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RANGEBU?G/, Sf G? EB|pAY, MAY 16, 1879.
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JOB OFJFICB
IS FBEi'ABED TO PO AlA JOWBS 0Jf
J"ot> 3Priiitmg
BOOTH'S (CBAZY ASSAILANT.
? he regrets iiis ill success and says
accomplices will finish the work
he undertook.
Chicago, III., April 24.?Further
particulars of the attempted assassin
ation of EdwinJBooth at McYicker's
Theatre last night are given as fol
lows : The play was "Richard II,"
near the tin iah of the last act, when
Booth sat in the glaro of a calcium
light with ajl the other lights turned
down and was engaged in the solilo
quy. He sat a little to the right of
the centre of the stage, with the pris
on on one sido and the cottage on the
other. Gray sat nearly on a level
with him, in the first balcony, and
some thirty feet distant, with the pis
tol concealed in his sleeve, in his left
band holding a copy of the play,
winch he had evidently been follow
ing, intending to fire only at the right
time. When the first shot rang out
there was a dead silence'. Booth did
not stir; but, as a second ball came
whizzing down and ploughed its way
through a piece of board in the cot
tage an inch in thickness, he quietly
rose and went toward the wing.
G, ray snapped his pistol again and
was cocking it for a fourth attempt
When the rush was made for him.
As there seemed to be some doubt as
to the man, Booth again stepped
out and pointed directly at him. All
this time there was a wild uproar in
the house, and shouts of "Throw him
over," "Har.g him," "Fitch him out
of the window," and the like were
beard. He was, however, speedily
bustled ofi' to the station and locked
up. On his person wns found the
following incoherent letter, which
clearly indicates bis premeditated
purpose:
CnicAOOv22d, 1879.
Dear Katie :?Forgive these brief
lint horrible lines. I left St. Louis
Monday evening. The firm I was
with would not Increase my salary, so
I made up my mind to return to Keo
kuk; but, being a lover of fine act
ing, I came to Chicago to sec Booth.
^ But I yWatttjbjr mistaken. It would
JfiakftJJooth one year of constant act
ing to compete with Lawrence Bar
rett's Richelieu, ? To-night he plays
Richard I. Katie, if I go to-night
lie will kill me or I him. In all
Sheakspere's works I find but one
man to compete with Booth, and that
is logo. My judgment ought to fore
tell me that since I call Booth Iago
be could no more play Richelieu than
the devil could be an angel. I don't
Jijiow what to do. Every line I write
I prance the fiour as though I was
playing Hamlet. I am sorry I came
here, for I think the hangman has a
rope for me. Remember me to your
mother and sister. Yours truly,
Mark Gray.
Gray says ho belongs in Keokuk,
but has been traveling for a St. Louis
dry goods house; that about three
years ago Booth wronged a friend of
his (whether lady or gentleman he
does not state), and that becoming
cognizant of the wrong about two
and a half years ago, he determined
to avenge it. He has only met Booth
once since that time, and that was on
the streets of St. Louis, when he was
not prepared. Gray says that he has
accomplices back of him. and that
Booth will yet suffer. IJo came here
for the express; pqrpose of killing
Booth. Mr. Booth was not aware
that he had been fired at, and went
behind the scene to quiet his wife,
who feared he had been injured.
Gray wasv brought before Justice
?ummerficld this morning on a
charge of attempting to kill and
pleaded guilty. The magistrate re,
marked that it was lucky the charge
was not murder, whereupon Gray re
turned* "I wish it was." Bail was
pt first fixed at $10,000, but as Mr.
Booth represented that he had been
told Gray had expressed a determin
ation to kill him when he was free
again, it was made $20,000. The
penalty for the crime is from one to
fourteen years in the Penitentiary.
It has been ascertained that Gray
attempted suicide about three years
ago in St. Louis. At that time he
waB very dissipated, but lias since re
formed. . He bought his revolver yes
terday with the express purpose for
wblch it was used. Ib is said he is
stage struck and intended to go on
the stage next fall.
