards Iroquois, he won the Derby, Prince of Wales’ stakes and St. Leger simply because he was the best of a bad lot, and there is nothing in the performances of the son of Leamington to awaken unusual surprise or to inspire peculiar panic. The race of last Thursday for the Cham- pion stakes shows that the Derby form in 1880 was far superior to that of 1881; and we have no doubt that Mr. Lorillard would have acted more wisely in his own Interest had he come to a de- termination to run Iroquois no more in public after his sensational Victory forthe Doncaster St. Leger. There isnot thesamecapability of im- provementin the setand sinewy frame of Iroquois as in that of his larger, longer and roomier com- patriot, Foshall, and, as four-year-olds, the im- provement will probably be far more marked in the bay than in the brown, if they chance ever to meet over a cup course. We must form our conceptions, then, of American race horses at their apogee, and of the worst that the future can do in regard to bringing formidable rivals from the other side of the Atlantic into the field against us at home from the pro’ f the Kentucky rather than the New Jersey colt. It may be remarked at the outset that both Mr. P. Lorrillard and Mr. J. R. Keene are reputed to berich men, but that by the owner of Foxhall—or perhaps we ought to say by their trainers, to whose custody their horses were consigned, as Mr. Keene himself has not interfered in the matter one way or the other—that fine colt has been go well and judi- ciously managed as to make.it probable that no better or fitter three-year-old ever started for the Cesarewitch than its last winner. Foxhall has neither been knocked about nor unduly hurried, and his superiority in October is undoubtedly due to the long rest given to him since he ran—it was a great mistake, by the way, to run him— at Ascot in June. Iro- quois, on the other hand, has been managed according to our ordinary ‘English system’ or fashion of training and racing; nor is it possible to deny that he is made of sterling stuff, when we rememt hat he ran twelve times—scoring four victories and suffering eight defeats—as a two-year-old. It is doubtful whether any three- year-old trained at Newmarket ever went through a stronger preparation than the Derby winner of 1881, between the Two Thousand and the Epsom race; and there was hardly a trainer, 2 jockey, a tout, ora connoisseur in horseflesh’ but pronounced that the colt had done far too much work to wina Derby. The opinion that he was an iron horse gained ground after his triumphs at Epsom and Astot; but in the long and splendid roll of Derby winners there are at least twenty or thirty supevior to Iroquois. The Americans must send us something better than him if they are to frighten as as we have been scared by Foxhall; but it is idle to blink the fact that Faugh-a-Ballagh, The Baron, Julius, and Robert the Devil, might each and all of them have been compelled to haul down their. colors before the stalwart Amer- ican, had they chanced to encounter him at even weights upon Tuesday last over the Cesarewitch course, and we may even go so far as to admit the possibility that Foxhall would now beat any horse in England at even weights over two and a quartei miles of ground. The staying powers of Bend Or, though claimed by his trainer, are as yet not proven; and if Foxhall have any su- perior in England at this moment over a cup course the animal would probably be found in the Duke of Beaufort’s Petronel. That Foxhall gave Chippendale more