Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1885, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. BURNT CORK AND SWALLOW TAILS. Fan for Sweet Charity’s Sake—A Large and Fashionable Audience Enter- tained by the West End Minstrel Troupe. It was difficult to detect any familiar features fn the appearance of the fourteen young gentle- men who appeared standing in arow on the stage of Willard’s hall when the curtain rolled up on Monday night. Their biack faces glis- tened and their woolly heads shone above the ample expanse of shirt bosom and collar of an evening dress costume. The four end men, with the simple taste which characterizes the burnt cork profession, had the lapels and col- Jars of their black dress coats faced with bright searlet silk, while a strip of the same color ran down the sides of the trowsers, The end men had also been allowed a certain latitude in the ehoice of neckties and collars, and as the result some novelties were exhibited, The example of the {nterlocutor, Mr. W.S. Keen, who had donned a white shirt and collar, was followed by the other members of the troupe, and the severe simplicity of the center was enlianced by the rococo style of the end men. As the object of the ent rw the benefit of such a merit the Woman's ange, the men of the West minstrel troupe not only gave their se1 vices, but were inclined to do their best for thy entertainment of the large and_fashionable audience which Mled the hall, Their efforts Were received with appreciative applause. While the audience were waiting for tbe cur- tain to go up they were amused by looking over the program, which was as follows. [The real Rames of the performers not being given on the printed program, are inserted in bracket Part first-“Overiure, by the full company, T. Thomas (not leader); produced from Tann- haeuser beer. Sweet Flowers of Hope, by the Hero of Trafalgar [H. rec! | Sunrise in the Morning, wrestled with by Ham Saverly [H. Stewart.| Climbing Up the Golden Stairs, b: One of the Climbers, Billy Oats (H. Spofford. Please don’t stair this artist out of countenance, Tell Me, Love, a Tale told by Hank Froward L. €.Chew.] Listen to My Tale of Woe, woe- fully wailed by Duegh Hogerty (H. T. Sinit Laughing Song, giggled by A. T. Riddle. Let ai! take « smile with him. Lullaby, ill'd b: Signor Brancho [P. Sprigg.] The aud requested not to sleep afoud during the of this yocal gem, out of compliment tothe com- poser, Mr. Ross Thompson. Love's Summer, —.. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent madé Glorious summer by the favorite son, 8. W. Keen. Grand Finale. Part second—Overture by the W.E. M. T. Band. Banjo Trio, by Messrs Shorty [H. Coolidge}, Grimes [R. Thompson] and Chestnuts (H. Burr]. The schottisehe ren- dered by these musical wonders is composed expressly for this oceasion by Professor Burr. A Few Moments of Twaddle, by_A. T. Riddle. The Famous Dutch Duo, Hans Mulchaby (H. Stewart] and Mlle Dinah Strollofsky [H. Smith). Reeitation, recited by William Cereal, alias Billy Oats, (H.'Spofford.] Interspersed ‘among the so! fully up to the average of professional minstrel efforts, were those little interchanges of leasantries between the end men and the interlocutor, and naturally most of the Jokes were about the Woman’s Exchange. Forinstance Mr. Spofford asked, “Why Is this show like matrimony,” and when the interlocutor had given it up in despair, he said: “Because it is for Woman's Exchange.” Then Mr. Stuart in- quired why it was that a man was able to go to the Exchange and buy angel's food and baby shoes without fear of being robbed. The entire company protested against the inference to be drawn ‘from such a question, but Mr. Stuart proceeded to explain that all the women of the Exchange were fair, and he concluded that it was well-known that a “Fair Exchange 4s no robbery ‘The second part brought out the talent of the company for specalties, and the banjo playing and the Dutch dialect was very well done. Mr. Burt Riddle gave a rumbling talle in imitation of the delighiful George Thatcher, of minstrel fame, and Sir. Hub Sinith, asa languishing fir, brought down the house.’ ‘The members of the company were as follows: Bones, A. T. Riddle, H.C. Stewart; tambos, H.T. Smith, H. Spottord: interioeuter, &. W. Keen; H. Nelson, L.C. Chew, Jno. Yarrow, R. Thompson, P. Sprigz, H. Cool idge, H. Burr, H. Chadwich, L. Turner sabe ea The Pub‘te Schools and Hoodlumism. ‘To the Editor of Tae EVENING Star: Ina recent interview with Commissioner Ed- published in your paper, reference is made to the opinion of certain policemen tothe effect that the expulsions of boys from the pub- lic schools is the most efficient cause of vaza- bondage in the District, and it is hinted that the school authorities should refrain irom re- sorting to expulsion as a punishment. On pretty thorough knowledge of the facts I dissent from that opinion. The numberof bo: Both white and colored, expelled from sc ncol and not restored average about one hundred a year. Of these rather more than two-thirds are ‘white, Sume of them are put to work, others leave the city anda few are sent to private Schools; the rest are not numerous enough to constitute the gangs of hoodlums that infest this city and Georgetown. Besides, the boy does not become a hoodlum because he is expelled; he is expelled because he is already one. He shows himself in school insoient, shameless, turbulent and disobedient; he is too tough to be moulded. by school drill: gs which were too far gone in vice and biackguardismn to be reached by advice, expostulation, entreaty or the moderate punishments permitted in the Atlast a point is reached when the is shall the boy be expelled or the questior ‘whole school demoralized? How can he be kept? The school building is not a police station with a prison annex; nor is therea whipping-post, and the teacher is a lady Who has no taste for wielding the cowhide. A. public school is not a reformatory. The true cause of hoodiumism lies not in the ite schools, but in detective or bad homes; orphanage, in the neglect, ignorance or bru- tality or vices of parents. Hoodlums do come out of happy family etreles, out of he Where the hearts of children find the affection they crave, and their hands and minds natural occupation; but they a peevish- ness, sulkiness, drui , Selfishness and stupidity have’ destroyed all’ the loveliness of home. Children run in gangs on the streets at night, because there at least they find some- thing’ to interest and make them forget. the tircsomeness, discomforts and 1il humor of the dwelling. There, too, they learn vice. Who can make the homes attractive? Not the teachers or the schools. These can help ap parents; they can’t reform bad o1 This is the work of the preacher, the priest, the burch and the press. When ‘parents learn to make home attractive, there will be no hood- Tums to speak of, and no expulsions from school. ‘The extent of parental remissness may be Grasped at from the tact that. in December, 8 the whole number of white children on the school rolls was 16,479, and in the follow- ing June the average daily attendance was only 13,273, than three thousand, of which number not more than fifty were caused by expulsion! The greater part of the remainder may fairly be tributed to the indifference, weak indulgence and thoughtlessness of the persons having charge of children. Speaking generally, the discipline of the public schools is tar better than that of the homes: and, in very many cases, It 18 the only means of teaching boys punctuality, romptnes# and obedience to law. But ft is folly to expect it tocounteract all the bad effects of wretched home surrc 3. ‘Trusts! savin Sin Debut im Trieste, Austria, of a Wash ingtonian. THE DAUGHTER OF “GRACE GREENWOOD” MAKES A GREAT SUCCESS, ‘Miss Annie Lippencott, of this city, daughter of “Grace Greenwood,” made a most successiul debut in Trieste on the 22d ultimo, in the opera of “Crispino e la Comare.” We give extracts from some of the notices which appeared In the papers of Trieste the following morning: L’ Independente says: “In the part of ‘An- netta,’ singer of ballads, wife of old Crispino, ‘there was presented last night a young Alneri: ean, rich in beautiful gifts, endowed with a most sympathetic face, d.stinguished In her Movements, who