Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1889, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; MONDAY . JANUARY 28, 1889 DEATH OF RICHARD KIMBALL. The Dummy Finds Another Vietim at tho Transfer. AN OLD RESIDENT OF OMAHA. Bhocking Manner in Which the End of a Busy Life Came—Sorrow in This City—The ] Inquest, The Fatal Dummy. tornoon at 4 o'clock informa- tion was received at Tne Bes office that a man had been instantly killed - at the transfer in Gouncil Bluffs, 1t was later an nounced that the victim had been a resident of Omaha, and still later a message gave the name of the unfortunate as Richurd Kim ball The news spread to every open place in the town, because the unfortunate gentleman was known to hundreds of people who, not withstanding the severity of the weather und the rest which Sunday suggests, were, at the hour mentioned, upon the strects or within casy reach of the melancholy tidings The dummy which leaves this side a o'cloc ¢ hore to the scene of the accident a numb ¢ of the friends of the deceased. One of those, after arriving in the Blufls and as- certaining that the informution was but too true, tele sraphed D, T. Mount in this city to inform Mrs, Kimball of the fate of her hus band The Omaha friends of Mr. Kimball, on alighting from the train, met Dr. J. C. Wat- erman and were by him conducted to a small Union Pacific carpenter shop, in h, upon a hastily _improvised bier, the remains of Mr. Kimball. A gray blanket covercd them, though, when iporarily removed, it rovealed a sight, a description of which may weil be owitted from these coluuns. A dozen people, mainly Union Pacific men, were admitted to the shop and stood around while_tho i held. The jurors were I, I, Spare, foreman of the cleaning department of the Union Pacific at the trans for; *R. Morgan and Max ¥ also in the employ of the sume company. Coroner Waterman had selc the jury ), clerk of the superintend- ent of the Nebraska division, acted as ¢ and rocorded in long hand the the witnesses. Of the latter there were but two. The first of these, C. T that he and Mr. Kimball had left Omal the 3:15 dummy, and had gone to the Pacific ice house near the track, and had ex- amined the same. The witness and de- mbers of their company, t to supply the Union Pa cific with_ice, the amount 8f which could be stored in the company’'s house being about five million pounds. After they hud finished their business they started to the yards to catch the dummy going west. They rau out of the yards, re surrounded by a high fence, and ien yorthwest toward the train. They went up the walk, when the witness “Dick, the dummy is pulling out. 1 don’t think we can cateh it We'll ‘have to wait for the mext train.” Kimball said: “We'll run and sce if we can't cateh it “He grabbed the rail of the car in the front part. It was tho sccond car, und after he got hold he lost' his grip and fell under the wheels.” The witness then testifiod to several other features which had little beuring on the case when the member of the jury asked him 1f the accident had happened at a regular stop- ping place for trains. He replied that it was just a little west of the transfer, Coutinuing the witness said that Mr. Kim- ball had fallen on the track and wheels of two coaches had passed over him. Witness did not sce anybody on platform. William Norris, 2 Pullman porter on the Union Pacific road, who resides at 931 ave- nue D, had come from home to report for duty 10 go to Ogden. At the transfer he got off the 8:52 dummy going west and started for the railroad yards. He saw two gentle- men run to catch the dummy for Omaha. One was a middle aged young man, the other anold man. The old man endeavored to catch the forward end of the second couch but missed his foothold, but held on to the rails. The other mun was about ten feet from him and when he got to the older man that individual lost his hold and fell towards the train knocking down the younger man as he fell. The train dragged the older gentle- man about one and & half car lengths, Several questions were asked the witness by the jurors, one of which was as to how fast the urain was_going. The answer was that he thought about the rate of six or elght miles per hour. Witness was also nsked whether Mr, Kimball had fallen or stumbled over cinders by the traok, and ans- wered ‘yes.” He was also asked if there were anybody upon the iplatform, and to this he gave a negative Teply. The jury returned ana after a short de- iberation “returned a verdict that Mr. Kim- ell had come to his death while attempting to board a train while in motion, and they could find no blame attaching to'the Union Pacific railroad company. The remains were then turned over to Coroner Drexel and brought to this They are now at the undertuking room of Drexel & Maul, Farnam street, where they will probubly’ remain until the day of the funeral, when they may be taken for & short time fo tho late’ residence of the de- ceased, 700 South Seventeenth sgreet. Last night, after the sad news had boen conveyed to Mrs. Kimball that her husband had been accidentally injured, a number of sympathetic friends visited the lady with a view of breaking to her as gently ssible the dreadful news which had b ut imperfectly conveyed to her by Mr. T. Mount. Their services, however, were not ap. nn—cmted. because instinctively the bereaved d{ dovined that her husband had met with a fatal accident. With this belicf she wandered through the halls and parlors of her residence refusing all offers