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WR fat PERSONAL MENTION. tuck). Algernon Mortimor Clinch, a descendant DEFINITION OF I10JIE. they consented when the situation had not changed. A water famine is a small matter THE PLAY.

HOPPER'S WILL. public opinion thereby be commanded for it which does not now in some eases exist. The views of traveled, intelligent and disinterested men should be the best aid to aright decision of the question involved. Democratic His presentation by the Republicans of the commonwealth as their candidate for governor in the memorable contest of 1888 was the natural outcome of his demonstrated popularity with the voting masses. That General Hovey's personal strength helped the Harrison electoral ticket in the state is generally the opinion of well informed men.

As governor he has followed a conservative and honorable course and his decease will be the occasion of profound regret in a commonwealth which rightly esteemed him worthy to sit in the chair formerly occupied by statesmen as eminent as Thomas A. Hendricks and Olivor P. Morton. of Shakspcaro, by R. A.

Broderick, an exagger ated impersonation of an actor manager, was a success. The loading charactor on the woman's Ide was Mrs. Kato Riley, a rich widow, acted to the lifo by Ethol Lyntou. Tho singing in solo. duet, quartet aud chorus was of no mean order, though it was of the kiud usual to the variety stage.

The dancing and march ng were excellent and were applaud with aB much determination as any of the other things which were encored. Tho mandolin performauco by Messrs. Nichol aud Luoier, Misses Reynolds, Carleton and Helia Ardomore; tho dancing of the Beau Brummol Four and a violin exhibition, beside other pas agos, served to maintain the good nature of the audience. Charles Eastwood, tho warbler, omo distance attor Emmet, but following in the same line, revived tho memory of the departed Fritz. Tho costumes were and varied enough to indicate great resource of wardrobe.

Tho stage setting was ar tistic. O'Dowd did not win the Widow Rilev: McNab, his tanant sought her, but in vain; she fell to the lot of McNiib'B sou, Artie (W. A. Pater son), and O'Dowd's neighbors all joined in and concluded the comedy with a chorus. Next week tho play will be "The Firo Patrol." URDKORU irESUK 1 HEATER.

Annie Ward Tiffany and company appeared last evening at the Bedford avenue theater in 'The Stepdaughter," an American play from the pen of R. L. Sherwell, author of "Shadows of a Groat City." The acting was uniformly good, and a large audience wont evidently pleased. Miss Tiffany appeared in her successful part of an Irish nurse und was satisfactory. The play, which has been seen at other Brooklyn play honsos, is a melodrama of the ponsational order.

Mansfield post, G. A. will have a beno fit on Friday night. Next weok "A Pair of Jacks" will be presented. THKATEB.

Chariot T. Ellis iB a favorite at certain theatei'B and a large number of people brated the ele ments to hear him lat evening. His "C.tBper, he Yodler," wears well with those who like it and will probably oceitpy the boards for years to come. He was at his best laHt evening and the cast snilicsd, those deserving special mention being Laura Palmer, Clara Moore, Mattie Grier and Florie O'Brien. Next week J.

Z. Little will offer his spectacular production ef "The World." HYItK HEIIMAN'S THEATER. Another gooti vaudeville company is ensconed here this week. It includes the Ventinis, hat spinners; Lillie estern, who plays two banjos at once; tho three Judges, who are strong aud sprightly acrobats; George H. Wood, "the somewhat different comedian;" H.

J. and Edward Ab bott, who perform some feats of legerdemain; Sheridan and Flynn, who have substituted for 'Down Went McGinty" some new corns entitled 'Mary Grogan," "Cheese it, "Since Paddy Left the Ship," the audience hanging on these tender melodies with transport; Charles Diamond, who dances and playB a harp at the same time; tho Toulousain qnartet; William Jerome, who writes all his own songs; Robb and Siegrist, comedians, aud Peter Slither and Jack Fallon in a punching exhibition. TIIK (JAXIXO. A varied entertainment was given last evening by the St. Belinos, who leap ten feet through a hoop encircled by daggers and electric fires and drop from tie roof to tho stage; Ray Burton luggler, and club swinger; Laura Bonnett.

who plays on different instruments; Samuel Archer, who appears in musical specialties; Mignon and Hughes in Bangs and dances; Minnio Schult, ginger; Minnie Hughes, Binger; Ellen Kirchneraud Kirchner's orchestra, musicians; Theodor Hoch, cornet player, and H. Rosenthal, (Into soloist. HENRY W. KNIGHT'S PLAN. Another TCcthoilisl Opposev tho pie's I'aluce Project.

To tha Editor of the Brooklyn On my return to tho city, after a short absence, my attention has been called to an r.rticle entitled "A New Scheme" and the report of an interview with Mr. Henry W. Knight that ap peared in your issue of tho 18th inst. Some of Mr. Knight's statements aro so unfair that they seem to demand contradiction and rebuke.

The Johnson street church is not a modern structure, but I deny that it is a tumble down building, or shaky, or unsafe, or that its floors aro covered with ragged carpets. The bishop has not been compelled to send there any old. superannuated and incapable ministers, neither has he sent any, but, if ho had, I do not soe why that should be a ood reason for Mr. Knight to covertly caet Blurs at these beloved and venerable men who havo given the best years of their lives and worn themselves out in tho service of their Master. During tho past twenty five yeare ihe ministers sont to that church havo been men of prominence in tho New York East conference, and many of them have been comparatively young mon.

"Old Johnson street'1 may be poor and may not be fashionable, but it has been a power for good in this community. Its days for usefulness aro not yet pasaed, and it ill becomes a member of any largor and wealthier church to sneer at or disparage this honored landmark of Methodism. And now a word in regard to tho proposed peo ple's palace, with its acevssories of bowling alleys, billiard and pool tables, etc. My father and grandfather were both Methodist ministers, aud both preached and labored in New York aud Brooklyn churches. I was brought bo to speak, in the Methodist church, and think I know something of the wants and sentiments of its people.

We do not bo much desire to teach our young people to play billiards and pool as we do to induce them to refrain from it. Pool is ever a thirsty game, and its usual accompaniments are beer, whisky and wine. The expression "playing pool for driuks," seems to be almost inBeparably connected with it. Our young men who might begin their education in billiards and pool at the people's palace, would bo very likely to eempteto it in tho cafe and billiard parlor, or tho beer saloon. We do not want any places of amusement to be organized and niaiutaino.l under the auspices of the Methodist church that our nasturs could not consistently indorse and countenance by their presenco and co operation.

It would, indeed, be a novel sight to see one of our Brooklyn Moiho. dist preachers, even though bo had sunk so low in the religious and social scale as to have become a superannuated minister, culling in of an evening at the peplo's palace to play pool with some yung members of his flock, or to witness the progress of tho game from an elevatod seat on a long legged billiard room chair. The plan of the proposed people'B palace, as outlined by Mr. Kuicht in your iiuerview with him, is altogether too progressive for this age of Methodism. If he and his friends have a predilection lor billiards and pool and kindred games they can find them, with all their unsavory associations and surroundings, in our Brooklyn saloons, or almost anywhere along the Bowc ry; but may tho day be far distant when these undesirable pastimes will bo introduced as adjuncts of the Methodist church.

Samckl C. Law. 23 LaI'AVETTE avenue, November 23, 1801. KED MEM IN PLBASURKS OF PEACE. Annual ICciiuiou of llaretiifk Tribe iu SotitU ISrualilyn.

Marotuck ttibe, Improved order of rod mon, is a very highly esteemed organization of Seuth Brooklyn. Their wigwam, or place of meeting, is in Day's hall, at Third avenue and Fifty fourth street. Last night they had their Bocond annual entertainment, and reception. The programmo was one of the best over rendered in that vicinity, tho performers being professionals, excepting tho Misses Milicont and Virginia Moynuhan, 8 year old twins, who aro danoers; also Miss Janet Moynahan, who danced tho Highland fling; Billy Williams aB tho I'eniiBylvania tramp, John W. Armour in his comic songs and Billy and Mamie Williams in sn original sketch of an oxtra good quality.

After tho entertainment a reception and dauoiug followed, the following named participating, with their wives and daughters: Sachem, J. Pullin; senior sagamore, W. Hornbuekle: junior sagamore, M. Hemingway; prophet, J. Willett; keeper of wampum, Dr.

II. J. Wood; chief of recordB, C. H. Ketne; asiiBtant of records, 8.

M. Souter; trusteos, T. Bowman and H. Schmidt, and F. C.

Willett and F. Foster as members of the finance committee and A. Rogers, E. P. Day, C.

J. Loveland, J. B. Taylor, Dr. W.

H. Shepard, W. Dayton, W. W. Crosby, H.

T. Adams, A. T. Galloway, William Grille, Theodore Fuller, W. L.

Drain, H. Johnson, W. E. Grills, O. W.

Jones, J. Bowman, H. Ii. Chittiok, W. Wilson, T.

WHboii, M. S. Soelman, A DadBon, E. Shaofer, J. W.

