Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1882, Page 3

OF THE INGTEN. The Quel Between Hon Thomas L Cligggman, of North Carotina, and Bon, Wiiliam ©. bame. BUELL. WRITTHA FOR THE STAR BY COL. CH LE On January Sth, 1835, wh E JONES. ile on a visit to Bal- i the old elab, the hotel t nan from member of Congress—had ¢ ‘as still mus of s vim. He im- it ever to th tel and there v. €.. who writer he wil ir. aactage used t he would be nd that ery ef- arty of that ¢ ated in Le out of marks be i in any matly offeusi nh latise , Hon. Samuel Chilton, at his earliest eonvenicr note he replied t y ent for him to ans should Id be retieved nd the writer and placed the matter in his Upon inquiry I A that he was yuainted with the use and hand- | ling of the cueiling py even supposed ed to me tuls, stating tor Wun. Alien, 1, = finely finisied a they were the property Of Ohio, who hal imported t whom they had be be and from Bation the w thoucht Bot well balanced for droy firiag he thought best for an inexperienced shot So he left imm turned that night from Wasi with him a pair of his own pistols, which he thought bet dapted for the purpose. stois Mr.Clingman was or three miles tront from arrest. ng of his p which he adie best, his second re- diately for, and r could mainiog in the city to receive Mr. Yane who had notified Mr. Clingman of his din to Meet him in Baltimore without unnecessary delay. On urday morning. 1th, Mr. Yanee: with his friend. Mr. Hus arrived. A correspon opened by Mr. ( ot South Carolin: est eff to bring about an amic iment. but without avail. and a hostile meetin rs ame mevitable ace at 12m. on M nd was fixed upon to take nday, the 13ti, NEAR BELTSVILLE a little tavern on the Baltimore and Washington turnpike, about twelve miles from Wash- ington. That evening Mr. — Cling- man, his second. his surgeon, Dr. Chas. Beli Gibson, and the Hon. J. M.S. Cau a Representative trom Maryland, as advis , friend, left Baltimore in a hack, and were car- Tied by his second to the residence of a friend, , aries C. Hanson, about tweive m living in the eou es from Baltime edon ty eting. | land treated by Mr. Hanson with | ality then so characteristic of the Maryland The followin: Mr. Hanson's, when Mr. tempted to avail himself ¢ that had oceurred ome practical instructions with the of the pistol, but the day was too windy for more than a very littl practice. . we remained at g nd at st opportunity SENATOR ALLEN’S Pr While in Balt TOL nore Mr. Clingman’s second had received « letter from Hon. James Aifred Pearce, Senator from Maryland, stating that the pistols which Mr. Clingman brought with him had been borrowed by him from Senator Allen, a Were to be used by Mr. C., desired their imme- | @iate return, as when purchasing them he had | determined they should never be used against a ical friend. | My own pistols, as y were lighter and better ted to the drop,bat found he had a decided | the ference for Mr. Allen's. It was therefore divtermined. as the pistols were In our posses- | sion and there was no mode of taking them out, to ignore, ina matter of life and death, Mr. Allen's fanciful notions. [t was therefore settled that Mr. Clingman would use Mr. A’s pistols. At a later day.when Mr. Allen was told of the circumstances, he laughed over It as & god joke. while Mr. Pearce, the writer thinks, never fully forgave him for permitting the pistuls to be used. On Monday morning, after an early break- fast, Mr. Hanson carried us to the residence of Col. Horace Capron, about tour miles distant from the place agreed on for the meeting, where We were most kindly received. Here leaving Mr. Clingman and the rest of the party to partake of a luxurious tunch Col. Capron had provided. His second went ahead ina bugyy, driven by a servant and drawn by a tine pair of horses, the property of Mr. Hanson, to meet Mr. Yanecy's second, to select the preeise spot for the meet- fing, instructing them to follow so as to be on the ground mena at the time designated for fight. When came within a mile of tl ‘on the road, one of whom recognized me. He informed me that I would . Yancey and his second already at the When reaching there I went into the room, where I found four