The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1879, Page 6

a NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. suaerg tee Ek alte JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPR ry day in the year, ). Ten dollars por Tars wud fifty conts Jollar per month for unday edition included, E NEW YORK MERALD— A. PARK TI LYCEUM juanp Bau. Banker's Daventer, JOKLYN PARK TIL AMLET. TRIPLE SHEE York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, possibly with occasional snow or rain, Followed by falling temperature, and clearing. To-morrowit will be colder and fair. paAy.—TLhe stock mar- l strong. Government a rm, States dull and railroads strong. Money on call was easy at 21ya 3ly per cent and closed yt 3 per cent. Wuo will be the new Police Btill the great c: Commissioners is » City Hall. Two Mort Motiy M wuinE Ex day ; but this is only the regular announcement from the coal UTIONS to- 2RDAY was another solemn day in Cone gress, being entirely devoted to the funeral ceremonies of the late Mr. Schleicher, of Texas, M IDEA appears to be pop- Fiftcen States, from Vermont to Louisi- will be represented at the coming Conven- ays and Means Commit- tee their new bill will take fhe color question out of the sugar Wusiness. But then what will be left of it! Crry Hou: ill be surprised at the intelligence communicated by the Street Clean- ing Department that a large quantity of refuse has recently been removed. Tur Action of the I klyn Aldermen in eut- ting off the supplics on their side from the Brooklyn Bridge leaves that structure without a financial of operations anywhere. Bisnor is a de lover, His latest confes- sion is to the effect that he would like to die “a natural death for Katie Cobb.” To enable him to carry out his self-sacrificing purpose he proe poses to hang Tur Two Ponices who were arraigned be- fore the Commissioners yesterday for pummel- ling one auother will doubtless be punished. If they had cach clubbed an unoffending citizen they would be sure of promotion. Granam, the accomplice of Hunter, the Cam- den murderer, will be placed on trial in a few days. Notwithstanding his confession the public prosecutor will, it is said, endeavor to secure a conviction of murder in the first degree. Ir Mr. TuvrMan can have his way the mem- ne Committee will have work enough for the balance of their natural lives. He bas just sent them instalment 3 of the matters be would like to have investigated. CIAL Cabie and other despatches bring the intelligence of a large of shipwrecks and a severe loss of life English coast. The storms in which these disasters occurred*were predicted by our Weather Burean. Tr Witt Be N from our special cable de- spatch trom Paris that General Grant has deter- mined not to wait for the Richmond. turday next for Marseilles, where he egular French steamer for India, This will make some peopie very unhappy. numb on the He leaves Tne Wearner.—The pressure is relatively wy throughout all the northern districts, from the New England coast to the Upper Mississippi Vall It is high in the er sections of the country east of the Rocky Mountains, No rain has fallen during the pust twenty- hours, aud but little suow is reported, mainly in the northern lake regious. Cloudy weather pre- vails in all the districts, and morning fogs were gumerous on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Pho winds have beew irom fresh to brisk in the on the Atlantic coast in the Hatteras, and generally light t rise has taken the Western Gull, lowe kes and the New England St Elsewhere it bas fallen dedly, very probable that the barometer will tinue io fall during today, and the but there are | no turbance of very great eu tinne in the sont floods is deer It con. ry hon fell in the mountains has by this t vched the water cou nil, as the storm has ent y passed awny, the probability of continued rise in the large rivers is very slight. The only is the con. we and a Conse. source from whieh trouble m tinued gorging of the rivers quent backing of the water, places along the rivers where tho banks will suffer, Had the heavy ould have been very w York and its vieinity tosuy ¥, possibly with ce- casional siow Oter ved by falling tem- perature, aud clearing, To-morrow is will ve colder and iain, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Mr. Kelly’s Speech at the Lotos Club. Political life is proverbially full of sur- prises, but their oddity consists, for the most part, in the strange associations into which men are brought by the coalition of former opponents, As the proverb runs, “Poverty and politics make strange bed- fellows ;” but this is not the kind of sur- prise which was caused by the