of ussist- ance and listening to none of the words of condolence which her friends were disposed to, speak to her. Mr., Kimball was born in Sullivan county, New York, in 1826, He moved with his father and mother in 831, to wh is now known as Ottawa, 11, whe he lived for some years on farm. Whe about sixteen years of age he and his u: for about two yoars ran a saw mill, later ro- turning to the farm and again going ba the lumber business, this time usso himself with his uncle George and r ing with him about eighteen wmonth He afterwards went to Green Bay and cogaged in the ing and lumbunnr business, in which he romained about eight years, being later joined by his uncle, and continling until the year 1555, He then came to Omalu, cugaging m the livery business on Eloventh street, between Harney and Howard. In 1557 hn sturted a saloon, still remembered by some of tho older settlers as the *Cross Keys,) In 1850 he went to Colo- rado with Captain Moore, uhd Jim Allen, Who at that time was proprictor of the hotel at Bellevie. In the fall of 1560 ho returued to La Platte, The following spring he and his brother chartered the ferry atthat place, Stlll later the deceased bought a farm from Philander Cook, whioh he worked for six or seven years, then coming to Omaba he traded “his farm with ~ William Mills for an ice and boarding house, e after. sold these out, and in the spring of to the Black Hills, where he es- tablished a stamp mill. His uncle here left Bim and Kimbal returned to Omabn i the fall. In 1873 bo went into partnership with Martin Dunham ip the ice business, M Kimball, as may be seen from tho #bove sketch, was one of the oldest citizens of Omaba, He leaves # wifo and adopted son who has long since wo to manbood. He was respected and usted by all who hiad business and socisl relations with him. His death shocked the community only less than it did the mem- bers of bis family. Mn Kimball was presi- deut of the Crystal Ice Co., which com prises the older firms of Kimball & Hun- gate, Kennedy & Newall Bay & ¥iteh, with' a capital of §60,000. This company has dce Liouses at the reservolr, Cut Off Lake and Wt tho river at all of which about 200 meu &ro now ewployed. Mr, Kimball's estate is Yuriously estimated at at from fifty to sixty thousand dollars. A short time ago after baving refused to Yesterd: Vewell, testified renow his accident life insurance policy he made up his mind upon_solicitation o take othor policy. The premium was paid a few days ago And as A consequence ow will receive £5,000 ment of the funeral will be made hereafte A positive guaranteo is given by the wufacturer of Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic that a 50 cent bottle of this rem- edy containg mors curative properties than any dollar preparation. It promptly cures all stomach. kidney and liver troubles. Goodman Drug Co. - WHO STRUCK BRISTOL ? A Question Likely to Be Settled in Poice Court, Last night J. A. Bristol, H. J. Westbrook and John Dingman emerged from a building on Fiftoonth street and were walking along when Bristol was strack a terrific blow on the head, knocking him senscless, He was carried into an adjoining drug store, where for about ton minutes he smained uncon scions, In the moantime an attorney named Townsend pointed out Dingmau as the man who committed the assault, and heand Wost brook wero d under arrest. When Bristol recov ousness he, 00, was takeon to th charge of fighting preferred against all three. Dingman, who is a detective, claime it to be a case of mis- taken identity, and says it was someone else who struck the blow. He says further that all threo were friends and had just ended a quict game of high five when the blow was struck. All three were allowed out on bail. ¥or a disordered liver try Beecham's Pills, - Police Magistrate's Report. The annual report of the police judge for the year 1348, which is to be incorporated in the mayor's anuual report, has the following summary of the arrcsts and fines for the various months of the y station and Jannary. .. February March, April May. June July August . September.. October. November December. 5 ) 10 0, 103 00 50y 6 50 1099 50| B4 00 1154 00] 95 00 703 00| " Total.. An Anarchise Festival, Cricaco, Jan. 27.—Three thousand per- sons attended the fostival and bull given this afternoon and evening for the benefit of the families of the exceuted and imprisoned an- archists, The walls were crowded with caricatures, such as policomen blowi up by u dynamite bomb, allegori fgures representing christianity and Judaism falling dead, and others of a more revolting type. Iditor Christenson, of the Arbeiter Zeiung, delivered a eulogy on the “Heroes and Sacred Martyrs,” who were sleeping their dreamless sleep in Waldheim, The spealer predicted that a cyclone would yet sweep over the land and wipe the cap- italistic robbers from the face of the carth. The Arabs Defeated. ZaNzinaR, Jau. 27.-Au engagoment took place at Dar-Es-Salam on Friday, resulting in the defeat of the Arabs, many of whom were killed, During the fight the first licu- ut of the German war ship Sophie was by sunstroke. Tho defeat of the Arabs renders the position of the captive mission- aries still more dangerous, - An Absoin The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin erap. tions, Wil positively care all kinds of piles, Asl for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MEWT. Sold by Goudman Drug Co., at %5 conts per box—by mail 30 cents. S st Arrested for Gambling. At about 1 o'clock this morning two men giving the names of J. N. Stratford and J.