or five gentle- sitting around who had all the appearance ‘the member of Congress of that day. After time and no one of them mak- : Ph ks Fd THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER > o-4 ; 30, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. ne ‘ae eaile as * the porter, an Trishman, secure mea good hack with at on no account to let anybod. gone to Delaw yin” Iknew r This he faithfully promi to be aim ost worthy aril honest bat deubted his ability to keep such a| AUTHORITIES. hen engaging a hack to leave Baltimore, I familiarly known aside, pretended to be very confi- | refaseda meet: atial, and informed him we were going to t a duel, requesting him to ! lyaffected his populari rusty driver, and iy know we had seeret. and thought thus to put the authorities on the wrens ent in ease he y little ruse prove john,” as 1 expected, litd b and the the might st the hope tha upon. his prir efully observe: th tavern, where servant, started to meet and bring my prit ty to the Mr. TE cam rds and } Ne iniorn the house was in n of dL expressed h ut no in ke pizee. 1 od HE y arrests nade the whole odium ust — rest his side, that we | bad not — bee within iniles of the | aid had communicated with no one but men at whose swe b © failed, it at ain ive boad to keep the ad. and then requir “That und return to the I they would bet whole of the Uni much was in Mr. Huser, 1 pre riven but the pe ny. and rema’ drove up asked fo and he introduced Carolina. He st had succeeded ould soon make t As Way, and proj who ou hat th ete lave been en: Mr. Cin in Congres enity-to » be resorte io have that hey feld. Th timents wi Mr. Burt. who replied: wavin magistrat now drove rt The y from tl z the ground ¥ zh a back w eded in reach pals were placed in s loaded and just hand crowd of not less than one hu ot came rushi pike. one of then This interruption anson and Col. ¢ secon ps 4a. Th + to brine about an amicable adi Mr. should prove to ed of good effect petr: ere put road leading into | e were | So pe it) epfipers an. v prinel- the word word helt? the vot him down.” had at neip: is 1. 1 took he rative on peeling: in » circumstances or Coluin- held to ki d State: vined, and 1 h chi a short ¢ ined 3 second. himseifas Mr ated Mr. Yancey sdit little more than a good | ‘ance | sed that if any ud seize and tie to lend a hy ie time, din such a | s communie! <inan, Mr. and if any wd to he desired ight leave the ely threw it 2 up containing | had eseaped house, and suc hout thus far their posit: ed them, when a | red_persons on ny over the hill on horseback jek and shouting, * Hold! I ama} lently flurried Mr. Hu- | Without even waiting for 3 into his prope im nh giving the word, and word m ready?” and be “Fire. in dircet violation of the terms of ‘the Mr. Yancey raised his pistel to a level. d forth a prompt and stern ““Zfall!” from cs see | licitor of the Treasury | Mr. Clingman’s second, who de tol be brought to a perpen CHA After apology from Mr. Huger he a: the word, but the interruption ert both him and his principal, re yourealy?” | at which Mr. Cling- | med to. give ned to di: for, without again commencing, he gave the word “tire pistol perpendicularly up, with the terms agreed on, fired. ut the ball evidently 4 head; drawing his tire, the ‘ound considerably out of aanded the pis- ular. in accordance issing his ad- eal very near bullet striking line, midway be- tween the parties, scattering some dust upon the | f Mr. Clingman. us on the field as one ot wivising friends, suggested t party that an amicable arrangement might be | arrived at. Upon consultatior whieh had been offered and rejected in Baltimore | The parties advanced to- were now agreed to. ward each other, shook hands, was declared honorably and ay PAST AND PRE Mr. Yancey, Mr. Huger an known to be dead, and the writ them to be still living. fire Hon. Keneth Raynor, who had | Mr. Clingman’s 0 the opposite a the very terms and the matter picably adjusted. NT. d Mr. Bart are er believes only | one of the numerous persons who accompanied Of Mr. Clingman’s party, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Causin and Dr. Gibson are dead. man, his second, Mr. Raynor, Gen. Cay Gen. Cling- the