festive gathering at the Lotos Club, although it is rather noteworthy that Comptroller Kelly accepted an invitation toa dinner given in honor of Mayor Cooper, whose election he opposed with his usual vigor. The really sarprising thing is Mr. Kelly's unex- pected appearance in the new réle of an amusing after-dinner orator. It bearssome resemblance to General Grant's sudden displays of fluency on his arrival in Europe, General Grant and Comptroller Kelly are men cast in a similar mould. Force of will carried to the point of dogged obstinacy is equally characteristic of both. They are also alike in being men of deeds rather than of many words, and in their aversion to show and parade. Mr. Kelly, however, has always been a ready enough speaker in po- litical meetings when he had a point to carry, whereas General Grant's whole talent of public speaking has been developed since he left his own country, The surprise which Mr. Kelly held in reserve for us was his aptness in responding to a compliment on a festive occasion. At the Lotos Club he made the noteworthy speech of the evening ; for, although Mr. Depew sur- passed him in rollicking fun and mirth- provoking hits, Mr. Kelly carried a vein of serious meaning through his amusing sallies. It is his earnest suggestions and proffers that render his speech worthy of particular notice. It is for Mayor Cooper to decide in what spirit he will meet the courteous advances of the Comptroller. There can be no rea- sonable question that if these two function- aries will cordially co-operate with each other they can give us a better cily govern- ment than we have had within the last quarter of a century. In the Board of Ap- portionment there will be no opposition to any proposal on which the Mayor and Comptroller may agree, and their combined influence would be irresistible in all the municipal departments. ‘The new Mayor possesses the esteem and has the sin- cere good wishes of the whole body of citizens, irrespective of party, and the ablest and most efficient ally he can have in his administration is the head of the Finance Department. ‘he in- fluence exerted by Mr. Kelly is not merely that which he derives from his office. He is one of those natural leaders of men who make themselves felt without the aid of public station, and who bring to office more influence than office confers upon them. Assuming that his offer to co-operate with Mayor Cooper-is sincere there should be no hesitation on the part of the Mayor in ac- cepting it. Mayor Cooper made an explicit declaration of his gims in his message to the Common Council ; so Comptroller Kelly knows what it is which he volunteers to in- dorse. If he is really willing to move in the same direction his aid will be invaluable and ought not to be rejected. With the Meyor and Comptroiler acting in concert we can have an excellent city government, even under the present charter, No possible charter could give efficiency without able administrators, but able men acting in unison in the two chief offices can overcome defects of the charter by executive vigor. But if the Mayor and Comptroller should pull in opposite direc- tions and try to thwart each other every- thing would go wrong. The idea that city affairs can be reformed by merely tinkering the charter is pre- posterous, In our State government, in federal government, in all the governments of the world, there are periods of adminis- trative efficiency intercaisted with periods of administrative weakness under precisely the same constitution. ‘Lhe difference is in the capacity and energy of different rulers, Good workmen do not quarrel with their tools. When rulers are wanting in personal talents and vigor and in power to influence men there will be weak government in fact, however admirable the paper charters or constitutions may be in form, Sut great abilities and great force of character usually triumph over obstacles. The whole body of our citizens would rejoice to see the ex- periment tried of perfect co-operation be- tween political leaders who upposed each other in the election. Such a combination in the interest of good government would inspire general hope and confidence. What head of a municipal department could stand for a week against the joint re- buke of Mayor Cooper and Comptroller Kelly? To be sure, it might be better to have a Mayor clothed with unlimited power of appointment and removal; but that is not, and is not likely to be, our situation. The present Comptroller is certain to remain in effice nearly as long as the present Mayor, and it is wise to utilize a situation which cannot be changed. It they co-operate they will be irresistible; if they withstand cach