St. Louis, Mo., April 24.?Gray
Was a clerk in the dry goods house
of Scruggs, Vandorvoort $ Barney
until four days ago, and left becftBse
ho could not obtain an increase of
salary. Mr. Barney says Gray was
ft good salesman, and knows of noth
ing which would lead him to commit
mich an act. The clerks in the store
speak of him as a quiet, reserved
y'oupg man who made few acquajn
tanccs, was somewhat infatuated with
the st,age, and frequently said he in
tended to become an actor. Mrs.
Abcling, with whom Gray boarded,
and Mrs. Billings, at whose house
ho lodged, say that he frequent
ly did atnmgo and foolish things.
They thought he was half crazy.
He said that all of his relations
were actors, that he came of a
star-actor family, and was going on
the stage to do as his relatives had
done. Mrs. Bruin, a cousin who al
most raised him, aays none of his
family were ever actors, but he has a
passion for the stage and is a great
frequenter of theatres. His father
died before he was born, but when
he came here last autumn from Keo
kuk he said *'my father is not dead.
I know he is alive, for I sat at the
samo table with him somo days ago
and he would not speak to me, damn
him ! But I will get even with him
yet." Mrs. Bruin thinks that he had
an idea that Booth was his father,
and that he is not responsible for
some of his acts. The Katie to whom
the letter found is addressed is a
half-sister of Gray,
The prisoner, Mark Gray, remains
non-committal as to his reason for
attempting to assassinate the trage
dian, but assumes a mysterious air
and talks of his wrongs, of his re
grets at the failure and of his aspira
tions to become an actor. ^The; theo
ry is advanced that he believes him
self to be a blood relation of Booth,
and that his wrong consists in the
failure of Booth to recognize him.
Some of his words since his arrest
give color to this theory, but he has
not affirmed it, and on the contrary
has said the actor was no relative of
his.
Personal Hatred.
There is nothing in the-world that
has seemed to us at times so unac
countable as this thing of personal
hatred. A subtle antipathy, appa
rently without any cause whatever,
this strange and it would seem un
natural disposition of some men to
hate and injure those whom they
have, perchance, never even known,
those who are in no way likely to
cross their path, and whose manner
of life and thought?whose interests,
hopes, desires an 1 pleas ores are all
so far removed from those of the ma
levolents that one would think that a
hatred for the distant pleiades would
be as sane. And yet in every man's
life is met some such wretch, instinct
with brutish hate, and who hisses the
curses of Sbiinei, the Benjaminite, on
the hapless victim of this unreasoning
malevolence, even though he be un
conscious of the first prompting
thought, intent or deed calculated to
provoke the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an ad
mirable essay on "Perpetual Forces,"
solves for us the difficulty which
otherwise seems so inexplicable.
This terrible proclivity of the evil
minded of the earth is entirely a
thing of temperament. Ho says:
"The animal instincts guide tbo ani
mal as gravity governs the stone;
and in man that bias or direction of
his constitution is often as tyrannioal
as gravity. We eall it temperament,
and it Seems to be the remains of
wolf, ape and rattlesnake in him.
While the reason is yet dormant, this
rules ; as the reflective faculties open,
this subsides."?Columbia Register.
Dat'8 De Mystery.
Two darkeys bought a piece of
pork, and Sam, having no place to
put his intrusted the whole to Julius'
keeping. Next morning they met,
when Julius said:
"A most strange thing happened
at my house last night, Sam. All a
mystery to me."
*lAh, Julius, what was dat?"
"Well, Sam, dis mornjn' I wont
down to do cellar to get a piece of
pork for breakfast, and I put my
hand down into, the brine, and felt
all around, hut no pork dar?all gone
?couldn't tell what went with it; so
I turned up do barrel, and Sam, as
sure as preaching, do rats had eat a
hole clear fru de barrel, and dragged
do pork all out."