present So- pron, late Com- missioner of Agriculture, are living, and all four now in Washington. At the breaking out of the late war Gen. | tered the army, | i Clingman gallantly jvined his section, ent ied his brigade into battle, and on “several occasions was desperately wounded, | from the effects of whicn he most marvellously recovered, und is still competent vice. Mr. Yancey was in the cofifed phie writer (Col. W. G. it, either as legis- that they | lator or soldier, to render his country good ser- erate senate. Terrell) in A the ndianapolis Journal of October 14th gives the following incidents in relation t affray betweeu him and Hon. W the floor of the were metubers), resulted ultimately latter. It at the same time has an authoritative dental of the story sent to Europe by the provisional | the confederate ‘states as an | the | | | he | day, Beltsville tavern I passed a couple of gentlemen | embraced | recognition of their inde) reat powers, a mission whi fe asl print judics—particulart: ol alavery. otherwise with the commouality. every attempt at vecognition, ex Davin was greatly duostnnet vin was greatly’ dissatiati his dissatisfaction ‘upon the ova rows injustices sad ‘oe 3 ice, finally became Irreconcilable, ‘Mr. Hill assumed the chat confederate senate, in Richm during a secret session of that body (of furnishes upon his return, reasons for this failure,’ the existing pre- in England—against the lustitution While there was undoubted sym for the cause inthe higher classes of nociel and the breach 0 him: ‘The recent death of Senator Hi'l, of Georgia, revived long-current and yenerally credited rep port that an ye, O1 rate adh wl itt the death of the sd occasion for Mr. Yancey was government’ of agent to secure pendences by the signalfy failed. as one of the thy felt it was which would oppose | pt upon the assur- emancipation. President at this Bead of. rowult, aud ited neers : between them extendi) i - auences to the deliberations of congress where {ewe Tise to frequent and acrimonious disci where it gave ious. controversy bet ree Benton defended adiuinistration of Gen. Ji ” sharing his _, through thick and thin, ax political diadices, ‘an both in and out of season. gee Me, He, > & know-nothi Bin, spe el Basen sion a3 a of um private. a Yancey at length grew tired of hile the senate was sitting with closed doors, y betwee the style that Mr. iackson, thi, and, one review, 1D a*peech bie and thor- | munieated to | fGen. Jackson. | denouncing ‘ike opponition | is at times Jolly Feereation; but fs [tome the chetenge, Col. T. W. Thomas, who o>m- | Insnded the 15th Georgia, and died durity the war, then in vigorous nea (h, offered, ea was admissible under he code, to take tha place of his nranc:yal, Mr. Hillosxed for time to cousider it, and, after » day's dliberation, on the roand that he was a member iecopal church, whore discipline for- of peraonal resiousitiity bed ereat- and formany yi ars ‘offloe,. notweith tanding hie and the ineny qualities be ded the F epect an iration | of the Methodist bid it. ‘This evass ficaliy exclude) him talents, his aspiring nat | porsesied that con | of bis fellow: eitize teontripnted to his defeat for Conztess gud for governor in the interim between 1850 | and is6o. and, indeed, but for the revolution, whieh | {ited hy 9 the convention of the iset-nemed year, he would probably haye remained in comparat.ve pri> vate life he rest of Lisdays. Mr. Yancey’s aliusion to this paiziful subject so exaspera ed hin that, he lost | all seif-control and threw an inkstacd at him, the ints- sile striking Lim on the head, cutting itreverely, but i no serious injury. The immediate interfer- iends prevented fur:her hostilities, ded. Mr. Yancey died at his FROM THE RERMUDS THE | Special Correspondence of THE Evexixe Stan. HamiLtox, Beaurpa, December, 1882. The Bermuda is are in mat respects: | unique and beautiial, and have peculiarities of | great interest to the lover of nature and the novelties of land and wate three miles from tie bay, on which the odd little town of Hamilton is situated, over the low hills to the nerth or south shore. Every step along | the smooth, white, wall-lmed roads and through [the paths in the cedar woods presents some- ne queer and quaint. In one place tall cabbage palms, like isolated Corinthian columns, smooth and marble-li if they were monoliths in memory of some demi- It is only two or gods of the past, arrest attention; near b | crove of banana trees or bushes, with thick, | . Taneeoiate te some of them biack ed, their buiky bunches of look- inst the arthie Fu ant . too.