* A. Rush, were arrested in rooms at the cor- nerof Twonty-eighth and Farnam, charged with gambling. In the haul was included A CONTINENTAL NEWSPAPER, It Quaintly Chronicles the Events of Ante-Revolutionary Days. A family in this city says the Hartford Courant have in their possession a re- markably well presorved copy of the first number of the Boston News-Letter, “Numb. 1;” printed by B. Green. It is dated Monday, April 17 to Monday, April 24, 1704. 1t has news by London Flying Post up to December, 1703. The quecn made her speceh Decem- ber 17: “‘Her Majesty came this day to the House of P tended with much solemnity, and, being Scated on a Throne in her Royal Robes, Sir David Mitchell, Gentleman, Usher of the Black Rod, was sent with a message to the House of Commons requiring their attendance in the House 05 Peers,” In the foreign news it is said that the Paptists design to do mischiel in Ire- land. They killed one, Green.a Protest- ant, for appearing as witness in the first court of claims against one, Tady O'Quin, an Ivish Paptist, which, as the narrative says, ‘‘put the Protestants in a mighty consternation.” A piece of home ne Boston of a sloop from Virginia, which reports being followed ou Bloc I[sland Dby a topsail schooner, which was judged 10 be a French privafeer. An English war vessel was sent at ouce to capture her, but found not a priv Prench-buily fishing vessel, loyal English, Here isa brief report, which seems to give us the Tolstoi notion of *wl do” considerably in advance of preaching: “The 20th the arrival in owned by R'd Mr. Pemberton preached an _excellent sermon on 1 Thes. 4, 11, And do your own busi- ness: lixhorting all vanks and degrees of persons to do their own work in order to & reformation, which his excellency bas ordercd to bo printed.” S A glass fuctory in the state of New Jersey is suid W be engaged in little else but the manufuctura of bottles for Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. Price 5 conts. 1 buve been su with rbenmatism. O Oil gave entive relief. Fraxk O'Hriay, Baltimore, Md. ——— nths vation A Man Asks His Mother-in-Law to Pay $100,000 For 1t. A peculiar suit was recently begun in the common pleas court of Cloveland, O., by J. D. Critchfield. a well known lawyer of Mount Vernon, O, He sued his other-in-law, Mrs, Caroline H. Henderson, of Erie, P'a., for $100,000, alleging that she with one W. W. Howell deliberately and maliciously weaned his wife’s affcetions from him, Mrs, Henderson is a widow, and worth 0,000, Before the separation of wife and husband Mps, Critehfield was sick, and while in this condition her mother, it is claimed, influenced the separation, Some five years ago the widow Heuder- son’s husband died and left the bulk of his large estate to the city for churitable purposes, Mrs, Henderson would not stand this, and by u vigorous fight com- pelled the city to settle atasmall figure. e Have used Dr. Bigelow’s Positive Cure in my family as a general cough wedicine. One of my children was quickly relieved of n severe attack of eroup by it. 1cheerfully recommend it. H. L. Covell, Grand "Rupds, Michi. Gooddman Drug Co. [0WA'S PACKING INTERESTS. An Organized Effort Being Made For Their Protection. SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS, Capreity and Outpat of Some of the Leading Houses of the State the Last Yoar. For Packers Organizing. Des Morses, Ia., Jan. 27.—(Special to Tie Bee.| rk packers of Towa are protty thoroughly aroused by the attempt of Chi cago packers to broak up their business Their meeting in this city last wook was tho beginning of their organized effort to pro- tect themsolves, Ln this work they have the co-operation of the railroad commissioners, and to-morrow Commissioner Doy and the attorney for the pack ers will moet tho repre sentatives of tho railroads in Chicago to plan for a defense bofore the inter-state commerce commission. This industry has grown to considerable size in lowa; so large, in fact, that the Chicago packers fecl keenly the competition of tho lowa packers. The secro- tary of the railroad commission has been col lecting statistics from the lowa packers con- cerniug this business, and they show a vol umeof no inconsiderable amount. Among others were the tollowing showing the capac- ity of some lowa packing houses, and in some cases the amount of business dono 1n 1858, John T. Stewart, Council Bluffs, roports a capacity of 1,000 hogs per day, which can be increased to 1,500 per da; He packe 18,000 hogs during 1838 Brittain & Co., of Marshalllown, have a capac- ity of 110,000 hogs per year. Last year they packed James Booge & Sons, of Stoux City, a capac- ity of 2,000 hogs o da, hey killed 92,000 during 1838, and shipped 756 cars of packed J. H. Windsor, of Des Moines, has a ¢ of 2,000 hogs per day. He packed sar, owing to 4 fire which de- stroyed his packing houscs early in the sea. son. R. D. Fowler & Co.,0f Sioux City,hav city of 2,500 hogs and 200 cattle per di ng 1858 they killed 164,347 hogs. Cocy & Co., of Keokuk, have a capacity of about 8,000 Togs a week. They pack usually about 110,000 n year. L. B Doud & Co., of At- lantic, have a capacity of 500 per day in and 300 in summer. During 1338 d 43,450. ‘Tho Silberhorn compauy, of 3,000 hogs Last year they slaughtered 199,602 hogs, 10,301 cattle and ,060 shieep. John Morrell & Co., of Ot- tumwa, have a capacity of 1,200 per d During 1858 they cut up 176,279 hogs. Witli Ryan & Son, of Dubuque, during 