Cann, G. Harris, M. S. Figueido, M. J.

Maddon, T. Evaus, M. Heinmo way, T. Donnieon, W. J.

Hornbuoklo, W. Sellon, S. B. Parmole, W. K.

Putnam, E. Moore, Dr. W. F. Millington, E.

F. Sullivan, J. A. Drain, O. W.

Drain, O. Constantino, L. Piehard. J. Johnson, F.

Foster, J. II. Peterson, F. 0. Willett, J.

Cornish, J. Pullin, C. K. Jones, D. J.

Tracy, M. Christensen, W. A. Brodie, G. L.

Fichard and J. W. Oann. The committee of arrangements was Frank O. Willetts.

chairman: Frank Foster, 8. W. Souter, Harry JohnBon, O. W. Keene.

J. W. Cann, W. A. Brodie, J.

Pullin, Arthur Dadson and C. W. Hornbuekle. AMATEUR BILLIARD EXP1BTS T9 PL1I. Lovers of good billiards will be gtvon a treat at Maurico Daly's parlors, on Washington street, to night at 8 o'clock, when a match game at the 8 inch balk line will be played between Mr.

Oldham, the amateur champion of America, and Mr. Batchelor, a well known local expert. Mr. Oldham will concede his opponent 100 points in 400. George F.

Slosiou, the professional, will be referee. Much interest is manifested in Mr. Oldham's reappearance in billiard circles, and as ho has the strongest amateur in Brooklyn pitted against him he will be placed on his mattie to win. rnE BRoeni.T abt club. At tho last meeting of the Brooklyn ait olub preparations wero made for the coming exhibition, which will open at the Art aisociation galleries on January So.

The following were elected a committee of selection: S. 8. Carr, Wedworth WadBworth, Frank Squier, M. R. Dixon, Harry Roseland.E.

A. Rorko, William E. Plimpton, G. DenglaBi Stearns, William H. Snyder, Robert M.

Decker, 8. T. Bailoy and Edward G. Sieber, and as hanging committee, Joseph H. Bosten, S.

M. Barstow and Eugene DeOompi. HVT TO BXT1KG0ISH FIBIS. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: At this time it ought to be generally knows that salt will extmguiih a fire. A bushel of salt will smother a good deal of flame and more than that will quickly kill the embers.

Ashes thrown goneronsly on fiamei will smother it, but iu this case the embers will be cherished; yet is a small fire ashes wonld prove a ready extinguisher. jJlasbdbb, Neyeinber 34, 1891. Wojiah, Some About That Ilac Which ix I.ovi il by All. Tho London Ti'. Blts offered a prizs for the best definition of homo.

Hire are some of the bestof 5,000 answors Bout in: flic golden setting in which the brightest Bot th.g is "mother." A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in. An arbor which shades when the sunshine of prosperity becomes too dazzling: a harbor where tha human bark finds shelter iu the time of adversity. Home is tho blossom of which heaven is the fruir. Home is a person's estate obtained without injustice, kep witiuut disquietude: a place where timo is spent without repentance, and which is ruled by justice, mercy ami love. A grand old mirror, through which both sides of us aro scon.

gSThe sourci) of comfort which youth does not fully appreciate, which the yaungmcn and maidens lovingly dasire, which tha mi aijel gon erally possess, which the old rightly value. A hire in which, liks tho industrious bis. youth garners the sweets and memories of life fur age to meditate and feed upon. The bejt place for a married mm after business hours. Home is the coziest, kindliest, sweetest nlace in all the world, tho scene of our purest earthly joys aud deepest sorrow.

Tbe only spot on earth where the faults and failings of fallen humanity are hidden under tho mantle of harity. An abode in which the inmate, the "superior being ealle.l can pay back at night with 50 per cent interest every annoyance that has met him in business during tho day. Tho place where the great aro sometimes small and the small often great. Tne father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world. The jewel casket containing tho most precious oT jewels lom stio happiness.

Where you are treated best an 1 you grumblo most. Home is a central telegraph oflico of human love, iuto which run inuumi'i able wires of affection, many of which, thini. extending thousands of miles, disconnected from tin one great terminus. The center of oar affections, around which our heart's best wishes twine. A little hollow scooped out of the windy hill of the worl.l where wu cau be shielded from its cares and annoyances.

A popular but paradoxal institution iu which woman works in the absence of man and man rests in the presence of woman. A working model of heaven, with real angels in tho form of mothers and wives. Tho place where all husbands should be ai night. CALLING OS TILDK.V. A Confined Viaiior to (iroystoao and What He Should Have Said.

I novor think of iU: TiM. House without remembering the story told ins by a waggish lut brilliant journalist ot a visit to the old guntlematj when be was struggling for the presidential' nomination. Tho Journalist was informed, whou admitted to the house, that Mr. Tilden was busy wiih a delegation, but would soon see him. The journalist wa shown into a side room aud asked to wait.

While ho was waiting he saw a ghostlike portrait gazing down upon him, so spectral, so' clammy, so woobogoue of aspect that it had a curious fascination for him. Intent upsn contemplation of it, ho did not hear tno door op.m and was surprised when tho great lawyertouohod his elbow. He turned around, a little disturbed at what might thought a lack or courtesy. "I bad never," he said, "seen Tilden looking bo depleted, tld and broken down. Hut, tin, lor tho circumstances, I thought it my duty to siyjust the contrary, so I blurted out: "How well you are looking, Mr.

Tilden. As bright and active as a man of 40. I was Just ah admiring this portrait of yon. 11a capital iiueucs.r lor really 1 did not know what else to say. 'That is not a portrait of me." Baid the n( Greystane, coldly, but firmly, and fixing tho journalist with his fiery eye.

"That is a portrait of a dear relative of nunc and it was taken after his death Jonniol. HEAL SCimPFS AND CUELED PIPES tlronglil From CtollaHd (or the St. Ificuolax Society at llrouklyu. A revival of interest, as well as a strenirlhrmina of the bonds of friendship that have long linked tno descendants ot the Long Island Hollanders, is again awakened Just now by the preparation of the St. Nicholas society for their annual din.

ncr. This year tho Muntauk chin havo extended to thorn the use of their parlors and kitchen, and the banquet will tako place thore on Monday evening, December 7. At a meeting sf the tew srds tho society, with Tunis G. Bergen in the chair, last evening, the Montauk clubs courtesy was the occasion of much congratulation. Seats are going rapidly, and it looks as if many of of thoso who are wont to attend these dinners would be not "in it" unless they hasten for their tickets.

Tho steamer Spaarndam, from Rotterdam, which arrived yesterday, had on board a consignment that waB of groat attraction to the Hollanders. Tho articles wero for tho St. Nicholas society of Brooklyn, and consisted of Dutch jugs filled with genuine schnappj, distilled with a Long Island flavor to order in Holland, and pipes curled to order in Holland for Long Island mouths. she was cur iimv.v i. ti.he.

This Woniau Koa'hi Ucaia anil Found file Mtatiou G2ohsu. About o'clock yesterday afternoon Lonisa Burrows, aged 4 0, of 701 Washington avenue, attempted suicide by hanging herself from a clothes rack in her bed room. She was disc ver ed by her daughter Cathorine who called Patrolman MeSummers of tho IVnth precinct. He cut the woman down aud summoned an ambulance. Tho surgeon found that the woman was not dead but was suffering from alcoholism.

She was removed to tbe station house and held on a charge of attempte I Miioidu. CAUGHT I HK its BY AS IT FELL. James Smith, a bras polisher in the employ of Charles Royal, Clvnier stroet, was passing along Kent avenuo yesterday afternooii when lie saw an infant crawling over a window sill on tho top floor of the building 227. As the little emu fell he dashed across the s'r. i und caught the youngster before it touched the sidewalk.

The child, which was frightened, but unhurt, was the rear old son of John and KunfL'tinde f'ueit man, and lr.illn en lett tor a lV.v minutes by thd mother while i ho went to a neighboring store. I.OXtt ISLAM) Tho Montgomery land company of Now York, recently incorporated with the secretary of state, has just filod a certificate with the state department at Albany, announcing that among the subscribers to one half of its ipital stock arc Richard M. Montgomery and Alice S. C. Mont, goniery, both of Bay Shore, L.

who take respectively 15 and USi shares of the company's capital stock. ITS (JAl'ITAl, Sl'IiSCUUlKO FOR. The Brooklyn lumber company has filed a cor. tiflcatn with the secretary of state, announcing that half of its capital stock has been subscribed for aB follows: Charles E. Robertson, 80 shares; F.

F. Fisher, 5 sharon; Charles V. Jacobson, 10 shares; William E. Verity, shares; Arthur C. Jacobson, 82 shares.

KLEI'UAltr TL'SU. JK1.I,. How many people havo ever eaten jelly made from elephants' tusks? Yet it is very good, indeed. Iu tiio English factories, whero many tons of ivory are sawn up annually to make liandlos knives and forks, great quantities of ivory dust aro obtained. This dust is Bold at the rata of siipenco a pound and, when properly boiled and prepared, it make the finest, purest and nioet uutritlous animal Jelly known.