—is a e-spr hit to large, coarse apples, with shirt wrinkled like the cheeks of a monke that is highly prized ti I paiel fourteen cents for one of ‘the y imt which | st evs seldom like 3 as two dis ine astes, sweet and tar On the shore of the se; numbers of the inclined to ass in their gr with vines: but in t! locality they x 5 oplara, round, nd purpl hang from the ers. They are not of cont, coarse, and mostly like the plum—something ive to your neighbor than eat 1, which ix would rath elf. z side a stone wall ts one of those eccen- . something hike a gnarly ance. Its ourd-Hike er it can hang on— in the erotehes, in “the states” usnally It isn’t a bit particn- its way through ir fruit. jana, % esembline. for is to ash is the » be: t | our hone ; J alights on one [ofthe fine-leaved s making the delicate leaves shrink and tre with the touch. The Sago palm is another of the luxurt | growths, its nuge flower, big asa half-bus ure, and looking like lamb's wool work in ant col Phere are many other palins in ssive, real, couspicuons and pecutis One, the Turk’s © post, or big stone, and di and plump shoulders’ bristling ble quills. Another crawls up a pin sinuous coils— bout to start to. rpent life and his | roads, and walls, and paths are lined with : called the live laf, | because a leaf pinned to a wail or stump or against the side of a house grav situation, puts forth roots, « cht along. Others grow in high clusters, a have beautiful showy red and yellow flowe Two kinds of sage bushes, one with clusters { pretty red flowers, one with lavender blos- 1s, compete with the oleander for possessi of the islands, and fill the air with their mingled rt All are now in bloom, though not to | oddity odd islands. ‘All the gardens of any considerable and pretension have orange and lemon. trees, now loaded with fruit, and some have paw-paw, fiz, cinnamon, lime, loquat.pomegranate, and many other pretty and vatuable trees peculiar to tlie climate. Everywhere roses, zeraniums, searlet Christmas-bushes, trumpet ‘flowers, the snowy hibiseus, the ubiquitous conyolvulus and many other flowers now in bloom are to be seen, making one exelaim, as Rogers did of Italy— ‘This region surely is not of the earth! Was it not dropt trom not a grove, mu, OF pine, or cedar: not a grot, Sea-worn and thuntie | wiuh the gadiing vine, But breathes enchantment!- Nota chff but flings | Ou the clear soe inne of delixht, Sonw fairy nook that elows with crimson flowers.” Samuel had Bernuda in his mind, I think,and Tam much obliged to him for helping me out in expressing my pent-up emotions. NNING WATER. There is one feature ot the islands that has a tendency to make the stranger feel lonesome, inuch as the lack of trees does on the westward plains—there are no streams. no springs, no “books in babbling brooks,” no water anywhere except that of the seas. The land is not high enough, and the nature of the rocks, built up by the coral-makers, do not admit of subter- ranean reservoirs and channels. The clouds are the source of the water that is used for do- mestic purposes. One of the means of procur- ing it is to make a yard on a hill-side, surround- ed by a stone wall. with a cement floor, which conveys the water when it rains into large square cisterns. The roofs of all the houses are cemented, and the water fs also conducted from them into large cisterns. NO SNAKES. There are no snakes in the Besmudas, and no frogs. and the islands are not indebted to any fabulous St. Patrick for the exenfption. Occa- sionally a toad is seen, but he’ has a dazed, scared appearance, as it he was aware of being lost a long way from home. Small lizards clamber shadow-like along the walls, and they are the only reptiles. BEAUTIFUL FISHES. The tishes are, many of them, beautiful. Yes- terday I caught some cow