"Why didn't de brine run out oh
de hole ?"
a Alt Bom Ant'a #1n mvfilnrv "
-? , ? 7 ?*?-J-J '
Troops or no troops ot the polls;
thai in the question, "the President
says "Troops," The Democrats say
"No troops." The country will sus
tain the Democrats.
MIDDLE PEN ITEMS.
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CONDITION OF THE CROPS -FINE FISHING,
MAD DOGS, ETC.
Editor Orangebury Democrat:
No doubt you bavo thought ere
long ago that the pike has been the
unfortunate victim of some monster
fish, or else be has been coasting on
the banks of the Middlepen waiting
for Mr. Farmer to cast out his flabby
skin for the pike's untimely meal.
But, sir, he has been otherwise en
gaged, his time has been spent in ex
ploring the stream that leads to pros
perity, (Quisque sw?e fortunoz faber.)
(Mr. Editor, I don't propose writing
on any general topic this time, but
merely to give you the news in gen
pral from tfiis quarter, in other words
Middlepen Items.
Cotton crops in this seotion are
very backward and farmers complain
ing of bad stands. Spme places they
haven't a third of a stand ; a great
many ploughing up and and planting
over; corn crop looking very
fine for the season. Just here allow
me to stato that our enterprising and
energetic farmer, Mr. E. W. Brant ley,
has made quite a discovery in the
the way of corn. He is using a corn
that he got from Dr. W. S. Barton,
called the Tuscarora, whicn hears two I
shoots to each grain. He heartily
recommends it to the public as being
the best corn this country has ever
seen, both for its prolific qualities and
soundness of grain. (A trial of the
same will convince any man.) Fish
have been biting picely in the differ
ent streams, and especially in Mr.
Smoak's mill-race. I went a few
days since and in the course of two
hours caught u hundred nice perch.
(Who can beat this?) The race
seems to he inexhaustible. I suppose
to make a low estimn'.o there has
been ut least a cart load taken out
in the lp^t week. (No ono who has
gone can say li3 returned with fisher
man's luck.) Mr. Editor, I thought
of you often when I was pulling those
nice fish ; but don't think for a mo
ment that my thoughts were like the
Irishman's, bow far you were off.
Would have fished the Democrat
with pleasure but didn't have an op
portunity of sending them. The
fruit, I am sorry to say, has at last
commenced falling ; don't know of
any one that will have any, except
our friend Mr. Slarwall. His ways
or views for protecting the tree are
worth imitating. But my idea for
keeping the fruit is to apply to Mr.
Kirk Robinson and supply yourself
with the glass jars, in years of abun
dance to preserve plenty for a wet
day. Mr. Editor, I suppose you have
heard so much of mad dogs that the
thing has become monotonous. One
of the most amusing scenes happened
on the Five-chop road a few days ago.
An aged negro woman, returning
from Mr. H. Snell's plantation to the
O'Cain place, was overtaken by one
of these canines. Having heard of
the danger of coming in contact with
one of those dogs, under the inspira
tion of the moment she didn't know
whether to pray or run. Thinking dis
cretion the better part of valor, she
commenced operations, the dogs nat
urally pursued. She ran for about a
mile, not knowing where to go for
protection, or not knowing when she
passed home as it was late in the
afternoon, and not being able to dis
cern precisely what it was, she swore
it was Pluto or some of his aids.
One good thing it baa done for this
community, it has put a quietus to
the nocturnal rambllngs of the de
fendants of Ham, Mr. Editor.
I noticed in an issue of a past dato
an article on School Conventions. I
am glad to see that the citizens of
Orangcburg, even at this late hour,
have put their shoulder to the mighty
wheel of civilization. Other counties
have gone into the noble work, and
why not old Orangeburg follow the
noble example aet by her sister coun
ties. Are we to turn a deaf ear to
education?the main guide of life;
the only lamp by whioh wo are to bo
governed or guided, J am of "Blue
Jeans' " notion. The sooner organ
ized the better, as delays are danger
ous. Let it not be an organization
for teachers alone, but for tho en
lightened class of Orangcburg Coun
ty, for the purpose of advanolng tho
essentials of life and crushing the
evils of tho fntnrn. Thorn will never
bo any system in the free common or
private schools ui this county until
this noble purpose can be put in
working order. Hparken ye men of
mind to the call of duty, and vindi
cote the noblo cause of-'-civilization.