Years ago ivory jelly w.ib a very fashionable remedy and much sought for. Washington Star. tttOHDU CKLRBV. There havo been many ways suggested for blanching. It is said that in tho old worid, where first class celery is dwiiud.

instead of burying up tha plant in the earth, they simply tio up the leares and then wrap the in coarse brown paper. It is Baid that much hetter celery on bo obtained this way than by any other method of blanching. Merhans' Monthly fur November. "You who are interested in plucky deaths shall witness mine," said Mirab or words to that effect. It is sorrowful that Mr.

Fassett does not accept bis period of suspended political animation with thesame apirit. Elmlra Qazetle 1 h. iakg'iTinGr I.alie wood. Trains now letre New York, foot Liberty Worta Rtvar, Tlk Ooatral Railroad of Nftw Jerier, Lakewood it 4:30, A. Ii30 nd 4:20 P.

M. On Wednosdar. Noveinbar 25. Special Express train will leM New York for Lakewood 3:45 P. M.

lt. turning, this trftfn will loave I.akewool for New York tt 8:30 A. M. Frldoy, Normnucr 27. Tho "Lakewood Special" will begin running regularly on Saturday, November 28, to leave New York at 3:4 P.

and Lakcwood for New York at 8:30 A. daily, except Sundays. On Sundays, beginning with November 29. leave New York for Lakevrood at 9:30 A. M.

Jc Si." Stick Licorice. Quality delicious. Sold by druggists everywhere. Kicks American Cut CJlasi for III norfli nger' 30 Murray st, Now York ItlMMOSS NOTICES. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW SHOW ROOM, JUST OPJSNKD.

2500 SQUAHE FEET FILLED HOLIDAY FROM TO 8100.00. JAMES H. HART, Llll Jrvwr TFfH! TCAQIiE It KVEAY IN THE HVITII Jsi.oo ted. James Matthews, aged 80 years, who recently died on his farm at Liberty, Sullivan county, was at one time a police commissioner in New York. Jesse Selisrman of Neiv York has loft Paris to sptnul tho winter in Euypt.

Prince1 Georce of Wales in recovering. It is reported that Biahop Chicontini is to be appointed coadjutor to the archbishop of Queboo. Governor Hovey died yesterday afternoon in his room in tho Deunison hotel in Indianapolis, Iitd. UECEMT EVENTS. The New Jersey teacherB' institute was opened in Paterseu.

Tho schooner Weymouth, which ran ashore at Dobb's Point, was stove in by the sea. A lunatic escaped from the asylum at Snake Hill, N. J. Laree layers of coal were discovered on Niga island, Alaska. The outbids walls of a targe block of buildings in Montreal fell, but injured nobody.

An engineer named CharleB Hargrove was killed in a collision on the Jacksonville and Southeastern railroad. A Boston mm, who was injnred by being thrown from a street car, recovered $12,000 damages from the railroad company. The Cooper union freo room and li brary 111 New York were reopened. The fire boat New Yorker was again placed in commission. Nicholas Fischer of Lodi, N.

was accused of having murdered hia fathor. Mrs. Susan Harrington, a wealthy and eccentric voman, wad foun deadiu the hallway of a house in Hoboken, N. J. The crew of the bark George N.

Dows, which wai wrecked at Laenayra a month ago, arrived iu New York. An explosion of gas caused some damage in a millinery establishment on Broadway, New York. Ernest Hoffman, a pasBenger on the steamer Arizona, committed suicide by jumping overboard during the vessel'." last voyage. The Industrial life insurance company of New York was incorporated at Albany. Chicago socialist acquitted their candidate for mayor in the recent election of a charge of "boodling." The report that John H.

Starin's employes intended to go on strike was donied. An Irish American Republican club was organized iu Harlem. The mayor of Dax, in the department of Landep, France, and the prefect fought a duel in which the former was wounded in tho arm. Liberal successes continued in Great Britain and alarmed Salisbury's followers. A park policeman in New York was accused of having assaulted a colored girl iu a cottage in Central park.

The bomlsmen of tho defaulting cashier ef the First national bank in Ayer, paid the loss. A freight train engineer who was injured iu an accident at Manton, became insane. P. F. Shields, a pugilist, was killed iu Wilmington, by a lunatic.

A cyclone swept over Washington and killed one man and demolished one building. A storm caused groat damage in Baltimore. Yesterday's rain increased New York's water supply. POLITICAL POINTS. The Dutchess county canvassers completed their labors.

Osborne, for senator, has a majority of fourteen in the district. The Kepublican national cotnmitteo decided to hold the next national convention in Minneapolis. While it requires a vast amount of bland and childlike faith to believe that $5,000 actually represents all Mr. Flower paid out to securo his election, we suspect his figures are as near tho truth sb those made by the rest of them. So let us drop this Pickwickian subject, brethren.

Lockporl Journal Whatever may bo the ultimate political complexion of the'stato senate, it appeai'B to be probable that the Democrats will have a majority on joint ballot, and that the retirement of Andrew S. Draper, superintendent of public instruction, is well nigh certain. Buffalo Courier The day after McKinley preached tho virtues and benefits of high protection to the Home market club in Boston a rolling mill located at Cambridge closed its doors and announced that it would go out of business because the tariff discrimination agaiust New England makes profitable continuance of business Impossible. Providence Telegram As the time for the opening of congress draws near, a pension for Mr. Jefferson Davis is again being agitated.

But it is especially noticeable that the agitation is wholly in Republican circles. Manchester Union It is a condition and not a theory which confronts John Sherman regarding tho Ohio sena torship. Yet every Sherman man in the state pins his faith on the theory. Toledo Jllaae Roswell P. Flower is a plain, blunt man.

While Hill is screaming that the Democrats liavo carried both branches of the legislature, Mr. Flower quietly remarks, "I think that the house will be Democratic and tho senate Republican." This is the utmost that any honest Democrat can claim aud the opinion that tho house will bo anything but a tie must be dictated by hope rather thau by reason. Albany Journal David Ii. Hill is daily adding to his reputation; and when ho goes to Washington in January ho will possess the high honor of having used his influence at Albany, during the closing days of his administration, to assist a conspiracy which had for its object the theft of a senatorial seat. Albany Journal The Foraker mon in Ohio pretend to be jubilant because John Sherman has refused to counteuanco ttie scheme to unseat Brico.

They sar it will tell against him iu the senatorial fight. That shows the size of Foraker statesmanship. Is it possible that these men believe that political trickery can mako a leader more 'respected than honesty aud fairness caul Buffalo Express. Such good Republican papers as the Philadelphia Brest, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, St.

Louis Globe Democrat, and Chicago Tribune unite in tho demand that Boss Piatt shall walk the plank. But such trilling matters do not troublo Mr. Piatt. He isn't ready to walk the plank. He has too good a crip on the machine to throw up the sponge just now.

Beside, where would the Republican party get a better boss? Oswego Palladium. Boston wants the Democratic national convention. It would bo but a graceful recognition of the great achievement of keeping Massachusetts iu the Democratic column. Trov Press If the Republican national convention is held iu New York city very likely Tammany will seize the hall, stampode the delegates and nominate Richard Crokor. This would be a moderate achievement for Tammany compared with some of the accomplishments aud contemplations credited to that organization in the late campaign.

EliiLlra Gazette. Protection, reciprocity and honest money, it is predicted, will be the Republican battle cries next year. They are good ones. S3 is tho demand for honest elections. Se.wbumh Journal Tho Democratic supervisorsof Dutcliess county, having failed to bulldoze the Republican county clerk into aiding in their plot to steal the ena torehip, havo made complaint to Governor Hill and havo asked for the summary removal of the clerk.

It is not believed that the governor will dare to baBO a removal on such charges. He is as eager as anyone for the success of tho Democratic censpiracy, but such a movo would make him too active in the plot. He will not pull his chestnuts out of the fire as long as he can get someone else to do it. Troy Times The Republican preBS has exhausted every kuowu pretext for claiming the next legislature to be favorable to their party. The indications are quite clear that the votes have elected a majority of the on joint ballot oven if ouo of the branches proves to be a tie.

Buffalo Times Lieutenant Governor JoueB' consuming ambition is to bo governor and he has get to that point where, for thirty days in Hill's shoes, he would do anything the Democratic managers might demand. Governor Hill will nt trust him and Albany dispatches show that he is in the contempt of all the Democratic stato officials. Poor Juesl 6wacuse Journal COMESH'OKiRT Parson Hardshell I hopes, Bro'r Amos, dat you aiu't gwine ter do puffin wid dat pole dis Jawd'fl day. Amos Oh, no, I hain't gwine ter use hit. I jeB' gwiuo tor hold it iu mer hand, down by do ribber.