pilots,” “slippery Dick: folly Millers,” and Bermuda blue-fish, any of which equal and some surpass the gold and silyer fish in rich tints and colors, delicate iridescent stripes, and spots like those in the tail ofa peacock. With a water-glass one can See great numbers of these and other fishes sporting about among the coral caverns, from two to ten fathoms deep. If the sun is shining betes submarine scenery is wonderfully beautiful, the water and the rocks and strange formations being as richly tinted as the fishes that live among them. : One of the slippery Dicks that 1 was examin- ing with verdant curiosity suddenly bit me, whereupon I used him for bait for rock-fish, which running in weight from ten to fifty ona nibble with a good deal of sud- ‘oness and vehemence, and with a ten- dency to jerk you off the rocks down toward the West Indies. I got one bite at an unguarded moment, but held on much as one would to a horserunningaway. Fortunatel; the hook straightened, and the fleh departed Just as I was about making a formal pee . Strug- | tion of the whole tackle. I like to | gling witha five-pound bass, lifting out speckled rout, yankipg pickerel, snaring suckers even, that is in effect what throwing a lariat over a locomotive running to make up time would be, Is not alto- | Eateningt you wet caught, ahd are pulled ana you cat are hauled about with most em! tence, it something doesn’t give way. Besis |, the coral rocks are sharp, Jagged, uneven | partigularly unfavorable for any but deliberate movements. Slipping. falling or sitting sud- denly is sure to be injurious to clothes or cutl- cle. In a boat it is better. There I have on which the Bermuda Islands are built ex- tend a distance of from ten to twenty miles be- yond the land west, north and east, much of the Intermediate had prac- | ¥ and darkened by innuw overhanging cliffs and ers of rock. In places cornice, where mermaid housekeeping and find nals t for time. while here and rocks, you can see pret have concluded to drop tide comes up again an In near and distant v! ty shoals, dark green green where it i fathoms. On the Uright, the waves ma the rising and faltir allo’ © ray very white of the s| of dei areation be bottom of sis cavi ous, where and shei he floors, g are many DOWN IN “There's hills and a sir,” said an old sailor t seudding in toward the for or ten miles outside, si Tye seen things as you told you. Mighty big “Oe | groves like paln —cathedrals T i y tale, now, sir! all thet, ed Fish hain't got much and iarays, and The old little vo . but now ous and int able romancer; door; though It was a posted to the se waves, THE GRE as the entrance to Port ot Hamilton is called, pieces of half marine the world over. The peculiarities of the ned, add immen nery of land and y of romance hau a wid spre and gurgle throw out tones, and the t sable hue | s | and victims of mal time. One of_ these « “Pearl fsland,” worked up und | Maid of the M | Pearl of the Periwinkle | of colonial occupation, ment, and slavery and terial for romance wri hion as coral, ready for Speaking of the oun. it has been my pleasa tleman who owns a 1 thereon, two hundred y The house is a solid st and Queen Anne style well-arranged, and whi almost any direction. places has pertectly pre presenting scenes from jing a wondertul {tnre for this is: ated 1 | ground in front of the In owners was a large p) punished by han gentleman, whose highe those of his hous id, In fact the people of th as thelr skies, affable, q tion, The white people on her majesty, Queen Vi way of officers and 80 several thousand tow two to one. supporting, quiet and s There are no beggars | this to the fact that sev world, or heard the shri have evidence of luxuri fact tha short exce] “intluence,” no rumors no hurry, and you may further, that the weath that it | After Promising to He is Thought to Another. weeks. He there becat morning Miss Ella and h non village, about five swore out a warrant promise of marriage. A constable arrested to Lebanon with him Philhower. Gebhardt that he would marry hi of this week, giving as the weaing tat he di the girl or oy wedding. of a man. Gebhardt. and he would gladly man told Gebhardt, marry his daught