has from the first captured all the favor of the public. It is the ‘Signorina Anita Armour, (Miss Annie Lippencott). With ‘@ soft, pleasing ‘voice, adapted to comic opera, she has rendered her'part with much dramatic intelligence and has sung ina manner ruly masterly, displaying a most rare school. She Bas applauded in all the pieces, and had to repeat the duet with the buffo. She pronounced the Italian to perfection, so that noone on hear- ing her would have sai@ that she wasa foreigner. The success of this signorina, truly complete, assures her, in art,a autiful career, so that few can say to have made adebut under such happy auspicies. Doidria ‘say! ‘The success could not have been more complete. The prima donna, Sig- norina Armour, who, for the first time, faced the footlights, should be most happy over her debut, from which can be promised » brilliant career. With a charming face, la Signorina ds gifted with a beautiful voice, true, of a metal- lic timbre, and, a thing quite important, proves pobre have been educated in an excellent L Alaborda says: “The prima donna, Sig- norina Anita Armour, gained immediately: fa this first appearance, ‘the favor of the public, She hag a sympathetic and agile volee, and makes the most delicate and natural hand’ runs and trill without effort. She sings well and with grace, and makes one see how inuch she is sessed by the diving art to which she has given berseif. ———+e+_____ YOUNG WALLACK’S SECRET MARRIAGR,— ‘The fact has just leaked out that Harold B. Wallack. the youngest son of the actor, Lester Waliack, was married last November to Mixs Madge D. Fling, who comes of an old Philadelphia family.’ She is a cousin of Geo. Howell, of the banking firm of Decker, Howell € Co., and has a quarter of a milion dollars in her own right. The marriage was Kept quiet until early last week, when the couple told the 's mother, and then went to m and told Mr. Wallack, the elder. The latter was greatly astonished: The couple were forgiven on all sides, however. ———e0 ae isn ee = AND HERSELF.— ram Prantz, about forty-two, re- siding near Reading, Pas took her five children id yesterday afternoon and threw into the stream and then jumped in if and was drowned, together with two of ber youngest children, ‘aged one and three years. The other children, the oldest ten years old, were and resuscitated ‘with the & test difficulty. The pen aR act was caused by re- THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD. The Supervising Principals Make an Appeal for the Teachers—The Board Discovers a New Town—The Question of Substitutes, &e. At the May meeting of the board of school trustees last evening, the reports of Superin- tendents Panl and Cook for the month of April were submitted, showing that the whole num- ber of pupils enrolled was 24,528, the average daily attendance 22,206, and number of teachers employed 555, Superintendent Paul also sent in a report in compliance with instruc- tions of the District Commissioners showing the amount of substitute service rendered in the first six divisions of public schools during April, as follows: Ist division, 27 days; 24, 33%); 3d, 14; 4th, 14; 5th, 27; 6th, 10, and High school,’ 7, total number of days 132. It was ided that this report should hereafter show grades and schools in which substitute ser- Vice was rendered, A PLEA FOR THE TEACHERS, A communication from Supervising Princt- pals N. P. Gage, B. T. Janney, A. T. Stuart, H. R. Montgomery, W. S. Montgomery, N. D. Cram and I. Fairtrother was read, as follows: “The supervising principals beg leave to sub- mit the following statement and recommenda- tions: The unusual prevalence of sickness among the teachers in our respective divisions during the past winter has brought to our at- Here was a failing off of more | tention with renewed torce the hardship result- ing from the practical operation of rule 42, re- lating to the pay of substitutes. For many Years past teachers absent on accountof illness eeeived during such time one-half of thelr sal- the other half being paid to the sub- stitute. The present rule, however, as you are aware, cuts off half the’ sick teacher's pay the first month, and for turther absence forfeits the whole of it. We de- sire to call your attention to the fact that recent cases have come to our notice in which this rule has proved very oppressive. We are Informed that it has alWays been, and is now, the prac tice In the executive departments ofthe govern- ment to forfeit no portion of a clerk’s salary when he is sick. Instances are not uncommon in which this ‘exemption has extended over months of absence, and justly so. It seems un- fair that the poorly paid teacher, whose ave salary fs little more than haif the salary paid toa first-classclerk, should be made to suifer by such a discrimination to the extent of surren- dering her whole monthly pay after twenty days ofentorced absence. She has fallen sick while in the discharge of her duty. She grows anxious about{the progress of her school, for it is in charge ofasubstitute, who gets fifty per cent of her pay, and seldom does the work one-half as well. This anstety ts supplemented by the desired re: flection that she must get well before the expir- ation of the twentieth school day, or lose atl her salary, A rule so severe might find some meas- ure of {pstifcation on the grounds ofeconomy if the District received from the substitute fil service in return for full pay. But such fs rarely ifever, the case. Indeed, it too often happeas that not only the whole ‘salary, but the maxt- mum rate of salary in the grade, is paid to person without experience or professional tral ing, ind whose interest in the school is at best but temporary. Neither has the present rule improved, to any degree, the quality of the sub- stitute service as was expected. It is plainly. impracticable to have a trained corps of substitutes in waiting to fill the plac of sick teachers owing to the uncertainty of their probable employment, as well as the uncertainty of their tenure when they chance tobe employed. As subst®utes can always be had who are willing to work for half the salar; of the regular teacher, and in view of the hard- ship attending the enforcement of the present rule, we respectfully recommend the restoration of the former rule. which allowed a teacher absent from sickness to draw one-half of her salary during the per‘od of her disablli It was referred to the committee on rules. Applications for teacherships were recelved from Theresa Douglass, Belle C. Price, Annie E. Blackiston, Mary R. Thomas, and L. J. Brown. THE NEEDS OF BURRVILLE. A petition was presented by Mr. Griswold, from the citizens of Burrville, asking for the es- tablishment of a school there. There was some inquiry as to where Burrville was, and Mr. Gris- wold Satistied the curiosity of the board by ating that it was in the northeast corner of the District. The papers were filed, The petl- tion was quite unique in its way. It said: “We the undersigned do each for his and ber- self pertision your most noble board that you Will est @ pub school at and in the viladge of wrrville, ‘Then followed the signatures of sixteen citi- zens of Burrville, with the number of children belonging to ea To this was appended the following “state- ment of fac 1. the present school is two miles from our homes 2. Some of the children is of tender adge and cannot walk so far 3. 1 the fall and winter the Roads are so bad the men can hardly pass on them aa 4. To get to the present, they the children must pass seven R. R. tracks 5. The B & P trains pass over the tracks aforesaid every 4, hour. 6. So there is great danger in their passen over the tracks tacigl’ © 27 all property houlders and pays our cks 8.,and think we should have the benefit o 9. in the summer the little ones cannot hould out to travel so far to school 10. We think you gent ought to establish a school at once We will anxfously a waite your decision in this very emportant’ matter. — We have pertision you before and have heard noth- ing more from it so we come and present this pertision in a body” THE TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION. An order adopted fixing Saturday, the 16th Instant, at 9 a. m., as the time for the ex- amination of teach of Real Estate. been recorded as follows: to Wm. Nickerson, lot 38, sub. G. W. Smithson to Rosella Her- 77;$700. J. F, Wag $3,000. 