If a fool fish git ootched on do udder end ob de string, sarve dom right er bein' snoop in' round on do Lawd's day. Texas SlfUngs. Wiukle Have you seen Mias Twitter in her new tailor inado gewn7 Nodd No. She was ut walkiug when I called. Winkle Was anyone else at home? Nodd Yes.

The tailor wh made it was there. Cloak Mevtew. "Why did that Frenchman demand your blood, anyhow?" "Oh, I was joking with him. I said that inasmuch as Sedan was responsible for the overthrow ot the French empire, the presidential chair shonld be Sedan chair. He got awfully hot." Harper's Bazar.

"People who live in rural communities don't know much." "Don't they? You. go an' live in a rural community and you'll find they know more about yu in a week than city people wonld know about you in a lifetime." Hew York Press. "Yes, darling," she said softly, "I want so much fr yon. to see me in my new sealskin cloak." "That will be a great pleasure," he mutterod. "Toll mo, dear, was it mado to order" "Of course," she repliod.

"Why do you askf "Be he answered (shyly toying with one of her twenty five cont curls), "I thought perhaps, there might be enough left over to make me a cap with." Cloafc Review. "I understand that Dr. Oopo has made a good thing." "Hart that?" "Why, he denied his creed, got tried for heresy, was convicted, and the very next week reoeived a call to the biggest liberal churoh in his city, at a fat salary. Dr. Cope always did have a great head." PucJc.

Friend What are you orying about 7 Johnny Boo hool Ma always says beo 1 that it hurts her more to whip me boo I than It does me boo hao I Bo I got her to lick me when I was mad at her. 1 don't boo hoo Ibelieve it now." Harper's Bazar. "Do you know Duzenburr?" "Yea." "Well, he is a cool customer." "What has he done now 1' "He lives in famished apartments, and during the late cold spell be used the furniture of his landlord Ux Silino. compared with the safe lodgment of a civic "hook." The ItcpatblicaH Convention. Minneapolis is tho place and Juno 7 tho time for the Eepublican national convention of 1892.

The choice was made on the eighth ballot at an animated meeting of the national committee in Washington city last night. Of the nine cities which competed for the honor of entertaining the delegates Minneapolis and Cincinnati alone developed formidable strength. Chicago did not receive a vote, the extravagant boom for San Francisco collapsed early, Omaha was easily disposed of and Detroit, St. Louis, Chattanooga and Pittsburg attracted no more than perfunctory support. New York's highest votb wis 11 in a total of 4.7.

On the final the commercial metropolis was reduced to a meager 3. For tho empire city of the decisive state the committee evidently had no more use than for Taeoma, Los Angeles, Hog Crepk or Tombstone. Its claims were promptly and unceremoniously rejected. The Republican party thus decides for the fifth consecutive time to hold its national convention in the West. Seven of the ten nominating bodies, since its organization thirty seven years ago, have assembled in the region beyond the Alleghanies.

Fremont was nominated at Philadelphia in 185C, Lincoln at Baltimore in 18C1 and Grant at Philadelphia in 1872. Since the latter year the Eepublican delegates have invariably gone West. They nominated Hayes at Cincinnati in 1870 and ut Chicago Garfield in 1880, Blaine in 1884 and Harrison in 1888. The selection of Minneapolis takes the party representatives, for the first time, to the further Northwest. It will bring them face to face with the constituencies on which they have mainly relied for preservation of their waning power.

Changed conditions in modern Republicanism are vividly suggested by the arguments submitted before the national committee. The appeal to that body was not to relieve the outposts, but to save the citadel. In the period immediately following the war the belt of states in the upper Mississippi valley was concededly the stronghold of Republican power on thi" continent. That party entertained no more fear of los. ing Minnesota than of losing Vermont.

But the change which has followed is too vital for misinterpretation. Minnesota Republicans know that four of the five congress districts in that state were carried a year ago by the Democrats, that the neighboring states of Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan have Democratic governors and that the tide against Republicanism, throughout the Northwest, is steadily rising. Their desiro for reinforcement is clamorous. Their solicitude for the immediate future of their party is unconcealed. They are persuaded that unless a positive demonstration is made in their behalf tho tendency of Northwestern voters to swing away from Republican affiliations will assert itself disastrously at the election eleven months hence.

For theso imperative reasons, as well as for considerations of home pride, the Minneapolis boomers exerted themselves with an energy that bordered on desperation. They were as anxious to "save the party" as they were to compliment a city. A more significant side light could hardly be shed on Republican trepidation than the confession that artificial arc necessary to keep Minnesota "in line." Upon calm reflection, however, the reasons for lie publican apprehension will impress every observant person. The oppressive system of ion fathered by national Republicanism bears with peculiar hardship upon the northwestern agricultural communities. The present tariff was formulated against their urgent protests.

It was imposed in face of their persistent admonitions. The protest ants were not confined to men of Democratic faith. Thousands of Republicans swelled the chorus of remonstrance. When they found resistance unavailing these voters joined earnestly in the political revolution which little more than a year ago swept Republicanism out of legislative control at the federal capital. If, in taking their convention to Minnesota the Republicans expect to undo the work of the educational campaign, which tor months has gone forward irresistibly, they will have to deal in something beyond glittering generalties.

When the visitors explain to the farmers of tho upper Mississippi region why they are burdened for the necessaries of life in order that a favored few may enjoy the exclusive benefit, room may be found for discussion of ancient traditions and the sort of reminisceut eloquence which Republican orators nowadays, in lieu of something better, are pleased to bestow on their hearers. Until then, missionary labor in the new field of operations will be thrown away. The convention will, nevertheless, be an interesting body. It will consist under the official party rules of "a number of delegates for each stale equal to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress and two delegates from each territory aud two from the district of Columbia." The total will be hi'S, apportioned among the states and territories as follows Stato. Alabama Arkansas Cft'romia ConniiOtii 'al Delaware Fli.riaa Idaho Illinois Iudiaua Ic Louisiana Maryland Ma.

saciiusett6 Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Mont ana Nebraika Dcl. Stato. Jersey ItilN'ew Vork 18, N'orlh Carolina tjlNorik. Dakota lMlOblo liOregon 8 Pennsylvania SiOjUhoile Island li South Carolina 48.south Dakota 2(5 Toias yu, Vermont HO'Virjiinia KlIWa. hiriBtoD 121 West ii giuia 101 Wisconsin 30 Wyoming 28 Utah 18 Arizona 18 District of Del.

s8 22 0 4ti 04 18 2i 30 8 21 8 12 2 2 Indian Tor Total. 8U8 New Hampshire The convention of 1892 will contain sev. enty six more delegates than participated iu the body which nominated Harrison and Morton. The increase is attributable to the transformation of territories into states and additions to the congressional apportionment consequent on growth of population. To nominate candidates for President and vice president a majority vote, or 450, will be required at Minneapolis.

The Republicans, in this respect, differ from their Democratic adversaries, the latter adhering to the two thirds rule. Now that the location and date of the convention have been fixed the Republican politicians will apply themselves with renewed vigor to efforts in connection with the presidential succession. For the practice of their arts fully six months remain. Whether the upshot of their activities will be of value either to their party or the country depends, in the main, on forces beyond their control. That Republicanism, whoever its candidates may be, will relinquish supremacy without a determined aud persistent struggle is not more certain than that Democratic ascendancy will be restored, unless the party naturally in the majority in this country falls iuto inexcusable blunders.

Events have opened the way for consistent and courageous action on the part of national Democracy. Pursuance of such a course will suffice, if persevered in to a logical conclusion, to render abortive plans formulated at Minneapolis or elsewhere for the perpetuation of Republican dominance in federal affairs. IndittNu'i Governor Dead. Governor Alvin P. Hovey of Indiana, whose death is announced to day, was a vigorous specimen of AVestern manhood.

His first rise to prominence was in the ante rebellion period, when, as a Democrat, he served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention, justice of the supreme court and federal district attorney. Removed from the latter office for political reasons ho early enlisted in the impetuously loyal body of soldiers contributed by Indiana to the Union armies. General Hovey figured conspicuously among the most successful brigade and division commanders in the Northern service. Under Grant at Shiloh and Vicksburg, and with Sherman on the march to the sea, he won high distinction and merited promotion. Returning to his Btate at the close of the war he was appointed by President Lincoln minister to Peru.

In his diplomatic labors he displayed the efficiency and conscientious devotion to duty which had marked his achievements in the field. On his retirement from the Peruvian mission ho resumed the practice of law. His nomination for congress by the Republicans of the First Indiana distriot in 188G was succeeded by his election in ft constituency normally JL'KoJJAI r.VE.imJ. BWT LUUilV tS, lOtfl. r.ri'vivf unVDUUDii 04 ipnv Tli in paper Hsu a Ctrr.nla.ilon Larger TIi mi That of any other Evcnlnu Paper JPabllsliod in the 'United States.

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Communications unless accompanied with tttmped envelopes will not be returned. Willi the Water Emergency Siijffresls. Two points, one special and the other general, rise above all others in the after discussion of the water emergency. The special question relates to the cause of the accident and the responsibility for it. The cause, so far as now disclosed, seems plain enough.