1538, W. S. Ellsworth, Moines, killed 64,164 hogs during 1388, M. Sin- clair, of Cedar Rapids, killed ,200 hogs during 1888, over 200,000 of which were shipped in by rail. These houses—and they are not all there are in Towa—packed in round numbers 1,15; 000 hogs last year. That amount of business was actually done, and under favorabie cir: cumstances the number can easily be in- creased to a million and a half or two million hogs. A few years ago nearly all this business was done in Chicago. In addition to what is packed i iowa, then, must be reckoned the amount packed at Omaha, St. Joe and Kansas City, to fully appreciate liow surely Chicago is losing her grip as the acking center of the country. It’is not sur- sing, therefore, that the Chicago packers getting alarmed at the outlook, und want tho inter-state commerce commission to in- terfere in their behalf, to compel Iowa farm- and stockmen to 'ship their products to o and thus break up what is growing to be a great lowa industry. The Iowa puck- ors insist that there is good reason why the railroads should furnish a bettter rate for the packed products to Chicago than for the live hogs. The report.reccived by the commtssoners shows that the average weight carried per car of live nogs is from 15,000 to 19,000 pounds,and of the packed product from 50,000 10 40,000 pounds. The cost of transportation is about the same in either case with the ad- vantage, if anything, in favor of the packed product. There is always more care required and more risk assumed in carrying live hogs than in cal o packed meats. Railroad managers say they pay out large sums_an- nually for live hogs killed in _transi Then they have always to furnish free transpor tion for one person to take care of the live hogs or other stock to the market. They have also to provide fast trains for stock at an additional expense. So that all thing considered, lowa packers think they can prove to the satisfaction of the inter-state commission that the railroads are deeply jus tified in making o lower rate for the dressed product to Chicago than for the live stock. gttt et Jowa's Public School System. Des MoiNes, Ia., Jan. 27, pecial to Tue Bee.]—Iowa’s high standing in educational matters makes the subject of school statis- tics very interesting to Iowa people. The superintendent of instruction has made a comparative table showing tho growth of the school system in Iowa by decades from 1848 10 1888. The progress of the state in this re- spect is remarkable, Forty yoars ago there were but 124 teachers employed in lowa, Now there 15 an army of 25,000, The assessed valuation of school property in Iowa' then was but $14,000. Now it is over half a mil- lion dollars. During the first ten years, or from 1848 to 1858, the number of teachers in- creased from 124'to 2,500, The next de showed 10, The next decade had rais this number to 20,534, and th showed 25,113, In 1843 there w in Iowa. Ten ) ater the number had in- edto 2,200, During the next ten y was treblod, reaching 6, In 1 amounted to 10,701, and last year had reached a total of 15,465, There is no record of the entire amount paid for all school purposes in 1348, Butin 1858 it amounted to $207,474, In 1883 the state of lowa expended for all purposes connected with the schools, the grand total of $406 Perhaps these dif- ficult figures explain in part why Towa has been so reliably and strongly republican, Creston [tems, Crestoy, la., Jan, 27.—[Special to Tk Beg.| ~The town is considerably agitated over & report n eirculation here and at Bur- lington to the offect that the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quiney railroad company has made all preliminary arrangements for building one of the largest and most com- plete railroad shops in the United States. It is rumored that in these shops they will ything required on either liue or branches, from a locomotive ) to a railroad spike, and that the com- pany is at present looking up the most de- sirable location for such shops, which, they claim, will pay out over $1,000,000 a year in running expenses. Creston claims to have the best site in Tow vill doubtless make application for the on here, The town s also exce y agitated over yosterday’'s report in THE Bre relativ the “liquor joints" in operation here. body, from a clergymun to a school boy, talking about it. ‘I'hat Tug Bee represonta- tive did some effective work, both in Des Moines and here, 1s a conceded fact. As yet the local papers have little to say, but the po- lice wear an agitated look and seemingly have more business than they can attend to. ooth Swindlers, Des Moixes, Ia, Jan. 27.—[Special Tele- gram o ie Bee, | ~Toe gang of swindlers who have been victimizing towns io north- westeru lowa, by pretending to be surveyors for & new railroad, did their work very smootkly, Late particulars show that the, collared several hundred dollars from peo- ple who thought that they were buying the location of a road. ese swindlers would g0 Wa smal town and represeut that they were going to build & road which might pass and 500 day. _witin & miloor two of town, but if paid for the trouble of chaoging the route, a depol mignt he located right in town. Usually 0 . or $loowould be enough to socure the change of route. The good citizens would thitfk that they had secared a new road, and the swindlors would think that the fools weré not nil dead, as thoy silontly stole away with the money. A good many poople ity ‘\mumr like to admit it have been taken iti Hy these bogus