other we shall have the same old story of administrative im- potence, This will result not so much trom the official power of the Comptroller— although that is considerable—as from the control he exerts over a large proportion of oar citizens by the sheer force of personal ascendancy. Even Andrew H. Green was a great obstruction to the smooth working of the city government, although he had merely the influence of his office, unaided Ly a poweriul backing of personal sup- porters. We hope Mr. Kelly's prot. fers of support to Mayor Cooper are sincereggnd if sincere it would be unwise forthe slayor to repel them, Mr. Keily would have made a very strong Mayor, be- cause his personal influence is so great that he could have done as he pleased with all the municipal departments. No head of any department would have ventured to oppose his wishes, Mayor Cooper is too able a man to fecl any jealousy of Mr. Kelly's influence in the city government, if the latter should support his policy, and lis duty to the city requires him to accept proffered support from every sincere quar- ter, It would please all our citizens to see these two officers acting in cordial harmony for the promotion of municinal interests. Nothing could be franker or in & better spirit than Mr. Kelly’s declarations and promises, ‘Iam exceedingly anxious,” said he, ‘so far us I am concerned, that Mayor Cooper’s administration may be suc- cessful, and he undoubtedly will be suc- cessful, because I sincerely believe that he has the full interest of the people at heart and that he will do his best to serve them. I have said so since his election and I said so before his election.” And again, at the close of his speech, Mr. Kelly said, ina more generous spirit than is often exhibited by a recent opponent, “I wish Mayor Cooper all the success in public life that any friend of his can wish him, and I assure him and his friends that so far as the official busi- ness of this city is concerned there will be no disagreement between us on matters which are really in the interest of the people.” The attendance of Mr. Kelly at a dinner given in Mayor Cooper's honor, and his volunteer expressions of good will and con- fidence, make so plexsing and promising an incident in our local politics us to justify the prominence which we have given it. Let us hope that it betokens a municipal “era of good feeling.” The Great Collection, To-morrow the poor of New York, through some of their friends, will ask New York for half a million dollars’ worth of food and clothing, and as this is probebly the only grand effort of the kind that will be made during the winter it deserves success. Everybody knows by experience the many excuses which men make to themselves for not helping the poor ; the usual argument is that most poor people have fallen into their present condition because of some fault of their own. In the same way most rich men have reached ennui or gout or some other annoyance peculiar to their circumstances ; but who would refuse to say a cheery word to the bored bondholder or neglect to help a gouty millionnaire across Broadway because the sufferers had only themselves to blame? The starving should be fed and the freezing clothed because of their dire necessity, not their deserts. The drunkard, the idler and the spendthrift ex- cite the indignation and unnerve the hands of many generous people ; but are the help- less, unoffending wives and children of these paupers to suffer so that society may express its disapprobation of their legal protectors? Let New Yorkers who profess generosity do to-morrow as they would be done by, remembering that the penalties of even honest poverty are greater than any man would willingly see inflicted upon the most persistent blunderers, do-nothings or criminals. Whatever men may be in the heyday of health or success, all men in ex- treme adversity are in just the condition to have manners and morals reformed through the agency of human sympathy, and the stomach and the back are the natural gate- ways to the heart of their wretched owner. Mortality at Washington, Four members of the House of Represen- tatives have died at the national capital within as many weeks. Beverly Douglas, of Virginia, and Alpheus Williams, of Michigan, died in December, and Mr. Hart- ridge, of Georgia, and Mr. Schleicher, of Texas, have died in January. Douglas died from inflammation of the bowels, Williams from cerebral effusion, Schleicher from ery- sipelas, and Hartridge, as reported, from pneumonia. Hartridge’s case was at first stated as one that might have been de- pendent upon some exceedingly active in- testinal irritation, but the physicians’ statement of the