Mr. Editor? no doubt you aro wor
ried, long agp yvitb tbo redunduoeacy
of tbo name and for fea$3. am intrud
ing on good nature I will close,
MippagjftN Pike.
A Horrible Story.
Some employees of the Pittsburg,
Titusvillo and Buffalo Railroad relat
ed a strange and horrible story yes
terday. It seems a man died last
week at Triumph, a small place not
far from Tidtouto. Tup body was
kept three days, and nt the expira
tion of (,hat timp wag buried. Then
sqme curious person remembered that
a sister of the deceased pad Iain in a
death-like trance for several days.
It was suggested that tjm man had
been preraatqrejy buried. The sus
picion took so strqng a' hold upon
the people that it was resolved to
exhume the body, and tho coffin was
disinterred Saturday lastj after bav;
ing laid three days in the' grave. The
lid was wretched off*, when a horrible
sight greeted the eyes of the resurrec
tionists. Evidently the supposed
corpse had revived, and the wretched
man fought desperately for his life.
Imprints of his finger noils were vis
ible on the lining of the coffin, which
in some places was torn into shreds.
The coffin itself was stained and
wrenched apart atjthu jointings in the
death ogonies of the miserable man
who was buried alive. He had turn
ed completely over, and was found
lying upon his breast,, his distorted
countenance indicating the frightful
sufferings he had undergone.?Pitts
burg Dispatch, April 10.
A Good Word for Women.
John Led v ard in his Siberian jour
nal pays the following tribute to the
women of all nations : I have observ
ed among all nations that women,
wherever thoy may bo found, are the
same kind, civil, obliging, humane
tender beings ; that they are inclined
to be gay and cheerful timorous and
modest. Tbey do not !\.itale, like
men, to perform a hospitable or gen
erous action ; not haughty, nor super
cilious, but full of courtesy and fond
of society; industrious, economical,
ingenious; more liable in general to
err than man, but in general more
virtuous, and performing more good
actions than can he. I never address
myself in the language^of decency
and friendship to \\ woman, whether
civilized or savage, without receiving
a decent or friendly answer. With
man it has often been otherwise. In
wandering over barren plains of in
hospitable Denmark, through honest
Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and
churlish Finland, unprincipled Rus
sia and tho widespread regions of
wandering Tarlary, woman has ever
been friendly to roe, and, to add to
this virtue; these actions have been
performed in so free and kindly a
manner that I drank the draught and
ate the coarse morsel with a double
relish."
What Next.
The Philadelphia Times says that
part of Ohio known as the national
government at Washington and the
State of Ohio itself clashed a little
bit, at Cleveland, on Monday. T.
H. Casey, a love-sick soldier, desert
ed from the Jefferson barracks that
he might go to see his girl in west
orn Now York. When arrested Cas
ey claimed that he enlisted, and
ought therhfore to get clear. A writ
of habeas corpus was taken out, and
the sheriff hastened to get bis man.
But a squad of soldiers, who didn't
want the State to interferet present
ed bayonets at the Sheriff. The lat
ter called a posse to his aid, and the
soldiers yielded. Tim friction be
tween the two grand divisions of
Ohio appears as strange as it would
bo if President JInyea should reach
up and bite off his own nose.
The citizens o( the back counties
in Kentucky are enterprising. In
Leslie county tho following is report
ed to have occurred; Late in tho af
ternoon ono of tho jurymen placed
himself in tho court house door, and
elevating his voice, cried out, "Q,
yes, 0, yes, gentlemen, the court are
adjourned till, rnprnin', tho Judge arc
drunk, and tho County Attorney are
in no better fix."