Aoung Gebhardt ay the turn affairs hed. promises to Mr. Philhower, who constable te release be y endless torment to sailors. ‘The shores are with little exception rugged, broken, made up of the waves has made deep caverns, bored holes, carved fantastic shapes, and made decorations that resemble stucco work, Sea-moss carpets, many ot these weird-l hangs in long wreaths from escarpment and esthetic articles to embellish their mit-crabs scramble awkwardly along the sharp ledges near the water, looking like crimi- ng to hide, seadding for an untenanted periwinkle or vacant couch-shell when pressed riums, little tanks and bowls of water in the their congeners in the deep green sea. horizon, when the day is f the sea around and among the tells where the roofs are near the surface. and athoms below. sts, ail made of coral. grass plats and onton flelds,bigg ike they have in London, wit fish going to meet are disturbed by ghosts, which the native col- 1 tothe wind to make all possib! The cavernous shores in which the waves rumble nd has a story which mizht be r the title of ers, ous object on the hill-top, and easily seen from degree | Anold cannon with which salutes were fired, and authority asserted, is still 1 his word was law, and violation of the law was indebted to native Bermudians for kind atten- tion, that has made m: PEOPLE AND PECULIARITIES. The colored people outnumber the whites nearly They are polite, generally self- since we have had news trom the rest of the piereing mill whistle, or a maddening huckster, or the lond rattle of a milk eart or bread wagon, orany clamor but a thunder storm, and you it there are no daily papers, no newsboys, no bootblacks, no telegraph wires, with one ption, no telephones, no cable, no | in faet, like balmy spring, with all that spring implies, and that the days are like a suc- cession of Sundays, and you have YOUNG GEBHARDT’S FL From the New York Sun, 29th. Jacob Gebhardt, whose home is in Clinton, Hunterdon county, N. J eling salesman for a New York house, and Pea- pack; the tiny village made famous by the an- nual reunions of the Smith family there, is one | of the places on his route. habit of stopping in Peapack once every two Ella Philhower, the young ‘daughter of Isaac Philhower, one of the wealthiest men in Somer- set county. Miss Philhower now accuses young | Gebhardt of having wronged her. On Christmas Gebhardt on the charge of betrayal under tel, in Clinton, on Monday, and Gebhardt went self by undue haste or a compul- Mr. Philhower is an easy-goin; He consented to Gebhardt’s proposition, and, furthermore, drew a check for & handsome sum of money, and presented it to He told the young and when it was gone to call on him for more, iter and treat her properly he would start him in business on the Ist of next t ueravie shoals that are of peculiar terrace-like lay- the ceaseless action of Jooking structures, and ds and imermen can go to all sorts of beautiful and interiors. 1 there in nattiral aqua- ty small fry that scem to in there and rest till the dd enables thein to rejoin few the water has avery | black on the | and pale | Ww, or from two to four | w-like ede, each of | ecth tipped with’ the sil- | King plain the line er and sky. The and the dappled water ved and inlald by corals THE DEEP. nountains down there, ‘ome one day as we were sound; “and fields and Of aclear day eight ir, with my water-glass, could hardly believe if T trees, and places like ‘n any In Ber- os, and buildin’s and eve you call’ nt “aps of steeples, net be Captain.” ept "bont the meetin’. feelin’, specially sherks, he chipped in lively, and ere i retted to that he was wel below the T SOUND, Royal bay and the port Is one of the prettiest ew that can be found islands, all showing the shore heretofore men- 1e picturesque sce- | Some of them have an | bout them, and some je berth at nig! it, going speed. startlingly human-like itious Bermudian, he of rtain that spooks are ipwrecked saile in the olden 4s called aval uphi The Mysterious 1 the * Peerless hundred ye: tocratie govern- | Lop much ma- e It is as com- | the writer. sh Th . of ari TIME, re to dine with a gen- plantation and a ho ears old, or thereabouts ucture, Queen