cause of death must be regarded as removing the ground for theories that might have been based on that view. All these deaths, therefore, were due to ‘inflammatory processes de- pendent upon different causes, and cannot be grouped together as the basis of a charge on the condition of the hotels, like the famous National Hotel cases in Buchanan’s time. An insalubrious place of residence predisposes undoubtedly to the occurrence of inflammatory diseases, and to their fatality when they occur, and in that re- spect the city on the Potomac is bad enough. Perhaps the one element in com- mon in all these cases was the incapacity of the victims to resist the stroke of ordinary disease. Bad hours, bad diet, bad habits generally and exaggerated activities are the common canses that in Washington undermine men’s strength and prepare them to become the easy victims of any | malady. Why Wait Any Longer? The officers of the New York “L” Rail-. road Company made fair promises yester- day to the committee of taxpayers appointed by the Yorkville Association to memorialize them for better accommodations on the Third avenue line. It cannot be too often repeated that the company has done well in giving the people through rapid transit in so short a space of time and in opening their road to travel without wait- ing for the completion of those terminal facilities needed for the development of its full capacity. We are disposed to bo lieve that managers who have already done so much for the public will not fail tomake their road in good time all that can be de- sired. Butwhy delay the discontinuance of the Forty-second strect trains, which are such a serious obstruction to through travel in the busy hours of the day? Why post- pone the use of the switches already com- pleted, by means of which way-station trains could be started to take the crowds from some of the stations during the busy hours of the day, to the relief of all? Mr, Field has approved the policy of discontinuing the Forty-second street trains and carrying the few passengers who desire to ride from hird avenue to the Grand Central De« pot in an independent short train. Why wait any longer? Why not give this much relief to the thousands of passengers who crowd the stations between five and seven in the evening, and who often see two Forty-second street trains pass by in succession? It is surely better that twenty or thirty people should be compelled to walk two or threo blocks than that thousends should be inconvenienced and delayed, and the officers of the Third avenue line would have done well had they added to their promises tor the future the announcement that a good share of relief should be given at once by the withdrawal of the Forty-second street trains, Solar Discoveries. One cf our cable despatches is of pecu- liar interest to the scientitie world, but also of great interest to that large part of the general public which watches with admira- tion and wonder the vast additions made in our time to the exact knowledge of the physical universe. Mr. J. Norman Lock- yer, whose remarkable discoveries in the Spectroscopic cxamination of the sun have made him justly famous, claims to have made one more step in advance in the solu- tion of the mysteries of solar phenomena. Ap outline of his statement—just enough to whet the uppetite of the scientific world for the fuller statement itself when it shall be put forth—has been given to our Lon- don correspondent, and the new views it contains appear to be presented as convictions reached from a study of the observations made in the eclipse of the sun last year. It deals with the constitu- tron of the solar chromosphere, suggests a theory of the corona, an argument in sup- port of Secchi’s views of the sun spots and a theory of ‘the solar phenomena in their totality.” Apparently these are all the re- sult of further details in spectroscopic study. Mr. Lockyer and the French astronomer, Janssen, made nearly at the same time, in the year 1868, the discovery that the luminous protuberances beyond the corona, seen when the sun is in eclipse, could be examined in the spectroscope, and that so examined they showed the lines of the spectrum of hydrogen gas. At once the study of the chemical constitution of the sun and other planets was seen to be possi- ble, and has been since pursued with great zeal by means of the same _instru- ment. Many lines seen in this examina- tion were not susceptible of satistactory clas- sification, were in fact chemical mysteries. Professor Lockyer’s first statement refers to some of these, which he is now inclined to accept as indications of the imperfection of our present chemical knowledge—evi- dences that