The new conduit lies close to the old one, and, in the construction of the former, the dirt, as it was dug out, was thrown upon the top of tho hitter. The great weight broke through and filled the conduit with debris, interrupting the flow of water. An easy illustration of the enso may be suggested. If you were excavating your lot with a view to build, aud should throw the soil into your neighbor's garden his grass and flowers would be ruined. If you should deposit it upon his roof, main or extension, the roof would probably be broken with disastrous consequences.

Now, apart from difference of proprietorship, your case on a small cale is just like the city's on a large scale. The city, through its agents, deposited the dirt from its new conduit upon its old one. The city is therefore liable only to itself. Of course the old conduit never was intended for such a service. The walls were strongly built and seem now to be uninjured, withstanding easily the pressure of the debris.

The top naturally was more lightly constructed, being designed to bear no weight but merely to protect the stream of water. If it was necessary or convenient to place the now eonduit so near the old one, all the more should care have been taken to avoid injuring thy old one by the building of the new one. As the matter now stands the contractors are responsible for the accident. But does accountability end there Was the department of city works discharged of all dutiful relu tion to the work as soon as the contract was signed Was it not bound to interest itself in tho construction, to exert some sort of supervision of it aud at least to protest against any careless or doubtful methods Apart from the business in which the contractors were engaged the department was bound to watch over the property of the city connected with the water system, under its special charge, aud to protect tho same from injury. The property in this case was the old conduit, und it appears to have beou neglected by its custodians.

The responsibility of the department, therefore, is serious. This branch of the case needs investigation and everybody concerned should secure an early hearing. Tho general point now in the common mind affects tho risk run by a great city which depends upon a single conduit stream for its supply of water. New York incurred this hazard for forty eight years. Brooklyn has beeu exposed to it since the building of her own aqueduct.

Our neighbor hat avoided the danger. We have been advised of it ourselves during the last few days. Every household was brought face to face with the peril, the sense of which is emphasized now that relief has come. A short time would have expanded what was passing inconvenience into a great calamity. The fire which broke out yesterday admonished us of tho probable result of a great conflagration, especially one remote from the river.

Tile narrowness of the margin between plenty and impoverishment, between comfort and distress, between safety aud prril, is made too clear and impressive to need to be dwelt upon. What of the future? Will the margin remain as narrow? As to tho greater part of the works, the safeguard will be doubled. When the new work is finished there will be two conduits from Boekvillo Center to tho Kidgewood eugiuo houses. This enlargement of capacity was believed to be required for the carriage of the increased flow to be contributed by tho extension of the aqueduct from ltockville Center east to Massapequa. For the new works there will be a single conduit.

The line between l'idgewood anil ltockville is r.f uniim. fli i iit rmf ur.dinn "Wlion the addition is completed a break in one of the twin conduits will still leave the other at work and the city's supply will not be cut off. This is a wise provision and in future extensions of the same kind it may be necessary to double the conduit. It has been suggested that an independent 'conduit running directly from the Hempstead reservoir to the Ridgewood pumping station would furnish a sure reliance in emergencies. The capacity of this groat reservoir is 1,000,000,000 gallons.

It could hold enough water to supply the city for nearly three weeks if all other sources should be cvit off. Under the existing system this reservoir empties by a branch conduit into the main conduit at ltockville Center. A direct conduit from it to the engine house would serve an admirable purpose if, by any accident, the main conduit should be disabled, as it was the other day. Tiiat is to say it would do so if it was full. But, as a matter of fact, it seldom has been tilled to its utmost capacity.

As a rule it is constantly drawn upon to make up the daily supply. A direct aqueduct, soma twenty miles long, would cost a good deal of money, but might io worth while, if it would servo as a safeguard. If it could be kept entirely full it would furnish relief, but under the present conditions it would soon be exhausted. It is doubtful if sufficient water for storage to tho limit amount can be obtained in the region of the great reservoir even after 8 part of the daily demand is distributed over the Massapequa extension, because tho wauts of the population are steadily growing up to the increase. It is impossible to reflect upon the emergency just passed without finding in the inind the figure of an alderman.

The model representatives who shine like gems in the common council crown of the city government for years did their little best to expose Brooklyn to a water famine. Shorn of most of their old time power they still preserved a capacity for obstruction. But for them the water extension would have been finished long ago. Vio should have had a double conduit, and a constant menace would not have hung over 'the town. But tho charter required the formal consent of the aldermen to a single act, the issue of bonds to pay for the work, before it should begin.

Authority had been granted, the plans woro ready and preparations had been concluded, the only condition precedent being this consent. The aldetmen withheld it. It was assumed that they did this for personal purposes, because no public nd was to be served, and, beside, at last Mrs. Catharine Scrimgeour Has Begun to Contest It. She is a Disinherited Daughter, Who Married Against Her Fathor's Will A Claim That Promises to Support Her, Mado by Her Mother and Sisters, Havo Been Disregarded.

Mrs. Catharine M. Scrimgeour, wife of John Scrimgeour of 017 Monro street, has begun an action in the surrogate's court for tho revocation of the probate of the will of her father, Jacob M. Hopper. She alleges iu an affidavit that Mr.

Hopper was not of sound mind at the time the alleged will waB signad. Mr. Hopper waa the proprietor of the large undertaking establishment in Court street at the time of his death, about a year ago. Mrs. Scriui geour is his eldest daughter, and up te tho time of her marriage to John Scrimgeour, several years ago, was bis favorite child.

Mr. Hopper did not like Mr. Sciimgeoar, and protested agaiiiBt the marriage, but Catharine was firm, and the wedding took As a consequence there was a rupture, and it was long before even friendly relations were established between the father and daughter. When Mr. Hopper died a will was for pro bate dated February 0, 18i)0, by which hi whole valued at $100,000, was left to bis widow, Catharino E.

Hopper, aud his two daughters, Mrs. Ellen L. Stanley and Marian Elizabeth Stafford. The executors named were Mrs. Hopper, Nelson J.

G.itos and John Roberts. The last two declined to serve aud Mis. Hopper was sworn in aB executor after the will had been probated by Surrogate Abbott on November 2i, 1HP0. Mrs. Scrimgeour was not mentioned in the will.

In the petition which Bhc has filed asking for the revocation of the pre bate Bho says that hor mother aud Bitors aHKed her not to contest the will and promised that they would provide for hor so that she need never be in want. On tho strength of these promises she did not file objections to the will with the surrogate. But the promise have been violated, and she haB been ordered to move out of the house iu Monroe street, which she had been al lowod to occupy rent free. The house belongs to the estate. She now seeks to e.

tablish hor rights as an heir to her father's property. Sho declares that tho will offered for probate in Mov ember of last year was not the last will and testament of hor father, and that tho wit nesses did not sign tho document at her fathor's reqsost, and that the will was obtainod by the exercise of undue iufluenoe by hor mother and two Bisters or by some othor porBouB unknown to her. Thore was no proof offered to the surrogate to show that tho testator was of sound mind or that he was uncoerced. For these reasons she wants the matter opened. Jerry A.Wern berg, her counsel, filed her petition with the sur rogate yesterday morning.

JILMATA CLUB ESTKItTAI.V'HEJtT. rile First of a Series in tbe New House, 'JTIiosc Present, The Juniata club is an Eleventh ward organization for social purposos which in a sense is one of the oldest in the city. Latterly it has taken a new life and the members last May hired and furnished a house at 403 Bridge street, after they becamo formally incorporated. They havo been progressing quietly In numbers and adding to their pleasant surroundings until last night they gathered in as cozy a club house as could be fund in tho city. A careful house committee have decorated tho rooms with choice pictures and provided billiard, pool and card tables for those who enjoy games, while the readers have oil the papers and magazines of the day on file.

The ample parlors wero fairly filled by the members of tho club, last night, and they enjoyed an excellent outertainmont provided by Chairman Daniel M. Kelly. John B. Shauahan and Joseph M. Quigloy of tho social conimitteo.

Those who entertained included Paul Martin, pianist: the philharmonic quartet, consisting of John J. and Thomas McCormick, John White and A. Boyd; William Crossin, baritone; M. Shotwell, impersonator; E. J.

Sheeny, topical singer; John A. Hogan, yodler and imitator, and Mr. William B. Green, rociter and story teller. One of the members introduced tho excelsior brasB band during the evening and tiioy made tho most of the occasion.

It was after midnight before tho programmo waB over. Those present included Nicholas Anderson, 51. J. Aus bro, John J. Barry, H.

L. Beamiflb, R. It. Birkett, Benjamin Barro, M. A.

Belford, Leo Burgmayer, Thomas F. Carroll, H. E. Cook, M. J.

Comray, Joseph Casey, James F. Doonan, M. J. Dwyer, M. E.

Dooley, B. Donnigan, Henry Downoy, W. L. Eagney, Georgo H. Edgar, William F.