Ik 18Q0. Grant was a Bourbon
Democrat; in 1?68 he was a half
bred Radical; in 1870. he is any tiling
and every thing that will enable \\\n\
to "see" Washington's two terms
[ and go him one better.
KNIGHTS OF ##PB.
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THE OBD2B IN A HEALTHY CONDITION
AND GKOWINO UAPIDLY.
We direct attention of our readers
to tbe interesting letter, published
below, from the Supreme Dictator of
the Knights of Honor of the United
States. The Knights of-Honor is an
Order which soon or lato must com
mend itself tp all intelligent men
who want an insurance on their lives.
The Circular is dated at Boston,
Mass., April 10, 1879, and reads as
follows:
To all Subordinate Lodges, Knights of
Honor, Greeting; '
It is with great satisfaction'that
the supreme officers submit the fol
lowing statement relative to the Wi
dows' and Orphan's Benefit Fund. It
is wcll-l^upwn that a large number of
deaths occurred,, in our ranks from
yellow fever during the past year.
Aside from this cause we suffered an
Unusually heavy death rate during
the,[summer months. Up to July,
1878, our deaths had not numbered
over twenty-ono in any month.
In July the number of deaths was..80
In August, from yellow fever.83
In August, from other causes.21
In September, from yellow fever..110
In September, from other causes. ..80
In October, from yellow fever.43
In October, from other causes.......88
In November, from yellow fever..,...8
In November, from other causes....21
Total from yellow fever, 193; total
from other causas, 143 ; making the
total deaths from all causes in the
period^of, five months, 836,.and re
quiring the sum of $670,000 to meet
the calls upon^the] Widows* and Or
phans' Fund, an amount greater than
had been disbursed from this fund
from the beginning of the Order, five
years previous.
To meet this extraordinary de
mand two assessments were laid in
November, two in December, three
January, three in February and two
in March, Much trouble was exper
ienced by the supreme officers in
placing the deaths in consecutive or
der by reason of the impossibility, in
lodges disorganized by the yellow
fever, of making reports of deaths
until long after they had occurred.
It was not want of sufficient evidence
of the death, but officers of lodges
were dead or scattered, and no one
was authorized to make the official
report.
These assessments have been met
cheerfully, and orders on the benefit
fund have now been issued upon all
deaths up to January 24, 1879, and
the assessment now in process of col
lection will pay all deaths to March
first.
Since October 1, 1878, orders have
been issued on the Widows' and Or
phans' Benefit Fund for the following
amounts:
In October, 1878.87G,O00
\n November, 1878.60,000
I-n December, 1878.100,000
In Jeruary, 1879.90,000
In Februarv, 1879.140,000
In March, 1870 .154,000
I And in April to the 10th.59,000
Total.8679,000
The first death in the Order from
yellow fever occurred August 12,
and the order for the benefit of the
same was drawn October 10. The
last death from this cause took place
November 20th, and the order for
the same was signed March 21; or
ders upon all other deaths by yellow
fever were issued between these
dstest
With a total loss more than double
that of any other beneficiary society,
we have pajd in full every* beneOt
caused by the epidemic, and proved
to the world the ability of our organ
ization to successfully meet the se
verest trial. This work has been
done with hardly more than the usu
al number of suspensions, and
though our growth was temporarily
Checked by the extraordinary de
mand upon its resources, a rapid in
crease is now taking place all over
the country, and we now number at
least fifty thousand members.
These events have proved tho
wisdom of our system of one general
jurisdiction for tho Widows' and Or
phans' Fund, and the efficiency of
our laws for the government, of the
Order. No extra judicial measures
have been necessary to meet tho
emergency, and ah C?u?ultation in
quired between tho supreme,, officers
hi\s.been, carrjod ,0a by. letter.
Aside fflun tUe payments of death
benefits about $15,O0Q.,was contribut
ed voluntarily for the relief of the
living, who were in want and suffer
ing by roason of tho cpidemio.