than a_stone-beating in the Cesarewitch will hatdly be disputed, and Mr. Keene's colt perhaps fills the same proud position as was claimed by Sir Joseph Hawley for Blue Gown, when he tansecond for the Cam- bridgeshire with 9 st. ox his back, as a three- year-old—the position, taat is to say, of being the best racehorse of anyage in the worldat the time each ran. What is the moral to be gleamed from this un- usual excellence of Foxtall? We must not torget that, although the Ameicans began importing English thoroughbreads 4s far back as the com- mencement of the last ceitury, they did_not se- riously address themsely@ to the task of raising blood stock until after tht great civil war,which ended in April, 1865. ‘hat within fifteen years they should have been abe to produce a Foxhall speaks volumes for the wil, water and climate of Kentucky, and during jhe next twenty, thirty or fifty years we expect tat as many a8 fine or perhaps even finer hors¢ will be raised in the western hemisphere. Byt it is probably due to English air, food, training and riding, that Fox- hall is now what we sawhim to be last Tuesday. It is not disputed that tle blood of our English | brood mares is purer that of their Ameri- can sisters, whose ligrees in many cases “end,” as the phrase “in the woods.” But, | asaclimate in which fioroughbred foals may be dropped to advantge, we do not believe that anything more fayqable can be found upon earth than the United States to the south of Mason and Dixon's line) When Richard Brins- Jey Sheridan was buriejin Westminister Abbe with splendid pomp ald’ eéremony, althoug! bailiffs st led to she last blanket off his body while the breath yas still in it, a witty nch wag remarked “France was the place for a man of letteritolveand England for him to die in.” Foxhallin the same manner, Hundon Dubi Hanilton Prank ‘Witness. Germany is very jealous of the manner in which the American continent is depleting her of her taurants Forhall can give lumps of weight to all our | ¥™ Canada years of his working life. German made more comfortable to live in ones begins to diminish, and the rem with her rulers. 7 ist or LETTERS REMAINING IN T WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1881. E2-To obtain any of these Letters the call for ‘* ADVERTISED LETTERS,” this liet. te If not to the Dead call Letter Office LADIES' LIST. Addison Laura Allison Arg a Jones Mira vers Mrs Mary, ckson Nanc} Atuold Priscilla, 2 Johnson Priscilla Bell Annie Jackson Mrs Sarah. q Johnson Sallie A Brown Mrs AG Johnson Sarah Brooks Mrs Catte Johnson Mre Susan Buckner Mrs Caroline —‘Krratzenberg Mra A Brown Mrs Charlotte Kanaley Fi Berryman Mrs Charlotte King Mrs He Buekner Caroline Ke Maury Brown Mrs Ellen J King Mi Bett Frizy Keywood Mrs Stacia Bailer Mra Jane, Loyd Annie Brown Mrs Joe T n Josie Lappin Katie Burtom Mollie Tans Maree. ary Long Mrs May Baynard Mire Ma Lewis Martha, Boone Mrs Mi Langley Mrs R Barber Mrs Mary Lightfoot Mrs Winnie wo Mamie Mead Mrs Annie E Bruce Mew NH Murray Mrs CL Billingsley fatthews Kiama, Brown Sarah ‘Mason Mre Bacon Susan Mitchell MreG B es Rr ewe ire nnett Mra jurray Mary Blaisdell Virginia A Mi cooley A Mores Mrs Courts Mtr A Moor itosata 3 Zou irs loor Groxall Mrs C Motan Sarah Gole Mra DeWitt Mitchell Susan itchell Cleamer Emma, ‘Morgan Miss T A Colney Mrs Hester Mckrum Aunie L Cunningham Mrs Jane B MeCrum Annie Cammack Lavinia loGrath Garter Luc MeGwinn Mrs Fannie Clark a - McElroy Airs Cartar Mrs elson Miss Camp Mw ME, 2 Norris, Sarah Jano Clark Mrs M Phillips