Fox, W. J. Farroll, Thomas Fields, Garret Green, Charles S. Gallagher, William Hughes, supervisor elect; C. J.

Healey, Justin Haggerty, D. M. Kelly, Deputy Coroner P. L. Kenny, J.

Kee naii, Dr. Joseph A. Kene, A. J. Lyons, W.

J. L.ir kin, L. K. Lynch, Supervisor F. H.

McGuire, J. J. McCormick, William L. McCabo, D. McNamara, Josoph F.

Miniter, Joseph Mahon, W. J. McLaughlin, H. E. Holmes, John Nolan, Henry L.

O'Doherty, Joseph O'Doherty, Joseph M. Quigley, John Began, M. E. Ryan, Robert Ilikel, John B. Slianahau, Bryan Tully, John Tierney, John M.

Van Wagener, Thomas Woods, H. J. Wall, E. A. Warren.

WILL BR EXPELLED FKOH PARLIAMENT. Tho Case of Edward S. do (oliaia, llic irlenibcr From Hclfast. London, November 24. Mr.

Edward S. do Cobaiu, one of the members of parliament from Belfast, who has been absent from England for motaths past, a warrant having been issued for his arrest charging him with grossly immoral conduct, has been interviewed, at Boulogno sur Mer, France, where ho has been rusticating for about three months. In this interview, published to day, Mr. de Cobain says that he has postponed, indefinitely, Ins return la England, and, therefore his surrender to tho British police. Ho adds, in explanation of the serious charges brought against him that he is the "victim of a conspiracy," ami that he bitterly regrets ever having entered politics.

There now aeemB to be no dnbt that one of the first duties of the Right Honorable A. J. Balfour, first lord of tho treasury and the con servative leader the house of commons, will be to lake steps to hare Mr. de Cobain's soat. East Belfast, declared vacant.

The disgraced member for Belfast was formerly grand master of the Orange institution ot Belfast, and at tho time of his flight from England was grand master for Ireland. In politics he was a conservative, with strong democratic sympathies. At the timo Captain Edmund II. member of parliament for North Buckinghamshire, was expelled from the house of commons, on May 12 last, in ennsequonco of hit being sentenced to one year's imprisonment for immoral ity, the speaker whb, on motion of Dayid li. Plunkitt, first commissioner of works, to have se cured for the hou.

a copy of the warrant issued for Mr. de Cobain's arrest as a preliminary to ex pelling the latter from the house, his friends manage to tide tho matter over on the plea that the mcmbor for East Belfast was ill as Boulogne and, therefore, unable to come back to England and reply to the charges made against him. This plea of sickness held good until parlia ment adjonrned, though the lato William floury Smith said frankly that the only course open for Mr. do Cobain was to appear promptly before a magistrate aud answer the charges made agaiust him. Mr.

Smith added that, if there was danger of local prejudice interfering wich justice, the crown would change the venue. But Mr. de Cobain was aot to be induced to return and nothing remaiued but to expel him from the house. This course, it is said, will be insisted upon by the liberals so soon as the house meets. STEPS UP AND ANSWERS.

Henry J. Mowlvtt Iteplicv to a Correspondent af tlio Eagle. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: As a member of the Union leagae I will "ate up and answer" the letter of 9. I assume, is also a member of the elub and no doubt waB present in the club house on Saturday afternoon when Governor Hill, with his staff, on invitation of Captain Bohton and tho reginieutal committee partook of a modet luncheon there after laying the corner atone of tho Twenty third regiment armory. No no acquainted with President Francis H.

Wilson, who received the governor, will accuse him of "toadying" to anyone, and the same is true of all the officers and members of the clnb generally. Any courtesy or attention extended upon this occasion waB to the commander In chief, the governor the stato, as such, and by no means to David B. Hill personally. The whole affair was Informal, and comparatively few olub members outside of the military participated in it. Good citizens never fall to show proper respect for the office, though tboy may not favor the man.

No individual member of the Union leagae is any the less opposed to "Hlllism" or to David B. Hill, tho political wiio puller, than he waB before this dreadful thing ocourred. Perhaps B. failed to get an introduction to the governor and that is the reason of his "kick." For myself, I deny the "soft Impeachment" of "toadying" and resent tbe application of such a term to my fellow members. If the stanch and loyal "Republicanism" of the Union league makes B.

"lok," I pity him and the olub for having suoh a member. HUNBY J. HOWLETT. Brooklyn, November 23, 1801. AX1SSAM.TT BXPCBT OOMHITS SU1CTBS.

Jacksonville, November 24. Dr. Andrew McFarland, a well known insanity expert and proprietor of a private insane retreat at Oakland, has committed suicide by hanging himself. Ho was doubtless deranged. Dr.

McFarland was a native of Conoard, N. superintendent of the Now Hampshire aiylum in 1845, and superintendent of the Central Illinois asylum from 1854 until 1870. MUST HUH UP THS WOUK. Superintendent V. 0.

Booth of the Federal building returned yesterday afternoon from a week's trip to Washington, where ho had boon in relation to the affairs of his department. He said to day thai nothing other than routine business occupied, his attention while there, but that he had instruction! to forco'the work to oomple. tion as rapidly as possibly. Till BQSTOI BXPIEgS io BTtP AT BIDF4BD Tho Brooklyn and Boston express whioh leaves Brooklyn at 11 P. M.

will stop at Bod. fora etaUen. "What "Was Offered by the Managers Last Night. "Tar and Tartar" at tho Acadnmy of Music Cora Tanner in Will She Divorce Him 1 at the Tark Later On" at Grand Opera Honso The Club Friend" at the Amphion "A Mile a Minute" at the Lee Ayenuo "0'I)owtl's Neighbors" at the Star The Step Daughter" at the Bedford Casper, the Yodler" at the Novelty Varieties. A rsbust entertainment was enjoyed laBt evening at the Academy of Music by a large number of people, and the word enjoyed iB used in a literal sense, for the manifestations were carried almost to enthusiasm.

The gallery boys whistled and stamped as in the good old days at the Bow cry, and tho leading players and siugers were not only mado to do their aots ever again, but woro haled before the curtain and uproariously greeted as they passed in review. The piece was "Tar aud Tartar." It is an opera; at least as much of one as most oomic ami although its scone is supposedly oriental, iU authorship is American, aud thore is in the music a good deal that is pleasing and promising. The author of the words is Harry B. Smith, of the music, Adam Itzel, of the costumes, Barou Grimm; of the sosnory, Joseph Clare. The plot in hardly thought about during tho progress of tho piece, because it is of small consequence to it, but what it has relates to the retirement of the sultan of Morocco to get a rest from his 400 wives aud the transfer of his throne, iu accordance with tho terms of a supposed will, to the first shipwreokod sailor who shall be thrown on his coast.

Tho sailor makos an opportune appearance at about the time that the monarch disappears from the view of the faithful, and ho is chosen in hid place, but a fiery Arab prince is in love with ouo of hi now wives and makes such a fuss over her that the sailor agrees that the priuce aud he shall rula alternately, so that the sultan shall be fresh every hour. Then ensue conspiracies and counter conspiracies to secure tho throno permanently to each, and the sailor has another peril to confront in the person of his original wife, a regular tartar, whom he suppoies to havo died some years before. Iu the midst of it alt tho original sultan comes back, gives his place to tho Arab prince and the tar is. made lord high admiral, with instructions to keep at sea twelve months in the year, bo that he is happy in the certainty of avoiding his wife, and the ourtain falls 011 general joy. The tar is personated by DigbyBell, who is more than suspected of supplying words to his talk and his songs that tho librettist never wrote, and, as commonly happens with "gags," these innovations are received with more enthusiasm than anything in the original text.

He puns on current events, makes allusions to politics, to tho Cleveland baby, local affairs and base ball, and he does it with a desiocated voice and a rueful countenance that the audience finds to be touching. In his comedy he is industrious, ingenious and funny. Charles Wayne, a surprisingly agilo person, and Fred Frear, a comedian of the dry sort, appear as buffoons and win laughter in their scenes. Habert Wilke plays the Arab with dah, aud sings in a baritone naturally full aud of fair quality, but lie inclines to waste it in useless vibrations and he iB lacking in expression and suavity. Marion Manola was well received in the part of the Circassian beauty.

She did not quito look this part and she never appeared more oriental than she did last night, but sho was in good voiae and Bang the numbers allotted to her with skill aud taste and with a voice resonant aud olear. JoBephine Knapp brought her gracious presence and musical voico to the part of Taffeta, and in the Bng of all nations, in tho last act a clever musical mosaic hor voice was lifted high iu the Southern airs. Hilda Hollius, a statuesque young woman, din played her charms in tho part of one of the wives of tho harem. Laura Joyce Bell is the tartar of tho piece, and while she was tigerish in conduct and shrill in voico, when she had to be, she was likewise agreeable in her solo, for her voice holds its depth of richness. The chorus was remarkably powerful and oxplosive, the orchestra, numbering about twenty men, kept pace aud occasionally tried conclusions with it, and the setting of the atage and dressing of the people were showy and full of color.