7, 84. 334: $3,950. to Joseph Smith Bigelow . 7 B. W. Carpenter to Ec. Wa ford, lot 22, sq. 819; $650. Same to F. G. Dieteriakg, lot 3650. 8. D. Neweomb to B. T. McCart- lot &, sq. 921; $3,000. J. 0. Cole to KR. H. Brown et’al.,lot 8, sq. 275; $1,318.40, J. H. Johnson to , H. Parker, lot 18, sq. 354: $1,100. R. C. Fox to H. L. Page, Mt. Pleasant Plains (17 21,500. Sarah’ E. Mattock to Josephine F. Fridley, lot C, M’s sub, Mt. Pleasant; ~ A. F. Barker to John Hofman, lot 40, sq, 383; $5,500, &. G. E, Mitchell to'G. J. Bond, lots Bao 4% Long, Meadows; $2,756. S. Fowler to R. T. Mitchell, part lots 21’ and 22, R, Treat Paine, truste, €. 49 5, res. B; sq. 1,002; $500. R. Wilson two B. H, Warner, lot 26, sq.°611; $635.50, National Savings Bank ‘to A. B. Hayward, lots 58, 58, 591; $2.625.56. G. Bergling to A. S, Abell, lot 31, sq, 253; $25,000. S. “Maddox to J. S. Blankman, lot 99, sq. 133; $1,400. Mary O'Connell to L M. Saunders, lot 15, block 1, T. & B,’s sub. Mt. Pleasant $100. 'Emma Bartholomae to C. Mades, lot 13, sq. 442; $4,650. W. W. Metealf toD. Ross, part 14, block 18, H. & E.'s sub, Meridian Fiil C. M. Matthews parts 64 and 65, B.'s addition to Georgetown; $7,000. G. E. Emmons to B. H. Warner, lota 18 to 21 sq. 404; $B. Goldsehmid to C. W. Hills, lot 112, sq. 212; $——. W. Sharon to John Sher 10,382.50. W. id to P. Grantum, part 13, sq.616; $100. lore Petrola to Thos, C. sim) man, parts 9'and 10, sq. 168; "Tod I s 1, 8. ep 1 $4;,973] $263.13. Georgetown Cullege to Cad er, lot 7, sq. 724; . Henrietta M. Hili etal. to Abranam Fisher, sq. 438, §—. W.F. Mattingly et al. to W.1LSibeper’ hte, @ and 3, sg 2,075.35. Ellen McFadden to W. H’ MeFadden, pt 9.89. 1019; $——. ML. Ashford etal, trustee, to S. T, Williams, lot 4 6,030. Richard L. Rotchford to John “ LSE, Sa. 636; $750. I. B Detrick to B. shbatigh to Henry A Lockwood, §. pe bat +89. 356; $1,300. Ledroit Park; 81,200. Ragan, lot 7, blk. 3, . F. Gilbert to J. Vance Lewis, lots 1 and 3, bil 15; lot 14, bik. 4, Takoma Park; $1,000. ‘S.C. Pomeroy etal., trustees, to P. Gran tum, lot 34. sec. 4, Barry Farm, $150. Heirs of S. H. Howell toT. E. Waggaman, pt. 6, sq. 945; §-—- ————+e0 To Soothe a Broken Heart. NELLIE PHILLIPS DEMANDS HEAVY DAMAGES FROM COL. CATHERWOOD, A declaration was filed in Chieago Monday in the suit of Nellie F. Phillips against Col. Will- iam L. Catherwood to recover 350,000 damages for alleged breach of promise of marriage. The allegations of the declaration are, in substance, as follows: Col. Catherwood promised Nellie in New York city in 1865 to marr; her when he should be uested to doso. Ever since that time, having Implicit confidence in him and re- lying on his promises, she has remained single and ready and willing and wanting to marry the defehdant; but on the Plea of poverty’ and other éxeuses he always Postponed the day of their wedding, “and on February 9, 1885, at Oconomowoc, Wis, he married Mis. Clara Parker. Miss Phillips tur. ther teks that before she met and loved ¢: ithe wood she was en; “1 to be mi tried to Josep! Woods, of New York city, whom she threw over because Catherwood “was persistent ard determined in his declarations oflove™ So that “she might lawfully and with due honesty to the defendant engage herself to him” she did thls, she clans, at the request of the defend- ant, and this was @ part of the consideration for the profnise Catherwood made to marry her. Belleving in the declarations made by the de. fendant that their marriage engagement would be quickly consummated by a mi e, the plaintiff says she “surrendered to the sald Win. 2 Mi mop eg por chastiey and poncr, where- fore she has sufte pris great damage in the sum DEFENDANT HAS MARRIED A FORTUNE, Col. Catherwood, the defendant, was married afew weeks ago to the widow of Thos. L. Par- ker, of the board of'trade, Park gut a will, and hisestate was walned ae DYNAMITE METHODS IN Bartr —) Theodore Lear is the foreman Ina gies Meloy in Baltimore, and 1s not scting with a atril dren were startled from their Pocog) which shook the house, lows and caused the front and ‘sides to bulge out. It was found that @ square oyster filled with powder had been cellar th ploded. A A GLANCE AT BILLINGSGATE. The Famous Piseatorial Bourse of Lon- Been Made im Language and Morals — Sanitary Reforms Still Needed—Some Points in which America is Ahead of England. At the last session of the American Fisheries Society at the National Museum, the other day, Mr. William Van Zandt Cox, of the National Museum, read an interesting paper giving a de- seription of Billingsgate, the famous London fish market. After referring to the traditions concerning the origin of the market, its former celebrity on account of the coarseness of the language used by the women who sold fish there, Mr. Cox gave a description of the present structure, which extends north and south from the Thames river toThames street, and was built with the Idea of having not only ground space in the base uent below and gallery overhead. ‘The basement part was intended for shell-fish dealers, but it was not oceupled Ly tLem very long, for, being 26 feet below the level of the river, it'was so dark, damp and disagreeable that few buyers cared to go there. Several deaths also occurred among its occupants, and those remaining being unwilling o stuy IGnger in the “Black Hole,” it was abandoned, except a8 place of storage and for lobster-bolling pu . The overhead space was for dealers in dried fish. Being sought, how- ever, by few patrons, it was also aban- doned, ‘and its occupants went below and squeezed in, as did the shell fish dealers from the basement. The floors of the building are of polished grauite, .oncealed beneath wiiich are rains of iron for carrying off the dirt and refuse when the market is flushed, which is daily at the close of the market hours. At the present lime there are 16 stalls and 14 shops on the ground floor. ‘The former are located in the center, while the latter are on the sides of the building. There is also a tavern where fish is served as the leading article of diet, Avenues cross the market at regular intervals, and from necessity are very narrow. Great’ effort is required to_keep them open. Licensed porters carry the fish Into and from the market ir baskets, boxes, crates, barrels, in fact, in all kinds of ways. Mr. Cox said Ne was told that the present conduct of employes in Billingsyate go happily in contrast with ‘ye olden times’ is due to rigid enforcement of strict rules, PICTURESQUE PORTERS, The porter's dress consists of cotton overalls, a coarse cotton shirt, worn on the outside of the trowsers, which from the begrimed and bespat- tered appearance are very appropriately called ‘slops.’ The head is protected by a ‘porter's knot,’ a hat whiclt has a cushion in the crown, very necessary padding, es the rough and heavy ‘trunks’ are either borne directly on the top of the head, or resting on the shoulders, back and neck.’ Wooden sandals are generally worn on the feet to keep the bottoms of the Shoes from contact with the sloppy surfac The porter receives on an average about a pen- ny farthing for carrying each box of fish to the Salesman. ‘The taking oft from the salesroom to the conveyance of the buyer is an optional charge, depending upon the kinds of fish and distance to be carried, Land-borne fish enter the building on the Thames street side, while river-borne fish are brought into the market through the sorth door facing the river. The boats bringing them to London are not permit- ted to come alongside the building to unload; but for some reason are required 10 make fust to fastenings provided for them adjacent to floating pontoons and barges that intervene. Planks, mostly unprotected by side rails, ex- tend from boat to market, a hundred feet 'dis- tant. Upand down and ‘across these planks the weary porters tramp with their heavy bur- dens, each trunk weighing about 100 pounds. Nine steam carriers run to and from the Bil: lngsgate and the fleets In the North sea, and bring the bulk of the water-borne fish. ’ The unloading of these boats, indeed all kinds of craft, is an interesting sight. OLD-FASHIONED METHODS, After quoting Sala’s description of the mar- ket and the “prodigious celerity” with