some fourteen substances now classified as elements are not elementary, but are compounds. It should be remem- bered that the spectroscope has before this pointed the way for chemical discovery, and has indicated the existence of metals not previously known to us. ‘hat this process may be now repeated on a grander scale is reasonable. An old proverb, that we must go away from home to _ get news of our neighbors, ,is strikingly exemplified in our getting from the sun hints for the. prosecution of our study of earthly substances. But Mr. Lockyer’s suggestion of a sort of gaseous circulation on the surface of the sun bids fair to be the most remarkable result of his studies. This is practically 1 theory that the sun is an enormous permanent reser-. voir of gases in chemical combustion, but whose combustion is so ordered that ex- haustion is impossible. Our atmospheric circulation may illustrate the process as it seems to bestated. If an inhabitant of the sun were told that the seas on our earth were continually vaporized by the sun he might say, ‘It cannot be, for they do not become exhausted.” But if he learned of the return, in the form of rain, of all that vaporized water, ove fact would explain the other. Somewhat analogous are the two points in the history of the sun stated in the despatch—discharges by combustion of its elements at the level of the photo- sphere, their projection to a higher level and their return in new associations, or in the old ones repeated, from this higher level— that, in short, all the unexplained appear- ances on the surface of the sun are due to a constant projection of gaseous elements in one state and a constant fiery rain made by their return in another state. ‘Tammany’s Troubles, The politicians who thronged the Su- preme Court, Chambers, yesterday to listen to the argument in the Tammany injunc- tion proceedings before Judge Barrett were disappointed by the postponement of the hearing for two weeks. Neither side was ready for the great legal encounter which is to decide the important question whether Mr. John Kelly or Mr. Somebodyelse shall control the Board of Sachems of the ‘Tammany Society or Columbian Order aiter April next. It is not plain to see exactly where the public concern in this momen- tous controversy lies. The financial and commercial interests of the city will not be materially affected either by the continu- ance of Mr. Kelly and his friends as Tam- many sachems and wiskinskies or by the transfer of the feathers and paint 4o some other sons of the Wigwam. All the objec- tions that have been made to ‘ammany have been based on the connection of a secret order with « political organization, But as it scoms to be the intention of the injunctionists, if they should obtain control of the society, to continue this connection, as, indeed, they desire to capture the Board of Sachems only for the purpose of making their own political organ- ization, the regular Tammany democratic organization, the evil—if it be an evil—will not be remedied by the change. Mean- while, as Mayor Cooper and Comptroller Kelly stand pledged to act in harmony in the effort to give New York a good and efli- cient city government, and to that end to ignore political antagonisms, the people may calmly view the battle going on in the courts and feel perfectly indifferent about ils result, Try the Life Raft. Every one who has read of shipwrecks and coliisions will remember that the swamping of a lifeboat is an almost in- evitable feature of such disasters, and the question naturally oceurs, Why not substi- tute life rafts? These latter may have their faults, but they cannot be capsized, no matter how carelessly their passengers may act, They are more roomy, in proportion to their weight, than any seaworthy boat can be, and although they are not switt under the oar there is no other craft, except that nondescript, the iceboat, that can equal under sail the speed of some varieties of life-saving rafts. Models of these rafts are almost 8 numerous as ocean steamers. but we have no inten- tion of discussing their comparative merits; every shipmaster is competent to pass upon such contrivances for himself, We wish merely to emphasize the princ'ple that a broad, low lying structure is a safer, more commodious refuge {rom shipwreck perils than the best lifeboat that ever graced a ship's davits. The force of custom is so strong that many captains will declare it impossible to lower such a peculiar craft in case of danger, but the means would be quickly devised if they were asked for. As life-saving regulations are of government origin we wou!d suggest that our own an- thorities tuke this matter under