In this record every Knight of
Honor may tnke a just pride. It
places us in the front rank as a great
benevolent and business institution,
and secures a futnre of untold use
fulness for our beloved Order.
Fraternally, in O. M. A.
J. A. Cummings,
Supreme Dictator.
To ge ?hot.
Recently there arrived h Atlanta,
under arrrest by order of a United
States Lieutenant, a man name?
Colemau, from Knoxville, Tenn. In
the year 18C5 Coleman was a Feder
al soldier, stationed with his regi
ment at Knoxville. One nigijt he
and a comrade went to the house of
an old man, whom they supposed
possessed a large sum of money.
They began heating and threatening
the old gentleman, in order to force
him to show the hiding place of his
treasure. His daughter, a bright and
heroic gin, rushed to her father's as
sistance, when Coleman shot and
killed her. He was arrested, tried
and sentenced to be shot by the mili
tary authorities. Before the day of
execution rolled around Coleman
made his escape and left for parts
unknown. He was gone some six
or fccvcn years, and finally he return
ed to Tennessee, supposing all dan
ger had passed with the military.
But he was arrested by tho civil au
thorities, tried, convicted an(l sen
tenced to be hanged for the same of
fence. Now the military authorities
claim him for execution, and the
Tennessee authorities have given
him up. Whether he will be execut
ed^on the orginal finding'sentence of
the military courts is not known. It
is more than probable that, should
be held guilty without further trial,
the President will commute his sen
tence to imprisonment for life. The
crime was committed over fourteen
years ago.
The Jews.
A Jew ! what is there in that name
that can be a reproach to any man,
woman or child now living on earth?
Moses, the wisest of law-givers, was
a Jew. Joshua, who commanded the
sun to stand still, and it did stand
still at the storming of Jericho, was
a Jew. David, "a man after God's
own heart," was a Jew, Solomon,
the wisest of men, whose famo is
greater to-day than when he built
the temple, was a Jew. The prophet
Elijah, who was not allowed to die,
but was^ translated to heaven in a
chariot of fire, was a Jew. All the
prophets were Jews ; air the apostles
were Jews ; Jesus Christ himself was
a Jew ! His mother was a Jewess.
In ovary age and country the Jews
have done their whole duty to the
country in which they have resided
and to society. Marshal Soult, one
of Napoleon's ablest marshals, and
who stood by him to the last at Wa
terloo, was a Jew. Judah P. Benja
min, one of the ablest and most faith
ful of Confederate leaders, was a Jew.
Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, is a
Jew. The present Prime Minister
of Great Britain is a Jew. But why
enumerate farther? From the earli
est dawn of history to the present
time, the Jews have furnished their
full share of brave and honorable
men, and of pure and beautiful wo
men. Who has surpassed them in
public spirit, in works of charity, and
davotion to principle?
Wuen tho South begins to manu
facture everything her peoplo needs,
the Blaines, the Gar fields, and Conk
lings, will see where the goose lived
that laid the golden eggs, and how
suicidal it was in trying to injure
her. Just let politics alone and go
to manufacturing the articles wo now
buy from the North, and it will not
make much difference who is Presi
dent, for no one can save the North
ern cities from bankruptcy, or pre
vent the South from prosperity.
The Arizona Enterprise says that
an "outraged" individual "cnteied
our sanctum tho other day bursting
with wrath. Wo pointed to a Spen
cer rifle in one corner, a double-bar
relled shot-gun in another, and a pis
tol on our table, and stated that
bipod was our gainn and for him to
MjJI,ijg|. %?,H]yi, qw.totly and calmly
ho. copied-, down, smiled, and said be
was mistaken, and sitting down, kind;
ly asked after our health and that of
our family."