Neither libretto nor music shows great originality or depth, but the aii a are pretty and havo an easy flow, botokoning resource of theme, and Mr. Itzel is successful, at times, in imparting oriental color to them, notably in the dance of odalisques. PARE THBATEB. There are some changes in the comedy Will She Divorce Him principally accomplished by pruning, the play having now hardly a superflu ous line, and Cora Tanner's interpretation of Isabel Spencer Ib now a strong, well sustained presentment of a difficult character. Not only does she shed real tears, hut she succeeds in near ly obliterating her marked personality.

In the first two acts, which are still weak, she does nothing to call for special mention. In the third and fourth actB, however, the former of which is a good specimen of dramatic writing and construe tion, sho exerts power over the audience, swaying them at will over the range of emotion. The close of the third act, which is pathetic without words being spokeu, reveals her in a ruute Bcene, in which she rivals the best of emotional actors. When it was over tho spectators broke into applause, recalling her until the curtain had to be raised after she had once come before it. Flowers in abundance were pasaed over the footlights to her.

The comedy of iVill She Divorce Him?" is unique in treatment if not 111 idea, and ranks well among the works of modern authors. In it Margaret Montgomery and J. H. Browuo, as Mrs. Amidon and Jack Amidon, respectively, are signally successfnl.

Ada Dwyer, an actor of merit, now plays the part of Julie do Sardonno and last evening was one of the prominent figures in tho cast. Harold Russell, O. If. Barr, J. K.

Hutchinson, Beverly W. Turner, S. K. Chester, Mrs. S.

A. Longmore, Annie Chester and Helen Ten Broeck acquitted themselves creditably. Next weok Modjoska will appear in "Adrienne Lecouvreur," "A You Liks It," "Donua Diana," "Camille," "Measure for Measure," "Mary Stuart," "Much Ado About Nothing and "Macbeth." (I1U.ND UPEIU UOCSB. The Grand opera house was fairly well filled last evening on the presentation of the semi operatic farco, Later On," in its rovised form The audience, however, was for tho most part of the masculine gender. The telling incidents of the affair were the sin and dancing, the latter comprising some feats of saltatory agility that would do no discredit to the Jardin Mabille.

The dresses, however, thongh rather curt, were not effusively so. Some of the interpolations in the dialogue were novel and appealed to the recollection of events still fresh in tho publ: mind, Buoh as the finding of a bathing suit of supposed suicide at tho seashore, with no log or fihip in view. A song iu which ex Governor Cleveland was mentioned took the audience by storm: "And he'll sot little Ruth on his knee. And tell her some day she'll wod Baby McKee, To show thore is no 111 feeling." John E. Mc Wade, Sadie McDonald, Ada Somors, Joseph Hart and Fred Hallen won plaudits, as usual.

Miss McDonald received from the Algonquin club a fine floral horseshoe. Tho "Two Sisters will appear next week. THE AHPHION. Roland Reod introduced "A Club Friend'' to an eastern district audience last ovening, after hav ing shown his qualitieB to the weBtern section residents of the city. A warm friendslun sprang up at onco between them, for he was found to be a bright, droll, breezy fellow, who could throw aside his lovity and bo BeriouB and resourceful when occasion requited the roscuo of a married woman from the wiles of an unscrupulous society physician.

Sydney Rosoufeld, tho erratic playwright, has done clovor work iu this, telling his story in a natural, terBe and witty manner, though success depends on tho intelligouoe and Bkill of its Interpreters. In these days of variety farce it Is a pleiiur to enjoy tho wit, laugh at complications met In daily life and give laughter that is aot forced by catch as catch can niethodB, clawing of hair or the turning of flip flops by the performers. Mr. Reed's drollery iB accentuated by his mannerisms and Jerky style. Hii oompany is excellent with exception of George Frederick Nash, a youn? man who has done good work heretofore, but who seems to be miscast in the part of the physician.

He bulges out of his dress suit, his manuerB are stiff and he smirks. His powerful and dramatic scene in the last aot, however, makes up in part for these shortcomings. Isadora Rush is stately and dra mafic; Percy Haswell, winmo and engaging Uary myers manes a Blooming and kindly ma iron; William Davldge, an unctuous old schemer William Friend appears blase and idiotio and Charles A. Smily is a jealous and unreasonable husband. Edna Wallace and Julian Reod clever ly interpret small parts.

"The Merchant" next week. LEK ATKXUK TIIKATEB. "A Mile a Minute," a sensational melodrama in which Minnio Palmer starred for three weeks last year, was given last evening in presenoo 01 a large and friendly audience. Tho graceful Marion Elmore, now takes tho part that Miss Palmer played and her dancing, kicking and general brightness proved attractive. Indeed tho specialty episodes of tho performance were Its most Buccessful featureB aud there were plenty of them.

Tho plot ib of "tbe villiau still pursued her" kind, with triumphant virtue rewarded at the fall of the curtain. The incident from which the play takes its name is the pursuit of the Gillian by a special eneine which dashes across tho stage, not exactly at tho rate of a mile a minute, but certainly faster than a mile an hour. As realism goes, this engine doesen't keep up with the proceBsion. The cast included Rodfield Clarko, Harold Hartsell, Alice Butler and other competent actors. Next week "Thermidor," Sardon's play which was suppressed in Paris, will bo given.

STAK THKATKK. Colonel Holmes' Star theater was filled with people laBt evening to greet "O'Dowd's Neighbors," an operatic comedy which was presented with ability and spirit. Tho dialogue abounded with harmless, but mirth provoking, humor and included a large Bhare of Irish sketches in various shades of charaoter, chiefly represented by Dionioius Oezar O'Dowd, an irrepressible rich bachelor who had flats to let (Mark Murphy); Marons Antony McNab, a widowor with a tender heart for O'Dowd (Sam. J. Ryan), and gonora arady, MeNab's aoraeitio (0(9? fjjjsj? A Nurse's Brutal Grime.

Few horrors more startling than the Chapman shooting case have occurred in this naturally peaceful community. The circumstances of the tragedy, as reported to the police, require no rhetorical setting to emphasize their shocking import. They tell a story of brutality happily with rare parallel in the criminal records of the city. The' perpetrator, Searvant, a man of powerful physique, was engaged as a trained nurse for the head of an unfortunate household. His patient, reduced to imbecility, was helpless in his hands.

With a disregard of obligations which but for irrefragable proof would be incredible, he sought to take the basest advantage of his situation. Energy and indignation marked the repulse of his advances by the wife of tho invalid. In a fit of disappointed rage he fired upon the woman, inflicting wounds believed to be 'mortal. Then, inspired by cowardly desperation, he swallowed poison. Unfortunately for society, the ruffian is on a fair way to recovery.

There is consolation in knowing that the authorities, who behaved with commendable promptitude in the emergency, have him safely locked up. The atrocity of Searvant's crime cannot be overrated. Every consideration of honor, of mercy, of fidelity to the plainest demands of duty, should have restrained him. In his capacity as nurse ho occupied relations as sacred as those of the honorable physician. The inmates of the house afflicted should have been exempt from anything but faithful attention aud solicitous service at his hands.

Their lot was a peculiarly mournful one. If, in the abode of sorrow, the criminal felt no sensations of compassion, it can reasonably be inferred that he wasfit only to consort with animals of the brute creation. The prisoner has earned the serious penalty which, in the event of conviction, awaits scoundrels of his type. His efforts to shield himself by casting suspicions on the character of his victim are in keeping with the diabolical passions which impelled him to the commission of attempted murder. Without disparaging the dead or dying, they only disclose him in larger proportions as a moral monstrosity.

Private and Public WUitewavli. If the reappointment by the mayor of William Barthman as a member of the board of education, after his resignation under charges, was based upon 'the document signed by some of those who were his fellow members for tho purposes of "private whitewash" it is due to all concerned that the text of this document with the appended names should be made public. Let us see what the document is. It appears from the interviews published with some of the signers of this document, which it will be remembered was designed solely "for family use," that they recollect most imperfectly the cautious phrasing to which they subscribed. They speak of it as an equivocal statement, which might mean one thing and might mean another or a3 a declaration that if the report of the investigating committee, which declared Barthmau's usefulness as a member impaired and recommended that he be asked to resign, had come before them for action, they would not have voted for it.

Iu other words, some of the signers found fault with the form of the committee's report, and under this pretense they were ready to oblige Barthman when he pleaded with them for their signature "for family use." Some of the signers, too, had ceased to be members of the board, and they did not feel any public responsibility in what they did for the tearful man, who was about to go to Europe, perhaps never to return, and who wanted to leave in his safe a paper which it would bo a comfort for his family to find. It is easy to imagine how potent such an appeal as this would prove to gentle hearted men and how under the pledge of great secrecy and the solemn promise that no public use should ever be made of the paper they signed it. It is the feeliug that they have been tricked, that good faith has been broken, that the mayor has been duped and that they have been duped, that adds, doubtless, to the natural resentment of some of the members of the board, whose names are upon tho "private whitewash" paper and upon the protest which has been filed iu the mayor's office. The pub lie will have but little sympathy with the men who have been caught by Barthman's pleadings, for they had no business signing a paper which they were not willing the public should be guided by in any event which made its exposure important. The mayor, however, cannot plead this paper as a sufficient excuse for the reappointment.