considera- tion, and require that material for ratts in suflicient quantity shall be carried on every passenger vessel and that crews be in- structed in their construction and manage- ment, Mme. Anderson’s Triumph, A month ago Mme. Anderson set herself atask'which few fa: iar with such work believed it possible for any human being to | perform, and so at first it attracted but lit- tle attention. But as time wore on, and hour atter hour and day after day she stuck faithfully to her work ; and as word came of her novel dict, sctting at defiance all training rules ; of the difficully her attend- ants encountered in arousing her every few minutes from her slumbers ; of the danger of her talling perhaps dead on the track, and of her brilliant but unap- preciated record in England in this same kind of work, public opinion grew rapidly in her favor. It is entirely safe to say that when last night amid thunders of applause she sped around her twenty-seven hun- dredth quarter-mile, and won in excellent form, she accomplish:d the most remark- able pedestrian feat ever performed by any woman, and indeed ranking high up among the best cfforts of the fleetest-looted men. When Greek military matters grew pressing and Pheidippides, bearer of de- spatches, covered a hundred and fifty-seven miles in two days, all men wondered, and. the historian mentioned it in glowing phrases. But O'Leary and “Corkey” Vaughan and Weston nowa- days would laugh at that trifle, and even the venerable *‘Sport” would have given Pheidippides a close race. When, nearly a century ago, Captain Barclay as- tonished Europe by doing a thousand miles in a thousand hours, some idea of the interest it aroused in Eng- land may be gathered from the fact that the enormous sum of upward of a hundred thousand pounds is said to have changed hands on the result, suggestive, by the way, that heavy betting is no recent thing among Britons. And if Bar- clay’s ‘physicians pronounced him good for three weeks more of the same work before stopping, it was going but little further than Mme. Anderson's doctors now do for her, 2nd this, though hers has been many times more difficult a task than his. Indeed, until Gale’s wonderful performance in England, to do with not more than eight minutes’ sleep at atime and to keep it up for a whole month together, seemed a physical impossibility. But even when little Gale actually succeeded in walking four thousand quarter-miles in as many quarter-hours, it still seemed just as impossible, certainly for any woman, to manage twenty-seven hundred. But Anderson has done it, and if her morning work yesterday wes sugges- tively slow the fact that the fastest quarter of the whole number was the very last of all serves to give some idea of what is in this sturdy little woman. ‘The medical men find a new and interest- ing problem in determining how to bring her gradually back to a normal allowance of sleep, and one with which she herself is far more familiar than they. After a Turk- ish bath she was to retire, but to be awakened every hour sufficiently to be ure that she is thoroughly conscious, and if she likes to partake of some nourish- ment. Then she is to drop off again, and to so continue until she wants no more. In expressing a willingness to match her- self with O’Leary, if he will make the con- testa three weeks’ one, instead of his favorite six days, she bespeaks a most interest- ing struggle. It would be one in which this determined woman, however far he might leave her behind at first, would prob- ably cut out for him all he wanted to do before the race was over. And if O'Leary's gallantry will, as he has announced, prevent him from rac- ing with ® woman, doubtless the handsome receipts from a month's race with him at Gilmore’s Garden would tempt Gale himself over. here to see whether he could not carry back to England the trophy of the world’s championship which O'Leary so gracefully brought away, A Leaf from History. As a matter of interesting history we to- day republish from the Henaxp files of 1876 a despateh from our special correspondent, then in the Indian Territory, in which he stated that there was good ground for be- lieving that Major Reno and Captain Benteen had jailed in their duty to succor General Custer at the Lit- tle Big Horn battle. We do this not to injure Major Keno, now on trial, or to prejudge his case, for we believe him to be a capable officer, but because it is only right that the court and the public should have the benefit of these specific state- ments. It was the Henao that first made public the fact that these suspicions were entertained, and the correspondent ob- tained his information from the offi- cers of the