surveyors and railroad builders o — A TRAGEDY'IN BRONZE. The Remarkable Clock Owned By a Philadbibhia Man. The most uniqua, and one of the most valuable clocks. probably, in this eity, suys the Philadelphia Record, is owned by Dr. J. Newton Walke e time piece originally éost 31,000, and was purchased in Erafide by the \dfather of the present owner over one hundred years ago. It isa production of the tter part of tho Louis XVI. period. The peculiarity of the style of its finish, together with the subject portraved in its decoration, forms a representative » of the art'of that age when every- thing that contained the slightost som- blance to classi was fashionable, As a work of is invaluable showing the growth of rich designs during the age following the plainer and sterner handicraft of the ages of Louis XIV. and Louis XV. "The clock weighs nearly 150 pounds, and is eighteen inches i height and fifteen inches in breadth. It is made of Pavian marble and bronze, with sev- eral brass figures and gilt mounting. This work of art stands on four lion’s paws of brass, The clock proper rests beneath a marble pediment, having a dial of scarce sixinches in diamoter, on which two gilt-mounted brass hands rotate. Near the base of the dial are two smaller dials to mark the days of the week and month, and also the time of tides according to the full, half and quarter moons. The clock-work is partiully embedded in the marble pedi- ment above. The latter is an ingenious picce of artistie workmanship. It is a frieze-like affair, with representati of the principal deities of Grecian mytholog) Most interesting, superstructure of bronze, copper und bra, which contains an historical scene from the last stage of the French Revolution. during the Reign of Terror. The seene is a subterrauean prison beautifully worked in bronze and cop per. A Girondist of bronze has beon imprisoned to die by starvation. Iis foot are chained by two huge stones represented in brass, while on e his wrists are attached light fastened to sev weights, nenr him is o bronze figure of a heauti- ful girl, his daughter, who is allowed to sce him once a day during his im- prisonment. Her position is such as to infer that he had just received nourishment from her. Lizards—and secpents in b ave represented as creoping and o ing among th s of the rocks, out of which the prison is cut. At the far end of the prison, beyond the bars of a small windpw,is the face of the appointed by the prison keepers to seortain how it wus the prisoner was able to prolong his lifo so long beyond the time usually allowed to death by arvation. As the story thus illus- ated rela the daughter gave suste- nee to her father, to which w added the nourishment obtained from reptiles and lizavds that he killed from time to time. Death by the guillotine followed the revelation portrayed in this scone. = anh et Scripture On, Iuaugural Balls, The inaugural ball given in honor of the inaugucation of Governor Hovey at Indianapolis brought out a great deal of comment from the church people. It was the first inaugural ball ever given in the history of the state, and the ministers generally opposed it. Among others the Rev. R. A. Kemp, of the Worthington Methodisv church, re- ceived an invitation. He thought it audacious to invite him to a ball, so he took the beautiful lithographed bauble and on its margin cited Daniel iii, for the consideration of those who had sent the invitation. The auotation is: But if not, be it known unto thee, O, King, that we will not serve thy (iods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Mr. Kemp then returned the invita- tion in the first mail to Dr. Hayes, the socretary of the committee on invita- tions. however, is the For some time past the residents of Worth Twelfth street, from Montgomery avenue to Philadelphia Record, have been an- noyed by finding their front doorsteps disfigured copiously with tobacco juice. arly yesterday morning Special Officer Whitcomb caught John P. Berg in the act at No. 2007 North Twelfth street, and locked him up in the Twenty-sco- ond districtstation. ouncitman W. H. James was one of Berg’s victims. Berg is a German, not long in country, and a man of vindi ap- pearatice. He is a baker and has been supplying the people in the neighbor- hood named with bread. It is supposed that Berg acted out of revenge because Councilman James and others had with- drawn their custom from him, being dissatisfi this Dr. Hamilton Wa netic phy- sician and surgeon, room 3, Crounso block, cor. 16th and Capitol avenue, Chronic and nervous aiseases a spe ialty. Telephone 944. It Beat Coasting. A green country youth was toattach a hand-sléigh to an express train on the Kingston & Pembroke railway at Kingston, Ont., and he was soon holding on for dear life as the train sped along at the rate of forty-flive miles an hour. He dared not lin- quish his hold, and passeng that nothing could be secn of him for the clouds of snow thrown up by the sloigh as it cut through the drifts at tho of the track. He laid flat on the slod and was half suffocated when tuken off, induced The importance of purifying the blood ean. not be overestimated, for without pure Dlood you eannot enjoy good health. At this season nearly every ono needs a good medieine to purlfy, vitalize, and curich the blood, and Hood's Barsaparilla is wor 1y your coufidence. It {s pecullar in that it Strengthiens and builds up the system, creates an appetite, and tones the digestion, while 16 eradicates disease. Glve It a