which the fish are handled, Mr. Cox proceeds, “This method of handling and carrying the flsh_ may strike the author of ‘Twice Around the Clock’ as one of ‘prodigious celerity,’ but to an Amer- can familiar with steam appliances and labor-saving machinery it appears to be very tedious, costly, old-fashioned and in great contrast to systems seen with us where a ves- sel puts In, unloads, packs up, and leaves the wharf in two hours. Steam ‘appliances have not beep adopted at, Billingsgute, Iam in- formed, because the fish would be more rapidly brought tothe salesmen than they could be handied, and so the old system is clung to, and porters with trunks on the heads approach’ the salesman, stand in waiting, then deposit them, only as rdpidiy as they can’ be sold and again borne away. ‘The salesman or auctioneer gets five per cent on the sales made. Many fish were formerly sold at ‘Dutch auction,’ where the salesman names a high figure, then drops toa lower oue, and so on until a bid 1s made which is accepted, and the procedure is gone through with de novo. No license is re- quired to Sell fish by Dutch auction, and this method is still in great favor in many of the fishing ports.”” “During the whirl of business,” Mr. Cox wrote, “all seems contusion and chaos. Portors are seen rushing hither and thither with reek- ing barrels, buskets and boxes, Auctioneers, with long, narrow account books in their hands, are bawling to buyers, who, with hand by the side of their mouths, direct back their shouting Ansviors, while the uninitiated explore stands, bewildered in the midst, until he is recalled to his senses by the exclumation, ‘Hout the way,’ ‘The only comparison I can find for the aspect, the sights and sounds of tie place,’ says.a well: known writer, ‘is a rush—a rush hither and thither at a helterskelter speed, apparently blindly, apparently without motive, but really with a business-like and engrossing pre-occupa tion for fish and all things ‘fishy. Baskets full of turbot borne on the shoulders of the facchini of the place skim through the alr with such ra- pidity that you might take them tobe fying THE CROWDED APPROACH: “Language falls to convey to one’s mind,” says Mr. Cox, “the bewildered condition of things in the congested approaches to Billings. gate, where the stopping of a single ‘shandry,’ for instance, will block theentire street, It was shown in an investigation made by Spencer Walpole, H. M. inspector of fisheries, ihat ordin- arily it ‘not only took hours for fish vans to reach the market, but in one instance a van was eleven oars en route, and all the time try- Ing to get unloaded. A'vast umount of good food is very naturally spoiled before it reaches the market, and afterwards, too, from the ab- sence of proper a pliances for its preservation, so that when the fish reaches the consumer it is ‘so enhanced in price as to have become a luxury instead of an ordinary article of diet.” The Times, of October 30, ’83, de: spondingly asks: ‘Could not sclence have fish vaults where the temperature was kept at 33°, at the market? Could not science improve on the ice chest fish- mongers u: We answer unhesitatingly in the affirmative. We cordially invite the editor of the ‘Thunderer’ to visit America and see the fish markets in Boston, New York and other centers, where the application of scientific methods of refrigeration to fish trade would be seen. Mr. Cox concluded his paper by observing that at Billingsgate there is nothing for us to learn, except how far in advance of them in every respect we are on this side of the Atlantic. ————+e+_____ Limes Hon. Robert C. Winthrop’s 76th Birthday, May 12, 1885. I ‘What of eighteen hundred nine? ‘Listen to a word of mine. ‘Came a lad the twelfth of May— Born to grow, and born to stay. bes ‘What of eighteen forty-eight? Risen now to high estate, Proud he stands on honors won— Called to speak for Washington, Let the corner-stone be laid— Raise a column high, he said;— ‘Build it to the skies,” and you Can't o’erreach his lofty view. Found it on the massive rock, Firm and safe from earthquake shock, It will still remain the same— Less enduring than his fame. Purest marble though it be, ‘Yet his life as pure we see, mt ‘What of eighteen eighty-five? Is our statesman still alive? ‘Yes, and is now bid again T” eulogize the “first” of men, See the gracefui column rise, ‘Tow'ring high toward the akies— A grand memorial, well begun, ‘To mark the name of Washington, Orator, the first. and last, Now, as ever, in thmes past, Faithful to his stately trust— lways able—ever just; ‘ell hath he performed his task, All that friend or kin could ask. Grand the dedication passed— ‘Finished is the shaft at inst, Iv At sev'nty-six our Winthrop stands, ‘Beloved and honored in all lands. Honatio Kura, Washington, D. @ —————+09 ‘Senator Brown on Divoree, ACTION OF THE HOUTHERN BAPTIST OORVEN- Senator Joseph E. Brown delivered an ad- Gress before the Southern Baptist convention at. Auguste, Ga, Saturday, on a resolution which he had Introduced to the effect that in the opin- ion of the convention an act of fornication com- Forabaolnte aivonse ate insisted thas the cane tity Cie hes rolaiion ae 100 little re- people who bad been di ou ine ieee cee. coie teeta Catholic on the Snestion of vere ‘and BeGator Brown's resolution was edepice ami “Hine committee on en in conventions Teoommondiay thet in the constitu ‘thus ree mrtoling membership to men atvelog report adopted, THE CHURCH CONGRESS. An Important Movement fer Protestant Unity, The congress of churches now in session at Hartford, Conn., is an assemblage which should possess the deepest interest for religious people. Indeed, by intelligent people generally, be- Levers or non-believers, the proceedings of the congress will be watched with atten- tiom, as. its objects are of the broadest significance and may lead to changes of the first moment in the religious world. What these objects are may be gathered from the proceedings of Monday, when the Rev. Jos. Anderson, D. D., read a historical account of the congress, showing that the Rev. Mr. New- ton, of Pittsfield, had called together the Chris- tian ministers of that town, and laid bis pro- Ject before them. This was on November 10th, 1883, the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's birth. The result was a circular en- titled “A Call for an Inter-ecclesiastical Church Congress.” It spoke of the possibility of organ- izing a movement which would be to the differ- ent religious bodies of Protestant Christendo: very much What the Episcopal Chureh Congr had been to the Episcopal chureh, in uniting the different schools of thougnt contained in it, This circular, which had seven names ap- pended to it, representing the four Protestant denominations of P'ttsfield, was sent forth into all paris of the land, and ‘called out a prompt and warm response. “The heartiest approval of the project ame from the Episcopal church: but all the churches were heard from, and everybody seemed to feel that the time’ had come for” this new step forward in the religious life of America, On New Year's Day, 1884, the Pittsfield min- Isters came together again, to read the replies they had received, which numbered nearly 200, ‘They were from eminent divines, college. pres- idents, and* laymen prominent in christian work, And, while diificulties were not over- looked ‘by ‘these thinkers, they all expressed thelr Interest In the project, and most of them bade it God speed. Measures were then taken for @ conference of persons specially interested inthe movement. The conference was held in Pittsfield on June 18,1884. After a fuil dis- cussion of the whole subject It was agreed that the new organization should be named “The American Congress of Churches,” and the pur- poses of the movement were formulated in the rords which have now become so fumiliar— “to promote Christian union and to advance the Kingdom of God by a free discussion of the great religions, moral and social questions of the time.” It was voted that the general man- fgement of the organization should be intrust- ed to acommittee ‘or “council” numbering 25 persons, in which both clerzymen and laymen should ‘be represented. The first meeting of the council was held in New Haven on vember 20, 1834. A permanent organ tion was then