?J898ACEFPL SCENE AT Nittel,
THE DKUNKEM045O?PANT8OF A PBIVATE
BOX INSULTING AX AOTBESS ON THE
STAGE,
Just as the curtain was rung up on
the second act of the spectacle of the
"Black Crook'* at Niblo's Garden, 09
Wednesday night; a party of four
men entered the right hand lower
private box. They were all in even*
ing dress. Tbey bad been seen
drinking in the saloon of the Metro
politan Hotel, and the behavior of
three of them showed that tbey werq
influenced by liquor. One of them
was noisier than the rest. With one
of iMc Kiralfy brothers they passc4
through the private gallery (bat leads
from behind the boxes to the stage.
Tbc Lorellas were performing their
gymnastic dance and the space
around the scenes was thronged wltU
ballet girls and actors and actresses.
Three of the visitors passed down
the stage and back without misbeha
vior, but the fourth, a young man
with light mustache, who bad been
the noisiest before, spoke insultingly
to one of the performers and exhibit
ed himself before the audience. He
put bis arm around the wajst of ono
of the Ulm sisters, tbe Tyrolcse sieg?
era. He was about to kiss her, bul
she freed herself a,nd ran from him.
He offered a similar inou.lt to another
of the Ulm sisters when he and his
friends wero shown off the stage by
Mr. Kjrajfy. Id the excitement that
followed, the fact was disclosed that
one of the visitors was ex-county
clerk Charles ?. Loew. He was co-_
ber. In the box to which the party
returned the other three w.ese very
disorderly and noisy. The box is the
one on the right band side, opposite
that held by the heirs of the late Mr.
A. T. Stewart. It looks out on tbe
stage, and is itself behind the line of
the footlights. Throughout the per
formance the most disorderly of these
men sought by word and action to
attract or to annoy the women per?
formers who were obliged to stand
or pass near the box. Tbe attention
of the audience was distracted from
the performance. They were special
ly demonstrative toward Mjss aparioi}
Fiske, but she paid them no atten
tion.
Mi33 Belle Howitt, in impersona
ting Stalacta, reviews the ballet in
the Amazon scene, and the stage is
thronged with women. The men
in tbe box were most disorderly du
ring this scene. Their gesticulations
and foul language were as plainly
understood in front as bebind tho
footlights. Mi38 Howitt, with flash
ing eyes, strode to tbe wings and
called to the stage manager, Mr.
Hammond, for relief from the annoy?
ance. Then she walked in front of
the box, and endeavored by her de
meanor to silence t,hc disturbers.
She imagined that they suspected she
had notified the managers, and were
angry, for one of them assaulted her
with tho most obscene language, spo
ken so loudly that many persons in
the front rows of seats sprang to their,
feet and called out "Shame!" andr
"Put them out 1" When Mr. Mul
ford, the manager, entered their box,
the same individual offered to thrash
him. Ex-county clerk Loew, who
had remained quiet throughout a\{
that has been described, assisted Mr..
Mulford in restoring order, and with,
his three companions left the box,
and soon afterward tbe theatre, Thq.
utmost endeavors are being made to.
discover the names of tbe others of
the party,-? tfew York Sun.
Who are Gentry.
The other evening, at a dinner par*
ty up tqwn, one of tbe guests, the
younger brother of an English noble
man, expressed with commendable
freedom his opinion of America and
its people. "I do n.aj al^ogtftljer like,
the country," ai\\{\ tb,e young gentle^
man, "for one reason?began,so yqu,,
haye no gentry here." "What do you
mean by gentry ?" asked another of
the company. "Well, you know,"
I replied, the Englishman, "well?oh,
I gentry^ aro those who never do any
work, themselves and whose fathers
beforo thom nearer did any." "Ah 1"
exclaimed his interlocutor, "then wo.
have plenty of gentry in America,
but we don't call, them gentry ; wo
call theni tramps." A. laugh wei)t
round, the table, and tbe ^ojjing En
glishman turned the conversation, in
to another channel.?Graphiq,
A stationary engine iy. a, common
sight, but did., you ever see a rolling
mill or a walking beam,?.