trial. ‘Hood's Sarsaparilla 13 sold byall drugglsts. Prepared by C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar PEEBLESS UYES ARE THE BEST Sold by Drugzists. Diamoud stroet, says tho | RE e NEW YORK CITY'S THEATERS Mrs. Langtry and Mra. Potter Ele- vating the Stage. LILY'S NEW VIEW OF MACBETH. Exoites Considerable Comment and Some Prajse—But Mrs. Potter Shows Naked Limbs Through Flecoy Mrs, Langtry in Lady Macbeth, NEW YORK, Jan. 22, —{Special to T -Gotham at the presont mor is undergoing a theill or rathor sevor: thrills of theatrical excitement. with the arrival of the great German contralto, Lili Lehman, and the simul- taneous production of Macbeth by Mrs. I ry. and Antony and Cleopatra by Mrs. Potter, the talk of the town is nothing if not theatric The quid- nuncs of the clubs are discussing the Jersey Lily’s rondition with considerable enthusinsm, for astonished overybody by presenting a new view of Lady Macbeth. She takes the ground that though Lady Macbeth imagines herself to bo cast in a tragic mould, she is tho victim of self-deception, and that sho has in veality her hold upon her husband is entirely due to his apprecia- tion of her charms. This view taken + b, a dramatic critic in Hurlbert's timo, apropos of Janu- schek’s assumption of the part, He was | greatly admired the Bohemian queen {of tragedy, but took the ground that Lady Macbeth was really the role of young and lovely woman, and the fore unsuited to her. Ever siuce the time of Mrs. Siddons it has been the shion to aceept Lady Macbeth as a grand, gloon nd it woman whose keenor intellect spurred hor dull husband on to acts of crime. But any one who reads the play ver carofully will discover that N nguage is remarkable and is only paralelled by the language of Autony for poetry, high philosophy and # peculine humor. Lady Macheth's in- telligence is in comparason what a moonlight isto an clectric light, and next it will become plain that Macbeth's love for his wife is purely sensuous. When told that she is dead, he merely remarks that sheshoutd have died here after; in other words he does not regret her, but thinks he did not get sufficient pay for yielding to her wishes, and plunging intoa sea of crime,ghaving been, as Milton put 1t, “‘not of his better sense beguiled but fondly overcome by female charm, THE ¥ 5 Club men, ¢ 5 nighters generally arelall ngreed that Mrs. James Brown Potter’s Antony and Cleopatra has nothing itin that is worthy of praise save the dresses, but every one is going to Palm to s what Mrs, Pot wears as the “Worm of Nilus Iti past my ability if it were in m, inclination to deseribe them, but it is certain that v reveal as much genius of ereation in that direction as the world has everseen. They area most subtie mingling of Hellenia robes with the lighter and more oriental at- tive of the Bigyptians according to the monuments around the ancient Mem- phis, and this is in waccordance with histery, because Cleopatra was n Greek and at tho samo time an Kgyptian. It gives the unsophisticated, however, quite a shock to discern the glimmering of snowy timbs through most gauzy robes. And it is to be understood that the glimmering is by no means as re i from one or two notices that I icar were paid for, Mrs. Potter’s devotion to art has led her to a revelation of her form beyond precedent in the annals of the stage. She became a professional avowedly to elevate the stage, and she has done it with a vengeance. ALWAYS JAN ING IN NEW YORK. One of the things most imperatively necded is a new custom house building, for tho present one, which is sitnated about tne center of Wall str is ludicriously and wvainful msufficient for tae commerce of to-day. But there issuch a jurring of opposing interests, and such open undisguised sclfishness expressed that 1t begins to look as if the new building will be postponed to the Greek Kalends. The great major- ity of business men, and of men who are not in_ business, but who are interested in the improvement of the city, favor in the strongest way the location of the proposed struc- ture upon that bloek of houses which faces towards the novth upon the Bow- ling Green, and towards the west upon the Battery Park. It would then be one of a group of magnificent ediflees, and would occupy the central position, having upon its right hand the great Produce Exehange, and upon its left Mr. Cyrus Field’s splendid = steueture, No. I Broadw But the dry goods men, the grocery mon, and the stoam- ship mpanies insist that the ap- praiser’s department of the cus- tom house shall be up town at some point to be selected in the future. It has been in vain to point out to them that the custom house in New Yorik transacts all the customrbusiness of Brooklyn and Je City and Hobo- ken, where three larg mer lines h their docks arve deter- minep to have th President Orr of the Produce 1 ed them for the moment at the meeting by the statement, that 60 _per cent of the duties levied by the New York custom was on morchandise discharged at the Brooklyn docks and stored in the Brooklyn stol But they rallied in a moment and said that in that case it would be advisable to make anovement in favor of a separate custom nouse for Brookly nd not to paralyz iest importers of New York by building at aloeality that suited Brooklyn and did not suit them, The upshot will be that there will be no custom house at all, for the dry goods men when united are u phalanx of the most formidanlo character. MAYOR GRANT sHOWS UP WELL, In his report Mayor Grant dwelt