effected, and an executiv committee of seven was’ appointed, to wh was intrusted the task of preparing for the first meeting of the congress, and of deciding when and where it should be held, and what topics shouid be discussed, ‘The precise scope of the work it ts hoped to accomplish is well indicated in the specch of Rev. Edward P. Parker, D..D., in. welcoming the congress to’ Hartford. In’ answering the question, “Has this congress sufficient reason for existence In the ultimate object, proposed 2” ne “Itcannot be doubted, I think, that serious defects or evils do exist in our American churehes, which imperatively call for some methods of correction, There tsa lack of har- monious operation; there is a wastetul expendi- ture of money and of cnergy, both xt hone and abroad. Here there is a glui ot gospel provision, while yonder there is 1 tamine of the Word. ‘There are disastrous competitions where there should be generous co-operation; there are irri- tations and disagreements and contentions which a freor interchange of views and a bet= ter mutual acquaintance would terminat: there are petty ecclesiastleal and the: ological provinclalisms which would dis-! appear if the village diagram of divine things could be displaced ‘by some cosmoramic exhi- bition of the kingdom of God; there are is ances, Jealousles, obstinucies, and antagonisms which only the gentle diffusion of a cosmopoli- tan spirit will ever dispel; in short, there is a seri- ‘ous fullure on the part of our churches to make just, that, Impression on the world which our ord desired and prayed that they should make-—namely, that, they are His agents and representatives—and_ this : to their culpable negligence He regarded as essential, behatf, He earnestly pra dation that is desirable, but co-oper: monotony in unison, but music in not the exact uniformities of battalion parade, but the more beautiful unity in variety of a divine system whose countless stars and constellations move and shine and sing in their | separate but co-ordinate courses, And because this Congress alms to foster and develop that, spirit of Unity which alone can and_ will deter- mine the external conditions and relations of the communion of saints it has, like Hopeful, the key of promise in {ts bosom.” Rev, £40 vard Crosby, in his speech before the @igrers on Monday, laid down the follow- general principles, looking toward greater ity in the churches: “1. The union of the churches miust subordinate externals. There is no priest code found in the New Tes- tament, Types are swallowed in anti-ty pes. The iiual, agent and representative, has yielded to its principal, the spiritual. No one reading the New’ Testament only could ever suspect a Christian ceremonial. it is very evident, therefore, that_ mere externals ought never to prove a barrier to a substantial church union. The largest liberty should be allowed to Christian congregations in thelr choice of forms and methods, the only restric- tion being that of conformity to the spiritual life of the church, “9, Conversely, the spiritual character of the church must be emphasized. Liars, droukards, gamblers, rioters, fechers, and all disorderly rsons should be carefully excluded from the chureh of Christ. Whatever be their rank in society or their commercial value to the church, there should not be the slightest compromisé with such characters, “3, The third and last-to-be-mentioned_prin- ciple which must be at the basis ot any real church union for aggressive work is the grading of doctrinal truths. ‘There are vital truths without which a man cannot be a Christi and there are other traths which @ man may deny without compromising his Christ status, No difference must be recognized in united church. The doctrinal truth, which is | not considered vital, should not be @ cause of separation in aggressive Christianity.” oe —____ Cannot Chloroform Him in Court. The second trial of Lawyer Rosenzweig’s $100,000 suit against the Lake Shore railroad for personal damages sustained by being ejected from the New York express, began in Eric, Pa,, Monday. The railroad company moved the court for an order to chloroform the plaintiff, that experimental tests might be made on his alleged paralyzed limbs. Hosenzweig offered to submit, but the family physician swore he would not be resposible for his patient's life un- der anwstheties. Judge Gailbrath overruled the motion, saying that after the plaintiff had sub- mitted to electric and other tests for three hours by defendant's doctors, it was carrying the thing too far to ask that he be made Insensible with defendant's drugs and risk his life. Col, Hopse, the Lake Shore's attorney, came from Chicago to try the case, A Judge on Church Fair Gambling. Judge Stewart was recently assigned to the Baltimore criminal court, the May term of which began Monday. In his charge to the grand jury he spoke of all the offenses which the law requires the grand inquest to be in- structed upon and, speaking of gambling, said: “The vice seems to be one inherent in our nature and it will probably continue until the people are educated up to the point that raffles at fairs will be considered an evil to be frowned upon and chances in holiday presents as a thing to be avoided. ‘The grosser forms of this vice are Hable to punishment, and when the business of gaming ts carried on in violation of Jaw the duty to society requires that the offense should not be light); dover, but should be prosecuted.” This 1s the first ‘Instance in this city in which the grand jury has been charged upon this subject, whieli more particu- larly affects the rafiies at church firs, 109 A Curious Divorce Case. SEEKING RELEASE FROM A FORCED MARRIAGE, George 8. Todd, in Baltimore, Saturday, filed a bill in the cireuit court asking that his mar riage toSusan C.Todd be declared null and yold. The defendantis a woman of mature age, having grown sons, one of them a dentist, in whose office yeung Todd was a student. He boarded with the defendant. She became enamored of her youthful boarder, and in March last informed her eons that Todd had betrayed her. They threatened him, and the marriage ceremony was perormed’ March 12, imme- diately after which the bridegroom ‘left the house. In his declaration Todd states that he has since learned that the defendant has been of unsound mind for years, and is now confined in an insane asylum; also, that she isthe law- ful wife of Andrew C, Finney, who now resides in Virginia, A School Girl Elopes. ‘THE HEIRESS OF A RICH MAN IN OHIO MYSTERI- OUSLY MISSING AND REPORTED MARRIED, Up to Saturday night there was domiciled at the Sherman house, Chicago, a young woman who was down on the hotel register as Mrs, Shober, Cincinnati. On April 23 Miss Emma Shober mysteriously disappeared from the French school, the most pretentious institu- tion of learning in Cincinnati, She was the daughter ee ih vent ap aed de Canton, © 10, sole heiress of av: couple, ‘Mr..and Mrs, Sellers, of hio, ‘Two days after the d| Bid'beea married, hereabouta. ts at Carroliton Were notified that the heiress to was st the Sherman house and came there quickly, but “Mrs. eee: Nl disaj The hotel authorit de- that the Cincinnati Senate ey Rubman, vt ho and Mics Hamm Lot Td no clue her still inthe city. She left fora ene hoes nase ts sappreased. Tas Duras rep ILLINOIS HOW GEN. RARRIOS DIED. Shot Down at the Head of His Advanc- ing Hosts—the Stery of an Eye-wit- ness. From the New York World. Engineer Theodore Paschke, ot this eity, has been living in Guatemala tor several years. From a private letter received from him yes terday the following extracts concerning the battle in which President Barrios was killed are taken: Referring to the stories already printed ofthe movements of Barrios and_his troops up to the final engagement, he says: “I will not repeat all that, but simply continue the story. I had gone after President Barrios with the big wat Map of Salvador to present it to him, | Tesught up with him at Juxiapaon Friday, March sent in my card at once and immediately was admitted. T presented the map and spread It on the floor. He knelt right down and [ explained it all tohim. He was so pleased with it that he eailed at once all his generals and we held a regular council of war, and mapped out the course the army should ‘tale. After that ke