Elizabeth combined, commodious. te as snow—a conspieu- One of the chimney- eseryed tile-pictures, re- n Asop’s fables; show- of taste and cul- nook in days long gone, ng on the wuse. One of the former lanter and slave-owner; The present owner ts a est alm. after caring for ‘o make others happy. ese islands are as genial quiet, hospitable. [am y Visita sunlit recollec the islands are largely ictoria’s, servants, in the ldiers, though there are nspeople and farmers. ober. that I have seen. Join | nteen days have elapsed | iek of a locomotive, or a ous quiet. Tack on'the of dismissals, no fatizue, feel drowsy. Consider er is warm and pleasant: JE Marry Onc Woman, Have Eloped with is employed as a tray- He has been in the | me acquainted with Miss her father went to Leba- miles from Clinton, aud for the arrest of young Gebhardt in Weller’s ho- and met Mr. and Miss promised Mr. Philhower is daughter on Saturday an excuse for delaying id not wish to humiliate man to use that, nd. ‘The old gentle- her, that it he would tobe pleased with en. le re) his eel the ‘oung Geb- | censor of Russia the ri: ner. line Phithower, went to le procured a MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. MUSICAL EVENTS LEAVE—“ LIBERIAS JANUARY—THURSBY TO “ITALIAN OPERA, ETC. —Jos. Wheeiock produced a new play called “The Indians” at Harlem, N. Y., this week. —The English composer Macfarren is writing @ new oratorio, “King David,” for the Leeds festival next year. —‘‘Hazel Kirke” will soon reach its 2,500th performance, and the event will be celebrated by the presentation of handsome souvenirs. -Miss Minnie Maddern appears shortly in Philadelphia in “Fogg's Ferry.” —Madame Jananschek is to brin: play in January at Hayerley’s Theater. —The Philadeiphia engagement of Mr. Fred- erick Gebhard closed inst Saturday evening. — Signor Salvini, the eminent tragedian. opens at the Chestnut phia, January 15th. — “ Gideon's Rock,” a dramatization by Mrs. Martha Lafitte Johnson, has been sold by her and Wm. Dayidge to Frank Evens. = — Robson and Crane will appear in Philadel- phia New Yeur’s week as Tiro of a Kind—The Twins—in the * Comedy of Errors.” — Tie Emma Abbott opera company, of which Miss Emma Abbott is the leading soprano, ts in y England, — Emma Thursby will give five farewell con- certs in New York between January 4th and 13th, and will then return to Europe, where her talent finds greater popular appreciation. —T.G. Pratt, the composer of “Zenobia, is said to be arranging the whole score for Christine Nilsson's voice, and proposes pro- ducing it in an eastern city whea her concert tour en — Kiralfy “cutting hi thre ut a new h Jinks” out we ew a train of cars off thet Last week he k. Bamboo hi y the comy bursted, but fortun id, has been suce fully produced in San Franciseo, will be giv at Haverly’s Philadelphia Theater in Febru —The papers are saying that Modjes! painting a picture for the Paris salon ot 1883, the subject being an in nt from her own childhood. She has been given by the dramatic to perform in the Polish language in the empire. --Louise Montague, Forepaugii’s beauty, was offered $300 a night to play of the Philadelphia theaters this week, as a set- off to Mrs. Langtry, but she declined the tempt- ing offe st 10,000 one —The title Mr. Grover has given the new play which he has written for Mr. and Mrs. Ran- kin is “Dominick Bayard,” but it will be changed to a more general one. —Miss Catherine Lewis has org: treet Opera House, Philadel- | big elephant, Bamboo, has been She is studying for the operatic | nized an | opera troupe and will begin an engazement at | the Chi stnut-street Opera House January Sth, Her patest creation, ‘*Olivett and “The as head the repertoire. —The Baltimore Gratorio Society has seenred the services of Mr. Theodore Thomas and his orchestra for its musical festival, which is to be held on April 26 The works to pertormed are Gouuod’s “Re lioz’s “Damnation of Faust “Messiah. ‘Around the We and Handel jd in Eighty Days” was given in German at € Collmer’s 5 effects were fur- hed by the Kiralfys in the usual language. —Mme. Adelina Patti will sing in “La Travi- “La Sonnambula” and “*Seiniramid opens on January 20. —Mr. and