regiment. He reviews the whole question from a standpoint which | gives it unusual weight and importance, With this despatch before them the court can easily obtain the whole truth. Our cor- respondent stated that after Reno fell back before the attack made on his front he joined Benteen’s battalion, and the combined torce halted for two hours not four miles from where Custer fell, ‘This was done after Benteen had re- ceived Custer’s written order to advance to his support. ‘That order was brought by Boston Custer, who had time to ride for- ward and die by his leader's side, It seems to us that not only should Reno's conduct be inqnired into, but the conduct of all the actors in the tragedy be rigidly inves- tivated. ‘The resizictions now laid om the reporters of the press should alo b¢ Fe- moved, else the proceedings will be publie oaly ia name. ‘ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, - General Butler was in the House yesterday, Mr. Horatio Seymour, of Utica, is at the Everett House. General Grant has a growing fondness for Kil- kenny cuts, he. ‘The gold and silver ornaments of the French people are worth 100,000,000, Mr. Maurice de Bunsen, of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Senator Jones, of Nevada, made his first appear ance for the session in the Senate yesterday. Represe: » Finley, who is suffering from an ineipient attack of pneumonia, has gone home to Ohio, It is reported that Judgo Olin, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, tendered his resig- nation yesterday, General McQuade, of Utica, is prominently men- tioned for Departinent Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of this State, ) Ex-Secretary Columbus Delano, who has for s: days been ill at Columbus, Ohio, is convalese! a hopes are now entertained of his speady reco} . N. P. Hill, the prospective successor ofBenatur Chaffee, of Colorado, was formerly a professor of chemistry in Brown University, He is at present superintendent of the Boston and Colorado Smelting Works, at Denver. M: jor Conyngham announces his unwillingness to continue the controversy with “Irish Brigade’ on General Grant's bigotry unless his correspondent cognes forward over his real name. A response from “Irish Brigade” is now in order. ‘The day before a Turkish girl is married she is taken to the bath by her lady friends and ‘lumps of sugar are broken over her head as a forecast of the sweets of matrimony. A year or so. afterward her husband breaks the whole sugar bowl over her head. British Medical Journal:—“Professor Gorini is at the present moment in London, employed in super intending the erection of a funeral pyre upon the site belonging to the Cremation Society, near Lon- aon. The pyre is on the system which has been ap- proved in numerous cremations at Milan and other places in Italy.”” Dr. Millingen, the surgeon who attended Lord Byron in his last illness, died at Constantinople on the 1st of December. Dr. Millingen had written an account of his intercourse with Byron, which he in- tended to publish, but all his papers were burned in the great fire in Pera in 1570, and he never rewrote his reminiscences. ‘The King of Bavaria is aman of many castles, but he is about to build another one in the region of the Bavarian Alps, on the island of Herronworth, Lake Chimsee, and it is to resemble the Chateau of Yer- sailles, the gardens to be in the French style and to have many statues and water jets. The time to build it in will be fifteen years and the cost isto ke $8,000,000, and it will be the most sumptuous royal “It is, of course, the specialty of wit to hit off a man at a stroke—that partof him which is open to the world—looking at him with the world’s eyes, though with more’ than the world’s keenness. But the exercise of this power tends ta narrowness; to the habit of catching the general esti- mate or that of a party. Certainly the deeper men see into one another the less likely are they to prac: tise themselves in this short method.” Boston Transcript:—Apropos of patent remedies, we once knew an enterprising pair of business men, who concocted their medicine and bought their bottles and other fixings, when it suddenly occurred to them that before printing labels, circulars and ad- vertisements, it would be necessary to fix upon some disease for which their concoction should be a specific. Dyspepsia aiid consumption were the favor- ites, and after long discussion consumption was unanimously chosen. So the stuff was advertised as ‘the great consumption eure.’ A very wealthy Russian lady some years ago wished to indulge her passion for card playing by a few games with a: French lady of rank-~who’wus a noted player. The two met at nine P, M., and at sunrise next morning the Russian lady had lost all her money and jewels, and more, too, and said she would in- struct her steward to turn all her estates and mines over to her conqueror. The French lady, however, insisted on providing her own terms, and with the aid of a notary and priest she bound the Russian lady only never to play again, but to send her $2,000 ayear. Tho bargain was kept and the money given to the poor. The French lady has just died. CORNING-SCHENCK, A BRILLIANT WEDDING ON BROOKLYN HEIGHTS— THE HAPPY PAIR START FOR THE SOUTH. St. Ann's on the Heights, Brooklyn, was brilliantly illuminated yesterday morning and crowded with the elite of the city, the occasion being the marriage of Miss Grace Fitz-Randolph Schenck, daughter of Rey. Dr. Noah Schenck, rector of the church, to Mr. Erastus Corning, Jr., son of Mr. Erastus Corning, of Albany, ‘The chancel was a bower of roses, and, to- gether with the Christmas decorations which had been left ia their places since the holidays, rendered the scene very beautiful. Admission was by ticket only, and among those present were the respective parents of the bride and groom; also ex-Governor Horatio Seymour and wife, Gencral Marvin and wife, Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, uncle of the bride; Mr. and Mrs, Henry E. Pierre pont, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs, Henry E. Pierrepont, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, Mr, and Mrs, Pierre Lorillard, The bridesmaids were Mies Turnbull, Miss Corlies, Miss Sanger, Miss Pendleton, Miss Thomp- son, Miss Morgan; Miss Dandridge anl Miss Ide, Schenck, the groomsmen being Mr. Horatio Seymour, Jr.; Mr, W. E. Verplank, Mr. F. K. Pendleton, Mr. W, C. Sanger and Mr, W. E. Wyatt. The bride was given away by her father, The ceremony at the church was followed by a brilliant re ception at the residence of Rev, Dr. Schenck, No. 144 Columbia Heights. The dross of the bride was of white satin and brocade, trimmed with old duchease and point lace. The dreases'of the bridese maids were of white silk and tulle, trimmed with lace. The groom was attired in a frock coat, bute toncd over the chest. The groomsmen were similarly attired, ‘The happy couple were the recipients of many beautiful and costly gifts, noticeable among which were a large and clegant china vase om 6p chony stand, from George W. Childs of Philadelphias two ‘Turkish rugs, from Mr. and Mrs, Corn img; «a Y hoa tea service, seven pieces, 200 rears old, of Persian = manufacture, from re. Tibbets, grandmother of the groom; @ pait of set in embossed Neather, from Mr. pair of polished brass and carved bony vases, antique, from Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Messenger; the key of the furnished house, No. 22 Elk street, Albany, the fature home of the bride and groom, from Mr. and Mrs, Erastus Corning ; 8 magnifi- cent piano from Mrs, Corning, grandmother of the groom, ‘The presents numbered about two hund The young couple will make a short tour to the South, after which they will take up their residence at Al bany, when a brilliant series of receptions will, it» said, be given by them. Paha oa COLLISION ON JEROME AVENUE, Tho sleighs of Mr. William H. Vanderbilt and Me, ‘Timothy Sheehy, of No. 1,601 Second avenue, cole lided abont four o'clock yesterday afternoon on Jorome avenue, neat 1624 street, and Mrs, Hermen, of No. 1,589 Second avenue, was seriously injured, Mr. Vanderbilt left his residence in Fifth avenue at two o'clock alone, driving his favorite horses Lysander and Leander attached to a Porte land entter, Two hours later he was coming down Jerome avenue at a rapid rate, hia team galloping. When near 12d street he met Mr. Shecky, who was driving 4 span of fast horses known ay Lady Fillinghamw and Lady Jones, attached to a double sleigh, in which wero five persons—Me, Sheehy, his wife and son; Mr. Myors and Mrs. Her men, The two gentlemen and Mrs, Myora were on the frout seat, and the other two ludies on the back seat, The two sleighs collided, Mrs. Myers was first struck in the face by the head of one of Mr. Vander+ bilt’s horses,‘and immediately after Mrs, Hermen was struck same horse and knocked ont of the sleigh. teams were brought to a stand still, and after Mra. had been picked up and placed in the sleigh Mr. Vanderbilt apologized by saying that le, aud having on heavy He told Mr. Sheehy his tearm were unmant Hoves he could not guide them, at he would dan conveyance Was Blt ‘| jured lady waa rerhoved to Case's Hotel, on neh nue, and afterwards to wheren physician was summoved, ‘The injuries were found to serls | ous. but sho will recover in a few dave,