said T should get something to Bat, rest for the day and call again the next day, when le wanted to talk more with me. When f called the next day he gave me a letter to the mimsier of war and made me a nice handsome present. Aftera litte miore tall I told him should he need the services ofan engineer that I was at his disposal, “Why, certainly,’ he said, and he added : “I intended to ask you to come along anyway, but nee you have spoken about it, ail the better. That’s what I like In a man,’ Barrios at once put the telegraph and mail at my free disposal to call tor anything to be sent atter me I might need in the campaign, for Treally did not come prepared, for 's emergency. He grabbed me by the hi said he was glad, indeed, Tat once tele for what I needed, and the next da; the 29th, v ie an nd and phed Sunda; tarted for the frontier and reach next day In the forenoon. wador forces had entrenched them- selves (on the other side of the ring and awaited onr arrival. I suggested to the chief to goup to one of the neighboring hills, from where the whole position of the enemy’ could be seen, and [said that I would make a sketeh ofitforhim, He at once took the idea and gave the necessary orders. Then in the atter- noon our artillery was moved into position and opened tire about 3 p.m. Our forces began to cross th r,and in an hour afterwards the Salvadoreans ‘were put to flight, all their trenches were taken and our troops pursued them until dari, This little victory greatly elated our troops, cost us only fifteen wounded and abcut six dead, whereas the enemy lost about twenty-five dead, xmoug whom was one Next day headquarters were moved ador hacienda — called found that — the to the town where they had fortitied themse By Wednesday morning about 10,600 men had been pushed ahead towards that position and our headquarters were moved abead again, right in front of the town on a height from where the whole coming battleficid couyl be overseen, The same day our artille: was put in position and opened fire to draw the eneniy out and feel their positions. Our artll- lery fire was answered by them end this duel was kept up to cover the movements of the troops, which were put into position by night- fall. The tiring then ceased, and that evening when we lay down to rest # little I was thin! ing the situation over and came to the conelu- sion that to-morrow Barrios would make him- self e i$ @ general, for we had taken up such a position; had all the roads leading into the town; had already cut off the enemy from wil reinforcements and retreat, avd it appeared that nothing would prevent’ us from taking their whole force prisoners, “The dawn of tire next day found our cam all up and alive with expectant men, and al felt that the day would be somewhat‘ hot,’ but all were in good spirits, The artillery opened fire again, but with a little more vigor than the day before. The cirele of our troops around the enemy was made more perfect, and the reserv ere put into position, Between 9and 10a. m, an officer came into headquarters and told Barrios that a certain battallon refused to | the leadership of go into the fight under their commander. Here Barrios made the great mistake of his life. quarters for the purpose speech to these troops. of speech-making, In a moment of enthusi- asm, he forgot himself, forgot his coun- try, his great work, his eatise, and asked them if they would come with him. Of course the answer was one ‘hurrah’ and ‘viva!’ and he then and there opened the battle in person and led this battalion, took a couple of trencies, but fella victim, pierced by two bullets. The battle opened ali around, and our troops began to close in on the enemy, but. as one battalion ter the other learned that their ‘Patron’ had lien they became demoralized, withdrew and ave up the already won battle. Two hours iter, when the fact became gene! ly known,our hole army was demoralized. Some of the best lined battalions kept up the fight un- jate In the afternoon, but ineffectually. With of making a In the heat di: til Barrios the whole heart and soul, as weil as the head and idea, had fallen, When late in. the afternoon I saw that all was lost, au ing could be done, I also went ‘backward and right straight with the body of our chief to the upital, where I arrived again on April 5. What we all have lost in him Ido not need to make any comments on, You understand that well enough. The new government, with Gen. Rarilla at its head, fs gaining in strength every day and ig very popular, have pald him my respects already. He said to me, without any solicitation on my part, that he liked the way went with Barrios, and that I could rely on him. He would not forget me after he had re- arranged things a little.” — 0 —____ Better Than Getting an Office. Wash, Cor. New York Sun, One man who came for an office has succeed- ed so much better than he expected that his case is worth recording in the Sun. He came from Georgia, and relates his experience thus: “Being a democrat, and not having much luck at getting ahead at home, I thought I would get an office in Washington if Ieould. Letting no one but my wife and a friend know what I was up to, Lstarted. After landing here I saw just as pliin as day that the water was too deep for me; besides, hundreds of others a great deal smarter gt the business were ahead of me. I had not Ihuch money, and so, Instead of pay: much attention to the office, 1 began to look around for work or something to make_a living While Istayed. To tell you the truth, Thad not been much away from home, and never in so large a place before. Somehow I kinder felt I could make it go if only I gota chance; and after I had looked around some and clapped m: ye over things I thought I saw chances, ifon! ey were worked right, Ihave a fancy I have a natural gift for knowing a chance as soon as I ‘see it. many ways and things—so many persons sell- ing everything and so many buying. I had about $15, and with it concluded to start. I had looked around the market, where more money is spent in a day than in my own town ina whole year. Why can’t I have some of it? thought I." Weil, I launched out $4 for Florida. oranges apd 50 cents more fora basket, ‘That day I'sold half the oranges and had my money back. How I did work, though—went every- where, into the houses and stores, and some- how people bought willing! laybe it was because I was so earnest about it. ‘The third day I had all the oranges sold, with nearly $5 profit in my pockets, Better'n’ office, I began think. “While I was looking around for another chance the dealer from whom I had bought offered me two other boxes, the last of alot, for $5.50; nice oranges, too, I knew at once’ what I could do with them, The next morning I sold them for $4 a box, $2.50 profit without’ breaking bulk, "I had hever before made money so fast in all my life. I kept on for two weeks, and I couldn’t be hired to take the office 1 was after. I began to think how well I could fix myseif right here in Washing- ton, with my little wife and baby and the boy, who by rights ought to be going to school. You don’t Want to hear it all. It’s but two months and two days since Ieame, and I've got $80 and everything paid up. What's better, there are acouple ofdealers in the market who say they will back me for anything in reason wanttodo. I'm thinking I'll keep on the line I've been going for the present, I'see so many chances that sometimes I don't know which to take. I wonder anybody that can work wants an office here. Some of the Georgia fellows hanging around here have come to me for money, but I tell 'em to go_ to work, for there Is aheap’more money in it than in any office I know of.” ————+e+ —___ Looking for His Wife. A BRIDE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER HUSBAND ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHT. George C. Odgers, the young husband who had his wife taken away from him on his wed- ding night by private detectives, who entered his sleeping apartments, filed a petition for @ writ of habeas corpus in Chicago Monday in the circuit court. He recites that he, on April 15 last, was married to Bertha Shoop, nine- 0, by the Rev. G. P. Marsh, a Methodist minister, and that he on the next. was arrested on & warrant issued by Justice Meech at the allegation af Sarah