Annie Garrick Mrs Mary E Berry’ Mrs ¥ Garret Kose Purll Miss Dillard Mrs Anna Plumer Fannie Durham Mire BA Purdy Mrs Julia Davis Ettie Win Deville Emma Queen Victoris. Hosentthal Mes 1B vers Louise Mrs res Smith Alice we Mrs A Mra Berta Bayles Betty Shryer Cora Shipley Miss E D Stemmmetz Mrs H KE vans Bisson Fletcher Caroline Scott Mrs H B French Mrs 0 R Smallwood Field Miss Capt Salter Mra 0 x Sas pe ie Bpencer Mrs Katy ne cy ST gray Mico ao ae alice cgi Mie 3 hee Fae len Marg’t iwann Mrs Gooding Mary Bcott Nellie E Gillett sfilkey Smith Mre NJ Grant Ma Snider Virginia Geay MraNaA Btewart Mrs Gillbory Mrs Sidney A Tyler Ci Grep Mire Sarah ‘Thompson Mrs Elis Gillbory Mrs Sidney A ‘Taylor Mrs J; Hunter Annie A Henderson Annie Hople Euza Ann Hyther Mrs MR Hawes Mrs Mary J Hale Mrs Mary © Hebb Nellie te Jacoby Mrs Cornelia Johnson Mrs Es Ve Johnston Ella A Williams Selina Jones Mrs Fannie Waren Sarah. Jones Fannie Walker Mrs ‘Thos D Johnson Fannie Young Mrs Jac Zacury Ie GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Atchinson Wm Jacques J F Col, 2 Anderson & McNeil, Jonkeon John Alexander AL Jones 8 E ndrews CJ Johnson Win Allen DB ind John Allen George Kennedy John @ Athoa Jas 8 jr Kirkland $1 Ashe 8 A Capt ue Geo W Addison Thownas Lowe John W Bacon Albert G Ladd JC Bond Armstead Lyous James Black Colonel Lewis Morton Blake Chas M Rey Mat Barker Chas R Barr GW Dr. Barry Boyd John Blanmont Jas A Buttler Jas Bat Bard Norman D Boston OR Burke R Bradley ROG Boss Samson, Bates Samuel Brooks Thomas Banes W Burns W F& Co Cropley A B Carr Carroll larke John. Clareendale JO Clark Jas F Clarke Jas 0 Connor Lewis W Powell Wellington i oe eles Cook Sar Frat Ee i ie : i i i Hadnell Be Hamilton C E i fedian Geo D. has been fortunate in | aes of his training. qT mm nutritious in the and Scotch oat far Ri he now lies, Mr. J. R. moment in possession of within @ year was equal if ok Soperior: ig sturdy little Der 7 wil of J Old. There | wachine tion prolong “‘Drama\ News” tie Editor Publishers **U 8 Mail’ 216 “E" at SCLAD LETTERS REMAININ EAST vs MED UAPTOL STATION LADIES’ LIST. tad Wi acon neon oe igration, one of the latest plans being the eeiz-| LILLIPUTIAN DINNER PARTY EXHIBITION. ure by the police of all posters and bills in res- ? = the across: pe and prosperity, and, chief of all. freedom from that terrible incabus, military servitude. which robs a man of the best must be fore the iy lies icant must ‘and give the date of | led for within one month they will be sent DRY Goops. ADMISSION FREE. LADIES AND CHILDRER. Les CLOAKS, DOLMANS, PALETOTS, JACKETS AND SUITS. CHILDREN'S AND MISSES CLOAKS, ‘The largest and best assortment in the city. FUR TRIMMINGS in different widths. M. WILLIAN, 1 Cite Trevien, Paris. _907 PENNSYLVANIA AVERUR. BLMA RUPPERT. IN STREET, 608 BIN Grreaite Patcat Often. wool, THREE LITTLE FOLES AT DINNER, ‘Now displayed at our attractive PURE IRISH LINEN HOUSE, ‘Where the popular voice ever echoes back “‘proverbial” words, such as “BEST GOODS AND LOWEST PRICES PREVAIL.’ TING TARAS. WORS TED wi ft NS, WORST RI ART EMBCOIDERIPS, AND OUTLINE WORK, select amortinent of CHILDRENS MR Neco CAPS AND DAESoks m ali @e “UNDERWEAR, GLOVES, FRINGES and KIM MINGS Children’s Merino CLOAKNa specialty 024m N RS. M. J. HUNT OPPOSITE RIGGS’ BANK. COCHRANE & CO. Invites the attention of the Ladies of Washington tohew superb stock of FRENCH BONNETS and HATS, ‘These are ber own importation, aud the handscmest «tylerever offered in this city, She also solicits an inspection of the Bonnets of her own desin, which she wili be prepared to exhibit during the coming we oly 621 axD M RS. J. P. PALM Importer axp Dy nt FLAN PSome WRAPS. D Srarer Noxrnwest, We are prepared to show the largest and best selected eSER OF Fasit stock 1107 F STREET, BETWEEN Irn AND Jorn, Most reepectfully an how in St noes to the Ladies that whe has herche assortment of WINTER WRAPS FRENCH BONNETS, ENGLISH HATS AND PARBS NOVELTIES. that has ever been seen in Washington—SILK CTRCU- LARS, SILK DOLMANS, PLUSH COATS, PLUSH TRIMMED ULSTERS, PLUSH TRIMMED JACK- ETS, PALETOTS, &c., &c. We solicit an inspection Of the above, as we are confident of their superiority, being made expressly to our order. SeLECTED Pemsonau.y V on TLE IN Honor, Kon riwner, NETS end ROUND oS én LORS, NORTHWEST, M. WILLIAM BERNAT, DESIGNER AND CUTTER, (ate of Parts.) Is creating quite a sensation in Washinzton in @e Cut axp Ger Ur or VELVETS, PLUSHES and SATINS, BROCADED | LAPIES' COATS, CLOAKS AND RIDING HABIT. MOIRES and WATERED SILKS, SATIN RHA- eqhin.tejot the kind of hat Vlishment the Ladiese? Rene IAMTIN MERVEILLEUE, RVENING | Ti cal solicited trom every Landy in Worhington ami SHADES IN CHOICE MATERIALS, BILLIAR® nity. CLOTH (for suits), CAMEL’S HATR, LIMOUSINE | ms EVERY y Tne one Se ee ENGLISH CHECKS, HEATHER SUITINGS, &e., &c. “S955 Sr. CLovp Burupme. Ds HOSTERY FALL AND WINTER SY FOR m1 MISSES AND CHILDREN VAPE®& NOW READY ‘ JOB LOTS OF FINE FRENCH AND ENGLISH NI NEW AND ELEGANT DRESS GOODS— ‘REET. ONE PRICE. HOSIERY, W. M. SHUSTER & SONS, AT ONE YALF PRICE. DOUGLASS’, nt 919 Pennerivaria Avenue Nonrawest. | &4 9TH STREET. ME. WASHINGTON, DRESSMAKING AND HUMMING STOR! VLVANIA AVE., = 1211 PENSYL. rior style and hi [XLER & CHEWNING, Suits, Costumes, Cloaks, &c., Tnade in eape at short notice. “Ladies can have Dresses eu d, and a perfect fit kuaranteed. 918 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, WM. BALLANTYNE & SON, | | LAT PUBLIcaTions. 7 is CLOAKING, mers Bias ae Pee ns cee ee ee BROCADES, Helen K. Johnson, 41 PLUSHES, VELVETS, SATINS. 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Immense assortment of Brocade Silks, (all pure eilk), $1; beautiful Silk aoa ones fine Dress Goods, only 37 Cashmeres, ool ible Width, | 37%: Colored and Bleek vets, $1.50; Blac! lack and Colored Silks, 50; Black and 50: Black Crape, double fold, $1; Veils; Black Cashmere Shawls, yet ened Embi $8.75; Bleached ‘Table Daun pure linen, 50. “‘DOUBLE WHITE BLANKETS, $1.50." doub! Ne White Blankets, $5; RESS SHIRTS.—FINE DRESS SHIRTS MADR $ dane size Calico Bed DTC ORDER tor gee ores very best miualim Quilts, 3.25; ped dr Soe Hoes, Resoouier, we. were the first to aneo) pu prices rte down ington, and we So how eli better Shirts for the money than sny house oe Heavy Canton Flannel DRAWERS, Uke those we sold ms winter, for cn y 60 conta. een lot 1 to $5, Immense as- rtment of Cloth fo a Be " wear, 25 1.50. FaRE Sta Ut alt nie arnt 5 : Heavy Merino UNDERSHIRTS, 50 cents, CARTER’s, Heavy. 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Bixof the Extra ‘Bi 820, 622 awp 8% Sevenr Sraeet NoRtuwest, bi HAVE THE TRADES. _ IBSON BROTHERS, ‘THE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK OF SILES IN THE CITY, HE CELLULOID TRUSS; that never breaks, never wears out, always clean, and can be worm: THE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK OF | While bathing, is for cale at 1 CHAS. FISHER’S, (623 7th street northwest. ‘Mrs. Fisner devotes her attention to the wants of lady patrons. i) JOHNSON & CO., a eee