Mrs. Winant and Mr. Charles Adams will be the solo- ists in the performance of Handel's “Messiah” at Providence on January i6 —It was currently reported that Mlle. Sara Bernhardt was engaged to appear in America next season. connected with such an enterprise. if true. Mr. Tillotson, Mr. Abbey's representative, disclaims any knowledge of such an undertaking. —George R.Sims and Henry Pettitt are writing a play together, and, strange to say, It has no | sensation scene and no crime connected with it, but isa simple and healthy domestic story, of | an emotional character. Mr. ms is represented pondent ws,” particu- larly of “The Romany Rye.”™and to have re- solved never to write another thing of the sort for any price. —The Baltimore Sun thus speaks ofthe Humpty Dumpty troupe, which appears atFord’s on Monday night: “At Ford's Opera House between 3,800 and 4,000 tickets were sold for the afternoon per- formance of “Humpty Dumpty at night, besides several hundred persons had by the Dramatic Times’ London cori as tired of “stage carpenters pla: ‘ * dur- | Ing the operatic festival in Cineinnatt, whieh | } org Henschel, Miss Emily | As no doubt Mr. Abbey would be | H and over 3,700 | to be turned away from the box office, so there | was not even standing room left. Judging from the frequency and heartiness of the ap- plause, no audience could have been better | pleased “Humpty Dum ills, but the way in company is almost entirely new. Mr. Geo. H. Adams, the inimitable ciown, is of course the great feature, and to be awarded first place among so many attractions is no small honor of y” is as old as the hich it is given by this | itself. He is probably the funniest man on the | staze. The specialty department isthe best and most varied yet presented in this city. In addi- tion to these and other attractions, however, | there are four performing elephants, and alto- gether the entertainment isso amazing and irre- sistibly funny that everybody should go to see it. It isa treat for the children. —Pretty Ada Rehan saved Daly's theater the other night, if not from destruction, at least audience. upon the stage, when a lace curtain at the back of a scene caught fire, it down and stamped upon it, and then seized a pot of burning artificial flowers, and crushed out the flames with her hand. Then the per- formance went on as usual, —The Italian opera season at the New York Aczdemy of Music closed this afternoon with a performance of Carmen” by Minnie Hauk. The troupe sang “Il Trovatore” at Hartford Tuesday, “Les Huguenots’, at Providence Wed- nesday, “Il Trovatore” again at New Haven Thursday. The closing week in New York was made remarkable by the debut of a new con- tralto Wednesday—Mme. Schalchi, who sang in “Semiramide” with Patti. She took both town and critics by storm. — All agree that she isa noble dramatic contralto, not dwarfed by her contact with Patti, and three or four of the papers declare that she is by far the greatest contralto since Alboni. ——____+>-______ ALL ABOUT A JUMPING JACK. A_ Lady Objects to Her Christmas Present and Her Friends Do Some Shooting. A telegram from Abilene, Kan., December 28, says a bloody affray occurred at a prayer meet- ing at the Iliff school house near here last even- ing. The cause of the trouble was the placing of a jumping Jack on the Christmas tree the Monday evering previous for a young lady named Foreman. Her friends took it as an in- sult, and bloodshed was then and there pre- vented with difficulty. It was claimed that Arthur Shadinger put the toy on the tree. Last evening her tl brothers, her brother-in-law, James Johnston, and her lover, Thos. Cooper, went to the prayer meeting, where they knew Shadinger would be. After the services they assaulted him, driving him back in the school house. Shadinger's friends came to the rescue, one of them armed with a revolver. Cooper fired three shots at Shi , mortally wounding him. As he tell tie oa drew a revolver and shot one of the Foremans. The battle went on, the ladies present screaming and endeavoring to stop the bloodshed. Nearly all the participants were wounded, some seriously. Three arrests have been made. 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