upon the necersity ol & new municipals build - ing; but few were aware that old Hewitt had consulted an architect for that pur- pose, und had expressed approval of the design, Fortunately his approbation did not counclude t matter, for it in- volved what many New Yorkers con- sider a desecration. The idea was to add enormous wings to the old city hall, and to carry these by to the court house which fronts on Chambe rveet, 50 that the whole would form a build of a hollow, square form. But t) proposed wore colossal in hei bulkiness, whilst the city hall is br and low. It is, however, o ver) J specimen of Palindian architectur i# tenderly beloved by all the old sors, who vegard it as tne finest building in New York. Mayor Grant has come out very forcibly against this plan, and proposes that the new build- ing shall be on Center street, which meets with everyone's approval. Some care will have to be taken with th foundations, however, for Center stree was originally 4 pondcalled the Collcet, TER SCOI upon which thare wore sailing boats fn Knickerbocker never vory well drained, summors the mortality among the chil- 1f the politicians who are to veign in the now municipal quar 1 better | an Viclo to do some scien- | in the oid dren is shocking ters value their hives, Egbert L. tifie draining for them. FIE MUSEUM IN LUCK Marquand, who is the pro- siding spirit, though not the president | H has his small | 1 Henry G of the Motropolitan Ar presented to that institation but excellent collection of old masters, of Richmond, by Vandyko, several pic tiwo portraits by Rembrandt, pictury by The widow fricndly \lso decply interested including the portrait by Ruber and som tista of colabrity, kindly, geatle, Droxel, who was in the museum, has given to it hi oction valuablo cc Experts value and curios. it prot bod times, At pre yting is down to ti uaily sinkingsave the rc silver. YOUNG M Much Mors Common tion, Murat Halsted Onee w they t it Than 1sm in Young Men. In his address before the vontion of the Wisconsin I’ress associa- 1: aid not have journalists. Wo were editors and reporters. is a word that came into York city along with and assistant and local, and ch the managing, f, and othoer editors, of th* and the elaborate organi pross that exalts duces individualit until in modern means the daily news ands who are occupied o and semi-weekly, and of the newspapo Henca the propriety phraso—the newspuper We ne clusiveness that for somc press has rights that not; that press in which the n classes do not particips of privilege is a neither gains nor loses ri fession. We have the to spoak as editors as we zens. If we uso a longor the persimmons,” bec larger constitueney for tional ability, tha It simply incre v of a me prise orof a ras , farmer or duces to the better our busine other follks, and not se annointed or othc machinery We had able itors long ago, but not great journalists Tho journal per, shouldn't in discussing the press leave out of consideration the tens days. n monthly of this of . d to guard against ways of ox aguinst the mysterious reason the there are privileg serious rhts in & use our docsn’t af ses responsibilit, torious man Iy schemer or seheme an editor the same that he could appointed and exclusive service. Communications from young gentle- or uctive | into | fLod- want men in or fresh from in otner shops who propc journalism or newspay perience, for ther nation about our employ s nothing one could kno ulty to perform nor 1u histor, pac sons of philosophy. gospel—that would not woing inty newspap beyond me to preseribe It is easir, whe do than to tell, Who can tell the yoang man how to grasp the magic clew of the globe spins | §i- There is no turnpike or rail- uto journalism. tie an And yeu w omebody with us? road that lead are no vacancies for dic Nobody is wanted. ays looking out for once in awhile he ask for a place, but Do not say to th are uo e mor than ou want o get in coliege rdom 1o know how to do it are a common bility to endur pericetion of recollection, tha ty to apply comprehension the law, or cultivated intuition be cdom. 1 con you have th ibilities. in. Don’t asl the finding of it out that will edy the essential thing newspiaper ofiice by main strength and awkward- himself. upon which we for the market— stly they ¢ variety of improvemonts, ings of the oditor wr: ssunt, insatinble pressmakor not mor able than the Press itself, in its largor | one thiny needful, tirst | ps With all the changes, | the intelligence of the printe of the cditor you to do young man must enter ness and m place fol The machine the sheots we produc and we all know how their infinit for the es away by the inc quirements of the facile mechanism is sense—and the and last, is man. personal forc ponsible. Iach accon bear the ine!Fac How her than the or synentof aprinciplo? yie . advocr print the raw truth et cased the te 1 tisin hist was in hot m ar- of the W. | forever and it at 75,000, but wly exceeds this amount e of s lowest noteh, and nothing can prevent values contin- monetization of 1GMA THOR, N IN JOURNALISM, Journal recent con- Journalist ing. and wo | nominated for an oftice thous- weekly, issues country. assumption the have s of the the claim One 0~ ty | what ha citi- pole toknock | have a | M conversa- 2 hits, “:‘,. and hes nd enter- min- £ con- understanding of 5 t0 know that we ave li apart, wise sanctified foran unique | ighness | 20, los- of s at Albany is | 0 | mor and #5 wnd not alces that which is | pate man Phera cor mpress in { befc swept -~ this hango- are indis- lishment, ever, achievement, whether rude or rotinc wrought in eliy, copper, or gold must ble stamp of manhood. Brains will tell, and aspiring, o labor construct and command. ar shulla journal be a news n of a party or the is the agbone, 5 1 1Ho0ts, Gkin Lump’ ternal How much play can the wheel have on the axletree without wabbling? Will i Cullen Bryant, speaking of the ow York Herald, said that it was a apor that started up whila he was in urope, and when he came homo, aftor absence of a vear, he found it full possession of the city and Mr. Bennett had a great reputa tion i editor. *‘But,” said Mr. Bry ant, don’t consider him an editor. is a news vendor.” Mr. Bryant was exactly about this. Mr. Bennett had a or understanding of the duties and L greater capability for the business of of | a nowspaper than™ Mr. Bryant, chief work was not that of an editor, however excellent his editor labors, for he will live in the literature of the land, and the glory of his poctry shines tbout his name, while editorial glory is transiont as a_vapor. o Porhaps it is to early to compare the influence which the elder Bennett, tho newsmon, exerted with that of Horace Gregley, who dealt rather in ideas than in reports. It would be easy to deseribo the destinction of the two, but difficult to decide which was the more influen tial upon the press or the country, It might be said of either, iu Disraeli’s words, unveiling the statue of Lord Dorby at Wostminstor: **I have un veiled the statue of a mn who for forty years largely fnfluenced the public opin- ion of his country What is the office, what 1 the dignity of the pre What is authority? What shall be its ruling motives, its higher accomplishments? The pross does not form, it refiects public opinion. It does not make, it partakos of tho v | character of the people. Tho real plat form of a political purty coming befor the country and asking the confidenc of the majority is uot found in the formal phirases that politicians preparo 10 suit the occasion. It is the characte whoso re | of the pacty that should bo taken into ca- [ a rount when its merits » measurod and its destinies buianced. It is not the lotter of aceeptance of a candidato with the broad- est responsibilities, grasping the gray est public trasts, that is to assure us of his fitn or the contrary, but it is the character of the man. If wo have a mission greater than an- other it is the broad cultivation of tho popular character New venders, recorders. reportevs, historians, mission: . we are by oceu pation—and citizens with the equal, in aleinable mghts ol our fellow citizens and none have broader opportunities or brighter encouragement in industrious usefulness than w What more and | better we may become than writers and printers and snlesmen of current ovents; ppy deeds we may join 10 the words that we weave in the fashions Ahat wre our familiae modes; what '\ be ours in the acts that, however re of imperishable good report, upon the tasks that our hends hands find to do—the lamps that guide our footstops, and tho stars under whose light we came into the world. told. depend - SIX DOLLAKS A Lixbor ONTH. s Ninety s History tells the d in 1500. On the Pennsy’ the diggers ate the conrsost diet, were housed in the rudest sheds paid $6 a month from May to November and 35 a wonth from November to N Arriors, mortar-mixe T and choppers, who from ¢ - bored od the publie buildin cul the 1 avenues of Washington Lveceived $70 a year, or, if they wished, $60 for all the work th conld perform from March 1 to December The hours of work werc invariably faom sunvise to sun- and New shillings, or, ns money then conts a days 4t Laneas 310 & month: clsewhere in Pennsylyanis workmoen were content with 36 in sum in winter. At Baltimor men sere glad to bo hired at 18 pence day. None by the month asked more th At Fredericksburg the prico of la bor was from $5 i white men employed by the year given £16 currenc ves when hir werne clothed and their masters paid £ ! amonth. A pound Virgina money was in Federal money $ The uverage of wagos the land over was, thore 8650 year. with food and perhaps lodging. Out she small sum the workman must, with his wile's help, utain his family fore The sixth annual masquerade hail of U. P. band wiil take place Friday, ieb- ruary 15, at Ixposition hall, e o s on tho Rostrum. Princess Martha Engelitcholl read a paper in New York vecontly on Russin, co o large company of women, who manifested the est reverence for the titled it he priucess con- fessed vor she gave the wing chic The p: sho read \was nivoductory one es of five which she had pre svd on ¢ domestic, educational, ar- tistic and musical phasos of Russian life. She esc od polities because the position of hu nily, she said woold not war treating that subject 11 verso arance the princ tall, matronly and handsome. he speaks with a maricod » hut reads with precision and distinctuess and ais- closes unusual intetligence as well as allability. A Princ i | | | Resule of tie Culd Snap, Peter Poterson was arceste ] (st night, on the ch saling coal from the cars. ¥ MUSTANG LINIMENT Thus the * Mustang” conquers pain, Makes MAN or BEAST well again! At = N sures, ¢ Murble ® Lromptly furnished. Mausolenms, Sarcopha, tones, Entrances sud Enrlo ork of all kinds, in G 3 Bullding Work, Wains Designs und Estimated Monuments, Vault Statuary, Gra newry and lironze and Tiling HURRICANE ISLAND GRANITE COMPANY, 1, 8 HEALY, MANAGER 601 Paxton Building, (mala, Nebrisks.