It did not contain anything to reverse his own judgment upon the original ease. When the facts woro fresh, he announcod that ho would remove Barthman if the latter did not, as requested by the committee, resign. It does not appear that any precaution was taken to ascertain why a man bo generally condemned iu 18S9, so as to justify the mayor's action, should turn up in 1891 with a paper bearing signatures of many men no longer members of the board a paper purporting to bo a vindication. The mayor would have saved all of this explosion if he had sent for a single man named on the list and asked: "Why is your name here?" He would have heard the story the public is now hearing and Barthman would doubtless have remained the forgotten factor he was before he was tempted like a moth to a fresh flight into the candle of publicity. The mayor was deceived because he was incautious.

It is so clear that he has made a mistake that not a word is heard in defenso of the appointment. If ho has unwittingly added publio whitewash to private whitewash he should emulate the zeal of the members of the board who feel that they have been buncoed, and treat his act as they have tried to treat theirs, by undoing as much of it as possible. As for Barthman, he should pirouette no more in uncertainty as to whether he will go or stay. If he has the hide of a rhinoceros he may enjoy staying. If not he cannot too soon send in the much promised resignation.

Soiuelhiutr Too ranch of This. While Brooklynites were suffering for water, people elsewhere were getting too much of it. New Yorkers were delighted with the downpour of rain yesterday, because it encouraged the flow of their new aqueduct. Outside of the cities the downpouring, accompanied as it was with heavy gales, worked damage. From Washington and many other places come stories of storms not recently rivaled, with resulting loss of life and property.

At the federal city the wind laid rude hands upon the White House itself. A breach in the stone balustrade was made half a9 long as the obstruction in our conduit, but although the break caused some commotion inside there are no signs of a scare among those who are contriving movements for tho occupation of the executive mansion in 1893. Long before General Harrison's successor appears the works will be repaired and the flow of patronage aud politics will go on in full volume. As happens often in such cases, yesterday's storm wrought more indirect than direct damage. The downfall of telegraph wires and the stoppage of communication caused the most inconvenience and loss.

The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) is delivered of this Delphic utterance: "Republicans should not expect the Democrats to be virtuous enough for both parties, but only about virtuous enoiish for one." Republicans are nt relying on any virtui possessed by the Democratic) party of this state. They believe the Democrat! will not steal tho legislature this year simply because they oaunot get the chance. Buffalo Express What the Eagle said was that the New York Democrats should treat the Republicans as fairly in 1891 as the Louisiana Republicans treated the Democrats of that state in 1876, and that if they did so, the Republicans would have no right to complain. Since the election a large number of the most influential Democratic papers in the state, notably the Brooklyn Kaole, the Buffalo Courier, the Troy Press and the Utica Observer, have flatly repudiated the "paster" ballot plank in the Demucratio platform adopted at Baratoza and declared unequivocally In favor of ballot reform. Rochester Democrat ana Ohronicle.

The Press occupied and expressed the same eronncU relative to the blanket ballot before the eleotien that It does now. Trov Press (Ina. So did the Eagle. The Rochester paper should be beir informed or more silent, Electricity Before tho Aldermen. Two topics of public interest were before the board of Aldermen on Monday.

One was the application of the City railroad, the Atlantic avenue, the DeKalb avenue and the Jay and Smith streets railroad companies for a hearing by the railroad committee of the board on their long pending application for leave to use electric motors, and the other was the question of what may be called delayed recommendations for electric light as contrasted with preferred ones. The two subjects thus directly concerned electricity, one as a motor power, the other as a street light. The application of the companies is made jointly. The fact is not without significance. The application is not tor leave to use electric power, but for a heariug on a prior application to use it.

The latter application in various forms, from one road or the other, has beeu before the common couucil for a year and more. Until a hearing on it is, however, granted, the subject may be said to be in abeyance rather than under consideration. That a hearing has not been had seems strange on cursory view. The companies have not unitedly asked for it before. The railroad committee has neither appointed nor volunteered a hearing.

Both have doubtless been interested in other matters bearing on the subject, matters which during 18S)1 have altered the front which the subject turns tsward the city. The matters have comprised the application of the Atlantic avenue company to the stato board of railroad commissioners, the like application of the Smith and Jay streets line to the same board and the application of the latter line through commissioners appointed by the supreme court. The not result has been the authorization of the recourse to electricity by the stato board aud the supreme court commission, on the part of the applying roads. This establishes that electric roads over the routes requested are coming. It establishes the capability of getting them without the common council at nil, but tho companies apparently think that it increases the desirability of having the common council co operate with the state board and hence their joint application for a hearing.

A request for a hearing is a request for a right for a right any man or any interest ought to be held to be entitled to. The question of granting or refusing tho power asked for is another matter but that matter cannot be settled so well iu any other way as by a hearing, and a hearing is necessary to its consideration. It may be asked, If the companies can go to the state board without taking the aldermen into account, why do they not do it Among other reasons probably because, after the state board had granted sucli a power, the regulation of speed and other incidents would still rest with the aldermen. These considerations naturally recur to companies doing business in Brooklyn, to which the friendly disposition of the local government is desirable, though changes in the law have made it no longer indispensable. With the application for a hearing by the roads the whole subject directly comes again before the people.

The request for electric power in surface roads involves aud for the present means the right to use the trolley system, as the union of poles and wires is called. As the application for it is preceded by the obtaining of the consents of a majority of property owners on the routes affected, such consents imply a considerable body of public opinion in its favor, notably the opinion of a majority of those whose holdings would be passed by the proposed system. A hearing, such as has been requested aud should promptly be granted, ought to develop what can be said for the system and what may bo said against it. From the comparison of views and from an examination of the whole subject, a decision should be readily attainable. The aldermen and tho press have a right to insist that advocacy or opposition shall be based on real and not on frivolous reasons, aud that on such reasous alone a conclusion shall be based.

The reasons moving the companies are, of course, business and not benevolent ones. They are understood to claim that the carrying power of sm'face roads by the trolley system can be doubled at any time or trebled on an emergency, and that by a uniform rate even of a moderate speed, with no appreciable slowing required for up grades, one third of the time used by horse power between the ferries and the termini of their roads can be saved. They figure this into a formidably large number of hours "gained" per week, month or year. Increased room and decreased time, without augmented speed, sum their argument, which is manifestly also an argument for the traveling public. Their recourse to the trolley system is due to the fact that it is the only one so far devised feasible for great cities over great lengths of convergent and devir gent routes.

The storage battery has not beeu successful. In the cable system, a single set back throws the whole plant out of gear. In the trolley system, a disabled car is simply hitched to another and drawn home. The applicants for the trolley here emphasize the advantage it would be to a city of Brooklyn's magnificent distances and waiting and inviting suburbs. They point to the fact that between 300 and 400 great American cities have already adopted it, and make that fact a reason and an object lesson iu one for Brooklyn.

Noise, danger and the unsightlessness of poles iu an already overpolod city have been the main objections here urged without effect in the hearings before the state and judicial commissioners. The noise has been decided to bo only different from and not greater than that of horse cars, while less than that of elevated roads. SBbe alleged danger to life has been declared to be substantiated by the proof of the death of nobody by a trolley current. Horses have been killed by the wires, but scientific evidence was adduced to the effect that their vital resistance aud alertness are loss than man's, whoso escape from fatal injuries by trolley shocks is held to be remarkable and invariable. That trolley cars, like horse cars and steam ears and road wagons, run over folk is not regarded as entering into the question of danger due to wires.

The pole question in a city of elevated railroad structures ought to be of less concern than in cities without such structures. As other wires are suspended from those structures, so trolley wires could be. Where those structures do not exist, the pole question certainly presents an objection to be put into relation with the benefits claimed for the system. Considerable publio and press opposition to the system has existed in every city, until It was introduced. Then it has ceased, as the Eagle's exchanges for years have shown.

Such opposition has existed and does exist here. The expression of it has been unreserved. Expression on both aides should be frank and free, respectful, reasonable and prompt. If the interests and needs of a developing city are at last to require and secure the system, the conclusion should be reached by a free exchange of views. To this end, the desirable though no longer necessary assent of the local authorities is rightly solicited by men who would live on good terras with the people and government of the place where they do business and pay taxes and where all their interests are.

Citizens who have no interest in the roads, but who unselfishly desire what is best for Brooklyn, should inform themselves by visits or by letters to friends in cities where the trolley system is what are its advantages and what are its disadvantages, and as Brooklynites make up their minds intelligently and unselfishly. Any grant obtained, if any be obtained, should first be availed of only in part, so that the system, if it can, should be let commend itself to general adoption by degrees, and a.