Hackett Stevenson that he and his young in scandalous relations. When the facts were known to the court Mr. Odgers was discharged, but was induced to go with Mrs. Stevenson and a man named Harry Jenks, a detective, to Mooney & Boland’s office, where were to find the (oun: wife's mother, The fatter the; ere told that - ings for lareony woul fe brecent somite for larebny wou unless husband and wite ‘agreed 10 live from oe eS = oo, iy ressure, agreed, Petitionge saye the charge Bolly by Sarah Hack April 16—and yor not seen her slice, and con’ that she now intends to remove both entirely from Chi = ‘and out of the jurisdiction of the court, inte: ‘to take her to: . Hisand ive cs i 5 di a re : e at He left head- | uhai noth. | 1 got this idea all at once when ,T saw xo | | has been drained by the grants to the Traitorous Pashas Hewn to Pieces at Khartoum. From the London Daily News, On stepping out of my tent in camp this morn- ing Iobserved approaching me a man with a bronzed, hatchet-shaped visage. He was clothed | in Egyptian uniform, and his countenance wore ® peculiarly weary and careworn expression, as, looking me full tn the face, he said: “You do | not know me? We were at Kowa Fort together | and marched together in the army of Hicks Pasha.” I remembered him at once, and ex- changed notes. “And where have you been since I lef& yout” I asked. “I returned,” he answered, “at the same time that you did to Khartoum. You would like to hear some- thing of our life during the long siege? Weil, 1 will teil you.” After I had invited him inter tent, and sat me down to make notes of hix story, he continned: fer the anni med, Wad rsary of the birth of Mo- Obetd came oppposite | tour to T side of Bahrel-Azrek, and encamped on the isle. Gordon Pasha. sent for the tropps under Hassein Abraham ¢ ia~ | homet Abro Said, who had been made P by Gordon Pasha. Direc » lande formed a foumdeep square. e marched boldly from the shore. Gne gun ts atan ancie | T harged us furiousiy; but, | SI red was that | now what I have art with gr The traitor wT his tarbash, puts it in lis vish’s cap, putting iton his head. Nextto this what doe he do? He gallops up to the bu A tells him to sound the ‘kus-rah’ this in military Turkish signif The brave boy refused, and said not de. d, and I will not sound as you order. cleaves the brave boy's bead ith his others whe would pot turn. ies see the thing: art, return and p disorganized e had did not let rele around n to retire with us: to the ceme < Pash nd protest: he had but escape fr him was not. We bronght him back, bound hand and all these things,” continned my tnfor- ‘and how the traitorous Pasha had been the eduse of our disgrace, Gordon Pasha had spied from the top of his House, He was much the wicked Pashas, who we: were brought bound, as I said, pake never a He read. Seven ated In the funer reotthe prison. They & halbert. [saw the were shot I tell you, according to Turkish milita Ww. a military traitor is alwa rut to pieces. The t inst the wall by chains ‘sarmed with sharp hate! a from out of the sides o! med. ‘The prisoners’ erime was read out and their sentence. A hundred soldiers were ft, some senior officers, but 1 The senior Bey cried out, ers, perform sentence on the traitors! diately these advanced close, and lopped off first their arms above the elbows, then the legs above the knees; then cut their bodies in twain: en decapitated them, They died not till th ut asunder; then their” heads fell on th breasts, and the ed with a hideous yell. Surely their fate was ved. Teannot say whether Gordon Pusha knew of this manner of execution, I tell you this is the Turkish mo of punishing military traitors, and itis a just punishment.” ——_—_~+e+_____ Canada in Need of Money. $60,000,000 REQUIRED FOR IMMEDIATE USE, AND THE TREASURY DRAINED. A telegram to the New York Sun from Ottawa, May 11th, says: The dominion govern- ment is laboring under financial em barrass- mentjust now, and in need of about $60,- 000,000 for immediate use for itself and the Canadian Pacitie syndicate. The ex: Pacific, the Northwest rebellion, and drop in the revenue of late. Mr. Ce deputy minister of fnance, i morning for Ni Sir L left at 4 p.1 ew York, immediately for England to n an. Their departure caased many startling rumors to be circulated to-night. pigfisiative matters have taken a serous turn, jouse Of commons has been sitting three hise bill weeks on the electoral fra progress has ben made wi owing to the determined oj struction tactics of the liberal party, who have decided to keep the house in ‘session day and No night until the bill is withdrawn, The con- servative party seem resolved to” push the Measure throuzh this session, as a general The bill prop< and there is intense wainst the measure, as it is said to infrin; eriously upon provincial right. Leading government papers are urging Premier Sir John Macdonaid to pass the cloture and shut off discussion, One paper, and the leading conservative paper in Cunada at that, further and hints at armed interference. ‘ir John Macdonald, in the house this after. noon, appealed to the liberal party to cease dis- cussion, @ the government had decided that this bill should go through. He imparted a hidden threat that the cloture might have to be adopted in the long run if the siege was kept up. ————_~+e+______ The New Orieans Exposition. VIEWS OF CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. The picture gallery is large enough, and one sees there many fine pictures, but as a whole it is not a credit to the creative geniusof thecoun- try. It has the appearance of being made up of anything artists chose to send in, The most in teresting part of it is the Mexican gallery, not because the pictures there are the best, but be- cause we knew little of Mexican art and ex- pected little. It is serious in intention and character, and most of the subjects are religious, One respects this sort of sincerity, which is un- touched by our modern brio-a-brac and decora- tive mania, but it seems to be either a faint sur- Vival of the old Spanish school or the sort of re- vival that Cornelius attempted of sacred sub- jects in Germany, where perspective and color are notof so much account as the sacred sub- Ject and the flat drawing. I could mention a ‘couple of dozen of good paintings in the general gallery, but it is, taken as a whole, inferior; an the same may be sid of the smuil exhibition of sculpture—about the most hopeful piece in it comes from Hartford, The Lve (if that is the litle of The Mother with a baby on her lap) by Karl Gerhardt, ‘The Horticultural hall is a pretty building, but the display 1s not particularly good. [would Father at this season wander about "the city and admire the roses which bloom and climb everywhere in profusion, and in all the choicest varieties, and muke one forget the shabby streets, than to waste time here, ‘The greatest attraction to thousands here Is | the Mexiean band, There have been two bands here, one of strings, which played little except national music, and was greatly liked, and the military band, which remains, and is the only one I have heard. It has about sixty-five pieces, The musicians are Mexicans, allof them dark in complexion, and some of them apparently roes, It isto be understood that this isa purely military band, belonging, I think, toa cavalry regiment, and not to be compared ‘to an orches- tra like that of Thomas or Damrosch. But as a military band we have nothing in this country worthy to be compared with {t—for compari: you must go to the German military nds. I doubt if it is the eq ely scientific musie of the best two military bands of Munich. So far as I have heard it, it does not attempt music of so high an order, and it mice lacks a highly civilized something that the Munich bands have. But then it does some things that no other band does, and itis about the most interesting mill- tary’ band I ever listened to, It does une: ted ‘and most pleasing and exeiling things. lost of ite music is light, from the waltz music fecling in the count of Germany or the light French operas, but tt gives also much national music, ofa strangely pathetic character—a Moorish strain. that carries one back to the land of Alhambra. It Plays with charming precision and with indi- idual character as well; now and then it pro- duces an effect of strings, and again almost of the human voice. The 5 ftness of its brass is much n of, but in thisitis to me less de- lightful than the Munich band. Itisa favorite here, and I suppose the musicians have become a little conceited with so much praise, but I understand that they have a siaull opinion of American taste or of American musical knowledge. ‘They nearly always pla: “Dixie” foran encore, But whatever its rank in the bands of the world, it has given distine- tion to this exposition. As an exhibit this is a great success, and in the government building a success unexampled. Ishould like the world to see it, and patriotism can well rest content with such a national showing. The reason of its failure financially Sway from the great cities and groat sears of a an cent ‘The exibition was got up ina urry. The railways did not the Magnitude of the services requ! and the freight was not delivered in time. "A'delay in the opening, and then rainy, weather set in to visitors. Buta very serious difficulty is the location of the and the lack of facilities in getting to them. The exhibition grounds are some four, it seems to me five, miles from Canal strect, the center of the The city is the largest in area in the ‘world—some fifteen miles tony age ergo to Carondelet, The can be reached by steamers from street, but it took usan hour anda quarteroneday toge jae after waiting haif an hour for the boat, it req — from three-quarters of an hour to an hour to go from Canal street horse cars, ‘The cars are all one-horse, (sometimes opinionated), it ts a very tod ‘tte Views of the Colombian Minister. REVOLUTIONISTS TURNED PLRATES-SATISPIED WITH THK CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNMENT. Senor Becerra, minister resident at Waging ton from the United States of Colombia, gave an interview to. a N.Y. Tyihune reporter at the Victoria hotel on last Saturday evening, and It answer toaningairy about the condition of affairs tn that somewhat tempestuous country, : “The constitational government of which Nuneg is tife president, is now firmly estab lished In seven of the nine states. The seven states which acknowledge his authority are the Mest populous and wealthy ones. The twe States in which revolution fs still going om are Bolivia and Magdalena,on the Atiantle coast. The intertor of these bat the coast, including the principal Barangutlla and Santa Martin, is in hy revolutionists, Tam ip constant erams from the president and me cabinet, and can predict the sp of the remnant of the revolution. go, the principal and ablest leade tion, has fled to Vencruela, and is nee. The Panam: has ended in the cony governme state of dw ertainly bring coontly received w court, where he had become known thr explorations of the tntertor of South An The revolution, started in_politieal d rapidly Into pitiage,rot and neouraged by Prestan and highly respe will become of the followers of the slutionist?” “Those who escaped have possession of steam. ers of the old canal company and are plying along the coast as © isa work fot this re y opinion. « erican ships in those waters appre al With these They could a been satisfactory to ¥ conduct of the VW 3 been government While all ul serve comm “7 poft Johnsing in de hall diseaventn’'?* asked the president, as he rose up and winked at Samuel Shin to stir up the fire and roast Elder Toots out trom behind the <tove “Yes, suh!” replied a high-pitched yolce from ‘one of the back corners. “You will please step to de front Brother Johnsing has always bragged about the length of his heels, and he now appeared to think that the hour dcome whe he was to receive a prize chromo, His tace ware a broad rin, and Just at that moment he would have "1 ekslide Davistitty cents without »hnsing,” said Rrothe ptoned voleo, “1 war’ in order night to see abe 1 fur my wath of 4 in an fur your e - see it. Ina few ind fura few minits, arose as to de atige of de wo: my ‘ou called bim a bigot. “An’ he calied me a humbug.” ““Zactly—zacly—I beerd it all, Bradder "now I want to ax you’ what you t de aige of de w know abd ? a ome as much as de old man Cum min: cum widin a millyun miles of knowin mankind, ‘zactly. We kin be blumt Ww, but we won't back wa man on what we doan’ kno we git a theory we fight fur it sooner dan fur solemn facks. If we can’t convince de « arty by blab we am ready todo it by sluggin’. Brudder Johnsing it will be well reckolect a few facks. A gill of worth a bushelo’ abuse, It tal strong sense to admit his faults an errors, believe wid all yer might still be Find a man who prides stickin’ to his opinyuns an’ you has und a dangerous member of de community. You may pow sot down, an’ we will atiack do reg lar program.”—Detroit Pree Press. ystelieipavadaa Commodore Garrivon’s Prowess, LIFTING A BARREL OF FLOUR WITH A MAN ON IT AND THROWING THEM OFF A DOC Ex-Congressman Howard A. Benson, of Call- fornia, tells an interesting story of the late Commodore Garrison's prowess. He says: “While In Chicago, on my way to this city, I first learned of the death of Commodore 4 son. I knew him well some twenty-tve 0. He was a man Who, onee seen, always be remembered, His presence posing, and he had a breadth of shoulde1 was hereulean. I saw him once lift a barrel of four with an non t of it and throw them both off a dock ax easily ax one would fling a terrier. The man had made # remark that the commodore objected to, and, without saying & word, the cominodore ‘threw him overboard. He Wasn't called commodore th nly cape tain—and wherever Captain Garrison was ho ‘raled the roost.’ In the early days of 50 he was aecredited with rescuing a friend of bis from twelve border Mexicans while Ina saloon, He broke two of the men’s necks by flinging them from him, and fractured another one ® skull with a blow of his fist “I doubt whether the commodore ever used the revolver as a weapon, but he used to be accustomed to carry one in an outside pocket of his coat, and, as he was able to shoot straight t using ‘a sight, he w 3 pwn to be one of the most t borrow rs San Francisco strapped’ He was ove of the ever had. His death is d old friends in California,” Narrow Exscn; THEIR HOUSE MALICIOUSLY Wii PYNAMITE CARTEI From the New York Herald. At o'clock on Sunday morning an S-inch dynamite cartridge, enclosed in a piece of gas. Pipe, was drdpped on the porch of a house on Ath street, Charlotte, occupied by Lizsle Blunt and Minnie Bell, two women of question- able character. The cartridge exploded with terrific force, shattering every glass In the house, knocking off shutters and demolishing the porch. Flying scraps of iron blown through’ the house, and t Ing had «the | appearance’ of having been bombarded — with grapeshot. A piece of the pipe weighing two pounds crastied through the side of the house, went through the headboard of the bed, whereon Lizzie Blunt lay, tore through the pillow under her head and passed on, going through the footboard like a let. One room was perforated through and Urrough, and holes were cut through the roof, ‘The two’ women uccupied seperate rooms. M. Blunt’sescape was almost miraculous, as the headboard was full of holes, the clothing hang- ing In the room was cut to shreds, the pictures on the walls demolished and the room gener- ally wrecked. The house is owned by the heirs Edward Madden, of New York city, and is badly wrecked. arrests have been made and the ies, young white men, held for trial. It is believed to be the work of '# jealous ramour to wreak vengeance on the women, rt Jarvis, of New York, has been arrested ‘on suspicion ‘and held for trial. Jarvis claims innocence and says he will prove an alibi, Amusement with Snakes. A CONNECTICUT FARMER AND HIS FAMILY oF BLACK WRIGGLERS, A telegram to the New York Herald from New Haven, May 11, 1885, says: When the warm weather begins to come it is a“cold day,” touse a Hibernicism, when Connecticut doce not come to the front with a well-assorted stock of first-class snake stories. E. W. Schofield, of Weston, 1s. a farmer who has much amusement with blick snakes. Last autumn he discovered that he had aden of these creatures in one of his fields. ‘They went into alarge hole in the ground so rapidly that be could not count them. The hole was about four iuches across and opened in-the halfilled ecliar of an old eD WITKRA